After being scared to the bone, things were finally going in the right direction for once. There seemed to be solution where things could work out well for Silver in all the ways.
"From this day, Silver Ventirose I assign you the work of protecting the northern city from the escaped beasts from the north, who are now prowling at the cities, and town nearby. In order to keep the entire facade a secret among the few."
"I could-" It was a moment directly ripped off from Silver's dreams, given a simple task of hunting beasts to get free cultivation and also learning and forming new connections. He could win people's trust and maybe he could be helped in achieving his goal to save the world.
"No way! You are trying to separate me from my uncle." Sera quickly held Silver's sleeve tightly. "What do you want to do with me when he is gone?"
"You are a brilliantly smart child, Sera. I think even much more than your uncle."
Shaska's eyes pierced into Silver's mind,
" She had me, she had me where she wanted in a second. I was never the main part of this deal, the one Shaska is interest is Sera, not me. All she wants is get me to make Sera work for her."
" I don't think your uncle is a deserving or rather capable guardian. He left you alone for the night in a place you barely know, he refuses to work and asks you to discontinue your lavish life instead of working and making it easier for you to live. Much less, he seems to show any ability of trade or craft..."
The jabs came rapidly, each one precise and accurate. Silver pushed to less words with each incoming statement, he was reminded of this thoughts just moments before...Shaska was correct.
"In any case the work that suits him the work of warrior, who works in the front lines. He will be away from you either way. Then why not choose someone like me, who is much more capable of taking care of you and making you a better warrior."
The grip of Sera's hands on Silver's sleeves was very light from before, she was a smart girl and more than capable of recognising what was best for her. Silver moved his hand to let go Sera's hand... but she suddenly grasped it harder than before.
"How do you know about all this? Were you spying on our every conversation? Are you person who can see everywhere the sunlight falls?"
"..." There was a look of extreme dismay in Shaska's eyes, as if she had learned some eldritch truth, her brains made millions of calculations in hopes of reaching a proper conclusion.
「The system had once again detected some words. Displaying them after translation.」
"Uncle, someone is coming. I sense them right here."
「Displaying Translated words: kill...kill...control...hunger....child...save..war...」
Sera looked left and right for the person...
*Ring
The bell rang to the visit of another guest, "The door is already open." Silver spoke out of his will.
"Sorry, I am walking directly in the door was opened-" Lisa stepped into the room, with a her bag in her hands and a classic orange clothing from top to bottom. Her blue eyes were filled with worry instead of a calm spirit today.
"Lisa! Run!"
"arghhh..." a little reached Silver's ears.
Before Silver's warning was finished, Shaska appeared right in front of Lisa, and the sound of blood splattering crossed the entire room.
In Silver's apartment, if you enter through the main door, there was a clock hanging right beside the wall entry wall; at the moment both Silver and Sera could see it right through Lisa missing heart and torso.
"Not a word." There were no screams of terror and remorse, only a sentence of authority. It was a greater fear that stopped inferior one from coming out. Lushing bright from the the sheer power she was illuminating, Shaska held the heart of her victim in her hand.
She was thinking, and thinking... while Silver knew he had to do something, but what could he do. Lisa's lifeless body fell on the the ground, and Silver didn't move to pick it up but Sera did.
"Lisa!!!" She ran right to the friend she had made through the city, now she was lying lifeless and dead in front of her, tears weren't a through her eyes, but she wished they did.
Shaska although did not like Sera's movement, her anger brimming right at her. "I told you not to move. Did you not hear that Sera?"
"Argh..." Silver felt something soft in her stomach, when he looked below his white clothes had become red, and it was spreading all over. When he finished registering what had happened the pain came...
"Agh...AAA!" he feel on the floor the glass didn't just pierce him, it was expanding inside his intestines like web, more and more....
"Uncle!-" When Sera said another word, she was smashed on the ground, with by Shaska.
「Activating Skills: Lighting and Thunder(Phase 3), Light of the Fireflies(Phase 2)」
Shaska looked right below her to see that the girl had disappeared, and so did Silver.
"Trying to escape... you won't hurt my child." There was never an escape from her, the vision always knew where you where.
Silver was jumping, point to point place to place holding a fainted Sera on his shoulder. Surrounded by lightning as he moved. He pulled out the glass from his stomach, using the leaving behind he extended portions.
「Activating Skill: Healer Luck. You are recovered from all injuries. You cannot use this Skills for the next two hours.」
"Thank god, Sera is alive. That attack would have killed any normal child but she just fainted without injury. I can care about those glass pieces later."
Silver finally reached the city walls, towering high above the houses that neared it.
「Activating Skill: Strength of Minitour(Phase 2).
You have increased speed and the ability to store strength for one attack.」
Silver gathered all he had and readied his legs, the jump was quite high to clear considering the altitude difference, but if he gathered all this strength...
Reaching near the front of the wall, Silver gathered all this strength and put it to his legs.
"Here goes everything."
Instead of reaching up, he moved forward and smashed through the wall with a single punch and reached the other side of the wall.
"We have reached it!"
The screams and shouting of all the guards was too small hear, Silver was much faster. The walls broke and with a small hole that opened right into the woods. Silver quickly moved inside the bushy trees and removed of all this skills.
"I think we should be safe here."
"From whom?"
The upper that came didn't make it easy to have your head on your neck, but it didn't cut off Silver's head and sent him Silver flying away in the through the woods into a lake, which was more than 1km away.
Shaska was standing on top on the water were Silver came flying and picked him up from there.
"You don't understand do you? As long you live you won't understand."
The next attack would have surely lopped off the Silver's disfigured head, but something stopped her hand in between.
"Stop right there."
Something stopped Shaska attack-
"I told you to stop talking!" The cryptic voice talked aloud to Shaska-
"I am not talking to her, I am talking to you!"
Oh! I see, you are talking to me. Hello there, I did not know you could see me, kid.
"Who are you to talking to?!"
"Before, Shaska could say anything she was turned to dust by the hands of the mysterious entity that was Sera. Before Silver's body could touch the water, he turned to ash too. Then the world began to decay to ash, and soon there were only 4 left to see it. "
"See, I completed the for you. I don't know your name. But don't ever speak about this world ever again. I close your eyes and don't ever whispers into anyone's ears ever again."
You surely have some power coming from the other world, banish my eyes from this world now. But I will keep on whispering into the ears of men, and shortly we will meet and then I will make you my trophy.
"Then, the mysterious entity with pure white eyes and and leaking black energy; blocked the outsider from reading what was happening in the world. And then used it's abilities to burn time itself into nothing and soon everything turned into ash and time was reset to 15 minutes ago."
「Skill Activated: Dues Ex Machina」
"Oh. That makes the five of us."
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