Gargoyle Supremacy-Chapter 58: I Just Wanna Be Part of Your Skibidiiiii, I Mean, Army!

Meanwhile, Carn led the ECD operatives away from the PX shopping mall, using the chaos to his advantage.

After dispatching the squad in the house, he relied on his sentry gargoyle abilities, teleporting short distances in rapid succession without expending a single drop of Aether.

This unique power, granted at the moment of his creation by his demon lord father, was both a boon and a challenge. Modeled after a concept inspired by an SCP entity, it carried distinct advantages and limitations. Carn could teleport freely, provided no one was looking directly at him. The moment anyone laid eyes on him, however, his mobility was completely halted. Yet, this vulnerability came with a trade-off as while he was immobilized, he became invulnerable to all forms of attack.

Carn wasn’t naive enough to rely solely on this transformation’s base abilities. Through experimentation and resourcefulness, he found a way to mitigate its flaws. If necessary, he could still move under the watchful gaze of others at the cost of consuming his precious Aether reserves. This adaptation allowed him to maintain his edge in combat, even when the odds seemed stacked against him.

After teleporting twenty times and traveling five blocks, Carn came to an abrupt halt as the sharp gaze of a helicopter locked onto him, temporarily disabling his Aetherless teleportation ability.

The co-pilot wasted no time relaying their discovery through the main communications channel.

"Target located at 2nd Lushville Lake Street! It has escaped the encirclement. Requesting immediate response, over!"

Carn clicked his tongue in irritation and let out a sigh. Without delay, he spent a silver mark and manually teleported directly onto the helicopter’s spinning blades. His indestructible form shattered the rotor with a metallic screech, sending shards of the blades flying. The helicopter lost all stability, plunging downward before slamming into the ground and erupting in flames.

Carn, unharmed, landed heavily in the middle of an intersection. His impact left a small crater, a cracked concrete road radiating outward like a web.

As misfortune would have it, an ECD elite caravan was already rushing to the area. Two APCs and two military police cars screeched to a halt nearby, and their doors burst open, unleashing twenty soldiers clad in state-of-the-art battlesuits. Each suit gleamed under the streetlights, resembling a fusion of high-tech exoskeletons and superhero armor, complete with glowing visors.

Without hesitation, the soldiers raised their firearms and unleashed a relentless barrage of bullets.

Carn stood motionless in the crater, letting the hail of projectiles rain down on him. They peppered his skin like peanuts, and the bullets fell around him like raindrops.

From their positions, the two squad leaders shouted commands into their comms.

"This is Tiger Unit! Entity sighted at 2nd Harmonious Ember Lushville Lake Street and Dream Interstate Expressway intersection. Initiating mana-sealing array! Backup urgently required!"

"November Unit here, engaging alongside Tiger Unit. Entity is being suppressed! Sending coordinates for reinforcements!"

The soldiers maintained their focus, staring at Carn as he remained eerily still.

After two minutes of uninterrupted fire, the soldiers paused, waiting for any sign of retaliation. By then, reinforcements had arrived.

An additional forty agents spilled out of trucks and APCs, encircling the area. Behind them, an Abrams tank rumbled into position, and its turret swiveled to target Carn.

Carn sensed the overwhelming force surrounding him and inwardly muttered to himself.

"Annoying."

Spending a gold mark, he activated a holy spell. His body began to glow brighter and hotter until he resembled a miniature sun. The intense light flooded the intersection, forcing every soldier to shield their eyes or turn away.

Seizing the moment, Carn teleported again. This time, he reappeared directly behind the Tiger Team’s captain. Before the captain could react, Carn twisted his neck with a sickening CRACK, dropping him instantly.

The light spell’s duration lasted five seconds, but it was more than enough for Carn to wreak havoc.

Teleporting between the blinded soldiers, Carn moved with terrifying precision, snapping necks and leaving bodies in his wake. Within five seconds, ten soldiers from the Tiger Unit lay lifeless on the ground.

As the light began to fade, Carn made his final move, teleporting into one of the APCs. The driver inside had no time to process what was happening before Carn appeared on his lap and ended his life with the same brutal efficiency.

By the time the soldiers’ vision returned, Carn was gone.

"WHAT THE HELL?! WHERE IS THE ENTITY?!" roared the November Unit captain, his voice tinged with panic. He lifted his visor, trying to recalibrate after the light had disrupted its electronic systems.

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The soldiers frantically searched the area, swiveling and scanning for any sign of their target.

Then, one of them stumbled upon the lifeless bodies of the Tiger Unit. The sight of their comrades sprawled across the ground, necks twisted at unnatural angles, sent a chill down his spine.

"T-TIGER SQUAD HAS BEEN WIPED OUT!"

"WHAT?!" shouted another soldier, his voice breaking in disbelief.

Amid the chaos engulfing the ECD ranks, Carn took a moment to regroup. In the relative calm of the APC’s interior, he grabbed the lifeless driver by the collar. With a low growl, he channeled 10 silver marks into the corpse.

The body twitched unnaturally as the marks worked their magic, slowly petrifying the flesh. Satisfied, Carn kicked the hardening corpse out of the vehicle and issued a command.

"Go make some friends."

The petrification curse quickly consumed the driver’s body, transforming him into a monstrous gargoyle. Stone skin cracked, resembling the nightmarish demons on the spires of ancient cathedrals in France. Stone wings unfurled with a grinding sound, and the newly risen creature let out a screech before launching itself toward the ranks of the ECD agents.

The sudden appearance of the gargoyle jolted the soldiers into action.

"Entity sighted! Open fire!" shouted one of the unit commanders.

Bullets rained down on the stone beast. Unlike Carn’s invulnerable flesh, the gargoyle’s rocky exterior cracked and chipped under the barrage. Yet it pressed on.

With a roar, the gargoyle lunged at the nearest soldier, seizing the unfortunate man. In a horrifying display, it leaped away like a monster in a horror movie, carrying him to the rooftop of a nearby house. There, the gargoyle’s predatory instincts took over, and the soldier’s desperate screams echoed in the communication channel as his flesh was torn apart.

On the ground, the ECD agents turned their attention toward the horror. This momentary distraction was all Carn needed.

In a flash of movement, he blinked behind the November Unit’s captain. Before the man could react, Carn’s hands clamped around his head and neck, delivering a sharp, brutal twist.

*CRACK*

The captain’s body slumped to the ground, lifeless. Carn wasted no time, injecting 10 Aether into the corpse. The captain’s form began to harden, and another gargoyle rose to join the fray.

As the second gargoyle was in the middle of a transformation, Carn invoked his radiant spell once more, flooding the battlefield with searing light. Soldiers shielded their eyes and stumbled in disarray, blinded by the sudden brilliance.

With their vision compromised, Carn moved like a shadow.

CRACK.

CRACK.

One by one, soldiers fell, their lives extinguished in the blink of an eye. Each death added to Carn’s growing army. Every corpse he touched became another gargoyle.