Chapter 190: Aurora border confrontation
After departing from the academy, the small team of Jake, Alex and Peter were on their way to Raven's city in a futuristic vehicle that glided above the ground quickly getting from one place to another.
They passed through the town where Jake usually comes to. The town that had the government Guildhall and where Jake had encountered werewolves therefore granting him a system that made him a force to be reckoned with.
The town was just at the border of Aurora city. Jake looked at the window as he could see happy smiles from the children as they pointed up at the Aeroglide.
That was when the Aeroglide headed towards the forest, the forest where Jake had almost died if it wasn't because of him gaining the system.
'Thinking of that, I never did find out how that orb ended in my pants.' Jake thought.
'Oh well, that is for another day.'
"Why are we headed to the forest?" Peter asked.
"Because that is the path that leads to outside Aurora and it will now take us to our destination." Alex responded as he was the one behind the wheel.
"How long will our journey take?" Jake asked.
"Normally, it would have taken one and a half week to get there if we were on foot but with this baby, we would get there in three days time." Alex smiled.
Peter then looked out at the window of the vehicle at the tall trees that flew past them.
"If the border of the city is on the forest, how do people get here? How do they cross this dangerous place filled with beasts?" Peter asked.
"That's because of some of the soldiers in the academy. With them, they create a safe passage for merchants, citizens and innocent civilians that wants to get to the academy." Alex explained.
'Is that how the sergeant that brought me from the forest that day found me? Was he trying to create a safe passage for some people when he found me passed out?' Jake thought.
That was when something pulled him out of his thoughts.
"Do you hear that?" Jake asked as he looked through the window.
"Hear what?" Alex asked.
"This low humming sound." Jake replied.
"It must be the Aeroglide making the noise." Alex said with a chuckle.
"Exactly, it sounds almost like the Aeroglide but I'm sure it's not." Jake replied.
"I hear it too alright." Peter said holding onto his axes looking at the window also trying to spot where the sound was coming from.
"Brace yourselves!" Alex shouted as he suddenly manoeuvred the Aeroglide abruptly and then quickly made an emergency landing.
The manoeuvre threw Peter off balance as he had been standing earlier while Jake stood firm.
And then Jake saw a sharp, long projectile that flew past their vehicle.
"What was that?" Jake asked as Alex had successfully made an emergency landing.
Then that was when the humming sound could be heard again this time louder than before.
Looking at the window, they could all see that they had been surrounded by some vehicles that had wheels on them and people standing on it.
The vehicle had two wheels, one in front of it and the second one behind it while two people each were on the vehicle.
They were around three vehicles in total with two people on it each.
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"I'm guessing the reason for our abrupt landing is because of them." Peter said.
"Let's just see what they want." Jake said walking to the door of the Aeroglide with Alex and Peter behind him as they descended causally from the vehicle.
"Look at them, walking so casually as if they own the land." One of the men said.
Jake turned towards Alex. "We are still on Aurora border right? We haven't crossed it yet right?"
"Yes we haven't." Alex replied.
Turning back to the men, Jake then smiled.
"Then we surely own the land."
"Who do you think you are?" Another person asked in anger.
"Oh me?" Jake pointed towards himself.
"Nobody of significance as of yet but if you keep messing with me, then I will become your worst nightmare."
"You cocky brats!" Another man shouted as he was about to dash towards Jake but another man raised his hands and he stopped in his tracks.
Seeing the man, Jake had a thought that this was surely the leader of this group.
The leader had a mohawk style on his head with a black sunglass on his face and he was currently wearing a cool leather jacket and by his side, were two daggers.
The man didn't look like a warrior or a fighter, rather he looked more like a model that was going for a shoot of some sorts.
"Do you know who we are?" The leader asked calmly.
"Should we?" Peter asked.
"Hahaha." The leader laughed. "Such arrogance and confidence coming from you kids."
"For your kind information, we are members of the Iron Fist Guild, and not any members, we are C class adventurers. So that should give you an idea of our strength."
Hearing the name of the guild they were from, Jake's body tensed up but he had quickly relaxed it in fear that this would be high ranking members.
But hearing that they were just C class adventurers, Jake knew he had nothing to worry about.
The only ranks he was weary of were the B class and above. Those were the ones who would give him a tough time. And the leader of the Iron Fist Guild was a supposed double A rank or so.
"Are we supposed to be scared now?" Alex asked with his arms folded as he looked at them all.
"You should be and you will be when we are done with you kids." The leader said.
Alex then turned to the two others with him. "Two people can actually handle this, there's no need for the three of us to fight against them right?"
"Sure, but how do we decide?" Peter asked.
The men on the vehicle were astonished as they saw the audacity of the kids in deciding how they wanted to fight but the leader was being patient so did they.
"How about rock paper scissors?" Alex asked.
"Yeah I think that will be great." Peter said.
Then the two of them; Alex and Peter closed their hands and shook it.
"Rock paper scissors shoot!" Alex said.
"Yes! I got to have some fun." Peter laughed as he had chose paper.
"Jake, care to join in the fun?" Peter asked. But Jake didn't respond as he confidently walked forward.
"What did you all plan on doing after stopping us?" Jake asked.
"Rob you rich arrogant brats of course." One of the men responded.
"And?" Jake asked with a raised brow.
"What else, and kill you afterwards so there won't be witnesses." Another member replied with a smirk on his face.
Jake then sighed and shook his head before he turned back to look at Alex and Peter.
"Do you guys mind if I take this one?" Jake asked.
"Sure go ahead and knock yourself out." Peter said heading back to find somewhere to sit.
"This will be easy job." The leader smirked.
"Oh, bad train of thoughts!" Peter shouted out loud.
"Attack that brat!" The leader shouted and immediately, the five members charged forward towards Jake with their weapons drawn.