Chapter 5
What I Did Backfired On Me!
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When Amelia is searching the others earlier, Sera thought that he should dig more since the people at the hall can't see him.
Sera grab the stone block from his inventory.
While holding the miniature stone block, he grabbed the wood block and imagine it to be only 6.
There he saw that his wood capacity decrease.
Sera placed the wood and stone block on the WorkBench as he imagined his options.
There he saw he can craft 25 arrows with only 1 stone block and 1 wood block.
Grinning, Sera clicked it as the miniature stone and woodblock disappeared from their spots, replacing them is a lone arrow.
Although it was dark and he can't see it clearly but with the system interface light, it was somehow viewable.
(He was using the system as light ever since earlier)
Baffled, Sera saw the arrow flew at his hip, then he checked his inventory and is surprised to see the arrow on the right corner of his inventory having 125!
Although he already expected it.
Next he put 10 wood in the workbench, then he clicked the Bow option.
A wooden bow appeared before him as it flew again disappearing.
"Now I need to destroy this"
Sera stepped his foot on the workbench then he started to dig the dirt block behind it.
After digging the two dirt blocks, Sera placed two dirt block on where he came from then an axe appeared at his hand.
The reason that he didn't destroy the workbench earlier is because an axe destroying a wood can be loud and it may attract the Seeker.
Sera didn't want that so he blocked the sound from escaping first.
Although sound travels faster in solids.
But it became weaker.
Knowing that, Sera destroyed the workbench even without seeing anything as it was dark.
No to be more precise it was already ever since before but his eyes seem to have been enhanced slightly but Sera can't still see so he sometimes touch things.
Now he only need to wait.
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"Mom?"
The children, hearing Sera glanced at the cave and there they saw Sera standing.
Baffled, the children quickly approach him.
"Hey, how come I didn't saw you there!" A brown-haired boy in a ponytail asked.
"I dug a hole then covered it" Sera nonchalantly said.
The brown-haired boy is dumbfounded then he become jealous of how talented Sera is.
"Emerson, If you aren't believing me, go check it yourself" Sera said pointing to the hole.
Emerson not believing him curiously went inside the hole.
After seeing an additional space on the right, Emerson is dumbfounded.
"Wait you can't do this in just 100 seconds!" He shouted.
Sera nonchalantly look at Emerson then smiled innocently.
"But I do"
Stumped, Emerson blurted what was on his mind.
"It's unfair, I knew you use some magic on you!"
He grumbled then it change into a smug expression showing he know he deducted it.
It seems that in this apocalyptic world, Emerson is the only one who hasn't mature yet in his age at this cave.
The others are surprised since they also had the same thoughts and they started to murmur together.
"Since you had magic you should teach us!" Emerson boldly asked.
(Kids usually don't know what they are saying since they are always controlled with their emotions, making them impulsive)
The others nod and started to persuade Sera.
"Sera please teach us magic since we are a family here!" A short-brown-haired girl asked, her name is Liliana.
Aldous, the yellow-haired boy, Amelia's twin, and the most intelligent person in their age felt that numbers will pressure Sera so he added.
"Please don't be selfish and please teach us your magic, if we had magic won't we be able to get out here someday?"
The others are surprised then they also use the same reason.
One want to exterminate the evils in the world.
One want to build a town where no one will be killed by the abomination.
One want to protect the whole family.
Another one want to explore the world and find humans.
One just want to be stronger.
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Sera is dumbfounded, he was not the most intelligent person but he know the benefits of turning these people into a warrior.
- No burden.
- No hiding powers.
- Companions.
- People that will help him fighting bosses.
- People that will protect his house.
- And he doesn't need to worry about them!
Sera just imagining the fight between a boss and his team already excite him!
No 1v1!
We are ganging up on you!
But Sera still don't want to invite them in fighting bosses, he felt that it was too dangerous.
What if the boss aim at them?
He didn't know if it's really like Terraria where the NPC will not be targeted by the boss.
Or if they can revive, but it sure is a no-no.
He didn't even know if he can revive.
But he still want them to become stronger.
Sera grinned as the hormones of a kid took over him.
"Okay! I'm gonna make you all powerful since I have this won-" Stopping in his dialogue, Sera frowned and continued.
Dang it! Children's hormone!
