Even though i upgraded my powers two times, i was still unable to use the teleportion ability so i was walking after the guide thread in a faster speed.
It took me twenty minutes to eliminate those monsters...i guess that's not that bad.
And about the new ability that i just achieved...
If i'm not mistaken a 'player' is the same as 'zoner'.
[NOPE.]
Eh?! Delord's back again?! Why's the timing so weird...he suddenly disappears then appears out of nowhere in the most random timings. Not to mention that whenever he appears he's disagreeing on something with me!!!
Honestly it makes my blood boil.
[I'M DISAGREEING BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS WRONG WITH YOUR MONOLOGUE ASSUMPTIONS.]
Urgh...see?!
[A 'PLAYER' INSIDE DE-ZONE CAN BE ANYTHING THAT CARRIES MANA.]
“In other words...?!”
[IN OTHER WORDS, MONSTERS, OUTCASTS, NON-ZONERS AND ZONERS ALL CAN BE YOUR PLAYERS.]
Woah! That was uexpected...even monsters?!
“Wait but non-zoners don't carry mana within themselves though?!”
[EVERY CREATURE INSIDE DE-ZONE CARRIES MANA. NON-ZONERS ARE NO EXCEPTION BUT THEIR AMOUNT IS LOWER THAN 5% SO THAT MAKES THEM ALMOST NORMAL HUMANS.]
Uh-ah...so that's how it is...!
But something's weird here and that's...
Delord's personality...!!!
Was he always like this?! And why did he ignore my monologue about how he appears and disappears out of nowhere in random timings?!
Is it because...
[You've arrived at the requested location.]
Huh?!
Diving deep into my thoughts made me almost overlook the fact that i was standing at where the map showed Arima and Iwata Ray supposed to be.
“But they're nowhere to be found!!!”
Where they disappeared to?!
I looked at the map over and over again but i couldn't find them anywhere near me.
The map was literally showing their names where i was standing.
“Is this a glitch, your majesty?!”
[IT SOMETIMES HAPPEN. DE-ZONE ISN'T COMPLETED YET SO IT RANDOMLY TELEPORTS PROPLE IN THE MAIN DIMENSION.]
The main what?! Why am i hearing about this just now?! I mean i know i'm not aware of Then what's going to happen to Arima?!
“Does he know he's somewhere else?! How am i supposed to contact him?!”
[RELAX. HE'LL COME BACK EVENTUALLY.]
No...how can i relax?! I have to talk to him...about everything!
[DUDE. YOU'RE JUST WORRIED.]
“No i'm not. He tried to kill me.”
Ugh this nosy emperor knows me well.
[THEN WHY DO YOU WANT TO SAVE HIM?]
Am i?! Am i really trying to save someone's life that i don't even trust yet?!
But more importantly...i think this dimension thing happened before as well.
“When i lost Rounin in the death station and just noticed the shape of the station has changed slightly...”
[THAT'S RIGHT. YOU WERE TELEPORTED IN THE MAIN DIMENSION FOR A FEW MINUTES THAT TIME.]
After hearing those words something heavy was felt inside my chest.
My negative intuition was getting mixed with fear, uncertainity and anxiety.
What if i wake up one day and see myself in another world?! Or even worse, teleport to the main dimension and getting killed when i'm asleep...our lives are really at a great risk just by simply existing inside this zone!
So this is...what Dezone is...!!!
Those possibilities that i was making inside my head was driving me nuts and all i could think of was me being completely useless at a time like this.
“Ahhh so you're here!”
I heard a familiar voice that i wished i did not.
I didn't know how but Egawa Isao and his wild, stray dogs found me. That familiar annoying voice that i heard a few moments ago belonged to him.
“How could you come out alive from that nass of water?!”
They're not letting me be, are they?!
“Hey, dezone system...can i fight these people?!” I whispered my question to the system without making it obvious.
Yoshino Hana came towards me and activated some kind of strange mana energy in her hand as if she was calling for something.
I could hear it clearly. It echoed and spoke in an unfamiliar language.
“But they're nowhere to be found!!!”
Where they disappeared to?!
I looked at the map over and over again but i couldn't find them anywhere near me.
The map was literally showing their names where i was standing.
“Is this a glitch, your majesty?!”
[IT SOMETIMES HAPPEN. DE-ZONE ISN'T COMPLETED YET SO IT RANDOMLY TELEPORTS PROPLE IN THE MAIN DIMENSION.]
The main what?! Why am i hearing about this just now?! I mean i know i'm not aware of Then what's going to happen to Arima?!
“Does he know he's somewhere else?! How am i supposed to contact him?!”
[RELAX. HE'LL COME BACK EVENTUALLY.]
No...how can i relax?! I have to talk to him...about everything!
[DUDE. YOU'RE JUST WORRIED.]
“No i'm not. He tried to kill me.”
Ugh this nosy emperor knows me well.
[THEN WHY DO YOU WANT TO SAVE HIM?]
Am i?! Am i really trying to save someone's life that i don't even trust yet?!
But more importantly...i think this dimension thing happened before as well.
