Chapter 35: Conquer

Perseus POV

*Just a bit before the attack*

"I tried fighting for you, but they're stubborn." Aminu said as he hand me an envelope containing less than 10% of what I should've earned.

This is a fucking insult, they didn't even handed it to me directly and just left without saying anything...Fuck, to think I meet these kind of people so early. I'm not even fucking strong enough to solo them and humiliate them in front of everyone, dammit.

"Say, can you point me the route they're taking?"

"Well it's this way and if you just run in a bit deeper, there are the steel skinned rhinos that is located there and they are very territorial." he suggested "You should just show yourself a bit and then hide, they'll charge at your direction and even a 4 star mage wouldn't stop their charge. Worse, this rhino is the one that charges in a herd."

"Are you sure you should be village chief?"

"I'd be doing a lot worse if I were you, go, they really think they can dishonor an agreement between them and the blue rose, that's just a smack to the face."

3rd Person POV

*Present time*

Sheela thought "What are we being attacked by?!"

"Steel skinned rhinos!" One retorted as their carriage then got smashed in by several charging and crashing into their carriage.

A ring of flames then exploded under their carriage burning those who are inside. Those who are outside are trying their best to handle the surprise attack, they would have been properly handling it, but their are additional people shooting spells and creating arrays to disrupt their formation causing chaos.

The moment they get distracting, those rhinos would charge in and stomp on them to death. There is then several more beasts from the forest coming in and attacking them.

Sheela then noticed something, apart from the rhinos, none of the other ones are territorial, and even if these are the alphas who are, they are not attacking each other and only the humans. Someone is behind this also, someone who can control animals...but those are the ones who hold rare artifacts, usually a flute.

Perseus POV

"That's about 1/3 of them gone due to our disruption."

"Yeah, and it's not like they can really pin it on us, the rose cannot give a person the power to control animals, your ability really is useful." Ruka replied

"As long as they're a living thing, I can talk them into doing anything, anyway, let's go home, we've got business to own and money waiting to be made, the heroes are being awaited by everyone, and I'm more than 100% sure that the demons aren't gonna let it go smoothly, we get past tat and it'll be time for me to meet up with Leilah once and for all."

"Wait a minute, at least see this till the end." Ruka replied "As much as I dislike you, no one can disrespect you like that without offending me too."

About 60% of them died by the end of the surprise attack as the animals retreated and taking their fallen with them, the people didn't chase after them because they didn't want to suffer more loss.

And after they left the spot in a hurry, I just looted the things there and cleaned the place up, I used magic to create graves for the fallen, and Ruka would collect broken weapons and dropped treasures so that we can sell it back into the village, it seems by spending a lot of time with me, she's learned to steal a bit.

"As for what you were saying earlier," she spoke up "The demons are easily going to attack the Zoris kingdom, the other nations are gathering on that day to protect the castle since it's the most guarded place and most secure to summon the hero, if you want to see any of the heroes, you're going o have to find a way to get in."

"Don't worry about it, for the next couple years, I'll tell you a lot about me, you might just be a tiny bit scared...and as for those guys, they might just blame it on karma or some high ranking nobles since no one would anticipate me being able to tell anyone what to do against their will."

I got years to bulk up and train myself, these powers still are draining to me, training everything is going to be hard, but not impossible.

This world is just for me to conquer, not in the literal sense, I do not want to rule the world, but I have all my memories and knowledge from the get go, it's liberating...

And I have time to figure out how to go back, and after I resolve my purpose there, I have to figure out a way to come back here again, it's going to be a lot, I just hope Leilah has my answers when I meet her again.

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*7 years later*

I'm just finishing up my daily repetition of climbing the Paradis Tree after my dance practice on the ground, I got up with no magic and one I got on top, Ruka was there to throw a towel and a shirt at me.

"Why did you make me climb with out a shirt? It's embarrassing."

"I know that you feel uncomfortable when teenage girls stare at you." Ruka pointed to some group of girls looking at me from afar

"Are you seriously mad at what happened this morning? I just teased you a little for being scared of thunder."

Since she used to live deep in the cave, she's never used to loud thunder during a heavy storm, so she usually hide it from me by going to sleep in the same bed as my parents so I wouldn't tease her, but this morning, she was a bit groggy and snuck onto my bed instead.

"I think it's kinda cute that you've warmed up to me."

"Keep it going, I'll gather more girls and scare you away old man." she retorted