“Make me an Awakened”
Rex snapped out of his daze after hearing Kyran’s demanding request.
Although he’s surprised by the goblin heads brought by Kyran, his expression remains stoic as he slowly looks back at Kyran’s eyes.
He then said, “How did your sisters die?”
“Killed by a wandering Ogre”, Kyran replied flatly, his tone becomes monotone.
Rex studied Kyran’s expression, “Parents?”
“They left me when my home city got raided by Dark Elves”, Kyran replied flatly again, his eyes are still glued on Rex and his expression is flat even with the injuries all over his body.
Hearing this, Adhara tugged Rex’s hand.
Rex glance at Adhara before she gives Rex a convincing nod, Rex understands this instantly.
He then turns his head back to Kyran, Rex paused for a moment making the others become nervous before he said, “What do you want to do if you become strong?”
Kyran lowers his eyes,
With a deep breath, he looks back at Rex’s piercing eyes, “I want to protect innocent people, I don’t want them to experience what I experience”
“Do you hate them?”, Rex asks.
Kyran looks at Rex with a confused look, “Supernatural”, Rex added.
He glances at Adhara on Rex’s side who looks at him attentively, he then said, “Yes”
Hearing this, a smirk appeared on Rex’s face.
After a while, Rex, Adhara, and the new member Kyran arrive near Wedron City.
From the Goblin attacks before, Rex manages to reap about two hundred thousand exp.
The city folks proposed to drive Rex to Wedron City in thanks for saving their city, it is a much-appreciated offer that Rex thought reasonable.
It is already noon when they got there, the golden sun is swimming in the sky.
They’re currently in an abandoned city that still rots with the memory of the Supernatural Emergence, sky-high buildings are already black and destroyed, many kinds of plants decorate the abandoned buildings, and abandoned vehicles are all over the place.
The place is a dead city, it is abandoned after the UWO issue everyone retreat to Paris which is now become the center of Ratmawati City.
Many Awakened from Ratmawati City then clear out their surrounding from mutated beasts and Supernatural, it was a great battle and this place is the witness of it.
The bustling city now left like this, dusted, silent, and empty.
“Sorry sir Rex, I can’t go any further because the Orc scout is scouting the perimeter”, the driver said to Rex.
Rex nodded his head, he then steps out of the car.
The car left under the other’s gaze, they then started to walk forward while keeping their senses up for potential attacks.
Without the driver even telling, Rex can already sense an ominous presence around him.
He can tell that something is near them, his Supernatural Sense does its magic but then, “There’s someone two hundred meters on your right, it must be the scout the driver mentioned”
Hearing this, Rex glance to his right, and to his surprise, he can see a silhouette.
Rex then uses his flash skill before he gripped the scout’s neck, he’s so fast that the scout didn’t have time to react before Rex crushed the scout’s neck.
<Killed a peak rank three Supernatural, Obtained 10,000 Exp>
Adhara and Kyran soon arrive beside him, they look at the dead scout.
The scout’s skin is dark-green, it has two fangs coming out of its mouth, long braided jet-black hair, and many skulls accessories around the scout’s body. Its body is covered with leather armor, and the scout is wearing a grey cloak that blend with the surrounding.
“This is an Orc alright, I found it weird for Orcs to siege this city”, Adhara said.
Orc is a very aggressive Supernatural, their race likes to fight and colonize places so it makes sense for them to attack Wedron City.
The weird part is that Orc has some sort of code, they don’t like to fight the weak and defenseless enemies.
Orc is a proud race and they’re confident in their strength, they are born to fight and colonize. Killing weak and defenseless enemies is a disgrace for their race, that is why Orcs very rarely attack weak cities.
Rex squats down and flipped the scout’s carcass.
He then grabs the leather straps that wrap on the scout’s chest before he ripped it.
Click!
The steel hook that tied the leather straps breaks, it makes a clicking sound before Rex inspects the scout’s body.
“What are you doing?”, Adhara asks.
Rex flipped around the scout’s body as he explains, “Orcs have a tattoo of their clans, the tattoo usually hidden underneath their armor or straps so that other Orcs will know the real clan of an Orc”
Adhara nodded her head,
Kyran on the other hand is also paying attention to Rex, he’s still new to all of this.
“Found it”, Rex said as he found the tattoo just under the scout’s armpit.
Rex studied the tattoo,
The tattoo is black, it is as big as a ping-pong ball and it is shaped like a growling wolf head wearing three bone necklaces.
There is a scar on top of the tattoo, it’s a three-bladed scar.
Seeing this, Rex stands back up, “This guy is a traitor of the clan, there’s a three-bladed mark on top of his tattoo which means traitor”
“The bone necklaces signify it is a third-rank Orc clan that usually led by a Warchief but, why did the Warchief use Wolf’s head as its clan’s symbol”, Rex said before he fell in thought.
Adhara is listening to Rex from the side, she then asks, “What’s wrong with Wolf’s head?”
“Only fourth rank clan or above can use a fanged animal as its clan’s symbol, this Warchief must be a powerful one. He’s probably mid or peak rank four”, Rex said with a frown.
The mission should be an early rank four mission, this is not what Rex expected.
Kyran is standing by their side quietly, he heard Rex’s conversation and started to become nervous.
Rex notices this, he didn’t blame the kid because it’s a rank-four Supernatural they’re talking about.
“Give me your hand”, Rex said to Kyran.
Hearing this, Kyran stretches out his hand in confusion.
