Because of this, they are back to their previous assumption, that Arifin is wrong, and there won’t be any other similar occurrence that will happen in their city. But a few of them keep talking about it, speculating that this kind of phenomenon hasn’t ended yet, and another meteor could just hit their city next week. At least, they only talk about it on their private social media groups, which prevents it from being a trending topic on a wider scale. And Arifin, he spends most of his time sleeping the whole day. He knows how important that blood crystal is, and intends to collect it tonight. “I better save my stamina for now, and let this fucking system give me a penalty.” That afternoon, he prepares himself with some isotonic drinks and snacks. He even put his first aid kit into the backpack. There is also a headband with an LED flashlight, to help him to see in the dark. The plan is to get into the jungle before the system gives him the penalty. That way, he won’t harm other peo
This one dedemit isn’t that aggressive. And Arifin can easily cut its head using his katana. He observes that dedemit’s body for a while, expecting that he would get that blood crystal. But finds nothing. His enthusiasm begins to wane a little, realizing that he has to rely on his luck. He slays more, and more. But he still doesn’t get that blood crystal. Until suddenly, one dedemit creature ambushes him from behind the bushes, and manages to scratch his left arm. “Shit! This fucker!” It screams at Arifin with a mad face by showing off his sharp ugly teeth. Unlike the others, this one is more aggressive and more cunning. What’s more, Arifin also finds it a bit harder to target this one’s neck to cut its head. It's like this one creature has more intelligence than the rest. He has to hit whatever spot of its body part that he can hit with the sword. After limiting the dedemit’s movements by cutting one of its leg, only then Arifin stabs its head. He finishes that one, but he hims
In the previous life, even as an awakened warrior, Arifin was not that impressive in the physical aspect. His quirk was mainly focused on his mind power, so he was always exhausted almost every day, and had no chance to train his body. But now, he has had the chance, and feels that he is getting better and stronger. But those numbers have just killed his mood. He remembers about Zaw Min's capabilities, and starts using him as the standard for comparison. He actually can’t gauge Zaw Min’s real strength and stamina. But he knows quite well about Zaw Min’s movement speed. Judging by his current speed, he believes that Zaw Min could be four or five times faster than him. But now, the system shows that his current speed is only half of the maximum value. “That awakening really helped people to surpass their limit potential. But the effect was different for each person. It didn’t improve my physical capabilities back then. Instead, it made me weak and easily tired because of the pressure
Arifin doesn’t give her any answer. Not because he doesn’t care about her safety. It’s simply because Minda’s house is just like his, located in a safe area. And he knows that Minda will be in her house, keeping that coffee shop just like usual.About the others, he feels like there’s no way to convince any of them. But he still leaves a message on the board every time the class is over.[Saturday 13th, stay away from the city center, especially in the coastline and estuaries area, downtown, and the northern border area towards the airport]He leaves the classroom last, leaving the note so others will see it the next morning. Only four days left before the fall of the meteor, and indeed there is nothing else he can do.Even just leaving that message is already making him the target of mock and insult. Again, he becomes the subject of ridicule and contempt anywhere he walks, although no one dares to directly bully him.The only one who still treats him normal in the classroom is Minda,
Or that’s what he thought. Unbeknownst to Arifin, whether he confessed or not, Andini is still going to visit that site near the coastline. Even in Arifin’s previous life, Andini had already had a date with Andrew. She only invited Arifin only to prank him. The same with the current timeline. She is now having a date with the same guy, Andrew Kurniawan, right at the Siti Nurbaya bridge. But the situation is a bit complicated, because she is having a debate with her boyfriend. “We’ve only been here for 10 minutes, and you're already asking me to take you home? Are you insulting me?” “No, I didn’t mean to…, why don’t we just move to another place,” Andini insists on asking Andrew to leave that place. “What is this now? Don’t tell me you are believing in that stupid freak’s joke? Really?” “But…” “Okay, fine! Why don’t you just leave by yourself. Go to him, and go suck his dick as much as you want.” Suddenly, Andini slaps him in the face. Andrew even tries to pay her back. But he ho
Both Tony and Cindy are still looking so out of place right now. Especially Tony, who starts getting curious about how Arifin was able to predict that incident. And about the last thing Arifin said to Prof. Irwan… “Man, what did you say?” asks Tony. “What you’ve gone through? What do you mean by what you’ve gone through? Don’t tell me… Have you experienced all of this before? How?” Arifin just averts his attention away, looking above to the sky. Despite the fact he already knows that there will be another two hours before the next meteor hits the city, he still looks up to the sky like he is anticipating it with a gloomy face. He stays like that for so long. Until Tony starts to be impatient by him. But then, just before Tony voices his confusion, Arifin suddenly talks a bit about his previous experinced in that exact same spot, in the exact time in his previous life. “Yes, I've gone through this exact same thing before. That day, I was here crying over my helplessness. I cried her
