Vengeance of the Returner

Chapter 146: Cinzia's story (2)

Cinzia's heart froze and her hands trembled. She jumped away in a startle holding the Iron rod. Dalia loudly yelled and hugged Cinzia. 

The safe house was once again returned to its volatile state. The teams that were in unity broke down and separated into four teams. There was a certain suspicious group with four people and all of them possessed a lizard tattoo on their necks.

Both Nate and Damian found out that it was them who stole food and who looked at women creepily. And Cinzia killed one of their men.

She was shivering and tears dripped down her face. Both the sisters clung to each other and cried. 

"Wait..."

Just before Damian could stop him.

Without wasting any time Nate walked towards the fat man, picked him up, and threw out of the door as the food for the Cyclops.

He slammed his hands as though clearing up the dirt and turned towards the hall with a casual smile and walked towards the center.

"You bitch!"

One of the tattooed men possessing a buzz cut grabbed Cinzia by her hair and raised her on air.

"How dare you kill him? I've been observing. You are dressed like a bitch. And that little bitch looks the same. And what do you get for giving him hints?"

Well they were in short skirts and shorts and tight tees and tops exhibiting their shiny skin.This was because they went to the beach. Would they have expected that things would turn out like this?

Damian head-butted the guy and immediately broke his hand. Simultaneously two more men advanced.

Nate blocked their path.

"Gentlemen, your man was wrong, the woman just tried to protect her sister. With all due respect. I request you both to step back."

"But boss..."

"As I said back away."

He gave them a death stare as both the men backed away in fear. It was as though they already knew about how scary he was.

He drifted his attention back to the buzz-cut guy and gently smiled.

"Gentleman, Can you please submit and accept your friend's mistake? The woman acted in self-defense there ain't a law here. Things are bound to happen. I threw him since he was already dead."

He explained politely.

"I am sorry."

The man bowed down and loosened his grip from Damian's neck.

"You are cool-headed huh?"

Gregory said with a smile and tapped his back.

"Thanks, brother"

Damian smiled

"It's fine bro..."

He gently smiled.

Slowly but surely he gained people's good side but the messed up thing was Dalia's Trauma. She was affected by the scene and didn't dare to even look at others. Cinzia was in fear too.

They decided to stay for another night. This time the tattooed gang tried to kill Damian and Nate. That surely backfired.

Thud!

The man with a buzz cut slammed his hammer towards Damian's head and failed miserably as Nate kicked him off.

"Uhhh!"

Damian shot up in a startle and joined Nate until one of the guys placed his knife on Dalia's neck.

"Stop! Or I'll kill her!"

At that moment a man attacked him with an iron rod.

"Thank you."

Dalia bowed down at the young man who pissed his pants and cried out. Seems like he was a wimp too. Though it was appreciable he collected his courage to fight.

Both Nate took care of the tattooed guys and walked towards the young man.

"Thanks for saving Mr.Varde."

"Ahh... It doesn't matter."

This was how silver spears gained a new healer called Varde; everything was certainly different from the appearance to their traits. This certainly clears up how much they've changed over the past years. Every single one of them went through various things.

Nate decided to throw the tattooed men as destruction to escape while Damian wanted to fight back. In the end both Damian and Nate made a plan of destroying the cyclops by using the tattooed guys.

They went on the rooftop and threw the men while others ran. The most unexpected thing was both of them decided to sacrifice themselves as the others ran. The Tattooed men were eaten alive yet, gluttonous Cyclops wanted more. Both the men gained an achievement for killing a Cyclops. 

The reward was full restoration: all their broken limbs and torn flesh were restored and they even gained classes as a reward for the achievement. Though they'd have been dead meat. They were rather lucky. Perhaps it was a miracle? Or might have been fate that they survived.

People who are transmigrated to Forest of scrutiny often end up on the Regulars side. There were several similar places like the forest of Scrutiny, from where people are teleported to different continents.

Forest of scrutiny is the middle path between the southern continent while there were two more places like that that connect with different continents.

But on the Southern continent, Chaos mainland is considered quite neutral since people can choose what faction they can join.

When they unlocked mana things changed. They killed the other three Cyclops at ease. They joined the others and were praised by them for sacrificing themselves. Though both were injured a lot they needed to take rest in training lodgement for one month. 

Damian and Nate both didn't gain a class as they already awakened in the first. It was a secret mission given by the gods. This was a rather straight head start for both of them but what they gained was powers from that world and didn't awaken straightly by themself like Nix.

Damian's goal was obviously to return back to earth with his family and girlfriend. While Nate's was uncertain. He tagged along. All of them that survived along with them in the forest joined together and formed a team. 

