《A Legend Reborn》
Chapter 0-Prologue
¡°Ahhhhhhh¡± I sighed in relief. Being on vacation was the best thing ever!
WAS! I hate school! Why in Hell should I go to such a crappy place every day?!
I got out of the bathtub feeling more refreshed after the shock I got after discovering YESTERDAY was the last day of vacation! What about my mental preparation? My ego boost and my self-esteem? And more importantly my feelings?!
¡°Ah¡Whatever¡¡± I looked to the mirror ¡°Damn boy, that workout between videogames were worth it!¡±
I was¡ referring to my dear HANDSOME self, of course. I have long black hair to my waist (thanks to my horri*COUGH*adorable big sister (who isn¡ät a pervert in any way possible) who refrained me from cutting it since I was 10 because it was cute and soft, so soft that my sister says that any girl would be envious of my hair¡..yeah¡. got to admit though I look FABULOUS!) I have blue eyes and medium size lips, my nose is normal and my teenage beard is starting to re-appear on my chin. I have a medium size body frame though I was 1,70 m (5'' 7" inches) My muscles were well developed I also had the opportunity of developing by boxing skills (I was national champion when I was a kid and I also had fencing practice for five years) during my waiting for the LoL 20 minutes penalty time to be over. If it wasn¡ät for my developed male body and my ¡°son¡± down there, a person could say that I was the most beautiful girl ever! And that person would be given a massive punch to the nose¡
So you could say I was what people call it a trap¡
¡°MORGAN!!!¡± God in Heaven! My heart skipped a beat! It was mom¡ ¡°Get DOWN here IMMEDIATELY for breakfast!!!! You are going to be LATE if you don¡ät come down NOW!¡±
I quickly got dressed and started to run down the stairs and entering the kitchen when suddenly I got jumped by my shotacon of a sister.
¡°Oh! Morgan you look so cute today! Why don¡ät you give a good morning kiss to your big sister?¡± she said making a cute face surrounding me with her delicate arms.
The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.¡°*AHH*¡± No I won¡ät be deceived by her looks¡No¡ resist¡. Maybe just a tiny kiss¡NO NO HELL NO! NOT TODAY! I started to push her off with all my might but she doesn¡ät budge! How is she so strong!?
My mom finally noticed my annoyed and worried self and said: ¡°Annabelle leave your brother alone and come help me.¡±
She made a grumpy face but we both knew our mother well so it was better to do her biddings.
She let me in peace and went to help my mother who was currently washing the dishes. I went to the kitchen table and joined my little sister who was watching a reality show on the TV. My sister noticing my presence commented: ¡°You look decent for once¡¡±
¡°Good Morning to you to Victoria¡¡± I said while my pancakes where being put in front of me by my mom.
¡°Ugh! Don¡ät say my full name idiot!¡± She said. What did I do to deserve this? One girl loves me too much and the other hates me too much! But the hatred is mutual. What? We are twins¡ Not that necessarily means that we have to hate each other but there was always an weird air of mutual competition surrounding us.
For a few (rare) moments of silence in the household I noticed my moms new haircut. Where did she found the time between today and yesterday to do it? Oh wait didn¡¯t I stayed in my room for the entire day? Reading light novels and manga while playing my games, only coming out for lunch? She probably cut it in the afternoon. Before I was able to make a comment she turns in my direction, while speaking to me and Victoria:
¡°You two need to go or you are going to be late to your first day of school!¡±
I quickly finish my pancakes and me and my sister ran to the hallway to get our bag packs previously prepared by my mother.
¡°BYE MOM¡± We both yelled in unison before closing the main door and got off to schooll.
If I knew what I know now I would spend the time to complement my mother and give my sister the kiss she wanted¡
Chapter 1-Reborn
Where am I?
I tried to open my eyes hoping to see something¡. But you probably can guess what I saw¡ yup! Pure darkness EVERYWHERE!
Why am I here?
I tried to do everything but nothing worked, nothing could disperse the creepy and empty blackness surrounding me¡ Then a sudden realization hit me!
WHY AM I POWERLESS?
Where are my god powers? Why can¡ät I use them? Hmm¡ In deep thought I started to investigate my mana pool inside my soul¡ Yes¡ It is greatly diminished, but still slightly big to a normal human¡ What about my ki? The same, huh?
