《Re:Guardian (dropped)》Re:Guardian Chapter 9
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Unlike Kira and his group, the other parties didn’t care much about the village to help them out though some did work for pay (quest); one specific group even hated having to be in the village. It was led by a Silvon Count, an average height young man with silky black hair, cold black eyes and pale skin that gave off the feeling of a noble, he and his companions were like the dragons able to hide their true forms with magic but they hated it so they went as little as possible into town and only hunted to get stronger in their real form.
When they came to this world they choose be born as a bat monster, which made them be born five years before the teleported to Orilon, during this time they had gone from a simple bat monster to a vampire, Collin even possessed a unique variation being pure blood vampire which gave him more power of control over bat related creatures. All his companions were also vampires and held the same hate for humans. As for their objectives because of their hate they desperately chase after more strength so they can destroy humans which go against their god, Nyx the goddess of the night (Greek god), who like other gods want to increase her influence while having them like her and not fear her.
In the time they had been here they only entered town once, when they got here, it’s been three days since they left and are nearly out of supplies. One of the vampires Celina, asked about it
Celina: hey are we going back to the village we need supplies soon or it will get harder to survive
Silvon: damn, I was hoping to last at least a week before having to go back' he said and sighed, 'fine we need things, hey get the loot we can get lots off those villagers will so much stuff.
What they had was mostly hide and teeth from various animals though because they didn’t go back once they didn’t know the town had gotten supplies and had begun thriving thanks to the dragon party.
When they neared Orilon they became dumb founded, the village that was being overrun by the forest had the south and west gate completely free of trees up to 150 meters away and the ground was grasslands (thanks to Levi who learned nature magic) unlike before were mutant animals walked around now just normal ones walked around while the humans spread the grassland while clearing the forests.
Silvon: what the, how did they get so much done
Celina: I’m sure there is a group behind this; we weren't the only ones that came here after all.
He got angry at his misfortune, they were now able to improve their living conditions so prices will raise and lower it obvious that he didn't like this. Suddenly someone grabbed his shoulder, it was one of his companions Leo, a tall serious man that kept his cool in most situations and had become a kind of advisor for Silvon because of his calm personality.
Leo: calm down we don’t want you going off killing someone just because it doesn't help us that they live better now
Silvon calmed down a bit since Leon only speaks for his best he always takes his advice.
Silvon: fine let’s go and get out quickly I feel nauseous being near so many humans.
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Kira POV
Just like how I had predicted the next day was tremendously busy. The need for tools for repairs was totally ridiculous. More than half the village, which was about 15 adults, was outside cutting down the trees while the 8 of the remaining were processing and the rest helped repair one building at a time. I know what you’re thinking with so few people how is it going so quickly right, well besides my party, two other groups were helping out, but the other parties left on the first day and haven’t returned so it not like they know about this quest we got once it renovations began.
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Quest: Orilon Restoration
Help the villager’s repair the many destroyed and damaged buildings and help reinforce the town’s defenses to improve security.
Difficulty: F
Requirements for success: help with repairs, protect villagers
Requirement for failure: death of villagers, town gets destroyed before quest is complete.
Reward: familiarity with villagers, secret.
I don’t know what this secret is but I think this might be a chain quest, also it seems quest difficulty ranges from S to G so this quest is easier than the first, as proof nothing like the trolls appeared mostly animals that were trying to push us back approached.
Our group also got another quest.
Quest: Church Construction
Construct a church dedicated to the Dragon God Kaiser.
Difficulty C
Requirement for success: finish building construction
Requirement for failure: building is destroyed during constructions by either monsters or other hero's
Rewards: the region will become domain of you god.
This quest was obviously obtained from having the villagers accept Kaiser instead if any other but it worried me that the other hero's might interpret, because the difficulty suggests this but I pushed it aside because we planned to build it only after we complete the restoration of the village.
Though I said put it out of my mind I couldn’t when one of the groups that had left the first day returned and entered the shop.
Silvon: you’re the smith right fix our weapons' he said arrogantly while depositing his weapon on the counter as did his whole party, most had long swords but there were two pairs of daggers.
Kira: ok let’s see, this should be around...
Silvon: here as pay' he said and pulled a large chunk of meat interrupting me while having a disgusted look on his face.
