Chapter 97 - Angela About To Breakthrough
I'm going to school just like usual today… well, I mean unusually since I skip most of the time.
There are no important exam at the moment so Kayla and Angela choose to stay in their apartment to cultivate. While I alone went to school.
I attend classes like other students. Luckily, we have history class today. I'm going to ask the teacher about mage hero after class is over.
After class is over, I run to the teacher and asked him about hero, if such people exist or not.
"Heroes? Are you stupid? There's no such things as heroes when we live in peace. In the past? Why should I know about it? Just because I'm a history teacher? Don't ask me anything other than what was taught in class. I never bother to learn more than that."
Annoying! This teacher is annoying! He was just remembering those that were important in classes. How could he became a teacher if he doesn't even want to teach?
Feeling annoyed, I feel like pranking this teacher. This teacher with long silky smooth blond wig who thinks that no one can notice that he is wearing a wig. Even all students here already gave him nickname 'Mr. Wig'.
And my moment has come!
Ms. Wendy appear and this history teacher is making an attempt to flirt with her.
"Ms. Wendy! How's your class?"
"Well, the students are trying their best. I'd love it if they did the same in other subjects as well."
"Haha! Of course they will listen when you're the teacher! If possible, I'd like it if you can teach me how to gain the student's attention."
This guy is shameless. He just said to not bother him with questions other than from the class, and shamelessly asking Ms. Wendy for her guidance. Even if he learns something, he will never use it anyway.
"Actually, this boy here was just asking me a question about history, so I just told him to read more books first before asking me again."
No, he did not!
If that how it is, I'll steal your wig!
I sneaked behind that shameless teacher. Right now, I'm right behind him with only less than 30 cm distance.
I put my index finger on my lips telling Ms. Wendy who saw that I'm about to do something to not say anything.
Seeing her nodded slightly after looking at me, I commenced my plan.
I carefully raised my hand above this shameless teacher's head who's trying to boast about his teaching experience to Ms. Wendy. Slowly, my hand is right above his head.
I made a pinching gesture above his head, and pinch the top of his wig with my thumb and my index finger. Once I'm sure this Mr. Wig's attention is fully on Ms. Wendy, I quickly pulled the wig up from his head.
It's a success! But that's not everything. I put the wig on my head, and left for a while to grab a bottle of ink from one of the classroom.
I took off the cap of the bottle, and make some air pressure inside the bottle while covering the bottle with my other hand.
I returned to Mr. Wig, and opened slightly my hand that covering the bottle to spray some black ink to his head. I'm doing it carefully to not let any ink hit Ms. Wendy.
By this time, more and more students are watching. None of them liked Mr. Wig, and most of the male students here are fans of Ms. Wendy. So when they're seeing Mr. Wig is trying to flirt with Ms. Wendy, and I'm pulling a prank on him, they were silently cheering in their heart.
I sprayed the ink on Mr. Wig's head so it ended up looking like he had a terrible crew cut. I can see everyone is holding their laughter. Even Ms. Wendy is covering her mouth with her hand. But Mr. Wig thought that his joke was funny so he just continued making terrible jokes.
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My mission is complete. I will take my leave.
As I leave, the students are making hand gesture like that of clapping, but they did it without making any sound. I just raised both my hands in appreciation, and walk like a boss.
As I was leaving, I heard Ms. Wendy saying something to Mr. Wig… Mr. Ink Head.
"Excuse me, Mr. Wi… Senior. I have some business to attend to."
Ms. Wendy left Mr. Ink Head and walked my way. I have lowered my hands and the other students also stopped clapping. If Mr. Ink Head saw I'm wearing his wig, he would be angry, so I thought of leaving that place right away.
But luckily, Ms. Wendy walked right in a position where Mr. Ink Head can't see me. Is that intentional? Knowing she's a secret agent, it should be intentional.
I entered the library so I could find any clues about heroes. And I know that Ms. Wendy is following me all the way to the library. Either it was because she has some business with me or she has some business in the library, I don't know. Most likely, she's trying to give me some advice as a teacher to her student. Pranking a teacher is bad after all.
"UWOAAAA! Where's my hair?!"
There's a screaming voice coming from the staff's room, but I don't care. I just look for a book about history.
Maybe I should have stayed in the capital and sneak into the Library Tower.
If I remember correctly, the books in the highest floor of that library are mostly about legend, myth, or fairy tale. Maybe I could find more from there.
"Until when will you stop wearing that wig?"
"Until I thought it's annoying. Probably sometime later before I'm going to bed."
I answered Ms. Wendy's question.
I have short hair, and I usually cut my hair once it's a bit longer. So this is my first time trying to have a long silky smooth hair.
"Huhu… you're so funny like a clown. Do you want to be like that Clarence?"
Now that she mentioned it, I think I saw her from the stage.
"Well, what do you think about my performance in the circus?"
"You're Clarence? I never expected that he's one of the student here."
"So? Why are you here Ms. Wendy?"
Just as I asked her, suddenly a ghost appear between us two.
"Ghost! Be careful!"
"Ah! Wait! She's a tame ghost!"
"What?"
I never expected Sonia to suddenly appear here. Now that I think about it, there's a chance that I will be in a crowd when she suddenly appear. But for her to appear without me calling means that someone is sending me a message. For now, let's calm Ms. Wendy down first.
"I'll introduce you to each other. House Ghost, School Teacher. School Teacher, House Ghost."
"Umm… she's a ghost from your house?" Ms. Wendy asked.
"We used her as our means of communication. Sonia, what's wrong?"
I asked Sonia if there's any emergency.
"Roy, Angela's magic has increased. She will soon reach Intermediate level in her ice element. And what's with your hair?"
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"Really?! That's great! And call it my fabulous hair."
"Problem is, none of us has experience in increasing our magic level. Even Victoria doesn't know. So we thought you might know something."
Sonia ignored my joke.
Improving level? I know next to nothing about it! I only know how summoning element improved our level. We just need our summoned monster to defeat monsters. Then we go 'poof' and our level increased.
As for other elements, the teachers in Introductory School never told us anything important. They only told us the levels and how to improve them by cultivation, and never about breaking through the next level. I think all of the teachers here is just in the beginner level.
Everyone but one!
"Ms. Wendy! Can you guide Angela to breakthrough her ice elements magic level?"
"Angela? She's one of the top student here, right? You're friend with her?"
"Yeah. Can you help her? None of the people we know have experienced leveling up. We could meet one acquaintance in the hunter guild, but at this time, they should be doing some requests."
MS. Wendy wondering about something.
"Hmm… actually, there have been some cases when people who tried to level up getting attacked around here."
"What? Why?!"
"I don't know. We haven't found the reason why. Few weeks ago, there's a hunter who was about to advance to Advanced level, but there were no news about him afterwards. When his friends looking for him, he was already died. There were similar cases in the past few months about it where people who were about to breakthrough getting killed."
I think I can guess the reason why. It was because of the cult! The cult is preparing to attack this city. So they killed anyone who was trying to break through their levels. The cult is most likely afraid that their plan will fail if there are a lot of powerful mage in this city.
That was just my guess, but I might be right.
"That was why most people who tried to breakthrough asked for protection from the guild by sending them a request."
"And how do Angela breakthrough then?"
"This is her first breakthrough so I suggest she do it in a quiet place. If her concentration break during the breakthrough, the damage will be significant on her body."
"So to improve our level, we just need to cultivate in a quiet place? Is that all?"
"Yes. But when you're about to breakthrough, the magic in the surrounding will be affected. And people who are sensitive to magic movement will realize someone is about to breakthrough. I think that's how they know where they should attack."
I never thought that improving our level was so easy. We just need to concentrate while cultivating without ever breaking our focus. That's the only difficult part I guess.
Then when I need to breakthrough my air element magic, I just need to find a quiet place. Maybe our home in Cassau is a good place since we have a ghost watching it.
But in Melk, there are rumors about people killing mage who tried to breakthrough. We need to find a place outside the city.
"Sonia. Tell Angela, Kayla, and Sophie to go to the guild and see if they can find our acquaintance to help protecting Angela. After that, meet me outside the city."
"Ah! I'm coming too! She's also my student after all."
"Tell them Ms. Wendy is coming as well. I have some matters to attend before going."
After hearing what I said, Sonia left to give Angela and the others my message.
"You're not going there right away?"
"Ms. Wendy can go first. I have small matters to take care of."
I left the library and just like usual, I jumped to the roof. I need Victoria's help here.
Chapter 98 - Do It Seriously!
