In the middle of the afternoon, Michelle was heading back to her mansion that didn't lose to Ayaka's. She had been on a mission for more than two months. Luckily, the plan had gone smoothly, so she finished the mission faster.
She had been dying to tell Kai she had finished her mission, but upon reaching her room, she saw that the communication device that she left in the house was filled with Kai's messages.
She wanted to feel joy as Kai took the initiative to contact her, but she knew he wasn't someone like that. Tension filled the air as she read the messages.
It turned out she was right. Her answer came in the form of multiple SOS messages. Kai had messaged her for money a few days ago, hoping someone would find this. Unfortunately, no one dared to come to her room, especially her servants.
A day later, he was practically asking her to send help to South Korea. The messages continued to North Korea and finally until it arrived in Alaska.
Kai told her he was at his wits' end and needed her help. He didn't care whatever happened to him after that as long as she sent help for his parents.
Sadly, because of the mission this time as they were fighting a special magical beast, she wasn't allowed to bring her communication device. And Kai was in danger because of this.
She immediately called him with her hands shaking.
"Kai, what happened?! Where are you? Are you okay?" She was screaming as soon as he picked up the call.
"Hello? Is this Michelle?"
Her body shook when she heard the woman's voice, and she recognized this voice. "Auntie? Where is Kai? Where are you? What happened to all of you? I… am sorry."
"Kai and I are near Uelen, Russia. The whole family is here together with one other family." She said. "Kai is recovering his magic at the moment as he needs it to teleport us."
"What happened to all of you?"
"The situation is too complicated to explain at the moment. If I need to describe it in one sentence, a huge storm is brewing in United Asia, and our family is the center of that storm."
"You then escaped from that situation but are stranded in Russia?"
"Yes. That's basically it. We're in a shelter but are surrounded by magical beasts. We don't know how long we can hold out in this situation. If only I could fight," she said, biting her lips.
"Auntie, everything's going to be fine. I'll immediately send our people to pick you up. Just activate your tracker, and we'll go get you before you know it."
It was then that she heard, "Our situation is not good, we're going to move right now. Wait! You've woken up?"
This voice wasn't familiar to her ears, but she heard Kai say, "All right, we're going to teleport there now."
Kai then took his communication device from his mother.
"We're going to buy time in Uelen. A few hours at best, but anything past that, we can only head to Alaska. Even so, we might be surrounded by magical beasts when we get there. If I need… No, I just want to say, I miss you," Kai said as he hung up the call. He activated the tracker.
"Hello? Kai? Kai?" She shouted continuously to the call that had been hung up. When she heard him say "I miss you," she didn't feel a trace of happiness. In fact, she was devastated. Kai had given up on his situation and was completely relying on luck. She bit her lips as she almost crushed her communication device to pieces.
She immediately came out of the room and ran toward her father's room while carrying the device. This might be the biggest trouble that her family had. Although she had yet to get past the childhood friend step, both of their families already considered them a thing.
The entire Graham family already recognized Kai, and no one could shake that position.
They had no problem with him except for his background, but the Graham family didn't need any background whatsoever. As for his power, his magic power alone already surpassed S-rank magicians', let alone his unorthodox sound magic and extraordinary hearing. There was another consideration upon his ability, but all in all, Kai was already considered as the son-in-law of this family.
Bang!
A middle-aged guy was dealing with paperwork. He had blonde hair and blue crystal eyes like Michelle. His heart skipped a bit when Michelle slammed the door and rushed in.
"Michelle? You've finished your mission?" His shock turned into joy.
Sadly, it changed again into confusion as he heard Michelle say, "If you want your son-in-law alive, then we need to gather all our forces and go to Russia right now!"
"What son-in-law? Have you found another love besides Kai? But your dad is satisfied with Kai, you know…" The middle-aged guy was Michelle's father, Michael Graham.
"And do you think your daughter can fall in love with another person beside him?!" She gritted her teeth. "If you're not going to order our forces right now, he's going to die!"
