Flint looks at Chuck with wide eyes, "You really did level up! I can't believe it, I thought it would take years to level up again." he holds his head in amazement, he looks at Aku excited as she is also elated. Chuck starts to flex his muscles.
Aku walks up to the duo, "This is great! With this Aella can also level up." Aella gives a wry smile. They've been training her ever since they left the city but she barely ranked up.
Flint then realizes, "Guys, if that this is a mob monster. Doesn't it mean there're a bunch of them hanging around?" he starts looking around.
Aku nods her head, "If we can lure them out and kill them one at a time, we can level up safely."
Chuck looks at Aku with a raises a brow, "And if we get swarmed?" he keeps flexing
Aku shrugs, "They we run with our tails between our legs. A single mob monster was this strong, imagine the others. We got to use our heads, not out muscles." Chuck stops flexing.
Flint looks across the entire floor, "With our DETECTION skill, we can find isolated monsters and ambush them. We avoid groups, if they move in groups and survive. We all good with this plan?"
Chuck nods his head, "But, we need a scout. We can't move together, if we somehow end up facing more of them. We won't be able to retreat, we all know running is not my thing."
Aku raises her hand, "I'm the perfect candidate to scout ahead plus, I'm the fastest."
Flint looks at Aella, "Aella, I know this is hard for you but you have to bear with it."
Chuck puts his arms around Aella shoulders, "Don't worry Ael, we'll keep you safe." He gives his signature smiles as his hair flutters.
Aku is exasperated, "Urgh, again with that face." She starts running towards a random direction as the rest follow her slowly.
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The vision changes as things look like it's being watched from a screen. Inside a space that has square floors and starts in the dark sky, making it look very beautiful. This space is very large almost endless, thing streams of energy flow in this space moving from one box to another. The boxes are below the square floors and arranged to form a circle as the boxes continue outside the circle. This place is made with INFORMATION MAGIC, and just like the SSTM DC package. Anyone connected to it can join the group call.
Srex is at this place watching the quartet through a screen, "Wits over brawn, the surefire way to survive in Ergos Xenia."
A space behind him ripples then opens, a figure jumps through it and lands behind Srex. The figure is none other than Twenny. "Sup Srex?"
Srex turns to Twenny, "Ah, nice you could make it." He gestures for Twenny to come closer, she goes and looks at the screen before him.
Twenny looks at the dungeon, her hands fall on her head then she turned to Srex. "I said make a dungeon for them, but you made the difficulty beyond god level."
Srex waves his hand, "Chill out sis, if they work hard on a floor they can level up and meet the requirements to move to the next floor. Besides, your agent and party aren't stupid. They chose a sound strategy, this strategy is good since none of the monsters are alive so their code don't change."
Twenny looks at the screen with her hand on her chin, "Well, you're right on that. By the way, why did you call me?"
Srex looks at Twenny, "Actually, I called all our siblings. I figured it be nice to chat and find out how things are going back home."
Twenny freezes then she shrugs. Another ripple happens before them then opens, a figure jumps out. Twenny is surprised, " Wanwanto (112) what happened? You look exhausted."
Wanwanto, a Xeno with the appearance of an aged man in his 60s. He has grey hair and is dressed in a robe. "*Sighs*" Wanwanto walks towards Twenny speaking, "I got some cultivation world. The bastards can stay indoors for decades without moving! I mean come on! Don't they have a life. And that bastard of an agent, do you know how many times I came close to crushing her skull?! Always on and on about revenge this, revenge that, just how many people must she avenge?!"
Wanwanto slumps down as the floors ripple like water below him. He pops a cigarette and puffs a few smoke but no one can smell it. "Even mum who had a vendetta gave up and took up paintings. She saw how beautiful the world is and let go of the hatred she had."
Twenny gives a wry smile, "Ye~ah, mum went insane for a while before letting go. Maybe your agent just needs to start appreciating life."
Wanwanto grumbles, "That brat got all the more bold after I took her in as a disciple."
Srex is surprised, "What do you know about Cultivation?"
Wanwanto shrugs, "It's just like gathering EP into the cells but they gather it in their stomach. It has it's perks but I'm use to the normal level up way."
More ripples start to form in the place, then the ripples open as more people start appearing from it. People with all kinds of features, big, small, fat, slim, everything. Soon 115 people gather in this space, some look happy, others look like they're out for blood.
Twenny pulls on Srex's shirt, "I guess they've had it rough on their universes." Srex gives a wry smile.
A woman with a white tiger tail, claws, teeth and whiskers sits in the air. "Why did you call us here, Srex?" she looks ferocious yet in an expensive robe.
Srex smiles, "Thank you all for coming, it seems Ivan and Diadelios are the only ones remaining."
A boy with fiery hair raises his hand, he's upside down floating. "Actually, those two are busy." This surprised everyone, "Mum, Kitt and EDF went out to wipe out the remaining invaders but mum got badly injured."
"WHAT?!" shocked faces appear on all of them. A voice comes from a person, "That's not possible, she's the first Calamity and the strongest in the mortal realm. The only one capable of hurting her is The Fallen and she condemned it. What could actually hurt her so bad?"
The boy raises his head looking at the source of the voice, "That's the thing about the invaders, their technological know how is pretty advanced. They created a Calamity of their own."
Wanwanto stands up, "That's not possible, the entire energy on earth won't be enough to support the birth of a Calamity."
The boy shrugs, "They actually got parts of Calamities from rift and researched to make an egg. They incubated the egg but failed to hatch and train it. Mum came across their research facility and blew it up but the egg had DNA from Old Man Lecu, the Cthulhu and others. They made the egg immortal."
The boy creates a screen showing the fight, it's a 3 headed dragon with 4 limbs and 1 giant wing on its back. "Normally, mum can even face multiple king Calamities and win. But the invaders had EP disrupters around the sector, so mum's EP was blocked and she had to rely on her physical strength to face the monster and thousands of alien space ships."
The screen changes, "Though when EDF got there, they destroyed the EP disruptors and mum killed it in 1 hit." The screen shows a bright golden light bursting from a giant humanoid figure burning the dragon to dust.
Vorty(40), a Xeno like a fox woman. "So, where's mum now?"
The screen changes, to a place unlike earth with giant monsters surrounding a human girl as the girl is covered in wounds. A phoenix flies to the girl as it transforms into a smaller version of the girl, the phoenix girl moves the hair on the face girl's face aside and speaks but no audio is heard.
A space ripples as all the Xenos look in that direction.