¡°I Did It! It may have taken me over twenty years, but I finally did it! I found a dragon! Not only this, it''s actually an adult one! Now some of you might be wondering why it took me so long but you have to understand that it''s very hard to find a dragon that''s not either still a child, or spends most of its time eating humans. I''m so happy I could die right now! Finally, I can advance with my studies!
My plan now is pretty simple. First, I''m going to sneak into the dragons¡¯ cave and try to set up a secret camp inside of it or something like that. I''ve got enough rations for month with me! Next, I''ll just simply observe the beast and try to learn as much as possible!
Man, I''m excited! Wish me luck guys!¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''Dragons are cool!'' (last entry)
*Sirius POV*
Let''s talk about change or to be precisely, let''s talk about changes coming with the creation of dungeons.
I asked Rot how the fairies were able to repel the elven guardians since they should have been pretty strong. Well it''s pretty simple actually. Every dungeon has floors or something equal to that. This forest as an example, has layers. The first layer is the edge of the forest and the last one it''s center, which is apparently the Cave of Origin I currently reside in. The Strongest Monster in a Dungeon will determine how strong the mobs are.
Aya was even more powerful than I thought. She was actually level 2953 and her level was pushed to 3000 because of the Dungeon preferring clear numbers. Afterwards, all the fairies on her layer were pushed to level 2900. the Boss of the next layer is level 2800 and its Minions Level 2700. this continues on and on until we reach the edge of the forest were the weakest monsters reside in. Those are only level 300.
So, because of this whole place turning into a dungeon and Aya being part of it, we now have some serious strong fairies flying around here...
That''s actually kind of disturbing!
I was wondering if there were any actual benefits for being a Dungeon Master and luckily for me, there are! Whenever an adventurer dies within the dungeon I''ll get his equipment and whatever''s in his inventory.
I asked Rot to show me the armor of those elven guardian since I desperately need new clothes, but I won''t wear any of it. You may be asking yourself, why? Well, all of this armor as clearly designed to be worn by females...
I may have no flesh and could therefor wear this stuff without any problems, but crossdressing sin¡¯t one of my hobbies.
After thinking for a while and making sure that it''s possible, I decided to give my ''Dungeon Master'' position to someone else since you can''t leave the dungeon if you are its master and I don''t plan on staying here.
I use a small rock and turn it into a dungeon core by simply giving it my rights, afterwards I hide it deep inside the cave. That should be enough.
¡°*Sniff* Are you really going to leave Sirius?¡± (Aya)
¡°I have things to do, things I won''t be able to do in here.¡± (Sirius)
¡°*Sob* Will you vis- visit me? ¡° (Aya)Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
Why is she so upset about me leaving? We have only known each other for barely 3 weeks and I was unconscious for most of that time. Let''s lie to her so she won''t feel too bad.
¡°Yes.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Yaaaaay!¡± (Aya)
So, now there''s one thing I want to try.
I''ve got myself the corpses of a few elven Guardians and a big fat major Soul in my pocket... let''s try something out! ''Soul Link''.
Right, I actually need to raise them before I''m able to link a soul to them. Well those elven guardians are way too strong for me to raise... I guess I have to look for some weaker people. I''ll keep the Major soul for now, it''s probably only going to give me around twenty levels anyway.
Well, it''s time to leave. I pack my things and get out of the cave while Aya is shedding tears...
She has some serious problems.
¡°Wait for us Lord!¡± (Rot)
Fuck.
¡°Didn''t we tell you we are going to stick to you ?!¡± (Grau)
¡°Even if you are mentally retarded!¡± (Schwarz)
¡
Fuck.
Will I really still have to deal with those annoying little shits? Urgh, I think I''m going to throw up...
Anyway, I ask Aya if she could fly me and the fairies out but it seems like she can no longer leave her Layer inside the dungeon anymore, but she was able to lend the big bird to me. Apparently, that thing is not part of the dungeon for some strange reason. It probably has chosen not to become part of it like the three fairies around me did.
Very carefully and slowly I get up on the beast while Aya talks to him. It seems she actually has to peruse him into flying me to my destination. Well she''s able to do so and the Bird lifts off.
I really underestimated the size of the forest... it took us a whole day on the wings of an enormous flying beast to reach the edge of this dungeon. We flew towards the north and over the mountains since that''s the only place where we won''t have to get past the elves.
Suddenly, the bird throws me off itself onto the ground. Very roughly. I manage to not break any bones while landing, but it was still pretty rude. The Bird then just turns around and flies away.
Seriously rude.
¡°You alright lord?¡± (Rot)
¡°I think he fell on his head!¡± (Grau)
¡°Oh no, what if it got even more messed up because of it?! Actually, that¡¯s probably impossible.¡± (Schwarz)
¡
While ignoring the stupid fairies I try to remember the world map in order to find out where we are.
Hm, North to the Everbloom, or I guess Neverbloom Forest should be the edge of the elven country and next to it is the... Human one? Right? Well we''ll find out if we keep on travelling north. I hope I''m right since I would really like to slay and raise some humans right now...
Let''s go!
*Third Person POV*
The appearance of the Neverbloom Forest bought many different reactions with it. The elves were devastated. Their most holy and sacred ground has been turned into a dangerous dungeon and the holy divine creatures within into viscous and evil beings. That was a serious blow to the elves and hurt them a lot. Not only did many of them start questioning their religion, but other Kingdoms and races started wondering about their capabilities.
The other races were pretty relieved to be honest. After all the elves just lost their status as the guardians of a sacred place. That meant that they no longer able to walk around as arrogantly as they did in the past.
The ones not praying to the ''Higher Gods'' were more than happy with the creation of that dungeon. Especially the Council of the Dark kings had a small party to celebrate the downfall of Everbloom Forest.
Many Adventurers, even some elven one were very excited about the new Neverbloom Forest. After all a new dungeon meant new things to explore and new things to gain! Sadly for them, the elves still didn''t allow anyone to enter. Some say it''s because they still hold this place dearly in their heart, but most people are sure that they are just simply too ashamed.
There was one ''person'' that the elves couldn''t stop from entering though. After all, kingdoms have to be very careful about how they treat an X-Rank.
The female X-Ranked Adventurer slaughtered herself through the dungeon with ease. Nothing was able to stop her and after a while most fairies and Everbeasts decided to stop attacking her. She arrived and entered the cave at the center of the Dungeon and was met by another woman, whose ready to block her path.
¡°¡ Big sister?¡± (Aya)
¡°It''s been a while, Ayaeqlarune¡± (???)
¡°¡ My name is Aya now.¡± (Aya)
¡°What? What do you mean your name is Aya now? How can you just forsake your old and powerful Fae name like that? Well it doesn''t matter, show me where the Dungeon Master or the Core is so I can destroy that thing and get you out of here. ¡° (???)
¡°¡ No.¡± (Aya)
¡°¡¡± (???)
¡°D- don''t look at me like this! I want to stay! This place is great sis! I get to play with the fairies all day and they are all really friendly! And Sirius said he would visit me as well!¡± (Aya)
¡°Who the fuck is Sirius? Is he the asshole that made this place into a dungeon and bound you to it?! I swear to god when I find this maggot I wi-¡± (???)
¡°NO! Don''t do anything to Sirius!¡± (Aya)
¡°¡ You are serious, aren''t you? You really want to stay at this place!?¡± (???)
¡°Yes! Please Sister, I''m happy here! Theo''s no reason to destroy this place! Just leave..¡± (Aya)
¡°¡¡± (???)
¡°¡¡± (Aya)
¡°Alright, I''ll leave, search for this Sirius Guy and bring you his fucking head! Let''s see if you still want to be here then!¡± (???)
¡°*Gasp* Don''t Sister, please!¡± (Aya)
¡°Shut up Aya, I''m only doing what''s best for you. Trust me, you are too dumb to know what''s good and what''s bad, so just wait here while I find this guy.¡± (???)
With those words the Greater Fae turned around and left the cave.
¡°¡ *Sob* I''m sorry, Sirius...¡± (Aya)
Chapter 20 - Red Ogre*
¡°¡I was bound. The Dragon I wanted to investigate bound me to her. It was so surprising that I didn''t even know what to do at the beginning. All I saw was a bright light and now I can''t get away from her anymore. This is a disaster! My life is ruined! Don''t misunderstand me, I do love dragons but not like this! How is that even supposed to work? I mean she''s like twenty meters long and I''m a human...
Why did she bind me anyway? Dragons may fall in love at first sight yes, but I never heard about a dragon binding a non-dragon to her. She is currently right behind me by the way and keeps rubbing he face against me. I''m kinda scared... What if she... well you know, want to do ''it''?
Please send help!
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
I was right.
We travelled for a week and finally arrived in the human kingdom. I was really getting nervous at end of our journey about where we will end up, but luckily my memories did not betray me! We entered the human kingdom and had something like a ''plan meeting'' to decide what to do next. Most of the meeting was inside of my head though... anyway where was I? Right the plans for the future.
So, I have two options to proceed right now in order to grow in strength. The first option is to hunt very old and powerful souls and the second one is to get as many weaker souls as possible.
The second option is the best for me right now, since I''m too weak to fight against a dragon or anything like that. Now all that''s left is to think about a way to acquire tons of Souls.
The first thing I''ll have to do is level up my necromancy magic to the advance stage. This way I''ll be able to use the spell ''Raise the Dead''! the biggest difference between ''Raise the Dead'' and ''Summon Skeleton'' is that the minions I''ll summon with the advanced spell won''t die after a set amount of time.
So, I''ll be able to build myself a small army if I get myself some corpses. In order to acquire said corpses I''ll level my dark magic a bit and attack a small village by creating a wall around it again. I should be able to snowball into more and more minions that way. I''m also hoping to link the Major Soul to one of my minions and see what I''ll get.
I''m currently Inside the ''Mountain range of Blood'' since I''m more likely to find other monsters in here. It''s a lot faster to level your skill by fighting, after all the only things I found so far are goblins and kobolds though... I hope I can find some real monsters soon to test out my new sk-
¡°Are you the one?¡± (???)
Well, it was about time! I was wondering when I''m going to get interrupted again.
A very tall man is blocking my path.
Hm, now that I look at him he''s an Ogre and not a man. This guy is huge and has red skin as well as two long horns growing out of his forehead. I know that Ogre evolve out of goblins and I was actually searching for some since those things should be great to train with.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.
¡°What do you mean with ''the one''?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Are you the one that kills Doros friends?! Doro is angry! Doro will kill you!¡± (Doro)
Great, an idiot! That should make this an easy fight.
¡°Yes I am! So what are you goi-¡± (Sirius)
Doro quickly charges into my direction, a bit to quickly!
How can he be so fast with such a big body build?! I quickly summon an ice barrier to stop him in his charge and it gets smashed into pieces by him! This did give me enough time to dodge his attack though.
¡°Doro Smash!¡± (Doro)
Why the fuck is he saying that?! He''s red and not green! Well, time to try out some real spells!
¡°Second commitment: Proud Chains!¡± (Sirius)
Black Chains appear around Doro and wrap around his arms and legs. This skill already reached level 3 so it''s going to decrease hi stamina regeneration by 12%! I cast ''Frost Prison'' before he can attack again. Long spears of Ice appear all around him and a few hit the big guy. Most of them just simply break when they collide against him but one went through.
¡°AHH?! WHAT IS THSI?!¡± (Doro)
Damn, that was an Advance level skill and he just took most of it without any problems! Seems like his skin is really tough...
I guess Frost skill aren''t going to help me a lot here. My necromancy and Dark Magic both luckily managed to reach Intermediate rank in the past few days, so I still have other means to attack! Doro frees himself from the single spear that''s piercing him and once again charges towards me.
I cast the spell ''Dark Orb'' and jump out of the way. Dark orb is a very simple attack spell that creates well, a dark orb. If this orb comes into contact with something it will explode, releasing dark mana in the process. The usefulness doesn''t lie in its destructive power though. You can either throw the orb, or just simply let it float in midair! I choose the second option while barely dodging the ogre. He charges right into the orb and it explodes.
¡°ARGH!!!¡± (Doro)
Seems like he really didn''t like it. Well let''s end this fight b-
¡
Why is he starting to grow?! The already two and a half meters tall Ogre grows another two fucking meters and green marks appear on his blood red skin!
¡°DORO WILL SMASH!¡± (Sirius)
What kind of skill is that?! Doro jumps in my direction and I''m barely able to dodge his gigantic feet! He then swipes his right hand in my direction and hits me this time. I fly at least 6 meters before crashing into a tree with great speed. I hear bones breaking.
Fuck, this is not good! I should have bought Rot and the others with me today to help me in emergency situations like that! Seems like nothing important is broken though. Lucky me?
Doro turns towards me, ready for another attack. Shit, I need to distract him so I can gain some more distant and cast a bigger spell.
I take a few goblin corpses out of my Bag of Holding and quickly raise them as minions. I send them to attack Doro while I run away to great some distance and prepare my spell.
¡°Hm? Doro friends? Why Doro friend attack Doro?!¡± (Doro)
Good, seems like they are doing a great job at getting is attention! I run away a bit more and then stop. I see how Doro kills the undead Goblins out of rage and then looks towards me. I should have enough Time...
I activate ''Chaos Time'' and begin chanting. Yeah, I actually have to chant in order to use this spell, though my knowledge shortens the chant by a lot.
¡°My enemies shall fear this spell for all eternity as their skin rots away and their armor is shred into pieces! Nothing shall protect them from the death I''ll bring! Oh darkness, hear my call and do my bidding: Dark Nova!¡±
An enormous ball appears in my hands. The completely black sphere seems to absorb all light and the place around me actually gets darker. This spell is extremely powerful which is why I had to use a chant to actually cast it...
It''s a very dangerous one as well since it''s Area of Effect is kind of big and it does not differentiate between foe and ally. Well at least it won''t hurt me, the caster.
The Orb grows in size and the whole place around me turns black for a few seconds as dark mana attacks everything with even the smallest trace of life. I wonder how many insects and animals I just killed? The spell has a range of approximal 18 meters.
After it''s over I look around to see that this Ogre is still alive...
Are you serious?
I used an incredible strong spell and have a shit ton of INT, so how is he still alive?! He is bleeding a lot though and I notice that much of his skin has withered away. That''s very good for me. I ready myself for another spell but this fucker throws a stone at me! Are you serious?
The stone hits me at my chest and smashes right thorough it, breaking my bones in the process.
¡
It''s not looking very good for me right now.
*Third person POV*
¡°Are you sure we should leave master alone today? I know he said to wait for him but I kind of have bad feeling... What if something strong appears?¡± (Grau)
¡°I''m a lot more worried about him falling off a cliff while having an inner monologue or something...¡± (Schwarz)
¡°Stop worrying Guys! Master is strong and very clever, he won''t fight something he can''t win against! I''m sure of it!¡± (Rot)
¡°If you say so...¡± (Grau)
Chapter 21 - Doro*
¡°It''s actually not that bad to be honest. It was pretty hard to get used to this new lifestyle but I think I''m fine now! I''m of course talking about this whole dragon-marriage thing.
At the beginning, I really did feel comfortable around Diana (that''s the name of my dragon) but by now I''m quite happy about everything that happened! I mean yes, it''s still kinda strange to love a dragon and society may not accept our everlasting bound, but know what? Fuck them!
I never was as happy as I am right now inside this dragon lair together with my lovely Diana. I mean, who wouldn''t love to be in my position? I have a beautiful mate with blood red scales, golden wonderful eyes and red spikes growing out of her back and tail! Seriously, look at that beauty! And the real important thing is that she''s absolute loyal to me! Dragon''s only choose one partner in their whole life even if said partner dies, so I won''t have to fear that she will ever betray me like that whore of an ex-wife I have!
We still can''t have sex though.¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
I fall to the ground while clutching the bits that are left of my chest. I''m kind of lucky when I think about it. If that stone was any bigger it would probably have split me into twoparts! That''s a really scary thought.
It looks like the ogre is out of breath at the moment, time for me to act I guess. I need get over with this as soon as possible, one or two more hits and I''m a goner! I cast the last of my three intermediate ranked darkness spells, Dark Field.
The ogre looks confused as the whole place gets completely shunned of from any light. This spell is practically like a AoE Shadow Cloak and since it''s day, it''s draining a LOT of mana. I use the darkness to my advantage and turn around to run away.
¡
What?
Disappointed?
Fuck you.
I''m not fighting this!
I run out of the Dark Field range and hear a loud roar. I turn around to see my field shatter into small pieces and vanish into smoke. Did he just break it? He could do something like that? The ogre looks at me angrily and charges forward. Alright, time to test out if his flesh is as hard as his skin. I cast ''Frost Prison'' and the cold spears easily piece through his flesh.
Nice! Should have done a nice amount of damage!
¡
It didn''t slow him down though. He keeps on charging at me with all those spears still inside pf him! Shit, what''s wrong with him?! I cast gravedigger to hide underground and I hear how he collides with a tree that was behind me a few seconds ago. Before I''m able to cancel the spell and run away he just grabs into the earth and pulls me out.
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)Stolen novel; please report.
¡°¡¡± (Doro)
¡°Can we talk about this?¡± (Sirius)
He throws me and I fly in the air for a few seconds before crashing into yet another tree. We are really ruining this little mountain forest.
I try to get up so I can get the hell out of here once again, but before I''m able to do so he comes flying from the sky and steps onto my lower body, breaking me into two parts in the process.
You don''t say?! Fuck, if I were human and had any necessary organs or blood I would have already died!
¡°Haha! Doro showed you his strength! Now you at Doros feet! If you beg for your life maybe Doro will let you stay as his servant!¡± (Doro)
¡
Are you fucking serious? A god damn ogre is acting all haughty and arrogant in front of me? Well I can understand why he''s so fucking sure of himself, but I still have a few tricks in my arsenal!
It''s time to test out my second intermediate ranked Necromancy spell, ''At Deaths Door''. This spell is only useable if my Health¡¯s in the red area. It allows me to quickly summon a great number of undead if I have the corpses ready, which I luckily have.
I bring out the goblin corpses from inside my Bag of Holding and throw them at the ogre. He looks very confused but also very angry. I activate the spell and the goblins attack the ogre while one of them takes what''s left of me and runs.
The ogre quickly finishes off the goblins and turns to the goblin carrying me and runs after us. Now the great thing is, that I can just keep on casting spells until I run out of mana while the faster undead goblin keeps on running! I face Doro and cast one salve of Ice shards after the other. The shards keep on crashing onto him and since most of his skin is burned away, all of them penetrate into his flesh. I continue to cast the spells and after firing for the 38th time, the goblin that carried me collapses.
Shit! The timer of the resurrection spell ran out! Doro slows down as he sees me on the ground and slowly walks towards me.
I ready myself for my death as Doro falls to the ground and stops moving.
Hm?
What happened?
I take a look at Doro and now see that all those shards did a great number on him. His upper body is completely shred of any flesh and only bones remain, a few shards even went through his throat! It seems like he only kept running because of pure willpower.
Fuck, that was way to close! I have to admit that his willpower and stamina were amazing though. If he wasn''t so determined to kill my I''d ask him to serve me...
Hm?
Wait, is that?
Yes, it is!
He actually had a soul! There are very few monsters that actually have one, since only special and unique ones have them, but it seems like Doro was one of those. Well, I guess with an ability like his he does count as a special monster. I mean how many people do you know that can instantly grow two meters and suddenly have green Body markings? He grew back to his normal size after dying by the way.
Let''s just take his soul and eat his bones to start growing back those missing body parts.
¡
Actually, I have a better idea.
I use Soul Shackle on his slowly fading soul and raise his dead body. I can raise pretty much all humanoid creatures right now, but they will be pretty weak since their strength depend on my intelligence and level of necromancy. I''m also not able to raise really big things right now. The now way weaker and mindless Doro stands in front of me. Let''s see if that works. ''Soul Link''
Warrior Soul? What''s that? I just keep finding new things, huh? Anyway, I link the Warrior Soul to the Undead Doro and a new Message pops up.
He certainly was a berserker...
Anyway, I can even change his name? I wonder if he''ll keep his memories after the link. I''m not going to change his name though, that would be rude. Now, awaken Doro!
As I say those words, a bright light appears next to the floating orb that is his soul and it quickly fuses with said soul. After the light and soul became one, they enter Doros body. The undead spasms for a while and then finally stops. He slowly opens his eyes and his mouth.
¡°You... you bought Doro back...¡± (Doro)
¡°Yes I did, how is your new body? It''s not that bad being an undead, right?¡± (Doro)
¡°¡Why? Even though Doro tried to smash you?!¡± (Doro)
¡°Because you are strong and your will is incredible. Even while you were practically dead you just kept rushing after me, even though you could just have left. I admire determination like that and more importantly, I can use that. You will become a great asset in the future so we can see this as an investment.¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡Thank you, master.¡± (Doro)
¡°Hm? Why are you thanking me? Did you not understand, I''m going to use you and also throw you away if you prove to be not worth the afford?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡Doro will work hard!¡± (Doro)
¡°¡Okay? Then start by picking me up and collecting all those goblin corpses, I need to regenerate.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Yes Sir!¡± (Doro)
¡
I feel like I made the right decision.
Chapter 22 - Bad feelings*
¡°I think I found a way! You know, for this whole ''Sex with a Dragon'' Dilemma.
We just have to turn Diana human, or me into a dragon! Now the only question reaming is, how? Well I was thinking a lot about this and I may have found an answer. There were always legends about dragons appearing in human form, so I investigated them.
Apparently a very old and very wise dragon once created an item so that he and his children could walk amidst the humans. I have no idea why a dragon would want to do this, but that''s not the important thing here. So, I basically just have to search and find this item! I tried to find out about this legend as much as possible and was finally able to track down the guy that wrote it. His kinda strange to be honest. He seems really old and mysterious, also his eyes look a bit strange and his teeth are just a tiny bit to sharp...
Well, wish me luck!¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
You should have seen the faces of Rot and the other fairies when they saw Doro carrying the small pieces of me! Grau started to cry and Schwarz just hatefully looked at Doro while Rot went completely nuts and started bombing Doro with fire spells. That''s the first time I saw a fairy attack and I have to say, they are certainly not weak. I would guess their level to be somewhere between 800 and 900.
Rot calmed down after I told her to stop firing fireballs at the person carrying me. I told them what happened and all of them welcomed Doro into our group. I then ate bones and started to rest for a while. The next day I questioned Doro if there are any other unique monsters in these mountains. Getting more people like Doro would be great, since not only is he strong he''s also still able to evolve and grow like any other monster. He gains EXP regularly by the way, which means we won''t have to share souls in the future.
So, Doro told me that there are two more unique monsters around here. One of them is a huge three headed serpent and the other an very powerful small blue female ogre. When I asked him if that blue ogre was stronger than him he just nodded with death in his eyes.
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Seems like he had some pretty bad experiences with her. Well, I''m not going to go for that serpent since I need more powerful necromancy to bring something like that back to life, but the ogre sounds interesting. I asked Doro if we could take her out two versus one and he seemed very sceptic. Maybe if he was as strong as he used to be but not now. Well, I guess we''ll just have to both get a bit stronger before attacking her.
After talking a bit about our future I went out once again, this time with Doro. The great thing about this guy is that he''s silent most of the time. I would take the fairies with me for safety while going out to strengthen my skills but I just can''t stand their annoying talk all the time. They also have the bad habit of talking shit about me whenever I''m having one of my inner monologues which is kind of the most annoying thing about them.
Anyway, after coming across a few more goblins and killing them we finally find something interesting. A cave.
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Now a cave may not seem very special but this one certainly is! There are spider webs outside of it and those things are HUGE! I''m talking about spider webs that are thicker than my arm! After entering the cave, I get a message that confirmed what I already had suspected.
Natural dungeons are very rare and only form if a great number of monster without intelligence gather at one place. When I say a great number I literally mean hundreds of monsters! So, we found a cave full of spiders? Could be interesting. The bonus EXP is great for Doro but I sadly doubt that I''ll find any Souls or religious bones inside this thing. Also, the message kind of had a strange color...
Well we are going to enter it anyway. I mean who knows? Maybe I''m lucky and the boss is a unique monster or something. I wonder about what size and level this dungeon is, it doesn''t look that big to me. But hey, who knows maybe this cave is just an entrance to a huge underground spider-city!
I''m of course just joking here!
¡
Why do I have that bad feeling again?
Well I''m sure I''m mistaking!
