1.03 Birth of sentient beast

After being question for 2 hours and seeing the state that was worse than his victim, the police left Sura alone after questioning some of his neighbors too. Feeling glad to know that all these years of hard work to be a good neighbor paid him good. Closing the door and saying goodbye to the police officers, he went to the bed and fell on it with his eyes on the ceiling.

“What is happening?”

Lifting his hand in front of him, and seeing his knuckles swollen and beat with each heartbeat, he didn’t know what to think.

When did I learn to fight so well? Beating a bunch of guys in their crotch and then running away on a bicycle is good fighting according to him.

“It happened after that dream…. They don’t seem like dream, but memories.” Remembering every time he went into dreamland, he will be in the body of a man, each time the man seem to be same, sometimes he was young being raped, and sometimes he was a man fighting a bunch of people. Every time he felt what the man felt, thought like what the man thought, it was as he was reliving certain parts of memories.

“Whose memories do these belong too?.... and how did I get them in my head?” The memories of that person seems to be changing him, and the changes may seem good at the beginning as now he can fight good, but there must be some harmful side effects to these. If someone else’s soul entered his body, and was the reason for the memories, than according to the study in soul anatomy, one soul will devour the other and will cause intense pain in the victim’s body and even cause the victim’s death.

“But I didn’t felt any pain… was I possessed during the accident?” Sura felt goose bumps all over his body, his hair stood up at the thought of a sharing his body with someone else.

He got up and dressed up his injuries with alcohol and antiseptic before eating some pain killers. His injuries will take at least 2 days to heal considering the efficiency of the medicine.

He was scared to sleep again, what if he sees a horrible dream again? What if he never wakes up and the one who wakes up was the man in his dreams.

He didn’t sleep that night, the only thing he did was think about the memories, and even if he tries to tell somebody about it, they will think him to go insane.

To keep himself awake he went over and open the package, in it he found all the things he ordered, he was happy, all the students had a neural link integrated in their brain, though it belong to level 2 and lower, Sura was happy to see his one came, it was an artificial assistant Sora, which was the highest level of technology allowed for civilians to purchase.

Until now he was using the old model of wrist watch to do all his required work.

“So beautiful!” Taking out the package of Sora from the box, he opened it ang took out the integrator and the chip.

“Put the chip into tube and shoot it on the temple, it will only work only if there is a green signal, otherwise it will not shoot, the crystal chip will integrate with brain and connect with the net…. This seems easy enough… and my soon to be assistant seem to be beautiful too.”

Seeing the face of a beautiful girl on the package, he felt some of the pain of his body die down, he took the apparatus , and seeing the green signal, he shot it into his brain.

“OH!! It … shit!!” injecting a crystal chip on his brain, his whole body shook, slowly getting numb, and with static in his vision. Soon a new interface appeared in his vision, with time in a corner and a sweet voice welcoming him. “Good evening sir.. I am Sora, your artificial assistant… “

Seeing the beautiful face of the girl projecting in his vision. Not sleeping might not be that tough!

“Rodrick 1 o’ clock!”

Wielding a hot weapon and wearing a combat uniform, the soldier shot at the oncoming wave of beast, the beast jumped like crazy in the hailing bullets ignoring the safety of their life.

For the beast these dozen of men with odd weapons were not just food, but essence nourishment for their bodies, their mind goes crazy feeling the spiritual energy on the air.

The soldiers were in a security post on the cursed land, they were in the outer area keeping a watch on the surroundings and going out every day in their exploration vehicle, but today they found themselves surrounded with demonic beast from all around, they were just a small exploration unit defending the outskirts of the cursed land.

“Men.. keep shooting! *Slash!” the one leading them all was a man wielding a huge blade, he run in the middle of bullets and fought as if his life was on the line, the ones wielding guns didn’t stop shooting even if the bullets fell on the body of the man, they all just bounced off his body.

“Where are all these coming from… we had already put down more than 20 of them.. but the beast are still coming.”

2 of their mates already lost their lives while fighting, their leader was the only one holding the beast at bay, the other were just lowly rank hunters. Only their leader belonged to master rank.

The beast were of various kind, some looked like normal savage beast, but with dark aura swirling around their body, but other were much deformed and looked hideous. The only plus this had was that they all were low level demonic beast, they were rank 3 and lower, bullets worked on them.

They were all confused about the way beast were reacting, even though there was craze on bloodlust in their eyes, they seem to be running from something, and this unit of men just seems to be in their way.

“Don’t worry.. HQ has already send help… we need to keep fighting for 10 more minutes.”

Around the leader flew some small swords, creating a ring of death around him, and him fighting melee with a blade make him look like a god of death.

“Men watch out!!”

One of the beast found opening and went into the unit stronghold, wreaking havoc inside.

