《The Darkest Age》 Mr. Fisherman My life was great, I had a hero police officer as my father, a genius scientist as my mother and two little brothers. I wanted to make my parents proud so I got medals, high grades, licenses to make them proud and they pampered me so much that I had a high ego but when I reached puberty my high ego was so fragile that an insult would break it all down and the breaking hit came from my father, we had a fight about dinner, having fights with the parents as a teenager was a normal thing but I wanted to get out of there and so I did. I picked up my camp kit, my savings, and my father''s old pistol, I ran away from home but I was smarter than the other kids who escaped their homes, I knew how to avoid danger because my father taught me everything I needed to know, I knew how to survive without any money because I loved camping and went to boy scouts, I knew how to patch myself up when I get hurt because of my mother''s overprotectiveness, I knew about everything but the outside world was scary. After a month I wanted to go back and when I did, my father was outraged with me, he punched me and I punched him back, and then left again with some money from my mother, I cut all contact with them and five years passed. I was now a fisherman, fishing in a rich vacation site, I was making quite the money too because every rich person wanted to fish and they paid a high sum to make me teach them but there was a unique person among the rich and this was the first time I met her. ------ I was fishing like always at the docks, but that day I was bored of fishing near the boats so I took my boat and drove to a relaxed place, there was a cliff that I fished sometimes, It was a perfect place to fish, I arranged my tools and started to wait for fishes, and I caught quite a lot of them and while I was waiting for the fish I had a habit of sleeping. "Hey! You got a fish!" Somebody yelled at me, I woke up from the voice and pulled my rod, It was a huge fish. "Thanks!" I turned around to see an old woman in the woods, but my mouth was left open because I didn''t think I would see an old woman wearing an 18th-century blue Prussian uniform with a cavalry sword on her belt. My other bad habit was that I had an extreme history addiction because of my grandfather being a historian, even though I loved him he was an alcoholic man and a bad person but still his influence was big on me. "Oh my god, Is that a real 18th-century blue Prussian uniform?" She looked surprised for a second, she started to walk to me and then I noticed her uniform wasn''t a full uniform, she was wearing a black miniskirt and white thigh high boots, but there were more abnormalities even though she was an old woman, she was the most beautiful old woman I have ever seen with wild long hair and weirdly, red eyes. "You sure know your stuff, what is your name?" I was dazed to see such a woman like this, I mean I bet nobody had a situation like this. "Wilhelm." My name came from my grandfather, he also had the same name as me, she raised her right hand, she was wearing white gloves. "The name is Marianna." I was still confused and left her right hand waiting and then realized it. "Oh! Sorry." We had an awkward handshake. "Sorry, I am just surprised to see such a woman like you madam." She looked serious for a moment and started to laugh. "Haha! I can explain all of this, first, I am a collector of some sorts and I like wearing this and my uniform as you know is a real one though I don''t like wearing those pants so I wear this, second my red eyes, those are just lenses don''t worry about them, I am not an alien or am I?" I was frozen, at her joke because at that moment, I could have believed her if she said she was a goddess, she laughed at my frozen face. "I am just joking and third my mansion is there I heard your boat and walked to take a look, you never know what you might see, maybe a murderer, a smuggler or a rapist." I sat down in my chair to take a breath and calmed myself down. "You okay?" She asked with a worried face on her face, she must have been really worried about me. "I am okay now, wait you said you were a collector right?" "Yes, I am." After hearing her answer, I instantly stood up land started to run to my boat. "Wait here I will get something." I left her there and arrived on my boat, I opened the fish case but I didn''t store anything there, I only put valuable and personal stuff in there just in case I would get robbed, I picked up the old flintlock pistol that I took when I ran away from home and gave it to her. "What do you think?" She started to examine the old flintlock pistol. "A probably 1731 model cavalry pistol, I can give you one million dollars right now for this what do you think?" "I am sorry but that pistol means a lot to me and my family." I declined, she looked surprised to hear an instant reply from me, she handed me the pistol back. "Okay, but I am a persistent woman, I heard you were giving fishing lessons right?" She asked. "Yes, I do." "Well, I can give you one thousand