A/N: Thank you Phantom_Wolf_2807, Tian_Long_Xiu, and Toytoy790 for the support♥️
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In a underground base, a man that is comparable to David in terms of power, with charismatic look and regal movement, adorned with military suit was facing his 12 subordinates. All of which are A rank awakened with people working under each of them.
"What are the Hunter Association moves right now?" The man ask.
They are currently having a discussion and information sharing regarding updates to the people they keeping an eye on.
A teenager, the same age as Archie but much more muscular pick up his paper and read the reports.
"General, according to our spy inside they are still currently expanding and recruiting people on their sides, however there are only 2 awakened that are actually a threat within their ranks since the Lich has been assigned to look after Archie's Businesses and their Agents are just mid grade and lower grade awakened without proper equipments yet. Majority of their fire power where now task to monitor and close dungeons one after another. Preparations for emergency response is a must for them in asking for those so called Hunters."
"Dungeons are the only way to keep the Hunters from interfering with our interest. Plans has to be adjusted with consideration to the availability of the Hunters." The man move his head and look at the middle age women among his commanders.
"Any new laws and changes on the internal structure of the Hunter Association?"
"So far nothing major has happened General. They are still recruiting people as advisors and the Hunters Department of Justice is still developing and implementing new and reasonable laws according to their standards. Also they change the sub ranking category beginner to lower rank to make it more appropriate. They still retain the intermediate and peak ranking though. The mid rank to special rank now possess the three sub rank, the Lower rank, Intermediate rank, and Peak rank. You General are without a doubt a Lower Rank SS awaken in their standards, 1 on the top 3 strongest in this nation." She explained.
"General is definitely the one with the highest potential among the strongest in this country considering his ability without a doubt. He just needs time to increase his powers." Another female said.
"The standing is what we have today and not what we have in the future. The General without a doubt can definitely defeat the Silver Knight, David Soreso and the Lich. The only threat that we have right now is that Archie. According to our intel from the inside of Hunter Association, he defeated several S classes along with the SS class without even using all of his powers. It would be difficult for us to defeat him since the only Special Rank awaken here is the General." The middle age women revealed.
"Don't worry about him, preparations are on the way to deal with him." The General eyes look at a timid looking guy wearing cloak.
"How's the preparations going?" He asks to him.
"General, it is still 20% completed, we need a lot of mana stones to make sure that it's effective against him and we are running out of it. The preparations for dealing with the son of the Chairman of hunter's association has not yet started because of the intricacy and resources needed for a spell that can work on someone at his caliber. The magic item creations has been halted as well just to prioritize it." He explained.
"I guess we have to clear more high ranking dungeons to get more high quality resources. I still need to increase our power so I will join in dungeon expedition." The General said. None of the subordinates were worried about the safety of their General because they all know how powerful he is when he enters dungeon.
The General look at the child like women despite being in her mid 20's.
"What's is his moves right now by the way?" The General asks her.
"He is currently out of the country General. Just like yesterday, he is restoring cities of other nations. But this time he is prioritizing the restoration of cities in Brazil. According to our intel General, tomorrow, Brazil's saintess will come here to revive the fallen people of the this nation caused by the Dungeon Break. Hunter Association's reputation will probably increase to the eyes of the people for making such a thing possible. Should we interfere?" The middle age girl looking asks.
The General shakes his head in disagreement.
"With the Saintess around along with the Mindanao's Guardian, it's impossible for us not to be exterminated on the spot for doing such a thing. Even I admit that the Mindanao's Guardian is not to be underestimated with. Let's do nothing and just wait for our preparations to finish. Patience is the key to our victory here."
"I agree to our General. Don't worry, according to my knowledge, the thing that we prepared for him will definitely work. We are at the disadvantage here so we better calculate each and every move we make. We don't have the luxury of having our soldiers be revive everytime they died like them." The timid looking guy shared his opinion and everyone look at each other, agreeing to what the timid looking guy said.
"By the way, what is the status of the magic items that we stole? Are they usable now?" The General asks to the female wearing a lab coat.
"We analyze the magic items but we couldn't remove it's binding spell. Only it's former owners can use it." She replied.
"Hmm... This Archie is quite clever and cautious. Not only he created something to use on every awaken to stop the future possibility of using their power to cause harm and destruction, but he also created an item and make sure that only it's owner can use it, he's danger level increases even more on my scale. So, are those magic items useless to us?' The General ask.
The General although said that the item is useless to them but in reality he knows that they also made it useless to the other side. Everything that decreases the power of the Hunter Association are all welcome even if it doesn't help them increase theirs.
"We cannot only activate its skills or ask the magic items to lend us it's powers. However it's durability is still there and the magic items are not capable of harming anyone who uses it that is not it's owner. We can still use it since it's more durable that the items that we have, and it's still better than anything we made so far even though these magic items were not activated."
The General as well as his Commander Rank subordinates where delighted to the news since all of them can have magic items that they can use. They know how powerful each items was, even though they cannot activate its skills, the fact that it could still grant them a layer of protection is still better that nothing.
"Let's distribute all the stolen magic items to each Commander." The General commanded and the female in lab gown immediately agree.
"I think I already heard all the reports for today. Let's call it a day. I still need to order my servants to look for undiscovered dungeons that we can raid." The General pack his things up and stood up followed by his subordinates who saluted at him.
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In a small tribal village in the middle of a forest, a man dressed as a women was preaching to its inhabitants in a most graceful way as possible.
"The world has change, a new path has been open to our world. The spirits of the nature has granted us a miracle to survive our current predicament. It does not abandon us. I will now show you one of its miracles. May Light Reformation be with you."
--Blessings--
The preachers hand glows and Light appears and envelope the leader of the tribe. Everyone was shock and amaze to the miracle that they saw but the Light didn't last long and it died out.
Suddenly the Leader feel pain in his chest and its becoming hard for him to breath. The villagers become worried but the preacher calmed everyone down.
"It is just a few seconds of suffering, any moment, the power of the nature spirits will be with you. You must endure it." He said and he put his hand on his back, trying to help him ease his suffering.
The villagers becomes restless upon seeing their leader, they are all about to prepare themselves to retaliate at the preacher for what it did to their leader, when suddenly their Leader regain it self and look at it's people and stopped them.
"My people don't do anything against him. Because of him, the spirits granted me powers."
The leader of the tribe opened his palm and a flame manifested at top of it. Not burning him which makes every villager on the village unable to comprehend what's happening.
"It seems like the Light Reformed at you. I greeted you for your awakening." The preacher said to the tribe Leader which makes the villagers somewhat understand that the preacher is responsible for making their leader be able to produce and hold fire.
The leader kneel down in front of the preacher and signaled his people to do the same, everyone followed their leader.
"Asog Gabriel, starting today our village will be at your guidance. We hope to help you spread the will of the spirits and make the inhabitants of this world realize their greatness." The Leader offered.
"Thank you for your offer. I shall gladly guide you as you ask it to be. With your cooperation, we will become one step closer to becoming the servants of the Messiah."