"And that is why none but our dear detective look the same." Aki explained while finishing his scratch art on the mountain side. Only to turn back to a very bored and or confused audience.
A fit and completely bald black young man raised his hand.
"Yes Bob?"
"Boss, I don't think anyone understood what you ment." He said while getting several confirmations from his fellow dammed. Aki grunted and lowered the magicly raised rock wall, now full of scribbles
"Look, you all ever heard of Cain? First murderer?" He got several nods and some frowns from the ones that understood what he was getting at.
"So you mean black people did have a..."
"No Suzy, Cain didn't exist in our planet, black people were not genetically Inferior to white people and being gay doesn't go against God's words, just Yesu's, who was a lustful and chilacsing person for the time period he was raised at, but still raised over tons of concepts that intended to frame a minority for benefits." He imediatly interrupted the young neo-nazy. At the moment she was gorgeous, with full lips, cascading locks of black hair, a hourglass figure and an ebony skin that was so lustrous it would make models scream in jealousy. And she hated it so much Aki had to cuff her hands so she wouldn't scratch her skin away in a panic attack. "What I mean is that you are all experiencing a psicological effect that is comparable to Cain's mark. Something to mark you as a sinner. Bob looks unremarkable but creepy, Suzy is her worst nightmare with high chances of being raped and birthing a perfect specimen of what she loaths the most, Harry looks like an ugly and bloated ass that just had peeled lemons shoved inside their mouth and Jack looks like himself because it's the form he has corrupted with crimes of violence he regrets having used for attaining justice." And everyone understood what he ment now. Two people raised their hands still. "Harriet?" Aki allowed them to speak.
"I get what you mean on when you say we are torturing ourselves, but why am I a male?" Asked the sex addict with a ugly mug and almost two meters of fat.
"Less pleasure, more trouble you don't know how to deal with. Bob?" He imediatly answered.
"It's kind of embarrassing to ask, but you have any clue why I don't have a dick?" He asked, clearly not really comfortable, but not able to imagine a better time to ask. He'd only been wearing pants because he felt nude, but he didn't actually feel cold either.
"Because you have no trouble with sex or love, but you are afraid of leaving descendants, so this works both as a way to ensure that, and to humiliate you even if only a bit. By the bright side, you are now practically impossible to seduce. Jack there would kill for that." He said and got a nod as confirmation from the serious caucasian man in his thirties.
The detective didn't have any non-human characteristics or anything of the like, he was just mute and colorblind. Truth be told, that was a blessing for everyone else. A shame it wouldn't last. Hell just wasn't made to keep people like him.
"Ehh, excuse me, are we supposed to reach the city being sieged? Like, it's the one that matches the general description you gave, so..." Shily asked the woman in a cloak that fully covered her body and face. She didn't really try to do anything of the sort, but her voice sounded extra cute and was melodious in a way that made you wish to listen to her the whole day.
"Oh, yeah, we're going there do you guys can see how awesome my wife is. According to S9 she's ripping through the attacking army." Aki said, looking at the general direction of Louela, still some hundreds of kilometers away.
He didn't expect the snickers at the end though.
"I know I'm very clingy, but is it really that funny that I want to show off my wife?" He asked, a bit confused. Even Bob and the detective were looking at him strange. Harriet explained it though.
"Dude, you named a giant floating crystal Sixty-nine?" 'She' said and laughed a bit more.
"I... Fuck. I did. It was supposed to be something like super-man's S, roughly meaning the hope of the nine, but I guess there only one other earthling back home and she is just that much done with me to tell me I'd done something like that." He muttered and facepalmed. "It already likes the name so much too..."
*****
*Bang*
A man suddenly lost his left leg, his flight speed reduced as he caught himself twirling in the air, his mount long dead.
There were already only half of the original twenty griffin knights, all killed by unseen projectiles, a teleporting cloaked figure swinging unseen blades, waves of acid and unexplained attacks from each other.
As they flew towards the piece of rock that seemed to have been rapidly excavated out of the ground, their courage was quickly undermined, whispers of solace that woefully called for their surrender repeated themselves in a begging tone in their minds over and over again.
*****
"So no one comments on it and he will never know. I'll pay." Not really. "So just keep grinding and don't mind my buffs or the fact that I took you from literal hell. No, but seriously, these guys are impressive. I've been pressing on their minds from the moment they showed up, but none actually gave up before dying. They probably pray like they're suking dick or something, because no way they're all under a blessing or invested so heavily in WIS for it to matter against me." Aki exclaimed, maintaining several buffs, an AoE maddening attack and two gravity wells propelling the little rock island forward.
"Boss, if you don't mind me asking, how much WIS do you have?" Herriet said, trying her luck. She herself was diagnosed by the system to have 250 in most her stats and 1k points in the mentioned stat before any modifiers were applied, and she was really curious as to how she was the one being damaged when she'd attacked him back when they met.
"About 23k." He nonchalantly said, making the ugly succubus nod, then notice what he'd said and widen her eyes.
"How the actual fuck is your stat so diferent?! Aren't we supposed to be the same grade?" The ugly bubble of fat momentarily turned into a beautiful ginger with emerald eyes, but it rapidly returned.
"I have two skills and a class bonus that multiply each other. My other stats are also multiplied, but I only got these skills because I'm practically cheating and using something that is not in the system at all. At max you're supposed to have one stat multiplier plus the all rounder, and that is only if you get a huge change at once. Getting a class that helps with stats is ridiculously rare though, and it can only at max double each stat. You guys think you're able to hear how the system raises our stats like this?" He asked his very headache and migraine filled crew.
