"I don't know, but they certainly are heading to our secret base." said Sky.
"Those things certainly don't look like any friendly creatures... And I felt a weird magic flows for them." said Chris.
Suddenly, that clergy boy limped into the cathedral before losing his balance and fall onto the ground, His left leg is badly injured with part of his bone exposed.
"Nathan! What happened to you?" said Dominic while rushing to the boy and started to apply healing magic on him.
"Ah... So he does have a name." Sky whispered.
"Mhm... What a cute name." Chris whispered, and yes, they have a totally wrong point of focus again.
"Your Grace, it's an emergency situation. Some of our brethren and people in the town suddenly lose control and assaulted random people in the town." said the boy in a calm tone, rather unaffected by his own injuries. Hearing this, Dominic turned to the Shadow Punisher with no hesitation.
"I have decided that I'll give you and your squad a second chance, go check out what happened and protect the people in town. Try to stop those who lose control without hurting them if possible." said Dominic before released the Shadow Punishers.
The Shadow Punishers kneeled down and bow to Dominic before leaving the cathedral.
"This injury really looks unusual, my healing magic doesn't seem to work so well on it." said Dominic continues to heal Nathan's injuries.
"Do you want me to get Ben here? He should be able to treat this kind of injury easily." said Chris.
"No, it's alright, he is busy helping our healer in the hospital right now due to the mess caused by Dan, I can't ask too much from him anymore." said Dominic.
Chris nodded and decided to lend a hand but suddenly saw Junior walked in through the side door. Chris stared at Junior, he felt something off about him.
"Junior? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be helping Ben and the others?" Sky asked.
Junior did not give any response, he just continued walking towards them...
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Quill Town hospital.
Seito entered a room where there is no patient in there, and he saw Bob who is doing some unnecessary tidy-up.
"Hey Bob, have you seen Junior? Dr. Ben is looking for him." said Seito.
"No I didn't, I have been so focused on cleaning this room." said Bob.
"Ah... Seriously, why are you even cleaning this room at a time like this, everyone is busy at the patient's ward... Hmm... Is that Junior's amulet given by Chris?" said Seito as he noticed a pair of blue amulet on the table.
"Ah... It is. He probably left it here just now to avoid getting it dirty." said Bob.
"Hmm... Make sense. But where is he?" Seito asked again and Bob shrugged.
"Junior?...(!)..." Sky had noticed Junior's unusual behavior as well, and he saw that Junior is not wearing the amulet that is used to control his magic.
Suddenly without any warning, Junior transformed into his hybrid werewolf state with his wings emerged. Within three seconds, Junior created a strong magic wave that successfully temporarily immobilize the other three before dashed directly towards Dominic with his deadly sharp claws that can cut through metals and be crushed through any bodily form of defense in a second.
Not sure if it's the result of self reflex or what, Chris forced himself out from the effect of the magic wave with a self-harming magic, he rushed to Dominic and shielded him with a green barrier just before Junior gets him. The huge impact of the clash once again crushed Chris's left arm.
"Chris!" Sky shouted in shock, although he should have already get used to it... I meant, he is shocked and worried about Chris.
"Don't worry, this is just a prosthetic arm." said Chris rather calm.
"That's not the issue here." said Sky.
"Stop him with your crystal if you have time to worry about me." said Chris, still holding the barrier firmly despite of his badly injured left arm.
Sky nodded and carefully sneaking behind of Junior.
Junior noticed that movement from Sky, he stopped his attack on Dominic and switched his target to Sky. However...
"Ah... Where are you looking at? Have you forgot how you shouldn't turn away from me in a fight, oh wait, you lost control right now. Never mind... Bind!" As Chris was talking to Junior, some vines emerged from the ground and tied Junior up, totally immobilize Junior.
Then, Chris turned to Sky, he gives Sky a hand signal telling him to continue his move, and so Sky gets really near to Junior and placed his crystal on Junior's back chest.
"Arghhh!!!" Junior screamed in misery as the burning sensation passed through his back chest towards his whole body and slowly losing his magic...
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Meanwhile, secret base. Those black flying creatures had finally descended to the ground around the secret base, totally surrounded it. Instead of birds, those small flying creatures are actually some creepy crow-like creatures with tiny humanoid bodies, while the bigger creatures are some black shadowy unknown live forms, without any facial features and in the form of human with a pair of rigged angel's wing.
"Ah... That looks nasty." said Jason.
"And super creepy... What should we do?" Maria asked.
"This is an emergency situation, right?" Jason asked.
"Yes, it certainly is." said Maria.
"Well then..."
For all of a sudden, strong magic auras suddenly burst out from Jason's body.
"Let's get rid of them fast, before the happy morning time for the girls getting affected." said Jason, Maria nodded in agreement.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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