The New WorldThe sun lazily rolled over the huge massive mountains. It was damn hot, so Aran and I crawled into our room and lay silently on our beds. A month passed, and we got tired of suffering garbage. I was ready in a week to go to either Amedeo or David. I even already missed the blue armor that woke us up every morning. The body was filled with energy that you no longer know where to put. After all, the God of War clearly specified that magic cannot be used. Dot.There was a knock on the room. Aran rushed like lightning to an unknown guest. I opened one eye and watched. A man in blue armor stood in the aisle. He gave two bags to Aran and closed the door.Rising up, I inquired about the contents of the package.- It's armor! Aran shouted joyfully and threw one of the two packages in my face. - They said to put on and go to the second training ground.Frowning, he thought of swearing at his friend, but finally he wanted to see his armor more.- Let's see ... Wow, how light, I ca
“Okay, but your friend won’t come with you?” she looked at me.Aran, oh you are a semi-finished store product. That's betrayal! No, this is different, this moron laid eyes on her, you can immediately see how he sticks to her. At the same time, winking at me so that I would go to him, and not refuse ... Okay, what to do with him, I won’t leave him."Oh, I'll be right there.Here is our trio from the second squad of Elementalists assembled again. Catherine stood before us like a teacher before the youths.“Show me a couple of times, and that’s enough for us,” I sighed. “Otherwise one comrade forgot the word friendship,” I looked at Aran.- I have one question - how to control the flow of magic in the legs? Because I took quite a bit, but it didn’t turn out the way I wanted.Amedeo kept looking askance at our trinity. But apparently, he understood that Ekaterina would teach us. So, it makes no sense to come up to us and show how it's done. After all, the first detachment was just as scre
“I don’t even know… It’s okay to make Space with your feet, but with your hands?! It’s impossible, your fists simply can’t handle it,” Ekaterina began to reason. "Maybe you could try something else?"“No, I decided that I would do it,” I gave my answer."Then," the girl shrugged her shoulders, "I'm not your helper." I'm sorry, I have more people to help.As soon as she started to leave, she turned around and said goodbye:Tip: Come up with something new. Do not stay on the same place.Yes, and now I'm in a complete stupor. Even Catherine can't help me.Assuming the posture of a sage, I began to reason. What will help me do this? I cover my hand, and I am carried away into the distance ... and if you pour in magic and envelop not my fists, but my whole hand with ice! Let's try...Approaching the column, I began to pour magic up to the shoulder blade and cover it with ice. The ice was flexible, but hard, and it exuded magic.Hit! There was an explosion, like a cannon being fired. The co
Van, are you all right?" - moving away from Eve with Aran, I asked the drooping Vanya. “Don’t worry, everything will be chirp-chirp, I assure you. And about corpses and bones, accept it, because now the whole world is like that. The sooner you understand it, the sooner you'll get used to it.“You're right, you have to accept it,” Vanya said with a small smile. “It's just…everything was fine until we left the forest and headed for the city.We need to find a home for us so that we can rest in it, and preferably in several cities. And it is necessary to distribute who will do what. This will distract them.“Vanya, you will get food,” I began to distribute duties. “Eva, you will cook,” the girl immediately wanted to argue, but I managed to interrupt her. Don't mind, it's women's work. Aran and I will be on the lookout for enemies, and send you Gadget messages to gather. We will change. Today I'm with Aran, tomorrow with Vanya, then with Eva. And we start now. No objections, you need to c
Our team is ready. We left our shelter, hid in the same house and waited for a message from Vanya, where the Minotaurs would be.They waited a long time, a very long time. It became boring ... But what can you do.As for Aran, I know what spells he has, but what Eva has, I found out today. She can use Blood Needles - a long-range spell that needs a lot of blood, the second - Sword, the third - Slash and the last - infuse magic into the armor. Will go. It was not for nothing that Vanya caught animals for her this morning and hung them on her. She has plenty of blood. She won't get lost. There are three Minotaurs, everyone takes one for himself, as soon as someone kills the Minotaur, he goes to the aid of someone who can't cope. So we decided.Here is a message from Vanya, they are in the southeast of us, about six kilometers. Let's go, we have about ten minutes to get to them.Using Space, we finished in five minutes. They hid in a dilapidated house. Time to start.I sent a message to
“I agree, if we infuse more magic, we can defeat them. We just weren't ready for this...We both nodded as if we had answered all the questions.Let's take a look at the village. Aran suggested.- Yes. Still no choice...Agreeing with Aran, we went deep into the cave. Passing by wooden houses, I looked at people whose eyes read that they were not welcome to us. Yes, but it's their own fault. The people here are all in torn clothes, shaggy, and the stink here is unbearable. But what to do, they live underground and, of course, they will not have beauty salons and fashion boutiques.There are few people in the cave, about three hundred people. Most of the men are over forty and old, there are almost no women, I am silent about the young, only one girl who brought us, and five guys. But why don't they go to the dome? There they would be safe and live normally, and not like now. We need to find the main one here and find out everything.Approaching the man who was sitting near the house o
More, more. I began to infuse more magic into the Ice Sword, just like the others. A blue aura began to emanate from my sword, and the more I poured in, the brighter it became. But there is a catch - it is very difficult to keep magic in check. It's hard for Aran too, but Eva is just spitting along the way. Using her blood, she calmly controls the sword. I also told them about the spy sparrow and that he was looking for a cave to settle in.“H-ha, losers, prostrate before the most talented among you,” Eve began to brandish her sword.“Nothing, I sort of figured out how to hold magic,” I struck with the sword of ice on Eve’s sword and broke it. “Oops, my magic is stronger. So I'm the most gifted!!!Having laughed, we began to help Aran. In the end, he succeeded, now he needs to work out a plan of action."Does anyone have any idea how we're going to fight?" I asked my comrades.- Seriously? Aran was surprised. “You always have plans with us.— Yes, but this is very serious, I need ever
