Life

[If you keep gathering it like that, won't someone find out?] Teo said and scanned the surroundings to find the place that has the least human being.

Anti showed an indifferent expression, "Well, someone is going is find out soon enough anyway and even if they did. Do you think that they could find us? Besides, they need to find it in the body, and know it's used first before they wanna find us."

[Why are you bringing so many excuses for being a robber?] Teo made a sound like an old man.

Anti felt that, he want to throw Teo out of this earth: "OK you win. How about the stats of that guy? show me his update."

[Name - Veasna Reach

Life Form - Red Energy Core (Middle Stage Peak)

Skill - Control the energies to pressure one point

Cultivating Energies Technique - Unknown

[Height - 182 cm

Strength - 3.5 -> (3.9 After using ability)

Agility - 3.2 -> 3.7

Constitution - 4.0 -> 4.3]

[Ability - Beast Transformation (Similarity - Lion, Cat and Crocodile)

Examination of the ability - After circulating, Strength increases, Vitality increases, Agility increases!

Assessment - Red]

[Note - the danger is limited to:

Green - Easy kill

Orange - Hard to kill

Red - Danger

Black - Run faster if you want to live]

Teo can only scan abilities only if the other use it first.

"So, he had the ability to manipulate the energies..." Anti lip pursed and walked his way to the place that needs help.

The moment the fight between the big beast and Reach end. Everything turns to be peaceful again. So Anti can only stop his plundering.

Big trees and smalls trees could be seen everywhere. There's even some that was big as a car.

The time slowly passed by, after Anti help the injured people to the house that has been full of patience. He rest for a bit.

Along the way, Anti took photos of a beast and a big beast. Even though, he could ask Teo what it is, he still does it. It's like a habit. Anyway, he could ask Teo to show him the photos, while having the information below. It's good as well.

As he looks ordinary and doesn't like to show off. He rarely attracts any attention. He only goes in and out to carry the patient.

A while later everything turns normal.

After that, Anti walked outside the wooden house, he went to the place that seemed to have three people.

Under the tree, these people sit and relax from the battle.

One of the people speaking, "Do you know what kind of beast this is?"

"I don't know but I heard our group leader called it Sneaker, It's just the name our boss come up for this new evolution beast." A man with a normal build, and a craggy face replied awkwardly.

As Anti walked toward here, he heard them talking, "Hello, can I sit here too?" He asked and bowed.

"It's fine, come and join us. Oh! Are you the new guy that I saw Som invited here?" The man with a big beard asked.

"Ah, yes, you saw us?" Anti sat down and lay his back on the tree.

"Yes, but to be frank, are you guys planning to stay here, or have some other places to go." As he said that, he grabs the dry wood to make a fire.

"We don't know yet, we heard some situation about this place from some other people along the way. Thus, we made our way to this village which is also the same direction we want to go. And if luck is on us, maybe some of my friends could meet their family members. But if we don't, we'd be on our way." Just as he was speaking, the last man with the straight face and flat nose butted in.

"If you choose to go away, then don't waste our foods and space here! We need it for our people." He spoke angrily and added, "People here worked hard for their own food to survive. So if you understand, you can choose to leave tomorrow, or stay here and work with us if you want the place to stay and eat."

Anti can also see the situation along the way here, some people don't have enough food to eat and starve. "I know, that's why we don't even touch any foods here and sorry for the space that we stayed. Besides, we just arrive here, I will pay that room when I get back." Anti spoke with a calm and didn't care at all about his remark.

"Vann! don't say anything like. I'm sorry friend, after through many things he becomes like that. Many people here lose or couldn't find their loved ones. You see, even common people here have to work for the foods. While we go outside to hunt or gather the fruits that are edible and as you know it was dangerous outside, especially after this evolution." A man with a big beard said and sigh.

The man with a craggy face also join the conversation as he tried to make a fire with stones and leaf, "You know, us here consider to have a good life. If you go to those crazy Violence Tiger Group, it would be like a disaster if you don't have enough strength. They treat you like a slave if you don't work hard enough."

"Then why don't they leave?" Anti expression turned a little solemn.

The light of fire comes out, it reflects all of their shadow to the ground.

The man with the straight face and flat sneered, "Stupid, it's because they are weak and they can't decide their own fate. And as long as they are already with those bastard they could not get away."

After chatting for a bit more, Anti goes on his way.

"I know that you are a good man as I saw you helping earlier. I hope you can join us friend." The bearded man said sincerely.

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It was 8 pm according to his phone. He went to the patient house one last time and asked the causalities. The healer and doctor recorded are 25 deaths and 51 injures.

Having the free time, he wanted to know the population around here and asked some people. He knew through them that there are only around a thousand people in this southern part of the village.

The world nearly cease the existence of human and it only has been peace for a year and ten months. While it is so, but the people are not in peace, they can only stabilize themselves after sometimes.

It is hard to gather this many people now.

Along the way, he saw people happily carrying the Sneaker. It is food. At least, they have some rewards after this raid.

As he has too much stuffs to looked up to when he arrived. Anti didn't have enough time to look at his surroundings. Even though it was at night now, the torch of fire was everywhere in front of every wooden house.

