Chapter 36
Fox bead
Saiko goes wide eyed with horror at the scene in front of her and quickly raises her arms flooding the hospital basement to cool down the ground.
Ken observes very carefully as Daxia uses the dokkaebi mask to pull the mother out of the basement.
It only lasts a fraction of a second but reality seems to take a glitch like pattern with parts of the mother being visible and other parts invisible before the mother is completely yanked out of the invisibility spell and brought to the trio.
Ken smiles confidently to himself.
~ I figure it out ~
Daxia looks at him with a look of disbelief.
‘how?’
-who are you?-
The mother looks at three people around her with confusion.
~we will explain later, ma’am~
Ken turns to look at Saiko who is flooding the hospital with water.
~for now, we need to go~
_ I am not going to leave them like this and leave _
~you already did what you can, your magic can’t treat them, besid-
_SHUT UP_ Saiko shouts cutting him off _ THIS IS YOUR MESS _
Ken flinches from the sudden anger.
Daxia quickly steps forward.
- Saiko, you shouldn’t be angry at him, I am the one who told him where to aim remember, they were about to shoot her, this was the only way-
Daxia explains while pointing at the mother.
Saiko lets out a short sigh.
_doesn’t change anything, I am still not going to leave them like this _
-you can use the fox bead-
_huh?_
Saiko turns toward the floating Firey entity.
-the fox bead can absorb and give away life, it will not heal them but it will ensure they live and make a full recovery in the future but it will greatly reduce your own life, you would likely die within the next five years if you do it-
Saiko takes out the fox bead from her pocket.
_ are you talking about the thing you made us pick in the warehouse? I don’t know how to use that _
BOOM
BOOOOM
BOOM
Explosions could be heard from inside the flooded basement as the remaining soldiers try to fight with the water flooding the basement and blocking their path but no one pays them any attention.
Naoi raises an eyebrow at Saiko then snaps his fingers, then as though to answer his call, the book of knowledge which was hanging from a belt wrapped around Saiko’s waist, starts to float up in front of Saiko.
_right, my bad _
Saiko looks at the Book of Knowledge and asks.
_ How can I use the fox bead? _
The pages of the book flip open and letters made of golden light begin to form on the empty page.
~NO no no~ Ken quickly steps between Saiko and the floating book ~ you are not about to give your life for some random soldiers who may I remind you, would definitely try to kill you or do you not hear the explosions coming from there ~
Ken then turns and points at Noai.
~and you, if you had a way to heal people why didn’t you bring it up before we could have used that to treat Saiko from the lightening ~
-she wouldn’t have taken the life of another to heal herself, so there was no point in bringing it up –
The Firey entity responds nonchalantly like the answer is obvious which only fuels Ken’s anger more.
The mother watches Ken and Saiko seemingly arguing with nothing and wonders what sort of crazy group she ran into.
She notices their third member a girl with a mask that resembles the mouth of a monster is also watching them like her, so she leans toward the girl and asks.
-are these two okay? –
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-pffft, nah they are talking to an invisible creature made of fire that’s thousands of years old –
-Raaaiiiight –
The mother backs away slowly thinking this one is also crazy.
She turns her attention to the other two.
The conversation between them seems to have died down as they are just staring at each other now.
Saiko stares at Ken unwaveringly as the sounds of gunshots and explosions echo behind them coming from the basement of the hospital.
A few moments pass as they stare at each other but Ken knows time isn’t on his side.
While it’s true the soldiers stationed inside the hospital probably don’t have enough fire power to deal with Saiko’s magic, they probably already called for backup from other units who are likely to be on their way to the hospital right now.
Ken eventually gives up and messes his own hair in frustration as he doesn’t want this to turn into a bigger fight.
~Ahhhh fine but you didn’t hear the end of this~
Saiko smiles at him gently.
_ don’t worry I won’t die right away _
Saiko starts reading from the Book of knowledge, she then lifts fox bead up and it starts to float in the air.
A moment later, Saiko’s body begins to float in the air as if following behind the bead.
Her face begins to twist from immense pain and she looks like she is trying to scream but no sound comes out, instead, a faint blue light starts to come out of her body and enter the fox bead.
Groans.
Daxia groans from pain as she blocks her eyes and looks away but no one paid her attention as their eyes were fixated on Saiko.
The golden light that usually surrounds Saiko was growing in intensity at a very rapid pace and it was very quickly becoming painful to look at.
unlike her, Noai was able to watch the growing light without issues and he watched it with a hint of pride and satisfaction.
‘Divine favor, what a hard thing to accumulate.’
But the light soon became too strong for him as well.
‘that’s more than I expected’
Groans.
Daxia then heard more groans that were not her own.
She wanted to look at the source of the groans but the light was so bright she couldn’t open her eyes.
