Volume 2 Chapter 1
The First Destination Part 1Nothing makes sense, this is not making any sense, four men were surrounding me, one in front of me, one behind me, and two on each side, with all of them directing their swords toward me, actually toward my head, between my head and the swords, only a few inches, with the slightest movement from them, and it will penetrate my skin.That is not it, the thing that do not make any sense are their speed, the speed at which they approached me, and the fact that they raised their weapon so slowly. I was shocked at the beginning. In fact, I was scared, but this I could dodge with ease. So I did bend down at the same time. lifting my swords up and parrying the one facing me with my right hand and the one behind me with my left hand. At the same time, to clear a space for me, I kicked the one on my right side with my right leg, while supporting myself with his body and using him as a foothold, and I turned in the air, reaching the other one on my left side's head and kicking his head with my knee. Both of us fell down at the same time.When I stood back, two were in the ground. "Two down, two are remaining," I said aloud. The two swordsmen didn't hesitate to attack me with their swords one more time. "Are you guys joking or acting some slow-motion video scene?" I couldn't hold myself back from saying that to them because of how slow their actions were in my eyes.With the hilt of my sword, I hit the first one on the wrist, and without waiting to see what happened, I hit him again on top of his head. Then I took a step backward to see what happened, and to my surprise, the sword fell to the ground at the same time as the man also fell to the ground, the other, for an unknown reason, fell on top of the other, while his sword was still facing towards me. My surprise didn't last long because while I was looking at two men on the ground, I heard a click followed by a gunshot coming from behind me.With an involuntary reflex, I turned and put the sword in front of my face in a defensive way, and immediately I heard a CLING, the sound of a metal hitting another metal. "Huh, was that really a bullet?" I couldn't resist saying that aloud. A second bullet hit my sword for a second time at the same place, and since I didn't move my hand or any other part of my body, in fact, it was less than a second between the two bullets, I couldn't help but look at my sword to see if there was any dent, and there wasn't even a scratch on it, which really increased my confusion even more than before, and the only words that came out of me were "What the hell is going on?".Let me introduce myself first of all. My name is Aden, and I am an alien from Earth in another alien world. I am sure you are as confused as I am now, and wondering what is going on and what I am talking about, so at least to ease your confusion, let me explain to you from the beginning. I believe you are aware so far that I woke up in this world without any memories, and I was lucky to end up in the capital city of Angariya with the help of their head of security, they provided me with identification, money, and a vehicle. The reason that I left was to figure out why I was in this world and who was behind it, and also to gather information from the nearby countries to find out if there was another one like me out there, and there was another feeling bushing me to go and search for someone or something.To make a long story short, at the beginning of my journey, my vehicle stopped, and I found myself deep in a forest, where I encountered two ladies. Shortly after that, we came across some people shooting at each other, that is when and where the most bizarre and strangest thing happened. For you to understand, I have to explain and tell you the details as they happened.In the forest I met two young ladies suppurate non of them knew where are we just like me, then we heard a gunshot, thinking that we may find some answers to where are we, I decided to follow the gunshot and see who is there, and the ladies agreed and followed me, as soon as we reached the location of the gunshots, we encountered a young man with a rifle hiding behind a huge rock, and on the ground there were sitting a woman with two children, the young man obviously was shooting at someone else so not knowing if we are an enemy or someone else, he shot towards us what appeared to be a warning shot, when we raised our hands indicating to him that we are not an enemy, he focused in front of him and on the main people who he was shooting at to begin with, ignoring us completely.And from another side, there was also another young girl, approximately my age, who walked to the same location at the same time as us, maybe a few seconds behind us. She was alone; the only thing that caught my eye was the backpack she was carrying, which was the exact same as the one we were carrying. It didn't take for a genius to figure out that she was in the same boat as we were, which is why I didn't give her much thought, telling myself that I could question her later, but right now what I needed was to figure out what was going on here, and to avoid getting shot for the second timeNothing makes sense, this is not making any sense, four men were surrounding me, one in front of me, one behind me, and two on each side, with all of them directing their swords toward me, actually toward my head, between my head and the