We enter the cave and look around to discover more and more spider webs but no actual spiders. We walk deep inside and after a while I get a bit nervous. First of all, there are still no enemies! And secondly the whole cave is made out of spider webs by now. I''m serious everything is covered in that white nasty stuff.
Alright that sounded wrong, but I''m sure you get what I''m trying to say. We should probably just leave before some-
The ground opens up before I''m able to end my thoughts and I fall onto a slide made out of webs. Doro jumped after me and the two of us are now sliding together. So, it WAS a trap? How do you even do something like that? I mean how do you fake a message? I shouldn''t have trusted a grey fucking screen...
We keep on sliding for like twenty minutes until we finally stop
¡
Are you actually serious right now?
As to answer my question two disgusting things pop out. They look like spiders with faces. That''s somehow very disturbing. As if that wouldn''t be enough, they are also bigger than horses! Great!
¡°T-t-d-do not move!¡± (Spider-Thing 1)
¡°Yeah! Ot-t-t-therwise we''ll bit-t-t-te you!¡± (Spider-Thing 2)
¡°Infect-t-t-t you!¡± (Spider-Thing 1)
¡°Eat-t-t-t-t you!¡± (Spider-Thing 2)
Those guys have some major speech problems. I mean what''s up with that? They also don''t seem to be very clever. I look at Doro and nod in his direction. He immediately grows in size and green marks appear on his skin as he grabs one of those spiders at the head and just crushes it. Well seems like they really aren''t worth that much. I cast a Dark Orb and throw it at the second spider and the disgusting thing screams as dark mana explodes and rips him apart. Those things are really not very tough, huh?
Suddenly, more of those disgusting things appear and crawl in our direction. I cast Frost Prison and hear screams as most of them get impaled by my magic. It''s not enough to kill them, but enough to make them stop. After limiting their movement, I proceed to cast dark orbs and kill one after another while Doro smashed them like¡ spiders, I guess.
Five minutes and twelve dead spiders later I find myself amidst disgusting spider parts. Seems like we will have to find an exit, huh? Well shouldn''t be that hard since those spiders are pretty weak
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Fuck. This bad feeling is back again.
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I really should stop saying stuff like that.
*Third Person POV*
A small spider, only the size of a thumbnail is quickly running towards a huge room.
¡°Mist-t-t-t-tress! Oh mist-t-t-t-t-tress!¡± (small spider)
After running to the door in front of the room, she slips right under it and finds herself in front of a huge abomination.
A gigantic spider the size of a mansion is currently lying on the ground with her eyes closed. The monstrous arachnid has at least a leg span of over thirty meters and it would probably stand over fifteen meters tall if it wasn''t sleeping. Instead of the usual spider fangs it had a vertical mouth filled with sharp fangs. Six of its legs were normal spider legs but the ones at the front actually had hands with long and thin fingers as well as sharp claws. The spider did not have any hair. It was crimson red and black colored, it''s eyes were completely black huge dots. The enormous thing slowly opened said eyes and looked at its small friend.
¡°What is it, small one?¡± (Mist-t-t-t-t-tress)
¡°Int-t-t-truders! Someone act-t-t-t-ivat-t-t-ted t-the t-t-trap and killed t-the guards!¡± (small spider)
¡°Hm? Is that so? Send the elite soldiers to deal with it and let me rest.¡± (Mist-t-t-t-t-tress)
¡°Bu-t-t-t what-t-t-t if they are t-t-t-to strong?!¡± (small spider)
¡°Then come again and I''ll deal with them. But I really doubt this will be necessary. Go and inform the elites now.¡± (Mist-t-t-t-t-tress)
¡°Yes, mist-t-t-t-t-tress¡± (small spider)
meanwhile, above the ground in front of the cave stood a small woman.
¡°So he''s in here? Let''s see if Aya is still gonna be a bitch after I show her his head.¡± (Higher Fae)
Chapter 23 - City of Spider Part 1*
¡°It took me three weeks but the old guy finally told me where I can find the item to turn my beloved Diana into a form that is... more compatible with me. He didn''t want to give it to me at the beginning but after showing him my beautiful wife he agreed. I could have could have sworn that he was talking to her... but of course that''s not possible, right?
Anyway, after showing her to him he told me that I can find this item hidden inside of a small chest deep in the woods. I will of course start my search right after I finished writing this all down into my new book. I''m still thinking about a title by the way. Well it''s time to go! I and Diana can''t wait any longer! ¡°
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
After killing those disgusting spiders, Doro and I look around to find a way back up. The room we are currently inside of is very simple and made out of some strange black stone. We are not able to climb the spider webs back up, neither am I able to create ice on them. Well, guess we''ll have to leave this room and look around outside.
We check everything once again for a last time and then get out of here and are met with and unexpected sight outside.
We seem to be inside an enormous cave inside the mountains! This place is really huge! Just how much of the mountain range is hollow?
It''s pretty dark in here since we are underground but there are some gigantic crystals on the walls and ceiling that give of some light at least. I can see something similar to a city around a mile or two away from us. The ''buildings'' in that city are... Simple.
They are basically just enormous cocoons made out of spider webs. Each of those cocoons are about twenty meters high and ten wide. There are so many of them... at least a thousand if not more. The most noticeable thing is in the center of this ''city''. A black cocoon with a height of over a hundred meters is standing there. Now that I look closer I think there are even some windows and doors on all of those cocoons...
I have the feeling that we should get out of here before whatever''s inside that big cocoon gets out. The building we just came out of seems to be the only one made out of stone by the way. Now there has to be another exit, right? Maybe we should try to walk around the edge of this cave? This way we should be able to make sure we won''t meet to many spiders and if we are luck we will find a tunnel or something. It''s not very likely though. Well, it''s a beginning. If we don''t find anything we still ca-
¡°Stop Humans! You shall be fed to the great Mistress!¡± (???)
¡
Hey look a spider that isn''t talking in this annoying retarded way.
A group of four spiders are approaching us. Those guys don''t look as disgusting as the last ones! Their lower bodies are that of spiders but their upper bodies look human. Well expect of the six eyes and this strange vertical mouth. They are also all carrying silver spears, expect of the one that talked, who carries a golden spear instead. Seems like they aren''t too dumb.
Let¡¯s try talking before freezing.
¡°Do we look like Humans to you?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°We don¡¯t, right? We look both like the undead, right? Want to know why? Because we are. So, unless you want to fed your mistress bones and rotting flesh, fuck off.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Right Fuck off thin-legs!¡± (Doro)
Thin-legs? Really? Doro has to work or his insults.
¡°You are still under arrest for killing fourteen civilians!¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°Under arrest? What the fuck? You are spiders, stop acting like humans and other civilized races. Also, it was you guys that attacked us.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Just surrender and we will give you a fair trial.¡± (Spider Guy)
Fair trial? Down here? As if. I have a very hard time imagining a spider judge. I don''t think we have much of a choice though...This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.
There is a whole city filled with spiders and we have no idea how to get out of here. Worst case scenario, we can''t. I mean this slide may very well be the only way down here. If we kill them they''ll probably going to send more anyway until I run out of mana or Doro out of stamina. I guess that''s the only way. My only hope is that spiders probably won''t eat undead.
¡°Alright we surrender, let''s go.¡± (Sirius)
¡°I see you want to do this the hard wa- wa wait what?! You actually surrender?! * cough * erm, I mean of course you do!¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°You guys really lack confidence.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Do we really surrender, boss?¡± (Doro)
¡°Yeah, no use fighting. What now? Do we get handcuffs or anything? Or are you going to spin your web around us? I may not be claustrophobic, but I would prefer you guys to not put me into a cocoon.¡± (Sirius)
¡°We Hybrids can''t create spider webs and we don''t really have handcuffs, so... would you please follow us?¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°Alright.¡± (Sirius)
¡°This is going incredible well! I actually got them to surrender! Maybe I''ll get promoted!¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°Good for you.¡± (Sirius)
They surround us and we all walk together towards the city. Seems like they are really not planning to kill us.
Let''s be happy about that.
We enter the city and I see many different spiders walking around and staring at us. Most of them are those disgusting face spiders, but there are also some more hybrids under them. The most disturbing things are the small baby-faced spiders... They actually send shivers down my spine. I notice that we are not walking towards the black cocoon.
¡°Where are we going anyway?¡± (Sirius)
¡°We are escorting you two to our Prison.¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°You guys actually have something like that? What''s inside the black cocoon by the way?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Hm? That''s the home of Mistress Saxin! We are all descents of her and she''s also the one ruling over all of us.¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°She lives pretty comfortable here, huh? Seeing how big her home is.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well she need such a big home because of her size! She measures 35 glorifying meters from one leg to the other.¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
35 meters? Are you serious? She''s bigger than an adult dragon! I really hope she won''t eat us. It''s very unlikely though. I¡¯m all skin and bones. Actually, I¡¯m only bones. Great, now I¡¯m depressed.
After walking for over two hours we finally arrive at a cocoon that looks a bit different than the other ones. This one looks a lot tougher. We are bought inside and the spider shows us our cell. I have to say, they are not too bad! I mean they are pretty big and the spider silk makes them very comfortable. They are at least better than the cells humans, elves and most other races use.
¡°Stay inside until we decide how to proceed from now on.¡± (Spider Guy)
¡°Didn''t you say something about a fair trial?¡± (Sirius)
¡°We never had one, since nobody ever surrendered... We''ll just ask the mistress what to do.¡± (Spider Guy)
What? Fuck you. What do you mean you never had one? I swear to god if they let us rot in here I''m going to haunt them if I come back for a third time. The spider leaves us alone in here and exits the building. I really want to break its legs right now.
*Third Person POV*
The leader of the Elite Soldiers enters the building of Mistress Saxin and knocks against her door.
¡°You may enter.¡± (Saxin)
The Spider-hybrid takes a deep breath and opens the door. He enters the room and is greeted by the gigantic spider.
¡°So, how did it go? Did we have any casualties? I heard they should be pretty strong.¡± (Saxin)
¡°N- no mistress! They... They actually surrendered.¡± (Elite-Leader)
¡°¡Really? It''s pretty rare to meet a human that won''t freak out if they see us. Well how did they taste? I hope you didn''t eat all of them yourself.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Actually... we didn''t eat them at all.¡± (Elite-Leader)
¡°Thy is that? Are they infected with anything?¡± (Saxin)
¡°No! They are... undead.¡± (Elite-Leader)
¡°Undead? You mean Vampires? What''s the problem then?¡± (Saxin)
¡°No! One of them is a strange skeleton mage with creepy eyes and an eerie aura. The other one was once an ogre but is now also an undead with his bones showing on his torso as well as on his jaw.¡± (Elite-Leader)
¡°What? And they surrendered? Did they seem intelligent to you?¡± (Saxin)
¡°The big guy not so much but the skeleton seemed very intelligent to me.¡± (Elite-Leader)
¡°Interesting... maybe a unique monster? Bring them to me, I want to see them myself.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Yes mistress!¡± (Elite-Leader)
The Elite Soldier quickly leaves the room and leaves the mistress alone.
Meanwhile, a certain adventurer found herself in front of a big hole inside of the ground. After thinking a bit about how do go down there safely she just simply jumps and enjoys the slide. She is just as surprised as Sirius when she discovers the underground city of spiders
¡°A Secret realm, huh? Could be interesting...¡± (???)
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Authors Note: Do you like spiders?
Chapter 24 - City of Spider Part 2*
¡°It''s not as easy as I thought it would be.
I went to the woods last week to search for this chest that contains Diana and my key to true happiness, but I failed miserably! Those woods are kinda dangerous...
I met a lot of strange and dangerous things like fire salamanders. But those are not the problem, I''m not a weakling and can deal with those beasts!
The problem is the monkey! A small ape just kept on annoying me and ridiculing me all week long! He was so agile that I had no chance to catch him and when I finally found the chest he took it! I have no idea what kind of mythical or magical beast he is and frankly, I don''t care!
I''m really mad at this monkey since he''s pretty much the only thing left between Me and Diana, but I think I know how to deal with him. I just finished preparing my next try and I''m sure I will succeed this time!
Let''s see what burned monkey smell like, shall we?¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
After sitting inside the cell for an hour the golden spear wielding spider hybrid finally came back. He seems like he''s in a rush, I wonder what happened? Maybe he went to a supervisor to report and that guy trashed him?
¡°I''ve got the order to bring you to out mistress! Now, before I do so there are some rules you''ll have to pay attention to, understood?¡± (Leader)
¡°Urgh, rules? Don''t tell me the spider is behaving like a queen or something? I won''t bow, you know?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Somehow I''ve got the feeling as if you said ''spider'' like it was an insult...¡± (Leader)
¡°You are just imagining things, so what are the ''rules''?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well you won''t have to bow or anything since mistress is a humble person, but we won''t tolerate you being rude or not showing proper manners towards her! Got it?!¡± (Leader)
¡°Yeah yeah, I''m never a rude person. Actually, I''m that kind of person everyone else is rude towards.¡± (Sirius)
¡°As long as you understand it''s good! Alright let''s go bonehead.¡± (Leader)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
I and Doro are both being let outside our cells and the leader walks us out of prison. I have to say, I''m kind of proud of Doro! He is a lot less... angry since I turned him. I''m pretty sure he wouldn''t just shut up and accept my commands if it was his past him. I guess that''s because of the passive skill ''undead'', huh? Well it''s a good thing no matter the reason.
As we walk towards the black giant cocoon I once again spot a great number of spiders looking at us as if we were some exotic criminals or something. One of the especially creepy child faced spiders that was discussing something with her(?) friend¡¯s crawls towards us and gives me... a small necklace made out of spider silk? Her whole face turns red as she runs back to her friends and they all start giggling while staring at me.
Did she just...?
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Fuck that''s creepy! Shit, I need to get out of this god forsaken spider hole! No, scratch that getting out of here won''t be enough! I have to burn this whole place to the ground! I need to kill them! All of them with fire, quickly before they lay even more eggs!
¡
Alright maybe I''m overreacting but getting eyed by spiders just has this kind of effect on me... It probably would have this kind of effect on every non-spider being on this world! God, this place is disgusting. The leader smirks at me and starts laughing.
¡°Hahaha, seems like you are already popular, huh? Lucky you, she was pretty cute wasn''t she? I''m sure she''s going to grow up into a beautiful lady!¡± (Leader)
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Memo to myself, let this guy watch as I burn everything here to ashes. I mean yeah, they are all disgusting but he tops it all! Even though he isn''t as bad looking as the others since he''s one of the hybrids he disgusts me more than them! I mean, she was a child! Sick pedo!
After a bit, we finally arrive at the great cocoon. Luckily for us, we arrive without any more spiders trying to appeal to me. I really hope that just now was a prank or something.
Anyway, we enter the black ''building'' through an enormous door. I''m kind of curious to see this mistress to be honest. I mean, how often do you get to look at a dragon-sized spider? After going through a corridor, we stop in front of another giant door. The spider-hybrid knocks. A surprisingly soft and pleasant female voice answers.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.
¡°You may enter¡± (Saxin)
Our guide takes a deep breath and steadies himself. Looks like he respects her a lot, huh? He opens a small door within the bigger one I didn''t even notice and the three of us enter the room.
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Well he wasn''t lying. In front of me is a giant spider the size of a huge house, sitting on a probably even bigger pillow. The spider should look disgusting but... She instead appears ''graceful'' to me. I can''t really explain why, but the way she moves and looks seems so graceful! As if I was truly looking at a queen right now.
¡°So, you are the Unique monster that my men found? Hmmmm. You don''t look too bad, undead. Let''s forget about the little accident this morning and talk a bit, shall we?¡± (Saxin)
So she''s just going to ignore the fact that I killed twelve of her kind? Alright, I''m just going to forget that they wanted to eat me then. Seems fair to me.
¡°Of course, my name is Sirius by the way. You are Saxin, right?¡± (Sirius)
I hear the elite-soldier next to me take a sharp breath and look at him.
Wow.
If views could kill I would be dead because of his stare. Oh, I guess I should have said ''mistress Saxin'', huh? Well it''s too late now. Once you are at the first name basis you stay there! Right? Would be kind of awkward to go back now¡
¡°Fufufu it''s been a while since someone didn''t address me as mistress. Yes, to you I''m ''Saxin''. Sirius? I once knew someone with that man. A powerful necromancer. Are you one of his creations?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Hm? Oh no, I created myself. I did found a corpse and took its name though.¡± (Sirius)
¡°...What? You created yourself? Wait... Say, are you perhaps associated with the forbidden sin?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Forbidden Sin? Lucifer said something about that once. If I''m not mistaking it was that forbidden sin that resurrected me... Should I reveal something like that to her? She may seem friendly but you can never be sure. Hm? Why is everybody looking at me like that?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Y- you just said that out loud, master.¡± (Doro)
¡°Seriously? I thought I got rid of that bad habit...¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡ Were you talking about the god?¡± (Saxin)
¡°So, you DO know of him as well? Strange guy, pretty nice though.¡± (Sirius)
¡°I''m old, Sirius. Very old. I''m older than most of those beings that call themselves ''Higher Gods''. When I was still young the gods from down below were the ones that held the most power. But they were all defeated and imprisoned so long ago...¡± (Saxin)
¡°What? How?¡± (Sirius)
¡°I don''t know the details, only that it was the ''Holy Hero of Courage'' that defeated them one by one.¡± (Saxin)
¡°I see...¡± (Sirius)
¡°If you are indeed someone who has associated himself with the old ones, then we truly were horrible hosts. I''m sorry. If you want, you can have one or two of our most beautiful ones as a wife. To make up for our behavior.¡± (Saxin)
¡°¡That won''t be necessary.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Are you sure?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Yes. Very sure.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Very well then. But you will have to allow me to have a grant party! We don''t get a lot of visitors and they usually are just food anyway, so let me show you what we got down here! You will enjoy out great culinary arts and our spider-beer brewery!¡± (Saxin)
¡°Thanks for the invitation but I neither eat nor do I dr-¡± (Sirius)
I feel Doro tipping on my shoulder and turn to face him before continuing. He looks at me with the greatest puppy eyes I''ve ever seen. I wouldn¡¯t have thought an Ogre could even make such a face.
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He really wants to test that stuff out, huh? He doesn''t have to eat though... but well he CAN eat I guess since most of his organs are kind of working... It''s kind of strange, when a small child gives me those eyes I''m still able to eat his soul with no problems but I kind of feel sorry for this huge red ogre right now...
I guess it won''t hurt.
¡°Alright, I accept the invitation. Thanks a lot.¡± (Sirius)
Doro next to me starts to clap his hand out of joy and in anticipation for the food.
¡°Great, Denis call the cooks and tell them to ready an enormous meal! And make it human sized please.¡± (Saxin)
The spider-mistress takes a look at the grinning Doro.
¡°Actually, make it bigger than human sized. A lot bigger.¡± (Saxin)
At least she pays attention, huh? Well let''s enjoy this safe and eventless evening!
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Welcome back, bad feeling.
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Authors Note: Do you like pedophile Spiders?
Chapter 25 - City of Spider Part 3*
¡°I may have not completely thought this through. So, I got some fire related magical artefacts to get rid of that money and good news everyone! The monkey is gone! Bad news though, the forest as well. Man, I really underestimated the power of those fire crystals, huh? Well it''s not too bad. Yeah sure, there IS an angry crowd of forest elves trying to get my head but as long as I''m with Diana I should be safe!
Hopefully.
Anyway, so the magical item inside the chest is a small stone called ¡®Dragon Tear'' and all we now have to do is activate it! Sadly, I have no idea how. Also quite sadly, the old man that told me about the item lived inside the forest. Not so sadly, he''s not mad at me! Once again very sadly, that''s because he turned to ashes when his house caught on fire...
Well I have the item at least and can study it! I''m a great scientist so finding out how this thing works shouldn''t be too hard!
Hopefully.¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
It took them longer than I thought it would to prepare this little banquet. We were presented with a lot of interesting looking meals and drinks as well as some dancing spiders for our entertainment. I''m not sure if their dance was supposed to impress us or make us laugh...
To be honest it did both things to me.
I really would like to eat by the way, but I don''t even have a tongue to taste anything. I asked Saxin if she had any souls lying around but it seems like they don''t have any. Well, at least Doro is having a great time. While he was eating, and joking around with the Elite-soldier spider I was discussing some things with Saxin and gathered a lot of interesting information.
Lucifer is one of the eight gods from down below. Each of them represent one sin and once held great power. Because of their imprisonment their influence on this world has shrunken drastically. They are only able to give their divine protection to a single person instead of the usual 100 per god. I have to say I''m kind of honored to have been chosen by Lucifer now.
The names of those gods are as followed: Lucifer (Pride), Mammon (Greed), Asmodeus (Lust), Beelzebub (Envy), Belphegor (Gluttony), Aamon (Wrath) and Abaddon (Sloth). The name of the eight god is not known and when I asked why she just stayed silent...
Well I have to say that I''m actually kind of having fun right now. Who would have thought that you could have an interesting conversation with a spider? I certainly didn''t. I also asked her why she''s down here even though she should have enough power to get herself a kingdom or something like that.
She said something about being a cave spider in her heart and that they get enough adventurers thanks to their traps they have all around this mountain to impregnate anyway. Yeah, they need humans or elves to lay eggs into in order to grow in population. To be honest this seems like an ineffective way to me, shouldn''t monsters be better? After all they have more flesh, right? Well seems like spiders grow better if they are hatch out off civilized races. Well if it''s like that I guess it''s understandable. I also think that quality goes over quantity. Now I would like to know ho-
¡°Mist-t-t-tress! Mist-t-t-tress! We have a huge problem!¡± (small spider)This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
A little spider suddenly appeared and stared yelling in a voice way to loud for her small body.
¡°What is it?¡± (Saxin)
¡°An adventurer appeared and started to wreck the city! She seems to be at least S-Rank... maybe even X!¡± (small spider)
Oh? An X-Ranked Adventurer? Interesting.
I have never seen one of those but I did hear a lot of stories about them. Though it would be foolish to go see her now since I''m a monster and all...
¡°¡Tell everybody to get inside and to not come out until I say otherwise. I''m sorry Sirius, seems like I have to go.¡± (Saxin)
¡°What? Do you actually feel able to kill that adventurer?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Fufufu I have already devoured dragons my dear, so don''t worry. Just stay here and wait for me.¡± (Saxin)
As if I''m worried about a spider. If she dies the whole city will go down and I still have no idea how to get out of here. Well let''s hope she''ll be able to do it. Saxin moves her huge body through the door and leaves the room.
¡
Why do I feel worried?
*Third Person POV*
A Greater Fae was currently standing at top a ten-meter-high cocoon and looking at the City of Spiders. She wore an extravagant looking silver plate armor and carried a long spear as well as a shield on her back. She wasn''t wearing a helm so her face was out in the open. Said face was quite beautiful, with elven like pointy ears and long eyelashes as well as small nose and mouth. The only thing that differentiated her from an elf were her eyes and her skin color. She had competently white skin. Not pale, but completely white. Her eyes glowed in a strong silver and there were two white dots inside of her pupils.
¡°Disgusting.¡± (Fae)
She was thinking how such an abomination of a city could exist. Well it doesn''t matter to her since the only thing she''s here for is inside the huge black cocoon in the center of the city. In there is the man she has to kill.
It didn''t take her long to find the man called ''Sirius'' after all his name is one that holds power and with some magic she was pretty quickly able to find him. She just has to follow the magical compass and that''s it. She is quite lucky that he has a unique name and that Aya was dumb enough to just say it.
She readies herself to go to said cocoon but then she stops, surprised about what''s coming out of it. An enormous spider is crawling towards her direction. The old Fae waits until the Spider is nearby and then yells out to her.
¡°Haha, so that''s the lair of Saxin, aspect of spiders? Should have guessed that only something ridiculous as you could be responsible for this ''thing'' here.¡± (Fae)
¡°Fufufu so you know who I am? Aren''t you awfully rude then? Really, I hoped everyone had as many manner as that lovely skeleton.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Tch. No need to show any manners to a soon to be dead spider.¡± (Saxin)
¡°You are either quite brave or just plain stupid if you stay here after figuring out who I am. Why are you here anyway if you didn''t know I was here? There shouldn''t be anything of interest to one so strong as you inside these mountains, right?¡± (Saxin)
¡°A man named Sirius is here. If you give him to me, I''ll let you live.¡± (Fae)
¡°Sirius? Fufufu so he pissed you off, huh? What did he do, steal your heart or something? I guess we won''t come to an agreement since I plan on marrying him.¡± (Saxin)
¡°¡That''s incredibly disgusting.¡± (Fae)
¡°Oh it''s not that bad. Yeah, he''s a bit bony but I really like the way he ticks. Also, his manners are great. He is not rude but also not too distant on the same time. He just decided to call me Saxin ten seconds after meeting me! No one has ever done that before him!¡± (Saxin)
¡°That''s not what I meant... I''m pretty sure it wouldn''t even work.¡± (Fae)
¡°Are you talking about sex? He can''t have that anyway so it''s fine. Huh? Why are you getting all red? You are a greater Fae and thus a few hundred years old, right? Don''t tell me you are still a virgin after all that time...¡± (Saxin)
The Spider aspect looks at the Fae with pity in her eyes and said Fae explodes in rage.
