Zach was going towards the genius squad's meeting point, he was eager to see what his teammates were looking like. He put his mask on, it should become an habit for him so the earlier he started the better.
All the member of the genius squad would be gathered at the same spot for the first time, the king didn't say to Zach that it was in fact created just after the start of Oscar mission. Aside from Zach everyone knew each other even if they never gathered for a mission.
When he reached the rendez vous point he saw that there was still missing quite a few people however he could already saw the rumored Bea.
She was quite tall, 182 cm, she had quite messy brown hairs, Zach could see that some of her hairs were blue but there was so few that it wasn't eye catching, she had yellow eyes and a generous chest.
Then another girl drawn his attention, she was an elf, she had brown hair, blue eyes, pink lips and was taller than him. He didn't know why but there was something about this girl that he was curious about.
This same girl when she first saw Zach was at first shocked and troubled, however after looking at him for a few seconds she stopped and concluded that she must have made an error. Because of Zach's physical appearance a small doubt and hope still resided in her mind.
They were already a bit more than half and were waiting for the other to come, suddenly a man followed by two servant arrived. Zach could feel this man arrogance and haughtiness oozing from him even at the distance he was, yet another elf.
"I see that we are still waiting some, them being late is something which we should mention to them." This elf was in fact late but he didn't consider so and he was even saying that everyone coming after him was, this made Zach laugh in his head.
He was tall, about 193 cm, he had short light brown hair, a greatly muscled body he made it so everyone could see them and he had crimson eyes which made Zach curious, the color of his eyes were beatiful.
'Unfortunately for him, it's the only true thing that is really beatiful in him. Everything else should be despicable and disgusting.' Zach thought when he saw and heard this man. He wasn't the only one thinking this, every young one coming from a high family in the kingdom thought the same.
His eyes were not only beatiful, they were also unique and gave him a special power. His eyes permitted him to see the flows of all energies but it didn't stop there it also made it so he could more image per second compared to any other people. However the exact details of his eyes was a well guarded secret and few people knew them.
"It's you Galitos, you are late." The crimson eyed one said. Galitos was another elf, he had short gray hair which weren't due to aging, gray eyes and he was neither muscled nor chubby.
"Hmph, you are an annoying and arrogant fellow Kimstros, beware one day or another it will cause your death." Galitos replied in a dry tone.
Now there was only one who was missing from the genius squad and they could finally go exterminate the monster.
"Sorry, I'm late, an urgent affair to resolve before coming." A black haired dwarf exclaimed, he had a well groomed beard and bulging muscles. "Xaratus, finally here, are you sure that if your are late it isn't because your legs are too short ?" Kimstros mocked loudly.
Xaratus clenched his teeths and replied anrily. "Pay attention in this mission because if at any moment I can let you die to a monster I won't hesitate." Kimstros clicked his tongue.
"Oh ? What do we have there an human ? You don't belong here, talent isn't something known to humans. You may become a burden for us, don't you fear for you life ?" Kimstros said when he finally noticed Zach, no one here but Zach was human.
"Don't worry about my life." Zach stated in a plain and nonchalant tone. Kimstros eyes twitched, he could hear the indifference in Zach's voice and being ignored was a thing he hated the most, he ordered.
"I'm worrying for you life, I want to see if you will be able to survive this mission, Taron go see if this weak human kid is strong enough, if I did it myself, not even your bones would remain."
Taron was a mid rank 2 elf who was only a bit older than Zach, he should be 14, he was a promising young elf who was groomed by Kimstros' family. He approached Zach and said in a mocking tone. "I will give you a punch, we'll see if you can survive it or not."
He punched Zach and the only thing that Zach did was to stretch his hand and grab Taron's hand. He only felt a light pain in his shoulder and arm but nothing that would impact his combat capacity, it would disappear after a light rest.
Taron was surprised and looked at Zach's face however the next instant everything was upside down and the only thing he saw now was Zach's feet. Zach punched him in his stomach which made him fly 5 meters away.
Taron was on his knees and was vomiting from the punch, he took a breath and got up, he was about to go again on Zach to punch him again but at this instant a voice boomed and stopped him from doing so.
"Calm down ! We should get on our way, we have 2 days of travel before reaching the extermination location so let's not lose any time." Bea interrupted them before they could say anything else.
Kimstros was angered, he was embarassed in front of everyone by a being that he considered even lower than a cattle in the kingdom. He wanted to teach him a lesson himself however Bea had clearly said that they should stop.
There was another thing that refrained him from doing so, thanks to his eyes he saw that Zach didn't use any energy, it meant that he had done that just thanks to his physical power. He didn't know what he could still have up his sleeves so he didn't try his luck again for now.
Bea lead the march, everyone of them left the capital and were going towards the south to reach the location. The travel went smoothly, they only encountered small and weak beasts.
'With our team we could kill a mid rank 3 beast without great danger, a high rank 3 would be tight and some of us would surely die. Only a handful of us would survive if we tried to fight a peak rank 3 and there is no need to explain what would happen if we encounter a rank 4 one.' Zach thought, he hoped that Bea would be aware of this and wouldn't try to bite off more than they could chew.
The monsters they were tasked to exterminate was a bunch venomous snake, they already disrupted quite a few merchants, they caused the death of half of them. According to the last information they had it was a bunch of peak rank 2 beasts lead by a trio of low rank 3.
They should be able to handle them without too much difficulties if they cooperated, Zach was worried about this, with the attitude of Kimstros he wasn't sure about it. In front of a peak rank 2 beast Zach wouldn't be able to do too much, he could at most keep it busy for some time and it was if it wasn't too cunning or powerful for its rank.
3 beasts of the low rank 3 would be tough to them, Bea could take one, the mysterious girl and Kimstros could take another and the last would be kept busy by Xaratus, Galitos and another high rank 2 who was older than them.
They took a good rest just before reaching the location, Bea wanted to have them in top shape for this mission. They still did not get bothered by any beast and after this rest they took back the path towards the mission's location.
They finally arrived in a swamp, they didn't see any beast, it seemed that the group of snake made them flee this place. "From here on be wary of everything ! We don't want any casualty nor wounded, a snake could emerge from anywhere." Bea warned all of them.
Everyone put their guard up, Zach took out his scythe, the mysterious girl yet another time was shocked and curious about this man but what she thought about didn't made any sense to her. Zach still didn't get a better scythe since he broke the best one he had in the dungeon.
Suddenly a dozen of snakes appeared from the small bodies of water around them. At this moment Bea gave her orders. "Kimstros, Xaratus, Galitos, you and I will take one each as for everyone else group with another one to fight." Bea pointed at the mysterious girl when she said you.
Everyone nodded and surprisingly the one who came to fight a snake with Zach was Taron, Zach squinted his eyes and found this odd, maybe he wouldn't do anything or maybe he would try to backstab him, who knew.