Minerva had just woken up from her sleep. She let out a yawn and proceeded to call for her friend."Tori-kun, wake up."There was no response, but then she noticed something odd. She couldn't sense his presence in the cave. She looked around but her friend wasn't around. And so, she used her skill [Overlord] to look through the west.Luckily, her friend was still in the forest. However he was not alone.'Have they kidnapped him?'She thought to herself, but immediately discarded that idea.'No. Tori-kun is not that weak.'She had scouted their strength and could tell that there was quite the power gap between Hinotori and those two. So what was happening? She decided to eavesdrop on their conversation."I hope the Spider king decides to help us.""Yea, we will need all the help we can get since the Wolf king and Minerva refused."As soon as she heard that, she knew what they were talking about. Hinotori was going to ask for help for the self-defense. Minerva, however, saw all that as
Day 25Magic! The creative manipulation of mana to produce some blah, blah, blah and then create some big booms and bams and basically be a badass.Today was spent practicing just that.I had the agent explain to me exactly what it was and like I said, Magic was basically the manipulation of certain mana particles to create certain effects. For instance, if one wanted to use Fire magic, one would need to control fire mana particles to do this. However, if one is not able to control these fire mana particles, this person will not be able to produce fire magic. It was basically impossible to possess an affinity for all the elements. (I will fight you if you call me out!)I practiced using [Basic Fire Magic]. It was quite easy and felt natural.Next on the board was magic spells. If magic was the power, magic spells were what it took to control the power to create desired effects. They were basically techniques that allowed for better control of magic. This may not make sense to some but
Keimen City, Noble District Laying on a king sized bed were three people. One was a fat human noble and the other two were women of different species. An elf and a harpy. Those two laid dead on the bed, grip markings around their necks and bruises and cuts on their bodies. They had just died after having to endure a grueling time with the nobleman. The fat noble was panting heavily while having a disgusting smile on his face. One that made him seem inhumane. It was out of the feeling he got rom fraping demi-humans and then killing them. It made him feel ecstatic. He brushed his bangs backwards and wiped his sweaty face, then laid back in bed. "Hahaha! More! More! More! More! I want more! Where is Maude!?" He yelled at the top of his lungs, signaling for his attendant to enter the room. The large doors burst open and a woman dressed in light armor, with a short sword at her side entered the room. She scowled at the disgusting sight before her then looked at the naked fat man. "You
[Would you like to form a party with the target?] Ø [YES]/[NO] 'A party, huh? Like in video games? Benefits please.' > 'Huh… that seems fair from what I can tell. Ok, I'll form a party with her.' "Hmm? What are you talking about, chicken?" She came to my side. 'Oh, I was just saying I'll form a party with you through the system so we get benefits from leveling up together.' "You're weird. You say it like this is a video game or some weird web novel." 'Ah… could you perhaps, not have access to the system?' "What are going on about?" 'Oh, that's right, I forgot that others don't have this. It's my unique
Day 27 I was currently at Sunalla's river taking a little bath. Why would a bird be bathing? You can ask Ulva that. She said she wanted to bath and that I should join her. I didn't want to, but she forced me and so I joined. In order to not get my feathers wet, I transformed into my human form. It felt kind of weird, but nostalgic at the same time. Sunalla wasn't around at the moment. That is, her and all the nymphs. Apparently there was some water lizard trouble they were handling somewhere. I was surprised that they would all need to leave the lake to handle the issue and I didn't expect it to take over three days to do so, especially right after helping us fight the East. Then again, they didn't really do much. "Big sis, look at Kawaii." She rose the slime up from the water and it was jiggling. This creature was weird. Somehow this thing managed to evolve into something called a Sentient Acidic Slime, meaning it could think now. That made it very dangerous, especially considerin
SPLASH! Ciligan woke up. His eyes scanned his area quickly, and all he could see was darkness. "A-ARRRGGGHHHH!!" A voice came. That sounded like Charlie's. He looked around, but he couldn't find the kid. "No! P-please stop! I'll speak! I'll speak!" POP! Ciligan's heart sunk. Why would Charlie dare to sell out the boss? He tried to move, but his hands were bound and he couldn't feel his legs. Why couldn't he feel his legs? He looked down, but it was so dark he couldn't see anything. "Who is there?" He dared to ask. 'You are awake?' A voice came in his head. "Who-?" 'You don't ask the questions here. I do.' He felt something pierce his stomach. It was rough and hard, like a blunt blade. Still, this level of pain he had trained himself to endure. Red eyes that glowed appeared before him. 'Who are you?' The person asked. "Tch. Go and ask Ozvl- Arrgh!" Something entered his solar plexus area. It was like a lightning bolt that traveled through his entire body, mind and sou
