I black out...
"Keep resting,"the gray filolial suggests. I still try and get up, I have to see if my son is still alive.
"I said keep resting, after using that skill I wouldn''t be surprised if you had died."
"Why, isn''t a skill that increases physical strength to protect your child,"I ask, that''s all it said it was on the status, though it is weird it activated on its own.
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"He is still alive."
"what? How can you tell?"
"The sacred duel request is still activated, meaning he isn''t dead."
"can you tell where he is?"
"No, but I can tell how far away he is, he is getting closer, slowly but surely, he also stopped a couple of times. You don''t have to worry, all you have to do is stay here and he will come and find you."
"I can''t do that, he could still die on the way here or lose his way. I will go and meet him there."
"Are you stupid, we don''t know what direction he is in. He is on his way here somehow so we just need to wait here."
"get her down quickly,"and then to me,"calm down your acting like a new parent."Two of the big ones pin me down and I snap in the moment,"I am a new parent, I''ve only had a kid for a week."
"wait,""huuuuuh,""what the heck,""but he had so much magic,"how is this possible,"the rest gawk, so they can talk, well I better take this chance.
"All of you, did I give you permission to talk, nevermind, hurry and get her before she escapes,"she yells, but I am out the door, four filolials are standing guard, I dash past them, but before I get to far I start limping.
| "Target: Kwehzalcoatl LVL 7" |
| "Titles: Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s" |
"I see my child, you can stop now,"they look over to him and all gawk, I dash and get to my child quickly, they really need to stop gawking.
"Mom, I''ve become stronger."
"Yes, you have my child,"I go down and start nuzzling him,"but for now, don''t get too strong, a mother is meant to protect a child, not the otherway around, so please let me protect you for at least a little longer."
"Sure mom."
Chapter 4- The Duel
It is still morning, so the filolials are letting us rest in a hut in the corner of the village.
I am so tired that I go to sleep as soon as I walk four or five steps in the door.
I wake up in the hut and get my first real look at it. The structure itself was like a Native American teepee and it was filled with different animal pelts all around to make the walls, but I didn''t see any pattern to it. It had furry furs, smooth furs, feathers, and what looked to be random scales all over the walls. The floor was filled with smooth furs with what I could only describe as a paint slosh in the middle of the floor of furry furs.
Mom was crouched down near my back sleeping as well, I try to get up quietly, but mom wakes up immediately, "Good sleep?"
"Like a baby," I say, and then I realize I am a baby, well whatever.
She studies me for a bit, then asks, "Can you tell me, how you got your name, Kwehzalcoatl, you got it from the Suvunktah divine beast right?"
"It''s a pretty long story, I will have to tell you my ability first and something before that."
"We have plenty of time."
I told her that I have memories from my past life, and how I can copy people''s stats and skills, and then I told her how I talked with Suvunkilbub and completed her quest.
Mom didn''t seem surprised that I had memories from my past life, but my Copy Entity Number visibly surprised her, she wasn''t interested in Suvunkilbub either.
After I was done with the story I asked her about why she didn''t seem to care that I had memories or talked with Suvunkilbub.
"I saw your title with my analyze skill and I am not mad at it, why would I be, you get a major advantage with the knowledge you already had. Oh and Everybody already knows about Suvunkilbub, this is her territory."
I guess that makes sense, not really, but whatever, I got some major upgrades from her, and I''m not one to question free stuff.
I just remembered my question for mom, "Mom, why does your species have mother in it?"
"It''s an evolution you get for being a mother, it gives me a couple of stat boosts and some motherly wisdom on what to do when I don''t know what to do, also makes it so I can''t hit you or abandon you, well yesterday was an accident, but usually it makes me an ideal mother."
That gave me a question,"what is evolution here,"I ask, and hope it''s like it was in the mangas.
"It is where you can get a higher species when you complete a certain requirement and can get stronger, but mother evolutions are a little different, you get the evolution and have it until the mothers child can react for itself, so for a dragon it is about a year, while for us Chocobo''s it is only two months."
"Is their any way to find my evolution paths?"
"Ask analysis."
I look at myself and activate analysis...
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"Evolution path 1: Adolescent Chocobo (Requirements: Live three months)"
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"Evolution Path 2: Adolescent Kweh (Chubby Chocobo) (Requirements: Live three months, Eat 3 times your body weight regularly.)"
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Well, no cool ones, but whatever, I am a type of bird anyway, and I have no desire to fly at all so this will probably be it, and I have no desire to be chubby so I will probably just go the regular route of Adolescent Chocobo.
Three Filolials walk in, two strong looking ones, blue and a pink fat one, and the gray filolial, I use analysis on the new ones...
| "Target: Water Filolial LVL 42" |
| "Target: Mother Filolial LVL 47 (Elementless)" |
| "Analysis LVL 2 leveled up to LVL 3" |
Makes sense, and still have no idea how analysis leveled up again, I used it when I was coming to the village to analyze some behemoths that I had to hide from. The behemoths were around LVL 40-60, so these filolials could probably take one down,I also got danger detection LVL 1.
I am just gonna guess that analyze levels up from uses and not from analyzing high-level monsters.
The gray filolial gets attention to herself and announces,"Your food is ready, the duel will commence after food is served."
I had completely forgotten about the duel, but I wasn''t too worried, I am busted after all.
"To think that my child will be facing your child that is only a week old, sorry you have to see your child die before you do, we were planning to let you go once our children tired themselves out, but you know how children are, not knowing how to hold back, he will probably be done in one hit, but we can not stop the sacred duel once he has accepted."
I nearly laugh, but I contain myself, this is kinda perfect, they are completely looking down on me, my gamer sense is tingling at the thought of the free EXP.
We walk out and I notice mom is limping, probably from the boar, then I remembered my new skill,"mom hold on one second,"I activate Recovery Magic on her...
| "Recovery Magic relieved slightly pulled muscles, recovery 100%" |
She is visibly surprised,"What the heck?"
"Skill I stole from Suvunkilbub, wanted to test it."
"Hurry up, we don''t have all day."
It is noon and the filolials of all colors and sizes are around the middle of the village, with an empty stand in front of the biggest hut, nobody is talking, everybody is staring intently at two pieces of meat in the middle of their circle.
Wait, those are the boar and gator/water dragon that mom killed. Oh, they are hungry and we are making them wait.
We go to the spots the filolials motioned us to, and then one big filolial tore a chunk of meat off of the water dragon and gave it to me and my mom, then proceeded to give it to the entire village in a circle.
When all of the meat had been divided a blue and gray filolial walked out of the biggest hut and went up to the stand.
He gained attention to himself and everybody was looking at him, nobody had touched the meat, even though they were staring so intently before.
"Today we are gathered to witness a Sacred Duel between the pride of the village, my grandson, and a poor chocobo''s week-old offspring, but first my daughters hunting group has managed to acquire some water dragon and behemoth meat, even though it was their first serious kill, they wish to share it with these vermin and even allow them to have the first bite. Now out of respect for my daughter''s wishes, I will comply, but if you don''t put in a good show at the duel, you won''t have the best death,"he said snootily.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
How clique, first of all, he sounds like a corrupted noble, and second he took all the efforts of my mom and gave it to the gray filolial who was cowering in fear while my mom destroyed it.
"I allow you to take the first bite, vermin."
I humor him and stuff my face as fast and ugly as I can, the chief''s face was priceless, I didn''t even know birds could make a face that disgusted.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"I''m hungry, ofcourse,verminlike me eat like this, what other way is there to eat."
"You are so his child."
Oh yeah, I have to have a dad, questions for later.
I ease up on the gator meat, it is good, but would have been better cooked with salt. All of the filolials were eating slowly and in a dignified manner, even using their claws as forks and knives, they really copied a noble etiquette.
When we all were done they led us to the duel area, it was past noon, the area was filled with overgrown grass and I finally get to see my opponent, it was a gray and light purple baby filolial, just a little bit bigger than me.
The color gray was an element from his mother, but what is light purple, whatever, he will probably use it during our fight, and if he doesn''t I will ask.
| "Your opponent is Wild infant Filolial (LVL hidden for sacred duel)" |
| "Demand: Will die in the cruelest way possible with the parent" |
| "Would you like to make a demand?" |
I smile, if he wants to be cliche, I will too,"yes, I want all filolials in the village to apologize to my mom for taking credit for her kills."
| "Confirmed, sending demand offer to authority in the village to comply." |
I look at the chief and he is sending so much pressure my way, I wonder if that is bloodlust, scary.
| "Demand accepted. Starting sacred duel in 5...4..." |
Well that is convenient, I get ready, I wonder if I should put on my magic armor... Nah, he should be pretty weak, I will just hit him with crushing beak.
He immediately disappears, and I see an invisible figure running through the grass straight to me starting from where my opponent was.
What the heck, why can he turn invisible, whatever, I just need to win and I will get to see that insufferable old man apologize to my mom.
I run towards the figure, jump, and then kick him. He appears and is knocked out. In my past life, I had a button that said ''That was easy,'' when pressed and I wanted to press it so bad.
| "Sacred duel won by Kwehzalcoatl." |
| "Gained 32 EXP" |
| "Demand must be met in 10 minutes or penalty will be issued." |
I look at the filolials and they all have eyes out of their sockets and mouths three feet down,"ummmm, it said ''Demand must be met in ten minutes or else a punishment will be issued or something like that, so chop chop, get on it, we don''t have all day here."
They all look dumbfounded and then gain their composure, they all bow to my mom,"we are very sorry that we insulted you verm- you and your son,","we are very sorry for taking credit for your kills even after we nearly died without you."
"You better be, now Kwehzalcoatl lets go back to our nest, we should get there before sunset."
"One sec,"I wanted to use recovery magic on the baby filolial, to try to get closer to the level up.
| "Recovery Magic healed minor head injury, 85% recovery." |
Not 100? I''ll use it again...
| "Recovery Magic healed minor head injury, 100% recovery." |
"Ok lets go."
"Wait, hold on, I have never lost, you must have cheated, how did you see me," the baby filolial demands to know, figures if the parents are spoiled the child is going to be too.
"Very simple, I saw you disappear and saw the grass clearing the way from where you were, so I assumed the figure was you, it was elementary" I explain in a snooty voice.
He thought about it for a second and then said,"Grandpa, was it obvious where I was, be honest or I won''t like you."
"For me it was, but for mere common folk and vermin you should be completely invisible."
He thought about it again and then demanded,"You will sacred duel me in a place where you have a clear disadvantage and you will tell me what to do to beat you, or I will cry."
"No."
He jumped back in confusion,"Wh-wat did you say."
I walked up real close and whispered in his ear,"No." Then I realized I was probably the first person to say that to him.
I looked at their chief, pure bloodlust from him, I look at the gray filolial, she is the same.
"Think about it my way, I barely get any reward, and if I do that I have a chance to lose, isn''t that unfair to me."
He thinks about it again, and then says, "My grandpa will give you five level-up pills if you win."
The chief gasped and sent more bloodlust, that made it intriguing enough,"What are level up pills?"
The chief intervened,"pills that blow you up and make your ancestors hate you, now my sweet little grandson I think we should let these disgusting chocobo''s go to their dump, okay, okay."
My opponent started bawling, but no tears came out since we are birds, it was just a bunch of obnoxious noises,"I want to win... the tactics you gave me were stupid... he is smarter than you... let me fight him again now,"he said while throwing a fit.
"Fine, but only five, they are super rare and we have to steal them from humans to get them," he said in defeat.
"Ummm, I didn''t say I would fight you, I still don''t know whatLevel Up pills do."
"They make you stronger."
"How much stronger?"
"They level up one skill," the chief said monotone.
That is super useful, maybe it can level up my Copy Entity Number skill, that would make me as strong as a dragon at one-month-old.
"Ok I will do it, so you have to do exactly as I tell you..."
Thirty minutes later...
We are in the forest surrounded by plenty of trees and the duel is about to start.
He is across from me in a ready to run position...
He runs behind the trees and starts running around me, just as we planned.
Next, he chooses a tree and disappears behind it making me look back at the tree he disappeared behind, check.
Then I run to look if he is behind that tree, he''s not, he disappeared.
I hear him jumping around me, but he is changing directions so I can''t follow his movements well.
And then he pounces, right in my blind spots aiming for a vital spot to hit.
I activate magic armor, red light covers my vitals with black flame decals on the edges.
He hits the light and is bumped back about 3 feet, and before he lands I use crushing beak and bite him, his leg bone is broken.
He faints from the pain, for the third time. I won 5 Level Up pills, Claw equips, and one order from the other person, I suggested that one.
| "Sacred duel won by Kwehzalcoatl." |
| "Gained 48 EXP" |
Chapter 5-The Boar
It''s been 2 weeks since we met the filolials, and they have not left us alone ever since.
I have never met a brat as spoiled, stubborn, and as much as a sore loser as the chiefs grandson, I am now level 10, and I only get 40 EXP from one duel, which is equal to eating 20-40 flies/suvunktahs, using mind acceleration makes that easy, though I stopped eating them when I made friends with suvunkilbub.
Mom now hides me in a bush while she goes hunting, she always brings back wild boars, but they are a little different from normal boars, they are low tier behemoths.
I asked her how she got behemoths in the day time and she answered that finding them is easy, look for wreckages and there they are, but they are always asleep in the daytime, so she has to be quiet and kill them when they are asleep. Brutal.
The filolials come back again today, looking annoyed, they were tired of it too, "My son wants to sacred duel you again, so follow me."
I thought about it and said, "No, I still haven''t got my prizes from the first duel, come back when you have those," they got more annoyed from that, coming all the way here to go back with nothing, though they had to of seen this coming sooner or later.
"I can''t give you something I don''t have, why don''t you come and get it from the chief himself?"
I realize if I go back there I will be challenged to a sacred duel, "Why don''t you make him come here, unless you want the punishment of not complying to the sacred duel,"
"Why you little..." mom stood up, scowling at the filolials, making them back off, "I will see what I can do" They leave.
I ask mom, "can we leave after I get my rewards, that will make it harder for them to find us."
She gives me a sad look, "Sorry, can you wait until you are two months old, they should be back by then," she looks at the sun which is nearly setting, "they will be back."
"Who?"
"Our group, and specifically your father."
Oh yeah, I was gonna ask about that,"Who is my father?"
"A shadow chocobo who would sooner make an enemy of the entire world than yield to authority."
"Then why do you like him?"
She thought about it for a second, then said,"He saved my life."
I laugh,"so cliche."
She gets flustered,"I don''t know what chiche means, but it is now on the list of words you can''t say."
"What happens if I say it?"
"You will have to duel that little filolial 100 times in the next week, no rest."
That shut me up, though I was thinking, cliche cliche cliche cliche, my father really does sound like me.
The filolials haven''t come back for a week, I was now a month old and was growing steadily, about 3-4 feet tall.
It was about time for mom to go hunting, so I was walking towards my hiding bush, but then mom said,"I guess you are sentient, maybe I should teach you how I hunt."
I looked back at her,"really? I can come with you, can I get the last hit on the prey,"I haven''t gotten much stronger since I met the filolials, and I was excited, though while mom was gone hunting I used magic armor until I couldn''t anymore, about 25 minutes, this leveled it up to level 3.
Though it has been six days since it leveled up, I''m guessing it needs to block an actual attack to level it up now.
"Maybe, if the prey is weak enough for me to weaken it enough so you can kill it, I can''t promise it though, it depends.
"Fair enough," I was satisfied with that.
We walk about half a mile, and then we see trees that had fallen down in a line like something had charged through them.
We follow the trees to find a large boar, though it is smaller than what mom usually brings, it is about the size of an elephant.
It is just laying down without a worry in the world, right in the middle of some knocked down trees.
I am observing the situation, but mom is already near the head, she quickly smashes her foot against the side of its head, then yells at me,"your turn son."The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.
The behemoth gets up head bleeding, then falls down, then tries to get up again.
I activate magic armor and run at it, despite the magic armor getting bigger, it seems to have made me lighter, I run at it, then try to use crushing beak on its back legs while its attention is on mom, it donkey kicks me.
| "Magic Armor LVL 3 leveled up to LVL 4" |
I only go back a couple feet, probably because of the armor, its attention is still mostly on mom.
Mom looks at me in concern, but refocuses on the behemoth when it groggily charges her,"You okay, you sure you can do this?"
"I got this."
I try to run, but start limping, I use recovery magic on myself, but it is still LVL 1, so it doesn''t help without multiple uses.
| "Recovery magic heals injured leg, recovery 100%" |
I activate mind acceleration, don''t know why I forgot about it before. I rush it again with the same plan.
It thinks I am the same as before so he donkey kicks again, but with mind acceleration, he is so slow, I dodge and wait for his leg to land.
I use crushing beak, it crushes his leg.
| "Crushing beak LVL 1 levels up to LVL 2" |
He struggles to stand so I use crushing beak on his front leg that he is focusing his balance on. He falls on the ground.
Breathing hard I hear him say,"What happened... why young one... when I was sure I injured your leg... and made sure you were weak... how did you suddenly get stronger..."
"You can talk?"
"Hurry, I want to know how I was beat before *COUGH COUGH* I die."
"I have a skill that allows me to steal others peoples skills when I kill them, I ate a fly and stole mind acceleration," I didn''t feel the need to hide anything in front of him, he sounded old, probably survived through a lot of things and was just born weak, poor guy.
That was my mistake.
"HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAA stupid bird,"He started glowing green, his wounds were healing.
I had already dropped my guard and got hit with its tusk, piercing all the way through my right-wing.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,"all I could do was scream, my wing was stuck, and he was waving me around causing more pain.
| "Acquired skill: Pain Resistance LVL 1 (LVL 1 mildly resists pain, LVL 5 Moderately resist pain, LVL 10 evolves into pain nullification." |
That helped almost none, I couldn''t think because of the pain, I instinctively tried pulling my wing off, but I was stabbed to far.
"HAHA stupid bird, I also have a starter skill, my skill gives me a burst of healing magic if I hear how I lost, so it''s your fault you and your mother will die."
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH,"then I see mom in an instant right in front of me, she takes me off of the tusk and smacks the wild boar in one smooth motion.
Mom puts me down on the ground and I get a good look at her, all of her feathers are standing up and her eyes are pure red without a speck of intelligence.
She gets in a charging position and then runs to the boar in a instant.
The boar had just got up from an impact with a tree, but mom then hits him into the tree again and continues to hit him up, after about 10 hits in the air she smashes him into the ground and launches three large fireballs to chase him, all hitting.
Mom lands and then immediately faints.
"Little bird... I''m sorry... Can you please tell me... these words, ''it is.. because she is... a mother... if you do... I will let you... live if you do..."he is still glowing green, but it is a lot dimmer.
I stay silent, not because of his plea, but because I barely have any energy left, I need to use all of it to heal me and mom, then get us to safety.
"Stupid tiny bird... say the words... if you don''t... we will both die..."
I start healing myself enough to walk.
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 15% |
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 16% |
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 17%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 18%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 19%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing destroyed wing, recovered 20%" |
| "Recovery magic LVL 1 leveled up to LVL 2" |
My wing looks a little better, but LVL 1 said it can only heal scratches and first aid, and I am losing energy way too fast, I probably will faint before I got to 50%.
I use the energy I have to walk over to mom and start dragging her towards a bush.
"Don''t ignore me... ugh screw it... Your gonna die anyway... hey little one... do you think... you could quickly take me out... I bet you can''t... steal a skill... I am old so I have a... lot of them..."
I didn''t care, I just wanted to get mom to safety, I think they were getting closer.
"Come here... Are you scared... At least one of us will survive..."
Just then the wind picked up, and the ground shook, and then you could hear loud roars.
I finally got us into the bushes away from the roars.
It was the daytime when they ruled, the dragons. Around five as big as the boar and 2 two that are little smaller came. They looked like big velociraptors from J*rr*ss*c W*rld, but in this world they were dragons.
He had healed enough to run, but not fast enough.
"Noooooooooooooooo," he screamed as the dragons reached him to bite into him and claw literal chunks of flesh off of him.
I looked away for a second and then saw another mistake, I had dragged blood all the way from my original spot.
I look at the dinos/dragons and sure enough one noticed it.
It starts slowly walking towards our bush, my heart starts beating way too fast.
It was less than ten meters away when the other dinos are blasted by a beam of light, I look for its source, but I can''t see anything.
The dino roars in rage and runs toward the source, it also gets blasted.
Then the source comes out... it''s ugly, oh wait, its Suvunkilbub.
I activate mind acceleration, but it causes too much of a toll on my body.
"Dontstrainyourmind,justsitstillKwehzalcoatlandIwilldotherest."
I do as she says and stop using mind acceleration.
| "Suvinkilbub is using recovery magic on you, Recovered 100%" |
I look at mom and she gets healed too.
Then out of exhaustion, I faint.
Chapter 6-Evolution
| "Entity has gained over 1000 MP, activating high chocobo evolution line." |
"Huh, what is happening, where am I?" Everything around me was dark, the only thing I could see was the text box.
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"Evolution path 3: High Adolescent Chocobo (Requirements: Live 3 months, have over 1000 MP.)"
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"Evolution path 4: High Adolesent Kweh (High chubby chocobo.) (Live 3 months, eat 3 times your weight regularly, have over 1000 MP.)"
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"What the heck does that mean? Wait, do I have over 1000 MP!?!?! How, I didn''t kill anything."
"W___ _p!"
"Now what the heck was that."
"Wake up!"
"Is that the gray filolial, what does she mean wake up, am I asleep?"
"That won''t work against lazy vermin, here watch this."
Suddenly I felt wet all over, then I blinked and could see all around me.
I am in the same hut I rested in the filolial village, why am I here.
Three big birds are staring at me, mom, gray filolial, and the chief.
"How do you feel?"
"Confused and wet."
"Thank Ilragorn your not injured."
"How did we get here."
"No idea."
"That is what I want to know, how did you appear in this hut?"
"Appear?"
"Yes appear, you made me walk all the way to you vermins nesting area, then you were not even there, then I came back and hear you were found unconscious in this hut, how did you get past this villages guards?"
I take my thoughts back to what happened, I could barely remember, maybe its my baby memory, but I remember my saviour, "Suvunkilbub saved us."
They all look at me in surprise and shock, "What do you mean?"
Oh yeah, she was asleep, "After you did... after you went... after your transformation or whatever it was you fainted, but you had generated enough noise to attract some dino--Dragons, and I hid us, but my wing trailed blood all the way to our hiding spot, one of the dragons nearly found us, but suvunkilbub killed them all with a beam of light, after that she healed my wing (I put my wing up for demonstration) and it looked like she healed you to mom."
She fell backwards not knowing what to say.
Then the chief threw something at me.
"What the heck was that for."
"For our guardian deity to save you means that your potential has been realized by her, did she give you a name?
"Kwehzalcoatl."
"She labeled you to say that she found you first so back off to the other Divine beasts."
That didn''t bother me much, that means I got a powerful ally right,"That doesn''t explain why you threw it at me."
"You have her mark so the divine beasts, or their chosen, that see her as a enemy will actively search you out.
"How many enemies does she have?"
"She can''t talk so she has made a lot of misunderstandings."
Wait, she can talk, I have to use mind acceleration to talk to her though, I guess that''s not a common skill.
"Look inside the container that I threw at you."
It''s a container? It looks like a... Woven basket.
I open it, and the three things I asked for were there, all five pills, the claw equips, and the thing I asked to be made.
"About time."
"Just like vermin, I expect a thank you, and then I get that, why do I even try."
I eat one of the pills.
| "Foul resistance LVL 1 leveled up to LVL 2." |
| "You ate a Skill LVL up pill... Looking for exceptions... You can not LVL up starter skill Copy Entity Number, choose another skill" |
Yuck, that was the most disgusting thing I have ever ate.
| "You want to level up foul resistance... Yes or No?" |
No! Ummm level up magic armor.
| "You want to level up Magic Armor... Yes or No?" |
Yes.
| "Magic Armor LVL 4 leveled up to LVL 5, it now has more armor space and has gained more resistances." |
I activate magic armor, the upgrade changed colors to having black as the main color and having red decal flames, also the armor covers my entire stomach and back and the top of my head.
I''m becoming edgier by the day.
I almost instinctively ate another one, but I stopped myself, the taste is horrendous, I have to brace myself before eating one.
Maybe two of them at the same time might taste worse, but won''t last as long.
| "Foul resistance LVL 2 leveled up to LVL 4." |
| "You ate 2 Skill LVL up pill... Looking for exceptions... You can not LVL up starter skill Copy Entity Number LVL 2, choose another skill" |
I barfed.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA serves you right."
| "You want to level up foul resistance... Yes or No?" |
I give the chief a dirty look and thought no analyze.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
| "You want to level up Analyze... Yes or No?" |
Yes.
| "Analyze LVL 2 leveled up to LVL 4." |
I can''t eat any more of them, I feel like I will die if I eat another pill, then I remember moms words ''...don''t get too strong, a mother is meant to protect a child, not the otherway around, so please let me protect you for at least a little longer.''
"Hey mom, you didn''t want me to get too strong right, you should have the rest."
She didn''t look ecstatic,"I''m touched you remember, but they are your rewards you should eat them all."
"You would refuse a gift from your wonderful son? What are you scared your stomach can''t take the pills."
"Just give me the pills, my stomach is like iron, I can take a couple pills."
She puked.
"You see vermin don''t hesitate to betray each other,"he whispers to the gray filolial.
Mom and me both give the chief a dirty look.
I pull out the claw equips, they look too big, but when I put my foot in it tightened to fit my foot.
Now the final thing I requested, I unfold a piece of paper to find... a bunch of scribbles.
"What is this?"
"What you requested."
"This is a map, okay where is my mom''s nesting area."
She looks at it and is immeadiately confused.
"We gave you what you wanted now sacred duel my grandson."
"What will I get."
"Bragging rights."
"Then no."
"Why you little..."
A teal filolial bursts in, "Sir Chief."
"What is it, I''m in the middle of something."
"Your grandson has evolved into a variant."
Gray filolial and the chief both take their attention off of me and start dashing out the door.
"What''s a variant?"
"It''s a rare evolution away from the main line, very few get one, I hear it is added to your line while you sleep."
Oh yeah I need to ask about high Chocobos, I''ll ask later, right now I want to see little brats evolution.
"Let''s go see."
We walk out to find the whole village in front of the stand the chief was on during the dinner, the chief, gray filolial, and a third filolial, which I assume is the little brat, who was always bigger than me, but is now way bigger than me.
He saw me over the crowd and yelled.
"Hey Kwehzalcoatl, duel me, I want to see how much stronger I am."
He jumped over to me, but made no sound.
I get a good look at him and he had the head shape and feather structure of an owl, but still had a filolialbody.
I wanted to test out my new magic armor anyway.
"Same place."
"No, right here."
"Getting confident are we."
"No, I just don''t need trees to hide myself anymore."
"We''ll see."
| "Your opponent is Assassin Filolial (LVL hidden for sacred duel)" |
| "Demand: None" |
| "Opponent wanting none automatically set your demand to none." |
Assassin huh, not a owl? Wonder if owls have a weird name here too.
| "Starting sacred duel in 5...4...3..2...1... START!!!" |
He started running at about my full speed, I started running to catch up to him, but he started running faster.
I had my full attention on him, and then I didn''t, he just dissappeared without a trace, I had to stop and let him run around me to be able to detect him, we are in an open field, the grass should move when he runs.
He did exactly what I had taught him and started jumping in random directions, and with his new feathers I couldn''t even hear him.
I activate magic armor so that he can''t hit my vitals and put me out immeadiately.
He appears behind me,"Wow, so I''ve scared you enough to bring out your trump card immeadiately."
I swing my wing back, it missed, but I realized it probably wouldn''t do much anyway, it isn''t as strong as a human fist would have been.
My back is hit and I go forward a couple feet, still stay standing though, looks like my defense is higher than his attack.
I can''t see him though so I can''t attack. I get hit in the back twice, both dealing knockback with no damage.
If he hits me in the back again I will use crushing beak behind me randomly until I hit him.
Three hits in the back. I wait five seconds and activate crushing beak and bite down on air. Miss, miss, hit, third times the charm.
He can''t take the pain and loses focus of his invisibility.
He backs up, probably gained pain resistance from me thrashing him.
I hit the tip of his wing, so he still has his mobility.
I run up to him to catch him before he turns invisible, but he kicks me, and turns invisible anyway.
It still looks like I''m going to win, I''ve taken no serious hits, but one of his bones has to be crushed from my beak, eventually I will win.
30 minutes later...
He keeps hitting my back and is now wary of me so he dodges every single attack I throw behind me.
I haven''t hit him and he hasn''t hit me hard enough.
I can see him again now, from what I can tell invisibility doesn''t take much MP but he has been going for more than thirty minutes.
My magic armor dissappears.
Well, now we''re both naked.
"Kwehzalcoatl, we both lost the one thing that could guarantee us victory, we both are tired from our long fight, we both are out of MP, lets end this with this last charge, what do you say?"
A speech, how cliche, still, we need a sure winner, "You''re on."
We run at each other as fast as we can, I already expect it so I wait till I can''t see him and turn around with crushing beak.
My attack hits to what feels like the bottom of his neck.
But his knee hit my gut, and it hurts like hell, wait is hell even a place here, maybe I''ll ask later.
We both fall down on our sides about two feet away from each other.
| "Sacred duel finished in unintentional tie." |
| "Gained 140 EXP" |
| "You have become LVL 11." |
"I guess we tie?"
"How?"
"How what?"
"How do you know about my skill to go behind you while I''m invisible. How did you cheat."
"Don''t spam you noob."
"What does that mean."
"Spamming is doing the same thing over and over again and noob is an insult."
We sat their for a minute so I could gain MP back.
I healed him and had to wait a while to heal my gut.
I said goodbye to the filolials who said goodbye to me and mom and I were walking towards the nest.
"Mom, how do I know if I have a variant evolution."
"It will show up as High Chocobo in your evolution path and will be changed according to your stats or how much you rely on a skill."
"So because... my opponent relied on his invisibility he became an assassin filolial,"
"Exactly."
We get to the nest and a big bird with dark feathers is sitting in my sleeping spot.
"Well how long have you been here."
He turns around and says with a dreamy look on his face,"Just got here."
Chapter 7- My Family
We get to the nest and a big bird with dark feathers is sitting in my sleeping spot.
"Well how long have you been here."
He turns around and says with a dreamy look on his face, "Just got here."
If my suspicions are correct, that is my dad, and that makes me think of my old dad and how I used to prank him.
A plan slowly hatches (Pun not intended).
I lay down to hide behind a bush to look more innocent.
"That''s a nice hiding spot red feathers."
I jump through the bushes and get a better look at him.
He looks like a completely normal chocobo like mom, but has all black feathers.
"Well lookie there, dual elements, strong ones too, gonna have to stay out of your way in the future."
We stay still for a couple minutes until it gets awkward.
"Well I thought it was obvious, but if you''re gonna make me say it, I am your dad, and so I kinda expected, yu''no, a warm embrace."
I start running up to him,"That''s the spirit."
I activate crushing beak and bite him, with little effect.
"Youch, what the hell do you think a warm embrace is."
"I have the fire element and I was holding you, but not with my wings."
"Good point, but why did you bite me, and why did it sorta hurt."
"First of all, you leave mom for three months with no words, we have nearly died so many times, second the only words you say too mom when you see her are, ''Just got here,'' I wanted to leave here a long time ago, but she wouldn''t leave until you got here."
"So you think you''re Hot Stuff,anyway it''s nice to meet you my son."
"Kwehzalcoatl."
"What?"
"He was named by Suvunkilbub, his name is Kwehzalcoatl."
"Now we add ''what'' to the list, do you at least have a gift for mom?"
"UUGHHHHHHH, I have me, is that enough."
"Heck no, are you a deadbeat dad or what?"
"Heck? Deadbeat? What?"
"I don''t like saying the other word, and yes you are a deadbeat."
Wait, why am I so angry, this isn''t like me, It was supposed to be a funny prank, not an angry one, wait my thoughts are clouded, what''s happening.
I look around me, my shadow''s acting weird, it''s connected to... My dads shadow.
"What are you doing?"
"What do you mean?"
"Our shadows are connected, and I''m not usually that angry, are you doing that?"
Our shadows disconnect, "Well, the little ember might have some potential, and yes I did do that, I used my skill to make you mad at me so you could tell me what I did wrong for you too have bitten me."
"Oh that was supposed to be a funny prank, but you ruined it."
He got flustered and mumbled, "that wasn''t funny, that hurt."
"What?"
"Nothing, anyway you have a name, and it was given by the mute Suvunkilbub too, looks like you will have trouble in the future."
"She isn''t mute."
"Huh, what are you talking about, I''ve seen her myself, she couldn''t speak to anybody?"
"She has mind acceleration, she can barely slow her speaking down, you just can''t comprehend her words."
"Then how did you hear her."
"I have mind acceleration."
He stood their for a solid minute trying to wrap his head around what I told him.
"Are they here."
Dad looks up and does a beaky smile, "Yeah let me call them, *Random assortment of bird noises.*
We wait five seconds, but nothing happens.
"Who were you talking about?"
"Just wait."
Five more seconds pass, and then bushes in a direction started rustling.
"Dragons,"I start running towards my hiding bush.
"No, but they are probably as fast as dragons."
Then a human with long legs and very skimpy clothes jumps out of the bushes,"If you think you will get out punishment for running away this time you will be dissapointed."
It''s a... Human girl? Wait what? That''s my dads friend. Not more Chocobo''s.
"Hmmmmm, a mother, wait you didn''t ShadowStealer, you sly dog."
"ShadowStealer," I look at my dad, he looks proud of himself. I can''t help but laugh, how lame.
"And you even got a kid, hey it''s dual elemented, with shadow and... f-fire."
She started tearing up and looks at mom,"is that you FlashFlare, please tell me it''s you."
Mom nods. The girl runs towards and hugs my mom,"Wahhh, why did you go flashfire, why did you not tell me first, wahhhh wahhhh."
I walk over to my dad,"You''re in trouble right, you should probably run now."This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
He snaps out of a trance,"Yeah probably should, Rukra will take you too our camp, I''ll go there firs-Ack."A big and very tan guy captures dad in a hug and chains him up.
"Not this time, ShadowStealer you will be chained up for a day now."
"That''s too harsh Url, you should lower it."
"What''s he saying Incha."
I didn''t even see the other tall elf girl fully cloaked in a brown robe so you could just see her head close behind him, "Ummmm, he said you should lower your, ummmm punishment."
The elf really hit me with the fact that I''m in another world, they are practically the idols of fantasy.
"Really, hmmmm, I''ll change it to one hour."
Too easy, dad winked. They started too walk off, but they looked back too see what their friend was doing.
"Hey what you doing with that mother chocobo Rukra?"
Rukra points at me, they look at me, they look at my dad, then they look at my mom.
The girl covers her mouth and the big one drops my dad, "Umph" and says,"that isn''t... that can''t be... we had already given up... why are you here."
He dropped to his knees and started bawling,"we thought you were dead."
The girl was just frozen and then she ran to my mom, crying.
"Hey kid, I mean Kwehzalcoatl, help me."
I think about it,"tell me, why are they crying, and why didn''t they recognize mom at first?"
"Well, we kinda ran away together to hatch you in the wild and show you the world before they pampered you, and your mom changed feather color because of the mother race."
"What the heck, you would rather me and mom almost die rather then they pamper us and... what?"
"It was fine, your mom is strong for a fire chocobo, I knew she would protect you, it was also her idea."
"No, go back, mom''s feathers turned pink because she is a mother?"
"Uh yeah, that''s common sense, now get me out of this."
That was a new idea I never thought of, I guess there was a pink filolial that was also a mother, guess it''s all mother then, whatever, right now I knew what I had to do, dad was pissing me off with every minute. "No."
"What?"
I got close to where I thought his ear was and whispered,"Nooooooo."
Then I noticed his shadow was moving, I quickly jumped back and kept my eye on his shadow.
"Come on, pretty please I''ll get you dragon meat, I bet you never had that before."
"I have."
"What?"
"Mom killed one and we ate it."
"What about behemoths, I could get a couple for you."
"Mom already got some, what did you think we were gonna eat."
He hesitated for a entire minute with the bawling of the two long and one short legged humans in the background, "Damn''t can''t think of anything else."
While we are waiting I try to level up analyze in the order of dad, tan guy, long leg girl, then elf.
| Target: Shadow Chocobo LVL 39 |
| Target: Human LVL 35 (Long Legged Tribe) |
| Target: Human LVL 26 (Long Legged Tribe) |
| Target: Spirit Elf LVL 25 (Long Legged Tribe) |
Most of this made sense, they are very tall, so I am really more surprised that their are tribes then them being apart of said tribe, but the Tan Guy didn''t have long legs, don''t get me wrong he was a massive 6''5, but that was more his frame than his legs, wonder what happened there.
I was just sitting there, occasionally dodging dads shadows, when I noticed something next to me in my mind acceleration mode, looks like distorted space.
"Dad, could you stop for a second."
''What? Don''t talk so fast."
Shoot forgot about mind acceleration, I turn it off and repeat my sentence, then turn it back on to find the distortion.
I reach over to touch the distortion with my wing, I feel an invisible wall of... I don''t know, air.
I try to find the end, it was very close, it looks like this thing is a small square.
I go around it a couple times and when I find nothing I decide to attack it, I use crushing beak to try to crush a corner of the box, it doesn''t work.
I walk around it and then try to jump on top of it.
Success, it''s only a little taller than dad and mom, dad looked surprised I jumped this high, then I saw that his shadow was almost where I was, then I make the bird version of the bleh face.
I start using my talons to try to rip the top open, didn''t work, I try to find a opening in the box corners to stick my claw into, their is none.
I have no idea what this is, so I sit down on the edge legs dangling, and wait for everyone to notice I''m floating.
I look at mom, she is now looking at me and dad mouthing/beaking the words help me, because they are still hugging her crying.
Both me and dad look the other way and try to whistle, which was something I was good at in my original world, but now I found out it is much harder to do with a beak.
I decide to ask dad, because no one cares that I''m floating,"do you know what I''m sitting on dad."
"You can''t see him? Oh that''s why you panicked when he jumped on you, just show yourself Sholl."
Then a new robotic voice said, "Yes, forgive me for extending my joke too long master."
My first thought was Master? My second was oooooff. The box dissapeared and made me land on my rear end.
It wasn''t a long fall, but it was enough to sting a little.
I look too see where the box was, and it was replaced by a completely white Chocobo, and I mean I''m not a bird furry, but she was a very pretty looking bird.
I use analyze on her too...
| "Air Chocobo LVL 45." |
| "Analyze LVL 4 leveled up to LVL 5 (Skill can now see titles). |
What the heck, she is level 45, she must be way too strong, and they are still staring at me so I will test analyze LVL 5 later.
"Ummmm, hello."
She bows, well, leans down further than a chocobo usually does,"It''s a pleasure to meet you master."
What''s this master thing,"Uh, likewise, and what''s calling me master about."
Dad goes next to my ear and whispers,"Her previous owner was a servant, she thinks everyone is a master because she was raised calling everyone master."
"It is as the incompetent master said."
"Incompetent."
"Yes, you are strong, but don''t use your strength to help anyone, making you incompetent."
I laugh, then notice dad''s out of his chains.
"Looks like you didn''t need my help."
Dad looks at me with a beaky smile.
I look back at the white Chocobo to see a giant purple snake behind about to lunge.
"Look out!!!"
I activate mind acceleration and magic armor and jump and push her out of the way.
The snake chomped me.
Chapter 8-Pride Taking Over
I look back at the white Chocobo to see a giant purple snake behind about to lunge.
"Look out!!!"
I activate mind acceleration and magic armor and jump and push her out of the way.
The snake chomps me...
Am I okay? I open my eyes to see the black void all around me.
Is the system going to send me another message, but where is the red boxes.
I wait for a little while and start to feel cold.
I come to the conclusion that I died instantly, but what is happening?
I realize I still have mind acceleration and magic armor on, I still feel something is wrong, so I decide to keep them on.
I am still feeling cold though, none of my skills generate heat so I might just have to deal with it.
I move around to find I am limping, I guess they couldn''t heal me entirely in the other world, I use recovery magic.
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 32%" |
What? I''m poisoned, is this an hallucination I''m seeing because of the snakes poison.
Wait so I''m alive, thank goodness, I wasn''t ready to say goodbye yet.
I start to spam recovery magic on myself, I need to heal myself for long enough until someone gives me an antidote.
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 34%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 36%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 38%" |
| "Spirit Elf has raised your stats and skills temporarily." |
What, a spirit elf did, dad''s friend? Whatever, it was a boost anyway so it should help.
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 49%" |
That helped a lot, but it obviously made me tired faster, whatever, shape up Sam, no, shape up Kwehzalcoatl, just deal with it.
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 60%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 71%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 82%" |
| "Recovery magic, healing poisoned stab wound, recovered 93%" |
I fall down in the void, nearly fainting, but then I see a light, it''s my mom and dad fighting the snake, barely winning.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
I get up and start running towards the light, I trip and fall, I am too tired. Is this the extent to what I can do. Is this gonna happen more times. Am I just gonna get injured and wait for someone to help me.
Nuh uh, no way, do you really think I would allow that, people are fighting for me to live.
If I find myself being weak, then I will just get stronger.
I get up shakily, I feel something pushing me down, I ignore it, I feel as if my wound is dissapearing, the poison dissapating, my energy restoring.
I run towards the light, towards my mom, towards my dad, towards the snake.
| "Mind Acceleration LVL 4 levels up to LVL 5 (You have tripled reaction speed)" |
I''ll take everything I can get.
I run and jump and smash onto the snake pushing it to a tree it was in front of.
I use crushing beak on the snake, but it''s way to large for me to fit my beak around it so I''m just crushing some loose skin.
I suddenly see the tail going down and hitting me as a vision in my head, I dodge and then the snake hit it''s self, causing more damage to its self than I have caused it yet.
I have no idea what that was, I also don''t care, if it''s helping me kill this snake I will just accept it.
I keep close to it so it can''t swing it''s tail at me carelessly. I have another vision of it crushing me with it''s body. I dodge to my left, it hits itself on the ground.
I use my claws/talons to scratch its eyes and jump on its head and stand on its right side so it can''t see me.
It jumps back in pain, then I see another vision of it slamming me against a tree, I jump off. It hits its head against a tree breaking several branches.
It''s clearly pissed now, good so am I, you put your entire fang in me and poisoned me, you will pay.
I run to it''s blind spot and try to claw him, I decided I can''t bite him, I would just waste energy, crushing beak crushes, however I can''t reach the bones then it''s useless.
I claw him, but it doesn''t go in far, claws are too short, this fight has made me aware that I am severly lacking in ranged attacks.
I realize my first rush might do some damage, making momentum though is going too be a pain, I start to run away in it''s blind spot to make distance. Once I am far away enough I turn around, The snake notices me again too.
I start running to jump kick, but I get another vision of it biting me in mid air, I start running faster, faster, even faster.
I''m running past my full speed towards the snake, I act like I''m going to jump, the snake sees that and puts it''s head up to catch me in it''s jaws.
I keep running and get close enough to flip kick its chin. It launches backwards from my momentum boosted kick into the tree again, this time it''s head is pushed into a sharp branch that the snake made when it hit it''s head against the tree.
| "Killed Hallucination Boa LVL 37 Entity Number 835294929416373840" |
| "Gained 6043 EXP, Kwezalcoatl is now LVL 19" |
| "Activate Copy Entity Number LVL 2?" |
"Yes,"I say out loud and then the world goes black.
Incha (prounounced EENKA) POV (The Elf Girl) Just before Kwehzalcoatl gets chomped.
I can''t believe it, Flashfires alive, we looked for her forever, and when we find her she has a child too, this is bliss.
"Watch out, Watch out, Watch out,"I''m a spirit elf, meaning I can hear spirits talk, spirits are usually excitable creatures, when they hear something they almost always repeat it, so if a monster talks I can understand what they say through the spirits.
But what do they mean ''watch out.''
I look around and my heart stops, Sholl is on the ground and the new baby is nearly eaten.
I scream, alerting everyone.
They all see the baby and freeze, except for Flashfire, she went berserk mother mode and was running up to the snake. ShadowStealer saw this and started to join her, but she rushes past him and kicks the snakes head knocking out the baby.
Url acts on this and catches the baby. It had magic armor on, how did it get that?
"Rukra, take Sholl and get to the village to bring back an antidote."
"But Sholl is the strongest here, she can kill that thing."
"She''s also the fastest, now get going or this little guys gonna die."
She hesitates, then runs for Sholl, "Let''s go get an antidote and healing supplies Sholl, hurry up."
"Yes let''s hurry master... Yes let''s hurry master... Yes let''s hurry master..."
"Incha look after the kid," he carefully hands me the baby.
"I''m gonna grab some healing herbs that I know grow around here," he runs off into the forest.
He still has his magic armor on, but part of it is pierced, with some poison that had leaked in.
Then a green light envelops him once and then dissapated, he has healing magic.
He begins to continuously glow with green light and I decide to put him down and use my skill Rank Up on him.
The skill ranks up a targets stats and skills to their max, but it uses more of their energy, hopefully he can withstand it.
He pauses, probably confused about my skill, but continues a second later.
I look up at the fight with the snake, it looks like Shadowstealer calmed down Flashfire with his shadow magic, she now seems like she has control over herself.
They don''t look like they can win, they try to flank him, but he swings his tail and they barely dodge.
They don''t seem like they can win like this.
I realize that the baby has his wound closed, but the poison still seems to be affecting him, and he seems terribly exhausted, my rank up skill must have been too much for him.
He stops glowing, does that mean he''s fully healed.
He gets up and starts walking towards his parents, no, that is the last thing I''m supposed to let him do.
I try to push down on him to keep him down, but it doesn''t work, he is too strong right now, how does this baby chocobo have more strength than I do, that would mean he has over 200 strength.
He keeps walking, half dragging me until he starts running and I can''t hold on, he drops me and runs to the snake, then I notice something, he is glowing, not green, but red.
What does this red aura mean, it seems to make him stronger, but what is the cause.
He is running straight towards the snake. When he reached the snake he kicks it into a tree, causing visible damage.
Then he immeadiately starts biting away at the snakes skin, causing no damage.
The snakes sees this and swings his tail at the baby, which he dodges almost like he saw it beforehand, and the snake hits itself.
He stays close for some reason, so the snakes decides to lay on him, and it misses again, how?
The baby uses his claws to scratch out the snakes eyes, and then jumps on the snakes head clawing at it, then the snake jumps back to slam the baby on a tree, but the baby jumps off again.
The baby backs off a lot and then turns around looking to charge, the snakes see this and looks to catch him.
The baby starts running and he starts to jump and the snake sees this and raises his head up to bite, but the baby doesn''t jump, he runs up and kicks the snake in the head with a flip.
The snake flies back hitting a branch, impaling it''s head. It is dead.
"Yes... Yes... Yes..."
The baby collapses, leaving us bewildered to how the hell did this child chocobo beat this snake.
Url comes back,"I''m back, where''s the kid."
I point at the little guy.
"Why is he over there, I told you to look after him."
"Ummmmm, he um he killed the um snake."
"Really, now stop playing jokes and help me gring these herbs, Rukra will probably be here in five minutes."
"He really did Url."
"Sure, we''ll ask him when he wakes up."
He doesn''t believe me, but right now the priority is to heal the baby so I will forgive him for now.
He starts grinding the herbs, I help by creating a leaf cup to pour it in to help him drink it.
Url may be a little big and scary, but he is also kind and thinks about people before himself, and he also knows his limits.
The baby starts snoring, it''s kinda cute, but I can''t forget his red aura and the determination that was in his eyes while fighting the snake.
Rukra comes back with the antidote and we make him drink it.
"Let''s head home."
"But the baby is still asleep."
"We''re also screwed if a dragon comes to eat us."
She thinks about what he said,"let''s move out."
Chapter 9-The Stables
The void was around me again, this happens way too much.
| "More High Chocobo Evolution lines have been added." |
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"Evolution Path 5: Adolescent High Chocobo (requirements: Live 3 months, have total stats be over 3000, have the Special Title Pride)."
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"Evolution Path 6: Adolescent High Kweh (Adolescent High Chubby Chocobo) (requirements: Live 3 months, have total stats be over 2000, have the Special Title Pride, eat over 3 times your body weight regularly)."
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What the heck, more were added, and the requirements, what are my stats.
Special title pride, what makes it special? And since when did I have it.
I guess it transfers over too Kweh as well, but I still won''t go for it.
I don''t want to be chubby if I can choose not to.
The red box dissapears, and I''m left alone again.
Wait, how long until I can evolve, it''s been about 3 months.
Whatever, it will happen eventually, now the problem is how do I wake up.
I blink and then I see a big bird in front of my face.
I have gotten used to mom waking in front of my face.
"How did you sleep?"
I get up from sleeping on my side, I look down to see hay underneath us, then the smell hits me, it STINKS.
I look around their are multiple Chocobo''s in what looks like stalls all staring at me.
Oh I need to answer mom, "I slept well."
"You have any dreams?"
"The system added to my evolution."
"Thought so."
"What?"
"You awakened a special title or skill right, it would be weird for the system not to add it, your father also had the same expierence, but he decided to stay on the main path of chocobo."
My dad does, wait my stats, I use analysis on myself...
| "Target:Wild Infant Chocobo LVL 19, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, undeafeated in duels, Damsel in distress, Pride" |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 5, Copy Entity Number LVL 2, Mind Acceleration LVL 5, Crushing beak LVL 2, Night Vision LVL 2, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 5, Recovery Magic LVL 2, pain resistance LVL 1, Heat vision LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 384, STR: 882, SPD: 406, VIT: 346, MP: 1100, INT: 784" |
What is the new stuff?
| "Title- Undeafeated in duels: You have not lost a duel (It buffs you in Sacred Duels)." |
| "Title- Damsel in distress: You have been saved multiple times by the same entity (Buffs Entity''s trying to save you.)" |
| "Special Title-Pride: A deadly sin, given to one Entity who expresses their pride over their life and the determination to get stronger. (Doubles your stats and heals you when your opponent is more than 2x your level, but also increases the strain on your body). |
| Skill- Pain resistance- resists pain |
| Skill- Heat Vision- Sees heat off of entity''s bodies. |
I guess I got the extra strength and heat vision from the snake.
