Klick Klack Klick, the sound of a keyboard being pressed can be heard in the silent of the night. While other is sleeping James is working, being one who enjoys peace and silent the night is the only time James can focus on working. Suddenly out of nowhere knocking sound came from the front door.
*Knock - knock - knock*
Hearing the knocking noise on his front door James sigh, he knew that whoever on the other side of that door must mean trouble. While thinking of the potential trouble James has arrived at the door.
"Who is it?" He asked while simultaneously open the door.
"Is this the house of Doctor James Rose?" A girl no older than 15 or 16 years old asked in a hurried tone. She is carrying on her back a boy of similar feature to herself.
"I'm James"
Hearing the confirmation of James the girl broke down crying "D-doctor pl-please help my brother."
"Sssh, don't cry, here you're going to wakes up the neighbours. Get inside." James said while he helps carry the unconscious boy, he then leads them to his operation room.
Ignoring the crying girl James only focus on the boy, first he checked on the outer condition of the boy and noticed the number of bruises on his body. Then using his newly gained magical power he checked on the boy internal condition and got pleasantly surprised that the boy is fine.
He then asked the girl what happened, the story is pretty generic for this time and age. Twins, fresh out of the orphanage because of age, decided to be a monster hunter, they go to the dungeon unprepared and got smashed by the realities of thing. What interesting to James is the monster that ambushed them, a tall ape-like creature with impressive regeneration ability, the more she describes the creature the more convinced James that the monster is a troll.
A monster with a great feat of regeneration, its blood or at least the core will be a great help on James goals. James then immediately propose a trade to the girl.
"Listen here, I'll heal the boy to full health and in return, you'll lead me to that monster"
"R-really? Then I accept"
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"Good, now go rest over there"
"NO! I Um I mean I would like to be on Chris side"
"No you can't, you need to replenish your energy, we are leaving tomorrow at morning"
"B-but he-"
"He will be fine, I'll make sure of that"
Claire, the girl listened to James then goes to the room James pointed. In the side of the room, she saw rows and rows of bed for James patient to rest, its very similar to a hospital. The room looks unnaturally clean for a hospital, there's not even a stain of blood inside. She dismissed all of that and find a bed to sleep in.
On the other room, James is tending to the boy wound, he figures that since the boy doesn't have any internal problem he doesn't have to use biomancy to heal the boy. That help conserving his mana and energy.
Night soon passed, in the morning when Claire awake she found that his twin brother is sleeping in the bed next to her, she felt an enormous amount of guilt when she saw the bruises on Chris body. She is the one who convinces Chris to hunt, she is the one who leads him to the forest, she is the one who freezes when she saw the beast. While she's lamenting on her fault, the door of the room opened.
"Wakey wakey the sun is up."
"Ah, doctor. I'm ready, let's go."
*slap*
"Ah wait, what are you doing, stop" Clair is shocked to see James slapping Chris's face. She jumps out of her bed to stop James but before she can do that, Chris is already awake.
"Ouch, it hurts. Wait who the hell are you."
"Chris! You are awake." Claire moves to hug Chris.
"Awawawa."
"Oh sorry sorry, I'm sorry."
"It's fine, I'm okay, so what happens?"
"Y-you, fight, beast, the troll, fire."
"Sssh lets talk while we eat" James said, stopping Claire before she can cry.
They then follow behind James to the kitchen, there on the table is food, still steaming. When they sit around the tables both Claire and Chris is surprised seeing that the food have vegetables on them. As the earth now turns to a wasteland with no life and people cant made big enough farm on Limbo because of all the monster there, eating vegetables is an expensive thing to do, usually they only eat the meat of a monster.
Claire and Chris looked at each other before digging in to eat. James looked at them before smiling and eat his food. While they eat, they also talk to each other, Claire explains to Chris what happens after he falls unconscious to the troll.
As soon as they finished their food, they immediately made their way to Limbo. Thanks to being located at the centre of the town, the surrounding place around the portal are filled with activities, the monster hunter coming in and out of the portal, the street vendors selling monster meat, people searching for a group to hunt. The whole situation looked so peaceful that people sometimes forget about manapocalypse.
The portal itself is a big sphere where they can see what's on the other side, it can be disconcerting for those that are new, but over time people get used to it. Before entering it James rechecked what he brought, a modern assault rifle, a body bag for the troll corpse, and enough provision for a day hunt.
"Go on, now it's your turn" After checking for his stuff James said to Clair to lead them to where the troll ambushed them.