"You are too much trouble to be left alive. I will deal with you first."
"!"
Archer's entire body shivered as a voice suddenly whispered in his ear/
There was an intense oppressiveness that almost made him wet himself from that voice! Archer was a hunter and he was used to staying in one place for a long time. That meant that he was very good at noticing changes in his environment! Even the slightest movement from a rat would catch Archer's attention!
But he was not able to tell when this thing came up from behind him; he didn't even notice anything until the person spoke!
Archer immediately jumped off the tree and turned around to fire an arrow at the person, but he was stunned as he saw what was behind him! It didn't make any sense at all! Wasn't that an Anima? Then how did it talk!?
That short moment of distraction was enough for Archer to let his guard down as he was too shocked to fire his arrow and the anima stretched out its hand and grabbed Archer by the face! The Anima was the same one that the leader instructed to bring Mark to him.
Once the leader told it to come and deal with Mark, it made its way to the surface and went to the place with the most fighting because it thought that Mark would be there. But when it got here, it realized that it made a mistake.
Then, the anima felt Mark's power on the other side of the forest and it was about to make all of the other anima turn around and go towards where they could feel Mark's power.
But it was difficult for the Anima to control the other lower-ranked Anima because there was someone here who was also controlling them! Fiona's blessing was interfering with his command channel and some of the anima were not listening to the higher-ranked Anima's orders! They were being lured in by Fiona so they were ignoring every other order!
That told the high-ranked Anima that these Superhumans would have to be dealt with first before they could go and find the boy. So it sent the lower-ranked Anima ahead of it first and it turned around to deal with the superhumans.
It decided that it would be best to deal with the most dangerous one first, and after watching for a few seconds, it decided that Archer had to be the most dangerous out of them!
Swish!!
Archer suddenly released another arrow and the anima tilted its head to the other side and allowed the arrow to fly past it!
Boom!!
But the Anima didn't expect the arrow to suddenly explode once it flew past its head, and it took a step forward in surprise as th shockwave hit it from behind. But its hand was still holding onto Archer's face tight and Archer was starting to grow afraid as he realized that the anima was not going to let go no matter what.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Rarggggghhh!!!!"
Ka-Boom!!!
He sent a punch straight at the Anima to push it back! He then created a wave of fire and slammed it into the Anima's side and made it fly away from them!
Phwoom!!
...
Mark jumped off the helicopter and landed on the beach as he looked around him. He signaled to the helicopter with his hand and the helicopter slowly turned and began to fly away. The pilot would find a safe place to land and then he would come back here to pick Mark up once Mark calls him. There was no way the helicopter could stay here when they knew there were many monsters around.
There was a large forest in front of Mark and Mark knew that he would have to go in there if he wanted to find an entrance into the tunnel.
Ka-Boom!!
Suddenly, a large explosion made the ground under Mark's feet tremble and he saw a column of fire rise into the sky from deep in the forest.
Mark could tell that the superhumans were fighting against the Anima, but he didn't know who that was. He would have gone to check, but he was more interested in finding Arit. Nothing else was important right now, Mark landed in this area because he was sure that Anima would be preoccupied by the other superhuman and he could go to the underground tunnel without trouble.
Mark watched the helicopter leave before he turned back to the forest. He narrowed his eyes at the forest as he started to think about how he would go from here. But he frowned as he felt something under his feet!
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
"A tremor? No... an attack from underground."
Boom!
Mark jumped into the air as the ground under his feet suddenly burst open, and a large Anima jumped out and tried to take a bite from his feet! Mark saw the forest shaking, and he was shocked when almost fifty Anima shot out from within the forest and began to charge straight for him!
[New Mission Alert!]
[Survive the Anima Horde!]