"No, but if I find a road or river I should manage." I smiled confidently.
"how are you going to get in?"
"If it is a frontier or border town I''ll just enter by paying the extra fees. If it isn''t I''ll have you go into the city claiming I am you familiar or tamed beat."
"Wow, you actually thought it through!" She covered her mouth as if she was surprised.
"You what do you think of me?"
After finishing the preparations I walk out the dungeon.
What was there was...a party of adventurers. It wasn''t a small party, it is definitely a dungeon capture party.
But the fact they are here is bad. ah, they are pulling out their weapons I should say something and make sure not to put down my guard.
"Yo, sorry but you''re a little late I have already captured it!" I made sure to make it loud enough that they could hear me.
"I''m Yuuki. I am a unique type of slime so I''m not surprised you can''t identify me. So you are a noble?"
"I came over to eat the dungeon core, but I was thinking of going to a nearby town soon."
As I said that his eyes went sharp trying to find my intentions.
"And why would you do that?"
"I overheard there are delicious dishes in human society. I''m curious, and I thought I would look at the weapons and magic."
"This was a temporary party to capture the dungeon as it housed a large number of goblins. you can join us on the way back, that way I''ll be able to guarantee your identity so you can enter the town."
"I''m sorry Yuuki but I can''t trust you yet so I have these two checks out the dungeon. The one red hair is Mile and the other one is Gail I''ll leave the checking to you two."
"There is no dungeon core lots of blood and nobodies"
Before anyone could interject "Of course I ate them but I stripped some of the material"
An even more confused expression appeared on everyone''s faces
"I said it earlier I am a slime I have a storage skill."
"Can I see the red goblin''s skin," Micheal asked.
"Sure." I pulled it out and showed it.
"This is quite the dismantling, wait this is a red goblin berserker. did you kill it on your on?"
"No, I had help from Tyrhrung." I lift her up by the sheath.
After staring at me all the people laughed at me.
"Well let set up camp for lunch. We might as well relax until tomorrow as it will take to long to return to town today. Yuuki you might as well stay with us."
"I''m bored they seem trustworthy you let me out." I heard Tyrhrung complaining
"Are you sure? There is no taking it back." I tilt my head as I respond.
"Uuu, I guess I can wait." she seems upset but she doesn''t seem impatient.
"sorry" I whispered.
I hear a pair of footsteps make their way over and I see Mile and Gail.
"Sorry, are we interrupting?" Mile asked but for some reason, Gail quickly nodded.
"She doesn''t speak much." Gail also nodded here.
"So what are you doing here?" I tilted my head curiously.
"We wanted to look at your short sword since we use short swords and daggers."
I used gist to ask Tyrhrung if she was okay with it and she responded positively.
"Sure. You can also swing it a bit."
I hand them Tyrhrung with a bit of a bitter smile as I could see they stopped listening after ''sure''.
"Oh its quite high quality"
"Un...un"
"it has great balance"
"Un...un"
"The handle seems to change shape to make it feel like I have wielded it for years."
"Oh."
"You can swing it there are only trees around us!"
"Can we? What if we chip it? It seems really expensive." Mile has a bit of worry in her voice.
"Trust me it won''t chip so easily."
"Okay!" The amount of excitement in her voice makes it seem like the worry never existed.
As they make their way to the edge of camp to test out Tyrhrung Micheal called out.
"If you are going over their can you get some firewood?"
"Ahh, They''re too excited to hear you so I''ll make sure we get some."
"We have some time with the firewood we put in there yet, so you can take your time. Just make sure you bring some back with you."
"Okay."
"What happened," I exclaimed my face had my mouth hanging wide and my eyes wide open.
"What the hell happened here?"
"Ah, We are sorry!"
"It''s okay so mile please explain what happened."