swords, only a few inches, with the slightest movement from them, and it will penetrate my skin.That is not it, the thing that do not make any sense are their speed, the speed at which they approached me, and the fact that they raised their weapon so slowly. I was shocked at the beginning. In fact, I was scared, but this I could dodge with ease. So I did bend down at the same time. lifting my swords up and parrying the one facing me with my right hand and the one behind me with my left hand. At the same time, to clear a space for me, I kicked the one on my right side with my right leg, while supporting myself with his body and using him as a foothold, and I turned in the air, reaching the other one on my left side's head and kicking his head with my knee. Both of us fell down at the same time.When I stood back, two were in the ground. "Two down, two are remaining," I said aloud. The two swordsmen didn't hesitate to attack me with their swords one more time. "Are you guys joking or acting some slow-motion video scene?" I couldn't hold myself back from saying that to them because of how slow their actions were in my eyes.With the hilt of my sword, I hit the first one on the wrist, and without waiting to see what happened, I hit him again on top of his head. Then I took a step backward to see what happened, and to my surprise, the sword fell to the ground at the same time as the man also fell to the ground, the other, for an unknown reason, fell on top of the other, while his sword was still facing towards me. My surprise didn't last long because while I was looking at two men on the ground, I heard a click followed by a gunshot coming from behind me.With an involuntary reflex, I turned and put the sword in front of my face in a defensive way, and immediately I heard a CLING, the sound of a metal hitting another metal. "Huh, was that really a bullet?" I couldn't resist saying that aloud. A second bullet hit my sword for a second time at the same place, and since I didn't move my hand or any other part of my body, in fact, it was less than a second between the two bullets, I couldn't help but look at my sword to see if there was any dent, and there wasn't even a scratch on it, which really increased my confusion even more than before, and the only words that came out of me were "What the hell is going on?".Let me introduce myself first of all. My name is Aden, and I am an alien from Earth in another alien world. I am sure you are as confused as I am now, and wondering what is going on and what I am talking about, so at least to ease your confusion, let me explain to you from the beginning. I believe you are aware so far that I woke up in this world without any memories, and I was lucky to end up in the capital city of Angariya with the help of their head of security, they provided me with identification, money, and a vehicle. The reason that I left was to figure out why I was in this world and who was behind it, and also to gather information from the nearby countries to find out if there was another one like me out there, and there was another feeling bushing me to go and search for someone or something.To make a long story short, at the beginning of my journey, my vehicle stopped, and I found myself deep in a forest, where I encountered two ladies. Shortly after that, we came across some people shooting at each other, that is when and where the most bizarre and strangest thing happened. For you to understand, I have to explain and tell you the details as they happened.In the forest I met two young ladies suppurate non of them knew where are we just like me, then we heard a gunshot, thinking that we may find some answers to where are we, I decided to follow the gunshot and see who is there, and the ladies agreed and followed me, as soon as we reached the location of the gunshots, we encountered a young man with a rifle hiding behind a huge rock, and on the ground there were sitting a woman with two children, the young man obviously was shooting at someone else so not knowing if we are an enemy or someone else, he shot towards us what appeared to be a warning shot, when we raised our hands indicating to him that we are not an enemy, he focused in front of him and on the main people who he was shooting at to begin with, ignoring us completely.And from another side, there was also another young girl, approximately my age, who walked to the same location at the same time as us, maybe a few seconds behind us. She was alone; the only thing that caught my eye was the backpack she was carrying, which was the exact same as the one we were carrying. It didn't take for a genius to figure out that she was in the same boat as we were, which is why I didn't give her much thought, telling myself that I could question her later, but right now what I needed was to figure out what was going on here, and to avoid getting shot for the second time.Chapter 2The First Destination Part 2I didn't hesitate to approach the woman holding the two crying children, wishing if I had some candy on me so I could give it to the children to stop their craving. Actually, I had some sweets in my bag, but I left it in the vehicle; at least, I would have taken my bag if I knew that I would be lost in a forest. At that moment, I remembered that I was carrying a backpack that I hadn't checked most of its content in so far, but there was a bottle of water. I took the water out and approached the woman, extending the bottle to her. The woman didn't hesitate either and took water from me without saying anything, just nodding with her head, sipping a few mouthfuls, and then giving it to the children one by one. The young boy was glancing at us, still focused on the rifle and binoculars, ready to shoot anything that moved in front of him. When they had enough water, the woman passed the water bottle to me and said, "Thanks." I took it and tried to pa
