Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

They were losing.

We needed to shut this down fast.

"Here." Justia handed me a knife. "Cut your hand and then…"

I stabbed it into my left arm.

I would have stabbed my leg, but that was armored and I didn't want to deal with… I guess it wasn't actually armor. Probably should have done that. My head is feeling funny.

"Hold still." Justia put her hands over the wound and it started healing. "You hit an artery." She shook her head. "Why didn't you do what I…"

I grabbed her hands. They were covered in my black blood. "Shut it down."

I thought she was going to protest, but she got up and put her hand on Mive's chest. There was a black glow and then the demons were gone.

The armor and weapons that Ether, Rix, and Whisper had been using had also vanished. Everyone started getting up, except Fera. She had been killed by the demon possessing her.

"WHISPER!" I pointed at Sandez. All I had to see was those yellow eyes and I knew there wasn't a person inside him.

The bandit stabbed him in the back with his sword, then incapacitated the others as well.

"We need to get everyone out of here." My arm was still hurting, but we could fix that later. "Whisper. I need you to grab Mive."

I had expected the bandit to argue, but the blonde man walked over to the cross, cut Mive down, and hoisted the unconscious God over his shoulder.

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"Help those who are having trouble walking, but we have to get out of here NOW." I did my best to shoo people along. Ether, Rix and Justia were all helping who they could.

I stopped at the door to the room and waited for everyone to leave.

Gesai leaned up against the door. "Let's go. I'm bringing up the rear."

"I'll catch up." I tried to smile, but it came out mangled. I knew that Rix would do this, but that would overlevel her so much. At least if I did it, Mavery would find something to do with me. "I have to take care of something first."

Gesai looked at the pinned leaders, then back at me. "You're going to kill them."

"They're already dead." I pulled out my SnakeBlade and looked at it. It was Tier Zero, so I didn't know if it would actually be able to kill them.

"Go." Gesai pulled out her sword.

"I can't…"

"This is what I do." The redhead pulled off her left white, shoulder length gloves as if to accentuate her point. "You don't have to watch this."

I moved to lean outside the door as she went inside. There were four flashes, then she was back out.

"Let's go."

I draped her right arm over my shoulders to help her walk. We didn't run into any resistance on our way out. Though it looked like Whisper took care of a few guards.

Whisper was already behind the wheel of the moving truck by the time we got close enough to get in.

Justia helped me get Gesai in the back, then Rix closed the back and we started moving. My CB buzzed and Rix appeared on my screen.

"Where to?"

I looked around at everyone. They were tired, beat, and looked like they might have been drugged. I needed to get them somewhere safe, but first we had to go get Trent and Astrid. The way that Sandez had been talking, he had expected Trent to be there, so I felt it was safe to assume that Sydeny didn't intentionally betray us.

"We have to go get Trent and Astrid first." I closed my eyes. "Then we have to get out of the city."

It seemed like everyone was thinking the same thing.

"Tell Whisper to do what he does." I had a feeling I was going to regret that order. But that was a later problem. For now, everyone was out of harm's way. I'd worry about the rest later. Right now, I was going to get some sleep.