"Montum," Erik said. "What's the deal with Dark Tendrils in this city? What are the blackguards hoping to achieve by sending him here?"
At that, Montum began laughing derisively at Erik.
"For real? Hahahahahahahaha. This is the way you think an interrogation should go? Hahahahahahahaha."
Until now, Montum had refused to answer any of Erik's questions, finding Erik's attempts at interrogation amusing.
Montum let out a dry chuckle. "I expected more from soone with your reputation, Erik," he said, a hint of mockery in his tone. "But so far, you're acting like an amateur."
Erik's eyes narrowed as Montum continued to laugh, but the only thing he did was reply with a grin.
That was because Montum was unwillingly talking. Really, all of this was easier than stealing candy from a kid.
But Montum then turned serious. Honestly, Erik's reaction was freaking him out a little. Why was he laughing? Shouldn't he be enraged?
"You think your little questions will get you anywhere? I have nothing to say to you aside from that you are an idiot and that most likely, the higher-ups overestimated you."
Of course, that wasn't what Montum was really thinking. Maybe he considered Erik amateurish in his interrogation, but his strength couldn't be denied.
He made him unconscious with a single attack, but the man wasn't even sure about that because Erik had been too fast for him to understand what had happened back then.
But Montum replied to Erik's questions. The truth was that Zakir had been sent here to thwart the rebels, simple as that, but also for the sa reason as when he got sent to Caelora City: to apprehend Erik Romano.
Zakir fought against him back at school. At that ti, he knew better than most how Frant's awakener did it.
However, the difference between Montum, his team, and Zakir was that the younger man was a genius.
That guy had 45 neural links, and he was 18 years old. He was strong, insanely so, and at that age, he was already among the strongest soldiers within the organization.
At that information, Erik almost grimaced.
It wasn't only that, because this information ant Zakir was as strong as the Hevadrin. Right now, it ant nothing to Erik.
He was much stronger than before thanks to the many level ups and neural links he made, and that was because he had fought with and against the rebels. The number of people and thaids who died around him gave him a ton of experience, DNA points, and mana.
Right now, Erik's stats were are almost twice as high as those of Zakir. Killing him would not be a problem.
But that wasn't what prevented Erik from doing it. Erik's problem had always been his mana, because he did lack it, and mana ant everything because it powered one's brain crystal power.
It was true he had a lot now, but he still had to fight alone against many, sumd among them, the blackguards had thousands upon thousands of energy points. Seeing the blackguards as a single entity made him truly understand the difference between him and them.
One on one, he would lose to no one, but against an organization, things weren't so simple. That was not the only problem. Brain crystal powers were unpredictable. Erik could be as fast and as strong as he wanted, but soone like Zakir, who could intensify his tendrils' speed and strength through mana, could nullify the benefits of multiple brain crystal powers. Zakir might make his tendrils so fast that even Erik might struggle to resist them.
That would be the case if Erik didn't have a way to defend himself. However, he did now. Erik got a significant amount of mana, nearly reaching the A rank on the Ferebitz scale.
Simultaneously, he now had fewer but very harrowing powers. For example, the result of the rge of Exoshield with Nathaniel's brain crystal power had been a trendous surprise. But of course, he would have rushed to kill Volkov, Zakir, and rescue Richard, if that was all. Of course, there were many things he had to consider in the current situation.
The number of opponents, the brain crystal rifles, and now chas artillery and the like, but most importantly, individuals with more than one brain crystal power.
That was because multiple powers might an multiple neural links, aning they could actually be stronger than anyone else.
What Doran's research did was create artificial awakeners. He still had no proof of that though, and didn't have that much information about how these powers worked.
If that was the case, the few people he saw wielding multiple brain crystal powers on the battlefield likely had few neural links, so they were strong, but not as strong as they could be. That was why Erik was focusing on the Chimaeric Demons. They were his cards to win this
war.
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