CHAPTER 260: AN ACT OF SELFLESSNESS

It was obvious that the dragon riders had come here for her, so the woman was asking her to hand herself over for peace.

Riyala’s hand squeezed into a fist as Fredrica pocketed her phone again and then gestured towards the door. Fredrica did not want to fight Riyala, and she didn’t want to kidnap Riyala. She simply wanted Riyala to surrender herself to her people so they could stop the dragons from destroying New Jersey. Riyala seemed to be conflicted for a few seconds, and she put her hand up to her chest while looking around nervously, but it wasn’t long before she stepped forward. Her own life didn’t matter anymore. She couldn’t allow innocent people to die just because she had come to hide here!

A figure stood in front of Riyala, and Riyala looked up to see Alpha staring down at her with a hard gaze. Alpha shook her head and it was obvious that she was not willing to allow Riyala to go. The King’s orders were to protect Riyala, and Alpha took the King’s orders very seriously! But Riyala wasn’t willing to stop. She spoke to Alpha calmly.

"If you can talk to Jason, then please thank him for me. If not for him, then I wouldn’t have lived this long. I would have died a long time ago. But I can’t allow those innocents to die for a choice I made. I’m sorry."

Riyala tried to get past Alpha, but Alpha suddenly reached out and took Riyala by the arm!

"Get your hands off her!"

One of the men at the side reached behind him and immediately grabbed a gun while shouting at Alpha, and it wasn’t long before all hell broke loose in the house! The suited men all grabbed their weapons and pointed them at the Phantoms, and the Phantom sank into the shadows and reappeared behind some men while putting their daggers to their necks!

Bang!

A man shot Alpha in the shoulder, but Alpha easily tanked the bullet and dashed toward the man! She kneed him in the stomach and threw him to the ground, and the man let out a cry as his gun fell away from him!

Griselda and Juliet both crouched down to the ground and put their hands to their ears as gunshots and screams filled the house, but it wasn’t long before everything went quiet again. Griselda slowly opened her eyes to see what was going on, and she felt her eyes widen when she saw Riyala holding a gun to her own head. Riyala was staring at Alpha with tears falling from her defiant eyes, and she spoke with intensity.

"I’m going, so don’t try to stop me! If you try to stop me, then I’ll kill myself! Please!"

Alpha was holding a knife to a man’s neck as she watched Riyala calmly. Alpha looked into Riyala’s eyes, and she could tell with absolute certainty that Riyala was not playing around. She was really going to kill herself. Alpha slowly let go of the man and stood while raising her hands up. Jason had asked Alpha and the other Phantoms to protect Riyala, so if Riyala killed herself, it would defeat the entire purpose of their mission.

"Riyala! What are you doing!? Drop it!"

Juliet suddenly shouted from behind as she saw what was happening, and Riyala didn’t even turn to her. Riyala just looked over at Fredrica and nodded to her, and Fredrica motioned to the door once more and began to guide Riyala out! Juliet shouted from behind as she approached them!

"Wait! I’m coming with you! You can’t just take her like this! She has rights, for fuck’s sake!"

A man suddenly appeared in front of Juliet and stopped her! Juliet knew that she was just trying to pull at straws here! Hearing that Riyala was not from this world completely threw her off, and she had no idea if the government would even regard Riyala as someone with rights or not! But Jason had asked Juliet to take care of Riyala, so she couldn’t just let them take her like this! Juliet shouted to Fredrica!

"Please! She needs someone she trusts to be with her! I won’t interfere with anything! Just, please!"

Juliet begged desperately, and Fredrica finally turned around and nodded to the man to allow Juliet to go. Juliet quickly came up to Riyala and hugged her supportively. She tried to take the gun from Riyala’s hand, but Riyala was not going to give it up, and Juliet sighed as she was guided into the helicopter with Riyala.

Back inside the apartment, all the suited men got up and began to head out of the building, and Alpha instructed two of the Phantoms to stay back and protect Griselda while she and the others melted into the shadows and followed after Riyala and Juliet. Alpha quickly began to send the message of what had happened to Jason. Riyala might have gone with Gaia, but Alpha was not going to allow Riyala to be taken away before Jason got back to Earth.

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[The World of Ruen]

[Minutes Before Riyala Was Taken]

Jason and Gina had finally gotten their emotions back under control, and Jason was standing over the body of the Lich that he had killed. The message from the system was still in front of Jason, and Jason was currently trying to figure out what exactly the system meant when it said that Gina was one of his subordinates. Gina wasn’t dead, so how the hell was she one of his subordinates?

[The user had already tied the soul of Gina Fey to himself by taking her life earlier. The rules of the user’s power state that if a soul is brought back to life after the user takes the life of its mortal body, then that soul becomes one of the user’s subordinates. The user should already be aware of this.]

’Yes, but how the fuck does this work? Gina is alive, for fuck’s sake! And how in the world is she a Rook Rank I? Gina was a C Rank when she died, so shouldn’t she be a Pawn Rank II?’

[The Elixir of Life ingested by Gina Fey contained the healing artifact known as the [Banshee’s Tear], as well as the magical crystal from the Immortal Lich. Both items possess a significant amount of magical power within them, and some of that power was absorbed by Gina Fey during the resurrection. Her base magical and physical stats have been significantly improved as a result. The increase in power should not come as a surprise to the user, since Gina Fey had already been receiving massive boosts from the user’s mana.]

’Wait, what? I never gave Gina any of my mana.’

[Yes, you did. Every time the user has intercourse with Gina Fey, he releases over a thousand units of mana into her body. This mana allowed Gina Fey’s base stats to increase by a significant margin over a very short period of time.]

’Huh... I see.’

Jason was shocked by the revelation from the system. Jason remembered Gina telling him about a sudden increase in power before and how she could suddenly beat another superhuman in her guild, but he didn’t think it was because they started having sex. Wait, doesn’t that mean he released magic every time he came inside Gina? Jason couldn’t help the feeling of amusement that rose from his chest when he had this thought, and Gina looked at Jason funny when she heard him chuckling.