《A Journey Through the Worlds.》104: Fight.
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"That can't be, meeting you face to face is too much of a risk for us." Moore shouted as soon as he heard that.
"Well if we meet just like now, you will have a perfect chance of dealing with us all together, He He He... I'm sure some of you have this idea." Adam said while releasing a hair raising laugh.
"Can't you just feel it if we want to do something like that? You are the All-seeing Adam after all." Ronald intervened suddenly.
"He He He... Better safe than sorry they say, right?" Adam said.
Actually, usually he really can feel anything like that coming three or four months before it happens, but after dealing with the combination of the Multiverse and the Gray Fog, things he wasn't able to see coming early enough, he started acting way more cautiously then before, he didn't want to die because of a moment of carelessness.
"So where do you want to meet?" Ronald asked.
"I think people in your Area also have memories of a peaceful Area with no wars or arms or the like, right?"
"Yes, we call it Area 18, Do you want the meeting to be there?" Ronald answered the question.
"Yes, I think it should be a good thing if all the meeting from now on are going to be there, also we should take that Area as a neutral ground where no wars or fights are allowed." Adam said.
Actually one of the reasons why he asked about that was because he wanted to protect that Area, because the memories he had were of it.
Seeing no answer from the four heads he added:
"We can wait for your answer, we will give you till the next time the sun rises, if you give no answer, you should forget about all the chances of a peaceful meeting ever again. You can leave we have nothing else to take about."
After he finished his words he didn't even care about the warship or what the four heads wanted to say, he just turned around and headed inside again.
Moore cut the line and said:
"Ask for the controller to the small warship to turn it around, we already got what we wanted."
"So what do you think we should do? Should we accept it or not?" Travis asked.
"Us going there personally is going to be dangerous, not to mention the seven Gods, any of their followers or even their mounts can kill us easily." Tom said with an uncomfortable expression on his face.
"We will first send a few ships to Area 18 and see how it is, we will talk about it later after all we still have time." Ronald said.
"Ok, it will be like that." The others nodded.
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Area 10: Last Point Village:
"It's Getting harder don't you think?" Nero said after killing a Beetle like insect using a small spear from the wall and looking at team three fighting down below.
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"Yes it is." Mad Dog nodded.
"Remember the insects and their fighting patterns, it will be our turn soon." Dan reminded them.
It was already the fifth hour after the sun set, as expected and as Alexander told them insects started appearing after around two hours of the sun setting, but there wasn't a lot of them and they were quite easy to deal with, they only had to throw some spears from the top of the wall to kill them.
Yet that didn't last for long, the more time passed the worst things became.
More and stronger insects started appearing, finally after four hours of the sun setting the first team had to go down, they were led by Alexander and it mostly had some first time fighters and some woman, they got down while the monsters were still manageable so they can have an idea about what it was like.
They stayed down for around half an hour or so till the monsters became way harder than what they could deal with. When that happened Alexander shouted asking for a replacement, the leader of team two then lead them down and they protected the retreating first team.
Fortunately, they lost no one in neither team one or team two, while team three was still down below but they also seemed as if they were holding on quite well.
Dan was able to see that even though the insect were strong, they weren't strong to the point where they would be any danger to any of the hunters there, espicaily the old ones, they really made Dan's group understand the strength of the natives of that world, even without any outside influences, like the blood baths and the body tempering technique, they had natural strong bodies.
Katherine said that it probably had with the environment, like how the insect were able to grow as big as they were, she was also pretty sure that the concentration of the Oxygen in the air and probably some other factors they didn't know about were a main reason in that.
Seeing that all the hunters seemed well and that they didn't really seem as if they were suffering while dealing with those insects, Dan understood that what probably made the Last Point Village lose so many people and be put in such a horrible state was because they didn't have enough time to rest.
The fight was a continuous one for close to twenty five hours, of course they would suffer and feel tired, it was just them fighting again and again, while insects will keep on appearing, new healthy ones.
