Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 37: Reese and Rabe 4 of 5 (Part 02)

It was already morning and the sun should have risen quite high according to the time, but what was seen in the sky was still dark filled with thunder clouds that occasionally struck.

Seeing this, the soldiers, hunters, and witches were astonished. They initially thought that the clouds up there were a sign of snowstorms that often came at the end of winter in mountainous areas, but after the time passed last night they realized that they had mistakenly thought.

One of the mages from the Miquator pointed towards the sky, then said, “It seems that indeed the lightning in the cloud appeared due to space distortion. The density of magic energy up there feels unnatural.” The witch wore a dark purple cloak with a golden lace pattern around the collar, carrying a wooden wand and wearing a conical hat like all four of her Miquators.

Hearing the black-robed woman say, a man with a hunting profession approached and asked, “Magic? What is some kind of weather control?”

“Down, I don't know .... Only, it was clearly no sign of space distortion. Since there is a very strong attraction at the end of all the clouds it leaves, a center that makes distortions appear there ...”

Other than her comrades, the people who heard that were confused and did not understand what the witch was about to say, not even Lisia could catch her point. As if ignoring the anxieties of the weather wizard Miquator, the hunter nearby said, “Alright! We get ready first and continue on!”

The young witch was shocked to hear the decision of the man who became the leader of the hunters. The soldiers immediately continued to clean up the tents and tools. Charcoal used for cooking breakfast was completely turned off with snow, and the log used to sit was rolled near the trees.

Rushing over to the man who had spoken to him earlier, the young mage with the title of First Level Expert loudly called out, “Master!” The brown-haired man with a belt full of knives and a circular arrow container at his waist and shoulders turned his head. Putting on the face of the rogue, the hunter asked, “What what? Didn't you just explain this strange situation?”

He trembled in fear hearing that, bowed his head clumsily and said, “Pu-Center of the clouds is our final destination as well .... Should ..., we wait until the irregular incident is complete.”

“We've been traveling too long. More than this, Miss Lisia can spend more money to hire you and us hunters .... I can't disappoint his expectations,” said the man.

“But —”

The young fellow witch patted him on the shoulder. Looking back, the purple-robed mage typical of Miquator who was his companion shook his face. “Not to worry, it's just a distortion of space,” said his colleague with the title of Second Level Expert. His female counterpart did cover her head with a cloak hood, but her plain white hair was tied in two and decomposed to the front of her chest. His partner's purplish-colored cornea seemed to hypnotize with mystic charisma.

“But .., senior .. such distortion.”

“Tuh, listen to your senior! Don't get too delusional like that, weather wizard.” The brown-haired man walked away from them, completely ignoring the warnings given and still telling everyone to keep going.

“Tu-Wait! Mr Barca!”

“Already, Opium .... Although we persuaded her, the noble woman who led this plan must be insistent on wanting to continue. We just follow their wishes, besides our advance on this mission is quite a lot and we can not communicate more about their wishes.”

The persuasion made the young witch, whose full name was Opium Matha, bow her face and nod. “Alright, senior Canna .... I will according to Senior's advice,” he said listlessly.

The senior known as Canna Mitere smiled slightly, patted her junior's shoulder and said, “Hmm, hmm, thank you, Opium. You are indeed my junior who has heard your senior's words so much.”

As the two men chatted without taking the other three fellow witches, Odo who was standing far enough away from them stared intently. Although the passing of the people occasionally blocked the view, but the gaze of the eyes were flat and blank looking it was actually directed at them in a strange way.

Canna Miteres trembled to get such a look. Most witches do have no stronger instincts than hunters, but Canna knows that she is being looked at by predators. Looking at Odo, the eyes of the two of them looked at each other and made the woman's white hair tremble.

As they stared at each other in the traffic, Canna saw him moving his lips and saying something. It was clearly understood, making the feather stand up because the big secret that the most senior magician kept among the five witches trembled.

