[Kingdom of Calot around 7000 miles away from here] I knew it was not the exact numbers, since the system approximated it. But seeing such a number made my brain numbed and frenzied.
"SEVEN THOUSAND MILES?!" I blurted out, unaware out loud my voice beca from the people surrounding .
rleen even got startled and threw his crane into the sky, hitting eventually as soon as it reached my face. After a blaring crash sound, my body fell to the ground from exhaustion and pain.
The uncomfortableness ca from the bump on my forehead, while the weariness ca from thinking about the distance. I thought Calot was around the corner. But hell no, it wasn't! I could even bet that the distance of the school from my house before had less roads than this!
"Why did I even want to beco a hero?" Regret ca flowing down to like a river, washing all my motivations away.
"D-Don't worry, Arthur! Wherever you go, rleen will follow you!" the wizard girl cheered, while giggling behind.
rleen did not mock or anything. She just found my deanour humorous to her taste, but not mockingly. If I rembered correctly, that girl ntioned sothing like, "rleen finally saw a different side of you!"
It was arduous for to refute, but rleen was not wrong.
And the worst part of our journey was our lack of automobiles. I knew that this Renaissance-like world did not have any pieces of machinery or cars roaming around their roads. Instead, horses and their carriages would be the transportation that we would like to have on our way towards Calot.
"We need a ride," I exclaid, as if I was a cowboy running down the desert.
Well, instead of a dessert, rleen and I were in the middle of nowhere. We had a map, but the distance was far too wide for us to handle. Even if we walked towards our destination on foot, it would take us around 400 hours to arrive there. That number was fewer than my ga ti, but it was such a great deal for us right now.
Since we were in a quest to hunt down the holy sword, Excalibur, and the demon lord, we needed to reach the Kingdom of Calot within a quicker ti.
"A ride? What do you an, Arthur? rleen doesn't get where you're getting at?" the wizard girl beside asked, as she followed close to .
rleen acted like an ignorant kid who knew nothing about this crazy world. However, that was one of her charms. And there was also a fascinating statent about having a virgin mind.
"Not knowing anything is a blissful life!" That was the phrase that I had in mind.
"You don't have to know," I answered, and continued blindlessly walking along the dull road.
As we traversed the bumpy road, the ground had an eerie aura of evil intentions. Those thoughts sent shivers down my spine, making my legs move sluggishly like a snail and wavy like noodles.
However, despite this weight pressing down on , rleen did not feel the overwhelming presence. Now that I realised it, rleen was a mage. Thanks to her overpowered status power, she might have the intelligence of over ten court magicians or even more from this world.
"We should take a brief break from here, rleen Can't you sense anything weird around here?" I asked, while instructing rleen to stay put for now.
Since we were travelling into unknown territory, monsters would swarm from our vicinity, waiting for a chance to attack. As soon as I gazed below, the ground had mysterious footprints that did not belong to a human.
"Hmmm Dire wolves? I thought we escaped those hounds?" I mumbled to myself and followed the trail with my eyes.
rleen butted in and exclaid, "T-This place is actually near my village! M-rleen ca from here towards the lake. Since rleen doesn't know where rleen is going, rleen got lost and sorry."
"No. It's fine. That piece of information might save our lives. Thank you, rleen," I interposed, and patted the adorable rleen on her head.
It might be the first ti rleen received a complint, considering it was all written on her face. Her eyes curved upwards, and her back wiggled as if the little wizard had a tail. If I blinked a few tis, I might have imagined her being a dog wanting to pet her head.
Despite my peculiar imaginations, I continued brushing rleen's hair while looking for more clues. Looking at those directions also ca from the ga's features. However, all those contents only included texts that explained the footprints, not their destination.
Whoever created this world increased the difficulty into hell mode! I, who barely knew about these things, got challenged straight-on by looking for our enemies. If there were instructions for hunting our prey, now would be the perfect ti to appear!
Even after shouting those words, my system fell silent and continued mocking from afar. If that thing could talk, my system could have thrown cruel words at even from before I battled Uruk-hai.
Just as I thought about sothing, howls coming from elsewhere resounded from the forest. After a few seconds, dozens of screams that ca from humans echoed afterwards.
"Did you hear that too?" I asked rleen.
She gave a nod as her answer. However, within a few seconds, rleen unconsciously walked backwards. Even though my eyes were looking in front, my vision glimpsed at my side and rleen.
As I turned behind, rleen's body quivered as if electrified by a shock. It did not look like she had dical conditions that would make her have a seizure, but her actions were not sothing I could shrug off.
I went to her fore and caressed her shoulders, thinking of a way to stop her shaking. Words of encouragent escaped from my mouth, but I knew that would work little against her frightening thoughts.
"T-Those dire wolves might have killed rleen's village," rleen mumbled.
She fell to the ground with her gaze still glued in front of the sea of trees. rleen never broke her stare as she kept crawling away from the scenes.
"Does that an that the demonic wolf we saw from before was not the one who destroyed the village? Were the dire wolves more of them from what we saw?" I asked, with my voice shaking in despair.
If the monsters we faced earlier were far from the horde rleen knew, that would beco a terrible problem.
"N-No! M-rleen doesn't want to die M-rleen found a place to stay rleen d-doesn't want to die"
rleen kept repeating her sentence until she lost her energy from crying. Luck was on our side, since the two of us were beside a lake. Although we needed to purify the water to make it potable, I did not mind the trivial matters for now.
"Here, drink up and regain your strength," I suggested, and nursed the terrified rleen.
I couldn't bla her for what she was feeling right now, considering the situation I also experienced before. The monsters also attacked the village. But thanks to Aferous' sacrifice, we defeated Uruk-hai.
But we only defended the place thanks to my instructions. If I had not shared the power of my system with Afenos and Rain, the entire village would fall into peril. Even though I felt scared back then, I still found a good use for my powers.
rleen was alone when the attack happened. And she was the only one who escaped the terrors of the town. She ran away and left behind everything, despite having overpowered abilities.
Even with those skills, rleen couldn't do a thing. Her body and mind could still recall the remnants of her fallen parents from that sa power she possessed. It was an accurate weapon with the double-edged sword title.
"L-Let's run awa-." Before I could even continue my sentence, the terrorising screams beca louder than before.
I did not know where the sound ca from, but it did not look good. I knew that running away to safety was the best course of action, but how could I when I had these powers coursing through my veins
My body beca a statue of sand, forcing to stay put on the ground. I did not have full control over my body. It was as if my heart and brain collided at once, together with my appendages, battling my morality.
"I'm afraid," I murmured. The words rang in my mind. "I don't want to die too"
It was what rleen had ntioned before. Nobody wanted the idea of dying without experiencing the fun in life, especially for a teenager like . However, the responsibility kicked inside my brain.
Suddenly, my legs sprinted onwards.
"rleen, stay right here and wait for ! I will help those people in need!" I commanded, and ran towards the battlefield.
If the old knew my actions, he would have punched in the face. But I did not care at all.
"If sothing bad happens and I have this power but I do nothing it would happen because of ."
(Author's Note: I took my inspiration from Spiderman's recruitnt scene from Marvel Cinematic Universe)
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