Chapter 55: Talent
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Hana. a girl gifted with beauty, knowledge, talent and many more. She is considered as a 'Genius' on everything she does by her parents, particularly her brother. She loves her brother and wanted to do everything to protect him but....
"Sally, are you okay?"
She is weak and she knows it. She can't imagine just surviving on her own, without her brother, she thinks she os just gonna be a worthless piece of dirt on earth. Though that is not true, she just thinks that way.
She then again stand up, take her wooden sword, and then started to hit the tree again. Her friend is very worried about her but she can't stop her. She knows that she is trying to do everything to get stronger.
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Jin's POV
"Hmm..... That's quite disturbing." I said, still confused about what might caused my death.
"It's okay, you can avoid it as long as you will be careful. Plus, you are growing stronger. There's no way someone can kill you very easily."
Julian, looking at the TV while watching says.
He's not wrong. The more dungeons I clear, the more stronger I'm gonna become. As long as we are both strong, we can protect what's important for the both of us and avoid the inevitable disaster that was about to come.
I don't wanna be the saviour the people will desire, I wanna use the system to protect what's important to me, not the people who doesn't even know me. I'm just gonna let them think I'm selfish, after everything I've suffered from the hands of other people there's no way I'm forgiving them that easily.
Let hell loose if thats the change for me being selfish, let them taste the feeling of suffering. Plus, they needed to get stronger and gather more experience. There's no way I'm just gonna do all the work and let the other people manipulate me right?
I am the ome who worked hard to get stronger like this plus, the system is the one who made me this rich. Well of course, I got a job but still. The job is just a cover to hide the fact that I'm taking this money from the system rewards, even though the pay for working at the company as a bodyguard is big, it's still nowhere near compared to the money I'm getting from the system.
I managed to buy some houses and even all the things that my sister wants, I managed to give it to her. I worked so many part-time jobs in the past that I can't even count how many of it. One of those houses that I bought is this house where me and Julian are currently staying, we have different houses.
The first is me and my sister's house and Julian, her sister and her mother's house. The second is the house of mine and just mine, the fourth is Julian's house where it's just his. And the fifth is this, this is both our house.
Are you asking why do I have to buy all those houses? Simple.
'Im rich.'
I shrugged and chuckle, I felt Julian's gaze towards me but I don't mind. It seems like he was puzzled twjat I'm thinking cause I'm pretty sure that I looked like a crazy idiot laughing right now.
"If you are done eating, just leave it at the sink. I'm gonna wash i--"
Boooooom
I felt the Television flying towards me, I looked at it and saw it really flying towards me. Along with the other things and furnitures inside the house, and behind all of those, the cause to flew those things towqrds me and Julian is a massive explosion from the bomb or something.
I was thinking too deep that I didn't feel the presence of the people who put it there. Or did they threw it? I don't know but I'm pretty sure that I can survive this explosion. I can see Julian move fast and started to redirect all of the things coming to our direction so I also moved.
[You have activated the skill Slow Down]
Me and Julian are the only one who can move normally when I use this skill so we quickly leave and go outside of the house.
"This house is good but I guess I'll just buy another one." I said and then slide outside.
"Come on, let's find who did this." Julian says as he dashes towards the part where there are five people standing behind the tall trees.
He kicked every single one of them, causing for all of them to flly away from us. Good for the because he hold back or else they're gonna have a hole on their abdomen for the rest of their lives.
[The skill Slow Down is over]
"Phew... Now... Who did this?" I looked at the part where are a lot of presence of a mans.
I run towards it and then make them all fall asleep by hand chopping them on the back of they're neck, they all tried to ran when I looked at them but too slow to react because i move too fast for them. I was worried that this might be the cause of my death but I think I was wrong.
All of them are too weak to be able to kill me, I have Julian here if they have a dangerous weapon that can destroy a whole continent which is very possible because they looked like they were sent by someone. There is a big possibility that they were sent to kill Julian because he is a mercenary and they might find out about him through that no. 13 guy but, he doesn't seem to be the guy to talk even when tortured.
"Wait...." I said, just standing there when I remember the guy i was fighting that very day.
"Hmm? What is it?" I heard Julian's voice, right behind me.
"That no. 10 guy..."
He is the guy who managed to escape from me when we both fight because I stopped on chasing him. It looks like he is the one who managed to tell the other comrades of Julian about him, although I'm not really sure about it but that's the most likely to happen.
I don't know they're personality even though I have the information skill, it only shows me what the system would like to show me. It doesn't show me if they are lying or not, that's when Julian's Truth Seeker skill comes in hand.
"Let's search the whole area, we migh--"
Suddenly, we heard a small yet unbearable sound. We both looked at the part of the house where the sound is coming from and felt the presence of people inside. Why though? Did they not see us go outside or what?
