Lost Origins: SS Ranked Awakening-Chapter 41: Disagreement

She didn’t know Kieran as someone who succumbs to fear, he must have seen something they didn’t. So, Sabrina shook him one more time, seeing that he was still in a daze.

"Eh?" Kieran responded, snapping out of his daze, looking around slightly confused.

"Calm down. What happened?" Sabrina bent under front of him and asked while trying to calm him down.

Seeing the strange looks they were all giving him, Kieran simply stood up and said,

"We should leave now and send a report while we are at it too!"

This statement caused Sabrina and the rest to frown. The only people that believed him were Jake and Ruby. Having fought and spent time alongside him, they naturally trusted his words. Since he said they should leave, they would! But the others didn’t save this trust.

Even Sabrina who had a rather good view of Kieran, especially with her curiosity about him couldn’t just follow his order ls without a valid reason, not to talk if the others who only knew him due to his high ranking.

"Why do you say so, Kieran?" Sabrina asked, but another one of the recruits from the five-man team who had had enough butt in loudly,

"Isn’t it obvious? He’s scared! He’s just a coward that holds a fake front. All he needed to get scared was the sight of a outpost that’s probably more than half empty!"

"Shut it, will you?" The recruit who wore a glasses and had been silent until now, finally spoke up, silencing the other recruit the rest had referred to as William. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"I’m sorry about him." He apologized on his behalf.

Kieran stared at the recruit with the glasses that had volunteered to go along with him earlier. Who knew someone as timid looking as him had a tough side. It was impossible to tell.

Having heard what "William" had said about him, Kieran understood immediately that there was no way they were going to believe him.

After the fight, he could now control some of his senses at will; the reason his eyes were back to normal. He hadn’t tested the limits yet, but that was how he managed to see what was going on within the seemingly empty outpost.

They weren’t like him and there was no way any of them could see that far. The cliff they were on was several meters high and he didn’t have a way to explain to them how he could see something that far away.

"Sigh! It doesn’t matter, you wouldn’t believe me either way. Let’s go, I’ll send a report to the camp along the way"

Kieran said after a deep sigh, directing the last part to Jake and Ruby. He wasn’t going to pointlessly try to convince them to follow him when it was obvious that they wouldn’t.

"Alright! I don’t think it’s going to be as fun as I want anyways!" Jake said, moving away from the group to Kieran side.

Kieran then turned his games toward Ruby, waiting for her response. He didn’t so far understand her stance.

The moment he mentioned that they should leave, the noticed the strange expression on her face.

"You coming?" He asked

"You guys go along, I’d be right behind you. There’s something I’ve got to check first" She said with a complicated expression.

Hearing that, Kieran turned to leave with Jake. No hesitation could be felt from his steps.

"You aren’t going to try?" Jake asked, surprised at how easily Kieran had abandoned her.

"No" he replied.

To Kieran, he wasn’t abandoning her. This was the first time she had asked something of him and she deserved his compliance as a friend. Now this didn’t mean, he didn’t care though! The instance she asked him to go ahead, the had immediately recalculated his plans.

He was going to wait behind for a while for her incase things went south. He already sent a message to her through the watch to inform her of what he saw and he was pretty sure she understood, so she shouldn’t be stupid enough to go in despite his warning.

Kiernan couldn’t tell why she wanted to go in, but something told him it might have something to do with the outpost and its nature, the fact that it was a Kretas.

Those things weren’t like the other outposts, they were special. Despite its large size, that thing was capable of moving itself! It was literally a mobile fortress and what’s more? It could perform warps and even had a special space ship mode. It was the result if the blood, sweat and struggles of several soldiers and humans.

Kieran had no idea why they decided to discontinue their production.

Despite the fact that technology had grown since the time it was created, it would still be hard to match a peak design such as that.

He was eighty percent sure that although that Kretas was under the military, it wasn’t sited there before. It must have warped to that location.

If not, then the camp had been feeding their soldiers with false information because none of the several maps and info of the region that Kieran had gone through had a blank space at the middle indicating the presence of such a huge outpost.

Basically, what the camp usually did was to put signs indicating that that area was off limits and such areas were always armed to the teeth. Like he thought earlier, the events of this supposed to be simple mission were things that were inconceivable to him before he stepped into the region.

"Have you sent it?"

Jake asked when they had gotten to a distance tag was not too close or too far from the location of the outpost.

"Yeah"

He answered confirming that he had sent the notice to the camp and considering that the effectiveness of the camp and the fact that they had probably been monitoring them throughout the course of the whole exercise, Kieran expected a reply in a few minutes at most.

And just like he expected, he got one, seconds after the message was sent.

"What does it say?" Jake asked looking at Kieran to hear what the camp had to say.

"We wait for the rest to come back" Kieran said taking a seat on the nearby root of a tree.

"Come back? I don’t think they’d be doing that any time soon. They were adamant on finding what the place is about. And to be honest, I was too!" Jake said also taking a seat on a tree root opposite Kieran.

"The camp sent a message to them to withdraw"

Kieran said and Jake could easily figure out the rest himself. Unless they were willing to face the consequences of disobeying an order, a possible charge of insubordination and their lives at risk, the best they could do was to follow orders and withdraw.

"Hey, what is it that you saw?" Jake asked Kieran the question that had been bugging g him. Although he trusted Kieran and withdrew like he said, he was still very serious as too what great danger was lurking on those damaged but active walls if the outpost.

"It was crawling" Kieran said with an expression that Jake could argue was the most serious he had seen on his face.

With such an expression on his face, Jake despite not being able to imagine the vast number of creatures that would need to be present to say that such a large space was crawling with creatures, but the mere thought of it made him shiver.

He could now understand a bit of Kieran fear. Despite his wild and slightly crazy battle tendencies, he wasn’t foolish to dive head into a place like that, filled to the brim with beasts. Even if the beasts were of the lowest and weakest kind, their sheer number would outpower and consume him in no time.

"So, what now? We just wait?" Jake asked, slightly irritated. At first, he had been excited at the idea of a mission outside the walls if the camp and that dammed mountain. Being in there always made him feel stuffy.

To him, he was going out not just for the sake of a mission, no. He was going out hoping that he’d some across some nice and powerful beats, and although he did have some encounters with beats, it wasn’t anything he thought it would be like.

The first one was with a stampede that he was lucky to have been of its range unless he desired to be crushed mercilessly.

The second encounter was with a bunch of weak asked blue beasts. They weren’t even enough to itch his battle last, the only ones that managed to make him feel a slight blood flow died too easily and Kieran had taken the rest for himself by the time he was bored with those ones.

He didn’t even consider the strays he had killed along the way, in the forest. To him, those weren’t beasts, they were just insects waiting to be swatted away.

"Fuck!!!!" Jake cursed, smashing his fist on the soil beneath him.