The girl read his note and nodded heavily. And then the girl told him it was the power of one of the raiders that had killed her parents. Apparently last time with the combined effort of over 20 other villagers they had managed to drive off the raiders. When the raiders had first arrived they had also felt a tremor much like the one from just now.

Jake decided that before he would do anything he would send off a few extra drones to help the girl out just in case things got rough. So he walked over to the store room to grab some mana stones to summon some extra drones he could send her way.

Grabbing 4 mana stones together with his natural mana he had 800MP he would spend on drones to protect the girl. He quickly bought 8 scout drones, just because only scout drones had the maximum speed needed to reach the girl in time to help out.

Now he had the idea of using his worker drone to fly around. And if he wanted to get that girl away from those raiders and to safety he would just have to make the idea work.

He ran back to his Tv screen, he had a plan to get the girl out of there and to safety. So he quickly made the drone write a message. As he got back to the Tv screen to see if the drone was doing it right he saw the girl looking as if she was about to cry.

All the while he sent off his 8 new scout drones at maximum speed towards the rural village.

When the drone was done writing he made the worker drone poke the girl in her belly to get her attention to the piece of paper.

Denise almost felt her heart stop when she felt the tremor. The system had to work overtime at that moment to stop Denise from having a mental breakdown as she was remembering the raiders that got into the village and killed her parents.

Denise's mind was racing thinking of what would happen if the raiders found her. She quickly activated her skill mind reading to see if she could locate where the raiders were and what they were doing. But since her skill was only at level one, her skill only worked on creatures within 10 meters of her. And she couldn’t detect any raiders within that distance. At Least this meant she would have a bit of time until the raiders found her.

She hadn’t been prepared for this at all! She felt like crying again at that moment. She was just living her normal life up until a few days ago. And now she had lost everyone around her and was about to die to some raiders. Then suddenly she felt a hard object softly hit her on her belly. She quickly looked up to see the drone having poked her. Then the drone pointed to a piece of paper with new text on it.

As denise read what was on the piece of paper a vague feeling of hope filled her. Feeling like she didn’t really have any choice besides trusting the stranger controlling the drone at this point she agreed to the plan.

Turin - Raider leader

Turin activated his tremor skill as he walked into the village, just to announce his presence here and make them feel fear at experiencing his power. Last time he had been grabbed by surprise by 20 awakened village weaklings with trash for classes. But now he was back, and it was time to return everything they had done to him.

Turin was a big man standing over 2 meters tall with huge bulging tanned muscles. He had black hair and brown eyes, scars covered his whole body. He had lived the rough and tough tumble life of a rural bandit. Even in modern times there were still gangs that went around robbing people with no police nearby to do shit about it.

As he was walking through the rural village though he couldn’t help but wonder where everyone was. As his men broke into houses they all turned up empty. He turned towards one of the men in his squad. “Hey Jack use your skill and find the people yeah?”

Jack had awakened to the class hunter and chose a tracking skill when he had awakened. The skill was perfect for finding and hunting down any living creature. “Hey Boss! It seems like people left here a long time a’go! I can only find traces of one girlie round here”

Only one girl? Had she been abandoned by the other villagers because she couldn’t awaken a class or something? The sight of abandoned classless people becoming more and more common.

Well no use in letting her go “Aight Jack lead us to em!” And they got moving towards a house near the outskirts of the village. As they entered the street where the house was though Turin saw something weird.

Floating in the air in the middle of the street was a metal ball with green neon lines running over it. “Stop yur fuckin clunkers cant ya see that weird thing?” Turin ordered his men. They all stopped and turned to look at the weird metal ball.

Out of nowhere it shot at one of his nearby men, hitting the man in the head before he could react. A nasty cracking sound could be heard and Turin saw gray matter go all over the nearby rocks.

The metal ball flying back up in the air as it started turning around for a second run. “Raise yur shields men! Tony use yer earth wall!” His men listened right away and raised all sorts of things in defense. Some raised doors, others metal plates and a few even used defensive skills.

The drone went straight through the ones that held up anything weaker than a wooden door.

If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

Five more men fell to the ground with their skulls bashed in. This time before the metal ball thingy got another hit in though Turin raised his hand at the metal ball and shot a shockwave out of his hand.

The tremor traveled through the air hitting the metal ball throwing it off course. But not dealing nearly as much damage as he had hoped as it soon got back on track trying to kill more of his men.

The leftover men were way more prepared though and kept a close eye on the drone. Most of the men had also gathered around the defensive skill holders that would be able to hold off the drone better.

Then out of the corner of his eye he saw the door to the house they were going to enter open. And out of it stepped a young girl that was walking behind another bigger metal ball. This next metal ball having four mechanical arms.

His eyes went a bit wide at that but he soon determined the girl was probably the one having control of this metal ball. “Hey wankers! go get me that wench ya hear?! Dead ur alive i tell ya!”

His men cheered at this, making barking noises and howling out. And then while keeping a eye on the drone started making their way towards the girl.

The girl looked their way, with a scared look on her face as she turned towards them. This sight only gave Turin more confidence that what he had just done was the right thing to do. But then something he hadn’t expected happened. The volleyball sized drone grabbed onto the girl with its four arms. Holding her like a baby.

Then the metal ball and the girl started rising into the air. Slowly gaining more altitude and speed as they started flying away from his men.

