"Did you packed everything?" My mother asked, yes I said, "Yes, mom I packed everything." I said to my mother as she was fussing over my clothes.
My father came to the living room and handed me a palm-sized box, ''what is it?" I asked, ''You opened it" he said back, feeling curious I opened the box.
'Gasp..' i gasped seeing the thing inside of the box,
it is Grade 1 Magical Artifact, it looked little damaged but seem usable.
I pick the hilt and inject my mana inside into it, a curved blade started to expand from the hilt, soon it turned into 70 cm katana.
"I found it in our old town after Monster Horde left," he said, the owner of this sword must be dead or eaten by the monster.
It is damage but it's still Grade 1 Magic Artifact which is used by Corporal level powerhouse despite being little damaged it is still very useful for Specialist level powerhouse.
Normal Grade 1 Artifact cost about Fifty thousand union credit and damaged artifact will easily sell to thirty thousand, which also yearly income of my family.
'Beep' i heard from my watch, it was a notification when I read. ''Father don't, you guys need it more and there is also a baby," I said, my father,l had transferred 10000 thousand credit to my account.
"Keep it, it was saving we did for you, we even spend some of it." My mother said apologetically. I again double checked my backpack before locking it.
"All ready," I said to wear my backpack, "chu..chu.," Ashlyn called out as her parents were coddling her, she somehow got out of their coddle and flew on my shoulder.
'beep' '' let's go, the car is waiting." Said father, as notification sounded on my father's Holowatch, my fathead an ordered car for the train station.
The Hovercar already by the street, we all get in it. It started to speed toward the train station, it is A.I. it didn't need a driver, you just voice command your destination.
Not long after we reach the train station, the station is small and only fifty-some people could be seen. Most of my classmates had left and not many stayed in the town.
There only two trains daily, traveling alone is deathwish as all area out is filled with danger only those as Corporal stage can travel along with their monster even they also bear some risks dying traveling alone, that how the dangerous the world is.
Soon the train came, train only stops for ten minutes in town, ''sobs... I'll miss you." Said, my mom, ''Remember to call every week." She said wiping her tears, ''Yes mom." I said and hugged my parents, besides me, Ashlyn is also coddled by her parents.
''Ashlyn lets go," I said, my voice saved her from her parents as she landed on my shoulder. I took my seat by the window and waved my parent's goodbye.
As the train started to accelerate, the figure of my parents became smaller and smaller till I can't see them anymore.
As train speed past the town, it entered underground. All the train run underground fearing an attack of Monsters on the surface, the walls of underground tunnels are reinforced with superalloy so there is little risk of monsters breaking past it and attacking the train.
I will take nine hours to reach Carrol city, in between train will stop in another four stops, seeing there is nothing to in the dark tunnel, I called back Ashlyn inside me started to purify my mana.
In few days of absorbing, I completely filled the central storage of Refinement Engine, now I only have to further re-refine that mana.
There is a need to set a special position to operate the Refining Engine. I started to purify the mana by refining processes and compressing process.
It took a little more than an hour before I finished two rounds of re-refining my mana, I got tired after two rounds.
The light's are dim half of the passengers either sleeping or doing something on their holowatches, sometime later Ashlyn also come out of me and started looking curiously at the passengers.
Only some people had their monster out as rule no monster larger than the hand can stay on the train so mostly young monster's fits that criteria.
An announcement rang out from the train informing strain will stop on the station at next stop, soon the train stopped.
Passengers got in and got out and seat in front of me is filled by a cute young girl, same age as me who is holding fire wolf cub and the serious looking man who is wearing a black suit seemed to be with a young girl.
This fire wolf looked different from the normal fire wolf, it has a distinguishable flame mark on its head which looked like a real fire. This wolf must be mutated or activated some high-level strain and it giving off energy stronger than Ashlyn, it must be at Lv.2 of Private stage.
