My Slayer System: Rise to Supremacy

Helen and Jake were seen in a wheely glide heading back to Aurora while Jake had already asked her a dozen times about what was going on and why they were in so much hurry.

It was almost close to the evening as Helen had arrived in the afternoon so by the time they got to a restaurant and began eating before leaving and heading back, it was already 4pm.

"I already told you Jake, I will inform you now. Just have patience till we get back." Helen said.

"Fine!" Jake said. "But what is going on?"

Helen just sighed out of frustration. "How are you a world leader again? You are behaving like a kid who can't wait to unwrap his Christmas present."

"Maybe I am a kid." Jake laughed as the glide finally pulled up in front of Aurora while they stepped out and were seen walking towards the guild hall quietly.

'I wonder why I haven't seen Alex or the others throughout today. Even Peter that is usually always looking for me for one thing or the other is nowhere to be seen throughout today.

Why do I have an ominous feeling about this. What happened to them? Did something bad happen? Oh crap! Did the thunderbolt guild attacked them while they were on a mission?' Jake wondered as he wasn't even paying attention to his surroundings.

They were slowly approaching the guild building. After going in, they walked in and were heading straight for another room in the building which Jake didn't know about and nor did he care about it.

But he didn't notice as his mind was racing through several possibilities.

'Did something unforseen happen to them and Helen wants to show me? Is that why she distracted me earlier to make me slightly happy so I can brace myself for this? But if so, why did she seem genuinely happy?

But also, Kate was nervous today, so what the hell is going on? If my suspicion is right, then I'm burning that puny guild down.' Jake thought with his hands clenched as they stood in front of the door.

"We are here." Helen said with seriousness evident in her voice which worried Jake a bit as there was no presence of her happy self of earlier.

'Was I right?' he thought as his heart was thumping loudly while his hand approached the door slowly until with a touch, it pushed wide open to reveal a dark room.

The room was so dark that, Jake couldn't even see anything a foot from him. And that was when suddenly, the lights flickered on brightening the whole room.

"Surprise!!!" So many people in the room shouted at once towards the stunned Jake who was rooted in confusion looking at the people in front of him.

"Head General Humfree, General Paul, General Wilfred, General Kron, Sergeant Sunny, Peter, Alex, Kate, Emily, Jack, Jade, Sophia, Dame, Berg, Geo, even you Harry? What's going on here?" Jake asked in confusion as his mind was still in disarray from his earlier thoughts when someone walked forward from behind and right on cue, a huge banner fell down.

*Happy birthday to the most precious, hardworking and kind friend ever!* Were the words printed on it.

"Happy birthday?" Jake asked.

"Yes silly, it's your birthday today." Helen said with a smile while nudging at his arm.

"My birthday?" Jake asked when it finally hit him why today felt strange. As if something important was happening but he couldn't wrap his head around it.

Then with Kate's weird behavior, Helen's sudden arrival and the missing members, it finally clicked in his head.

Then his mind naturally went back to a few years ago. The last time he celebrated his birthday with his family, so many relatives were invited and he was so happy with his parents when some of the relatives invited turned into werewolves.

As that day happened to be a full moon so their forms ripped out and they attacked all humans possible including Jake's parents. And ever since then, he never celebrated his birthday.

Not that he didn't want to, it was just that he never did remember about it and the days he did, there was no one special to celebrate it with. And now, he could see his friends in front of him all looking at him with a smile with party hats on their head, a huge banner behind them.

"Happy birthday Jake." Jade said walking forward. "You have done so much for me, for all of us here, for the world. So today, we celebrate you."

Hearing Jade's words, a tear fell from Jake's eyes and he didn't know when he began sobbing as his eyes suddenly became blurry with tears while he kept sniffling.

"Guys…" He said while everybody in the room walked over and gave him a hug as he kept sobbing. "Thank you so much." He said.

"You deserve it." Kate said. "You have carried so many things on your shoulders, fought hard for our happiness, and kept hopping from one thing to another. So you need this. Happy birthday."

"Guys!" Jake said with more tears streaming down his face.

"C'mon man! You are the world leader now. How would the world react on seeing their big four crying like a toddler?" Peter asked with a smile and then Jake was seen wiping his face with a wide smile on his face.

"Thank you all of you." Jake said with a smile.

"It's not a problem." Head General Humfree said walking forward. "Today is your nineteenth birthday, can't believe how much you have grown."

"He can say that again." Zee said. "You were this crying weakling that almost got killed by werewolves if it wasn't because of the system and now here you are, a world leader."

'If it wasn't because of the help I got from the system, your guidance, and my friends, I wouldn't be here. Thank you Zee.' Jake said in his mind.

"No mention. Just doing what I had to do to help you. Actually, you can mention." Zee said and then Jake laughed.

"C'mon now! Let's cut the cake." Jade said and they all walked away from the door to the centre of the room while a table was dragged forward with a cake on it.

The cake was a vanilla flavoured cake with so many designs on it. But the most notable design on the cake was an image of Jake in his visual Qi form with his dark cloak frozen in the wind while his blue eyes shone brighter.

"Aww! That looks just like me." Jake said with a smile.

"See Alex, I'm a good artist." Peter said with a mocking expression on his face.

