"Are you alright, Levina?"
Lucius hurriedly climbed down the stairs. After climbing down, he stood near the stairs while being few mitres away from them. Then after a gulp, with a heavy expression on his face, he asked the dark purple haired girl:
"What are your motives? Why are you here?"
The girl frowned at the boy, then with sighed she said:
"We are here to devour the curse of this town's people. The rumors are people here have been infected with the curse."
Then she turned her head to Levina, and held out her right hand, smiling:
"Sorry to kick you so hard. Please know that I didn't mean you any harm, miss teleportation girl."
Levina, as if, getting splashed with a sea of shock hearing the purple haired girl referring her as mind reader.
Wait..How did she know that one of my abilities are Mind reading?!
"Mind reading?"
Both Lucius and the red haired bewilderingly asked at the same time as they looked at Levina.
Levina, on the other hand, ignored the girl's held out hand, and rose up on her feet. Then with eyes full of suspision, she asked:
"How did you know that I can read mind?"
The girl smirked, and said:
"Before that let me introduce myself. My name is Melissa Willbert. As you already know I am an awakened. And as for your question: I knew that you were a mind reader by peeking into the future."
"Fu-Future?"
Levina became perplexed hearing this.
So, she has an ability which let her see into the future, huh?
"Yes. It's called "future fragments". With this ability I can see various fragments of the future."
Melissa said.
"Oh.."
Levina was stunned to her about her ability, but still she a bit cautious of Melissa. Because, not every awakened could be trusted. Only thing most of the awakened cared about was devouring another awakened curse to get stronger and eventually attaining the peak of their power. So that only made sense that she was cautious of Melissa.
On the contrary, Melissa seemed to have let her guard down. And with a non-hostile and friendly face she was smiling at Levina.
Levina doesn't seem to be a bad person. This is why I want to become friends with her....It would really be nice if we became friends..
Levina frowned reading the thoughts of Melissa.
This girl...
"Say, how far into the future can you see?."
Levina asked with seriousness on her face.
"I can see anything that happens within 1 minutes."
Melissa answered.
So, Levina can read mind and Melissa can see the future! That's absolutely amazing!
Lucius with astonishment on his face thought that.
I wonder what kind of abilities I will get. Wait, how long will it even take for me to get to the 2nd stage?
As he was thinking that to himself, he noticed that the red haired boy was looking at him with curiosity. Making a eye contact with him, the boy nodded his head.
What's his deal?
Lucius widened his eyes.
The boy had short red hair, hair was kind of messy, gentle blue eyes, wearing a black shirt and a black full-pant, fair skin, a tender face.
He doesn't seemed to be a bad person either. With the amount of curiosity the boy was showing it was clear that he wanted to be friends with Lucius, or that seemed like the case.
"Well, well, what do we have here, folks?"
Abruptly, a harsh and loud Voice came from the direction of the town's gate.
Hearing the voice Lucius and others immediately shifted their eyes to that direction. After that, they saw a man with long black hair, black eyes, and a face full of hostility. He was wearing a black shirt with his sleeves up and a black trouser.
He was smirking devilishly as he was walking towards the four of them.
With each steps of the man, Lucius and the others were getting alarmed. Killing intent was oozing out from all over his body.
This guy is seriously a bad news.
A little drop of sweat dripped down Lucius forehead as he thought.
"Get ready to fight, guys. We are completely surrounded."
Melissa said.
"Yeah, I know."
Levina retorted.
"HEY GUYS, THE ONES THAT ARE HIDING BEHIND THOSE BUILDINGS, COME OUT. I HAVE A PROPOSAL TO MAKE."
The man shouted.
Then suddenly many footsteps became audible. Ten men came out from behind the buildings, all smirking devilishly.
The red haired boy's face got taken over by a little anxiety seeing this number. With a worrisome face, he said:
"This doesn't look good."
" We are screwed, aren't we?"
Lucius thought to himself out loud.
"Both of you, What is your stage level?"
Levina asked Melissa and the red haired boy.
"I am in second stage."
Melissa replied, looking at those man.
"I am also an awakened of second stage."
The red haired boy said.
Then he turned his head to Levina and Lucius, then said:
"My name is Raiden Mortre. You can call me Raiden."
Saying that he again looked at those men.
"So, what kind of proposal were you gonna make?"
"Hurry it up."
"Yeah."
Those men said that with a face full of arrogance and overconfidence.
The man with long black hair smiled mysteriously, and said:
"As you know this town is infected with the curse. And the fact that all of we awakeneds are here means we are here for the exact same purpose-- devouring the curse of this town's curse infected people. But here's the problem...."
The man abruptly paused, then his eyes become as cold as a killer's:
"I simply can't allow other awakeneds to steal my source of getting stronger."
Saying that he blankly smiled:
"So, how about it: all of us present here will fight to death and the last man standing gets to devour the curse of the folks of this town. This way we will not only be able to get stronger passively but also actively as well."
Hearing the proposal everyone was taken a back.
What! Battle royal?
Lucius thought, being stunned.
"Hmm..."
Among those ten men, a man with green hair wondered about the proposal for a moment, then with a face full of excitement, he said:
"Sounds fu.."
Before he could finish speaking, surprisingly his head fell down on the ground and crimson blood spluttered the pitched black road in red. A few seconds later the man's body fell down too.
The men beside him panicked, and flinched back. Then they widened their eyes in confusion seeing Levina standing behind them with holding her bloodied black dagger. Few seconds second ago they saw her standing with her companions, and now she were magically there!
Levina ,just like before, used her teleporting ability to get behind them. Though they weren't aware of that ability of her's, so naturally they would all be surprised seeing her magically appearing behind them.
With a heavy face, Levina looked back and said:
"Melissa and Raiden, take on the long haired man. While you two do that I and Lucius will take on these men."
"...."
Lucius doesn't look very happy to hear this plan.
"Ok. Will do."
Saying that Melissa smirked. As she smirked, her fair skin turned grayish, her dark purple hair changed its color to white, and her purple eyes became glowing green color.
The same happened with Raiden too. Since he was a second stage awakened his transformation pattern was the same as Melissa's.
As Raiden's hands were sparkling with white lightning , he with calm green glowing eyes looked at the long haired man.
As for Melissa, she began to emit dark blue color, as she turned towards the man.
"Let's do this."
With firm seriousness on her face she said that...