Ms. Wendy left first to get herself prepared. Meanwhile, I summoned Victoria.
"What's up, Roy? Any problem? And what's with your hair?"
"Image change. Actually…"
I told her about Angela breaking through her ice element magic and about how there are people who attacked those who were about to breakthrough.
"I see… so you want me to help you protect Angela?"
"Well, I want you to protect Red Tail. If the one who attacked Angela knew who she is, they will undoubtedly targeting everyone in Red Tail."
As I told Victoria my plan, Sonia appears again.
"Kayla said that she have transferred Daniel and the others to the guild for protection. The guild actually have done it a few times after the accident to protect friends and family of the ones who were about to breakthrough. The guild said that if you want, they can give us reinforcements. Those people who attacked are considered problem for everyone in this city."
Problem for everyone in this city? But what if those people are from this city?
But for the guild to help us… I knew that guild not only support registered hunters, but they also support everyone who worked hard in getting stronger. But I don't think I will readily accept their help in this situation where I don't know who is the traitor and member of the cult.
"Sonia. Tell Kayla to only bring people she trusted. If there are none, then don't bring anyone. Their reinforcement might be a burden to us."
"Okay."
Sonia left again to send the message to Kayla.
"Now everyone in Red Tail no longer needed our protection. What's next?"
"Join the battle obviously. How much longer will you be conscious?"
"Three hours at most."
"Do you want to join the battle or be my weapon?"
"I'll join the battle. Only when my time is up will Blobby be your weapon."
"Nice. Let's go!"
I thought of having Victoria to protect Daniel and the others, but now since the guild has make their move to go against those groups. Seems like there are already too many victims for the guild to keep them silent.
We just need to stall time for Angela to breakthrough. Kayla and Sophie should be able to manage few enemies. As for Ms. Wendy… she'll be fine even on her own
As we run to the gate, Victoria asked me something.
"Roy. Are we fighting the cult?"
"Probably."
"I want to ask, why do you think that cult decided to put explosive devices inside its members' mouth? What do you think the reason is?"
"Hmm? Isn't it just so they won't say anything in case they were caught?"
"But no one have ever known about their existence before us. Or is it just a gimmick that any evil organization has?"
"Probably. Now that I think about it, it was quite stupid of the cult to let their members have explosive devices in their mouth. Well, not really stupid since normal people can't see through their mouth. Thanks to it, I can see who is a member of the cult."
"Wild guess! I'm just guessing that hey probably told their members to kill themselves so they won't leak any secret."
"That's not a wild guess. Everyone who knows they have explosives inside the member's mouth would think the same way."
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"Then what about you?"
My guess? I just thought about it now.
"They used to have poison inside their mouth. But once the new members enter the group, they haven't gotten used to having poison inside their mouth. So when they were celebrating themselves for entering the cult in a restaurant, all of them accidentally bite the poison inside their mouth. And so, many restaurant were accused for serving poison to their customers."
"That's one wild guess over there."
"Then one day, when the higher ups of the cult noticed that their members are decreasing instead of increasing, one of them who was an owner of a restaurant told the higher ups of the weakness of having poison inside their mouth. So they decided to have explosives instead that activated by magic."
"…what about the reason why they have poison in their mouth?"
"…so that they will kill themselves instead of leaking any secrets about the cult."
"That's just the same reason I said! You're only telling the reason why they have explosives instead of poison!"
"Oh! We're here!"
"Don't change the subject!"
Ignoring Victoria, we reached our destination. Only Ms. Wendy waiting there.
"You're here! Who's that with you?"
"My inseparable partner."
"Are you planning to fight wearing that wig?"
"I want to fight while looking fabulous at the same time."
We chatted until the other three arrived. There was no other people with them seems like Kron and the others were not there.
"Just you three?"
"Yes. Kron and the other party we get along with is not here to do some requests. Well, no one knows where Kron has disappeared to. And what's with that hair? Isn't that Mr. Wig's?"
Kayla answered and she asked me about the wig. Is this a trend to ask about my hair every time?
"It was. Before I came here, he proudly showing off his new ink head."
"Roy stole it from him while pulling a prank on that teacher." Ms. Wendy said.
"Then you don't have to wear it, right? Remove it!"
Ms. Wendy answered why I have the wig and Angela told me to remove the wig.
"No! I want to look fabulous with my new long silky smooth blond hair! Why do I smell something burnt?"
"Because I just burnt the tip of that wig."
"Fuck!"
I remove the wig quickly before the fire touched my skin… or my real hair. I threw it on the ground and stepped on it. Angela shouldn't burn things so easily like that. Is she trying to be an arson?
"Why can't I look fabulous while protecting you?!"
"Please be more serious about this! I just want to improve my level, but somehow I have to risk my life because someone is possibly trying to attack me?"
"Don't worry. With me nearby, there won't be anyone that can get past my guard."
"I understand that, but do it seriously!"
Seeing Angela convinced with my words, Ms. Wendy is confused.
"Aren't you all still just a beginner level mage? Including Roy? Why did you trust him so much?"
"His strength is beyond common sense." Kayla said.
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"His personality is also beyond common sense." It was Sophie this time.
"His existence doesn't even make sense." Angela? What's that means?
"Everything about him is weird. That's what make him, Roy." Not everything about me is weird, Victoria.
Well, their comment about me aren't important.
"Ms. Wendy. Do you know a good place for Angela to breakthrough?"
"There's a shack on that mountain used to belong to an old friend. It was no longer used anymore. If we fought the attacker in a distance, the sound of battle won't reach that shack and Angela won't break her concentration."
"Alright. Victoria and I will lead the way. All of you don't need to use your magic and just keep your stamina for when the enemies come. We will rest for a while and Angela will start cultivating to breakthrough just before it gets dark. Once she started cultivating, the three of you will spread into three direction and protect Angela. Victoria and I will attack them from behind."
Everyone nodded after hearing my plan except for Ms. Wendy.
"Wait! Isn't it too crazy for a beginner level like you to do all of that?"
"It's not. It is even crazier if I didn't do all of them."
Not persuaded with my words, Angela tried to convince her.
"Ms. Wendy, just trust him."
"How can you put your trust in him so much?"
"Well… he's not the kind of man who breaks promises… probably. We trust him with our lives… probably." Angela explained.
Hearing the word 'probably', I dropped to the ground in tears.
"Why are you not sure?"
"One thing I'm sure of is that he's strong. That's the truth. After a few month being in a party with him, I know he's someone I can trust with my life."
So that's Angela's impression of me.
Feeling so trusted, I felt like crying.
"…if that's what you think, then let's do it with that plan."
"Wait, Ms. Wendy! I have something for you."
I threw a necklace at her.
"Tap it to call the ghost."
"The ghost?"
Ms. Wendy tapped the necklace and Sonia appears.
"Hello again, School Teacher!"
"It's you!"
I explained to Ms. Wendy about Sonia.
"During the battle, we might be separated too far. She will be our means of communication."
"This is convenience! Where can I find ghosts like Sonia?"
"…Sonia is a bit special, so even if you find another ghost, they won't be able to do what Sonia can do."
"I see… what a shame…"
I know what she thinks.
She must have thinking that having a long distance communication will make her real job as the kingdom's secret agent easier.
Now that I think about it, I just killed her boss back in the capital. Maybe Albert will soon call all secret agents back to the kingdom.
Chapter 99 - Mission: Protect Angela
"I'll try to breakthrough now. Please protect me."
Angela said as she entered the shack after having some light meal before cultivating.
We reached the shack soon after leaving the city. It was easy with the monsters around this area not strong enough to be an obstacle for us.
It was just me and Victoria who fought until we reach our destination. And as usual, our temporary party member get surprised.
Ms. Wendy was so shocked when she heard that Victoria is actually my summon, and even more shocked after knowing that the ghost, Sonia, and the black slime, Victoria, were old friends back when they were both still alive.
Now that Angela is prepared to breakthrough, we have to prepare for the incoming attack.
Luckily, the shack she entered is right next to a cliff on two sides, the north side and the west side. Which means we only have to worry about attack from two directions, east and south. So Ms. Wendy is will be guarding one side, and Sophie and Kayla will guard the other side.
"Ms. Wendy, do you know why those attackers tried to kill everyone who's about to breakthrough?"
Kayla curious about the reason why there are so many cases of mages being killed when they're about to breakthrough.
"I don't know. But I think it's because some people don't want this city to have strong mages. Don't think about that and just concentrate in protecting Angela."
"Is there any obstacle for when we're trying to breakthrough?"