"Hmm....."
I already felt the presence of this guy when we looked at the part of where the sound is coming from, we just didn't look because I'm trying to do everything I can to recover the house in one piece. Might still have a use of I just fixed some of the part where there is destroyed.
"No.1 we meet again." The voice of a man has spoke, while walking towards us.
There is 2 more guys that walked behind him, the one looks like he is a gym rat because of how bulky he is and the other one is just like us. But an inch smaller.
"No. 2..." Julian said with a serious look and tone.
As they glared and stare face to face to one another, I took my chance to just gather a little bit of information. I just decided to just looked at their stats because Julian might get angry at me, I just used it to others a little back then because we are not that close yet.
[Name: Ethan Morrow
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Description:...
Specialty:...]
[Stats:
Strength: 61
Agility: 68
Stamina: 54
Sense: 59
Intelligence: 32
Endurance: 59]
"..."
I didn't just say anything but he is much much more stronger than Julian before he gets to upgrading his stats, why the hell is he just no. 2? The only stats that Julian is superior on is agility, the rest is this guy's much more superior on.
"I thought that no. 10 was just bluffing when he says that you are still alive and kicking but....."
He smirk, and then threw a punch straight to Julian's face. Of course Julian managed to dodged it without any problem but he didn't attack back or anything, he just stay right where he was standing after this Ethan guy or the no. 2 take his arm back.
'so that means that the no. 10 guy really is the one that told them.....' I thought.
"Ooh.... You also just gotten more faster, I thought you were just fooling around to wherever part of this fucker up world you are staying. But I guess..."
He throw a from kick to Julian in which he just step back but this guy just kept on moving forward while attacking. I felt the movement of one of the mens they brought here, the three of them is part of DIGIT'S while the other I think about more than a hundred are not.
"Hey, you big guy. You're no. 8 right? Let's just stay here with no. 6 and your mens. Let them settle this on their own."
I suggest but they flicnhed, I guess that they are not expecting me to say that to them. To know they're code names I mean. "Your former no. 1 told me." I said to not make anymore confusion.
"Well who are you? I'm impressed that you managed to survived the explosion but to get out of there unscathed? You must be pretty lucky or no. 1 just is just pretty strong enough to get you out of there." No. 6 says, the guy with brown hair and a dark eyes.
He doesn't seem arrogant, he looks the opposite to be honest. He looks like the type of guy who would actually like he doesn't care about you but will asked if you are okay whenever you get hurt.
"Thanks chill guy." I said.
"..."
"That's not a compliment....." He said again.
Smack
"Urgh!" Ethan groan, as he stands back up again with a knife this time.
"You are going to die today!" He shouts while swinging the knife towards Julian.
I'm not very experienced when it comes to fighting with a knife but this guy is good at using it, he has no pattern, making it more difficult to predict where his next attack is coming from.
Bang!!!!
I felt a bullet that was about hit me by the shoulder, it is gonna hit Julian is I dodged but i don't, it'll hit me. I just decided to take the hit and then see if it will land any damaged to me or not at all.
"Ow." I said, taking from bullet that hit me on the shoulder.
"Ji--"
It kind of stings but it didn't leave any wound, the only thing that willake me bleed or make me have a cut is inside the dungeon, whether it is a knife or not, as long as it hit, it'll leave a wound.... As long as you're strong enough of course.
"What?!" I heard a voice.
It comes from a guy inside this massive crowd of mercenaries, it seems like he was not very far from here so I moved towards the side of this bulky guy, take the knife that was hiding from the left side of his shoe and then go to the direction of where the shot comes from.
'sorry.....' I said inside myind as I slashed his head off.
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All of them took a few seconds to realise that I was inside this massive crowd, they all take they're weapons and point it at me.
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Julian's P.O.V
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An attack coming from the lower part to the left, next is a kick and a striking knife from the above of my head. I can't predict it but I can feel it and block it. Thanks to the upgrade stats that the system granted to me... Well to be precise to Julian.
I managed to upgrade all of my senses to get more stronger and powerful. I was just blocking his attack but then to my instinct, I used to attack back whenever an attack cinh from my back is thrown. I can't stop it because I was too fastoving and thinking too much.
If thus is my old self fighting him, there's a high chance I'm gonna lose. Well not that high, 50/50 I guess. We both press our arms to each other while trying to block our attacks.
"Where's no. 7?" I asked.
"I don't know, she's probably dead? Probably alive? We're never gonna know until we see her." He says with a serious tone.
We both take a step back and then get back to attacking until we hear a groan coming from part where there is no. 6 and no. 8.
"Aurgh!"
We both looked at the direction of the crowd where we both see.....
A lots of heads flying mid air... And blood spilling everywhere.