Most of the places in the western part of Padang city have been wrecked, both by tsunami and also that one meteor. Not a single life is seen around this area anymore. Until then, some strange creatures emerge from all the cavities on the surface of the meteorite. They look like hairless dogs, but in the size of donkeys. Their canines are sharp and big, the same with all their teeth. There are strange fins behind their head which can close and expand freely. And the tips of their tails are looking sharp and solid like ivory, and most of their backs are covered by exoskeletons. There are also two tentacle-like antennas on both sides of their heads. These antennas raise up and move slowly like they are trying to scan their surroundings. Just as these antennas receive some signal from some living creatures nearest to them, all of them avert their attention to the same direction. Soon after that, they move so fast leaving that meteorite, like hungry wolves hunting their prey. *** Arif
But soon, another two meteors appear, in similar size with the previous one. It shakes those people’s attention. Arifin immediately pulls Silvy, and takes her to behind the building and keeps her there.The others also follow him in a rush. That’s when Arifin explains to them about the phenomena of the rise of awakened people because of those meteors.“Then, why do you prevent me?” asks Silvy. “I also want to have a unique ability like Grace has. Don’t you see how convenient it is to have such ability?”And then…Booom!!!Those two meteors hit the city in the northern area near the airport. But these people seem like they no longer care about it anymore. They are more concerned about the awakening that Arifin talks about.Arifin just replies with a bit of impatient tones. “There’s no convenience in having this kind of oddity. You are going to be an object to be exploited by those who have interest in your oddity.”He then averts his attention to Grace. “If possible, never let anyone k
Meanwhile, in Westerpark. It’s a place that used to be a famous picturesque working-class neighborhood in Amsterdam. But it has been wrecked havoc by the alien monsters, and not so many people are still alive there right now. But there is still one beautiful mansion standing tall on one hill, with high concrete walls protecting that 2 hectares area. In fact, there’s only one family living in this area consisting of only four people. There is one underground lab right below that mansion. And there is one man in his white coat looking so desperate in front of his personal research book. “No, this is not what I want,” he cries slowly, grabbing his yellow hair in desperation. He leaves his desk, approaching one monitor which displays the work of his supercomputer in doing some kind of simulation. Not too far from that monitor, there is a unique wavy dagger with an asymmetrical shape being displayed in a glass case. That scientist only comes to observe the DNA splicing simulation being
Arifin also takes a glance at the other one who hasn’t done anything so far, which is Luis the lizard man. That man has grown his tail quite long, and no longer wears any pants at the moment. But his face is so pale, feeling intimidated by just Arifin’s gaze. Even right now, that man isn’t noticing that the bottom part of his body has turned into its beast form. He just turns by instinct, due to the danger he feels after watching how easily Arifin bullied Zaw Min. “So, you are going to turn into a cold-blooded reptile now?” asks Arifin as he prepares to handle that man, who used to be a hitman for the mafia. “But, what’s with that pitiful face?” “Ah?” Luis is shaken from his reverie, and only realizes that all the bottom part of his body has turned into the lizard legs and one big and long tail at his butt. “Well, I haven't had any big expectations from you since the beginning,” continues Arifin as he keeps walking intending to take his leave. At first, he did have an intention t
Those three are just the exact three men who betrayed Arifin in his previous life, especially Zaw Min and Jaidee. Just seeing their faces is already enough to provoke Arifin’s madness which helps him enter his Trance State.“Hey, Zaw Min!” calls Luis as he slowly turns his two hands into the shape of a lizard. “They said we only need to hold him down for an hour. We can’t kill him because the Colonel wants him so bad. Isn’t this an insult?”“Not really! I also want him to join us. You just don’t know what this man is capable of,” replies Zaw Min, who is currently looking so excited to see Arifin for the second time.“Cih! We can’t kill him, huh!” grumbles Jaidee with his annoyed face. “Then, let me handle him myself. It won’t be good if you accidentally kill him with your sabers.”“Stop bickering, you weak ass! Come anytime you want!” Arifin interferes by showing his mad face.Those words effectively make Jaidee so furious. He immediately demonstrates his skills in unarmed combat as a
