The wail of the sirens was growing dangerously loud. Red and blue emergency lights were already beginning to reflect off the glass of the surrounding high-rises, painting the ruined park in frantic, strobing colors.
Hide stood in the center of the devastated park, the cool night wind tugging at his silver hair. He didn't have much time.
He opened his spatial inventory. With a mere thought, a glowing, pristine crystal materialized in the palm of his hand. It was the Core he had been given by Elara back in the gate.
The core of the D-Rank gate keeper who could fly.
Hide held the core out in front of him, ready to forge a new soldier.
Focusing inward, Hide closed his eyes for a fraction of a second and located the dense, freezing center of his being—the Dark Abyssal Core.
Instantly, the environment reacted. The heavy, corrupted ambient mana leaking from the newly forming gate blocks away rushed to him like a tidal wave responding to a black hole.