Kira: two pieces of this size and it’s a deal,’ I haven’t hunted yet so we are low on food and these guys annoy me talking like that.
He looked annoyed and was about to shout when one of his companions pulled another bundle and handed it over.
Leon: here, so please begin.
Taking the meat, I put it in a basket below the counter and took the weapons and began repairing. It went rather quickly since I had repaired a lot I had increased the speed I could do it.
When I handed back the weapons back they simply took it and left.
Kira: I should watch out for them, I can see them causing trouble.
I returned to my forge and begin on more nails that were requested earlier.
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Silvon POV
Silvon: that arrogant bastard he dare request more.
Leon: calm down, he was one of the people that came with us, so he is from earth, if he came here he must be strong, also he doesn’t give off the scent of a human
Celina: so he's a different race
Leon: most likely, we aren’t the only race that can live among humans, as long as monsters can learn transformation magic they can look human.
Silvon: tch ... how annoying, let’s hurry up and leave.
As he started walk they were interpreted by a screen that appeared.
Quest: Church Construction Interference
The villagers plan to build a church for another god, the construction must be stopped.
Difficultly D
Requirements for success: church must be destroyed during constructions, must be the first one to accomplish.
Requirement for failure: they complete the structure, another group completes this quest before yours does.
Reward: takeover of the village
Caution!!! If you decide to interrupt the construction you will be labeled outlaws and will be hunted on site as regular monsters and will also be given have reduced stats while inside the domain of the Dragon God Kaiser.
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He grinned when he finished reading.
Silvon: hehehe this is perfect, we can test out our power on these fools while taking over this place without sucking up to these humans.
Leo: Silvon, please think about this the quest offers more problems than benefits.
Silvon: really because I think we have a chance, there is probably only one group that is under that god and if I remember there were five groups in total that appeared so its 4 vs 1 to destroy the church, it’s in our favor.
He grinned at how fortunate he was.
Celina: even if we hate it, there are some benefits to coming into town at least once in a while.
Silvon: even if that’s true, I want to avoid it as much as possible, anyway we need to stay here so that we can monitor their progress, so go claim one of those abandon houses.
At his order Leon walked off and came back a few minutes later.
Leo: I found a two story house at the edge of town will that do.
Silvon: yes the further the better.
With that they headed for the house.
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Ryuu POV
Outside the village Ryuu, Julie, Vent, Nika, Levi and Luis were helping with cutting the trees, the help came after it was cut because when they started to fall the branches up near the top, which were tangled together, would hold the tree up so someone needed to go up and cut those to release the tree. Nika and Julie did that, as beast women they have are similar to werewolves, they can take more human appearance that look like semi humans who only have tails and ears. When Julie transformed she becomes more wolf like, her teeth become all sharp and with claws and only a thin coat of fur over her body, which is the difference between werewolves and wolf beast men as werewolf are more wolf then man while beast men are more man then beast. Nika's change is the same as Julie only her tail becomes larger.
At first, when they began climbing it was just climbing but when Nika turned back grinned when she was climbing faster and said Julie was slow, that changed everything. After that it became a race to see who reaches the top first, and then who cuts more branches before the tree fell. Though their partners thought they were playing too much but the villagers couldn’t help but be amazed at the athletic feats the girls showing them. Many comments like
(http://www.dandwiki.com/w/images/thumb/0/0b/Catian.jpg/400px-Catian.jpg
Semi humans look similar but have no fur or claws on hand or feet)
...: what else could you expect from our saints grace and power
...: it’s amazing so young but so skilled
The other groups that were there stayed quiet and didn’t talk much unlike us; this kept them from making friends even though they were helping.
We actually got worried because of this, and I talked with the others about it.
Ryuu: I don’t know about you but that other group has been very quiet.
Luis: is that all that’s worrying you
Ryuu: no but you would think that they would try and become more familiar with the villagers but they are just ignoring them, I don’t know if I’m just over cautious but I feel something is going on.
Levi: guess it’s not just you then, I’ve had the same feeling for a while now, I was sure there would be people that lived as if this was a game.
Julie: maybe they just had a harder life then us, I would understand it then if they didn’t open up to many people
Luis: if we think about it they all should be around our strength right, it’s not so simple to get to this level without unorthodox training methods so they could be from some military country or something.
