"Marcus, I'll throw you and your sister in the portal. No buts!" Gary held the two kids and said with extreme urgency.
"That wasn't the plan! You have to come with us. That's an order!" Marcus shook his head. He knew that Gary would get killed if he stayed here.
"Remember kid, things don't always go according to plan. What's with you? I thought you read these kinds of things. You know that you must always have a plan b. Well in our case, this is the closest thing to a plan b. My job was to be your escort in the mortal realm, but we'll have to cut that short." Gary smiled.
Gary heard a yell from behind which was clearly from Nick.
"Looks like they're close. Get ready, I don't know where you'll end up. But that's for the best. Since our whole point in coming here is to use portals that aren't configured."
The portals in the capital were configured to places controlled by the Asura Empire in the dark. This goes for other empires too. They have portals in their capital which was set to a certain destination.
Changing the location of the portal would take weeks and would need joint cooperation in both people from the heavenly realm and mortal realm, alerting other empires in the process.
The last option was to use an unconfigured portal which was just pretty close to the capital. The reason it took them two days to reach it is that the vehicle they were using wasn't that fast. It was a vehicle used by commoners. Well, for commoners, it can be considered fast.
Unconfigured portals can send you anywhere to the mortal realm. In each empire, they usually only have one. The destination cant be set. So no one would know where you'll land.
Gary looked back and continued " Kid, don't forget to be a gentleman, and of course build a good ass harem. hahaha adios!" He covered them with a protective thin barrier to make sure they won't get heavily affected by the abrupt entry to the portal. The robes they wore were most likely going to get ripped though. With that, he threw them to the opening which was circle shaped made of metal with a blue colored center.
The last thing Marcus saw was Gary's smiling face with blood dripping from the side of his mouth.
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"Bastard where are they?!" Nick yelled at Gary.
Gary turned towards Nick. His vision was a bit blurry, He could guess that the dagger that was still stuck to his lower back was laced with a pretty strong poison.
"Was it for money?" Gary just asked.
Nick snorted, he looked at the portal and laughed maniacally " You threw them to the portal? You might as well kill them. They'll probably be crippled after the trip."
Gary sighed in his mind, remembering that he placed a barrier around them. He looked at him fiercely "Better cripple than being sold and killed to other empires. For them being crippled, brother, you'll have to pay!"
Nick kept laughing " Always the goody goody aren't you. Always the best! Always the one picked. Why do people think you're always better than me?! You even ruined my chance of becoming a high-ranking officer in another empire! AHHHHHH"
He transformed his fist into an asura and threw a punch at his brother.
Gary dodged "Me being poisoned doesn't mean I can't fight you. You are, after all, one stage lower."
"Me alone can't. But what can you do faced with dozens?" Nick threw another punch.
They went and exchanged blows. Nick coated his with fist poison using his spell. Gary tried to block, but noticed that 3 javelins with blue flaming tips were thrown at him. He knew that he couldn't use any spells or else it would decrease the mana stored inside his body.
He just used Nicks's punch to propel him back to dodge the javelins.
Both Nick and Gary were standing in the air. Around 30 men were coming close. They didn't get too close though. Their power ranking doesn't even measure to the two in front of them. They could just aim long-ranged attacks and throw the high ranked treasures they bought at the man wearing white.
Gary's vision was getting a lot more blurry by the second. He dashed to the men at the back, Nick followed close behind.
He took all the hit from the projectiles thrown at him. Once he was close to the 30 or so men who were grouped together, he turned towards his brother "Brother, in your next life, don't be ruled by jealousy, or else it will breed hatred in your heart which you cant quell."
Gary opened his arms. His mana inside his body was starting to grow erratic. Seeing Nicks's current trajectory going straight at him, he smiled one last time and shouted " All of you come with me! We'll all have a drink in the underworld. I'll be drinking wine while you will be drinking my piss."
Nick went straight into his arms. With the last ounce of strength he had, Gary constricted him tight with his two arms and transformed into an Asura.
"Bastard let me go, what are you trying to do?!"Nick went wide-eyed as he panicked because he had a feeling that he knew what Gary was planning.
"Brother I forgive you." were the last words Nick was ever going to hear from his brother. Better yet, the last words he was going to hear ever in this life.
Gary moved a little bit closer to the 30 or so men who kept moving backward little by little. He stopped when he was around 300 meters close to them. He could see the confused look in their eyes, their leader was finally about to shout something.
But it was too late.
With a loud 'BOOM!' Things around a kilometer radius exploded. Turned into nothingness. The people near the portal were shocked but weren't really affected by the shockwaves. First, because there was a protective barrier set around it.
Second, they were fighting in a forest a bit further away around 5 kilometers.
Lastly, Gary made sure that he would make a concentrated detonation. This means that he would only affect a smaller area but the damage would be a lot stronger.
The people who were near the portal were alarmed. Mostly guards and traveling merchants who took a rest in the outpost close to the portal.
The guards immediately called their superiors and told them what happened. They told them that a flying object went in streaking to the portal and there were men fighting a guy in white. They hardly had the time to do anything because the events happened way too fast.
The guards went near the place to have a closer look, and all they could see was a barren place with a large hole on the ground. Hardly any parts of the bodies were seen. Even the mushie parts can hardly be seen.
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In the Royal Capital
When the Empress heard the news, she became restless. The three ancestors had to come out and calmed her down.
'Will they be okay?'
'Once I make a breakthrough let's see if your empires will still stand!' The empress's thoughts were murderous. All she could think about was how her two babies were doing. She has already lost way too much, she can't lose them too.
"Get yourself together. Don't let people see you anxious. We already made a perfect cover for the prince and princess 2 years ago. That they are being trained by us which is why they don't get seen by the world that much. This time we will tell the people that we'll heighten the intensity and they wouldn't be seen for a while." Said one of the ancestors.
"Don't let the past years go to waste. Focus on improving your strength. I'm sure they'll be fine. He has that weird stone anyway and she has her brother. Marcus won't let anything happen to little Carmen. I believe that fate will bring them back to the empire."
Leia took a few deep breaths, wiped the tears from her eyes, and stood up. For the next few years, she'll fully focus on improving her strength if anything doesn't go wrong.
She walked straight to the door to deal with the matter about the portal.
The ancestors looked at each other and sighed. They disappeared without a trace.
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Arriving at the other side, Marcus was currently tightly hugging Carmen. He had no time to check his surroundings. All he knew was that they were in a body of water. His eyes were fixed on Carmen.
Marcus yelled at the object on his chest."You dumbass cat let us in!"
It was oval-shaped, thin, with strange markings on its surface. It didn't emit any presence and one could think it was a normal amulet or even a piece of junk.
Carmen looked like she was in deep pain. Her irregular breathing and a nosebleed that's like a dam that broke said it all.
"Someone once told me they didn't trust me, and that they wouldn't want to go anywhere in here again." a male voice inside the stone said with a snort. It sounded like a man around 20+ years old.
"Stop playing and let us in or else I'll throw you here. Heaven knows I'm not bluffing." Marcus said. If anything happens to his little sister on his watch, he wouldn't have any face left to go back to his mother.
"Jesus, alright! Fucker can't even take a joke. It not like she'll die right away." The stone grumbled "And I have a name. Its Nexus, remember that if you want to get in next time."