Lesser Colossus eh?

Now, it sounds cool, but is it cool? I reach into my bag to bring out the guide book, open it to the first page and read the first sentence.

*To use this Guide book please search a specific subject*

Wha? So this guide book is basically google…

“Colossus!” I speak with hope in my voice, hope that I got a good race, and not some trash bag outcasts.

The words in the book re-arrange and leave about a paragraph of text.

*Beings of insurmountable strength, rivaling even the Gods. Colossus’s are closely related to the old Titans, they have been in existence since the beginning of time, fighting a war against the Titans for eons. The powers a True Colossus is terrifyingly overwhelming, even for a fully matured God. Their strength is enough to smash mountains in the flick of a finger and have great attunement to the elements. They can increase size to tower over even the tallest peaks. Although the last document colossus sighting was during the war of terror they are still worshipped by many.

“daaummm...”

Looks like I really hit the jackpot with this one. Even though i’m still just a lesser i’m pretty sure if my ancestors could flick mountains, even a slither of their power would be sweet.

Maybe I should just sleep and get on with it? Nah, it would be better to get some food secured first. Then I can relax, I’m still about 10 minutes away from the mart… I wonder?

I picture myself being on top of the mart.

“Dark Warp!”

A sudden darkness finds me and I lose sight of everything for a second. I open my eyes.

“Holy shit.”

I look at my mana bar and it takes half away. I was around 1 mile away from the mart so that means I can warp 2 miles max? Well the the warp was grade B so I guess there is still room for improvement.

I look down from the roof and see two people running, terror in their eyes.

“RAAARWRR”

A flem filled cry rings through my ears.

A 7’5 tall lizard looking man carrying a spear chases after the couple.

Ahhhh… they are so screwed, the guy of the two raises his hand and conjures a ball of fire,

it flies towards the lizard, hitting it point blank in the chest before dissipating.

My god he is so weak… FUUU FINE! I’ll save them ffs…

I Warp behind the lizard and unsheath Sutr, I named him this after a Norse god, I mean why not?

Once I finish enchanting my blade I teleport above the Lizard followed by a dash downwards.

The sweet sound of a perfect cut. My blade decimates the lizard, like dominoes it goes down.

I look at the couple and their eyes react like they've seen a ghost. I look down at myself and find that i’m drenched in blood, ohoho. I look up at them and with a smile.

“Hello! My names Arthur, what are yours?”

I step over the dead lizard and pick up his spear.

“Identify”

A pane appears.

Obsidian spear

Damage 10-20

+ 5 Dexterity

Meh, really weak compared to Sutr, but it does give some good range.

...why are they still just staring at me. Is there something on my face?

“Soooo… uhh, you guys going to introduce yourselves?”

“ah, sorry w-we just….my name is George, this is my girlfriend Jane” He stutters out.

I look at George, around 6'2 brown hair brown eyes with an attractive face and he seems to be built well. His wife has blonde hair blue eyes and a nice figure, her sizes seems to be somewhere in the middle and is around the same height as George just a bit smaller.

“Well, It’s nice you meet you” I say cheerfully

“You guys about to go into the mart?”

“Y-yes! We decided it’s best to secure food incase this… thing doesn’t ends soon”

“Good idea, mind if I tag along?”

I might as well help these guys out.

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We enter the mart and find the store still stocked with food. I spend a few minutes grabbing a few cans of food and bottles of water. George does the same while whispering to Jane. Wonder what their thinking?

Outside the mart I say my goodbyes.

“Ok, well it was nice meeting you”  As I turn around to head off I’m interrupted by George.

“Wait! If you don’t have anywhere to go… would you like to tag along with us? We’re heading towards our cabin near Satbury, and I don’t think i’ll be able to defend us myself, we also have a car.”

Satbury was a town 7 miles away near a big national park. I don’t actually have a place to go right now… I could go to my old house but I doubt anyone in that area is still alive. It’s the area where the jet and flying monster went down, I may sound Morbid but it’s true.

“Sure” I

“Great! We’re just a few blocks away from my car” He says with a sighing relief.

He turns around and starts walking, but Jane stares at me for a few seconds. I started to feel a shiver down my spine, like something was looking in my soul, examining every part of it.

She turned and joined George walking off down an alleyway.

What the hell? She's so spooky!

The time was 4pm and I was with my new party heading to Satbury.

“So George, what class are you?” Knowing their classes should help bring the team together.  

“....Inferno mage”

“ooo… sounds cool! what can you do?”

“Well...Fire and stuff, the description of the Class said fire mage...But more! I can apparently control fire with ease, it’s actually really hard though. Imagine tensing the muscles in your forearm all the way up to your hands, then extending it forwards like grabbing hold of something. Confusing, tho it does let me shape fire anyway I want.”

“Well ain’t that convenient! And what about you?” Nodding towards Jane.

“Ahh, Jane hasn't created a class yet, she wants to wait and see what happens.”

My ass.

“Oh. Wow! That really smart Jane, well we’ll just have to wait and see~ what you decide to choose won’t we?” I placed emphasis on see, I pretty sure she’s playing this guy for the class thing. It’s probably a class that gives her something tied to sight.

I saw her twitch a little when I empathized the word see. Well, as long as she doesn’t mess with me we will have a jolly good time!

I fall back onto the back seat and stare out the window. The world was screwed. If it wasn’t for these monsters maybe order might be restored, but its kinda hard when there’s a dragon burning shit up isn't it?

We turn off the highway into a town that was still quick intact.

Are monsters not spawning in this area? The Pane said certain locations, does that mean popular or key locations? If that’s true then there won’t be monsters here for awhile, that's if they don’t roam in a b-line here.

After driving through the main road I see many shops and behind them an urban area, What seems to be a town hall although It was barricaded?

“I think we should leave quickly…. This doesn’t seem right at all.”

“I know what your talking about, it’s ok the turns right here.” he says in a concerned voice.

We head into a bundle trees and arrive at a cabin near a small pond of water. The place is in an open area, surrounded by trees. The cabin has a patio with a couple of chairs next to a grill.

“Wah!?!” George jumps as his eyes fixate on the air before him. Did he just receive a pane?

“You ok George?” I ask curiously

“Uhh yeah, its asking me if I want to claim this area under my name.”

“Oooo, press yes! it might give you perks” This is probably going to be beneficial.

“It says that the area has been claimed and that I can start adding to it?” He says with a confused but at the same time excited voice.

Just as I thought.

“Try saying area options? or something similar.”

He goes through a list of random words until he lands on territory. Apparently he has a list of stuff such as fences, walls, towers,  additional housing etc… it seems that we also need to provide the materials for the upgrade.

“What’s the cost for fences?” It would be a good idea to setup some form of defense, though I doubt that it will stop anything bigger than a dog.

“It says the cost for the fences is 20 tonnes of wood… damn that a lot!”

I guess it would make sense. Maybe it’s the cost for the automation?

“Don’t happen to have a chainsaw do you?” I jokingly ask

“Nope”

Darn. I could try slicing a tree in half with my tanto, although I think it would end up worse for me then the tree, plus I don’t really want to screw up my best offensive weapon.

I followed George and Jane into the cabin, it was a two bedroom place with dark wood floors, two windows accompanying both sides of the rectangular shaped building.

George and Jane set up a small dinner with the food we got for the mart, just some simple noodles but damn did they taste good. Maybe it was because of my exhaustion but after supper I said my goodnights and went right to bed.

Oh, how great the nightmares will be…