Supply run
The trio had been living in the house for one month now and their resources were exhausted. They were out of food completely and only had a few bottles of water left in storage. The group had been cultivating the whole month and Desmond and Winter were improving their abilities quite well. Desmond had been able to increase the number of portals he can have at a time to six and he had also increased his portal range a little. Winter had been able to develop her lightning bolt to the point where it could electrocute up to six of those things at a time, they had been practicing, and she had also increased the power behind every bolt a little. Ethan on the other hand hadn't been able to create any more spectres but had improved in the energy aspect of his fusion with his first Spectre as he was now able to fly and fire spectral beams from any part of his body that he wanted to fire it from. The group had been preparing for a supply run for a while now and since they ran out of food yesterday they had to go out today unless they wanted to starve.
When the preparation for the run was over the group opened the door warily as they moved out. They closed the door behind them and moved slowly across the street, they went past a few houses and finally they could see the mall just up ahead. They managed to enter the mall without getting spotted and they immediately started gathering, they left Ethan outside to scout and report whatever he saw. As Ethan stayed in the sky he saw that there was a group of ten of those things moving towards his friends and instead of informing them like they agreed he flew in the direction of the group. "I hope my theory works, if my ability involves the dead then the apocalypse should be the best place for me but am still weak, so if I do the killing what will happen?" He questioned himself as he got to the group. Getting ready he flew directly to the ground and grabbed one of the things bringing it into the sky and releasing the spectral energy stored in his body into the thing vaporizing it in seconds. Then he felt a strange surge of energy as one week out of the four weeks worth of cultivation disappeared and gave way to the creation of pure white mystic energy that took the form of a human. He created a Spectre. Then he decided to try something, with the control he has over the Spectre he moved it down to the remaining nine things and his newest experiment was also a truly wonderful success. The theory behind the experiment was if releasing energy into the things vaporized them then does that mean touching them with a being made entirely out of said energy will yeild the same results and judging by the rush of nine pure souls into his body, it was a wonderful success. Then just like before the other three weeks of cultivation disappeared and gave birth to three more spectres, bringing his spectral count to five including the one he obsorbed and the system seemed to agree.
[Name: Ethan Young]
[Class: Hollow]
[Class specialization: Spectral creation]
[Spectres: (5)pure spectres]
[Souls: (5)Pure souls]
With everything over and done with he flew back to the mall and waited. After a while he realized that the mall was quiet, a little too quiet. Flying in sneakily he found his friends being held captive by looters, he was about to move in when he saw something else, a group of military soldiers about five of them were quietly trying to negotiate the release of his friends. "Come on you guys, we are not going to stop you from looting, just give us the captives." The leader of the military group said. "You are not listening, we are willing to give you the boy, but the girl stays with us and we all go home happy." One looter said, there were three looters. After hearing this Ethan decided to make his move. He released three spectres and decided to run experiment number three, can he harvest the souls of living human beings. The military group leader was about to talk when Ethan appeared in the air behind the looters, he then released three spectres and let them fly towards all three looters due to the eye contact and sign language the looter at the far back of the group turned around to see what the soldier was looking at and it was the last thing he ever saw as the Spectre touched him and he just dropped on the ground dead, no sound, no pain, just instant death. The other two looters met the same fate shortly after and his friends were saved but there was something different about his system after this stunt.
[Name: Ethan Young]
[Class: Hollow]
[Class specialization: Spectral creation]
[Spectres: (2)pure spectres, (2)flame spectres, (1)energy shield spectre]
[Souls: (8)pure souls]
"Wow, what class are you, I've never seen any class do that before." One of the soldiers said. "Hi, am Major Edgar and it's nice to meet you. Thank you for your help back there." The leader of the soldiers said stretching out his hand for a shake. "No need, my name is Ethan and these are my friends so I had to help them." Ethan said. "We are from a nearby military base and we desperately need people like you, are you willing to help save the Earth." Major Edgar said. "Yes but only if my friends can have a place to stay." Ethan negotiated. "Of course, that's very easy." Major Edgar said. "Then we have a deal" Ethan said now ready for a handshake. "A deal it is" Edgar said shaking his hand.
The group Joined the military soldiers as they returned to the base. The base was a little far away from the mall and on the way back everyone kept asking questions about his class and how he was able to do what he did. He had gone into great detail explaining about his experimentation with the things and his current stats. The military in turn shared a little information about the things, it turns out the military decided to call them the beefcakes because of them being made entirely out of muscles, the group finally had something to call the things, even if it was a silly name that they never thought they would be calling such dangerous enemies. It took three hours of walking to get back to the base and the group would occasionally run into some beefcakes which were easily although over-reliantly vaporized by Ethan. When they finally made it to the base the trio were in for a world of shock, the whole place was surrounded by very high walls made of reinforced steel and the doors were also made of the same thing. Walking through the doors the group entered the city and it was amazing. The whole place was bustling with technology and almost every building was made of reinforced stainless steel, this type of city is the reason why the protocol for dangerous situations was stay inside and lock your doors. Everyone was walking around with smiles on their faces. The top of the walls were filled with missile launching turrents and the soldiers explained that directly embedded to the side of the walls were state of the art flame throwers that were garanteed to incinerate all enemies that came too close to the walls. Even though abilities existed through class specializations the military soldiers were holding standard protocol rot weapons created to do exactly as the name suggests. Rot the muscles of the beefcakes until nothing was left. The military was also training soldiers that would specialize in the usage of class specializations and then sending them out to meet a daily quota of eradicated beefcakes. Major Edgar's group is part of the special forces and are meant to kill one hundred beefcakes before returning to base every day. Major Edgar's class specialization is explosive touched and his team is made up of two flame specializations and two ice specializations. The military was running the base quite well, the people had the freedom to do anything other than walking out of the base and harming each other in any way. There were military research facilities that were researching on how to stop a human from turning into a beefcake when they die by the hands of one. Everything was free in the city and the concept of money didn't exist anymore, a lot has happened in one month and from today onwards, the trio would be living here.