dollars per hour how about that?" This old woman''s surprises weren''t over yet, one thousand dollars were my two-week salary. "Sure thing, let''s start tomorrow then." And that was the first time I met her. ------ Months passed, we became friends and learned that she was the author of the "Triple Age" series, almost everyone in the world had one book of that series in their bookshelves, It was split into three series, first, one released was "The Golden Age" The Golden Age was about a fantastical world with magic, curses and other races, It was set in an alternative Napoleonic era, around 1800, the storyteller of the book was a young historian explaining everything that was good in that era. The second series was "The Normal Age" It was the same series but this time the storyteller was the main character, he was a person named "Alfred" He lived in the alternative Prussia that was in an alternative french empire control, he was a normal soldier but his sister was the leader of Prussia, he explained almost everything but had a weak spot for his sister. The third series was "The Darkest Age" This book was different, the storyteller and the main character of the book wasn''t human, the book talked about everything including every bad thing everyone did, such as genocides, war crimes and much more, The storyteller and the main character had a life in the story, the storyteller and the main character met both of the book''s storytellers and many thought this person was a monster, a psychopath, a ruthless person because of the things that person did and It was later revealed that this person was the sister of the second book''s storyteller, this plottwist was so big that it made international headlines.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. This explained many things, like her huge income, her uniform, and her red eyes, the sister looked exactly like her but younger, she was cosplaying as her character, that seemed weird to me but I didn''t think about it that much. And because of her I started to read her books, the first series''s views were optimistic and the storyteller thought this was their golden age, the second series''s storyteller thought this was one of the worst ages but because of his sister, he changed his opinion to a normal age after all no brother wanted to insult their sister and the third series just looked like It was written by the worst person in the world and it wrote about the world''s worst things but the third series was my favorite. And the new book of the darkest age was published, Marianna gifted one to me before the release and I read it but there was something bothering me, there was a general that opposed the sister, he was a lawful man and a family man so to stop opposing her, she kidnapped his spoiled son and forced the general to work with him and when she was done using him, she killed his son and him and cut them to pieces just because she wanted to have fun with the dead bodies, after all, she was one hell of a psychopath But at first this seemed normal to me but then I learned about that general''s name. "Thomas" It looked like an innocent name but my father had the same name, and surprisingly his personality and this general''s personality seemed to match but I never talked about my father to Marianna, maybe this was a coincidence but I wasn''t going to let that alone, so that day I called my home for the first time in ten years. After having a reunion talk with my mother, I learned that my father was searching for me and went missing two weeks ago, this rose my suspicions up and when I heard my father last called from this lake, I was going to do something but I wasn''t sure what to do so, that day I picked up my hunting pistol and picked up Marianna with my boat, we were alone fishing in the middle of the day and in the middle of the lake. "Hey Madam Marianna, I liked the general can you tell me more about him?" She put her rod down and turned to me with a smile on his face. "I knew you would like him, let me think¡­His father was an alcoholic, he used to beat him and his mother and when his mother passed, he joined the military academy because he had no attachments left to his father, after joining the military academy he quickly rose up the ranks and married a genius scientist, he had three sons and the oldest one was kidnapped, that was about it." Maybe It was from my survival instincts, maybe It was just pure luck, maybe It was my father''s soul, I sure as hell knew from the smile she had, she did something to my father and I was going to be the next one, I slowly walked to the fish box, that was where I hid my hunting pistol. "Hmm¡­I see so what about his father''s name?" "Wilhelm, just like his son''s name." That was the boiling point, I opened the fish box and I picked up my hunting gun and I almost turned around but I felt a sharp object stabbing my neck, It was a syringe. "Go to sleep¡­My dear Wilhelm." I couldn''t resist her and fainted. ---------- I woke up in a cold metal bed, a bright light was hurting my eyes, I was