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[Max] [Level: 20][30300/20000 Lifetime Points]!
[Points: 10700]

 

[Skills]

– Lust Meter (Passive)
– Child Making Mode (OFF)
– Sexual Aura (Passive)
– Time Stop
– Weakness Reader
– Sex Steal
– Purple Lightning
– Reverse Time
[Missions]

Mission 2: Have sex with a married woman! Reward: 2000 Points (0/1)
Mission 4: Take five women’s virginity! Reward: 12000 Points (2/5)
[Store]

 

[Women Conquered]

Yu’er (Sister) Level 8 [7350/8000 Lifetime Points]!
— Loyalty Meter: 100
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Max’s hair was wet as he looked at their Status. Beside him was Yu’er, the same with Max, her hair was still wet and she was only wearing a bathrobe.

When they finished their work out session, they went straight to the bathroom to take another shower. They even played for another round in there as still have a lot of time.

These past few days have really been stressful for them, overexerting themselves a lot of times.

Countless problems passed through their minds while they did everything they can to solve them one by one without much rest.

Thinking of plans, solutions and making critical decisions while also thinking about the future, worrying about some things that may or may not happen.

Now that they had the time to relieve some of their stress, they forgot everything and made full use of it to regain their peace of mind.

And so far it was working as they expected, looking at their slightly rosy faces with satisfaction written all over it. Relaxing on their bed with no signs of tension in any part of their bodies, Max took the chance to check their Status.

“Hmm? Little Dou where is the message that explains how much points we got from specific actions?”

This was the first time that the notification didn’t come out so Max instantly noticed it. He didn’t really need it, he was only asking as there might be a reason for it.

[Well, the System decided that it didn’t need to always show it as it’s always the same anyway. But if you wanted to see it, you can just ask me! Here take a look at it!]

 

[You’ve earned a total of 3500 Points!
• 50×2 Points for kissing and groping
• 200×3 Points for getting a blowjob
• 200×2 Points for cumming in her mouth
• 400×3 Points for having sex
• 400×3 Points for ejaculating inside her!]

 

“Meh, I don’t really care about seeing that every time. Yeah, I think that’s a good idea to just hide that.”

Max boredly said as he was always seeing it that he didn’t want to see it over and over again especially when there are no significant changes in it.

[There might be times when you will get a lot more points than usual due to some multipliers activating, at that time just tell me if you want to see it and I’ll show you!]

 

[Though that might not happen anytime soon!]

 

“Oh yeah, multipliers! I remember I got a multiplier x2 for NTR right? That was when Lydia had a boyfriend but that wasn’t even serious, still, getting x2 for that was really good.”

While Max was chatting with Little Dou, Yu’er was looking at the huge changes in her Stats.

‘Level 4 to Level 8? Rank 1 Middle Phase to Late Phase? That was fast! There are only a few people in the world who are capable of doing that.’

‘And they require a lot of resources to make that possible. But in my case, I didn’t have to use anything while also having high-quality energy in my body.’

“That was fast! But not as fast as me. *chuckles”

Once he was done speaking with Little Dou, he saw Yu’er looking amazedly at her Stats. Max couldn’t understand why she was like that, nevertheless, he still knew that it was quite fast.

“Did you feel stronger?”

“I didn’t feel anything.”

Yu’er stared at her hands as she didn’t notice any changes.

[Try it out and you will see!]

 

Little Dou advised, seeing that they were confused about it. She appeared to be more cheerful than usual, probably because she had a new playmate.

She had been picking on Mango, taking advantage of her ability to fly to prank him every time. Mango had been free to do whatever he wants as Yu’er wanted to keep him as a pet.

Layla and Lydia even petted him as they found him cute. As Mango was just a helpless pet in front of them, he chose to submit, tolerating their hands rubbing him all over.

He also knew that they were the future women of Max and if not now, he will still have to bear with them in the future so he just chose to enjoy it. Not that he liked it with his tail wagging excitedly.

Sometimes, Max would find Little Dou and Mango running around the open space in their backyard. Even though Mango had a mature attitude, sometimes he will forget about it, chasing Little Dou everywhere.

Yu’er did just what Little Dou said, she tested how stronger she became if she really did get stronger as she didn’t feel anything.

Reaching out for a pillow, Yu’er tore it in half. What she found out was that she really got stronger and it’s quite a big change too.

First, she needed less energy to use her skill. Restoring the pillow back to its previous condition, not feeling tired one bit.

Yu’er also found out that the maximum range of her skill became a little bit wider when Max asked her to try it out.

She felt really weird that she couldn’t feel any changes when in the past she always felt it.

[Remember what I said about energy as pebbles? Basically, if you have pebble-like energy, you would feel it and if you have the sand-like energy, you won’t!]

 

[Because it would be like your blood, you can’t feel it moving all over your body right?]

 

“Hmm, if her skill can get stronger with just leveling up, what’s the point of upgrades?”

Max wasn’t thinking properly when he asked, it was just a passing thought that he said mindlessly as it came up in his mind.

[There will be a lot of changes like she would be able to concentrate her skill on just a single point!]

 

[Think of it as her being able to save energy by not wasting it on other places that don’t need it!]

 

[There are a lot more! Just know that it will be a lot stronger and it will be something you won’t ever expect!]

 

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Max held Yu’er close, kissing her and whispered how good it felt while also running his hands all over her long smooth legs.

He slowly slid his hands between her legs as he gave one soft slap on her clit with his two fingers.

She let out a loud involuntary moan and begged,

“You want to do it already?”

Yu’er gave Max a mischievous smile as she felt that Max couldn’t wait a little longer and wanted to stick his dick in her now.

“Ahn!”

Max didn’t respond as he continued showering his sister kisses, at the same time, sliding two fingers deep inside her very damp pussy, which induced her to let out a scream.

As she was soaking wet, Max didn’t wait any longer and moved between her legs and placed his still erect and ready for another round dick at the entrance of her sweet pussy.

Her lustful face quickly changed to a smile,

“Push it in.”

Max tapped his dick on her clit. Yu’er moaned, getting into it as Max moved his dick between her sopping wet pussy lips, but not pushing it inside, feeling just a bit of her warmth.

“Oh, put it in now. I want to feel your hard dick in me,”

Yu’er moaned, moving her waist up, trying to get his dick in her.

“How bad do you want it?”

It was Max’s turn to tease her back and seeing her face full of desire makes his dick even harder, resisting the temptation to bury his dick inside her.

“So bad!”

Not giving her any warning, Max slid his dick inside her warm and wet passage. Yu’er moaned loud while trying to tempt Max with her alluring voice,

“Oh! Faster!”

Max obliged as he leaned down with his face buried between her big firm breasts. He then began thrusting in and out as fast as he could. He felt he was in pure heaven.

Max had been having passing thoughts of wanting to have sex since Layla and Lydia arrived at their house. Sneaking glances at their hot bodies gave him hard-ons occasionally that he had to hide it by moving to a more comfortable position.

