9 The Beginning (2)
(MC's POV)
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『Fate Plus』 [-]
[First Fate Quest – The Beginning]
Description: Starting anew at the beginning of your adventure within this new world, you must take the first step in your journey to the top.
Objective:
1- [First Blood: Get your first kill]
2- [Encounter: Make your first encounter with the supernatural side]
3- [Tainted Blood: Kill someone hostile of the supernatural side]
4- [Unexpected: Individuals who seek to attack and take over this mansion have suddenly appeared. Either escape from this place or eliminate the intruders]
Rewards: 5 SPs and ???
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So this is why I felt this sense of urgency all day, I've barely been in this world for 4 days and I have to deal with this.
I smile wryly at the cruelty of this world; the silver lining here is that I'm not forced to confront them if I don't want to since there's nothing like a penalty for abandoning a quest, but I don't I think I can live with myself if I just up and left my new family member to die.
So, I guess I'm sticking around and fighting these intruders. After all, protecting Gramps is one of the main reasons I wanted to get stronger.
I swiftly made my way to my room to change into easy to move in clothes and make a plan of attack, this is my first fight and going into it without a plan is just reckless.
I have some times before they set foot into the mansion ground, plus I also have the element of surprise since I know where they are at all times with my [Detection] while they probably have no idea I'm here.
I can feel they are stronger than me so it's safer if I go all out from the start and catch them by surprise, I might be able to kill them without prolonging the fight.
I looked to my 『Item Box』 and started prepping my gear.
This will be a life and death fight with unknown enemies, I cannot pull any punches unless I want to die early.
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(Third person POV)
At the edge of the forest outside of the wealthy district where all the rich people and celebrities live, it was deathly silent with no human in sight.
Only the lights shining from the lamp post could be seen, it gave this place an eerie feel. It might be a common sight around this part since it is quite away from the city, but this night that feeling is different.
Instead of the eerie feel of loneliness, this night housed a deathly feel like something bad was about to happen.
Breaking this eerie silence, were the sound of a pair of footsteps on the asphalt road. Two figures appearing out of nowhere didn't make the tense, deathly atmosphere go away however; in fact, it only intensified it further.
The reason for that was the aura they both radiated just added more eeriness to the deathly air, able to instantly sink anyone into the pit of dread if they were to be bathed in it.
These two were a pair of man and boy, a tall lean man in his mid-20s and a boy seeming to be of middle school age. Though, this is only in appearance.
"So, which mansion do you think we should take out over, Cortio" The short boy asked the lean man named Cortio in an uncaring tone; to him, this was but a small insignificant matter.
"The bigger the better, since there will be more servants there, and servants means, hehehe" Cortio lustfully grinned and cackled while rubbing his hands together like a BBEG in the DnD campaign or one of those cliché evil mastermind villains.
"Sigh, what a simpleton, always thinking about corrupting girls" The short boy sighed and shook his head helplessly, this guy truly couldn't be compared to him, he thought.
"Whatever you say, Glacc. You're no different from the rest of our kind, you may think of yourself to be different from us, but at the end of the day, you can't stray away from your nature" Cortio snorted and didn't even look at the short boy named Glacc as his eyes glowed before he disappeared from where he once stood, leaving a purple smog.
"We'll see about that" Glacc's eyes turn ice cold along with his expression as he also disappeared from his spot, leaving black icy mist.
The two didn't teleport or anything, they just used their special ability to turn into astral form for a few minutes, which can only be used once a day, let's see if this will backfire on them or not.
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(Third person POV)
With only a bit of scouting around, they determined which one was the biggest mansion among them all. They didn't think much about things and just jumped over the wall surrounding it and landed in a wide grass field.
"*Whistle~*, this place is nice and big, I can't wait to have my fun" Cortio grinned excitedly, he couldn't wait to enjoy himself with some pretty flowers after his abstinence for the last 3 days.
"This place is at least better than any of our other bases" Glacc commented while nodding in satisfaction.