"Wha-! He's going to die? Are you joking, my daughter? I can't take this joke."
"He is in Russia near Uelen and is currently besieged by magical beasts from all directions. There are a ton of reasons that could be explained later, but if you don't want him to die, then hurry up and order our people!" she shouted in distress. "Tasha has already unsealed his power and planted her space magic in his body. Do you understand now, Father?"
"!!!"
Michael was taken aback. If this weren't a prank, then it would be bad. He hadn't heard anything about United Asia advancing their skirmish to Russia and neither did their US Base, so Kai must be coming or fleeing to that place with a small group.
He sweatdropped as he immediately took out his communication device. "Immediately send words to all our people in Canada. They shall immediately head to Russia and save the Carter family. Make them go first, and I'll give you the coordinates later."
He ordered his most trusted aide as he looked at Michelle. "I need your communication device for his position. He activated the tracker, right?"
Michelle nodded and threw her device to her father.
He checked the coordinates first before nodding his head. He then looked at Michelle. "Tell your mother to replace me in today's meeting. After that, meet me in our tower as we'll fly there now."
Michelle nodded and left. She had yet to understand Kai's whole situation, but she knew he was in danger, and it was enough for her.
Because his father even made this order as an emergency that would shake the entire family, the preparations were completed in just an hour.
Their family was far bigger than Ayaka's family, and they even had two private fighting jets. The bullet and missiles were already reinforced by magic, so they should be enough to kill magical beasts. It was just that they weren't very cost-effective. If not, they would have already overturned the magical beasts.
Michael and Michelle arrived at the military base and immediately went to the commander of the army.
"Michael, you can't do this to me. Why have all of your people started making all of these preparations?" the commander shouted, leaving his assistant trembling on the side. The commander was a middle-aged man that seemed to have a certain relationship with Michael as even though he was shouting to him, there was still a trace of worry in his eyes. Meanwhile, his assistant was a woman, and she seemed a bit new here as her eyes were still a bit innocent.
"My son-in-law is in a perilous situation. I just want to tell you, if he died out there, I would have all my people leave this operation."
"Michael, are you planning to challenge the army?"
"Nope. If you're going to leave someone with a bigger potential than my daughter dying out there, then screw the army. I'm coming here just to inform you, although I'm not planning to challenge the army, I don't mind. Even my father will surely go all-out with the entire government about this." He snorted.
"What? Your rumored son-in-law is just a D-rank sound magician." The commander shouted.
"If you think about him as a mere D-rank magician, then I only have one word for you. Since you're already a commander as well as my war buddy before, I shall teach you one thing. Here, you might not know about the name of Kai Carter, but I'm sure you've heard the name of Leo," Michael said.
"!!!" The commander's body shook when he heard such an unbelievable thing. He stood up and slammed the table, "Michael-!"
Michael simply waved his hands as he walked out of the room. "That's all to it, and I'm sure you already know the importance of this. Well then, excuse me, I need to rescue my son-in-law."
Several helicopters then started flying, confusing many other people. They wanted to move a few tanks, but it needed to cross the sea, and it was practically impossible to move them in a few hours.
The commander's assistant couldn't help but ask, "Commander, who is this Leo?"
"Forget about it. That is an order," the commander said with a cold tone as he fell to his seat. "Have the soldiers fortify our current defense. We're not going to continue our invasion for two days."
"Yes!" The assistant immediately left the office.
"Sigh… Luckily, we've been progressing smoothly. The higher-ups shouldn't push this matter to us."
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Meanwhile, on Kai's side.
As soon as they saw Michelle's call, Kai said, "Mother, you can answer it, I'll try to recover my magic as soon as possible."
"All right." She picked up the call while Kai closed his eyes.
He wanted to recover his magic power because he heard the outside situation was not that good. They were barely able to hold themselves from being overwhelmed by the magical beasts.
"Not good. We need to get going right now." Yoshihiro came and noticed that Kai had woken up. "Our situation isn't good, we're going to move right now. Wait! You've woken up?"
