Chapter 68
In the end I managed to sell her some magic scrolls, she took 2 of each to test them and according to the system each one is worth 200 lien so she easily take the deal and according to her, she will be showing them to her partner, I'm sure no one would suspect a piece of paper, so I hope Roman becomes a regular customer.
So the only problem will be when Cinder and therefore Salem find out, I'll have to prepare anti-immortal weapons... I wonder if god slaying weapons will work? No matter what it is even if I can't kill it easily I can capture it, besides the Grimm are really interesting, as soon as I have time I'll have to investigate them
Anyway, there is a catch here. Since according to the data that the girls gathered from the next world that I want go, it is a modern world where from time to time a certain incident known as Space Earthquake appears... and according to their story books some decades ago something called Eurasian Sky Disaster occurred....
So Once is chance, Twice is coincidence, Third time's it's enemy action... the only problem here is by who...
Clearly the chat system is up to something, the fact that it has not communicated with me in the last few days is proof enough, besides that with my system I can see more or less what it does, but even so that system should not affect mine.
And even if it affected it, what would it gain by giving me access to those worlds, it really is a very redundant way of doing things, although rather these actions seem to want to help me... does my system also have a conscience...?
[-Assassin Guild Loki: My lord we found Sakray, he is currently fighting in Garibard Square in the southern part of Prontera, he is fighting a red haired Rune Knight, orders?-] → (This message is supposed to be sent to the Assassin Guild Chat and yes that is the actual name.)
'This reminds me more and more of when I was at the front... I can't finish solving a problem without another showing up...'
[Leonhard: Loki distract him I'm on my way if you can kill him do it, to all the members in Prontera make sure to follow Sakray's movements, we must not let him escape again.]
[-Members: Yes Master-]
I get up and prepare to go back to Ragnarok as I see the multiples responses of the members of the Assassin Guild in Prontera... I wanted to see if that world really was Kurumi's but I don't have time, duty always calls...
I quickly appear on the outskirts of Prontera, in my mansion, so I quickly run towards the capital, I try to cross the gate but I am stopped by the guards, from here I can see there is a fierce fight to the south of the city, so I can only leave to the guards behind and quickly go there. But at the moment of my arrival everything was over.
'Tsk... he escaped again, luckily I have the city locked down, so I don't think he can escape the city without us noticing... all because of those guards who stopped me at the gates...' In the place there is only rubble and damage to the buildings, although I can also see several injured people.
'So this person was able to fight against Sakray on an equal foot... What...? Wait a minute, I clearly remember that this guy was level 95 and his name was Chaos, why the hell is he now level 140 and his name is Chaos (Baldr)?'
Chaos is badly injured and his companions come to help him, apparently he received a Soul Breaker from Loki to defend a girl who crossed paths in battle...
"That symbol on your garment... it means 'Rain' but it also means much more... A sing of the Ancient Dragon Knights." Loki speaks, looking at Chaos who I can see is confused but I can feel his body tense upon hearing this... but does that mean that there are Dragon Knights in Midgard?
"The Dragon Knights... The most dedicated, skilled warriors of Midgard! Some day they were trained by Odin himself! They existed several hundreds of years ago, learned techniques now lost! The symbol on Chaos shirt means that he somehow has a connection to them!" The warlock named Fenris begins to explain to the other girl named Irine.
Loki discovers my presence, although in a very intelligent way he doesn't show any reaction towards me, for his part Chaos finally reacts... he really doesn't seem very hurt and both women completely relax when they see him safe and hugs him, so the boy already has his own harem...
"HATL! NO ONES MOVES! By the authority of the Kingdom of Rune-Midgarts, you are all under arrest! Surrender Now!!" And as usual the guards and knights of Prontera are late to save the day...
I can see how Chaos and his small group tense up when the guards arrive and quickly start arguing with them, Loki for his part uses a Meteor Assault and quickly escapes, surprising all the guards.
"GUARDS! SEIZEN THEM!!" The commander of this group orders and quickly we are surrounded, they even surround me and are pointing theirs spears at me...
"Hold it right there! I don-t want to fight you, but I will if I have to!" Chaos says as he stands with his sword ready to defend himself.
I can't help but hit my hand to my face, what the hell is this idiot thinking, or most likely he has no idea how to get out of this, clearly these guards are doing their job, and although we are surrounded and being pointed at with weapons, none of them they really threatening us.
"WHAT? Put that sword down! You're one man against mane, SURRENDER!" The commander yells again, and looking at him... I think he's a Crusader with the armor he's wearing...
"Surrender... SURRENDER!? We've done nothing wrong! But since you won't hear any sense... come and get me if you like!!" Sigh... well what could I expect, he's a young man and he have enough power to boot so he really makes idiotic decisions most of the time...
"Stop boy! You didn't do anything wrong, but if you fight now you'll end up being the villain! These men are only doing their duty, they don't understand what really happened here, so control yourself!" I quickly talk and try to convince him to stop.
"So...? Are you saying we should just surrender? And who you are calling boy!?" Wow I'm really surprised, I can clearly feel that he's furious but he's still analyzing the situation without getting lost in his hatred... he really is an strong person.
"Pay attention to him Chaos, we need to avoid unnecessary trouble, besides we didn't kill anyone, the truth will come out." Quickly the Warlock Fenris tries to stop him too at the end I see how he clearly controls his anger and ends up lowering his sword and raising his hands.
Once he does, the commander relaxes and lowers his sword too and they proceed to arrest us. I try to show my status and it really paid off, since I didn't get arrested like the rest and instead I started to help them... it's a pity that I couldn't help others, but I'll be meeting with some people who can help them....
