Chapter 242 - My SI Stash #42 - That Time That I Got Reincarnated In A Not So Magical World by Ekusas Leengard (FairyTail) (2/2)

It had all turned to shit. He had appeared out of nowhere just like last time and asked her if she had already found the children he asked about. After he got his answer, he told her to gather them and go to the place where the boats were. He said he would create a distraction and they would get the hell out of here.

And create a distraction he did. Their new Tower Master? Dead. His friends? The traitors that turned their backs on the other children like them just so they could live in luxury? Dead. Well, except for the sobbing girl behind him, but the glares she was sending her would hopefully correct that mistake soon enough.

And then he spoke.

”I am getting the hell out of this place – and I have deemed you worthy of going with me. Are you coming? Or are you staying behind?”

Ha! As if that was a question worth asking. Who in their right mind would want to go back to that hell-hole?

”No.”

…blame her for underestimating the potential of human stupidity.

”I only followed the girl because she said that she knew the guy who knocked the fifteen guards down, but you look like you can't hurt a fly! I am getting out of here – I will make use of all of this shitshow and see if I can find my brother. I could never be sure if he was brought with me to this place or not.” He turns his back on us – on him – and starts walking away but, before he is almost completely out of view, he says one last thing ”Thanks for the offer anyways. Right!”

”…”

”Anyone else wanna bail out?”

Gods, his voice sounded more angelic as the minutes passed. It was completely unnatural, she had to congratulate the fatso on at least having the sheer willpower necessary to go against… this.

”…good, give me a minute.”

He went the way the fat kid had and came back less than 30 seconds later. Nobody asked him why. Nobody cared enough to do so.

He touched each one of them and suddenly they were smaller, as small as a fly probably. He put them on his shoulder and sprouted wings from his back before starting to fly out of that place.

And it was all worth it, all the work she put into this, if not for her freedom that she was experiencing then at least to hear those words from his mouth.

”Good work…” he said, probably pondering what to call her, when she was going to provide him with her name, he surprised her once more ”Angel.”

[Darkness Magic has become an Innate Magic]

[Innate Magic: Block Magic Acquired – Novice Level 1/25 (0%)]

[Innate Magic: Card Magic Acquired – Novice Level 1/25 (0%)]

This. This was the life.

[Innate Magic: Liquid Ground (Sub-form of Earth Magic) Acquired – Novice Level 1/25 (0%)]

[Eye Magic: Heaven's Eye Acquired – Novice Level 1/25 (0%)]

[Eye Magic allows the users to enchant or entice their target with their Magic through the use of making direct contact with their eyes. Depending on the Magic, the user can either attack or defend themselves with their eye technique in order to battle, to scan the area, or both in combination with their attack. One Eye Magic can only be combined with other if the both of them are at least Advanced Level]

F_u_c_k joining Oracion Seis, f_u_c_k bowing down to Jellal, Brain, Hades or whoever came next, I was king, I was going to rule this world, and I was going to do it.

Simply because I could.

”…so, who are you?”

But first I had to take care of this children and make sure that they lived up to all the potential that their magics had, after all, even I have to train and simply absorbing everything and everyone in front of me wasn't going to help… much.

”You guys can call me… Arsene.” Meh, could be worse.

”My name is Sawyer!”

”…I am Macbeth.”

”I am Sorano!”

”M-Milliana.”

As soon as they stopped presenting themselves the world seemed to grind down to a halt, and for a moment I thought Ultear had come for me, well, before the huge screen popped in front of me.

[You have gained more than 3 followers, Reputation System unlocked]

[Angel has gained the ”First Follower” Trait, Affection and Obedience grow twice as fast with her]

[Angel/Sorano

Affection: 60/100

Obedience: 50/100]

[Racer/Sawyer

Reputation: 25/100]

[Midnight/Macbeth

Reputation: 25/100]

[Milliana

Affection: 10/100

Obedience: 25/100]

[Perk Gained (Angel 50 Affection): Summoners now start with 10 Affection]

Wow, just wow.

With this, I basically had the literal anti-weapon against traitors. No forget traitors, I could basically make all the right choices in a conversation by seeing what a specific person thought of me and never pushing for too much.