The Bee Hive was unusually active today. The bees, insects, fire flies, centipedes and spiders had been moving about, preparing several resources. Obviously, deep in the Bee Hive, existed the Bee Queen. This place was original owned by the Bees, but the former Spider king saw it a fit place to make her nest. That was before her child, the spider known as Yokino, overthrew her.Yokino could not accomplish this feat on her own. Even as a King, Yokino was never as powerful as her mother. To make up for this, she gathered allies. Pawns, as she would call them. Ten different bug-like monsters, with whom she overtook their heads, created a powerful army just to overtake her mother. This caused a very annoying ruckus in the forest a month ago and after that, no one dared to go bother the Bee Hive.One of those ten subordinates had made an appearance, after having to take an exhausting trip from the south, where the Giant White Ants roamed. This creature was the current Ant King, and servant
"Tch. Shoot their heads off."Seiko ordered in a restless breath. He tried pushing off the mummies that were piling on top of his body, but they just kept on jumping him, slowly crushing his body. Their rusty claws kept on digging into his skin and he was bleeding. Poison was slowly entering his open body and is lungs were being squeezed.Jasmine was standing some distance away and she was fiddling with the hand gun Seiko had thrown at her."H-How do I shoot with this?""Pull the trigger, damn it!"His tone was abnormally angered. Jasmine just kept looking at the gun. It was a tiny beautiful weapon, light yet carrying a powerful punch. Its barrel was a dull cobalt blue and the handle was a reddish-brown. Jasmine rose it up and pointed it at Seiko after remembering how the young man shot his targets."Like this?""Yes! But don't point that at me!"BANG!It was too late. She had already pressed the trigger. She kept on shooting wild fires, randomly destroying the mummies, all the while
‘It’s so booooorriiiiiiiiiingggg!’I was bored out of my mind surveying the edge of the dome for enemies. It was practically a ghost town at this point. And the only thing that used to be interesting was the notifications I kept receiving from my shadows about catching bombers. So far, we found three dozen pairs of people planting the bombs.It was shocking how many people had been coerced into doing this. And I still hadn’t tracked down an actual member from the invaders. What if the invaders actually weren’t coming? What if the princess was lying about this entire thing for a completely different reason?‘This princess is giving me a headache.’‘I know right? It’s like talking to a brick wall.’‘A-An overly in-intelligent one.’‘Hey guys!’‘Ah!?’‘New guy?’‘I-I have a j-junior now?’‘What will we call him?’‘Call me Hyakkiyago.’He told us out of nowhere. We were all stunned, since everyone who came so far didn’t even know that they were now sharing a mind with someone. Yet, this g
NANEK POVThe prince looked at the meal set before him. Skewered tentacles, seaweed wraps, jagged oyster shells, lunaris and so on, all in bountiful amounts. He felt like gagging from the mere scent of the food. Nanek never liked such food, and as such this was strictly removed from the meals his siblings served him regularly.This event was different. It was before the entire city and it was a meal that the goddess had chosen for this year’s feast. Him not eating it was an insult to the goddess and would make the people think less of him.He looked at his mother, the priestess, sitting blindly next to the king and being fed her meal by some of her personal assistants. She had no concern whatsoever when it came to this and he found it terrifying, since he had been told by the older generation that she hated these kinds of meals.Several years in service to the goddess must have changed her. Maybe if he spent several years trying to overcome his distaste for the meal, he would overcome
SUNALLA POVThe storm spirit had left off towards a chamber in the palace to enact the final plans of the princess. To be honest, she wasn’t expecting the princess to tell her what her final plans were, but after hearing them, she was completely stunned. For the princess to have planned all of this for just that, it was beyond her imagination.However, for something like that, she knew her father would give up his life in a heartbeat. At least, she could rest easy knowing that he died for a cause he had been fighting for all his life. Still, it hurt that she couldn’t even see his corpse even though it was delivered to them. Did they think she was so weak that she’d break down from seeing the body?She had definitely seen worse, so why wouldn’t they let her? Was this the royalty’s way of showing consideration to the Captain of the Royal Guard’s kin? If so, the royals really had no idea what people actually wanted in such situation.While swimming, a stray guppy came in front of her. Sh
