Chapter IV: The Curse of Chaos.

In a vast void full of stars and other celestial bodies, is the world of Egahara, with the naked eye galactic, a small rock in the middle of nowhere, surrounding several celestial bodies, cold and off due to their already lethargic suffering and point of view. from being consumed by their own instability, however, many years ago, beings of immeasurable power found said system of celestial bodies, which they helped to stabilize, making all of them shine again around their star.

Endless things happened after this fact, the creation of life was one of them, followed by the evolution of these to later reach a period of wars that lasted countless years to reach just these precise moments, the supposed was more calm of all

—My destiny has brought me here, my lord's presence is strong around the place, but you shouldn't even be near him...

In front of me there was already a hooded woman ready to end my life... I know that the previous thoughts have nothing to do with the current situation, but whenever I am in a risky situation, these thoughts invade my mind as if of something natural were treated.

When did it all go wrong?

That same thing I would like to know, it was supposed to only be a simple search mission, but suddenly the difficulty changed to a survival one. Although the situation says that I am about to suffer a cruel fate, in reality I am worried about something else, about someone in particular, their life was entrusted to me and to add more salt to the wound, that person can avoid a disaster in the future …how I would like to wield time magic.

[…]

long ago

"Then we'll take on this mission, it's almost 100,000 Crowns for each one once dividing the profits," said a red-haired guy in not-so-crude armor.

—But… 500,000 Crowns just for a search mission, I'm sure I'm not the only one who seems suspicious about all of this—replied a purple-haired girl with a rather revealing outfit, but very useful for her combat style.

—Relax a bit Marta, although it's true that it's a bit suspicious, I think the answer to that is because today is Dinolius season—replied a big guy with a big mallet —What do you think, Aria.

Those people who argued about the suspicion of a mission due to its dangerousness, were part of my group and which was made up of 5 members, among them, the three present here, Dilan as the swordsman, Marta as the rogue and George as the tank.

My name is Aria, although I am just the magician of the group and today my group and I traveled to a merchant town in the kingdom of Figueroa where we decided to take on a quest that would generate more profit than usual, which we were going to use to buy better equipment, however, apparently at this time, Dinolius's season had come earlier than usual.

What is a Dinoliu? They are very feared creatures due to their high aggressiveness and dangerousness, so with these creatures roaming the forest, simple missions become complicated.

—In my opinion, I think this mission is acceptable, since most of the missions have the same danger with those things outside, we just have to be very careful not to run into any or in any case, escape from the slightest presence of these

"You heard it, let's go for the diner" I say the mission!

On the one hand we have Dilan the swordsman of the group, he was born in a village where agriculture has been practiced for generations, therefore, all the young people followed this tradition.

Being very far north, there were not many dangers so there were rarely soldiers, but despite that, Dilan was always greedy when it came to money and he knew that the best way to get it was to be an adventurer, although life It showed him how hard it is to follow this profession, although luckily he met the leader of this group.

—You only think about money, you should calm down a bit, so that what happened last time doesn't happen.

Then there's Marta, she's a rogue class, that's why she's the one who's the support of the group, although she's the most productive due to a skill she was born with, that skill is the one that gives this group a lot of advantage. She was born on the shore of a town that is mainly dedicated to fishing, although to the misfortune of her parents, she did not want to dedicate her whole life to cleaning fish, therefore when she grew up, the first thing she did was leave that place and become an adventurer

—Marta is right Dilan, you should be less greedy.

There was also George, he was our tank, although with the maso and his great agility he becomes more of the heavyweight of our group.

He grew up together with Marta, in the same town where, curiously, despite his size, Marta always had to protect him because he was very submissive, although that also motivated him to become strong, therefore when they became adventurers, they joined forces. group by group until by chance they met the leader of this team and in the end they decided to stay.

—Ready guys, I've spoken with the guild managers, we can now carry out the mission, you better be ready—said a gray-haired boy arriving at the table where his companions were discussing.

And finally there was Eduard, he is the leader of our team, a guy who, despite his kindness and education that he always shows to everyone, has a very perverted double face in particular.