It's not that late at night, so he headed out to see the place.

Anti was walking and he asks Teo to make a map out of the southern part. Teo area scanning is limit at a maximum of 400 meters only. As this region is not big nor small, an hour later, he could guess of the map around here. This part of southern place has every house built as a curve and use the gate that made out of wood as the defensive part.

From the other perspective, this southern part that the Bokator Master Group is at, has its main base at the middle and the other houses at the side.

The main base connected to the other northern and western parts that the other two big groups resided in, with a big space in the middle. They have an eastern part as a road and a place for transactions.

He knew that the people that could fight is limited, but to use houses and people as a shield like that.

But at least they run to help when there's a danger. Maybe, this kind of beast tide is not that frequent as well.

Either way, it's much better now that even the people with low strength could have their own abilities. Within time, they have something more to protect themselves now.

While he was thinking, he arrived back at the place they arranged for him to sleep. It looked like a cottage but it's better than sleeping in the cave.

Carrying his spear, he walked in. There, he sees everybody laid down with exhaustion while their mouth was drinking the water and speaking.

In here, there's only one wooden bed with the two ladies sleep on it together, the two other guys sleep on the floor and Anti will also have the same fate.

Just as Anti walking in, Aunen sounded out, "Oh!! it's my brother Anti. You're not dead yet!"

Anti ignore him and grab the pillow that made from some kind of leaf and other plants that people here provided to them.

Moreover they also have their own daily need things like a scarf that made from the beast hide to cover themselves when they were cold. It looks rather plain as they use the roots of the hard and thin tree to sew them together.

"Do you guys have any injured?" Anti asked.

"We have, but it's nothing serious. It's a scratch from those beasts. I just applied the medicine to Lita and Visal." Selsa said and start to sit up on the bed. " As for us two. We are fine, how about you Anti?"

Anti goes and grabs some dried fruit for them, and said with a little smile: "I'm fine, and one more thing. Don't eat other food without their permission, okay? And tomorrow, we should pay the rent for the place we live as well."

"You mean this room that is nothing like a cave at all?" Aunen stupefied asking.

Visal sit up and said: "I think it's right. Nothing is free in this world, especially the world that we're living in now. I'll deal with this stuff, leave it to me. And how many foods did we have left again?"

"We have only three boxes of dried meat, some beast hides, one box of dried fruit and one wolf that we have decomposed into parts for a transaction tomorrow." All the arrangement stuffs and calculation is always on Nita.

"We have many things to do tomorrow, it'd be lucky if you two could find some of your family members here as well." Selsa toned was filled with hope.

"Yes, I hope they would be alive. If me and Visal couldn't find them in a week. We could only make our journey to the north again." Nita voice was stern.

It turns out that Nita and Visal have their family members separated. They only know that their parent was at this direction in the original country.

On the other hand, Selsa family was dead on the third disaster and she started the journey along with them together the day they met. Aunen is an orphanage, and he felt that being with them is good, so he gets along as well.

As for Anti, his parents died of old ages and he only has one big brother that left the house long ago. Anti also didn't care much about his brother anyway.

But as Nita said those words, everyone turn silence. Seeing the situation, Visal change the topic quickly, "It seems like. In this world, magic is not an imagination now isn't it." He said that while his hand change the wood into a small sharp knife.

"My ability required the energies depended on the qualities and quantity. Depend on the energies required I could change the materials into anything. I name my abilities «Ultimate Shape Changer». What! Are you guys not shocked at all?"

"Ptfff, what's with the name Visal. What Ultimate..." Aunen laughed out loud. "Nita was with me in the battle. You know what, one of the guards tell her to go to the safe ground as she looks like a weak girl with a bow. Guess what happen?"

"She run and cried?!" Selsa said while looking at Nita with a pitiful expression.

Nita's face turns red from angry and there're drops of sweat appear on her nose now in this hot room. She looked kinda cute. Then, she grabs on Selsa body and tightens her a little.

Aunen didn't care about that two women and continue, "Yes, she seemed to have a little tear as I saw. But, at that moment, she suddenly ran toward one of the Sneaker that tried to kill weak people. Just as she arrived near it, she grabbed the beast with an incredible strength. No matter how it wanted to move, it just couldn't. Then she twisted its neck in a 360 degree and it died while its eyes were staring at her." Clearing his throat and looking at everyone like a father looked at their son.

"From that time onward no one said anything to her anymore. The End." He said while clapping alone.

Hearing this Nita butted in with an awkward looked, "I'm not too clear at that time. It's related to my «Emotion Ability»."

For a time, they discuss happily about Aunen «Earth Ability» and Selsa «Fire Ability».

Then, they decide their tomorrow's work. Selsa would go to transaction, Visal will deal with the rent here. And both of them would also search for the information regarding Violence Tiger Group.

Nita and Aunen would gather the information on Sela Temple. Anti would go outside to find more resources for their needs.

Also, both Selsa and Aunen would help Visal and Nita to look for their family members as well.

Immediately afterward, they all slept.