The rest of the night was boring.
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NEE Day 5.
Inside a laboratory is Francis with numerous others wearing a lab coat.
Mechanical equipment is the only working thing inside.
A Diesel engine on the other side of the room fills the room of its noise.
What they are watching is a man providing the Diesel engine with small sparks for its system.
"Ohh... Wow, that's an amazing ability. Is it bio-electricity? Can he do more or other things?" Said by Francis.
Aima Ao, the man producing a spark is a 5'6 tall Japanese with a sharp chin. His body is slim but muscles are firm like athletes.
They class evolve by colors and it also elevates their standing in the settlement.
"Yup, Increase in speed and impact. Bio-electricity powered his body like an engine but he also has a limit and backlash for now." A woman named Hikari.
"So, He can wield thunder in the future." Francis is breathing heavily. He is excited for what is happening. This practically said that human also enters a new era of evolution.
"I don't know the limit. It will be base on the wielder right Ai-kun?" Hikari said.
They are a couple. Hikari is a biologist and Aima is a Japan Special Force. During the scouting, he went missing. They find him unconscious beside the shore with dead mutated fishes on the surrounding. Sparks still lingers on the place when they found him.
They said a total of 20 individual suffer the same faith and all of them gain ability because of a stone.
All of them tell that someone calls them. Someone said it was a woman but others said a man.
The most powerful of those is Megu. The kid that he meet last night. She can control plants and trees. Her hair also can transform into thick vines. There is a flower on top of her head. He didn't saw it last night. They said it releases a potent odor that paralyzed a mutated bear as big as a Bus.
The second is Aima, the limit of his speed is 300 MPH with a backlash of 1 hr paralyzed. Lifting force of estimated 500 kg or half a ton.
The third is a child also that can transform into a 5 meter stone golem named Kei Chairo.
"Record this and extract a blood from Aima and compare it with mine," Francis whispers to Vince that is in his ball form invisible below him.
Vince rolls to Aima and a needle forms. Vince pricks behind Aima while he is talking to Hikari.
He rolls again to Francis.
"Master, this will take almost a week. Power is low and processing this will shot my battery consumption to the roof. I need to limit it." Vince said while Francis just nod.
'I need a specimen. Maybe I need to go deeper for secrecy and a higher chance of finding one. But it's scary. Disgusting Moss like a giant and also that tentacle monster. Ughh...' Francis thought. Imagining the tentacle monster that attacked him during his travel deep inside the forest.
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Flashback Yesterday Morning.
Francis is seen running slowly. Still adapting to the weight and complicated terrain.
After an hour the forest becomes silent.
Francis's clothes are ruined and also soaked with blood. Leaves and dirt on his head.
Head of him is a grass-like plant. So many to count. They surrounded the whole kilometer land. No beast or anything just them. The grass is 2 meters tall. Swaying to non-existent wind.
Francis seeing this, shivered.
"Vince is this place clear?" Francis asks while gulping his saliva.
"Yes, No beast till 2 kilometers," Vince replied while flying about 10 meters high.
"So this is like a safe place like on games." He just runs toward the other end.
Inside the field of grass, the visibility of the place is hard. He can't see what is ahead of him more than 10 meters. While running he also parting the grass.
The grass isn't like leaves. It have a squishy feels like rubber.
He didn't see a bone of a beast in front of him because of the grasses. Due to his weight, he easy tripped. Desperate to gain his balance Francis pulls the grass. It elongates until Francis feels a liquid in his hands.
It was a slimy liquid. Thick and smells weird.
An idea struck him. Tentacle Monster. Then the grass breaks. He fall and breathe heavily. Waiting for something.
After a number of a second, he breathes a relief that nothing happens. Finding the confidence and mostly curiosity he pulls the grass to see it's rooted.
The grass elongates at twice it's size until a ripping sound came. Fountain of liquid came spurting out. It was blood.
"KYAAAAAAA!!" a weird high pitch sound rangs below him as the land he was standing trembles.
"Master run!" Vince said.
"Damn it!" Francis runs. The land rises. The grasses begone to frantically sways. It blocks his path. Some came spitting slimy liquid that slows him like glue.
"Shit! What is this!!" Francis screams. While running. The land cracks each step.
He sees the land rises to 100 meter high. Francis jumps occasionally as giant whips at the size of a giant tree truck came crashing down.
He looks back and see a giant eyeball staring at him with an uncountable giant tentacle with moving toward him.
"KYAAAAAAA!!"
Francis runs for his life. He will be crushed to paste if thousand of those things came upon him.
"Vince!! Release my weights!! Fast!! I die here if you don't!!" Tears on his eyes, snot on his nose. Terrified at what he sees.
It was not like those tentacle monsters on hentai movies but a giant tentacle with humps and slimy liquid that slows him down.
Vince ejected a small drone. It came to Francis and adjusted the weights.
The land was trembling as the smash of each tentacle is so heavy that land cave-in.
[Adjusting weights... Please wait..]
The drone attached itself to his neck and hold to for its parts.
Dodging the smash. Francis's fatigue begins to build up.
[Weights adjusting to Max sudden drop in 5 sec. 4...3...2...1... Please be careful!]
A massive shockwave came like a mountain crashes down as Francis landed on his feet.
Slowly the land cave-in as Francis is preparing to jump.
Like molten metal being pressed in the middle. Then Francis unleashes his full strength. His jump generates a shockwave more powerful than a nuke bomb.
*SShoooooss.... Bammmm..
The land breaks as it finds it's limit. Like a shrapnel in a grenade, it lunches stone and debris everywhere. The body of the tentacle monster beneath the land suffer massive blood loss as sharp stone and debris came shooting in.
"KYAAAAAAA A!!" Earth shuttering cry rungs. The tree bends as the shockwave and sound wave of its cry pass.
Francis launches himself afar in supersonic speed.
After a minute the forest resume it's peace or it's silent horror waiting for new prey to come.
Traveling 5 km. Francis crashes down using trees as brakes. Numerous trees came down like a giant bulldozer ravage those.
The place was ruined. Trees uprooted and stone broke. In the end, is a man breathing heavy.
"Vince I'm gonna sleep now." Francis sleeps on the wetland. Fully exhausted.