Chap

Hello

"How much further now?" says an impatient reach, walking was he with arms behind his head in a laid back manner as they proceeded on for hours.

the other three were much more exhausted. from the beginning they noticed a tiered look on his face and thought he must be low level. but of course he whipped out his scroll and some seconds later. of course the exhuastion melted from his face. this was surprising because they thought he was just some low rank fighter but quite the contrary he buffed him self?

however that wasn't what happened. as they went on the increasing weariness on his body grew along with aches on his body so this caused him to take out the scroll and change things. his body now could not use up stamina. it still used it but he was like a broken character with 0 stamina still unable to feel troubling side effects.

"Hey, I asked you something." glancing to his party he found the girls exhausted with a slightly smiling amrissa. thus he bothered the actual captain of the group not know the captain yet.

"Your attitude towards this leader is terrible." the scout said with a tone of exhaustion. but before it ended his sentence seemed to be going into his tone of analyzation.

knowing he was being unreasonable reach backed off and decided to shut up and continue enjoying the acenery.

so far he was in a masterious world where the sky was blue but was mysteriously blanched out by something black. it was as if you looked up you would see the ordinary blue sky like earth but gradually you would be exposed to something above the sky. like it had no atmosphere.

the object spread all across the sky with spaced. out holes and floating platforms above the clouds leading into those holes. like they were a essential piece to covering them.

the object was black but split by a diamond blue that shone brightly when you thought about seeing the object making reach confused.

"What's that?" curious he threw a finger in the air as he asked about the object.

"you joke well over our tiredness." the scout went back to analyzing him with his tone.

they all felt reach to be joking. how could anyone not know about this?

"errm you annoying thing just say it." reach was going to say something in a way that would retort to that but couldn't as he was really curious. but still as he was annoyed he called him like such.

"fine, that thing." the archer girl pointed up and said as if talking to a child. "is the dungeon. we are at the lowest level. some people choose to stay or work their way up or ascend when they rank all the way up."

"are you refering to me as a child?" reach asked lifting his eyebrow but he was really listening still he didn't like being above 20 years old and being treated as a child. hence.

"but I am not. and how could no one know about it? were you blind previously?" she asked curiously and switched topics.

"hey are you trying to pick on me?" reach asked feeling agitated. he did not want to but he would fight back if he had too even a lady.

the whole group stopped now as she stepped back not knowing how to respond.

"stop there will be no fighting within our group." amrissa spoke up. she loved battle but she couldnt stand for it when it was amongst the people she teamed up with. "Shes right. I also think this is common knowledge no? every one are able to see it from the moment they come into the world ."

they were now all curious. " where did you come from.. and we have yet asked but what is your name?" she asked now genuine curiousity mark her expression. gone was the smile she usually had.

as he met their gazes one by one he thought of how he could answer. they couldn't know the truth so he could tell them anything so long he wasnt as far fetched.

"I came from the air." he said. he wondered if he went to far but then he had an image appear in his mind and just when they had looks of disbelief he nodded. one instant he appeared human then the next as the largest centipede they saw so far. he was made of wind and could be felt as such but it was a compressed wind. so even if they tried they could feel his body. he was seven meters long and three wide and his legs extended a couple meters more. his height including his legs was 5 meters.

the girls gasped in surprise as the scout came near and tried to touch. he felt with his right hand the section of his body closest to the head. it felt like how it normally would but you could feel gentle but noticible breezes above his body and up to his wrist.

just aa quick as he transformed he changed back. he felt something change in his soul. he did the only thing he could to interact with it. he pulled the scroll out.

the scroll appeared in hand and he opened it quickly.

he read what was new .

( Skills: can now use wind shroud acid, and accelerate, trace)

reach was able to do each one as the information influx went directly to his mind.

