End of the blue rose

Mike eventually managed to wear a shirt without ripping it to pieces with his newfound horns

'How cool and convenient would it be if I could grow them out whenever I wanted..?'

Mike gave a sigh, he knew such things were limited to fantasy and tush quickly purged the thought about it there were also other things that required his attention, first of which being the trembling ball of fear in front of him

"So… What should we do with you?"

The commander of what had been the 3rd elite knights of the south trembled slightly when Mike spoke to her, she was kneeling in front of him with her head lowered down deeply, Mike gave a sigh and kneeled down before he lifted her chin, then as he looked into her eyes he began speaking

"You know I have a skill just for this… It's called [Drink] and it allows me to drain the blood of any and all people, animals, and monsters I or my knife has touched…"

Mike drew the knife out and made a long, shallow cut on the cheek of the knight commanders, she looked at the knife and noticed that the blood that touched the knife was absorbed into the blade, almost like it was drinking her blood

"That should be enough…"

Mike drew the knife back, then he gave a smile and patted her on the side of the face, the side without the cut as he spoke in a light tone

"Now I can kill you if you run away, but you won't do that will you?"

She quickly shook her head before she lowered it again, Mike gave a sigh and stood back up and looked around the encampment and saw Elina still kneeling on the ground a little away so Mike called out

"Rebecca you there?"

"Right here master!"

Mike looked to his side and saw Rebecca leaving the same tent Mike had just left and paused before he spoke

"No more going to invisible around me Rebecca"

Rebecca kneeled down and spoke with the utmost respect

"Yes master"

'Knew it…'

Mike didn't want to know what Rebecca was doing invisible in the tent he was unconscious for 12 hours in a tent, in fact, he didn't want to think about it at all so he didn't, instead, he ordered the two servants

"Alright let's head back to Ulum, we have a bitch to skin"

Mike, Rebecca, Elina, and the knight commander walked through the streets of Ulum at every turn people kneeled down to Elina and Rebecca, at least the ones that recognized the ambient mana that swirled around them and how abundant it was… Anyways Mike walked in front with the bone of his new horns glowing faintly red as a confident smile shone on his face when they reached the center of the city the blue rose was standing in front of the lord's mansion with a dreadful look on her face as she looked at Mike approaching, next to her stood her generals with hard looks on their faces, at this moment they knew that had fucked up, they were all in the room when Mike said: You are going to regret this.

Mike walked right up to the blue rose to stop a mere 50 centimeters from her face as his smile shone ever brighter as he asked

"How do you feel now, bitch?"

The blue rose gave a frown before she looked towards Elina and asked

"Venerable lady does this… Clown speak for you?"

Elina narrowed her eyes slightly and was about to snuff the annoying woman out of existence Mike raised his hand and spoke with his ever confident smile

"I would be careful how you speak to my servant"

The light in the eyes of the blue rose dimmed when she saw that Elina didn't refuse him and even showed a proud smile as if she was proud of being Mike's servant

"Well I want my companions first"

The blue rose gave a wave and then a group of soldiers showed up behind her escorting the two newest servants, Daisy and Snow, Daisy called out excitedly when she saw Mike

"Boss!"

Both Elina and Rebecca gave a frown when they heard Daisy speak but Mike once again raised his hand before he slowly lowered it again and walked over in front of one of the generals and poked him on the nose saying 'boob' before he drew the sword he was caring on his hip and swung it around a few times before he loosely threw it on the ground in front of the blue rose

"What do you want me to do with that?"

Mike gave a smile

"Well first I wanted you to kill yourself but then I got a better idea…"

Mike showed a wide smile

"I want you… To skin yourself"

Sure there were hiccups along the way, firstly the generals tried to stop Mike and his grand idea but they were swiftly… Shall we say… Well executed is probably the best word for it, or whatever you would call having your spine removed from their bodies while they were still breathing… Anyways where were we? Oh right, the hiccups…. Number two: She tried to kill herself once she was done with her right arm, that was swiftly solved by removing her left arm and then swiftly removing her skinned right arm before stopping the bleeding then Elina volunteered to continue the job, but got too excited and was replaced by Rebecca that then also got too excited by the smell of blood and was thus replaced by Snow that wasn't a blood zombie and thus carried out her duties faithfully, it's only that the blue rose died from shock when Snow was about done with her upper body, but Mike was amused by the project and thus the project continued before it was completed about much sweat and tears (Mostly the blue rose's) before her armless, skinless body was hoisted up above the south gate, Mike mumbled something about an armless legless faceless turd, blowing in the wind when he saw it as a smile formed on his face before the group mounted horses and set off towards the south…

About a week later the group arrived in the southern noble's capital, the city of Arcfast that now was the capital of all of Kely ever since the news got out that the blue rose had offended not only one but two level 5's. As for the reason, this was such a big deal is that the whole civil war started was that the previous ruler of Kely, a level 5 dude named Kelvin died without leaving an heir

"Now… lead the way dear Gelleia, as for the two of you keep your mana calm no matter what happens"

Elina was quick to speak up when she heard Mike's command

"But master if something happened we would be unable to shield you perfectly from harm"

Mike gave a slight smile before he asked

"What is the highest level on this island?"

Elina paused for a moment before she replied

"4"

"And what is my level?"

"...4"

"So you are suggesting that I am weaker than people that are the same level as me?"

"No master"

"Good, then is there a problem?"

"...No master"

Mike saw how depressed Elina looked and gave a sigh before he ruffled her hair with a smile on his face

"Don't worry Elina, believe in you master"

Elina blushed slightly as she lowered her head and spoke in a bright tone

"Yes master!"

Gelleia watched as Mike treated a level 5 like some disobedient child and most surprisingly the venerable lady seemed like some teenage girl that had just met her idol, Gelleia was simply unable to fathom what Mike had done to earn such loyalty from not one, but two level 5's, in fact she would kill to know what kind of spell he had them under

'Maybe it's love..?'

Gelleia shook her head, that was impossible, no person would love a person lower level than themself, at least that what she had been taught when she started executing criminals at age five and even now she firmly believed that she was a chosen one, one destined to stand above to masses and bask in the glory that was her birthright as the first daughter of the prestigious house Gelvin

'And yet here I am as some sort of servant following orders of a mere level 4 non-human with horns…'

If not for the fact that the past week had changed her mentality from what it had been she would have long since suffered a mental breakdown, or maybe she already had? She was not quite sure herself, one thing she knew for sure was not to agonize the man in front of him from what she had heard from their chats over the past week of traveling was that the two level 5's were a special kind of zombie and thus were semi-immortal… After all what would be scarier than a level 5? Well that's simple, a level 5 that would just get angrier if you managed to kill them