The Echelon Tower

Chapter 12 - Alliance

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''Do you want to unite our groups?" The men asked

Although it was simple, this question shocked the entire group.

Join humans?

Throughout their adventures, they had long since disassociated themselves from the image of "humans." It could be said that they saw themselves as beings of the wild. Especially since they gained abnormal attributes.

As such, they were quite shocked seeing other humans. In fact, they were more surprised seeing some than not.

Before answering, Guillaume's group regrouped around Jonathan and the injured Hugo. After leaving Hugo to Rana's care, he stepped to the front with Guillaume.

"I was rude, I should've started by this. Nice meeting you." The men extended his hand to Guillaume. He had short black hair and a beard. He was of about average height and had a slightly athletic build. He had nothing special except for his charismatic air.

"Likewise." Guillaume strongly shook the man's hand.

After that, the man also gave a handshake to Jonathan, who had to conserve his strength to not crush it.

"First of all, I want to thank you guys for helping my two comrades, they would've been in trouble if you didn't come." Guillaume started the conversation,

"Nono! I'm sure you guys would've been fine. You look like you've gone through a lot."

"There is no need to be humble. I truly would've had to make compromises to get a half-decent outcome in that situation, thank you." Jonathan honestly thanked the man. He had a very good impression of him since he was humble and looked like he was full of good intentions. "But before we can do anything related to an alliance, we have to at least know who you are."

He didn't blame the men for rushing the situation. In a place like this, number was a strength that could balance the odds. It was natural to want to pull in others before thinking about other things.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I was too hasty. I guess that I should introduce myself. I'm Yves and you'll meet the others shortly. We were walking when we heard the animals from afar. Although we aren't at starvation, a substantial food source like this is hard to come by, so we decided to attempt to hunt. Then we saw your group and I knew what to do when I saw this young man in trouble."

"Hmm. It really is tough to live out here. My name is Jonathan. We were also quite excited when we met this horde of moose. We all have experienced the somewhat the same struggles, so why not talk about how our groups were made." Jonathan was the one leading the conversation while Guillaume simply stood by him. Truth be told, he looked more like a leader then Guillaume with his much taller and imposing body.

"Yes, that's a great idea."

"Since you were the ones helping us, I'll explain our groups situation first. We were all part of a much larger organization that got teleported here. Guillaume, our coordinator, Alex, our strongest man and Rana was superior in that organization and stuck together. Unfortunately, we got ambushed by wolves, so the large group and to split. Guillaume met with Julien, the small guy over there and Hugo, the injured one, and they took them in. Stephanie, the girl over there and I escaped and met with Guillaume. We were all lucky enough to escape from the ambush."

"An ambush? This can't be a coincidence, we have about 6 people form our group that got separated from a school in an ambush." The man, Yves, pointed to a group of people behind him. There was one adult and five children. Jonathan recognized two amongst them, but he only waved at them before continuing his conversation.