《Another World and I'm still rich?》 Chapter 0. Prologue. Colin Tyccus. That is my name. A pro-gamer with billions of different kinds of money... But the only thing wrong with me? I don''t like using this money to gain unfair advantages. I mostly use my money as donation money... I send it to my family or some other places that need it. Now... Let us begin with how all this started. "Time to get the new Jump! It should be on the shelves already!" (Colin) I get up and look around my messy room... Like usual, everything is everywhere. I might be the richest gamer in the world but I don''t like money... Money rules the world but it brings unhappiness. I scratch the back of my head and look at myself in the mirror. The same old me... One meter eighty centimeters tall... Skinny, no facial hair. Green eyes are still the same... Good, I thought they might be red after that 48 hour spree of games I just did... Black hair''s still messy. I grab a cup of water and start walking to the door with my usual clothing that is a black hoodie and black pants... I don''t like people seeing me, it''d just call for trouble right now. They''d definetly use some kind of connection to find me to just use me for my money. Even my own sister and brother ask for donations every other week... I deny them ofcourse because I donate 10% of my earnings every year to them so they should be fine... I earn about seventy million a year anyways. Ah, the bliss of Virtual Reality gaming and when you are good at it... The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.It''s not bliss at all, it''s a pain to constantly have money falling onto your lap and people running after you because of it. I open my apartment door while drinking the glass of water and looking at the time... Two hours until the shop closes huh? I close the door and look infront of me... "Did I faint? There is no way that my apartment is inside a forest!" (Colin) I look around and try to open my door again... I only grab air... My door dissapeared! Where in the hell am I?! I definetly hit my head and fainted! I pinch my cheek but I feel pain but don''t wake up... This can''t be a nightmare because there is nothing scary here... It isn''t a dream because I felt pain... No no no, must be a nightmare. No way that I actually got transported into another world! What is this world... "Anybody here!?" (Colin) I hear a low growl coming from the bushes... This, does not mean good does it... Is it a Tiger, a Lion? A bear? A wild dog? A coyote? A fox? What is behind this bush... Please don''t let it be a bear or a tiger or a lion... I stare at the bush in fright and suddenly something jumps at me. I feel pain in my shoulders before I hit my head on a rock behind me and fall unconcious. I''m so dead aren''t I if this is real... Chapter 1. New Beginning. Author - Hello everyone! Today was supposed to be a break day but I decided to make a chapter. I hope you enjoy reading this.
I slowly regain conciousness but can''t move my arms or my legs... I can''t even move a finger but I can move my head slightly... The only thing I see is a cloth roof. Is this... A carriage? "Oooh! It''s waking up!" (???) "What do you mean that it''s waking up!? It''s two days too early! This damn sleep potion is worthless!" (???) "Atleast it can''t do anything, it is deffinetly stuck and cuffed to the ground. I even took special care to cuff each of it''s fingers, never can be too careful." (???) "We better hasten up a little. The little miss will want to see this being. See if you can knock it out again. This potion seems only to make the drinker unconcious for a day... And I deffinetly don''t have enough." (???) "Will do, I hope the little miss will reward us for getting such an unique-looking being." (???) I see a huge ape-like arm above me and it hits me straight in the face knocking me unconcious again. When I wake up again I am in a bed and there is a proper wooden roof above me... I slowly get up from the bed and feel something on my left arm... "Isn''t this a chain!?" (Colin) I start pulling the chain but nothing happens until the door opens. Two maids walk in and it seems they are twins with only their hair colour being different... One with black hair and one with white hair... And both have horns coming out of their head and they also have tails... They both have flat-chests... "Sister. It seems our guest has awoken." (Maid) "It seems so, Sister. What should we do? Should we call Little Miss?" (Maid) "We should, Sister. Little Miss will want to know of it. It is an unique creature after all." (Maid) The maids walk out... Again... Unique. What do I look like to be Unique!? There should be millions or even billions of humans here! And what is with their horns! They had horns! And tails! I have made sure that this is not a dream and this is not a nightmare... So it must mean... I was summoned into this world? My own apartment door is magical? I need to figure out how to get this chain off first... I do not want to meet somebody who willl want to eat me for dinner or study me like a guinea pig. They might be friendly but... Not taking that risk. This world is unknown. I do not know anything about this world and how I got here or what I am supposed to do here... I start pulling the chain and trying to loosen it from the wall or trying to even pull my own hand out... It didn''t work because I am still stuck to the wall... I look around the room and notice that there is absoloutely nothing but a window and my bed here... Atleast the window is broken so wind comes through... Hmm... I could trick them... I hear footsteps outside my door.. Time for hiding plan A! I quickly push the bed away from the wall and hide under it while pulling it back to the wall... They will never find me now! The door opens and atleast three people walk in... "Where is it!?" (???) "Little Miss! It was just on that bed! It couldn''t have escaped so soon! It must still be in the manor''s walls!" (???) "Quickly maids! Find it!" (Little Miss) Two people leave but one of them stays inside... "Where is it... I wanted to see it once aswell..." (Little Miss) It seems that the twin-maids left and the Little Miss stayed... Oh no she''s walking towards the bed... And she''s now sitting on it... Do not let her notice that the chain is going underneath the bed! I hear sobbing... I clearly hear sobbing... "Mom... Dad... Come back... I want you to see it too if we find it..." (Little Miss) I slightly pull the chain so it straightens up because I was shaking too much... It''s kind of scary right now for me... I hear a lightning strike outside and I see heavy rain falling through the broken window into the room... Suddenly the person above me jumped down onto the floor and immediatly hid underneath the bed without looking at me... I look at the person who is covering from the lightning strike... Again, horns and a tail... I wish she''d move her tail though... It''s poking my stomach and that hurts... "Little Miss!" (???) Suddenly somebody runs into the room and picks up the bed and throws it to the other side of the room showing both me and the person everybody calls Little Miss. The Little Miss immediatly jumps up and embraces the person who threw the bed while I''m here just staring at the bed and the person who threw it... A butler... He definetly easily threw it atleast four meters... While I barely could move it enough for myself to slip under... "Oho? It seems we found it... Hmm? It''s a male by the looks of things..." (Butler) The butler walks up to me and grabs the chain and snaps it in half with ease... He too has horns and a tail... "He seems weak... Little Miss, are you sure you want to keep him as a guest? You could just make him your first slave." (Butler) "No! I don''t like enslaving people! I don''t know why you even chained him up in the first place!" (Little Miss) "Little Miss... We found him near the edge of the Demon Forest and he had no weapon. Ofcourse we would be a little afraid of an unique-looking creature that had no weapon and was near the edge of the Demon Forest. Luckily we got the jump on him but still! Me and Xavier barely escaped from the Forest after we were forced to enter it!" (Butler) I get up and look at them... Wait, why is there a level above them? The Little Miss is lvl 14... The Butler... Lvl 875?! Insanity! I call Insanity! This is a game world and the first living being I actually see is a lvl 875 butler! And they barely escaped a forest that I was at the edge of! Yup, I definetly was going to die. Well... I am definetly going to die if I am in a high-level zone already... If this is a real game-like world... The butler looks at me. "Kid, who or... What, are you? You have no beast-man qualities... Infact... You look completely different from any being i''ve ever seen and I''ve travelled the world many times over!" (Butler) "Ah, I''m Colin Tyccus... A human from the continent of Eurasia. It is nice to meet you." (Colin) The two stare at me like they don''t believe me. Suddenly the Butler''s eyes basically go on fire... "There is no such being as a human! Eurasia is not a damn continent! You are lying!" (Butler) I get into the corner and become a small round ball the moment I see the Butler raising his fist at me. "Stop Silan! He is telling the truth!" (Little Miss) "But Vivian *cough cough* I mean little miss! I have never heard of that continent or that race of beings!" (Silan) Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions."Silan! Don''t make me ask Mom to come back from her trip with Dad to come beat you up!" (Vivian?) The look in Silan''s eyes turn into one of despair and sadness. I get up from my round ball and straighten up. "Umm... I am not lying... I seem to have gotten teleported into this world by accident. I know nothing of this world..." (Colin) The two stumble and fall on their butts the moment I say I am from another world. "Kid! Don''t joke around! It takes an entire three villages full of men and women and children just to summon one being from another world! An entire three villages must be slaughtered for a simple ritual to summon a single being! If you were summoned that must mean you must be stronger than most people in this manor! Open your menu this instant!" (Silan) "Menu?" (Colin) "You don''t even know that!? Even a baby that was just born can open a menu! Just imagine an information screen popping up infront of you, kid!" (Silan) I imagine a game-like screen popping up infront of me and a blue screen does pop up...
Status
Name and Race:Colin TyccusHuman
Race Bonuses:Less XP required to level upMore rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level:Lvl. 1Lvl. 1
Titles:First of the Human RacePro-Gamer
Title Bonuses:Faster learning of different languages.Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Abilities:[None][None]
Stats:
Strength: 10Magic/MP: 100Agility: 10
Intellect: 1000Dexterity: 10Stamina/HP: 100
The butler comes to my side and looks at my Status. "Hmm... You are a human afterall! But it seems you are the First of the Humans in this world. Pro-Gamer? What is that? Seems very powerful because it keeps you Calm and Collected apparently... All of your Stats are normal except Intellect. You aren''t so strong afterall... Intellect... My god... Intellect is so damn high! The Highest Intellect currently is 950 and that person is hundreds of years old! How old are you, boy!" (Silan) "Eighteen years." (Colin) The Butler sighs and I stare at my table... Ain''t this a little... Advantage? I can''t say it''s overpowered because I could easily be crushed because I am at lvl 1... But what is Soul Level? "Silan... I can call you Silan right... What is Soul Level? I can understand everything else... But Soul Level?" (Colin) "Ah, Soul Level basically says how strong of a soul stone must be used to capture your soul. The Higher the Soul Level the more Mana you have and the more resistance against Soul and Mind magic you have. Also, high soul level means you can be ressurected. A lvl 1 soul must be ressurected within 0.1 seconds or they die and it increases 0.1 every level. Well... The Ressurection spell needs to be started within 0.1 seconds." (Silan) Hmm... Wait... How can I understand them...? If it say Different Languages I shouldn''t be able to understand them yet... "Silan, I didn''t think of it before... But why can I understand you. Shouldn''t we be speaking different languages if we are in different worlds?" (Colin) "Your finger. It has a Translation Ring. It translates into one language only though... And that is the wearers native language. So each person hears what the other says a little differently depending where they come from. Some might hear a completely different language while others hear different dialects. Well... The thing is... The Translation Ring is common but only translates two different languages. One of them is the wearer''s native language, the second is the Common Languages. We cannot translate any of the ancient texts and any of the Sub-Races who don''t have Translation Rings. The Translation Rings also have a requirement that we do not know of... It instantly kills people from certain races if they try to put it on. We carefully thought if we wanted to put it on you and finally decided that it will probably work since you seem very similiar to each of the Twenty Main Races. And as you are still standing here it seems it did." (Silan) "Ah, thanks for clearing that up then..." (Colin) My stomach growls a little out of hunger... "Hungry? Let us go eat! Silan! Can you prepeare some food for me and our new guest?" (Vivian?) "Little Miss... We haven''t properly introduced ourselves, remember? I kind of forgot aswell..." (Silan) "Ah! Yes we did forget! Sorry Colin! I am Vivian Terafell, daughter of Lilia and James Terafell." (Vivian) "I am Silan. My family name is no longer needed for I am the Head Butler of the Terafell family. I shall now go and prepeare for a feast. We should welcome our new guest from another world like so... The Menu never lies afterall. It might hide things but it doesn''t lie." (Silan) Silan goes somewhere and Vivian grabs my arm and drags me with her to a dining hall.. She isn''t afraid of me one bit and why should she be... I''m really low-leveled compared to Silan and I think everybody here could kill me. It seems Silan thought I might be really strong and that I could easily kill Vivian but only my Intellect is high in this world. I''ll need to ask Silan to train me after I eat... Vivian and I eat with the maids and butlers and everytime Vivian brings up her Mother and Father all the Maids and butlers looks turn sad... I''m guessing they died and Vivian doesn''t know of it... I still need to learn how to fight though. I also need to learn about this world... I know nothing of this world and could easily walk into dangers so I''ll need to ask Vivian a favour to let me stay here for a while... After we ate the twin-maids show me to a room and say that I can stay here until I want to go off and they also told me that Vivian will gladly keep me here as a guest for years if I want to... I guess she already thought ahead or I guess that was Silan because Silan whispered something into Vivian''s ear and then Vivian whispered into the twin-maids ears while we were eating. I sit down on the bed and think about my next move... Should I learn magic, train or learn more about this world first... It seems I got an OK to staying here for a year or so even before I asked... Chapter 2. Training I get up from my bed and go outside of my new room. A maid is already waiting for me. Again... Horns and a tail. It seems I am the only one without Horns and a tail... "Hello, Colin. I am the maid that will escort you to wherever you want. Where do you wish to go?" (Maid) "I wish to go and see the Head Butler of the Mansion." (Colin) "Alright. Please follow me." (Maid) The Maid starts walking East and I follow her. We walk for a bit until we reach a huge clearing infront of the entire mansion. A man is training in the middle of the clearing. "The Head Butler is currently training. Do you wish to interrupt him?" (Maid) "Yes. I want to train wth him. You may go because I think I know my way back and I don''t want to go anywhere else anyways." (Colin) The maid bows and then leaves while trying to keep back laughter. I go up to Silan and he stops training and comes towards me. "Colin! What are you doing out here?" (Silan) "I want to train with you. I''m really weak so I want to train!" (Colin) "Hmm... I cannot personally train with you yet as I will kill you in one hit. You can train with Xavier. Xavier!!!" (Silan) I had to cover my ears when he shouted... He was that loud. After a bit of waiting another dragon-like person runs towards us. "Yes, Teacher!" (Xavier?) "Xavier, I wish for you to train with Colin. Just don''t kill him. He is still lvl 1." (Silan) "Yes Sir!" (Xavier) Silan walks away and leaves me with Xavier. "Shall we begin then?" (Xavier) He takes a sword from the sword rack a meter away from us and I take one aswell. Luckily these are just wooden training swords... I take up one of the many stances used by the characters i''ve seen... This one is from a certain sword fighting death game anime. That anime''s MC''s stance is a little bit weird. Your sword is behind yourself and you are slightly crouching forward... This is an effective attacking one but not a defensive one. "It seems you are attacking. I''ll defend then." (Xavier) Xavier takes up a defensive posture and I charge at him and swing at his chest but in the middle of swinging I change direction and hit his knee full-strength. A blue message pops up saying how much damage he took but I just discard it as I don''t need to kill him and he''ll survive my little petty attacks. I jump back and he takes his defensive posture again. "A feint? A pretty good one aswell... Are you sure you are a lvl 1?" (Xavier) "I''m just mimicking sword styles that i''ve seen." (Colin) "I''m prepeared for you this time. Come at me!" (Xavier) I run towards him but instead of a full on attack I slide underneath him and hit his elbow and back and then jump back. I notice Silan watching our little fight. "You are a good attacker... How about defending?" (Xavier) "I''ll try." (Colin) I take up one of the actual real defensive styles that i''ve seen used in games. I put my sword diagonally while slightly crouching down again. Xavier runs at me while holding his sword in the air. He strikes at me but I block it and his sword flies back and I hit him in the stomach with the handle of the sword. He jumps back while coughing out a little blood. "Oi oi... You''re getting a lot stronger each time you are hitting me. What level are you right now?" (Xavier) I pull up my status.
Status
Name and Race:Colin TyccusHuman
Race Bonuses:Less XP required to level upMore rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level:Lvl. 8Lvl. 1
Titles:First of the Human RacePro-Gamer
Title Bonuses:Faster learning of different languages.Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Abilities:[Mimick Sword Style][None]
Stats:
Strength: 75Magic/MP: 100Agility: 65
Intellect: 1011Dexterity: 35Stamina/HP: 110
"I''m Lvl... 8... How did I lvl up that fast?" (Colin) "Well it actually makes sense. You are hitting lvl 115 Draconian. I''m the fourth strongest here." (Xavier) "Oh... I didn''t look at your level. I thought I wouldn''t be strong enough to even hurt a lvl 50. And you all really are Draconians..." (Colin) "Ofcourse we are. We are part of the Draconian Nobility. Don''t tell me... You don''t know where you are?" (Xavier) "I thought that much was obvious..." (Colin) "I''ll explain while we fight. Let us both attack and defend at the same time." (Xavier) I nod and put my sword vertically above my shoulder while still leaving enough room to parry or block an attack. Xavier charges at me and I block his attack. "You are on the Hellion Continent-" (Xavier) I put more strength and push him away and strike at him from above. He blocks it. "In the Draconian Kingdom-" (Xavier) He pushes my sword away and strikes at me but I dodge the attack and try to hit him from the side. He blocks it. "In the house of the Terafell Family-" (Xavier) I pull my sword back and hit him straight in the stomach with it. He stumbles and falls on the ground and I put my sword near his neck. "The Sixth politically strongest family, The Fourth strongest military amount wise, First military strength wise thanks to Silan over there." (Xavier) I help him up. Silan walks over to us. "That was a good fight. I''m impressed you are this strong, Colin." (Silan) "I''m only strong because I mimicked sword styles from the other world. They were... Quite effective." (Colin) "True. But now... It seems I can train you a little. I won''t need to hit you. You need to hit me. Xavier, train with Memui. She should be back." (Silan) Xavier''s eyes sparkle and he runs away. "Who''s Memui?" (Colin) "Memui, the Third strongest here. The Second Strongest is Pintra. Pintra''s on a mission far away from here though. He won''t be back for a long time." (Silan) "Ah. Well... Let us begin then?" (Colin) "Yes. Let us begin." (Silan) Silan takes up the defensive posture I used when I was defending, the only difference is he seems better with it. I take up a completely different attack posture. I put my sword up in the air and run at him. I seem to strike from above but mid-strike I change the direction to the left and I try to hit him from the side, he blocks it easily. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it."Again." (Silan) I try to attack him again. I use the attack stance I used before. I charge at him and swing at him from the side but almost at the end of the attack I strike at his elbow. He blocks it again but with a little bit more difficulty. "Again." (Silan) I try to attack him again. I strike from below, he blocks it. I strike diagonally, he blocks it. I strike at his chest directly, he blocks it. I trike at his sides, he blocks it. I strike at his head, he blocks it... I strike at his horns, he barely seems to block it. I found it... The spot I could strike from. I charge at him and seem to strike at his head but I strike at his horns. When I almost come into contact with his horns I strike at his head again and hit him in the head instead of the horns. If I know anything from my world... Never strike at the horns. They create the most pain but also enrage the target if you did not hurt them enough. "Good. You finally hit me once. It seems day-time is almost over... The Little Miss wants to eat soon aswell. She would be happy if you came." (Silan) "Sure. I will come." (Xavier) I put my training sword that is on the verge of breaking back on the rack and leave with Silan. I look at my status again.
Status
Name and Race:Colin TyccusHuman
Race Bonuses:Less XP required to level upMore rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level:Lvl. 15Lvl. 1
Titles:First of the Human RacePro-Gamer
Title Bonuses:Faster learning of different languages.Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Abilities:[Mimick Sword Style][None]
Stats:
Strength: 100Magic/MP: 100Agility: 85
Intellect: 1100Dexterity: 50Stamina/HP: 135
Lvl 15 already... I have a feeling it''s going to be a lot harder to lvl up from now on... I go to my room and see a shower... I enter it and press the tap and water comes through... Why do I feel like Magic is being used here? Ah... No matter. I shower and dry myself and put on some clothing that was already prepeared for me... These maids do work fast. The butlers do aswell but I see a lot more maids than butlers... I walk out of my room and the maid that escorted me before escorts me to the Dining Room I was in before. The others are already there. I walk to the free spot and the spot I was already sitting in before. "I''m sorry that I am late." (Colin) "It''s no problem, Colin! I just got here aswell!" (Vivian) Vivian, the ''Little Miss''... Cute, Honest and very nice. If only I wasn''t a stranger in this world and she wasn''t so young I would love to marry her... But I have a feeling that Silan won''t allow anybody unworthy to marry her anytime soon. Like an over-protective father... I start eating and Silan tells Vivian all about the things I did today. Exactly like a teacher boasting to another one how successful his student is... Everybody laughs when he tells that I couldn''t hit him but when he gets to the part where I did hit him they look at me and some of them even spit out their drinks. Even Xavier and the new girl that I haven''t seen and who I presume to be Memui spit out their drinks or have their jaws drop... I felt really embarrased at that moment. Luckily Silan quickly changed the subject and we went on after some people dried themselves... After we ate I left into my room and looked around my Status... There should be an inventory somewhere. I pressed my name and a weird screen popped up... A bank?
Bank Owner Name
ColinTyccus
Amount of coins in Bank
UniGold: 9850430000300UniSilver: 106070830000UniCopper: 1950068100540
Coin Converting
Gold into SilverGold into CopperSilver into Gold
Silver into CopperCopper into SilverCopper into Gold
Coin Values
1 Gold - 50 Silver, 1 Gold - 2500 copper1 Silver - 0.02 Gold, 1 Silver - 50 Copper1 Copper - 0.002 Silver, 1 Copper - 0.0004 Gold
50 Silver - 1 Gold50 Copper- 1 Silver, 2500 Copper - 1 Gold
Notification
UniCoins can be used in every continent and kingdom. It can even be used in Private Groups that have their own money system.
So... Much... Money! Wait... These numbers are suspiciously close to all the billions I had in my banks... And the Trillions of Yen I had in my banks... Don''t tell me... My money was transported into this world aswell!? My god... I''m rich... What shall I do with this money right now though... I''ll just keep it a secret for now I think. I don''t want to cause too much of an uproar before I am strong enough to defend myself from high-leveled people. Now that I think about it... Xavier and Silan had so many chances to hit me but they didn''t... Was it because I was too weak and could''ve died? I''ll need to thank them later... I guess my inventory tab will have to wait since I don''t have it apparently. I clicked on everything and thought about it appearing but it didn''t appear. I guess it''ll become avaible later on..? Ah... I''ll go to sleep for now.. I''m tired after that training. I close all the tabs and go to sleep... I have so much money so I could technically buy an army to defend me but I want to get stronger myself... Strong enough to defend myself and anybody around me. I fall asleep soon after. Chapter 3. Visitors I wake up from my bed and put on my clothing after quickly taking a shower. I go out of my room and notice the maids and butlers all running around slightly panicked and afraid? I walk towards the entrance of the house and Silan is there aswell... "Silan!" (Colin) "Colin!" (Silan) "What''s going on? Why is everyone running around?" (Colin) "Vivian''s fiance¨¦ is coming. An arrogant spoiled brat... Last year I was almost executed because of him convincing his father that I was a traitor... The true reason was just because I got tea instead of milk for him." (Silan) "Oh god... This is going to be annoying...." (Colin) "Also... Colin... Some news of you has gone around and he got wind of it... We got a message this morning that he is coming here to meet his fiance¨¦ and meet you... We don''t even know how news has gotten out of this place because nobody has left in a very long time. This place is self-sufficient..." (Silan) "Spies?" (Colin) "Possible. We''ll need you to be careful and hide from him." (Silan) "Can''t I just meet him?" (Colin) "He doesn''t like men who are close to Vivian... That''s why all the butlers including me aren''t really good friends with Vivian... We must act like we are just butlers to her and shun her... It makes her feel like we are just acting friendly with her because we are her butlers... I can tell that she feels that way..." (Silan) "This is going to be so annoying for me.. Is there a silent place where I can go increase my soul level? It''s quite low... How do I even increase it? Meditating?" (Colin) "Yes. You meditate to increase your soul level. Also, the most quiet place right now is the basement... Don''t worry, it''s very clean. It also holds a lot of weird objects that have appeared around here over time. To get to it just go behind the staircase right there and push the wall. It''s a hidden basement." (Silan) "Ah, thanks. I''ll go now. Bye" (Colin) "Bye." (Silan) I head to the staircase and push the wall like Silan said... A door opens and a staircase leading down appears in my view. I enter and close the door and fires light my way down... I walk for a bit until I reach a large room with things from... Earth... Wait, these are my things! I lost my fridge three years ago! I look inside the fridge and see my name and address on the inside... Yup, definetly my things. I look around more and check out all the objects... Everything I used to have and lost is here... Even my real katana that I bought and lost and cried over for a week. A real katana... I spent about ten million on it... I pick the katana up and inspect it... I take it from the scabbard and it is as sharp as it used to be... I cut three watermelons at the same time with one slice from this bad boy... Red scabbard, check. Dragon-style fuchi, check. Red and White handle, check. I put it back on the scabbard and notice the belt that I used so I could put it on my hip... "Oi... Even my katana stand is here..." (Colin) I pick up my katana stand and put it in the middle of the room and I unsheathe my katana and put the scabbard on the lower level and the katana on the upper level. I look around the room and notice a rubik''s cube in the corner... I tried solving one of these. Got the red and blue done and yellow half-done. Then just gave up... I go to the center of the room and put the Rubik''s cube infront of me and infront of the katana. I sit down and start meditating. After about an hour of calmly meditating I suddenly enter a white world... Only the colour white and my body exists here... I feel awfully calm here... Wait, not only I exist here... I see a faint blue line around me and a small three-coloured sphere following the line... Red, Black and... Blue? If this is a magic core then Red is fire... Black is darkness... Blue is water... I try to grab the core but it flies away and the blue line expands a bit but then retracts and goes back to it''s original size... The core is only about a finger wide both ways and could fit in my hand probably... The blue line seems to flow where the sphere goes not the other way around... I sit down and start meditating because if this is my Soul I am in currently... This place should be the best to meditate in. I meditate for about three hours and open my eyes to see if something has changed... I see a faint red and black glow inside of the blue line and the core seems to have gotten a few centimeters bigger... The whiteness in here has begun to slowly turn into red in some places, blue in others and black in other places. It still has a way to go before fully turning into the three colours... Right now, I am guessing that the white is the untrained and unfocused mana that hasn''t been turned into a specific type of elemental magic... But why do I have three? And how do I have fire and water? Too many questions... This place definetly doesn''t have the answers... I suddenly snap back into reality after I see a faint goldeny glow in the corner of the huuuge world-like room I was in before... I look around to what snapped me back into reality just to find Silan in the room. "Oi. You''ve been down here for eight hours. You never even made a sound down here... I got a little worried so I came to check on you. Your magical power seems to have increased by a lot. Check out your Status now." (Silan) I nod and open my Status and what follows impressed me...
Status
Name and Race:Colin TyccusHuman
Race Bonuses:Less XP required to level upMore rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level:Lvl. 15Lvl. 20
Jobs (Classes):Beginner WarriorBeginner Mage
Titles:First of the Human RacePro-Gamer
Title Bonuses:Faster learning of different languages.Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Abilities:[Mimick Sword Style][None]
Stats:
Strength: 100Magic/MP: 250Agility: 85
Intellect: 1120Dexterity: 50Stamina/HP: 135
My mana increased by 150... I got two classes... And my soul lvl is twenty... Why didn''t Warrior pop up before? Weird... I''m guessing it popped up with Mage but I don''t know what determines the Status and things like that... "Good. Also... That little arrogant brat I was talking about refuses to leave without seeing you. You are needed upstairs." (Silan) "Fine with me. Also... What is the little white world that I appeared in after meditating for a while?" (Colin) "Oh, that''s your soul. You enter your soul to see what kind of mana you have. I''ll tell you how to determine it later. We have to go quickly... The brat is harrassing the Little Miss too much and wants to kiss her every minute... She refuses in a polite way but she won''t be able to in a few minutes... He has a short temper." (Silan) Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. I nod and start heading upstairs. I grab my katana and the Rubik''s cube and put my katana in it''s scabbard and on my waist and pocket the rubik''s cube. It''ll come in handy if I want to confuse the kid... Right now it seems really easy for me to solve it though for some reason... I shrug my shoulders and exit the basement. Silan exited a half a minute before me because I took too long to grab my things... I walk to the entrance of the Mansion and see Silan and the Little Miss and almost all the butlers and maids in the mansion and one fat kid who looks really dazzling because of all that fancy clothing he has on him... Golden rings, golden necklace... Even a mini-crown... A fancy coat and a cape down to the floor... "Quickly, Colin." (Silan) I pick up my pace and go infront of the kid. I look at him and notice he has a pig snout and a pig''s ears and tails... I am really trying to hold back my laughter but this kid is a real pig human.... A real one... How did Vivian even manage to get engaged to this ugly pig? I''m guessing that this pig''s, I mean kid''s father is somebody impressive... "Bow before me, servant!" (Pigkid) I raise an eyebrow before I see Silan really mad behind the kid and the anger is directed towards me. I bow but not to the kid, to Silan behind him... "So you are the man who has been hanging around my Vivian! Guards! Kill him." (Pigkid) I sigh before I get up. "Let us make a bet. If you can solve this puzzle within three minutes I will kill myself after torturing myself.. If not, I will not die and your guards cannot kill me either and they cannot do anything to me. And you quietly leave" (Colin) "Hahahah! There is no puzzle that I can''t solve!" (Pigkid) I bring out the rubik''s cube. I knew this would come in handy. "In this puzzle you have to match 9 of the same colour on the same side. You will finish it if all the colours of the same kind are on one side." (Colin) "You solve it first so I can see that this isn''t a puzzle that can''t be completed!" (Pigkid) I nod and start solving it... I solve it within thirty seconds and show him the finished version of it. He looks at it and nods. I mess it back up as best as I can and hand it to him. The pig-human starts to try to solve it but fails and does the opposite of what he should be doing... Three minutes pass and the pig-like kid hasn''t even put two of the same colour together... "Three minutes is over." (Colin) "No it is not!" (Pigkid) "Umm, sir... It is over. Infact... It''s been three minutes and twenty five seconds now..." (Guard) The kid throws the cube onto the ground and I pick it up and pocket it. "I won. Leave." (Colin) "Seize him!" (Pigkid) "But sir... You lost a bet. Your father will not like it if you go back on your word... Your father never goes back on his word and his pride lies in that..." (Guard) Thank you guard... I''ll need to repay you someday. The pig-kid sighs and gets in his carriage and leaves. I laugh a lot and walk towards Silan and Vivian. "What is that puzzle you gave him?" (Silan) "Oh, just a rubik''s cube from my world. You do know that everything down in your basement is things I have lost... It''s like my former world''s room was some kind of teleportation place..." (Colin) Now that I think about it... None of the things outside my room dissapeared, only inside it... And now I dissapeared from that world aswell... My family won''t worry if I suddenly go missing because nobody will know I did and I definetly set aside 25% of my funds from the last five years so they should have an entire three lifetimes of money and I auto-made it so it sends them a bit of it per year... Nobody will miss me anyways. A lot of gamers will be glad I suddenly left the industry infact. That means... I have all the time that I could possibly want to stay here... Vivian suddenly hugs me tightly and I notice her crying a little bit. "Don''t leave me, Colin! You are my closest friend right now! If you leave... I''ll only have Silan and the others..." (Vivian) "I won''t leave Vivian. Why should I?" (Colin) I pat her on the head and laugh a little bit... I notice Silan looking at the katana on my waist and Vivian backs off and looks at it too. "Hmm? Don''t you know that this is a sword? A katana from Japan, a country. They don''t make these anymore though... This one of the real ones... Only a few of them exist back in my old world." (Colin) I unsheathe it and show them the blade. "This... It seems to be a slashing weapon... Made for speed because of it''s thin blade..." (Silan) "Correct! I want to see if I can infuse it with magic and strengthen it but that is for later. I''m terribly hungry right now..." (Colin) I look up in the sky and notice it is around 18:00... I woke up at ten? I really need to figure out how to get a clock or something in this world... I doubt anything from my world would work here. "Let''s go and eat! I couldn''t eat because of him eating all of my portions aswell.." (Vivian) Vivian rubs her stomach and the maids immediatly know what to do regardless of whether they know what language she is speaking in or not... I also noticed that only a minority of the maids and butlers know how to speak in the same language as Silan, Vivian and me. The rest just follow hand signals and such or the minority tell the majority. I head inside with Vivian and Silan and the maids and butlers head off. Soon after we eat and I go into my room and read a book that Silan got me... A book about this world... This world has one huuuge continent like Pangea from ancient times in Earth... Many smaller islands but nobody knows and bothers to go and check those out because not even the huge continent is fully explored yet... The center is still unknown because of a huge mountain range not allowing a lot of access and monsters covering the entrances to the middle. The continent is split into many smaller kingdoms... I can''t bother to count them all... I already know about our kingdom a little... There is also a lot about all the different monsters and such but I can''t bother to read it right now... I''ll carry it with me like a little wikipedia in a book. I read it for about three hours before heading to sleep... There was so much information in it that I could only read only about five percent of it during the three hours... I''ll need to meditate more tomorrow and train more... "Strength and more mana is needed!" (Colin) I say that before falling asleep completely. Chapter 4. Magic [Re-Written] Author - I did mess up that last one quite badly. That''s why I am re-writing the entire chapter. Also, listen here guys... I don''t know why I wrote the slavery part. I just felt like writing it and did it. I admit, it was the most stupid sudden idea i''ve had so far. So without further talking, here is the REAL and NEW chapter 4 that my sudden ideas DID NOT mess up! (I am still very sorry that I messed it up but I want to expriment with a few things and it seems that was one big mess of an experiment that I made there.) I also deleted it to make room for this. Enjoy.