He had been waiting for this, imagining the pleasure he would be feeling, but it wasn’t as good as he was currently experiencing with his dick buried in his sister’s warmth.

“Suck my nipples. Just like you did a while ago.”

Max did just what she said, going back and forth between her lush breasts, sucking, nibbling and biting.

Every once in awhile, he got so intoxicated playing with his sister’s big melons and her loud moans when he added pressure to his nipples that he stopped fucking her.

But every time he stopped, Yu’er would move her waist so he would resume on pounding her.

Few moments passed, Max felt that Yu’er was close as he felt her pussy walls tighten around his dick as she screamed from extreme pleasure,

“Max, I’m close! I’m coming! I’m coming on your dick!”

Max leaned up and shoved his tongue down her throat while he fucked her through her climax. Their tongues swirled around each other, and he began to feel his balls tighten with his sensitivity heightening.

“I’m going to come soon, sis.”

“Yes! Oh! Max, now cum inside your sister!”

Those words were like a lightning bolt straight to his dick, and in seconds he was coating his sister’s soaked walls with his cum.

Yu’er bucked her ass up, meeting each thrust as she moaned,

“Fill me with your seed. Yes! Ahnn! Yesss!”

Once Max was done, filling her up completely, he collapsed on top of her and rolled to her side. Yu’er looked into his eyes with complete bliss while panting, gasping for breath.

Before Max could do anything, he was surprised as Yu’er went down on him, taking his dick back into her mouth.

“Wait!”

Max didn’t continue his words any longer, feeling that he should enjoy the sight of Yu’er bobbing up and down his dick, occasionally giving it long licks that send shivers down his spine.

Yu’er continued this for a few minutes, while Max watched as she stroked his dick with her hand while sucking the head of his dick.

It wasn’t long until Max felt that he was reaching another orgasm, but he didn’t want to only cum in her mouth, so he pulled back and instructed,

“Get on all fours, sis.”

“Are you ready for another round, sis?”

He added, looking at his sister’s back hole that was fully exposed in front of him. Unexpectedly, Yu’er pushed her ass out, even more, searching for his dick.

She gave Max a look with one of her brows arched up that urged him to start shoving his dick deep inside her.

“Ahhh!”

Max pushed his dick deep inside her in one go. There was a slight resistance at first as she wasn’t expecting it, but once he had penetrated deep enough, his dick easily slid inside in and out of her.

Yu’er let out a whimper and moaned, “Ah! Do it faster this time!”

Max slapped her ass as he suggested,

“Let’s move together.”

Yu’er moaned again as they both moved with Max penetrating her repeatedly while she began to ride his dick, meeting him in the middle of his thrust.

At first, her movements were timid and slow, but after a couple of minutes, she began to get used to doing it and began to move faster.

Soon, his entire length was disappearing rapidly inside her as they matched their movements. Max watched in complete satisfaction as his sister bounced back on his dick.

Max grabbed each of her cheeks for balance as he picked up the pace. A mixture of moans and whimpers escaped Yu’er’s mouth.

Although she seemed so focused on what she was doing, not saying anything, Max realized what she was doing.

She was determined to take his dick up her womb. With each thrust, another whimper escaped her mouth.

Then suddenly, without warning, she leaned forward and then in one quick push back took all his length back inside her.

“Haahnn.”

Max just kneeled behind her, seemingly allowing Yu’er to adjust to his dick, filling her completely, touching the entrance of her womb.

Slowly, Yu’er began to move back and forth, fucking herself on his dick. Once she got used to the feeling of his head, hitting her deep entrance, she began to accelerate her pace.

After a few minutes of steady increase, Yu’er finally began to bounce back on his dick, her ass slapping onto his thighs.

Yu’er’s constant hard and fast thrusts that made Max experience the pleasure that he could never imagine before.

Max focused at his sister as she moaned whimpered then began breathing erratically while her hand went towards her clit.

She began rubbing herself frantically while continuing to impale herself on his dick. Finally, seemingly reaching her climax, she screamed.

“Oh, yes! I’m coming again! I have never come like this, Max. Yes!”

Her thighs began shaking, clearly going through a mind-blowing orgasm from having her pussy fucked deep and hard. Watching her quiver on his dick got him boiling, pushing her onto her, fucking her deep and hard.

Each deep thrust had her letting out indescribable grunts from as Max continued pounding her sensitive pussy.

A few seconds later, Max collapsed onto her as his cum shot straight to her womb, giving him a feeling of satisfaction, knowing that his sister’s womb was full of his cum.

Now exhausted, they both lied together beside each other. Yu’er turned to Max, facing him directly, giving out a satisfied smile on her sweaty face.

“That was amazing!”

 

 

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“That went well?”

“Yeah, I wasn’t expecting it either.”

It’s been a few minutes since Layla and Lydia went home. After all their serious discussions, they talked about the usual stuff, sometimes chatted about Awakened news that they can think of.

Max learned a lot this time. He felt peaceful while hanging out with them. They even ate together before they went out.

It was Yu’er who made their meal that earned her some compliments from the two sisters. Currently, they were back in their room, as Yu’er showered and Max waiting for her on the bed.

They had an understanding of what’s going to happen in the next few minutes, and it was evident from his heavy breathing that Max was eagerly waiting for it.

Sounds of footsteps were heard as Max turned towards the bathroom. There, he saw his sister walking towards him with a thin robe that barely contained her big breasts.

Yu’er saw Max staring at her and asked in a seductive tone,

“Is my little brother getting hard checking out his sister?”

Max held his breath as he attempted to pretend he wasn’t distracted by her body and the white flesh he saw peeking out of her thin robe.

She laughed, as her sweet voice sounded out,

“I’ll take that as a yes.”

When she got close to Max, her hands went on his legs. Leaning forward, her hot breath on his ear, her hand cupping her breast,

“Do you want this?”

Max let out an involuntary moan, brought on by her hot breath as he focused his gaze to her breasts that were peeking out as Yu’er wanted to tease him.

She went on to squeeze his fully erect dick and with her tongue now licking his ear and whispered,

“Oh, your dick is already rock hard. Are you hard for your sister?”

Max’s brain was no longer functioning normally. He nodded as he stared at her like a starved animal; hints of lust can be seen in his eyes.

Yu’er bit his ear, her hand rubbing his dick through his shorts,

“Are you feeling it right now? You can start touching me, you know.”

She opened one side of her robe as it fell to her side, her big left breast popped out in full view. Her nipple was erect, which meant she was getting turned on too from all of this.

Max immediately leaned forward and took it into his mouth. Her moan on his ear was making him more aroused. He sucked it into his mouth and used his tongue to swirl around it.

“Ahh, that feels so good. Suck in harder.”

They had an agreement to take it slower and enjoy themselves to the fullest as they aren’t short on time, and it’ll be more satisfying.

Following her words, Max sucked her nipple harder at the same time, biting it gently that resulted in her moaning out on his ear again,

“That’s it.”

Continuing for a few minutes, Yu’er pulled away while saying,

“That’s enough for now. It’s time for me to help you back.”

