"Understood. I will just finish here and return to the HQ." Rick just ended the call when he felt all his hairs stood. An immense threat was close and he heard a sudden scream followed by bloody sounds.
"AAH!" Before his eyes, Rick saw the body pieces of the creatures gather once again. slowly forming the form the beasts he killed a while ago.
"What." It was not hard to understand those creature are returning to life and Rick quickly shot the beasts with his hand but there was no effect and the body continued to reconstruct.
A monstrous hand rose from the ground and grabbed the head of a female officer before smashing her brain. Due to the rarity and importance given to Elemental Masters, most of the police force is composed of ordinary people. All the beasts except for those in ashes were "alive" once again.
"Lightning Reinforce! Lightning Reinforce!" He tried twice but nothing happened. Rick's face changed into one of horror when he realized he could not mobilize his power anymore and could just use the gun he took from the ground to shot the beasts.
"Did you called reinforcements?" A male officer named Joe turned to Rick. He was eager to run and wait for more elemental masters come to deal with it, but he gathered all his courage to continue stalling the beasts.
"Yes." Rick pressed a button in the obelisk, "Were just need to make sure they stay here when they arrive. How many bullets everyone has?"
"11!"
"18"
"7"
"16"
"Good, picked a few more on the ground and gathered a total of 14. Just keep shooting any beast that gets up."
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Hours passed slowly as the number of officers decreased. Some had their heads smashed, other had their throats ripped by claws and Rick could not feel any energy even now, but at least some of the beasts were killed so many times that they stopped returning.
"Shit! Why it is not working." Rick cursed as he kicked a beasts in the back before it crashed into another beasts. One by one they officers, ordinary humans with a weak body were soon overwhelmed by the beasts and only Rick remained to face the ten remaining beasts.
"Sorry." He knew all those officers had a family and loved ones like himself and they all died to make sure the beasts don't go out taking the lives of innocents. The moment he saw the last one fall, he saw the picture of his family falling from his pocket just before his conscience faded. The sky was black and a single thunderbolt ripped the heavens apart a split second before it strike Rick.
....
"An" Opening his eyes, he still felt sleepy and yawned a couple of times before the memories of the past few hours hit his mind like a bomb and he tried to get up, but his body could not move. Not being able to move didn't mean he could not recognize surroundings that changed to his bedroom in the HQ of the Divine Guardians. He also saw the door open when Artemis and Athena walked in.
"Uhh, gjda ahh!" Rick wanted to ask what happened at the southern sector when he realized he could not speak as he saw Artemis jump at him.
"Friend! Are you okay? I heard you had been hurt really bad." Artemis gave a look at him to see if he was hurt somewhere when Athena coughed.
"Your first assignment has been completed. Most of the police officer at the scene died, but we succeed in saving four of them. Fortunately those undead beasts are pretty stupid and are not really good at attacking vital areas. As for the dead, you must know this is what happens when someone is too full of themselves. Your power may be rare but you are still just one person, and a person can be easily killed when facing higher numbers. As for now you should just worry about resting. Let's go Artemis, you can play later."
"En." Artemis shyly nodded as she tried to hid the deck of card in her pocket before followed Athena out of the room.
[What a nice little lass.] A strange and rough voice sighed and Rick looked around to see from where it is coming.
[What are you doing acting like crazy. I am inside you.]
"Who! Who are you?"
[No I, we. We are the same person so of course I should be within you, but you should not worry about things complicated as this. Just go sleep] When Rick heard the word "Sleep" he felt like he could not control himself as he feel asleep.
[It's too early for us to return being one. Also this world is really strange, they have this primitive system and aren't aware of the cultivation from mortal to celestial realms. No, it is the laws of world that are different, they don't seem to be compatible with me and even try to repel. Well, I guess we can't be called god anymore as my position was taken back then. From now on this is the start of another story.]