Chapter 2 - Lightning ability
June 221 of the New Era.
The New Era brought not only uncertainty but also opportunity.
Ambitious people, powerful families, and plutocrats created many guilds or legions to fight for resources. One of them is the red-wolf gang. A subordinate of Sulian Sirius Legion, operating mainly in the periphery of Sulian City.
Because of their large number and strong backing, the red-wolf gang sometimes acted like thugs. Notorious for collecting “protection money” from individuals with weaker backgrounds.
Leon, unfortunately, met with them when hunting. To avoid a conflict, he evaded them and moved to an unfamiliar position, a secluded place in lelema valley.
This is where he met an unknown snake species. A badly wounded black snake with a grey horn was fighting against a tier-3 armored toad. Unexpectedly, the medium-tier armored toad famous for having defense comparable to regular 4 tier mutant beast would be defeated.
When the toad lost and was being eaten, Leon took a risk and attacked the exhausted black snake and killed it despite getting wounded in the process.
While dissecting the remains, a smile was blooming on his face because he found a monster crystal or monster core inside the snake’s body. This means it was at least a mutant beast tier 5 or higher.
It was unfortunate that two members of the red wolf gang passed by shortly after the battle. The two had been following Leon after seeing him tried to evade their red wolf gang.
Knew that neither of them had good intentions, he could only flee and went into hiding in a cave when his injuries gotten worse.
“Jack, he’s here!”
A thin man shouted after he spotted Leon inside the cave.
A thick smile was blooming on his face while staring at expressionless Leon.
“Step... Step... Step...”
A burly man arrived and stood near the thin man, blocking the cave entrance.
Watching them, Leon gathered thin spiritual power into his eyes and focused his eyes on the burly man.
“Identify”
A window appeared.
Identify Name: Name: Jack Vilei Realm: first realm Life status: healthy Rank: 4-star warrior Techniques Ability Primary stone skin [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Golden_star.svg] None Heavy kick [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Golden_star.svg] Advance muscles control [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Golden_star.svg][https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Golden_star.svg]
A 4-star mid-level warrior plus the thin man which based on his revealed aura seemed a step lower at 3-star warrior, Leon would face two mid-level Evolver.
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“Hey, boy, hand over that horned snake’s core. It is not good for you to keep it.” Jack spoke.
“Our red wolf-gang will give you a satisfactory price or you could offer it to join our periphery teams.” He added.
Looking at them, Leon was silent.
Seeing no response, the thin man moved forward. And he was holding a black metal stick in his right hand.
Watching the man coming closer, Leon closed his eyes. He was drawn to the imaginary spiritual source in his head.
Touching the sphere of spiritual source, he whispered, “Domain”.
A hundred-meter spiritual dome instantly formed with him at the center.
The two men in the cave entrance, two tier-3 sand scorpions hiding underground 10 meters behind them, flying beetles in the distance. All creatures or things inside the dome were clear in his mind. In this dome, he was the highest control.
He could double or triple his current power plus the continuous energy coming from the air, which replenished his energy every minute. He should be able to fight the opponent many levels higher than himself.
Leon clenched his right hand and the mist energy within his body moved toward his right fist.
The concentrated mist energy changed his skin to be like a stone. This is the basic technique available for everyone “primary stone skin”, good for both defense and attack.
And when he was preparing to move,
“Zztzzzt...” A noise interrupted him.
Something seems to wake up inside his mind.
Although now he was just a low combatant warrior, his mind and soul are still intact before he is “dead”. And using spiritual power is the best option to resolve his trouble for now.
But using spiritual power to create ‘Domain’ seemed to result in something he didn’t predict.
“Zzztzt...” A familiar feeling and sound. Inside his spiritual source, in a galaxy full of stars, at the center of it is an enormous star surrounded by nine rings of smaller stars.
The ninth ring was glowing fiercely in a dark blue color. It seemed to be lit in response to the central star move to actuate large-scale spiritual energy to produce a domain for Leon.
Leon opened his eyes and loosened his clenched fist. A tiny spark of electricity was moving between his fingers.
He raised his right hand facing the two men which drew their attention.
When Jack saw the tiny electricity in Leon’s hand, a realization seemed to come to his mind.
With a look of horror, Jack shouted, “Eric, run...”
Blue light filled all of his vision before he passed out.
After the light faded out, Leon watched the aftermath of his attack. The two men just fainted because there is no need to kill them.
His primary target was the two sand scorpions hiding underground.
The scorched ground near the cave entrance and the vanishing life sign in his spiritual domain showed his attack worked.
The poisonous sand scorpion is good at sneak attacking unprepared targets, even if they are facing higher rank opponents. They were following the two men and were waiting for a good chance to attack.
Walked out of the cave, Leon stepped toward the Sulian City direction.
***
Not long after Leon left, the two woke up.
Eric opened the mouth.
“What happened ?”
...
After a brief silence, Jack with a fear still visible in his face glanced at Eric.
“We are lucky, an awakened warrior with ability was at the foremost list of the warrior which couldn’t be provoked.”
Hearing him spoke, Eric's face turned pale. He asked stutteringly.
“Isn’t it mean he was an ‘elite’ warrior at the level 7 star or above? Why we never heard of him?"
“He shouldn’t be... looking at his age, he was too young,” Jack replied.
“Only less than twenty 7-star warriors known in the Sulian City. No one looks like him. He should be a genius awakening early..”
Jack added with a bit of uncertainty.
***
Sulian City is just a frontier city built a hundred years ago.
Located in the north region of the Midia continent, Sulian City acted as a base to capture the northern seaside area lost at the beginning of the mutated beast's invasion.
Now the frontier north base already moved to Gilian Fortress at the askios-demiga island. The former capital of the Sevelian Federation.
Sulian city faced lesser beast tides every year, sometimes none. But the city wall and the defensive system always strengthened every year because if Gilian Fortress fell, Sulian City will be the next beacon of hope to resist the beast's invasion.
Walked out of the exit way of the lelema valley, Leon reached the main road to the Sulian City.
He could see the shadows of Sulian City. When viewed from a distance, the towering and thick walls will give rise to a sense of insignificance. The merchants, mercenary teams, and legions were coming in and out of the city gate.
“Hey, I heard someone spotted the red light pillar deep inside the lelema valley,” A passerby spoke to his friends.
“Yeah, I heard that too. An emergency level threat was issued by the city administration. A misty beast was promoted to level 7 inside the lelema valley.”
“Ouh... How can a tier 7 monster appear near the city?”
“Nah... Don’t worry. Sirius legion already accepted the task to eliminate it. The rudder masters are gathering the personnel to form a decapitation team and a 7-star ‘Elite’ warrior is leading the team.” someone else interjected.
“Hey, isn’t there was a rumor that the child of the former leader of the Sirius legion was found a month ago and projected to be the next leader?” a man with a wolf emblem on his robe asked in a low voice.
“It isn’t so easy. The power was already shared between the smaller legion and most of them didn’t like to listen to a child.” the man near him refuted.
“Just shut up! It isn’t our business. Maybe we will be a part of the logistics team. Take a rest and prepare for the next mission.” A man who seems to be their leader stopped the conversation.
Leon took a glance at them.
[Emergency level threat, Sirius legion...] It seems he found a faster way to promote.
If he remembers correctly, the red pillar this time resulted from over three 7 level emergency threat monsters gathered in the lelema valley. One of them is breaking through to level 8.
This unexpected event leads to a tremendous loss for Sulian City and only resolved when the reinforcement from Gilian Fortress arrived.
After he passed the city guard inspection, Leon walked to his home direction in the junction of grey and green safety zone.