"Come on, let's hurry up! Just standing around and gawking won't make our takeover move any faster" Cortio started to take a step forward but suddenly he felt a sharp pain from one of his knees and quickly jumped back, narrowly avoiding something shooting at his other knee.
"Agh! What the fuck!" He started to observe his surroundings to find whoever attacked him, but he suddenly felt intense pain from the wound he just ignored.
"Ahh!!!!" From behind him, Glacc fell to his knees with black blood leaking from both his kneecaps.
"Tsk, we were ambushed" Cortio gritted his teeth in pain as he used his good leg to dodge another shot aiming for his knee while trying to move towards Glacc.
He can hear the sharp whistle sound when he is about to be attacked so he used that as a warning. He managed to avoid more attacks aiming at him, but the same couldn't be said from Glacc who had multiple holes in his body and was screaming in agony.
'Why the hell do these attacks hurt so much!? Not even light magic can bring our kind such agonizing pain!'
When Cortio got close to Glacc, he grabbed him and started moving further back.
"Quickly make a wall, ya idiot!" He shook Glacc's small body while avoiding the attacks thrown at him, but he suddenly felt great pain shoot up from the heel of his good leg, stopping his movements.
A knife could be seen stuck into his heel, making him bleed black blood.
More whistling sounds echoed out from around them, hastily approaching them from their front, right, and left sides.
"Hah!" Glacc managed to will his bloodied black arm forward as a black mist spread out along with a drop in temperature.
A thick black ice half dome materialized in front of them, blocking the first several attacks with spider web cracks spreading on the point of impact.
The black ice half dome didn't last long though as it shattered to pieces upon the last attack hitting it.
"Make another one!" Cortio gnashed his teeth as he dropped to one of his knees; he finally noticed that the wounds on his knee were growing wider instead of closing.
Glacc once again made another black ice half dome to protect them, before he started plugging his wounds with ice. His misty black aura flared up as it enveloped his small body.
Black ice started to form on his body, making Cortio let go of him and focused more on finding out the cause for their wounds not closing.
The black ice that formed on Glacc's body started to take the shape of a set of armor with horn-like spikes sticking out various parts of his body.
His face and eyes were blank, completely devoid of any emotions. It also seems like he could not feel the pain from those attacks anymore, allowing him to focus fully on finding the enemy or enemies.
Once his armor was fully formed, he began to survey the area to find any signs of life or mana, but he found nothing,
In this form, his senses are greatly enhanced so him not being able to sense anything means their opponents are either great at blending into the surrounding or had already fleet and was out of his range of detection.
He, of course, thought it was the latter option since there was no more attack heading their way so he focused on the foreign energy invading his body. Unlike Cortio, he could feel an external power released from the object they were hit by clashing with their own.
He thought of expelling it by force with his own overwhelming power and the moment he tried, his armor started to show cracks from his overexertion.
He did manage to get most of it out but some still lingered, he was going to get the rest out but his instinct suddenly warned him of danger so he jumped back a great distance from the black ice half dome.
Two objects whistled through the air, shooting through where he was, and swiftly curved towards where he currently is to intercept him. Because he got some time from dodging the first hit, he was able to block it with his black ice gauntlets which cracked a little upon impact.
Now, right before his eyes, there was but a single light flash as a type of Japanese sword stabbed into the head of his teammate. The sword was so sharp it went through the back of Cortio's throat effortlessly; the guy wasn't even able to react before he turned into purple smog and was sucked into the blade of the sword.
The wakizashi glowed in a gloomy purple for a moment before turning pure blue then losing its glow as the person holding it sheathed it into a jet-black sheath that was hidden under his equally jet-black cloak.
Before Glacc could do anything, the person completely vanished from his sight along with his life and mana signature.
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A/N: Happy Valentine's day!
Now that that's out of the way, who wants to join me in this lonely corner for today?
I have cookies and ice cream to ease the pain~
Side note: I'm going to college tomorrow, wish me luck.
