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Chapter 116: 116
"Was this the thing you weren’t planning on telling me?" Zephyr asked.
Ikem nodded, "Fathers friend Red informed me that such situations would happen following the treasures but he said the chances of that happening was slow so to not raise a false alarm I decided to keep quiet until now"
"So this Osita situation was what you were looking forward to," Zephyr asked.
"Indeed but now that I know, it’s even more dreadful. The fact that the enemies can take over someone is quite disturbing especially if they stay low and not show any difference"
"That means that any apelings now in our kingdom is under the suspicion of being taken over and the only one that can notice that difference is those close to them like the Osita case, if not them a stranger could possibly be roaming freely among our people" Ikem said disturbed.
"Oh my god, I never thought about it that way " Zephyr spoke out loud in surprise.
He recently just got the news from Omadi, so his mind is still occupied with the thought about humans and their problems so he hasn’t thought about how his own people could be affected too.
It is already a known fact among the leaders of the apelings that most apelings kept a treasure they favored to themselves so that means the chance of an apeling being taken over is high and the worst part is that they have no idea about.
"What are we to do father, I kinda now understand why you didn’t get pan on sharing the news. It is really unsettling knowing that it is an unknown enemy you know nothing about?" Zephyr said as he started pacing around.
"We do nothing son, things will stay the way it was. Time has passed since the incident of treasures yet no abnormality among our people meaning that any possessed apelings knows that it currently cannot do anything to us right now"
"So we do as we did before and continue growing in strength but we have to be more cautious and stay on the lookout for the slightest abnormality and inform your siblings on this new situation, they should also keep an eye out for their own people too" Ikem answered Zephyr.
"What about the human, Osita? What are we to do about him" Zephyr asked, still haven’t forgotten about the human situation.
Looking back at the path Omadi went back from, Ikem clenched his fist and only said "I will be paying the human a personal visit"
Zephyr looked at his father and said nothing but only nodded, the two stood on top of the waterfall looking far away into the distance.
Suddenly, Ikem said " The academy will be complete in two days and things will be different in our kingdom. With the new information we have now I am guessing the possessed apeling will see it as an opportunity"
"What am I to do if I suspect someone?" Zephyr asked.
"Mark them out so that they can be under observation till we are sure of what they are then we apprehend them but for now I have someplace to be" Ikem answered as he jumped down from the top of the waterfall.
Zephyr said nothing as he watched his father figure disappearing into the horizon. 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
Meanwhile Ikem at the moment is quickly making his way towards Osita settlement, he had a promise he had to keep to the human and he plans on keeping it.
By the time the sun came down, Ikem was already at the settlement. From his position he could see the changes that had taken place in the settlement over the week.
Now the people looked more nourished, healthy and well dressed. Ikem frowned, not expecting the new change.
Taking time, Ikem made a run around the settlement and compared the new information delivered by the new current scout who took over the previous scouts.
According to them, they have never sent people out to conquer but instead focused on repairing their destroyed home.
Comparing the words to what he is seeing now, Ikem had no choice but to believe it but that also confused "what game are you playing Osita?"
The night came, Ikem made his may into the settlement. He had no need for a concealment artifact as he easily made his way into the settlement while heading towards the building owned by Osita.
Walking to the house, Ikem picked on a few similar life forces like those of the mutants shaking his head. Ikem walked beside a mutant who didn’t sense him as he walked through the woods and used to build the house easily as he silently made his way into the house.
Room by room, Ikem took his time to see if he could find something useful. He even came across the sleeping figure of Osita’s wife, looking at the sleeping woman blankly Ikem shook his head as he headed towards where he felt Osita familiar life force.
Walking through the door to the basement, Ikem calmly made his way down to the basement to see the transformed Osita meditating crossed leg in peace.
Ikem took his time walking around Osita, taking a close look at this new enemy, the scales, the horns. Seeing all that Ikem couldn’t help but think if this look is the same for any possessed being.
Closing his eyes to sense the movement of elements around to see what attribute the demon is attuned to, Ikem frowned as he felt no movement in the element but he felt a pull.
Digging deeper into the pull, Ikem suddenly opened his eyes as he seriously looked at the still meditating Osita.
"He is absorbing pure mana, mana in its simplest form with no attribute" This wasn’t the first time for Ikem to see this as his father uses a similar process to get him back to full mana after he expends them during training.
His surprise is the fact that a mortal creature is doing that on command. Ikem the more he explored his training method understood more about mana. For him pure mana is the byproduct of the elements for them to use as energy.
But now he is seeing Osita actively absorbing pure mana into his body and then remembering the fire wall he produced a week ago.
"Just like father, he pulls the elements and blends them with the pure mana to produce their effect meaning he possibly can use all the elements, amazing" Ikem thought to himself as he looked at Osita.
"Just like I thought, whatever possessing him has a great deal of knowledge inside of him, which is exactly why I am taking this approach" Ikem, during the week after Omadi and the others were brought back. He took time to play and research with the humans.
His research showed that whatever created the mutant knew what it was doing, there was nothing random about their existence meaning that this isn’t just a knowledge newly acquired, the knowledge is something that has been tested and corrected uncountable times to be as precise as it is.
Having seen enough, Ikem took back the skill he was using. All of a sudden Ikem form twisted back as a huge scaled hand moved and swiped where his head was causing a huge wind to blow around the basement.
Looking back, Ikem saw that Osita was nowhere to be seen so he looked up to see Osita perched to the basement ceiling like a lizard while looking cautiously at him.
Ikem ear twitched as he head a huge pounding sound coming from Osita chest, smiling to himself Ikem looked up and said "it seems I gave you quite the scare"
Osita meanwhile was not in the mood for a joke as he looked at the divine being in front of him, "No" his memory Corrected him "A demigod" he thought to himself.
"The furred men have a demigod among them, how is that possible?" Osita thought to himself as his heart beat faster.
Since the last incident about Omadi, while he acts like he doesn’t really care about the result he was really worried especially after he felt his settlement being observed again.
The thought the same thing was going to happen again occupied his thought and this time he may be the target, the thought that information about himself being given away never crossed his mind so he did the best he could to defend himself by creating new mutants but this time stationing them around his house every night.
He also decided to change his method and have his own army of capable soldiers but before that he has to change the way things are going now in the settlement.
If he presents himself better to the humans, it would be no challenge to make them turn against the furred men that way his safety can be assured.
If he diligently trained a few talented humans, he would have capable minions who would be of great help to him in holding off few of the capable furred men, he at the moment still has no idea how many power houses they have, especially his encounter with the wind guy.