"Well, first as we walked over I used the Laido draw style slash into a tree and nothing happened so I tried a few more times and then I let Gail try and after a few more swings we messed up on edge alignment and bumped a tree and then they hit each other a became a giant set of dominos as they were falling I took Tyrhrung and slashed the trees some more before we got squished then I heard footsteps an pushed us into the pile and then we were pulled out and that''s why we''re here."
"Take a breath and it''s okay I''ll let you grab some of it and take it for the camp. I''ll store the rest."
"Okay. ah, Once we get back too town will you join our party its always been the two us but we occasionally make temporary parties like this one for dungeon dives. We''re both silver class adventurers."
"I''ll think about it."
"HELP they''re fondling me, rubbing me all over. I won''t be able to become Your bride at this rate!" Tyrhrung screams through -<gist>-.
But I won''t let them escape so easily.
After leaving them on the side of my tent I get up put on my equipment.
"Why didn''t you save me quicker!" Tyrhrung shouts at me.
"What Is this?" Micheal walks over and asks seeing the rack.
"Punishment," I responded nonchalantly.
He seemed to recoil a bit.
"How long will it last?"
"Until I forgive them."
"But we need them to scout"
"I''ll free them at breakfast then. I''ll think of something else."
[Onii-chan I forgave them already. you don''t need to punish them after breakfast.]
[If you say so I''ll let them think that I''ll punish them and stress them out for the day.]
[You''re quite evil Onii-chan. huhuhu]
"Come on it is time for breakfast!"
"Ugh"
"Why did you do this to us?"
"You fell asleep during your punishment also hurry up breakfast."
I leave them and go to the fire to eat breakfast leaving those two to catch up.
"I know we came out here to clean up a dungeon but we were too late so we may not get the quest reward but I''ll do my damned best to get your guy''s your reward. You took an emergency request from the guild meaning you go half the reward at the beginning so even in case of failure You''ll still get something.
Though Margrave Faress tends to be more kind to adventurers so we have a 50-50 of getting paid anyway for unforeseen situations."
Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.He looked at me when he said ''unforeseen situations'' with a bit of irritation but I splendidly ignored it
"But I''ll go and ask because I have to introduce him" laughing evilly looking directly at me" to the Margrave and set up the paperwork. Anyway, let''s get going as we are finished eating."
"Can I help them?"
"Yeah Go!"
I jump over a carriage and shout!
"I''m here to help"
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Ding
leveled up!
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Walking to the carriage I see it is pretty well decorated.
"Others will be over soon. I can use healing magic"
Well, I can''t but I can create potions with <create any liquid>.
"Stay back monster !"
It was right after this shout that Micheal made it here.
"Don''t worry he isn''t evil"
As if the carriage was waiting for that voice the door opened and Micheal froze.
"Cecily what are you doing here!?" Micheal shouted from surprise pulling me away from the amazing craftsmanship of the lab coat that seemed to be a masterwork project that had been made using many advanced techniques only masters of their field could accomplish by working together and through a lot of trial and error.
"Micheal-Nii-san Father told me to deliver this letter and to inspect Citer to make sure the influential nobles of the Royal faction aren''t causing problems." she paused then started looking at me" Also he said he had a gut feeling I''ll meet someone who will help me with my future plans for my next research project."
"And what are those?" He said apparently calming down.
"That is a secret, for now, Nii-san" Cecily giggled with a mischievous smile on her face.
"Really, Well lit is a bit late but this is the ''man?'' who saved you, Yuuki. I met him during an emergency request where he completed it before I had the chance to make an attempt."
"I am a man even though I look androgynous, and looking at what she is wearing it doesn''t look like she needed saving. How come she is your sister yet can get such equipment and you''re just using wind attribute magic iron alloy?"
"It''s because she is a genius magic researcher and happens to be really lucky with her connections. Also, no one can say no to a little girl about to cry right in front of a group of grandpas and grandmas when she also gives a good idea."
"Wow, she really manipulated that many master craftsmen."
"Yeah, I still don''t know if she did it on purpose or because she was actually about to cry."
"STOP talking about me while I''m right here." She yelled with teary eyes.
