บท 78: Chapter 108: The case regarding the catastrophe!

The Vanquishing Trio returned to base except the apprentices were slightly surprised when they realized he had it return them to the building's rooftop. "You can control that magical door for certain, right?" Hye asked as he found himself recently feeling unsure as he looked up at Fenella soaring nearby in the skies. Derek immediately had spread his legs before throwing his arms to his lower hip and one by one repeatedly made a motion as though he were trying to catch something in front of him. The hero's smoke which was thin enough to see through, however, thick enough to see had swiftly hugged the city leaving his apprentices, especially Kalilah, in awe. "For certain. It's not magic and we have to gather the council of the city." Derek corrected his junior before he had formed another doorway for the crew which had led them. An hour of waiting after he had contacted the chief of police to gather the other powers in charge of various governing within the wrecked city that's currently in a state of repair. "You've gathered us for an emergency, gratitude from past deeds, we've gladly gathered whenever you'll need us, right guys?" Said Councilman 1 with a humorless tone. "Don't tell me that you've got horrendous news of another city leveling threat?" Councilwoman 1 added as she rubbed her temples. "Nothing like that— anymore— we're dealing with mythical monsters with a passion for spreading curses and disease but fortunately I've encased the city with enough essence to reduce the damage from this one to half the city at the worst. I'm immune to most of the world's diseases, even supernaturally enhanced as in this case, however, unfortunately I can only make everyone resistant." Derek informed the council governing the city. "It has to be exhausting being the only hero and capable defender." Councilman 2 commented with a downtrodden and worried tone. Derek looked at his apprentices with a prideful expression. "There's the natural and supernatural, as long as I have this great city's support and backing that's more than enough to fuel me— against even a Demi-god wrathful towards these citizens. I'm not actually alone either. Capable apprentices and my assistant who gathers intel for me through his connections. You're all part of this team." Derek replied with a short assuring inspirational shout towards the end. "Alright, sir, what do you have in mind for us?" Asked the chief of officers as Derek's short speech inspired and motivated him. Derek slightly grinned before looking out the window of the council building. "I have countless warehouses built across the entire city coming with bunkers that could fit thousands at a time. Rally the police and evacuate as many people as you can. The creatures that these schemers behind this emergency have released are in the bracket of the most dangerous that Vanquishers have come to know." Derek urgently answered before he made a waving motion which conjured what seemed to the council members as a floating shape with swirling creamy beige ash in the center. "Because nobody can vanquish a disease or a curse like they could a wendigo. Death is almost guaranteed." Derek finished reminding himself. Derek reached the ashen practice hand inside, pulling out a folded map of sorts of their city. He handed it to councilman 1 before the meeting was dismissed and everyone expected each other to carry out their ends. The council members left the building, chief of police, chief of medical, various politicians forming the laws that hadn't spoken, Derek afterwards conjured another wormhole, reaching in and pulling out Settembre's final gift. "The heck is that ancient hat and how can it help us?" Hye asked as he realized he had never seen one before in his life. "A gift from my ole' pal, my best friend, I'm going to need all the concentration and reminding I have to surround the entire city for as long as we'll need it. They could release them at any moment, any time that my smoke is away will cause considerable and regrettable deaths when they arrive. I've got the power to give folks essentially immunity, but I'm stuck here." Derek replied and warned his students who were stuck by his great power. Hye felt a hint of confusion settling in. The team began suddenly hearing screaming and various urgent shouts from beneath them, the two apprentices rushed to the edge of the building to check out the situation. Strange creatures resembling skinned horses and their dead riders were ravaging the area and explosions began bursting out all over the city and within the apprentices' sights. Absolute anger due to the horrific scene and suffering from below had settled into Hye as Kalilah noticed his hair turn into a creamy beige, tears dropped and flooded as Kalilah watched on. "You're able to figure out what the perps want and why right, somehow?" Kalilah asked with an urgent and worrisome tone, "We aren't blind in this catastrophe, right?!" She had finished as Derek could hear her heart rate rising from a plethora of emotions. "Quit fearing that unknown and lost again, you were making great progress, Lilah." Derek replied as he relaxed and refused to allow his powers to overwhelm him once more. The hero of smoke and ash could feel each life form that wandered within the smoke that he had conjured around and explored in each nook and cranny of the entire city that it could dwell in, which gave it an eerie look and resembled fog so thin. Derek's eyes widened from shock and as he couldn't help yet release a gasp when he used a bit of focus to utilize his ability with more precision, he felt excited life near an important item that he was chosen to guard, a unique mission that aside from his past with the city which had kept him living and having a home in it. "How did that history creep actually figure this out?!" Derek asked himself before he relayed the revelation to his apprentices. "I'm going to make sure these clowns suffer for this, whether we wing it or you've got something else up your sleeve. We're more than enough." Hye responded in a scarily calm tone, Derek and Kalilah could see the anger from his face. "A couple of idiots are heading to Jilpsile's heart, it's under an old statue of the embodiment of wisdom as a woman in Stockbridge, somebody's history is eh on the statue part but impeccable when it comes to the accuracy of his favorite area from all of the tales. Either way, this is all that I can afford you with traversal. Protect the hero's heart " Said Derek as he held out his hands and formed a doorway leading as near as he could allow them while his determination and mind were primarily busy with keeping his powers focused on keeping the area clean. "We have you, Gray, count on us to have your back and let us show you results. Show who you've trained." Kalilah replied to her teacher before opening his conjured door. "Yep with a yes. We have this for you, teach, worry not about a thing, old head." Hye responded as he bumped fists with his fellow apprentice with a determined smile. Hye and Kalilah hated the overwhelming screams, countless explosions and the noise of the gunshots being sprayed that ran through their ears and wouldn't leave their thoughts, fueling horrific images that gave the couple their determination to stop it at once. "Off to save that famous old hero Grantso Jilpsile, the child of the concept of Wisdom, came to be known as the heroine of Klese, such an ancient kingdom with relics surviving to this day. Then Grantso grew up, he trained until he achieved a heroic status throughout the continents then the poor guy was brought to the brink of death but was fortunately saved by his uncle, when one concept sees you fit to ask something of you then another pokes out, Mr. Fortune himself and his mistress Lady Luck as a favor to his sister. Chosen by fortune, I was promised a reward for my service and that's the knowledge of what happened— enough about me, my story definitely isn't the saddest one." Derek had thought to himself as a single tear had dropped from his eye before the memories of Hye's parents snuck into his thoughts.