24 Anger (1/2)
The man showed us to the dinner table before starting to walk off.
”Wait, what is your name really quickly?” Fragil asked
”Oh, my name is Judas.” he replied before walking off
Looking around the room, you could see that Judas was well off. He had a lot of decorations and everything was clean. But for some reason... Something felt off.
Everything seemed to have been to well prepared since we've entered the house. There was also exactly four plates set out on the long table that was able to hold eight people.
”Hey Fragil, is it just me or...”
”Yeah, something is off Eric. You hold position and I'm going to go look for Judas.” she said while getting out of her chair and opening her Grimoire
I was about to get up too but suddenly a giant spear made out of paper was behind both Fragil's and my head.
”Turn around veeeery slowly” said someone who sounded very familiar
Doing what the person asked, we where then met face to face with the Mayor from earlier. Judas was also right next to him with a evil look on his face.
”Now hand Judas here your Grimoires.” Said the mayor
Again, Fragil and me slowly closed our Grimoires and handed them to Judas. We then took two steps back to show that we weren't going to attempt anything in any way.
”It looks like the girl uses some kind of snow magic,” said Judas, quickly flipping through Fragil's Grimoire. Closing hers and then flipping through mine, he said, ”No clue what kind of magic this guy can use. From what he was talking about earlier, it seems like he can create some kind of traps or something.”
The mayor hearing this then moved the paper spear even closer to my head and said, ”What kind of magic do you use?”
”Well I can use a lot of diffrent ty-” I started saying before he started pushing it even harder against my head and yelled to me, ”TELL ME!”
”Fine. Can you just {Stop for a minute}” I said enforcing my words using Kotodama Magic and Mana.
I then took a step forwards very carefully to see if it worked. Luckily nobody moved or used any magic, showing that it worked. I had to finish this as quickly as I could because I'm using unneeded Grimoire to cast this magic so its using up all of my mana.
I walked a couple of more steps to get to my Grimoire but suddenly out from the doorway came flying a couple of daggers.
”Shi-” I was able to get out before being stabbed in the head with multiple daggers
My mana stopped flowing to stop the Mayor, Judas, and Fragil in place so the Mayor immediately killed Fragil with the paper spear. Both Fragil and I dropped to the floor, dead. Sadly I didn't know any of this as I was already dead by the time my mana stopped flowing.
[User has died. Commencing back up...
Temporarily sending host to Hub...
Sending...]
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”Eric, its time to wake up” I heard someone say
Opening my eyes, I was blinded by a very bright light shining in my eyes and someone looking over me. As my eyes where still adjusting I didn't know who it was.
Sitting up and rubbing my eyes, I looked at the person who was standing over me again. Slowly my eyes focused and I could see who it was. Good Ol' Chris.
”Hey man, haven't seen you in a while.” I said
”Yup. And all it took to see me was to die. Now here, let me help you up and show you around the Hub. You've never seen it after all.” He said while putting his hand out in front of me
Grabbing the hand he then pulled me out of the weird bed and started showing me around. For some reason I was also wearing a fancy suit and when I asked Chris about this, all he said was, ”Gods have to look good.” with a shrug added on.
Going to the door that was in my room brought us to a elevator. The elevator had tons upon tons of buttons that where just everywhere.
Chris looked like he knew where each and every one was exactly because he quickly reached over and pressed one.
”So Eric, I know that we where going to only make you come to the Hub when you finished a world but I feel like we needed to talk about something face to face.” Chris said while putting his arms behind his back
”Take a seat as well because I got some stuff to explain to you.” He said as he nodded to a chair behind me
I turned around and sat in my seat but when I looked but up to Chris, we where inside a mall like cafeteria.
”Looks like you have more control over your powers then I have of my own.” I said with a chuckle
With a small chuckle, Chris said, ”Of course, after all I am still part system”
Looking around I noticed a person inside the Cafe. I motioned to them and she came out.
”What can I get for you today?” She asked
”Uhhh... Can I get... a burger?”
”Ok, and how would you like that?”
”Medium rare please.” and with that, she was off
I think these people are probably like NPCs for the Hub that Chris created for us.
”So what did you want to talk about?” I asked Chris
”Well you see, your progression in the Black Clover world is going really slowly.”
”What do you mean? I'm pretty strong if I do say so myself!”