"Mom, how old am I," I feel like I should have been 3 months.
"You should evolve tomorrow, congratulations."
That means tomorrow I will have been 3 months old, it feels much longer.
"What is your special skill?"
I didn''t even notice dad, he is in the stall next to us, chained up.
"It''s etiquette to tell your special skill first before asking mine."
"Well at least you know you shouldn''t squawk your skills to any random bird."
"My special title is sloth, it''s better than it sounds, now what is yours."
He must have gotten it because he is way too lazy, but are special titles that common.
"Mine is pride, doesn''t really fit, but I will take it."
"Seven deadly sin?"
"Yeah."
"That''s really rare."
"But you have one."
"Well, I do, but you are the only other bird I have found to have one."
That means it is rare, but for a father and son to have one, is their something special about our bloodline?If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.
"Just saying, that was real manly for you too fight the snake."
"Don''t start that, you literally put me too sleep when I tried to help him because you thought it was manly of him too fight one on one with someone stronger then him, our son could have died."
"Wait, yeah where were you when I fought the snake."
"I was watching your manly battle in which you fought with all of your pride on the line."
"What about you mom?"
"He put me to sleep so that I coudn''t interfere, he was like ''you don''t understand the manliness our son is radiating right now'' and put me to sleep."
"Dad."
"Yes?"
I walk over to him, having to duck under the wall to get to where he is chained, and then I activated crushing beak and bit his leg.
"Youch, why does that hurt even worse than yesterday."
"Yesterday I didn''t have 900 strength."
"WHAT!?!?!??""Huuuuuughhhh."
"I didn''t mumble."
"How?""Why."
"A skill."
"What skill, is it a starter skill.""You didn''t tell me about any skill?"
I almost explain copy entity number, but then I feel eyes on me from... somewhere.
I coudn''t tell where,"Hey do you guys feel like we''re being watched."
"Don''t change the subject."
I had no idea where the pair of eyes was coming from, hey maybe my new skill could see them.
I activate heat vision.
I look around and what do you know it''s a filolial.
It''s the invisabrat.
I walk out of the stall and walk right in front of him and stare at his face.
"What are you doing."
I use analysis LVL 5 on him to make fun of his titles.
| "Target: Adolescent Assassin filolial LVL 13" |
| "Titles: Spoiled to the Bone, Loser in duels, Sore Loser, Innocent." |
"Hmmm what do we have here, spoiled to the bone, that makes sense, loser in duels, caused by me, sore loser, caused by me, and innocent, that''s cute."
"How in Ilragorn did you cheat noooooooow."
He appears before me, maybe a little larger than before.
"Heat vision."
"Since when did you have that."
"Yesterday."
"Do you randomly get skills before you need them or something."
"Kind of, I have a question, when your invisibility hits LVL 10 what does it turn into?"
"Nothing, just makes me harder to detect."
"Better hope you can hide from heat vision, or else you lost your advantage against me."
"... I didn''t think of that."
"OOoooooh a filolial, what takes you out of your castle."
A bunch of chocobos laugh.
"Yeah, what brings you hear to visit us lowly Chocobos.
They all laugh again, yet invisibrat doesn''t seem fazed, maybe his innocent title is at play here.
He walks up too the stall with the two that made fun of him.
"Pleased to meet you, chocobo''s with great eyes to notice that I was a royal filolial immeadiately, you must have the best eyes of your kind."
"Well I was always good at spotting things.""Nah, it''s just it''s really easy too see."
They were really easily flattered.
"Hey how do you train your skills?"
Well I usually just use them and they level up passively, but I''m not going to tell him that, I''ll try to bring out the sage version of me.
"Have you seen how long you could hold invisibility for?"
"I haven''t."
"Well first try to hold invisibility as long as you can to see if you gain any levels that way, and if that doesn''t work try using it in real combat, it usually levels up faster in combat."
I hope that was sagely enough for him.
"Ok, I was going too duel you, but now that I lost my advantage, I''ll be back once I get it back."
I walk back into the stall, invisibrat goes back into invisible mode and runs off, I hope the chief knows he came here, otherwise I''ll probably get an earful the next time I see him.
"Who was that?"
I think for a minute,"A friend."
"A chocobo and filolial being friends, now the sky is going too fall."
"Don''t jinx us."
"Too late, hmmm, I can''t think of a joke with any atmosphere."
"That was bad."
Then the three humans that saved us came in.
"EEEEEEEEEE the babies awake."
Almost in one motion the skimpy clothed one flings herself towards me and summersaults into hugging me, then she rubs her cheek on me until it hurts.
"Dad is her defense high?"
"It would be around 400, why?"
That means I can''t use crushing beak, but it should hurt enough without it.
"You have 3 seconds before I bite you."
"3."
"Rukra he''s gonna."
"2."
"Bite you."
"1."
"So what, it won''t."
I bit her arm at about half strength.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW."
"That''s what you get."
She rubs the red bite mark where I bit her.
"Why''d you do that?"
"Because you rubbing against me hurt, duh."
"What did he say?"
"Ummm he said rubbing ummm hurt and then ummm duh."
Why does she need her to translate, I can hear them just fine.
| "Would you like to see the reason why humanoid creatures cannot hear monsters?" |
Sure.
| "Before the entity number''s 40000000 all species shared the same language until, two humans, a elf, and four beastman, all riding phoenixes, attacked the original god of this world. They lost miserably. Before the elf died he was asked why this team was formed. The elf responded with that they wanted to tame you to make their lives easier in every way. Enraged by their selfishness of not only being some of the most intelligent creatures, but also the ones with the most potential he cursed the entire species of every humanoid with not being able to understand any monster. He also cursed the divine phoenix with taking away all of their immortality, their regenerative fire, and their flight for working with the humanoids. Then the original god hid in the center of the planet so that no one tried to fight him again. |
That was way to much information, and why did the birds get a worse punishment then the humans.
| "Answering commonly asked question for this story... 80% of humanoids were tamers at the time, as it was more efficient at the time to get a strong monster to protect you then get stonger yourself, most tamers got killed by their tamed animals from misunderstandings between them, all in all it was a much worse punishment then the phoenixes got." |
Ok I guess that makes sense, wait am I glowing.
I am glowing, why am I glowing.
"Congratulations Kwehzalcoatl, you have officially lived 3 months, I am so proud of you."
"Wait I thought I was going to be changed tomorrow, is it night already."
"Did you hatch at night, no you didn''t, you hatched in the morning, so you start evolution in the morning, see you tomorrow morning, hope you get a good evolution."
| "Evolution process starting, choose an evolution path." |
Chapter 10-What the heck is this?
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"Evolution Path 1: Adolescent Chocobo"
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"Evolution Path 2: Adolescent Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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"Evolution Path 3: Adolescent Magician Chocobo"
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"Evolution Path 4: Adolescent Magician Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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"Evolution Path 5: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo"
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"Evolution Path 6: Adolescent War Demon Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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What the heck is this!!?!?
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"Evolution Path 1: Adolescent Chocobo"
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"Regular adolescent Chocobo, gets elemental skills."
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"Evolution Path 2: Adolescent Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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"Regular adolescent Kweh, gets elemental skills."
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"Evolution Path 3: Adolescent Magician Chocobo"
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"An Adolescent Chocobo who has a overwhelming amount of mana for their age, Gains tier 2 elemental magic skill."
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"Evolution Path 4: Adolescent Magician Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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"An Adolescent Kweh who has a overwhelming amount of mana for their age, Gains tier 2 elemental magic skill."
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"Evolution Path 5: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo"
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"A Adolescent Chocobo who has enough pride to be comparable to war veterans and the focus comparable to demons. When you fight enemies you gain +50 to all stats per enemy. Get''s regular elemental skills."
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"Evolution Path 6: Adolescent War Demon Kweh (Chubby Chocobo)"
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"A Adolescent Kweh who has enough pride to be comparable to war veterans and the focus comparable to demons. When you fight enemies you gain +50 to all stats per enemy. Gets regular elemental skills."
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I didn''t mean describe them, I meant why do I have war demon, the edgiest thing I have ever heard, and why is it probably the best one?
This sucks, I''m not an edgelord, but this is definitely the best one.
| "You have 60 seconds to choose an evolution path, otherwise we will Choose Evolution path 1." |
NOOOOOOO, wait give me time.
Nevermind, just, ughhhhhhh, yolo 5.
| "Starting evolution path 5: adolescent war demon chocobo" |
| "Generating Infant Dungeon." |
Infant Dungeon, What is that?!?!?
Is a little tiny me going to fight in a war!??! What even is a war in a world full of dragons and behemoths, I''ve only fought with trash so far, and I''ve been losing, beside invisibrat. What about magician, that''s sounds a little easier. Let''s do that one.
What kind of advice is that,GoOd LuCk my feathery butt.
Then I blinked and I was in a desert on the opposite side of monsters of every type, dragons, behemoths, goblin/ogres, snakes, birds (No chocobos though), and the creepiest of crawlies you could think of. All in their baby forms.
Yes you heard right they were all babies, baby lizards(Dragons), baby bunnies, baby boars, baby giraffes (Weird one), baby goblins and ogres (I think, they look to similar), tiny snakes, and bird chicks. They almost looked cute.
Then their was the six to one hundred legged ones. young centipes, spiders, scorpians, ants, and flies, oh excuse me, suvunktahs.
All of them were facing me, giving me the most intimidating look an army of children could give me.
I guess they are the opposing army, who''s on my team?
A tumbleweed goes by.
Not one teammate, not one.
The feathers on stick legs is going solo against baby ragnarok.
Nevermind the numbers, do I actually have to kill all of them.
| "Dungeon clear condition: Kill all opponents." |
| "Infant trauma prevention mode on." |
Infant trauma prevention mode?
That sounds good.
A disruption happens in the army, the suvunktah''s swarm up and it looks exactly like it does in every cartoon with bees.
The swarm starts attacking the other babies, attacking everything in a line, however their''s no corpses.
An ant comes my way and I stomp it into the ground, it dissapears, not like it goes into the earth, it literaly just disappears.
That''s what it means by trauma prevention, no dead bodies, no blood, it''s like playing a game.
I activate mind acceleration and magic armor, and jump into the fray. I hear the chanting "Chosen one... chosen one... chosen one..."
Who''s saying that, it''s coming from... the flies.
Wait, is my title actually helping me, friend of the suvunktah''s, is it making me have unexpected allies with the suvunktah''s.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.
Hah screw you system, No solo for kwehzalcoatl.
I start attacking things, kicking, chomping, etc.
Hey, I seem a little taller than usual, my feathers are sharper looking to.
I use analyze to see if I''m starting too evolve.
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 19, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, undeafeated in duels, Damsel in distress, Pride" |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 5, Copy Entity Number LVL 2, Mind Acceleration LVL 5, Crushing beak LVL 2, Night Vision LVL 2, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 5, Recovery Magic LVL 2, pain resistance LVL 1, Heat vision LVL 1, Pepper Breath LVL 1, Shadow manipulation LVL 1, MP manipulation LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 541+(50x389), STR: 995+(50x389), SPD: 584+(50x389), VIT: 408+(50x389), MP: 1233+(50x389), INT: 908+(50x389)" |
What are my stats!?!?!
I don''t feel that different, am I really that strong.
| "Would you like to read the reason for the evolution dungeon?" |
Can''t really read while fighting, so I will have to pass.
I''ve been going on autopilot for a while, wait, since when was I this good at fighting, I''m stomping, clawing, and biting, but I can easily think about other things.
Is it the war demon race or something, maybe my body is designed to fight in large crowds with ease, so I got bored and started to think about other things... Maybe.
Not to sure, but whatever, lets test out my new skills with evolution.
"Pepper breath."
I accidently close my mouth, and something explodes in my beak.
It doesn''t really hurt, but tastes spicy.
I open my mouth and activate it with thinking instead of words.
A small fireball shoots out of my beak and lands on a baby rabbit.
It starts a small fire on its cotton tail.
Well that is sad, the baby rabbit doesn''t know what to do so it starts running from the fire, into other animals.
Suddenly boars, giraffes (Still don''t know why they''re here), bunny''s, spiders, ants, bird chicks, snakes, goblins/ogres, centipedes, and scorpians all go ablaze.
This is terrifying, wheres the trauma prevention now.
I look too see something even more horrifying, the flies have caught fire, but it doesn''t stop them.
They have become a flaming ball of fury practically screaming, "CHOSEN ONE... CHOSEN ONE... CHOSEN ONE..."
They have probably knocked down more then I have.
It doesn''t look like anybody''s melting or burning, I think it''s just scaring them.
Their''s trauma prevention, but it''s still scary to see everybody on fire.
Then a flaming boar gets past my defenses and set''s me on fire.
IT BURNS, I can''t think like this, aren''t I supposed to be fire chocobo or something.
Stop, Drop, and Roll!
| "You have gained the skill Fire Resistance LVL 1." |
I got the fire out.
Almost everbody who''s not dead saw that and started copying me.
It was hilarious to see a giraffe trying to roll around on the ground, but most of the fires are out now, except the suvunktahs, they are using it to their advantage.
I see a boar still on the ground rolling trying to get the fire out, I try to use my other skill on it, shadow manipulation.
My shadow slowly makes its way over to the boars and when it connects, IT BURNS.
HOT HOT HOT, why does it still feel like I''m on fire.
The fire on the boar goes out, and the burning sensation goes out.
Now it looks around and sees me, I suddenly feel angry, an uncontrollable anger.
Am I feeling the boars emotions, is this how dad''s skill works, I try to be confused more than usual, and I see the boar reacts, it looks like it is trying it''s best to find something out, but can''t.
So shadow manipulation is a bridge of emotions or feelings.
So if I feel afraid will they be afraid?
I imagine I''m afraid, and the boar starts running away, wait my shadow can''t keep up.
My shadow comes back to me and the boar turns around, obviously confused about why it was running, but it sees me and starts running towards me again.
I''m still fighting on autopilot, when I come back to reality it almost feels too natural.
Anyway, now the final skill I got, MP manipulation. I use it, and a water like substance just falls in front of me, except it dissapears in the sand, the sand doesn''t even get wet.
Maybe I have to think of something before using it or else it will just deform and be wasted.
I think of something simple, a sphere, and an energy pours out of me, making a sphere, kind of.
It has tons of spots that fall like water.
Whatever, lets see how this hurts an enemy.
I wack the ball of pure energy on an ant, it does nothing.
I keep doing it, the ball going up and down constantly, and the ant eventually dissapears.
So that sucked, it may have killed an ant, but it did it in ten hits, that sucks.
I think maybe I could use it to extend my clawing range, so I activate it and imagine claws that are longer on my feet.
I kick something, it doesn''t slice, the claws are too blunt, it pushes a giraffe by the neck, pretty far too, but doesn''t do too much damage.
Maybe I can push MP into other attacks instead of using it as a projectile or extra range.
I start using pepper breath, the fire starts forming, then I start MP manipulation.
I can feel the fireball getting larger, the flames getting hotter, then it shoots out before I finish supplying energy.
It hits a centipede, but doesn''t kill it because it puts out the flames to fast.
Well that sucks, maybe I did it in the wrong order, like I have to use it and then the fireball forms, absorbing all the energy at once.
I start forming a sphere in my mouth to test my theory, the mana that doesn''t form trickles in my mouth almost tasting like a bland sports drink.
I fill my mouth up with the sphere until their was no space left, then I activated pepperbreath.
The fireball absorbs the ball of energy almost immeadiately, becoming too spicy in my mouth, and yes it actually tastes like pepper.
I quickly fire it off in a random direction, it has nearly tripled in speed and doubled in size, it hit a baby giraffe.
The baby giraffe flies back, then dissapears, it one hit KO.
But not without the permanent mental damage to me of the face of the giraffe.
I have never seen a being more in pain, it made me feel sorry for it.
That''s a first, ever since I was I came to this world nothing has really made me feel sad, sure, I was angry when I got the pride skill and other moments like that, but nothings really made me feel empathy towards it, wonder if that is my natural instincts or am I just a cold person.
Whatever, the effects of MP manipulation are devasting, but the start up time is bad, if it was an AOE attack then I would be ok with it, but right now it only hits one thing.
I''m going to have to level up MP manipulation a lot more.
The battle is almost over, their are only 2 rabbits, 2 goblin/ogres, a couple of ants, and the flying ball of fire that are the suvunktah''s.
The suvunktah''s are going for the ants right now so I go for the bunnies.
I rush towards them, they react and both go for a jump kick.
Since my reaction speed is almost triple theirs I react and jump above them.
They panic and try to dodge, but that''s not how it works in the air.
I slam my foot downwards into them, and they both hit the ground with a thump.
One has dissapeared, but the other is still there, clearly rattled.
I land and then immeadiately run up and kick the bunny sending it flying, as I am focusing it, a goblin tackles me from behind.
It get''s on my back and tries to ride me, I stop and look back at him, my long neck twisting almost like an ostriches, but mine is thicker and shorter, so I don''t go all the way around.
It was at this moment... They knew... They messed up.
I bite their shoulder and slam them on the ground, stomping them, the other goblin turns to run, into the suvunktah''s.
It is now just me and the suvunktah''s.
"So, what now?"
"SACRIFICE FOR THE CHOSEN ONE FOR HE HAS SPOKEN."
They starting condensing themselves towards the center of the flame, making the flames center hotter.
"Wait no!"
I was too late, they condensed themselves into ash, leaving me alone in this desert.
| "You have completed the evolution dungeon in 5/24 hours." |
Shut up, let me mourn.
| "You have completed the dungeon in less than half the time it would normally take an entity your age, Choose from the prize pool." |
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500?!?!? That''s way too much, give it to the flies.
Fine, if I have to chose it would be speed, because that''s my lowest stats.
I won''t say anything cliche like ''I will always remember the flies,'' but I have a new respect for the little bugs.
You better.
| "Would you like to read the reason for the evolution dungeon?" |
Sure, get my mind off the flies.
| "Around the time of 150000000, their were entitys who specifically targeted evolving creatures because they had no idea how to use their new body, so the first god made a mental dungeon to help the entity''s evolve safely. All stat boost were taken away except for stats caused by skills, because they caused misunderstandings of how strong or how fast you really are. |
Chapter 11-"I did"
| "Around the time of entity 150000000 was born, there were entities who specifically targeted evolving creatures because they had no idea how to use their new body, so the first god made a mental dungeon to help the entities evolve safely. All stat boosts were taken away except for stats caused by skills because they caused misunderstandings of how strong or how fast you really are. |
Well, that¡¯s cool, but still, not cool enough to make up for the flies.
I sit there in a black void for who knows how long just waiting for something, anything to happen.
It feels like forever is going by, so I start walking, just to do something.
To my surprise, it starts to get darker, yes the black void just started to get darker, what is ominous about that.
Suddenly I notice a humming, not like a machine humming, but like a male masculine human humming a song, kinda like Perfect Cell from DBZ abridged, but with a much older tone.
¡°Hm hm~hm hm hmmm hmm hm hm~hm hm.¡±
It kinda sounds like the old song ¡°Puff the Magic Dragon¡±, not a bad song, but really old.
As I keep walking, it gets louder, until its hum feels like it¡¯s vibrating in my head.
Then I bump into something.
¡°Hm?¡±
I look up to see the silhouette of a huge dragon, and when I mean huge I mean just it¡¯s head is as large as the regular dragons back in reality, and the rest I couldn¡¯t see how tall it is because of the void.
¡°What a pleasant surprise, someone actually took the time to find me, and how young, too young, well how long did it take you to beat your dungeon, oooh five out twenty-four hours. Very good, what is your results from analysis, excellent, very excellent. Sonny Boy introduce yourself to me.¡±
Is it talking to me, I started thinking I was dead around a minute ago, well if it thinks I¡¯m excellent, then that means it doesn¡¯t want me dead.
¡±My name is Kwehzalcoatl, I¡¯m a Chocobo, who are you.¡±
¡°I go by many names, why don¡¯t you pick one.¡±
Well, let''s see, what was he humming a minute ago.
¡°I¡¯m going to call you Puff.¡±
¡°Puff? Oh, I see Puff, you see me as a dragon, and the song I was humming, that¡¯s perfect. Wait you know the song. Memory Keeper, no wonder, what year was it when you died?¡±
He knows what my title means, and what does he mean see him as a dragon, whatever might as well tell him.
¡°2019.¡±
¡°So the world didn¡¯t end, that¡¯s great."
¡°Anyway, since you did find me, might as well give you your reward.¡±
¡°Reward.¡±
¡°Oh, you didn¡¯t know, how lucky, since you don¡¯t know, if you find me you get a couple of skills, just my little game.¡±
A couple of skills! Isn¡¯t that a little overboard for how useful skills are! I mean in this world having more than five skills at birth makes you overpowered, if you get that for just finding him, how hard is he to find.
¡°Let¡¯s give him this one, this one, this one, and this one.¡±
Did he just say he was going to give me four skills, how high up is this guy in the hierarchy of this world? Whatever I always take free stuff.
| "Puff is giving you four skills..." |
| "Telepathy LVL 1." |
| "Lifesteal Touch LVL 1." |
| "MP Manipulation LVL 1 has leveled up to LVL 2." |
| "Telekinesis LVL 1." |
Telepathy does that mean I will be able to talk with humans? Lifesteal is always overpowered, MP Manipulation, he must have just skimmed my status, it is still useful though. Telekinesis, does that mean I will be able to replace my old hands, that¡¯s great, my biggest concern is now gone.
¡°You look satisfied, that¡¯s great, you know what, I like you, here¡¯s something else.¡±
| "Puff gave you the title, "Puff''s Friend." |
| "Puff gave you the title, "Puff''s Friend." |
| "Can''t activate Copy Entity Number LVL 2." |
| "Copy Entity Number LVL 2 leveled up to LVL 3." |
Why does this guy make me more confused with everything he says, whatever, it must be useful?
¡°Thank you, Puff.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t mention it, I hope you stay alive long enough to see me again, but then again, anything can happen. Bye."
With that I fell into nothingness, not knowing what Puff looked like at all.
I woke up with the familiar scene of birds staring at me.
¡°Good morning my child, you look¡ sharper.¡±
"You''re a War Demon Chocobo now, I like it, good pick son, I guess you can say you should DEMONstrate your strength to us now.¡±
That pun made me put my head back down on the floor, close my eyes, and try to go back to sleep.
¡°What? That wasn¡¯t PUNny enough for you. Or would you like me to WARp you awake with shadow magic.¡±
¡°That last one didn¡¯t even make sense.¡±
¡°WARtever, your no fun.¡±
¡°Still, get up and show me what you can do.¡±
¡°He¡¯s obviously tired, it¡¯s still early and he must have had a hard fight in his dungeon, let him rest.¡±
I am tired, but I do want to test out my skills, well I¡¯ll sleep for a little bit.
I conked out and had dreams about the suvunktahs.A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.
I woke up because of loud rustling near me and immediately focused on the sound.
It was a goblin, not a baby one, a full adult.
It was green with a flat face and a big nose, it had pointed yellow teeth that slightly curved outside of its mouth. It covered itself in the classic loincloth and had a small log club in hand. It was dark outside, night time, and there was a small breeze coming through the door that the goblin had come through.
I looked around slowly to not attract the goblins attention to see that there were three more goblins in the stable, the only way to tell them apart was their loincloths were made of different parts of hide, and one of them has a different color skin, blue, must be a variant.
I got up slowly but stepped on a stick, why there was a stick there, I have no idea, but it gave me the goblins'' attention.
One of them laughed like a hyena, but the blue one covered that one''s mouth, with a finger over its mouth for shushing it.
¡°You,¡± The blue one whispered.
¡°We fight out there, you and me,¡± he pointed as he talked.
I was about to yell but then realized that this was a good chance for XP and that the goblins should be weaker than I am, with my enormous stats and my evolution stat boosts for fighting multiple enemies.
This was a perfect opportunity to use my telepathy skill, so I used it.
(¡°Sure, let''s fight, but not one on one, let¡¯s do four on one.¡±)
He looked confused, ¡°You want die.¡±
(¡°You don¡¯t want me to die?¡±)
¡°I follow king, king want you die.¡±
Oh, shoot, there''s a goblin king, how cliche, but still dangerous.
(¡°Just fight me.¡±)
¡°Ok, go.¡±
I walk outside to find more than 100 goblins wandering around, all have similar body structure, but some were different colors.
They are yanking on the handles trying to get into peoples huts, but none have succeeded.
I look back only to see that the blue goblin''s club is about to collide with my head. It hits with a loud thump but doesn¡¯t hurt. I kick the goblin in the gut, it goes flying into the other three, making him go off course, but also sending the other three flying as well. All of them hit the ground and slide until coming to a stop.
| "Killed Goblin LVL 14 Entity #848954273632429678." |
| "Killed Goblin LVL 20 Entity #848954273632429642 EXP 41 " |
| "Killed Goblin LVL 17 Entity #8489542736543889629 EXP 34. |
| "Would you like to activate Copy Entity Number LVL 3" |
Yes.
| "Activated Copy Entity Number LVL 3." |
| "Gained 68 VIT." |
| "Gained 38 HP." |
| "Gained Throwing LVL 1" |
| "Throwing LVL 1 changing to fit race... Kicking LVL 1." |
| "Kicking LVL 1 leveled up to LVL 2." |
Hold on, I have kicked so much, why haven¡¯t I got this skill.
No answer.
I looked to see what the rest of the goblins are doing, they are all running towards me.
I start to book it, but then I was on the other side of the village. I activate mind acceleration and start running, I go so fast that I have to use mind acceleration to make it look kind of normal.
What is my speed anyway?
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 19, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, undefeated in duels, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend." |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 5, Copy Entity Number LVL 2, Mind Acceleration LVL 5, Crushing beak LVL 2, Night Vision LVL 2, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 5, Recovery Magic LVL 2, pain resistance LVL 1, Heat vision LVL 1, Pepper Breath LVL 1, Shadow manipulation LVL 1, MP manipulation LVL 2, Telepathy LVL 1, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 587+(50x134), STR: 1018+(50x134), SPD: 1039+(50x134), VIT: 488+(50x134), MP: 1282+(50x134), INT: 938+(50x134)" |
That makes sense, my speed is way too high, I could probably go a mile a minute with this speed.
Wait didn¡¯t one of them say there was a king goblin, I should probably kill that one first. I run around looking for a strong looking goblin.
I activated analysis on all the ones I could see, there were plenty of fire, water, and stone goblins, a couple of air goblins, and a horde of regular goblins, but I couldn¡¯t see their king.
I activate heat vision to see that the people are still inside, just sleeping.
I also see someone outside, surrounded by goblins¡ I think I found the goblin king.
| "Heat vision LVL 1 leveled up to LVL 2." |
Nice.
I run to the goblin king and he stood at about five foot, tall for a goblin, and also wore a leather cape, but didn¡¯t look any different then the normal goblin.
I use analysis to see if it really is the goblin king.
| "Target: King Goblin LVL 32" |
| "Titles: Born Alone, Strong-willed, Avenger, King, Tightfisted Ruler. |
Looks like this guys had a hard life, according to his titles at least, whatever tightfisted means it must be a good thing right.
Well whatever, if he¡¯s going to kill people that means he¡¯s the bad guy in this situation, right.
I run to the King Goblin and kick him, except I faze through him and end up killing 4-5 goblins on the other side of him from my kick.
I turn around to see his punch, I jump, but he hits my leg, doesn¡¯t hurt, but sends me back a couple of feet.
I land on my feet and rush forward and kick him again, the same thing happens, what is happening.
If physical attacks don¡¯t work, maybe magic attacks will work.
I use pepper breath, or as it would be better described as a meteor of death, the thing was bigger and faster than the condensed MP one was.
The king immediately ordered a bunch of water goblins to use something that looked similar to water gun from pokemon.
A combined effort of more than twelve water goblins put it out.
Making the king relax, but I was already behind him.
I used pepper breath again, the king turned around, but it was too late, he was engulfed in flames.
He died, simple as that. A text box appeared in my face, but I didn¡¯t have time to read it because the goblins had found my position and were running at me from all directions, one was even flying.
Well, less flying and more hopping on midair must be the spatial movement skill that was offered to me in the beginning.
I activate crushing beak, magic armor, and kick because apparently, I need to activate a skill to kick correctly.
That must be why I was bad at soccer.
I start kicking things and immediately see the difference, now when I kick them they get launched farther, faster, and exactly where I want them to.
I start by killing ten with one kick, then nine, then seven, then four, then five, then five again, then another four, and then only one.
Why am I getting weaker?
Oh, wait, My buff is going down. There''s about fifty left, so I start using MP Manipulation in my mouth, still tastes like off-brand Gatorade.
I activate pepper breath and it flies out just smaller than meteor of death size. I¡¯ve also been intentionally killing the water ones, so there are only two left.
It kills more than half of them.
I thought about the other skill I got recently, what happens if I pour MP into my shadow. I activate shadow manipulation and then started pouring my mp in it, it starts getting bigger, wider, and it moves faster, I make a circle around myself using my shadow, catching all of them in it.
I get what I¡¯m going to call the kickback or the emotions they have before my shadow messes with them.
To my surprise I don¡¯t get the emotion of anger, I get responsibility.
They feel responsible for what, goblins are weird, are they like ants.
Anyway, I didn¡¯t know what I needed to do now, I hadn¡¯t gotten that far, I spread the thought that if I move, I¡¯m gonna die.
All of them stopped moving. And then I killed ten of them, easy. I was really feeling weak now. I kicked one of them and knocked another two down, but only killed the first one I kicked.
I kicked the remaining eight and they all died.
It is morning now.
I saw mom walk out first, she starts yelling at me.
¡°Thank Ilragorn, Kwehzalcoatl, are you okay, do you know who killed all of the goblins.¡±
¡°I did.¡±
Chapter 12- Did I do something bad?
¡°I did.¡±
¡°What, sorry I think I misheard, who took down the goblins,¡± she asks while walks over to me.
¡°I killed the goblins.¡±
¡°Please tell me that¡¯s a joke.¡±
¡°Nope.¡±
¡°FlashFlare? why are you out of the stables,¡± Rukra (Human Girl) poked her head out so that was all that you could see, then she looked around and saw the dead goblins.
¡°Give me a minute,¡± she closed her door and when she was done she was in the same outfit she wore when I first met her.
She then walked up to another wooden hut and knocked very loudly.
¡°Incha, wake up, get dressed, I need your skill please.¡±
¡°30 more minutes,¡± Incha yelled while yawning.
She needs her skill? What was it again? Oh yeah, she can translate monsters, oh wait, I now have the telepathy skill, I should probably use that.
(¡°I got the telepathy skill if you need to talk to us.¡±)
Rukra turned around with a knife in hand, where did that come from.
¡°Who¡¯s there.¡±
(¡°Little bird with red and black feathers next to his mother.¡±) I lifted my wing.
¡°What are you doing.¡±
¡°Oh, I got the telepathy skill so I tried it out with her so that she doesn¡¯t have to wake up the elf girl.¡±
¡°Why am I not surprised.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, why are you asking me?¡±
¡°Don¡¯t make bad jokes like your father.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t you dare compare my jokes the atrocities he makes."
¡°Atrocities, what does that mean?¡±
¡°Something bad.¡±
¡°Like a dragon, or a behemoth.¡±
¡°Think more like a 100 handed rabbit.¡±
¡°How would you even imagine that.¡±
¡°Umm, cute little bird, can you use that skill again.¡±
(¡°Sure, why?¡±)
¡°EEEK! Your voice is so cute.¡±
Then she tackled me, I got about 30 scratches and pets per second, not a good feeling.
(¡°First you point a knife at me, then you maul me with scratches and rubs, what a 360 that was.¡±)
¡°I like cute things.¡±
(¡°My voice isn¡¯t cute, well it isn¡¯t manly either, but it definitely isn¡¯t cute¡±)
¡°Yes, it is.¡±
("No it¡¯s not.")
¡°Yes, it is.¡±
(¡°Lozersayswhat¡±)
¡°What?¡±
(¡°Hah, you fell for it.¡±)
¡°No, what did you say.¡±
(¡°Hah, you did it again.¡±)
She started scratching so it was supposed to hurt, but it didn¡¯t because my vitality is decent.
¡°Tell me what you said.¡±
Might as well humor her, (¡°Loser says what.¡±)
She blinked a couple of times.
¡°That¡¯s not fair.¡±
(¡°Wasn¡¯t supposed to be.¡±)
Another man walked out of his hut.
He was also tall, very skinny, had wild red hair, and his eyes only had pupils with no color.
He wore what looked like mage robes and had a small stick in his pocket.
That¡¯s an anime protagonist if I ever saw one.
¡°Looks like we will need to move again, I¡¯ll get everybody awake, you do it too."
¡°Okay,¡± she ran off.
¡°Mom, why do we have to move?¡±
"The goblins have a king that has a personal grudge with this village."
¡°I killed one of those, his titles made him seem like he had a rough life.¡±
¡°Was it a divine beast?¡±
I paused, ¡°I don¡¯t think so, I was kinda barely thinking, but I don¡¯t think it was at divine beast level.¡±
¡°Was it goblin king or king goblin.¡±
¡°King goblin I think, is there a difference.¡±
¡°It means he wasn¡¯t the divine beast. The Goblin King would show his name.¡±
She continued a second later, ¡°The King Goblin was ¡°a¡± King Goblin, meaning he ruled a bunch of goblins, probably around 50 to 100, the Goblin King is the King of All Goblins.¡±
¡°Umm... he had more than 100, I remember that much.¡±
¡°Then he would be a goblin emperor, or maybe it was his first assignment from the goblin king, so those soldiers weren¡¯t really his."
Maybe the blue one wasn¡¯t really talking about the king goblin, well I can¡¯t ask him now can I, I kicked him at max power after all.
Speaking of killing, maybe it¡¯s time I stopped neglecting the text boxes.
| "You have killed 58 Goblins LVL 10-38 Entity #''s... EXP 2063" |
| "You have killed 27 Fire Goblins LVL 39-48 Entity #''s... EXP 2801" |
| "You have killed 25 Water Goblins LVL 39-46 Entity #''s... EXP 2754" |
| "You have killed 1 King Goblin LVL 64 Entity #8186223666269836546 EXP 1720" |
| "You have leveled up to LVL 31" |
| "Would you like to use Copy Entity Number LVL 3." |
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| "You used Copy Entity Number LVL 3." |
| "Gained 1283 HP, Gained 827 STR, Gained 523 SPD, Gained 811 VIT, Gained 721 MP, Gained 392 INT." |
| "Kicking LVL 3 evolved into Punting LVL 5." |
| "Gained Fireball, Changing to fit race... Pepper Breath LVL 2 has Leveled up to LVL 10, You have gained the skill Flamethrower LVL 1." |
| "Gained Water Gun LVL 4." |
| "Gained Aerial movement LVL 1." |
| ¡°Gained Hide Status.¡± |
| "Gained Rulers Orders LVL 1 |
What? So much health, how can I lose with these stats, and I gained 12 levels, I need to go to more wars¡
Ok maybe not, but that was my greatest stat change in 3 months, wait I¡¯m only 3 months old.
I¡¯m pretty sure I can beat mom in a fight now.
That¡¯s is only slightly depressing for mom, she did ask me not to get too strong too fast.
I¡¯ve already decided to never useAerial movement (Scared of heights), but water gun can be used for certain things, and now I have flamethrower, and hide status is huge, why didn¡¯t I get that from Puff. What is rulers orders?
| "Would you like to see all your new skills and titles." |
Yes.
| "Pepper breath: A peppery fireball that you shoot out of your mouth (Scales with MP and INT, leveling up makes it less expensive to use, LVL 10 gives you Flamethrower LVL 1)" |
| "Shadow manipulation: Manipulates your shadow to connect with others shadows (Connecting peoples shadows with an MP connection can help you manipulate opponents emotions and disrupt their thoughts, Scales with MP and INT, leveling speeds your shadow up and increases your influence on opponents emotions, LVL 10 gives you 3D Shadow Manipulation." |
| "MP Manipulation: Solidifies MP making it easier to consume (Scales with MP and INT, Leveling up increases speed you can form.)" |
| "Telepathy: Allows you to speak to all races with thoughts (Leveling increases range, with level 5 you can talk up to 5 people at a time, LVL 10 you can talk to as many people you want.)" |
| "Life Steal Touch: by touching an opponent you can decrease their HP while gaining HP (LVL 1 is 10% conversion of HP, LVL 5 is 50% conversion, LVL 10 is 100% Conversion and you gain the skill Area Life steal LVL 1)" |
| "Telekinesis: Able to move objects with the mind (Scales with INT, Level increases the intricacy of movements you can do.)" |
| "Title- Puffs Friend: Allows "Puff" to view your progress." |
| "Punting: Kicking things allows you to launch them (Scales with STR, leveling increases your fight or flight sense with kicking)" |
| "Flamethrower: A continuous flame comes out of entities mouth (Scales with MP and INT, leveling increases range and makes it less expensive, LVL 10 gives you inferno LVL 1)" |
| "Water gun: A continuous, powerful, water stream (Scales with MP and INT, Leveling increases range, LVL 10 gives you the skill tidal wave LVL 1)" |
| "Hide Status: Hides your status (Using it for six months gives you the skill disguise status.)" |
| "Aerial Movement: The ability to move in mid-air. (LVL 1 is able to do one jump in mid-air, LVL 5 is able to run on mid-air up to 1 minute, LVL 10 skill evolves into Flight LVL 1.)" |
| "Rulers Orders: Any orders you give are easy to understand and ally Entities are compelled to follow them (Scales with INT, Leveling this skill up may give a random buff to allies who follow your orders.)" |
What the heck, Puff¡¯s title lets him monitor my Progress. That¡¯s not okay.
Also, I feel like I should go into the army and become a general, Rulers Orders would level up like crazy then.
Whatever, it¡¯s not like me to make a plan, I¡¯ll just go with the flow.
Anyway, most of the village is awake now and are tearing apart the buildings.
I see Url walk out of his hut (The human boy in our group) and people look at him, but quickly look away.
Wonder what that¡¯s about.
He looks at the dead goblins, looks what other people are doing, and then immediately start doing the same thing, but does it in half the speed other people are doing it.
It¡¯s amazing how fast he takes out buildings, it looks like he is destroying it and then throwing away scraps, but every tear he does is symmetrical and the scraps are in semi-neat piles.
When he is done he picks up the scraps and puts it on a carriage.
Even I, a novice at construction can see his skill in breaking things, but none of the villagers even spare him a glance.
Mom sees me looking at Url and the villagers, ¡°It¡¯s cruel isn¡¯t it.¡±
¡°Yeah. But why are they doing it.¡±
¡°His legs are short.¡±
¡°Are you serious?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°But he¡¯s still taller than most people.¡±
¡°Doesn¡¯t matter to them, if your legs aren¡¯t more than 75% of your body they won¡¯t pay any attention to you.¡±
We both sit quiet for a minute.
¡°Does he hate them.¡±
¡°What no, the opposite actually, he wants to please them.¡±
¡°Please them?¡±
¡°He strives to make them recognize him, to pay attention to him."
¡°Like a child?¡±
¡°Exactly like a child.¡±
¡°Do the villagers know that?¡±
¡°They know it better than anyone, he works harder than all of them, he¡¯s in the top 20 strongest people of the tribe, that¡¯s over 1000 people including non-combatants.¡±
¡°Then why do they ignore him?¡±
¡°They can¡¯t, their instincts as long-legged people say that if they accept him, they will allow him to have a kid, which will bring another short person into the tribe.¡±
¡°Why do they want to prevent that.¡±
¡°The shorter your legs are the slower your potential run speed is, and running away is this tribes primary tactic.¡±
| "Would you like to hear the story of the Long-Legged tribe?" |
Yes.
| "The Long-Legged tribe started when a group of twenty Sapien people wanted to live on the surface of the world to see every beauty the world had to offer. They were met with dragons in the day, behemoths in the night, and kraken''s in the ocean, they could do nothing but run. However the people with smaller legs couldn''t run as fast as the people with long legs, so they were accidentally used as meat shields while the fast long-legged people had children and made children with longer legs than them that went faster than them until you see the Long-Legged people today.¡± |
That¡¯s good to know, does that mean that they are scared that he will die, so they just close all relationships with him?¡±
Whatever, I¡¯ll treat him like a friend as long as he treats me like a friend.
It didn¡¯t take long for the place to look like it was just a random place in the wilderness, though the carriages did look like they were overfilled with wood, but I think everybody is going to reuse the wood they already had as it was labeled in a language I don¡¯t know, though if I use analyze it will tell me what the words mean.
Dad and Sholl walked over to us with Url and Incha (Elf) on their backs. ¡°Yo¡±
The red hair, no pupil guy spoke up first, ¡°Does anybody know who killed the goblins, it would be more relieving to know that a random guy didn¡¯t cause us all this problem.¡±
I used telepathy (¡°I did.¡±)
¡°Who?¡±
("Red and black Adolescent Chocobo.")
He took a second to scan the crowd and then found me.
¡°Did you do it?¡±
The crowd laughed at that.
¡°Nice joke John.¡±
¡°Didn¡¯t know you had that much humor.¡±
("Yes I did, tell them I got the telepathy skill.¡±)
¡°He says he has a telepathy skill and that he did do it.¡±
Everyone looks at me and then him, Including my fellow chocobo¡¯s.
¡°Come on John, none of us will believe that.¡±
¡°Kwehzalcoatl, what is he talking about.¡±
(¡°Turn around John and say what I tell you to say.¡±)
He nods and turns around.
I jump as high as I can.
I go around 30 feet high and then say (¡°I jumped.¡±)
¡°He jumped.¡±
I land about 5 seconds later unfazed, then immediately go around the crowd.
(¡°I Jump over the tall blond girl, around the skinny man, below the green chocobo, through the wood filled carriage, and then ending up at the same spot I started at.¡±)
He repeated every word I said.
| "Telepathy LVL1 leveled to LVL 2." |
| "Rulers Orders LVL 1 leveled up to LVL 2." |
¡°How did you do that.¡±
¡°I just said what he told me to say,¡± he said while turning around.
¡°Well, I guess we believe you know about telepathy, but you can¡¯t expect us to believe that he did it.¡±
(¡°Why not¡±) I said in his head.
¡°Who¡¯s there.¡±
(¡°Who else just proved they have telepathy.¡±)
¡°Guys he¡¯s talking in my head now.¡±
¡°You serious.¡±
¡°Do it in my head now.¡±
(¡°Okay¡±)
It took me another 10 minutes to talk in everybody''s head, I also got a level in telepathy.
¡°But how are you going to prove you beat the goblins.¡±
My dad knocked Url off, ¡°I will fight him."
Chapter 13- Outclassed
¡°I will fight him!¡±
Url, on the ground, groaned, ¡°What¡¯s he saying Incha.¡±
¡°Ummm, he said, umm, he will fight him.¡±
Oh right, the spirit elf can translate, it will be easier to talk to groups this way.
But this doesn¡¯t seem fair at all, I mean, almost all my stats are in the thousands, and he¡¯s a normal Chocobo, meant to be ridden, and I¡¯m a war demon Chocobo, meant for battle.
¡°Son, do you accept my challenge?!?!¡±
A little cliche, don¡¯t you think?
| "You have been challenged to a sacred duel." |
| "Would you like to accept." |
Yep, dad is cliche.
| "Duel accepted." |
| "Your opponent is LVL (hidden for sacred duel) Shadow Chocobo." |
| "Demand: Will leave the village for a month and come back stronger." |
| "Would you like to make a demand?" |
What no, I didn¡¯t want to accept.
People start to make a circle around us.
| "No demand set." |
| "Would you like to see your chances to win?" |
¡°500 equi for Shadowstealer.¡±
¡°1000 equi to Shadowstealer¡±
¡°3000 equi on Shadowstealer.¡±
They''re betting on this, is that legal, whatever, sure, I¡¯m stuck in this anyway, let me see the chances.
What the heck does that mean, are we equal strength.
| "Sacred duel starting in 5...4...3...2...1...GO!" |
I activate mind acceleration and magic armor.
Then I see dad running really fast towards me, his shadow moving faster than he is towards me.
I jump to dodge his shadow, then he kicks me while I¡¯m in the air, my magic armor nearly breaks.
I deactivate magic armor, then reequip it to get rid of the damage, dad is circling me while this happens.
He starts running towards me using the same tactic as before.
I use pepper breath thinking that its light will get rid of his shadow.
I run towards him to catch him while he is dodging the breath, but he dodges before I could get there and catches me in his shadow.
A purple haze flows out of his mouth.
It doesn¡¯t catch me, but I suddenly feel ill, kinda like the snake''s poison, but not as bad.
I feel kinda woozy, my vision blurs.
I try using recovery magic.
| "Recovery Magic healed Poisoned lungs 96% recovery." |
He poisoned me? But how, the smoke never touched me.
His shadow.
I try running away from his shadow, but dad runs at the same speed I do.
I feel like the poison is knocking me out, I will lose at this rate.
I run back and try to use flamethrower, my first attempt at the skill.
Fire gushes out of my mouth creating a stream of fire, making some of the villagers have to dodge.
Sorry.
But it is unsuccessful as dad dodges with the grace of an acrobat.
Dad then shoots lightning out his mouth and hits himself.
I stop in my tracks as I am unable to move.
He paralyzed me.
I look back at dad to see he isn¡¯t moving either, did he paralyze himself as well?
He starts walking towards me, well that theory goes down the drain.
His shadow still attached to me he kicks me.
I go flying back in pain and then see him flinch.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.
¡°Dang kid, you need to up your VIT.¡±
What? Why do I need to up it?
¡°Since you had no way to know this, I will tell you, my sloth title gets rid of any need to level up, it¡¯s the perfect title for me, it gets rid of any hard work I needed to do to fight, all I need is for the opponent to underestimate me and then I kick the crap out of them.¡±
Where¡¯s he going with this.
¡°I have fought many creatures with this title, many dragons, many behemoths, but I have never lost, it almost gets boring, using the same strategy over and over, but I had higher hopes for you, you said you took an army all by yourself, I thought you could make me change it up a little, but no, your the exact same as everyone else, you underestimated me, and you lost. My title Sloth forces me to copy my opponent''s stats.¡±
He¡¯s never lost? How am I supposed to win against that, he has the same stats as me and has lived for more than twice as long, as well as being an affliction specialist.
I¡¯m totally outclassed.
But has that stopped me before?
Who cares if he¡¯s more experienced, who cares if he¡¯s never lost, all that matters is that I win right here and right now.
I get up and notice I¡¯m glowing red, that''s new, dad backs off.
¡°Yes, give me the fight I dreamed of.¡±
His shadow is still connected to me, I activate shadow manipulation, our shadows touch.
I don¡¯t know what to do next, so I think if I move I¡¯m going to die.
He doesn¡¯t even flinch.
¡°Too weak, not enough oomph.¡±
¡°Ok then, what about this?¡±
I use mp manipulation to boost my shadow.
Then I see my shadow visibly push his back until our shadows are in the middle pushing against each other.
Neither of us are moving right now, just focusing on our shadows battling it out.
I put more MP into the shadow as I push his shadow back to him.
Now what? Well he puts status effects on his opponents, and burn is a status effect, so why don¡¯t I try burning myself.
That¡¯s totally logical, right?
I use flamethrower on myself and immediately regret it.
It burrrrrrrrns!!!
Dad flinches, but only for a second, he then attacks me and I nearly faint.
¡°How disappointing, my mate is a Fire Chocobo, and yet you thought I wouldn¡¯t have fire resistance.¡±
He kicked me and I blacked out.
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Father¡¯s POV
That fire burned me, he got me, but my Pain Immunity skill helped me face through it to knock him out, but now he is banished for a month, I guess I have to move him myself.
¡°Why in Ilragorn would you want to send him out in the woods fainted.¡±
¡°Trust me, I know his stats, he won¡¯t die out there if he¡¯s not stupid.¡±
¡°What happens if he dies.¡±
¡°Then he wasn¡¯t strong enough.¡±
She uses pepper breath on me.
¡°Ouch, what the hell was that for, you know fire is my lowest resistance.¡±
¡°You didn¡¯t tell him that.¡±
I think for a minute.
¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll leave him in a spot he won¡¯t be seen.¡±
¡°You promise?¡±
¡°On my title Sloth.¡±
I run off into the forest near a spot I know is safe.
The nest FlashFire and I made.
I got there in less than twenty minutes, having to use my own stats sucks, I only have around 500 speed and strength, low for my level.
I usually make Sholl my enemy and pretend to be chasing him.
It makes my stats go up to 800 which is Sholls speed, but I have never even seen a speed as high as Kwehzalcoatls, or as high as any of his other stats, his stats are insane, I would have lost badly if it wasn¡¯t for my Pride title.
I look in the nest to find a humongous suvunkta staring at me.
It¡¯s Suvunkilbub.
I fall backwards and drop Kwehzalcoatl.
Suvunkilbub catches him and flies away.
What am I going to tell FlashFire?
Wait no, I should copy Suvunkilbub¡¯s stats and fight for Kwehzalcoatl back.
I look up and they are already gone.
¡°Well ----.¡±
I get back home, or what was home, to see that FlashFire is still there, waiting for me, guilt starts filling me.
I should start the conversation, to try to make it look less bad.
