《Birth of God》
Chapter 1: God descend
Mous-teria
An innocent young giant rodent. Running at its top speed or fastest since born while panting heavily. Its body is tired and mind is dizzy but it can¡¯t stop or else it would be caught and killed by the creature that ran with two legs. It is scared and sad because the creature chasing after it had killed its mother and father just few minutes ago.
¡°Why must those scary monster attack us? Why is this world so cruel?¡¯¡¯
¡°Cant we live happily together eating fragrant plants?¡±
It ask in its heart.
¡°I don¡¯t want to die. I am still young. I want to mate with the Gigant Mouse nearby in the future to make my parents proud¡±
Gigant Mouse: race of a giant mouse live in the forest. In average has the height of half an adult. Herbivore and weak.
Suddenly it remember of a place in the direction it¡¯s heading towards. A dangerous place in the surrounding it know of.
¡°I must escape! Hope the scary creature won¡¯t dare to enter that place. Hope that scary monsters won¡¯t appear.¡±
Roger Hamingdel
He is a hunter with some experience but had no potential. Today is a usual day, where he team up with his bestfriend to hunt for their monthly food supply.
¡°Jerry, faster!! No time for lovie dovie with your wife. The sun will be right on top of our head do not hurry.¡±
¡°Yes yes, coming.¡± Jericho lazily replied.
Half an hour later. Near their village is a huge forest which stretches for hundreds of kilometres.
¡°Roger, can you not interrupt my time with my cute baby. I know you are jealous¡±
¡°Like I will, cheh¡±
¡°Hehe, don¡¯t pretend old virgin, perverted old man¡± tease Jericho.
Roger angrily glared at Jericho but he actually did not take offense. This is their usual conversation. As villagers their life is unchanging and boring.
In this world only the strong can have an exciting life. There are those that attack by monster or life full of suffering that is exciting in some sense but no one hope for them so instead they prefer boring life.
¡°Okay okay, lets not talk nonsense and be on alert¡±
¡°Yeah, hopefully our hunt is bountiful today or we must return another day¡±.
On the way searching for wild animals in the Great forest of Alkis, they pick up and pluck wild vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and fruits. Their movement are slow and quiet to reduce alerting any nearby wild animals.
Suddenly the Jericho saw a family of Gigant Mouse while picking mushroom behind a tree. He quickly signal to Roger with some hand signal since they work together normally. Roger understand that they will shoot the pair of adult first and Roger will chase after the small one because moving target is hard to hit. He will finish it of by a dagger.
This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.After the two shoot down the Giant Mouse couple, Roger quickly chase after the small one while Jericho dismantle their harvest. While chasing after the small one Roger quickly notice that something is off. Why is he not able to close up the gap quickly?
Normally he would be able to catch up to this type of wild animal easily even it¡¯s an adult. He quickly analyse his prey.
¡°Darn it, a variant. Can¡¯t let it escape!!¡±
In this world there are variant or mutation of each creature like human has genius or born with high future potential such as hero. For animal or monster it will be easier to notice sometimes such this gigant mouse with it¡¯s fur more shiny than normal and tail that looks dangerously sharp. Variant or mutant animal or monster usually comes with higher intelligent than the normal ones and they can remember their enemies. There are tales where variant monster take revenge by seeking out their enemies in villages or ambushing enemy that returns.
¡°Ahhh, why is it so fast. If this goes on then it will run toward that place¡± Roger looks ahead of the gigant mouse toward the other side of the forest, Plain of Despair.
After some time had passed, the surrounding grew brighter as both of them is close to leaving the forest. Both of them are very anxious. This is too much as they are betting their life on it already.
Roger must finish of the variant of or it will come and kill a lot of villagers just outside of the forest. Humanity is a very weak race in this world. They must help each other especially the one that they grew up with.
Mous-teria is running for its life. Front of it is a gamble but back of it is a certain death. There is no choice is there. Mousteria quickly run into the entrance of Plain of Despair out of Great forest of Alkis.
¡°Finally!! Hope that scary creature will give up¡± it thinks but did not dare to look back. Only depending on its sense of hearing.
Now Roger is full of despair and anxiety.
¡°Noooooo, it enter that place. Should I give up?¡± sweat is pouring like rains in tropical forest of certain world.
The name Plain of Despair keep appearing in his mind. After 500metres away from the forest his movement starts to slow down. He gave up and wanted to turn around. Before he could.
SUDDENLY!!!
The sky turn dark like it was swallowed by the darkness of void. Everything is silent, only for...
¡°Ahhhh!!!!!¡±
¡°Chi?kkk!!!¡±
Both the creature eye turn blind and got scared. ¡°What happened??¡± appear simultaneously in the mind.
Few breath later. They heard a loud ¡°boom¡± and the earth shake so hard that the man fell. It was like the end of the world. Suddenly a blinding light appear before the eye that fell from the sky in a straight in the middle of darkness. Behind the light can vaguely outline a enormous structure that extend into the sky like tower without end. A silhouette is slowly descending from the sky inside the light until the ground in front of them.
Their heart stopped and their mind blank. They have no word or term to describe the situation or the creature or the building behind it.
The creature is made of light of pure white with a human outline. It open its eyes and still white in it. Everything of it is white light. It looks toward them for a second and turn to look around it. After a while, it turns and walk into the magnificent structure.
If this happen in a certain world , people will think that the god descend but not in this world. To them it seems bizarre and could not describe the situation.
Chapter 2: The Legendary Tower
In a few breaths both Roger and Mousteria relaxed. They know the being just now is very strong in their heart. They estimate that it can kill them without even moving. However it did not give them the feeling of oppression but seems that it did not mind them at all.
After regaining its sense, Mousteria looks back at the creature chasing after it.
Roger too looking at it. Did not know what to do after what happen suddenly. He was going to gave up actually then that happen. He suddenly though of his parents then after that he stand up. Mousteria can be seen nervous suddenly.Roger then throws some mushroom and herbs at it.
