Two days later.
Isaac was about to leave to go to his guild.
During the last two days, the two learned who had stormed Maria's plantation.
'Trinity Guild, huh? A guild whose name is unknown to me until now. According to Nohhah's explanations, this guild consists of several guilds. The place where they are housed is unknown.
In short, they are like an assassin's guild that does dirty jobs of all kinds. But given the damage they have created in this plantation, it means that they have powerful minions capable of defeating even a level 150-blood knight.
The more I think about it, the more hasty I feel to put my loved ones in safety.
By the way, the only good news in this tragedy was to learn that Abdel, Maria's other knight, had been able to save enough time to allow Jane to shelter 80% of the residents.
Nohhah, for her part, had mysteriously betrayed her fellow and helped Jane with the evacuation. I don't know what's going on in her head but she made the right decision.
On the other hand, Maria's blood allowed her to regenerate her hand. Somewhat to my surprise, the blood of a vampire is as effective as an intermediate-ranking potion.
I wanted to recruit her, but she refused; saying that she must assume this tragedy.
Finally, if she decides to venture on this path, I don't have my say in it.
For my part,
I learned an assignment by attending this disaster; I don't need Isaac, but Jack.
This bastard everyone hates is the only avatar who can survive in this world.
"Are you sure you don't want Jamil? I promised you to let one of my knights escort you."
Hearing Maria's question, Isaac smiled slightly. "You don't have to worry about that. Focus on your base reconstruction. For my part, I'd be able to cope even in the worst situations." Isaac answers before opening the door of the car provided by Maria.
At least, that's what he believed until he saw Jane inside.
"Yo, Darli--
He closes the door before looking at Maria with questioning eyes.
"I hope we will see in a short time," Maria mutters before returning and leaving with Nohhah.
'Does she intend to leave this 'problem' with me? However, she looks good, it's already good.' He mutters before focusing on Jane who was sitting behind the steering wheel of the pickup.
"Well, what are you doing here?"
"I'm the one who would drive."
"No, that's not the answer I was waiting for."
"It's because you didn't ask the right question," she responds instantly while warming up the engines.
"...Nevermind." Isaac raises the white flag by giving up.
He then sits down at the co-pilot and looks at Jane who was wearing a navy blue jacket and tight black tights.
"Do you at least know the way?" He asks by lowering the smoked window.
Jane stops momentarily and looks at Isaac with eyes that Isaac knew perfectly.
"...I feel that I will need sedatives to support this trip." He smiles with bitterness.
Jane begins to ride when she sees Isaac settle in well.
"We are currently in the north. But the plantation that accommodates your guild is a little further away. I think it will take us about a month to reach your guild." She gives these explanations while she was driving.
"...How many times are we going to do checkpoints?"
"Five times, I think."
"Only five times? But can you tell me where the guild is exactly? I don't really understand your...-
"Is ancient Greenland easy for you to understand?" She halts Isaac before he finishes his sentence.
"Groenland, huh?" Isaac mutters with nostalgic eyes. "Do you know why they decided to settle there?"
"No, I've no idea," Jane responds instantly.
'...Does that have anything to do with what I told Sasha? I hope it's not a simple coincidence.' He mutters in his mind before closing his eyes to take a nap.
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After a few hours, Isaac opened his eyes and saw that Jane was still driving on the desert highway.
"We're going to make a stop here." Jane's exhausted voice buzzes in Isaac's ears.
He glances at her before nodding his head when he sees the wrinkles under Jane's eyes.
"You slept two days in a row, did you realize that?"
"Two days!?"
"Haha, I'm joking. But you still spent twelve hours in a row." She brakes next to a supermarket that had a gas station out of service.
Looking around him, Isaac could sense the danger at KM.
But knowing that he had to let his driver rest, he gets off the pickup and inspects the surroundings, looking as far as his eyes could, listening so as not to miss a single noise.
After additional secs, Jane also gets off the pickup.
She did some stretching, breathing the pure air with a lively smile on her lips.
"You know, Darling-Kun, you didn't wonder why I decided to go this way with you?" She mutters, tapping her digital watch.
Kasel focused on her, feeling that she was going to say nonsense if he decided to ask her the question.
Jane, for her part, materializes her armor on the body. She then took out her gun and put a high-tech monocle on her left eye.
'As expected, she also noticed that we are not the only ones.' Isaac frowns slightly, feeling they would soon have unwanted guests on their heels.
"So let's change the subject," Jane mutters, seeing that Isaac didn't intend to answer her.
"You didn't wonder why I decided to go this way with you?" She 'changes' the subject.
Isaac also draws his weapon from his sheath. "Why did you decide to follow me?" He asks.
"It's because Maria asked me to."
"..."
"Do you know that...-!
She stopped when she noticed a black lizard the size of their pickup trekking around the supermarket.
The lizard had red scales on its body, its claws were soaked in fire, and had a halo of fire around its neck; giving it a basil look.
Isaac felt unwell when he saw the flaming collar around the lizard's neck.
[Fire elementary (replica): Lvl 45]
[HP: 46/50]
'It's not normal for a monster of this level to wander alone here.' His mind was then overwhelmed with all kinds of thoughts and hypotheses.
