After watching Disaster finish off Serqet Lachlan focused back on what Aaron was doing. Although Aaron had long since reached level 10 he continued to slaughter, the only difference being that now some of the beasts were running off.
With their leaders dead they now had free will, and with that, they began to scatter around. In an attempt to survive, some of them went underground or in the buildings and hid.
'Alright, Aaron that's enough' Lachlan gently patted Aaron's side.
'But I can still go' Aaron said confidently. Lachlan didn't doubt that for a second, but the thing is, there is no need for him to continue.
'There's no need, you've already reached your growth limit. Fly to the top of the building, there's something I want to test out' Lachlan said. Aaron, although struggled, finally agreed to the command and flew up the building.
Once they reached the top Lachlan saw a few beasts, but the moment they noticed him they all scattered. Some of them even straight up jumping off the building. Anything would give them a greater chance of living then facing Aaron.
Aaron calmly landed on the roof and Lachlan hopped off. He looked off the side and noticed that any of the beasts that were originally on the sides were now gone. They were either in the building or had run away.
'So what did you want me to do?' Aaron asked impatiently. It was enjoying himself, proving to himself that he was the strongest. He found it satisfying since he was always cooped up in that cave since he could ever remember. There had never been anyone to fight him, and when there finally was, using their sheer numbers and great strength he was naturally defeated.
'I want you to release your aura' Lachlan said.
'My aura? I'm pretty sure I'm always using it' Aaron was confused by what Lachlan said. He was certain he had always been releasing his aura.
'You might be, but I believe that to only be a fraction of its actual strength' Lachlan said. Aaron looked at Lachlan and tilted his head in confusion. Lachlan then continued, 'When you first came across me the aura you released was one that even sent a slight shiver down the Roc's spine. But those beasts you were fighting today didn't even seem to notice it, as though it wasn't there. Which means either the aura has weakened or your not using all of it.'
'But I swear I am using all of it' Aaron replied back, 'Tell me how to use all of it; since you brought me up here then you have an idea don't you.'
'Well I have an idea but it won't be all that nice. Do you trust me?' Lachlan turned around and walked back to Aaron as he held out an open palm and asked.
'Of course I do master' Aaron placed the side of his head against Lachlan's palm.
'Alright, now close your eyes and imagine. Imagine me getting captured and turned into some genie pig, to be experimented on for all eternity until I'm finally no longer useful and killed' Lachlan felt a slight shake go through Aaron's body at the thought, so he continued. 'Imagine Sarah, getting shot through the head by that Land Guardian leader. Imagine the three Rocs being killed one by one. Imagine, imagine all of this was caused by your failure.'
Aaron's body began convulsing heavily at the thought, Aaron's breathing quickened as a torrent of emotions rushed through his body like a tsunami. He was feeling a myriad of emotions, sadness, distress, concern. But among all those emotions, one was raging around the most violently.
Anger
Aaron was angry at himself for letting all of that happen, but the thing he was most angry about was that it was his fault. He felt angry that he wasn't strong enough, even though he believed himself to be the strongest. He felt angry that he had let both his master and master's younger sister get captured, then let one get killed and the other tortured. He felt angry that he failed to protect his comrades, the ones he would fight side by side with as they protect their master.
But most importantly, he was angry at himself for failing.
'That couldn't happen, that won't happen, I won't let it happen. I'll get stronger, strong enough to frighten my enemies at just the sight of me, strong enough to split apart the oceans and break mountains' Aaron had begun talking to himself.
What he didn't notice was that he was releasing an aura that did just that. The concrete beneath Aaron was beginning to crack under the aura he was releasing. All beasts in a 10 kilometres radius felt their strength leave their bodies, their legs or wings turning to noodles as they collapsed.
Even the three Rocs felt this insane level of pressure. They felt as though their bodies were being crushed against the ground. It was at a level well beyond the gravity they were used to training it. Let alone anything else.
