Maha’s body recovered to its original form after he sent the message to the two outsider. With a bit of his real body Huala energy, it was a cinch reconstructing his new body from its broken state.
The next months was uneventful as Maha did the workout everyday, he workout in the morning and try to hunt at night, unfortunately he find no other bears. During the hunt, if he's lucky, he'll get meat for that day, if not he survive off of fruits and veggies he find in the forest.
“Ah, fruits and veggies...I wonder if they are still ok after these 200 years…” Maha is reminded of his children whenever he eats fruit or veggies but he try to not let it get to him. “Meh, they're gods so they should be ok.” Getting the bad thoughts out of his head, Maha went back into his hut to sleep, waiting for night to fall.
While Maha is leisurely spending his time in a forest, the outside world that is almost identical to the world of the year 2018, is in a frenzy.
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On the current world of 2218 YouTube, an inconspicuous video was uploaded “Hello there my name is John, those who understand the meaning of the name ‘Egg’ please respond immediately, as you have already known it is urgent, I will tell you a location to meet up via mail.” Quite a few people yolkingly admit to understand the meaning of the name egg. However, there were 8 people who responded in a one word answer… ‘Ant’. To the normal people this seems like a secret society joke someone made and so people just stop paying attention to the video.
In a cafe of a tranquil village, there are 9 people who are seated around a table. The atmosphere is tense and heavy around this long table that have a mix of all kind of races.
A white Caucasian man spoke out first to loosen the mood, “Hello everyone, those who have the book should understand me even though I speak a different language.” Making sure, the man scan everyone at the table, and they all nodded their head to show that they do understand. “Ah that's wonderful, anyway let's introduce ourselves first. I'll go first, my name is John Wick, American.” John is a average looking American who stands at 6’1, have a shaved beard, and have blond hair that curls like fries.
John sit down and gesture for anyone to go next, the person sitting next to him stood up and introduced himself.
“My name is Raheem Hernandez, Mexican, and I love beautiful ladies like yourself over there miss…” Raheem gestured to a gorgeous lady sitting near the end of the table. She just snort and looked away from his flirting.
Next a girl who have wavy raven black hair and silky skin introduce herself “Hello everyone, my name is Yuuka Isako desu, nice to meet you all.” If you can't tell her nationality from this...you've been living under a rock all your life. She is not ugly, but she is not beautiful either, just enough to be an ok girl to hit on. Her cheerful personality is a plus anyhow in the tense mood.
The woman sitting next to her smile at the Yuuka and stood up, “Hello everyone, my beautiful self is named Deeny Mattu, Indian.” The woman was indeed beautiful, she have fair bronze skin, a breathtaking smile is always on her face, and a figure that is accentuated by the cloth like clothes wrap that she wore. When she sat down, Raheem cat whistled.
A man with a turban stood up next, “My name is Ajeeb Antar, my nationality is Arab.” He appears to be a very nice man, as he amiably smile and look all around at those who welcome him. He stood at 5’7 at best and wore a nice looking white dress piece like clothing.
The next man did not appear to be a person of the outside world, “Hello, my name Jarja Dudo.” He is very dark but also very big, oddly big at that, he easily reach 8 feet no problem. His body is decorated with tribal tattoos and totems, his hair is long dirty dry hair that looped through a skull.
The girl who stood up after Dudo is a very energetic girl, she looked no older than 14 and have a few scattered tattoos around her body. “Hello!! My name is Yaya Ajik, I’m so glad to meet everyone here!!” She sat back down as Jarja hold her down with his massive hand. Just from this alone people can guess that they are close, however Jarja is more like a stopper for the young Yaya energetic self.
They are not from the same tribe, but Jarja treat her like a big brother the first time they meet at this new meeting...due to them being the only tribal people.
Next is the gorgeous woman who Raheem try to flirt with, she have blond hair, bright blue eyes, and perfect curves. When she stood up all eyes were on her, “Hello everyone, my name is Kafka Lykova, Russian.” Her voice was melodious but strong like she was of the upper echelon in society.
Lastly a man who looks very suspicious stood up and spoke, “Enlai Hong, Chinese.” He sat back down with a very short introduction, he appears to be the cold kind of people. He look skinny and frail as well, not to mention the bags under his eyes as he stared around suspiciously.
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“Ok now that we all introduced ourselves, I want everyone to show their book at the same time...and before anyone wants to complain, i will say this that in the message it states “Those who own the book, they are soul-bound which cannot be taken, and if forcefully taken within the one year, the attacker will die” end quote, still any question?” When John said the quote everyone who put their hands up put it back down again.
However, Enlai Hong the Chinese man seem rather skeptical as he asked John, “How do you know that it really work, John…” he stare deeply towards the Caucasian man.
“Ah yes I actually hired 30 hit man to kill me specifically, but guess what? Yea they all got disintegrated out of existence before my very eyes. Well anyway you people should felt it too, the powers that this manual bring to us human...but Egg said that there was suppose to be 10 of us...does anyone know anything about the last person?” John looked around to see similar questioning faces.
