Looking at the boastful brute again and realizing he is less than five meters away from me I decided to use one of the mid ranged modes.
[Laser Sword : Whiplash!]
And then I used another command which was,
[Laser Sword : Auto Aim.]
And then I lifted my hand diagonally and slashed him,
!!
My eyes widened, almost in an instant the big bear was bisected, it was so fast that even with my thought acceleration I couldn't see a thing.
"W-What?"
"Nile Died!"
"T-This isn't real! Yeah it's a dream a-a dream…!?"
Looking at the shocked state of the students, it seems like I have successfully managed to instill 'fear' in them.
I grinned slightly, alright then, the show is about to begin fuckers!
I was about to grin widely, but then I suddenly realized, I shouldn't be showing off too much.
Considering the fact that the invader managed to locate me inside inventory says a lot about his capabilities. He is not one of the students because if he was then he would have spearheaded the attack on me.
Considering the fact that he is hiding and observing me, he can have two intentions; He is observing me to either assess my worth or he is observing me and waiting for a decisive moment to kill me.
If it's the former then, I will just have to make them realize that I have no potential. Because if they believe I have high potential then, they will either try to recruit me into their faction or some shady organization or try to kill me if I refuse to join their group.
If it's the latter however, I have to hide my strength as much as possible as I don't know what I am dealing with here.
Anyways, with that set, let's focus on butchering some bullies.
I was about to extend my laser sword again, but then I saw the fatty in Alfred's group was approaching Alfred, looking at this I was slightly unnerved. That guy always made my gut wrench and I don't like him.
He said something to his friend George, but instead of George Alfred replied, I couldn't hear what they were saying but reading their movement of the lips I could somewhat tell what they were talking about.
Lip reading or oral transliteration is one of the many skills I had learned over the years in my previous world.
Because when I was young in my previous life I was way too paranoid about people assassinating me but I still had to hold parties to maintain political power, so I used to see people's lip movements to see if anybody was doing anything suspicious.
Anyways, It looks like they are speculating what my laser sword might be. Looks like there is something called a holy sword that exists here. I would like to see what that is someday.
I was about to extend my sword once again but just then Alfred screamed, "Everybody Retreat! Get out of here and form an encirclement around us from afar! Make sure he doesn't escape, George will explain the details to you all!!"
"R-Run!"
Hmm, that's a good decision, if the panicked and fear stricken lackeys were to fight me they would probably die before they could blink. I see Alfred has good leadership qualities.
But it seems Alfred's group itself isn't in agreement, as I saw George and Alfred arguing. But then Mike took control over one of the roots and…escorted George out of the way.
Now it's just me, Alfred and his friend. It looks like Mike is planning to manipulate the roots of the tree to ambush from underground.
And Alfred will obviously try to distract me while Mike is preparing for his attacks.
"We meet again, bastard." He spat,
"Yeah, Unfortunately." I spat back,
"You have changed a lot, haven't you? You have the guts to talk to me now." He said, with a mocking grin.
"Well, everybody is bound to change after getting scorched alive."
I rolled my eyes,
"That's why you shouldn't try to reach for the moon, her place is beside me. I love her, you just want to play with her." Well, you aren't exactly wrong but you aren't exactly right either.
"Is that so? Then I think you would like to know that we were having a lot of fun together when she was treating me from the injuries 'you' gave me. Her face was really red when she was…revealing everything to me."
Well she wasn't exactly revealing what I am implying that she revealed but…he doesn't need to know that.
"..You bastard.." He slowly muttered, his face resembling some kind of angry demon from hell. You're forty years too young to provoke me brat.
"Alfred Too early! Damn it.." I heard Mike's distant scream as I saw Alfred descending from the sky fully intending to pop my head with his outstretched heel.
Too bad bitch, you're way too slow with my thoughts accelerated, "Hook, Line and Sinker." I smiled as I happily extended my arm and sliced diagonally.
Because of the auto aim, regardless of how bad my strike was it will be a perfect shot.
"Alfred!!" Or so I thought, when Mike proved me wrong by pulling Alfred out of the way of my sword by pulling him backwards with some nearby tree roots.
I wanted to slice Alfred into two pieces but I couldn't do that, oh well if I can't take you then I will take your leg!
Immediately responding to my thoughts, the laser whip changed its trajectory and coiled around Alfred's heel, before his heel melted off leaving behind a stump of a leg behind.
"A-Ahhh-!!!!!!" He crashed somewhere nearby, and his scream gave away his general direction. Mike seemed to have gone for Alfred's aid.
I wanted to chase after them immediately but before that..
I looked at the dead body of Nile, quickly snatching his shirt off. I very quickly entered inventory, transmuted that shirt into a makeshift belt, wore it and then got out of the inventory.
