“sure boss, I’ll send Adam there to pick you up, I’m sure the guards wouldn’t let you pass the rift while dragging an unconscious person around”
“good, I already sent you my location, I’ll see you now” Erick said as he ended the call, while talking on the phone he once again recovered his younger look, regenerating his vitality and life span. After putting his phone on his pocket, he waited for adam while leaning against a wall.
It didn’t take long as a hooded man suddenly appeared at his side, leaning against the same wall.
“shy as always, Adam, you should start greeting people”
“...” Adam was dead silent as he touched Erick’s shoulder, disappearing without leaving any traces.
....
In an instant, Erick appeared in an almost empty bar, were there was only the bartender and a man drinking beer, the man was fixated on finishing the glass he had on his hand as the bartender greeted Erick and Adam.
“It’s been a long time Erick, how is your family doing?” the 50 year old man asked Erick.
Erick looked at the man behind the counter, he had a well kept brown hair with a thin body and a normal height, characteristics that made him not stand out.
“they are doing fine, I did a good job of keeping the house's income high. Also, you haven't changed much since I last saw you”
“I can say exactly the same to you hahaha” the man laughed softly “unlike you, I’m now older than last time, but that doesn’t mean I lost any of my strenght” as he said that the muscles on his arm tighened, forming an arm worthy of a profesional boxer.
Erick looked at his arm “it seems you got better with your strengthening power”
“of course, working alone at a bar is very tiring, and under such preasure it seems that my power evolved over time. But now, why did you suddenly want to come here? Is it because of that person?” he said while looking at the woman that Erick was grabbing from the neck.
“yes, I wanted to know why she was spying on my house”
Sudenly a voice sounded at his side “RIGHT! I knew I had to do something” the man had finished his beer as he stood up “sorry boss, I just can’t stop loving the taste of some good fresh beer, also, thanks for the drinks Bagel!”
“it’s Gable, zack...” *sigh* “how many times do I have to tell you?”
“no worries, it’s not that different. Now Erick, follow me, I also called the team so we could all meet up again after such a long time before you even called!”
“oh, I only needed Angela and Tiffany for this”
“don’t worry boss. Also, Adam! We are going there, you can come in whenever you like”
He looked at Adam who was sitting on a chair looking at the empty corner before he dissapeared once again.
“Bagel! We are going in the basement, take care!”
“...ok” Gabel resisted the urge of correcting his name again while seeing them go to the storage room.
After entering the storage and moving some boxes, they opened a trapdoor and walked downwards on some wooden stairs, after some walking they reached a door, but before opening it they could hear some ruckus inside.
“boss, wait here for a moment” he said before entering first.
After entering the room, Zack saw the chaos that was unfolding, a man fighting another man, a group of three watching them and betting money on who would win while a woman was just showing displeasure at what was happening, a woman trying to hug Adam and him teleporting to a different chair each time she tried, and a lonely woman sitting on a chair at the corner of the room with a laptop.
Basically, it was chaos.
“...what the hell”
-1 hour earlier-
The bar was empty, a complete silence enveloped the whole place, there was only one person taking care of things, Gabel.
‘...I’ll start wrapping things up’ he was planning on closing the bar for today, but fate didn’t say so as the front doors opened.
“hey Bagel! Long time no see” said zack happily, sitting down on a chair in front of the counter.
“...Zack, you came here yesterday”
“don’t say that! I’m your number one customer, how could I miss a day without one of your drinks?”
*sigh* “even after going to the outside you are still the same...” Gabel grabbed a large glass and poured some beer in it “here it is, enjoy it”
“thanks!!!” that was the only thing he said before gulping it down, after finishing it he talked some more “also, there are some friends coming here, do you mind if I use the basement?”
“I don’t mind, I never use it and the only people I ever saw using it was you and sometimes Erick”
“ok! Now give me more drinks please... oh, and also water for my friend” he said while pointing at his side, some had sudenly appeared.
“oh, and who might you be?” Gabel asked the hooded man, but he didn’t answer.
“don’t worry about Adam, he never talks nor likes to be touched, I think he is very shy” Zack said while Gabel was serving a large cup of water.
Adam grabbed the water and moved himself instantly to another table.
