..... even though I''ve been told I wasted my life, I''m smiling. ME, Yuuki, the waste of the adventurer guild the person who has been copper rank for years, is dying in a hopeless battle am laughing. My hands have long since gone numb, my body is cold and getting harder to move.... but I keep cutting and cutting. FWOOSH a large shadow covers this little field, the wind blows like a tornado, while a chill goes down my spine. "Bullshit after that a fucking dragon HA HA H..cha cha cough...HAHA, I never get a break. Well it, not a bad way to go out" I stand up "COME AT ME!!!!! IF IMA DIE ....I''M GOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL HELL!!!!!!" "Where is this? I thought I was dead. " I''m in a stone hallway that has no lights but is still bright enough to see somewhat down the hall. It is probably a dungeon. Dungeons come in many shapes and types, but what they all have in common is that they gather miasma and mana from the atmosphere and purify it back into unattributed spirit. They come in five difficulty levels Harmless, Harmful, Dangerous, Disaster, and Calamity, this describes what kind of monsters and traps are within. this dungeon seems to be a lower ranked one it seems, it lacks a high mana density to transform it into anything but a cave. But I''m surprised it hasn''t been conquered yet most lower ranked dungeons are conquered practically instantly by adventures because their core can be used as a strengthening item. I should know I''ve used plenty but it didn''t change anything. "Well I need to stand up............ huh...... ack" Wh...what''s wrong? looking down I see that my body is nothing but a little pile of slime. WHAT IS THIS!!!!! I''M A SLIME!!!!!! w...wait wait.......calm down huh calm down. Okay, let''s check my status. --- "Status" Name: Yuuki Age:0 Days Sex Race: small slime Race Level:1 Job: none Sub-job:none Health:20 Magical Power:20 Stamina:50 Strength:5(+15) Dexterity:10(+30) Agility:5(+15) Intelligence:5(+35) Wisdom:5(+25) Endurance:15(+15) Mind:15(+25) Vitality:25(+15) Charisma:10(+5) Luck:5(+10) Skills: body control lv: 5 mana control lv:5 swordsmanship lv:3 martial arts lv: 3 spirit magic lv:1 elemental magic lv:3 craftsmanship lv:5 woodworking lv:5 smithing lv: 3 enchanting lv: 3 magic tool crafting lv: 3 mana detection lv: 7 physical attack half indomitable preditation tireless body analysis one who is reborn unfortunate one one who lives on death lines human soul intelligent monster named monster one who trains dexterous one ex-adventurer teacher waste of the adventurer guild knowledgeable ???? ???? ???? one pitied by the spirit --- What is this status, this is higher than a slime should ever live to be, and more what is with these skills and levels.... and even more these titles. Why do I have so many? I know that no one knows the exact conditions to gain titles, but still who has this many at level one. Well, I wonder what they do? --- Titles: one who is reborn a title given to those whose mind has survived death and rebirth Effect: allows you to keep your name one who lives on death lines a title given to those who overcame a challenge that only led to death gain skill: indomitable human soul a title given to those whose mind stayed even though their body is no longer human increase all stats by 5 one pitied by the spirit a title given to those pitied by the spirits gain skill: spirit magic one who trains a title given to one who trains until he collapses, and starts to train again as soon as they can move again gain skill: tireless body dexterous one a title given to one who has many skills of the crafting system increase dexterity value by 20 intelligent monster a title given to one who is a monster who has much more intelligence than the average monster of that type increase intelligence value by 30 increase mind value by 10 increase wisdom value by 10 increase evolution destinations named monster a title given to a monster that has a name increase endurance value by 10 increase vitality value by 10 increase dexterity value body 5 teacher a title given to one who has taught many increase the rate in which students understand what you teach unfortunate one a title given to one who has lived a life of misery increase the luck value growth rate by ??? ex-adventurer a title given to one who no longer has an adventurer license none waste of the adventurer guild a title given to Yuuki due to for many years his ranked has not increased increase luck value by 5 knowledgeable a title given to one who has as much knowledge as a scholar or someone at the head of their field increase wisdom value by 10 increase mind value by 10 X3 ???? ???? ???? --- ... What is with these titles, why do I know why I got them. Is it the effect of the analysis skill? anyway WHAT ARE THESE OVERPOWERED TITLES!!! "Okay ...Okay... calm down. So huh I''m stronger than an Iron class adventurer." The adventurer guild huh I have many good memories of that place, Well I have many more awful memories of there though. Adventurers are a ragtag bunch of misfits 3rd or illegitimate child of lower class nobles, commoners who wanted a chance at wealth, retired knights who want pocket money, and last but not least those who want achievements. They come in the ranks. Starting with the lower grade adventurers. Iron Grade, those who just joined. They are occasionally called adventurer lite or adventurers in training, they''ll mostly do odd jobs and herb gathering requests. Next is Copper Grade these are where your average person can reach with some training. In this rank, you will do mostly do slime, wolf, and goblin hunting requests this rank is a rank where you can earn a "living", well it won''t be anything fancy.this is the rank I spent years in. After that is Silver Grade this is a professional adventurer, you will start taking harder subjugation requests and start taking escort requests for peddlers. Their strength is about on par with an orc, and they start regularly partying with a group of friends to go on to a higher rank. Next, you are going to the middle-class adventurers. Starting of this rank is Golden Grade these guys have reached into the superhuman they can fight with an entire platoon of your average knights and win without breaking a sweat this is the rank where you will start to get solicitations from nobles and merchants as well as some recognition.Then after them is the Platinum Grade these guys will get their own title like Setsuna, Light Blade, Fire Spear in the country they are in. they have the strength of your wyburns the weakest of the sub dragons. After they are the upper ranks they start off with Mythril Grade your title has started to spread to the surrounding countries you can fight an army of a small city without a major injury. They have truly become super-human they tend to pick a country to work in or retire to a guild as a guild master in a larger city. Adamantine is the next Grade they are like Mythril Grade but even stronger. you can have 5 Mythril Grade work together to fight 1 Adamantine Grade and they will be one-sidedly trampled. Adamantine Grade adventurers can fight a silver lion 1 on1 and have a chance of winning. This is the top rank orichalcum these people fight on equal terms with dragons. They are the peak of humanity. They are so isolated in strength that no country tries to solicit them as to not incur their anger. they have the power to erase an entire country in a single day. At the moment this rank only has 3 people in it. The high elf Allylize "Princess of the Reflective Moon" is one of the few elves who lived 1000 years and evolved into a high elf. She uses a short sword with ocean, mountain, and moon magic all of which are superior attributes. Next is Randolf "The True" he is the most unique as he his a dhampire of a dark elf and a True Ancestor who is on par with gods. The final is a high human brave named Mayrai that was summoned 200 years ago and her title is as you can guess "The Brave". She has a personality that is the most volatile of the Orichalcum Grade adventures as she will take any woman who catches her interest and "corrupt" them in her own words, well there is an upside as long as you don''t touch what is hers, you won''t touch her inverse scale. "-one who lives on death lines- is considered a hero title every Mythril grade adventurer has it. -dexterous one- is a title all people in the production system want. wow." Hmm... what should I do next? I''ll head further in. Going down the cave-like hallway I come across a surprisingly nice door for being in a lower ranked dungeon. "huh, what is behind door number one. huhu". fampf... fumpf... fumpf ...thump... thump. look at this how many goblins are there. there are like sixty of them. what the hell. they don''t have the same mana as the dungeon so they came from outside. hmmm, the core is in with them....so what to do... "Rushing in there seems like a bad idea yet leaving them there to increase their numbers further is just as bad." --- Ding Gained title -one who remains calm- --- "Huh.....I''ll check it later." So back to the subject at hand. the room they''re in its large enough to fit a hundred people comfortably.... normally this type of room would be in a Dangerous level dungeon that was neglected for a year. this dungeon would probably be loved by researchers, well anyway there is more than enough room to do something. I''ll retreat and see what actions I can take. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruruurur..........huh what do slimes eat? "what do slimes eat?" There are three needs food, shelter, entertainment. The dungeon is shelter "entertainment" is finding out how I can survive and evolve. What I do after is up to my desire. Well, let''s try eating bugs. Uugh it tastes bad and though it is dissolved I feel more food but I can tell it converted with 99% efficiency into mana. Due to mana detection, I understand the body of a slime is a semi-spirit state consisting of water and magical power. I wonder if I can eat mana as it is. Well, no discovery was found from doing nothing. --- ding gained skill gained abnormal status -- --- "Ugh... I feel like vomiting and my body is melting. Well, anyway it worked." Oh Shit! my body is melting OOOoooooohhhhhHHHH hold together! Whew, I''m glad that I had theskill. Hmm, I wonder with the body control skill if I could take a human-ish figure. "Oooh it worked, well it is not perfect I look like a child spirit race of water." --- ding gained intrinsic skill -- --- Spirit race and the spirit are two different things the spirit is the natural form of mana that is flowing around us in its most pure form. While a spirit race is a group of the spirit that gathered and formed a will or was created by a union of spirit races. A spirit race is different from the other races as they do not need to sleep, eat or reproduce if they do it is only because they found it interesting or entertaining. but they have ranks. At the bottom is the non-human spirits they are the weakest and can be found anywhere, though don''t think it is not powerful it is as strong as a silver class adventure. After that is the lower spirit it is stronger than the non-human spirit but it is on the lower end yet, it looks like a toddler and tends to be mischievous. then is the intermediate spirit it looks like a 10-13-year-old child they are also called child spirits as they tend to be moody and hard to please but they are strong enough if you contract one you''ll be invited by the country and large business'' endlessly and be auto-promoted to Mythril rank. after them is the greater spirit looks like a teenager but it can suppress its power to look like any other level to blend in. It is the type to rarely make contracts but can give its protection as well as level 1 -- skill to those he feels like it. the strongest spirit race is the Spirit King that number only six one for Light, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and darkness respectively they have absolute authority on the spirits ranked lower than them. One thing spirits all have in common is that they true to their desires. Though there are, for example, there is an ice elemental greater spirit who named himself Kaori, is able to willing to ignore their orders. 