Thinking that enemy tries to sneak attack it, Mousteria quickly dodge to the side but notice that what fall on the ground. It was confuse then saw the creature bow in inverted L shape. It seems to apologise to Mousteria. To Mousteria race, family members are not that important because once it grow up to certain age, it will be independent and find its own territory breaking ties with the parents. Sometime they might even clash against sibling for mates. Thus, Mousteria eat some of the herbs while remaining vigilant to show that it forgive the human. At least on the surface to retain its life.
Roger sees that it seems that it forgave him but not sure it is true or not. However, he still have to accept it. He does not want to chase it anymore, not into that entity house. Not infuriating the strong is the rule to survival in this world.
¡°Hopefully that giant mouse forget today event but I don¡¯t think it is possible. At least for me the case¡± he thinks while walking back into the forest.
There was an old man living in a legendary tower in the World of Proto-Divine. Even though he looks old but those that in his presence knows that he is full of vitality and don¡¯t seems to die of old age anytime soon.
¡°How long has it been since then¡± he muttered while reminiscing the past.
Then he remember something
¡°Thinking of which, the dragon empress is about to respawn¡±.
¡°Lets be quick, otherwise others steal it from me¡±
¡°Those hateful old fogies¡± harrumph the old man although he is the greedy one.
¡°It seems that the floor has not enough strong dragonoid. Lets make another one with her corpse¡±
The world of proto-divine is the world which trap those who had suddenly transported to the world in the middle of everyone¡¯s sleep. At first they think it¡¯s a dream but later realised it was not the case. They were brought to this worlds where exist within world. Stuck for too long of time.
It has been almost 100 years but still non reach max level of 100 and non able to leave this place where the final boss is unbeatable. Those that challenge it need to do it one-on-one in a world of its own travelling through a one person portal that locks after one person enters. Those that enter perished. Proof was the mirror of truth that can reveal what happen within that place. It will be summon every time anyone enter to challenge the boss.
However, no one knows the truth is that someone reached lvl100. He is know as ¡°The collector¡± ¡°One with highest knowledge¡± ¡°Incarnation of Greed¡± ¡°The Richest¡± etc. He live in his house which is impregnable, no one tries to penetrate to the deepest unless they wanted to suicide. Once there are those that try to destroy the wall on the outside but failed not matter how much power that was invested. How can the wall that is as strong as the material that hold the worlds together be damage by mere weapons and spells. How he manage to obtain this house is a story for a another time.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
This person is the greedy old man from before. He is now in the Draconian world.
¡°Where is that old hag? I remember she should have respawned just a moment ago?¡±
¡°[Divine Immunity][Divine Pierce-Support][World Search]Dragon Empress Kelsiegragna]¡±
A moment later the air tearing apart and a black dot expanded. Then a blast of extreme flame and multiple explosions destroying everything within 50 kilometres of the old man turning everything into charcoal includes dragons.
¡°Hmm, found you¡± said the old man without any worry.
Although it seems simple but not every high levelled person can be as easy going as him because he is the ¡°One with highest knowledge¡±. That is to say he learned almost all of the skill available to both martial and mage paths. He is also able to link them together. Not everyone can do it as it is not just reading some skill name. There needs a lot profound understanding.
After the end of the destruction spell, the old man rush toward his target like a tiger saw its prey.
Moment later,
¡°It¡¯s you again¡± shouted a large dragon that is so beautiful making people feels that a villager saw a royal jewelleries for the first time. It¡¯s voice makes the surrounding air cracks like the mirror breaking apart.
¡°Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± the dragon seems frustrated and in agony. Sure anyone will be like this if someone keep killing them a short moment each time they revive.
¡°It¡¯s been awhile my friend¡± said the old man.
¡°Awhile your head, it¡¯s a short time for me. I have no conscious when staying dead¡± said the dragon angrily.
¡°Hahaha¡± the old man laugh it off awkwardly.
¡°Okay , time to get back into bed¡± said the old man
Then fight break off. After a long time the dragon finally falls and before that...
¡°[Divine Maximise-support][Supreme Pierce-support]¡±cast the dragon in heart
¡°[Hyper Shockwave]get away from me¡± shout the dragon.
The old man did not pay much attention towards the useless spell. It was a futile final resistance. Hyper Shockwave is a stronger version of [Shockwave] but still does little to no damage. The main purpose of the spell is to disrupt or knocking the opponent away from the caster. The reason might be to cancel enemy skill, make them unstable or to make distance gap to buy time for instance. Thus the old man did not pay it much heed as he though the dragon try to use its last resort to run away or so.
But that was a mistake and a huge one.
The moment the dragon die he saw an instance as if the dragon smirk haughtily. It was like it won even though it fell. The old man try to think what was it while being push by the spell because he had not cast any spell to resist it before. Now it was too late because the shockwave is an interruption spell specially for magic casters.
¡°Darn it, what trick is it? What trap? Trap trap trap?¡± the old man can¡¯t think of anything that can harm him since he is still long way before his Hp and Mp is drained. He can be said the strongest in this world. Had no fear but his instinct tells him that something is not right.
¡°How? What?¡± he just can¡¯t think of anything. Nothing.
After a moment he finally know what wicked trap the Dragon Empress had set up for him.
Chapter 3: Journey End for old man
After the old man had been hit to fly by the spell. He quickly try to cast instant spell [Stabilise] to stop himself from throwing off any further. However everything is to late even though it was instance but he reacted too late.
In just a moment he was thrown towards a world traversing portal. Teal light spread outward the ground like whirlpool and runic symbols appear.
¡°Portal??¡±
¡°???¡± the old man was confused.
Where is she trying to bring him. He don¡¯t remember any portal that existed here before.
