Shiver~Shiver~
The bush I was in started to tremble, due to wind or due to someone approaching. I was trembling in fear, an emotion that I havent exprienced from quite a while.
The main part was that it felt alien.
Yes, it felt as though my emotions were being influenced. Quite the predicament but it was the reality.
What astounded me was how much I was being influenced. It was true that I didn't want to die, especially since i have already died once. Still to shiver at such an extent definitely felt a bit dissevering from my true vehemence.
I kept my guard on. The bush which was shaking slightly, began to move around like a snake hypnotized by the been.
Conjuring my wind into tiny bullet like structures, I kept my defenses up. I couldn't feel any prescense with my mana, maybe because my control over it wasn't that advanced.
Nevertheless, my whole body was in a state of life or death, which inturn pushed my adrenaline to the max.
The moment I felt a silhoutte of a figure I launched my bullets.
Swish~
A masculine hand waved off my attack and extended its palm.
"Oii, it's fine calm down. It's me Klein. Your all time favourite trainer", he said flexing his muscles.
A sigh escaped from my mouth.
"We have some strong guards alright. Fuck me, I thought I was about to die. Who exactly was that?"
"Eeh, oooh you're talking about Keith and Jill is it?? They still have a long way to go but yeah, they are good. Pfft, don't tell me you shit your pants because of them. Hahahahahahaha" he laughed with a sarcastic tone.
I didn't mind his sarcasm as I knew he was the type to do more if given attention.
"No, not them. I think the other guards. Zwekeep and Guacemole I believe",
"...",
"....",
"Pfft, Hah,haha,hahahhahahahaa, Guacemole. Hahahaha Guacemole. Guace-guace hahahahahaha." He started laughing.
'Yeah fair enough. It indeed was a strange name.'
"Where did you see them??",
"After Keith's shift ended. At that time. They looked quite strong. I was simply scouting the surface and he bled my nose just by a look. Hah, I wanna learn that alright", I said pondering about what exactly happened.
I kept on rambling about how to do that but it was very serene from his side.
Feeling a bit weird, I looked at him and noticed a small glint in his eyes.
He seems to be pondering something. After rubbing his temples, he patted my back.
"Yeah, I remember. They are the new recruits. Guacemole huh, he's a serious guy, you don't have to worry. Go back to your cave. It seems like Jack has already arrived."
I looked at him with a strange sense of doubt.
'New recruits?? It's highly unlikely that they are new recruits. Hmm, are they under some covert operation or something',
I nodded and skimmed my way back to the cave.
After returning, I quickly walked into the rather boring cave, removed my armory and washed myself in the stream.
The cave was somewhat small, green lusheries and herbs filling the majority of it.
It emanated a pleasant aroma. As though I was swimming in a pool of vanilla essense.
No exaggeration by any means.
Of course other than that, the usual slippery rocks, pest infested soil and whatnot.
I suddenly felt something coming at me.
A pebble, no a rock perhaps.
I quickly caught it with my palms.
It was blue and white coloured with a somewhat intricate pattern etched on either side.
"It's beautiful isn't it??",
"Alice, what's with you and your obsession with rocks. But it does look very nice. I mean it's better looking than you so that's a huge plus"
She kicked my ass with a glare.
"Screw you, not many people can possess beauty like mine. You are just jealous that you don't have pristine beauty etched into your face",
"Heh, last time I heard you were complimenting my looks to your gossip friends didn't you??",
She kicked my butt once more and stormed off.
"What still collecting rocks", I teased.
"@@$$",
What a cute kid. Making kids cry was definetly one of the best feelings ever.
Especially see them whine to their parents after learning their place.
REFRESHING.
"You look like a retard",
I turned to look at Jack. He wore Black
shirt and jeans, a simple outfit, fitting his style.
"Atleast I don't look like a rabbit",
"...",
"Pfft, Roy, you definetly suck at comebacks. You're not perfect after all", Nero said laughing out like a waffle.
"Shut up, that was a good comeback. Like a rabbit. You know nimble and innocent looking. Weak stature."
".....",
They all looked at me with a "bruh".
Cough~~,
"Well, looks like you returned back safe.",
"More or less. Still that guy was quite instinctive. Aah, I met Klein when I was hiding in the bushes and he said that the guy was a new recruit",
"....That's not possible",
I nodded. That's exactly true. At that level of strength, he wouldn't be a new recruit solely because he had better places to go, rather than to stay with us in the slums.
For example, if you have the skills of Lionel Messi, would you choose Tottenham or Barca. Something like that??? If you get my point.
(This is purely hypothetical. Still Messi playing for Tottenham :D. Diabolical)
"What are you guys talking about??", Alice asked confused.
We then explained everything regarding what happened. The discussion and other things.
I left out the part where I regain my memories and the other things to them.
They didn't need to know. Atleast not until I figure it out.
After a quick talk, we quickly ate some stew along with curry and began to train.
Well, even if we are in the wilderness, we still get food from the inn. We were kids after all.
They were to be exact.
I quickly sat down below something which looked like a banana tree. But I'm sure it wasn't so.
I closed my eyes and began gathering mana around my body.
The sound of whooshing as the gently caressing energy accumulated around.
It started to enter my body through the pores on my skin.
The rather dense mana now began to smoothly flow inside my body. Like how a freshly prepared orange puree flows, a sense of citrus erupting around me.
It felt rather soothing. Don't know what caused mana to imbibe a citrus smell, it was pleasant nevertheless.
I quickly created a gale of wind. The green miracle calmly whooshed around my palms.
I concentrated my mana and started to conjust it into a small round object, giving it a bullet or chalk like appearance.
Due to the decrease in volume and increase in mass, the density gradually increased.
By the laws of physics, I actually can't conjure something out of thin air, but apparently they don't work here.
The fact that these gases exist even after the value of absolute zero is monstrous.
The dense wind quickly started to take a toll as I could feel the weight boring down on me.
Without further ado, I raised my Index finger, pointing towards the nearest rock.
By perfectly rectifying my aim, I shot at the rock.
Swish~~
1....2....3
BOOM.
Along with the rock, all the objects present next to it shattered into a million pieces.
Quite satisfied by the result I turned around to look at what my friends were doing.
"That was monstrous Roy. Hahahahha, as expected from you. I won't loose. Hahahahaha", Nero shouted intensifying his workout plan.
Even Alice and Jack looked quite motivated.
I mean it was actually quite easy. I don't exactly know what's difficult in that.
It's just practice. Right??