"Wait, this is the system fucking with us?!" Screamed Suzy, her face taken away from her cuffed hands for but a moment before the light made her eyes hurt.
"Oh, right, forgot to tell you there's a system of authorization that determines what kind of info can be told to you, but there's no problem with the info you find out yourself or are not too dangerous, the later simply becomes impossible to perceive." He explained while using telekinesis to hold Jack's bone rifle so he could shoot his next target.
*Bang*
*****
"I'M BACK!" Screamed Aki. From high up on the sky, during a skydive. Followed by his demonic entourage.
It was night time, and he was most certainly in line of impact with the enemy camp. While waving over to the giant spider that showed up on the wall, receiving several waves back.
Now, even if he'd reached terminal velocity, with 2.5k of Vitality, Aki could very well walk it off after a few spells. No one else but Bob was in any situation to do anything of the like though, so it was a good thing when they suddenly de-accelerated and Aki just gently set them up on the ground.
"Ok everyone, just hold them off for five, two and a half minutes and I'll take the whole army on. Bob, you tank. Natalie, you're our rogue. Jack, prepare for mid ranged combat and shoot whoever looks the most pissed. Suzy, you handle the command and organization while I'm casting. Harry... Do your thing." Aki said in their mental channel for convenience sake, getting all his wobbly teammates to gather their wits. You don't just live in hell and somehow choose not to fight, all of them know what to do, nevermind they actually had a commander and companions this time.
As a result, more than a thousand men and women were massacred. And than all survivors just disappeared.
Screams, marching footsteps, orders, all stopped. No one remained. As all spells hit, all arrows and throwables fell, only a sudden gush of wind made any noise.
"Ehh... Boss, please tell me that was you and nothing creepy will happen." Bob asked with some apprehension, as if bodies were going to start falling from the sky.
"No one's falling from the sky, no." That made half the dammed sigh in relief. "There's going to be lots of corpses splattering randomly from here to wherever these people were teleported from though." Aki said with a chuckle.
And he was right. Right about then, a couple pairs of arms and legs fells from thin air, a considerable distance between some and more than a kilometer between one and the rest. Then half a head feel between that.
The actual result spanned several hundred kilometers, but that was about what was visible from their position.
It wouldn't be instantaneous, some people might actually survive and end up maimed, or even whole, but it wasn't pretty.
Mainly in the enemy capital, of course.
What Aki did was complex, sure, even with his enhanced stats it was hard, but the idea was also quite simple. He just did a slopy job on teleporting the army in front of him to the last place they had come in contact with a high amount of space attribute. Add to that his perfect image of said place after getting a 360° image from the mind of those present and it's geographic positioning, he could trace a rapazard and collapse-prone teleportation anchor from here to there.
Of course, this got him 50 points on intelligence, a level in space magic and magical excellency, but the main advantage he got from this was the jab at the enemy's morale.
*****
In the enemy capital:
"I am sorry citizen, but please, leave the vicinity of the walls and..." The guard was interrupted as a series of screams suddenly interrupted his rapazard speech.
*SCREEEEEEEEEEECCCHHHHH*
Suddenly, there was one much worse, guttural and strange scream.
"DON'T LISTEN TO THE SCREAMS MY CHILDREN! THESE ARE BUT PETTY TRICKS THE ENEMY PLAY!" Said the floating and shining man that suddenly appeared, it's voice not loud, but encompassing all those present. His appearance radiated warmth, his words guiding. With a wave of the imposing figure's hand, the screams stopped, the flesh and teeth monstrosity that latched onto pieces of the deceased let go. The figure dissappeared, but it's voice soon echoed again. "THESE, ARE THE REASONS WE MUST END THEM." It said before disappearing and leaving behind the mess of gore below the walls.
*****
"This means they won't be teleportating another advanced party so soon, so let's not focus on such grin topics. Instead, how's the construction of that church I ordered? Have the paper plants been build yet? The recruiting of dexterous unemployed women? The childcare center? The poster production?" Aki raised several questions over projects that were due to recent dates, making many on the room loosen up a bit with the nonchalance. Of the man who'd just killed five thousand people with his own hands, but still, that was surprisingly easy to keep out of mind when said person had been harmlessly playing with a baby and made moves on social projects while smiling charmingly.
A fine example of social manipulation and one of the more cynical reasons Alma is allowed inside court, yes.
"All on its way and the paper plant will be starting production a bit after dawn. The untimely call leaves me unable to gather a more detailed report though." Said Samal while holding a purple straw with his teeth and playing with it.
"Were you... Forget it, would be like trying to sensor Jojo. Anyways, I'm very proud that no parliamentary government was established while I was away, and sorry for the late night call, so I'm going to keep it brief. These three people here are going to be integrated into the ministries of culture, regulation of public image and law enforcement, respectively, As consultors, the first of their kind. While related, that isn't why I bought you all here though. Allow me to present Suzy, our newest head chemist and spearhead of our research industry into chemicals and related products. She knows much more than me on the area, allowing for new ideas and use of information I simply have been unable to find available from anywhere else in the living universe. She's a bit of a loose tongue and an intolerant piece of garbage that exemplifies why humanity has their reputation of trash, so try not to mind what she says too much. Yes, that's why she's gaged. Since our court currently consists of four races with several differences even between them, it pains me to leave someone like this in a place they can cause harm to the lives of others, but our dire need of improvement leaves me no choice but to entitle someone who needs severe guidance, so we will also be electing a representative to keep an eye on her and further help manage all the duties that come with her new job. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to thank you all for all your work and ask that any matter you fell should be said to me for further advice. We work to make this place a better one, together."