*BANG!*
The earth bursted as the shield collided with the ground. The impact had made a two meters deep crater with a width of four meters. Coughing from the dust in the air, Luke swiftly flicked both of his wrists and took out his handguns.
Moving his gaze and raising his weapon to where the old man was, Luke readied himself for another attack as he guided his magic power to the tip of his tongue.
Watching his vigilant posture from a far away distance in the air, the old man snorted and said with a cold voice, "⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⍙⍜⎍⌰⎅ ☌⟟⎐⟒ ⊬⍜⎍ ⏃ ⌰⟒⌇⌇⍜⋏ ⏁⍜ ⋏⍜⏁ ⍙⏃⋏⎅⟒⍀ ⏃⍀⍜⎍⋏⎅ ⟟⋏ ⍜⎍⍀ ⊑⎍⋏⏁⟟⋏☌ ⎎⟟⟒⌰⎅, ⏚⍀⏃⏁. (This would give you a lesson to not wander around in our hunting field, brat.)"
Although the old man said that in a soft voice, his voice boomed in the air and as if talking right beside Luke's ears. It was almost like an intercom communicator with unknown languages.
Flicking his sleeves, the old man turned his body and took a step forward. Each of his steps had covered five miles. With just a blink of an eye, he had disappeared completely from the area.
Sighing out loud as he saw his unknown assailant had already gone, Luke shook his head and stored his handguns back. Looking at his surroundings, he muttered, "Where am I?"
Opening his holographic panel, he said, "Scan the place and activate my location. Tell me where am I."
"[Switching on the location mode.. Scanning the surroundings and matching it with the world's map… The match wasn't found.]"
Furrowing his eyebrows, Luke became a little worried as he thought this situation was kind of similar to what he had experienced, "Match it again."
"[Matching… The match wasn't found. There's no data of this place in the map.]"
"Oh boy.." feeling like his panic attack was about to kick in, Luke had the urge to facepalm as he mumbled to himself, "Did I... Just crossed another world? Again?"
Shaking his head once more, he ceased his antics and contemplated, 'No, think logically. There must be a scientific explanation for this. Perhaps the system had malfunction in its program. That's why it couldn't find where I am.'
Nodding to himself, he convinced himself that it must be like that and decided to somewhere that led him to the edge of the forest.
'First, let's try to get out of this forest. And hopefully, I won't meet with another weirdo... '
As his train of thought arrived at that topic, his eyebrows became frowned unconsciously as he thought with doubt.
'I never heard that kind of language that the old man said. Not in any memories inside my head or all the time when I had become Luke… let's try to ask the system.'
Waving his hand in the air, Luke asked, "System, did you heard what that old main said before?"
"[Yes.]"
"Can you try to track down what language he talked with?" continued Luke.
"[Searching for the language… The language wasn't found.]"
"Oh boy…"
Almost wanting to groan as his anxiety was about to kick in again, he chose to deny what the system said and think it was just his system that had been broken. Thinking that way, Luke sighed out loud and then started to look at the sky.
'Let's see.. The sun is in that way. Is it already noon or morning now? Last time before I went to that void thing, it was still evening…'
Decided to walk in the direction of the sun, Luke proceeded as he took out one of his pistols in the ready, just in case of an ambush.
After thirty minutes of walking, Luke found the edge of the forest with a grassland beyond it. Something resembling a crude road was in the middle of that grassland. Thought that he had to just follow where the road went, Luke walked to the road while humming along the way to alleviate his boredom.
Another twenty minutes had passed and shortly, on a far away distance, there's row of carriage running on the road to the opposite direction where he headed to.
The stomps of dozens hooves along with the carriage's wheels leave clouds of dust on their path. With enough time, the carriages would bump into Luke. But they seem to not have any intention to slow down.
"⋔⍜⎐⟒ ⍜⎍⏁ ⍜⎎ ⏁⊑⟒ ⍙⏃⊬! (Move out of the way!)"
Shouted one of the drivers that was in the forefront of the group. Shaking his head, Luke didn't understand any single words the man said, but it didn't take him any second to guess that the man must have wanted him to step out from his path.
And so he did.
Walking to the grassland area and leaving the road, Luke let out enough space for the rows of carriages to pass him by without any trouble. Although he had this idea to hitch for a ride, but watching how in hurry they were, Luke dismissed the thought and just let them pass him by.
