Kiada, Blood Servant System Reborn

I walked out of the Guild Hall fully prepared for this. I had dealt with all the others, and now it was time to deal with the brat.

Candi now had a bratty personality, and this was going to get worse before it got better. All I could bank on was the fact that she had not been romantically involved with Trinity before that. 

All of us knew that she had a Crush on her, but she was very friendly with everyone and never made it clear what she wanted. That had always made Candi angry, but they were put as pairs when we came into the game.

At the time, I had no idea who everyone really was; I was just saving them. Now I had all my memories back, and it was time to unlock the last one, even if I didn't want to.

I could see her and Lesha standing on the beach near the water. Neither looked to be talking, and they both had their backs facing me. I took a deep breath and let it out before proceeding forward. I wanted this to all be done fast and without a chance for her to complain.

"Candi," I said when I was almost right behind them, but only Lesha turned to me; Candi didn't move.

"I am going to leave you two to talk," Lesha said before giving me a kiss and walking back up the beach wordlessly.

Exactly what I didn't want to do, and I found myself wanting to grab the girl by her shoulder and spinning her around. I just wanted to get this over with, then she could try to give me the rough side of her tongue.

I calmed myself and tried not to let my past emotions get in the way. With another long and deep breath that I exhaled, I spoke.

"I am sorry for making you wait and keeping you from the others," I said, but she still didn't budge.

"What is up with you? Since you came back, you seem different, like something changed. What are you hiding from me?" Candi asked me, still unmoving.

I grabbed her by the shoulder and tried to wrench her around, but she didn't budge. I had to stop to keep from tearing the skin and clothes tight off her shoulder.

Now I was pissed, and I walked around in front of her. Candi had her head was down, and I could see that her eyes were glowing red violently.

I hadn't been able to see them from behind, but upon seeing them, my body stiffened, and I instinctively burned blood. 

"Look at me," I said to her, I didn't want to order her, but if she lost it right now, I might have to hurt her to get her under control.

"You are doing something to all of us, and you're not the real person that you were before," Candi said through gritted teeth, and her hair began to rise with her anger.

"I command you to look at me," I said in a no-nonsense tone, and she was forced to look at me with her burning red eyes. "Real Eyes!"

I shouldn't, and then breathed out a sigh of relief as Candi was encased in the blue light, but this was far from over. I hoped that she would be reasonable, but I had also hoped that I wouldn't have to put her into this in a blood rage.

I got ready to command her to stop, but she was just too fast when the blue light dropped from around. The second the light left, I tried to order her, but she punched me in the face and sent me flying to smash into the long boathouse attached to the Guild I had built.

"YOU KNEW AND HID IT FROM ME!" Candi screamed at me, launching herself at me as I got up.

I backhanded her, and she was sent skipping across the water. She got her shot, but I was feeling the blood in my veins rising up, so I refrained from ordering her to stop.

She needed to get some of this anger out, that was okay, but this was not the way. I needed to teach her a lesson for striking me, but I didn't want to seriously injure her. 

Whether she is angry at me or not, she worked under me, and I would not have her start setting a bad example with the other Guild Members.

I had been having authoritative trouble with everyone before. None of my Guild Member seemed to take to me seriously, but now that was going to change. 

I wasn't the type to let anyone push me around; I was understanding, and there was a difference between the two.

I looked, and Candi had disappeared, but I could feel her swimming around under the water at incredible, and then I groaned as it hit me. I summoned armor to me, brought out my prismatic hammer, and created a buckler shield for easy mobility.

Candi's specialty was her Thrull Legion, an ability that let her stab her victims with her nails rather than her teeth to inject them with her venom. This allowed her to create many at once, but she could only give them one task, and right now, just to target me would be more than enough.

I prepared myself to fight, but as I waited, nothing came at first, but that kind of made sense. There were a lot of monsters in the water she could convert, and the big ones would be too much for her.

I could feel my fire start to cool as I waited, and I did see her come up for air a couple times, but she didn't seem to be having much luck with it. Terrifying ability on the battlefield, and in most situations, but I had her at a severe disadvantage.

Since fish didn't have legs and there just weren't enough things like octopus and starfish around to pose a challenge. 