He can’t simply tell that to Colonel Fermin. Because he doesn’t want to be seen as ridiculous any further.But then when he goes outside, he finds a few soldiers are lying on the ground. The situation becomes hectic as there are a few evil spirits infiltrating this medical area.Thankfully, those three shamans, even though they are not combatant-type of awakened people, they know some ways to repel those evil spirits. After all, they are not too many, since the corrupted aura that Arifin releases is somewhat weaker than usual.For the next two days, few dedemits and evil spirits keep coming during the night. Only in the next morning, Arifin is back to his consciousness.“Oh, you are awake?” One nurse approaches him and checks his condition.“Where am I?” asks Arifin as he tries to get up.But the nurse forces him to stay on the bed. “You've been unconscious for more than two days. You should just rest until you are completely recovered.”“Two days?” mumbles Arifin.He then checks his
Mike looks up, and sees Dr. Cohen hovering in the air in his beast form. And the one who just hurt Mike’s chest, Marcus, is currently perching on a branch.“That accent? An American?” asks Mike.“Yes, I’m an American,” replies Dr. Cohen nonchalantly.“Which means you are the people from the Defiance Atlantis,” Mike continues.“Hohohoo! You guess right for the second time. And guess what, our organization highly values beast-type awakened warriors like you. Why don't you join…”Mike doesn’t even let him finish his words. He jumps so quickly after running on the tree trunk, and catches Dr. Cohen off guard.“So fast,” mumbles Dr. Cohen as he holds Mike’s right hand who has stabbed his chest right on his heart.Mike makes a turn and throws Dr. Cohen to the ground. As he lands, three of Dr. Cohen’s men immediately cover their boss.“Javier, we have to buy time to let Dr. Cohen recuperate,” issues Roberto.Both Javier and Marcus intend to attack, but Mike just stands there by releasing a su
Right now, all the dedemits and evil spirits begin to look mad like before. However, they no longer hunt Arifin, but only the people who have been marked as the target.Some flesh tendrils also crawl to the building, and then pull so many female employees from the second floor, including Naomi.“Dr. Cohen, help me!”Roberto frees her and the other female employees by cutting all of those tendrils. But all of them who have been bitten, are now in the similar situation as Arifin. Their wounds are leaking the corrupted aura, which makes all those demonic creatures so eager to kill them.“Dr. Cohen! What should we do now?” asks Javier half-shouting. “We can’t stay here forever.”It’s not that hard for Javier to deal with the dedemits. But the evil spirit, he can’t even touch them until now. But those creatures have been stealing his life force every time he tries to hit them.There are some balloons made of viscous membrane popping out on that throbbing flesh. It then explodes like pus of
The kid then turns silent, waiting for Arifin to reply to his offer. He even draws his ear closer, as if provoking Arifin to plead.Arifin knows that the Grace she loves has already died in the future. And she admits that he hasn’t been that close with this current Grace either.They are still like strangers so far, and he never thought of getting close together with her like in his previous life. Because he doesn’t want to put her in a life full of danger.But he can’t just ignore her after knowing she is still alive. More than Andini, right now saving Grace is much more important to him. At least, to pay back what Grace did for him in his previous life.“Please,” he mumbles with a low voice.“What? I can’t hear you,” says the kid with a kind of childish manner.“Please, help me!”The kid chuckles again with an amused face. “Sadly, I’m just an illusion. There’s no way I can harm them. But that kris can. All you need to do is stab the kris to the ground, and tell the kris what you tru
Arifin looks so confused, mixed with desperation which starts to resurface in his eyes. Meanwhile, Dr. Cohen is just observing from above, grinning devilishly as he controls Andini’s mind and body.Oddly enough, the other four beast-type awakened soldiers are trying to make the dedemits busy with them, and prevent them from getting close to Arifin. But Javier, as he finds an opening with Arifin is still occupied by Andini’s oddity, slams Arifin’s from the side with his shoulder.>That last collision has left some cracks on two of Arifin’s ribs. He coughs up blood, and his physical condition is also dropping to 14 %.Dr. Cohen flies lower and starts persuading Arifin once more. It’s clear he really has great interest in Arifin and doesn’t want to kill him. He doesn’t care that much that all the facilities that Defiance Atlantis built for him in this place are destroyed, as long as he gets Arifin to join him.“Why? Why Arifin, why? Yo
Four floodlights have also fallen due to the chaos created by these unstoppable demons. More than half of the guards have died too. Those four beast-type awakened warriors have no other options but to help protect the few guards who still survive, while still keeping track of Arifin’s action.As they are busy in that chaos, a few people come out of the building through the main hallway. It attracts Arifin’s attention, and finds Jack and Rizal taking the ladies from the same group as Grace. But there’s no Grace amongst them.“Jack, where’s Grace and Andini?” asks Arifin as he intends to approach them.But his left leg is held down by one dedemit which has lost its legs. He just destroys the dedemits head by kicking it once.“Watt is still inside trying to get them out,” shouts Jack from afar.“What takes him so long?”“Unlike these people, their rooms are locked,” answers Rizal.Their conversation catches Dr. Cohen’s attention. That’s when he learns Arifin’s real reason why he is so in