“Incoming fire has the right of way.” — Unknown
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[ALERT! Danger approaching. Exercise extreme caution!]
“Jesus, I got woken up to this. Ugh… Let’s see what my tablet has to say.”
I slowly rose up as the blanket that was covering me slid to the floor of the carriage. Taking out her ‘Command Tablet,’ I immediately scanned the surroundings. On the screen, I saw one large red dot heading towards the three green dots. The green dots represent Eiki and her friends as friendlies and from the look of things, they made camp while I was out cold in the carriage. I also noticed the other red dot was rapidly approaching the camp. My attempt to analyze the target resulted in failure and after a quick thinking, it was decided that I will confront the unknown target head on before it even makes it to here.
“Emperor set, it’s time for you to shine.”
I whispered as a M4A1-S Emperor materialized in my right hand. At first glance, the M4A1-S Emperor does not look like any ordinary M4A1-S. This rifle features a unique dragon-themed skin with yellow-red-green color scheme covering the entire gun. On the right side of the M4A1-S Emperor, a Glock 18C Emperor is attached to the side of the magazine compartment which gives the wielder tactical close-range advantage. Getting off from the carriage, I quickly threw a quick glance to the camp where Eiki and the rest where resting. Making sure none of them were awake, Eliza stealthily slid away into the dark forest to intercept the unknown target.
After venturing into a clearing in the forest, I realized that this place offers a perfect ambush opportunity that I wasn’t going to pass up. Thinking back on my trek, it never occurred to me that the forest in this world was denser than the forest I was used to. Even with a full moon hovering over could not illuminate the densest part. I quickly shook my head to erase such thoughts as it was already giving me a feeling of homesickness. Scanning the trees, I located one with a branch that looked strong enough to hold my weight. I proceeded to approach the tree to start climbing it using my BC Axe as a climbing tool.
First, I went through the material section of my inventory to locate a rope, then tied the rope to the BC Axe. Making sure the rope was tightly fastened, I threw the axe as high and as hard up into the tree in front of me. I never fully inspected my strength that is until I heard a crack, looking up I saw the axe anchored deep within the tree. Yanking the rope twice to make sure the axe was firmly planted; I began climbing as I holstered my M4A1-S Emperor on my back. I finally reached the branch and positioned myself inside a hole inside the tree. Looking closely at the interior of the hole, I noticed that this was wasn’t a natural tree formed hole.
“This must have been made by something inhu-“
My voice trailed off as I noticed a silhouette figure of a person flying down from the sky. No, I wouldn’t call what I am seeing a person, more like a monster. One detail that caught my eye was that the figure was covered completely in black, even when the light from the moon that shines upon it the blackness didn’t disappear. The figure stopped halfway before touching the ground, spinning in a 360-degree manner, as if ‘it’ was looking for something or someone. A sudden realization hit me. There was no one here except me and ‘it’ but there was no way ‘it’ could’ve noticed.
“Unless it has intelligence.”
I whispered lightly as I raised my M4A1-S Emperor at the unknown entity. With the dragon head ornament covering the rail and the barrel protruding from within it with the attached silencer at the end, I saw the head of the figure look straight at me. My heart skipped a beat and without hesitation I pulled the trigger. Under the noise of the forest inhabitants, the sound of a body falling was heard and I immediately rappled down to the ground. I cautiously made my approach, gun aimed at the body and the beating of my heart increased. I slowly knelt as I used the dragon bayonet to poke at it. Before the bayonet made contact, I quickly somersaulted over the lifeless body. To my amazement, the body disappeared right before my eyes.
“Tsk, here I am hoping to catch you off guard. But somehow you saw through my trick.”
I heard a female voice that sounded seductive. After landing my somersault, I turned around with my whole body crouched and my gun pointed at ‘it’. Standing before me was a seductive beauty, she has long violet hair with matching eyes. There was not even a hint of imperfection throughout her body. However, my eyes caught sight of two bat like wings and a heart shaped tail on her back. I glanced at her hair one more time and I noticed two demonic horns that wasn’t there the first time. Next I scanned her attire; she wore some sort of animal skin material that covered her breast and crotch. Below her bellybutton, I caught sight of what looks like a heart tattoo that were semi-glowing. From what I can conclude, this being has low defense capabilities, but her peerless beauty makes up for it which can make her a perfect assassin.
“Like what you see? Hm? Why don’t you point that scary thing down so we can... Say, get to know each other better.”
The entity casted a wink at me which my ‘Core’ system registered as an attack.
[WARNING! Hostile used ‘Charm’!]
[Hostile ‘Charm’ has no effect. User passive, ‘Adaption’ rendered attack inert]
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“What? How come my ‘Charm’ didn’t work? Y-you. What… no… Who are you?”
The female entity casted a hostile glare at me while I was still sorting through her ‘Charm’ information. I gave her a light shrug.
“I’m Eliza, a ‘Saint’ and ‘Vetris Beloved Child’… Apparently.’
Her eyes widen with shock when she realized the identity of her prey. The next moment, she vanished and reappeared right in front of me. I noticed that her fingernails on her right hand were long and sharp. With her right arm outstretched, she swung her claw at my head. I ducked in the nick of time as her nails shredded my hood. Using the buttstock of my M4 Emperor which had three sharp knives like blades on the bottom plate, I managed to push her back by puncturing her lower right ribcages. I made two steps backward to distance myself away from her attack range. As I was observing the damage, the wound that was briefly there vanished which both surprised and irritated me at the same time. This demoness has either a healing skill or self-regenerating capabilities. While catching my breath, I decided it was best to stall for a tiny bit of time while my special attack finish charging.
