Chapter 8 Recruitment Of Party Members

After the fight which was decided as a stalemate. Tsuoma was given the right to form his own party. But until he finds all the members, he would have to work with Natael's party. He accepted this offer and he, Teruki, Agnolia joined the party.

The princess and the holy knight moved around the city in disguises. The princess was worried about how the people were being treated, most of the halflings were treated unfairly and even the Holy Knights were butchered.

Emile came across a young woman of probably seventeen years old who was wearing an hoodie to cover her face, she stole a loaf of bread and ran, the owner of the stall saw her.

“Hey, get back here, you thieving pest. Guards, get that bastard.“

The young lady was pursued hotly by the guards, a spear was thrown at her legs but she kept on running. “Hey Airen, let's follow that girl.“

The holy knight looked around and followed the princess. The girl ran into a closed up area and the men rounded up to her. One of them grinned evilly. “No where to run to now damsel. No one steals from here and goes scot free. You are trapped now. The young lady turned to look at them. “Trapped? Me? You have got it all wrong, you are the trapped ones.“ “Uh? What are you saying kid?“ A guard asked.

Flash! Woosh!

In a split second, the head of the guard was seen rolling on the floor, his blood gushing out of his decimated neck, staining the terracotta floor. The girl remaied where she was standing and removed her hoodie. There was something seemingly familiar about her. “Hey princess Emile, you will like this.“ Emile was shocked, how did this apparent stranger know her name.

The girl put her two hands together like she wanted to pray and she began to levitate up, her blue eyes took on a shade of red.

“That's the goddess of summoning stance according to legend, when she is angry, her eyes changes to red, don't tell me my goddess is in a human body.“ The girl smirked. “Glad you picked that up, my daughter, and now to clean up the trash.“

The guards began to dry up. Their bellies began to shrink and they began to fold, suddenly they all exploded with a loud blop. Nothing of the men remained, not even their bones or blood were left. “I didn't even use my full power on these men.“

Emile ran to the girl and bowed down in respect. “My goddess, it's really you, but how?“ Emile asked rushing her words. “Don't call me goddess, i now have a name.“ She replied in a calm mischievous tone.

“I am sorry what?“

“The hero gave me a name, Sigrid.“

Emile's face cracked in surprise. “You have met with Tsuoma.“

“That's an understatement considering I have been within him the whole time, i appeared to you inorder to come and rescue him from Urea, though none of you could defeat him but he hates having Agnolia in the team, so take me to the guild, i felt an evil aura and I guess either Trezona or Urea are responsible for it.“

They got to the guild and were surprised to see it was well. The evil aura the goddess felt had gone, she was dumbfounded about this. The guild members were surprised to see her and Emile was about to introduce her to them but she hushed her. “I am Sigrid, it's a pleasure to meet you all.” Tsuoma wasn't there at the time she came. Rather he was in the guild's dungeon training on how to control his new skill. Death Glare.

The low level beasts in the dungeon could only last for one minute after staring at his eyes.

The high level beasts on the other hand, lasted long enough to even attack him before they could turn into stone. He knew he had to upgrade the skill inorder to kill at a glance without the person even knowing, since he would be facing very powerful beings. “But i need to be able to turn it off and on, it was only luck that allowed Teruki to survive after looking at me. I have to make sure i protect her with it rather than killing her with it. She is my only link to Japan, and i can't bear to lose her.” He began to hear noises from above the dungeon. “I wonder what is getting them shouting over there, it doesn't sound like anyone is attacking. Well, i am done with training, i gotta go up and see what's going on.”

Tsuoma began to levitate using wind magic, he got to the upper part of the dungeon, he chanted a spell and the dungeon locked itself. He came out to the reception area where clanking of swords and cups could be heard.

Bwah! Ow!

