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章節 74: Chapter 74: Attack!

Leaving the private room, they made their way to the Conservatory of Sorcery with Mera leading the way.

With Sora and Mera being experienced users of magic, they both had interesting views on the applications and systems of magic.

"…when you look at it that way, I suppose it could work. You would have to take into account the amount of control it would take to achieve that…" Mera spoke as she and Sora were deep in conversation.

Kaldur who trailed behind them, despite once being a student of the Mera, was unable to understand a lot of what they bounced around each other.

"Like you said, it's not impossible. It just requires a certain level of control." Sora retorted in amusement as the reached the conservatory.

"If you wish to see our magic first hand in battle, my students should be at the roof with my substitute." Mera offered as Sora responded with a nod.

Somewhere during their conversation, he had found out that she was supposed to be teaching a class when she was called for the meeting, prompting her to leave a substitute behind to take over until she returned.

Swimming upwards to the roof, they were greeted with the sight of two students, male and female, engaged in combat.

The skin icons on the male glowed as a shield of dense water formed in front of him, liquid projectiles smashing into it but he held his ground.

His icons glowed brighter as he reeled his arm back before thrusting it forward, a powerful stream of water shooting forward to the girl who dodged it.

They were about to continue but a voice stopped them halfway.

"Queen Mera." A female voice greeted with a bow as Sora's eyes traveled to the woman who stood to the side of the previously sparring students with others behind her.

"I see things are going smoothly here. Carry on. I'm merely here to escort our guest." Mera said as the trio swam behind the crowd of students, numerous eyes following them especially focused on Sora.

The two students continued sparring as Mera gave short comments to better Sora's view on the use of magic.

"I see…" Sora muttered as he observed the male and female make use of their skin icons, his sharingan activated discreetly.

"Huh?" Mera couldn't help but murmur at his barely veiled words as Sora closed his eye in co concentration.

Under the shocked eyes of Mera and Kaldur, purple lines emerged on Sora's body not unlike the skin icons he had just observed. In his mind's eye, a screen appeared before him.

[You have gained 'Atlantean Sorcery'!]

A small smirk came upon his lips as his eyes opened to see purple lines on his arms similar to Kaldur's icons.

"By the gods…" Mera whispered in shock at what she just saw. Kaldur was no better as he looked on, eyes wide open in shock.

"I think I understand it now." Sora commented as he held his palm up as a small tornado of water formed above his palm, dancing around before dispersing.

"How is that possible?" Mera asked, still in shock.

"I don't quite understand your question." Sora teased, knowing fully well what she meant.

"Many Atlanteans have had to study for months if not years to properly use magic yet you managed to figure it out after a mere demonstration. I haven't seen anyone capable of such a feat." She commented, recovering a bit as she managed her words.

Sora could help but smirk as he knew why. A fully matured sharingan paired up with a maxed out [Magic Theory] was easily able to dissect and understand it.

"I've been studying magic for quite a while now. I would be quite disappointed in myself if I couldn't decipher it. I mean no disrespect of course." He spoke easily as the queen shook her head.

"Not at all. If anything it's nothing short of outstanding that you're able to do so. It's rare to find someone so knowledgeable about the subject. We have much to talk abou-" She was interrupted as a large explosion was heard in multiple places.

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*

The surroundings shook as a nearby explosion rocked the Conservatory's structure.

"We're under attack! I must escort you both to safety at once." Kaldur announced as the trio narrowed their eyes.

"I don't need protection. Go and find out the cause of the explosion!" She ordered to which Kaldur hesitantly nodded.

"I apologize that you have to be present at a time like this. I can get a guard to escort you to the palace." Mera apologized sincerely.

"Don't worry about that. I'm staying. I can't let my future business partners end up dead, can I?" Sora spoke as he looked into the distance, narrowing his eyes.

"Atlantis thanks you. Let us go." Mera thanked as Kaldur went on his way, leaving them to calm down the shaken students.

'Something doesn't feel right.' Sora thought as he spread his perception to its fullest. He always had [Energy Sense] active around a decent radius around him to avoid any nasty surprises.

He could easily sense far beyond Atlantis' borders.

He felt the life signatures of the many Atlanteans that scampered around in a panic. The number of them he sensed weren't small in the slightest, making it harder to find anything specific.

Harder but not impossible.

During the small time he had been on Atlantis, he had discovered that atlanteans had a slightly different feel to their signatures.

In his range of perception, he felt three signatures that weren't Atlantean in the slightest, two of them feeling a bit tainted while the other seemed strange.

His eyes narrowed further, gaining Mera's attention.

"Is anything the matter?" She asked him as a few guards finally showed up to deal with the rubble and the students.