“Miss demon, may I ask who you and the reason are you are here?”
I stared intensely at her and for a second I thought I saw her flinch.
“Wha? Don’t lump me with those other low life demons! I am Lilith! The Succubus Queen! I do not need to tell you as you well fall here, alone!
The succubus replied with anger as she hovered over the trees. Calculating the height of the tree that Lilith was next to which was roughly 4.5 feet and considering the distance spread out between me and her. I concluded that she was still within range of my assault rifle, I smirked a little, oh no its starting to show on my face but oh well. Time to proceed with the finale as a notification popped up on the lower left side of my vision.
[M4A1-S Emperor fully charged; Electrical rounds ready]
“Succubus Queen Lilith, Are you sure about my demise?”
Lilith confused at the meaning behind my question, saw that the weapon that her shadow copy was shot with was glowing.
“Unleashing bolt charged rounds!”
I pulled on the trigger three times as I motioned the rifle sideways, up and down. A hail of electric bolts was sent flying in all directions towards Lilith.
Realizing that something bad was coming towards her, Lilith quickly casted a barrier spell however it was no use as the bolt penetrated through her barrier. The electric bolts grazed her left and right legs and one struck her left shoulder. Lilith quickly glanced at her wings to see that the bolts missed them. She took one last look at the weapons that shot the bolts.’
“Dangerous. that thing is dangerous! You won this time! But the next time we meet , I will turn you into my tool!”
She declared while flying away, leaving me with raised left eyebrow. After I saw Lilith disappear, I quickly made sure the clearing was safe mostly since the ground was loitered with loots. Since my bolt barrage didn’t dealt a critical blow to Lilith, the bolts sure grazed parts of her as I saw pieces of her carcass armor were spread across the ground. I begun picking them up as possible crafting ingredients and as I was about to pick up the last armor piece, I saw a pendant with an eerie looking eye. I guess it must had come off from the succubus as she was grazed all over by my bolt barrage.
[Evolution material Succubus Queen Eye picked up!
Succubus Race unlocked!
Head to Bio Caste Designation Facility for more details.]
“O-oh. Uh… That’s uh… nice to know... wait.”
A sudden realization hit me like a fast-moving bullet train.
“HOLY SHIT! I can change race!? Whuuhhhhh!?”
It’s already been three days since I arrived at this world in this body. With my cheats system that integrated with this body, I thought I became some sort of superhuman being, however I was stupefied at the discovery that for a ‘Saint’ can change her race? Especially if it is one loved by Vetris…
“Yup, I am definitely this is going to be something I need to ask Vetris when I meet her.”
I gave myself a facepalm as I struggle to figure out exactly what I am. Which is why that upon reaching the next village, I need to run a complete self-diagnostic to figure out whether if this body is still human or did my arrival changed it to something else. But firstly, I need to head back to camp before Eiki and the others notices my absences. Taking one last scan of the clearing, there was no more items to be picked up and began my walk back to camp.
I made my way back to camp however I was greeted with a chaotic scene. On the floor I saw Natuxi being restrained by some sort of magical chains. She was trying to break free and just as I was about to step in, Eiki, Furuya and Syvis filled me in on what had transpired while I was gone. It would seem Natuxi was inflicted with some sort of corruption before she joined the party. It took her a month before revealing her circumstances and six days ago before they were caught. After telling the party the truth, everyone decided to travel around the world to find a cure for Natuxi to break the corruption running rampant within her.
“That sums about her circumstances, and we soon later learned from the slave traders that demon lords were the only ones capable of casting corruption skills however Natuxi doesn’t remember the name nor what the one that gave her this corruption even looks like.”
While thinking to myself, I made one solid conclusion about Natuxi. She is a liability, a ticking bomb that can detonate at any given time. I also thought it would be best to give her ‘Mercy’ however that would upset the other people in Eiki’s party. The only person in the entire world that knows about the corruption is the goddess, Vetris herself. With my mind set on one goal, I guess I’ll stick around with this party until we free Natuxi from her hell.
“Eiki, I decided. I will accompany with your party to help Natuxi. However, there are certain conditions which I will later explain when we find an inn in the village.”
Eiki’s face light up like a light bulb and threw her whole self onto me. I crashed back first onto the ground while Eiki was smoothing her fox ears and hair all over my face.
“Eiki, I get it, I get it. Can you please get off me please?”
I struggled trying to push her off, but it seemed this young fox is hiding a stronger power as a worrisome notification popped up.
[Eiki analysis complete!
Updating data…
Name: Eiki
Age: 100 Years old (Still acts like a child though)
Race: Celestial Fox
Level:50
Class: Miko]
Eliza:[Pull up detail on ‘Celestial Fox’]
[Pulling up data. Standby…
Celestial Fox: A race birthed by Vetris herself. Selected few with the class job of Miko are messenger of Vetris. Miko’s are immune to internal corruption, should a Miko fall. Their loyalty to Vetris remains unwavered.]
I quietly let out a groan of regret.
“Oh... this is some major ‘Need for Speed’ bullshit development. And what did I get myself into.”