Tales Of Mc - Chapter 14

–3rd Person P.O.V–

“How can you..?” (Anissa)

Anissa was curious about the current situation. Never in her life did she expect such a change in the situation.

“How are you in his body?” (Anissa)

“Well, believe it or not. After I was killed, I escaped the grasp of the Eye and became a conscious soul. Then, the ones who sent me here, turned me into a spirit and made me this guy’s possession. Now I am sent here to help him learn about..and live in this world.” (____)

Anissa digested what she learnt and prepared to ask something before ____ interrupted her.

“While I was dead, I learned the true goal of the Eye. And to tell you the truth, It’s almost completely unstoppable now. Even if you bring that a**hole Thunder God with you for the fight, you’ll lose completely.

And that’s not all. This time, two other heroes were also Summoned. The manipulation of the Eye has gone that deep into the races.

It’s too late to change the game anymore. The odds are in complete favour of the Eye and it…. it’s planning to win it all in one full swoop.” (____)

“So what are you going to do about it? Aren’t you going to stop it?” (Anissa)

“Didn’t you hear me just now? It’s unstoppable.

And since I’m dead now, I’ll confess this.

I was a complete fool. If I had just listened and joined up with you back then, then it would be near impossible to do, but not absolutely impossible.

Now… It’s absolutely impossible to beat.” (____ spoke staring away into the horizon.)

There was complete and unmistakable resignation in that tone.

“How did you get defeated?” (Anissa)

“It doesn’t matter now. Even if I tell you how, you’ll lose anyway.” (____)

Before Anissa spoke again, ____ lifted her hand to stop her.

“I’ll say it once to you.

One: No matter what you do, the Eye has already seen it beforehand. Even If you hide in here, it’s useless to scheme against it.

Two: When all Heroes are summoned, we are always told what to do, or what path to follow here. But, this guy here, he wasn’t told to do anything. I will teach him about this world, let him make his own choices. No matter who interferes in this, I won’t let him makes the same mistakes as me.

Three: This is my advice to you. Abandon your plan for revenge, and make a plan to save your people from the chaos that will come. That is the only path that’s left for you.” (____)

“Are you not going to help at all?” (Anissa)

“There is only a minute chance. But it depends on Cristo-kun here, on whether he chooses to go for that chance. I won’t force him to choose. Do me a favour and train him how to fight.” (____)

____ went down to lie on the sofa.

“Oh, before I go, do you know what happened to my body?” (____)

“It was never recovered, but you were confirmed dead.” (Anissa)

There was a hollow silence in the room. The lights flickered. ____ opened her eyes and stared at the lamp.

“As I thought. Don’t reveal my identity to Cristo-kun.” (____)

“Till next time.” (____)

She closed her eyes, and after a moment the body shivered.

“What the hell happened?” Cristo woke up, completely disoriented. His body felt wobbly and took a moment before he felt alright again.

Looking around, he noticed Anissa standing near the window, staring at him. He became alert and became on guard. She kept staring at him, and then closed her eyes and bowed to him. There was this presence of light of light around her, which dimmed at that moment

“Please forgive me for my actions before. I was mistaking the spirit inside of you for something else. Though that isn’t a valid explanation to almost killing you, I can’t offer any excuses for my behaviour.” (Anissa)

“Yeah all right.” MC relaxed and his shoulders loosened from being relieved of the tension.

“Huh?” (Anissa)

“Are you that kindhearted that you’ll forgive me?” (Anissa)

She was puzzled. Is he this nave and pure?

“Oh, I haven’t forgiven you. And flattering me by calling me kindhearted won’t help me forgive you either.

It’s just that, I wasn’t actually in any danger at all.” MC corrected her, and moved with some flair.

“Almost killing you doesn’t put you in danger?” (Anissa was curious. What is wrong with this kid.)

“Nope. You can’t kill me. Nobody can.” (MC replied with pride and confidence.)

“I wonder where all your confidence is coming from?” Anissa laughed.

“I’ll tell you what.

Hit me as hard as you can.

And before you hit me.

Listen very carefully,

Hit as hard as you can.

Not some arbitrary amount of your strength.

Not a tenth, nor a fifth.

.

.

.

With everything you’ve got.

HIT

ME

AS

HARD

AS

YOU CAN!!” (MC) *TFS reference*

“You asked for it.” Anissa replied, finally having enough of his taunting, but she still didn’t believe him. She wound up her arm and punched him with almost half her strength.

*Bang*

MC got blown away through the wall. And the one after that. And the one after that. Through 9 consecutive walls.

Anissa moved to his side instantly, “Damn, why did I fall for his taunting? He’s probably dead by now.”

But, as she got near him, she sensed the rubble shifting and saw MC stand up with almost no difficulty whatsoever and wipe the dust of his clothes. His expression was completely calm and relaxed, and turned into a bright grin when he saw Anissa’s flabbergasted expression.

“Status” (MC)

{

Name: Monty Cristo

Race: Human

Level: 40

Exp: 80%

Str: 88

Agi: 88

Vit: 0

Def: 0

MP: 205

Int: 1000

Class: Hero

Affinity: None

Skills:

[Fortified] – All damage Absorption and Conversion to EXP and MP.

Activation: Full-time

}

“Wow, you’ve got a mean right. That punch just gave me a 30 level rise and quadrupled my stats.Got another one of those fists in ya?”

MC jumped up and down like he was doing his exercises and spoke without any hint of pain or discomfort. His whole behaviour was like he had just woke up from a relaxing nap, fully energetic.

Anissa on the other hand, was having the sensation of her brains melting and flowing down through her throat.

She looked down at her hand and then back at MC and then back at her hand. Then she slapped herself and felt the pain but still saw MC stretching and flexing his muscles.

“How are you not injured? That was almost half my power, and you don’t even have a scratch on you?” (Anissa)

“What? You only hit me with half? I thought I told you to go all out.” (MC)

“Who in their right mind would go all out and punch a complete newbie?” (Anissa)

In her disbelief, she used [Appraisal] on him and found that he was right. And he gained almost 30 levels of her punch. What the hell is going on, she thought?

“Yeah okay.

Anyway, as you just saw…you can’t do a damn thing to me.” MC flashed Anissa with a smug grin.

“You little!” Anissa was growling with rage due to his taunts now. It was almost unbelievable that the Empress of a once highly advanced technological Empire was almost at her wits end, and all due to her interaction with a brat. She even forgot that he was a Hero, like her old friend and was even disregarding the normal amount of respect that would be built-up on such an interaction.

“How are you doing that?” Curiosity overcame her.

“Indy, show her.” MC, smiled brightly. That smiled was filled with the sweet sensation of victory.

<< Allright. >>

So, Indy is the name that he calls ____ by, thought Anissa.

“Try [Appraisal now.]” (MC)

*Moments later*

“What the hell is this?….This… this is too unnatural.” (Anissa)