Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 247

Chapter 247: Is This Legal?
“You fucking idiot! Do you think this is the time for your nonsense!? Who do you think you’re giving sass!?”

“Wiik! Wiik! Wiik! Wiik!”

The wiik-bat cried out in pain as Mark almost pulled its wings out!

Luna quickly ran up to the bat and collected it from Mark with a frown. She held it close to her chest while glaring at him.

“What do you think you’re doing!? You want to hurt it!?”

Mark clicked his tongue and leaned back.

“It’s indestructible, so it’s not going to get hurt. The bastard just needs a good beating to know its place. Ignoring my orders ’cause I don’t think you’re cute – what sort of nonsense is that?”

Luna just shook her head at Mark in disappointment before she petted the Wiik-bat gently on the head while squeezing it into her breast.

“You’re very cute, forget what that brute has to say. He’s just jealous of you. Now you need to go out and help us find the others, okay? When you come back, I’ll give you plenty more hugs!”

“Wiik!”

The Wiik-bat suddenly became motivated to work and Mark felt his eyes twitch as he looked at it rubbing itself against Luna’s chest. That fucker was a pervert. There is no way anyone can change my mind. It’s nothing but a giant-eyed pervert.

Flap! Flap! Flap!

The Wiik-bat finally took off and left the hideout, and Mark could see a new tab appear at the edge of his vision. Mark saw that the tab was a video feed from the Wiik-bat. The outside world was very peaceful since it was nighttime.

Multiple lights from buildings and skyscrapers littered the landscape. The sound of cars and trucks traveling through the roads echoed in the night, polluting the beautiful scene with the shouts of angry drivers who were being held back by traffic; and airplanes flashed in and out of existence as they passed overhead.

There were scenes and areas that Mark did not recognize at all. They were currently in an alternate Tokyo, so Mark knew that he wouldn’t be able to tell where anything was in this place. At best, he would know where the Tokyo Tower was because of how often he had seen it in anime, but other than that, there was nothing.

“What’s wrong?”

Luna finally asked Mark a question when she noticed that he had a frown on his face. Mark asked Luna if she had ever been to Tokyo before and Luna shook her head.

“I only went to Kyoto for a conference once. I haven’t been to Tokyo before. Are you getting a feed from the Wiik-bat? You don’t recognize anything, right?”

“It’s useless. I don’t know if we can pinpoint anyone’s location like this without knowing anything about the landscape – wait.”

All of a sudden, there was a change in Mark’s demeanor as his frown deepened. Luna folded her hands across her chest anxiously and she asked Mark what was wrong while wondering what could have happened. Did something attack the Wiik-bat? Luna did not like how she did not know what was happening. Luna was the leader of her own guild, so she was already used to getting the full picture of what was happening even before it could happen from her guild members. Right now, she hated how powerless she felt.

“Alright, I think it was a false alarm. I thought I saw something. We should make a plan for how we will move and where we will stay. I don’t think this is a good place to choose as our territory.”

There was a prompt that appeared on Mark’s tab a long time ago and he didn’t bother responding to it yet since he did not want to choose this as his territory.

[Each participant in the game of gods is capable of choosing a territory for themselves.]

[Benefits of having a territory.]

i. The participant will gain an immediate 10% boost to all stats in their territory.

ii. All Mana-based attacks will be 10% stronger within the participant’s territory.

iii. Opponents that enter the participant’s territory will experience a 10% debuff to all stats.

[All game servant-master pairs must claim a territory before they are allowed to participate in the game. The sole exception to this is the PAWN piece which is allowed to make his territory at any time during the course of the game.]

[Does the user wish to choose Rundown House as his territory? Yes/No]

Yeah, never gonna happen.

Mark was not going to choose this fucking place as his territory. He wasn’t stupid. Not only was this place in the middle of the city, but it was also too exposed and anyone could drop a spell on him from far away at any moment.

Choosing a place like this as his territory would be the worst decision he could ever make.

“So, what is the plan? You do have one, right?”

Luna was sitting on the floor again as she looked at Mark curiously and Mark came out from his thoughts to look at her. Mark could see the expectation in her gaze, but he didn’t even have a plan yet since he just got here as well. How can he have a plan when he doesn’t even know anything about the other participants in the game? Mark told Luna that he hadn’t come up with one yet. Wouldn’t it be better if they both came up with a plan together?

Luna nodded.

“That makes sense. Since there are five other chess pieces, we can assume that we are going up against ten other people. We don’t know if any of them have something like the Wiik-bat that can find us, so we have to keep our guard up at all times. We are in the middle of the city, right? Do you think the gods will be angry if people are killed in the middle of a battle?”

Mark immediately understood what Luna was trying to get at and he shook his head.

“No, they probably won’t care about that. In fact, knowing what I know about them, they’ll probably encourage us to cause as much damage as possible. That means that the other participants will also not care about it. We should be prepared to fight even if we are in the middle of a large crowd. Without caring about the lives we take.”

Luna hung her head silently as she contemplated what Mark just said. Luna was not a fan of taking lives. She was not naive and she knew that she had killed people unconsciously during her battles against anima, but she had only consciously killed a person once before, so she did not know how to feel about the fact that they might take a lot of lives in the coming fights.