319 Incarnation of Cthulhu
-Ranger’s Eye Office-
Gregory sat quietly on the seat behind the desk. He exhaled smoke in his mouth with a frown on his face. His eyebrows were furrowed.
Suddenly, the door opposite his desk opened. Michael wore a black vest, orange leather shoes, and dark brown pants.
When Michael saw Gregory’s troubled expression. His face turned serious. He knew his captain won’t have such an expression if there was no problem.
Michael scanned the office with his eyes. The familiar lines of wooden seats and a wide window with a pink curtain appeared in his vision.
“What’s the matter?” Michael strode in front of Gregory and asked.
Gregory heaved a deep sigh. He turned quiet for a few seconds before he opened his mouth.
“Let’s wait for Fein. There’s a big problem that we need to resolve.”
Gregory’s voice was particularly deep. And his wrinkles were emphasized due to his current emotional state.
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Michael only nodded and went to one of the wooden seats. ‘I wonder what happened? Did the demons invade again?’
“Why are your faces look ugly?” Kidd’s figure emerged from the door. The slit in his eyes hid his pupils and the smile fixed on his lips looked particularly annoying.
Michael turned his head subconsciously when he heard Kidd. “Well, can you read the mood? It’s obvious that we have a big mission.” He said at Kidd mockingly. “More importantly, why are you here? Aren’t you supposed to be resting now?”
“If I want to be here what can you do? Am I not welcome here? Without my handsome presence, the base would become boring!” A grin appeared on Kidd’s face.
In truth, he just wants to ease the mood. “So what really happened?” He looked at Gregory with an inquiry.
“I’ll tell you once we’re complete. This time, Anthony would also participate.” Gregory responded.
He thought that it would just be a normal day like any other day. But he was utterly wrong. The problem was so big because almost five hundred skeletons with bits of flesh and blood were found three cities away from them!
The scene was really cruel and terrifying. Three hundred people died in just one night! The cause was unknown. But the local police in the city determined that the culprit has to be a monster.
“No, I didn’t do that. Did that ever happen?”
“Of course, you won’t know it. You are in the secret realm at that time.”
Two familiar voices appeared at the door, which caught Gregory, Kidd, and Michael’s attention.
“It seems they are here.” Kidd smiled.
Just as he said this, Fein and Anthony walked through the door while talking at each other at high volume.
“Yooo...” Fein greeted them just after he entered. Anthony beside him nodded at the three.
“Since we are complete now, I’ll talk about the situation this time.”
‘Just as I thought! My instinct was completely right. Something really happened this time.’ Fein felt a little complicated by the power of his sixth sense.
Anthony, Michael, Kidd, and Fein perked their ears to listen to Gregory’s words intently.
“Three hundred people died last night. There are guesses about the culprit, and the most probable was it was the work of a monster. Because based on the report of the police, there is a couple who witnessed the incident.” Gregory’s voice deepened.
Michael gasped as he heard the number of people who died and he felt sad about it. “What did they see? How come there’s no degu user in the vicinity!?”
Gregory shook his head. He took a deep breath as he was about to drop a shocking fact. “That’s the problem. Among the three hundred people who died. There are ten C ranks, three B ranks, and one A rank degu user. But they still suffer a gruesome death.”
“This monster must have at least the strength of an A-rank peak to do such a feat.” Fein voiced his thoughts about the matter. ‘Just what kind of monster is that? And where the fuck did it come from?’
Fein felt that there was something wrong with the situation. After all, monsters and beasts rarely go to cities. They usually stay deep in the forest or in their territories. And the official organizations organize hunting every six months to reduce their number just to prevent a beast from going to the city.
“An A rank peak? Then Fein is enough to take care of it.” Anthony shifted his gaze to Fein with confidence.
“What did you say?” Kidd’s eyes widened. “Fein could take care of it??”
‘Did he grow stronger to that point already?’ Kidd looked deeply at Fein. He just couldn’t believe it. After all, the last time they fought side by side, they were equal in strength. ‘Although I’m already an A rank. I’m not certain that I could take care of A rank peak. Utmost, I could escape with my abilities.’
Kidd didn’t believe it. He just took it as Anthony joking. One needs to be an A rank peak to kill an A rank peak. And it should be impossible for a B rank to climb to A rank peak in just a year right?
If Fein knew what Kidd was thinking. He only had one sentence for him ‘Your worldview is too narrow. After all, he’s different from others. He is a system holder who was destined to achieve great things that few could imagine.
“You don’t know it cuz you went missing.” Anthony shrugged and didn’t intend to explain. He was too lazy to do that. ‘It’s better to see it for yourself.’
In Anthony’s opinion. Fein shouldn’t be categorized as a human. He has to be a monster in human skin since he achieved inhuman feats time and time again.
“Ahem!” Gregory pretended to cough to get their attention. “All of you are straying from the topic. Be sure to listen. I don’t want to repeat it. The couple said that they saw a monster covered with tentacles and it has disgusting eyeballs all over its skin. Furthermore, it can morph its body into any shape and its distinct trait is that it has black eyes with a pair of deep yellow sclera.”
HISS!
Michael, Fein, Anthony, and Kidd gulped simultaneously when they heard the description of the appearance of the monster. It’s not a simple monster that they imagined. It’s literally the incarnation of Cthulhu!
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