This voice wasn't familiar to her ears, but she heard Kai say, "All right. We're going to teleport there now."
Kai then took his communication device from his mother.
"We're going to buy time in Uelen. A few hours at best, but anything past that, we can only head to Alaska. Even so, we might be surrounded by magical beasts when we get there. If I need… No, I just want to say, I miss you." Kai said as he hung up the call. He activated the tracker. He already noticed the magical beasts nearby, but he was waiting until the last moment to recover his power as much as possible.
He then came out with all of them and used teleportation magic, immediately disappearing from there.
"Kh!" Kai grit his teeth after using the teleportation magic. He only had around 20 percent of his magic power after using this teleportation magic. He had teleported as close to the sea as he could according to the map. Unfortunately, it was still just according to the map. Even if they were close, they still had around a few kilometers to go.
"We need to get going," Kai said as he already picked up so many sounds nearby. They wouldn't want to be surrounded at this time, and the others knew about this. Kai didn't have time to look around as the sound he picked the moment he arrived here had notified him about multiple magical beasts.
Kai started running toward the coast while slowing his pace to match his parents'. They were the sole reason Kai decided to escape to the US base. He wasn't going to abandon them.
Kai and Yoshihiro took the front as they paved the way for the group to move. Becca and Kudo Chiyo were trying to hold the magical beasts from the sides. Meanwhile, Ayaka and Tasha were shooting down as many magical beasts as they could.
Their group slowly made their way toward the coast. They could see magical beasts popping out one after another. They were everywhere. The buildings, the road, the ground, they were everywhere.
They all thought that as long as they reached the coast where they didn't need to guard against the sea, they should be able to push all of these magical beasts back. After a few minutes of running, they finally arrived at the coast. They also saw numerous buildings along the shore, and Kai immediately shouted. "Madam, after we kill the monsters around there, we'll use the house to our advantage to slow them down. Meanwhile, please make a huge terrain for us to hold them back for a couple of hours.
"There are around three thousand chasing us at the moment with more coming. As long as we have that terrain, we should be able to hold them for a few hours."
Kudo Chiyo nodded after hearing that. Although she doubted if the terrain would be that effective, it was still better than nothing.
"Tasha, change with me." She then looked at Tasha before turning to her husband. "Dear, send me there."
He nodded as he grabbed her. They often made moves like this and let their group have an advantage, so he quickly threw her without hesitation.
"Miss Becca, we're going to use that strategy to make our terrain more deadly for the magical beasts," Kai turned to Becca and said.
Becca simply nodded her head, understanding his intention. Unexpectedly, Shirotsuka Sanae, who was being carried by James Carter, finally woke up. She slowly said. "I'll help."
"Teacher? How about you go to sleep again? We'll arrive at the US base after another sleep," Kai said. He wanted her to recover as much as she could.
"I've woken up since a few minutes ago and restored a bit of my energy. We're in a dangerous situation, so I'll also help you. Just put me down when we reach there, I can shoot my wind magic from there," she said, moving as little as she could to conserve the bit of energy she recovered.
Kai wanted to reject her, but she would be a big help if she chose to join the battle. Even though it would be pushing Shirotsuka Sanae's limit, they didn't have another option. "All right."
"Sister, take care of the flying beasts," he asked.
"I know." She nodded. Even without Kai ordering her, she would still start killing the magical beasts.
"Ayaka…" He finally called the last person.
"Yes!" Ayaka became tense when he called her name.
"..." Kai looked at her for a while before saying. "Place as many of your Magic Bombs as you can on the roof of this house. You're going to blast them. Set them… for an hour."
"!!" Ayaka was surprised. It was her time to be useful to others. She nodded furiously as she tried to calm her excitement. She kept telling herself not to mess this up.
When they arrived at the housing area, Ayaka started planting her Magic Bombs. At the same time, Kai and Yoshihiro kept killing the magical beasts that were coming from the house.
Rumble, rumble.