¡°None of your business! I''ll show you what it means to piss me off!¡± (Fae)
The Fae jumps of the cocoon and draws her spear. She''s flying in the sky like an arrow while pointing her spear at the spider. Saxin quickly dodges the attack and leaves the Fae quite surprised. Someone as huge as her shouldn''t be able to move so quickly. Saxin stretches her hand out and forms a palely glowing blood red orb in her hands.
¡°So, we are really doing this? Very well then. You won''t mind if I move us to my domain then, right?¡± (Saxin)
The blood red orb exploded and a red light warps itself around both of them. After a few seconds, both of them find themselves inside another place. The sky in here is competently black and not a single star can be seen. The ground is made out of a sea of blood which stretched out as far as you could see. Huge pillars made out of blood which are flowing upwards endlessly towards the sky are scattered all around with a few hundred meters of space between them.
¡°So, that''s ''Domain of the Aspects''? Hm, this place really fits you Bloodspider.¡± (Fae)
¡°Fufufu, of course it does. After all it''s not much more than a reflection of my soul.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Well it''s a prefect stage. Ready?¡± (Fae)
¡°Oh? You are surprisingly friendly all of a sudden fufufu. I''m ready whenever you are.¡± (Saxin)
The Fae grinned and charged towards Saxin.
Meanwhile Sirius was looking at a giant Red Orb that was flying above the City.
¡°What''s that?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Our Mistress'' Domain, ''Blut Reich''.¡± (small spider)
¡°Domain? Is that like a skill?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well strictly speaking, yes. But you can''t learn or level it! Only the aspects can use such a spell.¡± (small spider)
¡°What''s an aspect?¡° (small spider)
¡°¡Long story.¡± (small spider)
¡°Well we have nothing better to do anyway, right?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (small spider)
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Chapter 26 - City of Spider Part 4*
¡°It¡¯s a lot harder than I thought. This thing is probably older than the stone I''m sitting on right now! Some seriously ancient magic was used in the creation of it and some seriously ancient magic will be needed to operate it. I may be one of the greatest mages of our time but I still have no idea what to do. I think I''ll have to visit my grandmother...
My grandma is very studious when it comes to old things. She was the one that raised me and awakened my interest in magic! I''m sure she can help me out with this artefact since she knows a lot more about ancient magic than I do. I hope it won''t be to awkward when I introduce my lovely wife to her...
Well, grandpa always called her an old dragon, so maybe they will get along just well? I don''t think so though. The last time I bought over a girlfriend she burned her to ashes with some strange green fireball and told me to not go for weak bitches...
I don''t think an old lady like her should use such words.¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
I think I know what an Aspect is now.
So basically, Aspects are very old ancient beings. They each represent one kind of creature as well as one of the magic categories of this world. Saxin as an example represents spiders as well as blood magic.
Because of that she seems to also be known as Saxin, Bloody Aspect of Spiders. That''s a rather great title, huh? The Domain of an Aspect is always a representation of their soul which basically means that it''s the place that fits their way of fighting best.
A very interesting skill. Aspects basically always have the best environment possible to them. Though I wonder what would happen if two Aspects fight each other?
But seriously, to think she was such a legendary being...
She has to be incredible strong, right? I wonder if I could win her over somehow and maybe she could become an ally. She did seem to be quite friendly with me.
Let''s try to win her over!
*Third Person POV*
Inside Saxins Domain, a very heavy atmosphere was currently build up as the Bloodspider was staring down at the High Fae. They were just standing there not moving an inch for at least five minutes before Saxin decided to be the first one to attack.
Using her blood-magic she summons spears of blood out of the infinite sea around her and commands them towards the adventurer. Those enormous spears are at least ten meters long and as thick an adult mans arm. Each of them fly around in a speed most humans couldn''t even follow.
The Fae is still able to dodge them by being even faster though. She''s easily evading all of them while closing in towards the spider.
¡°Fufufu rather quick, aren''t we?¡± (Saxin)
The Fae doesn''t answer since she wants to completely focus on the fight. Evading another set of spears, she finally is close enough to go in for a hit. Her long spear starts to glow in a deep blue light as she thrusts it forward. Before the spear comes even remotely close to the spider it gets flung away by a big hand.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
This surprises the adventurer. She didn''t think Saxin had enough strength in her to block one of her attack just with the hands. Seems like she underestimated her a bit but she won''t make this mistake another time.
Saxin grins widely as she summons hundreds of spiders made out of blood around her. The spiders quickly begin to crawl towards the Fae while Saxin quickly makes sure there is enough distance between her and the adventurer.
The Fae charges forward in order to not let Saxin get away from her but the spiders have already closed up on the Fae. They jump and at her from all direction and the Fae has to stop in her pursuit to block and destroy the spiders, but no matter how many she slays more and more seem to come from all around.
Meanwhile, Saxin readies herself for a grand spell while her enemy is occupied with all of her summoned minions. She wants to end this as quickly as possible so that she can return back to her small party and set things into motion with Sirius.
The blood around her turns black as she begins casting. Ripples are formed on the surface of the endless pool of blood while her body begins to vibrate. The black blood starts forming into small black spheres and float upwards slowly.
The Fae meanwhile managed to kill the last of those blood spiders and looks over to her foe. Cold sweat drips down her spine after she realized what the Spider Queens plan is. Quickly she runs towards her to interrupt the spell.
Saxin also notices that the Fae was able to deal with her summons a lot faster than she would have thought. But it should have already been too late for the Fae.
Saxin activates her grand spell and the black blood droplets in the air explode all with great strength around Saxin while not harming her.
The spell used by Saxin is ''Grand Blood Chain-Combustion'' and whenever blood comes in contact with the small explosions, the blood explodes as well. Using this in her blood domain means an infinite number of explosions were set into motion that nobody could escape from. Of course, the explosions weren''t really infinite in number since they would stop as soon as her mana ran out.
After a few minutes her mana did indeed run out and the explosions stop. While grinning Saxin begins to dispel her domain but then freezes in place.
¡°Y- you think that would be enough to get me?¡± (Fae)
Confused Saxin takes a look at her enemy. Not only is she still alive, but she also seems to be unhurt. Saxin notices blueish slime around the Fae and realizes what happened.
¡°Phase Shifting? I heard of that. That''s space-magic, right? To think I have to deal with someone that learned from the Drizzles...¡± (Saxin)
¡°Hahaha! What? Bitter about wasting all of your mana, witch?!¡± (Fae)
¡°It''s fine. It just means I have to kill you with brute strength, right?¡± (Saxin)
¡°What? You can-¡± (Fae)
Before being able to finish her sentence the Fae gets slapped across her whole body by a giant hand. She flies for about thirty meters before crashing into the sea of blood. Until now she was able to use her magic to stay above the surface, but now she is completely sullied with blood from head to toe.
Disgusted she stands up to face Saxin but the spider has already crawled to her position and once again slaps the Fae, this time from above.
The adventurer relies this too late, and Saxins hand hits her directly on the Head. The Fae sinks about forty meters into the sea of blood before being able to stabilize herself. Furiously she stares upwards while failing to notice that Saxin has already dived into to sea herself and is currently behind her.
She grabs the Fae who is surprised to not be able to have felt the spiders¡¯ presence at all. Saxin grins at the Fae while opening he mouth to bite into her.
Panicked, the Fae threw her shield at the spider and hit three of her eyes with it. Saxin staggers a bit which is enough for the Fae to get out of the spiders¡¯ grip and quickly swim up. The adventurer breaks through the surface of the sea and takes in deep breaths while quickly trying to calm herself.
That was close.
An enormous angry spider follows her through the surface as well and furiously starts hissing at the Fae. Three of her eyes were seriously damaged just now but the Fae lost her shield in return.
The spider once again charges forward to deliver another hit but the Fae saw it coming this time. She strikes with her spear in the direction she thought the slap would come from and pieces right through the hand of the spider.
While grinning, she activates a skill of hers and the spear starts to glow in a violent purple while the hand of the spider literally explodes. Saxin screams in pain as the Fae look at her with new found confidence in her eyes.
¡°Hahaha, what is it?! Is that all you got, Aspect?! Come on show me you are truly worthy of that title spider!¡± (Fae)
The spider takes a look at the adventurer with anger deep within her eyes.
¡°I''ll show you what true pain means, mortal!¡± (Saxin)
They both knew that the fight just really started.
In the meanwhile, Sirius is walking towards the Red Orb.
¡°So what happens if this thing gets destroyed while the Domain is active?¡± (Sirius)
¡°It-t-t-t can''t-t-t get-t-t dest-t-troyed! What-t-tever t-t-touches t-t-the orb will be send to the domain.¡± (small spider)
¡°Really? And how do you leave once you are inside?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Eit-t-ther t-the mist-tress dispels it-t or she get-t-ts killed.¡± (small spider)
¡°Wow, strong spell, huh? I could use one of those... though I''d guess you have to be born as an aspect?¡± (Sirius)
¡°T-that-ts right-t-t!¡± (small spider)
¡°Tch. Too bad, huh? I guess that only means I have to really try hard to win her over.¡± (Sirius)
¡°What-t-t did you say?!¡± (small spider)
¡°Hm? Nothing. But isn''t she taking long? Why don''t we go help her out?¡± (Sirius)
¡°T-the likes of us are not-t-t helpful...¡± (small spider)
¡°Tch. You may not be very helpful but I''m sure I can do something. Well I''m going to enter the domain. It''s not like I have to fear for my life with an aspect on my side, right?¡± (Sirius)
And at that moment Sirius once again decided to ignore the bad feeling he had.
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Authors Note: Do you like One-handed Spiders?
Chapter 27 - City of Spider Part 5*
¡°I once again underestimated the situation a lot. I really have to stop doing that.
When I introduced my lovely wife to my old grandmother she suddenly started throwing Hell-fireballs at her! Can you believe that? Hell-fire is the abyssal version of fire magic. There is a very good reason why abyssal magic is forbidden.
First of all, it''s really chaotic and can very easily hurt your allies as well and secondly you have to create an abyssal core which requires some nasty stuff. To think my old grandma actually knew such dark and old magic...
Well, in order to survive my beloved had to go all out! I have to say, it was quite the sight! You''re not able to see an adult dragon fight an abyssal mage every day! Well the fight destroyed most of our village and killed my grandma. While dying, she told me how great it is to see her grandson in the hands of a strong woman. She had some serious problems...
Anyway, after mourning and burying her as well as telling Diana that it wasn''t her fault I''m now where I was a week ago! Well, not exactly. I at least have all the old documents that belonged to grandma! Maybe, if I''m lucky I''ll find something in there that will help me. Let''s hope for the best.¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
I''m currently in front of the red throbbing orb and think about how to go on now. At first, I wanted to enter it even though it''s a stupid idea. The reason is pretty simple, I want to help Saxin.
By helping the spider, I would probably gain a lot of respect and trust from her and those are the things I need in order to win her over. Now, on the other hand I could fail horribly. I thought about things and decided that my plan could backfire greatly.
What if I''m just a hindrance? Those people are way stronger than me after all. If she has to protect me she may lose her trust in me. So, what to do? I don''t want to just sit here and wait like the others, I have to profit from this whole situation!
Hm...
I may have a great idea!
*High Fae Alleria POV *
Damn, I underestimated this thing! At least it underestimated me as well. Aspects are ancient and very strong but their strength differ greatly. The spider seems to be a bit stronger than the average Aspect and I would have died instantly if I didn''t have a scroll of space-magic with me. She was so sure of herself that she just used up all of her mana, rendering her useless.
At least that was what I thought.
She actually has so much physical strength that she is still able to push me back while running on zero mana! I don''t want to imagine how this fight would have went if she didn''t throw all her mana out of the window like that. I managed to destroy one of her hands because she was furious and not thinking straight. I may be able to kill her. All I need are a few good hits in.
Saxin tries to grab me which I''m able to dodge easily now. After getting her hand exploded she is a lot more careful and a bit slower than before. After swinging her hand a few more times towards my direction, she seems to start getting frustrated. I have to make her even more mad so that she gets clumsy.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.
¡°What is it?! Did you not tell me you are going to show me true pain?!¡± (Fae)
¡°Do you actually think you''ll be able to offend me enough so I start making mistakes?! That won''t happen!¡± (Saxin)
Damn, did she noticed? Well she still seems pretty angry to me so it doesn''t actually matter.
Saxin suddenly vanishes into the depths of the bloody ocean. After submerging into the sea her presence vanishes as well. Not that again! I have to be careful since it''s very hard to see through blood.
After waiting for a few seconds, I jump in the air after seeing a small movement under me. The Blood spider emerges out of the sea and tries to once again grab me. I jumped high enough to be out of her reach and used another skill afterwards. ''Falling Meteor'' allows me to descent from the skies with high speed and deal a lot of damage while doing so.
I fall from the sky and manage to hit her on the side. If she didn''t dodge in time I probably would have killed that thing right there. While descending in great speed I manage to cut off one arm and two legs on her right side.
Saxin screams in pain while staggering a few steps back. Her offensive capabilities are low now. She has one arm without a hand left and her two missing right legs also decrease her mobility greatly. * Sigh * I''m really relived. I thought for a moment that this could be my end.
Like I already said, she underestimated me greatly. She thought I was ''Just an X-Rank'' which she could overpower with physical strength. Well sadly for her I''m the best under the X-Ranks! Well, after that freak of nature Rutherion at least. But he doesn''t really count since he''s barley even an adventurer. And dragon blood really is an unfair cheat you know?
I slowly get closer to Saxin while grinning from ear to ear.
¡°Was it worth it? To hide and protect a stranger and die for him?¡± (Fae)
¡°¡¡± (Saxin)
¡°I wonder if I get some rewards from the guild if I show them your head. Well, I will at least be able to say I killed an aspect. I haven''t done that until now, you know?¡± (Fae)
¡°¡¡± (Saxin)
She just glares at me. Seems like she''s kind of depressed. She doesn''t even look at me, but behind me instead. Well it doesn''t matter. I ready myself for the final strike but... get interrupted?
Suddenly, skeleton hands start to grab me. I turn around and see more and more skeletons coming towards me! At first only six then another ten and the fifty of them! What the hell? All of them are incredible weak and probably barely level 50 but they just keep coming and coming. They may be weaker than the spiders but a lot more annoying. I have to actually crush their skulls or they won''t stop moving. All they do is grab on to me, what the hell is this?
Where are they even coming from?
Hm?
Where is Saxin!?
Shit, is she under me again?! I can''t see because of all of those useless things around me! I just have to get lucky when jumping up int-
Before I can finish my thoughts, Saxin emerges from under me and bites into my body. Her arm long teeth mostly don''t manage to go through my Holy armor but one of them get me on my arm. I use my spear to blindly pierce into her mouth and she spits me out. Seems like I managed to hit her on the inner side of her cheeks. Luckily most of the skeletons were shattered by her big body. This could have ended very badly for me.
I kind of feel dizzy somehow. Maybe I lost to much blood? Hm? Why is that bitch grinning so confidently?
¡°What''s with that smile? Do you think a few skeletons will save you?¡± (Fae)
¡°Fufufu they already did. I think you are missing something. I''m a spider you know.¡± (Saxin)
Missing something? What could she be meaning? Damn, if my head wouldn''t hurt so much all of a sudden, I''m sure I could have guessed it. What can spider do?
¡
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Ah! that''s right! They have poison!
¡
Shit.
*Sirius POV*
Oh man, do I feel exhausted! I just used all of my mana to reanimate most of the bones the spider kept from their victims.
¡°Are they really going to be useful? They seemed weak¡± (Doro)
¡°Well Doro you see, usually I would agree. After all quality is a lot more important than quantity. But since I won''t be able to create something that could even hurt that X-Rank I just created something really annoying. Those minions will just hold onto her and stand in her way.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Ah! Master is truly a genius!¡± (Doro)
Of course I am.
Is what I would like to say.
To be honest I have no idea if I''m really going to make a difference. Well, at least she will recognize my goodwill, right? I hope she does.
Huh?
The red orb suddenly begins to throb even faster and glow even stronger! What is happening? Is the Domain going to vanish? After a few more seconds the orb shatters and its small shards vaporize in the air into red smoke.
Saxin is now standing where the orb did. Seems like she won, huh? Well she''s pretty hurt to be honest. There are some pretty grieve wounds on her body and a few limbs are missing. A lot of blood is also coming from her mouth which is kind of scary. Next to her lies a person on the ground. Hm? She kind of looks like Aya. Now that I think about it she REALLY looks like Aya! There are some differences but they really look alike. Are they perhaps related to each other?
Who knows...
Who cares¡
Hm? Why is Saxin looking at me like that? As if she wants to eat me or something. Did my plan backfire!?
¡
I hope not.
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Authors Note:Do you like Hungry Spiders?
Chapter 28 - Rodario*
¡°So, with the help of my now dead grandmother or to be precisely, with the help of her documents I found out what I need to activate the artefact. It''s pretty easy, really! All I need is a bit of mana, some not-too-common herbs and an adult-sized dragon heart.
Remember when I said it was easy? Well, I lied.
Who the hell was the one that created this thing again? What was he thinking? ''let''s create an artefact to help dragons! But in order to use it they''ll have to kill a dragon''. Yeah, Great idea. Well, we don''t really have a choice. I had a long discussion with my beloved Diana and we came to the conclusion that if a dragon had to die for our love, so be it.
To be honest, the dragon should feel happy about dying for such a noble cause! Or he should laugh because it''s pretty funny if you think about it, since he basically has to die just so I can have sex with my wife.
Anyway, me and Diana are going to the red mountains now. She knows a dragon who lives there and together we should be able to kill it, after all my own power also increased by a lot. I learned abyssal magic from my grandmothers¡¯ documents and I have to say, I''m pretty good at it. Wish us luck!¡±
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
*Sirius POV*
I do not like the current situation.
It''s been three minutes since the blood red orb exploded and Saxin came out of it together with an unconscious Aya clone. She didn''t say anything or did anything, she''s just standing there looking at me with greedy eyes. She won''t eat me, right? I mean look at me I''m all skin and bones! Actually, scratch that, I''m just bones! She won''t get any nutrition out of me and I really doubt I taste good.
Wait. Didn¡¯t I already tell that joke? Am I already becoming repetitive?
The small spiders and other guards around here are also being quiet by the way. They seem to be very shocked because of the state Saxin is currently in. looks like that Aya wannabe was pretty strong, huh? I guess if nobody wants to say anything I have to start.
¡°So, did I manage to help you?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh, yes.¡± (Saxin)
¡
I do not like the way she just said that. The hell was that? Why do I feel so raped? Has to be my imagination, right? I mean I don''t even have any genitalia after all.
¡°So you are not angry at me or anything?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Fufufu, it''s quite the opposite to be honest.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Is that so? So, we are friends, right?¡± (Sirius)Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
¡°Actually I would like us to be much more. Of course, only if you feel the same way of course.¡± (Saxin)
More? Like allies?! Yes, I did it!
To think it would be so easy to gain her as an ally. Seems like I''m a great politician! I mean just look how I read the atmosphere perfectly and how I know exactly what she means!
¡°Of course! We should immediately make it official! Get a contract and maybe a ceremony and everything!¡± (Sirius)
¡°I don''t know what you need a contact for but I also want to start the ceremony as soon as possible! Fufufu, it will be a grand wedding!¡± (Saxin)
¡°Yeah and we wil-¡±(Sirius)
¡
What? What did she just say? Did she say wedding? No way, right? I have to have misheard that, right?
¡
Right?
Hm?
Oh, I think I really misheard that. Because right now, I have a very good feeling!
¡
Why is that good feeling giving me such a bad one?
* Third Person POV *
The human capital city ''Lichtenhof'' is well known in every corner of this world. After all, it''s not only the place from where King Julius the second and his son Prince Julius the third reside in, but also the main seat of the Church of Light.
Lichtenhof is a huge and rich city as well as a lively one, but today everybody seems to be particularly excited. The reason is simple and yet grand. The man said to be the strongest on this world entered Lichtenhof a few days ago after all. The man is known under the name ''Rodario Rutherion'' and loved or hated all over the world. His lineage is strange and extreme in every aspect.
His mother is known as the scarlet high dragon ''Diana of the West'' and rules over all the dragons inside the ''Burning Mountains'' which lie on the western side of this continent. His father is known as the abysslord ''Jehova of the East'' who rules over the silent depths deep under the eastern seas.
Both of those two are well known and feared personalities that seemed to be once in a relationship. Something happened though and they split apart. It''s a well-known fact that dragons mate for life and that the female binds her male partner to her, so it''s probably only a matter of time until both of them get together once again. Many fear that day.
Rodario inhered the physical strength of a dragon and the magical powers of his father, which makes him a near perfect being. Some people respect and admire him for that, others hate him. But all of them have one to say: He is strong.
Rodario was also blessed with beauty which made him even more loved and hated. He has Fiery red hair, the same color as his mothers scales as well as a pair of clear green eyes which he got from his father. His skin is pretty pale and his build rather muscular. The only thing some may criticize is that his face looks a bit to feminine.
Rodario is sitting inside a secret room within the adventurer guild to speak about a new quest he may accept.
¡°I don''t really want to get involved with this stuff.¡± (Rodario)
¡°What?! Why is that?! Eliminating the remaining five of the seven Dark Kings should have the greatest priory right now! We don''t want another fifty-year long war, right? If they would stay together it would be impossible to strike but they split up very often and you are strong enough to take them out one on one! Well expect of the Demon-King maybe, but if the other fall he will do so as well! I''m sure! This would also give you great honor and even more fame. Is that not exactly what you want?¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°To be honest? No, not really. I''m just doing this whole adventure thing because mum and dad told me to do so. Something about getting experience and build up a good base for the future or something. I don''t really want to do this whole thing any more. I would much rather go home and kick my father in the ass so he already goes and apologizes to mum! God to be so hung up about such a minor thing... I wonder how those two met?¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°Why are you looking at me like that?¡± (Rodario)
¡°S- sorry, too much information. I have some serious problems following you right now. So, you want to quit, right? Are you sure?¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°Yeah, I think I''ll go to the east and speak to my father or something. I hope he won''t be too disappointed at me for hanging it all on a nail.¡± (Rodario)
¡°I see... Alright then. It''s not like I can stop you or anything even if I wanted to... but hold onto your adventurer-ID and don''t make a public announcement or anything.¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°Hm? Why not?¡± (Rodario)
¡°People are really going to be depressed if they heard that the greatest hero of our time just... well, quits. So just go away instead and let your legacy fade away. This way you will become a legend instead of the hero that has forsaken the people.¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°Don''t say it like that... kinda makes me feel bad. But you have good point there, I''ll just do as you said. Thanks for the advice, old friend.¡± (Rodario)
¡°I have to thank you for all your hard and great work. I wish you the best of luck. Oh and before you go, I just remembered something.¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°What is it?¡± (Rodario)
¡°Someone sent you a highly-secured message. Seriously, there are more spells on this letter than mages in this city!¡± (Guild-Master)
The old man gives Rodario a pink letter. Rodario just simply touches it with his fingers and the spells break.
¡°Really... I''m going to miss you. So, what''s the letter about?¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°Hm? Nothing important but something quite interesting.¡± (Rodario)
¡°What is it? Just tell me already.¡± (Guild-Master)
¡°A Wedding Invitation.¡± (Rodario)
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Authors Note:Do you like married spiders?
Chapter 29 - Of Bones and Blood Part 1*
¡°I should stop underestimating things. This dragon was a lot stronger than we thought. It was stronger than the two of us combined! But luckily to us, we got some help.
While fighting the dragon a huge spider suddenly emerged out of the ground. That thing was huge! Even bigger then my enormous wife! She yelled something about wanting to build a small city inside the mountain in peace and told us to get lost. The proud and strong dragon didn''t find that very funny and attacked her.
