Chapter 24：Gifts from Granpa (1/2)

Already familiar with the way the gates worked, Mack turned his back to the gate and saw a large green field in front of him.

Some trees and small plants but mostly green grass.

Close to him, the already expected signboard and one unexpected small cube.

After seeing the two, Mack walked closer to the signboard so he could read the runes.

”The path you chose will be filled with blood. This gate shall ensure that the blood is not yours nor from your loved ones, but from your enemies.”

Mack pondered over the words in the signboard and thought it must be another kind of training.

[You know what to do with the cube already. The rest will be self-explanatory once you pass that hill]

Mack looked in the distance and could see that there was indeed a small hill a few kilometers ahead and behind that hill only clouds and nothing more.

'Maybe some kind of valley is beyond that hill?'

Then Mack's gaze fell on the Cube.

He walked to the cube and raised his bloody right hand, and after a few seconds, the sound of blood dripping on a metallic surface could be heard.

Fourteen long minutes later, Mack was looking at several metallic boxes on the ground.

Every time Mack retrieved one box of the Cube another one would appear and just like that Mack saw himself looking like a Christmas tree, surrounded by boxes.

”And here I am. An alien Christmas tree.”

Said Mack, realizing the awkward scene.

”Ok let's see what we have here”

Said Mack, grabbing one of the boxes.

The boxes themselves were nothing extravagant, just some kind of purple metal that resembled plastic to the touch, with a more soft surface, but were cold as normal metal.

Mack opened the small box, pulling the lead in the indicated engravings.

And to his surprise, what he found inside the box was a pair of boots.

Metallic black boots.

[The colors were chosen based on your usual preference by me]

”Hmmm. I indeed love black clothes a bit too much.”

Said Mack, looking at his current outfit all in black color.

His gaze changed back to the pair of boots as he grabbed them and he could see they were also made of some kind of alien metal that looked like the same as the box but more rough to the touch.

The black color was not some shining black with a metallic luster. But more like an opaque and unreflective black. It was as if the light itself could not touch the boots. Yet, they were as cold as metal could be.

Mack raised the boots and felt almost no weight.

Looking more closely at the boots, a message appeared in Mack's vision

(Durak Special Forces Boots, rare grade, made by Cube Inc.)

(Modified Design: Small gravity cancelation engine added)

”Some fancy boots indeed”

”I wonder how this gravity cancelation stuff works”

Said Mack, already putting the new boots and throwing his old ones to the side.

When he put the boots on, they shrank a bit to fit Mack's feet.

”Really? Alien stuff is the best.”