Screams and shots were barely audible to Mike as he was seeing everything blurred.

  As an ability user, he had a physical over common humans, but the fall was still hard enough.

  But he had no time to recover his sight. He got up as quickly as he could, using his ability to see around him.

  He saw the others protecting him, forming a defense line around him.

  For the mission he got his sword to work, it was his best weapon after all.

  Aside from that, he only asked for a sniper rifle and a pistol.

  Sadly, the pistol was the only one with him, he could not search the sniper rifle after the attack, not in that situation.

  One of the soldiers got close to him.

  "Instructor Blood!"

  Most of the personnel knew him as an instructor, also his rank was "Hunter", since he was a blacklist hunter, and his military rank was given as captain.

  But anyway, most corps members called him instructor, since he instructed most of them in combat.

  "I am fine, what's the situation?!"

  "The helicopter with the helping personnel... you saw it. And the other one is covering us with fire from the sky"

  "The other captain?" Mike asked, but saw the captain in the defensive line before him when his eyes recovered a little from the blur.

  "I see him, right. Forget it"

  As fast as the creatures were, they still feared the antiPhySEC ammo.

  Luckily, because nobody would know what to do if those were resistant like in the case in Asgars' exclusion zone.

  Sadly for Mike, only his sniper rifle was antiPhySEC, his pistol was just a normal one.

  So, he could not help the soldiers with fire but still had the sword with him.

  But nobody expected that when the creatures could do no harm to the personnel in front of them, not even when surrounding them,

  Decided to retreat.

  All personnel were left dumbfounded.

  But as well-trained soldiers, the captain made his orders quick and the personnel moved.

  "Priority One! Search the situation of the crash site of the helping personnel, and the pilot of our helicopter too! Priority two, make a safe zone for helicopter 2 to deploy personnel!"

  Nobody expected that the land they were informed that was safe, was already filled with the creatures.

  They were told the land was safe and it was close to a human city near the border of the jungle.

  The helicopter with the helping personnel...

  The pilot was the first one to die in the attack and only 2 more personnel and the soldier guarding them were still alive.

  They quickly formed a safe zone in the mostly open area.

  *PUFF* Smoke from smoke grenades were forming a big circle.

  It was a technique used since decades ago to protect the landing zone of helicopters from fire in enemy lands.

  The personnel were forming a circle protecting the core area.

  The helicopter descended and some meters in the air, deployed the rest of the personnel with the rappel.

  And just like that, the remaining helicopter flew away.

  "We will still follow the scheduled agenda! But for now, add priority number 3 to the list as investigating the situation in green city!"

  Green City was Mike's destination.

  The city had a military outpost and that was the one responsible for informing the situation in the jungle about the supernatural creatures.

  Mike still had to search for the case with the sniper rifle, so he decided to separate from the group.

  His mission was just to investigate the situation in the jungle about the criminals last seen in Aether jungle, taking clues from the cities too.

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  Although his mission included investigating the close cities, he was still responsible for the equipment and tools given to him.

  As a Blacklist Hunter, he had more opportunities to relax about the lost or broken equipment,

  But it was his only antiPhySEC equipment after all.

  His sword had not too much range.

  "Good luck, soldiers" He said goodbye to the leaving soldiers and went around the place, searching for the weapon.

  He was quick, with no move wasted in walking, just running around.

  Even if the creatures left, no one knew if it would be for too long.

  He made an area in his head about the terrain, from where the helicopter was first attacked to where it crashed.

  He included the place where he fell from the air, and took in mind the distance it would fly.

  It would take a lot of time for any other.

  But with his ability being his eyes, he found it in just a few minutes.

  He got the case with the gun and opened it.

  Inside, there was a special sniper rifle with two fully loaded magazines, all in perfect condition.

  He made a sigh of relief and left.

  Just in time, because after leaving, two more creatures showed from the shadows.

  The creatures saw the terrain and started sniffing all around the place.

  Those two creatures were not alone, not far away were more.

  They were exploring the place.

  Soon, they left, not before looking in the direction of the city, where the soldiers first left and then Mike too.

  Even at night, the creatures had a good sense of smell, it was not hard for them to understand where humans went to, and where they looking at.

  The city was 5 kilometers away, and that was the closest city, and the closest road was 3.5 kilometers away.

  One of the mercenary groups went to the road, and the other to the city.

  They changed their first plans due to the sudden attack, so instead of penetrating more into the jungle,

  They decided to go right to the city.

  With the physical of a well-trained ability user, it took them less time than any normal military operation.

  It was still night when Mike reached the city, and the others should have been already there since they left first.

  "Who's there?!" Asked a military from the tower at the border of the city.

  Aiming the light at him.

  "Blacklist Hunter Mike Blood from the Golden Corps!"

  By saying his name and rank, the soldier confirmed his identity and was allowed to enter.

  The street was mostly desolated from life.

  It was normal, it was the middle of the night.

  But it was too abnormal somehow.

  Anyway, he arrived at the military camp for the corps.

  There was not much to do there, they arrived first but got not much information.

  Anyway, Mike got something useful from there.

  One of the mercenaries was talking about the situation in the city.

  It was mostly rumored, but it was said the creatures showed from time to time and never allowed people to leave, not at least ground travel.

  "Soldier" Mike called him "the travel by ground was forbidden after the creatures got inside the jungle"

  "I know, instructor. But I mean before they canceled the ground travels"

  "I still see it normal... wait, since when the creatures were confirmed? 2 or 3 days ago, right?"

  "They were in the jungle since nobody knows, but confirmed a few days ago, yes"

  It was strange, but only the situation at day could tell them the truth.

  A few hours later, the personnel left again, they took a rest and left at 2 in the morning,

  Went right into the jungle again.

  Mike wanted to follow them and go to the next city, one that was most deep into the jungle but still had to do some search in the current city.

  As so, he got a short sleep, until 5 in the morning.

  It was still too early to see people around, but as time passed, 6 in the morning, only military personnel were around.

  7 in the morning, the same.

  8 in the morning...

  "Are the people here lazy?" As he started to think about it, finally people showed up in the streets.

  Almost 9 in the morning.

  "They are indeed lazy"

  They showed up like there was no dangerous situation, not caring for anything in the world.

  He talked with the people and asked around the city.

  He knew that the city had a small airport where the country still sent food.

  And found that they lived calmly even surrounded by the creatures since the military kept them away and the creatures showed up not long ago.

  But something was off in the information.

  He could not find the answer so fast, not after thinking carefully.

  "Wait! The country? Helping isolated people? That tyrant is helping? There is indeed something weird in this city"

  Aside it,

  The criminals were mostly common in the jungle in Aether.

  After all, most criminals hide in Aether after negotiations with the terrorists and the government.

  And they get into the country through the sea or through the jungle.

  So, he decided to ask about the criminals directly.

  Surprisingly,

  There was nothing about it recently.

  Even when asking directly to the police, or to the military, nothing at all.

  He even spent hours looking at the files about the entry and exit of every citizen in the past week.

  But he found more interesting and weird information.

  "There are almost no exits since a week ago"