“Gate keeper.”A robed assassin appeared before the seemingly drunk old merman. The Gate Keeper, as he was called, looked up with a ditzy expression.“Varim der har iz groys.”“Did the Needle Master pass by?”The assassin impatiently asked; however, the Gate Keeper was not going to entertain this sort of attitude from the assassin.“Varim der har iz groys.”“I apologise. Varim der har iz groys.”He quickly realised his mistake and tried to clear it up. The Gate Keeper looked at him with a stern warning, before drinking from his bottle.“Did the Needle Master pass by? I don’t think it was him.”“A false needle master, you say? Interesting.”“You haven’t seen him then? We may still have time then. I have reason to believe he was eliminated. They will be coming here, so we need to change the portal’s location- wait... you’ve never referred to him as Needle Master.”The assassin was immediately on guard. His mind went back to how quickly the person who took down Needle Master moved. It wa
“[Corrosion Arrows]!”“[Body down]!”“[Wall of Magic]!”“[Cyclone cut]!”I heard different magic skills being shouted out with magic circles popping up around me. They were using Rune magic so they didn’t need to chant the spell, yet here they were shouting it’s name.[You have been afflicted with [Weakness]][Your physical stats will go down by 10%]‘What?!’One of the spells had weakened my body. I looked up, searching for the one who cast the spell, but all I got was green slimy arrows heading for my neck and a dark blue slash.Using [Shadow Travel], I reappeared behind one random member and tried to cut his neck, but once again, my sword simply passed through him. Rather, he grabbed my wrist and flipped him over, slamming me into one of the pillars.[You have lost 20 health points]Barely an amount for me to even be bothered about. With [Auto Regeneration], that recovered in an instant. Since at its current level, I’d recover 500 health points in a near instant.While I was thinki
‘[Devil Light Manipulation]?’‘Oooh, yeah. I forgot this skill could do that.’Akira knew something about this skill I presumed was useless and hadn’t told me? The nerve!‘Do what?’‘D-Devil light. It h-has something t-to do with the t-transformation of [Hell]’s physical environment.’‘Eh? Akkun too? But what’s that supposed to mean?’‘Basically, it changes anything it touches into something from hell.’‘… HUH?!’‘No time to explain any further! Just shoot a massive beam!’‘But! Gaah!’I gave up on those two ever explaining it to me properly now. I activated the skill, causing several black rays to shoot out of my finger-tips in all directions randomly.It hit one of the robed men’s arms, making him scream out in pain. His arm turned black and was grossly disfigured as well as surprisingly tinier.He grunted in pain and faded out of the room. It wou
After realising my [Devil Light Manipulation] at maximum power, I had noticed I was the only one present in the temple. Their astral forms had returned to the actual bodies, which I couldn’t sense anywhere near this place.Still, the fact that all that was here was their Astral forms suggested to me that they either knew something like this would happen or they were busy elsewhere and simply sent their forms here to pray. The most logical was the former, but the most likely was the latter.I couldn’t wrap my head around the reason they really weren’t here. Possibly assassination missions? Whatever.I left the temple to go see how my shadows had handled the entire situation. At the bottom of the temple, the generals were kneeling down, awaiting my return.‘Honestly, it would have been better if they came down there to help me.’I begrudgingly realised how easier that entire scenario would have been if they came down there to help me.“AS EXPECTED, THE PRINCESS HAS DELIVERED US WITH AN
“Mawstewr, mawstewr!”I could hear Kawaii’s voice, making me slowly open my eyes. Her amorphous slime form was wiggling all over my wall while she cried out my name.‘Uugh, Kawaii?’“Mawstewr!”Elated by my response, she yelled my name with excitement. I sat up slowly, pushing her off my face so I could take a look at my surroundings. I was in the room provided by the princess earlier on. The place was as empty as it was first, so I quickly lost interest.‘What happened?’Just as I asked the question, my mind flashed back to what happened before. All I could remember was the Gate Keeper tapping my shoulder lightly, then I passed out.‘Did he do something to me?’>‘E-Eh?’“Mawstewr! What happened?! You! Your heart wasn’t beating. I-I was scared.”‘For real? I died!?’>‘Ah… that son of a-‘“Mawstewr is safe! I’m so happy!”Kawaii jumped on me once again.‘Oh,
We set out of the room, passing by the hallways. I noticed that everyone was exceptionally busy today, going about either hanging up decorations or transporting items. There were more guards than there were yesterday moving about, scanning the area.The palace was exceptionally lively and something told me that this wasn’t a normal sight here.“The Annual Yorul Feast has been a part of our tradition since the second king, Anon Yorul.”As if noticing my confusion, the Gate Keeper decided to explain it to me.“It always happens every year, although this year is special, as was the feast 90 years ago.”‘90? What’s so special?’“Oh? You don’t know? Well, since you didn’t know what the feast was about, you wouldn’t know what this is. The king, ascended the throne 90 years ago.”‘N-Ninety!? He’s older than my dead grandmother.’“Ohohoh, I wasn’t even alive back then. The blood of royals truly is something else.”He was basically saying that members of the royal family could live longer than
Just like I wanted, the princess gave into my demands. She complied surprisingly easy once I threatened her life, giving me the impression that she was scared.No. I couldn’t think that way. For all I knew, the princess had expected my patience to run out around this time. If I made her out to be a master planner like Sunalla informed me she was, my very thought process could have been calculated by her.Yet, Sunalla also informed me of an incident 5 years ago where the princess couldn’t calculate anything. Everything was a total mess to the point she lost it. It had something to do with a Hero.It was terrifying to think about the fact that humans had already made progress to Atlantis before. And it was five years since then. Their silence and lack of communication with the Atlanteans was raising several red flags to me.Still, what was so special about the Hero? Maybe because of the usual Fate-defying quirks heroes possessed. Then again, a hero’s fate is always set in stone, isn’t i
GARAND POVImperial Palace, Grand Court Mage’s Study, 293 years ago“Vermillion, your vermin. If you want to fight, you need not spy on me. I’ll pay your kingdom a visit, then we fight.”The orb in the centre shattered before the duo’s eyes. The duo being a young merman and a strange humanoid creature with golden hair.The merman, the newly appointed Grand Court Mage, Garand immediately yelped in fear.“Ah! You didn’t tell me you were going to spy on such a thing. I’ve never heard of anyone breaking a spell in such a way.”She scratched his head thinking about how insane a feat he just bore witness to. The person to his side on the other hand just looked at the shattered remnants of the orb and scoffed.“Stupid old man. Does he know how long it takes to build houses?”After insulting him, she proceeded to swim away from the room. Garand, although still shocked by the event, managed to regain a bit of composure and grab the blonde’s wrist.“Wait!”He ordered her and she looked down on