With their Renisas Eyes on, they could see that the sphere was still there. Aside from it, eight vines made of gray renisas were coming out from the diamond throne. It wiggled around the sphere trying to attach itself to Pretty’s Rentom. Four of them had already latched to Pretty’s Rentom trying to pull her out from her physical body.
A fifth vine wiggled and lunged at Pretty’s Rentom. It bit her in her right chest but it dislodged after a second. It raised itself again and tried to attach again but the same thing happened. It tried three times, and by the fourth time it managed to attach to Pretty’s Rentom successfully.
Pretty, who was in her Rentom form, felt a new wave of pain everytime a vine attached to her. The more vine attached to her Rentom, the more the pain she felt. It was different from physical pain, when her rentom was attacked, her whole being felt the pain.
She was still conscious despite dying which should be impossible, and she did not know if that was a good thing or not. She thought she had already experienced the most pain a pain could give her but it always outdo itself. It was a hundred times more painful than when Simon beat her up during her sensitive state. She never knew a rentom could even feel pain, much more this type of pain.
Pretty opened her mouth to scream, to ask for help but no sound came out. She couldn’t even pass out from the pain as she was just a rentom right now and her body was already dead.
Simon snickered while looking at her suffer.
“Stop laughing!” Norde shouted. “What are you doing to her? What are those things?”
Feeling humorous, Simon explained to them, “That,” he said, pointing at the diamond platform and the vines, “ is a Rentom Extractor, together with those extracting tubes, they extract rentom. There’s nothing you could do now. Once it starts, only the predetermined Rentom will be allowed to enter inside to be extracted. Those barriers on the other hand, trap the Rentom inside.” He turned to Josh and gave him a grin, “Actually, it’s all thanks to Josh that we were able to make it faster. It usually takes a long time to extract a Rentom. I actually didn’t know that killing the person will make it even faster to separate the Rentom from the body, it’s not like we have tried it before. But with Josh's help, as long as the eight extractor tubes connected to her Rentom, then her Rentom will be extracted. So better say goodbye to her right now.”
Norde took the gun out of Josh’s hand, stood up and pointed the gun at his father. “I regretted it,” he said with angry tears in his eyes, “I regretted that I stopped Mom from killing you. I should have listened to her. If not — this would not happen. Mom, Celine, Uncle Fredrin, Pretty— all the other persons you killed for your sick obsession with power! This is all my fault. I should end this.”
Josh held Norde’s hand, stopping him from shooting the gun. “Don’t do it Norde.” he said in a serious tone, his face enraged. “He’s still your father.”
“I don’t care anymore.”
“Are you sure?”
Norde nodded without hesitation
“Then let me do it.” Josh then grabbed the gun and took it away from Norde’s hand. Norde looked at him with surprise but he already aimed the gun at Simon. This is the second time today he aimed a gun at his uncle, but unlike before, he was determined to do it now. He couldn’t let Norde do it.
Afraid that he would balk out again, he closed his eyes and without hesitation pressed the trigger of the gun.
Simon did not even blinked as the bullet passed a few inches from his face, missing him completely. Before Josh could fire another bullet at him, he turned to the silent man in the door and ordered him. “Play with them Hod — and don’t hurt them much.”
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Hob nodded and removed the white lab coat he was wearing, revealing a buff body full of muscles inside. He was not that tall, probably 5’5’’in height, his face average, but he exudes a dangerous vibe.
Hob then jogged towards Josh, white flash appearing in his body, then suddenly he accelerated so fast he couldn’t be seen from the eyes for a second. Immediately, he had crossed the fifty meters between them. He stopped in front of Josh and Norde, guarding the path towards Simon.
Josh opened his eyes and was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the man before him. He looked towards Simon and saw that he was still alive.
Norde, on the other hand, recognized the man as one of the researchers in the Summit under his father. He looked like just a normal researcher. But he would be a fool to assume that this guys could not fight. He had a strong body inside that lab coat and he also had a Rentom ability like Pretty, which both Norde and Josh didn’t have. As far as Norde knew, even his father did not have one.
He pulled Josh away from the man. “Be careful with him Josh. He has a Rentom ability. He just sprinted right in front of us in less than 3 seconds from the door,” he warned, pointing to the door fifty meters from them.
Josh looked at the direction of Simon instead, “Just now, I — I di—”
“It’s okay.” Norde cut him off. “Dad’s doing something. Distract the guy in front of us and I’ll try stopping Da— Simon.”
Before both of them could make their move. The man moved back 5 meters away from them in an instant. Then he bolted like a cannon towards them.
Josh only felt that something slammed at him with so much force and he flew backwards towards Norde behind him, bringing him along a few meters away.
Both of them scrambled to their feet and saw the man standing where they just stood a while ago. The man moved a few meters backwards again and was preparing to attack them again.
Josh immediately made a move. He concentrated and invoked his white renisas to form into daggers. Dozens of daggers separated from his Renisas field and they floated in front of him. He may not have a Rentom Ability, but he have a partial one, making it easier for him to create daggers out of renisas, within a second, if it was other people, they may need 5 -10 seconds to create a single dagger, but he could create dozens of it at that amount of time.
Josh stepped in front of Norde. “I’ll give you a few seconds,” he said to Norde, “stop your dad or anything.”
Josh then moved towards the man with his daggers floating in the air and at the same time Norde moved towards his father.
Norde's renisas converged to his arms and countless white hairs started growing from there. He supplied more renisas and they elongated into three meters. White dense of hairs then followed him like wings as he shortened the distance between him and his father.
Hod saw this, and ten small blobs of white renisas separated from his body. He willed them towards the ten marbles in his hands and merge each of the marbles with the blobs of renisas. He threw them above him and the marbles who glowed in white flew above and then sped up so fast in different directions all coming towards Norde in every direction. Hod then sped up to his left as three daggers flew towards him. The daggers hit the floor, breaking into small white lights.
Josh then threw another batch of three daggers towards the direction Hob evaded, but it only hit the floor as Hob was so fast for him to pin.
Norde on the other hand, fully trusting Josh to guard his back, did not expect the projectiles coming towards him. The first one hit him in the shoulder and it felt like someone drilled into his shoulder. It did not break the skin, but it felt like it could crack a bone from the pain he felt.
Norde operated instinctively and instantly his furs curled to create a circular shield around him. Eight of the marbles got stopped by the shield but one sneaked in from his back hitting him towards his left shoulder. He winced from the pain and cursed Josh under his breath.
Not letting Hob attack Norde, Josh summoned new daggers and his renisas visibly lessened. Whenever Hob stops, he threw daggers at him, making him move constantly.
Norde, having a breather, took the chance and unwrapped the fur over him. He then jumped on a statue of a stone goat ahead of him. In that moment when he was mid air, his shoes suddenly released a huge blast of air and he propelled upward rather than falling down. It was a prototype of shoes that he was working on. It had the ability to release a huge blast of air. It’s useless for anyone other than him, as it couldn’t fly someone, it’s to elongate their jump and the problem came from falling down. Which was an advantage to him.
With his accelerated jump, it propelled him to be nearer where Simon was. He turned the fur in her arms into a big ball around him while the ends of his fur turned into spikes. He was literally a big ball of spike falling from the sky. He willed more renisas to cover the whole ball, reinforcing it to be sturdier.
Norde flew into an arch five meters above the ground. His momentum slowed midway a few meters away from Simon, but another blast from his shoes made him propell toward Simon in a diagonal line.