LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 1095: Levium (12)
Chapter 1095: Levium (12)
"What the fuck?!"
A soldier tattered and in blood-soaked clothes stumbled on the scene of a carnage. Eyes wide in horror, he observed.
He trembled, his entire body wracked with violent shivers.
An overwhelming sense of dread consumed him, leaving his mouth parched and his legs unsteady.
His heart pounded in his chest like a war drum, threatening to burst through his ribcage.
The gruesome scene before him seemed like something out of a nightmare, too horrific to exist in reality.
Everywhere he looked, he saw men and women tearing into each other with a savagery that defied comprehension, but it looked like many people had been killed already.
Those fighting in this frenzy wielded their weapons with a fury that bordered on madness, their faces contorted in masks of rage and fear. Some were even smiling as if they had just received a Christmas present.
But the ones fighting weren't just the soldiers coming from Khunelerp, Etrium, or Hin. Even the blackguards were joining in the fun.
"What the fuck is going on here?" The man's voice trembled because the last thing he wanted to do was to attract some of these psychos and have to fight them.
He watched as a man drove his sword through the chest of another soldier, his eyes blazing with a feral light. The wounded soldier screamed in agony while his blood splattered the ground.
The watching man felt bile rising in his throat and an unsettling fear bubbling up. He had to get out of there; he had to find someone to report this matter to.
Turning on his heel, the soldier ran, his feet pounding against the ground as he fled the scene behind him, never looking back.
<What the fuck is happening? This is not normal!>
However, as he tried to give an explanation to the situation, only one crossed his mind. Erik Romano, their target, had to have something to do with that carnage. He could be the only one wanting and having the power to do that.
Of course, this was just a thought. He didn't have proof, but he wasn't so crazy as to not consider Erik Romano being implicated.
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In another part of the city, an officer was looking at a holographic map, checking the battlefield situation.
There was a huge cluster of soldiers in some area in the south, but as more time passed and the more the dots connected to their vitals vanished.
<What the hell is happening there?>
He was the one who sent scouts there to see how the situation was. Erik Romano might have been there, but better be certain. The problem was that none of the soldiers there reported anything.
Just then, a soldier came in.
"Sir!"
The officer looked up from his map, his brow furrowing. "Report, soldier. What's the situation?"
The soldier, panting and visibly shaken, struggled to catch his breath. "Sir, it's chaos out there. Our troops... they've turned on each other. It's a bloodbath."
"What?"
The officer's face grew serious as he heard the news. His forehead wrinkled with worry.
<Our own troops turning on each other? It has to be some kind of mind control. But who could have that kind of power? Unless... unless it's Erik Romano.>
"They're attacking each other as we speak, sir." The man struggled to talk because of his exhaustion.
"Give me more details, soldier..."
"It's like they've gone mad, literally. They have crazy looks. Some even smiled as they teared into their comrades. Some kind of mind control must be at work here..."
The officer remained calm.
"Yeah... I was thinking the same."
The officer's mind pieced together the situation. This could only be the work of someone incredibly powerful. And who fit that description better than their target, Erik Romano?
The man possessed multiple brain crystal powers, many more compared to their own soldiers, making him the most likely perpetrator of this.
The officer's jaw clenched. The problem was that if Erik could manipulate the soldiers, the situation would become rather problematic. Besides, it would mean Erik Romano was much more dangerous than they assumed.
"Come with me," he said, turning to the soldier. "We need to report this to Commander Levium. He'll know what to do."
The two men set off on a run.
In the sky above the city, Levium hovered.
<Where is he?>
He was scanning the streets below like a hawk since he arrived on the battlefield, and yet he didn't find Erik. He vanished.
It was frustrating how a kid who had been powerless just three years ago now was not only as powerful as him but even as an entire organization.
The amount of preparation he had to put in to capture the same kid that almost cried
whenever he left was baffling.
<Erik, though, is really powerful only on the ground. In a power of pure brain crystal powers,
he is no stronger than the others...>
Levium had that extremely clear. The problem was that Erik showed weird things in the various battles he partake in the past. It was like he had a ton of mana in his brain crystal, as if it were never-ending. The weird thing, though, was that he couldn't go much far from certain
power levels.
<It's almost like he has a normal amount of mana, but that he can recharge it almost at will.>
In truth, Levium wasn't wrong. Erik had high levels of mana, but nothing out of scale, like his physical stats were. In fact, the only reason he survived until now was because he fought on the ground, where he could take advantage of his powerful body, and by doing that, leveling up and recharging his mana.
For months, Levium had to find suitable people for this hunt. Mostly people with powerful ranged brain crystal powers.
But humanity seemed to have a knack for elemental powers. Those weird, unexpected, and truly powerful brain crystal powers like his were almost nonexistent.
For months, the blackguards had to arm them and give them new and selected brain crystal powers. The amount of resources they had to spend was astronomical.