At The First Destination Chapter 1 Part 3Strangely, Amran came back to where we were along with the new girl, and she was still holding the two short swords but now with both of them in one hand. I took that as a chance and introduced myself, "Hello, my name is Aden." Then I pointed at the girls behind me and said, "Ladies, introduce yourselves, please." I was only able to introduce two of them since we claimed the third girl was with us and I don't know her, I wasn't able to introduce just the two of them and leave the third. I myself was curious to know the new girl's name, but about her story, I left that for a later time, since the situation was not favorable at the moment.After the two girls introduced themselves, the third one also did the same and said, "Hello, my name is Adline." Then we looked at the boy, and I don't know why, but he sighed before he answered and said, "Nice meeting you all, my name is Luke, this is my sister-in-law." He paused for a second and continued wi
I was listening to what Ajbadan was telling us and was wondering at the same time how I reached the same conclusion even before he reported to us, how was my estimate that correct with having all the facts, strange as they may be, that was happening at the moment, so I had to naturally complete his last sentence for him, saying "In that case the option for us is to wait it out, until everything becomes clear, it's not in our best interest to intervene in a situation we don't know anything about it." When I finished saying that, I noticed that everyone was looking at me with a surprise on their faces.Even I was surprised at how easily and naturally I said what I said, I didn't even think about what I was saying, it just came to mind and I said it without thinking about it at all. Everyone kept looking at me for a few seconds, then Ajbadan was the first one to recover from the surprise and say, "That was exactly what I was about to suggest; good work, Amran." I didn't have anything to
The Chosen One's Part 1 Chapter 5This time it was not as surprising as the first time, and there was no change in the information; it was the same as the first time, except now he was able to read it slowly and try to understand the meaning of what he saw in front of him. Now, though the last line was different, the information was as follows:Nam: Julian Age: 14Race: HumanRank: apprentice Status: healthySkills: Detection - ForesightGifts: Sight-Night VisionsGrade: 1 Phase: 1Points: 1Inventory: (four items)Remarks: Temp Mission: Survive Duration: 24 hours and 54 minutes.Reward: 200 credits.That means since he came to this forest, it's been only six minutes only, though it looked like more than half an hour for him. Thinking to himself, he said, "At least some time has passed, and all I am required to do is survive." The question is, will he be able to do just that? It's not just, "Just survive." How is it that simple? He knew from
Chapter 6The Chosen Ones Part 2Something is really wrong here, Julian wondered. Reading the list a few times, he noticed one other thing: the time really didn't decrease as he thought the first time but increased. Although it was something he didn't notice the first time and was not sure if the last time he saw it was 23 hours or 24 hours, but it was obvious that it had increased now instead of decreasing.Anyway, that is a different issue that he can solve at the moment; the urgent thing is to navigate the situation that he is facing now. The question is who to go straight to, wherever the destination that he supposedly reached was, and there is a fight going on in front of him, it is not like he can say, "Excuse me, can you please stop fighting until I pass?" He had no prior experience in situations like this or any other situations to being with.Standing in his place, he first looked at the man, who was standing alone and watching the fight like him. The man noticed when he appr
Author's Note"" Dear readers, greetings first of all, and second, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience with me. I appreciate taking from your precious time to read my book, It's for your sake that I continue to write. Seeing the number of readers increase makes me really happy and encourages me to continue writing.My wish is, as usual, that you don't hesitate to comment and review. I don't want only good words; I strive to improve myself and my writing skills, and your constructive criticism and feedback, I believe, will make me better, so please add this book to your library and feed me back with your suggestions.Chapter 7The Chosen Ones Part 3 The information that appeared in front of him was something that he could not comprehend it at all. Being ignorant of life and what is going on around him didn't mean that he couldn't recognize that it was an impossible situation that he is facing at the moment. Yes, impossible. How could he encounter a situ