“When i lost Rounin in the death station and just noticed the shape of the station has changed slightly...”
[THAT'S RIGHT. YOU WERE TELEPORTED IN THE MAIN DIMENSION FOR A FEW MINUTES THAT TIME.]
After hearing those words something heavy was felt inside my chest.
My negative intuition was getting mixed with fear, uncertainity and anxiety.
What if i wake up one day and see myself in another world?! Or even worse, teleport to the main dimension and getting killed when i'm asleep...our lives are really at a great risk just by simply existing inside this zone!
So this is...what Dezone is...!!!
Those possibilities that i was making inside my head was driving me nuts and all i could think of was me being completely useless at a time like this.
“Ahhh so you're here!”
I heard a familiar voice that i wished i did not.
I didn't know how but Egawa Isao and his wild, stray dogs found me. That familiar annoying voice that i heard a few moments ago belonged to him.
“How could you come out alive from that nass of water?!”
They're not letting me be, are they?!
“Hey, dezone system...can i fight these people?!” I whispered my question to the system without making it obvious.
Yoshino Hana came towards me and activated some kind of strange mana energy in her hand as if she was calling for something.
I could hear it clearly. It echoed and spoke in an unfamiliar language.
Then suddenly i could hear a bunch of loud running footsteps getting closer to where we were.
“Stay back everyone. Let the outcasts do their thing.”
Yoshino Hana used her magic in an specific volume to call for the outcasts and as a result brought around fifty of them to the area we were standing.
But isn't this also a disadvantage for them as well?!
As the outcasts were getting closer and closer, Isao and his companions were backing off from the other side of the street.
It was too dark and i couldn't see what was happening at the moment.
The only thing that i realised was that...they were using me as a decoy.
But no matter how much they get far from here...as long as they emit mana, they attract these outcasts towards themselves as well.
I thought i might lose bunch of them coming after me due to Isao and his friends' presence as well but i was too fool to consider other possiblities.
They were collectively coming after me with no doubts...as if they were programmed to do such action.
That was when i remembered Arima's words in the death station when he said i emit an abnormal amount of mana pulses that could be dangerous for my own good.
“Tch...so these people noticed it and used it against me.”
That might be why these outcasts rather come after me than them. They get attached to high mana quality and quantity.
Arima might have been right all along. Right now i'm just like a lost and lonely deer in a wild forest.
[INSTEAD OF WHINING JUST SUBMIT THESE UGLY CREATURES.]
The what?! Can i?!
[WHY NOT?! THEY'RE IN A LOWER CLASS THAN YOU IN ALL AESPECTS. FACING THEM ALL IS JUST GONNA DRAIN YOUR STAMINA.]
So they knew from the beggining that i'm going to defeat them all so they got a plan B and that was to drain my energy and stamina.
“Nice Delord, Thank you.”
The manitor inside the boxes above each of those outcasts had a message that it was completely different from what i've seen until then compared to anyone else's.
[Ready to submit this player? Yes or No.]
“Yes!”
[Player number: 01 submitted.]
As long as i submitted one of those outcasts, it's eye colors and aura turned from red to a turquoise one.
“I have to submit them one by one?! But that's gonna take awhile!”
[YOU HAVE NO CHOICE AT THE LEVEL YOU ARE RIGHT NOW.]
Then i have to use player: 01 as a shield and get the other ones.
As i was dodging their attacks i had to choose the 'yes' button everytime i came across an enemy outcast and use the ones that were serving me against them until i submit them as my soldiers.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.”
The outcasts that i submitted were all surrounding and syncing their movements with me.
As i went on and on, collecting more outcasts on my side, the circle around me became bigger and bigger. They didn't have a will on their own and moved as i pleased just like the soldier pieces of a chess board, protecting their king.
[Player number: 50 submitted.]
That was the last piece that i captured as my own.
I came to this conclusion that my magic has it's own color. My mana's identity can be recognized from the turquoise colored lights and whenever i used my magical abilities, my forhead's mark started to show up and shine on it's own.
Isao and his companions might have seen what i just did here and this alone can make things worse for me.
I was right. As i rolled my eyes around to look for their presense, i saw their shocked expressions staring at me.
As if they were looking at a rare monster.
Maybe i can use this as my advantage!
Isao was coming towards me slowly and he suddenly started to clap his hands.
“Now i know why Mr Iwata didn't let us kill you.”
He said Iwata?! As for Iwata Ray? The name that i'm seeing with Arima's in the map!?
“I don't have time to waste with the likes of you!”
“Hahaha...did you get cocky after getting these weakling's control?”
Isao brought out his hands from his pockets and pointed them towards the front. With one move, he killed all the fifty outcasts that i captured hardly as my players.
“Stay back everyone. Let the outcasts do their thing.”
Yoshino Hana used her magic in an specific volume to call for the outcasts and as a result brought around fifty of them to the area we were standing.
But isn't this also a disadvantage for them as well?!
As the outcasts were getting closer and closer, Isao and his companions were backing off from the other side of the street.