tired and sleepy, there were ropes tying me to the metal bed, but there was something else in front of me, It was like a screen. [Name: Wilhelm Rosellian] [Age:24] [Race: Human] [Status: Drugged] [Rank/Job: Experienced Fisherman] [Strength: 2] [Wisdom: 51] [Charisma: 53] [Vitality: 10] [Intelligence: 102] [Dexterity: 57] [Will: 66] [Luck: 9] [Agility: 13] [Magic Power: None] [General Level: Smart Monkey] I didn''t understand anything, I just wanted to get out of here but I couldn''t find the strength to rip the ropes, my mouth was open but I knew I was in her basement, so yelling for help, would only call her, I wanted to take a look around but this big blue screen was blocking my vision and then I heard her footsteps, they were heavy because of her thigh high boots. "You woke up? I am sure you must be confused." I tried to look at her but I couldn''t see her because of this shit screen. "Oh, the screen is bothering you, just say transparent." I didn''t want to do anything she wanted but I had no other choice. "Transparent!" I yelled at the same time hoping that someone would hear me but this was a mistake. It was dark but I was able to her hands, she was holding a bone saw and a knife, she started to walk to me and then I was finally able to see her expression, the most psychotic smile I have ever seen and at the same time she was blushing because she was aroused, but I knew this because I saw her screen. [Name: Julistia Marianna Schwerzt] [Age: 602] [Race: Immortal Human] [Status: Aroused] [Rank/Job: Great Author] [Strength: Max] [Wisdom: Max] [Charisma: Max] [Vitality: Max] [Intelligence: Max] [Dexterity: Max] [Will: Max] [Luck: Max] [Agility: Max] [Magic Power: Everything] [General Level: Goddess] "Oh, you saw my charts, how embarrassing." I was confused about everything, her race was Immortal Human, her age was 602, her magic power was everything and she had a general level of a goddess? All of them were impossible and thought this wasn''t real. "Bullshit, where is the projector?" She looked confused for a second and had a weird smile on her face like something went wrong. "W-What. Projector? What are you talking about?" "Fucking psychopath, I am not falling for your games or your delusions." Her awkward smile turned into an angry smile. "Psychopath? That part is true but the screen you are seeing is true as me." I couldn''t bring myself to believe her. "Bullshit! Immortality? Magic? All of them are delusions from your books, now tell me what you did to my father!" She backed away from the table, her face was pure white, she dropped her tools on the floor. "No, No! You have to believe me, I haven''t felt like this since I killed my brother please, just believe me!" I noticed that this psychopath was on the edge. Luckily, my father taught me some tricks to get along with them. "I will believe you but first you have to tell me what you did to my father." She was crying while smiling, she must have been so happy. "Yes!" She pulled out a trash bag under my metal bed and opened it. My father''s body parts were inside the trash bag, that was when I lost the control of myself, I forgot about his teachings and just went wild, I spouted insults, curses and everything that hurt her. "I am that sister and I will make you believe!" She raised her knife and stabbed my heart, I died in seconds and all I could think was revenge. ---------- I found myself covered in mud, I was lying on the ground with my face turned to the raining clouds, this looked like the afterlife for a second but then I heard voices coming my way, I could have escaped but I didn''t because I didn''t care about anything at that point, and then the voices see me. "Enemy!" They yell, they gather around me by the looks of their uniform they are Prussian soldiers. I look at them. "Who are you!" They point their rifles to me, I just want them to leave. "A Francian who escaped to join The Great Nation of Prussiania." They look at me, one of them offers his hand. "You sound like a Prussian and you look really bad, so I will believe you, welcome to Prussiania" [Name: Wilhelm Rosellian] [Age:24] [Race: Human] [Status: Tired] [Rank/Job: Private Prussian Soldier] [Strength: 21] [Wisdom: 51] [Charisma: 53] [Vitality: 19] [Intelligence: 102] [Dexterity: 57] [Will: 30] [Luck: 10] [Agility: 35] [Magic Power: None] [General Level: Sleepy Human] New Friends After talking them for a while I learned about them and their mission, their captain was a blonde, blue-eyed, Rein, the rest of them were privates like me and they were brothers, Will and Lorn, they looked like each other, they had brown hair and brown eyes. Their mission was a mission that was almost impossible to complete, we were going to save General Gregory von Hident he was kidnapped by Pols, General Gregory was an old man the age of eighty even though he was that old, he ran in the elections against her many times and almost won at his last try, he was the only big roadblock ahead of Marianna. Because of my luck, they had an extra uniform with them but It was a uniform with