"None that I know of. As long as you have cultivate your magic, you will be able to breakthrough easily."
Ms. Wendy answered all of Kayla's question.
Since there should be some time before the assailants attack, we spend our time chatting. Mostly, we just asked Ms. Wendy some question about magic that wasn't taught at school.
"What about other elements? Are there no obstacle as well?"
This time, I asked Ms. Wendy.
"You have summoning element and air element, right? For summoning element, you just need to have your summon defeat monsters as much as possible. Seeing how Victoria able to defeat monsters easily, I think you just need to wait. As for air element, I don't have any clue about it. Maybe just like ice and other elements, you won't have any obstacles."
I hope she's right.
In my past life, I tried to make Blobby fight against other monsters. Blobby can't kill the monster, and the monster can't kill Blobby. I thought that Blobby must have great defense.
Since summoner can only have one monster, unless they eat Pear-y Fruit, the condition to make contract with another monster is that our summons need to die first. And Blobby is unkillable, so I have no hope in making another monster as my summon.
Blobby is way too weak that Blobby couldn't even defeat her distant cousin, a normal slime. I had no hope in increasing the level of my summoning element at the time.
I only started to use Blobby in the latter year of my life and that's not enough for my summoning level to improve. Even worse is that I only had one element.
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Other summoners usually only used their summons only when they are just beginner level mage. And they usually have other elements as well. Once their other elements are improved, most of them would forget about their own summons. Or maybe they would even kill their own summons so they can make contract with new monsters until they got a strong one.
I think I understand why Victoria never appear in my previous live. I tried to kill her a few times just soon after I summoned her. I won't tell her about it though.
Soon, we felt something different coming from the shack. Now Angela is truly about to breakthrough, and her magic is increasing and affecting the surrounding.
"I'll check the area!"
I used my Divine Vision in full power to see the surrounding area if there is someone who felt Angela's magic increase.
I found one! He's about 10 Km from the shack!
He must have felt Angela's magic and about to retreat to inform the others.
If I could kill him before he inform the others, there won't be any attack coming. That's what I thought.
I almost tried to chase after him, but before my legs moved, I saw him talking to four other people. Then they moved separately.
Seems like it will be harder than I thought. Why is there so many people trying to kill one person who's about to level up?
"They found us already! Everyone, guard your post! Victoria! We will go to different area! You will move alongside the cliff to the east, and I will go south! Get behind them and make sure that no one will be able to escape!"
"Roy! How many were there?!" Victoria asked.
I tried to look further, but my eyes can't reach that far. The last thing I see was those scouts who were about to inform the others.
"Let's assume that they have a hundred people."
"Why do we have to assume that much people trying to kill one person?"
"Because we will be happier if we find that the number is actually fewer than that."
"…sound logical. Let's go!"
Victoria is easily convinced by that, while the others seems to be grinding their teeth.
"Let's stay in contact using Sonia! I'll leave this place to you three!"
I left the three and run by the side of the cliff to the south. Victoria did the same to the East. The three who stays won't have to worry about enemies coming from the cliff side.
I ran alongside the cliff and with my Divine Vision, I can see that there are five people running toward the Angela's direction. One of whom is the scout from before.
Just five, huh? As long as they are not too powerful, I can beat them easily. But since I don't know how strong they are, I'll just ambush them with surprise attack.
I jumped from the cliff and stuck my feet on the wall. No one will expect an attack from the cliff.
Once I get into a good position, I waited for them to pass.
I heard them talking while I'm waiting to ambush them.
"Hey, why do we have to kill someone just because they're trying to breakthrough?"
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"I don't know! Just ask our boss!"
"This is stupid just to kill them. If they are women, I think we have the right to enjoy them first, right?"
Then I heard loud laughter coming from them.
This means that the boss of this group isn't among those five, huh? I'll just let one live to interrogate later.
"That's what I'm talking about! Why do we have to kill them if we can just let them live? If they're women, we can have some fun. If they're men, we can loot everything they have and let them escape. Then maybe in the future when we meet them again, we can continue take everything from them again and again. One of us is already an Advanced level mage, so it should be easy for us. And we can get rich easily this way."
"…you're right! I'll vote for you to be our next boss! With my powerful magic and you as the leader, we can steal as many things as we want!"
"Thank you. I will make sure everyone is happy!"
""Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!""
Those five are cheering somehow. That's some stupid plan, but they're going to die anyway.
Even if they let their victims live and escape, they won't meet each other again in the future since their victims won't use the same route. And even if they choose the same route, they might bring some people as their guards. How foolish.
Hearing about them looting make me thinks that they're bandits.
I looked into the inside of their mouth and see that they have no explosives inside. Maybe the one who had it is the boss. I'll ask later.
I choose a wrong position for this ambush. I should have been on the other side of the cliff instead of being in a cliff sticking my foot on the wall.
I could have just pushed them down the cliff to keep my stamina.
I need to learn more to have a more tactical mindset.
But I guess it's fine as well since even if I pushed them down the cliff, I won't know if they're still alive or not. I can just kill them here and intimidate the last person so when I interrogate him later, he will comply.
Now then, who's the one with advanced level mage here?
No. I guess the one who I won't kill should be the one with better head than the others. It's the man who will be voted as their boss!
Does bandit has election to choose their leader?
I waited for a while, and once they get past my position, I jumped from the cliff to their backs and swung my spear to cut the necks of four of them. Leaving only one person with his neck intact.
"So easy. Hey, you! I have some question to you. Ans-"
"Alright-alright! I'll tell you everything I knew! I'll tell you where I hid my treasures, and even where you can find a good cheap brothel with extremely beautiful girls is! Just please spare my life!"
How cowardly. I guess he's just someone who thinks he has a good plan, but never actually do something. I haven't finished speaking and he already surrendering himself.
Anyway…
"Then answer my questions. Of course you will tell me where the good brothel is after you answered all my questions honestly. If I think you're lying, your head will be flying."
Although I won't enter brothel again unless it's necessary, that doesn't mean I'm not interested. Even if I already have lovers, I'm still curious.
Of course I won't enter it, but peeping won't be a problem, right?
Chapter 100 - Fake Bandits
Interrogating this bandit leader wannabe is easy. He answered all my questions without hesitation. He must be afraid of getting killed by me.
I asked him about why they tried to attack mages who were about to breakthrough.
His answer is that because his leader told them to. He doesn't know why, but he suspected that this is a job given by someone, and the leader was paid handsomely by doing this.
I asked him about the person who paid the bandit leader to attack mages, and he doesn't know who they are. So I asked how many people is attacking today.
The total number of the bandits reached a hundred, but the numbers of bandit who attacked today was just thirty. Does that mean there are seventy more bandits in case the first wave failed?
He answered honestly and told me that in case the first wave haven't returned after an hour, the rest of the bandits will attack. Including the leader.
My guess is that either the one who paid the bandit leader, or the bandit leader himself is a part of the cult. Or maybe both of them are.
Since the bandit leader might be a member of the cult, there's a chance that some of the bandits are also members of the cult.
Doesn't matter, I'll make sure all of us will survive.
I turn my back toward the one I interrogated, and he thinks that his live is saved. Thinking so, he tried to attack me from behind. Not knowing that I can see behind me.
Before his magic is activated, I turned my body toward him and pierced my spear straight through his heart.
"Aa… I don't wanna die…" he said on his last breath.
"Me neither. That's why I have to kill you."
After killing him, I threw his body down the cliff along with his four friends.
Now then, let's inform the others.
I tapped the buckle of my belt and called Sonia.
"Sonia, mission report!"
"Yes, sir! The shack is still safe. No one reached there yet. Angela is still trying to breakthrough, and I don't know about Victoria."
"She will be fine. I have something I want you to tell the others."
I told them about the numbers of the attackers. The first wave has thirty people, five of them are already dead so there's just twenty five more to go. Then if after one hour no one returned, the rest of the bandits will attack.
"And what are you going to do, Roy?"
"I'll get behind them and kill everyone hopefully. I'll try to make sure that no info about us get out to the mastermind."
"Alright, then. Good luck!"
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Sonia disappear to inform the others.
I have told Sonia to tell the others to kill everyone to make sure that the bandit's reinforcement won't come earlier. If any one of them returned to tell the others before one hour mark, the second wave will come earlier.
I told Sonia to tell Victoria to kill the leftovers enemies who tried to escape. She's not a mage so she has no area of effect attacks, but if the enemies are spread out when they're trying to escape, I'm sure she can handle them.
As for what I am going to do, I will go far to the back of the bandits. Even behind the main force.
