5 The Night in Which Our Adventures Started (1/2)
”Oh, now I understand. By the way, why are you so strong if you're only in the First Level Intermediate Awaken in both Complex Energy and Mystical Energy!?” Rose asks almost shouting.
”I am five times as strong as a normal First Level Intermediate Awaken cultivator, you shouldn't think that having double cultivation doesn't bring me more than one benefit. Also, my understanding of the wind had become quite impressive.” Thorn responds as he puts one of his fingers inside the gorilla type monster's neck.
”That's awesome!” Rose gives a compliment, having her eyes full of admiration.
He then puts his finger, which is stained with the gorilla type monster's blood, in his mouth.
”*Cough* *cough* *cough*... What a repulsive flavor!” Thorn coughs and says this, but immediately afterward, he repeats his early action and tastes its blood again.
Seeing this, Rose says impatiently: ”Why are you wasting our precious time!? We have to get out of here before we attract more monsters. If we're cornered, we won't be able to get out of here alive because it is obvious that you don't have much Complex Energy and Mystical Energy left!”
He looks at her and, hitting his back, he says: ”I'm waiting for you to ride my back.”
Rose becomes speechless, but soon she thinks: (I guess in this way we will move faster.) So she rides his back.
Piggybacking her, he stands up. Then from his bare feet, a gale begins to come out. Slowly, they begin to float and ascend. Rose is not surprised by this since it is known that most Wind Type Awakened Skill users can fly.
Soon, both leave the room, and floating above the hole that Rose dug, Thorn, asks her: ”Lead me to the exit.”
She quickly explains to him the route to get to the entrance of the cave, and then they set off. On their way, they meet another gorilla type monster but Thorn quickly slays it, don't allowing it to use its Awakened Skill, just as he did with the other one. And like this, they come out of the cave without more incidents, and then they are covered by the dense fog of the forest.
They start to ascend quicker than before and, a few minutes later, they leave the foggy region.
At that moment, they couldn't help but stop moving, and then they just keep looking at the starry sky.
This is because the sky with which they had met is just too beautiful, this night is really a night like very few, it is a soul striking night. The eye-opening rings of the planet split flawlessly a triangle formed by three full immense satellites in half.
One of these satellites is blue, other is red and the third one is white; all of them are shining brightly, but even so, they don't overshadow the colorful flickering lights of the stars that seem to be alive.
Thorn's eyes stop blinking. Involuntarily, his mouth opens and it remained open. His heart is invaded by a sense of satisfaction stronger than any other good feeling he had felt in the last one million years. This emotion is so great that tears began to flow from his eyes. The freedom he is feeling when looking at this sky is just too overwhelming, and just too perfect. With a quiver in his voice, he can't help but slowly mutter: ”... The sky... was it always that... wonderful?”
Meanwhile, the look that Rose shoots at this starry sky is just captivating, because it is more passionate than any gaze that a maiden could use to look at her life's most loved one. It is a stare whose passion has not been weakened in the slightest by the number of times she had seen this firmament.
After a while, she replies sweetly: ”The sky has always been wonderful, but, this night, I guess, it is showing off more than usual... Maybe it wanted to give you a welcome gift...”
Silently, they appreciate that sky for a long time.
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In this world there are many energy minerals, which are obtained from Earth Type Awakened Skill users and the parts or secretions of certain monsters and vegetable monsters. These energy minerals form in high temperatures an alloy called zenanium. The zenanium's properties vary greatly depending on the types and amounts of energy minerals that are used in its creation. The zenanium is classified, from lowest to highest quality, with these characters: E, D, C, B, A, S, S2, S3, etc.
The Civilized Races use the zenanium as the main material for the construction of daily tools and structures such as roads, sewers, bridges, buildings, city walls, ships, chariots, etc. Even the daily clothes are made of zenanium with elastic properties.
In general: Without Awaken cultivators' weapons and armors are made of E-class zenanium, Initial Awaken cultivators' weapons and armors are made of D-class zenanium, and so on.
The Lurep Village's black E-class zenanium walls are five meters wide and eighty meters high. Thanks to their great thickness and their complex structure they can even withstand the attacks of someone in the Twelfth Level Full Awaken. These imposing walls protect two million Civilized Races' individuals! In addition, they have a system of anti-flying-creatures weapons, because of this the buildings within the village are not constructed higher than the walls. They are made in such a way that they have three large gates: The north gate that faces The Land of Monsters, the south-east gate that faces the Lurep Village's Port and the west gate through which four large highways that lead towards other villages run past. These roads are always occupied by Civilized Races entering or leaving either on foot or in chariots, some of them are just visiting while others are carrying goods. But no one is entering or leaving flying. For various reasons, inside the walls of any village or city, it is forbidden to fly and also to battle.
Early in the morning, on the balcony of a building overlooking the north gate; there is a humanoid sitting with crossed arms, he has no head and a light jet black smoke cloud is above his neck, he is a dullahan.
The Dullahan's light jet black smoke cloud takes various forms and each dullahan has a characteristic form of light jet black smoke cloud over its neck.
This light jet black smoke cloud not only allows others to identify a dullahan from another but also all dullahan use it to see and hear as it function as receivers of light and vibrations.
As for this dullahan's light jet black smoke cloud, it has a shape of three horizontal little rods.
He has the body of a robust male. He is wearing a pitch black A-class zenanium armor with green and red patterns. Also, he releases a Third Level Full Awaken aura. He is Dani Zelu, the young master Ben's footman. He has been following Rose prudently and cautiously so that 'the possible protector' doesn't notice his presence.
At that moment he observes how Rose enters in Lurep Village while talking to a young man with black hair and violet eyes who is wearing only a bloodstained cloak. Then his dark voice coming from his neck sounds: ”When she had left, she was alone... where that boy popped up from?”
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Rose and Thorn walk through the Lurep Village's streets. She had taken him to her inn so that he could take a good bath, she too took a bath, and then they go in search of a clothing store.
He looks shocked and says in an agitated voice: ”I can't believe what you're saying: Now, the Civilized Races' territory is only one-tenth of the world! And, how can it be possible that the slimes, xandrias, arils and also the dragons have become extinct!?”