Hmmm, I started to look around, it seems I can¡ät do anything¡
And time passed¡Or at least I think so¡It seemed like ages though, I was afraid that I¡äd lose my mind! I even started to sing! After that I started to recite everything I learned from my life as a god (you would be amazed how my memory is so perfect!) and I started reciting poems¡
¡°OH! Avley the Freed
In the battlefield!
Killing anyone with a sword!
Until he met a galloping horde,
That made him bleed¡
To the CORE!!¡±
God!(me)One thing I can¡ät remember is how many poems I¡äve recited so far¡
Boring¡This is boring¡.B.O.R.I.N.G! BOOORIIING!
I started to feel sore so I tried to stretch my limbs only to touch what it seem to be a barrier, of some kind¡Weird, has it always been so cramp up in here?
Hm? Wait¡.? WHAT? Since WHEN do I have limbs?!?
To the sudden revelation I tried to open my eyes again¡
Okay¡ this is¡definitely weird¡ this is no longer that dark space! There is LIGHT!... at least a red-ish light¡ I immediately started to observe my surroundings. The barrier seemed strange, there are red lines all over it making an intricate design¡ Hm? They.. seem to be pulsing. Hm (WR:He does that a lot, it means that his processing information)
Then I proceeded to see myself. Everything is small, my arms my legs, it looks like I¡äm humanoid, but I do have a weird tube in my belly connecting with the bar¡WAIT¡ isn¡ät that an umbilical cord!?!?
I`M A BABY?!?!?!WTF?!?!?!?Wait¡does that mean¡.I DIED?!?!?!
I CAN¡äT REMEMBER AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried screaming because of the amount of pain in my head as something started to push me out of the womb.
I heard people screaming and yelling while I got out. I opened my eyes again and I saw an old woman around sixty holding me with an expression of disbelieve and horror¡what? Is there something in my face?
A man around forty years old joined the woman in disbelief. The man who I presumed was my father started yelling gibberish with some recognizable words¡ Chaos started to surround me as some female maids (whose existence I ignored until now) started to run out of the room. The man started to yell to a woman (my mother most likely) who was lying in a bed with a relieved face (now becoming a face of confusion and fear).
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The old woman walked slowly with a solemn expression giving me to my mother. My mother inexpicably started to cry with a face of pure pain¡
What? What is it?
My dad reappear in my eyesight, his clothes were those of an above class person could afford. A coat of arms was sewed in his right arm and in his torso above his heart. A shield with a sword perpendicular and a basilisk in form of an S? Doesn¡ät ring any bells¡
Suddenly another thing appeared which made me almost jump out of my mother¡¯s arms, a dagger! SHIT! WTF? There was not much I could do. (Only scream like a wee-little baby¡ oh wait¡ I am a baby¡)
My father realizing he was scaring me quickly move his dagger and carefully started cutting something¡
White thread started to cloud my vision¡ hair¡.
White was my natural hair colour since I became a god but there are mortals who have white hair, signifying they belong to my church.
During my session with my hairdresser I began to think¡
The language they were speaking sounded very familiar with Low Valerian a sub-tongue of a gigantic empire made by me and the other six gods. A noble speaking High and Low Valerian wasn¡ät rare but one speaking Low Valerian in his daily basis, inside his home was a thing almost unheard of.
But the sub-language seemed to evolve containing other words and verbs I could not grasp yet.
How long have I been in that dark space?
Considering that dark space was not my mother¡¯s womb already.
No, something tells me that is not it¡.
The panic in the room when the old woman notice my white hair tells me that white hair is no longer normal¡HECK! It seems white hair is now a bad thing! Hum¡ The entire Valerian Race had white hair, because of their deep respect and devotion to me, sooooo¡.. What happened to them? Preoccupation started to invade my heart¡
WHAT HAPPEN TO MY PEOPLE?!?!?!
I tried to calm down whatever happened I would soon find out.
Remember. Remember. Nothing only a headache.
The Dragon riders, the white invaders, the people of Ayers, MY people¡
- Killing Intent Aura raised to Level 15
Killing Intent started to burst out of me without control. My new parents terriefied faces were amuzing. For my skill to raise so quickly and so high...
Humpf.Don¡ät underestimate a (ex) god¡äs fury!
If I am reincarnated whatever reason for it will be explained by me or someone else!
But fuck it if I am a mortal again might as well enjoy it...
