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Chapter 14 - Volume 1 - Chapter 14: Skyler The Photo Mage Part 2

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Lแดแด„แด€แด›ษชแดษด: ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ

Tษชแดแด‡: 10:01๐˜ข๐˜ฎ (4 ๐˜‹๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ด ๐˜ˆ๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ฌ๐˜บ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ'๐˜ด ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ)

Skyler: "Why am I here? Just to suffer."

It's morning and the skies outside shown that it was a clear sunny weather, atleast that's what I heard. Four or maybe only three days have passed since I've been summoned in this world and it didn't even go so well the way I expected it to. After violating me like some prostitute the bandits put me in jail and every single night did the same things to me over and over again, they gave me three meals a day and bathed me as well but not without a few molesting, seriously are these people homophobic or is this just how this world is supposed to be? Knowing Hiiro that might be the case since he's a homo too!

I can't smile anymore, I feel so thirsty and I'm such a wreck. My ass feels like it's going to break like any moment now and it stings, and they stole my fancy clothes and replaced them with dirty rags of unwashed clothes that reeked of sweat and blood. I touched my face with my right hand to confirm if I'm still alive or this is just a dream, if this is just a dream it's too freaking long and I want it to end, I want my virginity back of all things!

I stood up and tilted my head twice to survey my surroundings. I was in a dim room with mossy stone walls sitting on a straw bed, I glanced at a column of black poles or bars that rendered me unable to break out because of it's hardness and lock that didn't seem to budge no matter how much force I inserted(but I'm sure a simple car crash would atleast bend it), then a bracelet they forced on me that didn't allow me to use my photo magic.

Skyler: "What's with these magical things these bad guys have? They're literally OP!"

I picked up a small pebble on the ground and threw it at one of the black poles. The moment the pebble came in contact with it's mass, it vanished then came out on the other side of the room, it simply passed through. The pebble clattered on the ground creating some distant sounds on the other side of the room. The outside seemed like a sort of underground prison except I was aware I was the only one within 300 meters using one of my passive skills. The [๐˜Œ๐˜น๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜—๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ] skill I have was more like a genetic ability rather than magic so it wasn't sealed away by the purple bracelet that the appearance of a curled snake on my right hand.

Skyler: "Will I be here forever? Is this how my isekai life is going to be? This feels worse than how Subaru was treated."

Anthony: "Who are you talking to?"

The only one who was outside the bars and the only one assigned to keep an eye on me was the first person I've seen after getting isekai-ed, Anthony. A porky young lad with a robber mask and leather armor.

Skyler: "Oh nothing. When will you guys let go of me?"

Anthony: "I-I don't know."

An idea suddenly struck me, while I'm here I should get as much information as I can. Surely I'm not going to be stuck here forever or else that would be no fun for Azathoth.

Skyler: "Hey Anthony can I ask a few questions?"

Anthony: "I can't afford to talk to our prisoners."

Skyler: "Oh come on, please? I just want to hear about a few things in the country. I'm so bored, I'm not going to ask private stuff like your group."

After hesitating for a while while staring at a wall, he made up his decision.

Anthony: "A-Alright let's talk, I'm a little bored too. I haven't talked to anyone for the past 3 days."

Nice! I got myself a source of information so easily that it's starting to make me feel like it was Hiiro manipulating fate.

Skyler: "So uh, first question. Where are we exactly?"

Anthony: "We're in a cavern in the country of Halheiven. The lowest parts."

I felt a little awkward hearing such detailed information from an enemy, this guy is either clumsy or literally giving me information to help myself get out.

Anthony: "M-My turn to ask you questions, who are you and where are you from? And what were you doing in that place of all places, are you nuts?"

My stomach gave a big lurch, I'm doing my best to think of a legitimate story right now.

Skyler: "My name is Skyler Wilson, I'm from-"

Shit shit shit, I don't know what to say, he's looking at me confused right now. I will have to hope he's not thinking what I'm thinking, I'm just going to guess.

Skyler: "A-Arkham."

Arkham, fucking Arkham from Batman. I'm so dead aren't I? What if that don't even exist damn it.

Anthony: "Arkham? You mean Arkheist? You sure had a tough life to even forget your country's spelling."

Skyler: "Y-Yeah that's right! I sure suffered from you guys."

Anthony: "Oh so that means we're from the same country, I live in Berugen. Where you from?"

