Before apocalypse I had the build of an athlete but I was not really interested in it.
Despite that fact, I had once checked my fastest speed and had realized that I can run a 100 meters in 11 seconds.
Now that I was 12 times faster than my previous self, I was able to cover 1000 meters in ten seconds.
But the terrain was not really suitable for sprinting so it took us (me and big bro) more than 40 seconds to cover 2 kilometers.
At that point, we stopped running and waited.
A few seconds passed by without anyone in sight.
Then seven 3rd tier abnormals burst out in the clearing where we had stopped.
Where we had set up and ambush.
It was a messy ambush. I would not lie and say that everything went perfectly the way we had planned.
But still, by the time my 60 seconds of accelerated agility were over, we had seven 3rd tier abnormal heads on the floor.
Along with three wounded comrades.
Not that I really cared.
The 2nd tier never followed us.
An not for the lack of trying.
They did try to come after us. But they were much slower than 3rd tier ones and quickly lost sight of us after which they gave up and went back to attacking the town who made quick work of them now that their leader was gone.
And after all this was over, I realized what went wrong with the mission.
I was supposed to kill the 4th tier abnormal quickly but that didn't happen as easily as I had anticipated so I failed in my part.
But the biggest failure in the mission came from Big bro who, instead of decapitating the Holler, like we had planned, maimed it instead by taking off all of it's limbs and carried if all the way back for Neha.
Not that it was a bad thing, considering that Neha had one more powerful guard for herself but still…
I was a bit pissed off by his sudden change in the actions which could have went poorly.
"That was not why I did it." Rahul replied as I went to face him.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"When we reached our target, I realized that it was wide open and I could take it down without killing it. So after I cut off it's limbs, I was about to close it's mouth before I looked at the 4th tier abnormal." He said. "It was not dead and from it's enraged expression I could tell that it would attack any moment and you might have got severly if that were the case so I let the Hooler shout out for help which had the intended effect of distracting the 4th tier. You quickly took advantage of this opportunity just as I had expected and disposed of it, thus completing our mission."
"So you see little brother, the mission was never out of our hands." He said as he patted my shoulders "Even if I had killed the Holler, I have done something else to help you in killing the 4th tier abnormal."
"I see." I said and hung my head.
It stung my pride to admit that I had actually failed in doing what I was supposed to do and then big bro had to save my ass.
But that was actually what had happened and I was not really liking that fact.
"Come. Let's meet our new allies." Rahul said gently and took us back to the battlefield for more assistance.
Which was not required.
By the time we got back, the defenders had become the attackers and every abnormal in the vicinity had been slaughtered.
And I was even getting ready for some more action.
Such a shame.
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The leader of the town came out to meet Rahul and thanked him for the assistance.
Not that they would have fallen without our help.
But if we had not helped, then more people would have died by the end of battle.
The leader had the decency to accept this fact so he counted as a good guy in my book.
That quickly changed when he burst out laughing and patter Rahul's back and forced everyone inside the town for a celebration for surviving such a tough battle.
With the familiarity he is showing to all of us, someone might had been mistaken him for a long lost uncle or something.
The boisterous leader quickly changed from 'Good guy' to 'Troublesome guy' in my book.
As we were passing the battle field, I sneakily took the 4th tier abnormal inside the spatial ring for later… experiments after which I declined his invitation and removed my presence from their party.
I was still feeling a bit sullen because of my failed attack on the 4th tier abnormal so I had no interest in some guy's party.
So I went back to the top of the hill and made sure that no one was looking after which took out the 4th tier abnormal's body.
You see… normally I would not resort to cannibalism (if it can be counted as such). But this was the first 4th tier specimen I had ever come across.
So a bit of… testing was required. Ahem…
'Here we go…' I thought and went for the bite.
Um num num num…
It's meat was tough.
Like really really tough.
My sturdy jaw and sharp teeth which could easily break through the 3rd tier creature's bones found it a bit hard to chew it's meat.
But I did it nonetheless.
And after I finished the whole… meal, I waited.
Nothing happened so I waited some more.
Nothing happened once again and I realized that my stats would not increase by eating abnormals.
I did not know if I was feeling relived or sad because of this revelation.
I was feeling both the emotions.
After a bit of introspection, I realized that my 'sad' emotions were a bit on the higher frequency than the 'relieved' emotions.
Wow…
Just, wow…
It's official.
I cannot increase my stats by eating abnormals.
Only mutant meat. And perhaps mutant fish.
'Well there's not much I can do about it.' I thought and looked at the town where a large banquet was being hosted in the honor of my brother.
And Jesus, these guys were loud.
'Don't they know that such a large amount of noise will attract even more enemies.' I thought but then came to a halt when I saw a number of people going around the walls systematically and taking out the crystals from all the abnormals.
After taking out the crystals, they went to their leader and handed him the booty which he then only shared with those who had fought harder than everyone else.
'Hmm… The strong become stronger and the weak are just cannon fodder. I can see how this town works now.' I thought and it disgusted me.