'we wo' that wolf started barking playfully at Ashlyn and trying his all to get out of that girls hold, "Fire! if you behave, I will give a treat later." she said and smiled apologetically at me, I smiled back at her.
Time passed by and I purify my mana one more time, I don't want to waste any time as there are only five years till league of heroes and I want to participate in it.
The nine-hour train ride is over as we reach the carrol city, it is big class 6 city which is famous among the mid-level adventures, I told all my friends and the family that I am going to but Carrol city but my real destination is Westblood city.
Westblood city is Class 9 city same as a Capital and also the most dangerous city in the Republic, it is known as adventurers paradise as it situated in the most fertile part of the Republic.
Forest surrounding it filled with both Monster's and magical plants, one-third new adventurers always die in their first year in hands monsters and man
It is also a city which most attacked by monster horde every year but it also a city which is most wealthy as it surrounded by dangerous but fertile, many adventures go to Westblood city to hunt monster and get rich every year.
I decided to wait three hours in the station, to pass the time I brought a snack for both myself and Ashlyn.
The train came half an hour early and it will stay at half an hour, I walk towards the levitating train like rest of the people. According to my tickets my seat at the rear end of the train.
As I entered the train to find the box is very crowded, I brought the cheapest ticket, I could find. I walk into crowd sometimes even stepping on someone tow to find my seat.
The seats in the box are so small that it barely looked bigger than five-year-old child seats, I somehow sat on seat sandwiched between two hulky middle-aged men.
I barely able to move an inch as I sit sandwiched between them, thank god I took Ashlyn inside me, seeing her nature, she might have attacked some men here in anger.
From the energies, I am sensing most of the men here seem to be in a private stage, this is the box of poor people I suppose as all people look here to be brute workers.
The train started to speed up and soon it entered underground, it will take two days to reach the Westblood city.
The boxcar is loud with all people shooting and taking, I even got little ruffled in it, I wanted to Operate the refinement engine but this is not a good time.
Time passes on, it's been more that day, I am to the train to the WestBldood. I never going buy the cheap ticked again, it was so tiring as I can't properly move my and feet.
'Thud..thud' i hear a faint sound like something hitting the train soon that noise increased, people started to look all direction as it coming from all over the train.
''Thudump…thudump…crash.." the train is suddenly flipped over and crash, I started to pray at final movement before I lost consciousness due to shock.
When I woke up from my unconsciousness, I was on the train floor still sandwiched between bodies, a faint sounds of fighting could be heard from outside.
I tried moving the body above me but it hardly budged, I crane my neck in limited space and activated torch from my watch to see, I was quite startled to find there are many bodies above.
My shirt felt wet, when I touched it with my finger's it felt sticky, when looking at my finger's there is red substance sticking on it, something downed to me and I petrified.
It was blood, in hurry, I check breathing of man above me to find there was no breathing, he is dead and the body beside it.
I tried to wriggle out of dead bodies, it felt suffocating to be trapped between dead bodies.
After efforts half an hour to somehow got out a pile of bodies, after getting out I take a good look my train car to see, there is a big pile of human bodies and I likely tossed inside them thinking I am dead.
I felt horrified, some bodies had peaceful expression while others looked in extreme pain, there must be fifty sixty bodies on that pile.
I averted my gaze from the bodies, to hear the sound of fights from outside, from the sound I am hearing there must be some big fight going on.
'Chichi' i hear a sound to see, three rats type monster eating the bodies, they are Red Nails Rat's a rat type monster who is famous for their sharp teeth and Red nails and has class 7 strain.
They usually found in large groups, they looked to be Lv. 1 Private stage, same as Ashlyn.
Ashlyn suddenly comes out of me, feeling movement all three rats looked at me and attacked directly.
"Ashlyn." 'chu…' she gave a long cry and started to throw her silver fireball at Acri rates, that gave me enough time to take out my Grade 1 magical Artifact and activate it.
I attack with my sword, 'slice' one rat directly sliced into two by my sword, even I got startled by that. I never fought with any real monster before, I only have experience fighting monster's that produce by stimulation.
