Volume - 2 // Chapter - 45
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[The Fourth part of Sam Smeagel and Pista Rambutan's unknown and unvalidated Misadventures]
Strange and eerie noises, scattering everywhere through the ears of Pista Rambutan.
Whereas He was left unconscious after he lost the fight against the unknown Demi-beings.
"Where... am... I?"
The first thing he noticed, as he finally wakes up, regaining his senses and wondering where he might end up to.
As the eyes of a confused, frustrated Adventurer. He was surprised by the unknown environment and surroundings he just held in.
"What, kind of house is this?..." The second one he wondered on his head.
A house-made up of wood, like a hut building in a province. A cold, chilly wind surging through the wooden walls that made the heat would turn into nothing. And the ambiance of the place was very pleasant to the eyes of a noble.
It seems ordinary and simple at first, but the elegance and how the things arranging were exquisite and formal.
Causing Pista to wonder if he was already in a place called 'Heaven'.
"Actually... You're not... yet...." A strange being surprisingly murmuring inside Pista's mind.
Pista went startled all of a sudden, as he couldn't believe the voice started to rumbling on his head.
Knowing the fact that he was alone and isolate in a room, seeing only things that had no signs of having lived in his very naked eye.
Then, the strange voice simply responded once again.
This time, it started to appear. Trying not to cause a commotion against the flustered and trembling Pista Rambutan.
"Fear not, I am no enemy to you... I just want to come here to check your wounds..." She appeared diffidently, asking for the Adventurer's condition.
Pista on the other hand, seemingly went stunned rather hand being surprised and alarmed as to how she approaching.
As he saw a pleasant woman, carefully admitting and didn't showed any signs of killing intent towards him.
Moreover, he went blushing eventually. As he couldn't help himself seeing a gorgeous, fine beauty Demi-being. Wanting to attain herself attending on him thoroughly and whole-heartedly.
"No, no, no... It's okay... I'm fine... I'm fin---"
"Aaaaahhh!"
Due to the unwanted movement, as well as being rattled seeing a beautiful lady, Pista's healing wounds had started to open once again. Needed for treatment very badly and solely.
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A few minutes after.
The wounds of Pista Rambutan started to closed once more.
This time, he had now acted more carefully and frail.
Making Pista felt humiliated and embarrassed about his behavior towards her.
"It's okay, everyone making their first failed impressions after all... Hmmm," She instantly accepted Pista's apology with a soft smile on her face.
She then started to introduce herself to him as she resolves.
"My name is Nascondra... Nice to meet you..."
*Nascondra -- A Demi-being human with a chameleon race.*
"My name is Pista... Pista Rambutan... Likewise..." Pista went out blushing while introducing his name to Nascondra.
"Hmm? Pista Rambutan? Do you have at least 2 names? how do I call you then?" She went intrigued and felt ignorant.
Knowing the fact that pure-blooded Demi-Beings and other related races do not have any surnames.
Far different than what Humans did to their names.
"What if I called myself... Nascondra Rambutan? does it seemed nice to the ears?" She suddenly went teasing on Pista's name.
Causing Pista to blushed, even more, couldn't hide his face to red, and started acting strange eventually.
Nascondra also having fun with Pista with humility.
As the two were having their time chatting together.
Pista suddenly mesmerizing on his mind, about the things when and where he went in. Since the time he gets unconscious for a while.
Not only that, he started worrying about the conditions of the Department head as well. Causing him to alarmed and to act accordingly all by himself as the result.
Knowing that he didn't have much time-wasting idled chatting with his new friend. He then started to ask Nascondra very humbly on departing himself, without having any sort of plan, and acted recklessly.
Unfortunately;
Nascondra simply stopped Pista for his reckless doings.
"Why? ... The Chief is in danger!" Of course, Pista went complaining about Nascondra's action.
"But... You companion..."
"But what? ..."
"He held himself on a meeting towards the Leaders of the Demi-beings." She answered his questions with enough courage.
"The... what?" He seemed surprised, couldn't imagine what she relied on him as the result.
With that response, he went isolated for a while. Trying not made any sort of ruckus and dispute against them.
Aside from that, he felt glad and relieved as well. Knowing the fact that the conditions of the Department Head had regained back into his senses, after a sudden surge of wind storming around the Bamboo forest that causing him to idle and half-passing.
"Guess... I'll wait here..." He decided not to put fuel on the first as what he resolved towards them.
Making Nascondra left a smile on her face.
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In the other room.
Where the leaders of the Demi-being race, and Sam Smeagel takes their place right in.
It was a vile, unwanted atmosphere that the senses of the Department Head felt all this time around.
Since the time he finally regained his consciousness and ended up locking in a chair, filled with magic crystals concentrating on restraining any sorts of life forms.
Especially to the ones possessing the power of the Demi-beings.
!Cobalt Crystal!
A kind of magic crystal, highly dense on the Demi-being races. Slowly locking up the magic essence whenever the crystal started putting up to a person nor a Being like a handcuff.
As they did to him, they simply restraining him on a piece of chair. Chained up with a said magic crystal, and tied up until the meeting finished without having a commotion.
"What's the meaning of this?... Answer me!" Sam went frustrated for an obvious reason.
"Yaka!"
The crowd went silent, as Sam suddenly went blaming the ones far higher and stronger Beings than any others inside the room.
'They went silent? after I blame Yaka for these? this does mean that?' Sam suddenly went puzzling on his head, thinking for the ranks and superiority that Yaka possessed towards them.
As what he compared his power against the Demi-beings;
Every single one attending inside the room was a certain similarity to the power he currently had. Now knowing the fact that the ranks and stages of Awakening he possessed, was an understatement and absolute futile to compare for others.
