The World We Do Not Know - 183 New Enemies

“Oh, Oh stop it, please, Melissa just reacted that way, because I cannot move my limbs. Forgive her rudeness and listen to me.” The man sitting in the chair lost control over his limbs due to an accident. He describes the actions of Melissa as the protection of her master.

“Well, my kid here did what he is supposed to, protecting his family.” Neith is not going back or showing signs of kindness, no matter what the man is saying.

“Okay! Nine hundred thousand for the red stone and one million for the greens. I cannot go up than this, I would go bankrupt if I raise the stakes any further.” The man sitting in the chair turns his head towards Melissa and nods his head.

Melissa takes out a thin rectangular box from under the table and places it in front of them. The box projected a visual screen in front of them and a visual keyboard.

“Please enter your code in that and I will transfer the money from me to you.” He instructs Neith.

The code here is a seven-digit number that everyone on the mainland possess, or rather, given to them by the government. It acts to activate your mobile, vehicle locks, passwords and banks.

“The price is but, I would rather take metal money than digital. You see, I need to pay someone back. That is why we are selling the stones too. Otherwise, why would we even sell the new stones?” Neith insists that he pay them in metal.

Money in metal is the currency in the form of metal coins. Paper money is banned long before. Due to the reduction of the earth to only one percent of land and even in the one percent, the forests are filled with mutilated and evolved beasts. It is hard to make paper out of trees. Which is why the metal coins are introduced in the place of paper.

“O-kay, as per your wish.” With a heavy sigh, he turns towards Melissa again and gestures her to bring something from the inside.

Neith, particularly asked for money, because she knows that the dark alley is full of frauds, they can scam her account anytime. Which is why she denied for digital money and asked for cash in particular.

“A total of four million nine hundred thousand, all in the form of metal coins.” He yells at Melissa who has gone into the room.

She brings back a huge briefcase, filled with coins, that are arranged in a row.

Melissa hands over the case to Neith and Neith gives it to Faust. She then passes the stones to the man sitting and Melissa takes them over and puts it in front of the man.

Meanwhile, Faust touches the case all around while observing the material of the case, the smell and the texture of the case. Melissa and the man sitting finds it very odd, but does not say anything.

“Will see you later again.” Neith takes her leave and both her and Faust walks out of the shop.

They keep walking back the same way they came from. This time there is no Bang in front of the entrance. Both of them walks out of the old gray curtain. The old man is still sitting there as a guard. “Pleasure doing business with you. Have a good day!” He greets them both as they start to climb the stairs of the alley.

“Oh shoot!” Faust says in a loud voice, Neith turns back instantly and holds the arms of Faust tightly.

“What happened?” Neith asks him while checking her surroundings.

“I wanted to buy some tools for myself, ish, let’s come back some other day.”

“Tools? Since when did you become familiar with the tools Faust?” Neith asks him, he does not even have spiritual power to use any tools.

“Oh, no-no. I’m learning a new skill from the senior of my school. And his skills need to have a thin magic – thread and some normal equipment that I wanted to use. But it’s ok-” Faust explains her about the tools and before they could start going. Two guys covered in hoods and masks that cover half of their face, snatches away the case that Faust is holding and starts running.

Faust and Neith just climbed the stairs and they get robbed while the old man is still seeing them. Neith first looks towards the old man, he does not move an inch or speak anything. “Faust!” She yells.

Faust stretches his hand in front of him. The guy running with his is running while hugging the case in his chest. They are already twenty feet away from them both and are running very quickly.

*Bong*

With the sound of a bong, as if someone has played a heavy bass, the case is back into Faust’s hands, he holds the handle of the case tightly this time.

“Where did these guys come from now?” Faust says and the two guys running are confused. They turn back to see that the case is back at Faust again.

The two men turn back facing Faust and Neith, they look determined to get the case back. As Neith and Faust wait for the next move to be made. A bunch of people show up, coming from inside of the shops and on the roofs of shops. There are a total of fifteen people, all covered in gray hoods and a mask on their face, covering their nose and mouth.

A faint smirk is seen on the face of the old man sitting in front of the curtain. “Fausto.”

“Uun” Neith and Faust responds to each other’s call as if they understood what they need to do. The fifteen men start walking towards the two.

Two portals open on either side of Faust. “He is not a normal person, let’s finish this fast.” The man in the middle of the fifteen speaks and all of them start running towards the two. They are running in the alley, jumping on top of the roofs of shops from one shop to another.

Neith places one of her legs behind and one in front and places herself in the running pose. She pushes her hind leg into the ground as she is getting ready to take off.

Faust, on the other hand, folds his left hand in a way that his index and middle fingers are open while the rest are closed. He points the fingers down towards the ground and with a flick, he moves his wrist from bottom to upwards as he is directing something towards Neith.

The portals that are on either side of Faust suddenly emits two swords. One of them is Faust’s purple colour sword that is given to him by Neith. The other one is crimson-coloured with golden handle.