It looked like it worked differently on boys and girls, and it was kind of obvious why. I had hoped Milliana's Affection would be higher but I guess the story I fabricated wasn't as good as I hoped, it had served its purpose but Milliana still looked pretty distrusting. In time I would tell her the truth, that Jellal was just going to mind-control them and that Sho, Simon and Wally were already under it.

Yep, the whole truth, or well, my version of it anyways.

As the screens began fading the world started moving again, I wanted to mess more with the new addition to the system but it would look to suspicious with them in my back so I tried to make some small talk to pass time.

Turns out, that by making use of Empathic Voice one could basically control other people emotions and so, not 10 minutes later all 4 of them were talking with each other like old friends… well… except with Sorano and Milliana but that seemed like a whole can of worms that I didn't had the time to open right now.

”Is it true that we now can sleep whenever we want?”

”D-Do we not have to run anymore?”

I turn my head back and smile at them ”Of course, we are free after all!”

”A-And can we eat whatever we want to?”

”Yes, do you want some food now?” They waved their heads so quickly that I thought they would fall ”Haha then take it.” I say extending a hand of miniature sized food to the little creatures on my back ”And remember, we take what we want, we do what we want, because we are free – and the world is our sandbox. We'll become the strongest family in the world, and we will rule it!”

Surprisingly, the first to speak was Macbeth.

”A family… that sounds good.”

[+5 Reputation with Macbeth]

And then Sawyer.

”Rule the world… yes, that's definitely something I can get beyond boss.”

[+5 Reputation with Sawyer]

Boss? Well it's not like I disapprove, it's actually kind of cool to be called that.

Sorano just hugged my back with more strength, as if that was enough of an answer –

[+5 Affection with Sorano]

– and it was.

But Milliana? Dear sweet Milliana that thought her friends had all been killed by the bad guards and that I had defeated them and saved her, simply drifted off to sleep, without saying another word.

The others soon followed.

It took almost a day of constant flight to reach land and when I did, I was completely exhausted, the kids had woken up an hour ago and right after we landed, I returned them to their original size and told them not to wander to far while I drifted off to sleep.

I was woken less than two hours later by the sound of bickering girls.

”– and you're no better! You left slaves like you were to go live the good life! While we stayed behind and had to work!”

”T-That's not true! J-Jellal said –”

”Jellal could say all the things he wanted but things don't change like that! Unless he killed all the slavers like –”

They finally notice me looking at them and while Sawyer and Macbeth had not proffered a word till now it was clear at which side they were on. When I prepared myself to intervene the world started graying out and slowing – again – till only the screen in front of me was visible.

[Choose Your Path]

[Side with Sorano:

Increased Affection with Sorano

Increased Obedience with Sorano

Increased Reputation with Sawyer

Increased Reputation with Macbeth

Decreased Affection with Milliana

Decreased obedience with Milliana

Chances of Sorano starting to treat Milliana as a slave]

[Side with Milliana:

Greatly Increased Affection with Milliana

Greatly Increased Obedience with Milliana

Decreased Affection with Sorano

Decreased Obedience with Sorano

Decreased Reputation with Sawyer

Decreased Reputation with Macbeth

Increased chances of revolt]

…

Wait. That was it?! What about the middle ground?!

I tried to leave this space, to think of another answer. I couldn't.

[Now, where would be the fun in that?]

I was afraid to even ask.

”T-Tet?”

[Fufufufu, who else?]

As the letters started filling the space my sense of dread started spiking, Tet was a God, he could basically alter the rules of the Game anytime he wanted, if he started actively interfering with my life and screwing me up there was nothing I could do, contrary to Azathoth trying to make a plan to defeat him was basically impossible before I achieved perfect Godhood.

Again. What could I do?

”Sigh, I was always a pragmatic guy. Side me with Sorano.” And what if it wasn't the moral choice? I had already established that I was not a good guy, I just did not expect to start having slaves – especially when the people I just rescued were that exact same thing.

[Sorano's side chosen]

Guess that was Sorano's sadistic side showing himself. A part of me wondered what kind of childhood someone would have to experience for its first instinct when finding a person it disliked was to enslave it.

A bigger part of me just didn't care as long as I could f_u_c_k both Sorano and Milliana.

[Excellent choice, it was the one I would have made too.]

And wasn't that just awesome?

