Chapter 480 Splitting Up (2)

Lanterk had divided the compartments into several parts, and miraculously, everyone managed to teleport directly inside the compartment.

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"So that's the distance of their teleportation. They managed to teleport directly into the different compartments. Too bad. My guns were ready to shoot them from behind." Lanterk brooded.

When he separated the ship, he prepared several weapons to shoot the moment Seeker would teleport.

The moment they did, he had already pulled the trigger. Had anyone from Seeker's team teleported between the gap of the compartments, they would have had to block the firing squad. And in that scenario, those that appeared would in the ocean receive the attack and have little to no time to block it.

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"In any case... They should be facing my Pioneers..." Lanterk watched and used his powers to detect where all of the teleport.

But unknown to him, the lie had worked. At the start, Rai had already traveled a great distance from the submarine and appeared right in the middle of the ship and did another jump to return back to the submarine. This was a subtle deception that Seeker and his team planned. By creating a false perception of how far Rai can teleport, Lanterk had not bothered to check or scan what was going on deep inside his ship.

His entire suit was full of devices and electronic gadgets made from his own cultivated cells. And all of these could hack into Aragarian's computer. Shakstress's ship had allowed the team to reverse-engineer many techs and was able to understand the programming of these aliens even better. They didn't even need an A.I Lennox to make the hacks.

Jake was in a room and was disguised as one of the Pioneers in the ship. Through this disguise and his ability to move through walls, he kept killing and stealing identities through the techs that he had with him. Since the battle started, he had already acquired a lot of data from the computers he found. He saw the shocking scenes of their fights, and his anger rose once more as he saw Kristine being taken away by Seeker.

"And why did he take that other Exoskeleton! If I remember correctly, that was Alphie! What a selfish man, Seeker Carlean!" Jake cursed.

But as his heart raged, three strands of hair began to surge in power, and it calmed him down.

"Kristine... Just be safe..." Jake sighed as he saw the area where Seeker, Kristine, and Alphie appeared in. There were no enemies, and the trio kept moving.

He looked at the monitors and saw the other teams and could see that all the Void ninjas had teleported the teams to the same area.

The Basilisk Squadron appeared together with the Twelve Disciples. They were the team with the most members. Rosemary was also with them, and they were facing a team of Supreme Exoskeletons.

The Gryphon Squadron arrived with Meryl. They faced an army of Exoskeletons, Armors and the entire room had cannons and guns shooting at them.

The Coven, together with Roselyn, fought a massive Armor that was similar to the Call of the Titan. It stood over thirty meters tall and moved at an incredible speed despite its size.

Dara was shockingly able to stop its blow with her right arm as the two punched out!

Lynd was fighting three Pioneers, all of who had strange technology. They looked like cyborgs made of liquid metal, and no matter what form of attacks Lynd shot or punched at these beings, they would quickly reform.

But the more Jake saw, the more he was amazed at Seeker and his team's real power and was getting more and more horrified at the aliens that planned to take over the earth.

Slowly, Jake was beginning to understand the hardship he was led to experience.

"I must continue this mission. If I succeed, then I have a shot at getting more experiments done on me, and I will be able to defeat Seeker!" Jake began to move and went through rooms.

"Move east." Alean suddenly called out to him through the Thought Transmitter."

"Alright." Jake nodded as he heard Alean's command.

"Your mission has changed. Apart from stealing techs, you will need to help each and every one of our allies in whatever way you can on the ship. The Twelve Disciples and his team face annihilation if this keeps up."

"What? But won't that detect me?"

"Relax. Reinforcement will soon come. And that will give you your chance to help your allies. Remember, Kristine doesn't want anyone to die here." Alean chuckled.

Seeker and the two girls continued to walk down the metal corridors.

"The metal here is quite strong. He really rearranged the hardest parts of the metal and placed it in here. It would take a lot of energy to destroy this. So unless necessary, I don't plan to do that." Seeker explained.

"Understood, General," Alphie responded formally.

"Meryl sure knows how to ruin a date." Kristine chuckled.

"Yeah. It's annoying."

"I'm sorry for being here, General." Alphie apologized.

"Don't apologize. I'm just worried how the rest of the Squadron acts now that Meryl is with them."

