127 Hunters Being Hunted (1/2)
Continents away from Elric's location, somewhere far to the south pole, in a place covered in nothing but ice, the underground hidden ancient city of the Ancient Humans can be found.
This mystical city is called Harang.
It was a place safe from the reach of the ordinary humans due to the hostile weather condition above while this ancient city was perfectly hidden from the normal eyes nor any currently known human technology by a certain energy barrier that gives an impression to any satellite scanner above as if there was nothing.
All forms of current human technology are long bypassed by this certain barrier, not to mention its multifunctional abilities like serving as a natural filter from unwanted invaders, and indestructible protection in times of danger or attacks, just to name a few.
It was a city as big as new york but with weird-looking buildings that resembled beehives except for its bright blue-crystal-like color and has no holes - All in different varying sizes.
These beehive-like houses float around the perimeter of the wide city while encircling the one-biggest beehive in the middle that they refer to as The Mother where only those Ancient humans who have reached Ascendant stage live.
Ancient humans lived in this place for ten-thousand years which also served as their only central base around the world. Every single one of these Ancient Humans looked exactly the same aside from their varying heights and brain advancement.
They spent most of their time meditating as they only use knowledge as their only source of ”food”; so when they hunt, it means that they travel to the normal human's land and find the most intelligent one and consume them.
Unlike The Guardians whose main purpose was to keep the balance and protect humanity from behind, the Ancient Humans are basically just a higher type of human race that long existed thousands of years ago and does not associate themselves with any other races.
It was also because of the difference of these two Advanced Human kinds that they are in a constant fight.
The Guardians are the police while the Ancient humans are the thief. And every time they meet, an inevitable fight would usually happen and the result is revealed within a short three seconds. Because all they need to do is spot their enemy first and be the first one to unleash a mental barrage wins.
And because of these, the Ancient Humans do not dare to leave their base casually, but when they do, they form a tight defense of twelve-man crew whenever they hunt. Such was the case in Elrics'.
Ancient Humans firmly believed that the only purpose of life is to achieve the highest form of humanity by Ascending to divinity and reaching it requires gathering or sucking out the knowledge and natural talent of the ordinary humans to attain the highest form of intelligence and thereby, giving them access to the most advance thinking and technology.
Why study when you can just suck out the information out of the normal humans, right?
With the influx of new information appearing every day, the Ancient Humans firmly believe that the day for them to push for the highest form of Ascension is near. Thus, it is important that they would hunt the smartest of all humans, let them learn and learn and learn until they become ripe for their harvest.
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On some rare occasions, they would hit the jackpot with the existence of the unique individuals that only comes out once every ten billion humans are born. They are those gifted with supernatural talent or abilities and they are the sweetest and most satisfying to consume of all.
Take Angel, for example, she was a girl with an unrevealed supernatural human ability.
If cultivated to her maturity, she would have unlocked the potential for photographic memory and an eye that is capable of detecting colors unrecognizable to the normal ones and, not to mention - night vision.
With such talent, Angel would have been able to see in the evening as if it was morning. These talents would have created a big breakthrough for her and possibly give an incredible breakthrough to humanity's genes study.
However, the Ancient humans succeded to calculate her existence timing and finding her was just a piece of cake with their advanced technology - the only problem was that an unexpected variable, in the form of Elric, has arrived in their equation that ultimately caused them an undesirable outcome of twelve sudden deaths of their own kind.
Currently, the top twelve highest-ranked Ancient Human has gathered inside The Mother and is discussing the unexpected engagement from an unknown assailant.
All their beady eyes were currently glowing in rainbow lights and shifting to different color hues simultaneously - they were watching the recovered pieces of memory playback from their fallen brothers.
Their lack of soul does not limit them from doing some memory scan, as they have created a certain technology that allows them to peer to each other last five seconds before dying - giving them a clue on what happened to their brother before it died.
From there, they saw everything that happened.
The other brothers died a sudden death and it showed an incredibly confusing scene - they died from their own power.
Watching the Eleventh's perspective, led them to the answer they had been looking for.
It was Elric. A good looking Asian with light brown eyes and hair. He stood around six feet in height and his presence did not even reveal any hostile aura - not until he moved. He suddenly punched their brother twice that instantly led to its quick shocking death.
The last one died without even knowing what happened as he was in the middle of devouring the special human child.