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Chapter 100: Awakening
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As soon as Graham held his legs, Siva's body began to spasm, tremble, and shake as if he was having an epilepsy attack.
But it wasn't an epilepsy attack and all the more it wasn't because he's being electrocuted or something either.
The sight of him wasn't something good to behold nor was it a sight to pity.
Rather... it was something to fear.
Because these four men knew just what the level of consequences their actions just now will affect this boy's life.
Brbrbrbr...
Rex's body shook and his mouth was emitting slightly obscured sounds of neither moaning nor panting, nor that of a muffled gargle...
At first the shaking was still a bit mild, but then it became moderately just enough to shake the bed.
After five seconds, the spasms of his muscles and the trembling of his body became so strong that even Graham, as big and as weighty as he is, were still finding it hard to fight the strength of the boy's legs.
"Shet! Is it supposed to be strong?"
"I'm almost at my limit!"
The twins were built smaller than Graham but still, they have stocky builds and their muscles and bones were a lot sturdier than normal, so them being lifted up like a pale full of water just like that was a horrifying sight for Doctor Martinez.
"Don't let him off your grasp or I promise I will smite you with my fists!"
Graham's warning was like a drill. Although the twins weren't afraid of him, it was still a different matter when he's been tasked as the boss of this small little group.
Besides, although they seem to work for AG in the surface, The Father is still someone who has a more frightening presence than him when they are compared in the same table.
The twins held Rex's arms and Graham held his legs all on his own.
And yet even with their combined weights, Rex was still able to gradually lift them up as if he was about to throw them.
"Martinez!" Graham shouted.
"I'm watching! But... but this... this is just plainly impossible... It doesn't make any sense! Nothing in his emotional chart is displaying even half before the limit! It's like... this whole thing is just a normal physical reflex and is not being consciously commanded by him!"
The twins were surprised and so is Graham.
They have been warned before by AG to not ever connect a nano-box to the internet but now, they just gave Rex an entire box of it and was still when he was online!
After a moment, Rex stopped moving and the strength vanished on his arms and legs while the three large men still didn't let go of his limbs.
Only after ten twenty seconds did they recover and stood up, watching as the liquid blue metal enter Rex's orifices, then vanished on his skin completely without a trace.
Rex now lay there, breathing normally, and even calmly as if he was just sleeping.
Graham looked at the doctor.
"He's asleep." Martinez said but given Graham's experience, the look on the doctor's face doesn't give the impression that Rex was just normally sleeping just like that.
"What's the issue?"
"Well..." the doctor had beads of sweat on his forehead and he wiped them with his sleeve. "I haven't seen anything like this before. Yes, he's asleep but..." he glanced at Rex and titled his head in confusion, "...it's really odd. His brain is completely... flat in all aspects."
"Flat?" The twins asked at the same time.
Hank looked at Rex, "That shouldn't be possible because there should always be an emotion that is mostly active in any given moment. Even the term 'relaxing' should be attached in at least one kind, if not many kinds, of emotional drivers that will serve as the carrier that can define the status of being 'relaxed' on a person."
"Yeah." Frank pondered, tapping his chin and closing his eyes, nodding, "Being relaxed depends on a person's own mental persona and state. So being flat..."
Graham frowned and took the panel that the doctor was looking at. He frowned even more when he saw that yes, all of Rex's 'bars' that had always represented his emotional and mental states were all in the 50% mark of being in a normal state of... being relaxed.
In fact, it was a frightening prospect.
Modern lie detectors can detect the slightest ripple in someone's emotions when triggered by certain thought-provoking questions.
Even the best liars in the history of mankind can't hide their emotions under these modern scanners.
And yet... this Rex Kingsley in front of them... his mental state and emotional triggers were all flat.
50% below the critical limit of agitation...
50% above the critical limit for being mentally dead...
It was as if...
"My god."
"Can it be?"
Before Graham could even pinpoint to anything in his train of thoughts, the twins stood up and then studied Rex Kingsley.
Hank grabbed his arm to feel his pulse and Frank lowered his ears to his chest while pulling up a window to look at his heartrate.
