Calamity Upon This World

"Hi guys" William spoke trying his best to hide his nervousness.

Gone was the mask of his fake identity of Edge Lord.

Now he stood in front of his party with his true appearance revealed waiting for their reaction.

Thanks to his new bloodline he looked much different from before.

First was obviously him becoming taller than before as well as him losing his baby fat.

Next was his body becoming very lean and muscular.

But the muscles weren't overbearing and instead looked aesthetically pleasing.

His beautiful snow white hair had also grown longer reaching all the way to his shoulder.

He hadn't gotten the chance to cut them yet so instead he had opted to tie them in a bun for now.

'Are you sure about this?' Wiz asked inside his mind.

'About as sure as I'll ever be and while, I would prefer to not resort to them, I have already erected a barrier and plan to take counter measures if I deem them likely to leak my identity'

Jasmine didn't show much of a expression seeing him as if already expecting something like this.

But the same wasn't the case for Mark who had his jaw wide open, unable to believe what he was seeing as it was too absurd.

After it was not easy to accept that the extremely powerful friend and party member of yours was actually the 10 year old son of your idol.

As for Raya she looked even more shocked and strangely enough afraid.

After all the reason for her shock wasn't the same as Mark but rather completely different. Read exclusive adventures at m_v-l'e|m,p-y r

'Oh god I've been crushing on a 10 year old all this time, does that make me a criminal?'

That's right for a 22 year old adult to have a crush on a 10 year, was nothing but absolutely disgusting and repulsive.

And just like on the blue planet Astressa had a age of consent with various laws and punishments for those disgusting enough to try and take advantage of minors.

Raya was considering trying her luck and confessing to John soon.

But to think the always calm, smart, handsome and powerful John was actually just a 10 year old was absurd and unbelievable.

Raya had really just dodge a bullet, otherwise she too would've have become a criminal just like the disgusting heir of the baron who was trying to marry her.

She was disgusted at herself for having such indecent thoughts about a kid who was even younger than her own younger brother.

Just what face would she even have left if she had really started dating him only to later learn his age.

Raya wanted to bury herself in a hole as just imagining such a future was more dreadful than the both the stone statue and the kerberus they had faced in the double dungeon combined.

This was just considering the moral and legal implications of her affections.

But what about the family of the target of her affection.

It was a well known fact just how much the sword saint cherished his only son and heir.

Stories of all the mercenary and groups he had singlehandedly crushed overnight just for setting their eyes on his son were famous today.

All these people that he had destroyed without any difficulty were far stronger than she could ever be.

She didn't even want to imagine the potential faith of her and her family.

It was just too harrowing and frightening.

Knowing all this the pale and horrified expression on Raya's expression like she had just seen a ghost only made sense.

Needless, to say any crush or affection that she had ever harboured for William were already far gone.

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As William observed the expression of Mark and Raya he could do nothing but sigh as they only made sense considering his status.

Though even he was a bit surprised seeing Raya's reaction like she had just seen a ghost.

'Do I look scary or something?'

He wondered, but quickly got the thought out of his head as there was another person in the room who caught his attention.

"You don't look surprised" William asked while looking at Jasmine.

He was really weirded out by Jasmine and her seemingly nonchalant reaction to him.

It was honestly a bit dissapointing how she didn't seem to care about him hiding his identity or about him being the son of the sword saint.

"Oh no, you're mistaken I'm indeed a bit surprised but I also kinda expected something like this" Jasmine replied as if stating the most obvious thing in the world.

It was now William's turn to be shocked as he couldn't believe his ears hearing her response.

'Was my identity that obvious?'

"I mean just think about it a random no name adventurer shows up out of nowhere with enough magic talent and power to put even the wisest mages to shame"

"And you looked too smart and experienced for any commoner"

"Ultimately the only real conclusion left was that you were some noble hiding his identity"

"Though even I must say I never expected you to be so young"

"But I guess nobles are just different from everyone else even at a young age" Jasmine explained her reasoning for her deduction.

And the more she spoke the more stunned William became.

He couldn't believe everything she was saying, it seems he had really underestimated the intelligence of the young girl.

Hearing her explanation even Mark and Raya calmed down and tried to play off cool as if they had already known about his identity.

It was almost funny how he had been overthinking so much over the past two days.

After the reveal William spent the next few hours just talking and hanging out with the rest of the cleansers about their pasts, plans for the future among other things.

Unlike with Zack and Lilly who were kids and talked about childish things that he didn't care about much.

The same wasn't the case with the cleansers who were much more closer to his real age and didn't need him to pretend to be naive and childish.

Today was one of the most memorable nights in Williams new life and one thing was for sure that he had finally made some friends in his new life that he could be himself with.