King Zigruk ElrIek Sox Anon Den Yorul II waved at the people who were gazing at him admirably from outside the hall. After a considerable amount of praise appreciation and greeting, he sat down on his seat and dropped his trident.The trident floated by itself at his side. Strange enough, this weird sight was ignored by most of the onlookers. All of them except the candidates for the throne that knew the true value of the trident, all of them shocked by how carelessly their father handled it. Then again, if you were built just like the Zigruk Elriek Sox Anon Den Yorull II, you wouldn’t think too much of the trident.Once again, trumpets sounded thunderously, drawing the attention of everyone to the overly massive ship that was approaching them. Dubbed the Neptune, the largest piece of magical machinery ever made in the history of all the three kingdoms.One mermaid, much bigger than the rest emerged from the Neptune. She was dressed in a simple peplos, wearing a golden crown of leaves
OSVETA POVThe feast hall, the biggest part of the royal palace that went unused for many years till there was an important ceremony taking place. It was so large it could take in half the number of royal family members that lived. And that was saying much given the fact that there were over a thousand of them with each being at least three times as big as the average merman.The hall was a space next to the palace grounds shrouded in hardened Atlantean styled glass to prevent any peaking or breaking. Due to the occasion, the styled glass had been removed, revealing a large beautiful platform with a marble table in a U-shape set down. The table was big enough to occupy at the very least 20 members of the Royal family.However, today, only four members sat on opposite ends, with two extra, grander seats, being reserved for the most important guests. The King of Atlantis and the Chief Priestess of the Sea Goddess Temple.The current members were Rondel, the eldest son of the King, repre
Inside of Hinotori’s mind, somewhere deep in her subconscious where she would never notice anything happening, there was an announcement.[The Exclusive Skill [Legend of Pandemonium] Chapter 1, Act 1, Part 1: Army Drafting has been completed]-Hidden Events> Fight Against the Apostles of the Sea Goddess Temple (Completed)> Kill over a dozen members of the Sea Goddess Temple (Incomplete)> Enslave the members of the Sea Goddess Temple (Incomplete)> Establish friendly ties with the members of the Sea Goddess Temple (Incomplete)> Become an official member of the Sea Goddess Temple (Incomplete)---- Insufficient events completed to receive any rewards+[The Exclusive Skill [Legend of Pandemonium] has unlocked a new section]Chapter 1 - #@$^&!Act 1 – Battle For AtlantisPart 2 – Preparations--- Preparations for the incoming invasion have been set up. Hopefully they will be enough for the coming storm. ---*Rewards for creating this scenario will be delivered at the end of this Chapt
On the day of the Royal Feast, in the princess’ quarters, several mermaids about her size were attending to her. Brushing her hair, applying make-up, and carefully fixing ornaments in her hair. She was dressed in the most elegant lilac-coloured chiton that had silver lacings on it and a triangular pattern over at the bottom over her tail. Over her left hand, her peplos that was a whitish-blue with a similar design, but more transparent. The peplos also managed to serve as a sort of hood for her head.As the princess observed her features in the mirror, she couldn’t help but think along the likes of,‘Would Hiro like this appearance?’‘Maybe it’s too much make up for his taste?’‘Is this even enough to cover my blemishes?’Of course, Hiro was not going to be partaking in this event. In fact, he wouldn’t even know that it was happening and neither would he know about it. Still, a maiden in love could only dream, right?“You are looking absolutely stunning, your highness.”The one attend
The hell did I just hear? Did she just confirm that she was the mastermind? No way, right? There was definitely no way that she did it, right? No.I couldn’t doubt the possibility of her having done that. Knowing her, it was highly likely. And from what Sunalla said, the princess didn’t like it when things happened out of her control. A surprise invasion from an enemy nation definitely doesn’t sound like having everything under her control.Still, for her to go this far just for the throne. She was the worst kind of person. They’d do anything to achieve their goal, even if it negatively affected those looking up to her for support. She was worse than scum.I had several things to tell the princess, but no one else in the room heard our conversation. The princess simply said vague things in their eyes and ears. Maybe Sunalla and Osveta would believe that princess did something like that.The problem was if they gave a shit. They’d known her for sometime now so it was possible that they
That was completely sudden and out of nowhere for me. I never imagined to hear such a thing, least of all from an old man in a city that was thousands of feet underwater. Of course, after hearing such a thing I was intrigued in finding out more, but he kicked me out with the promise of trying to find a way to Minerva for me. He stole more strands of my hair though. Turns out he didn’t need the first strand for anything. He simply wanted it for his private reasons… creepy pervert.On the way back, I could tell that the princess was beaming with excitement. I asked why, but she told me not to think too much about it. In times like this, it was really annoying not being able to read her mind. The only solution was to keep pressuring her till she spoke, but she was tight lipped. In the end, I decided to ask if she knew about Vermillion.According to her, there wasn’t any concrete text about Vermillion, but her father had once told her that there was an individual named Vermillion who came