章節 88: Chapter 86: The Five (1)
The part under [**] is the story of the group. It's not a different plot.
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Because Japan is the favorite country of pro-heroes, it has a lot of entertainment venues. OHRMG and QYM were just one of them. Casinos, racetracks, luxury sports like golf and many more were scattered around Japan.
This was mainly because the Musutafu District where U.A is located, Japan's capital Tokyo and various regions were monopolized by OHRMG, QYM, and other entertainment districts. The remaining entertainment venues had no choice but to disperse to other regions.
Compared to Musutafu and Tokyo, Osaka Prefecture was a prosperous region that did not lag behind. Especially because it was built on a coastline and thanks to its various historical sites, this region could be called a second capital city.
Rents, tuition, and entertainment costs were high. The entertainment venues, especially in a place that can be compared to the capital and called the "second capital", were quite salty.
In particular, some entertainment venues were simply "expensive".
There were a few places that could be called "expensive". And right now, in one of them, a group of strange young people had gathered.
The main theme of this place, which is called "Restaurant Cinema", was to enjoy watching something while eating. You could eat delicious meals alone or with your friends at the table equipped with dishes prepared by famous chefs and watch the latest movies in the vision.
The young people here were called strange because each of them looked and tempered completely different from the other.
The first and best looking had a slender build. He had sharp features, but those features were unchiseled and far from experience. His black hair was messy, he was wearing a thin dress, and this thin dress couldn't hide his slightly trained body. His hairless chest was especially exposed up to his navel.
If an analogy had to be made, he looked like a famous pop star.
The man was sitting on one side of the table and watching the movie as he cut the steak in front of him. He cut the meat deftly with his knife, picked up the medium-cooked juicy meat with a fork, and brought it to his mouth. He took a big gulp of the broth and began chewing the meat.
''Crunch!* I've never been... so happy... that I'm alive...''
"Eat slow... Gulp*..., practice etiquette... Munch*"
"You... Nom-Nom*... wipe your mouth while you say that."
''*Crazy Food Sounds*''
''...''
There were five people in front of the man, each focused on the food in front of them. Even the most decent of people had fast eating speed.
They ate like they were starving. Plates were clean within seconds and they were ordering new ones. They didn't have to worry about the bill, as the man in front of them ordered it.
There was no problem with the celebrity-like man in front of them. Money was the least of his problems.
The man looked away from the movie screen projected on the wall and looked at the five. His eyebrows knitted and he tilted his head to the side. He couldn't understand why these men were eating so fervently despite their good looks.
Even that foul-smelling man ate more decent food than these men when he starved for months.
He waited until they finished their meal. Then he waved his hand lightly at the woman behind him. The woman bowed respectfully and left the door, after a few seconds the film was stopped.
"Now, tell me your story." The man crossed one foot over the other, one arm resting on the arm of the chair. He looked into the eyes of the men looking at him and spoke.
"Is it really necessary?" One of them sighed with relief. He was reluctant to tell this man anything since they had just met, but he had to do it anyway. That way, his wish to bring back the enthusiasm of his friends before he left this world as soon as possible would go more smoothly.
"Yes, that's necessary for me to trust you." He leaned forward, put both elbows on his knees, and put his hands in front of his face to give the group a serious look. At the same time, he was preparing to listen to their stories.
"Hahhh…" The man sighed again before starting to tell his story. This man had smoothed out all their problems and helped them with various matters, at least that much kindness should have been shown to him.
''We...''
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There was a famous town in the Tortorus World. This town was built on a dead end and had only one entrance. The town was surrounded by hills. The town was old in structure, all the buildings were made of stone, the houses were without glass, and there were rectangular and square-shaped holes where the glass should have been.
All the houses were built according to a huge gate located deep in the cul-de-sac. People were constantly going in and out of this door-like structure. Other races were among those who entered the door, but the majority were humans.
Closer to the door, a few words appeared in huge letters above it. These words were written in the language of the world, and it was written;
"Great Orcus Labyrinth"
Yes, Labyrinth. It would be more correct to call it a dungeon, but its structure resembled a labyrinth.
The Great Orcus Labyrinth consisted of a hundred floors known to people. The deeper they went, the more powerful and ruthless monsters were encountered than before. However, each floor contained more precious and rare treasures than the previous one. Even if there was no treasure, as long as the monsters you killed were not poisonous, acidic, or deformed, their bodies were considered treasures and could earn you a lot of money.