“Adam, we are planning on going to the basement, you should be going there”
“...” Adam ignored what he said and kept drinking his water on the table, alone.
And as some minutes passed someone else finally appeared.
*SLAM*
The front door was sudenly opened as a loud voice started talking.
“IS IT FUCKING HERE?!” a large muscular man with blues eyes entered the bar, he was taller than two meters and had a body that a body builder could only dream for, with a lion-like golden hair that a hairstylist would only dream to touch.
“asshole, try to be more silent, or do you want to wake up the whole city?” a shorter, more normal man, walked behind him. He had two green eyes with a chestnut-colored hair combed to one side, slightly tanned skin and a normal trained body, something one would expect for a normal explorer.
“I WOULDN’T BE SCREAMING IF YOU KNEW WERE WE WERE GOING!”
“then you should start learning how to use your damn phone dumbass!”
“MOTHER FUCKER!”
“hijo de puta!”
“SPEAK ENGLISH YOU FUCKING IDIO-”
“hey hey hey, calm down, why all the anger?” Zack stepped in, trying to calm both of them down.
“this dumbass didn’t know how to get here so we ran all around the city trying to find this bar”
“IF YOU HAD USED YOUR PHONE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE A LOT EARLIER!”
“I’m out of battery! You could have given me your phone to look at the map!”
“no, it’s mine” the big man said with a serious face.
“.... ARE YOU A CHILD!?”
“Armando calm down, also Georgi, you should try to be less possessive of your things, we are all a team after all”
“...”
“...”
The two of them were looking different ways, being treated like children hurted some of their pride, but they had it coming for how they were acting.
“now, I planned of taking all of you to the basement, there you can get some cold drinks if you want, it’s in the storage room under some boxes in a trapdoor” said Zack while walking towards the storage, guiding them.
....
In the large basement, there were two man looking at each other, Armando and Georgi.
“.... so, when are you apologizing?” Armando said, not even looking at his drink.
“uh?! why should I be the one apologizing?!”
“don’t get me started on this again... it was YOUR fault that we got lost!”
“huh really!? then why did you not have your phone charged!?”
“I...uh....” he didn’t want to accept the fact that he forgot to plug it into its charger “my charger broke! I couldn’t charge it because of that, now, why didn't you just give me your phone!?”
“uuuuhhhhh...” and he didn't want to tell him that he wanted to save the battery in case his daughter or wife called him “I was waiting for an important call, but someone like you wouldn’t understand!”
“yeah right, what a pathetic excuse, even a child could come up with something a loooot better than that”
“look who is talking, I didn’t want to say anything, but for someone who is more ‘modern’ and knows more about technology, how come you don’t have extra chargers!?”
“ugh! I just couldn’t find them, I even planned to buy a new charger!”
“yeah right, now who is the one making excuses?” Georgi said while grinning.
“you son of a...”
And the discussion went on, the both of them getting so absorbed into it that they didn’t notice the other four people that had entered the room some time ago.
“..... they really can’t go a day without arguing” said a woman with a long black hair and black eyes, she had her hand against her face, showing displeasure.
“sis, have you ever seen the two of them NOT fighting?” said the second person.
While she looked similar to the first woman, she had some differences, she had a shorter hair, a more toned body and looked more excited than displeased.
“I’ll say the same thing as Tiffany, Angela, I haven't seen a day that the two of them were not fighting” the third person on the group said.
By far, he was the shortest guy of the group, only reaching the shoulders of Angela, he had reddish hair and brown eyes with a hint of red and had a normal looking body.
“what do you think is gonna happen, Evan?” the short man said, looking at the last person of the group.
“mmmh, basically, out of 50 paths they will start figthing in 49 of them”
The last man had a dark brown hair long enough to reach his shoulders and pure green eyes as deep as emeralds, but his body wasn't as trained as the others.
“Nathan, let’s do a little something, come over here” Evan grabbed the short man’s shoulder, Nathan, and started whispering things.
“hey hey, don’t leave me out guys!” Tiffany said while also getting closer to hear what they were saying while Angela was looking at them with even more displeasure, knowing what they were going to do.
After whispering some things they started to move all the furniture stealthily as the argument between Armando and Georgi was heating up, making enough space while making a cover to watch unnoticed.
