小嫂子的味道

Dark clouds appeared above me and spun in a vortex. The next second a loud rumbling thunder was heard and a flash spread within the clouds. A pillar of lightening rained down from the skies and fell straight down on me, and the two demon beast's that were with me.

Everything went white when the lightning hit the ground. I was not able to see, hear, or feel anything.

Though when the initial flash disappeared and my vision cleard I was suddenly dropped down on my feet, turning around I saw the upper body of both the beast's had been turned into ash. Not only that, everything—including the ground—with a twenty meter radius around me had been burned.

Without wasting any time I released [Dark Edge] two times and destroyed the core within their chests.

[Double casting, huh? That was a pretty good way to use it.]

'Well, it was the best way to kill the both of them at once.'

Wrath Of The Sky. It was the upgraded version of Lightning and so far the most powerful lightning based spell that had been taught of the first year students.

Whereas Resistance III. It was a self-protection spell of the same level. After all, if I hadn't used that then I would've been turned to ash along with the demons.

"Fuck," I groaned and held my head as I walked toward where my parents stood. The pain in my head had not dulled and was still continuing to hurt my eyes and brain.

It felt like my head would get crushed between two rocks.

'Not like I have a choice, do I?' I thought. There was always the option of stop using [Foresight] until the next demon beasts show up but I didn't want to put my trust in that too much.

That is, because I had been using it for more than an hour and this was the first time I'd last thing long. Therefore if I stopped using it now, the chances were high that I would either won't be able to use it again for a while or I will fell unconsciousness.

The latter had happened with me when I first hit the fifteen minute time span—I was out for whole day. It could be the worst possible outcome if that happened right here in the middle of this chaos, thus I believed bearing with the pain was a better option.

[You shouldn't ignore it for long. It can cause you more than just pain if not taken care of,] Req warned.

'I would really like to do that. Unfortunately, I can't. And just stop talking in my head for once! It's making it worse!'

After brushing her off I came near the protective conical of stone I'd built around my parents. I used elemental magic and dissolved all the stone to dust, and out came my mother and father who were carrying worried and concerned look on their faces.

"Zero! Are you fine? Why'd you lock us in there like that!?" mother asked as soon as she stepped close to seem. The fear of losing me was clear in her voice.

"I'm fine. And I needed to do that to protect you from those beasts," I said and tried to put a calm look on my face, putting all the pain behind the curtains.

"But that is far too dangerous," she protested.

"I'm sorry mother, but I won't listen to a word you say right now. I'v already made myself clear that I'll protect and take you both out of here safely, and I'm not going to go back on my word," I said in a rigid voice, as if I were making a statement.

​ 'How strange,' I thought to myself.

'The words I'm saying even surprise me. I used to be a person who only cared about myself, other people were just dolls meant purely for my entertainment. Even if I wanted to save someone my inner instincts wouldn't have let me, yet here I was. Risking my life for the sake of others. I doubt if I'd been able to do this had I been the person I used to be.'

"You are being stubborn now," mother said.

"I aware. And I'm quite proud of it," I said.

Turning around I looked at the surroundings. We'd left the city and were now out in the grassy open fields.

Though you might think this was some progress, in reality these plains were the parts I was most worried about even though the population of demon beasts here was slighlty less from the city inside.

After all, in the city I had places where I could hide and take routes that were less populated and avoid meaningless fighting and struggle. Here however, I was out in the open and every demon beasts roaming in the area could see and attack us.

That's why our pace had slown down by a huge margin after stepping out of the city walls; since I was fighting new beasts at every ten minutes or so.

And as fate may have it, things took a turn for worse.

When I was looking out and pinning the locations of the faraway beasts who were running toward us, a loud pulsing sound was heard. It was loud, so loud that I could not describe; the loudest sound I'd ever heard. And it came from above.

Looking up I saw hell, and realized the horrors I'd created while working as an editor for loli_pop.

There in the sky space itself was torn apart, and three colossal portals opened. They were big, and I mean really big. Big big. Probably the height of a skyscraper and the width of a mountain.

And from those colossal portals came out floods of demon beasts who had the sole desire to kill and eat humans. Their strength was probably in millions, and as they jumped out of the portals and ran on the ground the land shook violently as if an earthquake had occurred.

And those millions and millions of demon beasts charged straight toward me. They were in a frenzy, stepping over their own kin and doing whatever possible to get to the meal first.

As you would have guessed probably, the meal was in fact, us. It was, in all aspects, a calamity.