277 His Abnormalities 2 (1/2)
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While Ver Drilon was hurrying towards the adjacent city to aid the clone whom he was barely acquainted with, the man he called Sam was walking down a secluded alley of the town where his former base was.
At the end of that dark road awaited a person with tall but lean built. Half of this person's face was hidden under a cap.
The system user in his middle-aged salaryman looked at him with surprise. He had been staring blankly ahead for some time now, busy visualizing what his future would become, yet even with being engrossed to that, he was fairly confident that no one would be able to escape his notice. At least not from where his eyes laid.
'I didn't see him coming.' The 'uncle' watched the other person turned to him, his shadows that were barely noticeable on the ground elongated. His steps didn't stop though despite feeling a bit of chill in his heart regarding this person's sudden arrival.
”You come.” The voice was quite higher pitched than most men. With that single line, it was pretty easy to discern that the voice came from someone way younger than him.
He chucked, attempting to chase the nervousness away, ”I'm no more than a homeless man right now. Will you be really willing to take me in?”
The lean and tall guy wearing a cap snorted, seemingly put in a bad mood by that question. With that same boyish voice, he retorted, ”It's you who made contact with me wanting to go under that man's wings. Let's stop the chattering here. I just want this night to end already.”
'Sam' had already talked with this person before and had an impression that he was a carefree and playful immoral host. Why was he suddenly so grumpy? He didn't understand at all.
'Probably tired? But is he more tired than me whose home got raided by a traitor and probably burned into ashes by now?'
Shrugging, he introduced himself, ”Just so we can officially be acquainted, my name is Samuel Lim.”
The boyish guy's eyes coldly glimmer a bit under the night sky when the stars peeked out of the clouds for a few seconds. ”Yeah, hello. I'm Leo Jones. But before anything else, let's just go and leave this place. Damn. You don't know how it's like to be everywhere against your will. I've been through that since this afternoon. I'm so tired that I just want to blow the whole world up with nukes.”
Though confused, Samuel Lim nodded and accepted the black round device handed over to him by the teenage boy. While the teleportation to Country F' Southern Alina City was ongoing, he heard the other grumble, ”I really hate this day... That clone is a bastard, that non-host is a bastard, and even that cloneless guy is a bastard. Why are f*cking hateful bastards everywhere?!”
Of course, the man didn't get Leo's grumbling at all, hence he remained quiet. After all, Leo seemed in a very bad mood, and given that he was a level below him, he deemed it wise to not add himself to whatever was making the younger boy upset.
'Better fix myself, I guess,” Before the white light engulfed the figures of the both of them, he canceled the face-changer and reverted to a young man around Ver Drilon's age. Now he was back to his gentle C Empire denizen's features. Suppressing the nervousness in his heart, he thought, 'I'll be meeting that high person. I wonder just how large is the difference between my former Leader and Him? How otherworldly are those Legendary Level 9s?'
When he closed his eyes as to not them blinded by the sudden flash of lights, he felt extreme anticipation surging from within.
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In some of the texts uncovered the group of intellectuals immoral hosts mentioned to Sofony by the Blood Countess, those that could level 9 were usually referred by the ancient people as demigods due to their strength, power, and aura that were so miles away from those at Level 8.
The greatest defining features of these people were there endless supply of points which would get everything they wished done within seconds. Apart from this, while Level 8 system users could barely kill a level 7 and level 8 due to some items that could still shield against Level 8 attacks, Level 9 system users were granted supreme control over one or more nature power. It differed from person to person, depending from their natural inclination or disposition. But each nature power could instantly obliterate many Level 8 immoral hosts at once.
Take Bathory for example. If her opponent, per chance, was that Mao fellow, the leader of the local organization of C Empire, there wouldn't be any suspense in the fight. Once she used her other nature power, Blood Calling, that old guy would have surely exploded from within, turning into a mere puddle of blood and flesh. The Blood Countess was not merely a Seer; she also had complete authority over Blood. All beings with blood would tremble under her gaze once she was angered.
In reality, a while ago, this was the natural suppression Bathory's aura emitted to make Sofony feel so uncomfortable and threatened.
The Countess was actually powerful enough to turn the woman into a bloody mess, literally. If not for her consideration of the girl's father, she would have long enslaved the other. Though this was the case, when she lost her reason, she still ended up attempting to enslave Sofony, and she would have succeeded were it not for the presence of an enigma, Gio. – a mysterious young man claiming to be Sofony's non-host.
'Why can't I teleport?' Bathory's eyes turned big at this discovery. 'I can't also start the healing... I don't think even the strongest Level 10's non-host can render someone like me this helpless...'