Chapter 122 - Obtaining Something Valuable

Asahi had a bad premonition. He had no other way of thinking why they did not chase him. Were they afraid? That's almost impossible though, he was marked with end up being defeated.

So it was rather odd…

Should I keep going? The feeling getting clearer the more I get closer to the experiment room, Asahi said to himself and a bit unsettled.

Should I check the situation first? Asahi pondered and decided to do so.

He shifted back to his original position, lowered his presence and concealed his aura to the extreme. He would be no different than a ghost.

Stealthily, he rushed to the experiment room and spread out his spiritual energy in a manner no one could notice.

After scanning the entire experiment room, Asahi frowned. The scene came into his mind and nothing was out of ordinary except those inside stopped their experiments and seeking shelter.

The test subjects were no longer there as they were locked somewhere with tight security.

Asahi began to doubt his guts as he silently pondered, Am I wrong?

However, Asahi chose to believe his guts. A Sorcerer's guts frequently proved to be right. Of course, there were exceptions.

Asahi then tried something. He crouched and opened his palm, shortly thereafter, a white ball was produced.

It was the size of a baseball but abruptly, an eye opened!

Its pupil was brown and the eye was round. As soon as it opened, it moved around before blinking.

This was an ability he got from his monster form. Called Eye of Wonder.

Rolling it to the ground, the eye did not follow with the rolling momentum but stayed in one place.

Asahi closed his eyes and his vision shifted to somewhere else.

Indeed, the eye shared its vision!

Next, the eye blinked as it observed the area.

Noticing everything was clear, it proceeded to move forward and found a room with a bunch of scientists.

As there was a gap on the door, Asahi went through it after he shrunk the size of the ball to that of a marble.

Entering the room, Asahi lifted his eye and saw four scientists conversing and laughing. There were no signs of worry at all in their face despite the place being infiltrated.

Asahi was a bit furious as he said inwardly, these guys do terrible things to us yet they could still talk normally and joke around?!

As his emotions fluctuated, one of the scientists felt something and simultaneously felt being watched.

He turned his body around to the door and downward his gaze to the floor yet he saw nothing.

He did not bother it as he shifted his attention.

That's close, Asahi heaved a sigh of relief and pondered how he should execute his plan.

Just as he was about to do so.

"Right, I heard the friend of that test subject who escaped is going to be ejected with Cry Angel serum," one of the scientists abruptly said.

"I've heard of it. It's supposed to be today, right? Though, it's being delayed because the HQ is infiltrated."

A skinny scientist then said in a mocking tone as he shook his head, "heh, I bet they're dead before causing a ruckus."

Because they spent most of their time here, they did not bother with the situation outside.

What they wanted was to study the things given by the organization and they were so easily immersed with it that they had no time to care.

"Well, that aside. I'm looking forward to the success rate of the Cry Angel project. Sigh, it's unfortunate the test subject escaped.

"If not, our project would've been done earlier than expected. Oh whatever, what's done is done, I'm excited to see how our actions will affect the society.

"It's time for a big change, don't you guys agree?"

The others nodded but there were some who remained silent.

Abruptly, a baseball rolled out of the desk and attracted everyone's attention. All of them shifted their line of sight to it.

They were confused as to how this thing got in. The door and window were closed, and there was nowhere

One of them crouched as they picked it up and was a bit wary.

"What is it?"

"It's a baseball. I don't know how it got in but I think it's been there for a long time," one of them speculated, a bit unsure.

"But there is no dust covering it. It looked like a new one."

"You're right, this is odd."

As soon as one of them said that, the ball lit up and the others were alarmed. The one who had the ball threw it away as he was panicking.

Shortly thereafter, the ball exploded like a grenade and the window was shattered as fragments scatter to the ground with a bounce.

The door blasted away as black smoke came out.

Before the explosion, shrieking of pain could be heard.

Asahi opened his eyes and hurriedly fled from the area. He knew with such a big ruckus, it would attract others.

That went more smoothly than I thought, Asahi thought to himself as he stopped a few distance away from his recent position and observed as he waited.

His patient did not for naught. Soon, Hawk and the Commander appeared!

Thank goodness I believe my guts in the end, he silently heaved a sigh of relief.

"What happened?" The Commander asked one of the scientists. This scientist had already noticed something was wrong and he quickly activated a barrier.

Yup, one of the scientists was a Sorcerer. He was regretful he couldn't save his friends but no one blamed him for that.

In such a situation, saving yourself was of the utmost importance.

Hawk observed his surroundings as he spread out his spiritual energy. Scanned the area yet nothing suspicious was to be found.

Hawk frowned as he retracted his gaze to Commander.

"Any results?" He asked.

Hawk shook his head, "He is probably in stealth and still nearby. I would go for him."

"No, it might be dangerous to go alone. We should face him together."

Hawk was a bit displeased as he said, "Does that mean you are doubting my strength?"

The Commander shook his head, "It's better to be safe than sorry. Regardless of his low Level. Our opponent this time is someone who survived the Anger Cry serum.

"We must not underestimate him," he said solemnly.

What the Commander said made sense. Although Hawk had little understanding of the project as he was not interested given the training maniac he was.

Once someone was injected by the serum. Their body structure would change, and the pain was so painful that they died as they could not bear it any longer.

The scientist was wondering why this was the case and they even used many drugs and technologies to reduce the pain but it was futile.

The more efficient it was to reduce the pain, the greater the pain was going to be. That was what they concluded and Asahi being the last batch who was treated that way.

Just thinking about the pain made his scalp go numb and his face became pale. The pain carved deeply into his soul that he was afraid of being abducted again and used as research material!

He even had the thought to run away but he shook his head. He must not go against his promise as that only made him a quitter.

"They are desperate to find this escaped test subject to find out what makes him different, huh?" Hawk said to himself.

"Well, the answer is obvious but what they want is proof. It would be long if they start with another test subject and easier by capturing him," the Commander explained.

"Alright, you can come out now. We know you're hiding and it's useless to keep hiding," Hawk suddenly said And Asahi skipped a beat.

However, he remain calm as he discovered it was only a trick to get him out.

As Hawk about to walk to where Asahi was. A lot of baseball balls came out of the corner of the room!

There were more than hundreds of them as they bounced around. Hawk was startled but he quickly act.

He hurriedly gathered spiritual energy to his right hand and it condensed to powerful energy.

Hawk shot out a few and he looked like shooting out laser beams.

Pew pew!

Hitting the balls, it became black smoke and covered the entire room as it blocked their vision.

The Commander narrowed his eyes as he ordered anxiously, "this is bad, Hawk. Stop shooting!" 

However, it was too late. Hawk had shot more than fifteen laser beams and hit most of the balls.

The room soon filled with dark smoke.

Their vision could only see a meter of what's in front of them and in consideration of their enemy concealed his presence quite well.

They could not do anything and probably could only wait for a beating.

All detection against the enemy proved to be useless!

The Commander raised his guard to the extreme and will do strike upon he noticed something was wrong.