It was as though a second sun had descended on them.
But what Daxia didn’t know was that she was not the only one who was able to see that sun.
The golden light had gotten so bright that it became visible to the naked eye.
-huh? What is that?-
-Is that dawn?-
-How would it be dawn you idiot the sun doesn’t rise from the north. –
-Honey, what time is it right now?-
-it’s so bright-
That night people all over Kim Sungta and the surrounding nations from the world government saw a beautiful dawn in the middle of the night, that dyed their skies with a brilliant golden color instead of the usual red.
Later, the people of Kim Sungta would tell stories about that night.
About the invisible demon who attacked the hospital and brought with him hellish fire and evil waters, and about the Vaillant soldiers who fought her.
They would sing about the bravery of the soldiers and how their bravery touched the heart of an angel and made the angel descend to Earth surrounded by golden light.
They would sing about how the angel blessed the soldiers with life, and how even though many of them had fatal injuries, life seemingly refused to leave them.
Not only were they able to make a full recovery, but from that day forward they became able to shrug off fatal injuries as though no matter how damaged their bodies got, the angel of death simply refused to take their souls.
From that day onward, that night became known as The Night of Divine Blessing.
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Location: Strike Team 1 base, world capital, central nation.
Day: the 12th of June 5027
Claus stands in the middle of the training grounds of the strike team base wearing nothing but grey sweatpants and his watch which lets him connect with the teleportation pillar’s network.
Davis, Zeva, Tubal Cain, and the monk stood in a circle around Claus.
They all had on light flexible clothes suitable for training except for Tubal Cain who had on a full suit of metal armor.
The silence lasted between them for a few long seconds before it was broken by Claus.
-come-
All four strike team members lunged at Claus from all directions.
The first to reach him was the monk who used his wind magic to boost his speed and immediately delivered a powerful spin kick toward Claus.
Claus takes a step away from the monk moving out of the kick’s range but unlike the fight with Daxia the monk had expected it.
The monk continues his spin and with a second kick and a powerful gust of wind propelling him, chases after Claus but instead of Claus, his leg hits a padded large metal cube that dropped from a portal between Him and Claus.
Zeva quickly makes use of the blind spot created by the cube and runs into the cube phasing through it and coming out of the other side delivering a stab at Claus’s head but a portal appears in front of the katana swallowing it and releasing it in front of Davis who was aiming for Claus’s back stopping him.
- you need to be faster, if I can react to it, the Xia girl definitely can as well –
Claus opens two portals below Davis and Zeva.
The two portals swallow the two strike team members and throw them in the path of the incoming monk causing the three to collide and fall.
Claus then opens a third portal below himself and falls through it as the armored giant that is Tubal Cain runs through where Claus was standing a moment ago and crashes into the metal cube denting it and causing its padding to rupture.
Claus falls out of a portal behind Tubal Cain and then delivers two powerful punches followed by a straight kick toward the empty air.
Small portals appear in front of Claus swallowing his punches and kick and releasing them inside the armored giant’s helmet causing him to fall.
A blue holographic screen appears in front of Claus showing Sophia in her lab.
-sorry to disrupt your training but I believe you need to see this –
Tubal Cain raises his arm while lying on the floor and comments.
- I believe the correct term for this is a beat down-
Claus raises an eyebrow at him but decides to ignore his comment.
-sure, show me –
The holographic screen enlarges and shifts to show what seems to be satellite footage of a massive golden ball of light illuminating the night sky of Kim Sungta.
The other members get up one by one and stand behind Claus.
-Is that an explosion of some sort?-
-no, if it was, we would see a lot of destruction it seems to be just light-
The monk asks and Davis responds to him.
-this light appeared in Kim Sungta last night and the culprit –
Sophia comments as she makes the satellite footage zoom in greatly at the center of the ball of light until the silhouette of a person begins to appear.
The light is too strong to be able to see any details but Sophia makes the screen display a comparison between the silhouette in the footage and Saiko and reveals they are a perfect match.
Claus observes the ball of light intently trying to figure out what it could be and as he does, he can’t help but recall the words of the director.
‘The longer they have the book the more dangerous they will become’
‘it’s only a matter of time before they figure out what questions to ask of the book’
‘This is the greatest threat to harmony’
Claus turns to Sophia and asks.
-are the modifications for Ariel finished? –
-yes, and I am sure you will like them greatly –
Sophia responds with a smile.
- what are the conditions of Jorden and Zim? –
- Zim is slowly getting used to his new vocal cords and should be able to use magic with them soon, as for Jorden his physical rehabilitation ended about two months ago and he is currently on a specialized training course to bring him back to the standard level of fitness for the strike team –
-good, I think it’s about time we have a reunion with our favorite group of thieves –
Claus’s lips curl up into a smile with a hint of excitement.