Chapter 26: Different Parties
Zaria walked to the hill at the back of the training camp, she had still not reported her return from her home to the group management.
Standing on this hill gave her a strange calm and ability to think more effectively, which she needed right now.
It was from this hill that she discovered the torn page fragment. And it was also here she saw the Titan.
Memories of the past flooded her mind as she looked at the centre district in the distance, her father carrying her on his neck while exclaing at her weight, his laugh whenever her mother bantered on how jealous she was at their relationship.
He usually allowed her to watch him train while also teaching her after she expressed interest.
Apart from the general education provided by the combined efforts of the shelter, he also ensured to teach her privately.
He always laughed at any flaw in her pronunciation and whenever she reported on someone beating her in a test in class. Her scores were average at best but she worked hard and apart from the her childhood gang, she never played beyond the limit.
She stared blankly at her father’s room when he died, she seemed to be waiting for him to come out and come play with her again.
She trained every time in the same training ground while sometimes stopping as if waiting for his instructions.
Her mother was just like him, she stared blankly into space without caring about her daughter. Her soul seemed to have been sucked out of her. Sometimes she cooked for her daughter as usual, watching her eat while smiling sadly at her and looking towards the seat her husband used to like since could watch over the family from this spot.
Feranz a teammate of the current training camp session claimed to the top of the hill stretching his hands and letting the breeze brush through his clothes and face.
His eyes were deep and blue and his face average according to the dell plane standards. He always had eyes for Zaria but since she displayed her talent, he held back his pestering so he could focus on his training.
He, one of the children born outside the main branch of a powerful family was not to be outdone by a woman he liked.
Apart from joining the team so he could learn and train in actual combat, he also wanted to earn merits for himself outside the family.
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Seeing Zaria in the hill made him happy but he still pretended not to care because he wanted her to notice him first.
Tears streaked down Zaria’s face when she saw Feranz, she had nothing she liked about this teammate but they were still path of the elite team and needed to work together in the future.
When her perception sensed the indescribable but familiar aura, her mental defences finally collapsed. She turned towards the direction of the camp and ran down.
She knew why she felt this aura, she had also felt the same when she came in contact with the torn page. Her low rank and mutation must have been what prevented her from being able to identify the words on the page.
After her advancement, she finally had an inkling ok what was going on, the aura she felt from those close to her was from the abyss, they had all been silently corrupted for a long time.
Feranz turned to her direction in puzzlement, he felt like he missed something crucial but his mind seemed to have deleted the ability to remember it.
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Alfonso drove through Ravens black street named after the Ravens shelter of the dell plane, he drove a vehicle that looked more like an armoured car due to the presence of multiple metal like plates covering the vehicle and at the top, a closed cannon bulge could be seen.
This shelter located near the volcanic mountain region enjoyed had the reputation of been the most part opulent. The central district ensured to avoid those of the outer district came in unless they were invited.
Members from the subsidiary branch families were usually sent to organise the outer district. Due to the strict military force by the extraordinary creatures of the volcanic mountain range, only high level danger can reach the outer district level.
The outer district faced the direction of the closest shelter and away from the chaotic fighting. This was also arranged in case there was a need to escape to other shelter or planes. The exploration teams from this shelter already knew the ruins and way forward from the directions in front of them were filled with flames. In a situation where they needed to save the lives of their descendants, sending them to a burning plane was equivalent to suicide because they would not even be able to plant and maintain their basic living conditions.
Dungeons that get attracted to areas close to the volcanic range were usually attracted to the fire and they were usually filled up with good stuff for those of the earth and sun path.
Multiple experts at the end of their ropes usually used parts of their life forces to extend the formation that gathered the fire energy from the volcanic range and the connecting ruins, using it to block the natural law that prevented the production and the use of vehicles and other mechanical constructs.
It was akin to using fire to burn concepts. The specifics of what led to this phenomenon was unknown but seeing the need for high level sacrifice to maintain the fire, the major heads of the families called it a formation.
Alfonso was born in the outer district but after his parents survived and returned from the forgotten exploration and later died, his father’s friend took him in and brought him to the central district. He had been living with them since then. They treated him well so he had no resentments at the outcome of his parent, after all, he benefited from the disaster.
His abilities were far superior to others of the same level even in the central district, his foster father protected him from any attempt from external forces, preventing his assassination. His path was a planet path so he had high survivability after advancing to rank 8.
He would be joining the team that was responsible for the mining, he really looked forward to it.