The Lurking Catastrophe

Oli gazes upon the newly built houses of the residents with proud eyes. Even though it is not like the houses on Earth, which some are built-in concrete, the houses in the Leefside are all made of plywood, timber, and logs, a light material, but it is much better than the previous houses in which the residents live.

It's been almost five months since Oli came into the world, especially in Leefside village. When he first arrived in Leefside, all he saw and witnessed were the crude and perforated houses, dry fields, and the fence is ruined. An inhabitable village, in the first impression, but now all the house were fixed a new and well-settled, the fields are back on production once again and the fence although made in bamboo spike it is much better than the previous one. The fenced now were giving a feeling of security and protection.

But somehow, Oli feels that something is lacking, and he forgets something important to the village, but he cannot remember what it is. Oli gives up thinking and decides to go down the hill.

Oli went down the hill and walked towards the village where Suri was currently working. He strode the path. While walking, Oli observed and looked at each resident. They looked much more different from before the malnourished and skinny residents are now healthy and well. The residents are getting their body appearance back to normal.

"Young masterrrr!!!" A tiny voice of a boy was heard.

Oli smiled when he saw Rex running towards him. "What's up, Rex? What are you doing?"

"Me, Mia, and the other kids are playing hide and seek! Currently, Mia is the seeker, and I and the other are the hiders!" Rex said in an excited tone.

"Well, good luck in hiding. I heard Mia is the best when it comes to hide and seek. But remember, come before distribution dinner, Okay?" Oli.

"Okay!" Rex said, then the little boy ran towards where he thought a good hiding spot. For Oli, he continues his walk in the village.

"Hello, young master."

"Young master! Are you thirsty? Here's water."

"Young master, here are some fruits that we get near the Innisgue Forest!"

"The kids found a lot of gold, young master! They wanted to give it to you later."

"Thank you for the hard work, young master."

There are different kinds of greetings and regard from the residents Oli receives whenever he encounters them and when Oli sees them outside their newly built house. They offered him food and other things even if they also had nothing. Oli feels warm and welcome because of that actions. He feels he was like one of them... Like a big family. Like what was Elder Alfred said, the entire village is his family.

Surely enough, he reached where Suri was. Suri was currently managing the building of the houses.

"Suri," Oli called.

When Suri heard it, she turned to the source of the voice and see Oli.

"Y-young master." Suri when she reached where Oli was.

"Let's go home," Oli said while patting the head of Suri.

Suri only nodded her head while blushing.

*Kraaa Kraaa*

When Oli was about the walk back to the castle, he looked up at the orange sky, symbolizing the sunset and the upcoming night, then he saw and heard the crows that soared away from the west side of the village. Oli feels something wrong with the crows that he cannot explain to himself.

"Suri, after we got back to the castle, go where Aunt Sia and Mia were and don't move away to them, okay?" Oli said to Suri, and he received a nod from Suri.

After that, Oli only shrugged and ignored it as he thought it was natural for birds. Then he and Suri started to walk back to the castle.

If there's one utmost important thing that Oli forgets is... He forgets that this is not a peaceful Earth.

***

"How's the village?" A throaty voice of a man was heard.

"Kekeke, I don't know what happened in this village, but all the residents are healthy unlike, the previous villages we raided earlier they, can fetch a high price." A gravelly voice answered the man.

"What's the number of the residents?"

"The men and women are balanced in number. Can we raid them now? Boss?"

"No. We will wait a little longer. How about the guards? Militia? Is there any?"

"Kekeke, I don't know who's the Chairman of that village, but he's an idiot. There are no guards or militia in there, but even if there is, we can easily kill them. It's not like they are trained knights. Only a wooden wall that serves as the guard, but we can put that on fire or charge through it."

"Hmm... We will wait until nightfall before we raid the village. Remember, get many men and women as you can. Kill anyone who resists." A throaty voice of a man was heard.

'If I correctly remember, the last time we came here, this village was all ruined back then, so, why did it transform into this? Is there someone who supports this village? If yes, why would they do that? This land is contaminated.' The man with a throaty voice thought.

Then the sunset hit the group of men. Then a group of a hundred men heavily armed emerged through the dense bush not that far from the West side of the Leefside.

***

Oli is currently on Earth and has just finished selling the gold nugget he got on the Continent.

Right now, he was in the mall shopping. Yes, for the first time in his life, Oli decided to buy some products he could use. So that he looked presentable to anyone he met. He is also here to purchase what he promises to little Mia-- A chocolate.

Oli thinks that if there's no spice in Chronos, there's no cocoa, one of the main ingredients for making chocolate, so there's no way to make chocolate in Chronos. Oli was sure that the residents are not yet tasted this sweet.

Oli was about to go to the counter when he walk past by the appliances section, there was news--rather a talk show was currently being broadcast. Oli stopped and watched as the topic is a bit interesting for Oli.

"Good evening to all the viewers around the world. Today's topic is how to become successful and a secret on how to become a billionaire in business! So, our guest for today's is one of the wealthiest living humans on Earth!

Everyone, please give a round of applause to Mr. Don Pedro Crisostomo!"

Then Oli saw a short fat man with black hair.

"Thank you for accepting today's interview, Don Pedro."

"The pleasure is mine, Milla. And I want to share to everyone the key to success in pursuing a business."

"So, I will start the most asked question in our social account, what's your secret? What's your secret to becoming one of the wealthiest men alive here on Earth?"

"Hmm... That's a broad question, honestly speaking. But I think my secret is the persistence to do things until I succeed. No person in this world succeeds on their first try. Everyone needs to experience failure, any type of failure before they resolve themselves and master the field they want. And..."

Oli didn't finish watching as he noticed his wristwatch. It was already 7:00 PM, it was time when Aunt Sia distributed the food to anyone. Although the residents will behave and get in line, it was better to be sure that's why Oli is always present when the food is being distributed to everyone.

Oli immediately walked to the counter to pay for what he got and straight away began to go back to his apartment. But Oli did not go home right away as the bus he was riding are stuck in a traffic jam. But this time, Oli wants to immediately get back to the Leefside for some unknown reasons, but because he was stuck in traffic, there was nothing he could do but to wait patiently.

It was 7:30 PM when Oli got home, and when Oli was about to open the portal when he felt thirsty.

"I should have taken the water that Siv wanted to give me earlier," Oli said aloud while remembering the woman earlier who gave him water, but Oli refused it as he did not feel thirsty back then.

Oli reached his water jug on his small fridge and was about to put the drinking water on the glass when he accidentally grazed it causing its shattering into pieces.

"What the heck... Sighed." Oli only said while looking at the shattered glass on the floor.

***

Meanwhile, in Chronos, in Leefside village.

"Kekeke, boss? What now? Let's start the raid, boss!"

"It's already night time boss! Let's go!".

"Let's finish this immediately so we can rest early!".

"Everyone...

commence the raid!"