800 or so years ago the Fire Spirit King was in the north icy fields and they met each other and the fire spirit king ordered Kaori told the Fire Spirit King that he refused and to leave. The Fire Spirit King took offense and then bellowed and attacked Kaori. You would think the Fire Spirit King would come out on top due to elemental affinity and rank, but Kaori blocked by creating two thin barriers of ice and freezing all particles and atoms inside as to increase their weight to sink them to the bottom of the barriers to create a vacuum to block the heat and flames as well as so when a whole was melted in one layer air would rush in and blow away the fire. After blocking the flame released by the Fire Spirit King, Kaori released a barrage of hell ice spears that were as sharp as dragon fangs that the point had mana focused on a single point as to pierce anything subjugating the Fire Spirit King of that time. Well, I''m able to gain skills now, so let''s get some skills I wanted while I was Human. first is focusing on our mana and mind and moving it around our bodies. After getting used to that I cover my body in a consistent layer of mana, then I introduce various elements. About twenty minutes of practicing. --- Ding gained skill -- gained skill -- gained skill -- gained skill -- skill -- gained proficiency to become -- --- "Uhuhuhuhuhu..... let us gain all the skills I can while I have time before I go on a goblin hunt huhuhuhuhuhu." Next, let''s focus on the cell and the body, bring out that strength and channel it from our core to our arms and then to our legs. Move slowly first to get the feel of how much I''m strengthened. After getting the feel for it I speed up. Then I put the power outside my body covering my body like it is light armor and then continuing to train. --- Ding status abnormality cured --- "Uh oh-oh.....Oww I was surprised I never heard that while I used to train" Now my ass hurts how could I who was an adventurer for many years get so surprised that I trip and fall. --- Ding gained skill -- --- After 2 days of training and experimenting various skills have gone up and I''ve gained new skills so here is my status. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name:Yuuki--age:3 days--race: small slime--race level:1-- job:--sub-job:--health:150(-150-)--magical power:200(-200-)--Stamina:150(-150-) strength:5(+30)(-5-)--agility5(+30)(-5-):--Dexterity:10(+45)(-10-)--intelligence:5(+50)(-5-)--wisdom:5(+40)(-5-)-- endurance:15(+30)(-15-)--mind:15(+40)(-15-)--vitality:25(+30)(-25-)--Charisma:10(+20)(-10-)--luck:5(+20)(-5-) skill: -----body control lv10--mana control lv10--swordsmanship lv5--martial arts lv5-- -----spirit magic lv1--elemental magic lv7--craftsmanship lv6--woodworking lv5-- -----smithing lv7--enchanting lv9--magic tool making lv3-- mana detection lv8-- -----Qi manipulation lv11--Qi strengthening lv8--Qi circulation lv8--Qi cladding lv9-- -----body manipulation lv 11--impart element lv 6--mana absorption lv10--body strengthening: slime lv6-- -----mana manipulation lv6--mana circulation lv9--mana strengthening lv8--mana cladding lv8-- -----OVERPOWER--leather working lv4--alchemy lv1-- self-healing lv3--status up: slime(+15) lv5-- -----Fairy mark enchant lv6-- intrinsic skills: -----physical damage half--indomitable--premeditation--tireless body--dungeon eater--analysis-- -----humanization--create any liquid-- -----all status doubling--mineralization--storage--???-- titles: -----one who is reborn--unfortunate one--one who lives on death lines--human soul--intelligent monster-- -----named monster--one who trains--dexterous one--ex-adventurer--teacher--waste of the adventurer guild-- -----???--???--???--knowledgeable--one pitied by the spirit-- -----one who remains calm--??? of a loved one--slime smith--sword god''s protection-- -----smith god''s protection-- fairy marks: ----- ----- -----<><><> equipment: -----Tyrhrung--reinforced alchemical dried hardened slime clothing*-- -----heavy reinforced alchemical dried hardened slime boots*-- *enchanted with ,,,,, *mixed with magic iron of light and fire affinities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I learned that -- can create anything as long as I understand it enough through the price changes depending on the material. medical herbs were really cheap due to my understanding everything about them. Similar to magic iron due to always working on Sister Gaia''s equipment. It is exactly this reason I can not create high-class monster leather, or higher class metals than iron. I gained the skill -- by the fusion of many skills. the first skill is -- gained by eating a spider and its web. Sadly it wasn''t a dungeon spider but a normal everyday house spider causing me to get no experience. I got -- by eating a centipede it was also your everyday bug that can''t give you experience. I gained -- from eating said earlier medicinal plants. Then after drinking some water from water magic, I gained --. While experimenting with body manipulation I wondered what would happen if I compressed slime and took off a large flat sheet and then artificially remove half of the liquid. The result was better than I could hope for it created a kind of hardened slime leather. It was harder then steel if anything hit it if cut It would self-repair on its own without enchantment. I then used a spell from the life magic line and it retained all its natural mana and all of its previous properties but became as thin as high-quality cloth. Then I from smithing magic after creating another sheet the same way as before but using half the thickness placed it under the first cloth and then used both the smithing and alchemy version of fusion. This caused me to come up with another idea ''what if I added other materials'' and then I remembered a rare material monopolized by the churches light magic iron I only touched it twice but I understood it enough to make a few ingots from all gauges going down to 1 then fainting. After asking Tyrhrung to watch over me after I faint and did it. After I awoke and made some fire magic iron I turned all the magic iron into an evenly mixed powder using alchemy spells then. I used the earth spell on the powder and placed it evenly across the cloth by using the sticky liquid made by -- covering the cloth then using plating on the powder and the cloth. after that using both ''s on the whole thing again. After looking at such a masterpiece I check how many enchantments I can put on it. I nearly fainted as I gasped in surprise. It could take six enchants at my current level, meaning As I level up enchanting I can put more on. Though for now I''ll put on 2 intermediate and 4 basic enchants ,,,,,. is an upward compatible intermediate version of , is an intermediate enchant that passively boosts all effects on the outfit. allows one consciously direct force and isn''t passive. Meaning it does nothing if you aren''t aware. The greatest part of all this is I can change it at any time as it is all a part of me meaning I can control it at will adding or removing the effects of my strengthening skills. I can also once I gain the skill to create threads and manipulate them I can have this armor create threads within itself to strengthen it further. well, that is the future. "Hey" a moody Tyrhrung complains "How long are you going to look at those clothes and not pay attention to me." She immediately starts pouting. She is a bit different too as she Is covered In fairy marks. Fairy marks are enchants but for magic based races she counts because -- uses mana for its form I thought it work, but I tested it on myself first. they have a different effect for each mark. and this is her new status. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name: Tyrhrung --age:0--race: Living weapon--race lv:1-- job: Holy Sword--sub-job: Cursed Sword--health??--magical power:1000(+4000)--stamina?? strength: ???--agility: ???--dexterity: ???--intelligence: ???--wisdom: ???-- endurance: ???--mind: ???--vitality: ???--charisma: ???--luck: ???-- skills: -----healing magic lv: 4--enchantment boost lv: 3--maximum mana increase lv: 4-- -----swordsmanship lv: ???--black magic lv: ???--holy magic lv: ???--mana regeneration lv: 6-- intrinsic skills: -----Gist--materialization--status boost wielder lv: small--storage-- enchants: -----,,,,, , -----, . fairy marks: ----- -----<> -----<><><><> titles: ----- Smithing gods protection--Sword gods protection--Sword made by a Slime-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I left some openings for us so I can make new marks considering I found these in an abandoned library while with Sister Gaia and memorized them but had no chance to use them because they don''t work on humans. There are holy marks protected by the church but they use holy energy and have a different effect called divine phenomena and take years to learn how to use. They are used primarily by the 10 orders but Sister Gaia had one she let me study. It used pretty normal magical plants and had powdered light magic stone with the miasma removed, and powdered light magic iron with 80% purity. It was put on by applying holy energy to the while it was on the skin. Compared to fairy marks it has little difference other than element invoked but there seems to be holy energy always flowing from it. --- Ding conditions met released intrinsic skill -- --- This seems to be convenient for the future "Tyrhrung can you use holy energy?" I asked curiously "Yes and no" she tilted her head "Can I ask you what you want to try?" "Holy marks" I paused "I wonder what I can learn from them." "Do you want one?" "If I do, what would you think?" "I could give you one if you have the material and teach you how to use it eventually. but we don''t have time because tonight we will attack the goblins. I''m sorry I''m not allowed to explain how it works, but I can let you study it." "Thanks" As a reward, I walk up and kiss her on her forehead watching her glow red and the steam come off her head I couldn''t help but chuckle. "Huhuhuhuhu one step forward " "Hmm?" I thought I heard something dangerous, but it was probably nothing. Today''s the day to fight the goblins though I shouldn''t pay to much worry this armor and Tyrhrung they shouldn''t be able to damage me. "Tyrhrung turn into a sword and let''s start the goblin hunt " "Ai!" I temporally store her in storage I pick up some explosive magic tools and started preparing to walk into the main room that has all the goblins. I have to make sure I check out the situation before I attack. I sneak through the door as a goblin goes inside while being in my slime form and flattening myself as much as I can make sure that I''m not noticed. I see thirty goblins sleeping and the others on watch or just indulging themselves in food and drink probably from some small peddler with this number of goblins there is already a subjugation notice from the guild so I should finish quickly. As I watch the situation I see a goblin that is 1.5 bigger than the others and cover in thick muscle and armor that seems