So let¡äs start the fun shall we?
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Hi guys! Sorry for the very short background chapter today.... School came and i had to brace myself for it while I¡äm doing another novel which im going to release after im finished with the first volume.....so.... IM SORRY PLS DONT KILL ME!!!!!!!!!! WAHWAHWAH * sound of continuous crying* PS: Im also doing a pole cause i remember not putting Ayers current race so im going to give you guys the decision of doing so. LOVE YOU ALL!!! ( PS OF THE PS: i am a noob writer so i have question for the senpais or readers reading this: How does one do those blue boxes that other LN do for the stats? Please I need ur help!)
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Lord Morgan Ayers born in the year 1998 B.A. (Before Apocalypse) somewhere in the Old Continent in the Northwest part of------ (impossible to read) ------- In the year 2 A.A. (After Apocalypse) became widely known from his beyond immense power and battle prowess------(impossible to read)------- Tough his youth his mind was already prepared for the everyday battles against the monster hordes---------(impossible to read)----------- In year number 3, at the age of seventeen, killed the Human Resistance Army leader through a fair fight, gaining control over Humanity, he then------(impossible to read)------- able to convince the other seven race leaders ------(impossible to read)------- a magical treaty known as the Champions Laws------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- A Champion for each race new or old: The Humans, The Elves, The Dwarves, The Beastmen, The Dragons, The Angels, the Fairies and the Demons each representing the five elements: Metal, Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. The other elements------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- ------(impossible to read)------- each becoming a god of each element. Now a full fledge religion is spreading through the world known as the 7 God-Heroes Church. ------(impossible to read)------- A defragmentation of the church because of inner and exterior motives and reasons, the one most important being------(impossible to read)------- a church------(impossible to read)-------promoting racism and superiority of race------(impossible to read)-------downfall------(impossible to read)------- God Ayers Church¡------(end of page because of a burn mark in it, other visual attempts of destroying the magical document are present as well) -------
Chapter 2-A revelation and a dream of the past
Hi guys I¡äM BACK! And with a world map! The reason I¡äm not showing this during the narrative is because the people of this New Earth or Treasis don¡ät have the means to have a full world map. Those that shall appear during the story would look like those 1700¡äs types of map with some inconsistencies in them. The name of the MC shall be decide by YOU! Nox means night in latin while Valaar means great one in Valerian there for the name Valerian meaning great people (Val- great and Rian-people)
Okay, okay, maybe I was kinda creepy, maybe I scared my new parents a little too much, maybe I overreacted, I mean the country I live in can simply be at war with them¡I dunno, don¡ät look at me! I may be a overprotective parent to my people but know that everything I do is because I love them so SHUT UP!
Now to the current situation. I am a cute little baby sitting in the floor with toys all over the place. But instead of playing with them I am hearing my parent¡¯s conversation.
My mother is beautiful and when I mean beautiful I mean the kind of beauty that a king would sell his country for. She has long silky blonde hair with emerald eyes and pointy ears. An elf basically¡ Medium lips with lipstick and a perfect nose on top of it, and a figure (and boobies! Wait am I allowed to say the b word?) that puts the goddess of beauty to shame, she was a maiden worth dying for.
The man that seems to be my father looks perfectly normal by that he his a normal bishounen human with muscles. Brown military stilled hair and brown eyes. Nothing too remarkable¡ Damn new dad how the fuck were you able to win a wife like that?!?
Because of the sudden idiotic release of killing intent making it raise from what I assume to be level one to level 15 out of nowhere my parents seemed wary of me. But oh well it¡äs been a month since my birth and I was finally able to understand the language! Okay so let us be a normal baby and to pretend to play with the toys while eavesdropping on my parents:
¡°¡truly sad. To think that the heir to the Cladmin House would be born a boy and a Valerian at that¡We need to keep this information a secret. When he reaches the age of six to present the boy to Haren`s high society I bet, if they see him as he his, they would kill the boy right there an then. *sigh* It would not matter even if he is a prince.¡±-Said my father looking out of the window.
¡°Oh dear! Do not speak about such things¡ We shall try again to see if another boy is born that way we can give the throne to him!¡±-Said my mother with a look of concern in her face, sitting on a couch near me.