He belongs to the Cure class, this is very useful since there are very few healers because only those who receive the blessing of the gods can exercise that power. His past is a matter that is not very clear to other people, the only thing that can be said about him to other people is that he was a member of the church and when he was expelled he did become an adventurer, there are clear details that he never will reveal, like the fact that a friend of mine asked me to take care of him and that's what I've been doing since I've been in this country.

—We should go at once, time doesn't last forever.

I mentioned the rest of my group as I started to leave the building, shortly after they caught up with me while talking about various things, leaving me excluded from the conversation, it's not that I don't like to talk, the truth is that I can't.

Something to mention, apart from the fact that my group thinks that I am an ordinary magician, is that I am not as ordinary as I appear, apparently when I was born, I had the misfortune of suffering from a rare disease that does not allow me to speak, something very crucial if you wanted learn magic, however I was blessed with an ability that has allowed me to access what was impossible for me to have.

Its name was "Interpretation" this ability allowed me to communicate even without being able to speak and thanks to this it also gives me the option of using spells without having to recite them, however, this blessing belongs to the god of chaos who due to his history it is normal to feel contempt for this and its blessed included, although not many know what I was blessed with and I'm fine that it continues like this.

While we walked towards the forest we reviewed the conditions of the mission, which was simple, we only had to investigate the terrain in case of nearby dangers, anyone would say that it is a classic trap mission, which seemed easy, but it is very difficult, the truth would be like that if not for the fact that we have a rogue who has a very useful ability.

"You see something Marta" asked our leader while Marta was at the top of a tree.

"Nothing at all... My ability doesn't detect anything" she replied as she climbed down from the tree.

"You see, I told you it would be easy, we just have to search through the middle of an empty forest and then go get the money" Dilan said while leaning against a tree.

"I wouldn't see it that way," George replied, calling everyone's attention. "These forests are known to inhabit a lot of fauna, so the fact that there are no animals is only a clear warning.

"Dinolius," Marta said in a barely audible whisper.

"But even so, it would be impossible for a small herd to devastate an entire forest," Eduard declared to everyone present.

—Only a few dozen dinolius are capable of inhabiting a forest in less than a week, which means that there is more than one herd in these territories if they could have done it in 3 days.

I responded to this, while everyone looked thoughtful, probably wondering whether to go further into the forest with those creatures eating everything in their path, the truth is that we covered very little ground to say that we have explored most of it, so if we want to receive the reward We must investigate correctly.

"Well, we've already made the journey here, it would be counterproductive to abandon the mission, but if they're against it…" Eduard mentioned only for us all to nod in action to continue.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Dilan spoke as he started to leave while we followed him.

We walked for a while noticing the lack of life in this forest, it could be said that only trees were present in the place. After a while we hadn't stopped to rest a bit from our search, although most of it was taken by Marta, thanks to her ability we could do the work of three days in a single day.

"Did you find anything, Marta?" Eduard asked.

"Nothing yet," replied the aforementioned.

We had already explored most of the forest, so we were about to withdraw until Marta apparently noticed something dangerous, which made her almost fall out of the tree almost unconscious, luckily George caught her just to avoid getting hurt .

-What happens? Are you alright?— George spoke in a concerned tone.

"What's wrong, Martha?" What did you see? — Eduard asked.

"I don't know what I saw, but I think it's too dangerous to explore further.

While Marta spoke, she was very anxious and worried, luckily Eduard managed to calm her down and he explained to us what he saw more calmly.

Basically, he saw a black-haired guy with torn clothes fighting a group of 50 goblins evolved into orcs, nothing we couldn't deal with, but it turns out that the goblins had a very powerful goblin wizard on their side, that would already be worrying, since a goblin sorcerer who has advanced quite a bit with a group this large, could dominate a village quite easily.

But the truly worrying thing came out when despite being at a total disadvantage, that strange subject easily defeated the group of Goblins together with his sorcerer and not in a very good way, although killing is not good, the strange individual made it look like a executioner like a saint compared to him.

"Wait a minute, you said black-haired."

