“Excuse me. Are you….Peter Pan?” Surprised, Peter and my students quickly sheir heads to the side, seeianding there with wide eyes, staring specifically towards Peter.

  However, Peter immediately misuood the situation as he pulled the kids to hide from his behind and asked.

  “Kids. Do you know this guy?” Peter asked, his eyes staring back at me in wariness.

  ‘Oi! Oi! Oi! What do you mean by that? Why does it look like I’m the intruder here?!’ I screamed in my mind as my left eye twitched several times in annoyance.

  Thankfully, my students haven’t abandoned me yet as Tam came forward to my defense.

  “Of course, Mister Peter! He’s our master! Master Chamber!”

  As if ohey started ‘esg’ from his bad ran towards me iement.

  I smirked as I raised my chest in pride.

  Hehe! Of course! No matter whose Peter you are, even if you’re Peter Pan in the flesh himself, the children will still side with me.

  Speaking of Peter Pan, my eyes sed the ‘Peter’.

  He’s not blonde, check.

  He looks too old to be Peter Pan, check.

  He doesn’t wear green or have a green hat, check.

  He looks like a predator, I’ll check this o.

  And finally, his appearance is just a mere illusion, check.

  Suspicious as fuck.

  “Alright, Peter or whatever your real name is. I own this building, so please kindly step out of it or if you want, I’ll escort you to the exit.” Still, I ’t let my guard down.

  This Peter no doubt belongs to the Supernatural world, knowing how it works, especially the gods, I grew wary.

  Who knows, this Peter might be the King of Gods, Zeus himself.

  “Haha~, my apologies. It seems like you’re the Master Sorcerer these kids have been talking about earlier, no? Allow me to introduce myself properly.”

  “My name isn’t Peter.”

  ‘Yeah, no shit.’

  “I’m Hermes, the Greek God of Travel!” At the same time he finished his introdu, the illusion on his body disappeared. Revealing his true appearance.

  He’s indeed blonde and he’s wearing a weird type of armor that reveals more skin thaal. He’s wearing a helmet and a pair of metallic boots with the distinct appearance of having a pair of wings that are moving, which means they’re alive.

  ‘Yeah, shit.’

  “Have you heard of me?” Hermes asked, the children shared a look of fusion while miurned grim.

  There’s a Greek god in my house, and it’s not God from the Bible.

  This is bad. I’m not sure how strong this guy is.

  Maybe he’s just fast? He’s the God of Travels after all. He doesn't have anythied tth or divihat gives him enormous power.

  “Yes. Hermes, the Greek God of Travel, Messenger, and many more.” I said, not b to state his entire divinities.

  “Wow.” He teared up slightly as he wiped it away.

  “Why’re y, Mister Peter?” Augustus frowned and asked.

  “Well, you see. When humans first heard of Greek God, their first thought would immediately go to the big three, mainly Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. They’re the most famous ones among us, you see.”

  “And my name is Hermes, not Peter, Augustus.” Hermes smiled warmly at him.

  “So, what do I owe the pleasure of meeting a Greek God in my humble abode,” I asked, maintaining my polite manner.

  No matter what, I should maintain this status quo, so if he attacks me or my students, I justify retaliating.

  Not all Gods are powerful and invincible like Big G after all.

  Gods still bleed like us humans.

  “Not much. I was just on my mission when I stumbled upon your vilge and entered your students who thought I was invading them. It was a fun-up, that’s for sure.” Hermes softly chuckled, earning childish ughs from behind.

  This guy knows his way around children, huh?

  “Anyways. Since you’re already here and I o find the killer or my dad will whoop my ass once I get back to Olympus, I’ll be taking my leave.” Just as Hermes was about to leave through flight, he stopped in his tracks as his eyes noticed something in my chest.

  “Nieckce you got there. Where’d you get that?” Hermes asked, referring to my os Requiem.

  “…This? It’s a gift from a friend.” I answered, her lying nor telling the truth. I’m not sure if Hermes has some kind of lie detector or something, better be cautious.

  “I see…Well, then, I’ll take my leave now. Goodbye, kids!” Without further ado, Hermes lightly stepped into the air before the fps of his boots a took him s into the skies, much to the amazement of the children.

  Tsk, what’s so great about flying?

  Calming my beati, now that the time-tig bomb was gone, I turo face my students who were now zipping their mouths while lining up beside one another, each of them trying their best to lower their presence as much as they could from me.