"You made this?" Jake asked and Peter nodded.

"I wasn't sure if it was beautiful though. Although, I only did the design, Kate baked the cake with her own hands." Peter replied.

"Really?" Jake asked as he turned around to face a blushing Kate.

"Alright! Shall we cut the cake now? I really wanna taste Kate's craft!" Alex said with a chuckle and they all walked forward with Jake grabbing a small knife and after shouting some words, the cake was cut with the whole room clapping.

Taking a piece of the cake, he walked forward and hand fed it to Kate who had her cheeks flushed up.

"Thank you for the cake, it's really good." Jake said and then walked away hand feeding everybody personally before he went back and stood in the room.

"I got something for you." Dame said walking over and then in his hand, something a little bit long was wrapped which he handed to Jake. "This is a birthday gift and also a thank you for inviting me into this awesome guild."

Taking it with a smile, he said. "Can I open it?"

"Sure, go ahead." Dame smiled and the wrappings was torn to reveal a beautifully crafter dagger which was a curved, double-edged black Damascus steel blade with crimson engravings that glow when infused with Qi. It had a serrated spine near the hilt for added brutality.

With its hilt a dark obsidian with silver inlays shaped like a wolf's fang. The grip was wrapped in reinforced leather for comfort and control.

And it was also embedded with a rare crystal that allows Jake to channel his Qi for enhanced cutting power, temporary invisibility, or explosive slashes.

"It's… it's beautiful." Jake said with a smile.

"I know you are not a dagger user but I thought this would come in handy. And it is also an opportunity for you to give something else a try." Dame said.

"It's perfect. The weight, design and everything about it is too good. Thank you." Jake said as the dagger disappeared from view while Jade walked over.

"I studied your fights, all your patterns and everything and I saw you love using gauntlets. So this is for you." Jade said as he presented Jake with a beautiful red and black coloured gauntlet.

"This gauntlet allows you to absorb and redirect energy based attacks and also help amplify your strikes. And of course, I stuck with the red and black design of the guild." Jade said.

"Thank you so much." Jake said as he hugged Jade with the gauntlets disappearing from view. "I knew it was the right decision to bring you on board the team."

"And I'm glad you did." Jade replied as they disengaged from the hug.

"Everyone!" They all heard a loud clinging noise and turning around, they could see Jack clinging a glass. "May I have your attention you all?! Thank you." He said and then he jumped off the platform he was on and walked forward.

"This party is feeling too sentimental and quite boring so to spice things up, I want to challenge the birthday boy here to a drinking competition." Jack said and the whole room applauded.

"Oh no no no! Not me. I don't like drinking." Jake said trying to walk backwards when he felt his back hit something solid.

Turning around, he could see Humfree in front of him.

"No escape now." He smirked as he pushed Jake forward while Jack dragged him.

"I would have challenged you to a friendly spar, but even if you withheld your strength, no one in this room can defeat you. So this will have to do." Jack said and Jake was suddenly thrust forward with bottles of intoxicating wine lining up in front of them.

"Let the contest begin!" Paul shouted as he swung his hand down and in a second, the two men took a bottle and began chugging it down.

"Go go go go go go!" The crowd were cheering as Jack had finished a bottle and tossed it away and then he grabbed another one while Jake also did the same.

They two men began downing bottles of wind rapidly but it didn't look to be affecting Jake and slowly, Jack was losing consciousness and then in two minutes, his head slammed into the table while Jake looked at him with a smirk.

"I guess even in a drinking competition, I'm still the best." He said.

"Yayyyy!" Everybody applauded loudly and right on cue, music was heard blaring in the room with everybody dancing to their hearts content while Jake walked over to the sofa in the room and sat down.

That was when someone else also sat down beside him.

"What's on your mind?" Head General Humfree asked as he passed a bottle of wine towards him which he received.

"Nothing much, just thinking about the future of the world." Jake replied as he took a sip while Humfree did the same on his drink and sighed.

"You know, one thing I have learnt in my life is to let the future worry about itself. Focus on the present and make sure the present is nice and let the past or future worry about itself." Humfree said.

"I can't help but have this foreboding feeling that something big is brewing up and I don't know if the world is ready for that." Jake said.

"Naturally, you are worried because of your friends and all. But think about this, don't you think your friends are also worried? But here they are, look at them." Humfree said and Jake could see Alex on the dance floor doing a break dance while the others were cheering him on.

"Go Alex!" Jack shouted as he suddenly woke up and then fell back down asleep on the counter.

"They are having fun. They are also worried about the future, but are keeping it down and enjoying the present. So why can't you do the same?" Humfree asked as he stood up and then walked out of the hall.

"I guess I'm worrying a lot too much and he is right, I need to enjoy the present and live in the moment. Who knows, it might not last long." Jake said with a sigh as he stood up from his chair and walked forward.

"I never thought I will ever celebrate my birthday like this. But there's always a first time for everything." He said as he ripped his shirt off and challenged Alex to a break dance.

Everybody were cheering loudly at the duo and finally, after a few minutes, they were huffing and panting while Helen lifted her glass.

"This is a toast to a wonderful leader and a good friend so everyone, to Jake!" She shouted.

"To Jake!" The whole room said at once and the party continued with so much fun and fervor.