Each floor would make it difficult for humans to descend, but it was a comfortable environment for monsters.
Fortunately, humanity had used its intelligence to restore the discovered floors and make them more convenient for humans. Even on the deepest floor, there were experienced, veteran soldiers.
Going deeper into the dungeon, a group of armored troops could be seen, along with a group of youths dressed in armor but with physiques that did not match the armor, they were wearing. The armored troop and youth were fighting against the undead and a dragon-like creature known as the Behemoth.
It was called a battle because the Behemoth showed no signs of movement. The entire battle revolved between the undead and the group.
"AHHHHHH!!!"
The war was leaning towards the momentary movement of a teenager. The youth rushed forward and placed his hands on the ground in front of the Behemoth, manipulating the ground while commanding his friends.
As the war was getting better, something unexpected happened. One of the fireballs made by the youth's allies, which was supposed to target the Behemoth, suddenly changed direction and crashed into the youth. He caused the youth to fall into the dark hole under the bridge with the Behemoth.
"Hajime-kun!!!" A cry of pain and sadness pierced the darkness.
...
Deep inside the dungeon, a group of four people was fighting various creatures. The creatures looked like everyday monsters, unlike the Behemoth in the upper layers. Bear, rabbit, wolf... they were supposed to be weak creatures you could see every day. It had to be because his personal powers weren't too far away from him, even if they weren't equal to the Behemoth.
After all, each of them was a creature that had managed to survive in this layer of the labyrinth.
But strangely enough, the group of four were mowing these creatures like weeds. If the small group had appeared on the surface, they could have been heroes.
"What's the condition?'' The youth, holding a book in his hand, spoke among the four of them. He turned around, raised his hand, and said two words.
[Flame Wave]
The pages of the book in his hand began to change. The blazing red color illuminated the pages of the book. The raging flames emerged from the book, completely covering the space in front of him. The red-eyed rabbits, intent on throwing the man, were swept away by the wave and burned before their ashes remained.
''Wait a second. I'm looking." A man with long dark hair, wearing a robe, took a few steps back to leave the group and touched the air. He had a hero-like nature and an attitude towards the world, at least that's how he described himself.
The youth looked up into the air. His actions might seem pointless, but only he and the group knew he was looking at his particular system.
[Simon F: I'm coming, move towards Yue. I bought them all.]
[Arifureta World Timeline: Hajime has fallen into the Depths of the Orcus Labyrinth.]
''Let's go. Simon has gathered everything necessary, and the main story has begun. We can't be late." With the youth's words, the group took action. They killed the monsters they had been fighting on equal terms for minutes in one attack. A few seconds ago, the cavern, filled with the sounds of war and roaring, was enveloped in silence.
The four of them nodded to each other and then proceeded to their destination, deeper into the maze.
As the four of them advanced into the depths, they did not neglect to clear the monsters they encountered. Not wanting to waste time, they sent each of them to their deaths in a single attack.
They were moving quite easily into the depths of the cave. The kingdoms would be able to advance by sending specially trained knights to advance a few inches here, after suffering a lot of casualties, or perhaps not be able to advance, but this group was advancing as if it were a march.
The four finally arrived at a door guarded by two huge golems. The door literally mirrored the word 'huge'. There were golems several tens of meters tall on either side of the door, and the tails of the golems stretched towards the end of the door.
Under the tail of the golems, there were three holes.
The four knew that golems were actually protective monsters, and the holes were keyholes for keys.
"You're here, Simon." The second system user of the group turned around and spoke. Where his gaze fell was a man who had not been with the group before.
Orange lightning bolts emerged from the man's body. He was wearing a red outfit that stuck to his body. He had yellow lightning marks on his ears, ankles, waist, and chest. Except for the belt on her waist and these accessories, it was an ordinary outfit.
Before Simon entered his new world, he had taken the Flash's power as a cheat. In fact, it could be said that he begged the representative of the universe for this.
Simon was not simply a fan of the Flash. Even his outfit was the same as Flash's, except that he knew most about the Flash. Also, his full name was Simon Flash, using that surname in his new life.
"Yeah, here it is-" Simon nodded, as he was about to hand the man what he was holding, one of the system users spoke up.
"Guys, come here. There has been a change in the World Record." The heroic man, as he put it, waved his hand to summon the quartet. The four of them approached him and glanced at the system screen he was showing them.
