Conceal my identity? indeed that would save me the trouble of being of being targeted by Derek but it would also defeat the purpose of me coming over...
Ken pondered over the implications of concealing his identity before he said to April.
"Yeah that would indeed save me the trouble but you have to remember my purpose is to get my materials back, not to pick a fight."
April retorted. "But you coming over and demanding your material back wouldn't be considered picking a fight?"
Startled, Ken thought about his actions and indeed she was right. When trying to get the materials it's inevitable that I would enter on a conflict with them... so it seems I won't be able to get the materials peacefully...
When April saw the look on his face she smiled and said. "It seems you have decided."
"Yeah, you're right, I should just make trouble with them." Ken decided that since he won't be able to get anything he might as well just make trouble.
Ken started the engine and was about to drove off when April opened the door.
Stunned, Ken stared at her in bewilderment. April too stared at him, the two of them stared at each other.
April asked. "Are you going there by riding this truck?"
"Yeah?" Ken answered doubtfully. What's wrong with riding with my truck... he asked himself.
April raised her brows. "It didn't occur to you that you're supposed to be launching a sneak attack, and driving a truck is kinda obvious?"
With a blank look on his face he slowly nods his head before alighting the truck.
I should really think throughly about my actions from now on...
...
Ken follow the road until he saw lights up ahead.
The lights were glaring compared to the dark of the night. The roads of Ilaya village didn't have any street lights nor is it cemented. The local municipality of San Jose didn't paid much attention to the surrounding villages because they didn't see any benefits in investing on the village.
The only industry the villages had were farming and fishing to those near by the sea, unlike the other villages in the southern part of the country which are very rich in mineral resources, the roads were very good because the heavy duty trucks often use the roads.
Recently though, the local municipality were turning their attention to the surronding villages due the controversy surrounding the local farmers, especially the rice farmers, it was reported that the due to the changing climate brought by the climate change, it was getting harder to predict the weather, causing bad harvest for the farmers and lowering the yield of rice and crops.
When Ken saw the lights up ahead he knew he had reach his destination, from what he heard from April there's no one living in this part of the village, so seeing signs of people indicate that Derek's group had made camp here.
He stopped in his tracks and crouched down, he slowly walked on the bushes to observe how many people there are.
After reaching the bushes he found that he couldn't see anything fron his angle, he looked around the place and decided to climb a tree.
He looked behind him and said. "Wait for me here, okay?"
April only smiled at him.
He tried to persued April that she didn't need to follow him but she insisted on coming so he could only shake his head in resignition for her stubborness.
Ken took that as a yes and started to climb the tree, he wanted to get a good look of the place he was about to attack and because the world tree had given him a perfect body, the darkness isn't an issue at all.
But most importantly he wanted to use one of his abilities ; Link. He wanted to use his ability to know how many people there are, the power source, whether they were armed or not. He needed to gather intelligence on the enemy but he couldn't do that in front of April, he had just met earlier this morning and even though she had been helping him to deal with Derek he still couldn't place his trust on her yet.
Besides it would be very obvious since he would close his eyes to concentrate, and when he opened his eyes he suddenly knew the surrounding area, even a dumb person could tell that something is wrong.
After reaching the top of the tree, he squatted and tried to link his awareness to the surrounding fauna. Ken felt like his mind were floating, reaching a tranquil state where he could feel every thing around him, the rustling of the trees, the wriggling of the worms, the flap of an insects wing, everything was magnified to his senses, he felt like he was one with everything within the radius his senses encompass and even though his eyes were closed he could see various points of light.
He could see different kinds of light with varying sizes and shape, some were circles, others were rectangle, as for their sizes he could see a light as big as a house and even a light as small as a dot but it was so bright that he was still able to notice it.
But the most prominent lights he could see were the seven large light up above, they were the color of rainbow; violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. As for why he said they were the most prominent, that's because no other lights were near them or more precisely no one dared to get near them.
The other lights were constantly moving yet strangely no one getting near the seven lights, they're not even in the same level, as if the lights deemed themselves as having lower status than the seven lights.
While Ken was trying to make sense of the various lights and the seven lights he was seeing, April was having the shock of her life.
Her emotions were in a tumultuous state that her body were starting to turn transparent which she hurriedly reign in.
With shock written on her face, she muttered in complete disbelief.
"How could he connect to the spirit realm?!"
...
Without knowing that he had just shook April's emotion to the core, he continued observing the lights.
What are this things... they weren't here when I was testing my abilities earlier, I wonder what caused this scene... what's different when I used my ablity earlier and brought me this scene... Ken thought inwardly.
He tried recalling what's different earlier than now, then suddenly it hit him. That's right! It's April, earlier she isn't with me when I used my ability, yet now that she's so close to me this happen, I wonder what could be so special about her that triggered this kind of development... but I couldn't rule out that it might be another manifestation of my ability... anyways I should focus on my objective first, I'll ask the world tree later... Ken thought before putting the matter at the back of his head.
He focused himself to link his awareness on the surrounding fauna, his vision suddenly turned from 95 degree angle to 360 degree angle.
Because he linked his awareness with the surrounding grass, his point of view was limited to the height of the grass, in short he couldn't see a damn thing.
Dumbfounded, he cursed himself for being stupid before linking his awareness to a tree, giving him a better vantage point of the surrounding. I should really stop being too stupid in this kind of things... he thought in frustration.
He turned his gaze on his surrounding, he saw a fenced area in front of him with watch tower and search light surrounding the gate. There were 6 large tent set up within and various type of vehicles including heavy duty trucks and Military Jeeps.
Stunned, Ken couldn't help but think to himself. What the hell are they doing here... this isn't a camp site, this is a freaking military base!