Skyler: "In the slums."

A fatass lie. By fat I didn't make Anthony as reference, okay?!

Anthony: "Seriously? Why did you go all the way to Halheiven?! We're like hundreds of miles away from Arkheist!"

My head is starting to spin in this conversation. instead of gaining information I'm getting rekt, I should end this quick.

Is what I thought, but we continued to talk for hours. He didn't really question me anymore and instead told me stories about his life which I gladly listened to since there was nothing to do and it were better than just laying down for days, if it were some simp I wouldn't listen to his riffraff but this guy is from a fantasy world where things are so interesting, ofcourse I'd listen. Then another question went out of my head and into my mouth.

Skyler: "Do you know Azathoth?"

He gave me a confused yet bewildered face from the question, he looked as thought he's never seen anything so stupid before.

Anthony: "You mean God? Ofcourse I do. He's the creator of all things and sometimes talk to the people."

Skyler: (Atleast the God in this world talks to his people, the so called God on Earth won't even talk to us.)

I replied to him with an "I see." and he continued on his life stories by now talking about his family's puberty.

Skyler: "Hey Anthony, why did you become a bandit?"

He stopped talking and looked sulky but still answered my question. Though reluctantly.

Anthony: "You heard about the war on Sarcia and our country, right?"

Suddenly, it may have been just my imagination but his eyes began to glimmer dangerously.

Anthony: "My older brother was a renowned merchant, he was the bread winner of our family. He sold rare magical items all over the country."

Skyler: "Was?"

I already knew where this was going with all the fantasy and tragic mangas I read.

Anthony: "Three Months ago he went to Sarcia to sell his goods and never came back. A week has passed and we didn't receive a letter from him until we caught word from gossips that he was beaten up then killed by Sarcian Soldiers and thrown in the Wandering Waterfalls, and now his body can't even be found to be given a proper burial. Their reason was he may have been a spy because of his relations to Arkheist."

Skyler: "I see, so because your bread winner brother died you came to puberty? Did you work?"

I stared at him but he averted his eyes from me.

Anthony: "My parents both worked in a bar, they were really upset about brother's death but ofcourse still needed to take care of my 4 younger siblings and I. But just recently my mother got poisoned by one of her customers and is sleeping to this day. The healer said she will die in 7 days time if not treated, my dad right now is working in multiple jobs to afford payment for her cure since the culprit ran off. He was exhausting himself and didn't really care about his health, so before anything worse happens."

Skyler: "You decided to be a bandit and steal money, huh?"

He gave me a nod as confirmation. Determination and absolute resolve visible in his eyes.

Skyler: "If you're caught what will happen?"

Anthony: "They might execute me, bandits are executed in public. That's to be expected for those who kill to gain other's wealth."

Skyler: "I see."

We didn't talk for 10 minutes straight. A loud explosion was heard from above us as the ground shook aggressively and both Anthony and I staggered and fell on the floor.

Anthony: "W-We're under attack!"

Skyler: "What should we do?"

Quickly and hastily, Anthony started rummaging a keyring with atleast more than a dozen keys and thrusted one of them against the lock of the bars trapping me. He twisted the key and the door sprung open. He's going to free me?

Anthony: "Whoever those guys are, they're unmistakably after us bandits. Worse if they're Sarcian soldiers starting an invasion on Halheiven they would kill even you and me Arkheistians so we need to get ourselves somewhere safe atleast."

Loud shouts and shrieks are heard from above us, there was a battle from above and loud bangs likely from guns were heard.

After I got out of the room, Anthony muttered something like a password on the bracelet and it quickly parted into two pieces and came off. He grabbed my hand and looked at me, I looked at him back and saw he was panic-stricken. Sweat across his whole face.

Anthony: "Your clothes are over there. Get them quickly and let's get outta here."

He pointed at a pile of trash and I noticed my white clothes were there. I rushed to there quickly and thankfully there wasn't any dirt on my clothes.

Anthony: "Come, let's go this way."

He pulled me to our left side along a spiral marble staircase while I was changing clothes, we speedily climbed for about 5 minutes straight. Anthony seemed to be exhausted already while I was only a tiny bit, it was probably because of my race as a superhuman.

From above us we heard many footsteps and metal clanging which made us look up. People- No, six-feet tall men with heads shaped that of a wolf and not of a human. They wore SAF uniforms and dark body armor, guns at hand that looked similar to a P20, there were only 5 of them.