After the preparations were complete, it finally happened, they reached their limits.
“wanna fight old man!?” Armando yelled at him, provoking Georgi.
“stop calling me old man! I’ll have to beat the shit out of you up until you learn some manners” Georgi scoffed back, preparing himself for the fight.
“try me bitch” Armando responded while being alert for the first attack.
A few seconds passed while the both of them stood still, not moving even a millimeter, waiting for who will attack first.
“.....”
“.....”
..... 30 seconds have passed and the first action was made.
“hey what’s that!?” Armando shouted while pointing at the left side of Georgi.
“....!” Georgi was surprised as his head moved without his control to the place Armando pointed, giving Armando enough time to jump towards him and drop kick him in the chest.
Or that’s what he wanted, but Georgi had rapidly crossed his arms, protecting the place where he was kicked.
Armando clicked his tongue as he was too slow to do a direct hit, he used Georgi’s body to jump bacwards while also trying to push him back, but his large body wasn’t pushed at all as he even got closer to armando, punching his face and launching him backwards.
But the moment his fist touched Armando’s face, he felt as he had punched steel ‘what kind of powers did he copy this time?’
___
Copycat, a high rank and Armando’s power, it let’s him copy a limited number of powers, but while it sounds powerful it has it’s own disadvantages.
1º there is a limit of 5 powers he can keep, copying more powers would replace one at random.
2º the powers he copies have to be of a lower rank than his original power.
3º to copy a power he has to know it’s characteristics and the way it works, meaning that complex skills will be harder to get.
4º he has to touch the person who has it.
5º it takes a few seconds while changing between each power he has, leaving him defenseless over that time.
___
‘right now, he has shown a mental and a body enhancing power...’ Georgi was thinking on how to discover the other abilities Armando had copied after a month of not seeing him ‘he usually copies very different powers to become used to anything, so I don’t know what he has right now, I’ll have to wait while we fight’
Armando was getting up from the floor, his face itching from the pain ‘damn, even with steel body it still hurts like this? I have to be even more careful!’
He changed from steel body to a muscle enhancement power, making him more agile while increasing the power from his attacks.
As Armando changed his power Georgi threw a storm of fists, the fists got very close to Armando’s body but thanks to his strenghtened muscles he was at least able to dodge them and even sometimes get a direct hit, of course, Georgi only felt a sting when recieving those punches.
“is that all you can do? At least try harder!” Georgi shouted as his body got even stronger, his strength palpitating in the air.
___
Limit breaker, also a high rank and Georgi’s power, as it’s name says it let’s him go beyond his physical limits while also leaving permanent enhancements on his body (explaining his large body) but unlike copycat, his disadvantages were more simple.
1º it activates after reaching high levels of emotions (mostly induced by adrenaline while fighting and similar actions).
2º similar as before, once reaching low levels of emotion it will deactivate automatically.
3º after being deactivated, he will be on a weakened state for as long as the power was activated.
4º he will be unable to activate it in his weakened state, having to wait untill he recovers from it.
___
“wait wait wait! Using it already?! you wanna kill me?!” Armando became nervous, very nervous, he knew how strong Georgi would become after using it ‘it seems he want’s to end this rapidly.... but why?’ he started thinking.
He knew Georgi could get angry really fast, but never to this extent, that meant two things:
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1- he had hit a sour spot while insulting him, making him truly angry.
2- the excuse of receiving a call was real.
‘maybe it’s the both of them? But i never got him this angry before and today our verbal fight was softer than other days...’ he eliminated the first option leaving him with the second one, thus, betting on a perfect plan.
Survive, survive until he get’s the call and leaves open his weak spots.
But as he finished thinking, Georgi was already in front of him, ready to punch him.
Armando could only duck to dodge the attack, but just as he did that he saw another punch coming, this time he curved his back even more putting his hands on the floor, doing the reverse table and escaping like a crab.
After making some distance, he roled on the floor and got up rapidly before Georgi cut the distance in an instant, Armando, mustering all his mental power, concentrated on his attacks, doing everything he could to dodge them...
Meanwhile, the group of three were discussing how the fight was going.