Max lifted his waist as Yu’er pulled out his shorts, leaving his dick open for everyone to see. Yu’er took his dick in her hand and lightly stroked it.

Before he could say anything, Yu’er opened her little mouth and leaned forward. Her warm mouth felt more amazing than anything he had ever felt before from others.

Max wasn’t sure if it was because this was happening now, but he could only close his eyes as he indulged in the pleasure he was feeling. His body melted while his mind blanked.

Yu’er began slowly moving up and down on his dick, taking about half of it in her mouth.

In just over a minute, Max could feel the undeniable feeling in his balls and knew he was going to come soon.

Involuntarily, he grabbed Yu’er’s head and held it in place as he quickly fucked her gorgeous face. She let out a surprised sound but didn’t stop what she was doing.

After a couple of pumps between her small lips, Max shot his cum down her throat. When he was done releasing all of it deep inside her, he let go of her head, saying,

“Ha, Ha. So good.”

At this point, Max’s legs were open with his sister positioning her head between it. As Max knew that they still had a lot of time, he wanted to experience it again.

But seeing that his sister was touching herself with one of her hands, he thought of a good idea where they can reach each other at the same time.

Max gave his sister a short kiss that lasted only for a second or two then whispered something in her ear.

Yu’er face turned redder than her hair but never said anything about it. She had already tried it in the past that she had no problem doing it again.

She even seductively removed her robe, positioning herself on top of Max, with her hole directly in front of him.

Max’s dick was still hard. Releasing it once was not enough for him. This time, he’s not going to stop until he is completely sucked dry.

Max curled one of his arms around Yu’er’s thighs, intending on devouring her pussy as if it were his last meal.

Yu’er started to lick Max’s dick all over as she placed herself over his face, she guided her rear end down over him to begin his task. She stuck out her tongue proceeding to slide it back and forth, making Max shudder in pleasure.

Max remembered what he was supposed to do as he licked and nibbled all along his sister’s inner thighs. Starting at the outer parts, Max slowly worked his way to her already soaked pussy lips.

Each of which he gently sucked until it was swollen twice its size. Once Yu’er’s labia were fully engorged, Max parted them with his tongue and began licking up & down with long stiff tongue strokes.

Max gripped her ass at times, massaging, releasing then gripping it again. Yu’er tried to keep all of her weight off of him, which began to be extremely difficult as the sensation he gave her spread throughout her body.

Max seemed to enjoy pleasing her as much if not more than he did being brought to climax. Her taste was delicious, and Max was getting addicted to it.

Their lewd smell was also spreading out the room, causing them to feel hotter all over their bodies.

Max varied the intensity of his licking so perfectly that his sister felt her peak getting closer, especially with her heightened state of arousal.

“I’m close.”

Max gave his sister a notice so that she won’t be surprised, but Yu’er acted like she never heard anything, still playing with his dick inside her mouth. Sucking and licking while massaging his balls.

“Ugh.”

Max let out huge loads of cum as Yu’er continued to suck it all in her mouth.

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as every muscle in her body suddenly contracted, followed by a series of loud muffled moans coming out of her and a stream of fluid which all exploded from her pussy.

Naturally, Max’s face got a good soaking. Though he didn’t complain, just the opposite as the satisfaction he gets from bringing a woman orally to an explosive climax was very pleasing.

Giggling as she cleaned him, Yu’er rose from Max’s face only to plop down next to him, exuding a beautiful look of afterglow on her face.

 

 

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In the end, they had to agree with what Lydia said. Max took the chance to check her out as he couldn’t help but compare her present delicate appearance to how cool she looked when she was fighting.

While she was fighting, Lydia was displaying a tremendous amount of confidence that made it look like she was only playing. Even when their fight ended, not a single scratch reached her clothes.

Max wondered how long has it been since she started training because from how she fought, he knew that he wouldn’t stand a chance against her if he were to only use his body strength and his Purple Lightning.

“Seeing that we don’t know any more about it, let’s put this aside for now.”

“Next would be about Awakeneds.”

Yu’er moved on to the main reason they were here as she wanted to get this over with as soon as possible.

All of them didn’t know where to start as they looked at each other.

“So we agree that all of us were Awakeneds, right?”

Layla focused her gaze on her, still not believing what she heard.

“You really are…?”

“Yeah.”

“Since when?”

“The same with Max. A long, long time ago.”

Layla couldn’t believe that she had been an Awakened for a long time. Not only that, what she was surprised the most was an Awakened managed to hide among them at school.

It made her think that maybe more Awakeneds were hiding somewhere, committing to her memory that she should be warier at school just in case.

“By the way, please keep it a secret to anyone even if they’re close to you. Okay?”

Layla and Lydia nodded as they knew the seriousness of this, and as they’re close friends, they wouldn’t do anything to put them in danger.

“Don’t tell anyone about us too okay?”

Once she finished saying this, Layla felt the heavy feeling inside her disappear. Her face became brighter as all her problems have now been resolved.

Furthermore, seeing that nothing changed between them made her happier. She looked at Lydia, who felt the same as her then to Max, who was lying down on the bed with a relaxed expression.

She knew that everything went surprisingly well. Not even close to what she was imagining would happen.

There was also one more thing that contributed to her happiness. It was about Lydia’s relationship with Max.

Now that Max was an Awakened, she doesn’t need to speak with Lydia about it anymore as there’s no problem with two Awakeneds being in a relationship.

She thought there are even Awakeneds who have multiple women out there. An image came to her mind with her grabbing Max’s arm and her little sister grabbing him on the other side.

Her face blushed as she slightly shook her head, wanting to forget it. But the time when Max was having sex with her little sister kept playing on her mind.

She clearly remembered Lydia’s face filled with pleasure as she moaned out, imagining how good it must have felt for her to be like that.

Thinking about Max’s dick, her eyes gleamed with desire as her crotch started to get wet.

‘Why am I thinking about this.’

Layla thought about different things to forget about it. She didn’t notice her little sister glancing at her as her eyes were shining weirdly, random thoughts run across her mind.

As their main problem was resolved, and their relationship didn’t seem to change, Yu’er didn’t waste the opportunity to get more information.

“Hey, do you know any happenings in this city? Do we have to watch out for something? Any news at all?”

“We’re not sure about this. I think there was an increase in the number of rogue Awakeneds going in this city.”

“Maybe it was only a coincidence. But it wouldn’t hurt to be more careful.”

“How much money are they getting anyways? Couldn’t they, you know steal some?”

Max had some thoughts about stealing money from others. After all, he has the capability, and he wasn’t kind-hearted enough to avoid doing those things.

In the past, he had fantasies of cleaning businesses of all their money if he had superpowers and when Xiao Ming arrived, it was the trigger that made him consider doing that.

But he didn’t understand why would Awakeneds work for ordinary people only for money if they can easily steal from them.

It was contradicting as Awakeneds can do dirty work for others, but they can’t do it for their gains. Why work for someone if they can get it themselves.