Ryuu: whatever happened to them we still need to be cautious I don’t doubt the possibility they might have a quest to interrupt the church construction.
We agreed to stay with our guard up at all times.
We spent the rest of the day cutting the rest of the trees every tree that falls, Levi takes care of the stump by crushing it with the earth around it and making fertilizer then makes grass grow where it used to stand. As night approached we had cleared a semi-circle around the town, from the gate on the south side of the wall all the way to the north side, 150 meter stretch of grassland had formed from the forest to the walls of the town. About three houses were repaired today because most of the villagers and heroes were outside cutting. Inside were only Kira, Melody, Alice and Relon.
Melody spent half the day to finished the blueprint of the church, which ended up as two story wood building, the first floor is relatively large as it was the main room and the second floor was smaller but had about a 8 rooms most of which were rooms, one of the larger rooms would be a study/library, though small in size, and the last is an office for more official work.
The second blueprint both Alice and Melody did together, it was for the construction of new taller and stronger walls, the current ones were at best two and a half meters tall and just a single layer of wood, they are shorter than the trolls that invaded. The new one will be 5 meters in height and three in width, which offered space to walk on top for guards to guard from above and it was in an octagon shape with two gates, north and south, and a tower at each end of the wall for archers to fire at longer range. It also takes advantage of the new gained land, it go out 50 meters leaving 100 meters of grassland to all sides, once it was all cut, before reaching the forest again.
As night fell lamps and torches were lit throughout the town, which got lively as the restless villagers continued working and with more works were repairing more the six houses at a time, they also took down several houses that had been two damaged for repairs the space that was cleaned out our group laid a simple foundation, just a few logs to mark the space the building would be, before going to help the repairs.
As the night dragged on we were able to finish the repairs and went home tired.
Leo POV
Unlike the other groups Silvon’s didn’t get sleepy, on the other hand they were more alert at night then during the day because of their racial trait as well as another trait, one given by their goddess Nyx, since she is the goddess of the night those who receive he blessing get a bonus in power during the night. Kira’s group also gets one it’s what contributed to them being stronger without them knowing, while Silvons group gains power at night, Kira gains power simply being of the dragon race and in human form he gets less of a bonus but the more he reverts to human for the stronger the blessing gets, the same goes for the other dragons, the partners work the same but their blessing doesn’t change. Though only the gods themselves know of this fact, but blessings like Nyx’s can be mistaken for a racial trait were they get stronger at night.
Now back to what was happening because they don’t sleep a few of them normally go hunting at night to kill time, Leo on the other hand was scouting out the other groups and gathering information on them, mainly Kira’s group.
Leo: this is getting annoying this group is the only one acting like kids, we are all pretty much the same age why are they so cheerful.
As he watched from outside he saw Kira and Melody chatting and eating some food while joking around, this angered him.
Leo: it’s like they never faced hardships they are just kids with strength.
As he looked he remembered the times he and the others were still young bats, humans had come and decimated the bat colony they lived in, the ten in their group were smarter so they hid and once the humans killed their family they set up camp and finally went to sleep. It was at this moment that they stuck Silvon was the first and he went down and carefully began draining the humans of their blood while he was sleeping, soon the other ten did the same and killed all of the humans in this manner, when they finally finished all of them underwent an evolutions into Vampire bats, all except Silvon who went directly to Vampire.
As Leo remembered theses memory’s his calm demeanor began vanishing and his eyes began glowing red, a trait unique to vampires which allows them to see in the dark.
Leo: these kids need to be taught a lesson but I need to be careful something feels off about them I don’t know I get the same feeling from Silvon and the others at night.
Though he didn’t know it, he could somewhat feel the mana that fed the blessings that the gods gave their heroes.
As he walked off his rage was forcibly smothered by the supposed calm demeanor he showed as he planned something.
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Kira POV
In the morning I woke early to get things ready for my first hunting outside, since I had a sufficient about of tools made in advance I didn’t need to work as all the houses were finished already and the new walls and church would only start being raised after all the surrounding trees were down, though Alice was already setting up the foundations with Relon on the open fields.
As I finished getting ready Melody appeared dressed in hunter cloths that provided lots of protection.
Kira: ready we aren’t hunting tiny animals I want something to let out my built up frustrations.
Melody: I was hoping for that as well, we have been stuck inside since we arrived I want to stretch my sore muscles.
