31 Arriving To The City (1/2)
”It is so strange that I am fully rested and do not feel the need to sleep.This must have something to do with that screen.” Pondered Leo as he watched he rest of the group sleep except for the Sacred Flames executive who chose to keep watch first.
To Leo, this was an extremely good fortune. He was not sure what to expect from that executive of the Moon household. Since each executive would be taking turns to watch the entrance of the cave, he might use that opportunity to attack Leo!
Due to this possible scenario, Leo chose to just keep his eyes closed, but never went to sleep. Every three hours the executive who would be keeping watch woke up another one and would immediately head to sleep.
To Leo's surprise, once it was the Moon expert's turn to keep watch, nothing happened during his shift. He casually kept watch over the entrance to the cave while he was sharpening the tip of his spear.
The next morning, the group finally headed out again, this time they would not stop until they reached the city successfully. During this time, Jack wanted to hold a conversation with Leo and discuss a few things.
”Hey Leo, how did you sleep last night?” Jack asked him in a relaxed manner. After all, Leo was their new squad leader and proven his strength to him earlier on.
”That was apparently not the first time I have slept in a cave. My earliest memory of mine was sleeping in a cave and I even slept in an underground passage within the village we just came from.” Replied Leo in an unusual manner. Thinking back just a few days ago, it seemed as if his world was moving so quickly!
”Haha! Good, good! So, have you given any thoughts about officially joining our alliance within the city?” Jack asked with excitement all over his face. Although Leo was the leader of their squad, it did not mean that he would join their alliance.
”Join our alliance?” suddenly the Crimson expert ahead of them halted his movements and turned around facing Jack and Leo with anger in his eyes. ”You are about to face trial and you are thinking of actually joining our alliance?”
”To join our alliance, you need to reach a certain level of strength as an individual. You might have replaced Martin as this squad's leader, but you would still be treated like simple commoner of our city. That is unless you would like to take a test from an unbiased party?” cutting in with disgust on his face, the Moon expert spit on the ground next to him.
”Easy boys, do you really want to do this now? Both Jack and Natalia showed enough strength to become core members of our households. If they referred to Leo as their squad leader, wouldn't that mean that he at least reached the same level of power?” landing in front of Jack and Leo, the witch started to reprimand the two executives.
”I understand that Martin and Nathan's deaths deserve a proper trial, but are you going to really close me out of the alliance? I am sure that my strength could help contribute a lot to your alliance.” Responded Leo with an evil glare in his eyes as he released his skill, causing the two executives to feel some pressure.
”Well then kid, if you think you have what it takes, come at me. If you hold back in the slightest, you will absolutely pay the price!” releasing his own killing intent, the executive easily broke through Leo's skill he obtained from using one of his cards.
”Fine by me!” Leo shouted in response as he withdrew both his sword and dagger.
Hearing that a test was about to begin, the remainder of the group all fled back to give the Crimson expert and Leo some more room. Luckily for Leo, this forest area could give him some additional support if he used his surroundings properly. However, Leo was still incredibly inexperienced facing strong opponents.
Up until this point, Leo simply used the strength and skills he gained from spending his attribute points to take care of weaker opponents, or to at least end up in a stalemate against warriors like the woman in Jacob's squad.
His main goal now, was to join the alliance so that he would be able to receive some more hands on training in order to boost his understanding of the art of battle. Leo knew that he would always be able to level up more and receive new skills and weapons and whatever else he needed, but this was not how a warrior could build their foundation.
The last thing Leo wanted, was to end up having countless skills and strength, but down the line still being defeated by someone who was weaker, that had more experience and training!
Unfortunately for Leo, the Crimson expert did not want to hold himself back too much. Earlier he was offended by hearing his goal to possibly join the alliance. Dashing forward, the expert refused to draw his weapon, and instead approached Leo with only his bare hands!
Though Leo felt a little better seeing his opponent approaching him with no weapons of his own, he still felt a sense of fear. This expert in front of him wanted to ridicule him by not even drawing a weapon, and that made Leo extremely pissed off!
Stabbing out towards the expert with his sword and dagger, Leo felt that he was able to hit his opponent with ease and his weapons went through the opponent's abdomen. Just as Leo was about to pull his weapons closer to him in victory, the figure of his opponent vanished!
”Is that really the best you've got brat?” mocking Leo, his opponent was now behind him and let out a fierce kick which landed on Leo's left side. Unable to block this blow, Leo was sent flying backwards and was hit through two trees before collapsing on the ground.
Withdrawing his dagger and trying to use his sword to stand back up, Leo was now shaking in pain from just that single blow. ”This is not how this will end!” he thought to himself as a screen popped up again.