“They can. The amount of money they get from one job was minimum in the hundreds of millions.”

“The businesses that have those amounts of money would surely have an answer to robbers, even when they’re Awakeneds.”

“There is some Awakened organization that offers security services. Those people are annoying, acting like heroes.”

“How did you know all that?”

Max looked attentively at Layla. From her words, she probably had the thought of doing it in the past.

Layla only responded with a smile that Max gave up knowing more about it as he knew that he wouldn’t be getting an answer no matter what.

Now that she thought about it, Alice asked her if Max was an Awakened. Did she know about it back then? Layla didn’t think so as if Alice knew about it, she would give her a warning.

“Just a heads up, Alice has some suspicions about you being an Awakened.”

Layla didn’t bother hiding it as she notified Max about Alice. It’s not like she was supposed to keep it a secret as Alice never hid her identity from other people.

“So she was really an Awakened? She had been staring at me throughout the party that I was almost certain that she was the same.”

“Yeah, but unlike others, Alice doesn’t care if people know that she’s an Awakened. She said there’s no point and it would do more good than bad if people knew about it. It’s not like people will know what skill I have, she said.”

“Then, what do you think about her?”

“Hmm, she isn’t a bad person. We’ve been close for a few years now. If she came off to you as a cunning person, it was because she was born in a business-minded family.”

“Calculating and analyzing things on her mind before she makes a decision was normal for her. She said logical decisions are what’s gets you an edge compared to normal people as they include feelings in their decisions.”

“So don’t mind her habit of coming off as a cunning woman. Don’t distance yourself away from her just because of that.”

“She’s a nice person that helped me so much through the years.”

Layla told her what she thinks about Alice, not realizing that she was slowly trusting them more and more.

After a few more exchanges, they talked and laughed like how they usually do in the past. Max felt that Layla and Lydia were treating him better compared to the last time they were here.

It was a good thing, and Max has no problem with it. Now he was becoming more comfortable around them, considering them as his first real friends.

 

 

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“They’re here. That’s quite fast.”

The two were expecting that they would have to wait a few hours before they would arrive as they might have something else to do.

Hurriedly preparing themselves, the two of them went to answer the door.

Max gulped as he followed behind his sister. He was quite nervous, thinking about the possibility of the two sisters deciding to distance themselves from them.

This was the first time someone knew they were Awakeneds, and Max didn’t know how it would go.

Would they treat them as strangers? Would they cut their relationship with them? Or, would they treat them the same way?

“Hey! we’re here again.”

*hugs*

Max closed the door as Yu’er and Layla hugged each other. His mind was racing as he stood there, watching them interact.

He looked as both their smiles slowly disappear, turning into a solemn expression.

Lydia stood beside him all along, and the same with Max, she was just as nervous inside.

Not just the two of them, Yu’er and Layla have the same fears, that their relationship would be affected as they knew Awakeneds were rarely close to each other.

“Let’s go upstairs. To my room.”

As the atmosphere got silent, not having more to say to each other, Yu’er moved their attention somewhere else.

They followed as Max guided them upstairs, straight into their room. It never came to the sister’s mind that Max and Yu’er were sleeping in the same bed since the place was designed for a girl.

Max thought, worst case, he can show his messy room in the basement. Silence enveloped the whole room as no one knows where to start.

“Okay.”

One person broke the silence as she couldn’t stand it anymore; it was Yu’er. In her mind, she assumed that after they got inside, Layla or Lydia would start asking them questions.

Realizing that they were being affected by all of this the same way as them, Yu’er regained her confidence.

‘If I do this normally, then we might even be closer as we don’t need to hide anything to each other anymore.’

As three pairs of eyes looked intently at her, she correctly organized her words, starting,

“Let’s talk about all of this then. We’re all fine with it, right?”

*nod*

*nod*

*nod*

“Max told me everything that happened, but there were a few things I’m confused about.”

“First, who is this Xiao Ming? Why don’t I know him?”

Yu’er laid her eyes on Layla, wanting to hear her explanation. When Max was telling her about the things that happened at the party, it was one of the questions that she couldn’t get out of her mind.

Layla, on the other hand, was expecting her to ask this question. It was because there was a good reason for it. She wasn’t able to hide her smile as she remembered why Yu’er never knew about Xiao Ming.

“Remember what happened in our first year at high school? When a senior tried to molest one of your friends?”

“You beat him up so bad that he was traumatized. Every day, he would do anything he can to hide from you. A lot of people watched as you beat him too much that he screamed for his parents in pain.”

“I’m not sure about it, but I think you also threatened that if he told anyone that it’s you who did it, you would do something to him. I’m not sure what though.”

“The principal even tried to hold you accountable for it, but he spouted all sorts of lies such as falling down the stairs, and people beat him up after school just so that you won’t be punished for it.”

“In the end, the principal wasn’t able to do anything as there was no physical evidence that shows it’s you who did it, and the victim himself said that it wasn’t you.”

“The guy only stayed for a year before switching to another school as he didn’t want to continue his life hiding from you every day.”

“Xiao Ming was one of that guy’s friend. So that explains everything. Why Xiao Ming didn’t do anything about it.”

“He probably did something. He might have sent people for you, but since you’re an Awakened, they weren’t able to do anything.”

“As it was him who sent them, he knows first hand that you aren’t someone he can deal with so he never bothered you at school, treating you like an untouchable existence.”

“Most people at school also know that they better keep their distance from you as rumors of your doings still exist. They call you the girl with a fiery personality. Never offend her, or you will have to switch school.”

Yu’er’s lips twitched as she heard what Layla said. Everything she said was right, and her being attacked indeed happened, but she never cared about weak people attacking her, so she didn’t bother finding who it was.

“If Xiao Ming knew you were Max’s sister, he probably wouldn’t even try anything with him.”

Max and Lydia looked at Yu’er in astonishment. They never heard that rumor as it was mostly circulated among the guys and Max wasn’t close to any of them.

Looking at Layla holding back from laughing, Max, and Lydia, who was staring at her weirdly, she coughed to cover her embarrassment.

“Then onto the next subject, why did Xiao Ming pick on my brother?”

Not that she was having second thoughts, Yu’er would surely get revenge, but still, she wanted to know how did everything started to be sure that it was Xiao Ming that aimed for Max, not someone else behind him.

“Max said that they never knew each other and that was the first time they’ve met. If he was avoiding me, why would he try something with my brother?”

“That’s contradictory to what he wanted to achieve. Let’s say that he didn’t know that Max was my little brother as not a lot of people at school knows about it because we barely spoke at school.”

“Even in that scenario, there’s still no explanation why he will send someone to attack Max. Maybe the attack isn’t directed at him? What do you think?”

Yu’er turned towards Layla, but she never got any reply as Layla herself doesn’t know why all that happened.

“I think it was because of Max and my sister.”

Everyone stared at Lydia as she faintly voiced out her thoughts. She had always been the most reserved one in the room, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t paying attention.

It was the opposite. Even though Lydia was mostly silent, she had been very attentive to her surroundings, habitually liked to watch others from afar.

