Looking at the people who had just announced themselves to him as the true mages, Jake felt the urge to burst into a fit of laughter.
'True mages.' he thought. 'What a load of crap. I don't know who they are but they seem like bad news for me at the moment.'
"Believe me young man," one of them spoke again, a female this time, he could tell from her voice, "we are bad news for you regardless of the moment."
They had a certain calm and serene vibe about them and who was Jake kidding, it bothered him a little.
The so-called true mages had suddenly shown up or appeared in the middle of an ongoing war and were so unbothered by everything happening around them.
The only thing that makes a person that unbothered by anything is power and one needed to have a lot of it.
"Time to go." the true mage who spoke the first time said.
Abruptly, it seemed as though they all chanted something for a second before Jake witnessed reality begin to twist and turn right in front of his eyes, as if the very nature of reality was being torn apart.
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After the hole was made in the penitentiary, the loud noise which came from it had attracted the attention of most people fighting and they had turned their heads to see what had caused the noise.
Flying high above the penitentiary behind the hole that had just been made, a wert with a single horn at the top most centre of its head became visible to everyone present.
A very frightening aura could be felt oozing out of the wert and some soldiers suddenly began to tremble as they stood; some were unable to move a muscle.
"That is definitely the wert leading this attack." Smith said. "It was able to rip a hole through the penitentiary with its whole body."
"We can't see how many tails it's got so how strong is that thing?" Kevin asked.
"Unfortunately we're about to find out." Smith replied.
Now directly above the world penitentiary, another force field had been put around the penitentiary and lasers began shooting at the wert in the sky.
The lasers were fast enough to break the sound barrier and the wert did not bother to dodge the attacks.
Hundreds of lasers were hitting the wert all at once but all there was to show for it were the scratch marks all over the body of the wert.
"This is bad." Smith said. "Those lasers are capable of at least knocking down a Commander. And they can't even put a dent in this wert."
Now broadening the smile on his face which clearly depicts the excess amount of confidence he felt at the moment, the wert uncurled its tails and everyone could see six tails being spread out.
"A six-tailed wert?!" a soldier yelled in absolute disbelief.
On seeing the six tails of the wert, some soldiers turned away and began to run. The fear of seeing the six-tailed wert was enough to make them turn their backs on the oath they swore and run away in an attempt to save themselves.
"WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Commander Chase shouted as he jumped in front of some of the soldiers that were running away. He and Commander Blake had already killed a five-tailed wert along with most of the other werts that had attacked.
"YOU ARE SOLDIERS AND YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST RUN AWAY? THAT WERT," he said and pointed to the six-tailed wert in the sky, "IS JUST A WERT THAT CAN STILL BE KILLED."
Using all his strength, Commander Chase squatted down and pushed off the ground in the direction of the six-tailed wert with a sword in his hand.
The sword had been made bigger and stronger by Commander Blake and now was on the same rank as a peak ranked weapon.
Seeing the human jump towards him from behind, the six-tailed wert turned around with the lasers still firing.
As Commander Chase reached him with the stroke of the sword coming down, the wert punched the sword which completely shattered it then gave a solid head butt to Commander Chase and it sent him falling back to the ground with blood trailing in his wake.
"You all will remember the name Maron, as the wert who destroyed your precious little prison."
The lasers had gotten more condensed and now, Maron was bleeding from all the constant hits but he didn't seem to care.
He looked down at the penitentiary and flew higher into the air before descending with such a speed that it took no more than a few seconds for him to close the metres-wide distance between him and the penitentiary.
Immediately he made contact with the force field around the penitentiary, he felt a little resistance from the force field before he pushed forward and broke through it then descended further and began moving through the penitentiary, breaking every single thing in his path.
Maron passed through his floor until he got to the bottom, killing anyone unlucky enough to be in his way as he descended.
On getting to the bottom, he did not stop and immediately moved a bit to the side to be very certain that when he was done with the penitentiary, the only thing left would be dust and debris.
"Jake is still in there." Kyle said. "You guys think he's gonna be alright?"
"Definitely." Kevin responded. "This is not enough to keep him down."
People could be seen running out of the crumbling penitentiary trying to hurriedly leave the vicinity of the penitentiary that was falling to the ground hard and fast. From the multiple insignia on the left side of their uniforms, one could tell they were all soldiers.
Flying towards the crumbling penitentiary was a five-tailed wert with blue hair. Anna had shapeshifted into a five-tailed wert and she flew straight up to the top of the penitentiary where she knew Jake's cell was.
On getting there, the penitentiary was very unsteady and dust was everywhere which was clouding her line of vision a bit.
The top floor of the penitentiary had already collapsed into the floor two storeys below it and Anna could see the pods of some prisoners rolling around and moving with the unsteadiness of the penitentiary.
Going closer to get a closer look at the pods, Anna could feel something coming from below and she quickly flew back to avoid whatever it was.
As Maron flew through the floors back to the top, Anna saw him fly past with a smile on his face. Either he was oblivious to the fact that she was there or he just didn't care.
After Maron flew past, the whole penitentiary collapsed in on itself and Anna had to fly out to avoid being wounded.
Looking from the sky, Maron watched as the penitentiary crumbled and fell to the ground, sending dust everywhere which covered the surrounding area where they had just been fighting.
With huge and powerful flaps of her wings, Anna blew the dust away and they could all see more werts flying down to them like a horde which was double the size of the number in the previous attack.
"This might not end well for us." Max said.
"Yeah no shit!" Kevin replied.