With my Divine Vision, it was quite easy to hide from the enemies' sight. I ran deeper into the enemy's main force without anyone noticing.
Finally, I can see the main force. Surprisingly, they are much more organized than a normal bandit group.
Although none of them wear uniform, I feel like they are too disciplined to be a bandit group.
I think they are fake bandits. The real ones were the first thirty attackers while the rest were probably the cult's private soldiers or maybe the governor's.
Now that I'm here, first thing to do is make sure that none of them able to escape. But how? This place is too open to block them all from escaping.
Yup. We're totally lacking in numbers. We only have five people not counting the one who's trying to breakthrough and the ghost. Maybe I should have agreed to ask reinforcement from the guild.
No. Just because they are reinforcement from the guild doesn't mean that we can trust them. If only at least we have Kron or anyone from the Orc Emperor subjugation to help us, I can have more options.
But now, I'm all alone. I have to thinks of a way to kill everyone here. If I let just one of them leave alive, they will inform the mastermind about us. At least if everyone is killed, the real mastermind behind the attack won't know who we are.
Wait! The guild is protecting Daniel and the others! If one of the enemy is a hunter, they will know that the guild is protecting someone. Then if we return unharmed, they will know about our identities in the end! Either by waiting for us at the guild, or from the identities of the people the guild protecting.
This is a difficult situation.
Or maybe not!
The only reason I want to stay in Melk is because I want to graduate. But that's not important at all!
I do want to be a doctor again, but that's not what I want the most. I just want to survive!
So what if I ended up going to school again or having to be a classmate with other students younger than me? I have experienced it once and I don't mind doing it again.
I'm a shameless person who made Shameless Survival Arts. Why should I be ashamed to be different? And with my knowledge, I can pass the exam easily and get my license faster.
The only things left for me is the Introductory School graduation degree. I think I'll just go to school next year again in Cassau. Or maybe, hopefully, I can find someone to bribe and get my degree without finishing school? I could just ask Albert later. Maybe he could make me a medical license as well.
Now that I'm no longer have any attachment in Melk, I have more options.
Although I have decided to leave Melk, I will still try to hide my face. I don't need her to transform into Ninja again since I just need to cover my face with cloth.
I looked for a place I can hide and call Sonia and told her to tell me once all the enemies are killed.
Sonia then disappear again. Now I have to find a good place to eavesdrop the leader of this group if possible.
Since I encounter the five bandits, it has just been fifteen minutes. Which means it will be about forty minute left until the main force attacked.
Good thing that they are hiding in a forest. I can just hide above the trees.
I jumped from tree to tree while checking on the enemy. Then I found something caught my eye.
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There is a cage with only one person inside. The cage was pulled by horses just like carriages. Is the one inside that cage their enemy?
The person inside the cage is a woman. She seems to be arguing with a man in front of the cage. Maybe he's the leader of the group?
I tried to get closer to them without anyone noticing and listen to their argument.
"You are far too powerful to be with that party. What is your real identity?!"
"I'm just a hunter! And I'm teaching them about hunter's job! Release me! I have no connection other than that with them! Why do you want to kill mages who were about to breakthrough anyway?"
Seems like before us, these groups attacked another party who has someone that's about to breakthrough as well. And because she's more powerful than the other in her party, these bandit wannabe tried to question her.
"It's none of your business. Don't forget that you're just a prisoner here. With that collar on you, should I release you here among men who desired your body?"
"Ugh!"
That collar she's wearing is something I knew of. It's Magic Restriction Collar. Anyone who wears that collar, won't be able to use magic. Her chance of escaping from here with that collar is zero.
Then someone come and said something to the man.
"Captain! The bandits haven't returned after twenty minutes! We heard sound of magic casted from that area so they should be still fighting."
"Let them be. We will move in forty minutes. And don't call me Captain! We're pretending to be bandits here so call me boss!"
"Alright boss!"
Captain he says… then they are really from private army. And they really pretending to be bandits.
"You're not bandits? Who are you people?!"
"You don't need to know. Just tell me about yourself. If you don't, we have no choice but to bring you to our master."
"I'm just a hunter!"
"Someone as strong as you is just D-rank hunter? That's not possible. You must be some spy working for someone. Tell me who your boss is?"
"No one! I'm a hunter so I have no boss!"
"So stubborn. We will just bring you to our master after this mission is over. It's getting dark already. I hope we can finish this one before the sun disappear, but knowing how weak the bandits are, that's seems impossible. At least we will rest before we attack this next target. They seem to be stronger than average mages if they still fighting."
Then the man went to rest somewhere else.
I also leave that area and hide.
Soon, Sonia appear and told me that the first wave is over. All the enemies are killed and the girls only had slight injuries. Another good news is Angela has breakthrough in her ice element magic. Which means she's already an Intermediate level ice mage.
Although she has finished breakthrough, doesn't mean that these people will stop attacking. So I summon Victoria for preparation before I make my move.
"Sonia. Tell everyone to rest first. I will make my move after they started to advance. If I move too soon they will have rooms to escape. But once they get closer to the girls, then I will start my attack from the back of the enemy."
"Alright. What will you do while waiting?"
"I think I will have a nice chat with a pretty girl."
Chapter 101 - Sweet Or Sour Candy?
Since the first wave is over, I summoned Victoria. And Victoria's time is also almost over soon so I will just use her as weapon or tools.
I waited until the people who guards the person in the cage left. Since they thought that the collar is enough to stop her, they won't bother doing some useless task.
And soon, they were gone.
I looked around to see if we're safe from other people and sneaked and approached the cage.
"Hello! Nice to meet you! May I ask your name?"
"Who are you? What do you want?"
"I'm someone in need of help, and I want to ask for your helping hand if I can trust you. So, may I ask your name?" I ask her name again.
"…you can call me Candy."
So it's a fake name. Or maybe that's her real name?
"Sweet candy or sour candy?" I asked.
"Does that even matter?"
"Although I love sweet candy, at the moment I'm craving for sour candy at the moment."
"…I see that you're an idiot."
"Now you know that I'm an idiot. It's good that we know each other better now. Then let's share information."
"What do you want?"
"I want to know who these fake bandits are and how did you ended up getting caught. Why are they bringing a cage?"
Candy told me everything from when she's about to help someone breakthrough, they got killed, and she alone still survive.
Candy heard a rumor about some groups targeting mages in the middle of breaking through. So when she finds out that there's a party with someone who wanted to breakthrough, she volunteer to follow them to get some information.
Unfortunately, the party is way too weak.
Candy was just interested in the group that will attack the party so when the group arrived, she planned to escape on her own. That's when things went wrong.
"The party I'm with was so stupid. They know I'm stronger than them so they begged me to protect them and hugged my leg. It was too late when the attackers came. I should have killed the party on my own without hesitation so I won't get caught. What a blunder!"
Candy explained how she got caught.
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But I'm not convinced. If she want to check the attackers, she could have just follow the party from afar instead of by their side.
"That's not everything, right? If you want to know the attackers, you could have followed them from afar. There's something else you didn't tell. And that's why these groups decided to let you live."
"…"
"What's the reason you were so curious about these group of fake bandits? Well, there are some real bandits, but most of them here are fakers."
Everyone in these fake bandit group has explosive devices inside their mouth. Which means this group is sent by the cult.
My guess that they don't want anyone strong in this city before the stampede is probably a correct one.
"What if I say that I'm a secret agent work for his majesty the king himself? I want to know if there's a group with potential to disturb the peace in this kingdom. Heh, sorry. That's a lie."
A lie? I can find out if that's a lie or not. It's easy.
"Do you know Tim? Your boss?"
"What?!"
Her eyes opened widely from shock.
I can see that she knows Tim, her boss. Which means she's Ms. Wendy's colleague. Both of them are secret agents.
"I'll tell you later after this battle is over. I'll tell both you and the school teacher Ms. Wendy all I know about Tim. Ms. Wendy is here as well protecting her students."
"Wendy is here? Did she tell you about Tim?"
"Nope. I knew about Tim directly from the king himself. For now, I know that you are really a secret agent of the king, so I'll trust you."
Will I tell them about my identity as Ninja? Probably.
I no longer care about hiding my identity because there's a chance that someone from the cult finds out because of today's matter. Whether it will be someone who's able to escape from here, which I hope none of them makes it, or finding my address from seeing Ruby and the others inside the guild for protection.
Although there's still a chance that no one finds out, I still need to be cautious. It means we will have no choice but to move to Cassau earlier than planned.
