Sera snapped when a great sword descended on him.
The sword emitted a whooshing sound. However, it seems like Sera expected it as he stepped to the side.
'He is a god; remember that, Ruby.' He reminded himself inwardly just as he teleported to the other side of the cave. He first checked the time remaining.
"Just two more minutes, and this quest would be complete." Ruby stared at Sera, who was now approaching him. His sword seemed to have grown into a gigantic appearance. Up closer, it was as large as a car.
Ruby gulped as he peered at the sword. "Yo Sera, we're just sparring, but why are you making this whole thing appear like we're fighting for real?!"
"We gods of Olympus take every battle seriously. Be it a spar!" Sera said as he dashed at Ruby.
Ruby grinned a little. 'At least that little talk took a bit of time!' Ruby proceeded to teleport when Sera closed in on him.
He appeared on another flank of the training room. However, immediately after he appeared, Sera was already waiting for him with the giant sword in his grasp.
"Fuck!!" Ruby uttered as he took a spin on another teleportation.
'How can he know where I'll appear? Don't tell me he can read where I will appear next?' If that was possible, Ruby now had doubts about completing this quest.
"Hope not! Let's use a gun this time. I bet these gods don't know how important guns are!" Ruby smirked, and at the same time, a massive revolver appeared in his hands.
'This is the thing I was checking out earlier.' Sera remembered this gun because he had touched it before, and from what he could tell, the weapon looked quite powerful.
'no stopping now since this is about my honor as a god. I won't lose this small bet to a mortal.'
Naturally, the gods had one important thing in common, and that was honor. They will do anything for their honor.
"Human, I can feel your confidence from over here!" Sera yelled. "But do you think that toy over there would save you from me?!"
'This fool, has he forgotten about the ticking time?!" Ruby mused. 'I guess I won't need to use this after all. The time should be up any moment from now.'
Exiting his muss, Sera was already in front of Ruby. Ruby could swear that he saw Sera from some distance away. However, in a flash, Sera was suddenly in front of him.
"Fuck!!"
Yup, there was no time for him to react because the jagged edges of the great sword were very close to him.
Shutting his eyes, he waited for the blade to graze his skin—that was when the sweet system prompt flashed.
[«Quest completed»]
"Stop!!!!!" Honestly, Ruby had never screamed like this before in his 18 years.
His eyelid twitched slightly before it gradually opened. Upon witnessing the sight in front of him, Ruby smirked.
Sera was frozen in his tracks with the giant sword in his grasp, and his teeth were clenched, looking like his jaws would erupt soon.
'The system restriction? Now I won't worry about dying in my sleep.'
'I hate this damn slave and master thing!' Sera yelled, but it was only internally because his lips were also restricted.
"The time is off, and you failed." Ruby shoved the timer in Sera's face. Staring at the timer, which read exactly 5, Sera started gaining control of his body.
Somehow he was angry for losing to a mortal, and at the same time, he was amazed at the mortal's evolution.
Even though his strength had reduced after he became a minion, he knew he was still plenty strong.
"Mortal, I was wrong about your kind. Sorry if I ever doubted your capability!"
Ruby's eyebrows curved upward a bit. Sera was speaking to him as though they were pals. He proceeded to pull up his system screen.
[«Loyalty:99»]
Ruby gaped at the system prompt. Then a wide line reaching to his ears appeared.
'I must admit, this is faster than I thought." Though it is just 99, it won't take long before it reaches the 100 mark.' Ruby gazed at Sera after his inner monologue.
"I'm happy you're treating me as such. and I promise I will treat you like a meatshield.* Cough* I mean, a friend!"
Ruby felt like he was giving a speech.
He said afterward:
"Come on, I will introduce you to the others."
Ruby paced along with Sera as they went through a couple of open and closed metal doors.
Sometime later—
Sera stood opposite Muna, Big Bang, and the latest addition, Natasha, who had her gaze focused on Ruby. Her eyes were fixed on Ruby. Instead of Sera, who was opposite her.
"Guys, I'm not good with introductions, so I'll just go straight to the point. This is Sera; he is also known as a war god."
Natasha, the demoness, veered her gaze toward Sera for the first time.
' I never knew he could summon gods as well. I thought that old man wouldn't allow that!' Natasha furrowed her brows.
At the same time, Sera was having his own set of thoughts.
'He could summon night creatures, a vampire, and an unholy succumbs? This mortal is more intriguing than I thought.' Sera stared at Ruby, then averted his gaze to the others.
"If I can guess these here are in a similar state that I'm in?" Sera.
"Yeah, something like that, but it would be hard to know because we treat each other like family," Ruby said with a tiny smile stretching across his face.
"I can see that."
"Um, are we done?" Muna asked some time later. "I have something to do before coming here, and I would like to continue it."
"yeah, sure. You can go back to whatever you were doing."
With those words, Big Bang and Muna walked away to continue their training, leaving only Natasha—who dashed at Ruby and wrapped her hands around him.
"Hon, I was hoping we could spar a bit too." Her lips parted, giving a glimpse of her charming dimples.
For some reason, Ruby felt like the sparring arena would be held inside the bedroom and the fighting platform would be the bed.
Ruby tried to gaze away as Natasha's voluptuous boobs squeezed against his hard, rocky abs and her strawberry scent enveloped him. He could feel the hot warmth from a certain place down below.
His little dragon was now slightly awake, and it had started pulsing.
"maybe late, but for now, I wanted to catch up with this guy here." Ruby lightly swung his hands around Sera's neck.
Only God knew how Ruby forced himself not to strip her naked there, and you know...
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