[Golden World Capture Order.!]
[As soon as you see the following Five Persons in your world, give the order to capture the reincarnators and the inhabitants of the earth:
Edward reincarnated in Dxd World, Age 21. He holds the Sturdy Saint Divine Armament. Crime: Fugitive, X1
Jay reincarnated into the Mushoku Tensei World at the age of 20. He has a book that records every spell he touches, sees, or learns. Crime: Fugitive, X1
Leo, Age 21, reincarnated into the Arifureta shokugyou De Sekai Saikyou World. It has Multi-verse System. Crime: Fugitive, X1, Trying to Make a Big Hole in the Story.
Simon reincarnated into the Flash World at the age of 22. Has Flash Powers. Crime: Fugitive, X1, Killing Main Character and Taking Their Powers, Making Big Hole in Story.
Aiden Reincarnated into the Long Live Summon World, Age 23. He has the Spirit System. Crime: Fugitive, X1
[As soon they are caught, they will be brought to the Black Gold Trial. It is a strict order, and those who do not obey will be destroyed along with their worlds.]
The five's faces paled, their facial expressions changed when they saw the arrest warrant. Shock, fear, worry, and determination sprouted on their faces.
"We're doing this." They looked at each other and nodded. Their determination to finish their plans was exceeded by this order.
Jay left the group and moved ahead of them. The book opened, pages began to change with a pleasant rustle. Once within 10 meters of the golems, he aligned his hand in the middle of the two golems.
[Wind Drill]
The wind gathered in Jay's hand, slowly spiraling into it. His clothes were flying, his hair was waving. The spiral gust of wind flew out of his hand when it was completed.
Vhoşş!!
The air roared to pieces. It split in half halfway through. The two [Wind Drills] took a small arc towards the two golems and exploded on their chests.
BAM! BAM!
Two drills hit the golem's chest. The golems trembled violently. The gray stone color above them slowly lost its color, taking their true beast form.
Roar!! Roar!
Taking their true form, the two monsters roared at Jay, who attacked them. The air trembled, causing even the dust created by the Wind Drill crashing into the stone states to be repelled.
"Noisy." Jay frowned in annoyance. He waved his hand to activate the dispersing wind, and the wind turned into a balloon that would enclose the heads of the two monsters.
[Empty Air]
His words cleared the air inside the windball that had surrounded the monsters' heads.
"Guaaa!!!" The monsters who couldn't breathe, waved their claws to smash the ball to scatter the ball in their heads. Unfortunately, however, the wind was not something they could touch with their bare hands.
One of the monsters noticed this. He immediately took action, concentrating his mana in his hands and trying to hold the windball to smash it.
"As if I'd let you do that." Jay waved his hand, and the pages changed again. When the pages of the book stopped changing, Jay chanted the words needed to cast the spell again.
[Earth Thorn Field]
Thorns of various sizes protruded from the ground. Under Jay's leadership, all the thorns flocked to the two monsters dealing with air cannons and pierced their bodies.
Pat! Pat!
The pierced monsters struggled for a few seconds, but every second more thorn pierced them. Life was getting further and further away from them. After a few moments, their eyes were pierced, and their skulls were riddled with holes before the monsters breathed their last.
[Bring]
At Jay's command, something began to stir in the chests of the two monsters.
Puchi!
With a puncture, a red oval sphere emerged from their body and began to float through the air. The sphere was uneven as if someone had carefully sanded it. As it floated through the air, the yellow liquids above it flowed to the ground.
The two spheres began to float in midair towards Jay.
"I got it, let's go and get the ticket to our salvation." Jay picked up the two spheres and walked to the door. Hearing Jay's words, the team looked at each other with wide smiles.
They had planned this plan long before the arrest warrant. The order had only helped to speed up the pace of his plans.
When the group got to the door, Jay placed the orbs in the top two holes in the door.
Brmmm!!
The spheres were placed, the holes and the two circles around the holes glowed with blue light. A second later, it turned into a rotating red magic circle containing various geometric objects.
A blinding light emerged from the red magic ring. The next second, the doors that had been closed for who knows how many years opened with a loud scraping sound.
The five entered the room. It was a room filled with particles of shimmer, resembling a starry sky, that greeted them. There was only one thing in the room, and that was a prismatic cube in the deepest part of the room. The cube was enveloped in golden light and shone like the sun in the darkroom.