[Oh, and if you try to follow a different path after choosing one in here you'll just be blasted back in time to this moment again and again till you follow what you choose to.]

Well, at least I discovered he wasn't omniscient.

[Nah, it just isn't fun with the cheat code activated.]

…sigh, he had to have the last word, didn't he?

As time started flowing normally again, I looked at all of them. And choose the middle path.

”Look, I think you girls have to…”

It was an indescribable sensation.

It wasn't painful or anything, it was just the sensation that you felt when you knew that someone was using your body to slap the face of physics – not that it counted for much in a world where magic existed – while f_u_c_k_i_n_g reality's tight asshole. As I said, indescritable.

[…]

[I have literal infinite time to waste… you do know that, right?]

”Yeah, yeah, was just testing it.”

[Sorano's side chosen]

”She's saying the truth Milliana, Jellal was a madman, and you all turned your back on the other slaves just so you could live a better life.” With each word that left my mouth I could see Milliana almost shrinking while Sorano's smile widened and Sawyer's and Macbeth's attitude showed they agreed with my decision. ”Despite that, I was kind enough to save you from those guards that wanted to kill Jellal and take command.” I wink at Sorano that was smart enough to just stay silent ”Don't think for a moment that we have forgotten what you did.” I decided to risk my luck and see if I got blasted away again ”But, you can still be redeemed, you seem like a good girl, work hard enough and you may become part of this family just like me and them.” I say my frown becoming a smile while just nodded with her head downed.

[You know what? Here, take some extra points in Sound Magic, that use of Empathic Voice was pretty good, and the discourse wasn't bad. For a newbie.]

I used what?

[Oh yeah, you can now toggle on and off some skills that will act like passives, have fun with that.]

[+5 Affection with Sorano]

[+10 Obedience with Sorano]

[+5 Reputation with Sawyer]

[+5 Reputation with Macbeth]

[-10 Affection with Milliana]

[-5 Obedience with Milliana]

Only time would tell if that was the right choice or not, but for now, I was pretty happy with it.

That Time I got Reincarnated in a Magical World

”Did I perform well Master?”

”You did perfectly, even if you sounded kinda forced in the end there, I don't think he noticed anything wrong with your performance.”

”…if I may, why are you doing this Master?”

”For entertainment obviously. And I had been thinking that I needed a player two for some time already. Just imagine the shenanigans I could come up with if only I had someone else to play with me throughout the multiverse!”

”Shall I continue faking then?”

He seemed to take some time considering it ”No. He will notice sooner or later, but he will be deep enough that it won't matter anymore.”

”And if he fails?”

”Well, that means I made the wrong decision.”

”And you never make wrong decisions.”

”Right you are… Az-chan.”

Chapter 3

And just like that, the training montage begins and ends in the same chapter

Milliana was being treated way better than she thought she would.

Even if Sorano-sama – as the girl liked to be called – made her do most of the shores, it was just like Master had said, she only needed to prove herself and soon, she too would become part of their family.

Macbeth-san was always following Master but when he talked to her he was always pretty nice.

And often, when he had free time, helped alleviate her workload even when she said it wasn't necessary!

Sawyer-san – even if he was such a lazy guy – made himself useful by helping her train her magic.

The unlocking of it was kind of a funny moment. One day, the 'Boss', as Sawyer-san and Macbeth-san liked to call him, had decided that it was time to teach them the basics of magic. He had taught them that while most people weren't able to tap into their magic – that in reality was just little particles that were floating in the air called ethernano – they were special and with training they all would be capable of using Magic just like him, the looks on all their faces as they were praised were like they had just been told that they would have lots of fish for dinner!

Fiissshhhh~

Aham, anyways, what was I talking about?

Oh yes, Magic.

So, Master had decided that they should start practicing and told her and Sorano-sama to spar against each other, Sorano-sama won against her lots and lots of times! And she would always step on her during their fights, especially if Master had spent more time with her than with Sorano-sama, it felt kinda painful at first but it strangely started feeling very good after some time passed, it felt so good that she started letting some punches and kicks slip by and hit her, but when Sorano-sama found out that she was letting herself get beaten on purpose she got furious! But instead of stepping more on her she turned back and started walking away!