Still, there is one remain, Ashlyn already killed another rat with her fire, this last rat seem to be in frenzy, barely dodging her fire. I come behind and sneakily attack it as it barely dodged Ashlyn's attack that it had no time to dodge.
'slice..' it also cut into two, "Let's go, Ashlyn." I said the acri rats monster had a strong sense of smell and they would go crazy, smelling theirs kins and attack in frenzy.
The boxcar is upside down, I have to walk on dead bodies to reach the door and when I got out of the train, what greet is the heavy sense of smell.
The scene I saw left me with an awestruck expression, about six hundred something men and their monsters are fighting thousands of res nail rats, the men seem to finghting in the organised manner.
Powerful Evolver must have taken control of the battle, it's not easy to control men you have never met before. The battle strategy also simple the powerful is fighting ahead and weaker are behind.
Some fifty sixty people resting and eating monster meat before going back to fight, many dead bodies of both humans and rats club, I about go back into train fearing to get dragged into the battle when I heard should.
"Kid why are you just standing there like idiot come and fight!" shouted a scary looking man who is fighting left and right with the monsters.
I gritted my teeth walk toward the battle if don't go, the man will likely kill me for being coward, in this type life and death battles no cowardness is tolerated, I have read many news people got killed for running from battle.
The train tunnel is large with five super magnetic tracks, so there is large space to fight.
I and Ashlyn joined and started to fight, "Are you hiding in the train till now?" asked the boy who was fighting monsters beside me and looked to be in same age as me.
''No, when I wake up, I was in pile of bodies and when I got out it, I find all you are fighting here." I said, he nodded as if he understood.
The boy beside me is same as me and holding Grade 1 weapon. He is wearing a white uniform which had a design Alchemical flask on his chest, it is a sign of Rothschild Alchemical, its organization which is especially known for their alchemical positions.
His monster is quite unique, it is palm size snake dark as night, whoever that snake attacked the monster end up dead, the snake monster power must be poison related.
The fight is quite relaxed, we just have to kill Lv.1 Private stage monster who came to us, I asked Ashlyn to use her mana sparingly in case of unexpected emergencies.
''How come fight is so organized?" I asked I have my suspicion but I still wanted to know, ''It was all due to efforts of sir black,''
''When the monster's attacked he organized a battle formation and he killed all the cowards who had an objection." He said with a shudder, fear clearly written on his face whoever that Mr. Black is.
I can't see the fights off the front just silhouettes Monsters and men fighting, Mr. Black must be one of them.
This is good, it giving me the experience to fight the real monster's. Ashlyn now and then ate the hearts of monster's, she didn't usually Lv.1 monster's meat but the heart is tasty, I guess.
She first cooks it with her fire then ate it as she did not like eating raw meat.
I wanted to fight using Supreme Combat Exercise but these monster are too weak that even Ashlyn same level as them attacking halfheartedly.
The real fight is going on in front where stronger monsters are fighting but it is too risky for small private stage cultivators to go in front.
''When are reinforcement is coming?" I asked the jim as he told me earliar, he came from a big organization and seem to know many things, ''It will take more than a day," I startled hearing that I thought it will take five to six hours.
''There is Monster Horde attacking the Westblood city. So, the reinforcement probably came from the Capitol." He said, his expression also turned grave in the thought of reinforcement.
Currently, we are fighting in a stalemate with the monsters, if some unexpected happens we could all probably die.
There is no fix come outcome when it comes to the monster if in the form Mr. Black able to kill that giant rat then it could all end in an hour but from the next to it is highly unlikely.
He said that Mr. Black is Lieutenant Grade powerhouse who holding back Captain stage Acri rat, there are higher chances of Mr. Black being defeated than the Monster.
An hour passed by as we talked and swung the sword to kill the monster that came, it is a quite relaxed fight but the situation suddenly changed by the heart-churning cry.
''Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
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