From her observation, she had enough reason to believe that they were attacked because of Max.

Although it was a bit petty, it was Xiao Ming they were talking about, and Lydia thought that she might be right about this.

Adding all her experiences dealing with Xiao Ming and knowing how he reacts with these kinds of situations, further supported her conclusion.

“Because he might have felt humiliated that time. First, it was when Max talked back condescendingly at him. And second, maybe he was jealous when my big sister sided with him.”

“He probably felt that he should let Max know his place so that he would stay away from Layla. That’s why he sent people for us.”

Layla wanted to hit her head somewhere for not thinking about it. It was a stupid reason, but this was Xiao Ming, and his head doesn’t process things normally.

 

 

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The man was reluctant. However, as he didn’t want to risk spoiling their years of partnership, he had no choice but to go back to look for his partner.

He grew more alert as he cautiously moved closer to the area where he fought with them. After making sure that there wasn’t anyone anymore, he started to survey the whole place.

The man was shaking as he turned his head to every sound he hears. It was evident that he was scared, scared that the people he fought were waiting to ambush him somewhere.

Fear clouded his mind, not remembering that he was better than them in hiding and there’s no way for them to find him if he wanted to hide. He continued to slowly search for any traces of his partner.

The more he looked, the more he was surprised. It was because everything that they destroyed in the fight went back to the way it was like nothing happened.

He was weirded out by it, making sure he wasn’t dreaming. He also thought whether this was a trap as he had no explanation on how the place got restored this fast to its previous condition.

Couldn’t contain his fear anymore, he stopped his search, running at high speed away from the area that he thought was a trap, promising to not go back anywhere near to this area again.

As for his partner, he reasoned to himself that he was probably dead or caught, and he was helpless to do anything about it. He’ll say that he died, thinking that they aren’t that close anyway and their partnership was solely for money.

“What!? You can’t say anything?!”

The man remembered where he was, then went on to curse Xiao Ming, not daring to say it out loud. The only thing he can do was refute him in his mind.

‘What do you want me to say? Huh? That I killed him? You know that’s not possible, he’s a lot stronger than me! And I tried finding him! Though I didn’t find anything, I still tried!’

“Useless!”

*glass breaking*

Xiao Ming threw a vase to the man, but he wasn’t successful as it was heavier than he imagined. It only fell a few feet in front of him.

“How could you even lose your partner when I just asked you to scare a few kids!?”

“Boss, you didn’t say anything about them being Awakeneds, that’s why we failed.”

“What!? You’re blaming me now?! I said that you should scare them! How would someone die just because you tried to scare them!? What? Tell me! They’ll kick you to death?!”

“W-We did scare them. One guy even hid inside their car the whole time. But as they were Awakeneds, they wouldn’t let us go!”

The man acted like he was nervous, but on the inside, he was pissed.

‘Hmph, if you didn’t have any money, then we wouldn’t be here. It was too bad that my partner died.’

‘But the good thing is, all the money we have will be all mine. Hahaha! Tsk. You’re nothing but an ordinary human, meant to be used by Awakeneds like us.’

‘After getting everything I can from you, I will start my life in another place far away. I can’t be implicated with this mess.’

The man never considered warning him about the situation; after all, he couldn’t care less.

‘On second thought, I still couldn’t shake this feeling that something bad will happen… Then it’s decided. I will leave tonight. I only have one life, and it’s not worth exchanging it for some money that I can earn elsewhere.’

The man quickly came up with a decision like it wasn’t his first time doing it. He would never know that his decision right now saved him from dying pointlessly.

“Do you think I’m stupid? With your skill, you can easily escape! The only way you would get hit like that was when you were facing their way, that means you fought them. Isn’t that right?”

Xiao Ming gave out a confident smile, thinking how smart he is for analyzing their fight from only looking at his wound.

As the man decided to leave tonight, he no longer cares about his blabbering and what happened a while ago. But this guy’s smile was annoying him so much.

He wanted to beat him up right there, but he stopped himself as he remembered the road, lands, plants, and trees that quickly got restored. He concluded that only someone powerful could do that.

He just wanted to get away from here as fast as possible. So he started his act,

“Yes, yes! We thought they were too weak and wanted to play with them, but we got too careless that I became like this and my partner died.”

“I’m sorry, boss! This won’t happen again!”

The man kneeled the floor as he pretended to be remorseful. Xiao Ming’s eyes shined as his lips twisted into a smile.

Looking like everything was in his control, he flatly responded,

“Hmph! Why am I even paying you a lot of money only for you to fail.”

“Get out. There will be no next time for this.”

The man hurriedly went straight for the door like it was the door to his freedom, which was partly true as he just evaded danger by deciding to move away and never coming back.

Xiao Ming sat down on his chair as he thought about everything that the man said. He was surprised to know that Layla and her sister were an Awakened.

But in the end, he passed it off like it was unimportant as he doesn’t care about it one bit. No one could blame him as people like him don’t know much about Awakeneds except that they’re a little stronger than ordinary people and they can be used to beat someone up.

Xiao Ming also had no choice but to let the man go since it wasn’t easy to find someone like him but thought of getting rid of him when he gets someone stronger.

…

Currently, Max and Yu’er were at home, discussing their plans about what to talk about when Layla and Lydia arrived.

Max made sure to tell his sister every single word that he told them when they asked about him being an Awakened so that their story would match.

Both of them decided not to lie too much and instead avoid topics they didn’t want to talk about.

“So that’s all?”

Max quickly got everything that his sister said as it’s not that complicated and they weren’t going to tell them a big lie that he had to remember.

“Yes. If there are others, just answer like you normally do but don’t expose too much. I’ll add some topics to talk about so that it’ll make all of us as comfortable as possible.”

“The only goal we have is that we should tell them about us being Awakeneds and make them treat us like how they do in the past. That’s all. If all of us can be closer, then that’s a plus.”

*ding dong*

 

 

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Max exhaled as he calmed down, knowing that despite all of the things that happened, he didn’t make anything worse. Until now, he still couldn’t believe that some people dared to attack them.

He didn’t know whether they were strong enough or they just got lucky to go out of that unscathed, but he promised himself to get a lot stronger so that situations like those would never happen again.

Next time, it will be him who will protect them or maybe they will fight together as they won’t let him fight on his own, especially his sister.

In his mind, there are only two kinds of people, his family, and friends on his side, and others. That was not influenced by what happened, but it’s just how he looked at things.

His conviction made him realize that he needed to have the Magical Space as soon as possible.
It will be the safest place for them as no one would be able to locate them.

While he was thinking about that, his sister also had something on her mind,

‘Xiao Ming, wherever you are, we will get you back. Let’s see what you can do after we’re done playing with you.’

Fury was hidden deep in her eyes as she thought of ways to get their revenge.

“Sis!!!”

“Huh?”

Yu’er confusingly turned to max, not understanding why he was shouting so close to her.

“You were giving off a strong pressure! What was that!?”