After a few while, both their eyes went wide and a look of happiness displayed on their faces.
Graham raised a brow and this brow was so high that it was far above his black sunglasses.
Unable to hold it in, he grumbled, "If you don't talk within the next ten seconds, I will twist your bodies until you cry."
Clearing his throat, Hank gently lowered Rex's arm while Frank gently raised his head and then explained, "I think... we think... that Rex had just entered a deeper state of the Triple Bloom Meditation."
"That... thing again?" Martinez was skeptical. Of course he will be. He was a scientist for god's sake and unproven things like these were the very reason why he was part of this team.
His job was to contradict the twins' martial expert advices.
Graham's purpose was to consolidate both their conclusions and it was a given fact that he was impartial on both of their claims, before deciding on what the team had to do next.
While the doctor was skeptic of these unproven practices, the twins were hard believers and even masters that have many years of experience on their backs that fund their claims.
"Elaborate." Graham commanded.
Frank explained, "Well, ehem... you see, last time, we managed to rouse Rex into entering the first phase of the Triple Bloom Meditation technique. As we've said previously, this is a technique that only select few martial artists are capable of doing because it needs not only a lot of experience in the real life, but also a lot of comprehension ability and innate open-minded constitution. Also, we have already awoken his acupoints on the past sessions so there was no need to do it again right now. Only when he enters this state will he be able to fully digest those experiences that he had seen during all these time, and then deconstruct its lessons, and then finally reconstruct these lessons into something he can use for himself."
Hank continued, "The effects are frightening! We have met a 130 year-old Japanese Sword Master ten years ago and that old hag was chopping wood as if she was a teenager in her own mountain domain. She's the one who taught us this technique but the two of us are only able to slightly grasp the first phase even after ten years of practicing. That old hag... she said that she was a former Bio-Chemist in WHO during her first 40 years, but when she was diagnosed of cancer, she used her knowledge and paired it with the Triple Bloom Meditation Technique to get through that ordeal and have been living a martial life since then even until this very day!"
Graham frowned. "That old hag you're talking about... is she by chance Grand Master Matoko Sakuragi?"
The twins' faces lit up. "You met her?"
Graham gave a deep nod and a look of slight scowl and deep thinking can be seen on his wrinkled forehead.
"She was invited by the World Government to be one of our instructors during our training back then... at first she may look like someone on her 60's but thinking so was our greatest mistake."
As if he was remembering an encounter with the devil, Graham's body shivered and in order to hide this embarrassing side of his, he cleared his throat and looked at the Doctor.
"Martinez, I need you to take all the data and record all findings here. We're leaving after that."
"Already been doing it since the beginning." Said the doctor proudly.
When Graham was about to turn around, they all noticed that the scene in the city on the window panel changed in almost an abrupt manner.
A monster suddenly appeared and then devastated the entire southern quadrant.
Though the floating golden humanoid giant and its minions of warships successfully defended their side, the entire southern quadrant of the city had suffered a devastating attack.
"Crikey crumbs!"
"Blimey oaks... what is that?!"
"Good heavens... I can't believe this game got that kind of monster in it."
"....."
While the three had uttered their surprised cries, Graham's gaze was suddenly attracted to that sleeping figure of Rex Kingsley.
There was no change on him but he was sure that in everything that was happening in Terroa, especially now that he had been aware and was dragged into this mess against his volition, he just knew it in his guts that this has something to do with Rex.
He glanced one last time on the panel window that showed the status of Alexandria, and then turned his back around and ordered to retreat.
"We're going. Don't forget to harvest the data and also attach a back-up scan device on the neuronet socket to make sure we'd be alerted when something unexpected changes the situation."
"Aye."
"You're the boss."
"I'm already on it."
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"Rex!"
"Siva!"
As he opened his eyes, and seeming to gasp for breath, he was greeted by the sound of excited exclaims upon his waking.
Scion, whose lap he was sleeping on, wiped his black skin cursed face to off it with his hair and then gave him a warm teary-eyed smile.
"You're awake. I'm so glad you're awake."
Siva blinked, seemingly confused for a moment as he held a left hand on his head and tried his best to recollect his faculties.