¡°Well, you se-.¡±
¡°Suvunkilbub took Kwehzalcoatl, right?¡±
My beak dropped, ¡°how did you?¡±
¡°Suvunkilbub stopped here first, scaring everybody, but just left, my guess was that it was looking for Kwehzalcoatl.¡±
¡°What did Kwehzalcoatl do to Suvunkilbub?¡±
¡°Suvunkilbub named Kwehzalcoatl, I already told you that.¡±
¡°Oh.¡±
¡°Well, what do we do?¡±
¡°We can¡¯t do anything but wait for a month.¡±
¡°But I was looking forward to looking at his progress every couple of days.¡±
¡°I thought you were just going to leave him in the woods and if he survived then you would fight him again and send him back into the woods to train?¡±
¡°Ummm, nice weather we have here.¡±
I then see a fireball in my face.
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Back to MC
The void is back, I see this way too much, but it¡¯s different, I can see movement in the darkness.
Then a screechy, loud and high pitched voice said, ¡°Ello Birdy.¡±
¡°Who¡¯s there,¡± did I seriously just say that, that is the most cliche thing I have ever said, who the heck would actually answer to that?
¡°Me Weler, Goblin Divine beast¡±
You proved me wrong.
¡°We fight one month.¡±
¡°What if I say no?¡±
¡°Me destroy family village.¡±
That sets me up pretty well, who likes death.
¡°Sure, I¡¯ll take on your entire army.¡±
¡°Wait hold on. Our entire army, are you insane?¡±
It was a different voice, more intelligent, but it came from the same spot as the other goblin.
¡°Quiet Dunga, me turn to talk.¡±
¡°No, you be quiet, this is a talking affair, now let''s get to business, you said you wanted to fight our entire army, that is more than 2000 goblins, plus us, are you trying to die.¡±
¡°Not trying to die, but I will fight you, give me the time and place.¡±
¡°Mountain¡¯s Big, 1 month.¡±
¡°He means Winged mountain range, North of your location, in about 29 days.¡±
¡°See you then.¡±
Chapter 14- Dungeon
I blink and the void around me disappears to find two red eyes with thousands of red hexagons in them with no sensor for personal space.
I put my feet on the ground and jump back to be caught by a bunch of tiny black dots, they put me on my feet, around me is a cavern with only the light crystals to see.
Turns out the red eyes were Suvunkilbub, when will I get used to seeing her every time.
Wait first of all, where am I.
Oh wait, I activate mind acceleration.
¡°-oseeyouareawake,nowit¡¯stimetostartyourtraining,itisverydangeroussobepreparedtodie.¡±
¡°Slower please, and where am I?¡±
¡°It is nice to see you are awake, now it is time to start your training, it is very dangerous so be prepared to die.¡±
¡°And where am I?¡±
¡°Dungeon Cyko.¡±
¡°Dungeon, as in labyrinth with multiple floors that has monsters that try to kill you every floor.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
That is so freaking Cliche.
¡°But Cyko is a little bit different, usually dungeons have a theme, however, this dungeon theme is, well, I guess I shouldn¡¯t spoil it.¡±
¡°How many monsters each floor?¡±
¡°In this dungeon, besides the boss floors, one floor is equal to one level up to you.¡±
¡°Why¡¯s the boss different?¡±
¡°You¡¯ll see.¡±
¡°So how many floors does this dungeon have?¡±
¡°Nobody knows.¡±
¡°What do you mean?¡±
¡°This dungeon isn¡¯t based on floors, it¡¯s based on time, you have one hour to complete the dungeon, once the time is up you magically come back to the top. ¡°
¡°What happens if you are suddenly immune to magic?¡±
¡°It sends hundreds of monsters to kill you.¡±
¡°Glad I¡¯m not that then.¡±
¡°Me too, otherwise my first chosen one would have died.¡±
¡°I¡¯m your first.¡±
¡°You are the first non-suvunkta I have been able to talk to in centuries.¡±
¡°Oh.¡±
¡°Will I meet anybody in the dungeon?¡±
¡°No.¡±
¡°Why, if it¡¯s one level per floor, then I would think hundreds of things would want to fight in it to get stronger?¡±
¡°I made the entrance of this place my nest, nothing has gone in here for hundreds of years except me.¡±
¡°Where are we in the forest anyway.¡±
¡°Remember the cave I had you move the rock too?¡±
¡°This is it?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°That quest was way to easy by the way? Why didn¡¯t you move the rock yourself? I know you could have.¡±
¡°I was excited to find something to talk to. It was supposed to be hard for you, as you were about a week old and should have had stats of 3¡¯s and 4¡¯s, it was supposed to be a challenge of wits. If you didn¡¯t have such high stats you would have to find a stick to put under the boulder and push it under it to find it was easier to move the rock using tools instead of raw strength, then I was going to teach you telekinesis to show you that magic is easier than tools, but you just used raw strength, so I gave you armor so you wouldn¡¯t die charging into battle like all people that use raw strength do.¡±
Was she fuming?
¡°Anyway, where do I start?¡±
¡°Step on the altar.¡±
I looked around and found what she was talking about, it was the brightest place in the room, a flat rock surrounded by glowing crystals, I walked over and stood in the middle of it.
¡°No that¡¯s my egg-laying spot.¡±This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.
I jumped straight out of it and landed on the floor.
¡°Gross!¡±
¡°How did you know the password?¡±
Before I could respond I was beamed with light.
Then the floor disappeared for a second.
I end up dropping in the middle of what looks like the same cave, but the entire thing is illuminated with crystals, the room itself is a square only about 20 by 20 by 20 meters.
In front of me is a door a huge one that you will only see in fantasy.
Gold door with what looks like a silver frame.
Behind me is¡ A minotaur in an iron bar cage that¡¯s falling slowly by a chain.
It is giving me more bloodlust than the filolial village chief when I told his grandchild no.
First things first I have to check if I can open the door.
Then I land on my stomach, iiit hurts.
Then the chill down my spine tells me that the minotaur has almost landed.
I get up and run to the door and use my beak to open the circular handles, it opens.
Into a room with two routes.
Should I go left or right?
I look back to see the minotaur cage land with a clink.
I use analyze on it.
| "Target: LVL 40 Minotaur" |
| "Titles: Dungeon Monster, The Beast" |
A LVL 40 is a level for me, why couldn¡¯t it be split into multiple monsters, that would be so much easier for me!
I decide that left is always the right answer and go left, I get to another cross-section and go left and left again, that was a dead-end and then I kept going along the left wall.
The walls of this place were still of the cave, with the occasional crystal to keep it bright.
I hit another wall and then I felt it¡¯s bloodlust, it had caught up to me.
I turn around and see a bull on two legs, it simply is a bi-pedal bull with hands, wearing a gourd on its back and a loincloth in the spot it¡¯s supposed to be.
It rushes me head first, two sharp horns on each side.
I jump over it, it hits its head on the wall behind me and I run, I think I¡¯m not supposed to kill it yet, otherwise, why would there be a maze here. I keep running and it keeps finding me while I jump over it.
The fourth time it puts its hands up in the air so I can¡¯t jump over, but I just wall jump higher than its arms can reach.
The seventh time it jumps, but I¡¯m still too high.
The ninth time it wall jumps too, which is a sight to see, but I go under it.
Then I get there the eleventh it has me trapped, I get ready for it to charge, but it doesn¡¯t move, it waits for me to move.
So I do, I wall jump till I¡¯m at the ceiling and then am almost over it, but it grabs my leg and throws me back to the dead end.
That was weird, let''s try something else.
I jump up to the ceiling and look like I¡¯m doing the same thing to see if he does it again.
When I¡¯m almost at the point where he grabbed my leg, I kick against the ceiling towards the ground and get headbutted by the bull, not a good feeling.
I hit the ground with an oomph, the bull smiling, in a victory pose, what¡¯s he got to feel good about, I did this to him 10 times, I start glowing red again, just like when it did with dad.
The bull noticed, it widened its stance ready to intercept.
I rush forward and use pepper breath, it surprises him and he blocks it with his arms.
While he is blocking it I go above him and get out of there. I turn another left into another dead end, I¡¯m still glowing red. He catches up to me. Now I¡¯m mad, I activate Flamethrower and then pour MP into it, flames stronger than a fire hose fly outta my mouth and hit him. I pour more MP into it until I think the minotaur is dead.
When I let up he is severely burned and on his knees but isn¡¯t dead.
He stands up takes the gourd off his back and drinks out of it, then smashes it against the wall.
The burns disappear, well looks like healing items are real here.
Well then plan b, I use shadow manipulation, and I get my target, but I get rage and triumph as the kickback, looks like the same rage from the evolution dungeon, and triumph from its own personal feelings.
I spread the message in his head that if he blocks he¡¯s going to die, if he dodges he¡¯s going to die, if he moves he is going to die.
He doesn¡¯t move until I activate flamethrower and he jumps over it.
Of course, he¡¯s a dungeon monster, he doesn¡¯t even think of death.
He rushes over the fire, jumping from wall to wall, he does one last wall jump, then with his fist back in position to punch, he lunges towards me, and I dodge to the left, cutting his eye, he does a semi flip to put his feet against the wall that was behind me and all I see is his fist about to collide with my beak.
I get beamed with light into the original cave.
I see Suvunkilbub, ¡°Seriously how did you know the password?¡±
¡°What? You mean Gross?¡±
I see another beam of light and the floor drops again.
What no, I¡¯m not ready, I need time.
I get to the same room, 20 by 20 by 20.
Then I look back and see the minotaur, it has the scar from when I clawed it, and the gourd is back.
You know what, whatever, I¡¯ll destroy this dungeon this time.
I start glowing red, I guess it activates anytime I act prideful.
He is grinning larger than any child I have seen before. And creepier too.
I land on my feet this time, and immediately run to the door and open it, making sure to go right.
I meet a hallway similar to that of a dead-end, but there is a door with a sign that has this world''s language on it.
I use analyze to see what it says.
| "Defeat the monster before entering, Duh, that''s the basics of dungeons." |
Are you serious, there was no special thing for beating the maze before defeating the monster, that¡¯s just rude.
And there was no more maze after the first right, it was just the end, so left is always right is a lie, it was right is always right.
Anyway, the minotaur is now at the end of the tunnel, its cornered me.
I do the one thing that has been effective so far, flamethrower mp boosted.
This time though he slowly walks forward as he uses his arms as a shield, I put as much MP as I can make at one time into the blast, he gets pushed back in the impact, I see he¡¯s ok and then use pepper breath with MP boosting, it is less meteor of death, but should still be in killing range.
I look at it to see it smiling at me, giving me a thumbs up.
What the heck does that mean, did it actually like me, was the rage a ruse, why is it making me feel bad for it.
The fireball hits and kills him, leaving me feeling depressed.
| "You have beaten Minotaur LVL 40 Entity #900001283992193201" |
| "You have leveled up to LVL 32" |
| "You have gained access to Floor 2 on Cyko." |
| "Would you like to activate Copy Entity Number LVL 3?" |
Chapter 15- Death Run
¡°Yes.¡±
| "You have activated Copy Entity Number LVL 3" |
| "Gained 534 INT." |
| "Gained Reckless Charge LVL 1" |
Still slightly depressed and confused I walk over to the door.
I push on it lightly and it opens into stairs down.
On the right wall is what looks like a map, it has the left side leading into hundreds of dead ends, while the right side has one turn and then the words you are here.
I realize it was a map of the last room, and it kind of makes me mad.
I walk down the stairs to find a brick hallway with green glowing mortar in between them.
Yes bricks, red bricks, the kind I would have seen in my old world.
Now I¡¯m really confused.
I move on anyway until I see a light.
Once I get to it, I get really really confused.
The floor drops, and when I look down it there are rows of spikes on the floor.
There are pillars in the middle that look jumpable, kind of like parkour.
To the right is a glass wall with a gargoyle holding its hand on what looks like a button.
Is this death run?
The game where you do parkour while someone hits buttons to traps on it.
I guess that makes the gargoyle death, and I¡¯m the runner.
This shouldn¡¯t be too hard, I mean my speed is super high.
I jump to the first pillar and land on it safely, the gargoyle doesn¡¯t react.
I jump to the next one, two away from where the trap button is.
I make a plan in my mind and jump again, but this time, as soon as I hit the next pillar I jump again.
Straight up.
The gargoyle falls for my trick and hits the button.
Suddenly a massive boulder falls on the pillar in front of me and then falls on to the spikes, the boulder gets skewered by the spikes.
A freaking boulder, I mean how sharp would the spikes need to be to pierce it and make it not shatter.
Dizziness takes over me so I sit down, I am way too far up.
When it goes away I get up, I look for the gargoyle, it moved to the next button, three platforms away.
I jump two platforms and then do the same trick, it doesn¡¯t fall for it.
So I do what everybody does, I go to the back of the platform, then run forward and act l am going to jump.
I stop last second and the gargoyle hits the button, the platform falls into the ground.
I look down at it and get dizzy.
While I¡¯m dizzy the platform slowly comes back up into its original position.
When it¡¯s up I decide that I should probably run through everything, I only have an hour in this dungeon anyway.
The gargoyle is at the next button five platforms away, but instead of being in a line, the platforms are zig zagged.
I jump from platform to platform with ease and when I¡¯m at the button platform I rush forward.
I quickly land on the platform and then jump onto the next one.
The platform behind me raises up to the roof, opposite of what the one before did, but this time I didn¡¯t wait for it to reset, I kept going.
Platform to platform I didn¡¯t stop, I looked at death, he is running a little behind.
First time I¡¯ve seen him move, but for being made of stone, he wasn¡¯t slow.
Looking like a stone demon, curved horns, face stuck in a yelling position, two fangs, an eight pack, whoever created him must have been a good sculptor.
I am still faster than it though, what even is my speed?
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 32, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, undefeated in duels, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend." |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 5, Copy Entity Number LVL 3, Mind Acceleration LVL 5, Crushing beak LVL 2, Night Vision LVL 2, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 5, Recovery Magic LVL 2, pain resistance LVL 1, Heat vision LVL 1, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 1, MP manipulation LVL 2, Fire Resistance LVL 1, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 1, Punting LVL 5, Flamethrower LVL 1, Water Gun LVL 4,Aerial movement LVL 1, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 2, Reckless Charge LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 1893, STR: 1852, SPD: 1604, VIT: 1254, MP: 2101, INT: 1872" |
Yes, all my stats are in the thousands!
My skills are also coming along nicely, though most are low level, I have a lot of them, so quantity over quality, I guess.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
I am instinctively still jumping from platform to platform while looking this over, and I¡¯m leaving him in the dust.
The hallway turns right, I can¡¯t see the next platform, once I reach the turn I stop and look.
With my enhanced reaction time I quickly find the next platform and jump to it, but that was just enough time for the gargoyle to catch up and slam the button.
The platform disappears, not falls, not rises up, it just vanishes, too late to change trajectories, I look down and panic.
Thoughts filling my head, starting from the hangliding incident, to where I am now, about how can I get out of this mess.
Then one thought changes everything.
¡°I want to go up.¡±
Suddenly I stop falling, I just stop as my legs hit the ground, but there is no ground, at that moment I jump.
I reach the next platform.
| "Aerial movement LVL 1 has leveled to LVL 2." |
The skill that I thought I was never going to use, was my savior.
The skill that I thought was going to bring me down, brought me up.
It is this skill that I was scared of using that in that one moment made me feel relieved.
I run and jump, at every turn I useAerialmovement to jump off of the invisible wall onto the next platform that doesn¡¯t have a button.
I¡¯m glowing red, my pride showing.
After what feels like forever, I reach the end, withAerial movement at LVL 4.
A brick room, still has the glowing green mortar, about the same as the room the dungeon started with, but there''s no door, only a way into death¡¯s room, and a sign.
| "Follow instructions from floor 1. What? You say the parkour was difficult and took too long? Suck it up, this is a dungeon." |
The gargoyle walks out, I use analyze¡
| "Analyze LVL 5 leveled to LVL 6." |
| "Target: Gargoyle LVL 39" |
| "Titles: Dungeon Monster, The Death." |
I use magic armor, and then run up to him.
He is ready for me as he widens his stance, I run up and kick him.
It does basically nothing, and he runs up and hugs me, trying to crush me to death.
It is very effective as my VIT is my lowest stat.
I don¡¯t feel anything because he is just touching my armor, and with mind acceleration I still am thinking of a way out.
I use flamethrower, the flames do nothing to him, but since we are so close it burns me.
| "Magic Armor LVL 5 has leveled LVL 6." |
| "Fire Resistance LVL 1 has leveled to LVL 2." |
Since flames don¡¯t work, what about water?
I use water gun, a jet of water starting from my mouth lands on the gargoyle.
He stops crushing me.
We both sit in silence for a second, then he starts crushing me again.
I use water gun again, but this time I MP buff it.
The water slices through his shoulder, cutting off his entire arm, making him let me go.
I back off and wait to see what he does.
He picks up his arm, then puts it back in place, backwards.
It connects and he goes back into stance, with one arm behind him.
He notices and yanks his arm off, putting it back on the right way.
I use the same move on both arms.
He dodges one of them, doing a semi cartwheel, but I dig into his side, cutting him in half.
On his top half, I see a sparkly ball where I cut him, it moves further inside his body as if the stone was liquid.
It must be a core monster, where I can destroy him forever and ever, but unless I get the core he will keep regenerating.
The gargoyle starts using its hands to drag itself towards its lower half.
I run up to kick its legs away, but it only moves 3 feet away.
The gargoyle grabs my leg and throws me towards the wall.
I crash into it and then fall to the ground.
I get up as any damage I take is tanked by my armor.
It is already attached its lower body to itself by the time I got up.
Except its legs are on backwards.
It walks backwards and notices itself, but this time I won¡¯t give it time to reconstruct itself.
I use water gun MP boosted to cut its arms off and cut it in half.
Focusing on trying to put itself back together, it notices too late.
I cut him in half first, then while he is falling, cut him in half again at the shoulders for a total of 5 pieces (Head and shoulders-1 piece, left arm-1 piece, right arm-1 piece, torso-1 piece, Legs-1 piece).
Then I try telekinesis for the first time.
The clumps of rocks move slowly under my telekinesis and I find something out.
Only the legs are moving, the core must have moved to the legs.
I drop the legs and move the rest of the body to the other side of the room.
I then cut the legs in half and then pick it up with telekinesis.
The left leg moves on its own, while the right leg is limp.
I repeat the process about three more times, with two level ups, until only one little piece is moving.
I set it on the ground, to move the other piece out of the way.
I try to put the little piece out of its misery by spraying the entire thing with water gun.
I spray it, but right before impact, the ball rolls out, towards all of the stone.
I try to use telekinesis on it¡
| "You can''t use telekinesis on living things at your level, LVL 5 is required." |
Well, that¡¯s just great.
I run after it, it¡¯s really fast for a ball.
It gets halfway into the stone that was its arm, and the arm moves, but I¡¯m not focusing on that.
I reach it and stomp its other half, it shatters.
| "You have beaten Gargoyle LVL 39 Entity #900001283992193202" |
| "You have leveled up to LVL 33" |
| "You have gained access to Floor 3 on Cyko." |
| "Would you like to activate Copy Entity Number LVL 3?" |
Yes.
| "You have activated Copy Entity Number LVL 3" |
| "Gained 395 SPD." |
| "Gained Press LVL 1." |
I look over to the parts of stone, all in random positions, except for the hand in front of me.
He was giving the literal bird the bird.
Anyway, I look for a way out, there''s nothing except deaths hallway.
I swear, if the door is at the beginning again I will scream.
I run down deaths hallway, a lot of turns later, I see the door, at the beginning.
Then light flashes, I¡¯m with Suvunkilbub again.
¡°GetofftheteleportpadsoIcanaskyouagain.¡±
I scream as loud as I can.
Chapter 16- Cyko Generals
Ten days have passed since I started going into the dungeon.
Suvunkilbub told me that the dungeon changes to train me.
The dungeon would usually just send hordes of monsters out to attack me so that I could get battle experience.
However, since I have the race skill that allows me to get a buff from fighting multiple enemies, it has been giving me challenges with one powerful enemy.
The challenges have been pretty simple.
The third floor was a circle room with high walls, still the same bricks and glowing cracks.
The monster was a harpy. the challenge was that if an attack hit the floor, the floor would disappear, and a pit of spikes surrounded by lava was below.
I mean really, lava and spikes, together, that¡¯s a little excessive.
Anyway, the harpy could fly, so I kicked it through the ground.
It was a really simple floor.
Though while it was dying in the lava and being impaled by spikes, it started doing the chicken dance and making chicken noises.
This place really confuses me.
The fourth floor was another circle room, but the roof wasn¡¯t as high, and the ground was stone.
The monsters were stone behemoths, moles, five of them.
The challenge was that the moles, high level but small, could appear anywhere on the ground, and I had to predict where they were going to end up.
I got two of them before the others learned that they should go up away from me.
I counted the time when they went down and then went back up, however, I couldn¡¯t tell them apart, so I gave up on that.
I then tried something I saw in a movie a long time ago, I used flamethrower on one of the holes.
Pillars of flame shot up.
All the moles were dead.
They all died underground, so I didn¡¯t see any gesture, but I expected it was doing one.
The fifth floor was weird.
I mean weirder than the rest of them.
I was dropped into a clear ball, then a small, but muscular, bi-pedal dragon started pushing me.
I started spinning, so I tried using aerial movement to stand up, but the ball crashed into me.
I didn¡¯t know what to do, so I kicked the ball.
It cracked but was slowly healing.
Why can a ball heal, whatever, I found my way out.
I kept kicking, the dragon spun me faster, I couldn¡¯t get a hit on a crack.
I didn¡¯t stop kicking until the entire ball was cracked.
One last kick, the ball shattered.
I got a level in punt for that.
The dragon laughed and rushed me.
He beat me once, ran out of time, but the second time was mine, as it took me less than ten minutes to go through the four floors before it, no monsters in them.
Before it died to flamethrower, it made the peace sign.
The next floor was a slightly transparent maze, where four flaming monsters chased you.
I tried water gun, but it evaporated, even the mana boosted one evaporated.
Each hallway had a golden light that when touched disappeared.
I was being backed into a corner until I noticed that one of the lights was bigger and brighter than the others.
I touched it, the flame monsters turned to ice and started running away.
I ran and kicked it.
The ice disappeared as I shattered it.
I led the other three to the other brighter dots and shattered them as well.
The last one though, instead of running, it started spinning, a joyful spin that a three-year-old would do to express their happiness.
The door appeared, but I had to traverse the maze to get to it, it was near the beginning as well.
The seventh floor was a square room, same designs, and it had a filolial, which surprised me, I tried to say hi, but it fired a red light at me.
I tried to dodge, but it curved and hit me, and we were off.
I couldn¡¯t stop my legs, they wouldn¡¯t listen to me and just kept running forward.
Behind me a red light trail followed, what a weird skill.
I was about to run into a wall, but then I turned my head.
My body followed.
I then proceeded to run into the opponent''s blue light trail.
I get this game now, we had this game in my original world, though I¡¯m pretty sure almost the games here were based off of my original world, I asked Suvunkilbub about it, she didn¡¯t know anything, except that the monsters I¡¯ve seen so far usually give her the most trouble out of the monsters she¡¯s seen in this dungeon.
I then proceeded to beat it at her own game easily, as my speed stat is tremendous.
Once the lights were gone, we fought, of course, I won, but before she died, she stuck her tongue out of me.
This is kind of getting repetitive, I cheese or complete the challenge, then I kill the monster.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.
I can work with this.
The eighth floor was a square room with a high ceiling.
The monster was a single centipede.
It was huge, three times the size of the snake I beat before I got to the village.
Then multiple mushrooms fell out of the roof as if fell out of liquid.
They started floating in the sky at random elevations.
Then the centipede started going down towards the mushroom, when it hit the mushroom it changed directions.
I fire a pepper breath at it, it goes in half, another head forming and goes in the opposite direction.
I then shoot at the original multiple times, it splits off into multiple pieces, until I hit the head.
When the head is hit it completely disappears, I then proceed to hit the head of all of them, missing a lot.
The little ones are a lot harder to hit than the big ones, so I hit all the bigger ones first.
When it¡¯s just down to three little ones, I realize I could probably jump up and hit them.
So I do, and I am successful, they easily go down.
The last one does the gesture, as usual.
It goes cross-eyed, and then his eyes spin.
It then laughs to itself and disappears.
The ninth floor was a kobold in heavy armor, with a circle made of something that looked like chalk.
I walked up to it, it immediately ran up to me, no speed reduction with the armor on either.
It hit me out of the ring and then teleported back to the original position.
This time I activated magic armor and hit him back, I actually couldn¡¯t push him back at first.
Then I activated flamethrower and pushed at the same time.
Then it became an easy second round.
It teleported back to its original spot in its stance.
I walked over to my starting space.
This time we circled for a second, then we came together pushing at the center, he has a little more strength then I do, or is it the armor?
Whatever I use the same strategy.
Once he is almost out, he teleports to his starting position, leaving me to fall out of bounds.
I look up to see him smirking.
A little embarrassed, I get up and go to the starting position.
I then use aerial movement to get behind him, then use crushing beak to grip him.
I then pull him to the outfield, ten times easier than pushing.
Perhaps he has a skill or the armor has an enchantment that he can¡¯t be ¡®pushed''.
With this knowledge, I win the next round easily, he tried to dodge me, but couldn¡¯t, I was too fast.
We fought and the usual cycled continued.
I won and this time it just laughed and smiled.
Now here I am, the tenth floor.
I am walking down the stairs, the same bricks, the same glowing green.
It is almost brighter here than any other room, I guess this is the boss room.
I reach the entrance of the room.
Every single monster I¡¯ve faced is right in front of me.
The minotaur, the gargoyle, the harpy, the moles, the short muscle dragon, the four flame monsters, the filolials, the centipede, and then the kobold.
¡°Welcome, Kwehzalcoatl, chosen by Suvunkilbub, to the boss room,¡± the kobold yelled.
¡°Indeed, you are one of the few who have made it, but that doesn¡¯t mean much, once you''re gone, you''re gone,¡± the filolial said in a snooty voice.
¡°Hey, he is a guest, at least give him some respect, I had a lot of fun fighting him,¡± the minotaur said.
¡°Same,¡± the short dragon said with a nod.
¡°Well I didn¡¯t, I think he deserves some rudeness, he destroyed my precious body, Cyko gave it to me itself you know,¡± the gargoyle said with clear resentment in its voice, yet its mouth didn¡¯t move.
¡°Oh you don¡¯t shut up about that do you,¡± the moles said in unison
They all then start talking at the same time arguing whether I deserve respect or not.
¡°I have a question.¡±
¡°Yes, what is it.¡±
¡°Who are you guys, and didn¡¯t I kill all of you?¡±
The kobold smiles, ¡°We are the Cyko generals.¡±
¡°You don¡¯t look crazy.¡±
The centipede laughs.
They all stare at him until he stops.
¡°Anyway, we are dungeon monsters, our souls come from the dungeon core, meaning we all can fight you infinitely until you destroy the dungeon core.¡±
¡°Did you just give me your weakness?¡±
¡°Not really, isn¡¯t that common knowledge?¡±
¡°Well this is my first dungeon, but it makes sense.¡±
¡°It¡¯s your first dungeon? Wait, how old are you?¡±
¡°A little more than three months.¡±
They all gasped and said random things consisting of what¡¯s and how¡¯s and I lost to a three month your old.
¡°Anyway, why would I want to destroy the dungeon core.¡±
¡°What do you mean, that¡¯s the main goal of dungeon excavation ain¡¯t it?¡±
¡°But I need training, isn¡¯t this the best training I could have, just doing challenges and fighting you guys?¡±
They all look dumbfounded.
¡°So you don¡¯t want to kill Cyko,¡± the harpy asked.
¡°Not really, I mean if it just produces EXP wouldn¡¯t it be a good thing to keep around?¡±
¡°That¡¯s¡ A unique thought process.¡±
Silence goes through the room for a couple of minutes.
¡°So, this is floor ten, is this the boss room?¡±
¡°Oh¡ Oooooh¡ yes, it is. This is the boss room.¡±
¡°Is fighting you guys the boss fight?¡±
¡°It was, but now we don¡¯t really have a purpose in fighting you, besides once the time runs we all go to our floors and you have to fight us again.¡±
¡°Do I really have to play those games again?¡±
¡°Well, now you don¡¯t have a choice.¡±
¡°What do you mean?¡±
¡°Bye.¡±
A light flashes through me.
I¡¯m back with Suvunkilbub, a little angry.
¡°Gross.¡±
I again fall to the first floor.
30 minutes later¡
¡°Well, that was fast.¡±
I learned all the tricks from my first time through, a couple of skills like flamethrower and aerial movement leveled up, also the skills they gave me became LVL 2, simple really, wasn¡¯t hard to beat them once I learned how to cheese them.
I still gained nine more levels too.
¡°So, now I just have to beat you guys right?¡±
¡°Do you really think it will be that easy?¡±
¡°I gain four hundred fifty stat points from having nine enemies, even if you fight me one on one, my stats will be way above the average then they already are.¡±
This was a bluff, I had no idea if they stayed that way, never had a chance to test it.
¡°Now that¡¯s troublesome, but I think it will be less simple than you think.¡±
¡°Anyway, I won¡¯t destroy Cyko, but now I set a timer using analyze, you can¡¯t fool me anymore.¡±
I found this out during my third day of dungeoneering. Apparently analyze can set a timer, tell me the time, translate any language, tell me the temperature, and even tell me what moon it is going to be.
This led to murmuring among the crowd with basically the subject of why can¡¯t the muscleheads do that.
¡°It¡¯s probably that I have high intelligence so I get more options with it.¡±
¡°So we can¡¯t convince you to wait, well then I guess we have to fight.¡±
¡°You deserve what¡¯s coming for you, vermin Chocobo.¡±
¡°Let''s have a good fight.¡±
¡°You¡¯ll pay for breaking my body two times, this body was sculpted by the magnificent Cyko, you shall perish.¡±
¡°Shut up gargoyle, and you¡¯ve dug your own grave.¡±
~Angry fiery wiggles from the flame monsters that have no mouth~
¡°Let¡¯s have a battle Cyko itself gets excited for.¡±
¡°Watch your back, I¡¯ll be there.¡±
¡°Let''s have a hundred legs of fun,¡± the centipede said chuckling to himself.
¡°Let''s go,¡± I activate mind acceleration and magic armor.
I rush forward.
Chapter 17- Cyko Brawl
I rush forward to the monsters in front of me.
The first to meet me is the minotaur, he grabbed my shoulders to keep me from running.
The filolial ran from the right of the minotaur, the rest of the monsters go in random directions.
The filolial kicks me to the dragon, who punches me to the centipede, I then get tail whipped to the gargoyle who punches me into the ground.
He then picks me up and throws me towards the moles.
The moles had prepared multiple holes in the walls that would change my direction to a bunch of different monsters.
I then spread my wings and legs and catch myself in the hole that would have led me to the harpy.
The only thing that really hurt was the slam into the ground, but nothing else has really affected me because of my armor, but it is really annoying to get tossed like a ragdoll.
I rushed out of the hole and quickly killed all of the moles, using the same tactic as before, they all hide in holes, of course, so all I need to do is blast flamethrower into the holes.
Next, the filolial rushes after me and when they get close I kick, and to my surprise am met with the filolials leg.
They had the same plan to kick me.
I quickly put my foot on the ground and kick with the other one.
Another slam of legs happens.
We repeat this for a couple of seconds until I suddenly get grabbed by the neck.
The harpy flies up with me in its claws, as I don¡¯t weigh much, it flings me with ease towards the flame monsters.
The flame monsters don¡¯t do much except be blobs of fire.
Which gave me a level in fire resistance.
I tried water gun again, but it didn¡¯t work, still evaporated.
I then tried flamethrower, it gave them extra power, figures.
If fire doesn¡¯t work, what about shadows, I try and as you guessed, it doesn¡¯t work.
The fire constantly creates a light, meaning my shadow can¡¯t come near it.
The filolial appears and again, kicks me into the ragdoll loop.
As I¡¯m flying around the square room at multiple miles per hour, I can¡¯t help but be annoyed.
Until the centipede gives me another level in fire resistance by hitting me into the fire blobs.
I hit the blob directly, and it disappeared.
I then get the idea that if magic doesn¡¯t work, then physical attacks must work.
I land on the ground and then kick the blob in the side.
As much as my armor protects me from fire, it still burns me.
Of course, recovery magic heals it after I eliminate all of them.
Two groups of enemies down, seven enemies left.
The filolial rushes me and I do the exact same thing of kick and kick and kick.
Waiting for the kobold, making his first appearance in the battle, who is trying to sneak up behind me.
When he gets close enough I drop the kick and turn around to kick the kobold.
I hit his chest plate, which he visibly takes pain from as I dent it, but he takes no knockback.
Right, Pull not push.
The filolial is coming to help the kobold.
I then grab the collar of the armor, using crushing beak, which levels it up, and I throw the kobold into the filolial.
I then use flamethrower on both of them.
At that time the minotaur, gargoyle, and dragon are on me.
The minotaur hits me out of the flamethrower, then the gargoyle catches one of my legs.
He slams me on the ground multiple times like he¡¯s the hulk, the dragon stands just outside the hitting range.
That hurts a lot, but recovery magic ends the pain very quickly.
The gargoyle stops slamming me, then holds me like a baseball bat.
I get swung and then there''s the dragon.
As the gargoyle swings me, the dragon punches me in the head.
I got a level of pain resistance and magic armor.
The gargoyle drops me, panting, he still looks scary as his face doesn¡¯t move, but he looks tired.
The gargoyle and dragon start walking away.
I use water gun boosted by MP manipulation, leveling both, and I attack the gargoyle.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.
The gargoyle starts turning around, a mistake as I got his side, cutting his body in half from the front to back.
He isn¡¯t a fat gargoyle, so I get the entire upper body, and I separate the legs, but that didn¡¯t matter.
He had kept the core in his upper body, so he died on the spot.
The minotaur and dragon run up to me, but this time I¡¯m ready.
I jump up last second before the minotaur catches me.
The dragon then jumps after me.
I use aerial movement to dodge since I got LVL 5 I just run to the corner in the air.
I see the filolial and the kobold is still alive, I had a feeling they were.
I use mana boosted flamethrower, attacking in random directions, not really to hit and kill anybody, just to cause some panic.
It hits almost all of them, damaging them a bit, but nothing serious.
The harpy easily dodged, closing in on me.
I suddenly focus on attacking the harpy and it elegantly dodges the wide beam of fire, going over and under it.
I think would water gun do any difference, and my attack suddenly changes to water gun, hitting the fire and creating a steam screen.
The steam fills up the entire room.
I can¡¯t see, so I activate heat vision.
The entire room glows orange, but there are a couple of red spots where the monsters are.
I rush to the closest red dot and quickly kick it to the ground.
I then use crushing beak on a place that feels like the neck.
The harpy dies.
I leveled aerial movement (Copy entity number just leveled that up), and I went on to the next red dot, it is the minotaur.
The minotaur notices me and runs up to me, but I dodge a little farther back then I usually do to take advantage of the steam.
But I bump into the filolial.
The filolial reacts to me immediately and kicks me into the steam.
The steam is starting to fade but is not completely gone.
The filolial is running towards me, so I decide to shoot a pepper breath at it.
It dodges by jumping, but I am closely following behind the fireball.
With the already low visibility, the filolial couldn¡¯t see me.
I jump and kick it down to the ground with a huge slam.
The monsters heard that and start to rush over.
While the filolial is on the ground I use pepper breath.
It hits, but not the filolial, it hit the centipede.
The steam is now completely gone, I turn off heat vision and see that I hit the centipede on its side.
Two centipedes, one laughing at me, one crying, are in front of the filolial.
At this point, everyone is getting tired, including me, and we have only been fighting for fifteen minutes.
I use recovery magic on myself, though I¡¯m not injured.
It just calms the mind a little.
The battle continues with the short dragon taking the lead.
It¡¯s running towards me with his right shoulder forward, probably looking to ram me with it.
With such a straightforward tactic, I easily react with flamethrower.
It hits the dragon, but it doesn¡¯t deter it, it just keeps going forward with his shoulder forward.
While my attention is on the dragon, the minotaur tackles me like before, knocking me out of the flamethrower.
Then he throws me towards the dragon, the dragon hits me with his shoulder.
What they don¡¯t expect is that I use aerial movement to kick off the air towards the dragon again.
With that, I get behind him and use crushing beak on his tail, and then throw him towards the holes the moles made.
He may be short, but he¡¯s bigger than I am, he goes into the holes and gets stopped by the lower half of his body.
I kick him further into the hole so I can¡¯t see his body anymore, but he can¡¯t go all the way through, at this moment the minotaur and filolial start running towards me.
I use flamethrower into the hole and the dragon dies, also fire comes out of the other opening protecting me from the other monsters.
I run into the hole to hide from them before the fire dissipates, it burns me slightly as the tunnel is hot, but miraculously the tunnel doesn¡¯t collapse, maybe moles have reinforced it with earth magic.
I activate heat vision to see where the rest of them are, but I see that they are waiting to ambush me on both openings.
I use flamethrower on one side to hit the minotaur on one side, then rush to the side I came in to find the filolial watching the flame, I run up and use crushing beak on the filolials neck.
Don¡¯t know why I keep choosing the neck, just seems like an instant kill.
Anyway, it dies, but the minotaur doesn¡¯t.
Just the minotaur, centipedes, and the kobold left.
The minotaur and the centipedes look at each other and then come at me in a formation of the minotaur in front while the two centipedes constantly switching positions in the back.
I keep an eye on the kobold, but it doesn¡¯t look like it is going to move.
He has really been out of the battle, I guess I broke a little bit of his pride when I found a loophole in his armor or skill.
The minotaur reached me first, but I side-stepped him and went for the laughing centipede.
He wasn¡¯t expecting it so I got his head easily.
The minotaur got enraged for some reason and roared.
The minotaur put his fists together and slammed into the ground I was a second before.
I am easily dodging, as his attacks are slow but hard-hitting.
Three pepper breaths come out of my mouth, all hitting him, causing significant damage.
He fell to his knees, looking to the roof of the room.
I killed with a flamethrower, gaining it and reckless charge a level each.
The crying centipede is left in the formation, it tries to trick me into hitting it on its side, but my increased reaction speed gets it with punt, killing it as well.
I turn to the kobold.
¡°Just me huh, just weak old me, just a useless having to rely on armor me.¡±
Woah, I didn¡¯t think I broke his pride that much.
¡°I caused the turning point didn¡¯t I if I didn¡¯t mess up in sneaking up on you, then I wouldn¡¯t have messed up filolial, then she could have covered minotaur in attacking you.¡±
I am just listening, what do you even say when people break down like this?
¡°If the minotaur could have attacked you with the filolial as a backup, we could¡¯ve won, but no, weak, small, powerless, shrimpy¡¡±
It just keeps on talking using synonyms of small and weak.
I don¡¯t know what to do, so I avert my gaze and see that the timer has one minute left.
I rush forward, the kobold sees that I realized he was tricking me and got into a battle stance.
I use pepper breath and hide behind it again.
The kobold realizes what I¡¯m doing and tanks the fireball.
I jump and do a falling kick, making another dent, but no knockback.
He takes visible damage again, but I¡¯m not done.
I kick him again, leaving a dent, but he doesn¡¯t move.
I continue this until he dies, kind of gruesome, but who am I to not take advantage of free hits.
| "You have defeated Dungeon Cyko." |
| "You have gained the title ''Dungeon Explorer'': Dungeon(s) finished: Cyko." |
| "You are the first entity to complete Cyko, You may add 500 stat points to any stat." |
| "You have gained the right to visit the core room of Cyko." |
Chapter 18- Goblins and sad stories
¡°Thirty days too long, me stupid.¡±
¡°No it¡¯s the perfect amount of time, we can bring all the patrols back, you sent the last one way too far out, it¡¯ll take twenty days for them to get back.¡±
¡°Ohh, me smart then.¡±
No, you¡¯re definitely stupid, so stupid you can¡¯t tell why the tiny bird was so confident.
¡°Birdy stupid, no even we fight army an¡¯ live.¡±
¡°The tiny bird didn¡¯t seem stupid, it looked more confident than it should have been in front of a divine beast, it probably has a skill or race skill that his stats or skills increase with multiple enemies.¡±
¡°That ba-bad, isn¡¯t Dung-ga scared¡¯d,¡± my companion for life, though stupid is awfully cautious in front of anything dangerous, he¡¯s had to rely on me in more than one situation, but I don¡¯t mind, I¡¯ve gotten used to the little guy, though we¡¯re a lot bigger than when we were born, we¡¯ve been inseparable since birth.
I laughed at my little joke.
¡°What so funny, me serious, what we goin do.¡±
¡°Simple, as long as we limit the number of enemies at a time, he can¡¯t get boosted with all of them.¡±
¡°But wha if he keeps stats long time.¡±
¡°Probably not, this worlds creator is awfully lazy in the way of making skills, there is only a couple of actual skill effects, they all might have different names, but if we haven¡¯t seen one like that then there probably isn¡¯t one,¡± seriously his secret intelligence surprises me all the time, he might be the smartest true-born goblin, he¡¯s still stupid though.
¡°Bu if stats way too high?¡±
¡°It¡¯s probably only a ten, twenty, or thirty boost per enemy, forty, fifty, or sixty isn¡¯t unheard of, but it isn¡¯t likely.¡±
¡°Don¡¯ any of secret memories say anything.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t say that out loud, I told you to keep that a secret.¡±
¡°Bu why?¡±
¡°The goblins would look at me differently if they knew I was a human before.¡±
¡°But me don¡¯t look you differently.¡±
¡°I told you at an early age, you always learn easier when you are young, when you grow up, you learn something called common sense, all our goblins have that, they will think we are weird.¡±
Weler stayed quiet.
¡°Dunga?¡±
¡°Yes?¡±
¡°Can you tell me about your original world?¡±
I looked at him in shock.
¡°When, how, where did you learn to talk like that,¡± I have to have been with him since we were born, he couldn¡¯t have learned to talk like that behind my back, and I gave up on teaching him proper grammar a long time ago.
¡°Me watch you talk words, me say it in head a lot.¡±
¡°So you can do it if you try, why didn¡¯t you have this effort when I was trying to teach you?¡±
¡°Story?¡±
He obviously changed the subject, I¡¯ll have to poke him about it later.
¡°I¡¯ve already told you all of them before.¡±
¡°Tell again.¡±
¡°Well, it¡¯s not like we can separate.¡±
¡°Me thought gave up that,¡± his pointy ears lowered.
No matter how hard I tried I never found a skill or evolution that could separate us.
We are conjoined twins, a goblin born two heads, one reincarnated, one normal.
¡°Well it¡¯s like the saying goes, two heads are better than one.¡±
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Back to MC
I check my stats to find which one I should add points to...
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 52, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, undefeated in duels, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko." |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 7, Copy Entity Number LVL 3, Mind Acceleration LVL 7, Crushing beak LVL 4, Night Vision LVL 2, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 7, Recovery Magic LVL 3, Pain resistance LVL 5, Heat vision LVL 2, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 3, MP manipulation LVL 5, Fire Resistance LVL 7, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 2, Punting LVL 9, Flamethrower LVL 6, Water Gun LVL 6, Aerial movement LVL 9, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 2, Reckless Charge LVL 2, Press LVL 2, Earth removal LVL 2, Buff up LVL 2, Speed up LVL 2, Enchant LVL 1, Forge LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 2793, STR: 3681, SPD: 2468, VIT: 2901, MP: 3187, INT: 2709" |
This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.I got reckless charge from the minotaur, press from the gargoyle, earth removal from the moles, buff up from the dragon, speed up from the filolial, and enchant and forge from the kobold.
Also, the harpy leveled aerial movement, the flame monsters leveled fire resistance, and the centipede leveled pain resistance.
Also in the dungeon, I was bored so I activated Hide status, nothing happened, but I kept it on.
At the beginning of this dungeon I was happy that all my stats were in the thousands but look at them now, almost all three thousand.
I put the five hundred in speed, obviously to even the stats out.
The floor opened up revealing stairs, the bricks still glowing, so I started walking down.
It had about twenty stairs, just generic glowing brick stairs, nothing special.
Until I reach a door, brown wood, no fancy design, wood circular handle.
Well, this is a problem, I have no hands.
First I try to lift my legs to the height, I¡¯m way too short, I mean my previous evolution was about two and a half feet, while this one''s about four feet tall.
I¡¯m so freaking short.
Whatever, I¡¯ll try my wings, I just can¡¯t get a grip.
I was avoiding this, but I¡¯ll try it anyway.
I put my mouth around the handle, I just end up slobbering on it.
I thought the final boss was all 16 of them combined, now I see my true final boss was this generic wooden door.
That gives me an idea, what if I actually treat it like a final boss.
I kick the door down.
It works, I walk into the room and see it¡¯s actually quite small.
It¡¯s only a five by five-foot room with a little bit bigger than a five-foot ceiling.
Symmetrical to the doorway was a huge spherical green glowing object, cliche much.
¡°One for dramatic entrances are you,¡± a masculine, kinda fatherly voice mocked.
It took me an instant to find out the voice was coming from the sphere, I¡¯ve read way too many books about it.
¡°Well now that that you are here, what can I do to convince you to not kill me.¡±
¡°I¡¯m not going to kill you, why would I.¡±
There was silence.
¡°Because I¡¯m a dungeon core, something that threatens to attack the world with monsters once I accumulate enough mp?¡±
¡°Just try, the first thing you will encounter is a giant fly that shoots beams of lights that disintegrate everything it touches.¡±
¡°Touche.¡±
¡°Well then, why did you do the dungeon if it¡¯s not to kill me?¡±
¡°To get stronger.¡±
More silence.
¡°Hey, would you like to listen to a story?¡±
¡°You''re not trying to run down the time, are you?¡±
¡°Can¡¯t, you beat the dungeon, you get infinite time here, now will you listen or not?¡±
¡°Sure.¡±
¡°There once was a child, no money, no family, just him, his clothes, and his spot on the street.¡±
I sit down.
¡°The child''s spot on the street was next to a restaurant that started serving beer at nighttime, and while the child was trying to sleep, he would overhear stories of how people would get rich in dungeons by finding loot, they would go on and on about how finding a single necklace could make them rich, so the child followed them to the dungeon.
The child watched from afar as they hacked and slashed at monster spiders and goblins.
One time the group missed something, a single dagger, a goblin dropped it, the child picked it up, and went a different direction from the group, the child found a group of three goblins and stalked them, then killed them.¡±
The voice started having a vague sadness in it.
¡°That was the first time the child had ever wielded a weapon, but he had the starter skill, adaptability, the ability to adapt to and overcome any task, anyway, the child did exactly as the group did and took various objects from the goblins, such as a dagger, a little longer than his own, and other objects.
The child did this day in, day out, waiting to find something as simple as a necklace, just to be able to sleep in a bed.
The group walked by me while the child was killing more goblins, they recognized the child and asked why a child was in a dungeon.
The child gave them the answer, and they didn¡¯t know how to react.
They asked me how the child was surviving and how far the child had gone into the dungeon.
The child didn¡¯t know.
They asked the child to show them what he had gotten, he showed them only half, as he knew better than to show a stranger his belongings, but wanted to trust the group.
He showed them and they offered to show him how to sell stuff for money, for a fourth of the loot, of course.
He did and started to easily make money, he got food without having to go through the trash, he slept in a bed, he met with the group again and they showed him lower floors.¡±
The sadness wasn¡¯t vague anymore.
¡°While he was with the group they picked off more than they could handle.
They met a wyvern, it poisoned two members, and the other monsters were distracting enough that they couldn¡¯t focus on it alone, the warriors in the group threw me-I mean the child to the stairs of the upper floor and broke the entrance.
The child beat himself up over it, if only he was a little stronger, only one level was enough, only one more level.
He fought in the dungeon again and got stronger, much stronger until he was sure he could do it, until he was sure he could kill that wyvern.
The child wasn¡¯t a child anymore, he was over thirty and had been called a psycho for how long he had been in the dungeon.
He, alone, killed the wyvern and every single monster on the floor.
He met the dungeon core and was asked a question, if he had any wishes, what would they be, if the dungeon core could comply it would, so long as the person didn¡¯t kill it.
He asked two things, one, access to the souls of his fallen comrades, two, to become a dungeon core.
He wanted to help prepare people, to make them one level higher, so that they would never feel that pain he did and has for years.¡±
The dungeon core transformed into a middle-aged man, in adventurers clothes, with the rough stubble that was obviously cut with a knife, surprised me a bit and made me stand up.
¡°His fallen friends, sadly never could remember him, as souls usually reset when they go to their next lives, and they were far into that process when the core took them, but I was just glad to have their presence near me at all times.
And now here you are asking me to help you with the very purpose of this dungeon. Come we have no time with your time limit of twenty days, but it will have to do.¡±
¡°How did you?¡±
¡°When you come into the dungeon, the light beforehand scans your knowledge, I had fun making levels off of things from your old world, except Yurel, he had his own idea with the ball.¡±
¡°The dragon?¡±
¡°Yes, my fallen comrade.¡±
¡°Wait, what? This is too sudden.¡±
¡°Stop acting like a lady who just got proposed to and come on, by the time you get out of my boot camp, you will be a true demon.¡±
Fifth Anniversary Character contest thing- My first character contest- Incha
Character: Incha (Pronounced EEN-KA) from NotaR0B0T¡¯s Land of Ilragorn.
Race: Spirit Elf (Description below)
Class: Monster Tamer (Not mentioned in the story yet)
Role: One of the main character''s parents'' owner''s friends (the main character is a baby chocobo.)
What she was supposed to do in the story- She was meant to be a translator between the monsters and humans, as the monsters understand what the human races say, but the human races can¡¯t understand what monsters say.