On top of the building, Lachlan watched the concrete beneath him crack apart, the cracks quickly spread to the edges and downwards. Unlike everything else, he wasn't being affected by Aaron's aura, but he could certainly see everything it was doing.
Lachlan quickly hopped onto Aaron's back and held onto Aaron's sides, 'Alright Aaron, you've done enough, it was a success.'
Aaron quickly snapped out of its own imaginary world and realised what was happening. His eyes widened in shock as he stared at the building beneath him, the cracks that were spreading away from him.
'What happened?' Aaron asked in confusion, 'Did I really do this?'
'Yup, make sure you remember everything you felt just before, as that's your trigger for all of this. It'll take a while and a lot of training but you'll eventually be able to release your aura instinctively' Lachlan explained.
'Alright, I'll do that when we get back' Aaron said. Since he had already reached max level for his grade there wasn't anything else he could do. He might as well learn to control this new ability, maybe even learn to make it stronger.
...
On the mountain was Calamity. He had just felt that crushing pressure disappear, he knew that it was Aaron and was really impressed this time. Aaron had really shown him and the other two his strength.
But without a moments notice Calamity twisted his body and shot towards Athena. Who was still staring at the city with a dumbfounded expression. She didn't even realise Calamity was attacking her until his beak was right at her face.
Calamity smashed his beak against her before slamming her head against the pillar behind her. Swiftly turning her head into a meat paste. She couldn't even react before she died, the last thing she remembered would be a giant beak smash against her face.
And with her being killed her entire temple was almost powered down. The pillars weren't shooting out spears or anything, it was safe for now. Fortunately Aaron stunned Athena for a brief moment, he doesn't know how he would beat her otherwise.
Calamity then reached his talon down and grabbed onto her arm. He quickly gave a powerful yank and ripped Athena's arm off her cold corpse. The whole reason they were actually here was to bring back a blood sample, he still remembered.
...
In the forest was Catastrophe who was waddling his way through. Although that burst of pressure surprised him and even crushed him to the ground, he knew that the source was Aaron, who held no hostility against them.
But as he continued to waddle through the trees he suddenly remembered the entire reason they actually came to the island. He felt like facepalming but also felt too exhausted to really do that.
Catastrophe quickly turned around and waddled back towards Arachne's corpses. He was looking at it wondering what to bring back. Should he bring back a human body part or spider body part?
He decided not to think about it too much and just ripped off a bit of both. He then turned around a started his waddle back again.
...
Back on the mountain, surrounded by a few towering spikes made of dirt, standing on the bloody meat past of a corpse was Disaster.
He had been affected by that aura and crushed into the ground. Unfortunately, the only thing on the ground was Serqet's meat pasted corpse. He pretty much smashed into her again, causing blood to splatter around again.
But that suddenly reminded him that he needed to bring back a sample. The only problem was there wasn't really anything solid to bring back. Serqet's corpse had turned completely into a meat paste, finely crushed. There wasn't anything to actually grab onto properly.
'This should do' Disaster waddled over to a hand and through it was Serqet's stinger. It seems it was some of the only things to make it out in one piece. Grant it was still slightly flattened, but it was in a much better condition than the rest of her corpse.
...
Back in the city, Lachlan was waiting patiently in a park. Aaron was by his side, releasing an aura. That although wasn't as strong as the one it released previously, it was strong enough to deter weaker beasts from making a move against them.
The first ones to come back were Calamity and Disaster, both of which had the samples dangling from their mouths. It would be a lie to say that they weren't tempted to just open their mouths widely and swallow the sample whole, but they knew that it was important.
10 minutes later Catastrophe finally came into the park. His body was a mess after the fight, his wing still webbed up and there were still heavy wounds all across his body. Even Disaster was surprised, he had thought he had a tough fight. What type of fight would leave Catastrophe in such a condition?
