Cantankerous Cheater 3

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Cantankerous Cheater
Chapter 3

-VB-

I knew that something was wrong when the villains and the Wards turned to face me with their fists and weapons.

Also, this was the second time someone called me a psycho.

“I’m not a psycho,” I gruffed as I spun the cleaver in my hand. “Shouldn’t you Wards be fighting the Undersiders?” I asked while pointing at the villains with my free hand.

They stared at each other…

And then started backing away?

“Oi oi oi, what the hell are you lot doing?” I drawled in annoyance. Seriously, why were the Wards so hostile and hesitant towards me? It wasn’t like I ever fought heroes or rogues. In fact, why do they even know about me? I’ve been laying pretty low…

You know, aside from killing gangsters in the middle of the night.

“He doesn’t know!” the blonde haired and purple spandex villainess shouted from the back.

“I don’t know what?” I asked as I chose who to charge.

“Darkness, Grue!”

And abruptly, the entire field turned black from the smokes “Grue,” the skull-painted motorcycle helmet villain, made.

But I already had my target locked on.

I Charged.

I flew out of the smoke and slammed into Grue, and at the same time, swung down with my cleaver.

The edge of the cleaver bit into his leather jacket and sawed deep.

He screamed as blood spilled.

“Villains must die, you know?” I said as I pulled out the cleaver -.

And promptly dropped it?

I whirled around and saw the flamboyantly dressed villain pointing his scepter at me. When I tried to point my own hands at him to give him [Corruption], they moved oddly and didn’t point properly.

‘[Power Word: Shield].’

And then it stopped. I felt the holy protection wane as it received some kind of low level continuous damage that barely registered.

I pointed my hands at him, and he cussed as he tried to run.

‘[Earth Shock]!’

And he screamed as he lit up in green light for a moment before it dimmed. He collapsed onto the road. He wasn’t getting back up. Probably just disoriented or even unconscious.

“H-He killed him.”

The battlefield, which only began to move a moment ago, froze. I paused too before turning towards the blonde villain.

Sexy blonde villain.

“Huh?” I uttered. “How do you know?” I asked. “Could be unconscious. You know, knocked out.”

“I’m a Thinker!” she shrieked. She looked angry. The rest of the villains looked very angry.

“... Well, good!”

“... GOOD?!” the black spandex(?) and gold eye lense villain shouted. “You killed someone!”

“Yeah, a villain.”

The Wards were, by the point, moving very far from the field.

“It’s because of shits like you that my parents died in a fire. The firefighters couldn’t reach them quickly enough. It’s good that shits like you die. It improves the lives of the rest of the world!”

And I lunged down again as I pulled out a rusty dagger from my Inventory.

Grue rolled out of the way.

“Oh no, you don’t!” I shouted before I shrieked when a swarm of bugs descended upon me.

I gathered my mana and struck down. ‘[Frost Nova]!’

All of the bugs around me died in an instant, and everything became coated in a fine cover of snow and ice.

“What kind of bullshit is that?!” someone shouted, but I was focused on the villains. Grue tried to get back up, but everyone here wasted time talking.

Talking ain’t a free move!

I Charged again as soon as its cooldown ended and slammed into Grue again, who was forming those black clouds again.

This time, I had picked up the cleaver and used its tip as a ram. The tip punched right through the vest and into his flesh. He gripped the cleaver with his gloved hands to stop me from pushing deeper into him, but he left my other hand free.

“Get out of there!”

Before he could, I pushed forward with my body and lashed out with my hand, grabbing the front of his helmet and keeping him pinned.

“[Fire Blast]!”

“GRU-!”

The helmet exploded in a fiery blast. Grue blasted away from me at the same time and tumbled lifelessly onto the ground. Was he dead?

“H-He killed Grue.”

Gee, thanks for pointing out something.

I turned towards the remaining three.

But lurched when someone tackled me from the back.

I raised my arms and looked around. It was Clockblocker!

“What the-? Let go!”

“Get out of here!” he shouted at … the villains?!

“You’re supposed to be helping me!” I growled before grabbing his arm and twisting him off of me. I saw the remaining villains attempting to run and tsked. I set the fel and arcane aside and pulled on nature. ‘[Entangling Roots]!’

The asphalt road broke underneath us and roots of ridiculous size sprouted up like octopus tentacles. They swiped and grabbed the villains and their monstrous dogs. The dogs struggled, but their strengths were insufficient to pull themselves free.

Before I could take aim to kill, the space between the villains and I suddenly expanded.

I canceled the [Fireball] spell and whirled around.

The Wards had assembled against me.

“Why are you stopping me?”

“Even villains are people, and the job of the heroes are to save people,” Vista yelled at me. “We’re putting you under arrest, Psycho!”

“I am not psycho!” I shouted back.

And then Kid Win - that’s one of the two Tinkers in the Wards ENE right? - shot at me with his laser pistols.

Before I could dodge, all area around me looked cramped and any movement I made gave me no advances in distance. The lasers struck at me, and then Aegis was upon me.

Everything changed when I blinked. They moved?

“What the -?”

Everything changed again. They moved again-!

Aegis was Clockblocker! They changed costumes!

“[Divine Protection]!” I roared.

And suddenly all effects around me ceased to exist, including the buffs I’ve given myself.

I was going to be really weak coming out of this, but the shocked face on Vista made it worth it.

Clockblocker, wearing Aegis’s costume, slapped his hand on my exposed wrist.

Nothing happened.

“H-Huh?”

I glared down at him.

He withered under my gaze, metaphorically. Shrinking away, he laughed nervously.

“U-Uh, guys, I think we have a performance problem.”

I turned my back to them and walked towards the s-.

Gone.

The villains. They’re gone.

I whirled back to the Wards.

“You sons of -!” I hissed.

I took a deep breath in and let it out slowly. Reaching into my inventory, I pulled out a Hearthstone, which had appeared in my Inventory. I started casting it.

“Stop him-!” someone shouted.

But I interrupted.

“Don’t bother. As long as [Divine Intervention] is up, you can’t do anything to me. Even if Eidolon, Alexandria, and Legend were here, they could do nothing,” I stated as seriously as I could.

“That’s bullshit!”

“I know,” I grinned as the Divine Intervention wore off with 1 second left in my Hearthstone cast time left. “I’m a cheat like that.”

And then it went off, teleporting me out of the fight.

…

Wait, they took the bodies with them. Why would they take the bodies with them?

Unless they weren’t dead.

…

Shit!

That bitch tricked me!

-VB-

A/N: to WoW players. Don’t you hate it when Paladins do this?