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Chapter 5 - chapter 5

Kira" Have you seen where sapphire went dear?" She says slightly worried.

Skannon" huh, oh ye see' over therrrrre... oh." Skannon pointed to where Sapphire once stood watching them spare, it's now an empty spot.

"oh, that's all you have, how did you lose our daughter! She always watches you two train, always I swear she gets fixated on the two of you. Like if you aren't finished you have to drag her away from the two of you, so, where, is, she."

"ummmmm, haha calm down dear, I'll find her," Skannon said with a tittered laugh.

Alex" Can you ask a spirit? They might have seen her walk off.... oh, some paw prints.

Kira" Amazing spot Alex, You're a better tracker than your dad."

"hey, that's not fair."

"you have no say in the matter."

" Ok," Skannon says dejectedly

"I'll ask the spirits anyway, maybe they have a time frame for how long ago she left or something.

Kira looks into the spiritual vail(sapphire doesn't need to activate anything to do so as she can permanently see into it) and she sees a large amount of negative/menacing spirits( they can affect emotions negatively causing depression and other sad emotions by absorbing the happy emotions and if there is enough in one area they can make or turn into an evil spirit like a poltergeist and so on. They can hang around evil people) "Why are there so many negative spirits around, that's not a good sign."

"negative spirits...do you think they are here?"

"What?! Do you think they found us... Sapphire!" Panic filling Kira's voice

"who found you?"

"Alex, ring the bell in the middle of town then go straight to the emergency teleporter we will catch up, don't wait for us, when it's full one of the adults will activity it, don't leave the circle got it," Skannon said seriously.

" Kira, let's get our weapons, you put a barrier around the emergency teleporter, and I'll look for sapphire... also put a speed buff on me. If it's them, we're in massive danger.

"Understood."

the parents run towards their home, gathering their weapons, potions and getting buffs.

Kira has her staff allowing her to cast additional magic, that being wind magic, she has a small dagger just in case, health potions and mana potions 6 each along with two stamina potions.

Skannon has his two black swords, and light armour that covers his upper and lower body, but leaves his shoulders and head exposed, two backup short swords along with 6 health potions, 6 stamina potions and two mana potions.

As the buffs for Skannon are just finishing the warning bell is being rung causing everyone who can't fight to panic slightly and start stampeding towards the teleporter, while most of the hunters are reading their weapons.

skannon arrives back at his and Alex's training area, spotting Sapphire's leftover tracks. He then activates a spell, a thin black layer of magical energy surrounds his body going over the slight green layer( the speed buff)looks towards the forest following the tracks he rushes with immense speed, leaving extremely light footprints as he runs, and looks into the vail, forcefully cleansing and negative spirit he comes across with ease, he does this by slashing them with his swords.

Kira pov

I arrive at the emergency teleporter that I was able to make, using some basic rune crafting and magic stones, and a lot of time, and I see a large number of people standing inside it, the adults or in the centre because of my lack of experience in space magic I wasn't able to make the trip through the teleporter very good, even with Skannon help so as the affects of teleporting is lessened the further away from the centre you are, the children are sadly near the edge, thankfully there is no enemy's nearby at the moment.

I run near to the edge of the teleporter and put up a strong magic barrier.

I made it As sturdy as possible by making it have two layers, the first layer p, the strongest one being made of ice, and the second one, made up of wind magic, this is so if anything hits the wind magic barrier it will either go in another direction or it will lessen the impact on the ice barrier allowing it to take more before cracking or breaking.

" I'm going to add some magic cores to the teleporter to make it go faster, so be prepared for the after-effect to worsen."

I then throw 5 C-rank monster cores as any high core might cause the runes to break or misfire sending them into a different area or for it to not work at all.

"Alex why...never mind make sure you go into the next batch, ok, and when you do remember do not leave the circle got it?

Everyone who isn't in the teleporter you will be fine inside the barrier ok, so don't panic." A sincere smile appears to hopefully keep everyone calm.

Random adult" activate teleporter."

the teleporter starts to light up, the runes glowing in a mix of blue and purple, slowly getting brighter and brighter, the space starts to bend and twist, and after 3 seconds it becomes a blinding flash, and the space in the teleporter folds in on its self not even leaving the snow untouched, an empty teleporter now left, the space inside going back to normal.

the rest of the civilians and children go inside the teleporter, Kira once again adds 5 C-rank monster cores letting them be absorbed into the runes, lowering the time it takes before they can teleport again and speeding up the process.

"see you soon Alex ok." A warm smile on my face as I look at Alex, who is attempting to calm down some of the children.

unnamed kid" What's that." Worry is plastered on his face at the unknown phonon he is pointing at.

Skannons pov

I charge through this familiar forest, overflowing with negative spirits, thankfully I can't hear them, I could see myself losing my sense of direction through overstimulation, how does Sapphire deal with this, it is like an infection, thankfully that creature is sealed.... shit, I totally forgot about it. we need to take it with us, they can't have it, and they must never get that creature back, we lost so many soldiers taking that, that parasitic thing from them.

as Skannon runs through the forest slashing any negative spirit, with his battle experience and his developed sixth sense he senses danger from behind, he dodges to the right, avoiding a throwing knife, the knife hitting the snow with causing a slight disturbance in the once perfect, untouched snow.