Turin got angry at seeing this. “I ain't letting them get away this time i tell ya!” He raised both his hands towards the girl and started pumping all his MP into his tremor skill. she ain’t gonna be survivin this he thought to himself, a vicious grin appearing on his face.

And right when he was about to launch his empowered Tremor. He saw a metal ball closing in on him from the sky “Fuck!, Jack track that bitch! If i survive she dead i tell you! she dead!” And then the metal ball hit him in the side of his head. Everything went black.

Later on he would wake up with an injury and a desire for revenge. He didn’t care how long it would take. He was going to be tracking that bitch down and he would kill her.

Denise

After escaping from the group of raiders with that big burly and especially scary man. She also felt a bit happy, seeing that big leader getting his head smashed had felt amazing! That's what he got for trying to attack her! Now though she was stuck flying through the air to an unknown destination.

She didn’t know if where she was going was any better than where she had just left. Half worried about if where she would go now would be any better than where she had left, she eventually shoved that thought aside. Deciding to just do some skill training while she was stuck up here anyways she decided to just take a look at her status

Name: Denise Arenheart

Age: 12

Class: Psychic

Level: 1

Mana: 100/100

XP: 0/300

Skills:

Psychometry level 1

Telekinesis level 1

Mind reading level 1

Traits:

More mana III

All her skills were still at level one and she hadn’t even figured out how to get XP yet. None of the other villagers had figured it out either when they had been around. If any did they hadn’t shared it with her, that was for sure.

She had already kind of checked out how all her skills worked. She hadn’t tested them to their limits yet though. So the activated Psychometry on the drone that was carrying her and pumped all her mana into it. Then when she was done she let the skill fully activate.

A rush of information started flooding her brain, all things the drone had seen in the past 2 days. Then she gained a bit of additional info about the drone itself and how it worked.

She had seen some images of the man that was the maker of the drone. Now the drone had only been around the man for 10 minutes but in that time for all she cared is that he at least didn’t seem like some criminal or a bad person. That made her feel a bit better about wherever the drone was bringing her. Then next to her the aptly named scout drone appeared, having returned from bashing in those raider’s skulls.

And then something scary happened. From above a shadow appeared over her head. She quickly looked up and slowly saw a bird closing in on them from above. The bird was 2 meters long and 3 meters wide if you counted in its wings. It looked like an overgrown raven to denise. With pitch black feathers covering its entire body. Denise having realized spending all her mana had been a big mistake. When the bird got closer though the scout drone turned towards it and started chasing after it.

The bird rolled mid-air to dodge the drone as if it was nothing! And just leisurely continued flying towards her. Feeling a bit of panic at seeing the bird dodge the scout drone like that she desperately looked around to find anything she could do or throw. But sadly she was mid-air flying at 50 Kilometers an hour. there was nothing nearby she could grab and throw at that overgrown bird. Then out of nowhere eight metal balls slammed into the bird from above. The bird let out a loud screech and fell down a bit before recovering and quickly gaining altitude again. Denise yelled out in surprise at what just happened. The bird had just missed her by a meter and almost hit her on its way down.

Then she noticed the eight metal balls that were circling her in a sort of defensive pattern. All eight balls had the same big camera lens and neon green line as the other scout drone. She let out a soft sigh of relief. Clearly whoever controlled these drones had already sent more her way a while back. And they had truly arrived in the nick of time.

Sadly though the threat hadn’t passed yet, the bird was gaining distance on them again. The ninth and original scout drone was still trying to hit the bird who was swiftly dodging all its attempts. As it got closer five of the eight balls circling around her flew off towards the bird. All of them going towards it from different angles.

Three of the six attacking drones struck the bird. This time the bird started showing some visible wounds. Blood falling from the bird down towards the ground. And when the six drones started flying towards the bird again, the bird showed a hint of fear in its eyes and divebombed down to the ground. Away from both Denise and the drones. As soon as the bird got 20 meters away from her the drones turned around and started circling her in an atom pattern again.

The rest of the journey went by relatively smoothly. Except that Denise was feeling a bit chilly with all the cold air blowing around her.

As they started approaching and descending towards a big rock though, she started feeling a bit nervous again. She didn’t see any house or building around here. And she was getting scared she might have been tricked again and was just getting dropped off in the middle of nowhere in a forest filled with monsters.

They landed right in front of the big rock on the ground. As Denise was let go she stumbled a bit almost falling onto the ground. After flying in the air for such a long time she needed a moment to regain her balance. As she stood up straight again she started scanning her surroundings.

She was standing on a bit of elevated terrain looking over a huge forest that she couldn’t see the end off. Forest being a meek description of what she saw. She felt it was more like a Jungle if anything. Then she heard a sound behind her. As she turned around towards the big rock again her mouth went open in a little O shape.

What denise was seeing right now was the last thing she had expected. A piece of the rock wall had gone back inside the rock and then slides into the wall. And on the other side appeared a taller older young man. If she had to guess he was around 20 to 25 years old.

What surprised her the most though was that the man who ran up to her and pulled her into a hug while patting the back of her head. While telling her everything was okay and she would be safe now. And after hearing those words something in Denise broke loose and she cried, and cried, and cried.

She cried harder and longer than she had ever done before. All the pain and sadness she had repressed over the past few days catching up to her. All while the man kept her in a hug and told her everything would be okay, again and again.