Moving his gaze to the end of the rows of carriages, he found out that there were more than fifty men's riding horses and chasing them. Each of them was armed with a blade, spear, and so on. All of them wore black clothes and garments, along with masked cloth to cover their mouths, with some even wore a wooden mask.
Although he saw some people that held cold weapons too right beside the carriages, which he presumed to be their bodyguards, they had been outnumbered from 1 to 5.
Observing that the group of carriages didn't need his help from their distance becoming wider and wider from their pursuer, Luke chose to not have anything to do with them and let them be.
But as luck would have it, one of the arrows that their pursuers shot had struck into one of the carriages behind the group. The arrow hit deep on the right side of one of their horses. The horse became surprised from the sudden pain and immediately pushed another horse beside it, along with its leg stepped on the wrong side and made its companion trip over.
Soon, Luke saw the carriage was flying from the road and headed towards his direction. Watching the familiar and cliche scene at the same time, Luke muttered unconsciously.
"Aw hell Nah."
"ᛋᛏᚱᛖᚾᚷᛏᚺᛖᚾ… (Strengthen... )"Quickly muttered a spell right away, a flash of magic power shone for a brief moment as Luke stretched out his hands to welcome the incoming carriage.
As the sword was about to slice the girl's arms, a gunshot rang in the air. Soon, the raider had his head burst with a bullet that penetrated right until the other side of his head. In the distance of fifty meters away, Luke walked over with some blood on his clothes and shouldered something big that wrapped with black cloth. His clothes were still that of the soldier's uniform, before they wore their mech armor.
"And here will be your workplace, boy!"Opening the door of a building that was right beside one of the town's main streets, the old man moved his gaze at Luke and said, "It's been a while since we had left this shop because of some urgent matters. So it looks quite dirty, but it's definitely a good place."
"Xu Xuoguang! Come out right now!" One of the three men started to take one of the vases nearby and smashed it to the floor. With an intimidating voice, he continued to shout, "If you don't come out, I'll burn this place to the ground!""I'm here, you punk!" Moving down from the staircase, Old man Xu, Xu Qingli, and Luke confront the three intruders. Side glance at Luke, old man Xu smirked confidently and flung his sleeve and spoke with an irritated voice, "What do you want from us? Your presence is not welcomed. Leave!" "You want to kick us out?" the shortest men of the group suddenly laughed as he said, "Sure. After you pay the protection fee! As well as those last year's protection fees as well! You dare to go without even giving us some farewell gifts eh?" "Of course, you have to personally apologize to us too for chasing you to this place. Our boss would love to hear your apologies personally by your daughter. We would even take her to get some tea." another interjected, while
"No!"Shouting out loud, Luke woke up with cold sweat dripped down from his forehead as he jerked his body. Realizing that his vision was an unfamiliar environment, he tried to stabilize himself and think clearly. "I.. I think the poison price has changed into forty gold coins now." replied Luke with gritted teeth.'Ha! Not in a Million chances I'll get ripped off because some sexy woman came to me and tried to rob me!' said Luke to himself inside as he sighed. Once, when he had yet become Luke and was living on his home planet, earth, there was a particular assassin game that was so famous. Although he wasn't a gamer or anything of that sort he still tried the game and quite liked it."Now.. I'm just trying to imitate that game character.."Sighing, Luke The Saga of the Unbroken 19. Assassin game
The Saga of the Unbroken 20. Stalk and ambush
*Boom! Clang! Boom!*Booming noises sounded right atop of the roof of some buildings. Any passerby that was walking near the building on the street would notice certain two persons that were battling on the roofs.<
"Heh, there he goes." Smiling widely at the falling Jameson, a burly man and more than a dozen men in suits snickered in derision. Then, those men shifted their attention to the beauty whose expression was full of horror as she watched the one she loved fell to his death. As she was subconsciously about to rise up and rush to the edge of the rooftop, a strong hand grabbed her hair and another hand slapped her right cheek. Toppling her back to the floor while the burly man spat, "Who said you could move without permission?" Without a second thought, he walked to the woman and continued where they left off. Amidst the struggle of the woman and
Two days later, somewhere within the territory of the Empire, a man in a casual T-shirt and jeans was walking through the sidewalk as his eyes darted around. His figure was perfectly blended into the crowd, as a strange invisible force enveloping him made it harder to be spotted and sought of amidst the busy streets. It made him no different than a ghost. Even the lenses of the camera near the traffic signs couldn't locate his face and figure. At the same time, no one around him seemed to be aware of his presence. Yet, their body subconsciously moved to the side to give a way for him. The red sporty hat that covered his hair and the surgeon mask he put on gave him the appearance of a shady person. However, the man didn't think that his disguise would attract much attention if the force around him disappeared. All he t