I wake up on my bed and get up and put on my clothing before going out of my room. After I get out of my room I go to the front of the mansion where Xavier, Silan and the girl I presume is Memui. I walk towards the three of them. "Silan!" (Colin) "Ah, Colin! Just in time! I have a new plan for you, Colin!" (Silan) "Plan?" (Colin) "You are going to train magic with Memui and physically train with me! Memui''s a better mage than me or well... Anybody here." (Silan) "Memui is the best magician in the Dragon Kingdom? Also... Silan, I have to ask... Am I in trouble?" (Colin) "What do you mean?" (Silan) "Well... That pig-like kid knows of me being here and he could easily do something to enslave me... And it seems you would be powerless because of them having more political influence right?" (Colin) "Yeah, they do have more political influence in the kingdom. Strength sadly isn''t everything... Otherwise the Dragons would be rulers of this kingdom... Well... We had more political influence when the parents of Vivian were around..." (Silan) "So am I in trouble?" (Colin) "I don''t think so. The brat won''t have enough guts to go against us just yet. The only thing they can do to us is make us fall even lower in the ranks of royalty but that won''t matter to us anymore." (Silan) "Good... I thought I might become a slave..." (Colin) "You won''t become a slave! Vivian would kill me if I let you become a slave." (Silan) (Author - But in my idiotic failed attempt of chapter 4 you did Colin... You did become a slave. We shall no longer speak of that chapter. It is now forbidden to speak of it. Not...) Silan walks up to me after he looks at Memui. "Also... Colin... Look out for Memui... She is kind of an airhead. She forgets a lot of things... I''ll come look at the first lesson to make sure but yeah..." (Silan) I nod and Silan backs off and Memui runs up to me. "So you are Colin Tyccus!" (Memui) She starts lifting my arms and studying my body. Silan coughs twice and Memui straightens up. "I am Memui. It''s nice to meet you." (Memui) "I am Colin Tyccus, but I guess everybody knows that... Nice to meet you, Memui." (Colin) "Well! Come on now!" (Memui) Memui grabs my hand and drags me while Silan and Xavier follow us. We go to the back of the mansion where the ground is charred and I notice a few walls instead of the one big main wall around the mansion. "We shall train here!" (Memui) "Why is it charred?" (Colin) "I tried an area of effect fire spell. It turned out very good!" (Memui) "This... Is your idea of very good?" (Colin) "Considering the fact that it could''ve blown up and destroyed that part of the mansion, yes." (Memui) "Then it is very good." (Colin) "Well... I shall start with the basics... What do you know of magic?" (Memui) "Well... Not much. Magic is an unexplainable force that uses Mana to cast spells of different elements. You can combine some elements to create even stronger spells. The origin of Mana and Magic is unknown and you can gather it and expand your magic pool by meditating." (Colin) Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. Memui claps her hands. "That''s a lot more than most people your age know! Now... Do you know the different elements?" (Memui) "Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, Dark." (Colin) "Good! Have you meditated before?" (Memui) "Yeah once." (Colin) "What kind of colours did you see in your soul?" (Memui) "Well.. I saw red, blue and Black. Even a little bit of a golden glow what I presume was Light." (Colin) Memui stares at me blankly and Silan and Xavier''s jaws have dropped. "You... You have... Fire, water... Dark and Light!? That''s two opposite combo''s! How has your body not exploded yet! Where''s the bloating part!?" (Memui) Memui starts looking around my body inspecting every part of it. "No... Bloating... Part... No signs of exploding... How!? How how how!? You are defying the world''s knowledge of magic right now Colin!" (Memui) Memui starts walking around pondering about something and Silan is reading a book over and over really quickly while Xavier''s jaw is still dropped. "What the... I read this book of magic a thousand times just now and it still says nothing about not exploding while having one or two different pairs of magic!" (Silan) "Umm... I want to learn Magic now..." (Colin) Memui snaps back into reality and walks up to me. "Sorry! Ok, let''s start then... Silan, find something out about this please. Xavier, help him!" (Memui) Sialn and Xavier run off and leave me and Memui alone. "Ok... Let us start with a simple fireball since you have fire magic." (Memui) "So, how do I cast it?" (Colin) "Concentrate, feel the flow of mana inside of you. When you feel it, imagine a ball of fire forming infront of you. When the ball of fire forms, imagine it being thrown at the wall." (Memui) I start concentrating and trying to feel the flow of mana. After a while I feel it and then I imagine a ball of fire. After a while a real ball of fire forms infront of me and ontop of my hand. I imagine the ball of fire being thrown at high speeds toward the wall and it does get sent into the wall at high speed and it explodes. "Good! Now, keep doing this for a bit until you feel your mana being low. Sometimes you might blank out if your mana is too low but I will be here to help you if that happens so, just... Practice." (Memui) I do as Memui says and practice my fireball and sometimes even try a few balls of Water. I notice that one ball of any element takes ten mana away from my pool and that ten mana regenerates in ten minutes because I practiced for a couple hours. Well... I practiced the entire day and only blacked out twice! I guess... That''s good? I shoot a ball of light at the wall. "Ok! That''s good enough for today! Now, go and rest! I have some research to do..." (Memui) "Thank you Memui... Thank you for teaching me more magic." (Colin) "You have a long way to go. You just used chantless magic. Wait until the magic that requires chanting.... That is a pain my dear Colin. A pain." (Memui) Memui says that as she leaves and I go back into my room and fall asleep on the bed immediatly as I make contact with it... I''m just too tired from all that practice...
Author- Well, here''s a better and improved and re-written and normal speed chapter 4! Hahahah ;-; Please never speak of the failed chapter 4 that I just deleted a few minutes ago please. Chapter 5. Capitolium. I wake up from my bed and do the usual routine of showering and putting on clothes. After that my door gets opened and Silan, Mumei, Xavier and Vivian come in. "Umm... Good Morning?" (Colin) "Good Morning!" (Vivian) Vivian is looking around the room after she waves at me. Memui is staring at me while her hands are on her hips. Silan and Xavier are looking outside the corridor and then Silan closes the door after Xavier goes out of the room. "So... Why have you all come to my room?" (Colin) "Colin. We need you to come with us to the Dragon Capital... We got a message this morning. Here." (Silan) Silan hands me a message. "Urgent Summons for Vivian Terafell. The Dragon King wishes for Vivian Terafell, Silan, Xavier and Memui to come to his castle. Also, The Seer wishes to meet somebody named Colin Tyccus who should be staying in the Terafell Mansion." (Message) "The Seer?" (Colin) I look at Silan after handing him the message. "The Seer is one of the greatest magicians living, she doesn''t use her magic for offense but her magic is different, she can see the future. Thanks to that we''ve gotten past and through many turmoils... If she wishes to meet you... Then even the King would be jealous of you. She barely comes out of her tower these days and when somebody invites her to dinner she says she is looking at a very special person through her globe." (Silan) "So... I should be very honoured?" (Colin) "Yes. You should be. Well... We have to go now, will you come?" (Silan) "Yes. I will come." (Colin) "Good. Let''s go!" (Silan) Xavier opens the door and Memui grabs Vivian and walks out the door. Silan and me leave last after I grab some things like my Katana and the rubik''s cube. The cube has helped me so far so why shouldn''t it help me even more? We walk to a carriage that is highly decorated and Silan sits in the front. Memui, Xavier and Vivian go into the carriage. I sit with Silan because I have a few questions for him... "Why aren''t you inside the carriage, Colin?" (Silan) Silan looks at me with an eyebrow raised. "I have a few questions for you, Silan... A few questions you have not completely answered." (Colin) Silan sighs and pulls the reins and the horses start moving. When we get out of the gates of the mansion four horsemen surround us and they have the Terafell family symbol on their shields... Guards I presume. "Ask away, Colin." (Silan) "First... Who is the brat anyways? I''ve thought about this for a while but shouldn''t the Terafell family be stronger in every way than a family of pigs? Why can''t you just break that engagement?" (Colin) "Well... I''ll tell you everything. I can see that you won''t take a simple non-explaining answer anymore. Well... That brat is actually the first son of the King of the Pig Kingdom. And the reason behind Vivian and his engagement... It''s the fact that we are fighting on two fronts with the Vampires and the Zombies... Zombies from the East, Vampires from the West. The zombies are relentless and the Vampires are using the shade of night and guerilla tactics so we can''t beat them instantly. The Pig Kingdom used that to get some power over us and forcefully made the King use Vivian as a tool... The King has only sons and Vivian has no parents so the Pig King took the chance and made his son engaged to her... We just can''t fight on three different fronts at once, our numbers aren''t high enough for that. Dragons might be strong but we don''t have the numbers... We can''t break the engagement because we are under the orders of the King... If the Zombies or Vampires would back off and make peace we could break the engagement and go at war with the Pigs and slaugher them all. So the only reason why it can''t be broken is because of the damn two-front war that the Dragon Kingdom is facing right now." (Silan) Silan looked disgusted when he talked about the Pig King and even gripped the reins harder than usual... "So... We just need to defeat one side to break the engagement?" (Colin) "Yeah. The Zombies are relentless warriors that use their almost endless number of troops to invade lands... We can only defend against them because of their high number of troops. The Vampire''s attack the places where the defence is the lowest and back off immediatly. The Dragon King went to fight the Vampires last time I heard of him so he must be back... I hope he defeated the Vampires so we can finally break off that blasted engagement." (Silan) "Hmm... I see... But the Seer hasn''t said anything about the war or engagement?" (Colin) "She suddenly locked herself in her tower a few days before the war even begun. She said that somebody important is coming to end this turmoil on our lands. Somebody completely different from all of us..." (Silan) Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. "Oh... Well, one more question... Why haven''t we been attacked by the Zombies and Vampires?" (Colin) "Because of me being there. The King ordered me to guard Vivian because she is the one thing that keeps us from fighting on three fronts and maybe even four because we aren''t on the best of terms with the Wolves from the North and the Pigs will declare war on us if Vivian dissapears or dies or breaks the engagement. The Pigs are from the south by the way..." (Silan) "That''s all my questions for now, thanks Silan." (Colin) Silan sighs and speeds up. We ride for two days after reaching a huge city that is built on a really big mountain with many different levels and on the half-point of the mountain there is a huge castle keep looking building... "That is our Capital. It''s been there since forever. No records about how long it has been there... Nobody knows... The first record about this place was five thousands years ago." (Silan) We ride into the Capital and I see many dragons and even some other species like Lizards walking on the streets and dragon kids happily playing. We keep riding until we reach the base of the Mountain. There are two big doors leading into the mountain... Silan gets off and walks and knocks on the big doors three times. They slightly open. Silan says something and then the doors fully open and Silan comes back and rides through them. The four guards who were with us stay behind. When we enter everybody looks at me... Probably because I am the only one without scales, horns or a tail... "Colin, the guard told me that the King wishes to see you before you go to the Tower of the Seer." (Silan) "Ok..." (Colin) Silan stops the carriage and says for everybody to get out and I jump off. The road inside the mountain goes to the other side and can easily be rode through with a big carriage... I look around and see two more big doors but these seem more reinforced... Silan goes up to the doors and I follow him and the others do so too. Silan pushes the doors open and we all follow him silently. I notice a huge black dragon sitting on a big flat stone platform and a throne infront of the dragon where a man is sitting... Which one is the King!? Memui comes next to me. "The person on the throne is the king. The Dragon is just a bodyguard." (Memui) She walks away from me and Silan bows. Everybody else bows aswell. "Stand up." (Dragon King) We all stand up. "It is good that you all came so fast. I have some good news for Vivian and the rest of you... We no longer need the engagement. I just went to fight the Vampires and found their King... Apparently they were just attacking us for food because of their no food situation so we declared peace and now have a trade treaty! The Zombies backed off immediatly when they heard about the Vampires so we are no longer at war!" (Dragon King) The Dragon King is waving his arms all around the place... Is this really the King or did Memui joke with me? "Vivian, do you like the news?" (Dragon King) He suddenly gets very serious and places his hands on the two handles on the throne. "I do!" (Vivian) The Dragon King suddenly bursts into laughter and then his eyes land on me and he stops laughing and gets off the throne and walks towards me with a serious face. He walks up to me and looks at me. "So... You are the person the Seer wants to meet?" (Dragon King) "Yes, I am Colin Tyccus" (Colin) "No horns, no scales, weird ears... No tail... Weird eyes... Weird clothing... Weird sword..." (Dragon King) He backs off and sits back on his throne and waves his hand twice and two guards appear. "Guards, escort Colin to the Tower of the Seer. I have to talk with Xavier, Memui and Silan. If Vivian wants to stay and listen she can." (Dragon King) The air in the room is very serious and even the Black Dragon is staring at me curiously... I can even feel that something is staring at me through the wall. The guards come towards me and bow and grab my arms and pull me out of the room and towards another... They stop dragging me after one of them opens a door and I see a huge staircase leading up to somewhere. "Good luck." (Guards) They back off and I start my trip up the huge staircase.
Author - Here is a chapter! I hope all the explanations that i''ve given in this chapter make sense. I read through em twice just to make sure they do... And I usually don''t re-read things I have written to make sure things are correct... I hope you enjoyed reading this though. Chapter 6. The Seer I walk up the stairs for many hours and when I reach the top I see a wooden door. I reach to open it but somebody opens it for me and smacks me in the face with it. I almost fall down all the stairs and possibly killed myself... I see an old woman standing in the doorway "Oh! You are here Child! Come right in!" (Woman) I walk in and she closes the door. "Follow me then, child." (Woman) The old woman starts walking and opens another wooden door after we go through a corridor. "The Seer is in that room." (Woman) "Wait, you aren''t the seer?" (Colin) "No! I don''t have powers like my grandchild." (Woman) "Oh... Sorry for misunderstanding." (Colin) I enter the room and the old woman waves and closes the door. "So you finally got up here.. I''ve been waiting for weeks now." (Seer) I see a young woman drinking a glass of what seems to be wine and looking out of a balcony. "I''m sorry that I didn''t get here sooner... I didn''t even know of you until a few days ago." (Colin) "It''s no problem. You actually came earlier than I expected..." (Seer) She puts the glass down and walks towards me and suddenly stops and crosses her arms. "Hmm... My vision told me you''d be weaker... I guess my visions aren''t perfect." (Seer) "I''ve been training..." (Colin) I look at the Seer and she is a tall busty woman wearing hanfu aka ancient chinese clothing... A red hanfu with dragons on it... The seer snickers a little after she notices me staring at her. "Sorry for staring at you!" (Colin) I bow for forgivness. "Ah, it''s fine. I don''t get many visitors and the people that come up here always stare at my beauty and don''t notice anything I say until I snap them out of it by hitting them." (Seer) I stop bowing and she comes even closer to me and grabs my hand and brings it infront of her. I notice a very small and almost unnoticable mark on my hand that is now glowing due to the Seer I think... "So you did get the mark... Good... That means no bad surprises for me." (Seer) She lets go and sits on a table at the balcony and gestures for me to sit and I do so. "I am sure you have many questions. Ask three questions only though. We don''t have much time." (Seer) This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. "Well... What is this mark? What does it do?" (Colin) "It''s the Mark of The First. In the books it is said that everybody that is the first of his or her species has this mark. It should give bonuses over time based on the progress of the person." (Seer) "What am I destined to do?" (Colin) "That, not even I know. I usually know what everybody is destined to do even if they have the most complicated destiny ever. Yours... I can''t. I''ve tried many times..." (Seer) "My final question is... What shall happen to me now?" (Colin) "Well... You are going to take me back to Vivian''s manor until a certain war breaks out and you are forced to fight on the front lines as a soldier. Me and Vivian wait for you for many days and thanks to the fact I cannot see your destiny I don''t know if you will live or die. I only know that you will fight in the war and no more." (Seer) "Oh... And why should I take you with me though? Wouldn''t it be better for you to be here?" (Colin) "I must come. I need to assist you in your destiny. I''ve had a few visions about things that include you but those visions... They were not pleasant. I must come with you to help you with those visions. One of those visions was the war..." (Seer) "Alright then. We should go then right? We have no time right?" (Colin) "Yes. Yes we should." (Seer) "I don''t know your name though, Seer" (Colin) "My name is... Athestine Balcan. Call me Athy though." (Athy) "Nice to meet you, Athy. I''m Colin Tyccus" (Colin) "It''s nice to meet you too, Colin." (Athy) Athy gets up and walks out of the door and I follow her. We spend hours walking down the staircase and when we reach the bottom the guards drop their jaws when she comes through the door before me. We leave to the King''s Throneroom and Athy talks to the King about coming with me to the Terafell Mansion. The King allows Athy to go and then we go to the King''s Visitor''s Manor where Vivian, Silan and the rest are resting for the trip back home. When we reach the manor everybody was already asleep because it was night and me and Athy took two vacant rooms and went to sleep aswell because of the tiring trip back down the stairs. When morning comes up... Something unexpected happens. Something I never prepeared for or thought to prepeare for yet. Chapter 7. Conscription. I wake up from my sleep, put on clothes, take my katana and rubik''s cube and then walk to the living room I spotted in the dark of night when I reached the mansion. The first person I see is Silan who is reading a letter over and over again with Memui right behind him also bothered by the letter. Vivian is eating breakfast but slowly and I see a hint of sadness in her eyes, Athy isn''t here so she must still be asleep. I walk towards Silan who hits his hand against the table and breaks part of it. "Silan? What''s wrong?" (Colin) "Ah... Colin... You''ve been drafted into the military, Colin. The King got a message in the dark of night... A message of war that had the signature of three kings... And the message also held the fact that the pig kingdom just got themselves enslaved by the three kingdoms that sent the message of war..." (Silan) "Does that mean what I think it means..." (Colin) "Yes. You are going to war. I haven''t been drafted and Memui hasn''t been either. Xavier has been drafted though so you''ll atleast have him to depend on. I don''t know why we haven''t been drafted yet..." (Silan) When Silan finishes somebody knocks on the front door and Silan immediatly gets up and rushes to open it. I hear footsteps above where Athy went to sleep so she must''ve woken up. It seems the war Athy spoke about already came... I was expecting about a month before I must go to war but just one night... This world sure does like it''s share of blood does it not? Silan shortly comes back with another message. "Memui. You are going to war aswell... Just it seems... Not as offense as Colin and Xavier are going. You must to get Fort Knox in three days so it doesn''t fall and defend it until the war is over. That is your orders. I won''t be going as it seems I must defend Vivian." (Silan) "Roger. I''ll be heading out immediatly. Fort Knox is quite a bit away from here so i''d rather go now." (Memui) "Good. Don''t die you hear?" (Silan) "Me? And dying? Maybe of old age Silan!" (Memui) Memui waves goodbye and leaves and Silan sighs and shrugs his shoulders. I look towards Vivian who is looking at me with puppy eyes for some reason... "Umm... Vivian?" (Colin) Vivian turns away and keeps eating... She must be sad that we are leaving to war where we might meet our end. Athy comes downstairs and into the living room and notices the mood and quietly sits down. "Colin... Xavier is already outside and probably has the horses ready for the trip to the battlefield." (Silan) I bring out the solved rubik''s cube and hand it to Silan and he stares at with confusion. "Keep it. I don''t know what will happen to me on the battlefield. I might die. I might get gravely injured. I might become a hero. I might become a demon. Anything is possible... This is the memory of me before battle." (Colin) Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. I might go insane and become a demon... I''ve never seen blood, i''ve never fought anybody... And now i''m going to a medieval war with magic and almost a certain death. I''m also a human fighting next to draconians. Draconians... The strongest soldiers! They will definetly notice that I am different and they will most definetly target me. I stretch and start walking towards the door but Vivian gets up and runs towards me while sobbing a little. "Vivian?" (Colin) I stare at Vivian whose actions I didn''t expect... "Don''t die Colin! Come back to me alive! You are my best friend! My first friend! My precious first and best friend!" (Vivian) I pat her on the head. "I''ll try to come back alive. No promises though... War is unpredictable. A stray arrow might kill even a general if the archer or the person with the bow gets lucky." (Colin) She lets go after Silan tries to seperate her from me. "I''ll be going now. Xavier has everything prepeared for both of us right?" (Colin) "Yeah. He should." (Silan) I look at Silan holding a sobbing Vivian and Athy silently sitting and I see that she is looking at me from the corner of her eye. I''ve gotten quite good at noticing little things because of fast-paced strategy games like a certain starcraft game... I wave goodbye and walk out of the living room and shut the door. I walk outside and Xavier is already there with two horses that are carrying many packs. "Finally here. I heard Vivian''s sobbing even over here. She must be really sad that three out of four... I guess five, of her companions are leaving." (Xavier) "Five?" (Colin) "Athestine. The seer?" (Xavier) "Oh... Right." (Colin) "Well... What are we waiting for. War''s aren''t won sitting around." (Xavier) Xavier jumps on a horse and I mimick his movement and jump on the horse he gave me. "Xavier... I''ve never ridden a horse." (Colin) "Well... Just mimick my movements... You seem pretty good at that." (Xavier) "Ok." (Colin) Xavier pats his horse on the head twice and it starts moving so I do the same and it starts moving aswell. We ride our horses towards basically certain death to either us or our enemy. Which one it is... I shall find out on the battlefield that will be filled with corpses and blood. I just hope that I am not a corpse that is filling the battlefield... Chapter 8. Battlefield. Author - I don''t think some people properly read the last two chapters honestly. I clearly wrote that Athy said that he went to war and fought there. The most powerful Seer in the Draconian kingdom told him that. Why shouldn''t he go to war if the most powerful damn seer told him to go and a letter of conscription came very soon aswell. Also... They weren''t at Vivian''s manor. Re-read chapter 6''s ending. Well, here you go. A new chapter. Don''t start hating on this one aswell and writing a really small chapter of your own about all the faults of mine. One certain person of you barely pointed out the good parts that will progress the story... Now... Action! Also, this war arc will probably go on for a LOOONG time since this is where the MC''s personality will be shaped. Nobody wants a strong MC who hasn''t been in a real war with many bodies right? Also, don''t forget the Pro-Gamer title he has. Calm and Collected effect on him.
Me and Xavier reach the battlefield where we were sent. I only notice about a thousand of armoured Draconian soldiers and about two thousand conscript-looking soldiers... Xavier jumps off his horse and I do the same and we walk towards a huge tent with two heavily armoured draconian guards... When we reach the tent a civilian comes out and Xavier hands him his horse and I do the same after grabbing my katana. We enter the tent and I spot three general-like people sitting and looking at a map. Xavier bows and so do I. "Stand up. It''s nice for you both to get here. Xavier and Colin Tyccus I think it was. The letter we got from the king told us you were coming." (General) We stop bowing and stand up. "Come. Sit. We were just discussing our tactics... We don''t have enough men to defeat them all in a head-on fight so we need to start killing them without direct confrontation." (General) We sit on the two chairs that were just placed for us by the assistants of the generals. "You both have trained with Silan, our strongest warrior. That must mean you can also hold your own ground against enemies right?" (General) "I can, but I don''t know about Colin. He hasn''t fought and trained with Silan for a long time." (Xavier) The General leans forward and looks at me. "True. He does seem weak. But there''s something about him... It''s like he is destined to become something great in the future. Also... Where are his horns, tail and scaley skin?" (General) "He is not Draconian. An outsider. We found him on the outskirts of a forest and nowhere close to a village that has the same features as him." (Xavier) "Ah... An unknown... Makes for excitement. Well, enough about that. Let us discuss our tactics..." (General) The General and the probably two commanders or officers of the army lean in towards the map. "If they come through the valley we could easily block their escape route with huge boulders and start smashing them with rocks from the front... But they probably won''t go through there due to the limited walking space and the very dangerous situation there... So the only place they would come from is... Here." (General) He points to a place where a hill is and a lot of plains and forests and just a few kilometers away from a small mountain range. "What if we set up a defensive location there? A fortification?" (Colin) "We could do that... But they should have a lot better archers than us. We couldn''t hit them before they whittle us to death with their arrows. They even might have a ballista or two as far as we know." (General) We keep looking at the map for the best position we could fight in but there is nowhere except the valley where we could potentially whittle them down to a sizeable force that we could fight... "Hmm... How about we use the Valley and circle around, cut off their supplies and start manuvering around them. There is a forest right here that we could hide in and attack them from." (Colin) "Could potentially work but I don''t think they''ll just leave their supply chain unguarded." (General) I notice a huge river behind the camp about fifty kilometers away... I quickly scan the entire river and notice only one single bridge over. "General, how big is this river?" (Colin) "It''s about... Thirty five meters in size... Long enough for their archers to miss if we are on the elevated ground behind there..." (General) "Then why don''t we fortify that bridge? They need to cross it to get to us and there is no entrance from behind... And no escape aswell but we don''t need to escape if we use proper tactics." (Colin) If we are talking about a strategy game where you must defeat an enemy using limited resources this place would be perfect. One entrance and exit. A long river that is big in both ways and elevated ground. "It would work. We could shower them with arrows from above as they come over because they can''t send their archers first... We could also use some magic but we only have fifty of them." (General) "I know a bit of magic." (Colin) "A beginner warrior and mage? Colin, you are going down a path that is hard and unforgiving but rewarding if you go both warrior and mage." (General) The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "But it is the path it seems I am taking." (Colin) "Your choices. Also, Colin... This area could work very well. We shall set out immediatly!" (General) The General stands up and orders the officers to go and tell the men where we are headed. Me and Xavier go outside and we get our horses back and the general comes out aswell and jumps on his horse and signals us to come to him. We ride behind the General and next to the officers or commanders of the army with the army walking behind us and even the conscripts seem to have a will of iron as I don''t see even one of them slow down or look around nervously... We ride for two days and we reach the bridge. When we are about to cross it I notice something in the water... A river monster. It swam underneath the bridge when I was crossing it and I panicked a little but kept my calm thanks to a strange but known ability. Pro-Gamer''s Mind... We cross the bridge and start setting up camp there. I go near the river and look at it and I see it swimming past again and it comes by again but stops for a second and looks at me and then leaves... I stand up and go to the General to tell of this creature in the water we could potentially use against our enemies for less casualties. I enter the General''s tent. "General. I found out something... There is a monster living in the river. It swims past the bridge very often... Do you know anything about it? Could we use it to help us fight?" (Colin) If based on strategy games that I absoloutely adored to play we could use that creature if they anger it somehow... Like missing arrows because of wind magic blowing them offcourse and into the water... "Hmm... A monster in the river? There shouldn''t be a living soul in the river. The river here is a treacherous place because you can''t cross it without the bridge and when you try to swim you suddenly get pulled... down... Holy Dragon Mother... There is a damn monster in the river! Colin! You might''ve made a very important discovery!" (General) Well... If people get pulled down it''s damn obvious there''s a monster down there. But why didn''t they see it before and why is it circling underneath the bridge? This damn world is confusing! There are barely any answers here... I really need to get to a royal library to find out something about this world. I walk out of the general''s tent and look around and see the sun shining in the sky but I notice clouds of thunder approaching us... Me, a pro-gamer... In another world. Fighting a war for draconians. One thing I would''ve never though of. And this is definetly real... I pinch myself once to make it really official that this is real and I feel the pain. After a while all the tents are set up and the soldiers are putting up wooden barricades from the wood they brought with them. I help the soldiers carry the wooden logs to the edge of the spot we are entrenching ourselves on as I see the dark clouds approaching us. Around three thousand Draconian soldiers against an unknown amount of men... I look across the river and notice a horseman looking at us and then he runs off immediatly... We were just scouted. They know our location but they are a little too late... Almost at midnight we have completely entrenched ourselves and I notice we have a couple unused logs... I signal some of the soldiers to come to me. "I have a plan. A trap. We put the logs ontop of the hill and when it is needed we roll em down crushing the enemy and stopping them from advancing too fast. We just need something that can easily be pulled away but the log''s weight won''t crush it or push it out of the way." (Colin) "Easily done. We''ll have your trap ready in an hour or so." (Soldier) The soldiers get to work as I see Xavier walking up to us. "Heya Xavier." (Colin) "Your tent is ready, Colin. You are sharing one with me. I see you are using a trap? Never seen a trap using full logs though. I''ve seen spikefalls that send balls of spikes down a hill to absoloutely destroy movement of enemies but not this kind of trap. It''ll be fun to see this in action it seems." (Xavier) "One of the more common traps I''ve learned about through games. A simple logfall. Well... We should get some rest. Also, a scout was here a while ago again. It seems they are looking at what we are doing here..." (Colin) "I also saw them and the General did aswell. We are ready for them though." (Xavier) "True." (Colin) Me and Xavier go to our tent and fall asleep. Tomorrow is going to be fun... If I didn''t have Gamer''s Mind I would''ve gone insane under the pressure knowing that there were only three thousand of us. Why did I come to this war? Oh yeah... Athy''s foreseeing ability. Defending the only home and connections I have in this new world. Potentially making a name for myself to get some popularity. The three main reasons I came to fight... Ah, well.. I''m here and I am not scared thanks to my title ability... I would be though... I fall completely asleep soon after. Chapter 8.5. Memuis POV Author - Well, Hello. I have a small notification to make. This weekend (Eastern European time) I won''t be posting any chapters. I am sorry but my birthday is on that day and I also have to do some things that don''t involve my birthday. So... Here''s a half-chapter with Memui''s POV in the Fort she was sent to.
I finally reach Fort Knox and see everybody on the walls and some of them are really scared... The gates to the Fort open and I enter to see many wounded on the ground and a pile of dead bodies stacked in a corner... How many casualties in this short of a time can we get!? I look around and see the captain of the fort on the wall commanding people and I go up to him. "Captain, what has happened here?" (Memui) "Memui! Well... They did a full-on frontal assault. We managed to push them back but we took too many casualties... I don''t even want to know how big a massacare it would be if the other army where the Conscripts were sent to would win and come here... Our lives basically depend on civilians who took up arms and only one thousand trained soldiers..." (Captain) "And we can''t retreat. I''ll see what I can do about the injured. Maybe some of them might be able to get themselves back on their feet." (Memui) I go back to the center of the fort and look around the masses of injured people in the fort and heal the ones who would seem to be in a fighting shape after getting healed. I don''t want to waste too much mana healing the more seriously injured guys but I helped them out a little and made sure that if we win they would survive. We gained about thirty soldiers and if we win we still have to treat over one hundred injured soldiers... I quickly look around the wall and notice there was only about five thousand Draconian Soldiers on the walls. I go back up the walls and to the Captain to think about what we do next... I have trust in Xavier and a bit in Colin so they will hold the enemy army near them back long enough for us to be able to reinforce them and win this offensive and start pushing them back... "Captain. Which direction did they come from the most?" (Memui) "North. Their leader is north and the biggest bulkiest soldiers seem to be to the north aswell since that is where they appear from." (Captain) "North huh... I''ll stand guard on the Northern wall, I can use magic to kill them and I can also fight with swords." (Memui) "Thanks, Memui. With you here.... We might survive. It''s not guaranteed, but we have a chance." (Captain) "It is my duty as a magician and a soldier of our proud kingdom." (Memui) I head to the northern bit of the wall and stand guard there for two days with no sightings of the enemy... But on the third day... I was peacefully sleeping on the morning of the third day until I heard alarms going off and I woke up immediatly and looked around... They surrounded us and have appeared... Another assault... Ladders... "They have Ladders! "I shall start casting magic now! Protect me until the chants are finished!" (Memui) "Roger!" (Guards) I put my hands infront of me as I see the guards running to me and the enemy walking towards our walls but being whittled down by the masses of arrows we are shooting at them. I close my eyes and concentrate. "O'' great spirit of Flame, grant this feeble Draconian your powers and bring destruction to all who oppose me! Pillars Of Flame!" (Memui) I point my hands at the enemy and huge pillars of flame appear from my hands and start burning the enemy to death but soon after my spell stops due to the duration of it... I point my hands infront of me again and concentrate again. "O'' great spirit of Ice, grant this feeble Draconian your powers and freeze all who oppose me to death, grant this feeble Draconian your ice-cold power so all can suffer the fate of ice! Ice Field!" (Memui) If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. A field of ice appears underneath the enemy freezing a lot of them to death but I notice the Leader isn''t there... Only some normal footmen. "The leader isn''t here! Locate him!" (Memui) "Got it!" (Captain) I hear screaming on the western wall and turn my attention to it... The bulky warriors the captain was talking about are there... I concentrate and start barraging them with chantless magic like fireball and frostball and kill about five of them until one of the guards runs over and kicks the ladders down killing two of the bulky warriors. "I''ll stand guard on the Western wall! The leader is here!" (Memui) I run to the Western wall and notice the leader and his bulky guard... Time to use my strongest spell... "I''m going to use my strongest spell!" (Memui) "We''ll protect you!" (Guards) I close my eyes and put my hands infront of me. "O'' great spirits of Wind and Flame, this feeble one asks for your assistance in this feeble ones battle. This feeble one asks for you to kill this feeble ones enemies. This feeble one asks you to protect those who are fighting amongst this feeble one! Summon!" (Memui) I open my eyes and two elemental creatures appear behind the enemy army and start smashing them to bits... A creature of Wind and a creature of flame. The creatures get close to eachother and slowly merge into one big creature... A flaming tornado creature that literally obliterates the enemy and my mana pool... "Only three seconds left until I don''t have enough mana to power this guy without killing myself!" (Memui) "We''ll do our best showering them with arrows during that time!" (Guards) The flaming tornado spirit absoloutely destroys the soldiers at the Western army but I saw the Leader escape... The spirit then goes to the Northern wall and starts thrasing around there but I run out of mana and shut him down and collapse on the ground... I just don''t have enough mana for the spirit yet... When I wake up I notice that we have won the battle and the captain is standing over me. "She''s living and not sleeping!" (Captain) I hear a loud cheer and slowly get up and quickly check my mana... Three percent filled... I really did do a number on my mana this battle... I get up and see that only about twenty people joined the injured people... "We won..." (Memui) "We won thanks to you. We wouldn''t have won that battle without you almost killing yourself due to mana exhaustion. Your spirit absoloutely trashed the Western side and marginally helped out the Northern side making us win the battle! But... If it''s that strong... There must be side-effects right?" (Captain) "There are... My mana regeneration is slowed, my body is weakened for about three months and If I cast any spells until my mana pool is half-filled... I die." (Memui) "Well... They probably won''t be back for a while so you just need to rest and place all the trust possible in your friends over on the other battlefield. We got a report from a scout that went to check out what is going on there... The army assaulting them is way stronger than ours. What we fought was just a Quantity over Quality army... What they are fighting... Is a Quality over Quantity army... We must pray for their victory for it will be the most challenging in a while and if they do win... All of them might as well be heroes." "Very true..." (Memui) I sit down on the ground and start praying for their victory and meditate at the same time. Colin... Xavier, win. Schedule Change, Thank You and A Question. Hello! It is I, Katsune! I am very sorry that there are no chapters today or tomorrow but I am changing my schedule... To be even lazier. I just got a new computer that can play a ton of games I couldn''t play before so you already know... So I am very sorry about that but I trust you that you can accept these changes and won''t start a riot. So... Here is the new schedule: Monday to Friday - Break Saturday - Another World and I''m Still Rich?! chapter Sunday - Globus Online chapter. That is the new schedule for me and it is a weekly release schedule.
