France, Paris, 7th arrondissement.

The usual cheery atmosphere of tourists and visitors of this great historical site was nowhere to be found, but replaced with stationed solders everywhere, and the always present news reporters.

The sound of fire arms firing occasionally, as this area doesn’t just have a gate, but also a mana spiral.

Although the losses to civilian life were minimal, the numbers have been increasing constantly for the past day and a half since the mana spiral appeared, that’s without mentioning the losses they have suffered in that gate.

The government have called for almost everyone who had level 1 in Paris, and the rest were one of the best special forces teams, and yet only one returned.

If it wasn’t for the scientist who were receiving the same readings from these gates as the mana spirals, they would’ve never done such a recluse thing to investigate the connection.

But they were glad that someone managed to survive and tell them what happened, at the very least, the sacrifice of those brave men wouldn’t be for nothing.

However, a few hours ago, the president of France received a call that made him restless, he didn’t know if this was some kind of tactic to distract him, and if it were, he didn’t know why, so he had to find out, he called for the Minister of the Armed Forces to set a plan.

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In an unassuming room lies an injured man called Louis Charles, entering that room was commandant Matteo Philippe and 2 other men behind him.

When Louis saw the commandant, he wanted to get up and salute him but was stopped by the commandant as he said, “you have done great work sous-lieutenant, the information you’ve provided us is of great importance, their sacrifice will not go to waste.”

Louis looked very solemn as if holding tears, “thank you sir.”

The commandant nodded as he walked to a chair and said, “you haven’t called your wife or parents since you got here, is there anything that we can help you with?”

Louis quickly answered, “no sir, I just need sometime alone.”

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Commandant Matteo looked at him for a few seconds then smiled, “of course, you are a national hero, take your time.”

Then he started to walk toward the door and when he got close to it, he asked, “what’s her name?”

Louis was flustered for a second, then he said, “excuse me sir”

With a neutral face, the commandant said, “what’s your wife's name?”

Louis frowned as he said, “with all do my respect, sir, this is a private matter.”

The commandant looked at him with a very complicated face, “you aren’t married Louis Charles, and your parents died years ago.”

Louis eyes widened, “sir, it’s n…”

The commandant cut him off, “I need you to come with me, this doesn’t have to get ugly”

“Sir, it’s just my head has been hurting since I came out of the…”

“This is your last warning, come with me quietly, and you won’t get hurt.”

-This is bullshit, this man came prepared he knew what to ask in a way that didn’t sound suspicious to me, it looked like he just wanted to see how I was doing, if I had known what this was, then I would’ve searched my memory deeper and came with a prediction to answer, well, the cat is out of the bag I guess.-

“How did you know?” I asked with interest.

“It doesn’t matter, this place is surrounded, if you do anything stupid you won’t live long enough to regret it.”

“Regret it? I'm afraid a human can’t make me regret a thing, I’ve heard stories of your race, but I have to admit your race is quite the pathetic one, nothing like the evolved race that has a control over a galaxy.”

“I mean I slaughtered 40 of your kind in just a few hits, oh right I kept one alive for his memories, he stayed alive for a long time, quite the screamer he was as I turned his brain into juice.” a very twisted smile started to appear as he continued to talk.

The commandant clenched his fists, but did nothing, he had a feeling that this man or whatever creature wanted to make him angry, so he kept as strait of a face as possible.

And at that moment, special forces started to enter the room and surround the unknown creature who is taking on a human appearance; however, the creature didn’t flinch as a thin light membrane surrounded him, and fire started to Oz out of his hands.

With a loud voice, the creature said, “let there be light”

The solders started firing as soon as they heard him speak, but the bullets stopped as if hitting a wall once they touched the light membrane, it didn’t take more than a few seconds for the fire in the hands of the creature to burst out engulfing everyone, except for the commandant who was protected by the two men next to him.

A massive explosion followed and a lone man standing in that room, “the mission is a failure, I'm not sure how the humans knew of me replacing that solder, they even know not to show emotion in my presence.”

The creature jumped from his room to the ground as he thought.

-I need to get back to the dungeon fast I don’t have time to question that human, although they are not much of a threat, some of their weapons explained to me by the master might be dangerous-

That’s when he heard a sound and looked up to see a helicopter, and as soon as it was in his view it started to fire without stopping at him.

He lifted his hand frowning more as he strengthened the shield around him and at the same time there was an even more horrendous fire gathering in his lower hand and with a wave of his hand it moved toward the helicopter, the second it was touched by this fire, it exploded to pieces as the fire returned to the creature hand.