Chapter 46: Surprises in The Lake

Chapter 46: Surprises in The Lake

Since this morning, Bets felt out of it.

He had been careless and made a huge mistake. It was a critical mistake that could have cost their lives. His friends could have died!

His guilt became even heavier once he deduced they were already being observed. If only he hadnt been careless!

Fucking damn it! Why am I such a useless bastard! He was running toward the village elders house, and tears stung his eyes. He was ashamed and embarrassed!

Putting people around me in danger! For what? Because I wanted to make breakfast for them?! What am I?! A fucking cook! I came here to be an exorcist, but acted like a fool!

Bets arrived at the village elders house and hid. He observed from quite a distance, as Kon had told him to keep himself safe. If there were any demons in the vicinity, he had to activate the firework talisman as a signal.

While waiting for a couple of minutes, and with his mind off berating himself. Bets contemplated calmly for a split second, which was enough to realize why Kon had sent him to the village elders house and keep an eye on him.

Kon never trusted the village elders story to begin with.

He started connecting the dots even more. Kon had gotten something related to the drowner demons and planned to draw them into land. But if the demons didnt go to where the sheets were but instead came here. It meant that the village elder was a Beast Master!

Bets deductions were interrupted by a firework bursting in the distance.

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A drowner demon walked out of the water like a stumbling zombie.

I immediately activated a firework talisman, signaling Bets to come back.

By this time, the world didnt know specific things about demons. For example, high-class demons could order lower-class demons around; any exorcist worth something knew that.

But the higher-classed demons couldnt deprive the lower-classed demons of their basic instincts. In contrast, Beast Masters could do that.

The drowner demon stumbled out of the water, showing his pale, wrinkled skin, rotting teeth, and hollow milky eyes. As it got closer, the smell of rotting fish permeated the air. Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

Lets kill this bastard and be done with it! Agon was about to charge forward, but I put my arm in front of him.

No, lets wait, right now would be the perfect chance to take out the drowner demon. It was almost midday, so it was at its weakest. Even normal humans could probably beat this thing down. But I needed the mastermind to come out. The same person who had dug out the graves!

But as the drowner demon got closer, I realized something.

This wasn't the same drowner demon that Carpy had seen!

Immediately I unsheathed my normal sword and kept the cursed sword ready to take out.

Four other creatures, an adult and three kids stepped out of the water.

The graves werent desecrated to cover the evidence! But it was to take out the corpses and turn them into drowner demons!

Agon grated his teeth next to me as he stared at the grotesque and bloated corpses of the three children.

Whoever did this, I will kill them! Was it you, fishy bastard! He walked past my arm and gathered Ord into his fist.

Fuck! Too late to stop him now! Damn hero syndrome protagonists! Letting emotions cloud their minds!

Using a punch to disperse my Heavenly Blast? Within hundreds of years of my life, this is the first time someone destroyed my attack like that! The eel demon opened its mouth again and gathered its second ball of lightning. As he charged it up more, this one became stronger than the first.

But this time, I was no longer frozen in fear. Though the pressure was still there, I threw down my normal sword and grabbed my cursed sword. I was about to pull it out of its sheath when a dark wolf shot out from the water and hit the eels lower jaw. Causing the creature to close its mouth, and the lightning ball exploded right in its tongue.

A heavy amount of Ord swirled around Gem. He had his hands clasped, and a bead of sweat rolled down his face as the eel demon stood back up, with smoke coming out of its mouth.

I think we just made it mad, Gems voice shook.

A high-rank demon in our first mission?! What were the chances of it happening?

I glanced at Agon. The protagonist's halo was dangerous for the people around him. We might die so that Agon can have some character growth.

Yeah, fuck that!

Bets! Come up with something! I gave him a thumbs-up for encouragement.

He was smarter than me and had a better chance of coming up with something if we chose to escape.

The chances of that escaping against a high-class demon close to zero. With how fast it can shoot those lightning balls, it would kill us all in less than two seconds if we turned our backs on it. But hopefully, that was just my dumb panicked brain speaking. I will buy you all some time!

{Perfect Me!}

[Order: Survive! Buy Time! If close to death, unsheathe the cursed sword! If possible, escape with the others!]

Once again, the out-of-body experience came. I looked at myself from a third-person point of view. I didnt know if the cursed sword could affect my mind in this state, so unsheathing it was a last resort because I might kill my teammates before the eel could do it for me.

At the edge of my vision, my status screen appeared once more.

Name: Kon

Beast Master 65.9%

Creator 20.7%

Blaster 9.3%

Warrior 4.1%

Strength 13 -> 25/81

Stamina 14 -> 20/102

Agility 15 -> 22/99

Description: A transmigrated person, a relatively talented youngster, and a Junior Exorcist. Danger Rating: (D+)

My body was like a machine, analyzing anything and everything it could use in its favor. At least I still had a plan.

My plan was called: Power Of Friendship.

Meaning I couldnt come up with anything. But hoped Agon would have a bullshit power-up in the middle of the fight.