“A .. does he realize it? Wh why? Since when? Why can?” canna's mind was pale.

“What's up, Senior Canna?” ask Opium. Opening his hood, the reddish-brown hair of the light expert magician was unraveling without freely reaching the shoulders.

“Nothing ...” He looked at his junior, smiled slightly and tried not to point at him with a panicked expression.

When the white-haired witch looked back at Odo, the young man had already left the place to help the others transport things and clear the tent. It did not take up to an hour, all the goods had been cleared onto the cargo and they immediately continued their journey.

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On the way, the route they traveled was not as sharp as before. Roads in mountainous areas that have entered the territory in the city of Rockfield quite smooth, although the snow on the surface makes the road slippery and they can not go too fast.

The view on the right side of the road is a ravine with a snow-white pine forest area underneath, the edge was directly adjacent to the other side of the Border Mountains and behind it was the Pando Forest where the monsters lived. On the left side of the road, a rock cliff that is quite steep becomes their barrier and is quite prone to avalanches from above.

Passing the road that continues to rise gradually, winding and narrow enough until it can only be traversed by one horse carriage. It did not take until a day and the sky was still cloudy even though it was still afternoon, finally they reached the other side of the Border Mountains to get to the end of the plan.

As Odo had suggested earlier, they had indeed rushed straight to the main headquarters of the bandits whom the others had known according to the information obtained before the plan began. Arriving at one of the peaks of the Border Mountain range, the people from Mylta were met with a fairly heavy storm and limited visibility.

A soldier on a single horse approached the carriage where Lisiathus Mylta was. “Nona, we better find a place to camp again! Although our horse has been installed magic to dispel the cold temperature by Miss, but still the danger of continuing the journey with visibility like this!’ said the soldier with a loud voice.

Looking ahead, the snowstorm was indeed getting busier and darker. The visibility is only a few meters, it would be very dangerous if the horse stepped on the fragile side of the road and fell into the ravine. Looking up at Odo sitting in front of her, the redhead lady asked, “Master, what do you think?”

Odo glanced flatly, then replied, “Eng? Well, I guess it's better we stop first.”

Hearing that, the woman reigned, “Find her place! We'll camp again!”

“Ready!”

The soldier, dressed in thick winter clothes, spurred his horse faster, driving first as one of his colleagues, a hunter, to find a camping ground. It didn't take long since they shot forward, the group turned to the rocky land that was on the side of the cliff.

Immediately preparing, they began to take down the boxes of equipment and tents. Odo went down with Fiola and Lisia, walking carefully as the blizzard was really heavy and the visibility was very limited.

“Weather in the mountains is unpredictable, yes .... Though it was cloudy all night, but now even a storm like this,” said Lisia near Odo.

“Yes, the name is also mountains. We are coastal people, how know the weather area here,” reply Odo relaxed.

The three of them walked towards the soldiers who had set up one tent, then were about to set up another. When almost all the tents and camping preparations are finished, suddenly one of the soldiers blurted loudly, “There are people approaching in the direction of the road!!”

“Oi! Don't scream! There will be a landslide!” reprimand colleagues.

The Chief Warrior who was nearby reprimanded, then said, “You also do not shout, you fool.”

“Ah, sorry ...”

Everyone who heard that stopped the work. The soldiers immediately took the sword and were on standby, while the hunters took arrows and bows to aim. Deftly and ready to be on standby to attack at any moment, they waited for the silhouette behind the curtain of the blizzard to be completely visible.

“Siapa ... course ..., please .. my wife. Please ..., anyone ..”

From behind the heavy snowstorm, a bloodied man walked in carrying an unconscious child and woman. The man's body was indeed very sturdy, but the warm clothes introduced were tattered and could not withstand the cold. Scrubbing and his eyebrows froze, his face was completely pale and even the blood that flowed on some of his wounds was frozen as well.