The sound of a person crashing down in pain could be heard and Tsuoma looked at the person who threw the guild member and saw a young girl. He checked her status and was amazed to see he couldn't see it. Was she capable of hiding her skills set that the appraisal eyes couldn't break through. She caught his eyes and smirked in a seductive way, she stuck out her tongue at him.

“Hey Tsuoma, how are you doing?” She asked playfully and in a teasing tone.

He drew out his sword and took a fighting stance. “Who are you and how do you know my name?” He asked in an aggressive tone.

“Take it easy soldier, i am harmless. Besides Tsuoma, don't you remember my voice?” Tsuoma finally calmed down and listened to her. “Goddess, i mean Sigrid, it's you, how?” “I took your advice, i found a body to possess among the dead and i reincarnated her as a young girl. Her source wasn't destroyed and i was able to give her new memories also.”

Cough! Cough!

Tsuoma faced Teruki, he saw the questions bubbling in her eyes. “Teruki, she is the goddess who reincarnated us into this world and gave us a chance to live, isn't that super, I have a goddess at my beck and call. The other guild members were shocked to hear this and looked hard at her. Then a fool came to test her out. “Hey little girl, how can you call yourself a goddess, I believe you are hallucinating, you a goddess.” Coron scoffed before bursting into a disgusting fit of laughter.

With speed faster than light, Sigrid moved and punched Coron so hard, his face crumpled and he flew backwards, his cheeks taking a shade of red. "I had to hold back too much else you would be dead already.”

After all had been settled, Emile went back to the royal capital with the holy knight. She had one thing in mind, to return and take control of the town and remove it from the hands of the evil empress. She wanted to get seal of approval from her father.

Tsuoma began looking around for party members. Agnolia, Teruki, Tiatha, Sigrid, Jiyoki, and he made up six members, he needed one more in order to complete his party. And he hoped to get a strong male.”

Since their party wasn't yet complete, they were given an F rank mission. The reward was five thousand dalfs'. Tsuoma was angry at this down the hatch mission, they were to find a crimson spider monkey. The spider monkey was toying with a farm and the owner needed people to help him drive out the pest.

In their new home which Agnolia with her influence was able to get, Tsuoma vented out his anger. His hand crashed into the wooden table leaving a dent on the structure.

“That leech thinks he can torture me this way. I have a mind he deliberately gave us this mission to torment me and not guage my strength. Because I humbled Coron, no worries, I will show him how to finish a mission.” “Calm down Tsuoma, you are already burning up and smoke is coming from your head.” “Teruki, I will calm down.”

He felt himself suddenly becoming calm and all his worries going away, he was no longer angry. This came as a shock to him and he looked at Teruki. She was shivering a bit from the effect of taking away his pain, he was hurting.”

He checked her status, he hadn't seen it since he discovered his appraisal eyes.

STATS

Name: Teruki Kaido

Specie: Human, Mage

Rank: Level 140, SS rank

Health: 10000/10000

Agility: 4000/4000

Speed: 5000/5000

Strength: 3000/3000

Stamina: 4500/4500

Mana: 9000/10000

Magic Used: empathy, telepathy, fire magic, water magic, earth magic, healing magic, sword magic, power bestowal.

“She is really powerful.” He said amazed. He was in awe of her powers. Her mana had reduced a bit by taking away his pain. He smiled and touched her returning her powers. This was a new skill he had picked up after fighting Midrash. He had leveled up a bit and gotten an extra skill. Power Bestowal. The ability to give others powers and in his case he granted her, her mana back and unknown to him granted her an ability, Photographic Reflexes.

He was surprised to see she had had power bestowal before him but she couldn't use it well yet. She probably didn't even know she had it.

He decided to look around for the last member of the party alone. He left the girls and walked out to the city. Staying alone with five girls was sure tiresome. He had to hardly control his “under” before it could cause him massive sexual destruction. He hoped he would come across a strong man around his age.

