Seeing the wicked grin on their faces, surely my entire excitement vanished in less than an instant, and I was again forced back to reality.
As this was surely no easy situation for someone like me, because I was nowhere comparable to their levels, and in the arena, there were those greater deities who gave weight to my words, and thanks to them, my tricks played quite well.
But now we were here, alone and far from the sights of deities; a single wrong step could end my journey and turn me to dust in no time, so I was pretty cautious and thinking about casualties that could occur if a war broke out, which was also way too immense. On top of that, Mom was still sitting beside me, and my other goddesses were also in this world only.
So this time, instead of acting with arrogance, it was time for me to maintain patience and act according to my situation, but just as I was thinking about being cautious, I heard a wicked laugh and a hint of annoyance on one of the elders' faces.
Seeing this bastard laughing like this, I was feeling like puking on his face, but keeping my composure, I took a deep breath and looked at him in a cold and composed gaze.
Seeing my cold gaze and such calm despite the intense gaze of that laughing elder, it became more wicked, and he scoffed while speaking in a rugged tone: 'Brat, to think that we would meet in such a situation, where the situation would be completely opposite to before. I feel that not even an abnormally wicked brain like your would have imagined that the situation would turn this quickly for you, huh?'
Hearing his words, despite my annoyance, it was worth admitting that I truly never thought that my plan would backfire like this, as surely I had a hint that I was being reckless while pulling these bastards into my game, but when I saw that things were turning nice and warm, I didn't pay much attention to them.
But now I was clearly realizing that arrogance and ignorance surely become the reason for the fall of the mightiest, and I was such a fool that I got played by both, so now I was cursing my stupidity for not taking care of them when I had the chance, but I knew that if I tried to again take an arrogant turn, then the result wouldn't be in my favor.
So I forced a grin and spoke in a cheerful tone: "Elders, you all shouldn't just blame junior for using their brain for survival, as it is a pretty basic rule that 'one must follow any path for their survival, no matter the consequences!' If any path can assure junior's survival, then junior is bound to walk on it, and I don't think that seniors should feel any kind of hatred towards this junior for merely following their path of survival!"
Hearing my words, every elder began to smirk while looking at other side, while the frontmost elder again spoke, but this time in a taunting way: 'See, fellow elders, how good our junior is; with his tongue, understanding the circumstance, he automatically shifted to survival mode, huh?'
Hearing his words, I felt the need to buy something for easy buttering, maybe something like 'A Godly Ass Licker,' which could butter up my prey in arrogance and ignorance for me, and I could just focus on digging graves for those bastards.
Well, but due to my overconfidence in my ability of smooth talking, I didn't even pay attention to such items, and now these creeps were trying to crawl over me.
But surely I wasn't entirely out of backbone, because I still had my immense, vast inventory of way too overpowered items, but the main issue was if I would get a chance to even react to their actions.
As with that mere one-time spell, I realized how outmatched I was in terms of skills, and that was the sole reason i was trying to solve this trouble without getting anyone killed, but while i was thinking, i felt few words echo in the room in pretty annoyed tone: 'So what, elder? are you now planning on praising him for making fool out of us in that summit or are going to get to business, so that we can leave such a low-level mortal realm as fast as possible!'
Well, despite such a frustrating tone, I was feeling pretty relieved because just now I heard two things that were pretty important for my survival: first, 'These bastards had some business with me,' which means they would try to be as gentle with me as possible to get what they wanted.
And second: 'Someone among them, or maybe their senior, is in a hurry to leave our world back.' Well, this was certainly good for me, because in a hurry, that senior might create haste among them, and that haste can easily increase my chances of survival.
So, now seeing how my chances of survival were increasing, I was feeling pretty blessed and wondering if I should start becoming religious and praise that god for such awesome fate.
But soon, I saw that other elders had more annoyed expressions than before, and they were trying their best to maintain their calm, and seeing how forced their expressions were, I was forced to gulp my saliva in tension and hope that Ponta could slip into this spell and take care of Mom.
Because despite that shabby and cute face, that bastard was literally a walking calamity, so I could only hope for him to save Mom, because my actions would have surely killed all of us.
So I could only hope for that bastard to come and protect Mom, and soon I felt an arm around my neck and a smirking face by my side.
Seeing such a sudden change in events, I was about to panickly move away from it, but unknowingly, my body was not listening to me. Well, this was more horrid than the entire scene, because I was feeling pretty helpless without my body, but despite such horror, I knew that even if I were able to move my body, there was no guarantee of my survival or even if I could react before their attacks.