Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 148: Ch-148 Question Of Trust

After Mark next was Raya and Jasmine.

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William had come to learn about how Raya needed to become a S rank adventurer, unless she wanted to get married to a corrupt heir of a baron family.

It was a tragic situation and went to show just how shitty her family was, but William wasn't worried as he knew that Raya would be able to easily become a S rank adventurer given a bit more time.

Even though her stats and battle force wasn't the greatest her aspect more than made up for it.

Thanks to the way her aspect functioned she would be a invaluable asset to any team or expedition.

Also he had asked her for the name of the corrupt noble while he couldn't really do anything about it now due to having his identity hidden as well Rex being in a tough spot thanks to his actions.

He was definitely going to do some research of his own and if Raya's claims turned out to be true, strip the baron family of their title.

After all their kingdom had no need for corrupted nobles who were abusing their authority and powers to hide the acts of a criminal and constantly dealing with the underworld.

Not to mention even with all that excluded as Raya's friend, he could definitely help her out.

It was basically killing two birds with one stone.

Next was Jasmine who told them about how her father had abandoned them forcing her mother to look after both her and her brother.

Apparently the only reason why she had even attempted to become a adventurer was to earn money for her sick mother.

William felt a bit of pity hearing about her situation , but he was also glad after all thanks to their last mission she now had enough money to get her mother treated.

According to what she had told them she was planning on going back to home tomorrow to buy treatment for her mother.

And he wished nothing but good wishes for her and her mother.

He originally thought that she was planning on quitting being an adventurer but apparently not.

As she planned to come back to Markwhelter after getting her mother cured to continue working as a adventurer for a few months before she finally became 16 years old and joined Starlight academy which was the most prestigious academy in all of human continent.

It was a bit funny since William was also planning on enrolling in that academy once he was 16.

Meaning by the time he enrolled she would technically be his senior which felt really weird to even think about.

Thankfully the academy only lasted 3 years so by the time it was Williams time to join she would have long since graduated already.

Now that all of them had talked for a couple of hours, William definitely felt a lot more closer to these people compared to before.

He had learned about their past, vulnerabilities and just overall more about these people while he already knew this before the idea was solidified even more now.

That all these people were good and honest people.

During the conversation Mark, had brought up the idea of continuing their party for a bit longer, a idea which was met with a overwhelming positive response.

However, there was just one problem with all this.

Since everyone else had talked about each other and revealed their secrets it was now his turn.

He knew that this was coming and yet he had been dreading it for the past few days.

While yes he could just lie and probably get away with it.

It wouldn't be fair to these people who trusted him and chosen to be vulnerable with him.

Also he had genuinely grown to enjoy the company of these people and even started to think of them as friends.

So if possible he wanted to continue adventuring with them for a bit long.

During the boss room of the double dungeon they had seen his true form and appearance.

While he could try and lie by saying it was just a transformation that didn't sit right with him.

He had a lot of secrets that he under no circumstances could allow others to know such as him retaining memories of his past life, his aspect, the fact that he had the literal God of mana himself inside his head and more recently about Fariel the last of his kind, the fact a evil God almost descended in the world.

Compared to all of this his identity was really nothing.

Since they had chose to trust him the least he could do was return the favor.

The atmosphere was tense as no one spoke and uneasy almost palpable tension hung in the air as all eyes in the room were looking at him.

Waiting for him to talk.

Everyone in the room was curious about John's past and where he had come from after all they knew almost nothing about him ,aside from the fact that he wielded incredible power that they could never even dream to match and that he had talent to achieve even more.

All three of them had different reasons for their curiosity but all of them had the same question in mind.

'Just where did someone as monstrous as him even come from'

And it was time to answer their curiosity.

Using his masterful control over mana William stealthily created a invisible barrier than was completely untraceable by everyone but him.

Now finally having steeled his resolve, it was time to do what he had set his mind to.

With a single command the dark slime which was currently altering his appearance and hiding his real identity came off.

Dark and gooey slime fell of William's face and went into his shadow.

His previously jade black hair became beautiful snow white.

His mature and handsome face changed to another handsome but young one.

He had no baby fat left on his cheek thanks to his new bloodline which had removed all unnecessary fat to optimize his body to limit and increased muscle density.

His jaw dropping crimson eyes came into view as they observed the reaction of the people in the room.

His jawline became a bit less defined thanks to his age.

His height got reduced by quite a few inches and his clothes changed from a all black casual suit to a slightly oversized but stylish white shirt.

At long last the cat was out the bag as William had revealed his true appearance to his party.

"Hi guys" he spoke