The energy bomb that exploded shredded the space around that area to pieces. However, a few moments later, that tear got fixed and the space returned to normal.
Then, as if the pressure around the explosion got released, the after-effects of the attack spread at a fast rate.
Acht looked at the upcoming massive wave of energy and immediately flew even farther away from there so as to not get caught in the aftermath.
He lowered the height at which he was flying and started zigzagging through whatever buildings were still intact on the outskirts of the city.
These buildings didn't last long as the energy wave swept them away along with it as it continued traveling hundreds of kilometers in each direction.
Acht finally left the city as the energy wave started dissipating slowly. Luckily, because Evernight was so massive so this bomb basically lost all of its energy by the time it reached the outside forests that surrounded the city.
Seeing that he was considerably safe now, Acht landed on the ground. He basically threw himself down rather than an actual normal landing.
His face was pale and his mouth was open as he breathed heavily from exhaustion.
'Fuck! I feel pain all over my body.' He cursed under his breath as he looked down at his arms which were the most damaged out of all of his other body parts.
Blood had been oozing out from there non-stop for the last 40 seconds or so. For some reason, even his unbelievable healing abilities weren't able to keep up with the worsening injuries.
So, without waiting, he popped out a potion and chugged it down before spilling some of it on his arms to enhance their healing process.
Then, he found a huge boulder that he could rest his back on for the time being.
After calming down and getting rid of a good chunk of the hellish pain he was feeling, he looked in the direction of the explosion.
The cloud of smoke was still there so he couldn't see what happened to the clones or whether they died or not.
'Did they die?' He thought as he looked closer and closer.
He was hoping that that energy bomb was more than enough to deal with them but he was already prepared for the worst. These clones are very tenacious after all.
'I should rest for a few minutes before going back to check.' He thought with a sigh of exasperation.
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"Cough! Cough! That Acht is so reckless. I thought I was about to die." Jack coughed loudly as he leaned on his knees.
The others didn't fare that much better than him, they had escaped the energy wave by a hairbreadth.
"I swear when I see him! I will crush his legs and arms!" Lein shouted with clear anger.
Lein was someone who hated dirt the most out of all of them. In contrast to her usual character, she was a cleaning fanatic who didn't want to see any kind of dust anywhere near her personal space.
So, this cloud of dust and debris made her feel sick and uncomfortable.
"It is what it is. He had no other choice so as to be able to deal with those fuckers." Torn replied calmly.
The group conversed like that for a moment but they were interrupted by Lenny who was standing slightly far away from them.
"They aren't dead." He said.
Hearing his words, everyone turned extremely serious immediately. They didn't doubt Lenny's words for even a second as much as it sounded ridiculous to them.
Escaping that explosion was just logically impossible. However, does logic work with these creatures? They kept breaking logic again and again as if it was nothing so it was not good to try and scale their existence with what a normal existence should be like.
"What should we do boss?" Weltz asked as he clenched his spear tighter with his right hand. He had a clear nervous look on his face.
However, the old man didn't answer as he simply started walking farther and farther away from them. His cane kept hitting the ground lightly as he was walking as if he was taking a stroll in the middle of some kind of park or garden.
They all watched him carefully as they wanted to know what he wanted to do.
'Did he feel something?' They all thought to themselves warily.
Then, as if to answer their suspicions, the ground started shaking beneath them. It started light but then got even more aggressive with each passing second.
They all insensitively looked down to see what it was. But, not long after that, they discovered the reason for this earthquake. Ahead of them, barely 20 kilometers away.
From basically under the ground, many silhouettes blasted into the sky. They could immediately identify them as the clones.
Lenny's words were true, they were still alive.
However, to make things seem slightly better, Nightingale could only see 70% of their initial number. That meant two possibilities, either the others were sent flying far away or the more probable outcome, which was that they died from the explosion.
Lenny saw them look down at him from above as they instantly flew back down, reaching a few meters away from the ground before blasting toward him like strings of Lightning.
His cold eyes didn't waver when he saw them approaching him all together.
"Oi boss!! What are you doing?" Torn asked with a clearly grave expression.
The others also called for him, but he didn't reply nor look back at all. All he focused on was the creatures in front of him.
His walking speed also didn't change at all during this time.
A second passed and the clones finally reached him, they all had already extended their hands to grab him and shred him to pieces.
However, what happened next made everyone look twice with extreme shock, even the clones.
The old man that was walking barely a few meters away from them suddenly vanished from his place. They all halted their movement and looked back immediately.
There, as if nothing happened, Lenny appeared behind them, walking casually with his cane in his hand.
He then stopped walking and looked back at them. Then, in the calmest tone, he said.
"You should worry about what happened to you." His finger pointed at their stomachs.
The clones instinctively looked down and there, much to their surprise, crystals were digging deep into their stomachs.
Each one of them with no exception had a crystal digging into their organs. Immediately, fountains of blue liquid erupted all at the same time. Their blood isn't red but a disgusting blue color.
"...No matter how many times I see him in action, I never understand how strong our boss is," Jack said.
"He still doesn't want to tell us which element he has. No matter how many times we ask him…he refuses to tell us."
"It's his only secret that he hid from us. No matter what, it's still one of the strongest abilities I have ever seen. The way he executes it so flawlessly makes me unable to see what he did." Jack added.
Meanwhile, the old man didn't avert his eyes from the clones as they kept oozing out the blue blood that stained the ground.
Even with these horrible injuries they sustained, they still didn't show any sign of losing consciousness or dying.
They also didn't show any kind of reaction to the pain. The only thing they did was look back at Lenny with their emotionless eyes.
It was as if they were telling him that they would kill him.
'Even the crystals weren't enough to make them fall down. I barely have any left on me. I guess it boils down to the traditional way of dealing with things.' He thought as he smiled slightly at them. It was a form of mockery he attempted to make them get angry.
Oddly, it somehow worked since the clones immediately attacked him again. This time, however, they didn't rush brainlessly toward him.
They surrounded him, creating a huge circle around him. Lenny had no way of escaping from this trap nor did he intend to escape at all.
The clones looked at him with slight wariness before dashing toward him after some thought. Killing this man became a priority for them.
Lenny stood in the middle casually and waited for them to reach him.
Then, it happened again, the moment they were about to catch him, he disappeared as if he never existed in the first place. It was very odd no matter how you look at it.
He isn't moving or teleporting, he just vanishes completely without showing any sign of doing anything beforehand. No soul force channeling, no weird hand gestures or suspicious things he did.
This power of his was just too mysterious and incomprehensible. What is Lenny's ability?
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