  “So. I was only gone for a day and you guys already invited a strao our home. Sounds great, don’t you think?” Fshing a forced smile at them, my fingers cracked themselves, each pop was like the sound of their feet, marg toward their death.

  “Not only that, but you guys also went and stayed up beyond your curfew and it’s already past midnight.” By now, my smile was like the smile of the true devil, giving off a nightmarish aura.

  “Any st words?” I said, stepping forward and stomping my foot on the ground to add effect.

  “We’re sorry, Master!”

  “Sorry won’t be enough! Startihis m, ead every one of you will run around the Sanctum and will only stop until I say so! Uood?!”

  “Y-Yes, Master!”

  “Now, go to sleep!”

  “Yes!”

  ***

  “What an iing guy.” Flying past the clouds, Hermes stared at the moonlight, unbothered by the immense cold that would’ve frozen a human to death in mere seds.

  As someone who came from the blood of Gods, he’s obviously extremely resistant to basic things such as heat and cold.

  “Should I tell father about him?” Hermes poo himself, he had already found Kronos’s killer or at least someoed to the killer.

  “….Nah. It’s too troublesome and besides, didn’t Father say that I’m a naughty child? Let me be naughty again just this ond hide this from him. Hehe, it’s not like finding the killer will bring Kronos back, father is probably just too prideful to let something like this escape under his nose.”

  “Hah! Typical father and his pride as strong as his lightning smites!”

  Now that he had decided to cover up for the Master Sorcerer and his band of misfits, Hermes grinned, excited to roam the world of humans and discover unique experiehrough this journey of his!

  “Peter Pan, huh? I wonder who that guy is and why that Sorcerer called me that. Should I start calling myself Peter Pan? He who gets a good ugh out of a bunch of human children?”

  “Iing! Iing! Thank you, Father, fivihis mission!”

  ***

  A week has passed and only two weeks left before the Satans make their move, bringing the final battle to the human world.

  I still traihe children but I didn’t focus muy own training, instead, I spent most of my time holed up in the Sanctum, pg as many defensive and offensive runes across the building.

  Wards that kill even a High-css being like me, Ruhat enhance my and my student’s strength onside the Sanctum, and seals that could seal even Ultimate-css beings.

  Truly, runes are on a whole other level. Although my strength is at High-css, runes could allow me to tend even with the peak Ultimate-css beings.

  Aside from those, my sense of cautiousness and wariness led to the creation of an iion.

  Through the use of Merlin’s magic, I transmuted the stro and toughest material I could think of and used them to create five rge metallic guardians that would roam the Sanctum’s premises.

  I call them Mystic Guardians.

  What’s unique about these guardians is that they don’t require my devil energy to maintain themselves.

  With the help of runes, I was able to pnt a self-sustaining rune on their bodies, abs the surrounding mana around them instead of mine, pletely making them indepe from my source of energy.

  Unfortunately, creating the ruook me aire 3 days without rest.

  As for the strength of the Five Mystic Guardians, aside from physical capability that is on par with miheir magical is quite weak, in fact, a mere HellSpire which is my own variant of Demonic Bullet that spins to increase its pierg power put a dent on their body.

  So in yman’s terms, the Mystic Guardians are still imperfect, g the qualities of a true guardian.

  But still, I feel like I’ve done enough. The Five Mystic Guardians, bined with the Sanctum’s defensive runes put even Lucifer himself in trouble.

  That’s how fident I am in my work.

  So to sum up the entire week, my Sanctum San might now be one of the stro strongholds in the human world, capable of defending against strong beings across the universe.

  Not only that, these past few days, I finally had a breakthrough with the Supernatural Warding Rune, a barrier that will enpass the entire human world, proteg them against the Supernatural beings that reside outside the human realm.

  In other words, if my Supernatural Warding Rune is plete, devils from the Underworld, Angels from Heaven, and many others won’t be able to teleport or step oh without my permission.

  I would truly bee the Earth’s protector by then.

  But for now, it’s still inplete, the runic pattern of the said rune is pced on the Sanctum’s basement, protected by a single Mystic Guardian and a bunch of other defensive runes.

  Once I have built other Sanctums on the Earth’s most vital points, I would be able to ect every Warding Rune and finally plete the barrier that will protect the Earth.

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  [ Chapter: Ch. 71 - The Great War! [8]