A Red Orb Suddenly appeared where the spider and the dragon were a few seconds prior and when it vanished only a ruined corpse was left from the dragon. The spider looked at us angrily and we quickly tried to tell her our situation. That seemed to make her very happy. She seems to be a rather romantic person and suddenly started blabbering together with my wife about men and love...
It made me kind of uncomfortable but she was very nice and even told us where we could find the other materials needed to activate the artefact. She seems to be pretty old to know how to do something like that... anyway, we are nearly there! Only a few more herbs and we did it! I can''t wait to fuck my Dianas brains ou- I mean to make love with my beloved wife ¡°
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I married a Dragon!''
* Third Person POV *
Rodario Rutherion is currently walking through the mountains towards Saxins Lair. After getting a wedding invitation he immediately decided to accept it and attend the wedding.
It''s been roughly a month since then and the day of the wedding finally came. He was very curious about who it was she''s going to marry. The last time she saw her was around twelve years ago. Back then his mother and father just split up and the Spider Aspect quickly visited his mother after hearing the news. They got drunk and complained about men like two middle-aged women do...
Seeing an enormous dragon and an even bigger spider get drunk because of love problems sure was surreal.
Rodario finally arrives in front of the entrance to the city of spiders. Usually, this entrance is very well hidden, but today it is out in the open since many people were invited to the wedding. Rodario enters and is met with a few spiders who offer him a ride through the tunnel. Rodario gladly accepts and the spiders quickly bring him to their city. After entering it he is quite surprised.
The mistress often visited him and his mother but he never visited her before. Seeing a place filled with thousands of cocoons and even more spiders is quite the sight.
Rodario was bought to the grand black cocoon were the wedding will take place in. He once again thanks the spiders for the ride and enters the building. It looks like all the walls of the cocoon were taken down to create an enormous hall. Many people are inside speaking and discussing things. Rodario spots a few very well-known persons and... things.
Like the Shadow baron of Dul''achu or the twisted crocodile of the great Nil. Many monsters as well as persons that shouldn''t know each other are here and talking with each other in a rather friendly manner. He feels rather uncomfortable since he probably killed some of the people that otherwise would be here today. Well he is a bit early so he looks for somewhere he could sit down. Most tables are filled with people and some of them would rather dislike him being there so he looks for a table with few people on.
And then, he sees something rather interesting. Three very strange people are sitting on a pretty big table in silence. One of them is a big undead Ogre that is just silently looking around. The second person is a female Fae that is shackled by some pretty powerful and old magical chains.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.
The strangest thing is the third person though. A skeleton in a fine black suit. Seeing a suited skeleton is not that strange if you ever were in the Vampire Kingdom. The weird part is the fact that this suit seems to be made out of the black Night-Webbing only Mistress Saxin can create. To have an item made out of Night-Webbing is a great honor, but a whole suit?
Also, he''s sitting on a table instead of serving anyone. That''s pretty much it. He''s sitting with no light in his eyes or any other thing that could tell Rodario if this skeleton is even an undead or just simply dead. He also has a weird stone on his forehead. Rodario was starting to think the skeleton was just some sort of decoration but then two eerie glowing orbs appeared in his skull and he let out a big sigh.
Deciding to want to find out more about him Rodario approaches the table. And calls out to the strange skeleton while doing his best to ignore that bound up Fae. Now that he is near it the skeleton, he also notices that it''s rather big and has sharp long canines. And what he thought was a hat of some sort are actually five horns growing out of his head like a crown.
¡°Aren''t you a strange fellow? I can''t say I ever saw a skeleton like you haha! Mind if I sit down on your table?¡± (Rodario)
¡°Hm? Yeah, whatever.¡± (Sirius)
The skeleton seemed to be deep in thoughts. Rodario was a bit disappointed since he came here for a nice talk.
¡°Don''t mind our master.¡± (???)
¡°Yeah he''s still in shock and talking with himself inside his head for a month now.¡± (???)
¡°His retardation indeed reached a new peak.¡± (???)
¡°Don''t say that, Schwarz! We all agreed on not addressing our masters incredible amount of flaws!¡± (???)
¡°Saying that he has ''an incredible amount of flaws'' isn''t really much better, Rot...¡± (???)
¡°No one asked you, Grau!¡± (Rot)
Rodario is surprised to find three fairies sitting on small chairs in front of a small table on top of the big one. What surprises him even more is the dark aura coming from those fairies.
¡°...You are really a strange guy. How the hell did you get some primal fairies to follow you? They are pretty arrogant and annoying to deal with. Father once had to pluck the wings of a couple hundreds of them and nearly exploded from rage because of their talks ¡°
¡°Fairies? What? Oh, you guys are here?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Are you for real? We are here since a month ago! Doro told us about the wedding¡± (Schwarz)
¡°I didn''t notice. Had to think... a lot.¡± (Sirius)
¡°We can see that!¡± (Rot)
¡°Hm? Who the hell are you? Since when did I gain a red-haired minion?¡± (Sirius)
¡°What? I''m not your minion!¡± (Rodario)
¡°You aren''t? Then why the hell are you sitting so close to me. You look kinda creepy with that feminine face of yours.¡± (Sirius)
¡°I just asked you if I could sit here less than thirty seconds ago...¡± (Rodario)
¡°...Is that so? Sorry then. I was... in thoughts. *cough* Well, I''m Sirius. Who are you?¡±
¡°Good day, Sirius! My name is Rodario Rutherion!¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
¡°Something the matter?¡± (Rodario)
¡°Are you the Dragon Warrior by any chance?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well, it''s one of my titles...¡± (Rodario)
¡°Am I dead?¡± (Sirius)
¡°What?¡± (Rodario)
¡°Are you going to fucking kill me?!¡± (Sirius)
¡°What, no! I''m just here for the wedding!¡± (Rodario)
¡°Hm, wedding? Whose?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡The wedding of spider mistress Saxin?¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡Right. Sorry I''m still in denial. Why is the ''Strongest Adventurer'' here anyway? Shit a lot of people are actually here!¡± (Sirius)
Sirius looks around the room with a shocked expression on his face.
¡°Hahaha you are pretty funny, eh? My mother and the Bride are good friends.¡± (Rodario)
¡°Your mother, the dragon right?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Yeah. When she took over the West sixty years ago or so she got some nifty help from the Spider Aspect.¡± (Rodario)
¡°I see... is your mother coming as well?¡± (Sirius)
¡°I bet she will! I''m also hoping for my father to get over here. I''m sure neither of them will be able to stay mad and calm when they see each other... it''s always disturbing to me seeing them be all lovey-dovey but it''s better than them arguing.¡± (Rodario)
¡°Come to think about it, I always wondered why they split up.¡± (Sirius)
¡°It was something really trivial... my father was really drunk once and mistook another dragon for my mother and kissed it on the neck. Mother got really furious though and snapped the dragons neck on the spot where father kissed it. Sadly, instead of apologizing he just said that she overreacted and that started a huge argument.¡± (Rodario)
¡°Really? That''s it? A kiss on the neck made them split up?¡± (Sirius)
¡°They aren''t really split up, more like on a break. My father still can''t sleep without a scale of mother he took before leaving inside his arms.¡± (Rodario)
¡°That''s kind of disturbing.¡± (Sirius)
¡°You find that disturbing? Haha! You should see my mother then! She made a whole puppet and gave it a wig made out of hair of my father she found on her bed, bathroom and so on.¡± (Rodario)
¡°You guys have some serious problems.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Really? I find them to be pretty cute! Haha!¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡Whatever.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Say, do you know who¡¯s going to get married?¡± (Rodario)
¡°Huh?¡± (Sirius)
¡°The invitation only mention Saxin, but not the name of her husband.¡± (Rodario)
¡°...It''s Sirius.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Really? Haha! You both have the same name!¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡Yeah, we have.¡± (Sirius)
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Chapter 30 - Of Bones and Blood Part 2*
¡°We were here when the first stars went out. With disgust, we looked at the thing we gave birth to while trying to create a god. At first, we decided it was a failure and wanted to kill it, but we were wrong.
So, wrong.
Its appearance was like an Armageddon that came to destroy us all, it''s stare the apocalypse itself and it''s coming was the end. It judged us, his creators and it judged us guilty of a sin none of us could understand. It decided to bring the end and so it all began.
Its fangs tore apart the earth as his tail sliced mountains in half. His jaws devoured whole kingdoms while his claws ripped apart nations. His wings released a miasma that slowly killed millions and his eyes burned the souls of the ones he judged. While raging and destroying it let out a laugh that broke the minds of the innocent ones and stirred up the sinners.
After bringing ruin to this world for a hundred years only a small number of people still lived. We ran away, deep into the caves of our world. Whenever the spawn of this thing found us we kept running and running until we reached the very core of our planet and it was quite a beautiful sight, one more beautiful than the young ones under us have ever seen.
But now we had nowhere to run to and so the end came. It showed us just how trivial this hunt was for him and it showed us true despair. The women cried as the men soon did the same, all while listening to the mad laughter of the beast and its children.
And then, it spoke.
Oh, and how it spoke.
I''ll never forget it''s voice. It crawled up my spine like a centipede, slowly ripping apart my flesh as it drilled itself into my body and into my soul. I felt fissures on my very being and at the end my sanity was shattered. It was at this time that I lost all reason. It was at this time that I knew I had to do what I did.
I killed them myself. All of them. The warriors that were proud of their strength, the mages that have always seen themselves as the cleverest ones, the children that did not know what happened, the mothers that were as holy to us as gods, the innocent that never deserved any of this and the holders of sin that brought this to all of us.
I killed every single human that remained in this world, myself excluded and you know what? They all thanked me. With tears in their eyes they behaved as I was the messiah himself. Mothers kissed my hand after I used it to snap the neck of their children and good men hugged me while I was sullied by the dried blood of their best friends. After all, it was the right thing to do for to be killed was our only salvation.
Our only hope. A hope that could not be granted to the killer himself. I readied myself for his rage, thinking it''s going to be fine but then it screamed.
Oh, and how it screamed.
All of his toys were taken and all he had left was me, a small being with no sanity left he could play with. The beast destroyed my body to make sure that I won''t be lost as well and put my mind into a whirlpool of magic, created simply to bring me pain. Agony struck what was left of me as magic bit of small bits of myself. It was never enough to truly kill me so I stayed like that for hundreds of years. Or for thousands? It might be millions.
And all this time I had to scream. I had to scream because of my pain, because of my despair, because of my grieve and out of regret because of our stupidity and arrogance while creating this thing, that brought doom to all of us.
I had to scream so much, but I couldn''t.
After all, I had no mouth left.
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And then, on one day after years of pure agony I heard it. I finally heard it.
My own scream.¡±
-From the thoughts of the Lost One
* Sirius POV *
A whole month? Really? I could have sworn Saxin let that bomb drop on me two days ago or so. Well, I spent a lot of time inside my head I guess, but two months? Shit, maybe I do have a problem?
Anyway, I was thinking about this whole marriage thing all this time. It seemed like I made a major mistake. Maybe I shouldn''t go into politics after all? Well it doesn''t matter right now, the important part is what my conclusion is when it comes to miss spider here.
The thought of marrying her at first seemed horrible to me. I mean, look at her! She''s a giant fucking spider, bigger than a dragon! She''s not even one of the hybrids but a complete spider instead! So, I thought about a way to decline kindly, but then I realized something.
It''s not like we are going to have a physical relationship, right? I mean I don''t have the capability to well, do ''it''. And even if I could, the size difference alone kills any way for us to interact on such a level with each other. In other words, this marriage would be a simple platonic relationship?
Why does she want to marry me then anyway? I think just becoming allies would bring the same results. Well, I''m not going to decline. After all an ally was what I wanted and an ally is what I''m going to get.
Now that I think about it, Saxin''s pretty well known. I mean there are huge number of different high ranking personalities on our wedding. People I only heard of in stories or I have seen in nightmares. Even Rodario is here! At first I readied myself to die since not even Saxin would be able to stand in front of him. At least that''s what I think. I can''t really tell how strong she really is but she nearly lost against that Fae here.
She was a present by the way. Saxin gave her to me, which I''m thankful for. The reason? Because her body should be able to take in the Major Cold Soul. All I need is to rise my level and my necromancy and I''ll transform her into a great minion.
I wanted to immediately kill her but Saxin told me it would be better if the corpse was fresh, so we chained her and sealed of most of her power. She keeps glaring at me which is kind of annoying but nothing I can''t deal with. I still would like to know her connection with Aya but I guess that has to wait until I rise her as mine.
¡°And then she told me to grow some wings and threw me down the cliff... I nearly died back then.¡± (Rodario)
Hm? is that guys still here? Who is he talking with?
¡
Shit, he''s talking with me. Fuck I completely forgot we were in the middle of a conservation. Oh god, is looking at me and waiting for a response, what do I say?
¡°That''s... interesting?¡± (Sirius)
¡°I guess it is. Though I would rather call it traumatizing instead. Anyway, when is it going to begin? The wedding I mean.¡± (Rodario)
¡°I have no idea. I thought it was next week or so.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Master, mistress wants to begin when everybody is here.¡± (Doro)
¡°Huh? Oh, it was you Doro. Sometimes I forget you can speak.¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (Doro)
¡°Oh! Mother arrived!¡± (Rodario)
I look to the place Rodario is pointing at and see an enormous red dragon slowly coming this way.
So, that''s Diana of the west, huh? Pretty impressive to be honest. She classifies as an ''Greater Dragon'' which puts her above ''Adult Dragons'' but still under ''Elder Dragons'' and ''Ancient Dragons'' she''s pretty big and at least thirty meters long. I wonder how great her wingspan is? Would it be rude to ask? I know you don''t ask human women about their weight, but what are the rules when interacting with a female dragon?
Let''s not do that for now.
Rodario stands up and runs towards his mother.
¡°Mother! Hey! How are you doing?!¡± (Rodario)
The mighty dragon lowers her enormous head towards the small human and gently starts rubbing it against his.
¡°Yeah, I''m also happy to see you! Hm? No fathers not here yet. Yeah, yeah, I know. I''m sure he got invited just wait!¡± (Rodario)
Oh, interesting. She is using telepathy to talk to him. I always wondered how she and the Abyssal Lord were able to talk with each other. Elder dragons learn to talk but the ones beneath them can''t. Kind of funny, so powerful and yet not able to do such a simple thing.
After ''talking'' with her son for a while the dragon went deeper into the building. She''s probably looking for Saxin who can''t come out right now since she''s the bride and I''m not supposed to see her just yet. Why do we have to actually use such traditions? We are monsters, don''t we stand above such petty things?
Anyway, after another thirty minutes or so the last guest arrived. Like I and Rodario speculated, it was his father Jehova of the East. Also, known as the Abyss Lord or the Abyssal Magus.
The man himself is a bit less than 170 centimeters tall and therefore rather short. He seemed to be in his mid-forty¡¯s but I know that he is much, much older. He wears dark and simple robes that have some very interesting looking grey symbols inside them. His face wasn''t very out of the ordinary expect for his eyes. They are very deep and the color doesn¡¯t match those of normal humans. What''s supposed to be white is absolutely black and the iris were missing. His pupils are both a glowing white. Whenever he looked somewhere the persons there would freeze in place and begin to get scared. Even the crocodile was afraid of his stare.
Interesting. I knew he was supposed to be strong but so much? He got more reactions out of the guests then even the dragon! Rodario quickly jumps up and runs towards him in the same manner he also greeted his mother.
¡°Father! Yo! How are you doing?!¡± (Rodario)
¡°Hmm? You here as well, Son? Good to see you. Your mom here as well?¡± (Jeff)
¡°Yeah she''s talking with the mistress.¡± (Rodario)
¡°Hmm.¡± (Jeff)
It doesn''t look like he really is listening to his son. You want to know how I can tell? Because he is staring at me. And now he starts to slowly walk towards me.
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He''s kind of scary to be honest.
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Chapter 31 - Of Bones and Blood Part 3*
¡°Fae are very mysterious beings. They are practical the next evolution step a nature spirit arrives at as soon as they have gathered enough power and grew old, but now comes the strange thing. Just rising their level and growing old is not enough for a nature spirit to ascend into a Fae.
They also need a body. Nature Spirits are monsters that belong to the ''spirit'' category (duh). They, like other monsters in that category, don''t have a corporal form and only exist in the form of souls which possess minds. Fae on the other hands are corporal beings with flesh and blood.
Finding a suitable body is also very hard to do which is one of the reasons why Fae are so rare and therefore mysterious. They cannot take over bodies that already exist, but have to create their own! For that they mostly need very rare materials that are compatible with their elements. As an example, a Forest Spirit needs the wood of rare trees and flowers that are worth thousands of gold coins.
It also doesn''t seem like Fae can reproduce since never in history has someone reported a child Fae or two Fae of different genders co-operating with each other at all. Some say that the Elves are descents of Fae since most of them are very nature friendly ant they share some similarities in their outer appearance. That theory is not confirmed though and there is no evidence that it could be true. ¡°
-From ''Strange and Mysterious Beings'' Volume 1
* Sirius POV *
It feels like my soul is burning. It''s been quite a while since I felt warmth inside me. The last time as when this asshole Black fang used this blessed stuff on me. Needless to say, this warmth is hurting me.
Jehovas eyes seem to burn a hole into my very being while he walks towards me. After coming closer and closer he stops just a meter or less away from me. He shows me a disturbing smile and begins speaking. His voice is rather rough and deep, but surprisingly pleasant to listen to.
¡°Hooo? So, you are the one the old spider ''as chosen, isit? Aintcha a lucky boy?¡± (Jeff)
¡
He doesn''t seem that scary any more all of a sudden.
¡°Eh? No way! Well, I thought it was kinda suspicious his name was the same as the husbands...¡± (Rodario)
¡°Yer serious boy? Yer should ''ave guessed it yourself. it''s pretty plain ter see that ''e is the bleedin'' husband. Just ''ave a look at ''im!¡± (Jeff)
¡°I don''t see it...¡± (Rodario)
¡°I would also like to know how you figured it out. We didn''t even talk with each other.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well, right, it''s pretty easy actually. Yer ''ave the same mince pies I once ''ad. Yer know, right, the ''oh me god I married sumfink that is ten times me size'' mince pies.¡± (Jeff)
Mince pies? Is he talking about my eyes? What''s up with his way of speech anyway? Also, I don''t really have eyes you know...
¡°How did yer cop ehr boy, eh? Wot ''ave yer done ter capture that ole spiders ''eart?¡± (Jeff)
¡°No idea. It just kind of... happened.¡± (Sirius)The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
¡°Welcome ter my club then boy! HAHAHA!¡± (Jeff)
¡°¡Thanks, Jehova?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Come one, boy! only strangers call me that! Yer can call me Jeff!¡± (Jeff)
¡
Jeff?
Really?
The great Abyssal Magus ''Jehova of the East'' is not how I imagined he would be. He seems more like a really friendly grandpa instead of the ruler of the abyss. I wonder if I could somehow profit from this meeting...
Oh, there is something I want to ask!
¡°Jeho-, I mean Jeff. Could you tell me something about abyssal necromancy, dark and frost magic? I was looking for a way to increase my assets and learning something like that would be very helpful to me.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Usually I would decline. folks tend ter lose their minds and sanity wen practicin'' abyssal magic. well, unless you are as great as I am! Right! But I think since you are a monster it should be alright? Well we could try at least.¡± (Jeff)
Yes! Abyssal Magic is very powerful and I can''t wait to see what the abyssal form of my magic is! I will become even more powerful!
¡°So come and find me soon as yer reach Grandmaster-Rank in one of your magics. That''s the bloody first requirement ter learn the way of the abyss, boy!¡± (Jeff)
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Or not I guess. Well at least I have the option to learn it in the future. But Grandmaster? This will take a while. Meanwhile, Jeff started to sniff around in the air.
¡°So yor muvver is already ''ere?¡± (Jeff)
¡°Yeah. She''s in the back looking for Mistress Saxin.¡± (Rodario)
¡°I see...¡± (Jeff)
¡°¡ Are you finally going to apologize? I miss living with both of you!¡± (Rodario)
¡°¡¡± (Jeff)
¡°Please Father!¡± (Rodario)
¡°*Sigh* Your right. I will do it today, boy!¡± (Jeff)
¡°Yes! Nice!¡± (Rodario)
I wanted to ask the Abyssal Lord another question but I was interrupted by the ringing of bells. That''s the sign, right? That everyone has arrived, right?
Everyone stops babbling and sits down on their tables quietly. A spider comes up to me and points towards an altar in the middle of the room. This wedding isn''t exactly like a human one after all, but very similar.
I walk to the altar. I feel like sweating, but I don''t have the ability to do so. Am I nervous? A bit I guess.
So, the time came, huh? I stand in front of the Altar and to my Surprise the Dragon appeared. She flew in through the big main door and slowly turned into a form similar to the one of a human. Even I have to say that she looks quite beautiful in this form.
Her appearance is that of a young woman in her late twenties with fiery red hair and golden eyes. Two powerful horns hurl around the sides of her head towards the front. A few scales remain on her arms and face as well as claws, sharp teeth and a tail. She walks to the altar and stops in front of me while giving me a soft smile.
Is she the one to declare us husband and wife? I guess so.
Music starts. A whole orchestra seemed to be hidden somewhere in this room. They play a soothing and calm song while another ''person'' comes through the main door. Saxin mostly looks like she always does. The over thirty meter long and over ten meter high spider slowly and elegantly walks to the altar. She seemed a bit... cleaner? She kind of shines in the light.
Saxin arrives next to me.
I wonder what we look like? It has to be quite hilarious I imagine. ''The Spider Wife and the Skeleton Husband'' sounds like a funny story. Is that what this is? Is that what this marriage is? A joke?
I start to feel regret.
Was this a good decision?
¡°We came together here on this faithful day to celebrate the union between two that truly love each other¡± (Diana)
I don''t.
Not a bit.
I really don''t think I can actually love anyone any more but even if I could I wouldn''t love her, right?
She is a fucking spider.
This marriage is just happening so I can get an army and so some people have something to laugh about since this is all just a big joke.
The Dragon lady keeps talking for a bit and then asks Saxin.
¡°Wilt thou Mistress Saxin, Bloody Aspects of Spiders have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together until death do you apart? Will you love, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?¡± (Diana)
So you can still decline? Should I decline when she asks me? It would be pretty embarrassing for us but better then swearing a vow to be together forever. In the first place Saxin also doesn''t take this all serious, right? Since we are just a big fucking joke, right?
I take a look up to her.
There in her eyes I find something.
Something I have never seen before.
What is that? What is that stare? Why is she looking at me like that? She can''t be serious, right? We literally only know each other for a month. No one falls in love like that, that only happens in fairy tales and badly written stories. She is going to start laughing or something, right?!
RIGHT?!
¡°Yes, I will.¡± (Saxin)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
What is this? Why has this suddenly become so serious? This marriage is just a power boost to me as well as a funny joke, right? Or maybe not? Maybe it''s more?
¡
I feel strange. I''m not supposed to feel like that.
¡°And you Sirius? Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together until death do you apart? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?¡± (Diana)
¡°¡Yes, I will¡± (Sirius)
Was that a good decision? I don''t know. Well, at least everybody else seems happy, even though that doesn''t help me at all. Everyone starts cheering and the celebration truly begins now with loud music, dancing and a lot of eating. Nothing I can do here...
¡°Follow me dear. I want to show you something.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Hm? Well it''s not like I have anything better to do. What are you going to show me?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Your Soul¡± (Saxin)
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Chapter 32 - Of Bones and Blood Part 4*
¡°Gur''algais (Old Cyr¨¢ for Soul Eater) are extremely hostile and very powerful monster that belong to the ''corpse-eater'' monster category. The Gur''algais are the final step of the already mentioned corpse-eater and one can only appear if their previous form the Del''algais (Old Cyr¨¢ for War Eater) reach a certain level as well as a certain amount of intelligence.
After evolving the monster will lose the need to eat flesh and gain a hunger for souls. Because of their huge size and their nasty abilities to literally suck the soul out of their victim, they are feared and hated by all civilized races and usually instantly get taken care of by a party of X-Ranks.
The appearance of a Gur''algai is rather disgusting and disturbing. Like their lower evolution stages, they bear many long tentacles which grow out of their backs and tails which are able to easily grab and hold even A-Ranked adventurers while they use their long claws and sharp beak to rip the victim into small pieces. Instead of being black like the War Eater, a Gur''algai is of a pale creamy color and possesses many more tentacles, usually thirty to forty! With a body length of over thirty meters and tentacles that sometimes grow up to fifty meters he is also three times bigger than his previous form.