At last, everything finally died down and back to the silence, where not even the quietest noise of some engine or footsteps of any lifeforms. Except for Luke's breathing and the sound of the gigantic star behind him, everything was silent.Or rather, everything was gone. All that he could see was the never ending horizon of countless stars. The spaceships, the abominations, and all of the immortals were killed by a few spells from him."I did it…"His voice traveled only to the square barrier enveloping his figure that contained breathable air for him and withstanding the harshness of outer space. However, even without a barrier, Luke was sure that outer space wouldn't be a threat to him anymore. Not when he was in this state.&n
Fear, an emotion that had been lost within the passage of time. Ever since the day he was crowned as the leader of the entire higher realm, he discarded the remaining weak part of him as far away as he could. Locking it deep in his consciousness to the point he thought he wouldn't feel those emotions for the rest of his long life.But he was wrong. In this moment, there was nothing more than the word fear to describe the horrible and hair raising feelings. It was almost borderline awe when he gave a second look to the event before him. Which was something he wouldn't dare to dream of in his wildest imagination.Rather, It was something akin to nightmare and preposterous fantasy rather than imagination.But when that searing heat touched his indestruct
"Guahkk!"A long, deep gash appeared on Dong Zhuo's chest, adding to the countless injuries he already received. Although the creature wasn't fully unscathed either, the situation was bleak no matter how he saw it.Instead of following for another attack, the creature halted his movements and leisurely watched the exhausted and wounded group before him. None of them seems to be able to hang on that long and Dong Zhuo who had been clashing against the creature all this time was panting heavily as well.The creature crossed his arms and waited. Blatantly showed a superior attitude to the immortals. But after all of the battle and even wrecking most of the area, they couldn't give the creature any fatal blows except for some scratches. It was clear that day th
'But first…'Turning his head, the remaining mobs were approaching him but they slowly decreased their pace after a certain distance. Growled threateningly yet didn't dare to take another step.'They were afraid of getting burned.'Even Luke realized that his spells barely managed to hold on under the heat. And yet, the heat was steadily rising up with time. If he took this too long, he would miss his chance.Didn't wanting to waste anymore time, he flew to the group of mobs and readied his handguns. Although he could fight using Rein's fight, manipulating the space around him, Luke prepared to use this approach. For this was the most comfortable way for him.
'Another powerful abomination? No… This pressure, that thing is on another level.'Staring at the floating being high above, Luke the rest felt cold sweats formed on their foreheads. Even Hong Ming's energy based body was shivering in fright by itself. The notifications inside his mind were ringing incessantly. Telling him to run away as he encountered a creature that would kill him easily."Another weird creature that tried to act big."Among everyone present, Dong Zhou, one of the immortals and the strongest of them, stood up from his position, even though his legs were shaking quite a bit. His piercing gaze glared at the creature. Murderous intent seeping away from his figure and permeating the air. To the point that one could feel the bone chilli
Suddenly, at the very peak tower among the hundred towers in the abomination's headquarters, a creature with four arms and two legs, with a long, and strong tail was narrowing its only eye in surprise.Its skin was painted with the image of outer space, with dots of white stars twinkling within and some sort of purple and blue currents were traversing that space. Its head was shaped like a spike, but it had no hairs. Excluding the lack of nose and mouth, the creature possessed a pair of long humanoid ears.'Someone is entering the Hoarding Room?'Tilting his head to the side, the creature was sure no abominations would dare to carelessly enter that place. Not only was there the trap that laid for any invaders to be sent to the disposal chamber and burnt to
Half an hour later after he went through the ventilation, Luke still couldn't see the end of it. In addition to the twisting ways that are no different than a giant maze to him, Luke wouldn't be that confident anymore if not because of the system that helps him."[One kilometers ahead, turn to the right side. There would be 67% chance it would lead to the center area of the headquarters.]"To further aid him, Luke used his recreation school magic to create small androids that act as the eyes for the system. They were as big as a fly and their numbers were more than a hundred. However, even though they were supposed to only cost a drop of magic power to Luke, his size also restricted the magic power reserve within him as well.Along the way, he learned that there