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Name – Monty Ros
Race – male Human ( Fallen )
Title - none
Age - 35
Rank – D -
Potential - D
Affinity - shadow ( 30 %)
Talent – none
Bloodline - none
Stats
Strength – E +
Agility - E +
Stamina - E
Mana - E
Mana recovery - E -
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Status – cursed
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Name – Mary Ros
Race – female Human ( Fallen )
Title - none
Age - 30
Rank – E +
Potential - C
Affinity - shadow ( 30 %)
Talent – none
Bloodline - none
Stats
Strength – E
Agility - E
Stamina – E -
Mana - E
Mana recovery - E -
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Status – cursed
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The couple is a fallen human; if a fallen human is this open, then it only means something is wrong. Fallen humans try to stay as low as possible to avoid being suspected.
At least they are married. No time to consider these things as I have got away from here.
Nothing good comes when you come in contact with a fallen. They are walking troubles who have little to no basic morality. In the next second, they may blow themselves to kill you.
They pretend to be dead and suddenly give you a blow in the back. You never know whether the person with you is a fallen or not unless they are forced. There is no effective way to find a fallen person except some methods but even those methods are hard to operate.
Only low-level fallen can be found by those methods as the high level are very good at hiding.
I spoke to Gina.
" I think we should explore other areas of the museum. Over there are some nice things placed lets go there." ( David )
Gina was surprised by my sudden suggestion but decided to follow me. We moved towards the area where that key is placed which is at a safer distance from the painting display.
As we walked some distance from the display a scream sounded behind us.
Both Gina and I turned around and saw the scene which we may never forget for the rest of our life.
We saw the wife of the man holding the head of the guard in her hand but the thing is that the body is separated from the head.
The blood is dropping by served head and the blood of the fallen body dyed the ground red.
Seeing this bloody scene other guards froze in their place. Man took this opportunity and attacked the guard closest to him.
Man's hand directly blasted the guard's chest and his entire arm penetrated the guard's body. As the man's hand emerges from the back of the guard's body its palm is holding the still-beating heart of the guard.
With a smile on his face, the man crushed the heart in his palm and pulled his hand back from the guard's body.
This guard meets the same fate as the previous guy.
That is why they say if you see a venomous snake or fallen first kill the fallen. A Fallen is more dangerous than a venomous snake.
Fallen are just mad people who sold themselves to the demons. They have thrown away all the moral values and only accepted their gain. They are a group of wicked people with twisted desires and demons boost their desire to control them.
Other guards reacted and pulled the pistols from their belts.
They aimed their guns at the couple and fired.
The couple did not look scared when facing the bullets. Before bullets hit them they moved at a very fast speed.
Both took out their weapons. The man held an axe while the woman held the dagger.
While dodging the bullets they approached the other guards. Seeing the shooting is useless other guards throw away their guns and pull out their cold weapons.
Even then they were no match for the couple and quickly get killed by the couple.
Other people started to run away from the location. Most ran towards the exit as they thought it would be safe once they got out of the museum.
The sound of screams and gun shooting attracted the attention of other guards who came running towards the scene.
After seeing the tragic situation of their fellow mates other guards realized the gravity of the situation and hit the alarm button.
Despite pushing the button no alarm rang.
Seeing nothing happening guard once again pushed the button but nothing happened.
Guard take out the walkie and try to talk into it.
With my hearing ability, I heard all the sounds.
" control room respond. Control room respond. There is an emergency at the ground floor and alarms are not working. Do something about it. Control room respond." ( Guard 2 )
Despite the multiple calls, nobody answered the guard. The guard changed the channel and repeated the same message. Other guards went to stop the couple from harming the visitors.
Suddenly a strong voice responded to the guard's calling.
[ I am leader Tim speaking. Tell me what happened and where ]
" thank the mother earth you responded leader. Despite multiple tries, no one in the control room was responding to my call and no matter how many times I pushed the alarm button no alarm sounded. There is an attack near the painting display. 4 of our men are already dead. There are 2 people on the opposite side. One man and one woman. Please come quickly, leader. We will try to stop them with everything we have." ( guard 2 )
Saying this guard put down the walkie and joined others in suppressing the couple.
Meanwhile couple are toying with the guards. They can kill the guards but choose not to. This puzzled me as they killed the previous guards but stopped doing the same with these people.
While this happening visitors are running for their lives. Seeing the tragic condition of the first two guards some weak people vomited while some fainted on the spot.
Even I feel disgusted with the scene. I felt someone grab my hand. I saw Gina holding my hand tightly and looking scared. She speaks in a fearful voice.
" let's get out of here David. I don't want to stay here even for a second. Let's run away." ( Gina )
Saying this Gina started to pull me towards the exit but I stopped her. I held her hand and pulled her towards another direction.
While running I explained to her.
" do not run towards the exit as it may be sealed by this group or my museum people and even if it is open with all the people running in that direction there is a chance to cause chaos and someone may get hurt due to the crowd." ( David )
" I think we should stay inside the museum but away from here. That place looks good to me as there is some space where we can hide." ( David )
Without giving Gina any opportunity to react I pulled her hard and ran.
Behind us, we heard screams of the guards but I ignored it as saving our lives is more important for now.
We reached the place where I saw the shadow key.
Yes, this is my target and I planned this from the beginning.
Let's go back to the day I got my quest which require me to get a high-level skill. After lots of thinking I found a clue. After some more research, I found a way.
