"Attacked?", Sebrof asks with a frown.
The man that just reported this then said, "Yes, attacked Sir. Our department has searched in detail and we find no association with the attack, the attack wasn't from us so it is either the SCO or the Supernatural are fighting against each other"
"It's unlikely for the Supernatural to fight each other", Sebrof replied with a sigh.
He puts the cigarette away and takes the paper on his desk,
The paper is the agreement proposal that Rex gave for the UWO and the SCO to temporarily band together to kick out the Supernatural from the Great Barricade, he then stands up while reading the paper in his hand in thought.
"Why do you say so Sir?", the man asks.
Since the Supernatural has the same intelligence as humans and some even greater, the chance of them fighting against each other should be there.
The man then continues, "Although they're banded together, they're still different races"
"We somewhat know that these Supernaturals got sealed which proves that they exists a long time ago, and they definitely have histories with each other that we don't know about so the chance some of them hate each other is very likely"
Although what the man said is logical, Sebrof denied this statement confidently,
Sebrof reads the paper thoroughly before he said, "Yes that's true, but their hatred for humans is way stronger so they're unlikely to…"
While Sebrof is talking he suddenly stopped,
He raises his head from the paper while looking out of the window in shock, it seems he just thought of something but the man can't see his expression from behind.
The man in confused when Sebrof suddenly stopped mid-sentence, "President, Are you okay?"
"Repeat to me what you said earlier", Sebrof suddenly said as he turns his body around.
He puts the paper on his desk completely disregarding it before he sits on his chair and clasps his hands together while looking at the man seriously.
Seeing this, the man was confused, "Which part sir?"
"The sealing part", Sebrof added while waiting for the man to recite what he said earlier.
Looking at Sebrof watching him intently, the man then recalls what he said.
"The Supernatural was sealed a long time ago, and they should have histories with each other since they're all are from different races", the man said again.
But this makes Sebrof fall into his thoughts, "Sealed…"
Sebrof kept saying sealed a couple of times before his eyes suddenly widen in realization, he then glance at the man in disbelief as he said, "That's it!"
The man got even more confused as he saw Sebrof eyes widen,
"Tell me, Why do we fight Supernaturals?", Sebrof asks while leaning back on his chair.
Without hesitation, the man then answered, "They massacre countless humans because of their evil and savage nature, and we must survive so we need to fight the Supernatural"
"Exactly! Because of that, we didn't ask Why they attacked us", Sebrof said.
But this makes the man frown as he still doesn't understand where Sebrof is going, "Think about it, the Supernatural is sealed and then they somehow break the seal. Instead of doing literally anything else, they started massacring the humans even though we didn't do anything to them"
"That's right", the man replied shortly.
"Then what if we actually did something to them? We, humans, did something way in the past. There's no hatred that birth out of nothing", Sebrof added making the man stunned as he started to realize what Sebrof is trying to say.
Seeing the man's expression, Sebrof smile grows wider,
The man then said in disbelief, "So the humans from the past sealed them and once they come out, they banded together despite their different races and started massacring humans?"
"But even if that's true, what are we going to do?", the man added.
Hearing this, Sebrof then said with a huge grin, "If that's true then our ancestors are way stronger than we currently are, they even manage to seal all Supernaturals. We neglected a vital part to winning against Supernatural since we look at them with hate, now that we realized this then we need to change our strategies"
"Send an issue to take half of the budget from the weapon development, and give it to the Exploration Department. I want them to focus on finding the remains of the humans from the past, dig deep even until the end of the earth's crust if necessary"
~
Meanwhile,
Inside an Egyptian-style temple, there's a coffin lying idly inside the temple.
Silence covered the place as the sand flew around, but of the sand manage to even reach the coffin as they got stopped by an invisible barrier that guards the coffin's room.
If Rex were here, he will instantly recognize this place.
The place that brought him many troubles and also gives him many rewards, his first Pack Quest, the Carabidis Temple.
Because of Rex's doing,
Some of the places are still cracked and destroyed, the leftovers from the battles against the Carabidis Guardians are still evident throughout the entire temple.
Even the mutated animals vanished to thin air leaving the place desolated.
But then suddenly,
BRAK!
The coffin that lies on the heart of the temple opened suddenly as its lit got blasted to the ceiling, it creates a very loud sound as it even makes the temple tremble.
After that happened, there is a person that raises from the coffin.
If any people were to see this then they will instantly run away in fear, they will turn pale in fear seeing the corpse inside the coffin rises up from its sleep.
"Rrghh", the corpse makes a grunting sound as it stands up slowly.
Crack!
Krrsh!
The corpse's movements are stiff as its joints are very hard to move, they make cracking sounds as the corpse tries to stand up just like a living person.
Upon standing up, the corpse fully shows its full form.
Just as expected as a corpse that has been decaying for years, the corpse's form is a walking skeleton with many of its bones are in the brink of breaking just from standing up.
As if the corpse hasn't seen itself yet, the corpse looks down at its body.
After briefly checking its body, the corpse slowly makes its way to the coffin lid that it just punched that falls about five meters away from the coffin.
But even if it's only five meters, the corpse found it hard to reach it.
Because of its stiff body, the corpse needs way longer time just to reach the coffin lid before its skeleton hand reaches for the mouth part of the coffin and forcefully opened it.
