Breathing ?
Chapter 4 : BREATHING ?
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"Take you positions, Aim, and if it's a monster, shoot....."
It was Marisa, as the Captain on Ground, she took charge and ordered her men to be ready to face all threat that might walk out of the Tower.
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The creaking sound of the Tower's magnificently designed Mechanical gate set free a wild wind.
Behind the dark entrance of the Tower, Anthony stood dead in the pitch black darkness.
'For years... I have waited...'
Sighing, he took a deep breath, opening his eyes to look at the light entering from the door.
'I have waited for this day to come.... The day when I will be free.... When I will have the chance to walk out from this Prison..... And today finally.....'
' Everytime I thought, to me... it wasn't even a thought, it was just a dream.'
' I dreamed of how I would react once I step out of this tower, how I will react when I meet with other people, How I will react when I will finally get to see my family.. My mother whose face I can't even remember, my little sister...'
With a heartly warm smile, " she must have grown a lot by now. When I was summoned by the tower, she was only 10 years old."
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'so much time has passed that I can't even guess what her age is now.'
Silently, staring at the exit, he felt the cold breeze entering from outside, the only think that he could hear in this dark place was his own heart beats.
' how long has it been? I believed that I was a dead man, but hearing my own heart beat, I sure am alive.'
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The surrounding outside the Tower was eerie, every soldier of the red fort army were alarmingly on their feet.
With Victor standing behind her, Marisa was lost in her thoughts, ' we have evacuated all the non combatants in the perimeter of the Tower.'
' I and chief are alone enough to face a national level threat, but just in case, we end up with something more dangerous, more superior to that, we have 100 soldiers of the Red fort army and we also enough ammunition to defend ourselves for a day.'
' And Even if things take bad turn.....'
' we have over 10000 B and C rank soldiers standing guard at the perimeter of the World Hunter Bar. If we buy enough time the whole city can be evacuated through the underground tunnels.'
While she was lost in her thoughts, she didn't realise that Victor has already walked past her, reaching very close to the Tower's entrance.
With a very confusing look on his face he kept walking straight towards the entrance, 'I can't understand what is in there.. why is it taking so much time. '
' If it was a monster, it would have rushed out and attacked, and if it were a group of challengers they too would have ran out. After all, who in there right mind would want to spend even an extra second in there.'
As he continued to walk ahead his eyes trembled as he saw a beast walk out of the gate.
A beast more than 6 and a half feet in height. on his two legs with long black hairs reaching his shoulder, shirtless with a muscled body and abs, walked out on his bare foot.
' is that a challenger.....? '
' is there a team...? '
Even before his questions could be answered the mechanical gate of tower, right behind the beastly man, closed with the same Creaking sound.
Unable to understand what has just happened, Victor's steps shown hesitation.
' Just one... Is he the only remaining survivor ? '
' was the last level so tough this time, that only one survivor can walk out.'
The soldiers of the Red fort army pointed all their ammunitions at the man who has just walked out of the Tower.
Since it was night time, the spot lights were all focused at him, Without showing any hesitation, Anthony looked at the man standing Infront of him.
Scanning the area, Anthony realised, that to them, he is a threat. But his eyes didn't waver, staring at the moon, he sighed, " Not a bad welcome... I guess..."
Marisa walked past Victor, with a huge Red colored Megaphone in her hand. The megaphone had a symbol of a huge Fortress drawn over it, the same symbol that was drawn on the Ammunition buses and was also drawn on the armors of the soldiers of the red fort army.
The megaphone had a Blue colored core which was what helped it to amplify the voice of the speaker. Pointing the megaphone in direction of Anthony, Marisa began, " you are standing at the soil of the Central Plains, the heart of the Altheora."
" We are the Red fort Army of the World Hunter Bar, Raise your hands high and Identify yourself. "
Her announcement was very loud, loud enough to be heard by those who were far away like several miles.
After taking a long breath, she continues: " State your name, place and date of birth, also mention your Father's name."
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After a long pause, she realised that the man in front her showed no movement, hesitant, she retraced her steps back to Victor, Confused she asked, "could it be, he doesn't, understands our language. "
Smiling Victor took the Megaphone from her, " oh .. he surely understands what we are saying.. "
With a very serious look in his eyes he continued, " How far do you think I can sense other people's presence... "
Surprised, her eyes Widened and her throat dried, " I completely missed that part..."
Trying to sense Anthony's presence, she realised, that her senses completely failed her, that Anthony was far above their level, to the point, that she couldn't even Fathom his level.
But for Victor, It was different, in terms of understanding the presence, Victor was far superior to Marisa.
His eyes could see the fainting and diminishing Aura surrounding the man who has just walked out the Tower.
The Extremely pure Red colour of Aura surrounding Anthony, was something that Victor has never Witnessed.
' His Red colour Aura already makes him a potential threat for the whole continent, but what baffles me is the fact that the Aura around him is diminishing at an alarming rate.'
' To someone who doesn't know how this works, they might think that all his power is draining, but what's happening in front of me is different...'
' it's different because I could feel it, that his power , that his aura isn't vanishing, instead his aura is being absorbed in his own self.'
' It's frightening, because.... he himself is like a black hole, who is sucking away all his power on his own.'
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A blue screen, with words written in black on it, appeared right in front of Anthony, [Your strength, contradicts the plausibility of this World.]
[ The system has decided....]
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Please Be generous! Don't hold back your power stones and Golden tickets.