Shittu City

They rested in the destroyed village and in the morning, it was finally time for Sloane to leave where she had stayed for fifteen years.

They soon departed. Sloane asked several questions; about where their group was from, what their objective was, who Licht was. She also found out about her mysterious senior brother, Midas.

She was excited, feeling like she found a very weird family. They continued onwards to the Empire's city. On the journey they found out that surprisingly, she was in the late green rank. Licht gave her some ether blocks to absorb. He also taught her how to control her gravity ether energy and utilize her strength. She listened and improved and by the time they got to the Empire city, she broke through and officially entered the basic red rank.

Staring at the massive spectacle of a city, she was stunned. This was her first time in a city. Looking at her expression, Licht had a smile on his face. Different races kept passing through the gates, spanning from beast kins, human merchants all the way to dwarves and even rarely seen races like Lamias and Mermen.

In the midst of several races, Licht's group was inconspicuous. Barely anybody looked twice at them and the ones that did only glanced because of the toddler orc they had with them. The baby orc was Sloane, because of her small size she was branded as a baby by other people.

Licht walked to an inn as usual to get rooms for everyone. They rested in the inn as they ate and regrouped to search for Licht's fragment. Sloane just listened. She already heard that Licht was several millennia old and he needed to get sphere like objects called fragments to restore his power back to its peak.

The discussion went on till night time, after which, Licht told the group to accompany Sloane on a tour of the city and she was clearly excited at the prospect. Sloane had stars in her eyes when she heard Licht. She instantly dragged Regallas and the twins out of the inn and into the city.

Licht laughed seeing her pulling them like ragdolls. He then looked in a different direction and furrowed his brows. He could feel his fragment in that direction but he felt that it was actually not in use. He felt the orc berserker, Shittu could have used it but it was very far away from the Royal castle. To Licht, it felt like a resource that was left untapped but it did not matter. He was going to get it the next day.

He shrugged and went back to his room. He sat down in meditation, using his senses to keep an eye on his disciples.

As Sloane left the inn with Regallas, Luna and Solana. They were dragged along for about a kilometer till she dropped them down to walk normally. She kept pointing and running into different shops. Regallas had some money he kept from their raids, and found his junior sister to be adorable, so he paid for anything she wanted, from kebabs to clothes and even toys. He did not hold back and soon, Luna and Solana's hands were filled with bags of Sloane's goodies.

All of a sudden, they heard a yelp. Sloane looked and found a couple of blue ranked orcs harassing a little wolf pup. It was an odd thing as it had a horn in the middle of its head. It laid on the floor whimpering as the blue ranked orcs kicked it like they were kicking a soccer ball relentlessly.

Sloane saw this and instantly became furious. As she bolted into the alley, all Regallas heard was the sound of the pavement cracking and his junior sister was gone. He followed the trail and saw she was holding a dying little pup in her arms.

She stood up, dropping the pup in Regallas arms then walked back to the men. They were stunned but then they saw a little orc girl walking to them with a pissed off expression. She was really adorable but these men had lewd expressions on their faces. Regallas seeing this, wanted to intervene but he noticed that Sloane did not want him to intervenes so he stayed back, as he knew she wanted to handle it herself.

She was now in the center of five orc men. She did not have an iota of fear on her face but these men were wondering how it would feel like to make a little girl beg. A sudden pressure fell upon them and they were all sent buckling down.

"You guys are really weak. That is just 3x gravity and y'all are on your knees. A disgrace to the orcs. Preying on the weak" Sloane said haughtily

The men felt embarrassed and enraged, all trying to stand up but it was hard for them. They all struggled but they could not.

"I am going to give you all a taste of your own medicine."She said, as she removed the gravity hold on them.

Sensing that the pressure was alleviated, they tried to attack. The first orc that threw a punch was met with a retaliating punch from Sloane. Their punches collided and all that was heard was a snap. The orc's arm was sent straight into his ribcage. It was not simply Sloane breaking his arm, but she shattered his entire arm by compressing the bone from his wrist to the socket of his shoulder. He screamed out as the pain felt unbearable.

"Embarrassingly weak. I only used a little of my physical strength." Sloane sighed

The others saw what happened to their friend and heard what she said. They hesitated but two of them still ran forward to attack her as they felt they had strength in numbers. Two kicks came from her right and left consecutively but she blocked it. The kicks collided with her arms, causing the bones in their shins to fracture. There were now three incapacitated people on the floor in front of Sloane. The other two guys saw that and ran towards the exit of the alley. They saw an elf standing there with the wolf pup and the two twins.

They did not think they were together with that monster, despite seeing the wolf pup. Their cruel acts against the pup, all forgotten, the only thing on their minds was escaping the little orc girl.

"Mr elf, please save us. That girl is a monster." One of the orcs pleaded

"Calling my junior sister a monster?? Well that's quite rude, don't you think?" Regallas said

Their faces paled and before they could register anything else in their minds. One of them was engulfed in flames while the other was encased in ice. The twins removed their hands from the orcs bodies. Since they weren't casters they had to make direct contact to use their ether energy on other people.

Sloane looked at the three on the ground and as she was about to finish them off, five vines extended from the ground, covering both the corpses and the incapacitated orcs and then went back into the ground.

Sloane looked at Regallas who smiled at her. She smiled back then they walked back to the inn to meet Licht so he can help heal the pup.

As they got to the inn about to knock, they had Licht's voice "You all can come in"

"Master, I saw this wolf pup being bullied and I could not stand it---" Sloane immediately said extending the wolf pup to Licht.

"Do not worry. I saw everything." Licht replied as he stared at the unusual pup.

He stretched his hands and a golden light was released from his hands upon the pup. After three seconds, the pup was hale and hearty. It jumped and licked Licht's face then onto Sloane who saved it.

It kept wagging its tail in Sloane's arm, she looked towards Licht hinting to keep the pup. Licht laughed "Sure, you can keep him. He can be your aide like the twins are to Regallas."

Sloane's eyes lit up. "I'll name you Fenrir" She said as she raised him into the air.

Fenrir barked with a cute yelp. They all smiled seeing such a cute sight. Later, as Sloane fed Fenrir ether rich beast meat, it gobbled it down and requested for more with literal puppy dog eyes.

The little wolf pup ate several tons of meat till it was full, then it fell asleep. Licht was observing the wolf as he felt the wolf was special. Licht kept watching the wolf and noticed its strength was increasing, albeit slowly. From an unranked wolf cub, it slowly entered the 1st brown rank.

Licht was pleasantly surprised and by now, the entire group had noticed the peculiarity of the wolf cub. They all went to bed, leaving the pup to sleep.