"I''m sorry." I immediately suppressed the desire to pet her head to make sure not to be rude.
"I''m sorry." Micheal petted her head to soothe her in my place but somehow she seemed to be dissatisfied but she stopped caring after seeing Tyrhrung.
"Ooh, It is the first time for me to see an intelligent Living weapon that also has a full soul, not just a pseudo-soul."
"How could you tell, and what will you do knowing it?"
"Nothing it goes against my code of ethics to experiment on anything that has the intelligence to understand and make a decision depending on what I say. If she allowed me to examine her it''d be different." She answered as if it was nothing special.
"What about my other question?" I visibly relaxed as I was asking.
"Girls are more beautiful with a few secrets." Once again giggling "You might as well get into the carriage "
[What do you think Tyrhrung wants to come out I realize you have been patient, as payment I could look at her lab coat and use it for some ideas to make us stronger.]
[Un... she seems trust worthy]
"Well, I wasn''t expecting that." She realized that her mouth was hanging open, she blushed and closed her mouth.
"I don''t mind examining me but you can''t do anything that" She walked over and whispered into Cecily''s ears" would involve you touching anything meant for Onii-chan, but it is just the sword it is fine."
As they whisper Yuuki can somehow understand that he shouldn''t interfere
Tyrhrung backs up says "We can share but I''m first!"
"First for what ?" Yuuki couldn''t help but ask.
"Nothing!"
I decided it was best not to ask
"So can I examine your lab coat once we get to town?"
"Sure, by the way, where did you get Tyrhrung?"
"I made her"
"I can''t make another that''s the same however I can make living weapons and use pseudo-souls to make intelligent weapons."
"Ahh, I forgot I''ll be staying in the adventurers guild masters mansion. You can come over later he is a friend of my father during his time as an adventurer, and he has a massive underground lab. Sorry, you will be getting off here, so I''ll return to you to Nii-san, See you later."
"Got it"
"Yo I''ve been freed."
"Yeah and I''ve been forced to walk outside in armor in the middle of summer while you were in the carriage that had a changing internal temperature where it was like a nice fridge. But I''ll stop complaining as we''re approaching the town and I need to explain why it is a good idea to let a monster in town while it''s not a summoned monster or a tamed one to the commander in charge. So wait here." he then sighed and jogged to a commander gathering adventurers, soldiers and knights as quickly as possible.
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-Micheals point of view-
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I should have gone ahead instead of walking with the carriage considering all towns in this kingdom have a magic tool that detects if a gold class monster comes within a 5-kilometer radius minimum and 100 maximum. considering his strength to kill a top grade silver class monster in a single slash it should have been clear that the said magic tool will react to him. I should have thought this through, he IS a monster even though he acts and seems human. Or a type of Kijin or Deamon.
I ran to the ''army'' that is being built and set up right in front of the town and shout to get their attention.
"I''m Micheal Leonheart and I''d like to see who is in charge to discuss the reason that your gathering at the moment."
The unit commander runs up and checks my adventurer card. He is an old man and is wearing a set of armor made of a magic silver alloy of some sort looking like a knights armor with more metal instead of being a ''one piece per part'' with it fitted better than normal knights.
"Got it, follow me, I''ll take you to the Margrave. Follow me"
He had me follow as he ran over to the place you''d normally check into the city.
"The Margrave is in here give me your spear and come in."
I give him my spear and enter and bow.
"Sorry for interrupting, I''m Micheal Leonheart, but I have a report on the gold class monster that just approached town."
"You don''t have to speak respectfully, it is just bothersome just make your report."
"Yes, like I said I have a report on the gold class monster. The report is the gold class monster is it is not an enemy... and it''s my fault that he made to the town. Well as I said earlier it isn''t an enemy it is a class 1 intelligent monster meaning it can be reasoned with. It couldn''t be appraised by the -<appraisal>- skill, but he is a unique type of slime according to himself. I don''t know the exact type of slime but it is definitely a slime as it has a core and its body is mailable.