After entering the place, everything went dark. So dark, that not a single speck of light exist. Cold sweat pour from his back and chill run down his spine.
¡°Don¡¯t tell me it¡¯s there¡± the old man thinks while swallowing his throat with ¡°gulp¡± sound.
¡°No time to think. [Illuminate]¡± the old man quickly cast.
The area 500 metres around the place where he stand is brightly lit like a semi-sphere. The old man can see a smoke and cloud like thing floating nearby. Then it slowly change form into a human like form. It was taking its time like it was not in hurry. After the form stabilised, the old man can see a smile posted on its face. The black human like creature looks like an old man with wrinkles all over. It can be imagine that his looks is pretty decent when it was young.
¡°Welcome challenger. Are you prepared??¡± although it ask a question, it kept talking.
¡°It been some time since the last, so I hope we can have some fun. Don¡¯t give up too quickly¡± smile the black old man.
The old man looks at the black creature and thinks.
¡°Sinister!! Truly sinister bi***¡± cursed the old man.
¡°Ahhh!! Guess it¡¯s over now. No more lazing around. No more experiments¡±
¡°I still want to enjoy creating something fun, something new¡±
¡°It¡¯s not that I regret anything. This world is fun. Guess anyone can¡¯t lives forever¡±
¡°Guess everything had to end now¡±
¡°My precious!! Goodbye everyone!!¡±
¡°We can start any time¡± the old man only replied this sentence.
The one in front of the old man is known as World¡¯s Darkness. A being came to life since the beginning of time. It was a doppelganger. Can mimic anything in this world since it was the other part of the world. Even something new is not impossible. It is the final boss that anyone had to face.
In the meantime, in every world within World of Proto-Divine the mirror of truth is formed. It was a gigantic mirror that cover the sky. There seems to be conversations everywhere around the world.
¡°Aw, someone challenge it ~mu¡±
¡°How long has it been?¡±
¡°Not sure, half a century??¡±
This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.¡°Yeah yeah, who is the challenger this time round?¡±
¡°Instant Kill? Magic Emperor? Humanity Strongest?~meow¡±
¡°Not sure¡±
¡°How strong had those become? Level 90 already?¡±
¡°Might be, who will challenge that monster if not at least reach 90¡±
¡°So its the first time 90 fighting that¡¯¡¯
¡°If the challenger lose, wont it be a shame? It¡¯s not easy to reach 90¡±
¡°Yeah, first to reach 90 and first 90 to perish? Hehe¡± smile evilly the person.
¡°Look look, started¡±
¡°Eeee¡±
¡°Ahk¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t that...¡±
¡°That that...¡±
¡°So it him ah? How weird¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t he a hikikomori?¡±
¡°Yeah I know too right¡±
¡°Too tired of life? When full crazy over new material??¡±
¡°The last known, what level was he ~meow?¡±
¡°I think they say around 70 looking at it¡±
¡°That was how long ago?¡±
¡°30 to 40 years ago?¡¯¡¯
¡°Should be 80plus now, right??¡±
¡°Not sure lets just enjoy the comedic show, hahaha¡±
Somewhere in a cave in the sky.
¡°Aron, look¡± pointed someone towards the mirror of truth.
¡°Eeeii!! A challenger huh?¡±
¡°Looks like someone a head of us¡±
¡°Who is it? Should be one of us right? The Ten¡± he seems very proudly.
¡°Should be. Other than us, I don¡¯t think there is anyone that can reach 90 by now¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t it too reckless to fight it now?? Chances are only around 50%. No!! Less than that¡±
¡°Darkness huh? What a troublesome one.¡±
¡°Should we analyse how close would it be for us to fight it?¡±
¡°Yeah, that will make this a good research material¡±
¡°Poor guy, I think now will be calling us The Nine then?¡±
¡°Haha, The Nine¡±
Somewhere else, a castle in the underground.
¡°Your majesty, The Magic Emperor. Report¡±
¡°Rise. What is it?¡¯¡¯
¡°The mirror of truth appeared¡± half way through his speech the emperor is gone.
¡°Who is it?¡± the magic emperor thinks after teleporting to the outside world.
¡°Hey emperor~san¡±
¡°Yo, miss shadowy step. Reach 88?¡±
¡°Soon, Ricky reach 88 though¡± said dejectedly by a petite girl in ninja uniform.
¡°I see¡±
¡°Eiiii, is that him??¡± the girl shriek. She was shocked by the person in the mirror.
¡°How come is him? Not one of us?? Tired of living?....¡± so many question came from Magic Emperor¡¯s mouth.
Not only them that are shocked, most of the people are utter speechless. Everyone know how strong is World¡¯s Darkness. Some pity, some sad, some enjoy his misery and many other reactions all over the Proto-Divine world. A day later the shocked reaction is still unchanged. However, this time for a complete different reason.
¡°WTH??¡¯¡¯someone said breaking the silence.
¡°How is he so strong even though he is One with highest knowledge?¡±
¡°He is 100 right?? But but..¡±
¡°That should be impossible to reach...¡±
¡°Why we didn¡¯t know?¡±
¡°Wolf acting as the grandma, eating the granddaughter??¡¯¡¯
This phenomenon happened everywhere through out the world after the old man wipe the floor with Darkness body.
After the creature died, he collected the body like usual. The walk towards the light emitted from a place which seem like the exist after World¡¯s Darkness fall. What awaits him beyond. What is the end? Eternal rest like buddha from previous world? Goes to heaven? Rebirth into a new baby? Back to previous life? They had been told that they can get almost anything they can imagine after The End. Is this the true final boss. Is this going to end? After entering the place he heard a beautiful sweet voice
¡°Gratz, New God,...¡±
Chapter 4: A New World
¡°Hi and who are you?¡± the old man sees a lady dressed with flowing cloth that is thin and silk liked. The dress was like those in fairy tales, fluttering elegantly even though there is no wind in this place. The lady beautiful face with perfect symmetrical facial feature give off the feeling soft and warm person similar to family members. She looks almost like those fairy maidens in eastern fantasy heavenly realm.