Chapter 8The Chosen Ones Part 4So he repeated his question once more, although I think maybe it was more than once: "Do you have any weapons?" What kind of question is that? Without even thinking much about it, without me doing it intentionally, I nodded with my head and said, "Yes, I do have some weapons." Suddenly, the screen popped in front of me again, and this time, the inventory was unlocked without me doing anything.- Unlocked inventory- Weapons available: 3 sets1. Two long swords, grade A 2. Two long daggers, grade A3. Two laser guns, one short-range and one long range.Tap into the desired weapon; it will materialize and be ready for your use.Was it natural for it to happen that way? I have no idea, really. When I saw the two other girls coming towards us, Amran was the other new young girl, and both of them had weapons in their hands. I was wondering who this young girl was, but before I asked anything, Aden spoke and asked us to introduce ourselves. Apparently, he c
Chapter 9The Chosen Ones Part 5What in the world is going on here? It seems like I am a moving arsenal; why would they do that to me? I was surprised by the additional information that appeared on the screen in front of me, so this clearly means that there will be a lot of fights like these in the future since all these weapons are in my possession, and I have to use them also, but how will I be able to do that? I don't have any fighting or weapon training; weren't they supposed to teach and train me first before throwing me into a situation I have knowledge about?. While I was thinking about these things, which were irrelevant to the situation that we were facing, I heard the boy with the rifle introduce himself to the woman and the kids. Even though I was not sure how or exactly when that happened, it reached me that instant. I had a feeling that something was wrong with the way everything was happening. I don't know how to explain it, but what I was feeling was like I was in two
Chapter 39Beginning of the Invasion Part 2B Rohonda appeared to be listening to a report from some type of recorded device when the countdown started; although her attention was directed to what she was listening to, she didn’t miss the quietness of the place with hundreds of people being silent at once. She put the device that she was listening to and collected another one from her desk drawer and started recording a message: “This recording is from Section One; the time is 17.00 hours, and today is the first day that officially Project Zero One started finally. I hope we have enough time to implement all the security measures that we have been working on." Without a second thought, she pressed the send button and returned the device to the same drawer. With a sigh, she rested her back on the chair she was sitting in and said, “I wonder if this was all a perdition or planned, I don’t know what they are thinking, fighting an alien invasion with abducted aliens.” a
Chapter 38Beginning of the Invasion Part 2A"Captain Birman, I would like to mobilize the National Guard to help with the city security if you don't mind." "And Ayuma, Please call the head of the council, Mr. Enigma, and tell him to meet me here as soon as possible." At that time she heard a sound similar to thunder, or maybe it was thunder, but usably the lightning and thunder come for the sky with a storm or rain but not in a confide or an open space near the ground; the circle was actually above the ground and was almost two and a half meters above ground. From this distance, nobody was able to guess the size of it, but since it was almost three kilometers outside of the city and was visible that much from that distance, it was obvious that it was huge; everyone was able to see it was palpitating like a heart from that distance. The movement of the muddy cloud inside the circle was so ominous that everyone who was still standing there felt the chill in their bones, and whoever di
Chapter 37Beginning of the Invasion Part 1BEmika’s point of viewThis was the worst nightmare I have been seeing, and I really wished it was just a nightmare, but it was not; it was a reality, a fact in front of my eyes. The thing I was referring to as a portal was forming in the same location I have been seeing it in my dreams, or, to say it correctly, my nightmares. And the reason I am referring to it as a portal is because I knew it was, because I saw it with my own closed eyes at that time, the monsters coming out of it, which indicates that it was a portal of some kind. I have been afraid my dreams would come true, and I didn’t wish for it, but somehow I had the feeling that whatever I saw would happen, but I hoped it would be in a different day and time; a time when I was better prepared for it and was able to take some kind of countermeasure for it.I have no idea what kind of countermeasure I could have been able to take. But anything is better than being taken by surprise
Chapter 38Beginning of the Invasion Part 2A"Captain Birman, I would like to mobilize the National Guard to help with the city security if you don't mind." "And Ayuma, Please call the head of the council, Mr. Enigma, and tell him to meet me here as soon as possible." At that time she heard a sound similar to thunder, or maybe it was thunder, but usably the lightning and thunder come for the sky with a storm or rain but not in a confide or an open space near the ground; the circle was actually above the ground and was almost two and a half meters above ground. From this distance, nobody was able to guess the size of it, but since it was almost three kilometers outside of the city and was visible that much from that distance, it was obvious that it was huge; everyone was able to see it was palpitating like a heart from that distance. The movement of the muddy cloud inside the circle was so ominous that everyone who was still standing there felt the chill in their bones, and whoever di
