284 Defective Life Form

The Hero League, Star City.

Bai Xian Ming was putting all-nighter to take care of the paperwork he neglected in the afternoon as he played the game with Old Man Dazekh and Old Kim. Now his two friends were asleep, but he had to finish his work.

"Sleep is for the weak!" The old man delivered a can of energy to his mouth. He took a big gulp and threw the can to the trash can. Fortunately, his granddaughter was kind enough to accompany him.

Just as he was about to continue his work, his office door was opened hard with a bang.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!" Bai Shuang'er rushed into Bai Xian Ming's office in a hurry.

The old man raised his head and found his granddaughter was panicked.

"What's wrong?"

"The Regal Kingdom… The Regal Kingdom…" Bai Shuang'er ran out of breath, she could not finish her words properly.

"Here!" Old Ming handed his bottle to his granddaughter who immediately grabbed it from his hand.

A long gulp was heard and she finished half a bottle of water.

"Take a deep breath and exhale it slowly…"

Bai Shuang'er followed the instructions. Only then, she calmed down a little.

"The Regal Kingdom just sent a red notice! They wanted us to send reinforcement to the kingdom!"

"What!? What happened?" Bai Xian Ming stood up from his chair.

"The specters! They raided the Crown Prince's wedding. Now, the kingdom is in chaos, the specters attacked the Capital City of the Regal Kingdom! They are asking us to help them deal with the specters!"

In one breath, she told what actually happened to the Regal Kingdom.

The knight regiment tried to subdue the specters, but the result was a disaster hence the Regal Kingdom asked a reinforcement to the Hero League of Star City.

Thanks to SES, the Hero League of Star City was known to the world as the only force that could kill the specters.

"Send SES to the Regal Kingdom! No, I will go myself!" Bai Xian Ming rushed to the SES office.

"What? You can't go!" Bai Shuang'er blocked her grandpa with her arms open.

"Huh!? How I can not go when your sister is in danger!"

Yes, Bai Xian Ming panicked because his other granddaughter was in the Regal Kingdom. As someone who had experienced the specter's fearsomeness once, he had to come to help his granddaughter himself.

"Urgh!? Did you forget who she was with?"

Bai Shuang'er's words made the old man aware of something he overlooked. Yes, his granddaughter was with her husband, a man that was most likely stronger than him.

"Do you think my brother-in-law will let anything happen to my sister? Moreover, I heard he was a bit overprotective regarding his family, so she should be fine, " Bai Shuang'er convinced her grandpa.

Heero, remembering his granddaughter was with him, it left the old man with ease.

"Hooo… It was all because of you! Why did you get fluttered earlier?" The old man suddenly recalled that he was panicked because of his granddaughter. The panic was contagious.

"Hehe," Bai Shuang'er stuck her tongue out, "I just remembered it just now! I will call Zhou Yi now!"

After that, the girl silently retreated from the room.

*** ***

Martial Hall of the Heero Academy, Xing District.

It was a place all SES squads currently gathered.

"The Regal Kingdom is attacked, Executive Bai asked us to go!" Sun Zhou Yi informed the others at the task they received.

Even though they just came back from the Desolate Fort, no one complained about the incoming task.

"Master is in the Regal Kingdom, we should hurry…" Musashi Hirata nodded.

His focus was not on the specters they had to exterminate, but his Master. He remembered his Master was on the honeymoon trip there, they had to come to help.

"Then it's decided, let's go!" Sun Zhou Yi stood up and did a light stretch.

The internal injuries he suffered from the beforehand task was healed considerably. It was thanks to the golden pill from his Master.

"No, you go, bring all squads with you. Squad 2 will stay!" Out of sudden, Musashi Hirata decided to stay.

"Why!?" Lyera could not believe that she did not go on a mission.

"If you want to go, you can ask your people to replace your place in Squad 2!" Musashi Hirata did not tell the reason, but he was adamant to stay.

In the end, Lyera backed out and stayed in the district.

Sun Zhou Yi nodded at Hirata and left. He led Squad 1 and the other six squads to go to the nearest military hangar. Seven squads would fly to the Regal Kingdom as reinforcement.

*** ***

"What actually happened!?" Benjamin stood in the window in a daze. He was on the third floor and he could see chaos below.

Groups of knights clashed against groups of black-cloaked figures. A fierce battle ensued below, even the main hall was in chaos as Morphers madly attacked everyone in their sight.

"Most likely because of me, "

Everyone in the room was surprised by Heero's claim.

"After they detected my presence, they decided to attack the Capital City. They abandoned plan A and went for plan B. The plan A was to silently replace the Crown Prince and all the nobles attended the banquet with Morpher. They want to take control of the Regal Kingdom secretly!"

"But they did not expect me to come. A Chief of SES, they must know that I have my way to discover the Morpher so they decide to attack the kingdom instead of continuing plan A. That was my deduction, "

Heero told them what was in his mind. He felt it was what most likely happened as the moment he returned to the main hall, the Morpher no longer disguised themselves and started to attack the others. He guessed everything based on these little clues.

"But why? Why did they want to take over the kingdom?" Benjamin asked in an agitated tone.

Specter and the Regal Kingdom did not have animosity.

"Stupid question you have there, my disciple! Control your emotion and get the thing right on your head! Specter is humanity's mortal enemy, they are a parasite!"

"They need another living being to reproduce themselves. They are a defective life form who can't breed! War is a way for them to breed and they would never stop until either they go extinct or all other living beings turn into one of them! Prepare yourself, Kid, the Eternal War between humanity and specter just started, there are more of them hidden inside unknown dungeons!"

Morpher, it was a new type of specter that appeared on Earth. Meaning a new dungeon that contained such a creature had been opened up. The first three dungeons known to the Hero League were not only the dungeon in the world.

"Let's stop talking and move! Let's move to your father, he must be in danger as well! The Crown Prince is not the only target if they wanted to take over the kingdom!"

Hearing that, Benjamin snapped out of a daze. He realized The King was also in danger.

"The King is in the main castle, The King should be fine, right?" The knight who was guarding the door chimed in. Their duty was to protect the Crown Prince, hence they did join the battle.

"Who knows? The specter even slipped into the wedding, they might have their way to slip into the castle. We have to hurry!" Bai Xin Yue urged Benjamin to lead them to the main castle.