to be the leader. "Shit a red goblin berserker" I spat unconsciously Goblins are extremely weak the only reason they have survived in this world is their reproductive power. They can breed with anything that has a womb, have an incubation period of 1 month and grow up in under 10 days. When they breed with other creatures the off-spring gets some of the features and strengths. They don''t have women in their most basic forms but as they rank up and have more variations they have a chance to give birth to females which have magical power and intelligence. Having the females give birth allows quick expansion and they can have babies with more evolution destinations. These women will be deftly enough to make equipment and smart enough to make traps and control hordes in actual warfare making them difficult to deal with if they have large numbers as they will act as if they were an army. Knowing that the conditions to become a red goblin berserker are to be a "pure" goblin, and have a certain amount of strength. This means that these goblins are moving to this place from somewhere else. A horde that has a large enough amount of goblins to kick out a red berserker is a problem. This means a goblin stampede will occur. Though this happens enough to be called a 100-year cycle normally only goblin warriors are kicked out and at worst a goblin soldier or two. This will be a huge problem later I should report to an adventurers guild relatively soon...Even though they won''t believe me being a slime and all. Hmm, let''s focus on what is before me for now and get stronger and evolve so people will take me seriously, similar to how Fenrir is now respected and feared by humans even though he is a monster. He regularly walks around town in his human form and buys rare food and doesn''t attack people due to a peace treaty he signed. I sneak up behind the red goblin berserker pull out Tyrhrung stand up in full -- and swing down at full strength with both enhancement of mana and Qi as well as having perfect form and hit. ...Or I wished to say but because the differences in status he managed to react and dodges last second but not completely and receives a slash that cuts one of his arms. He turns around and looks at me full of blood lust and murder and growls at me. I take the chance and toss all the explosive magic tools in every direction and activate as soon as they are outside the range in which they will damage me. BBBBWWWwwwooooommmm After the dust clears away the only thing standing is a red goblin berserker holding a dead goblin he used a shield, all the other goblins are nothing but ashes. He dropped it and roared at me and immediately dashed at me at the same time drawing his sword. SWISSSH I instantly rolled left. He moved fast enough where I couldn''t catch it with my eyes but I have enough experience to guess how and where he will swing and I take evasive maneuvers and dodge with not even a centimeter between me and his blade. After dodging for 30 seconds I notice the arm I slashed earlier bleeding and having trouble keeping up with his other arm. For an instant I see a gap after his horizontal swing, I would not miss a gap this big and step forward after the swing, trusting Tyrhrung right into his heart. ...Or not once again last second he attempts to dodge and makes me miss his heart but I hit his shoulder completely disabling his arm I slashed earlier. "It seems I underestimated the status gap" I bring up Tyrhrung face forward slightly crouch ready to pounce at the moment. Instead of murder being faced I start being faced with respect. The goblin brings up his sword as he would If I were an honorable warrior would in a duel and covers his body in mana crouches and dashes forward. In the same instant I maximize the enhancements, activate all the fairy marks and dash forward and a few meters forward I stand. Thump I was the only one standing. Then I collapse onto my hands and knees. Then reality hits me all sound returns time moves forward and I here "Onii-chan are you okay!? Hey, Onii-chan respond to me! Please Onii-chan" "Yes I am fine can you return to human form and bring the dungeon core to me, please." "Onii-chan that was really dangerous! You could have died! Why didn''t you run away after the surprise attack failed !?" "Sorry, forgive me. But to be fair he really wasn''t going to just let me run" I here a couple of pitter pats and I roll over to see Tyrhrung look at me pouting and having an aura of anger. At the same time, I touch my face and feel a huge smile. "Here, Onii-chan we will continue after you absorb this dungeon core." "Thank you Tyrhrung" I breath in and then take the core into my body. and immediately Feel a burning sensation cover my entire body and I hear --- Ding reached maximum level ready to evolve ingested dungeon core all status growth rate increased gained title -those who defy the odds- gained title -battle mania- gained title -brave hunter- gained title -devil hunter- gained title -dungeon conqueror- gained title -???- various skill gained various skills leveled up --- For now, I''ll eat all the corpses then I''ll evolve. "Ugh, I''ll never get used to this flavor of raw anything" --- Ding gained skill -- --- After eating all the goblins I check my body making sure I am not poisoned or any other abnormality. "Hey, Onii-chan before you evolve let me imprint a holy mark" "Thanks" I responded in a carefree tone. "Onii-chan can you pull out the rest of the fairy mark powder" "I can." I smile as I say that and open storage and pull out a light red glowing mixture and hand it to her "Here you go." "Okay, lay down Onii-chan" I do as I was told and lay down. She comes over to me and straddles on my back. "Here you go Onii-chan" "Ahh....hah...whew...hah" I can''t even respond as the feeling of heat and pleasure coursed through me at the same time that a cold liquid touches me. each time her cold fingers touch me my breath gets more and more haggard and I start to faint and have trouble holding onto my consciousness. "Almost done Onii-chan you cant faint yet." I hear laughing coming from above me but I couldn''t put in a retort as I am about to lose consciousness I hear the word of god coming to save me. "Aaannnddd did! You can get up" Tyrhrung giggles as she gets up I roll-over and manage to respond "Tha��..nk��..s" After a few minutes, I raise up my upper body and see Tyrhrung look at me with a huge smile and say. "So Onii-chan how did it feel?" I immediately blush and look down and whisper "Where did you learn that from?" "Secret" it seems she heard me. "Onii-chan it seems you have a lot of holy energy due to all the protections to have so with practice you could become a great holy user." "Well I''ll put it off for now" Okay let''s evolve --- Ding beginning evolution process --evolution destinations !sticky slime--eat bugs (spider)--produce a sticky liquid !poison slime--eat poison plants--produce various poisons !large slime-- -- skill -- large slime that has a dangerous acid to consume anything !dungeon slime--eat dungeon pieces--increase status in a dungeon !cleaning slime--eat filth and bugs--trained to eat dirt without consuming anything else !! metal slime--eat metal ores--hard as metal and can create metal ---iron slime--has the properties of iron -----magic iron slime--has the properties of magic iron ---copper slime--has the properties of copper ---mithril slime--has the attributes of mithril ---ect.--etc. !!scavenger--eat dead bodies--eat anything without a problem !! warrior slime-- a medium level of martial arts--looks can be deceiving ---swordsman slime-- a medium level of swordsmanship--|^ !!!Qi slime--can use body control + martial arts + Qi manipulation--has a dangerous aura ---Qi swordsman slime--can use body control + swordsmanship + Qi manipulation !!! human slime--have the title -- --used to be a human !!! magic slime--can use magic--one element ---wizard slime-- can use medium level magic--three element ----wise man slime--can use all magic--all element !!!! production slime--have 3 or more production skills--created by a wise man to cover his own weak points not naturally occurring !!!! gourmet slime--???--infinite stomach and storage knows what tastes good !!!! holy slime--slime that has a holy mark--passively purifies the surrounding area ---Qi magic swordsman slime--can use body control + swordsmanship + Qi manipulation + mana manipulation !!!!! slime spirit--use spirit magic--high status related to magic-- !!!!! slime devil--use a devil sword--high physical status-- !!!!! slime holy spirit--use holy sword--med-high magic +physical-- ??? slime devil holy spirit--???--???--??? --- "I chose slime devil holy spirit" Heat immediately passes through my body my -- collapses and I lose consciousness. After a few hours I get up and activate --. "Oh, Onii-chan you woke up here eat this." she walks up and hands me cooked goblin skewer "Where did you get the goblin?" "I killed it as it walked in. Onii-chan when did you get horns?" "Horns?" "Yes look in here""[mirror]" As I look into the mirror spell my skill has gone a grey-blue and I have two large black horns and my hair is golden and I am still slightly transparent though now I have 14 cores floating around me. "Oh yeah, Onii-chan you split while you were asleep and check your status" "Good idea" "status" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name: Yuuki--age:6 days--race: slime devil holy spirit--race-level:1-- job: magic swordsman--sub-job: production worker--health:1500(-1500-)--magical power:2000(-2000-)--Stamina:1500(-1500-) strength:350(+30)(-350-)--agility500(+30)(-500-):--Dexterity:400(+45)(-400-)--intelligence: 300(+50)(-300-)--wisdom:300(+25)(-300-)-- endurance:650(+30)(-650-)--mind:650(+40)(-650-)--vitality:650(+30)(-650-)--Charisma:150(+20)(-150-)--luck:15(+20)(-15-) skill: -----body control lv10--mana control lv10--swordsmanship lv5--martial arts lv5-- -----spirit magic lv1--elemental magic lv7--craftsmanship lv6--woodworking lv5-- -----smithing lv7--enchanting lv9--magic tool making lv6-- mana detection lv8-- -----Qi manipulation lv15--Qi strengthening lv15--Qi circulation lv15--Qi cladding lv15-- -----body manipulation lv 16--impart element lv 6--mana absorption lv10--body strengthening: slime lv6-- -----mana manipulation lv15--mana circulation lv15--mana strengthening lv15--mana cladding lv15-- -----OVERPOWER--leather working lv4--alchemy lv3-- self-healing lv3--status up: slime(+15) lv5-- -----Fairy mark enchant lv6--mark boost lv3--prediction lv1--drain lv1--mana rule lv1-- -----curse magic lv1--over eating lv1-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Arc 2 "No, but if I find a road or river I should manage." I smiled confidently. "how are you going to get in?" "If it is a frontier or border town I''ll just enter by paying the extra fees. If it isn''t I''ll have you go into the city claiming I am you familiar or tamed beat." "Wow, you actually thought it through!" She covered her mouth as if she was surprised. "You what do you think of me?" After finishing the preparations I walk out the dungeon. What was there was...a party of adventurers. It wasn''t a small party, it is definitely a dungeon capture party. But the fact they are here is bad. ah, they are pulling out their weapons I should say something and make sure not to put down my guard. "Yo, sorry but you''re a little late I have already captured it!" I made sure to make it loud enough that they could hear me. "I''m Yuuki. I am a unique type of slime so I''m not surprised you can''t identify me. So you are a noble?" "I came over to eat the dungeon core, but I was thinking of going to a nearby