However, that was not the case for the likes of the people inheriting the Demi-being race. Like the first time, he met them.
'They're strong, the more I stare at them, the more pressure I feel that they wanted to eat me alive
'More likely, they wanted me to beat to a pulp in a blink of an eye. That's how I felt their presence noticeably.'
Moreover; As he kept analyzing the powers he had and comparing them against them.
He noticed how did he ended up locking and restraining, even though they know he would end up dying and being hurt when he tried attacking them.
Then, Yaka finally has her time responding to him.
"We did that on purpose."
Sam was simply confused.
The Crowd left themselves even more silent than they did before.
Their breathe couldn't come up with a trace due to the nervousness they felt towards Yaka's calm presence.
"That's not what you are thinking to them." She went solemn, speaking solely and seriously to Sam Smeagel.
"What are you talking about...They're so strong enough to beat me to pieces..." Sam kept insisting on how powerful they have.
"Because they don't know how to fight!" Yaka simply directing to the main point of their meeting. As if it was the opening for them to gather pieces of information between each other.
"What... are... you saying? Don't screw with me, dammit!" Sam went anguished, couldn't believe what hardship they'd done along with Pista, just to come to a place where most Demi-beings didn't know how to survive on their own.
Yaka simply admitting it. As her selfishness and ignorance, She have, had finally come to its peak, desperately begging for someone who had the potential on helping their race from despair.
She's also the one who started apologizing for what her kindred had done against them, causing the life of Pista Rambutan on a brink of his death.
By kneeling in front of Sam Smeagel, begging for desperation and hoping for a second chance.
Yaka humbly throws her pride and glory on behalf of her kind, wanting only peace and equality towards the others and territories as well.
"Untie me..." Sam simply replied to Yaka's psychological agony.
"What if you kill all of us... That's not gonna happen." She solemnly declined.
"What if I told you, the first one for you to gain progress. Was to gain trust with others, like the ones you trusted yourself as well." He graciously responds to what she said with a huge smile on his face.
Other Demi-being people started to feel uneasy towards them, simply asking for consideration towards the minds of Yaka, whereas the decisions she made were far hasty and reckless. Knowing the odds of betraying the conditions and contract to be made against him, was an absolute one-sided and unjust for the likes of the enemy.
Unfortunately, Her mind was already settled, thinking that no one was able to stop it. As she began casting her magic spell, instantly breaking the magic crystal that they put against Sam.
!Clang! !Clang!
Out of their instincts, wanting to survive against the might of the predators. The actions given by the Demi-Beings started to react unconsciously.
Casting magic spells, emitting vicious magic aura throughout the entire room, activating their Awakening senses. Aiming towards the lone Adventurer.
The 8 Attending Demi-Being started glaring maliciously against Sam Smeagel.
But then, all of a sudden.
The face of the Department head doesn't seem alarmed nor terrified at all.
As he instantly noticed something odd was happen to them, resulting in him to felt at ease at the moment.
Yaka also noticing it, couldn't help but to asked about them to calm down as they resolved against him.
"They don't have enough killing intent... Is that what you have said to me?" Sam bluntly asked Yaka, as well as the Demi-Beings.
It was completely a waste of talent for them. Possessing such an irresistible amount of Magic presence, able to fight against high-caliber Adventurers and stronger Monsters and magic creatures of their own volition.
Allowing them to be enlisted as one of the powerful Demi-beings on the Adventurers Data Book***
Adventurers Data Book (ADB) --- Refers to certain data of the monsters, Magic creatures as well as Adventurers. Collecting pieces of information and guidance for the Adventurers, both inside the dungeon and outside.
But then, because most of them couldn't be managed to bear fangs against the specific enemies for no certain reason.
He couldn't help but to made amused towards them.
As the result, by making a deal with Yaka, she felt humiliated and distraught for a moment.
She instantly agreed, without hesitating and having any second thoughts. Knowing that the convictions and trust he gave on them were way genuine than she could ever imagine.
Not only that;
On the minds of the Department head, he knew there are deeper thoughts and reasons for him to come across the boundaries of their territory. He knew there's no reason for him to teach the Demi-beings only how to fight;
But there's also a bigger dispute for them to encounter against the new and unknown enemies shortly.
"There's something happened inside the dungeon, again?" He asked solemnly and patiently.
They were left isolated for a while, away from the ears of the Demi-beings.
"Yes, and not just that..."
"What is it?"
"The dungeon that the young Supreme Awakener once entering in, whom the ones started regaining back into their senses."
Sam left gulped on his throat out of his uneasy feeling.
"They started forming a group, destroying some dungeons that seemingly crowning to the eyes of the Adventurers."
Perplexed and flabbergasted, were the ones that went up mumbling to the minds of Sam Smeagel. Completely not knowing anything about the problems that the entire Demi-being race had facing in.
Since the time the Supreme Awakener began taking his actions towards it.
On the other hand;
Whilst the leaders of the Demi-beings still having their time on a meeting.
Pista Rambutan, along with Nascondra. Had started having fun sharing thoughts, and didn't seemed to bother the eyes of other Demi-being people.
"Pista-kun... let's go outside..." Nascondra asked flamboyantly to him.
Pista couldn't help himself on declining, simply nodded as if he agreed to what she requested of him.
But then, as what they reached to the place where She went in.
The eyes of the Novice Adventurer went widened all of a sudden, as what he saw on his naked eye for the first time of his life.
"What... Kind of statue was that?" He simply asked with shock and out of his curiosity for that.
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***To be Continued***
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