Confrontation

Like any other day, fatty was going to the guild. It was still a little bit late, but he didn't worry too much. They were probably going to go for the next hunt in the remaining red zones. He parked his car in the parking lot, walked to the guild office. As he entered the gate of the building, he found it to be really quiet. There was not a single person there.

" Why is everyone late today? But.."

He looked at the security guard booth, and there was nobody there.

" That's odd."

He knew that the guards change shifts and last night before he left the night shift started.

" Where did they go ?"

He looked at the time and it was 9:40 A.M. Everyone is supposed to be here. He opened the doors and entered the reception room. Fatty scanned the hallway but there was nobody except her assistant sitting in the chair with crossed legs.

" Why is nobody here yet ?" Fatty asked the assistant.

" Who knows, maybe they did come, but something happened." The assistant said with a smile.

" What is that supposed to mean?

The assistant stood up and started to walk towards him.

" You are too weak, how did you defeat the infant. I don't believe that a mere human like you could've killed it." The assistant asked as he was walking.

" What are you talking about? What infant?" Fatty was getting confused with all the absurd questions.

" Hmm, looks like you don't know what you have hunted. Then how did you discover it? Normal humans can never detect us."

" What has gotten into you? Why are you talking about weird things ?"

" In the glades, the beast that you killed. You have the body in storage. Does that ring a bell ?"

" You mean.."

Fatty had a sudden realization and he suddenly backed off and took a fighting stance.

" Who are you? You are not April. What did you do to her?"

Fatty now realized that her demeanor, the lost staff, and the way of her talking that she was the reason for all this.

" So you remembered huh, now let me lend your mind for a bit"

A black shadowy tentacle grew out from her body and approached fatty. Fatty instinctively blocked

*BANG* *BANG*

" Oh, another member that I didn't devour." The monster looked at the girl, who just came in for fatty's rescue.

Daisy just arrived after fatty came. She also found it weird that nobody was there. Usually, every staff member was present by this time. She quickly got inside and found that fatty was there. He was standing in a defensive position, with his aura activated.

As she looked in the other direction, the receptionist was walking towards her. She didn't understand why he was in the position in front of her. Then suddenly a dark tentacle grew out of the assistant and aimed at fatty's head.

She instinctively pulled her gun and shot aura bullets at her tentacles. But to her surprise, the bullets didn't budge the tentacles, they were simply deflected like paper balls.

" What ?" She couldn't believe what she was seeing. An aura-infused bullet just bounced off. A SS rank user can't even stay still with that shot, at least there will be a scratch. But the tentacles simply brushed off the bullets like they were made of paper.

******

August teleported himself to the guild office, and when he got there, he received a notification from the system.

[ Foreign entity detected in the vicinity. ]

" What ?"

He looked the other way and there he saw a dark tentacle was approaching fatty.

' Gamma flame'

He quickly created a precise ray of gamma flame and launched at the tentacle.

* BWHAAASHH*

The sudden appearance of the purple flame startled the monster. The flame ray hit its tentacle as there was no time for it to retract. And the monster never thought that anyone could hurt it. Therefore it never bothered to take the tentacle back.

*GRAAAAAH*

The monster shrieked as the ray of purple fire sliced her tentacle in half. The tentacle evaporated at the touch of the flame.

" Quantum field... How do you have the quantum field."

The monster sensed a quantum field on the flame, that was enforcing the flame by changing its properties.

The monster suddenly expanded and turned into a shadow. The whale corridor turned gloomy. The darkness spread across the hall as it sucked all the light within. The dark figure towering over them with reg glowing eyes expanded its tentacles and divided into thousands of strands.

August didn't wait for the monster to make the first move and phased through the quantum field.

The monster was stunned that it couldn't sense him, as it expanded its force and tentacles, an invisible force field was approaching toward her.

" Phase, how do you have the skills of that infant. I see... You were the one responsible for its demise, aren't you ?"

" You talk too much.."

As the tentacles were spreading, a large flame blasted the monster through the building. August used all his quantum force to create a big gamma flame ray, and directed towards the monster at point-blank range after the monster discovered her field.

*BOOM*

Half of the roof was gone, as the upper floors were also evaporated from the earlier attack.

Daisy was looking at the scene with wide-open eyes. She couldn't fathom the power that August showed right now. Half of the building was gone by one attack from him.

' Is that his true power ?'

She had seen the fight between the S rank users and August, but this was on a whole nother level. This level of destruction without breaking a sweat, she wasn't sure if the most powerful user could do that.

As she was thinking this, her whole body stopped moving. She could only see what was happening in front of her. Outside the building, within the rubbles, a dark shadow was expanding.

" Authority" August also sensed that the monster used its authority after the attack, as everything in the vicinity stopped moving.

He looked at its status, now that he had the time.

[ Anomaly located ]

[ Type : Quantum Life form ]

[ Age : 400 years ]

[ Species : undefined ]

[ Resonance : 0.01 ]

[ Level : 655 ]

[ Strength : 710 ]

[ Agility : 640 ]

[ Vitality : 670 ]

[ Dexterity : 300 ]

[ Intelligence : 20 ]

[ Wisdom : 20 ]

[ Skills : Absorb(SSS), Shadow Void(SSS), Dark matter manipulation(SS), Quantum Force Channel (S), Transform(S), Authority(S)...]

August looked at the resonance which was quite higher than the quantum beast but still didn't match his own.

' What is the purpose of resonance? Why only the quantum life forms have it?'

He remembered the encounter with the foreign entity. She told him that he was the ruler of this dimension.

' Maybe, I can find out more answers from it.'

August looked towards the monster, as it was spreading its shadow towards them. Without waiting any further, he activated his own authority.