What a Spirit Elf is: A spirit elf is a race that can see and hear spirits, bold cliche I know, but she is one of the only races that can talk to monsters this way. You see spirits exist everywhere, but can¡¯t do much, so they are always bored. One of the only things they can do is talk to themselves, so they do, a lot. Spirits repeat everything they hear, monster or race they repeat everything, not to talk to anybody, as their species is as boring as it can get, but to just do anything. But spirit creatures hear, and spirit elves use it to their advantage, to become monster tamers, the strongest class ever, in this world¡¯s opinion. After all, why would you do something to get strong when you could be lazy and do nothing while your loyal protector gets stronger.
The Long-Legged Tribe: From the story itself¡
| "The Long-Legged tribe started when a group of twenty Sapien people wanted to live on the surface of the world to see every beauty the world had to offer. They were met with dragons in the day, behemoths in the night, and kraken''s in the ocean, they could do nothing but run. However the people with smaller legs couldn''t run as fast as the people with long legs, so they were accidentally used as meat shields while the fast long-legged people had children and made children with longer legs than them that went faster than them until you see the Long-Legged people today.¡± |
The lack of different languages (also a little bit of world-building): This world is one where overpowered beasts go everywhere, when I mean overpowered, I mean that dragons are born with stats between 100-400, while the MC himself was born with stats between 3-4, and all of the human races excluding beastman are nearly the same. So with all of the races being backed in a corner with no choice but to help each other near the start of creation, the concept of language was never invented, they all knew the language the world creator gave them so they used that. Then when the races revolted against their creator, and they lost, the creator punished the races by getting rid of their link with the monsters. That¡¯s where the spirits creatures come in, although they are a rare race and species, they are almost all monster tamers, monsters get stronger easier, grow up faster, and have a more versatile set of moves then the races do, so why not use your communication skills to get an army of them (Not to say that the races are weaker, they get a class system, which allows them to get stronger skills faster than monster, and grow in their stat category. Mages get more INT and MP faster, Warrior¡¯s get more STR and VIT faster).If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.
Incha¡¯s outward appearance: She always wears a cloak, not something fancy, just a tan cloak with a hood that nearly covers her entire face. Under that cloak is an Elf with dark purple hair, pointy ears that point slightly downwards, bright yellow eyes that are always darting around, looking at the spirits. Her arms, torso, and head only account to thirty-percent of her body, the rest is her legs and feet, this shows that she is part of a tribe called the Long-Legged tribe. She has a slender body, with decent curves, nothing out of the ordinary for a fantasy world. Her usual clothes beneath the cloak are clothes she made herself, usually blue shirts, and gray knee-length shorts.
Her character: She is seen as timid and shy because she always says umm between her words, but actually she is trying to not stand out. She has to differentiate between what people say to her and what spirits that heard a conversation at the other house are screaming to cure their boredom. When she was a child she used to answer every question she heard, which weirded out everybody when she started answering the people who had the villagers class who used the skill ¡°gossip¡± to make themselves whisper to everybody they chose, this caused many of the villagers to start fights, but she didn¡¯t understand that then, the villagers got more distant and she realized that she shouldn¡¯t have answered those questions. This caused her to think before she spoke, but the villagers were creeped out when she had long pauses between her sentences, this caused her current phase, thinking while talking. The cloak is another way not to stand out. She thought that maybe her hair and eyes might be another reason they were avoiding her, it wasn¡¯t, but she doesn¡¯t know that.
Her friends (If you are judging this in the contest, just read the first two sentences unless you want to read it all): She only has two good friends, Url (Pronounced UR-UL, and her girlfriend (Also not said yet in story) Rukra (Pronounced RUE-KRUH). They are the reasons the villagers stay away from her. First of all, Url is an oddity in the Long-Legged tribe, he has the regular human body shape, although he is more than six and a half feet tall. Since he is a normal shape none of the villagers can accept him, but he still wants them too, he doesn¡¯t care if they won¡¯t accept him, he just wants to hear their gratitude once, but they can¡¯t, their instincts tell them not too, because if he breeds he might make another regular-legged person. Rukra isn¡¯t exactly avoided by the community, well she is when she¡¯s with Url and Incha, but she is well-liked in the community. She started hanging out with Url first because he was the only guy that treated her like a normal person, accepting that she likes girls as well, as Rukra is very open with her sexuality when asked. She was asked who she thought she was most likely to date in her inn and she said Incha, but she has dated guys. The only reason she isn¡¯t avoided is that unlike Incha, she¡¯s bi, not lesbian.
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Chapter 19- The normal way
¡°Hehehehee, Parker stupid.¡±
Indeed Parker was, but he was a whole lot smarter than you, my friend.
Of course, I would never say this his face.
I just finished the story where Parker, a close acquaintance, tripped and landed on his own birthday cake, he didn¡¯t care much, he didn¡¯t really like cake, but we all laughed at him.
Good times.
¡°Lord,¡± it was a king goblin under my command, he had decently high intelligence, near Weler¡¯s, but I guess that means it isn¡¯t much.
¡°Speak.¡±
¡°Goblin¡¯s bored, morale lower.¡±
¡°Ah, just go raid that Long-Legged village again, just don¡¯t kill anybody important to the bird, we need to make sure he can see them die himself.¡±
After all, he did kill a very promising new King Goblin. I gave him a decent supply of soldiers, and then the adolescent bird killed all of them except one, good thing too, the one that escaped has a very good skill.
¡°Thank m¡¯lords.¡±
The goblin walked out.
¡°But promised bird, did we?¡±
¡°No, we said nothing about raiding the villagers before the time limit was over, and even if we did, why would we follow the rules.¡±
A devilish smile went over my face, making Weler smile too.
¡°We¡¯re goblins.¡±
Back to MC
¡°So looking at you, you have a lot of skills, but they¡¯re all low level, so that¡¯s what we¡¯re going to learn, how to level skills.¡±
I nodded, the room had changed from a small brick room to a much larger one, the size of a school gymnasium.
¡°Let¡¯s start with a skill you already have at a high level and max it out first, now any pop out at you?¡±
¡°Can¡¯t you see my status?¡±
¡°No, you have the hide status skill on, but don¡¯t turn it off, disguise status is very rare and very valuable, you should get it as soon as you can.¡±
So that did do something.
¡°Well my highest skill level is pepper breath at LVL 10, but it¡¯s already maxed, so aerial movement is next then.¡±
That skill leveled up very quickly in this dungeon, probably because it leveled up seven times in the death run maze and twice with the harpy.
¡°That makes sense, but why is it a much higher level than the rest of your skills?¡±
¡°I thought you could see my memories, but my starter skill gives me the skills of other monsters, and I fought a lot of fire goblins.¡±
¡°I said I scanned your knowledge, not memories, and that is the exact way we will be raising your skills today.¡±
¡°Killing monsters and stealing their skills?¡±
¡°Yes, as you said, I¡¯m basically a limitless EXP pit, so killing monsters doesn¡¯t hurt me, just kill them.¡±
He summons a harpy, it bows its head.
¡°Kill it, don¡¯t worry, it doesn¡¯t have a mind, it¡¯s only purpose is to die.¡±
Wait what, that doesn¡¯t feel right.
¡°Isn¡¯t that kinda... heartless.¡±
He looked at me and then let out a laugh.
¡°So the murderbird that didn¡¯t bat an eyelash in killing sentient monsters, feels remorse when a monster doesn¡¯t fight back.¡±
¡°Well, I was going to die as well if I didn¡¯t fight back.¡±
¡°What about against Uneal, I mean the Kobold, he was waiting down the time, he wasn¡¯t going to kill you.¡±
¡°He was going to stop me from completing the dungeon.¡±
¡°Now you just changed what your purpose is, is it that you don¡¯t kill if you don¡¯t have to, or you¡¯ll kill anything in your way?¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t this kind of, wrong? Talking about what you will kill?¡±
¡°Yes, yes it is, but you''re a monster now, it¡¯s something you have to do to survive. Your people back in your du-, I mean world, had to kill cows for beef, and chickens for chicken, and according to your knowledge, plants even feel pain according to a study from your world, so you¡¯re killing them as well, you just have to kill to survive, it¡¯s the law of the land.¡±
¡°What were you trying to call my world?¡±
¡°Nothing, now kill the mindless harpy.¡±
I walk up to it, face saddened, or what I thought was saddened.
What is a way to kill it with the least amount of mental trauma happening to me, flamethrower, or should I just kick it, get it over with, maybe water gun, whatever, flamethrower is most likely to kill.
I killed it with nothing remaining, I made sure of that.
No level up, it will take more than that to level it up.
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¡°Yes.¡±
¡°You want to talk about it?¡±
¡°We just did.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll respect your decision, not everyone could do it this way, so let¡¯s do the normal way.¡±
¡°Normal way?¡±
¡°Of course, normal monsters have to level up skills somehow.¡±
¡°How?¡±
¡°Use it a lot with your life on the line.¡±
I thought about this one.
¡°Okay.¡±
Better than killing for no reason.
The room changed to one with a line that started where I was standing and ended at the wall.
¡°Jump as far as you can.¡±
So I did, using both buff up and speed up, I almost got from one side of the room to the other.
¡°That¡¯s pretty far, but it¡¯s not hard to make.¡±
The room disappeared, and what reappeared was the death run setting, along with the gargoyle.
¡°Get to the end using aerial movement a lot.¡±
I was off, however after the first jump I realized the gaps between the platforms was much farther apart then they were the first time, I had to use aerial movement on the first one, and the second one as well, I might have to use it on every jump, so that¡¯s what I¡¯ll do.
I completely avoided the platforms and just ran on air, also the gargoyle was keeping up with me now.
I have to actually dodge every button, they no longer do anything to the platform, they are just random projectiles that force me to dodge, sometimes it¡¯s rooms that close, sometimes it¡¯s fire that fills the area, just random stuff.
Then I got the notification¡
| "Aerial movement LVL 9 leveled to LVL 10." |
| "Aerial movement LVL 10 evolved into Flight LVL 1." |
Suddenly the platform of air that I was running on disappeared, I looked down.
A mistake, I immediately thought I was falling, my fear of heights in sixth gear, I thought I was going to die, but the room changed.
I was on the ground with the core again.
¡°So, now let''s show you the basics of this skill.¡±
¡°The platform was gone.¡±
¡°This skill is one of the skills that feel like there should be a skill rank in between them, but you¡¯re going to have to deal with it.¡±
¡°How does it work?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, I¡¯ve never had the skill, try using it.¡±
¡°I thought the harpy would have it, so doesn¡¯t that mean you should know how it works.¡±
¡°Kid, it¡¯s good you question the system, but can you not question me about it, just try it.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
I activate fly and envision the typical thing you would for flying, just hovering for a little bit.
And it works, I hover, but I had a thought, could I do a loop de loop.
Anybody who suddenly learned to fly would want to do a loop de loop.
Completely forgetting about what I was thinking about before, I suddenly raise in altitude.
I arch my back and go up, which makes me go up looking weird, giving me a weird look from the core.
¡°Did you just try to do a loop de loop and fail.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°Well, just try basic movements first, we have to move on resistances next.¡±
I didn¡¯t have to do anything but envision where I wanted to go, then I found out I could change my position by thinking as well.
So I just combined my thinking, it didn¡¯t take much, by the end I did two loop de loops in a row, leveling it once before the core called me down.
¡°Let¡¯s start with the resistances, would you like the normal way, or the kill fire spirits way.¡±
¡°Normal way?¡±
¡°Okay, don¡¯t say I didn¡¯t ask you first.¡±
What does that mean?
The room changed to heck.
I was in a room full of fire from floor to ceiling, I wasn¡¯t spared.
I was engulfed in flame, though it didn¡¯t burn me like it usually would.
The fire hurt me, but I could still think, the pain was bearable, must be because my fire resistance is LVL 7.
That is good, I¡¯m glad he didn¡¯t send me into a room full of fire with nothing, well I do have nothing, whatever, I¡¯m fine.
However, am I just supposed to sit here and do nothing?
I think I am.
Maybe he thought I would be burning so I wouldn¡¯t be bored.
Well, I have recovery magic, so every time I see an actual burn on me I heal it, gaining me a level in both recovery magic and fire resistance.
Hey, what happens if I put out the flames with water gun.
I activate water gun and it puts out the flames where it touches, but it gets turned to steam in less than a foot in front of me, burning my face I¡¯m sure, so I use recovery magic.
I realize that this could be used to level my water gun as well, so I start spamming that.
Ten minutes later...
| "Fire Resistance LVL 9 has leveled to LVL 10." |
| "Fire resistance LVL 10 has evolved into Fire Immunity LVL 1" |
ShadowStealers POV
We¡¯re at the new location in the stables, slight snoring could be heard.
The hay is bundled neatly as it was done by Url, I love that guy.
He should be promoted to an earl.
It is nighttime, it¡¯s been 10 days since I fought Kwehzalcoatl and left him unwillingly with Suvunkilbub.
I¡¯ve been having trouble sleeping since then.
I¡¯m just way too excited, my son is getting personally trained by a divine beast.
What else could ruffle my feathers?
¡°You¡¯re worried about him?¡±
¡°Of course not, he¡¯ll survive, he¡¯s stronger than you and you survived.¡±
She bites me.
¡°OW, what was that for, it¡¯s true, don¡¯t worry, both of you are stronger than me too.¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t that kind of shameful?¡±
¡°Nah, we should be proud, think about it, he¡¯s bad at fighting now, but when he¡¯s at our age, he¡¯ll be unstoppable, and since we¡¯re his parents, he¡¯ll protect us, we basically made sure we live long. You catch my feathers.¡±
¡°That¡¯s terrible.¡±
Just after that, the door to the stables opened.
A goblin walked in, carrying a dagger.
I looked at FlashFire, she was starting to revert back to her red color, the color of a fire chocobo.
She looked back and nodded, then we both squawked as loud as we can.
We woke the entire stables up, and then FlashFire fired a fireball at the goblin.
The rest of the chocobo¡¯s noticed, and then we looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
We all squawked and notified the entire village of the trouble.
We got immediate feedback from the warcry of the village.
We all kicked the back of our stalls open and then ran out the back, just as Incha informed us too with her skill, Monster Escape Procedure, it lets us remember what we need to do while escaping.
I run on the perimeter of the village, which is completely covered in goblins, good thing Sholl distorts the air around us or we would have probably have been seen.
I immediately go to my assigned person, Url, who is currently protecting over half the village who are hiding in the building behind him.
The rest of the chocobo¡¯s do the same.
When each person has their chocobo, we scatter, all in different directions, but we all have the same destination.
There is a waterfall to the south, we will meet up a half a mile past that.
I¡¯m currently going north, but that¡¯s just to help us scatter.
This is only one of the escape tactics we have, we have hundreds of them, bigger villages have even more.
After all, our tribe was made after one quote¡
Running away is better than being dead.
Chapter 20- Dungeon Dojo
Day 1 of training
I¡¯m not sure whether it¡¯s a good or bad thing that I do my training surrounded by fire.
Literally, I¡¯m sure that sounds like a metaphor, but it¡¯s not, the core has produced fire rooms for me to level up my immunity to fire.
How do you level up immunity, is the real question, aren¡¯t I just immune to fire.
My body doesn¡¯t even burn anymore, I just walk through it as if there was nothing there.
My feathers have caught fire multiple times as well.
Although I have been in/on fire for an entire day, my fire immunity has only just leveled up to LVL 7.
The core won¡¯t tell me the purpose of this is, just to wait, I¡¯ll see once it¡¯s maxed, I checked it with analysis and it doesn¡¯t tell me.
My training is simple, just use a skill a lot.
I¡¯m already finished with a third of my skills, I have been continuously using his room to level them up.
I get to see Suvunkilbub at night before I go to sleep.
I told her about the core and its bosses, but she didn¡¯t seem too surprised.
She said that since one floor is one level up she often gets thousands of monsters fighting her on one floor and that she always got stuck because it took too long to fight more than ten thousand monsters.
When she did reach floor ten she was met with every single monster she had killed before at once, same with me, but I only fought the boss monsters anyway, so I couldn¡¯t tell if that was a rule or not.
Anyway, my skills levels are getting high, I also got some new skills from leveling them up.
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 53, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko." |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 7, Copy Entity Number LVL 3, Mind Acceleration LVL 10, Dragon beak LVL 1, Night Vision LVL 10, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 10, Recovery Magic LVL 7, Pain Immunity LVL 3, Heat vision LVL 2, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 10, MP manipulation LVL 10, Fire Immunity LVL 7, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 2, Punting LVL 10, Flamethrower LVL 10, Water Gun LVL 10, Flight LVL 3, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 2, Reckless Charge LVL 2, Press LVL 2, Earth removal LVL 2, Buff up LVL 10, Speed up LVL 10, Enchant LVL 1, Forge LVL 1, Inferno LVL 1, Tidal Wave LVL 1, Outer MP Manipulation LVL 1, 3D Shadow manipulation LVL 1, Future Sight LVL 1 " |
| "Stats: HP: 2808, STR: 3696, SPD: 2476, VIT: 2913, MP: 3201, INT: 2715" |
Don¡¯t ask about pain immunity. Just don¡¯t.
Just know that it is an active skill that will nullify all pain, and it wasn¡¯t the easiest skill to get.
The one I¡¯m working on currently is Recovery magic, which is simple.
The gargoyle, as he doesn¡¯t like me and is immune to fire, throws me around while pain immunity is on and while I spam heal myself.
It¡¯s that simple.
It¡¯s kinda boring, but I can deal with it.
I was someone who grinded a lot in MMOs, this feels kinda similar.
I mean the game would be in 4D but that just makes it cool.
The gargoyle snaps the bone in my wing in half, I don¡¯t feel anything, but it made me uncomfortable.
I got a level in pain nullification.
¡°How does it feel to get your body destroyed, you little nuisance.¡±
I healed my wing and then it shifted into place, no feeling of bones shifting or anything, it just is there like it was five minutes ago.
I got a level up in Recovery Magic.
I must have done a beaky grin because the gargoyle seemed surprised, though it didn¡¯t have any facial features besides a screaming demon so I couldn¡¯t be sure.
Day 2
I was awoken before the sun was up by the filolial.
I tried to make small talk, but the filolial is like all the other ones, besides invisibrat.
I haven¡¯t seen them in a long time, perhaps I¡¯ll visit after I get back together with mom and her friends.
Anyway, my skills are taking longer to level up, probably because they start at LVL 1 now, but it¡¯s getting boring.
I¡¯m just using heat vision, scratch that, being blinded by heat vision, when I get this text box.
| "Fire Immunity LVL 9 leveled up to LVL 10." |
| "You may pick a tier 1 skill that from the following." |
| "Combustion, Flame arrow, and Pepper Breath" |
Well, this is new.
What do they do?
| Skill: Combustion: Entities entire body can become ablaze when this skill is activated (LVL 1 can cover a specified area of the body in fire, LVL 5 can cover 50% more body in fire and gets slight resistance to water, LVL 10 sets the entire body ablaze and regular water cannot affect the flames, also you can add hidden affect to the flames. Note: If the entity has no resistance or immunity to fire then the entity will burn)." |
| "Skill: Flame Arrow: An arrow of flame that can be fired a long-distance (Scales with MP and INT, leveling makes it less expensive to use, LVL 10 gives you Flame Cannon LVL 1). |
| "Pepper breath: A peppery fireball that you shoot out of your mouth (Scales with MP and INT, leveling up makes it less expensive to use, LVL 10 gives you Flamethrower LVL 1)" |
This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.Should I ask the core about it, I mean, the obvious choice is combustion, I already have pepper breath and flame arrow sounds like a less powerful, but more range version of it.
I¡¯ll just pick combustion since it sounds like the hidden effect could be cool.
| "You picked Combustion LVL 1." |
I¡¯ll just ask the core about it¡
Heat vision became LVL 10, didn¡¯t do anything.
Then I wiggled my foot, the sign that I was done.
The flames disappeared and a middle-aged man stood before me.
¡°Heat visions LVL 10?¡±
¡°Yes and so is Fire Immunity.¡±
¡°Good, now pick flame arrow.¡±
¡°Ummm, what?¡±
¡°Flame arrow, the skill, wait, you already something else didn¡¯t you.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°What did you pick?¡±
¡°Combustion, it had the most appealing description, and flame arrow sounded like a more range less powerful version of pepper breath.¡±
¡°What do you mean, combustion is ranked as one of the worst fire skills.¡±
¡°What?¡±
¡°First of all, it''s evolution doesn''t increase its strength, second of all its range is less than almost every skill, third of all it can distort your vision.¡±
¡°But what about the hidden effect when it gets to level 10?¡±
¡°It adds another element secretly, it will look like regular fire, but when people touch it, they get blasted by wind, or they get poisoned, not very helpful,¡± he¡¯s obviously flustered and a little bit angry when he tells me this.
It adds another element, well that sounds decent, but its range sucks.
¡°Is it good for defense?¡±
¡°You already have magic armor, why would you need defense?¡±
¡°Well it doesn¡¯t consume mana, and magic armor does.¡±
¡°I guess, but your MP is huge, I doubt you would get that low on mana.¡±
I thought about it for a moment.
¡°What about healing magic, that could be a good effect?¡±
¡°You want to heal your enemies?¡±
¡°Oh.¡±
¡°Whatever, just go onto another skill, no more fire for you, unless it¡¯s inferno.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
I finished more skills today.
Day 3
I¡¯m working on telekinesis, it doesn¡¯t take too long to level up, but I feel like I¡¯m a three-year-old playing with blocks.
I guess that¡¯s accurate because I¡¯m 3 and a half months old.
I¡¯m just moving giant metal blocks around in intricate ways, it isn¡¯t really fun.
Okay, it¡¯s a little fun, especially when I fail, then I can get mad and fling the blocks across the room¡
Telepathy is just talking to random monsters, it levels up pretty quick.
I refused to level up life steal touch out of regular combat, I mean it¡¯s an undead skill, and it kills things, I can¡¯t bear to kill things that don¡¯t fight back, it just feels wrong, unless I feel that it¡¯s going to kill me behind my back.
Anyway, I skipped it and tried ruler''s orders, but the dungeon monsters don¡¯t follow anyone''s orders except the dungeon cores, so no good.
So I went on to the skills I got from the boss monsters.
Reckless charge was simple, just focus on one thing, the wall, then the dungeon core will spawn monsters whose goal is to stop me.
I don¡¯t kill anything, in fact, it feels more like a school game than anything.
It wasn¡¯t terrible to level up, it was fun, so I didn¡¯t mind that this one took multiple hours to get to LVL 10.
Press is weird.
It increases your chance to trigger a trap at the right time.
Even the core thought it was weird, so we skipped it.
Earth removal is cool, it¡¯s just digging, but it¡¯s different.
When you dig in the earth normally, dirt goes everywhere but using this skill it places dirt somewhere else.
That¡¯s the description, somewhere else, doesn¡¯t that mean it could go anywhere.
I got it to LVL 10 in multiple hours, it was boring, who really likes digging, okay who really likes digging for four hours straight.
Now I feel bad for construction workers, I needed to send them a card or something in my past life.
I already maxed out buff up and speed up because they can be used at the same time with anything else, and it doesn¡¯t hinder either of their performances, as well as not using any mana.
The day ended with a level in forge.
Day 4
I don¡¯t know why I need this, but I leveled it up anyway, forge is something simple, just find something, literally anything, and then changes shape according to your imagination.
Enchant is different.
It follows set rules, you need to say one sentence, and the armor or weapon has to follow it.
At LVL 1 you can only do one sentence, LVL 2 you can do two, and so on.
But it can¡¯t do anything that you can¡¯t do, like a can¡¯t say kills everything in one hit, because I can¡¯t do that, but I can say shoots fireballs because I have pepper breath.
The kobold used something a little more clever, he used the words increase weight, he had the other monsters lay on top of him, so it increased his weight a ton, then his armor could increase weight.
But when I pulled him he leaned forwards, when he increased his weight he was laying on his back, so the weight increase didn¡¯t happen.
These skills take an unreasonable amount of time, 6 and a half hours to be precise.
I even had the kobold help me, to find it doesn¡¯t know how to multilayer enchants, something I thought was natural.
Multilayering is just saying more than one sentence for it, so I had to teach it what to do.
I guess it could be helpful in the future.
When I finished it, I was going to continue onto inferno, but the core wanted to talk.
¡°So you finished most of your skills, it¡¯s time you go.¡±
Wait what.
¡°But I haven¡¯t finished, I still have Inferno and tida-¡±
He stopped me.
¡°It can¡¯t be good for you to stay here any longer, you should have noticed it by now, I naturally suck up MP, something I can¡¯t stop, eventually you are going to run dry, after that I suck up your life force.¡±
I didn¡¯t notice, however, I did notice that it was harder to do MP manipulation here.
¡°Look up kid, just leveling down here doesn¡¯t give you experience in life, go onto the surface world, make a name for yourself as the strongest chocobo or something, of course, that means you have to beat the chocobo divine beast.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
¡°It was an honor to have you in the Cyko dungeon dojo.¡±
| "You have gained the title- Cyko Dungeon Dojo Disciple." |
| "You have gained 100% trust of the Entity- Dungeon core Sudo Divine Beast, Name: Cyko." |
| "Would you like to activate Copy Entity Number LVL 3?" |
¡°Yes.¡±
| "Activated Copy Entity Number LVL 3" |
| "Gained 925 INT, Skill Monster Summoning LVL 1.¡± |
| "Copy Entity Number leveled up to LVL 4" |
¡°Umm, I just got the skill monster summoning from you, that okay?¡±
¡°Wait what?¡±
Chapter 21- Back to the Filolials
Apparently the monster summoning has to assign monsters to be able to summon something, and it¡¯s random what you summon, I have a maximum of five monsters to summon at LVL 1.
The Minotaur, Kobold, Dragon, harpy, and centipede all agreed to be my summons, which is fine by me.
The minotaur tried to talk the gargoyle to be my final summon, as well as the filolial, but neither of them wanted to be near me.
Also, the fire spirits and moles didn¡¯t think they would be very good on the surface world as moles have very bad eyesight above ground and fire spirits burn everything.
Not really a good thing in a forest.
I don¡¯t know really what to do, so maybe I¡¯ll go meet invisibrat, see his progress.
Or show him my own.
I meet Suvunkilbub as soon as I leave the dungeon.
I wait for her to say something.
I wait¡ Oh yeah, I have to activate mind acceleration.
¡°-u done with the dungeon for today or are you leaving for the road right now."
¡°The road.¡±
¡°So you were listening, oh should I slow down.¡±
¡°No I maxed out mind acceleration, I have future sight now.¡±
¡°Good, that skill has kept me alive since before I was a divine beast.¡±
I say goodbye to Suvunkilbub and then walk outside.
It¡¯s been a long while since I was outside.
The first thing that I notice is the colors, I would have walked past all the flowers before, but now that I was cooped up, I notice everything, pink lilies, a lone blue rose looking flower on the ground, the moss on the trees.
The second was the sounds, the chirping of the birds, regular ones, not filolials, the sound of flowing water, showing that a river is nearby.
The third was the breeze, it wasn¡¯t strong, but it moved my feathers slightly, it felt good.
I¡¯ve overlooked nature way too much, it feels like my senses each of them are getting a good stretch.
It¡¯s time for me to go.
I set towards my original nest at a calm pace, confident that I won¡¯t really have much of a challenge in this forest, I mean, I¡¯m the only thing above level 50 I¡¯ve ever seen.
I see a couple of dinosaurs, I mean dragons, they look like a stegosaurus, but they are different colors, they are red, white, and green, in order of descending size.
All of them could fit more than ten of me inside of them though.
This is a problem, I¡¯m the least threatening looking thing in this world.
I mean I¡¯m red and black, but that doesn¡¯t mean anything.
How did Suvunkilbub get so strong when she is a literal fly, she must have gone through heck and back.
I reach my old nest, it didn¡¯t take more than fifteen minutes, it looks like a monster has gone through it, doesn¡¯t matter anymore.
I sit down in the bush that I hid in before I was strong enough to do much.
It still fits me, which is kind of sad, because it feels like so much has happened since then.
But really looking back on it, the last time I was here was 16 days ago, so I guess it is appropriate.
I needed a place to sleep for the night anyway, the sun is about to go down.
When it¡¯s the morning I say my goodbyes to it, the circle opening in the forest surrounded by shrubs that has two rocks, the ground was filled with lengthened grass, which was pushed down on the spot I slept and some footprints of a dragon.
It wasn¡¯t much, but it was home.
Anyway let''s move forward, I¡¯ll go check on invisibrat.
I set towards the village, it should take about four hours to get there on foot, or it used to.
Now I have speed up, and about 3000 SPD, as well as being able to fly.
It should take thirty minutes.
I start running, I''m not good at flying yet, but there are a few parts that will be easier if I¡¯m flying, like the lake, we had to go around it before, but now it¡¯s easy.
Running through the forest at high speed is a new experience, it feels I was meant to run, which I probably was.
The breeze increased three-fold, along with the trees getting closer faster.
I have to activate mind acceleration to keep up with myself, which means I¡¯m too fast.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.
I have dodged a dragon, scared a behemoth who was asleep, passed a hedgehog, and I flew over a bunch of trees that fell from a battle between dragons.
I also stopped at the lake for a drink, it wasn¡¯t bad, I shot a pepper breath at a crocodile/water dragon, it tried to eat me.
I killed it, and ate a little bit, half-cooked from the pepper breath, wasn¡¯t terrible, tasted like pepper and seaweed, first time trying to eat something I killed.
When I was in the dungeon Suvunkilbub had meals for me at the end of the day, so I didn¡¯t starve.
But alas, I got to the village, it obviously wasn¡¯t expecting anyone, because there were no guards.
I walked into the village, the huts had no doors so I could easily see inside.
The place looked deserted, but there were tracks all going in one direction, all going towards the chief''s house.
¡°Please we beg you, please, bring him back.¡±
¡°Please, he is being worked too hard.¡±
¡°He needs more food, you can obviously see he is malnourished.¡±
¡°He hasn¡¯t slept enough I bet, just bring him ba-¡±
¡°Enough!¡± It was the chief''s voice, leaking with anger.
¡°I¡¯ve had enough, it was his decision, I can¡¯t bring him back, no one can.¡±
¡°Ummm, is this a bad time, I can go.¡±
Every single one of the filolials turned their heads behind them.
¡°Who is that, chocobo scum, how did he get passed the barrier.¡±
¡°He¡¯s a variant, but he¡¯s only an adolescent."
¡°He needs to go, yes go vermin.¡±
¡°YOU!¡± The chief''s voice shook the air.
¡°Yes if it¡¯s you, then maybe, just maybe.¡±
¡°Who is he chief?¡±
¡°Maybe what?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t recognize him, and analyze says nothing.¡±
¡°Wait, that coloration is he.¡±
¡°No way, I thought he left for good.¡±
¡°He did, he doesn¡¯t go to the nest anymore, I was part of the team that went back and forth.¡±
¡°You, you started this, now go fix it.¡±
¡°What?¡± I am utterly confused, they are spewing nonsense.
¡°Go get my grandson, bring him back.¡±
¡°Uhh, why?¡±
¡°Because you caused his thirst for power, and that made that feathery bloke seek him out.¡±
¡°What uh feathery bloke.¡±
¡°The royal instructor filolial, now hurry and go.¡±
¡°Why can¡¯t you do it?¡±
He started pouring bloodlust.
¡°I¡¯ve tried, but he said he absolutely wanted to get stronger, which caused the royal instructor to protect him.¡±
¡°This is getting nowhere, let me explain?¡±
It is the invisibrats mother.
¡°So, my son was down that he couldn¡¯t get stronger from watching you and getting your advice anymore, then a royal instructor showed up and offered to teach him, he immediately accepted and has been training since my father asked him to come home, you with me so far?
I nod.
¡°But he says he wants to get stronger, so my father tried to force him home, but the instructor stopped him, now my father is getting lonely from not being able to see him, which is making his work bad, so we are trying to ask him to try again, but my father is putting his work on you now.¡±
¡°No I¡¯m not putting my work on him, he¡¯s the whole reason my grandsons out there, if it¡¯s him they can duel and then my grandson can win, and then he can be happy and back here.¡±
¡°You don¡¯t know the reason he¡¯s out there do you?¡±
¡°Of course I do, he wants to get stronger than the vermin chocobo, that¡¯s easy to tell.¡±
¡°No that¡¯s not it, he wants to win for you.¡±
The chief is shocked speechless.
¡°What, what does that mean?¡±
¡°He hears all the filolials ridiculing you for not raising him to be strong enough, but all you can say is he must have had cheated, we all know he didn¡¯t cheat, we don¡¯t care if he cheated, the group of filolials that ridiculed you already left, but my son heard those words and wants for you to be able to say that your grandson was beating up chocobos before he was even an adult.¡±
The other filolials looked down at the ground when she said that filolials were ridiculing the chief.
The chief was looking down as well, processing what he just heard.
¡°You.¡±
¡°Me?¡±
¡°Yes you, follow me.¡±
¡°Why.¡±
¡°You are going to duel my grandson.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t think that¡¯s a good idea.¡±
¡°Why, this is just like a vermin, backing out of a duel because they were trained by someone strong, you need some backbone.¡±
¡°No that¡¯s not it, it¡¯s that I¡¯m probably the strongest living thing in this village.¡±
¡°Just because you have lived for three months and evolved doesn¡¯t mean you¡¯re the strongest, stop getting drunk on your power.¡±
¡°What¡¯s your LVL?¡±
¡°Just use analyze for that information, seriously use your resources, I¡¯m LVL 38, way stronger than¡ what LVL are you, I can¡¯t use analyze on you?¡±
¡°I¡¯m LVL 53.¡±
Just a pause, nobody moved, was that a tumbleweed that went by.
¡°Do you expect me to believe that?¡±
I undid hide status.
¡°Look at my status now.¡±
He did, and you could tell the surprise on his face was of pure horror, followed by the other filolials.
Once everybody had the same look I redid hide status.
¡°I¡¯m so sorry, Kwehzalcoatl, I can¡¯t have you duel my grandson.¡±
¡°No it¡¯s okay, you don¡¯t have to talk formally, I¡¯m not a formal person anyway, it¡¯ll be hard for me to bear with that.¡±
¡°Okay, good, I don¡¯t want to disrespect such a powerful entity.¡±
¡°But I¡¯ll go to invisibrat anyway, I was planning to talk to him.¡±
¡°Invisibrat, who''s that?¡±
¡°A nickname for your grandchild.¡±
¡°Why would he need a nickname.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, I just gave him one.¡±
¡°Anyway, where is he, I¡¯ll go talk with him, I¡¯ll tell him that you miss him, but I won¡¯t force him to come back.¡±
¡°He¡¯s that way.¡±
The chief pointed towards the opposite way I came from with his wing.
¡°Okay, see you.¡±
Chapter 22- The Chase
I really needed more than a ¡®that way¡¯.
The forest doesn¡¯t have any big landmarks, just trees, some rubble from fights, and rocks, I notice flowers here and there, but if you wanted to get lost in this place, it isn¡¯t hard.
So that¡¯s the situation I¡¯m in, I¡¯m lost.
This is kinda a first for me, I¡¯ve never really had a chance to explore, I haven¡¯t done much since getting to Ilragorn but fight, train, and wait for the next fight.
I¡¯m not really a battle junkie, but I¡¯ve started to just expect that the fight will come to me.
Now that I¡¯m looking for someone it¡¯s really weird.
I¡¯ve had four dragons try to attack me, all of them were medium size, bigger than me but smaller than normal dragons, it wasn¡¯t a fair fight, they each died in one hit.
But afterward, I hear multiple roars, in every direction.
Kinda ominous...
I feel bad for the big guys, I mean they started it, but maybe I should turn off status hide, then they¡¯ll know not to fight me.
But it will hinder the time till I get status disguise, a super rare skill apparently, maybe if I set my status to LVL 999 nobody will try to fight me.
I got one LVL in Dragon¡¯s Beak, I guess it was kinda worth it, not really.
I need to take death more seriously.
Anway, a fifth dragon appears.
They all looked like T-Rexes with wings, but this one was more menacing than the rest of them.
This one is green and has a wide stance, its large, leathery, bat-like wings raised, a big head close to the ground, you can¡¯t count the number of teeth, small brown eyes, but they are also focused.
I use analyze on it¡
| ¡°Target: Brute dragon LVL 14 |
| Titles: Mature, Determined, Martial artist |
That¡¯s straightforward, he actually knows how to fight.
Of course, it¡¯s not like I¡¯ll rush him because he knows how to fight.
It¡¯s my policy to strike only after they try to strike me first, though I made it two days ago, it¡¯s a pretty good policy.
The dragon waiting for me to come to it stays in its stance.
So I keep walking.
It looks at me confused but does go away.
Looks like I¡¯m just in its territory or something, it¡¯s just protecting something.
I move on but hear just one roar, it was coming in the direction of the one I just left.
Then the gentle breeze around me changed, the breeze turned to wind and the trees around me swayed back and forth under the pressure.
I look back and see a huge dragon, similar to the others, but three, no four times bigger, and both of its eyes are crossed out with scars.
I see it and dash.
There isn¡¯t a real reason why you dash, you see something scary, and your body reacts.
Just so you know, I¡¯m the size of a four-year-old, that dragon is the size of a dump truck standing on its back.
I¡¯m not about to win against a dump truck, never mind one that breathes fire and flies, maybe if there was one thousand of them, but not now.
I jump over branches, pass trees, dodge rocks, and activate speed and buff up, also mind acceleration, but it¡¯s no use, the dragon flies in front of me.
It stops, turns around slowly, to see me running in the opposite direction.
Just because it¡¯s in front of me doesn¡¯t mean I can¡¯t turn around.
However, in my fear I automatically used analyze, a really bad mistake.
| "Target: Kung Fu Dragon LVL 98" |
| "Titles: Determined, Martial Artist, Styled on them, Blind, True Vision, Mother of Five, Teacher." |
I ran twice as hard when I saw the 98 in its name, and then it knows kung fu, I¡¯m out.
The dragon chased after me again, but this time I¡¯m staying low to the ground.
This way I¡¯m harder to see, I wish I had invisibility, that would make running a whole lot easier.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
How does it even see, it has no eyes to see out of.
I guess true vision has something to do with it.
Anywho, the dragon easily gaining on me, so I start evasive maneuvers.
I turn a couple of times, left, right, right, left, right, right, left, left, it doesn¡¯t do much the dragon easily keeps up with me.
When the dragon was literally above my tail, I stopped, it flew over my head but quickly turned around.
I quickly, before she turned around, kept running in the same direction.
That way when she turned around I wouldn¡¯t be there.
I quickly hide in a bush, stop breathing, and look at the ground in front of the dragon.
I did this because when you breathe you still have visible movement, and some people can sense when something''s eyes are on them, so I don¡¯t look at them.
The dragon quickly turns around again and stomped on my bush.
I would be dead if it wasn''t for mind acceleration, I jumped out as soon as it puts its eyes on me, which was milliseconds before it stomped.
How did it see me, it¡¯s not like there is a trail it can follow.
Does it have a skill that tracks me, I mean it can, but not likely.
The dragons getting to close, I can run for longer, but eventually, it will catch me.
I keep turning, doing anything to get it off my tail.
But then the one thing that could stop me did.
The first thing deserving of being called a landmark appears, and it¡¯s a big one.
I run into a mountain.
The dragon lands and covers my escape routes.
My mind''s racing so fast looking for a way out, but everywhere I look is being taken over, until I look¡
Up.
I jump, then fly, faster, then faster, I need to go faster.
The dragon was definitely surprised, it took it more than a couple of seconds to realize that I was flying, but it took flight after me all the same, and it¡¯s like comparing the speed of a fly to a falcon.
Unlike I who uses my MP to fly, those giant wings catapult it into the sky, after me.
I feel it¡¯s approaching, so I start to go diagonal, but its huge maw opened and if I tried to dodge I couldn¡¯t get out of the way of those teeth.
Then something fell off the mountain.
The mountain wasn¡¯t terribly tall, it was only a couple hundred feet tall, but that would surely hurt.
The figure picked up speed, diving, until it barely missed me, and crashed like a comet onto the dragon.
They both hit the ground and made a thud that could surely be heard for miles, making a huge dust cloud in the forest, but what followed was much louder.
¡°Quiet! My student is training! Do you have no dignity, monsters will surely come over here to see the noise now! Go away and be quiet!¡±
¡°But master you are louder than they were,¡± a voice said from the mountain summit.
I look up and see Invisibrat, he didn¡¯t change much, but he seemed to glow more.
¡°Shut up, if I see you one more time you¡¯ll have to hunt your own dinner!¡±
¡°You already make me do that.¡±
¡°Then I¡¯ll make you hunt my dinner!¡±
¡°Again, you already make me do that!¡±
¡°Shut up and hide!¡±
¡°Okay, remember your promise.¡±
¡°What promise?¡±
Invisibrat went to go hide further into the mountain.
¡°Stinkin brat, needs to respect his elders.¡±
That freaking cliche line snapped me back into reality and I started descending.
¡°Excuse me for my insolence powerful filolial, but I did not mean to disrupt your disciple''s training, I am going for another one of them, he killed four of my children while they were out getting their daily quota of kills, I know a common training method, but quite effective. I need that red and black filolial, I need revenge for my children, may I be permitted to go into a sacred duel with him.¡±
The dust cloud dissipated and a scene I never thought I would see played out.
The dump truck was doing dogeza in front of an ostrich.
The bird had little feathers on its head if any, but unlike an ostrich, it¡¯s feathers were yellow.
The bird had its tongue out to the side and its eyes were squinting as if it couldn¡¯t see in front of it.
I used analyze on it and was severely surprised.
| "Target: Lightning Royal Instructor Filolial LVL 183." |
| "Titles: Tired, Loner, New Start, True Vision, Flashing Fowl, Good Teacher, Grumpy old man." |
| "Analyze LVL 7 has leveled up to LVL 8." |
What part of the forest did I end up on to get all these high-level monsters?
I haven¡¯t seen a single lightning type monster yet, isn¡¯t lightning one of the strongest elements in games, why haven¡¯t I seen a lot of them.
¡°No, go away, don¡¯t bother us!¡±
¡°But my children, four out of five of them, should I just stand and act like they didn¡¯t exist.¡±
¡°Do whatever you want, if your children were willing to take lives then it¡¯s only fair if they got their lives taken instead, just go away.¡±
¡°What should I tell my last son, I can¡¯t tell him his sibling were killed without revenge.¡±
¡°Tell him whatever, now in the words of the dungeon in the east, Bippity Boppity, get off my property!¡±
¡°You can¡¯t be serious, give me my children back!¡±
The dragon stood up and towered above the old filolial.
¡°No, I¡¯m not serious ma¡¯am, would you like me to become serious?¡±
Bloodlust started pouring out of the old coot, so much so that a dragon in the background trying to sneak up on the other dragon turned around and started running away.
The dragon fell over backwards and tried backing away.
¡°No, good, now shoo, leave me and my disciple as we have much to talk about.¡±
The dragon looked over at me and glared, ¡°I¡¯ll get you, one day,¡± and ran off.
As soon as the dragon left the filolial quick as lightning was in front of me.
¡°Now who might you be my Precious Disciple.¡±
His sheer power terrified me, but a witty comment never escaped me ¡°Ur mom.¡±
Chapter 23- Bird mentor.
¡°Now who might you be my Precious Disciple.¡±
His sheer power terrified me, but a witty comment never escaped me ¡°Your mom.¡±
The old filolial stared at me a second, ¡°Your mom.¡±
He backed off from me and started pondering, ¡°I¡¯ve never heard that comeback, it¡¯s practical, can be used in various situations, can easily break tension, mildly funny, but can be a little insensitive, hmmm, I¡¯ll use it later, anyway seriously, who are you, you¡¯re a chocobo, not a filolial, and an adolescent, you shouldn¡¯t be able to fly, and you¡¯re overflowing with MP, as well as no control over concealing it, but you can¡¯t be targeted by analyze.¡±
As the filolial was taking apart my situation, I decided to speak up, ¡°Umm, hello I¡¯m Kwehzalcoatl, and I was sent by your disciple''s grandparent to ask him to come back, as well as catch up to him since we are on friendly terms.¡±
He paused, ¡°You have a name, lucky son of a vermin, life must come easy for you, who gave it to you?¡±
As I¡¯m not sure if I should randomly give out Suvunkilbub¡¯s name, I decide to go the other way since this guy is a fan of humor, ¡°Nunya.¡±
¡°What?¡±
¡°Nunya Bizness.¡±
He paused again, ¡°Who told you these jokes, do you have a comeback for everything, you¡¯re only, ten to twenty years, no younger, only an adolescent, so less than one year, but has the MP of a twenty-year-old dragon, who has the time to make up jokes, these are calculated, is there a Chocobo mentor who spends its time in a cave just to make jokes?¡±
¡°No, let''s just say I made them up,¡± I guess people don¡¯t have much time for jokes here, with the constant death and mayhem, but Cyko had been sitting for a long time, he could have made some good jokes.
¡°Let''s just say hmmm.¡±
¡°Yeah, let''s just say,¡± he¡¯s on to me.
He stares at me, but eventually let the subject drop, ¡°Anyway, the brats up there, if you can get up there and find him, he¡¯ll hunt for your meal tonight.¡±
¡°That works,¡± I start flying up.
I may go up slowly, but I level up fly by one, and I got a little boost.
The mountain isn¡¯t super tall but still took a few boring minutes to get up there.
The top of the mountain looked like a secret paradise, it isn¡¯t cold, it is actually kind of warm, it isn¡¯t huge up here, about the perimeter of the average house.
It is filled with grass, a few trees, and a pond that if anybody went in water would go off the edge of the mountain.
¡°Took you long enough, now *big yawn* find the brat.¡±
¡°Sure invisibrat¡¯s as good as found,¡± I activate heat vision.
¡°Invisibrat, a name combining invisible and brat, it¡¯s¡¡± I start to ignore his analyzation as I try to spot invisibrat.
But I can¡¯t, it¡¯s like only the old filolial, a couple of bugs, a couple of dragons on the ground and other things, but no adolescent filolial.
¡°Do you need a hint?¡±
¡°Sure.¡±
¡°Dodge left.¡±
I wasn¡¯t ready for it and got hit, it didn¡¯t hurt, but sensing a battle I put on my magic armor and mind acceleration, as well as buff and speed up.
Then I see it, he¡¯s jumping around, just like I told him to, but the grass is betraying him showing his position every time he lands.
However I can¡¯t follow him for long, as his trail of jumps disappears, and then I get hit in the back.
Oh yeah, he has that skill, teleporting to the back of his opponent, that gives me some information.
I watch him, only my head turning to see his location, just waiting.
Then he disappears, I quickly turn to where my back was previously and do a wide kick, you would think that a wide kick would leave me open, but I am so fast that I actually catch invisibrat in the kick.
Or so I thought, the old filolial is there and he stopped my kick with his frail yellow wings as if it was nothing, then he knocked invisibrat in the head with his back, as invisibrat was invisible, where even heat vision couldn¡¯t see him.
Okay, even this guys eyes are powerful, how can I compete with that?
Unless he smelled him, but that is a completely different story.
Invisibrat comes out of invisibility and rubs his head with his wing.
¡°Were you trying to die?¡±
¡°What? No, this guy is almost the same age as me, why would he be strong enough to kill me in one hit.¡±
¡°He ran away from an LVL 100 Kung Fu dragon and if not for this mountain might have survived on his own, what did you think, that if he could nearly keep up with an LVL 100 dragon he only had really good SPD, that¡¯s not how this world works, Ilragorn, kids these days, think that they¡¯re the strongest in the world.¡±
¡°I¡¯m not the strongest, you¡¯re stronger than me, grandpa¡¯s stronger than me, that baby Chocobo¡¯s should still be stronger than me, there''s more that I don¡¯t know too.¡±
¡°Use ¡®as well¡¯ not too, I¡¯m a battle teacher, not a word one.¡±
¡°Okay, so who¡¯s this.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, say¡¯s he knows you.¡±
He stares at me, ¡°maybe, nope, not anybody I know, everybody I know has an analysis, he doesn¡¯t.¡±Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
¡°Okay Invisibrat, so you don¡¯t know me?¡±
He pauses with two blinks as if to see if he sees me right.
¡°Invisibrat? Ohhhhhhhhh, that¡¯s who you are.¡±
¡°Long time no see, just wanted to let you know, your grandpa wants to see you, maybe you could visit him, he got really depressed, the filolials are begging him to come to get you.¡±
¡°No!¡± His yell made it seem like it was his final decision.
¡°Why not, he misses you.¡±
¡°If I may interrupt, I may seem like an old bird, but if you try to change his decision¡¡±
His speech slowed down and his voice got lower, ¡°Then you¡¯re gonna have a bad time.¡±
¡°Where the heck did you get that reference.¡±
¡°Where? Have you heard the original source? I got it from a skeleton in the northwest, cold place, he had a ton of puns, a skele-TON.¡±
¡°Okay, that is weird, did you kill anybody near there?¡±
¡°Well yes, there was a lich memory keeper there about five years ago that I killed, he had made a skeleton army full of those puns, as well as fish, goat, and some yellow creature chimera¡¯s.¡±
¡°Another memory keeper?¡±
¡°Oh, are you one, that explains your jokes.¡±
¡°Oops.¡±
¡°What? It isn¡¯t uncommon, don¡¯t think your special, though I have seen less around this year.¡±
¡°What¡¯s a memory keeper?¡±
¡°Someone who keeps their memories of their past lives.¡±
¡°Does that mean that you''re older than me?¡±
I paused to think about that.
¡°Not physically at least, mentally yes.¡±
¡°Mentally?¡±
¡°Yes mentally.¡±
¡°No, what does it mean?¡±
¡°Oh, it means my brain is smarter than yours or something?¡±
¡°What¡¯s a brain?¡±
¡°Its-.¡±
I was stopped by the old gramps.
¡°Ask analyze.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
Did he just use the equivalent of asking google in this world?