It was too dark and i couldn't see what was happening at the moment.
The only thing that i realised was that...they were using me as a decoy.
But no matter how much they get far from here...as long as they emit mana, they attract these outcasts towards themselves as well.
I thought i might lose bunch of them coming after me due to Isao and his friends' presence as well but i was too fool to consider other possiblities.
They were collectively coming after me with no doubts...as if they were programmed to do such action.
That was when i remembered Arima's words in the death station when he said i emit an abnormal amount of mana pulses that could be dangerous for my own good.
“Tch...so these people noticed it and used it against me.”
That might be why these outcasts rather come after me than them. They get attached to high mana quality and quantity.
Arima might have been right all along. Right now i'm just like a lost and lonely deer in a wild forest.
[INSTEAD OF WHINING JUST SUBMIT THESE UGLY CREATURES.]
The what?! Can i?!
[WHY NOT?! THEY'RE IN A LOWER CLASS THAN YOU IN ALL AESPECTS. FACING THEM ALL IS JUST GONNA DRAIN YOUR STAMINA.]
So they knew from the beggining that i'm going to defeat them all so they got a plan B and that was to drain my energy and stamina.
“Nice Delord, Thank you.”
The manitor inside the boxes above each of those outcasts had a message that it was completely different from what i've seen until then compared to anyone else's.
[Ready to submit this player? Yes or No.]
“Yes!”
[Player number: 01 submitted.]
As long as i submitted one of those outcasts, it's eye colors and aura turned from red to a turquoise one.
“I have to submit them one by one?! But that's gonna take awhile!”
[YOU HAVE NO CHOICE AT THE LEVEL YOU ARE RIGHT NOW.]
Then i have to use player: 01 as a shield and get the other ones.
As i was dodging their attacks i had to choose the 'yes' button everytime i came across an enemy outcast and use the ones that were serving me against them until i submit them as my soldiers.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.”
The outcasts that i submitted were all surrounding and syncing their movements with me.
As i went on and on, collecting more outcasts on my side, the circle around me became bigger and bigger. They didn't have a will on their own and moved as i pleased just like the soldier pieces of a chess board, protecting their king.
[Player number: 50 submitted.]
That was the last piece that i captured as my own.
I came to this conclusion that my magic has it's own color. My mana's identity can be recognized from the turquoise colored lights and whenever i used my magical abilities, my forhead's mark started to show up and shine on it's own.
Isao and his companions might have seen what i just did here and this alone can make things worse for me.
I was right. As i rolled my eyes around to look for their presense, i saw their shocked expressions staring at me.
As if they were looking at a rare monster.
Maybe i can use this as my advantage!
Isao was coming towards me slowly and he suddenly started to clap his hands.
“Now i know why Mr Iwata didn't let us kill you.”
He said Iwata?! As for Iwata Ray? The name that i'm seeing with Arima's in the map!?
“I don't have time to waste with the likes of you!”
“Hahaha...did you get cocky after getting these weakling's control?”
Isao brought out his hands from his pockets and pointed them towards the front. With one move, he killed all the fifty outcasts that i captured hardly as my players.
How can he be this cruel?! These were the type of outcasts that had no weapons sticked to their bodies.
Which means...they were actually humans before!!!
“Eh?! Are you angry because i killed your soldiers?! Or...because you think they're actually humans?! Don't make me laugh.”
I didn't realise that i was making a weird face full of anger and sadness.
At that moment i whispered. “Your majesty...can you lend me your powers?!”
[YOU'RE ALREADY USING MY POWERS THOUGH?]
No i mean...more than the level i am right now!!!
[Request declined.]
So he leaves me at a time like this? Is my anger getting the best of me right now?!
Egawa Isao's records...
[HEALTH: 82%. MANA: 65%.]
Can i submit him as my player?!
[To submit this player you need to unlock level: 50 or more.]
Sigh...so i have no chance against this guy, huh?!
Isao made the same moves towards me this time, trying to redo the same attack that he did towards the outcasts.
He killed the fifty of them in a span of seconds...which means, the damage of his attack is too big!!!
What if i can't heal myself faster than his attack's damage?!
Which means...they were actually humans before!!!
“Eh?! Are you angry because i killed your soldiers?! Or...because you think they're actually humans?! Don't make me laugh.”
I didn't realise that i was making a weird face full of anger and sadness.
At that moment i whispered. “Your majesty...can you lend me your powers?!”
[YOU'RE ALREADY USING MY POWERS THOUGH?]
No i mean...more than the level i am right now!!!
[Request declined.]
So he leaves me at a time like this? Is my anger getting the best of me right now?!
Egawa Isao's records...
[HEALTH: 82%. MANA: 65%.]
Can i submit him as my player?!
[To submit this player you need to unlock level: 50 or more.]
Sigh...so i have no chance against this guy, huh?!
Isao made the same moves towards me this time, trying to redo the same attack that he did towards the outcasts.
He killed the fifty of them in a span of seconds...which means, the damage of his attack is too big!!!
What if i can't heal myself faster than his attack's damage?!
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