Chapter 5 Common sense adieu

The fireball got bigger than the one before and I got even more scared of her. All I could think of was that I need to get away from this insane family. As I was struggling to get free I saw a creature I had not seen before. It was a roach, but this roach was not as big as the ones on earth, it was three times as big. Because I stopped struggling Sophie looked in the same direction that I looked. When she saw the roach, she screamed like the little girl she was.

At this the Monica turned around and saw the roach too, her expression changed to one full of fear and screamed "Sophie, get away. BALTO!". At the unexpected stopping of his wife Hank looked up from under the table, when he saw the roach, he didn´t look like the covering man from before, but was like a battle hardened veteran. He stormed toward´s the roach and punched the roach from above. The force of the punch pushed the air away and a shock wave hit us all. The floorboard splintered under the pressure of the punch, but the roach came out unharmed. As he backed away a fireball hit the roach, "Honey, it´s not a roach! It's a cockroach! Alicia, take your sister and run!".

After the flames of the Fireball disappeared, the roach was still there as if nothing had happened. Worse, it was closing in on Sophie and me. Shortly before it could reach us the giant dog from before was between us and the roach.

What happened next happened so quickly my brain couldn't process it all. The big dog Balto lowered his front and spread his front legs, while Hank was hitting the roach once more with even more force then before. Because of Balto the shock wave didn´t hit us this time. At the same time, Monica was casting a spell that fixed the roach in place. Alicia was running around towards us. Then, without a word of warning a giant heap of energy was moving, it came from Balto, and as suddenly as it started it stopped. Confused I looked at the scene and saw that hank and Monica were backing away from the roach.

The next thing happening was impossible, a boulder double the size of Balto shot out of his mouth and hit the roach at an incredibly speed, but even that left the roach unharmed. That was when Alicia reached us. Monica was already casting an other spell, the visual of this spell was really beautiful, a blue shimmering line floated over to Balto. As we left I felt once again the heap of energy.

When we were outside a group of men with uniform Armors came running towards us. The man in the front called out toward´s us,"What happened!". Alicia answered right away, "A Cockroach appeared inside our home, Mom and dad are fighting it.". As the men's heard that their faces went white. The man in the front asked, "Are you sure it´s a cockroach and not a roach?". Sophie answered this time, "Yes, Daddy said so.". The man took a deep breath before he said," Terno, you go to the King, tell him there is a cockroach behind the wall. Erben you go and fetch Darrius Tell him he is needed to get over here right this instant. The rest of you, evacuate the civilians. GO!". After he ordered his men, he drew the sword and entered the house we just left.

One of his men came over to us," We will get you to safety please follow me.". We were led to a guard house, the guard houses here are small bunker that can hold up to 300 people I would say.

Alicia and Sophie sat down on the floor, there we watched as more and more people came in.

"Alicia, are Mommy and Daddy going to be OK?" Sophie asked her sister, Alicia looked at her sister before she answered, "They are going to be OK. I´m more worried about Rob.". "Rob? Ahh the guy from last week, do you like him sis?" at this Alicia blushed lightly "No, why do you ask?" I knew that Alicia had just lied to her sister, but I don´t know how I knew it.

"Oh, I just wanted to know." Sophie grinned at this, I think she knew that her sister lied too.

"Sis what is so Dangerous about cockroaches?" Sophie asked. Alicia pondered for a moment before she finally said,"Sophie you know about skill´s." Sophie nodded, "then do you know what racial skills are?" Sophie shook her head. "Every race has one skill specific for their race that doesn´t count against their skill limit, we humans we have the Class skill. But roaches have the resistance skill. That skill lets roaches ignore a certain amount of damage, when a roach evolves into a cockroach that skill gets even better. It is believed that the damage is first reduce by a percentage and then further by a fixed amount of damage. So it is pretty hard for a human to kill a roach and almost impossible to kill a cockroach."

Sophie was quiet for some time before she asked another question. "What does the human racial skill do?". Smiling at her sister, Alicia told her,"You can it look up yourself, just think about Skill menu or something like that and a blue page will appear before you.". As I watched Sophie doing something to the air before her I thought 'maybe I can do it too. Skill Menu'

Skill listRace skill: DogBeginner 1Mana ManipulationBeginner 2----------

I looked a bit dumbfounded at my skill list, I didn´t knew I had a skill called Mana Manipulation, but what does Mana Manipulation do? As I thought about it a new window appeared.

Mana ManipulationBeginner 2Mana Manipulation is the art of controlling Mana

+ 2% easier Mana manipulationSub-Skills+ Mana sense[

'Ohh that is what it does it let me control my mana so what does dog racial do?'

Racial Skill: DogBeginner 1Racial Skill: Dog can be used only once a day.

each subskill has different effectsSub-Skills+ Puppie eye[

Racial Skill: Dog – Puppie eyeBeginner 1This dog eye technique lowers the minds resistance of the target

Mind resistace lower to 98%

At this, I could only smile. Suddenly my head was petted, "Sophie look, he is imitating you."

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