"Oh shit. Oh shit! Oh shiiiit!"
I chuckled to myself as I see him duck, slide and dive into the pit that I had his summons dig earlier to dodge all the bullets that our sister was shooting him.
"You're getting sloppy!" I said in a lazy tone as I can see he's not well hidden on his position as I can see his hair popping out the hole. Probably because he got taller.
"I'm not!" He immediately replied as I see him look left and right to look for any possible route to take without activating any of his skills.
"Nah, he totally is getting sloppy." Our sister called out before shooting at him and I saw the pellet ricochet from one of the trees towards the angle of our little brother's head but I saw him roll over. "Dang it! I was so close!"
"Haha! You're rusty!" He teased her back before rolling towards a different spot as she reloads.
I observed my sister and saw her reloading two sniper rifles. "I'll bet 500 rubies, you won't be able to last in the next six minutes." I called out.
"Yeah right. As if you have money." As he threw his throwing knives— well, basically the rubber version of it—and threw it way pass his opponent.
This cheeky little bastard. I lean forward.
"Ha! You didn't hit me!" I heard her exclaimed. "Skill issue."
"I wasn't aiming at you!" and I just laughed when I saw the rubber knife was embedded on the arm rest I've been leaning on earlier... He sure know how to control his skills now.
"Awe...Why did you dodge?" I can hear the disappointment in his voice.
"You aimed at the wrong spot..." And I turn the notebook to the other page to put their latest improvements.
I drag a few more circles and bubbles encircling the areas and the crucial informations about their physical strength.
"This is so unfair." He protested. "I have melee weapons while my enemy keeps shooting bullets at me."
"Hey, you literally just threw a knife earlier!" and yes he did, and he's now charging at her while using the terrain as an advantage.
She was grinning as she kept shooting while he kept leaping, rolling and jumping on obstacles in angles she least espected.
It's fascinating how they both awakened yet when using just physical strength and endurance, they could actually last for days of combat when using their skills and abilities. I'm a little proud of how my training regimen for them made them more agile and experienced than anybody out there.
Because...
I am not preparing them for the monsters that lives within the dungeons. No... There are far more dangerous beings than those creature...
And the danger I'm referring...
Are humans.
Cases like that has been on going anywhere. Especially here in the outskirts of the Philippines archipelago.
Since we have lots of islands, when the dungeons started appearing, most islands have atleast one to five dungeons in them depending on the size as large cities usually have about twenty or more because there are larger inhabitants and more numbers of awakeners to fight and clear them.
The new government works with the guild masters so everything is pretty much regulated and there are not much of issues but human greed still takes control of those who desires for more that I can even feel the posible rift location that may occur somewhere on the Northern part of the country.
"Dang it. This type of scenes are cooler in movies and mangas." His statement made woke me back to reality as they are now engaging in a close combat fight.
"Aw." As she hit his face.
"Ow." he managed to hit her back on the side.
"Aaaah!" He screamed when the muzzle hit his neck.
"You!!!" and now the teens are in a wrestling match as they forgot about their stance and the training became a sibling fight.
Minutes later, they both fell on the ground due to exhaustion.
"Good work. You both lasted six hours, thirty-five minutes and twenty-seven seconds. New record!" I praised as I clapped.
This is their usual training with the help of our and how I wish it's always just like this but it can't. They have dreams they want to fulfill and I'm just making sure no one will mess with them once they go out to the real world. Without further ado, I blew my whistle... "GO!"
(AN HOUR LATER...)
"1 2 3 4..."
"1 2 3 4..."
"1 2 3 4... Faster! Faster!!! Keep running!"
There was nothing in the area but me who's riding summoned shadow dire wolf and the two teens who were almost out of breath as the wolf ran after them while happily wagging his tail as he wants to catch his summoner and his favorite human as they ran away from him in their favorite clothes, not wanting to get slobbered with the saliva of the excited wolf, Choco.
This is their endurance and agility training and no, I am not being hard on them because I know they're not yet at their limit so I said... "Two more laps and we will have grilled pork for dinner." Which invigorate them as they started running faster to get it all done swiftly.
When I saw them lit up as they levelled up after the training, I applauded them... "Congratulations on your graduation!" As I ruffled their hairs. "What skill did you get?"
The youngest who was still catching his breath, grinned as he's looking on his status window and said "Shadow travel! It says I can change place with any summons no matter the distance and I can teleport to any shadow as long as it's within my sight! That's so OP! Wait let me try..." He activated the skill and he's now standing on top of a tree branch ten meters away from us then teleported back by exchanging places with his summon.... "There's a 30 minutes cap on the teleportation but it says here that it'll be shorter every time I level up the skill!"
"Hmm... That is useful for a surprise attack and close combat fights as well as escaping. Are there any other information? Can you teleport with someone?"
"I don't know. Maybe it'll be possible when after leveling up on its highest level."
I tapped his shoulder. "Good for you." I look over at our sister. "How about you baby sis?"
She was a little bit teary eyed... I look over at her shoulder to see what's in her window and it stated there that she unlocked a passive skill and the personalization or the gunsmith table is now accessible which means she can create her own customized bullets and modify her guns that she can buy from her store system that have collectible guns and ammo just by completing quests and killing bosses. Her passive skill is something that activates automatically and it is...
You have unlocked:
[Did it hit or did it hit?]
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Passive skill )
Ever worried about hitting the target? Aim wherever and it'll be a guaranteed hit on the target part you're aiming! Activates using any shooting or projectile weapons and items.
*Gunsmith table now accessible.*
*Gun and armory shop now open.* (Shop is only exclussive for user.)
We don't like physical touch so I just gave her a nudge on the shoulder. "Now you're officially a master sniper."
She giggled. "I think I'm going to enroll to the police academy."
I chuckled at her antics. "Oh well, whatever you say miss officer. All I know is that we're having grilled pork and barbecue tonight!!!"
"Yeeeees!" they both cheered.
That night was the longest and the shortest night I ever had...
It was the last night we were all together after years that passed.