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Chapter 2 - Unprecedented Encounter 1

PART 1

The Lycanthrope was known as the right-hand man of the King! He was Eisenheim!

He was a nine-tailed wolf with metallic ash-gray fur and dark highlights long and sharp claws. He had tattoos on his body like a tribal warrior and a tattooed crescent moon on his left arm, and a round-bottom flask chained around his neck.

He was wearing a tattered cloth covering his lower body and four-layered riveted Pauldron in decreasing size on both shoulders. Starting on his lower neck up to half of his upper arms, he had a bottle of dragon's breath on his left waist, secured by a red rope with dice on both ends.

A white mask of a wolf with blood-colored moon design on its forehead and showing its sharp teeth together with a long 『Kitsune Blade』 hanging on his right waist

It is steel made from the tail of a comet, which was heated and forged in a clay box, pounded by hand for a thousand years, and folded a thousand times to remove impurities and make it the hardest Katana in history.

His right eye is different; it has a mark of the constellation of Leo on his iris and giving a dim bluish-white glow. He had Zodiac Clock on the iris of his left eye and giving a faint reddish-black glow.

It was his ultimate duty to guide, protect and nurture the well-being of the Overworld. As of today, the right-hand man of the Wizard is the advisor of the Holy Government.

PART 2

Eisenheim telegraphs Kenshin to the Overworld. He was standing at the surface of Sodaenja. The planet is so vast, though, it looks like a half-burning hell and a half-frozen land on the outside.

But only remained on the outer part of the atmosphere. Thanks to the magic circles which cover the atmosphere and prevent it from reaching the ground. He walks with joyful looks until he goes to the jungle.

The only route to travel from city to city was a great pain for the people to travel in the jungle, but it was the safest route. Because the jungle has only limited space, the probability of mobs appearing is below 25 percent, and the Angels occupied the wilderness. However, people with low affinity can't see and feel the presence of Angels.

Hostile mobs with high levels have a tendency to appear in broad areas like deserts, oceans, and in high-altitude skies. Travel on air was permitted but not as high as the mountain or above the forest; it was to keep strange people from the magic circles.

The World Government Organization accepted the said claim and provide its people with the means to travel. A magic carpet, imbued with wind magic, can carry up to 5tons of cargo and a maximum of 15 persons. It was sold to nobles and city governors, and for the public, travel depends on the tax of the destined city. You can travel by foot, but your safety is not assured. The most hostile mobs in the jungle are the bandits.

"Huff! Huff!"

Speaking of it…

Kenshin breathes heavily as he joyfully enters the jungle and roams around without knowing what he might encounter.

PART 3

Notorious 『Wukong』, They Live in the jungle. They're a group of larcenists. They target any merchant or weak people who travel across the wilderness.

Kenshin walked into this world without knowing this knowledge. He acquired a pretty understanding of the past world since he always wandered and studied around the Four Houses in Holy Gardens. But the world he's in right now is very different compared to the past.

*STOMACH RUMBLING*

Kenshin felt exhaustion and hunger. He never thought that it will cost that much potential energy just walking a little outside the Garden.

I can manage a day and get food before my body gets tired, or so he thinks. Because back in the Garden, they never had the needs of essential things like water and food since the accumulation of Mana is fantastically balanced. The flow of Mana in the Garden was in sync with his Mana, and so like the Angels were feeding him, Mana.

After walking exhausted for a minute, he spotted shadows, meters away from where he was. From that, he assumed they were humans, so far. He thought that they might help him.

His eyes were dry, yet there were tears, his face is blushing in heat, and the sweat he releases from his body was cold. It feels like he hasn't eaten for years; feelings don't lie, after all.

"Mister...Help me

.... I need water and food..."

He said urgently and crawled at the feet of the mister in front of him. At that point, he noticed something's off about that person.

He slowly feels the man's feet and tries to look at the person. His feet had long black nails, and his ochre body is slightly different from a human that Kenshin knew; it was the waving tail. He only wears tattered gray pants, and a red robe was wrapped around his waist, and a large metal belt secured it. His golden hairs are growing all around his body; it was on his legs, arms, chests, shoulders, and facial hair.

