128 Expedition Squad! (1/2)
”What the heck happened?” Charlie asked still in dazed as he laid his head on the pillow.
”You fell unconscious for three days after being thrown by Captain Austin for over two kilometers” a man named Logan was the first one to answer while giving a small nod.
”What!?” Charlie opened his eyes wide in shock as he wasn't expecting to hear that he actually flew for two kilometers.
Suddenly, there were multiple footsteps heading towards them.
Charlie, Rose and others looked over towards the direction of the sound and they saw Austin along with three soldiers armed with M16 Rifles slowly walking over towards them.
”You looked like someone who got hit by a powerful typhoon and now looked like shit!” it was Austin's first comment when he again saw Charlie lying on the bed and had already woken up and currently being surrounded by his companions.
”Hmmp! Isn't it because you're a monster in a human skin?” Charlie snorted with a bit of anger in his eyes.
”No, no, no! You got that one wrong. I'm no monster…”
”I'm just too awesome!” Austin grinned at them looking incredibly proud at how he bullied this guys.
Charlie and the rest literally spurted a mouthful of blood when they heard how much he overpraised himself.
”Anyway, I wasn't here to just visit you. The madam had already assigned a job for you guys” Austin looked at them and said.
Their ears immediately pricked up when they heard. After all, they been staying here for three days and freeloading without doing much to help around especially when they saw that everyone living here had a duty of their own which made them even feel more miserable for not doing anything.
The worse is that the kids here looks at them full of disdain like their eyes are telling them 'You're just eating and not even doing anything? Shame on you, freeloaders! Even us kids have our own chores around here!' and that's watering the plants in the somewhat huge garden behind Leo's Mansion.
What's more those kids here could even fight better than them! And they are sure that they would be no match if those kids had the same strength like they do!
Damn! How frustrating!
That's the reason why they have been eagerly waiting to be appointed to a duty but that's not the only reason why they want to have their own task around the base. Their actual purpose is to actually accumulate a lot of merits and maybe they could even discover a valuable item if they are able to join one of the Hunting Squads so that they could purchase an Exoskeleton Combat Suit that they saw the first time they arrived here!
And the only people that are equipped with the Exoskeleton Combat Suit are the soldiers/members of the First Hunting Squad lead by Caleb and David.
Sadly for them, if only they knew that they could also learn magic here then they would probably turn crazy at wanting to complete more task just so that they could get a spot to join the Elite Hunting Squad also known as the Magic Corps, consisted mostly of young bloods that have been carefully picked to learn one of the core secrets of the camp!
Unfortunately for Charlie and his group, they didn't know anything about this group as the people who managed to join it was training in secret somewhere in Hope 101 but the reason they didn't hear anything about this group is because this is considered a Top Secret that even the people who was the first batch to join the base when they got rescued didn't even know anything about this much less newcomers like them and only the upper echelons of the base knew about this.
”So what is it?” Rose eagerly said.
Austin smiled when he saw the eager look in their eyes as he somehow understand why they are acting like this while at the same feeling lucky and fortunate that he and his family were able to meet Leo early and join his bandwagon.
”You guys will join the Expedition Squad” Austin said with a blank tone while looking at every single one of them.
”Expedition Squad?” Marcus muttered with a confused look on his face as they also started looking each other as they really never heard of a Expedition Squad before.