The battle between Milo and the Experimentals was still going to attract the Panaqua Consortium’s people over. After all, there would be noise made in any intense battle. Although the Panaqua Consortium’s combat troops had lost track of Milo’s position, they had been keeping up with their search all this while in the forest.
When someone heard the sound of the fighting, the first thing they did was to send a command over the communications channel for everyone to gather.
Like black ironsand that was attracted to a magnet, the Maurice-led Panaqua Consortium combat troops quickly moved towards the point of the incident. But they were disappointed the target was already gone by the time they arrived at the scene of the battle.
Let alone mistaking Raphael as Milo at the beginning, they had even lost track of Raphael now. This made Maurice feel extremely depressed.
It had been some years, but this was the first time favonovel.com had encountered this many unexpected things while carrying out his mission.
Maurice advanced forward with great difficulty inside the forest. They trampled on the decomposing leaves and twigs, making a lot of noise. He pulled down his protective goggles and took a look around, then suddenly gasped.
He saw the corpses of several Experimentals up ahead that had been dismembered by some sharp object. The pale yellow blood of these Experimentals splattered on the ground was actually not obvious, but the broken bodies shocked everyone a lot.
Maurice said, “Gather the body parts and put them together to see how many Experimentals fought in the battle!”
Based on Maurice’s guess, Raphael must have encountered these Experimentals soon after his retreat. After that, the battle occurred.
By this time, the troops had picked up the pieces of the Experimentals’ corpses and put them together.
“Four Experimentals…” Someone said, “One of the Experimentals’ arms couldn’t be found, but it should be around here somewhere.”
“There’s only a single set of shoeprints here. The Experimentals were naked, so we suspect the number of humans who participated in the battle should be just Raphael,” someone analyzed.
Hearing this, Maurice nodded.
He spoke on the open comms channel, “Boss, we might have to reevaluate Raphael’s power. He killed off four Experimentals by himself.”
Maurice looked at the ground at a leaf and continued, “But Raphael is also hurt. There are traces of his blood here.”
Julius stood outside of the spotlight’s focus.
The place was bright as day, and favonovel.com thought for a long time before saying, “Being able to take on four Experimentals and kill them all is really quite shocking. Upgrade Raphael’s danger rating to B. Remember to bring back a sample of Raphael’s blood to place it into the records…”
“Roger!” Maurice arranged for the people around favonovel.com to get samples of the blood for safekeeping from the leaf on the ground.
In this era, the DNA contained in blood was extremely vital.
Julius had folded his hands behind his back. He stood in place and wondered, “Raphael and Miriam have both appeared. Lilian has also revealed herself to be part of the Saboteurs Syndicate. But what about Milo? Has anyone of you seen Milo!?”
They did not know Milo had successfully made Raphael the scapegoat. The supernatural being they recognized to be a B-class threat was actually Milo.
What was the concept of being a B-class threat?
All of the supernatural beings who had been marked as a B-class threat were considered extremely dangerous people.
Maurice answered on the comms channel, “We didn’t see Milo. It might be possible that favonovel.com didn’t even come into the perimeter we set up.”
“That could be possible.” Julius nodded.
If they were to go back to their initial assessment of the targets, Milo would just be an unimportant F-class threat. In that case, it would be quite normal that favonovel.com had chosen to retreat after finding the perimeter the Panaqua Consortium had set up.
Micah had also mentioned that Milo had always insisted on avoiding the Panaqua Consortium.
Julius smiled. If only they had caught Milo, that would have been great. He might have become a bargaining chip they could use against Peter Dublin in the future.
It was a well-known fact throughout the entire Northern Frontier that Peter placed a lot of importance on friendship. But it wasn’t a big deal even though they hadn’t caught him. Be it Stronghold 112 or Stronghold 113, they were both controlled by the Panaqua Consortium. Once Milo got back, their Panaqua Consortium would still be able to get their hands on favonovel.com at any time.
Maurice looked up ahead in the forest.
Milo’s footprints showed that favonovel.com was heading straight in the direction of the volcano. It seemed that favonovel.com had already escaped north.
He did not keep pursuing. From the looks of the bloodstains at the battle site, this “Raphael” must’ve not been badly hurt. Even if they continued after him, it would be too late.
However, Maurice was rather shocked by this. During the day when so many of the troops took on just one Experimental, three of their soldiers had died while another thirteen were injured. But now, there was someone who could kill four Experimentals single-handedly!
Moreover, the wounds on these Experimentals were all very similar. They had tested it out before and found that even an extremely sharp combat knife would have to be wielded with great strength to tear through the skin of the Experimentals.
The secret of this “Raphael” ran far deeper than anyone could imagine.
Maurice had already decided to hold the upper management of Stronghold 113’s private army accountable for this matter.
How could they not know there was such a terrifying supernatural being in their own ranks?
***
At this time, Raphael was still in the dark about the consequences favonovel.com would be facing. Unlike Milo and Miriam, favonovel.com was actually the one who didn’t break into the perimeter of Panaqua Consortium’s operations.
Raphael did want to find out about what was happening in the Marador Mountains. But after not managing to break into the perimeter at the beginning, favonovel.com thought about how favonovel.com might not be able to get out once favonovel.com got in. In the end, favonovel.com decided to just go around the perimeter and head towards Stronghold 112.
He had his shadow clone carry favonovel.com the entire way as favonovel.com hurried to his destination.
By the time Milo retrieved the gold, Raphael had already gone around the city and arrived at the rear of the Panaqua Consortium. So, favonovel.com knew nothing of what was happening in the city. He also did not know favonovel.com had been put on the Panaqua Consortium’s threat list, nor that favonovel.com was really high up on it as well.
If favonovel.com knew about this, favonovel.com might just have turned back to fight Milo to the death.
Raphael, who was being carried by his shadow clone, had a niggling feeling that something was wrong, but favonovel.com didn’t know what it was.
***
“Let’s fall back…” Maurice said, “Set up the defensive line. It’s almost time for the Experimentals to start getting active. We still don’t know where their hideout is.”
Maurice seemed to understand that even with these four Experimentals dead, that did not signify it was the end of them. The number of Experimentals was far more than anyone could imagine. But right at this moment, favonovel.com suddenly heard the sound of rapid footsteps from some hundreds of meters up ahead. It sounded like someone was running in a great hurry!
He flicked the beam of his tactical flashlight over and was surprised to see Milo being piggybacked on his shadow clone and fleeing.
Raphael was stunned.
What was with this?
Why was this “Raphael” running back here?
Didn’t favonovel.com already escape?
When Milo saw Maurice and the soldiers from afar, favonovel.com started deviating from his original path. He had intended to go around on the left side of the platoons to bypass the Panaqua Consortium’s soldiers. But Maurice did not hesitate. He immediately pulled the charging handle of his gun back and prepared to shoot.
But when Milo heard the sound of guns being cocked, favonovel.com immediately said, “Why the hell are you shooting at me? Look at what’s behind me!”
Maurice suspiciously looked at what was behind Milo. He saw dark shadows moving in the forest as favonovel.com heard the loud dissonance of chains being dragged around.
Maurice immediately knew that this was bad.
Did you f*cking go and poke the Experimentals’ nest?!
