The Mark

Chapter 42

Chapter 42

"Oh, God! You are right. I can’t see him in the cage. I forgot to keep an eye on the cage. I am extremely sorry. I thought it was impossible for the kid to escape, so I wasn’t as alert," Caen said apologetically. "I am ready to take any punishment after we get back."

Flourance was frustrated, but he calmed himself down as he realized that there was no benefit in getting angry. It was just a waste of time at this point since it couldn’t achieve anything.

"Whatever, since you don’t even know when it happened, it looks like we will have to search the entire area. Turn the helicopter back now," Flourance commanded.

"Alright. I’ll follow your lead," Caen replied before he disconnected the call.

But he seemed clearly frustrated that what he was worried about was exactly what happened. They were turning back. Now his entire plan was useless.

He couldn’t believe how bad his luck was. If only this i***t hadn’t found out for five more minutes, things could have been different.

...

Flourance went to the pilot who was flying the helicopter he was in and gave the command himself.

Mid-air, the three helicopters turned back one after another.

"They found out that you aren’t in the cage. They are asking to go back to search for you, thinking that you jumped down along the way. It looks like we would have to change our plan since we can’t go further," Caen informed Lucifer about what was happening with a concerned look on his face.

Lucifer saw the helicopters returning back and understood that Caen wasn’t lying.

Lucifer looked at Caen, wondering what was about to happen next.

This question was also answered by Caen.

"We would need to fight after getting the right opportunity because they’ll certainly ask why the second guy in this helicopter is missing during the search. We need to fight before they kill us themselves," Caen told Lucifer as he sighed.

"Wait a minute. I’ll tell my guys to come here. Since this is going to happen, we might as well plan for backup," he added, but before he could realize it, he saw Lucifer turning back.

Lucifer walked towards the door of the helicopter but didn’t jump out. Instead, he gazed back at Caen as he said, "I’ll do it myself then."

"What do you plan to do?" Caen asked, confused.

" I’ll do the same thing you were going to do. I will blow them up while they are in the air," Lucifer said as black lightning flickered through his arms.

"Wait. I have a better idea," Caen called out.

Lucifer stopped and glanced at Caen, waiting for what he had to say.

"I can try to take out their leader with my disguise when we land. I will kill him myself using my Shapeshifting ability," Caen suggested. "He won’t even know that the person getting close to him isn’t his teammate but me. By the time he knows, it’s going to be too late."

"As for the rest, You can take them out much more easily when they are alone."

Lucifer looked at him for a brief second, but he didn’t say anything.

"Do you find it acceptable?" Caen inquired.

He couldn’t believe that he, a Variant Uprising leader, had to talk to a kid so respectfully. If it weren’t for the situation’s demand, he would never have done it.

The way he spoke to Lucifer was as if the two of them were in the same position. It was even stranger considering that Lucifer was only ten-eleven years old at the moment.

Caen took Lucifer’s silence as his acceptance. He went back to focusing on flying so that the others wouldn’t find anything suspicious.

"If we go by my plan, it might take longer, but we can wipe them much more safely," Caen said as he casually glanced back towards Lucifer, only to get stunned.

Lucifer wasn’t there. That place was empty. Caen looked all around the cabin, only to be disappointed as Lucifer was nowhere.

"That bastard is so annoying. He didn’t listen to me and jumped out," Caen cursed as he grew extremely annoyed. "That Flourance must have seen him by now. It is going to be extremely difficult now."

Just as he had assumed, Lucifer jumped out of the helicopter even after hearing Caen’s idea.

He knew that taking them out one by one, after their leader was dead, was probably a good option for them, but it wasn’t the best.

Everyone was in the air. Air was his domain as he had the A-Rank Power of wind. Even though he wasn’t able to bring out even a fraction of the abilities that this power allowed, he could still fly. He couldn’t fly upwards, but he could fly horizontally. As for Caen’s plan to blow up when they were in the air, he felt this had some merit.

He generally used his incredible strength to jump incredibly high, later using his power of the wind to stay on the height and move ahead, making it seem like he perfectly knew how to fly.

It was different this time. The three helicopters were already in the air and almost at the same level. Thus, he didn’t need to jump upwards. He could actually just step out of the helicopter and find himself flying at that level.