They saw an ice hill rise from the ground with Kudo Chiyo on the top. She then made a magic circle and rained her icicles down on the magical beasts to buy time for the others to climb up the hill. As soon as they arrived at the top, Becca immediately used her magic and flooded the hill before the water immediately spiked and froze.
He then looked at Yoshihiro, "Sir, we're going to hold them here."
"You're not going to recover your magic power?"
"Can you hold them down alone?" he simply asked back. From his expression alone, he already knew the answer. "I'm going to help you until we can reach a stalemate with the magical beasts."
"Got it. Don't push yourself."
"Yeah." Kai activated his mysterious power once again and started rampaging on the battlefield. This took them by surprise, and even Yoshihiro was taken aback by this power. He felt chills down his spine.
He took a deep breath to calm his mind and joined Kai. No question needed to be asked in this situation, as staying alive was their priority.
After around an hour, Ayaka's Magic Bombs finally exploded altogether, killing a massive portion of the horde of magical beasts. At this time, Kai decided to retire and started recovering his magic power.
Unbeknownst to them, Kai's expression darkened after an hour of recovery. What they didn't know was that there was another source of the problem that needed to be solved. Kai was racing against time to fight this problem as he could only barely use another teleportation magic.
Rumble.
The others were confused by this rumble. Two giant crabs suddenly appeared, followed by more than a thousand sea creatures. These sea creatures then began charging toward them. It very much seemed that these creatures wanted to attack them.
"Not good!" Yoshihiro cursed as he tried to go back to the rest of them.
Kai had steeled his resolve in this and clasped his hands once again as a pink magic circle enveloped all the people here.
"Teleportation!"
All of them disappeared once again.
"Gah!" Kai spat blood and fell to his knees.
He just used his rushed teleportation, and his magic power was used up. Even so, he still needed to use teleportation one more time to directly teleport them to the US base.
Even without the magic power inside his body, he was planning to use his life force to replace the magic power. He didn't care about what would happen to him as long as his family was safe.
His eyes had become blurry and his body was shaking uncontrollably. He already clasped his hands and made his magic circle.
However, Tasha came and hugged him from behind. She slowly held Kai's hands while tears started streaming on her face. She carefully separated his hands and said. "Kai… that's enough. You've worked so hard… Please, just rest. Our reinforcements have arrived."
She couldn't hold back her tears at all when she looked at Kai's condition. All of these teleportations took a great toll on his body, and if he were to use it one more time, he might even fall into a coma.
The others also noticed it and felt relieved. They were ready to fight again, but with their current condition, they would definitely die at one point. Luckily, they didn't need to do that as what they had been waiting for had finally arrived. Hope finally came.
"All troops! Flatten them!"
Magic was raining down from the sky as helicopters could be seen on their way to their position. Meanwhile, the fighter jets passed the line of magical beasts to prevent the other magical beasts from joining hands.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Kai couldn't hear any of this as his consciousness was already fuzzy. He only knew that he needed to make another teleportation magic circle to escape from this situation.
A certain blonde girl immediately jumped out of the sky and ran toward them. She embraced him from the front as she kept apologizing.
Painful… was the only thing she felt in her heart. Ayaka couldn't say anything or come close as she looked at these two women.
"Is that Michelle?" Kai asked with a tired tone. He couldn't even open his eyes at this point as he maintained his consciousness with his willpower alone.
"Yeah, I'm here, so don't push yourself any longer and let me do the rest."
"I see. I'm glad." Those were the last words Kai spoke before he passed out.
Watching this, Michael gritted his teeth. "All troops, hear my command. We're going to make a strategic retreat at this point. Squad D will bring all these people to our Graham Mansion. Don't forget to flatten these magical beasts!"
"Watch over him for me," Michelle suddenly said to Tasha as she released a black aura from her body and took out two short swords.
"You…"
Her eyes narrowed and began to be filled with killing intent. She said in anger, "I have something else to do."
She then disappeared as she started her killing spree.
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