“wow, didn’t expect for it to go like this” Tiffany said looking a bit bored “I didn't expect this to be so one-sided”
But Evan refuted “that’s not what I see, out of all the paths I see there is a 50/50 of each one winning, that means he will have a chance to turn the tables or he will lose the fight with a broken face”
After they listened what Evan said, Nathan took a small piece of paper with a pencil as he wrote something “I bet 50 crowns that Armando wins!”
“oh yeah? Then I bet 100 crowns on Georgi” Tiffany responded as the two were now looking at Evan.
“I don't like to bet on things that are questionable to occur...... oh well why not, I bet 10 crowns on Armando”
“booooooring” Tiffany made fun of him “why not bet more? It’s not like we are poor or anything after working for so long, right Angela?”
As she looked towards Angela she saw tha she was talking to another person, someone new had entered the basement.
It was another girl, a cute face with blue eyes and a brunet hair with a low ponytail, she was wearing a light gray shirt with the bottom part tucked under her long black skirt as her body looked petit and fragile.
“Elissa, don’t get close too close to them, I don’t want their stupidity spreading to you” Angela said as she grabbed and moved Elissa away from them.
“eh? Uh?” because she was the newest member of them all, she still didn’t know their extreme chaotic side.
*ring ring ring*
A ringing sound came out of Georgi's pocket, he stopped launching attacks as he picked up his phone, leaving Armando time to relax and get some rest.
Georgi looked at his phone and answered the call “hi honey⁓” his personality completly changed from an angry violent man to a normal happy civilian.
“where am I? I got a call from my friends and since it was a long time since I’ve seen them I had to come, don’t worry I’ll be back before the sun rises, you can go to sleep again...”
While Georgi was talking on his phone, Armando used this moment to launch the most important attack in this fight, he pointed at him and activated it, making Georgi have a completly relaxed face in an instant.
He had been his companion for a long time, so it was obvious that he knew his weakneses, so he decided on using a mental healing power to reduce all emotions from him, making his ability deactivate automatically.
Thus, his face once again changed from relaxation to tired, as he felt his body weakening and getting heavier “sorry, but I have some things to do, sleep well honey”
He ended the call, after that he looked at Armando with a straight face “so that’s why you were buying so much time? Huh, well...” a smile grew on his face as he smashed his fist against his other hand “that doesn’t mean I can’t beat you in the plain old way!”
“Well, I like my battles evenly matched, now let’s truly get at it!” now that he knew that his head wasn’t going to get beaten like mashed potatoes he got excited of the fight as he activated his steel body again ‘because he is weakened his attack power has decreased, making an offensive and defensive power like steel body my best option!’
As they got close enough they started throwing punches against each other, each punch hiting the other, fist against fist.
“nice! Now it’s getting interesting, so this is what you meant by a 50/50 Evan?” Tiffany said excited from how the fight was now more evenly.
“...” but Evan was actually very confused about one thing ‘why do the both of them... have zero chance of winning?’ he was in deep thought trying to find an explanation for it.
“hey Angela, why can’t I go with them?” Elissa asked, being far away from the group.
“you are the only normal person here, I just want someone to talk t-” as she was talking, someone hooded appeared on a nearby chair.
After one second of seeing him, Elissa jumped straight at him, trying to hug him. Of course, she only hugged the air.
“Adam my love don’t run from me⁓!” after noticing where he went, she jumped again towards him and every time he moved she would do the same “even if you run to the end of the world I’ll still follow you⁓” showing great agility, she jumped everywhere following him with a smile on her face.
“.......” she was silent and alone once again, not noticing at all the also lonely woman with a laptop at her side.
Bethany had a deep black short hair, brown eyes with dark circles under them and baggy clothing, making her body unable to describe.
‘...... once again unnoticed’ her face suddenly showed a more negative expression.
Even after entering with Georgi and Armando, they still didn’t notice her, so she decided to go to the corner of the room, alone.
While being ignored even after the room was filled with people, she was able to notice the door opening again, this time, she saw someone she knew enter, their vice-leader and the boss’s best friend.
.....
After Zack entered the room, he didn’t even question what was happening, it was stupid of him to think that no chaos would ocurr after leaving them all alone on the same place.
