The Rise Of Calamity

\'This b*tch* I inwardly grunted

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At the gate of the city, Rose looked at three figures with a twitching brow.

"Since when was Olivia going with you guys?" She asked, her fists itching to punch something as hard as she could.

"Uhm... Since a few minutes ago? June persuaded me that it would be good for her growth to go along with us" I smiled, discreetly throwing June under the bus.

"And since when did June have the authority to give missions?" Rose\'s cold voice rang out in the area, making me smile behind my mask while the rest of the people in the area shuddered when hearing what she had to say, including Olivia.

"Woops" I looked away and whistled, waiting to hear June\'s screams as Rose battered her senseless.

"Well, June... Since you think you have the right to give away missions like items at a bargain sale, how about I teach you a good lesson on how hard it is to be a guildmaster of an entire guild filled with mostly muscle heads and airheads." This time, June was shuddering as she looked at me with a pleading expression that I only looked at with amusement.

"We asked Yuri and she said it was fine. June asked Yuri, and I was going to ask you even though June didn\'t ask me to do so. I just thought that it would be appropriate" I touched my chin, the only significant thing that I did while landing the finishing blow as well as the grave I was about to place June in after this.

*Sigh*

"I am tired and I can\'t be arsed to deal with your shenanigans for now. When you come back though I will kick your ass" She pointed at June accusingly, causing her to take a step back in both fear and confusion.

\'What did I do to deserve this\' June inwardly cried.

After speaking with Rose for a little longer, we finally decided to depart.

Since Olivia was with us, I had to cut my speed by quite a bit while June only had to lower her speed by a few tiers so that Olivia could come along with us.

"I can\'t wait to break through to the Guardian rank so I can finally fly! No more dealing with the crap normal landers have to deal with when I can just fly!" June closed her eyes and reminisced at the memories she hasn\'t even made yet, I wise and ancient glint appearing in her eyes as if she had the soul of a wise old genius within her

"Flying is overrated" I snorted

"True" Olivia replied, remembering the last time she had flown on top of Keaurin.

When we finally reached one of the forests, I finally chose to launch myself off the ground and use the branches to maneuver, Olivia doing the same. Seeing both of us go up to the branched, June shook her head lightly and looked at Olivia with a mixture of pity and worry.

June quickly followed behind us, but instead of doing the same thing as us, she followed Olivia until she was finally side-by-side and whispering something into her ear.

"Word of advice, don\'t try and copy the monster. She might be strong, a renowned genius, and even one of the most powerful people I know, but she is not someone you should look up to and copy as if she is your master teaching you everything. Find your own ways and own techniques, or obtain techniques and skills that other people had created and might be proficient for you to use. While yes, they might not be as good as making your own techniques, they cannot be as bad as copying the techniques and tricks of a monster with an obscenely abnormal physique, an extremely strong affinity, and even power that would rival peak diamond tiers. Sometimes a fish needs to stay in a pond rather than learn to walk on land" 

Olivia looked at June speechlessly but did not reply.

While she knew the things between me and June, she knew that June was only wanting to help, if not even being a better teacher than I was since what she had just said made a lot of sense. 

Copying someone will not get you anywhere in life, or at least it won\'t get you to the top. It is the same reason why the older generation is always stronger than the newer generation, and even though the newer generation might have better equipment and resources, they pale in comparison to originality.

She wanted to not only find something that suited her fighting style, build, and affinity, but she also wanted to make it herself rather than borrow it from a manual created by some old monster a few thousand years ago for fun.

"I understand, but for now, let me copy her for a bit. After that, I\'ll find my own way through this" Olivia smiled and sped up slightly, catching up to me who was leisurely jumping from one branch to another.

"Pan?" She asked out loud.

I had obviously heard what June has said to Olivia even though the wind was blowing violently against my ears causing the only sounds to enter being the muffled noises of the forest alongside the whistling wind blowing into my ears.

After looking at me for a bit longer, Olivia looked down and muttered "Nothing" hesitantly before slowing down a bit and going back to where June was.

Seeing this, I shrugged simply and didn\'t think about the incident again for the whole journey. It was only about 4 hours later did I finally realize that the two behind me were almost dead of exhaustion, and that was only after they had left my soul perception range which had finally caused me to look back at the emptiness behind me.

"These guys are so weak" I sighed and shot at full speed, of course without any modifications like lighting body or the armor, meaning that I was going pretty slow compared to normal.

"What are you guys doing here?" I popped out of nowhere in front of them, causing both of them to scream in terror while June simultaneously tried to punch me at the same time, subsequently missing due to me being able to see the punch from a mile away. I would say that Foresight saved me in the moment because right now I did not feel a speck of danger from the split-second attack from June, allowing me to just step back.

"I got really tired so we are resting so we can get a move on in the next hour or less" Olivia replied almost breathless due to all the running they had to do alongside me, someone who has enough endurance to not sleep for almost 6 months if not a little more than that.

*Sigh*

Sighing, I quickly created a throne out of the earth like a queen sitting down on her throne looking down at her subjects as if they were ants at the bottom of her feet.

\'I guess I\'ll wait for these idiots then\' I sighed for the umpteenth time