Chapter 156: Mana and Secrets
Rosa moved swiftly through the black fog with her eyes narrowed in concentration. She had spoken with her brother a few minutes ago about how they were going to handle this assassination, and her brother told her that it would be best to just go ahead and kill all three boys. Their only target was Jason, but it would be strange if they came back with only Henry and Darren since they were instructed to look after all three of them. It would be best if they just killed all of them and then told the others that the boys ran off and were killed by the monsters in the Gate. Jason was strong, but he wasn’t experienced and they could convince the other agent that their story was true if they said that Jason was overwhelmed.
This wouldn’t be the first time new awakeners were killed in a Gate, and it wouldn’t be the last time either.
Rosa’s gaze was focused on Jason as she decided it would be best to take care of him first. Darren and Henry were only a few meters away from Jason, but they were all looking around blindly and trying to figure out what was going on. Before they could figure anything out, they’d already be dead.
Jason was standing still and his head was lowered as his senses spread across the area. Jason couldn’t see or hear anything, so he decided that the next best course of action was to spread his mana around him and try to feel for anything. The fog was capable of blocking all the senses of any superhuman, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t be bypassed.
The fog was a construct created from pure mana, and if it were bombarded by a mana source that was sufficiently stronger than it, then its cloaking ability would dim for a short period of time! And it was in that short period of time that Jason was able to sense the phantom figure shooting towards his direction from the west! Jason immediately called on a skill!
[Exo-skeletal Armor] has been activated!
CLANG!
A silver armor formed over Jason’s body at the same time that a blade struck out for Jason’s neck, and Jason’s face split into a mad grin as he felt the blade spark against the armor’s defenses! Jason reared his head back, and Rosa’s eyes widened when she felt the area’s temperature rising to unbearable levels!
[Emberstorm] has been activated!