Zombies filled the area, and desperate cries, scream and shout filled the forest. Amid their journey, Kurogane's team encountering the zombie horde, and left with no one but the two kuros, they can only put up a desperate fight.
"Kurosaki! Hang in there!"
"Damn it! That expert just threw us away after taking care of us… how can he do that to the same races?!"
"Aw, just shut your trap already. He's said that the world outside is dangerous, and we're the one who refuses to live in the cave! It's our responsibility to take!"
"But, I thought he'd follow us to the shelter!"
Excuses after another came out of his mouth and in the end…
Munch, munch, munch.
Groan…
Corpses devoured by the zombies, and soon a person stood atop the tree near the zombie horde snickering.
"Kuku, the earthling is gullible as always. Some puppet with a bit of illusion to give and they'd come to my zombie den to be nutrition for my zombies… well, let's search for more meat to give them…"
The demon kin with his longhorn and blue skin along with his dark green hair, jumped off the branch and take his leave, unknown to the eyes looking towards his disappearing figure.
"As expected, he's still weak…"
Lucas comes out of the shadow nonchalantly and stare at the disappearing demon kin and wave his spear towards the hordes of zombies, decimating them without leaving any behind.
Light particles come out of the killed zombies, and transparent figures stare at him with gratified eyes towards him.
"I can't save you all, but, at least… I can release you from the torment of being a mindless puppet for the demonkin… Rest in peace, fellow kindred…"
Lucas said, and some ghosts entering the spear of his while the others choose to leave the world.
Never expecting that some of the ghosts choose to enter his spear, Lucas astonished and sees the changes to his spear.
The once crude metal with a pointy rock attached became a real spear with pointy steel imbued within. Even the coarse iron handle became a sleek iron handle way better than it previously was.
"So, this is the imbued weapon…"
It's unknown to him in Zhield, but 'Imbued weapon' is something normal in Anvil. Those earthlings which die in Anvil can become a spirit of others earthling…
However, every Native killed by Earthling, especially the evil ones, will be purified by being imbued weapons.
"Choice had to be picked, and those that choose the right ones will see the end of the path… I thank you, my fellow kindred, whether you're native or not… I'd do my best in this Anvil, and see the end of the path…"
Lucas said, still not know about the 'him' in the room of beginning or the 'him' in Saber.
All he knows that, after recklessly choose three of the option, he's being divided into three Individual. While he had the memory of the past, the one in Saber only vaguely remember who he is. While that also help him, making him someone which have amnesia and the talent he receives is somewhat higher than his real body.
Lucas Edward, the spearman here, is someone that has high attainment in body refining. While Lucas Luniere in Saber had high talent in magic.
The hub, that's the one sleeping in the room of beginning is the Lucas Sinaga.
"Anyway, with this, I can do better at hunting… however, killing that demon kin still somewhat hard for me, even though I'm already Rank 6 Spear master… but that demon kin obviously 7th Grade Necromancer…"
However, the fact he can order a horde of zombie and leave them behind while also using puppets mean that, he still had some other den aside from this place.
The zombie horde here is still small after all, without any 4th Grade it's easy for Lucas to decimate them. However, what's scary about demon kin with necromancer job isn't their ability to control corpses…
"Even a 5th Grade Necromancer is weak compared to 4th grade Spearman when they battle one on one. However, the curse they'd get and the specter hid within the necromancer is nasty things to deal with…"
Lucas said strolling to the shadow while blending in the shadow.
***
In the altar at the middle of a forsaken town, littered by zombies and ghouls. Earthlings summoned once again.
They're confused at the change of scenery but continues onwards. They meet with a ghost town, filled with man-eating zombies around and eating anything alive.
Scared by sight, most of them running wildly while screaming, which only make the zombies targeting them, while the smart ones were hiding to the house in the surrounding and search for information.
There's plenty of smart human on Earth. Just not brave enough to deal with a sudden situation.
Adapting to the surrounding change need time, Anvil is a harsh place for those that choose the [Easy] difficulty and wish for an easy time.
However, it's the best place to train someone that's had a wimpy personality.
"Wang nan! We need to run from here!"
"No, mister Ryu is still there! We need to save him!"
"He… he's already dead! Don't waste his sacrifice, Wang nan! We need to run now!"
While grabbing the teenager named Wang nan, Kang yu dashed out of the town with tears glistening in his eyes.
Wang nan, Kang yu, and mister Ryu were all from the same batch of an earthling. They'd been together since 3 months ago, from the starting 10 Earthling that summoned, they're the youngest.
16 years old Wang nan and 18 years old Kang Yu, bot were born in Asia, China, and Korea, respectively. While Mister Ryu is from Japan, there's not only those who come from Asia but, those from the other continent also included.
Having their lifeline tugging every day, make them comrade. The 35 years old Mister Ryu sacrifice himself to let the two teenagers save their self.
This experience makes Kang Yu and Wang Nan matured considerably and hiding inside the shadow. Lucas sees all that happened and do nothing but spectating the tragedy.
"Wang Nan and Kang Yu, huh… who can believe a snot-nosed brat like that can be the Invader leading Anvil to decimate Zhield as a Powerhouse, leading Emperors in the future?..."
Wang Nan is the one who kills Lucas in the past, at this point in time. Wang Nan is still an egg that yet to hatch.
'However, killing him isn't something I want to do. Because killing him meant that killing all of Earthling in Anvil after all…'
In Anvil, aside from its special imbued weapon. There's also another magical thing inside, for example, the Shelter.
Why would the Native choose to live in a shelter rather than making a more prominent place?
Like a strategically easy to defend and hard to attack place or the surrounding spawning altar where the Earthling summoned.
It's because of the unique characteristic the Shelter gave, which is.
