Skills test plot (5) Saving Stella part 4 (Warning: dark/mature content)

I held my breath as I tried to think of a plan. My head being blank, was the worst thing that could've happened to me right now. As the guards reached us on both sides, my companion from beside me shifted a little to the left and placed a hand on my shoulder. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow and he gave me a quick smile before turning back to the expression he had before.

The guards surrounded us like prey, cornered and ready to embrace our fates.

"Guard, why are you out of position. You have your orders. No one is to be let out of their rooms tonight." The man talking must've been the captain or the supervisor because he came from behind us, the direction of my room.

"The otherworldling wanted to go to the bathroom and I'm escorting him there."

"That was not your order and besides, doesn't he have a chamber pot under his bed?" Questioned the presumed captain as he raised an eyebrow.

"He wants to go and take a shit, sir."

As he said that I clenched my butt and acted as if I was on the verge of shitting my pants. Funny enough, by me doing that, my butt let out a small hiss and a strong smell came out. Thank the gods that I ate that delicious pork, now the contents in my stomach wanted to be let out. It was a curse disguised as a blessing because now I wanted to go to the toilet. I just hoped I don't have diarrhea...

The guards smelt the stench of the digested pork turning in my stomach in which wafted the air in a powerful plume of stench from my buttocks. The smell must've made a sour taste in his mouth because he started to retch.

"Take him to the shit house now! I don't want him to stink up the whole castle. The king will have me if he found out about this." The presumed captain was covering his nose as he pointed my companion down the hallway where I presumed was where the outhouse is.

My companion pulled me along as we tried to scoot passed the guards but we didn't have to because they quickly moved out of the way with their hands covering their noses.

I ran down the hallway but felt a sharp pain in my stomach and my sweat was cool to the touch as I wiped it from my forehead... oh no it's diarrhea. We ran to the toilet as fast as we could because every step I took was one step closer to me shitting my pants. We finally got to the toilet where I squatted down and let it all out.

After I felt a bit better, my companion led me to the prince's quarters on the far right side of the west wing, the complete opposite of the side we were at. We ran as fast as we could down the labyrinth of hallways. After a lot of running and searching, we finally made our way to the western wing.

As we approached the prince's quarter, the place was flooded with guards, way too much to be normal. It was a heavily guarded place with no where to sneak in. I had to think of something and that was when an image popped up in front of me from inside the prince's room, I could tell it's the prince's room because there was a self portrait of him hanging right over his bed back wall.

I looked around the image and finally spotted where the prince was.

The prince was sitting on a chair doing something obscene... he was jerking himself off.

What the fuck? The image expanded and I could finally see his whole room. I instantly froze.

Stella was on the far side of the wall, fully clothed but battered and bruised. She was facing him, watching him with a disgusted face. The prince was grinning at her and loving the moment... he was about to blow. I needed to act quick before the prince decided to do something more.

I remembered as we ran down the hall we came from, there was a suit of armor displayed at the entrance way. We ran back down to the entrance way and found the suit of amour and without hesitation, the guard took off each amour pieces from the rack that held it up and helped me put it on. Interestingly enough, even though he was full aware of everything, he did not question any of my actions. He was complicit with everything I told him to do and even helped me on his own accord.

Is he completely under my control? He seems to act normal and talk like the always does but now he's listening to every word I say. He even lied to his captain for me... Just what in the world is this Ultimate skill? Full mind control? That's fucking op...

A moment later I was dressed in a mildly heavy suit of amour. We then walked at a fast pace back towards the quarter where some guards that patrolled the perimeters of the prince's quarters, stopped us.

"No one is allowed in the prince's quarter. He is busy at the moment."

My companion apparently thought of something because he started to speak.

"This here is Almos, a duke of Yoris. The king had given me orders to escort him to the prince as a personal guard."

He was doing a fine job at make all this up on the fly but the guards were skeptical. We were on a time crunch as I was covered in beads of sweat in the helmet. I looked at the footage still displayed in front of me and noticed that the prince was still sitting on the chair, his crotch area covered in white. Stella was standing still but her hands that are bound behind her was moving. I could tell she was trying to loosen the restraints they had put on her.

Suddenly, the prince got up and moved a bit closer to her. Stella tried to move back but ended up pressed against the wall. I felt my heart raced as the prince moved ever so slowly towards her like a predator teasing his prey, Stella was trapped in the lion's den.

{Partial 'Mastermind skill' unlocked}

{Partial 'Mastermind skill' activated (Mass converter)}

I felt something stir inside of me, controlling me. White chains shot out of my body and into every guard's mind. The guards looked confused at what was happening as the chains continued to enter their minds. White lighting coursed through the chains, it felt like I was doing a session of electro acupuncture. After a while the guards' eyes finally glowed white. The guards knelt before me along with the guard I converted earlier.

{Ultimate is now on cool down. (5:00)}

[Congratulations: You've now obtained the Royal knight's Order. (Type: Royal Elite Knights)]

The knights parted way for me to enter the room. I opened the door and saw the prince pressed against Stella who was doing all she could to not look at him. Her shirt was ripped, exposing her bra and tears ran down her cheeks. She was a few seconds away from losing something important to her and that fueled my rage. I saw red as I shouted at the prince.

"Stop right there! Don't you dare do anything else or I will cut you down right now." The words vibrated as I spoked through the helmet, the words echoed loudly in my helmet and in the room. I didn't stop there, my mind raced as my mouth spouted out the first things that came to mind, hoping he would take notice, hoping he would stop... and he did.