Alright~ Now I can walk freely.
I was about to walk straight in their general direction but then I thought it would be best for me to roundabout way to their location, who knows if they are planning some sort of sneak attack on me or not.
As I walked with my laser sword turned off I was pretty stealthy and because I can still vaguely hear Alfred's screaming it was pretty easy to locate them.
They were hiding behind a bush, but it was a pretty good position because from there the central vicinity where our fight broke out was pretty visible.
But anyways, "What about him?" I heard Alfred's a bit more composed voice as I saw Mike and Alfred looking towards the vicinity. I think it's time for a peek-a-boo!
"Looking for me~?" I didn't wait for an answer and nicely sliced the startled Alfred like a chef cutting his sashimi.
"N-Noo…A-Alfred-!! No..What will I say to..Geo…"
Then I saw Mike who was just beside Alfred. At first he was about to retaliate but when he saw his friend's chopped body he completely disregarded me.
I couldn't see his face or expression but he is probably despairing.I feel bad for him, but you shouldn't turn your back on your enemy.
Maybe you will not be foolish enough to be my enemy in your next life.
Then I lifted my sword again, and just when I was inches away from slicing his neck apart suddenly I saw a branch of a nearby tree grabbing my hand.
!!
Soon it pulled me up, swirled my body like it was nothing and then threw me towards a nearby tree.
[Ding!!]
[Host has taken Critical Damage]
[10% HP remaining]
Fuck!! What!? He had his back turned on me so how!?
Okay, Calm Down.
Then I commanded another command, along with that I thought about increasing the intensity of my sword to 20% but I felt nothing…nothing, no heat, no nothing..Huh?
Then I saw the sword was missing from my hand, I frantically started looking for it and I did see it, it was lying around about 3 meters away from me.
"Yin, I never really cared about you..I always thought you're just some nobody…" Immediately sensing the dread, thought acceleration activated.
Looking at the content of his speech, he will for sure kill me, I don't have my sword. I need to get to it.
"But today that nobody has killed one of my only friends…"
Shit I need to sleep to recover HP and I need to buy time to at least retrieve my sword.
"Maybe it was my fault, maybe it was not, who knows really. But one thing is certain that tonight will be the last night for you-"
I needed to talk to him, so I interrupted him.
"He isn't dead."
One strong sentence that will draw his attention immediately, was this. I think it did get his attention but not in the way I wanted it to.
"You..Dare Jest.."
"I am not joking, or lying. If you hurry you can still save your friend." I said with a serious face, Mike was slightly taken aback by this, by my serious resolution to save him.
Taking this chance I slowly started crab walking towards my sword all the while making eye contact with him.
"You're lying-"
"And what if I am not? My sword is made up of light, in other words, it is very hot. Even though he has been cut into two pieces, because of the heat his wound is sealed up. I am sure healers can heal him if you hurry."
I said 'my sword was made out of light', something these guys have already established among themselves proving that I am 'not lying' giving him the hope that Alfred can be saved.
"...What do you get from all this?" Mike finally asked after contemplating for a while.
"I have already killed someone before, I don't know what kind of punishment I might get for doing that. I don't want my punishment to increase for killing another."
I said something pretty reasonable.
Mike seemed to think for a moment before saying, "You go first."
It seems like he doesn't want to turn his back on me, right about now he is probably thinking something like, As long as I get out I will be caught by the guys encircling the parameters anyways.
Good thinking dude, except you have forgotten the fact that your objective was killing me. You could've killed me first and then tried to save Alfred. That would have been faster but you're clearly not the sharpest one are you.
"Sure Man, Sure." I slightly crouched down and the moment my hand touched the sword I shoved it into the inventory and then started walking backwards.
When I was a good distance away from him, I turned around and started running as fast as I could. When I started seeing the guys who were encircling the entire premise I held a cylindrical tube that was strapped on my waist and threw it.
This was a smoke grenade, the moment the smoke grenade started spreading I started running away from where the grenade was popped.
The grenade will distract all the people who will see it and in the meantime I will escape.
To be honest I wanted to enter inside of the inventory and sleep there right the fuck now! But I am not doing that because the invader might be here. And also because I want to buy something from the nearby shops right now.
…
It seems my plan worked, the surveillance got a lot lighter, and I managed to successfully escape their encirclement.
Starting from there I immediately went to the shop closest to me in the outer ring and said, "Give me everything you sell, Everything."
At first some of the shopkeepers were confused and didn't know what to do but when I started handing over platinum coins to them they were smart enough to shut up.
Carrying anything wasn't that problematic either because I would quickly shove everything inside inventory.
Spatial storage artifacts are rare but not that rare so most people didn't question me.
Alright now it's time to go to seclusion and make a legend for myself.