“Are you thinking about Xiao Ming? Hmph, don’t worry, we’re not going to let them off. Sending Awakeneds for us, wait for me to…”

Max stopped what he was saying as he didn’t want his sister to be mad at him for thinking about those things but what he didn’t know was that there’s nothing for him to worry about.

Yu’er mentally praised her little brother, seeing that he was starting to learn some things. Weak-minded people will be stepped on in the world of Awakeneds as Awakeneds would use anything they can to achieve their goals.

There are some good Awakeneds or good organizations throughout the world, but most of them were only hiding their dirty secrets, and those that were genuinely good were rare.

One interesting fact though was that those who were genuinely good are usually some of the strongest in the world.

There are weak ones that have good personalities, but they never get to live for long as they were always the easiest to prey on.

Yu’er doesn’t want Max to be like them, but she would never do anything to force him on doing things he doesn’t want to do.

The only thing she can do was to guide him, and it’ll all be left for him to decide. Seeing Max getting furious and hungry for revenge, Yu’er felt delighted inside, knowing that their attitudes were not far from each other.

“It’s good that you didn’t fight with him. We can just get him back, smart enough that he wouldn’t think it was us.”

“Won’t he suspect us because Xiao Ming knows himself that he asked someone to attack us? If something happened to him, he would immediately know who it was.”

“No, they won’t. If we investigate them enough to find their enemies, we can copy and use their faces. After that, everything will be easy.”

“We can also make it look like an accident or something unexplainable, and with the Store, everything will be possible.”

“We can also plan their end, making them fall from having everything, down to nothing. If you think about it, they’re only big in this city but not big enough for us to be scared of.”

Max stared at his sister with his mouth wide open, not expecting those words to come out of her.

“What are you staring at me like that?”

“Did you just say all that?”

“Oh. Well, you’re a new Awakened after all, haah.”

“Let me tell you this. The reality is that Awakeneds kill and scheme against each other everywhere around the world. That’s why organizations and groups exist so that they would have other people to lean on for security.

“This city is pretty tame compared to cities that were full of Awakeneds or even just those bigger cities, in general, definitely has some malicious people.”

“They kill each other for reasons like revenge. Some kill people without any reason, and that has been happening for a long time.”

“There are still a lot of things I will tell you. Just absorb the information slowly, you’re a new Awakened after all, I don’t expect you to get it easily.”

Yu’er straightforwardly told Max a few things so that he would know more about Awakeneds. She didn’t tell him everything as the things that she excluded were just minor issues.

She doesn’t want him to be overloaded with information then remembering the minor things and forgetting the important ones.

“And also, you aren’t sure if the person that escaped saw you using your skill?”

“Yeah, we couldn’t find him. By the way, tomorrow Layla and Lydia will come over. They will probably talk about the Awakeneds stuff.”

Yu’er nodded as she already expected them to come sometime later.

“You look really tired. You should go to sleep. We’ll continue this tomorrow.”

Noticing that Max was only forcing his eyes to open with his voice becoming weaker, Yu’er suggested that he should go to bed.

Max didn’t respond anymore, holding her in his embrace. Yu’er not having any problem with it, joined him as they both went to sleep.

…

Xiao Ming’s Mansion

“Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!”

*glass breaking*

Xiao Ming was in his room, kicking and breaking everything he sees.

His face was red in anger, looking completely different from his smiling face. This was how he usually looked when he is alone. He only shows his fake smile for other people.

Xiao Ming kept shouting at the man in front of him.

If Max were here, he would immediately recognize him. He was the one who attacked them a while ago.

His chest was still severely injured, but it seems like he added something to it as it was no longer bleeding.

Currently, he was facing Xiao Ming looking down at the floor, his face still covered by a mask.

“How can someone like him die?!”

“Boss, he was killed by them.”

“Are you treating me like an idiot?! Do you think I would believe you?!”

“He’s a lot stronger than you, but he died, and you survive?”

“…”

The man wasn’t able to say anything because he also didn’t know how he died. When he was severely injured, he immediately ran away, not caring about anything else.

The only thing on his mind was to run as far as possible. If not, he knew he would die. He assumed that his partner was following him.

After reaching their temporary hideout, he waited for his partner while tending to his wounds.

But after a few hours, his partner still hasn’t arrived. So, after making sure that he wasn’t in danger of dying, he went back to look for him.

 

 

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Max was exhausted as got home. After clearing all mess on the road and properly disposed of the body, Not wasting any time, they drove home right away.

Fortunately, Layla had spare tires on her car that they didn’t need to stay for long in that dark road.

No one would notice that there was a fight last night in there even if people were to go through that same road. Max made sure to return the entire road and the areas around it to its former condition using his Reverse Time Skill, gaining the amazement of his two spectators.

He had to take some time to rest as the energy needed for his Reverse Time Skill was taxing. He also proved his assumption that the Reverse Time Skill doesn’t care what was the object it was reversing.

It only reverses the time around the target and the energy needed never changed whether it was using it to heal his wounds or when he restored the road. Living or not, it was just the same.

Analyzing it further, he found that nothing was wrong with it since this was about time, nothing else would matter as anything can be restored by reversing time.

He considered the potential of the skill when it’s upgraded. He thought of using his Reverse Time Skill with significantly less energy needed or increasing the amount of time reversed.

Currently, he succeeded in reversing a few minutes of time before running out of energy, he wondered what could happen if he could reverse a few hours of time or a few days.

Max went to their room upstairs after not seeing his sister anywhere.

“What happened to you? Why do you look like that?”

Yu’er turned to the sound of the door opening and stared as Max walked in. He appeared to be sleepy that it piqued her curiosity, wanting to know more about what happened.

Max laid down, closing his eyes as he began to tell her in detail everything that happened.

Starting from meeting another Awakened named Alice, his thoughts about her to what they did at the party. Then went on to Xiao Ming being an idiot and explaining all his doing, especially that he asked someone to attack them.

Max didn’t forget to say that they don’t have any evidence to claim that it was Xiao Ming and that it was only their suspicion.

He also mentioned the attack in detail, what happened before, during and after the fight. He told her about him being seen healing his wound using his skill and what their reactions were.

“Is it bad?”

“Hmm, let me think about this properly.”

Yu’er looked serious as she contemplated everything that Max said. She thought that what a night it must be for him to experience all that.

Seemingly coming into a conclusion, Yu’er lightly smiled,

“No, that might be the best decision you could have done in that situation.”

“What??”

Max was bewildered about what his sister said. He was expecting his sister to console him that it was fine and tell him to not worry about it too much but he never thought that his sister would actually praise his decision.

“Let me explain.”

“First, it’s fine if they knew that you’re an Awakened. Why? Most Awakeneds are being called Awakened because people already know that they are one.”

“That’s why it’s fine if they knew. Second, it’s your skills that you should never tell anyone. But why did I say that your decision was good?”

“Look at it like this, they tried to protect you by letting you stay inside the car, that shows that they don’t want you to be in danger.”

“Even when they knew that they will be exposed if they used their skill but they still used it to fight, protecting you in the process and not caring about the consequences.”

