-Vol 4: To The North Pole!-

-Decisions of Higherups-

Crack!! Boom!!

Crashing and booming sound could be heard throughout the area around the cave that Kenshin stayed as he learned about controlling his powers. After learning about his full power, Kenshin was determined to control it as soon as possible, from then on he was busy with that. Its already been 4 hours since then.

Currently, he was waiting for DCB and other powerhouses response to his message via Vera. He understood that if the same information has to provided by him, nobody would care but when the source was Vera, a division leader, the matter was entirely different. Her words would hold more weight than others, besides since she was a Russian herself, the fact would be even more believable to the Russian DCB members. It's after all their territory.

Out of six days, he only had 5 days and 17 hours left. It was the night time, and since he already had enough sleep and rest before, he didn’t sleep, instead tried his hardest to get used to his powers. And this four hours of hard labour had borne some fruits to him. Compared to the beginning when he would stumble every step and crash to something, right now he could almost control his pace and move around without crashing into something while going at half of his full speed.

They had planned to meet at that spot where he left vera exactly after 24 hours, that’s one day. She would inform him about the decisions of DCB and other guilds at the same time he would hand her the map with those places marked on them. There's still seventeen hours left for that, Kenshin was planning to get used his AGI on those seventeen hours. As a powerful hunter, he could work perfectly fine for a day or two without sleep, and with Tireless Body and Passive Regeneration, that time was extended to 15 days. A mere 24 hours was nothing to him.

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At the same time, huge movements were going on several tents that belong to various powers, including DCB. Ater Vera reported everything to the head office, they finally came to a conclusion. In reality, it wasn’t only Vera’s team who encountered such disaster, for past days they were already getting information that some of the reconnaissance squads were mysteriously disappearing in the snow, even when accompanied by a division leader with them. Although this was suspicious, these people chucked that incident as an accident after encountering a strong monster or some natural causes.

But after Vera’s report, they found another angle to this truth. They now realised that those squads might not have encountered any accidents rather being killed by these supposed cloaked people.

But that begged the question, who are these people and what are their motives? Vera mentioned that the woman who attacked him was a summoner and a member of Intelligent snake race that could turn into a human. Actually, these higherups were no stranger to the existence of intelligent races that live in earth besides humans. But since they rarely find trouble with humans, they never considered that point.

Now after listening to Vera’s report, they changed that notion. It seems these intelligent species were not as docile as they had thought. They seemed to have formed a group consisting of some terrifying people and planned something sinister. This wasn’t something DCB could handle alone.

After that, they relived Vera for the night, but the world wasn’t over for them. After relieving her, DCB of Russia immediately informed this to the main branch. After that, a meeting was held among the DCB world and other powerful guilds in the control of other countries. They discussed various points, and after a variety of information sharing, they came into conclusion that regarding the situation of the North, some of the powerhouses have to involve themselves.

According to what Vera reported, the average power of those people should be above level 150 and below 200, as such appropriate people should be sent for the purpose. By any chance, if they find them lurking and their connection to the happenings in North, a thorough cleanup was in order, including the places where these intelligent species reside. Humans had already suffered enough a century ago, they won't tolerate any longer.

This was the result of eight hours long discussion among higherups of the world. of course Vera didn’t know all this as she wasn’t privileged enough to know any of these. She just waited for the orders to confirm whether the higher-ups intervene or not so that she could relay that to Kenshin. of course she hadn't mentioned about Kenshin’s promise about scouting the places ahead of time. She didn’t want to give Kenshin pressure in case he failed in his commitment.

Now just a few hours left until her and Kenshin’s rendezvous. She wanted to know the decisions until then.

It was not until another two hours later that her magic-satellite phone rang again. Then she was informed that her meritorious deed would be rewarded when she returns to the main branch. Although she wasn’t the leader of the tent of DCB in this region, since she was the one relayed the vital information, she was privileged to know about DCB’s decision. It turned out that she was neither the first one nor the only one who was attacked by mysterious forces, as such all the guilds and DCB, each would dispatch two hunters above level 150.

After listening to this, she became pleased and can't wait for relay this message to Kenshin, while hoping that he hadn't encountered any problem.

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But contrary to what she had thought, Kenshin was indeed neck deep in trouble, literally. It all happened in a flash, one moment he was learning to control his strength, another moment the ground suddenly cracked, and he fell in. After trying all night, he managed to control his agility as per his wish. Still, he couldn’t activate his Highspeed Movement skill. The moment he does, he would find himself embedded inside a small mountain.

After somewhat getting control over his AGI, he immediately tried to control his AGI. Under AGI, STR was a sub-stat. The ratio of ATK and STR was like 1:1. That means he had near 700 STR. An average human can exert an STR to 32, with some trained ones increasing that number up to 50. That’s the cap to normal human’s strength. Compared to that an average hunter would increase that stat up to 200 depending on their level. He was at least 20 times stronger than an average human while three times stronger than the upper limit of a hunter without a skill.

This much strength wasn’t something one could control in a day or two. Besides, while it was sealed away, it had increased again due to various factor. It was no wonder the glacier would crack from his missed punch.

“Sigh! what a tragedy.” Mumbling in embarrassment, he tried to move his body as slow as possible. Like in water, he only felt a light resistance when he moved, but on the contrary, the ice surrounding broke apart like they were fragile glass when he moved his hand. Even when he wanted to grab the edge of ice slab to lift himself, it broke into peace while sending cracks spreading all over the place. Although he wasn’t cold, even while submerged in below 0-degree water, it was still uncomfortable, especially to his family heirlooms.