Picking up Girls With My System

Chapter 402 Problems For The Central Continent

When the Bishop saw Arthur running toward the other vampire, ready to kill him, all he wanted was to jump into that arena and stop the fight, as things were not going by his plans, but he could not do that!

For the people watching, it did not matter who won the fight. They wanted to see blood, death, and an exciting battle. They did not know who Arthur was or what he was. How the fight went was the only thing that mattered to them.

Arthur moved from one side of the arena to the other in a matter of seconds, shocking the vampire, who still believed Arthur was a rank one mage, just like all the other captains.

The Bishop himself could not see through Arthur either, but seeing how easily he dealt with him, he did not believe Arthur was powerful enough to go against him in a fight.

"You don't understand," the vampire said when Arthur was right in front of him with the spear piercing his stomach.

"T-the Bishop, h-he's planning som-something."

Those were the vampire's final words as he died in a bloody way, making the crowd excited!

"Who is that? He moved so fast through the arena I could barely see!"

"The Bishop said he was a demon, but what kind of demon?"

"Can he make pacts? I want to be rich!"

Just like that, the fight ended, and now the Bishop would have to end Arthur's life in the shadows, diverging a little from his initial plan, but he was not that concerned about it.

"There is no way for him to run," he thought, but something weird happened.

Multiple town points started to burn, and people screamed with terror! Not even the coliseum escaped from that, and some parts around it had flames as big as houses!

"What is happening?"

The town had many people in it, even outsiders who went there to participate in the festival, so the place was crowded, and with a fire, people started to lose their lives!

Arthur smiled and thought, "Jake did the first part of our plan."

While Arthur focused on surviving the arena fights, Jake went to specific points of the city to burn it, so everyone would focus on that, forgetting about Arthur for a moment, which would be his chance to escape!

The Bishop looked at Arthur, and then he left the coliseum to go out and help the others.

"He cannot pass through the barrier around the arena, so I don't need to worry about it."

That was what he thought; indeed, it would be the case if Arthur did not have a helper. Jake was a priest and an old ally of the Bishop. He knew how the man thought and how to pass through the barrier, so after the fires started, Jake returned to the coliseum and met with Arthur there.

"Finally," Arthur said, moving toward the coliseum exit where Jake was.

Some priests were still there and recognized Jake, yet they could not understand what he was doing there until a piece of the barrier was destroyed, allowing Arthur to leave the coliseum without problems.

"Jake, what are you doing?" the priests yelled, but Jake did not listen to any of them and left the coliseum with Arthur by his side.

"What should we do now?" Jake asked.

The whole city was in chaos, and now it was the perfect opportunity for them to flee, but to where? Arthur knew he had to return to the Von Stein family to warn the others about the situation, not because he liked the Von Stein family, but because he still had to discover where Sybille was. The only way to do that was with the Von Stein family trusting him.

But the Bishop surely knew from what family Arthur belonged, so going back straight toward the Von Stein family would be stupid, and the Bishop would follow them, not allowing their escape.

"Do you know about a safe place near here? A place where the Bishop would not look for us while we wait for things to calm down?" Arthur asked while he and Jake ran away from the coliseum, going straight to one of the town's exits.

"I do know of a place. Agatha, my lover, is, in fact, an elf. No one knows about it as she keeps her features hidden, afraid the humans will attack her. She's waiting for us outside the city and knows of an elf settlement. Humans will never find it."

That was an excellent opportunity! Arthur had already conquered the dwarves, getting them on his side, and now he could find where the elves lived. Then he could ally with them to fight against the Von Stein family and the other rank-four mages who wished nothing more than to harm the population.

"Let's meet with her then," Arthur said.

They kept moving away from the city and eventually found someone on the road waiting for them. It was a woman with blond hair, and she wore a long green robe and had a bow on her back. Agatha was her name, and her love for Jake had increased after the pact they made.

"Who's is this?" Agatha asked when she noticed Jake had someone else with him.

"A friend of mine. He's not a threat, and he wants to go there to meet up with the elves."

"No way! It was hard for me to make them accept you, a human outsider. I cannot bring another one there."

Agatha had spoken with her family and the rulers of that elven settlement, and they agreed to accept Jake after they saw he was a decent person. But two humans? They would never allow that!

Arthur was not surprised by the situation, as he expected something like that would happen, so he pushed his hair away from his ears and showed them to Agatha.

"P-Pointed ears, blond hair, you are an elf!"

It was easy for Arthur to pass by an elf, as his avatar looked exactly like an elf but without pointed ears. So, all he had to do was use spells to change the ears back to that form, and then no one realized he was faking it.

Agatha was not the only one surprised, as Jake was because he knew Arthur was not supposed to be an elf, but a freaking demon! But he could not go against Arthur's word and had to obey him at all costs.

"That's the price I have to pay…." He thought.

"Can I still go with you?" Arthur asked, already knowing the answer.

"Well, I don't see a problem for a fellow elf to go there. Let's move before the other priests try to catch Jake!"

Agatha only knew that they were after Jake — he had fled from his duties as a priest — but she did not see the youth with them as the reason the city was in chaos. He was a vampire, more akin to a demon, after knowing more about the Blood Monarch's inheritance.

Another journey began, with Arthur going straight to where the elves lived, but no matter where he went, problems kept following him.

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A place inside the Central Continent known as the Forbidden Forest. People did not go there, and for that reason, no one knew exactly what was inside.

There, in the deepest parts of the forest, a portal opened up, and from it, someone came out! If Arthur were there, he would recognize that the person who came out was a vampire!

"Is this the central continent? Hahaha, the portal worked! Let the war begin!"