It was another rest day after a hunting day; Esdeath was riding her horse across the wilderness, enjoying the thrill of a joyride while also looking for traces of rare Danger Beasts.
While passing through a narrow trail, Esdeath saw a hunter holding a gun and searching for something on that land.
She didn’t pay any mind to him, but just as Esdeath rode past him, the hunter glanced at her and warned, “This place has already been claimed by me; if you want to hunt, go somewhere else.”
Oh?
Having already ridden some distance away, Esdeath turned her horse around and rode back.
Seeing this, the hunter pointed his gun at her: “Get lost, or I won’t be polite to you.”
Good grief, this was the first time Esdeath had seen someone with such a short temper.
How could she tolerate this?
Esdeath pulled out her pistol, activated the Eye of True Sight, and fired a bullet right into his head.
As it turned out, this man’s head was not as tough as his mouth.
Esdeath dismounted and searched his body, finding only one keton and a few copper coins; truly poor.
To Esdeath’s surprise, the system actually popped up: “Task completed: eliminate a passerby you find unpleasant.
Reward: skill, Time Reversal.”
So she had already met the conditions.
“System, how do I use Time Reversal?”
“Simply put, it consumes a large amount of mental energy to return to a past time.
Currently, after activation, the host can rewind time by ten minutes, but the range is currently limited to one hundred meters around the host.”
Esdeath’s eyes lit up.
There was such a divine skill?
Then if she encountered danger or an unbeatable situation, she could return to a previous time at any moment and try again.
But Esdeath also understood that this skill must consume a huge amount of mental energy; it seemed she would need to add more points to her mental energy in the future.
Alright, let’s activate this skill and give it a try.
Esdeath activated Time Reversal and immediately felt a splitting headache as her mental energy was drastically drained.
Subsequently, a mysterious force spread like ripples within a hundred meters around her.
The next moment, Esdeath found herself back at the intersection where she had just ridden into this trail, still on her horse, as if she had just entered.
The system explained, “Because the range is only one hundred meters, even if it is ten minutes ago, you can only return to the limit of the range.”
Esdeath pulled on the reins to make her horse enter the trail again, and suddenly discovered something: “That hunter is gone?
If I returned to ten minutes ago, shouldn’t he also have returned to ten minutes ago?”
The system said, “This is one of the characteristics of Time Reversal that I wanted to explain.
Time Reversal cannot reset people who have already died; life cannot be created out of thin air.
People who were already dead at the time of reversal will disappear after the reversal, and matters concerning them will be corrected by time, and people related to them will forget their existence.”
“Only those with the power of time and space like the host can retain their memories.”
Esdeath was thoughtful: “Even so, this can already be considered a miracle.”
The system was unusually talkative today: “This is just one of the criteria for becoming a god.”
“Does this world really have gods?”
The system fell silent, and only after a long while did it say, “Knowing these things so early is too far-reaching for the host.”
“Alright.”
Due to the consumption of a large amount of mental energy, Esdeath had no mood to continue her joyride, so she turned her horse around and returned to the plains where her tribe lived.
To Esdeath’s surprise, there were guests visiting the tribe today.
“Esdeath, you’re back.
Come here quickly and meet the chieftain of the Gelius Tribe.”
The Gelius Tribe had always been on good terms with the Barutas Tribe, and they occasionally visited each other.
The chieftain of the Gelius Tribe, Green Gelius, was a bearded man carrying two axes.
Besides the two envoys who came with him, there was also a young silver-haired girl, about the same age as Esdeath.
Esdeath vaguely remembered that this was Green’s daughter, Ruth.
When they were children, they would play together during festivals when the tribes visited each other.
Thinking about it, five or six years had passed since then.
Ruth’s skin was also very fair.
She looked at Esdeath curiously, as if she couldn’t recognize her childhood playmate.
“Esdeath, take Ruth to play nearby for a while; I need to chat with your Uncle Green.”
“Alright.”
“Let’s go, Ruth.
What do you want to play?
Shall we go archery or hunting and see who bags more prey?”
Ruth showed a confident smile: “Esdeath, I won’t bully you.
You’ve been weak since you were little; I’d have to protect you if we went hunting.”
“Hmph, that was in the past.
I’m very strong now.
If you don’t believe me, we can have a competition and you’ll see.”
Ruth rolled her eyes: “Why would I want to compete with you?”
Esdeath really wanted to prove her strength in front of her childhood playmate, so she said, “Then what will it take for you to agree to a competition?”
“How about this: if you lose to me, you have to promise me one thing.”
“Fine, and if you lose to me, you also have to promise me one thing.”
“Alright, but we can’t leave the camp.
Let’s compete by shooting targets and see who is more accurate.”
Esdeath wanted to say something but stopped.
Competing in archery was just handing her the win, wasn’t it?
“Let’s start with stationary targets.”
Ruth picked up her bow and arrows, hitting the bullseye with every shot.
Esdeath also picked up her bow and arrows, hitting the bullseye with every shot.
“Hmph, I didn’t realize you had some skill.”
Next were moving targets.
It had to be said that Ruth’s archery was truly impressive; ten moving targets, speeding up and slowing down, yet she actually managed to hit the bullseye on every single one.
To avoid losing, Esdeath activated the Eye of True Sight, but only managed a tie.
Esdeath said, “Archery shouldn’t just be about accuracy; it also has to be about speed.”
“Let’s have another round.
Ten targets.
We’ll mark our own fletchings, and whoever hits the most targets first wins.”
“Alright.”
Both drew their bows and fired at the same time.
Ruth’s accuracy was good, but once it came to speed, she couldn’t match Esdeath, who could use the Eye of True Sight to aim instantaneously.
In the end, Esdeath hit seven of the ten targets.
“Yay, I won!”
Ruth said annoyedly, “There’s no helping it, I lost to you.
It seems you’ve spent all your effort on archery these years.”
“Don’t forget that you have to promise me one thing since you lost.”
“I haven’t forgotten, go ahead.”
Just as Esdeath was about to ask Ruth to acknowledge her as the boss, the system, which had been quiet, suddenly popped up.
“As a villain, you must show domineering affection towards girls.
Say to Ruth, ‘From today on, you are mine,’ and upon completing the task, you will be rewarded with the Lily Halo, which will cause all females to subconsciously develop a certain degree of affection for the host depending on the situation.”
Esdeath found it a bit strange, but since the system told her to rephrase it, she would just do so.
Acknowledging her as the boss and being ‘her person’ were the same thing anyway; saying it this way was more domineering, so she would just say that.
“Ruth, from today on, you are mine!”
“Task completed.
Reward: Lily Halo.”
The way Ruth looked at Esdeath became strange.
Initially, she was confused by Esdeath’s words, but then she thought, could Esdeath mean she wanted her to be her girlfriend?
It was so strange, but for some reason, she suddenly felt that Esdeath was not bad; she had been cute since before, and she was growing up to be even better looking.
As Ruth thought about it, she blushed and ran away, leaving Esdeath completely bewildered.
Didn’t she want to acknowledge her as the boss?
Was there a need to be so shy?