"Hm?"
Suddenly Arthur turned his head and frowned, something was bothering him.
CC-1 and Carter's guards were also the same, there was a sense of unease and they looked at their surroundings, as if someone was watching them, unfortunately, they could not find the source of this and they did not have the time to find out, the more discreet, the better so they continued walking, without lowering their guard.
[Activate second Innate Ability, Level Upper]
Arthur's pupils changed his pattern, his eyes changed to the Eyes of Infinity and several images flickered in Arthur's eyes, during these two years Arthur was working hard.
He had now activated two more Innate sub-abilities, having a total of three Innate sub-abilities.
His eyes from his infinity had reached level 3.
After a few seconds, his eyes returned to normal and a smile formed on his face.
"Come on, we don't have time to waste"
CC-1 and Carter's guards hesitated for a moment but followed their young Master, with Arthur's compass in hand, they followed on the trail of the next person.
"Arthur ...."
Hatsumi squeezed her hands and lightly pulled the hem of Arthur's sleeve, she was quite nervous and she didn't know how to tell Arthur that this was a kidnapping event.
But she also knew that if she doubted now, the consequences will be disastrous, Arthur's existence is special, both for the territory and for the world.
"Hmph! You are a woman, but you are such a coward!"
Carter scorn from the side, Arthur found this girl, but since he found her he had done nothing but cry and cling to Arthur's arm.
Not even active artifacts, this was so disappointing for a woman.
".. !!"
Hatsumi trembled, Carter's gaze was very hurtful, she did not know what to do, she had the memories of her about the novel, but she did not know how to use them at this moment and as a common person, she did not know how to face these dangers.
Arthur said nothing and continued to watch the compass, however his expression changed from him when he saw his pocket watch.
His watch was also an Artifact, however, the hands as well as the digital counter stopped moving or so it seemed, they were moving so slow that it was abnormal.
"CC-1 ..."
"Yes young Master"
Realizing what Arthur wanted, CC-1 quickly took out her pocket watch and pressed the external buttons, causing the area around her to start fluctuating and the hands of the Clock to move rapidly.
"Bad news Young Master, the effect of the 'Changing Clock' did not activate"
As the name says, [Changing Clock] is an Artifact that allows the user to stabilize time and return it to its original state.
With this Artifact, attacks from the future or past would not activate, as well as area and domain effects.
Of course, it had its limits and for example the effect of this barrier.
Arthur frowned harder and looked up at the sky, where the barrier was engulfing the entire water park.
At first Arthur's plan was to wait for reinforcements from outside, look for the princesses and Cristie, to survive.
But his plan could not be executed so easily, the time on this barrier was deformed, causing 100 minutes on this barrier to be equal to 1 minute outdoors.
Not everything was as easy as he expected, these rats already had everything covered from the beginning, absolutely would not let her objective escape.
"..."
This made Arthur re-evaluate the situation, during the beginning of all this, his guards except for CC-1 were eliminated and he was chased by a large number of rats, if not for the [Four Direction Gate] maybe he would have already been captured.
(I do not have any other option...)
Biting his thumb, Arthur made a difficult decision, through his innate ability, he had discovered three options and two resulted in a successful escape from the barrier, however not everything was easy since the princesses and Cristie would be injured.
Or worse yet, Cristie will die if she continues ...
There was only one way out and that was the third option, unfortunately, this option was full of dangers and if his calculations are not wrong, he will face very great dangers.
(But at least I'll live)
Consoling himself, Arthur no longer hesitated.
"Change of plans, we must get out of this barrier ..."
He didn't want to leave Cristie, but it was the safest option, he needed to activate the events that passed through the third option.
"At the command of the Young Master"
CC-1 did not doubt, this was her original action point, after all, unfortunately, she cannot travel through the shadow dimension or the rats may discover it.
"Arthur ... We must not ... Exit the barrier, it's dangerous ... I ..."
Hatsumi bit her lip, but at this moment Arthur stopped.
"Is there anything you want to share with me miss Hatsumi?"
Arthur was no longer smiling, Carter behind Arthur crossed his arms and looked at the girl.
Her guards also looked at her, even CC-1 also turned her head.
Hatsumi doubted terribly, but in the end, she could not with the pressure of the group and spilled the beans, hiding several parts of the story, as this world is a Light Novel and that she is a reincarnated, but the essential thing about this incident was done to kidnap Arthur It was said in its entirety.
"Miss Hatsumi, what is your basis for making these claims? Why do you say that this invasion of the elemental rats was all set up to kidnap Young Master Arthur?"
CC-1 couldn't help but ask, it's true Arthur is the only Male Spirit Fox in the world, but that even rats go to the extreme of using World Artifacts is absurd, not to mention that the rats were doing it in broad daylight without caring. What the Foxes can do, also did not want Carter and his guards to separate, after all with more people it is more security for their Young Master, if for some reason they think that staying by Arthur's side is dangerous for Carter, the pressure on CC-1 would increase to a great level.
