The Earth After Rebirth

They had just finished the demonstration when a white tiger walked of the shadows and towards them. Kiro cursed himself, while he was too busy calming that kid down, he got a little distracted.

While vibrations was passive, he still needed some level of concentration. It didn't make him omniscient, so of course some details were very capable of slipping through.

The tiger let out an ear piercing sound. Which prompted some of them to close off their ears, they didn't want to receive damage if it worked like Nikolai's whisper.

One thing that was great about the wars, there was no system to annoy them. The other news were bad though as they wouldn't know how strong a monster was.

Kiro didn't think that mattered, he didn't think there was anything in this forest that could contend with 5 guardians unless it was a harbinger, a much stronger harbinger.

'Fingers crossed.' He thought to himself.

The tiger was crouching down, it was wary of the intruders that were in his home. He had a pair of blue beautiful eyes that contended with Kiro's, with an entire body that was striped.

What was most peculiar about Chasing Madness was the fact that most of the 10 were priests. They were a small guild, that needed power. Jorge decided that power could be achieved with a strong foundation, which were priests.

So when the tiger appeared most of them were ordered, by Kiro, to take refuge under Ishaan's force field.

The force field had evolved a lot since the first time Kiro saw it in that cave, it could cover more people. Most importantly, Ishaan could cast it and have the freedom to go fight without worrying that it would dissipate.

"Great job Ishaan, men! Let's take this kitten down!" Kiro bellowed.

It was all of After Dark together with Jorge, Lyle, Kade and Brutus. The last one was a swordsman. Excluding Felix, which he was mad about. Kiro ordered him to be the lead healer.

The thing was hell of nimble and fast. More than Kiro thought possible. It seemed to be able to evade even him but slightly.

It also had a very annoying, lightning fast attack that it let out with its mouth. It was a good thing that the attack seemed to have a cool down.

"Don't attack it from behind, can't you see the shape of its tail?" Kiro shouted from across.

The tail was that of a scorpion, it was too late for Brutus, the stinger would've went right through his chest if it wasn't for the armour Hiro had made. He instead received a lot of damage.

If he had been alone, he'd be dead, but lady luck was with him as his comrades came running at the tiger, not giving it an opportunity to attack him a second time.

"Dammit Brutus!" Jorge yelled as he was face to face with the tiger. The others had gone to retrieve him.

They had no idea whether the tiger had its friends with it, so they wanted to move in groups, especially with an injured patient. Kiro was the one who picked him up, he blinked once, twice and reached where Ishaan's force field was.

Ishaan was right behind, as he opened it up so they could throw Brutus in. They immediately turned back.

A fierce battle ensued when they returned. Jorge and Nikolai were fighting side by side, keeping the monster at bay. They were assassins, it was a wonder how they were able to fight it head on.

An assassin's strong suit was sneaking up on unsuspecting targets. Though it wasn't the monster that broke concentration first, it was Jorge, he'd never been in an intense battle such as this before, fatigue was slowly befalling him.

The monster pounced, its giant claws leaving gashes on Jorge's face. He fell to the ground, it was impressive that he refused to scream. He just used his quick feet to fall back.

"Are you alright?" Nikolai yelled from the front lines.

"Yes yes, don't worry about me, I'm already getting healed." He yelled back without missing a single beat.

Now Kiro understood how he took this pathetic guild and turned it into something golden. The kid had guts and he was able to hold his own.

They were all using different kinds of skills. Their strategy was that, those with long ranged attacks, attack first, leaving the monster disoriented and confused for the close range attackers.

Kiro was both. Him and Kade were great help. Kade was hiding up a tree. He occasionally left his position to confuse the enemy, the tiger was smart enough to discover it otherwise.

Their attacks were landing in perfect sequence. Not all but most, the fact that tiger hadn't died proved how much mana and HP it had. Also injuring two of their members was quite the feat.

Kade did something that was similar to Isla, and shot a mana arrow, but it never exploded even on impact. Kiro figured this was his chance, along with lightning, he used bending kick that didn't even sever its head, though it broke its neck.

"Next time I want to fight!" Felix complained while the others were happy celebrating the victory.

"What about your priest duties? Felix, you're a priest first!" Kiro scolded him, not intending to even look at the loot, since they promised all of it to Chasing Madness.

"I think having 7 priests is absurd." He countered.

"Well you're the one with the most experience."

"So, I should suffer?"

Kiro sighed and looked to Hiro for help, but instead of doing that, he nodded to let him do what he wants.

"We have enough potions. And I've brought ingredients with me."

"Mighty thoughtful of you." Kiro was annoyed, he liked being healed while he fought. Drinking a potion would waste precious seconds in his eyes.

Little bugs started to swarm around them, Kiro remembered them as bug eyes. He quickly used lightning to burn them into a crisp, sure enough, it worked.

"What the hell was that about?" Lyle asked.

"We have company." All of After Dark were already in a fighting stance.