Now that the schedule change is out of the way... To the second part of this little notification! My Thank You to all you readers for your support and understanding and helpfulness. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. You all have supported me for so long but I seem not to have said a proper thank you... So for the people reading this... Thank you for your support and I hope you continue with the support you are giving me.
Now for the last and third part. A small question as usual. 1. Do you like this novel and if you have read Globus Online, do you like that aswell? That, is my question. Just a simple do you like question. I hope that you will answer but I won''t force you. Well... That is all I wanted to say. P.S... I am trying to create hype for chapter 9.... Or just making it die down so you guys wouldn''t be dissapointed... We''ll see. Chapter 9. The Battle begins. I wake up and go to the ramparts of our fortification and look at the other side of the bridge... Men and horses as far as the eye can see, all of them enemies. Xavier and the General come up to the ramparts and look at the enemy aswell. "Today is a good day to kill and be killed. Because there is no way we can get by without any casualties against that kind of an army." (General) I try to count how many there are but I lose count at around a million and a half... Two thousand Draconian soldiers versus over a million and a half soldiers of many races... Yaay... "Let''s hope our traps, fortifications and tactics will atleast make them retreat back to their homeland because of too many casualties." (Xavier) "Yes... Let us hope." (Colin) I look around and see our men rising up and looking at the enemy aswell and the night guards go to rest because they had to be up all night. The enemy moves their archers up to the front and they try to shoot us but their arrows all fall into the river and I chuckle. "Seems their archers are indeed pretty useless." (Colin) The archers fall back and some scout-like horsemen come to the bridge and start speeding up it but when they get to the middle our men already shower them with arrows and they die instantly. "They are testing our limits and their own limits aswell. Their leader isn''t some idiot it seems..." (General) There is even more movement and I hear shouting over the other side and I see clear lines between battalions of soldiers and their leader is looking at the bridge and is basically on it. One of our mages notices that he is in our range and we all cast our magic and send it his way but some of their magicians block our magic. The general goes back and the battalions of foot soldiers start walking towards the bridge and form a line... "They are about to attack! Everybody, get ready!" (General) I run to my log trap and wait for the perfect moment to show them what this is... Our men all prepeare for a big attack and the night guards come back and run to the log trap that I am at to help me... The infantry from the enemy side charges and we unleash our shower of arrows when they reach the middle but some of them get through and the rest are at the middle point... Their front line reaches our side and runs towards me... The rest of their front line is close to our side aswell... Time to release the trap. I pull the cloth that was covering the trap and reveal the trap and the front line stops as I pull the string that unleashes the power of the logs upon them, crushing them as our men watch silently. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. The only entrance into our encampment is through these logs... And they found that out the hard way. I look at my log trap and notice there are still about five of them left with another string... Sneaky little builders these guys were, a backup slide! The second infantry battalions is getting showered with arrows while the first is dead now due to the arrows and my very well placed log trap.... Their second battalion reaches our side after getting showered by arrows and running for a while... They run past the already fallen logs just to find out I have more... I slightly grin when they notice five extra logs sliding down the hill and straight onto their faces. About seventy five percent of the second battalion is dead... The rest are retreating and reach the middle point when they are showered with arrows again while another battalion''s front was there aswell and they all die with the front of the third battalion. Their general comes up and shouts something and they all retreat... I guess he noticed they were taking too many casualties too fast... The general comes up to the front and starts counting his casualties but I finish first... "About fifty thousand dead! We still have a long way to go but we are getting there!" (Colin) I''ll just guess they have about two million men because if each of their battalions if twenty five thousand and there are about... eighty thousand battalions minus the two we just slaughtered. We need to get them down to right about thirty thousand battalions I think? That would make them retreat because most of us here are conscripts and our main army aka strongest still hasn''t fought them. A long way to go but a way I am willing to go... The first few minutes of our clash and we took no casualties while they had two and 1/3''rd of their battalions killed. But we are bound to run out of arrows and my log trap is empty already... Wait, we can gather the logs again! I quickly gather a few men and Xavier and we go and start pulling the logs back up to the trap as their commander looks in interest and sends a scouting unit forward that gets arrowed to death.. After about thirty minutes of pushing and pulling logs we set my trap back up. Now... For the second wave.
Author - I''ll leave a sort of reminder how many battalions are dead after every chapter if I can keep count.
79 997,6(6)/ 80 000 battalions remaining. Chapter 10. The Bloodshed Begins. Author - Why do I have a feeling most people are going to regret not reading this chapter with music on? Oh well... Might aswell limit that regret to 0. Here you go... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1p80Z_jhMs&list=RDD1p80Z_jhMs (Credits to the people who wrote the song aka Heartist.) Also guys... Tell me if you want me to change the title to a little better one. ( Current Idea - World Transportation: Gamer''s Road. You may give more ideas if you want.)
A few hours pass after the first wave. I look at the enemy army on the other side that now has shield bearers as the front so they can easily get close to us if our mages run out of mana and my log trap empties... Yaay... We are dead if the only two very limited things run out! The enemy starts slowly advancing over the bridge and our mages start casting so when they come close enough we can attack them... The enemy reaches the middle point and our mages absoloutely destroy them and keep destroying them but they don''t slow down... They keep charging forward and we try to slow them down with arrows but their shields block the arrows and they keep marching forward. Our mages fall back a little to regenerate mana because they run out very quickly... My log trap is the last defence... The enemy reaches the end of the bridge and I wait three more seconds before releasing the first wave of logs... But things don''t go like expected... I only crush the first three lines of the enemy before my logs are stopped by their shields. They quickly run past the logs while our archers keep firing arrows at them from above and the sides. I release the second wave of logs when most of them go past the first logs but they block those using only one line as a sacrifice... We... Are screwed. I look as all the mages from our side rush back to cast as much magic as they can but I clearly see that they are very exhausted because of low mana... I cast a few fireballs too before they reach the log trap. I bring out my sword and look as the few soldiers helping me are being thrown around like ragdolls by the shieldmen... One of the shieldmen runs toward me but I manage to barely dodge the charge as he stumbles down and meets one of our soldiers with his back to the sky... Our men run down from the ramparts to meet the foe and I see an enemy soldier without a shield running towards me with his blade raised... A fatal mistake as Silan has taught me... I prepeare to slash open the guts of the enemy soldier but when he gets close to me I hesitate for a second and he already has his blade coming towards my head... "So this is my end..." (Colin) Or so I thought... Xavier stabs the man while charging him to the ground, saving me. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it He then gets up to fight another soldier and I see a shieldman running towards Xavier but he doesn''t seem to notice him... I must save him! I run towards the shieldman and when he notices I am coming he changes his direction to running towards me... I charge at him while he charges at me... It''s him or me who is going to die... And I''d prefer him. When I get close enough I dodge him and grab his shoulder while he is running past and I slit his throat with my katana... Blood flies all over my face as he falls to the ground lifeless and I get up and see three men running at me with killing intent in their eyes... I quickly look around for any advantages I can get and in the midst of my search I find no advantages but I do see the general... The three swordsmen get very close to me and one of them already swings at me but I parry it and slash at him but miss... I jump backwards and bump into somebody and when I look behind me I see an enemy shieldman... "Oops..." (Colin) I jump to the left as one of the enemy swordsman stabs his own comrade from behind and one of the conscripts stabs the swordsman''s face... I guess that''s one way to deal with them...? The two swordsmen run towards the conscript and I go to help him because a two versus one situation will end with the death of the conscript... I charge at one of the swordsmen from the side slashing his arm clean off and then I cut into his throat but I don''t decapitate him as I did not put enough strength into it... Blood flies everywhere and a lot of it gets on my clothing and my face. I run towards the other swordsmen who is fighting the conscript after pulling my sword out of the dead swordsman''s neck. I am using every surprise attack possible right now... I charge at the man from the back and jump onto his back and slit his throat and jump off him as he falls to the ground. The conscript slightly bows and runs off to help others and I run off to the other direction where Xavier is. I see Xavier fighting four people at the same time but he is on the defensive... Two swordsmen and two shieldmen... The shieldmen pose more of a threat... I run behind one of the shieldsmen and slash at his back a ton before he turns around and Xavier stabs him from behind and I run to the second one and repeat the process. I then help Xavier dispatch the other two by cutting their throats. I see the general and a few others in a circle killing anybody who isn''t a friendly and gets too close... Xavier runs that way and I run too. We join the circle and start defending aswell... The battle is far from over and many have fallen already... If I do get out of this alive... I am calling it a miracle. Chapter 11. Defeat? Author - Hello... And as I said in Globus Online I am going to announce a new schedule. One chapter per week (total) and the novel changes each week. (This week is Another World and I''m still Rich!?, next week is my... New novel.)
I slash towards one of the soldiers that is running towards the circle of defenders and make him stop. I quickly look around and notice the other survivors have created circles and are slowly coming towards us. But there is only about thirty of us remaining from our little army versus about 78,000 battalions... We didn''t get anywhere close to our goal... We failed. I see the enemy leader charging forward with a huge shield and a sword. "General! Enemy Leader!" (Colin) "I see him!" (General) The General takes up a defensive stance to block against the charge and hopefully kill the leader. Another soldier runs towards me and gets in the range of my blade and I slash into his side and kick him away when he gets too close. An arrow whistles past my ear and straight into one of our soldiers heel making him kneel down. "Archers!" (Colin) I see archers aiming at us from the fortification so I quickly take one of the dead bodies near us and use it as a meat shield... I''m sorry whoever this is but you are already dead and I am not. I hear arrows whistling towards us and I feel many arrows hitting the body I am using as a shield and one of the arrows hits me through the body. I drop the body and see a soldier right infront of me. The soldier stabs me through the stomach and I quickly decapitate him and he falls down with his sword still stuck in my stomach. I cough some blood while another soldier runs towards me and I hit him away with my sword but I feel myself becoming weaker and weaker. I don''t have enough time to pull out this sword... And it''d be a pretty bad idea to open up a wound because the sword is closing the wound right now... Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. The enemy leader makes contact with our circle but the General blocks the charge and starts fighting the enemy leader. "Hold the circle and assist the general as much as possible!" (Xavier) I kill another soldier after Xavier''s words but then I fall down to one knee... Two soldiers run towards me at the same time and I slash at them but they keep charging in. When they get to the range of my blade I hit one of them in the stomach but I don''t hurt him enough to stop him from moving and the other one is close enough to kill somebody next to me. I slash once more and this time frighten the other one back a bit. "Xavier!" (Colin) Xavier pushes back one of the soldiers and then quickly looks towards me and sees me on one knee with a blade through my stomach and two soldiers running in. He then hits one of the soldiers from the side and pushes both of them away and then closes the circle making me go inside the circle. "Sorry Xavier... I just wasn''t... Good enough for war..." (Colin) I fall down to the ground and the blade that was through my stomach gets pushed out due to the tip hitting the ground as I fall backwards. The last thing I hear before I fell unconcious was somebody shouting that the circle was broken... When I come to I feel chains on my arms and legs and I feel something like a bed underneath me... I try to move my hand but somebody stops me. "Don''t move." (???) I try to open my eyes but lack the strength to do so. "It seems you are... Awake? Hard to tell with your eyes closed. But what can you expect from somebody who had a blade through their stomach and was on the edge of death when I found him on the battlefield." (???) I try to move my mouth but still lack the strength. "Rest." (???) I fall unconcious again. Kind-Of-important little notification for the people interested in the new novel. Well... I advertised my new novel here and so I will link it here for the people interested in it. You shall all now know what I have been researching for quite a while and will continue doing while writing my stories. Link: http://royalroadl.com/fiction/8128 Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. And for the people who weren''t particularly interested in this... You can check it out and drop it instantly if you don''t like the idea of it. Well... That is all. The chapter for this novel will be out next week so wait for it! - Sincerely, Katsune. Chapter 12. Natives and Rogues. I wake up once again and feel a bit more power in my body. I open my eyes just barely enough to see what is around me... A tent... A big tent and lamps hanging from the wooden pillars holding it up... I turn my head to one side and to the other. No living being in sight. There was a table with chairs and a book ontop of the table, there was a carpet and there was other furniture. The exit and entrance to the tent is on the other side... I try to get up from my bed but the moment I lift myself up I fall back down making a ton of sound. I hear running outside and all of them are coming towards the tent. Soon after a bunch of kids open the tent entrance and run in. The moment I turn my head to look at them they run away... They had... Paint on their faces? And it wasn''t paint they smeared on themselves... It had an order to it... Like a native tribes... I wait for a bit and I hear someone talking to somebody else while walking towards the entrance of my tent. Soon after two people enter. A young woman and an old man. "Hohoho? So the kids weren''t joking this time... He really is awake." (Old man) "It seems so, grandfather." (Woman) "We need to put him back to sleep. He was injured and dying on that wretched battlefield for too long... It won''t do good for him to waste energy. Sofia?" (Old Man) "Alright, grandfather. I''ll do it." (Sofia.) The young woman whose name I think I now know walks up to me. I notice wings on her back... Half see-through wings... Just like a Fairy or Sylphs. She puts her hand near my head and the next moment I see a light and fade back into sleep. --- Some time passes --- I wake up once again to see Sofia sitting next to me. "Awake again?! Come on sleep!" (Sofia) She casts the spell on me again but I don''t fall unconcious... It doesn''t actually do anything this time... I move my hand up in the air to see how much strength I have regained and I manage to hold my hand up in the air for fifteen seconds... Enough power to probably sneak out of the bed and wander about without getting spotted by a guard due to falling on a knee while they are coming around the corner... Sofia keeps trying to cast the spell on me time and time again but fails each time. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. She tries once more until she gets up and leaves to get her grandfather probably. I get up from my bed and notice the huge gaping hole that is supposed to be in my chest is missing. All the scars are missing also... How long have they actually been healing me...? I take a look at my clothes and they are weird... It''s like medieval clothing from my world but... With two holes on the back... Probably for the wings of this Fairy or Sylph tribe or village that has been healing me... I still wonder why they took me in and why they are living on the ground... I slowly walk out of the tent and check the corners and then run to cover at another tent. I look around and see no people... At all. Just... Emptiness. I wander around and find no people... Not even guards? The tents are packed full of things but nobody is in them... I keep wandering around until I hear singing... I slowly walk towards the singing while checking corners as not to get caught because last time I did... I got an earful from Sofia, The guard and the elder of this tribe or village. The thing is... The guard didn''t have wings. While I was listening to the guard scream at me while Sofia was coming to get me I saw no wings... They even took off their mask and all I saw were pointy ears and silky hair... I get really close to the singing and as I look around the corners again I see a ton of people singing and looking at a stone sculpture of something? I get closer to see the sculpture but the only thing I can make out is that it is human looking but it has big big wings and seems to be some sort of Holy Being? I suddenly feel somebody pull me backwards as I stumble and fall... I look up and see a guard who drags me all the way back to the tent where an angry Sofia and elder are waiting... This isn''t going to be good... Is it? Sofia gave me an earful and made me get back in bed. The elder then came and hit me on the forehead with his walking cane and used the same spell as Sofia but... Stronger... "What was... That ritual?" (Colin) They both look at me shocked but then the elder finishes the spell and casts it. I fall unconcious again... Chapter 13. Meeting the people. I wake up once again but this time there is a guard staring at me from the other side of the tent. "Do not bother getting up. I am watching you." (Guard) Good... To... Know... "So... Can anybody actually explain what the hell this place is?" (Colin) "Sanctuary. That''s all I will tell ya..." (Guard) "You are actually co-operative? My god... I thought I''d never get answers from guards!" (Colin) "We ain''t real guards ya know. Just the ones in Sanctuary with the most strength and combat training." (Guard) "So... What was that ritual?" (Colin) The guard immediatly goes silent and stares at me. "What ritual are you talking about?" (Guard) "The ritual with all the people, singing and that statue of a holy being." (Colin) The guard runs out of the tent and soon comes back in with another guard. "Aaand why is that other guard needed here?" (Colin) "We never have rituals here... A few people say they have seen them but soon after they supposedly have seen them they start attacking everybody claiming to gather materials for another ritual... I don''t want to die yet, bud." (Guard) Well... I did not need to hear that. So that means I''m going insane? Great... Just like I wanted. The other guard steps up and comes right by my bed. "But there are others who became important people after seeing them... One of those people is the Elder of Sanctuary. Maybe the Elder''s granddaughter has also seen it but nobody knows. So don''t be worried yet... But if you do start attacking us we will kill you." (Guard) He steps back and starts talking to the other guard. "So... Why are you giving me all these answers? Shouldn''t you be quiet?" (Colin) "The elder ordered us to answer all your questions... He was also doing something weird in his tent... Mixing a potion of some kind? We still don''t know. After I dragged you back here and you said you saw the Ritual they both started acting kind of weird and running around..." (Guard) "Ah... Explains a lot." (Colin) After a while of waiting the Old Man and Sofia come in and order the guards out. "So... Answers?" (Colin) They remain silent and walk up to me and take out a potion. "Drink. This. Now." (Sofia) I look at Sofia and she is really serious... "Why?" (Colin) "Boy, drink it now! The ritual is not a thing to be messed with! You need to drink this as not to start ''gathering materials'' for it!" (Elder) I grab the potion, take a look at it and then drink it. It had no taste to it... No smell... No nothing but the moment I drank it all I felt weird. I lost my eyesight for a second but then regained it a moment after... "Good... Good... We won''t have a ritualist on our hands...." (Elder) "Ritualist?" (Colin) "Don''t worry about it boy! Also... It seems you are strong enough to get out of bed... Come on! Let''s go meet the others in Sanctuary!" (Elder) The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. I look at the elder and then Sofia... Both of them are smiling. Just... Smiling. I get up from the bed and Sofia gives me a helping hand. "Come on boy!" (Elder) The old man speeds out the tent. I start walking out of the tent with Sofia behind me. When I exit the tent a whole bunch of people are gathered here... I can see... Elves... Fairies... Naga and... Too many races! A dwarf steps up to me. "Hohoh? This be the boy who we found on that battlefield? The boy who had that sword stuck through his stomach? I''m impressed he be living." (Dwarf) He looks at me and then steps infront of me. "I am Jakath. Jakath Tigreson! Blacksmith for the Sanctuary! What be your name?" (Jakath) "My name is Colin Tyccus..." (Colin) "Nice to meet ya Colin!" (Jakath) He gives me a firm handshake and then leaves laughing a bit. Then an elf steps up... "Hmm... Impressive... Nothing like any race here... No long tail or short tail.. No horns... No wings... No scales... No long ears... Not even different eyes like beast-tribes have... Must find out about this race... I need to know everything..." (Elf) The elder hits the elf on the head. "Ow! Sorry sorry! I''ll get to the point! My name is Verrona. I''m a female elf just in case you couldn''t make out which gender I am. It often happens to elves... Anyways, It''s nice to meet you Colin. I am hoping for your help in the Study... I am the Head Scholar in Sanctuary after all!" (Verrona) She steps back and then a Nephilim steps up... Giant is all I can think... "Hello little being. I am the Head Guard Beneqith. I maintain the security Sanctuary offers to the best of my capabilities. It is nice to meet you." (Beneqith) He steps back aswell... Then a cat person steps up to me. "Hnya? Survived that battle? You must be tough! My nyame is Kyo! I take care of all the finyancial businesses in Snyanctuary! I look forwyard to working with nya!" (Kyo) Cute... But that ain''t the point... It''s a cat person! I''ve seen a pig person, Draconians and some others before... But this is my first cat person! She steps back and nobody steps forward after her. "It''s nice to meet you all. I shall work to the best of my capabilities in Sanctuary as it seems you actually helped me not die. I shall live here until I must go once again." (Colin) The elder walks forward. "And that once again is five years from now on boy! A sword to the chest and then laying on the ground for half a day is no joke! And well... We still need to know about that... Ritual... Of yours." (Elder) The elder grabs my arm and pulls me away from everybody and keeps dragging me forward and Sofia runs after us... We go into a big temple and Sofia shuts the big doors. "Now boy..." (Elder) Chapter 14. The Truth of the Ritual. "Now boy... Tell me what you saw in the Ritual... I need to know." (Elder) I try to remember everything but I can''t... "I saw... A bunch of people and a sculpture... The people were singing a weird song and in a language I couldn''t understand... The sculpture... It was big... It looked human but with wings and before the guard brought me back I think it started to turn it''s head towards me..." (Colin) "Guard!? What guard... The only guards we had guarding the tents at the time were with me, defending them from wild beasts on the other side of where you supposedly went based on the footprints!" (Elder) "But... There was a guard there... The guard didn''t reveal their face but I felt some kind of... Danger..." (Colin) The elder sits down and starts thinking and thinks for a while. "Sofia... We might still have a problem... Rumors about a guard defending the Ritual have been going on but only one person has met the guard... And he is locked in the deepest asylum and the most guarded cell in that asylum in the entire world..." (Elder) "What shall we do elder..." (Sofia) "Come with me, Sofia... I''ll tell you." (Elder) They both leave and go to a side-room leaving me completely alone. After they leave I see the guard once again... It is sitting on a weird throne-like chair at the end of the temple and is looking straight at me... It gets up and before I notice it is charging at me with it''s spear... Just a moment before the spear hits my head the door opens and the guard disappears into thin air after one loud screech... I fall to my knee and hold my ears and the Elder and Sofia rush to me the moment they see me. "Is something wrong, Colin?!" (Sofia) "I saw it... I saw the guard again... I don''t think it is a mere guard... It was sitting on a throne and it had the intent to kill me..." (Colin) "You saw it twice!? Indeed, Elder... We need to train him..." (Sofia) "Indeed Sofia... Colin. Me and Sofia have decided that instead of you sleeping and eating here in Sanctuary for five or more years... You shall train. This might kill you if you aren''t recovered from the stab wound... But we must train you. You shall train in the mountain near here with the Head Guard, Beneqith." (Elder) "What about the other people who I met?" (Colin) "The other two except Verrona know not to interrupt Beneqith''s training sessions... But I''ll handle Verrona for you. It''d be bad if one of her... Experiments... Would kill you." (Elder) "Now Elder... My final question... What is the Ritual?" (Colin) "The Ritual... Not much is known about it but I shall tell you the most I know. The ritual has been in this world for centuries... Maybe even since the birth of the Lords... The Ritual usually makes the person who sees it insane and they will then go on a quest to... ''Gather materials''... The materials they speak of are bodies. Many bodies... Based on the people who have seen the ritual... The sculpture changes based on how the person will support the Ritual... Sometimes the person who has seen the Ritual escapes it''s reach so they won''t become insane... We are part of the few. Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.The only thing known about the ritual is... They are not good and they are planning on resurrecting or creating a new evil... That is all I know." (Elder) "Thank you, Elder... Now... What should I do?" (Colin) "Go to Beneqith. He knows which mountain to train you on... Make sure NOT to mention the ritual around him. His wife became a ritualist and attacked him... He had to kill her in self-defense..." (Elder) "Will do..." (Colin) "Go boy! Go!" (Elder) The elder pushes me out the door and I go down the stairs and see Kyo. "Kyo!" (Colin) I run up to Kyo and she turns around. "Ah... Colin..." (Kyo) "Hello, Kyo... Mind telling me where Beneqith is?" (Colin) "Benyaqith? He should be nyar your tent." (Kyo) "Thanks Kyo! Well... I gotta go now... Bye Kyo." (Colin) "Bye bye Colin! I wonder why you nyeed to see Benyaqith..." (Kyo) I run off towards the tent and see Beneqith. "Beneqith!" (Colin) Beneqith turns around and looks at me. "Colin. What do you need of me?" (Beneqith) "The elder told me to ask you to train me on a mountain..." (Colin) "The elder did?! I''ll need to thank the Elder later! I haven''t had to train anybody in such a long time I''ve nearly forgotten... Now... I''ll go ask the elder for permission to actually leave. Can''t really actually leave with only your word, Colin. Stay here." (Beneqith) "Shall do. They are at the temple." (Colin) Beneqith walks towards the temple faster than I can run... He returns after a few minutes. "Permission Granted. We are free to go." (Beneqith) "So... Shall we?" (Colin) "Pack your things... I presume that weird sword that was near you is yours. It''s broken though. Probably trampled over by the soldiers." (Beneqith) "So... I''ll need a new sword..." (Colin) "Indeed. But i''ll handle that." (Beneqith) I go into the tent and pack all my things. "Shall we?" (Beneqith) "I asked that before! But let us go." (Colin) We head off towards the mountain range... I''m going to train with a giant. A nephilim... Yaay... This is going to be worse than the war... Is the war still going on though? Wait... Are my acquintances still alive...? I''m going to presume they are... I''ll train to be strong enough to go back to them and not ''die'' in the war! I promise to become stronger for the sake of well... Not dying! And with that promise we leave Sanctuary and reach the mountains... My training begins... And another notification about a schedule change... Well... Here is another schedule change... I''ve been doing these quite often haven''t I? Well... Here is the thing... My other novel is more liked than this one currently and I have run out of ideas for this novel... I might just suddenly wrap it up... But I''ll try to make something out of this.... So give me ideas for future chapters please. I''ll take note of all of them so feel free to comment anything you would like to see in this novel next.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. So... My new schedule will be: AW: Scientist - Two weeks in a row (Random times but probably Saturdays.) Another World and I''m still rich? - Once per three weeks. (On saturdays after the 2 weeks of AW: Scientist) I hope not many of you were super hyped about a new chapter this week since I''m about to make AW: Scientist chapter this week... (Next week will be this novel.) That''s all I''ve got to say... I am sorry for this sudden probably forseeable change in my schedule. -Katsune. Chapter 15. The Guild. After that hellish training from Beneqith that lasted for two and a half years I finally got out of the Sanctuary... I never want to go through that again... Ever... I''m no Dovahkiin from Skyrim, standing ontop of a really tall mountain only in his underwear... Before I left the sanctuary I asked for a map and some food and drinks and my things back so I won''t die... The map says I have to go North for a while before I reach a capital of some sort... This map only has the area of this kingdom we are in The Elder said... So I literally have no idea where the Draconian Kingdom is located or if I am even near it... Well I can safely assume I am near the Draconian Kingdom since the Sanctuary should be near the battle zone... Unless they moved while I was unconcious... Which is a possibility. Well... The capital is my best bet as of now... More like my only bet... The other closest city is waaay further and I have to go through a zone that the Elder has marked as a do not pass zone. I start heading towards the capital of this kingdom I have managed to get myself into... After about a day of walking on a road a carriage passes me and stops. An old man comes out. "Hohoho... A young man going to the capital on foot...?" (Old Man) "How did you know I am going to the capital?" (Colin) "Well this road leads to only one place, The Capital! Want to hop on? It''s a long walk but a short ride on a carriage!" (Old Man) I contemplate whether I should or not but after a while I get on the carriage. We ride to the Capital for three days but the Old Man spoke so much that it felt like a century... After we reach the Capital I get out of the carriage after saying goodbye and the old man leaves. "So this is the capital...." (Colin) I walk around trying to figure out where I can go and what I can do until I pass a merchant''s guild that seems to be on the brink of collapsing based on the fact that they are begging outside.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. I walk up to them and one of the members looks at me. "Sir... Please help us..." (Member) "How can I help you first?" (Colin) "We need money... Our guild is bankrupt... The Guild Leader dead... If this guild disbands all of our lives will be meaningless!" (Member) I stare at the person for a while and then sigh. "How much do you need?" (Colin) "About... A million silver..." (Member) I look at them suspiciously and then open up my bank.
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I haven''t seen this screen in a while... Or any screen... I guess I forgot about them for a while... I take out a million silver from my "Backpack" and give it to them. They look at me, crying. "Do not cry. You will cause a misunderstanding." (Colin) The guild member stops crying and invites me in. I go inside and see about ten members lazing around until I enter. They stare at me for a while and then look at their fellow member and see the million silver coins in their hands... I still cannot figure out the gender of this person no matter how much I look at them. "Vivian! Where did you get that much money!?" (???) "I didn''t steal it, James! He gave it to me!" (Vivian) "There is no way somebody walks around with that much cash just in their backpack!" (???) "It''s true Liliana! Believe me for once!" (Vivian) An older gentleman walks towards me. "This man seems to have no money at all. It''d be unreasonable for him to help us." (Gentleman) "But I did. Just accept it, or do you want proof?" (Colin) "We want proof!" (James) I open up my bank menu once again and take out another million silver and I show them the money and then put it back in the bank. They just stand there for a minute until they regain their senses... All of them then bow to me... "Umm... What?" (Colin) Chapter 16. Meeting the Crew I look at the row of people bowing... They keep bowing for a whole three minutes until the Gentleman stops bowing and goes behind the counter and grabs something... I''m still as confused as ever... The gentleman returns and hands me... A certificate of some kind? "Sir... This is the certificate to become the Guild Master of our Guild..." (Gentleman) I take a look at it and it only says that all property is signed over to the holder of the certificate and then the Guild Name... "The Treasure of Joy..." (Colin) They all look up the moment I say it. I take a deeper look at what the Property is as it lists a whole bunch... In it are all the names of the people bowing infront of me and probably the gentleman''s aswell... I look at them and then back at the certificate... Indeed, all the names that they called eachother are in here... "Are you guys by chance... Slaves?" (Colin) It seems I hit the mark... "So that explains the desperation... You''d be found and sold again, wouldn''t you?" (Colin) They all nod at the same time. "Guess I''ll help you guys since I did need a new home ever since I left... That place..." (Colin) They all raise their head and look at me happily or surprised. Mostly surprised. The gentleman comes to me and shows a small line at the bottom and gives me a weird-looking pen... "Write your signature here and you will become our official guild master." (Gentleman) I write my signature and then the contract dissapears. Luckily there was no terms and conditions that I was forced to read... Or any at all. They all rejoice after seeing my contract dissapear. "What are your first orders, Guild Master?" (Gentleman) "Getting you guys back up and running, that''s my first objective... I don''t think I''ll need to tell you guys what your first order is?" (Colin) They all nod and run off. The gentleman comes back after a while. "I forgot to mention before but the Guild Masters room is upstairs on the left. We still haven''t cleaned it so... I hope it isn''t too messy." (Gentleman) I nod and he leaves and I go to the guild masters room.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Everything is in order and nothing is out of place... Is my first thought looking at the room. Everything is so neat in this room. I walk to the chair and table that is filled with papers and I take a look at the papers... Debt. A lot of debt. "What the hell happened to this guild... Half of these papers are debt. The other half are just business contracts...." (Colin) I sit down and look at these papers until I remember... My status, has it changed?
Status
Name and Race: Colin Tyccus Human
Race Bonuses: Less XP required to level up More rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level: Lvl. 156 Lvl. 190
Jobs (Classes): Expert Warrior Expert Mage
Titles: First of the Human Race Pro-Gamer
The Rituals Enemy Nephilim''s Student Guild Master
Title Bonuses: Faster learning of different languages. Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Instinct for the Forbidden Increased Stats Control over the Treasure of Joy guild
Abilities: [Mimick Sword Style] [The Six Elements]
Stats:
Strength: 25600 Magic/MP: 30500 Agility: 36000
Intellect: 95030 Dexterity: 35010 Stamina/HP: 90500
Well... The only difference is my intellect went up by 30 ponts and I gained a new title. I''m still as OP as ever... I should honestly thank Beneqith who is a lvl 200 warrior for training me... And for a few mages from Sanctuary dropping by and helping me. I look at the Instinct for the Forbidden bonus and open it''s description...