Seeing the condition of the man, they knew that he had been through a snowstorm for a long time carrying the woman and child who was his family. The Chief Warrior immediately approached and was about to help. But when he saw the man's face clearly, footsteps stopped and he was wide-eyed.

“Tox ... A tenebris? Why is he here?” said Iitla Lots shaking. The Head Warrior really could not understand, why the Bandit Group Leader who was the enemy's priority in their plan instead came with such appalling conditions.

Two children for Iitla Lots who wanted to help her also stopped when she saw the face of the man who kept asking for help. They clearly recognized the man's face from the fugitive's sketch, instantly raising the sword and about to attack him.

“Wait!” The Warrior Chief prevented both of his men. “What does he bring his son and wife?” he said while staring hard and observing.

“Who cares about that, sir! He is clearly the enemy! He's the source of our problems!”

“It's true! Who cares! Kill him!!”

One of the hunters threw an arrow, right about the left waist of Tox Tenebris and made him collapse in front of his wife and child. The arrow stuck on the bandit leader's body added to the inside and broke.

The Chief Warrior turned his head with the intention of scolding because the hunter was archery first without waiting for orders. But when he saw the look on the hunter's face and part of his army, the blond man knew that they could not resist the hatred when they saw the Bandit Leader.

“Wait! Don't shoot!!”

The blistering made the dart hunters who darted from other hunters dart, only scraping the legs of Tox Tenebris lying on the surface of the snow. Eve feels very gripping, Iitla really understands that some of them hold a grudge against the bandits. Most of the people who join the plan are indeed members of their families who are victims of atrocities that are often carried out by criminal groups led by the man.

“Why did you ban it, sir! He's enemy! He's the leader of our enemy!”

“It's true! That's why I want to be hired to follow this plan!!”

“Kill him!!”

“Wait!” said the Head Warrior. “He brought women and children! Don't arrow him!” emphatically.

“We really care! They killed my wife and son while they were looking for herbs in the woods four years ago! I will forgive him!!”

Barca Richa, the leader of the Hunters Party who joined the plan to pull his bow and aim. With hatred overflowing, he unleashed an arrow with a target precisely aimed at the head of the man who fell on his stomach.

Iitla had wanted to dispel the arrow even though she had to sacrifice her right hand. But when an arrow passing nearby was about to be caught, suddenly the path changed because of Barca's Battle Art and the arrow still shot towards the bandit leader's head.

But when going to hit the target, a glimpse of electric flashes out of the end of the bow and make the speed change, the result of the arrow was only hit the shoulder of Tox Tenebris.

“Ke-Why miss? He should have been within range of my Eagle Bow Technique!”

“Master, please don't kill him,” Odo said as he patted the brown-haired man's shoulder. At first glance seeing the lightning coming out of the young man's hands, Barca knew that the rate of his arrow was changed because of the magic used by the young man.

“What do you mean!? He's the ringleader of all evil! What is the reason you asked me not to kill him!”

“Information. If you kill him now, we don't know why the bandit leader could be here.”

“Whatever I care about!”

“Hah, Mr. Barca knows .., he's the leader of a bandit who runs away. It is impossible to come with such miserable conditions, there must be a precise reason or he is indeed on the run until such...”.

Barca Richa gnashed his teeth in annoyance, staring intently full of resentment and resentment. Taking a deep breath and trying to understand the situation, he thought of the opinion of the young man in black hair. “You're right, he can't die easily .... I'll make that damn thing pay for his actions!” barcelona said bengis.

Raising a hand from the man's shoulder, Odo walked towards the Head Warrior with Fiola. Lisia followed him from behind, looking anxious about the condition of the women and children that her main enemy was carrying.

Without glancing and walking, Odo replied, “Please or not, I think of course we should help them. But if let live or not, it's up to those behind.”

Lisia stopped her footsteps and stopped next to the Head Warrior, not coming with Odo and Fiola who were walking towards the man who was lying on his stomach dying on the snow surface. Arriving in front of the Tox Tenebris, Odo crouched down and immediately asked a question.

