Theft of the Future

Chapter 34

One second after the passageway was devoured by the darkness, they fell for a while. Until in the end, there was a sound of water whispering behind them a sign they had landed safely.

In fact, there was no pain at all to their bodies, especially in the back of the back after the effects of the fall. All they feel is discomfort in their clothes and back pants because wet is not bad.

There is another pain that attacks them, namely to their stomach and digestion. And Laju remembered the discomfort felt by this stomach.

This is a teleportation technique.

This was also supported by the fact that the place they were occupying now was no longer a dark passageway within the abandoned house. Rather, a culvert that may be underground looks very disgusting. Full of garbage and dirty running water, also fed by noisy rodents.

One good thing that is an added value possessed by these culverts is better lighting that comes from planting lights on the bottom of the wall, compared to the hallway in the house earlier. This makes it easier for them to recognize each other, as well as navigate where to go.

“Hei? Are you guys okay?” The pace of opening the voice.

Unfortunately, no one was ready to answer, other than a groan.

“Ugh, what just now?” Iris started to stand up.

Afterwards, Laju and Iris began to look around to identify what had just happened to them. A few seconds later, Parker got up and stood up.

Luckily, the volume of these culverts was quite wide and wide. A large, tall Parker can stand up easily without any hindrance at all.

“Where else?” The pace of asking again.

In fact, all the added value and whatever they get in these culverts just ends up in the establishment.

Once the three of them got up and started standing, that was all they could get. No more standing, no more moaning.

Inside these culverts consisted only of Laju, Iris, and Parker. No Audy, Aaron, or Delphia. “Where else? What happened?” Iris continued to question Laju who was worried at the condition that they were separated.

“Is this the work of the humans?” Continuing pace.

“Teleportation is a very expensive technique if you want to use. Except, they have colleagues like Iris, who can indeed manipulate space and time,” Parker explains. “The government does provide it for civilian use. But, it can only be used at certain points that have been installed and installed the teleportation tool.”

“It seems there is a lot of information that the enemy has that I cannot get. I don't know if this has anything to do with Venom Snake. But, it seems like our enemy is very dangerous,” Iris continued.

“So now we have to what?”

“Our situation is indeed more chaotic than before. But, we can't stay here forever, right?” Parker stretched his body. “Come!”

And so, Parker smacked his hands in front of his chest, chanting a language that Laju recalled having been used when they were about to come home to have a discussion earlier.

Sriing.

A transparent and shiny yellow protector began to envelop Parker's body, followed by Iris and Laju's body.

Once they have felt safe with the protector Parker made – even though it does not fix the problem of wet and dirty clothes and pants, they began to walk behind Parker who was swiftly and steadfastly looking around. Directing and navigating, trying to find the other half of the group.

Trying to get out of the sewers, without forgetting his original purpose of meeting the humans.

There is one thing that Laju noticed in these culverts, that these aqueducts are not necessarily just abandoned and dirty waterways. Slowly, the lighting of planting lamps on each wall began to be replaced by many purple-colored crystals that grew like mushrooms enveloping the walls of the culverts.

At first, it wasn't a problem. Even though Parker and Iris did not understand what was in this culvert – like they had just entered a place they had never visited and known before, as long as it doesn't bother and hurt them, let the crystal grow normally and naturally.

But, is k ristal growing in waterways a natural thing?

The pace initially thought that if we talked about every strangeness he encountered, starting from Parker's presence who was a beastman of the bull race, the crystals that appeared in the culverts were normal.

Wait, it seems like Laju had heard and knew about the existence of this crystal?

But, where?

Was that discussed by Adrian and Boss Alex?

The problem is, Parker and Iris as residents of this strange city also consider the purple crystal appears unnaturally.

Initially, they planned to take a sample of the crystal to then identify the origin and mineral content contained in it. But, the intention must be canceled because the crystal gives off a painful electric shock if we try to get close to the crystal.

Perhaps, the idea can be paused until they come out of the culverts, and come back with more complete equipment.

After all, there was a more important goal they had to complete.

Namely, look for the whereabouts of three other people, Audy, Aaron, and Delphia.

