Chapter 16: Clearing Worries
Draxus, Keith and Wesley exited the town of Beryll for the time being, it was early in the morning where breakfast is still too far out. "I never expected them to be very active on sunrise." Draxus complained a little while sighing out. However, since it couldn't be helped, he simply prepared himself from the upcoming attacks. After a considerable distance, they were immediately surrounded. "Yo! Kid, been a while, you really gave me a lot of trouble." The muscled man stretched his right arm as if to signify what Draxus had done to him. With nothing but disrespect in Draxus's mind, he let out insulting words. "Who are you again?" A vein popped out from the head of the muscled man and raised a large mace. "Fuckers like you who are disrespectful! Teach him a lesson!" The group of men that are numbered around twenty started gathering around Draxus, Keith, and Wesley and brought out different kinds of weapons. "Keith, I'm looking forward to see your abilities." Draxus showed a dark and evil smile to Keith who brought out two different spirits. "Don't worry, I won't disappoint ya, Spirit of Time! [Chronopause]!" At Keith's shout, a spirit holding an hourglass and gears of time had stopped everything excluding him. Keith stopped the time, allowing him to do whatever he wants for the time being within a time limit. Using the other spirit, which is the spirit of earth, he began the beatdown on a few people while making a [Jojo Pose]. "Spirit of Earth, [Star Platinum]!" The only thing about him is that, he's the personification of [Jojo References]. A flurry of punches struck the people that surrounded them within the time frame. Keith even played on his smartphone the sound effects of the time stop and the flurry's [Ora ora]. After the time limit, time continued and three men with a lot of bruises and blood coming out from their noses. "Wha?!!" Many armed men that was trying to charge forward instinctively stopped from the sudden blow of three of their comrades. "Surprised? You can never perceive my [Chronopause]. It is the ultimate spirit!" Draxus smiled as if he had expected this to happen. "As expected of Keith straight to time stop huh?" Keith made another [Jojo pose] while laughing a little bit. "Heh, of course I said that I won't disappoint you with my abilities." Draxus's smile deepened and this time it was Wesley's turn. "You're up Wes." The muscled men who heard the talk between Draxus's group was filled to the brim with rage and tried to charge forward once again. However, they were stopped once again with a powerful star that appeared before them. "[Blazing Starlight]!" All the men were completely blinded which gave Wesley a chance to make his move. "[Celestial Graviton]!" Wesley skillfully summoned a few orbs, it had an appearance of the night sky. He then launched five of them towards five enemies and forced them to kneel down with gravity magic. With their bodies having doubled weight, they couldn't stand up at all. "This is a little pricey..." Wesley was feeling a little heavy after using that much magic. Celestial magic itself is pretty much a powerful kind of magic, but it uses up a huge amount of magic power as you have to constantly keep it active. "That should be good enough, bring out your stuff, and let's mow them down." Draxus told Wesley to drop the magic since it was consuming his mana badly. "Let's mow down the rest of the ones that can move eh?" Draxus created a claymore while ensuring to provide a chant so that it won't get suspicious. "[Claymore Augmentation]" Keith brought out a short sword with his spirit of earth and spirit of time behind him. "Spirit of Earth! [Star Platinum]!" Wesley took out two daggers and imbued some effects in it. "[Stardust Paralysis]" The three of them dashed forward to beat down the rest of the blinded, muscled men. Draxus landed kicks straight to their faces which instantly knocked some members out. Keith's spirit of earth started beating down other men with a flurry of punches. Wesley's daggers made a cut on the arms of some men. With the imbued effect, he effectively paralyzed most of them. With only the leader remaining, Draxus stepped forward and slapped him in the face. "Oi, wake up cunt." Their leader, who made a weird sound while getting slapped, immediately saw Draxus wielding a claymore right in front of his eyes. "So your arm got fixed quickly huh? Should I break the other one just like yesterday?" The man who was pierced by Draxus's gaze immediately stood up and continued to act rashly. He readied a his large mace. Draxus dashed back and generated a huge amount of ice particles. He then formed a stance by moving the claymore to his back over the head, the same as a certain character in [Genshin Impact] once again. But instead of fire magic, Draxus imbued the claymore with ice and swung it from the left. "[Freezing Dawn]!" The claymore was blocked but a crystal bird flew into the direction which Draxus swung. The man was knocked away by the bird that flew forward. After a set distance, the crystal bird exploded into ice shards which flew around. The muscled man was punctured by the ice shards which dissipated after a few seconds. Wesley and Keith who knew exactly what Draxus did made some exclamations. "Ice [Diluc]?" and "It's [Diluc Ragvindr], but with ice instead." Draxus didn't hear them and dispersed all his magic. The two dispelled their magic so that they can save up some mana. While showing a dark smug smile, Draxus immediately went to work with his idea that came up to his mind. Keith who noticed that immediately got interested and joined in. Wesley simply laughed walked up to him as he tied all the with some rope that he had found in their equipment.
