Child of Destiny

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Staring warily at his opponent, Shin tightly pinched the talismans between his index and middle fingers while channeling all the mental energy that he could muster as fast as he could.

Mad Dog did not dare to underestimate Shin despite having a massive between their strength. The earlier incident was proof of that. Given that the trio was able to survive that predicament and even wipe out their enemies, he fully understood that he could not be careless.

What happened to Edmund and Voss was more than enough reason for him to be careful with his actions.

He did not want a similar incident to occur when he lost his arm to happen again, much less end up with the same outcome as that pair of poor Void Manifestation Stage Unforgiven Ones.

Buzz!

While Shin was staring at the opposing party and Mad Dog was about to make his move, an intense fluctuation of the space around them suddenly interrupted the two.

Swoosh!

Both somewhat halted their actions after sensing the fluctuations. The two of them already had the idea who it was, making them move almost at the same time.

Shin swiftly retreated, creating as much space as possible away from Mad Dog. The latter, on the other hand, tried to catch Shin by activating his mutated superpowers.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The surrounding shadows moved and tried to catch Shin, who was doing his best to run away as fast as he could.

Boom!

Those shadow tentacles were about to catch him when the space suddenly exploded, followed by the appearance of the mysterious Domain Realm Expert, who had brought Shin and the others to this place.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Right after he appeared, he casually waved his hand, summoning an array of sharp flashes that sliced through the space and cut the swarm of shadow tentacles.

“Tsk!” Mad Dog could not help but click his tongue when he saw this, realizing that he was a bit late.

Fortunately for him, this Domain Realm Expert was not willing to let Shin go either.

“Urgh!”

Shin groaned in pain after some of those sharp flashes cut through his thighs, immobilizing him and rendering his escape impossible.

“You have to behave there for a moment. I’ll deal with you later,” said the Domain Realm Expert before turning to Mad Dog.

“Is it you? Are you the one who has wiped out my people?” he asked in a cold tone.

He did not believe that a bunch of kids would be able to defeat the group that he had left here, much less believing that Shin and the others had wiped out all those Unforgiven Ones.

The three might be talented, but they were still far from being powerful enough to wipe out his people, especially when Edmund and Voss were present.

That was, unless some accidents happened.

Seeing that there was a third party who had invaded the sealed place that he had created, the first thought that entered his mind was that this person was ambushing his people, particularly Edmund and Voss, before wiping out the rest.

After all, he could sense that Mad Dog was not an ordinary person, particularly when he saw that he possessed a superpower related to shadow elements. Aside from this, he could also tell that this superpower had undergone not just one but two mutations as well.

Putting all these together, he became more convinced that this was due to Mad Dog.

He was in the middle of setting a diversion for the forces of the Sun-Moon Government so that Edmund and Voss could use it to escape from another channel that they had sent up.

But when he was in the middle of getting rid of his tails, he suddenly sensed that Edmund and Voss died one after another, which forced him to come back here as fast as he could.

There were some problems on his side earlier, which delayed his return. It then led to the current situation where he saw Mad Dog was trying to catch Shin with his shadow superpowers.

Mad Dog, on the other hand, was having difficulty fighting against the suppression that the other party was passively emitting.

“So strong!”

The expression on Mad Dog’s face grew grimmer the more he got exposed to the powers of the opposing party.

Not long after, the appearance of the Domain Realm Expert was finally revealed.

“You-…! You’re Marc Lincoln, the Chimera Creator of the Hextech Laboratory!” blurted Mad Dog out after figuring out the identity of the other party.

“Oh~! It seems like you have heard of me. I wonder which organization you belong to for you two to mess up with our operation this much,” said the Chimera Creator.

He looked at the mechanical arm that Mad Dog was holding and squinted his eyes. “Are you from the Sun-Moon Government? No-… it can’t be.”

He was very familiar with the technology of the Sun-Moon Continent, particularly their local government. Based on what he could see, it was clear that this implant that Mad Dog had was nothing but a cheap imitation of what the Sun-Moon Technology could provide.

It was also mixed with quite a few modifications that were usually used by the technological experts of the Dark Continent.

“Someone from the Dark Continent? Which underground organization is it?” he mumbled, trying to figure out the power behind Mad Dog.

But after realizing that there were too many organizations tapping into modern technology, he just gave up on thinking about it. “Why do I have to think hard, trying to figure out your background when I can just capture you and interrogate you later?”

After saying those words, he slowly raised his hand and suddenly gestured forward, manipulating the surrounding space.

Swoosh!

Immediately after, shining threads of silver light suddenly appeared out of nowhere and surrounded Mad Dog, who was trying to distance himself from Marc Lincoln as fast as he could.

Sensing immense danger coming from these spatial threads, Mad Dog took out his huge military knife and started swinging it.

Shing!

With a swing of his military knife, shadow flashes suddenly dominated the space around him and clashed against the spatial threads heading his direction.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With the clash between the two sides, a series of explosions immediately erupted, blasting everything around them.

Because of these collisions, the surrounding space was also starting to get affected, creating a chaotic spatial storm that swept everything around it.

Due to these explosions, repeated cracks suddenly appeared in the space, which later summoned a void that was trying to devour anything around it while trying to recover itself.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Shin, who was quite near these explosions, was sent flying by the strong currents that were pushing outwards.

Fortunately, he was not swept in the spatial storm, which could shred him into pieces even with the tiniest contact.

“Hoh! So, you have already reached the threshold of the Domain Creation Stage,” commented Marc Lincoln after seeing the power that Mad Dog possessed.

“You have even included your mutated superpowers to imitate a real Domain Realm Abilities, which is quite interesting,” he added before shaking his head. “Unfortunately, a threshold is just a threshold and nothing more.”

With that, he made a snap with his fingers, which suddenly reverberated in the entire place.

Snap!

At the same time, an invisible power suddenly swept through everything, which later stopped the spatial storm and made it contract by force.

“This is bad!” mumbled Mad Dog after realizing that Marc Lincoln was much stronger than the rumors said.

When these thoughts crossed his mind, he suddenly took out the scroll that he had gotten from the Great Leader of his organization and opened it without hesitation.

Right after injecting his power into the scroll and ripping it, a domineering aura suddenly erupted and spread in every direction.

BOOM!

“This presence!”

Marc Lincoln could not help wearing a solemn expression when he sensed the immense aura after Mad Dog ripped the scroll in his hands.

He was able to recognize it as well since it belonged to the few people who could strike fear into his organization.

While Marc Lincoln was recollecting himself, a humanoid figure suddenly manifested before Mad Dog.

It was not a real person, but just a projection made by an immense amount of aura and dense energy.

When his entire body was fully formed, this person turned to Mad Dog and mumbled. “Already using the scroll? I feel somewhat disappointed.”

Mad Dog trembled when he heard those words. He wanted to refute at first, but he quickly swallowed the words back to his throat after recalling what happened during that time when his mechanical arm was being fixed.

That incident struck fear into his deepest consciousness, which was something that he would never forget.

This person then raised his brows as if he had sensed something before turning to Marc Lincoln.

Seemingly realizing something, he suddenly nodded in understanding. “Oh! Isn’t this Frankenstein’s student? No wonder.”

Marc Lincoln, on the other hand, wore a grim expression as he named the person behind the apparition. “The First Head.”

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