'who's hugging my leg..?'

Mars looked down and saw Chloe was latched on to his leg and gave a soft sigh and he slowly freed his leg and attempted to sit up but found he was unable to so he looked to his left to find out why

'Elsa... can't feel my arm...'

Elsa was using his arm as a pillow and judging by the numbness he felt in his arm she had been lying on it all night, carefully lifting Elsa's head off his arm Mars was finally able to get up and out of bed

'ugh... where's the toilet again..?'

Mars walked out of the master bedroom as quietly as he could and after wandering around for sometime Mars found a toilet and walked in... and found it occupied by Varvei that was taking a shower behind a thin shower curtain, Mars could see her outline behind the shower curtain and hurriedly closed the door and walked off to find another bathroom

'that was close...almost didn't make it'

Mars walked out of the bathroom and walked back to the main living area were he found Varvei... only wearing a s.h.i.+rt

"oh good morning Mars"

"....m-morning"

"hmm... what's wrong?"

"could you put on some more cloths?"

"oh..."

Varvei's face lit up in a full blush and she hurriedly put on some panties, while Mars (as a gentleman would) looked away

"s-safe?"

"yeah you're good now"

Mars gave a smile, even though Varvei's current outfit was way too stimulating for him he tired to play it cool

"could you tell the other two I'm on the roof and not to disturb me when they wake up?"

"okay... but what are you going to do on the roof?"

"well... something to do with my nightmares, hopefully end them for good"

Varvei gave a smile and a small wave

"okay, just be safe will you?"

"yeah I'll be fine"

Mars walked up the stairs to the roof and opened the door before he stepped out on the rooftop garden and found a spot to sit down

"here should be good..."

Mars sat down with his legs crossed and closed his eyes and began to clear his head before he activated his [Demon dreaming] skill and slowly drifted off to sleep...

around noon Mars' eyes snapped open again, he was still sitting with his legs crossed

"for f.u.c.ks sake..."

now he knew why he had been betrayed in his last life, the anger he felt made him sick to his stomach but he eventually calmed down and took a deep breath

"all that for profit... did they lose their sense of humanity..?"

the reason why he had been betrayed and doomed to life in that h.e.l.l hole had been because his squad of marines discovered a new sentient species on a far off planet, this spices was able to naturally make plasteel in their bodies which happened to be the material most of the of the army's new s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p destroyers was plated with. so history took its natural cause the entire spices was enslaved and Mars with the rest of his squad was sentenced to h.e.l.l all to keep them quiet, but alas all was in the past for Mars, he had died and now that he knew he died fighting for the rights of another sentient species he felt a little better

'still want to smash some stuff though...'

Mars got on his feet and turned around and saw the girls sitting a little away from him, all looking at him with worried looks on their faces, mars gave a soft sigh

"I'm fine"

"really?"

Chloe was the first to speak up and she continued

"are you really fine?"

Mars gave a gentle smile

"yeah"

"that's good"

"thank the 13..."

looking at their worried faces Mars felt truly blessed and showed a warm smile as he embraced the 3 of them in a hug

"now there's nothing holding you back right Mars?"

Chloe looked at him with a fiery look on her face, Mars thought back to yesterday were he had managed to fight off her advances by using his nightmares as excuse

"w-well there is this one thing I would like to do first"

Chloe put on her best sulking face before she asked him, the other girls also looked dissatisfied

"what?"

"crush some invaders"

Later that day Mars along with a group of elite soldiers from Green river left the city they were heading for the southern peninsular which was located directly south from green river, while the forest was 'safe' there still was numerous forbidden zones were cla.s.s 10 and higher magic best had made their nests so traveling through the forest was a death sentence without a proper guide. It took Mars and the rest of the group 2 days to reach the enemy fort that still was under construction, the fort itself had a hint of eastern style to it and was made mostly of wood meanwhile the walls around the fort was made of what looked like hardened mud, most likely just a temporary solution until proper walls could be build

"so what do we do now captain?"

the elf captain looked over at Mars seeking his opinion but Mars was still inspecting the fortress with his transformed crimson eyes and remained silent for sometime until he spoke

"wait here for my signal"

Mars transformed fully and jumped out into the cleared area around the fort and activated his [Energy: absorb s.h.i.+eld] before he slowly began walking towards the fort

'any second now...'

with the sound of wind being cut a hail of arrows suddenly appeared in the sky and soon rained down on Mars harmlessly bouncing off his s.h.i.+eld, as soon as the rain of arrows ended Mars kicked off the ground sending a cloud of dust up behind him as he charged at the mud walls, meanwhile lances of fire formed above him which fired off towards the mud wall but only harmlessly left some slight burn marks on the wall

'that should do to distract them...'

as the second hail of arrows appeared in the air Mars activated [Instant movement] and disappeared form the open ground and reappeared right in front of the mud walls which he laid his hands on

"and here we go"

*KABOOOOM*

as Mars activated his [Energy: discharge] the walls exploded kicking up a mighty dust cloud

"captain was that the signal?"

"I think so, let's go!"

Mars was like a reaper inside the dust cloud, disappearing one second and reappearing the next with a slash to the neck of a random soldier, by the time the dust settled over 20 soldiers, mostly the archers form before had all died

"huh... looks like something from feudal j.a.pan, though not quiet"

what mars was talking about was a group of nearly 50 soldiers with single edged swords wearing armor that looked like Dou armor or as it was more commonly known; samurai armor, one of the men wearing slightly different form the rest armor spoke up

"why have you come here?"

"to remove this fort from the map, you are trespa.s.sing on Green river soil"

"...and were is this Green river you speak of!?"

Mars' smile widened

"you will never live to see its walls"

"if that's the case then---"

the man suddenly clutched his neck, a arrow had found its way there fired from one of the elite elven soldiers

"captain!"

"avenge the captain!"

the rest of the Dou armored men charged at Mars

'this is boring...'

Mars activated [Instant movement] and soon appeared behind the group of Dou armored men that all grabbed their necks before they collapses on the ground, Mars looked over at the elven captain

"you can handle the rest right?"

"sure we can take it from here"

"good then I leave the rest to you guys"

"sure, thanks for the a.s.sist"

half an hour later the fort had been thoroughly raided, no on other then Mars and the group of elite elven soldiers was left alive and the fort was set ablaze and soon they left the fort and headed back to Green river, on the way Mars made friends with most of the group which was easy since they had fought together and all. 2 days later the group arrived at Green river were the elvers dragged Mars out to celebrate before he had a change to return to his building

"come on Mars drink!"

"sure sure"

Mars downed the nth gla.s.s of fruit wine at this point he was thoroughly drunk, Mars slammed the gla.s.s down on the table and shouted

"another!"

"coming right up"

the bartender opened up yet another flask of fruit wine and sat it down in front of Mars

Mars and the group of elvers celebrated long into the night and suddenly it was morning again, at this point only Mars was left standing (sitting on his chair) he looked around at the sleeping elvers with a smile on his face before he settled the tap and started heading home