'Huh, did you use more brawn than brain power in your fight' Calamity cheerfully mocked from the side. Due to him taking advantage of Aaron's abrupt aura release he didn't have a single wound on him and seeing how his samples appeared to be in perfect condition as well made them assume he finished it quickly and efficiently.
Of course, Calamity would never actually admit that. He would lose his edge against Catastrophe.
'Oh shut it, can you just take care of this' Catastrophe said angrily.
Just as Calamity was going to say more Aaron walked over and breathed out fire, burning the webs up completely. Catastrophe joyfully stretched out his wing, he heard the bones within it slightly popping.
'Alright, when we get back to the island both you and Disaster will begin resting, I want you to be in peak condition for when I release the news' Lachlan said with a bright grin on his face.
"Lachlan! I finally caught up to you! You little piece of shit!" Simon had finally made his way over the ocean. When he looked around he quickly noticed the burnt corpses, all tens of thousands of them, scattered across the streets.
"Shit I'm too late!" Simon already knew the battle had ended. Especially when he saw Lachlan relaxing on a park bench without a care in the world.
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"Haha, what are you talking about, first come first serve," Lachlan laughed as he joked around. Lachlan already knew Simon was going to be the one most furious about him going after the intelligent beasts, that's just who he was after all.
"Did you at least win," Simon mocked angrily as he looked towards Catastrophe. Catastrophe had the most serious wounds, granted they would eventually heal thanks to Catastropohe's high vitality.
Lachlan decided not to give his birds the vitality banana, as they were a one use item they should be treated as a final resort. And since the three Rocs had high vitality Lachlan believes they would heal, especially if they go back to the island and use its resources.
"Of course, it was actually quite enjoyable too," Lachlan replied happily as he saw Simon pouting in anger. "Anyway, let's go back now, I already have the samples needed."
Lachlan hopped onto Calamity and unsummoned the rest of them before shooting off. Simon quickly followed, hopping onto storm.
...
A few days past in the blink of an eye. Lachlan was inside Anne's lab waiting for the new results. This would determine whether or not they could really use the results they got from the hybrids. Lachlan's fists were clenched tightly, hoping they could.
Anne walked over to him, "Alright, the results have been finalised and I'll just say it right now, things are looking good."
Lachlan almost felt like jumping up and cheering, but he calmed down his nerves and walked to the computer screen. Chloe and Flynn were with them as amongst the group they were probably the most worried.
Anne didn't wait for the three to analyse the screen since they might not understand it, "Okay, so the one major difference is how the blood mutated. For the mutated children, they mutated because it's as though some of their genes have been replaced. As for the intelligent beast, it's as though a few human genes have mixed with them, however, instead of changing the beasts' physical appearance the genes focus primarily on the brain. It's difficult to explain, but they are different."
"So we can use the data that we've collected?" Lachlan asked as he struggled to hold back his excitement.
"Well, there is one of the samples that stuck out amongst them all. As it's as though the human genes underwent a full mutation, making them much stronger," Anne explained as she brought up the sample.
Lachlan knew that it was the sample from Athena. He wasn't surprised though, as Athena was basically a human with just a lot more physical strength. Although she couldn't talk, if she could Lachlan wouldn't be surprised if she could infiltrate major cities without any suspicion.
"Does that change anything?" Lachlan asked with a concerned tone. If Athena's sample was the thing that screwed this whole thing up he would be furious.
"Of course not, fortunately, it's still a different mutation from the mutated children meaning the results are still useful," Anne explained.
The three had a sigh of relief, they were really on the edge of their seats.
"So now we have to figure out a way to spread the information," Flynn said as he leaned back and scratched his head. Chloe and Lachlan also went into thinking mode, they never really thought this far ahead since they didn't think they would be able to get results so soon.
"I have a way granted it's not very legal," Anne suddenly said.
All three heads snapped to her direction, "How?"