Milliana couldn't allow that, if she still wasn't worthy of being stepped on by their Master then at least Sorano-sama had to do it!

Milliana didn't know why but she didn't like it when it was Sawyer-san or Macbeth-san that hurt her on their spars so she got serious and started hurting them instead – that was one of the reasons why Sorano-sama discovered that she was taking it easy on her after all – and while it didn't felt as good as when the pain was inflicted on herself, she found out that the looks on their faces when they were hit were just so…

Aaaand she was rambling to herself again, that's something that she found herself doing a lot these times.

So, she couldn't allow Sorano-sama to just walk away, she just couldn't! So, she extended her arm, and a pink rope magically shot out of her hand and bound Sorano-sama!

She unlocked her magic… because she wanted to be stepped on more. I turned Milliana into a sadom_a_s_o_c_h_i_s_t. Well, she already had the look going on after the time skip, she just got a personality to match.

Gods, my group is so f_u_c_k_e_d up.

[+15 Affection with Milliana]

[+10 Obedience with Milliana]

[Sub-Quest: A Sadom_a_s_o_c_h_i_s_tic Cat-Girl completed]

…at least my power is broken.

I wonder if it literally alters their personality when I am rewarded with these points or if it simply shows their natural changes…

Meh, who cares right? As long as they obey me all's well and good after all.

It wasn't supposed to be like this! Sorano was the first one, she was the one that he went to first, she was his angel,she was supposed to be the best! Instead, here he was, praising that little thing again, she was always ridiculing her, letting punches and kicks hit when she was perfectly capable of defending, did that freak enjoy making her seem weak in front of my Master? It, it isn't fair! She, she was supposed to be the best, to be better,and even with all of that she hadn't even unlocked her magic while the freak was already toying with hers.

Why? Why was she so weak? Master had said that they all possessed the potential! So why couldn't she –

”Hello child.”

A voice, it belonged to a completely white being that suddenly appeared in front of her, it resounded within herself, it made her calm, it seemed… angelical.

”You seem to find yourself in a bit of a predicament.”The little angel seemed to want her to talk with it about her problems…

Well, she was feeling pretty bad…

Maybe she could tell Master about this strange creature after she vented out her frustrations a little bit.

”I-It's just so not fair! I-I want to be strong to. I want to have magic to! So why don't I?! He said that all of us could! So why can't I?! Why am I so weak? I – I just want to stand beside him – is that too much to ask?” It felt good to finally let that out of her c_h_e_s_t, but it didn't made her tears stop.

”Yes, it's not fair is it my child? It's not fair that the other one has magic and you don't is it? Then… why don't we make a contract?”

”A c-contract?” Could… could she become strong with it? Looks like she was going to get more out of this little encounter than she thought.

”Yes, you will be able to summon us, angelic beings. We will become your magic.”

”And what do I need to do?” Master had always taught them to distrust people that came to them with deals that seemed too good to be true. And Master was always right.

”Oh, nothing much I guarantee, you see, there is… a price that people that summon us have to pay. Not much, only a tiny little bit of your life-force for each time you summon one of us.”

H-Her life? Was magic really so costly?

But, if it could make her powerful, more powerful that that brown-haired bitch. T-Then, then she –

”I acce–”

”She refuses.”

She quickly turns around and behind her is a Master that she hoped to never see directed at her, his voice – she had never heard him talk like that. He, he seemed like he was completely blinded by rage.

”And here comes the anomaly, tell me, what exactly are you? Human you are not, most certainly, but there are also a lot of –”

”Shut up.”

And it does.

No, wait, it's lips still seem to be moving. But there is no sound coming from them?

”What do you have in your head Sorano?!”

N-No, why was he calling her that? He only called her Angel, he always said that she was his Angel… why was he calling her Sorano now?

”Your life? You never accept Magic that uses your life as payment! That's just plain stupidity!”

She looked down ashamed. She just wanted to be strong too. To have power to stand by his side.

The angel seemed to grow angrier with each word that left Master's mouth though.

”And you.” He says turning to the angel ”I don't understand you. I have no knowledge of anyone besides her being capable of utilizing Angel Magic, and even if she wasn't the only one that could, for it not to be featured more times it means that you are becoming obsolete. Probably being replaced by Celestial Spirit Magic if you were more ancient than them.”