Now, she was about ten meters from me with just her nose and typically eyes above the water. I could tell she was glaring at me, so I let my armor and weapons all disappear until I was just in my shorts and shirt, letting the sun soak into me. 

I stared back at her, but I also took control of the Water magic inside of me and started to walk forward to her. As I did, I forced the water back and all the life in the water as I walked toward her.

I  made the water bring her to me, and she didn't fight it as I made the ocean bring her down to stand before me. It was like standing in a glass aquarium, to the life of the shallows still moving around us mostly without a care, while some came forward to probe.

I watched as even a few swam right through the wall and landed on the open sand and flopping around; those would be good for supper. I turned back to the angry Candi in front of me and sighed.

"Don't be obstinate, and do not make this harder than it needs to be. I get it you think that I did this for some crazy reason, but you were last because you act like this. Now, how are you going to treat Trinity?" I asked, trying to keep my voice level.

"Don't call her that," Candi said.

"Then what do you want to call her? Give me attitude, and I'll be sticking only your head back in the water, understand?" I asked, again trying but not succeeding to keep the anger out.

"I don't know, and that's not really for me to decide. I know it's not Trinity, she didn't like me back like I did her, but I love this girl. I'm not an idiot, but you should have let me be there with her; this cant be easy for her," Candi said, looking up at me, and I let out a sigh.

"Good, don't act stupid, I am glad for this sudden maturity, but that doesn't change how you acted before the game. I am glad that you have grown up a bit, but I had every reason to lease you till the end. Trinity is fine, and you can go see her now after you drop these fish off in the kitchen," I told her, and Candi rolled her eyes at me but did as I said.

I told Candi to send Lesha back out to me as she left; she would enjoy this view. 

Most of the fish had stopped swimming to their deaths, so I sat down cross-legged, facing out to the vast ocean.

It was bright out, and I could see life for hundreds of meters around me. I was left with a feeling of peace, and I was about to close my eyes when I noticed something far ahead of me out in the deep and darker part of the water moving towards me. 

I watched, and a massive creature like a whale, but with tentacles, moved towards me at impossible speeds. I wanted to get up and move back, but I was frozen in place, transfixed by the horror approach.

The massive mouth opened thirty meters away to reveal a slightly smaller version of the head. That one stretched out almost seven meters and then opened up to reveal the next Matryoshka head.

The entire time the tentacles were closing in around me but not breaking through the water walls. When the last head reached me, it opened up to reveal a face that I didn't recognize very well, but I had seen before.

"You might be safe and have your memories back for now, but know that time is running out for you, and I am growing stronger every day with you in this world. Soon it will have enough power to unleash the Monster Realm Gates. Will you have the world ready by then, or will you just sacrifice it for the win?" Jhin, The Game Master, asked me, but for some reason, I couldn't speak.

"Baby?" Lesha asked me, and I was still in the place where I just was, but Jhin and the monster were gone, and Lesha was Kneeling in front of me.

I leaned in and pulled her into a sweet kiss, and took her into my arms. That had been a wake-up call, but I needed to get my people ready before I could take on the world's problems.

"I am okay; I guess I was just relaxed in here and dozed off," I said after we stopped kissing, but I still held her in my arms.

"Let's go back and eat, the food is ready now, and you look tired. I think you need to take a break after this and put your feet up. You have been doing a lot of running around, and you and I both know that this is only the beginning," Lesha said, pulling out of my arms and standing on her own, an action that still sent waves of emotion surging through my body.

"Yes, you are right, my love, and I think that I want to do something other than relaxing after we eat," I said with a devilish smile, taking the offered hand Lesha gave me to get up.

There would be a lot of challenges and trials ahead of us, but it was good to know that everyone was themselves again, and so was I. 

I told Lesha's hand as we walked back to our new home, filled with both new and old friends, and every one of them ready for an adventure.

[This marks the end of the first volume, I will take another day's break just to get the next part of the story in line, and then I will go back to updating daily! Thank you for the continued support, and thank you for reading my books! Bee sure to check out my other 2 novels, Epic of Bee and Monster Girls Ranching in Another World!]