Crimes of transmigration

As the air dripped with tension Barthy was looking at me with both anger and shock. My presence in itself wasn't explainable, but my indifference towards the situation was just as infuriating.

"How are you here? Who are you?!"

"Let's skip these shit talk yeah?"

I readied my spear and sprung into action.

Mana was coating my spear, of course it wasn't as effective as aura but it got the job done. Every flaming lance flying my way was either met with my fire lilies or my spear and the distance between us was rapidly decreasing.

The temperature started to rise, but I was feeling comfortable. The salamander in me rejoicing.

Barthy then erected a fire wall, thinking that blocking my sight would inevitably block my advance, but that was the moment I was waiting for.

Rapidly lowering my heartbeat I entered the perfect state of stealth the House of Damocles engraved in my being.

My presence reduced, like a phantom on the battlefield I was and wasn't there at the same time.

Losing contact with my presence Barthy immediately dismissed the wall of flames thinking I had escaped.

What awaited him though was a set of red flowers flying in his direction.

Quickly erecting a shield of fire he protected himself and I took advantage of the moment to get nearer.

"WHAT ARE YOU? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? YOUR HEART ISNT EVEN BEATING!"

My emotionless face showed no signs of response, my hallow eye piercing through my enemy's soul, studying his patterns, which spells he could use, how he reacted to unexpected situation.

I lounged at him uncaring of the flames around me and Barthy let out a smile.

"You are finished!"

He teleported to a flame beside me and readied his flame lance, only to be met with a gun pointing in his direction.

I pulled the trigger and a mana bullet was shot towards my opponent at the speed of sound.

He immediately teleported further away and with shock painted on his face shouted at me in anger.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE A MANA GUN! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"

Again no response was going to be given. I put away the mana gun and readied my spear once again.

The recoil is too strong, I can't shoot this thing continuously.

Calculating my next move I started my fierce dance of stabs and slashes to meet my enemy's spells. Thankfully my garden was made of illusions, so the flames couldn't attach to them. Noticing this detail Barthy changed strategy and started to set fire to the forniture so he could have multiple choices to escape.

Seeing how he didn't target the floor anymore I shouted in Greek, so that he couldn't understand me.

"HALI DONT MOVE I'M GOING TO POISON ALL THE FLOOR."

Thorny path, mistletoe.

Rapidly, thorns started to grow in my decided places. Big enough to tore through my enemy's shoes, but small enough to be covered by my garden.

"Whatever you're up to, it will not work! Hahaha."

He took out his own mana gun and took aim.

I waited until the last possible moment and as soon as I heard the shot, made my move.

Flowery disperse.

I blinked right above him, infused as much mana as possible into my spear a thrusted downwards. Barthy, noticing my attack a second to late created a strong fire shield. The clash between my weapon and his shield sent both of us flying. I teleported again to avoid impact with the walls, he did the same. But now he was surrounded by my thorns.

My mana was running dangerously low so I dismissed all the thorns except for those right around him, along with my healing garden. Our breathing erratic, we were both in bad shape, Barthy because of his previous battle with Hali, me because I was not able to rest as much as I needed. Tension was on the rise again and seeing the state I was in Roberts threw another flame lance my way. I sidestepped and launched my spear in a useless attempt.

"Hahaha you think a simple weapon without even an ounce of aura can harm me?"

But that was never my intention.

As he blocked my spear with a fire shield, I was already holding the mana gun with both hands. I already knew the recoil wouldn't be anything to scoff at and I was barely holding on at this point.

I focused my aim and shot. The bullet was flying and Barthy's face contorted in an angry grin when he noticed my deception. He tried to cast another shield but my bullet had already pierced.

"AAAAAAHHRGGG"

Blood oozed from his knee, losing his footing Barthy fell forward and screamed once again when pierced by my thorns.

Seeing how my plan had finally bore its fruit I let my exhausted body fall to the ground, my heart returning to his normal rate and all the fatigue catching up to me.

"Hali, protect me."

She was by my side in a heartbeat, as if waiting for nothing more then my order.

"We could have fought together, it would have been so much easier."

"And you are a fool for thinking that Hali. We never even sparred, you are using a weapon you aren't familiar with and neither of us knows the other's battle style. We could have very well killed each other."

She knew I was right, but maybe being saved by someone weaker then her again was too much for her, either way I didn't care.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!"

Barthy's voice disturbed our little chit chat. The rapid blood loss from the injury was incapacitating him, paired with the poison from my thorns he could feel doom approaching.

"I poisoned you, of course."

"HOW ?! I THOUGHT THOSE FLOWERS WERE ILLUSION!"

"I don't need to explain myself to you, do I?"

Turning towards Hali I then ordered her.

"Help me out here. Cut off his arms."

Acting as my personal avenger she darted towards the pirate and cleanly chopped off his arms.

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

As his arms fell off I created wisps of fire to close his stumps.

"WHAT? HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO MANIPULATE FIRE THIS WAY?"

"Let's stop this charade. It's time for informations."

Hali interrupted us.

"Let me do the torturing."

"How did you know what I was going to do?"

"… my father is translating everything…"

"You."

She is a demi-god. And her father is fucking Poseidon.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you… this is my quest to awaken my divine blood."

"You know what? Imma leave you alone. You do you boo. I'll go steal everything that can be stolen."

This fatherfucking bitch deceiving me for her fucking divine blood, doing basically nothing parasite. I was fucking afraid of the produce of adultery.

"I'm so done with this bullshit. You have 3 hours to do whatever the fuck you want, then I'll destroy the fragment."

I hurriedly left an astonished Hali behind and proceeded to accomplish my personal vendetta.

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-Hali's POV-

What is going on?

