Chapter 172: Rupture
Jason was not going to mourn. Why did he need to mourn anything? It wasn’t like Gina was dead. No, she wasn’t dead at all. She was just... unconscious, for now. She was just sleeping. There was no doubt in Jason’s mind that he was going to get Gina back no matter what, so he wasn’t going to mourn for her.
Instead, there was only one thing that rang through Jason’s thoughts over and over again. Jason had learned from the assassins he killed that they were not the only ones who came here. There was an entire group of them hiding within a Dimensional Tear parallel to Earth. Jason’s next mission was to find that Dimensional Tear, and Jason swore that he was going to eradicate that entire group from existence.
Jason’s eyes slowly darkened in pure hatred as these thoughts passed through his mind, and as the sound of the firemen and police outside began to grow closer, Jason activated his most recent skill.
[Wandering Shadow] has been activated.
Jason and Riyala melted into the shadows of the dwindling flames and vanished from the apartment.
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New Mission: Eradicate the Phantoms
The interworld group of assassins known as the Phantoms have attacked the user’s home and caused the death of the user’s lover. The user has sworn vengeance against them for their action and the system recognizes the user’s tenacity. To complete this mission, defeat all members of the Phantoms and resurrect them as your subordinates.
Reward:
+10,000 Free Kill Points
+Introduction to The Arcane Arts
+1 New Title
The user will gain all the treasures currently possessed by the Phantoms.
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All over the city, the news of the dragon that had appeared suddenly was spreading like wildfire! The citizens had begun to forward videos and images to one another, and helicopters and news vans were moving quickly through the city as they tried to get another glimpse of Ragnar! But Jason had already sent the dragon back into his Alternate Dimension, so there was no sign of it!
One of the news helicopters was carrying the same woman who had been in charge of reporting the incident that happened with Raygun a few days ago. This time, her bright red hair was let loose to fall around her shoulder, and her blue eyes were narrowed in concentration as she looked out from the helicopter flying over the city!
"Numerous reporters on the ground and air have been involved in one of the largest hunts we’ve seen this year. According to reports reaching our men on the ground, a literal dragon was seen moving in the direction of the lower districts! It moved too fast for anyone to determine its exact destination, but there has been some speculation that it was heading for the fire raging across downtown Riverdale! We do not yet have confirmation of its origin or who summoned it, but ht rumors traveling across social media suggest that it was summoned by one of the recent awakeners who was carrying out their assessment at the SMD building!"
The woman had also seen the numerous videos on Metube about the dragon that appeared in Riverdale, and she knew without a doubt that it was impossible for that many people to be lying about the same thing! They all came out at the same time and said that they had seen the dragon, and she was certain that it was real! The only thing she needed now was to find where it was! There were already some skeptics from other cities around who were saying that the dragon was not real. They were trying to claim that it was just some sort of mass hallucination that happened right above Riverdale, and there were even those who were starting to believe that nonsense!
The reporter scoffed at such stupid thoughts! In a time like this, people were still finding it hard to believe that things like dragons could be real!? After everything that they had seen! She was going to find that dragon no matter what!
They had just passed over Jason’s house, and they saw that the flames were being put out by firemen and a few superhumans, but there was no sign of the dragon and the helicopter ignored it! There were other reporters from the same news channel who were in charge of reporting the fire, so the reporter in the helicopter didn’t need to worry about that! Instead, the reporter put all her effort into making sure she found the dragon for those at home!
A voice suddenly spoke in the reporter’s ear through her comms, and she frowned in concentration as she listened for a few seconds before her eyes widened and she turned back to the camera!
"We just received news from our correspondent that confirmed the dragon’s summoner was none other than the most recent Awakener in the city, Jason Marc! They say there was an altercation between Jason and a member of the Enforcers, and Jason summoned the dragon in order to escape arrest! We still haven’t confirmed this news, but there is a battle currently raging between two members of the Enforcers, and our correspondent on the scene will bring you all the news!"
The image on the TVs all over the city changed to show the battle raging between Agiel and Keith! The city sky had finally darkened as the sun set on the horizon, and the only source of light was the full moon shining high in the sky. The night sky was clear and the city below was empty and quiet of all noise.
"RARGGGHH!"
But suddenly, a loud shout echoed through the night as a figure burst out from one of the western wall of a building and caused the entire thing to begin coming down! Agiel flew back from the massive kick that Keith had delivered to her, but even in the midst of the carnage, she still had a smile on her lips! There was a small line of blood falling down the right side of her face, and she easily cleaned it off to show that there was no injury there. The blood was not her own!
She slammed into another building behind her and wasted no time as she crouched and shot off back toward where she had just come from!
BOOM!
A massive slab of rock flew straight for Agiel, and Agiel raised her hand towards it! The moment she touched the rock, she activated her Gift!
TWOOM!
The rock disintegrated into millions of pieces that fell around her like dust, and Agiel continued forward without losing any momentum!
The truth about Agiel’s ability was something that boggled people’s minds even to this day. To most people, the ability to release pressure waves and use sonic booms like Agiel did was enough for them to classify her as an Emitter who could control waves, but those who took their time and really looked into Agiel’s abilities would see that those people were wrong.
It was true that Agiel could control air pressure and sonic waves, but that didn’t mean that was all she could do. Those abilities were only a byproduct of her unique Gift, and Agiel’s ability was something more complicated than that. When she was asked years ago to explain her abilities to a group of scientists, Agiel told them that all she knew was that she could match the energy of anything around her using her mana and then rip through that thing with great force by making her mana vibrate at a higher wavelength! This was the same phenomenon that fighter jets used to create sonic booms, and after running their tests, the scientists discovered that Agiel was right. Agiel’s ability was called [Rupture] and it worked by reading the frequency of any object that she was targeting and replicating the object’s vibration at a higher wavelength.