WEAK TO TRULY HELPLESS FOOD-CHAIN.

***On Planet Gieă. In the Outskirts of the Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans', In a small house on top of a lonely and silent hill.

 Standing behind his home's front window, Navi calmly looks outside with a small cup of warm herbal tea resting in his left hand.

 It's already evening and the sense of danger he has been getting since he left the Academy's ground has spiked a lot.

Infact standing by the window, Navi can still feel people staring at his house and trying to look into his every movement and breath.

 Navi doesn't know why he is able to sense people's gaze on him nor does he give thought on how he's able to sense intent from gazes as he honestly doesn't care much.

For his age and as a non-cultivator, Navi already has some level of inhumane speed, strenght, hearing and mind-set.

He has weird memory-like dreams that show an alternate and more deadly version of himself as well a mad and power filled explosive voice that's constantly asking him a question that seems to have no answer.. and so for Navi, adding the ability to sense negative intent and feel other people stares doesn't feel like much in his already long list of weird.

 Navi is anything but ordinary but even his extraordinary is not enough to satiate his silent cravings for chaos.

 *Slurp*, Taking a small and elegant sip of his herbal tea, Navi smacks his lips before completely pulling the curtains down in a calm manner.

 He hasn't given much thoughts to the reason whoever are stalking him are doing this but he hopes to find out soon enough.

 Now that he has complete privacy provided by the thick curtains, Navi turns around and then he calmly strips down to bare.

After stripping bare, Navi begins to clothe himself in a sleek white padded training armour that fits like a second skin on his body.

 The night is coming and alongside its darkness comes its dangers..l

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***On the Outside of Navi's home.

 Dressed in black robes that definitely isn't custom, five people(Stalkers) could be seen hiding on the outside while paying close attention to both Navi and his house.

 Being on top of a sloped hill, Navi's wide yard comes with its uneven spaces and dry shrubs. One doesn't actually have to be on top of the hill to find a spot on the slopes that's in a position that allows one to see everything going on on-top.

 In one of these pockets spots, five people can be seen casually waiting and stalking on Navi with one of them holding up a pair of binoculars and being active while the rest are just slumped down and resting.

The atmosphere tells that the four slumped down members of the slumped team are feeling bored by the task of waiting and stalking, after all.. they have been waiting and stalking the kid on the same spot since early morning even though plans for this operation has been going on for the last month.

 "Anything different?.", One of the slumped down males present on the group asks with a casual yarn cutting in at the end of his in his question. Saying this, the male adjusts his already slumped down sitting position to become a little bit more comfortable.

 "The guy pulled down his curtains.", The active female amongst them who's holding the pair of bamboo binoculars says in response as she stays alert while still looking towards Navi's house like she has been doing for the last few hours.

 "You really should chill Diane, the kid's not gonna disappear if you look away for a single second.", Another male in the group says calmly before taking gulps out of a bottle of water as he pusts his back up against a small rock.

 Hearing these lazy words, Diane finally turns around and takes off her binoculars before sitting down to take in a warm breath through her dry lips as she smacks her tongue in thoughts.

 "Am I the only one feeling weird about this?.", Diane asks while looking at the lazy postures taken by her other group members one after the other.

 "About what?.", Another slumped down member of the team asks with a very thick voice that's rarely found on people with pointy ears like his own.

 "I don't really know, I just feel like this is too.. easy.", Diane says with a small frown on her simple face.

 "Of course it feels too easy, I mean the only thing between us and quite a fortune is a completely oblivious twelve year old.", A team member points out what seems to be the obvious but Diane doesn't at all seem relaxed by his words.

 "It's really simple Diane, being so smart you really should have no problems with this especially after all our discussions on it. The plan is very detailed, we go in there.. we grab the kid and force him to spit out the location of where he's kept the rest of his mother's fortune. We take the fortune and put the kid to sleep either permanently or temporarily, depending on how things go and then.. we're out.", A member of the party explains robotically while moving his hands in casual gestures to the 'fool-proof' plan.