Although Cassau is not the safest place, I've never heard any rumor related to the cult in Cassau from my past live.
There are obviously still some thugs or underworld organization similar to Sam's organization back when she's still in Melk, but I never heard of any huge incident caused by the cult in Cassau.
Well, if I see someone with an explosive devices inside their mouth, I'll just kill them silently.
I called out Blobby and turned her into a key to open the cage. Then I unlocked Candy's collar with Blobbykey but I didn't remove it yet.
"I've taken off your collar. Remove it later only when we're about to attack."
"When will we start attacking?"
"Soon, these guys will attack my friends and Ms. Wendy. If we attack too soon before they make their moves, there will be some people who will manage to escape. So we will only attack them from behind, few minutes after they begun to advance. Just before they reached Ms. Wendy and the others."
"Are you confident in killing everyone here? I think there are more than twenty advanced level mages here." Candy worried about the difference in number.
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"Don't worry. If I can't do it, I'll just escape"
"…so you're confident in escaping, huh?"
"Yeah. After we create chaos from behind the enemy, they will be divided into two groups. First group will end up facing against us, and the other group will be facing Ms. Wendy and my friends."
I hope the strong mages will end up in the group that will face us. That way, the girls will be in a safer position. And I can escape shamelessly if they're too strong. At least it should be enough to stall for time until the girls escape.
For this plan, it will be better if I used a ranged attack, so I will be using Blobby as a gun or pistol.
It's something from Victoria's old world called Desert Eagle. But since we're not in a desert and there's nothing 'eagle' I can see about this weapon, I'll just call it Blobpistol.
When I called as such while Victoria is still there, she was angry at how terrible my naming sense is. At least it's original.
Anything Blobby transformed will be named Blob-something, and Victoria will be Victo-something. That's much easier to remember.
After testing it a few times, back before we returned to Melk, I already know how far this Blobpistol effective against enemy.
If it's human being without any protection, the furthest distance the bullet will be effective is when I shot at around 120 meter distance.
Of course the bullet is sharpened. Whenever I'm outside, I always make sure to get as many rocks I can carry and sharpened them all.
I will use this for this battle.
"Candy, you will stay here and pretend that collar still restricting your magic. Once they make a move, I think you will be left here. Probably with some guards. Try to kill them all and go to the most crowded location. I will try to make the enemies stay in one spot, then you will use your strongest magic to kill them all. Can you do it?"
"I'll try. Then how can we know the reason behind the attacks?"
"Let's try to at least keep their leader alive and interrogate him. He's the one that talked to you before, right?" I asked for her confirmation.
"Yes. I think he's even stronger than average advanced level mage."
"Okay. I'll contact Ms. Wendy and the others about our plan. If we said your name, Candy, to Ms. Wendy, she will know it's you, right?"
"Yes. It's my real name. How will you contact her?"
"With a ghost."
Seems like we worked Sonia too hard today. We already used her to move to where the others are many times.
She's a ghost, so I hope she won't get tired.
Well, it's the usual scene where I called Sonia, Candy got surprised, I told Sonia my plan, and then Sonia will tell the others.
After that Candy asked me about Sonia, and she also tried to gain some info about how I got to know Tim and the king. But I only said that I will tell both her and Ms. Wendy only after the fight is over. I can't have her think about other matters in a death or alive situation.
"Oh, right! Candy! If their leader told the others to bring you with them, you just need to pretend that the collar is still locked and wait until the right moment to escape. You are too strong to be together with their previous target, and now they met another target that cause them trouble? If the leader is smart, he will assume that we were working together. Then he might try to use you as a hostage. Just pretend that you can't use magic until the right moment. I'll try to kill everyone around you and you will use that chance to escape."
"Got it. But what if you can't kill everyone before I escape?"
"Then I will leave you and escape. I'll pray for your safety. Good luck in escaping."
After making our plan, I can see that there are multiple people coming here, so I hide after I lock the cage again. With Candy's power, I'm sure she can destroy the cage.
I can see that everyone is prepared to march. I guess it's already time.
Chapter 102 - Their Reason For The Attack
I can see that these fake bandits are starting to move. Everyone is busy preparing to fight even though they haven't gotten any info on how strong the enemies are, and how many people they will fight.
They just prepared all seventy people to kill their target. Whether the enemy has a hundred people, or just one person, these fake bandits prepared everyone to kill all of their enemies.
I have told Candy about what she will do.
There are two possible options for the fake bandits. Either to have some people guard her, or taking her along so they can use her as hostage in case their enemies this time is related to her or not.
Well, there's one more option. Which is to ignore Candy and make everyone attack without leaving anyone behind to guard her. If that's their choice, then that would be great.
Unfortunately, it seems like the fake bandit leader choose to bring her with him.
The only good thing about this is that he alone move behind the main force while guarding Candy.
The cage is being pulled by a horse and he's pulling the reins.
He doesn't notice that right behind the cage he's pulling, I'm following him. Candy positioned her body so that he won't notice me following. And since I can see with my Divine Vision that everyone is advancing, and we're behind them, I whispered to Candy the change in plan.
I will attack him and put the Magic Restriction Collar around his neck. That way, he can't do anything other than shouting for help from his allies. But that won't be a problem if I knocked him out and stuffed his mouth with cloth.
Since we still have time before the right moment where the fake bandits will have fewer chance to escape, I told Candy to gain any kind of information from the fake bandit leader.
"Hey! Who are you and why did you do this?" Candy asked the fake bandit leader.
"Hmm? You can call me Grant. As for why we do this kind of thing, it's because we are paid handsomely for this."
"Don't act like a bandit! I know that you are far too organized to be a bandit! Tell me the truth!"
"Well, we are indeed paid handsomely. As for the truth, why would I tell you about it? Maybe I'll tell you if you strip naked here."
"Hell no!"
Hearing Candy refused his proposal, I said to Candy in whisper.
"You can strip naked to get the truth. It's easy since no one other than him and I will see you."
"You think I will do it?!"
"Actually, please don't. If you change your mind too quickly, he will be suspicious instead. You getting strip naked is just what I wish for."
"Then I won't do it!"
Good thing that Grant can't hear any word we said.
"Why is he move slowly? Won't it give a chance for Wendy and your friends to escape?"
"I think he's just being careful since it's dark. Continue asking him questions. Although we can interrogate him later, asking him now might get a different answer. Probably even the truth. Just say that since you're going to die anyway, it won't be a problem if he leaked a secret or two."
"You're right. I'll try."
Candy tried to ask Grant again.
"Just tell me the truth. I'm going to die anyway," said Candy.
"Why are you going to die?" asked Grant.
"Umm…" Candy sneak a glance at me asking for help.
Why are you asking me? Are you really a secret agent? Make some lies!
I whispered again to her.
"Just say that even if he brought you to his leader, you will only say that you're a hunter teaching newbies. Then if there's no chance to escape, you will bite your tongue and suicide before he turns you into tools for men's satisfaction! Just improvise!"
Candy said the same thing to Grant.
"Even if you brought me to your leader for questions, I can only say that I'm a hunter teaching newbies. If there's no chance to escape, I'll just commit suicide before you turn me into a tool to satisfy your men."
"Then just go and kill yourself. There's no other worth for you other than being potential hostage here."
Seeing his reaction, Candy glanced at me again.
This woman is suck in asking question. Seriously, how could she be a secret agent? I'll ask Ms. Wendy later.
"For now, just keep looking at him. I'll imitate your voice and I'll be the one asking question. You just need to move your mouth according to my word in case he's looking behind."
She nodded after hearing what I said.
Now I'm adjusting my voice with air element so we could have a similar voice.
"I'm curious. I know that I have the appearance that will make most men fall for me, but instead of having your men doing what they want to me, you choose to put me in a cage which is the safest place for me at the moment. Why?"
After asking that question, Candy glared at me.
What I said was the truth so she shouldn't get angry.
"Hah! You're so confident in your look, huh? I'll tell you this. All of us, other than the first wave who are the real bandits, only have one woman in our mind. She's the greatest woman we've ever seen. She's the most beautiful, smartest, and the woman we all respected the most. You are nothing to her!"
Hearing Grant praising a woman to that point, it even makes Candy a little angry. But Grant continued.
"We did it for her! We don't care about Evil God or whatnot! We joined the cult only because of her! She's like an angel! She's the most important person in our lives! If she told us to die, we'll die! If she told us to kill, we'll kill! If she died, we all will follow her to the afterlife!"
He's a fanatic. That's what both Candy and I understood.