Chapter 36Beginning of the Invasion Part 1AThe girls had a large tent and they were struggling with it, Since Ajbadan said he will help them, he decided to go to the boy Still, he was wondering why didn’t dismantle his tent? Or at least why? if he is not doing anything, why did he help the girls? Aren’t they his companions? At least they have been together more the rest of them, Regardless of their meeting in the forest, as they said, Murad shook his head like he was dropping the questions that filled it and went to the boy. Aden stood up when he saw Murad approaching him and smiled while saying, “It’s embarrassing to say that, seeing you came to help me, but I am actually leaving the tent here that way I didn’t dismantle it.” Murad was not expecting to hear that at all While the surprise was showing on his face, he asked, “Can I ask you why?” Aden didn’t expect to be asked that question either, so he hesitated for a second and said while scratching his head with a small laugh, ”ha
Chapter 35The First EncounterPart 6BGoosebumps ran down his spine when he saw what he saw when he used the skill. He was staring at a black portal that was enormous, over four meters tall and ten meters wide, with a black square shape instead of the typical gateway portals seen on this planet. It was both smokey and liquid-like at the same time, and he was unable to determine what material it was composed of. It was moving like a live entity with a pulsating heart, but it was not changing shape. In a matter of seconds, it gained shape and materialized in front of him at the location the youngster had indicated. He felt a terrible sensation throughout his body. This is what the young man was talking about. He told himself, "So it's all true then," confirming the first thing the boys had mentioned. "The time was the next thing he confirmed, and it was true too." He had the chance to glance at the clock now that it was getting to be the time of sunset, but he didn't think of it. He fe
Chapter 34The First EncounterPart 6A“If you don’t believe me, use your Predict skill, and you will see it.” That was it. I had to let him go and step back a couple steps. He knows two of my skills not just one but two. That is ridiculous. I have been shocked. In a manner I never had before, if it were anybody else in front of me telling me that, the first reaction that would accrue to me would have been to cut his head immediately, without even getting the opportunity to get questioned about where he got the information. But fortunately or unfortunately, the one who said that was a child, although the expression on my face changed and my hand was on the gun and the sword in my waist, a complete involuntary reaction from my side.It took me nearly a minute to gather myself and regain my composure. During this time, I came to the realization that someone else must have informed him about my skills. Therefore, I felt compelled to find out who that person was. At that moment, the only
Chapter 33The First EncounterPart 5B“We need to move from here; the monsters are coming; he is coming, he is coming; and we are all going to be dead." That was the only word that came out of his mouth, and then all he did was stare at the man standing beside him, although his body was shaking, like somebody who is scared or feeling cold, but his eyes were totally blank, like a blind guy who is just looking but not seeing anything. From the blank way he was looking at him, the emperor noticed that the boy was looking at something else, and most probably he also got, “The lost art.” As one of the few humans on this planet who has knowledge of “the lost art” and has learned a few of its skills, he can tell that this boy has it. This is his first encounter with not one but two unexpected individuals in an expected situation with unexpected knowledge. While Juian was talking to the emperor, the skill foresight was activated, and he was not actually looking at or talking to the emperor,
Chapter 32Intermission Jack’s side story Part 1Anther's note:This is Jack’s story recap as I told it in the first volume, but I will now add the missing parts that were not known to anyone in the first volume or the second volume until now, or what was his connection to the storey line? So far, all we knew in the first volume was that he was looking for his wife, and that was all he was looking for. Where was he imprisoned? What for? There were a lot of questions that no one asked and nobody answered, and no one will unless someone dares ask the correct question.Also, I edited the previous chapter, its not just a copy of the same chapter of the first volume to go along with the current retelling of the story without changing much from the original story as a recap because of the importance of the story line. I remember one reader asking me if I was just filling in the characters for the sake of my book, and he was specifically talking about Jack :) I hope now he got the answer.