Chapter 26

|3rd POV|

When Angelo got out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he did not realize that his newly awakened Aura also boosted his magic reserve.

Qrow, who is inside the submarine, can feel it like he is seeing a massive tree. He can feel it without even trying.

He looks at Angelo and says.

"What the hell is happening to you? It was as if you were a new person that just awakened their Aura. I can see it, smell it and feel it. Your Aura, I mean."

Previously, Qrow cannot feel any Aura coming from Angelo and think that he is a master in hiding his Aura, so people cannot sense him. How does Qrow know this? He is also a master in stealth. There is a reason why he is still alive even when his mission demands him to sleep in the forest.

"My Aura increased at high speed. I can't help it."

"Really? This late?"

Aura booster. It was a phenomenon where a hunter awakened their Aura for the second time. Many people jokingly say that this is a hunter equivalent of Aura puberty. When they experience an Aura Booster, their Aura will be boosted up to twenty times the original.

Usually, they only get double the amount of their original Aura reserve. Sometimes they will get the third amount of their Aura. The biggest boost ever recorded is twenty the amount of Aura they initially had.

Many people thought that this person would become the savior of the world. Sadly, they are wrong. He attracts Grimm like a light attracts moth with his massive aura reserve. Every kingdom he visits, they will get attacked by an enormous Grimm wave.

Because of this, he gets rejected by the four kingdoms and decides to make his own village. Sadly, he could not fight against Grimm non-stop and died from the Grimm attack. Because of this, twenty times Aura is more of a curse than a blessing. You can't fight against a million Grimm alone and win even with the help of a high-tech weapon.

"Yeah."

Angelo did not know what Qrow was talking about and decided agreeing with him was the best option.

"Anyway, are you going to take a mission?"

"Yeah. Ozpin decided to send me to Vacuo and hunt some Grimm there. Oscuro Academy decided to ask for our help in exterminating the growing Grimm around its facility. Do you want to come? I can ask Ozpin to take you with me."

"Nah. I still want to explore Vale. I will take the mission from the frontier village around Vale. With Beacon starting in a month, I want to gather enough money for Nora and Ren."

"Why? They will get money from Beacon after completing every mission given by the academy."

"They are like brother and sister to me, and like their big brother, it is my duty to give them something before they join the academy."

While Angelo says that, he does not know that Nora and Ren are inside their room, and they can hear what he is saying. They smile a little when they hear it. This is the first time they get another family member.

Since they start to roam around the continent, they never get a real family member. Some of the huntsmen take them under their wing out of pity and nothing more. When they are finished with the couple, they will disappear and never be seen again.

They never know it, but they always long for familial affection. They bury this feeling deep inside their hearts because they fear that their family will leave them once again. This is the first time they finally accept that Angelo is their big brother.

Before Ren could do anything, Nora got out of her room and leaped toward Angelo.

"Big brother!"

"Urgh!"

Angelo is surprised at Nora jumping at him and falls to the ground with Nora rubbing her head on his chest. He looked at her with a surprised expression before her word registered inside his mind. With a small smile on his face, Angelo pat Nora's head and says.

"Are you okay with me being your brother, Nora?"

Nora gets up and looks at Angelo as if he is an idiot.

"Of course! We did not want it otherwise."

Angelo chuckles a little, sits down, and says.

"I see."

"Renny! Come on! Group hug!"

Ren, who just got out of his room, gets dragged by Nora and does a group hug.

~A day later~

The Luna family decides to explore the kingdom of Vale after parking the submarine not too far away from Beacon. Angelo took the Emerald River on the northern side of Vale that connected to the docking area underneath Beacon academy.

Angelo parks his submarine a few hundred kilometers from Beacon, and when the beacon initiation starts, he can escort Nora and Ren to beacon himself.

For now, Angelo and his brother and sister decide to gather as much money as they can. Angelo wants to give his adopted siblings the best before getting into Beacon academy. Ren and Nora also want to make something for their big brother before entering the Beacon.

This is the reason why they take as many missions as they can. Right now, they are taking a mission from the village called Raos just north of Mt. Glenn. It was a village security mission. The mission said that a group of Grimm coming from the mountain and the village want it defeated.

"Ren! Take care of the Grimm in the sky!"

"Roger!"

Ren put his weapon together, and it changed into a sniper rifle within a second. He put his eye behind the scope and started hitting the Nevermore right in their head.

While Ren is busily snipping some Grimm, Nora uses her thruster to flatten some Grimm. With the help of her new thruster, she can use her gravity dust to do something she likes. She calls it Nora's boom-boom.

She swings her hammer at the Grimm's head, and with the help of Gravity dust, she makes the Grimm fly at high speed, hit the trees, and explode into black mist.

On the other hand, Angelo uses his sword and Sign to fight against the Grimm. He can move at high speed with his newly boosted body, and it looks like a blur to an average human. He always uses his Aard sign to do a difficult maneuver like moving in the middle of the air or suddenly changing direction when running by using the Sign to propel him to another direction.

Not only that, with his newly crafted Witcher's Sword, killing Grimm is even easier than before. He only just finished his Witcher's sword because it needs a large amount of mana. Witcher's Silver Sword is effective against monsters not because it was made of silver.

No. It was effective because a Sign on the sword enchants it to be effective against monsters, and Grimm is included in this territory.

Not only using his sword, but Angelo also uses his Rocket Launcher / Minigun / Railgun. Two days ago, Angelo finally got the RWBY tech tree, and he immediately created a long-range weapon he wanted with a few modifications.

All the machines and weapons in this tech tree can only work if there is dust powering it up, but with a few modifications, his weapon now works by using an ion power cell from the Subnautica tech tree after being able to replicate the ingredient needed for the ion cube.

He takes his gun from the bag of holding and changes it into a minigun when he sees a massive Ursa Major.

"Cry some more!" Angelo shouted and began to fire his gun toward Grimm. Each of the bullets pierces through the skin of the Grimm with ease. The hot laser pierces through as if there is nothing that stops them.

In the matter of half an hour, the three of them were able to defeat seventy Grimm around the village.

When Angelo sees there is no more Grimm in the arena, he nods his head and says.

"Ren, Nora. Let's go back."

"Yes! Ren! I want some pancakes! A victory pancake!"

"Yeah, yeah."