Chapter 114: Sea Monsters

Nexus went to get Marcus and Erika inside the Stone of Destruction. He dashed towards the room with a glowing ball in the center, but Marcus and Erika weren't there.

He went to the training room and there he saw both of them were about to start firing spells.

"Marcus!" Nexus yelled. "There's something going on outside. I'm not sure what it is, but an announcement sounded all over town telling everyone to evacuate.

Marcus turned his head and nodded. "Let's check it out. If it's anything we can't handle, just go straight inside the stone."

Erika walked towards Marcus. "What's going on?"

Marcus looked at her. "An invasion probably."

"Or leaky pipes." Nexus didn't want this to be pirates. "It could just be leaky pipes for all we know."

Marcus didn't listen to him. He grabbed Erika's hand and exited the Stone of Destruction.

Nexus followed shortly afterward.

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Marcus ran towards the area of the house where the pool was located. 

Emily was wearing a stunning swimsuit. He admired it for a second or two, complimented her, and then he finally turned to Zoey.

He, too complimented her before getting down to business. "Do you have any idea what's happening?"

"I called my dad, he said that the sea monsters are attacking." Zoey hurriedly said.

"Sea monsters?" Nexus tilted his head. He then started laughing. "Hahaha, it's not pirates, oh thank god it's not pirates."

Zoey turned her head and looked at Nexus with a puzzled expression.

"Don't mind him." Eva chuckled. "He just sometimes does this."

Zoey nodded. She continued, "The sea monsters are usually friendly when they are not provoked. I have even met a few of their leaders in the past when my father brought me with him."

Marcus thought for a while. "If they are as friendly as you say they are, then that means the humans must have provoked them first."

"We should start thinking of a plan," Nexus spoke. "There are large waves hitting the eastern part of the city."

With Marcus breaking through Commander Stage, Nexus' soul sense has also improved by a lot. His soul sense can now reach up to 10 km. 

Nexus continued. "Those waves aren't coming alone though. There are humanoid creatures riding on top of it."

"What should we do?" Emily asked.

"This is perfect." Marcus grinned. "Now we don't have to go anywhere to temper ourselves. Tempering, instead, walked right into our front door."

The others nodded while Zoey was befuddled. She couldn't believe the words that came out of Marcus' mouth.

"You're going to temper? Under these conditions?" Zoey wanted to clarify.

Marcus nodded. "This is not something that comes often. Opportunities like these should be cherished. However, if it is something we can't handle, retreating is always an option."

Zoey turned to the others. She saw that they were all okay with it. She also saw a mix of excitement in their eyes.

'An opportunity like this? So the reason Big Sister Eva and Emily are strong is that they train like this?' Zoey saw both Eva and Emily fighting, and she thought that their prowess in battle overshadowed the experts of her family.

"I'll join if it's okay." Zoey stepped forward.

Marcus nodded. "The more the merrier."

Emily had already convinced him of bringing Zoey with them. Making her experience fights like these might help her remember.

"What do we do?" Nexus asked. His body was already eager to battle.

"Spread out." Marcus looked towards the east side of town. "Nexus you roam alone."

He then sent him a message that only the two of them could hear. "Don't kill any of them. Bring all the creatures you catch back to the stone and place them inside the chamber."

Nexus nodded. He glanced at the ladies. "I'll see you, girls, later."

Before he left, Nexus walked to Eva and gave her a short kiss.

"The four of you ladies stick together. Remember to keep yourselves safe and don't try saving other people if the situation seems impossible." Marcus knows that it'll be safer for them when they have each other's backs. Also, it is safer for Zoey.

Erika scoffed. "I don't think there's a need to save anyone. Humans can reproduce quickly, even if a million dies, a million will replace them after a short while."

A week or so after recovering her memories, she found herself looking at humans as if they were nothing more than livestock. Not all humans though. There were some who have helped her in the past that she wanted to repay.

Eva nodded. "Erika is right, we should focus on tempering ourselves. But, we should also save people if we come across them."

Erika and Emily nodded.

Zoey looked at them weirdly. They seemed to be indifferent to human life. 

'Are they aliens?' She thought to herself. But she immediately shook her head.

'These people were kind to me. It doesn't matter what they are.' Zoey nodded a second or two after Emily.

"I'm off, be safe." Marcus bid them farewell and left.

Before leaving, he turned to the four and sent a message to Emily, Erika, and Eva through the watches they wore.

"Don't kill any of the creatures. If you can, throw them inside the Stone Destruction. If this isn't possible then just leave them on the ground."

The three ladies slightly nodded.

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Underwater.

"Attack! Send our first wave in! They want a war, let's give them one" A female voice shouted. She had the upper body of a human while a lower body of a snake. She had dark blue skin all over, while the lower part of her body had a darker shade of it.

Roars echoed from the humanoid and snake-like creatures in front of her as they turned their backs and began to charge to the surface.

They had stayed quiet for so long as their species and other species that lived under the water didn't want to fight.

In truth, it's not that they didn't want to fight, but they couldn't, humans had a lot more bodies to spare.

But, now they were suddenly attacked. How could they ignore a provocation like this?

In a meeting in the past, they agreed to have peace and to respect both sides.

"The humans broke their words. Make them pay!" Another human with a snake's lower body sounded in the crowd of rushing sea monsters.

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Nexus walked on the wet road. He looked left and right at the deserted houses.

His soul sense was spread so he knew that there were creatures a few hundred meters in front of him. 

"Late-stage Elite? Are they fucking kidding me?" Nexus was expecting some challenge and not just some fodders.

"At least I'll be able to send the first batch of these uglies inside the stone." Nexus swiftly moved. He planned on attacking them from the right.

A short while later, the creatures neared the place where he was hiding. 

Nexus studied them. "Interesting"

He has seen these kinds of creatures before, albeit stronger and quite bigger. The ones he saw before also had an air of royalty.

One of the creatures in front of him had a green upper body that of a human while a darker shade of green lower body of a snake. It stood around 8 feet tall.

Another also had a green color but this one was a humanoid. It stood and walked like a human. However, it had webbed hands and feet. It also has fins on some parts of its body. 

The last one was a short green-colored creature with a shell on its back. It had slightly webbed hands with sharp small claws. It only stood around 5 feet tall.

Nexus who was sitting on the roof studied them. These creatures all looked familiar to him as he had already seen their stronger relatives up in the realm he once lived in. 

The one that was half snake was identified by Nexus as a naga, the green 6 feet humanoid was identified as a siyokoy, and the shortest creature of the three was identified by him as a kappa 

Nexus stretched. "Alright, time to do this."

He jumped off the roof. His eyes glowed purple as he controlled his body to make it move faster. 

His hands now had claws as he neared the three creatures.

The one with a snake's lower body noticed first as he brandished the naginata-looking weapon in his hand. 

The other two were then alerted.

The three looked up to see a man with black hair with yellow streaks in the middle. They also saw the obsidian-colored claws. 

Before they could even react, Nexus already pierced the chest of the naga, he then swiped the lower leg of the siyokoy, and lastly, he slammed the head of the kappa to the ground.

"I can't believe I was once beaten up by your relatives." Nexus felt bitter as he remembered how he was trashed by a naga in the past. 

Nexus took three of them to the chamber inside the Stone of Destruction and began hunting once again.

He made sure to heal them in case they might accidentally die. 

After an hour or so, Nexus already bagged thirty creatures.