But more importantly, it seems like he's from the cult. More like, he's in the cult because of this woman he's worshipping.
If he doesn't care about everything else other than that woman like he says, it means that the one who gave him the order to kill mages is her.
Then I continued asking using Candy's voice.
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"Does that mean she's the one who give you the order? Do you know the reason why?"
"Why should I care? If she told me to swim in lava, I will do it! If she told me to bury myself alive, I will do it! So what if she told me to kill mages on the verge of breakthrough? I don't need a reason. I'll do everything for her."
"I bet she doesn't even remember your name."
"Huhu… unlike the others, this Grant has the privilege to be remembered by Lady Celestine! I'm special to be remembered by Lady Celestine!"
Let's ignore his fanatic tendency and collect the important information.
So, the one who gave the order to attack is this Lady Celestine. And everyone here, at least the fake bandits, are her worshippers, her fans.
Once she's mentioned, Grant would praise her nonstop.
At least I found his weakness. Should I stop pretending and just knock him out right now? We need to prepare for the battle. If Grant is gone, this group of fake bandits will no longer have their leader.
But there's one thing I'm concerned about.
I have tapped the buckle of my belt many times, and Sonia hasn't come yet!
Are they having some trouble over there?
I'm too far from the shack even with my Divine Vision I can't see the others.
I can still see the shack, but I can't see the girls. Are they inside? Or have they decided to escape? I'm worried.
But if something happened, Sonia would come to my side.
Since she hasn't appeared in front of me yet, I think they are not in any danger at the moment. But they needed Sonia's help with something.
So I'll try to waste time by having a chat with Grant. But seems like Grant no longer has any intention to speak anymore.
He won't answer anything I said anymore. Even when I used Candy's voice and said "I'll strip naked for you if you forget about that Lady Celestine," Grant never said any words.
But I ended up being glared by Candy. If not for the cage, she would have hit me.
Then, good news come!
Sonia finally appear after a while not answering my call.
She came with a good news coming from Kayla's side!
Kayla is getting smarter and smarter again! I really love this part of her.
After listening to Sonia, I used Divine Vision again. This time, I'm not looking at the shack. But I'm looking at the ground near the shack.
There is a hole right in front of the shack!
This hole was made by Kayla and Angela using their earth element magic. Looks like Angela managed to breakthrough just fine.
And I also can see that they are digging another hole that they will cover so they can have a place to hide.
Hearing this plan, we have a chance to not let everyone on the enemy's side alive. So I just knocked Grant unconscious since we no longer needed to ask him questions for now.
"Those girls are keep improving again and again. I'm truly glad to be able to meet them in this life."
Chapter 103 - Kayla's Plan
This happened soon after Roy left the group. Victoria went to the east and after a while, she encountered several enemies. Seven of them to be exact.
Victoria just charged at them head-on. Different from Roy that mainly used sneak attack and ambush, Victoria choose to fight head-on against the enemies.
It was mostly thanks to her being a black slime that she is invulnerable toward any kind of attack. Whether it's magic or physical attack, she can't be damaged at all.
That was why she dare to be so bold in battle.
The only flaw she has is that she hasn't been able to completely master her own body. Although she makes her own weight increased on each of her attack to make a stronger and more powerful attack, the moment after the attack and reducing the weight back to normal again is too slow.
She's doing fine when Roy was wielding her as weapon. As his summon, she has some connection with him and she will adjust her body to transform into what in Roy's mind. Even the weight.
But the connection only happened when she's near Roy. And she can't use that connection for telepathic communication.
Although she has been practicing a lot by defeating monsters, she still can't get used to her new body.
No matter how useful her ability as shapeshifter is, she can only fight as how she remembered it in her past human life. Although she's smart and has a really wild imagination, she's not a quick thinker like Roy. That's why the only way for her to fight is by fighting like she did in the past, back when she hasn't gained both magic and Aura.
Even though she no longer has Aura, her sword technique is much better than Roy. So for her to defeat several humans enemies is much easier than defeating monsters.
Facing against seven opponents, the only problem she could have is if they choose to escape. So, once she found them, she just charged right through them, killing some enemies while getting past them to their back so they won't have a chance to escape.
She managed to kill three people just like that.
"What? Who are you?!"
"It's not time for questions! Just kill her already!"
Leaving only four people behind, two on the right and another two on the left. All four of them casted their magic to attack Victoria.
Their attacks raised the dust around them making even themselves unable to see anything. Victoria used that chance to attack all four of them.
Although she can't see as well, she can deduce where the enemies are from where the magic came from. She moves to her left and slashed two enemies, then she moves to the right and stabbed one enemy. Leaving only one man alive.
"Don't kill me! Please, I beg you!"
"You're here to kill my friends so it's no problem if I kill you, right?"
With that, she swung her sword and decapitate her enemy's head from his body.
Although she's a woman who came from a modern world, she's already accustomed to killing in this world. The world she's reincarnated into is not a kind world, with the rule of survival of the fittest. And so, she adapted to the common sense of this world after a few years growing up in this world in her childhood.
After killing all seven enemies, she started to move to the center area. Since she has already advanced ahead, the other girls still hasn't fought any enemies. If Victoria can reduce the enemies here, the burden on the girls will be lighter.
But just as soon as she ran, Sonia appears.
"What's wrong?"
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"Roy has gained some new information. They have two waves of attacks. The first one is right now, with thirty people, and Roy has defeated five of them. The second wave is in an hour if the first wave hasn't returned by then. And they have about seventy people left for the second wave. He wants me to relay a message to you to make sure that no enemies can escape. All of them has to be killed. If even one person escape, the second wave will come sooner."
"Understand. Inform the others."
"Okay."
Since the both of them have knew each other for a long time, they already have a good understanding of each other. They don't need to say more than necessary during an emergency. So after relaying a message to Victoria, Sonia left right away.
Roy has defeated five and Victoria has defeated seven. Which means there are still eighteen enemies left.
Victoria choose to stay behind the enemy and killed them from behind while they are fighting with Kayla's group.
She let them fight Kayla's group first so they will let their guards down for attacks from behind and Victoria can kill them.
In the end, Kayla and Sophie together managed to kill four enemies, Wendy able to kill six enemies, and the rest are killed by Victoria. Which makes her kill count to fifteen.
The eight enemies are killed by her as she judged them to be dangerous when they were about to cast magic to kill the girls. So when they were preparing their magic, Victoria appears and killed them.
Wendy was surprised to see that Kayla and Sophie able to kill four. They both able to kill the least number of enemy, but knowing that they are still beginner level, and most of the enemies are intermediate level, Wendy was so surprised.
They only got slight injuries, and Kayla can easily heal them.
"Are you sure you are still beginner level mages?" Wendy asked Kayla and Sophie.
"Yes. It was all thanks to Roy's teaching and also Victoria and Sonia's knowledge of magic from the past." Sophie answered.
"Just who is Roy, really?"
"He's a clown. An extremely good one. If you watched his performance in the circus, you will know it too," said Kayla.
"I know that. I also watched the circus during Clarence's performance. Roy told me that he's Clarence. But that doesn't answer my questions!"
"You will know. Maybe after this is over, he will tell you his secret. Or maybe just one of his many secrets," replied Kayla confidently.
"Can he really be trusted so much just by him telling you his secrets?" asked Wendy.
"Well, if he tells you his secret, you will have no choice but to trust him."
"I don't think that will happen. He's my student, but to trust him just after sharing his secret, I don't think I can trust him that easily. By the way, I haven't seen Victoria for a while. Where is she?"
Wendy looked around and didn't see Victoria since the battle here is over.
"Roy probably has summoned her," Sophie answered Wendy's question.
"…I forgot that she's a monster."
Soon after, the door of the shack is opened and Angela come out of it.
"I've finished breaking through! Now is my time to shine! Tell me what happened!"
Sophie summarized what happened about the battle, and where Roy is currently.
Meanwhile, Sonia who just see the good news that Angela has broken through to Intermediate level on her ice element, suddenly got called by Roy.
She reappears soon to tell new information from him.
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"Wendy, do you know a woman named Candy?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"These fake bandits captured her and put her in a cage. Later, she will cooperate with Roy to make ruckus from behind the enemy lines."
"She will? That's great! She's pretty strong herself so it's great to have her to join!"
Wendy is happy to hear that they have a reinforcement from someone she knows.
"Well, if she's so strong, why was she captured?" teased Angela.
"That just means the enemies is much stronger than her. Sonia, tell us everything you heard from Roy."
Kayla asked Sonia to tell everything.