Another reason why many people fear the Gur''algai and usually try their best to kill them as soon as possible are rumors about another step in their evolution. Although never truly seen, some say that above the Gur''algai stands the Van''algai (Old Cyr¨¢ for World Eater) a being that is supposed to hold the same power as an Elder Dragon while having an eternal hunger for flesh and souls. This theory is most likely false though. ¡°
-From ''Strange and Mysterious Beings'' Volume 1
*Sirius POV*
¡°What do you mean? How can show me my soul?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Fufufu, let''s talk in private, shall we dear?¡± (Saxin)
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Dear, huh? This is going to be hard to get used to...
I nod and Follow Saxin. Some of the guests tried to start talking with us but Saxin managed to get rid of them. While leaving the main hall, I feel a pressure from behind me and see Jehova looking at me with a wide grin and nodding at me.
What? Does he think we are going to do something? That''s not possible though.
Luckily.
While Walking deeper into the cocoon Saxin brings me to a set of huge stairs that go down. So, we are going underground? Where will I end up?
¡°Where are we going?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Fufufu, to my private bedroom! I''m so excited!¡± (Saxin)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
What?! She can''t be serious, right? Oh god...
¡°Y- you do know I don''t have a dick, right?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Fufufu, you have plenty of bones though¡± (Saxin)
It''s over. It''s fucking over! She is going to defile me! What will I have to do with my bones?! Is it worth it?!
¡°Hehaha! I''m just joking, calm down! We are just going to my bedroom so we will have some privacy.¡± (Saxin)
¡°O- of course!¡± (Sirius)
Good.
For a moment, I thought I had to bite through my own tongue. Shit, now that I think about it I actually don''t have a tongue, huh? What would I do if I had to quickly kill myself? Poison is also not an option. Maybe I should look for some anti-undead stuff? You know, just in case...
After walking down the stairs for a bit, we arrive in front of a huge door. Saxin enters through it and I follow her. The room inside literally looks like the bedroom of a queen! Well, only a lot darker and bigger.
In the center of the room is an actual bed the size of a small farm! There are even mirrors and a closet in here. Why does she have a closet? She doesn''t wear any clothes, right? Now that I think about it, she should start wearing some. I don''t like the idea of her walking around naked all the time.
She is a spider though...
¡°You saw it, right? My domain.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Well from the outside at least.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Do you know how it works?¡± (Saxin)
¡°It''s a reflection of your soul right? A pretty strong skill if you ask me.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Exactly. Something some don''t realize though is, that I can''t only make a domain with my own soul. I can use the souls of other people as well. That''s why I bought you down here, to show you what you look like! Fufufu, to be honest, I''m really curious as well. You have to allow me to use your soul though.¡± (Saxin)
Oh? My soul? Sounds interesting.
¡°Alright, I''m in.¡± (Sirius)
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¡°Very well, you need to close your eyes and completely relax while I reach into you and touch your soul. It won''t hurt, just be a bit unpleasant.¡± (Saxin)
That doesn''t sound very good. Let her touch my soul? Well, if she wanted to kill me I would have already been dead anyway. Let''s do that. I close my eyes and do just as she told me to. Shortly after I feel something entering me. It kind of feels as if something is crawling under my skin!
Though I don''t have skin...
After a while this ''thing'' reaches my chest. I get a bit of nausea and I feel like I would have puked if I had a stomach. The feeling of nausea vanishes and I open my eyes. I''m still inside Saxins room and she is standing in front of me. She is looking at her frozen fingers while being confused.
¡°What is it? Did it fail?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Huh, what? Oh no! Everything alright. I think... anyway! Let''s create the Domain. Shall we dear?¡± (Saxin)
There it is again...
''Dear'' kind of gives me goosebumps. Though I don''t have any skin. I nod and Saxin creates a domain. The both of us are instantly sucked inside. Let''s see what my world looks like! Oh man, I''m getting excited!
*Saxin POV*
What was that? His soul, so cold! It felt like I was reaching into the mouth of a Frost Wyrm or like I was trying to catch a Everfrost Wisp. Souls are supposed to be either warm or even hot, right? Well, let''s enter his domain. I''m really curious now! What is it going to be? A world of ice and snow? Let''s see.
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What is this? What is this place?! I expected a cold world but this... This world looks so empty. Well mostly at least.
We are inside an endless white snow desert that stretches in every direction without anything inside besides in the middle of it. There lies a strange construction that sends shivers down my spine.
On the ground lies a cage filled with a small mountain of living beings. I can see humans, some elves, some demi-humans and even some strange golden figures that bear a divine aura. The cage is burning... All the beings are screaming in pain and agony while burning! Red flames are coming from the bottom of the cage and turn black as they go through the people up to the top of it. On the ceiling is another much smaller cage. Within I see a man. The man sits inside while the completely black flames engulf him. His head is lying inside his knees while he hugs them. It seems like he is screaming as well.
¡°That''s me.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Hm? What dear?¡± (Saxin)
My husband points at man inside the upper cage.
¡°That''s me. Before I tuned undead.¡± (Sirius)
What?
Could it be...
Are those perhaps the souls he has eaten? I never saw something like that...
Usually if something eats a soul, it consumes it completely to strengthen his own. But Sirius...
He keeps the souls conscious to use their pain and agony!? This explains why he raises in power so quickly. The victims he eats don''t truly die and can also not be reborn as long as he is alive. They just burn here, for all eternity nurturing the black flame within him. And the man? Is he burning as well?
¡°I think I understand. You are using the souls to power you but on the same time you torture yourself as well. You still see yourself as human and feel guilty for what you are doing. I''m sorry dear, we shouldn''t have come here.¡± (Saxin)
He is probably pretty shocked, huh? I though his soul would be darker. Maybe I made a mistake marrying him so soon? I should probably have learned more about him.
¡°Hehaha! What? Are stupid?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Huh?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Guilt?! Humanity?! Hahaha, I think you have missed something, Saxin. I also missed it. But now I know. Oh, and how I know! Just listen to it. Listen Saxin. Listen to ME!¡± (Sirius)
What is he talking about? Does he mean the man on the upper cage? I start to concentrate and listen closely.
¡°Hehe... more give moooore... hehahah... ahhhhh. Feels. So. Good. Good. Good. Feels so good. Hahehehe. Scream. More. Scream for me. Please, oh please scream more. Feels. Good. Good. Good.¡± (Twisted and broken Soul)
He... Ge is enjoying this?
¡°I always got pushed around, Saxin.¡± (Sirius)
What?
WHAT WAS THAT?!
His Voice changed. It''s deeper and smoother. Something is within it and it scares me. This is doesn''t make any sense! My power is a lot higher than his! He can''t even scratch me!
Why am I feeling so bad now though? Why are my instincts telling me to get out? Also, isn¡¯t it getting awfully cold right now?
¡°Always, Saxin.¡± (Sirius)
Stop saying my name like this... please!
¡°I was born into a household of dogs. People with no money to support a child, but they still got one. No, they got more. Three? Four? I don''t remember. I was the only one that survived though. Not because of luck, or because my parents gave a damn about me or anything. I worked for it, Saxin. I worked very hard to live while those assholes pushed me around.¡± (Sirius)
His eyes start glowing brighter...
¡°And then? What did my parents do after not moving a finger for me? They sold me to a slave trader! Who gave them the right? The fact that I crawled out of this whores dirty vagina?! Who are they to push me into slavery, Saxin?!¡± (Sirius)
The black flame grows and people in the cage start screaming even louder.
¡°Do you know what they did to me?! The pain, the humiliation! Those slave traders weren''t even the only ones beating me! Even the other slaves pushed me around since I was the youngest one! Mere slaves, Saxin! Slaves! Oh, but I was saved, right? By the Demi-Humans, right? The only reason those assholes ever thought about doing something is because those idiotic slavers took one of them! And what did they do?! Leave me in a fucking forest! I walked around for weeks only eating grasses and roots until I found a village.¡± (Sirius)
He is getting angry? No, it actually doesn''t seem like that. What is this strange emotion within him?
So cold...
¡°And then someone took me in, oh how nice. I had a mother that cared for me. That loved me even though I had nothing to give her in return. And I also had a father. A father that drank more than a fucking pig and beat me and mother nearly every god damn day! Even then people pushed me around! And then?! Do you know what happened then?! He killed her. Haha, he fucking beat her to death and then started crying and apologizing. Of course, he couldn''t forgive himself and took his own life as well, leaving me alone. Ah, sorry that was a lie. He left me a debt. Turns out he stopped paying for his drinks at some point. So, what now? How do I repay this debt? Of course, by marrying the daughter of the shopkeeper.¡±
He already married once? Wait, does it even count? He lived back then...
¡°So I had a wife. A bitch of a wife to be precise. A wife that slept with more guys then were inside my small village. I tried so hard NOT to see it, Saxin. I tried so hard to just enjoy my life with a useless water-user as a wife that sleeps with everyone as long as they ask nicely. And then I had a daughter. Unfortunately for me, she actually was mine. If she got pregnant with somebody else''s child I could have left her right then. How unlucky I am, huh? You know what''s sad? Even my daughter, my own flesh and blood pushed me around! Telling me what a failure I am for a man to let my wife do as she pleases and how bothered she is by the fact that she is a mix-race. I tried so hard, Saxin. I tried so hard to be happy! To ignore those things! ¡°
The man in the upper cage stood up and started laughing as if he had lost his sanity.
¡°And then, I got killed. I saw two persons killing and raping my family. I wasn''t mad though. I tried to be. I pretended to be. But I couldn''t because of the hate. I thought the hate was directed towards those men, but it wasn''t. It was directed at everybody, Saxin. They killed me and I killed them in return after coming back. And then I saw this.¡±
He takes a Portrait of three people out of his pocket. Is that him and his family?
¡°I cried after seeing that. Some may think I cried because of the grieve, regret and sadness. But those are idiots. I was happy. So, happy! I was free now! Free to do what I want to, free to achieve what I want to, free to KILL what I want to. Never again shall I be pushed around! Lucifer said it, didn''t he?! I need a goal. I need something in my life so I can work towards it. And I finally know what this goal is going to be. I''ll stand there, Saxin.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Stand there? Stand where?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Above everything. I''ll stand above it all and look down on it, pushing around whatever I want to. This world has forsaken me from the very moment I was born into it. I''ll show it that it made a great mistake.¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (Saxin)
I''m so wet right now. Shit, I need to find a way for us. Maybe Diana can help me out somehow? Let''s hope so.
*Sirius POV*
We leave the domain. What was that? I suddenly felt so much hate for this world. I suddenly had to say those things... I have no idea why though.
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Congratulations! By reflecting on your life and realizing the truth within it you have Successfully unlocked the Passive Class Skill: Proud Hate. Shall you rise to the top! But beware! The higher you go, the deeper you fall.
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What? A new skill? What did I realize? How my happiness was just a mere lie? How I hated this world even before that faithful day? Well whatever it was, seems like it was useful. Let''s take a look at my new skill.
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Proud Hate (Passive)
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Your hate for this world that has forsaken you changes your whole being.
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Immunity to Emotional attacks; +0.5% Damage
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What? 0.5%? how is that even useful! Worse even, this skill is already on max level! Well it''s better than nothing I guess.
After coming out of the domain Saxin just stares at me. She seems hungry again...
Got a good feeling though.
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Authors Note:Do you like wet spiders?
Chapter 33 - Of Bones and Blood Part 5*
¡°There are many misconceptions about demons. Some people (especially those praying to the god of light) think that demons originate from the infernal realm, which isn''t true of course. Demons are descendants from people of all races (mostly humans though) that began praying to false gods and were therefore punished by the true ''Higher Gods''. The punishment includes their skin turning either blueish or red and horns growing out of their forehead as well as their eyes changing in color to crimson, yellow or black.
Even though most demons today are descendants from those that lost their divine way, it is actually still possible to turn into one. The only requirements for turning are:
- Being a member of a civilized race that prays to at least one of the ''Higher Gods''
- Praying to one of the false ''Gods from down below''
- Sacrificing a follower of the ''Higher Gods''
- Coming into contact with someone that already turned into a Demon
Interestingly enough, Demons are much more similar to civilized races than to monsters. One of the reasons why that''s so is the fact that they live inside towns and once even possessed some larger cities and a capital. Also, their way of growing in strength is different as well. Like Humans, Elves and other civilized races, demons rank up by just gaining more levels, instead of evolving like other monsters do.
Because of those reasons some kingdoms tried to make a pact with the demons or even tried to get them as allies, but the Radiant Star Empire always crushed every single nation that ever got close to the Demon kingdom.
Now that it¡¯s gone, it¡¯s of no importance anyway.¡±
-From ''Strange and Mysterious Beings'' Volume 1
*Sirius POV*
We return to the main hall. Seems like our guests are still having a lot of fun and partying pretty hard, especially Jehova and the dragon over there. Seeing a dragon and grown creepy looking man kiss is really disturbing. I wonder how Rodario isn''t broken yet. If I had to watch them do this while growing up I would have lost my mind...
Seriously though, why is she in her dragon form? Wouldn''t kissing and enjoying the party be much easier while being human sized? Well, I guess that''s how they roll. Many people come to Saxin in order to talk with her and she accepts it this time. I just wander into a corner of the room and start thinking about my next move. After all, I''m not really good at socializing.
But what are my next moves? I want to stand at top, but how? Will I get stronger than anybody? Will I build the strongest army?
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Let''s do both. If I just get strong by myself I won''t be able to win a dispute with any bigger nation and only having an army is not enough, if I don''t want anybody looking down on me or pushing me around.
So, an army and great power, huh? I''ve got like a small army thanks to Saxin now. When I say small, I mean like really small. There are thousands if not millions of spiders down here but only very few are fighters.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.
If it was me I would just force everybody to fight but it looks like Saxin gets kind of emotional if it''s about other spiders. Only 500 of the spiders are actually allowed to fight. Each of them are about level 250 ¨C 400 which makes them pretty strong. They are pretty much comparable to a human army of the same size.
But the spiders have a big advantage. First of all, most races really hate spiders. The mental damage and the fear giant spiders with human faces deal is incredible! And the second advantage is their ability to just walk on walls. No wall is going to stop them. Their mobility is very good in general. So, we could strike and quickly flee with the loot. Maybe I should als-
¡°There yer are! Right! I were searchin'' for yer, boy!¡± (Jeff)
¡°¡I guess we didn''t do that one in a while, huh?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Wotcher talkin'' about, boy?¡± (Jeff)
¡°Nothing Jeh- I mean Jeff. What is it?¡± (Sirius)
¡°I''ve got some presents for yer! Yer know, right, weddin'' gifts and stuff.¡± (Jeff)
¡°Oh? Really? How come no one else is giving me something?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Because most of them bog eyess ''ere want ter suck up ter Saxin, so they give ''er presents. But don''t worry! Good ol'' Jeff ''ere won''t forget a comrade!¡± (Jeff)
¡°A comrade? In what?¡± (Sirius)
¡°A comrade in the bloody pursuit of ''appiness that lies wivin mountain sized wives Yor the third member!¡± (Jeff)
¡°¡ *sigh* alright. And who¡¯s the second one by the way? What did he marry? Another dragon?¡± (Sirius)
¡°The second one is Sean. He didn''t marry anything special, right, his wife is just straight up fat¡± (Jeff)
¡°¡¡± (Sirius)
¡°Any road, so ''ere''s yor present, lad!¡± (Jeff)
Sirius hands me two packages. One pretty big and the other quite long. I wonder what''s inside? I want to start opening them but get interrupted by Jeff before I can do so.
¡°Wait until that lad over there gives yer ''is present.¡± (Jeff)
He points at a man coming over here. The man is about 190 centimeters tall and has a very muscular build. Two horns are growing out of his forehead and bend themselves towards the backside of his head. His skin is of a pale red color and his eyes crimson. He has rather long black hair but the most peculiar thing is a crown he wears.
The crown has a dark red color and is rather simple. There''s also a small red crystal within the crown. His aura is powerful and actually pushes some of the more emotional guests a few steps away from him. I can see a huge great sword on his back.
This guy is dangerous. Really dangerous. Saxin felt pretty overwhelming, but he is on a whole other level. Who is he? He''s obviously a demon, but this crown...
Could it be? Is he maybe The kin-
¡°Hello, Sirius. I was hoping to meet you soon. *snicker* Didn''t expect us to meet like this though.¡± (Demon)
I try answering but can''t. It''s not like I''m scared, his oppressive aura is just hindering me from speaking.
¡°Hm? Got something in your throat? Well, it matters not. Here, take this. It''s a small... present for you. I wish you a lot of luck, Sirius. You are going to need it.¡± (Demon)
He gives me a small gift. The box is smaller than my fist but surprisingly heavy. It probably weighs at least fifty kilos. The demon turns around and looks at Rodario who walked over here. They stare at each other for a while until the demon begins to talk again.
¡°Been a while, Rodario. How are you doing? Killed any more people in their sleep? Being a coward must be hard, right? After all you can''t get any ladies since you need balls to fuck ''em, right?¡± (Demon)
¡°You son of bitch what did you just say?! Should I ju-¡± (Rodario)
Jehova stops Rodario before he can finish his sentence.
¡°Button it, son. Yer ''ave ter apologize me kid, his pretty ''ot ''eaded! Right! Well, yer know ''ow they are wen yung! Hahaha!¡± (Jeff)
Jeff looks pretty calm on the surface but I can see him exchanging nervous looks with his wife and Saxin. The whole atmosphere is really stiff now and everybody is silent while the demon just stares at the father and son duo. After five minutes or so he just walks away while saying something.
¡°You lot are lucky I have some respect for the old aspects. Otherwise, you all would be dead now. The next time I see you I''m going to kill you, Rodario.¡± (Demon)
He walks out and many people let out a sigh.
¡°Damn, I almost thought he would snap for a second.¡± (Random Guy)
¡°Yeah, that was scary. What was one of the ''Dark Monarchs'' doing here anyway?¡± (Another Random Guy)
¡°No idea, let''s hope no one else of them show up.¡± (The first random guy that returns for a second and last time. Say goodbye to him, you won''t see him ever again since he will die because of eleven different STDs)
Well, that was strange. To actual see someone like Jehova or Diana or the legendary Rodario become nervous... so he really was the Demon King? Why is he giving me something and what did he mean with ''I wanted to meet you? Did he know me before I married Saxin?
Let''s hope I won''t have to deal with this guy again.
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Could you just go away, bad feeling? Just this once, please!
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I guess not.
At least I got myself some presents. I hope the stuff inside is going to help me with my plans... my future pans that never work.
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Authors Note:Do you like Evil Demons.
Chapter 34 - Of Bones and Blood Part 6*
¡°From all the creatures I have studied and observed the ''Radiant Star Lion'' was the hardest to get any information about. There are a couple of reasons to this. First of all, this thing is probably the rarest not unique creature on this planet. There are only three known RS-Lions on this planet and all of them belong to the Radian Star Empire.
The Empire uses those creatures as heraldic animals and even have one on their flag and emblem. That''s the second reason I had so many troubles getting anything on them, the empire is really secretive with them and since the ''Radiant Star Empire'' is the biggest and most powerful nation, there is no way to force them into handing out one of the Lions. So, the only things I figured out are second hand and collected from different people that claim they have seen and even interacted with those mighty beasts.
The RS-Lions are one of two different final evolutions of the ''Heavenly Lions''. The other possible evolution is the so-called ''Starfire Lion'' who¡¯s a lot weaker than the RS-Lion. Other than his much weaker brother, this species is incredible big. The rumors about its size differ greatly but it seems like it should be able to easily devour an Adult-Dragon with one bite. Its fur is mainly golden but it''s mane as well as the tip of his tail have a soft white color. White feathers are growing on its legs and a big pair of wings are on his back. The eyes of a ''Radian Star Lion'' are supposed to be silver just like the Gem that is within his forehead.
I couldn''t find anyone that could tell me what this Gem is there for, but I found out that the Immortal Emperor is wearing one on his crown. It might be that he just wants to brag with this beautiful gem, but more likely there''s some power within it.¡±
-From ''Strange and Mysterious Beings'' Volume 14
* Sirius POV *
A couple hours later everyone left. Saxin seems to be very exhausted, which isn''t very surprising considering she had to talk and entertain our guests. No one seemed to care about me, they all just wanted to talk with Saxin. I really need to become stronger, no one should ignore me.
Saxin looks around and spots me in a corner of the big hall. She quickly crawls towards me. Is it strange that I find her crawling kind of cute?
¡°Fufufu What a day! Hm? Did you get presents dear? What''s inside?¡± (Saxin)
I look at the three packages and then at the mountain of presents that were next to the table Saxin was sitting by.
¡°Hm? Are you upset you didn''t get as many? Fufufu you can have them all if you want to dear.¡± (Saxin)
¡°No, it''s fine. I was just surprised how much respect you get from those high standing people. Well from everyone expect that Demon King¡± (Sirius)
¡°Well, he still gives me some respect. The fact that he didn''t kill Rodario and the others proves that.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Was that really a possibility? I mean we are speaking about an Ancient Abyssal mage, a Dragon and Rodario himself! Didn''t he already kill one of the Dark Monarchs?¡± (Sirius)
¡°He did. He killed the Curse King. But only while said king was. Also, the kings all expect them demon one are weakened right now, but usually their strength is only comparable with beings like Ancient Dragons. The Dark Monarchs were once the most powerful alliance before they got taken down. Now only the Vampire Kingdom still exists.¡± (Saxin)
¡°What? In no book have I ever read something like that.¡± (Sirius)
¡°That''s because the Radiant Star Empire made sure every kingdom and nation on this continent gets rid of stories that describe the glory of the Dark Monarchs.¡± (Saxin)This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.
¡°I see. Well, their glory is gone now and it seems like they''ll start dying out if this continues. It''s not like new Monarchs are going to be born, right?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (Saxin)
¡°What''s the matter? Why are you looking at me like this?¡± (Sirius)
¡°...Nothing, dear. Anyway, it''s quite late. Shall we go to the bedroom and sleep?¡± (Saxin)
¡°I''m have been here for a month now and you didn''t notice?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Notice? Notice what my dear?¡± (Saxin)
¡°I don''t sleep.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh, right. Well want me to stay with you a bit longer?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Nah, it''s fine. Go and sleep I have a lot of plans for tomorrow.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Plans? For what?¡± (Saxin)
¡°We got to start climbing up, right? Let''s star by slaughtering some villages. I''ll tell you my exact plan tomorrow.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh I see, you already want to start! Alright I''m going to rest now, I love you dear.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Erm, th- thanks?¡± (Sirius)
¡°¡¡± (Saxin)
Saxin looks somewhat down as she leaves the main hall. I see three spots coming close to me as the fairies approach me. They are still here?
¡°Oh. My God!¡± (Rot)
¡°This was really bad of you my lord...¡± (Grau)
¡°Well you can''t except him to know what to say. He doesn''t have a brain after all.¡± (Schwarz)
¡°But still... poor Saxin.¡± (Rot)
¡°What are talking about?! I didn''t do anything wrong? Right?¡± (Sirius)
I turn towards Doro who also walked over here by now. He shakes his head and tells me.
¡°Even Doro see that Master no idea how to treat lady. Mistress really unfortunate.¡± (Doro)
¡°Fuck you guys. Shut up, I''m going to take a look at my presents now.¡± (Sirius)
The others keep talking but I blend their voices out. I''m getting pissed. What really pisses me off though is the fact that I''m getting pissed. I shouldn''t be angered this easily. It was the same this evening when the Demon King appeared. Since when do I get scared? And when I looked at Saxin while in front of the altar...
What was that feeling? It''s like the flame within me stopped to immediately burn my feelings as soon as they pop up. I''m still pretty numb emotionally, but by no means as much as I used to be. At least I can keep my calm with the help of my passive. Though I would like to know what''s the reason for this change.
Anyway, let''s open the first present. I''m going to start with the biggest one. It''s one of the two that were given to me by Jehova. I open the present and inside seems to be cloth? Oh, it''s a robe! A pretty nice looking one as well.
The robe is made mainly out of a black material that glows a bit. There are some metal parts as well to give more protection. The metal parts are on the shoulders, waist, elbows and chest. The metal is dark grey or dark silver deepening on the light. Because of the metal protection on the waist and chest you can''t open the rode and you have to get into them through the bottom. The robe splits apart at the waist into three strips of cloth which are all on the backside. There is even a hood on this robe, which is pretty useful.
