Chapter 141 - Bizarre

"There's no end to them. At this rate, I'm going to die by these ghouls! O, Lord! Please forgive me for acting arrogantly and rudely to my senior!"

However, there was no response. Zero's expression slightly changed to that of fear and his movements started to slow down as they become sluggish.

He panted really hard that you could hear his breath.

"Huff… huff…" Sweat flowed down as he halted his attacks and the creatures attacked him, or so he thought when he realized they were also stopped.

Zero narrowed his eyes upon the encounter and felt it odd. But he was delighted.

Since the enemies did not come at him, he might as well use the opportunity to deal some lethal blow to them or make a run for it.

Unfortunately, as soon as he had the intention and moved. The black shadow in humanoid figure creatures moved too.

Simultaneously, more than twenty of them launched an attack at him. Zero's eyes dilated as he erased his intention of attacking and went full-on defense. He had no intention of abandoning this world.

Zero saw these black creatures' weapons two inches away from him and he prepared himself for pain. Ready to use his barrier at the most limit too.

This also meant he had little trust in his barrier and the latter could be broken as the black creatures were powerful in numbers.

"Come!" Zero was about to activate his barrier when he saw that the black creatures stopped midair as if a video was being paused.

Zero was bewildered but he felt his tense shoulders loosened greatly and silently heaved a sigh of relief.

"Phew."

"You figure out the pattern? Impressive. Alright, that should be enough for a warning but next time.

"Try not to get ahead of yourself, brat." Narukami's tone was solemn and deep. His killing intent spilled out. It was quite intense.

Zero felt the air around him getting heavier and he was crushed by the pressure. His breathing was harder as seconds went by.

So stifling! Zero thought to himself as though he was drowning in water and desperate for air.

This feeling lasted for a few seconds before vanishing as if nothing had happened. Zero quickly breathed as he greedily absorbed the air into his lungs.

The coolness of the air could be felt in his lungs. With this, Zero could relax a little but it did not last long as he was reminded by Narukami of his situation.

"That's all my words. You can go meet your senior, see you later." After that, Narukami cut off the connection from his spatial world to reality.

Zero lost his footing and his vision changed. Before this happened though, Zero instinctively closed his eyes.

A few seconds later, he realized the darkness in his vision had brightened.

Opening his eyes, he saw a person closing his eyes as he sat in a lotus position. Spiritual energy's fluctuation could be felt as it gradually restored in his body.

"A Sorcerer? Furthermore a low-Level one? This kid is my senior? How annoying." Zero cursed out loud yet Ryu did not hear his words as he was immersed in recuperating.

Finally, after Ryu felt he had recovered greatly. He opened his eyes and saw a man in a tuxedo suit with a long black hat, bowtie, and a cane. He carried a scholar vibe and Ryu had a feeling the guy before him was intelligent and knew a lot of things. The guy reminded Ryu of his favorite fictional character from a popular web novel series.

Ryu forget who the character was and remembered it started with K and the character was the protagonist.

"Who are you?" Ryu pondered. As soon as he did that. Ryu's expression changed as he focused on something. He occasionally nodded his head a few times, as if listening from someone Zero could not perceive or see.

"Alright, I get it now. So you're his, pfft." Ryu hold out his laugh but could not and so, he covered his mouth. But still, Ryu was laughing heartily in the end.

Zero slightly raised one of his brows as he was slightly confused.

Is this kid okay? If the kid is normal despite the fact his strength is lower than mine. I understand but not only did this kid laugh at him, but he was also playing in such a tense scene!

Narukami, who was talking with the upper echelons, was the moment when they were discussing what they should do.

Narukami effortlessly split his consciousness into the spatial world and observed them.

This told itself that Narukami had no trust towards Zero, observing them was to make sure Ryu was okay.

The first thing Narukami noticed was Ryu's confused expression, as well as the alertness there.

Through spiritual transmission, Narukami told everything about Zero. From how he was one of the upper echelons of Fallen Nightless to how he was temporarily forgiven from his death.

When the black creatures attack. Zero's fate should end there but seeing the usefulness in his, Narukami chose not to.

Ryu was against the idea of working together with a villain, or rather, a former one. There were many Sorcerer out there, which was a thousand times better than this ba**ard. Although weak, their personality was what made them different.

Like heaven and earth, if not.

Narukami had prepared Ryu's argument and calmly counter it with his own. Which made sense, was easy to understand, and erased all Ryu's doubts.

"You really can do anything, huh?" Ryu accidentally asked out loud.

"?" Question marks appeared on Zero's face.

"Nothing," Ryu simply replied. At the same time, Narukami responded:

"I can't do anything. I just do what I'm supposed to do." His tone was that of denial and quite humble. Ryu thought this was the case but he knew it was not. He get the gist feeling that Narukami could get anything he wanted if he tried.

Thinking about that, he could not help but compare himself to him, and yes, they could not be compared. The difference was too huge, like heaven and earth.

If this was a game, Ryu would be like a character with medium-grade equipment. Average ATK while Narukami was a character with godly equipment which could kill strong monsters easily!

Jealous flared in his heart. Ryu knew it was bad to have that, he was a human nevertheless.

Fortunately, the jealousy was not especially powerful or intense. Just passed by like a stranger walking by him on the street.

[I'll go along with your plan. If you complete your goal, can you kill him?] Ryu pondered through spiritual transmission.

[That's heartless, you know? I thought you're the type that hates killing lives?] Narukami asked curiously. He was a bit surprised when he heard Ryu's slightly cruel suggestion. Alright, it's not slightly, it was quite cruel.

[I'm not Asahi. I would not hesitate to deal with bad guys, even if they are joining our team or not. That doesn't mean their sins have disappeared.] Ryu's voice was serious.

Since he said so with that kind of tone. Narukami put his words into consideration. He also had the same thought but perhaps he softened, he felt that it was quite cruel.

He did not know why but he got a feeling that Zero was unlike the ordinary upper echelons.

Before his thoughts wander any further. Straying from the path.

[Alright, I'll think about it. For now, treat him as a friend,] said Narukami through spiritual transmission

[Do you think I could do that? He's one of the upper echelons of an enemy's organization, you know? That's like working together with a bully and I will always be on high alert all the time, for I was afraid he would attack me once I lowered my guard! I can't rest in peace at this rate!] He explained.

After a short pause, Narukami replied as he chuckled, [heh, don't worry. This is my world, do you think an ant could fight a god? I can easily crush him with my eyes closed.] Narukami assured him. Ryu fell silent as he silently pondered and began to feel safe.

He nodded as he pretended to threaten Narukami [okay, I'll trust you but if you fail to protect me. I will hunt you to death and make sure to curse you of bad luck for an entire lifetime!]

[Go ahead and try. It might be fun,] calmly responded Narukami.

Not expecting his answer to be like that, Ryu sighed in resignation. A fool was trying to trick Narukami. Instead of the reaction he wanted, Narukami's voice was extremely calm as if Ryu possessed no strength to deal with him.

Ryu sighed as he felt it was useless to fight against Narukami's decision.

He turned his head to Zero, approached him, and reached out his hand.

"Ryu," he introduced himself with little interest.

Zero smiled as he firmly shook Ryu's hand.

"You can call me Zero, nice to meet you, senior!"

"Senior?!" Ryu was shocked. Most of all, he felt quite bizarre being called a senior by someone many times older than him.

His dignity won't allow him.