the kill order
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[Do you wish to upgrade your current technique to orange rank?]
[Yes] [No]
Charlie ignored the system prompts and escaped deep into the earth. He only stopped running when he reached the northern Gates of starlink city.
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In the wilderness…
The five demonic beasts who helped charlie escape earlier, were now standing before the flame feathered chicken papa, explaining how they lost the flesh of his beloved son.
"How was he able to snatch little flame's leg from your hands?!! If you can't explain clearly to me today, you will have to go and explain to little flame!!" Flame feathers 'roared'.
The five beasts shivered when they heard the last sentence.
'Thank goodness we have evidence' they all thought inwardly. The Ape wiped off the oil at the corner of his mouth and opened his mouth to tell the tale of what happened, but he was stopped by a signal from blue eyes.
"Sir, we were about to return to camp when that human suddenly came out of the ground. He snatched the leg from Apel's hand and disappeared into the earth… we fought for several minutes but we couldn't defeat him…" Blue eyed was almost close to tears as he explained 'how' little flame's leg got into the hands of the enemy. He even showed him the picture he took of Charlie with the chicken leg in hand.
"So, that little s**t was just toying with me… he should be at least a level 1 yellow ranked earth manipulator." Flame feathers nodded in realization.
"Publish the kill order. Place that little piece of s**t at the top of the kill list!!" Flame feathers commanded.
"Place a bounty of 200,000 divine coins on his head plus the reward of an increase in military rank for any beast who can capture him alive."
The few beasts bowed down before the flame feathered chicken and quickly went to deliver his order. They were both sad and happy; they finally escaped death, and they're also afraid that Charlie would be captured alive and he might spill their secrets if he was tortured.
…
"Blue eyes, what do we do now?" One of the beasts asked.
"We should have killed him when we had the chance! Why did you let him go? You even helped him escape!" Apel questioned.
"If I didn't let him go, do you think your heads would still be on your necks?? If he was captured alive by the lieutenant, he'll surely know what we did to his son's leg, and that human is too slippery, he can't be inta-killed.
"So I have to free him for the main time. All we have to do now is to look for him and kill him." Blue eyes explained.
"But how do we know his location? I can't distinguish between humans… we can't pinpoint on his location." Apel argued.
"I left a tracker on him when I threw him little flame's leg, so he's currently at the northern Gates of starlink city." The blue eyed fox paused for a moment before answering.
"We'll first publish the kill order, then we'll move on the pretence of accepting the mission, then kill him while he was being transported or we can move faster and kill him before anyone could get close to him," Apel suggested.
The few beasts quickly moved, and they gathered the army of green ranked ape's who worked tirelessly to print pictures and posters of Charlie. The one of him acting badass with the chicken leg in his hands was especially used for this 'promotion'.
Before the end of the day, the news had spread amongst the beasts. It had even reached the ears of the people of Starlink City.
Starlink City, northern Gates…
A young man in green military uniform was pacing back and forth while looking at the smart watch on his wrist almost every seconds.
The man had just checked the time for the umpteenth time when he sighted another man in similar uniform approached from afar. He quickly ran up to him and held him by his uniform collar, slightly lifting him up from the ground.
"Hey Greenwood! what kept you so long? Your shift starts 1:00 pm and you're just coming here at 3:46. I've been waiting here for the past 3 hours! Do you want to work me till death?!!" Josh exclaimed.
"Why don't you put me down and let me explain myself!" Greenwood said, gently patting Josh's hand that was on his neck.
"I'm all ears…" Josh finally calmed down, but there was still a trace of anger in his voice.
The soldiers stationed on the city wall didn't even look at the two as they kept on patrolling the wall.
"I just received a new order from the higher ups. A new ability user is on his way here as reinforcement, but he has been targeted by the beasts, so I went to the commander's tent to accept the mission of protecting this guy if we see him." Greenwood explained.
"So, how do we recognize this ability user?" Josh asked.
"Here's a picture taken of him by the blue eyed fox demon." Greenwood showed him a picture of a young man covered in dust from head to toe. Except for the outline of his slim figure, all parts of his body were covered with thick soil, making him unrecognizable.
"What the hell is this?! How do we even recognize this person? What if he showered after this picture was taken?" Josh stared at the picture in amazement.
While they were still arguing, they felt the earth tremble beneath their feets.
A few seconds later, they heard the rushing feets coming from the top of the city wall. The quickly rushed to the source of the commotion.
Lo and behold, a monster covered in dirt slowly climbed out of a hole in the ground. His hair was messy and covered in dirt. His face was a mixture of dirt and blood.
He groaned in pain as he approached the Gates. A thick smell of blood travels in the air as he walked towards the gates.
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