Chapter 144: Too Long

Perseus POV

"Are you sure you don't want to learn our secrets to being an enchanter?" Ulrich asked "You have the highest amount of talent anyone have ever seen, your ability to coat those threads into wires of death is unique and can still be improved."

"Yeah, I'm good."

"You said you'll be joining the tournament anyway, you can stay here till then, we have qualified teachers to assist you if you wish."

"Seriously, I'm good, I just got the advice of a lifetime from someone we all know."

"See you at the main tournament then." he said with a smile "I'll be accompanying a few of my acquaintances there."

We then bid our farewells as I left with a good piece of loot stored in my storage spell to pursue another goal, an agent who's willing to vouch for me to get into this tournament since apparently no agents wants people from my village to win again.

We gave Lilith a small share of the fallen star as well, we gave her enough to like carve 2 swords and a dagger out of it which she accepted, her job was only to confirm its existence, but by giving it to her, as her role of being a general, she'll have to report this to the demon lord and I'll get a name in his good books.

Which means, just right before he can send me to hell, he'll hesitate, giving me the chance of a lifetime. Lilith knows exactly where we need to go for the talent stages, if no one is willing to vouch for me to qualify into the tournament, I'll travel to the demon continent, meet their demon lord and get my validation that way.

But for now, I'll just go to the nearest one which is about 3 days walk across the desert, no too far. Lilith has never been there before, so she can't teleport there, and now we're forced to walk.

The talent stages should be easy once we get there, all I have to do is show off, I'll fight super strong opponents and lose on purpose, but I'll show flashy moves to impress the agents. I am good enough for entertainment, but not strong enough to dominate.

Even though I have contributed in high level fights, I've always had help, going solo might give them a chance to underestimate me.

"Well, you guys should have sensed the presence of your mother while I slept, I'm ready for the questions. But before we proceed, I'll have to let you know that your parents have separated."

"They what?" they all responded at the same time

"They went on their own way and they are content with it, I know the reason, but would you rather hear it from me or would you rather hear it from them in the future?"

"Definitely them." Ruka replied which the others agreed "Did you flirt with her?"

"No, why is that the first question that came to your mind, I maybe an insensitive idiot, but I'm not that down bad."

"Sorry." she apologized "Well, did you learn a lot of things from her?"

"Plenty, I got some clues about strengthening my powers and the theory of going into the 11th star and a lot of good things that will help me in the future."

I'm seriously hesitating whether to tell them that I technically slept with their mother in my past life, but I'm seriously scared because even if Buddy comes to my aide, this desert is the perfect place to hide a body. I can't keep this a secret, damn it, what kind of goddess who can see everything did not check what was happening before you possess someone's body.

"I smell the scent of a guilty man." Leilah commented as her eyes narrowed down

Seriously? What kind of animal of you? How the hell do you smell guilt? That's not- even magic can't do that, you can smell a presence of woman even though I made sure to clean myself up, and now guilt?! What does that even smell like? And how do you recognize the scent as guilt.

"What did you do in 2 days?" Leilah asked

"Why are you doubting him?" Lilith asked

"I met him in a dream, even though we didn't do much, now it's different, he knows that I'm real and she's real, he might have done something that makes me want to...well, I'll leave in to the imagination."

Slow torture today or killed at a later date...well, God, this is the first time I'm gonna make a prayer to you after a super long while, please grant me your protection against this beautiful and crazy woman.

I'm prepared to turn my body into light particles to let physical attacks pass through my body. I then took a deep breath.

"Well remember the fact that I was with a woman for a short while?"

"Don't tell me..." Leilah muttered as I can see the sister's expression shift as a thought dawned on them

Ha, dawned on them...at least I made a creative pun before I die.

"Well I wasn't with your mother physically, she was in someone else's body and-" a sword just came at my neck as my body phased through the attack "Yo, Lilith, I could have died!"

Man, that was fucking instant, thank Lucifer for this stupidly overpowered ability.

"I told you, you do something to my mother, I'll kill you." she retorted

"It was an accident!"

"How do you accidently have sex with someone's mother?"

"She possessed Meira's body while we were doing it, I just learned about it myself."

"Then apologize with your death!" she demanded and this time I dodged her attack entirely

"Lilith." A voice said as shadows wrapped around me and bind me "Teleport us back to the village and we'll take a small detour."

"Leilah, please I can explain, just don't kill me and give me a chance to explain."

Ruka is holding Buddy in place as he's trying his best to wriggle free to try and help me

"Perseus." Leilah said as I can see this dark aura behind her "I've let you off for too long."