In the novel, there was a robbery at the Spring City Museum during this period. There was some sort of event and an expensive thing was placed at the display. A group of fallen people robbed the museum and stole that item.
This caused others to question the security level of Spring City and the leader suffered the blow to his reputation. After not being able to find the robbers the city leader Andrew resigned as the city leader.
In the novel, this is shown as the breaking news just to bring some reality touch to the novel but this piece of information of the novel helped me to link this thing with another completely different thing.
A strong villain once revealed the secret of his strength. It is a high-level skill found due to a clue he found in the Spring City museum.
He used that clue and gained an amazing opportunity. I connected these dots and concluded that the villain got something precious from the spring city which at least can give you a high level of skill.
So I waited till now to see if the news is true or not. If it's true then it can solve my quest and curse thing.
True to the news there is a special event at the Spring City Museum which makes me believe that the opportunity which gave the villain a boost still exists in the museum.
Even before the event I visited the museum but found nothing so I was doubtful of the accuracy of the news. I gambled and won the bet. On the event day, I found the key that could give me a strong high-level skill.
Putting aside the past event I reached the display where the key Is placed. Gina and I hide behind the display counter as it is very close to the wall and has space enough for two people to hide.
We can even see the situation in the display area from where we are.
Most of the guards are lying on the floor by now. Someone lost their hand while someone lost other body parts. Despite cutting their body parts couple did not kill them but kept them alive.
It's quite opposite to their previous action. The more bizarre the couple acted more puzzled I became.
A thick layer of fear surrounded me. I can take on the woman with my gear and strength but that man is a rank higher than me.
I have to expose the system space to take out my gear and who knows if the cameras are still working or not.
Suddenly from the direction of the exit lots of people wearing a different uniform compared to the guard came running. After arriving at the location they took out their weapons and pointed it in the direction of the couple.
A strong man with an impressive build stepped out and spoke to the couple.
" I am the leader of the security department. I order you to surrender or else you will face the consequences. You are surrounded from all sides so do not try to do something funny." ( Tim )
The couple stopped attacking the guards and moved closer to the painting display counter.
The man spoke in a playful tone.
" surrender? Will you let us go after we killed your people? We are not some 2 to 3 years old kid. We keep our intentions clear. We want this painting and get out of here. Nobody stop us and if they tried to we will not show any mercy." ( man )
After hearing the demands of the couple's leader Tim rages like a volcano.
" bold. Who gives you the courage to act haughty in front of me. Since you want to die I will grant you this wish" ( Tim )
Saying these lines a light appeared on the hands of leader Tim and he leaped in the direction of the couple.
The couple still looked relaxed as they were not the ones facing an enemy but taking a stroll in the garden.
I used a scan on the leader Tim and found that he is at the peak of the C + rank. One step away from the B rank.
If we look at strength even 10 couples can not stop Leader Tim.
Just as the leader Tim approached the couple a shadow appeared behind the Leader Tim.
Feeling the Danger leader Tim turned back and met the shadow head on. After the collision, Leader Tim gets pushed away from the couple and towards the guards.
Other guards wanted to attack the shadow but leader Tim stopped them. He signalled his men to stay put.
After that leader Tim looked at the shadow standing in front of the couple. The whole body of the person is covered with the clock.
Leader Tim has a solemn look in his eyes. I wanted to cast a scan on the clocked person but restrained myself. What if it noticed me? High-level ranker's senses are very sharp.
The reward is not worth the risk so I decided to observe the situation. Gina just hid behind the counter and hugged herself. Muttering something to herself. I try to listen but can not understand anything so I give up.
Gina is just scared so I let her be and looked at the situation of the guards.
The person in the cloak stood still and suddenly lots of similar-looking people emerged from different locations away from the guards.
The situation is reversed now. The guards are surrounded by the robbers now.
Leader Tim looked at the grim situation and spoke to the cloaked man.
" you will not get away with this. Listen to me and surrender or you will be hunted for the rest of your life." ( Leader Tim )
The person did not respond to the leader Tim and pointed at the fallen guards. The couple and the other 2 robbers grabbed the guards on the ground and dragged them towards the painting display area. One robber took out the painting from the display and put it in the cylindrical container after rolling the painting.
Strangely ever after touching the display, no alarm sounded means the robber has failed the alarm system.
Even then there should be a protection shield on the display item preventing others from taking or breaking the glass and damaging the item in it.
Even leader Tim felt surprised by this but quickly understood that robbers had disabled the shields too. Now all the items in the museum are vulnerable to attack.
Now I understand why did they not kill the guards because they wanted to use them as hostages.
Suddenly the leader of the robbers pulled something out of his coat and threw it at the guards.
As soon as it touched the ground it exploded and a gas released from it.
Some guards smell the gas and fall to the ground immediately. Only some strong ones remained standing.
Robbers did not get affected by the gas as they all are wearing a black mast which may filter the gas or they have taken an antidote before.
The leader wearing the white mask raised his hand.
As if receiving the signal some robbers spread out and started to smash the display counters. After breaking the glass they put the contents inside the counter into their bag.
Gas slowly spered in our direction. I took out an anti-poison potion drank half of it and handed the rest to the Gina.
Gina looked at the potion in her hand in a daze so I forcefully put the bottle on her mouth and made her brink the rest of the potion.
After making sure that everything was right with Gina I continued to observe the robbers.
Suddenly one of the robbers started to walk in our direction.