The sun rose in the sky like a huge red hot ball of iron, yet it's sight early in the morning was quite calming to my heart.It was only this time of the day that the sun can be seen with naked eyes so clearly.That's why, at the roof of our house inside the Academy, I was enjoying this view with my dear Sylvia in my arms, while Aunt Alice was doing yoga behind us.After getting used to with our usual intimacy with each other, now aunt Alice doesn't shy away from us, but quitely let us enjoy our time together.Enjoying the view in eachother's arms, Sylvia suddenly grabbed my hand on her stomach, and lifting her head, she gently asked."Today, I have to go alone?"Hearing, ber question, I rubbed her head and spoke."Yes, I have work to do with Rudger, and I can't bring you there, it would be bad, if others notice our movements. There are quite a few eyes hanging around us these days. I don't know what it is, but we must remain vigilant no matter the situation.""Ummm..."The undercurre
"Be safe, and don't put yourself in any dangerous situation, your life is more important than anything.""I know."Hearing her sweet words full of concern for me, I satisfyingly kissed her on the head.Though, something entirely different was going on in my head.'How could I not know, for me my life has always been the first priority, even more than you my dear Sylvia.'Although I had such thoughts, but I also know that they can only be remain as thoughts, they must not come out and become words in my mouth.It's not like Sylvia would scold me, or hate me for caring about my life, but I feel that it's just not right to tell her, because to her I am more important than her own life, so I just don't want to betray her trust, it's just who I am.It was then, I suddenly heard Sylvia's call, pulling me out of my thoughts"Noah""Hm?" "If you bring Luna in today, then what about Amanda, would she be living alone there?""Yes, she would be living there with Rudger.""Can't she even go to s
Setting up anything here was a no go, because this was too close to the gates, and too much commotion would definitely alert the Slayers at guard.That's why we planned to go a little deep inside the forest, because there was a location pre planned by us.From our investigation, we knew the purpose of their mission this time.They were commissioned by a merchant to acquire a batch of white alligator's hide. White Alligators are at the very least F+ ranked monsters, and at max B ranked, though the higher ranked ones are only found extremely deep inside the wilderness, or outside the borders of the continent, and not here outside city borders.Because the Guild's team was only made up of F ranked Slayer, and at most their leader is an E-, it was confirmed to us that they would be going towards the various alligator spots near this gate area which was relatively safe, and wasn't much deep inside the wilderness with lot's of high ranked monsters lurking around everywhere.However, since
On an uneven moist and muddy ground, in the middle of a forest, a team of 12 people was moving towards a certain direction."Sola, hey wait!"When suddenly, a 21 year old blonde woman in brown & white hunters clothes, black boots, green pearl earrings, with a staff in her hand, walking in the middle of the team, called out to a tall young man, who was the leader of the team, blonde hair same as the girl, and was full of righteous spirit, who was walking at the front."What's up?" Hearing her voice, Sola the leader of the team, slowed down his pace, allowing the other people to move ahead of him temporarily, and let the girl who shouted, catch up to him."Why are you running so fast?" She complained angrily."Not my fault, it's your short legs that can't keep up.""Mooo, you can't tease me." She pouted cutely, and gently hit him on the shoulders with her staff while walking by his side."Then what do you want me to do?" Unaffected by her sly play of cuteness, Sola asked as if he was
"It's exactly as I said boss, there is a dead White Alligator ahead, with its head smashed into the ground."With his eyes narrowed, Sola immediately got alerted after hearing Karim's report, so without any further ado, he stopped the whole team, and gave the command."Everyone get in your positions, and quickly build up the basic block formation.""Hai!!!" x 10Shouting in a restrained voice, so as to not let their voice alert the monsters, everyone started taking their positions without any further instructions, after Sola's command.When the formation finally took place, and everyone was on high alert, Sola solemnly looked at Karim and asked seriously."Now tell me what's the situation, is another team fighting somewhere nearby?"Their team was still a little distance away from the swamp's entrance, and there were quite a lot of trees in the middle, making the situation ahead invisible to Sola, so he could only rely on Karim for his judgement, because Karim's super-power was relate
Click!With a sound like all the connection were completed in a complex circuit, in the Blink of an eye, a blue light surrounded the whole swamp, covering up the entire area in a dome shaped barrier.The walls of the barrier were radiant blue in colour, but if anyone were to look at it from the outside, they would only see a faint mist covering up the swamp.Coupled with the fact that the atmosphere in the wildernes always keeps changing due to unknown reasons, the barrier was all the more inconspicuous to outsiders.When everyone in Sola's team noticed the barrier, their expressions turned pale with horror.However, before they could even react to the situation."What!?"A loud scream suddenly erupted from Sola's team, attracting everyone's attention.When everyone turned towards the source of voice, they found a headless corpse of one of their teammates, dropped down on the ground in front of their eyes.It was the only wizard of their team.And the one who shouted was the archer, t
"Y-You!!"Slap!A crisp sound resounded throughout the area, and everyone had their mouth wide open, as they looked at Sola's face that had two glowing red palm prints on his cheeks."What, You? do you want to die? do you want us all to die with you?"As Mina's head was facing towards Sola, he was also looking at her with his bloodshot eyes and a swollen red face with his mouth wide open, as if he was shocked by her betrayal.Looking at him like this, Mina made a pleading face, as if she wanted him to understand her 'reasoning' for doing this, and forgive her.And after he noticed her pleading gaze, and he heard her 'reasonable' words, he immediately understood everything.Of course, what he understood, and what was actually the truth, only God knows.But Mina's actions & expressions were like a basin of cold water that was splashed on Sola's face in the form of slaps, waking him up to reality.Only now did he realised the consequences of his previous actions.Puff!In an instant, his
Mina came limping to my side as her legs might have become numb because of kneeling in such a stressful situation, but when she heard my words, she immediately knelt down again in front of me.In her head, Mina must have been sure that the inevitable was still going to happen her, that she is still going to get a slave imprint and lose her freedom.Fortunately for her, her situation was still a hundred time better than others, as I had expected from her, she really lived up to my expectations, and performed well.So at the least she deserves to become my personal slave, and a little temporary pawn in this game of chess of mine.Moreover, this situation wasn't at all bad for her.Because after becoming my personal slave, she would not only improve her status within the group, but she could also get various benifit from me, which she might have zero chance of getting on her own as girlfriend of Sola.Additionally, it would also help me in keeping the team under check since she will be u