“Why did you—?”

“To .. long ... child .. and wife .... by .... I ... mo ... hon ... to .. long ... they ....”

It made the intention of interrogating in Odo's mind disappear. He also hated bandits because they were the ones who made Nanra orphaned. However, hearing the request of the man who was actually begging for his family made Odo indifferent. Sighing lightly, he said, “Alright, I will help them. But, in exchange you will have to answer all my questions ...”

“Ba ..iklah ... I ... appointment ...”

Stop squatting, Odo slightly sighed as he stared at the woman and daughter who were oppressing Tox Tenebris. Their condition is quite terrible, women's legs freeze badly and most likely have to be amputated, while the girl he held looks paled not breathing.

Standing next to Odo, Fiola said, “We have no healers or medical experts, you know. Healing magic is not versatile, their condition ..”.

“Ya .., I know. Miss Fiola please persuade the people behind me, here let me take care of.”

“Can you use top-tier healing magic on them?”

“I'm not an expert in curing others.”

“Keep what? Their condition is dying, in this condition impossible—”

Looking at him with a sharp look, Odo said, “Already, just persuade the people back there. If I were the one talking, they wouldn't listen and the situation would be even more murky ..”

Fiola was slightly surprised to get such an angry look. Slightly averted his eyes, he turned around and said, “Alright, I will try.” The Huli Jing also went towards the people who were staring at the pitiful bandit man with hatred.

“Nona Lisia and Mr. Iitla too, please persuade them. Here let me take care,” said Odo while looking at the two people.

“Hmm, alright.”

“I entrust them to you, Mr. Nigrum.”

Iitla and Lisia said before turning around, then walking after Fiola to persuade the people who were riding apoplexy.

Odo slightly sighed lightly knowing they were putting on a dissatisfied expression as he walked away. Looking back at Tox Tenebris, the young man circled the man who fell on his stomach on the snow, then crouched down beside him and held the neck veins of the man's wife and daughter. Making sure they were still alive, Odo very quickly retrieved the potion from the Dimensional Bracelet.

Drinking the potion himself, Odo immediately threw away the bottle before anyone looked towards him. The herb is not swallowed, it is collected in the oral cavity and mixed with its saliva.

“Auto Senses, please change its nature and improvement,” mind Odo.

Using the magic structure and calculations from the Last Defense Magic, the young man performed an improvement in the quality of the healing potion in his mouth. The burrows mixed with the drug began to react, changing some of the composition and increasing the healing effect thanks to the manipulation of the properties performed by Auto Senses.

Odo had a daughter to heal first. But when he was about to lift the girl who was about two years old, the mother quickly clasped her child and did not release even though her consciousness had not returned. Releasing one by one the fingers of the woman who hugged the girl, in Odo's mind was very understanding how much the woman loved her child.

Finished releasing the girl from her mother's arms which were partially frozen and swollen, Odo carefully lifted the girl. Warm, that was what Odo felt as he carried the little boy with both hands. Although they should have been through a blizzard for a long time, but the body of the brown-haired girl felt a little warm and not cold.

Feeling and understanding this clearly, in Odo's mind felt, “If they know the meaning of life and understand how valuable it is, why still rob? Why do they still commit crimes even though they already know something like this should be enough for happiness and satisfaction?”

Odo's eyes glazed over, feeling a pain that felt familiar to the mind. His body trembled, not because of the cold but because of the annoyance with the opposition. The child, who was held tightly by the young man's fingers with black hair, began to breathe heavily and was seen to shed tears while remaining closed.

“Why .... have I always been faced with something like this?” mind Odo.

The young man touched the little lips of the girl and opened his mouth, then slowly poured the liquid from his mouth into the girl's mouth. One to five drops of liquid entered her mouth, making the girl not pale anymore and her breathing began to regularize. With the medicinal liquid that enters the girl, she should in a few minutes get the ability to regenerate and endurance Odo to restore the body from the inside.

