Chapter 386: The Great Calamity (1/2)

”Huh?” Naturally, the reason the town leader gave made the young boy even more confused than he already was, not knowing the town leader's train of thought. In response, the town leader could not help but scratch his head as he said, ”Once you get back to the information center, don't tell them I told you this, okay?”

”A-alright…” Seeing that the town leader was going to make him privy to one of his secrets, the young boy swore to never ever tell the secret to another person. Nodding, the town leader then said, ”I haven't told anyone about this yet, but…I have the ability of divination. It's the reason why our town is as prosperous as it is.”

”Is divination that ability where you could predict the future, leader?” the young boy asked, to which the town leader replied, ”That exact ability.”

”So, you can actually see the future of our town, leader?” the young boy asked yet again, this time his expression was that of wonder. In response to the boy's question, the town leader shook his head. ”I can't see the future of the town per se, but I can see the general things that are going to happen to the town in the future. Using your words, I can only predict the future, not know it.”

”How is your divination ability related to the situation with the reinforcements, leader?” the young boy asked yet one more time, but the town leader only smiled in response to his question. Naturally, the young boy was curious as to what the answer was, but seeing as the town leader only smiled at him, the young boy went silent as he wracked his brain to think up of a possible answer, eventually realizing what the town leader had done…he thought.

Unsure of his thought, he asked, ”Did you use your divination ability over the remaining villages in our vicinity?” The town leader nodded in response.

”Did…you not see any incident of more villages being destroyed while using your divination ability?” he continued, to which the town leader replied, ”I've got a feeling that person would only destroy a couple more, and that would be all.”

”So, other than those couple villages you've mentioned, the remaining villages would be left unharmed?” the young boy asked to clarify his doubts. In response, the town leader nodded in agreement. It was only then that the young boy finally understood why the villages wouldn't need reinforcements…only to recall the couple of villages that would still be destroyed by the person according to their town leader's divination.

”Wait…that doesn't make sense. Leader, you told me that a couple more villages would be destroyed, yet you're not sending reinforcements.” The more the young boy thought about it, the more peculiar it felt. Eventually, another thought formed in his mind, instantly returning his expression to that of panic as he asked the town leader, hoping it wasn't true, ”Did the town leader predict that the person would come to our Red Juniper Town.”

In response, the town leader only nodded slowly, his expression gradually turning grim. As for the young boy, he could not help but get down on his knees, losing grip over his sanity for a while before coming back to reality. After that, he made his way back to the door leading to the town leader's room, asking before he left, ”Should I also tell the other towns about it?”

”Go ahead,” the town leader said as he nodded.

With that, the young boy nodded in response to the town leader's words before he took his leave, allowing the town leader to be alone once more. Though, rather than returning to read his book, he instead looked out the window behind his office table, letting out a sigh as he muttered, ”There may be a chance that this town won't exist in the morning.”

”I guess I should start enacting that plan, then.”

…

While that was happening in one of the nearby towns, Aurus had fully destroyed two more villages before the sun peeked out of the horizon. At the moment, his strength was far greater than what it had been the day before, his comprehension over the Epiphany now being at Level 30.

Standing on a road filled to the brim with shards of bones, Aurus soon infused his one of his hands with Wind energy particles, clenching it before punching out. In an instant, a large shockwave had appeared as a result of the punch, destroying half of the houses in the current village he was in before utilizing his teleportation skill to disappear from the place. Surprisingly, he didn't bother destroying the remaining half of the village houses at all.

In any case, Aurus now had the confidence that he would be able to eradicate all of the beings in a town in one move if need be now that his comprehension was at Level 30. Sure, he could have headed to a town first before a village at his previous strength and there would be no problem for his survival. But to the mind of his primal instinct, doing such a thing would just alert larger and larger towns to help a town out and eventually, a reinforcement that had the ability to eradicate him would appear.

That was the reason why Aurus aimed for the villages first rather than heading straight into a town. He wanted to assure that he had a chance of survival against beings that had the ability to kill him in one hit.

Placing those thoughts at the back of his head, he eventually arrived at a nearby town, appearing in front of its entrance gates as he read the large sign on top of the gate.

”Red Juniper Town…” he muttered, his voice hoarse and grim unlike his previous. After that, he used his teleportation skill to dart around the hidden areas of town, deciding to take a safer approach for now since it seemed that the town he entered had not been alerted of his existence yet, unlike the previous villages he had destroyed.

With that, he lured most of his victims through the manipulation of Wind energy particles, using the same technique he used back then in Verdant Breeze Town wherein he used the wind to blow away an item or an important thing farther and farther away from the person that carried the item, eventually bringing them into an alleyway or a secluded corner of town.