"Status"
[Lucas Edwin Dragon] [Grade 6 Spear master]
[Imbued weapon: Spear Type Lv 3 (Imbued soul: 300)]
"Every 100 souls means a level, huh, this is amusing…"
At this time, there's not many that had the knowledge about the imbued weapon. Or so he heard from the other inmate in Tripartite World War.
It took 5 years after the Earthlings spawned for the Native to realize this fact, and the Earthling didn't know about this thing even after 10 years.
"Which mean, I can harvest them as much as possible until they all realize this, huh…" snickering in his cave-like shelter, Lucas then starts his training.
Stab, thurst, hack, and slash.
Every weapon has the same moves, it's either one of the movements above or the combination.
Even a simple hack and slash could be different for each combination and moves the user create. A Master grade user can easily run their body correspondingly to the enemy movement, and cooperating with their weapon of choice.
In Zhield, his cooperation with the spear is terrible. Even a slightly better Grade 5 Vanguard from Anvil is way better than him.
"As expected of Imbued weapon, the higher their level, the easier it's for me to wield."
An imbued weapon is a weapon with the soul within, for a Vanguard. A soul is the core of his weapon, the more the soul, the higher their weapon level would be.
At the same time, the higher the weapon level is, the easier it'd be for the user to synchronize with their weapon would be.
Ringinginginginging.
"An intruder?"
A crude electric equipment Lucas create to alert him when someone intruding him is more useful than he thought it is.
"Utube really had many tutorials which useful for survival…"
Reaching outside, he met with an unexpected guest.
"Waah, waah, mommy! Daddy! Where are you! It's hurt… wuwuwuwu"
This kid is a saint…
That's what he first thought when Lucas met the kid crying in front of his cave, surrounded and bitten by the zombies.
What's a saint?
It's the 4th kind of job, which isn't in a choice where a person can only be in luck when they're being picked.
To make it simpler, it's a hidden job.
"Ugh… it hurts so much, uncle… please save me."
"Sure, brat…" Lucas said while stabbing the spear towards the zombies, and move mana into the spear he had and slashed the zombies' horde into mincemeat.
Freed from the zombies, the kids' injury healed in a blink. After that, he fainted.
There's a difference between native in each world. In anvil, the demon kin and Zombies are the natives, while in Zhield everyone is the native except the Earthlings, obviously. While in Saber, the creatures hid within the world is the natives. Which meant, the other races in Saber is the invader.
***
Opening his eyes, looking at his surrounding, the kid sees no one, and then he cried.
"For a boy to cry so loud like this, it's not manly, you know?"
"Wuwuwu, Uncle... where is this... I want to see mommy and daddy... wuwuwu."
Soothing the boy, for a little bit, Lucas sat beside him and pat him until the kid sleep again.
Lucas always has a soft spot for little kids that thrown to this godforsaken place. In his years of being prisoner, the ability of saint was sought after, but they mostly being used as an impenetrable shield by those tyrants.
As scary as it might, no earthlings can live long enough, aside from saint, they are invincible. Undying, indestructible, and easy to control.
Melancholy filled his eyes when he remembered the gruesome sight of children which became a footsoldier in the war, even though it told children they're already more than 30 years old. However, all of them still had a teenager look.
Their eyes devoid of life, holding the weapon in their hand and swinging it along like a robot following orders from those tyrants.
Fear is always an easy way to control kids, and a tyrant had no qualm in scarring a child to do their bidding.
Several years before his death, Lucas already heard the news that Saints' of Anvil gain freedom by decimating the tyrants ruled over them.
While swinging his spear in training and attacking a dummy, the kid approaches him.
"Uncle… can you teach me how to be stronger?"
"What's with this sudden request? Care to tell me more about it, Alphonse…"
What do you think is the best way to threaten an immortal, Undying, and indestructible person is?
The answer is pretty simple, actually, threatening them with the life of their beloved person. Hold the precious person in your own hand and disciplined the Immortal while let them take a look the despair on their precious person.
They're kids after all, and it's rare for them to have a steel heart that can abandon their dearest. Either it's their parents or someone else.
But, that doesn't mean all the saints are kids, and not every kid are saints.
But most of the surviving kids are saints.
It's brutal in Anvil, and the fact no one can save them when they're in danger makes them given a hidden job that chooses them.
Every world had a different hidden job, while Anvil gave Saints as a hidden job. The others also do, have others hidden job.
"You see, uncle… that day, when I choose the Easy out of the option because mother and father always say 'if there's an easier way to do things, you should do it…' so, I choose the easy one… however, I'm suddenly transported to an eerie town…"
Alphonse tells him how he arrives in the treacherous Anvil, following the adults that spawned along with him and try his best to survive.
It's a stroke of luck for him that the spawned adults are kind and protect him the best they could, however, as time passed.
"He's a burden, it's better to let him eaten by the zombies rather than let him follow us, they say… I don't want to be a burden anymore… I don't want to get eaten by the zombies anymore… even grandpa and Grandma that followed me eaten by those zombies while trying to protect me, I don't care if it's not an easy path anymore… I… Uncle… I want to be strong like you, so I can protect people like Grandpa and Grandma…"
The firm determination etched on his eyes, the 7 years old kid holding a firm will in the treacherous world where nothing can stop him, with an immortal constitution he had…
"Hahaha!"
Laughing out loud, Lucas' laugh reverberating inside the cave. Confused, Alphonse looked up to Lucas…
BAM!
Alphonse body was thrown to the wall, sliding slowly to the ground. Coughing blood, he stares at Lucas with fear imbued in eyes.
Smiling sinisterly, Lucas said "grab the spear beside you and took a stance! I won't stop even if you cry of blood later! Move your ass now!"
Confused, Alphonse took the bone spear and grab it with his tiny fist. Making a right stance, that he copied from Lucas' stance.