"Well I have this device that can hack into the internet and spread information anonymously, it was something I use for some of my own research if it was ever controversial," Anne said with a slightly red face.
"That's a great invention, where is it?" Flynn asked.
Anne turned around and walked over to a bunch of drawers, all of which had locks on them. The squatted down and unlocked one of the bottom ones, opening it up and taking out a fairly small device that was shaped similar to a credit card reader. A lot of wires were dangling underneath it, only one of which that looked like a power plug.
"This is the device, it's really simple to use," Anne said as she came over to them. "I just need to download all the data that you want to use, you just need to plug this into something that's able to connect to the internet."
She grabbed onto all the cords dangling beneath it, "I have just about every cord needed, you just need to find the device. And yes, the phones can be used as long as you get them connected to the internet."
The three felt ecstatic as they heard that, Chloe quickly took the device out of Anne's hands and looked closer at it. She looked at the cords and found one that perfectly fit their phones, now they just needed the internet.
"Oh yeah, I will just say that this island is more unique then I thought," Anne suddenly said.
"What do you mean by that?" Lachlan asked. He knew the island was unique, extremely unique at that. He didn't understand what Anne meant.
"Well for one, this island isn't actually connected to the ground, it just seems to float on top of the water, but due to its massive amount of mass it doesn't move around," Anne explained.
"And how do you know this?" Flynn asked. It wasn't like the water was safe grounds, it was filled with dangerous creatures, some of which that will attack the moment they notice you.
"Through that," Anne said as she pointed towards a small drone shaped device on the bench.
"And that is?" Flynn asked as he walked over to it and picked it up. He was surprised by the actual weight of the thing, it was probably 10 kilograms, yet it fits in the palm of Flynn's hand. Of course, the propellers were each the size of Flynn's hand and there were 4 of them.
"It's a drone obviously, a really high-grade one at that, although it only has a camera it's rather durable," Anne explained. "Unfortunately, I had lost an even better one while I checked out the waters."
"Beast?" Lachlan asked curiously.
"No, gravity," Anne replied. That was all that was need to make them understand. Although they were still slightly confused since the actual water wasn't heavily affected by the gravity, only the ground.
"I suppose it'll be better to show the videos that I got, it even surprised me which is why I hadn't told any of you yet since I don't really know how to explained it properly," Anne said. She then walked over to the computer, tapped on a few keys and an image came up.
Although it was slightly difficult to see due to the low visibility, fortunately, the drone that was being used had a light attached to it.
Anne started the video and they watched the drone move around. Before it finally stumbled across what Anne was talking about, a massive gap between the island and the ground. It looked oddly mystical, but what they saw next made them realise why Anne lost the drone.
They saw the drone move into the gap and it was quickly brought upwards towards the island. It was there that it began to get crushed against the island before the footage finally cut.
"That's what I mean," Anne said as she closed the video. "It seems the thing that's actually causing the island's gravity to be so unique is in the centre of the island."
"So it's beneath the tree," Lachlan said. He thought about it and knew where the centre was, it was the world tree. Of course, this made the island much more unique. Since not only did it have something that controls the gravity, it also has something that heavily affects life, the world tree.
This island had two things that heavily affect the world. Granted, the gravity didn't affect the world too much, but if someone bad got it then it would definitely put the world in danger.
"Indeed, although I would just like the clarify that actually getting to the thing that's cause these gravitational changes would be a lot more difficult to get to than you think," Anne said.
"How's that?" Flynn asked. They just needed to cut into the tree. Although it would take a long time they should be able to go faster if they increase their strength.
"Well, the closer you are to the source of the gravity the strong it is. That's especially true for being underground," Anne explained.
All of them understood that. Since the cave had a much greater change in gravity compared to outside.
"Alright, how about we deal with that later and just focus on spread the data for now. It shouldn't take long to spread the data anyway," Lachlan said. He just wanted to spread the information first, since it solved their whole problem. The island's gravity can come after.
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