town soon." As I said that his eyes went sharp trying to find my intentions. "And why would you do that?" "I overheard there are delicious dishes in human society. I''m curious, and I thought I would look at the weapons and magic." "This was a temporary party to capture the dungeon as it housed a large number of goblins. you can join us on the way back, that way I''ll be able to guarantee your identity so you can enter the town." "I''m sorry Yuuki but I can''t trust you yet so I have these two checks out the dungeon. The one red hair is Mile and the other one is Gail I''ll leave the checking to you two." "There is no dungeon core lots of blood and nobodies" Before anyone could interject "Of course I ate them but I stripped some of the material" An even more confused expression appeared on everyone''s faces "I said it earlier I am a slime I have a storage skill." "Can I see the red goblin''s skin," Micheal asked. "Sure." I pulled it out and showed it. "This is quite the dismantling, wait this is a red goblin berserker. did you kill it on your on?" "No, I had help from Tyrhrung." I lift her up by the sheath. After staring at me all the people laughed at me. "Well let set up camp for lunch. We might as well relax until tomorrow as it will take to long to return to town today. Yuuki you might as well stay with us." "I''m bored they seem trustworthy you let me out." I heard Tyrhrung complaining "Are you sure? There is no taking it back." I tilt my head as I respond. "Uuu, I guess I can wait." she seems upset but she doesn''t seem impatient. "sorry" I whispered. I hear a pair of footsteps make their way over and I see Mile and Gail. "Sorry, are we interrupting?" Mile asked but for some reason, Gail quickly nodded. "She doesn''t speak much." Gail also nodded here. "So what are you doing here?" I tilted my head curiously. "We wanted to look at your short sword since we use short swords and daggers." I used gist to ask Tyrhrung if she was okay with it and she responded positively. "Sure. You can also swing it a bit." I hand them Tyrhrung with a bit of a bitter smile as I could see they stopped listening after ''sure''. "Oh its quite high quality" "Un...un" "it has great balance" "Un...un" "The handle seems to change shape to make it feel like I have wielded it for years." "Oh." "You can swing it there are only trees around us!" "Can we? What if we chip it? It seems really expensive." Mile has a bit of worry in her voice. "Trust me it won''t chip so easily." "Okay!" The amount of excitement in her voice makes it seem like the worry never existed. As they make their way to the edge of camp to test out Tyrhrung Micheal called out. "If you are going over their can you get some firewood?" "Ahh, They''re too excited to hear you so I''ll make sure we get some." "We have some time with the firewood we put in there yet, so you can take your time. Just make sure you bring some back with you." "Okay." "What happened," I exclaimed my face had my mouth hanging wide and my eyes wide open. "What the hell happened here?" "Ah, We are sorry!" "It''s okay so mile please explain what happened." "Well, first as we walked over I used the Laido draw style slash into a tree and nothing happened so I tried a few more times and then I let Gail try and after a few more swings we messed up on edge alignment and bumped a tree and then they hit each other a became a giant set of dominos as they were falling I took Tyrhrung and slashed the trees some more before we got squished then I heard footsteps an pushed us into the pile and then we were pulled out and that''s why we''re here." "Take a breath and it''s okay I''ll let you grab some of it and take it for the camp. I''ll store the rest." "Okay. ah, Once we get back too town will you join our party its always been the two us but we occasionally make temporary parties like this one for dungeon dives. We''re both silver class adventurers." "I''ll think about it." "HELP they''re fondling me, rubbing me all over. I won''t be able to become Your bride at this rate!" Tyrhrung screams through --. But I won''t let them escape so easily. After leaving them on the side of my tent I get up put on my equipment. "Why didn''t you save me quicker!" Tyrhrung shouts at me. "What Is this?" Micheal walks over and asks seeing the rack. "Punishment," I responded nonchalantly. He seemed to recoil a bit. "How long will it last?" "Until I forgive them." "But we need them to scout" "I''ll free them at breakfast then. I''ll think of something else." [Onii-chan I forgave them already. you don''t need to punish them after breakfast.] [If you say so I''ll let them think that I''ll punish them and stress them out for the day.] [You''re quite evil Onii-chan. huhuhu] "Come on it is time for breakfast!" "Ugh" "Why did you do this to us?" "You fell asleep during your punishment also hurry up breakfast." I leave them and go to the fire to eat breakfast leaving those two to catch up. "I know we came out here to clean up a dungeon but we were too late so we may not get the quest reward but I''ll do my damned best to get your guy''s your reward. You took an emergency request from the guild meaning you go half the reward at the beginning so even in case of failure You''ll still get something. Though Margrave Faress tends to be more kind to adventurers so we have a 50-50 of getting paid anyway for unforeseen situations." Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.He looked at me when he said ''unforeseen situations'' with a bit of irritation but I splendidly ignored it "But I''ll go and ask because I have to introduce him" laughing evilly looking directly at me" to the Margrave and set up the paperwork. Anyway, let''s get going as we are finished eating." "Can I help them?" "Yeah Go!" I jump over a carriage and shout! "I''m here to help" --- Ding leveled up! --- Walking to the carriage I see it is pretty well decorated. "Others will be over soon. I can use healing magic" Well, I can''t but I can create potions with . "Stay back monster !" It was right after this shout that Micheal made it here. "Don''t worry he isn''t evil" As if the carriage was waiting for that voice the door opened and Micheal froze. "Cecily what are you doing here!?" Micheal shouted from surprise pulling me away from the amazing craftsmanship of the lab coat that seemed to be a masterwork project that had been made using many advanced techniques only masters of their field could accomplish by working together and through a lot of trial and error. "Micheal-Nii-san Father told me to deliver this letter and to inspect Citer to make sure the influential nobles of the Royal faction aren''t causing problems." she paused then started looking at me" Also he said he had a gut feeling I''ll meet someone who will help me with my future plans for my next research project." "And what are those?" He said apparently calming down. "That is a secret, for now, Nii-san" Cecily giggled with a mischievous smile on her face. "Really, Well lit is a bit late but this is the ''man?'' who saved you, Yuuki. I met him during an emergency request where he completed it before I had the chance to make an attempt." "I am a man even though I look androgynous, and looking at what she is wearing it doesn''t look like she needed saving. How come she is your sister yet can get such equipment and you''re just using wind attribute magic iron alloy?" "It''s because she is a genius magic researcher and happens to be really lucky with her connections. Also, no one can say no to a little girl about to cry right in front of a group of grandpas and grandmas when she also gives a good idea." "Wow, she really manipulated that many master craftsmen." "Yeah, I still don''t know if she did it on purpose or because she was actually about to cry." "STOP talking about me while I''m right here." She yelled with teary eyes. "I''m sorry." I immediately suppressed the desire to pet her head to make sure not to be rude. "I''m sorry." Micheal petted her head to soothe her in my place but somehow she seemed to be dissatisfied but she stopped caring after seeing Tyrhrung. "Ooh, It is the first time for me to see an intelligent Living weapon that also has a full soul, not just a pseudo-soul." "How could you tell, and what will you do knowing it?" "Nothing it goes against my code of ethics to experiment on anything that has the intelligence to understand and make a decision depending on what I say. If she allowed me to examine her it''d be different." She answered as if it was nothing special. "What about my other question?" I visibly relaxed as I was asking. "Girls are more beautiful with a few secrets." Once again giggling "You might as well get into the carriage " [What do you think Tyrhrung wants to come out I realize you have been patient, as payment I could look at her lab coat and use it for some ideas to make us stronger.] [Un... she seems trust worthy] "Well, I wasn''t expecting that." She realized that her mouth was hanging open, she blushed and closed her mouth. "I don''t mind examining me but you can''t do anything that" She walked over and whispered into Cecily''s ears" would involve you touching anything meant for Onii-chan, but it is just the sword it is fine." As they whisper Yuuki can somehow understand that he shouldn''t interfere Tyrhrung backs up says "We can share but I''m first!" "First for what ?" Yuuki couldn''t help but ask. "Nothing!" I decided it was best not to ask "So can I examine your lab coat once we get to town?" "Sure, by the way, where did you get Tyrhrung?" "I made her" "I can''t make another that''s the same however I can make living weapons and use pseudo-souls to make intelligent weapons." "Ahh, I forgot I''ll be staying in the adventurers guild masters mansion. You can come over later he is a friend of my father during his time as an adventurer, and he has a massive underground lab. Sorry, you will be getting off here, so I''ll return to you to Nii-san, See you later." "Got it" "Yo I''ve been freed." "Yeah and I''ve been forced to walk outside in armor in the middle of summer while you were in the carriage that had a changing internal temperature where it was like a nice fridge. But I''ll stop complaining as we''re approaching the town and I need to explain why it is a good idea to let a monster in town while it''s not a summoned monster or a tamed one to the commander in charge. So wait here." he then sighed and jogged to a commander gathering adventurers, soldiers and knights as quickly as possible. --- -Micheals point of view- --- I should have gone ahead instead of walking with the carriage considering all towns in this kingdom have a magic tool that detects if a gold class monster comes within a 5-kilometer radius minimum and 100 maximum. considering his strength to kill a top grade silver class monster in a single slash it should have been clear that the said magic tool will react to him. I should have thought this through, he IS a monster even though he acts and seems human. Or a type of Kijin or Deamon. I ran to the ''army'' that is being built and set up right in front of the town and shout to get their attention. "I''m Micheal Leonheart and I''d like to see who is in charge to discuss the reason that your gathering at the moment." The unit commander runs up and checks my adventurer card. He is an old man and is wearing a set of armor made of a magic silver alloy of some sort looking like a knights armor with more metal instead of being a ''one piece per part'' with it fitted better than normal knights. "Got it, follow me, I''ll take you to the Margrave. Follow me" He had me follow as he ran over to the place you''d normally check into the