We grinned at each other as we left and exited town and went into the forest.
As we entered the forest we were already on high alert with all sensing abilities active which quickly picked up several small animals that we ignored as it wouldn’t provide a good hunt.
As we moved further in we encounter bigger animals but nothing so tough until finally we found what we wanted. What we found was a primitive village, inside were many fat green creatures about 2 meters tall, had a pig head and carried a big club.
Melody: this place stinks what are those pig face things.
Kira: if I think about every fantasy creature I know the only one that fits this would be orcs.
Melody: ya I reached that as well, they’re supposed to be warriors right let’s see if they are strong just one of them by themselves.
With that in mind we stalked around the village until we spotted one group leaving. We followed them at a good distance so as not to alert them of our presence waiting for a chance to single one out. That chance came after a few minutes when the group split up and each one went a different direction so we followed the closes one for a few minutes until we determined it was safe to attack.
As I approached I was already in my half dragon form for precaution, so when he spotted me he stood still staring before squealing and rushing towards me and swung the club. I blocked the first hit to gauge his strength, though I wish I didn’t.
It sent me flying into the tree to my right. I quickly regain my scene as he approached again swung, this time I dodged him and clawed at him in the face and left a gash in his face going over his right eye. This made him roar in pain and much to my despair other orcs appeared and rushed me. I dodged as best I could and attacked back but even when I use [Mirage Cyclone] the damage was lessened because of the fat and they continued until I took down two of the four that appeared and decided to retreat.
I climbed a tree and sprouted my wings and flew away picking up Melody along the way.
Melody: don’t return to the village yet they might follow us, turn to the right here fly that way to confuse them.
I did as she said and flew until they lost sight of me then I turned and went flew a bit more before landing.
Kira: man they were harder then I though, I killed a few but it was hard as hell,
When I looked at her she knew I what I was thinking
Melody: we need to train more don’t we
I nodded before I began walking again.
Kira: ‘we probably would be able to protect the church while it’s under construction with this level of strength we need to get stronger’ I though.
As we arrived back in town I was already in my human form which was a bit banged up when the others saw me they were shocked then inviting them inside and explained what had happened, they all had serious faces.
Alice: I think after we finished the wall we should spend sometime in the woods training before we begin I’m sure the other groups are taking this chance to do the same while we work here they get stronger
Kira: I agree the orc village should make good training against multiple enemies at once for our half human forms when we finish that village we can train a bit more else were before continuing.
Levi: um what about the village, if we stay away something might happen, it’s not like all the groups like the village, and one of the groups is still gone we don’t know anything about them
Kira: when the new wall is finished the villagers should have enough structured defenses against the monsters if they train a bit themselves they can protect the town with just that while we train.
Alice: if it’s like that then we should get to work as fast as possible the more time we take the more time the others have for training.
With that dealt with everyone went out and began cutting the remaining part of the forest, it was more intense as we wanted to get it over quickly so we used a bit more strength which surprised even the other groups and left them with their mouths open it was at the point where we cleared the rest of the forest before the sun could set and had grass flourishing all over the plans. What surprised the villager even more was when we told them we would be back later at night after hunting and left.
After entering we headed to the orc village and split up with our pairs and began training, unlike before I was ready for the multiple orcs and was able to predict their movements as I was focusing more than usual.
After killing several orcs they stopped coming which meant that this group had been eliminated as I walked toward melody I saw her fighting when wielding a dagger and a short sword as she hacked at two orcs that couldn’t keep up with her speed even when out numbering her 3 to 1. After a bit she finished them off as the forest grew silent.
Kira: let’s take them back they should make some good food, it’s been to long since I’ve had pork,’ I said
She chuckled at my joke then looked at the mound of bodies.
Melody: are you taking all of them back
Kira: yes it shouldn’t be too hard.
As I said, short stone walls lifted up around me and the floor got hard. After a bit all the bodies were in the stone box an I turned into my dragon form and lifted it easily and took off only turning back when he got near the town but I still kept at half human as it would be too heavy if not for that.
As left the forest, the others appeared looking just like me with a bit stone box filled with bodies; we stared at each other then began laughing.
Relon: looks like great minds always think alike
We continued to joke as we each went home a feasted on the long awaited pork which brought back memories of our old world but it reminded that this new life holds much more life in it then our old on.
