“…”A hail of lethal fire was rained down on Cale, floating suspended in the air, yet like raindrops falling into the ocean, everything disappeared before reaching Cale, leaving only a ripple in space where they disappeared.Seeing this, the guards were shocked and could not believe their eyes.“Impossible!” someone shouted.“Again!”The attacks kept coming as the guards fired shot after shot, with some abandoning their rifles to use their powers that were capable of dealing long-range damage to attack Cale.“Don’t let up. Keep going… we must take him down!”The guards kept attacking, yet they proved futile, as none of the attacks managed to reach Cale despite everything being aimed at him. They simply vanished into the void as if there were an invisible well in front of Cale that swallowed up every attack that came its way.Seeing that none of the attacks were working, the guards began to despair.“Ahh!”Amidst the loud sound of rifle fire and explosions from meta powers, a scream wa

In the end, five guards managed to escape… Having calmed down significantly, Cale watched as the four remaining guards left on the battlefield ran down the corridor, far away from his reach. At the speed they were moving, without anything obstructing their path, Cale’s rift could not extend swiftly enough to capture them, so he simply decided to let them go.As for the last guard who had gotten away, it was the one responsible for stabbing Cale earlier in the fight, causing him to panic and spiral out of control just now.With his heightened senses stemming from his berserk state, Cale couldn’t sense the presence of that guard anywhere, and because of the rift there were no shadows for the guard to lurk around in, leaving Cale to suspect that he had hightailed it out of here at the first chance he got.With his power, it would’ve been easy for the guard to escape if he wanted to, and nobody could’ve been able to stop him—not even Cale.When there was nobody else in sight, Cale finally

After going over the previous crime scenes, it wasn’t that Conrad hadn’t discovered anything useful—it’s just that what he discovered couldn’t help him in identifying the identity of the killer right now. But it did help Conrad create a profile of the killer and their motives.Conrad believed that the reason the killer was attacking all these people and consuming their blood was because they were injured and wanted to recover.The reason he thought this was because during the killer’s first few attacks, there were a lot of lingering traces of a huge battle that took place, which suggested that the killer struggled a little before taking down their victims.It was the same for the first few times they attacked, suggesting that they weren’t significantly stronger than their victims, and only in later attempts did the traces begin to disappear as it became significantly easier for the killer to overwhelm their victims—suggesting they were growing stronger.When you considered this, the r

What was a black site?Simply put, they were unregistered, unregulated, hidden locations that operated outside the purview of any fortress’s administration. In a way, they were secret facilities where anything could be conducted without the official knowledge or approval of any governing body inside the fortress.The activities carried out in black sites varied widely, ranging from illegal manufacturing and distribution of contraband products to immoral acts like torture, unlawful imprisonment, or the forced experimentation on ceruleans.By this description, underground fight clubs and black market hubs were technically types of black sites, since they existed outside official regulation. However, they were a special case because their existence was usually widely known, along with the activities carried out within them.True black sites, on the other hand, were completely hidden from everyone except those directly involved in their operation.It was nearly impossible to stumble upon

Old Ludwig had no choice but to explain what was going on. He told them about the earthquake and the black site facility located inside the hill, where the testing and experimentation on Cale—whom they all knew as the anomalous source—was being conducted.Hearing this news, all the ministers except Bolovia were immediately surprised and quickly came to a realization.“So that’s where you were keeping the anomalous source and conducting experiments on it. Who would’ve thought it was actually so close to home? I thought you’d have smuggled him into the wilds just to prevent any of us from getting our hands on him.”Minister Eisendale was the one who spoke, only for Minister Cole to follow up sarcastically.“Heh, in the end you couldn’t protect your secret and keep things under control, and now you’re forced to come and share it with us. So much for hoarding everything to yourself!”After saying this, Minister Cole suddenly shifted gears and addressed Minister Bolovia, asking, “But you d