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Abyssal Robes(Shadow Version)
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Powerful Robes made out of shadoweave cloth and abyssal steel by Jehova of the East that are usually only worn by his closest friends.
+10% INT; +30% Protection against magical attacks; +20% Protection against physical attacks
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So, they don''t only look good but are also quite powerful? Scratch that, they are very powerful! Well I guess I''m lucky to be a part of his club, huh? I wonder if the guy with the fat wife also got one of these. Well I''m really excited about the second present now!
I open the small package and am once again surprised to find what''s inside. It''s a staff!
A pretty powerful one as well judging from its dark and strong aura. The staff is made out of some strange black wood and mostly looks like a natural grown tree branch, except of the top part. There the branch splits apart into four claws that hold a dark violet orb. The orb glows faintly and is probably the origin of the sinister aura I''m feeling right now
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Staff of Silence(Shadow Version)
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A very old and powerful Staff crafted out of a Shadow Trent. Its core is a Orb of Silence made hundreds of years ago my a very powerful Magus.
+15% INT; +20% To the power of dark spells; Weapon Skill: Silence;
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What? A weapon skill? Now that''s rare. Only very few weapons are able to provide their wielder with an actual skill! Let''s look at what it does.
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Silence
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Silences the area around you. The area of effect depends on your intelligence (+1 meter to the radius per 1000 intelligence) no sound can be heard inside the AoE and no one is able to cast magic unless it''s chantless either, including the user of this skill.
No costs. Duration: 10 Minutes. Cooldown: 24 Hours.
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Kind of strange to have a skill like that on a magic staff. Well, I guess it''s still pretty useful, especially seeing how I can cast most of my spells chantless anyway. Now, only one present is left, huh? Let''s see what this king got me. I take the small box and open it. Inside I find a... Stone? A complete clear white stone that is way too heavy for its size. What is it?
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Stone of everlasting hunger
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A very old Artefact of unknown origins. It''s able to store an infinite number of items if they all belong to the same category. If mana is infused into it, it will automatically seek out items from the same category and absorb them by himself. The items can later be bought out by the master.
Current Master: No one. Current Item Category saved: none. Number of Items inside: 0
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What? I''m kind of confused. Why was I given such a specific item? I mean it''s pretty unique and quite powerful, but why? What am I supposed to do with this thing?
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Actually, I have a great idea. Did he know what I''m going to do with it? He has to, right? But how does he know how I work...
Well let''s prepare everything for tomorrow. It''s going to be a great day.
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Authors Note:Do you like sad spiders?
Chapter 35 - Scary Report*
¡°A voice of agony was echoing through the caves. The voice was screaming in pain for hours before it stopped. The voice didn''t go silent because the pain he has endured for so many years stopped, but because it realized something. It realized a fact so impossible and so devious that it took him hours to comprehend what was going on.
It screamed.
That was sole fact that made him forget about the pain he''s feeling right now, that made him forget his agony.
''What? How is that possible'' he thought while still too confused to fully comprehend what just happened.
Then the being within the whirlpool of magic and torture understood something else. Something that was unthinkable for him, yet it truly happened.
''I can see? Is that... a body? How is that possible?'' he questioned to himself while looking at his own new body.
It wasn''t the same one he used to have. The body that he had in his past was that of a physical weak human, but now he was something different. His once weak body that was broken by the god he forged was replaced by one full of power and energy! His once pale skin has turned dark blue with white markings all over it.
At this moment, the agony came back. He screamed and cried out of pain and happiness at the same time while he willed his body to leave the whirlpool. He crashed against the floor of the dark cave after escaping his eternal prison.
And then, he laughed. Would someone have been there they would have probably ran away in fear of encountering a madman. But he wasn''t mad, not after he changed at least. He turned mad a few hundred years after his torture began, but it was over now. Somehow with his new body came a mind cleared of all poisons, a mind that was restored after it already broke apart and shattered multiple times.
After laughing for a long while he looked at himself once again and finally understood what happened.
''Magic? My body is made out of magic? Pure mana is flowing through my veins. As if I were... a god?'' he realized after investigating his body.
He truly turned into a divine being. It seems that every time the magic around him within this whirlpool ripped a bit of him apart, this bit manifested itself within the flow of mana. And so, very slowly but steadily his mind took over the torture device and after having taken over enough, his biggest desire was fulfilled by the magic that had his will in embedded within it.
It formed a new body for him.
Being made out of magic and mana makes one almost immortal. There are very few things that can hurt one with such a body and even fewer things can actually be dangerous for such a god.
''How Ironic,'' he thought, ''After killing our gods and creating one that destroyed us all, I myself have turned divine? If the gods weren''t dead, I would have blamed them for making such a bad joke.''
And then a shock went through his body. Shock and fear. That was right, they created a god. One stronger and mightier than all the dead ones combined. And this god was still alive.Stolen story; please report.
The young divine abruptly stood up and looked around himself. It was here that the beast watched over him and smirked at his pain. But the cave was empty now. Only he and this whirlpool in the center of it was left.
''W-Where is he?'' he asked himself nervously.
After thinking about it for a while he used an ability only a god can activate, the divine sense. While having a rather showy name the skill itself was quite simple. He would simply spread his senses in a wide area around him by using mana. The only difference between this skill and the power of a mortal is that his mana far surpasses normal beings.
After using his sense, he was once again surprised. First of all, the beast was sleeping. Far up high over the clouds, over the heavens and over the stars he resided and slept. The other surprising thing were gods that dwell over there as well, between the stars and the heavens.
''New gods have been born? And this presence... are those, humans? Elves? Dwarfs? They are all back!'' he said out loud while being excited about the rebirth of this world.
But then he fell into silence while starting to shake out of fear. Inside his head was a question, a question he would like an answer for and at the same time feared this answer.
When will the beast awaken?¡±
-From the thoughts of the Lost One
*Third Person POV*
Prince Julius is currently reading a report he was given to by his Royal Guard. The report describes a few very unsettling things that were happening within his kingdom. Usually, his father would be the one reading and dealing with such reports but he is currently bedridden because of a major illness.
¡°What?! You can''t be serious! This sounds like a story you would tell your kids in order to scare them or something!¡± (Prince Julius)
The report is so absurd that Julius doubts it''s truth, even though he knows that no lie should be written within it. The young prince is still irritated tough and gets rather angry because of that. This causes the Royal Guard to fear for his life. The last Guard that made a major mistake and angered the Prince was executed after all.
¡°N-no, I''m sorry but that''s the truth my prince!¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°*sigh* Alright, then conclude once again what''s happening right now all over my god damn kingdom!¡± (Prince Julius)
It irritates the guard a bit that Julius is already referring to the Human Kingdom as ''his'' even though he has yet to ascend the throne.
¡°Ye-yes my lord! It started a week ago. There were reports of people vanishing all over the eastern region of our beloved nation! And then, a village was attacked by skeletons riding on giant spiders! The undead riders seem to only target small villages and kill everyone inside! The number of victims are already over a thousand sir!¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°I still have trouble believing his! There shouldn''t be a rouge Necromancer! Also, giant spiders? Where are those supposed to come from?!¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°We have no idea sir, but it''s a fact that those reports are not false! I have some soldiers sitting outside who were always loyal to us that claim they saw it! They describe the scene as a revelation from hell itself!¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°This is unbelievable! We have to find who is guilty of this crime!¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°There is more my lord!¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°What?! Did you forget to tell me that those spiders had wings and spit fire?!¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°N-no my lord. There were also reports about a figure that seems to be leading the fiends. He is described as a mage inside dark robes and with a powerful staff on his side. He wears a skull mask that has a crown attached to it.¡± (Royal Road)
¡°Well, this guy is most likely our evil necromancers, isn''t he? We need to kill him! We need to take this guy down in order for this madness to stop!¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°Should I send our assassins?¡± (Royal Guard)
¡°No! They are busy looking for the one who killed my wife.¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°Isn''t this more important though, my lord?¡± (Royal Guard)
The Guard immediately regrets what he said and quickly tries to correct himself, but Julius is already in front of him. The prince grabs the Guard by his throat and lifts him up in the air while smashing him into a wall.
¡°WHAT?! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU MAGGOT?!¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°I''m sorry my lord, my tongue just slipped I didn''t mean to say that!¡± (Royal Guard)
The Guard gives his best to speak up while his throat is slowly being crushed. Already fearing that it''s over for him, he finally gets to breathe again when the Prince lets go of his throat and watches the guard sliding of the wall and falling to his knees.
¡°¡Better so. Send the Elementals. Let those assholes deal with this guy.¡± (Prince Julius)
¡°Aren''t they a bit... to flashy for an assassin mission?¡± (Royal Guard)
The Royal Guard wasn''t wrong there. While the elementals are all A-Class Adventurers of great power, they are also quite crazy. This causes them to be rather hated by others. Usually, they would only be sent to missions that involve killing a large monster or something like that.
¡°It doesn''t matter. They should be strong enough to kill this small necromancer. Just take care of it while I keep searching for Yunas killer, got it? Don''t bother me again.¡° (Julius)
¡°Yes, Sir!¡± (Royal Guard)
And with those words the Royal Guard leaves the room and runs to the sleeping quarters of the elementals.
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Authors Note:Do you like mounted spiders?
Chapter 36 - Simple Plans*
"She''s pregnant! My dear wife is pregnant! It''s here! The ultimate prove of our love, our connection, the fact that we were able to have sex! It''s finally here!
It took us a while though. A pretty long while. Like, maybe fifty years? 57 I think. The reason for this seems to be compatibility problems between humans and dragons. I tried a lot of stuff to get her pregnant, like eating dragon meat before sex as an example. It all didn''t work though.
But I finally found something that works! Lhysi Powder made out of a Lhysi Flower! I was looking around the Grand Library inside the Magical Capital of Zauberhof when I finally discovered this great stuff! This flower is extremely rare and is used in the creation of chimeras. It seems to make mixing DNA easier, what helped me achieve my goal!
Diana is incredible happy right now, I hope I''ll be able to find another flower so that I''ll be able"to grant my child a sibling! ¡°
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I raised the Strongest!''
*Sirius POV*
It''s going pretty well.
I''m of course talking about my plan.
This plan of mine is really quite simple and easy to understand, yet also very effective. First, I levelled my Necromancy skill. So that I could raise this skill faster, Saxin gave me a small patch of spiders to invade smaller villages with.
We simply attacked the villages by night after I build a wall all around them out of ice, then we killed the people inside and I took their souls as well as their corpses with me. After that I just simply raised them all. It took me a bit longer then I thought but I finally managed to reach the advance level in necromancy.
This gave me another three very useful spells. First of all, I can now use ''Raise the Dead'' which allows me to permanently raise and undead soldier. This spell is incredible useful! The amount of undead I can control at once is not infinite though. Only one undead per 300 Intelligence. So right now, I''m able to maintain 22 minions. That''s a pretty small amount to be honest. But it''s enough. Every single one of those is as strong as an level 400 ¨C 450 Adventurer. Together with the fifty spiders I got from Saxin, I''m pretty dangerous right now.
Originally I wanted to just take all 500 spiders she could give to me and raid a small town. But I scratched that idea after thinking a bit more about it. If by any chance a stronger adventurer of the S-Rank happens to be inside one of those towns, I and my small army would be done for. Well an A-Rank Party is probably already enough to stop me.
Anyway, I can''t risk that. So instead, I decided to move in a smaller group. We always attack when the night comes and are gone before the sun rises. We only attack villages that are near forests since we can quite easily escape if someone strong appears in that way. The mobility skills those spiders have are really high, even inside the forest where other creatures and mounts have to slow down.
All in all everything is going pretty well. Except a small thing that really annoys me.
The spiders themselves. I honestly have a small problem with their ''free will''. They are not mindless undead like my minions and only follow me since Saxin ordered them to do so, because of that I had some problems with them.
I ordered them to not completely kill the humans but use their web and poison to immobilize them, but some of them like to just immediately eat humans whenever they come across some, which is rather bad for me. After all, if they eat the humans they kill them and if they kill them when I''m not nearby the soul of said human fades away before I can collect it.
I countered this behaviour a bit by giving the Hungry Stone to one of my minions. His job is to just run around with this stone strapped to him so it collects souls from all over the place after their vessels have been broken. Sadly, that wasn''t enough. Some souls still faded away because of the greed of those spiders so I had to go a step further.
I ordered that whoever immediately eats a human outside my or the stones range will be killed and fed to the undead. My minions don''t have to eat or anything like that, but I just thought this was a rather fitting form of execution for the spiders. Death by eating because they ate. Kinda funny if you think about it isn''t it?
By the way, they were really shocked after I fed their first comrade to the small rotting horde. Seems like they thought I wasn''t serious.
Well I was.
Now, a second problem arrived directly after the first vanished. The spiders don''t like me very much. ''Cruel'' ''heartless'' and ''monster'' is what they all call me.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.
How idiotic.
Of course I''m a monster, but so are they. So there''s no problem with eating humans but if one of them is killed they get angry? Is it because they are from a different species? Whatever, it''s getting annoying. Being called cruel by a spider really feels bad. It''s also kinda strange when they call me heartless, since technically speaking they are not wrong. I also lack lungs, a stomach and really all organs to be honest. So you could even call me brainless I guess.
¡
Forget that last sentence.
I have to get rid of them. Maybe I should kill them and raise them as undead spiders? I''ll need to create my own spell though since there is no ''Raise Spider'' spell. Creating your own spell is very bothersome and can take quite a big amount of time but I should do that in the future.
However, we are currently setting up the next attack. I already got a bit more then 1.500 Souls inside my stone by the way. I''m still kinda confused about that to be honest. It''s very obvious that the Demon King planned that I would use this stone to save souls within them so I can freeze them later. There''s just no way it could be a coincidence, right? But why would he help me? And how does he know that I eat soul anyway? Did he observe me? Was it maybe him that got me to the Everbloom forest?
I have no answer to this questions so let''s focus at the thing I CAN do.
I finish the preparation of my Ice-Barrier spell. I rise my hands which is the sign for my minions and the spiders to go in and begin. Making the undead ride on the the spiders was a great idea by the way. People are really freaked out if they see something like that coming their way!
I still have to get rid of them once I''m strong enough though. Don''t get me wrong, I still want some thinking and clever minions like Doro but I just don''t like the spiders.
After confirming that the spiders went in I finish the spell and walls of ice surround the village. Seems like only very few noticed something happened since most houses stay dark and only a few bright up. My soldiers begin to attack the homes of the humans.
They break into the houses with raw force and bite into the people or use webs to capture them. Whenever one of the humans actually tries to fight they get mowed down pretty easily by the riders. Sometimes a human is so strong that the poison and the webs are not enough to take him out. At those moments he has to be killed! This happens very rarely though and usually the holder of the stone can get over to him before his soul fades.
I meanwhile stand guard at the only exit and stop whoever tries to escape. This way of fighting is simple, repetitive and boring. Very boring. I''d much rather attack a bigger place to face a challenge but Saxin prohibited the spiders from doing so.
Why?
Because it''s dangerous.
Like, are you kidding me? What the hell? I''m already being whipped by her a few weeks after our marriage.
Fuck that.
As soon as I don''t have to rely on the spiders anymore I''m going to attack a really fucking big town to show her that I''m more than capable to handle such things. I''m going to impress the living shit out of her!
¡
I shouldn''t care that much, right? Well it doesn''t matter. After all I st-
"Oh? I already found him guys! Kasai come and help me out here! Yami, Hikari and Mizu go wipe the undead minions and spiders inside the village out. Make sure not a single one survives. You can kill the other people if they are in your way." ( ??? )
Hm? Seems like someone finally found the exit. Well I was starting to get bored so that''s fine. Hm? What''s up with this guy? He doesn''t seem scared at all. Now that I look closer at him he looks pretty strange...
This guy in front of me has a very pale skin tone and almost white greenish hair as well as cold grey eyes. He wears his strange pale green clothes rather loosely and holds a curved sword in his right hand. His stature is pretty athletic and he''s also rather tall.
All of a sudden another guy appears next to him. This one has red hair and eyes as well as dark skin. He is rather short at about 160 centimetres and carries an axe that is actually a bit bigger then him.
¡
Who are those guys? They don''t seem to be simple villagers or simple adventurers...
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" (Sirius)
"Heeeeh? Asking questions? I somehow would have thought you''d just start attacking us. Seems like you actually have a brain! How convenient! This way it''s going to be a lot more fun crushing your skull." (Mr. Curved Sword)
"HAHAHA! Yeah let''s burn this fucker!" (Shorty)
"Aren''t you rather rude? Can''t you at least state your name before I rip you apart?" (Sirius)
"WHAT?! You? HAHAHA try me, asshole!" (Shorty)
"Heeeeh? Well I guess we are quite rude, hmmm? Let me introduce us. My name is Kaze also known as the murderous wind and this here is my good old buddy Kasai also known as the killing flame. We are the Elementals and were send here because you have been quite the bad boy Mr. Necro" (Kaze)
"¡I see. Can you please not call me Mr. Necro? You make it sound as if I have some very unhealthy hobbies." (Sirius)
"HAHAHA Good one!" (Kasai)
"Hehehe." (Kaze)
¡
Were they really sent my the prince? They seem more like bandits than soldiers. Anyway, let''s call some help to be sure.
"Doro! Get over here!" (Sirius)
After yelling the ogre immediately runs to my position. I usually let him roam around the villages we attack so that he can pick up whoever somehow makes it out of there. He gets to me in a matter of seconds and takes his place besides me.
"Oh? Is that like your best friend Mr. Perverted Necro? Are all your friends spiders and undead? You need some humans too you know?" (Kaze)
"I''m an undead myself though¡± (Sirius)
"Heeeeh`? That can''t be true, right? Well, let''s begin shall we?" (Kaze)
"Let''s go LET''S GO!" (Kasai)
I have a bad feeling about all of this. Well, I guess I''ll get that challenge I was just yearning for, huh?
¡
I really should be careful about what I wish for.
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Authors Note: Do you like spider as dinner?
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Im back
So some of you may have noticed that I was gone for a whole week. I really want to apologize for that, especially since I didn''t tell you guys anything or gave you a status update.
Well to make it short, Something happened and I was very depressed. I didn''t even go to my classes or ANYWHERE for that matter. I spent most of the past week in my room curled up on my bed and rethinking this pathetic excuse of a life I had. Well to be honest I''m over exaggerating.
I''m a rather happy go-lucky person and never had to face such hardships, which is why I just didn''t know how to deal with it. It''s not like what happened was such a big deal or anything, it''s just that in my entire twenty years of life nothing really bad ever happened to me and I took that for granted.
Well I was wrong. I realize that after so much shit happened at the same time. After thinking about that stuff and getting some help form my friends and family I decided that I should just man up and get back on track, with my studies, my hobbies and just my life in general.
So here I am, back from the dead. Sadly, I have a bad message for you guys. Well it''s partly bad.
Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.
I''m no longer going to do sponsored chapters. I''m going to miss the donations since they helped me out SO MUCH but I just can''t always be sure to find the time to write for you guys, so I stop doing them from now on. You can still donate of course but I can''t do much more then name a character after you or something like that. Actually, Kaze was named after one of you guys.
I''m also going to throw my upload schedule out of the window and write just whenever I want to. You can still expect 3 ¨C 5 chapters a week but not more. I''m sorry for the guy whose donation didn''t go into a sponsored chapter, if you want your money back or anything please just contact me privately and we can talk it out, I''m going to give you guys a special surprise to apologize though (this weekend)
Well I''m going to upload a chapter in like 5 minutes, see you guys and I hope you have a nice day. Sorry for being such a unreliable author. I really am sorry about that.
(PLEASE Don''t ask me about what happened, I had much rather not talk about it.)
Chapter 37 - Wind and Fire Part 1*
"He is dead. My son is dead. He died while he was still inside his mother. It seems that while the flower helped, it wasn''t enough. ''Humans and dragons are just not compatible'' Is what the doctors told me. I went nuts. My crying beautiful wife in the background, my dead son on a table and those doctors that told me I would never be a father were just to much for me to bear.
I wonder how many people died in that town that day? When I was back to my senses most of the buildings were already burning to the ground while the ever so hungry green hell-fire ate everything without any mercy. I regret this.
A bit.
I won''t give up though. My son WILL be born. I WILL find a way to make it happen.
No matter the cost."
- From Jeff Rutherions ''How I raised the strongest!''
*Sirius POV*
The air is filled with so much tension that I could literally taste it, even though I don''t have a tongue. After the red-headed shorty announced the beginning of this battle everybody quieted down. We just keep staring at each other for now. They are probably waiting for me to do the first move, but I don''t know if I should do so.
I have no idea how strong those guys are. The green guy sent three people to ''wipe out'' my troops, which means he has confidence in his and his allies skills. So, A-Class? Probably. Which means their levels should be over 1000.
That''s bad.
While I should be able to face a weaker A-Class, thanks to my High Magic Ranks as well as my great skills, I''m not confident enough to fight against someone whose stronger than the average A-Class adventurer.
This is so annoying. I really regret not having the Aya-clone linked to be already. I was waiting for Saxin to get some information out of her while I was going around, collecting souls. After all I plan to imbue the Major Cold Soul into her body so she''ll probably lose all of her memories.
Well, there''s no use getting upset about this now. I have to think of a fighting strategy. Doro became pretty strong in the past few weeks and should be about as strong as he was when I met him. So I should be able to sent him out into the front while I attack from behind. Yeah, let''s do that.
I signal Doro and he immediately understands what I want from him thanks to our connection. He sprints forward and draws his black obsidian-club. We got this nice gift from Saxin. This thing is incredible hard and a lot heavier than what it looks like.The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
Doro swings his black weapon and tries to go for the shorty since he is nearer to him. Said shorty did something very unexpected. All of a sudden, his red hair was replaced by actual flames and his axe started glowing in a bright and hot red. He swings his axe against Doros weapon, which results in both of them getting thrown a few metres apart by a small explosion between the weapons.
"HAHAHA I LIKE THIS ONE! HIS MINE" (Kasai)
"*Grunt* Doro will smash little bug!" (Doro)
I didn''t think such a tiny body would hold enough power to withstand a strike of the undead ogre. Doro once again attacks the small guy and they start exchanging blows with each other. I notice that the man in green doesn''t even try to help his comrade out, instead he is completely focused on me.
"Do you intend to split me and my servant apart? So we can fight one on one? You are not much of a team player, huh?" (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? What are you accusing me for? I''m not really planing to do anything, I just go with the flow you know?" (Kaze)
Somehow this guy really gets on my nerves. Let''s stop talking with him before I lose anymore sanity. Let''s just do this.
I start my attack by casting ''Frost Prison'' on him. Before the ice reaches him though he jumps into the air. The alarming thing is the speed as well as the height of his jump. I notice that the wind around him seems to help him out? A wind mage? No, he wouldn''t carry a sword if he was a mage. Seems like he has some strange wind related skill. Well, that explains his title.
Before I can continue wondering about his ability, he sends a few blades of wind into my direction by cutting into the air in front of him with his curved sword. He does this while still being mid air. I quickly try to get out of the way, but the speed of those blades are way to great for me to dodge completely.
| You took 219 Damage! 12471 Health left! |
Well the damage I received was pretty low though. I''m going to guess he just wanted to test me with that attack or something along those lines. I use the fact that he''s still mid air and shoot a few Ice shards at him. Sadly, none hit. It''s not that I missed, but he dodged. He used his wind power to fling himself to the side when my shards reached him. After landing he looks at me and starts talking again.
"Heeeeeh? What was that? Ice Magic? I was so surprised I used a weak attack! Hmm? you still got hit? How pathetic, heeeeeh?" (Kaze)
Fuck this guy.
I fire a few ''Dark Orbs'' at him but he just dodges all of them with incredible speed while grinning and laughing. It''s pretty plain to see that he just wants to play around with me. So you think I''m to slow? Wanna see some fast magic?
"Be the only lightning that darkens the night, Shadowbolt!" (Sirius)
I cast the advance level dark-spell Shadowbolt at him, which is a fast moving bolt made out of dark magic. It was good to level my dark magic alongside my necromancy. Good thing I didn''t focus on one of them, huh?
Kaze didn''t expect my rather quick spell and looks surprised as a bolt of pure blackness quickly travels from my hands to towards his chest. He tries to dodge, but is to slow. I get a direct hit on him and hear a small scream, while feeling rather satisfied.