“You can see it right there that they chose to stay with you over hiding their skills. They fought and risked their lives when they could easily run away, leaving you to die as they didn’t know you’re an Awakened.

“From all of that, we can see that were lucky to have great friends like them. They won’t leave you to save themselves. Not a lot of Awakened would risk their lives for someone who they thought was a normal person.”

“The best move you did was when you saved Layla and used your skill in front of them as it showed that you’re not scared and also willing to save them when they’re in danger.”

“There will be severe repercussions if you didn’t use your skill at that time. Imagine in the future when they knew you had a skill all along. They won’t feel safe around you, knowing that you were ready to let them die just to keep your skill a secret.”

Max’s eyes went wide realizing that he was close to potentially destroying their future relationship, internally applauded his unintentional ingenious success.

Of course, there’s a possibility that Max really didn’t have a skill at that time but with no proof, they will definitely doubt him in their minds.

“This is crazy. If Layla didn’t fall for me even a tiny bit then I don’t know what to do anymore!”

“What!? There’s no way that would happen. A lot of people were asking her out at school but through the years, no one was successful. You’re dreaming if you think it’s that easy.”

“Hey, I’m just joking but she must have felt grateful for that no?”

Yu’er rolled her eyes, making fun of him. Max didn’t bother with her continuing,

“Okay back to what I wanted to ask. Would you admit that you’re an Awakened too?’

“If they asked, I will.”

“Why?”

“Because in time, they will know about it. I can’t have them think of me as a liar.”

“What if they asked about your skill?”

“They won’t. Well, you’ve seen their skills and even with that, if you asked them about their skills, they won’t tell you.”

“Oh actually, they might tell you something like Lydia has a Lightning Skill but they will never tell you about the specifics, how it works and how strong it is.”

“Many Awakeneds are known to have a strong skill by others but not a lot of people would say that they know exactly how their skill works as no one was stupid enough to share it with others.”

“There might be families or groups out there that share their skills with each other. Though that’s a different story as they trust each other, the same with us.”

“Also, other Awakeneds understand why they were doing that, as they know the importance of keeping their skill a secret and asking someone’s skill would be like asking someone their weakness to blackmail them.”

“Obviously, that’s not going to work, at the same time, knowing too much might be troublesome for them.”

“If an Awakened you know got in trouble, there’s a chance that you might be implicated by it so there are Awakeneds who chose to distance themselves from others.”

 

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“Guhh!”

Max grunted in pain as he held on to the sword that went through his stomach, feeling it protruding out his back.

He froze up struggling to overcome the intense pain that assaulted his upper body but still not forgetting the reason he was in that situation. Max steeled himself as he forcefully moved his hands trying to hold the guy’s arms.

“”MAX!””

“YOUU!!!”

“DIE!!”

The masked man attempted to pull his arm away to no avail as Max used all the strength he could muster, securely grabbing him which was more than enough with his current level being 20, far higher than the man.

Pink light completely surrounded him prompting him to let go of his sword then proceeded to mindlessly walk towards Layla.

But his movement didn’t last for long as a large stream of purple lightning slammed down on him, instantly killing him in the process.

“Gahh!”

Sensing that he was losing control of his lower body from the pain, his legs turned weak, falling down to his knees. He doesn’t know how to describe what he was feeling right now.

It was just so awful, tasting blood in his mouth and getting dizzy as his body gets weaker.

“”Max!””

Layla and Lydia hurriedly went close to Max, tears flowing down their eyes thinking that he was going to die as they saw the sword pierced through him, coming out of his back.

“”No! No! No!””

They hugged him as they shout for his name. Max remembered why he was put in this situation.

When the first masked man disappeared, he waited as they scoured the area searching for him. A few minutes of going through different directions but still found nothing, he went out thinking it was over.

That was when he saw a shadow on the other side behind them, that man was holding a black sword rapidly closing in on Layla.

He figured that Layla would not be able to dodge it as she wasn’t looking, not having any idea about it.

Short on time, he made a quick decision to warn her, at the same time using all his strength to rush towards her. As Layla stopped moving, not having any chance to dodge it, he jumped between them to use himself as a shield.

He positioned himself so that his important spots would not be hit. Luckily, the sword only pierced him on his stomach. Seeing that, he internally sighed in relief before excruciating pain assaulted him.

First time experiencing being in a grievous condition like this, his blood ran cold as he felt goosebumps all over his body.

He was really frightened but he never thought he was going to die at all. He was also not going to let this guy go as he forcefully grabbed his arm.

After noticing the guy getting charmed, he felt strength left his body, feeling really weak. He wasn’t going to be some hero that will sacrifice his life.

He only thought that he isn’t going to let any of his women die. That was the only thing in his mind as he shielded Layla from the attack.

He also knew that he had the Reverse Time Skill. One of the things he found out with his sister was that it doesn’t matter how serious the wound was as the only thing the skill does was reverse time.

He took a gamble thinking that no matter how serious his condition was, he can just reverse the time to heal himself. Seeing Layla and Lydia crying while hugging him, Max didn’t know whether he should laugh.

He could only exhale deeply as it looked like he will have to show his skill this time in front of them, hoping that they would still treat him the same after this.

He was still suffering through unimaginable pain, causing him to shake uncontrollably as a large amount of blood was flowing out of him that it all accumulated around his feet.

“Let’s take him to the car! Hurry, he’s losing so much blood!”

*mumble*

“W-What? Did you say something?”

*mumble*

“Hold on for a moment. Okay, say it again!”

Layla and Lydia stopped moving Max as they wanted to hear what he would want to say.

“P-Put me down.”

“Huh? No! We’re not going to let you die here!”

“J-Just put me down. Trust me.”

Max felt that he might faint anytime soon as his head was spinning that he just wanted to close his eyes. He wanted to quickly heal himself fearing that it might be too late if he waited.

Putting him down as they gave up from his urging, Layla and Lydia watched as Max gritted his teeth as he slowly pulled the sword out of his stomach

“”Don’t…””

Both of them stopped saying what they’re going to say as Max turned to them, looking at them in their eyes, shaking his head.

Successfully pulling the sword out of his body, a larger amount of blood started to pour out of him.

Knowing that he’s running out of time, Max placed his hand over the open wound as blurry white light shined around his hands.

What happened next was quite disturbing, blood from the ground started to flow back into his wound followed by the wound closing as his pale face started to return back to his usual healthy glow.

Layla and Lydia watched everything with open mouths, completely surprised about what they just witnessed.

Max thought how good it felt doing that. The pain started to disappear and strength began to come back to his body.

“Huuu.”

Max wiped the sweat on his forehead registering that he was back to how he was before, not finding complications on his body.

He turned to see them looking at him with shocked faces like they just saw something that was completely unbelievable.

Max chuckled a bit and lied down on the road looking at the stars in the sky, enjoying the serene atmosphere.

“Wha-What? Y-You?

After a moment of silence, Layla shakingly pointed at him, not knowing where to begin. Lydia was silent but her eyes were intently looking at Max, waiting for the next words he’ll say.

