12 She Knew Nothing About The World

Fifteen years ago, the world was stirred by the appearance of terrible monsters. Fortunately, these monsters only appear in dangerous and isolated places such as in the sea, desert, forest, and only a few weak monsters rarely appear in places where people live.

Even so, there are still monsters which are extremely strong; Its sharp fangs were even able to tear even the strongest steel in this world, its hard skin even the missiles were unable to penetrate it and the claws were sharper than any sword, in addition, its magical power which one attack could destroy a thousand soldiers at once.

At that time, the world is almost on the verge of chaos because no one has been able to defeat these monsters before finally, several special peoples appeared one by one. They were equipped with extraordinary abilities and with that ability they were able to easily slay these monsters.

These people call themselves 'Asterisk'. They claim that their strength comes from stars. Even some people assume that they come from the star who descends to earth to save humanity.

"... And so that guy who still fighting is Asterisk?" Jane cast him a sideways glance as she seemingly unimpressed by that kind of mind-blowing event. Instead, she had a feeling the story was a being too exaggerated. If that really happened, then why are there are many people who still completely ignorance of the existence of Asterisk and monsters?

However, since Magical Beast in Isla clearly appeared in front of her own both eyes and also a guy who had enough ability to match it, then some parts of the story might be real. Thinking to that point, later she could only shake her head slightly-- there may be several reasons why people are not aware of their existence.

If so, in spite of she has lived twice in this world, yet she knows nothing about the world she lived, or another possibility is this was the effect of her Forbidden Magic back then.

What was it called again?... oh right, it's butterfly effect!

Either way, for little awhile, Jane still can't draw conclusions about what really happened to the current world's circumstances with only the present minim information she has.

"That's right! he's Asterisk. If I remember correctly his name is..." Detector No. 20 paused for a while before he remembered that guy's name, "Oh I remember, his name is Nao, Young Master Nao"

'Young Master Nao'? it seems like the viewpoint of peoples toward Asterisk is nobler than what she expected.

Well, if you think about it indeed, even on the Isla 'only' the Apprentice Magician were already received a bit of respect from the mortal. As for wizards, they are treated like gods by them. Maybe that norm also applies in this world, the strong are respected.

She turned her head toward Detector No. 20 and asks, "Don't you think that he took too much time to take down that wolf?"

"It's alright, he's gonna take it down soon!" Detector No. 20 enthusiastically responded but still tried to reassuring the little girl beside him, "Don't worry girl, we're safe"

Jane: "..." I feel safer if you're not around!

Jane asks again: "Then, what is that wolf?" that wolf has a tiny amount of mana in its body.

Detector No. 20: "We just call it a monster"

Jane looks like she's been given enlightenment: "Oh, I see"

"That so-called 'monster'... are there still many creatures like that?"

Hearing such a question from her, Detector No. 20 only gave a smile as if he had no intention of giving her any further explanation.

Jane replied with another "Oh", as she understood what he meant. Of course, even without getting information from Detector No. 20's mouth she still could vaguely guess of it.

She just greatly surprised by the unexpected appearance of the Magical Beast. However, the wolf that appeared and fought with that guy was actually not really Magical Beast.

In Isla, Magical Beast is ranked from Rank 1 to Rank 10. Rank 1 is the lowest while Rank 10 is the highest.

Even though Rank 1 Magical Beast is the lowest, frankly, there is still a lower rank than it, they are called Tyro Beast.

The Tyro Beast is an ordinary animal that is halfway to becoming a Magical Beast. In terms of strength, they were weaker than the Magical Beast Rank 1 but were far more powerful than ordinary animals.

On the contrary, that guy despite having an extraordinary ability, he seemed to have begun to be overwhelmed against Tyro Beast.

This makes her reconsider it, 'are all Asterisk that weak?'

"Look, he's sweating!"

"It's okay, everyone will sweat when they move too much"

"Look, he's gasping for breath!"

"It's okay, everyone will be gasping when they move too much"

"Look, he's coughing up blood!"

"It's okay, everyone will coughing up blood when-..." (⊙.⊙) by then, Detector No. 20 just realized that the situation was getting out of handle.

Jane: "Wait, what are you doing?"

Detector No. 20 who is holding his cellphone: "I gonna ask reinforcement!"

Jane: "..." see, this guy looks so unreliable!

She sighed. In the end, she couldn't help lending her hand. She flicked her finger quietly behind her lower back.

On the other side, the guy who coughed up blood as a result of the wolf's attack, he clutches his chest while the other hand wiped the blood on the tip of his mouth.

"Tch, what tough monster!"

He thought rank 1 monster would be easy to cope and there will be no challenge at all, but no one expected the reality would be this arduous. Despite its weak defense, it has extremely fast speed. It was as if every time he launched an attack with his sword, the attack actually only touched the gust of wind while the target had already shifted to another spot.

Besides that, its attack was not weak. In each attack, its power is doubled in the next attack. If this is left continue, he might lose himself. He had to think of an idea to lock in the movement of that wolf. But how?

Strictly speaking, his ability is an attack-type, not a crowd control-type. This is simply beyond his capabilities. Suddenly he regretted that he had brazenly come to face this monster alone. If only he teamed up with other available Asterisk beforehand...

Really, because of his own arrogance.

Nevertheless, regret alone won't help him overcome this crisis anyway. He grips his sword tightly as he was ready to confront the wolf's next attack. Since he could not predict which direction the wolf's attack would come from, he closed his eyes to concentrate-- felt the sound of the wind fluttering, the movement of the grass and then tried to calculate it from where it would appear.

"Behind!"

He slammed his body around while waving his sword rotate horizontally in swiftly which produced the light of a slash of the sword.

Sadly again, it turns out he guessed wrong. The gusts of wind which he slashed made his hair stand up on the back of his neck as he makes another guess and turns it correctly...

"Crap, above!"

He immediately looked up with a grave face. The wolf savegely launces attack at him with its sharp claws from above. Meantime the guy completely caught off guard as he had no time to block its abrupt attack, then he closed his eyes as he lamented his own final fate.

However...

SLASH!

Behind his closed eyes, he heard the sound of the swift cut and the wailing of the wolf that only lasted for a second, "Eh?..." he's not dead yet?

Since he wasn't dead, he decided to open his eyes slowly. After he completely opened it, he saw the wolf's body lying on the ground with its head separated away from its body parts as blood splattered throughout the ground.

"Wha-, what happened?"

"..."

"Am I subconsciously killing this monster?" Do I actually have another hidden power? thinking about that made him laugh with full of satisfaction at his own greatness, "Hahaha, I am the strongest!"

Jane and Detector No. 20 who are hiding behind bushes: "..." that dude is hopeless!

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Isla = The magic world she transmigrated in her previous life