Moving around the city, he was awed by the beautiful landscapes. The city was in an octagonal shape and it looked like everyone could see everyone else as the city faced everywhere. There was a building made totally of gold and it glittered under the afternoon sun, elves, dwarfs, dragon born moved around peacefully enjoying the peace and quiet. Two knights in golden knight robes stood at the front of gates holding spears and sheated swords on their hips. An orb floated around and Tsuoma looked at it and knew it was looking at everywhere for security reasons. It was just like a security camera in a bank. He deduced that this must be a palace. The empress must have kept someone here as her representative. I wonder who it might be.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

He heard clanging sounds and he knew swords were hitting each other. He hurried to the center of the noise and saw many people had gathered. He pushed till he got to the front and saw a boy of probably eighteen years fighting a much older and stronger man. At the boy's back were a woman, a man who was already bleeding from his two decimated arms. Two young girls who looked alike were holding tightly to the woman as the boy was flinged away and he landed on his head. He yelled as blood spurted out of his mouth. His entire face was bloodied and he was staggering. The guards around didn't interfere. Something felt strange to Tsuoma. The boy was no more than eighteen but his aura was much, seems he was royalty. He then scanned them and he was awed to see they were royals, some people then confirmed his statement. “The Tachuu family, one of the guardian royal homes. They have ruled this city for long, all the guardian royals have been killed and they are the last of them.”

Tsuoma was in awe at this, the young boy was a royal. He must get him, he couldn't lose him to death, but what could he do.

The young guardian stood up and spread out his arms to protect his family, he was breathing heavily and bleeding profusely. “I am Ashrua Niyu Tachuu, a guardian, i shall not lose. Spirit of the elements, grant me powers to defeat my foes, i call to you superior spirit of earth, give me your strength.”

The boy began to grow muscles and the earth began to crack underneath. His face began showing black marks which spread all over his face. Space cracked behind him and he put his hand behind and drew out a sword made out of earth. “Give my legs speed, superior spirit of wind.”

The man was surprised to see all this, normally a guardian could control one spirit for attack and defense but in some rare cases two but this young one was controlling seven and not just any spirit, superior spirits. The seven elements are Water, Wind, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Light and Dark. Other elements came from mixing either of the elements together. The guardians were in charge of guarding the kingdom from demons and monsters and the royal guardians were allowed to rule in wherever city they were found. There were five royal guardians in this particular nation and were spread all over the cities of the nation. The man smiled.

“Who would have thought you were the strongest guardian, at least i get to rip you apart. You are lucky to see me like this, i am one of the lesser demon knights but i still have enough power to wipe out half this city. Tsuoma suddenly moved forward and time stopped moving. He got to the man's front and punched him in the throat, he was sent flying and crashing into a stall. Ashrua was surprised to see what happened. “Yo, my name is Tsuoma Sadeo, wanna join me and my team.” Ashrua began laughing.

“You a mere human dare to tell me that? By the way I am busy.”

Tsuoma chuckled mischievously. “Busy with what?’’ Ashrua turned to look at the lesser demon and saw he was bleeding. The demon stared surprisingly at Tsuoma. “When did he?” “I am Tsuoma Sadeo, remember my name, lesser demon.” The demon exploded into nothingness. “Unbelievable, he even wiped out his spiritual energy meaning he can't reincarnate. Who is this guy? He stopped time and killed a lesser demon, i had to transform to kill him but he, how did he even do it and his mana seems weak.” He suddenly got a flash. The wind spirit showed him how Tsuoma stopped time and had already slashed him before time stopped fully, so the demon was dying slowly.

“He is powerful, he can wipe out this nation without anyone not even we the guardians knowing. Wind spirit how is the area. “The entire nation has fallen under his spell.” He gasped. “Though we have a small nation but his spell affected two thousand people at once.”

Time returned and everyone were awed to see the Demon Knight body parts scattered. Tsuoma winked at him. “When you change your mind, i will be at the Berserker Guild, see you, oh when you come ask for Tsuoma Sadeo, you will be directed to me, bye bye.”