After 10 minutes they walk around the culverts – which can be ascertained that they are not just circling, just, there wasn't much they could find other than the purple crystal that grabbed electricity and a pungent smell here and there.

Except, a sharp grip that pierced Laju's leg abruptly.

From under very shallow waterways – may be only 50 inches, the hands appear with long, dirty nails with scaly skin. Not only that, there was also an electric squeak flowing from the hand that attacked Laju. Dropping it, hurts it, like a taser attack that instantly melts a muscle and falls limp.

“I think we'll never deal again, Parker. Are you here to avenge yourself and start a war? I think we have agreed with each other,” said a voice filled with mucus from a scaly creature that came out of the shallow water channel.

Parker who focuses more on the falling rate does not pay much attention to the sound, even answer it. Seeing his enemy in trouble, this scaly creature stood showing his dominance in the land creatures that entered his domain.

Actually, once the head appeared from behind the water channel, Iris immediately entered the standby mode ready to fight. But, the ready to fight position alone is not enough to fight against the eight scaly creatures that appear together from under the water channel.

“Wait! It's just a misunderstanding! We–”

Parker's words trying to calm the creature's anger were immediately cut with a shot of thorns that instantly slid into the wall of the culvert, thin on the ear parker.

“I don't want to talk weird anymore. I don't want to get caught up again in your sweet words trap, Parker!” Call it a scaly creature. “You saw this!?” Next, he revealed his left hand which was covered by a wet cloth that started to slowly open.

Behind the cloth, there was a large wound that was quite severe.

“You must be responsible for this, Parker!”

“That's not there since we last met. You're making it up, Vanitas!”

“Indeed. But it was you guys who came from above who caused this!”

“But we just met? What are you–”

Parker was astonished by what the creature said. But a second later, Parker realized what he meant. And what the creature means is to anger Parker, making him quietly prepare his strength to be ready to fight this scaly creature.

“A-What happened? Wh-who are they?” The pace asked silently, as his strength gradually returned to normal.

“Tempo? You awake yet? How's condition? Can fight?”

“Hng? I don't know. But my joints and muscles ache all.”

“Good. That's more than enough. Prepare yourself!”

“Who is our opponent?”

“They. They're lizardmen. See the wound on his left hand? It's a fresh wound. It should have come from Audy's attack. Do you know what I mean, Rate?”

“Audy? They met them? What do you mean?”

“That means this lizard just met and fought Audy. If we look at the pattern, Audy should be with Aaron and Delphia, right? Then what are we looking at now? The healthy body stature of a walafiat lizard? Just minor injuries? Doesn't that mean they're in danger? Delphia in danger?” Parker asked in a whisper, patting Laju on the back.

Then he led her to stand up, to prepare against these lizardmen, scaly and thorny creatures that came from the waterways below them.

Vanitas, the lizardmen don't know exactly what they're waiting for.

Parker's presence at his house already prohibits the deal they made. Plus the injuries that were assumed to come from the above-ground creatures, this meant that the lizardmen could fight to the maximum until the final blood point, right?

A few seconds after his declaration, Parker whispered a little with the boy he had just taken off. Thats odd. Why can the boy still stand?

Wait, Vanitas realized something. That's what he's waiting for.

Why haven't they launched an attack yet?

Because, the lizardmen were still amazed by the ability of the boy who could get back up in just a short time after being attacked with an electric shock that paralyzed his entire body.

Vanitas gritted his teeth, expressing his anger and annoyance and then he exclaimed at the other Lizardmen to attack, fight, and deplete the inhabitants of this land.

They began to groan holding their breath, strengthening the muscles along with his entire body. Then, every thorn that was on their back began to be removed to fly floating one by one with a not small amount. How not, even though the thorns could they come off, the next second appeared a new thorn with an unreasonable regeneration speed.

And after that, there appeared thorns with the number of hundreds now hovering behind these Lizardmen easily, in just one groan.

In the viewpoint of humans or ordinary weak beings, this was a disaster and the end of their lives.

“That's you, Parker!” Vanitas Shouts.

BLAARR!!!

