Standing in front of the inn or at least what was left of it Damien lamented, “Well this sucks, I wanted to eat some more of their food..”
“We can always go kill something and cook it ourselves you know?” she responded.
“Do you know how to cook? Because let me remind you I have no memories so I most definitely do not.”
“I have not done so in a long, long time but once you learn something it never really goes away so I should be able to make us a decent meal if you want to eat.”
“Hmm… well honestly I can wait till the inn is rebuilt even though I am interested in you cooking for me, regardless I think its time you tell me who your “Spoken for” is don't you?” Damien said with a teasing smile.
Hearing his question Ela’s face turned beet red as she looked away from him, “Oh I just remembered there is a few more places like this inn in the town we should head over to one.” She quickly responded while trying to change the subject.
Seeing her reaction Damien’s smile grew wider, “How cute, trying to change the subject… Ela you can just tell me the truth what's there to be shy about? Unless your spoken for is… no that can't be right?”
Ela’s heartbeat shot up massively and she started to breathe a bit heavier, “D-Damien please let’s not talk about this right now alright? At least wait until your memoirs have returned before we continue this conversation…” Ela meekly responded.
Getting an answer to his question Damien just nodded seeing no reason to push the subject even if it was funny to tease her and see the cute reactions she had he did not want her to feel uncomfortable.
“Alright, then I’ll stop teasing you, so tell me what now?” he spoke
“Well you heard the system say it was going to do events to help us level up faster right?” seeing Damien nod she continued.
“So for now I think we just continue to level up and wait for the event to be announced, the higher our levels the better advantage we will have over others once the event starts.” Ela concluded.
“Solid reasoning, but I think we are going to need a better leveling spot than those woods outside the town… the monsters there that have decent levels are few and far between.”
“With that being said, do you know any spots that people dare not go to?” Damien asked.
“There is one place… but… let me explain why no one approaches there and also something I forgot to tell you as it happened when the system first arrived.” Pausing to gather her thoughts she spoke.
“When the system first descended as I told you everything went to hell, people started discovering they had powers and were able to get way stronger than what was possible of a human before the system's arrival and with this again like I told you came to stuff like greed, vanity, murderers, rape, pretty much anything bad about humans before the system people started doing out in the open with no one to stop them.”
“But that was not our only problem and here is what I had forgotten to tell you, after the system finished its descent the first thing we had to deal with was our fellow humans. That was until the monsters started appearing in massive droves, imagine all the bugs in the world now started to evolve and become massive man-eating monsters… and along with this bigger animals became, well even bigger and some massive.”
“To say the least, once those monsters started to appear was when humanity was really in dire straights, the bugs alone were enough to wipe us out as they came in colonies numbering the hundreds of thousands. So with that in mind, the president of our country made a decision.”
“We nuked the insects.” Ela finally finished her long-winded explanation before looking at Damien to see his reaction.
“Ela, what the hell is a nuke?” he asked with a confused expression on his face.
Staring at Damien dumbfounded Ela slapped her forehead, “Are you being for real? Wait now that I think about it, where did you learn to speak if you had forgotten everything?”
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“Oh that's quite funny, while I was inside a simulation a guy in there taught me how to so I guess the organization did help with my escape,” Damien said with a laugh.
‘Wow’ Ela thought to herself as she found the whole thing stupid herself, I mean they wipe everything in Damien’s mind even his ability to speak and form words, but then go and let someone teach him how?
The organization had always been a weird group with insanely radical ideas and thoughts, nevertheless, Ela did not care she was just happy to have Damien back in her life.
“Alright moving on a nuke was something humans developed before the system arrived and was also something insanely dangerous and for the most part should never have existed in my opinion, that's beside the point though, a nuke could destroy everything in the radius of 33 kilometers.”
“Holy shit,” Damien said aloud while being surprised ‘You're telling me humans had weapons like that before the system descent?’ he thought to himself as it was simply wild that something from before the system was able to cause so much destruction.
“Wait, that does not explain why the area that was “nuked” is so dangerous,” he said questioningly.
“You are right, the reason that areas like this are dangerous is because of something called “radiation” and let’s just say that it is highly toxic to anything and anyone when exposed to high volumes of it, and in areas of nuclear blasts the sheer volume is enough to kill a human of the old world in hours.”
Hearing her explanation Damien was again surprised, all of that just from a bomb? Ela was right this was something that most definitely should not have existed as it was simply too dangerous.
“What about now though? Like can we go into it? Surely the radiation is long gone after 200 years.”
“Well that’s the thing, for some reason, the radiation still exists and has even increased… most people believe the system is the cause of this as it makes no sense for radiation from a nuke to last so long let alone increase in volume. Now we can go into this zone and as long as we do not head to the center of the blast we should be fine, let me warn you though the monsters in the nuke blast area are for some reason much stronger than the ones anywhere outside.”
Nodding his head Damien decided they would go as they needed stronger monsters to fight to grow stronger, fighting the ones in the forest was just simply not enough to push Damien to his limits and for the most part he just needed to use one of his abilities and the fight would end.
So he was hoping that what Ela said was true that way he could get a feel for his strength while also improving his level and fighting experience.
“Alright let's go if what you're saying is true then fighting the monsters is a better use of our time than killing the weak ones out here,” Damien said to Ela who agreed with a nod in return before they both made their way out the town towards the blast zone.
While Damien and Ela were heading that way Emma could be seen making her way though a hallway with a tiled floor.
Walking past many rooms along the way each that were like Damien’s old simulation room Emma stopped in front of one, stepping into the room she quickly got to work and removed the tubes keeping the person asleep before waiting for them to wake.
After a few minutes, the person's eyes snapped open, and looked around the room before speaking in a strained voice.
“Why did you wake me.” the voice spoke while glaring at Emma.
In response to his question, Emma simply smiled and explained the happenings of the world and how the system fully integrated during the person's sleep.
“Now that I have got you up to speed you should understand part of my reason for waking you up should you not Jake?” Emma asked the man.
“And what is the other part of your reason? You and I both know you would not wake me without needing my help in return.” the man stated.
“You right we indeed would not wake you without proper reasoning even if you were the one who let us put you here, regardless though the other reason I awoke you was to help the organization catch an escaped subject.”
Hearing her response the man just simply stared at Emma with a piercing gaze, scanning her curvy body the man got out of the pod he was sitting inside and walked over to her.
“...What makes you think I would help you weaklings? You let the “Subject” escape I don't see how returning them to you helps me in any way,” Jake responded while looking down at Emma who was seated in front of him.
Unflustered by the man's actions Emma spoke, “Your right doing so does not help you in any way, but what if I told you that the person who escaped is someone who could help save your wif-”
Before Emma could finish her sentence the man had already turned around and grabbed her by the neck lifting her into the air.
“You better not be lying to me woman, otherwise I will destroy you and this entire organization,” Jake said while slowly tightening his grip on Emma's neck.
Right as she was about to pass out the man dropped her making Emma violently cough, “Now speak tell me how this man can help my wife.”
“Very well.”