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"We can kill anything, literally anything right now!

" she seemed to be carried away by seeing this. But girl, my dragon had unlimited ammunition but needed some time to rest in between… Please keep that in mind!

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"We can't depend entirely on his dragons,

" the jumper, the party crasher dude, didn't seem to like what I was feeling right now.

"He can only use such an attack once in a while, right Hye?

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nI didn't know why but from the look of his eyes I felt a threatening warning towards me. Dude, if you want a girl, go outside and pick one yourself! I worked my as* literally to get these girls to be on my side!

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"Even so, it's still remarkable!

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nGood girl! Yes, give him what he deserved! Tell him I was the best, the best.

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"If his dragon can only do that, it will be only enough for one time,

" she added,

"it might not be satisfying for me, but it's enough for those monsters. Go, go on my dragon, f*ck these monsters up!

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"I know girls who won't mind him going on for a single time,

" Isabella from the side adjusted her glasses before adding,

"but it's a waste if he can't go on for more… There will be no fun in that!

"

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"One time won't satisfy anyone!

" Angelica added more fuel to the fire.

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"...

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nGirls! You were really harsher than the jumper!

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"Humph, I hope he gets your points in the end,

" the jumper rolled his eyes while giving me a snort. What was wrong with that jumper?

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"Be ready,

" I had to shift the topic,

"we'll move out in the next minute.

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"Will we be safe?

" Alex was still closing her eyes, rolling up her body and literally hugging my leg. I could only pat her on the head to reassure her. Or else how would I be moving in such a way?

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"Don't worry,

" I said,

"the worm and other bugs and monsters are now burning in hell.

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nI wasn't boasting without firm grounds. My dragon breath was so dope to be enough to be called a small scaled weapon of destruction.

n*Hoof!* *Hoof!*

nJust as the dragon finished, he started to heavily pant.

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"And he gets tired so fast! Didn't even last for five minutes!!

" the jumper spoke out of the blue, making me glare at him.

nYet all I got was a silent and calm gaze, as if he was acting oblivious to what he was trying to hint here.

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"Let's go,

" I instantly took my dragons back. Just before that jumper would say anything silly anymore, I gave him a warning gaze and he welcomed it by rolling up his eyes again with a fake helpless shaking of his shoulders.

nThat jumper… Tsk!

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"I'll lead the front,

" he said,

"if anyone is interested to join, then come.

"

nDidn't know why I wanted to punch him in the face at the moment. But he moved fast, leading the spearhead, Isabella, and Angelica away while leaving the all trembling, closed eyes Alex alongside me with Karoline.

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"Let's go,

" I evaded looking at Karoline and luckily Alex was in her own world at the moment.

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"What's that?

" just as I raised Alex on her feet, she slowly opened her eyes and muttered.

nThe scene in front of us was really worthy to be part of the true apocalypse. The monsters were twitching, convulsing in immense pain while they couldn't even roar or scream.

nThe black fire was already engulfing most of their bodies, eating them away. I patted her shoulders and tried to reassure her again.

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"They were going to kill us, so I had to kill them.

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"I'm not talking about that…

" but she said in a weird way ,making me feel worried over her for a moment there.

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"Are you alright?

" I moved her head to examine her closely,

"did you hurt your head or something?

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"Hush!

" yet unlike my actions, she shushed me while moving her head to the side, as if she was attentive trying to listen to something.

"Can't you feel that?

" she asked and I couldn't help but look at the all confused Karoline by my side before taking a rear glance at the group moving away without even waiting for us.

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"Feel what?

" I asked with doubt, yet she pointed her hand up and said in scared and shaky tone:

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"There is a faint rumbling coming from up there… No, it's not rumbling, it's like water gushing into the dirt in a berserk way.

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nMy eyes went all wide open when I heard what she just said. Where were we? We were trapped inside the tunnel, not underground but under water.

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"Are you sure?

" I firmly grabbed her arms with nervousness. Yet all I felt was her body shaking more and more.

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"It's getting fiercer…

" she said as if she was describing a scene of a horror movie,

"it's getting closer… it's getting closer…

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nJust as she said these words, I started to feel the ground underneath shaking. It wasn't a big deal, just faint trembling that seemed unnoticable if I wasn't paying much attention now.

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"Run!

