BXBX NOVEL Chapter 145 Been A While Since He Did It
She was still shocked and a little scared after she saw that display of magic.
Her shock only intensified when both girls who came here to help her, disappeared and she couldn\'t find them anywhere.
"They went inside to get your father. Don\'t worry, okay." Rio said, looking at her with a gentle smile.
She nodded her head, trusting him, as she kept waiting.
Currently they were surrounded by the invisible barrier erected by a defensive artifact Rio used. Just like his "armor of weak", which gave him protection from both physical and magical damage.
This artifact called " Coward\'s Camp" was a similar artifact, the difference between them is that one acted as an armor, while the other created a barrier around the user, which could even protect other people inside.
The limitation was the drain of mana, as unlike the armor which could use the stored mana within, coward\'s camp, needed to have constant mana supply.
With Rio\'s puny amount of mana the best it could do, is just alert him if someone or something entered the barrier.
Obviously it can still last for a while against unawakened people, whose bodies have no mana.
And that\'s exactly what he wanted.
"Let them be."
He said, knowing if he didn\'t speak, these little goons coming towards him would be dead ten feet away.
After all, he could already sense the presence of many people around him now.
Since the streets were empty before they came here, and knowing Myra informed the Alphas some time ago, he could guess it was probably them.
Hearing the sound of commotion from the inside, Ayla was looking around nervously, trying to see inside her house, through the door or some windowd.
Seeing her uneasy but still being silent, Rio smiled as he brought out a pair of ear muffs from his storage ring and put it over her head.
After adjustint her hair a little, "Don\'t worry, everything will be alright." He said. And covered her ears, making sure she doesn\'t hear the screams that started to get louder every moment.
\'Looks like she\'s angry.\'
Rio thought, looking upside, where a man\'s body was hanging from the window. Until he got dragged back inside.
Esme has always hated the ones who hurt the helpless, it was probably because how it reminded her of how her family treated her sister and others.
This feeling and hatred only increased after her sister\'s death in the novel.
It was a cliche heroine personality trait, which puts her in the protagonist camp easily, but since he already changed her beginning by saving her sister, all the future prospects of her progress have been greatly changed too.
Ignoring the screams Esme\'s enemies made before she literally sucked them dry, Rio turned his attention towards the oncoming 3 guys who were coming towards the house currently.
[You sure you want to do this?] Nyx asked, looking amused and a little curious about the actions of her follower.
\'Come on. I gotta show off a little to impress you. Don\'t I ?\' Rio replied silently.
[You haven\'t even managed to learn my first blessing. You sure, your weak body can even handle a second.] She said with a smile.
\'Well, then I\'ll save it for the future.\'
Rio said, and closed the floating panel, as the 3 guys now entered through the main door.
\'Let\'s start the show, shall we?\'
Rio said to himself, and started walking forward.
"Just stay here for me will ya. Be right back." He said, after crossing the boundary of barrier that now shrunk off by half, cause he reduced the supply of mana into it by half.
It now only surrounded little Ayla and that was it.
"Young master, do you really want to do this? Even though they are unawakened, they still have the numbers. And _ "
One of the Alphas who came on Myra\'s call, looked at him and said telepathically. It was okay for him if he wanted to fight or test himself, but if by some off chance, something happened to him, Artemis would have their heads hung on the highway.
"It\'s a test from my goddess. Do not interfere. Just keep watch for that girl. Protect her if something happens."
Rio said and his words were enough to stop any further questioning from the guard. After all, they\'ve heard the rumors too,
No way in hell, interfering in a primordial\'s wishes was a winning thing. But still thinking about his duty, he still insisted - "As you say, young master. But I\'ll stop this instantly if things get out of hand."
Rio nodded his head, as he started to stretch his hands.
[Using my name to threaten others. Not a nice thing to do.]
"Come on, we both know you don\'t mind, and I don\'t matter.
So ignore this fool\'s foolishness like you always do, oh benevolent goddess of night."
Rio said with a smile.
It had been a while since Nyx started talking with him, well less of talks and more of her suggestions from time to time.
He would\'ve thought of himself as someone special, for getting this special treatment from a primordial goddess, but knowing her real reasons for acting this friendly, he could just bite the bullet and let it be.
It wasn\'t a question of if he liked it or not, cause he knew the moment Nyx learned that he was not the original Rio, and someone else living his life, he couldn\'t fathom what kind of hell she\'d throw him in.
\'Well, not like, being nice to her is gonna cause me any problems. She is generous compared to other gods after all.\'
\'At least she won\'t betray me, that\'s a guarantee. Rest everything can be ignored for a while.\'
"Who are you kid? What\'re you doing here?"
"Does it matter, look at the girl. She\'s the one we were looking for."
One of the men who came running to the house saw a pair of kids standing outside, he asked. But before he could get an answer his friend pointed towards Ayla, signaling him that she was the daughter of the guy they were searching for.
Her father had run away from their captivity, and when they couldn\'t find him anywhere, they were asked to look for his daughter, knowing if they kidnapped her, her father would show himself.
They\'ve been searching for this girl for hours now, but she\'s been missing ever since.
This was because when the group of goons started looking for her, Ayla wasn\'t anywhere outside. She had been trapped in a room by her bullying neighborhood kids, who forgot about her afterwards, and went to enjoy the feast of celebration.
"Damur, go get the girl." One of the goons, who was silent till now, spoke. Ordering one of his buddies to bring the girl, before the little rat runs, and hides in her rathole again.
"Why is it always me? Fucha\'s been lazing around for an hour. Why not let him do some work instead."
The man named Damur said. Looking at his slightly chubby partner who\'s been doing nothing but resting. He\'s just slowing them down every time and he gets stuck with more work.
"Don\'t tell me you got scared of little kids, Damor. Or are you thinking, she\'ll run away like the last one, and you\'ll have to take the blame." The chubby Fucha said, his tone amused like he just heard or remembered the best joke.
Damur glared at him for bringing up his failures again, but before he could say anything to refute the claims, the one who ordered him earlier, the self appointed leader, Lobo spoke again, "don\'t make me repeat myself. Just get the girl, and the boy too. Looking at his clothes, we\'ll get something worthwhile out of him."
Hearing those words Damor smiled, as he looked at the boy again, and noticed the golden accessories he wore.
\'These young masters showing off their money in middle of the night.\' After walking forward a little, he looked over his shoulders and thought -\'They can\'t see if I slide one or two of his rings, if they\'re that far back, right.\'
"Well, who told them to be lazy. I might as well help myself for my job." He muttered under his breath, reaching near Rio. He wore a happy smile, when he was a few feet away and could see the shiny jewels in the light.
The doubts that they were fake trinkets was removed from his head, as he finally smiled brightly.
Unknown to him, his rich fantasies were about to be put on hold, since a little white haired boy\'s mind was stressed a little, after getting beatdowns daily for the past month.
Though he didn\'t like drama or fights, Rio actually missed the adrenaline rush he used to get back on earth.
\'Well, I should just enjoy myself for today. From tomorrow, my beatdown routine would continue anyway.\'
Rio thought, as he cracked his knuckles, and prepared himself.
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A/N - all those who wanted to see how shiva\'s anger disappeared and his fighting scenes weren\'t coming - so before we move to the badass academy entrance and time skip.
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