Outwitted

Inside a relatively small metallic room, the sounds of blood, iron, and exhaustion echoed, as they had for quite a while.

There were two corpses inside the room—one was dried up and withered, while the other had numerous icy holes in it.

Shye and the five remaining Hawklings had been fighting for quite a while.

The former had no choice but to continue, as he had already used the only escape mechanism that worked inside the Hawkin Group Headquarters. 

Emergency escape talismans simply didn't due to built-in interference; the only other choice was void portals—a skill he didn't have.

He could purchase it in the system, but it would cost him a whole million system points.

Furthermore, he still had to figure out how to use it—mostly the creation part of the destination portal—which, of course, was something he didn't have time for, given his current circumstances.