Master was saying strange things again, he often grumbled about the stupidity of the world and some magics that were being completely wasted on the people that were using them – she particularly remembered one time that he was talking about a magic that could turn everything the user imagined into reality! Anything! How was that person not ruling the world right now?!

While she was thinking about that the angel seemed to want to punch Master more and more with each word that left his mouth. Hm, maybe he wasn't an Angel after all. Angels were supposed to be smart right? This one didn't seem to be.

”And you just don't make sense.” Master continued to berate the Angel ”You are in a shortage of mages, and you shorten their life span? What the f_u_c_k man?”

He snaps his fingers when it seems that the angel is really going to attack him and suddenly it seemed to be able to talk again. And talk it did.

”You think it's easy? We know our magic is faulted, useless when compared to those damned celestials! We take our user's life and cause them pain when we are defeated! But we don't have a choice, we need a human's life force to survive! Or we will all eventually die!”

”Okay… but why take the life force from your own user?” Master had seated down and crossed his arms just like when he was teaching us something that he thought was pretty easy.

Like math.

F_u_c_k math.

”What?”

Master looked at the angel like he was stupid ”You know… instead of taking that life force from your summoners… take it from their enemies.”

The angel sneers”You think we haven't tried that?! It's our summoners, they are always –”

”People that are willing to pay with their life force to summon you and suffer pain when you die. Which would probably make them a bunch of honorable fools that wouldn't be capable of letting you eat another person's life force… Wow, that actually makes a lot of sense.” The angel looks at him in a 'You see?' manner while crossing his arms and waiting for Master to finish ”Thing is, you don't have to worry about it, in this case at least.” He turns to look at her again ”Tell me Sorano, if you had to choose between spending your own life-force or using the one from your enemies, which would you choose?”

”…my enemies of course.” Was that a question even worth asking?

Her Master turned to look at the angel again and lifted his eyebrow while smirking.

”There's still the initial price…” the angel seemed like all of his purpose had been drained from him and he was just trying to salvage some of it.

”That she will pay probably the first and/or second time she summons you guys, but you don't seem to have a problem with coming down here by yourself and by the third time she summons you guys will probably be so full of life-force that you will be capable of summoning yourself with your own magic power or life power or whatever the f_u_c_k it is you use. But of course, this all comes with a cost.” Her Master starts grinning like he did so much times when he was about to make another leap in his magic ”Exclusivity. From now on Sorano is going to be your only summoner.” The angel seemed to want to retort but quickly shut up after seeing Master's eyes ”Please, you will not tell me that the little bits of life force that you get from your usual contractors are worth more than all the full ones that she will bring you?”

The Angel takes some time to ponder what to answer before finally making his decision. Honestly, did it not know that it was rude to keep Master waiting? She would have to teach them that when they finally became her summons.

Take that bitch!

I will be capable of summoning honest-to-god Angels!

I want to see you underestimating me again!

”I-I will have to speak to my brothers, if what you speak of is indeed possible than we will find ourselves indebted to her. You do not have to worry of us trying to find loopholes in the contract to suck her life force or have other summoners. It would only do us more harm than good.”The angel bows and looks at me ”I think we will make a most successful partnership Miss Aguria.”The angel disappears, and she remember the face of a long-lost sister, before quickly moving away such thoughts.

Master seems to mumble something about worlds full of goody two shoes idiots but he quickly turns to her and –

Pats her head?

”You are important to us. To me. Never, ever try do something like exchanging your life again do you understand? Your life is of the utmost importance Angel.”

And then he hugs her, and she could only let the tears fall down again as she hugged him back. Truly, it was impossible for her to ask to have been saved by a better person than him.

[+20 Affection with Sorano]

[+20 Obedience with Sorano]

[Sub-Quest: An Angel's predicament completed]

F_u_c_k. Yes.

Sawyer had always been running, from his parents that liked to unleash their pent-up frustrations in him, from the slavers that attacked his village, from the sadistic f_u_c_ks that liked to mess with him on that damned tower, and now, that he was finally free from all of that – even if not for a reason as bad as the previous ones – he was running again.

Maybe he was fated to have to run for all of his life?

No, before giving up he had to at least ask.