The five stepped inside. All the stars disappeared in an instant. The ceiling and the rest of the room were covered in phosphorescent green stuff that looked like worms and veins.
The green veins merged slowly and gathered in the cube. After a few seconds, the cube revealed what it was hiding inside.
A slender girl was buried in the cube. Although she was not emaciated, her appearance showed that she had been hungry for a long time. The room was covered with a layer of dust, indicating that it had been visiting for a long time, but the girl and the cube were not found to be any dust particles.
Spoiled, cute, neither too big nor too flat, she had a pair of breasts that fit perfectly in the middle. Her clean, white skin glowing in the faint light, and her long golden hair that was just as shiny, made her look quite beautiful.
Her hair was long and messy and scattered all over her body. She slowly lifted her head up, revealing a pair of bright, crystalline ruby-colored eyes. Her eyes were filled with loneliness, desolation, confusion at the newcomers, and hope.
If there were others, they would have come out the same way they entered this room. The girl was so beautiful, even though she was beautiful enough to petrify anyone who saw it, she was quite suspicious of her posture and being alone in the quiet room. But this quintet knew that wasn't the case, the girl in front of them was one of the best waifu possible, and the one to attain hellish power.
As Yue looked at the group, she was filled with anticipation, opening her mouth to call out to them. Now she could get out of this lonely place, she could leave this torture cage at the end of the years when she stopped counting after a while.
There was a time when she wanted to die and tried to kill herself. But her strength wouldn't allow it. She wasn't starving, she wasn't getting old, she wasn't getting sick, she didn't even need blood like those of her race. As long as mana existed in the world, her hunger would be wiped out and she would live.
She couldn't die even if she wanted to, she couldn't die even if she didn't want to. She couldn't get out of this pit of eternity. She had to be alone with the silence and solitude that tortured her every second of every day. And worst of all, she couldn't even move, she was chained in the same position.
And finally, she met a group that could get her out of here, even if hope was tiny. At least by killing her, they could save her from this eternity.
If they did, she would even pray for them in the other world.
She felt silent just as she was about to speak. She didn't know why, but she felt that this group was not the people she had expected. If it was the old Yue, she could ignore it, but she felt the same feeling she had with her Uncle.
She felt that they were shape-shifted chameleons. Beneath the faces that were smiling kindly towards her at this moment, there were many other purposes.
Just like her uncle.
So she kept quiet and waited to see what would happen.
"Can't she talk? Are we in a different timeline?" Leo said words that Yue did not understand in the second half.
"Maybe she can't talk because of her extreme thirst. Should I feed her?'' Simon licked his lip, stepped forward with his collar slightly open, but Aiden grabbed his shoulder and stopped him.
"We promised no one would court to her until we were done." He looked at Simon with eyes gleaming with a cold light. He wanted Yue like everyone else here, and he wasn't going to let the others get in the way of him.
Lightning bolts came out of Simon's body, Aiden emitted an invisible pressure. Their positions have not changed. Aiden continued to hold Simon's shoulder. However, they had already started a silent war.
"Calm down, you two." Edward stepped between the two of them and spoke with the intent to placate them.
"Her vocal cords were weakened, probably due to her inability to speak for a long time. She'll talk after a while, let's settle things for now."
''Right.''
''Fine.''
The two turned to the girl in front of them as if nothing had happened. Yellow lightning and pressure melted like a handful of snow on a summer's day. This wasn't their first conflict. They had experienced similar things before.
All turned to Leo. Leo nodded at them and took a few steps forward.
"First of all, I apologize for what happened next." Leo smiled sadly at Yue before touching the air, or rather the space. The place where he was going to send Yue soon was a place that even he didn't want to go.
Yue did not understand what he meant. But her sense was ringing, what this man was going to do was either too dangerous for her or something she wouldn't want.
Leo withdrew his hand from the void as Yue struggled with her emotions. A cube appeared in place of his empty hand. The cube resembled a cube only in appearance. Other than that, the cube had a few things it shouldn't have.
The cube was made of human skin, the leather didn't look rough or bad. Instead, it was clean and unblemished skin, but even the fact that it was human skin was enough to disgust one. Worse still, there were eyes on each face of the cube. It looked disgusting as eyes looked all around.
Yue's face twisted in disgust. It was the most disgusting thing she had ever seen in her life.
But as a 300 years old vampire, she calmed herself down. It wasn't the old naive Yue. This prison was just another bondage for her, she had no reason to fear…
Right?