"What just... happened to me...?"
After murmuring, he brought his hand down to wipe his face, and then breathed deeply for a few moments.
"I'm awake......... how?"
Siva wanted to continue but for some reason, he felt that there were some confusing things running in his mind right now.
It's because right at this moment, he felt like there two 'recent' events where he had lost consciousness, and upon waking, he was already in this... unfamiliar place and situation.
"How?" everyone got puzzled with his words.
Thorn walked over and then pulled him up before asking, "What do you mean by 'how'?"
Siva held his head and shook it; Scion by his side used herself as support and anchored his arm on her shoulder.
Recalling and reorganizing the events in his mind, he then decided to follow the most familiar and the most 'recent' event in his own intuition.
It was... the battle in Alexandria...
Siva shook his head, "I..... I don't know myself. I... all I know is that I saw Alexander calling for help and..."
But he wasn't even finished talking yet when they all heard a resounding monstrous roar.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh....."
It was coming from the direction of the city. It came into their ears like a muffled thunder clap and this sound was enough to actually alert Siva.
He turned his head over the city's direction and cried out in alarm.
"Baron!"
And yet, as soon as he saw the city's current state, a chill ran down his spine.
"No... no...!! The city..." Siva stammered.
Thorn saw the video feed on his panel and he was also alarmed by it. "Not good! The monster's heading this way! We have to prepare. Pull back! Lure the Colossi out of the city! Siva, you're the only one who can control Akhenaton. Make it pull back towards the south!"
"What? What are you..." Siva was still confused, a pang of pain was lightly drilling in his head and although it wasn't that concerning, it was still very noticeable and so he held his head, trying to shake some of it off with a light massage.
Thorn said urgently, "There's no time. Hurry or you'll bring more ruin to the city!"
Siva's eyes snapped open and he looked at the ruined city. He felt his heart break with a surging anger arousing slowly on his chest as he stared at the far distance.
They were too far away and too high but he could still make out the ant-sized figure of something black heading straight towards their direction.
Of course, Akhenaton's eternal night domain does not work on him so he could see it contrasting everything in the distance in the midst of day.
And yet, even that fact was something really hard for him to understand as well.
Because that figure was obviously around 60km away and yet he was still able to look at it directly and even make out the fact that it was that far.
"How am I doing this?!"
Siva's mind... something about it snapped and it somehow released him from some sort of invisible binding shackles, clearing his thoughts and even dispelling all confusing hesitations upon choosing a course of action.
He could certainly control the direction of his thoughts and plan a hundred scenarios mentally in a snap of a finger.
In fact, right at this moment, he had already formed a plan in his mind on how to deal with the enemy that's charging right in front of him... and it has all the things to do with Akhenaton.
Siva looked down and something about his connection with the warship became a visible option for him to choose from.
It was a command, a function that had just become available for him.
He left Scion and walked towards the edge of the wall while everyone, even Scion, only watched as he shook all over, like a drunkard trying to stand firm. Everyone just knew that his bearing is still in the midst of recovering itself so they let him be.
But ten steps later, he was already walking towards the wall with a straight back and a strong presence.
This change... was something that surprise them all. After that, his voice resounded:
"Akhenaton."
It sounded like a calling, like some sort of summoning, he called the name not as an object but as if he was calling for a person to come.
In reaction to that call, clanking sounds as if akin to locks being unlocked echoed in the air and it filled everyone's mind with shock and disbelief.
Just a moment later, Akhenaton's golden body bid a strong shaking motion and it fell from the sky... leaving only the crown with the writhing sphere on it... suspended in place.
BANG!!!
Akhenaton's heavy weight fell on the forest floor and created a tremor that spread in all directions, along with the sound of something heavy falling hard on the ground. It was a sound with enough might to frighten anything into silence.
He also left a small crater on the spot and now felt like a giant person and not an [object] that came from a capsule.
Akhenaton, for all eyes and skins to feel, is now giving off the vibe of a living person... a giant golden humanoid person that knelt on the crater he made on the forest floor.
At this time, Siva's voice rung again...
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Siva was calm despite the baffling situation...
And what do his [flat] mental vitals mean?
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