"The Ruling House Of Cladmin is pure blooded since the establishment of the Independent City Of Cladmin and then our country! 475 years ago!! (Oh god don¡ät scream!) I have NO idea how the Valerian blood came from! I AM NOT THE ONE WITH THE VALERIAN DESCENDANCE NEITHER ARE YOU SO WHERE DID IT CAME FROM CASSANDRA? WHERE DID IT CAME FROM? ¡°(oh crap he snapped)
My mother did not answer and only looked the other way. Huh¡ awkward¡ so the man next to me isn¡ät my father? Huh! Mother what¡äs happening? Before I could process this info, my not-father approach my mother in fury and grabbed her face making her look in his eyes.
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¡°Didn¡ät I promised that you could keep our son here under my wing until he comes of age? So just answer me love nothing will happen, c¡ämon now just tell me: WHO IS THE FATHER?¡±
¡°MAID!¡± and out of nowhere the old nanny appeared busting through the door ¡°Take my son to his room see that he sleeps I need to have a conversation with my husband¡±
The old maid proceeded to grab me gently and leave the room. No wait I want to hear the conversation! No! Let me go you old hag! (Not that I can say I¡äm young) Nope! I struggle a little when I suddenly feel a terrifying aura from the room I was previously in.
Okay¡Never mind then!
Let¡äs just go to bed shall we?
The old lady had an amazing voice that resounded in my almost empty room. For a mortal to have such voice would certainly be a gift from above. She made my cradle rock gently while singing songs. Some I recognized, one of them was the valerian war anthem which I tried to hum to it, others were new for me. Nevertheless the singing worked as sleep and tiredness conquered me.
ZZZZzzz¡
Dreams. I rarely dreamed in my old life. I mostly had nightmares back then. After I became a deity dreams were often premonitions of the future or small things that came and go almost unnoticed.
But this¡ is neither a dream or nightmare.
There I was on top of a hill, bathed by a meaningfull sunrise, surrounded by my blood brothers and sisters. The other 7 heroes now gods that ruled Creation stood beautifully watching the thousands that prostrated before us. I in the other hand carefully watched the other gods reactions.
Superiority. A sense of superiority and content surrounded them.
I sighed inwardly maintaining my famous emotionless face, I was about to change my view when my beautiful love turned to me. Tamriel, looked to me, she smiled and then her eyes passed to the floor I stood on. Her head lowered making a small bow to me. I was about to do the same to her when Grand did the same to me. Then Alduin did the same. As well as Mikael, Falder and Alumir. Oldar looked hesitant at first but he did the same.
My brothers and sisters bowing to me. And in unison voice they said:
¡°All Haill Ayers! God of Power and Strategy! OUR KING!¡±
The mortals that were already prostrated lowered even more. They yelled:
¡°ALL HAILL THE GODS! GLORY TO THEM!!!¡±
It would seem like a start of an age of peace for all.
But the dream is a dream and we always wake up from it eventually.
Chapter 3-Failed training and the City from above
Hi! I am soooooooooooo sorry for the delay. I was going to gice u guys this chapter on the 5th day of October but my cat died, I still haven¡ät quite dealt with it yet, and school kept me busy. Btw dont expect a new chapter until at least Halloween!
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Name: Nox Cladmin [Morgan Ayers]
Race: LOCKED
Age: 1 month and 3 days
Gender: Neutral
Level: 1
Class/Job: NG
Titles: Godslayer [hidden]; Fallen God King [hidden]; Fallen God of Power and Strategy [hidden]; Emotionless Puppeteer; Shapeshifter; Reborn[hidden]; Witch King; Friend of the Elves; Legendary Skyforger [hidden]; First Of Many;
Health:100 (+1700)
Mana:10000 (+104200)
Strength: 1 (+1700)
Speed: 1 (+1700)
Luck: 120 (+1875)
Intelligence: 3759 (+6775)
Wisdom: 3298 (+4775)
Dexterity: 1 (+1700)
Agility: 1 (+1700)
Charm: 20 (+1760)
Resistance: 1 (+1700)
Endurance: 1 (+1700)
Infamy/fame: 0 (Neutral)
_AFFINITYS/ATRIBUTES_
Wind: 100% (max out until Level 100)
Fire: 70%
Earth: 50%
Nature: 100% (max out until Level 100)
Lightning: 100% (max out until Level 100)
Metal: 70%
Ice: 50%
Water:50%
Light: 100% (max out until Level 100)
Darkness: 100% (max out until Level 100)
Void: 60%
_PASSIVE SKILLS_
Partial Immortality- No Level
Poison Immunity- Level 1
Cold Headed- Level 1
Ruler of Elements- Level 50
_ACTIVE SKILLS_
Killing Intent Aura- Level 15
_TITLES_
GODSLAYER [HIDDEN]: All stats given 950 points; Partial Immortality skill gained: you will not die of old age nor from normal or enchanted mortal weapons diverging from F (lowest class) to SS class (highest mortal class). You will be killed with weapons above SS or other means such as poison or blood lost.
