Godfire: The Split Soul-Chapter 163: Code Black!!!

Inside the mansion, Lena stood up, her eyes widening, hands shaking as she stared at the news broadcast about the monster attack.

"Attention! Attention!! Attention!!! All residents of the Central City of Westeros should stay in their houses, lock their doors, and not go out. Code black!!!"

’Jinx.’ The name popped up in Lena’s mind as soon as the screen flickered and turned off by itself. She moved hastily, searching for her phone.

"Oh... she called me. Let me call her and inform her about the news." Lena picked up her phone, dialed Jinx’s number, then placed her earbud in her ears.

After the first two tries, the call rang without an answer. But on the third, a strange voice picked up the phone.

"Hello, please, who is this?" Lena asked, squeezing her face.

Lena remained calm as the person on the other end introduced himself as Cassy, Jinx’s friend.

"Where is Jinx?" Lena’s voice grew thick when she heard screams coming from the other end.

Cassy’s voice came in once. "Jinx is fighting a monster," then the call ended.

"Fighting a monster?!" The phone slipped and dropped from Lena’s dumb fingers. She stood there, her mind reeling with images she couldn’t stop thinking of.

"No, that can’t be possible." She hurried into the second floor and stopped abruptly, seeing Kai’s door opened.

She moved closer to the door, then screamed when she found no one inside the room.

Outside, in the rain, Kai heard Lena’s voice screaming his name, but he didn’t turn back into the mansion. He simply swung the main entrance door open, then stepped outside.

The metal swinging sound echoed hard and drew Lena’s attention. She rushed toward Kai’s window, the one that was directly facing the entrance.

Her face turned pale when she saw Kai closing the door behind him.

"No! No!! No!!!" She rushed out of the room, almost slipping off the stairs as she descended and exited into the rain.

"Kai!" she called out again, her arms stretched forward. She swallowed hard when she saw the huge flying creatures soaring high in the rainy clouds, flapping their wings loudly with a thunderous crack.

The raindrops hit the ground like bullets from a machine gun and wet the ground into puddles.

Outside the estate, Kai stood there, water dripping from his hair as he focused on the creatures that descended at high speed and savored the screaming humans in other estates.

He gritted his teeth as soon as one of the creatures turned toward his direction at high speed.

In a flash, Kai jumped the moment the creature reached an inch from him and crashed it hard under his boots.

As the last air escaped the creature, blinding light tore through the sky and onto the street as military vehicles and craft moved toward the direction where the creatures were most concentrated.

’Since the military people are here, let me just step back and pretend as if nothing happened.’

The thoughts reeled in his mind as he watched them descend from the armored vehicles, holding guns and sword-like weapons.

"Hey, kid, get back inside." One of the soldiers said, his voice echoing loudly in Kai’s ears.

Kai grinned slightly when he saw the grey glow around almost half of the soldiers exiting from the vehicles.

’Should I tell them they will die?’ He moved back, but his mind urged him to take a step closer to the armored vehicles.

Just as he got the courage he was looking for, a heavy arm slammed into his shoulder and pushed him back.

"What are you doing? Leave the creatures to the right people to deal with them." Pablo’s voice whipped through the rain and struck Kai’s ears.

’Well, I have no option then.’ Kai curled his mouth together and stepped back into the estate and closed the gate.

Just as the metal edge of the door clung to the metal wall, two of the creatures dashed toward Lena’s estate at full speed.

"Run inside, now!" Pablo turned and screamed at Kai, then pulled out a pistol from his pocket.

He fixed his gaze on the first creature and began firing. The creature’s body was as hard as unbreakable steel, letting the bullets bounce back.

"Shit!" Pablo cursed under his breath, then entered his office for more bullets after the ones in the pistol got utilized.

Countless firing sounds echoed, sparks filling the air as the military personnel outside the estate began firing at the creatures.

As more bullets hit the creatures, the more their black glow began to deepen in Kai’s vision.

’Why are they still using the same approach when it’s not working?’ Kai gritted his teeth and clenched his fist as the thoughts reeled in his mind over and over again.

"I have got to do something to help, else these people will make innocent people lose their lives," he murmured, taking a few steps toward the locked gate.

"Kai!" Lena’s voice cut through and slammed into the boy’s ears the moment he stretched his right arm toward the handle of the closed door.

He turned his head slightly and saw Lena standing at the front of the mansion, water dripping from her head.

A chill ran down his spine. He closed his eyes, exhaled sharply, then cracked them open. He loosened his grip from the door and ran toward Lena by the entrance.

"Hurry. Hurry!" She paddled the air when she saw some of the creatures coming from the opposite direction of Kai.

The moment Kai entered and closed the door behind him, the creatures’ silhouettes slammed hard against the transparent door.

"What were you thinking?" Lena scolded Kai, cleaning his wet hair and wrapping her arms around him.

She embraced him as if the moment she let go, he would die.

The chaos outside the transparent door increased as the firing bullets of the soldiers kept on failing, not even killing a single creature.

Although they managed to make them move back or save time, the creatures also kept on coming back in higher quantities.

Among the soldiers, one young man with a bald head dashed into the MRAP, pulled out a walkie-talkie, and dialed a number.

"Commander, this is Unit Twelve," he said in a voice that kept on breaking with gasps. "The situation is worse than projected."

He waited as the person on the other end gave him information.

"Sir, the standard weapons are ineffective. We need the support of the Hunters." He paused, swallowing the remaining words.

He turned a saddened expression toward the wet faces of his colleagues who kept on firing without yielding any result.

"Understood, sir. We’ll hold the line until they arrive in five days."

He hung up and smashed the device on the steel wall of the MRAP, panting heavily. "So they deployed us knowing our weapons wouldn’t work?"

He exited from the MRAP, angry, and joined his colleagues.

"Sergeant Hu, are the Hunter Units inbound?" a girl with big brown eyes and kissable lips asked, her heart heaving.

Hu walked slowly toward her, placed a heavy arm on her shoulder, then shook his head. "ETA five days."

Just as his voice ended, two of his colleagues, the ones that had disjointed themselves from the twenty armed personnel, got abducted by four of the creatures, two on each.

Their guns fell from them as the creatures surged and dragged them higher.

Their screams filled the air as their bodies got stretched on each end and dismantled into perfect halves.

Inside the mansion, on the second floor, inside Kai’s room, anger dressed Kai so much that he crushed the glass of the window he stood behind with a single swing of his left arm.