after that last fight they had grown more careful, ending up waiting it out. this let the noble class take it easy, resuming their shenanigans
"hey Camelia!"
"yes?"
"does a person without feet wear socks?"
"...no?"
"then does a person with no hands wear gloves?"
"no.."
"than why are you wearing a bra?"
before he can get an answer, Caster is already on his shark familiar running away in the sea.. but somehow, a great mystery to this day. she had managed to catch him
the things done to that poor poor man..
'not even god may save that man now..'
giving him a moment of silence, he returns to consoling the still apologizing Olivia
'its been two days for gods sake'
apparently what she had done had been extremely shameful.. but that's what she thinks, you see.. she cant remember anything from last night, under the impression they had done something
'i lied when i said i wasn't a scumbag'
"its okay.. i promise. well figure it out alright?"
the plan is gaslighting her into thinking they had really done it
'it may be one of my worst moments but..'
"then lets make it official.."
"what...?"
suddenly frozen, he attempts to make sense of what he had just heard
"i.. we cant let anyone know we did.. what we did by getting drunk! I'm a princess for gods sake.. i would be ruined if they found out! so from now on your my lover. got that?"
to confused to say anything he just reply's with the first thing on his mind
"y-yea..?"
"good! now i need some time.."
before he could respond she runs off blushing, mumbling something along the lines of
"what did i just do..???"
it seems neither of them were fully aware of what their doing..
but before he could actually process it now, Delilah approaches him, giving him not time to breath
"so you did do it..?"
"no.. i lied to her.."
"good."
long gone before he could say anything else, she simply leaves..
'you know, never thought id have a harem.. with like two princesses in it no less'
(also i just wanted to establish the romance routes early on, no other woman will be introduced as a romantic option, at least not planned. this leaves us with 5, being mania ariel Delilah Olivia and the saintess, which will be introduced later on.)
after taking a while to process it all, he goes back to planning
'now how do i actually get the reincarnators to follow me without the rest of their class..?"
turns out it wasn't that difficult.. considering about an hour later he was ambushed by them while walking back to the base, already expecting something like this, he had sent Delilah a message using the communication ring connected to his earbuds. telling her to move in on their class
'knew itl come in handy'
however dodging 6 of the strongest students chasing you at the same time isn't the easiest this, luckily the traps he had setup in the entire forest seem to be working wonders
'pretty sure there's a tentacle trap somewhere..'
not that he can remember, the entire forest is already filled by traps.
'i guess now i know what the 6th students ability is..'
originally, he had known three of them had been martial artists. another two mages, the only one left had been a mystery.
'a summoner'
he had been a summoner like him.. well similar, his seems different..
its not like normal summoned creatures.. their monsters, usually found in dungeons and the such but different..
evolved, that's what the are. they are evolved creatures you would find in the wild
'tamed maybe.. no, he summoned them.'
while he cant be sure, he believes he can summon whatever creature he kills, capable of evolving them further
but he cant dwell on it too much, considering a giant wolf is currently attempting to swallow him whole
'shit!'
jumping to the side, he spins his whole body, using the momentum driven into his leg he kicks the wolfs jaw, sending his head smashing into the ground
not able to dwell on his sick move for long he dashes foreword, dodging a slash driven by Lucian. he finally reaches his destination, a high cliff, the only thing below it being monster infected waters.
"so what now? you told us to find you.. well here we are."
"pfft.. keuk.. he.."
"fuck are you on about..?"
"s-sorry.. i just find this funny.."
"how is this funny? your cornered, we got you trapped."
"ah.. sorry, i just seemed to recall a sentence i heard from someone.. how did it go..? ah right."
"I'm not stuck here with you... its you who are stuck here with me."
"il kill him!"
"right right.. sorry, but can i ask a question..?"
after a moment of hesitation, its Leon who replies
"fine.."
"have you ever heard.. of murphy's law?"
"who's law..?"
"god i hate gen z.. murphy's law is a law that dictates that everything that can go wrong will go wrong, thus her i am cornered by you lot, it was this law that i was banking on really."
"why is that?"
"because it means my plan worked.. weather that's a good thing or not i cant say.. but were about to find out."
"so your a reincarnator like us?"
"perfect observation right there mister obvious! yes I'm one as well, though it doesn't mean anything at the moment."
"and why is that?"
"because either way il be beating your asses."
unsurprisingly, they scoff. doubting his abilities, after all all he had shown so far had been a sniper, and there wasn't any space to use wone and they can easily defeat a gun.
what they didn't expect though was two chained blades to come out of his sleeves, and only for all the wounds they had previously caused to suddenly spurt, blood coming out in bursts, but not without purpose.. each and every drop of blood had begun to form into countless needles of blood each impossibly sharp.
alongside this an eerily creepy doll had formed beside him, standing like a normal child.. her mouth stretched into an unnaturally large smile
"ah.. i forgot to mention you know.. Lucian may have the goddess of light on his side.. but i.. i have the goddess of madness on mine."
without any warning, a red hue passes over Cains eyes, a level of insanity lacing his usually serene face, black thorns swallowing the surrounding life, turning the cliff to a scene for hell.
if a tutorial to fight the demon lord had existed.. Lucian had imagined this to be it.
to add to the degree of terrifying ness, a thick coat of fog seems to cover the place.. a rain of blood coming down from the sky
'charm magic truly does work wonders..'
before any of them could truly react, needles of blood began to suddenly pierce the fog from random directions, each aiming at vital points.
"shit!"
striking at a needle coming towards her, Sylvia finds it to be just an illusion, another three invisible needles hitting her shoulder and thigh, unluckily for Cain however, not a single one had hit Leon and Lucian, who were told by their abilities about the real ones.
the summoner especially had been incapitated, unable to move a muscle, this fight had already been outnumbered. adding more creatures would spell his downfall.
unbeknownst to them aswell, he had also changed into Echidna for a second while in the fog, infusing specifically the needles that had hit Sylvia with the tyranny aura. incapitating her aswell, he by himself had also managed to eliminate the summoner soon after, using his mirror magic in secret
'and they still don't know it'
he didn't want to reveal all his cards, so he had kept his mirror magic secret, and used sparingly, and luckily it seemed they hadn't seen it.
sadly he couldn't do the same to Sylvia, since even without aura she was a monster in her own right.
soon enough though, the two mages had analyzed his charm magic, dispelling it, while it did show the real needles, which was the biggest threat. they had also taken down the fog, or so they thought.
in reality though the fog had been made using water magic layered on top with charm magic, forcing the mages attention to it falsely, buying him time.
by now though, there is only so much he can do. he had already used up all his needles and he's critically injured from forming them as well, his mana is exhausted due to the fog and hiding the needles and even his mental power was drained, Mania's madness consuming it second by second.
it was truly safe to say he was as good as dead. but not really, he had chosen this cliff for one simple reason, while no student can traverse those waters.. who said a huge sea serpent cant? atleast until their teleported back.
"adios motherfuckers!"
doing a T pose as he falls backwards, he can see the shock on their faces, and soon enough, he enters the water, surprisingly able to breath
'the tattoo works wonders..'
another effect seems to make the other creatures not even attack him for some reason.. thus he didn't even transform into the serpent, soon enough however.. he does spot something, a ship.
old and weathered..
'treasure..?'
-CHAPTER END-
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