Title: My First Trading Partner is An Awaken
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"Rear guards down, Banoy. We need to save the hostages first before the Aswang smells the blood of their fellows." Henry reiterates.
"I know, hold me so that you can go through this wall," Banoy said.
Henry didn't hesitate as he already saw the ability of the spirit familiar of Mang Dondon. Aside from the speed of a naturalized tikbalang, he has the ability to make portals and merge with the shadows which is pretty useful in their situation right now.
After holding the tikbalang, Henry can sense that he was warped with an energy that he can't describe. It's like the tikbalang extended his aura towards him and viola, he was now inside the warehouse.
However, Henry immediately speeds up towards the three Aswangs that raised their butcher knives towards the three people crying for help.
"Ahhhh!"
The nearest Aswang is down and yet before the second butcher reacts, his head is rolling in the ground. Only the last Aswang who held the knife made some reaction but we're halted by the bronze knife that targeted his heart.
"Intru —--- ahhhhh!"
It didn't attract the attention of the other Aswangs who seemed too relaxed playing cards in the distance. However, they frowned when they heard the victim stop crying and saying thank you!
"That's weird! It's my first time hearing someone who is about to be a killer say thank you! Hugo and Drew, you check our three seniors in the butcher area" the more matured Aswang commanded.
"Yes boss!" The two said as they strove towards the butcher area.
"They're coming! You and you! Don't make noises. I'm here to save you!" Henry whispers to the two male victims he saved.
The three can't see Banoy, as they are just ordinary people. However, they knew that the man in front of them was here to save them.
"I need you to lead the way on where the other hostages are and stay there quietly, can you do that?" Henry said.
They nodded and with this cur, Banoy merged his body to the shadow of one of them and they immediately went deeper into the warehouse to see the others.
Banoy knew that if he revealed himself to these ordinary people, they would freak out and would jeopardize their own safely. Thus, he literally cast his halfly trained ward as he had planned with Henry.
For the incoming Hugo and Drew, they didn't know how they died as the find their body standing right in front of them and this image is the last thing they saw before they died.
Henry is too fast in their caliber and after killing the two reinforcements, he set his time for five minutes and proceeded to the nearby Aswangs.
"Ahhhh—---"
"Fuck —-- intruder!"
Henry is calm and doesn't regret killing these Aswangs as he finds in the fourth warehouse, rows of freezed human bodies are hanging and there are hundreds of them.
In the third warehouse, there are other butchers who repacked human meats and internal organs. He didn't check the second and first but he knew that there are still more revolting things out there.
"Ahhhhh —---"
It's a one shot, one kill. If not a rolling head of Aswangs, it's either a puncture in the head or in the heart. The other Aswangs radioed the rest of the Aswangs near the compound to come inside and kill the intruder.
"Ahhhhh —---!"
"Roar!"
As Henry kills the rest of the Aswangs', the rest are transforming themselves to either were-beasts, black dogs and cats, and even huge water buffaloes.
"It's good that they are not escaping!" Henry thought.
He noticed that the gate of the compound opened up and the rest of their kind entered and they immediately transformed to their strongest form.
One of the Aswang, Klaus, who manages the compound and the rest of their kind tries to contact his immediate boss, the Ortiz Family, but he finds that he can't reach them.
"What the heck is going on?!" Klaus angrily said.
He was under pressure and panicked after knowing that he couldn't contact his boss.
Unbeknownst to him, the ward raised by the Albularyos had truly isolated them just what they usually do to their victims. This includes the signals of different frequencies.
"Ahhhh —---!"
Another Aswang is down. It was Mang Dondon's doing as he killed one Aswang when they are entering the compound.
Just before they close the compound, Mang Dondon and his team come in, killing some of the reinforcement.
"That guy! Did he really kill those piled bodies?!" Calixto was stunned and even Gregorio was dumbfounded by what he saw.
"Don't be surprised, brothers. It's not an exaggeration when I told you that he disseminated a Gabunan with his bare hands. Focus on killing these abominations first, though."
Mang Dondon said. He had finished raising wards to him and used the common talisman he usually used in battle, the oil talisman and the water buffalo's teeth.
This is a protocol they say. When dealing with Aswangs, it's either you wrap yourself with your aura or use forbidden words to do it so that the attacks and impact of the Aswang would reduce.
The two albularyos also decided to call their spirit familiars, Calixto had the Red Dwarf while Gregorio had the same familiar like Mang Dondon but had lower status than Banoy.
They also raised their ward to avoid some tricks that came from the Aswangs.
"What's going on, Calixto? We were having lunch when you called out! The heck! Aswangs!" The dwarf angrily said.
"Yeah, that's why I called you out, Donmuc," Calixto said. "Prepare to kill them, my friend."
The Tikbalang, goes by the name Kidumin, the spirit familiar of Gregorio , also noticed the situation immediately and prepared himself for battle.
"Let's go help, Henry." Mang Dondon led.
There are still around 40 Aswangs that successfully transformed to their strongest form with the addition of the 30 Aswangs as reinforcement.
The smell of the Aswangs can be smell around the compound and it even became intense when every aswangs in the compound transformed.
