Damon felt a slight rush of ki flow into his body as his ki pool went back up as he deactivated everything including firebolt which he never used.
92/500 ki pool points
the ki I used for the firebolt was returned to me, good to know it can be returned if I don't completely use it Damon thought reading the transparent screen.
"You're ok."
"yea I'm good." Damon responded to Jolly.
soon after miss grey walked over giving Damon a hug while whispering in his ear.
"I see you've awakened, that's great news she says with a smile."
she could sense a soul core within him which led her to believe he had awakened.
"everyone we have to move on to the bunker, the battle is over we must regroup with the others." miss grey says.
they all moved out and headed to the south side of the city.
Along the way Alice kept glancing in Damon's direction.
"he's so different now,I mean that power, that soul beast how is that possible just yesterday he was completely different." Alice thinks to herself.
the boy Damon saw earlier with the tiger soul beast along with the twins steel and copper was amongst the people that came with miss grey and Jolly.
"they too would occasionally glance in Damon's direction. they didn't see the fight, but they did see him deactivate a dark cloud in the sky above him that poured down rain in that one area along with an electric current that covered his hands.
"you think he got his power from his curse, I mean usually it would just rain and the rain did absolutely nothing, but look at him now he has the power of lightning for god sakes." copper says to his brother steel.
"maybe so, or maybe he always had that power and the rain was the only thing he could control until now." steel responded.
"yea, that does sound like a solid explanation,so his curse wasn't a curse after all then." said copper.
"either way he's the first I've seen with multiple abilities unless that one ability ties into the rest which would actually be one ability....I think." ahhh nevermind my head is starting to hurt just thinking about it." copper spoke.
"when the time presents itself we will just ask him, there are many abilities that seem like multiple I mean our abilities aren't exactly normal considering how most abilities are straight forward" steel says to copper.
"yea that's true."
After a while they arrived outside a building that was currently surrounded by many people they never seen before besides sir Hughes and a few others.
many of them were sitting on the ground and on the street while a few stood.
"who are they." asked Jolly
"sir Hughes people I guess, remember he said we could run into them earlier but we didn't." said Damon.
Damon, Jolly, the twins and the same boy who had the black tiger beast with red stripes moved to an area that wasn't crowded and spoke amongst each other while Miss grey,sir Hughes and nurse heart conversed.
Over an hour had passed and jolly and Damon's energy had returned a good bit.
sir Hughes walked to the center of the street.
"may I have your attention, as you all are painfully aware the village city is in complete shambles though many buildings still stand, there are many more that have been destroyed. I contacted the kingdom courts and now they are fully aware of our situation."
"unfortunately I have been given the task to provide physical proof of the threat and visual proof of our cities conditions before help will come.
"therefore I'm afraid there will be some time before the city is in livable conditions again, if you do not wish to stay here in these poor conditions you may accompany me on my journey. I'm sure the capital will allow many of us to take refuge there until some things are settled."
"sir Hughes I have family I can stay with in coast city, that's on the way to the capital. I'm sorry but with all that has happened I don't think I want to stay here any longer." a middle aged man says.
"me too, I have somewhere I can go."
"I as well sir Hughes."
in a manner of minutes everyone began yelling and talking in which it sounded like crowds of people were arguing.
"ok ,ok it seems most of you are calling it quits on village city." sir Hughes says.
"more than half of the people abandoned this city, and now it's been destroyed by these monsters that popped up out of nowhere. I've been here since I was little and I'll miss it, but I'm not staying here another day." a woman says as a few tears fell from her face.
"she's right, it's not safe here anymore, we must leave and start a new." a man chimes in.
The mongrels sitting away from everyone felt guilty hearing the lady words. spade especially knowing that their arrival was the reason the people of village city lost their homes.
" I get it, ok listen..... everyone who wishes to leave the city for good please stand over there to the left."
Over seventy people moved to the left which was half of the people that were still in the village city. in total calvus found up to 240 people before the city was attacked. many people died leaving the count to 153 not including the injured inside the bunker.
With 76 people willing to leave the city for good it was now 77 people left.
"So I take it the rest of you would like to stay in village city." sir Hughes asked.
" not really sir Hughes it's just I don't have anywhere else to go and I've been to the capital many times. I prefer living out of the way. so I'm afraid I don't want to go there either. between what is left of us there are buildings and homes here that still stand and could be a refuge to us at least until we receive the proper word from higher ups at the capital."