The leader knew that such large amount of noise would attract more enemies, but he did it anyway.
More enemies meant more fights.
'More fights meant more crystals and cores the only people dying in those battle would be the cannon fodder anyway so why bother.'
As I thought more and more about the way this town worked, my expression turned even more downcast as I felt disgusted with the leader who had acted so friendly toward us just a few moments ago.
'I would not be surprised if he had a harem of unwilling women inside that town either.' Lily said and my expression turned even more darker before it became smooth.
Because in the end of the day, none of that mattered.
People suffered in that town, yes. But so what. Didn't they suffered everywhere else as well.
The weak are devoured and only the strong survive at the end of the day.
And I don't want to empathize with the weak because that only brings pain in the end.
So just care about your family and loved ones and let everyone else handle themselves.
Simple.
'But I don't know where he got so many big walls from.' I said 'I know for sure that such things can't be created by humans. I mean it can be done but who would waste so much metal in creating giant walls. So I can deduce that those walls are not something created by humans.'
'And the machine guns equipped at every point in the walls are a mystery as well. They are not like any other machine guns I've ever seen. And even if they were, it doesn't explain where he got so many of them.'
'So after looking at the town in such a rational manner, I can only deduce that this town was made with the help of the black watch.' I said 'Care to enlighten me about that Lily?'
'Sorry Ashok. This question is classified under 'Secret' information. You doesn't have the conditions required to get access to the information.' She said and I let out a chuckle at her words.
'Wow! Haven't heard that in a while.' I said.
'Well… you stopped asking the big questions a while ago.' She said with a chuckle 'That makes sense because people stop caring about the existence of abnormals if they can't get a bit food on the table.'
'Hn… You are right in that regard. And even if you don't tell me about this secret, I can already make a few guesses about the existence of these walls and the multiple machine guns.' I said.
'Oh! And what would that be?' she asked curiously.
'That 'leader' guy must have either completed some kind of evolution that must have opened new options for him in the 'Buy' section. Or it must have something to do with the amount of people he is leading. My guess is that the black watch allows people who lead such a large group to buy new things since protecting such a large group is often harder than protecting a small group.' I said 'Am I right.'
'I'm allowed to tell if you're right. But can say that you're not wrong.' She said with a playful smile 'Hey! Why don't you just ask his big bro about this. He might know about all these things you know.'
I snorted at her words and took out the crystal from the 4th tier abnormal's nape.
'I'm not really all that interested anymore. The walls allow someone to protect a large number of people. I don't care about a large number of people. Only two. So my sword is enough for me.' I said and put the 4th tier crystal inside the Black watch.
'Start a auction for this with the minimum about as 10 3rd tier mutant beast corpses.' I said and she nodded in return after which I took out my sword and took a deep breath to calm my emotions.
'That's right. My sword is enough for me.' I said and then started training.
When they sleep, I train.
When they sit idly, I train.
When they host banquets, I train.
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'All to protect my loved ones' I thought with a gentle smile and ate a mutant horse leg after an intense bout of training.
I had trained intensely for the last one hour and they were still partying.
'That bastard (the leader) really want to invite more enemies. Doesn't he. So that he could sacrifice cannon fodder for more wealth.' I thought with disgust and used the zoom function of the 'Advanced Vision' skill to search for my family.
'I don't know why big bro went inside, but I don't think they should be taking so long.'
'Perhaps they're having an orgy inside.' Lily said and I snapped at her.
'Don't say such things about big bro. He's not that kind of man.'
'I know. I know. I was just joking. Jeez…'
I shook my head at her antics and finished the large leg piece after which I felt my body rejuvenate and then picked up my sword once again.
'Time to get back to practice.' I thought and was about to swing it once again when I felt something wrong.
I became alert at once and took a defensive pose after which I looked at my surroundings cautiously.
I found nothing but didn't drop my guard.
It could be a camouflaged enemy for all I know.
I've come to rely more and more on my intuition during this past month and that alone has saved my ass more times than I care to admit.
So when my intuition screams 'Danger', I listen.
Even when there's nothing dangerous in sight.
But even after looking around for a few moments, I found nothing.
Such a thing should have put me at ease and made me wonder about my intuition.
But the intuition was screaming 'Danger' even loudly now.
And that's when I saw it.
A large horde of mutant monkeys.
'Must be more than a thousand of them.' I thought and quickly used the camouflage cloak to hide myself before I climbed a tall tree for more protection.
The large horde quickly passed by my location without ever knowing about my presence and I watched with a bit of anticipation as they moved toward the town.
'There must be more than 10 3rd tier mutant monkeys in that horde. After the die fighting against the people in the town, I can take their corpses since no one else is interested in them.' I thought with glee which turned into confusion and then horror as the monkey went around the town without even looking at it as the people rained bullets on them.
And that's when it hit me.
That horde was not trying to attack the town.
They were running away from something.
I quickly looking in the direction where they came from and felt a chill went down my spine at the view in front of me.
'oh shit…'
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