Without showing any emotion he only said one word
“stop”
“...”
Everything in the room completely stoped, even the little bugs on the floor.
“I want everyone to form a horizontal line in front of me, knees on the floor, now”
Everyone moved in a straight line, even if they wanted to resist they couldn’t do anything.
___
Law of words, a peak rank power that Zack evolved carefully, taking a path that made his power have almost no disadvantages and be extremely powerful, it makes his words irrefutable and everything must follow what he says.
The only disadvantages it had were three:
1º it only affects everything that’s on a 50 meter radius around him.
2º changes made will disappear after getting out of his radius.
3º his power could be resisted if the human or monster was stronger than him.
___
After everyone got on their knees he started asking questions “Georgi, Armando, why were the two of you fighting? Tell me the truth”
The both of them tried to keep their mouths shut, but couldn’t resist.
“because I forgot to charge my phone I got here late, making Georgi mad at me and we fought”
“because I didn’t want to waste my battery I got here late, making Armando angry and we fought”
“.... you guys are really children in mens bodies, to act so childish”
Their faces twisted, they felt great shame once again by his words.
“and what about you three?”
“we wanted to have fun so we made a bet on who would win”
“and what about you Elissa?”
“I just saw Adam and had to hug him, but he always got away...”
“aha, I’m sure Angela didn’t do anything, and you Bethany?”
Everyone looked at their right, noticing that Bethany was there.
“I-I didn’t do anything, I was just waiting in the corner until someone talked to me” she responded, with tears almost falling from her eyes as she made everyone feel bad for her.
“o-ok, everyone sit calmly anywhere you want, I’ll come back in a second”
Leaving them alone once again, Zack got out and brought Erick in. After greeting everyone, Erick brought the woman to a chair and tied her up.
“Elissa, could you heal her? She has multiple internal and external wounds and I don’t want her dying before asking some questions” Erick said to her.
“yes boss!” after saluting him like a soldier, she got to work.
___
Healing touch, a mid-high rank power that made Elissa quickly heal anything that she touches, there were only one disadvantage:
1º she had to use the energy she produced, making her exausted the more she used it.
___
“hey Zack, can you make the shadows in the room dissapear? This awakener can move through them”
“sure, no problem. There will be no shadows in the basement” as he said that, all the shadows dissapeared slowly as the basement was suddenly bright.
“heh, your power truly is incredible Zack”
“you flatter me too much, but once it leaves my radius it will go back to normal”
“but still, you are a big help to our team my friend”
“HAHAHA! Of course, ever since we were kids I always followed in your steps, boss”
Erick felt good after hearing that, he knew how hard Zack had worked in the past and knew how much he deserved his power.
“Boss! She is completely healed but still hasn’t woken up”
“good work Elissa, you can now go with Adam again” after saying that, Adam felt a chill go up his back, as if he was suddenly being hunted.
“thank you boss!” she said as she sprinted away.
“okay, Georgi, Armando, you two will go first, threaten her and try to get information out of her, if it doesn’t work I’ll leave it to Tiffany and Angela and if that’s still not enough, I’ll have to leave it to Zack. Also, Evan, be at their side and stop them if something goes or would go wrong.”
“YES BOSS!” all of them said out loud.
“boss, you could just leave it to me, I could get any information you want by simply asking her” Zack said to Erick, wanting to do something.
“if you did everything then everyone else would become useless, you shouldn’t take everything for yourself”
Zack sighed as he responded back “okay, boss”
...
The world was spinning a bit, but finally, her body stopped hurting but still couldn’t move. Now the only thing she had to do was find where she was and alert her companions of the unknown threat of the man in the boy’s house.
But before she could even do anything two man appeared from behind her.
“well well well, what do we have here?” the large man said looking now to the shorter man “what do you think we should do to people sticking their noses into other’s people buisnesses?”
“you know, the typical things” the shorter man said taking a knife out of his pocket “we should start from the fingertips, then the nails, then slowly peel her skin from her hands to her shoulders like strings of cheese, then if she still doesn’t talk, well, she can live without a liver or kidney right?”
There was silence, the large man only looking at him as he wispered some things “wow, that was too much don’t you think?”