"Who allowed you to come barging in here! I thought I told the guards to not let anyone in! Guards! Come in here right now!" He was shouting in anger but no one came. He straighten his back from Stella as he turned to face me. Stella was also looking from her position, tears still streaming down her cheeks. She looked terrified, probably about what was going on and would this person who just came in, was going to help her. If she thought I was going to help her then she would've thought right.

"They won't be coming in." I stated.

"What do you want? I got everything, I can give you anything." He then looked at Stella behind him and said, "I can give you her. You want her?"

My blood boiled when he used Stella as a bargaining chip. I drew the sword from the sheath around my waist and held it in front of me.

"Oh come on man. Can't you see I have my cock out and I don't even have a weapon."

"Is that my problem? There is no fairness to those who takes advantage of others. Prince Marlos, you have breathed your last breath. Prepare to die."

I came at him with a full swing of the blade but before I could reached him, a blast from his hand sent me flying. I landed a few feet away on my back, I wanted to get up but my lungs burned from the sheer force of the impact. I groaned through the pain as I tried to use the sword as a crutch to life me up. I gasped a full lung of air as I hunched onto my sword.

"Weakling. Was that the best you got? You have no experience in battle." He walked over to his bed and pulled out a sword from a sheath that was hanging onto the bed post. He held his sword like a play thing. He wasn't taking this seriously. He wasn't taking me seriously and hopefully that would be his down fall. I lifted myself up to a stance once more with my sword held in front of me.

"Come." He egged me on.

I charged forward once more but this time I was ready for his counterattack but what I didn't expect was him parrying me. We clashed swords, his skill was by far superior and I felt every hit as our blades clashed against each other. It felt like my arms would rip right off from the shear force of his swings. I swung my blade sloppily in which tired my arms out too. I was running out of gas as I kept swinging at him, he of course was bored and wasn't even tired. I decided then to use my master eye's skill in hopes to find a weakness.

When I activated it, the room spun as I felt my head wanting to explode. I staggered back a little to help keep my balance and the prince laughed.

"What's wrong with you. Do you have a screw loose or something? No matter, I'll end you right now so I can enjoy this lovely play thing's body over your corpse."

I felt my eye's lit up as golden spots appeared on the prince's body. I felt my body jolt as I charged at him once more, this time aiming for the golden spots on his body. Every time I aimed for the golden spot, he would parry me. This wasn't going to work and soon I'll lose all of my energy and after that everything would be over. I needed to do something... anything to land a hit and then it hit me, a risky plan, a risky move that may secure me the win. With the remaining strength I have left, I charged at him once more but this time when he tried to parry or go for an attack, it would be my counter attack.

The prince lunge at me with a forward strike and that was when I made my move. I grabbed his blade as it plunged into me, shattering my amour and into my flesh but that allowed me to strike him too as I too plunged my blade into him. Both of us held onto the hilt of our swords as blood spluttered out and dripped down.

{Partial 'Mastermind skill' unlocked}

{Partial 'Mastermind skill' activated (Absolute Converter)}

This time red chains shot from me into the Prince's mind. Red lighting coursed through the chain into his head, his eyes glowed red as a mark formed on his chest. Red armor formed on him, encasing him. He knelt before me as a knight who's ready to serve.

[Congratulations: You've now obtained Royal Knight Captain (Type: Royalty)]

I rushed over to Stella who had been knocked unconscious during the battle. I used helping hand to heal her and then used it to heal Marlos too. Then I removed the gauntlet I was wearing and placed my hand on her cheek. She laid there sleeping and I let out a sigh of relief, thankful that I've made it in time. I thought it was over but then Stella started screaming. She wasn't awake but she screamed loudly as tears fell down her face once more. She's having night terrors. I scooped Stella up into my arms and held her. Her screaming kept going as she screamed into my amour.

[Warning: Stella's mind is unstable]

What?

[Past life memories overlapping]

Oh no. I held her closer as she screamed her heart out. She's reliving not only this nightmare but the one in her past life as well.

[Extraction possible, would you like to transfer the memories to a new host? YES/NO]

Without hesitation I answered, yes.

{Transferring memories (1%)}

Stella stopped screaming and went limp in my arms. I was about to check on her when flashes of images barraged me. I clutched my head as I let out a loud ear piecing moan. I curled myself into a fetal position as I lost it. I screamed and screamed as I felt the horror unfold in my mind, what Stella went through in her past life. Her rape, her torturous murder. I felt my skin itch, pain in various parts of my body... wanting to die.

{Transferring memories (75%)}

I smashed my fists into the ground, pounding on the ground over and over again in hopes to suppress the pain. I chocked on my own saliva as my body went numb. I didn't feel pain anymore, I didn't feel anything really...

{Transferring complete}

{Deleting memories has started}

I felt a part of my mind being erased, as if something was supposed to be there but now was missing. I let out a small groan as I crawled over to Stella and held her in my arms once more. I leaned onto the wall as I pressed her body into mine. I took off the amour breastplate and saw a pool of blood leaking out of my wound as I laid Stella's head on my chest. I might just end up dying tonight but one thing was for sure, Stella was safe.

[System update: 1/2 Students saved. Timer 73:24:45 remaining.]

As the update appeared, tears rolled down my cheeks. I felt my chest lighten a bit as I felt Stella's warmth radiating onto me. Her breathing was steady as she slept. I leaned my head up onto the cold hard wall behind me and closed my eyes, tears still flowing down. The realization of Stella being safe had finally came and I broke. I cried my heart out.

Stella was alive, I've saved her.