Authors Note: Woah, I asked for negative reviews, but Kian Xki, that was brutal! I am sorry that you do not enjoy the Fanfic. Normally, I would try to fix the things that you pointed out, but I seem to be so far gone that the story is beyond repair! In fact, I completely agree with you in (most) of your points. Well, it says a lot about the quality of a story if the writer himself dislikes it. It was a huge mistake on my part to dive in with little to no plan, and it left the story with some major plot holes, and some stupid things in general. Nonetheless, I will try to fix the fixable things, and work around the undoable. I am going to continue writing. And for those who are still reading, I already have a plan for a volume 2 for when this one finishes, so I will continue to plan that out so it will end out better than the first.

Authors Note 2: From now on, I will be surrounding skills in square brackets. ( [ ] ) Sorry, no idea what they are called.

Part 1 (Kazuma):

No sooner had I materialized than I began. I fazed in where, luckily enough, there was an absence of direct combat close to me. I took out an explosion scroll from the endless bag that Link had let me use. And I put it back in.

In a fight such as this, how could there be no official medic post? The answer was obvious that there couldn't be. I ran up to the nearest friendly knight and asked.

"Where can I get medical attention?"

He turned to me for a second, and responded:

"Just inside the castle doors."

I nodded thanks and turned around again.

"[Lurk] [Enemy Detection]"

My head was instantly full of a loud buzzing sound, of such a high volume that I could no longer hear the sounds of the battle behind me. Realising my mistake, I deactivated the latter skill. There were hundreds of enemies right behind me, and had they the chance, they would down me without hesitation.

I was running up the stairs to the castle, and though the response from my '[Enemy Detection]' skill had been chaotic earlier, I was mostly free of enemy attention. Most of the arrows were flying to a point above me, where the stairs levelled out.

As I was running close to one side, [Lurk] was working to a decent potency, and keeping me more or less invisible.

When, a few minutes later, I reached the top of the stairs, I saw the three crimson demons I had befriended(?), and two were shielding the other, along with several capital knights. Of course, I had told them to do this, as part of the 'worst-case scenario' plan.

"[Magic Barrier]!"

Funifura and Dodonko yelled this as I passed, but without asking, I knew it was just a reinforcement of an existing skill. Every attack, be it magic or physical, was cleanly intercepted by the barrier. It materialised as an intricate weaving of green lines, but rather than a dome, it was like a sheet of fabric, as every projectile sent waves in the shield from the point of contact.

I ran past them, and up to the door of the castle.

It was firmly locked.

I looked behind me.

Ah, now I understood.

It was just another massive show of this world's stupid incompetence.

I walked up behind the Crimson Demons' Barrier, and found that I was not repelled. I tapped the shoulder of the nearest knight. He jumped from where he was sitting, not having sensed my approach due to my [Lurk].

As he turned his head, I saw that he was gripping the side of his stomach, where his armour seemed to be badly damaged. He was injured.

"Do you know where the medical post is?" I asked him.

He shook his head. "Heh, If I knew that… I would be there…" He said between breaths.

"Alright then, take this then," I said, handing him the teleportation scroll.

He looked at me questioningly.

"It is addressed to a secure location here in the capital, where there is a powerful-"

For some reason, I broke into a fit of coughs.

"A powerful arch-priest waiting." I resumed.

He nodded again.

"She will heal you," I affirmed.

He nodded thanks and disappeared.

I had attracted the attention of the rest of the group. As I began distributing the scrolls, Megumin turned to greet me.

"Nice of you to join us." She said, "Tis' a nice day." She continued, as a plume of fire rose to the sky from the battlefield behind her.

Megumin must have thought she was quite funny, but I was currently far too stressed to appreciate the humour. Also, where did she get that attitude?!

"I deeply apologise," I decided to play along, as I made another teleport scroll. "But I am in quite a hurry, as my services are needed elsewhere. Good day to you."

Megumin suddenly looked very bored.

"You have taken all of my company, and now you are going to leave too? I now don't have anyone to talk to except-"

"-You have us!" Dodonko said brightly.