city. "The Margrave is in here give me your spear and come in." I give him my spear and enter and bow. "Sorry for interrupting, I''m Micheal Leonheart, but I have a report on the gold class monster that just approached town." "You don''t have to speak respectfully, it is just bothersome just make your report." "Yes, like I said I have a report on the gold class monster. The report is the gold class monster is it is not an enemy... and it''s my fault that he made to the town. Well as I said earlier it isn''t an enemy it is a class 1 intelligent monster meaning it can be reasoned with. It couldn''t be appraised by the -- skill, but he is a unique type of slime according to himself. I don''t know the exact type of slime but it is definitely a slime as it has a core and its body is mailable. On the way over I have learned about his personality, he is slightly wary of people, building a wall for most people, but he isn''t a threat. He actually may be a benefit considering he without hesitation ran to help a carriage upon noticing it and he is really accurate in finding how to handle people. The biggest thing that tells me he is a benefit and not a threat is he has no ''threat'' nothing that causes people to automatically repulse people. Beastmen and elves are much more attuned to ''threat'' so they normally are repulsed by just by being near it yet instead of being repulsed they seem to be attracted not by any emitted skill or spell, but by the natural untainted mana." Seeing my thoughts he seemed to think of something but he seemed hesitant. The Margrave here is named Jake Faress and the reason he was placed on the edge of humanity on a frontier was his hyper rare unique skill of -- allowing the user to practically predict the future of invasions and assassinations all monarchs make sure to have one on their side at all times. "I see." the Margrave leaned back in the chair and took a breath in. "I can''t just let in a monster that is Gold Class without any reason to just enter the town. So tell me how you can bring in a monster and convince the populace." "Ahh, Simple have him sign up for the Adventurer guild and the Mage guild." Pausing for a minute Margrave Faress nodded. "Sure" Taking a breath in "but warn him he''ll be under watch the whole time he is in the city." I smiled and bowed " Thank you" --- -Yuuki''s point of view- --- I see all the soldiers line up like a wall in front of me while I''m sitting in the middle of the road with a fire in front of me with large sections of the demi-ogre on a skewer over top a fire with Cecily sitting on a chair right beside me. The demi-ogre has a demi-glace sauce and some mushrooms with fruit juice dripped on then eaten. Then I hear a shout then all the people relax and I see them all bow, but seeing Cecily not moving and just continue to eat I do the same. After about a minute Micheal and a ~35 with a sharp military look. The way the people here have no hostility at all says he is a good fair leader but the knights seem to have almost double the mass of the soldiers who are already considerably trained. By the time he made it to where I was sitting he had a surprised look on his face watching me fighting over a demi-ogre skewer against Cecily. With Micheal on his side with a bitter smile expecting this to happen if lunch happened and there was no mediator. All the other adventurers were cowering in fear with these two intimidating, overpowering, and clashing mana fighting over the last skewer. It was at this time as he coughed and received the blood lust of the two beasts completely freezing him as if he was frozen by [Frozen Sun]. but I took advantage of my high status and transformation abilities to take advantage of this gap in conciseness and take the opening to steal the skewer. she looks down at her hand in disbelief and the skewer in my hand and mouth. Then she gained an aura of depression with an expression of defeat and dread on her face. Unable to take it I give the remaining half of the skewer to and she immediately switches to an expression of happiness and satisfaction. I wonder if she manipulates those around her on purpose giving her a bad personality, or it''s all natural and she is just a devil. Once again we both hear a cough and both look at where it came from seeing a tall proud military man looking at us and an entire army we look at each other than face completely opposite directions blushing. "Now that this extremely funny comedy skit is over let us talk about the conditions of letting you into town. I''m the lord of this city, Citer, Margrave Jake Faress." "I''m a unique slime my name is Yuuki. So what are the conditions? before I accept of course." "Actually you have to sign with the adventurer guild and the mages guild and stay with the mages guild master while you''re in town." "That''s more than acceptable since I''ve heard about the guild master from Cecily." Apparently, Cecily has only heard stories about her and have talked through letters never meeting face to face before. But we do know that she is a magus and alchemist and she is loaded. "Well then welcome to Citer and enjoy your stay." He then turned around and shouted into a sound stone" Return to town we avoided battle!" "Micheal sees you at a later date I will jump onto Cecily''s carriage since we have the same places to go." I smiled and jumped into the carriage. watching all sorts of interesting expressions go across his face. Then I get into town. Arc 3 "Why isn''t Onii-sama joining in with you?" "He seems to need to talk to the Margrave for a bit. He''ll be a while." "Uh-huh, He is like that, very detail oriented that is why he is trusted and put on the frontier." She leans out the window and shouts forward toward the driver, which is an old dwarf grandma, who has a magic rifle to make sure to get rid of monsters at the level of goblins and wolves with a single shot for average people. "As soon as possible please take us to Uncle Falium''s mansion." "Yes my Lady!" The carriage started moving forward as Cecily pulled her head in. "Now that we''re moving I have a warning Uncle is a bit weird so don''t be surprised." "what do you mean?" "Well...you''ll see." "D.E.T.A.I.L.S. What am I getting myself into." She had a smile full of mischievous spirit "Well wouldn''t you like to know." Tyrhrung is sitting beside me with her head on my lap with a huge smile watching me be toyed with no way to resist. "Uuu." "Haha" Cecily almost fell off her seat laughing. Before anything more happens I change the subject. "This carriage is a magic item right?" Seeming to miss that I was changing the subject. "Yes, it is it isn''t the best carriage we own but it is my favorite. It is made of treant wood it has various durability enhancements, but the main reason is I''m the one who made it." "Ehh. You made it, you must have a decently leveled woodworking skills and enchanting skills." "Yup I also have the smithing and alchemy skill which let me build the whole thing under supervision but the whole thing was built by me. From each ball bearing to the roof." "By the way, who is the lady that is the driver?" "Ahh I never introduced her but she was the last head maid. But before that, she was a gold grade adventurer with her husband. They sent him over a few weeks ago to buy and set everything up here for retirement." "Ahh, I should congratulate her then before leaving." A shout from outside the carriage came in as it stopped. "My lady, we are here!" and then an old lady opened the door and spoke. "Ahh lady feel free to visit me, I''m off to see my husband!" As she ran off she was replaced by a large man who was wearing a robe and carried a Hammer? It looks like a staff with a large chunk of a spirit stone attached to the end. He then sprinted right at me and he screamed: "Cecily-chan watch out!" Why did this happen to me? Right now I''m doing everything to avoid death blows from this thing that is an old ''human'' man according to Cecily. He looks like a 20 something with wild red-headed berserker according to what I was able to get out of Cecily in the carriage this man is almost 60. I don''t believe it. I''m using future sight just to barely give me enough time to move Tyrhrung into the path to slightly redirect each swing allowing me to barely dodge. I take the chance after one of his wider swings as he took a breath to get some distance. "Uncle WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" He seemed to stop attacking after hearing her. "I am attacking a monster! I bet it took advantage of your kindness to get into the city!" "Uncle he already got permission from the Margrave." "What? I didn''t hear about it." "You will have a messenger come here soon. I doubt the margrave assumed you would attack him on sight. Now, look at your driveway is covered in cracks." "Its no problem my wife will fix it when she gets home." "You should stop making her waste her mana and learn to control your strength. and spare Aunt Freya from buying things to fix the whole house." "Haha I''ll just get scolded and be forced to train for a few hours" From behind me I hear a beautiful yet cold voice and feel a dark aura causing me to break out in a cold sweat. "Yes, you''ll train without sleep until you can make a hundred plates in an hour that are as good if not better then the ones in the house." "Yes, mam." He answered in a whisper. "Anyway," She looked me up and down examining me "Who would have thought that we would have such a cute guest." I turn around and see a tall blue haired damphire wearing a black and red robe that had a concealment effect. "Ahh...You don''t need to worry about that muscle brain attacking you." I took a breath and calmed down "Thank you." "Yeah on my way home I met a messenger sent from the Margrave explaining that I had to let you board for a while. Ahh my name is Freya by the way" "Ahh yes, I''m Yuuki thank you for letting me say." "Yes yes, come inside let''s talk about the terms of boarding over a cup of tea" As we head inside I notice that Falium already disappeared somewhere. In the meeting room in their "house", it is closer to the size of a mansion. I''m sitting on a couch beside Cecily with Tyrhrung on my lap. "Oh well, I already have your ID ready due to the Margrave sending it with the messenger all you need to do is run your mana through it. Also, I want to know who that person on your lap." I nodded "The person in my lap is Tyrhrung she is the soul that lives in my intelligent weapon, this is her -- form." "Ohh I have seen intelligent weapons before but they normally are nothing like people but like Homunculi." "Wait!" Cecily interrupted "you have seen an intelligent weapon before?" "Yes, I have seen the holy sword the hero used in the past. She used it during the time when she was working for the church till the time she realized the church was using her to push a human supremacy agenda and decapitated the pope with it." "Really I want to hear more about it later, but back to our original topic." My eyes were glowing hearing about the holy sword. "Yes. Ahh, the only rules you need to follow in this house are the basic common sense ones plus you have to let someone know when you leave the city. You are also allowed to use all the tools and facilities. You can also use the training grounds." I take the ID from the table and start running my mana through it. "Really? Thanks, it seems I got lucky with getting really loose terms." She smiled seeing my reaction. "Yes, I''ll show you around the house." She stands up and beckons us to follow. "The first floor has the kitchen in the back with the bath beside it. The bedrooms are upstairs. The smithing room is across the hall from the alchemy room. The smithing room has a dragon stone forge, a compressed spirit stone anvil and a refinery that works for adamantine. It also has a mana furnace and many types of hammers from cast iron to mithril. It has automata to assist you. Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.There is a leatherworking table and toolset on the wall. The alchemy room has a full lab, a chemical refinery, mana infuser as well as chemical storage that stops time. It also has two homunculi to assist you while making anything they have seen before. They can also learn new recipes after three successful attempts are recorded just like the automata " "Wow, this place is like all craft workers dream!" I exclaimed Cecily spoke up bragging as if she was the one to get it and it was all hers "Yup all the highest quality of tools and materials are gathered here. Not even the capital could compare with all the stuff in here." "Ahh, its not too much trouble it is just that we have had plenty of time to collect it all." Cecily had her mouth agape in response "I can assure you that not even the palace has the ability to compare to here." We spoke for a few hours to get the small details and a basic understanding of the tools until it was dinner time. The four of us are waiting by sitting in a large dining room waiting on a homunculus that is working on dinner in the kitchen. "Dinner is an orc steak with a side of salad." "Sounds delicious will uncle be joining us?" *Cecily* "No, but some will be put aside for him." {DINNER IS READY} A female automaton comes out with four plates on a large silver tray. She then sets a plate from the tray in front of each one of us. "Thank you for the food!" *Everyone* I took a bite. It was insanely delicious I didn''t even voice out and shoved it all in my mouth. "That was amazing" X3 "Really, it pretty normal here?" "Aunt Freya only nobles regularly eat orc. The average family has to splurge do so. and there are no chefs as good as the homunculi here." "Well I''ll show you all to the baths" We go upstairs and halfway down the long hall and on the right-hand side and open the door. "The right is for men and left for women." I wave and go into the men''s bath and as I enter I see Falium sitting there with a tired face. I slowly walk over and start washing my self in the wash area and clean my self and then walk and sit as far as I could and relax in the bath. Falium slides over to beside me. "I have finished all the plates...but I was surprised you managed to not to be hit by my staff it was almost as if you could see the future." "Uh huh" "�� Well, I won''t pry into your skills and the such but, predictive skills and the like, don''t rely on them too much because there are countermeasures against them if your enemy realizes that you have one." "Thanks for the warning." After that, we sat in there for 10 more minutes before I got out first. I went to the living room and pull out a book from the shelf in there. As I look through it I was surprised that it was all in Ancient Gladius Empire script. I could read it due to me memorizing it for a ruin''s excavation quest with Sister Gaia, she taught it to me saying it would be useful. The Ancient Gladius Empire has many things left unknown about it. It used to cover the whole continent. It was extremely advanced even compared to today, and it disappeared one day for an unknown reason. It was a perfect storm making it fit for many people to look at it and come up with various stories and legends. Now that I think about it very few people can actually read as it is a lost language. I wonder how she could read it? "Well well well" The book had a lot of surprising information. It was full of various magic theories and techniques for metallurgy and smithing. It also had information on how attributes could evolve metals other than Iron and silver and the conditions necessary. It seemed to be a research journal made by a smith. I read about half of it by the time everyone in the bath was coming downstairs. gained skill gained skill "Yeah, it pretty interesting. It is talking about material science and how mana affects various minerals." "Ohh! Can you translate it for me later? well, anyway let''s get you all to your rooms." She had us follow her back upstairs and told us "you can pick any room you like." I picked the one closest to the stairs Tyrhrung joined me and Cecily chose the one right beside me. Right after I picked it I walked in and laid down on the bed to try out how soft it is and immediately fell asleep. I don''t recognize the ceiling. "Ahh, this is Freya''s and Falium''s house." I remember now, I fell asleep instantly upon laying down last night. I try to sit up to realize I can''t due to a weight on my arm. I look down to see that the weight on my arm is none other then Tyrhrung. {BREAKFAST IS READY} a shout came from downstairs. When looking at her face like this she is really cute and innocent. Her ears just twitched, she is definitely awake. "Come on wake up." She turns her face further into my chest, I can feel her smiling. "Come on stop playing." She tightened her grip. I realized that this way wouldn''t work, so I pushed her out of the bed. "Ow, you shouldn''t do that to a lady. You are supposed to just be obedient and wake me up with a kiss!" I sit up and stretch. "Yeah, I''ll take it under consideration. Let''s get ready and go downstairs." I put on a normal set of clothes and go to the dining room. I was earlier then Cecily but later then Freya and Falium. "You will be going with Falium to the adventurer guild to finish all the procedures and explanations. You already have a card but you don''t have a rank and you''re not in the guild books, so you need to take various tests. Well, for now, eat breakfast."[Freya] I ate quickly again and ask for seconds and eat those as well. Falium finishes eating and says "I''ll get ready I''ll meet you outside" Tyrhrung turns into a sword and I walk and wait outside for a little while until he comes outside. Arc 4 "Come on I''m late." I ran and caught up with him. "And why are you late? I sat outside for like twenty minutes waiting for you." "My armor was in the wash, then I got scolded by Freya." "Really well, whatever." I jog beside him and everyone on the way is staring at me while others are trembling in fear as we made our way to the guild. As I open the door to let Falium in a blade of wind almost decapitates me. It wasn''t a second later when a barrage of various magic fly''s towards me making me have to dodge or cut all the magic heading my direction. "D��j�� vu much." "HEY! stop it! I realize he is a monster but after the first shot that you all should have realized that he isn''t trying to kill you. ''Cause he could have killed you all. Know I''m half tempted to let ''em!" I look back at him seeing his hair is slightly on fire, and I couldn''t help but start laughing. "Look good Falium." "Bitch get back here." Unlike the first time we met, I easily dodge because I analyzed his fighting style and his martial arts skill is pretty low. "Err... It''s Guild Master while I''m in the guild." "Guild Master, you need to watch your image while in the guild. Also, you need to explain the guild and do his tests." "Ugh... fine this is Anna she''ll do your procedure. I''ll set up the exams we have had people on the waiting list for the writing test...blah...blah..." "Just leave him I''ll do your guild card." Anna looks like your everyday sexy older sister type but something in her aura and eyes tells me that she is something more. "Well I tell you the short version of the rules real Quick The guild will protect you from being drafted for wars and by nobles The guild will not get in between adventurers fighting as long there is no danger to either life You may not threaten innocents that are not part of the guild (villagers) if you fail a request you will have to pay 60% of it as a fee unless there are special circumstances or the form has an error ��..etc" After she finished explaining. "Ahh, they are here let''s take you all to the written test." She waved to the group of six that are sitting in the waiting area to have them follow. We all follow her upstairs to the meeting room into the seats that have a table connecting to the chair. "The rules are simple you must get above 60% and cheating is an instant fail you have two hours." She passes all the tests out then sits in the front and reads a book about magic formulas. The guild test is pretty easy as it about basic skills such as plant collection and life magic spell formulas. I just go through the whole test. In the end, my test the unique question for me was a large magic formula with various errors in it, but I recognized it as the spell -- it is a spell witch sacrifices your weapon to increase your next attack damage by 20X. It is a rare spell as it''s complicated yet is for front liners and as a bonus, it costs a lot to replace weapons regularly. Well, I easily solve it. There is still a whole hour left so I just nap. "Hey, get up times upgrading is finished she is saying the scores." I look up to hear her say. "Everyone passed with above 80% with the lowest being 83% and the highest being...100%" She looked at the paper again "...hey is this right?... Apparently, it is right the highest score is 100%! Owned by Yuuki who was the first one done and took a nap the whole time!" At her last unnecessary sentence, I was glared at by everyone else in the room. "Well putting that aside. Next is the combat test." We once again play follow the leader but instead, we follow her out to the training ground. Once we enter the training ground there are a few people sitting on the side watching what we do. In the center Falium�� cough... Guild Master was standing there radiating an aura of intimidation, shouldn''t he be working? "I know what you thinking but we had no one else to do the test. All the other adventurers are on a request, so he''s doing it." "Uh-huh" "Well, anyway you will all go in order from lowest score to highest." I didn''t describe anyone earlier because it wasn''t relevant (their names still aren''t so I don''t remember) but the first one Is a little oni girl a little over 12 holding a huge hammer double her size. The fight started with the drop of a coin. The girl dashed forward enhancing her muscles in mana and Qi in her joints and swings her hammer straight down maximizing the force by twisting her entire body to force the hammer down. The speed was further increased by using a lighting enhancement. It was a blow that could instant kill a Wyburn but it is not enough to compare to this muscle brain who takes it head-on with his staff that is clad in Qi in an attempt to blow her away shouting. "Nice! But not enough" "Don''t underestimate me!" She used the momentum of his blow instead of being blown away to accelerate her hammer by rotating on her heel. "[Force Genocide][Power Crash][Earth Shaker]" A consecutive use of power increasing skills [Force Genocide] for 10x [Power Crash] for 2x and [Earth Shaker] for 5x for a single blow with 100x power but at half speed. To avoid this she timed their activation to be on the exact moment of impact. ��But before she could connect she was completely blown away "That was impressive Haha, but you need to train a bit more! What''s your name?" She smiled and spoke "Paloma" then fainted The medical team comes in wearing all white doctor outfits with a stretcher. They put her in the stretcher and carry her out to the med bay. "Well don''t we have a monster in our midst." Guild Master looked at me as he said his crappy joke. "Anyway you, swordsman