Chapter 144 Cthulhu Awakens [2] - Intervention

Military Base - Planet Alexar 52b

*BOOM*

The sound of a large explosion reached the military base, but they were alerted of the explosion long before it had reached them,

The other military camps around the planet had sent an emergency signal that reached the military base. When the military base realized the severity of the situation, they also sent several warnings to military individuals or groups nearby.

"What's happening?!" Instructor Chen Yung asked with a serious expression.

"Something is coming out of the planet... We don't know what it is, but it's as big as a mountain... Smaller creatures are coming out of the hole too. I think they're the size of the average human? I think they can fly too." A man next to a computer stuttered in panic.

He thought this job would be easy, but apparently, it was much harder than he could ever imagine.

However, the moment the cameras got a good shot of the monster and showed it on his screen, he felt his soul leave his body while the two behind him turned pale.

"No way, right?" Instructor Rachel Kim asked as she instantly lost hope.

"No... It must only look like it... What are the chances that we'd stumble upon Cthulhu's prison?" Chen Yung was shivering, yet made sure not to show any of his fear on his face.

"No matter what the monster is, one thing we can say is that it isn't at its peak yet. It's siphoning mana at an incredible rate, but it will take it an hour or two to reach the third commandment, and before then, we should have all the students on their way back to the academy." Lloyd's rouge combat and darkness class teacher spoke with a determined tone, making him seem completely unwavered by the news of a potential ancient creature lurking under the planet he was standing on.

"You're right..." They both looked down.

Taking a transmitter, he spoke into it.

"All units expand. Find all the students and bring them back to your camp before leaving. Use the transmitter we have on their watches to locate them. If any are too injured and would slow you down, leave them behind unless they are an A-rank student or above. Is that understood?" He asked

-"Sir, yes sir"-

"Instructors! Move your asses and subjugate that monster before it reaches the third commandment!"

"Sir, yes sir!" All the instructors in the base shouted in unison before flickering away and shooting toward the general direction of the explosion.

"Sir!" The man who was looking at the computer called over his superior.

"Yes soldier?" The man spoke.

No one really knew Lloy's rogue combat instructor's name, so they all either called him 'sir' to his face or 'Mirage' behind his back.

It was a name he got when he was also a soldier in the army, and it referred to how he always moved so fast that his presence felt like a mirage... There but not there. Almost no one could see his movements unless they were significantly stronger.

Not only did he have control over the darkness element, but his sheer speed made it hard to track him even when he held back.

"The cameras have caught a shot of what the monster was pointing at." The soldier tapped on the screen and increased the image size so 'Mirage' could look at it properly.

"Isn't that Fatima Khan? We were thinking of moving her up at the end of the year right?" Mirage spoke, making the soldier shake his head and point at the man instead.

"I'm talking about the person holding her."

Mirage narrowed his eyes. He couldn't see the face of the man because it seemed to be too pixilated whenever they tried to focus on it, but he recognized the clothes the man was wearing as well as the katana he was holding.

After all, he had personally picked out those clothes for the most promising student from his rogue combat class.

"Isn't that Lloyd?" Mirage asked.

"Well, according to his voice that, I put through a recognition software, it is him..."

"Play it." He ordered.

"Yes sir..."

["Fear?"] Lloyd's voice was monotone, as it was completely empty of emotion before he continued.

["Tell me, why would I fear..."] The screen flickered momentarily, not allowing the camera to see Lloyd in his full glory, pointing his purple blade at the monster.

["A lesser being like you?"]

[*SNAP*]

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*SNAP*

Snapping his fingers, Null amplified its sound with mana and shockwave with monarch's aura.

In an instant, all the cameras in the area exploded from the frequency of the snap that had been fully amplified by void energy, making any mechanical device explode, except for the ones he was wearing.

No humans were nearby, and the close ones were already on the brink of death.

Null simply quickened their deaths, using the motto of 'no witnesses' to fuel his agenda.

"If you think you can beat me with that pathetic strength of yours, you are sorely mistaken." Null placed Fatima on the ground, yet when he looked up, he saw a swarm of monsters flying toward him.

In barely a few seconds, they fully surrounded him and Fatima.

The creatures looked like demons straight out of hell. They were completely black with scales and everything, but just like Cthulhu, they had tentacles coming out of their chins, a bit like a beard.

As they swarmed around him like a swarm of bees around a beehive, Null slowly created a purple shield around him, making it impossible for them to get any closer to both of them. However, Null could see that they were also becoming stronger at an insane speed.

Of course, their recovery speed was nothing compared to Cthulhu himself, but it was still terrifying to anyone who wasn't Null.

With a wave of his hand, Null released a single purple ember, but it was nothing like what Lloyd had created in the past.

[Nullification Style]

[Aspect of Void + Flame Control + Void Control + Shadow Manipulation]

[Nebula Flame: Gluttony]

When the ember touched one of the monsters, they instantly turned into ashes and dropped to the ground. At the same time, the ember quickly turned into a flame, which quickly turned into a swarm of fiery ashes that spun around him for a moment before dissipating.

The ember had completely consumed the hundreds if not thousands of monsters that had swarmed him, and in the end, the flame still shone before Lloyd, increasing in size 10 fold.

Snapping his fingers, Null focused on his aura. It was big enough to reach the monster, so all he had to do was focus on it to create a spell as far as his aura reached.

[Flame Control]

Waving his hand, Null opened his eyes.

[Combust]

Thousands of monsters exploded into blue flames and were instantly turned into ashes.

Looking down at the purple flame again, it quickly coated Null's blade, which was already beginning to shatter after the small bursts of [Aspect of Void] that it had gotten.

[Void Step]

Null appeared right before the monster and landed on a small purple platform.

He knew that reinforcements would come in no time, so he had to either finish this quickly or leave before they came.

*ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAR*

Cthulhu let out a deafening roar and tried to smack Null away, yet the moment the hand even neared Null, they both stopped.

"You're gaining strength at an amazing rate, but you are still weak... You are still in the first commandment, and even though your body allows you to reach the power of someone in the topaz stage, you are still weaker than I am." Null explained, holding out both hands to stop the enormous palms of Cthulhu from attempting to squash him.

"However, since I don't have much time, let me leave you with a present." Null spoke as his blade entered the heart of Cthulu, and the flame coating it went along with it.

"When your time comes, we will get all the benefits." Null spoke again before teleporting away.

Landing next to Fatima, Null grabbed her and teleported once more until they were a safe distance away.

When that happened, he quickly hid in a random cave and finally took the mask off, letting Lloyd regain control of the body.

*GASP*

It felt like he hadn't breathed in a while.

Since Null knew they didn't need to breathe, he didn't find a need to do so, even though Lloyd had always done it out of habit. Now that he had returned to his body and Null had returned to their mindscape, Lloyd finally breathed in and let out a sigh of relief as if it had been something that had been bothering him for far too long.

Lloyd couldn't remember most of what happened, so when he looked down at Fatima, he could not help but raise a brow.

"When the hell did I find her... And why is she unconcious?!" Lloyd shouted and quickly checked her pulse, yet when he found her alive and simply sleeping, he could not help but let out another sigh of relief.

However, before he could relax, a presence entered the cave he was in.

Without thinking twice, Lloyd took out his dagger and threw it right at the person before charging a lightning attack that would attack the monster if the dagger didn't kill them.

"Relax kid..." A rough yet familiar voice spoke.

"Instructor?" Lloyd asked as he looked at his rouge combat instructor, who was looking at him with a weird expression.

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