Day of the Displacement Incident.
After being engulfed by a light of an explosion in the sky, Eris found herself standing in front of a carved wooden table in a spacious decorated room, her hand still holding her wooden practice sword with a metal core.
At a glance, it was an expensive room. A royal or noble residence.
And in front of her was a young blonde girl, the same age as her, and a middle-aged lady. There were books and learning materials placed on their table; it seemed to be a lecture.
Eris frowned.
The blonde girl noticed Eris suddenly appeared, with a weapon, and was frightened. "Assassin?!"
The middle-aged lady was also alarmed. However, she had no combat ability at all, so she could only be alarmed.
"P-princess, behind you!"
It was at that moment that the lady pointed out with her finger as behind the blonde girl there was a monster that suddenly appeared and began growling.
It was a strange creature – its head was that of a wolf and it had especially sharp claws, but most of its body was that of a bear. It was big – as large as a bear.
'A wolfbear?' Eris thought, immediately making up a name.
The mutated beast kicked off the ground and began to run straight at the closest person - the Princess.
"Hmph!"
Eris frowned and stretched out her empty left hand.
As the monster plunged at the blonde princess, it crashed into a semi-transparent barrier.
After that, Eris plunged forward and brought down her wooden sword.
"Aarrgh!"
Her sword hit the monster squarely on the head.
"Princess Ariel!"
The door burst open as a bespectacled man charged in from the corridor.
"Arh! Arrr! Arrrgh!"
It was just in time for him to see Eris repeatedly beating the poor bear to the death, again and again, with her dull wooden sword, before finishing it with a silently casted Rock Bullet to the head as it stood up.
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A day later.
In his dream, Mordred was in the world of white once more.
[Hello again, Mordred-kun. It isn't easy to clear a labyrinth, is it?]
'...' As Hitogami struck the conversation with a grin, Mordred only looked at him silently.
[Don't glare at me like that. I wasn't lying to you earlier. There is really someone important for you in this labyrinth. However, with the way you're doing things, it will take you too long to explore it. So I planned to give you my second advice now... But there is an emergency.]
'... What emergency?' Mordred frowned. Hitogami's voice did sound serious.
[It's related to Eris. You see, she ended up in the Asuran Royal Palace. At first everything was fine, but there was a sudden change. She was captured by Prime Minister Darius van Silva.]
Mordred heard this and his expression changed.
[Darius is a pawn of the Dragon God and a perverted man with a liking for little girls. If you don't go to save Eris immediately, you will regret it.]
Mordred's lips quivered for a while. He felt cold sweat appear on his back.
Eris was in the hands of Darius? No way…
He then asked in a daze, "Then what about the Teleportation Labyrinth?...'
He had already prioritized Eris in his mind, but he still wanted to know who was trapped in the Labyrinth.
[It can wait. I told you the truth earlier. The Labyrinth is your priority, but perhaps it is not as urgent as you thought. As long as you clear it within a week or so, it will be good enough. Unfortunately, my ability to predict the future is not omnipotent. I can't predict the Dragon God's actions. But you don't need to worry, you will not run into the Dragon God and will not die if you go to Ars. I can tell that much.]
Mordred looked at him with a blank look. He will not die if he goes there? He was not so sure. What he was sure of instead was that if he went, there would definitely be a trap waiting for him there!
But he couldn't not go! If any of this was true, who knows just what Darius, that perverted pig, might do to Eris!
Even at this moment Eris might be locked up in that pig's slave dungeon, stripped naked and crying to be saved…
Mordred hatefully glared at Hitogami and said, 'Hitogami! It's fine if you scheme against me, but if anything happens to Eris because of you, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth! To the ends of the earth, you hear me!!!'
Hitogami looked startled as he was suddenly yelled at. He touched his chest. [Oh… Oh, no, you got the wrong idea. This has nothing to do with me. It's all the actions of the evil Dragon God. I'm on your side, I promise.]
'...' Mordred glared at him. As if he would believe that.
[It's regretful that you doubt me so much, but thanks to me you have a chance to save Eris, don't you? I hope that after this you'll understand that I'm only trying to help.]
[Unfortunately, the situation is severe, so you need to hurry. When you get there, you might need to confront the Water God. It will not be easy… But since you're the fated hero, I'm sure you'll be fine. I'm sorry if you feel cheated. I can only wish you good luck.]
Luck, luck, luck…
With an echo, Hitogami disappeared.
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When Mordred woke up, he immediately woke up the thief and told him in Fighting God: "Wake up! We're going back!"
"Wh-what? Boss? Why go back all of a sudden?" The thief asked.
Interestingly, when they entered the Labyrinth, the thief looked as if he only wished he could go back, but after seeing Valeria's and Mordred's strength, he instead gained interest in exploring the labyrinth properly.
Valeria herself didn't get any sleep that night, but Mordred didn't care as he brought them all back, rushing back while he acted as the vanguard this time and cut down the Tarantula Deathlords that appeared.