Both Nate and Damian gained invites from various companies and both of them refused. As both of them trained together a strong bond grew between them. It was the same for the others. The only new guy was Razik who they befriended in training lodgement.

Their days weren't great. As Newbies they were looked down on. The jobs they got were goods protectors, Guards, escorts, Monster subjugators, and labyrinth explorers. All these jobs were good compared to Outlaws' jobs.

Months passed by and they learned several things. One thing was unclear and it was their prime reason for summoning, Their transmigration to Empyrean. Damian went in pursuit of answers and Nate tagged along. Their party worked too. That's when Damian unraveled things about Empyrean.

There was this vast concept called existential power. As much as the lands they conquer and how many souls follow the gods and devote themselves their power increases. Though it was minimal, the prime goal of the gods was to amass souls under them.

Once the soul dies. They'll be sent to either Underworld where their souls will be reaped off. Fifteen percent of their souls will be devoured by the Supremes of hell and the remains will be sent to the Ether world to increase the gods' power.

This was the same for both the divided gods. But, this wasn't their prime goal either; there was certainly a bigger goal that he was not able to unravel.

Nate changed as days passed. Perhaps he was always the same but Damian and others didn't know.

Both Nate and Damian were spear users and that led to the name of their company.

Upon one year Damian reached level five while Nate was still at level three it was an amazing feat considering he was a newbie. Nate had a strange obsession with power. 

He wanted power though they were restricted from entering an Outlaws or a Corrupted gods temple in search of answers they both went to Barani. And they visited the Church of Al zalam that's where they learned the secrets about gods and existential power in exchange both of them were bribed five levels.

It was a tempting offer. While Damian refused Nate accepted. Damian didn't question him why he did that. He believed him. If a question about why he trusted him were to arise. He had a proper answer.

His perception about Outlaws changed just a few months before they sought Al-Zalam.

As they were traveling towards Ferandel from Ranrak they saw a bald man fighting in the desert surrounded by almost fifteen men.

The man was severely injured and in need of help. The particular stranger piqued his interest.

It was regulars attacking the Outlaw. The man seemed to be just passing by the route. Moreover, the Regulars were trying to steal the goods from fellow Regulars that were also passing by.

"You bald mother fucker!"

A young lad scowled and thrusted his sword. Along the stranger's side were a young woman and a bunch of pathetic newbies hiding behind him.

"Shh! Let's wait and watch! This might be a trap."

Nate pulled Damian's hand as he rose from the carriage in a startle.

The shirtless bald man's bareback clearly had the Horned skull tattoo.

"He is an outlaw?"

He questioned Nate.

"It seems like it. Let us move"

He said and raised his hand to pull the leash of the Krigon while gazing at the fight in the distance.

"No stop"

He stopped him and waited to witness the fight to understand if it was true. That an outlaw is standing for a bunch of regulars.

And just as he hoped the Bald man won the fight left without killing any of them and even gave the injured, healing potions with a smile. That was when he witnessed kindness from an Outlaw. The man suddenly turned towards their way and turned back as though he knew he was staring at him all along.

"Damn Bro... Are there good guys in Outlaws?"

He uttered in a daze and smirked unknowingly upon the warm gesture of the bald man.

"It seems so."

Nate shrugged. 

He pulled the leash subconsciously towards the stranger and shared with him the healing potions they carried. Though it was rare and expensive he was moved by the stranger since he gave first priority to the injured.

"Thank you, young man!"

The old man patted and mounted on his Krigon.

"You are an Outlaw and you are helping Regulars?"

He questioned.

"Why shouldn't I?"

He questioned and kicked the Krigon and left the place with a smile.

That's when his belief in Outlaws rose. After he came to know the true reasons behind the gods. He was wary of them. Actually, he didn't like to be under them.

He wanted to reduce their followers and began to move in secret. He didn't reach out for levels but increased his stats by sheer hard work. Even though his assistant angel heavily restricted his system since he went against the system barrier and leveling system. Soon, he reached the strength of a level ten Outsider and equal to Nate.

He grew more ambitious than ever and continuously sought a way to return and was finally blocked by the huge walls called Angels.

This made it clear about his wariness towards the Gods.

Nate was equal to Damian in terms of stats but by level, he was high yet, he wanted more power. Things started to turn bad as he started to seek corrupted gods while Damian strived for answers and turned into an enemy to all of the Empyrean. That's quite an exaggeration but that's when things began to heat up.

Cinzia was more of a spectator in all these. Nate sacrificed himself several times but all he wanted was money and power. Though it was evident no one noticed, he was an extremely loyal guy to Damian. There were several times he stood in Damian's place and took blows and Damian covered for him.

But, Damian was a naturally talented monster and a huge wall that grew larger as time flew. He was several times greater than in his stats while he remained stagnant within months.