The man is holding a long rod that sent off dark essence and golden seals with a monkey's skull with red hairs intact on end, the same on the other end, but the hair was black. He smashed the end of his rod on the ground and create shockwaves.

A mo- mob! A- appeared! A very dangerous mob! is what Kenshin thought of before. Kenshin shivered after realizing those off feelings.

The man glared at the kid with hostility and bloodlust and said "It's just one puny little kid!"

But that person's words ease him, and he knew even with that appearance that man was not a mob after all.

"WA HA HA HA" They laughed.

Kenshin peeks behind the man, and he was shocked, seeing five of him look exactly like him, but he feels different Mana from each of them.

He tried to compare them to the person in front of him and found one difference; the face.

When Kenshin looked directly at the man's face, he instantly noticed the crown intact permanently around his forehead. It was like in the legends! He had read from one of the books of the House of Intelligence. The Holy Relics of the 『Legendary Trickster, Monkey King!』. Yes, they are the band of trickster larcenist 『Sun Wukong!』

Even though Kenshin has known that he was in danger, it was too late for him to run away. Right after learning his situation, one of the Sun Wukong had a gripped on his clothes and said,

"You come to a lair of serial larcenists and ask them to help you?"

Kenshin doesn't know what to do with his situation, yet he knew that he had nothing else with him, and they can't do anything about it.

"Take every single item he has and sell it...

..Although, I don't think we'll get too much..." The Monkey King said

His weakness has gotten through his body. He can barely struggle

"Leader! He had a relic with him!"

*GLARE! GLARE!*

PART 4

The Monkey King bent on Kenshin and took an earnest look at the stuff he had around his neck.

"Oh well! You're an auspicious one to have a relic that's from somewhere else! That doesn't belong to this world!"

The Monkey King understand what he was taking right now and decided not to do so.

"Put him down and give him food and water!"

The Monkey King commanded the others, but one of them violated it and snatched the relic

*SCREEEEEEEECH!*

*BOOOGSSHHH!!*

It was him, the King's right-hand man. The Monkey King knew this the time he peeks at that headphone. The Lycanthrope, Eisenheim claws appeared, and in a single blow, their den was devastated.

"GYAAAAAAH!!"

The others were shocked and scared, and their face went pale and blue. Their feet got out of balance; they wanted to run, but their feet can't move, and their whole body was trembling. It was so fast, they knew what happened, but their eyes can't follow it. It seems just a wind passed by their den, but that wind was strong enough to kill them.

"Puff! Puff!"

Then they disappeared like a cloud with a *poof*, and only The Monkey King remained. He keeps his calmness, yet his bloodlust is visible. This world doesn't understand that the 『Simian Tribe』 is a great army of the past and led by

『Rhesus, The Monkey King』

The Great Wizard blessed their tribe with unmatched superhuman strength and to transport their own body in any place as long as there is one Sun Wukong in that particular place. They also send their aid to help in the war during Deviansue Era.

But the prowess given to The Monkey King is unique, together with the superhuman strength, is the unmatched agility, and to transform into 72 different animals and objects.

In return, he must exchange his heart with the heart of the 『Orc King, Mogul Khan』

The Monkey King gained great prowess, and at the same time, he was hated by everyone in the new world, but his tribe is exempted. The Orc King's heart was dyed in bloodlust and hatred; it was called 『Berserker's Call』 If in no control, the bearer would be corrupted and submit to killing.

"You took a straight glance on me and never avert your eyes the time I sent off blood thirst! Tell me your name!"

"Kenshin! Kenshin Zeib, I was a traveler"

"I haven't seen you at all! You're not from here, aren't you?"

"Hey! Mister!? Do you know who I am?"

With a small conversation, The Monkey King understands very well that this kid is different. Very different from the beings of this world, and with that knowledge, he assumed that maybe it was Yeuna's work. So it was really the right thing that he must not get in trouble with this kid.

'The name's Rhesus, don't say it out loud! Okay'

The Monkey King introduced himself telepathically

*RUMBLING! RUMBLING!*

"Hmmm"

"FOOD! Give me food...!

..I feel so weak today!"

"I don't have anything to offer you for now because your friend had destroyed everything I have...

..But I know how to help you with that!"