Lord Shadow

BOOOOM!

The dark clouds open up in the middle and a red bolt of lightning appears and quickly coming down

A bolt of red lightning is about to descend toward her dome, that is what she realized at the moment

She is panicked for the first time in this battle. In her heart, she cursed so many times. At the same time, she shouted

‘Release the restriction! Run away!’

Actually she did not need to shouted it out. 

The moment that red thunderbolt appears, the one hundred people had already notices it. They already did not feel right when they saw the dark clouds.

The appearance of the red thunderbolt is the last straw that broke the camel back

Because while that red thunder bolt did not emanate a suppressive or possess some kind of murderousness intent toward the world, its target was the dome.

It is like a concentrated precision attack toward the dome. 

As such, while the whole world did not feel anything in particular, the target of that red thunderbolt would surely feel the destructiveness desire inside that red thunderbolt as it descended down from the Heavens to strike down the dome formation.

Since they are connected to the formation, they immediately felt the majestic power pressuring them and even before the red thunderbolt is hitting the dome, they could imagine the backlash that they would suffer if they tried to withstand such destructive power.

They would not be surprised if some of them would be incapacitated or have their Disk broken if they tried to withstand it.

In this world, when one sees red thunderbolts suddenly descending down from the Heavens, in a clear day, one would only think of “that person”

How could the operatives of Shadow Guards dares to defend themselves against their own lord?

Even if they have the ability to defend against it, would they really dare do it? 

The moment they saw it; they knew they had to run away.

As such before Sasha even shouted, the four position is abandoned and the dome dissipated almost immediately. 

They did not immediately retreat as they all uses their methods to create protective shields around them if the red thunderbolts reach the ground

And while they don’t dare to take head on the red thunderbolt, they still would not leave their leader alone.

They decided to wait for the red thunderbolt to come down before trying to trap Loki again

The red thunderbolt keeps descending but as it was about to hit the ground and crashed to the ground and created a catastrophe, the red thunderbolt also dissipated.

Loki look at Sasha and he smiles with satisfaction. He likes it very much surprising people. And he has always seen such faces

Because he has a bag of tricks under his sleeve. Always.

Then he said

‘Like I said, never underestimate me. You forget that I once was the Regent of Pandemonium’

He chuckles and then said

‘My brother like always is very generous. He left me a strand of his Will. The strand of Will that have enough authority to command one red thunderbolt from the Heavens. In my reign, I had never used it. Now, I finally use it. It is good to be brothers with such a backer’ and then he laughs.

Before Sasha could react suddenly there is golden light falling down from the sky. It was like a channel of light from the Heavens to the ground. It envelops Loki in golden light.

At the same time, energies from the outside could now be used again. Loki three-piece suit returns to normal. His sunglasses also had regained its original form. 

If not for the fact that there are still some wounds on Loki fingers, no one would have known that he had just battle intensely with Sasha a minute ago.

Sasha uses her super speed as she appears right in front of Loki. She tries to grab him but she is stopped by some invisible force that is protecting Loki.

She then stops trying to do such pointless thing and sighed. The distance between them is only one meter apart. Yet, in this such a small distance, she couldn’t even touch him

She looks at him and said

‘It seems I lost again’ Loki chuckles 

‘You lack preparation. You need to prepare more and look at the matter more broadly if you ever want to catch me. If you could think to delay time to trap me, why did you not think that I was also trying to delay time to make sure my exit out of Pandemonium would be a smooth one. This would be the last time for a while that I will be in Pandemonium’

Then with a smile he tips down his fedora, smiles and then the channel of light sucked him into the sky and he disappeared

Sasha could only look at this and sighed.

She looks at the now clear sky and nodded to herself. 

She had done her best. She just stands there for a few minutes. Sometimes there is a sigh coming out of her mouth.

At times, she just shakes her head. 

She was like that for a few minutes and then she walks away from that area. The operation failed.

Not only she did not manage to save Nathan, she lost also the cooperation of Riana and she did not even get Loki. 

There are many things she regretted. 

Still, she is the leader of the Shadow Guards. It only takes her a few second before she calms herself down and began planning 

But since she could not stop what happens, at least she could take advantage of it. 

Loki did not see wrongly. Sasha is a lot like him. She is very practical. She regroups with her subordinate and then she coldly said

‘The operation failed. Set out a notice to all related personnel. Burn any records of our cooperation with the Broker’ And then she paused for a second  before saying

‘Make it obvious’

‘Make it obvious?’ One of the operatives did not seem to understand.

Sasha look at one of her operatives and simply said

‘If you do not make it obvious, how would the other spies from the great powers would know that we have something to hide. Of course, while you make it obvious, do not reveal what happened’ 

‘This would make them even more curious. I estimated some of them would get the inside story. Only then Loki would have some leverage and prove his worth to the Crime Lords of the Crime Alliance. 

One of Sasha most trusted subordinate ask with some cautiousness.

‘Leader. Do you want to adopt the Trickster plans?’ Sasha nodded.

‘What choice do I have. I have to make the best of the situation. Since the Broker is dead and we could no longer stop Loki, this is the best we could do. I could only help him from the background’

The others nodded but then Sasha said

‘Ah, and don’t forget to fan rumors that said Loki and I are enemies. That we hated each other guts. This would help him a bit in dispelling such notions that we have a common interest’

One of the operatives then said

‘Fortunately, there is already a precedent for such relationship as Loki once sent a hunt order for you’ Sasha only laughs and said

‘Who knows? Maybe, he was already planning all of this since that time’ she said and shakes her head.

‘Go and execute the order. And report to Vice Leader Shinji. He would know how to organize the teams. And order him to try to seek any energy readings that is out of ordinary around Pandemonium. That golden light that teleported Loki away….it would not be so stable if it’s not at least nearby.’

What Sasha did not tell the others is that because of the expansion of the world, the energy of the entire world is in chaos. 

As such, most teleportation channel did not work. 

And most great powers had disable teleportation channel from the outside. They fear that there is Otherworlders that would use the channel to launch an attack.

For the teleportation channel that come to spirited away Loki, it had to be at least close to pandemonium for it to be that stable

A one-way teleportation channel. To receive but not send

Still, it is remarkable that such teleportation channel could be sued even amidst the chaotic energies all over the world right now.

And it even seems that the teleportation channel did not trigger the destructive power of the protection formation of Pandemonium.

It seems to have no other power other than to teleport a person away. But such method is quiet desirable for Sasha

She shakes the thought of her head and said to her operatives. The other operatives nodded, affirming her orders

She continues

‘I would be back in the Central Palace, waiting for Death Monarch. Right now, we have to stabilize Pandemonium as fast as possible, determine the current size of Pandemonium and find out where all of the cities of Pandemonium is situated’

‘We also need to find all the locations of all our black sites that probably had been rearranged by the expansion of the world’

They all nodded. And then Sasha gesture with her hands to go and they all disperse as fast as lightning. Leaving Sasha alone in the area.

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