Chapter 16: Wrath of a Royal Guard

  Fire, water, earth, wind and lightning are parts of nature. They’re crucial factors in defining the environment we’re living in.

  Earth- an elemental that represents soil and biology. It’s an embodiment for endurance, capacity and health. Full of life– creations which have this may be detected by their energetic personality, and…this creates a characteristic that is relevant to supporting, meaning they have an immense enduring capacity.

  Fire- an elemental that represents exceeding limit, passion and heat of relevancy. It’s an embodiment for the heat of striving forward and the heat of an individual spreading across the environment as a sign of existence.

  Water- an elemental that represents softness, care and devotion. It’s an embodiment for the sign of early life, which is indeed emphasizing the concept–where everything begins.

  Wind- an elemental that stands for atmosphere, the trails of giving a slightness of consciousness and refreshing. It’s an embodiment for flowing in the continuous witness of the surroundings of which, creations.

  Lighting- an elemental that represents wrath, rising and agility. It’s an embodiment for striking capabilities and the quickness, mobility and dexterity given for the creations, which are users.

  These abilities are circling the individual, waiting for the guy who’s currently killing his angels, who are his acquaintances. Being the boss of his own squad, it’s just for the purpose of finding a powerful opponent who’s deserved to fight against, owing to the desire of comparing values among the strong.

  Although having the squad fighting for him, the dead would be revived by him afterward. The souls still remained as an obedient person because of their absolute servant toward him. On the other hand, he, also, cares for his people, despite treating them as pawns, searching for opponents but also making rivals deteriorate for his advantage. One of the angels created by the ‘five’, and he’s the guard for them.

  The matchup this time is completely different. Both have different prospects of their ability but quite similar. The uttermost of Kinter’s ability is about manipulating atoms to form objects he wants, while the other has control over five factors representing life, clearly not the same as atomic manipulation but the ability itself could create such creations based on the mind of the user. The meaning of it is that the soil could form into a sword if he wants it to be like that for example. Since this world has magic, the chance of him having high magic particles isn’t needed to discuss.

  –

  “There are so many of them. The difficulty increased but still, I don’t suffer much whatsoever.”

  Although their strength, speed and endurance are better than the previous show, I still don’t have any sufferings against these emotionless pawns. They seem to be things to examine my strength and more importantly, make me exhausted. However, as long as I have my legendary bracelet, I won’t wear out due to implying too much energy into atomic manipulation.

  I guarantee that the boss is standing somewhere watching me fighting his army. I wonder when he'll show up and go against me, I think he’d give his next selection for going against me again, and of course, the difficulty could be more challenging than this.

  Or he would just show up and fight me right away. That’s what I could think of the capability of that scenario, well, let’s see how it goes. If he shows up and fights me already, I won’t have to waste my time like this, and I'm really uninterested right now. I hope that he will fight me after this to take out my boredom.

  In two more days, the five gods who took away my memories will come back to this planet. I thought that if I wasn’t that strong enough, it was the reason why I ended up here. So the best option for myself is that I have to finish this quickly. Going against them won’t be any good, so I need to hide. The actions might be despicable, but to be realistic, I can’t cause any harm toward the reality manipulator.

  The troops still come up with a large amount, there’s endless of them. Their faces are showing a casual look, not beared by anything else except the mission of slaughtering me from their autocrat. They don’t have a voice to communicate, emotions to destitute. They’re completely mannequins but could move and get controlled by their boss, whereas, the owner implanted the maliciousness inside their head.

  If he can make up so many soldiers like this, he would have an enormous amount of magic energy, in this case, I cannot underestimate.

  I’m tired of killing those unthinking creatures. To end this quickly, I’ll just create two of them.

  –Atomic bomb.

  Two atomic bombs are in development, the dimension shackles due to the particles flowing into the invention. I looked at the non-thinkers approaching me from afar, they seemed to not feel or…they were pretending to be like that.

  Whatever, the creations have been completed. The scene I’m going to observe next will be the extreme annihilation.

  —

  I launch both atomic bombs down to the center of the army. The missiles went down with trivial damage caused by the army, but that's not enough to do anything to it. Even if they manage to destroy it, the radiation would wash them away.

  Whoosh

  “What is that?”

  A trail of white light interrupted the purple skylines as if someone used a white pen to draw a line. Its pace was similar to light speed, it flew around two atomic bombs I’ve just created. It was dashing continuously with its white trail being visible.

  Boom!

  Two of my creations have been annihilated, the sky illustrates a beautiful image of explosions. Radiation immediately traveled far away.

