DEVIANT

113 [Bonus Chapter] Chapter 113: General Firestorm

“But who the hell could the masked man be and how did he achieve the SS ratings at such a young age?” Akila asked and Tristan frowned.

“I believe the real question is how the hell does one person possess numerous deviant abilities and all of that at the SS ratings?” Tristan argued.

“It is possible, if his original ability allows him to steal other deviant abilities” Silver said thoughtfully.

“Things are about to get messy” Dan of the God sect sighed and leaned back on his chair, shutting his eyes.

“There is no use dwelling in such thoughts... If anything happens and a war breaks out, we cannot fight against them. The United States and their allies should be able to handle this” Zero said with a slight frown.

“Allie’s? Are you fucking stupid or just plain na?ve?” Alex sneered with a raised eyebrow.

“The United States has remained the world power for far too long... this is an opportunity for it to fall from that position, do you think they will swoop in and help? If this goes down and the United States can’t handle it, we are all dead... fucking dead... The world will join hands and fight it when they are sure we can never recover from it and by that time, at least ninety percent of this country’s fighting force will be gone... including you and me” Silver spoke while glaring at them as if he was speaking to na?ve kids.

“The goal now should be to get stronger... strong enough to survive any country level Gosh! It’s so annoying that by now I still don’t know why I’m here....” Kira said as he pushed his red hair back with a visible sign of frustration on his face.

Alex nodded at his words and fell silent, he too understood that feeling but right now he felt was good.

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For martial art practitioners, there are three stages one can use to determine their power as martial art practitioners in this world. The first is the Ki stage! This is a level whereby the user can summon the Ki around him to argument his power when performing martial art techniques. This allows him to bring the best out of each strike he delivers while improving the power of his attacks tremendously.

The second stage is known as the awakening stage. This is when a martial art practitioner awakens his aura! At this point drawing power from the world can be used to fuel your aura which in turn is incorporated with your attacks to bring out the maximum destructive power in each strike.

Only after absorbing all thirty beast cores and pushing his martial art secret technique to a threshold did he finally awaken such power. That’s the only reason he was able to suppress Zero like that.

While it didn’t improve his base stats in any way it made him far stronger in actual combat.

After dinner, Alex was called in by the general in charge of this operation. He guessed his confrontation with Miss Lane was reported.

If it were any other person they would be dragged to this place but Alex was invited. He had the option to deny but Alex had no reason to so he just decided to go.

Bam!

The door was open when Alex arrived and he was shocked to find out that a whole general didn’t have any form of security team surrounding his office. It was just his secretary.

“He must be quite confident in his abilities to do something this cocky” Alex mumbled as he walked into the office and the next thing he saw brought a smile on his face.

“General firestorm!” Alex exclaimed as he saw an elderly man with Gray and red hair mixture.

The man was buffed and muscular with a body filled with scares and thick white beards. When Alex was younger, the man had visited the Briggs a couple of times. He had seen Alex a few times during their training session and he concluded that Alex was extremely talented.

They built a good relationship back then. It has been a while since then! But right now Alex finally understood why the man needed no guards. This man is an S-rated deviant who is said to be the most powerful fire deviant. After participating in countless battles and killing countless foes, General firestorm has made a name for himself. People are more inclined to flee when they hear it so he had nothing to fear.

“Little brat! You finally enter the world and decide to cause trouble for the country... do you want to receive a good ass whopping from me before you behave?” General firestorm laughed as he extended his hand and shook Alex’s.

“I apologize but I didn’t grow up to be as patriotic as you, Sir.... I just hate it when I feel like I’m being used...” Alex said truthfully and the man nodded bitterly.

He understood how that felt, especially from someone like Alex who has been a tool for the Briggs family all his life. He couldn’t blame the young lad.

“I will let it slide but don’t demoralize my men again... If not for the sake of the country, at least do it for my sake” General firestorm said and Alex agreed without hesitation.

The man returned to his seat and offered Alex some tea before he spoke again.

“Look at you... it’s barely a year since you joined the outside world yet you have already done the country a great favor...” The general said with a proud look on his face.

The same a proud father would give to a good son. This is something Alex has never experienced from his actual parents. Sometimes he ends up wondering if they remember they have two sons since they have never made any attempt to reach out to him ever since he was sent out to the outside world.

“It was nothing, really...” Alex said humbly.

“Nonsense! Taking part in the two major events concerning the Tyrant gang... Battling a B-rated deviant like Cherry twice for the sake of your country is a feat deserving great reward!” the general said with a serious look on his face.