Free Web NovelChapter 27: The Truth About Leo
While the other Breakers’ attention had been consumed by the deployment of the second team into the hole, Jake was somewhere different inside the HQ. He passed through a cold corridor, his eyes targeting a door that had the label Research Room in black.
Vividly, he opened the door only to be welcomed by rows of computers that were placed consecutively next to each other with chairs beside them.
’Let’s light this bad boy up.’
He pressed the power button on one of the CPUs as the screen lit up almost immediately, portraying the logo of its maker company.
It stayed there for a few seconds until finally he was logged into his Breaker account.
The account allowed Breakers to do many things, from checking the amount of missions they had done or had, to seeing information that was usually hidden from the public. The second use was what Jake had in mind.
He opened a website that had a design like some kind of e-library. On the background of the platform, the sigil for the Breakers glowed slightly to allow the words to display properly on the screen.
Then, using the mouse, he clicked on the search bar.
"Leo Hamanay."
He mouthed as he typed the name. Hundreds of suggestions popped up when he began typing, but after he finally finished, no suggestion came up.
Then, without any more time to waste, he clicked the search icon.
Loading circles appeared on the screen, moving next to each other in a way that made long waiting periods feel kind of short.
[Checking Citizen Database]
[Checking Dimensional Tracker Methods]
It was then that Jake’s intentions became clear. He was searching for travel information about Leo. After the full search completed, the only information that appeared was the one gathered in Valoria. Nothing about who he was back on Earth, nothing about who his parents were.
Jake started putting two into two together . A boy who had somehow used another way to travel to Valoria, a type of ash that appeared after defeating beasts that was the same as the ash from the meta humans . Lord Gara claiming that they once lived here on the land.
And when you come to think of it, the first underling did say something about knowing that the first mission was being livestreamed, which meant there was some kind of mole back here on the surface.
Everything pointed to one thing.Leo had to be working for the meta humans.
"I guess that explains how he defeated those crystal beasts on the third floor. I knew he couldn’t do it."
A smirk came upon Jake’s face. It was heartwarming to know that he wasn’t at all beaten by the difference in their power. Milo was just a professional spy all along.
But he couldn’t quite go ahead with it yet. He needed solid proof if he wanted to raise those kinds of allegations.
So he turned off the computer, and started heading back to the viewing site, his expectations glued to the next time they would be fortunate enough to meet each other again.
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The team finally arrived inside the forest of the second floor. If they wanted, they could’ve gone straight to any other floor below twenty since they had already cleared them, but their mission called for them to meet the enemy head-on, so that’s what they did.
"Oh wow, more humans."
Lord Gara spoke with excitement, his hands pressed inside his robes, looking like a Chinese sensei.
Next to him followed his two subordinates who had skills that allowed them to throw invisible attacks at their enemies.
The battlefield was packed, the scene playing out like a sheriff movie. Four Breakers on one side while three strange meta-humans stood on the other side of the horizon, all ready to bring the house down. frёeωebɳovel.com
Viper, the masked man, took a second to properly place the small camera that was on his chest. He was going to save everyone after all, what better way to do it than in HD quality?
Every citizen back in Valoria froze while looking at the four screens. Even the old timers were doing it.
Suddenly, it seemed like staying all day inside houses or bars looking at screens wasn’t bad for your health anymore.
Leo looked closely too. Unlike the first team, this team had someone he cared for, Katelyn. The only person that had treated him well even though she found out that he was no longer a Breaker.
Viper looked at the three numbered SS Breakers as he gave them orders.
"You take the other two, I will take the middle guy, just as we planned."
But it was easier said than done. The subordinates never moved too far away from Lord Gara since he seemed like their trump card.
So if they needed to separate them, it had to be under extreme conditions that called for nothing else.
"Alright then."
Killion, the #7, began as he moved forward. He put his hands up. Out of the blue, a large ball of fire, large enough to consume a car, formed in a matter of seconds.
"You can leave that to me."
He threw it at the meta-humans, causing a flaming explosion that made them jump back in different directions. Lord Gara jumped away in the middle, the female subordinate to the left, and the male subordinate to the right.
"Now! before they come back together!"
Katelyn rushed at the female subordinate, blocking her passage back to Lord Gara.
Tsk.
The female subordinate cursed.
Then, Killion and Joseph, the #7 and #2 breakers, went against the male subordinate, turning it into a two-versus-one confrontation.
And last but not least, the main event.
Viper stood face-to-face with Lord Gara himself.
When it came to strategy, the Breakers had an upper hand. They knew what their enemies’ abilities were, which in a fight is the space between life and death. The meta-humans, on the other hand, knew nothing.
’I just need to avoid him touching me, which means this fight will default to a long-range confrontation!’
Viper’s eyes locked onto Lord Gara, who still had his hands inside the cuffs of his robes.
As this was happening, #2 and #7 had already started conversing with their enemy.
"You don’t seem much cooler now without your friend by your side, huh?"
Killion muttered playfully.
But none of those words seemed to affect the male subordinate in any way.
"You seem to have mistaken something!"
The male subordinate began as he stood in a battle stance.
"Our job wasn’t to protect him from you. It was to protect you from him."
The two looked at each other in surprise.
"Lord Gara’s power is formidable. If we allowed him to use it , then there’d be nothing left for us to conquer!"
