The Rise Of Calamity

Throughout the entire sea of blood, the only large similarity they all had was the fact that their eyes were open and their bodies were motionless. Yet this did not stop them from looking into Yuri's very soul with envy and anger, as if she had something they deserved to have more than her.

"Why did you kill us?"

"Why didn't you save us?"

"Why did you choose them over us?"

"Do we not matter to you?"

Yuri had already begun to clutch her head between her hands and shake her head in disbelieve. Her eyes began to shake while her whole body felt as if it was about to collapse. The urge to vomit had only increased.

Suddenly, all the bodies that were once motionless began to move at the same time as their eyes were completely locked onto Yuri.

Out of fear, the only thing Yuri could do was look down at the sea of blood with a pale face and weak pants. She could barely breathe due to the feeling of her lungs closing up only increasing. It felt like her lungs were slowly being filled up with blood, making them heavier and much harder to breathe with.

It was only after she had closed her eyes for long enough to hear the sound of the throneworld shattering around her that she finally opened her eyes.

She looked down at her once blood-soaked hands just to see them completely clean. She then urgently looked at Rose with teary eyes and an expression of someone who had been betrayed.

"Hic... Hic... I killed her... She saved me and I killed her? Why did I kill her? I don't want to kill... Rose... Why didn't you stop me?"

***

Present

After the little debacle, Rose and Olivia walked out alongside me out of the training hall. Rose was carrying Yuri while I and Olivia were looking at my new mercenary card.

I had already put my mask on so I looked identical to the picture that was put on the card. At the same time, I was currently looking at the skills and titles tab at the bottom of the card that only appears if I want to it. This would make it so mercenaries would not have to expose their skills, affinities, and titles whenever they show their ID anywhere. It only took a little bit of one's mana to see the skills, titles, and affinity ranks.

One's affinity would not be a secret to anyone so therefore, people only saw purpose in hiding the ranking of the affinity. The ranking of an affinity showed how good a person's comprehension of the affinity was and at the same time, how good their control of the affinity was. An example would be my lighting element which is considered to be at the SS+ rank, and the only reason it is not ranking at the SSS rank is that I did not expose my lighting element.

In reality, my control over lighting can be considered to be on the level of someone in the middle stages of the Liquidus stage, and even though that might just sound like one stage improvement, the difference between each stage is enormous. The true miracle here is how I am able to read the High ranks of the Gaseous stage while still being in the high level of cultivating within the ethereal rank.

Anyway, we carried on walking, registered my ID into the system with my power level, titles and skills before walking outside. We walked a little more but stopped after Yuri began to whine about being carried like a baby.

As Rose let her down, I heard something that someone had said a few dozen meters away that alarmed the people he was speaking to. The people who had also heard the thing the man had just said also began to speak about it within their own groups, causing a chain effect where the 'rumor' began to spread like wildfire.

Meanwhile, I was currently being glared at by a manchild by the name of Yuri for hurting her before.

'Ugh! It is not my fault that you are scared of blood' I inwardly harumphed

[Pretty sure she isn't scared of blood but instead, she is scared of bloodshed. She is scared of what the blood signifies which makes the fact that she was able to be the regional guildmaster of the phoenix guild in this city a lot more surprising than it already was. Even though she is just 20, I can tell that she has seen more bloodshed than you have seen in both your lives if we don't count the news and war clips that you liked to watch online which I still find kind of weird. Why did you do that? Were you that bored?]

'This is not time to be questioning my life choices. This is a time where I should be thinking about the rumor I just heard that I feel like I am about to get the short end of.' I tapped the floor a few times before I finally spoke

"Did you hear?" I looked at some of the parties who began to go towards the outer walls.

"Hear what?" Rose looked at me weirdly.

"The rumor about the beasts lurking around the city" A mysterious yet wry smile showed up on my face. I already had an idea of why they had come, but it was better to see it with my own eyes rather than continue to make assumptions like the rest of the humans.

"You heard that too?" Olivia asked while itched her ear, making Rose and I looked at her with tinges of surprise.

[She has your divinity and is contracted to you by a master-servent contract. By the laws of the heavens, if she does not have any divinity within her she will start gaining some in small portions. It is just a side effect of the runes that were used to create the contract.]

'That would make sense. A bit like how she was able to see Tastet 2 years ago before everyone else' Many of the occurrences started to make sense

[Yes, and the fact that as someone with the power level of merely 50 thousand, she can probably cut down someone in the Imperial knight or wizard rank if not someone within the bronze tier by using her enraged buff.]