However, having no reliable information, he decides to take action.
Aware of the monster's level, Jane also became more cautious than she was.
"I'm going to lead up." She looks at Isaac with an eccentric smile.
Doubt settled in Isaac's mind and heart when he heard Jane's words.
"You get to see its level, don't you?"
Jane ignored his question before putting away her pistol.
She then takes out her blade of light and smiles at Isaac, the next moment.
But this time, Isaac's brain made a gap between what he had just seen and what he had to believe.
Before he asked or said anything, Jane's black hair turned immaculate white.
As she had her back turned on Isaac, the latter could not see the blood-red glow in her pupils and two fangs.
Regardless, even with so little input in his arsenal, he was able to understand what was happening with Jane.
The shock on his face turned into a wonder smile that always testified to his marvel.
Jane moves calmly towards the evolved lizard, her hips swinging sideways with every step she took with excessive confidence.
Isaac swallows his saliva when he sees this scene. 'I must be crazy.' He could not help smiling ironically when he realized that he had almost forgotten all his previous concerns.
Stunned by this, he first cares for himself and then continues to cautiously survey Jane's back. 'This fire lizard was probably tamed by a tamer.' He said to himself while his eyes peeking over the lizard's leash.
But despite this mistrust and his caution, he could not locate the tamer.
Arriving ten meters from the beast, the latter also notices Jane's presence.
Noticing the prey, the beast growls and opens its mouth wide, spitting a breath of burning fire!
For her part, Jane bends her knees and leaps like a cheetah.
In a fluid movement, she uses the new power that roared in her body and dives towards the lizard; with her sword whistling towards the lizard's neck!
-Slice!
Isaac's eyes widen in the face of the agility worthy of Jane who acts like an excited cat.
But his expression darkened when he saw that Jane lacked the brute force to decapitate the beast with one slash.
The latter grumbles with a sense of danger and indignation. The hurtful pain of having a half-cut neck made it raucous, just by listening to its wild but at the same time frightened howling.
Its long sharp tail splits the air and whistles towards Jane, who was struggling to keep her balance on the prey, at a breathtaking speed.
But aware of the threat coming from behind, Jane leaves all her weight down and lowers her head; escaping up close, a murderous attack from the lizard.
Taking advantage of the diversion, she strengthens her feet and jumped five meters from the predator she saw as prey.
manifestly, the lizard was no longer a creature only endowed with a survival instinct; but also blessed with medium intellect.
Guided by his rage, his gigantic body had no problem supporting his weight which made the ground tremble under Jane's feet.
In a second, the shadow of his body prevents Jane from seeing the twilight.
Arriving in front of Jane, who was caught off guard by her unexpected speed, he raises one of the front legs and tries to crush her against the ground like an insect.
-BAMM!!
Even standing twenty meters away, Isaac could feel small quakes under his feet. But his expression never changed, his eyes were on Jane who had still gained altitude with ten meters!
And unlike before, the lizard seems to have learned a lesson through his pain.
He raises his head towards Jane, his vertical pupils drenched in mad rage, and prepares another fire breath.
In the sky, Jane did not seem ready to step back or change her attack pattern.
Observing the scene in the third person, Isaac could perceive debris from the black flames around Jane's blade.
This manifestation of powers made him over confused, especially since he knew nothing about Jane's transformation into a vampire before the beginning of her battle.
The lizard managed to spit out his breath of burning fire in time, but Jane was not late either, she vertically swings her blade of light, bathed in black flames, towards the breath of basil.
-Shaaaa!!
As soon as they got impacted by each other by a deaf noise, the only spectator present at the place (Isaac), knew that the battle was over.
Jane's black flames divide the lizard's yellow flames and continued in its frantic races to Jane's prey body.
Like a blessed slayer from the underworld, Jane's cutting edge divides the lizard's head into two distinct parts, splashing its pulsating blood that still has the heat of life.
She then landed on her long black Lita heels, gracefully.
She smiled triumphantly at Isaac with eyes that said: I am not a weight that you must carry with you.
Understanding how her twisted brain worked, Isaac could not help but shake his head with irony.
'I see that Maria was quick to make such a bold decision; may she will have to manage her city and prevent a future tragedy, like what she had just experienced, from repeating once again.' He mumbles in his mind before focusing on the supermarket.
'Now, what to do with others? Should I kill them or...
[ALERT!]
His heart almost flee from his chest when he saw his visual field turn red because of the captionless notification of his system.
His body began to become hot, his muscles became rigid and his breathing also turns to wild because of the adrenaline rush he had never felt before.
Cursing his bad luck and the wrong timing, he looks at the caution in front of him.
[Your points of lust are in the red!]
[LP: 1/150]
[Rejecting your nature is tantamount to denying your existence. As a creature of lust, you cannot maintain your life by simply feeding on ordinary food.
[You need another form of food.
[Your magic points will drop by ten every second to maintain your consciousness. Once you run out of magical energy, you will become a beast guided by its primitive instinct.]
[MAY LUCK BE ON YOUR SIDE!]
Reading through these lines with panting, Isaac had a forced smile on his lips. 'GODDAMNIT, I forgot the curse of this breed I now belong to!'
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