Clank!
Even with its frail bones, the mouth part of the coffin lid got ripped easily.
The mouth part of the coffin lid exposes dark red substances inside of it, from closer inspection the dark red substance seems to be blood.
The corpse then puts its hand above the blood before its hand glow gold for a moment.
After its hand glowed gold for a couple of seconds, the blood started to levitate on the air controlled by the corpse's hand before a golden chalice appear on the corpse's other hands.
It's shaped like a skull and seems to be created from gold,
The corpse then pours the blood on the Chalice before the chalice glows with intense energy, the blood started to turn golden color before the chalice finally dimmed.
With a tilt of the corpse's hand, he poured the blood that is now gold in color to its body.
Swish!
The thick gold blood slowly flow down from the corpse's head, and the part that got bathed by the golden blood started to develop tissues and at some point skins.
It was bizarre and magical at the same time,
Not long after the blood covered the entirety of the corpse's body, the skeletal look of the corpse now turns into human skin, "This is much better…"
The before corpse now turn into a male human with long black hair,
After turning into a human, he tries to walk again before finding that its body is still as stiff as before. He then looks at its body again before he said speaking a weird language, "He was right, I still can't believe it but he was right."
"Humanity really does fall this low…"
~
Back to the office,
"Sir, What are you going to do about the unknown creature that came to visit you?", the man asks in concern since the creature comes and goes as it pleases without them able to do anything.
A couple of days ago, the creature visited again.
It appears right on the entrance of the UWO main office where they are right now, Sebrof even tries to capture the creature but its body is simply immaterial.
He can't touch the creature as it demanded the same thing as last time.
"What is the Frokoa anyway", the man added, the creature asks for something called Frokoa but he never knew anything close to that.
Sebrof's expressions turn troubled as he remembers about that night,
He thought for a moment before he said, "I think I know what Frokoa is, it's the creature that we caught from the demonic city that is kept safe under our facility"
"I suggest to try to talk to the creature next time, we can't use force against it anyway",
Hearing this, Sebrof thought for a moment before he finally said reluctantly, Fine, I'll try to talk to it the next time it comes…"
After saying that, the man nodded his head before intending to leave.
But when he was just about to open the door to leave, the man stopped and turns his body back around making Sebrof looks at him in confusion.
"I don't mean to eavesdrop but I heard your talk with President Vargas", the man said.
Sebrof raises one of his eyebrows with a questioning look before the man added, "I didn't intend to offend you but I think what he said it's true, the SCO is way smaller than the Supernatural so dealing with them later will be easier"
Without saying anything else, the man smiles wryly as Sebrof signals for him to leave.
After the man left, Sebrof laid back on his chair with a sigh.
His eyes then fall to the agreement paper as he thought about what Vargas said, he then takes a pen wanting to sign the paper but stopped mid-way.
"Damn it!", Sebrof cursed as he threw the pen away before lying back on his chair.
~
Somewhere in Ratmawati City,
Edward and Adhara came out of the black sports car in front of a lavish restaurant, the restaurant is a four stories building decorated with an elegant brown and white color.
They look around and find that there are many rich people here to dine for the night.
All of them are Awakened which shocks Adhara,
It's not an everyday thing for many Awakened to gather in this kind of place, usually, they are cruddled in a guild or university just like Faraday University.
"Are you sure we're in the right place?", Edward asks with a wry smile.
The pressure coming out of the passerby people makes him sweat, more than half of the people here are stronger than Edward and Adhara.
Some even emit a horrifying aura more than the others,
Hearing this, Adhara looks around confidently before she replied, "I think so, yeah"
"What do you expect from dining with the Burton Family? Do you think it will be in an ordinary restaurant?", Adhara added with a chuckle seeing Edward sweating.
But while they are talking, a woman suddenly approaches them from the side.
Edward glanced at the woman and find that she was the one that he met before, "Edward!', the woman called as her eyes lit up upon seeing him.
"I'm glad that you're here", the woman said before her eyes falls to Adhara.
The confident look that Adhara wore added with her elegant dress makes the woman feel pale in comparison as she said while stretching out her hand for a handshake, "You must be Miss Adhara, it's a pleasure to meet you"
Adhara shakes the woman's hand firmly with a bright smile and said, "Has Sir Daniel arrived yet?"
"Yes, he's waiting inside please follow me", the woman said before she started guiding Edward and Adhara into the restaurant.
The three of them enters the restaurant with steady steps,
Many gazes fall onto Adhara as she becomes the center of attraction inside the restaurant, she outshined all the women here as the woman guided her into a huge hall.
"Are you okay?", Edward asks while they follow the woman.
Hearing this, Adhara glanced at him calmly and replied, "Yes, Is there something wrong?"
"I don't know, you just look different than your usual self", Edward said after he saw the way Adhara walks with her chin up and generous smiles are so unlike her.
Adhara pinched Edward's arm making him flinch before she said, "Don't be too loud"
"We need to present ourselves better if we want this to work, If we look weak then Daniel will take advantage of that during his planned negotiation", Adhara added.
Edward frowned upon hearing this, "Since when did you start thinking?", he said teasingly.
This makes Adhara rolled her eyes before suddenly, the woman guiding them said, "We have arrived, Sir Daniel is waiting for you at the middle table"