Looking at the mother, her condition was worse than her son's. Odo slightly squinted at the condition of the bandit leader's wife. Both of his legs were swollen, sharp bone-like splinters stuck to his left back and clearly visible signs of dehydration were seen on his pale face.

Odo held up the girl with one hand, and pulled the woman on her stomach over her husband. Touching his hand, it felt extremely cold and slippery like ice. The body of the woman named Isla Tenebris was completely frozen, making Odo even more astonished considering the child he had seized was quite warm.

Getting rid of those unnecessary thoughts immediately, Odo propped up the body of the Slender-type Demi-human woman with his left hand. At first glance confused as both hands were full, Odo unhesitatingly kissed the woman and put the medicinal liquid directly into her mouth.

Thrust Isla moving, the medicinal liquid mixed with saliva entered her body. Finished giving it all in and finishing the potion in the mouth, Odo immediately distanced his face and rubbed his own mouth against his shoulders. Lying her stomach to the snow, Odo slowly pulled the sharp bone fragments that stuck to her back.

As expected, the bone is similar to a human rib. Thinking about why the woman could be punctured by the length of about two long horns, Odo more or less understood what had happened at the main headquarters of the bandits. Insert the right index finger into the woman's wound and make her move painfully, the young man made sure that Isla's senses had returned and that it was a sign that her condition was starting to improve considering that the frozen body was very dangerous if it had felt nothing.

“Huh, his son and mother have at least been given first aid.”

Flipping Isla's body and making her lie on her back, Odo lowered her child onto the woman's body. Holding the mother's arm with the right palm, Odo attached a magic circle to dispel the cold to them.

With a slight fret the young man turned his head towards Tox Tenebris, then let out a long sigh of fatigue. Odo Luke woke up, walked to the front of the bandit leader and crouched down right in front of his head.

“Cuih!”

Odo spat on the face of the bandit man. A little spit went into the man's mouth, the effect of the herb still mixing with the incoming saliva gave a healing effect and increased physical endurance for a while. In contrast to his wife and child, the effect is very strong for the body of Tox Tenebris and makes the recovery of wounds and body condition takes place very quickly.

It didn't take a minute, the man's consciousness returned and he began to lift his face from the snow surface. His face flushed with frostbite, his left eyeball slightly swelled up and looked like it was rotting as Odo looked at it up close.

“A-Is my wife and daughter okay?” ask the man to panic.

Hearing what the bandit leader asked for the first time when he was just conscious, a strange sense of being mixed up appeared in Odo's mind. It was very upsetting to him, but Odo himself knew such a reaction was natural for a father.

Smiling lightly without showing any fret in the mind, Odo said, “They are more or less past the critical period.”

As Odo pointed towards Isla and her son, Tox Tenebris immediately got up and approached them. Immediately lifting the bodies of his two families, the burly man known for his cruelty was streaming tears full of relief while holding them.

Odo just stared flat, feeling a little strange in his mind and making him look away. Taking a deep breath and getting rid of the unpleasant air in the mind, the young man said, “I've kept the promise .... Now it's your turn, villain.”

Tox Tenebris flinched hearing that, she seemed to recall something terrible and instantly trembled in fear. Add tightly hugging his wife and daughter, the man trepidly said, “A-I'll talk .... Ta-But ..., before that can we get the hell out of this place? Before ... the monster got here ...”

“Monster ..?”

“Yes! Monsters .... Such a creature should not exist in this world .... Why ... could they summon such a monstrous Devil into the world! They're nuts! Why did they call such a catastrophe ...!”

Odo woke up, staring flat at the man who seemed to just say that delusion. As I was about to ask more clearly, Barca Richa approached and interrupted them, “What are you saying?! Don't play us! Quickly tell me why you're the leader of those bastards could be in this place!?” The flabby-haired man was completely engulfed in a vengeful rage.

