030- A Deal

Back to Seiya POV

"How in the hell... Did she just reverse TIME!!?!?" Seiya's mouth had dropped to the floor after Aria & her mother disappeared.

"I really need to get that skill, maybe I could fuse with her." Due to Seiya's skill [Perfect Memory] he remembered everything that he had seen, including the forbidden magic part.

[Radar]

Seiya sent out a [Radar] trying to find where the women had went to no avail.

"F*ck!"

Seiya teleported around multiple times, sending out Radars looking for the girls, each to no avail.

Sigh~

"Of course they're already gone."

Seiya was stumped, he was mad at himself for not being able to Catch them. He started thinking of ways to find them and how he would get those skills once he did, when an idea flashed into his mind.

"Predator!" Seiya's eyes widened, opening his status and searching for his [Predator] skill.

--Predator I--

Deity Rank (Get 21,437/100,000 Kills in this state to advance)

Cost: 'Gluttony' will slowly absorb your mana, once mana is completely gone it will start stealing your mana pool itself.

Passive: Lesser beings with weak willpowers will be overwhelmingly suppressed and naturally avoid you at all costs.

Active: To activate, say 'Gluttony'. All stats increased by 100%. Against weaker beings, all stats are tripled. [Gluttony] is a controllable state, Any Skill used against you can be gained, coming with increased strength. Depending on the strength of the skill, you may be able to require it bye just seeing it.

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"I KNEW IT!!! HAHA." Seiya jumped up thrusting his fists into the air. He had totally forgotten about this skill since the last time he used it.

He remembered it saying something about being able to steal skills from people and checked the description.

[Gluttony]

He saw how it said his Mana would slowly be absorbed and he wanted to see how slow that was.

[Mp: 117,300/117,400]

[Mp: 117,200/117,400]

....

'Hmph, it takes 100 mana per second. So... I should be able to hold it for about 20 minutes.' Seiya did some quick math and got his maximum time in the form.

Seiya did a few test jumps, planting his legs in the ground and leaping forward.

BOOM~

He was sent flying, reaching as high in the sky as he had ever been. He was flying forward and could see almost the entire forest.

Even though he didn't know how far he would go, he aimed himself towards the edge of the forest, thinking that the girls would probably try to escape that way.

When his feat finally touched the ground, he was on the edge of the first layer.

He had traveled three whole layers in one jump! That was farther than he could get with his [Teleports]! With his teleport he could, at most, make it halfway through a layer in one go, and jumping was just as fast as teleporting 6 times while taking way less energy.

"Wait, so if I jumped normally I could still make it through an entire layer? Why haven't I tried that before!" Seiya berated himself for not thinking about that sooner.

Seiya sent out another [Radar] to once again not pick up anything.

"It has been a few minutes but I doubt she could make it far with her Mana Pool.

Seiya once again aimed himself at the edge of the forest, aiming to jump higher and not farther.

Seiya was again disappeared from his previous spot, leaving behind a huge crater in his place. He sent out multiple radars as he traveled out of the forest, the last of which picked up a familiar person.

"FOUND YOU!!!"

Seiya's face had a sinister grin, feeling the familiar presence he released mana on his feet, forcing him downwards.

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A little before

Fortunately for Arcana, her mother had advanced also had the access to the Time element, which meant she had the infamous healing skill.

[Revert]!

Aria placed her hands on her daughter shouting the spell name. Once the words left her mouth, blue energy left her hands, clocks appearing next to Arcana while more replaced Aria's pupils.

Arcana quickly became a little younger, stopping abruptly.

"No, what happened!?!?

[Revert]!

She activated the spell, for it to once again abruptly stop.

"No, come on!!!"

[Revert]!

[Revert]!

[Revert]!!!

After depleting all of her mana, and even using some of her life in place of the missing mana, her daughter was returned to her previous form.

Aria stared at her daughter, watching her open her eyes once again.

"Oh, thank Go-"

Aria collapsed to the floor, breathing heavily and getting aches all around her body.

"Mom?!"

Arcana shot up, crouching over her pained mother.

"What happened?!" Arcana looked at her mother, and then her smooth hands.

"I'm young again?" Arcana thought about the possibilities, and then looked at her mother.

"Haha, yup..." She could see her mothers wide grin, confirming her suspicion.

"FOUND YOU!!!" Arcana heard a yell coming from above her, she turned around to see the same monster she encountered earlier.

"No. F*cking. Way." Arcana picked up her mom, and dashed away.

BOOM~

The man landed right in front of them, causing her to abruptly stop.

"What do you want!?!" Arcana screamed, placing her mom safely on the ground.

He lifted his hand up, pointing straight at Arcana.

"What?" Arcana questioned what Seiya could possibly want with her.

Seiya had come with a clear mission in mind.

'I should let her live, she was a good fight. If I let her grow stronger she might be able to stand on par with me!' He planned on copying her skills but letting her live.

"I've come to make a deal." Arcana's faced immediately turned serious.

"A deal?" She questioned.

"If you both use all of your strongest skills against me, I'll let you live." Seiya had thought about it, and decided he would take the skills of Aria too.

'What!?! He want's us to attack him?!'

"I'll take you up on that offer then." Arcana did wonder why he wanted them to hurt him, but she knew despite the huge rank difference, she could have some skills that could defeat him.

"Wait." Before Arcana could even do anything, Seiya appeared in front of her, grabbing her face.

"Use that [Revert] skill on me first."

'Urgh! Is this guy dumb!? Why would he want me to heal him before I did any damage?'

Arcana was confused at this statement, but complied anyway.

[Revert]

"Die!"

Immediately after she used her skill, she drove her hand into Seiya's chest.

[Earthen Fist]!

The entirety of Seiya's face was blown away, leaving a disfigured jaw behind.

"Haha! I can't believe how stupid you are!" Arcana dropped from Seiya's grasp as she saw his arms go limp.

She thought she had defeated him until the rest of the skin on his jaw turned purple, his whole face warping and reforming right in front of her eyes.

'How did I forget he was a slime.' Arcana berated herself for thinking she could easily kill a monster like Seiya.

[100 Blades]!

Arcana threw her hands into the air, 100 rocky blades forming above her head.

"That really wasn't n-" Seiya's face had fully reformed when the blades were mere centimeters from his face.

Seiya disappeared when the blades were basically touching his face.

[Blink]

Seiya said in his mind, appearing a few meters away from his previous location, now littered with rocky swords.

'If I didn't realize the potential this girl had, she would have already been crushed.' Seiya sighed holding himself back from brutally slaughtering the teen.

"Alright~, keep it coming little girl!" Seiya spread his arms wide, giving Arcana an easy target.

"UGH!" Arcana was angered by Seiya's mockery and threw multiple skills at him.

[Earth Wall]

A huge wall appeared behind Seiya.

[Earthen Fist]

A large stone fist appeared out of thin air, knocking Seiya through the wall behind him.

[Wind Spiral]

A gust of wind propelled Seiya into the sky.

[Ground Spikes]

Arcana stomped, causing an army of spikes to form under Seiya's falling body.

[Pause]

Every movement in Seiya's body ceased. Leaving a frozen man falling onto a plethora of spiky blades.

[Earthen Wall]!

Arcana spawned a wall of earth in mid air, eating up a huge amount of her mana. The wall fell on top of Seiya, flattening him on the spiky ground.

"Hah...Hah...Hah..."

Arcana fell on her butt, watching the purple-gold liquids ooze out from under the platform.

"That... HAS... to be it... right? I've gotten revenge?"

Rumble~

"Oof... wrong."