The leaves on the tree rustled gently in the hot afternoon sun. Under one of the trees, a young man rested with his arms folded. The bangs of his blonde hair covered his eyes, providing a bit more shade to his eyes. The scent of something cooking wafted through the air and tickled his nose and roused his stomach.His eyes opened slowly and were met with sunlight piercing through the gaps in the trees. He sat still, just looking up at the sky in thought for a second, before a smile crept onto his face. Quickly, he jumped up and made his way towards the camp site.It was a good 5-minute walk to the campsite, way shorter if he decided to run. He was only able to smell the food due to his high sensitivity he had built up as an adventurer. He chose the distance since it would allow him to react to any form of danger with the party members in time, while allowing him enough break time from the members. He usually did this whenever his party set up camp. This was his own way of clearing his
“Huuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh?!”Daxia’s cry echoed out in the ocean. Even though I could feel my ear drums bursting, I didn’t move to cover them. Akira’s attempt at manipulating Daxia seemed to be going on well enough, so I wouldn’t dare to even ruin his plans.“Come on, come on. Everybody wants someone strong on their side.”‘I’m sick and tired of you overpowered freaks doing whatever you want. I just want to go to Atlantis.’“Eh? Why would you want to go to such a boring place? Atlantis is just filled with snobby brats hiding behind shiny armour.”‘Well, snobby brats aren’t causing my mana to run rampant, now, are they?’“Come on, we both know you aren’t interested in Atlantis. People like us prefer the wild, where no tamed men stay.”‘I hate the wild. I almost died on more than a hundred occasions in the wild in only under a month. I want tamed for once.’“So, you admit that you’re just like me. Born and bred in the wild.”‘You’re only hearing what you want to hear.’“Yes.”‘AH! You admit it
So, this was weird. After giving Akira access to the main body, I decided to explore my inner mind. I found out how Akira kept himself entertained in my head. He was simply rewatching all the movies I’d watched while working on fusing skills. He had this entire man cave dedicated to himself. Well, if you were stuck in a body, might as well enjoy it.Just as I was about to watch one anime, I received various alerts. The most alarming being,[Warning! A massive surge of Chaos Energy is being shot your way.][Warning! Prolonged exposure will cause irreversible damage to you][Warning! The Chaos Energy is corrupting your [Sacred: Legend of Pandemonium]]With that, I had the right to question Akira. Well, I doubted I could have handled the situation any better, but still… now I felt stupid for leaving it to him… myself. Gaah!I was currently floating in a weird blackness. I couldn’t feel anything. Not my wings, not my legs, nothing. I was just there in the void.Enough time to just talk ab
Day 51[Due to the unique skill [Evolver], you have acquired the unique skill [Energy Transcriber]][Due to the excess exposure to chaos energy your body was morphed][Due to the unique skill [Energy Transcriber] the excess chaos energy has been converted into Mana][Your mana circuits have been expanded][Your current mana limitation is 10,000][Your current magic power is 500]Several system alerts had blocked my vision. I groaned lightly as I looked around. My head was aching a bit and all I couldn’t really see here. It was dark, but I could make out a figure with [God’s Wisdom]. It was the named sharkman from before. Bastien.He was standing towards the only exit I could make out, not moving even a single inch. I wasn’t sure how he’d react to me being awake so I stayed still while considering my options.Creating a portal would definitely alert him to my presence. Would it be possible to sneak past him? With his skills [Wave Area], [Aura Sense], [Presence Detection] and [Mind’s Ey
“Thank you.”The princess, still shaken from her near-death encounter managed. The wolf fishman looked at her as he sheathed his sword.“It was just my duty, your highness.”He replied and straightened his back. He held a black orb up to his face and scanned it. He applied a bit more pressure to the orb, trying to crack it, but the princess noticed this early.“Don’t do that.”She snatched the orb from his hand protectively and put it at her side, while cautiously swimming back from the guard.“Excuse me?”He was perplexed. He failed to understand why she didn’t allow him to destroy it. That was the very creature that just attempted to kill her, so why would she protect it?“No need to worry about that. Who are you, anyways?”She quickly changed the topic, not feeling like explaining. After thinking over the situation, she realised that she could have ended up causing a war between Hinotori’s people and Atlantis. The best course of action would be killing the slime if she didn’t want
‘What do you mean I can see them all?’I asked her, failing to understand how one would be able to see all the cities. She put her hand to her chin, mauling over her possible answer.‘Got any reasons, agent?’>‘Are you talking about with magic?’“No. Hmm… it’s a bit hard to explain. I’ll show you when we get there.”‘Sure… in that case, I guess I’ll need to prepare.’After coming to a conclusion, I decided the best option would be to prepare for the upcoming event. Even after we both came to an understanding, Daxia still wanted to fight me to assess my true strength and kept bugging me about my true name. Obviously, I never conceded to any of those requests and focused on my preparations.Akkun and Akira were both on a roll, with Akira’s progression into the Dark Arts raising to a whole level 4. I acquired a few new magics. [Blood Magic] and [Curse Magic]. Both of which were t
Later on, Bastien called for me. I went to see him. He was right above the nesting area of the bandits. It was basically a mountain littered with holes in which the bandits rested and hoarded their treasure. Surrounding the mountain, there were some bandit groups set up with a few kids playing here and there. Several Lava Sharks swam through this area, making the water steaming hot. The Lava sharks were being treated as dogs here though, which felt sort of demoralising when I thought about it.Bastien had crossed his arms while peering off into the unknown.‘No blind jokes. Starting now.’I reminded myself to make no jokes about Bastien’s incapability to see things.‘What you looking at?’Gah! First thing I said. I expected some sort of growl or snarl in response, however Bastien just kept facing in that direction. I stood there in silence for a bit, then he pointed in front of both of us. That was towards the east.‘Um… is there something I’m not seeing?’I asked him and after a weir
A large white wolf slept peacefully under the afternoon sun. Gently, her body moved up and down as her breathing stabilised. The previous night had been an arduous one, not to mention the days before. That no-good general that Hinotori had chosen, Arisu, was a complete menace. She had started mobilising all of Hinotori’s minions to go out and attack horned rabbits.At first, everyone simply assumed it was her own way of saying they should hunt those for food supplies, so they decided to do it in their own time.Unbeknownst to everyone, Arisu was really adamant on the topic of hunting down the rabbits. She punished those who refused to go by using the special skill [Absolute Command] on them and forcing them to do as she bid. As someone who has experienced the pain caused by the skill first-hand, Shiroi couldn’t help but feel infuriated by Arisu’s wickedness. She would have tried to attack Arisu on her own. The power gap between the two wasn’t as big as it was before her evolution, so
‘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