I mentioned a little intrigued about the true identity of that subject, because if I remember correctly, only demons had black hair, although it is also likely that some people have it, but the probability is 1/1,000,000, so it is more that guy is a demon than it is one in a million.

—The truth is that I don't know if it's a demon, because it didn't have horns or a tail, I tried to observe in more detail, but it seems that it noticed my presence... Seeing that look and that aura almost made me faint.

Marta said with a bit of uncertainty while being consoled by Eduard and George just looked at the scene with a bit of jealousy and Dilan... well, you can't expect anything from a guy who decided to challenge the strongest as soon as he started as an adventurer.

"How about we face him now!" It is said that they pay a lot for the defeat of a demon, we just have to take his body so that they believe us and that's it.

—I don't think it's wise to do that Dilan, if Marta said that she ripped several evolved goblins apart with great ease, she's probably Advanced rank or maybe Master, even Aurora who is the highest rank would have problems with that amount.

「Indeed, I could easily deal with a demon… but I'm not sure if this is a demon」

"Anyway, it's best to retire, we've already investigated enough to receive the reward, so settle for that, Dilan..." Eduard said as he looked at the aforementioned.

"tch, what a party pooper" I click my tongue before starting to walk towards the town, we all quickly followed them.

A good while had passed and we were on our way back to town, although it was quiet on the way due to the lack of wildlife and the group's concern for Marta's condition.

Although I kept thinking about what Ella said, because that guy intrigued me, I didn't know what race he was but he gave me the certainty that he wasn't a human, but he wasn't a demon either, so I thought that he could be some kind of cross between human and demon, but if in case the birth hope between demons is low, I doubt that they can reproduce with other species.

"Wait..." Marta said, making us not all be on our guard.

"What happened..." Before Dilan could ask, a tremor shook the ground and with it the question answered itself, as a herd of Dinolius stampeded towards our direction.

"RUN!" Eduard yelled as we all started up.

"Damn, that's too many!" George managed to yell, running with everything he had, but despite his size he was just as fast as Dilan.

[BOOST]

[AIR MAGIC]

While we were running I cast a boost spell on all my companions who began to increase their speed, while I used an air platform with which I quickly glided through the air.

"Well done Aurora!" Eduard congratulated, while Marta frowned, although the latter went unnoticed by everyone, except me.

We were continuing well, if we continued like this, we would probably escape without any damage, however, suddenly we see how several of these come out in front of our path, right where we planned to escape, so without any other options we ended up detouring towards the mountain.

We had to go a long way because these creatures were still following us, I didn't know why, however, what I know about these creatures is that they are repellent to magic, literally their body has a kind of immunity to magic, and due to at its enormous size, only warriors of advanced or master rank could stand up to it as they regularly found themselves in packs despite their aggressiveness.

These creatures are sometimes called Wizard Hunters since they usually go through places following the nearest source of mana, because it is a place where many magical creatures live, so also people such as wizards, sorcerers, witches and everything those who have magic are on their menu... but in that an idea came to my mind and it didn't take me long to notify my group and put it into action.

"Wait, I want to try something.

"Hey, where the hell are you going!" Dilan was able to hear.

While they stopped, I strayed from the path, only to see how the Dinolius followed my trail, instead of following my companions, so I deduced that it was me they were following.

—Go away, I'll catch up with you later, apparently it's me they're looking for.

I spoke to them through my ability, although I didn't hear what they answered, I was able to know thanks to this one that they refused to leave me, especially Eduard, but Marta managed to persuade the group to leave me, so they only said goodbye, swearing that they would return.

Something to mention while getting away from the creatures is that my ability not only allows me to understand any spell or chant, but also any language that is interpreted, although that also includes gestures, so sometimes I get extra information, as is the case with some perverts or enemies who are hidden spying or preparing an ambush, although it also includes people who direct a sign of interpretation towards me, whether malicious or not.

Marta is an example, although it's nothing really serious, it's just a gesture of envy out of love resentment, since it turns out that she ends up trapped in a love square, or something like that, because in short, George loves Marta because when they were The children were always together, but Marta fell madly in love with Eduard but it turns out that Eduard likes me in some unknown way.

