A technomancer's journey in an apocalyptic world

The trailer lumbered into a stop as the residents stepped out of it, Ryan looked to the side as he let out a stream curses that made Michalina bop him on his head as she chastised him, "Language."

Ryan rubbed his head as he grumbled for a bit before pointing out towards the damage that had been to his trailer especially from the Molotov as he spoke, "Why could I not curse have you seen the damage down to it, especially the fire."

Michalina narrowed her eyes as she spoke in a stern voice, "Even then you will not curse because you are underage."

Ryan spluttered at that as Michalina continued, "If you disagree I will complain to mom and then you will have the first-hand experience with soap inside your mouth."

Ryan sulked at that as a rather amused Jessica simply patted his back.

Harrison looked at the trailer from the outside, last night under such tension and everything he had failed to properly see the exterior of the trailer but now the trailer was presented in all its glory to him and he winced upon seeing the damage done to it, it was true it protected its occupants and the armour surrounding the trailer did not allow even a single bullet to pass, but that did not mean it did not have bullet marks nor did it hide the black scorching mark on to the seconds part of the trailer.

"Your trailer seemed to have held off pretty well."

Ryan beamed at Harrison's praise as Harrison continued, "If I remember correctly they were using grenades as well."

Ryan nodded as he spoke with a frown, "Yes you can see the dent on certain parts of the trailer, but nothing that I cannot fix."

With his piece being said Ryan decided to scout the area along with Angela, to check for better hiding spots, water area and most importantly vantage points to fight back if necessary.

"So what do you think of the family of three that has joined us?"

Ryan frowned at Angela's question as he spoke with a sigh, "Well they tried to hide about the fact that their daughter was enslaved, but I can understand why they tried to do so."

"Congratulations for spotting that, we all missed it because of low light and long sleeves that the girl wore."

Ryan gave a small smile to her as he began to speak as his eyes harden, "They did not speak in great detail how they managed to rescue her, or more importantly if they have powers or not."

"You think they have powers."

"They should, did you not see the person I beheaded, I do not think the King would be the only person with power, he would have others and they fought against them there is a large chance that they might have some form of power."

Angela nodded at his reasoning as she spoke, "You are right Ryan, they have some powers and as such Michalina has told us not to lower our guard around them, and you did well not to lower yours though remember not to be alone with them no matter what."

Ryan nodded as he spoke with a frown, "How do you know that they have powers?"

Angela looked at him confused before she looked around to spot any eavesdropper before beckoning him closer to her as she began to whisper in his ears, "Ryan what I am going to say is military secret make sure you do not mention where others outside our group could hear you."

Ryan nodded at that as he whispered back, "You have nothing to worry about my lips are sealed."

"Good, from what you just said I believe that Major might have forgotten to brief you as such you might not know, but the truth is I can feel the energy emanating from all of you, like in your case you have the strongest energy output, whereas there are others who have none, like Nikita, Jessica and Nigella neither of them had any energy signature previously."

Ryan listened to her words carefully before he whispered back rather furiously to Angela, "Wait for a second, does that mean that they do now so that means they have powers?"

"Well it is yes in the first case that they do now but as for the powers well they have yet to find out what they could do."

"I see, so is there a range for your powers?"

Angela slummed at that as she spoke sulkily, "Only a meter at best if it were larger then it would have been better."

Ryan nodded at that as he spoke, "Maybe when you are much more powerful it would increase its range, though I understand it would be an effective skill to have no one would be able to hide from you."

Angela nodded at that as she spoke, "Yes, but unlike in your case you know how we need of a certain item to move up in level."

"I know and I believe by the time we return you all would easily move to a much higher level than you are now, also there is a chance we might stumble upon another such stone and you can use it to level up."

Angela nodded with a smile on her face as Ryan began to speak with a frown, "Sis since I have heard about the range of the king there is something that has been bothering me for some time."

"What is it, Ryan?"

"They said that the King can control someone within a certain range but does it only extend to that since he can control within a certain area then he surely would have means to detect them as well, just think of it, how will you control something which you have no idea where and how it is."