¡°I am goddess Eillie. You might not heard of me from the place you came from¡± she said while smiling like a moon in the sky.
¡°So...what is it after this?? I have no idea¡± the old man ask.
¡°Don¡¯t worry the test is over. Next, you can do almost whatever you please¡±
¡°Test? Do whatever I like?¡± the old man right eye brow tilted upward.
¡°Yeah, gratz on completing the test. The test refer to the world before¡±
¡°Thus, you had been promoted to the divine realm. Practically, you are an immortal being now¡±
¡°Immortal? What must I do?¡± the old man still had blank mind.
¡°I told you. Anything you like¡±
¡°Actually we immortal just do whatever we like. Example some like sleeping, some like playing with toys, some enjoy impressing others, some prefer destroying world, some like bringing chaos and suffering to inferior beings, some like to help others and some like to gain more belie....¡± she for a moment thought of something.
¡°Right!! Last thing before you do as you please. Your reward for completing the test is that you gain exclusive right on a small world. Usually we your senior gain our first amount of believers there. However you must make the effort yourselves.¡±
¡°How?¡±
¡°Show your strength and make them submit? Help them? However you please. If you don¡¯t like it, you can leave it be or destroy the world. Anything will do. It''s yours.¡±
¡°I see¡±
¡°Can I go over?¡±
¡°Sure¡± she looks at him with a weird look.
¡°I see, so I do not need to stay in this place¡± he look around this place which is like a pure white room which does not contain a thing even dust does not exist.
¡°Hehe, you are a funny one. This is a transition area not divine realm. Is different there¡± she was holding her stomach to prevent herself from laughing out loud with a red face.
¡°Haha. By the way, my belongings in the test??¡± ask the old man with flushing red cheek while rubbing the back of his head.
¡°You can bring it with you to the divine realm¡±
¡°Can I bring it to my reward area?¡±
¡°Sure. It''s your toys anyway¡±
¡°Then I will get going. How do I go there?¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t every info transferred into you head?¡±
¡°No wonder¡± the old man was getting dizzy like a lot of stuff entering him since coming to this place
¡°I need to sort everything out¡± muttered the old man.
¡°Thanks, beautiful maiden¡± the old man said with a smile.
¡°Huhu, what a cheeky tongue you have there but I like it¡± she replied with a smile.
¡°I will be going then. See ya¡± the goddess waive her hand and disappeared into thin air.
¡°Okay let''s get going then. Before that, let''s do this, hensin [..¡± he did a weird post while waving his hand like a clown. Lucky no one is here or it will be too embarrassing to watch. He then disappear like the goddess.
After the fight is over, everyone hears a voice in the their head.
¡°Hello everyone, the end has come. Fun time is over. You will now be return to your previous life at the time you came¡±
¡°For the reward of surviving till now. You will get to choose to retain your memories or forget about them. Though nothing you gain or learn will be retain or useful after returning to your world¡±
Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.¡°I here thank you all for the other members. Nice show. Bye bye¡± said the voice that seems getting softer and softer.
¡°Wait! Wait!!!¡± some people in the world shouted loudly.
¡°??¡± no sound was heard
¡°What about our friends and companions¡±
¡°Those that perished should remain dead. Everyone will die eventually¡± the voice replied in a serious tone.
¡°No worry, they will go through cycle of reincarnation after a certain period of time. This is the rule for all¡± then the voice no longer reply to any questions asked. Just empty silence.
Thus, the End for them all.
After he came into this world the old man went to the higher floor of the tower to look around the surrounding. He does not care if there are intruders but curious to see the environment around his new home for a certain period. It takes time to gain followers so for some time he will be staying here. In the tower, he confirms that his belongings and everything in there are intact and in good shape. After confirming that his position is just outside a forest and on a plain that stretch far, he recall the scene before. It seems that this world has human and creatures he saw before but a little different.
¡°Seems like I can get some new collections here. Not bad¡± he nod his head seems content.
¡°Why don¡¯t I have a look at how things work around here¡±
¡°They say knowing your enemy is key to victory¡±
¡°She said this world is mine exclusively so do they know of any God?¡± he recalled and contemplate the situation.
¡°Anyway we will find out later¡±
The old man decided to have fun in this new world like a child found a new toy.
A giant mouse decided to enter the structure after confirming a man disappear into the forest. It is dangerous to go back now. It thought of situation such as two pair of reddish evil eyes staring at it in the bushes in the forest, waiting to take action. Its body shivered and it step forward in large steps looking straight into the opening of the tower which is larger than a cave opening with the height of 10 metres seems like inviting visitors as it does not have door.
¡°Jerry, are you done?¡±
A thin man with spiky blonde hair caught the sound from a nearby place. He quickly look toward the said direction and caught sight of a middle age guy with black hair and short well kept beard. He was walking towards him empty handed with a bow on his back, a dagger on his left waist and a leather pouch on his right side. Judging by the looks of it, the prey should have escaped.
¡°Ran away?¡± Jericho asked
¡°Yeah, a variant. Ran into plain of despair¡± the man sound dispirited and he smile wryly.
¡°That is bad. Hopefully it won¡¯t attack our village in the future¡± he said with a wrinkled brow.
¡°By the way, do you see anything from the direction you came from? The sky suddenly turn dark for a moment just now¡± Jericho ask curiously.
¡°Yeah, I saw It!!¡± Roger said with a pale complexion and then swallowed some saliva.
¡°Saw what?¡±
¡°Not sure. Looks like us human but his whole body is whi...no, his whole body is made out of white light. It''s a creature of light, a very very terrifying one¡± Roger said with water dripping down his face from his forehead and his eyes is not focused.