Rex then put something on Kyran’s hand before he said, “Wear these, you will be safe as long as you wear these on”
He handed two rings, one silver ring, and one brown ring.
The silver is a present he got from Laura that can raise a person’s physical stats by 10%, he can’t wear it because it’s made of Silver but Kyran can because he’s not a Werewolf yet.
The brown ring is a ring he bought from the system for 500 Gold.
Kyran looks at the rings, he then wears it, “Thank you”
Rex nodded his head, he then thought, ‘This kid can sense the scout from this far even before I turn him into a Werewolf, what a frightening sense’
The three of them then resume their journey.
Wedron City is the city after this abandoned city, it is not far but it will take time if they’re walking there.
While walking, Rex told Kyran to tell him if he senses something.
Just halfway through the abandoned city, Kyran already senses five other scouts that got dispatched by Rex and Adhara quickly.
Because of Kyran, everything went well because they found the scout first.
If it’s the other way around, if the scout found them first then they might be swarmed by the Orcs in no time.
“Wait, there’re many of them in front”, Kyran said while signaling to stop.
Wedron City can already be seen, it is not far from them but they can see a couple of smoke around the city where the Orcs Camps are located.
The day is already night when they got there, Rex’s and Adhara’s strength has risen.
Kyran looks at both Rex and Adhara weirdly, he can feel the sudden increase in Rex and Adhara’s aura that becomes stronger out of nowhere.
“Kyran you hide here, I’ll go check with Adhara”, Rex said.
He and Adhara then dash silently leaving Kyran alone, they dash like a ghost with almost no sound coming out of their steps.
They went to one of the Orc Camps, it is dark but their vision is better in the dark.
Rex and Adhara stopped thirty meters away from the camp, they both saw many Orcs wandering around laughing, and eating around the bonfire.
The camp is inside an abandoned building, the bonfire is lit inside a barrel.
‘The Warchief is not here, let’s go through here’, Rex thought.
He then whispers to Adhara, “There’re fifteen Orcs in this camp. You go kill the four Orcs around the Bonfire while I take care of the rest”
Adhara nodded her head before she separate from Rex heading to the bonfire.
Rex already scans all of the Orcs and found that the Orcs around the bonfire are only around mid or peak-rank three so Adhara can manage it.
~
Adhara went to the bonfire silently, she’s prowling like an animal.
She already takes out her dagger as she approaches the lone Orcs on the side, the Orc is drinking something as his body sways around weakly.
“I run to the battlefield with my Ax~“
“The drum of battle rang on my ears, the drum of war makes me smile~“
It seems the Orcs is drunk, it’s singing a weird song using its weird language.
After getting close enough, Adhara imbued the fire mana to her dagger before she jumped and stab the Orc’s throat.
“I run, I run, I run with a smi– RAGHKK!”, the Orc’s singing stopped.
STAB!
The Orc’s singing got interrupted as blood spurted out of his mouth, he swings his arm to his back before he fell to the ground.
Adhara looks at the Orc who looks at her with bulging eyes, it then stopped moving.
‘I almost got hit by it, it will be bad if I got hit by them’, She thought, the Orc’s last attempt creates a whooshing sound because of the power behind it.
Adhara can’t manage to take many hits like that.
Just after she kills the first Orcs, the other Orcs around the bonfire look in her direction because of the sudden silence.
Two of them stand up and walk in Adhara’s direction.
Looking at this, Adhara immediately dashes behind a box to hide from the coming Orcs.
She can’t move the dead Orc’s body because of how heavy it is, she can only leave it there to be found by the coming two before she attacks them.
“Where is Yar? His ugly singing suddenly stopped“
“He’s probably passed out“
Adhara can hear the two Orcs approaching,
A moment later, the two Orcs found the dead Orc’s carcass before they widened their eyes in surprise, “YAR!“
But just as they say that a dagger pierced both of their throats.
The two Orcs hold their throats in surprise, their throats are burning and they started to get choked by their own blood.
Orcs are slow, they’re massive creatures with high strength but their downside is speed.
For Adhara who has the Agility Rune from Rex, the Orcs has no chance of detecting her movements, it is simply too fast.
‘One more’, Adhara thought.
But then suddenly,
SWOOSHH!
An Ax suddenly flew towards her, it is spinning madly threatening Adhara’s head before she tilts her head to the side avoiding it.
BAM!
The ax flew past her before hitting the wall behind her and got stuck.
Adhara looks at the last Orcs, its hulking figure covered Adhara’s vision, anger can clearly be seen in its eyes, and there’s another ax in its hand.
‘Let’s use that spell’, Adhara thought.
The Orc then jumped with its ax, the Orc swing downwards with both hands like a madman.
BOOM!
The ground cracked, Adhara manages to jump back before the Ax even got near her.
She then smiles, “Bye!”
Looking at this, the Orc is confused.
The Orc looks to the ground and to its surprise, he’s inside a circle of fire.
Adhara manage to chant her spell without the Orc even realizing, it stands inside in the circle of fire before suddenly,
BOOM!!
The ring of fire glows before it exploded alongside the Orc.
The explosion is so loud that even Kyran heard it.
Without even confirming it, Adhara knows that the Orc is certainly dead.
Adhara looks to her side and saw Rex approaching her while dragging a dying Orc, “Oops my bad, I don’t know it will be that loud”, she said innocently.
Hearing this, Rex scrunch his face, ‘The other camps must’ve heard it…’