One thing was certain. He could not afford to hold anything back now.

Felix Pagonis swung his hand as his psionic power formed a blade of pink, slicing off an incoming sharpened arm. Power flared in his eyes. The blade multiplied itself by the millions in an instant, shredding the monster like a piece of waste paper. More Unendings surrounded him.

He raised his hand. Their black arms froze in their tracks.

He clenched his fist. The arms snapped downwards at an awkward angle.

He punched the ground. The monsters exploded into a million fragments, atomised by his psychokinetic blow.

“Help! Somebody, anybody!” A man was screaming somewhere near him. “No, please! Oh gods, I don’t want to die!”

Felix turned his head to the source of the voice; another group of Unendings was slowly closing in on someone. His lips curved into a snarl. Fucking demons.

The psychic rushed forward and swept a glowing hand at them. Chunks of Earth ripped themselves from the ground, gouged out by the sheer power of the telekinetic attack. The devastating force rippled through their bodies and disintegrated the monsters instantly.

“You’re alright. You’re alright now.” Felix knelt and supported the cowering man. “Go back where it’s safe.”

“L— Lord… Lord Pagonis?!” The man’s eyes were wild with fear, but they squeezed shut immediately. “Argh, I can’t! My… My leg…”

Felix glanced at the man’s bloodied leg. It was twisted at an odd angle, and he could sense the unnatural gap between the two broken parts of his bones.

“This might sting a little.” Felix focused his mind on the victim’s fracture, bio-kinetically mending the bones. He could feel the heavy fists pounding on his force field, but he didn’t care as long as the man did not notice the monsters as well. He could not afford the man to flinch and accidentally twist his leg out of place again before he was finished.

Thankfully, Felix finished his psychokinetic surgery before the victim opened his eyes. Pink retreated from his irises as he supported the man up.

“How’s your leg?” he asked.

“Better… Much better. I can walk now.” The man broke into an incredulous, but relieved smile. “Thank you, Your Majesty. But why did you— Uwah! There’re so many of them!”

Felix looked up at where he was pointing. The man was right. He had barely felt it due to the strength of his force field, but the writhing mass of black was now completely covering his psychic shield like an intrusion of squirming cockroaches.

He focused power into the force field. If he simply put his shield down, the Unending would be on them before he could protect the man. But even if he blasted them away first, there’s no telling whether they’d get back up slowly enough for him to bring this man to safety.

Felix’s aura glowed fiercely. It was a huge risk, but it was better than cowering behind the force field forever.

“Get out of my house!”

A literal ground-shattering force pounded on his force field from above before he could make a move. Felix winced as his shield shattered under the power of whatever hit it. He blinked a few times as light flooded back into his senses. The gang of monsters were gone, leaving behind pieces of blackened flesh littered all around the crater in the ground.

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The man left Felix’s side, making a mad dash back to safety before more Unendings showed up.

Another roar caught Felix’s attention. He turned around just in time to see a green cyborg shatter three Unendings with a single punch.

The remnant shockwave struck the monsters behind, and they exploded into huge black chunks. Felix raised a hand, shredding the remaining pieces into dust before they could resurrect themselves.

“You?!” Titus Angelo marched up towards the psychic, shaking a finger at him in disbelief. “What’re you doing here? How did you get out of the gaol?”

Footsteps lumbered towards them.

The two of them swung around before either could respond. More Unendings had shown up, although their numbers seemed to be diminishing. Felix’s eyes flitted to the portal, which was slowly being closed by Orpheus. More monsters were still coming through, but most of them were too busy fighting Orpheus’ cloak, which had transformed into an army of skeletal demons.

Titus disappeared in a flash, running through a few of them.

The Unendings exploded into pieces but put themselves back together before he could move on to the next. Iron Angel growled in annoyance as green lightning began to crackle around his body, not noticing the shadow looming from behind.

Golden light glinted off the back of his armour—

“Cheap shot, demon.”

An Unending froze, its death beam mere millimetres away from Titus’ back. The pink energy wrapped around its body glowed fiercely. Felix squeezed his fist, and the monster vaporised into a black drizzle.

Titus stared at Felix for a brief moment, stunned.

“You’re welcome. You have to destroy them completely or they’ll come back to life,” Felix said, telekinetically deflecting a sharpened arm into the torso of another Unending.

More weaponised appendages plunged in his direction, but the psychic dodged them expertly and deflected all of them into his foes instead. It did not take long before the monsters were clumped into a mass of black stuck in each other’s bodies.

Felix lifted them into the air, and Iron Angel took the opportunity to drive his fist into them. The blow connected with an explosive force as the ground trembled from the force. Felix’s power flared further, creating platforms of pink in the air.

Titus landed on one of them after a couple of impressive flips and immediately leapt off the platforms. His movements blended into a blur as he built more and more momentum in the air, before finally launching himself at several times the speed of sound.

“Begone!”

His body hurtled down onto another group of Unendings like an emerald meteor. Felix’s eyes widened in shock as he realised his mistake of standing too close. He raised a force field immediately, but he still wasn’t quick enough to resist the sheer power of the resulting shockwave.

The psychic grunted as the concussive force threw him back several dozen metres back into the cave. He tumbled on the floor, feeling something collide with him.

“Brother… help me…”

Felix scrambled to his feet immediately, his eyes wild with panic.

“Marcia! Are you alright?” He scurried over to his sister, who was curled up on the floor and shivering uncontrollably. His power glinted around his body as he inspected her for any injuries. But there were none.

The brother opened his mouth in realisation.

He flipped her body around. Green symbols were clouding her eyes and she was foaming in her mouth. Crap, her addiction is acting up again.

Marcia pointed shakily at a syringe lying in the corner. It was filled with green liquid with some glyphs swirling within. Felix wasted no time, stretching out his hand and pulling the needle towards him.

“It’s okay. You’re okay.” Felix inserted the needle into the shivering woman’s veins.

Pink filled Marcia’s eyes as she gripped her brother’s hand for comfort. They gasped at the same time as her telepathy went haywire without warning.

And Felix’s mind was dragged into the deep recesses of hers once more.