This was to his advantage since the other Variants were mostly able to fight on land. In the air, he was the king.

Also, as all of them were already inside the helicopters, he could take care of them much more easily. Rather than wasting this opportunity, he wished to utilize it.

Generally, he would have preferred to go all out, brutally killing them on the ground, but he had realized that he needed to be wise. Even though he thought of humans as nothing but beasts, one needed to crush the beasts while they could.

"F-Flourance!" the pilot of the first helicopter suddenly called out.

Flourance walked up to him and asked, "What happened?"

The pilot didn’t say anything and simply pointed ahead.

Flourance gazed where the man was pointing and saw a young kid flying in front of them.

Lucifer was showing his palm towards them as if he was signaling them to stop, but Flourance was aware that it wasn’t what was happening. He could see lightning flicker around Lucifer’s arms.

"He’s about to attack!" Flourance let out, stunned. "Hold something!"

He looked back towards his men hurriedly as he said, "Gray! He’s ahead of us! Attack him now before he does!"

"Do it now!" Flourance said furiously.

He didn’t have any long-range attacking powers, so his only option was to rely on the ones that did.

- : Toying

- : Toying

- : Toying

They needed to injure Lucifer before he could attack them; otherwise, it was going to be dangerous.

"You also start firing at him!" he said to the pilot, commanding him to use the weapons of the helicopter as well.

The helicopter had a rocket system since it was a military helicopter. It also had rapid-firing guns at the bottom. As the missiles took more time to fire than blindly shooting from the rapid-firing g*n, Flourance chose the guns.

Among the three helicopters flying, only Caen’s helicopter didn’t have a weapons system since it was a different one that was especially brought to carry the heavy cage.

The first and the third helicopters were the only ones that had weapons, which was why Caen didn’t simply blow them up himself.

Flourance didn’t wish to delay the attack for even a second, but that in itself was already too late as before the ones inside the helicopter could even move, a massive lightning bolt appeared before Lucifer and flew straight towards the helicopter.

It was one of the biggest lightning bolts that Lucifer has been able to conjure since he had woken up with the power of black lightning, and it came just at the right time.

...

Black lightning twisted and turned as the lightning bolt flew straight towards the main rotor of the military helicopter.

The powerful lightning bolt hit the rotor blades. Even though the helicopter was made to somewhat resist the lightning from the weather phenomenon, the Black Lightning of Lucifer was much more destructive than regular lightning.

While the normal lightning was damaging, it was useless against the helicopters that the APF was using. Even the systems in the helicopter were made to resist the lightning surcharge; however, the designers never thought about something like the Black Lightning of Lucifer.

Rather than just hitting the helicopter’s main rotor and disappearing, the black lightning entirely broke the main rotor of the helicopter. Even most of the systems of the helicopter were fried, which included the weapons system.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Loud beeping noise filled the helicopter, and smoke started rising in the sky. The helicopter started falling down on the ground, slowly gaining momentum while losing control.

The balance of the helicopter was also broken as people found it hard to keep still. Some people held onto things while some unfortunate ones fell outside, unable to save themselves.

The screams of the one that fell echoed in the ears of the others, scaring them. They held even more firmly.

"Are we going to die?"

"Sigh, after fighting so many bad and powerful Variants, I didn’t know that I would die because of a ten years old kid."

"Same, bruh."

The Variants started talking amongst themselves as sadness and uncertainty filled their hearts.

Some prayed for themselves to survive, while others started remembering the happy moments that they spent with their family.

’ I’m sorry, my dear daughter. It looks like daddy won’t be able to come .’ One of the Variants thought as he thought about his nine years old daughter.

"If I was going to die, I’m glad that I am with you all in my last moments," Another Variant said. "Thank you for being my friend in this life. I hope we can meet in the next life as well."

"You bastard, you are happy that we are all dying with you? If we weren’t dying, I would have killed you myself." Another man joked around, hiding his fear of death.

"Oh, holy god. Forgive us for all the sins that we might have committed. We are coming into your embrace." One of them even started saying his last rites.

Flourance’s face twitched as he heard the inauspicious words of his team members.

’Just what fools have we collected in the delta squad?’ he thought, frustrated.

He walked over to a shelf on the side and opened it.