Ring Doppelgänger-2

FUCK!

…FUCK!

Ok, ok. This was… this was just a little incentive for me to make something of this world. It's not like Nazarick was going to appear on my doorstep tomorrow.

…mostly because I had no house, therefore no door, therefore no doorstep.

Doesn't matter. I was now in a world full of morons who would literally sabotage themselves in saving the world while only one dude actually did anything useful and that was a guy who had been just too angry to die.

And the message said that Nazarick would arrive here after the waves end. So I probably had a lot of time. Enough time to make something out of this world in order to go against Nazarick.

And I would have to go against them since even if I somehow befriended Momonga somehow it would take only one misunderstood comment from him and Demiurge would try to find many different ways to kill me. I would not be safe in a world with Demiurge, and most of the other Nazarick NPCs, and Momonga would never get rid of the damn demon because he was created by his friend.

So, no, peace would never be an option.

Fortunately this was an isekai world with heroes so there should be some form of power up that would allow the denizens of the world to become OP, not to mention I had a legendary weapon that is supposed to make me a hero as well, even if I had never heard of a Ring Hero.

Though I am kinda surprised that the Ring didn't cause any... less than pleasant effects. I thought that legendary weapons were supposed to cause averse effects when one tried to use anything else. Yet even with many other rings o my fingers, nothing happened.

Guess sometimes nice things happen too.

Anyway, gotta go learn about the current climate of the country.

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Whelp, it was as the message had said, the heroes were summoned a week ago which means that Naofumi already has been accused of raping his team mate and is seen as an outcast that is left alive only for the waves.

The other three heroes were out of the town, getting experience in order to raise their level and starting their own legends.

I on the other hand was walking around, trying to have a rough idea where Naofumi was. It wasn't for anything malicious, the opposite actually, I wanted to make a good impression on Naofumi and have him on my side if anything happened.

Why was I doing that? Cause having the support of a cardinal hero couldn't be not helpful and Naofumi was, even with his current status as a framed man, the most competent hero among the four. Which would have been far more impressive of the other three heroes weren't straight up incompetent.

Fortunately in a fantasy world like this, my default form did not get too many stares. Only a few due to the quality of my robes.

It took me a while but I finally found Naofumi in the edge of the forest just outside of the town. Smart, he was far enough from people that they didn't make too much problem for him but close enough that he could retreat into it in case some monster that he can't defeat as he was now appeared. He even had his cute little raccoon slave Raphtalia with him and was trying to have her kill what appeared to be rabbits that have eaten enough to look like a volleyball. There was only one problem though.

They were being watched.

Worse than that, they were being watched by three different groups. I knew that two of them should be the shadows, assassin slash spy network, controlled by the queen and the church respectively but I had no idea who the third group was.

They hadn't noticed me, too focused on the man who was likely their target. One could even call it a rookie mistake.

The smart thing to do now would be to retreat and try to make contact with Naofumi when he was away from these people.

I had a better idea though.

My flesh started to twist and turn, transforming into a different shape all the while swallowing even my clothes. When the transformation was complete, my rich and high class magician robe was gone and replaced by black cloth that covered every inch of my body. My arms and legs had black colored high class armor and finally my face was hidden behind a white Oni mask with red horns.

One of my many different forms, ninja. A human that used each and every one of his hundred levels in order to become one with the shadows themselves. A perfect rogue.

None of the shadows who were spying on Naofumi got even chance to scream. Before they could realize what was happening I was behind them and had sliced their necks with my katana, Yūto. It was a divine class item that allowed one to deal triple damage when attacking an enemy from behind, quintuple when it hit a fatal area. But it had a far more important ability now that it was real rather than a game.

Yūto was a blade made out of hundreds of ghost which allowed into cut the enemy without making noise and touch enemies that are intangible, but when it cut someone, it left no marks. It phased through their body and left all the damage inside their body. Which meant even though I had slashed their necks, the heads of the shadows were still attached to their body as they fell down, dead.

It was honestly somewhat disappointing. Sure I was a fucking level hundred assassin when I murdered them but none of them realized that something was wrong until they died. Guess this was how Momonga had felt when he was dealing with the people of the new world.

After checking whether there were anyone else around watching, I turned back into my default form and walked up to Naofumi and Raphtalia, purposely stepping on every small branch in my way in order to alert them to my presence. Which was why Naofumi was glaring at me with his shield ready to take any attack and his hand gripping at his cloak while Raphtalia just looked scared with the knife in her hand.

"Hello there, nice weather isn't it?"