The Instinct for the Forbidden
Description: The Instinct for the Forbidden immediatly tells the owner of the bonus if a Ritual or any forbidden magic is being done around his immediate area in the way of instinct. This bonus comes from the title of "The Rituals Enemy"
Yup... This one has not changed one bit even though all my other bonuses change constantly either giving or making their own bonuses bigger... I hear a knock on my door and immediatly close my status and I go and open the door. It''s the woman named Liliana who is holding a bunch of papers. "Here is the list for all our cargo. It''s quite big but I had to make a few... Changes... Since we sold quite a lot to survive until you came along." (Liliana) "Thank you.. Liliana was it?" (Colin) "Wait... We never introduced the guild members to you and you didn''t introduce yourself to us right...? Guess our slave training kicked in again as not to ask for your masters name until given..." (Liliana) "Ah... There is that. I guess I forgot about it aswell... I don''t have much in the way of common sense anymore. My name is Colin Tyccus, yours?" (Colin) "Liliana La Larendell, just call me Lily for short... The others refuse because I used to be a member of a noble house." (Lily) "Used to?" (Colin) "We were... Eliminated from the race of the nobles... Thoroughly. I''m quite certain I''m the last one alive from my family..." (Lily) "Well, consider everybody here as your new family if you already haven''t. I''ll get the others names when they come in here aswell." (Colin) Lily bows and then leaves just as the Vivian comes around. This repeated until all the members came to me with different papers either about cargo, trade routes and so on. The names I have learned are... Liliana La Larendell, Vivian Meridallen, James Kaolotu, Tiron "Gentleman" Kopporin, Ann Fowler, Douglas Carey, Uison Oppersson, Percithon Nepri, Mei Aeiro, Waiqe Makah. All of these namess are either absurd... Or too familiar. I look at the absoloute mountain of papers I need to go through... I really shouldn''t have accepted the guild master job but I need information about the war in detail and that''s impossible I think... I also need a home which I just got and I need something stable that can get my name out there... This guild is a merchant guild that can, if big enough, make a branch for an adventurer guild and another branch for something else... It''ll all work out if I am careful enough but if somebody messes with my objectives I will crush them personally... Well I set my first objective for the guild but my personal first objective is... Information about the war. I start going through the mountain of papers. Chapter 17. Foundations. I finish going through all the papers... "These guys... Are they idiots or what?" (Colin) I look at the last papers from the income when their guild master was here and now... Their income back then was around five million per month... Today it''s basically nothing... No income at all... It''s like they became completely useless when the guild master dissapeared. I put down the papers and get up. "I guess it''s time to re-establish some trade routes... I wonder which ones and which cargo I can get my hands on right now..." (Colin) I go downstairs where everybody else has gathered already after reporting to me. They immediatly look at me when I walk down like they were waiting for new orders... Lily walks towards me with some kind of... Letter? And why does she seem... Really happy? "Master Colin! Here!" (Lily) She hands the letter to me and I open it. What the hell is with the content of this letter? Another merchant guild is basically ordering us to give our land to them... Or else they say. "So, why are you happy about this?" (Colin) I look at Lily and she freaks out a little at the question... "Well... It''s... Well..." (Lily) "Lily." (Colin) "The other merchant guild is famous! If we become a part of them we could re-establish ourselves faster!" (Lily) "And have our actions controlled by somebody I don''t trust? No way. I''ll let them come here... If they try to get this house with force... They won''t like it much. Can somebody deliver a letter saying to come here and show their Or Else option." (Colin) James walks forward, nods and then runs out of the guild looking relieved. Lily is the one in a panic... Let me guess, they promised Lily something if we did actually become part of it and today was the last day for this guild to get a new guild master... And I just happened to waltz in so they can keep their name, just under a different guild.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. If it was me before the Sanctuary I would accept it with open hands... But as the training I was mentally trained aswell... Beneqith everyday made me say not to trust anybody who you don''t know. Every day, every hour and if I didn''t say it... Extra work for me. Ok that''s enough of thinking about the training... I don''t want to think about it... "When do you think they will arrive here?" (Colin) "Considering how close they are to us... A few hours." (Tiron) "Good. I''ll wait here for them. I have new orders for all of you, check all the possible trade routes we have and all the cargo that can be sold for a higher price in this city and the end of the trade route. We need to get some kind of trade route open as to start improving our situation. I shall handle the more... Annoying things." (Colin) Everybody in the guild nods and runs of to fulfill my new orders. I take a chair and sit in the middle of the room and wait for them. Four hours pass and James returns with a ton of armed and armoured men and some weird big goblin-like being... "James... Are these the people who want my guild?" (Colin) "Yes, master..." (James) "Thank you James. I''ll handle them, you go and ask Lily and the others for orders. I don''t know how much they''ve done already. They should be checking the cargo and trade routes." (Colin) James runs off as fast lightning and leaves me with the weird men. The goblin-like being walks forward. "I am Santirus Fullus Podray! The most famous merchant guild''s leader! I heard you refuse to give us this guild''s zone. I do not like that. I want this zone. Give it up now." (Goblin) I start laughing as I open up the inventory and grab a huge warhammer out of it and with a snap of my fingers the portal closes and the entire room is filled with different elemental spells such as Ice Spear, Fireball, Lightning and so on. "I also have a demand... Goblin. Get the hell out. Never come back and I might just spare your little merchant guild." (Colin) "Attack! These spells are probably just illusions! Nobody can use all the elements and fight well at the same time!" (Goblin) The guards run at me but with another snap of my fingers all the spells fly straight at the guards, killing them. "I guess that''s a no from you aswell." (Colin) With another snap of my fingers I am already behind the goblin and the goblin has his head crushed in by my warhammer. "Now I need to clean all of this up..." (Colin) Lily walks in and looks at the fifty or so armored guards outside the guild in a pile... And at the top of the pile the little goblin. I burn the pile with one of the flame spells creating a pillar of fire that is masked by some illusion magic so guards don''t rush over here. After a while the corpses finish burning and when I start walking into the guild I see Lily on the ground trembling. "Lily... Now I need to do some explaining don''t I?" (Colin) Lily shakes her head and gets up still trembling. "It''s better if you forget. Just forget about everything that happened in this guild in this hour..." (Colin) I pat her on the head and start walking up. "Colin wait!" (Lily) "Yes?" (Colin) "I won''t ask about the pile... I already knew that the other option was kill or be killed... But the report about the trade routes and cargo..." (Lily) "Put it on my table and get some rest. Tell everybody to get some rest... And you forget about everything that happened here. And don''t mention anything. It''ll be troublesome if all of you tremble at the sight of me." (Colin) Lily nods and I walk up and then I hear somebody collapse and three other people immediatly run in as they heard something crash onto the ground. "Why didn''t I bother to learn any magic that would make people forget... It would''ve been super useful... I also shouldn''t have leaked so much bloodlust and magic power out into the air... I don''t know what I was thinking..." (Colin) I open the door to my room and fall asleep thinking about how to make Lily accept the fact that her new guild master burned a pile of corpses and didn''t change his indifferent face during the entire process. And I also think about the need to get some trade routes going... Chapter 18. The first trade cart. I wake up in the morning with the sun shining through my window. I get up from my bed and get dressed and then go to my work table. I look at the report about our trade routes and cargo... "As I suspected... I don''t know what about 75% of these things are... What the hell is a Jaunuk?" (Colin) I look at the things I do know like deer meat and skin... "Wait... They have deer here? Why haven''t I seen any of them? I mean yes I wasn''t really looking for them but... Oh whatever I don''t have time for this..." (Colin) I start putting together a list of meats and skins and such that are going to go on the first trade cart that I shall send out. "I might aswell ask for some help... Otherwise I''ll put some kind of a weird pile-up of things." (Colin) I open the door to my room and walk downstairs and everybody is there. Everybody except Lily greets me with cheers on their face... "Lily, anything wrong?" (Colin) "No... Nothing at all..." (Lily) "Good. Just be cheerful like everybody else. Also... I need some help. I seem to be missing some information about our cargo... About 75% of our cargo." (Colin) "I can handle that. After all I was in charge of handling the cargo." (Tiron) "Thanks, Tiron." (Colin) Me and Tiron head up to the room and Tiron starts explaining to me what each of the materials are... "Hmm.... Most of our cargo is bad quality and doesn''t fetch much of a price huh? If we need to make a profit... We''ll need to send it on the most dangerous path right now... All the other paths result in only losses based on this info..." (Colin) "Indeed... I fear it is so." (Tiron) "I could go and hunt for extra materials. I was kind of forced to survive on my own for a while." (Colin) "Sadly all of the nearby areas are controlled by other merchant guilds as they bought the land around the city. The stronger guilds like the one you destroyed have bought the Grand Forest next to the city and if you are caught hunting on their lands... Explusion from the city is the least of your problems." (Tiron) "How about further out? Where the bought areas end?" (Colin) "Possible, but a lot of monsters, whose materials cannot be sold by our guild, live there." (Tiron) "So this is our only option?" (Colin) Tiron nods yes and then I hand the paper to him. "Then send this out on the first trade cart to Karalok." (Colin) Tiron bows and leaves the room in a hurry to finish everything and send off the first cart.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. I look at the cargo and make marking to what kind of cargo I sent out just now and just relax for an hour. I lean back on my chair and suddenly I hear a really really loud bell being rung and I fall. "What the hell!?" (Colin) I hear somebody running up the steps and the next moment Lily opens the door. "Colin! It''s an Attack Signal! And it''s coming from the location of Karalok!" (Lily) "What the hell is an attack signal, say that first!" (Colin) "It means the latest superpower of the world is thinking of expanding again!" (Lily) "And who the hell is that?" (Colin) "The victors of the last war with the Draconians... The Multi-race kingdom with no proper name." (Lily) The moment I hear Draconians and Multi-race Kingdom I already know what happened. Draconians lost. But what happened to the mansion and the others? I still need to find out about that. But now that I know my enemy is here... "I guess I''ll help out on the defensive-soon-to-be-offensive..." (Colin) Lily looks really confused but the moment she sees the huge grin on my face she gets scared. I go to the East side where my last trade cart left and I see the city''s defensive force fighting against a ton of different races and I notice my trade cart trying to run away from a ton of enemies... Hmm... What would be the best here.. "My god... I''m a genius... Winged Hussars from my last world! The most epic charge in this world commence! Wait... Where is a mountain..." (Colin) I look around and see a huge mountain that seems unpassable... But not for things that aren''t going to go from the top but are going to be summoned at the top. I basically teleport to the mountain. "[Fire Elemental Summon: Shape: Winged Hussar]" (Colin) In the next moment an entire army of Winged Hussar cavalary appears. I point towards the multi-race army that has the same uniform of red blue and white. "Attack them." (Colin) The entire army starts moving at the same time in a huge charge down the mountain side. I fly together with them using some wind magic to keep me in the air. The moment the armies hear the horses and the screams of the winged hussars who are riding down from the mountain side they both turn to defend against them while attacking eachother. At first it seems like the winged hussars are going to charge into both the armies but they change course right towards the middle of the multi-race army. "[Fire and Earth Combination Magic: Cannon]" (Colin) A whole row of cannons and cannoneers made out of fire and iron appear in the air and I aim them towards the multi-race army. "Fire." (Colin) Direct hit and the hussars hit them... "I guess It''s time for some extra support from behind..." (Colin) I snap my fingers and appear behind the army of the attackers. The next moment a huge wall of dirt, stone and everything else appears shutting off their escape route back home. The only way to escape is going into the forest... But they really shouldn''t go there... I teleport to the forest. "[Fire Elemental Summon: Shape: Abigor], [Fire Elemental Summon: Shape: Abigor''s Legion]" (Colin) "That should do nicely. Abigor, attack the army the hussars are attacking. The army that is attacking the city." (Colin) I fly above both the armies after giving out my commands and look at the sheer massacare of the multi-race army and the sheer shock of the army I''m defending. Infact most of them have already run back into the city and only a few unlucky ones fell and are trying to get into the city. And Abigor appears out of the tree-line with his legion. A pure massacare. A minute later my armies vanish due to my command because all of the enemies are dead. I also lower the dirt and stone wall that I made and then I float down to my trade cart. "You can keep heading towards your destination. I doubt anything will try to attack the cart." (Colin) I look at who is driving the cart and the one driving is... James. The moment James sees me he sighs and keeps heading towards Karalok. I head back to my guild and see nobody there and I hear nobody aswell... I guess they went to see the massacare. Now just to wait for them to come back and explain to them I am one of the strongest people in this world probably. The more and more I think about it... The levels of the people at sanctuary were quite high. I thought maybe level 100 was the common level but after observing some of the people in the city it seems level 15 is normal... Level 45 for the A-ranked adventurers... Would I be considered a proper demon if I were to show myself? I mean, I look like almost every race present but I have no specific race according to them... Though I am a human... Well.. I won''t show myself so easily. My powers I will since they might just start talking about two myth armies protecting the city. I sit down and wait for the guild members to return. Chapter 19. Myth. The guild members come back a few hours later when it''s already night. "Finally arrived have you?" (Colin) Lily is the first to step forward and bows down and almost looks like an archway. "Lily?" (Colin) I look at Lily for a while and everybody is silent... It''s kind of akward... Lily then seems to ''understand'' why I am confused. "I bow to the king!" (Lily) "The what!?" (Other guild members and Colin) Lily looks confused when she hears me say it and then looks at me in the eyes. "Aren''t you a king? Only a king can do those things like you did outside the gate! I mean no army can compare to the two you command!" (Lily) "No no no Lily.. You got it all wrong. Those were summons. I ain''t a king... I''m far from being a king. I guess the most you can compare me to is... A soldier who is thought to be dead but really isn''t." (Colin) "Summons... But... That many summons... Two entire summon armies? That would requrie two entire summoner armies..." (Lily) "You saw it, now you must believe it. And don''t mistake me for a king... King''s do troublesome things..." (Colin) Lily slowly gets up and the others look at me with amazement. "You... Summoned those armies?" (Vivian) "Indeed. Now... Shall we get back to work? Also... I need a tad of help from you guys..." (Colin) "Help?" (Vivian) "Do you know of a draconian kingdom? I can''t really remember the name but it was involved in a war with the multi-race kingdom." (Colin) "That... Kingdom..." (Vivian) They all suddenly look down at the ground and I notice a few tears dropping... "What is it? Come on tell me..." (Colin) "It... No longer exists. It was destroyed... Almost all of the draconians were enslaved by the multi-race kingdom and now are forced to be their military or..... Nightly... Servants... Those who cannot do any of those two jobs are sent to the mines or get sold after being killed and chopped into pieces..." (Vivian) I try to grab a chair next to me but the moment I touch it, it burns down due to my brain using magic without me saying to do it. "Well... I should''ve known... I really should''ve known. But what the hell happened to them... To little miss?" (Colin) "Little miss?" (Vivian) "She holds the same name as you, Vivian... She also is named Vivian. Funny, I know... Like some kind of power up in heaven made it so by accident." (Colin)Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. Vivian cheers up a tad and looks at me straight in the eyes. "Colin... There are a few families that escaped. One of those just happens to be a family where only a young lady lived with butlers and maids... The young lady was named Vivian..." (Vivian) "Location right now?" (Colin) "Unknown... All we do know that they are putting up a resistance against the multi-race kingdom from within the kingdom itself." (Vivian) I sigh and think for a while. "So I still need to go to the multi-race kingdom no matter what huh... Well, thanks for that information. You can raise your pay if you want. I allow it. Just don''t take too much. I''m going into my room, interrupt me only when the entire city is about to blow up or when our cart arrives once again or when our guild has a major problem that only I can handle. Otherwise... Do not interrupt me!" (Colin) "Understood!" (Guild members) I leave and head into my room. "So in the end I still need to use force to find them... More precisely, make them find me. Guess I''ll need to take master''s instruction and make a sword-technique for myself instead of slashing like a madman. But first... How much XP did I get from those mobs?" (Colin) I sit down in the middle of the room after clearing it. I open my menu once again.
Status
Name and Race: Colin Tyccus Human
Race Bonuses: Less XP required to level up More rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level: Lvl. 192 Lvl. 236
Jobs (Classes): Master Warrior Expert Mage-Summoner
Titles: First of the Human Race Pro-Gamer
The Rituals Enemy Nephilim''s Student Guild Master
Title Bonuses: Faster learning of different languages. Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Instinct for the Forbidden Increased Stats Control over the Treasure of Joy guild
Abilities: [Mimick Sword Style] [The Six Elements]
Stats:
Strength: 28900 Magic/MP: 79010 Agility: 56000
Intellect: 124030 Dexterity: 65010 Stamina/HP: 120230
Even more powerful... I really love my Human Race bonuses... My mage class has changed? "Mage-Summoner? Why has it changed now? I''ve used summons every day on the mountain..." (Colin) I think about it for a while and the only answer I seem to get is... I didn''t have enough experience in the summoner class to make it marked as expert. I also finally got Master Warrior class... I start concentrating after I close the menu to tap into my ''soul core'' as I like to call it. After a while I appear in the core once again.. I remember when I first arrived here... My core was still so little... Now it''s basically an entire planet since I can walk on it for years without end... I open a path into the middle of the core and enter it. There are six differently coloured lines circling the middle... Each of the colours represents a different type of an element. Time to medidate on the elements once again... I medidate for three entire days in the real world before stopping... I need to train in sword arts to create a technique. I walk downstairs and Vivian is sitting down. "Nothing to do?" (Colin) "Nope... We are just waiting for James to get back. The next cargo shipment is ready but if any of us leave all of our things will be messed up. And... You came out of your room?!" (Vivian) "Late reactions..." (Colin) I laugh at Vivian who just noticed me arriving. "Vivian... I need a favor. Try to find every book about sword techniques in this city. Every single book. Buy them all as well... And if you have money left over buy something nice for yourself." (Colin) I grab about two thousand UniGold from the bank and hand it to Vivian who stares at me blankly before leaving. Two thousand might be a bit much but well... I have too much of it anyways. I go to the small court yard of our guild building and grab a sword from my inventory and start training in all of the different techniques I can currently remember... Making my own sword technique is going to be weird, difficult and well... It''s going to take a while... Chapter 20. Creation of the Sword Technique, The journey begins. I train in the techniques for hours without stop, possibly even days. Dual swords, Dual daggers, polearm, glaive, spear, sword, hammer, axe... All of the weapons avaible to me here I trained in. "All of these techniques... I need to sort out the ones that don''t fit each other in combo''s and break the flow... But which weapon is the most suited to me?" (Colin) I look at the weapons and remember the flow of all the combo''s I did with the weapons and how well I could do them. "Definetly dual swords. Nearly all of the techniques could be combo''d with eachother except for a few..." (Colin) I sit down and notice Vivian approaching. "Colin... I got the books a week and three days ago... You have been in this yard for that long. James has even returned and we all don''t know what to do." (Vivian) "Just be on stand-by. I might have to leave for a little bit of an adventure and if you guys want to come you should be ready. Also, thank you for the books... Did you get something nice for yourself aswell?" (Colin) She nods and then leaves. I grab the books and study every technique in them. Two days pass and I finish reading them. "No techniques for dual swords? The most techniques were for the axe but I couldn''t make a combo bigger than seven techniques in a row whilst the dual swords still hold the twenty five techniques in a row combo. Quite useless these books were." (Colin) I neatly stack the books and put the weapons back in their spot and then go to the entrance and main hall of the building. Everybody is there with travel clothing and seems ready for adventure. Vivian steps forward and looks me straight in the eye for one second before looking away. "We... We are all coming with you! We are your slaves after all... And we wouldn''t know what to do when you dissapear aswell!" (Vivian)Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. "Sure sure. I had already anticipated that most of you will come... Didn''t think all but no matter. Just get enough food for about... Half a year. If we run out then we''ll get more from towns. Also... Our target is the Multi-Race Kingdom. Seems like they have something I need." (Colin) They all nod and leave and I head back to the yard, grab two swords. "Time to finalize the sword Technique... What should I call it actually... Long, wide attacks that resemble a whirlwind but then sudden thrusts forward..." (Colin) I think for a while and train at the same time. Suddenly... My brain gets an idea. "Thundering Whirlwind." (Colin) The moment I finish the technique main combo a strong wind current blows through the city and bounces back from the walls... "Oops... I think I knocked a few guards off the wall. So it''s this strong when done correctly... And I wasn''t even using my full strength. It gathers the wind generated by my moves in one area and the finishing technique makes it all disperse suddenly... Powerful and deadly." (Colin) I put the training swords down and notice they have many dents and cracks on them from me just cutting air with the Thundering Whirlwind technique. I go back into the main hall with nobody there and a lot of noise coming from the rooms. "Guess I should get ready aswell... Sadly we are going to have to leave this place to nature. Should I just sell it? No... They wouldn''t be happy... I don''t need people who are mad at me travelling with me." (Colin) When I reach my room I notice everything is already packed for me. By everything I mean... Literally everything that isn''t a bed, bookcase, seat or table. I easily lift up the bag and put it on my back. Feels like a feather to me... I go to the entrance and wait for the others. A few hours pass and the last one to arrive was Lily who is still... Frightened by the sight of me. I think it''s frightened? She acts all weird around me. "Alright... Everybody is here. In which direction is the multi-race kingdom?" (Colin) "Towards the gate you defended... Towards Karalok. They already took it by the time I got there but they let me trade." (James) "Grab the horses and carts and carriages. We are heading towards Karalok. A town is about to burn just as a message that somebody wants to meet somebody else." (Colin) A wicked grin appears on my face. The face of somebody about to kill hundreds or possibly thousands without batting an eye. "You... Aren''t going to kill civilians right!?" (Lily) "If they remain as civilians and don''t attack me. Yes. They will survive. But if they grab a torch and throw it at any of my summons... They will die. Simple as that." (Colin) Lily seems relieved that I won''t pointlessly massacare everybody. After an hour we leave the town and head towards Karalok. "Vivian... I''m coming. Just wait until you hear of an entire city burning... I also need to show the Multi-Race kingdom what happens when you mess with somebody who can power-up and fast." (Colin) I whisper to myself. The entire trip to Karalok a wicked grin was on my face as I stand in the air making wind below me pushing me forward as my hands are crossed. I am currently looking at Karalok. Now... What should I do with this city... Chapter 21. Siege and Warning. I look upon the city and see the every-day peaceful life and the guards not even trying to protect anything, they are just lazy and sitting starting into the opposite direction of me. "I''m going to scare them a little... Summon Clay Doll: [Messenger]." (Colin) In an instant a life-like messenger of the multi-race kingdom is created infront of me. "Go into that city, tell them an attack is coming and then die by an ''arrow'' in your back. That is all the use I need of you for now." (Colin) The doll immediatly changes as an arrow appears in it''s back and it starts running like it is fatigued. "I love semi-intellectual dolls... They actually get what I mean by scaring them." (Colin) The rest of the guild watches and are intrigued by what is happening next. The moment I feel the clay doll ''die'' I hear alarms all over the city. "I guess it worked." (Colin) I see a lot of guards on the walls and nobles already running out of the city with carriages. "No regular citizens or servants of nobles are leaving? Well I guess it''s good for me since I was going to slaughter nobles anyways. I just hate nobility for some reason... Might be my past life. Yup. Definetly my past life." (Colin) "Colin? What are you talking about?" (Lily) "Ah nothing." (Colin) I ''teleport'' aka just move really fast infront of the nobles and think of how to murder them. An army? No... Overkill and the enemy might think my real army is coming from this direction. A small elite band of knights should work. I go down into a hilltop a few kilometers infront of the nobles. "Light Creation magic: [Chivalric Order: Livonian Knights]" (Colin) In an instant an entire small elite Order Knight group is created infront of me and they all bow. "Your orders are to slaughter the nobles as they have tried to escape and well... They are nobles of this world. Well just murder them all... A small crusade you might call this war I am having." (Colin) In an instant all of them get up shouting ''For the crusade!'' and get on their horses and ride off. "I love using those guys. I really need to thank the mages for teaching me creation magic. These guys were funny to watch hunting animals shouting ''for the crusade''." (Colin) I go up into the air and go back to where the nobles are. When the last of the nobles get through and I notice the knights are all ready to attack.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. I close the Nobles off in a stone wall area with only one entrance. The entrance for the knights. The next moment my knights rush in slaughtering everything as the guards on the wall are looking at the stone wall that appeared infront of them. A few minutes pass and my knights dissapear into thin air and my walls dissapear aswell since I commanded it to be so. The guards notice the slaughter that went on inside the walls and one of them immediatly runs off somewhere. I go back to the guild wagons to decide who to send next. "Wind Creation Magic: [Dragon Riders]" (Colin) In a few minutes about a hundred Dragons and riders ontop of dragons appear. "Earth and Fire combination magic: Army Creation: [Infantry: Swiss Mercenary] [Archers: English Longbowmen] [Cavalry: Mixed Chivalric Orders]." (Colin) Over time more and more men were created from Earth and Fire. I take a look at my mana pool after summoning a massive army... "Half empty huh... Well I guess I did summon quite a large army. Enough to besiege a capital and win without any problems. This should scare this kingdom a lot." (Colin) Lily and the others nearly collapsed when they saw how many soldiers suddenly appeared. I actually think somebody collapsed back there. "How... Many men?" (Vivian) "Hell I know. I used army creation magic. I just know it used half of my mana pool." (Colin) A few soldiers from the Infantry, Archers and Cavalry come forward. "Our orders, Commander?" (Soldiers) "Break open the gates, murder or take captive every soldier and definetly do not kill any civilians. I don''t need that kind of blood on my hands." (Colin) "As you command." (Soldiers) The next moment the assault begins. The infantry smash themselves against the wooden gate breaking it as the archers fire at the guard above enmasse Even if archers are unaccurate if they shoot a lot of arrows they must hit right? The infantry clear a path as the cavalry charges into the city with infantry following and archers soon after. I float into the city waving goodbye to my guild members and charge directly towards the bailey. I stop infront of the bailey gate and a lot of infantry is trying to break it down but it is reinforced by something. "Step back." (Colin) The infantry clear a path as I throw a fireball at it and the fireball flings the charred doors into the defenders killing a lot of them. The infantry charges in and engages in combat and soon after the cavalry joins in. The archers are shooting arrows into the guards on the walls and a lot of arrows actually hit the guards. Soon after my army breaks through the defenders killing them all and then they charge into the keep and I break open the gates with a ball of wind this time. We capture the lord of the castle. My swiss mercenaries bring him infront of me. "Well well what do we have here? A lord who is going to serve as a messenger to their own lord. I shall let you free but under one condition. You run to your king and warn him of me. If he doesn''t believe you, show him this." (Colin) In an instant a paper with a warning message appears. "If he really doesn''t believe you... He will in a few days when I get what I need. Also... Have you heard of a draconic female named... Vivian? She should be mounting a resistance against your kingdom." (Colin) "Vivian? Oh that little bastard we caught on our last raid on the resistance! She''s probably having a fun time in the capital as the king''s pet! Hahahahhahahah!" (Lord) "You, give me your sword." (Colin) I point to a mercenary and he gives his sword to me. "Hold him up right." (Colin) The two mercenaries hold him up as I slash him in two. "Idiot. Should''ve only told me where she is and not that last part. Might''ve lived. Might''ve." (Colin) I hand the sword back to the mercenary and leave the keep and my entire ar my dissapears and all my mana gets restored. I notice a huge map of the kingdom in the middle of the bailey and see where the capital of this kingdom is. "Earth Magic: [Iron Spear] size: 4x the regular." (Colin) A massive spear appears in my hand and I aim it towards the capital. "If this is right... And the power needed is this much..." (Colin) I throw the spear straight towards the wall of the capital with the warning message engraved into the side of it. I go back to the guild members. "We are going into their capital. They have the person I am searching for. And we are going there fast. I shall assist with speed. Enchantment magic: [Extreme Speed]" (Colin) Time to repay a few debts and make a few enemies and friends. The usual. Chapter 22. Capital. We reached the enemy capital in just two days due to the enchantment magic. We stopped in a forest near the capital so I could prepeare the siege army while scouting the capital. I walk out of the forest to go and scout how much damage the capital has from my iron spear and if they got my message until James stops me. "Are you sure you should do this...? Besieging a capital of an entire country just for one woman? Isn''t it... Too much?" (James) I turn around and grab him by the neck and hold him in the air, "If this one woman wouldn''t have accepted me into her mansion, I would be dead. I wouldn''t be standing here. I owe my life to her basically. So... This will never be too much." (Colin) I put him down after noticing that I am cutting off his air supply and the other guild members stare at me with a little fear. "Sorry, but I truly do owe my life to her. You all just stay here and enjoy the show." (Colin) The fact that I owe my left to her still stands true. If she had just decided not to keep me around for friendship I would''ve been executed on the spot. It''s time to repay the debt a little. I float in the air a little bit away from the capital and see that guards are on the streets and people are being sent somewhere inside the massive castle. Just bombarding the massive castle is and forever will be off-limits until I know Vivian''s location... I look at the walls and notice that the outer wall is broken in the place I threw the spear. "Seems everything is going according to the plan... Now... How many troops do you have here?" (Colin) I fly even more up and take a look at the entire city. The walls are completely filled with guards... "About... A million? Well this is a big city..." (Colin) The city is really large indeed, It is exactly like those fantasy empire capitals from manga and such. "This should be fun. I''ll attack at night, the citizens should be sheltered by then..." (Colin) I fly back to the forest and the guild members have set up a camp. Tiron walks towards me when he notices me. "Sir Colin... Are you entirely sure about this? Just by attacking the capital all the other kingdoms would notice that they are weak and some major changes would go in the politics of the world. Are you sure you wish to upset the balance?" (Tiron) "What balance?" (Colin) It seems he wanted to say something in response but couldn''t find that something. He calmly went back and notified the others of something. Soon Vivian and Lily came while I was thinking of how to strike fear into their entire soul. "Colin, we are your slaves and have to accept your decisions... But if you die like our previous guild master... What would happen of us?" (Lily)This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. "You are the one keeping us alive... Our last hope..." (Vivian) "Me? Die? Maybe to somebody my level who has some kind of cheat power from god specifically meant to kill me. Until I meet such a person I won''t die." (Colin) "Just... Don''t die please." (Lily) "Please... We need you." (Vivian) They leave aswell and nobody comes to talk with me. It seems they don''t want to lose their guild master who is basically keeping them alive. I can understand if their last lifeline is being kind of suicidal. But this isn''t kind of suicidal since I know how they placed their troops... They put all their archers on the walls with flaming arrows prepearing for siege towers and such. Too bad for them I won''t use those... I walk into the open plains near the Capital. "Dragon Summon: [Hydra]" (Colin) "Dual-Hero Summon, Estonian Mythology: [Toell the Great] [Kalevide]" (Colin) Due to summoning two heroes and a massive Hydra my mana is basically only 3% of the original... Regaining all my mana is going to be annoying since the less you have, the less you regain. I go infront of the two massive heroes and the Hydra just to see a messenger on a horse coming towards me shouting something. The messenger... Elven male? "Stop! Stop stop stop!!!" (Elf) The elf screams stop to me when he gets close enough and stops infront of me. "Please, don''t attack the capital!" (Elf) "Give me one very good reason to not attack." (Colin) "All of our wives and children are in keep! They are prisoners to the king! We cannot disobey him b ecause he can kill them all!" (Elf) "So? I only came here for one woman... Guess I can kill the king in the spare time." (Colin) "You don''t understand! He''ll kill everybody! Including us! He has the power to do so!" (Elf) "And I''m telling you elf... If he does it he dies. Now. Step out of the way. I have a debt to repay!" (Colin) The elf desperatly tries to convince me but I can tell that this is all actually a lie. He has a slave mark on his hand that is faintly glowing red every time he is speaking. That means his owner is constantly giving him new orders and he is fulfilling them. I know since I learnt this while training, a proper warrior needs to know when a slave is actually in need of help or just being commanded to do it. It''d be bad if you fall for a trap and couldn''t escape because you are sealed or something like that. "Toell. Can you?" (Colin) Toell the Great picks up the little elf, looks at him and puts him on the wall of the capital. Now... "Waaaait!" (Unknown) "What now!?" (Colin) A noble looking person walks out of the capital gate towards me. He is doing it very very slowly... Like stalling for time... Wait a moment... "Toell, grab him and bring him to me quick." (Colin) Toell brings the man to me. "Speak, quick." (Colin) The noble doesn''t speak at all and is quiet. "Speak or I destroy the city." (Colin) Still quiet. A minute passes quiet. This was a damn stalling tactic... "Toell, Kalevide, Hydra. Destroy everything dangerous except the castle in the middle." (Colin) Toell and Kalevide smash the city walls with their bare hands and the Hydra screams and starts spewing fire everywhere. Kalevide starts throwing the bits of walls at the enemies. "I hate stalling tactics... I really really hate stalling tactics." (Colin) I jump up and fly quickly towards the massive castle anticipating the worst. I look behind me real quick and see the archers trying to kill the summons by burning them alive with fire arrows. That really won''t work... To kill a hero, you need a demon. I land infront of the castle gates as they are the only entrance in and the top is sealed off with stone aswell. "Please don''t be dead, please don''t be dead..." (Colin) I smash in the gates only to be dissapointed. This was just the courtyard! I was hoping this was the damn throne room or something! Oh well... I go to the set of massive doors and kick them in. "Now this... Is the throne room." (Colin) I walk in and torches are lit the moment I enter. I see slaves attached to every pillar in the room and there are about thirty pillars here. This guy seriously has too many slaves... I look at the throne to see a man with a crown sitting there with somebody chained to the throne... I try to take a closer look but there is a cloth covering their face and the crowned man grins and removes the cover. "Vivian!" (Colin) Vivian looks at me with almost dead eyes as she smiles. "Colin...." (Vivian) She collapses right infront of me. "Oh don''t worry... She isn''t dead. I just had a little too much fun with her." (King) The king gets up. "Mind recalling your three pets out there? They really are doing a number on my city... And here I was hoping to keep you stalled long enough to prepeare my mages for some attacks..." (King) He walks towards me like he doesn''t care. "Also... Mind having a duel with me? It''s faster than destroying entire cities in our all-out war." (King) "I accept, It will be faster and more enjoyable to kill you. With my bare hands." (Colin) He grins like he just trapped me... I don''t like this but I have no other choice. Chapter 23. The Fight and saving Vivian. We walk to the huge courtyard and go to the opposite sides. "Toell! Kalevide! Hydra! Stop attacking and go protect the group!" (Colin) I listen for a while and I hear no sounds of buildings being smashed so it means they have left. I look at the enemy king and that grin is still there. "Are you ready? I want to end this and fast." (Colin) The grin becomes slightly larger and he is kind of looking like the Joker by now... "Ready anytime." (King) I grab a stone from the ground which is a decent size. "When this stone hits the ground the duel begins." (Colin) The king just nods and I throw the stone. The stone hits the ground and I instantly charge towards him and close the distance. I throw a punch towards his temple from the right side but he uses his hand to block it and throws a punch towards my right elbow. I try to grab his left hand but when I almost grab it he dissapears from infront of me. He laughs and throws a punch from behind me and I couldn''t react fast enough so it hits. I throw a fast punch towards him while turning but he isn''t there again. "What the..." (Colin) Another punch from the side and I try to hit him but he isn''t there again. Another punch from him, another miss from me. "Invisibility? I could atleast track very fast movement... But I can''t see you at all..." (Colin) "Ah, you found out already. But it''s useless." (King) He throws another punch from below me towards the chin but I barely dodge it as I saw the hand that was supposed to be invisible. Another punch from the side and it hits but I saw something hit me before dissapearing. So he has to come out of invisibility to punch me? Or the invisibility dissapears when he throws a punch? Wait... I forgot that this world is like a game... Another punch from behind me and it hits but I don''t even try to hit back. Full-invisibility even for high bosses in games is impossible, too overpowered... Always a weakness... So this is his weakness in the invisibility, the invisibility dissapears when he attacks. A punch towards my eye but I grab it and hit him in the stomach. "You forget that my reaction speed is fast." (Colin) I hold onto the King''s hand as I hit him in the stomach repeatedly and then try to break his hand by smashing it towards the wrong angle. He fully comes out of invisibility and a black and red ball is surrounding his fist coming at me very fast. I jump back instantly as I have a feeling that isn''t a good thing to get punched by. Ever. "Guess just invisibly punching you to death slowly is out of the game... Time to use everything I have." (King) His body starts to get enveloped with the black and red flame and something inside my brain is sending off signals... It isn''t danger signals... It''s... "The ritual!?" (Colin) The king looks at me instantly when I say it instead of looking towards the sky. "Where... Did you hear about that!?" (King) He comes at me throwing punch after punch but I barely dodge or parry them. My guess was right... This king is actually using the Ritual as a means of power... Or more like the Ritual is using him as a means to control the kingdom... I summon a fireball behind him and freeze his legs with ice and throw the fireball at his back. The fireball hits but it just angers him as he smashes the ice and the black and red flame grows ever bigger. Punch after punch he throws but his patterns become more and more simplistic...Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. Like... An angered mob''s... I had completely forgotten that this world is almost exactly like a game... Just real. I envelop my hand in Ice and hit him in the heart area freezing it and then I jump back. "Light Magic: [Holy Sight]" (Colin) A huge eye-ball like light appears above me and I aim it towards him and a stream of light hits him face on. "The best element to use against The Ritual is Light closely followed by water. I gotta thank that old woman..." (Colin) I stop feeding mana to the Light Magic and it dissapears. He is kneeling on the ground but the instant the Holy Sight comes off him he charges forward. "Light Magic: [Guardian''s Light]" (Colin) The 2nd strongest Light magic I know... Guardian''s Light. It looks like a really small regular ball of light to other element users but the damage it inflicts upon things that are infused with the darkness element is insane. The ball hits him and the light shines bright and he screams in pain. "Oh yeah... This thing is also like a flashbang..." (Colin) I walk towards him with another Guardian''s Light hovering around me. "The moment you showed me you were part of the Ritual you sealed your fate. Most of my Light Element spells are especially good against the Ritual. I met one other Ritual user before you... Let''s just say he had a lot of Light for breakfast." (Colin) The King turns his head toward me and looks at me even though both of his knees are deep in the dirt. "So you were the one we were warned about... The one who escaped the Ritual''s grasp. Just like that old woman... Don''t worry, you won''t survive for long. I won''t let you. You are a danger to the Ritual. Vivian will join our ranks soon... She has resisted my attempts so far but it won''t be long after your death that she will join us!" (King) He tries to get up and grab me to kill me. I t hrow another light at him as I jump back. "Grand Light Magic: [Spear of the Saints]" (Colin) The only grand light magic I know of... Also... Bye bye 5/10''th of my mana. The spear is massive, it''s basically as long as a mountain and about half of the courtyard''s size. I drop the spear right ontop of the kneeling King and it pierces through his head and slowly goes through his body splitting it in two. "Aaand now my mana is only 1/10''th of it''s usual. The Light category of Elements uses a ton of mana... Too much sometimes." (Colin) I go towards the dead body. "Ice Magic: [Eternal Ice]" (Colin) And there goes the rest of my magic. I need to be extra careful with the Ritual. I don''t know what it is directly capable of so... Just in case. Eternal Ice... Literally the only ice that only the creator of the ice can break. "How much XP did I get off of this guy...?" (Colin)
Status
Name and Race: Colin Tyccus Human
Race Bonuses: Less XP required to level up More rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level: Lvl. 231 Lvl. 285
Jobs (Classes): Master Warrior Expert Mage-Summoner
Titles: First of the Human Race Pro-Gamer
The Rituals Enemy Nephilim''s Student Guild Master
Title Bonuses: Faster learning of different languages. Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Instinct for the Forbidden Increased Stats Control over the Treasure of Joy guild
Abilities: [Mimick Sword Style] [The Six Elements]
Stats:
Strength: 38900 Magic/MP: 109010 Agility: 76000
Intellect: 154030 Dexterity: 95010 Stamina/HP: 230230
Yup that''s quite a bit... Wait... Vivian! I rush inside the castle and go straight towards the Throne. The collapsed Vivian is still there and I break the chain holding her. I pick her up from the ground and I look at the other slaves here. "10 rows of pillars... This is going to take a while alone... I have just enough mana for these guys... Wind Magic Summon: [The Ten Speedsters]" (Colin) Speedsters. Annoying little things to keep track of. They are two and a half times faster than their summoner. "Speedsters, break the slaves out of their chains." (Colin) I hear a faint laugh before all ten of them dissapear and the sound of chains snapping, flying into the air and hitting the ground appears. A few moments and all the slaves are free. "Speedsters, come with me." (Colin) I leave the throne room and the ten speedsters surround me. "Carry me and this girl towards Toell the Great." (Colin) The Speedsters jump up, laugh and then instantly pick me up and Vivian up and run through the city in a few seconds leaving behind only a lot of broken pots and such due to the speed. We reach Toell, Kalevide and the Hydra in a few seconds. Toell and Kalevide are talking to eachother in some kind of language... Possibly Estonian. The Hydra is just demonstrating what each of the heads can do to all of the guild members. I forgot that my Summons share 1/10''th of my intelligence... The speedsters gently drop Vivian and me down from their back and dissapear. The speedsters look kind of weird... Like glowing 4 legged tiny kind of mutated horses but actually they are on two legs and the front two are actually arms to help carry stuff but they can use arms as legs. I hear the unique snickering laugh of the speedsters in the woods, Toell and Kalevide speaking. "Summons, come back to my mana pool." (Colin) I de-summon all of them and they dissapear as they turn into my mana. I now have 2/10''th remaining. The Guild members come closer to me and look at Vivian. "This is why you were saving? The person who saved your life?" (Lily) I nod as I look at Vivian. Tiron coughs and everybody seems to understand and backs off. I go closer to the campfire the guild has set up and put Vivian on the soft grass there and put a blanket from my inventory ontop of her. "We shall decide what to do after Vivian has woken up. Possibly we shall meet one of my other helpers. I doubt they know I am alive though. After we have met up with the Resistance and passed on the info that I defeated the king we shall head into a capital of a major kingdom, possibly an Empire if there is one around here and settle our new HQ there and begin building our own Trade Empire. Everybody understand my point?" (Colin) They all nod with excited faces and some of them have relieved faces that I have survived and not changed much. But now that I know that the Ritual helped create a massive mega-kingdom... They shall try to do it again. But with more things to counter me. They are starting to make a move just like the old woman back at Sanctuary said. It won''t be long before they start attacking everything in the world at once. All the more reason I need to make a solid Empire to stand against them... And fast. I barely could defeat a medium-ranked pawn of theirs using almost all my magic... I cannot hope to defeat the actual members of the Ritual... I need to get stronger and I need to create a strong Empire to stand against their assault. Is this why I was brought into this world? To defeat the Ritual and bring order? And why do I have a feeling all this money is going to be VERY useful in supporting the war effort against the still mostly unknown Ritual... Chapter 24. Reunited at last. I look at the two Vivians, one is taking care of the other who is still unconcious. This is how life should be, peaceful. Calm. I look around and then suddenly remember, I did kill that guy right... So my status should''ve increased considerably. I open my status menu
Status
Name and Race: Colin Tyccus Human (99.5%)
Race Bonuses: Less XP required to level up More rare drops from mobs
Level and Soul Level: Lvl. 285 Lvl. 303
Jobs (Classes): Master Warrior Master Mage-Summoner
Titles: First of the Human Race Pro-Gamer
The Rituals Enemy Nephilim''s Student Guild Master
Destroyer of Kingdoms Savior of Kingdoms Unknown Error
Title Bonuses: Faster learning of different languages. Pro-Gamer''s Mind (Calm and Collected)
Instinct for the Forbidden Increased Stats Control over the Treasure of Joy guild
Increased Fear creation Increased Hope creation Unknown Error
Abilities: [Mimick Sword Style] [The Six Elements]
Stats:
Strength: 32960 Magic/MP: 115015 Agility: 92300
Intellect: 211090 Dexterity: 90010 Stamina/HP: 264090
Three new titles, even more stat upgrades closer to insanity... And... An error. An actual error popped up in the status screen like it''s corrupted... I click on the title that is classified as an error.
