With heavy and purposeful footsteps, he moved toward Benjamin.
The man in black was Zeke.
He was wearing a mask to conceal his identity.
The world had assumed that the Great Marshal had lost his powers and was reduced to an ordinary man.
No one knew he had achieved the powers of King Class instead.
For various reasons, he wasn’t ready to reveal his powers yet.
Meanwhile, the crowd tried to dissuade him.
“Young man, stop. You can’t go over there, it’s dangerous.”
“There’s a sniper lying in ambush. Four to five men have died.”
“Even the police is no match for them, let alone you. So stay where you are.”
However, the mysterious man in black didn’t stop. In fact, he picked up his pace.
Benjamin too didn’t want to involve innocents and advised the man to stop, but to no avail.
Bang!
From the top floor of the east wing, a gunshot rang out.
Everyone closed their eyes in despair, thinking that another innocent life was lost.
However, when they opened their eyes, they were stunned.
The bullet missed its target.
Meanwhile, the mysterious man had appeared more than ten meters from where he initially stood.
The crowd regretted closing their eyes as they missed what had just happened.
They were bewildered as to how the man in black could move such a huge distance in an instant.
Did he teleport?
Nonsense, only a God would have that kind of power.
Amidst their doubt, a gunshot suddenly rang out from ground level.
A bullet headed toward the top floor of the east wing.
“Argh!”
Along with an agonizing scream, a figure fell down from the top floor.
Without a doubt, it was the sniper at the top of the east wing.
The crowd then realized that there was also a sniper on ground level, but he was likely an accomplice of the man in black.
The man acted as bait to expose the sniper’s position at the top of the building so that the sniper on the ground could take him out.
The sniper on the ground was an exceptional marksman to pinpoint the enemy’s location from just one shot.
With that, Benjamin’s eyes sparkled when he saw he had a chance to survive.
He reminded the man in black, “There are snipers lying in ambush upstairs in all four wings. Now that the one on the east wing has been taken out, watch out for the other three.”
Just as he spoke, a gunshot rang out from the south wing.
A bright red bullet headed in Zeke’s direction.
Having realized their earlier folly, the crowd kept their eyes opened this time.
They wanted to see how the man in black was going to dodge the bullet.
Underneath their watchful eye, a flaming bullet flew toward the man.
As the bullet was inches away from piercing the man’s head, he vanished.
The bullet missed its target and ricocheted off the floor.
Meanwhile, the crowd was stunned and looked all over in search of the man in black.
They were astounded to find that he had moved more than ten meters away again.
To them, he seemed to have superpowers that enabled him to teleport such a distance.
There was no other rational explanation.
He had challenged their understanding of the world they lived in.
At that same moment, another bullet was fired from ground level toward the building’s southern wing.
After that, a sniper rifle fell from the top floor to the ground. A bloody severed hand was clinging to it.
The sniper on the south wing was done for.
At that moment, the snipers hiding in the west and north wings wavered as they wondered who was their fearsome enemy.
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