BXBX NOVEL Chapter 224: Proof by lightning
"I don\'t know what means those girls have that got you two so scared… But regardless of how powerful they are, they won\'t necessarily know all the intricate wonders of technology, would they?"
As against as I was of the idea the moment I heard it… Now that Makary expanded on it a little, I couldn\'t help but get a little interested.
Because, to a degree, he was right.
No matter how powerful one could be, it wouldn\'t help them when faced with technology they either didn\'t expect or outright don\'t know about.
Just like that powerful mage from the mercenary camp that I shot dead with a single round, even though when fighting a man on pretty much the same level later on not even several rounds proved to be enough.
And the difference was quite obvious. Save for how one was clearly a mage and the other a more mundane fighter, they were separated by how the mage never saw my long-range attacks while the swordsman I fought lived through several days\' worth of neugarand bombardment.
Between the two, only the swordsman knew what kind of power I brought to the table, allowing him to make some sort of preparations that rendered him capable of somewhat fending the bombardment off.
"I guess it\'s fine, as long as you are really careful about it. And I will be able to provide you with quite a lot of info on my ex, but you will have to find out more about her bitchy friend yourself."
Makary\'s face relaxed a little. He then grabbed the handle of the doors before smiling a little and nodding his head as he opened the doors and got out of the car.
"This is a small matter, so you don\'t need to mention it," he said, waving his hand as if to discard the topic while already outside.
"Keep in mind, one of the two of them can squash this entire city with a single fart," I added a warning while taking some liberty to guess the scale of the owner of that darkness\' strength.
If Madam, the only supreme I more or less knew, could influence the aura of a huge area around her… Then one of those girls directly controlled pretty much the same amount of aura herself.
And the difference was obvious.
Madam merely influenced the world\'s aura within her range. On the other hand, one of those girls had more personal aura than all of the world\'s aura that fell within Madam\'s influence!
"I will make sure to commit that to my memory," Makary assured when the two of us got out of the car, greedily breathing in the fresh air to chase away the last of the unpleasant sensation caused by this extremely close encounter with the obvious source of the darkness that we were puzzled by.
Through a few, extremely simple assumptions and logical conclusions, I could pretty much prove that whichever of the two girls was the source of that hell of a dark aura was pretty much set to be the culprit behind the dark aura in me or in some of the people I\'ve met.
After all, if supremes were already rare in a world brimming with aura, then how many more there could be people who went to a level beyond supreme? And how many of them could somehow find their way to Earth?
The calculation of probabilities was simple.
Just one being that strong was pretty much impossible. But so was my existence, of someone gifted with the ability to open portals to another world, an ability that I still didn\'t fully understand or trust the origins of.
"Either way, let\'s not dilly-dally out in the open, especially when you are that worried those two will notice you. We are not that far from where you two saw them, after all."
Following Makary\'s advice not to waste any time, we made our way to the massive doors leading to the airplane hangar… Only to find out that rather than opening the massive gate, we could simply use a small door embedded right into it.
The insides of the hangar turned out to be as magnificent as the plaza outside… and equally as empty. Save for some metal beams indicating that there used to be some sort of heavy machinery inside, the place was completely empty, with no tools, machines, or people other than us three in sight.
"Will this suffice?" Makary asked, pointing his hand to the back gate to the hangar… Or rather, a bunch of steel and wooden beams bound together with zip-ties, some sort of industrial glue, and prayers of whoever created this abomination.
Still, all around this pile of scrap, there was a perfectly fine gateframe, a seemingly perfect fit for my purposes.
"Okay then," Makary spoke out the very moment I took a step closer toward the messy area to verify whether or not I could open a gate in it. "I\'ve made my calls and set everything in motion. I\'ve also brought you to a place that best fits your criteria," the man listed out while crossing his hands over his chest and heavily standing his ground while latching his eyes on my head.
"I believe I deserve to see a proof now, do I not?"
I stopped in my tracks with my eyes still glued to the mess at the back of the hangar.
After taking a few moments to calculate everything, I heaved a short sigh before glancing over to Fay and nodding my head.
That was the most I was willing to do for Makary\'s sake.
Not because I wanted to disrespect him or didn\'t care whether or not he would trust us.
I simply had another problem at hand to deal with, for as it turned out, even when summoning the context windows related to establishing my gate… The frame of the hangar\'s back entrance still refused to attain an otherwordly shine that only I could see.
My eyes were focused on the back of the hangar, opposite where Fay and Makary stood. And yet, just by slightly raising the intensity of my bond with the girl, I could pretty much experience everything that happened next, as it happened.
Seeing my nod of approval, Fay grinned…
And the very next moment, she vanished from her spot, turning into a single dot of explosive light that streaked across the distance that separated her from Makary in a single instant.
For a second, I worried Fay was going to brutalize the man as a show of power… Only to feel her come out from her lighting form and strike out with her right hand.
Makary couldn\'t even hope to escape the strike… Or rather a grab as Fay\'s attack turned out to be when she unveiled her fingers only to wrap them around the man\'s throat as she landed right behind his back.
And as if her speed wasn\'t enough proof of her inhumane abilities, upon reassuming her normal form… Fay no longer presented herself as a human but assumed her ascended, kitsune form instead.
"Is that a proof enough?" I asked when Fay casually let go of the man\'s throat only to then bear his shocked and amazed look.
And to be honest, his eyes lingered on Fay\'s fluffy ears for a bit longer than I was willing to take without sacrificing my mental comfort.
"It… It is…"
Makary clearly didn\'t want to admit it. His face twisted in an extremely doubtful and dissatisfied expression. Yet, no matter how hard he squinted his eyes and brought his eyebrows together…
No physics or logic could explain what happened nor what he saw right before his eyes.
"Good," I commented, only to roll my eyes and turn sideways with my hand stretched out towards the messy gate. "Because we have a problem. This frame…"
My hand steadily pointed at what Makary intended to be the anchor for my stable gate. My eyes, however, escaped to the side.
After all, my next piece was the type of guess I hated the most. A guess based on nothing more but my gut feeling rather than a legitimate reasoning.
"I believe this frame is about four times too big to work. Can you do something about it?"