“I don’t think the biggest families in Unity would be afraid of Mother AI to the point of not being able to retaliate.” Miles shook his head. “Even in the worst case scenario, where Mother AI threatens your families, your families could do the same. Just her threatening these families is an act of treason to the treaty they signed up when she first showed up.”

When Mama Hill first appeared, she declared her willingness to help humankind without holding anything back. At the time, humanity was suspicious as they had just repelled the waves of monsters. Although Mother AI’s help was crucial, humanity wouldn’t let her take the reins. Generals, the parliament, and the big families set out rules and one of them was that Mama Hill could never act against them. If there was any proof of her doing that, the Army had the right to power her down.

“That is also true.” Carl nodded. “Anyway, let’s focus on the task at hand.”

“Lares academy has some handful of students, Mil. We have to be careful.” Mae added with worry between her brows.

“Do you have any idea what their powers are?” Miles asked with a frown. Although he was sure with the team he had, he could sweep the competition, knowing the enemy was always a solid plan.

“We do.” Carl nodded. “Their captain is Yasmin May, and her power is Space Gate.”

“Captain, we have a situation.” At this time a voice reverberated in Miles's mind.

“Shit!” Miles dashed back towards the base. Carl and Mae were behind him. Soon they arrived and the teen he left behind passed him a stone. As soon Miles touched it, Matt’s voice cried in panic.

“Captain, it was a trap. We are surrounded.”

“What is the situation?” Miles asked in worry.

“As soon as we entered the base, there was a disturbance in the fabric of space. Because of my power, I felt heat signals approaching at rapid speed and hid away, but it will not take long for them to discover us.” He reported.

“Wait there, we are coming.” Miles ended the connection and turned Carl. As he said so, he started to dash towards the direction Matt sent him.“Fill me in, and call your team, we are going to raid their headquarters.”

“This is Miles I know!” Carl grinned excitedly as he pulled out a strange object. It looked like a plant, but it had a crystal-like texture. On it, there were 9 buttons.

“Crystal Bond?” Miles exclaimed in surprise. “Julia Virta?”

“Yes, she is in Cross Academy.” Mae nodded.

“Amazing.” Miles praised without holding back. Julia was a tragic girl. When she first awakened her powers, it caused a stir in Unity. She could create crystal plants that could communicate with each other. She could create thousands of different plants, and each one could only communicate with the same type. And Mother Crystal could tap into all the others. When her powers were learned, many nefarious organizations wanted her. In the end, a big battle ensued, and both her parents were killed.

Despite all the planning and precautions, the army took, she was kidnapped and vanished from the face of the Earth. At the time, Malcolm and Evelyn went ballistic and started a witch hunt. Many criminal organizations were destroyed in a single month. Yet, she was nowhere to be found. When all hope was lost, it was Starve Cleric who returned her and told the world that it was one of the biggest families in Unity who kidnapped her.

At first, people didn’t want to believe them and thought Starve Cleric kidnapped the little girl and returned later so the belief the common folk had in government would be broken, but when all the evidence was put forward, they realized how rotten big families and government officials could be. Although that family was destroyed, Julia’s trust in big families was at rock bottom. Miles was surprised to hear that she joined the Cross Academy.

“As I was saying, Yasmin May can create space gates from thin air. She can even transport people and cause the biggest trouble in this sort of competition. If she can infiltrate a base, she can summon others and destroy the base from within. She is like a Trojan Horse. Your people are probably done in because of her.” Carl explained.

“Vice-Captain, Liam Khan. Troublesome fella.” Mae frowned. “He can control the Carbon Element to some degree. Although it sounds simple, it is not. He can harden his skin to near diamond hardness, and can also control other carbon-based structures. And guess, what, the whole planet is filled with carbon.”

“Can he affect others?” Miles asked in worry.

“No. Energy protects us, but it is still troublesome. He has the greatest defense and offense I have ever seen. I saw him punching the Adamantium Wall by changing his arm to a diamond blade, and his punch pierced through the wall as if it was made of paper.”

“That strong?” Miles asked in disbelief. Adamantium Wall was one of the hardest alloys in Form-Rank. Most of the strongholds in F-Circle were built by this alloy, as it was too damn hard. Strongholds in F-Circle would be attacked by the monster more often than those at the G-Circle, thus defense must be tougher, but Liam could punch through such a wall.

“His defense is even more exaggerated. I reckon even Eddie Wilkins cannot hurt him easily.” Carl exclaimed in worry.

“Does he have any weaknesses?” Miles asked. Nothing in the universe was perfect. Everything had a weak link.

“He has.” Carl grinned. “Vibration!”

“I see.” Miles laughed as he understood. Carl’s Superpower was Metal Sound. He could roar like a robot, causing devastating sonar attacks. It was a pretty valuable superpower as it had two elements, and the second element was also a rare form of vibration, sound. “You will handle him then. I am not sure if I can deal with him.”

“That is the plan.” Carl punched his palm, as he looked away excitedly.