The vulture was really fast and silent. When he waved his wing and tried to cut through Gary’s neck, he thought he succeeded for sure.However, Gary ducked at the last second and raised his left hand and caught the culture by its foot.The vulture was shocked. He viciously shook its leg, trying to free itself, but Gary smacked its body to the ground to his left and right as if he was washing clothes. While still sitting on the boulder, he utterly destroyed the vulture, making its bones break and bleed from many places.Gary then flipped the heavy bird and caught it by the throat. By now, the vulture looked like it had a foot and half in his grave.“S-Spare me,” the vulture begged. He never thought that he, a level 386 vulture who was known to be the wisest in his group, would lose so helplessly in a battle against a human who looked very young and innocent.“If I spare you, would you help me and my group to get to the elixir at the center?” Gary asked.The vulture was startled. “Y-You
[It’s been eight hours. And they don’t have much progress.] Ai told Gary. [You should go and help them.]“I want to, but I also want to let them figure it out for themselves,” Gary replied while lying down on the boulder and staring at the stars. “The constellations here look very different. The energies in the atmosphere, too. They are vivid yet subtle. My core here has started to change in a matter of hours after coming here. Now, it feels thick yet soft… like the yolk of the egg.”[That’s good for you. Now it can give you more instant bursts of power, and your range of attacks will also have improved.] Ai said. [For example, you can use your energy to shoot just an ant’s antenna, or you can punch and destroy an entire mountain. Depending on what you want to do, your energy core will effortlessly supply you the energy necessary. And you also won’t feel as drained as in the past because the vitality of your core has vastly improved. It will go through even more changes as you cross
A few minutes earlier.The rat boss and his hundred-odd minions had begun to travel to the southern border of the forest.“Boss, how are we going to fight the opponents?” the weasel demonoid asked. “Do you want me to make a hole through the ground and sneak up from behind them?”“How about we wait until they sleep and then just swarm onto them at once?”“Yeah, then they’ll not be able to put up a fight at all. It will be over before they know it.”As his minions kept giving him lots of options, the rat boss chirped at them and bit on their shoulders, making them squeal and scream.“Don’t tell me what to do, you little shits,” the rat boss chattered his teeth. “It’s useless to plan ahead when there’s such a powerful opponent ahead of us.”“Do you really think that cat is powerful, Boss?” the hawk asked.“Many decades ago, I met one cat demonoid and almost died,” the rat boss explained. “I can never forget the horror I experienced that day. That cat humiliated me and made me do all kin
A couple of years earlier.In this bedroom, Gary just finished playing a game online, and he reached his number one ranking. “That’s what I’m talking about!”He received a gift of 20,000 dollars, so he was very happy right now.“It’ll take a few days to process, but once I get it, I’ll buy some things for my family, for Leah, and then keep the rest of it in the bank,” he thought. “I have to save as much as I can.”Just then, his sister Sasha barged into his room with two of her friends.“Hey, don’t you even know how to knock?” Gary hissed at her.“Bro, you have a girlfriend, so it’s not like you masturbate,” Sasha said. “Or do you?”Gary frowned. “You know what makes a person beautiful, Sasha? Self-control. If you can learn to control that mouth of yours, then you are going to be loved by everyone.”“Fine, fine, Bro,” Sasha began to check through his table drawers.“What do you want?” Gary impatiently asked. “Did you hide something here when I wasn’t around?”“No, I’m looking for some
Gary then unlocked his mobile and gave it to Sasha. She quickly left his room with his mobile and locked his door from outside.Gary shook his head, knowing that she wouldn’t return his mobile until morning. “This little… I hope she won’t send unnecessary messages to Leah.” He couldn’t help but send a text message to Leah on his laptop and warn her beforehand that his sister took his mobile.Leah sent a smiley face and said, “It’s okay. I’ll deal with her. She always asks for money at some point, so I will automatically know that it’s her even without you telling me.”“Uh, I also ask you for money sometimes,” Gary said.“NO, you don’t,” Leah quickly said. “I will have to push you so hard for you to take some of my gifts. But you never take money. How do you expect me to use your money later on if you don’t use my money now?”“Um, I don’t want to use your hard-earned money, Leah,” Gary said. “I will not know its value because I haven’t earned it.”“But I’m telling you myself that you
Sasha asked Leah for fifty dollars, but Leah sent her 100 dollars.Sasha thanked her while talking with her using Gary’s account. Sasha and her friends got a lot of thrill from chatting with Leah, but they had no idea that Leah knew who she was talking to.Leah also felt amused to talk with Sasha. “She’s very smart. If only she didn’t have that health issue, she would have long joined her job.”Sasha was placed in her campus interview a few months back, but Sasha couldn’t join the job because she got hit by a car, and her spine got hurt. She was not able to get off the bed for multiple weeks. But then she got better quickly. However, there was still some lingering pain in her spine, and the doctors advised her to not sit at the desktop for hours. Because she was also a computer science graduate like her brother, she would only get a desk job, so she didn’t join any company yet. But she was planning to join the same company in a few months. Because she was also a bright student, the co
Back to the present.Gary was meditating, and the memories from his past were flashing through his mind one by one. This was a regular process where he would need to go through their past memories so they would be able to better realize their rights and wrongs.This was an essential part of understanding one’s own character and nature, which would then help him in blooming his aura and taking it from physical to the spiritual realm.Normally, a man and a woman would get closer after marrying and after going through a lot of ups and downs together. However, Gary and Leah experienced enough ups and downs for nearly ten years together. And they knew each other very well. Romance played little to no role in the love they had for each other because they just loved each other’s company as they were each other’s best friend.Neither Gary nor Leah spent much time with others, as they had one another to spend lots of time together.They never expected to have this kind of a relationship, but i
The next morning.Leah woke up and couldn’t find the map. So she got anxious and looked around, only to find out that Gary was reading the map right now.She had no idea how he took it because she put the map in her leaf pillow. How did he take it out without making any sound? The leaves should have rustled, right? Or was she just sleeping too deeply because of all the physical exertion she had the previous day?She really wanted to ask him how he did it, so she went up to him.“Did you notice these changes?” Gary said, as if he knew she was coming toward him.“What changes?” she asked.“When their language is translated to our language,” Gary said, “the word height is being spelled as hieght.”“I is before H?”“Yeah.”“That’s strange.”“No. Don’t you remember the rule?” Gary told her. “When two vowels are next to each other, the sound of the first vowel should be pronounced, and not the second one. So, for the word height, one should pronounce ‘E’ and omit the sound of ‘O.’ However,