boy, you''re next." He looked like any other newbie adventurer and his performance reflected it he did about average he will probably get copper class. "Spearman next." a young human man dressed as a druid has a spear but the spear is made only wood. The wood used, however, is not normal it is a type of wood referred to spirit wood. It is wood from a tree that is over 1000 years old and has become a guardian spirit. The material is full of mysteries as even if you analyze it you won''t get a real result. You will get its name spirit wood and that''s it. the strength one can pull out of the wood depends on their connection with ''The one Power'' or the spirit itself. Druids are pretty rare but not unexpected as they show up outside their groups after completing training to use ''The One Power'' to explore all of nature for 5 years as a graduation test. "It is rare that Druids are in the area. What is your name?" "Lue, Well I am still an apprentice not part of the council." "Well, well let''s start." Guild master played defensively while making sure not to stay still to keep himself from going into the reach of the spear and so he couldn''t just capture him. But Lue, unlike normal druids, didn''t try to zone and control the movement of Guild master into a superior position. He instead he dashed right a the Guild master and created a drill and armor out of wood. He thrust his spear forward and when he was parried he sent tendrils out of his armor. However, they were all calmly hit down the Guild master and countered with a blow against Lue. "[Flowing Willow][Auto Counter]" Lue activated two martial skills to one to parry and another to counter while he focused on avoiding. It didn''t take long for him to be overwhelmed and be blown away. "You surprised me at the beginning but you are still inexperienced and lack any trump cards." The other 3 weren''t special and were knocked down quickly. "It''s your turn next." It was finally my turn. I walked forward drawing Tyrhrung. {You ready Tyr?} {Yup let''s go! Lets beat up this old man.} Once again the coin is thrown into the sky. I put prepare the Laido stance ready for the quick draw and use mana and Qi enhancements. The coin touches the ground and the match begins. I don''t move and instead spread my consciousness around my self to be able to react to anything from a stone falling to the temperature and direction the wind is blowing. I forgot to explain martial skills because I didn''t use them against the red berserker goblin. That was due to the fact that most martial skills have a lag time or some other downside and I was already much weaker than my opponent, and they are made to be used against human opponents. Originally martial skills did not exist they were just techniques slowly created and refined over time. Until one day a single human who was cursed to be unable to use weapon skills went and mastered every technique and became the strongest martial artist and completed the ''Trial of the Moving Gate'' to become the Martial God and created martial skills. So I use the martial skills to enhance my myself. "[Lightning Slash Prep.][Dominate Zone][God speed]" [Lightning Slash Prep.] is similar to [Lightning Slash] but you can''t move and it isn''t activated instantly. [Dominate Zone] increases reaction speed but makes it impossible to move your legs, and [God Speed] accelerates your next set of actions (in this case my next couple of attacks). I perfectly relax my muscles to maximize their flexibility. Now after waiting for a second Guild Master dashes right at me realizing it doesn''t matter which direction he comes at me and he might as well gain to maximize his speed. I''m scared of his huge smile Unlike all his previous matches he uses martial skills. "[Meteor Run][Force Genocide][Berserk][Head Crash][Smash]" [Meteor Run] increases forward momentum and force by 5x. [Berserk] increases damage received and dealt. [Head Crash] increases damage resistance from the front, and [Smash] increases damage output. It didn''t even take a tenth of a second for him to reach my area of control. I maximize and input all my mana and Qi into my enhancements, cladding, and fairy marks. At the same time, Tyrhrung lends me her mana and activates all of her various magic to maximize my status to accelerate it further until both of us exhaust all our mana. A basic movement. A single draw and slash. I use my arms as springboards, twist my waist take a step forward. My foot dings into the ground as it assists the whole body movement of the single perfect slash. All of this created a single slash that could only be called a flash of light. The living cannonball meets this head on... ...And everything goes black. skill maxed out conditions met for skill evolution skill evolution evolved into skill gained intrinsic skill gained Technique created [God flash] added to martial skill list title gained title gained I heard the stronger the practitioner the shorter the battle would be. I never imagined that I would experience it for myself due to my level never increasing and inability to gain skills. The battle with Falium literally ended in an instant. I turn into my human form and check to make sure I didn''t lose any cores. I also notice I don''t have Tyrhrung on me but I didn''t worry as Falium probably had her It was at this point that I sat up as I heard the door open. An older woman walks in and looks at me "Good morning, you have been out for a couple of hours. A message was left that your result will be given tomorrow with all the other examinees. The guild master is in his office getting ready to leave so you should go meet him." "Got it, thanks." I stand up and follow her out, but I soon split from her and go upstairs to the guild masters room. I get to the door and I hear Falium being scolded and knock on the door. "Come in" I hear Freya''s voice call me in. I walk in and see Falium in a seiza. He seemed to have a few bandages over what seemed to scratch. "I''m sorry for interrupting." "It is no problem. If anything I have to apologize for this muscle brain, he went way too far. According to Guild regulations, the examiners are not supposed to use martial skills and spells above the intermediate rank." "No...oo...its Ok." "I was called over by a receptionist to pick up my husband and fix the training ground. Who would have guessed that he''d be in a pit that only was stopped because of the barrier at the cost of all the mana the magic stones had remaining. Lucky you to be blown out of the barrier due to him using his skills otherwise you''d still need to recover your mana." She picked Tyrhrung off the desk and hands her to me. "This one is still recovering her mana and seems to be sleeping." She took a breath and deeply sighed "But, seriously, you did a number on my husband and the training ground. You managed to injure him even though he maximized his defense to counter your swing using ." "Thanks for the compliment but I still lost." I had a mildly displeased face. "Yeah yeah, you hurt a retired adamantine class adventurer who is stronger than his active years." Freya rolled her eyes as she said that. "What! Adamantine class!?" "Yeah, I take it you did not know who we''re then?" "No, I didn''t, I just heard that you related to Cecily in some manner." "You''re way too trusting, you know that." "But that''s right we were a pair of adamantine class adventurers." She seemed to start reminiscing "We were called Falling Meteor. We got it thanks to his [meteor rush] martial skill and my [Mountain Drop] spell. However, that is a story for later. Well, he finished all his work lets go home early so you can eat and rest. Tomorrow is when you get your ranking and have the paper test for the mages guild." "Yeah I''m exhausted" "Well, let''s go. this man here will be pulling the carriage." A cold glare was cast toward the big man on the floor. "Don''t think that your preaching is over it is just put on pause. We can''t have our guest accidentally catch some stupid." "Yes, mam." He escaped at the maximum speed down the stairs. "Well, let''s go." "Un." I followed closely behind Freya swearing in my heart to never anger her. We had an uneventful ride home but I still had {DINNER IS READY} is reported to us as we enter the mansion. "Let''s eat then get ready for bed, don''t worry some will be put to the side for Tyr-chan. " I eat the dinner consisting of cockatrice, blast corn, and some salad. As I was eating Cecily heard about today from Freya and Falium seeing me so tired. "It is just the after effect of exhausting one''s mana he should be better tomorrow." If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.I go upstairs shower, change, then collapse in bed with Tyrhrung in her sheath. I can''t help but look forward to tomorrow. I wake up early and see that Tyrhrung is already awake somewhere. I dress myself, look out the window to see that it is still dark outside and decide that I should go to the living room to read some books. I walk down the stairs while trying to not make too much noise. I get to the living room and pull out a book on the synchronization of spells. It is in ancient gladius empire script it describes basic magic and what happens if you cast the same one in rapid succession. Synchronization is the phenomena where if you cast a spell on top of the exact same spell you can use the previous spell circle and reduce mana cost and increase the cast speed every time it is repeated. {Would you like tea?} an automata who seemed to be cleaning saw me and asked. "Yes, please" The automata stopped cleaning and walked to get the things necessary for tea. I look back down at the gook and see a passage that seemed out of place but had a large effect on current magic theories. ''Magic circles were created to alter the fabric of mana, to dumb down and mass produces mages for wars. Originally magic was cast without a medium, it was cast using mana to directly bend reality. These were the original mages.'' Well, there is no evidence for this but it is worth looking into this at a later date. {Tea is ready.