Neith dashes off towards the bunch at the same moment, her arms are crossed under one another and her hands are reaching for the swords that are on either side of her. She holds the sword on her left with her right hand. And the sword on her right with her left hand.

Meanwhile, two of them have come very close to her. They are holding a large two-man cross saw. A long blade with two handles on each side. Both of them are holding it on each side and planning to ram Neith with the blade to behead her in one swing.

As they come close, Neith, disappeared and appeared behind them. She is still in her same posing and still drawing her swords from their scabbards. But disappeared in front and appeared behind the two men. As if she has teleported.

“How did she disappear? These guys are looking dangerous, switch to mid-range, take positions.

“The man in the middle orders the remaining. The man’s voice is also strange, it is of a computer voice that sounds like a robot. The people in the alley draw barrel guns. The guns are as short as a short gun, which is the size of their hands.

They aim the barrels on the walls and roofs of the shorts and walls and a cable comes out of the gun with a hook on the end of the cable. They all jump onto the roofs of shops and walls, keeping their distance from Neith.

The fifteen of them takes out another small gun that is gleaming in purple color. “All of them are lightning users?”

Faust whispers under his breath, but, people start shooting and the guns emit real bullets that are in the shape of chips. Neith is evading all the bullets in the same way before. She is disappearing into thin air and reappearing in other places.

“How is she avoiding all the attacks? Get the crossbows and get her now!” The man in the center commands all the members again.

“Hmm, the bullets are emitting electricity?” Faust tries to analyze the guns and weapons the people are using.

The guns are like tasers with bullets. The chips are emitting electricity after making contact with the ground. Soon, crossbows enter the scene with half the people using crossbows while the other half are shooting the guns with electric darts.

Neith twirls and jumps back to avoid the bullets. She then Launches herself onto the roofs of the shop with a leap. The roof, she wanted to jump onto is already filled with three people on the top.

“No way she is going to come here.” One of the guys says after seeing how low her jump is. The roof of the sop is fifteen feet tall and Neith’s jump barely made five feet.

“You cannot dodge in midair.” He draws out the pistol and takes his aim on her. Suddenly, Neith disappears again.

*Slash*

“AHHHHHH!” The man on the roof is withering in pain. His back is slashed from his right shoulder to his left hip, leaving a bloody scar.

“Sword Arts -” A blue light is shimmering on the right hip of Neith, from inside her shirt. The nerves in her body are getting cold as her blue nerves are visible to the eyes of the people near her.

It is spreading throughout her body and the blue ice element is visible in her veins as her nerves on her hands are turning blue. Her hands are again producing snowflakes, which froze and covered the handle of the sword in ice, that slowly crept onto the blade. The sharp edge of the blade is covered in thin ice that extended further making her swords as ice blades.

“Sword Arts – Ice shackles” Neith uttered from her cold blue lips. Instantly, a patch of ice formed from under her right foot that travels to the guy standing on her right and with a slash the ice tears his clothes, skin and flesh. The eye cuts his body in half. A similar thing happens to the guy standing on her left. A path of ice formed from under her left foot that travelled at jet speed, tearing the flesh of the man.

*Gulp*

Witnessing the ice element and the sword techniques, the robbers couldn’t help but swallow a large wad of saliva. They are still in shock that they forgot to point their guns at her to shoot her.

In the next moment, Neith is on top of another roof, she is moving very close and fighting three on her own. “Sh-shoot her” One of the hooligans, yells in desperation. Wiping his sweat off, he aims at her and starts shooting.

Yet again, all the bullets missed her, but struck their gang members, and all three of them collapsed on the roof from the shock.

“You Idiots!” The man ordering them is flustered and he looks at Faust, who is standing with one of his hands in his pocket and holding the case of money with his other hand.

“I know how she is moving so fast. I had a hunch.” The leader of the mob, says as he sneakily moves towards Faust.

Neith on the other side is swiftly moving from one roof to another. Seven of them are already down. The old man is sitting in front of the stairs, notices one thing about Faust, who is standing in front of him. Ten feet away from him.

The eyes of Faust are moving very quickly. It’s as if he is painting a picture with his eyes or moving his eyes to observe a very fast-moving object.

The thing that is happening with Faust is, he is helping Neith to fight. The reason behind her disappearance. Faust is supporting her by teleporting her repeatedly. She is not receiving any damage as she is teleporting before any arrows or bullets hit her. And she is being teleported at the blind spots of the mob to land an immediate lethal strike.

The leader of the mob realized that Faust is behind the fast moments of Neith. But he doesn’t know that it is teleportation. And hence he is moving towards Faust in stealth.

The leader sneaks in closer to Faust. Just being fifteen feet away from him. He reaches into the pockets of his hoodie and takes out an orb.

The orb looks like a soap bubble at first look, but it is hard and emits a mixture of white and pink colors. He is staring at Faust and immediately, the surroundings of Faust started to emit pink smoke.

Faust notices that pink smoke is devouring his surroundings. Shortly, his entire view is blocked and he, himself is consumed in the pink smoke. The last thing that he sees is an evil smirk on the face of the old man, sitting in front of the stairs.