The walls of culverts made of bricks instantly shattered into dust and smoke that billowed once hundreds of thorns were launched. Little smiling Vanitas stared at the victory that was so real in front of him.

But actually, Vanitas forgot about the fact that Parker had protected not only himself, but also Laju and Iris with his strength, with a transparent yellow protector that enveloped his entire body.

So, it's only natural that Vanitas' smile turned drastically into an expression of fear and shock upon seeing the parker still standing upright, instead of falling unconscious.

But Parker was standing not without a wound.

Although he was already protected by a transparent yellow protective layer, the attacks of the thorns were hundreds in number.

Just look at the walls that have been destroyed to a depth of two meters.

Perhaps, if once again the thorn attack was launched, the sky culvert in this section would lose its foundation and fall crumbling apart unceremoniously.

Parker is almost similar.

The yellow protector has been peeled off in many parts, his legs and hands pierced by many spines that are about 30 inches long so that not a little blood comes out with a rush.

Luckily, Laju and Iris who had taken shelter behind Parker were not at all affected by the thorn attack and could swiftly launch a counterattack.

This was done while Vanitas was still trying to process, when her smiling face turned to shock and fear as soon as she saw Parker still standing, she said, then it turned again into a triumphant smile to see Parker who stood in fact was dying.

As soon as his face smiled again and was ready to launch another attack, Laju had already come out of Parker's back to launch a punch that immediately flew Vanitas into the other part of the culvert wall.

Vanitas was practically unconscious while bleeding both from his head and mouth once his entire body was hit hard by Laju's punch.

“Urusi Parker, Iris!” exclaims Rate.

The call to Iris also instantly woke up the other lizardmen from the shock of their chief; vanitas was unconscious, being thrown and banged hard and fast, in just one blink of an eye.

One by one they groaned and strengthened their hands to cover it with strong scales to serve Raju in a hand-to-hand fight.

Unfortunately, the speed of the hardening of the scales was no faster than the speed of the Rate to hit subverting one by one the lizardmen. Some were uprooted because they were thrown far away to hit the walls of the culvert like its chairman. Or also the one with the more deadly blow because even though it does not throw it far back, but destroys its innards and digestion.

And instantly, the five lizardmen with Vanitas fell unconscious.

“What the fuck is that boy!?”

“We have never heard of this!!”

“This is different from the previous one!”

Some of the lizardmen who had not been targeted by Laju who had time to harden his scales began to protest not accepting the sight of his enemies who were beyond the reach of their abilities and strength.

But for what?

The protest was ignored by Laju to stop and pity them.

And next, two other lizardmen were blown flying against the wall of the culvert smashing the stone and practically unconscious.

“Do not want to be a boy!!!” Shouted the rest of the lizardmen who had the opportunity to fight back, hitting Laju with power that could actually subvert an ordinary human, making him faint unconscious.

To be honest, it was indeed a powerful blow.

Just imagine a hard scale resembling iron hitting a human hard on the head, like a super-large hammer being smashed raw.

But let's not forget the fact that Laju is not an ordinary man, nor a protector who covers him thanks to the power of Parker.

It was true, the punch successfully hit Laju made him fall over the dirty water channel that made him almost vomit. But, it does not hurt at all or make the skin blisters.

Not wanting to take the opportunity to launch another attack, the rest of the lizardmen attempted to hit Laju by combining his hands together, launching it to the back of Laju's head.

Unfortunately, the pace that was not so affected from the first blow was also like-minded. That is, to launch an attack before the enemy successfully responds.

The speed in the prone state directly rotates his body and connects his legs to the movement of this lizardmen so that it falls and turns things around. Before he could respond, the pace that sat down overlapping this lizardmen dealt a streak of blows that practically finished him off on the spot.

Laju's hands were full of bruises, bruises, and of course blood from hitting the hard scales of these iron-like lizardmen. But, the condition of the Lizardmen who were hit by Laju was no better than Laju's bruised hand.

“Ugh!” Parker slowly wakes up and is shocked at Laju's behavior on this lizardmen.

“Are you okay!?” The pace, aware of the sound, flicked its blow at the rest of the unconscious Lizardmen, to further help Parker stand up.

