Extra energy

Alberic (Aadi's youngest sibling)

One would think being the 22 years old and already a C-grade hunter would get more respect but instead it left one getting nearly assassinated and attacked on all sides more often than not, but he figured this would be the outcome when he chose to make his own guild then choosing already existing ones or joining the army.

The only reason they haven't tried framing him for something is due to his sisters influence that has grown with her now a high B-rank at the age of 31, not that it showed as she looked as young as a teenager due of the effects of energy but slowly people were beginning to grow displeased with the status quo thanks to the new shields and tunnel blockers allowing us to finally start expanding into new territory and reclaim what was lost all those years ago.

Purifiers where hatful of the government and seeing as we needed them to survive and thrive the more powerful awakened were starting to turn against the government, currently the highest grade is the s-grade fire pugilist who is highly compatible with my twin brothers making him a hidden backer for me along with my sister.

The nine of us all ended up doing very well and looking at how little potential our parents had the fact we all came out superior can only be questioned as by no means should so many high grades people be born from not even mediocre people.

I sit in my sister's room waiting for her to return from duty to talk about the things happening when I see a small notebook like object with a edge showing of someone piquing my curiosity as I never knew my sister to overly sentimental even to us her siblings, she showed familial loyalty but little else.

Pulling the notebook out and looking at the picture I freeze as in the picture are his elder siblings all young and smiling with naive and innocent looks to them, but the shocking piece was the boy oldest of them that had a happy but tired smile holding his newborn self in his arms, he had never really looked at any childhood photos as he didn't have any or so he thought until this moment as he knew that this had to be a family photo done anytime a new person is born to a government aide family.

I never seen the oldest boy before and never had anyone mentioned him before as well, I hear the door open behind me and turn only to have the photo yanked from my hand and my sisters pained and angry face looking back at me making me stop before saying anything.

She held the photo to her chest then picked the book I had dropped to the floor up sliding the photo in softly and gently before closing it and putting it softly back on the bookshelf before turning and looking at me with a fury I had never witnessed, "What do you think you are doing snooping around my room?"

"I didn't snoop it was leaning and I went to straighten it when I saw the picture, why did no one mention another sibling?" Because the lack of it was strange as although not the most loving family, we were always there for each other.

"There is no need." Is all she says clearly trying to kill the conversation and I let her prepared to look into it myself.

We spoke of what the military and he high standing people are doing and who can be killed easily and what the best course for the upcoming events are, after a while I leave and call the older of the twins to ask but as soon as I mention and older brother they hung up, and the same happened for most except for the ones who don't remember us having one at all.

Looks like this is more interesting than I thought and so I dug through old photos and records at the schools and hospitals until a police report from 22 years ago precisely my age appeared before me talking of someone in our old government housing unit as reported missing but was supposedly pronounced deceased without a body, strange but not unheard of I looked into it and found a video file linked with the case and watch as the boy I saw in the photo was doing farming in the old farming rooms before they were deemed too dangerous and watch with shock as a tunnel appeared directly behind him but the adults made it so he couldn't run.

The boy gripping the planting bed like life depended on it as it did for him, until a loose wooden board from some construction for a new planter sprung up and back straight into the boy's face sending him straight into the tunnel behind.

He felt surprised when the video continued showing the police coming and slowly the adventurers for the tunnel appeared clearly low level indicating this was a weak dungeon so why would this be evidence of death, but he watched them enter the tunnel and 5 hours later exit the tunnel with no one and an hour later it closed leaving his brother inside.

Staring at the screen he felt both numb and confused as it was adventurers' duty to search for people during a raid especially in such a highly crowded area so why had they clearly not cause even the fastest clearing team if they are searching properly should take 8 hours unless they are more than two grades over the tunnels grade, but these people clearly weren't, looking into it he discovered his brother was marked as the lowest ever seen talent known and was deemed a near waste at birth.

He knew that the worst the talent for physical cultivation the better the talent usually is for purification cultivation along with a weak body being the two biggest indicators so when this became known they probably buried my brothers' case to prevent backlash from losing potentially the highest-grade purifier.

Looking at this I felt confused why no one mentioned it until I looked at the hunter team and froze at the person one it, the S-grade fire pugilist was on it, and it was his first raid and the one to make him famous as the quickest to clear a dungeon, even a low grade one.

I knew the twins were with him and my sister often talked with him so why, why would they do such a thing if they knew?

Or maybe they knew and simply couldn't do anything for now due to his level but once I am powerful enough, they can easily use this as ammo against him when they say I was biting the hand that fed me when I eventually betrayed him for more power and control as I am sure they figured I would do but the dilemma is I know sooner than I am meant to so now what?

Looking at the situation it can only be best to forget I know until the best time to use this comes, so I will look away until our families long coming revenge can commence.

Aadi

I stood where we reappeared for a moment as what happened processed but slowly fell into contemplation as although everything said it was wrong, I could not deny my interest in such relationship with him, he was handsome and powerful with good position and family one really couldn't do better without literally looking for another planet but now was not the time to think on it as we needed to give the report on what happened on the fourth floor.

Reporting the role play parts and the missions that went against each other to an extent to the higher ups seem to have them on edge, but they simply let us head back to rest for a day before we intend to head out once more, it has been 7 years since we entered the new tower and slowly everyone's strength and knowledge have undergone transformation especially the void people who got access to mana on the third floor, soon we will have left the ten year period and make alliances and spark off wars as we will get our official nick name form the tower.

In my room I wait for Wyatt to come as I am sure he will as we have picked up the habit of him visiting me after events like this, sitting on his bed he thinks of how he has turned 32 while within the tower due to how much time it has taken to go from the tutorial to the fifth floor and by the time they get to the ten year mark he will probably just only finished the fifth floor if it isn't even longer then the last like the previous ones have been.

He is working on furthering his cultivation as he is trying to not overthink until he and Wyatt can talk but hearing the knock of Lucien he freezes as he knows Lucien and Wyatt don't always get along and he doesn't want his father to realize they may evolve to more than just a guarantor and guarantee.

Waiting to make it seem like he just didn't hear the first one he lets a slightly louder knock come before he moved to open the door and smile as he saw Lucien standing in front with Nilan beside him both with some food in hand and a small chocolate cake box under arm.

We talk and eat as we unwind, until finally they seem to decide whatever was bothering me was too much and asked, "Aadi what is the matter?"

I stop for a second but continue washing the used dishes with Lucien as Nilan wipes the table, I remain silent making my wish not to speak on the matter clear and they respect it but then I feel a small energy bit flow that I never felt before it was so thin I almost didn't notice but it made me freeze and jerk to look around.

Lucien seemed to notice and took on an amused look as Nilan has what could only be called exasperation written across his features, the ten coins passed from Nilan to Lucien proved this must be more than I thought.

"You felt the energy, didn't you?" Nilan asks.

Nodding in confusion I see Lucien smile softly and then grab my hand in a way he hasn't done since I was young and place it over his pelvic region, freezing as a thin energy is felt from such place and what it implies sinks in, Lucien is pregnant.