Whatever I¡¯ll do it too.
| "The Brain- A part of your body located in your head that is where you think, also said to hold the soul." |
That is so helpful, it¡¯s a dictionary, timer, calendar, and ID all in one.
¡°Anyway, I came here for the reason to visit you invisibrat, check your progress, I guess I should go and train myself some more.¡±
¡°Train you say? What for?¡±
I explain my situation to them.
¡°So you¡¯re telling me, you¡¯re attempting suicide?¡±
¡°No, I can do it, it¡¯ll be easy.¡±
¡°I just got on to him for thinking he¡¯s the strongest, your generation is arrogant then.¡±
¡°I have a race skill that gives me +50 to all stats per opponent.¡±
He stopped, ¡°Maybe you can win, how many did you say you were facing at once?¡±
¡°Around 2000.¡±
¡°How confident were you in front of them.¡±
¡°Pretty confident, to the point they thought I was suicidal as well.¡±
¡°They suspect you, and probably already put countermeasures.¡±
¡°How can you tell.¡±
¡°I know them well, the goblins, don¡¯t like them, but the leader is smart and has lived for a long time, seen almost every skill.¡±
¡°So, what do I do about his countermeasures?¡±
¡°The leader is smart, but most goblins are weak and, well dumb, get them to overreact and then an opening will be pretty clear, I guess.¡±
¡°Okay, that¡¯s not very clear.¡±
¡°Well, there''s nothing I can do unless you want me to train you.¡±
¡°Aren¡¯t you supposed to hate me?¡±
¡°What? The old feud between our races, when you get as old as I am, you realize you really don¡¯t care, now this offer won¡¯t come free, I need you to do something for me after.¡±
¡°Which is?¡±
¡°Kill the goblin kings, the annoying buggers, the last time I trusted them I nearly died, which was about 50 years ago, just get em good.¡±
¡°You have any quarrel about this Invisibrat.¡±
¡°No, why, having more than one will be fun.¡±
¡°Okay then.¡±
¡°Okay, can you show me your status, then I will know where to go from there.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
I turn off hide status.
¡°Check now.¡±
He jumps up from a lazy position to straight up on his legs.
¡°What the ****.¡±
¡°Watch your profanity.¡±
¡°How old are you again?¡±
¡°Physically three and a half months.¡±
¡°Cyko, Suvunkilbub, Puff?¡±
¡°Puff is a dragon that appeared while I was still unconscious after my evolution, the rest I met at random.¡±
¡°Why do you so many tier 3 skills, and Combustion, that skill is terrible, why would they let you pick it?¡±
¡°Fifteen days in Cyko¡¯s Dungeon, and I picked combustion because I thought it was strong.¡±
¡°Well, that explains your level.¡±
¡°What¡¯s a dungeon.¡±
¡°Ask analyze.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
¡°Now, since your skills are good, we need to see if you can use them.¡±
Old Coots POV
Three and a half months, he has to be lying, the only thing that I don¡¯t understand his skill Copy Entity Number, never heard of it or seen it before, must be a new skill one of the gods proposed and is getting live tested for balance, anyway this kid is way too strong, it took me 150 years to get to LVL 150, which had been inconsistent leveling over the years, once you get to LVL 50, things run and stop going after you, because they know they can¡¯t survive.
¡°Any way you can start whenever just charge me.¡±
I won¡¯t go too strong on him, I¡¯ll just dodge.
¡°Okay.¡±
He shoots a pepper breath at me from point-blank, it¡¯s huge, but I know it¡¯s LVL 10 so it wasn¡¯t too much of a surprise, I easily dodge.
He was right behind it and nearly gets me, but I activate electric dodge, low-level electric skill, sure it¡¯s level 10, but I don¡¯t think I need to use it¡¯s evolution right now.
He reacted, must be mind acceleration, he uses a flamethrower, also LVL 10, I dodge that and then steam comes out and the entire area is filled.
I can see him thanks to the true vision, but he can also see me for some reason.
I didn¡¯t see a steam skill, so he must have used a combination of skills, which is smart for him only being here for three months.
Anyway he charges me again, faster than he should be, but he just charged me, didn¡¯t activate another skill, he should have activated another projectile as he doesn¡¯t know where I am, but he knows where I am, even then he should activate reckless charge or something, hell activate dragons beak.
I simply dodge and try to knock him out.
But he reacts like he knew what would happen.
Oh, future sight, the skill that shows you any attacks that are fatal or can knock you out, well, I just have to activate electric dodges tier 4 skill, Godspeed, a skill that counter-attacks on instinct, just gotta make sure to knock him out instead of killing him.
Easy enough, he charges again, and it works.
¡°I can work with him.¡±
¡°How much stronger is he than me?¡±
¡°Stronger indeed, stronger indeed.¡±
After a long pause, I get.
¡°What?¡±
Chapter 24- The start of a battle
I¡¯m learning a lot, some stuff I should¡¯ve learned the first day, and I have earned some appreciation that I¡¯m not in school anymore.
The things that will be easy to remember is what the stats mean.
I¡¯ve learned that STR is, and I quote from the ostrich himself, ¡°how hard you can hit something,¡± who would¡¯ve guessed.
HP is how much ¡®life I have¡¯, SPD is stability and motor controls, VIT is how much damage I can usually absorb so my life doesn¡¯t take a hit, MP is a number to show how many skills I can use at one time, and INT is a number to show how well I can use my MP, and it also helps with MP regeneration speed.
The next thing he made me do was sit and stay quiet, which gave me a skill called Meditation LVL 1, it¡¯s just like every stereotypical anime, doubles my HP regen and MP regen, except it¡¯s toggleable and doesn¡¯t impede you in any way.
Meaning I can always have it on, pretty sure that was overlooked, I also learned from the ostrich that this worlds god is apparently lazy.
Then I asked how old he was and he said a ¡®young 153 years old¡¯, and that he¡¯s ¡®still a spring chicken¡¯.
Spring chickens still have their feathers though, I made sure not to say that thought out loud.
Anyway, skills also have a system, it¡¯s simple, almost every skill has a max of LVL 10, and they can each give you a skill one tier higher once you¡¯ve reached its max LVL.
Theirs 5 tiers, subtracting resistance and nullification tiers, and each tier you can get a skill that is progressively more powerful, like pepper breath, flamethrower, inferno, then the next skill is Greekfire, and according to the ostrich the next skill is Amaterasu-just kidding, it¡¯s conflare, which apparently is what the deity of the flaming forge named the skill.
Skills in tier five have been created and named for the gods in its category, fun fact: the fire god picked up the hobby of forging and then became the deity of flaming forge, he also asked for the skill forge to be made a thing.
Also apparently having gods around is normal for this world, and if I ever see one I run.
But they aren¡¯t really gods, they¡¯re deities, which is lower than the one true god, but are stronger than LVL 300 each, and have been around since nearly the beginning of the world.
I also asked what a Sudo divine beast is, it¡¯s an entity that is strong enough to be a divine beast, but hasn¡¯t challenged the real divine beast yet.
And apparently, to become a divine beast, a sudo divine beast has to defeat a divine beast in a sacred duel.
Learning is fun, isn¡¯t it?
Anyway, that wraps up what I have learned so far, now he¡¯s teaching me about using skills.
¡°Use Flamethrower¡ Use Flamethrower¡ Use Flamethrower¡¡±
Is this how a pokemon feels.
¡°Don¡¯t you feel bored?¡±
¡°Yeah kinda.¡±
¡°Then why are you just standing their using flamethrower in the same direction every time.¡±
¡°Because you told me too.¡±
¡°No, I told you to use flamethrower, not stand around.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
I used flamethrower while moving, which canceled the skill, but for a second the fire spread in the direction I was walking.
¡°There you go, now do it for four seconds instead of three.¡±
I tried again, not doing anything different, and still got three seconds.
¡°No, no, no, try again, but this time focus.¡±
I did, focusing more on the flamethrower than moving, which made me trip on a convenient rock.
¡°No, no, you did it for five seconds, I wanted four.¡±
This pissed me off, but I did it for four seconds as he wanted, and I focused on my vision as well as the flamethrower.
¡°Try it again.¡±
¡°Why?¡±
¡°Because I said so.¡±
¡°Your not my mom.¡±
¡°According to you, you''re my mom.¡±
¡°Tu Che.¡±
¡°What does that mean.¡±
I start the flamethrower, but this time, he hit me on my side and knocked me over onto the ground, nearly over to the edge.
¡°What the heck, why did you do that.¡±
¡°I thought you were attacking, if you attack something, be prepared to be attacked, now again.¡±
There is something I can do, so I go to the middle and activate magic armor, and I enchant it to not be able to move.
¡°Oh, interesting.¡±
¡°What?¡±
¡°Enchanting magic armor, both skills are rare, but I¡¯ve never seen an application like that, and it gets rid of the permanent armor enchantment problem like if an armor set was enchanted to never be able to move like you just did, it wouldn¡¯t be able to move from its spot, no matter if it is in the air or the sea, it would never move, meaning you couldn¡¯t move it to wear it either, but now to get rid of the enchantment all you have to do is get rid of the armor, am I wrong?¡±This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
I have no idea if he¡¯s wrong, but this works.
I use flamethrower, and he hits me, hard, and it hurts, I didn¡¯t have pain nullification on.
¡°Even if you did have pain nullification on, this skill that I used does a max of 6000 damage, and it goes through defense, thankfully I lowered it down to 1000, you can¡¯t really stay still on me.¡±
¡°Can I really dodge you either?¡±
¡°Well no, but it¡¯s better than standing still, now try flamethrower again.¡±
I get rid of magic armor and then put it back on, then I turned on all my passive skills, I¡¯m going to hit that ostrich if it¡¯s the last thing I do.
I activate Speed up, Buff up, Mind Acceleration, Combustion, Heat Vision, and Reckless Charge, and then I enchant my armor to automatically dodge any attacks that come towards me, lastly activate MP Manipulation, bringing as much MP as I can to hopefully be able to make a dent in the old coots defenses.
If I can¡¯t hit him, I won¡¯t let him hit me.
¡°Okay then, going all out are we.¡±
I activate flamethrower at the old coot who has a grin on his face, it shoots out at lightning speed, causing a small shockwave as it first shoots out making my ears ring and I go backwards a little bit, but not enough to make me falter.
The flames, usually red and orange, was now blue and shaped completely like a beam.
I don¡¯t have any stray thoughts, but then a box popped up in my face and scared me.
| "Killed Air Dragon LVL 71 Entity #799826469240015184" |
| "Gained 9231 EXP. Activate Copy Entity Number LVL 4?" |
Oh good, I thought it was the filolial, that would¡¯ve been bad, yes.
| "Activated Skill Copy Entity Number" |
| "Gained 935 HP, Skill: Flight LVL 5 leveled up to 6" |
Simple and sweet, wait, where did the filolial go, I think as I¡¯m pushed on my side.
The old coot tried to hit me, but my armor dodged, not a good dodge though, as it didn¡¯t abide for me being straight up and down.
I did dodge though, and I still have flamethrower on, so I aim it at him.
The beam curves towards him, threatening to cut the mountain as well, but I don¡¯t let that happen, he dodges easily, but I keep turning the beam.
He seems more nervous, he keeps trying to approach, but can¡¯t because he can¡¯t hit me and if he¡¯s not careful the beam will hit and will hurt.
¡°Stop¡. Kwehzalcoatl¡.¡±
I guess he¡¯s done, but I¡¯m not, I activate Outer MP manipulation and quickly add a little MP in front of me, but I didn¡¯t think it through.
The beam bursts, causing a huge shockwave, scaring me and stopping me from using flamethrower.
I¡¯m immune to fire, so I don¡¯t get burned, but the mountain area around me is charred black.
| "You have killed 23 Wicked Crows LVL 10-49 Entity #''s... EXP 3165" |
| "You have killed 27 Light Doves LVL 11-45 Entity #''s... EXP 3421" |
| "You have killed 1 Aqua Seal LVL 19 Entity #845194028247203682, EXP 215" |
| "You have leveled up to LVL 54" |
| "Would you like to use Copy Entity Number LVL 4." |
That¡¯s a little bad, and why a seal, also how a seal, also yes.
But before I could check what I got, I was interrupted.
¡°What happened!?!?! What was that beam, did a divine beast show up?!?! Where is it?!?! Should I run?!?!?!¡±
Invisibrat came back from hunting, shook from our battle of seconds.
¡°No sorry, I got a little competitive.¡±
¡°You did that!?!? It looked like it went for miles!?!?!¡±
¡°How did you do that, blue fire comes from LVL 4 and up fire skills, and that explosion, MP boiled their for a second and then it burst, how did that happen.¡±
¡°Mp manipulation, used a lot of it.¡±
¡°What is your INT?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know let me check?¡±
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 54, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko, Cyko Dungeon Dojo Disciple" |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 8, Copy Entity Number LVL 4, Mind Acceleration LVL 10, Dragon beak LVL 1, Night Vision LVL 10, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 10, Recovery Magic LVL 10, Pain Immunity LVL 10, Heat vision LVL 10, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 10, MP manipulation LVL 10, Fire Immunity LVL 10, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 10, Punting LVL 10, Flamethrower LVL 10, Water Gun LVL 10, Flight LVL 9, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 2, Reckless Charge LVL 10, Press LVL 10, Earth removal LVL 10, Buff up LVL 10, Speed up LVL 10, Enchant LVL 10, Forge LVL 10, Inferno LVL 1, Tidal Wave LVL 1, Outer MP Manipulation LVL 1, 3D Shadow manipulation LVL 1, Future Sight LVL 2, Combustion LVL 2, Beam Digging LVL 1, Strategic Charge LVL 1, Monster Summoning LVL 1, Peck LVL 6, Cursed Wing LVL 4, Shine LVL 4." |
| "Stats: HP: 3901, STR: 3822, SPD: 2597, VIT: 3057, MP: 3372, INT: 2855" |
¡°Almost 3000.¡±
¡°Almost¡ 3000, Why is it almost 3000, that¡¯s almost 10000 away from me, after evolving six times, that¡¯s not possible.¡±
¡°My starter skill is really good.¡±
¡°What does it do, give you a small portion of the stats of every monster you kill?¡±
¡°And a random skill from it, also if I have 100 percent trust it also gives me that.¡±
¡°Why!?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, I can¡¯t help it if I¡¯m born with it.¡±
¡°You choose it before birth, what the **** has that lazy god done, he bothers to make a skill once in a while, but he can¡¯t ever test them unless a deity requests it of course, oh those arrogant pricks, if we were the same LVL I would show them who could beat who?¡±
¡°So, what are we going to do next.¡±
He looked at me, looked away, then looked at me again.
¡°How much of that was trial and error?¡±
¡°All of it.¡±
¡°You lucky duck, you get to learn how each skill reacts with each other.¡±
¡°Yay, Chemistry.¡±
20 days later
I¡¯m in the forest heading North, the mountains are very visible in front of me, but the sounds of goblins laughing like hyenas everywhere is a dead giveaway that I¡¯m in the right place.
There are only ten of them, I guess this is what the old coot meant by how the goblins will counter my skill, it doesn¡¯t really matter until the divine beast.
Speaking of it, I see him, he¡¯s a green speck, but I still see him on one of the mountain¡¯s peaks.
The main one, also the one he is standing on, it somehow has three peaks, the middle one going straight up, the other two are cones and come out at different points in the middle of the main mountain.
The others surrounding it make it like an impenetrable fortress, all taller than the old coot''s mountain, but otherwise there''s nothing special about them.
The goblin yells and somehow I hear it, must be a skill, it¡¯s the one with worse grammar, ¡°Stupid birdy, me kill you.¡±
¡°No we won¡¯t, he will die before he even gets to us, but we still want a good fight, don¡¯t we.¡±
¡°Yes, yes me do Dunga.¡±
¡°So let''s give him a little motivation, I know you can¡¯t see, but we have multiple people from the long-legged tribe up here, every hour I will drop one of them from this peak and they will die, starting now. That is all.¡±
¡°Hehehe, stupid birdy.¡±
Didn¡¯t he say he would only harm them if I didn¡¯t show up, no, they¡¯re just trying to provoke me, like the old coot sad, I¡¯ll have to kill them even if they aren¡¯t there so it doesn¡¯t matter.
Well then, with that settled the goblins show themselves.
I¡¯m prepared as well, I widen my stance and get ready to activate inferno to kill them all quickly, but then a giant roar came from behind me.
¡°HAHAHAHA, I see you don¡¯t have your master here to protect you, time for my revenge!!!¡±
Chapter 25- A death that means something
With that settled the goblins show themselves.
I¡¯m prepared as well, I widen my stance and get ready to activate inferno to kill them all quickly, but then a giant roar came from behind me.
¡°HAHAHAHA, I see you don¡¯t have your master here to protect you, time for my revenge!!!¡±
It¡¯s the mother dragon from before, and she looks angry but composed as well, her child is also with her.
As if on cue, the goblins all run off into the mountains, so I follow them, and then the dragon follows us as well.
I¡¯m worried about the dragon as well, but apparently, according to the old coot I¡¯m strong enough to beat her, the goblin king though, not really sure.
The next group of goblins weren¡¯t ready and were sitting around eating mystery meat, then they saw the dragon and ran towards the mountain, I got faster as well, then a plan formed within me.
It¡¯s a simple plan, for now, keep running.
The dragon is behind me spitting curse words I do and do not know.
A third and fourth group were chatting, completely unprepared to run, but they do, all the different colors do.
I recognize some like the water and fire goblins, and of course their signature green, but there are also lighter green goblins, gray ones, and also a few yellow ones.
So lightning must not be as rare as I thought.
However, very few could run as fast as that dragon, almost none actually, most of them run off the side of the straight path to the mountain, easily dodging the dragon.
The others who weren¡¯t smart enough to dodge got smashed under the mother''s feet or were ignored completely.
I wasn¡¯t having trouble, but the almost thirty to forty groups of ten to twenty goblins were getting tired.
Then I heard another more petite roar from a small distance to my left.
It was the baby dragon.
¡°For my siblings!¡±
¡°No, stop it, child!¡±
The goblin in front of me stopped because the baby dragon was in front of us, I could have charged through and was going to, but then I would hit the baby dragon and I can¡¯t say I had no pity for the dragon mother.
I stopped and the dragon mother jumped in front of me, grabbing the baby dragon in its mouth, not biting hard, just to pick it up.
¡°I¡¯ll be back.¡±
With that she ran off, then all the goblins slowly turned towards me and smiled.
Then they tried to pounce, but I was already running, not too fast.
This wasn¡¯t really part of the plan, but it works the same way, they chase me, I get more enemies, my stats increase because of the multiple enemies amount buff.
I just have to keep adjusting my speed so they can keep up.
About ten more groups have joined, which means I¡¯m basically walking for them to keep up with me.
I finally get to the base of the mountain, and the dragon is back, with its child.
It says something too it, and now we¡¯re running away from the dragon again, but up a mountain this time.
The closest thing to a mountain I climbed without flying was that mound from when I died to hang gliding, but there were stairs their, the mountain had clumps of loose dirt, and the goblins were having a tough time even though they live here.
I was flying, something I perfected in two days, I¡¯m going a decent speed now as well, flapping my wings and everything.
Then a gray goblin came forward and used a skill.
It made a concrete-like stone walkthrough and started running up it, more gray one started doing the same.
The only problem was that it also gave the dragon a walkway.
The dragon was having much less trouble going up the mountain than the goblins were, except when it hit a wet dirt patch it slipped twice as far as the goblins did.
It was kinda funny watching them, but I realized we had gone less than a fourth up the mountain, and it¡¯s been around 30 minutes since we started running, I set a timer.
I start going a little faster, hoping to egg on the goblins, however, I soon found out that they are already going as fast as they can, so I slow down keeping the goblins at a steady pace.
Every time the dragon got ahead of the goblins, it slipped on the mud, so now it¡¯s waiting patiently for the stone goblins to make paths.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.
A group of goblins rush out of a hole, but this time with three king goblins in their ranks, I look back and see there was actually some larger goblins in the mix of the goblins, they might be king goblins, or other breeds, but they were the first that I noticed.
They see the dragon and some start running, but one king goblin yells for them to stop, then point at me, the goblins look at me and then look at the dragon.
Then they look at each other, while running, and nod in agreement, like, ¡®if we¡¯re gonna die, we may as well do it following our orders¡¯.
Keep in mind there was more than six hundred of them doing this, I am kinda threatened at this, a little disbelief in the back of my head, but the major thing was realizing that over six hundred things were about to risk their lives killing me.
It was kinda disheartening, more groups were joining as we ran, and all had their eyes on me, and only me, they were all planning for my demise.
But I still need to get the goblin king.
He threatened me, took my family, and made me go on a quest to get stronger.
The last part wasn¡¯t bad, I don¡¯t really care about him threatening me, and I¡¯m only partly attached to my family, mostly just mom, but I wouldn¡¯t let anybody die if I could stop it.
So I keep climbing, and then the timer went off in my head.
Then I hear the smart one yell, ¡°Well little bird, times up for the first one, let''s start with this one.¡±
I looked up, a red blob was falling down on the other side of the mountain, I don¡¯t know any of the red ones so they haven¡¯t gotten to my family yet.
The goblins let out a war cry, celebrating holding me back for an hour.
I keep flying, noticeably faster, the goblins scramble to catch up, the dragon egging them on, the baby is farther away.
We¡¯re about halfway up the mountain, the goblins that can¡¯t do anything are getting out of the way, mostly going into holes in the mountain, into goblin tunnels, however the dragon is threatening the stone ones to keep going.
One said he was out of MP, then the dragon ate him, the others who were looking tired immediately got back into shape.
Then more goblins started running out of the holes ahead, they must have shortcuts inside of the mountain, I¡¯m okay with going on the outside though.
I fly past them and they go back inside the mountain, except a gray king goblin who the dragon found, and immediately put to work.
They actually made some progress now, so I could speed up.
¡°Why are you already here.¡±
The goblin saw me, which shouldn¡¯t be hard, red and black aren¡¯t really camouflage.
¡°What are they doing down there, oh shoot booming voice is o-.¡±
Now that I¡¯ve been noticed three-quarters of the way up in almost an hour and fifteen minutes, record time.
More goblins came out, but not a lot, the goblin king must be in charge now.
I look at my boost, hasn¡¯t changed, that means as long as they view me as an enemy then I win, I still haven¡¯t seen three hundred of them, my boost has 1700, which is multiplied by 50, I don¡¯t think I need to wait anymore.
I stop stalling and go up, it takes less than a minute to go up the mountain.
The top was dug up, revealing a small crater with a bunch of the long-legged tribe, but not all of them, tied up, and a weird-looking orange goblin.
My dad and our group are there though, except mom, and the big guy is injured.
They saw me, they were already crying, but when they saw me their heads went down.
I went over to them, as fast as I could, startling them, and asked my dad, ¡°Are you guys okay, why did he get injured.¡±
He looked even further down, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Kwehzalcoatl, we couldn¡¯t stop him, he''s strong, run, run now, run!¡±
¡°Stop him, I¡¯ll do that now, why is he the only one injured.¡±
The girl, I think Rukra was her name, hugged me, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I couldn¡¯t stop him from throwing FlashFire down, I¡¯m sorry.¡±
It hit me, that mom is a fire chocobo, and that the pink was temporary.
I stopped moving, something was flaring up, the girl stopped hugging me, startled by the red aura I am emitting.
¡°Hehehe, meet you now stupid birdy.¡±
¡°Get ready, little bird, it¡¯s time for you to die, wait, where¡¯s your status, what does it mean not enough authority?¡±
I turn around to see the targets of my rage, a six-foot body, orange entirely, with black tattoo¡¯s, looks like a king goblin, except this one is wearing full clothes, a light shirt, and shorts, but at the top of the chest is two goblin heads, one with ears that go up, one with ears that go down, one with a snout that points down, one with a snout that points up, one with plenty of hair, the other had no hair.
I didn¡¯t really care enough to be surprised right now, my head was full of rage.
Dunga (smart side of the goblin, bald one) POV
I have seen people with no status before, but none that said not enough authority, that means that whoever gave him the skill is more powerful than me, that¡¯s kinda scary.
Anyway, he still has the boost from his skill, meaning my goblin army is still around 1900 strong, if he only has plus ten then this¡¯ll be a walk in the park, otherwise I¡¯m dead.
He suddenly appeared in front of me, and hit me, I went flying, definitely not only plus 10, well I¡¯m dead, and all I¡¯ve worked for is gone.
I can survive at most three more hits, four if I block one with Iron Punch.
(¡°Dunga, we die, right. Run no possible.¡±)
Our secret link, it¡¯s a skill I told him not to use because he can listen in on my thoughts without me knowing, but he can only talk to me with it, and I¡¯m grateful, he¡¯s the only one I want to hear right now.
The chocobo kicked us out of the air, we hit the ground, hard, but my calculations of surviving are still valid.
(¡°Yeah, we¡¯re dead, thanks for everything Weler.¡±)
(¡°No, me thank you, me never strong without Dunga.¡±)
We get hit with a fireball barrage followed by an inferno, we have fire nullification, doesn¡¯t hurt us.
(¡°No, I would¡¯ve gone crazy without you, I needed you to keep me strong.¡±)
(¡°Really?¡±)
(¡°Yes.¡±)
He sees us struggle to get up, then flew downwards, kicking in between our heads, knocking us down again.
(¡°Weler, do you want to go out giving him a goblin goodbye.¡±)
(¡°Do it.¡±)
I activate booming voice, ¡°I¡¯m gone goblin army, goodbye, whoever kills the baby chocobo and most of his family members will be the Divine Beast.¡±
The chocobo slammed his feet down on our heads, and I¡¯m back into the cycle of reincarnation.
Goodbye Weler.
Chapter 26- Goodbye Forest
I¡¯m standing at the top of the mountain, silently crying, feeling like a should scream.
Every single goblin in my sight is dead, I killed them myself, even without the boost I could kill a king goblin, so it wasn¡¯t hard.
But, I guess the movies were true, revenge doesn¡¯t solve anything, I still feel like I died as well.
They all saw me murder goblins, getting slower with every kill, I even did some of it in front of them.
Dad got out of his chains as soon as I killed the goblin kings, and he did get the villagers unchained, but he was surrounded by goblins so they couldn¡¯t do anything, they just had to wait for me to kill them in my rage.
When everything was done, I saw them going down the mountain in mom¡¯s direction, then I had a thought, this is a fantasy world, she¡¯s stronger than most, if not all, human beings from my world, what if she survived?
I rushed down, faster than I ever have before, activating flight and nose-diving straight down the mountain.
I passed everybody easily, and made my way down faster than a falcon, with the combined force of gravity and the force of flight I made my way down.
I saw her, stuck on a rock, I used analyze on her to see if she was alright, then a lot more of me died.
I slowed down and stopped right in front of her, she had scrapes all over, I couldn¡¯t tell if it was her red feathers or her blood, but she was missing a lot of feathers.
This side of the mountain must have not had a lot of rain, because the way down wasn¡¯t muddy, it was rocky.
This time I did scream, I don¡¯t know how long, my voice gave out somewhere, but I still stayed in the position, it was sunset, barely cloudy, aren¡¯t good things supposed to happen at times like this, don¡¯t screw with me world.
No.
So far this world has given me all I asked for, powers, a family, a sponsor, two teachers, and what have I given the world, nothing, now that I have everything I could have ever wanted, the worlds asking for rent, and I¡¯ve probably been overdue since the first month, no my first week, since my lucky streak has been going ever so well. Now the worlds working with Karma, something I¡¯ve only seen the good side of, but it¡¯s showing me it¡¯s true colors now, I¡¯ve taken lives, it¡¯s taking connections from me.
My inner monologue was interrupted by the rest of the long-legged tribe, who as soon as they saw her, and definitely used analyze on her, all put their heads down, and the ones closest to her started crying.
I heard Ruekra say, ¡°we just got her back.¡±
Her words were relevant to everybody.
After about ten minutes Url picked her up, then we walked home.
It was a different location than last time, but this whole forest looks the same, so who knows anything.
I used earth removal to dig her grave.
Then we manually had to put the dirt back.
It resulted in a crater, but we could put the tombstone in the middle.
And then I sat in front, and looked at it, and looked at it, and looked at it.
People passed around me, I didn¡¯t know who, I wasn¡¯t looking at them.
It was already dark when I noticed it was nighttime, but I¡¯m not going to move anyway.
Then something hit me in the back of the head, it was a monkey, it¡¯s status read lesser tree behemoth, it looked confident for a LVL 15.
I let it stay, then it missed me and hit moms grave, it died with a peck, I got climb as a skill, then it¡¯s friends came up to me dumbly, looking for revenge, I let them stay for a while, but they saw their buddy get me to fight by touching my mom¡¯s grave, so eventually climb was level five.
I needed to do something else, so I checked my evolutions.
| "Evolution Path 1: War Demon Chocobo" |
| "Evolution Path 2: War Demon Kweh" |
| "Evolution Path 3: Magician Chocobo" |
| "Evolution Path 4: Magician Kweh" |
| "Evolution Path 5:Blocked until Evolution" |
What happens when I switch from one species to another?
| "You will become a hybrid, a hybrid is a part one species, and part another, for example: if you went with War demon Chocobo you would get +60 to all stats per opponent, but if you went with Magician Chocobo, then you would keep the +50 buff, and get a tier upgrade to all your skills." |
Well looks like I¡¯m either going new or magician, as those are my only two choices, I mean 60 is nice, but with magician, I could upgrade all my skills for free, I¡¯m probably going to go with magician, skills are important, but they take time.
And if I¡¯m going to take what this world gives to me, it isn¡¯t going to try to kill me, what¡¯s around me is more likely, if I¡¯m going to take it, then I¡¯m going to need to be stronger and faster, to be less naive, to not hesitate, to make sure no one dies.
10 days later
We haven¡¯t moved, which seems to be keeping the villagers on edge, apparently, they move almost every three days, but since I¡¯ve been killing things, we haven¡¯t had to move.
Until it happened.
Something I wouldn¡¯t kill showed up.
A mother dragon, with two of what looks like adolescents.
What¡¯s worse is she looked pregnant.
The villagers tried to run, but I said I would make her leave.
¡°Big dragon and her children, please leave.¡±
I wasn¡¯t over Mom¡¯s death, but I could still use a cute voice because of my age.
However the dragon didn¡¯t care, ¡°Ohhhh, a snack, mom can I eat this one?¡±
¡°Sure, honey.¡±
I smacked it with my wing not trying to kill it, and I didn¡¯t.
But they were surprised.
Not using a cute voice anymore, ¡°Please leave.¡±This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
Then the mother dragon looked constipated, and then two eggs popped out.
¡°Oopsie looks like I made a nest here, not leaving, and look at all the food around here, hmmm umm, get them, my children.¡±
I questioned my morals one last time before I decided to kill them, the mom was only two levels ahead of me, not too high, I could easily beat them, but Incha told them what the dragon said, and the villagers were running, I used telepathy on the village leader, an old man, he was still really fit though.
(¡°Why are you running, I could kill them.¡±)
¡°Kill them and leave us alone, Yippee, I haven¡¯t run in a week, this feels great.¡±
All the villagers were smiling, happy to leave the area.
Happy to leave me.
(¡°What about my moms grave?¡±)
¡°What about it, it¡¯s a grave, you have to leave it eventually.¡±
But, but, but, I¡¯m still grieving.
I looked towards Url, he was running too, not smiling, but running.
His eyes caught mine, and then he looked forward.
So that¡¯s how it is huh.
I was a nuisance to keep you from running, the world is taking things away from me one by one.
So I walked over to the grave and sat down.
¡°Oh, how bold, begging for us to eat you, eh.¡±
¡°This is my moms grave, you can have children here, I won¡¯t mess with you, and you won¡¯t mess with me, do we have a deal.¡±
¡°Hmmm, Oh let me see, let me ask my children, will you two be dears and give him our answer.¡±
¡°No.¡± ¡°Nope¡±
¡°And there you go, my child''s snack.¡±
She was a regular fire dragon, so you know what happened.
She burned the land, she burned my mom¡¯s grave, but I didn¡¯t have the will to fight her, the long-legged tribes'' smiles were in my head.
Then another dragon came in and did a flying jump kick to the other dragon, it was the other dragon mother.
Then the baby dragon, the last of them, ran up and kicked the adolescent child on the left.
The mother dragon held the newly pregnant one down with its foot by the neck and started shooting fireballs at it, while the baby ran up to the other adolescent and did a backflip kick, into a mudball.
The mother and the adolescent on the left were still alive, but the adolescent on the right is the one I slapped, so the baby killed it.
The newly pregnant one kicked off, and then started flying, but the mother caught its foot and then slammed it into the ground, then what looked like a controlled inferno at it, the mother dragon was blind, but it definitely knew when the dragon died.
The baby and adolescent circled each other, and then charged, the adolescent had its mouth open, so the baby slid under it, kicked its stomach, then shot a mudball at it from behind.
Next, the baby climbed on to the adolescent and bit it¡¯s neck, easily killing it.
Both were done, and then walked over to me, and stopped in front of me.
¡°I heard what you said, is it true that that was your mothers grave?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°Well then our quarrel is over, you have felt pain enough for me to feel sorry for you, you have nothing here for you anymore, say goodbye to all you care for, and then head south, the forest ends there and a race''s town not too far away from that.¡±
¡°Why?¡±
¡°Why what?¡±
¡°Why would that dragon do that, surely it could have made a nest anywhere else.¡±
¡°We are dragons, the strongest species on land and air, with nothing to stop us, as well as the mother evolution, why wouldn¡¯t we give birth where there is plenty of food?¡±
I didn¡¯t reply, and the dragons left.
It was only me, and then I started walking, first to the Suvunkta cave.
I reached it in less than an hour, still, it¡¯s past noon.
I told Suvunkilbub the story.
¡°I¡¯m sorry for your loss, Ilragorn is a harsh place, she will hopefully be going to a much simpler world.¡±
¡°Thanks, Suvunkilbub, I¡¯m going to a races city after this, whatever that is, and I don¡¯t know when I¡¯ll be coming back.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry about that, I¡¯m used to being lonely, and you will probably keep my mind entertained for another hundred years.¡±
¡°Thank you, now can I say goodbye to Cyko?¡±
¡°Not right now, no, you actually overflowed him with MP, he¡¯s started to have primal urges to get out of the dungeon and spread his terror, you would need to learn to control your MP to see him.¡±
¡°Oh, I didn¡¯t know that, well that¡¯s sad, can you tell him goodbye for me, and thank you for everything he has done.¡±
¡°Of course.¡±
¡°Then I¡¯m off.¡±
I started walking to the mountain were the old coot lives, he probably won¡¯t care that I¡¯m leaving as he was pushing me off the mountain when I left, but maybe invisibrat will care.
I reached the mountain and flew up, the old man already knew I was coming.
¡°So, did you kill him, and what title did you get from it.¡±
¡°I actually haven¡¯t checked my status, though I said yes to copy Entity Number.¡±
¡°Then look now.¡±
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 89, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko, Cyko Dungeon Dojo Disciple, Special Title: Goblin Slayer" |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 8, Copy Entity Number LVL 5, Mind Acceleration LVL 10, Dragon beak LVL 3, Night Vision LVL 10, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 10, Recovery Magic LVL 10, Pain Immunity LVL 10, Heat vision LVL 10, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 10, MP manipulation LVL 10, Fire Immunity LVL 10, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 10, Punting LVL 10, Flamethrower LVL 10, Water Gun LVL 10, Flight LVL 9, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 10, Reckless Charge LVL 10, Press LVL 10, Earth removal LVL 10, Buff up LVL 10, Speed up LVL 10, Enchant LVL 10, Forge LVL 10, Inferno LVL 3, Tidal Wave LVL 4, Outer MP Manipulation LVL 1, 3D Shadow manipulation LVL 1, Future Sight LVL 2, Combustion LVL 3, Beam Digging LVL 2, Strategic Charge LVL 1, Monster Summoning LVL 1, Peck LVL 6, Cursed Wing LVL 4, Shine LVL 4, Booming voice LVL 3, Climb LVL 5, Craft LVL 3, Hide LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 5191, STR: 5972, SPD: 11103, VIT: 6057, MP: 5827, INT: 6433" |
¡°Goblin Slayer, it¡¯s a special title.¡±
¡°Better be, you killed a divine beast, that¡¯s not something any adolescent could do, what does it do?¡±
¡°Better night vision and I fight easier in dark places, which I guess is decent.¡±
¡°If it¡¯s a special title, you¡¯ll see the boost, you¡¯ll definitely see it.¡±
I told him my story, to which he gave me a bird hug.
¡°It¡¯s what my owner did when it happened to me.¡±
I was in shock, as well as getting this.
| "You have gained 100% trust from Entity #585215699321680521" |
| "Would you like to use Copy entity number LVL 5." |
Yes.
| "You have gained skill: Shock LVL 1 and 2599 HP." |
¡°I just got copy entity number from you.¡±
¡°What!?!¡±
¡°It also works from a hundred percent trust, I didn¡¯t tell you that did I.¡±
¡°No you didn¡¯t, what did you get from it?¡±
¡°Shock is it good.¡±
¡°Good, by itself, no, but it¡¯s tier three skill is decent, and then it¡¯s tier five is my second best skill.¡±
¡°What is your first best.¡±
¡°The tier one is electric boost, my best skill is godspeed, dodges automatically and counterattacks.¡±
¡°That sounds like it¡¯s copied from my world.¡±
¡°Probably was, the one true god is really bad at skills.¡±
¡°Okay, can I say goodbye to you and Invisibrat.¡±
¡°Sure goodbye and survive, Invisibrats behind you.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t like that name.¡±
I turned around and there he was, just standing there, calmly.
¡°Well, then goodbye Invisibrat.¡±
¡°Goodbye Kwehzalcoatl, let me catch up, don¡¯t get stronger to fast.¡±
At the ending of his words I flinched, I have heard them before.
¡°Yeah, goodbye.¡±
I headed south, like the dragon said, and reached the end of the forest, it was nighttime, and the buff hit me, it wasn¡¯t anything crazy like doubling my stats, but I could easily tell something was different.
Before I left the forest edge I stopped looked at the outside of it.
It was plains, with green, long grass, just swaying in the wind.
It is my first time out of a forest in four months, I¡¯m going to make it count.
¡°Goodbye forest.¡±
Chapter 27- Convictoni
It is sunset and visibility is going down in the air, nevertheless the ground
The grass was actually really long, taller than me, which might not say much, but I couldn¡¯t see much walking.
So I flew, at a decent height, not too high, which I learned isn¡¯t really advisable.
The grass is the perfect place for small dragons, which wasn¡¯t too bad, until the fifth one attacks you, sees you aren¡¯t taking damage, then run away with no consequences.
I went higher up, so they couldn¡¯t jump to get me, but It was kinda quiet, the forest was the perfect place for big dragons and behemoths, not really any good places for an ambush in the plains.
You see a big footprint every now and again, and signs of battle debris, but nothing really strong here.
The town came into view, and as every fantasy town has, it¡¯s huge walls.
The things came up almost twice as large as the bus martial arts dragon, their even was a dragon on the side climbing up to scale it for me, a fireball that wasn¡¯t from me shot it off.
These walls made of stone brick easily could take a blow from the martial arts dragon, and arguably the old ostrich.
They spread across the land for more than a mile and looked like it eventually curved to make a circle.
As I approached I noticed people were on the lookout, however, they hadn¡¯t spotted me yet, I guess I camouflage, the red no, but it is dark, so my black feathers must be useful for something.
I go to the front gate, and then I¡¯m surrounded.
¡°Did you really think you could walk in through the front door mons-, Aquen, what is this, why did you get everybody to fight this little guy.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, I guess my senses are feeling weird, haha haaaa.¡±
¡°Okay then, take a break, okay little birdy, are you lost?¡±
A girl left and a man walked out of the shadows, who was short, really short, still taller than me, but short.
He was also wearing perfectly fitted armor and had a short spear on his back.
His face was smooth and in the shape of an egg?
I use analyze on him.
| "Target- Human (Dwarf Tribe) LVL 37" |
| "Titles- Kill stealer, Want to be Hero, Guard, Liquor Holder" |
So he¡¯s a human, but also a dwarf, or is it just regular dwarfism.
¡°What? Never seen a dwarf before, just put your head up and down for yes, left and right for no,¡± his finger making the motions.
He was right on the dot, must happen a lot, hey that rhymed.
I just use telepathy, simpler that way.
(¡°I¡¯ll just talk to you this way, easier, I¡¯m here because I was told to come here by a dragon, that¡¯s it.¡±)
¡°What, it talks, Ilragorn, did you hear that (A guard nodded no) I must be going crazy.¡±
(¡°No I have the skill telepathy, they can¡¯t hear me because I can only talk to one person at a time.¡±)
¡°Never in my life have I heard of a monster talking, except a demon, you aren¡¯t a demon are ya?¡±
My race is war demon chocobo, but I¡¯ll not mention that, (¡°Nope just a Chocobo variant, what is a demon anyway?¡±)
I¡¯m just wanting to make sure our definitions match, because so far every animal has been a behemoth, and every lizard a dragon, this doesn¡¯t bode well for demons.
¡°Demons are a race that can talk to monsters and humans, creepy if you ask me, of course, I¡¯m talking to you so does that make me a demon.¡±
A guard muttered, ¡°At drills you are.¡±
¡°New guard Yuren gets 40 pushups before practice starts, I expect him in the field half an hour early, if you don¡¯t do well I¡¯ll make you start over after you¡¯ve already finished.¡±
¡°But-¡±
¡°Oh you think that¡¯s too little, admirable, good to see someone working hard, 50 it is.¡±
He was quiet this time, though tears were in his eyes.
¡°Anyway Demons are just a race, though few, they can live as long as elves, still have the diversity of humans, and some look like beasts as well, but they are usually just treated as really strong behemoths who can go in the day time.¡±Stolen story; please report.
Well, isn¡¯t the reason the human races can¡¯t talk because they fought against the one true god, doesn¡¯t that mean that the demons were just left out of the fight, so they can still speak to monsters?
Well, anyway, I might be a demon and just not know it because of my race, but I don¡¯t feel any different, so I¡¯ll just hide my status.
¡°Anyway, why did the dragon send you this way, any particular reason a dragon would send you our way.¡±
(¡°Not that I know of, I have nowhere to go, because of, well, reasons.¡±)
I must have made a face, because he visibly softened, ¡°It¡¯s okay kid, nobody can hurt you here, though I don¡¯t know what you¡¯ll do, I guess we could put you in a stable, though if you try to hurt any of the horses or chocobo¡¯s and Ilragorn forbid any of the nobles filolials, we will have to kill you.¡±
I thought of the idea of sleeping in stables again, at the time it wasn¡¯t so bad, but the human in me wants a bed, a pillow to rest my head on sounds nice.
(¡°I can start that way, but can I do something to get something more, homey, I don¡¯t know, my body thinks a bed would be nice.¡±)
He thought about it, ¡°I don¡¯t know of any inns that take in monsters, but there are monster tamers every once in a while, has to be at least one, but I won¡¯t pay for it.¡±
(¡°Anway for me to make money?¡±)
¡°Not really, never had a monster this civilized before, you¡¯re not tripping any ill-intent sensors either, I guess an adventure guild will take in anybody.¡±
(¡°A guild? What is that.¡±)
Again, checking my facts.
¡°A guild is any four-person or more party who registers to separate from the main guild, the main guild registers peasants wish to be guards and border patrol, as well as people who can gather medicinal supplies from the northern forests and the plains around, which are both equally dangerous, as you can tell. An adventurers goal is to become trusted enough to become part of the cities guard, if you¡¯re not needed in the city they¡¯ll kick you out, that¡¯s just how it is, and one more thing, once a guild party separates from the guild they still have to abide by the original guild rules, and they have to follow quest given to them by the guild, but they are treated as a separate business, meaning they don¡¯t have guard duty like the rest of us, lazy bag of bones.¡±
That was a lot of information, which probably should have been made in a different order, what I got from it was, it¡¯s a normal guild except for two things, it is the gateway for new guards to prove themselves, and parties can make their own guilds, anyway it sounds like a way to make money.
(¡°That sounds good, where do I sign up?¡±)
¡°Oh we¡¯ll do that in the morning, you can sleep, for now, I¡¯ll take you to the stables.¡±
He walked me up to the front gate, and slightly opened the door, I looked behind me, and the guards were gone, then I used heat vision to see if I could find them, they were there, on the ground a few feet back, they must be ninjas or something.
I walk through the front door and see another door to another wall, he opens the door, and thank Ilragorn (this worlds growing on me) it opens into a plaza.
I was expecting another door and wall, but it¡¯s just two walls.
The plaza was large, and if you look farther down the street to the south you can see another, bigger plaza, filled with more people.
The people were diverse, to say the least, beastman were everywhere, which made me think it they were common, a couple of humans, and I saw one dwarf, which greeted the one guiding me with a wave.
He waved back, and then we went to the next street over, of course, I followed.
The stable is a building that looked like it was repurposed from something else, though I couldn¡¯t tell what, and was filled with various mounts, one which literally had a firetail, was snoring flames, which is always a concern.
But otherwise, the place was quiet, a perfect place to sleep.
One thing was bugging me so I asked, (¡°What¡¯s this town called?¡±)
¡°City, and Convictioni.¡±
(¡°Sounds kinda ominous, like it¡¯s a fancy prison.¡±)
¡°What would signify a fancy prison, anyway it means togetherness because it¡¯s a place that doesn¡¯t discriminate, I¡¯ll pick you up in the morning eventually, make friends, this cells yours.¡±
(¡°Well then goodnight.¡±)
¡°Goodnight little bird.¡±
Long-Legged Tribe
¡°I can¡¯t believe you, leaving Kwehzalcoatl behind you saw him and didn¡¯t go back to get him.¡±
¡°I couldn¡¯t, the dragon was LVL 50, LVL 50 Ruekra, what was I supposed to do.¡±
¡°Run and get him obviously, that¡¯s FlashFire¡¯s Child, that¡¯s ShadowStealers child.¡±
¡°Well, what are we going to do now, go look for him.¡±
¡°Yes, he¡¯s shown he¡¯s strong enough to beat king goblins by himself, he¡¯ll definitely survive long enough for us to find him.¡±
5 mins later¡
¡°Absolutely not, I forbid it, he would rather stay at that grave then follow us and run away, hmph slowpoke.¡±
¡°You do know he¡¯s faster than all of us combined, right?¡±
¡°What? Did I hear something, did the short leg try to insult me, well it¡¯s not my fault the baby didn¡¯t run away, he could have followed us.¡±
¡°No, it isn¡¯t your fault he stayed, it¡¯s your fault for not convincing him to leave in the first place, what happened to no man left behind or whatever nonsense you learned from your memory keeper grandson.¡±
¡°Pretty words don¡¯t work in the real world, and besides, he¡¯s not a man is he.¡±
¡°Ughh I don¡¯t believe you,¡± then she had a devilish thought, it spread throughout her entire face.
¡°What if I tell your wife what you said to those girls at the tavern a week ago?¡±
Visible fright was on his face, but it quickly disappeared.
¡°I¡¯ll tell Incha how long you allowed those guys at the bar flirt with you for.¡±
Then she looked sad, ¡°you know she¡¯ll take that the wrong way.¡±
¡°Good you understand, now leave.¡±
We sat for a minute, but we got up and started walking out.
At the door, the Chief yelled, ¡°Hey short legs, your birds got out again, last saw them running a couple of hours ago, probably have gotten a couple of miles away, don¡¯t come back until you get them.¡±
We both looked back in shock, thinking, the old man actually let us do something, then we looked at each other then nodded, ¡°We''ll be back when we get all of them.¡±
Then we left.
The old chief sat in his chair, ¡°Ilragorn, kids these days, give them an inch, they¡¯ll run a mile.¡±
Chapter 28- Just a day at a tavern
¡°Ohhh look at the little guy, he¡¯s a fierce-looking one, what is this, analyze isn¡¯t working.¡±
¡°I think he looks a little ugly, he should take a bath.¡±
¡°Oh shut up, you¡¯re just saying that because he¡¯s a chocobo, no one cares about the feud between our races and we can¡¯t afford to do that here anyway.¡±
¡°BE QUIET!!!!¡±
That woke me up from being half asleep, it was the thing spewing fire last night, I poked my head up and saw that it put its head down and was trying to get more sleep, the rest of the birds did the same.
I jumped up and easily hurdled my stable door, fully awake, but hungry, I was thinking of getting some food at someplace, probably find that dwarf and then get permission to do a quest for money, or I¡¯ll just hunt, that works too.
I barely heard this as they were trying to whisper, ¡°Hey, where are you going, we have to stay here until our owner gets us, that¡¯s the rules.¡±
¡°But if I go to find him then I¡¯ll get to go get food, it¡¯s easier that way isn¡¯t it?¡±
¡°Alright if I can¡¯t get no shuteye then I might as well tell ya da rules little bird.¡±
It was the fire beast, he seemed mad.
¡°Rules number one, you listen to me, rules number two, if you don¡¯t you get burned, rules number three, IF I DON¡¯T GET NO SHUT EYE I¡¯LL BURN YA!¡±
Then a wave of fire burst over me, didn¡¯t burn me though, which visibly surprised everyone.
¡°Well, see you.¡±
Then I opened the door and walked out, to see the dwarf already standing there.
¡°Everything okay in there, little bird, a wave of heat came over me as I touched the door.¡±
(¡°Yep, everything''s fine, just some guy was angry at me breaking his rule three.¡±)
¡°What, rule three?¡±
(¡°Basically if I made any noise at all he would burn me.¡±)
¡°Those rules don¡¯t sound fair, do you need me to intervene?¡±
(¡°No, everything¡¯s resolved.¡±)
¡°You sure, that flaming bull is kinda a hot-head, I can talk some sense into it.¡±
(¡°No need, I¡¯m starving, anyway for me to get any food?¡±)
¡°Ah yes, we¡¯ll go to the guild, it half functions as a bar, and since mounts are common it has plenty of food.¡±
(¡°Is it free?¡±)
¡°Well no, but I¡¯ll pay today, just don¡¯t eat too much, and we¡¯ll register you as an adventurer so you can make money today as well.¡±
(¡°Okay, will it be easy, I am a monster.¡±)
¡°Yeah, you¡¯ll be fine, your species of monster is commonly friendly with humans, so just don¡¯t be rude.¡±
We walk while talking about the specifics of adventurers, just the same cliche old adventurers from manga novels.
