Going through the border, the trio were meet with the expanse of a gargantuan jungle with huge canopic jungle, all sorts of flying creatures could be seen encircling the colossal jungle.
" What are you dildo heads staring at, charge " Dalek said charging into the hellish lush, ' Poor bastard doesn't even know what lay's ahead ' Lucian thought just before a hand held his shoulder.
" We have to protect Dalek, this isn't a F ranked dungeon but an unknown ranked border bridge, we're Embodied Immortals and his a mere S ranked human " Gabriel said with a stern look.
Lucian and Gabriel had been friends for a long time, They meet Dalek as a slave when Lucian escaped his prison, back then they were petty thieves, stealing to survive.
Causing mischief and gaining the hatred of the public, a templar soldier caught both of them and sold them to the slavers illegally.
If there was anything Lucian hated it was capturing of a fellow being for personal exploits, so his assasin nature took over.
He assassinated key political figures in the settlement, like the Judge of the Templar Magistrate, The Village head, The Templar garrison leader, The Templar who sold them, The slavery committee chairman, the slaver who bought them and the Duke who vice headed the settlement.
And all this except the last was done in the dead of the one night, the last guy was just a bonus kill to quell his anger, the amazing part was it was broad day and the Duke was just passing by for an inspection when he got shot point-blank at the forehead by a rifle.
With this Lucian released a lot of slaves, white and black, of diverse human races, even the rarity of a few Elven and Beastkin females which use were far from farming.
Although most of the slaves were recaptured, Lucian and Gabriel managed to save Dalek, the elven and beastkin slaves, Dalek stayed with them but the females left the village entirely though the Dyam Forest.
Dalek lived with them until he awakened a powerful technique and an S ranked ability, together the trio rose as a feared force in the settlement, even feared by the governing bodies of the village.
A Collector, A Protector and A Slave, they were feared due to a single reason, their ability to make someone vanish without a trace which was all because of Lucian.
The Slave, Dalek, he was the most powerful with his ability to mimick other peoples magic spells and technique, The Protector, Gabriel was physically the strongest amongst the trio, the title ' Protector ', belonged to a secret persona he adopted.
The Collector Lucian was known as the most skilled due to his training, they didn't know he was more powerful than Dalek and even stronger than Gabriel although they never fought before to actually know the strongest.
Seeing Gabriel's back disappearing into the jungle he got into a running stance, " Oh Child Of Light Enhance Thy Speed " he muttered, underneath his trousers his legs began to glow.
He inhaled and exhaled, with a swift motion he was gone, the ground carved a burnt trail which as he ran to rejoin his crew.
They we're already engaging a group of goblins, perfect cliché, they were about seventeen in number, about a meter tall, crude weapons mostly clubs and bone spears.
Dalek fared just fine cleaving through the pitiful creatures with his double-sided ax which was made of the same metal as his armour.
The Goblins suffered more in the hands of Gabriel, his sword was still kept in it's scabbard, his palms discharged huge amounts of current, not lightning, currents.
He only left charred coals in his wake, Lucian couldn't help but wonder his growth when he became a matured Embodied immortal.
While he watched a goblin tried to sneak an attack on him, absurd, someone who was trained as an assassin and in the sacred arts of ninjutsu from his tender moments.
Spinning his body to face the creature he wacked the goblin's head of with his feet and he aid of momentum, he unsheathed his sword and lunged to the nearest goblin and cleaved it in vertical half with his obsidian coloured blade.
Swinging his blade he dispatched multiple goblins like it was one harmless sport, he didn't even have to use footwork or anything just flimsily swinging his blade.
" I hate it as these creatures are so weak yet so malevolent " Dalek voiced beheading the last goblin, " We have to hide out loot in case of intruders and wild beasts " Lucian suggested wiping his blade with the leather clothes of the goblins.
" Just pile them at a spot later we will harvest their cores " Gabriel responded leaping away, " That technique is really powerful…, good thing I mimicked it " Dalek voiced watching Gabriel disappear amongst the clouds.
" Let… " Lucian wanted to say but Dalek leaped away like Gabriel, " There they go again, leaving the heavy work to their servant " he grumbled.
He sat in a meditative stance, " Lord of shadows, Mystic Pristine, Guide the lost, Save the strong, Versatile and Overpowered, Lord of might, Drowse Thy Self In Power Divine " Whilst chanting his shadow mantra arms of blackish purple aura slowly escaped from his shadow.
They picked up the goblin bodies and arranged them in a pile, when that was done they disappeared into the shadow, he stood up satisfied in his mastery of the shadow element.
Although denied mana, they were more ways to use magic, Mantra was the most frustrating and arduous, so that it was despised amongst deities and Lucian was the only being in existence who used magic by chantings and incantations.
It had pro's Lucian wasn't aware of but if there was one thing he knew it was his journey would be hard, really hard, " Lord of Shadows, Prince of Mystery, sore the sky's, Free and Boundless " With that two dragonic wings sprouted from his back without damaging his clothes.
He leaped into the sky, freely felling the winds pressure go against him, he had done this countless times although it was very difficult at first.
But with years of practice and determination he mastered it partial, or even lower, if something was to slightly touch those wings while airborn he would plummet to the ground immediately.
His shadow only produced dragonic wings and he couldn't change it, this lead him to theorize his being had some connections with the ancient dragons.
His shadow manipulation was pretty useless at the moment, it could only give him tentacles, wings and enhancement which he didn't need.
He already had a technique call primordial enhancement, it could enhance everything about him and connected to him.
It helped him in spotting were he's friends were, he dove straight at the spot they were only to figure out he was wrong those weren't his friends but Certified Adventurers.
He couldn't stop his dive because it deactivated his wings causing him to plummet straight for them.
Now this meant trouble.