When it comes to throwing, the old man could be compared with a professional pitcher! Hence, the sight where the ball somehow slips from his hand is unbelievable!
It ruins his image as a professional pitcher even though he isn't one but his performance is.
Well, in actuality. It wasn't the old man's sweat causing it to slips, it was Kino. She had no other choice but to do it due to her barrier is almost reaching its time.
If the grenade is blown up, and the barrier is gone, she will get caught!
Anyway, remember that she learn all of the aura techniques by the age of twelve?
This is one of the techniques, wait no, three techniques to be precise. She at first turned her aura into a long and thin thread.
Normal humans couldn't see it but those with powerful aura energy could. This is the power held by Ichizora Clan, every member has it.
The thicker the bloodline is, the powerful its aura energy becomes but Kino is a different story, even though her bloodline is thin, she had powerful aura energy through intense and harsh training by the age of five.
Her thread is so thin that if her peers see it, they would think that there's nothing there.
Anyway, her aura energy is almost depleted but it doesn't mean it cannot be used, thus, when the invisible barrier is reaching its time, she quickly changed her aura into a hand.
it was a mist-like hand, she throws the thread to the old man's hand like a cowboy with a rope.
At the same time, her body is spinning like crazy and then, she makes the killing intent disappeared and these creatures are stunned.
In their vision, they are seeing a red figure and red aura around it, this is her when the sharp killing intent coming out but then, out of the blue it was changed to a white one, it was also exuding this cold but comfortable aura.
Sensing what's in front of them didn't have any killing intent, they dodged her, especially those in a close range. They quickly shift their head to the right and some of them to the left before finally hitting the ground with heads first and disappeared by entering the curvy soil.
Whether from the frontlines or backs, they changed their directions then enters the curvy soil.
Back to the thread, it somehow tied the old man's hand as a mummy and Kino changed it to a slippery liquid.
After all up above and the grenade blows on the deep hole, showing a second of a white flick, her spin then stopped with her head touching the creature's body and her legs is facing the sky.
She then stands up after doing some flips with her hands then balance herself then clap her hand in satisfaction and nodded.
The situation is pretty much safe and she could get out of here easily. She then looks at the old man about fifty meters away and sends him a smile.
Kino is just relieved that everything is over and can't help but form a smile on her lips, this the third intense moment in her journey!
The old man surprised by it. That smile is perhaps the most beautiful one he saw! Although her face is not that of beauty but a decent one, that smile has a unique charm.
Thus, without wasting any moment, she gulped down a few stamina recovery potions, it looks like water but its aroma is unique in a good way.
It leaves a relaxing sensation when passing her throat. It was a similar feeling to finally drink a bottle of water from an intense workout.
"Aaah." She moans satisfyingly and wipes her lips with her right hand.
After that, she grabs a transparent glass bottle with a cork from her inventory and uncorked it. Inside it was a liquid that looks like the color of the ocean but lighter.
This was a potion to recover aura energy and it was very rare on the market, a potion with a variety of prices but one thing to be clear is that it was very expensive.
Kino is rarely running out of aura energy. Her body to contain it is very massive if her aura energy is totally out from her body and put it on a huge dry lake, no doubt the lake will be filled with it.
Anyhow, this potion is very valuable and drinking it feels like throwing a diamond to the sea. Her chest feels stifled when she gulped it down.
'Looks like I need to lay low for a while and find a way to earn money.' She sighed helplessly and keep the empty glass bottle to her inventory.
It could be used as crafting material and it was four stars item, so selling it on the auction house would earn her a few bucks. Albeit few bucks, it still money.
The nearest auction house is about hundreds of miles away, it is very far so the only choice is to go to that city but here's the thing, that city isn't anywhere on the map, it seems the city is perfectly hidden.
Put the matter aside for later, she unequips her guns and it was turned into small pixels before finally disappeared into the air.
By the way, the long centipede she tamed earlier is still there, it didn't get tired even though half of his body is on the air while the rest is buried on the curvy soil behind it.
Again, it looks like a half-buried stick in a wall.
She approached its ear and her mouth is moving but no voice comes out, only the creature could hear it.
After that, she equips herself with the grappling hook gun and shoots it towards the curvy soil on top of her. The old man nodded when there's nothing to do here and by using the grappling hook, he gets out.
Kino's body pulled upwards and at the same time, she didn't let her guard down and scan the area with her aura techniques, it spreads to every corner within twenty meters in radius.
Her aura didn't find anything except small bugs and harmless underground animals, the centipedes she fought a few minutes ago also gone.
They are left, she thought to herself. As soon her body is pulled upwards, the creature she just tamed, slowly move its body backwards and its slowly entering the ground.
Kino on the other hand smoothly climbs to the ground with her trusty grappling hook. It was very smooth that she wouldn't mind thinking that she is safe already, that is what she thought.
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Tornado is still on its way, a motorcycle flying above hundred feet from the ground could be seen piercing through the cold night with the dim light of the moon.
The distance between each district is twenty kilometres away and the area they heading to is the third city. The second city has three districts, namely District A (Alter), District B (Brand) and District C (Cloud).
Each district has different benefits for players, for example in District A, players will get a small discount when buying something and health recovery increased by three percent per second. This is the reason why Tornado built a city there.
It could be used for low-level NPCs for a place to rest after a day of grinding zombies or complete a quest from the guild that is backing the city.
It also has beautiful scenery and a lot of resources. NPCs with non offense role often takes a trip outside the city with bodyguards.
Like that secret place that is full of materials to make ammunitions, only specific people know about it, if one wants to go there, they need to meet that specific person.
Anyhow, as they pass through the cold and harsh night, Tornado is very confident that they are heading to a certain shack.
The direction Asitana points at is the same and didn't change, this leads him to be worried.
Jun is a strong girl but an easter egg could be evil and good, the first one is the most annoying.
One time, he looking for an easter egg that was based on the SCP series, he did found it and thought it can't harm him in any way but boy he was wrong, he almost died!
Furthermore, that missile, why are there no missile defense is activated? The missile is coming from the north, he saw it with his own eyes.
The north is full of big bases from innumerable guilds that are beyond count yet their missile defense didn't work? How is that even possible? Unless…
Just think about the possibility makes him even worried, he then twist the throttle until it can't be twisted anymore but before that happens.
Asitana out of the blue let out a loud voice and point her index finger to the ground.
"Tornado, look! someone's in trouble!"
He subconsciously pulls the brake, leading it slows down. He shifted his gaze to Asitana's pointing.
Flames and dead bodies with gunshots come into the scene, two people on top of a truck shooting the upcoming zombies. However, the latter keeps coming.
"We must help them! Uno said we need to help each other!" Asitana suggested and this puts Tornado in dilemma.
Then, without giving him a chance to think, a large and long creature reaching up to hundreds of meters raise from the direction where that shack is.
It seems so small from the distance but Its loud shriek is enough to make the ground trembled and the air reverberated.