After some time making the finishing touches, the only sight he could see was multiple men facing each other while their partners are upside down. All of them were stripped naked and were forced to see the nether regions of the person they're facing in front of their eyes. Wesley laughed a little to the evilness of Draxus, who was mostly kind in daily behavior. He never showed this act much in their old world but the things that he heard from words happened in real time in a different world. "This is going a little bit too far right?" Draxus turned his smug gaze at Wesley and gave an explanation. "You see Wesley, there are three parts to avoid people like them to come back to our faces and annoy us. Step one is pain, which we have given them already. Second step, is what I finished just now. Shame. And the last one, will be the final touches." Draxus stepped forward to the many men who are forced to view the nether regions of others. "Men, heed my words, I don't mind if you come back if you'd like more punishments." With a completely evil smile, Draxus's next words gave them complete fear. "But the next time you try, I might slice it off feed it to yourself you know~?" The three of them left before breakfast came. The last step in Draxus's [Anti-Hooligan] idea was [Being a Menace].
Draxus returned to the inn just in time and noticed the twins who are already eating. He sat in front of them and greeted the two. "Good morning you two." The twins who noticed Draxus returned the greeting. Lily immediately asked about his current state. "You okay?" Draxus smiled and answered her question honestly. "Yeah, just some mindset changes since I'm still adjusting to my new life after all." Julie told him that they were worried which got Draxus to apologize properly this time. "By the way, where did you go earlier?" Draxus remained calm and answered honestly to Julie's question. "Well, I was [Training], with the guys from yesterday who showed up to settle the score with me. There are twenty more others on their side though." Lily who was no longer even surprised to his prowess just gave a retort while eating the food. "Really now, just what are you? Not to mention, that weird ornament on your head." Draxus smiled and told the two in a whisper that can be heard only to them. "For now, it's a secret."
Crystel gave Draxus his serving and felt relieved as things have gone well for them. She was shocked with how Draxus dealt with the members of [Vermillion Warriors]. "Holy... That is an orange dominant group you know? Their leader is even bronze rank and hunted a mutated monster you know?" Draxus who heard Crystel gave a light retort which made her facepalm in shock. "Eh? He was pretty weak though?" Lily and Julie tapped the shoulder of Crystel and gave her sympathetic words. "It's no use being surprised, he's gonna shatter your expectations every time anyway." Draxus who heard that retorted but was ignored beautifully. After eating breakfast, they have some free time so Draxus, Lily, and Julie decided to go for another request. They finished the request before lunch and returned to the inn immediately. "By the way, what happened to them? I didn't see them anywhere in the guild." Lily noticed that none of the people that bothered them showed up. Draxus pondered for a bit before giving a possible answer. "They probably ran away after being shamed and threatened..." The twins who received a scary answer simply went [Uwah...] and responded. "You're quite scary huh...?" Draxus apologized for the scary atmosphere that he brought up. Julie was the first one to respond that time. "It's alright, since you did it for us..." Draxus then remembered something very important and called out to Crystel. "Crystel, I'm gonna be away for a night, I'll be back by lunch tomorrow." Crystel, Lily, and Julie who was curious asked him on where he'll go. Draxus simply told them that he's visiting an important friend.