Hearing Karla’s instructions, Bolin finally stopped speaking and took a breath of air just like Karla said. Noticing this, Karla spoke up once again after a few moments had passed.“Okay, from the beginning, what did you say you did after I disappeared?”Bolin answered, “Well, I thought something had happened to you so I immediately ran over to your place where I caught somebody sneaking around in young Cale’s room. He must have been one of the people you said was following you so since I only saw him there I immediately captured him.”Hearing this part, Karla was immediately excited.“Really, you managed to capture one of them? That’s great! Hold on a second, are you still at the apartment?”In her excitement, Karla immediately changed her plans. She wasn’t in a hurry to report what she had discovered first but instead wanted to see the person Bolin had captured. It was likely one of Hive’s people because Cale had told Karla that he had instructed all of his people to only track her

“You’re right, Comb… I shouldn’t have let Kaleb go and I regret it even now.”Hearing Karla say this, everybody turned to look at her. Bolin’s eyes were filled with deep concern for Karla, knowing exactly how she felt. He knew that saying those words would not have been easy at all and that it took a lot of courage for Karla to admit it.Comb, on the other hand, while gleaming triumphantly for being right, said to Karla, “So you agree with me. It’s nice to see that. Unfortunately, it is too late already now that the damage has been done. We can only look for other ways to deal with this matter.”At this point, Bolin was about to rage at Comb once again for how insufferable he was being, but Karla actually beat him to the punch, continuing to speak like she hadn’t heard Comb’s words at all.“I regret letting Kaleb leave, but not because it was wrong to do so. Had I known that Bolin had captured one of their people, I would’ve let him stay a little longer so he could use his powers to g

The meeting came to a close and everybody went off to do their own stuff, leaving only Karla and Captain Blanche in the room.Before Karla left, she walked up to Blanche, who had barely reacted at all during the meeting. She wanted to get her input in all this, even though it might not be of any significance at all.“Captain, you with me?” Karla asked, reaching out her hand to gently grasp Blanche’s arm, then giving a light tug.Blanche blinked a few times, as if some old system was rebooting, at which point clarity seemed to return to her eyes. Blanche’s gaze focused, no longer having that far-off look of staring into space, as she turned to look at Karla.After a moment, Blanche said, “Yes, I’m with you?”Blinking, Karla didn’t react much to what just happened, being used to it by this point. Instead, she asked, “Did you hear everything we talked about just now?”Nodding, Blanche responded immediately, “I did… I heard everything.”“So what do you think?” Karla asked again.This time

Cale watched the fighters in the ring with rapt attention. It was his first time witnessing other awakened individuals using their powers like this. The battle he fought back in the laboratory didn’t count. Back then, he was the one fighting for his life against a multitude of enemies, each with different abilities, that Cale didn’t have any time to study and analyze, unlike now where he was simply a spectator watching the fighters from the sidelines.From this view, Cale was able to get a whole new appreciation for awakened individuals and their powers—especially in this case with the two duking it out on the stage—their powers were simple.With what Cale had been able to see so far, the burly man was simply a physical augmenting awakened with powers that enhanced his physique and strength but didn’t give him much else in the way of offensive ability, so he had to rely on the large mechanical sword, leveraging his great strength to achieve destructive capabilities.Analyzing the burl

“How sneaky…”Cale watched with surprise as he saw the second fighter deliver a sweeping kick at his opponent, sending a huge wave of concussive airflow that was aimed at the partially exposed part of his legs and lower body where the defense of the large mechanical sword wasn’t as strong.All along, the second fighter had only been using punches during the fight, never once closing in to perform a kick attack on the burly man, instead opting to use his legs to evade and dodge, making people believe that he could only throw blows, not knowing that he was actually holding back as a trump card to use in this kind of situation.Judging from how surprised the audience was, it looked like Cale wasn’t the only one fooled by this tactic, as even those regular spectators that were fairly familiar with him were also caught off guard.Immediately after the second fighter performed the surprise attack, the crowd was suddenly filled with an even more intense fervor of excitement and woe. Naturall