With Damien and Nina now standing next to Roae they could see her distraught appearance.
"Damien, Nina I'm so sorry I couldn't protect her. I should've been quicker then she may not have died." Rose started to blame herself for Roxannes death.
"It's not your fault, I can see you both fought a hard battle, she died so you could live. So if you blame yourself aren't you giving Roxanne no credit for her sacrifice for you." Damien didn't really know the situation, for all he knew Roxanne wanted to live the most out of everyone present and wouldn't sacrifice herself for a stranger.
Rose didn't agree nor deny she just sat still waiting for the others. Damien went to examine the Middle aged man whilst Nina attempted to comfort Rose.
Rose has taken all his abilities so why has he got a tattoo of a red claw on his arm? Wait didn't it say Red Claws Gravity Jumper killed Roxanne, so their clan marks their members. After examining the man Damien sat down like the other two and waited for Brutus and Silas.
A few minutes later two figures appeared up the road, one being Silas, the other naturally being Brutus. They each had some damage inflicted with Brutus having almost melted shoulders and Silas looking like he had several broken bones.
"What the fuck happened to you guys?" When Damien saw this he walked over to them and used regeneration to heal them up to be able to at least move better.
"We fought with a teleporter with flaming fists, who turned out to have a friend that could clone himself and send sonic booms. After a long drawn out battle I managed to find the Original among the clones and cut his head off with my thunder discs. Whilst Brutus used his ground surf to catch up to the teleporter and rip him in half, being fuelled by the fact Roxanne died I'm not surprised he tore that teleporter into pieces." Silas gave a summary of the fight that he and Brutus were involved in.
Damien gave a summary of what happened to Roxanne which he found out through Rose. Brutus had already left to look at Roxanne’s corpse, when he saw her he kneeled down and started speaking line after line of Japanese before he got up and faced everyone "Roxy told me protect, so I am doing protect." Brutus spoke his first English words to the group, which they guessed meant he planned to stay and protect them.
The group then proceeded to bury Roxanne, with Rose saying a few words. Damien didn't much care for funerals, he had always felt his only fear was losing a loved one and yet even when that happened he felt empty. Yet now in this land he felt excitement and fear intertwining to create an emotion of joy.
Damien thinking of the future decided to tell the group to combine their gifts, to become stronger and not allow an incident like Roxanne’s to happen again, and although some power could be lost the gift created itself would be much stronger.
So one by one they used the combination option on the echo to recreate their gifts.
Silas' Gifts
•Sonic Discs(Sonic Boom & Blade Discs) - Create and control Sharp Sonic waves. Attack Gift with a Power of 12
•Genius Intelligence - Misc - Power 10
•Electricity Enhancement - Misc - Power 10
•Clones - Create up to 5 copies of the user. Misc Gift with a Power of 7
•Silver skin - Defence - Power 5
Power level : 44
Roses Gifts
•Gemstone Body(Jade Skin & Topaz Layer & Emerald Armour) - The combination of several gems to change the users body into an almost impenetrable Gemstone form. Defence Gift with a Power of 14
•Machine Legs - Misc - 13 Power
•Laser Weapons(Ruby weapons & Laser Slash) - Create and manipulate melee weapons formed from Laser, safe in hands of user but deadly to others. Attack Gift with a Power of 12
•Gravity Manipulation - Misc - 10 Power
•Blade wings - Misc - 7 Power
Power level : 56
Brutus' Gifts
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•Earthen Avatar(Rock body & Steel Armour & Iron Organs) - Become a Earth Elemental, turning the users body into pure earthen metal and rock, giving them the complete control over the element of earth. Defence Gift with a Power of 17
•Short Range Teleportation - Teleport user and up to 5 targets across a distance of 200 meters, instantly. Misc Gift with a Power of 10
•Ground surf - Misc - 10 Power
•Magma Arms - Cover users arms in flaming magma. Attack Gift with a Power of 9
Power level : 46
"So you guys must be the Laughing Devils huh?" A women's voice called out to Damien’s group, alerting them instantly with everyone preparing their defence ability.
