"Hold on, I'm almost out of power."
The light around Annie flickered twice, and her flight speed dropped sharply.
Lucian immediately stopped, supporting her and Cate with telekinesis.
They were only halfway there, and Annie's stored electricity had already run dry. Her flight ability had only recently awakened and consumed a lot of power to begin with. Carrying Cate across two countries really was pushing it.
"Just let me carry you," Lucian said.
Cate was still in Annie's arms. She immediately looked up at that.
"Exactly. If you can't do it, let someone else."
"Who says I can't?" Annie glared at her. "I just need to recharge."
"Running out of power halfway through doesn't count as not being able to do it?"
"You can't even fly."
Cate was stumped for a moment, then turned to Lucian.
"She's bullying me."
Lucian didn't take the bait. He wrapped one arm around Annie's waist and took Cate into his other arm.
"Both of you, hold on."
Purple arcs emerged from Lucian's arm and surged into Annie's body where they touched.
Annie's body grew brighter and brighter, the current lifting her blonde hair. In just over ten seconds, all the electricity she had consumed was replenished.
Several hours later.
The three dropped vertically from high above, crashing into a secret military base in Russia's Far East.
A soldier on the night watchtower had just turned his searchlight. Before he could see what had fallen, his body lifted off the ground.
"Ah!"
The soldier flew dozens of meters, seized by telekinesis and brought before Lucian.
Psychic power poured into his brain, rapidly opening his memories.
Transport passages.
The armory.
The experimental area.
The control center.
But the exact location where Soldier Boy was held remained vague. He only knew there was a top-secret area at