'Hehe'
Blake chuckled internally, as he felt strength brimming across the veins in his body.
'With this speed of becoz stronger, it won't be long before I become a heavenly commander, and rule this damn galaxy!'
'Hahahahaha'
Blake kept snickering, immersed in his own world, but a thick yellowish box at the corner of his retina brought him out of his revire.
[....]
'What is it now?'
Blake wondered. The system had always been a bearer of bad news, ans Blake wasn't planning on taking its shenanigans today.
[ What you got was simply a bonus]
'Huh?'
What was this system of his yapping about now.
Blake almost faceplamed as that line of thought crossed his mind.
[Think of it as a game; what you just got was like a welcome package. Basically, it's like free resources for the journey ahead... you should know what that means..].
'It means it would get harder from here?'. Blake wondered with a complicated expression on his face. If that was the case, then his journey to becoming the strongest, had been hindered by a whole lot.
[ You realise it now, don't you?].
'Yeah'
[So enjoy your 'welcome package' well.. Because, from now on, it only gets harder from here.]
"I wonder where the others are". Blake couldn't help but wonder out loud. Ignoring the fact that he was a prey magnet at this point, there were no sound of battles anywhere in his vicinity.
"Might as well roam around a bit".
Blake thought as he activated Blitz.
[Stop!!!!!]
The suddenly yell of the system startled Blake.
'What now??!!'. More than questions, Blake was more annoyed than actually curious.
[Are you dumb or are you dumb?]
'What kind of sh*ty question is that?'. Blame grumbled internally.
Anger clear from his tone .
[ You are aware that an assessment is usually supervised right?].
'Yeah, so?'. Blake was still confused; unable to understand the system meaning.
Why talk in idioms and riddles when you can just be direct?. Blake thought again. It seemed he was the only normal person in this world.
[ You dumbass! You suddenly came out as an awakened, and now you are displaying skills out of the blue, isn't that suspicious?].
'Ooooohh, now I get...now I get'
[ Then they'll know that you were awakened for a long time and no one managed to find out, then they'll take you to the lab and turn you to their specimen. Do you even think?, you arrogant f*ck].
The system was genuinely pissed. How in the world, did I end up with this dumbass.
'yeah,yeah, whatever'.
Blake replied as he began taking casual strides towards his left. Where he was going?, he didn't know. But left it all to fate.
But right then,
BOOOOM!!!
A large explosion resounded not far away from Blake's position. Blake's perception picking up the sudden intrusion, alerted Blake. Who immediately dashed towards the source of such loud noise.
Seeing this, the system wanted to facepalm.
You see danger, and you.....run towards it?
Who does that?
And you have a debuff already with curse of the gods.
Stupid... stupid!
But then again, every challenge brings excellent rewards....right???.
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At the scene of the explosion, a group of four stood in place looking at an eagle whose body had been scorched. It was suprising as the eagles name was 'The scorching eagle'.
However, faced with people with affinity of lightning and water abilities, a dangerous combination lead to the eagle's defeat without any chance of retribution.
Dust and smoke slowly rose to the skies, and the errie calmness signified the end of a battle.
"Weak"
"Yeah, too weak"
" Relax Damian, we're still at the outskirts, maybe when we get to the core area we can find some strong beasts".
The boy, named Damian,looked at the girl and retorted codly.
"We found a mid F-rank beast already at the outskirts, and you still want to go to the core area. B*tch what do you think this is? A movie?".
"Damian, you have no right to talk to her like that ". A boy, with ruby like eyes said with conviction. The righteous look in his eyes, giving everyone the belief that he was a saint. But in his heart, however, he was snickering.
'Thats right, Damian, come on, you know what to do, lash at me, talk sh*t about me so i can beat your ass and be the knight in shining armour for my wonderful Layla'. He thought, sneaking subtle glances at Layla.
"Ron, you dare?!"
Damian said, as lightning aura surrounded him. Bolts of thick lightning striking the ground, scorching it black.
As if on que, Ron also activated his ability. His Ruby eyes changed to a glowing blue as aura surrounded him. As smirk adorned his lips as he could feel his chance to impress his long time crush was near.
Suddenly, a low annoyed voice was heard.
"Can you two idious just stop?"
" Your mom!" Damian screamed as a thick bolt of lightning flew to the young man. Who simply sighed as a water shield appeared, blocking the lightning bolt.
Rapid evaporation took place as the water began to sizzle as current ran through it.
"Heh as expected too weak to even face and attack from me".
"The girl you two sh*t heads are fighting over, isn't even interfering, and you want to fight to the death?".
"Shut up Drake, what do you know about girls". This time it was Ron's to retort. A sour expression was written all over his face.
