Chapter 17 - Returning to the City.

Chapter 17 - Returning to the City.

While in the kitchen serving himself what he would eat, but with heavily-weighing sadness pressing down upon his heart, he looked at the holographic screen once again and re-opened the mission notification message that he received.

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[Notice!]

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[New Mission Alert!]

[Mission Title: Returning Mother Home!]

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[Details: Host's mum went in search of Host for not returning home the same day after taking the admissive exam and could therefore endanger her life, as the road path to the city is filled with all sorts of unknown dangers — Transport Carriages could be attacked by vicious evil-scheming kidnappers and the passengers could be abducted for payment of huge ransoms, or simply turned into grieving wailing slaves for some ruthless Enslavers or tyrannous House Master Lords. So, Host is to find her and bring her home safely, no matter the cost.]

[Difficulty Level: Unknown!]

[Mission Class: Unknown!]

[Duration: Not Fixed Yet!]

[Completion Failure: Upon Mom's death, Host will be permanently stripped of all items and resources that he has obtained so far from the successful completion of various quests and missions.]

[Completion Reward: Unknown! - {But rewards will be added one after the other as Host gains understanding of what really happened to his mom. Mission Difficulty Level will also increase as Host makes progressive comprehensive strides in the particular event that took place and restricted his mom from returning home safely!} - ]

[Accept Mission: <Yes>/<No>]

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[Return] [Cancel] [Skip]

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He read through the entire mission notification message again and sighed heavily.

"All these are simply my fault. But I really hope that she is alright wherever she is."

"Anyway, at dawn, I will immediately set out to go look for her. I have to go find her and bring her back home with me. I can't allow any evil or doom befall her. Especially now that I am peak-human strong and can easily pull exceptionally amazing feats." Maxmillan said with a powerful glow of unbreakable resolve and fearsomeness radiating from his eyes.

"Yes!" He said without thinking twice, in response to the mission notification message holographically floating in his vision.

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[System Notification!]

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<Mission {titled Returning Mother Home} has started!>

<Countdown to the expiration of Mission hasn't begun; mission time-length hasn't been stated!>

<Failure to complete mission will result in permanent strip of items and resources that Host have obtained so far from the successful completion of different missions>

<Success in completing mission will allow Host to be rewarded with items that are in consonance with the difficulty level of the situational mission!>

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The notification message popped in Maxmillan's vision, while Maxmillan only shook his head, as he didn't care for the rewards.

Bringing his mom home in good health and sound mind was in itself a reward, a reward that would fill him with more bliss than whatever the Transmigrator Survival System had to offer him for the completion of the unclassed mission.

"I just hope she is doing excellently fine wherever she is." Maxmillan said with unboundedly towering hope in his heart.

He then said "Inventory"

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[Inventory]

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[Digital Compass, Binocular, First-Aid Kit, Sub-Machine Gun, Long-Range Flamethrower, .45 Magnum Pistol, Pump-Action Shotgun, Ultra-High Velocity Traversal Speed Boots, (Rewarded Hidden Items: Bio-Energy Channeler {Vitalizer} + Healing-Ray Cell Regenerator]

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"Wow." Maxmillan exclaimed in amazement once he looked at the names of the three new items in his inventory.

"My inventory is slowly growing and is beginning to store more advanced items." He said with the blissful nod of his head.

Then suddenly, space warped and distorted around his feet. Once the spatial distortion effect that occurred around his legs ceased, he could see the Ultra-High Velocity Traversal Speed Boots worn on his legs.

Observing them with great curiosity in his eyes, Maxmillan saw that they were shiny, hybrid plastic polymer-metallic alloy boots that were crimson-purple coated and beautifully designed.

"Must have been designed with a futuristic 3D printer." Maxmillan said as he continued to observe the knee-high, sound-absorbent mechanical boots worn on his legs that made his footsteps completely soundless and gave him the ability to effortlessly sneak up on someone like he were a ghost.

"Display features of Boots A1." Maxmillan said after code-naming it for an easy return to the Inventory.

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[Ultra-High Velocity Traversal Speed Boots]

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[Model: G-26L]

[Item Class: A-Class]

[Item Specialization: Speed]

[Purchase Points: 120,000 Points]

[Status: Owned]

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[Characteristic/Function Specification]

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[Boots are fully sound-absorbent and will allow user or wearer to move around without making any form of sound that even the most imperceptibly-low sound is completely neutralized. This is possible through ultra-sophisticated Sound-Absorption/Sonic-Frequency Neutralization Technology]

[Boots are gravity-constricting and kinetic-absorbent and will therefore allow user to easily land to the ground from a great height of more than 150 feet without breaking the leg or feet bones (landing is fully cushioned) — This is possible through the boots' Gravity-Force Contraction and Divergence Technology which constricts the gravitational field acting on user and disperses it all directions, and the Kinetic-Impaction Absorption and Swift-Dispersion Technology which directly eliminates the kinetic impact that wearer will suffer from leaping off an altitudinous height to the ground]

[Boots can allow user to reach excessively high speeds of 1500 km/sec to 15,000 km/sec. This is possible because of its Speed-Domain Instantiation Propulsion Technology called Extreme-Speed Warp-Drive Generator/Hyper-Velocity Feet Propeller]

[Boots are made from a perfect combination of extremely tough, super-flexible plastic polymer and absorbency-attributed metallic alloy with inherent molecular capabilities of absorbing sound waves and causing gravitational-force diminution or shrinkage.]