¡°Hey hey, Roger. Are you fine? Get together man!!¡± Jericho said loudly and shaking Roger with both his hand on the side of the unfocused man¡¯s shoulders.
¡°I... ammm....fine¡± seeming back to reality he replied with a shaky voice
¡°Should we report this to the nearby city? In any case, it¡¯s near our home and that place is not for us village carpenter to meddle with¡±
¡°Yeah I think we should but that is until we finish our work first¡± said Roger
They then go back towards their village while harvesting and searching for bonus prey. While walking Roger turns back toward the plain direction and lost in thought for a brief moment. He then turns back and continues toward the village with Jericho while chatting leisurely.
Chapter 5: Adam the lad
¡°Ellie, the newcomer went straight to his exclusive world?¡± ask a majestic and kingly voice which vibrates the air.
¡°Destructo, can you not ask better questions. You know the answer right¡± she replied with a face that show how speechless she was.(-_-)
¡°Grr, I thought he will just break the land into pieces and looks at the inhabitants expression, hehe¡± even though it is a lion. Its face show a sinister looking smile and eyes glowing with bright darkness in its corner.
¡°I like what you said but still it will be a waste. Don¡¯t you think so¡± exclaim a high pitch male voice.
¡°Come on guys, those are innocent weaklings. We must help them. Only then they will look up to us. Doesn¡¯t being admired, awesome¡± said a warm voice.
¡°Yeah Yeah. Agree Agree¡± four sound are heard simultaneously that resonate with each other.
¡°...¡±
¡°Alright ladies and gentlemen, keep your opinions to yourselves. We have show to watch for sometime being¡± said a voice sounding very happy and excited.
Askamarah Destructo
Name himself as such because he enjoy watching the inferior being dying, struggle to live but still dies in the end, world with perfect harmony destroys by it or others. It has the appearance of purplish black lion with a pair of twisted goat horn, black flame replacing its mane, a pair of huge saber liked tooth and spiky ball at the end of its tail.
Yasu Godling
A handsome man with a pair of wings that made of soft white feathers of the swan that spread out wide, twice the height of the man. He has the looks that gave of the air of trustworthiness and kindness to those that sees him. There is always a smile on his face and like wearing simple clothing the likes of cotton. Hobby is getting more believers. Appear before them with halo behind his head.
Oni Chansabu
A muscular hideous looking ogre like monster with eight arms, four head and a pair of legs. Its skin is rose red in color. The four face each has its own expression, such as smiling, grumpy, seriously glaring, expressionless and sometimes they change. His heads enable it to look 360 degree with each looking at one direction. He like those that seek strength even if they are brainless muscle headed. Does not discriminate weak beings as long as they want to get stronger.
Pharie
A four legged cat like being with human head. Had long fabric which looks old and dusty, wrapping its whole body only leaving behind spaces for eyes and mouth. She has a crown on top of her wig which is neck length. Like to lay and snooze in sarcophagus doing nothing for long long long time.
Santa Wick
Another human like creature which dress like nobleman. Under those suit is a large see through hole in the middle of his chest. Has a tail with arrow head end. Wear glasses that reflect light in its corner like a sage with wisdom but smirk like a pervert. Like to give those insects hope. Yes, the more hopeful the better. Besides, had collections of pictures of many creatures with various negative emotions. His believer like to offer sacrificial item to him but he does not give them any attentions.
Ellie Blis
There are others such as those with pure energy body, golem, slime like creature, cyborg, animal forms, skeletal frame and etc in this realm.
They can¡¯t hurt each other in physical way, can¡¯t die and have their own properties. Usually they mind their own business. Sometimes they do have some competitions against each other using worlds that have believers of their existed together. They use their believers of the said world like chess piece. Example holy crusaders killing the demon king.
However, today a new immortal is born so some gathered to communicate. They hope this new member will bring some entertainment for them. Some of the immortals existed very long ago and there are even those that are from the beginning of time. Thus, they grew bored and seek enjoyment from watching others like human watching television or other activities. The immortals is like a bunch of old folks after retirement. In addition they are rich and powerful.
Today is a new day. A young looking guy in the twenties is registering his account in a busy and noisy building where it is crowded with all kind of people. There are young and old, combatant and magic users, good and bad, rich and poor and various other kind of people. This is the {Adventurer Guild} of the Jurusaley City which is the frontier of Pheonix Empire. The youth is very excited as it is his new experience.
Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.¡°Here you go, Mr Adam. The procedure is done, 10 silver please¡± a girl called out to Adam which is watching the crowd of people.
¡°Er...sorry miss Leina. I forgot to tell you that I don¡¯t have that much money. Can I substitute with physical object?¡± Adam said with a flushed red face while scratching the back of his head which is lowered.
¡°It¡¯s fine. 10 silver is a lot for newcomers. The guild allow the repayment within half a year. However beyond that will be fined. Plus those that run away and does not pay up will be reported and hunted as wanted criminal in the empire so do take note¡±
¡°I see. Thanks¡± the youth says and took the beginner kit and a metallic plate with minimum information of the holder such as name and rank. Other personal info is recorded and an alike drawing of the person face is stored by the guild as references.
Adam is ranked the lowest, E. The rank system goes by highest to lowest which is SS, S, A, B, C, D, E.
The adventurers are a bunch of people that does odd jobs, mercenary, exploring new things and places in this dangerous world. They can sell new information to the guilds and outsiders can post request too. There are many kind of people because the guild do not specially forbid people to join or discriminate anybody as long as they follow the rules of the guild. Those from other guilds or organisation such as the Smithing guild and Magician guild may register themselves as adventurers.