"Their Zone will easily adapt to General Meryl's fighting style. Lim had trained us always to adapt to new allies or even if our enemies turned into an ally. We all trained, expecting each other to die so that we know how to keep fighting in those moments." Alphie replied.

"None of you will die. I promise you that. I lost you all once. That ain't happening again." Seeker said firmly.

Both Kristine and Alphie smiled as they heard this.

"This battle had a lot of powerful Ranked Heroes and Overcomers for this reason. I did my best so that Lanterk would divide his forces. He probably sees everyone else as small fries and will bring a bulk of his powers to fight me, Lynd, and Cliff. That was arranged so that he could only spare weaker ones meant to draw out your full potential and show him what techs you hold. I don't think he plans to win those fights. Meryl's stupid move is annoying because it places you in harm's way. I had her accompany me so that I could protect Kristine easily with another powerful ally around."

"Then why did Meryl do this? Isn't she sabotaging the mission? This places you in a dangerous position." Alphie asked.

"She did make it dangerous for us three..." Kristine began.

"But... I feel that she wanted Seeker to put more effort in this... so that you'd fall for Seeker." Kristine guessed.

"M-me and the General?" Alphie was stunned.

"Oh, don't play dumb with me, Alphie. I'm sure she already told you about how you chased after me and how I rejected you in that past life. Meryl is betting. Since I am younger, and I met you earlier, I still have that chance of falling for your efforts."

"I... I won't-"

"Alphie. It's ok. Honestly, although I like General, he still has his heart set on that Zeraphine. If you pursue General, go ahead. It's better for Zeek to end up with an earthling than her. We could even make an alliance of Earth women to try to move Seeker's heart away from Zeraphine." Kristine chuckled.

Seeker rolled his eyes. He was keeping these two apart for this very reason. Kristine's calmness would often be mistaken for apathy and tactlessness as she wasn't bothered by love rivalries, whether between those who liked her or those that she liked.

Alphie was stunned. She took a deep breath and made her confession.

"General! The truth is that I do like you. The first time I saw you were both a nightmare and a dream. I hope you won't find it awkward that I'll be honest and aggressive in pursuing you."

"Honestly, It's more awkward for me if you weren't. The Adult me is used to this." Seeker chuckled.

Finally, the three reached a large hall at the end of the corridor.

"As expected. Meryl is not here." Lanterk frowned as he saw the three.

"Small Willy! Nice to see you. Or... an aspect of you."

"So that commotion and switch you made was to move Meryl away? Did you know that I would look for her?" Lanterk asked.

"Nope. It's just you falling for Alean's Zone." Seeker chuckled as the powers began to surge within him.

"Very good! Even without a throne, you already have a way to keep building up energy from a power source inside your body! A Mid-Tier level ability! And your other ally is now showing his ability to create energy from the outside. Interesting. You both are like moving factories. But it'll be dangerous if the two of you combine like how you did it outside." Lanterk smiled, and a Throne appeared.

But even as it was slowly covering Lanter, two more began to form with a Pioneer piloting it.

"Well, isn't this cheating? You can create multiple Thrones!" Seeker laughed.

"Come, Progenitor! Let's have a good fight!"

Three powerful Thrones were gathering tremendous energy.

"What are we going to do, General?" Alphie was doing her best to remain calm. They were in no power to fight them.

"Overcome. That's what we do." Seeker answered and closed his eyes.

The Power of Hermes was an interesting ability that Seeker took an interest in. Seeker knew that he had to master this so that Lynd could do it as well. The mystery of the Four Winds was that they were Realms of Grant Hermes. And with that, Grant divided his power and bestowed it on another.

With the power of Unity, Seeker finally learned how to combine powers with those of similar Paths like he had, such as Cliff and Lynd. But he also could do something else. As long as he was around someone whose very cells he was familiar with, Seeker could now do the same thing Hermes did.

Seeker brought out four objects. Two round balls and two cubes and crushed it.

Alphie received the Flashes of Lightning from Lennox.

Kristine received the Peals of Thunder from Richie.

"Kristine, you're the Tank. Alphie, you'll support me from the back and keep on delivering powerful attacks."

"What will you do, General?"

"I'll carry you." Seeker willed it, and the two were floating through Telekinesis. Follow my guidance. And let's get it on!" Seeker charged forward, and the six began the epic battle.