Although his beauty is greatly overrated by women, I don't have any love interest, especially with a guy like him, because even though he is a priest and the leader of our team, he is a true pervert, which I am not willing to accept... and as for Dilan… well, all he thinks about is money, so he's the only one who's at peace with these people.

In particular whenever I'm with them I pretend to move my lips while speaking with my ability and whenever I have to cast a spell I imitate the chants so they believe I'm doing it. The truth is that this ability is not widely accepted by people, being from a god who betrayed his companions, so if they found out they would have serious problems, so much so that they would have to flee this kingdom.

[Great posed]

"Okay, that'll stop them, I don't want to take them all down and reveal my identity either."

As I was walking away from the dinolius, I cast a large earth spell which opened a huge pit in which several of the dinolius ended up falling and I didn't want to get rid of all of them since I was sure that they would notify this amount and it would look very suspicious that a simple magician got rid of everyone.

That was the plan, but I don't think it would go quite right.

"Hmm, something is wrong, I feel a presence, even though it's diffuse and I can't find it"

As I continued on my way to the mountain, some small words towards me were interpreted by my ability, these words were: "a mowed down"..."my lord, you must not"..."see something so horrible"

Those words gave me a very bad feeling and I tried to look for the presence however, an arrow of darkness is shot towards me, knocking me down in the process, although my platform with which I was in the air absorbed most of the damage. I turn to see the figure that attacked me which was revealed showing an individual in a black robe.

—My destiny has brought me here, the presence of my lord is strong in the place, but you...

He spoke with a rather high-pitched voice for a man, so I deduced that it was a woman.

"You shouldn't even be near him…"

But she was clearly not a mere girl, she just cast darkness magic, said magic could only be performed by few users with strong negative emotions or through the cost of great sacrifices.

Another thing is that symbol of a white sun with one eye closed in the middle meaning belonging to an occult sect called "The Light of the Shadows", basically they are a group of fanatics who pray to the demon king, although curiously they do not respect the other demons. Although she in particular gave off a more dangerous aura than usual.

"Occultists... what I was missing"

"...I'll spare him the favor of my lord having to intervene with someone as insignificant as you..."

After that, he began to throw me several spheres of whitish energy with a touch of darkness inside.

These guys are very dangerous when it comes to magic due to unknown rituals that give them more power, however, that doesn't mean that they are all powerful, so like any human, it only takes one accurate blow to some vital point and they are ready. out.

[FIREBOLT]

A gigantic ball of fire was released through a circle of transcription magic that came out of my palm, however, unfazed by that attack, she extended her hand and then disintegrated said fireball in a few seconds. The surprise was evident, but despite this I remained calm to find out what she did and come up with a plan.

«It is impossible for him to have disposed of it with another type of magic in such a short time, but if it wasn't magic, perhaps it was something physical, but the only material to repel magic are tears, however, they are visible and sensitive to magic, so what would have already noticed them, then it is something different…»

While I was thinking about the possible answer I started casting various spells of different elements on it, since although tears are good at repelling and absorbing magic, they only work on one type of magic, so unless they are scattered around the place, They will react in some way.

[AIR LAUNCH]

[ICE CRYSTAL]

[GREAT CRAG]

[WATER BULLE]

All the spells were against the woman who, unperturbed, put her hand on the attacks, and they were all blocked and destroyed without any problem.

[Air Bullet]

But just when she thought they had finished, a small but condensed air bullet was thrown towards her, which, thinking that nothing else would come, was surprised by said attack, but despite this, the damage was not reflected in it. , but if the reason why I did not receive it.

"Dinolius skin?"

"I see you're not as ignorant as I thought, but I'm not the only one who keeps secrets, as seen from you, you can cast spells without incantations or chants, someone like you has been blessed with the essence of the god of chaos!" ... We shouldn't attack each other," he said with his head bowed and a very serious voice.

That is another reason why I hide my ability, because in this world the blessings determine your destiny, or at least that is what the church and some political factions say, therefore, when my blessing was revealed, everyone started to hate me, just for a simple blessing my whole life was torture without any hope.