Sonia informed them about how they are fake bandits who are actually part of the cult. Although they are part of the cult, their loyalty is just toward a woman in the cult. Probably one of their higher-ups.
"What cult? What are you talking about?" Wendy is confused with the information she got.
"Roy said that he will explain it to both you and Candy after this is over. Let's hope you all can stay alive when it's over," said Sonia.
While Wendy is confused, Kayla is already thinking of a plan for their next moves.
"I have a plan. Since we still have enough time before they started moving, let's do it right now. It will help us kill everyone even if their numbers bigger than us."
"What is your plan?" Angela asked.
"This is a cliff with nowhere to escape other than falling from it since they got us surrounded. Let's dig a hole and make it seems as if we're escaping to below the cliff. But actually, the hole is just a trap toward dead end. And we will make some hollow area below that fake escape path that we will cover, and we will return to the surface from there while covering the hole."
"I see! Then we will make them got caved in once they entered just like Ellen's party!" Sophie understood Kayla's plan.
"I don't think all of them will enter the hole. Some of them should be entering the shack or looking from the edge of the cliff. But with Ms. Wendy's powerful magic, she can attack that area and makes everyone fall to their death."
"I understand. I can fly by using wind magic since I'm advanced level in both wind and fire element so I will fly above the cliff and use powerful fire magic to destroy the cliff! That's a sound plan! But what if there are some enemies that doesn't dare to get close to the cliff? And where will you hide?"
Wendy asked where the others will hide while she's flying.
"We can dig another hole away from the cliff. That will be our hiding spot. As for the rest of the enemies, Roy and your friend can take care of that."
"What if they accidentally attacked your hiding spot?" Wendy asked Kayla again.
"If it's Roy, he will get here first and protect our location as soon as he arrived. We will be fine. We still have time so let's start digging, Angela."
Kayla stood up and prepared to dig a hole.
"Alright! I have just breakthrough Intermediate level and the first thing I do is digging a hole? This group is weird as usual."
And so, Kayla and the others prepared their plan.
Since they don't need to be careful of burying people under them, both Kayla and Angela used their digging ability to the fullest from the start. The fake escape path needed to be long enough to convince the enemies.
Wendy is looking for a good hiding spot while flying. Sophie and Sonia is on guard duty.
This is why Sonia can't answer Roy's call until their preparation is over.
Chapter 104 - Different Factions In The Cult
My girlfriend is really awesome!
She has planned to kill most of the enemy in one shot.
Kayla and the others will lure the fake bandits with a hole they dug and make the fake bandits think that they have escaped to under the cliff.
But that's just a trap to make everyone gather in one spot, then Ms. Wendy will kill them all by using her strongest fire magic from the sky.
And so, it's my job to make sure that most of the enemies, and hopefully all of them, will fall to their death. Either getting caved in once they entered the hole, or be pushed to their death after falling off the cliff.
There might be some survivor, but we can take care of them as long as there are no one stronger than Advanced level mages.
I looked for the place where Kayla and the others hide. It was far from the cliff so they should be fine.
As for Ms. Wendy, Sonia says that once the enemies get close, she will contact Ms. Wendy and she will fly then. To conserve magic, she can't fly all the time using wind magic. That's why Sonia need to report the enemies' location before they reached close to Ms. Wendy.
I ride the coach with Candy behind me in a cage and Grant knocked out cold beside me. For now, I need to hide him.
"Is it okay to knock him out cold? Don't you think it's too soon for that?"
"Nah, I can just disguise my voice and make it as if he's still fine."
"What if he suddenly awake?" asked Candy.
"Don't worry, I made sure that he's only getting the bare minimum of air so he won't die, but not enough to make him conscious."
"Air?"
"It's okay if you don't understand. Just trust me."
And so, I called Blobby to envelop both me and Grant.
I made sure that Grant's head can be seen while I'm hiding behind him under the cover of Blobby. Of course to make things more believable, my both my hand is out. My hands is out from under Grant's armpit, while his hand is blocked by Blobby.
It feels like I'm hugging him, but with Blobby as a cloak, no one can see me.
"How is it?"
"…now he looks like a fat man with a small head and short arms."
"But no one will be suspicious, right?"
"Unless they are very close with him."
"That's okay. I don't think these kind of people would care about their leader's body shape."
Soon, I can see that all the enemies has reached the shack. And they were looking for Kayla and the others but they found nothing. They only see a hole in front of the shack.
"Hey! Why are you not fighting?" I asked them all using the voice of Grant.
"Sir! They seem to be running away! There's a hole and we suspect that they are escaping to the bottom of the cliff!" someone come over to me and reported.
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"Is that so? Then why are you here and not looking for them!"
I tried to act like their leader. And it looks like I'm doing fine. None of them suspected me.
"Grant, oh, Grant… why are you thinking that you're the leader here?"
Suddenly, someone appears with a grin in his face.
And… he looks just like Grant! Don't tell me he's Grant's twin?
Damn! I forgot to see the faces of everyone here so I don't know that my plan has a huge flaw! What should I do?
Well, it's time for Shameless Survival Arts!
Acting Skill: Pretend We're Strangers!
"And who do you think you are?!"
Aaaaaah! How stupid! He's Grant's twin and I'm asking him who he is! I should have said a better line than that! Even Candy is too embarrassed to look at me!
"Urgh… is that how it is? Just because you were chosen as the leader for this mission, you choose to forget me? Your own brother, the Great Graham?"
How are you so great?! You're just here because of a woman!
"It's not the time to complain! All of us will charge into that hole and make sure none of them are alive! Kill everyone for Lady Celestine!"
""UOOOOOH!!!""
Wait! There's something strange!
I thought that everyone here is supporting this Celestine, but why is Grant's own twin didn't seem happy when I said it? Did he finds out about my disguise?
"Lady Celestine this, Lady Celestine that… You're just a pervert who got brainwashed by her big boobs! In the end, you're just a boob lover!"
Grant… I hope you died. You just followed Celestine's order because she has big boobs?
Then Graham continued.
"We're not here because of Lady Celestine! We're here because of Lady Veronica!"
""UOOOOOH!!""
They made another loud yell about as loud as Celestine's fan.
So this group is divided into two. One is Celestine's fan, and the other is Veronica's fan.
In the end, everyone is stupid.
"You said we're boob lover, but aren't you here as well because of Lady Veronica's ass? You're just a huge ass lover!" one of the men who supported Celestine said so.
…Twins are indeed twins, huh?
Although one is ass man, and the other is boobs man.
I'll try to capture Grant's twin as well. Hopefully, both of them has important information to give us. But to do that…
"Then let's make it into a competition. If my side win, it means Lady Celestine is the best. If you win, it means Lady Veronica is the best."
"I've been waiting to prove that for a long time! How do we decide the victor?"
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"How? We will decide that later. The sooner we kill our targets, the sooner will we have our competition."
"Tsk! Fine. But I assure you that we will win and proof Lady Veronica is the best!"
Seriously, a competition that will decide which one is better? Boobs or ass? How stupid.
It's the heart that count!
"Everyone, Charge! For Lady Celestine!"
"And Lady Veronica!" Graham continued my word.
""OOOOOOOO!""
With Grant as the leader of big boobs faction, and Graham as the leader of big ass faction staying behind, the others marched on and entered the hole. The few smarter ones choose to look below from the cliff to see where the hole end, but it was too dark and even light element mage can't make their light shone that far.
Seeing how everyone move ahead leaving me and Graham behind, I asked him why is he not leaving.
"Both of us are leader of each factions. We can't have both leader to fight this battle. Although somehow they managed to defeat those lowlife bandits, I don't think they're strong enough to need both of us to come out."
Although he said that, he kept sending glances to Candy. Of course Candy noticed his gaze and she tries to cover her body… her ass and sit down in the cage.
Well, from my perspective, Candy indeed is a beauty with great figures which is big in both boobs and ass. But for Grant, I think she's not big enough for him to convert religion from Celestine to Candy.
Now I'm curious about how big this Celestine is.
Once most of this group reached the hole, they organized themselves and enter in two lines.
I'll use this chance to knock Graham unconscious before Ms. Wendy attacked.
"Oh, a bird!" I pointed my finger to the sky.
"How can you see a bird in the dark?" Graham said. But he's still looking to the sky.
Then I smacked his head and knock him out. Easy.
"You can take off the collar now. I don't think you will make a move here." I said to Candy.
"These guys… how can they kill people just because of boobs or ass? Do you know something about the cult?" Candy asked me as she took off the collar.