¡°Any way you¡¯ll obviously start at E, and if you¡¯re strong enough, you''ll get to higher ranks.¡±
(¡°Simple enough.¡±)
¡°Okay we¡¯re here, just act human-like and you¡¯ll be fine.¡±
He opened the door, and the only people inside were four humans, two adventurers and two what look like employees, three males and one female.
One sitting drinking, looking just above middle-age, the male and female clerks are sitting in chairs behind a counter, which is a bar counter, and the final man was complaining to the guy clerk.
¡°Hello, Freydra, nice to see you.¡±
Looks like my dwarf friend knows the lady, convenient.
¡°Fredob, what do you want.¡±
¡°I¡¯m doing my charity work as a soldier and helping a want-to-be adventurer.¡±
¡°Oh yeah, it is that time of the month, well where is he, by the way, I like your new mount, though he is too cute for you.¡±
¡°Freydra, you¡¯re being rude to the new recruit.¡±
¡°Who, where are they.¡±
He put his hands out as if he was presenting a car, everybody looked over to me.
Everybody paused.
¡°A shapeshifter,¡± the man who was complaining to the male clerk said.
¡°No, a genuine chocobo, he needs money to get food and shelter let¡¯s sign him up quick.¡±
¡°But, he¡¯s a monster, isn¡¯t he?¡±
¡°Yes, but he can speak, show them.¡±
(¡°Hello¡±)
She looked around to see where the voice was coming from, then set her eyes on me.
¡°Is this a prank?¡±
¡°Why would it be?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, but he can¡¯t join, he¡¯s a monster, it¡¯s against guild policy, you can make him a mount, but that¡¯s it.¡±Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.
¡°And what policy is that?¡±
¡°Common sense.¡±
¡°This is the city of Convictoni, I will not tolerate discrimination in the city I protect.¡±
¡°Look I¡¯m sorry, but I don¡¯t know what to do about this, we¡¯ve never been in this situation and we don¡¯t know what to do, we¡¯ve been instructed to send away anything unknown, so please leave.¡±
¡°Okay, I don¡¯t know what to do with this guy, here take him Freydra, I¡¯ll do your evaluation for adventuring, come over here.¡±
¡°What Phylic, what are you doing.¡±
¡°Registering an adventurer.¡±
¡°But I¡¯m not done with you.¡±
¡°Sorry, anything you need she will deal with it.¡±
¡°Are you really going to register that bird as an adventurer, it is a monster.¡±
¡°So, now your problems will be with her, good day.¡±
He reluctantly went over to her, but she was more interested in me.
¡°So bird, you talk?¡±
(¡°Yes I do?¡±)
¡°Then that makes this easy, so why do you want to be an adventurer.¡±
(¡°Money for food and shelter.¡±)
¡°Okay, that¡¯s motivation, what is your Class?¡±
(¡°Class?¡±)
¡°Yes your Class, do monsters not have them?¡±
(¡°I guess not.¡±)
¡°Okay then, how do you usually fight?¡±
(¡°I usually kick, bite, use various magic such as fire and shadow ones.¡±)
I¡¯m don¡¯t want to reveal much yet, they might kick me out for being too powerful or something?
¡°Fire and shadow eh, I¡¯ll put you as a magic brawler, last question, are you willing to fight for the city.¡±
(¡°As long as it treats me well.¡±)
¡°Honest aren¡¯t you, most people would just say yes, but your answer isn¡¯t bad.¡±
He wrote my answers down, then pulled out a paper.
¡°If you sign here you will be an adventurer, welcome to the arms.¡±
(¡°How will I sign.)
¡°Prick your finger, just some blood will do.¡±
He brought up a small knife.
¡°Use this, oh wait, no fingers, I guess your wing will do.¡±
I picked up the knife with my telekinesis, then tried to prick my wing, it isn¡¯t sharp enough.
I acted like it hurt, brought it to my beak, and then bit it hard enough to draw blood.
¡°What was that the knife floated.¡±
I slid my wing across the papers sign point, then healed myself.
It signed a straight line of blood across it.
(¡°It¡¯s a skill.¡±)
¡°Seems useful, but you didn¡¯t tell me you could do that.¡±
(¡°Is that bad?¡±)
¡°I guess not, but what else are you hiding, hey, I can¡¯t even see your status.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s also a skill, but I can¡¯t keep secrets?¡±)
He stared at me, but then let it go.
¡°Whatever, it was my decision to make you an adventurer, please don¡¯t make it backfire on me.¡±
(¡°Okay, can I get a job.¡±)
¡°A job, sure, monster-slaying or gathering quest?¡±
(¡°Preferably monster hunting, I don¡¯t know anything about gathering.¡±)
¡°Fair enough, you¡¯re rank E right now, there are little monster quests now that the goblins recently disappeared, but still some.¡±
He put twelve posters in front of me, ¡°Choose one.¡±
They each had a monster in front of them, from dragons to behemoths.
None really popped for me, so I¡¯ll just choose the one worth the most money.
It¡¯s a raccoon looking thing called a Thieving behemoth, worth thirty ewips, the currency, which is about two nights in the inn according to the dwarf.
(¡°I¡¯ll take the thieving behemoth.)
¡°I thought you would, but I¡¯ll have you know that this monster is usually B-Rank, but apparently this one is low-level.¡±
(¡°How will I bring back proof that I killed it?¡±)
¡°Luckily for you, this city has a great magic item enchanter, so you will be given an adventurer bag that has more space than it looks.¡±
(¡°Okay, that¡¯s convenient, then where¡¯s the behemoth, and where can I see it?¡±)
¡°Just outside the city to the east, take this pass so you can get in and out of the city without question.¡±
(¡°Okay, it¡¯s a behemoth so it will come out at night time right?¡±)
¡°Yeah, it will take less than an hour to get there, so you have plenty of time to get a party.¡±
(¡°Do I have to get a party?¡±)
¡°Well no, but can you really kill a thieving behemoth without a party, it is a B-rank threat even if it is Low-Level right now.¡±
(¡°I can manage.¡±)
¡°Okay, if you die that will mean the blood off your document will disappear, telling us you failed and to send a stronger adventurer, until you¡¯ve confirmed died we won¡¯t send anybody though, so do it quickly.¡±
(¡°Okay, is there anything to do in this city before night.¡±)
¡°This is mostly a trading town, and you have no money, we can feed you here, with Fredob¡¯s charity, and you can stay here until you need to go.¡±
¡°Wait, you can¡¯t let it stay here, it might scare the adventurers.¡±
The girl thinking her plan would kick me out, got this reply, ¡°Do you have eyes, this guy is adorable, who will complain.¡±
The day went by relatively quickly, Fredob left after I got my food, for his guard work, my food was simply some sort of mystery meat, but hey, meat is meat, and why the human side of me isn¡¯t saying ew, that¡¯s disgusting, I have no idea, but I don¡¯t really care, food is food.
Some guy tried to bring his lion mount inside the building, with the excuse that I''m here, so why can¡¯t his mount be here?
He and his lion got kicked out by all the adventurers under the guy employee, bribed by money, while the girl sat there doing nothing.
So many new people, the only thing I had to worry about was them coming over to pet me, which happened a couple of times while I was napping on the side of the wall.
I feel really weird about being pet, it¡¯s just scratching on the neck usually, or rubbing hands against my head, but imagine if it was two humans doing that to each other, that gets awkward really quick.
About how I was napping in the middle of the day, apparently adventurers can get kind of rowdy, so they put calming candles on the counter, puts me right to sleep.
Anyway dusk was approached and I have had plenty of sleep, I was given my stuff hours ago, and I tried to leave.
¡°No way is a pet gonna leave on my watch.¡±
A mature looking woman blocked the way, spreading her limbs so I couldn¡¯t get passed her.
(¡°I¡¯m an adventurer, my quest is to hunt a thieving behemoth, my bag and pass is right here.¡±)
¡°What, what was that voice.¡±
My voice from inside her head shocked her enough to go into a battle stance, then I slipped by.
I looked back and said, (¡°Thanks for understanding, see you later.¡±)
I walked the rest of the way, getting a few strange looks, but no one stopped me.
The guard sees me, ¡°Oh, you¡¯re the Chocobo that has the thieving behemoth quest that Commander Fredob told me about, just let me see your pass and you can go.¡±
(¡°Here.¡±)
The pass floats in the air, scaring him, but he quickly gains his composure.
¡°Telekinesis must be handy, rare as well, you can go, will you be back before morning?¡±
(¡°Depends on the behemoth.¡±)
¡°I guess that¡¯s true, hunt well.¡±
(¡°I¡¯ll try.¡±)
Chapter 29- A raccoons stealing the pumpkins...
The farm wasn¡¯t far for me, but it really gave me a good look at how long the wall is.
It was at least ten miles long, on one side, and as I was going around I saw another wall being built, I guess earth magic would make it easier, but ten freaking miles on one side, how long would it take humans from Earth to do that.
I guess there is the great wall of China, but that took hundreds of years, how long is it anyway.
When the farm came into view, I was really surprised, they had these floating orb things that lightened the entire area.
The crops looked normal, mostly wheat, with carrots, beets, and cabbage to the side, and that¡¯s just what I could see.
But one problem came into my head, the lights were pretty bright if something could get in without being spotted, does it have a stealth skill.
If so, then I don¡¯t know how to see it besides heat vision.
I was told to meet with the farmer, just tell him I¡¯m here, nothing special like have him sign anything.
I spot a homely looking place, straw roof, made of stone, medieval sort of building, just like everything else.
I walk past the crops on a dirt path, from what I remember a farmer gets really mad when you step on their crops.
I knock on the door with my beak, trying to imitate a normal knocking sound.
¡°I¡¯m coming, hmph, oh my poor back.¡±
Footsteps come from the other side of the door and even a cane hitting the ground, so I expect an older man to open it.
To my surprise, there is a man no older than 35, kinda muscular, but not enough to have a full six-pack, black hair with darkish purple dots of something, and his hairstyle spikes backward like an anime characters, but his hair is wet. He is also wearing a robe of some kind like he just got out of a bath. His cane was made out of some sort of light-colored wood, kinda looked like a wizard cane, but he looks more like a warrior than a mage, whatever, he¡¯s my client.
¡°What¡¯s a filolial doing out here?¡±
(¡°Chocobo, I¡¯m an adventurer and am going to do your quest, just thought I should let you know.¡±)
¡°Sorry, couldn¡¯t tell, I guess they take everything as an adventurer now a day¡¯s, you will kill the monster right?¡±
(¡°Why wouldn¡¯t I?¡±)
¡°Because you¡¯re a monster too. Why else would I ask?¡±
(¡°Monsters kill each other all the time, won¡¯t matter in the long run, also, did you not notice you were talking to me, a so-called monster?¡±)
¡°Not really, I work with a fairy, he knows telepathy as well, makes it easier to talk, according to him.¡±
So fairies exist too, neat.
(¡°Where does the thieving behemoth usually show up.¡±)
¡°West field, it must like pumpkins.¡±
(¡°Thank you and goodbye.¡±)
¡°Have a good hunt.¡±
I run towards the field, seeing if I can get there before it does, it is already dark, so it could already be there.
I jump up to fly, trying to get a birds-eye view of the area.
Sure enough, it¡¯s already there, stealing pumpkins, it must have some sort of storage magic or something because once they touch something and it disappears.
I check its status and it¡¯s an LVL 38.
I have to bring its body back fairly undamaged, according to the rules.
My first option is to kick it, but that would make it suspicious if all its bones were broken, so I decide to use a fire attack first.
How I do that on a farm, I have some ideas, but it¡¯s kinda risky.
The plan starts with me running up to it before it can react, then kicking it into the air.
I land and then it notices me, I don¡¯t know-how, enhanced hearing maybe, but it disappears.
It just vanishes, like invisibrat, so I immediately turn on heat vision.
I was right, it has the invisibility skill, and was coming closer to me.
So new plan, hit it in the air at the last second before it tries to hit me, catch it by surprise that way.
It comes slowly, surprisingly not making any footprints, it looks like it has a lot of practice.
That thought makes this easier.
It jumps up, finally making a fast advance, but it doesn¡¯t realize I see it.
Its claw making a wide arc down would¡¯ve hit my neck, and if I was a normal monster, I might¡¯ve died.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
But I¡¯m not, I have the best skills, as well as some of the greatest teachers.
I easily dodge his claws, then I jump and kick him into the air, and finish with a flamethrower, not MP boosted.
He dies, I get EXP, no level up, and Copy Entity Number gives me some INT, not a lot, and the skill, Spatial storage.
It¡¯s kind of useless because I have the spatial bag, but if something doesn¡¯t fit in the bag, I¡¯ll put it in here.
I walk to the farmer to tell him I¡¯m done and then head to the town.
Once I got to the front gate the I found that the original guard got hurt from a dragon, ¡°a feisty LVL 50¡±, but I still was let inside.
This is apparently normal, but I can¡¯t stop myself from feeling bad for him.
The city wasn¡¯t empty, but you couldn¡¯t really call a business day either at night either.
As always I get a few strange looks, but I got to the guild.
I went to the counter, the girl was asleep, and the guy was getting there, but seeing me woke him up a little bit.
¡°Were you successful?¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°Well take it out.¡±
(¡°Um, how?¡±)
¡°Put a body part in and think about the critter.¡±
So I did, and then it came flying out.
The thing must have weighed a lot because it flew onto the counter and made it creak.
The guy backed up because it was big enough to have crushed him.
The girl woke up as well.
¡°What is this?!?!¡±
(¡°It¡¯s the monster, right?¡±)
¡°No the thieving behemoth was LVL 15 or below, and tiny.¡±
(¡°Then, I got the wrong thing?¡±)
¡°Yes, well no, but this thing is rank B material, Freydra you have a higher analysis skill, what LVL was this?¡±
¡°LVL 38, on the verge of LVL 39.¡±
Then she started laughing maniacally.
¡°You think just because you kill a strong monster that we¡¯ll approve of you,*hiccup*, this just proves that you can sympathize,*hiccup*, with the little baby monster because you are a baby, *hiccup*, you definitely found the baby, conceded with it and then killed this guy with it, you can¡¯t be a, *hiccup*, adventurer.¡±
Everything was quiet until the guy broke the silence.
¡°Freydra, no wonder you were quiet, I told you not to drink any (he glanced over at me), adult juice offered to you by the adventurers, besides you were just asleep, how are you still on adult juice?¡±
¡°Whatever, all we have to do now is ban the Chocobo now.¡±
¡°Why.¡±
She looked shocked at the answer.
¡°Because he doesn¡¯t belong, he¡¯s a monster, duh.¡±
¡°Didn¡¯t you swear an oath of non-bias when you joined the guild staff.¡±
¡°Oath Smoath, just kick him out.¡±
¡°I think you should go home.¡±
This is just a bad day for her.
¡°Okay, I will, it was boring here anyway, I left on my own terms, I quit.¡±
¡°You know your contract won¡¯t let you do it, I¡¯ll see you in the morning.¡±
¡°I ain''t coming.¡±
¡°Goodbye Freydra.¡±
¡°Good night.¡±
She must have said that last one on instinct because she left confused.
(¡°So what are we going to do?¡±)
¡°We¡¯re going to raise the quest and your rank.¡±
(¡°That easy?¡±)
¡°If you can go ten miles and kill a B-rank monster and then go back ten miles with no visible wounds, in an hour, do you really think you would stay rank D for long?¡±
(¡°I guess not, but is LVL 38 really high.¡±)
¡°It¡¯s about average, but so are most B-ranks, and that makes a different question, what LVL are you.¡±
(¡°So how much for the B-Rank monster?¡±)
He stares at me,¡± You know you ooze trouble right, (I smile), anyway it wasn¡¯t the quest, well it kinda was, this doesn''t happen often, but it has happened, we usually just pay extra and then send them back to get the original monster.¡±
(¡°I¡¯ll do that tomorrow, can I get paid now.¡±)
¡°You¡¯ll get paid when you kill the monster, sorry guild policy.¡±
(¡°Okay.¡±)
¡°What?¡±
(¡°What?¡±)
¡°Well, usually people would get angry when I tell them that, but you just went with it.¡±
(¡°You¡¯re just doing your job aren¡¯t you.¡±)
He looked at me in awe.
¡°There need''s to be people like you somewhere.¡±
(¡°What?¡±)
¡°Nevermind, see you tomorrow, you can stay here all day tomorrow.¡±
(¡°Bye.¡±)
Shadowstealer POV
¡°Why did he have to run away, I thought he would stay at her grave.¡±
¡°He must have been overpowered, master.¡±
¡°Not possible, he¡¯s probably the strongest in this forest, besides Suvunkilbub.¡±
¡°Did Suvunkilbub fight him, master.¡±
¡°No they¡¯re on good terms, really good, she chose him apparently.¡±
¡°Then could she have interfered, master.¡±
¡°She could have, but where is she, how would we find her?¡±
¡°Like this, *Inhale*, SUVUNKILBUB!!! Master.¡±
¡°What the hell Sholl, why did you do that, every monster in a mile radius knows where we are now.¡±
¡°If she''s a mile away, she¡¯ll come to find us, master.¡±
Just then a group of decent size dragons came out of the bushes in a line.
I copied one of them, and my stats more than quadrupled, life really isn¡¯t fair.
¡°We have to run.¡±
Then a beam of light hit all of them, even curving.
Then the disgustress herself flew out into view.
She started staring at us, but didn¡¯t say anything, she apparently can¡¯t.
Sholl nudged me, knocking me out of a daze.
¡°Where is my son?¡±
To where the fly looked at me weird, then pointed, with one of six legs, towards the north.
¡°That way?¡±
She nodded.
¡°Thank you so much.¡±
She nodded again then left.
I fell backward.
¡°I was right, master.¡±
¡°You were right Sholl.¡±
Chapter 30- Its 10-5
I effortlessly dodge a fireball, it wasn¡¯t hard and I didn¡¯t need to.
I¡¯m fighting a regular fire dragon, this one¡¯s green, and looks like a T-Rex with long arms.
Really long arms, such as they drag on the ground, but they still walk on two legs.
It¡¯s a C-Rank job, but they are still trying to assess my rank at the guild, if I can do five of each rank without failing then I¡¯ll upgrade easily, that only happens when they are sure that the person is a higher rank.
I¡¯ve done three C-ranks already, I¡¯m on my second today.
Jobs are a great way to pass time, and they make great money.
But the girl employee is starting to get annoying, she keeps saying how I steal all the real adventurer''s jobs and stuff, and won¡¯t stop nagging the male employee to kick me out.
The actual adventurers don¡¯t care, most of them encourage me, the few who don¡¯t ignore me, very few have actually discriminated against me.
The dwarf is actually her childhood friend apparently, and says she doesn¡¯t actually care that much, she just hates losing, but to me, it just seems like she¡¯s annoying.
I don¡¯t really care what she thinks about me, if she thinks I¡¯m savage, I¡¯ll just act like a savage in front of her.
The fire dragon was reported for killing a couple of merchants and their bodyguards, however, it was only shown to be LVL 15.
From what I see it¡¯s gained an LVL and is now LVL 16, but nothing really strikes me as being able to kill multiple bodyguards and their merchants.
Just as I thought that it changes, it turns blue and instantly changes size, I check it¡¯s LVL again, it turned to an LVL 40, so it can hide it¡¯s LVL, well I guess I can too, just not a transformation.
It shoots streams of blue fire, I dodge again, but this time, I advance.
No need to drag this out any further.
I use a regular pepper breath, it confidently takes it, but then flies back from the hit.
I go faster than its momentum and kick it in its stomach.
It hits a tree and somehow survives, probably because I didn¡¯t hit its vitals, but is extremely injured.
Blood comes from its mouth.
Then I hear a roar close by.
A little red dragon, the same one from the beginning, looks like it was a switching skill and not a transformation.
It rushes over to its blue brother, crying in agony.
It lays on its brother''s stomach, the blue one grimaces, the red one gets off its stomach and goes to the arm.
I walk forward, feeling like the bad guy, but knowing that even though this scene would make anyone cry, these guys wouldn¡¯t hesitate to kill people or monsters.
The red dragon stands in front of the blue one, long arms spreading out wide like he¡¯s saying, to get to him you have to go through me.
The scene makes me doubt myself, but then I remember the last time I questioned myself.
The last time I said, why am I fighting, I have no hard feelings with this monster.
Then it happened.
But that was the past me.
I¡¯m going to stop hesitating because if I do someone could die.
I rush forward, clearing the small gap in front of us instantly.
Then I kick, it kills the red dragon instantly, I know it does because I get the message.
The blue dragon screams ¡°NOOOOOOOOO!¡±
Then falls into bawling.
I put it out of its misery.
When did I get so dark, when did I become the bad guy?
Whatever, because I did this I saved more lives.
I use copy entity number, it wasn¡¯t a large gain, and I got the skill ¡®fire dye: Blue,¡¯ but that was it.
I got their bodies and started towards the guild.
Once I got there once again everyone was surprised, but I didn¡¯t really care.
¡°What¡¯s wrong? You killed a rank B monster again, that¡¯s something to celebrate about.¡±
(¡°Then why do I feel like a bad guy?¡±)
¡°What do you mean?¡±
I describe the scene to him, excluding that it was only one kick and fireball that sent him backward.
¡°Yeah that sounds bad, I would¡¯ve even spared them.¡±
I put my head down.
¡°But then again think about how many people you saved from killing them, ten, twenty, maybe even hundreds.¡±
I mean, yeah, but I still feel bad.
But is there anything else I could do?
I go home, which is now an inn, not a very expensive one, but one that accepts pets.
It¡¯s a ten-foot room with a bed and a magic lamp in it, nothing else.
One problem I have is loud neighbors, why is the upstairs person with one pet worse than the next-door person who has twelve dogs/Tame Wolf behemoths.
It doesn¡¯t make sense.
Anyway, I get some sleep, and then start heading towards the inn.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.
A teenager in armor gets up behind me and tries to catch me.
¡°Stop, get back to your owner.¡±
¡°You there, get away from that bird, he¡¯s an adventurer, you twat, don¡¯t judge people by their looks.¡±
It¡¯s a middle-aged looking lady.
I¡¯ve seen her before, but can¡¯t really tell where.
¡°You sure, it just looks like a lost chocobo or filolial.¡±
¡°I just said to not judge by appearances, twat, no go along.¡±
¡°Okay old lady.¡±
¡°Old, you just, I just told you not to judge by appearances again, Ilragorn, I¡¯m only twenty-five.¡±
¡°Whatever, I¡¯m leaving¡±
The teen ran off.
¡°I¡¯m sorry for my and his ignorance earlier.¡±
(¡°And you are who?¡±)
¡°My name is Leola Rajue, and we met at the guild, I stopped you because I thought you were a pet.¡±
(¡°Oh, I slightly remember you, well I forgive you, now I will be going to the guild.¡±)
¡°Okay, I usually go there later with my party, you¡¯re welcome to join us.¡±
(¡°Nah, I¡¯m good.)
I don¡¯t want to do all the work and then they get the credit, she seems nice, but I¡¯m not really planning to get attached to anything.
¡°Well too bad, see you around then.¡±
(¡°Bye.¡±)
I went on my way towards the guild and got there with no trouble, it looks like I¡¯m only getting noticed by obvious tourists and new people to the town.
Though if there are tourists that means that there are peaceful towns.
I¡¯ll have to visit one.
I get inside and see the teen, who had an expression like, what are you doing here.
He whispers something to the guy he was talking to, and then the guy laughs and explains something most likely about me.
No matter, I turn my focus on to the desk with the male employee, I should probably learn their names, I¡¯m always bad with them.
Anyway, he¡¯s talking to an older man with a tough beard who¡¯s sitting next to him drinking adult juice.
I go up to the desk and wait for them to notice me.
¡°Oh hey, you want a job, you get one last C-Rank until you can try B¡¯s out right.¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°Okay give me one sec, I¡¯ll take them out.¡±
¡°Take out the A-Rank quests.¡±
The male employee pauses.
¡°But sir, he hasn¡¯t even completed-¡±
¡°Take it out.¡±
¡°Yes, sir.¡±
He takes out multiple quests that even I can tell seem more important, to the paper quality to the ink quality, it almost like it¡¯s glowing, it¡¯s a cut above D and C.
The male employee starts setting them out normally, but you can see how tense he is.
I notice that the entire guildhall is quiet, and watching him.
¡°This one.¡±
He puts his finger on one with a behemoth on it.
¡°Do this one.¡±
(¡°Okay.¡±)
¡°And he agrees, do you even know the difference between B-Ranks and A-Ranks.¡±
(¡°Nope.¡±)
¡°Everything in A-Rank is LVL 50-99, this one is a Flame Lioness, Evolves at age 20, usually around LVL 70, the size of a fully grown Fire dragon, and it travels in groups.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s kinda concerning.¡±)
¡°Kind of, it¡¯s a quest we would normally give to an S-Ranks if this one wasn¡¯t reported alone.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s less concerning.¡±)
¡°It¡¯s less concerning that¡¯s it¡¯s alone, it¡¯s probably around LVL 70 and you are not concerned.¡±
(¡°Where is it.¡±)
He had to calm himself down.
¡°Across the huge lake to the west, takes five cinds (Currency system 100 ewips = 1 cind, 25 cinds = 1 zoulx) to get a decent boat through, if you can¡¯t pay for that it¡¯ll take twenty days on foot, you can take a loan, but you¡¯ll have to pay it back.¡±
(¡°How long does it usually take for the boat?¡±)
¡°Two days.¡±
(¡°How fast do the boats usually go.¡±)
¡°Compared to what?"
(¡°How about an LVL 20 dragon¡±)
¡°Can the dragon fly?¡±
(¡°Sure.¡±)
¡°Then it¡¯s less than half the speed.¡±
(¡°I¡¯ll be back, straight west from the guildhall or the port?¡±)
¡°The port is west, then you have to let the boat guide you there, if you go along the coast you would eventually find it, but if you can fly or something you might get lost.¡±
(¡°So I have to get a boat?¡±)
¡°Yes, unless you want to run across the border until you find the coastal village.¡±
(¡°How much is the reward for the quest?¡±)
¡°10 cinds.¡±
(¡°Loan please.¡±)
¡°Why am I not surprised that you calculated that you would gain profit and can do math faster than most humans.¡±
(¡°It¡¯s 10-5, not that hard.¡±)
¡°Where did you learn math?¡±
(¡°It¡¯s 10-5¡±)
¡°Everybody what¡¯s ten minus five.¡±
The room was quiet.
¡°If anybody wants a free 10 ewips-¡±
¡°1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13-¡±
¡°Tell me the answer to 10-5 on their first try.¡±
¡°Oh.¡±
¡°Anyone.¡±
One of the females in the back yell, ¡°5!¡±
¡°Yes, come up to get your money.¡±
She did and looked embarrassed.
¡°Math is not one of the greatest subjects of adventurers.¡±
(¡°How do they manage their money?¡±)
¡°What¡¯s money got to do with math?¡±
(¡°If you have twelve ewips, and you buy something for three ewips, how many ewips do you have left?¡±)
¡°Nine ewips, I don¡¯t see how that has anything to do with math.¡±
(¡°What¡¯s 12-3?¡±)
It took him longer as he counted it out in his head.
¡°It¡¯s nine, so what?¡±
(¡°12 ewips - 3 ewips.¡±)
He immediately got it, he looked really surprised.
¡°This is revolutionary.¡±
(¡°No it¡¯s not, but you do know you can ask analyze to do the math for you right?¡±)
¡°What?¡±
Why is he surprised by this, he was acting so smart a minute ago, why is math not explored, why is this the first time he¡¯s hearing about this.
¡°This is revolutionary.¡±
Now he¡¯s right about that if I had a little voice in my head telling me math problems I would be the valedictorian in every single school I went to.
(¡°Well I have to go.¡±)
¡°Wait, don¡¯t you need that loan.¡±
(¡°Oh yeah, when can I have it.¡±)
¡°Freydra, get five cinds from the vault.¡±
¡°Yes, guild master.¡±
I thought so, he seemed too important to be a random old guy.
¡°When will you be going?¡±
(¡°As soon as I can.¡±)
¡°Well then, have a good hunt.¡±
He took one more sip of adult juice, then left.
¡°What¡¯s revolutionary?¡±
Chapter 31- Boat
The harbor was exactly west of the guildhall, I wonder if it was made that way intentionally.
Anyway, I go to the line to get a ticket to the boats.
I get in line and wait for it to get to be my turn.
I got through the line and then when the people in front of me tried to leave the clerk, a guy who looked like he was around eighteen, called to the adventurers, ¡°Hey you forgot your chocobo.¡±
¡°It¡¯s not ours, it¡¯s theirs.¡±
¡°Not ours, I thought it was yours.¡±
(¡°Hey I¡¯m kind of in a hurry, can I get a ticket to Salvias (The town where the lion is), I am an adventurer.¡±)
I show the clerk my adventurer''s license and put the money on his desk.
¡°Did you speak?¡±
(¡°I have the telepathy skill.¡±)
¡°Well, whatever, here you go, this job pays me too little to care.¡±
(¡°Thanks.¡±)
I go on my way, when I look back I see the people behind me questioning the clerk, it doesn¡¯t really bother me.
I go to the boat and display my ticket.
¡°Oh, where¡¯s your master little guy,¡± The woman at the boat checking tickets asks.
(¡°Don¡¯t have one, here¡¯s my ticket.¡±)
¡°Where did you get this?¡±
(¡°From the clerk.¡±)
¡°Did you pay for it?¡±
(¡°The adventuring guild loaned me five cinds.¡±)
¡°Oh so you¡¯re the bird that the adventurers were talking about, I¡¯ve heard of you.¡±
(¡°So can I get on the boat?¡±)
She clips my ticket and hands it back.
¡°Yes, of course, just don¡¯t make trouble.¡±
(¡°Not planning on it.¡±)
I get on with less trouble than I thought.
The boat was like a warship, about the size of a pirate ship, or my image of a pirate ship at least.
The other people on the boat look like roughnecks, barely any people that don¡¯t have muscles.
I guess it¡¯s because the area we¡¯re going to has an average of LVL 50+ monsters, an A-rank area.
I picked a spot to lean on the side of the boat and made it my spot.
I tried to fall asleep and was successful, something about the swaying on the waves just put me to sleep.
I wake up to the screaming of, ¡°Kraken alert!¡±
I get up to find it¡¯s night time, and to see everyone on the other side of the boat shooting projectiles at a squid-like creature.
Analyze called it a Fire Kraken LVL 62.
The captain came down from the crow''s nest and yelled, ¡°Whoever kills that thing gets an extra paycheck if you¡¯re a passenger you can get your money back.¡±
The captain looked like a corrupted noble but sounded reasonable.
I try to get up to take his challenge, but I notice two children no older than ten laying my feathers.
I didn¡¯t notice them at first, which surprised me, but I also used analyze, and found out they are both around LVL 60, and they are twins.
I get up, using my wings to put them down, and then I turn around, to find the Kraken already slain.
That kind of annoys me, but I don¡¯t really need the money, so I simply choose another spot.
Before I fall asleep I feel someone lay on me again.
It¡¯s the twins again, but they are both awake, just trying to sleep.
(¡°Why are you leaning on me?¡±)
¡°Jitir the bird spoke.¡±
¡°Really, I can¡¯t hear it.¡±
(¡°Could you get off me.¡±) I say to the other twin.
¡°Kritir I heard it, it¡¯s voice is cute.¡±
¡°It didn¡¯t speak though?¡±
(¡°I have a skill that allows me to talk to one person at a time, now get off of me please.¡±) I say to both of them one at a time, using a more assertive voice.
It¡¯s not like I don¡¯t like kids, just these kids are a mystery to me, both of them are LVL 60, and I wasn¡¯t aware of them till I saw them.
¡°No, your feathers are soft, but they look sharp, why?¡±This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
(¡°I don¡¯t know, maybe they get sharper when I¡¯m in a fight?¡±)
¡°What LVL are you?¡±
(¡°Nunya.¡±)
¡°Nunya?¡±
(¡°Nunya Bizness.¡±)
¡°Why.¡±
¡°What¡¯s Nunya.¡±
¡°He said Nunya Bizness.¡±
He laughed at her.
¡°That¡¯s funny.¡±
¡°No, it¡¯s not!¡±
¡°Is too.¡±
¡°No, it¡¯s not!¡±
¡°Is too.¡±
I get up and walk up to the mast, I climb up the ladder to the crow''s nest.
It is a challenge, but my wings are strong enough, and I must have looked hilarious.
The top only has the captain, he¡¯s looking out for krakens.
(¡°Can I sit up here.¡±)
¡°Yeah I saw you come up here, not a very dignified climber are you.¡±
(¡°Not a birds strong suit.¡±)
¡°Yeah, it¡¯s too bad you¡¯re flightless.¡±
(¡°Yeah it¡¯s too bad.¡±)
I sit down and feel the waves, they are really calming, I thought I might get seasick, but it¡¯s really soothing.
¡°Were the twins bothering you?¡±
(¡°Yeah, you know them?¡±)
¡°I adopted them.¡±
(¡°Oh.¡±)
¡°It¡¯s not your fault, it¡¯s not like you could know.¡±
I stay quiet.
¡°You''re wondering why they¡¯re both LVL 60, aren¡¯t you?¡±
(¡°Kind of.¡±)
¡°They were abandoned at birth and were raised by Tolark, the god of the Shadows.¡±
(¡°A god?¡±)
¡°Yeah, the misunderstood god himself, he fed them, trained them, and educated them, they are smarter than I am.¡±
I stayed quiet, the story is kind of interesting.
¡°When I asked them how they got to LVL 60 they said that Tolark weakened monsters and then they finished it off.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s about the only way for a human child to get strong.¡±)
¡°Did you not do it that way?¡±
(¡°I did it once on accident, a croc was on the verge of death from my mother, then it charged me and I scratched it, it died.¡±)
¡°A croc?¡±
(¡°Water Dragon.¡±)
¡°That¡¯s a weird nickname for it, oh speaking of water beast, Kraken Alert!¡±
(¡°Are Krakens common?¡±)
¡°Yeah, going almost the entire day without one was a lucky break, but they are more common at night.¡±
I get up, (¡°Are you still doing the deal that if someone kills a kraken they get their money back.¡±)
¡°Yeah, but this ones LVL 80, you sure you can-¡±
I jump off and use flight to accelerate my way down.
Then I activate Pepper breath with MP Boost, and then a Meteor of death came down.
Then I activate Buff Up, Speed up, and Punt and do something like a high jump kick.
Both things hit and I kill it, never stood a chance.
I even get a LVL, which I haven¡¯t gotten in a while.
I activate copy entity number and get 1480 STR and get a LVL in Tidal Wave.
I check my stats¡
| "Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 90, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" |
| "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah''s, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff¡¯s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko, Cyko Dungeon Dojo Disciple, Special Title: Goblin Slayer" |
| "Skills: Analysis LVL 8, Copy Entity Number LVL 5, Mind Acceleration LVL 10, Dragon beak LVL 3, Night Vision LVL 10, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 10, Recovery Magic LVL 10, Pain Immunity LVL 10, Heat vision LVL 10, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 10, MP manipulation LVL 10, Fire Immunity LVL 10, Telepathy LVL 6, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 10, Punting LVL 10, Flamethrower LVL 10, Water Gun LVL 10, Flight LVL 10, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 10, Reckless Charge LVL 10, Press LVL 10, Earth removal LVL 10, Buff up LVL 10, Speed up LVL 10, Enchant LVL 10, Forge LVL 10, Inferno LVL 3, Tidal Wave LVL 5, Outer MP Manipulation LVL 1, 3D Shadow manipulation LVL 1, Future Sight LVL 2, Combustion LVL 3, Beam Digging LVL 2, Strategic Charge LVL 1, Monster Summoning LVL 1, Peck LVL 6, Cursed Wing LVL 4, Shine LVL 4, Booming voice LVL 3, Climb LVL 5, Craft LVL 3, Hide LVL 1." |
| "Stats: HP: 6051, STR: 7732, SPD: 11242, VIT: 6623, MP: 6498, INT: 7321" |
I fly back on board, feathers not even soaked because I didn¡¯t go into the water.
When I reach the deck I look at everybody, and they¡¯re staring at me.
¡°Bird strong.¡±
¡°Yeah, it¡¯s strong.¡±
¡°But it¡¯s not scary.¡±
¡°Yeah.¡±
I went back to the mast and was about to climb again, but I decided they already saw me fly, so I went up back to my spot.
¡°What was that?¡±
(¡°A fireball and a kick.¡±)
¡°I thought you were flightless, and that wasn¡¯t a fireball, it was inferno right?¡±
(¡°Nope, pepper breath, also I have a skill that allows me to fly.¡±)
¡°How many rare skills do you have?¡±
(¡°How many have you seen?¡±)
¡°Flying and telepathy, I knew about telepathy from the other adventurers, but flying shouldn¡¯t be possible.¡±
(¡°I guess I¡¯m special.¡±) That¡¯s kind of true, with my starter skill I can only get stronger with no top.
¡°Special, what do you mean special, you¡¯re extraordinary, don¡¯t humble yourself, here take your money back.¡±
He hands me five Cinds.
¡°The names Rorquik, if you need anything on this trip just ask me.¡±
(¡°The kids said I was strong, but not scary?¡±)
¡°Oh.¡±
He turned around and looked at the sea.
¡°The reason they got to LVL 60 was kill stealing, but it¡¯s also because they are afraid, they are genuinely afraid of people stronger than them, and it¡¯s because of Tolark.¡±
(¡°Did he do something to them.¡±)
¡°I don¡¯t know, from what I can tell, no, but they act like he did, he used ¡®creepy shadows¡¯ and scared them so bad that they confused strength with him, he gave them to me on one of my voyages, and left before I could ask why.¡±
(¡°Are they a burden?¡±)
¡°Honestly yes, but I could never get rid of them, even if Tolark came back, I¡¯d probably die trying to keep them.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s dark.¡±)
¡°Yeah.¡±
We stayed quiet for the rest of the trip.
Multiple Krakens showed up, but I didn''t go after any of them.
We got to the harbor and the first thing I notice that it''s a straight savannah.
The town looks like a typical fantasy lakeside town.
I go to the area south of the town and then I see it, a flaming lion.
It had a mohawk made of flames, and fire came out of its paws.
It sees me immediately and shows its confidence.
Seeing it look cocky makes me want to take it down.
Why theres no chapter this week/ Update/ The worst Crossword
Okay, so to start off, I''m not going to be home, my grandma going out of state with her church, so I''m going to go to great wolf lodge with my Aunt, that''s the entire story with why there is no chapter.
So right now I''m going to address what some of my future plans are.
First of all, at Chapter 50 I''m taking a break, well not really a break per se, I''m going to go back and edit/rewrite some chapters, the first ten probably need to go through Grammarly, and all of the chapters need more details and dialogue changes, I don''t know how long it is going to take, but I do plan on continuing writing chapters, also I would appreciate for those of you who have a chapter that just doesn''t sit well with them (Besides the one of him going up the mountain and then almost insta-killing the goblin divine beast, I''m going to fix that on the break as well) Could you go back and point out the parts you didn''t like.
Second of all, I was made aware by the user Troubled_one that Chocobo''s, in general, are completely copyrighted, so I need to make the MC a new animal, I''m thinking ostrich because of the similarity and I could just make it so ostriches in Ilragorn look different, similar to a Chocobo, but different as well I guess, but if you know any other bird-like animals that I could use comment it, also I need to know if Filolials are copyrighted as well, I don''t even know where to find that out.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
Third, here''s a terrible crossword to comment the answers to get to the five hundred words limit.
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Chapter 32- Battle with a lion
The lioness walks slowly up to me, trotting like a cocky cartoon horse.
I just stand there and use analyze.
| Target: Flame Lioness LVL 83 |
| Titles: Abandoned, Undead skills, Small Army Destroyer, Confident |
Those titles are weird, and its LVL is lower than mine, not something I''m used to.
I don¡¯t move and wait for it to strike, it obliges.
It put its paw down without looking, thinking it got me when I just stepped to the side.
It looked down, looking confused, but swiped down like a cat on a laser.
I dodge again, faster this time, as they are actually trying to hit this time.
The paw is getting faster, and faster until we probably look like blurs.
Usually, I would¡¯ve finished by now, but its cocky attitude made me want to style on them.
I was dodging, waiting, until I found it, the exact moment where it can¡¯t go any faster.
I was watching it, the paw, going up and down, practically making a crater below me with every strike.
I look at its face, it¡¯s getting annoyed, good.
While I¡¯m watching its paw, I see a shadow at 3 o¡¯clock in my position.
I dodge further back and look, it¡¯s bone, extending out, and attacking where I would¡¯ve dodged too if I didn¡¯t see it.
It¡¯s coming out of¡ the lioness¡¯ chest, well that¡¯s creepy.
Is it the starter skill in the beginning that I didn¡¯t choose because it was too creepy, and as well as copy entity number sounded way better, it¡¯s probably an evolved version of that.
Well, I¡¯m not judging, but why would you ever choose to manipulate your bones, that just sounds painful.
It goes back in, slowly and with some clicking sounds.
That isn¡¯t pretty, but the lioness still looks fine, just annoyed.
The terrain is destroyed, replaced by different size craters, the dry grass around the crater looks very tall now that I¡¯m below it.
The lioness looks like it¡¯s thinking, but is still on guard, I think it¡¯s my turn.
I ran up towards it, not too fast, but enough to make it panic.
It didn¡¯t, it gave me a look like, ¡®Try it, I¡¯ll give you a free shot.¡¯
Cocky lion, I used buff up and punt then jumped up, got in position to do a flying jump kick, then used flight to push me down faster.
It quickly changed from free shot mode to I have to dodge or it will hurt mode.
Instead of dodging, it brought more bones out, then made them come close together to make a makeshift shield.
It¡¯s funeral I guess.
I hit it, but for the first time since the goblin king, it didn¡¯t die, the bone cracked sure, but it didn¡¯t break.
I was caught off guard, but so was the lion, it didn¡¯t react in time, but with my mind acceleration I did, I raise my other leg and kick where the crack is, hit again, and it definitely made the crack bigger, still nowhere near breaking.
It snapped out of it and jumped away, knocking me off its back.
On the way down I noticed it didn¡¯t jump, but it used the bones in its paws to redirect itself.
That must have been a panic option, it¡¯s faster than a jump but won¡¯t go as far.
I rush forward once more to where it lands, more bones come out of the side of its body like spider legs.
It moves exactly like a spider to try to get out of the way, but I rush forward, I fire a pepper breath at her, it didn¡¯t surprise them.
More bones came out from her mouth and made a shield.
Are those, their teeth, it used its teeth as a shield, that has to do some jaw damage.
It bounces off, like a ball.
I get caught off guard, and it takes this opportunity to attack me with more bones.
Her paws extend forward as she¡¯s focusing on her spider-leg bones to balance her out, and bones come out.
They hit me, without pain nullification on, it hurt like dropping a hammer on your toes, but on my stomach, and with a sharp object that for some reason didn¡¯t pierce my skin.
It¡¯s the same way with the knife at the guild, just pushed me.
It looked surprised again, but I¡¯m far away enough that the only way I can take advantage of it is with a flamethrower.
The flames bounce off her hastily made a bone shield, not doing any damage.
I activate pain nullification, and then start to attack again.
We go on for a while, not doing much to each other, each trying to go at some other angle to kill each other, failing, regrouping, then trying again.
I think I may have to start using more skills, it may blow some cover, but it isn¡¯t like they think I¡¯m weak.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
I¡¯ll start using the ostriches'' instructions, get rid of all of the enemies'' senses.
I start with sight, using flamethrower and water gun I make a steam screen.
Next limit their movement, I use the skill beam digging to make random holes under the veil of steam, if they fall in one it¡¯s basically a free kill.
The last sense is hearing, I just have to get close to her ears and use this skill, Booming voice.
I yell in its ear, it jerked back, obviously affected, it fell in one of the holes, it¡¯s my win.
I start with a pepper breath, the steam hasn¡¯t worn off so I hear it definitely hit, but what it doesn¡¯t know is that there is water behind it.
More specifically a tidal wave.
I haven¡¯t used this skill in battle yet, and I¡¯m glad I didn¡¯t, this skill is overpowered, it¡¯s a tier 3 skill, apparently water gun was tier 2, the goblins start with it I guess, and it doesn¡¯t come from me exactly, it comes from a line above me, twenty meters wide, and it flows as far as it can, how is a normal monster going to dodge that.
The huge crater we made is now a lake, but I still haven¡¯t got the kill message.
So I start cooking, heating up the water with inferno, it¡¯s the same thing as tidal wave, except fire doesn¡¯t flow, so it sticks to whatever it lands on and burns until it stops, since it hits the water it evaporates the entire lake.
The entire area fills up with more steam, so I have to use heat vision to see.
Heat vision shows me that it¡¯s still alive.
I¡¯ve used a lot of my tricks on it, but there is that one skill that I¡¯ve never used before.
It probably won¡¯t make much difference because it¡¯s LVL 1, but I can try it.
I go again into the steam-filled air and do my drop-kick.
I hit it, then I activate the skill.
Life Steal Touch.
The effect is small, but you can tell it¡¯s there.
It may be that my INT is so high that all skills related to magic get a boost, or that the lioness DEF is high but not it¡¯s HP, or maybe a bit of both, but we both notice, this skill is letting me win.
I realize that I¡¯m on its bones, not it¡¯s body, but the Life steal is working, I¡¯m getting energy.
The Lioness gets up and pushes me off.
Then it jumps, it makes a drill-like shape with its bones, then intends to land on me.
I quickly use the skill forge and leave spikes around me made of dirt.
More bones quickly come out and stop it from landing.
I continuously use forge to make the spikes again to get longer and shorter.
It hits the bottom of the lion, but the lion left covered itself in bones.
I then enchant the spikes with life steal touch.
I did this on a whim, but it was very effective.
Each spike is enchanted with it, and there are eight spikes, that¡¯s eight times the effectiveness.
And surprisingly all the health is coming back to me.
I thought it would reinforce the spikes, but this is way better.
The lioness quickly jumped away from the spikes and made space between us.
¡°Why do you have so many.¡±
That surprised me, almost no one has tried to talk to me while we were fighting.
¡°What?¡±
¡°So many skills, you have so many, must have taken a long time to get them all.¡±
She starts circling me, not dropping her defense.
¡°It took long enough, why are you talking?¡±
¡°I only have six skills, three of them are resistances, but you have at least ten.¡±
She has no idea.
¡°Okay, why are you stalling?¡±
¡°Just catch my breath, you react too fast, life is not fair is it.¡±
¡°Have you ever thought that about any other thing you killed?¡±
¡°Excuse me?¡±
¡°Have you ever seen anyone here not affected by luck, I¡¯m extremely lucky, but I could have died in the beginning to a dragon the same age as me, no four weeks younger."
¡°So, what¡¯s your point?¡±
¡°Oh sorry, just thinking how lucky I was, I started with stats of two and three after all.¡±
¡°Two and three, I started at fifty and sixty,¡± she still hasn¡¯t dropped her guard.
¡°Well, do you want to keep talking, or are you not done preparing?¡±
¡°Do you not know what my other skills are?¡±
¡°Why would I?¡±
¡°It¡¯s a pretty common skill around here.¡±
¡°Well, I¡¯m not from around here.¡±
¡°Try moving.¡±
I pick up my leg, or so I thought I would, but I can¡¯t.
I struggle with nothing to show it.
¡°You really fell for it, you really did, the common skill circle of stun.¡±
I keep trying to move.
¡°Of course if you don¡¯t know what that is if you¡¯re not from around here, it¡¯s simple, I walk a circle around you and then you can¡¯t move for a while.¡±
I try to talk, but nothing comes out.
¡°Hmm, sorry, I can¡¯t hear out of this ear after you screamed so loud my ancestors could hear it!¡±
She then slams one of her paws on top of me, making me lay on the ground.
She then takes turns with her paws to slam down on me, then she adds her bones, there isn¡¯t a second in where I¡¯m not getting hit.
It doesn¡¯t hurt, because of pain nullification, which makes me wonder if skills work still or not.
I turn on life steal touch.
Sure enough, I¡¯m getting health, and they¡¯re losing it.
But I¡¯m losing it faster than I gain it.
I saw her eyes change, she noticed too but didn¡¯t look like she was stopping.
I can still use skills, but I don¡¯t want to try to use something that comes exactly from me.
I use tidal wave.
She doesn¡¯t react in time, the giant wave slaps her off me with the impact of getting hit by a bus.
The crater fills up again, me and her in it, but both of us still alive.
Only I still can¡¯t move.
I see her go to the top of the lake, leaving me to drown.
Can I even swim, I¡¯ve never tried.
I finally am able to move again, but to my fears, feathers aren¡¯t optimal for swimming.
I haven¡¯t been breathing, but there is water in my mouth and nose, awful feeling.
Flailing around is usually my strong suit, but this time I can¡¯t seem to go up.
I think of the possible skills I could use, and then I see it, the skill that makes me go up, flight.
I use it and I stop going down.
I quickly rise to the surface and look around.
Nothing at the shore, did it run.
I go further up, only to be pushed down.
It must have seen me going up and jumped on me.
¡°Drown!¡±
Sorry, but I think not.
It completely forgot to cover itself in its bones, it jumped on me with its bare skin.
I activate mana manipulation and flamethrower.