"Heeeeeh? So you can use advance dark magic as well? Didn''t expe-" (Kaze)
I don''t let him end his sentence and cast another Bolt at him. This time chantless. The reason I didn''t do it chantless before is so I can surprise him. Well, it succeeds and he takes another hit which staggers him back a few steps. This guy is way to careless, what''s wrong with him? Well, it looks like I can do this.
"Hee- Heeeeeh? Seems like I have to start getting serious here. Well let''s really start this!" (Kaze)
He starts to run in circles around me. Quickly. Very quickly. While doing so he swings around his sword, but no blades of wind are coming towards me this time. What is he planning? Wouldn''t it be much easier. To just simply use this speed to run up to me and cut of a few limps? What''s with this behaviour?
"Hehe, let''s hear you scream while my wind cuts apart your flesh!" (Kaze)
Suddenly, thousands of wind blades form a tornado around me that quickly gets smaller and smaller. After a while it reaches me and a message pops up.
| You are inside the ''Bloody Storm'' and will take 600 Damage per second! Because of your missing flesh and other soft tissue, this damage gets reduced to 11 |
¡
Seriously? Am I his natural counter?
¡
Nice.
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Authors Note: Do you like bloody wind?
Chapter 38 - Wind and Fire Part 2*
"To create a Homunculus, many things are necessary. First of all, a human base is needed. There multiple ways this can be done. For example, one could sacrifice another human, or a few to strengthen the power of the body. After that, the body needs an artificial soul. Only the Gods can easily create a soul, mortal creatures like us have to go through a very complicated and pricey process to create one.
After the soul and body are created, small configurations can be done. Those include, but are not limited to: Embedding strength into the body or soul, crossing the body with another species, creating fake memories, etc.
After those steps are made, the Homunculus is finished. Sadly, this kind of fake human does not attain any emotions or personality. In order to create a real life like being another step is necessary.
One has to steal the fate of another being and infuse it into the Homunculus. This is incredible hard to achieve and comes with a great price for the one whose fate was stolen. ¡°
-From ''Forbidden Magic'' Vol. 1
*Sirius POV*
I waited for a pretty long time inside this so called ''Bloody Storm''. It''s damage is really low for me since I don''t have any flesh or blood. After a few minutes I just took out a bone from my Bag of Holding and started to nibble at it, which results in me regaining more health than I lose. At first I just wanted to wait until his mana runs out or something, but it seems like he can use this skill for an awfully long time. I wonder, should I just get out of here and attack him? Or wait until he stops? He has to run out of mana eventually, right?
"Heeeeeh... Could you please start bleeding or something?" (Kaze)
"Huh? So you noticed nothing is happening?" (Sirius)
"Of course I did, usually my storm turns red because of all the blood. That''s the cool thing about it you know? I''m really disappointed right now. Why are you not bleeding? You robe can''t be that tough!" (Kaze)
"I told you, I''m undead. A skeleton to be precise." (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? That''s kinda bullshit you know? Never heard of an skeleton like you. Even if you are a unique monster, you can''t have so many abilities." (Kaze)
"You can believe it or not, it doesn''t really matter. How long are we going to have this idle chat anyway? Shouldn''t we fight or something like that?" (Sirius)
"I really don''t care. It''s no fun if you don''t bleed." (Kaze)
"Can I ask you a few questions then?" (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? You can''t. I still kinda have to kill you. Well, since this thing here doesn''t work let''s use plan B." (Kaze)
Suddenly the storm around me vanishes and the strange guy stands in front of me. I notice that greyish green magic is whirling around his sword. He pierces the air in front of me and the greyish magic comes towards me.
Shit, he prepared an attack while I was inside the storm? This could be bad.
"If I can''t cut your body I shall impale your soul with my wind! Soul Pierce!" (Kaze)
The greyish magic hits me dead on. Fuck this thing was fast. As soon as it touched me I felt a weak pinch in my chest.
| You were affected by Soul Pierce! Instead of taking damage one of the hundred souls inside of you, will take the shot. |
"¡" (Kaze)
"¡" (Sirius)Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.
"So, you had some questions, right?" (Kaze)
*Third Person POV*
A little bit away from Sirius and Kaze, two other people are currently engaged in combat. The powerful Undead Berserker Doro as well as the killing flame Kasai are both fighting against each other with their lives on the line
And they both are having the time of their life.
"DORO SMASH!" (Doro)
The ogre is letting out a loud roar while swinging his gigantic club towards his small flaming opponent. Instead of dodging it, the red haired shorty tries to block the enormous club with an axe that is nearly as big as the Ogre he''s facing. Surprisingly, he succeeds in blocking the strike which results into a small explosion of fire and power that pushes both of them apart.
"You are really a lot of fun, big guy! Come on, was that all? Show me more!" (Kasai)
The cocky guy jumps around in excitement. He rarely gets to fight someone that can compare with his pure strength. Doro on the other hand feels rather angry. To have such a small individual mock him hurts his pride.
"Doro show you, true strength." (Doro)
The undead ogre rushes forward once again, but instead of simply striking his foe another time, he decides to use one of the skills he acquired after becoming Sirius'' servant. He activates ''Rage infused Strike'' and bundles all the anger within him into his club, which starts glowing faintly because of that.
The enormous club swings down and the red haired foe once again tries to block it. He is surprised by the pure force behind this swing as he is barley able to withstand it. The ground under his feet was not as strong though and with a crushing sound it gives in as the boy travels approximately four metres into it.
Satisfied with the result Doro readies himself to swing his weapon once again as soon as his enemy emerges out of the ground. Instead of doing so, Kasai sends a pillar of flame out of the hole which forces Doro a few steps back. The axe wielder uses this chance to jump out of the hole and swings his glowing axe at the ogre.
Doro quickly rises his club to block the attack but only barely managed to direct the swing away from his chest, and onto his shoulder. As the axe buries itself deeply into Doros body, because of the great heat within the blade, it immediately burns the flesh around it. Enough heat to smelt iron and even steel forces Doro to let out a bone chilling scream. While the redhead in front of him only flashes a smile.
"HAHA! SCREAM BIG GUY! LET ME HEAR IT! COME ON! LOUDER!" (Kasai)
The pain and rage makes Doro blind as he starts swinging his club around, infusing every strike with rage. Kasai has to quickly retreat away from the giant, while Doro is hitting one small crater after another into the ground, destroying the environment in the progress.
Suddenly, green marks appear on the ogres body and his great size increases even further. His arms swell up as strength flow into them. The muscles on his whole body grow to be even thicker and more powerful while his eyes turn into the same glowing green colour as the marks on him.
With an open mouth, Kasai looks at the monstrosity in front of him.
"...I said louder, not bigger." (Kasai)
With a stone shattering roar Doro starts to charge into Kasais direction, leaving only destruction behind him. In response, Kasai decides to let all his power flow into the blade of his axe, which turns the heat up to a whole new level as the axe shines brightly .
The heat is strong enough to even melt the armour of the short man, burning him in the process. He endures the pain while charging as well in Doros direction. Both of the crazy warriors scream loudly as they clash against each other.
A very powerful shock wave, filled with incredible heat, bursts out from in between them, crushing the ground beneath the mad warriors. Instead of getting repelled by said explosion, both of them withstand it and do not back down.
Kasai takes one step back and swings his axe in hope for a lucky hit. Instead of dodging or blocking, Doro just takes the attack head on while swinging his own weapon. The redhead didn''t expect such a move and is quite surprised by it. He only barley manages to dodge the initial attack, but he isn''t able to get away from the resulting shock wave that sends him flying a few steps back.
While still on the ground he looks up to discover Doro, who is currently coming at him. A bit out of panic, a bit out of stupidity, Kasai decides to throw his only weapon. Out of luck though, his axe hits Doro directly on the shoulder that was already wounded, which makes Doro stagger a bit.
Not wanting to let this chance fly by, Kasai quickly jumps on his feet and rushes towards his foe. He pushes himself away from the ground to reach the axe that was embedded deeply into the huge ogres shoulder. Using his own pathetic weight, but also all of his strength he forces his axe down through Doros shoulder.
With an awful scream the ogres arm as well as his weapon fall onto the ground. Kasai relaxes, seeing how he almost won the fight. This act turns out to be a huge mistake, as the ogre grabs the whole body, of the small warrior, with a single hand. Kasai noticed his mistake too late and is now captured by his enemy.
"AHH! WAIT! STOP! LET GO!" (Kasai)
Doro slowly lifts Kasai up to be on the same eye level as him and whispers a few words towards the redhead.
"Doro, smash." (Doro)
With those words, he indeed smashes his victim into the ground. And then again. And again. And again. Until Kasai stops struggling and lies motionless in Doros fist. He let''s go of Kasais broken body and sits on the ground while the marks on his body slowly fade away and he begins to shrink in size.
Tired and exhausted Doro only wants to sleep. But he can''t. He needs to help out his great master! The man that bought him back after defeating him! He can''t sit around here, while he is fighting! He has to help him! Doro can feel Sirius near by, he needs to quickly get to him.
With new vigour Doro stands up and walks towards his master, only to find himself in a very confusing and surreal situation.
"And then I married her." (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? For real now? That''s pretty crazy, you know?" (Kaze)
"That''s not even the craziest part! Now listen carefully, aft- Oh? Doro? Where were you? What have you been doing all that time?" (Sirius)
Sirius was sitting on the ground and idly chatting with that strange wind guy. This confused Doro greatly.
"¡ Doro was smashing?" (Doro)
"Are you the one responsible for all those roars and explosions? Can you smash more quietly next time? It started to get annoying." (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? Don''t be so hard to him, Kasai is a pretty crazy one, you know?! Look, he''s even missing an arm!" (Kaze)
"Really? Wow you are right. I''m kinda disappointed now. Well get you arm so Saxin can reattach it. What are you waiting for? Don''t fake any exhaustion!" (Sirius)
"¡." (Doro)
It was at that moment that Doro realized, how hard his life truly is.
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Authors note: Do you like sad ogres?
Well this chapter basically only contained a big fight, didn''t it? Sadly, I suck at fight scenes. I hope it wasn''t to bad, sorry guys.
Thanks a lot to Leath for proofreading this chapter! A loud round of applause for him!
Also, thanks to the guy that donated 1¡ì to me...
Chapter 39 - Wind and Fire Part 3*
"The Gods are strange and mysterious beings. Some of them are weak and only fools pray to them, but others are strong and mighty! Even though they don''t seem to have a body or something like that, they are still able to manipulate the world and the beings within it. The mightier the god, the more often he does that.
This can especially be observed by looking at the High Gods. Nearly every single one of them manipulate the world ALL THE TIME! Which is not only fascinating to think about, but also terrifying.
It''s not their strength that terrifies me. It''s just that whenever I think about those all-mighty great beings I always find myself asking, who created them? ¡°
-From Dean Serus ''God of Gods''
*Hikari (One of Kazes comrades) POV*
I use a beam of light to kill another Skeleton. I wonder, how many have I turned into dust already? To be honest I would have been more than enough to deal with those lowly minions! Seriously, the other two are practically not doing anything! Yamis shadows can''t hurt these dark creatures at all and they don''t care a lot about Mizus water either. Yami even got seriously wounded because he underestimated the riders! Because of that Mizu had to carry him away...
Anyway, there are not many enemies left so I should hurry it up and finish them. I wonder if Kaze and Kasai already killed the Necromancer. I heard some loud noises and saw a few explosions a while ago so they probably already finished him off.
"Heeeeeh? It looks like the Undead aren''t a problem for you?" (Kaze)
I turn around and see Kaze standing a few meters away from me. I don''t like him to be honest. He is strange, even for us elementals and I always get chills if he is near me. I swear to god it''s because of those eyes. They are grey with a tint of green, but it''s not the colour that irritates me. They just feel wrong.
"Heeeeeh? Why are you staring at me like that? Fell in love or something? If that''s so I''m really going to regret what I just did. Actually, scratch that. I won''t" (Kaze)
He flashes me an eerie smile. I really hate this guy.
"What are you bla-" (Hikari)
Suddenly, thousands of wind blades form a tornado around me that quickly gets smaller. Wait, why do I feel like I have a deja-vu?
"What the fuck are you doing?!" (Hikari)
This is his strongest ability, Bloody Storm! Why is he using it at me? Is this a joke? He can''t be seriously trying to kill me right? The Royal Family has us bound to them, if he rebels he will simply be killed with a single thought!
"Stop it!" (Hikari)
Shit, I''ll just kill him before he can kill me! I hope the Prince will believe me that he attacked first. I start collecting light to shoot at him, but suddenly it gets really dark. Well, it''s night so it''s not like it was bright before, but now all light vanishes.
"You are right, she really can''t do anything now, huh?" (???)
"Heeeeeh? Why do you sound surprised? Didn''t quite trust me, hm?" (Kaze)
"Of course I didn''t. Anyway, let''s wait for her to die in there. Are you sure you don''t want me to bring her back? I can use as many strong followers as possible." (???)
"Nah, she and the other two are not like me. They are... normal I guess?" (Kaze)The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
"And you aren''t?¡± (???)
"I enjoy killing." (Kaze)
"That just means you have a different hobby than them right? I wouldn''t call someone abnormal just because of that¡± (???)
"¡That''s probably because you aren''t normal as well Boneface." (Kaze)
"Call me Master, Lord, Great One or something like that from now on." (???)
"Heeeeeh? Seriously? How about Boss? Won''t that be enough?" (Kaze)
"Hm? I guess that''s fine as well." (???)
Is this stupid shit really the last thing I''m going to hear? Who is he talking with? That Necromancer?!
"Kaze! Why the fuck are you on his side?!" (Hikari)
"Heeeeeh? You don''t have to be so angry you know. He made me a great offer! I can become undead, keep my soul, be freed from those Royal Assholes AND level up by killing humans from now on! All in all, that''s a pretty nice deal!" (Kaze)
What? Does he want to be raised as an undead?! Won''t he lose his mind then? And what does he mean with ''level up''? Minions can''t do that! Shit.... my Health is dropping quickly...
What a shitty death.
*Sirius POV*
That went well.
I expected her to fight back a bit or something, but she really can''t do anything without any light, huh? Dark Field is pretty useful. Anyway, Kaze is still grinning and laughing while looking at the bits of flesh that were once his comrade. This guy is kinda strange but he should prove useful.
"Two down and two more to go, huh?" (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? Actually only one is down. And the other two won''t show up." (Kaze)
"What?" (Sirius)
"We can feel each other. They will know I was involved in Hikaris death and flee. And Kasai ain''t death. She''s is just unconscious. I thought you knew that." (Kaze)
"Why didn''t you tell me that? Will they able to find you after I linked you?" (Sirius)
"If what you told be is true, no." (Kaze)
"Can we recruit that fire boy? Is he like you?" (Sirius)
"Well, first of all SHE isn''t. But we can still take her. She just likes fighting and is not loyal to the Royal Assholes so if you let her fight she''ll be more than happy to follow you." (Kaze)
"Kasai is a girl? Wouldn''t have guessed that in a hundred years..." (Sirius)
I notice that Doro came over after listing to out little talk here. He is looking pretty mad and is staring at me.
"Are you mad at her? I''ll still link her you know?" (Sirius)
Seems like he decided to change his strategy. Instead of looking at me madly, he now uses puppy eyes. Puppy eyes look incredibly disgusting on an Ogre. Even if they didn''t, I''d still don''t care.
Well, I guess a happy Ogre is still better than an unhappy one, right?
"How about this, since she''s a girl go ahead and rape her. That''s what Ogre like to do, right? Rape?" (Sirius)
He has a strange look on his face, like he forgot that was an option.
"Yes! Doro Smash!" (Doro)
Great, now every time he screams this stupid line I''ll have to think about him raping his enemy.
"Heeeeeh? Are you serious? He is nearly three times bigger than her. She''ll die. ¡°
"I''ll raise her anyway, right? So it doesn''t matter. Which brings me to the next topic by the way. Ready to die?" (Sirius)
"I really hope you didn''t lie..." (Kaze)
I walk towards my soon-to-be-link and pick up a rock on the way.
"What? Getting cold feet? Well just close your eyes then. I don''t want to use any mana so this will take a while. ¡°
"*Gulp*" (Kaze)
Kaze actually closes his eyes and I hit him with the rock on top of his head. And again. And again. And again. Well, My strength IS pretty low I guess. But I really don''t want to waste mana. You can never know when someone else starts getting on your nerves. I suddenly hear a terrified scream. Seems like Doro also started, huh?
Approximately an hour later Kaze died. Well he looks horrible. Should I have told him you can''t heal wounds after your death? Well he will be wearing a hat from now on. Otherwise I think I''ll laugh whenever I see that ''Flathead''. Maybe that''s karma for calling me Bonehead? Actually I don''t think karma exists.
I would be so fucking dead otherwise.
I hear a very loud roar. That''s the fifth time Doro ''finishes'', huh? Is that Kasai even still alive? I REALLY don''t want to take a look. Well, I revive Kaze and link him to me just how I did with Doro. The level of Soul Link already increased to 4 by the way. It seems like it gets stronger by simply having someone linked to you.
"I feel like shit... But hey, I still feel stuff! And I can even think! And open my own Statu- Wait, why did my level decrease so much? ¡°
"Oh I forgot to tell you, people I raise are weaker than they were before, but don''t worry. A month or two and you will be as strong as before." (Sirius)
"¡I see." (Kaze)
"Anyway, let''s get the other two. I think I''ll take a break from attacking villages for now. I don''t want the Prince to sent anyone whose actually a threat, so we''ll return home to my wife for now." (Sirius)
"Heeeeeh? You have a wife? Seriously? Is she a Skeleton as well? I''m gonna cry for you if that''s so.¡± (Kaze)
"So you are fucking annoying even after you died, huh? And no, she''s not undead. She is completely normal!" (Sirius)
"I''m actually kinda impressed. Is she beautiful?" (Kaze)
"Hm? I guess so? I like her eyes. Especially the third and forth one." (Sirius)
"Oh, I see! The- WAIT WHAT?" (Kaze)
I don''t react to his strange question and go look for Doro. I find him and the redhead quickly and am surprised. Doro is lying on the ground while Kasai is riding him, with fires in her eyes as if they were fighting.
"HAHAHA! WHAT?! You think just because you are a bit stronger and bigger then me you''ll win? You may have bested me in our last fight, but this one will be a victory for me!" (Kasai)
¡
I look at her stomach which is bulging out extremely and looks like it will explode soon whenever she goes down.
¡
If I had a stomach, I''d probably puke right now.
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Authors note: Do you like sexual assault?
If you do, please find help.
Or... enjoy it? Who am I to tell people how to live their lifes, right?
Chapter 40 - Face off*
"Fate. I need someone''s Fate. Someone who is important. Someone who is strong and mighty, who will rise far above the others and grasp for the stars. I need to find the fate of an hero. Only such a strong fate could survive inside the body I created. I won''t let Diana down. I will succeed. ¡°
-From Jeff Rutherions ''How I raised the Strongest!''
* Sirius POV *
I may have made a great mistake.
The whole rape situation between Doro and Kasai was strange enough, but seeing them together now is even worse. It seems like they entered a romantic relationship...
I think?
They fight a lot, but also spent every minute not fighting hugging and being all lovey-dovey. I don''t know why, but I feel incredibly irritated by that scene.
Just imagine an over three metre tall Ogre, who rubs his nose against a 1,5 metre tall girl. It''s kinda creepy to be honest. Actually I shouldn''t complain, should I? I mean after all, I''m technically dating a thirty metre tall spider.
Actually I''m married to her.
I''m kinda happy to see Saxin to be honest. It''s not like we know each other a lot or anything, but I DO enjoy talking to he-
"So you just abandoned your comrades?" (Rot)
"Heeeeeh? I didn''t actually like them you know?" (Kaze)
"Should we really trust someone like him?" (Grau)
"If we trust the retard who marries spiders and spends more time inside his head than outside, I think we can trust this Guy as well." (Schwarz)
"Don''t say that! Saxin is a very friendly spider-person!" (Rot)
"Also don''t call master a retard!" (Grau)
"Actually I agree with that point..." (Rot)
"Now that you mention it..." (Grau)
"I once heard you could brew a powerful potion out of fairy-wings. I should try that." (Sirius)
"¡You wouldn''t do that, right master?" (Grau)
"Remember when he made Doro eat his own liver?" (Rot)
"...That was kinda funny." (Schwarz)
"Doro CRY!" (Doro)
"Don''t worry my big Boobear, I''ll make sure he won''t do something like that again!" (Kasai)
"¡" (Sirius)
After punishing Kasai for saying such insolent words to me her Master, we continue to walk deeper into the City of Spiders. I want to visit Saxin and also turn that Aya Clone into a linked Undead. I need more sane followers to run around and collect souls for me. I won''t take part in this whole ''Village-Attack'' thing any more. It''s just way to dangerous. I will at least reach my next evolution before risking my un-life like that again.
"Oh my god! Can you stop crying already?" (Rot)
"B- b- but h- he...sniff" (Kasai)
"Hee- Heeeeeh? I think I made a dumb decision." (Kaze)Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.
"That was too much master..." (Grau)
"...That was kinda funny." (Schwarz)
"Doro PASSIVE AGGRESIVE SILENCE!" (Doro)
Also, if I send them out I won''t have to deal with their babbling any longer.
We finally arrive at the very centre of this city and enter Saxins Black Cocoon. Is it me or does that name kinda sound erotic? Like some sex toy. Anyway, I''m quickly met with a few spiders that get out of my way as soon as they notice who I am. I of course notice that some of them look at me with disdain in their eyes. Snatching their queen away from them made them angry I guess.
After sending the others away I enter Saxins private chamber.
"Saxin, I''m ba-" (Sirius)
Before I''m even able to finish my sentence, Saxin grabs me with one of her enormous hands and brings me in front of her six eyes.
"Fufufu, it''s been so long Sirius! I was really worried about you my dear..." (Saxin)
I kinda hang there and swing forwards and backwards. This position is kinda... embarrassing?
"Is that so? Well I''m just fine. I lost a couple of your spiders though." (Sirius)
"Hm? Oh don''t worry about that. Since you need some pawns I just told the soldiers to reproduce faster!" (Saxin)
Is that the real reason why the spiders earlier looked at me with disdain? Are they upset about me using them? I really need to craft my own army as soon as possible. I feel like a big problem could appear in the future otherwise.
"Anyway, where''s that girl we captured? I want to link her." (Sirius)
"¡Don''t you want to spent a bit more time with me? Let''s talk about what happened on you little adventure!" (Sirius)
"Hm? Well, I guess we can talk for a bit." (Sirius)
So I told Saxin what happened and how I used the stone which the Demon-King gave me to collect souls. Strangely enough, the thing she wanted to know the most about was the relationship between Kasai and Doro. This old Spider Aspect sometimes behaves like a little girl when it comes to romantic stuff...
"Was it really necessary to punish her like that? That was way to harsh my dear..." (Saxin)
"Hm? It''s not like she''ll die form it or anything, right?" (Sirius)
"Well, yes but still... poor girl" (Saxin)
"Anyway, I''m going to the prison. She''s in the last cell you said?" (Sirius)
"Exactly my dear, have fun! I love you~" (Saxin)
"I know, you already told me that. See ya." (Sirius)
"¡" (Saxin)
Hm? She kinda seems sad again. Well, I have more important stuff to do than figuring out why. I walk towards the cells underneath the Black Cocoon and greet the spider who guards this underground prison.
Actually, the whole city is underground.
So that would make this prison under-underground?
I don''t think that''s actually a word though...
I look for the last cell and move towards it. Inside I can see the High Fae who looks exactly like Aya. She is hanging upside down above the ground and is tied up with some weird black chains that make sure she can''t use any power. I enter the cell after telling the guard to open it up and greet her.
"Hey, long time not seen, huh? How are you doing? Not very well I would guess." (Sirius)
She looks me in the eyes for a few seconds and then quickly averts them. Besides Saxin no one manages to look into those glowing orbs for more then a couple seconds. It makes them feel ''cold'' they always say.
"Fuck you! What do you want? Are you here to torture me? Finish me off? Show me what you got!" (Alleria)
"Hm? Well, kinda. I''m here to link you to me. You are going to be a great slave." (Sirius)
"I''d rather stay dead than to serve you!" (Alleria)
"Oh, don''t worry. It''s not your soul that is going to serve me. You can burn with all the other at the black flame." (Sirius)
"What?" (Alleria)
"Hm? Is that fear I see in your eyes? How sweet. To see an X-Rank fear me is such a great sight! Anyway, in case no one told you, I eat souls. I don''t absorb them like Necromancers, no you won''t be gone. You''ll burn. Forever." (Sirius)
"B- but you said you''ll link me to you!" (Alleria)
"I meant you body! Your soul will be replaced with this beautiful thing." (Sirius)
I take out the small ring which is filled with many souls.