“I'm good...– you have finished it?”

“Heh! That's it!”

“That fast!?”

“Yes! That was indeed five fun minutes!” a proud pace to himself.

***

After that, the exploration lasted for approximately six hours in the sewers of unpleasant underground waterways.

The pace, Parker, and Iris were still blocked by more lizardmen who came never to recede, who wants revenge because he got the news that one of his generals was uprooted by a small group of makhuk who came from above ground.

Of course they are angry.

In addition to trying to defend their colonized homes at will, this lizardmen also seeks to restore their dignity and pride as living beings who have just been ravaged by this enemy.

The pace, Parker, and Iris were actually still able to survive despite fighting dozens of lizardmen at once. Unfortunately, the number of lizardmen is not just dozens and at one time only. Dozens of them always came even though dozens of others had been subverted.

With a steady supply of food and unhealthy drinking water, the condition of his third body gradually deteriorated.

Parker can actually still accommodate his powers to always provide a transparent yellow protector for them. But, the longer the durability of the protector the weaker it is, the easier it is to break. So, the impact and impact that comes will directly hit their physical body raw.

Iris is fast and has electricity. But, his job so far has been more to informants and scouts. He couldn't be so helpful in empty-handed fights other than entrusting Laju to handle everything. Iris could not immediately teleport out of the sewers. He did not know for sure the limiting distance between these culverts and the upper world.

What if Iris's prediction to teleport left her confined, pinned, and buried alive among the ground or rocks?

All Iris can do is perhaps help Laju by stinging the troublesome lizardmen on the back.

The pace, as a boy who could complete his first task in the forest within two weeks was indeed incredible. Plus the help of Vignette, her body cells can slowly adjust to adapt to this environment full of magic and abnormalities in Kannaris.

In fact, the events in these culverts are a very appropriate exercise to develop muscles, cells, and their ability to develop further. Unfortunately, the fight that Laju found could not be arranged like the curriculum in school.

He must try desperately not only to protect himself and win the fight, but also help Parker and Iris so they can get out of the culvert.

The splash!

There was a sound of water splashing beside them.

“Take it easy, it's not the enemy,” said Iris as her eyes turned purple with blue crystal pupils to optimize her vision in the dark.

After many walks through the many passageways of the culverts, they finally found a room large enough, like the center of the confluence of many passageways from these culverts to rest.

The pace and Iris are still in top shape, despite numerous bruises, bruises, and bleeding in many parts. Their problem was that Parker could no longer walk in his command. Many of his body parts were pierced by dozens of thorn shots from the lizardmen. In some joints, Parker feels pain that is very painful because it always collides directly with the scales of the lizardmen are reinforced like iron.

Not just once, dozens of times Parker had to become a boxing samsak to protect Iris and Laju.

Inwardly, Parker is deeply concerned for Audy, Aaron, and Delphia who must fight without him by their side. The protective power he could use could not be exerted to protect those not within his reach.

He was a little regretful, that most members of the organization that were indeed focused as swords and spears were on duty at many points of the city and could not help them.

“I took a short walk,” exclaims The pace is so done helping Parker.

Inside the room is a tube with an estimated height and diameter of more than 30 meters – not yet with the depth of the water channel centered in the middle, the, The pace began to go around leaving Iris who was trying to help Parker take care of his injuries.

In addition to stretching his body, Laju slowly observed his bruises and wounds.

For no apparent reason, Laju instead laughed proudly even though what could be felt by his entire body was pain.

Up to the umpteenth step, Laju felt a squeak and electric shock coming from beside him.

Wait for.

The pace of forgetting such an important fact that was inside this room.

There is a floating foundation in the middle of the room, which is 10 meters above this waterhole. Do not forget also that the foundation is covered by many roots that look like plant roots.

There's a tree floating in this room!

The problem is, Laju did not see a single pillar that served to support this foundation. Then how to make the foundation can float?

While puzzled by his new question, Laju continued to circle the room until he found a structure that resembled a ladder that allowed him to approach the foundation and the tree.

