Chapter 122: The Start of The Grind (1/2)

It's already noon now,

Rex is currently looking through the news while he waits for Adhara to finish evolving her fire element into Purple Fire.

The news is filled with the victory of Hendrick in the Rombust Sea.

Hendrickson won the war in the Rombust Sea against the Supernatural and successfully taken a strategic territory in their territory, the news blew up because of his endeavor.

He even manages to kill a rank seven Seadra, one of the beasts under the Siren's race.

Humanity almost has no sea territory, many of these mutated beasts and Supernatural filled the sea so it is so hard to even go overseas through water without the help of a high-rank Awakened.

Almost every time humans went by ship, they will certainly take casualties.

The news about Rex's win in Faraday University soon dimmed, the spotlight was taken over by Hendrickson from the Assault Guild.

Rex scrolls through his phone and found another interesting piece of news,

'Black Hand?', Rex thought as he taps the news.

The news said that there are many riots in level four cities, many of the people in level four cities found it unbearable for them to be abandoned by Ratmawati City.

Many of them started to band together, they become one single group called AbL in short for Abandoned by Light.

It is not clear where their confidence for rioting against Ratmawati City but from an interview, a man said that they're blessed to be helped by the Black Hand and said that the Awakened are not heroes of Humanity.

'Black Hand is the members of SCO right? If I remember correctly, I saw one in Zrolis City before', Rex thought.

This is shocking news because the level four cities that banded together are not few.

There are 51 reported level four cities in the north that banded together to create this AoL, their numbers reach 300,000 people.

Many organizations such as UWO and FAA started to make a deal with them, it will not be good if rebels started to appear amidst the war.

It will definitely bring Humanity to the grave if that were to happen, the situation becomes critical.

Reading this, Rex is in thought, 'What is their objective? I'm still left in the dark here'

Because of this news, Rex becomes curious about what the SCO's objectives are.

Right now, he only knows that the SCO also wanted to eradicate the Supernaturals although they don't exactly like the Awakened themselves.

But for now, their main objective should be fighting Supernatural.

Rex also manages to find news about a group of four people wearing military outfits who were seen massacring the battlefield on the border against the Dragonman race.

This group of people killed rank five Supernaturals like chickens.

The clip showed a silhouette wearing a military outfit ripped the wings of a Dragonman, he/she then tear the Dragonman's body with their bare hands.

It is dark in the clip and it is shaky, Rex can't see the person's unit emblem.

Usually, any military men or women have a unit emblem on their right shoulder just under their military ranks.

Although not many knew about the different kinds of emblems, Rex knew most of them.

As a part of Unit of Special Reconnaissance, It is one of a requirement for him to know these unit emblems to identify the dead body of a fallen soldier.

It will help in knowing which unit sends them on this mission and knowing the mission's regularity.

'Too bad the clip is too dark, they're definitely Gifted people', Rex thought.

Just as he wants to read more, his phone suddenly rang and his mom's photo appears on the screen.

His mom called,

”Rex my son, I'm sorry for not calling you sooner”, His mom said with an apologizing tone.

Hearing this, Rex felt bad as he said, ”It's okay mom, How are you mom? What are you up to these days?”

”Oh, I'm fine don't worry. I'm in the spa right now, you should come here sometime later”, His mom replied with a cheerful tone, she sounds happy.

She then continues, ”I saw that you become an Awakened! I brag that to all of my friends!”

Rex chuckles lightly, his mother just knew that he became an Awakened because of the tournament before, ”Yeah, I'm lucky to become an Awakened”

”What are you saying, I'm so proud of you”, his mother praises.

Knowing that his mom is enjoying life and she feels proud of him, Rex felt happy, ”That sounds good, you should take care of yourself more”

”Yeah about that”, Rex's mom said, her tone changes suddenly.

Hearing this, Rex frowns, ”What's wrong mom? Did you need anything?”

His mom's tone makes Rex worried, he never likes seeing his mom sad and he will do anything for his mom.

”It's just that I'm running out of money, we won't be able to pay the Property Tax for this year. Robert is having a difficulty in his work so it's going to be tough”, His mom said with a sad tone.

Rex immediately replied, ”How much do you need mom? Is $2 million enough?”

Hearing what Rex said, his mom gasp in surprise, ”It's more than enough! Where did you get this much money from? Is being an Awakened brings that much money?”

”You don't have to worry about money anymore, I'll send it to you right away”, Rex said lightly.

For him, his mother is his everything.

When his real parents died, Mrs. Greene is the one who took after him despite being in a bad condition herself.

She and her late husband is not that well off, and even so she still takes care of Rex.

Nothing in this world can be compared to how important Mrs. Greene is to Rex, he will even fight the whole world if something bad happened to her.

For him, Mrs. Greene is his light.

Rex then ended the call, he then immediately transfers the money.

He doesn't felt any kind of remorse by giving half of his money to his mom, there's no hesitation in his eyes even though he knows that he can buy many things in the system's shop with it.

Just after he did that, the door opened abruptly.

Adhara is already back in the room with burning scars all over her body, but despite all of that her face is brimming with happiness.

From just a glance Rex already knows why.

She then raises her hands as a purple fire hovers around her hand, it looks gorgeous and Rex even felt that his Black Lightning feel threatened by it.

”With this, the fire orb earlier, and the fire stones, I can reach rank four easily”, she said with a confident look.

Rex nodded his head, ”Great, then you need to reach rank four before we get to Wedron City”

~

Somewhere in Ratmawati City,

”Baby, What took you so long? I've been waiting for you”, a woman said while she wraps her arms around the guy's neck.