holes, this uniform was used by one of their comrades which was got killed in an ambush against the Polen, We set up a fire in the woods, we were almost crossing the border and this was our last meal, there were four of us including me, this seemed like an impossible mission because we had to save the general from an army camp, but these fellows decided to save him. As we were eating dinner from our containers, Rein noticed something moving in the woods. "Is that a goblin?" After hearing this, goblin started to run and the brothers dropped their food and started to chase the goblin, and they caught him, Will pulled the goblin from his leg, like a dead animal. "My great-grandfather used to hunt these and gain money from their ears, now they are almost extinct and the only adventurer guild left is in Bervin." Said, Rein. "Their ears are really expensive nowadays, so there are two ears. I think the ones who caught it should get the ears." Continued Rein. "Yeah I mean they deserve it," I said, both of them looked happy and yelled at the same time. "Yes!" We laughed at them and eat the goblin and it tasted like chicken but with salt on it, we were full and we were getting bored, none of us wanted to sleep in this forest so we started to play cards.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. "I won!" We played so much that, even I learned this weird card game, this was my fifth win and they were getting bored and sleepy, Lorn stood up. "Gonna pee." As he said that, a sniper shot was heard, three of us turned to the direction of the sound and when I turned around, I realized Lorn was lying on the ground with a bullet in his head, Will saw his dead brother and charged at the sniper with his bayonet. "Ahh!" Will yelled but this didn''t stop the next bullet, I pierced right through his heart, just missing my leg. "Get to cover!" Rein yelled we hid behind the trees. "We will rush in three, two, one." Rein started to run from the right and I started to run from the left, gunshots were focused on Rein, I arrived at the sniper''s post and saw the sniper, I jumped on him with my bayonet and killed him right there, It was my first time killing someone but this adrenaline in my body didn''t stop pumping because gunshots meant reinforcements, I started to turn to every sound around me and then I saw a figure coming out of the woods. I turned my rifle and saw Rein, shot in his stomach, he fell on the ground and I rushed to help him, I wanted to do something but It was already too late for him. "P-Please, t-take this to my mother." He handed me a pendant shaped like a sun, there was a photo of his family in there, he passed away while lying on my legs, the adrenaline in my body stopped and tears followed. After one day, I crossed the border and reached the Polen army camp, I started to spy on them, It wasn''t a big camp so this was a good sign, after burying their bodies I picked up everything that seemed useful including the goblin ears, there was a scope in Rein''s bag, I was using that to find the general''s location. And after hours of scouting, I found the general''s location, he was in the prisoner tent like the others ones, why did I think the general was going to be somewhere else¡­. Me, General And Plus One I waited for night to rescue the general and when the moon was on top, I went down to the camp, passing through their patrols were easy because all of them were inexperienced soldiers, after all, they just got their independence just because Prussiania lost the war against Francia, when I arrived at the prisoner tents, I forgot which tent the general was in, I started to check out the tents, almost all of the tents were unguarded, a handful of them were guarded and by the looks of it, those tents had woman in them, fuckers were raping the womans, Prussian womans, I felt a connection to Prussian people, I didn''t know why though. There were two tents left, and I realized something else, the woman tent''s had ranks in them, left to right the men in the tent''s ranks went up and the quality of the woman went up too, and when I reached the second tent, I realized the general wasn''t there but I also realized there were Pol Generals, This was my chance to be a hero but this was too risky and then I saw the woman they were raping. A young woman with soft looking golden hair, perfect blue eyes like gems, and a half ripped out villager clothing, but I knew I saw her somewhere and I knew where I saw her, I opened Rein''s pendant and saw her but again this didn''t change the fact rushing in was too risky there were five of them and I was alone, I needed to gain allies and the general seemed like a perfect candidate. I went to the last tent and saw the general being questioned by three soldiers, he was tied up to a chair, and his right leg was bleeding, I had to save him and save her too, I fixed my bayonet and rushed in caught two of them in surprise and killed them but the third one pointed his pistol at me, I was two meters away from him. "This is the end of the line!" As he said that, the