4 A Stroll through the Forest

As Kellogg ventured towards the 'Unknown Individuals' notification, the surroundings had started to change. He could see that some of the trees were damaged or destroyed, a few craters were scattered here and there. In the distance he could see some seven or eight people gathered around a tree.

As he came closer, he saw that some of them wore medieval-era armour or cloaks. Most of them had swords in their hands while a few had a staff with an orb attached to it.

Suddenly, his ancient weeb memories awoke. Yes, before he became a heartless soldier, he used to be someone who went to maid cafés and had posters of 2D girls in his room. It was embarrassing for him to remember now but all those comics and novels he read were already coming back to him.

'It's a fantasy world!' screamed his mind. 'Holy shit! Magic exists here. The possibilities are endless. We should have our own harem.'

'Silence'

[Deploying suppressors...]

His mind became clear as all other thoughts disappeared.

'I should talk to them to figure out where I am.'

As he got closer to the group, he could see that they were gathered around a woman who was on the ground, she was wounded and her clothes had blood stains. Her face had many scratches and an expression of hate and defeat.

"Hey!" he announced. The people gathered around turned back with surprise.

"Could you please tell me where I am?" he asked as politely as he could, but with his hands in the front pockets of his hoodie, it looked not so polite.

One of the men in the group, wearing armor approached him and pointed a sword at him.

"Whoa-Whoa! I didn't mean to interfere with you." he said while raising his hands up. He realized his mistake of butting-into someone's business. When he looked closer at the man he could see his face. The man had many scars on his face most notably the one above his left eye was the most easily recognizable. The man now started to speak in an unknown language.

'Why didn't I realize it?' it hit him,'He obviously misunderstood me! I should show visual signs.'

Now he showed actions with his hands and body of zipping his mouth and not seeing anything. But what the others saw was, cutting lips and and gouging out eyes. The man now smirked and said something. It felt like an insult. Everyone in the group except for the woman on the ground was giggling.

The man lifted his sword to strike him.

'I should have seen this coming.' he sighed out of disappointment.'I guess I'll have to kill everyone in here too.' His face suddenly changed from a cheerful yet tense one to a blank, cold, emotionless one.

'Deploy'

[Deploying Full Body armour...]

Within a second all his clothes ripped as his skin expanded underneath to show an armor entirely covering him.

The armor looked majestic. The base layer was completely black and smaller pieces of grey armour covered his joints and chest. Red veins flowed from the back of his neck to all parts of his body.

He lifted the index finger of his left hand into the trajectory of the sword.

Clack!

Everyone was shocked. One moment ago he was standing there looking plain now he wore some kind of armor in an instant and stopped a sword with just his finger.

The man who swung the sword was most confused. 'Why was the man still standing in front of him? He should be lying headless on the ground? Where did he get this armor? How did he wear it so fast?' and the thoughts go on.

"I didn't want to use this, but looks like you gave me no choice." he said out loud, even though he knew they won't understand him.

By quickly moving his left hand, he grabbed the sword by the blade and pulled it towards him. The man holding it also came flying towards him. He used his right hand to catch him. The man started to struggle as Kellogg's fingers wrapped tightly around his face.

[Deploying Swiper...]

As this notification appeared in his vision, small thread like structures extended from the fingertips of his right hand and pierced the man's head. The man started to scream in pain.

[Extracting...]

The red veins around his right hand started to glow brighter.

[Extraction Complete]

[Target is Deceased]

The others watched in horror as their teammate stopped struggling and went limp. That person killed him.

[Memory fully integrated.]

Kellogg gave an evil smirk as he let go of the man. His eyes turned to the others.

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