Flying high above the clouds a man coated in glass like armor that occasionaly flashed with electricity from time to time, soared with a determined look on his face. With each flap his wings he would travel tens of meters a second. The location was over an hour of flight time. With his mana recovery was able to continuously fly non stop by slowing down then increasing his speed again, periodically.
He floated above the outlet mall. Pools of blood were everywhere. Qwen felt his gut wench. No matter what so many had people died because of him. He wanted to draw all the attention to himself and aggro the monsters. He found a group of three orc who had let ther their guard down. Qwen would show these sh**s that they are never safe as long as he breathes.
He put his his fingers together and a small cloud formed in his hand before becoming a ball of visible water infront of his chest. He extended his arm and froze the air around the three orcs legs hundreds of degrees below freezing. Their legs had become cold so fast instantly exploded leaving the group screaming in pain. They didn't have time to agonize however. A 2 foot thunderbolt shot out of the second formed cloud and making the three bodies explode and creating a loud noise.
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Like Qwen suspected, the monsters had become stronger by a few levels in only 2 months. Only high powered rifles or bigger will do do damage to their skin. Most people would be powerless against them with pistol fire unless hitting a soft spot on the monsters like their eyes or throats. Luckily, Qwen wasn't most people.
He still couldn't believe what he had done. He could only guess how many lives were lost due to his decisions. Then again, the black out were still going to happen dispite what he did. At least now, humanity had a chance to fight back and become stronger much earlier than anticipated. There was no telling him many more lives he a had saved also.
Just as he thought those words a group of people pulled up in an SUV. They hurriedly jumped out of their vehicles and began engaging the orcs. They all looked like they were straight out of a middle ages flick but Qwen had to admit they held their own. They looked confident like they had fought for countless months and had the arrogance of seasoned warriors. Their problem was, they didn't understand that this was real life and not 'Systems end'.
The larger man who went up to tank the Orcs planted his large tower shield into the ground and waited for the orcs to charge into it. He used the shout skill to draw the group toward himself and they ignored everyone else. The skill worked too well and 11 orcs descend on the man. The quickly surround man in plate armor. One jumped to the side dodging his swing while another sliced the back of thr knee cap. The man screamed and instantly lost one of his legs. While he was distracted the other 9 orcs blades and spears stabbed him over and over from all sides.
"Donavan! NOOO!"" The leader of the group screamed.
The man named Donovan could only scream pitifully before the light left his eyes and he went silent.
"Help Mmeeaarggg!"
It happened so fast that not even Qwen couldn't react in time. After all, none of them were real warriors with years of battle experience, even himself.
The orc on the other hand had battled since they were born. They were natural warriors through and through. The team that arrived was devastated and hesitated to attack.
That was all it took for the rest of the orc to try to attack the group only they didn't account for Qwen to be flying above. He unleashed his atmospheric pressure around the chargimg orcs. Everything within 5 meters of them were smashed into the ground. Qwen conjured 11 spears of ice and launched them through the heads of the 11 orcs. Releasing the pressure on the team he turned his head towards them.
"Fight or leave but, dont stand there and do nothing."
The man who looked to be the rogue of the group glared at Qwen.
"One of our people just died and you act like you dont even care you bastard!" Tears formed in his eyes as he spoke.
"No offense by why would I care about any of you? I am sorry about your friend, but if you hadn't noticed I just saved your lives. If your coming to battle not expecting to die then why are you here. Weak hearts will get you killed on the battlefield. There are dead bodies here before you arrived did you care about them while you were trying to gain experience point? This isn't a game. now you know. Help out or go home. "
Qwen used the wind fluctuations on the in the air to detect sudden movements before flying off in a blur. Qwen search around the building. Flying to close to one of the building. An orc hiding behind a large sign jumped off the roof with a large hammer and swung down before Qwen could react.
Qwens body shot towns the ground like a meter before crashing though one of the cars forcing a mouthful of blood out. He didn't have a second to rest before a hammer was coming down on his head. He quickly rolled off of the car narrowly missing his skull being bashed in. He could tell from the aftermath of the hammer swing that his head would burst like a melon armor or not.
He quickly rose the temperature in the air immediately around his body. The orc jumped backwards before he could be harmed by the sudden change of temperature.
Two more orcs jumped into the air and threw two large javelin at Qwen. He was able to dodge one of them and the other lodged into his shoulder.
"Aaaaah!"
Qwen had to end this now. He hadn't battled enough to rely on close quarter battles. That was clear due to the 4 foot javelin the wanted to separate his arm from his body. Had he not been wearing his armor he would have died. He quickly flew high into the air. He expanded his senses to the max. He could sense moisture in the air, the most minute changes in the air. He could feel the size difference between the orcs and humans and located the remaining orc.
He summoned the powers of thunder lightning all around himself . He burned through 2/3 of his entire mana pool and a flash appeared in the air. When the light died down there were thousands of ice spears, fire Lance's, and thick thunder bolts floating in front of Qwen.
"Release!"
Ka BOOOMM
Puchi! Puchi!
For 10 whole seconds the sky fell onto the Earth. Orc were impaled into pieces, or blown apart leaving large chunks. Others were more unfortunate and burned from the inside out. Tens of orc lives gone in less than 10 seconds. Nothing was left but crators or large frozen lances sticking out of the ground like massive ice pillars. There was only a graveyard of devastation.
Qwen just looked at the damage he caused but felt no wrong. He had to stop those monsters mo matter what.
The javelin was lodged into his armor. He deactivated the armor. He mentally commanded a wind blade to cut both ends of the javelin. Grabbing on lodge piece of metal in he shoulder, he grunted and pulled as hard and as fast as he could. Qwen screamed.
"Aaaaragh!"
He cast the 'Regeneration' spell immediately afterward. The wound began to visibly close. After a few minutes there was only a large red mark left on his should. Qwens face visibly relaxed at this point. System notifications filled his vision and the battled died dow.
Qwen added all 20 SP to INT. Monsters from the dungeon has drops. He gained the ability to sense dungeons in a 2 kilometer radius. Qwen seen a few common looking blades and armor pieces on the ground. He finally looked around at the scene of gaped mouths. He was flying next to the news helicopter where the camera man record the entire event.
He blushed shyly before quickly looking away. He regretted removing his armor. He wouldn't have done so had it not been for all the pain he was in. He wasn't thinking clearly. I mean, who would with a 3 inch for foot sharpened stick lodged into your body, who would?
He turned to the fighters that had arrived earlier. They were still in shock. Could they do the same things as him?
"Hey, you guys can keep the loot. Remember what you saw here today. Never forget what you loss. What we all lost. Every system user loss, is one less person to fight of the monsters. All of humanity is at risk. Never forget!"
Saying those last words he turned and flew off wearing transparent wings on his back.
The team of now four Systems users looked lost for a moment. Then their faces became resolute. The performed a mental nod in Qwens direction and vowed to follow him in the future whenever they got a chance.
The brave news reporter and cameramans fearlessness paid off the both earned the story of their lives. They perfectly documented what they are now calling, 'System Users'.
The world went crazy. True to human nature, the story wasn't about the loss of life or the orcs. I was about the human with powers who could fly and heal himself.
Everyone in the world wanted their hands on Qwen Valas at that moment.