The party had barely begun when the radio at Rose's waist crackled. She picked it up, listened, and said, "Understood." Then she hurried over to Mercer and spoke quietly.
"Our people detected a sudden spike in demon energy two kilometers east of here. Want to check it out?"
Mercer glanced at the laughing crowd and nodded slightly. "I'll go alone. Too many of us leaving at once would raise suspicions. It could be a demon ploy to lure us away."
Liang Bing curled her lip beside them and muttered, "We don't do that sort of thing. Besides, we don't have any operations planned tonight."
Only Mercer heard her. Neither of the other two did.
Hearing that, Mercer had a fair idea of where the demon energy had come from. It had to be a mutated demon or something similar.
Rose nodded, took out a small phone, and handed it to Mercer.
"Contact me immediately if anything happens."
He opened it and found only one number, labeled Rose.
"I'm off."
Mercer put the phone away. It was only two kilometers, but he was afraid he might miss something along the way, so he didn't use the Space Stone to go directly there.
Rose and the other two watched Mercer run toward a dark patch beside a building, looking puzzled.
"Doesn't he control space? What's he running over there for?" Liang Bing had barely voiced her question when the sight before her made her eyes widen.
Rose and Yan were so stunned by what they saw that their lips parted, but neither could utter a word.
In the darkness, a figure was running straight up the face of the building.
If they hadn't seen Mercer run that way, they would never have noticed someone running up the side of a building in