Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

"Anyways, did you read the sheet?"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Ummm… yes, but I don't understand how Cyrus could know of this. I didn't even know such a place existed… I just knew of the temple, but it wasn't really that powerful, to begin with."

"No, it's a very powerful place of religious intent with many artifacts of the old world. We will be obtaining one of them… a special instrument of destruction: The violin, which sounded the end of the Empire of Light. That is what we'll be trying to get."

"But this is a mission to retrieve it and give it to somebody… are we seriously going to give a weapon of mass destruction to a random?"

"Don't worry… I have my ways," She eerily smiled, swiveling around in her chair as she kicked both feet off of the ground.

…

The next day, I ran into a familiar face who looked at me with a dead smile as his lips were pursed upwards, but his eyes were completely expressionless.

It was so creepy I could barely keep my cool as I passed by him.

"Hey, Leader. So, what's the mission about?" He smirked, grabbing my arm as I attempted to pass by him.

I swiftly swatted his grip away and turned towards him, my eyes gesturing for me to follow, so as he said goodbye to three other kids, he began to follow me to the next classroom over.

"Can you please not speak so openly about our-"

Just as we turned into the empty classroom beside us, I attempted to warn him, only to have my mouth covered as his eyes shifted around.

I was very caught off guard and tore his grip from my mouth, all while scanning the empty and completely vacant classroom.

"What? I don't sense anything," I muttered, and as the very edges of his lips grinned upwards towards his ears, he pushed me out of the classroom.

His reactions and speed were so fast that I barely had time to put my foot in between the door and the doorway, just managing to stop it before he could separate us with a lock.

From inside that place, I saw something truly horrifying… a white blob of some kind of slime, but for some strange reason, it was able to create weapons and shields just by using its slimy body.

The swords were as sharp as real weapons, while the shields were able to defend practically every physical attack Cyrus could throw out.

I quickly entered the room and locked the door behind me, summoning two bone-white daggers already dripping with poison.

"Let me help!" I exclaimed, but as soon as I attempted to enter the fight, I was slashed at by a blade of slime so quickly it cut off a large chunk of my hair. "Shit… [Haste] [Empower]."

As soon as I buffed myself, Cyrus turned towards me and dashed straight at me, various weapons following right behind him.

"If you can't dodge this, you're useless as a leader," He muttered, sliding right beside me and then turning to see me completely dodge the wave of seemingly endless weapons.

My flexibility and nimbleness definitely were helpful in this situation, but there were no gaps or chances for me to attack, so…

"Cyrus. You got this, right?" I muttered, ducking down to just narrowly dodge the tip of an insanely sharp spear.

Sweat dripped off of me, mixing with a pool of blood that had gathered at my feet. It was so much that even I began to worry.

I thought I was doing fine, dodging all of the attacks, but it seemed multiple scratches had drawn blood, and even a large laceration that I didn't feel until now appeared on my back.

"Cyrus!" I shouted, but before I could complain again about his inactivity, several strings of water wrapped around our fight like a cocoon, their liquid body slowly mixing with a strange white light unfamiliar to me.

And just as they glimmered, filling to the brim with this strange new substance, I felt a dangerous amount of bloodlust explode from the slime I was battling.

It immediately began to retreat in tandem with the throbbing and beating of these strings slowly wrapping around us.

"You… asshole!" I shouted, turning back and sliding right beneath the insane kid's feet, just narrowly dodging an explosion that would have incinerated the upper half of my body from the lower half.

We watched the slime attempt to regenerate its missing pieces, slowly limping away in its liquified and destroyed form.

"Where is the monster's core?"

"It's only taking the form of a slime. The monster is a Mimic, and it can take the form of anything it absorbs or steals the body of anybody weaker than it. It's something that preys on the weak… and I'm glad I finally managed to catch this thing."

The boy began to hum a strange tune as he walked towards the pitiful monster, slowly sinking into the ground, only to be grabbed by the boy's hand and yanked upwards.

Seemingly, it returned to its original form, a gaseous ghost-like figure which slipped out of his hands.

It wormed and swam its way through the air, attempting to escape, literal drops of sweat pouring off of the poor monster.

VWOOM

And with a single blast of that white substance, the thing dissipated, crying out with a blood-curdling scream as it felts its existence begin to cease from all of life and death itself.

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

We both snapped our heads towards the door, hearing a loud banging come from outside. Clearly, the security wanted to check up on what was happening in here.

"Come on, let's get going," Cyrus muttered, opening a window and gazing down at the line of bushes. "Welp, let's just hope I don't break my legs."

The boy hopped from the window and dived down out of my view, so I quickly ran over to the edge and peered down, seeing Cyrus was completely fine.

"Don't order me around!" I shouted, climbing through the window and jumping out of it as well.