 ".. And with a fortune that's hopefully massive to share. A Geisha's severance is no small deal but the dumb house and the kid's greedy early registration into the academy would have surely taken up a big chunk.", Another female in the group who looks a lot rougher than Diane says with a bit of annoyance in her voice as to how much more they could have potentially stood to gain if the severance money has been left untouched.

 "Well we should be grateful she bought the house as well as the silence and space we need for our operation. We also should be grateful that the kid signed in.. how else would we have known about the ripe cash cow?.", A male member says while earning a small chuckle from another sitting male.

 "I'm serious on this guys,.. its my thing with reading people but I can't get anything on this kid, the only alarms buzzing in here -(Points to her head)- are not of wealth but rather of danger.", Diane says in alld seriousness before soon smacking her lips in annoyance at the very lack-lustre reaction from her crew.

 Though what is she expecting from a gathering of these money-hungry idiots?.

Looking at her team members one after the other, Diane shakes her head..

 The big half-human male amongst them with bulging muscles and a massive ego that spells D. *. C. K is a powerhouses though only physically.

Hulking at almost 6-ft-8, this half-human male has features of a dark tan accompanied with an even darker beard. He has dimples that doesn't quite belong on a face like his as well as a spiked wooden shield which he's currently lazily using as a block from the barely noticeable heat of the evening sun.

 Another of Diane's team members is a gruff half-dwarf female who is currently wearing a nasty yet hot hairstyle. This hairstyle involves shaving a side of the half-dwarf's head clean in orver to revel a light grey scalp and and then sweeping the rest of the half-dwarf's brown hair into a sideways wave.

Physically, the half-dwarf looks bulky and strong enough to wrestle men and due to being only half-dwarven, the lady's height can still be considered normal amongst women though her attitude and bearings are anything but normal even amongst men.

It seems to be in the blood for most dwarves as most ar known to act like they are not only short in height but also short in temper, wisdom and mostly intellect.

 Another guy amongst the group comes in a human shaped body but with yellowish skin and pointy canines. Faded black hair sits stop his head and his eyes are completely yellow though with vertical black pupils.

This member of the grounp isn't exactly a member of any of the seven great races(Human, Dwarves, Elf, Demon, Desolate, Giant, Aqua) instead he's from a race usually referred to as forbidden.. The Beastmen race.

Looking at him tells a funny and disturbingly lewd story about his human mother and something that belongs in the jungles!.

The Beast-kin's(Young beast-man) detached gaze tells of a terrible and lonely life though his animal instincts still stays switched on and one can easily tell this by the fact that he's nonchalantly licking on his shoulder will his lengthy tongue like a cat.

 The last guy in the five-person-group is pure human and he is the person who had introduced them to their new target whom turns out to be an only child who had just lost his mother and only family just half a year ago.

 Life has been cruel to the majority of people in the Outskirts and more especially to people like them who had faced a fair dose of rejection and so morally, stealing from an orphaned kid isn't much to bear because they have done worse.. and to much weaker people.

They are all fully aware of reality as well as the fact that they are in a messier side of the cultivation world where the strong preys on the weaklings who can do absolutely nothing about it.. and so for true weaklings like them (who hasn't even sensed mana and may never sense mana in a lifetime), its hard to find weaker targets especially after considering the amount of other wolves out there moving in for the same hunt.

 To the team, the target of this mission is nothing but a fresh and overfed lamb who probably has a fortune hidden in his fur.

The Academy is their only hope at being more than they currently are but it's outrageous fees would definitely not pay itself.

 Thinking of this, Daine smacks her lips open once more before taking a small chill as she opens up a small water bottle to wet her throat.

 "OK,.. Ok Diane. I honestly think we're already beiy careful enough by waiting till midnight but since you still feel someway about it then you can play the guard at the door as we put the boy in ropes before 'tickling' out the location of the money from him", Troy(Navi's human room-mate) proposes while lazily scratching against one of his raised eyebrows.

 Diane nods an 'OK' to Troy with water in her mouth as she comes fully to terms with what they her doing.

 Feelings don't matter much in these operations,.. the results do.