After having searched for the rest of the day, there was still no clue on where Jude and the rest are.
The energy signal kept moving towards impossible places the gathering when they close in on them it will split up again.
The time is tucking down for Josephina's return, placing their hearts on an unsteady rhythm.
Josephina will very early tomorrow and will immediately ask for her children.
If Winter isn't found by tonight latest..
The consequences are unimaginable.
And with the unexpected emergence of an unrecognized energy directly relating to her daughter's disappearance might just be the icing on the cake for her.
"This is so troublesome" Beauty rubbed her forehead in frustration. Her hair and cloths had grew disheveled softening her cold and serious look.
Beauty had always felt that girl Winter is useless.
So what if she have some connections?!
She got herself kidnapped without leaving a strong clue for her brother.
She hated when a person is too useless and had since have a strong dislike for Winter whom she counted as an unredeemable useless person.
Beauty eyes grew dimmer remembering she had lost several elite guards in just three days all because of finding her!
"Kidnapped"
"How did she get herself kidnapped in the first place?!" Dave also looked beaten up, only slightly better than Beauty. There are secret covert guards protecting her all the best of the best!
How is it possible to steal someone from under their nose?
Is it possible she got rid of the guards after finding out?
It so...
That girl is nothing but trouble!
That explains why she got kidnapped.
Dave didn't know his thoughts were almost correct.
Winter had gotten rid of the guards as soon as she found out. She found them troublesome.
And following her will reveal some things to her mother. Like when she entered the Powers building to find the kiss stealer.
Beauty and the rest gathered at the Powers manor for Joseph. His contribution can greatly ease their pain and boost their manpower several times.
He was the one doing most of the work up to the very moment.
If someone can help it's definately him.
At this moment they didn't realize they had subconsciously begun to worship Joseph as a deity.
Joseph sat on his bed his brows tightly furrowed, sweat rolled down his face in waves to his neck slidding down and drenching his cloth.
His cloak had long been discarded after soaking sweat all day.
He bit hard into the cloth stuffed in his mouth often accidentally biting his lips leaving deep bite marks, his eyes tightly closed.
He took intermediate deep breaths and soft ones.
Thump Thump
A soft thrum of a white energy light beat coated his body evenly. The white light thrummed with a gentle energy, not overwhelming.
The man looked disheveled, despite his over the top good looks.
"Mm" he groaned in pain. A trail of blood slid down from his eyes.
Joseph peeped into his body energy core again and found the situation worsening.
After using his body as a channel for the energy, some residues remained and rapidly grew into a small force constantly threatening his energy core.
If the energy reached his core then he can completely say goodbye to the world.
Ok a normal basis, the foreign energy reaching his core shouldn't make him die just a puppet to it with ability to knock it out once it is used up.
But he had changed several things in his body, devolving and evolving, all the total upgrades had made his body reliant on his core, a single mistake can make him die a horrible death with his body still complete and his soul on the receiving end.
The energy had launched it's attack aggressively at the beginning giving him no time to do anything else or study it well.
He had rushed home and quickly went down to the dungeon planning to use the energy down there as a counter attack to fend off the energy.
However that plan backfired heavily.
It had instead become a catalyst for the energy boosting it's power several levels.
He had spurted a large amount of blood then and had almost pass out barely hanging on.
A great fear rose in his mind, his heart shook deeply.
He had greatly underestimate the energy in the dungeon believing it tamed. After several years of staying with it down there he had believe it ready to be consumed, ready to be meld into him.
But the foreign energy today broke that illusion today!
That energy in the dungeon had attacked with a sense of revenge leaving him horrified. The energy is also evolving with him.
All along he wasn't the one evolving but the energy!
He had just had the energy in him changing not melded completely made the energy different from his.
Like a borrowed energy ready to be recollected anytime.
He felt helpless at that moment. He couldn't tell Josephina as she will find out what led to everything.
And more because he is already deemed useless and didn't want to receive another wave of criticism.
He struggled back up to his room and worked on getting rid of the attacking energy.
Having always relied on the locked energy downstairs getting rid of the attacking energy in him proved difficult.
"Ack!" He quietly coughed out blood. He looked down at his palm and saw the blood had colored a bright orange. He isn't a stranger to this color of blood. He had coughed this out millions of times downstairs when upgrading.
This is a good sign of the energy exiting his body gradually.
He peeped down again and saw the brightly colored energy was getting dimmer and his core shield still standing strongly.
The energy had teared down the former shield and after rebuilding it a couple of times after destroyed. He gritted his teeth and made a stronger one taking out of his aura.
"Mm"
He bit down into the cloth in his mouth and felt the warm liquid going all around his head.
Bright orange colored blood flowed freely from his orifices.
A small victorious smile appeared on his face and his tightly furrowed brows loosened.
"Strange"
He didn't do much or rather he couldn't do much about the energy.
Since the one downstairs had backfired and he couldn't use it to suppress the attacking energy he can only use his original energy.
Although the borrowed energy made him terrifyingly strong but didn't upgrade him. His power had upgraded itself constantly after being exposed to lots of it most of the time.
Still with that amount of energy there is only little he can do to help himself.
The attacking energy had suddenly disappeared like it wasn't there at all.
If it weren't for the pain and blood he would have thought it is all a fiction of his imagination.
"It ran out of power?"
That seem too weird for an energy that didn't even need a caster to activate!
He didn't have time to think it through when a servant informed him of the group arrival.
His eyes flickered as he entered the bathroom.
He went downstairs after freshening up to receive the update about his sister's kidnappers accomplices.
He had almost forgotten Josephina is returning the next day and had specifically asked for her daughter and had given him two days to finish the task about the field battle a few days ago.
The beaten up faces of the group told him they weren't successful.
"We can't find them"
"Those sneaky bastards kept splitting and regrouping at different places!" Dave cursed out angrily.
Beauty didn't add anything just handed over the phone to Joseph.
She had noticed a little bit of dribble coming out of his ear and had turned to look the other way.
She guessed the battle with whatever is in his body didn't go too well.
"You will never find them through this"
Joseph said solemnly. He finally realized why it happened suddenly.
" Why?"
"Don't you feel it?" He ignored Dave and turned to Beauty.
"Feels so real" Beauty brows had furrowed.
Now that he mentioned it she is finally sure. She had been feeling it but ultimately ignored.
"What are you guys talking about?" Dave asked anxiously.
" We have been chasing a pseudo energy all day"
Beauty replied quietly rubbing her forehead even more.
Am trying to boost the novel chapter words to 1500 and I have to say am doing poorly.
I barely reached 1400.
Please do drop some encouraging words.