After finishing his registration, Adam quickly went to have a look at the boards on the first floor. The boards are made of wood to stick missions and request. It is wide and had the height of over 2metres. It extends from one end of the building to another end by merging many boards. The first floor only consist missions from E to C and second floor only consist mission for A and B. To prevent weak adventurer from making reckless decisions, missions for rank S and SS are only available when ask from the guild officers. Members can complete mission outside of their rank and be given completion rewards and promotion points according to the mission but it is recommended to take mission within the rank. As they says ¡®Do not bite more than you can chew¡¯ or else ¡®you will choke to death¡¯. The regulation is lax because adventurers are the brave people that explore the unknown world and they are prepared to face death at any given time.
¡°All of this seems like simple task. Some are even ridiculous¡±
¡°It is fine to hunt some wild animals but...what are these. Collecting morning dew water. Protection for outdoor walk. Clear the pest in the farm. Gather information on sudden attack near the road to the city¡± Adam was speechless.
¡°I thought that it should be exciting for adventurers as it was promoted but this is a disappointment¡±
¡°I think it can¡¯t be help as some just wanted to find a job and past their life in peace¡±
¡°Why not create a organisation called Odd job service or mercenary guild¡±
¡°Actually this is better. Separating them make thing troublesome and this give newbies some initial warm up¡±
After talking to himself and searching for a while, he decided to take a request for clearing the monster in a newly found cave that is going to be transformed into a copper mine. It was a multiple person mission where anybody can join. The reward is based on number of monster killed and its identity. The motive is to wipe out the cave dweller. They had surveyed and found out that the monsters within is just some lizard like shorty and bigger than normal spiders. Adam then inform the officers that of the mission registration number written on the board. After getting the information required, he then proceed towards the cave since it is still early in the morning. Ration and equipment is already prepared before hand.
The cave is on a small hill inside the forest 2 kilometres away from the city. Once he reaches the entrance he lit the torch made up of wooden stick warp by cloth soaked in flammable oil that was in the beginner adventurer kit given by the guild. Today is the day he became an adventurer and the start of his exploration. Entering the cave with large strode marks the beginning of a new page in his life.
¡°Move out of the way. Move!!¡± a hurried loud voice came from the dark cave seemingly anxious. Adam also heard footsteps of several people rushing toward him in a quick pace.
¡°Come on. This marks the start of my of my heroic saga. Don¡¯t be anti climatic¡± Adam thinks while moving to the side to avoid clashing the hurried team of people coming towards him like a herd of cows galloping.
Several man exited the cave and one of them seems to be carrying a person that slump on his back. The men with the most rugged and square-ish face scans Adam for a second or two and passes by him. He then continue on going forward without looking back and said
¡°Careful lad, those puny lizards will are some cunning ones¡±
Chapter 6: Cave Dwellers Identity.
A four legged creature has step through a certain entrance. As it passes through, there is a wobbling or fluctuation of magical energy like a thin film of soap bubble with rainbow colours. Entering the unknown, the sight changes instantly from a land of gloominess full of negative energy into a land full of fresh life energy, short grasses and plants filled the ground, various friendly grass eating animals walk the land and forest in the far end encircling a mountain where mist covering its peak. Exiting a portal, Mousteria eyes started to get wet and tears slowly flow down. This is a place of dream where no scary creature, no need to stay alert, no need run away, and foods are everywhere. The land of joy for all herbivores. It quickly take a bit on a fruit which grow from vines crawling the ground called water bubble berry. The fruit pops in its mouth flowing out a lots of sweet and a little tangy juice giving of a refreshing feeling. The fruit is a good source of water content, nutrient and fibres. This place has various plants such as this all over the ground in a sense. Mousteria felt great joy and excitement like it found a new home.
However, it remembers this place appear out of nowhere and the blinding creature which is somewhere in here. It hesitated for a moment but finally choose to throw the thought into a corner of its brain. As long as it don''t run into ¡®It¡¯ again and ¡®It¡¯ seems not to pay any attention to Mousteria. Mousteria start to hop around full of energy into the future where becoming a plump mouse lazing around all day is not a dream.
¡°Maybe I can visit the mountain over there later ~chik¡±
Adam walking slowly and in a relax fashion. There is a burning torch in his hand pointing forward which give off some heat in this cold damp rocky cave. He is humming while paying attention to his surrounding. On his way, he had met some puny lizards mentioned by the guild and a certain guy while entering this cave. Those lizards like humanoid is slightly taller than a third of human adult, standing tall below his waistline. They had scaly skin, long tail and a alligator-like head with a snout filled with tiny teeth. Their yipping sound like puppy call. Adam had seen them hiding in holes in cave ceiling, waiting in ambushes to take the target off guard. Since they are weak creature they does not like frontal confrontation instead they uses their intellect and numbers.
¡°Hmm, seems like they are coming from the front and back this time¡± Adam muttered after hearing multiple footsteps from the both side.
¡°Seems like the strategy to attract attention of those stupid lizards works well¡±
¡°Hopefully I get to promote faster and gain excess to more information. Exploration and Heroic saga of Adam the Hero began, hehe¡± he laugh sheepishly.
Then, suddenly, a lump of something fly through the air towards him. He already anticipate them so he avoided it easily. The lump of crawling insects hit the cavern wall. They are some worm like creatures with many legs, poisonous centipedes. After avoiding the ambush, Adam run towards the said location where the projectile came from. There are three lizards waiting for him, one with slingshot and another two holding primitive copper dagger. The front most lizard quickly rushes and stabs toward Adam but it was avoided until another dagger came from behind it. However, before the dagger reaches its target the front lizard was kicked and it collides with the lizard behind. When both fall onto the ground a swift sword strike came and took two life with just a blow. When Adam advance the back most shooter tries to hit him but was blocked by his companion and after they fell it tries to make distance jumping backwards while shooting the human. Its sharp stone never hit the target as he keep stepping aside while advancing like a serpent in a mysterious way. In just a breath the final lizard is cut down. After finishing off the three, Adam quickly turn around run towards the other two lizard from the back. Half way through he shouted
¡°[Sliding Slash]¡±
He then slides forward with one leg stretch to the front, passing the lizards from the side while facing them and a huge moon arc flashes parallel to the ground. In mere second two head drop to the ground and blood flow slowly out of the headless necks. After ending the fight, he cut off the tip of the lizard tails and walk off into the darkness.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
Marquis Roderick Saley is a noble of the Phoenix Empire. His family¡¯s march or better known as the frontier is bordering the Great forest of Alkis which produces a lot of monsters within. From time to time there will be monster attacking or plundering villages in the surrounding. Life is hard in the frontier, people tend to be stronger than those that is in the middle of the empire. It is not that there is no monster in the empire but much more out there as the empire is the human territory so is much safer. The frontliner like him must be strong to fight back the monsters to keep their love ones and the weak safe. Thus, training and equipment is essential.