Anthony: "What the heck are those things?!"

Skyler: "Hell if I know! But they look cool though!"

After spotting Anthony who was backing away back down stairs while pulling my shirt, they pointed their guns at us.

Skyler: "Close your eyes!"

Out of panic, edged Anthony to close his eyes and used the skill: [๐˜๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฉ] which instantly made my eyes glow strong enough that it illuminated the whole place, much brighter than even the sun. The werewolves seemed to be affected by the blinding brightness and covered their eyes while howling in pain.

Skyler: "Come forth, Crescent Menace!"

I held forward and extended my right hand as if to grab something in mid-air. And a brief thunderous moment later, mana came streaking towards my hand to form a shape, giving it a white glow which later disappeared revealing a silver scythe with see-through skyblue blades comparable to perfectly clean glass. I lunged at the enemies in front of me who were still blinded by light then leaped, rotated my body at fairly fast speed and-

Skyler: "[๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ]!"

The blade of my scythe let out tiny particles of water that danced around me forming nine lines of sharp-looking water that looked like glass. After they gained physical contact with the werewolves' armor, they were sent flying, knocking each other out and crashing into the cavern walls unconscious.

Skyler: "Let's go!"

The water dispersed and I called out to Anthony who was still covering his eyes with his hands. Before going, I used [๐˜Œ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต] on three of the werewolves just in case. I stored the three images on my pocket.

Anthony: "I don't know what the hell did you do but let's get out of here!"

Skyler: "With pleasure!"

After crossing a few corridors and different passages we didn't find any other opponents, it seems there were only those five. However, we went past a few corpses of the bandits including those that raped me, they all had been shot clean in the heart or the head. I laughed a little at the sight and continued sprinting to find the exit along with Anthony.

Riskarm: "๐˜•๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ด!"

Before entering the next passage to climb another set of stairs, we heard another voice, it was so familiar and annoying that I couldn't forget it. It was that girl that caught me and brought me to this hell, the main reason I lost my virginity. I wish she's the one who fucked me though even though I don't even know what she looks like.

Riskarm: "Their armor are too hard for my magic to break through!- Run!"

Two silhouettes came to view and knocked both me and Anthony to the ground as they went through the exit. A stern looking woman with short white hair wearing a standard witch outfit colored in black and purple then a guy with a well built tanned structure wearing leather armor and iron shoulder pads. They ignored us and just left us lying flat on the floor like a passerby knocking a kid down without even apologizing.

Skyler: "Ugh... Those bastards."

Anthony: "Skyler... Theres that metal clanging and loud footsteps again."

Before I realized it, there were already three of the same werewolves we encountered earlier only 10 meters away. Once again they aimed their guns at us.

Anthony: "๐˜Š๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜Œ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ด!"

The ground started to shake slightly and I was knocked off balance and fell again as a thick wall of earth sprung up and divided ourselves and the pursuers, cutting our connections with them.

Skyler: "W-Woah, so you can use magic, Anthony?! "

Anthony: "It won't hold out for long so let's get out of here, the exit is just above. I sure hope there aren't any more of those things outside."

Skyler: "I felt like you just raised a flag but who cares."

We started climbing the stairs while hearing the earth wall being kicked, scratched and shot down. It finally fell just after we went past the exit and saw noone outside but the refreshing winds from the trees. I grabbed Anthony's hand and ran to the forest.

Anthony: "C-Can't we have a little break? My stomach is aching so hard from all this action."

Anthony was gasping for breath desperately, same went for Skyler but it was not to the extent he had to do it for 6 seconds or more.

Skyler: "We rest now, they'll catch up to us."

We ran away nonstop for the past 30 minutes after finally falling down out of exhaustion somewhere near a clearing where light shone, unshaded by the trees' shadows. Panting, I looked at Anthony, the suddenness bewildered me. How could this be...

๐™•๐™ฏ๐™ฏ...

He's asleep. Now of all times with drool dripping out from his mouth. Fortunately it seems we lost our pursuers. I let out a deep sigh and looked up.

To my utter surprise, there was a tall handsome guy with long blonde hair and green eyes that matched his green clothing, ultimately and unsurprisingly he had long pointed ears. An elf. He was pointing an arrow loaded in his bow at my face while glancing at Anthony and I.