A blue beam breaks the sound barrier and goes straight through the lioness.
It died on impact.
| "You have killed Flame Lioness Entity #81955725027543815" |
| "You leveled up to LVL 91" |
| "Would you like to use Copy Entity Number LVL 5?" |
Chapter 33-A goal... I guess.
| "You have killed Flame Lioness Entity #81955725027543815" |
| "You leveled up to LVL 91" |
| "Would you like to use Copy Entity Number LVL 5?" |
Yes.
| "Used Copy Entity Number LVL 5." |
| "Gained 4031 DEF, Gained skill Circle of Stun LVL 1." |
That¡¯s a relief, I thought I would get the bone skill.
It¡¯s fire went out when it died.
I put it in the magic bag, it makes a sucking sound as it goes in.
The things I¡¯ve put in this bag haven¡¯t been this large, the slurp surprised me.
Then a dragon popped out of nowhere, roaring his lungs out, probably telling its siblings the battles over.
Well that¡¯s my cue to leave, I don¡¯t want to find something stronger than this thing here, she was really strong, not strong enough to kill me for a while, but it was the most challenging battle I¡¯ve had so far.
I fly off, flying high enough that nothing can jump and try to get me.
The boat was immediately leaving, and I almost missed it, but thanks to flight and my ¡®friendship¡¯ with the captain, I got on.
¡°You back.¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°Did you fight.¡±
(¡°My most challenging fight yet.¡±)
¡°Who?¡±
(¡°A flame lioness, she was alone, but she had the power to manipulate her bones, which was probably harder than metal.¡±)
¡°A flame lioness?¡±
¡°Bones harder than metal?!¡±
With that, a brutish looking guy with a mohawk stepped up.
¡°You aren¡¯t talking about the lioness that destroyed that army, are ye?¡±
To the brute, (¡°I don¡¯t know, did it manipulate its bones, and have a fire mohawk.¡±)
¡°So you do talk in my head, and a fire mohawk?¡±
(¡°The same hairstyle as you, but on fire.¡±)
¡°All flame lioness¡¯ have fur like this, but if it controlled bones, then if you killed it, you would be saying that you did something one of the princes'' platoons couldn¡¯t.¡±
(¡°Well it¡¯s dead, if you come to the guild you might see its corpse.¡±)
¡°Who are you.¡±
¡°Are you talking to bird?¡±
¡°Pardon my manners, my name is Ulrich, no last name, but I¡¯m kind of an information broker, now, can I get a definite answer, did you kill the flame lioness ''bird''.¡±
(¡°Three cinds¡±)
¡°Excuse me.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m bartering, three cinds, I think it seems reasonable.¡±)
¡°Hardly, that¡¯s a meal.¡±
(¡°Two cinds.¡±)
¡°Okay here,¡± he got on his knee and handed the money to Kritir (The boy and younger twin).
¡°Okay did you kill it.¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°How.¡±
(¡°Now that¡¯s personal information like my skills, that¡¯s off the market.¡±)
¡°*Tch*, well is it damaged, did you kill it without injuring any part of the body.¡±
(¡°I cracked its bones and burned it a little, why is that important?¡±)
¡°You cracked a bone manipulator¡¯s bones, those scale with 1.5 of its defense, what LVL was it.¡±
(¡°Around 80.¡±)
¡°That means its defense was around 5500, that¡¯s insane, what LVL are you?¡±
(¡°Nunya.¡±)
¡°Nunya?¡±
(¡°Nunya Bizness.¡±)
¡°He got you.¡±
¡°You got got.¡±
¡°I got- got?¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°Kids, whatever, I got my information. I guess I¡¯ll see it later.¡±
(¡°Hey, I¡¯ll give you two cinds for the information about the flame lioness destroying an army.¡±)
He stares at me, ¡°This is a business, I need a little more than that.¡±
(¡°Ok, then you can go.¡±)
¡°What, what about the information you need?¡±This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.
(¡°I don¡¯t need it, I¡¯m sure I¡¯ll hear it all for the next week, I just thought you might want your money back.¡±)
¡°Come on, I don¡¯t need the money that bad, I have plenty of clients.¡±
(¡°Okay, see you later then.¡±)
I¡¯m not a businessman, but I know how to trade without losing anything, no matter what he goes with, in this trade I will win, with two extra cinds, or information.
¡°Are you sure you want to let this deal pass.¡±
(¡°Sure.¡±)
¡°Your loss.¡±
Not really, I got two cinds.
He walks off, obviously bothered on how I didn¡¯t crack, but I was content.
The boat gets to the port, I say goodbye to the captain and twins, then headed to the guild.
The guild has some familiar faces, the guild master in particular.
¡°You¡¯ve come back, you must have killed it, just as I was raising the quests rank to S."
(¡°It was S-Rank?¡±)
¡°It¡¯s LVL wasn¡¯t, but bone manipulation wasn¡¯t on the table, and the prince sent his platoon at it while we didn¡¯t know anything, the prince sent a platoon full of water mages at it, then got most of them killed.¡±
(¡°So I took down an s-class monster.¡±)
¡°Yes.¡±
(¡°Does this mean I¡¯m S-class?¡±)
¡°Well let¡¯s see the body.¡±
(¡°Come outside.¡±)
The body is too big to fit inside.
¡°Okay.¡±
He got up and started walking, people started to follow him.
I led everyone outside, and then plopped it on the ground.
¡°It¡¯s definitely a flame lioness, but let''s see, its bones went back into its body, hey you there, Rodrick, punch its tooth.¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t that disrespectful?¡±
Rodrick was a little guy, not a dwarf, with arms and legs wider than his head.
It¡¯s not that his head was small either, his limbs were just that muscley.
¡°It¡¯s dead now, it won¡¯t know.¡±
¡°Well¡ okay.¡±
He walked up to its head and people opened its mouth for him, then he pulled his arm back into position.
He then launched his arm into its tooth and made it move a couple feet, and with a crack, his hand was broken.
I went over to see and to heal his hand.
The guy was crying so I knew it hurt.
I healed his hand and looked over.
Not a scratch where he impacted it.
He was definitely strong, because he was a LVL 50, but the Lioness was just tougher.
¡°Did you use a skill, Rodrick?¡±
¡°Buff Up, and punch.¡±
¡°Not even a scratch, this thing took out a hundred people in one fight, I can see why if they did no damage.¡±
(¡°So am I S-Rank?¡±)
¡°Well it is dead, and not damaged that much, and you seem fine, did it injure you at all?¡±
(¡°Not really, I¡¯m fine.¡±)
¡°Well everyone looks like we have an S-Rank monster Adventurer.¡±
¡°Wait what.¡± ¡°Just like that.¡± ¡°But he¡¯s a monster.¡±
Of course, they wouldn¡¯t accept me, well it doesn¡¯t really matter, the only difference is that I¡¯m getting more money.
*Clapping*
It is the male guild guy, I think his name is Phylic, he is clapping.
His applause makes more people join in, then more people, then the entire guild starts clapping.
This is the first time the entire guild has praised me, I¡¯m just in shock, I don¡¯t know what to do.
¡°Show us you appreciate it somehow at least.¡±
It was the female guild person, no name needed.
I snap out of shock and bow, it¡¯s really the only thing I could think of.
¡°Looks like you have no idea what being S-Class really is, do you.¡±
(¡°It isn¡¯t the same?¡±)
¡°Nope, now you report to the king, you can do whatever you want, unless the king says you can¡¯t, save up money and then live a happy rest of your life, but if we go to war, you¡¯re either protecting the king, or you¡¯re on the front lines, depending if he likes you or not.¡±
(¡°So, now I¡¯m your boss?¡±)
¡°It¡¯s more like, you¡¯re so strong that we can''t stop you, and if we made you mad we would die, we have had people like that, the king has changed many times in history, if you are stronger you may challenge the king to a deathmatch to become king.¡±
(¡°Why would I want to be king?¡±)
¡°For the right to do whatever you want?¡±
(¡°Didn¡¯t you say I could do that anyway?¡±)
¡°Well yes, but, you know what, what¡¯s your goal?¡±
(¡°What?¡±)
¡°Your goal, what do you want to do with your life, become a king, though you would be our first monster king, you could live a quiet life, when you accepted my quest, you didn¡¯t seem excited or nervous, I couldn¡¯t tell what you wanted, that¡¯s what¡¯s been bothering me the most.¡±
(¡°I don¡¯t have one, I guess, I¡¯ve mostly been going with the flow.¡±)
¡°Then make one.¡±
(¡°Why I¡¯ve been fine.¡±)
¡°No one is okay without a goal, you need something to work for, then something to work for after that.¡±
(¡°I don¡¯t know, I¡®m less than half a year old, I guess surviving for a year is good.¡±)
¡°No that doesn¡¯t work, I mean work towards becoming the best at something.¡±
(¡°What, like a god?¡±)
¡°Yes, become a god.¡±
(¡°What LVL is a god.¡±)
He hesitated, ¡°Umm, the last one that came here was LVL 1000.¡±
(¡°Okay, I¡¯ll go for that.¡±)
¡°Wait, that¡¯s achievable for you?¡±
(¡°Only one way to find out.¡±)
¡°So you¡¯re going with the flow again.¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°So, you are not gonna try, but you feel it will happen.¡±
(¡°With all the trouble I get into, sure.¡±)
¡°That¡¯s not a goal if you aren¡¯t sure it¡¯s gonna happen, then you are just trying to appease me.¡±
(¡°Yep, see you later.¡±)
Incha POV
It¡¯s been four days since we¡¯ve been tracking the filolials, but it¡¯s weird, they usually have no destination and walk randomly, this time they¡¯re going straight, as if they know exactly where they are heading, and they haven¡¯t stopped.
I know they love him, but how would they know where their son is, did he get a child tracking skill when he became a parent.
I don¡¯t know because I¡¯m not one, but that doesn¡¯t make sense, well finding both of them would be a dream.
We just got them back and then they ran away again.
But I don¡¯t blame them for trying to get to his child.
¡°Hide!¡±
We all jumped into a bush, a dragon flew above us, looked like a lightning element, rare.
Ruekra is the best tracker out of all of us, Url is the strongest, and I¡¯m a translator, I¡¯m kind of the odd one out, but they don¡¯t seem to mind.
The dragon left and we made it to the edge of the forest.
A huge dry grassy area spreads out in front of me.
I almost walk forward, but I get stopped by Url¡¯s arm.
He looks at Ruekra first, ¡°is it safe?¡±
¡°Definitely not, but they ran right into it, in a rush too, they did stop here, but they started running here, must have sensed the danger as well.¡±
¡°Should we do the same?¡±
¡°Doesn¡¯t look like we have a choice.¡±
¡°Well, running is what we do best.¡±
¡°See you on the other side.¡±
¡°Eat my dust,¡± he then runs ahead.
Then both of us run after him.
Chapter 34- Im famous
¡°You, eh, sir? Shall come to see the king at once, on his majesty¡¯s order!¡±
And that¡¯s how I was woken up.
They opened the door, with whatever lock-picking ability they have, and yelled that.
I yawn and stretch out.
It¡¯s been a week since I became S-Rank, and I¡¯ve done three quests since then.
All of them were LVL 100-150 dragons.
I¡¯ve gained a couple of LVL¡¯s from that, but why were all of them dragons?
There was barely any other option but Dragons.
The squire looking dude walked out looking confused and shut the door.
By the way, now that I¡¯m S-Class I got a pretty snazzy apartment.
I have a balcony, a freaking balcony, not like those cheap ones that are smaller than a bed, I have a deck balcony, I could have a small party if I wanted, do an entire barbeque on this balcony.
And I have a huge bedroom, a trampoline-like bed, I don¡¯t know what it¡¯s made of, but it¡¯s bouncy and comfy, what more could I ask for.
I have a kitchen and dining room, but I don¡¯t really use them, because I can¡¯t cook.
Anyway enough about my house, even though it¡¯s awesome, everything I could ask for.
Let¡¯s go to the king.
¡
I have no idea where the king lives.
There are no castles in Convictoni.
Just huge walls.
Maybe I can catch up to the squire and ask.
I walk out the door and to the entrance of my apartment complex.
No trace.
Well, then I¡¯ll ask the guild.
Walking in this town has taught me something, people adapt quickly, and if a tourist is here then they are very easy to spot.
The adaptation part is because no one notices me anymore, the tourist part is that they always notice me.
¡°Excuse me little chocobo, are you lost.¡±
(¡°No.¡±)
Of course, they always act surprised when I talk back.
¡°I¡¯m sorry did you just talk.¡±
(¡°Yes, and I¡¯ve been summoned by the king, so I have to go.¡±)
¡°And it has a sense of humor, I¡¯ve gone insane.¡±
It¡¯s the truth, but I¡¯ll leave them thinking they are crazy.
Before I got to the guild, I saw the crowd.
There are so many people that I thought they were rioting.
I try to get around people, but quickly get squished in between peoples legs.
Instead I fly over their heads, that got a couple eyes, but most were focused on looking for something in the guild.
I go through the large door above people''s heads into the guild, and then I see, surprise more people.
The guild is packed, you would think there was a concert or something.
I try to look for somebody who could tell me where the king lives, as the counter where the guild workers are packed.
I kinda feel sorry for them, but this is their job.
I see the lady who tried to stop me at the guild door, she¡¯s in the corner drinking adult juice with her party members I assume.
I approach her and try to get her attention, (¡°Excuse me?¡±)
She looked around until her eyes landed on me.
I get the feeling I might struggle to get an answer from her.
She hasn¡¯t stopped blinking since she saw me and her head is tilted almost sideways.
It¡¯s morning, but I think she¡¯s had way too much adult juice.
The entire party has that look.
¡°Wha-t, isit.¡±
Well, might try a direct question, (¡°Where does the king live?¡±)
¡°He liv-*hiccup*-es in the castlllle.¡±This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.
(¡°Where is the castle?¡±)
¡°Phshhh, why don¡¯t you kno-*hiccup*-ow?¡±
(¡°I¡¯ve never been to it?¡±)
¡°Wellll, why didn¡¯t you say so, *hiccup*, it¡¯s in Voyaltry.¡±
(¡°Where is Voyaltry.¡±)
¡°Stop asking so many questions, you¡¯re making my head hurt *hiccup*.¡±
I¡¯ll have to ask a different question, something easier.
(¡°Can I see a map that shows me where each town is.¡±)
¡°Rolak, he wants the map.¡±
¡°He can¡¯t have the map, it''s mine.¡±
¡°Let him see the ------- map.¡±
My poor child bird ears.
¡°Jeez fine, just see it, you can¡¯t have it.¡±
He laid a map on the table, knocking down a drink, and then cursing, but I saw it.
If this town was the size of a donut, the city of Voraltry was an entire plate.
It was huge, there were plenty of towns on the map, but only three places stood out.
Convictoni, Voraltry, and Rigundiret.
Convictoni and Rigundiret were similar sizes, but Voraltry was bigger than both of them combined.
The thing is, the towns were in a straight line from one another, from left, Convictoni, to all the way to the east, to Rigundiret.
It was definitely on purpose, if not the coincidence would be scary.
At least I know I can¡¯t miss it, so on to Voraltry.
I make my way to the guild door, but before I hear.
¡°There he is, question him.¡±
It was the female guild clerk pointing at¡ me.
The entire guild turned to me, I recognized most of them as regular townspeople.
¡°You¡¯re, the new monstrous S-Rank adventurer.¡±
(¡°No.¡±)
Judging by their reactions, I guess it would be a bad thing if I said yes.
¡°Yes, he is an S-rank adventurer Monster, the rumor must have skewed to monstrous making you think he was very powerful and strong-looking, now that you¡¯ve seen him, could you leave the guild, actual adventurers need help.¡±
A bunch of people started inching closer to me.
¡°S-rank monster adventurer, I¡¯m with the Heaven Union, I would like to make you an offer to join for multiple Level Up Pills.¡±
That brings in memories, those terrible-tasting pills that I won from the filolial village, why would I want those.
¡°No no no, he doesn¡¯t need those disgusting pills, My guild, the Knights of Greater Good will give you plenty of opportunities to LVL up skills with battles suited for your LVL, we have three S-Ranks and you can take it from them how satisfactory our guild is to their services.¡±
Yikes, what a terrible name, I got to slip out of here, I thought it was a riot, it¡¯s much worse, recruiters.
I back up slowly, to find the entrance full of people staring.
¡°I¡¯d like you to join my¡¡± ¡°I¡¯d like you to test my¡¡± ¡°I¡¯d like to make an offer of¡¡±
Phrases I didn¡¯t stop hearing until I started flying of course.
I immediately head east, the king probably shouldn¡¯t be kept waiting.
How fast can I go, I wondered, I haven¡¯t tried to go full speed flying, but if I know I can¡¯t miss my destination, I¡¯m going to try flying as fast as I can.
I activate speed up, then stop holding back.
Speeding up, I start seeing blurs, I activate mind acceleration, and then the world goes at normal speed.
Normal speed, my reaction time is multiplied by 5 in mind acceleration.
I am a flying sonic.
Anyway, I start to see something very quickly approaching in front of me.
It¡¯s a town.
Wait, stop.
I try to stop but hit the wall.
Thankfully I lowered my velocity and with my minuscule weight didn¡¯t even hurt it, but it did make a noise.
¡°Who''s there!?¡±
I hid using my newish skill hide.
The wall is so big that the guy had to be using a skill to be loud.
I walk around toward the south because that¡¯s where the entrance was on the map.
The entrance was crowded, but not like the guild was crowded, it was a neat line, I guess I¡¯ll just wait in the line.
The line went quickly and efficiently.
¡°Show your identification,¡± he said sarcastically.
I pulled out my adventurer ID.
He panicked and saluted, ¡°Please go on through.¡±
And I was in.
That was easy, I miss that button.
I need to make my way to the¡ castle, well I¡¯ve found it.
I mean how can you miss it.
Neither Disney or Sir Lancelot could top this castle.
I can¡¯t count the number of towers, each roof was bright blue, the number of figureheads on it must have been infinite, and the best part, it has a slide.
No, you read right, a literal slide to get to the bottom quicker I guess.
Almost every balcony has one to the bottom.
The slides have enclosed roofs of course, and I have no idea how they don¡¯t fall, they don¡¯t have supports.
Magic, probably enchant.
I walk through crowds of people to the entrance of the castle, which just has two guards.
¡°I¡¯m sorry sir, no one is allowed in without a called audience.¡±
¡°Please, I¡¯ve got no one to turn to.¡±
¡°That¡¯s what the last guy that almost got me fired said, now no one talks to him without a called audience sir.¡±
¡°This won¡¯t be the last time you hear from me.¡±
I walk up to the guard.
¡°Aww, you lost little guy?¡±
(¡°No, I have been called for an audience with the king.¡±)
I get out my ID.
His expression changes.
¡°Hold on a minute.¡±
He takes it and puts it in his hand.
Then the ID did nothing.
He just held it.
¡°Do you know how to manipulate MP into objects?¡±
(¡°I can try?¡±)
¡°Good.¡±
He puts it in my beak, then I use MP manipulation on it, to my surprise instead of the usual liquid sports drink coming out, the pass just vibrates.
¡°Yep, it¡¯s real, you¡¯re allowed in, I¡¯ll call you an escort.¡±
Someone appeared immediately, ¡°I¡¯ll take him from here.¡±
¡°Redsi, you sure, it¡¯s not your job.¡±
¡°The highness told me to take the rest of the day off, but I can¡¯t stop when I see he¡¯s working so hard.¡±
¡°If you¡¯re sure.¡±
¡°Come this way.¡±
Chapter 35- A big mission
The doors of the castle lead into a huge opening with as many staircases as possible.
All the walls led to the other floors, you can barely call them walls.
The woman leads me to a staircase and starts climbing.
I don¡¯t fancy getting lost so I start up the stairs while observing that the passageways, completely stone brick, look weird.
They are completely flat like they were cut by magic.
That¡®s probably what actually happened, but it¡¯s not what I¡¯m used to
It didn''t take long for us to get to the top of the stairs, and then she led me to a corridor, which also seemed to rise.
Everything seems to rise up, I don¡¯t know if that¡¯s a strategy, but it must be exhausting to go up and down every day.
She stops at a door and opens it.
¡°Your highness, the S-rank monster adventurer is here.
I take my first glance into the room, instead of the throne room, which we all expected, it was, an office?
The room was filled with papers and crates, from the front to the back, the room was cluttered.
In the middle was a desk, with a normal looking guy with black hair, no older than twenty, wearing a royal robe, the crown is on a hat hanger in the back.
The king is signing papers, doesn¡¯t even look up to see who I am.
¡°Name?¡±
¡°Kwehzalcoatl.¡±
Why did I speak, I didn¡¯t even use telepathy, he just asked and then I talked.
¡°Ah sorry force of habit, I suppose a monster can¡¯t tell me the time of day if it wanted to.¡±
¡°He has telepathy, sir.¡±
¡°Oh, that¡¯s odd.¡±
He looked up, and for a second examined me, but then looked down and continued working on papers.
¡°That¡¯s even odder, I can¡¯t see you with analyze.¡±
(¡°It¡¯s a skill.¡±)
¡°Telepathy and status hide, and if you¡¯re S-Rank, you must have more rare skills pertaining to combat.¡±
(¡°Yes.¡±)
¡°What skills?¡±
¡°Inferno, Tidal Wave, Magic Armor, Life Steal Touch¡"
¡°Stop.¡±
Why is this happening, is it a skill, or is it his king title?
¡°I can¡¯t get information about you this way, you have to tell me willingly, though you have a lot of skills at a guess, very rare.¡±
He has a decent intuition, but why does he need information about me?
¡°Leave Redsi.¡±
¡°Yes sire.¡±
She leaves and he doesn¡¯t react, he just keeps writing.
¡°Do you know why I became king?¡±
(¡°No.¡±)
¡°I proved myself to be the strongest, do you know how I did that?¡±
(¡°Why would I?¡±)
¡°I killed the previous king.¡±
(¡°Okay, why though?¡±)
¡°That¡¯s how the king is made in these kingdoms, the strongest person in the country is king, and how do you prove you are the strongest if the king was the previous strongest.¡±
(¡°You just said you killed the king, so that¡¯s how.¡±)
¡°And what does that make me?¡±
(¡°The strongest person in the kingdom.¡±)
¡°Yes, however strength is only decided in battle, so if someone wasn¡¯t in the previous battle, I don¡¯t know their strength.¡±
(¡°Okay?¡±)
¡°So, are you going to battle to see if you are the strongest?¡±
(¡°Why)
¡°Why, don¡¯t you want to be King?¡±
(¡°No, why would I?¡±)
¡°Because it¡¯s for the strongest?¡±
(¡°Being king sounds boring.¡±)
He sat quietly, not moving his pen.
¡°Let me rephrase the question, are you against me or are you with me?¡±
(¡°Neither.¡±)
¡°Will you follow my orders or will you disobey them?¡±
(¡°Depends on the orders.¡±)
¡°You would willingly disobey your king.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m merely a chocobo, not your subject.¡±)
¡°What!?¡±
(¡°You are the ruler of the people, not the monsters, I may listen to you sometimes, but I have no master.¡±)
He started working again.
Where the heck did that come from, I¡¯m not one to quote about freedom, but what I said is true.
¡°You seem to be confused, you not one to argue much?¡±
(¡°I don¡¯t think I do, but I usually don¡¯t rant about my beliefs.¡±)
¡°It¡¯s the S-Rank, it¡¯s agitating you already?¡±
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¡°You look confused, well, the S-Rank reacts so you try to gain more power, but your moral principle is stopping it, so the enchantment is getting agitated.¡±
(¡°Enchantment?¡±)
¡°The blood you gave them has two functions, one, it tells how much stronger your opponent was then you when you die, two, it makes you want to want to climb the rankings, making so you seek power and do harder quests until you stop being an adventurer, meaning the highest power you can get is king, but you don¡¯t want to be king, and the enchantment doesn¡¯t understand that, so since you are strong enough to become king, it wants you to essentially, rank up.¡±
(¡°So it wants me to kill you?¡±)
¡°Wouldn¡¯t be the first time.¡±
(¡°Excuse me?¡±)
¡°Look at my status, you should do that to everybody you meet.¡±
So I do¡
| "Target: Human LVL 153" |
| "Titles: Memory Keeper, Hard worker, Young Mentor, Pike user, Damsel in Distress, Special Title: King." |
(¡°Memory Keeper, just like me.¡±)
¡°Thought so, are you from Earth?¡±
(¡°Have you heard of people from other worlds?¡±)
¡°No, though I¡¯ve always asked.¡±
(¡°You do sound older than you looked.¡±)
¡°So I¡¯m told, what year were you born.¡±
(¡°2003.¡±)
¡°So who won, the Danes or the English.¡±
(¡°Uh, I don¡¯t know, right now the English are more successful, so I guess they did.¡±)
I guess he means Danish vs England, I briefly remember hearing that they fought, but we didn¡¯t go over them much in history class.
¡°Yes, foolish barbarian Vikings, of course, they would lose.¡±
(¡°What year were you born in?¡±)
He finished his papers and was now focusing on me.
¡°832 AD, the world must have prospered, it must have gone through many wars, is there one going on at the moment?¡±
(¡°Not one that affected the people where I live.¡±)
¡°That¡¯s good, anything else?¡±
¡°Your majesty, the party is here.¡±
¡°Ah, tell them to come here.¡±
Seven people walked in, nobody I recognized.
¡°What do you want, king.¡±
The one who spoke was a panda beastman, but more wild-looking then lovable.
¡°Would you be willing to take a quest?¡±
¡°What do you want us to kill?¡±
He carried no weapon contrary to his teammates and wore a shirt that let his abs hang out.
¡°I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s more complicated than that.¡±
¡°Then why did you call a monster-slaying party?¡±
¡°Listen to me, please sit.¡±
¡°There''s no chairs.¡±
¡°On the ground.¡±
¡°Do we need a new king?¡±
¡°You know I was joking, here you go.¡±
Eight chairs made out of stone appeared.
¡°Are you stressed out of your mind, there¡¯s an extra chair.¡±
¡°New S-Rank monster adventurer, you sit too.¡±
Oh, I¡¯m included, why though.
I sit down at the end, and they all sit down too.
They whisper, ¡°That¡¯s the monstrous S-Rank adventurer, he¡¯s cute.¡±
It was a blue-haired girl, her weapon was an axe, which didn¡¯t suit her looks at all, she wore floral patterned clothing.
¡°Be quiet, the kings about to speak.¡±
A, not trying to be offensive, loli with brown short hair that shows she is an elf.
¡°Now, I don¡¯t need to tell you about the underground fights in Convictoni do I?¡±
Underground fights?
¡°The fights include betting on whether either monster vs. human, human vs. human, or monster vs. monster will win, it happens somewhere in Convictoni and is very illegal.¡±
¡°Yes, but do you know why it¡¯s illegal?¡±
¡°Because they¡¯re usually fighting to the death?¡±
¡°Yes and no, it¡¯s because they don¡¯t get to choose who they fight, in adventuring, you have to take quests at your rank, so it¡¯s a fair fight, but if you fight to the death in the underground fight, let¡¯s say you could battle a LVL ten, or a LVL one hundred, and you¡¯re forced to sacred duel, so you can¡¯t run.¡±
Okay, that answers that.
¡°Well we found it.¡±
¡°Okay, and you want us to destroy it?¡±
¡°No, then it would rebuild in a different part of town.¡±
¡°Then what.¡±
¡°He wants us to infiltrate it and take out the leader nitwit.¡±
¡°Who you calling nitwit pint-size.¡±
¡°If the most creative insult you can make is about my size then you are a nitwit.¡±
¡°Why you-¡±
¡°So what¡¯s the plan?¡±
It¡¯s a deer beastman, looks completely human, but has antlers, he¡¯s a buff guy, and wears overalls like a farmer.
¡°Simple, all of you join the underground fights.¡±
They all paused.
¡°Why?¡±
¡°When you win a certain amount of money, obviously they will want their money back, so the leader, apparently a woman with the codename ¡®Last Cameo,¡¯ is known to appear and get her money back, willingly or not. She apparently shows you items and you get to buy it, or if you just take the money, you get attacked by multiple people under her care.¡±
¡°So this Last Cameo, she doesn¡¯t appear unless you take too much money, how much?¡±
¡°Five hundred zoulx.¡±
¡°Five hundred, that¡¯s, how many cinds is that?¡±
¡°Too many.¡±
I asked analyze, it¡¯s 12,500, you could probably buy a house and a couple of small restaurants with that.
¡°Do we get to keep the money?¡±
¡°Ewsd(pronounced oozed) no that¡¯s money gained illegally."
A human girl, blonde, has a mean-looking face, but her voice is soft, about 5¡¯9, has a cane so I assume she¡¯s a mage.
¡°Of course you get to keep the money.¡±
¡°Sire?¡±
¡°This is a very dangerous mission, I can¡¯t take that much money out of the budget to pay all of you with this risk.¡±
¡°Five hundred zoulx here I come!¡±
¡°But, I do need something.¡±
¡°What is it?¡±
¡°An item she supposedly offers, it¡¯s a secret, just bring me everything she offers you, I¡¯ll take it all.¡±
That¡¯s interesting, his face flashed with rage for a minute.
¡°That¡¯s all good, but I have one more question.¡±
¡°Only one, we should have a lot more questions?¡±
¡°Whatever, I only have one, why is that here?¡±
He pointed at me.
Hey wait, why am I here?
¡°Because he¡¯s going to join you, isn¡¯t that obvious, of course that¡¯s if he says yes.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m down, five hundred zoulx isn¡¯t money to turn down, but...¡±)
¡°Wait why?¡±
¡°Because there are seven of you, and four arena¡¯s, and only non-combatants can bet.¡±
¡°Why a monster?¡±
And there¡¯s the speciesism.
¡°Why not, adds variety¡±
¡°Look at him, why would he be strong, he must have found the S-Rank monster killed by another one and turned it in, it¡¯s not that hard, I¡¯ve seen it done before.¡±
¡°So you''re saying that he is weak and committed fraud.¡±
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°You are saying that the guild masters judgment is bad.¡±
¡°What, no, I¡¯m saying-¡±
¡°I don¡¯t care for racism here, but saying he didn¡¯t kill a specific monster when he obviously did according to someone who I trust more than you, is just plain rude, apologize.¡±
¡°What? Why should I?¡±
¡°I¡¯ve had a long day, and I don¡¯t want to hear a child''s whining, do what I say.¡±
But he looks older than you.
¡°Just do it Ewsd, don¡¯t make it difficult.¡±
¡°Hurry up.¡±
¡°Chocobo, I challenge you to a sacred duel.¡±
I smile my beaky smile.
¡°I accept.¡±
| "Your opponent is Panda Beastman (LVL hidden for sacred duel)" |
| "Demand: None |
| No demands can be made. |
Chapter 36- IDK what to call this one
I was led outside to the castle arena.
It is an open space with no vegetation bigger than a football field behind the castle.
It¡¯s a completely flat area of just dirt.
The sky was just blue, a couple of clouds, but not big enough to rain for a while.
¡°You ready, start the duel.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m sorry, it¡¯s the first time I¡¯ve been back here.¡±)
¡°So you can speak, is that telepathy, that must be your starter skill.¡±
(¡°Nunya.¡±)
¡°Nunya?¡±
(¡°Nunya Bizness.¡±)
¡°You arrogant little-¡±
¡°EWDS, NO.¡±
¡°What? He is one.¡±
¡°He¡¯s literally done nothing to you.¡±
¡°He has telepathy, the arrogant little-.¡±
I start the duel in the middle of his sentence.
¡°Now that''s more like it!¡±
He spreads his arms out wide, gets low, and charges forward.
I stay still and try to read his movement, he¡¯s probably a higher LVL than me, but I¡¯ve been trained to fight to know this.
I see a hesitation, but he doesn¡¯t slow down, he speeds up in fact.
He runs straight at me, with an unchanging facial expression, a creepy grin showing two sets of fangs, one going up, one going down.
I spring right then left to throw him off his timing and attack him with a flying kick.
I go through him and see he¡¯s behind himself.
He attacks me with an uppercut then hits me with a right hook, sending me flying a couple of feet.
It hurt but didn¡¯t injure.
Once my feet hit the ground I back up.
Mind Acceleration was already active, but I couldn¡¯t react with him that close mid-air.
I think it was an illusion, a very aggressive way of using it.
It surprised me, but it won¡¯t happen twice.
He charges me the same way.
This time I lead with a pepper breath, and use its size to hide behind it.
He dodges this time, meaning he hasn¡¯t cast one yet.
I attack with a kick in the shins instead.
It was easy and safer than a flying kick because I am already low to the ground, and he lost where I was after the fireball so he was looking for me farther away.
He then fell to the ground, but he also swiped at me.
It didn¡¯t get hit, but I did learn something from that encounter.
He sets up his illusion when he¡¯s very close to me.
I set up with another pepper breath, he gets up but is letting me approach.
I activate both flamethrower and water gun to make a smokescreen.
He doesn¡¯t move, I guess it¡¯s better than going in blind.
I set myself up on his right side and then use forge to make a dirt pillar on his left.
He turns and blocks, arms making an X, but leaving his back wide open.
I use a flying kick, using fly to boost myself, and then I go through him again.
He turns around and does a wide swing while jumping backwards, which would have been good if a dirt pillar wasn¡¯t there.
I activate tidal wave, it¡¯s currently my least-fatal finishing move.
The steam hasn¡¯t even dissipated yet, poor guy, couldn¡¯t even see what hit him.
After the steam dissipates, it shows the barren landscape is wet, and that the panda is on the ground.
He isn¡¯t down yet though.
He gets up, looking surprised, ¡°What the hell was that, water, aren¡¯t you a fire chocobo, did you get resistance, but that would¡¯ve taken so long.¡±
(¡°Give up.¡±)
¡°Are you insane, why would I, I¡¯ve withstood your attacks so far.¡±
I activate magic armor and combustion, I was playing around and apparently I look scary with both of them.
I obviously can¡¯t see myself, but I¡¯m told the fire leaks out the helmet, I can see through the helmet, it¡¯s completely clear for me, and I can''t see the fire.
He sees me and instead of looking scared, he went stern and went into stance.
¡°Deeee-Maaan!¡±
Well he¡¯s kinda right.
I activate speed up and go way faster than before.
He couldn¡¯t react in time for me to be there, his eyes noticed, but his body couldn¡¯t move.
I bite his arm, use crushing beak to latch on, and then spin him around.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
At the peak of his momentum I move him up, then slam him down.
| "Sacred duel won by Kwehzalcoatl." |
| "Gained 6631 EXP." |
| "You leveled up to LVL 97." |
I deactivate my skills and go back to normal.
¡°How many skills did he use?¡±
¡°More than 5, couldn¡¯t tell with some of them.¡±
¡°That shouldn¡¯t be possible, should it.¡±
¡°Definitely shouldn¡¯t be, unless you have through a lot of resistances, but that¡¯s been disproven.¡±
¡°Why?¡±
¡°He has magic armor and telepathy, and I think Speed Up, those are all starter skills.¡±
¡°So, do you know how he has them?¡±
¡°Two options, he was lucky and got the attention of multiple gods or divine beasts and they gave him skills, or there¡¯s a new skill to take skills.¡±
I think they think I can¡¯t hear them, well it doesn¡¯t matter much if they know about it, but I¡¯m not going to tell them.
The only thing they¡¯ll get from me is a nunya bizness.
I heal the guy and leave him lying there.
The king was looking at me, not showing any emotion.
He¡¯s a memory keeper, but from 1000 years before me, it must have been something like his soul was kept for thousands of years before reincarnating or something.
¡°If you could, would you have taken his life?¡±
(¡°If he had tried to take my life, probably?¡±)
¡°I mean could you?¡±
(¡°I mean, yeah.¡±)
¡°You do know that he¡¯s almost as strong as me?¡±
(¡°No, how would I know that?¡±)
¡°Could you take on a stronger foe than that, trying to kill you.¡±
(¡°The lion was stronger.¡±)
¡°The lioness was stronger than him?¡±
(¡°Definitely.¡±)
¡°I see.¡±
The king looked down, to ponder.
¡°Uhhh, I¡ don¡¯t hurt?¡±
¡°Wait you didn¡¯t get hurt?¡±
¡°Recovery Magic, another one, What are you?¡±
(¡°An adolescent chocobo.¡±)
¡°You are way more than an ¡®adolescent chocobo.¡¯¡±
¡°Wait you''re an adolescent, you¡¯re not even a year old?¡±
(¡°Yep.¡±)
¡°Wait, not even a year old?¡±
¡°He¡¯s a memory keeper?¡±
All of them went quiet.
¡°Then he has the mind of a, how old are you?¡±
(¡°about five months.¡±)
¡°No how old were yo- wait only five months.¡±
(¡°I was fifteen.)
¡°Only fifteen, what have you been through these past five months.¡±
(¡°I¡¯ve been really lucky mostly, but not all the time.¡±)
¡°URGH,¡± *Boom*.
He hit the ground with his fists causing a loud sound, but no ground is damaged, must have an enchantment.
He walks off towards the castle, ¡°You guys coming, we have to plan for the quest.¡±
¡°What? You angry that you lost to a 5-month-old.¡±
¡°Very!¡±
They each followed him.
¡°What are you doing, follow me!¡±
(¡°Give me a minute.¡±)
¡°EEEHHHHH! You''re saying you just proved that you¡¯re stronger than me and then you think that we¡¯re not good enough to be on your team!¡±
He made a face a delinquent would use to intimidate a classmate.
(¡°I never said any of that, I just need to talk with the king first.¡±)
¡°Well hurry up, we¡¯ll leave without you.¡±
They made way toward the castle.
(¡°So how about we strike a deal?¡±)
¡°What kind of deal?¡±
(¡°I want to look and maybe choose an item that the Last Cameo lady gives out.¡±)
His face became very grim.
(¡°Obviously you would get first dibs, but items worth 500 zoulx sound interesting, so I want to see what they have.¡±)
¡°I thought you had no ambition?¡±
(¡°Curiosity is a different thing.¡±)
¡°Is it?¡±
(¡°So do I get to do that or not.¡±)
¡°What do I get in return?¡±
(¡°What do you want.¡±)
¡°Loyalty.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m loyal to you as long as I¡¯m getting paid adequately.¡±)
¡°What if they offer you a better price.¡±
(¡°Depends if I like them or not.¡±)
¡°Brainwashing isn¡¯t hard.¡±
(¡°Yeah, but why would I be loyal to a leader who put me with a monster hunter party in case I betrayed you.¡±)
He was quiet.
(¡°So I¡¯m right, and now that you know you can¡¯t contain me, you want me to swear it willingly.¡±)
He was still quiet, just looking down.
(¡°How about this, I¡¯ll do whatever I can in this mission, then I will forget about all of this, that work for a deal.¡±)
He looked up, ¡°You aren¡¯t going to just take it?¡±
(¡°I said I was curious, not a thief.¡±)
¡°As long as I get the item I¡¯m looking for.¡±
(¡°What if she doesn¡¯t have it?¡±)
¡°She will, so go.¡±
Shadowstealer POV (MC¡¯s Dad)
¡°Don¡¯t... stop... running¡¡±
Why you might ask?
Because about a hundred tiny carnivorous dragons are chasing us.
It started with one, then three, then we ran, and more joined the group, and now we¡¯re in a life or death situation.
Kwehzalcoatl could fly so he must have gotten over this so easily.
But it¡¯s a demonic task for us.
We¡¯ve been running in a straight line for a long time now, almost two days straight.
Of course, we¡¯ve had to hide from multiple huge monsters.
And the grass blocks the view from random traps, there are earth dragon traps every once in a while, just pitfalls, we fell in one, but with Sholl¡¯s strength and speed we could just jump out.
A big wall is ahead, should we go around, or should we try to stop there.
It looks wide so I don¡¯t know.
I look behind at the growing number of dragons and then I look ahead, and there¡¯s a fireball.
¡°Duck.¡±
We both crouch and the fireball goes over our head, hitting the dozens of dragons behind us.
Who?
Sholl runs ahead of me towards the wall, I follow her.
I notice that there is a huge door to get into the wall, I stop Sholl.
¡°Sneaking out is my specialty, can¡¯t be that different for going inside.¡±
¡°If you insist, master.¡±
Chapter 37-Underground Fight
We¡¯re in a sort of underground colosseum, a giant metal cage to protect surrounding audience members, and everything seems enchanted to not break.
¡°Bets, bets, take your bets, the little variant adolescent Chocobo vs. the Giant Earth Golem, made by a LVL 70 alchemist, take your pick.¡±
¡°Ten zoulx on the Earth Golem.¡±
¡°Fifteen zoulx Earth Golem.¡±
¡°Thirty for the Earth Golem.¡±
¡°Te- ten on the Chocobo.¡±
¡°Forty zoulx on the Chocobo.¡±
¡°Hah, thanks for making it a bet kids.¡±
¡°Fifty Zoulx on the Earth Golem.¡±
More and more bets smaller and larger happen as well.
Definitely a betting ring, the lowest amount is more than I¡¯ve made adventuring so far.
The golem is a standard one except it has two sets of arms, just a big dirt humanoid sculpture.
Or would it be a spider- six limbs.
Both of us are in chains, which appeared out of nowhere, it was a guys skill, I guess it¡¯s so we don¡¯t get a head start.
¡°I want a fair fight, make sure you don¡¯t destroy him too bad little Chocobo, hehehe, ready... begin!¡±
The chains disappear.
(¡°No promises.¡±)
I rush toward the golem, not at top speed, but way faster than the golem could react.
It jumps backward, probably a predetermined command to counteract my speed, but I go faster and kick it before it lands.
It was a simple kick, but it did damage, I¡¯m almost LVL 100, and it was made by a LVL 70, so that means it has to be weaker than or equal to a LVL 70, which isn¡¯t difficult to fight with my stats.
A chunk fell off of its stomach where I kicked, showing a brown orb.
Must be a core monster, and if common sense is right I have to destroy it.
It started regenerating, but it wasn¡¯t moving.
Must be a bug where it can only do one thing at once and regeneration counts for that.
I jumped up and hit its core, which had no durability, it just shattered.
The dirt just fell, it didn¡¯t deform, it was still cracked in the place I kicked, and it isn¡¯t regenerating, it was just like a shell.
Chains went around me again, I just stood in them, the guy that was coming flinched seeing that I didn¡¯t fall, but was peer pressured into coming down to see the golems condition.
He knocked on the golem, first softly, then he activated some skill and punched it.
It didn¡¯t budge.
He pointed his thumb down to the announcer/bet taker.
¡°What an upset! The little Chocobo has demolished the big golem in less than ten seconds. All bets go to the little kid with the Lion Mane hat and the short elf girl."
¡°That was rigged!¡±
¡°I want my money back!¡±
¡°No refunds.¡±
¡°This is BS.¡±
¡°Keep betting on the battles, you¡¯ll get a chance to get good money.¡±
¡°But that¡¯s how I lost my money¡¡±
¡°It¡¯s like how I always say, details, who needs them.¡±
I get pulled back by the chains.
¡°Come on, back to your master.¡±
I get out of the chains due to my small size and just walk to the door.
The guards panicked but quickly realized I wasn¡¯t going to destroy anything, so they just escorted me.
They take me to the stands where the short elf, my ¡®master¡¯ is.
¡°We got fifty-three zoulx from that bet, and the five from your win, we¡¯re ten percent of the way there.¡±
(¡°You can do math?¡±)
¡°Yes, I was from a higher-end family.¡±
Not going to ask about the was.
(¡°So just nine more matches?¡±)
¡°No, now people know how strong you are, so it won¡¯t be split between two people anymore, but it will probably be within the next twenty.¡±
(¡°Is that how the betting works?¡±)
¡°Did you not learn how to gamble in your world, though this is different than most systems I have heard about your world, it should have the same principle.¡±The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
(¡°There was a law that you couldn¡¯t gamble until you were 21.¡±)
¡°Okay, betting here is simple, if nobody on your side of the gamble bet high, then you split it evenly, but if someone doesn¡¯t make a profit, it¡¯s the higher bid that gets more of the percentage.¡±
(¡°It¡¯s that simple.¡±)
¡°Yes, not that you¡¯ll ever get to bet yourself.¡±
(¡°I became an adventurer, anything¡¯s possible.¡±)
¡°Your brain is human, you naturally wanted to be with humans.¡±
(¡°Are you a memory keeper?¡±)
¡°No, do I sound like one?¡±
(¡°You know that the brain is what makes people''s personalities.¡±)
¡°My teacher was a memory keeper, not a very strong one, but a smart one.¡±
Okay, she has some deep dark past that I don¡¯t want a part of, I mean I¡¯ll help if she asks, but let¡¯s just let her drop hints.
¡°Heyyyy, did you win.¡±
It¡¯s the blue girl with the big axe.
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°That¡¯s good, can you guess who else won?¡±
The short elf whose name I forgot walked past blue girl.
¡°You.¡±
¡°Yesss, it was so hard, I had to beat up a tiny rabbit, it was so vicious, but it was so cuuuute.¡±
¡°What LVL was it?¡±
¡°You won¡¯t believe it, it¡¯s LVL 57, a bunny got to LVL 57.¡±
¡°Did it have a starter skill?¡±
¡°Oh Ilragorn yesss, you won¡¯t believe it, it had Forge, it ran away and hid behind tiny dirt pillars, but it made its spot too obvious, then it jumped at me, I was sooo sad when I hit it.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t be, if you couldn¡¯t kill monsters you wouldn¡¯t be on this team.¡±
¡°That¡¯s so harsh, you guys like me here, maybe I could be your poster girl or something like that.¡±
¡°Why would a closed party need a poster girl?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, but if I asked Ewsd he would totally let me.¡±
¡°Not now, you have to win your battles.¡±
¡°Ahhhh, but I would be super cute.¡±
¡°There you are Fohna, why¡¯d you run.¡±
¡°I wanted to see how Unix was doing.¡±
¡°She obviously is doing fine, she has the best hand on money and has the best reasoning.¡±
¡°Well yeah, but I wanted to see.¡±
¡°You saw, now go back to your arena so you can get more money.¡±
¡°Yes Ma¡¯am.¡± She sticks out her tongue and salutes then rushes away.
¡°I pity you Ghoun.¡±
¡°Real motivating Unix, real motivating.¡±
He left and now it¡¯s just us again.
¡°Do you think I was harsh?¡±
(¡°Not really, but my humor is weird to this world, I do similar jokes.¡±)
¡°Okay.¡±
She starts walking towards the betting desk, leaving the conversation entirely.
¡°Trade your bird for our Dragon.¡±
We both turn around to see a couple of thugs, as well as the boy with the lion mane hat that bet for me.
¡°No.¡±
¡°Then how about two dragons, both above LVL 70, while your bird is¡ What, analyze is not available, anyway, you have the winning side of the trade.¡±
To Unix, (¡°Just stick to the plan, though it is plan B, there are some high betters in this group, I¡¯ll make it work.¡±)
¡°Okay, but also include 10 zoulx.¡±
I make a display of disbelief, and am internally insulted, only ten zoulx, that little for my glorious self.
He smirks, ¡°You have yourself a deal.¡±
¡°Hand over the ownership to the dragons first.¡±
¡°Sure, Sure no problem, let¡¯s see, Turk, Derq, we¡¯re using yours, hand them over.¡±
¡°Here boss,¡± he hands over a deed of some sort.
¡°Derq?¡±
¡°Sir I can¡¯t.¡±
¡°Why?¡±
¡°I, I got¡¡±
¡°Oh Ilragorn, you got attached didn¡¯t you?¡±
¡°Yes sir.¡±
¡°Urgh, Purblo, you know what to do.¡±
¡°No, no no no no no!¡±
A bigger man from the back of the group stands walks forward.
Derq backs away, ¡°Purblo, you know me, come on, we¡¯re pals aren¡¯t we.¡±
¡°Why should I associate with sentimental trash like you, you knew this would happen if you disobeyed Calvii, so don¡¯t blame me, blame yourself.¡±
Lightning started sparking out of the guy Purblo¡¯s arms.
¡°AAHHHHHHHHH.¡±
Derq ran past us and Purblo started running to catch him.
Then he fell, or more tripped, over my leg, I couldn¡¯t help myself.
¡°Why did you fall Purblo?¡±
¡°I don-¡±
¡°Did you feel sentimental over your friend Derq, so you thought you could let him get away.¡±
¡°No sir.¡±
¡°Then get your big butt up and go get him.¡±
Well, he didn¡¯t say butt.
¡°Yes sir.¡±
He rushed off.
¡°Since you can¡¯t get that dragon right now, hmmm, Bwap, let¡¯s take yours.¡±
¡°Yes sir,¡± he hands over a similar document from the last one to the boss guy.
¡°Aquen, give us ten Zoulx, you earned that much today right?¡±
The kid with the lion mane hat spoke up, ¡°But you said if I earn any money it¡¯s mine.¡±
¡°What happened to Derq Aquen?¡±
He gets his money and gives it to the boss guy.
¡°Here you go, little girl.¡±
¡°Just take him, he¡¯s very obedient, his cage is the decent-sized one labeled Unix¡¯s on its floor, take that too.¡±
¡°Okay, come on then, scarf.¡±
¡°You sure calling him names is a good idea boss, he did kill that golem pretty easily.¡±
¡°What, I thought my naming sense was genius, and I could have killed that golem easily as well, Aquen, what do you think?¡±
¡°You could take him?¡±
A guy in the back stiffened.
¡°Well that¡¯s that, come on scarf.¡±
To Unix, (¡°See you tonight then.¡±)
You know what, I thought I would feel bad for robbing the person who tried to buy me, but I think I¡¯ll enjoy this.
Chapter 38-True Vision
¡°Get into the cage.¡±
I complied, going into the cage and sitting down.
¡°Good, I like obedient followers, I don¡¯t have to train you now, some of the boys here could learn from example.¡±
Most of the men quietly laughed.