Recently there is a report of mining cave sighted that was not explored in his territory. Thus, he requested the adventurer guild to exterminate monsters in it. The kobolds should not be much a problem for adventurer to deal with, just that it will take some time as this race tend to reproduce very fast so it was assumed that it will be quite a number. The reason that he wanted to get the cave is due to the copper and minerals in it that is valuable for making weapon, armor and uses.
Today is supposed to be a good day but in the noon, a soldier came running into his mansion as he hears thumping sound of iron boot footsteps in quick pace.
¡°Report! Report, milord¡± as soldier said as he kneel in front with heavy breathing.
¡°Yes, what is it?¡±
¡°Milord, the adventurer coming back from the forest in the southwest reported sighting of huge number of goblins¡±
¡°How many?¡± the marquis ask in a serious tone
¡°The number is not confirm but estimated about over a thousand and still gathering¡±
¡°Hm, are they moving home or what?¡± the marquis pondered
¡°Milord, there is another thing where the location of sighting is just near the recently spotted cave¡± the soldier quickly say
¡°??Is the goblin and kobold at odd? Then this will benefit us¡± the marquis thought while smiling.
¡°Okay, 0021, go ready the lads. We will set off to clear the goblin after doing some scouting. Send out the scout for the time being and do not alert the green skin¡± Roderick ordered his lieutenant.
There are many kobolds holding pickaxe hitting the ground with their own rhythm. There is a kobold that laid on the floor full of sweat with its tongue dropping out of the mouth. There are several other kobolds in the nearby, came kicking it and yipping loudly seemingly angry. The kobold rolled on the ground painfully holding its stomach. After kicking the kobold the others went back to hitting the ground with pickaxe. The kobold on the ground is the youngest son of the kobold leader but he was very weak. If his father was not the leader he will be exile since long ago.
The kobold or any creature usually abandon the weak so that they don¡¯t feed an extra mouth. Once his father dies he will be exile and that seems to be soon as the leader of the race is selected by the eldest of all the kobold because it can survive so long that it was respected. The kobold race reproduce quickly so they will be hunted down by humans and surrounding monster that compete in getting food.
This weak kobold is Ur De. He was bullied since born and he like to dream of becoming a true dragon which his race says that was their ancestor of some kind. Now that thinking of his father retirement drawing near and nearer he was constantly filled with anxiety making him fidget from time to time. Besides that, recently there is news of human invading their cave but it¡¯s not a big problem since the entrance is very far from the main lair and there is another exit toward another location far away. However, it was getting very inconvenient for the warrior to gather food from outside the cave in the forest. In addition those troublesome goblin is making a scene. The kobold cannot blame the goblins too as both has very high population to feed so the competition is fierce as always.
After finishing the morning mining task, Ur De goes back to his lair. In there, an old kobold with hunchback lacking of energy to move is sitting on a flat rock. Ur De was called over immediately.
¡°Ur come here¡± a weak voice which sound forcefully escape for the mouth is heard
¡°Yes, All Watcher. Is there anything?¡± he ask weakly with head lowered while slowly moving towards the old kobold.
¡°You know that I am old and soon will be returning to earth. Have you made your preparations?¡± old kobold ask
¡°Yes¡± Ur De replied dejectedly
¡°Good. Then another thing, you will be assign as a sentry, later at noon. We are lacking of tribesmen so you need to replace one of the sentry that going to get the food supply¡±
¡°Careful of the humans, recently a lot of them is trying to invade us¡±
¡°Well then that all, you can go now¡± the old kobold finishes what he wanted to say and gasp for some air.
¡°Yes¡± replied Ur as he return to rest before his sentry shift.
Chapter 7: Legend of the Hydra
Today suppose to be a good day for Alkis, the mighty one. This mighty one that the elves and humans in the surrounding feared has elegant but extremely tough emerald scales throughout the body including wings. It also has a cute little horn protrude of the front of its snout. At the very least, that is what it thinks. Moreover, the most noticeable feature it has, which is the 12 snake like long necks and crocodile-like heads which are all identical where their thought is one. Ever since thousand of years that it was born, It came and reside in this land where it raises trees and plant that some reaches an incredible height to cover it from the sun as canopy. Most of the time it will eat the offerings from those puny beings that barely takes its hunger away and sleep to conserve energy.
However, one day an insolent creature dare to disturb its rest and building an extremely majestic structure. Bigger than it and so tall that it seems has no end, making him the mighty one looks stupid as its dignity, nobility and grandeur is challenged. It feels small, weak and frail compared to it. Not that it, a dragon is small as it is 100metres high and 400metres long standing on four legs with wings spreading 300metres wide. After the noisy sound and the shaking to the earth that awoke him from its sweet slumbering dream, it¡¯s so furious that its thundering roar shaken the forest making the creatures run chaotically in panic.
