"GAH!"
Yuslev screamed in pain and held his face as blood burst out from the wound like a river! The red liquid began to drip into the water below, and a skeletal hand grabbed Yuslev by the shirt before he could fall into the water. Azrael lifted Yuslev like he was an unruly child, and Yuslev kicked and screamed in pain as he was lifted into the air! Jason flicked the knife, and he threw it into his Alternate Dimension before he turned away from Azrael while giving him an order.
"Make sure it’s not a pleasant death."
Azrael bowed to Jason respectfully as Yuslev suddenly started to thrash around again! Azrael slapped a rune onto Yuslev’s chest, and Yuslev went rigid as a rock as his body locked up! Jason didn’t even bother to turn around and see the horrified look on Yuslev’s face, and he just continued making his way back to his sisters.
Ba-Dump!
But Jason suddenly stopped when he felt a strange feeling pass through his heart! Jason’s eyes narrowed as he put his hand to his chest, and his mind immediately went to the strange feeling that he had gotten when he was driving to the SMD building earlier! This was the same thing that Jason had felt back then! But if that was the case, then the shadows—Jason turned to the side sharply when he saw the shadows all around him rippling like water, and Jason immediately knew that this wasn’t just some random occurrence! There was something happening right now, and Jason needed to find out what it was!
[The system has detected a sudden spike in mana in the world parallel to this world. The system believes that someone is opening a Dimensional Tear.]
DOON!
Jason looked up when he felt a sudden blast of mana echo through the sky, and everyone else around the bridge also looked up as they felt the same thing! The sky ripped apart as a blue line tore itself through the air, and someone shouted from the bridge in pure terror!
"A GATE IS OPENING!"
The people on the bridge all began to scream and shout as they tried to get the superhumans to carry them away from there! They all knew exactly what happened whenever a Gate opened, and they didn’t want to get sucked up into the Gate once it appeared! Gina had been standing with Janet and Maya at the side, and she also looked up at the tear in the sky in shock! Gina immediately sent a message to Jason through their mental link.
’Jason. What do we do? Shouldn’t we evacuate the regular humans before the gate opens?’
Gina also thought that it was a Gate that was appearing, but Jason knew that everyone was wrong! Jason narrowed his eyes at the blue line as he realized that this wasn’t a Gate opening at all. Someone was brute-forcing their way through space by opening a Dimensional Tear!
"COMPLETE! COMPLETE! COMPLETE! COMPLETE! I WANT TO BE COMPLETE~!"
[[Wandering Shadows] is reacting intensely to a familiar power source. The system believes that another mage possessing an Attribute of the Arcane Art [Lord of Shadows] has arrived in the user’s world.]
Jason cursed internally once he read this, and he realized that the situation was a lot more serious than he thought! Didn’t the system say that Arcane Art users could sense each other if they had different parts of the same Arcane Art!? Why the hell did Jason not sense this!?
[The wielders of Arcane Attributes can only sense the other Attribute Wielders when they actively use their Arcane Art, but the user has not been using his Arcane Art for long enough to attract the attention of any other wielder. Therefore, the system believes that this situation is caused by the fact that the user granted his subordinates the freedom to use the [Wandering Shadows] Attribute as well. The constant use of the [Wandering Shadows] by more than five hundred different individuals to travel across long distances is the reason why the user was so easily tracked down. The system would have warned the user about this sooner, but the system’s knowledge of the Arcane Arts is limited since Arcane Arts do not require mana to be activated. The system will update its information to ensure it is better prepared next time.]
’That doesn’t really help me right now, does it!?’
[No, it does not.]
Jason clicked his tongue in annoyance once he saw this response, and he realized that this was his fault! Jason hadn’t really thought about the implications of allowing so many subordinates to use the Arcane Art at the same time since he had seen Alpha doing the same thing with her Phantoms earlier. But it was obvious that thousands of people using the skill drew a lot more attention than just a few dozen people! Jason called out quickly!
’Get everyone out of here! Use the shadows and move them now!’
Jason shouted out to his subordinates all around him, and all the subordinates immediately dashed towards the various civilians and grabbed them before pulling them into the shadows! The civilians were all shocked when they saw their friends and family being pulled into the ground, and even though some of them fought against the subordinates, they weren’t able to prevent them from dragging them down! Jason had more than three thousand subordinates in his Legion, and there were only about one thousand people stuck on the fallen bridge, so the subordinates were able to easily take them all at the same time! The subordinates began to travel through the shadows quickly to escape whoever was coming through that Tear, and Jason let out a tense breath when he got news that his sisters had been taken far away from there already. Gina sent a message to Jason asking him what she should do. Gina obviously didn’t want to leave Jason alone against whatever was on the other side of that Gate, and even though Jason also wanted Gina to be there so that she would gain some experience, Jason didn’t want to leave his sisters alone out here! Jason told Gina to stay back and help him watch his sisters. Gina was the only person Jason could trust to do everything to protect them right now, so Jason was putting all his trust in her.
Gina was a little reluctant to accept the command since Gina really didn’t want to leave Jason alone, but Gina also knew that Jason’s sisters were very vulnerable right now since they had been injured during the New Order attack, and Gina grit her teeth and told Jason to be careful! Jason told her he would, and he watched as Gina quickly went into the shadows and followed after his sisters.
’My king, what about this one? What shall I do with him?’
Azrael sent a message to Jason through the mental link and asked Jason what he should do with Yuslev. Azrael had already started to torture Yuselv with some Necrotic runes, but Azrael wanted to be there to support his King if things got too dangerous, so Azrael didn’t want to leave. Jason only glanced at Yuslev and saw the look of desperate pain on his face before he gave Azrael a dismissive answer.
’Just kill him and add him to the Legion. We have bigger problems to face.’
Azrael nodded to Jason in understanding before he brought his hand up and sent it straight through the heart of the still paralyzed Yuslev! Yuslev an intense pure pain shoot through every nerve in his body, and he felt the urge to scream tear through him, but he was still paralyzed by Azrael’s rune, so there was nothing he could do other than to stay still and suffer!