34 Enhanced Human I (1/2)

”Aghh.” I gritted my teeth and rolled down the bed as the extreme pain went through my whole body.

This pain. I remembered this pain. How could I forget it. How could anyone ever forget it.

I looked around but everything was a blur because of the pain and even if I saw anything, I would not have been able to register it in my mind anyway.

”GGhhhh.” I groaned as the pain reached a height that I had never experienced before.

I had went through a lot in past week or so and my will had become far stronger than before. But the pain was still just as unbearable as before.

I heard someone holding my hand and saying something in my ears. But could not make out her voice properly.

'I cannot fall here. I have a family to take care of.' I held on but the pain only became worse and worse.

Because of the intense pain, I almost felt my consciousness fading. I struck my hand against the ground so that I could hold on to my consciousness a while more. But then the pain struck once again.

This was the worst I have ever felt in my entire life.

I even started to question if fighting against it was really worth it or not. But as the fight was going on inside my mind, I saw a figure from the corner of my eyes. I could only make out faint silhouette and did not knew who the person was. But I was reminded of my family once again.

'I will no fall.' I clenched my fist and felt the extreme pain in my whole body reach it's peak before it softly subsided once again.

As the pain went away, I was hit with an extreme exhaustion while took away my consciousness regardless of how I fought against it.

Before I fell asleep, I heard the faint voice of Sera coming from a distant place. She was taking my name again and again and she sounded worried.

'What's she worried about?' I thought faintly before the exhaustion took over and I lost my consciousness.

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I woke up when I heard Neha's voice around me. She was talking with Sera about something but I could not make out what they were saying.

Before I could move, I felt the extreme fatigue in my body. I wondered if this is what people who just finished a marathon felt like.

I had woken up but the exhaustion took over once and before I could even open my eyes, I fell asleep once again.

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I opened up my eyes slowly but nothing but saw nothing but darkness around me. If it had not been for the faint moonlight coming from the window, I would have thought that I was in some kind of simulator once again. Except this time, the surroundings were dark instead of being bright.

But the moonlight assured me that such was not the case. It was only night time.

Ever since the electricity of this area had been cut off, we had started to use lamps and candles at night. But right now, the whole room was plunged into darkness.

'How long have I been out for?' I thought in puzzlement and tried to get up but felt a heavy weight on my chest.

I looked down to see a faint silhouette of a girl who was sitting beside my bed. She had rested her hands on top of me and was soaring loudly.

”Neha…” I said and heard her wake up in response.

'No… Not Neha.' I thought.

'Advanced Vision Skill. Activate. Night Vision. Activate' I said and everything around me became clear once again.

”Sera?” I asked in puzzlement.

”Ashok. You woke up?” she replied dazedly in her sleepiness and tried to touch my face in the darkness to check if I had really woken up or not.

'Sigh! This girl.' I thought and held her hand.

As soon as I held her hand, I saw her eyes go wide in surprise and all of her sleepiness went away at once.

”Ashok. You woke up.” She got up at once and distanced herself from me in embarrassment.

”Yes. I've woken up.” I said with a smile. I removed the blanket laid on top of me and got out of the bed.

The exhaustion I had felt earlier had washed away completely. In fact, I don't think I've felt so fresh ever before.

Not only fresh. I felt full of energy. I suddenly had the urge to go and find a few 2nd tier abnormals so that I could fight them and use this energy somehow. I had a strange feeling that killing a 2nd tier abnormal in my current state would be very easy for me.

But I held my emotions in check and went and lit up the lamp before doing anything else.

Just because I could see well in darkness doesn't mean everyone else could do so as well.

The room became bright once again and I deactivated my Night vision.

”I… I will go and tell everyone that you've woken up.” Sera suddenly said and went out of the room before I could say anything else.

I wasn't really in the mood to talk with other people right now and wanted to stop her but… oh well. Rahul and Neha must have been worried about me so I owe them a few explanations I guess.

After a few seconds, I hear footsteps from outside the room before Neha entered the room. The looked me and her worried look turned into elation and she jumped at me with a hug.

”You've woken up. That's so good.” Then she continued to hug me in silence for a few more seconds before she raised her head to look at me with an angry expression and said ”Do you know how worried we were today?”

Before I could say anything else, Rahul entered the room along with Sera. The guy named Raka followed after him along with a few more people but they all stopped outside the room and didn't enter.

”You feeling alright.” Rahul asked me with a smile.

”Never felt better.” I said.

”Never felt better?” Neha asked with an irritated voice ”Let me make you feel even better then.”

Saying so, she went ahead and started punching at my stomach but strangely, none of her hits did anything to me.

It felt as if I was hit by some 2 year old kid.

Although my strength had increased greatly before this, I knew that Neha also had a strength of more then 2.0 so I should feel at least some amount of pain.

But I felt nothing from all of her punches and kicks.

I had a confused expression on my face. ”Is this because I evolved into an Enhanced human?”

After a while, Neha got tired but looking at my confused expression, she became even more angry.

”Big bro” she turned to look at Rahul and said ”Lend me your sword for a moment.”

”Oi!!!” I woke up from my introspection and rushed to stop Rahul from doing so. I ran ahead and hugged Neha tightly so that she would not be able to move anymore. After that, I took her to the bed and sat her down beside me.

”Little sister. Why are you so vexed. Let's talk and settle this in peace alright.”

”Why am I so vexed?” she looked at me with displeasure and said ”Is this something you should ask after. Do you not know how worried we were for the entire day? And you ask why I am so vexed. Big bro, give me your sword, let me chop a few fingers from this irresponsible brother of mine.”

”Calm down Neha.” Rahul said with a smile as he rubbed Neha's head gently. ”Let's hear your brother's story first. If you don't like his explanation, then it still won't be too late to chop his fingers, right?”

”Yeah. I guess you are right.” Neha then looked at me with her cute yet angry expression ”Speak. Why did you worried us so much for the entire day?”

”I… I will explain.” I wiped the sweat from my forehead as I looked at this fierce little sister of mine. 'God, why didn't you made my sister a bit more gentle.'

I could see Sera trying to stifle her laughter from behind Rahul. Rahul also had an amused expression as he was taking pleasure from my misfortune.

'Why no sympathy for me :'( '

After that, I went ahead and explained everything to them. From how I chased after the soldiers. To how I stopped their reinforcements. How they fought against the abnormals and how I benefited from their fight.

Of course, I toned down all the aggressive parts and didn't tell them about the fight against the dogs which left me heavily injured in case they worried about me even more.

After that, I explained what happened when I increased all of my stats to 4.0 points. The fight with the abnormal in the simulation, the black fog and the talk about evolution and so on.

”So you see… I'm innocent and you can't really blame me for all of this.” I said in a pleading tone and observed Neha's expression carefully.

She had a thoughtful expression for a while before she said ”Alright. I guess I'll forgive you this time. But don't be so reckless the next time.”

”Of course.” I said and sighed in my heart. 'Looks like I'm lucky this time and won't be rebuked by little Neha anymore.'

”Rahul.” I then turned to look at him and said ”I used the white coins and bought this spatial ring. There are three rifles, three crates of ammunition and some other stuff inside of it.”

Rahul took the spatial ring and emptied it's contents on the ground. I could see a shocked expression on Sera's and Neha's face when they looked at the stuff on the ground.

Although Abnormals were scary, guns were scary as well.

”Here.” Rahul said and gave the Spatial ring back to me.

”You're not keeping it?” I asked.

”No. You got it with your own efforts so I cannot keep it for myself.” He said with a smile.