Chapter 165: Yes! We're Being Attacked!

Perseus POV

You know, even though this job is something I should do, I still have a lot of complaints. I'm being forced into social interactions which I'm terrible at, I'm still an introvert at heart, so I hate these situations.

I'm already having a hard time picking up a conversation with Edward whom I have known for quite a while, guys, don't come in my direction, I'm only putting on a confident façade, I'm a fucking coward, don't approach me.

"Sup, how have you been these days?" the paladin I beaten up last time asked

I've forgotten their names already. There's the blonde paladin, the noble spy, and the geek who was a fan of me, or my character.

"It's Sarah, Rolan, and the one with glasses is Trevor." Edward whispered

Ah, he knows me so well, but the 3 heroes overheard it too since they also have enhanced senses and were quite annoyed that I forgot about them. Though the name, Trevor, alerted Buddy for a bit, this guy is just the weeb who's enthusiastic about being chosen as part of the heroes' party.

"Y'all are not here to kill me, are you? I'd rather not have to fight today, it's quite a bad day for you cuz I'm in a very good mood for winning loads of money."

"That's your definition of happiness? Money?" Rolan asked

"Are you one of the people who say 'money can't buy happiness.'?"

"No, but I do agree with the statement," he replied

You know what? The only ones who say money can't buy happiness are the ones who are already financially stabled, of course, some people can be classified as exceptions, but most of the ones that do are already rich to the point where having anymore would just still pad on to their mass amount of wealth, if money can't give them happiness, give em to me, cuz I'll show you what happiness looks like.

"We heroes plan to go to the south later on in order to defeat the den of wyverns, what are you planning to do?" Rolan asked

'We heroes', is a bit pretentious for someone who hasn't really saved anyone. The heroes then proceeded to talk about their achievements and what they can do in the near future. The geek, Trevor, unlike the other 2, didn't really have any hostility toward me.

He is currently their 3rd in command as his weeb knowledge helps the group and helped him to also be the 3rd strongest of the group. So he is allowed to tag along to a lot of events, but as of now, only he 3 heroes approached me while the rest stayed to talk with the yellow rose or disperse and go to find their own group.

But as I listened to them talk along and show off about themselves.

"We heard you arrived at the village of the golden sand, we were there about 2 months ago," Sarah said, "We talked with them a bit and as heroes, they revealed those amongst them who were enchanters and even offered to teach us if we were to stay for about 6 months or a bit longer."

"They talked about you too, but your talent would require over a year of teaching which should be the greatest of all times amongst everyone if you didn't include us heroes." Rolan added

Kinda pissed me off that this guy brings up his status every time, this must be how all of you feel every time I talk about myself. I pity all of you.

But he talks about nobles and how charitable he is to commoners all the time, Edward was just there complimenting his efforts, I can sense the truth in his words about him wanting to be useful but not gonna lie, he needs to shut up, some of his intentions are to just show off how good he is.

Come on, this is one of those times in a novel where villains decide to trap people in the ball and burn things down from the outside or launch a terrorist attack, come on, attack so I can selfishly slip away and I don't have to listen to this guy or deal with what society expects me to do, hold a proper conversation.

Come on, bright magic barriers to contain everyone within, some of the most powerful people are in one spot, you can assassinate the heroes and everything. It's not happening and my rambling is starting to sound even more and more ridiculous.

Wait, if I want something to happen, it might never do, that's how the story goes, I need to set up a flag somehow.

Man, the security is pretty good, three 9-star mages on site, the yellow rose duo, and a plethora of 8-star mages along with the heroes and nobles who receive proper minimal self defense. I'm at the most protected event in history, no idiot would dare attack this place...

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And no one is attacking, it went on for about I had 1 hour left, I got a ring from Ruka's crystal which is the signal that they are about 1 hour away from finishing on their end of things, a lot of guests have come early today so I can barely hear anything as everyone talked at the same time.

But at least I can see that the Drake and Pike are occupied by everyone as they are the most important participants after the heroes. But sure enough, the flag is raised and I can see everything glowing purple. Outside the window, I see a dome of purple barriers being summoned to entrap us.

"Where are you going?" A voice asked as I placed my glass of juice on a nearby table

I then turned to see Rowan.

"I'm escaping, don't you see the barriers outside?"

"You're not involved in this, are you?" he asked suspiciously "All the guests have arrived and all of a sudden, a barrier was erected."

"Why would I do that? Kill the heroes and the most important people in the world and basically put my head on a pike? That's stupid even by my standards."

"I can't teleport out of here, they're using spatial distortion." he said as he tried to teleport

Hoh? An interesting group has decided to launch an attack if they can interfere a guy of Rowan's level.