"We will be down there soon, are you ready?" Alexander suddenly appeared in front of Dan and his group.
The big man who had already gone down the wall to fight face to face with those insects, seemed to be in a good shape, actually while he was fighting in team one he didn't even seem to be sweating.
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"We are ready." Dan didn't even have the time to answer before Katherine who was close to him said with a raised voice while clenching her fingers around the spear she was given till they turned white, it was appearent that she was excited.
Seeing that Alexander remembered and somehow understood Dan's smile when he asked him if she was going to be a part of the fight.
"Good we will be down there in around a five minutes or so," He said before adding while looking to his side where two men stood:
"Those two are the ones which will join you down there. And don't worry, even though there are a lot of insects down below, dealing with them will be easy, it will only become harder after another ten hours, only then will some strong insects appear, so till then try not to use all of your power, the fight is long."
"We understand, don't worry." Dan and all the others nodded.
Just as they did they heard a shout from down below asking for replacement, it was the leader of team three.
Alexander looked at all the people in Dan's group who seemed excited and he said:
"Ok let's head down."
Alexander didn't notice that when he said that, Dan looked at Nero who understood him and shook his head, what he meant was apparent, no he didn't feel any big target moving their way
The third team had already created an insects free area around the gate, after Dan's group left the gate they did like what they saw the other teams do and went toward them and protected their backs while they all retreated.
Katherine felt her heart beating when she left the protection of the gate and the walls and stood in front of the gigantic insects, they were still smaller then the Sticky Beetle they saw before but in comparison to the insects she was used to, they were still gigantic.
She couldn't stop herself from smiling as she moved towards her first target, it was a big beetle which was as big as a donkey or so.
The insect seemed as if it felt that it had became her target because it turned toward her and opened its two big strong mandibles opened wide as it moved towards her.
She knew that if it was the her from the time before the start of the journey and the awakening of her ability, she would have turned pale with fright and just stand there frozen, but she was different than.
She avoided to the side calmly and used her spear to precisely hit a joint of its front left limb, cutting it entirely,
Hisss
The creature hissed before turning to her and aiming for her neck.
Unfortunately for it, Katherine was already expecting that and what awaited it was just a spear to the middle of its mouth, killing it right then and there.
Katherine released a long breath at the sight of the green blood leaving the twitching insect, she felt a bunch of mixed feelings, but what she felt the most was excitement, especially when she remembered that all the insects they were fighting than were still mainly the weak ones among what they were going to fight in the next twenty hours.
She soon turned to an other insect which was coming towards here and swapped here spear at its head, destroying it in one hit.
Actually, all those insects there were still too weak for Dan's group, even insects in the level of the Sticky Beetle were rare, so they decided to deal with the insects there as fast as possible without wasting any power or strength, as the coming was going to be harder and they didn't want to tire themselves so soon.
After dealing with a few more insects, Katherine turned her head to look at the others, she saw that they too were the same as her, they didn't have any problems dealing with those insects at all.
Espicaily Dan, who seemed way too relaxed and calm.
Soon enough their turn ended.
"You did well, but don't let your guard down this was more of a warm up, what's coming will only get harder, so make sure to be in your top shape at all the time." Alexander said to Dan's team after they returned to the protection of the village gates.
He was actually quite surprised by Dan's team abilities, they did way better than what he expected, at the end of half an hour of fighting they still seemed as if they didn't even sweat at all. Yes he too was in a similar state but he was the best hunter in the village, he didn't think that everyone Dan brought were as strong as him.
"Yes we understand." Dan answered.
Alexander than turned and left, he still had to make sure that the teams after him didn't meet with any problems, so he had to keep watch over them.
After He left Dan turned to his teammates and asked:
"So how did you find the first fight?"
"Way easier than I thought." Nero said.
The others nodded at his words, it was really easier than they thought.
"As Alexander said this was just a warm up for us to have a feeling about what's coming so don't let your guard down."
"I'm actually waiting for the stronger insects to appear, I want to try my powers." Katherine said with an excited expression.
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