Temporal Pearls

Seth was angry but he was powerless against this old man.

"Come with me!" The old man directed but Seth just stood there before he reigned on his emotions and then walked. He was back in the Garden Of Eden.

"Medos are strange and unpredictable. I just checked, the Medos you faced is older than the Human Medos and yet you survived its encounter." He began to explain as he walked ahead and followed him.

"Human Medos is famous and deemed the most dangerous because it has come close to collapsing Garden Of Eden. But the truth is that there are others that have done more damage than it has ever done. We don't give them a name but a number, the one you face is SME 125th. It's old and smart. One of the first of its kind and also a picky eater."

The old man stopped and looked at Seth, "Abhorrent Monsters that didn't evolve in time collapse and die. Monsters grow old and collapse and become goo before assimilating with something to form something. In time they too die. Beasts do not age at all unless they have injuries they can't heal from. That is why they are proficient hunters that avoid injuries at all cost.

You will rarely see Beast killing each other. Menos in time, centuries maybe, they will regress to become Special Creatures. Medos are immortals. They do not age, they do not decay. As long as they aren't killed completely, they will recover in time." The old man said in one go before he turned and asked, "What sort of injury did you cause?"

Seth sighed and folded his hand without answering.

The old man smiled without pressing and they walked through the streets. Almost everyone they passed has armour parts on their body.

They reached a clinic and entered it. The place was empty with an old man reading what looked like a magazine.

"Jura. Check the neck of this boy please!" The Old man said.

"I'm busy!" The old man reading the magazine answered without looking out.

"The boy survived SME 125th!"

That made the man jump start and look toward Seth. His eyes glowed and he asked, "Interesting. That thing ate your face. How are you still sane?"

"That what I'm wondering?" The first old man said.

Old man Jura walked and observed Seth's face mask, well he could see beneath the mask before he looked at the neck.

"Green Menace. Someone tried to enslave you!" Old man Jura asked but he didn't really need an answer.

"He will be fine. In about a week or two, the wound will heal. If he stopped moving a lot and turning around. Just give it a rest!" Old man Jura said.

"He can't. There are some errands that he will be doing. Not to mention the two wounds will complement each other and make them fester if left untreated." The old man said.

"Hmm. How cruel of you. Brighton, just give the boy some slack!"

"I can't. Please help. Whoever used Green Menace on him didn't get what he wanted and may come again for him."

Old man Jura sighed as he stared at Seth. "Sorry, kid. I am the one that developed Green Menace to enslaved Medos. It looks like some got their hands on the technique and are now hunting humans."

The old man Jura turned and entered a room and they followed him. Now, he wore a white cardigan and white hat that floated above his head.

He made Seth sit on a white solid bed and he began to explain.

"Green Menace is a menace. The user can track and continue what they started. That means with one swing, they will be able to cut off your head and you belong to them. But I have two antidotes."

He fished out two vials, each containing green liquid inside. "They look the same but they aren't. One is the blood of a special Medos, the other is the antidote I made."

"One can make you heal instantly but it's very painful. The other will gradually heal you but it's also very painful but there won't be a lasting effect.

"One will cause your face to burn and you may die and the other will make you strong!"

Seth was confused before Jura smiled as he said. "The blood of this Medos will make you immune to another Green Menace of the same calibre or slightly higher but will contaminate your blood for some time."

"Choose!"

The prospect of immunity was great to Seth but he has dismantled the team. They will be foolish to come after him now. Heck, they should be begging him to give back the organs he extracted from them.

That means he doesn't need to torture himself with Medos blood. He took the normal antidote with a sigh.

"Good choice. Most people want immunity but Green Menace is rare for one to be afraid of it."

Old man Jura said with a smile and Old man Brighton nodded but Seth immediately snatched the blood and placed the antidote on the man's hand.

Seth has just remembered, the whole organization in Gawee wants a piece of him. If Captain Navy can get Green Menace who said others can't. It is better for him to get immunity than just healing.

"Are you sure? People died with that" Old man Jura said.

But Seth nodded with conviction.

Jura and Brighton looked at each other before they shrugged.

Old man Jura brought out a syringe and collected the blood vial and then sucked it all in.

"Let me see the extent of the injury!" He gently checked and his eyes widened.

"Who the fuck is the boy? Immortals died with their heads chopped off. How come he is still alive and not enslaved?"

Brighton too was taken aback and checked.

Seth's head was healed in a way but the two masters can see that the head truly was severed before it was stitched back together.

"Is he an undead?" Brighton asked and Seth's vision blurred and he found himself under another form of scrutiny. Not once, but numerous times.

Five hours later, he was back to the Old man Jura clinic.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"You are very fragile but also a freak of nature. Tell me how you survived having your head severed from your neck?" The old man asked kindly.

Seth removed his mask and pointed at his lack of skin and lips to speak.

"Oh. I can help with that!"

"Leave the boy alone. Jura. Heal him please!"

The doctor sighed and took Seth's hand and injected him with the blood of the Medos.

It was like fire was entering his veins.

"The burning pain in the veins is the least of your problems. Your back and spinal cord will feel like breaking and then your head is like a magma. Take this white stone to relieve the back pain if It's too much and this brown stone pain for your head. Don't consume them unless you can't bear it!"

Seth nodded as he leaned back and watched them stand away watching him.

Soon, Seth's body was hot and his veins were green. He took a deep breath as he felt as if he was high on drugs.

[Health: Congealer Medos Blood in the system.]

[Health: Burning Blood]

[Health: Assimilating]

Seth ignored the notification as he took a deep breath, his mind was on the Right Hand of the Medos he had.

He had noticed the creature had numerous markings on his body.

Its left hand has a marking and it glows when it wanted to push away things. The right hand maybe will make it pull something.

Its left leg marking made it speed up and right leg marking allowed it to dodge things faster.

A marking on its chest made the creature become hazy and phase through objects.

There were other markings that Seth didn't know the use of.

'Can I have the marking ability too?' He was having those thoughts when his back felt like it was being hammered.

[Health: Back Ache]

[Health: Spinal Cord Invasion]

The pain was high, Seth supposed to be thrashing around in agony but he just burped and adjusted his lying down.

'What a relief?' he thought. He was still not happy to be here but the benefits were great. Especially, since he can think properly.

'What should I do with those organs?' Seth would have had a cruel smile if he had skin on his face by now.

'They will contact me and demand it. Hmm. I need to improve my value in Coinavator and use the Overseer to acquire some benefits from these rich billionaires. What if I can get a ship for my family and we escape and drift endlessly in the clouds!'

Seth began to plan his future and time passed until his head became hot, his eyes green and notification came and he swiped them away.

'Damn. I'm hard to kill. I clashed with that entity, then kicked Cloud Team butt before I box with a Medos and still lived to tell the tale!'

'Seth Enoch. I am great!'