“oh, shut up and roll with it! We are supposed to threaten her, right?!” he wishpered back.
“okay okay” after clearing his throat he continued with his act.
“only that? I think it would be better to have her bones crushed, twisted, poking straight out of her body...” while talking, the only thing the woman was feeling wasn’t fear or anything like that, just pure plain confusion ‘what are they talking about?’ ‘Why does their acting suck so much?’ ‘Even novice actors are better than them’ those were her only thoughts on what was happening.
After a bit, Evan started making signals that it wasn’t working, making them click their tongues as the smaller man flipped her off before going out of her sight.
She still couldn’t move her head and look around, so she tried investigating what she could see, there were some chairs and tables with walls a bit worn out, the tables seemed like they were for serving multiple people...
But before she could investigate some more, two women appeared from her sides, the shorter haired woman putting herself in the center of her vision.
They looked similar except for their hair, one was longer than the other.
“hey you! you think you are hot stuff? Then look at this!” the woman with shorter hair shouted at her as she started doing weird stances and poses.
“???” the woman was just confused ‘what is she doing? Did I end up in a circus or somet-’ but before she could keep thinking, her mind exploded, all thoughts moving around as she was thrown into a state of chaos.
Not even noticing the other women puting her hand over her head and injected something in her head, a strange slimy creature started creeping around and expanding in her mind taking some of her thoughts and copying it, she would’ve already composed herself from the chaos if it weren’t from that thing messing even more her thoughts.
___
Confusion and mental infeccion, the mid-high rank powers that the twins had.
Tiffany who had Confusion alters the mind of any human or monster that sees her, with some disadvantages:
1º she had to do an action that would confuse the target.
2º the stronger the one who saw her, the lesser the effects and duration or even complete nullification.
And mental infection, the one Angela has, made her capable of entering the minds of any inteligent species through contact and copy, steal or destroy any memory they have, the disadvantages were:
1º the target could resist and hurt the infection, damaging the user.
2º the target needs to have their brain active to be able to interact with their memories, meaning that they have to be fully awake.
3º stealing too much memories could affect her brain in unexpected ways.
Strangely, the twins awakened with powers that were extremely powerful if used together, one lowering defenses making the other easily infect them.
___
After a bit of searching and stealing her memories, Angela finally reached the core of some important information.
‘a bodyguard? She seemed to be following someone...’ she decided to take the risk and copied all that information, leaving it in a secluded part of her mind to not change personalities.
“I’m done, but before that...” she made sure to eliminate all memories of all that happened that night before hitting her in the head and making her unconscious “there, now she will not remember anything that happened”
“thanks Angela, Zack, make sure to eliminate all traces left” Erick said, finally giving Zack something to do.
“sure thing boss. All traces will be left on this chair” after he said that, all fingerprints, smells and anything that could leave a trace dissapeared from her and were left on the chair, taking the chair and leaving it in a corner he fully burned the chair with a lighter in his pocket, destroying all traces.
Without receiving an order, Adam grabed her with gloves on his hands and in an instant took her to a random desolated place far away from the bar.
“this went faster than I thought, now, what is the information that you got Angela?” Erick said as he looked at her.
“I’ll need some time untill I process the information without consequences, you can wait untill I’m ready”
“okay, take your time, but finish it before the sun rises, I don’t want to worry my wife once she wakes up”
“of course I wont take THAT long, just give me 10 minutes and I’ll finish it”
“okay, everyone else is free to do whatever they want”
After that, in those 10 minutes, everyone talked about their lives, their struggles, their families, etc.
After 20 minutes passed, Angela was ready.
“that was... more than I thought” she showed a nervous expression as she thought about what she saw as she scratched her chin.
“is there a problem?” Zack asked after seeing her face.
“it’s just that... *sigh* I think Erick's son has gotten in trouble”
After Erick heard that he sat down, crossing his arms and with a straight face asked a simple question “what do you mean by that?”
Angela felt the air freeze as she felt danger from his words, everyone knew the good side of Erick as he was always kind with the whole team, but they knew that they should never, NEVER, speak negatively about his family.
“j-just listen to me first, do any of you know of HALL Corporation?”
