CHAPTER 14

The time was now 12 pm in the afternoon.

It has been exactly tow days since the apocalypse began .

Karthikeyan and Yerilia after taking some rest at a high-rise building were now on the move and once again searching around if they could find something.

Karthikeyan , even though after assessing many times if the area around his house was devoid of any dangers , still decided to observe for some time , and once again when the result turned out to be positive , he decided that they venture further the 7 km vicinity to get some better chances at hunting demons or getting items.

"You sure you want to go out even further? " Yerilia inquired Karthikeyan with considerable friendliness in her tone " We have levelled up quite decently and probably are in the 1 percent of the state ."

Yes the people who were level 7 to 10 were very scarce. Even though the experience points needed to level up to level 8 and so on varied just slightly compared the previous one , it was still a ton of experience that a normal person couldn't get.

It was all about luck, the talent and their adaptability to the surroundings that mattered.

If people stayed totally oblivious and reluctant they wouldn't progress at all, that was a hard truth.

"Yeah , I want to actually " Karthikeyan began " The demons are nowhere to be seen and we can't just scavenge left out loot and money "

"Ok where do you want to go?"

"North of here."

"Near the important hamlets of the city."

"Yeah , they are densely populated after all , we might find something"

Telling that , they began on their journey to the hamlets that were littered across Balka .

The nearest hamlet or town near them was kauri which was located 8 kms away from the Balka capital.

Balka itself had a radius of nearly 9 km.

3 hours later---

"Poor dude " Said Karthikeyan while cutting off the leg of a demon indiscriminately who appeared to be level 7 , a difficult opponent for Yerilia who would have a hard time facing it.

"He is not the one miserable here , its you who are abnormal here" Yerilia replied snorting.

Karthikeyan just looked at her without telling anything . He was still wearing his mask , so his identity remains safe with him.

He just smiled and looked at his system 's stats.

He was level 10 on his way to level 11.

[EXPERIENCE BAR ] [ 2500 / 20000 ]

The western dudes had a lot of demons to deal with , especially for those who were situated in metropolitan cities. Thats why they had already reached level 14 and beyond. Probably they had slain more than 300 demons .

"Was it his fault to be in an insignificant town like Balka?" he couldn't help but shake his head.

Karthikeyan turned around and asked Yerilia 's experience Bar.

[Level 7]

[EXPERIENCE BAR] [ 5000 / 8000 ]

"Almost there, going to reach level 8 soon."

Today she just didn't waste her time by watching Karthikeyan get all the chance.

Well yesterday , she didn't waste her time as well as she levelled up but still , she wanted to take initiative and defeat the demons on her own which Karthikeyan didn't oppose.

Today they were lucky and chanced upon 10 demons badly wounded hiding in a abandoned warehouse taking rest.

Even though they were badly wounded , nevertheless they provided a tough battle.

After a brutal 30 minutes long fight without Karthikeyan's intervention , she emerged out on top and gained a ton of experience . She had also gained a skill , that supported her sword and enhanced its attack power to 20 percent for 30 seconds . It also could be used for a halberd.

The skill was rated level 5 and its mastery was at 0 percent.

As they were on their path crossing, several now non existent shops , some destroyed houses on the road side , small settlements destroyed without any traces , they eventually ran into 4 persons who looked like they were working as a squad.

A blond haired , blue eyed pale skin man around the age of 25 wearing a knight's armour and holding a modest sword in his hand , seemed to be addressing something to his other 3 teammates which included 2 women around the age of mid twenties and a man who looked like well in his 40s.

All of them were wearing decent stuffs which they probably looted from the fallen demons. They looked like a formidable team.

Karthikeyan assessed the blond haired man 's stats who appeared to be the leader of the group .

[Simon Lecharck ]

[Age] [25]

[LEVEL 6]

[EXPERIENCE BAR] [ 300 / 3200 ]

"Lechark?" Karthikeyan pondered the name . It seemed to be a name which was prevalent among the business communities of India who were doing business for many generations.

There existed 4 races across the world . Each races had unique features , but about 30000 years ago , all races started to mingle with each other and eventually there existed no one except for some isolated communities who belonged to a pure race.

In India you could find pale fellas as well dudes who were dark in colour as charcoal. Same could be said for Japan and Germany and so on.

The proportions might vary and there might be a specific set of features that was prevalent in a region , but India was an exception to this.

No one community , usually divided on the basis of skin colour , their ancestors and so on constituted a majority in the nation at least in conventional terms.

The white included 25 percent while the natives or aboriginals themselves stood at 30 percent and were the majority. The other communities such as mongoloid looking people , people of the colour or black or hispanic stood at the remaining 45 percentage.

Karthikeyan was himself from the Iranian - Baluchistan community which was a very rare community and number in the 10s of thousands.

They didn't give themselves a family name but they could be easily identified by their golden or their very rarest asset , the purple eyes only believed to be inherited by the top members of the community who once ruled it in ancient times . This colour was only available to them except for some people who numbered in the 100s who inherited it by the marvel of biology.

Karthikeyan's father as well as his mother had purple eyes. They were probably distant cousins closely related to each other.

After Karthikeyan pondered for sometime , he remembered that Lechark was a name used by the really privileged hispanic community that lived in the heart of India- Delhi.

The others looked like they were from a normal community.

Karthikeyan didn't really care about community and all , and discrimination against it was almost non-existent across the world. Their community just gave information about their origin and their history , their community contributions to the world etc.

Karthikeyan and Yerilia slowly approached the tetrad who were probably in the middle of an important discussion.

"So as I said before" Began Simon Lechark " As we have levelled up decently , looted a lot of valuable things , I believe that there is no need for us to exhaust ourselves any more by continuing on our journey . We should return to Balka and rest until the invasion is finally deemed over, and start hitting the dungeons after wards."

All the team members looked at each other and asked to each other one last time if they had any objections . They adopted this policy so even if one had any objections , they would make necessary amendments so they could settle the objections amiably .

Once no one had any , a women who appeared to be in her 20s with thick luscious black hair, a perfect well toned body and supposedly seemed to release a mature aura finally addressed Simon that they were okay with the plan and ready to proceed with it.

As they were agreeing with each other , they sensed Karthikeyan and Yerilia approaching them with supposedly no ill intentions towards them . Nevertheless they kept themselves ready if something dreadful were to happen.

Human or beast , no one could be trusted any more.

When everyone began to look forward , Simon who was sitting on a big rock turned to his left and saw 2 figures approaching them.

"Purple eyes huh? " Simon pondered.

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