"I don't have magic but ability"
"So from tomorrow onwards I'm going to teach you swordsmanship" Sera said while having a cold sweat.
What can I teach them anyway?
He felt that he can at the very least teach them how to parry or just let them swing from morning to dusk.
Just like what he always saw on manga and animes.
But the problem is he didn't even know the normal stance of swordsmanship!
Damn hormones I didn't notice you again!
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The kids are overjoyed and they happily chatted with each others, and also throw a barrage of questions to Sera.
Sera felt that what he did only make things worse.
Lying can really make things worse!
Suddenly, like a speeding car, a figure jumped on Sera and then cried and rub his cheeks.
"Don't scare me like that Sera!" Elijah exclaimed as she wipe the tears on the corner of her eyes.
Sera felt like his heart ache then he activated his ability 'Calm mind'.
I forgot I had this ability!
He felt like the hormones will attack him again and he will cry along with his mother.
Cry? I'm already 10!
Dumbfounded by his emotions, Sera assured his mother "I'm just hiding mom"
"Elijah" Amelia's mother, Maria butted in and said.
"Your son said he had powers" She giggled then said with a hopeful tone.
Hearing it, Elijah's eyes brighten and she immediately asked Sera.
"Is what Maria said right?"
Being conflicted even though he know things will be alright, Sera stuttered and said "Y-Yes"
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After answering and avoiding their questions, Sera finally is free after he said that he was exhausted with them barraging him with questions.
Sera just now noticed it, but there's another bonfire near the hole he made.
He didn't notice it before because he's too focused on becoming stronger.
(This was a common occurrence if you are too focused, sometimes I even forgot that I'm cooking something)
He look around and found out that there's 5 bonfires in the main hall.
4 on every corner and 1 in the middle.
Aside from that he also found vases near the wall and a lot of sunflowers everywhere.
Then that dawned on him.
'Wait don't tell me that the vase and chest in Terraria that we always found in caves are because of the hiding peoples?!'
'Doesn't that mean, here we will sometimes find people in caves?'
Sera felt excited at the prospect of finding humans.
After all humans are social animals that will always be happy if there's a lot of them.
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Suddenly two people came in, carrying sacks and dead bunnies.
"Oh, father is here!" Kyle said smiling happily as he greeted and approached his father.
"Father!" Liliana shouted happily as she went and hugged the hips of her father.
One of the men, Kyle's father had brown hair and black eyes with a perfect jaw, his name is Kaiser.
The other man, Liliana's father is a man that look identical to Kyle's father but instead had brown hair, his name is Kovid.
It looks like Liliana inherit the color of her hair from her father while Kyle inherit the eye only, as his hair is black.
Sera felt goosebumps on Liliana's father as his killer had the same tone of name.
Covid.
He sigh and glance at what they are holding.
Dead bunnies are on their shoulder while they are holding a leather sack with blood on the end, it probably has dead bunnies in it.
Suddenly two more people arrived and they closed the door.
The two people aren't carrying anything.
One of them is a man with black hair and blue eyes.
His name is Emeron, father of Emerson.
The other one is a man with black eyes, shoulder-length black hair, and a beard.
Sera wondered why the others don't have any beard but shrugged it off thinking that some people didn't have any beard to begin with.
That man's name is Marcus.
Marcus had a son named Mario, a shy black-haired boy with black eyes, he look mediocre but cute because of his personality.
Sera searched his memories and try his hard to remember the people in the cave.
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Matalino family have -
- Kaiser, Kovid, and Beth.
- Kyle, Liliana, and lastly the twins' Nana and Nen.
Malakas family have -
- Lucas, Layla, and Maria.
- Aldous, Amelia, and Lilith.
Robin Family have -
- Emeron and Marcus.
-Emerson and Mario.
And lastly, the Seraphine family that only contains Sera and his mother Elijah.
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Beth, a short brown haired fat woman, from Matalino family is currently carrying a baby in her hands.
It's a girl, named Nana.
Layla, Lilith's mother, also carry one since she can't let Beth carry the two.
It's a boy named Nen.
As Sera wondered where the last adult whose name is Lucas was...
A man came from the right where the bathroom is and greeted them.
He had brown hair and black eyes, this is the father of Aldous and Amelia.
'I guess that complete the family'