"Hello, Hector, my name is Anna, and these are Lisa and Venere."

"Yes, the truth is, I already knew your names and descriptions. Because of the chaos and the monsters, we couldn't account for everyone on the buses, otherwise, we would have treated you better."

"You know us?"

"Some friends of yours work for us. Their names are Timon and Titus."

The titans looked angry, so quickly, one of the people behind Hector said,

"However, they are very immature, so we are considering replacing them."

That clearly didn't help. Hector looked at the speaker in a silencing manner. Someone was about to be demoted.

"Anyway, I believe you don’t have classes. Don’t worry, in this settlement, we can secure the best ones for you."

Anna intervened,

"The truth is, we were planning to go to the Phoenix settlement."

Hector looked at us unfriendly as he responded,

"I wouldn’t recommend it. Most of them are non-combatant monsters focused on resource production and trade, while the few combatants are flyers. Moreover, your abilities to become giants will attract monsters, just like our weapons; that is, although both attract many zombies, they have great destructive capabilities. Their settlement has the least military capacity."

"That may be, but they have already informed us of the types of races they have and their roles, and we believe we fit well for protection. In any case, being in a different settlement doesn’t mean we can’t cooperate in the future."

"Undoubtedly. But as you can understand, I think another legendary race could unbalance the alliance."

I replied to Hector with a smile that didn’t reach my eyes,

"I think you said they were only good for trade and resource production, so I don’t think increasing our humble military capacity should be a concern. Besides, as you mentioned, they will be dedicated to protection, so you shouldn’t worry about our new members unless, of course, you intend to break the non-aggression pact you signed just a few hours ago."

"Bird, don’t twist my words. It’s a fact that if they go to your settlement to paint their nails, we will lose great races, not just us but all of humanity."

Anna intervened angrily,

"Just because we’re women doesn’t mean we’ll be inactive, you're sexist. We don’t want to be in your settlement, and that’s final."

Hector sighed,

"Alright. Don’t misunderstand, we will honor the pact and continue with trade."

"Soldier, bring the beastmen. You must remember that firearms and nuclear weapons still work, but using them right now does more harm than good, as they either attract numerous zombies or the radiation has harmful effects on humans and unknown effects on zombies. You can switch to the human faction until the situation stabilizes, but once we have control, there will only be two options: enemies or subjects. It’s in human nature to fear the different or the unknown, but if it can be controlled, it changes from feared to admired. By the way, this isn’t just for the titans, but for all the races in your little settlement, including the Phoenix."

"Sir, here they are."

The soldier brought in four chained humans with animal traits: dogs, cats, cows, and birds. There were two men and two women.

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Power: Human

Level: 1

Exp: 0/10

Energy: 10/10

Rarity: Common

Race

A being can only have one race. Offspring will inherit this race.A human can have children with any common or uncommon race.

Human with some beast attributes.

For each level in this race, you will receive 1 stat point in two attributes depending on the subrace.

Race abilities:

* Beast Transformation

"Think carefully about our offer because, depending on your choice, you will be at one end of the chain or the other."

"We would never have slaves; you are a despicable person."

"Society has fallen. Hundreds or thousands of people are dying every day, starving to death, being killed by others, unspeakable crimes are being committed. We give them food, shelter, and care. However, everyone has to contribute."

"Yes, you are, you’re taking away another person’s freedom."

"That’s where we differ. To us, you are monsters. Some can be talked to and traded with, but you are still monsters."

"But you need us. Don’t forget that you are weaker than us; what’s stopping us from rescuing them?"

Hector made a signal, and at that moment, 20 soldiers with weapons aimed at us entered.

"Do you think you can withstand bullets?"

I intervened because the situation was getting out of control.

"Anna, I agree with you, in Fen there is no slavery, and all races can do what they want, but we can’t interfere with what other settlements do. Hector, you need us to bring you food and water right now. I don’t understand you; you need us at this moment, while we don’t need you."

"Of course, you need us. If humans are no longer in the city, why won’t we bomb it? A few have been dropped around the world, but as I said, the effectiveness and consequences on zombies are still being studied. Humans are still at the top of the food chain, don’t forget that."

"Hector, I think it’s best if we leave. We will continue trading, but you should change your mindset if you want to survive."

The titans mounted the griffins, and we departed for the city. We arrived in the city without any problems. After a warm welcome and a magnificent dinner, the Phoenix, Dani, and the titans gathered.

"First of all, I’d like to inform you that I have a legendary ability that allows us to establish unbreakable pacts. I would like to make a pact stating that we will not divulge information about our powers, we will not lie to each other, and we will not betray or attack each other."

"I agree. We need alliances if we want to survive in this chaotic world."

"In exchange for that, I will grant you combat abilities, although Juan says you don’t need them. I see you know Karate and boxing."

"Yes, we know each other from martial arts championships."

"I’ll give you skills with firearms. This afternoon, I copied several skills from the humans."

"They didn’t notice?"

"No, copying a skill is not noticeable, only forming a pact is, and both are painless. Anyway, now that you’ve signed, know that Angela has a skill that basically allows her to make backups of you. Tomorrow morning it will update to level 2 and she will be able to copy another person. Juan has a skill to copy classes, so he will copy her skill to have backups of the three of you. Ale and Juan will also copy your level 2 titan race since Ale’s skill is to copy races and it was the first class Juan copied."

"What’s Carlota’s class and your race?"

"I don’t have a race, while Carlota’s class allows her to copy objects. I plan for the earth nymphs to find metals, blacksmiths to forge ammunition, and runecrafters to make them even stronger. With Carlota’s ability, we will have guaranteed income every 20 hours. Anyway, later I’ll tell you more information about our races, classes, and the situation in Fen. The most important thing is your role, which will be to protect Carlota, Angela, Costas, and me. By the way, Costas is the one who has all the epic rarity meteorites that are martial classes."

I quickly intervened,

"Dani, humans are not as friendly as they were in the meeting. Basically, they have threatened to attack us once the situation stabilizes if we don’t become their slaves. I advise against sending them ammunition; we should make it for ourselves."

"I suspected as much. In the meeting, we all hid our true intentions, but Juan, keep in mind that Carlota’s ability allows her to make the stored objects disappear instantly and without cost. That means we will create a dependency on something they can’t use against us, and since we’ve granted it, they won’t investigate other options as diligently. Or they might try to investigate, but it’s useless for anyone who doesn’t have a legendary class focused on divination, which should be very rare or even nonexistent."

"Perfect, Dani. By the way, what is the role of the beastmen in the settlement? Humans enslave them."

"Don’t worry, they have classes related to crafting or producing items. There’s even talk that one of them might join the council. By the way, there’s an important meeting tomorrow, it seems we have found clues about where the rest of the legendary races in Europe are."