"Okay, ready. I can start whenever you want. There are no restrictions like in the manga, the only restriction is that only I can remove Yue. That's it." Leo set the cube down and stepped aside. He waited for the others to do their work.
This time it was Simon and Jay that stood out. There was a certain admiration in his eyes as he looked at Yue.
"I'll go first." Jay took a step forward. The pages of the book in his hand began to change. When it finally stopped, his hand touched the seal that had kept Yue in captivity for years.
[Shattered]
Cracks appeared in the seal that held Yue with his words. The cracks gradually widened, eventually spreading through the entire seal and breaking into pieces.
Tud!
Yue fell to the ground with a loud noise.
Yue put her hands on the ground, intending to push herself away. She knew that nothing good would happen to her if she stayed here any longer. But she failed, her shaky arms betraying her, causing her to sit up. After the seal that suppressed and immobilized her mana for years, she was in a very weak state. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't run away from powerful people for her current state.
"*Deep breath*" She exhaled in frustration and began to wait for what was to come. The light in her eyes was slowly fading, her dead gaze slowly making its way into her. Her air of hope shattered and she began to radiate a gloom that anyone could detect.
However, the two were too excited to notice it.
Just one step, just one step and they would be nearly invincible in the Multi-verse.
"Give them, Simon." Even the calmest of them, Jay, could no longer hide the excitement in his voice. His hands were trembling slightly, his eyes shining like a starry sky.
Simon shook his head. He opened his hand, which had been closed from the beginning. He held 6 small balls in his open hand, each of them glowing with a different mana trace and a different effect.
"Here you go." Waving his hand, he threw the balls at Yue. When the balls touched Yue's body, instead of hitting or showing an effect, they sank into her body.
''What were they?" Yue asked in a confused tone as she looked at her body. Instead of the balls hurting her, she could feel a lot of ancient magic knowledge pouring into her brain every second. It had completely changed the way she looked at magic. Her strength had not increased, but she knew that if she returned to her peak form, she would be on a completely different level.
"Oh, you can talk. Anyway, there's no harm in explaining it to you. These are ancient magic, contained in 6 labyrinth-like labyrinths that you are currently in. As for their purpose and why they're there, you don't have to know it. All you have to do is do your duty, our beautiful bodyguard." There was clear excitement in his voice as he said the last words.
Yue wanted to ask more questions, but the six of them didn't give her this opportunity as they knew they couldn't stay here any longer. They did not know when the danger would come, but it would come soon.
There was one last place they had to stop by before they left.
"Go ahead, Leo." The pair got out of the way of the cube. Leo nodded to the two of them, and after apologizing to Yue one last time, he activated the cube.
Before Yue could even realize what had happened, the cube took action and opened like a cross. The cross was made of meat, and at each end was a piece of the cube. The eyes on the pieces of the cube were gone, instead, an eye appeared in the middle of the cross made of human flesh.
His gaze did not leave Yue for a single second as the eye slowly began to bleed.
"No… don't come close… don't come near me…" The sight made Yue get scared. She tried to calm herself but in vain. What she saw was more terrifying than she had imagined.
She tried to push herself back with her weak arms and fell again as her trembling arms could not bear the weight of her body. But she didn't stop, she dug her fingers into the ground and dragged herself on the ground.
Her nails were shredded, her flesh was stripped, and her arm bones, which had become brittle from many years of inactivity, cracked. Pain poured from her arm into her brain. She felt a great pain in her head, tripping over her hair, but she didn't stop.
The cube curled into a crescent as if it was enjoying its pain. It continued to bleed while watching Yue's movements for a while. At the moment...
Splash!
It clung to Yue in a momentary movement. Even if Yue saw it coming, she was too weak to avoid it.
Her face froze, terror began to stir in her mind as she felt the living flesh touching her body. However, before she could react, the cube swallowed her whole and became back to cube form.
''Do not worry. When we're done, I'll pay for it with the rest of my life. As your husband." Leo whispered inside as he picked up the cube. Layers began to descend with her group, not caring whether Yue heard or not.
Their target was the 200th floor of the labyrinth.
創作者的想法 
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EZRED Don't forget to give power stones if you liked it, also don't forget to "review" the series. And if you liked it, add to library
I realize that almost every reincarnator is determined to get girls in the anime world. But I do this on purpose. After all, anyone in this situation would have done the same.
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