"Any word about the attacks?" She asked the guard who looked a bit unsure.

"Yes my queen. There were multiple explosions in multiple sectors but we discovered something odd. Though we're under attack, we have no sightings on our attacker." The guard explained which worried Mera greatly.

"That doesn't make any sense. Maybe you missed somethi-"*BOOM!*

Another explosion made itself known far away followed by more explosions in that same area.

"Where is the king!?" Mera asked urgently.

"He's escorted Batman to the surface world not too long ago." The guard explained causing her to grimace.

"Take your men and investigate that area. The rest of you will escort the children to safety." Mera ordered quickly as they moved quickly to obey.

Within minutes, Mera and Sora were left alone on the sightly damaged building, Mera trying to figure out the meaning behind this attack. Sora had been silent all this time, sitting on the bare floor deep in thought.

"They're wasting their time." He spoke, finally breaking the silence.

"What do you mean?"

"They're not going to find anything in that area. The most they'll find are more bombs. There is no enemy there." He explained, furthering Mera's confusion.

"How do you know that?" She asked warily as Sora got to his feet, kusanagi appearing in his grip as he appeared in front of Mera, swinging his blade.

[Counter]!

His blade clashing with a small missile that was headed towards Mera causing it to explode as the shockwave of the explosion was reflected back to where it came from.

"Our assailants are right in front of us." Sora spoke calmly as three figures made themselves known, two of them wearing a light suit with a mask that allowed them to breathe underwater while the other needed no such thing, making him easily recognizable.

Green scaly skin and large reptilian build.

"Killer Croc…"


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章節 75: Chapter 75: Mysteries

"Who are you? Why are you doing this?" Mera asked as she tensed.

"You're a long way away from Gotham, Croc. What are you doing in Atlantis?" Sora questioned but the reptile remained silent other than the low growls he emitted.

Seeing that, Sora didn't waste his saliva on the man and turned to the other two assailants. One of the two had a small missile launcher, showing that he was the one behind the earlier attack while the third assailant looked unarmed.

'That's wrong. Among the three of them, he is exponentially more of a threat than the others.' Sora noted mentally as his eyes focused on the man in the middle.

Suddenly the man in the middle spoke, his voice clear for all to hear.

"Kill them both." He ordered simply as killer Croc charged forward.

Blue glowing icons became visible on Mera's skin as she pulled on her magic, a vortex of water shooting forward into the Croc.

Sora's sharingan came to life as two missiles shot towards him, one behind the other. Upon reaching him, a single explosion rang out as the smoke surrounded him.

Out of the smoke, Sora shot out at high speed, a purple energy beam of energy shot out of his hand as a large metal shield appeared in front of the man, effectively blocking it.

Sora raised a brow at that, his interest peaking. He looked at Mera from the corner of his eyes, watching as she faced off Killer Croc and the other assailant.

The man's hand shot forward as an orange blast shot towards Mera, a blue tentacle made of mana blocking it as Croc flanked Mera.

Sora's eyes narrowed at him before turning to his opponent who had somehow gotten his hands on a laser canon, aiming it at Sora.

Sora made no attempt to dodge as the weapon shot out a red beam that engulfed Sora. Mera, who was in the line of the beam, barely dodged it as it grazed her side.

A few seconds later, he turned off the laser canon, Sora nowhere to be seen.

"One down, one to go." The man's gruff voice said as the laser canon disappeared, being replaced with a smaller ray gun.

He turned to Mera and his two companions who were still facing off, Mera struggling as Croc tore the water tendrils into pieces and an orange beam slamming into her.

Mera slammed into the wall behind her, slipping into unconsciousness with a groan.

"What do we do now?" He asked the other masked man who had been silent so far, rubbing the top of the helmet tiredly.

"We will continue with the plan. This is a only mere hiccup in our way. Go into the conservatory and get what we came for." The man ordered, his voice fairly young…much younger than Croc and the other.

"We'll have to find the entrance firs-!" He was interrupted as a feeling of dread drenched his entire being.

His surroundings turned pitch black as the only source of light were the two large red eyes that peered down at him from above.

"What the hell!?" He screamed in shock.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sora floated in front of the unresponsive man, his sharingan peering at the man who was stuck in a genjutsu.

"Pathetically weak." He muttered with narrowed eyes as he perused the man's mind for information.

From the corner of his eyes, he could make out an unconscious Killer Croc who merely laid on the oceans floors while Mera faced off the other man.

'So he's the one in charge. Makes a lot of sense seeing as how he's able to push Mera this much.' Sora thought as the man dodged each blast Mera threw at him, slipping into her space to deliver a kick to her stomach.