CC-1 didn't have the confidence to escort Arthur out of the barrier, at least not with all these rats and their detection devices.
" Me.... "
Hatsumi was speechless, the next to ask was Carter.
"And if it is as you say ... Why would Angels of all races do this? Angels are the most peaceful race in the world! Their motto is world peace, I remind you that it was even they who founded the World government and they stopped the great war 3000 years ago, signed the peace documents, and prohibited the activation of the World Artifacts, as well as the use of Transcendents 500 years ago "
Fortunately for CC-1, Carter pointed out several errors in Hatsumi's statement, the nature of angels in the central continent is widely recognized in the world, they never get into trouble, and are the first to rise to mediate between a war between two races, they even took under their wing the Human Race the weakest race in the world.
Hatsumi's declaration was tarnishing the good reputation that angels have garnered for thousands of years.
Everyone nodded, they agreed with what Carter said, Hatsumi had no evidence to support her statement and even if she did, it would still be quite difficult for the group to believe her.
"I believe her ..."
But although the whole group looked at Hatsumi as if she was mentally ill, Arthur was the opposite, through the calculations of his second innate ability he also reached the same conclusion as Hatsumi.
The Angels are symbols of peace in the world, they had quite a few cathedrals on the central continent and also on the continent of humans, they founded the church and religion, their good deeds and acts of charity that they have done over the years they are well regarded by all races in the world, except for the demonic race of course.
However, it is a fact that angels are pacifists, but Arthur knows from experience that as long as desires exist, no one in the world is free to sin.
No matter how good a race is, as long as it has desires, they will never stay calm, religion is good, unfortunately, the people in charge are not, religion is created for an end and purpose, the same happened in their previous world, not everything is as described on the surface.
"Arthur ..."
Hatsumi felt touched, her tail flapped and hugged Arthur's arm tighter.
The group also looked at Arthur and did not know what to think, one thing is that Hatsumi is delirious, but a very different one if it is Arthur.
Until now, Arthur has been impeccable, even at this time he has shown leadership and has not shown weakness, his words and actions carried more weight than Hatsumi's.
"Unfortunately, we will still follow the same course of action ..."
Arthur was entrusting everything to his Innate ability, unlike his first Innate ability, Psychometrics which allows him to instantly learn any spell or use artifacts with precision and mastery.
Level Upper was an ability that uses a part of his brain, isolates it from the main one, like a supercomputer which allows him to do calculations at high speed and if he uses it with maximum efficiency, he can predict the future, using those same processed calculations.
One piece of data is more than enough for this parallel supercomputer to come into action and simulate hundreds of thousands of events that will happen in the future.
And with everything Arthur has seen so far, this supercomputer had already found three viable options for survival.
And although this barrier blocks both space waves and blocks spells, innate abilities related to Precognition or some other related to sight into the future, Level Upper is an ability that uses calculations, it does not look to the future, predicts it, therefore Arthur he was not limited in this barrier.
However, he is not invincible, there were also many weaknesses of which Arthur was aware, such as the alteration of factors, so Arthur did not want to deviate from the calculations that led to these events.
Besides that Arthur only activated this innate ability 3 times a day, beyond that his brain could not support it, not to mention the burden that his brain carries when processing so many calculations.
His head was aching, yet he stood his ground, compared to his life and Cristie this was only a small price to pay.
"..."
Hatsumi was speechless, as the rest of the group sighed in relief, Arthur is coherent and would not get carried away by words.
"CC-1 What is the probability that we will be victorious against a Transcendent?"
There was one other thing that Arthur needed an answer to, he has Margareth's memories and he knows how powerful the Transcendents are, however even if he needed confirmation from CC-1 to compare them with his data.
"Young master, I don't like saying this, but .... If we are attacked by a Transcendent, I'm afraid we don't stand a chance."
CC-1's tail and ears fell, it's a shame but it was the truth, there is a big difference in level between a Black core and a Transcendent.
Even Beta who is one of the most powerful Black Core, would not say with certainty that she could defeat the weakest of the Transcendents.
Not to mention CC-1 which is a Black core, mid-stage.
"But you don't have to worry Young Master, I will protect you with my life."
Bringing a hand to her chest, the determination in CC-1's eyes would not lose to anyone, her sense of loyalty was the highest.
Arthur smiled and slightly closed his eyes.
"I understand ... Let's continue"
Without further delay, Arthur led the way again, he no longer kept asking, likewise, his pupils changed again, activating the eyes of infinity, his supercomputer was processing data at high speed and looking for alternatives.
After all, a Transcendent will attack them in a few minutes ...
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