Chapter 12

< Status :

Name: Edward Dean

Level: 1st grade evolver

Experience: 8%

Race: Human / Unknown

ATK: 15 (+3)

DEF: 21

SPE: 12

INT: 10

Skills : Armored body (Passive)

Equipment:

- Pure mythril dagger (ATK +3) >

Sam looked at the greenish pop up window that had appeared in front of his eyes and wasn't surprised by Edward's stat as he already knew that his friend was a monster but was chocked to see that Edward owned a skill!

'That's insane, passive skills are so rare how did he get one?'

Sam knew very well the familial background of Edward, he grew up in a single parent family after his father disappeared when he was 6 years old and was the oldest of three siblings. His mother had worked extremely hard in various small jobs that didn't require any skills just to not see her children starving and that was why Edward didn't go to university but instead enrolled with Sam, he wanted to make money fast and let his mother who had worked so hard for all these years rest, obviously his friend wouldn't have the money to buy a skill which costed in the millions of galactic dollars.

[He probably doesn't know either, my hypothesis is that it's either a hereditary skill passed down from generation to generation or it was given to him by someone when he was younger.]

After thinking for so long Sam gave a small hit to Edward's stomach and whispered:

"Let's go fight that beast."

Edward who heard his friend say that showed almost no reaction outside but was burning from the inside.

"I don't think we can fight a grade 2 beast, even senior soldiers who are grade 2 and 3 evolvers are taking so long to kill it."

His friend was surprisingly calm and cool headed, this was out of character from his usual hot bloodedness.

"Trust me, we will come back alive and even be rewarded handsomely."

To this day Mechy had been extremely helpful to Sam, it could calculate to extreme degrees and so he completely believed it when it said his chances of survival were so high.

Edward who was looking at Sam with a serious expression had his eyes lit when he heard about a reward, he closed his eyes for a second and then opened them. His cautious expression was replaced by determination as he said:

"Let's do it."

Sam smiled slightly and started running towards the sound of the battle with Edward trailing close behind him, unknowingly to the big group that was setting up camp once again two people had ran off.

A minute later both of them walked behind a tree and saw a huge dark blue cat waving its paws towards an armored woman, on the other hand she was waving a huge axe at it while different attacks were raining on it from every angle.

The attacker that caught his attention the most was a short girl who was standing on a tree branch and restlessly pulling and releasing her bow which created light blue arrows out of thin air while yelling orders, she looked extremely frail but she acted as a leader and everyone moved at her commands so Sam decided it was her who he must negotiate with, as the soldiers already had over 5 casualties he believed she wouldn't refuse his help and so he jumped on the branch and said:

"Do you need help?"

The sudden voice pulled her out of her focus and she looked incredulously at Sam, his uniform was in shambles but how could she not recognize the uniform of the of the first graders ?

"What are you doing here ?! Everybody was supposed to evacuate!"

As soon as she lost her focus the cat weaved it's enormous paw towards Sara who didn't have time to balance herself after swinging her axe and she was sent flying into a tree ten meters away, following the fall of the main tank the Midnight cat seemed to be freed from any worries as he swept all the weakest soldiers in the blink of an eye.

Sara was passed out at the bottom of a tree, Sid had lost consciousness while hanging on a tree branch and a lot of weaker soldiers couldn't protect their vitals in time and were either dangerously injured or even dead.

Ella who had seen the scene unfold in front of her eyes looked like she was about to cry but she wasn't given the time to do so as the huge cat jumped at her and Sam right after it was done with the other soldiers.

"Dodge!"

Sam yelled to pull her out of her daze and jumped backwards, since she looked like she wasn't in a state to fight Sam looked at Edward and said:

"Let's do it, you hold it down while I take care of killing it."

Edward who had came with the intention to help the seniors got himself involved in a situation where he actually had to save them, he wasn't really sure how Sam would deal damage to such a strong beast but he believed in this brother who never failed to impress him.

"Roger!"

Edward who was standing close to Sara picked up her axe and felt like it was quite light but still better than nothing, if Sara knew what he was thinking she would probably throw up blood, he was only a first grade evolver but he was wielding her axe with more ease than her and she was a second grade evolver !

As the cat had it's eyes fixated on Ella it didn't see Edward coming and it took a huge blow on it's belly and it was sent flying a few meters but nimbly fell back on its legs. When the cat focused on Edward, Sam who was waiting for an opportunity to attack used his Blazing legs skill and jumped from the tree top while aiming a chop kick at the cat's head.

The Midnight cat wasn't a weak grade 1 beast and so it felt the danger early enough and it moved its head towards the right, but that wasn't enough and Sam's kick hit its shoulder.

The cat screeched and aimed a paw at Sam but he had already used the momentum of he kick to jump away, meanwhile Edward who was looking at his friend use a skill had widened eyes and his jaw had fallen all the way down to the ground.

Ella who had been pulled out of her daze by the screech of the beast was also looking at Sam's legs the same way as Edward did, suddenly she saw hope and determination came back in her eyes!

'We can still save most of them if we kill this cat fast enough!'