Hours passed, the date changing as it became tomorrow, the sun rising slowly over the horizon though it remained utterly hidden from eyesight by the large heavy clouds that were almost always present in the town of Forks.
It was at that moment that a body appeared inside one of the apartments in Forks.
It was Alan, he had spent the entire night inside of the dungeon, having fought for hours on end until he had finally decided that it was enough. This wasn't the first time that he had reappeared inside his room during the night, he had done it multiple times, there was no real way to check the time inside of the dungeon and so he had to leave and rejoin just to check what the time outside was. He didn't want another incident with him having missed multiple days though that time hadn't exactly been because of his own volition.
Taking a deep breath, Alan released a sigh slowly as his breath started to calm down, he had just finished another fight inside of his dungeon, the last one that he had done for the night, having pushed himself as hard as he could in order to level up as fast as he could however the experience gain wasn't anywhere near as fast as it had previously been.
'Still… Level thirty seven, it's not bad, not bad at all for now. Just thirteen more levels for me to reach the next dungeon, which I'm guessing is going to be the next threshold.' Alan thought to himself as he took a deep breath and took off his clothes that had already turned almost completely sweaty in mere seconds since he had returned from the dungeon.
Looking down at them, he felt a slight amount of irritation.
'I should have changed out into my underwear before going inside the dungeon, the fact that I can't choose what clothes I want to wear after I'm done with the dungeon and just straight up teleport into what I had is both a sort of blessing aswell as an annoyance once your not in any actual danger.' Alan thought as he slowly took off his clothes before heading inside his bathroom to take a shower.
Finishing his daily morning routine of showering, brushing his teeth and eating a few protein nutrition bars from the systems shop, he quickly got dressed into his school clothes and headed outside, walking down the side walk towards Forks Highschool.
It was at that moment however that something caught his eyes, with his enhanced perception, he could see quite a lot farther than most regular humans.
Out there, on the left side of him, near the tree line, something was watching.
Alan didn't turn his head, doing so felt like putting himself in danger and at the moment whatever was watching him, wasn't making any sudden moves that he could or needed to react to.
'What… is that thing?' Alan thought as his brows furrowed as he kept walking, whilst trying to see as much as he could with the side of his eye.
Right there at the tree line, though the sight was slightly blurry, he could see a tall dark figure, if it had been just that, Alan wouldn't have been concerned, it could have just been a regular human however he was more than certain that it wasn't a human. For a very simple fact.
His mana perception had been turned on, and the thing was surrounded, basically drenched in a large quantity of mana that almost reached the same level as what he had seen from Alice Cullen and the rest of her family.
But the colour, it was almost the complete opposite of the vampires, which had a bloody crimson aura that surrounded them, this thing had a dark emerald coloured aura that surrounded it almost completely, almost helping it blend better with the forest around it.
And for a split second, Alan felt almost like an instinctive… warmth towards the thing, not exactly an emotion of kindness but something closer to familiarity.
And the other difference that clearly put it away from a regular human was the fact that it's eyes were… piercing yellow and staring directly at him, even from this far away, he could see them almost clearly.
If Alan had been a human, if it had just been last week, he wouldn't have noticed the creature at all, atleast not before his evolution into a quarter elf, but now he could, and as he was walking towards his school whilst making sure that on the outside it looked like he was just gazing ahead of him, another thought struck him.
'Those eyes… they're a bit weird… not in just colour, its the spacing… a regular… person doesn't have that wide of a… that thing… is it not humanoid?' Alan thought as a shiver started from the back of his neck and went all the way down to the base of his spine.
He had already tried using Observation however he had found out that the distance between him and it was too large for the observation to work in any way at all.
'Damned it, just as soon as one problem is gone, another problem comes and it comes looking for me. Why? Did it find out that I'm… I'm not human? What reason does it have to be monitoring me? Is it… a friend of her?' Alan questioned himself however as much as he tried, he couldn't come up with a reason as to why, no, it was more like he could however he had no idea on which one was actually the case and if any of the thoughts he had were even correct.
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