} the automata returned with some herbal tea prepared. It is just now that I realized that these automata sound different as it sounds much more human compared to all the other ones. I look closer at it and see that it had a higher quality pseudo-skin and used purified magic stones as eyes. Its actions seemed much more smooth. I decided to examine its neck and see it as a magic transmission device that seemed to use a synchronization based design. Knock Knock "Come in!" Freya came in and saw the book on the table and me looking at the automata. She was wearing a night robe. "Sorry to interrupt I was getting a midnight snack. That book you''re reading is the first one I translated when I moved here but I didn''t fully understand it until recently when I examined the natural structure of monster stones. It is a good read I suggest you read it if you can''t sleep." "Thank I''ll continue for now." She walked back upstairs. I got a thing I''ll have to examine myself at a later date. So I kept reading until morning came. {Breakfast is ready} came from the kitchen. It seems a couple of hours passed. I stand up and set down the book I have been reading. It is perfect timing as I have just finished. I start to make my way to the kitchen and as I pass the stairs I bump into Tyrhrung...and I was tackled. on the ground, my stomach was being ground away and getting covered in tears from the mass of hair in the shape of a person. "Onii-chan!! When I woke up you weren''t there I was so worried! I didn''t know if you were okay, especially after the fight." I keep rubbing her back. "I woke up while you were still sleeping, and went to the bath after eating a snack that was prepared, and then you were gone!" "Why didn''t you look for me?" "Onii your so mean. I thought it''d be rude walking in someone''s house at night without permission." I start fixing her hair and wiping her tears as she continues to throw insults at me and small punches. "Hello wh... never mind I''ll be eating breakfast have fun you two." ...It seems Freya has misunderstood that we were doing something erotic. Well, I can''t blame her I in light night clothes and I''m being pressed into the ground by a beautiful woman whose clothes are in a mess. Also, said woman is pressing her face into my shoulder nuzzling me as if to smell me and et all my scent. After about a minute she calms down, and I have finished fixing her appearance. "Let go to the kitchen, we won''t want to hold up everybody else''s breakfast." I stand up and drag her before she can switch gears. We arrive in the kitchen. "So what were the two love birds doing to be so late for breakfast." I seem she has every intention to tease us for this misunderstanding. "It is just a misunderstanding." "Yes, yes, that is what I told my mother too when she caught me flirting with my boyfriend." "No, it really is a misunderstanding. Come on tell her Tyrhrung." "Don''t call onto a girl that you ravaged so thoroughly that she started to cry." This placed an image in my head that shouldn''t be there causing me to blush. "She is teasing you, and you''re falling for it perfectly." and to her statement, everyone started laughing. It was at this moment I realized that I walked right into this. "Come on, sit down, Aunt Freya stops messing with Yuuki and Tyr. If you guys continue we will never eat breakfast until its cold." It seems that I still have an ally in Cecily. "Ah, but seems we only have one seat left so I guess they have to share." Or not, she shoved one of the chairs in storage leaving only one left while bearing a huge sadistic smile. "Okay, okay, Cecily put the chair back and let''s start breakfast." "Thank you for the food."x5 "Falium, you''ve been there the whole time?" "Yes, it seems that I became no different from air. I might gain a stealth skill at some point at this rate." Breakfast finished without further interruption and everything went well. Falium and I made it to the adventurer guild and didn''t encounter any incidents. I arrive at the adventurers guild. It''s a bit earlier in the day and the guild full of people taking quests. "Hello, You''re the first one in, please come to the waiting room." said a blue-haired receptionist I follow her upstairs pass the testing room but before the Guild masters room. The room has a desk in the back with two chairs in front of it, there are multiple bookshelves with couches beside them. "Wait here." She then left the room. I take a look at some of the books on the shelves. there are encyclopedias, dismantling guides, monster information, and simple magic guides. It seems that anyone can ask to come up here to read and study unless it is being used for things like today. I pull out a dictionary like a book that''s in elven language, it seems that it is a spirit magic starters guide. Sadly right now I don''t have time to read it, so I remember where it is and look at some of the other bookshelves. After a few minutes, Paloma walks in not wearing armor but instead wearing loose clothing that are a magic item. Oni''s are a rare type of demon race who look like humans except for having horns that come from their head. The horns size and location determine the amount of physical strength and magical power they have before they start training. She has two long thin horns coming from her forehead normally associated with the chief of the one tribe. It means she has a lot of physical strength, probably around 10x your average adult man. That being the case I don''t know why she is becoming an adventurer, I probably shouldn''t butt in though. Normally humans and fae would discriminate against those of demon races due to the fact the previous demon king tried to conquer the world but that isn''t the case for the Kingdom of Leaores. I understood why everyone else did but I didn''t care one way or the other. The Kingdom of Leaores Is apparently where we are right now, I don''t think they told me no doubt because they thought I already knew. But yeah apparently we''re in The Kingdom of Leaores according to the map on the desk. "Hello, Paloma your fight against that battle crazy old man is impressive." She looks at me glares then turns her head to the door where then all the other applicants come in with Mrs. blue hair. "The guild master will report your final scores in thirty minutes, please hand me your guild cards." We all hand her our guild cards and take a seat and start some small talk...except not everyone else talks but clearly... avoids me. As much as it bothers me... I can''t blame them, I am a monster. An ex-human monster but as I can''t tell anyone that to them I''m just a monster. Thirty minutes later The door open and Guild master Falium walks in with a clipboard and all our guild cards. "I''m not good with ceremony so I''ll just tell you who got what so line up." We line up with me on the right end and Paloma on the complete opposite end. "I''ll start from the left, Silver, bronze, silver, bronze, bronze, silver, and for Yuuki gold class. Now a carriage I prepared to the mages guild so anyone wanting to sign for the mages guild jump on it." Everyone thanks him and I head to the carriage with Lue behind. I get on and sit down in the corner away from the other two people who are already on. One is an older woman who seems like a retired court magician and the other is an apprentice mage looking, young man. Lue gets on and sits beside the other two. "Last call for mages guild transport." I hear from the driver''s seat. A couple of minutes later he calls out and we make our way to the mages guild. We arrive at the mages guild in a bit over half an hour, instead of just sitting there I meditated the whole time. I was the first to jump off the carriage and I slowly walk in careful to be ready to dodge any and all magic that could come flying at me I get inside and nothing come sent at me. "Don''t worry, Guild master Freya already told everyone not to attack you." "Is that so." I calmed down, relaxed and let down my guard "Yes, please follow me to the testing room the test will start in an hour" We head to the end of the room, out the side door, down the hallway, up to the fifth floor of the tower. After finishing, what seems to be a maze, we finally find ourselves inside a large room with 10 rows of heavy wood long desks. [au. note: think college lecture hall] "Take a seat that isn''t already taken." "Yes, thank you for leading me." She bows and then leaves. On the way here I was quite surprised that the entire building is just thousands of interconnected magic tools or enchanted items. Each room has a magic tool that expands the space of the room. The hallways are enchanted bricks to increase durability and every couple of bricks is one that is also a magical tool that uses mana, casts clean once a day and then automatically gathers mana again. The stairs are a magic tool that restores the person walking on them. Each of these desks has a durability increasing enchant and the chairs have a magic tool for temperature control. The price would normally be insane to gather this many tools and enchanted bricks, but the mages guild has a training program to train the and skills. The price of the training program is the guild will use all your products created from your training and you will work for the guild''s production center for a year. I walk to the back corner of the room and sit in the corner as all the other examinees fill in from the front row back. About 40 minutes later A woman wearing a long robe with a concealment effect enters and shouts to gather everyone''s attention. "Okay, everyone, look down here! We will hand out the test to determine your base ranking of the magic guild. It will determine your basic knowledge of magic circles, magic history, magic detection, magic tool creation and more you have until dark. Oh yeah, dark today is 20:00 so you have plenty of time." Well, this is once again my specialty, information, I memorized everything in every library I have ever visited. I could never learn skills but I was great at learning everything else while on my adventure I have visited all of the ten different Sage Towers and memorized every single page of all the tens of thousands of books in there. I could have even been a sage candidate...but I had... absolutely... no magic talent. None what so ever it was depressing. I had a bit of mana but I couldn''t fire a single attack spell. The woman finally makes to my row and puts the test in front of me. I made my way through the test... but it was to easy all the questions on the first fourth of the test could be answered by anyone who passed the first layer of the sage towers. The second quarter was magic history this was a bit difficult as there were a few names I didn''t recognize but I could use the process of elimination. The next half of the test was various miscellaneous magic skills and tidbits. It was hard but still manageable, that was until the last question. Like, seriously what is this. It is a question on the construction of the building, it basically wants an 80% accuracy blueprint from scratch. 2 hours later I walk up to the front and drop the test in front of the professor looking person sitting at the big guest take the food with my name label and head to my desk. I ate it quickly it was a good but not great sandwich and went to sleep waiting for Mr. prof. to grade it. This should allow me an hour nap. "W...ak...e...u...p!" I was nudged to make sure I woke up. [Get up, times up everyone else finished] Tyrhrung used gist to wake me up. I start to sit up. "I''m sorry, how long have I been asleep." "About four hours, they are about to say the scores." I''m more awake now and I see the person waking me is the same person who was at the front of the room earlier she seems excited for some reason. "I''ll go from the lowest score to the highest." I ignore most of it taking note of 5 people; Paloma, a large man who looks like a warrior, a small pixie, a blue haired elf, and Lue. "The highest score was gotten by... Yuuki! with a near perfect score of 99.9% only getting a single question wrong. He also didn''t cheat we watched the whole time and even had things to track all magic uses." Everyone started talking to one another and spreading gossip, but I splendidly ignored all of it. "Okay, everyone you are all dismissed." I decided to wait to be the last one to leave but I was caught by miss blue hair. "Go to the Guild Masters office, you have been summoned." I make my way through the maze and eventually reach the guild masters office and knock on the door. "Come in." I walk in and see towers of paperwork "What happened here?" "Recently the margrave ordered a review of mage guild members due to some having a connection with a dark guild." "Do you need help?" "No, give me a minute I''m almost done today''s quota." "Then why did you call me?" "So I could let you ride the carriage on the way home." "Got it." I sit and wait till she''s done, playing the word chain game with Tyrhrung. "FINISHED!" I was surprised by the sudden shouting and proceeded to fall off my chair. "Sorry, for surprising you. Anyway, let''s go to the carriage." I get up and follow her out and we proceed home while having an idle conversation.