It took days just I expected and like that goblin told me, but after finally long time I managed to arrive Dusk.


    "…."


    "…. I got to say… This ce isn''t what I was expecting." – said Phantasia while driving his carriage.


    "This city… Wow."


    (I was honestly expecting this ce to be something like abination of a forest and city, since dark elves apparently are the ones in charge of this ce.)


    (You know, the elves and the forests and all.)


    (But this ce is way different.)


    "Excuse me. Mister guard." – said Phantasia after stopping his carriage.


    "Hm? Yes?" – replied the dark elf guard.


    "Do you know any ce or maybe apany that focuses on dealing and selling buildings?"


    "Hm…. Go in this direction and try asking around there, people should point you to the right building." – said the guard while pointing at the mountain.


    "Thanks." – said Phantasia before ridding off.


    (Anyway, where was I?)


    (Ah, right. This ce unique appearance.)


    (From what the merchant told me on the road, the good part of the city is inside the mountain.)


    (And I can see he wasn''t lying. I can see a huge part of the mountain carved out or something and I can see a lot of buildings inside that ce.)


    (This entire city is builted right next to the mountain with part of being attached to it or straight up inside it.)


    (The outside part of the city, is surrounded by nothing but grass field, but behind it and the mountain? There are other mountains and forest on top of them all.)


    (I also heard that this ce has 2 main source of ie from the traveling merchants.)


    (The first are extremely rich vines of metals as well as gems.)


    (And the second are the monsters who are extremely dangerous.)


    (Honestly, this ces gives me more of a dwarf vibe than elf vibe.)


    (Still, I got to say that the city looks quite beautiful and unique in its own way.)


    (Not only that, but from the distance I could tell it was very big city…. But now that I''m inside? I don''t know…. This ce maybe way bigger than I though.)


    (….)


    (FUCK!)


    (Before in the Draman I had thought about destroying that city to make people aware of the "Doctor".)


    (But after looking at that ce defenses I realized that it was impossible.)


    (I even gotten my shit beaten out off by Min city when I attacked and it didn''t had the defenses Draman had.)


    (And this ce? Yea…. I don''t think I can deal with it. It may even turn out to be even heavier defended than Draman.)


    (Damn.)


    (I was nning on destroying this ceter on after I was done with it in order to damage the kingdom and hinder yers, but I guess I have to give up on that n.)


    (…)


    (Unless I maybe find a means of destroying this ce.)


    (Anyway, the time needed to get to this ce was even way longer than I though.)


    (I have proper means of transport and everything, but still…. Way more time than I thought had passed.)


    (Honestly, maybe I could think of making a chimera that can drag my caravan way faster than horse…. But that would obviously expose me. I did run into some merchants along the way.)


    (Maybe I should try to look for some monsters I could tame and use them instead of horse.)


    (I saw two different merchant that didn''t used horse.)


    (The orc one used a weird rhino like monster dragging his carriage while the dark elf had something like a dinosaur dragging their carriage.)


    (So having a non-horse creature dragging your carriage around isn''t abnormal.)


    (Still… Where I would find a monster like this.)


    (I had tamed few new monsters, but I can''t use them to drag my carriage around.)


    (…)


    (Well, for now lets just focus on finding a building I can buy so I can set up my base.)


    [After some time passed, Phantasia managed to find the building that specializes estate business.]


    "So, you wish for a building that can be used as a storage as well as a workshop, yes?" – said the dark elf worker.


    "Yea. I''m alchemist and cksmith so I will definitely make a lot of noise, so I would like a location that wouldn''t bother people."


    "Hm…. Then there are several locations."


    "Here is arge two store building that was once used as merchant base of operation, but could be turned into a workshop… There are also some smaller buildings and medium sized ones."


    (Hm… There are few that are interesting…. But the cost seems pretty high.)


    (There is not really much cheap options here… There are some, but there is probably reason why they are so cheap.)


    (Maybe they are small or their locations sucks.)


    (I maybe be rich, but I can''t just buy first random building. What if I buy too small or too big building?)


    (….)


    (I guess I need to check each building myself and then see what fits.)


    Honestly, there was a lot of possible buildings I could buy and it did took me quiet a bit to visit each one that interested me, but in the end, I managed to buy a good location.