Bethany responded without any hesitation “they are one of the largest corporations known by everyone, they are famous for their advanced mana based technology that has been implemented in the modern days, they are the ones who implemented mana circuits to all electronics and vehicles with the use of their most revolutionary product, the mana condensed stone, all mana based machinary nowdays uses it...” she talked without stop as if breathing wasn’t necessary for her.
“and that’s not all, as the president of that corporation, Mr.Hall is one of the 5 known awakeners to reach the level of false king - true king, with a great load of connections, money and power he is known to be completely invincible compared to the others on the same rank as his, thanks to that he also made a secondary company that centered on awakeners, taking in talented ones and nurturing them until they became loyal workers...” she talked more and more.
“and while some people see him as a threat without control, they also see him as the creation of a fourth pillar of humanity, basically, the people think he may become a true king soon” finally, as she stoped talking, her breathing begun once again.
“....” everyone was silent proccesing what she said, Erick, Zack and Angela had already procesed what she said, while everyone else at least tried to remember what she said, as they couldn’t fully understand her with how fast she was talking.
“so, what does he have to do with this?” Zack asked.
“well, that woman was a bodyguard for one of his multiples children, specificaly, one of his daughters. As she was following her, she found out that a daughter of Mr.Hall was hanging out with a boy...”
“wait... so you are telling us that Erick’s son is hanging around with one of the daughter’s from one of the strongest, richest and most influential man on earth?!” Tiffany said, almost yelling it.
“HAHAHAHA!!! could you believe that boss? He truly is your son to be capable of doing that!” Zack said while giving Erick some pats on the back “....boss?” then he noticed that Erick was being too quiet.
He raised his hand to his mouth as his eyes became a bit teary “my little boy... is finally becoming a man” he was happy that his son’s relationship with girls around his age were good, that way he could find love like he did when he was younger.
“wait wait WAIT, you guys don’t seem to understand the problem! The thing is that they are socialy from completely different classes and from what I’ve seen from those memories, on the outside Mr.Hall seems like a good and kind person, but he is... a complete classist, if one doesn’t have enough strenght, money or conections, then he will not see them worthy of anything”
“but that’s about him, not his descendants, what does he have to do with them?!” Armando responded angrily.
“the problem is that he sees his bloodline as `his´ and will not let anybody near his things unless they are similar in value or would bring benefit to him, and if anybody defied him.... there could only be grave consequences. I think that’s why none of the two said anything about it and kept it a secret and why the woman followed Erick’s son home, to know more about him and report it to Mr.Hall directly, hell, maybe they noticed that something is wrong after she dissapeared!”
The face of Erick was as serious as possible, he got up and commanded them some simple missions “Angela, describe the physical appearence of the daughter of Hall and everyone related with it to Bethany so she finds all the information she can about them while also not raising any alarms, Adam, watch closely over my son and if something dangerous happens warn me instantly and take me there, I’ll be going back home to watch over my family” as he finished, he opened the door of the basement and went away.
“W-Wait, isn’t this too dangerous?! we are talking about a false king that’s reaching a fucking TRUE KING!” Evan said, worried about what was gonna happen “I can see into the future, but not that much to even know how this will end, but I can say that it won’t end well”
“well, that’s because you haven’t grown with him... he’s been always like that” Zack responded to him “he has never backed down against the impossible, he destroyed every obstacle in front of him even if he suffered as long as nobody else got hurt from it, he is someone I know that if he does something then he will win”
Z ack sighed as he continued talking, this time more seriously “let me tell you something, why do you think I, a peak rank awakener, hasn’t accepted any promotion to becoming a team leader? Because I’ll always follow him as my boss, somone stronger than me and a reliable friend”
After zack finished talking, Nathan asked a question “now that I think about it, I never heard what his actual rank was, if he is stronger than you, does that mean...?”
Zack grinned with pride “yes, he is a whole rank higher than mine”
“!!!” everyone was surprised, while they’ve been working with him for such a long time, they never knew the truth about his rank, only about his power.
......
Because of the low quantity of awakeners surpassing the high ranks, they became like celebrities to the people, wich was too dangerous for the ones that lived a normal life with their families as they would suffer from all kinds of dangers from the people.
