Back to Aoi’s Perspective (The White Fang or the Original/Present Aoi)___________Doctor Maruki assured that Hina’s family was in his safe hands. Nobody would harm them. And the Crimson Guild wouldn’t spare any time to search for Hina’s family given the grave of the situation.Now that I had realised it, we didn’t have to go inside the Omen for the time being. We didn’t have any reason to do it. Why would we risk our lives to defeat some portals when Hina’s family was in danger? Even though we needed some extra funds, waiting here would be our best bet. The least we could do was to make money online and defeat other portals if the crowd had settled down. Since nobody could find us here in this temporary shelter, we could probably spend the rest of our days here in hiding until we could figure something out.Those Crimson Guild adventurers wouldn’t stop looking for us. Not to mention, the news had stated that was a possible murderer of the unusual killings from the portals I conquered
Something was fishy. There was no person that would reveal anything such as this man in front of me. To top it off, this one of a kind butler claimed he was an assassin sent by someone that he couldn’t reveal. It felt more like a scam than something I had to be wary of.However, as the butler continued on, he gestured his hand and created a magical circle. The butler concealed these signs from Hina and Doctor Maruki, but not me. Thanks to my system, I noticed something odd from the atmosphere, leading to this man summoning a rift connected to a different place, akin to a portal. But it wasn’t a dimension. It was just a transportation device that mimicked those of a vacuum made separated from the portals we all knew.“I prefer meeting you alone, Aoi. But it seems that our situation may not cut it for our alone time. Well, normally, that is the case. Not until I do this,” the man uttered, and finally completed his spell.I couldn’t stop the butler in time as I tried launching myself in
After everything was said and done, the butler transported me back to the place where I belonged. It didn’t take a while before I found myself slamming my bottom against the cold hard ground. And when I opened my eyes, Doctor Maruki and Hina greeted my orbs. They came to my aid and asked if I was alright and what had happened when I was sent out away from them?I told Hina and Doctor Maruki the sum of everything that had happened. They couldn’t believe their ears as soon as they heard that the prime minister was on my side, and my name will be cleared eventually if I become successful in this endeavour. Even though there were a lot of risks involved and consequences about this mission, the end game still mattered more. And after all the training I had been throughWe still had a lot of time before entering Omen. But after a few minutes, the FBI showed up and took Hina’s parents from there. But only half a dozen showed up from the shelter, armed with heavy guns and other weapons attach
Just like what we had planned, Hina summoned her ability and made a crack on the ground. The floor trembled and caused disturbance across the room, while Oculus did its job and secured us away from the cameras and monitors from sight. As soon as the chaos happened, the people inside the base notified the higher-ups for an unforeseen earthquake. As the people sprinted around the places, Hina and I found an opportunity and entered the corners undetected.The hardest part about this job was not just the breaching part but also notifying the elite adventurers inside the room. If Akai was also here with us, he would already know that we planned breaching Omen with these roundabout ideas.Fortunately, when Hina and I reached the Omen’s gate, the elite adventurers didn’t spot us. Well, for now. But as soon as the people found out that something was not right, they came to check Omen’s ingress and ordered the one’s in charge with the base’s layout to shut all doors until further instructions
As soon as Hina and I rose to the sky using my jetpack, my system didn’t mark anything that I saw. I manually memorised the places seen in front of me and jotted them down inside my brain. Unfortunately, some places were shrouded with towering dead trees that obstructed my vision. Other variables such as mountain-boulders and gigantic corpses from monstrous beasts were found on the ground that blocked some parts beyond the vast land. A fog of some sort also impeded us from looking far off the land. I thought that this smoke was something that the portal had that prevented players from what we were doing - checking the entire place from above and not exploring it. It also looked like the place was void of any life forms. Maybe it was because some predators might be lurking around elsewhere, which we hadn’t luckily seen yet. There was also a chance that our enemy were flying type creatures or beasts that inhabited the ground below us. Hina and I should be careful exploring these unchar
We had been walking for six hours already and we still hadn’t found anything yet or reached the maze’s end line. It was the same place over and over again, but the map told us that we were far from where we first entered Omen. The creature we thought was stalking behind us never showed itself. Not even a monster entered our field of view as we marched our way to the place with tired legs and heavy eyes. Hina and I already wanted to sleep, but we couldn’t slack off and be tempted from our deepest desires. If we slow down right now, there might be a chance that the elite Crimson Guild adventurers would catch up onto us. Even though they didn’t have a map unlike my system’s features, those adventurers could easily catch up and take more grounds than regular people. That was why the Crimson Guild chose them and called themselves the elite members of their organisation.But as soon as eight hours had passed by, we reached a fissure that separated the terrain. When we arrived, a bridge of
Every second that passed, those elite Crimson Guild adventurers were closing in the gap. If I could deduce where they were right now, those adventurers might have already faced the bridge or crossed it. Hina and I didn’t have much time, so we had to perfectly plan our actions before entering that cave. Probably we would have to face the scout of that elite party of the Crimson Guild before meeting the rest of the group. With that being said, I found a way that could slow down the party’s progress with the Earth Dragon in front of us.Now that I had realised it, this Earth Dragon had wings despite the name. From what I remembered, Earth Dragons were strongest on the ground and can never fly, so the winged dragons were far superior than them. However, this situation proved me otherwise as the Earth Dragon had wings on its back, which, I assumed, could fly just like any winged beasts. But that didn’t matter right now. All I cared about was the process of waking the dragon up and using th
“Well, this wimp will kick your ass,” I yelled, hoping to provoke the foreigner.Thankfully, my system translated what the man said to me and what I told the man to the language we both understood. I was Japanese and the man was probably someone living outside our country, so language barriers would be a common thing for the two of us.I knew that what I said brought terrors inside my body. In films, those lines would work one hundred percent against their enemies. But not this one, I thought. If someone had told me that, I would have already rolled on the floor and cringed myself for the lacklustre words I heard. However, the opposite occurred. Much to my surprise, the man caught my bluff and charged straight at me like a bull against a matador. While he was at it, the bloke used his fireballs and threw them in my direction. From the looks of it, the man wasn’t affected by the sudden rise of temperature and the heat coming from those spheres of flames. My balls were sweating becaus