¡°Boy¡¯s, carry the cage, we¡¯re taking him home.¡±
The plan is going swimmingly, the ¡®boys¡¯ pick up the cage with a grunt and we start heading to wherever they¡¯re taking me.
We don¡¯t go very far, the betting matches are already in the sewers, they must have also claimed a part of it.
Why is every bad guy base in the sewers? I''d think they¡¯d want something more luxurious, like, I don¡¯t know a castle, of course, they would also have to build a castle to do that, and they seem too lazy.
It was a large square area, one corner had beds, the other had dumbbells.
I guess weight lifting is a thing in this world, maybe it passively increases your strength stat.
¡°Set his cage in the secret place.¡±
¡°Boss, but what if he¡¯s an enemy spy?¡±
¡°What enemy, the guards? Do you really think he¡¯s intelligent anyway, he lets me call him scarf.¡±
¡°Okay, if you say so.¡±
They brought me up to the wall, then one guy hit a spot on the wall and it opened.
A secret door, that¡¯s honestly kind of cool.
If I get a house after my apartment, I¡¯m having a secret basement, I don¡¯t know what I¡¯ll put in it, but it¡¯s a secret basement, I¡¯ll find something.
The door opened and we went through, and what I found was a lot of cages.
Lots of cages, full and empty, mostly dragons, but behemoths weren¡¯t rare.
There was one in the very corner of the room that made all of the other ones look like cages for suvunktahs.
It had a giant behemoth hippo in it, except it had giant tusks that looked sharp enough to cut the entire cage.
Its eyes were cut out, but when I used analysis it showed true vision, same as that mother dragon and the ostrich.
It was also LVL 700, why would they follow the boss guy if it was 700.
This is the single strongest monster I have ever seen besides Suvunkilbub.
¡°You see that meat sack, he looks strong right, wrong, he is the biggest pansy I¡¯ve ever had, won¡¯t attack no matter what I do, he¡¯s lost me over four hundred zoulx.¡±
Then something changed, the hippo got up.
The people holding my cage dropped me and hid behind it.
¡°Eeee, boss, what is it doing.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know, all the big pig does is sleep, I¡¯ve tried starving it but all it does is sleep over it.¡±
¡°Oh my, I thought Suvunkilbub had come for me, but it looks like I was wrong, you are too weak for Suvunkilbub to have posed the risk, happy coincidence, though for Suvunkilbub to choose you, lucky you weren¡¯t chosen by Weler or Dunga, I would¡¯ve killed you instantly if you were.¡±
She went back to sleeping.
Okay that, was something I need time to process.
Sleeping hippo wakes up and talks about divine beasts, and that one is Suvunkilbub was supposed to come to get it.
¡°Did it stop?¡±
¡°I think so.¡±
¡°Where¡¯s boss?¡±
¡°I saw him run, he does treat everything here like garbage, must have thought it wanted revenge.¡±
¡°I guess we should go get him.¡±
¡°Yeah, we¡¯ll just leave the bird here, he¡¯s in a cage, he couldn¡¯t possibly get out.¡±
They all left to find their boss.
I open the cage with telekinesis.
The room smelled bad, but that¡¯s probably because this is a warehouse of cages full of wild animals.
I walk up to some of them and they don¡¯t move, looking sad, some look up at me, but most of them quickly look down.
¡°Are you wondering why they all look sad?¡±
A monkey spoke up, ¡°Why do we look sad, I don¡¯t know, maybe it¡¯s because we¡¯ve been forced to fight for our lives against our will for humans gain, maybe it¡¯s because most of us are hungry, maybe it¡¯s because we can¡¯t see our children!¡±
¡°Thank you, monkey.¡±
¡°No problem!¡±
¡°I have a question, why don¡¯t you help everyone escape?¡±
¡°Because most of them came from faraway places, if I let them out then they would be in a completely different ecosystem with common skills they don¡¯t even know about and they don¡¯t know where territories are, they could walk into a strong dragons area and instantly die, it¡¯s better if I let them stay here.¡±
¡°So they have no hope?¡±
¡°They do, Goustough will come for me when he needs me.¡±
¡°Who¡¯s Goustough?¡±
¡°The divine beast that chose me, he specializes in space magic, he has the skill to send someone to wherever they want.¡±If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.
¡°That sounds overpowered, but is he friends with Suvunkilbub?¡±
¡°Nobodies a friend with Suvunkilbub, but Goustough is on good enough terms.¡±
¡°Why is that?¡±
¡°She can¡¯t talk, and she usually attacks when she gets offended, multiple gods have gotten a light beam to the face, that leads to grudges, and then if anybody is on friendly terms with Suvunkilbub they get targeted by the people with the grudge, so most divine beasts and gods try to avoid her. But she is the twelfth strongest divine being, and one of five divine beasts in the top fifteen strongest beings.¡±
¡°Wow, she hasn¡¯t told me any of that.¡±
¡°Of course not, she can¡¯t speak.¡±
¡°Well, she can, just faster and higher pitched than you can understand.¡±
It was silent for a moment.
¡°Wait, really.¡±
¡°Yeah, her reaction time is about ten times a normal mind, everybody is in slow motion for her, and she can¡¯t slow down her speech enough to be heard by the normal ear.¡±
¡°Now I feel bad, there are quite a lot of monsters that make fun of Suvunkilbub for not being able to speak, but how can you comprehend her?¡±
¡°I have a skill to increase my reaction time.¡±
¡°That¡¯s possible?¡±
¡°Apparently.¡±
¡°Talking to you has been... enlightening, is there anything else you want to ask.¡±
¡°What is true vision?¡±
¡°Oh that, well, it¡¯s the title you get when you are able to see MP.¡±
¡°You can see MP?¡±
¡°Yes, it is useful to see Monsters through walls as well as see how strong they are.¡±
¡°What¡¯s it like?¡±
¡°It¡¯s colorless, yet it is the greatest advantage you can have, you get to know how strong your enemy is, as well as their location at all times.¡±
¡°Is it possible for me to do it?¡±
¡°Yes, of course, there are two methods to do it, the easiest way is to get rid of your vision completely, and then focus on your surroundings, your body will assist you with regaining your sense of sight, though you will never get your sight back, even if you use healing magic it won¡¯t come back.¡±
¡°By getting rid of my vision entirely you mean gouge my eyes out?¡±
¡°Yes, it is the easiest way, as well as the more popular way.¡±
¡°Then what¡¯s the second way?¡±
¡°Focus on your surroundings in a dark area, it won¡¯t work in the light because you can still see the light that shines through your eyelids.¡±
¡°Is that it?¡±
¡°Yes, but it is exponentially more difficult because your body won¡¯t assist you with your new eyesight because it doesn¡¯t need to.¡±
¡°Well, thank you, and I hope we can stay friends.¡±
¡°If we meet again.¡±
¡°Well, I¡¯m off to rob these guys with my party.¡±
¡°Do as you please, I won¡¯t lose sleep over these peoples'' losses.¡±
¡°Thank you.¡±
I walked back to my cage, and then shut my eyes, trying to focus on my surroundings.
Then an idea pops into my head, what if I focus on the outer mp manipulation, it¡¯s still technically MP, so would it be easier to focus on that?
The room is dark enough that I have to use night vision to see, a skill I got in my first week in this world but haven¡¯t really used it.
I closed my eyes and put my head close to the ground, but I couldn¡¯t fully push my eyes towards the ground because my beak was there.
I use my wings to cover my head, not letting light in.
I use the skill for the first time in a while.
It feels like the air is trembling around me.
The world goes silent as I focus on the air around me, looking for something in the air, something in it, or something behind it, a single sign.
I feel a sort of interference with the air, like something I can¡¯t comprehend is making it bounce and shiver.
Are these, the other monsters, is this how the MP reacts when it hits them.
I¡¯m a monster, does my MP feel like this.
I then activate MP manipulation, seeing if I can sense my own MP.
A sports drink flavor enters my mouth, breaking my concentration.
Looks like this might take a while.
¡°Cheating won¡¯t get you far.¡±
It surprised me.
¡°What do you mean I¡¯m cheating?¡±
¡°You¡¯re somehow moving the MP to see where things are, True Vision is where you can see everything without technically seeing. Though it might help you feel what MP is like, True Vision is more of a sense than a feeling, you¡¯re trying to feel everything.¡±
¡°That¡¯s so cryptic.¡±
¡°If you don¡¯t feel like figuring it out you could try cutting your eyes out.¡±
¡°No thanks.¡±
So I have to try to sense it, isn¡¯t sensing something feeling it, or are they just mixed together.
I try again and this time I try MP manipulation outside my body.
The difference between mp manipulation and outer MP manipulation is that MP manipulation uses my MP to do things, outer MP manipulation uses the MP in the air instead.
I could always use MP Manipulation outside my body, it¡¯s just easier to use it inside for breath attacks.
I try to probe it with Outer MP manipulation, but then remember the Hippo¡¯s words, trying to sense it.
Moving it around causes me to focus on moving it, and that¡¯s the opposite of what I need, I just need to naturally sense it.
Sensing wouldn¡¯t be so hard if it wasn¡¯t so vague.
I just couldn¡¯t do it because I knew it was there.
So I scrapped the MP Manipulation and just tried to sense the animals around me.
It¡¯s almost like trying to guess if a monster is in the dark or not.
I can¡¯t see anything, of course, it¡¯s dark, but that¡¯s apparently the whole point as well, I need to see without seeing.
Why does this seem like an old Chinese master is teaching me kung fu, but is teaching me in a roundabout way?
Maybe I can get more clues if I ask the hippo.
¡°Hey what was it like when you got your True Sight?¡±
¡°That was a very long time ago, from what I remember it was quiet.¡±
¡°Quiet, but you told me to just get rid of sight?¡±
Wait, if the body helps you with getting true vision, what does it actually do to help you?
¡°I don¡¯t remember much, but it was kind of an empty feeling.¡±
¡°Empty?¡±
¡°And then everything came back when it said that I got true vision.¡±
Then does the body help you by getting rid of the rest of your senses?
¡°Thanks, that might¡¯ve helped.¡±
¡°Your welcome, though I doubt you¡¯ll get it the first day you try.¡±
¡°Now you¡¯re jinxing yourself.¡±
¡°Excuse me?¡±
I close my eyes, then tried to focus on nothing.
I tried to get rid of all of my senses, be completely empty.
For a while, nothing happened at all.
Then I sensed something move, it¡¯s an odd feeling, like I¡¯m looking, hearing, smelling, and tasting, yes tasting, don¡¯t be weird about it.
Then it¡¯s range slowly expanded, I felt this because I sensed more things.
First the closest cages, and yes I just didn¡¯t just sense living things, I could tell the cages were there because for some reason the MP was sticking to it.
It slowly expanded until it filled the entire room, and then it started expanding more, flowing outside of the room.
I sensed Unix, close by, but far enough apart to be sensed by normal skills.
I sensed the boss guy, coming back with his men, laughing nervously.
I felt each of their strengths, how I would fare against them.
And finally, true vision came to me.
| "You have gained: Special title- True Vision" |
Chapter 39-I feel weak
True vision wasn¡¯t really a sight, it was more a feeling that something is there and how much of a threat it is.
I don¡¯t even have to be looking at it, I know where everything is, what everything is doing, whether I like it or not.
It¡¯s kinda scary, but I think of it like sensing power levels.
Also, the Hippo is terrifyingly strong, if the S-Rank adventurers power were hills the hippos is Mount Everest.
I¡¯m glad it¡¯s on my side.
¡°Did you give up?¡±
¡°No, I got it.¡±
¡°You got it?¡±
¡°True Vision, the title showed up.¡±
¡°...¡±
¡°You impressed?¡±
¡°What boost did you get from your name?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t remember?¡±
¡°Ask analyze.¡±
So I did.
| "Name increases learning rate by 20%" |
¡°It¡¯s Learning Rate by 20%.¡±
¡°Of course it is.¡±
¡°Is that good?¡±
¡°First of all, you get a boost to all EXP possible, basically, one hundred EXP for a normal monster is one hundred and twenty EXP for you, next you get an intelligence boost and understand things faster.¡±
¡°Is that random thing I get?¡±
¡°No, Suvunkilbub choose it for you, when were you named?¡±
¡°Less than a month after I was born.¡±
¡°That means you¡¯ve gotten that boost since you were a child, that¡¯s smart of Suvunkilbub, how old are you?¡±
And then we go through the same surprised schtick that I¡¯m sure you¡¯re all tired of.
¡°You are lucky, you are basically set for life, as long as you don¡¯t anger anybody you should be good.¡±
¡°It¡¯s time, have you found the money.¡±
It was Unix, it was mid-evening when I was caged, now it¡¯s about an hour till midnight, time flies.
(¡°Hold on, one second.¡±)
True vision immediately sensed where the nearest money was, it was in another smaller secret room on the opposite side of where this room was.
(¡°I found it, but it¡¯s in a secret room, and the boss guy is walking back towards my cage.¡±)
She was flying above me, yes flying, she must have aerial movement as a starter skill.
¡°What is that thing, LVL 700?!?!?!¡±
(¡°Don¡¯t worry, they¡¯re friendly.¡±)
¡°Are you sure?¡±
(¡°Definitely, they taught me true vision.¡±)
¡°True Vision, that¡¯s something you should learn about at LVL 100 and have to train for at least half a day, when did you start?¡±
(¡°Almost as soon as I got here.¡±)
¡°That¡¯s about one-fifth of the day, a little less, that¡¯s just impossible.¡±
(¡°Well it¡¯s possible, now let¡¯s go steal the treasure while making as much noise as we can.¡±)
¡°You mean as you can, I¡¯m a support magician.¡±
(¡°Okay, can you just make sure no fire makes it to this room?¡±)
¡°You want to protect the monsters?¡±
I nod.
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The boss caught eye of Unix.
Just then I got an increase of strength, it didn¡¯t seem like a big boost, but I¡¯m always holding back so I can¡¯t tell.
There are only around fifty enemies in this base, I can tell because of True Vision, but I¡¯m about to see because of the War Demon Chocobo Buff.
I open the cage using telekinesis.
¡°So you are against us, I guess you wanted to steal your bird back and get the dragons, too bad, I¡¯m friends with one of the people holding them, I can easily get them back, in fact, that was the plan.¡±
Why do all villains have a monologue?
¡°It¡¯s time for us to fight, or do you need your bird to do it? I know I could beat the bird, but you seem pretty weak, the flight will be annoying though.¡±
¡°Um boss(Voicecrack on the o of boss.)¡±
¡°What is it, speak up?¡±
¡°Aquen was lying.¡±
¡°What, when?¡±
¡°When he said you could take the Bird, he was lying, I know because of my starter skill.¡±
¡°Then-¡±
I do a flying kick into his gut.
¡°Urmph!¡±
¡°Boss!¡±
The boss just instantly dies because I shattered his ribs.
¡°Nooo, boss!¡±
¡°Ahhh.¡±
Two of them charged me, four others ran away, and six just stood still.
One of them that charged me, ¡°You¡¯ll pay for that!¡±
I use a pepper breath that puts him and a guy behind him into cinders.
¡°Ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh!¡±
The rest of them ran away.
I¡¯ve done some pretty gruesome stuff to monsters, and thought no mind of it, except for a couple of them like a baby giraffe, and I thought killing humans would be different, but for terrible people like these guys, imprisoning animals, using lives to make money, it felt no different.
I move on and forget.
Unix throws me my storage bag and I get on my way.
Once I get to the wall I hit the spot that makes the door move and open it.
In the middle was a crate full of so much zoulx, cinds, and ewips that I can¡¯t count them with true vision, but I¡¯m sure it¡¯s not five hundred, otherwise they wouldn¡¯t have been able to keep it.
In the back was an object that looked like a grail, it was full gold and embroidered with green jewels.
(¡°There is a grail here as well, should I take it.¡±)
¡°Yes!¡±
She had to yell because she was far away, standing guard for the animals.
I scoop everything up and make my way towards the exit.
Then something unprecedented happens.
I feel it first, something moving at high speeds, something stronger than the hippo.
(¡°Unix watch out, something big¡¯s coming.¡±)
¡°What?¡±
Boom!
¡°Jhwrid, I¡¯ve come for you, you are needed!¡±
¡°First please send all of these monsters in cages to their homeland.¡±
¡°Trivially easy.¡±
I run back to the cages as fast as I can on the spot.
The cages were still there, the animals were not, except the hippo.
What I see may surprise you.
A giant hippo head, as big as the LVL 700 hippo, coming out of the ground.
Not like destroyed the ground and came through that, no it was coming out of what looks like a portal, I still sense it¡¯s body though, it was almost as big as the castle in Voyaltry.
¡°Oh what a weird specimen, it¡¯s aura is overflowing its body, and I can sense that it was chosen by Suvunkilbub.¡±
¡°I will now go with you, my liege.¡±
¡°Wait, we have plenty of time, I want to see Suvunkilbub¡¯s chosen some more, hmm, hide status, that¡¯s weird, but tell me, how did Suvunkilbub hide you, she must have pulled a lot of strings for this, which would have been plenty bothersome for her, not being able to talk.¡±
Suddenly I noticed another power coming towards me, but it seemed more familiar.
A beam of light shot down in front of me.
Suvunkilbub flew down the hole made by the laser beam and I suddenly noticed how outclassed I am on this playing field.
Two super monsters and one sudo super monster, and then there¡¯s me.
¡°What is it Suvunkilbub, did you really think I would lay a tusk on your chosen, we aren¡¯t enemies.¡±
I turn on mind acceleration, ¡°You should go, the humans of this town will probably investigate the hole I made, and with the number of men with bad intentions here I don¡¯t think you want to be associated with them.¡±
¡°You sure, I could try to translate for you so you don¡¯t have to fight.¡±
¡°We won¡¯t fight, I just want him to keep you a secret, you aren¡¯t strong enough yet.¡±
¡°Okay, I¡¯ll tell him that.¡±
Oh shoot, what¡¯s the big hippo¡¯s name, I completely forgot it, I know the small hippo said his name but I¡¯m bad at it.
¡°What¡¯s the big guy''s name?¡±
¡°It¡¯s Goustough, were you about to try to save yourself without knowing your enemies'' name.¡±
¡°Yes, though I¡¯m generally bad with names.¡±
¡°Just don¡¯t forget my name.¡±
¡°Okay, Suvunkilbub.¡±
¡°Good.¡±
I go out of mind acceleration, ¡°Goustough, Suvunkilbub would like you to keep me a secret.¡±
¡°Oh, or what.¡±
I go back into mind acceleration, ¡°Or else I¡¯ll laser him.¡±
Go out, ¡°Or else she¡¯ll laser you.¡±
¡°Interesting, if she can hit me that is.¡±
Go in, ¡°He wants to die, I haven¡¯t killed anyone strong in awhile, the leaderboard might change, not that I care about that.¡±
Go out, ¡°She says you want to die and she hasn¡¯t killed anyone strong in a while and that the leaderboard might change.¡±
¡°I¡¯m only joking Suvunkilbub, though it looks like you¡¯ve found a nice translator, I¡¯ll keep him a secret, you owe me one though, now ta ta.¡±
The hippos left.
Go in, ¡°He has better keep his promise, now anything you would like to say about yourself, getting the attention of a powerful divine beast like him.?¡±
¡°I got true vision.¡±
¡°Excuse me?!¡±
Chapter 40- Dont want to see
¡°Is that the sewers?¡±
¡°Ew gross.¡±
¡°Wait, is that a cage, is somebody down there?¡±
¡°Hey! Anybody down there, can you hear us?!¡±
Shoot, the townspeople are looking through the hole Suvunkilbub made with her light laser.
Probably wasn¡¯t her best move, but it got the big hippo to go away.
¡°You should go, I¡¯ll distract them by going up.¡±
¡°On it, thanks Suvunkilbub.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t die and congratulations on getting true vision without cutting your eyes out.¡±
With that she flew up, making the people gasp, how did they not see her go down?
Anyway I started running, (¡°Unix, are you ready to go?¡±)
¡°Was that Suvunkilbub, and Goustough, who are you.¡±
(¡°A sweet little Chocobo who wants to leave and get away from the people who will come down the hole.¡±)
¡°You communicated with Goustough, and convinced him to leave, how, I want to know how.¡±
(¡°First things first, we have to leave!¡±)
¡°Answer me while running.¡±
She flew closer to me as if that would help.
(¡°Nunya.¡±)
¡°Nunya Bizness?¡±
(¡°Exactly.¡±)
¡°I¡¯ll trade you for your information.¡±
(¡°What will you trade?¡±)
¡°Seventy percent of the Zoulx we earn.¡±
Woah, that¡¯s a lot of money, but I already get fifty percent, and I¡¯m content with that.
(¡°No deal.¡±)
¡°Any equipment you request?¡±
(¡°Nothing comes to mind, why do you want it so bad anyway?¡±)
She was quiet.
¡°A divine beast destroyed my town.¡±
Oh wow, I kinda called the bad past.
(¡°Do you know which one it was?¡±)
¡°Dunga and Weler, the goblin divine beasts.¡±
(¡°Oh, well they¡¯re dead.¡±)
She stopped flying, ¡°What do you mean?¡±
(¡°They were killed, lost in a fight.¡±)
She started sobbing, ¡°How do you know, I know you like to joke, but I don¡¯t like that-¡±
(¡°I killed them personally.¡±)
She stopped.
(¡°Now I¡¯ll tell you all about it, but let''s get to your base first.¡±)
She nodded, still sobbing.
We got to the exit of the sewers, it was dark outside, around one, and it didn¡¯t take us long to reach their base.
¡°Unix, where were you, did you hide in the sewers.¡±
He approached her and put his hands on her shoulders.
¡°Talk!¡±
(¡°Okay.¡±)
I walked around her and sat down on a chair and motioned her to do the same.
(¡°Tell this to everybody, I¡¯ll give you ten seconds to look at my status, things to look at are my race and some titles.¡±)
She did and everybody waited in anticipation to uncover my secrets.
I then got rid of hide status and everybody peeped at my stats.
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You obviously can¡¯t see actual stats when you use analyze, but they could tell by my low LVL 98 and many skills that I¡¯m not normal.
Some outright cursed in surprise, most were shocked silence, but when I turned on Hide status, I was ready for a Q&A.
But the first one shut everyone up, ¡°How does this show me how you killed Dunga and Weler?¡±
(¡°While I was fighting him I had two thousand enemies on me.¡±)
¡°Two thousand, so you fought him with a race boost.¡±
(¡°Yes, it made it easy.¡±)
¡°But what about your titles, Friend of Suvunktah¡¯s, Pride? Puff?¡±
(¡°Honestly I don¡¯t even know about the last two.¡±)
¡°And your name is Kwezalcoatl, why don¡¯t you just go by that, it¡¯s much easier to call you that then small bird.¡±
¡°Shut up Ropooke.¡±
Panda guy went up to the wall and punched it.
¡°You¡¯re that much superior when you¡¯re that low LVL.¡±
(¡°And I¡¯m only gonna get stronger.¡±)
¡°Why I oughta.¡±
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¡°He deserves a punch, after saying he killed Unix¡¯s nemesis then he just wants us to accept that he hasn¡¯t found a way to cheat the system.¡±
(¡°There¡¯s a way to cheat the system?¡±)
¡°Unix, tell them about the, oh.¡±
She is crying into a pillow.
¡°Anyway, there are people who have cheated the system, but they usually get killed personally by the one true god.¡±
(¡°What is the one true god anyway.¡±)
¡°Okay, that¡¯s the last question, the one true god is the one who created everything.¡±
(¡°Do you know if he¡¯s real?¡±)
¡°I said that was the last question, fine, yes he is real, you have to see him to become a god.¡±
(¡°Okay, cool.¡±)
¡°Cool, just cool, we¡¯re talking about how you become a god and you just say cool.¡±
(¡°Anyway do you want to see how much money I earned.¡±)
"Are you just going to gloss over that?"
I smile.
¡°Whatever, get it over with.¡±
I dump the treasure chest down as well as the grail.
¡°Is that,¡± he picks up the grail, ¡°The best booze I¡¯ve ever tasted.¡±
The grail filled up instantly with adult juice.
He took a sip, then started chugging till it¡¯s all gone.
¡°That¡¯s the good *Hiccup* stuff.¡±
¡°It¡¯s a drink grail, they must have bought that from Last Cameo.¡±
Unix took the grail, ¡°The strongest booze ever made.¡±
It appeared with a similar-looking liquid, she took a sip quickly enough for no one to take it away from her.
She passed out, did it give her a sleep tonic.
The blue-haired girl picked her up and took her to her room.
The grail emptied and rolled over to me.
Well, might as well try it, ¡°Root Beer.¡±
It filled all the way to the top with the bubbly substance.
I took a sip, and low and behold, root beer, it¡¯s actually root beer.
I started chugging without pride, it¡¯s been way too long without it.
¡°What is that an Earth world drink?¡±
I drank the rest of it.
¡°Now how much is in the chest.¡±
¡°We¡¯ll have to count it.¡±
¡°Urgh, boring.¡±
(¡°Well I¡¯m gonna go home, I¡¯m sorry for Unix¡¯s loss, I¡¯ve never been good around crying people, and see you tomorrow, I¡¯m still in the quest right.¡±)
¡°Of course you¡¯re still in the quest, why wouldn¡¯t you be.¡±
(¡°Great.¡±)
It¡¯s still close to midnight, but the streets are really busy, probably still people looking for the hole Suvunkilbub made.
¡°There he is, master.¡±
¡°Kwehzalcoatl!¡±
I turn around, and it¡¯s the people I never wanted to see again.
¡°It¡¯s been so long, I missed you so much.¡±
¡°Okay.¡±
¡°I know you¡¯re probably angry that we ran, but I came here to bring you back.¡±
¡°I¡¯m not going back.¡±
¡°What.¡±
¡°Did you think I would just come back if you said so.¡±
¡°Well¡¡±
¡°Your chief told me to leave you alone, so I am.¡±
¡°But, we ran all the way here, should we just go back.¡±
¡°Yep.¡±
¡°I am not going to go back without taking you.¡±
¡°You talk like you have a choice in it, you left me so I raised myself.¡±
He lowered his voice, ¡°Kwehzalcoatl, come with me.¡±
¡°What if I say no?¡±
¡°Then we¡¯ll fight, do you remember how that went last time.¡±
¡°Yeah, and why didn¡¯t you fight the goblins last time, maybe you could have saved mom.¡±
That through him through a loop.
¡°He was stronger than me, we were outnumbered, I couldn¡¯t do anything.¡±
¡°I¡¯m stronger than you too, I fought with the divine beast and won, do you think you could beat me.¡±
With that, I walked off.
They started following me, I know without looking because of true vision.
I quickly turn a corner and use flight to go above the building and into another alleyway.
Quickly disappearing, and then I headed home.
Without opening the door, I knew someone was in my house, but it looks like they were waiting and not robbing.
I open the door.
(¡°What do you want?¡±)
¡°Hello, I¡¯m a messenger from the betting rings, I just need to tell you the location has changed to the north of the city, the location that was being prepared so we didn¡¯t have to stay in the sewers.¡±
It was a woman in her thirties it looked like, she was wearing a full black outfit, kind of like a robber.
(¡°Sorry I¡¯m new to the betting ring, where is that?¡±)
¡°Do you need a guide, if you need we can send someone to you miss Unix at around?¡±
(¡°Unix, she¡¯s not here?¡±)
¡°I¡¯m sorry, but I need to get to another job after this, so I don¡¯t have enough time for jokes, so please just get rid of your invisibility skill.¡±
(¡°I¡¯m not Unix, your in the wrong place lady.¡±)
¡°You¡¯re not? But your Chocobo is here.¡±
(¡°Just leave, I want to sleep for now.¡±)
¡°Okay, sorry didn¡¯t mean to intrude.¡±
She left through the balcony.
Then I get on the bed and pass out.
When I became conscious I was in the world of the void again.
Wow, what¡¯s it been, twenty-thirty chapters, since I¡¯ve been here.
I then sense with true vision around me, and it¡¯s not pretty.
It¡¯s not ugly either, I can¡¯t sense a thing, which means that there is no ground, no sky, no objects at all.
¡°Long time no see, what¡¯s it been, three months?¡±
It was Puff, I can¡¯t sense him, but I can see his outline.
¡°In four days, yes.¡±
¡°Well, you were but a mere fetus, now you could wipe out seventy percent of all entities, not that that¡¯s a bad thing really, but why?¡±
¡°First, tell me what you are, are you a god?¡±
¡°I¡¯ve been called that.¡±
¡°Then are you a powerful god?¡±
¡°Stronger than anything you¡¯ve ever seen.¡±
¡°Even Suvunkilbub?¡±
¡°Even Goustough.¡±
¡°Okay, then do you know what my starter skill is?¡±
¡°Let us see, your first skill is, hmm, I didn¡¯t see this coming, that¡¯s a little, infuriating.¡±
¡°What is.¡±
¡°Nothing you have to worry about right now, just keep getting stronger, and you have true vision as well, with both eyes, oh that¡¯s good, you¡¯re smart.¡±
¡°It was easier than I thought.¡±
¡°Well that¡¯s good, at least that follows my motto.¡±
¡°What is it?¡±
¡°Anyone can become strong with minimal effort.¡±
¡°You mean by killing foes?¡±
¡°Yes, it¡¯s easy to take a life isn¡¯t it.¡±
¡°Depends if they¡¯re scum or not.¡±
¡°Really, hmm, seems like you''re not the only one with that opinion, many memory keepers think the same.¡±
¡°Well we do go through life with people telling us killing is bad, seeing the impact all over the news of what killers have done, people crying over the loss.¡±
¡°Ahh empathy, it¡¯s a rare emotion in this world, though you grew up on Earth it seems you still have a hard time with it.¡±
¡°Not really.¡±
¡°Then why didn¡¯t you empathize with that girl over her town getting destroyed?¡±
¡°You¡¯re watching me?¡±
¡°Not all the time, just since you got true vision, nice job by the way.¡±
¡°Thanks, is there anything you wanted?¡±
¡°You answered the reason behind your power, I¡¯m good, though maybe a goodbye present would be good?¡±
¡°Free stuff?¡±
¡°Haha no, you¡¯re already too strong, if I gave a gift to everyone I visited then the power balance would go way off, and I already gave you four skills, be grateful.
Sad droopy voice to make him want to give me something, ¡°Okay.¡±
¡°Good, now get a good rest, and get stronger.¡±
I wake up and it¡¯s morning.
Dangit, he didn¡¯t fall for it.
Chapter 41- Rejection
Incha POV
The fields were dangerous, full of pit traps, small dragons, and other assorted running monsters.
We already knew this, and yet, here we are, running through the field, not sure if we¡¯re tracking ShadowStealer or another monster, but it¡¯s going straight.
¡°Are you sure we¡¯re going the right way?¡±
¡°No, but this trail hasn¡¯t changed, it¡¯s two chocobo sized creatures making a mad dash as well a bunch of the little dragons that were following behind them."
Ruekra is an excellent tracker, but this is a new territory to us, so she can only guess.
¡°Food¡ Food¡ Food¡¡±
¡°Monsters incoming.¡±
The spirits are really good scouts, they say everything they hear, meaning monsters yelling ¡®food¡¯ are about to attack us.
¡°Run!¡±
¡°What¡¯s that?¡±
Ahead of us was a wall, bigger than the trees in the forest and spreading wider than any mountains I¡¯ve seen.
¡°There¡¯s a gate.¡±
He pointed to the door that¡¯s only smaller than a big dragon.
The door opened, ¡°Hurry, get inside!¡±
So we do.
¡°Thank you mister, we were almost dragon food.¡±
We all are breathing hard as we¡¯ve been running for multiple hours, not that we care much.
¡°No problem, but I haven¡¯t seen you around here, do you have any identification?¡±
The man was a dwarf, I saw one when I was younger pass through, but the long-legged tribe discriminated against him, it was kinda sad.
¡°I¡¯m sorry, we¡¯ve been living in the forest, and we came out to look for our Chocobo¡¯s, they ran away.¡±
¡°Chocobo¡¯s? Are they a little guy with red feathers with black feathers along the edges along with three black feathers on his forehead?¡±
¡°Yes that¡¯s him! Where is he!?¡±
She went up to him and took his hand and gave him googly eyes.
¡°I¡¯m sorry, he¡¯s been gone on a mission and is gone, for now, I don¡¯t know when he¡¯ll be back.¡±
¡°A mission?¡±
¡°Yes, while he was here he became an S-Class adventurer, has been killing a lot of Dragons and such, almost makes me not want him to be in the guard.¡±
¡°That sounds like him, is there a place we can stay while we wait for him?¡±
¡°Do you have any money?¡±
¡°Money?¡±
¡°So you don¡¯t, you could stay in the stables, though if you¡¯re caught messing with the animals you¡¯ll be kicked out of the town.¡±
¡°We can do that, just stay away from the animals.¡±
¡°I guess, though you can¡¯t stay long, just till you get him back.¡±
¡°Got it.¡±
¡°You don¡¯t talk much, do you lass?¡±
It took me a minute to realize he was talking to me, ¡°No sir, ummm, I have trouble knowing, umm, what to say.¡±
¡°Just picking on you, you don¡¯t have to be so nervous, loosen up.¡±
¡°O-okay.¡±
¡°There you go, you''re in Convictoni, make some money and then I suggest the Pasta, it¡¯s really good and only cost five cinds at The Jodes Inn.¡±
¡°Okay great, thank you.¡±
He takes us to the stables, a smelly place full of Filolials and horses.
¡°Ohh Freeloaders¡ they should just make money¡ ohh Freeloaders¡ just leave the city¡ they should just make money¡ ohh freeloaders¡ just leave the city¡ they should just make money¡¡±
It¡¯s hard to understand when different spirits repeat lines they heard, jumbling everything up.
¡°You good?¡±
¡°Yeah, just umm, they¡¯re making fun of us.¡±
She then put my head on her chest.
¡°Just focus on my heartbeat, don¡¯t focus on them.¡±
She always knows what calms me down.
Night.
¡°Wait, why are they here¡Wait, why are they here¡Wait, why are they here¡¡±Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.
I think I¡¯m dreaming and don¡¯t do anything.
¡°Maybe they came looking for us master¡Maybe they came looking for us master¡ Maybe they came looking for us master¡¡±
A dream about Sholl, of course, I miss her.
¡°Should we ask them for help¡Should we ask them for help...Should we ask them for help¡¡±
Of course, ask for anything.
¡°Incha, wake up.¡±
¡°Incha, wake up¡ Incha, wake up¡ Incha, wake up.¡±
¡°Ughh, five more minutes, I¡¯m having a nice dream.¡±
¡°Look who came back.¡±
Still thinks it¡¯s a dream, ¡°Who?¡±
¡°Sholl and Shadowstealer!¡±
I open my eyes and then rub them, it¡¯s still dark so my eyes have to adjust a little bit.
There they are, a completely black Chocobo, and a gray one.
¡°Sholl!¡±
I get up to hug her, but trip.
¡°Oww.¡±
¡°Don¡¯t go so fast, you know you act like you have a hangover in the morning.¡±
¡°Nice to see you master¡ Nice to see you master¡ Nice to see you master¡¡±
¡°Sholl, why did you run away, it¡¯s expected of Shadowstealer, but why you?¡±
¡°I wanted to make sure the stupid master survived, because no one would be able to stop him¡3x¡±
I translated.
¡°That¡¯s noble, but we could stop him with a chain.¡±
¡°Not the way he was, he would have fought you master to find his son¡ 3x¡±
Translated again.
¡°Speaking of that, we were told that he¡¯s on a mission and will be gone for a couple of days, so we just need to wait to see him.¡±
¡°He doesn¡¯t want to come with us¡ 3x¡±
¡°What does that mean? Shadowstealer?¡±
Surprisingly my stutter didn¡¯t act up.
¡°What did he say, Incha?¡±
¡°We met up with him, he wanted us to leave him alone¡ 3x¡±
I translated again.
¡°We have to get him back, he¡¯s FlashFires child.¡±
¡°He¡¯s my child too¡ 3x¡±
¡°Who cares, he¡¯s part of our family!¡±
¡°SHUT UP, LET ME SLEEP!!! 3x¡±
It was a flame bull, a very angry flame bull.
We quickly left so we didn''t burn down the stables.
¡°So what are we going to do, we have to bring him back.¡±
¡°I¡¯m going to fight him¡ 3x¡±
¡°Do you think you can win?¡±
¡°Honestly, I don¡¯t know, but I have to try¡ 3x¡±
¡°You should be able to do it, if you have the same stats, then the experience should give you a clear advantage.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t think so, he has way too many skills, that might completely destroy my advantage¡ 3x¡±
¡°Do you have a chance then?¡±
¡°Yes, to poison him and then run away¡ 3x¡±
¡°That¡¯s it.¡±
¡°Yes it¡¯s simple, but it¡¯s my best option¡ 3x¡±
¡°Okay, do you know where he is then?¡±
¡°No¡ 3x¡±
¡°Then we¡¯ll look for him tomorrow morning, for now let''s get some sleep.¡±
¡°That sounds great.¡±
I walk in and lay on the ground and then pass out.
ShadowStealer POV
¡°What do you want to do?¡±
It¡¯s been a while since this has happened, the sloth title is talking.
¡°I¡¯m going to fight my son.¡±
¡°You won¡¯t win.¡±
¡°A battle is never decided before it starts.¡±
¡°This one is.¡±
¡°You¡¯re talkative today.¡±
¡°I asked pride, he will destroy you, he deeply hates you and your tribe.¡±
¡°If he hated us then why doesn¡¯t he try to kill us.¡±
¡°It goes against his morals, something the other world instills in its inhabitants.¡±
¡°Thanks for the tip.¡±
¡°I can help you.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t need your help.¡±
¡°Yes, you do.¡±
¡°Why do I need your help.¡±
¡°You have nothing going for you.¡±
¡°I have experience.¡±
¡°He¡¯s passed you in that.¡±
¡°How, he¡¯s not even a year old?¡±
¡°His thinking is of a sixteen-year-old, and he¡¯s fought many more enemies than you.¡±
¡°That¡¯s because he fought against hundreds of goblins.¡±
¡°There is no difference, he will beat you.¡±
¡°Okay, whatever, I¡¯ll think about it.¡±
¡°Do you know the price?¡±
¡°Yeah yeah, a single day of doing nothing.¡±
¡°No, a week.¡±
¡°What, but you said a day makes me ten LVLs stronger?¡±
¡°He is more than seventy LVL¡¯s stronger than his LVL, and the only way to overcome his experience is to completely overpower him.¡±
¡°I think that¡¯s a little extreme.¡±
¡°You won¡¯t.¡±
¡°Alright let¡¯s make a bet, I¡¯ll give you two weeks for the price of one if I need to use it.¡±
¡°What do you want if you win?¡±
¡°To be able to keep my stats once I win.¡±
¡°That¡¯s simple, it will be done.¡±
¡°Thank you.¡±
¡°Now, wake up.¡±
And then I did.
I was the first one awake, but it was just past breakfast time.
Then I get up, and walk out.
Better start my search now, maybe he¡¯s an early waker.
(Kwehzalcoatl is still asleep at home and won¡¯t wake up for two more hours.)
I walk around for a little while, but no one seems to care, maybe they¡¯re used to Kwehzalcoatl walking around.
I see a building labeled guild hall, they said he was on a mission, so maybe he¡¯s here.
When I walked in, their eyes didn¡¯t even glance at me.
¡°Excuse me, bird, are you the little birds father.¡±
I look at her questioningly.
Little bird, she could be talking about Kwehzalcoatl.
¡°Freakishly strong bird, could take down LVL one hundred monsters even though he¡¯s only an adolescent.¡±
I nod my head yes.
¡°Did he run away from home?¡±
I nod again.
She then had a creepy smile.
¡°Thank you, I¡¯ll show you his home, then you can take him back to wherever you came from.¡±
Chapter 42- Father Son Brawl
I wake up sensing two things walking towards my home, one is my father, the other is familiar, but I don¡¯t know who they are.
Getting up out of my comfortable bed is sad, but has to be done.
I open the door before they even have a chance to knock, seeing that it¡¯s the annoying girl clerk who brought my father to me.
(¡°What do you want.¡±)
¡°I¡¯m here to tell you that your adventurer license is getting revoked.¡±
(¡°Excuse me?¡±)
¡°You are breaking adventurer rule section 1 page 3 of someone under 15 joining without a parent or guardians permission, so we have to revoke your license.¡±
(¡°My parent aren¡¯t even fifteen, just exempt me because I¡¯m S-Class or something.¡±)
¡°Sorry rules are rules, and we can¡¯t break anymore for you.¡±
¡°Shadowstealer, give me permission to be an adventurer.¡±
¡°No, we are going home!¡±
¡°Who¡¯s gonna make me.¡±
"I will!"
¡°You and what army.¡±
¡°I don¡¯t need an army to fight my own son.¡±
| "Your opponent is Wild infant Filolial (LVL hidden for sacred duel)" |
| "Demand: Choosing..." |
| "Would you like to make a demand?" |
¡°My Demand is that you¡¯ll give me permission to be an adventurer.¡±
¡°Mine is that you¡¯ll come home with us.¡±
| "Are you sure you would like to accept these demands?" |
¡°Yes.¡±
¡°I accept.¡±
| "Confirmed, sending demand offer to nearby authority to comply." |
¡°What, using a sacred duel for something as small as this, just take him home, you''re the dad, just tell him to listen, show him your dominance or something.¡±
(¡°That¡¯s assuming he¡¯s stronger than me, which he isn¡¯t.¡±)
Telepathy gained an LVL.
¡°He¡¯s not?¡±
¡°Let¡¯s go outside the city, I¡¯m pretty sure you could easily destroy it by accident.¡±
¡°I¡¯m ready whenever, but we shouldn¡¯t do it in the grasslands, that¡¯s a bad idea.¡±
¡°Oh, then do you know of a place we could fight.¡±
Thirty minutes later
It¡¯s an opening of short grass, no trees or anything, just a plain open area at noon.
¡°Are you both ready?¡±
We both nod.
My plan is to show him the difference in skill immediately by manipulating my shadow to dodge his then react from there.
Shadow manipulation is a skill I¡¯ve been slacking on, but it¡¯s not complete garbage.
¡°Begin!¡±
I charge and sure enough, his shadow comes straight for me.
Using shadow manipulation I narrowly dodge, no he got me, he is much more skillful at manipulating it then I am, but now that he¡¯s connected, might as well use combustion.
Combustion is the skill that just sets me on fire, and apparently it is a direct counter to shadow magic because it is technically hurting me, but because I¡¯m immune to fire, nothing happens to me, but he feels the heat.
He screams out in pain due to feeling burned, but he still is able to get a poison breath out.
I immediately feel like I¡¯m being poisoned, but turning on pain nullification is an easy solution.
I started shooting some Pepper Breath potshots.
Using my SPD he dodges expertly.
He starts running, probably hoping to run till the poison takes me down, but I have already cured it with doctors'' touch.
I chase with flight, because with flights SPD is increased by my INT.
Easily catching up, I hit him with a cursed wing, and then I ran away.
I only recently found out what it was, it¡¯s apparently a curse type attack that damages the body over time, I don¡¯t know why it says body, it might mean that it can attack the soul, I don¡¯t know, I haven¡¯t seen the curse element ever.
I fly away until I can¡¯t sense his shadow connected anymore.
His health should slowly lower, just like he wanted to do to me with poison.
I am cursed too, but I can heal, he can not.
True Vision is so useful, I can easily sense that he is rushing towards me.
I use tidal wave as a distraction.
The huge wave shows up and he stops to run away. Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.
But while he turned his back to me I got in front of the tidal wave.
I use flamethrower, he turns around and gets hit, he doesn¡¯t have a reaction time boost as I do, then we both get slammed by Tidal Wave.
It doesn¡¯t hurt that much, but I also get free movement in water because I can fly, and because of the flamethrower steam it gets rid of his vision.
I then use forge to make a cage of hardened dirt around him then enchant it with life steal touch.
That is such an overpowered combo.
I sense his shadow coming towards me, and quickly jump backward, as well as manipulating my shadow out of the way.
He then tries to shoot poison at me, I¡¯m still too far away.
Next he squeezes out of the cage, I don¡¯t know either, must be a secret skill, as well as how he gets out of chains.
Next I use earth removal to get rid of the ground underneath him, then while he¡¯s falling I use forge on the ground to seal him in there, as well as enchanting the walls life steal touch again.
This time there are no walls to go through, this time it¡¯s checkmate.
Shadowstealer POV
I¡¯m trapped and getting damaged somehow.
I have no idea how I¡¯m getting out of this.
¡°Use me.¡±
¡°No, there has to be a way out.¡±
I only have five skills.
Shadow manipulation LVL 10, 3d Shadow Manipulation LVL 3, Poison Immunity LVL 10, Poison Breath LVL 7, and Flexibility LVL 8.
¡°You will run out of air before you lose all your health, he¡¯s better than pride said.¡±
¡°You can run out of air!?¡±
¡°Yes, now use me.¡±
¡°No, there is another way.¡±
¡°What other way?¡±
¡°I don¡¯t know yet.¡±
A bunch of small holes showed up in the roof.
Is he pitying me?
Water suddenly started falling from the holes.
It wasn¡¯t alarming at first, but it quickly started filling the hole cage.
¡°I found my way.¡±
¡°You will not be able to fit through those holes with flexibility.¡±
¡°Why not?¡±
¡°Because that hole would take it¡¯s tier 3 skill body folding.¡±
The water is already up to my neck.
¡°You will drown if you continue like this, choose.¡±
I will regret this.
¡°Give me the freaking boost.¡±
Back to Kwehzalcoatl
This should finish him off, he¡¯s not strong enough to break the dirt without skills, I know because I would have trouble breaking it.
First of all it¡¯s at least two feet thick, and it¡¯s hardened to be as strong as my magic armor.
It will only be a matter of time before he loses, unless he has some sort of water breathing skill, unlikely, and the enchantment of lifesteal would still work.
*Boom*
The ground shook as something happened in my dad''s chamber.
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*
The ground is rising, the hardened ground is raising.
*Burst*
My dad jumped out of his hole and his shadow was immediately on me.
I tried to shrink my shadow, but he caught it and then breathed poison on me.
He then ran up and started kicking me.
It¡¯s not that I was staying still, he was kicking me and running faster then he kicked me.
I was also trying to use fly to stop my momentum, but slowing it down made me get kicked earlier.
The Next attempt was I shot a couple pepper breaths towards him.
He just ran through it, and the kicking continued.
Next I used Earth Removal, removing the ground beneath him and I also used forge to move the ground behind to create a wall to stop myself.
He jumped out and tried to start the chase again.
I used inferno on him, he was obviously surprised, but when it hit him it only slowed him down a little bit.
While he was deterred I used doctors'' touch on myself and found a shocking revelation.
| "Doctors Touch slightly healed shattered ribs, recovery 30%" |
I am losing, why am I losing, I shouldn¡¯t be losing.
Do I want to go to that village again, no, definitely not, no, I¡¯m not going there?
I can still win, he was slowed down by inferno, I will win.
My aura suddenly turns from a normal living being''s transparent aura to pure red, as well as being visible to the normal eye.
¡°Do you want more help?¡±
¡°Who''s there?¡±
¡°My name is pride, I chose you to bear my sin.¡±
Time has seemed like it has stopped.
¡°Pride? I¡¯m the least prideful person I can think of.¡±
¡°Pride is the nature of over believing in oneself, true you may lack in some areas of pride, but you make up for it in other ways.¡±
¡°So what do you want.¡±
¡°Many things, but from you, I want your name.¡±
¡°My name, you definitely can¡¯t have that.¡±
¡°No not physically, I want you to become famous, I want you to have something to be prideful about.¡±
¡°How will I give you that.¡±
¡°Just by doing it with my title, however if you fail to do it within a time frame you will be punished with pain equal to getting burned by Wrigh fire for an entire day.¡±
I don¡¯t know what Wrigh fire is, but I guess it¡¯s painful.
¡°What do I get then?¡±
¡°Enough power to beat your father, even if he gets stronger again, though the more power you borrow the less time you have.¡±
I don¡¯t know if this is worth it, but it¡¯s better than my plan of spamming inferno.
¡°I¡¯ll do it.¡±
¡°Good choice.¡±
My power soared, the aura that just surrounded my body grew to the size of a full-grown elephant.
My reaction time went through the roof, it was already really fast, now it¡¯s double that, double really fast.
I tried walking, but it was too slow, so I tried neutral running.
It was like I teleported.
Shadowstealer was at least a hundred meters away, and I cleared it in a millisecond.
It was at this moment, he knew, he messed up.
I kicked up, right in his jaw, as well as launching him in the air.
If I was going to kill him I would¡¯ve used flamethrower with an MP Boost.
But because I needed him afterward I used two tidal waves, one starting on the ground, and one in the air.
With him in the middle.
Shadowstealer POV ten seconds earlier
¡°I¡¯m sorry.¡±
¡°Why, I¡¯m winning?¡±
¡°Not anymore, I can¡¯t win anymore.¡±
¡°What do you mean.¡±
¡°Pride is helping him.¡±
¡°Then shouldn¡¯t I go to equal him.¡±
¡°No, I can¡¯t oppose a superior.¡±
¡°What, a superior?¡±
¡°He is my superior, he has more power than me.¡±
¡°So, he has to have a price as well, it will be-.¡±
*Boom*
Kwehzalcoatl appeared in front of me.
Suddenly I was in the air.
*Kaboosh*
The water hit me on both sides.
I felt like I was hit by a mountain.
Before I blackout I see my son, standing on the ground, doing nothing, losing nothing, gaining nothing, just standing.
It sort of gave me pride, that¡¯s my son, he made it to strength I could never think of.
It then made me sad, thinking that he hates me for what I¡¯ve done.
If I could do it again, maybe I wouldn¡¯t be so lazy.