By the time they reached the surface, it was already noon.
Mordred gave a few gold coins to Valeria and to the thief, instructing the man to find Valeria a room to stay in the city. He believed that it was better to leave her here for several reasons, including the facts that bringing a Superd devil to the capital might paint him as the public enemy of the entire world and she'd only be a burden if he did bring her; the chance of anything bad happening to her was very low anyway.
After that, he told Valeria he would be leaving for a while.
"Warrior Mordred, where are you going?" She asked him.
"Someone important to me might be in danger. I need to go."
"Did you have another vision in your dreams?"
"Yes, I met the strange man in my dreams again. I can't say he can be trusted, but I have no choice. I'm sorry I'm dragging you into something so sketchy."
After hearing this, Valeria shook her head. "No need to apologize. I wanted to go. Even if there's a risk, I'll still follow you."
Mordred saw that the Superd girl had a surprising amount of trust in him. He smiled. "Oh, okay. Thank you!"
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After bidding his farewell, Mordred leaped up and flew straight north. With a few bursts of red lightning, he accelerated to the speed many times that of an average plane.
He left Begaritt, quickly crossed the sea, then began to fly south-west along the coast line. A red arrow of thunder visible from below.
He had lost his cool back then when he was with Hitogami, but after he thought through things calmly, he realised that the chance that anything bad had happened to Eris was only about 1%.
That was unless Hitogami was an absolute idiot and his future sight ability could be thrown into the garbage can.
This also meant Hitogami fully accepted his own death and only wanted to hurt him.
Therefore, for a being that only cared about himself and would rather continue struggling, the chance was only about 1%.
But despite logically accepting that fact, Mordred was still unbearably worried.
It isn't like he had never dated, but he still felt inwardly very lonely.
Eris was his childhood sweetheart of this life, a girl that would definitely love him with all her heart and that he could love her back with his whole heart. He wanted to be happy together with her.
Thinking that something terrible might have happened to her made him feel sick.
In a way, Eris not being killed would be even worse because if she was killed, his course of action would be clear — research Time Magic to go back and fix everything, which is what Rudeus had done after being done in by Hitogami.
But what if she was raped?
"Agghrrrr!" Mordred let out an anguished roar while flying through the sky.
In spite of all of his strength, he was felt so powerless at that moment.
He hated it.
Inwardly, he knew that the answer to all this was simple.
He needed absolute power.
Surpassing Orsted was not enough.
Becoming the strongest in this world was not enough.
He had to go beyond it and obtain an unsurpassed power and omniscience like Hitogami's that no one could go against!
Perhaps this way he won't feel as helpless as he was now. Or at least, the chance will be much lower.
With these thoughts, within the hour he discovered a port of a large city that should be Ars.
He then located the Royal Palace, which was clearly sticking out and flew directly to it.
From reading the novel, he knew that the Water God feels indebted to Darius, so she would fight for him to the death, once.
Hitogami gave him the warning that he might need to fight the Water God without any useful advice on how to win. It was clear he wanted him to die here.
And if this trap fails, he could later claim that he knew that Mordred would be fine all along.
In regards to that, he felt confident.
It was a trap, but he still rushed into it willingly.
Firstly, because he couldn't afford not to.
Secondly, because he knew he wouldn't lose.
He had also already fought and defeated the King of Knights, so what's the matter fighting the Water God?
Although he was low on Magic Power after the teleportation, he had already fully recovered.
Hitogami might have underestimated him, but he should also know that he'd end up victorious.
At most, it was only a chance to probe his trump cards and earn more of his trust for some reason.
When it came to that, perhaps he might even be able to somehow talk things out with the Water God to show Hitogami a big middle finger.
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Name: Mordred Kingdragon
Titles/nicknames: 16th Prince of Kingdragon, Miko
Age: 9
Strength: C*
Endurance: B
Agility: B* (B-)
Mana (output): 1.3 A | (A+ as a Servant)
Mana (capacity): EX (3x A)
[Instinct A]
[Mana Burst A]
[Magic Resistance B]
[Dragon Reactor Core A+]
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[Secret Technique: True Light Reversal A+ (A++)]
[Ultimate Technique: Longsword of Light A+ (A++)]
[Railgun A+]
[Gravity Magic: Presence of the Demon God A]
[Flow D]
[Excalibur A++]
[Clarent Blood Arthur A+]
[Clarent C (sealed)]
[Invisible Air C]
[Secret of Pedigree C]
......…
Name: Reida Lia
Titles: Water God
Age: 60+
Strength: A-
Endurance: A+
Agility: A-
Mana: E
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[Deprivation Sword Kingdom A]
[Three Secret Techniques of Water God Style A]
[Flow A]
[Demon Sword - Golden Wind]
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AN: I've decided to change the name of MC's reversal technique from Hikari Gaeshi to True Light Reversal, since he's no samurai nor was even Japanese, so I feel a western name fits better.