The Adventures of Rose Hood

Both me and Amy were asleep through the duel of Celios and Ausar, but, apparently, Celios sacrificed his blade to manage a jab through Ausar’s heart, winning the duel.

Celios and I both received advice from Ausar and Amy.

Amy had actually become a bit of a celebrity, being the first human to ever evolve.

People wouldn’t leave her alone, and I saw Granny in the area.

Surprisingly, in a day, Amy had started calling her Granny too. Kala found it funny.

“You are an interesting person, Amanda. You sort of remind me of my other granddaughter.”

“What is she like?”

Her face scrunched.

“She’s the person the gods are training to fight.”

“I… see. So, not good?”

“Actually, just Rose is a wonderful person, but I think that this Kala tricked her. There’s no way they’d align otherwise.”

“I see. Well, if I can help I will.”

“Ah, thank you, you are a wonderful person. Feel free to call me ‘granny’ too, dear.”

“Alright, thank you for coming, Granny.”

“Of course, I heard of the battle between Celios and a rising star. Given the restraints I think you have a big chance of victory, especially with your fire.”

“Actually, I’m planning on going straight martial art against him.”

That got Mammon’s attention.

“Why?”

“Because his magic is stronger than mine, his is just bound, so it wouldn’t be fair if I used the magic.”

Mammon and Granny both laughed.

“Goodness, she’s like a younger Rose.”

“Only you would call fighting a god fair, at all.”

“I guess.”

I waved and left the guild hall.

Then came the battle between me and Celios.

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We both trained for the whole night. Celios was told that if he could win, then he’d be unchained early.

He was prepared for the fight as much as I was.

So, when we walked into the ring, the whole crowd cheered.

‘Kala, remember to wait to start magic until he begins using it.’

‘Understood, let’s do this.’

‘And PLEASE do not evolve him.’

Kala snickered as the only reason that Amy was so much trouble was because Kala evolved her.

“Amanda, I don’t see you preparing magic.”

“I want to face you on equal ground, so if you don’t use magic, then I won’t.”

Celios smiled.

“You are an odd one.”

“The finale has finally begun. The Sky god versus the Flaming Blade. WHO WILL WIN!!! They have both gone far, and this is the last battle. Let us see.”

“I hope you don’t cry after losing.”

“Ready!!!”

“I hope you wake up in less than a day this time.”

“FIGHT!!!”

With the announcer declaring the round had started, both me and Celios disappeared.

At least, that’s what I assumed it looked like to the others. Because neither me nor Celios were in the arena.

“What’s going on?”

“I don’t know.”

We got in a defensive position when someone stepped out.

Both me and Celios recognized that this man was beyond us. Even without the shackles, he outranked us.

“It seems that two from this world are fit to join our organization.”

“Who are you?”

“Someone far stronger than both of you.”

“We can tell that much.”

“My name is ?????????????”

“Pardon?”

“???????? Darn it. I thought I fixed that.”

“Who are you?”

I stood in front of Celios, call it mother’s instinct. I didn’t trust him in the slightest.

“I am an ????????. I work for a group that looks for ????? to ?????????.”

We looked at him in confusion.

“*Sigh* You didn’t understand that did you.”

We shake our heads.

“Alright. I work for tough people, who look for worlds to conquer. We usually take one or two from the worlds to join our ranks.”

“So, I was right.”

The man looked hopeful, but my next words soured his expression.

“We can’t let you leave here.”

“Unfortunate, I was told that you two were quite reasonable.”

“Well, what do you want with the worlds?”

“We use the people as fuel for our weapons. Use the right methods, and even a lowly human’s corpse can become a refined masterpiece of armor. Just imagine what we could do if we used an Altmer, or even a dragon. Most worlds haven’t advanced this far in terms of resource.”

I had already decided to kill this man, but I asked a question and subtly unlatched the restraint.

“What’s your final goal?”

“Destroy earth and enslave the one who rules it.”

Then Kala spoke.

“You know? If you came to me or Celios with that two years ago. We probably would have said yes.”

“And now?”

Celios was confused, but he assumed that I had met myself.

“We met someone.”

Kala smiled.

“And her name is Rose Hood.”

I took back control of the body and lunged at Celios and shattered his restraint.

“Kala…”

“Not the time, Celios.”

He nodded and we entered battle formation. Two members were missing, but we were ready to fight.

The man laughed.

“Unfortunate, I told them that we should have gone for this world sooner. Then we could have gotten new members.”

Then, he struck to kill.

I blocked as he punched. His punch shattered my arms, and I had to fight against him with my legs.

Celios used his bounce attack, but this time, he had sword techniques to back him up. Our powers were far greater than the training, but we were still nowhere near him.

“Status check.”

I used the skill before freezing. I could only get one thing.

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???????????

Level: [ERROR: NUMBER TOO LARGE TO PROCCESS]

Race: Human

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He took advantage of my pause and struck with enough strength to kill even a god.

I barely deflected it, but he came right back with a strong blow that cracked the shell we were in, but that was enough to see our location.

“CELIOS, GET OVER HERE!!!”

He understood and ran over, barely grabbing onto my hand before we warped.

“You little… I’ll destroy you and that puny town. And even if somehow you win.”

As the scene faded, he smiled terrifyingly.

“I’m only a grunt.”