Seeing the mysterious energy in action helped Miles understand better. He already had theoretical knowledge, but now he also knew its applications. All he missed was first-hand experience.

He grabbed the now soft again leaf and looked at it closer. There wasn’t even any damage at the side of it, but when he tried to pinch it, the leaf got broken easily. ‘Energy is so mysterious.’ He thought to himself.

Miles looked at the three captive police officers once again and activated elemental vision secretly. Within the elemental vision, he saw what Merlin was doing each and every second. Flame, lightning, and sharpness elements were produced around the body of the three constantly, but a bubble surrounding each one of them destroyed those elemental energies without letting them form.

‘So, that is the null element!’ Miles looked at the process curiously. ‘Wait! I saw something like this before! When I was battling with a Starve Cleric terrorist in front of the hospital, they blew up an explosive device. When the device went off, nothing happened. As if a barrier covered everything inside a small area. Was it the father who did it? He used Null Element to prevent explosive elements from affecting the hospital!

Now Merlin has the same ability? Isn’t he too strong? I wish I had awakened my superpower too.’ Miles sighed and closed the elemental vision. He was about to talk with Merlin a little longer, but the whole building quaked and Miles felt his heart at his throat. A calamity was about to descend on him and he felt the breath of death. He looked outside through the window and saw a man with a blue uniform. From the style of the uniform, he could see that the man arriving was higher up than those three locked under his brother’s spell.

Miles could hardly breathe under the pressure. He was about to drop on his knees because of suffocation. But Merlin appeared in front of him, and all the pressure vanished. But he could still feel the building shaking and Merlin was sweating profusely.

“Have I trained you to get caught?” The man said, looking at three officers. “You are a disgrace to my name.” He then said, And all of a sudden three men exploded where they were standing.

“Cross loves to poke their noses in everything as always. Be grateful that the old monster is close, otherwise, I would kill you.” The man looked at Miles and Merlin and vanished.

A tree appeared on the hospital ground and its branches grabbed Miles and Merlin. Merlin tried to use the energy to destroy the tree, but he couldn’t even hurt it. The branches were getting tighter and tighter each second.

“Bastard, trapped us with a ticking bomb, so Grandpa couldn’t follow him!” Merlin cursed.

“My only concern is if Grandpa can make it or not!” Miles said anxiously. The branch was getting tighter each second, and Miles couldn’t even produce energy nor had any superpower to fight against it. Merlin still could make use of both to defend himself. Miles, on the other hand, could only defend with his physical body

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“You will be fine, stop whining.” An old voice descended to the hospital and Mercer appeared too. It wasn’t surprising, since the officer said he was close, but Miles still heaved a sigh of relief. Mercer approached the tree around Miles and Merlin’s body and looked at it with a frown. “Strange.” He said silently, but he was close to the duo. So they heard it.

“This can’t be good,” Miles said.

“It is fine. That guy was only a captain of a small police station. His level was Extol, while Grandpa is Crown-Rank. He can destroy this tree in a second, but probably there is something else that aroused Grandpa’s interest so he is taking his time.” Merlin explained with a chuckle.

“Welp, while he is taking his time, I am dying in here.” Miles looked at the frowning Mercer. His eyes were locked on branches, and he looked distracted.

“Strange indeed.” Cruel Heart said and with a snap of his finger, the tree turned into nothing.

“What was it, grandpa?” Merlin asked. While Miles was breathing heavily.

“We will talk later. Let’s leave.” Mercer said, and prepared to walk out of the hospital, but Miles stopped them.

“Wait. I will take the little girl to Uncle Gordon.” He said looking at Merlin and Mercer.

“Okay.” Merlin nodded and stood with Miles, but Mercer left. Merlin called him before to report the underground facility. All of those children had rare elements and most were orphans, so the military would train them. Of course, Merlin would want them to be on their family’s side. Merlin called Mercer to take them to his camp. After all, he was to be a General one day, taking the helm from his grandfather. At the time, he would need trustable underlings.

When Merlin was on his way, he told Mercer he had a bad feeling and would go to the hospital. Merlin had life and death experience in two circles of the Portal World, outer space expedition, and countless operations on Earth, so his guts were worth taking into consideration. Mercer changed his path and also came to the hospital. It saved both brothers.

Now Mercer had to return and pick up the children. He had to register them and make them comfortable in their new houses, so when they grew up, they would serve to Unity, then to Cross. It might seem cruel, but it was the best option.

They were orphans and had nowhere to go. If they were registered to nursing houses they would be bullied for the rest of their life, but in the military, they would be clothed and fed, and only asked for their services. It could be seen as a long-term loan, where Cross would take care of them until they were grown up and they would start to pay back with their talents.

Miles didn’t know all these. It was unknown if he would agree to it or not if he knew it, but Merlin knew that he wouldn’t let the little girl go. So he stood behind with him to take both to Uncle Gordon.

Uncle Gordon was a healer, with great abilities. He was working with their mother, and also an acquaintance of the brothers. He was a good man and had an amicable relationship with Miles, so he decided to take the girl to Uncle Gordon. When they left the hospital, there was an ambulance waiting for them, and Miles hopped in after he placed the girl at the back.

She was better now. She was silent ever since Miles took her from the underground room. She just looked at Miles and coughed while they were traveling to the hospital, and looked at Miles silently now as well.

Miles didn’t know what to do with the girl for now and only intended to help her. Later, he would figure something out. But he was still nervous. He knew orphanages were not suitable places for such a little girl. Especially after he saw how the cops were dirty. So, he was thinking of some other places for the girl.