I burst awake gasping as I grab my stomach on the floor of the throne room. "W-What was that?! I-I just died... why am I?"
Gramps appears behind me. "It's hard to kill us, you did great on your first mission. You overcame your fear and fought to save the lives of the innocent villagers giving up your own in the process. That is the mentality of a King and a Hero."
I look down slightly touching my stomach. "I guess if you call a suicide run heroic."
I stand up slowly seeing a scar on my stomach from the knife. I accept my rewards and look at gramps. "What now?"
He smiles. "Now we move on to the next world. Since you'll be reborn into these world's you'll need to learn how to move around as a child again. To help I will alter your body to make you into a kid doing this will revert your mental age also so be ready."
I reach over. "Wait-"
He snaps and I shrink down to a little kid. I can think like an adult but my speech isn't coming out how I want. "He looks down at me, you're so cute!"
I look away. "You're a big meanie grandpa!"
he chuckles. "I wonder what you're saying in your head."
He snaps and we are in the middle of a large forest. "Come with me, I have to visit an old friend."
As we walk he gets further ahead and I rush over grabbing onto his coat slightly. "Are you scared?"
I let go. "N-No!"
I hear a noise in the woods and grab onto his jacket again. "It's okay I'll protect you."
We make it to a small cottage in the middle of nowhere. This pretty woman comes out looking a bit confused. "Roland? What brings you here? Who's this little one?"
I hide behind him shyly. "Don't be afraid she won't bite you. This is my grandson."
She extends her hand out to me. "A grandchild? It took you this long to finally find your family?"
He chuckles. "I was a free spirit in the past but now I'm ready to pass the torch. Id like you to train him to control his magic."
I take her hand and she leads me to the back of her house to start lessons. I refer to her as sensei and she really enjoys it. She is an incredibly strong mage in this world. This world has tech like my old world did so it must be more like that.
We hang out here for a few weeks so lady Fate can train me. I wake up one morning to everyone gone. I hop out of bed looking around. "G-Grandpa? Sensei?"
Titan bolts out the front door that's wide open. "Titan come back!"
I rush after him and trip seeing him go over a hill. "T-Titan!?"
I start to tear up but shake it off following behind him going deeper into the woods. I see him looking down a cliff and I rush over grabbing onto him seeing men down below in jeeps. they're red dots on my display and Titan starts growling.
I tackle him over on the hill covering his mouth. "No boy we can't let them hear us okay?"
I feed him some snacks to increase his loyalty so he will listen to me. I lean up against the tree listening to them talk below. "We will get a lot of money off those girls we snatched. To think quints would be born with each legendary element."
One of the guys jokes pulling at his belt. "Maybe I should break them in."
The leader of the group points his gun at his head. "I'm not getting a pay cut because you soiled the merchandise. They'll be used as weapons in different countries. I don't need the world governments on my ass."
He pulls them out one by one. 5 beautiful girls with pure white hair and golden eyes. I need to help them... Gramps isn't home and I can't reach him from here.
I pull out my revolver and take a deep breath. They seem to be based up ahead so I just need to follow them to base camp.
I wait for them to move and run across the cliff following them via my minimap. they arrive and it's a campsite right out of a cave. Talk about cliche bad guys...
It's getting late I need to do this now... They start to unload the girls and I rush over pulling out my pistol. "stop right there."
They look at me laughing. "Awe look how cute you are. where did you come from?"
I fire killing the first guy holding the girls. "Run!"
They point their weapons at me and I hold my hand out using a fire blast as cover killing 4 of them as I run for cover behind a tree. I shoot towards the entrance pinning them down inside. I grab the gun one of them dropped looking it over.
I draw back the slide seeing I won't be able to carry it. A guy comes from around the car grabbing me by the throat slamming me on the hood. "I got him!"
I drop my pistol into my inventory reloading it pulling it outshooting him in the head 2 times before rolling off the hood onto the ground. A guy comes up pointing his pistol at me and Titan comes out of the woods jumping him ripping his neck open.
I shoot the man in the head making my way over to the girls. "Are you okay?"
they look stoic like none of that phased them. Why are they in tattered clothes. they're about my age maybe older? "What's wrong can't you speak?"
they shake their heads showing me a crest on their chests. "Slave crests... they ordered you not to speak..."
I look up at the sky seeing how dark it is. "We can wait here till morning then I'll take you back to my grandpa he'll be able to help you."
I loot everything and go deep into the cave seeing that they use magic to hide their vault area. I loot all of the cash and items using it as a hiding place for us. I have them sit against the wall as I watch the entrance to the cave.
I glance at them. "Sleep, I'll watch the entrance till morning."
They grab my arms pulling me over sitting me between them. "what are you doing?"
One pushes my head onto her shoulder. "you want me to sleep too?"
They nod and I look at Titan. "let us know if you hear anything."
He barks and I lean back as they lay against me with one between my legs laying on my chest. I drift off to sleep and wake up to Titan growling. "What is it, boy?"
I hear voices and get up quickly pulling out my pistol. "What the hell happened here?"
I can see the executive looking guy with the guards all outside. "It was probably another organization. We planned for this and yet that bastard Jax failed us. To think he said he was the best. I still own the slave crest so I'll just order them to die better to have them dead than in the hands of others."
He touches something on his watch and the girls start to cough grabbing their throats. I refuse to let them die here because of that bastard! I buy a spell called swift lightning and draw a sword holding it in front of me lowering my stance as plum red lightning arcs from my body.
I vanish in a flash cutting all of them in half with the skills targeting system. I appear behind them as they burst into crimson light. I rush back towards the mouth of the cave and the sisters come out.
I smile. "Are you okay?"
They nod finally about to speak. "Thank you for saving us."
They start coughing again. "What's wrong?"
I look at my display seeing a ring around their necks. "a failsafe curse?! what the hell..."
I buy some anti curse items giving one to each of them. one is a scarf, the others are gloves, ribbons, earrings and a bracelet. I allocate their stat points quickly to give them resistance and make them stronger.
When I tap apply my body feels weak I look at my display seeing I used way too much mana. I fall forward into their arms. "Are you okay?"
I close my eyes as their voices fade and Open them again laying on the floor of the throne room. "What happened?!"
Gramps smiles. "You saved those girls and they asked me to take care of you. they'll be studying under lady Fate and given a happy life."
I sigh in relief. "Thank god... I didn't wanna leave them alone out there. I'm sure they'll grow up to be incredibly strong and beautiful."
He helps me up. "When that happens you can make one of them your bride or all of them if you're up for it."
I laugh. "Sure old man, I wouldn't mind a wife as cute as them some day but I'll need to wait till I get stronger though. I don't wanna faint every time I use my powers."
He looks away. "I'll keep that in mind. This last world is far harsher than any other and it will push you to your limits. If you die here I will not be upset but I want you to push yourself through no matter what."
I nod a bit nervous as to what's about to happen...