"What I know doesn't contain their fetishes. But if you want to know more, we can talk later."
"Alright, but you will tell me everything," she said.
"I won't. Although I saved your live, it's not enough for you to trust me. I will tell you enough to let you know the important part, but for the rest, I'll let someone else you can trust to do the job."
I'll delegate the king himself to tell both Candy and Wendy.
"Someone I can trust? Is it Wendy?"
"Nope. Just focus in killing everyone first. I'll go pick up my friends."
I left the coach and Candy who's leaving the cage to the place where Kayla and the others hide.
It's good that no one notices where they are. They hide well under the ground with two ice pillar supporting a huge rock above them so when the enemy marched on and stepped on the ground above the girls, the enemy won't notice anything strange.
I transform Blobby into a shovel and start digging.
"Hey! It's safe now to come out!"
As soon as I said that, I heard a huge explosion coming from where the shack is.
Seems like Ms. Wendy has made her move.
Chapter 105 - By Guts, The Right Tool, Strength, Math, And Physics!
I helped the girls out of their hiding spot as the sound of explosion come from the cliff.
"Has it started?" Sophie asked.
"I hope it has ended," said Kayla.
I looked over the area where the explosion come from with my Divine Vision and answer their question.
"Unfortunately, although about fifty of them died, there are still few survivors. About ten of them. You girls go over to that coach over there and rest. There are two men, twins, knocked out over there. I'll interrogate them later. You just need to knock them out if they made a slight movement while I help Ms. Wendy and Candy to kill the rest of the enemies."
I said while pretending to be though and cool.
"Understood. Good luck!" said Kayla.
"Umm… can't you be kinder and just say 'No! I'll help you!' like that?"
"No! It's important to rest. You will kill the enemies while we're resting and look after the two people you said about."
"No. That was just me pretending to be though. I really wish for your help here. Even though the enemies is not a lot, I still want some help."
Aren't the company of the protagonist should say 'No! I'll help you!' just like that and they will help the protagonist? This just prove that fiction is fiction. Or maybe I'm not the protagonist here?
"That's why we'll help by not becoming your burden. You can go wild while we're taking a break."
…seems like Kayla got influenced by me too much. She's becoming lazy.
She should have rested enough while hiding underground, but to think that she said she want to take a break, she's becoming more and more like me. Leaving the important thing to the capable ones while taking a break.
I also want to do that! That's the main reason why I visited the king back then! But until now, I still have to be the one to do something! Can't I take a rest?
Let's stop complaining and just put some effort in what matter most at the moment. Killing the rest of the enemies and survive.
"Fine then. Make sure that those two are tied and unable to move. One of them already has Magic Restriction Collar on him, so you don't need to watch him since he's unable to use magic even if he's awake. Just be careful with the other one. But with how hard I hit him, I don't think he will wake up until tomorrow."
"I'm coming too! I want to test my new strength! Since I just breakthrough to Intermediate level in my ice element, I want to try it as soon as possible!"
Angela volunteer to come with me to kill the remaining enemies.
"Alright then. Let's go."
Angela and I left the other two who choose to take a rest.
Although I said that it's a shame that they're not going to help, I know how tired they were after fighting the enemies.
There are twenty five enemies, and although both Sophie and Kayla managed to take down four of them, it still makes them exhausted because these enemies are much stronger and organized than any bandits we encountered before.
As for Angela, she's still in her top condition. In fact, she's much stronger now because she has just broken through. She founds an enemy who got separated and seems to be trying to escape, and fight him.
It's supposed to be dark at the moment, but because of Ms. Wendy's fire magic, there are some grass and trees that got burned and give us source of light.
I don't need them though since I have night vision, but thanks to the fire, Angela managed to find an enemy.
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She shot several Ice Spikes at him, but he managed to dodge them. Then Angela used wind magic to boost herself and charge directly at the enemy. In the close range, he used Fireball at the enemy's mouth, and killed him.
"I thought you're trying to use your ice magic? Why Fireball?"
"Because he's also an ice element mage. When I shot the Ice Spikes at him, he sneered and dodged to see my reaction. But he didn't know that I have three other elements. If I used ice magic again, he will be able to either block it or maybe negate it with using an even more powerful ice magic, so I killed him with a Fireball because he won't expect it at all."
"…you're a freak. A magic freak and a battle freak. You're too much of a genius."
"Thank you. Shall we go on then?"
"Sure."
She's too strong and too smart! Only within the area of magic and battle. For other subjects? She's just average.
But with this, once she become stronger and stronger, she can't no longer keep following me who wants peace. If she want to be stronger, she had to go on a journey. Whether it's to enter magic college, or adventuring, she has to leave if she wants to be stronger.
And there's nothing I can do to hold her. After all, the one who asked her to be stronger is me.
For now, there are still something she can learn from me, Victoria, and Sonia, so she will stay with us.
But in the future, she might choose to leave.
No. Knowing her, she will leave undoubtedly. Maybe in one or two year, but not now.
Whatever the case, she keeps getting stronger and stronger. Probably she will become much stronger than Angela in my past live, the Elemental Master. As a friend, I should congratulate her.
Since she won't leave anytime soon, I should teach her everything I can. In term of magic and fighting though. As for other stuffs? Kayla is a much better learner in other area.
What about Kayla and Sophie? Will they leave as well?
As for Kayla, I think she will leave and learn as many things she could. And Sophie, I don't know if she want to be stronger like Angela and Kayla. She just said that she wanted to be with me. But who knows about their future?
Whatever the case, if they choose to leave, they can leave anytime they want. After all, we have a home they can return to.
Ah shit… I'm getting sentimental about thinking that they're gonna leave. Good thing it's dark now. If not, everyone will see my eyes tearing up. It's weird to see someone crying as they kill. Though I did kill two people while I'm in tears.
From ten enemies, one has been defeated by Angela and two has been shot to death by me. As for the other seven, four of them are flying. Three of the flying ones are carrying their friend. Now all of them are flying.
"What now? I haven't learned to fly yet."
Should I tell her to kill the ones on the ground that pretend to be dead?
"Try to shot your ranged magic attack at them. Just like Candy did."
"What about you?"
"I'll also shot while trying to get closer."
Although they are flying, other than Candy who tried shooting the enemies from the ground, they are still within the range of my jump.
I shot my Blobpistol at one of them who is carrying another mage to distract them from attacking Ms. Wendy. It worked and both of them are aiming at me.
"Don't you dare targeting my students!" shouted Ms. Wendy.
Don't worry, Ms. Wendy. It's all part of the plan.
As the pair descending, I jumped toward them. My jump is too fast and too high that makes their reaction slowed down because it was too surprising for them.
I jumped to right above the two of them and stabbed my spear down and pierced both of them together.
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"Two down, five more to go."
Then as I killed two of them, one flying enemy who doesn't carry anyone flew toward me.
"You're a sitting duck once you're in the sky!"
…I really want to see a duck sitting on the sky. That would be funny.
I used the body of the flying man I just killed as a foothold, and jumped again toward the one saying something funny.
I pierced my spear directly from the front. Now three down and four to go.
"Roy! You're amazing!"
Amazing? I just stepped on dead body to be able to jump. Why don't you see once I'm able to step on air? That would be really amazing sight.
"We need to escape! Let's split! Two on the ground and two on the sky! Whoever managed to survive will return and report everything happening here!"
Well, it's not like I'm planning to let anyone of you live. Other than the two twin brothers whom unconscious on the ground.
"Ms. Wendy! You and I will get the two flying ones! Leave the one on the ground to the others!"
"Okay!"
She understand my plan, and fly toward me to catch me and carry me with her.
"Drop me here!"
As soon as the pair who were flying split up, I told Ms. Wendy to drop me.
How will I be able to move on air while I can't step on air yet, and there's no dead body to step on?
The answer is by grappling hook.
I shot the hook and let it grab the top of a tall tree. It's about twenty meters distance but Blobby is able to reach that far.
Then as the hook is attached to the cliff, I let gravity do its job and pulled me down. The grappling hook is still in place so I swung back up and remove the hook from the cliff.
"AAAAAAA!"
I shouted as Victoria told me to while swinging.
Well, this is fun. No wonder Victoria told me to shout.
Shouting is indeed a must.
As I was raised again, I'm directly in front of the furthest flying enemy.
"Hello!"
"What?! How did you get here?!"
"By guts, the right tool, strength, math and Physics!"
I showed him the importance of math before I killed him.
I stabbed him and used his body as foothold to land safely on the ground.
Then I looked at the other three.
"They will be fine. Mission complete!"