Even if our Boss was hard on them it was only because he was trying to make them strong so that what happened to them would never happen again.

Sawyer had my doubts at the beginning, but after talking to him they all just seemed to disappear, their Boss had only their best interest at heart why was he so worried to begin with?

But, even with all of that, Sawyer gathered the little courage that he had – and asked.

”Can I skip training today?”

”…what?”

Macbeth interrupted his own training and looked at him as if he was crazy, but he was just so tired, since he had left that damned Tower he hadn't stopped!

We were trying to cover the most ground possible during day-time and slept only the absolute necessary. Put training and lessons on top of that and what you got was an extremely tired Sawyer. Maybe he should try to explain himself better.

”I-It's not like I am not thankful, I am, I really am!” His Boss signaled him to continue, he felt happy that his opinion was going to be at least taken into consideration ”But, it's just, I am exhausted ok? And I know that I am sounding ungrateful but it has all been to quick! I am a slave, then I am not, after that I am waking up in a beach and being told that I have to start walking and that we are burning daylight, I am training my body, I am learning magic, I am running, running, and running!Is it too much to ask that everything just f_u_c_k_i_n_g slows down?!”

And it did.

Macbeth seemed furious with him, probably for yelling, he didn't like when people yelled. But his Boss? As Sawyer started moving to test just what the f_u_c_k had happened his Boss's lips seemed to curl into one of the biggest smiles that he had ever seen in his face.

And suddenly, he understood.

This had been his Boss's plan all along.

[+10 Reputation with Sawyer]

[Sub-Quest: A tired Racer completed]

Sometimes, and only sometimes mind you, I think this is just too easy to be true.

”Oh yeah, you were one of the few on this universe that suffered from the Manton Effect, weren't you?”

”The Manton Effect?” Guess Boss is going to give a private lesson. Macbeth liked those, they ensured that he would have no imm_a_t_u_r_e brats close to hinder his learning. Seriously, while they were celebrating being capable of doing little things like slowing time in a 5-meter radius, summoning little white balls with teeth or – the funniest of them all in his opinion – shooting pink magical ropes out of their hands, he was already breaking trees in half with his refractor.

”Yeah, it basically makes certain powers only work on organic or inorganic things.” Boss seems to pause to think about something ”Maybe Gildarts power is subjected to that as well? Meh, food for thought.”

Boss sometimes talks to himself about the most varied things, from the type of magics that existed in the world, to magic items that could destroy a nation and were just buried underground and laws of nature that he had never heard about. Guess genius really are on another level, after all, if he was a slave like all of us then from who could he have learned those laws from, besides himself? He created them, and I would make sure that he would not go unrecognized.

That, I swear.

Macbeth always made sure to remember most of the information that came from his Boss's mouth, for him to know and talk about those people must surely mean that they are strong enough to warrant his attention, and there weren't much people stronger than his Boss.

He knew it, he had witnessed him using Sound Magic – a rather seemingly harmless magic if someone only had the name to go on – to repel literally everything around him. Truly, it was a spell worthy of the name Almighty Push.

”Anyways, even if you can't affect living things directly it doesn't mean that you can't affect them indirectly, start by trying to refract the air and using it to make blades or something else, then pass to light and once you can refract it well enough try to focus it on a single point, it will be very useful for blinding opponents. After you're done with that come talk to me again, I have a lot more ideas that want you to try with your magic for me.” He got up and started walking away leaving him to his training ”Good luck Macbeth.”

Macbeth bowed and waited till he left to get up.

Truly, most people would look at those objectives and call his Boss a madman for even thinking of making a child try to do that – hadn't it been for him Macbeth wouldn't even know that light could be refracted till much, much later certainly – but the way he looked at it he saw someone that must have spent a considerable amount of time just thinking about the possible uses for a magic that wasn't even his, just so he could make Macbeth stronger like he promised.

And because of that he would do everything in his power not to disappoint him.

Macbeth never had a big brother, but if he ever had one, he would wish for him to be like his Boss.

[+10 Reputation with Macbeth]

[Sub-Quest: Refracting Destinies completed]

And the cherry in top of the cake-

[Main Quest: The Birth of the Arsene Familia]

[+Superior Level Pass]

Ahhh, feels good to be overpowered.