The most disgusting part of it is the oil used by these Aswangs to help them reduce the pain of transformation and accelerate their shape shifting.
Mang Dondon didn't hesitate to use his fist while the two albularyos used their weapons. Within his first is the water buffalo's teeth talisman which had increased his attack power and speed against the Aswangs.
"Who the fuck are you?!" Klaus noticed that it's not a battle but a slaughter. "Don't you know who you are dealing with?"
"I am not sure but what I know is that you killed hundreds of people that are still hanging in this compound," Henry said.
Klaus can't see Henry and the rest of his back up as they had warped themselves with their aura. The white light had made their faces vague and undertermine.
However, he is sure that these are Albularyos they usually encounter in the provinces but it was unusual that a group of them is here in this city.
"The heck! Did those damp fellows not even try to erase their markings?!" Klaus thought.
Kalus knew the source of their prey. Most of it is the people smuggled in some other country and some are captured in every part of the Luzon Islands.
However, in every part of the provinces they capture their prey, there is a secret organization called the Order of the Pintados who secretly guard each place.
Due to the decline of the members of this order, the Aswangs had bypassed some of the places and captured individuals and they diligently erased their markings so that it would not be traced back to them.
Klaus laughs at this damnable kind of mistake. He was sure that some of their people didn't follow some of their steps to avoid the detection of these Albularyos.
Thus, upon looking at the people who killed his fellow Aswang, he was sure that it was the case.
Klaus shapeshifted to a were-beast and he immediately shouted the unexpected command.
"Run for your life!"
Klaus said as he immediately jump in the warehouse's rooftop with all his might but before he reached his target destination and before the others escape, The Red Dwarf, Donmuc, raised his hands and a double bladed ax emerged from thin air and swings it towards Klaus and in the blink of an eye, the ax chopped the body of Klaus in half.
The others couldn't react further as Henry increased his speed to kill 27 Aswangs while Mang Dondon and the rest didn't stay idle.
They also hack the Aswangs. Most of them are affected by the oil talisman which had contributed to Aswangs weakening.
Heads roles and some of them were accurately punctured by the combination of the efforts of Henry, the three Albularyos and their spirit familiars.
"Ahhhhh —----!"
"Spare me —---!" One of the Aswang cried out.
Their number is dwelding and their strength is far too inferior to the group of Henry. Especially for Henry, who is fierce enough and didn't hesitate to deal with them. It's a one shot, one kill and no excessive movement.
The Aswang shouted at the top of their voice to catch the attention of the neighboring people. However, due to the isolation barrier that Mang Dondon raised along with Gregorio and Calixto, it was doom to fail.
In just a moment, all the aswangs died. The group is bloody and the decapitated bodies of their enemies littered the ground.
"Bwaaahhhh —---!"
It was Henry. He vomited after relaxing his senses. The rest of the group is amused by it and they never had expected that the calmness Henry possessed a while ago is gone and become this state, a state that naturally occurs when someone kills people the first time.
It was not just killing but a massacre of many. When he relaxes, he can only vomit.
"You're great, Henry. It's truly eye opening to see someone who manages to kill a great number of Aswang in his first debut," Calixto complimented.
As experienced Albularyos, they were used to this killing but it's their first time to witness such massacre in its kindness.
Why? A one shot one kill that Henry did is mercy to these abominable creatures.
Henry didn't reply as he was still vomiting from what he had done and seen.
The rest of the group checked the different warehouses in the compound and they saw that every freezer in the warehouse was filled with meat.
They knew that these are human flesh and meat ready to be distributed to every part of the city and provinces in the country.
"Let's hurry, we need to clean up the other warehouse too." Calixto said.
"How about these corpses and the rest of the corpses in the warehouse? Aren't we going to dispose of it?" Gregorio said.
"I will deal with it," it was Mang Dondon. Then he called out to Banoy who already canceled the ward towards the hostages.
With Banoy's assistance, it would be easy for him to transport the corpse of Aswangs to the spiritual world where he can dispose of it.
Calixto and Gregorio sigh in relief. Without Mang Dondon's Spirit Familiar, it would take them time and efforts to deal with the corpse.
"Weren't you concealing what happened here?" Henry asked Gregorio nearby as he managed to collect himself.
He thought that with this evidence, it would be easy for them to prove that Aswang exists. Yet when Gregorio explained, he was stunned by the explanation.
"You're saying that there are people in high society that are Aswang categorically?!" Henry exclaimed from surprise.
"Yes. Aside from that, there are people in high society that have human flesh as their diet. A cannibal in its secrecy," Gregorio followed up.
"Don't be surprised, Henry. Just like you, in our experience, there are certain things that we can't explain. We just need to accept that these people or beings exist and assess if they are enemies or not."
"That's why what happened here is not to be exposed in the public as many people would debank it and not believe it even with the evidence right before their very eyes."
Gregorio said as he lit up the tobacco in his hand to smoke on it.
Henry nodded in silence. This was his second encounter only and even with his excellent participation in destroying the plan of the Aswang, his knowledge is too shallow and it would be very dangerous if he go solo to deal with them.