In the morning we began the construction of the walls each of us took one side and had the foundation don’t before noon were we feasted on more of the pigs before going back to work. By the end of the day the frame for all the walls were complete as were the towers structures, while we were working today we had the villagers process the large quantity of wood we had gathered yesterday and prepare them for tomorrow. That night Melody and I spend our time making the needed nails we would need in the constructions and only finished after two hours after the others went to sleep.
The next few days were the same we spend most of our time on building the walls it went slower then we wanted but if we wanted a strong wall it had to go like that. The nights had become our training time and by the fifth night we had completely destroyed the orc village, we had gotten used to their fighting after the third day and just hunted them after that since it would make the area safer for humans if a threat like orcs weren’t around.
On the tenth day we were finally able to finish all the walls and completely destroyed the old on which opened the extra space inside the walls for the villagers to cultivate crops in safety, though just for self-use. This completed the quest restoration quest and but since we had max familiarity with the village it didn’t do much though the secret on the other hand was much more helpful. Warin handed us a map of the area with some details of the terrain around the village, this help info they could gather before the monsters attacked but it was good to have a map, what was more interesting is that it showed which way they came from to reach an established settlement and it was far easily a two day flight for us it would easily be over a two week travel on the ground.
After that we spent a few days hunting until we couldn’t find anything that could actually make us sweat like the orcs did at the start so we began the construction of the church. It was at that point that we were glad we had taken the time to train, as soon as we began raising the walls of the church the group’s attitude changed so we stopped going home and stayed at the church to watch it taking turns to watch while the others slept.
It was on the third day that they made their move; at night the group I had fixed the weapons of one the third day walked but during Melody’s shift she quickly called us from inside the church that had the first floor with its walls already raised.
Silvon: finally I was getting tired of waiting to kill all of you.
As he said that we could feel a cold killing intent coming from him and his companions.
Silvon: it’s been nauseating watching how cheerful you kids are while you run all over the place.
When I looked to the side even the calm man at the time we giving a distorted grin full of malice they all looked crazy but the killing intent was clearly showing how serious they were.
Kira: what is it, if you don’t want to be here, leave then.
Silvon: don’t kid me I want to kill humans I want to see others grovel at my feet and that what I will do to this place first then I will take that map and go to next one, one after another until no humans are left.
His eyes showed his seriousness in his words, but as he finished talking I began getting annoyed.
Kira: if that’s so then you’ll have to take it over my dead body
Silvon: with pleasure
He then rushed out at me and I did the same to him suddenly everyone rushed out and began fighting.
My fight with Silvon was the most intense of all when he grew wings and began flying he stared at me with a grin until I turned half human and sprouted wings as well and flew fast after him and pounding him with more power than before. He had a grim face when is started to go on the offensive. It lasted a bit of time before we separated and stayed floating in the air.
Silvon: Bastards what the hell are you, I saw you transform before by but why do you have wings how did you get stronger!?
I grinned at him in the same manner he did to me.
Kira: me get stronger, no your mistake I have always been stronger then you all I did was hold back to study your crazy way of fighting.
My words hit him hard as he lowered his head, then he began laughing hysterically.
Silvon: you held back, hahahaha that’s funny fine then let’s see if you can hold back this.
Suddenly his body began growing his wings got larger his hair got wild and spread out in all directions and his limbs grew long and thin.
(Similar to this http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/273/1/6/death_note__ryuk_shinigami_by_skychow-d5gc85f.jpg just without the skin on his neck being attached normally to his body instead of being mask like)
Silvon: hahaha, now what will you do.
As he said that he vanished and appeared in front of me and punches me down but I stopped about halfway to the ground as I sense him approaching and punch his way but he was gone by the time my punch arrived there.
Silvon: you can’t catch me in the night we grow stronger at night, now die.
As he said that he appears behind me and slashes with his claws.
Though he should have felt my flesh resisting his claws it didn’t, on the contrary I had grabbed his claws without even turning around
Kira: I knew it you like to torture or prey by hitting from behind before killing them in the same place, you should rethink your fighting style it’s to predicable now like before I’ll tell you again I was holding back to study you.
