Chapter 57: Marella

3rd person POV

As Elliot and Richard were fighting, they sense a super huge spell, much larger than any before, they turned to see Perseus dropping the minotaur from the air and cast a spell that destroyed the forest with the destruction's radius being at least half a mile.

<He did all that with a spell? That's almost as strong as my last resort.> Elliot thought

<It seems like the rankings were true after all...but still...the weaver of calamity...what did he do to receive such a nickname.> Richard pondered

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Perseus POV

I warped back to where Lia and Emma is and see that my sister and the trio have properly taken care of their part while Elliot and Richard were finishing up too.

The guys that Zeus sent were by no means weak, only a ranker can deal with them, as for that minotaur, it was better to end him quick rather than a long drawn out fight, even if I can win as 'the Silver Prince', I had to end him before he can resort to any tricks.

"So is that your true hair color?" Emma asked "It's not a bad look, I'm just used to your regular silver hair."

"Oh, this isn't my true hair color, don't worry."

I then reverted back to my normal self before anymore misunderstandings can be made.

"So any other secrets that you're still keeping from me?" Emma continued and crossed her arms "Ones so important that you kept making excuses to skip on our dates or end it when we barely started?"

"Many, sorry."

"Maybe there's a secret 0th rank or something that no one knows about."

"..."

"Wait...you're not serious, right? Oi, please tell me you're not serious."

I'm just keeping quiet so that the misunderstanding can fester up, there's no such stupid thing as a 0th rank in the tower, even the admins admitted it themselves. Besides, it's fun messing with people by keeping quiet like this, let's hope it does.

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"Well fucking shocker, you're actually 'the Weaver of Calamity'." Elliot grumbled "I seriously can't believe that out of everyone, it's you of all people, I was so stupid to help Alice lure out the real guy as well."

"Oh, you realized?"

"Why don't you climb the tower now then, if it's you, hell, you should be able to finish all this shit already?"

"I'm not that strong." I shrugged "I'm still developing, besides 100 floor to 110, those are on a different level man, the tower reset and increase the difficulty every 100 years, you should notice how much stronger an S rank monster compared to before, and I can guarantee that the 101st floor monsters are at least S rank by now. The S rank and SS ranked in the tutorial floors are much weaker than those guys."

"Well it's based on the average strength of the raiders and with additions of people like you, the standard are much higher and not just that, the intelligence gets higher and higher as you progress too." Richard chimed in

"Well, bye guys, I released a lot of stamina, so now that I'm energetic, I'm going to play outside the tower."

"It's a school day." Lia pointed out "You can't even escape the academy if you want to."

"I'm a ranked, I do whatever I want. Besides, I just don't use the privilege, so Elliot, when everyone come back, I'm relying on you to handle the media, bye now."

*****

'Quest complete!'

'The 8th floor is saved. The academy and other activities shall resume once the floor is finishing its repairs.'

I already saw the live feed of Elliot being surrounded by reporters and journalists asking him about what happened. I mostly just ignored it and went on my way to break in the Laguna's house. Wait, did I say break in? I meant invite myself over.

"Hey, Marella." I greeted once I picked their door's lock and head to the living room.

"The other 2 are at work." she replied "You can sit on the couch and wait in the mean time, maybe pick a canvas and paint yourself."

"Well I can call them at anytime for reports, I'm here mostly for you."

"I'm sorry, but I have a husband."

"Don't make the readers misinterpret my words, please. Well, judging from your portrait of me using the eyes of Horus and black hair, it seems that you foresaw what was about to happen."

"Of course, though for you, it's hard to know if it's true or not." she giggled "My visions are nothing but possibilities, but as for the past, that is something that is definite, but to see even a glimpse of you and your sister's past exhaust me greatly.

"As for the future, yours are the only one where not only exhaust me greatly, but sometimes it turns to be a waste due to the fact that you prove to me many times again that my visions are nothing but possibilities."

"Ok, cool seer crap, now I need your help with something." I requested

"If it's about my daughter-"

"No, about the tower, I'll also gladly give you some of my blood to work with, but I need to see or at least know something about the 13 lords and their challenge."

"That far back?!" she exclaimed "You would need your lifespan for that, not just life essences like blood."

"Are you sure your visions doesn't come from being drunk off of wine?"

"If that's a possibility, why did your sister kiss you on the lips when drunk instead of seeing visions."

"Damn the clan for that and also damn both you and your daughter for reminding me of that. It sobered her up quick, even our clanmates didn't think she would do it when they ask her to do so, she was just that drunk."

"Well, why do you need to see that far back?" she asked

"I need to investigate the tower, both for my mission while infiltrating the Mirage legion, but also to find out more secrets of the tower."

"And the Mirage legion has something to do with the 13 lords?"

"I don't know, but the secret I learned with Emma recently wasn't good."

"Then, I suggest you visit the raider associations in all 13 worlds to learn instead of coming to me."

"Well, if that's not possible, I need your help with something else."