Through her newly provided powers in her Field, she detected the two guards. They id on the ground knocked out. She didn't want any interruptions, so she made her Field put anyone i asleep. She hadn’t expected to find them ihe tent. However, nothing would stop her. Atheepped within reach of Yori, still unscious. “Yoing to give me what I want! I don’t care what sort of mental defenses you have. You’re just a normal human.”

  Atheouched her hand to the back of Yori’s head. A shaking weakness in her legs threatened her tration. ‘I don’t need a body, just my mind…’ Her hand firmly held to the back of his skull. Over her hand materialized a bck metal glove. It extruded its edge over her wrist and past her elbow. The metal didn’t stop until it ed itself around her ned half over her face as though proteg her. She lost all movement in her body, but she didn’t anymore. Glowing shapes of light lit up all over the surface of the all-ing bbsp; It became the signal for Athene.

  She closed her eyes to calm herself down and remove all distras. The Field she used differed signifitly from what she was familiar with using. It had to be. She knew how to deal with the defenses inside Yori’s mind. She didn’t pn to go in unprepared like st time. Because everything she used was new, it made her nervous to keep the ehing in her mind. ‘You will reveal everything to me this time. I will not have been blinded for nothing!’

  Another momehe white blindness disappeared into a bck void. The void melted away granting Athene sight for the first time in hours. However, she didn’t stand in the room she created st time. Her space wasly what she expected. She wahe truth unfiltered and used her powers to grasp at it. Surrounding her was a massive array of doors and halls in all dires, even above and below. She floated free at the ter. “Is this the pbsp; What I actually seek?”

  Pieced together from the air, Yori appeared h at a y-degree ao Athene. The ck of a sense of dire or even gravity made her uneasy. She waited carefully, measuring her defense. The st time she uimated his potential. Athene didn’t pn to make the same mistake. Pying cautiously, she backed away a little. “Are you the real one or just another fake?”

  Initially, pin and ft in expression, he ged in respoo her question. A mischievous grin appeared on his lips. Yori opened his arms gesturing with them as he began to speak. “So the arrogant woman has returned. Didn’t have enough st time?”

  “…you again…” Athene narrowed her eyes in his presenbsp; She wished to find a differeween them, but apart from personality they appeared identical, an easy trap. “This won’t be the same as st time!”

  “So it would seem. I see you’re proteg your mind this time. Maybe you learn and see past your own arrogance.”

  “Still mog me. I’ll prove you to be the arrogant one.”

  “Oh? If you get past one yer of this byrinth’s defenses before you colpse from your weakeate then I’ll ge my attitude.”

  The pierg knowing look in his eyes startled Athene. ‘I’ve blocked the access point into my mind! He shouldn’t know anything about my dition, but that look…’ She couldn’t believe that he mao already crack through her defenses. Atheaggered back as the avatar of Yori disappeared. ‘How is this possible? Am I really arrogant?’

  Precious seds drained away for Athene. The foreboding pce finally snapped her out of her daze. She came with a purpose and it surrounded her. Too many options presehemselves to her. ‘Where do I even begin? I’ve never seen such a plex mind before. I do this?’ The doubt that bubbled up inside her came too easily. She hated the feeling. It sapped away her resolve that she had from before. “No, I came for answers! I will have my answers!”

  Chapter 139 – Demanding Answers

  With renewed i, Simonides led Vangelis out of the tent and away from the light of the camp. He went over the specifi location and weaknesses of the targets. On the darkness out of sight from the passing patrols, Vangelis leaned over with a very eager grin. Simonides found the man very bothersome and undisciplined. He wasn’t someone suited for military service, but the system was inflexible with those like him. They had to go somewhere, regardless of personality traits.

  Simonides cast a cautious gaze to Vangelis to mask his mood. Despite his personal feelings about the man, the man did have talent and intelligehough crude at times. ‘He’ll serve a couple of purposes. It’ll be a good measure.’

  “So what else you got to tell me?” Vangelis asked bluntly. He already started to look bored again. As if the talking drained him of his i.

  “You’re free to pick who you want for your team, but Iole will be one of them.”

  Disgust surfaced in Vangelis' face at the mention of the name. “That Ice Queen? She’ll kill my fun!”

  “This is a mission, I don’t care if it is fun for you or not. I expect results.”

  “Oh you’ll get results,” smirked Vangelis. His eyes slid around his fa thought. He focused ba Simonides after a few seds. “You just want Iole to keep an eye on me!”

  A flicker of surprise came from Simonides’ eyes from the ent. He didn’t expect him to reach the clusion so quickly. “Think whatever you want, she goes. Find three other MPs for your team and leave immediately.”

  “What’s the rush? You that eager to see some rebels killed?” Vangelis’ face darkened with the bloodlust filling his eyes. He raised his hand up towards Simonides. The tension in his hand wound his fist tightly together. “You have to savor these things.”

  Simonides hardened his features to keep from crag his true self through in front of Vangelis. “I expect that they will be io rescue their rade. They’re the ype. So I want you to keep them away until we have what we want.”

  Faked sadness and disappoi painted Vangelis’ eyes. “Keep them away? I think you’re uing me if you think I would lose to a bunch of teeraitors.”

  “Don’t get cocky, Vangelis. They’ve already defeated four MPs.”

  “Don’t pare me to those weaklings! I’ll bring you all of their heads!”

  “Capturing them is the highest priority for your objectives. Only kill them as a st resort.”

  “Tch, you’re no fun.”

  The versation started to e to an end. Simourned away to ehat it carried no further. He already gave him all of the information o find them. “I’m not ied in your enjoyment.”

  “You’re too soft. Traitors receive death in the end anyway.”

  Simoopped for a moment, still keeping his ba. “I’m sending a blood-thirsty killer to deal with a bunch of teenagers. I wonder whie of us really is soft.” He departed the man’s paurning to the light.