"Oh come on really, hiding in the trees tactics, that really unoriginal, like really no casters or anything, not a very good scouting party are you, shit aim too."

4 people drop down in dark cloaks, a cloth around the bottom of their faces and a glimpse of light armour underneath the cloak, a symbol marked on their forehead

It has an arrow going through a circle, with the circle having a bow's handles coming out of it and seemingly dyed white.

unknown woman" Oh make jokes, it won't save your daughter, that stupid fox got tricked so easily, it's like you never thought her about bad spirits."

"where is she? If you tell me, you'll die quickly." Skannon says with venom.

"Oh, she is in our care now, well treat her properly, we'll give her our, special, treatment don't worry." You can hear her smile underneath the cloth.

skannon suddenly charged at the woman his swords burst forth with elemental power, one a very dark purple, the other a bright orange, he sliced through six of her fingers before she could even react, three burned to a crisp, the other horribly disfigured, bend in three different directions.

he then threw his space elemental sword behind him, intercepting a thrown dagger, twisting it the metal and sending it towards the ground, his sword containing forward, going through the perpetrator who threw the blade in the chest, and a horrendous cracking sound was heard as his chest caves in and bend in unnatural directions.

with his open hand, Skannon grabs the woman by the head and slams it into the tree behind her, her head going through the outer bark, the cambium layer, snapping the heartwood into pieces and coming through the other side.

sadly he had to leave her there as he dodges a sword and an axe coming from either side, by jumping into the air

a clean dodge from our protagonist's dad.

the thin black layer then gets brighter as he suddenly accelerates towards the ground crushing one of the heads of the scouts, he hits the ground leaving a small crater in the ground, the black layer dimming once more.

skannon slightly moves his head to the left, avoiding a throwing axe, dashing towards the last standing scout his flaming sword burning an orange colour, clashes an axe head, only to overpower the axe wilder, pushing the back of the axe into his opponent nose, crushing it.

"come to me, exusus." A light purple glow appears near his open hand, and his once-thrown sword appears, he then thrusts it into his opponent's stomach, slicing upwards. Ending the one-sided fight.

I walk to the girl I lightly place her into the tree and pull her out. I need to wake her up so I decide to give her a nice love tap into the stomach, only to hear profanity thrown at me.

"Where is my daughter!"

"Ha, cough, cough, she's most likely with the boss."

"not who, where!"

"back at your house, waiting fo."

a snapping sound is the. Heard, her neck twisted.

I sense a magic surge and look up only to spot a magic barrier, most lively surrounding the village, but I can sense any magic from within... shit it's an anti-magic barrier where did they get that?! I needed to hurry and make sure everyone got out.

Back to Kira

"Let go of Alex." as she smashes her staff into someone's head.

Kira can be seen surrounded by people in light armour, a cotton bandanas. Behind them, two others stand, one holding a crying boy, an arrow pierced in his leg, and another one holding an unmoving bag.

"oh, you only what this boy back, can do miss." The masked person then proceeded to pull out a needle, putting an unknown substance into the kicking boy. Alex suddenly screamed even louder before being thrown to Kira.

"Alex! What did you do?!"

"Nothing much, don't worry, you'll be getting the same treatment soon."

the group surround Kira the all charge forward giving her no way to avoid all the incoming attacks, being hit by multiple weapons coated in different substances, These substances seem to of paralysed her but also increased the amount of pain she feels, sadly, she can't scream."

minutes later

skannon comes charging in, weapons flamed on and bending.

the anti-magic barrier seemingly down for some reason, he charges to his house, breaking the door.

Inside he sees 10 people surrounding his tied-up wife and son, both unable to move but conscious.

Just as he is about to charge in, he dodges to the right avoiding a needle in the back. a small amount of liquid escaping it.

"You're still as perceptive as ever I see." As a man appears, he is wearing a plague doctor mask, and a black trench coat and is holding a cain in one hand.

"you know I thought the two fox fangs would be better than this, it seems you've gotten rusty looking after these kids, well the white fang sure has anyway."

"Oh and by the way black fang, I'll recommend you put down your weapons, don't want your precious fox and child to be harmed right."

"where is sapphire."

" oh right, you can take her out of the bag for a bit."

the bag is dropped onto the floor with a small fox being held by the scruff, unconscious.

"What did you do pestilence!"

"Nothing much, well not yet anyway where going to have so much fun soon. On another note thank you for looking after my project for me, I see it's been in good hands." As he take a large vial out of his pocket, the same one Sapphire saw in the basement.

hours later

Jack Lion's POV

Man, this has been a long journey, like a good couple of months, thankfully magic mail is handy and we could inform the Vulpes family that we will be coming in within two weeks. I hope they are doing ok, dad and Mum prize them quite a bit for their rune knowledge and combat prowess, also they have two kids, I'm really wanting to meet them, one is around 10 and I'm pretty sure he is mc, and the other one is about my age but is a female fox at the moment so, I think it's gonna be a bit hard to talk but I'll give it a go. Apparently, they are both lovely, but that could just be parent bias so I'll see for myself.

