"Are you sure he's a Botanical Alchemist?" Anthony asks, flexing and preparing a pair of gauntlets with lightning running across and between the fingers.
"Pretty sure, I saw his papers on the lunch table earlier, and saw plants. If I know anything, it is that it had something about an important covalence bull." Maurice picks the locked door with a hairclip, hand abnormally moving as though something is controlling the fingers in assisting the unlocking, Quick Fingers is Maurice's cheat.
"Point is, I think a pretty researched 48-page paper about making a Sunflower turn into Two Sunflowers as proof concept for a Divineless Evolution's pretty decent for a grade raise, right bro?" Maurice cackles, as the door to the Alchemist Mega Garden unlocks.
Giono, the thick palmed, then proceeds to kick open the locked door, and break lots of potted plants. "Let's make this quick, I wanna give that loser a piece of my mind for making me drop from 467 to 687."
"Aww don't be so salty Giono, I'm sure if you were reborn with an insane Lightning Aura like mine, you'd totally make the top 100~" Anthony smugly responds.
Giono's palms touch the bricks that make up the floor, soon enough the palms and hands are then covered in stone, and in less than a split second all of Giono's body was covered like an armor of earth, Geomancy is Giono's cheat.
Anthony clacks his gauntlets together, thunder and lighting coursed through the knuckles and then rush across the arms before circling in the pupils of the bully. Anthony's Cheat…
The young boy went a little extra beyond his thunderous Gauntlets, and drew forth from a little cleavage in his uniform a Lightning Sword.
Maurice drew two pistols, the precision of his hands giving split second reaction time for spinning it around a bit like a trickshot, as Maurice got ready to give some talentless hack lead from a pair of guns a cheat-skill Smith gifted to him.
The three march and stomp through the broken pots of invaluable botanical herbs and flora, and march into the Alchemist Mega Garden…
…
'I got reincarnated? Sick, what powers do I get?'
["You will be reincarnated as Anthony Brightsteel, son of the Brightsteel viscounty, and be reborn with an S-rank Lightning magic compatibility, please enjoy your new life!"]
"That's kind of how it went I guess, how'd you losers get yours?" Anthony said to Giono and Maurice, who both reincarnated too.
"I reincarnated with Divine Trigger Fingers, pew pew and kablam! Monsters dead" a smug look goes across the tall and lanky blond man's face, twirling around in his
"Iron Body Technique." Giono then becomes a hulking mass of walking iron, resembling a jagged armored knight.
Anthony smiles and then proceeds to shock the both with only a mere graze of fingertips upon their chests, the two then scream and jolt in pain.
"HEY WHAT THE HELL?!" Maurice attempts to draw guns at Anthony, but the running charge prevents him from holding the guns at all.
"Starting from today, you two will be my goons." Anthony proudly proclaims, hands in his pocket while the static discharge from his S-rank Lightning magic paralyzes the two other Reincarnators.
Giono turns into stone in less than a second and gets a strike at Anthony, but Anthony sneers at him as a singular swipe of Lightning slashes into the poor boy, Anthony smiles as in his hands was a thunderous katana of raw Lightning Magic.
"W-what the fuck do you want man?! We just want our own fucking lives too!" Maurice says, while Giono lays on the ground kneeling, one hand over a knee, recuperating and restoring the stone body he quickly turned into from that devastating blow.
"Think about it, we could start an adventurer's guild with just the three of us and get filthy rich and detract from our families to do whatever we want, I need reliable allies in this fantasy hellhole, so we can do this the easy way or the hard way, both of you make up your minds."
"Huh?!" The both just express
"T-think about it for a moment real quick!" Anthony expresses hastily, as the loss of focus causes the concentrated Lightning Magic sword to drop and dissipate.
"You both are from struggling families too, right? Since y'all suck, I have an idea and something that'll help you too~"
Maurice and Giono nod, sweating bullets still.
"I know some loser of a baron's son who could get us the grades we need to start up our private guild, problem is he ignores my threats as if he's any good as a Low-tier Magician." Anthony clenches a fist, and his teeth, both Maurice and Giono then were appalled.
"Ah hell nah, we ain't letting that loser slide for that kind of non-sense, I mean does he want a death wish hurting a Summoned Hero's feelings?" Maurice grimaces, and puts his gun into a safety.
Giono smiles "To think you could've started with that and we would've followed you no questions asked."
Anthony just looks at them shocked, and then goes 'Wait, so all that intimidation shit wasn't even necessary?' but they're all way past that now.
The three put their hands forth, and then make a little pact then and there, to use some unfortunate Nameless Student's reputation on the line for them.
Agreeing upon their party and guild name there: Le Trois.
…
Le Trois sneaks around, knowing all too well that to save their energy for the hard part that is bullying this kid into giving them the papers… at least they thought so.
They find a desk, with a lightbulb lit over the familiar stack of research documents prior, just… there among the Garden's laboratory tables.
Le Trois weren't dumb and realized this is most definitely a trap, all of them got to positions. Though with the flamboyance and arrogance of Anthony's Lightning Magic emanating constantly, it was difficult for either Maurice or Giono to use their guns or turn into metal respectively.
Anthony, for a brief moment saw the research papers start to burn up from the Lightning Aura, proceeded to de-activate it for a brief moment. Imagination deep in being praised as some academic genius, and having all of those tight uniformed ladies fawning over him to marry into his family.
From above and on the dark ceiling, was Gideon, in hand a defective… but soon to be effective lightbulb.
'Maurice's Trigger Fingers cheat has a 0.01 reaction with direct eyesight in-comparison to peripheral hearing and senses with a reaction time floor of 0.06…' Gideon stares at the paranoid Cheat gunslinger looking side to side. To different directions, pointing barrels towards directions casting dead noises caused by a… simple Illusion Spell.
'Giono's Ferrous Knight cheat allows him to store multiple copies of Rock, Stone and Ferrous valences of the two, meaning the composition can either by 20% Metal or 98% Metal, the 2% at minimum being the nervous system and vital organs such as the brain.' Gideon smirks and as Anthony's eyes are fully distracted once again, he drops the lightbulb just at the correct trajectory towards Anthony.
'...Otherwise, he'd be brain dead if he was purely metal… as for you, Star of Le Trois…'
A falling lightbulb flickers in-front of a distracted Anthony, instinctually the young Cheat protagonist re-activates his magic out of fear… and then
BOOM!