"I'm no fool sir Huges, the capital isn't all sunshine and rainbows and I will not return there under any circumstances." an old man says with a strong voice.
"Old man butcher, he made it." Damon says inwardly with a smile.
Many of the people who simply didn't have anywhere else to go agreed with old man butcher.
"I see and completely understand your reasoning as a person that has spent years in the capital myself." sir Hughes responded.
"ok everyone we will rest here for the day and night, I understand many of you must be tired and we have many wounded inside the bunker who have yet decided on their future and there are some things I must look into as well that will take some time."
"Calvus, assemble four search parties and search throughout the city for people who could be still alive."
"the rest of you, find a home or building nearby to rest in. once found report it to me and I'll send someone to patrol that area just in case."
"miss grey and nurse heart could you two follow me please." sir Hughes added.
"spade and Bison, could you accompany us for a moment." sir Hughes called out.
All five were seen walking to a secluded area.
"Hey since you guys are already grouped up, would you mind becoming our fourth search party team." A big muscular tall young boy says wearing armor and carrying a war hammer on his back asks a group of boys.
"sure no problem, right guys." steel says in which everyone agrees.
""oh Damon I think you could use these." calvus says pulling out a pair of boots.
Damon looked at his feet and back up at calvus smiling weirdly while looking around.
"yea I actually could thank you."
Damon put on the boots as calvus walked away.
"these things are huge compared to my feet and I thought my feet were pretty big."
"That's sir Hughes son right." Jolly asked.
"yes said a brown skin boy with red hair and green eyes standing around 5 feet and 9 inches.
"yes he's in my class as a second year we are both 15 years old, the young boy added."
it was the same boy with the black tiger soul beast that had red stripes.
" Me and steel have seen him around many times but for some reason he's always bigger every time."
they all continued to talk about calvus while heading out to search the city.
"what's your name by the way bro." copper asked the 15 year old.
"Bay, Bay green." he responded.
In Drackston academy students were separated by age. from ages 15 to 16 and 17 and 18...17 and 18 are the ages most students would be gone and recruited by guilds and other factions however a few would remain an extra year.
because of the age separation most students would stick with their age groups and didn't socialize much with the younger ones unless they were kin.
"hey Damon so your curse wasn't a curse after all huh." steel asked.
the sudden question caught Damon off guard which made him stutter a bit.
"Uh, , I guess not it seems."
"cool so how did you figure it out, and that was electricity that covered your arms earlier right."
Damon confirmed his question while stating it was something he worked on in secret.
"see I told you he probably had that power all along and just didn't know how to use it properly steel said to his brother copper."
hearing them both talk Damon could guess what type of conversation they had about him after seeing his power.
Jolly walked in silence as he just listened.
"soooooo wanna show us your soul beast, I never saw one with a lightning ability." steel asked Damon.
Damon became even more tense as this question was asked. he knew most people's abilities came from their first awakened beast depending on the strength of their soul. One could always obtain multiple beasts with different attributes,but the only attributes the person could conjure themselves without summoning their soul beast was the attribute of their first soul beast. A person could also bind wild beasts with their soul cores obtaining more beasts but only if their soul core was strong enough to bind that particular beast.
even an awakened soul who awakened many beasts could only conjure one attribute themselves if the beasts awakened had different elements.
for example if an awakened soul awakened 3 beasts upon them awakening and they all had different attributes that person would only be able to conjure and use the powers of the very first one while the beast themselves can use the abilities they were born with.
another example is nurse heart, she captured the beast she calls cherry and binded a part of her soul with it, because of its ability that went hand in hand with her profession.
The issue was if they saw the power of his soul beast was totally different from the power he displayed, it would surely raise questions. he didn't know if it would be a good or bad thing.
There was no point in him lying about it either because he felt at some point the truth would come out. The only thing he could do is proclaim he captured a beast and binded his soul with it. even then his electricity powers would be questioned at some point if no one ever saw him with a soul beast that had that same ability he could conjure.
All of this ran through his mind in seconds as they all waited for Damon's answer including jolly who was interested in how Damon would tackle this issue.
Suddenly Damon remembered something.
"That's it, but how is the question." Damon thought in excitement.
"help, someone help us." a voice shouted in the distance.
with that cry for help everyone's attention turned from Damon.
they all quickly rushed ahead and soon were able to sense two soul cores nearby.