general used his chair to knock him out, he was out of the ropes. "This old man isn''t going to die easily." He smiled and looked at me. "Let''s go soldier." He picked up a sword and used it as a cane. "S-Sir I need your help." He turned to me. "What?" "There is a woman I know in the left tent, help me save her." He looked at me with a proud face. "I thought you were a glory hunting bastard, turns out you are a glory hunting gentleman, let''s go." We arrived in the front of the tent, he looked at me with a confused expression. "Wait, you are not going to jump in with your bayonet right?" "I was going to," I responded, he grabbed my gun and aimed at an ammunition barrel, It was really far but he took the shot. It exploded and the officers went outside to check, while they were checking we went from the back side, she was lying on the ground like a body. "What are you looking at save her!" He said quietly and then when I picked up her, I turned around to see him shooting the officers from the back, he turned around. "Run!" He said we started to run and just as we reached the woods, he pulled a bomb from his pocket and lit it up, and threw it over the wall, It hit the ammunition storage, the whole camp was on fire. "Now, they can''t chase us." I didn''t understand where he was pulling these weapons but I sure as hell didn''t care about it. After running for a while, we arrived on the Prussiania border, we set up a camp and I started to treat general''s wound with my emergency kit left from Will, I wanted to know more about the woman that was lying on the ground with us, so I tried to do something. "Examine." As soon as I said that, the screen popped up.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. [New Option Added: Nationality] [Name: Ophelianna Markewitz ] [Age:19] [Race: Human] [Status: Traumatized And Very Tired] [Rank/Job: Villager] [Nationality: Pol] [Strength: 2] [Wisdom: 62] [Charisma: 212] [Vitality: 3] [Intelligence: 124] [Dexterity: 72] [Will: 0] [Luck: 51] [Agility: 2] [Magic Power: Normal Water Magic Power] [General Level: Near-Death Bee] Her stats were bad, her strength, vitality, will, and agility was very low, that must be because of her status, I needed to get her vitality up and while I was thinking about that the general talked. "Her numbers are low, give her some water that should raise her vitality." I gave her water, she was now awake but she was like a doll with empty eyes. [Name: Ophelianna Markewitz ] [Age:19] [Race: Human] [Status: Traumatized And Very Tired] [Rank/Job: Villager] [Nationality: Pol] [Strength: 5] [Wisdom: 62] [Charisma: 212] [Vitality: 10] [Intelligence: 124] [Dexterity: 72] [Will: 0] [Luck: 51] [Agility: 5] [Magic Power: Normal Water Magic Power] [General Level: Very Weak Bee] Her strength, agility, and vitality rose up and her general level changed, that was a good sign, I looked at the general to see his stats. [Name: Gregory von Hindent ] [Age:80] [Race: Human] [Status: Lightly Wounded] [Rank/Job: Prussian Major General] [Nationality: Prussian] [Strength: 43] [Wisdom: 102] [Charisma: 132] [Vitality: 50] [Intelligence: 152] [Dexterity: 32] [Will: 90] [Luck: 30] [Agility: 50] [Magic Power: Lost Fire Magic] [General Level: Old General] "How are my stats?" He looked to me. "Good?" He laughed at my confused answer, "Your nationality says you are Prussian and you don''t even know the average Prussian stats?" "Sorry I don''t." "Now, kid average Prussian status is around thirty, If I have anything lower than thirty tell me though vitality should be around sixty for a normal healthy person." "No, you don''t though your luck is thirty and your vitality is fifty" He turned to the fire, he was cold and tired. "Well getting old lowers everything only increases Wisdom or Intelligence and I am wounded so that lowers my vitality." After learning about the average stats I opened up my stats screen again. [Your Stats Have Been Upgraded Due To Your Acts.] [Killed Three People, Carried A Woman And Lost Comrades] [Effects: Strength Increased Normally, Vitality Increased Hugely, Will Increased Hugely, Wisdom Increased By One, Intelligence Increased By One, Charisma Increased Lowly, Agility Increased Lowly, Dexterity Increased By One] [Name: Wilhelm Rosellian] [Age:24] [Race: Human] [Status: Tired] [Rank/Job: Private Prussian Soldier] [Strength: 31] [Wisdom: 52] [Charisma: 62] [Vitality: 79] [Intelligence: 103] [Dexterity: 59] [Will: 62] [Luck: 10] [Agility: 42] [Magic Power: None] [General Level: Smart Soldier] "My stats increased." He had a smile on his face. "Of course they will, you are still twenty-four and that was a hell of a rescue operation, now I have to meet my army before they get ambushed by the Pols," I remembered about the second army massacre, they were ambushed in a valley because of a Francian officer that led them there It was a trap to get rid of the second army and weaken the Prussian Army, one thousand men were killed with this the first army under Marianna became the strongest army and no army was able to challenge its power again.