Rage spread throughout Silvon as he saw he was being played with by someone that wasn’t even going all out. He lifted his other hand and tried to slash me with it but I just caught it as well I then moved in closer so I held his hands and not just the claws and then began squeezing them.
He roared in pain at having his hands squeezed and it only got louder as I slowly increased the pressure.
Suddenly I head a girl’s voice call from behind.
…: let him go if you want this girl back
When I looked back what I saw was Celina, holding Melody with her claws to her neck.
The moment I saw that it was like time froze, it took a few moments for me to process things but the moment I did I let go of him and turned towards her with my head hanging a bit down letting a shadow cover my face.
Celina: hehe good now then die bitch.
She pulled her claw away from melody to add force but before she could start swinging she felt a killing intent so intense she stopped breathing for a moment and looked at the source. It was in front of her floating with only a few beats of his wing. I just floated there letting out, rage filled killing intent but it wasn’t like a swirling rage it was calm so calm it was scary such a feeling existed. When I lifted my head, my sapphire eyes were giving off a bright glow while the rest of my body was covered in shadow that seemed to blur because of the pressure coming out of him.
Kira: I’ll say this once put her down’ I said in a cold emotionless voice
Celina just stayed their unable to regain her scenes out of fear.
Kira: I said let. Her. GO!!
The last word caused the pressure start swirling around violently as my rage began agitating.
Both Silvon and Celina were caught unprepared and even forgot to flap their own wings and began falling for a short distance before they remembered. As they tried to remain in the air they were below me now as the pressure made them feel they were submerged in the ocean. Unnoticed by everyone the clear night sky had become covered in thunderclouds and when they finally noticed it was when a single bolt of lightning shot across the sky just overhead forming a root like appearance in the sky while causing a tremendous blast as it passed through the air in between the cloud. The sound was so strong it caused the vibrations throughout the area and made everyone wince in pain and surprised.
When everyone was able to regain their scenes they looked up to were Kira had been but saw he was go. Everyone below saw where he was but the two vampires in couldn’t find him that is until Celina noticed what happened.
When she looked down she saw she wasn’t holding Melody anymore what horrified her even more was when she looked at her right arm. All the way to the elbow had been cut cleanly off. After looking a few seconds the waves of pain finally reached her which caused her began roaring in pain as she fell to the ground, since she couldn’t continue flying after fearing for her life so much and getting cut like this.
The fear also overtook Silvon he landed roughly as he was having a hard time controlling he own body under the intense pressure. Kira had already landed near the church and deposited Melody in front of the building.
Melody: Kira are you alright, you need to calm down a bit.
Kira: don’t worry, I’m perfectly normal even now but I won’t be satisfied without destroying them.
I then turned around ignoring any more comments from her. The two groups had stopped fighting and separated so Silvons was grouped up in a bunch away from my group.
Kira: guy’s I’ll deal with the rest I need an outlet for my anger so don’t interfere.
They just nodded and stepped back.
All ten of their faces showed fear as I approached but the Silvon stood and rushed out and tried to hit me only to receive a punch in the gut that threw him over the town walls landing outside. Before any of them could react I punched them in the same manner and sent them in the same direction.
Alice: hey what’s he doing?
Ryuu: I have a guess; simply it’s too dangerous to fight as a dragon in town.
Just as he said that I fly after them and stop about five meters in the air, over the group of vampires.
Kira: you said you would make humans grovel under your feet right, with your strength you would die soon even if you could beat me but since you’re going to die I’ll let you die knowing what truly killed you.
As I finished my body began growing larger, small spikes appeared on my back my muscles grew larger and my neck grew longer as my body returned to its dragon form. As it grew I landed on the ground but kept standing on my hind legs as I grew larger than the walls, at 5 meters tall double my size when on all four. All this left them trembling and paralyzed with fear.
Silvon: y-y-y-you’re a d-d-dragon.
Kira: I’ll show you what a dragon’s wrath feels like.
I said and lifted off until I as over the town and faced them.
Though they couldn’t see sparks were shooting from the spikes on my back as I generated electricity in my body. After a few seconds I had charged my breath attack.
Kira: die you trash.
I said and blasted a large tornado clad in lightning.