As soon as Dimitris realised I was a Demi-god of The Tides anger and disgust hit me like a horse. Never had I expected such a reaction. I more or less understood that he didn't have a good image of the constellations, but this reaction was completely unnecessary. It wasn't my choice in the first place, but even if it was, usually people, upon realising my identity would revere me, everything to not incur in my father's wrath. And here he was defying all logic.

[I tricked him to save you.]

"What does it mean?"

[as soon as he realised there was someone else in the boat, I thought he would use you as bait and gave a quest to save you as my "champion"]

[he got extremely angry at me placing a price on your life saying he'd save you nonetheless and refused any kind of reward from me.]

[his anger comes from multiple reasons.]

"Such as? This doesn't make sense? Who refuses rewards?!"

[I'll tell, but start thinking of a reward to give him, he didn't say anything to you because he does not want anything, but I promised I would give whatever reward you'd wish to give.]

He never even tried to bring this up? What the fuck is wrong with that psycho?!

[these are the reasons of his anger:

-the value of life

-lies

-he's a follower of Hera]

"Father, this doesn't make sense at all."

[it doesn't, but he doesn't care. He defies.]

[now complete your quest.]

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-Dimitris' POV-

Fucking bitch lying to my face like it's the only possible thing to do.

I was in a terrible mood. These gods were utterly disgusting. What was Poseidon thinking? That if i knew from the beginning I wouldn't have saved her? These bastards can't even keep their fucking dick in their pants.

"The ONLY housewife, isn't that cheating bastard married?"

[he is.]

"FUCKING CHEATING BASTARDS HOW I WISH THEIR DICKS JUST FELL OFF UNABLE TO REGROW."

"Who are you? How are you here?!"

"Not now grunt I'm in terrible mood, scram or die."

He launched at me and I shot the gun giving him a hole in the head.

I kept making my way to the vault as instructed by an admiral I tortured before and nobody could stop me.

A trail of bodies followed my wake. I wasn't feeling any kind of conflict. These bastards were sex offenders and we're coming for my life. Sure I could just knock them out, but I was running out of time and I didn't want to spare a second.

"Will I be able to keep these guns outside of the fissure?"

[!attention! Technology cannot be retrieved outside of the time fissure.]

"Of course it can't."

I arrived at the vault easily and opened the door without much difficulty. The inside of the vault was filled to the brim with treasures. I dismissed all the technological stuff and made my way towards the potions.

"What about potions?"

I waited for an answer, but nothing came my way so I just tried to put everything in my internal space.

[!attention! Insufficient space to store all the potions. Please only chose 10 potions.]

"Sure, fuck up my mood as well, it's not like I'm a hair widths away from setting everything on fire."

Picking up 10 random potions I was ready to get back when I saw a shining sword on the side.

Is this…?

I was about to get my hands on the sword.

Merlin said my family had a sword art, but I never even thought of using a sword… would it be okay for me to investigate?

I was strangely drawn to the sword, like a magnetic pull telling me to wield it as my main weapon, then I thought of Excalibur, how it said I was already fated to another weapon.

Is this it?

I was merely inches away from holding the sword when I thought of my spear. How it basically accompanied me from the moment I arrived in this world. How I had prepared a spear art for myself in the grimoire, and the allure of the sword disappeared.

[The Tides that shattered the ground says that sword belongs to his daughter and asks you to bring it back.]

"Why should I? Since when did I become a postman? Give her the directions and she can come pick it up herself."

[mortal, don't anger me. Remember you're still on a quest for me out of the time fissure.]

"Fucking bastard blackmailing my ass knowing full well he doesn't have the slightest intention to let us reach Itaca. Sure I'll bring the fucking sword to your daughter."

I made my way back towards the control tower and left a couple of [fire lilies of destruction] every few meters.

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"Are you done with Mr. Roberts?"

Hali, surprised by my presence simply nodded.

"Why haven't you broken the fragment yet."

I immediately gave her the package I was supposed to deliver.

"Someone blackmailed me to give you this. Now that the mission is accomplished I have nothing left to do."

I took out the fragment and freed it from the case. My spear was ready, my mana fully coating the spear.

"So I'll break it now."

My decree was issued. The spear fell down and at the same time I made all the flowers I left around the ship explode. Flowers and fire were blooming everywhere. My mission completed. My mana almost completely depleted.

[time fissure resolved.]

[contibution: Dimitris Damocles (89%), Hali (11%)]

[rewards will be issued after returning to your timeline and place of entrance]

[remaining time: 3 hours]

"Where have you entered the time fissure?"

Hali was hopefully looking my way.

Is this bitch dense?

"Are you for real?"

"Yes, why not? We could travel together and once we reach my island I can reward you for saving me."

"I didn't save you for a reward, forget my existence please."

"Damn, it's not like I chose to be a Demi-god."

"Of course you didn't chose, no-fucking-body chooses who the hell gives birth to them. Just, let it go. I don't care and I certainly don't want rewards for doing the right thing. At the end of the day, what you suffered is not much different from what someone up there does on a daily basis."

"You shouldn't talk like that about constellations."

"Or else?"

She was stunned by my stubbornness. Unable to understand my point of view she simply stated.

"You'll never get contracted this way, do you even know how many benefits you get from a contracted constellation? Sure you won't suddenly become a Demi-god, but you could receive powerful stigmas!"

"Hali. I don't give a fuck about power gifted by others. Naïve girl, everything obtained without working for it, is as easily lost. Of course this doesn't apply to you, does it?"

I was having none of it, I didn't even want to hear her voice anymore. This full on propaganda for the constellations was getting on my nerves.

"But…"

"For fuck sake Hali! I don't want to talk about constellations! Can't you fucking take a hint?"

"Sure… I got some information you might want to know from that mage."

"Of course you got them. Do tell."

"Someone is trying to recreate fragments of the king of titans."

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"