My Slayer System: Rise to Supremacy

After exiting the rooftop, Jake was now making his way towards his first ally that might just help him in the quest for revenge. It was almost evening and Jake just returned to his dorm room which was unlike the recent him.

He usually returns to the dorm by nighttime but now he was here but the person he was looking for wasn't.

"Huh? That's strange, he doesn't usually go out so where could he be?" Jake said as he made his way out of his dorm again.

After a little bit of thinking, Jake finally came to a decision about where his new ally was gonna be. Jake was now slowly making his way to another building in the academy.

Entering in, Jake could see the usual rows of games lined up on the shelf and then at the back of the room were rows of capsules. Jake was in the gaming room but he wasn't here to play a game, he was here to try and recruit a person he thought would want to join his team.

"Excuse me, are you here to play?" The woman at the counter asked.

"No, I'm waiting for someone." Jake replied as he went to the chairs stationed around the room.

After an hour worth of waiting, the person he was finally waiting for was done with his game and was about to head out to the gaming room.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Hey!" Jake called out and the person turned around.

"Oh hey Jake." Peter called out with a smile on his face.

"How are you doing?" Jake asked, coming over.

"Physically, I am okay but emotionally or mentally, I'm not." Peter replied still with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, tell me about it."

"So why are you here? I know you aren't here to play the game so why are you here?" Peter asked.

"I'm here to talk to you about something." Jake said. "Do you mind if we go somewhere private so we can talk better?"

"Sure, why not. It has even been a long time since we talked after the tournament event."

Jake didn't reply as he led him outside out of the gaming room.

"So where are we headed?" Peter asked.

"My comfort zone." Jake replied as they were now heading towards the stairs that took one to the school roof.

And finally, they were now on the school roof and Peter was taking in the view of the academy and sunset.

"Wow! This is a beautiful view." Peter said.

"Yeah it is." Jake shrugged.

"So this is where you always stay while we keep on worrying about your safety."

"I needed to get away from some things and clear my mind after Vynn's death." Jake replied.

"Look Jake, you can't just keep on blaming yourself for Vynn's death." Peter said putting his hands on Jake's shoulders.

"Yes I have to." Jake retorted as he pushed Peter's hands off his shoulders.

"If I hadn't gone around saving soldiers and fighting those Omega werewolves, I would have gotten to the arena in time to save Vynn from death."

"What about us!" Peter shouted. "We were also there, but we couldn't do anything either. Trust me, I also kept on blaming myself for Vynn's death. I was there but I was unable to help him."

"But all I have to tell you is, you shouldn't brood about what you lost and instead, focus on what you still have. I know you blame yourself for not coming in time to save Vynn but now, you still have us."

"I'm sure you will do everything in your power to save us. Heck, you did, you saved our arses back then. If it wasn't because of you, we would have all died."

Jake just sighed.

"You know, he has a point there." Zee said.

"Ugh, not you too." Jake quietly said in his mind.

"I have been telling you this. You should stop blaming yourself for Vynn's death. You are not God, you couldn't have known that Vynn was about to die."

"Those soldiers you had saved, you have given them a second opportunity to life. Because of you, they got a chance to see their families again." Zee said.

"I know it's painful losing Vynn but you have to let that pain go and focus on helping and protecting those that are still alive." Zee said.

"Speaking of protection," Jake said as he looked up at Peter that had been silent thinking that Jake was giving his words some thoughts.

"Peter, I heard what you said and I'm going to try and forget that pain. But the reason I asked us to come over to somewhere private, is because I have a proposal for you."

Peter raised an eyebrow. "What proposal?"

"A proposal to join my own private Guild."

"Guild? When did you create a guild?"

"Well I'm creating it now. You are going to be the first member if you join. Think about it, we were abandoned by the Head Generals when we needed them and I don't want to lose any of you guys again so I have decided to create a guild whereby we would grow stronger together."

"Strong enough to protect ourselves from any threat again."

"But we can grow stronger separately, it doesn't mean we create a guild." Peter said still unconvinced.

Jake just sighed. "I haven't been honest with you, I not only want to create a guild so we can protect ourselves, I want to create a guild strong enough to topple the academy."

"What?!? Are you nuts? You want to topple the academy? Do you have a death wish or something?" Peter shouted.

"Look, I know you are strong. Heck, even stronger than me but it's still not enough to try and think that you can topple the academy down."

"Who says I want to do that now?" Jake asked. "I know I'm strong but I'm not foolish, even I know that I'm not strong enough to do that now. Which is why I said we create a guild, invite more strong members and grow our strength."

"Then when we are strong enough, we initiate the plan to topple the academy and take the reins of Aurora city. You should know that the academy think only about themselves. They don't care about us, to them, we are just disposable wastes."

"That was why the Head Generals didn't help when we needed them. Think of it, the Head Generals are strong enough to kill that f*cking Beta werewolf but where were they? They freaking abandoned us and in the process, Vynn died."

"Look, I'm not gonna force you to do what you don't want to. But I have told you what I'm planning on doing. So what's your response?" Jake asked.

Peter looked up with his face somewhat uncertain but remembering what happened to Vynn, his face hardened with resolve and he looked at Jake.

"Fine, let's do it."

"Great." Jake smiled and then called out.

"System! Activate Contract!"