On the way over I have learned about his personality, he is slightly wary of people, building a wall for most people, but he isn''t a threat. He actually may be a benefit considering he without hesitation ran to help a carriage upon noticing it and he is really accurate in finding how to handle people.
The biggest thing that tells me he is a benefit and not a threat is he has no ''threat'' nothing that causes people to automatically repulse people. Beastmen and elves are much more attuned to ''threat'' so they normally are repulsed by just by being near it yet instead of being repulsed they seem to be attracted not by any emitted skill or spell, but by the natural untainted mana."
Seeing my thoughts he seemed to think of something but he seemed hesitant. The Margrave here is named Jake Faress and the reason he was placed on the edge of humanity on a frontier was his hyper rare unique skill of -<super intuition>- allowing the user to practically predict the future of invasions and assassinations all monarchs make sure to have one on their side at all times.
"I see." the Margrave leaned back in the chair and took a breath in. "I can''t just let in a monster that is Gold Class without any reason to just enter the town. So tell me how you can bring in a monster and convince the populace."
"Ahh, Simple have him sign up for the Adventurer guild and the Mage guild."
Pausing for a minute Margrave Faress nodded.
"Sure" Taking a breath in "but warn him he''ll be under watch the whole time he is in the city."
I smiled and bowed " Thank you"
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-Yuuki''s point of view-
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I see all the soldiers line up like a wall in front of me while I''m sitting in the middle of the road with a fire in front of me with large sections of the demi-ogre on a skewer over top a fire with Cecily sitting on a chair right beside me. The demi-ogre has a demi-glace sauce and some mushrooms with fruit juice dripped on then eaten.
Then I hear a shout then all the people relax and I see them all bow, but seeing Cecily not moving and just continue to eat I do the same.
After about a minute Micheal and a ~35 with a sharp military look. The way the people here have no hostility at all says he is a good fair leader but the knights seem to have almost double the mass of the soldiers who are already considerably trained.
By the time he made it to where I was sitting he had a surprised look on his face watching me fighting over a demi-ogre skewer against Cecily. With Micheal on his side with a bitter smile expecting this to happen if lunch happened and there was no mediator. All the other adventurers were cowering in fear with these two intimidating, overpowering, and clashing mana fighting over the last skewer.
It was at this time as he coughed and received the blood lust of the two beasts completely freezing him as if he was frozen by [Frozen Sun]. but I took advantage of my high status and transformation abilities to take advantage of this gap in conciseness and take the opening to steal the skewer. she looks down at her hand in disbelief and the skewer in my hand and mouth. Then she gained an aura of depression with an expression of defeat and dread on her face. Unable to take it I give the remaining half of the skewer to and she immediately switches to an expression of happiness and satisfaction.
I wonder if she manipulates those around her on purpose giving her a bad personality, or it''s all natural and she is just a devil.
Once again we both hear a cough and both look at where it came from seeing a tall proud military man looking at us and an entire army we look at each other than face completely opposite directions blushing.
"Now that this extremely funny comedy skit is over let us talk about the conditions of letting you into town. I''m the lord of this city, Citer, Margrave Jake Faress."
"I''m a unique slime my name is Yuuki. So what are the conditions? before I accept of course."
"Actually you have to sign with the adventurer guild and the mages guild and stay with the mages guild master while you''re in town."
"That''s more than acceptable since I''ve heard about the guild master from Cecily."
Apparently, Cecily has only heard stories about her and have talked through letters never meeting face to face before. But we do know that she is a magus and alchemist and she is loaded.
"Well then welcome to Citer and enjoy your stay." He then turned around and shouted into a sound stone" Return to town we avoided battle!"
"Micheal sees you at a later date I will jump onto Cecily''s carriage since we have the same places to go."
I smiled and jumped into the carriage. watching all sorts of interesting expressions go across his face.
Then I get into town.