Chapter 1990: The End of Fake Fox
"Is the monster really helping us?" The leader of the Chinese Strike Force is wholly confused by the situation. At one point, he thought that this particular Void Being was going to kill them, but no matter how he tried to use his chi, it felt like the Void Being was absorbing every single particle of energy from them.
But even if he does that, he is showing his animosity towards the summoner of this particular summoning circle. Most of all, he was still reeling from the fact that Fox, a long time member of his elite team had suddenly betrayed him. Why here? Why now? What's the reason for such betrayal?
Is there something that Fox wished to achieve that he could not have done it in China? Or was he planning to run since this is foreign territory and it was a black ops mission? There were so many questions within the leader of the Chinese Strike Force but the only thing he was being asked why now was whether he wished for the summoner to be punished.
"Of course, I want to punish him but-" And even before he could make an argument, Kraft had already used his telekinesis to pull Fox's face right to his palm and squeeze his head. In a manner of getting juice from an orange through brute force, the scene of Fox dying would be stuck in the Chinese Strike Team for the rest of their lives.
They did not know whether they should be appeased that this particular monster was able to get revenge for them since they had no idea if they are the next to go.
"What? Do you want to question him? Do you think you have the privilege to call the shots right now?" Kraft asked as he had already gotten all the information he could from this Fox. Apparently, there were other factions as suspected of summoning their Banned Emperor and this particular Fox was in the faction that specialised in Void Beings.
Celestials and Void Beings, they had indeed been categorised as the same group according to the information and memories of this dead 'Fox'. There was no differentiation to the summoning since they were all special summons in their opinions especially when summoning was a difficult process.
What Fox did not know was that all they had been summoning were Void Beings and not Celestials at all. As for the other faction, they had been specialised in summoning Demons and those required less detailed requirements than Void Beings.
They could just offer blood as an offering or some offered a partial of their lives as part of the contract but what differed from Demons and their summoning of Void Beings was that the Demons were more like a Gacha system in action rather than Void Beings.
In Void Being summonings according to Fox, if they had figured out where the veil was the thinnest, they could prepare the necessary offerings as well as preparations to break the veil and get the Void Beings to come out. Usually that would include getting a few lesser demons to assist in the breaking of the veil and coercing the Void Beings to come out.
It happened in Shenzhen where there was a mix of Demons and Void Beings as well as Italy where the demons were used to lure Spartakus out.
That was also why they believed that the Void Beings were Celestials as most of the lesser Demons that broke through the veil were annihilated and the Void Being came out of it. Not to mention, when all their chi and magic had been rendered useless, making them trust that the Void Being was some sort of higher being which they were indeed, just not the kind that they should be looking for.
"No... I apologise." The Chinese Strike Force leader whose head was now on the ground facing towards Kraft, while attempting to kneel to the best of his ability since he had been restrained by this...' higher being'. The rest saw what their leader was doing and also tried to do the same thing as well.
All of them knew that their lives were indeed at the mercy of this 'higher being' and there was nothing that they could do to get out of it, especially when their chi had been rendered useless.
Kraft also felt the powers of their chi coursing into him through the void energy acting as some sort of 'leech' and while he did not need their chi considering how he himself was a broken power user, it still felt good.
"Let this be a warning to not summon me unnecessarily," Kraft said as he grew drunk in the chi that he had absorbed and pulled them up by their throats using their own chi. After all, he had to show how a Void Being cannot be that merciful, aye? (Actually, according to Farasha, there were kind Void Beings but their numbers are not many, so not everyone thinks humans are playthings.)
"We shall not." The leader used all his strength to say those three words as quickly as possible so that the 'Void Being' would not have any excuse to execute his team members.
"Not bad. I expected you to take even more time to respond." Kraft smirked as he felt 'happy' and let go of them, allowing them to breathe but still using their chi to suppress their movements. They were able to tolerate the chi suppression since they were elite fighters themselves but they were not stupid to lift a finger against a 'higher being'.
"You are now marked by me and if I need a favour. You will pay that favour. For now, bring that traitor away." Kraft said as he seared a tattoo mark at the side of their necks. There was a half fox head while a skull like fox for the other half.
It was a decent tattoo, to be honest and everyone believed that the higher being was doing it as a reminder not to be a traitor now that they owed him a favour.
The chi suppression aura by Kraft was still active but a portal emerged right beside them and it was pretty obvious that if they wished to get out of that suppression aura, they had to go through the portal regardless of the dangers that lay ahead of it. Still, they were going to move forward and not to be seen as weaklings but as capable 'slaves' that could be useful to the higher being.
The Chinese Strike Force assumed it was a test if they could get out of there alive when Kraft was merely teasing them to his desire.
Yet, he was not that heartless and with that portal, it allowed them to return to China, especially the defence base that was their pride and home. And of course, he knew where they stayed as he had already claimed every single information from the fake 'Fox' and therefore had the portal coordinates prepared.
When the Strike Force returned to their home base, it was even before their pilot was able to refuel and do their extraction. Yet, the strike force team once again experienced the so called higher being's powers once more. The defence base had been protected by a series of defensive magic barriers. Even creating a portal will trigger the barrier system and will not allow the portal to emerge.
However, everyone was shocked when they saw the Strike Force lying within the armouries of the defence base, a place of higher defensive magic charms.
People gathered to assist them and even called for an emergency medical service for them. Kraft upon doing his job merely smiled as he closed the portal and checked the broken summoning circle.
"Looks like a close shave, huh Boss Jin? If not, you probably have to deal with another Void Being." Kraft said to himself and also teleported back to China as he continued to roast the remaining Banned Emperor terrorists even though they did not know much. It was a training session for the Sun Foxes to get information and see if they were able to gleam the same kind of information as he did.\\
As for the reporting, the System had already recorded everything and performed a summary for Kong Rong and Jin although the latter roughly understood the situation at hand. That was why they merely gleaned through the report since they had already predicted the circumstances that had gone their way.
Kong Rong's suspicions were also confirmed and knew that there were still quite a few Banned Emperor sleeper terrorists that were within the military, police and other governmental institutions. They were like cancer that was hiding and waiting for the proper chance to strike.
Now the Leader of China's Internal Security is really starting to envy Jin who had people and monsters with absolute loyalty to him and he did not need to worry about a single thing.