Last Transmigration: Overland Of The Apocalypse

8

" I think there's been some sort of a misunderstanding here," Ray said as he slowly raised both hands.

"There has!" Aria replied calmly. "My mistake was assuming you would surrender peacefully."

"... That's... That's not what I meant." Ray replied.

The little girl suddenly stepped forward from behind him.

"No..no," she said spreading her tiny arms. "He saved me!"

Aria's blue eyes shifted toward the child and her expression softened, slightly.

"...Come here child." Aria said.

"N-No!" The child replied, shaking her head violently. "He isn't bad!"

Aria frowned. "Stockholm conditioning?"

".... Seriously?!" Ray blinked

Kael laughed so hard Ray almost lost his focus. "I like her, I really do like this one."

"Ooh my! Please don't," Lucian sighed.

Aria's gaze returned to Ray. "Six armed men," she said pointing toward the unconscious bandits.. th n towards the broken trees. " You, destroyed terrain."

Then her eyes settled on the strange mana still drifting around his body. Gold, crimson, black, and sliver. Her pupils narrowed..

"... I've never seen mana like that before, ever." She said as she slowly shifted into a sword stance, professional perfect.

"Identity yourself." She command.

Ray hesitated. "I'd love to, but unfortunately I don't know who I am anymore I don't even know where the hell I am, my own system even forgot my own name to begin with..

"...That sounded incredibly suspicious." Kael muttered.

"It really did." Lucian agreed.

"Final warning." Aria said lowering her center of gravity.

"I really don't want to fight, not again." Ray sighed.

"I know." She replied, and in the next second she disappeared. One moment she stood twenty meters away, and the next.

*CLANG!*

Ray barely redirected her blade with Vector. The impact exploded through his arm and he flew backwards, skidding across the dirt before crashing into a fallen tree.

His entire right arm went numb... "... What the hell was that," Ray said.

Kael whistled. "... And she's even still holding back ."

"If she wasn't, you'd already be dead by now." Lucain added.

Ray slowly stood up, his muscles screamed. He'd barely survived the wolves, then the bandits and now this..

Aria on the other hand didn't chase him, she simply just waited, watching almost as if she was measuring something with her eyes.

"Interesting." She murmured to herself.

"You redirected the impact, not blocked, but completely redirected.

Ray frowned. "...How did you notice that?" He asked..

She didn't answer, instead she attacked again.

But this time , the fight became less about action and more about observation.

Every time he uses vector, Aria noticed something impossible. Not the authority but the mana.

Normally every awakened person's mana has one stable signature. Fire mages have blues, holy knights had Gold, shadow users black, and wind users Green

But every time Ray activates Vector, his mana shifts. From Gold then crimson, then black and sliver. Almost like four different sould are trying to use the same body.

"Impossible!..." Aria thought. "Mana doesn't change affinity mid-combat.

Ray became really exhausted at this point, he couldn't keep up, she was simply to skilled..

Then she finally disarmed him, her sword rests against his neck. She won completely, but Instead of arresting him... She asked one question. "...Who trained you?"

Ray laughed bitterly. "... A hero and a villain."

"... What?" Aria blinked.

Ray Immediately realized what he just said. "Forget i said that.

Inside his head... "Idiot..." Kael shouted. "

"Totally agreed." Lucian added.

Just then, the little girl finally spoke, not to Ray but to Aria..

"Mister didn't kill anyone," she added. "He protected me, he didn't even kill the bad men."

Aria slowly turned toward the unconscious bandits l, she walked over and started checking their pulse....

All alive. Broken bones with dislocated shoulders , concussions but still alive all of them.

She looked back at Ray then the battlefield and then the little girl. Pieces began falling into place.

Just then she suddenly noticed something else.

A black system fragment, no larger that a coin, half-buried beneath the leaves where the battle took place.

And when Ray unconsciously stepped closer the fragment pulsed. His system suddenly activated.

[System Fragment Detected]

Aria doesn't see the message, but she definitely does see the fragment react to him and that's when she realizes that this man isn't an ordinary Awakened.

Aria slowly lowers her sword. "...You're coming with me." She said.

Ray sighs. "...Am I under arrest?" He asked.

"... No." She answered shaking her head. "Now I have questions."

"...And so do I." Ray replied with a little smirk on his face.

Just as Aria turned around, the black fragment started dissolving into sliver light and flowing into Ray's body and a new message popped up.

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System Fragment Acquired.

Legacy Archive: 1% Restored.

Hidden Memory Unlocked...

Playback Pending...