Chapter 217: Crossing Over
Demonic beasts got near to them and Athena unleashed a torrent of lightning at those nearest to her.
The lightning strikes hit, and the demonic beasts were pulverized into ashes.
This angered the demonic beasts.
They started to swarm towards Athena.
Hong quickly used his ability, and huge trees rose from the ground, creating a barrier between them and the demonic beasts.
"We better get out of here," Sam said.
They weren't sure about what the hell was going on.
All they could think of was to get out of this place.
They could feel the thoughts of rage and being betrayed being conveyed into their minds.
Wind started to envelop them as Sam activated his newfound ability.
They started floating and they flew towards the opening of the portal.
Boom.
Behind them the booming sound of the demonic beasts trying to get through the huge trees Hong had conjured up.
They got close to the opening of the portal just as they were getting close to the portal.
The tentacles that had grabbed onto them and pulled them in shot out from behind.
They latched onto their ankles but weren't strong enough to pull them back.
Whoosh.
When they got out of the portal, other demonic beasts also came out from within.
The demonic beasts got excited to be able to do so.
Their skin started to rot and decay initially, but it stopped when they unleashed fireballs, ice spikes into the surroundings.
No one knew what they were trying to do.
Lawrence saw it and frowned.
Something told him that it wasn't something good for them.
"We have to finish them off," he said.
The others nodded and they proceeded to unleash their abilities onto these demonic beasts.
Athena's lightning strikes ripped through a dozen of the fire deer.
With his ability, Hong conjured up spiky vines as tough as steel cables, entangled the remaining demonic beasts and shouted, "Sam, do your thing."
Sam swiped his hands across the horizon, and the demonic beasts were sliced into halves immediately.
Soon, there were only Lawrence and the others standing in front of the portal.
"Can we close this?" Matthew asked, fearing that there might be more demonic beasts coming out of the portal.
Derrick stood behind him and nodded his head.
"I think that's not much of an issue," Hong replied and thumped his chest.
He was overflowing with confidence now that he had such power within himself.
Sam nodded and said the same.
They started to use their abilities to pile on rocks and soil from the surroundings onto the portal.
Athena also joined in.
Lawrence on the other hand, came over to Matthew and Derrick.
"Tell me Derrick, what's the ability that you got?"
"Me? I can heal, maintain the vitality of your body and anything to do with cells and genes," Derrick said, not thinking much about it.
Lawrence glanced over at Matthew and the others.
A thought came into his mind.
"Why don't you try it on us? Making us immortals?" Lawrence said.
He was already thinking about them having such powers and the implications of it.
"Matthew, what do you think?" He glanced at Matthew and asked.
Matthew surprisingly nodded his head.
"All right. Here it goes." Derrick raised his hands and placed them onto Matthew's body.
A white glow appeared in his hands, and it darted into the body of Matthew.
As he was doing it, Derrick felt something strange in his mind.
He realized that he couldn't have any other thoughts except to agree to Lawrence.
Derrick's hunch was right as Lawrence had used his ability on Derrick and Matthew.
They couldn't reject his requests.
And to play it safe, Lawrence decided to make use of Matthew as the guinea pig.
"I feel the same," Matthew said when Derrick was done.
Lawrence saw that Matthew was safe, and he said, "Ready when you are."
Even as he tried to snap out of it, Derrick couldn't do so.
His thoughts were all about obliging what Lawrence had wanted.
Derrick raised his hands and placed them on Lawrence's body.
As the white glow appeared, Derrick thought hard about not letting Lawrence get the full effect from his ability.
It worked and his ability trickled to half of what it was for Matthew.
Which had repercussions in later years.
Forcing the Leader to have to go into deep sleep every few months.
And when Derrick was done, Lawrence pretended that nothing had happened while Athena, Hong and Sam were done.
The portal was buried under a huge pile of rock and soil.
They left the place and the rest was history.
More demonic beasts came out of the portal.
Unknown to them, the demonic beasts granted the abilities to them so that with the powers from the realm bleached into this world, they were able to get through the portal.
Conversely, with them having the abilities, it seemed to have infected and changed this world.
Others also started to awaken abilities of their own.
However, Lawrence and the others didn't stay long enough for the realms to connect and the higher-level beings like Transcendent Level demonic beasts weren't able to cross over.
This led to the demonic beasts trying ways to entangle the two worlds more closely so that they could get the higher-level beings across.
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"And that was how it went." Derrick lowered his head and said.
He had told Lukas and his teammates what had happened.
The time of running away from his responsibility for causing what happened was over.
Lukas frowned and kept quiet.
He wasn't sure how this would affect the Leader.
And if the Leader knew that they knew what had happened, would he try and get rid of them.
Riley was also thinking about the same thing.
They would have to think through this very carefully.
"We don't have much time." Sherry came into the meeting room and said.
She came over to Derrick and handed something out to him.
"We need you to come up with the genotoxin fast."
It was the samples from the Apex demonic beast.
Derrick took the samples and kept quiet.