  I was in a hurry to create a barrier for myself, but still, I didn’t manage to create a full version. Because of that, my right arm got a burn. Then, I started to heal it with atomic manipulation. I had my inner cells covering up the burn and quickly healed, whilst I created a bandage and attached it to the wound.

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  After I'm done with my healing, I start to look around for context.

  “That trail of light…was it from the boss of these creatures?”

  After destroying and erasing my creations, the white trail went down directly. The landing was so hard, it created cracks, leaving the affair for someone who is a historian.

  “Am I feeling formidable?”

  The phenomenon was far away from me. I was glancing at the white aura emitting like fire from a person. The aura was so dense, I cannot see clearly of which to tell it was a human or half-human. All I saw was a silhouette of a human appearance trudging to me.

  Then, the white trail rushed toward me, it was so fast that I was struggling dodging to the side.

  It flew into the sky then it went down with a bullet speed, with the only purpose, it was to kill me with its weapon, just like what it did to the atomic bombs I created.

  “This strength is something that would cause players to get anxious and frightened, especially fighting against a boss.”

  Not letting it succeed, I teleport away from its bloodlust zone. I teleported to a nearby hill, not so far from my original position. What happened was a spiral of sharp white trails, something that’s from claws used for attacking. Its range wasn’t trivial either, the estimate I could make about it, it was like one hundred meters at best.

  Flick

  A wit of sound, gentle and dangerous, warned me of the fatal blow that’s about to happen. I immediately turned back, and what I saw was a guy with blonde hair, wearing a white cloak that has a hat, the crystal attached in the middle, which is used for ranking, has an extreme white color, flew to me with his bloody claws ready to tear the prey.

  I managed to create a katana and parried the claw from his right hand side by side. Then, he flicked my katana away with his claw from his right hand. Then, he continued with his left hand similar to the action he was just doing.

  I quickly grasped his left hand and gave him a horizontal punch. However, he was faster, he punched me in the face before. The strike nearly made me bleed in the nose, I could feel the liquid running through inside it, but I took it back. Then, he kicked me in the abdomen, the strike was hard and it was a little bit painful, I got pushed back from it.

  Wait? There was a claw in his right hand, why didn’t he use it to end me right away? Was he underestimating me?

  “You nearly got me, hahh.”

  Atoms in the air were flowing into my nose to recover as well as my abdomen. The bones inside me were broken, they’re running through a quick recovery thanks to my atomic manipulation ability.

  Now I have it. It’s time to fight the boss.

  “You are…”

  “Huh?”

  “Kinter, aren’t you?”

  Suddenly, the guy asked if I was Kinter. The answer is yes, it’s me.

  “So what do you do if I tell you who I am?”

  “Hmm, I really don’t care who you are. I just want to fight guys who are powerful. But…”

  “But?”

  “If it’s Kinter, I shall give all my might! The guy who killed my sister, Julia. I have to seek revenge!”

  So Julia is this guy’s sister. Should I just lie to him? I don’t know this guy’s true power yet but I’ve witnessed his speed and his strength, these are what I should take into account right now.

  Is he faking dumb? Doesn’t he know Julia’s ability and that dimension I just got out was that in her arsenal?

  Whatever the answer, I would have to fight this guy. There’s no other choice.

  “No”

  “Is it? Are you telling the truth?”

  “...”

  The guy gave a mild and gentle response. Forget to mention, he had a young face, his eyes are amber green while Julia has heterochromia, her right eye showed a bunch of shiny stars in her iris with the color of deep black, while her left eye is amber similar to her brother. He’s probably two years older than her. The guy showed a straining face.

  He must know who I am.

  “Yes, I am telling the truth.”

  Suddenly, his whole body was trembling, his face nodded down so I couldn’t see his expression. Then, he clenched his fists, so tight that his nails pierced through his skin, making his hands bleed.

  Then, he flicked his head up, his face showing an expression of extreme wrath.

  “YOU FUCKING LIAR! YOU THOUGHT I AM DUMB OR WHAT!? YOU SURE ARE KINTER! I ASK YOU…WHY THE HELL DID YOU KILL SUCH INNOCENT GIRL LIKE HER? SHE’S JUST FOURTEEN YEARS OLD! DON’T YOU HAVE ANY MERCY? YOU’RE EVIL, WORTHLESS AND BLASPHEMOUS! GO TO HELL AND NEVER REINCARNATE AGAIN!”

  He was shouting with all his might. It was like he had passed his limitation in enduring such things.

