Chapter 209: First Remote Mission
"Uhm... i-If you’re hungry, then I can make something for us. I can find some meat and cook it or..."
Jason shook his head and told Riyala that it was fine. It was late, so there wouldn’t even be any open stores and they didn’t have any food at home. They would just have to wait till tomorrow to get something to eat. Riyala nodded slowly as she accepted Jason’s words and seemed to be thinking of another excuse to use before a mental image of Gina passed through her mind all of a sudden. Riyala had no idea why she had that thought, but she suddenly had an intense feeling of guilt in her heart as she squeezed her hands tightly. Riyala had been trying to deny it all this time, but she could no longer lie to herself.
’I’m falling in love with Jason. How could I do this to Gina? Gina isn’t here anymore, and I’m trying to force myself on him when he is so vulnerable. What am I doing?’
Riyala felt a tear coming to her eyes and had to quickly turn away and begin going upstairs before Jason would see it. She told Jason goodnight and Jason just hummed back at her in curiosity. Jason had seen the look on Riyala’s face just before she turned away and he could tell that there was something on her mind, but he wasn’t interested enough in finding out what it was. Jason had a lot of things to deal with right now, so Riyala’s feelings would have to wait for some time.
’I need to send the Legion into an Orange Gate. It’ll be the first time I’m sending them into a Gate alone, so this might determine how I dive into Gates in the future.’
Jason’s eyes turned serious as he turned to the system and asked it for any new Gates that had opened in the area. The system immediately responded.
[The system has not detected any significant mana accumulations that would indicate the appearance of a Gate in the user’s immediate vicinity. But the system has found that a large Orange Gate that opened in [New Jersey] has still not been closed. The system believes that this could be due to a lack of manpower needed to properly kill the Gate Boss.]
Jason felt his eyes narrow when he read through the system’s message. Jason hadn’t heard anything about the Orange Gate in New Jersey because of how busy he was, but he knew there were some situations when the people sent into a Gate weren’t able to close it down. This usually happened when the Gate Boss was just too strong for the members or if the number of monsters in the Gate was too high for the number of Superhumans that were sent inside.
Even though you can tell the level of a Gate Boss from the color of the gate, that didn’t mean you would be able to guess how many monsters were inside the Gate. The Adamantine Ant Hill that Jason went into before had more than three hundred ants inside. Most of them were low level ants that wouldn’t even cause issues for B Ranks, but that didn’t mean that it would be easy to handle them when they all attacked at once. Most guilds that went into that Gate would be easily wiped out. On the other hand, the Iron Bladed Falcon Den that Jason just cleared out barely had a hundred monsters inside. It would be a lot easier for an A rank guild to handle the Iron Bladed Falcon Den than the Adamantine Ant Hill.
’Does that mean they didn’t send in enough people? From what I remember, New Jersey doesn’t have a lot of guilds in it. There weren’t many gates appearing there, so most of the guilds left. They must’ve just called any guild around and asked them to help in clearing the Gate.’
Jason narrowed his eyes as he thought about this. He knew that this was a complicated situation and it might be difficult for his Legion to handle things since this would be the first time that they would be going into a Gate without him, but he decided that he would send them in. He might end up saving some lives in the process, and his Legion would still gain the experience.
Jason’s consciousness immediately traveled into his Alternate Dimension and the first thing he set his eyes on was Gina’s prone body lying in the middle of the large field. Jason stared at her for a few seconds as he felt his resolve strengthening even more before he finally turned away and focused on the Legion members standing around Gina’s body. Jason had no idea what sort of Gate he would be sending them into, so the best course of action was to create a team that would be able to cover every possible scenario.
The first thing Jason needed was a heavy hitter, and the best choice would be Raya since she had the highest defenses out of all his subordinates, and her attack was also nothing to scoff at. Raya was a Rook Rank II, so she had twenty subordinates that would be going in with her. Jason was also going to send Dino, the Rook Rank I Adamantine Ant, so that he and his ten subordinates would be able to help Raya.
Next, Jason needed an aerial fighter that would be able to scout and attack from the air. And there was only one choice in a situation like that. The Skyking was going to go into the Gate along with Raya and Dino. Jason knew that Raya and Dino could also fly, but he didn’t want them to be occupied with so many things at the same time. It was better to leave all aerial activities to the Skyking so that Raya and Dino could focus on the ground.
After that, Jason would then need a wildcard that would be there to confuse the enemies, and the Spidermonkey Rook, Lupin, was the best choice for situations like that. Jason had seen firsthand just how annoying those bastards could be, so they would serve as useful distractions and they would also be useful for attacking the enemy.
Jason called on all the subordinates that he had picked out and he gave them their orders. They had two missions inside the Gate. The first mission was to find out what had happened to the previous Superhumans that had gone in there, and the second mission was to eradicate all the monsters and kill the Boss of the gate. If they found the Superhumans, then they were to make sure that none of them were hurt while clearing out the Gate.
’Raya, you’ll be in charge of the mission. Assign some subordinates to escort the Superhumans out of the battlefield when you find them and make sure that you collect all the Magic Crystals from the monsters.’
Jason already had more than a hundred magic crystals from the previous Gate that he dived into, and he also had all the magic crystals that he had gotten from the loot in the Phantom camp. So altogether, he had more than one thousand six hundred crystals of different qualities. He planned to sell most of the mid and low-level crystals to the Tenet company later, but he would eat a lot of the high-level ones to gain more power.
Jason shook his head and decided to get back to the plan. He made sure that Raya understood his orders and he told the other subordinates to follow all of Raya’s orders before he allowed them to go. The subordinates moved out from Jason’s Alternate Dimension, and Jason felt them move through the shadows and toward New Jersey.