Everyone got together to eat. but no one had a big appetite. Essence still ate it without a doubt as Robin conformed that its safe for consumption. while they were all eating a person from the new group spoke up, "How do you fight such big beast? Are you like sent by God to help us?" Essence immediately denied it and responded, "I'm just a human just like all of us and you also can be as strong as me if not stronger." Everyone gasped at the fact that they al[so can become strong enough to hunt something that big. Essence continued "It's very simple." as he lifted his Rod-sword and it started glowing. He then continued to teach how to gather and use Mana
We now see Kai running from a Cat monster. He runs towards a light pole and makes a turn while holding it. The cat also fast on its legs makes a small turn but it falls short enough for Kai to land a clean hit on its head with the fire axe. It let's out a loud scream before dying, scaring the rats away. Kai sits down leaning on the light pole and stores the cat's dead body. He catches his breath and look up to see the moon setting and the sky changing colour to day time. He gets up and starts running to see the sun rise but stops back to look at the moon. Something about it just makes him want to look at it. He hears someone call his name and he comes out of it just to continue running.
Back at Essence's place. We see him lifting metal scraps with Herb and Rantaro. He is lifting significantly larger chunks then both of them and still looks fine while the other 2 are out of breath. Herb looks at him with jealous eyes. Essence points it out and they all share a giggle over it. Rantaro's sister jumps in the conversation and calls Rantaro. Rantaro runs to his sister and pushes her with him to the small hide out made of scraps. Essence turns to look at Herb who is making the most disgusting smile he has ever made. He lets out a huge sigh and continues to life the scrap. Then the ground begins to shake. Essence runs to protect herb to not let something else happen to him. slowly the shaking dies down and he lets herb go. Essence asks "Was that an earthquake? bad time to deal with natural disasters and beasts. Herb is still holding his head in fear after the earthquake is gone. Essence gives him a strong hit on the head and says "Don't worry, you won't die 2 times as that makes for bad story telling." herb makes a disappointing look as he was hoping for something more cool . Rantaro comes running towards Essence and herb. He looks scared out of his wits and his face showed that he brought bad news. He reaches enough distance so they can hear him. He breaths heavy and ominously says something.
we now see someone unspoken of. He jumps up from ledge and lands on a cat. He impales its body with a knife. The cat roars in a fury and pins him down but the person doesn't lose his smile, instead he lets out a big laugh and looks at the cat and says "boom..." The cat lets out a meow in confusion. we see the knife and is actually rigged with cracker. They light on the back of the cat. It helplessly jumps and crawls on the ground from the burning cracker's on its back. It also slowly falls pray to the firepower of this man. He gets up after the beast is dead and removed the hot knife and juggles it as its still hot and throws it an a water puddle. He whistled and a big wolf with glowing eyes shows up and lifts the cat up with his mouth. This man jumps on the back of the wolf. its Cinder. He pats the head of his dog who turned into a wolf like beast. The dog jumps off into the night as Cinder gets a message from Kibo asking where is he. Cinder looks at it and says "interesting. am I the MC?"
We see Essence run back after hearing what Rantaro. We go back a few moments to when he reached Essence and Herb. He gets approached by Essence. Essence asks "Hey what's with that face..... is everything ok?" Rantaro looks up and speaks in a shaking voice. "It-it was ,it was a..." Essence shouts at him to ask" it was what?!" we see Essence running again as he is thinking back to want Rantaro told him. He makes a jump from a high place and makes a heroic landing as he looks up. and we hear what Rantaro said "A Dragon". Everyone is looking up to the dragon flying in the sky. Essence asks Rantaro "When did this show up?" Rantaro still looking up in awe doesn't answer. Essence repeats himself louder. Rantaro snaps out of it. he says "It appeared out of no where and flew straight into that buildings over there. it brought down more then 5 of those 10 floor buildings.... just by flying into them." Essence felt the weight of his words. He didn't speak out of fear of his life but a more primal kind. The fear of the strong. Herb looks at Essence and pleaded "please save us.... please." Essence looks down at his hands and thinks can he even do it? He hears more people repeat the same words. its the people he saved and his family. he sees his little brother crying. Robin shows up and laughs. He mocks Essence "A hero with no wits nor muscles. how will you save you people?" Essence makes eye contact with the dragon and
The dragon makes a dive right where Essence is standing