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[Power Modes]

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[Boots Full Power will allow a top speed of 15,000 km/sec]

[Boots High Power will allow a top speed of 8500 km/sec]

[Boots Low Power will allow a top speed of 1500 km/sec]

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[Operation Duration] / [Cool-Down {CD} Time//Power Recovery {PR} Span]

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[Full-Powered Speed Acceleration will allow Speed Boots to be operational at Maximum Power for only 30 Minutes] / [CD/PR - 4 Hours]

[High-Powered Speed Acceleration will allow Speed Boots to be operational at High Power for 1 Hour] / [CD/PR - 2.5 Hour]

[Low-Powered Speed Acceleration will allow Speed Boots to be operational at Low Power for 2.5 Hours] / [CD/PR - 1 Hour]

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[Upgrade]

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[Upgradeability Status: <Upgradeable>]

[Upgrade Item: <Locked>]

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[Fusion]

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[Mergeability Status: <Mergeable>]

[Fuse Item: <Locked>]

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[Exchange/Swap]

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[Exchangeability Status: <Exchangeable>]

[Exchange Item: <Locked>]

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[Trade]

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[Tradability Status: <Tradable>]

[Trade Item for Purchase Point: <Locked>]

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[[**System Message: Locked Functions are due to Insufficient Mission Achievements!**]]

[Return Item to Inventory: <Yes>/<No>]

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After going through the attributes of the item, Maxmillan broke a smile in his face and nodded his head in total amazement.

"I am slowly getting there." He said with a wide grin appearing on his face, as he could imagine his inventory filled with highly advanced futuristic equipments and weapons.

"But wow. Look at the points required to purchase the boots. It's astonishingly massive. Boy, I am really glad I was rewarded with these speed boots for completing the insanely difficult Homecoming mission. Or how would I generate these amounts of points in such short time to purchase it? It is even capable of upgrading and fusing with another item. Nothing but marvelously amazing!"

Then he said further, "Return Boots A1"

Immediately he said so, the Ultra-High Velocity Traversal Speed Boots worn on his leg immediately vanished, returning to the Inventory.

He didn't even try to check the others, as he could already guess their functions and abilities through their names.

***

Once it was morning, like 5am, Maxmillan who didn't sleep at all at night as he thought endlessly about his mom, immediately stood to his feet to go look for her.

He simply needed to bring her back with the hopeful prayer that she hasn't been harmed, or worst, exterminated, or he will never forgive himself, Shining Lake City and the Floating Lotus Academy.

In fact, he wouldn't forgive any user of Astra Mystralis. He will become a superiorly resentful, life-seizing chaotic demon on the loose from the deepest pit of hell that will unendingly snatch the lives of users of Astra Mystralis to satisfy his boundless rageful vengeance.

Like they could sense his intent, Nailah and Lylla immediately left their rooms after suddenly snapping open their eyes from their sleeping states to persuasively talk to Maxmillan and see if they could change his mind on the new journey that he was about to embark on.

"Maxie, are you already leaving to go search for mom?" Nailah asked with gleaming curious eyes.

"Yes, big sister. I am leaving to go find mom. And I promise to bring her back safely." Maxmillan said with a strong light of determination and resolution flooding out of his eyes which impacted his two sisters.

Immediately his powerful gaze settled on them, Nailah and Lylla couldn't help but be bedazzled by the endless sparkle of hell-bent determination in his sharply-gazing eyes.

After a while, Lylla who was first to recover from the effect of his gaze, asked, "But brother, let's say you arrive in the city and find out that mom is in trouble, what exactly are you going to do about it? And it's not like you can use Astra Mystralis and cast protective magical effects around her and yourself. So, what are you going to really do?"

Haha!

Maxmillan laughed.

"I don't need Astra Mystralis anymore. I am my own caster of grandiose phenomenal effects. Just wait for the good news, my two beautiful sisters. Our lives will once again be complete with the return of mom to our home!" Maxmillan said with an unfaltering tone in his voice, before immediately heading for the door to leave the house.

As soon as he arrived outside the house, space warped and distorted around his legs before two dual-colored, ultra-technological robot limb-like boots that produced soft whirring sounds due to the human-propulsion microtechnology in them, appeared on his legs.

Whirrrrrrrr...

The boots each emitted imperceivable mechanical whirring sounds as they operated before beginning to produce imperceptibly-low humming sounds that emitted from the boots, indicating that the speed-accelerators or velocity-propellers had charged to full power for usage.

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[System Alert!]

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[Ultra-High Velocity Traversal Speed Boots, code-named: Boot A1, has charged to Full Power]

[Boots are ready for use!]

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"I am leaving. Take good care of dad and yourselves." Maxmillan said with a gentle loving smile in his face as he looked at their absolutely shocked faces.

Whoosh!

He suddenly took off before they could say anything. And he moved so fast that before they could blink their eyes the next second, he was nowhere to be seen. Except for the large dust storm that he left behind as he ran at a shocking, superhumanly-fast speed.