  Traveling through the light blue moonlit-coated fields, Chiharu ran closer to the encampment. It grew rger the loime passed. Even as she moved, her eyes sed everything arouaking it all in. She calcuted angles of attad weaknesses in the defense. They held the advantage in surprise. Every opportunity o be taken.

  Chiharu stopped within the shadows of a nearby tree. Ahead of her, the camp stood almost in range. She could see guards patrolling the perimeter. The scale of the camp looked grander up close for her. It brought her a little eagerness for the challenge ahead. ‘That girl’s pretty good when she’s serious… I’ll figure her out eventually…’ Retreating her body into the shadow, Chiharu vanished from sight.

  Ihe void, Chiharu hovered in calm trol of her as, uhe first time she discovered her ability. She knew nothing of what she had during her fight with the Higoshi bsp; Everything she used was from instinct, however after the fight she became determio master it. She learhe limits and range of the ability in her short training. It turned into aension of her body and just as natural. The only thing she wished she knehy it happened, but uood that the weakling was to bme for it. A thought she detested.

  From ihe shadow’s void between worlds, she slipped her sight through the multitude of windows. Though faint, the moon provided more than enough shadows over all of the camp. The further in, the lit fires made her progress even easier. It was all far too easy for her. A disappointing challenge presented for her. She wished something from it would give her a reason to try. Nothied her limits.

  Jumping through shadows between passing patrols, Chiharu brought herself deep within the camp as her base point. Her range didn’t put the entire camp in her reach, but enough to begin her intel gathering. ‘Whie is it?’ She jumped around avoiding the soldiers. ‘They’re all too rexed… The way they attacked this m I would have thought they’d be more cautious.’

  Even though she didn’t participate in most of the fighting, she watched it all py out. They took no i in her. The uimation would be something that she would make them all regret. She pnned ahead to uand her enemy.

  The lohat she watched through her portals the image of the military became clearer. ‘There’s almost none of them wearing those white uniforms. Most of their military force must be made up of standard soldiers. I would have thought that they would make more use of special types in their military.’ She still had much of the camp left to explore, but she found only ten of them. Three of them were ohat they faced before.

  ‘Maybe they’re keeping them in another part of the camp. I’ll o search deeper…’ Chiharu tinued her progress, making note of everything. The yout of the camp came together in her mind. She recorded it all dowally to take babsp; Even without their leader, her mind spun tactid strategies for how to sneak in.

  However, ohing still eluded her. The brother remained missing. She o figure out where they held him. ‘If my shadow could hold someoher than me I could end this easily. I wonder if in time the power will grow…’ Tossing away the distra, Chiharu narrowed her vision to keep on task. She didn’t o herself with unknowns.

  Another few tents explored only revealed more sleeping soldiers through her windows. She started to wonder if he was even in the camp. ‘I haven’t seen any suspicious tents yet. There must be guards with him.’

  Chiharu pulled ba her window hopping. She mapped out half of the camp, but most of the tents remained unknown to her still. Her eyes closed as she made a mental image of the camp with all of the tents id out for her. ‘I’ve already checked all of those,’ she ented, marking off tents. ‘That much still…’

  She opened her eyes, taking back all of the windows that surrounded her. The tless exits thanks to all of the light sources gave her almost too many choices. Chiharu turned her head around to look behind her. ‘One of these must hold what I’m searg for…’

  Returning to her map, she marked off tents te for holding a prisoner. She found some sisten their use of tents. It narrowed down her options further. ‘Only three tents fit with what I have explored. I’ll o elimihese first.’ Chiharu took a starting with the closest window to her.

  The shadow window gave her almost no vision oerior of the room, just like the others. It was the reason why she couldn’t mark them off as locations. She didn’t know their tents. Each had their risks, but trusted that she could handle anything. Appearing from the shadows of the desk's leg, Chiharu’s head surfaced with just enough room for her eyes to s the room.

  Most of the room was dark. Only a dim light leaked out to give enough of a shadow to form. The darkness of the tent gave Chiharu the most trouble. However, she clearly saw that it didn’t have the brother. She disappeared and moved on to the window.

  The same results returo her.

  ‘Last one…’ Chiharu tapped her hand along her o. It eased the tension in her left arm a little. She didn’t know why she felt the need for such a self-doubting touch, but it worked. Ahead of her, the st window stood ready for her. Uhe others, the room was well lit, eliminating good shadows for her. The only shadow she could use had something blog most of the view. She assumed the light came from above.

  Her head poked through the wide shadow sing the room. The moment she found two colpsed bodies, her eyes narrowed in fusion. ‘Something’s nht…’ She only saw two others in the room, but nothing clear. Their feet were the only thing she could see from the vantage point given. Turning around, she figured out that a chair was the source of the shadow. It made it difficult to get out. However, she uood the yout of the interior better and could take advantage of the other obscured shadows. She picked the window for its cover, but other shadows did exist. The shadows from the bodies blocked all view for her initially, but made seo her with the new information.

  Chiharu pulled bad then jumped. As she surfaced, she got a better view of the body. ‘He looks unscious…who are the other two I saw?’ The rest presented a lot of risk for her, but she knew she had to go for it. Chiharu slowly surfaced from the shadow taking ierior. Her view expanded over the body and gave her everything she needed. ‘There he is…and the woman…what’s she doing to him?’

  Suddenly, Chiharu lost her grip on the ground. Her arm felt sluggish along with her body soon after. ‘What’s wrong with me? I feel se…’ Chiharu tried to focus her mind, but it only faded faster. She staggered out of the shadow disorientated. ‘Is this…those two…’ Her legs failed to give her any support. Chiharu colpsed to the ground. ‘…so tired…damn…’