The first man standing in the front was careless and got took down easily, as the beast was killing him, the other men started shooting the beast down. Around each of the left soldiers them 2 swords were floating around them. To use in case of defense, but them having not much of spiritual essence, they can’t keep them afloat for long. But seeing the beast enter their encirclement, they didn’t want to be next victim.

After taking down the beast, they felt relieved, and ignoring their fallen comrade, they continued shooting.

“Where are all these coming from?”

The fight continued for 5 more minutes, before coming to an end. Out of group of 13 men, only 10 were left alive, and the state of their leader was not good too, he was the most injured and hurt due to fight.

Taking a deep breath, he went to the corner and sat down.

The other soldiers, were taking care of the fallen comrades and getting rid of the demonic beast.

“Now they come.”

Gerald, the leader of man said with fed up expression. This was the 3rd time this had happened and the reaction time of the ones in the HQ has not increased.

As the ship landed on the ground, and men with stretches came out, Gerald just stood on his place.

“We lost 3 people, some are injured! Take care of them first…..!”

The men were packing up the bodies, and storing them in the ship, they didn’t had a sad expression on their face, its something all working here were used to seeing.

Some men still kept a watch on the surrounding, to see if any other beast were attacking.

After 10 minutes of waiting and Gerald getting patched up good, they got ready to leave the place after packing their stuff, soon another unit of men will replace them, all they needed to do is wait for the next unit of soldiers.

Getting back on ship Gerald can’t help but say.” In the end, what had happened to those demonic beast?”

As a new batch of soldiers came and their batch left, Gerald can see far away a giant human figure walking towards the encampment from up the ship, He didn’t know the reason, but the thing made his back shiver.

“What is that thing?”

Looking down again, he didn’t found the figure, it was lost in the woods and forest.

Something is not right.

”Who …. Am …. I ?”

The giant walked in a dazed way, wherever he looked there was woods, except some sweet smell coming from a far, he didn’t know what was happening.

“I… hungry.”

He walked slowly, and with his broken speech walked towards the encampment. The first time he woke up, he was surrounding with all kinds of creatures, but as he looked at them, they all just run away.

The closer to the encampment he went, the more his hunger increased, he was still developing for some reason, on his head 2 horns were developing at a very slow rate, his fast growth was the main reason for his hunger.

His skin shed and a black luster was seen on his skin, his muscles keep getting bigger and more swollen, he had a pained expression on his face, and the hunger was getting him more pent up.

The more he breathed in the air, the madder he got, in this sense he was no different from the demonic beast.

He soon got out of the forest and saw the new batch of soldiers getting used to the encampment. He didn’t know what they were, but water dripped from his mouth. His eyes were getting redder, and slowly he started to pick up speed, as he was 100m away from the encampment, a huge sound of explosion came, and the beast found himself pushed back 3m , he looked down and found a huge shell revolving around it’s skin, before coming to stop and falling into the ground.

“The ballista aren’t working, it must be rank 4…. Men get ready to fall back.”

He was hearing the cries of the men from a far, in his eyes all he can see was bright blue light moving and shouting around, one of the light was brighter than the others, not knowing what they were talking about, he just jumped.

He jumped in the air 50m above the ground and before the men knew it, he was already inside their encampment.

“Evacuate..!”

Ordered the leader, before getting lifted up and getting his head chomped on by the beast, he was master rank expert, his skin was tough enough to ward off 50 caliber bullets, but seeing him easily getting killed in a brutal fashion, the man lost all courage.

“It’s rank 5…..how can a rank 5 be outside the core of the cursed land?”

“Don’t talk… RUN.”

The beast ignored them, and continued to munch down on their leader, his eyes were complete crazy and eating their leader he felt eternal bliss.

They were all hunter class, around them 2 swords started to float and flew toward the beast, but like the bullets they just bounced off. It was completely useless.

They made some distance from the beast, and looked at the beast with outmost horror.

The beast ate their captain whole, and then looking up, it said. “Mooooore!!” Roared the beast, this roar made the surrounding soldiers dumbstruck, the beast can speak?

As if some energy was restored in it’s body, the beast disappeared and appeared in front of another soldier, before the soldier can find a chance to fight back, he was crushed by the stomp of the giant, which then breathed on the crushed remains of the soldier, taking in his essence in one sweep of breath.

Lifting his leg, what was left was just broken bones and crushed meat of the soldier.

“Run……!”

He was the closest one, so he got killed the second, all of the soldiers already forget about fighting back, and just ran in the shelter.

They can see one of their comrade killed before closing the door of the shelter.

“What is that thing?”

“It can speak… it can speak…..”

They just sat with their back on the wall while breathing deeply.

“Don’t worry.. it can’t come inside…!” (*Flag)

Before they can breath in relief, they can feel the whole shelter shake and a hand erected from the place where their door used to be.

“Just one punch…….?”

Soon another hand entered and then spread open to make the hole bigger, and as the figure of the beast entered the soldier’s vision, they all shivered at the thought of their approaching demise.