I sat down and was given something to drink, it was blood red with a sweet scent and it flamed up your tongue and throat on its way through your mouth. After you swallow you could feel the drink rushing through your body, it left some parts untouched and made you drink more and more to wet it all. But you never got completely satisfied.
"So who might you be young lad?" Raja asked and placed his huge hand on my shoulder.
"I'm a many of many names," I said with a smile, gulped down my drink and signalled for more.
"Aren't we all? After all in this life of ours, your reputation proceeds your face and your accomplishments grant you your name. I am the Hammer Lord Raja of the many men." He stood up and raised a giant hammer into the air. "AREN'T I?"
"WHOA! WHOA!" A group of men called out, I looked over and saw that there was a door leading down to a very lit part of their ship. There were numerous bearded men in there just drinking the time away and roughhousing.
Now that I thought about it, this was the largest ship I had ever seen since getting here. I was currently on the roof and was yet to acknowledge how greatly magnified everything was here.
"You guys are some really big people," I said as I looked back to Raja and them.
"Have you never heard of the planet Polodoll?" said the biggest man on the roof. "I'm Kuriel by the way, Wrecking Ball Kuriel."
"No, and I guess I'm Grim, the Grim Shooter."
"That explains the skull." Kuriel laughed and they all joined him. "Kadiso is one of the four main planets of the Lwapeng Empire, its a forever cold and forever shady place and that is where we are from. For some reason, all of us there grow to be over a foot longer than the average man and most of grow even taller, with the tallest being 16 foot tall."
"Did you mix with aliens?"
"No, if you spend enough time on the planet you will also end up stretched."
"I see, so what's the deal with the beards?"
They laughed again in unison.
"These are the man and the man is this," Raja said as he flexed his muscles which ripped his shirt to shreds.
"How dare you take out those scrawny things in front of this one." The shortest guy said as he ripped out his muscles and posed like a bodybuilder.
Kuriel stood up and as he was standing up his clothes started to rip apart and fall from his body. "Did I hear I just hear some squeaking?" He said as his bulging muscles lit the darkness.
[The Supreme Eyes have grown]
[Threat level can now show the target's strength.]
[The Supreme Eyes have grown]
[Host can now see their thoughts in a holographic display. This is unique to the host]
[The Supreme Eyes have grown]
[Supreme Eyes can now be used on non-living objects]
'These guys are dangerous.' I thought to myself as I went over their sheets.
[Name: Haja
Age: 53
Skulls: Yellow (100/3/5) Blue: (903) White
Vitality: 63%
Health: 79%
Stamina: 99%
Skills: Bigger's boxing: learned boxing for giants. Can fight with a mace.
Status: Drunk and excited to roughhouse
Intent: Punch and punch anyone nearby
Threat level: C]
This was the sheet for the shortest one, it was also the same as the one for the others. The difference was in their weapons and that Raja had a [Threat level] of B, he also had a black skull over him meaning he was one of my targets. Thankfully he did not have a red one like Crawford. It would leave a stain on my name to kill someone who showed me kindness.
Soon after, the giant men started fighting, Kuriel dominated easily but Raja was soon able to overpower him. Haja was more speed than strength just in their league, he wouldn't lift a foot next to me.
They got tired and fell back into their seats, they immediately started pouring down the alcohol. We talked all night and I learnt a little bit more about the empire.
There were four main planets, Kadiso the frozen land of giants, Polodoll the land of moons, Manaria the empire's stronghold, and finally Emporos the homeland of the humans of the Lwapeng empire.
Planet Kadiso was known for a fish named the prynor which lived for 20 years mated twice and only had offspring after 6 years up to 13 years. Its meat was used in most drugs as it provided quick relief. It was a delicacy for the rich who ate it raw and believed that it could make them younger.
The chief or king of the planet was Kilsari Badisa, he and his family lived in the warmest part of the planet.
Next was Polodoll, it was the biggest planet on the empire and this was necessary because it's trees made these men look like ants. From those trees came explosive fruits, valuable ship fuel, and finally was semi sentient dolls. The dolls could not talk and were completely loyal to the person who awakens them. There was a rumor that you could create a person by putting a soul in them.
Next was Manaria, it was crawling with officials and this was because it was the empire. It had a lot of prison's and was mostly populated with four groups, children of criminals, children of officials, children of aliens, and mixed race children. Everything else should fall into place after reading that.
Emporos was the last planet and the mainland, it was considered the greatest achievement to have lived there. Even across other empires it was known as one of the most beautiful planets in the universe. Which confused me because everybody here was here to discuss how to bring it down. But as they talked they mentioned that it was peaceful and people living there are one of the happiest.
In any case after learning about the planets, I could pretty much guess where all my crewmates came from. Sekai was Kadison, Choka and Mona were from Polodoll. Neo was from Manaria, Sizana and I were from the fallen royal family of Polodoll. Finally, Arnold was from Emporos.