Or at least that I was thinking while I went with them to the castle I met Seyren again, so I talked a little with him and he frankly told me about the King, apparently he is convinced that I do something to embarrassed him with the girls, and if I try to help these people it will be worse since he still want to get rid of me for that.
Although it is not only that, apparently some nobles are supporting the King in his idea increasing their resentment towards me or those who oppose him, of course nothing has happened yet but on more than one occasion the King has been seen looking carefully at several people...
And it also seems that the King is the one who will carry out the trial, so the best I can do is wait until tomorrow and don't appear in the line of sight of the King... In addition, he told me about how whispers began to be heard at court about the apparent madness of the King.
Apparently there is something called the Curse of Gaebolg that has affected this family since many generations and everyone is afraid that the same thing will happen again, and more with Schmitz Von Walter as example, so he asked me for now not to agitate the King, in the end I thank him for his help and I start to think what to do...
For my part clearly that sounds like a plan of some demonic cult to destabilize the Kingdom, so surely the ancient kings were fed something to cause this, or it could be something that is found in the lands of the Gaebolg since only they were affected, since it only affects the members of this family, even the wives or husbands who come from outside the family, nothing happens to them...
Since I have nothing to do and I actually already have a way to help the girls, I simply proceed to delete the chat system... I didn't have a big problem, the system realized and begged for its life, so once I was able to delete the central chat system I started to review what it was actually doing.
'I see it was trying to manipulate all the members of the chat and thanks to the poor mental state of Kurumi she was easily able to 'control her'. After that, It use Kurumi to control Kuroka and Pyrrha, causing them to create problems for me, although in reality I already knew it, I only had to act to discover the mastermind, although as I thought it was the system... '
So now I proceed to delete the 'modifications' of the system. It's turning out to be a bit more complicated, It created a lot of crap in the last few days and I really want to keep some things it created so I have to delete it 'manually' this will take a while.... ... ........ ...... ..... and after 5 hours I finally managed to delete the system...
"To think that the bastard really managed to affect me too..." I really underestimated it, I thought that with [Gamer's Mind] it wouldn't be affected in any way...
In my case it was not manipulation itself, it only increased my suspicions and caution, that is it, so now that I was finally able to 'free' my mind, I really begin to question many of my old decisions, like why the hell did I not change the job of all the girls when I could? Even if the King is investigating them, they only have to use their skills and clothes from their job and they would never realize.
Why did I have to create an organization and try to help people in Skyrim? I just needed recognition and then act from the shadows, since when am I a decent person? Besides why I didn't act as soon as I noticed that Kuroka was manipulating people against me? What could I gain by waiting to find out who was the culprit?
He was really controlling me, taking advantage of my caution to try to take control of me, the fact that he couldn't was that I didn't trust it either so it constantly monitored what it was doing, calculating each step and each movement so as not to attract attention... sigh...
'I'm really stupid and this also shows me, I am depending too much on the system, since I learned magic theory with Kirkena and Ruri I stopped practicing it, I also stopped training daily as before, thinking that with Gamer's Body I shouldn't worry about my body is always at its best...'
*Jingle* *Jingle*
'I hear the door bell and look up, 3 guys with Asian features come in, well I can take something to distract myself....' when I get up to serve people I hear a small yelp next to me, I turn around and see Victoria Selvig who apparently got scared when she saw me...
"Boss I almost had a heart attack! If it's here at least tell us so we know." Now that I see it, I'm really in a somewhat hidden place in the store, so unless you're in front of me, you wouldn't notice me... even though it really scares her so much that she even has tears in her eyes?
"Sorry, I was thinking several things so I didn't pay attention to my surroundings. Welcome! How can I help you?" The boys approach and I see their names above their heads... and that I just said that I should not depend on the system... apparently I developed a very bad habit....
"We saw that a new store open and..."
"Hey look at that!" However, before the boy finished speaking, another of his friends pulls him and points to the Master Chief's poster.
"WOW! I had never seen this character! Look here there is another!" Well if their names give them away these guys are Korean so they really love video games.
"If you like, here is the video game catalog, I have it for various consoles or even PCs, if you need help, don't hesitate to ask me or Victoria..." And Korean boys.exe failed, the reactions they have when they see the girls never stop amusing me...
'I wonder how they would react if they saw the girls in Skyrim, that sometimes [Gamer's Mind] activates when I'm in their presence. They finally reacted and blushed madly, hahaha finally something calm where nothing could go.... I raised the flag or am I safe?' I quickly turn to the door but I don't see anything out of the ordinary...
'Ok I'm safe...'
*Jingle* *Jingle*
'For the love of "#$#&' I quickly get ready to act but I see that who now enters is a woman wearing a face mask and cap, she wears very plain clothes only a white shirt and blue jeans but that no matter what these clothes can't totally hide her good figure...
So far I don't see anything dangerous only someone suspicious but the girl enters and begins to look at the store, seeing the weapons section next to the counter and quickly goes there, although before arriving she covers her nose, turning to see to where we are...
'That reminds me... when was the last time I took a bath? 1 or 2 months ago....? No... I think it was before that?' As I start to really worry about my lack of healthy habits the girl stands still for a few seconds before speaking.
"Leonhard-ssi? Ah sorry." The young woman gets a little nervous and begins to move her hands from one side to the other without knowing what to do...
"Cha Hae-In, welcome, sorry for the inconvenience, I just got back from fighting and I must really stink, give me a few minutes and while you wait you can see what catches your attention." Alright, I really have to find out if my system has consciousness or not, this is already ridiculous.