Chapter 1966: Finally, The Supposed Discussion -Part 1
"Stop. They are on our side." A voice came out and it was surprising that the injured senior agent who was commanding the field previously, had come in to ask the rest to put their arms down against the group. "Besides, all of you do not have what it takes to win against them. Numbers do not matter."
It seemed like the agent had already learned his lesson but Jin suspected that he had indeed listened to him and already contacted Sir Diego with regards to the situation at hand.
And he hit the mark when Diego reached out to them with an active phone call, waiting to be picked up. Jin and the rest slowly put their hands down and he took the phone to listen to the conversation. "I am a little awestruck at how you are able to get to Italy so quickly but at this point, I should not be surprised at anything you do."
"I just so happened to keep a portal coordinate up in the event that we need to return to the place in an emergency. I hope that such a reason was justified." Jin knew that portals were not allowed or restricted for a reason and without proper clearance, those found using portals might be caught and maybe even be punished.
Diego signed and already predicted what Jin was about to say. After all, there was no way Jin could get air tickets, get clearance, and fly to Italy without hours of traveling when the time lapsed was barely less than three. The only explanation he could have been using a portal coordinate to reach there and Jin needed to be there before using the portal coordinate. (Which he did!)
Of course, Diego never knew about the almighty System that Jin was hiding in plain sight with and one that was capable of teleporting them almost everywhere in the world as long as they had coordinates and a persistent field of view.
Previously when Jin first started out, there was no way the System could have done that, in fear of teleporting Jin to a coordinate where he could be stuck in between two rocks or dangling from a cliff kind of situation.
(More likely he would be dangling from a parapet in the modern context) But now with Jin"s wealth and Kraft"s resourcefulness to have him access to various satellites that littered the skies, there was almost no place (above ground) that the System was not confident in throwing Jin to.
"I will keep both of my eyes closed on that particular travel method since it seems that you have already solved a problem of ours considering how I heard from our operating agents that the entire group had returned from a spatial crack in the sky," Diego said to confirm the situation at hand.
"Yeah, he is dead dead and will not be bothering you. Not really the best place to fight against a Void Being but my team…is capable." Jin said as he looked at the group behind him yawning and checking their phones, realising that they were all very busy people with the exception of Kraft who had been staring at the agents as if he wanted to do some experiment on them.
"I see. Thank you very much. I have a lot of questions at my end with regards to the foe, your impeccable timing to reach before the danger happened, and many more but it seems like you are a tested and proven team of individuals that wished to keep this…extermination method close at heart. Is that why you ask to do this job for free?"
"Thank you for understanding but I cannot really comment on that." Jin was actually at a loss for words but he decided to show he was professional and pretended to hide behind a veil and let Diego overthink things.
"That"s alright. I sort of get it. In any case, do you need my agents to escort you to the airports? After all, I can only a.s.sume that you have not chopped your pa.s.sports and the only way out is from there as well.
I also hope that you brought your pa.s.sports with you as weird as the situation is." Diego realised how ridiculous it was to carry their pa.s.sports into battle in hopes of returning back to their country after defeating a monster that was considered to be superior in all aspects.
The team might not have returned in one piece and the fact that they did had shown their competence but what if they did not? Perhaps they already lost someone among themselves? That was where Diego decided to pop a quick question in too.
"No, we thankfully did not lose anyone in the Void …plane? We got lucky that we caught Spartakus off guard, giving us the needed edge to win the fight as swiftly as possible." Jin said and the agent who had pa.s.sed the phone to them could not believe what he was saying. That ominous aura that the Void Being released through the spatial cracks was able to suppress every single person in the Colosseum.
It was unfortunate that a few old tourists died from it and their group needed to suppress the news as much as possible. Many others had to be brought to the hospitals due to health complications from experiencing the deathly aura and even some of the backup combatants and agents that came had to seek for medical aid trying to save the tourists and staff of the Colosseum.
And yet, this group of people came out of that looking almost unscathed. It was an understatement by him as the senior agent had experienced it first hand.
What he now knows is that there is undoubtedly this group of cultivators that outstrip even talents from the strongest magician in Italy and he believed according to his national database that there was no one (in the open) that could have beaten this Void Being so quickly.
In addition, he also realised that those agents and security forces that had been knocked out by Jin had suffered zero injuries from the suppression.
He was unsure whether it was because they were unconscious or it was the work of this particular elite team. But later he concluded that it was the latter since he realised that even the environment and infrastructure were not able to handle the deadly aura that the Void Being had released. Planks broke and rocks shattered.
In short, the supposed enemy with which the agent had wrongly pointed his guns had inadvertently saved his agents and the security forces who were dispatched for this supposed upcoming operation.
Even as the victims of Jin"s unconscious attack woke up, they said that they experienced one of the best sleep they could get in years and only felt remorseful (and relief) that the entire operation was over.
"Heh, even if the entire region of police came to catch them, there was no way of containing them at all." The senior agent thought to himself.
"Or do you have a return portal coordinate?" Diego asked
"I am afraid it was a one way ticket for us," Jin replied and Diego kept quiet for a while.
"I will do what I can but my men will escort you to a safe house for holding. Only once we have prepared the necessary doc.u.mentation, we should be able to let you out of Italy…which I a.s.sume is the case, or do you wish to explore more of Rome?" Diego asked and Jin wanted to shed a tear of misery out. There was no way he had the luxury of time to explore places.
At the same time, the sights of Italy could not compete with the wonders the other parallel worlds had to offer.
"It is okay, We should already thank you that you are not throwing us behind bars for coming illegally."
"I do not think that those metal cages could keep you. And besides, you have done a service to our nation. If people knew how we treated our saviours, they would criticise us Italians for not giving a suitable form of hospitality." Diego said with a cheeky tone.
"If that"s the case, I hope you can pardon us for one more favour as I have a request to make," Jin said as he put the loudspeakers on. "I am putting you on loudspeaker first."
"Shoot, what"s the issue that you want to resolve." Diego was thinking about whether Jin was about to change his initial request for doing this job free of charge. From what he looked, if the threat had not been contained in their plane or world, the destruction brought by the supposed Void Being would have devastated them.
And that was a.s.suming Jin had refused to work because there was an insufficient amount of payment given to him.
But what the Head Demon Exorcists of the Italian Branch realised that he might have been overthinking too much for the request was something more than do-able.
"Please get us… some food? My team is hungry. Even fast food would be fine."