"-Except for these two sluts." Megumin finished.

"Mean," Funi said this.

"So mean." Dodonko agreed.

I glanced behind me and found that everyone had already teleported away.

Where the medics actually were, I wasn't sure, but I had an idea.

But they weren't the priority.

I handed a few more scrolls to Megumin.

"Give these to any more soldiers who come for a Priest, but can't get healed because of somebody high up in the work chain being a retard."

I then activated [Lurk] again, and began down the stairs. While up there, I had spotted some yellow in the sea of red and grey and was now making my way towards its general location.

On my way down, I spotted some enemies going the other way. Obviously, they didn't notice me because I still had [Lurk] enabled. My worry was the girls that I had left behind. I quickly dismissed the thought though, remembering that, for once, only one was incompetent/mentally disabled.

In some time, I made it to Darkness, who was being ganged on by two people.

As I drew closer, I heard what she was saying.

"Urgh! You vermin! For two men to gang up on female knight! Huh! You will continue beating me into submission, and when the battle is over, you will take me to your leader, who will tell you to take me down to the dungeons, where you will have all manner of torture devices! Eventually though, seeing me so vulnerable will force you to release all of your pent-up desires, that you will surely have as deprived men! But I will resist! You may have my body, but you may not have my heart! Kuh!"

"..."

During her speech, the two enemies had been slowing their attacks, and by the end, had stopped altogether. Deciding that Darkness was more trouble than she was worth, I left her where she was, as did her adversaries.

Don't get me wrong, If she had been seriously injured, I would have teleported her, but she showed no sign of damage at all.

She was just following her tendencies of being a hardcore M.

I turned to walk away, but, suddenly, I was on the ground.

I force had slammed into me.

"Kazuma!"

It was Link.

"Good, I found you."

Not even bothering to apologise for knocking me over, he grabbed my arm again and began running toward where I had come from.

Looking behind me, I saw the carnage. There were blood and body parts everywhere close to the courtyard gate. Behind them, I could see hundreds, if not thousands, of creatures that were unknown to me. There were many of those Lizard creatures that Link had fought earlier but in blue and black variants. But also others that I had never seen before.

I decided it would be best to follow Link.

Part 2 (Link):

When I say that I dropped my knife, it was only for a second. Despite my initial surprise, I recovered quickly and regained my blade. It wasn't long before I was running for Megumin's position, atop the Castle entrance stairs.

More or less instantly, I collided with an invisible Kazuma.

Of course, I asked him to follow me.

Around me, people began moving. But they were not fighting. They, like Kazuma and I, were retreating.

We made it to Megumin's position in no time, as compared to the people we were racing, Kazuma and I had very small frames, so we could easily dodge around the others.

"Kazuma, I trust you will be staying this time?" Megumin asked.

"How are you so calm at a time like this!? Did not see that group of people get massacred!?" Kazuma lost his composure.

"Well, I guess it is because it hasn't yet registered that we will probably be next."

"Ah. I see."

Interrupting them, I told Megumin.

"You will probably need to use your explosion soon. But only fire when I say."

She nodded.

"I believe I am the party leader-"

"Oh yes. I will be assuming command for now, because I have an idea as to what is happening."

"...ok," Kazuma responded meekly.

"I need you to bring Aqua here. Use teleportation scrolls. Make three for this location, and use one of the others to get you to her. Use two in getting her back."

He nodded and got to work.

"Funifura, Dodonko, stop using magic for now. Work on regenerating your mana supplies."

Not saying a word, they collapsed. It seemed they had been casting Magic Barrier and other spells this whole time.

"Megumin. Go and bring some crimson demons to me. Preferably ones that know some flashy magic."

"Fufu! You underestimate my clan! We all have access to flashy-"

"Never mind, I'll do it myself."

A/n: Yes, I know, I'm pitiful. It's proving very difficult to fit into this new routine that I have, and I am not as motivated to write as I was once was. There are things that I am trying to learn, and, basically, despite my overwhelming wealth of free time, I am choosing to do other things with it. Still, I don't plan on giving this up, and even if I do, I promise that it will not be without forewarning.