Jack is a human kid, he is around 5 and a bit years old, he has short messy blue hair and red piercings eyes. He is wearing a fancy black top with golden lining, matching trousers and some winter boots, over his fancy top he has a winter coat that is made of Fenrir fur an extremely rare wolf monster, it has extremely white fur that is capable of having a large amount of magic running through it. Good for winter clothes.

Athox" Jack, we close, so be nice and well-spoken, ok."

"yes, dad."

Doxi" Dear you know full well you're being hypocritical, you and that Skannon fool around and talk about so much."

"w, well we're war pals what do you expect, haha." A nervous laugh comes out of his mouth.

driver" Sir, madam, there seems to be a large amount of smoke coming from the village, would you like me to go full speed ahead?"

Athox" Please do."

driver " on it sir."

30 minutes later

They arrive at a smoking village, the once snow-covered village now full of ash, and the smell of burning flesh fills the lion family's nostrils.

" David, keep Jack inside the carriage."

"On it sir."

"let's check the teleporter first then the vulpes house."

Lion's Family POV

a couple of minutes later

near the emergency teleporter, there is a mountain of bodies, pored full of arrows none seemed to be spared as children women and men are all here, some half burned.

after putting out the fire they go to the Vulpes household.

Doxi" Oh my god, this is horrible, I I need some air."

as Athox enters the living room, he comes across what his wife did a second ago, three people tied up, bruises, bones twisted in multiple directions, what seems to be multiple health potions scattered on the ground and blood dripping from every orifice, tears and blood mixed together, some blood seemingly clogging up near the mouth, and unknowable damage from internal injures.

not even the child was safe from this fate.

"Looks like pestilence's work, I smell his poisons all over them bodies here... I'm so sorry my friends, i, if only I arrived earlier, I could have assisted you, but now all I can do is bury you." Tears swelling in his eyes.

Doxi "the basements empty. They took it back. Another thing where is the fox, Sapphire? I don't see her anyway."

Athox" it, it seems she's been taken, most likely, their next experiment subject and as they got their special project back, it doesn't look good.

jacks' pov

{ hero mission}

{save your friend who bought you this world.}

{ you have 10 years to find and save your friend from the people who kidnapped them.}

{rewards}

[title true hero, the savour of the forsaken hero, a true friend.}

{1k sp}

{an additional prestige class from the Vulpes family- an unknown class}

{the hero prestige class will evolve}

{hero mark maxed out}

{An Allie who will never abandon you}

{you will get legendary skills}

{a shop}

{failed conditions}

{you do not find them in 10 years}

{they die}

{they become consumed by the monster}

{ they become the demon lord candidate}

{they become fully broken}

{if you fail the mission, depending on how you failed a new mission will become available}

{the god feels pity for the unawakened hero, they have granted you the ability to speak to the unawakened hero once every 3 years, for the gods to help by graining boons to the unawakened in some way( the god are unable to do so out of their own will because of the restrictions of the world, that being gods are unable to assist the mortal world without the help of a hero's will.}

{the god of death is enraged the first hero of one of her chosen species has been taken, and the god of war is holding her back.}

{the god of death is begging you to help her chosen hero, and is willing to provide you with some skills}

{you accepted the request}

{the goddess of death has granted you life sense, death reverse hand, life steal, judging sight and a title, death favoured hero}

{new features unlocked group chat, instant dungeons, other world dungeons, music player.}

{ An outer god you've met before has granted you some new features, it says, because it is worse than It thought.}

{the outer god has assigned a system helper and a temp shop to the friend of the unawakened hero.}

what the fuck... this mission... the gods?! What the fuck.

wait does that mean, no, MC, I'll save you I promise, I'll make sure you're ok, and whoever is behind this will pay for hurting you.

" keep Jack inside the carriage for a bit longer David, we need to bury the bodies, it will take a while, but I don't want Jack to see this.., it's worse than what happened in the war."

"understood sir."

Jack" It's worse than I thought... I need to train, hard, I'll make sure you are safe, it is my only goal now.

A while later

the carriage is quiet, soon though Jack speaks up about the mission he received.

Doxi " So Sapphire is alive and is the one who got you here, interesting, we will do our best to help you complete this mission, not because you got the mission or because the gods asked, but because they were like family to us, no they are family, the only reason they where in the middle of nowhere was because of a creature they where keeping hidden.

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hello, hope you enjoyed this chapter and that I didn't write it too poorly.

Hope you have a great day/night and that you do great at whatever you are doing or need to do.

oh if there is anything you think I need to improve on or will make the story better please say, I'll appreciate it.

Ps what world should Jack visit when the time comes and which world do you think Sapphire will go to when the time comes?

Pps I'm going to be so tired tomorrow as I finished this at midnight and I need to get up at 5 am to walk my dog, also why the fuck is it so light at 5 am bro :(

see you next chapter (⌒▽⌒)