Maxine stared at the pile of Twilight Iron ores on her bed. She had been staring at them like this for the past hour trying to figure out a way to forge them into a pair of blades. She had already tried using extreme heat and had already tried hammering it at the same time. However she made no progress.
Maxine once again used her spiritual sense to scan the Twilight Iron ores to see if she missed some important detail. Like before, they held tiny traces of white and black colored essence flowing around within it. The only thing she hadn't tried yet is to put her own essence into it. Well I have tried everything else I could think of.
Maxine let out a sigh in exasperation as she injected a small stream of her shadow essence into one of the ores. Surprisingly it merged with the essence within the ore and she felt that she could manipulate the essence within the ore. As she shifted the essence around inside of the Twilight Iron ore, the ore itself started to change shape. Maxine was so surprised that she nearly stopped injecting the ore with essence. She quickly started to inject her essence into half of the remaining ores and tried to make them form into one big chunk of Twilight Iron. It took a bit of experimentation, but she fused them all into one piece. However there were still impurities in the big chunk of Twilight Iron.
After using her essence to levitate the Twilight Iron into the air infront of her, Maxine found the impurities within the Twilight Iron chunk and separated the impurities from it as on small piece. Maxine scanned it over several times to make sure she had gotten all the impurities out of it.
Once she was satisfied that all of the impurities had been removed, Maxine changed the shape of the Twilight Iron into a single chinese-style blade with a razor sharp edge. Just making that one weapon had drained most of her essence, but it was worth it for a decent weapon. Maxine grasped it's hilt as she retracted the essence keeping it aloft in the air. It weighed at least fifty pounds, but to her it weighed hardly anything at all.
Maxine smiled to herself as she examined her work. Her weapon had the correct proportions and shape. Even it's balance was nearly perfect. After she was done looking over her own handiwork, she set the blade down on her dresser and put the rest of the Twilight Iron into her closet. However she didn't have enough essence left to forge a second one.
Maxine scanned the area around her house on a whim and noticed that those same two young men from earlier were watching her house. They were both in the back of a van that was about two hundred feet away. Maxine had been hoping that those two had just been staring at her because of how beautiful she was, but it seems that she was wrong. However since she hadn't detected hostility from them, she thought they might just be some fans that figured out her identity and wanted to meet her. Regardless she didn't like being followed. She was reluctant to call General McKenzy over something of that nature since she didn't consider them a threat. Maybe I should just go over and have them take a selfie with me. I may not like it, but it would make them go away if they really are just fanboys. However Maxine couldn't discount the possibility that they were following her around for other reasons.
When they had started talking, Maxine decided to listen in on their conversation to figure out one way or another. Unfortunately she couldn't understand a word of it since they were speaking in russian and from the tone of thier voices, she could tell they were far too serious to be fanboys. Well, shit. That puts a big hole in the theory that they're fanboys. However Maxine wasn't overly concerned about it. It would only take a single phone call to General McKenzy to get rid of them. Even if they were dumb enough to try anything, Maxine would deal with them herself. Although she didn't like killing humans that didn't mean she wouldn't if they became a threat to Maxine or anyone she cared about.
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Maxine picked up her phone and checked those two men again with her spiritual sense before she called General McKenzy. She explained her concerns to him over the phone about those two men. However the general already knew about them and didn't want to make a move on them just yet. Apparently he wanted to know if there were any more of them in the area and wanted take them all out in one fell swoop. Maxine didn't like it the idea of being used as bait, but understood why it was necessary. However Maxine still didn't like it.
While on the phone, Maxine found out from General McKenzy that there were other 'seers' in the world, but other countries' level of success at defending against the beast hordes was not as good as here in the US. Most countries were searching for essence cultivators wherever they could to fight the essence beast hordes. However she had to be extra cautious. Maxine might be able to fend off any abductors, but her mother was an easy target.
Maxine let out a sigh and put her phone away after finishing her call. Maxine wasn't going to wait for very long for the general to find the rest of them. If he took too long, she would find out who the rest of their compatriots were one way or another. However she didn't imagine that the general would make her put up with those men watching her for more than a week.
Maxine once again checked on them with her spiritual sense and saw that they hadn't moved from their spot. She wanted to know where they were at all times. It would prevent any surprises that way. She smiled to herself as she walked towards the backdoor to her house. I will just put a spiritual mark on both of them. That way I can keep track of them. Unless they have a cultivator with them, those two shouldn't be any the wiser that it's there.
After walking into her backyard, Maxine quickly ran into the night and tried to circle around those two young men. It was necessary to get within fifty feet of those two to place a spiritual mark on their bodies. Fortunately it wouldn't be too challenging to get that close considering that those two were focused on her house rather than their surroundings.
While hiding behind some bushes, Maxine placed a spiritual mark on both men and stealthily circled back around to her house. It had been far easier than she had thought to do that. Those two had been far too focused on watching her house. Out of curiosity she scanned them for any weapons and found some very strange looking handguns. They looked like a normal glock, but were bigger. She scanned their internal structure to see what caliber of bullet they used and saw something interesting. The internal structure of the pistol was completely different. There were electronic components inside and it had an impressive power source in it as well. It was a small handheld plasma gun.
Maxine gulped since those kind of weapons were a serious threat to her. The plasma projectiles travelled much faster than every other kind of projectile aside from a railgun round and the rounds could punch through steel like butter. It was hot enough that it would burn right through her skin and cause some lasting injuries. If they got off a lucky shot and hit her in the neck, it could possibly kill her and that was just the pistol version. The rifle version had alot more penetrating power and could kill her quite easily from a body shot. The only good news was that their lethal range for cultivators was only three hundred feet, so her biggest concern from those weapons was a sneak attack. At least I found out where those things came from. I knew quite a few cultivators that died by sneak attacks from plasma rifles.
However Maxine had a very strong impulse to kill them right then and there due to the threat that those two represented. All it would take is to unleash a single Crescent Moon Blitz into the front seat of the car and it would be over. However if she did that, Maxine would have to worry about the rest of their group performing a sneak attack on her with those plasma guns later. General McKenzy's idea sounded alot more reasonable now that she knew they had plasma guns and decided to wait for now.