ERROR
You are not yet qualified to see this title and it''s benefits. Work harder to get this reward. The benefits are locked until the qualification tests are complete.
Level Restriction: 2500, Soul Level Restriction: 3000, Title Restriction: Must have "Ritual''s Enemy" and "Destroyer of Kingdoms" or "Savior of Kingdoms", Race Restriction: Both Human and ???
The increased fear and hope I understand, fear into my enemies and hope into the people I save. But now I want to unlock this title!If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. But... Level 2500!? I''m barely 285! "Colin..." (Vivian) I look to my side and see the Unconcious Vivian twisting and turning while saying my name with Silan''s. I get up and walk towards her after closing the status windows. "Vivian from the guild, mind if I call you Viv from now on? It''s going to get very confusing and fast if I call you both Vivian." (Colin) A slight blush comes on her face but she nods. I turn my attention to Vivian who is saying my name. "Don''t worry Vivian, we''ll find Silan and the others in no time." (Colin) We spend three days waiting for Vivian to wake up until she actually does. She gets up and almost falls but Lily and Viv support her. "Vivian, you have woken up." (Colin) She stares at me and everybody else in the camp. "Colin... Where were you? You dissapeared... Xavier came back to us alive but he said he didn''t remember what happened to you. You just... Dissapeared after the battle. Xavier thought you were dead and so did we! So where were you?" (Vivian) She starts crying and falls to the ground. I walk up to her and pat her head. "I was taken in by a group of people, I was heavily injured... I might''ve actually died before I could get anywhere near you... But now I''m stronger. I came to save you when I heard where you were here." (Colin) I help her get up and she hugs me and cries. "They... Took Xavier as a prisoner to get me... Silan wanted to go and attack the king to save us but when he tried he was sent flying by some kind of black aura... Xavier should still be in the capital, in the dungeons..." (Vivian) I hug her while summoning the speedsters once again. "Find Xavier. Vivian... Where is Memui?" (Colin) She keeps crying for a few minutes until she gathers herself again. "Memui... She went into a fit of insanity when she heard about the defeat of the army you were in, me being imprisoned, Silan being defeated... She thought she had lost all the people she cared for. The only thing we know is that she is still in that castle, still defending it from anybody in the hope come back." (Vivian) "But what about you Vivian... What happened in those dungeons?" (Colin) "He... He... Used magic... I remember it all clearly... I fell asleep and horrible dreams came... Where I saw all of you being killed infront of me... I don''t want that... I don''t..." (Vivian) She starts crying again and I hold her in the hopes of making her feel better The speedsters return with Xavier who is still alive but in a horrible state. "Our next goal, getting Memui back and finding Silan." (Colin) Whilst I also construct a barrier against the Ritual. Chapter 25. Memui, searching for Silan. We nurse Xavier back to health over the course of five days, a long time yes but we had to wait otherwise we might risk Xavier''s condition worsening due to travel. Currently Xavier is ''silently'' sleeping in the back of the carriage whilst we head to the castle Memui was stationed to defend even after the kingdom was conquered apparently... I''ve casted multiple enchantments on the carriages and we are moving at incredibly high speeds currently. --- A few days pass --- "And we are here." (Colin) I stare at the half-broken castle with a single person walking in it''s courtyard, Memui. I make sure that the others are at a distance that they won''t be caught up in a fight if one happens. Me and Vivian climb out and head towards Memui, I am going first just in case she attacks. We walk quite close, enough to knock on the gate, if one was here... "Stay here Vivian, if it even looks like things will get violent... Run to the carriages as fast as possible. You haven''t fully recovered yet either." (Colin) She nods as she looks at Viv behind us, waiting for our return. I slowly get closer to the courtyard and the moment I step foot inside it, she looks at me, casts a spell and throws a fireball. "Memui, those aren''t going to work. No need for violence." (Colin) With one snap of fingers I summon a fireball and throw it towards the one coming towards me. Ah, how I love chantless casting. Consumes a lot more mana than using a spell but it''s way more efficient in every other possible way... She walks towards me casting fireball after fireball, ice spear after ice spear, lightning sphere after lightning sphere, all whilst I was blocking them with a mana shield. "Memui, calm down. Let''s talk about this, peacefully." (Colin) She doesn''t stop and walks closer and I see that she has lost all hope and doesn''t even listen to me. "Guess knocking her out is possible for now... Don''t really want to harm her too much." (Colin) With one step I am already in her face and I hit the top of her head and she collapses on the ground.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "Viv, get some rope from the carriage! We are going to need it!" (Colin) Soon after Viv comes into the courtyard with some rope. "Thanks. She really didn''t want to listen." (Colin) "I see that... So this is what people who thought they had lost everything are like..." (Viv) I tie up Memui and pull her up, carrying her in a princess-like way. This was the most efficient way I could see if she woke up and tried casting spells alright? Don''t look at me like I am a womanizer, Viv. We leave the courtyard and Vivian is patiently waiting with Xavier peeking out of the carriage. "I brought Memui back. Sadly she apparently didn''t listen to me, probably forgot about me. I hope Xavier or you, Vivian, can bring her back to sanity. Also whenever she seems to be casting a spell, tell me immediatly." (Colin) I help put Memui in the back of the carriage, right next to the guild members. Vivian and Xavier sit right next to Memui whilst I drive the carriage to the area that Silan was sent towards. --- Another few days pass --- We have reached Silan''s landing spot, uneventfully. The crater is huge though... Like a dragon decided to take a dive from outer space but stopped just before collision. In the middle of the crater is... Nobody. "And here I was hoping it would be easy." (Colin) I look around and see a blood trail leading through a pathway in the forest. "Guess that''s where we are going..." (Colin) I lead the carriage horses towards the pathway and we go through a seemingly hand-crafted archway for a while. The blood trail is going this way from the middle of the crater so we must follow this. We travel for a few hours until we reach a massive village. The first person we see is an elven guard rushing towards us. He immediatly aims his bow towards me and two elven guards appear behind the carriage and aim their bows into it. "What... Doing... Here?" (Guard) "You know I can speak elven right? Don''t need to speak in broken Dragonic." (Colin.) "Ah. Good. So, answer my question.. What are you doing here, how did you learn how our language and why the hell do you have three injured people?" (Guard) "First, we are searching for a friend named Silan. Second, A friend of mine who is an elf taught me. Third, I saved these three from the collapsing tyrannical multi-race kingdom. That answers everything." (Colin) The elf friend isn''t a lie. I really was taught elvish by an elf in the Sanctuary. The guard looks into my eyes for a while until he runs off and his friends lower their bows. He returns in a few minutes. "You are free to pass... Whatever you are. Follow me." (Guard) We enter the village and a lot of people come looking at us, more specifically me since the carriage isn''t see-through and the people inside are covered by a cloth roof. After a while of riding after the guard until he stops. "Leave the carriage here. You said you are here for Silan right? The fellow who entered a few weeks ago, all bloodied up? Follow me." (Guard) We all exit the carriage and follow the guard up a lot of stairs into a massive treehouse. "Be respectful towards the Chief." (Guard) I just nod and enter whilst the others follow after me. The first person I see is Silan, he is on the ground sleeping. A person is tending to him, an elven woman. It''s weird how much concentration she is putting into this, like every wound is a holy place. "Love... Huh." (Colin) The woman startles and immediatly catapults up, almost hitting the roof. "No need to catapult through the roof. I know elves have high jumping power." (Colin) "You must be the people searching for Silan right?" (Woman) I just nod as she tidies up her clothing after it got messed up after she almost actually catapulted herself. "Well we are here for Silan but I need to talk to you about another thing. A project of mine that I''m starting..." (Colin) Chapter 26. The Project and Memui. "A project?" (Woman) I just nod. The woman immediatly looks towards the guards behind us and they nod as well. "Follow me. Only you though. The others can stay here and take care of... Silan..." (Woman) We start walking through a corridor and enter a small room which has no walls and only a few torches. "So... What project?" (Woman) "You do know about that multi-race kingdom? I mean you live right in their territory. Their leader, how should I say this... Wasn''t quite actually their leader. Just a pawn for an even more dangerous thing. It''s a thing since I don''t even know what it is, I just know it ain''t good for the world and for me. So, I want to start a project... Project Blood Line Defense." (Colin) The woman stares at me in confusion. "What do you mean...? He was but wasn''t their leader?" (Woman) "He was being used. Simply being used... But do you want to hear about the Project?" (Colin) She thinks for a few minutes and then seems like she got a spark of genius. Not a quick one is she? "Let''s hear about that project then..." (Woman) "Project Blood Line Defense is a protective line against any and all opponents but mostly against the controller of the king. What I plan to become is the financer for the entire project and to keep things moving but I need people to actually be in the project for it to be one right? Hence I am inviting you to join the project. Hell, it ain''t even a project... More of like a defensive pact or a federation. Though... There is an another part to the project. The counterattack. Once the project members are strong enough and ready and we find the source of the problems... We strike." (Colin)'' The woman takes a few minutes to process the information. "But why should I join? The king didn''t even endanger us..." (Woman) I chuckle a little since she doesn''t realize at all... "They didn''t see you in the forest... But once they do, you all are going to die as well. If we don''t quickly form the defensive line before the true army of the enemy attacks, we don''t have a single chance of surviving. Not even if a god descends probably. Actually when a god descends then maybe a chance but if even an angel hero comes, nope." (Colin)This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. Might be overestimating the ritual but better to overestimate and overly prepeare than regret underestimating the enemy. And she is thinking again. This is going to take a few minutes... A literal half an hour passes until she seems to finish thinking. "I guess we''ll join?" (Woman) You took half an hour to think about an obvious answer since there is no way you can hide forever. "Well... I''ll need you guys to re-locate to the HQ of the defensive line once I get it under my control, are you fine with that?" (Colin) She thinks for a few minutes again. "I guess we''ll have to?" (Woman) I reach my hand out for a handshake to seal the deal. She luckily understands within the first minute and we shake hands. "Welcome to the project. I''ll try to send a messenger to this location when we get the HQ going but until then you might hear of a slight trading company slowly becoming an emperor, don''t worry ''bout that." (Colin) The woman leaves first and I follow her and when we go back to the main hall, I think it is the main hall at least, we see Silan on the chair, awake. The moment Silan and the woman notice eachother the woman breaches the limits of speed and basically instantly appears next to Silan bombarding him with questions. I just give good luck to Silan and go towards my guild members. "What did you talk about?" (Viv) "Nothing much, just a small little thing. Nothing you should worry about for now." (Colin) Is it just me or does it look like the amount of guards has increased? And the amount of bloodlust directed towards all of us increased by a lot? "Oi guards, don''t even try it." (Colin) The guards tense up after I direct a little bit of my bloodlust towards them. Honestly, weak... Too weak. "How''s Memui?" (Colin) "Concious. Screamed when she noticed everybody and we had to shut her up. She immediatly lunged after Viv though and hugged her so strong I thought her head might pop off." (Vivian) "Where did you send her?" (Colin) "Follow me." (Liliana) We go into a room on the side which is completely empty, no windows again but only one torch this time. I see Memui sitting in the middle looking at the torch. I enter the room and Liliana shuts the door after me. "Memui?" (Colin) No answer... I get close enough to touch her shoulders. "Memui?" (Colin) No answer again... I put my hand on her shoulder. "Memui? Talk to me." (Colin) And no answer again. I go infront of her and notice she is looking straight at me but her mouth''s tied with something akin to tape. Yeah... I understand why no answer. Her arms and legs are tied up as well. I tear off the tape-like paper on her mouth and cut the rope off her arms and legs. I sit down infront of her. "So... Memui... Remember me?" (Colin) She stares at me for a few minutes until she suddenly starts crying. "No... You should be dead... It''s a ghost right...? To haunt me...? Because I couldn''t protect you?" (Memui) "Nope. All alive and well, even more powerful than you now. Let''s just say I had another chance at life." (Colin) I pat her on the head to make her understand that I still have a body. "Dead... Everybody is dead... That''s what the reports said... Everybody died... I didn''t get new orders..." (Memui) We''re losing her again! "Memui. Not everybody is dead. They were just turned into slaves which I liberated." (Colin) Suddenly the door opens and Viv enters the room. "Memui, it''s me! Vivian... I''m fine see? So... Don''t... Worry" (Viv) Now Viv started crying while hugging Memui from behind. I ain''t good with crying women! And I have two infront of me! I go to the door and Vivian opens it. "Yeah I am not dealing with crying women... I''ll just make the situation worse." (Colin) And so the day ended. With Memui slowly re-gaining the sanity she lost thanks to Viv and my help. Mostly due to Viv though. I also begun the building of the defensive line against the Ritual... Now we just need to find a suitable location for a headquarters and I need to start my trade empire as well. So much to still do... So little time... Chapter 27. Suitable Locations. "Hmm? Awake already?" (Woman) I look at the woman as she comes towards me and I shortly after seeing her look back at the map I have on the table. "I do have a lot to do... Honestly... It''s been problem after problem lately." (Colin) She takes a seat across from me. "We haven''t properly introduced eachother have we? Well.. I haven''t at least." (Woman) Ah... There was that... Those formalities of knowing eachothers names. Wait, how did she think of this herself? "I''m Colin Tyccus though you probably knew that.. You can call me Colin like everybody else. You?" (Colin) She looks at her hand for a second and then looks at me again. "I am... Nephenee Ularona. Everybody calls me Nephy." (Nephy) She looks at her hand again like reading something. "Did you perhaps stay up all night thinking of what to say of me and wrote it down on your hand?" (Colin) She slightly jumps but seemingly is calm. "No." (Nephy) She''s clearly panicked just by looking at her... She usually stared at one thing but now she''s looking at every single object in the room. I look at the map once again to find a suitable location for the headquarters. A location where there is an easy access to water which can''t be tinkered with except from one place which can be heavily guarded and sealed.. A location where we have at least two escape routes, one by sea and another to the mountains or such. A location where people can easily come to and go from to every inch of the World. There are only two cities which can clear these and I need to go and visit both to see which one is more suitable for a trading company. I don''t have any reliable connections or well... Any connections at all.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Well the trading company is just a face for the Blood Line Defense Project so we can easily move troops, weapons and armor. The cities of L''Aminne and Hjalionia... What the hell kind of names are these?! One sounds kind of French and the others just... A mystery. I wait for the others to wake up while Nephy sits there, quietly staring at me for some reason. Two hours pass until the others all come out of their rooms at the same time. Even Viv with sane Memui come out at the exact same time. This... Is quite a spectacle. It''s like they all perfectly timed this to the second and planned it out just to impress somebody. Well it''s not my problem right now. "Everybody, gather around. We have new places to go." (Colin) Everybody gathers around the map. "What kind of new places?" (Viv) "What shall we be doing?" (Liliana) "Where shall we be heading?" (Vivian) Questions... A lot of questions. "We''re going to be heading to two cities so I can decide where we can start building a trade empire. The two candidates for this job are... L''Aminne and Hjalionia. Since L''Aminne is closer to us we shall head there and then to Hjalionia. This is going to be a long trip since we won''t be going very fast. The whole point of this trip is to build up our reputation and find out which of the two cities is going to be our Headquarters City. Got it?" (Colin) "Yes!" (Everybody except the elves.) L''Aminne is way closer than Hjalionia. L''Aminne is on one side of the continent and Hjalionia on the other. I also need a name for my Trading Company... Europa Trading Company is a possibility... I''ll think about it and ask some people. (Author: *slowly looks towards the readers and then back to the chapter* My naming sense is terrible and it''s fun to include the readers, ok?) "We should start heading out relatively soon. Nephy, if there are any problems immediatly take all the people in the village and start heading my general direction aka towards one of the two cities. I think we''ll reach L''Aminne in about twelve days and Hjalionia in thirty days after reaching L''Aminne and spending 2-3 days exploring the city. Of course you can also follow the paths which I''ll be taking unless there''s something that I don''t want to handle or can''t handle." (Colin) I show Nephy the path I am taking and she immediatly marks it on a seperate map I gave her. We had two from the trading company wares and I only need one right now. I look towards the people travelling with me. "We''re going to head out with one carriage and we''ll try to gather up more carriages to a maximum of three over the course of our trip. Understood? The drivers and passengers will be decided once we get the carriages." (Colin) Everybody nods. "Ok. Start preperations for leaving." (Colin) They all run to their rooms to gather up their stuff. "Can I come with you...?" (Nephy) She asks me while staring at Silan''s room. She''s completely in love and doesn''t want to seperate from Silan. "Sadly you need to lead your people. It''ll only take a maximum of 50 days for the message to get here including the trip time. After you and your people join up with my company you can spend as much time as you want with Silan." (Colin) The moment she hears that... Or well a few moments after she hears that she blushes while jumping up into the air. We could honestly finish this trip in a maximum of three days but I want to see how far the damage caused by the Ritual has spread and if there are any other beings influenced by the Ritual. Chapter 28. Starting the trip. A few hours later we leave with one carriage packed full of people. Honestly it''s amazing we could fit them all into it.. I''m at the front driving the carriage with Viv sitting next to me and Memui constantly asking questions about me from behind. Yes, I know I dissapeared for a while and everybody thought I was dead but... She''s starting to repeat the same questions. And that is how our true adventure begun. A carriage packed full of people, possibly two or three of the strongest in the world in the carriage. We moved forward for hours before we actually saw a village where we could rest for the night. "Hey, we''ve found a village!" (Viv) I hear people waking up immediatly. "An actual shelter?" (James) We ride through the village gate only to be met with a few guards and possibly the village elder. "Who are you and what do you want?" (Elder) "We''re traders.... Without goods. We''re heading towards L''Aminne and thought we could stay here for a night." (Colin) The village elder thinks for a bit. "Fine. We''ll let you in for the night. But your guards need to help guard the walls tonight. That is the one condition." (Elder) I jump off the carriage and Silan jumps off as well with Memui. "I guess it''s us three then?" (Colin) "I guess so." (Memui) The elder looks at me for a bit and then looks towards the carriage again. "Where should we put the carriage and where can we sleep?" (Colin)The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. "The carriage can stay here and the inn is over there. Can''t miss it.. It has the loud shouts coming out of it." (Elder) I think for a bit. Loud shouts, over half of our group is female and the other half don''t seem to have combat experience, ALL of our guards on the wall... Yeah nothing good can come out of that... I walk towards Silan. "Silan, you are the most injured out of us so you stay and guard the other members. I''m sure Memui and I can handle what will be coming but the others probably can''t." (Colin) Silan just nods and heads back to the carriage to tell the others where to go and Viv jumps off as well. I look around at the guards on the wall and around the village. It doesn''t seem like they are guards.. More like bandits wearing armor which the guards used to wear. I look towards the Elder and when our group left towards the inn I thought I saw the Elder lick his lips and have a bit of a perverted look. "Memui." (Colin) "I''ve noticed it. If they try anything funny can I chop off their heads?" (Memui) Ok maybe she isn''t as sane as I thought... Well at least the anger is directed at the enemy. We walk towards the wall and go towards the part closest to the Inn where everybody went. We most likely won''t get any sleep tonight but we can''t just pack up and leave so suddenly either. This village should''ve been recently taken over since it is marked on the map. Bandit villages aren''t marked except if they are on the paths which traders and other people take and they are marked differently. We guard the wall for an hour or two before shady movements begin. A lot of guards surround the inn and there are a lot near us as well. The elder suddenly emerges from out of nowhere. "DO IT!" (Elder) The guards run into the inn and the others near us start attacking us. Foolish... "Bye bye children... [Air Magic: Tornado]." (Memui) "[Water-Earth Magic: Ice Field]" (Colin) The guards near Memui are torn up by fierce tornadoes whilst the guards near me are just frozen to ice sculptures. In an instant about thirty guards are killed. Memui and I instantly fly towards the inn and when we entered Silan had handled all of them. "These guys are weak!" (Silan) We quickly surround the elder outside who is at a loss of words. "How should we handle this guy? Freeze him? Burn him? Tear him up to shreds? Make a coffin underground? Have the light or darkness consume him?" (Memui) "Better yet... [Earth-Fire Magic: Magma Coffin]" (Colin) The ground underneath him turns into magma in a perfect coffin shape as he is consumed by it fully. "[Water-Earth Magic: Ice]" (Colin) I freeze the top of the magma coffin shut. And that''s done with. After we killed the Elder the villagers started showing up and bowing to us like we were their eternal heroes. We only killed a few low-leveled bandits... Oh wait... Isn''t this on the path on becoming a hero? Save a village from an evil fiend? Well, I won''t complain but we''re just merchants. Merchants who will eventually be an Empire. But that''s just a small detail... After all the villagers shook my hand we could finally rest in the Inn even though there were no guards on the walls. Apparently the guards were locked up in the guard tower and were severly malnourished and some even wounded badly. Our, or well my, group finally went to sleep after liberating a village in nearly an instant. That was just the first part of our adventure. The fun part is still to come... I hope. Chapter 29. The next town. After we properly rest at the village we head off with everybody behind waving their hands. There were absoloutely no new carriages to get since the damn bandits used them as materials for fire. A few kilometers away from the village I hand over the reins to Silan who was sitting next to me and decide to look behind the carriage. Why? Oh I don''t know... Because there is a huge power source called a Dragon just flying towards us in stealth mode. Nobody else has noticed it yet but... It might have an ability to hide itself. I mean it does look like some sort of Shadow Dragon or something with dark gray and black scales. You might think that the Dragon isn''t a big deal since Silan and Viv and Memui are also dragons but... They are halflings. I checked properly after I became OP. It clearly stated each and every one of them were a ''Half-Dragon''. Dragonoids basically. After living long enough they COULD become actual dragons, weaker than the true-born dragons though, said the nice people over at the Sanctuary. But that over there... That''s an actual true-born Dragon and a pretty old one by the looks of things. I''m basing the age off the sheer size of the dragon. If it landed on a mountain tip and wasn''t in it''s hiding mode it would become a black beacon. And it''s just sneaking up to us, when we stop it stops. When we move, it moves with us. I won''t act against it yet but... I''ll keep my eye on it. We move forward as I keep my eye on the dragon and the surrounding as there might as well be bandits knowing my luck.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. We still have a few days of travelling until we reach the next small town on the map. We ride for an hour until we stumble upon... An overturned cart and about 20 bandits! I knew it! I told you! "I''ll handle this." (Colin) I jump off the cart and walk into the middle of the bandits. "Give us your money or your head. Either one will do." (Bandit) "[Special Earth-Fire Magic: Dynamite]" (Colin) I place some ''dynamite'' if you could call it into the middle of them, walked back to the cart and cast a barrier before exploding the dynamite. Now, in place of the bandits, there is a massive crater. "[Earth Magic: Soil Prison]" (Colin) I fill up the hole with soil. The actual usage of the magic is to use it as a prison if it wasn''t obvious enough based on it''s name. I jump back on the cart and we head off again. Silan doesn''t even bother questioning what happened and only the others in the cart started asking what that explosion was. I just answered with Bandits. And we head off again. We reached the town with nothing else but the big ass dragon just stalking us happening. The town is fortified with a stone wall this time and it actually has guards! We reach the gates of the town. "Halt! State your name, how many passengers or cargo you have, what group you are affiliated with and what your business is in Stritinum!" (Guard) They actually are quite strict... "I am Colin Tyccus, we have 13 passengers in the back plus us two. No cargo yet. We are affiliated with no group except my own trading company which has no name yet. It is quite new. Our business in Stritinum is to get cargo, goods, information and other things while on the path towards L''Aminne to potentially create our Headquarters there. Is that good enough?" (Colin) The guard writes it down. "Thanks. Not many people answer truthfully and that makes our jobs as gatekeepers harder... You''re welcome to enter, Colin. I hope you find some good deals in Stritinum." (Guard) The gates open after the Guard gives the OK sign to the guards at the top and we head in. Once we are inside we see clearly which section is for staying residents and which is for adventurers and merchants. I mean it''s literally written on this wooden sign. To the right towards the merchant section we go. After 15 minutes we reach an inn which allows us to put our carriage and our horses inside it''s stables. It''s still mid-day and the girls went shopping, the men went to the blacksmiths and other stores to get new weapons or repair old ones. My guild members asked me for permission first though. I was left with handling the money stuff and housing in the inn. "Thank you for staying at our inn, Colin Tyccus. It seems your associates already left to handle their own personal businesses but would you like a tour guide? She would show you where the other trading companies have made their bases are and where to get cargo." (Innkeeper) "If you wouldn''t mind then, yes. I would like a tour guide." (Colin Tyccus) "Please wait a moment as she prepeares herself." (Inkeeper) The innkeeper, a nice old lady, went into the staff''s quarters. Chapter 30. Tour. After a few minutes the old lady and a woman in a simple dress comes out from the room. "She''s going to be your guide young ''un. She''s kind of shy so don''t scare her too much. It''s a pain to find her after she hides herself." The Innkeeper says looking at me straight in the eye. I just nod as the old lady encourages the woman to come towards me. She slowly comes towards me and looks at every inch of me. "Hello. What is your name?" I say as I look towards her. (Gotta get the basics out of the way, as usual.) "Ch...Charl...Charlotte..." Says Charlotte, who''s trying to make herself look as tiny as possible. "Thank you for being my guide today Charlotte." I say as politely as I can. (Ok... Shy woman in a city like this means something either happened in her family or she''s being bullied by someone. And I''m placing all my money that somebody is going to come up to us whilst she is giving me a tour and demand her to go with him.) Charlotte nods and walks out of the door and I follow her. We walk around the lower section of the city as she shows all the important stores and shops and notably good food spots. We eventually get around to the middle section of the city. "That store over there... It''s the cities most famous weapon shop... The one next to it... The most famous armor shop..." Says Charlotte with a prideful voice but still silently. We walk forward a bit, about ten or so meters. (I just won the lottery. Guess why.) "Oh! Ain''t that Charlotte? What''cha doin here? Finally came to become my woman? And who the hell is this scrawny baby?" says a completely random bandit-looking person coming towards us. (Here comes the side-character to help me understand Charlotte better. I called it!) (Now... Brute strength, magic or just calling a bunch of my own knights to handle this...) "You baby get away from Charlotte, she''s mine." says the completely random bandit-looking person while being up in my face.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. "Brute force it is then." I say as I hit him straight in the face with an uppercut sending him flying up into the air about ten meters until he plummets down again. Charlotte silently watches from the side, seemingly quite frightened about what just happened. "Boss!" says a person from a group that ran out from the alleyway next to us. (And here''s the usual line with the usual group of angry bandits. Actually... How did they even get here looking like that?) "How dare you hurt boss! With a surprise attack as well! You coward!" says another from the bandit bunch angrily. (Yeaaah... I ain''t bothering to do much with these guys anymore...) I stamp my foot against the ground creating a small crater. "Ice Magic: Frozen Prison" I say to invoke the spell. The bandits immediatly freeze into sculptures who all look very weird. "Well Charlotte, anything else I should know about in this city or is that all the interesting points?" I say kindly to Charlotte trying to make her feel safe. "N..No... There are more..." Charlotte anwers, still trying to become smaller than possible. She starts walking and I follow her and the guards shortly arrive to only find the bunch they were actually searching for. Charlotte shows me a few more interesting shops but I notice there aren''t any landmarks she''s brought attention to. I ask her about this when she finishes explaining about why there are shops almost everywhere in the city. "That is... Because... The upper level has all of them... But only aristocrats get up there..." Charlotte answers my question and isn''t as shy as before. I nod to notify her I understand and then I escort her back to the Inn. "Thanks for keepin her safe. I heard what happen''d in the middle layer of the city. Damn bandit idiot still tryin'' to kidnap Charlotte." says the Innkeeper while being slightly furious. "Well, I''m going to go and stroll around the city, maybe search for my friends." I say to the both of them whilst leaving. I immediatly head for the upper level of the city just for laughs but the moment I reach the gates I see about ten guards just guarding a door leading to the gatekeepers room. "Wind Magic: Flight. Light Magic: Invisibility" I invoke two spells in a row and become basically a phantom. I''m not transparent but I''m hard to see so it''s good for silently getting into places before being noticed. I land in the middle just to see a whole bunch of statues surrounding the castle. (Wow... A guard party every twenty seconds passes me. Impressive.) I fly to the tip of the castle and look at the entire city and eventually jump down and land in the middle layer of the city. I dispel both of the spells and start my ''stroll'' around the city to figure out the promiment spots for a HQ. (I should first look at the location near the Adventurer''s Guild since well... It''s a place where many go.) I wander around the Adventurer''s Guild for a bit, trying to figure out if this is a good spot to place my HQ near. (Yeah it is not... No traders at all. I would''ve guessed people would''ve traded with the Adventurer''s Guild but nope. Well... Time to go to the Merchant''s Guild since that''s a 100% chance of having a decent HQ spot near it.) I head to the other side of the city but all I see is residences, no shops. (All the people living here are heading towards the Merchant''s guild... I''m guessing the guild is sort of a supermarket and it is dominating the commerce in half the city... This city does not have a suitable beginning HQ location at all. Maybe for an already known merchant''s new base but not for a new beginning merchant''s. This city is a failure... Luckily this city isn''t L''Aminne yet. We still have a chance for this half of the continent.) I head to the inn as I saw Silan already going there with a few other members of my small band of ''merchants''. Chapter 31. To LAminne! I enter the Inn and see Silan and the others eating. "Oh, everyone is here already? I''m the last one?" I ask Silan. "Indeed you are. Everybody came here in three groups and you came last." Silan answers and then resumes eating. "Well, I made sure that this city had no chance of becoming a HQ city or even a Forward Base city." I tell everyone before heading up to my room. (I guess everybody should understand that we''re heading out tomorrow.) I stare out the window of my room trying to find something interesting to observe. After a few minutes of just finding something an eagle lands right infront of my window and stares at me. (Ooh this is fun. And now it''s boring because it''s just an eagle trying to find food.) The eagle took flight as fast as it landed. (Yeah this city has nothing interesting happening except the people I met in daytime. Too bad they won''t come back.) I head off to sleep and as soon as my head touched the pillow I lost consciousness. I woke up the next morning and got up from the bed. (Guess I should head downstairs. The others are probably already awake.) Everybody was indeed awake and waiting for me.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. "I took the liberty fo getting some city-exclusive cargo for us. To make us seem more real. People won''t believe us if we just march into L''Aminne with no cargo but saying we are." Silan tells me whilst bowing. "Thanks for handling that Silan. I was planning on getting some really quickly before we leave but I guess you''ve handled it. So, shall we leave? I believe everyone has explored the city right?" I ask everyone and they nod. I head outside towards our carriage and everything is ready. I hop onto the drivers seat and Silan sits next to me and everybody else sits in the back. "We''re heading off. To L''Aminne!" I say with excitement clearly in my voice. After we leave the city I take a look around us and see it... (The hell?! Why is it still following us!? It''s right there! Over the city! Come on besiege it or something! It''s getting creepy, stop following us! I don''t want a creepy old shadow dragon being my guardian angel!) We ride for hours but it still follows us. I take out the map and see that there are 2 villages in our path. (It would only take us about 5 more days until L''Aminne if we only just sleep there, get some food and drink and leave.) We ride for two days and reach the first village which has nothing interesting in it. We just sleep, eat and drink and leave. Then we ride for two days again before reaching the second village which has the repeat of the first. (I''m guessing the 4-day proximity to L''Aminne is making the bandits scared to invade these villages for longer than a few hours.) After a day of riding we reach the gates of L''Aminne. (And it seems like trouble is brewing right at the gates. They are forcing the women and men to line up seperately and I see them take away a few women whilst the men shout no. Let me guess corruption? Corruption? This might be my lucky day as I love taking out corruption and winning the favour of the city folk! Oh and don''t you dare lay a hand on any of the men or women in my band of merchants... I''ll kill you...) I stare at the gate keeper as I stand in line right next to Viv. We had Viv stand as the first woman from our band because if Memui would be put into the front even I won''t react fast enough to stop her from destroying the gate... Silan isn''t in the men''s line as I had him go and see where all the women are being taken. Guards walk up to me and Viv. It''s time for me and Viv to get ''inspected''. Chapter 32. LAminne, First Day. The guard silently looks at me and writes something on a piece of paper. The other guard, which is ''inspecting, Viv is being a whole lot touchier. "Hey, James!" shouts the guard inspecting Viv and the responding guard is the one which passed me. "What?" James asks calmly. "This one''s quite a catch don''t ya think? The Lord''ll be happy and so will the customers. Actually the more I look most of the women behind this one are quite good catches..." The first guard says whilst wiping away saliva. (IDIOTS. Pure idiots. You don''t announce that outloud! Because... Of me!) I start secretly reading a spell and when the spell finishes I start smiling. The guards start slowly dragging out all the women. "Bad idea, I now have a reason to kill you. Water Magic: Waterfield." I say calmly as the entire area around me turns into a field of water but only the guards start sinking down. (Absoloute fools. This leaves no trace of you so nothing can be blamed on me.) The guards sink to the bottom and the field closes, instantly killing the guards in the solid ground. "Now to just open the gate..." I jump up into the air, near the controls of the gate. The guards in the gatehouse shout in shock but I instantly cast three low-level spells to wipe them out. "Did these guards not think that a strong person would just waltz up to their gate?" I say as I open the gates and all the people who were supposed to be ''inspected'' run in. (Ok so all that is done... Should I go remove the head of the corruption this instant? Yeah I should...)Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. I activate a short warp-like air spell and appear ontop of the roof of the keep. I calmly jump down through the roof and make myself dissapear with a light-bending spell. (Whoa, this place actually looks amazing. Pillars reaching up to the roof, red carpets everywhere, decorative holes and paintings everywhere.) Strolling through the keep, I finally find my target. I walk behind the throne and look at the lord who is too big to even fit on the throne to be honest. "Earth Magic: Spearhead. Say night night, big ol'' piggy." I whisper to the lord and cut off his head, which then rolls on the floor straight infront of all his subordinates. I calmly open the doors and walk outside and warp back to the others whilst dispelling all the other spells. "Sorry I''m late. So, anybody got any ideas of where to go?" I ask the others who then shake their heads. (Nobody knows of L''Aminne huh.. And the guards weren''t useful at all...) As I think about where to go Silan jumps down out of nowhere. "I have freed all the captives and they don''t need to worry about the guards. I also took the liberty of securing our sleeping location for the few days we spend here." Silan says to everybody and starts leading us to the tavern. (So this is our sleeping location. Quite decent from the looks of it.) Everybody else enters and I put the horses and the carriages in the stable and carriage holding area. I enter the tavern and everybody is already eating, again. I also order some food and sit down with everybody else. "So, where were you Colin?" The girls ask at the same time. "Removing some corruption, nobody important though." I answer them instantly so they don''t doubt me. Well it is half of the truth. Everybody keeps on eating and a gang of ruffians enter. "Ey, you told us ye''d pay us by today. Where''s ''r money? Huh? Where is ''r money bastard!?" They start beating up the tavern keeper but the moment I look at them they freeze since I directed a bit of killing intent at them. As I yawn the ruffians leave with their ''weapons'' left behind. "Honestly, the quality has dropped and the quantity has increased ever since we started this trip, right?" I ask my group and they all answer with a yes. The tavern keeper looks up and I go up to him. "Nature Magic: Recovery." I cast a spell upon him and he instantly starts recovering from the bruises. "We should get going to sleep, shouldn''t we?" I ask everybody as it is getting dark and we''ve drawn a bit too much attention to ourselves. We all stop eating and go to our bedrooms, which Silan had already bought for us. I put a strong person and a weak person together in one room just in case somebody tries something funny. I''m sharing a room with Viv and Vivian since they refused to share a room with anybody else. Chapter 33. The Commerce Section. All of us got up early in the morning as to search the city faster. Currently, we all are gathered in the tavern''s cafeteria. "I''ll be heading to the commerce section, for obvious reasons. What about you all?" I tell the others my destination and ask for theirs. "Well... I think we''ll be going shopping! Without male escorts. Memui''s strong enough, right?" Vivian answers with a clear tone and I see all the girls nod in agreement. I then look towards the men. "We''ll be doing what we do best. And that''s aimlessly wandering around the entire city and probably get into a few battles." Silan answers while slightly laughing. (All alone today as well... Oh well, I move fastest when I''m alone.) "All of us have our own plans and that means we need a rendezvous point and time. This tavern, around when the sun starts setting should be good. Make sure to get in the least amount of trouble as possible..." I finish up our current little meeting and immediatly get up and so do the others. We all leave the tavern and the moment I step out, I jump high into the air, towards the quite clearly seeable commerce section. I land in a back alley and walk into the crowd of people, blending in completely. (I''ve blended in, now to see how the trade is around here.) I follow the crowd, which quite weirdly, is moving in a single direction. (Aha, so that''s why this was a one-way street. A guild!) I enter the guild and see something quite similiar to a supermarket. (You enter through a gate, guarded by two guards, to the section with all the various goods. Once you''ve gotten what you want, you go to the cashiers who make sure everything is in order and ask for payment for the goods.) "Thief!" Shouts one of the cashiers. I turn my attention towards the thief and I immediatly saw a man in full black clothing and wearing a mask drop down from the ceiling, right ontop of the thief.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. He carries the thief away into a room on the side, which is guarded by four guards. (So the men on the ceiling do the thief busting and the guards just disencourage everybody from doing anything stupid. Like that thief who probably had no other choice.) I look around and notice something. (All of the guards... They''re... All orcs. Each and every single of them is an orc.) I turn around and go back out to the streets. There are many small stalls which have frequent guests but I can''t see any major stores, only small shops. (I''m guessing the trade is focused around the guild, again. But in this city it seems possible to set up, even if I am completely new. Well. We still have the 2nd place to check out.) I wander through the streets until I finally find a big store. (It''s size is half of the Guild''s but it seems this is an actual store, independent from the guild.) I enter with zero hesitation. (The buyers tell them what they want from the menu and the cashiers get the wanted thing? Kind of ineffecient but thievery is nigh impossible.) I leave the store without anybody noticing me. (Both of the guild buildings were just made out of stone but the Guild building had a more... Elegant look to it. This one is just plain. A stone building with a big sign saying the store name and that''s all.) I keep wandering around the Commerce Section but all I see are small stone buildings with small stores or little stalls on the side of the street. The only two major stores are the Guild and the one I recently went into. (Maybe a third power, aka me, could rise here... But it''d take too long. Way too long.) I head out of the commerce section and notice that the sun is still in the sky. "Guess I have some time..." I wander towards the castle, just to see how they reacted to my little surprise visit yesterday. The moment I get near, I notice that the guard has been tightened. A lot. "Light Magic: Invisibility." I activate my usual light-bending spell and calmly walk into the throne room. "What do we do!?" One of the advisors screams out. "Calm down. Shouting won''t fix anything. The Lord''s son is nowhere near old enough to take the throne and the only suitable regent is the Lord''s wife but she''s been missing since yesterday." A man in full armour says to everybody else. "I heard that the Lord''s wife ran away because the lord had been playing with the other women a tad bit too much. She won''t be coming back, ever, if that''s the case." An old advisor speaks out. (It seems I''ve given them a veeery difficult situation to handle.) I leave the keep and stroll around the city for a while until the sun started setting. "Time''s up I guess..." I say as I jump high into the sky and land straight infront of the tavern. I dispell the light-bending spell and enter the tavern. "All of your friends have already gone to their rooms. You are the last one to arrive." The tavernkeeper says to me in a respectful tone. "Thank you." I say as I go up the stairs. I head into my room and the two Vivian''s are asleep. I go to sleep myself after thinking a bit. (L''Aminne is good if I have already set up a HQ in another place and want to set up a forward post here. To start the HQ here would take WAAY too long. The world would''ve died by then. Only one option remains...) Chapter 34. Towards the last option. That morning we quickly leave L''Aminne since the guards apparently got a hint that the killer might''ve been one of the newcomers to the city. Luckily, thanks to Silan, we were all prepeared to go towards Hjalionia, the last option we have. "Phew, finally out of that city..." Vivian says relieved. "What do you mean?" I ask with my eyebrow raised. "The people in that city were tenacious. They wouldn''t lower the price by even a single coin." Vivian explains to me. I laugh and then we keep moving towards Hjalionia. (It''s... Still... There...) I get up from the driver''s seat and point my finger at the dragon. "Ice Magic: Ice Bullet." I send a bullet towards it. The dragon easily dodges it but doesn''t do much after that except just fly around even more. (This... Bastard... Is it making fun of me? Stalking it''s prey?) I get back to the driver''s seat and speed up the cart a tad while keeping an eye on the dragon. We ride for days but still no village in sight. "We are definetly going towards the right direction... The map also says there are no villages on our path but why?" I try to figure out this puzzle but to no avail until I spot a caravan in the distance. I go up to the caravan and see that there are about 40 guards with it, all on high alert. "Who goes there!" A guard asks but the others don''t move an inch from their spots in escorting the caravan.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. "Merchants. Going towards Hjalionia." I answer truthfully. The guard looks at me like I''m stupid. "Are you stupid!? Or are you new!? This road has wild beast herds run through it! Get yourself a few guards after you head back to L''Aminne!" The guard shouts at me. I laugh a little and then go past them and actually see a herd running towards us. "Silan, I''ll handle this. Take the reins and keep on going at the same speed." I hand the reins to Silan and jump out towards the herd. "Sword, magic... Sword or magic... Sword... Magic it is!" I finally decide which one to use in defeating the herd. "Earth Magic: Spikes" As I finish casting the spell, the area where the herd was is now just a field of spikes with a dead herd ontop of it. I dispel the spikes and they all dissapear into the ground, leaving the dead herd on the ground. I jump back onto the caravan and take the reins and go through the herd with the other caravan closely following us. One of the guards runs infront of our caravan. "Our Lord wants to speak with you." The guard says with a threathening voice. (Really? You are trying to threathen a person who just wiped out a herd of beasts in a split second? REALLY?) "Move or die. Your options." I say in an equally threathening voice but he instantly moves. (Must''ve been my smile. Definetly not the fact that I just wiped out that herd.) We keep going towards Hjalionia and we started rationing our supplies at about half-way when we noticed we won''t have enough otherwise. The other caravan rides right behind us the entire time. Every herd we met on the way was dealt with me. (Ok so far I''ve used... Only Earth Spikes. I don''t want them to know any of my power but It''s getting annoying using only one of the unlimited amount of spells I have. I also can''t just kill a lord if I don''t know his personality. Yet. I might kill him later on though. It all depends on how corrupt the person is.) A few more days of riding and I see Hjalionia in the distance. Our supplies are almost out so It''s good timing. Both of our caravan''s had enough food to only feed our own so we couldn''t share at all. I honestly expected that there would''ve been one village somewhere near the round we could supply at and that''s why I didn''t worry that much but... The map was right. There were no villages anywhere. Only beast herds. A lot of beast herds. (The food from those beasts was unedible to everybody... I know since a guard said to me when I started to cook one.) Just two more hours of riding and we reach the gates of Hjalionia. The gates of the last option and the last hope. Thirty days of riding from L''Aminne to Hjalionia with this caravan right behind us. Chapter 35. Hjalionias Lord. We ride for two hours but at a slower pace to let the carriage behind us go first. Once we reach the gates, the Lord, who was in the carriage, comes out and walks towards us. The guards walk behind him, ready for battle. He stops a metre or so away from us and suddenly bows. "I thank you for escorting us here. As a thanks, I invite you into my City and my own private home for dinner. Just to get a bit more acquinted with eachother." The Lord speaks in a calm voice whilst bowing down to me, one knee on the ground. (So... I was right in the ''Don''t Kill the Lord'' part. I just helped myself in getting a jump into making my Headquarters in here.) I jump off my carriage and land infront of him. "Raise your head, Lord of Hjalionia. I am not even a Noble so there is no need to bow infront of me. And I think I speak for everybody in my group so I say.. We accept your offer." I answer in an equally calm voice. "Then it is good. Please, follow my carriage." He says to me in a calm voice again. The Lord gets up and orders the gates to be opened. I jump back onto the driver''s seat as the lord gets in his carriage. We both go through the gates and I immediatly hear happy shouting and see a few flowers being thrown at the Lord''s Carriage but the moment somebody sees mine, the shouting stops. (Is my carriage ugly or something? I thought I kept it as clean as possible.) We ride towards the Lord''s home for half an hour as we reach the middle of the city. We go a little bit to the right of the Castle and I see a huge manor. (That''s a big house he has there...) We stop the carriage right behind theirs once we get to the Manor and everybody gets off. A few of the Lord''s Guards take the horses away from the carriage to the stables. "Please, follow me to the Lord''s Dining Room." One of the maids, who came out of the house, says to me.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. I just nod as my group follows her. We reach the dining room. "This is... Big..." Viv says as she peeks out from behind me. (I agree, Viv... I agree.) We take our seats, as the maids had shown us, and waited patiently. A few minutes later, The Lord and his family appears and sits down with us. "I''m sorry for letting you wait. I think we should get introductions out of the way first. I am the Lord Mayor of Hjalionia, Dominic Massey." Dominic says in a calm voice and then looks towards his wife. "I am Emmaline Massey, Dominic''s Wife, mother to two. My son is here but my daughter is currently sick and resting in her bed." Emmaline tells us about herself in the same calm voice as her husband. I then look towards the son. "I am Zachariah Massey, First-born!" Zachariah says with pride, beeming with confidence over the fact that he was born first. (Ooi... Zach... That confidence is going to get you killed one day. I can just imagine it. No, I can actually basically see it happen.) "We could bring our daughter here if you wish to meet her." Emmaline says in a slightly worried voice. "Ah, there''s no need to bring her here. I can go and visit her and maybe I can even heal her. I think Dominic already knows of my powers." I look Dominic with a smile on my face. Emmaline looks towards him but he just nods and Emmaline gets up. "Then, please follow me." Emmaline says as she comes and takes my hand and drags me off. A few minutes later we reach the room of the Daughter. "She is in here, please.. Don''t scare her too much." Emmaline says to me as she bows. I just laugh a little as I enter with Emmaline behind me. The Maid inside immediatly leaves the room. As I enter, I see a girl with white skin on the bed. (Has she never been outside?) I walk up to her and she looks at me. "Don''t worry, I''m just another doctor..." I say to calm her down as I try to find out what''s wrong with her. (Hmm... Can the Status Screen come in handy here?) I open up her Status Screen''s Curses and Illness list.
Ilnesses Curses
Primary Cardiac Myosarcoma (Terminal Heart Cancer) None
I get a slight shock as I stare at the Ilnesses. (That''s bad, ain''t it? I was thinking it was a common cold or something but Heart Cancer? How am I supposed to cure this?) I sit down next to her as I start thinking. (The Light Element could work... It''s known as the Healing Element after all... But it''s very rare and only a handful of people have it... Oh well...) "You both, keep this a secret." I say as I smile. I look towards the girl again. "Light Magic: Greater Heal, Category: Cancer." I use a spell I just made up on the spot, hoping it would work, and it did. Light came out of my hands and started going into her chest, near her heart. I keep this up until the Light dissapears, meaning the spell has worked. I look at her Illnesses and Curses screen again.
Illnesses Curses
None None
"She''s healed." I say in a calm voice as Emmaline has already fainted to the ground and the girl looks around her but doesn''t say a word. I grab Emmaline and take her outside the room. A maid immediatly comes by and takes her from me and another one goes inside the room. I head back to the Dinner Table and take a seat. Dominic doesn''t even ask where Emmaline is and keeps eating with the rest of my group. I join them in their feasting. Chapter 36. Connections. After our little feast, me and Dominic go to a seperate room to talk about my plans in this city. I sit opposite of Dominic and a maid serves the both of us some tea. "Maids, butlers, me and Colin are going to talk privately so..." Dominic asks the servants to leave. Once everybody except the two of us have left the room, Dominic looks at me. "So... Your plans..." Dominic starts the talks. "I wish to begin my Trade Empire here, funds are no problem as I have that under my own control but... Starting the Trade Empire''s a tad... Difficult... I need somebody to ''encourage'' people to come over to my shops. I might as well state the other part of my plans as well. I don''t see any reason to hide my true intentions from you. I wish to create a defensive line against an enemy that has yet to properly show itself to the world. Without this defensive line, you and everybody in this world will die. That, I can guarantee." I look Dominic straight in the eye as I say that and he gets slightly scared. "An enemy that hasn''t shown itself?" Dominic asks me the question I wanted him to ask. I laugh as I drink the tea a little bit. "Yes. I don''t know how it''s said around here but where I''ve been... It''s called The Ritual. You know, the thing that makes people go insane? It''s starting to act up a little... Creating multi-raced kingdoms which destroy other kingdoms and slaughter people for their own enjoyement... I think you''ve heard of it? It''d be weird if you didn''t." I put the cup of tea on the plate and stand up and go to the window. Dominic thinks about a few things before asking me another question. "How will this defensive line work?" He asks the perfect question again. "Simply. The Ritual itself cannot do much but it can affect others. We just need to make sure it doesn''t affect the people on our side of the line and keep the affected people out. If, by chance, there is a powerful person that has been affected. I''ll try to handle that. But this defensive line needs to be started fast. The clock is ticking closer to the time that the Ritual will decide to start it''s little ''game''." I come away from the window and sit back on my spot. Dominic thinks for a bit and then looks at some documents he has gathered in the time I was near the window. "So basically... This Trade Empire will be a sort of Headquarters for a Military to stand against an enemy whose strength we cannot match in the usual means? And this Trade Empire can easily transport men and weapons secretly under the guise of slaves and weapons for knights? That is a good plan... I''ll see if I can find you a perfect spot for your Headquarters here. If you say that funds are no problem to you, it shouldn''t be hard to find and build your Headquarters." Dominic finally gets to the point and immediatly starts working with me. I laugh a bit and drink all the tea. "You sure you can trust me? I mean, I could actually be under the Ritual''s control and I could be a saboteur." I smile as I say that to Dominic. "If that was so, you would''ve already had my head seperated from my body and the rest of my family executed as well. And whenever you talk about that enemy, the Ritual, your eyes have are slightly filled with hatred." Dominic answers me in a calm tone and laughs a little at the end.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. After a little bit of talking about a few things and Dominic sending out messages to several people, a butler walks in. "Sir, they''ve gathered. They are all waiting for you in the Main Hall." The Butler finishes his sentence and immediatly leaves. Dominic gets up and smiles. "It''s time for you to get some connections with the other trading guilds around. It should help you set up your HQ and once you get big enough, with my help of course, I doubt they''ll resist if you want to absorb them into your company. Well, let''s get going. As you said, The clock''s ticking." Dominic goes to the Main Hall and I follow him. Once we get there, five people and a few guards are standing. Four of the Five bow the moment Dominic enters but the middle one doesn''t. "Dominic, what''s the meaning of this? I thought you said you''d never bother me again." The rude man who is standing up says and then sees me. "Is it because of that kid over there? I can beat him up and leave right?" He once more says. I look toward Dominic and he nods. (Ah... One idiot down.) I suddenly appear infront of him, scaring him until he falls down on his back. "Beat me up? I''m afraid that even if you were gifted powers from a god you couldn''t touch me. Hey, Dominic. It''s alright if I just end him here and take over his Company, right?" I look toward Dominic. "Of course! I mean, he didn''t bow infront of me and even acted rude to me. Why shouldn''t you take over his company after ending him?" Dominic smiles with a grin that might''ve seemed like the Devil to this person. I turn my head toward him and pick him up. "So... Will you bow or will you die?" I ask him nicely and put him down. He immediatly bows infront of Dominic and I appear next to Dominic. "Nice play, I wasn''t expecting that but I''m impressed. He didn''t want to bow to me no matter what. Now I might have all five of them under my control now." Dominic whispers to me. (The other four, who immediatly bowed, are basically just loyal pigs to Dominic from the first sight. The man who didn''t bow was actually like a veteran mercenary by the looks of things. Though... He has never faced against powerful enemies in his life since he was surprised by me.) "I have gathered the five of you here to talk about a few things. First... I want to introduce Colin Tyccus. He''ll be joining your little round table of the Five Top Trading Guilds so get used to seeing him. He will also set up his company here so be careful not to hinder him too much since I''m supporting him fully and I''ll see to it that you''ll be... Removed... If you hinder his company. Second, I wish to talk about a sort of... Problem we are going to face... One of you will need to give up some land for Colin''s company. Don''t worry, we''ll pay for it and won''t force you but one of you MUST give some land. I think you all know why by now. Third and the last thing. Colin is going to be leading the Top Six Guilds now as a sort of Union Headmaster. Listen to him very carefully since he knows something you all don''t and he is the only one who can prepeare our little world for it. Got it? Also, I know at least half of you are trying to get my daughter as your son''s wife but that won''t work. Little Colin here healed her whilst none of you couldn''t so if he wants, I doubt anybody can resist his will. I mean... He''s strong enough to escort me from L''Aminne to here even though there were more herd''s than usual. We didn''t have a single injury during that entire trip except some of our troops tripping over the bodies of the smaller herd members! So... Truly, be careful and listen to me and Colin to the fullest since I trust Colin with everything I own even though I haven''t even known him even 1% as long as I''ve known any of you. Got it?" Dominic finishes his little speech and they all bow to me and act like I''m some sort of new god. Dominic might''ve exaggerated a few parts but that''s for the best probably. I walk up to the Five. "I think Dominic covered all the Important parts so... I don''t really know what to say. Oh, now I know. You don''t need to worry about me absorbing your guilds yet. It might be in the near future but not yet. Also, this little Union Dominc''s having us create... I''m going to force it to expand and fast. I''ll cover the funds but we need to expand as far as possible as quickly as possible but safely. We need people to trust our Union and willingly co-operate with us if something happens. I won''t tolerate if some of you abuse the money I''m going to give you for your own gains. Only for the Union''s gains. Got it? Once I get my Headquarters kind of set up, I''ll call for a meeting and I''ll help you all fix your tiny problems which you''ll probably have. In that meeting we''ll also discuss the base of the Union and what our true expansion plans will be. Until then, continue on as usual but don''t forget, I need to know where I can start building my HQ by tomorrow morning, so... Decide fast." I smile at them after finishing my own small speech and then I walk back to Dominic''s side. They all leave shortly after. "They''ll probably send assassin''s after us. One of them will." I say to Dominic and he just nods. Dominic turns to me with a grin on his face. "Too bad... All the Assassin''s that work for them, listen to me first. That''s why all the attacks on me fail. Well, they don''t know that and they don''t need to. Let''s see how they''ll act..." Dominic walks away and so do I. (I need to prepeare my little Guild for Tomorrow''s fast HQ building.) Chapter 37. Beginning the HQ building. --- Midnight, at the meeting of the Former Five Top Trading Guils --- "What is with this joke!? He wants one of us to give up land to a runt who probably only has speed? The only reason why I fell down was because of that strong wind that came with it! I need that runt gone! I''ve already sent some ''Daggers'' towards him!" The Mercenary-Merchant shouts out. "Calm down, we''ll handle him like everybody else. But... Just in case our attack fails... Who is going to give some land? We need to make secondary plans. Definetly. I mean, he is working with the Lord! He must have some sort of secret guard!" One of the ''Loyal'' merchants shouts out as well. The other three don''t say anything but they are also clearly worried about Colin appearing. After a little bit of silence, one of the three speaks up. "I''ll give up my land if the attack fails. Most of mine is unusable to me right now anyways. The Lord didn''t tell us which type of land to give the newbie and the newbie won''t understand the quality either." The oldest merchant calmly speaks to the rest and they all agree. --- Colin''s POV, also at Midnight --- "Fun talk you''re having here. Also, here is your ''dagger'' back." I say as I throw one of the dead assassins on the table and walk towards them. I smile as I walk towards the Mercenary-Merchant. "You know, next time, do some research. I did mine. Your land is the best quality so... You either share or I just grab it myself. Two options. I really need that land." My smile widens with every step I take towards him. The Merc-Merchant keeps backing off, eventually running into a corner. "So, what is it going to be?" I ask while staring straight in his eyes, using one of the ''Dark Element Spells'' to break his mind. "Take it! Take half of my land! Just... Please... Leave me alone..." His mind breaks as he starts sobbing in the corner and I walk towards the other four. "I''ll leave you all alone for now. Just, don''t try to hinder my progress. I need my company to grow and I need it to grow fast. Otherwise... We are all dead." I say as I suddenly turn towards the door and leave, heading back into the manor, into my room. (Well, that should keep them in a state of fear for now. The effect of that dark spell should be wearing off now...) --- In the Morning, still Colin''s POV --- I get out of bed and start stretching my body. "That was a good bed to sleep on. Really comfy... Well... Work awaits." I say to myself as I put my clothes on and leave. The others start slowly coming out of their doors at nearly the same time as me. I greet them all as we go to Dominic, who has called together the Five again. "So, have you all decided who is going to give some land?" Dominic asks them. "I will!" The Merc-Merchant immediatly shouts out, remembering the event that happened at Midnight.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. Dominic looks at him with confusion and then looks at me. "Well, I guess that won''t be a problem anymore. Please show Colin to his new area and also, introduce yourselves. We kind of didn''t yesterday." Dominic walks away and I walk towards them. They all bow down immediatly again. "My name is Bunvers. My company deals in General Goods like food and all sorts of Mercenary business." The Merc-Merchant introduces himself first. "My name is Erius. My company deals in Magical Scrolls and other Magic-related things." The oldest-looking one introduces himself. "My name is Eshmun. My company deals in Weapons." The one who proposed to make the backup plan against me introduces himself. "My name is Asante. My company deals in Potions." One of the two who didn''t speak, introduces himself. "My name is Roland. My company deals in Armour." The last one introduces himself. (That''s all of them. The only ones who look special is Bunvers and Erius. A mercenary and a wizard-like person. The others are just normal everyday merchants.) "You all know me already so... Bunvers, lead me to my area, please. The other four can either come with me or can return back home." I say in a calm voice and follow Bunvers. The other four walk behind the entire group and once we arrive at my new HQ location, they suddenly walk away. "I shall go and find somebody to help you build, Headmaster Tyccus." Bunvers runs off and I see that he has already gotten some building materials to be stored near here through the night. (Good, good. This zone looks to be near a street which is filled with people. This little zone is empty as well and we don''t need to spend time destroying a house or something.) "Let''s start, don''t push yourselves though. The plans for the HQ will be nailed to the house next to us, so look at that." I say as I immediatly appear near the wall of the house and put a Technical Drawing on the wall. An hour later, all five of the Guild Masters come back with a whole bunch of workers. "Begin working! The plan is here, near me, so look at it first!" Bunvers shouts out loudly and everybody gathers around and starts working. Bunvers starts working as well but the other four just sit back and instruct the workers. The entire day passes like that and the first level of our HQ is finished without many problems. The first floor looks simple, a long front desk for many receptionists, some sofas and tables scattered in an ordery fashion to sit on to wait for something. On the right side of the room is a reserved part of the wall for a list of goods and on the left side of the room is also a reserved part of the wall for a list of employees. There is a huge red carpet with black and gold linings along the side leading to the front desk and to the doors that will lead to the stairs upstairs. There are lots of flowerpots and colourful flowers all around the room. (It''s simple. It''s beautiful. And I have to thank Dominic to make this building''s little drawing. Didn''t know he had such a great artistic taste but now I do. I would''ve definetly thrown a lot of money to make this place overly grand.) I look at the first floor with pride and I see Dominic walk in. "Like it? Believe it or not, I did study for building designing in school. I found it enjoyable since you can make your mark in the world for thousands of years with a beautiful building design." Dominic also takes a look around the room and then nods in approval a few times. After a short talk about what went on during the day, we left the HQ and headed towards the Manor. The moment we enter the manor, Emmaline and the Daughter of Dominic are there, bowing to me. Dominic looks at both Emmaline and his daughter with eyes filled with surprise. "You... You are walking already?" Dominic asks his daughter. She just nods as an answer but when she raises her head to look at me, her shy side jumps out and she hides behind her mother. "Come on, introduce yourself..." Emmaline pushes her infront of me and she tries to say something but I can''t hear it. After a minute of silence whilst she is trying to gather herself, she finally breaks the silence. "Thank you... For helping me, Master Tyccus... My name is... Scarlett... Scarlett Massey..." She introduces herself and refers to me as Master. "You can get rid of that Master Tyccus part, call me Colin. Also, Scarlett, I may call you that right?" I immediatly try to continue the conversation as I kind of fear she''ll be too shy to talk to me ever again. "Yes..." She answers meekly. "Alright, Scarlett... If you need help and I can provide that help... I will help you, even if it costs me my life." I say in a sincere voice and then smile and walk away. (I really need to sleep. I hope that she can gather up the courage to talk to me again. I kind of made sure that she won''t be too scared of me.) I chuckle to myself whilst walking down the hallway and I head to sleep once I get into my room. Chapter 38. HQ Building. As I get up from my bed and head towards the construction site, I notice something. (A mass of people infront of my HQ?) I walk towards the mass of people and I see that there are already construction workers building the second floor. As I push myself through the mass of people, I see that the five Guild Masters are explaining to the people what is going on and when Bunvers notices me, he immediatly bows and the others follow suit. "Open the path for the Headmaster, citizens!" Bunvers immediatly shouts while bowing. The crowd all walk away from me whilst I stay in place as I knew I was the Headmaster. I walk towards Bunvers and the rest and I notice my companions coming towards me from the direction of the mansion. "You can stop bowing now. Can somebody explain the situation to me quickly?" I ask them and they all lift their heads. Bunvers looks to his left and right and finally starts explaining. "The people noticed that yesterday something was going on here but they didn''t want to come close as they thought it was just another expansion but today, a man came and asked what was going on. I told him that we were building a HQ for the Headmaster of our Union and he immediatly rushed somewhere and after a while, a crowd of people appeared demanding explanations to who is this new Headmaster and why we are all suddenly working together 100%. That is all that happened, Headmaster. I''ve also taken the liberty to start construction before you got here as to speed up the construction." Bunvers gives me the explanation and also explains why the workers are here so early. I think for a bit and my companions finally reach my location. "You all handled the situation well and Bunvers, your decision to start work early is good. I won''t punish you or anything." I tell Bunvers as I can see that he is worried. They all bow again and immediatly continue building the HQ as the crowd slowly becomes bigger but doesn''t come close enough to hinder the construction. I also help the workers and so do my Guild Members to hasten up the construction since time is of the essence.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. After we work for 2 or so hours, some civilians dissapear and quickly reappear in working clothes and join our construction workers after getting some hints from them on how to build the HQ properly. (Seems like they might want to get some favors before my HQ is built and my business is up. I might actually give away some money as a ''Thank You'' for them so we build it quicker... Yeah, I''ll do that at the end of the day.) Due to the sudden influx of new workers, the speed of the construction is, at first, slower but after a while they get used to building such a HQ and our speed hastenes. After a day of building, the sun starts setting. "All right! Today''s work is over! Get back home to your families! Today there were no injuries, not even minor ones!" Bunvers shouts out orders and news fast and all the workers started slowly leaving. I am standing near the only exit and give all the Civilian Workers, who did it for free and aren''t being payed, some money which was around 80% of what the actual workers get. The instant I give them the money, their eyes are filled with happiness and they bow infront of me before running off. After half an hour of giving out money, I look at how much work we''ve done. "Around 25% done. If we have more workers tomorrow... Our speed should increase and we will be able to finish the third floor and maybe even make it to the sixth. If we do make it to the sixth floor... Then we only need to make four more and that''d be the end of the HQ building for now." I think out loud to myself and Dominic comes out from nowhere again. He looks at the building. "That''s quite a bit of work done in one day. I guess they really are putting their all in it." Dominic says and then laughs. "Though the second floor is nothing impressive to look at compared to the first. It is just a storage area so far anyways." I say whilst smiling as I am also gladdened by the speed of the construction. I look around and see nobody else except me and Dominic. "I''m going to guess that the others returned to the mansion and you didn''t see me so you came to see what I was doing, am I right?" I ask Dominic and he just nods. "Scarlett''s been waiting for you. Every time I asked what she was doing, peeking at the front door, she ran away from me whilst blushing. It''s quite cute. I think you''ve got my daughter completely under your charms, Colin. Emmaline also won''t say what Scarlett''s doing and Zach''s been saying that it''s none of the men''s business and we should stay out of it. And Zach always puts his nose into stuff he shouldn''t so I''m quite surprised at how much you''ve changed my family with the limited amount of interaction you''ve had with them. It''s changing my entire family for the better." Dominic tells me what''s been going on whilst I''ve been building my HQ. I laugh for a bit before I answer Dominic "I guess I might be." Dominic and I laugh again before I continue "I''m quite tired so what do you think about going back to the mansion?" "Sounds like a good idea. I think Scarlett''s asleep right now though. Emmaline was asking her to take a rest and so far, I''ve not seen Scarlett ignore a single thing Emmaline asks of her." Dominic tells me a little bit more while we walk to the mansion. When we get to the Mansion, I say goodbye to Dominic and immediatly head to sleep. Chapter 39. Finishing the HQ. --- About a week and a half since the second floor was finished --- "Come on! It''s the final push! The roof!" Bunvers shouts out while carrying materials up to the final roof with a train of people following him. (My HQ has 12 floors while every other building anywhere close to us has a maximum of 3. It stands out and that is good.) I think to myself while standing infront of the doors to the first floor. "Amazing, isn''t it? The first step to your plan." Dominic pops out of nowhere again. I just nod as an answer while I look at the roof being slowly constructed. "After this, we need to immediatly start expanding your companies influence over the surrounding lands, don''t we?" Dominic continues the conversation. "Indeed. We need the defensive line. So far, there haven''t been any reports about any suspicious activity luckily. Also, I need you to send a message. To a village leader in a forest. Her exact location is... Here. You just need to know she''s part of the little ''Defensive Line Project'' we have going. Her name is Nephenee Ularona. Just tell her to come to this city as promised." I show Dominic where Nephy is located and he immediatly starts heading off to write the message. I keep watch over the construction of the roof for half an hour before it is finished.