They only had time to turn around and start running before the blade like winds caught them while the electricity stunned and burnt their bodies. When everything had calmed down the only sound was of the people running outside or onto the wall to see the damage of the fight. In the grassland there was a large scar on the land that had ten bodies spread out with it the burnt land, it was frightening to think that their bodies didn’t get destroyed down with that attack. After releasing my attack I landed outside and turned back to human as my group approached me.
Melody: are you alright Kira.
Kira: don’t worry... I’m fine just... a little... tired.
I was gasping for air as I felt large waves a pain all over my body. While I was fighting I hadn't noticed that some notifications had appeared.
Statues: Berserk
Due to your intense anger you have entered a state of berserk.
All stats increase by 20%
New skill: Dragons Wrath
The dragon’s race is a race that doesn’t anger easily but once they do, their wrath will fall over all that are associated with their target with all their might.
This is a passive skill that activates only when you feel intense anger towards an individual or group.
All stats double while it’s in effect.
Warning use skill with caution, due to doubling you bodies power it puts it under extreme stress, you will require adequate rest after use
Relon: um Kira, I was wondering how you got so powerful, I know your strong but the strength you displayed was beyond what we know.
I grinned then showed them the last two notifications, which left them speechless.
Levi: I have read books with virtual reality as a theme they always include a berserk stat for monsters which increase their abilities.
Luis: I’ve read that two, to think this world includes something like that.
As they talk my visions began to blur.
Kira: urge I need to rest the pain is killing me.
As I fell I felt my body being grabbed before fainting.
When I woke up it was already day time, as I looked around I saw I was in my room. When I moved I still felt lots of pain but it was tolerable now. Sitting up I noticed Melody sleeping on a chair with her head on my bed, yes just like in the manga, around her were a few buckets of water and cloths. Suddenly the doors burst open and to my complete surprise it was Angela who came in followed by a few others.
Angela: well now already recovered enough to sit up.
Kira: what are you doing here, isn’t the church still under construction.
Relon: you’ve been out cold with a high fever for almost a week, Melody took care of you while we worked on the construction, and the villagers helped out a lot.
Angela: I was so surprised when the first thing they did after I appeared was drag me here to have me help you with advanced level healing magic.
Kira: so it was that bad.
She nodded and took a seat on a chair nearby.
Angela: your muscles were partially torn all over your body because of the stress you were put under during your little fight, you need to stop being so impulsive.
Kira: well going berserk after seeing Melody captured wasn’t something you could see and stay calm in whatever situation you’re in.
She sighed then rubbed her forehead.
Angela: I’m just glad you could hold onto your sanity while in that state, Dragons Wrath isn’t something to play around with, if you’re not careful you will attack your allies and everyone one around you.
At this time Melody began waking up. When she saw me awake she started crying.
Melody: y-your awake hic, I’m so glad hic
I smiled then patted her head, ‘even if she has grown she is still that timid little girl’ I though.
Kira: thank you for taking care of me while I was sick.
Then I got up slowly as I was still very sore.
Angela: you still need to rest a few more days so no work or hunting got it.
Kira: yes, I get it I won’t over exert myself.
It was then that I noticed the noise outside. When I looked through the window the town was full of people dressed like soldiers accompanied by lizard based creatures.
Kira: hey what’s with all these people?
Angela: oh them they are part of last year’s gradate class they were on standby in some of the cities back in the kingdoms until you built the church, they range from army soldiers to engineers so this town will grow with security from now on.
Alice: you know there are some that have started making a road heading towards the nearest road to connect and set up trade routes with merchants up north, it quite amazing how well prepared they are .
Kira: ya, I feel that we were just vanguards for this advance.
Angela: you’re not wrong about that, the people outside are close to your levels in strength but they would have a hard time reaching this frontier and surviving, they don’t have the same potential for growth and adaptability as you guys have.
We continued talking for a while before they went out, with the increase people the town need to grow more so they were working hard with the new arrivals.
I didn’t leave the house, only watched them as more of the new workers lifted the frames for new buildings that were being built. Not knowing what to do to kill time, I pulled out the map Warin gave me and looked through it; the map had been updated a lot by the others as they hunted over the past few days. It showed half a dozen different monster tribe locations including the orc village we destroyed; it seems to have been converted into a hunting camp for the village. As I look my eyes fell on the south were it was empty.
Kira: hm the south is unexplored, wonder if their anything worth finding that way.
I said and smiled as I think about what the future holds for us.
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