Few breaths later, the creature stands up and reveals its size, five meters in height. The creature's face is dark, not showing anything except sharp, purplish eyes.
Afterward, it notices two small insects, as soon the creature makes eye contact with this frail thing, the other one ran to somewhere while the other one stays there. Ready for a fight with Katana on its grip.
"Foolish human." The creature's voice is deep and cold, enough to make any humans kneel in fear. It was a foolish act to face someone in a fight you can't win, the creature then sneered coldly.
The sight makes Tornado scared for a moment, his face turned pale and his legs shaking greatly.
However, his mind managed to stay calm and he kept a safe distance between them, although his mind is calm, his body keeps telling him to run.
He circles the creature, hoping to find an opening but ended in vain, the creature doesn't have one.
Thought it just stands there, looking at him with a cold sneer and menacing gaze but it was enough to send him a crushing pressure, making it hard for him to breathe.
To ease his breathing, he touches his chest with his left hand, and his breathing eases up a little.
"Are you sure you want to fight me? You are just a lowly human. You should know very well that strength decides everything in this world, not wealth or influences but true strength." The creature warned and sent some sort of sting from its back, it was black and very thin, the size of a strand of hair.
Tornado is surprised that the creature could talk that much but that feeling of surprise is gone as soon the creature attacked him, he parried it and leap backward.
Of course, Tornado can't see that deadly stinger but his senses told to him leap back from certain death.
Not giving the small ant a chance to rest, the creature keeps sending a black sting from its back and control it as if it was a tentacle.
Within a few breaths, more than 300 stingers are sent by the creature and Tornado is panting. He solely relies on his danger senses and keeps dodging like an agile monkey.
Tornado then fought back the creature with great difficulty for a few minutes which ended by suffering fatal injuries on his vital spots while the creature only lose both of its arms.
"Die!"
The creature sends a final blow to him but is blocked by Clover, her small body sent flying for few meters then crashed into the wall after a black stinger pierced her chest.
As a result, clouds of dust cover her body and she unconsciously fell to the ground and she was lucky to survive that attack but her state is in critical condition.
In desperation, Tornado gathers his last strength to run to her body and piggyback her then ran away from the creature, into the deep, dark tunnel of the underground rail, the creature enraged.
How come it not? A lowly creature like them able to decapitated its arms!
Few hours had passed after escaping from that creature, Tornado isn't sure but it looks like the creature encountered a high-level player when chasing them and get in a fight.
He heard the scream of pain from the dark tunnel behind them. After the scream, he could hear gunshots and a lot of booms.
He also found some sort of storage room and rests there.
Paying no heed to the battlefield, he focuses himself on saving Clover but he didn't know what he should do.
Thus, browsing his inventory, searching for an item for medical purposes, and found one, he uncovers her worn-out clothes and uses the healing item by applied it to her wound on the chest area.
Miracle enough, it didn't pierce her heart but damaged her lungs, she may have trouble breathing from now on but Tornado will find the way to fix it.
As he applied the liquid and sticky medicine to her wound, he found something that seems to be a birthmark, it looks like a fox with nine tails.
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A few minutes had passed ever since the story started, Tornado told them the entire story and it makes them fell into complete silence.
Uno at the point, regretting his decision for pushing Tornado to tell it. He didn't expect it supposed to be a dark one!
Clover seems to want to say something but she's hesitant to do it, she then musters her courage.
"Tornado, thank you very much!" She said with a bow, "you save me from a certain death that even I didn't remember! I will stay by your side from now on to repay your doing!" She said firmly and her eyes are brimming with determination.
Her words are the ones she wanted to say all these years, he had taken care of her when she is a weak, powerless girl to the way she is right now even though he went absent for a few years, it doesn't change the fact that his advice had helped her climb to the top!
Her face is very close to Tornado when she said up above, Tornado had to take a step back so their face didn't have to bump at each other. Their bodies also about to touch.
He could feel the warmth of her breath and her body exuding a flowery scent enters his nose.
Tornado about to reject her offer but her oceanic eyes are the most terrifying thing about this girl! It was like a weapon at this point.
Every time he wanted to reject her offers or to say no, her oceanic eyes do its magic, and boom, he agreed!
Terrifying! Is she the evolved version of medusa but with extra steps?
He could only give up and said with a helpless smile, "my life is a mess and my face isn't that good, I am poor and what I do is just finding easter eggs. Are you sure you wanted to follow me?"
"Yes! You save my life many times even though you told Uno to delete those moments when you save me."
Tornado is surprised by her words and then looked at Uno furiously, and the latter looks into the sky, "the weather is nice isn't it?"
Looks like he just gets himself a checkmate!
All this while, he told Uno to delete those memories of when he saved her from danger so that Clover didn't get the pressure of being a useless and powerless girl who always needs someone to saves her.
By doing this, he could make her focus on her training and forgets the things that could distract her, but Clover is a nice girl who wants to repay her debts, especially for a guy who saved her many times in the past few years!
Memories could be forgotten but the feeling of something's wrong is lingering on her heart, it was the feeling of she must do something for a certain person but she can't remember who it is.
Now she knows, she'll not hesitate to help him! She's not the powerless girl she once to be but Tornado's absence for a few years making her nervous, what if Tornado turned out to be stronger than her that any opponent she thought was strong only turned out to be weak for him?
If in terms of strength won't do, then she must do it in another way, albeit to massage him or sleep on his bed or maybe make breakfast for him.
"Fine!" He could only say that word! He then turned his head to Uno to change the subject.
"Uno, is there any more report about zombies getting stronger all of the sudden?"
"About that," He then told them the information he just got from that d*** b***** Izaya.
Tornado is stiffened and cold sweats forming on his back, he's the one who caused that mushroom cloud!
Think about it, if he never uses that theme song to wake up that guy, probably that easter egg will never appear in the first place and that mushroom cloud would never make its appearance.
Should he tell them the truth? But it wasn't him who caused it! It was that damn Erena, at first, he hesitates to tell them the truth, but sooner or later, they will know it.
He took a deep breath to calm himself down and then said.
"I think I know who causing it."
All eyes changed direction and focused on him. Tornado told them what happen and they are all stood there, don't know what to say, except Uno.
"You living up your title as the God of Destruction. Keep it up!" He said with a smile and give him a thumbs up.
It's not my intention alright! Tornado thought himself, and after that. Alpha ponder for a second when finally said.
"If zombies getting stronger all of the sudden, then what would happen on the next month's event?"
"Next month's event? What is it? Is it a festival?" Clover asked.
"Yes, but no, next month is October and there's a special event on that day. Zombie party, where zombies spawned in all of the conquered city."
"Every city is spawned with a million zombies so players must defend the city, and as all players getting stronger, lower-level zombies become nothing more than an ant."
"Last year, only five players of level 300 went into the first city and they massacred them," Uno explained.
"Now that undead b******s is getting stronger thanks to someone, it will be a dangerous event this time around," Uno said as he looked at Tornado, which the latter said.
"C'mon! I told you already that it was because of that Erena b****! Ugh, you know what? Forget it, we need to report this to the guild's HQ so that they could report it back to Guilds Alliance."
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