Kael waited off to the side, sorting out his plans as he sat on a broken bench at a bus stop.
There were two main things that he had in mind.
First, the two 1st Echelon Awakeners also knew about his other identity as the Immortality Lord. Now that he had reunited with his family, he had the thoughts of killing them since he should be able to spare some time to kill them.
However, after thinking it over, Kael decided to deal with them later—just as he had planned from the start.
He intended to let them go for now because he was certain they wouldn't try anything reckless; their only bargaining chip in any negotiation was that they knew his secret.
Unbeknownst to them, Kael didn't care about that backup plan because once they were dead and raised as undead, he could simply command them to reveal everything, and the problem would vanish.
The second thing that concerned him was the fact that he still hadn't received his advancement mission.
He speculated he might need to achieve something first, but then remembered he hadn't even logged into Worldbreaker Online yet.
So Kael guessed he'd receive the mission then. Otherwise, he'd be in serious trouble—he'd never heard of this happening in his previous life.
Normally, everyone received an advancement mission upon maxing out a rank. When no notification came after Kael reached the maximum Unranked level, he grew restless but he had put it to the side as he had no time to mull it over with his parents' safety unknown.
As Kael was still lost in thoughts, he came back to his senses when he heard Liora's voice.
"Brother Kael, everyone is ready. Let's go!"
Kael smiled at her excitement. "Alright, let's depart right away."
He then resurrected the kobolds and said to Uncle Owen,. "Uncle Owen, I'll leave these guys with you to 'protect' the others."
Uncle Owen nodded his head as he understood the assignment. "Leave it to me."
When they were about to arrive at Kael's house, someone shouted. "There are a lot of goblins ahead."
"Don't worry, they are Brother Kael's subordinates." Liora said with a proud expression, crossing her little arms as she looked at everyone.
Everyone shook their heads helplessly. 'Sure! We know that your brother is the best.'
"1st Echelon Goblin Commander?" Luca muttered with a bitter smile.
"Hmmph! I've told you that…"
Before Liora could finish, Laura covered her mouth. "Little girl, you can talk about anything except that."
Liora pouted unhappily, puffing out her cheeks as she snorted and looked to the side.
"Mom, Dad, I've packed a lot, so we can head out right away," Kael said, gazing at the house with mixed feelings.
"Let's go, we'll go here once in a while after the situation becomes better." Julian patted his shoulder as he walked past him.
Kael exhaled, took one last look, and caught up to the others.
Last time, he'd left this house after burying his family in the front yard.
This time, he left together with them—beginning a new journey with new goals.
His priorities now were to grow stronger faster, find a cure for Liora's legs, and keep his family safe.
…
As they headed east toward Kael's former place, he had his undead goblins sweep far ahead, clearing every monster they encountered.
After going for around two kilometers, Kael looked at his phone and saw that the signal was back and notifications from the government could be seen.
He couldn't be bothered to look at them as he ordered his undead goblins to search for trucks for them to use because he didn't want to waste a lot of time by going there slowly.
A minute later, an undead Goblin Captain reported to Kael that he found two trucks. Even though the ice trucks weren't big, they were more than enough for all of them to hop in at the back and to use it momentarily.
Subsequently, Kael put all of his undead goblins except for the Goblin Commander and Goblin Captains.
He didn't put them away because he needed them to clear the street since there were broken vehicles, corpses, and monsters around the street.
When they were about to arrive at the place where he met Fenric for the first time, Kael finally saw the sight of Fenric and the others as he sat above the truck leisurely.
"Do you want to go on a picnic or something?" Fenric chuckled as he looked at the ice trucks that were filled with people.
Kael jumped down from the truck and responded with a smile. "Of course, we're going to move to a much better place for now."
He continued, "Come, pull up. We'll go there right away."
Before Fenric could ask, Liora shouted from inside the truck excitedly. "Brother Kael! Let me ride the wolf again!"
Kael shook his head helplessly and called the level 24 Darkfang Wolf as he picked Liora from Laura's arms.
Liora immediately hugged the wolf happily again since she really missed its fluffy fur.
"We're going to the Celestine Apartment. Come with us!" Kael explained to Fenric and invited him.
"Alright then, if you say so." Fenric replied before introducing his wife, "This is my wife, Amara."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Kael." Kael nodded and shook Amara's hand with a polite smile.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Amara. I've heard a lot about you from my husband." Amara smiled back.
Looking at Amara's expression when she greeted him, Kael thought for a second before asking Fenric. "You haven't explained yet?"
"Not yet. It's not that I doubt you, but you know…" Fenric smiled bitterly as he shook his head.
"I understand." Kael naturally understood that Fenric didn't want to give false hope to her wife.
Even though the chance of failure was slim in Fenric's opinion, as he trusted Kael's healing ability, he still didn't want to tell his wife yet at the moment.
"Don't worry, I'm 100% confident that I will be able to do it after advancing to the 1st Echelon Rank." Kael patted Fenric's shoulder before walking toward Vanya.
Kael ignored Vanya as he squatted in front of the little girl beside her.
"Hi there. What's your name? How old are you?" He gently stroked her hair.
The little girl was just a little higher than Liora, dressed in simple brown clothes with a ponytail hairstyle. She looked nervous as she twitched her small hands on her clothes.
"Hello, sir. My name is Viona, and I'm almost 7 years old." Viona replied politely.
Sigh!
Kael sighed softly when he looked at her hands, as there were scars on her fingers and palms.
"How did you get these?" he asked, smiling as he held her hands and cast a healing spell.
When Kael peeled off a band-aid from her hand, Viona was surprised when she saw the wounds were healed instantly and her scars were gone in an instant.
"I-I got them helping aunties with chores to earn money, but sometimes I broke things and made my sister pay," she whispered, tears welling at the memory.
"Kael! How dare you make a little girl cry like that?!" Laura immediately got off the truck and hurriedly went toward Kael in anger.
'This…'
Kael was speechless as he looked at his mom. 'Why am I always in the wrong in her eyes?'
Sigh!
He sighed deeply, resigning himself to his fate.