As it nears, it fly fast and faster charging forwards and slamming into the structure with its massive body that contains heavy mass. Then it rotates its body 180degree sweeping its tail and continue to strike with its claw. If the building is small then Alkis might have open its jaw and and bite it into rubbles. However, after expending much efforts , it notices that there where not even a scratch on the wall. It was so angry that green fumes started to be expelled from its nose. Its 12 heads then proceed into spraying acid breath wanting to corrode this eyesore. Eventually the breath ended and as the acid flows down the structure the ground below caved in and dirt emit smokes and turns whitish in colour but nothing happens to the structure. After all this commotion, Alkis is in disbelief. It is one of the mighty dragons that brings destructions, terror and death in its path if it feels wantiny to do so. Why is it not happening now.
Suddenly, out of nowhere an energy based green arrow flew through the air and penetrates Alkis from the back and exits through the bottom of its body, flying toward the ground near the forest. As it hits the ground, trees and plants began sprouting and growing in a eye catching speed where they reach maturity in a few breath. In the process of merging with the great forest, Alkis roars in agony and fell to the ground below. A big booming sound and dust rises. It felt an illusionary hand had grab something from its wound and it feels the whole body getting weaker.
As Alkis landed, it raises its limped heads and sees somewhere in the tower there is a small little creature in the shadow using its dragon¡¯s super focused eye sight. The creature has pointy ears, a crown on his beautiful long shiny silvery hair and a bow in his hand. He looks with chin pointing up and eyes looking down at it. After a breath or so, he said with slow and steady tone.
¡°Puny lizard, that was a warning shot. If you try to blemish the supreme one¡¯s sanctuary again, then it will be the end of you¡±
¡°Don¡¯t worry we will make soup out of you, won¡¯t be too wasteful¡±
¡°Go away¡± the creature walk off back into the exit hole as he finishes his speech.
As he returns, he informs the old man of the dragon with [Telepathy]. After the creature return into the structure which the humans so called tower, Alkis quickly flees back to its lair while thinking to itself.
¡°Quick! Quicker!! Before he changes his mind¡±
¡°Why is he so dangerous, scary! Is that an elf? Those elf in the forest is so weak that even if I breath lightly they might be thrown off the ground¡± the dragon thought while flying shakily.
¡°The tiny needle is so painful¡± tears slowly form in the corner of its eyes.
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There is a lake somewhere in the forest. Out of a sudden it is dyed red from few drops of blood fell from the sky and started to bubble vigorously while slowly turn black. After the Sun fell and rise again, multiple explosion suddenly occur at the same time and several shadows of serpent flew out of the explosions. One day in the near future, an elf visiting the lake to fetch water will witness a shadow of a monster, 10 metres in height. It has 5 serpent head slitter above its massive crocodile-like body frame standing on four.
That is when the legend of the vicious monster, Hydra started to spread. There were similar tales among the humans and dwarves too. Tales such that ¡®Hydra can recovers almost instantly from wound even if the heads are severed, they will still regrow¡¯ are popular. It seems to have inborn ability to use the nature magic that of elves to regenerates its body. However some said that it was a young dragon which they conclude with the descriptions of the great Alkis. Other than that, those that survived the fights with it mentioned that it was tough to battle it as there are multiple heads came biting at random and will also spit acidic saliva at range which can melt through armors and skins quickly. Even the most experienced adventures had a hard time and need to turn tail and ran away. The ones that met it in the huge Great forest of Alkis is considered very unfortunate.
Recently, the atmosphere in the goblins tribes that were gathered are very tense. Every single one of them have been conscripted. In the near past, their cousins the hobgoblins battle maniac and bugbear had came from a distance place. The hobgoblins actively seeks new territory for new resources while bugbear wants bloodshed and treasures too.
Today, the goblinoids finally hear the war horn sound which leads to more sound that of the thundering footsteps of thousand booted feet. The legions of goblinoids that rides the wolves and worgs that they tamed and the infantry is are ready.
The green skin wore simple unprocessed pelts and holding a primitive wooden club, bone spear or slingshot while riding wolves which consist the most numbers in the army are at the forefront. The red skin are better off with leather armor made of hides and longswords made of bronze while riding worgs.
The red skin captains has their leather armors layered with bronze plate on top to cover their chest and belly while the one and only Warlord is fully armored with bronze plate over padded leather jacket and holding greatsword while ridding an muscular bull. Even though wearing thick or layered armor is heavy and reduces speed but they provide more protections for the elites. As the formation is ready everyone wait for signal of moving out.
Bone spear: Spear where the head is made out of bone, claw, fang or teeth of monsters or animal in general. The pole connecting the head can be made by wood, metal or monster part.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! City guards rush toward their post on city wall as the bell rang throughout the city one by one. While in Roderick¡¯s mansion,
¡°Report! Report of enemy¡¯s attack¡± a soldier came running.
¡°Relax! Explain in details¡± said the city lord.
¡°An army of goblins was sighted near the southern gate¡±
¡°They are standing in a very uniform formation when last seen¡± reported the soldier
¡°Haven¡¯t our scout unit reported anything on the goblins?¡± ask Roderick
¡°No news from them since the noon¡±
¡°If this much of goblins move, surely it will not go unnoticed¡±
¡°Either something happen to them or these goblins came from another place¡± the soldier voices his opinion.
¡°I assume the scout unit should be ambushed¡± said Roderick
¡°Now then, since the army is ready for combat so send them out to the southern wall and assign a small part of the to guard the other area in case enemy appears there while the battle goes on¡± ordered the Marquis with his commanding military tone.
Near the forest, the goblin vanguards stand in line facing the human city, giving space between adjacent team. Each team is a small squared formation of 3by3 consisting of 9 goblins. Then there are other goblin inside the forest hiding in shadow. They are ready to shoot stones at those decided to draw close by leaving the city.
There is a lady sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall with both hand slumping down on the sides and head bowed. Her long silky black hair covered the twin peaks on the front like a black curtain. The atmosphere around her are gloomy, covered by complete darkness of the damp cave. Is it a ghost, ghouls or zombies of the legend?