The Villain's Story

?Like the light of heaven itself, it shone down from above like a cascade, enriching the earth below.

The scent of fresh dirt, something most humans had never even smelt due the technological advancements was... Interesting.

The awakened had a hard time getting recognized to the beautiful scent of soil, the grass all around them, arranged in magnificent patterns of an unknown culture or method also released a great scent.

It was like a mixture of lavender, rose, and palm. It was quite difficult to describe it in words, but it was soothing and brought peace to ones arm.

Although the number of Suns was alarming, they were warm, not infernal. The Suns cast their light and warmth like a mother covering her sleeping child in a blanket in the middle of winter.

The footing was balanced, the ground was tough but the scent of soil was sweet. The clouds in the sky painted quite a wondrous scene.

If it was to be painted onto a canvas and by the hands of a master, it would put many of history's renowned artists works to shape.

The celestial bodies, some partially covered by the clouds were just...mesmerizing.

"Woah... "

This was not Alan, not Sabrina or any young member, but an experienced veteran who had let out his inner child at this sight. The others looked at him, and he coughed in embarrassment. None blamed him however. It was deserving.

The entire party managed to come, but the admiration of this sight was brought to a halt as someone dropped to the floor on their knees.

Maxwell, who had entered despite wearing the highest quality gear he could have crumbled to the ground like the leaves of a tree in autumn. The gravity of this planet was stronger than that of Earth, and it seemed to be affecting him.

"My... Apologies... "

He tried to apologize, sorry for ruining the moment with his weakness. Kazikato approached him and let him stand up, with his help. He thanked him afterwards

"Thanks... Haa. "

He gasped, the pressure was still effecting him, so kazikato cast a shield of his own mana around him.

Alan and Sabrina entered as well, and Sabrina showed a similar reaction, however, before she could fall to the ground Alan caught her, asking what was wrong.

"You good?"

The other hunters who had returned from this world had stated that the gravity qas a bit strong... But it seems it was an understatement.

Due to their strength, the gravity may not affect them much but for these two, whose physical aspects were weaker?

It was hard.

Sabrina started to swear, Alan cast a shield on her as well, and used his ice mana to cool her down, he helped her get up and stayed close.

"That was... A shock. "

She said, clearly irritated that her first experience in a new world was to be forced on her knees.

Who knows? If she entered alone, which may or may not have been a plan of hers a while back... She may have been stuck here as her body crumpets underneath the weight.

"Thank you."

She thanked Alan, who responded.

"Just doing my job."

"... "

"Check the perimeters, always be in groups of five or more and report back, we don't know how much time passes here or what the cycle is, so be cautious not to be too late. One team stay here for 5 more minutes and then go back to Earth."

Richards orders interjected their conversation, and the team, despite being amazed got to work.

"We need to check if the electronics still work."

The drones had managed to work, although they lost their recording capabilities.

Maxwell took out tons of things from spatial rings, as did the others. They began to run tests as Alan bent down to check on the grass. Sabrina's grandfather was also doing the same.

"Remember, Do not engage with any lifeform! Retreat even if it's weak."

Richards voice was heard in the distance once again, getting faint.

"Is there anything special about it?"

Sabrina asked as she bent down, or more rather just lay on Alan's broad back and peeked over his shoulder.

"It's normal grass."

He commented, as he held a few blades of the green grass in his hands.

"Check the blue ones."

She advisee, still in that position. The gravity here made it hard for both Sabrina and Maxwell to move.

Sabrina hated training her physical attributes, she deemed such a training...

'Primitive.'

Logan eyed her and Alan for a while, then returned to his own business, ordering the Wellington camo.

"This has mana."

Alan said, as he picked up a few blades of blue grass. Although the amount of mana was faint, he could sense it.

"Really?!"

Sabrina's high pitched voice responses out, her eyes glowed like stars as she snatched the blue blades of grass from his hands.

"I don't sense... Wait there is."

Alan was a bit surprised she could sense the mana in the grass, it took him quite a lot of focus to sense it but she just did nonchalantly.

"Help me get to the research table. "

She said, and Alan helped her to go where Maxwell was, the research table.

Calling it that was an... Exxageration. It was currently just filled with all sorts if gadgets Maxwell was testing to see if their originals functions stayed the same.

"Everything works fine... So why did the drones lose their recording ability? "

Every after pondering for a while, he failed to deduce a good conclusion aside from the portal messing with their gear.

But if it did... Did it fail to detect the itemls in their spatial rings?

If it did, if was a good thing. Transporting of goods would be hard but not impossible, just needed quite a few trips.

Sabrina approached him and handed him the grass, Alan left those two to their business and examined the area they had teleported them. It remaining the same, but with all the great scenery here it looked normal as it did compared to the one on Earth.

Curious about the strange patterns in the grass, Alan decided to activate his wings and fly up to get a better view.