The likelihood that he will be there is very small. But she is.Climbing up the trees, we began to wait for our guests. The trees are tall and you can't see us. Everything is fine. Birdies. Fresh air. I saw a bird flying towards me in the distance. Sitting on my shoulder, the bird began to speak in human language.“I found them a new cave near the sixth city.- Excellent. Fly to the second city and take people there, if you need help, send a message. And sent me their location on Gadget.Nodding, he flew off. Yes, we had such a short conversation, what can we do.~~~The sun began to set below the horizon, painting the mountains in a scarlet color. The color of blood.Each team is already tired of sitting. How long to wait, no one knew until we suddenly saw our enemies.Let's see who we have here. Three Minotaurs, ten Cerberus, eight Renegades and three werewolves. And with them a caravan of suicide bombers, consisting of eight people. This is what we didn't expect. And what should we
The Rancia empire prospered. Those terrible times when the Ransians fearfully expected the birth of their own children are far behind. With the accession to the throne of the new emperor Claude re Tigras the First and Empress Daisyre re Tigras, the people stopped living in fear and excitement. Now every Ransian, human or not, had the same right to life and happiness. The persecution of non-humans stopped, because the ruling family also did not belong to the human race, mixed marriages began to appear more often, and cities grew. Life became calmer, now the imperials were not afraid to travel between cities, risking being in the mouth of some monster. All creatures, of course, did not disappear, but as a result of a number of innovations introduced by Claude from the experience of his mercenary life, they greatly facilitate the fight against these creatures, forced them to go away from human habitation or hide deep in their holes. Man again became the dominant race on the planet, and e
- Oh, those boys. Alita purred as she slid off her man's lap and sat down on Claude's bed. “In general, sweetheart, when we burst into the hall, we only made it to the finale, when you, with completely wild eyes, rushed towards the door until you stretched out on the floor, not having reached us a few steps. And then Alexander quickly stepped forward, ordering that you be lifted and taken to the imperial chambers and called for a doctor, and then he explained to everyone present that according to some ancient law, I don’t know where he dug it up, you become the next emperor, taking the place of the deposed you ruler. We didn't even believe what we heard. You are Claude and the emperor. It sounded kind of unbelievable. And to be honest, they also managed to catch this cold, so they thought it was the result of a fever. But as it turned out, no, they heard right and you were really glorified as the future emperor. He cleverly organized everything here. So even the few dissatisfied witne
- Infections... It's people like me that you call an infection?- Yes. To be honest, I even liked you a little, not often non-humans managed to hide from my eye for so long, and your stupid principles ... naive, frankly childish, but noble, made me smile. However, the fact that you are a monster cannot be changed and you have no other destiny than to die.“It’s like seeing which one of us is a monster.— Ha! Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror?“Appearance says nothing about a person. Yes, my eyes and ears are different from human, but there is much less blood on my hands than on yours.- What are you talking about. Turn around. All these people could live if not for you.“My fault for their death is no less than the one who set them on me. At least I was only defending myself, not sending them to their deaths.They died because they were doing their duty.Or because they were left with no choice.This conversation did not lead them anywhere, without bringing clarity or sat
And now only three of them remained, the horses carried the tired mercenaries forward, whipping dust into the air and crumbling the age-old stone into the sand. Two hot streams of steam escaped the air from the wide, nervously quivering nostrils of the driven horses. No one believed that they would catch up with the warrior, only hoping that the emperor would not realize his terrifying plan immediately upon the arrival of his assistant. On the horizon in front of them rose the towers of San Pen, brightening up the dull landscape with each kilometer growing higher and higher, delighting and frightening at the same time. Claude did not know what awaited them in the capital, for the first time he did not have at least some slightly thought-out plan, only one desire to be in time, not to be late, to stop. Inside, everything was shrinking from a bad premonition, but the guy drove away uninvited thoughts. You should never take on a job with a gloomy attitude to its failure, otherwise, every
Leata's voice broke through her rage-clouded consciousness. "Finally!" the guy exhaled, looking at the best thing to do in order to retreat without consequences for his health and life. It was not far to go, the creatures had already almost pressed him to the failure, from which the mercenary was separated by several steps, he needed only a couple of three seconds to get the coveted vial and jump over to the other side. Taking a step back, he seized the sword more comfortably and threw the dagger at the creature closest to him, slashing the blade across the entire expanse available to him and forcing the creatures to retreat a couple of steps. Here are his seconds. Rushing back, he removed the blade with one hand, and with the other he felt for the coveted cork. Which is specially marked so as not to be confused with others. The previous experience of using this remedy in the battle with sectroses taught him decently, but there was no time to sip drop by drop. Let it be what will be.
