“The summoning of the demon was a success?” A gruff male voice filled the dark chamber.
“Weren’t we trying to summon a spider demon?” Another male voice responded.
Logan slowly widened his eyes and squinted, trying to get a better look of the room. They spoke in some language that wasn’t from his world, but he instinctively understood it. They thought he was the broodmother he fought in the tutorial…
“Hello,” Logan greeted them. “You wouldn’t be summoning a broodmother, right?”
“Okay so do we… attack it? It clearly isn’t what we were trying to summon, I think,” Cultist 1 hesitantly said.
“Sure, but wouldn’t this be a very powerful entity if it was able to hijack our summoning?” Cultist 2 responded. “Nah, what am I talking about? This must be what happens when a ritual fails, an eighty percent success rate and whatnot.”
“Hey, Logan, my comrade pal buddy mate chum companion friendo, I don’t think these guys think very highly of you! Want me to… deal with them!?” Logan’s friendly mindworm asked. “Sure, why not,” he responded.
Logan heard his own voice scream, “BEHOLD MY GREATEST TECHNIQUE, THE TWIST OF FATE!!!”
Both of the cultists collapsed, groaning. “What did you do to them? I didn’t see any qi used… Also please don’t call that my greatest technique,” Inquired Logan. A voice from the back of his skull replied in its usual cheery voice, “I twisted their jewels, if you know what i mean, exactly two hundred thirty one degrees counterclockwise with my mind! Since they aren’t worth your beautiful techniques! Great job on those by the way! Your memories are very boring though, you could have had a more eventful life for me!”
The way too cheerful mindworm freaked Logan out. He chose to ignore it most of the time, but now it was just unnecessarily evil. Now that he thought about it, the mindworm never specified if it was good o- I’m good! Those guys were evil, I swear! It even interrupted him sometimes. Truly the makings of a villain.
“I’m going to kill you, you lucky bitch!” One of the cultists screamed. Lucky? Logan didn’t remember being especially ‘lucky,’ and he honestly would rather take his chances at a new life in a different sect instead of being transported into the tutorial when he died.
The cultist that shouted at him got up on shaky legs and pointed at him. According to the knowledge the system imparted at the beginning of the tutorial, cultists were people trying to end the world or some other kind of evil goal. Logan sent a heaven’s descent at both of them, the little vortexes of qi sucking their innards out and spilling them on the floor in a gorey display of blood, screams, and qi.
Logan felt a small presence on his ankle, and slowly looked down. The sight horrified him. A small spider was sitting on the bottom of his leg. Screaming, Logan created a qi void centered on it.
***
Exiting the collapsed building, Logan looked around to see a small yet empty village. There were many houses with qi-enforced walls, mostly earth and wood qi. His spiritual sense told him that there were people in around one in four houses.
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Logan went into one of the empty houses, and to his surprise there were three corpses on the floor. Logan’s mindworm picked that moment to start screaming at him in his own voice. “Hey Logan! Logan! LOGAN! There are footsteps leading to the window over there, and you can very faintly smell the direction in which the guy left! Kill him!”
Deciding to avenge the dead people, the sight of whom Logan strangely didn’t feel repulsed by, Logan pushed off the qi in the air with surprising ease, even though he needed to add some from his core to correct the density. Following the glowing trail in his vision, surely the mindworm’s doing, Logan eventually found a man dressed entirely in black imitating a statue. He stood so still that Logan thought he saw the edges of the man’s body fading into the world.
Logan raised a hand and sent a few heaven’s descents at him. For some reason, the man dressed in purple barely dodged at the last second, eyes bulged. “Wha- how did you see me?” The murderer asked, “I was using the invisibility skill! Nobody below level 200 should be able to sense me!”
The man received a response in the form of a vortex of qi. He dodged again, only to be met with ten more coming towards him. He temporarily sped up his thought process to three hundred times his usual in order to look around and figure out a way to get away from this man.
***
Master will surely kill me if I don’t finish burning this village to the ground… but at the same time, this… this monster will get me first if I try to stay here. He might even be over level 200 if he saw me, and the way he used that powerful skill without a cooldown… I’ll have to use my teleport scroll.
[300x thought speed has worn off]
Felix tore the enchanted paper and the world collapsed on itself.
[1x Teleportation Scroll has been consumed]
Looking around, Felix noticed something strange. He had thought of his secret base as the location for the teleport, and this clearly wasn’t it. He heard the system’s usual chime in the back of his head.
[:D]
What?
[Error… Stronger syste- :D]
An oddly cheerful voice read out the system’s notification. Felix tried to open his inventory.
[Inventory]
Legendary
[:D]
Rare
[T7 Su- Error: :D]
[T5 La- Error: :D]
Unco- :D
[:D]
[:D]
C- :D
:D
:D
Error… System shutting down; source of error: [:D]
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Felix kept screaming in his mind as he found that he couldn’t open his mouth. Or do anything for that matter. He saw the world in gray and he realized this is what the world looked like when his thought process was sped up.
The assassin reflected on his recent decisions. Then the less recent ones. After months of non stop thinking, Felix simply ran out of thoughts. And so, what seemed like years later, he emerged out of his trance with white hair and drool on his face. He screamed for a moment and collapsed on the ground, his brain dead. Plastered on his face was a smile resembling a capital letter D.
***
Logan followed his unwanted yet helpful companion’s instructions, following the bright green arrows hovering above his targets. One by one, they were all eliminated. He hovered down to the ground and began meditating. Qi was drawn into his core, now with higher efficiency even with the lesser density in the surroundings. The mindworm eliminated distractions, which Logan was thankful for. What Logan wasn’t thankful for, on the other hand, was what the mindworm counted as distractions.
Once his core was full, Logan opened his eyes. His cheek muscles were slightly sore from unknowingly holding up a wide smile. Crowded around him was a small group of people, all on their knees.
“O great mana god, please spare us!”
What the fu- :D! No profanity!
For the first time… ever, really, Logan was at a loss for words.