16 Incoming

After a happy family dinner, they all went to sleep. Amil and Zach were still sitting looking out the window.

"Do you miss living with humans...?" After a long silence, Amil asked Zach a hysterical question.

"No…not at all, your family today treated me as if my own. I have never felt how parents feel before nor did I care, but after today...I felt very good. As for missing humans, no…. I don't really have good memories there…" Zach said with a distant look.

Amil looked at him for a while and went to his room without saying anything.

In the morning, Amil woke up from the loud talking in the lobby. He opened his eyes and saw both pumpkin and fluffy still sleeping near him, without waking them, he directly went to the lobby finding his sister all pale-faced and both his parents serious.

"What happened...?"

Amil's parents looked at each other for a while and responded.

"The tribe's going to get attacked by a relatively large group of orcs. They are marching here as we speak."

Amil looked at them with a dumb expression. Orcs? What the fuck were those?

"Orcs?"

"They are an intelligent species like us, but the numbers are more. They are big in size, a child of your age there is 7 feet tall. The only thing good about them is their dumbness."

"But why attack us and especially our tribe...?!" Amil imagined those orcs and his soul left his body.

"Well…. according to the intel, the orc king tried eating a kobold and he liked the taste very much. He wants more and the closest kobold tribe to them is ours."

Amil became speechless for a while from the answer.

"So, what are we doing now? Run or fight?"

"Why will we run? Orcs are the dumbest thing in existence, they may even be dumber than pumpkin. We will fight them head-on as a family and this time together." They all including Drax shivered from the vicious grin on Kamil's face.

"I am going to train you both so we will go outside the tribe in some while."

"But when is the invasion?"

"Hm…. if the scouts are correct, in 5 days."

Amil nodded in seriousness. They ate dinner in silence until it was time to move.

"Then let's go now, I want all of them with us." She said giving a smile to Zach who looked at her in confusion.

After leaving the tribe, they did not enter the forest but a plain area.

"Now…. I want to teach you both some techniques of mine for the fight ahead. So, keep listening."

"First you all sit down on the ground in the most comfortable way you feel, in my case I go for cross-legged sitting."

Amil and Emil sat down, they both sat in the same way as her mother.

"Now…. close your eyes and try to empty your mind. Remember, you will not think of anything while the process."

'Meditation...' Amil thought.

Amil closed his eyes and tried to make his mind blank. The process looked easy, but it was tough as Amil's mind kept getting off track. Thinking of things that are not even necessary. Kamil could see their struggle as she faced the same problem at the start and from the duo's twitching eyes.

Amil kept doing it for 30 minutes till he got the notification, he opened his eyes seeing Emil already done with it.

[ Meditation (level 1) skill acquired]

"Now, it was just the first step, start doing the same thing till you get to level 3 of it," Kamil said as she started narrating the next step.

Amil and Emil kept meditating, since getting the skill, it had started being easy to clear the mind.

Around 6 hours later, Emil stood up and stretched her body. She got the third notification much earlier than Amil.

Amil kept meditating, he had lost the track of time, he knew that he got another notification but kept meditating aspiring for the next level up.

[ Meditation (level 2) skill level up]

Amil opened his eyes in satisfaction, after the meditation, his mind felt too much calm.

"I'm done, mother"

"Good….Your sister was able to complete it 4 hours before you."

"How much time did I take?"

"10 hours, but it's normal. Your sister is doing the next process, you will be able to get a new skill after it"

Amil thought for a few seconds, his mind was working better than before, he frowned slightly and asked.

"These skills are not related to our fight as they are all passives. Why are you teaching them to us right now?" Amil asked with a serious face. Kamil had a certain glint in her eyes listening to Amil's question and couldn't help but chuckle.

"…You're smart, as a reward…I will tell you the truth. It is very unlike that any of us will die in the fight especially you both as the leader himself will also fight. But in case I and your father do not make it, I want to leave my legacy to you both…" Kamil said with a mild smile. Amil looked at her with sadness, he did not know how to respond.

"I will learn all this for your peace of mind….but I won't let you die" He said with icy cold eyes. Kamil looked at him in surprise but then laughed.

"Okay okay, how can I die with my dear son protecting me~," she said trying to make the mood normal again. Amil scoffed and asked for an explanation.

"Now that you have the help of the meditation skill to clear your mind, in the blankness, try to feel the world around you, when you start getting a warm feeling, try to embrace it." She gave a vague explanation to him, and without any questioning, Amil went to work.

He closed his eyes again, and automatically without any resistance, started meditating. His mind became blank, and the distant voices of his parents talking about something also faded. He stayed like that for many hours trying to find the warmth her mother talked about. Some more hours passed with no progress. He got a notification in between but ignored knowing clearly it was not what he was looking for. He became desperate and looked more hard but alas his distraction led to a break in concentration.

"Urghh…I can't find it" He said all annoyed.

"Keep looking for it, it's only been 15 hours."

"15 hours!"

PA!

He grabbed his head in pain as Kamil hit his head very hard.

"Keep your voice down, or you will break your sister's concentration." She said while slightly frowning. He then felt something odd.

'Why isn't pumpkin coming, he can't stay this silent without food for so long?' He looked around and found pumpkin near a fire eating some food, fluffy was sleeping while Zach was not there.

"Mother, I know how to gain the whatever skill you are trying me to have, I will do it later, teach me something else till then." He looked at her with puppy eyes.

Kamil wanted to retort but alas the puppy eyes activated her motherly instinct.

"Sigh…Okay. Let me tell you some things that will help you later, okay?" She said to which Amil nodded furiously.

"When your skills reach level 10 which will not happen anytime soon, they will have some kind of bottleneck, there are some conditions which lead to its evolutions that we don't know about."

Amil looked at her in confusion, he couldn't understand why she was telling him something that will not come for a long time. As if understood what he was thinking, she continued.

"I was thinking that you have a skill that shows you evolutions and even the requirement, maybe after it levels up, it can show how the skills also level up." She said with her eyes sparkling. Amil thought about it and couldn't help but shudder in excitement. If he ever reaches that level and the evolution skill works like that then he may become way stronger than others.

"That is awesome, mother. I will remember it always and after the skill level up, I will help our whole family's skills to evolve" he said happily, Kamil shook her head while smiling, her son was thinking about the family even after getting to know something like this. What else does she want?

"Okay, enough about the future, show me your fighting skills now."

That day, Amil saw a new side of her mother. He was beaten to pulp 5 times and given a potion each time to become ready again. She had not used any skill or weapon, just her speed and fists made Amil rethink their relationship.

"Emil was right, you really are not that good with a sword. But what I have seen is that your mind is your greatest weapon. You use unpredictable techniques each time making it hard to hold back, I am proud."

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