Aiyana, hurry up. Something is not happening.- One more second. Here it is! - the girl purred enthusiastically, pressing the lever near the capsule, and completely not noticing what was happening around.- We have no time. It's time to go.- Not! Until I find it, I won't leave.- Crap! Is it worth your life?- Yes!Discouraged by the answer, the mercenary fell silent for a few seconds. That's devotion! She could be admired if he and his comrades of life did not depend on her.Tell me what to look for! - finally, unable to stand it, he grunted, finally entering the room and feeling the cold enveloping from all sides.- You don't know the language.But I can see. I'll find it by sight. Show me or we'll all stay here.She did not argue further, obediently showing what symbols she had to find. There were few of them, at most four, of which one was a letter, and the rest resembled modern numbers. It was not even a name, but rather a code. He moved along the nearest shelving unit, running
At Leata's remark, Claude only shook his head, as they approached the ruins, Leatrice became more and more irritable and angry. He did not know what was eating her, most likely she was also afraid. After a quick bite, they hit the road. The sounds that accompanied their breakfast didn't help their appetite, and neither did their conversation. In anticipation of a meeting with the owners of these voices, people unanimously grew gloomy, but walked, carefully looking around. It gradually began to get light around, mischievous rays gently ran across the grass, reflected in drops of dew, flashed on people's weapons, playfully looking into their eyes and blossomed with a gloomy rainbow, reflected from the surface of the lake. The one that Leata called the "Lake of the Dead". For what it received such a name, no one knew, but the assumptions were different. Maybe the ancients drowned their dead in it, or maybe this is due to some mysterious story, since the lake was no different from its cou
- What the hell! cried Claude with a loud splash as he went under the water. The turbulent river picked up its prey with the joy of a small child who discovered in his power a toy he had long desired. The big man was twisted and twisted, sometimes hitting the side of the shell. Water clogged in his mouth, nose, forcing him to spit, smearing haze before his eyes. You can't give up! Claude remembered that he was not alone in the water, but he did not have time to really see the creature that had so cleverly discounted him. However, this did not give a reason to underestimate her. Ripping up the water with powerful strokes, he forced himself to swim up. Thank the Gods, he did not have time to take aside. The shell, like a native, clung to him, dragging him along, trying in vain to pull him under him. The body already almost did not obey him, bound by a terrible cold. Pushing off from the surface of the water, Claude desperately jumped up in an unsuccessful attempt to grab the edge, feeli
— Falcon. Daisyra prompted, following his gaze. For her, this distance was not a problem. - Beautiful.- Yes. And lonely.- How are you!- What did you get?“This is how we met you in that tavern.- When it was. Seems like another life.- Yes. And I'm glad we met.- And I.They had a strange conversation, they seemed to be talking and at the same time not. Pictures of their meeting floated before his eyes, taken apart by the words of the girl, and seeing himself, he looked and did not recognize. Now he was no longer the same person. Claude has changed. Becoming somehow something ... more integral, but still in his chest did not want to melt a tight lump that appeared there in childhood, as if not allowing him to free himself from the cage created by himself.- For me, he is not alone, but strong. Rolk muttered thoughtfully.— Who are you talking about? Caer joined in, also following his eyes sparkling in the rays of the sun, following the bird circling above them.- About both.“We wi