Unexpected Guests

In an instant, Liu Kai appeared beside the Giant Arachnid in an after slash position.

Suddenly, the giant fishing spider's head fell from its body and rolled to the ground after it fell.

'I'm done here... I had enough valuable resources for the village.'

'But I want to try something...'

Liu Kai walked closer to the body, pointing the palm of his hand to the body. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Come to life."

[Treant has been activated]

Vines emerged on the concrete floor, wrapping around the dead body. One of the vines took the head and reverted it to its original position, and the skin hardened and turned brown.

Ttr-ring!

[Treantification was successful]

'I see… I can use it as an active skill if the Treant skill is deactivated. And if it's activated, I'm like a walking Giant Cursed Tree that's going to resurrect dead bodies.'

The giant fishing spider treant stood up and bowed down to Liu Kai, showing its appreciation of coming back to life to its summoner.

Liu Kai can't help but grin, seeing an S-Rated Monster becoming his minion.

"Now, all of you, BEGONE!!!"

The vines on their bodies started moving and they are all helplessly fell to the gound like a puppet, twitching on the ground. Something from the inside sucked all parts of their bodies like a black hole. A seed came to view and dropped to the floor of the building and embedded itself into it.

'This is enough. And it's easier than I thought.'

'With the stats and skills I received from the Giant Cursed Tree, I can help the village match the Monarchy. Wait... No... Forget about matching the Monarchy. We can surpass its power at this rate.'

He grinned and walked to the building's edge to go back to the village, but...

'WHAT'S THIS???'

His eyes widened as he stopped in his tracks.

He detected five heavy presences, traveling at tremendous speed.

'This can't be...'

Their presences are stronger than those S-Rated Monsters in Fang Shi, but he didn't feel like it was a different insect.

Liu Kai grew familiar with the giant water striders inside the country and can tell where and how many they are now with eyes closed. He sensed the new presences removing those giant water striders' presence while they were moving closer to him.

'They are killing it like it's a normal insect...'

Liu Kai went frozen and didn't know what to do. He can try to outrun them and run back to the village, but that will only drag these creatures to the village. Another thing is, the creatures already detected him long before he felt them, so he can't hide anymore.

He turned back, facing their direction.

'Who are they!?'

Five humanoid silhouettes landed on top of a skyscraper, staring down at Liu Kai. He tried to look at them, but the sun was in their backs' direction, making him see nothing but their shapes.

"Hohoho, just look what we've found here," the man in the middle said, wearing a royal knight armor with a sword on his waist inside a sword holster. He has long black hair in a ponytail and looked like he was in his early 30s.

"Well, well, well... Let's see who we got here," said one of the knights while licking his dagger. He has long black middle part curly hair that ends on his chin's level. He looks like he's in his late 20s and has a tall and thin build, probably taller and thinner than Liu Kai.

He jumped out of the skyscraper and landed in front of Liu Kai.

'This armor... is those of the royal knights,' thought Liu Kai, gazing at the pitch-black full-body Xennogian Royal Armor with purple metal linings.

Liu Kai once wanted to be a knight and studied them, so he can't forget what their uniforms look like. And this armor in front of him is one of the highest grade armor before the Great Catastrophe.

[Somebody's showing tremendous hostility to you]

Liu Kai remained standing despite the message and scanned the man in front of him.

"Sir Schneider, be careful of him. He doesn't look like a civilian," one of the four knights on the skyscraper shouted.

They both disregarded the knight and looked directly at each other's eyes while holding their weapons.

"Who are you?" asked Liu Kai.

"Oh, sorry for being rude. As you can see, I am Flynn Schneider, a Royal Knight from the Monarchy," answered Flynn Schneider, smiling evilly at him.

"How about you, young man?" Flynn Schneider added.

"I am Liu Kai," answered Liu Kai straightforwardly.

Flynn Schneider grabbed Liu Kai's neck and lifted him in the air.

"I like the confidence, young man. Now you need to come with us," said Flynn Schneider.

"Tsss...."

Liu Kai smirked and answered, "No one's coming with you, cocky bastard."

Liu Kai sliced Flynn Schneider's arm and it helplessly fell on the top floor, causing Flynn to take a step back as he groaned from the pain.

"ACCCKK!"

'Who's this guy!? I didn't see his arm move,' thought Flynn Schneider, holding his underarm part, trying to stem the bleeding while looking at Liu Kai.

"Sir Schneider!" One of the other knights shouted. They jumped to the building as well, and one of them assisted him to stand up.

"How dare you hurt a Royal Knight? I'll kill you right now," the knight who assisted Flynn Schneider said. He looked like he's in his late 20s too, and he was bald and had very thick eyebrows.

He's about to throw something at Liu Kai, but...

"Abhijeet Rahman! Calm yourself!" yelled by the Captain.

"Captain, it pierced through my armor," stated Flynn Schneider, looking at his Captain, who's scanning Liu Kai.

"Interesting," mumbled by the Captain who had ponytail hair. He looks like he's in his early 30s and has a great build similar to Jin Chow.

"Yamamoto Fumihiro," said Liu Kai, glaring at their Captain.

"It looks like he knows me. Then you know the position you are in." Yamamoto Fumihiro gave Liu Kai a pitiful look, looking down on him.

Of course, Liu Kai would never forget Yamamoto Fumihiro. He's the greatest swordsman he's ever seen in his life and was a rising star in the Monarchy before Liu Kai got struck by a truck. He's one of the reasons why Liu Kai wanted to become a knight, after all.

'I knew he would become a Royal Knight someday. And this guy standing beside him, it's none other than Antonio James Reyes. A homeless guy who got adopted by a general because of the exceptional hand-to-hand combat technique that he used to fight bears and wolves in the wild.'

'These two become rivals inside the Monarchy. To think that they would be on the same Royal Squad is insane. I wonder what's the skill they received after the Great Catastrophe.'