After the explosion that blasted through De Roy Lake finally settled down, Aether ground his teeth. “Damn!” His armor was charred black, and it looked as though it would fall apart at any moment. If the light element he possessed didn’t give him resistance to fire, he would be in big trouble. “Who’s left? Who’s still alive?”

As Aether shouted through his connection with his team, three of his subordinates started to appear one by one. All of them were injured, and a couple were barely clinging to life. His nine-person team had included high rankers, and now five were dead.  

They should have been able to capture Galliard and Brahm, but everything had been ruined by that interfering player. If he hadn’t caught them off guard, he thought that they would have still managed to pull off their mission. But instead, they’d ended up like this.  

They had no chance of making another attempt to capture Brahm now, and he hadn’t felt this furious since he’d fought Heaven Wing. Crunc...