“Yes, about that, I can confirm that the last manual have not been found yet. If anyone here have been keeping up with the news, it said that, over the course of a week, there are 9 unnatural phenomenon that happened around the world. The only explanation to that is us, which means that the last book is still ownerless.” Yuuka Isako speak about recent events on the news in rapid session, “There is also another thing about the message that makes me unwell over the past 8 months. Even though the manual gave unparalleled powers to us, but in exchange we have to defend humanity to the best of our abilities.”
“Hey I'm fine with that actually, can you imagine the stuff I can do now with this book?!” Raheem Hernandez stand up and ran out the cafe using speed that normal people will just see a black figure. When he came back he is carrying a boulder over his head, “Do you see this eh? Am like a Flash on drugs.” He start to do push-up with the boulder that looked to be 200-300 pounds.
“Yes, that I know Mr. Hernandez, but if you look at the middle section where it said “...in 1 year, a monster tide will wipe the planet, do whatever you want till then, but don't tell anyone of the existence of these books until then.” Don't you think that we should like recruit people? We can't show people the book but we can guide them somehow right?” Yuuka then looked towards her laptop that she brung with her. “We can post a video telling people to go to a place where they can sign up, and there is also a limit to how many each of us will accept.”
“Sheh, why don't you just accept everyone that come to sign up eh? That would better.” Ajeeb Antar sneered at the thought, huh, sharing a way to become a being like god? No way.
“Well Mr. Ajeeb, I did think that, but I have to think realistically, I can at most teach only a few hundred people, even with my current upgraded power.” Yuuka replied back politely and smile at Ajeeb.
“I like the way you think miss Yuuka Isako, so I agreed to let you know the name of my book to register it any way to want, it is bound to me anyway.” Kafka Lykova smilingly hand over her manual to Yuuka who receive it with care.
“Codex Ant Queen…wow I know the message say to include ant in the name of our manual when we name them, but wow...yours still sound so, so, POWerful.” Yuuka then looked down at her book and sigh. “I've been regretting naming mine right off the bat but keeping with the Wuxia or Xianxia theme kind of naming is so fascinating. Mine is called, Holy Ant Divine Scent Scripture…” Hearing the name everyone even the most quiet one, Enlai Hong turn to looked at Yuuka. “W-w-what?! It's not like you guys have anything better! It's required by the message you know?!”
“Relax miss Yuuka, it’s nothing strange why everyone looked at you. I looked up online to research a bit on ants and apparently, the best ability that they have is in their scent and social skill. So you naming yours with scent meant that it should be one of the strongest!” John Wick spoke as he walked toward Yuuka to hand her his book.
“Oh! No way, mine is the weakest, my way of Haula is releasing pheromone in a circle like a bubble 2 meters around myself. Whoever is in it will be healed, like a mass heal kind of thing. I can't fight, though the added strength and speed might make me stronger and faster than olympics winner…teehee.” When Yuuka was laughing and joking around, everyone there knew, her power is ridiculous on a battlefield.
She is a walking hospital, if what she said is true then, just having her there and you can be on the battlefield almost indefinitely. A table turning person like her is very powerful in almost all situation.
When everyone else is contemplating, Yaya handed her book along with Jarja’s book over to Yuuka.
“Yaya wants pets too! Send them to me if they are interested in Summoning an ARMY of ants, Hahahaha.” Yaya being the lively girl, she brighten the mood with her refreshing attitude. “Oh and big brother Jarja said to send the pets that want to becomes monsters like him...but he's cute to Yaya so don't say that to the pets, Hahahaha.”
“Oh! Thank you, let's see here, Tribal Ant Warrior and Totem Ant Summon…these seems very...fitting. Haha...ha” Yuuka laugh awkwardly after what she said. “Anyway, let's see Sir John’s manual is named... Ant Exoskeleton...straight to the point huh.” Yuuka now seemed more down as no one seems to name their books Wuxia style or Xianxia style.
“Here’s my book.” Enlai Hong spoke as he gave his book to Yuuka and then walked back to his seat.
“Aw darling, you should loosen up, I tell you, you are not going to be beautiful if you're like that all the time Enlai honey.” Deeny who has been quiet the whole time finally spoke.
“Anyone else want me to post theirs on the recruiting page?” Yuuka asked one more time, but out of the people who already gave their books to her no one else did. “Alright then, don't feel sorry when you can't find any good student later.” Just speaking to no one in particular, Yuuka did not know how right she will be after the tide is over.
“Okay so we have, Codex Ant Queen, Holy Ant Scent Scripture, Ant Exoskeleton, Tribal Ant Warrior, Totem Ant Summon, and lastly...Godly Ant Monarch Dominion…” Yuuka looked towards Enlai as if she want to cry out in joy for a fellow Xianxia and Wuxia name.
Enlai who is quiet in the corner gives her a thumbs up, and then quickly put it down.