3 The Uniformed Man.
Exiting the plane along with dozens of passengers, we arrived at a military base on some island whose location was hidden.
For the record, all the passengers here were in fact young men and women whose age varied between 14-18.
"Uwaaa~~"
A girl exclaimed while taking everything on her view. Her cheerful personality was seemly contagious.
The young man who had an elder brother vibe also smiled passionately.
"I'm so excited! Aren't you too?"
The youth who was beside him nodded happily.
"Yeah, I still can't believe we are actually here!"
"My parents cried from happiness when they were contacted!"
"Tell me about it!"
As they started chatting, it become even more obvious that they were leaving me aside. Making their own social circle while giving their back to me.
But honestly, I couldn't really blame them. For the appearance of Wan Xiang was anything but easily approachable.
Possessing a tall build, short silver hair and blue deep eyes which contrasted with his sexy dark skin made an unexpected good combination.
Although Wan Xiang's face was very good looking, his imposing figure and the long scar over his right eye which supplemented his wild appearance, made him really hard to talk to.
Sighing to myself, I walked some distance from them and leaned on a wall nearby.
Although I felt somewhat lonely being left out, I was after all an almost forty year old man inside so I didn't felt depressed about it.
Taking out some earphones and putting them on, I started to recalled what happened 7 hours prior.
***
[ Congratulations, You have acquired: ]
[ 1 Otherworldly Ticket. ]
"The hell is that?"
I frowned while looking at the picture hoping to decipher its meaning, before I could understand, new sentences were added to the photo.
[ Your current Slayer aptitude is 0.99% ]
[ Unsuitable to become a Slayer ]
[ Do You wish to use 1 Ticket in exchange to awoke your slayer talent? ]
[ Warning; Tickets can only enhance the potential of a slayer aptitude, the content of said technique would be dependent on your inner psyche. ]
Widening my eyes, I was left stunned. Although I had an inkling that something like that was going to happen when the picture asked me about a reward, I thought it would surely be an artifact.
Never did I expected to truly awoke a talent!
If it was said there were 7.7 billion people in the world, then only less than an eight part were Slayers!
After all, not even the main character of the novel could awake his slayer talent despite his hard-working nature and could only depend on the mystical object he found with his overwhelming luck.
All in all, slayers were the only ray of hope for human kind, as such they were an epitome existence whose status were no different than a celebrity and in some cases could equal even the president!
Excitement filled my heart. Without considering for a single moment, I replied.
"Exchange!"
***
Strong and orderly steps resonated the place, waking me up from my thoughts.
Unfortunately, the excited youths were too eager about their future as they didn't notice the uniformed men who started to arrive at our location in an orderly manner.
When the kids discovered their presence, it was already too late.
Between the uniformed men, someone walked out and took a deep gaze at everyone, including me.
Suddenly, the room temperature dropped below cero and for a moment nobody talked, nobody dared to do so!
"You, what's your name?"
The uniformed man pointed at the dependable elder brother who moments ago had a fiery gaze, he was the one who gathered the group of youths together, if I had to give him an evaluation, I guess it would be that he has strong leadership qualities.
The young man quickly responded.
"I am called Zhang Chao!"
He nodded expressionlessly as he continued.
"Pick your things up, Zhang Chao."
The young man, Zhang Chao stood there blankly. He wasn't the only one shocked, everyone else felt the same.
The poor Zhang Chao thought he heard wrong and asked.
"Pardon?"
He couldn't believe it. He didn't even knew what did he did wrong to be suddenly removed from the candidates.
Even so, the uniformed man didn't turn to look at him again, he kept watching us as if trying to discern who was he going to send back this time.
Zhang Chao was suddenly grabbed like a prisoner by the other uniformed men, he didn't even had the time to plead as he was dragged out of the base.
Seeing such scene, the light-hearted atmosphere suddenly turned gloomy.
The uniformed man continued to watch each of our faces, each step he took was slow and deliberated, as if to purposely scare us.
And it was working.
The man didn't care as he stepped in front of the cheerful girl who exclaimed when we first arrived.
"You, What's your name?"
"Z-Zhong Rong..."
He nodded and started walking away, feeling relieved the girl sighed in relief. Unfortunately, the uniformed man spoke while his back faced her, although you couldn't see his face, by the sound of his voice it was obvious he didn't care at all about her fate.
"Pick your things up."
"Please wait!"
But her cries fell on deaf ears as more uniformed men drag her out of the base.
The imposing uniformed man continue to walk in front of us while staring each one of us.
With trembling hearts and backs drenched in cold sweat, everyone felt like an herbivore being watched by a depredator.
Suddenly my heart dropped.
The uniformed man had stopped...right in front of me.
With his cold and unfeeling voice, he called.
"You, what's your name?"
