As I stepped out of the portal several armed military soldiers faced their mana guns at me, ready to shoot.

“Raise your hands in the air. If you don’t stop we will kill all of the hostages!” A man standing behind the dozens of armed soldiers commanded.

Threat after threat. Why did they want me to be a villain so bad?

‘Godspeed.’ 

Time froze as even the movement of bees and flies became still. Blue sparks of lightning shot behind me as I moved at a blinding speed to a normal person’s eyes. At this moment I was a speedster. Even Time dilated due to the speed at which I was moving.

Walking around the several guards, I made sure to punch them lightly and throw their weapons towards each other. I strolled past the arrogant commander giving him a punch in the nose, before entering the mansion.

I had around One Minute in real world time to use Godspeed but with the time dilation this was increased to several minutes. Only if I pushed my body past 3 minutes would injuries start to overcome my body.

[MP is dropping rapidly!]

Maybe in the future I could get a skill that could help solve my mana problem.For Godspeed to be active for longer periods of time, I had to go through more metamorphosis reactions and keep evolving my body to overcome the stress.

Mother, Malia, Jace, Mike and even Naz. They were all cooped up in a corner of the Living room.  Shackles were put around their arms and legs and several guards held spears to their throats, ready to kill them at a word’s notice. .

‘Indra’s Spear.’

Violent tendrils of lightning focused around my palm as I weaved around piercing all of the culprits’ hearts swiftly.

2 Minutes had passed and my MP was down by 25%. Fatigue was already starting to build up in my superhuman body, so it was ideal I saved them quickly.

I knew after I had threatened the arrogant king, he would definitely try to hunt me down so I had to relocate with my close ones.

Godspeed was turned off and the sparks of lightning around me began to disappear. Time went back to its normal state, all the soldiers in the living room falling to the ground, with blood gushing out from the holes in their chests.

“Mother, are you okay?” I hugged my mother tightly, feeling her cold hands wrap around me. 

“Thank God you’re safe. We’re all fine dear. Zeref what’s going on? They just stormed in here withou-” Mother’s face went pale as several powerful mana pressures appeared outside our mansion. All above the 6th mana pool stage. 

Several cloaked figures stepped over the dead bodies laid all over the ground, before entering the mansion.

“Zeref, we need to get out of here. You can’t beat all of them.” Jace grabbed my shoulder, fear showing on his face.

I let go of my mother and walked a couple steps forward, releasing my own mana pressure. My friends and mother watched as I stepped forward to fight back the powerful figures that had arrived.

‘Lightning Aura.’

“I’ll help.” Malia also walked forward but I shook my head. I knew she was still weak from the drug they used on her to knock her out so as of this moment she was in no shape for a fight. 

“I’ll buy you some time, wait for the portal to open up, it will take a couple minutes, just stay together and don’t let them come near you.” I threw a portal device down on the ground. Mana drained from my body and went towards the portal device, to begin the charging up of the large portal. This portal was connected directly to the Elven Kingdom. I had used it a couple times already, so the device only had a single usage left.

A Single journey.

The figures locked their gazes on the people behind me and the large portal beginning to form.

One of them was about to move to apprehend me but she was stopped by the large man in the front. He was the tallest out of the group of cloaked Powerful mages and even had a large broadsword on his back.

He took off his cloak revealing his unique and familiar appearance.

It was the Rank 1, S rank Hunter – Taras Black.

“Stand down everyone.” He ordered, with a domineering voice. Immediately, the tense atmosphere disappeared as all the S rank Hunters standing behind him retracted their mana pressures.

“I’m sorry that we had to meet this way again, Zeref. I came here because you saved my life back in the Calamity Class Dungeon. I’m here to repay that debt; I know you were the one who cleared the dungeon, most of the credit went to me but in real terms you were the one who deserved all the glory. I want to thank you for that.

“…Thank you for saving me. You should hurry up and go with your family. I’ll take all responsibility for your disappearance here and handle all matters that may appear. These S rank Hunters are part of my party so they will follow my lead.” He smiled solemnly, as his body glowed with light mana. He unsheathed his broad sword and struck himself in the chest.

“Taras!” The S rank Hunter next to him took off her hood and grabbed him.

“At least now it’s more believable. Hurry Zeref! Your name has been blacklisted all across the Vrimeon Kingdom, I suggest you get going as there are even more powerful mages coming.”

Bzzt!

The large portal finally opened up to its full size, Allefin jumped in first into the portal directing to the Elven Kingdom. Mike followed right after along with Jace and Naz. Malia held onto my mother’s hand before also jumping into the portal.

“Thank you, friend..” I smiled at Taras one last time before jumping into the blue portal, making it close behind me.