Even so, this ladder only connects between the ground floor and the foundation only. Logically, this ladder alone will not be able to support the large and heavy foundation.

But, Laju did not plan to answer it right now.

He preferred to get closer to this foundation and the tree on it.

And it turns out, the electric shock was still felt even before Laju could touch the tree. When viewed more carefully, there is a purple protective ball with a diameter of 8 meters that surrounds and protects this tree.

Without a second thought, Laju decided to enter the stinging protector. Initially, Laju thought that he would receive a similar sting sensation like a crystal around the sewers and waterways. In fact, this electric shock is actually very refreshing, very soothing.

Do not close the fact that around the stinging tree is also a lot of crystals that grow naturally like mushrooms in the forest.

Just a few seconds Laju spent around the tree, he could feel the serenity and joy that stung both his physical body, as well as his mental together. What kind of magic is this?

The pain throughout his body can slowly heal from the many tickling needle attacks from the electric shock sensation this tree gives.

It is ironic to think about it.

There was a place that looked dangerous, dirty underground, and filled with a foul aroma. But, what this dangerous tree actually gives is inversely the harmful meaning itself.

It's like a hot spring, like heaven!

“But why does this tree survive?” The pace slowly opened his eyes to see where this tree received its sun source from.

Unfortunately, the question had to be cut by a familiar voice, which came from an aqueduct hallway on the ground floor.

A curious pace came out of the radius of the electric tree to descend to the ground floor and approach the origin of the owner of the sound.

“Kyaaaaa!!” The voice that the girl had was increasingly clear.

The pace with the condition of his body was better, immediately darting jump run towards the source of the sound very quickly. Pass through the turns and passageways easily, turning right at the intersection, until finally seeing another lizardmen ready to pounce on its victims who look like humans.

Without further ado, Laju immediately slid to kick the lizardmen. Trying to topple him, throw him away from the victim he wants to record.

In fact, Laju was a little worried what if the one he saved was an enemy of man whom he had been looking for with Parker and the others.

But in the end, he didn't care much.

This problem can be taken care of later.

“What the fuck are you, boy!?” Shouted another lizardman.

Unfortunately, because of his energy that was too much spent to move quickly, Laju's kick was not so powerful as to exhaust one lizardmen, but rather just throw it away.

That's not a problem.

Other Lizardmen of this number could deal with the pace easily.

As soon as his legs started to descend and retrace, his hands were already ready to deliver a punch that was as powerful as his previous prime, like a blow to Vanitas.

BLAARR!!

The lizardmen immediately crashed flying far away into the wall of the culvert and immediately unconscious.

Realizing the electric tree works very well to restore its condition and power, The speed immediately clenched his hands again to deliver blows and other blows that immediately blew another lizardmen even though it had groaned hardened its scales.

The pace was a little wonder, why was there not a single punch that was so painful again on his hand. Only when these five lizardmen had fallen against the walls of the sewers unconscious, did Laju realize there was still a yellow glint covering his fist.

“Heh! Parker, yes!?” Smirked pace.

Bugs!

After that, a voice fell behind him.

Forgetting pace, he had to face who this victim he just saved.

“Ngh-nghhhh... Hhhh-huu-huuu!” the girl who fell on both knees. It turned out, his trembling legs were no longer strong to support his limp and weak body, as well as his mental at once.

After that, tears practically flooded the face of this girl.

The pace could only smile a little at him.

Slowly, Laju grasped both hands of the crying girl who looked very rough, full of wounds, bruises, and a little cold. Elus's pace slowly extended with both his hands, followed by his shoulders and head.

Instead of getting better, the girl cried.

“Sorry I'm late, Del!” Said Laju who immediately grabbed the girl in front of him.

Elus's pace was deeper and more intimate than Delphia's back, which was still shocked at everything in front of him. Not to mention the fact that Audy and Aaron who were half-conscious were sitting lying behind him, Laju could only sympathize.

One task Laju to gather with the rest of the group was already fulfilled.

It was time to bring them to meet each other, as well as bring them into the floating electric tree earlier, trying to provide maximum comfort to these friends.

“Come!” Take Rate.