Approaching Tox Tenebris, Barca clutched his collar and pulled the burly man. But when they saw the bandit leader's face up close and their eyes looked at each other, a fleeting disgust appeared when they saw the leader's rotting left eye.

“Tch!” Barca let go, in annoyance it turned around and grumbled, “Damn it! That's disgusting, I don't intend anymore ..!” Turning back and looking at the bandit leader, he said, “You why? What happened to you?”

“That's right, why can a bandit leader run off miserably like that? What are you running from?” said the Chief Warrior who came and joined the conversation.

“What ... you all gathered here to attack the headquarters of the bandit group that I lead?” tox asked with a frightened expression.

“Yes, of course! What else is it! We are from Mylta, most of us hate you so much and want to kill you right now!! You bastard!” barca Hardik.

“Ka-If you want to exterminate my bandit group, it is already unnecessary .... They've been wiped out, everything's been destroyed .... Whether it was the main headquarters or small, all the bandit groups near the town of Rockfiled were already ravaged by that Devil.”

“Devil?” asked Fiola who had just returned to the place and heard that. He was followed by those who had been persuaded and found a point of tolerance.

Like a madman filled with fear, the leader of the bandits said, “I-Iya .... They ..., those robed people suddenly came and attacked us. Kill everything, whether it be women or children indiscriminately! Make them as a victim, they call the Devil.”

Fiola grinned, with a full of dark tempest he said, “Those Perverted streams are really around here .... Heh! What demons do they call?”

“King of the Devil .., Odrania Dies Orion.”

Everyone was stunned to hear that. Iitla Lots who was a war veteran was well aware of the horrors of the Ancient Demon King sealed within that dimensional gap. With a tremble, he immediately turned around and shouted loudly, “We are back! The expedition is over! From this second our bow changes and we should immediately return to our territory to tell this to Mr Dart!!”

The decision was not refuted by anyone, as the great of his subordinate soldiers who participated in the plan understood the horrors of the Ancient Demon King. Understanding the situation, Iitla also vaguely understood that the Ancient Devil had been summoned, unlike when it happened in the Sianama Arid Valley.

The hunters and witches were confused to hear the sudden decision. Barca held onto the shoulders of the Head Warrior and stopped him, irritatedly saying, “What does that mean, Mr Iitla?! Isn't it that we're going to finish off all the bandits?! It could just be that fucking crap!”

Looking over with a pale face, the blonde-haired man said, “Look at him carefully, what is the reason for that pitiful guy to lie? You arrest him and tie him up, and we'll put him on trial when we get back to town .... Well, I also doubt that we'll have time.”

The Chief Warrior immediately commanded his subordinates to immediately pack up regardless of the storm present. Lisia was also surprised to hear the man's decision, without having time to ask he was only speechlessly confused. Looking towards Fiola, the redhead lady asked, “If Miss, do you agree with Mr Iitla's decision?”

“If you want to come back, please. I don't care,” said Huli Jing with a dark face. Without turning his head in the direction of Lisia, he walked towards Odo and patted the young man's shoulder from behind.

“Are we going to attack them first?” whispered Fiola.

“Sounds like that don't need .... The Korwa, all are dead.”

“Hah? Die off? Why can you talk like that?”

Odo pointed towards the foot of the mountain in response. As everyone fusses with their respective problems and affairs, doom is on its way in search of the remnants of life to be obliterated. In the middle of the snowstorm, from where they were at one of the mountain peaks, a giant hornet was seen standing hunched over at the foot of the mountain.

Amidst the snowstorm that was beginning to subside, the giant skull stood 530 meters high more. From a distance the giant was clearly visible, moving quickly, turning left and stepping foot on what was below.

Rumbling sounds from a distance started to sound as the atmosphere was slightly silent. Everyone turned to the source of the voice, realizing the existence of such walking calamity. The white of his bones seemed to fuse with the storm, but the dull stain from the meat shreds made him visible in the middle of the blizzard.