Chapter 17

Maika and Sal were gone, and along with them was my left gauntlet. I put all my knowledge in making that gauntlet and now it was gone, thankfully it was only made out of silver and copper.

I start to slowly advance towards Lukas, but he starts backing away bawling his eyes out, yelling at me to not get closer.

"Lukas! my bro! my bestest of friends! why are you afraid?" I say showing my palms to him in a sign of peace. I continue to advance with a innocent smile plastered on my face.

"Back Away! Don't come any closer!" he continues to yell, whilst casting his quickest spells. yet they do no damage.

"Lukas, what's wrong? don't you remember that one time when you told me about the spatial storage? we talked so much, it was almost like we were childhood friends." I keep smiling as I get closer.

"WHAT FRIENDS!?! You killed my only friends! GET AWAY!" he continues with his hysterics.

"C'mon Luke, L bro, mah man Lukas. you saw that they attacked me first right? they attacked your friend yet you call them friends? c'mon man that's not nice. I'm starting to feel sad."

I say as I'v already gotten so close that we are almost touching.

The giant of a man crying his eyes out whilst chanting as many spells as he can, as I stand in front of him.

Suddenly an orb of fire appears between us, and Lukas looks me in the eyes. Only two words escape his mouth.

"Fu** off" the next second the orb explodes with so much strength that the nearby trees start to tear out of the ground. I might be immune to damage but I am not immune to being knocked back.

I fly back into the crater I had made, The ground gets dug through where I land, leaving a line leading to my body.I stand up and start walking back to where me and Lukas stood.

When I got back Lukas was no more, only splatters of brunt blood and flesh.

"Sly c**t." I say with a smile still on my face. but this time the smile was miles away from being innocent. it was a smile of a crazed psychopath.

I look to my side, at the notification that appeared right after Maika's and Sal's deaths.

「Congratulations You have created a Skill」

「What would you like to call this Skill」

[black hole]

「Name:Black Hole. Skill type:Magical. Mana consumption:1000」

"Now, where did my best friend Zack go to?" I went towards our camp, and there I saw him.

He had all of his stuff packed up, and he also had some other bags with him that I don't remember being his.

The Foxkin's tail was curled up between his legs, and when he sensed my presence I could see goosebumps appear and made his fur stand up.

"Zack my friend! why didn't you help me fight those bandits that we called teammates, when they attacked me. I didn't even do anything hostile, I didn't even fight back at first. You saw that right?" I call out to him. he looks back with a stiff face and eyes that lacked any joy of seeing his friend that was about to get killed by bandits... such a lack of care for your friends well-being.

"Listen man I saw nothing okay? I don't know you, you don't know me. I quit being an adventurer okay? here, give my resignation to the guild" he hands me his guild card, which releases a quick silver light and then red letters appear next to the Rank.

「Zack Stroffilel」

「Rank:Retired Job:Rogue」

"Here man have all the stuff. just let me leave, please." He begs me.

"Don't worry man I would never harm my friends" I smile

"You can take the money and everything, just leave the high tier equipment and metals, and you can go your way." I tell him with a smile. he quickly moves from one bag to another looking for any metals and equipment, but only low tier equipment is left behind that was supposed to be used as backups. the only metals that were at the camp was the loot from the Copperbacks.

I bid farewell to my friend Zack as he leaves, but I get a little sad seeing him leave without even waving back. but what can you do, they grow up so fast.

I quickly put all my loot in my inventory, and start heading back to town whilst making up the most tear-jerker story one could think of.