"No need to be so alert I just want to talk, honestly I didn't think there would be anything here except Baz’s body." A Tall Slim Women wearing a mix between an Army and Prisoner outfit with Tattoos covering both her arms approached the group. Behind her was some one in Medieval Knight Armour and a Middle Easterner with several swords holstered on his waist.
"Can we help you?" Damien stood in front of the group and questioned the new arrivals.
"Oh my, I guessed you were new arrivals considering I had never heard of your group, but to have such a vast and strong range of abilities on the first day must make you quite the powerful person hmm." The Lady eyed up Damien’s sleeveless arm covered in tattoos.
"Thank you for the complement but could you answer my question?" Damien didn't want to back down even though he knew for certain that this women was extremely powerful, having at least double the amount of abilities he had.
"So impatient young man, we haven't even introduced ourselves yet. I am the Leader of the Red Claw Guild Elizabeth and these are my Commanders Arthur and Saladin. May I know your Names or Titles?" Elizabeth was a strong willed women and once again delayed Damien’s question.
"I am Damien, the rest of our names are not what you really want so please tell me what that is." Damien was getting rather agitated but remained calm on the surface trying to find out what this women wanted.
"Well Damien I plan to collect one of my Members’ Corpse and while I'm at it offer an invitation to you and your group to join my guild, we currently have over 40 members, a few more would be welcome." Damien saw Elizabeth's invitation as a threat more 'join or my 40+ members will come crush you beneath their feet' than her kind invitation.
"I'll have to think on it but thank you for the offer, Silas bring that man's body over. But I do wonder why the Leader of a Guild would bother coming all this way for a simple soldier." Damien decided to question Elizabeth, honestly he wasn't that afraid for his safety at most he would have to flee and all his members had abilities to flee as well so poking the hornets nest was something he did for fun.
"Antagonizing her isn't very smart Damien she has several times more abilities than us." Silas arrived next to Damien and threw the Mans corpse over to Elizabeth.
"Baz the man you killed showed great potential to become a commander so I thought I owed him this." Elizabeth said that but Damien and Silas both could tell she was lying and keeping something hidden. "For him to die to your powerful group was only natural, no hard feelings."
"Oh only Rose was here and killed him alone, pfft perhaps you could say he now died an unnatural death." Damien joked almost forgetting who he was facing, then again he didn't fear her so why shouldn't he act his usual self.
"Perhaps you should listen to your friends warning, I can get really bloodthirsty when I'm angry." Elizabeth showed that she hadn't faced this kind of behaviour for awhile, like being on top had turned everyone she saw into sheep that cowered to her.
"Lets fight at a later date kay? Well it's been real nice meeting you Lizzy but we should really get going" Before Elizabeth even responded Damien turned around with Silas and started to walk off.
'Slzzting'
A powerful shockwave was suddenly sent towards Damien and Silas but before it even hit Silas simply flipped his hand sending out a large sonic boom that instantly cancelled out the shockwave.
"Weak." Silas easily dealt with the attack and thought the attacker was truly weak to send such a flimsy shockwave out.
"Sorry we couldn't stay longer but it's almost dinner time and we are quite hungry right now, we'll make sure to think on your offer." Damien taunted them one last time before Brutus teleported the group away.
"What a cocky son of a bitch, why didn't we just kill them when we first arrived Ma'am?" The Armoured Knight Arthur was the one who sent the shockwave attack and was questioning their peaceful approach.
"That Boy had a Power Level 18 ability and many more gifts after a single day in this land. Either he is extremely lucky or he knows how to fight and kill. So when facing someone who can cultivate power so quickly wouldn't it be better to let him cultivate that power abit longer making it into the perfect harvest? Anyway wasn't your attack completely diminished by that Arrogant Kid? Moreover Baz was the fastest member of our guild yet he was dealt with by a little girl. Their group was in no way weak however, if they think they can take on Red Claw they have another thing coming." The Red Claw members then slowly disappeared into a thick fog leaving no traces of ever beimg there in the first place.