"The Item description once mentioned that an consciousness dwells within this ring. I hope to get it out by shoving it into your body. I really wonder what I''ll find inside." (Sirius)
"N- no... please!" (Alleria)
"But first..." (Sirius)
I take out a small knife that I took with me.
"What are you planning to do with that?" (Alleria)
"Your face is kinda disturbing to me. You look a lot like someone I like so I''ll get rid of it." (Sirius)
"Wa- wait! That someone is my sister! We are sisters! Mercy!" (Alleria)
"Are you guys? Well I don''t care." (Sirius)
"N- no please don''t! I''ll behave I''ll b- AHHH!" (Alleria)
Hm, maybe I should have killed her first? Well now I already started so... let''s try to ignore those awful scream, shall we?
¡
I''m kinda having fun here!
* Third Person POV *
"What?! Three of them dead?! How?!" (Prince)
"My Prince please calm yourself! According to the two survives one of the elementals betrayed the others! But the strange thing is... that he was killed only a few minutes later." (Servant)
"Are you serious? It was Kaze, wasn''t it?! This fucking bastard was always broken in the head!" (Prince)
"Maybe now we should fight this Necromancer with our military? I know the Lady''s death hurt you deeply sir but maybe we should... ¡°
"NO! NEVER! We will keep searching for her killer and that''s IT!" (Prince)
"I may have an idea brother Julius" (???)
The Prince and his servant quickly turn around to look at third person at the table.
"Denolius! I''m sorry I totally forgot about you..." (Prince)
"That''s fine brother." (Blessed Soul)
"You no longer have to call me that... now that our wife is gone." (Prince)
"Nonsense! You will forever stay my brother!" (Blessed Soul)
"Denolius..." (Prince)
"How about this, brother: take a few soldiers and look for the Necromancer yourself! With your strength he should not be a threat. I''ll take over the job of searching for this murderer!" (Blessed Soul)
"Hm? I guess that would be fine..." (Prince)
"My majesty, is it really a good idea to give your military power to this man?" (Servant)
"Insolent Fool! How dare you doubt my dear brother! Shut up! We will do exactly what you said Denolius! I''ll tell the generals!" (Prince)
"Thanks for your trust brother!" (Blessed Soul)
The prince ran out of the room and the servant quickly followed after him.
"...What an idiot you are." (Blessed Soul)
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Authors Note: Do you like Sad Spiders?
Huh? Didn''t we already have that one? Well, doesn''t matter. For those of you who expected another entry in the chronicles of the lost one, he will return in chapter 45 or 46.
Chapter 41 - Cold Girl
¡°It took me quite a while but I think I found a hero whose fate could serve me well. They Call him ''Hero of the Blade'' and his fate is quite strong and powerful. He is quite the fine man, a much-loved individual, a heroic Lion, protecting the weak while still respectful of his enemies. Now, how should I steal his fate?
I''ll need to change his fate so abruptly and so strongly that t becomes the polar opposite of his current one. In the moment it changes I''ll be able to get my hands on this grand prize with the help of a little bit abyssal soul magic.
What should he become? The change in fate has to be big so maybe I should make him a beggar. Or maybe a villain? A Dark King?¡±
-Destroyed notes from Jeff Rutherions ''How I raised the Strongest!''
*Sirius POV*
I take a step back to look at what I created, blood still dripping from my Knife.
¡°Wonderful, you look a lot less disturbing now. Beautiful in an abstract way¡± (Sirius)
In front of me is a woman without a face. A really unusual look honestly, but also quite refreshing. It''s something new, you know? Her head is not much more than a red chunk of meat with two eyeballs and some teeth embedded within them. I decided to also take her lips away since it would seem kinda unnatural to only let them stay there.
It took longer than I thought to get rid of her whole face. Hm, it took a really long time now that I think about it. Feels like I almost worked two years on this soon-to-be linked minion. I also feel like something in my past changed? Like some mistakes were corrected. Strange.
I''m probably just imagining things, right?
I take a step forward and gently stroke the side of Ayas sisters face. She winces under my touch. Well if soft meat gets touched by a sharp bony finger it probably hurts, huh? Actually, describing my fingers as bony it probably wrong. It''s as if someone told me he had very skinny skin. Doesn''t really make sense, does it? I mean in the first place, adjectives like these are mainly used to en-
¡°Having fun staring at your creation asshole?! Do you think this show scares me?!¡± (Photorealistic Slender Woman)
¡
Even two years later we are still doing this joke? Some things never change I guess.
I casually use one of my actual-bone fingers to poke into one of her eyes. I twist my finger around a bit while she screams in agony. Then I sigh.
¡°I wasn''t even thinking about you. There are more important things than you, like the proper use of certain adjectives. Things like these are one of the reasons I can''t sleep at night. The other of course being the fact that undead literally can''t sleep at all. Ever.¡± (Sirius)
I twist once again and then form a hook with my finger while still inside her eye socket. I pull my hand away from her face and take her eye with me. She pants heavily, bloody tears flowing down her face.
¡°Yo- you monster.¡± (Wanna be Pirate)
¡°Was that supposed to be an insult? How dare you, you High Fae! See, it''s not really effective to call someone by their actual species.¡± (Sirius)
I''m getting a bit annoyed with her, but it''s fine. She will soon burn anyway and I''ll finally get to see what''s inside this ring. But first, I need to take her soul away so I can replace it. Which means she has to die now.
¡°Any last words? I''ll give you six.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Wa- wait, already? At least let me-¡± (One Eyed Tomato)
I ram my knife into her throat. And her words turn into an incomprehensible gurgle.
Those were some interesting last words.
At first, they may seem a bit random or like they were spoken in an accident, but if you look closer you can see that she spent a lot of thought on them. The deeper meaning of these words only reveals itself if you take a closer look at th-
¡°gurgle gurgle¡± (Cheap Murloc rip-off)
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Interrupting me, even while I praise your words inside my head? How rude.
I stab her again. And again. And another 34 times before she finally dies. I then open the cell door and speak to the guard standing outside of it. I tell him to get someone who''s a surgeon or something comparable like that. I want my linked minions to talk with me, so I need someone to stitch her throat back together. It also looks a bit gross honestly. It completely destroys the elegant look of her faceless head.
After a spider who is apparently a web spinner, fixes a throat I''m left alone with the corpse again. He did a surprisingly good job. I step forward and take her Soul. It is brimming with power! I definitely need to freeze it before devouring this beauty. So let''s store it into the stone for now.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.
I take a step back and concentrate my power to raise Ayas now dead Sister. I can do this spell chant-less by now. Green-blackish streaks of energy run through my arms all the way to my hands and then jump into her body, she starts to tremble immensely for a while. Suddenly she completely stops moving and after a few second finally rises. There she is. My new brainless minion. Let''s give her a brain, or rather a soul.
Let''s do this, ''Soul Link''.
| Welcome to the Soul Link Configuration Tool! You currently possess: |
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"1" Major Soul (Cold), "1" High Maiden Soul, "1629" Souls
"22" Undead Minions (¡)
"3" Linked Minions (¡)
A Link between the undead Fae and 1 High Maiden Soul can be created
A Link between the undead Fae and 1 Major Soul (Cold) can be created.
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YES! I knew her body would be strong enough to contain this Soul! I finally found someone to test this out! Makes me a bit happy. Well Well ring, let''s see what''s inside of you. I link her to the Soul and like always, a message pops up.
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Congratulations! You Successfully created an Ice Lady! She will be added to your followers.
Current name: NotWorthMentioning, Change? Y/N
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An Ice Lady? So the female equivalent of an Ice Lord I guess? I once had this evolution option. So she won''t be a Lich, huh? I was kinda hoping to get one. Would make me feel better to not be the only specimen.
By the way, what''s with her name? The messages are slightly manipulated by the gods if I recall correctly, so they seem to be pretty angry with her. Well who can blame them, she gets captured and makes me stronger while her sister helped me out a lot as well and actually leads a Dungeon which was once one of their most sacred places. Well, how unfortunate.
Let''s change her name though. Since she will be an Ice Lady I have to give her a cold name right? How about snow? It''s maybe not very creative but it fits well enough in my opinion. Yeah, snow. Rise and shine, Snow.
After those words leave my mouth the ring imbued with the soul begins to shake violently until it shatters inside my hands. The fist-sized soul rises in the air and dark purple light gathers around it until the soul is completely filled with it. It looks like it could burst any second now. Slowly the soul hovers towards its new vessel and enters it.
Snows body begins to spasm for a while before finally relaxing. Then, smoothly two almost white eyes open and look at me. Snow pulls herself up and stands in front of me, looking directly into my eyes. Huh, the only other person who can do that is Saxin.
¡°What''s that? Now greetings?¡± (Sirius)
¡°...¡± (Snow)
¡°What''s wrong? I took your lips but your tongue is still there, use it!¡± (Sirius)
Snow looks at me, confused for a moment. Then she seems to suddenly have realized something.
¡°ab- aw- ta- ta-¡± (Snow)
She shakes violently, her eyes widen which make her skinless face look even stranger. Then, she suddenly jumps into the air.
¡°I HAVE A BODY! HELL YEAH!¡± (Snow)
She stands there for a second, her hands forming fists and her arms stretched high above her head while she''s carrying a vulgarly wide smile on her face. She looks at me as if she just remembered I''m here and suddenly freezes. Then as if nothing happened, she switches to a very noble stance, her hands folded together in front of her. She coughs.
¡°Hello master, I thank you for granting me this Power.¡± (Snow)
She goes down on her knees and sits there for a while, her feets under her, before bowing deeply.
¡°My name is snow, I shall be your most noble Servant¡± (Snow)
¡°...Yeah let''s pretend nothing happened¡± (Sirius)
She tilts her head to the side, confused.
¡°What might master be talking about?¡± (Snow)
¡°...¡± (Sirius)
¡°...¡± (Snow)
¡°Anyway, welcome to your un-life. It has to be really strange for you, seeing how you never had a normal life, huh? So what are you exactly? A strange consciousness that was created by the original Sirius back at the Tomb?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Actually, I am Sirius. Well at least something like a withered image of him.¡± (Snow)
¡°...Sorry about this female body? Well, it doesn''t really matter though.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh no! I''m quite happy with my new excellent body! I always felt like I was a woman on the inside. I''m also happy you took my masculine name and gave me this new cute one! Even my species name has the word Lady in it. I''m quite happy right now!¡± (Snow)
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She- I mean he- or she? It? I have to be very careful right now because I really don''t want to get into this whole genderfluid thing. Also, if I mess up, the Social Knight Order of Justice is going to be my enemy. So let''s just call her a she, I mean him a she?
Genders used to be so simple...
¡°So you probably know a lot, right? Seeing how you created that old Dungeon. I have a few questions for you.¡± (Sirius)
¡°I''m sorry master, but I won''t be able to answer any of those. Like I already mentioned, I''m withered from the long time I spent within my own ring. The only memory I have left is how I always wanted to be a Lady. (Snow)
...Great. Well, I still got a strong new ally. I guess.
Let''s start some new plans.
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Authors Note: Do you like ice tea?
Yeah, I know there''s now an actual Authors Note feature but I like this old Style, so let''s keep it? Unless you guys hate me of course.
So yeah, I''m once again going to start writing. I finished editing the last chapters yesterday and will now continue to release new ones, probably two per week? I''ll try to do more if possible.
I have another announcement though: one of the reasons I stopped writing and then editing were real-life problems, but there was another reason as well. I kinda got burned out from writing too much at the beginning. I wanted to do something different, create a second story, but I also felt like I HAD to finish this one as soon as possible.
Well, I learned that such a thought process isn''t very healthy. I''ll be taking things on a bit more slowly from now on. I will also start a second fiction in order to get some variety in my life. Whenever I don''t feel like working on the Lich anymore, I''ll just write a chapter of this new Story to blow off some steam and then return. The Story is currently awaiting approval, please check it out after it gets accepted. I''ll share some details about it in the notes in the next chapter.
Thanks for reading and thanks for sticking with me, if you are still here
Chapter 42 - Beginnings
¡°It was a huge success! By using some quite intriguing secrets as well as a little bit of money, I successfully got a kingdom to attack the hometown of the hero whose fate I wanted to steal. This, coupled with a drug that increased the hero''s rage and gave him an incredible amount of bloodthirst, pushed him to the fate of a villain!
It was quite the sight, to be honest. He slashed through his enemies like a madman, even going so far as killing those that only wanted to surrender. At the end, he finished his rampage by killing his own wife after I made here a little bit paranoid. I thought he would kill his two children as well, but those little girls got to live.
Now with his old fate, the fate of a hero, I''ll be able to create a child that can become the strongest, someone who can take this world by a storm! Though I think I should be a little bit careful, the guy whose fate I took is crazy strong after all.
I should probably burn this note.¡±
-Destroyed notes from Jeff Rutherion''s ''How I raised the Strongest!''
*Sirius POV*
I sigh as I take a look at my ''War Council''.
I gathered everyone of importance to discuss what we should do next and to introduce our newest ally to them. We are currently inside a huge round room and everyone is sitting on a stone chair around a black table that has a map engraved on it. The people currently in the room are Doro, the three fairies, Kaze, Kasai, Snow, Saxin and me of course. All in all, there''s a lot of chaos.
Doro and Kasai are sitting next to each other, hugging, kissing and whispering things into each other''s ears that give me diabetes, even though I don''t have any blood.
Kaze is playing with a coin for some reason, flipping it into the air with his thumb and then catching it. He looks stupid while doing that.
Saxin is straight up sleeping and no one really wants to wake the thirty-meter spider up. I don''t blame them.
Snow seems to be crafting some kinda mask she wants to wear. It somehow makes me a little bit sad that she doesn''t like the face I gave her, It''s very elegant and nice in my opinion.
But the most annoying things are the three fairies, like always.
¡°So he actually ripped your face off? Are you not mad at him?¡± (Rot)
¡°Hm? Oh, it''s fine really. It technically wasn''t even my face, to begin with, right? Now I at least get to make my own. Although, I''m still not so sure about what design to go with.¡± (Snow)
¡°Still to do something so cruel... how could you master?¡± (Grau)
¡°I''m not surprised. Actually, in my opinion, he should have continued with the rest of her skin. It kinda looks done half-assed now. Though I guess that''s as much as you can expect from that guy.¡± (Schwarz)
¡°That would be really annoying though, right? I mean she would just bleed everywhere. It''s kinda hard to get blood out of spider webs, you know?¡± (Rot)
¡°...Are we really fairies?¡± (Grau)
I sigh again, then stand up and cough really loudly once. Nobody turns his head in my direction.
¡°...¡± (Sirius)
I''m getting just a little bit irritated here, so let''s try again, but this time with a little bit of hate in my voice.
¡°Do I need to punish someone again?¡± (Sirius)
This time, even though I spoke pretty quietly, everyone falls silent and looks at me. I can see a bit of fear on some of their faces. Saxin woke up as well, but she kinda looks excited.
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Does my wife have some strange hobbies I didn''t know of? Good thing I''m made out of bones I guess.
¡°Now, let''s finally begin this meeting.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh just so you all know, I bought some sweet pastry a few servants made earlier today. I also got this for you Sirius, I made that one myself!¡± (Saxin)
Saxin reaches down towards me with one of her huge hands and gives me some sort of soft heart-shaped soft cookie while her other hand puts a basket filled with food down on the huge table. Doro and Kasai instantly reach towards the basket and take most of the pastry out of it, the other guys all get something as well except for Snow.
I look at the cookie, then at Saxin.
¡°I can''t eat this.¡± (Sirius)
Saxin looks a bit shocked, then she seems to have realized something and looks a bit embarrassed.
¡°Oh, I was so excited about baking for the first time, I forgot about your current form...¡± (Saxin)
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Is she getting a bit red? A blushing spider, huh? It somehow looks really disturbing...
I throw the heart towards Doro who jumps into the air like a dog and catches it with his mouth.
¡°Oh...¡± (Saxin)
Oops.
Damn it, there it is again. Saxin once again looks really sad. I still don''t understand why she does this sometimes, but I think I should try to do something nice for her soon or else she might get depressed and leave me or something. I can''t really afford to lose her support in my current state.
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It''s also a bit pleasant to talk with her.
¡°As I already said, let''s begin this meeting. First of all, this here is Snow. She is my newest servant and resides within the body of that crazy lady that attacked us a few weeks ago. She was once a necromancer, but she lost those powers as well as most of her memories while spending a long time inside a ring. Lucky for us I infused the souls within the ring with ice, which seems to have granted her the ability to use ice magic. Introduce yourself, Snow.¡± (Sirius)
Snow stands up as I sit down and bows once in front of us.
¡°Hello, my friends. As our master has already told you, I am called Snow. A very fitting name in my humble opinion. I will try to be of use to you all!¡± (Snow)
Everyone besides me claps and snow smiles happily while bowing once again.
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Things are getting a little bit too friendly here recently. I''ll fix this later. Also, even though I like snows face, she looks incredibly terrifying when smiling. Maybe it''s a good thing she''s crafting a mask?
¡°Now with the introduction of Snow out of the way, let''s discuss what we should do next. Usually, I always make every decision alone, which I will still do. No one besides Saxin and myself has any right to decide anything here. You can still feed me some ideas though.¡± (Sirius)
I look at the face of everyone and it seems like most of them accept this fact besides the two elementals. Especially Kaze seems a bit pissed off about this. Well, I did promise him he''ll still have his freedom after swapping to my side, so I can see why he''s mad. Good thing he doesn''t have a choice and has to obey my every order.
¡°As you all probably know, my current goal is quite simple, stand above everyone. Questions?¡± (Sirius)
¡°...Wait, what? What do you mean? You want to rule this world?¡± (Kaze)
¡°Oh no, don''t be ridiculous. I''m not the kind of skeleton to harbor unrealistic dreams such as world domination. I just want to stand somewhere no one can touch me, you know? I want to be the strongest, with the strongest army basically. Simple, isn''t it?¡± (Sirius)
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¡°...And what I said was unrealistic? What do you mean you want to be the strongest? Do you have any idea what kind of monsters walk on the surface of this world? First of all, there are X-Ranked Adventurers and crazy people like the Abyssal Mage Jehova. Then we''ve got the old ones, like the Aspects and the Ancient Dragons. Let''s also not forget that even the Dark Monarchs that once stood at the peak of this world, stronger than the things I already listed, all fell at the end against the Radiant Star Emperor and his army of freaks!¡± (Kaze)
¡°Well, I never said it''s going to be easy, did I? It may take a few hundred years, but it''s not like we have to worry about dying of old age right?¡± (Sirius)
¡°I... I guess so, but still, if you mess with those people-¡± (Kaze)
¡°Stop being so negative. Weren''t you supposed to be the free-willed crazy maniac? I haven''t heard that annoying sound you always make in a while. The only thing you need to do is slaughter some people when I tell you to. That''s what you enjoy the most anyway, isn''t it?¡± (Sirius)
¡°Heeeeeh, I guess you have a point.¡± (Kaze)
¡°Of course I have. Up until now, it was pretty easy to attack villages and get free souls. Yeah, it was actually almost a bit too easy. But I think the times we can just attack in the night and vanish before anyone notices are over. The Authorities have noticed us and take us a bit serious as well. It seems though as if they won''t be sending any real soldiers or assassins against us, which is good. We have no chance to win a real confrontation with the army of an actual nation, so we are quite lucky that they are currently busy with searching for someone.¡± (Sirius)
¡°Oh yeah right, someone killed the Sword Princess a few months ago. Her husbands are now searching for the culprit. Poor guys got their hearts broken.¡± (Kasai)
¡°Husbands? Like, the plural?¡± (Saxin)
¡°Heeeeeh, you don''t know mistress? Well, I guess you Aspects usually don''t really meddle with humans, huh? The Sword Princess was an upcoming new hero, still pretty low but destined to do great things. She was such a beautiful and charismatic girl that she actually managed to marry the four most important men of this country.¡± (Kaze)
¡°Oh yeah, I heard of this. She first got engaged to Archmage Theodore, though back then he was just a student.¡± (Rot)
¡°After that, she met and fell in love with Urk, the Destroyer whose known as the strongest soldier in this kingdom. Theo totally got cucked didn''t he?¡± (Schwarz)
¡°She then got proposed to by the prince of the holy light himself, Julius of Lichtenhof. How romantic!¡± (Grau)
¡°And as if this wasn''t enough, a few weeks later her childhood friend Denolius who recently managed to receive the title ''Blessed Soul'' married her as well. Whoever killed her will have a bad time. Makes me kinda feel bad for that fool.¡± (Schwarz)
¡°Fufufu... Seems like she was quite the impressive girl, hm? Makes me wonder what she would have tasted like.¡± (Saxin)
¡°Not very good honestly. Her bones were dry like most people''s are. Children are a lot more delicious, probably because their bones are still a bit soft.¡± (Sirius)
¡°...¡± (Everyone)
¡°...Right, I knew I forgot something.¡± (Sirius)
¡°WHAT THE FU-¡±(Kaze)
*Third Person POV*
Prince Julius, also known as the Kingdom''s Blade is currently standing in front of a few trees with his eyes closed. The only visible movement coming from him is the soft motion of his chest as he slowly breathes in and out. Behind him are a few soldiers who look at him, a bit nervous.
¡°Oy! Julius! Try to relax a bit!¡± (Theodore)
A young, shabby looking mage who looks a bit out of place in this beautiful royal garden waves towards the prince from afar. Even though he looks pretty average, his fiery red hair and emerald green eyes still grant him a certain powerful aura.
A big bulky man who seems to be entirely made out of muscles next to him laughs loudly. His face is mostly obstructed by a thick great black beard and you can''t see much besides his red eyes and a few scars. Even though his beard is so full, there''s not a single hair on top of his head.
¡°HAHAHA! That''s just how he is, right?! Always with his inner peace bullshit. Well whatever suits him, I guess. HA!¡± (Urk)
The prince slowly exhales once again, then opens his eyes to turn around and look at his two brothers. His long blond hair waves in the wind, making it look like fire-water, as his bright golden eyes look at both of them, a smile slowly appears on his beautiful fair-skinned face.
¡°So you guys finally appear! Took you slowpokes, long enough.¡± (Julius)
the young man laughs, signaling that he only made a joke and his brothers grin as well. But then suddenly the mage stops and starts to speak with a grim look on his face.
¡°I still feel like you should be looking for that dumb-ass that killed our wife as well. I know you can''t really relax, knowing that he''s still out there alive.¡± (Theodore)
¡°Yeah, I agree! Fuck that Necromancer guy you looking for! Come with us while we search for the murderer together with Denolius!¡± (Urk)
¡°No, I need to do this so that the people living here can rest in peace once again. I''ll join you guys afterward. Speaking of Denolius, where is he?¡± (Julius)
¡°Well, he''s currently busy with some things concerning the kingdoms safety or something. He has been very active ever since you gave him power.¡± (Urk)
¡°...which is a little bit suspicious, right?¡± (Theodore)
¡°What? Are you really suspecting our little brother to be having any ill intent? I mean, we are talking about Denolius for goodness sake, the most harmless person I personally know.¡± (Julius)
¡°Oh no, don''t get me wrong, it''s just somehow strange how active he has suddenly become ever since Yuna died...¡± (Theodore)
¡°Nonsense! He''s just trying to distract himself! Anyway, the three of us will go to the Beast Kingdom next week to search for that killer. You are going today, right? Hurry up and find that Necromancer so that we can go together, brother!¡± (Urk)
¡°Haha, I''ll try my best.¡± (Julius)
The three brothers keep on talking and laughing with each other, blind to the calamity that will soon find them.
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Authors Note: Do you like cookies?
Who am I kidding, everyone likes cookies!
Anyway, sorry for the delay. I said that chapters will probably come out slower, but I didn''t mean THIS slow. I just kinda timed my comeback badly, since Monster Hunter World was released last week. As a long Monster Hutner fan I, of course, had to play it!
...A lot. I''m at about 100 hours actually...
In 10 days.
AND I DON''T REGRET ANYTHING!
I also know that this chapter is a bit boring, but it serves as a sort of slow introduction into a new arc. The next chapter won''t be very exciting either (I guess) but things are going to heat up really fast really soon, so be happy about that! Maybe?
As always, thanks for reading!
(Is anyone else playing the Game by the way? If so, tell me about your experience!)