To say that my life was a misery was an understatement... not eligible, being rescued by a strange woman, whom I still respect today, shows that not everything was misfortune, because she was the one who saved me and taught me everything I know, so how to hide my ability to not cause any suspicion with people, in addition to the different ways to survive in this world.

So yes, I was lucky, but those who weren't as lucky as me are slaughtered, persecuted, tortured, even led to a certain group of fanatics who use them as weapons to satisfy the most heinous acts of the demon king.

"You're crazy if you think I'll join his group of fans."

"OBSERVATION"

I think it goes without saying what this ability does, but I can say that this ability is not one that is easily obtained, because usually, only Heroes had it, but somehow other people managed to adapt it into objects and abilities, as is my This is the case, although it is very difficult to achieve, since there is only one ability to copy abilities and everything with said ability is hunted and hunted.

[NOTE: Error]

"Oh great"

I quickly began my assault by sending several spells of various elements, however, she deflected them like nothing.

It seems that Dinolius's skin gives it that property, although that's strange since it regularly stops having said properties when the beast dies, but if this cult somehow managed to make it work, then the world will be in serious trouble. .

—We are not who you think, we simply lost faith in humanity… you probably already know that… if you join us, you will get rid of the punishment that our savior will bring to this world!— he said in a tone of euphoria while an aura evil materialized and with it her attacks increased in number and power.

Virtually the entire non-existent mountain had fallen to pieces as this woman was casting spells for all of them, which not only destroyed the mountain with their black explosions, but also spread a viscous black liquid, which seemed to dissolve everything on it. it touched, although in reality it was combining with said matter, turning it black and continuing to spread around it.

I thought about throwing my most powerful spells at her, but having that magic defense, she would be pretty much unscathed even if I used high-range explosions, so it would just be wasted mana and even if she had enough mana to destroy this entire mountain, I wouldn't know for sure if they would have any effect. in her.

«If the magical attacks don't affect him, then I'll have to try the physical ones, I just need a chance... I guess I'll have to pretend again»

In a small oversight she casts a more concentrated magic spell which I barely managed to stop, although when I realized there was a black substance on top of me.

That substance was known as miasma and is basically the enemy of all living beings, since it acted as a repellent to mana, and as a contaminant and virus for all matter, so it was very dangerous since it only sought to spread through everything, although in living beings it was in a different way.

"Damn, this hurts... but I'm sure I fell for it..."

"You should have joined when I offered it to you, now you will have to leave this world that will soon fall into my hands!!…

However, before he could finish his sentence, something in the distance caught his attention, so much so that he began to cry, which disconcerted me a bit, but he was just distracted, I took advantage of that opportunity.

"My lord… only a little distance separates us from the separation of this world and the destruction of…

But again she is interrupted, but this time by me, since I threw a rock at her head, which was shattered because I put many spells on that rock so that it would shoot out at enormous speed.

"If you're not affected by normal spells, then try something more rudimentary."

I exclaimed in my mind with a smile, although I don't think there was anyone close enough to interpret what was said by my ability.

However, the satisfaction of the moment vanished when from below the ground something began to emerge and among it the pack of Dinolius emerged, which went against the occultist, which for obvious reasons did not resist and ended up being devoured in a brutal way. .

[Silent retreat]

Slowly and silently I move to try to flee, but as soon as the herd finished the corpse of the occultist, they quickly noticed my magical presence, so they gave a powerful roar before rushing in my direction.

I quickly create an air platform, to get out of there as quickly as possible, but due to the attack from the previous confrontation, I am at a clear disadvantage, especially since the miasma is starting to take effect so there are only minutes left for the air platform. infection spreads and you begin to lose consciousness.

I shouldn't spend my mana but even despite the chances of becoming a litch, I'd rather not be chewed by the jaws of those creatures, and the former occultist gave me that lesson.

[GREAT PIT]

Right when I finish going down the mountain I put all of my remaining magic to create a huge crack in the ground which would prevent those things from getting through, but due to the miasma on me, my magic runs out early, so I'm done. falling to the ground.

"Will it be worth running away? I can't die anyway, but it will be very painful..."