" but linking this with what she just said, I didn't delay to shout in warning.

nHowever even before anyone could move a muscle or speak, the trembling got suddenly fiercer. The entire tunnel seemed as if it was made up of jelly matter, not cement.

nIt started with twisting like a rubber pipe, right and left, up and down. Then without warning, the ceiling broke in many places and large ugly heads of those worms appeared uninvited.

nAnd they didn't come alone! A violent gush of turbulent water followed through the gaps they created. Such huge and many gaps left all of us paralyzed with shock, before I saw the sides and even the ground of the tunnel broke with many giant heads of those ugly vicious worms.

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"Get here,

" we were screwed! I knew it! Nothing could save us now except if we stuck together. Without saying or doing much, I grabbed the soft bodies of the two chicks on my side, got them all glued to my body using my powerful arms, and didn't forget to call back all my warriors.

nI could already feel their ragged and hot breaths touching my neck, but I wasn't in the mood to appreciate any of this. The next moment the large worm heads all retreated, and the doors of a deadly flood opened widely in front of my eyes.

nDamn! How did it end like that?

nWithout feeling anything around except for the uncontrollable force that rotated my body in all directions, I kept my two arms steadily holding the two girls.

nI had to exert all my strength to keep holding them by their wastes. If we got separated, even for a mere blink of an eye, I would never find them easily later on.

n*Swish!* *Swish! *Splash!*

nI lost feeling with time, not knowing how much did it take before I finally raised my head on the surface of the raging water.

nI sucked in a deep breath before I found myself getting slammed heavily by something and got rotated upside down, thrown into a chaotic state for long minutes.

nI tried to stabilise myself, tried my best to raise the two girls up the water and take in air. It felt like I wasn't holding their soft and light bodies, but like two statues made out of pure steel!

n*Crush!* *Crush!* *Kadoom!* *Kadoom!*

nThe sound of the turbulent water slowly changed into a muffled sound of my heartbeat. I was almost out of breath, luckily got my air gasping chance every once in a while.

nDamn! Wasn't this river cool and steady? What happened?!!

nJust after a long time of such suffering, I started to finally stabilise my body. I raised the two girls high at first, but from the look on their faces I could tell they were already unconscious.

nGreat! I now ended up with two dead bodies on my side to handle. I placed them over my shoulders, one on each side. Then I had the chance to ascertain my current situation.

nI was indeed still inside the Hudson river. But what was worthy of notice was the fact that I saw the familiar buildings of the spot where we just left from to enter the tunnel.

nWhat was going on really here?

n*Roar!* *Roar!*

nJust before I could tell what was going on, I heard the loud and violent sound of the water gushing at me again. At this moment I finally saw what caused all this.

nSomething was rotating in the depth of that river! It wasn't clear if it was a monster or something else, but it was able to turn almost half width of the entire river water to rotate to form a gigantic whirlpool!

nYes! We were just rotating in circles, crushed by the increasing pressure of such a violent whirlpool!

nFor a second there I appreciated my luck! If I ended up inside that giant black pit in the middle of this whirlpool before, then I would be doomed without doubt!

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"I need to get out of here,

" as far as I was concerned, as long as I managed to break free from the outer clutches of this whirlpool then I'd be saved.

nYet whenever I tried to swim, I found a strange thing this time. The water seemed to grow thicker, much denser and heavier than it should be.

nThat wasn't good! The thing causing such a massive whirlpool seemed to change the nature of the water!

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"I need to get out of here… Come out now!

" without any hesitation I summoned one of my shield warriors.

"Put your shield on the water,

" he said. I didn't wait for him to stabilise himself and gave such an order first.

nAs he did so, I placed my two unconscious girls on the shield before starting to push with my full strength.

"Push it with me!

" I shouted while exerting every ounce of strength out of my already drained body.

nThe two of us worked together and finally we managed to move against the alarming growing violent tide. In mere minutes, we were already outside the reach of that whirlpool.

nAs I was already at my last breath, I struggled to get up to the shield, slept on my back, and closed my eyes while trying to control my breaths.

nAnd the warrior kept pushing us away from the reach of the whirlpool.

nI wanted to tell him to direct our direction towards the Jersey city shore, but I was overwhelmed to the point that I couldn't.

nI could hear the roaring noise of that deadly whirlpool getting slowly further away from us. Of course we were the ones moving away, not it.

nAfter couple of minutes, I finally opened my mouth as I said:

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"Get us to the other bank of the river,

" I paused before opening my eyes and was ready to point out the direction of Jersey city.

nBut I froze! The moment I opened my eyes, I totally froze out of pure fear!

nDamn! Were they prepared for me before coming here or what?!!!

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