Chapter 16: Powerful Reinforcements.

The moment he raised his head, an ephemeral gray bullet that seemed to transition between illusory and real whirled into existence, and it was so close to the point where he somehow knew deep down that now was the time.

He was about to die.

Strangely enough, that realization calmed him down quite a bit. Struggling was futile at this point, and the only thing he could do was transmit his source energy into his tactical wristband to make out one word; danger.

He finished leaving this ambiguous note behind, and the bullet silently drilled through his forehead without leaving a trace behind. No one else in the room had noticed the anomaly yet, and they were heatedly passing down orders to the frontlines based on the situation near the dungeon.

Only when they heard the sound of the muffled impact as the elite team leader fell lifeless on the desk did they realize something was off…