Johan, glued to his drama series, lost track of time. It was late at night, and the male lead was about to get the DNA results of his son when a knock interrupted him. "For God's sake! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!" Johan roared, utterly pissed. He flung open the door to find multiple evolved variants standing outside the mansion.
"10 seconds. That's the amount of time you have before I start killing every one of you," Johan snarled, a menacing smile on his face.
"Our boss is here," an evolved variant stammered, gesturing to a man dressed in red with a hat, who stood calmly amidst his subordinates.
"Time's up!" Johan declared loudly. One by one, the evolved variants were instantly smashed into pools of blood by Johan's invisible hands. The boss, David, remained unperturbed, a menacing smile fixed on his face as he stared at Johan.
Johan teleported behind David, his invisible hands moving to smash the boss. David, however, leaped into the sky, pulling out a gun and firing at Johan. Johan looked up, and the bullets were instantly crushed by his invisible hands.
"Very interesting ability you got there," David shouted. "I'm David, a special variant." David then unleashed a barrage of attacks. Multiple hands appeared around Johan, firing various guns – pistols, shotguns, rifles, and even a sniper. All the bullets were blocked by Johan's hands. Johan carefully observed David; he didn't seem like a typical evolved variant. Johan teleported to the top of the mansion, getting closer to David.
As David continued his barrage, shooting at Johan wherever he moved, Johan managed to get within range, grabbing David's leg with his invisible hands, pulling him down, and smashing him to the ground. David, shocked by the sudden turn of events, realized with a jolt that Johan wasn't just an evolved variant, but a special one.
"Wait, don't kill me! If you also received blood from the demon, we are on the same side," David pleaded, attempting to persuade Johan to let him live. Johan immediately connected "the demon" to Serbas, and his anger flared, his eyes filled with bloodlust as he looked at David. Then, he remembered Adam's warning about Serbas potentially making his move; this was a chance to extract information. As Johan slowly walked towards David, every evolved variant around them was smashed into a pool of blood. David's legs were crushed as Johan closed in.
"What do you mean by demon's blood?" Johan demanded sinisterly, poised to break the rest of David's body.
"You're not one of us?!" David gasped, his mind visibly disturbed. David's body began to convulse rapidly as he felt his mind being controlled, desperately pleading. "Wait! MASTER! PLEASE don't!" His head suddenly exploded in front of Johan.
Johan was shocked, realizing he hadn't even use any of his invisible hands to kill David. "It must have been that demon, Serbas!" Johan thought to himself. "That means Serbas knows our location and killed David to prevent him from leaking information." Johan instantly realized the urgent need to escape. As Johan turned, he saw Adam standing at the door, having witnessed the grim spectacle.
"We need to get out of here as soon as possible! It's Serbas; he now controls special variants by giving them his blood," Johan explained, rushing back to Adam.
"This is not good; that means more of them are coming here right now," Adam replied as they both rushed to the bunker. Lyra, having listened via neuro-link, quickly packed up, carrying Azrael, ready to leave. Adam and Johan grabbed the remaining items and rushed to the plane.
As everyone got on board and loaded everything inside, Adam quickly donned his mana suit and transformed the plane, lifting it into the sky. Lyra scanned the area, showing multiple new forms of evolved variants, highly synchronized, moving directly towards their mansion.
As she tried to get the mana signature of the special variant that died in front of the mansion, she picked up similar mana signatures from other incoming special variants. These special variants were now commanding the evolved variants, making them a more dangerous threat as they advanced towards the mansion as a united force.
"It's going to be a war coming," Lyra explained to both Adam and Johan. "At the rate Serbas is controlling these special variants, he might be able to leave his sealed area soon." Lyra continued, "Adam, we don't need to stop at the other airport. We can just go straight to the civilization. The fuel stored in the containers is more than enough to bring us there. We need to get there before the special variants reach us. Vlad is the only one who can at least stop the special variants and Serbas. Their abilities may be on par with Johan's or even greater."
The plane continued its course towards the civilization.