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. "The HQ is finished, Headmaster. What do we do now?" Bunvers politely asks me. "Nothing. You are free for now. I''ll tell you the name of my company tomorrow,, when we properly start business." I answer Bunvers and he lets all the workers go home. I go to the mansion with the others where Dominic is already waiting for us. "I sent the message to Nephenee. She should get it in four or so days. It''ll take her some time to get here as well. Also, as the Headquarters is finished... Let''s have a celebration! I''ve already prepeared it." Dominic gives me some information before opening the doors to the feast. The entire table is filled with food and drinks. "This time, everybody is properly invited and here! Even the maids and butlers will be eating with us today. Everybody, sit down where you want and immediatly start eating. We''ve got food to spare." Dominic sits down on one end of the table and I sit close to him. Scarlett immediatly sits next to me like she was waiting for this moment and everybody else finds their spots as well. I start slowly eating their food in an orderly manner instead of fighting over who will get the last piece of something. "So, have you decided on the name of the company yet, Colin?" Dominic asks me and it drags the attention of everybody to our conversation. "I''ve got a few ideas but I need a name with a meaning. I want people to know what this Company will actually be doing if they decide to read the name and think about it a tad." I answer Dominics question. "Good. The HQ is finished but a company also needs a name, otherwise it will stay unknown. Also, I know this will ruin your mood a little bit but... Just before you came I got some information. A certain kingdom, peaceful might I add, has suddenly started attacking surrounding nations which were not ready for their invasion. Luckily, said kingdom is nowhere close to us but I''ll keep track of it." Dominic continues the conversation but nobody answers him after it and quietly eats. (Valuable, but also startling. I wasn''t expecting them to get another kingdom this fast. I really cannot afford to waste a lot of time, can I?) Chapter 40. Names and Plans. After a very ''peaceful'' sleep, I decide to go to outside for a little bit of fresh air. "Still dark, huh... But I can''t sleep for some reason. Oh well... Better think of this name for the company." I say quielty as I sit down and look at the stars. (Hmm... Wasn''t there some sort of god of protection and war in one of my games? I think... Egyptian? Was it? What was the name... Come on brain think!) As I sit there thinking, I notice movement in the house and I see that Dominic himself can''t rest well either. I keep thinking as to what the name of such a god is until It comes to my head. "Bast! The Egyptian Goddess of War and Protection! Finally remembered it..." As I sigh and take a look at the stars once more. (Bast Trading Union has a nice ring to it... I doubt there''s a god or goddess named Bast in this world, hopefully there isn''t. But that''s going to be the Union name since the Union of our companies still doesn''t have a proper one. The name for my company though... Eh, I''ll just take something from the Solar System of my home... Hmm... Europa? Yeah, Europa sounds good doesn''t it? Europa Trade Corporation which is a member of the Bast Trading Union. That, for some reason, actually sounds kind of cool.) I get up from the soft grass and stretch my body as I notice the sun is coming up. "How long have I been sitting here for?" I ask myself, expecting not to get an answer. "About three hours." Suddenly, I get an answer and then I remember Dominic was also walking around. I look behind myself and actually see Dominic laying down on the grass a little bit away from me. "Couldn''t sleep?" I ask Dominic and he just nods.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. "Can''t really sleep when you know the world is turning towards total war." After he finishes that sentence, I notice more and more people walking in the house. We both look at the amount of people and then look back to the amazing sunrise. "Seems they can''t rest well either. Colin, remember what I told you about the nation? Well... The fun part is... My city is the closest to it in the entire Empire, so... We are going to take most of the attack when they get here since the small nations in their path are not going to even hinder them." Dominic basically explains to me why he can''t sleep. I just stand there, looking at the sunrise before answering. "I better get to my company then. You know why." I say and then Dominic nods and I start walking towards the HQ. When I get there, I notice Bunvers arriving at the same time. "Headmaster! I am glad to see you this early in the day. Have you decided on the name of the company?" Bunvers immediatly asks. "Indeed. Europa Trade Corporation. That''s going to be the name of my company. I also decided the name of our little Union, Bunvers. We''ll call it Bast Trading Union. I just need you to get those two notices out to everybody. Can you handle it, Bunvers?" I look at him. "Of course! It is a small matter! I shall get to it now!" He runs off as fast as he can and I sit down inside my office in the HQ, on the 12''th floor. I look out the window and admire the view. An hour or so later, Bunvers arrives in my office. "The notices have been put up and the name of the company has been engraved above the doors. What shall we do now?" Bunvers asks and sits down after I point towards the sofa. "I''d like it if we could expand our little Union to every city possible as fast as possible. We don''t need proper second HQ''s in there, just a presence big enough to affect the entire city. How fast do you think we can do that, Bunvers?" I ask and he starts thinking. "A week at most to get to the furthest neighboring city if we go at full speed with escorts. I''m including the time needed to build as well. So, in a week we should have a presence in all our neighboring cities. Is that all right, Headmaster?" Bunvers looks at me. "That is more than all right. You may go on with this plan but involve the others as well. It''s not a proper trading union if only two of us keep it alive. I give you full control over the expansion plan for now but give me reports if you can." I answer and Bunvers stands up and bows. "I am gladdened by your decision!" Bunvers stops bowing and immediatly walks out of my office. (At least he listens and actually follows my orders. I think he''s too afraid or admires me too much to do something else. Well, as long as they don''t decide to get too full of themselves I''m fine with them.) Chapter 41. Old Deals and New Expansions. --- A peaceful week and a half later --- I walk into the Headquarters and immediatly notice Bunvers. "Headmaster! I have some good news. Our Union has a presence in all of the neighboring cities! It''ll take a while before we have full control over the city but we can expand at the same rate to the other cities if our presence grows!" I thank Bunvers for the information and continue walking upstairs. Bunvers also follows me upstairs. I wait in my office for a few minutes before everybody else arrives. "You have finally arrived. Erius, Eshmun, Asante and Roland. I have a little bit of a favor to ask of all of you. That favor is... Each of you take a certain direction to expand our little empire towards and focus on that. Bunvers will look over all of you as he has already started with expanding. For example... Erius takes the North, Eshmun the South, Asante the East and Roland the West. You all expand as much as you can in those directions for as long as you can and give regular updates to Bunvers. Can you do such a thing or shall I need to trust Bunvers with everything regarding expanding?" They all immediatly nod in agreement and stand up. "We are glad that you want us to actively participate in such a great thing as expanding the Union! We shall immediatly start assisting Bunvers and we shall solidify the locations we have already expanded to. We thank you, Headmaster, for such an opportunity." Erius surprises me with his enthusiasm regarding the subject.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. I look out the window and then back at the rest of them. "I''d also like it if each of you tried to maintain sort of a connection with eachother and help eachother. Don''t just become branches of the main office and only support eachother when I tell you to. Do it even without me telling you to. Don''t be afraid to ask for help if, for example, a thief company is giving you problems and you can''t handle them alone. This is why the Union is in place. So we don''t need to ask shady people to take care of it for us." I remind them why I created this ''Union'' in the first place and then let them leave. (I hope they actually get along well. I''d hate to start ''removing'' corruption so soon.) I sit in my office and read reports that are occasionally given to me and do almost nothing else. (It''s a boring lifestyle up here but a needed one for now. My companions are running around helping people in the city and doing their own things. I wonder what''s taking Nephenee so long to get here though. She''s a week late.) Just as I say that, one of the workers knocks on my door. "Enter." I say in a calm voice as he enters. "Somebody named Nephenee is here with an entire village of people. They refuse to leave until they see you." I stand up and immediatly start walking downstairs after thanking the worker. (Finally. I wonder what took them so long...) When I reach the front door, I notice Nephenee sitting down. "What took you so long?" I ask curiously. "I got... Lost..." Nephenee answers while hiding her face. (How did I already know this answer was coming? Just how...) "Well. You''re here now. I''ll have a guard escort you and your people to a location. I think Silan will take it over from there." I say as I ask a guard to show them towards the mansion. I wave them goodbye and continue with my usual routine of reading random reports and other bits of information that reach me. Chapter 42. Falling into place. As I sit in my ''office'' every day, I keep getting more and more reports, reports about how the different cities under our control are doing. (It was a good decision to get all of them involved with this. They are all expanding as fast as they can. Luckily I don''t have to do anything yet. I should probably start creating the Line shouldn''t I? I''m taking my sweet time with it...) As I think about various things, Bunvers wanders into my office to give me some of the more important reports. "Ah, Bunvers. It''s good that you are here. Our little Trade Union has expanded quite well so I want to do a little bit extra. I want you to start transporting soldiers, any you can acquire to be under our control, and weaponry under the guise of ''slaves'' and the weaponry ''to be sold''. In actuality, don''t sell any of them and get all of them to be combat-ready whenever I say so." I put a slightly wicked smile on my face when I finish my little request. Bunvers immediatly realizes a small part of my plan which is to have a coup in all of the cities under our control. "Immediatly, Headmaster!" Bunvers runs off, looking happy for some reason. (My request should be easy if Bunvers, Eshmun and Roland work together. They can even ask Asante and Erius for potions and magic users and such if they need which means I''ll have quite a strong force everywhere. Money makes the world go round and I have nearly infinite of it in this world.)Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. I look at the report Bunvers brought in and smile a little. (That''s the last city in the Empire. All of the cities now have our influence in them. I just need to let it grow a little bit more and then... Bam. New Empire. I just need to speed up things a little bit. Never know what can go wrong.) I look at the other various reports brought to me over the day. (Seems the Capital City will take a while to fall under our influence but if I just give Bunvers some more funding, it should fall easily. Our profits aren''t bad either. We''re making more money than we are losing now.) --- Five or so days later --- I look at the morning reports as Bunvers comes into my office. "Bunvers. What a pleasant surprise." I put down the report I was reading and look at Bunvers. "It is nice to see you as well Headmaster. But I have a report. The Capital City has no competitors for us now. All the cities in the Empire have fallen under our influence. I''ve also made sure to slowly but surely transport as many mercenaries and soldiers who want to join our cause to the various cities under our control, especially the border cities and the Capital. Everything seems to be moving according to your plans, doesn''t it?" Bunvers sits down as we are now kind of ''friendly'' towards eachother due to working together for a good amount of time. "Indeed. I did throw quite a bit of money at the problem after all. Have you heard anything of the Rogue Nation though? I haven''t gotten any reports regarding them lately." I ask since I really need such information. "The nation you like to call the Rogue Nation has slowed down in it''s advance. Mostly because of the newly formed ''Alliance of Kings'' which is fiercly fighting it back. I''ll tell them to start giving you all reports regarding them since today, is that fine with you?" Bunvers answers. I just nod for an answer and Bunvers leaves. (All according to plans. Even the Ritual Nation is being slowed down. I was expecting it to speed up and get here quickly but apparently no... My worries were for nothing.) Chapter 43. Starting the "War". As Bunvers and I are sitting in my office, one of the employees from the base floor opens the door and comes in. "Headmaster! Important news! The Emperor has sent an ultimatum to us! We either cut down our influence or he will start doing it forcefully!" As the employee is in a state of panic while saying that, I calmly smile. (Finally he made a move. Sadly, forcing my hand right now is not a smart thing to do.) "Send an order to every city. Cut all trade within the cities but keep our inter-alliance trade going. Make sure we starve this Empire. If any sort of conflict starts anywhere, employ all the mercenaries and soldiers on guard duty in every city. It''s time for a coup. Also, send saboteurs to the other companies in the cities, just to be sure." The employee carefully writes all my words on paper, bows and then runs off. (I wanted to let my forces build up for a little while longer but I guess I have to show myself since I am not letting an Emperor stop me.) "The Emperor is going to feel like it just woke up a dragon it shouldn''t have even thought about. But what are you going to demand from him?" Bunvers asks calmly while drinking tea.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. "One simple thing. Everything he owns. He either gives it or I take it. An ultimatum to answer an ultimatum. If he demands something from me then I demand something from him." I smile as I answer Bunvers. --- A few days later --- "Headmaster, all the mercenaries and soldiers are on guard duty now. It won''t be long until the Emperor has to react to our demands." The same employee who told me of the Ultimatum reports in again. The employee hands me some papers and then leaves the room. (Is this... A list of the cities and how much we have control over them in percentages? All are over half. I guess we just have to wait then.) After about three hours of looking out the window, I grow tired of it and decide to go for a walk outside. I wave goodbye to the front desk receptionists and then immediatly head towards the shopping district. As I reach the shopping district, I see our stores doing extremely well and the stores which didn''t unite with us are basically mostly closed down except a few resisting ones. A few familiar faces are also walking around going from shop to shop. I also walk into a few of the more interesting shops around and luckily nobody knows who I am otherwise it would probably be a huge commotion. After wandering through the streets enough, I head towards the city walls just because I want to see the view from ontop of them. One of the guards tries to stop me from going to the city walls but after I show him who I am, he immediatly allows me to go up. (This looks better than from my office. I can actually see the wind moving the grass from this height.) After admiring the grass and wind for long enough, I go back to my office and start sorting through the papers once more. Chapter 44. Companions doings. --- During Colin''s conquest, the Companions POV''s. First POV: The Two Vivians and their group --- "Hey, Vivian! Doesn''t this suit me?" Viv does a small spin wearing a red dress. "It looks great!" Vivian quickly gives Viv her opinion while she keeps on searching for clothes for herself. Their group is currently shopping in clothing stores and the entire group is women. "Lily, don''t be afraid! Show yourself!" Ann, one of the guild members, forcibly pulls Lily out of the changing room and she comes out wearing a bikini. "Ann! I told you I''m not ready yet!" Lily immediatly looks at Ann. "You are though!" Ann just laughs back. "I meant mentally!" Lily shouts back. "Don''t worry, Colin isn''t here and Tiron and Silan''s group is somewhere completely different anyways!" Ann immediatly responds and everybody starts laughing while Lily goes back into the changing room whilst blushing. Memui suddenly comes out of the changing room in a business suit-like clothing. "So where are we going after this? We''ve visited almost all the shops in this city and seen most of the sights since Colin''s been stuck in that damn tower for this long." Memui immediatly complains about Colin whilst also looking at herself in the mirror.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "I don''t know where we should go today... Hey! How about the tallest tower in the castle! I bet the view''s great up there!" Vivian suddenly suggests. "It would but can we even get up there? Wouldn''t the guards stop us?" Viv instantly worries about many things. "Don''t worry, don''t worry! We know somebody called Colin who knows somebody called Dominic who just might be the lord of this place! I mean. If we ask nicely enough, Colin won''t be able to refuse." Lily immediatly comes up with a plan while peeking over a curtain. All the girls immediatly agree on that plan and after they finish shopping, they head towards Colin''s office. --- Meanwhile, Tiron''s and Silan''s group. --- "Hey Silan, what''s up with that girl who''s always following you?" Douglas, a guild member, asks. "You mean Nephy? I don''t exactly know but is something wrong with it?" Silan asks back and Douglas doesn''t answer. The entire men''s group, and Nephy, enters a restaurant to rest their legs and fill their stomachs since they were exploring the streets far too much. "So what do we do after this? Oh, I''ll take the usual." Xavier asks while answering the butler who takes orders. "We haven''t really seen what''s outside the city now have we? I heard there''s quite a few ruins surrounding the city which are harmless as they don''t have any secrets since they are just sculptures. They aren''t quite far from here, if you have good vision you can see them from the wall." Tiron suggests one thing to do and everybody agrees. "Oh but, just in case, let''s get some sort of weapons with us. A few swords should do. Never know if a goblin or two jump out." Douglas also gives his thought on the matter. "It''s a plan then. Colin won''t be stopping us either since he hasn''t even descended from that tower of his much. I mean he does properly come to sleep in the mansion but that''s about all we see of him nowadays." Silan says with some slight dissapointment in his voice. After they finish eating, they start heading outside of the city to explore the sculptures. Chapter 45. Emperors side of things. (POV) --- On the same day Colin answered his ultimatum, The throne room --- "What do you mean he sent US an ultimatum!? We were the ones sending!" The emperor shouts out and throws a goblet half-way across the room which is instantly picked up by a maid. "It seems like he answered our ultimatum with one of his own! His demands are as following: Everything you own! Wait what? It literally says everything you own here... Which means... From the country itself to the tiniest slave you own..." The messenger reads out the ultimatum and everybody in the room is shocked. The king starts laughing and after a few minutes of him just laughing, he finally says something. "Send in the military! Crush them under our iron boot! Seize everything they own in the name of the crown!" The emperor orders his advisors. --- A few days later, Emperor''s Throne Room --- "What... Do you mean... Our military failed? No... What do you mean our military couldn''t even get into the cities!?" As last time, the Emperor shouts out and throws another goblet, like it''s one of his customs to throw things when mad. "I mean exactly that. It seems this Colin forsaw our military and had already hired mercenaries and his own guard and had taken over the cities. The city guards didn''t even resist, infact one of our generals saw a few city guards helping them. Also sir... The supplies to the Imperial Capital... They''ve stopped. We are recieving none in the way of supplies like food and clothes... It seems they''ve stopped all trade with the Capital itself so we have to do something and fast!" The advisor once more, advises.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. The king thinks for a while. "Gather all the advisors! This is an emergency!" He suddenly shouts out and starts marching towards the meeting room inside the capital keep. --- Inside the meeting room, an hour later --- "We know why we are called here but what do you expect us to do at this point?" The military advisor immediatly starts off the conversation. "I don''t know but that''s why you guys are advisors. Advise me. How can we survive this situation with our Empire intact." The Emperor looks around but nobody dares raise their voice. "Umm... We can just give up?" The financial advisor finally speaks up after a minute or so of pure silence. "No! That would mean that Colin gets an entire empire! I built this with my two hands and I''m not giving it to some brat who probably doesn''t even know the difference between a wyvern and a dragon! He probably hasn''t even fought a boar either!" The Emperor shouts out again and all the advisors are silent. About seven or so minutes later, a messenger comes through the door. "Sir! It''s a message from Colin! It reads as such: ''In two days, my army shall start marching towards the imperial capital. I will take everything you own with force now. Such as you wanted to do with me. Also.... How does it feel, waking up a dragon you didn''t even know existed?''. There is nothing more from that point, sire!" The messenger bows and leaves. The silence grows. "Papa! What''s going on?" Suddenly, a little girl runs out and jumps on the military advisor''s lap. "Ah, Milly. It''s nothing, just go back out and play. We''re currently thinking about something." The advisor plays around with the girl a little bit before putting her on the ground. "Papa. If there''s a problem, then always go and try to solve it peacefully! Like talking with the problem!" The little girl runs out smiling. A minute of silence ensues. "I''m going to go and visit Colin. Maybe he can spare our families. I''ll be taking my entire family with me just in case. I don''t know what will happen in the Imperial Capital in the three days it will take me to get to the city where Colin is." The military advisor speaks up and then leaves. Nobody dares stop him as nobody knows of any other solution. Chapter 46. Usurpation. --- A few days after the Military Advisor left the Capital --- "Colin, we have somebody who claims to be an advisor to the emperor." An employee says. "Bring him here then." I answer him and wait for half an hour. A man in his late thirties enters the room with the employee. "The Military Advisor of the Empire, Beaduric. He has also brought his entire family here, shall I allow them in as well?" The employee introduces the advisor and then asks a question. I nod as an aswer and turn my attention to the advisor. "Sit. I doubt you are here to try to assassinate me. It is surprising there haven''t been any tries on my life though." I say to the advisor and he just laughs a little. "We were afraid to do anything, in shock you might say. I''m here to surrender. Not for the Empire since the Emperor is a stubborn one. I''m here to personally surrender, I will surrender my duchy under your control with one condition. Don''t kill my family." The Advisor immediatly gets to the point, not wasting a second. "And here I thought you were going to negotiate MY surrender to you and not the other way around. Well this works as well. I had no plans to kill any families. I just want the throne, nothing more and nothing less. So you can rest easy and if you want to join me, you can." Just as I finish my sentence, the family of the advisor enters. The wife of the advisor gracefully bows and so do the children. "You don''t need to be so formal around me. I''m not some kind of royalty. I just happen to own the largest trading company in the empire. One that just might become an actual trading empire with it''s own sovereign land." I try to joke around a little since the looks on their faces disturb me a tad.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. The instant I say that, a little girl immediatly runs to the advisor and jumps on his lap. "This is my youngest child, Estrid. That boy over there is my oldest. They are twins but for some reason completely different. Erwin, come over here. You don''t need to stand up. Neither do you Maethild." The Advisor talks to his family a bit and once they hear the news, the wife looks relieved and the children don''t understand anything that the advisor said. After a small discussion between me and the Advisor and the family, I send them off to their duchy. As they leave, I sigh in dissapointment. "I was hoping the Empire would surrender at this point but I guess we''ll have to go and take the throne by force. Bunvers!" I shout for Bunvers who immediatly enters the room. "Yes, headmaster?" Bunvers looks a little confused. "Start the plan. The Emperor didn''t answer to my ultimatum. So now let''s see how tough he really is. March our army right underneath his gates. Let''s see him keep that many people out." I give an order to Bunvers and he immediatly runs off to fulfill it. "It''ll take a few days for everybody to get the message and start moving. But I guess I''ll get there a little bit earlier." I sigh as I start heading down the many stairs. --- A week later, The Capital of the Empire --- (Ah, I love this sight. This massive army knocking on the Emperor''s doorstep. The guards inside are actually hesitating to keep us outside. It seems like one of them will soon open the gates. No blood must be spilled, just as I said yesterday. Seems like they are listening.) After a few hours of waiting, a guard actually opened the gates and so did the other gates follow suit. Not long after, my army marched in columns, straight towards the Emperor''s palace. During that time, I was casually jumping across the roofs towards the palace. Exactly fifteen minutes later, I was looking at the Emperor in his throneroom and I had quite a bit of soldiers behind me. "Emperor, might I ask you to step down from your throne and hand over the crown. You have no way to win after all." I ask nicely and after a few minutes of thinking, even the stubborn Emperor hands over his crown. As he was handing it over, he tried to stab me but the blade broke in half the instant it came in contact with my clothes. It broke since I was faster and hit the knife so it broke before it could actually touch me. I then walked towards the throne and sat down on it. (I guess I am an Emperor now. But I haven''t forgotten my goal, the Ritual. I will destroy and then retire peacefully in a small island in the corner of the world somewhere. A small, beautiful island.) Chapter 47. Project. "Just a few days after usurping the throne and being crowned and I already have to deal with massive amounts of internal conflict." I say under my breath as I leave a meeting room filled with all sorts of nobles. (One of them wants to de-throne me, the other wants to kill the one who wants to de-throne me and the third wants to just leave the Empire entirely. And lets just not get into how many other small conflicts, like who is going to marry who, are going on... I''m thinking of just turning this monarchy into a dictatorship, get rid of these ''nobles'' all together. They don''t serve a major purpose in my plans so they are just annoyances at this point.) As I ponder what to do with the nobles, I manage to bump into Viv and Lily since I didn''t notice who was around the corner. "Ah, sorry Viv, Lily. I didn''t notice you there." I say as I help both of them up since they fell down from me suddenly coming around the corner. "You seem kind of out of it, Colin. Has something happened?" Lily asks me once she gets up and straightens her clothes. I look up to the ceiling and with a big sigh look down to the ground. "Nobles. Them and their endless bickering might just end me before anything else can even try. Some aim their ambitions too high, some just want to see another family burn." I say in a slightly angry tone. "Well, you just need to teach them their place right? It seems they don''t really accept you as the emperor just yet. I mean, we did come out of nowhere and take over the castle and technically did crown you Emperor without any sort of religious head here." Lily says while Viv keeps quiet. I pat both of them on the head after Lily''s little pep talk. "Well, I''ll see what I can do. You guys just enjoy living in the castle until the Project starts." I wave them goodbye and enter the room with the nobility. The first thing I do is sit down on my throne and look at each of them in the eye.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. "I''ve had enough of hearing reports about you guys. Every damn day I get another report about one of you almost raising the flag or rebellion. I''m done with it. So here are two options. You follow me, or you follow the Old Emperor. Sadly, if you follow the Old Emperor, I will have to take all your possessions. And don''t even try to raise that flag of rebellion. I will kill you and your damn family. Does everybody here understand that? I didn''t gain this crown for no reason. I took it since I needed to. And seeing as the most powerful knights couldn''t stop me, what can your armies do? Nothing. So for the last time, don''t try anything." I give them two options just to make this simpler and many of them seemingly ignore me. "Also, for those who ignore me..." I find the strongest looking of the bunch who ignored me and walk behind him. I grab his shoulders and crush them with my bare hands and then I mercifully kill him by using some lightning magic and frying his brain. I sit back on my throne and it seems all of them have properly started thinking about their positions now. "So, I want your answers before you leave this room." I say as I slowly tap my finger on the table. An hour passes and finally one of them says something. "I will follow you, My Majesty." A baron says and soon after, all of them follow. "Good. Took you all long enough. Now, I assume most of you know of the Kingdom that the Alliance of Kings is fighting. All nobles on the side of the Empire near that Kingdom. I want you to build a wall near our border with all of the kingdoms. Based on my recent reports, the Alliance of Kings is losing their ground at a decent speed. Once they fall, they''ll be knocking on our doorstep soon enough. All the nobles on the other side of the Empire, try to reinforce them as much as you can and help build the wall. Also, try to make contact with any kingdom that touches our borders and isn''t between us and the Kingdom. For the sake of simplicity, we''ll call it the Rogue Nation from now on. Try to make contact with all the kingdoms near us so we can have their support once the Rogue Nation reaches here, which it will. Also, if anybody is good as managing spies and things like that, try to send some near the front lines of the Rogue Nation. I want to know everything about it." I immediatly lay out my plans for the Project which they don''t know about. After they consider my plans, one of them speaks up. "But what if somebody attacks from behind?" A Viscount asks. "I''ll deal with it, personally." I say full of confidence. The nobles then agree to my plan either wholeheartedly or with some reluctance. I then nod and let them go back to their fiefs. Of course, I keep a few spies on them at all times as well. (Can''t have one of them turning bad inside the walls of my little Project now can I?) Chapter 48. The First Detachment. --- Three Weeks after the start of the Project Plan --- "Important news!" An unknown messenger runs up to me and takes out a message and starts reading it. "The walls have been breached. The Alliance of Kings has failed. I hope that every kingdom, every empire that gets this message knows to seal all paths between our Kingdoms and your own. We hope that one day that the true enemy of the world can be defeated for the true enemy is more powerful now that they have breached our walls and taken our populace as their own. Do not offer sanctuary to our populace. They are all infected. We, the Kings, are writing this just before our populace breaks through the front gate to kill us. Our most trusted messenger will go and spread this message to every kingdom, princedom, country, barony, empire that he can." He finishes his message, wraps it up and then runs away again. I sit on my throne for a while thinking about a few things until I finally get up. "Prepeare the defensive line. They are here. Send the order to all my vassals." I say to one of my own messengers and he runs off as fast as he can. --- A week later, near the front line --- "Pretty good job, the wodden wall is up and the stone one is half finished on this side. You all work fast." I say to the collection of nobles in charge of building and manning the wall. "It is our honor and duty now that we know why you wanted us to spend so much of our resources on this wall. It is completely understandable now that we have had a few skirmishes with the enemy." The baron in charge of the castle we are staying at says in a confident tone. "Skirmishes? They are already scouting our area? That means we are next. When I left I got a message that the supporting nobles are starting to send their convoys over. They should arrive in two weeks. Can all of you hold out against them in that time? I shall help by staying here as well. Any major offensives I will take part in and try to beat back. My group of bodyguards aren''t weak either." I look over the nobles and all of them have determined looks on their faces. I look at my ''bodyguards'' aka Viv and the rest. They basically are an entire army together. As I was just about to finish up this meeting, a soldier opens the door and lets in a messenger. "Our surveyors have spotted a decently sized enemy army heading towards this castle! They will attack the portion of the stone wall currently in production. I think they are trying to stop us while taking some land while they are at it." The messenger says everything and then goes to the side of the door while bowing. I dismiss him and tell him to rest as I see he is fairly exhausted.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "Well... You heard the messenger. I guess it''s time to show that we are not somebody you can just stop or take land from." I stand up and so does my group, who were sitting near the side of the room. "Viv, if you''d get my half-cape." I ask and Viv immediatly runs off to get it. In this Empire, the Emperor is required to wear the royal cape to battle and whoever hands it and puts it on him is usually one of the most trusted members of the Emperor''s Guard or one of the Emperor''s Trusted Aides. Viv returns with my red-violet-golden half-cape and helps me put it on. "To the front line we go. What about you, nobles of this land?" I ask them and they all stand up. "We shall return to our fiefs, gather our troops and immediatly set out to assist you." They say and immediatly leave. --- A day later, at the section of the wall that is going to get attacked --- "The Workers have been evacuated safely." A Count says to me while looking at the plains where the enemy army is supposed to be coming from. Two hours later, the enemy army is seen on the plains. "I guess they weren''t wrong. I won''t be directly assisting in destroying this army as it doesn''t seem to be too terribly big. And I also want to see how powerful my troops are compared to the enemy." I say as I sit down on a chair brought for me by a regular soldier. The Emperor is actually never meant to be anywhere this close to where the battle is supposed to be held. Not even the Brave Emperor had done this as it''s too dangerous. I wait and wait and finally the enemy army reaches the range for our crossbowmen and regular bowmen. "Release!" The count says and all our ranged soldiers, including the catapults and such, release every single projectile they have. The sky is covered in flying boulders and arrows. The first volley absoloutely decimates the enemy army as most of our ranged soldiers had been hiding so they weren''t seen. The enemy army takes up a stance for protecting against projectiles. It takes half an hour for the enemy army to reach melee range and they hadn''t brought a single cavalry detachment so they were pure infantry. If they did bring archers, they were killed in the first volley. "Infantry! Charge! Cavalry, Flank and Hit&Run tactic!" A Viscount in charge of the Infantry and Cavalry. "Archers! Direct fire into the center ranks of the enemy! Make sure to hit as few of our own as possible!" The Count in charge of the archers shouts out. And so began the brutal melee. The flanking tactic of the cavalry worked pretty well for a while until the enemy started to get used to it. "Hmm... It looks we are evenly matched. But it seems their troops have more strength and ferocity than ours. Seeing as not even one of them has shown any signs of hesitation yet." I say but I actually know the reason for it as well. "I''ll assist a tad. We are going to lose too many troops if this keeps on going." I say as I stand up and go to the edge of the wall. "Earth Magic: [Iron Spike Wall]" I immediatly cast a spell that splits the enemy army into two while also impaling everybody who was in the location of the wall. "Fire Magic: [Restricted Fire]" I send out a fire spell that only targets people I see as ''enemies'' instead of the usual kill everything in that location. I sit back down and in five minutes the entire enemy army is surrounded and executed. I look back at the battle for a bit and think. "Our army can hold their ground if they use the wall. Which means this was either a really weak detachment or the enemy is weaker than expected. Well, there are the elites of course but I will handle those if any pop up." I say to the collection of nobles who were waiting for me to say something. I get up and look at the nobles. "You did great. I will head back to the capital for a while and help set up the convoy routes and such. I shall return to the front lines the instant I think we can start pushing the enemy back into the pits where they thought it was wise to crawl out of." I look at the nobles with a smile on my face. I then jump off the wall, get into the carriage meant for me and the select members of my group and then order the driver to head towards the Capital. Chapter 49. Management. I reach the capital in a few days and immediatly after entering the throneroom, I start requesting for all sorts of papers to check our overall situation. "Here are the papers for the trade lines that you requested." One of my servants hands me a pile of papers and I put them on the table next to me and start shifting through them. (Some of these are quite useless... Why are we importing spearheads from this country, full spears from there and spear shafts from another? We are already creating our own spears anyways...) "Hey you!" I shout to one of the maids walking past me. "Yes!" She gets kind of startled at first but then bows down infront of me. "Take these papers to the financial minister and tell him that I ordered these terminated." I hand a collection of papers to the maid and she immediatly runs off with an ecstatic look on her face. In the distance I could hear her saying to herself: "The Emperor depended on me... This is a story I can tell everybody back home..." I kept going through the various papers brought to me for hours non-stop. In the end, I terminated most of the existing trade routes with countries as they were useless. --- An hour later --- "Emperor! What are you trying to do, making me clear almost all of our trade routes!" The financial minister runs in with the papers I sent over the course of the many hours. "Simply getting rid of the useless baggage. We don''t need all of that! Our country produces excess of those anyways based on these reports! Did you guys mess up importing and exporting somehow!? We were importing all of that not exporting! We were wasting resources! The quality of those spears are terrible compared to ours anyways!" I shout back at the financial minister and threw another bunch of papers in his face. He looks at the papers in shock. (The fool... Did he think I couldn''t get my damn hands on the list of production of this country? What was he trying to do anyways? Illegally pocket spears or something?)Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. The financial minister started begging for mercy and tries to kiss my feet. I kick him in his face and order the guards to lock him up and ''lose'' the key. (I thought I made it pretty damn clear that I won''t accept failures like that...) "I need a new financial minister. Get me one of the most renowned traders in the city, guardsman." I say to one of the patrolling guardsmen and he immediatly runs off to fulfill my wish. (The guardsmen are useful, they don''t even question what they need to do, they just do it.) I sit down on my throne for another ten minutes before another bunch of papers appears infront of me. "Here are the records of all our storehouses. It even includes the minor ones, just as you asked." A servant hands me the papers and I put them down on the table next to me and start going through them one at a time after dismissing the servant. (Spears, spears and spears... Three major storehouses filled to the brim with damn spears. Well, at least we won''t run out of things to throw. At least the other storehouses aren''t purely spears and actually have something useful in them... Like swords which apparently nobody wanted to import massive quantities of. Or shields. Not even bows... Did the financial minister have a fetish for spears or something!?) I look at the list of produced things again and notice we are creating quite a big quantitiy of swords and shields that are immediatly being sent to the front lines. The bows are being created in a smaller quantity but also being transported to the front lines. I look around and see a servant waiting for orders so I give him one. "Servant!" I shout out and he immediatly comes forward. "Tell the managers of these three storehouses to empty it of spears and to transport all of them to the front line. Here''s three letters with the insignia on it if they don''t listen." I hand the servant the things and then keep on going through the various papers. --- Three days later --- "Finally finished..." I sigh in relief as I finally sort through the endless amount of papers I wanted to go through. (Everything should be in order now... We are importing only the resources we need and not excess... I''ve also gotten the storehouses sorted so they wouldn''t be complete random messes... Our supply has been more organized as well. Yeah, this should be fine for now. This Empire really was holding on only because of it''s army.) I sigh as I stand up from the throne. "I''m heading to the front lines! I hope you can manage the situation back here." I say and immediatly a few guardsmen start escorting me. "There shall only be peace and order in the capital!" One of the guardsmen, who is staying to defend the capital, shouts back while saluting. "Good." I say and head out of the castle keep. The convoy of resources and my own personal carriages are ready and waiting just outside the castle walls. (Everybody is already here... And I''m last again. Oh well...) "Ok, let''s go. I want to see the situation of the front line with my own eyes. The reports were too good to be true." I jump into the carriage made for the Emperor and the entire convoy starts heading out. Chapter 50. Hold firm. We reach a village a little ways before the main part of the wall without anything happening to my convoy except any villager we went past started shouting and waving ecstatically. "Emperor! Emperor! It''s the Emperor!" One of the village gate guards shouts and immediatly the wooden gates open for me and my convoy. We enter the village and head through it almost instantly without stopping. "Emperor! News! One of the guardsmen told me that there is currently an enemy offensive at the wall! It is quite a large one as well!" One of my soldiers tells me and immediatly I order the entire convoy to go at full speed. (A large offensive, quite likely that there is an elite with them...) We reach the wall in a matter of hours and I could hear the battle from quite far away. "Alright. We have arrived. Everybody knows what to do so go and do it!" I shout out as loud as possible and all the soldiers and my companions jump out of the wagons at almost the same time and head up to the wall. (I could check for an elite. Remove the strongest and the enemy might want to retreat to save numbers.) I jump high up into the sky and look around while falling and see a tall, thin human walking side-by-side with the regular soldiers. The human has claws stuck straight into his hand and it seems like somebody stabbed two horns into his forehead to make him look like a demon. (That must be it. Unless it''s a regular-looking soldier who is an elite but doubt that is the case.) I start rapidly descending on the elite and crash straight into him, sending him flying through his allies into a tree. He slowly gets up from the tree and runs towards me at quite a speed. "Fast, huh? But you gotta go faster than that." I say as I vanish infront of his eyes and appear behind him, leaving him with a surprised face. "Think your last thoughts as fast as you can since after this, not even dust will remain." I say and he tries to turn around to stab me but I grab his neck.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. "Fire Magic: [Incinerate]" I finish my spell in a flash and his entire body turns into a tornado of fire. In merely a second, his body is completely gone and even the dust is nowhere to be seen. I turn my attention to a line of robed enemies with staves. They are chanting something and I immediatly realize what it is. (Mass-Summoning magic? Yeah that ain''t gonna happen...) "Light Spell: [Heaven''s Gaze]" I use a high-tier beam spell to wipe them out of existence and end their summoning in an instant. I then grab my sword and start cutting up the regular soldiers while walking back to the wall. Once I reach the wall, I do a 180 turn and look behind me. "That''s enough for one day... Water Spell: [Tidal Wave]" I summon a big wave of water that quickly turns red as there is more blood than water in the soil. I then use it to kill the front line of the enemy offensive and wash the others far enough from our wall that they won''t be a hinderance. I jump up to the top of the wall and land perfectly. "You have returned, My Lord. Is it time to make the push already?" One of the nobles approaches me in full plated armor and holding a halberd. "No, not yet. I just came to make sure the walls don''t fall. Also, have the offensive waves slowly been getting bigger and bigger?" I ask half out of curiosity and half out of caution. "Yes. Based on our observations, each offensive grows by at least a thousand troops and the waves have been getting shorter and shorter." The noble immediatly responds while keeping a wary eye on the direction of the enemy. I sigh and look to the sky as well. "It seems we are their number one problem then. Only our wall hasn''t been breached yet. The other sovereign nations aren''t so lucky with their walls. Quite a few breaches have already happened but they''ve somehow managed to regain their control." I tell to the noble and see the visible surprise in his eyes. "But these enemies are no trouble. They haven''t even been able to scale the walls properly yet." The noble once again responds. "Simple. The Elites breached it. Alone. The one I killed first was an elite. Not a strong one but still an elite. Keep an eye out for them as I don''t know how strong they are compared to the regular soldiers." I answer the noble and then wave goodbye. I head down to the carriages. "Unpack everything and distribute it to the entire wall! There should be enough!" I shout out and everybody immediatly jumps into action. The wall is quite large since I did take control of an Empire and that is why I brought an entire large convoy of resources with me. --- Exactly a day later --- "Enemy attack! The interval has shortened by another hour!" A scout shouts and immediatly locks the small door in the gate behind him. "Enemy number?" I ask in a calm voice. "I don''t know exactly but this time it''s massive. More than the usual reinforcement of a 1000 troops! We must be careful!" The scout shouts and I immediatly realize his panic. (A large amount of regular troops basically confirms the existence of a few elites with them. This one is going to be rough on the troops morale.) Chapter 51. The Wave Almost an hour after the scout arrived, the enemy is within our range. (It truly is a massive horde, one would almost mistake this for a zombie and demon apocalypse if they didn''t know.) I sigh as I silently stare at the enemy marching, under the fire of any ranged weaponry and magic my troops have, without stopping. (Some of the enemies are getting close enough to touch the wall and, based on the fact that they have absoloutely nothing to scale the walls with, they are going to use their bodies as ladders or depend on the elites I have yet to see.) "Oi, don''t let them pile up underneath the walls. Burn them." I tell the men next to me and they immediatly go to the wall and pour some oil I brought with me and ignite it. Soon after, almost the entirety of the wall I can see has a burning wall in front of it. --- Half an hour later --- "Ah, they are finally here." I say as I see a giant walking towards us with two people on each of it''s shoulders and all of them are different from eachother and the rest. I smile as I look at them from afar. "Confident. Seems like they must be the ones who took down the other walls. Let us see how they handle this... From the ones sitting... I pick you," I say in a calm tone, "Fire Magic: [Fire Spiral Arrow]." I send the fire arrow straight at the head of one of them and also control the arrow so it hits. Half a minute later, a scream so loud it could create a shockwave is heard as one of the four people sitting on the giant is missing a head and the body is burning. The body grandly drops down infront of the giant who steps on it. "Hmm... Is that a golem not a giant? I assume it is as it didn''t notice stepping on somebody burning." I say as I can''t bother to look at the details of the Giant. I instead stare at the woman who was next to the one who I shot and was also the one who screamed. "Oh... She''s mad. She is really mad. They must still have their emotions attached for her to be mad." I say and then jump straight at the giant and land on the giant''s head. They only notice I dissapeared from the wall, not where I am currently. "Where is he!? He killed one of us! He must be slain! Surprise attacks on us are just bad in taste! Get him here and now!" The woman keeps shouting. I try to hold back my laughter but I fail since they really don''t understand what a surprise attack is. They all immediatly look at me, two with surprise and one with only anger. "I should handle this... Golem? Or is it a Giant? Oh hell I should just handle it before it reaches the wall. It wouldn''t be good for it to just step over the wall I want to protect so much, now would it?" I say in a calm tone, trying to intimidate them.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. The next second, I put all my strength into my leg and kick downwards, crushing the golem''s head through its body into the ground. The golem falls apart and proves it was just a really humanoid earth golem. "So it was a golem! I was correct then." I smile and look at the three next to me. The woman immediatly leaps at me once she gets her balance back but is instantly killed by me grabbing her by the neck and just squeezing a little bit. The other two, one really bulky man and one tiny, magey-looking, man try to run away from me. "Can''t be having that... Light-Dark Magic: [Moonlit Arch]." The curved blade made out of light with an edge of darkness splits them into four almost instantly. I look around me and just see massive hordes of regular minions and no elites or commanders or anything. I even use magic to detect anything slightly stronger than a regular soldier but there''s nothing in this army. (Really? Only five elites lead this massive army? Were these grand elites or something... I don''t understand...) I look at one of the statuses of woman and only looked at the titles and class. "Ah... They were actually some sort of Greater Elites..." I close the status and sigh in dissapointment as I jump back to the wall. (I should really clear this out.... But I want my troops to have combat experience. A while longer...) I look across the walls and see my personal companions in certain locations to make sure that if an enemy makes it onto the wall, they won''t be on it for long. The ones who can''t really fight are also on the wall but only there for morale and to shout if an enemy reaches the wall. --- Approximately 10 hours later --- (Mages are running out of mana and the archers are running out of arrows. The swordsmen were sent down the wall into combat eight hours ago and they are almost out of stamina as well since they couldn''t take a break.) "I guess it''s time to end this here." I say as I jump into the fray. I land straight ontop of a minion and crush it. "Earth Magic: [Shockwave]" I send out a massive shockwave which either knocks them down or makes them so unstable they can''t move. "Get onto the walls, I''m about to extermiante them." I order my swordsmen to go back up and they do so with all their remaining stamina. Once I confirmed that every single one of them was on the wall, I started the extermination. (Where''s my button... Oh right I have magic not buttons.) "Greater Fire Magic: [Lasting Flame], Greater Earth Magic: [Field of Spikes], Greater Wind Magic: [Tornado]." I send out three greater magics in three different directions. (Two of them are explain themselves but the Fire Magic... The name is confusing but what it does is straight-forward. It jumps from the head of an enemy to another after killing the enemy and duplicating itself. This continues until I say for it to stop or it finds no enemies to feed on. Leave this alone for a while when you think the world is your enemy and the only way to forcefully stop it is with greater water magics. The three spells are like three natural disasters, one which instantly killed everything in it''s range - Field of Spikes, one which at a moderate rate kills and destroys everything in it''s path - Tornado and the one which won''t be stopped and only gets faster as time goes on and with more enemies - Lasting Flame. They also have their own weaknesses that are pretty simple. All except the Lasting Flame... Tornado you just need to stay away from and you are safe. Field of Spikes you just need to jump out of the field and then you can go back in... Lasting Flame however... Will find you and kill you.) --- An hour later --- "Extermination complete." I say and jump back onto the wall after killing an uncountable number of minions. I look at the damage that I''ve caused and then laugh bitterly a tad bit since all of that was usable farmland and now it''s either: spiked, burnt or tornadoed. (It''s all for the experimentation of magic. Yes. All for experimentation.) "My Emperor. What now? Shall we reinforce the wall further or is this good enough?" One of the nobles who were defending the wall asks me. "It is good enough. It''s time to attack. I think, or at least hope, that we just killed one of their big armies. We just need to create a path to the location where this all started and then let me kill whatever started it." I say to the noble even though I know what started it. (Seeing how many troops this army had, it must''ve manifested in this world and not just manipulated something. Which means it''s a chance to end it once and for all.) Chapter 52. The Push. --- Two weeks after the Wave --- "My Lord! Another enemy army, it''s quite big this time! And it''s right on the hill between us and that city!" A scout reports as we march forward through the flat plains. (Seven minor armies to stop in our tracks so this big one can deploy and get ready. Clever but predictable.) "Are they ready?" I ask one of the lords behind me. "Yes. They just need your order." The lord responds and has a smile on his face. "Tell them to start once we see the enemy. Otherwise their cavalry might try to find them and kill them before we get there." I say in a calm tone and the scout re-joins our force. We keep marching for about half an hour and we see the enemy force. (They have fortified their position heavily and trying to take that hill, even with our army, would be dangerous. Well, if I go alone that''s a different story. I breached the level 275''s recently after all... But I must get my army used to fighting these enemies. If I can''t defeat the Ritual and die, this world would then lose hope since they can''t hold back these enemies.) "Sir, I dispatched the messengers. They should arrive shortly and our little surprise should spring on the enemy." A regular cavalryman says and I smile. I look behind at my line of soldiers and only see Infantry, Cavalry and regular Archers. --- Two minutes later --- A distinct sound of something being flung is heard and I see blasts of magic and rocks go towards the enemy fortification from all around.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. "Everyone! To your positions!" I shout out and the army splits into five. All of the seperate pieces go to one of the five locations from where my little surprise is. (It seems the enemy didn''t bother to check why all my mages and siege weapons just vanished. Though I think the elites commanding them just didn''t bother about with scouting, thinking they are going to be stronger than us.) The screams and shouts of the enemy army is heard kilometers away. I send out a light spell up into the air and that is the signal for the archers to get into firing range. The long-range attacks from the mages, all sorts of siege weapons and archers dies out around half an hour later. (That half an hour of endless bombardment really did a number on them... Well, there''s only two of them left and those are probably the elites who couldn''t move due to the bombardment.) I immediatly run and jump into the fortification and look at the two elites. They are in a pitiful state after my army''s attack. "I''ll give you a merciful death. Maybe you''ll finally be free then. Earth Magic: [Spike]" I say as I smile while using the spell to pierce both their heart and brain. I give the order for my troops to pack up and march into the city, which has no walls for some reason, and then set up a base of operations in the most defensible location. --- A day later --- "Our troops are ready for the last march, my lord. We''ve also received support from the nations who have heard of our push. Currently, they have sent us an reinforcements numbering the same as our army at the beginning and supplies to feed all of us for a year. Also our own supplies have arrived and I took the initiave and re-supplied all our troops with new weapons." One of my logistics officers quickly gives me a report and then leaves. (Good. I managed to get us across half a continent in only merely two weeks... But now comes the hard part... I don''t know how high leveled the troops in the Ritual''s capital might be. I don''t even know how powerful the materialized Ritual is at the moment either... This is a really big gamble. Is the average level of my army good enough to even give me a chance to, without using any of my power, get into the main part of the enemy?) While I mumble to myself, I remember my companions and their levels. (This is a really bad thought but... This might work... I''ll ensure they live though, I can''t have them dying if even I might die. There''d be no morale support for the army then.) Chapter 53. Hello There. I gather all my companions, who can fight the enemy based off of my estimation of the enemy levels, the morning of the attack so I can tell them my plan. "I need you all to do me a favor. This favor might be the last one ever though. I am planning to charge straight through the enemy lines and meet the mastermind. I cannot allow myself to even use a sliver of mana since I don''t know how powerful my enemy is. And for that, I need your help today. I need you to form something like a spearhead around me until I get to the mastermind and then immediatly, I repeat IMMEDIATLY, get out. With everybody. Nobody must be near me when the battle starts. Do you understand?" I say in a kind of harsh tone. All of them nod since they understand how powerful our enemy might be. "Good. Also, if it seems dangerous at any time then you must immediatly stop and run. You mustn''t try to save me or try to get me further. Your lives are more important since I''ll most likely survive but I am not so sure about the most of you. Never try to be a hero or help me more than your capabilities allow you to." I warn them as well, just in case. --- A few hours later, near the enemy capital --- I look at the place I must break into. Heavily fortified with high walls and seemingly two gates. The keep doesn''t have a wall surrounding it so getting in there will be simpler. The path from the front gate to the keep is filled to the brim with enemy troops getting ready to meet us in combat. There are many side-streets which are empty but lead back to the main street quite fast. "Sir! Everything is ready. The formation to get you to the keep is ready as well. The teams in charge of securing the escape routes are fully prepeared as well." One of the knight-messengers reports to me. I nod to him and then look around me. The formation to protect me is simple, my companions directly around me with the strongest near the outside and then around my companions is a thick formation of a mix of our strongest heaviest and light cavalry. Following the formation close by are our best horse archers which are limited in number. Ontop of all of that, the mages are going to be exhausting every single point of mana they can to support us via support magic and forsake offensive capabilities completely. "Assemble the formations! Get ready for the charge!" I shout and everybody immediatly starts busily moving. All the cavalry forms a tight pack around me but all the infantry, regular archers and other foot soldiers move to defend the camp and the siege weapons.A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Once I confirm that everybody is in their positions, I shout out once more: "Release the volley!". The instant my voice is heard, every siege weapon we took with us, shoots towards the enemy gates and towers. Once the volley ends, the gate is essentially dust.¡äsince even the enemy mages couldn''t provide enough protection magic to defend it against the sheer power of the volley. "Mages! Support magic!" I shout out once more and slowly but surely my entire formation gets buffed with different types of magic. "Charge!" I shout out the last order and the entire formation begins moving. In just a mere minute, we enter the city through the broken gate. The front few rows of light cavalry suddenly swerve right, just as planned, and dissapear into the side-streets. The rest of the formation crashes through the first few lines of the enemy with relative ease but I noticed something odd. (These levels.... They''re too low.) Even with this feeling of unease, I keep charging forward and about fifteen minutes, we meet the last line of defense between us and the keep. Our light cavalry suddenly re-appears from the side-streets and immediatly charges into the enemy from the side. Many people fly but it wasn''t the enemy, our troops fly magnificently through the sky. The heavy cavalry meets the enemy and there are casualties from both sides this time. (These... These are quite high leveled. It took about thirty out of our five hundred heavy cavalry to kill one of them whilst one of them could kill 20 of the cavalry with ease.) After a few seconds of combat, which seemed like an eternity, a small little hole is formed in the enemy line and my companions and I immediatly run through it. My companions stop and help out the heavy cavalry. I keep charging forward to the keep. (There was too little enemy resistance. I cannot imagine that anybody would leave their capital so undefended.) I smash through the gate of the keep with pure power and jump off my horse, charging towards the throneroom. Once I enter the throneroom through open gates, which was very suspicious, I saw it. "Well... Hello there..." I say in a confused tone. What I was looking at wasn''t a living being. It was a mass. Just, a mass. The mass of bodies lets out a ferocious scream towards me and suddenly the mass changes form into a humanoid version. I quickly take a look at it through my status.
Name and Race: Ravarrah Unknown
Race Bonuses: Unknown ----------
Level and Soul Level: Unknown Unknown
Jobs/Classes: Head and Body of the Ritual Unknown
TItles: Unknown Unknown
Title Bonuses: Unknown Unknown
Abilities: [God-Tier Dark Magic] ERROR! UNREGISTERED ABILITY DETECTED!
Stats: Strength: Estimated - 520k Magic/MP: Estimated - 950k
Agility: Estimated - 50k Intellect: Estimated - 820k Stamina/HP: Estimated - 450k
I stare at the screen and for the first time, I see a lot of unknowns and even an error. (Its stats.... They are, at the minimum, three times mine except agility....) "Indeed, Hello There." The being talks in a very coarse voice, so much that my ears in pain. I can only think of one thing while looking at it: (If I don''t defeat this, nothing will. So what am I waiting for? It''s time for the boss fight I''ve always dreamed of....) Chapter 54. Now or never. Knowing that this is the end, I smirk. It''s all or nothing, this is it. After five seconds of silence, I decide to charge in. "Ice-Wind Magic: [Freezing Breeze]" I try to freeze Ravarrah in place as I run towards him. He seems unphased by it and simply sends a part of the mass of bodies towards me at a speed I can barely dodge. I keep running and running, dodging the pieces by inches. The instant I get within an arms'' distance, I try to swing my sword through it. My sword goes through it like going through jelly but I do no damage. "Tch... Light Magic: [Blind]" I chant a simple light magic to get away from him as I am too close. As I jump away I notice something, the place I was before has a small burn scar. (Wait... Am I stupid or something? God-Tier Dark Magic = Weak to Light Magic! It is the rule! Also he is the dark and evil last boss... Oh well, at least I know something affects him.) "Light Magic: [Coating of Light]" I envelop myself and my sword with a thick light-magic coating. I start running again and this time, Ravarrah sends spikes and tentacle-like parts of his body towards me. "Light Magic: [Barrier]" I invoke a barrier as I charge forward, causing the tentacles to bounce off and be burned. The tentacles which go around the barrier are stopped by the coating and I cut them to pieces with my sword as I keep on running. Suddenly, Ravarrah starts laughing and something purple shines from within his right eye, something circular. (A... Core?) I think to myself in pain due to the coarse voice and an obnoxious laugh being absoloutely unbearable to my ears. "Wind Magic: [Tornado]" I surround myself in a tornado which causes Ravarrah''s voice to not reach my ears anymore. Suddenly, the tornado dissapears and I find myself surrounded by darkness, by the mass that is his body. I quickly look around for an escape and find none. "This.... Is the End..." Ravarrah says and the mass starts slowly getting closer to me, intent on crushing me to a mess. (Quickly... What can I do here... A barrier? No... That''s one way only... Ah!) "Light-Fire Magic: [Holy Fire Spiral]; Light Magic: [Barrier]" I surround myself in a spiral of fire and seal off the top with a barrier. (I need to escape before I burn all of the oxygen... Below! I just gotta go down!) "Earth Magic: [Pit]; Earth Magic: [Corridor]; Earth Magic: [Pit]" I use three Earth Magic in a row and quickly escape the envelopment. The instant he notices me outside, he swings a massive arm towards me. "Light magic: [Barrier]" I summon a barrier in the hopes of stopping it but, after five seconds of pushing me, the arm breaks through the barrier and sends me flying through the roof of the throneroom, into the city. Ravarrah jumps outside as well, showing it''s form to the world. I quickly regain my posture while in the air and land safely whilst trying to figure out where Ravarrah is going to land until I notice, he is right above me. I quickly dodge using the only good thing I have, speed. (He hasn''t taken much damage at all. But we are now outside, I have more space to run.)The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. I quickly try to put some distance between us but Ravarrah tries to stop me via sending tentacles again. "Light-Summoning Magic: [Stallion]" A stallion of pure light runs towards the tentacles, breaking through them with ease and then impacting the main body, causing a massive burn. (Summoning magic does more of an impact... Does mixed magic cause more damage if enveloped with light?) --- A few hours of battle later--- I breathe roughly as part of my armour and clothing just falls off due to damage. There are several big burn marks on Ravarrah''s body but it is clear, I have taken more damage than him. (I need one big attack. One to stop him. He has also been using his Dark Magic, just without chanting... All of the tentacles were enchanted in dark magic after all. Which means... Let''s see if I can at least damage him enough for him to leave... I have no other choice.) I start to muster up every bit of mana I can from within me and from the environment. Ravarrah notices this a tad bit too late and fails to respond in time, even with his intellect stat. (Time for my ace.) "World-Tier Light-Fire Magic: [Holy Hellfire]" I invoke a magic greater than anything I have ever done and it completely drains my body of all but 1 point of mana. (I learned World-Tier magic while coming here so you should not know I have it... So enjoy your final moments, Ravarrah.) The hellfire slams into Ravarrah''s body, causing that unbearable voice to shriek so loudly, I am certain my companions heard it. After a few minutes of burning, the hellfire dissapears as most of the magic within a kilometer radius has been completely spent trying to keep the hellfire burning. (Please... Please die or leave...) "I see.... That was your last... chance..." I hear that voice and shudders go down my spine. (Shit... I''m in no state to fight. I spent all of the mana I had left on that...) Just as Ravarrah comes close enough for me to touch him, I hear a gong. "No... No... How are you here..." Ravarrah''s voice suddenly turns into one of despair. "You... Forsook this world... So why are you here!?" The voice goes into a panic and I try to look at why. I then notice why. The gong signalled the coming of the beings that probably brought me here: The Gods. "Child, you have done well weakening him and causing this world to detect his existence, allowing us to come. Had he not been weakened, his secondary ability would have caused us to be blind to his existence on this world. I thank thee, Child." One of the Goddesses speaks to me as she comes closer. Ravarrah retreats as fast as possible but a pillar of light impales him. "Ravarrah! ''Tis be the last world you shall ever see with thy eyes!" Suddenly, a commanding presence descends with the voice. All the angels and other gods bow down before him, meaning he must be the head god. I smile bitterly, gods must see the state that I am in but with this... My job is done. I collapse as, just before I summoned my hellfire, my HP dropped down close to zero. --- Meanwhile, the Goddess who was descending towards Colin. --- "Ara... He collapsed." I say in a calm tone. "Of course. You, of all of us here, should know what kind of battle this was, Goddess of Time and Space." The Head God speaks to me as I slightly bow and keep descending. "I do. It''s actually a miracle he didn''t die. When I looked into his future, he was definetly going to die while summoning that fire. I guess we must thank her for all of this." The Goddess looks towards a woman who has collapsed but is alive. "Ah, the Seer Athestine Balcan. She truly was an unexpected but welcome surprise. The first person to sucessfully transfer her soul across time and go back into the past. She really did love her times'' Colin. Not like she ever admitted it. But well, that''s enough idle chatter. We need to go and re-vitalize all the worlds Ravarrah destroyed whilst we were having that banquet. Damn children and their fits." The Head God, surprisingly chatty today, says and leaves. I wave goodbye and then finally descend next to the collapsed Colin. "It seems the Summoning Magic I gave to you really helped, huh... Though the Head''s Light Magic was what helped you finish it off the most... Frustrating but well, he is the Head." I talk to myself a bit before I look at Colin. (Hmm... How shall I reward you for helping to send out that alarm... Also before I forget...) I take out a notebook and write inside of it: "Remind the Head God to take off the ''Don''t Detect Superior Beings'' system in the Worlds." (I know that it''s highly unlikely that us, the Gods will actually do something but Ravarrah, that entitled brat, did destroy... Five Worlds. But well, It was actually an accident that Ravarrah came here. You were meant to have a life of peace and happiness here, not one where you had to worry about Ravarrah''s idiocy that lasted over a thousand years of this planet''s existence.) I finally come up with how I can reward Colin. I get down on my knees and give him a small kiss on the forehead. (I know It''s not much but it is from a Goddess... I can''t directly kiss you after all... But I can do one other thing except give you all your mana and health back. Hehehehe... I hope Rommy won''t be mad at me for this...) I bring the Seer over to Colin and then put Colin in Athy''s embrace, making it clear that Athy saved him. I leave this world to go back to the Banquet of the Gods whilst chuckling a little, also prepeared for the lecture that the Goddess of Love is going to give me. --- A little bit after, Colin. --- I slowly open my eyes and look around and then notice somebody embracing me from behind. When I turn my head, I notice a collapsed woman, Athy, there. She is holding me in a tight embrace, intent on not letting me go. I peek at her status bar and notice that her health is down to half. (You... Saved me didn''t you? I felt something was weird when the tentacles suddenly stopped moving and one of them even changed direction.) I decide to not force myself out of the embrace and instead wait for Athy to wake up. Chapter 55. Epilogue. Athy finally wakes up after ten minutes and the instant she sees the position we''re in, she releases me from her embrace. "Colin! You... You survived... Thank the gods..." Athy starts crying and I notice people running towards us from the distance. "Athy... Thank you. Thank you for saving me. I know I would''ve died if you hadn''t taken a hit for me..." I hug Athy and she starts crying even more. I release her from her hug and she manages to stop crying before the others arrived and saw her. "Colin!" I hear somebody shout before something rams into my stomach. Two Vivians had rammed into me the instant they could. The others gather around me and then notice Athy. "And would you introduce us to the new member we have?" One of my companions, I didn''t quite realize who, asked. "The seer, Athestine Balcan. She saved my life. I would be dead at the moment had she not intervened." I say in a calm tone and then fully get up. I pat the two Vivians for a while and they finally let go after a minute or two. When I notice everybody is now wondering what to do, I know what must be said. "Well... Isn''t it time for a party? The evil is slain and I didn''t die." I say the slain part with a slight uncertainty, since I know that the gods did something but there is no body or blood, it just vanished. --- A few days later, after the party, in the throne room --- "As you command! These new orders will be put into effect immediatly! But are you sure about this? Turning this into a republic and willingly giving away your position?" One of the advisors, who I had to hire to help me manage everything, asks. "Yes. I did my part and now it is time for the World to heal naturally. Though, I do need a favor... There''s a really nice island a little ways off the coast. I need that." I say to the advisor. "Consider it to be your own private property already. It''s the least the people of the emp-, I mean republic, can do to the one who saved all of us." The advisor says and leaves.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Due to the soldiers of the many kingdoms and such, the fact that I fought a being that could''ve killed the entire world was known to every single person on the continent or even the world. I knew that the world would get busy over the questions of who would rule the lands left unoccupied, what alliances to keep and which ones to break, what trade routes to set up and how long would the peace last for. And so I ran from all of that. (Living on a small island, with just me and whoever wants to live with me. Peacefully. I mean, my job is done. My title, the Ritual''s enemy, was wiped from my status and replaced with ''the one who saved the world'' which means my job must be done right?) While I was thinking to myself, my companions come back after their little vacation that I let them have. "Colin. We''re back. So, what have you decided to do? We are all going to follow you, since we owe our lives to you." Tiron says and everybody in the Guild agrees. "I managed to get myself an island you see. An island all to myself... I was wondering if all of you, Including Athy and the others, wanted to live with me there? I think a life-long vacation is allowed to you all." I say in a calm tone. "I will come with you." Athy answers first, completely shocking me. Everybody looks at Athy as she walks forward. "While I was away, on the days off you gave us... I decided something... I won''t hide my feelings anymore. I did it already once and it got me nowhere... Now... I will properly show you how I feel." Athy says and then walks up to me and kisses me. "I love you Colin, I''ve loved you for as long as I can remember... I kept denying it, thinking it was just the feelings of regret and gratefulness but now I know..." Athy keeps talking and when she finishes, I smile and then hug her. Soon after, everybody else also decided to tell me they wished to join me but there, maybe luckily, were no other confessions. --- A few months later, on the Island. --- "Colin! Stop sleeping and help us! You were the one who wanted to plant all these flowers on that hill!" Athy shouts at me from a hill nearly half-filled with flowers. "Alright, I''m coming!" I say as I get up and walk towards the hill. (Ah... These few months have been eventful. I knew Athy would stay with me with her confession but I didn''t expect the Vivians'', Liliana and even Memui to want to stay in my mansion on the island. I know that there were several reasons everybody wanted their own homes and we decided to split the island into parts so everybody would have land as well... But I didn''t expect Athy and the others would decide to give their land to me and help me build a mansion....) I walk up to the top of the hill and survey around. The hill is the only location which sees over the sea of trees this island has and is the perfect place to build a tower to see everything from or create a hill of flowers, which we did. I plant a red flower right at the tip and look down at the girls working away to plant flowers into the hill, sometimes the others come and help as well since this is the mid-ground between all the plots of land. I then look to the sky. (Thank you gods for letting me come to this world. I had fun. Truly did.)