  But…wasn’t Julia the one who tried to take me down first? All I did was just defend myself, and at the end, I was even trying to save her but unsuccessful. He seems to not know about this conspiracy or something. Did he not know about her duty, which is taking me down? Due to her failure, she’s going to be erased?

  “You don’t know about it?”

  “ABOUT WHAT?”

  “You don’t know that your sister is being controlled by the big five gods?”

  “HUH? WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU SAYING?”

  Burning with wrath, the person who is a year older than me doesn’t stop shouting, it could be his sister’s death was such a tragedy to him, and it’s a non-favor death. Hence, he’s frustrated and upset at the same time.

  “To tell you the truth. Your sister was the one who attacked me first. She lost but I tried to rescue her from the brink of death.”

  “WHAT DOES IT DO TO MAKE ME BELIEVE YOU!? THE MOMENT I LOST HER WARMNESS OF HER ENERGY WITHIN ME, I BARELY FELL DOWN ON MY KNEES. THAT ENERGY WAS TO TELL HER EMOTIONS, AND…IT WAS GONE! HER ENERGY’S GONE! TELLING ME THAT SHE’S DEAD! SHE WAS STAYING NEAR SOMEONE WHO HAS MONSTROUS ENERGY. AND, THAT ENERGY OF YOURS IS THE SAME AS THE ONE I FELT AS MY SISTER! FIVE GODS!? THEY WOULD NEVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO MY SISTER! SHE’S ONE OF THEIR ROYAL GUARDS! WHAT’S THE POINT IN KILLING HER?”

  “She was given the role to take me out, stopping me from escaping their planet. More importantly, as I told you, I didn’t intend to kill her! I was trying to get the information from her to know where my sister currently is. It was all just self-defense! If it’s the people you should yell at, then you should do it to the five gods who took her as a victim into their conspiracy!”

  As I told him the truth, he didn’t talk, he collapsed down on his knees. He used his hands to cover his face, and…I could hear the sound from him— He was crying.

  Then he stopped. His face was intense but calmer than before. He stopped yelling, and instead, talked in a good manner with a calm voice.

  “As a royal guard for the big five gods. I cannot trust your words. Your sins may exclude you from reincarnating after I finish you. Your afterlife shall be in darkness, a void in other terms with no emotions, just like a mannequin.”

  He’s one of the five gods’ royal guards, too? That’s bad for him, he had been betrayed as well as his sister. Their owners were just as the same with politics in my old world, it’s very harsh.

  “I was telling the truth! Why do I always end up in a bloody battle!?”

  Of course, no one would trust an enemy. If there’s no way to explain it then…the only choice is to use brutal force to negotiate, especially to anyone who has absolute trust in their owners.

  “No more talking, I’ll just end you in a second.”

  Guess I have no choice but to fight.

  A moderate amount of microscopic yellow dust began to flow around in my left palm. A shape of a Japanese weapon, which was especially used by the Samurais in the past, started to form. Finalized its accomplishment, it was…a katana.

  “Let’s do this…”

  I sighed and took a breath, then I looked at him. He was raising his head to look at the sky. The hat of his cloak was covering his eyes, leaving a shadowy area.

  “Ah…I forgot to tell you my name. Do you want to know?”

  Being nonchalant, he doesn’t have any weapons yet. Why was he like that? Did he think that I wouldn’t jump at him right away if he wasn’t ready?

  Wait…his weapons…where were his claws?

  “My name is Jastine. I don’t want to say more about myself, you could understand who I am throughout this battle.”

  I held my katana tightly, I was thinking that he was trying to distract me from the fact that his claws were gone. Isn’t he? Or he was trying to make me notice that…he has the same ability as mine? His actions were just like showing himself that he’s stronger or sometimes I watched on the movie that this type of behaviour usually shows to have the same ability but much stronger or used better.

  I don’t see any dust? If he has the same ability…why can’t I see any particles when he erased his claws?

  “That ability of yours isn’t any normal authority. It can be used to craft into things you want. Also, it can be used for healing the user extraordinarily quickly. If you’re their royal guard, I bet they would consider putting you into their special rank. If you have that rank, you would have much more privileges than normal royal guards. However, since you’re the enemy, I cannot do anything but get rid of you. For the sake of revenge for my sister, as well as eliminating a threat to the big guards, I must do it.”

  As soon as he was done talking, he started to expose his bare hand. Electrical sparks were leaking from his right hand, then, it formed into the shape of a katana, which is the same sword I was using. An aura coated his electrical sword to form into a literal katana, I’m sure it was his magical ability. The sword he was holding started to leak some electrical sparks, it has the characteristics of lightning.