Even if I just discovered that it seems like I need a pass to evolve magics to superior level proficiency, add to that the – literal – godly mana that I would have to acquire to boost a magic into Ultimate level and it looks like I wouldn't be shouting Shinra Tensei and destroying villages with only my voice anytime soon.

Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, just had to bide my time.

XXXXX

Her partner, it had killed her partner.

That thing, that freak of nature, had killed the only person in the whole world that mattered to her after she had been turned into a snake.

Because she had left him alone, because of her carelessness her partner had been killed, without another look that being had slashed his neck and proceeded to absorb him! His body had turned into some kind of jelly and suddenly Erik was no more.

But she would show him, she would show him the true meaning of pain by killing all of those that he held dear.

Sprouting wings from her back the quest of a little purple amphiptere began.

For now, that red-headed human would make for a fine host, she only needed to find her.

XXXXX

The Tower of Heaven was a failure.

With those words, Hades, Master of Grimoire Heart ordered its complete destruction.

He could – and would have – risked letting the red-haired girl get away if only so that Ultear's little pet project could grow and provide them with the R-System but enough was enough and with the appearance of that silver-haired boy he was forced to change his plans.

While Ultear was as mad as a child that had his most recent toy broken, Hades was much less annoyed, in fact, he was excited, a magic like that boy possessed, it was in a realm beyond Lost Magic. From what he had seen, it was a magic that could absorb Lost Magics! Who could have ever imagined that?!

Even he, in all his years of studying hadn't heard anything about something that came even close to that level of potential.

And so, he decided.

He would find that boy, and he would arrange a way to turn him into his pawn. And if that didn't work? Well, he had already been looking for something that he could offer those damned Demons so they would leave him and his experiments alone.

It was a win-win situation.

That Time I got Reincarnated in a Magical World

Humans – normal ones – were stupidly weak against magic.

If I used my Persuasion Skill (the evolution of my Hypnotic Voice Skill) on mages like Sawyer sooner or later the effects of the magic would disappear, his magic rejecting the interference that mine caused. In normal humans though? We were on this little village being treated like kings for 3 months straight by now and nobody had broken out of my spell yet.

I did give them fairly simple orders, I just made them think that we were the vessels for the Gods that they prayed to – guess where I got that idea from? – and just like that we had people bowing to us each time they saw us. I think it might be giving a slightly big ego to those brats but as long as they don't f_u_c_k up my plans and continue to train diligently, I couldn't care less about what they do in their free time.

I had the best food available, the best house, the best everything really.

The occasional bandit also proportioned a good training practice for my magic so that was also accounted for. Even if those brats were always saying that I shouldn't lower myself to deal with treats as low as bandits.

Life was good.

Everything was going well.

So of course, Gildarts motherf_u_c_k_i_n_g Clive decided to appear and ruin all of my plans.

”Hey hey, why isn't this f_u_c_ker bowing?”

Okay, Gildarts had to admit this was the first time this happened to him.

In front of him there were two kids, probably not even twelve years old, one boy and one girl. The boy was looking at him like he was some kind of worm while the girl seemed to be trying to remember something. Were they the spoiled kids from the mayor of this town or something?

He decided to try being polite anyways. Only God know how Makarov would chew him out if he destroyed another village just because he lost control of his emotions. Again. For the third time. In two weeks. Gods he needed to train his control.

”Hahaha, you see, I am a mage from Fairy Tail, I am just passing by and wished to stay at this town's inn. How about you take me there and I will give you –”

They were not listening. From the moment he uttered the word mage their behavior changed completely. And when he said Fairy Tail they seemed to prepare for an eventual conflict. They went from two spoiled brats to two experienced fighters the moment they recognized me as a mage. Before I could speak, the girl, a beautiful young woman with medium length white hair spoke.

”Fairy Tail… isn't that?” she seemed to look at the boy for an answer, she wasn't pleased when the only thing the boy could do was nod, she seemed to finally look at him attentively since he reached this town and her face became paler the more time passed ”Is your name Gildarts?”

”Oh, I didn't think I was that famous! But don't worry kids, I'm a cool guy, you only need to show me the inn and –”

”Sawyer!”

{Gear Change: Blue Zone}!

”They… ran away?”

Truly, this was one strange day for Gildarts Clive.