'This Drake guy, is ruining my opportunity to impress my lovely Layla.....how dare him '.
Seeing no one was willing to listen, Drake backed off his arms raised in resignation. A sign he was not going to interfere with this fight.
"Come on little man, you think you're tough aren't ya". Ron said, his lightning aura intensifying as the earth began to get scorched more frequently.
"You little....". Damian cursed as he dashed towards Ron hia lightning aura spiking midway. It was then...
"Huh? What's going on here"
An unfamiliar voice was heard. As the two knuckle heads turned and saw a confused Blake approaching their beast.
"Hey, back off". Ron screamed ignoring Damians charge.
"That's our booty, dont touch it".
Blake always quick to retort, simply scoffed waving them off like they were insignificant beings.
"You dare?". This time Damian was the one who retorted as a thick bolt of lightning blasted towards Blake.
"You idiot, you'll kill him!!"
Layla who hadn't spoken was forced to speak as a water shield appeared in front of Blake, which was further reinforced by Drake's water shield.
The water was pulsing with current and it inches closer and closer towards Blake.
[You stupid fool! Move!!]
The system screamed.
But Blake remained rooted to the spot. His body refusing to move.
What was this feeling?
Was it fear?
"Arrrrgghh!!"
A sharp scream escaped Blake's mouth as the water reached him. Causing thick current to flow through his body. As he could feel every part of his body going numb.
Paralysis?!
Blake's eyes widened in horror as he realized he couldn't move his body. Not even his fingers, as smoke continued to rise up from his body, making him look like smoked chicken.
"So weak, cant even defend himself, even after we reduced the impact of the attack. Don't even bother thanking me, spoiled brat".
Layla said with a click of her tounge as she continued watching Ron and Damian, who immediately got into a clash again, right after.
Damian formed a spear, the spear pulsing with thick lighting stabbed at Ron, who swiftly countered by forming lancee made out of his own lightning. With reflexes on par with his, Ron defended and proceeded to jab Damian right in the shoulder. A low grunt escaped Damian's lips. As he felt Ron's aura invading his body. Causing a trickle of blood to escape his lips.
Quickly retreating the spear, Damian lunged at Ron, ignoring the injury on his shoulder.
"Got you now, fu*ker". Damian laughed as he poured waves and waves of his holy energy into his lighting causing Ron's body to spasm as current flowed through.
Although, as a weilder of the lightning element his resistance to lighting had increased to abnormal levels. Hence, for Ron to spasm, the amount of lightning flowing through him, must have exceeded what he could bear.
"Arrgh" Ron screamed in pain. As a punch followed by a swift kick landed on Ron's face and back respectively.
Ron's body, like a broken toy, tosed and rolled before slamming a rock nearby, destroying it in the process.
Damian too, dropped to his knees, his body exhausted. That last attack took everything out of him. As he knelt, taking deep breaths and trying to recover his Holy Energy.
A sudden movement from the rocks, caused Damian's attention to snap back. As he saw a bloodied Ron crawling out. His eyes echoing madness as he laughed.
"Hahaha,you think you can take away my moment? To save my beautiful Layla, from you?, today I shall be her knight in shining armor". Ron said with a wide grin.
'okay, this guy is seriously delusional '. Blake thought as he began to regain control of his body.
"Bro I only called her a bit-". Damian's words got cut off as a dash from Ron silenced him.
"Stop!"
"Both of you".
Layla screamed. These fools were really going to fight to the death?. Not on her watch, they could kill themselves after this stupid mission.
Ron froze midway as he stared at Layla with heart shaped eyes.
To which Layla visibly cringed to. Before taking steady steps towards Drake who was absentmindedly staring into the distance. The fight of these fools not even bothering him the least.
"Huh?" Drake was snapped back to reality when a fair of hands wrapped his shoulder.
Layla staring at Ron, spoke in an almost annoyed tone.
"I don't like you Ron, your not even my type. We can't even be together even in a million years. I swear, I would rather jump off a cliff than be your girlfriend, you fu*king pervert". Then, turning to Drake, who was staring at Ron who looked like he just got his heart broken, then fixed ,then broken again, could not help but shake his head.
'They did my boy dirty'. Drake couldn't help but shake his head with a sigh.
"And you, I...I love you". Layla said with a faint blush on her reddish cheeks, as she swiftly hugged Drake. At the sight of this Ron almost fainted.
'The actual fu-'.
"Huh"?.
Hearing no reply, Layla pulled away before looking into Drake's eyes.
"I said I love you?".
Then with the coldest face Layla has seen from Ron's, he spoke.
"I am gay"