Finally realizing that he wasn’t going to talk, they couldn’t contain their curiosity anymore,

“Y-You’re an Awakened too?”

“Yeah.”

Max responded right away like it was nothing important, still appreciating the twinkling stars and the cool air around them.

He was glad nothing happened to them and also learned how fragile people’s life was, as he saw the man instantly dying in front of him.

“What?! S-Since when?

“Hmm? Since the beginning, a long time ago!”

“No, we’re asking when did you know we were Awakened too

“A while ago, when you got out of the car that gave me a faint suspicion but you went ahead and proved it. Good fight by the way.”

“…”

“Haah, let’s talk about this tomorrow.”

“Come over to our house again after school. I’m really exhausted right now.”

“Uhmm…”

“What is it?”

“Uhmm, could you…?”

Layla looked at the mess they made everywhere. Max realized what she was asking for and turned towards Lydia, giving her a blank stare causing her to blush in embarrassment.

“Ugghh, fine.”

 

 

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*scrreeeecchhh*

Layla immediately stopped their car as soon as she found that their tires were hit. She furrowed her brows, thinking about something.

“What was that?”

Max sat up and looked outside to see what happened. He wasn’t sure what it was he heard, but he was aware that it was quite serious, seeing the solemn expression of Layla and Lydia.

“Stay down! Something or someone punctured our tires.”

“What?!”

Max quickly hid behind the door, assessing the situation they were in.

‘What is happening here? Is someone actually attacking us?’

Max thought of all possible suspects but he could only think of one.

‘Xiao Ming?’

‘There’s no way he’s this stupid right!? Does he really want to die by attacking three Awakeneds?!”

“Max, just stay down here. Don’t follow us out!”

‘Wai…’

Layla and Lydia got out after asking Max to stay down. They considered that this might be an attack and they don’t want Max to get hurt as he won’t be able to defend himself.

Closing the door, their expression got a lot serious as the entire area turned deathly silent.

They looked everywhere around them for any movements and focused on catching any sound of footsteps to know if there’s anyone in there.

They knew that they’re in the ideal position for an ambush as they were on a road outside the city without anyone near them. The darkness at night made their situation even worse.

Without warning, someone jumped onto their backs, gripping a dagger. Both of them jumped away reactively as how they were trained to.

They both trained for years, studying different combat techniques that they knew this kind of simple attack can easily be evaded by just dodging away from it.

Fixing back their position next to each other, they focused on their attacker to see who it was. The unknown guy was wearing a black mask with a set of black clothes.

They couldn’t recognize him in any way except that he had wide shoulders and a muscular body but that wasn’t helpful in any way.

The masked man looked at them for a moment then rushed straight to Lydia. He might have judged her to be the easier one but he couldn’t be more wrong about that.

The masked man ran in an unpredictable way, directly going for her neck to stab it but Lydia easily grabbed his wrist firmly with her hand.

“Arggghhhhhh!!!!”

An explosive sound of lightning rang out as purple lightning streaked out from her hands rushing straight to his arm, frying it through as the masked man cry out in pain.

The dagger fell to the ground as the man pulled his arm forcefully away from Lydia. What happened next surprised them all including Max who was peeking out from the window.

The man swiftly leaped tens of meters away from them. It was at this point that they became aware that the opponent they were currently facing was an Awakened, the same as them.

They kept their guard up as they watch for the next move he does. Lydia’s Purple Lightning showed it’s power by looking at how mangled his arm turned to be.

It was completely black, limping on his side, seemingly unresponsive. The man looked to be in so much pain as he tried to steady himself.

‘What kind of damage was that!?’

Max saw everything that happened, he watched as Lydia destroyed that man’s arm with her lightning.

‘I have that too! Would mine be that strong?’

While he was thinking about that, the guy brought out another dagger. This dagger was entirely different from the first one he used. From its appearance, it looked to be made from unknown materials as lights never reflected on it.

As he slowly backed away to blend in the dark, blood-red light shined on the surface of his dagger, giving out an eerie shine.

The masked man made it hard for them to locate him that they once again became alert, waiting for him to come out.

Max wanted to help them but he doesn’t know what to do. He was close to getting out of the car but he decided against it as he might just hold them back by splitting their attention, worrying about someone attacking him.

He recalled that he had the Weakness Reader so he used it at the guy before he disappeared in the dark. What came into his mind was the words ‘No Resistance’.

Max was confused about it, not at the definition of ‘No Resistance’ but because Little Dou said that the Weakness Reader can be upgraded to Mind Reader(Weak Version) in the future.

So he deduced that the Weakness Reader was more like finding their weakness by reading their minds like a mind reader with a limit than identifying their weakness by scanning their bodies.

‘Oh, that’s why.’

Max concluded that the guy probably knew himself that his weakness was he had no resistance that’s why he was able to know it.

But knowing he had a no resistance was useless as they probably already know it from how his arm got easily destroyed.

The masked man then suddenly appeared a few feet from their back, slicing his dagger at them with black and red light trailing behind it.

His movements were cautious, keeping a safe distance away for them. The light that came from his dagger expanded out, flying towards them but they were faster, dodging to the side.

Max watched as they repeatedly attacked each other. They moved to different areas, running and hiding while trying to hit each other in any way they can.

The entire road was a mess with long deep cuts and burns all over the place. Fortunately, there were far from the city and it was late at night that no one uses this road anymore with it being too dark.

What Max didn’t understand was why wasn’t Layla using her skill. She has a Target Charm skill and they can easily defeat one person…?

‘Were they thinking that he might have someone else with him?’

He got more vigilant at his surroundings as there was indeed the possibility that the guy wasn’t alone.

Max continued watching their every move but he can only see where they were and all the lights that were flaring out as all their moves were happening very fast.

He never trained to have a fast reaction. He doesn’t even have any idea how to fight. Max could only look at their moves with envy, wanting to try it out himself.

‘Should I just use my Purple Lightning to get this over with?

That was when a pink glow suddenly surrounded the masked man. At that exact moment, he stopped what he was doing then walked directly towards Layla in a smooth motion.

Lydia didn’t waste the opportunity, instantly hitting him with her purple lightning on his chest but the guy never stopped walking ignoring his burnt upper body.

Layla’s Target Charm stopped soon after, disappearing only a few seconds after it appeared. The masked man spat a mouthful of blood as he retreated back to the dark, severely wounded from his chest.

After a few minutes trying to find the masked man, they weren’t able to find him. Max went out of the car seeing that it was already done. Layla and Lydia also sighed in relief that nothing serious happened to them.

“Layla, behind you!”

Layla turned around and saw the masked man rapidly closed in behind her, holding a sword covered in black light. She instinctively closed her eyes as she knew that she wouldn’t be able to evade it.

But the pain she was expecting, never happened. She slowly opened her eyes to see what was going on.

“!!!”

What she saw made her horrified as tears started to well up in her eyes, couldn’t believe what she was looking at.

 

 

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