Angela bit her lips before her eyes widen in alarm as she spoke, "You are right even in the military when we use drones, no matter how unmanned and what not they are claimed to be at the end of the day for them to work properly we have to know their position, and from what they had said it can mean that the King does not have to stay in one place but can move freely as such it can only mean that he has the means to locate the slave and…"

Duo looked at each other with their eyes open wide before Angela let out a stream of curses, "They will bring the attention of the wrong kind towards us, and I do not think we are in a position to fight against them just see the damage caused by only six of his men yesterday, it is true that we won but even an elephant will fall before an army of ants."

Ryan nodded at that before he spoke with a sigh, "We will have to share our concerns with Michalina, a part of me wants to stand up and shout out that no matter what happened we will protect them but the reality is we are facing an unknown enemy of unknown strength to protect strangers who are hiding many things from us."

Angela nodded at that but before she could speak anything both of them was headfirst into the ground as they felt something or someone stepping over them as they immobilized.

Michalina frowned as she looked up to see the position of the sun, it had been some time since his younger brother had left with Angela but they have yet to return and that worried her she knew that Angela would not be foolish enough to harm his brother, but there is also the chance that they ran afoul of some creature or might have run into some problem and that worried her greatly.

"Move!", an unknown female voice came to her ears as she turned she was greeted by the sight of her brother as well as Angela bound tightly and was being dragged in front of the trailer by women who looked like slightly taller versions of Angela.

Seeing Ryan manhandle like that made Michalina's blood boil, "Who the hell are you lot?"

They did not say anything as one of the kicked Angela hard to make her fall on her knees as Angela gritted her teeth as she spoke, "Just release me and I will beat you to a bloody pulp."

Only to be backhanded hard by her captor who snarled at her as she spoke, "Shut it, traitor."

By then Jessica had joiner as both of them had trained their gun on them, the turrets courtesy of the other two was pointing at the newcomer who was keeping Ryan and Angela hostage.

Jessica looked at the three women that had managed to take their teammates as hostages, they were of the same species as Angela, seeing they had the similar colour and long ears though Angela was a head shorter than them what separated them from them was their armour which seemed to be from the medieval age, they had bows and quiver along with sword by their side, 'Where the hell did these cosplayers pop up, did changing into an elf-like being scrambled their heads.'

Michalina looked at Ryan and saw a bruise at his cheek and that made her mad enough to skin those hostage takers alive, 'No one touches my brother like that and live.'

Seeing the electricity sparking off of her Jessica stepped away from her, she so did not wish to get caught in the crossfire when mount Michalina would erupt.

Seeing the glare from Angela the person who held her hostage spoke with a snarl, "Don't you dare glare at me you oath-breaking traitorous scum."

Angela was red with anger, 'How dare this purple idiot to call her a traitor, and act high and might when she captured me like a coward.'

Ryan meanwhile suddenly gained a smile on his face as he suddenly jumped back hitting her nose breaking it, he then swept back at her leg making her fall back on her back as he then moved back towards the trailer leaning against it.

The cord that held him in place was cut off as he did not waste any time as his weapon was already in his hand which he pointed towards the trio as he moved slowly towards his sister, "Do not make any move or I will kill you."

"Sister Angela, are you alright?"

"No, I am not I so want to punch their teeth out."

"I understand and sorry for keeping you tied up for the moment, I will have them release you soon, enough"

"YOU STINKING EMPIRE SCOUNDREL I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAT.", the woman whose nose was broken courtesy of Ryan stood up with rage in her eyes.

"Shut up, you elf cosplayer you make a move and I will make sure that not even a shard of you will be left, now release our comrade."

"Like hell, we will."

They stared at each other like some serious stand no one wanted to give anyone even an inch when all of a sudden the trailer's door closed as it to lurch forward.

Ryan's veins pulsed over his forehead as he commanded with anger in his voice, "STOP!"

With a screech, the trailer stopped itself, as Ryan looked at his sister and Jessica as he spoke, "Do you mind if I quickly check it."