"Travellers? Or perhaps you've come to invade this holy land blessed by the great spirits?"

He said in an interrogative tone. Now please tell me this is not the heroine, you damned Homo God Hiiro!

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Lแดแด„แด€แด›ษชแดษด: ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด, ๐˜’๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ข

Tษชแดแด‡: 4:12๐˜ฑ๐˜ฎ

Neko: "..."

Nicholas: "..."

Neko: "Why in the world did he run away from our rescue squad!?"

Inside Sakura's dimension, Neko and his subordinate, Nicholas Wolfwood were sipping tea until Neko spat his tea out after realizing it wasn't coffee.

Neko: "I even sent Clodwal's creations to rescue him and he just ran away!"

Nicholas: "Well it was your fault for sending monsters to him without even informing him he's being rescued."

Neko: "I know."

Neko let out a big sigh as he stood there, he picked up his adamantite plate carrier.

Neko: "I sent those werewolves because they're pretty strong and durable. Just in case something unexpected happens, but they ended up overpowering the residents of this world instead of them dying. That's a good thing though since we were able to eliminate a group of bandits."

Nicholas: "That doesn't change the fact that we didn't get to rescue Wilson."

Neko: "It's fine as long as he's fine. He's strong enough to defend himself. That guy can destroy galaxies if he wants."

Nicholas: "And heres me with no abilities."

Neko: "Deal with it, Hiiro asked you if you wanted abilities but you refused."

Nicholas: "Hehe, I guess you're right."

Nicholas scratched his head as he laughed awkwardly. Neko wore an adamantite plate carrier and helped himself to a pocket-full of toothpicks.

Neko: "I'll be going out again. I'll try to form an alliance with the Molonia Kingdom and torch up a plan to stop King Sarcia."

Nicholas: "Yes, Sir."

Nicholas gave a salute as Neko went inside the elevator, the hatch closed and he was out of sight. The elevator played "The Elevator Music" as it went up.

Neko: (Just incase something bad happens in the process, I'll bring an Okamura with me. So the Okamura in the ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด are Atala, Ryujin and Clodwal.)

Neko: "Then Ryujin."

The hatch opened, the first thing that came to view for Neko was Ryujin lying on the floor being pushed down by a girl while having a yaio doujinshi being pushed to his face.

Ryujin: "Stop this, pervert! Or I'll definitely kill you!"

Neko: (The problem is, he would instantly attack anything that looks perverted to him due to his roleplay. So I'll add Zack just in case too.)

"Come on, just read and stop being so against lewdness." said the girl.

Ryujin: "Never!"

The center of the doujinshi started heating up and came on fire which slowly spread and burnt the book to ashes.

Ryujin: "I like books but not gay and perverted ones!"

Neko: "Yo Ryujin, I have a mission for you."

They both looked at me.

Neko: "Can you move for now, Loli? I have to talk to Ryujin."

Loli: "Roger that, Sir Neko."

Loli moved away and Neko moved his eyes back to Ryujin who was now stroking his brown hair irritatingly then looking back at Neko with his red agate eyes containing cut-like pupils.

Neko: "Clodwal's brother."

Ryujin: "Call me Ryujin, Ryujin Okamura. We haven't talked much even before didn't we?"

Neko: "Yeah. Anyways I have a mission for you."

Ryujin: "What mission?"

Neko: "I'll have you come with me to Molonia as a bodyguard. Try not to kill anyone, alright? And don't attack anyone just because they're showing even a little part of their skin."

Ryujin flinched in Neko's warning and looked like he was thinking as hard as he can whether to do it or not.

Ryujin: "Alright, count me in."

Neko: (Now that's done. What's left is to go back to that world.)

Neko: "You don't need equipment because of those stats of yours, right?"

Ryujin: "Yes. It will just be a drag."

Neko: "Alright, let's go."

Neko turned on his radio and called to Sakura, muttering "Open the gate in T-Minus 60seconds." which Sakura replied with "Affirmative."

Neko pulled out his God Artifact from his holster and used [๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ] causing it to break apart to tiny dark blocks and reform then expand to a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Jet Aircraft with him inside it. The jet shot instantly to the portal connected to Azathoth's world that just appeared. Ryujin caught up by growing draconic wings from his back and using them to speed blitz even the jet.