Chapter 905: A Rumble of the Future
Arad returned to Hati's house moments later, Serin was quite exhausted after playing for a long time so he handed her to Tina. Ignis on the other hand still had a lot of energy so she kept going around the house, exploring the place.
After putting them down, Arad walked toward the guest room to look for Mira and Isdis, he wanted to give them one of the bottles to try, albeit he wasn't sure if they could handle it or not. On his way, he saw Isdis approaching him alongside Hati.
"You're back, we've been waiting." Hati said with a smile, "What took you so long?"
"Nothing that matters. I was playing with the girls." Arad replied, looking at Isdis, "Did something happen?"
"Nothing." Isdis shook her head and looked at Hati.
"They've told me you intend on hunting tonight, well, I came to tell you that you don't need to. I've managed to secure a whole Tall Neck for you. It's waiting inside the training ground; you can go and grab it." Hati waved her finger and a door to the training ground appeared. "You hunted for me?" He glared at her.
"Come on, you're my guest. Don't humans feed each other when they come to visit?" Hati waved her hand and the door opened up, "This is your real dinner, but be sure to join us at the dinner table."
Arad started approaching the gate, but Hati immediately called back to him, "And don't remain there for too long. You still didn't recover well from today's training."
"I'll be back immediately, keep the gate open." Arad walked inside. The first thing he noticed was that the place looked nothing like the deserted wasteland he fought Kayden in, this was a large frozen arctic region with a heavy snowstorm going on. The Tall Neck's corpse had already frozen and was almost buried beneath the heavy snow.
To the side, almost a hundred meters away he spotted something, two massive stone buildings with the word [Food Storage] written on one, and [Liquid Storage on the other] This region was Hati's fridge. The temperature here was so extremely low that it might kill a human instantly if they walked in there.
Arad approached the Tall Neck and sucked him into his stomach in an instant. He can slowly absorb and digest it in his stomach overnight, unlike other monsters, he doesn't need to sit down and eat unless he wants to enjoy a meal.
Right after finishing, Arad walked out of the dimension and looked at Hati, "What was that place?"
"My training ground is like a massive sphere. I use the northern pole to store food in extremely low temperatures so they won't spoil, and I use the south pool for other matters." She giggled, "I might send you there if you annoyed me a bit."
"People with a Tarrasque blood can show some of its power, like extreme regeneration and magic immunity. But none had shown the Tarrasque greatest power." She looked at Arad, "The Tarrasque creatures lived in the past, far long before humans or dragons came to the world when it was pure wild chaos filled with abominations. But, as you might expect, they didn't survive and were eradicated by the abomination. Only one Tarrasque survived, and it's still alive to this day, all of those who have Tarrasque bloodline are her descendants." Hati stared at Arad with an evil smile, her eyes glowing red, "She's immune to death, all of her race's strive to survive had condensed into her and made her the most stubborn and violent beast in the world."
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In Alina's mountains, Nina was training, kicking the air as she fought an image of Arad conjured by her imagination, like a boxer doing shadow boxing, she kept kicking jumping left and right at a blinding speed.
She stopped, sweat dripping from her ankle as she held her pose, slowly looking past the trees and mountain cliffs at her side. A massive shadow of jagged teeth and claws creeped out, silently without a sound, and the shadow grew larger and larger.
Nina immediately stopped her training and lifted her axe, looking with a worried face. Such a massive shadow, it must be a dragon that came to invade Arad's territory, "Who's there?" She
yelled.
From behind the cliff, the massive shadow quickly disappeared and a tanned woman with a body filled with tribal tattoos and wearing a single-brow robe walked out. Her hair seemed to flow like living snakes as her eyes burned with a golden flare of life. With each step, Nina could feel her blood scream, this was the great mother, the godmother earth of her barbarian tribe and the origin of her bloodline.
"Who..." As Nina gasped, she suddenly found herself caught by the face, Tarrasque grabbed her and jumped away, flying into the horizon in the blink of an eye.
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Hati looked at Arad, "We call her Tarra, it's what you think of when you think of a barbarian. She's the first barbarian that ever existed, and shall the be the last one to ever exist." Hati knew that Tarra was going to Nina, but she didn't tell Arad. She knows he'll fly there immediately to help Nina, and that would be bad.
Tarra might be a rampaging barbarian, but due to her extreme ties to survival, she won't kill one of her blood. Nina might be in for a rough time, but she'll make it out alive. What Hati worried about the most was that two barbarians would need to speak and understand each other, and that wouldn't be an easy feat to achieve.
"Tarra, so the Tarrasque had a name..." Arad looked at her, "You just chopped <sque> part of Tarrasque, who's the idiot who named her?" He called her out, but sadly, Hati wasn't the one
who named Tarra.
"I didn't name her." Hati turned and started walking, "Let's go, the dinner would get cold." She waved her hand, calling them to follow her.