Infernal Apocalypse

Going back to when Raizen first entered the shop, four men were still outside, with one of them unconscious.

“Quick, help me carry Jax back to the house.” Richard said this to the man who was currently knelt down next to Jax.

“Got it.”

They held him up, and walked as fast as they could back to one of the houses they managed to rent. Brandon followed as usual while he kept taking back towards the shop, as if he was ready to act at a moment’s notice.

It took them a few minutes, but they eventually made it to the first house on the left side of the Outpost. Due to the amount of people, they had, and the lack of both space and coins, there were a lot of people bunched together in the house. Of course they were all worried upon seeing Jax unconscious.

“What the hell happened?!”

“Why is Jax unconscious?!”

“Did the Goblins make it into the Outposts?!”

Numerous shouts like this came out from the people in the house as Richard brought Jax in. It took some time, but he was able to calm everyone down and let them know that Jax was fine, and he would wake up soon enough.

After the initial worry was over Richard said he needed to talk about what just happened but needed everyone to keep a clear head.

As someone who was high level executive at a big company before the Tutorial, he was used to being in charge of a large group of people. So, when he showed up in the Tutorial with a large group of his own employees and others he also didn’t know, it was kind of easy for him to slip into a leadership role when everyone was panicking on day 1 of the Tutorial.

He was a good boss, so his former employees kind of helped him out when it came to leading the big group.

It was hard in the beginning as he had to adjust to everything just like the rest of them, and they even had to deal with a few deaths on day 2 when a large Goblin horde found them, but for the most part he was able to keep them safe with fighting and good leadership skills, and that was the cause of the respect the entire group held for him.

Which led to this current house Richard was in having roughly 20 people in it, and these are the people who helped him lead the group, with most of them being former employees and a few were other people who also showed up with them on day 1.

Richard then motioned for the man who stood watch with Jax to explain exactly what happened.

“Trent, please tell everyone what happened don’t leave anything out, as we need to know exactly what were dealing with so we can be prepared.”

“We were guarding the door like you asked and then he walked up, he had a spear in his hand and a pouch clearly filled with those orb things on his waist. Jax stopped him thinking he was a part of the group, but he said he wasn’t and that he didn’t know who you were, which said a lot cause we all know who you are.

Jax realized he might be the person you wanted to talk to about housing and other things, so he tried to get him to wait outside until you were done but he did not want to and asked us to move, and when we tried to block him he… he simply gave Jax a slap. I barely saw his hand move even though I was staring at him and before I knew it Jax down and out. It was just a slap Richard, a simple slap. He could’ve killed both of us right there if he wanted to.”

By the time Trent was done speaking the entire house was silent. The implications of what Trent said were just that alarming.

Richard was the one to break the silence. He was telling his part of the story.

“Brandon and I heard the commotion from inside the shop, we rushed out before we could even buy the rest of the things we discussed before, because we thought something big happened.

Once we made it outside, I saw Jax laying there and the man standing with an annoyed look on his face. After hearing you told me he was the one who knocked Jax out, I was ready to attack, but something told me doing that would be very stupid, and it was these instincts that has kept us alive so far, so I listened to it and tried the peaceful route.

The man didn’t seem to want to continue talking to us and he didn’t even try to press the issue regarding Jax. He just said his piece and went into the store, and something tells me if we tried to stop him from entering again it would’ve ended a lot differently for us.

Based on how you described the slap Trent, it might mean he has looked into the cultivation stuff already. We need to buy those books.

Also going forward, if anyone runs into the man, please leave him alone for now, we don’t need to make an enemy of a fellow human in this place. I’ll be the one to speak with him.”

“Rich are we sure he won’t be a problem? What are we going to do if he decided to attack us later.”

“Chritine, I think it’s fine, we were the ones in the wrong here. We had no right to try and stop him from entering the shop. This is not our home, so have to be careful, and if he tries to attack us we won’t be able to do much as we are now. We need to get stronger. I’ll take Brandon and head back to the shop so that we can buy those books on cultivation. Take care of Jax while we’re gone.”

A lot of people had more to say but decided to hold their tongue at least until Richard got back, so he left without much fanfare. Regarding Jax, there were only four cots in the house so one was freed up for him to lay down until he woke. Everyone else kind of found a spot to rest as the house was a little cramped with 20 people in it. ‘

Trent though sat beside the unconscious Jax with his fists clenched, this was a close friend of his, and while he did recognize they might’ve been in the wrong for blocking the strange man, it didn’t mean he was over it; he was silently vowing to himself to pay him back at least once.

Of course, Raizen didn’t have a clue about any of this, and frankly wouldn’t care all that much. He had long since finished asking all his questions before making his way back to his house to change into his newest set of clothes.

And although the sun had already set, he still decided to go hunting. He didn’t think it was a rash decision like before, instead giving it plenty of thought while factoring his new strength into play.

It was going to be another long night.