Fortunately she was quick as a tendril pulled her back, allowing her to evade it completely.

He focused his attention back on the unresponsive man, his eyebrows rising.

'So that's your power. Very useful indeed.' The man's power from what he extracted was a decently sized sub space where he could store items. It was very similar to Sora's inventory but without the time stop effect.

'It'll make a wonderful gift.' He thought as he brought his palm to the man's head, a small purple appearing on his palm as he made contact.

Tendrils of yellow energy emerged from the man, flowing into Sora who took it in. While doing this, he didn't stop going through the man's mind, reaching a particular memory that made his eyes widen.

The tendrils of energy stopped coming out of the man as Sora swam back in a quick burst of motion as the man's head exploded violently.

The explosion drew the attention of the others. The other assailant being distracted, Sora disappeared in a black flash, appearing in front of the other man.

His hand lashed out, smashing into a defending forearm as the man was sent flying back. The small boosters at his back came to life as he right himself.

"You seem pretty nonchalant about the death of your friend. I assume you weren't that close." Sora commented lightly as the man observed him.

"What's it to you?" He asked, his voice distorted by the mask.

"Other than the fact that without him your plan is a bust? Nothing. " Sora retorted in a mocking tone.

"That may be true but don't think that means that yo-" He stopped speaking abruptly, making Mera narrow her eyes in suspicion.

"I'll leave you with this. Things aren't always as they seem. We will meet again…" His distorted voice spoke as his body dispersed into mist, the man disappearing from their sight.

Reaching out with his perception, he couldn't feel the assailant in Atlantis.

"Who was that?" Mera asked wondered as she panted lightly.

"I don't know." Sora answered after a moment of silence.

"Come, let us meet with the others." Mera said, taking the lead as they swam away.

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Mera, Kaldur and Sora stood in the throne room as they discussed the event that had just occurred.

"So they found nothing?" Mera asked only for Kaldur to shake his head.

"Nothing at all. There were no sightings of any intruders at any of the bomb sites." The sidekick answered.

"Bombings occur around the city while three intruders attack the conservatory. The bombs were simply a diversion for them to fulfill their objectives. If only we knew what their objectives were…" Mera trailed off, turning to Sora.

"Knowledge. That's what they were after. They wanted access to the magic that Atlantis has to hold." Sora threw out, deep in thought.

"That and the fact that they needed suits to breathe suggests that they're from the surface. As if Killer Croc being there wasn't enough proof." Mera pondered, some irritation bleeding into her tone.

"What about the civilians? How are they taking this?" Mera asked, turning to Kaldur.

"They are scared and panic. They were few casualties and many were wounded. The buildings can be rebuilt but the hospitals will be a bit overworked for the next few days healing the populace." Kaldur spoke to her chagrin as she let out a slight groan.

"You can end the facade already. We both know you're wounded." Sora said as he walked towards Mera whose eyes widened in surprise.

He observed the red bruised spot on her side for a moment before humming lowly. He had seen her get hit once by Croc and the power the other man held wasn't small either.

"Some internal damage but nothing too serious." He noted as her eyes opened a bit more.

"You didn't mention that you were a doctor." She commented as a smirk played on Sora's lips as he spoke.

"I'm a lot of things you don't know about." He stretched his palm out as a green aura covered it.

'[Evocation: Heal]' The green aura appeared at the red spot as a soothing feeling engulfed her. Within a second, he stopped, leaving the area completely healed.

"That is a pleasant surprise. You have done so much for Atlantis but I want to ask one last favor." She requested.

"Go on…" Sora urged on.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sora appeared in his mansion, his clothes still wet as he had teleported straight from Atlantis. He had stayed there for a few more days after the attack.

Mera had requested that he help them heal their civilians to which he had made a few conditions. One of such conditions being that Atlantis would be an ally of Sora's.

With Mera being the queen, she had more than enough authority to make that deal and also approve of his business proposal on Orin's behalf, not that the man would have been opposed to it.

A minor spell saw him dry himself of the water as he made his way to his lab. [Energy Sense] telling him that Zatanna wasn't home, he made a mental note to inquire about that later.

For the moment he had something important on his mind. Upon getting to the lab, he pulled out a large body from his inventory before throwing it into the middle of the room.

Before it could land, it metal poles emerged from the ground in a circular formation around it, blue energy leaving them and connecting with the body as it froze in midair in a form of stasis.

He observed Killer Croc's unmoving body with disdain as he typed something on the main computer making the walls of the room pulsed briefly.

'Amanda Waller, to think you'd overstep your boundaries so early.' Sora thought as he got to work.


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