Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey

"How, how dare you spit on my face! You bitch!"

His strong voice reverberated across the hall as he tightened the grip around Isabella's neck.

"I should teach you some lesson," Samuel said as he raised one hand from her neck.

Seeing Samuel's action Isabella flinched a bit. at Isabella's reaction, Samuel could not help but laugh.

"Ku, ku, ku, don't worry I will not kill you, that would upset my lord, it might sting a bit but will be a memorable lesson for you bitch"

After saying that Samuel sang his hand at her face.

-SLAP

"Lesson number one:- always obey your senior, if you just listened to me you would not be in this position."

He swang his hand again.

-SLAP

"Lesson number Two:- This world's hierarchy is dictated by two things, power, and family background. Unlike you who had both, I had none! I was bullied and harassed throughout my whole childhood. Even my parents forsaken me, but look here even with your family background you are getting beaten by me."

He slapped her again.

"Lesson number Three:- Know this I will do anything for my lord because just when I was about to end my life, he came and saved me."

He slapped her again.

-Slap

Again

-Slap

Again

-Slap

And Again.

-Slap

After the last slap, he could see that Isabella wanted to say something Lessening the grip on Isabella's neck and leaning down to her ear.

"What is it? Do you have to say something?"

-Spit

Isabella again spit on him and said. "You're just jealous of others' achievements. You lonely motherf*cker."

Samuel could not content his anger any longer, he looked at her with pure hatred.

"I'm not LONELY," he shouted to his lungs.

"So you admit that you are a motherf*cker? That's funny Hahahaha."

Isabella laughs, despite her, there is blood coming from her mouth, nose and teeth. She laughs at him even in this situation.

"Y-you bitch, I will knock you out instead. That will shut your mouth for good."

Samuel raised him again, and seeing that he was going to hit her Isabella unconsciously closed her eyes.

"Ahhhhhhha what the fuck?"

Just as Samuel was about to hit her Three Arrow hit him both of his shoulders.

***

"Sigh, Looks like if I do nothing she is going to die," I muttered to myself as I saw Isabella getting beaten by him.

Right now Samuel had grabbed her by her neck and telling something to her.

This scenario does not exist in the plot at all.

"If she got killed here it would be a big loss to me in future." I can't lose her here, she has many uses left in the plot and she should not die before.

In the future when 'Demon innovation begins she is the one who confronts Demon King Archmage 'Elizabeth'.

If she had not fought against Elizabeth, then all the heroes on the battlefield would have had more casualties.

I look again at Samuel with my 'Mana Eyes'

Currently, he is slapping Isabella and mumbling something.

"Sorry Samuel, if you just had to stick to plotlines I would not have to kill you."

-Voom!

I Summoned my Nightshadow bow and instantly drew it.

I aimed Nightshadow his head.

Samuel was about to knock out Isabelle, And at the same time, I let off the bowstring.

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

The target point was Samule's head. But the actual location of impact was his shoulder. It was because of the distance between us and the fact that Samuel moved.

"Tsk, I know that without a light magic spell, it would be hard to kill him but even so I had to try."

I can see that it hit him hard but not enough to die.

I once again took a position for arrows. I fired consecutively. One, two, three, four... But he dodged all of them. Even Isabella was bewildered at the mysterious support, Isabella did what she needed to do.

She quickly jumped back to gain distance some distance from him.

She tried to be brave but I know that she was faking it. There is a lot of blood coming from her mouth and it seems she is also in low mana.

"...Tsk."

I couldn't help her from this distance. Samuel's body was covered with reinforced magic power. Ordinary arrow couldn't penetrate this barrier, and I don't have any light magic scroll.

With no other choice, I jumped from tree to tree. At the same time, I changed my weapon from Nightshadow to Academy Sword. I had to fight him in close cotters.

The 500-meter distance was shortened in a moment.

Landing smoothly on the ground, I approached Isabella, who was trying to regain her breathing.

"Huh…huff…huff!"

Samuel stood across from us and behind him stood one, two, there, four...Nine and Ten female students under his [ Manipulation ]ability.

'Crazy bastard.'

They were just standing there, waiting for his orders.

"I warned you didn't I?"

I looked at Isabella. Her face was full of wounds and blood and there were wounds on her body too, but she was alive.

But she didn't say anything and just looked at me with curious eyes.

"it's you who shot arrows at me?"

But I did not listen to him and just looked at Isabella, trying to find if there were any other serious wounds on her body.

"Rank 1001 Lucas Darkheart"

"…hm? Yes?"

Turning my attention back to Samuel who had just called me, I instantly noticed his relaxed attitude.

The way he was looking at me irked me, but I didn't say anything. Judging from the pressure he was releasing he was at least D- rank if not D rank.

But fortunately for me, thanks to all the training I did, the pressure wasn't weighing down on me much. The fact that he was primarily focused on Isabella also helped me.

Judging from how relaxed he seemed, it looked like he didn't see me as a threat.

"I asked you, did you by any chance, shoot an arrow at me," he asked again with his calm face.

"No, I did not. I was just practising with my new weapon you see. And to tell you the truth I still need some time to learn it. So if any arrow hurt you, please forgive this junior."

As I finished my words his calm face was gone, replaced by anger.

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Isabella asked, I turned to her and replied.

"What do you mean? I'm helping you to stay alive, you better remember today's day. You owe me a favour now."

"...whatever." she just shook her head at my antics.

"And here take this, we have to fight bastard and you can't fight like this." I headed Isabella one mid-lvl healing potion I had kept with me for emergencies.

She drank the potion without any remarks. The wounds on her face and body began to heal.

"Do you have any plan?" she asked after drinking potion.

"Do I have a plan? Well, let's see maybe I do?"

"What's that supposed to mean," Isabella asked with a frown on her face.

"Ah, well how could I explain this..."

Before coming to the Eclipse Forest I messaged Evelyn and asked her for a favour.

Since I more or less knew something was going to happen at the Eclipse Forest, I predicted that Samuel was going to install some sort of dimensional space which prevented any outside interference.

A dimensional space was a pocket dimension separate from the outside world. Everything that happened inside of the dimension was separate from the real world preventing anyone from noticing that something was wrong. It created an illusion to people making it seem that everything was normal, when in fact something else was going on inside.

No sound or transmissions could be leaked preventing people from calling for backup. It was the perfect device to hide a crime.

Knowing this, when I messaged Evelyn, I specifically told her that if by chance in the next four hours, my phone suddenly lost signal, she was to send an encrypted message to Dreack Evergreen, Isabella's father as well as Nova Academy authorities and Instructors.

In the message, I directly wrote that a fallen human was attacking Students and had some of them under his [Manupulation] ability I also wrote the name of Eclipse Forest's specific location and that many students were in danger, I also emphasized that Isabella was one of the said students.

However, the plan was not foolproof, because I had asked Evelyn, who was a hero student in first year at Nova Academy and maybe no one believed her but I knew that my gamble would work.

Why do you think I have this much confidence? Well because Isabella was in the incident of 'Artefacts Room' and her Father loved her very much.

Even if it's a fake message; he will come here personally.

…now all I had to do was stall for time.