I thought about leaving myself there and just giving up, but there were people I had to go back for, so I got up and regretfully started running as hard as I could, I ran and ran until my legs killed me, I was almost about to faint, I thought about using one last plan, but I didn't like the idea of being chewed until they got bored of me... However, in the distance I managed to see a person, so I headed towards her with the few strength I had left, I planned to use it of bait to get rid of these beasts... although that little hope was demolished in a second when I saw the person in front of me.

"This can't get any worse, can it?"

It was just the person that Marta described and because of that distraction I fell awkwardly to the ground while I watched the herd approaching and I looked fearfully at the subject in front of me.

"Am I really that pathetic?"

He did not know which was worse, for on one side were those horrendous creatures and on the other an unknown subject with bloody brutality.

I thought that all the possibilities had been exhausted when that guy looked at me as if I were a poor abandoned creature, as if he said to me "I'll end your suffering before you know it", but he still didn't want to die, so the fear quickly it started to overwhelm me.

-Oh really? just when I say I don't want to deal with those things unless they attack me…they show up…I don't know whether to be grateful or disappointed.

It was what I heard pronounce, for a few seconds later he approached my direction, but he only passed by, placing himself between the dinolius and me.

"HEY?"

Now that I thought about it better, maybe we just judged this guy without even knowing him, because I don't feel an aura of malice, in fact, I don't feel any magic in him, did I defeat all those goblins with brute force?.. Still, the dinolius are a different thing and should not be underestimated at all.

"OBSERVATION"

[NOTE: No results]

That was new, almost regularly I always check the statistics of any individual, but some like me discovered a way to hide their statistics, but whenever that happened he responded with "error", but what did he mean with "No there are results", perhaps he does not have statistics.

In that I see how he stands firmly before me protecting me from those beasts and although that was strange, I couldn't help feeling impressed with his presence or maybe it was the fact that the miasma was making me hallucinate, but I wasn't sure about it. .

—What are you doing, those are too many dinolius, not even you can beat them.

I yelled at him in concern, though I practically used my acting skills since I can't speak.

-Do not worry, I…

He started to speak in a different language, but stopped abruptly, as if he was thinking of something of the utmost importance.

"Does he realize that the ability I have?"

But in that some dinolius managed to get to the place and quickly pounced on him, so I quickly use my ability to warn him.

- CAREFUL!

However, the beast never arrived, since with a simple blow it was sent flying against its other companions, which upon seeing this, stopped only to roar and begin to surround us, but before I realized it a small projectile was launched, destroying several of these, followed by launching several of these causing a huge wave of projectiles which went through everything in their path, leaving remains and remains of corpses.

I remained completely static due to witnessing the strength that the subject had just shown, it was so much my surprise that I did not notice how two of those beasts arrived at my position and were about to devour me, but again I was saved by the strange individual who with a simple sword split those creatures in half.

"Whew, that was difficult, I appreciate having this strength, otherwise I'd be dead" he said as he continued his massacre of these creatures leaving one after the other, although they, seeing their disadvantage, began to withdraw.

After they ran away, he approached me, looking at me with black eyes, but despite having shown that he had brutally killed all those beasts, his face did not resemble that of a murderer, but rather that of a person. run-of-the-mill, except for the one detail of his hair, he was pretty much just missing horns and would be a complete demon.

"Sorry, I know it sounds weird, but you can understand me," he said calling attention and although I was still scared I nodded my head.

"Perfect, that makes things easier. Well, what's your name?"

He asked calmly in his voice, but he seemed to be serious, so even with a bit of nerves I used my ability to talk to him, although I was afraid that he would do something to me because of it and due to my current state, my fear only grew. .

- My name is Aurora...

"Very well Aurora, I want you to answer each of my questions without questioning, okay?" - exclaimed the subject with a rather serious voice.

I just nodded, hoping he wouldn't do anything to me after answering him.

— Very well, first question… How do you speak without the need to move your lips? - I mention leaving me stunned to learn that he had guessed my secret.

"Curse"

I cursed inside because of the bad situation that awaited me, especially for being in this state, I knew that little by little I would lose consciousness, and I had no idea what the true intentions of this guy were.

END