    It wasn''t anything like a grand building or anything like that, it wasn''t too big or too small and it was located on the edge of the city…. BUT! It was secluded. I could do shady experiments in there without much problems.


    It costed a bit, but the location is too good to pass.


    Anyway, after buying that building I began unpacking my stuff while also buying materials needed to make a furnace that I will use for cksmithing.


    It took several hours setting everything up, but it was worth it.


    Anyway, I still had a lot of money left, so I didn''t need to go hunting yet.


    Instead, I just bough myself several different ingots. Normal iron ingots, but also ck and white ingots.


    Those ingots aren''t normal metals, they are much better and higher rank metals.


    The ck iron is extremely durable and powerful while the white iron is excellent for mana based equipment''s like the mages armors and staffs.


    There are also stuff like mana stones and mana crystals.


    Mana gems are special stones you can dig out or obtain by different specific means, for example find them in extremely dangerous terrain.


    And the mana crystals are the stuff that sometimes grow inside the monsters or can drop when they die.


    Both have many different uses and different application depending on quality and type.


    Anyway, the reason why I''m buying them?


    Well, obviously I want to test out the modifications I can make with my own body.


    The modification procedure was…. Quiet problematic andplicated. It took many trials and errors… And I mean like a lot.


    I made my arm pop out like a toy once for some reason even though I didn''t even add anything rted to my army getting send flying.


    Yea…. I pretty much spend the entire day trying to figure out what worked and how.


    For now, I only focused on my left hand, but I got say, it was god dammed fun.


    I was thinking of starting messing with my other arm, but I kind of need to start hunting now in order not to have any money problemster on. I can also use that opportunity to test out my left arm.


    Anyway, to get to the hunting ground you have leave the city and head to the mountains that are right next to the city or you can take a special path uses that goes thought the mountain that is the city build into, it''s quite nice and its quiet heavily defended.


    In order to get to the hunting grounds, I need to move quiet distance, but along the way I run into some miners that were transporting a lot of ck iron and other valuable stuff.


    Like mentioned before, this ce has two sources of ie. The mines and the monsters.


    The adventurer guild here is straight up full with the request when I came to check it out.


    Yeb.


    This ce is extremely far away from the previous city I was in, but people will definitely try toe here once the news spread about riches of this ce.N?v(el)B\\jnn


    Still, like said before the mines here are also the main source of the ie. However, because how many monsters are roaming around there is constant recruitment of merceries and guards to defend the mines and other stuff.


    I like this ce!


    Not only rich in metals and other stuff you can dig out from this ce, but also a lot of monsters?


    This ce ispletely perfect for my experiments! Both for chimera and the cyborg modifications.


    If the monsters here are also quite special or strong, then the chimeras I would make from now on would also be quite good.


    There is also no rush anymore since I need to stay hidden temporarily, meaning I can focus on quality without any problems.


    …


    Still, if the monsters are also like the miners and metals you can get here that good, then I have now a proper reason to destroy this ce.


    Both the kingdom can get much stronger thanks to this ce AND the yers will definitely use this ce for their own gain as well.


    I slowed down yers growth with my actions, but considering how I will spend a lot of time on crafting, they will sooner orter catch up to me in terms of levels.


    I may have became much stronger than before thanks to all evil Imitted. But unfortunately, it''s not enough.


    I really can''t see any possibilities of me destroying this ce with my current power.


    Right now, I need to focus on my own strength instead of chimeras. Not only that the gues that I made so far weren''t any real threat.


    Cyborg.


    Chimera.


    And gue.


    If I want to even think of even destroying this ce, I need all 3 of those things to be solid and deadly.


    Right now, it''s impossible to destroy this ce or even in near future, but oh well. I have time.


    I will just focus on growing my strength and the three experiments I had made are about improvement and poetical.


    I don''t know if I will be able to obtain enough power to destroy this ce.


    But oh boy.


    If I do get my hands on that kind of power.


    I will straight up turn this ce to ashes.


    But for now, I''m just innocent yer Phantasia the "Wood Mask".


    I''m just a yer that hunt monsters and make items for enjoyment and maybe businesster on.


    Everything is fine…. For now, that is.