Thankfully, a law was made that would allow to censor all information for peak rank awakeners and higher and even giving them fake ranks to live a normal life, giving them privacy and hiding them from the eyes of the people.
Thus, 8 out of the 10 false kings known to be born decided to live in secrecy, and Erick didn’t want to get out of the life he had, but if by any chance his family were to get hurt, he wouldn’t mind going to war if it meant to protect them, even if it meant fighting the true kings.
He had long ago decided to never again lose anyone close to him, to never again repeat his failure from the past.
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|Extras|
The Team’s powers, from weakest to strongest:
|Elissa|
Rank - mid/high | power - Healing touch
Quickly heals anything organic that she touches using her energy.
Disadvantages:
1º she has to use the energy she produces, making her exausted the more she uses it untill reaching her limit.
|Tiffany|
Rank - mid/high | power - Confusion
It makes the target to lose control of their mind for a short time after seeing any strange action made by her.
Disadvantages:
1º she has to do an action that would confuse the target.
2º the stronger the one who sees her, the lesser the effects and duration or even complete nullification.
|Angela|
Rank - mid/high | power - mental infection
It makes her capable of infecting the minds of anyone she touches, making it capable of copying, stealing and destroying their memories.
Disadvantages:
1º the target could resist and hurt the infection, damaging the user.
2º the target needs to have their brain active to be able to interact with their memories, meaning that they have to be fully awake.
3º stealing too much memories could affect the brain of the user in unexpected ways.
|Nathan|
Rank - mid/high | power - perfect senses
It enhances his senses to inhuman levels, being able to see from a few kilometers perfectly, hear long distances even through walls, differenciate the smell and taste from anything and find even the smallest difference on objects by touch.
Disadvantages:
1º attacks targeted to his senses will bring worse consequences.
2º he can’t turn off his senses, thus, overwelming his brain on crowded places.
|Evan|
Rank - high | power - future choices
It let’s him see multiple futures with different events that could occur, giving results that could be better or worse and letting him decide.
Disadvantages:
1º he can see a limited amount of 50 futures, as that is the limit that his brain can handle.
2º depending on how many futures he sees it will make him capable of looking further into them (less quantity = more depth).
|Armando|
Rank - high | power - copycat
It let’s him copy a limited number of powers.
Disadvantages:
1º there is a limit of 5 powers he can keep, copying more powers would replace one at random.
2º the powers he copies have to be of a lower rank than his original power.
3º to copy a power he has to know it’s characteristics and the way it works, meaning that complex skills will be harder to get.
4º he has to touch the person who has it.
5º it takes a few seconds while changing between each power he has, leaving him defenseless over that time.
|Georgi|
Rank - high | power - limit breaker
It breaks his human limits, giving him inmense amounts of power, depending on how much power was used while activated it will leave permament enhancements on the body.
Disadvantages:
1º it activates after reaching high levels of emotions (mostly induced by adrenaline while fighting and similar actions).
2º once reaching low levels of emotion it will deactivate automatically.
3º after being deactivated, he will be in a weakened state for as long as the power was activated.
4º he will be unable to activate it during his weakened state.
|Bethany|
Rank - high/peak | power - Instant mental processing
She is able to procces any information that enters her head in an instant, making her able to learn and memorize anything she sees.
Disadvantages:
1º while she is able to learn and memorize anything it doesn’t make her more intelligent (basically, a walking wikipedia).
|Zack|
Rank - peak | power - Law of words
It makes his words irrefutable and everything must follow what he says, even if it breaks the fundamental laws in life such as gravity, light, etc.
Disadvantages:
1º it only affects everything that’s on a 50 meter radius around him.
2º changes made will disappear after getting out of his radius.
3º his power could be resisted if the human or monster was stronger than him.
|Erick|
False rank - high/peak | false power - vitality combustion
True Rank - false king | true power - endless vitality
A generator of pure vitality, increasing exponentialy his regeneration, life span and strenght. He made on his own a special technique that allowed to burn the exccesive amounts of vitality that flowed on his body, increasing even more his strenght. Untill now, he has never needed to use his full power, making it unknown what he is truly capable of.
Disadvantages:
1º if he were to burn all of his vitality at once, then his vitality regeneration would stop ending on his death.