Reach let the scroll disappear and tried wind shroud passive. as there was an attack aswell. it could blast back any enemies within range that failed to resist.

the wind was the nature of the creature and blew both harsh and gently as the mood or will presented.

reach felt the wind blow around him like seconds ago. he smiled as he found the wind to be cool.

as he transform he also found out that this creature had its own planet and could change its immediate enviorment. its nature was cool wind centipede as what it was called.

although they recognized the creature as a monster from the starter level of the dungeon. a wind centipede of a small level. weak that even they could kill easily.

however reach satisfied left his wind on and it could only affect his own immediate area as one meter.

"So you're from the first dungeon. why are you human though?" the scout asked normally but he was confused. never on any level could any monster become human.

"i dont know?" seeing no reason to go any further he let him self be a mystery. for now.

"let's move on." amrissa watched and she found slight confusion on his own face so she thought they rested enough and she decided to get them moving again. "he doesn't know either so lets keep going, we want to get close somehow before sun set."

"right!" reach said cheerfully he was also greatful she drew the attention away from him so he thanked her inwardly as she kept walking forward.

"why. why are you leader?" scout ran ahead and walked closer to her. he was really confused and felt he wasn't actually leading anything.

"you are leader now get off of me." she glanced at him on her right, in his eyes she appeared firm. " Maybe you feel that way because you analyse too much instead of looking at him closely." she said causing him to almost choke on his own blood. 'then what is analyse then? if I can't do it right then you teach it to me.'

he stepped away a bit and asked. " Then what do I do now?"

she smiled as she started feeling really good. "first admit to me you are useless then I will show you." she said and start to smile. at first she was new but for now she really liked this.

"How-" just aa he asked she took a distance from him. "wa- wait!" at first he really didn't want to oblige and was going to respond sarcastically and assumed she was serious but now he thought she meant it. "I-" he was going to say it. 'am I really going to be leader like this?' then he recalled what his mom said.

a good leader takes good advise, he never lets his position go to his head. and most importantly like your father always be powerful as a leader.

that was his moms advice. she would teach him to be a leader so isnt this good advice? "I am useless." he said with a smile but didn't feel so useless. he thought of it as a strategy like his father taught him.

"Good." pride swelled in amrissa "first learn to either be quiet or make friends with him." she said and let him come closer.

he nodded and heeded her instruction.

***

"while she's doing that tell what you guys will do next." reach hung back and spoke with the quiet elf archer who walked back as a usually for her.

she peeked at him from the side as he met her eye and seemed to. remind him of something " sorry.. about earlier." he said as he turned away. although she was curious she said nothing about him not bowing and told him. "It's fine.. I'm over it any way. any way how does it feel to be that.. that thing?" she asked.

"normal." was the answer gave as he turned forward and looked at the backs of their teammates.

she lifted an eye brow but said nothing.

"my question?" he glanced over as he let his arms go be hind his head and he took his relaxed posture again.

"oh- um.. right we're going to practice for a couple of weeks and leave for for another area." she wasnt scared but forgot his question just to remember. she also look forward after checking his glance and said. "we need to train before we reach rank 4 then we will be able to enter" she said turning her view to the dungeon.

reach checker her look which caused him to look up as well.

"we were hiding our ranks with merlin's disguise tag I guess you knew our true rank?" she glanced at him as he stared up for the dungeon.

"you can say that." he didn't want to reveal anything to explain more so he agreed.

"and you beat goudu so your rank is the same as ours right?" she asked.

'is that the guy we left there?' he wondered.

"he wasn't hard." reach retorted and looked forward while deciding to relax his eye lids.

she nodded in response and looked to the darkening sky. it was almost time to set up camp.

"The moon is up! lets slow down and look for a camping area?" she shouted to the bickering duo up front. reach chuckled he thought she would be more submiissve or nervous but she was as out spoken as everyone else.

He looked for the sky as he opened his eyes and thought about his home planet. 'their ways influenced me quite a bit havent they? I knocked him out after all.' he sighed and gave it up before blinking they both waited as the two came back. both smiling with satisfaction as if they both made a deal where they themselves got its better part.

"sigh..." reach and the archer sighed together seeing their silly approach.