FALLEN GOD KING [HIDDEN]: Intelligence given 1500 stat points; Wisdom given 1500 stat points; Mana given 1500 stat points; Unlocked Ruler of Elements skill: all elements attributes/affinities given to user and risen to 10% each 10 levels of this skill; Ruler of Elements skill level risen to 50;
FALLEN GOD OF POWER AND STRATEGY [HIDDEN]: Mana given 1000 stat points; Intelligence given 1000 stat points; Wisdom given 1000 stat points; All other stats are given 500 stat points;
EMONTIONLESS PUPETEER: All stats given 100 stat points; Given Cold Headed skill: all extreme emotions are repressed to a certain point, your face is like a mask and your true self hides beneath.
REBORN [HIDDEN]: Luck given 100 stat points; Charm given 10 stat points;
WITCH KING [HIDDEN]: You are the King of Magic there is nothing you do not know about it and you control it as an infinite part of your being; Mana given 100000 stat points; Intelligence given 1500 stat points; Wisdom given 1500 stat points;
FRIEND OF THE ELVES: Nature affinity risen to 50%; Wind affinity risen to 50%; Charm given 50 stat points; Poison Immunity skill given;
LEGENDARY SKYFORGER [HIDDEN]: You became the ultimate master of smithing and craftsmanship; All stats given 25 stat points. Metal affinity increased 25%; Strength given 250 stat points;
FIRST OF MANY: you are the first of your race to be born and many will bow before your power and might; all stats given 50 stat points;
SHAPESHIFTER: in your past life you change into many different forms so now you can do the same in this new life.
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MOM I BROKE THE GAME AGAIN! Huh¡ no MOM I FOUND A GLITCH! Huh also no. MOM I HACKED THE SYSTEM!
Wait a minute! Hold on! Why is my race locked? AND WHY THE FUCK IS MY GENDER NEUTRAL!
Don¡ät tell me the system looked at me and was mad because I was a trap?
Oh well¡ And forget training! I am the most powerful Level 1 ever! Now it seems I¡äve got an awesome skill named Shapeshifter so it is time for me to use it.
I stared through the wooden bars of my crib to see something that I could use to get out.
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Then I noticed that the west window of my circular room was left open.
I quickly imagined a raven and transformed into one in a blink of an eye.
I flew of my room to see it was located in as the fourth floor of a massive circular tower.
Seeing a fifth floor I landed on the overhang and looked inside of the window.
It was an empty attic. Convenient!
I think I¡äm going to use this for my studying and hiding fufufu.
I then headed to the sky as high as I could and proceeded to look down to the city below.
For what I could perceive after a tour and several other satellite views of the area, the city was divided in 12 Districts. To the North was the 2o District, or Noble District, full of massive houses and big gardens with fountains and decorations. There weren¡ät many people on the street as nobles took coaches and carriages to locations. As for those who walked usually headed to the Botanical Garden in the Northeast corner of the District and were majorly young and old couples. There was also a large amount of coffee shops and luxurious restaurants. There was a Large General Goods Store in the southeast corner with everything ranging from a toy to a magical object and some libraries who were the less visited shops.
The third district was the Guilds District. As the name suggests that was the place where the Guilds that governed the Adventurers had headquarters. The Warrior Guild, Merchants Guild, Arts and Crafts Guild, Magic Guild, the Companions Guild and The Templar Knights Guilds. The last one was the most powerful and influential one having a massive pantheon looking building in the centre of the district. There were some rogue guilds being the most secretive and famous the Assassins Guild and The Thieves Guild who were rumoured to have taken headquarters there as well. Besides the Guilds there were a gigantic amount of shops selling everything an adventurer needs and there were also many inns to accommodate the thousands of adventurers coming and going.
Now to the fourth district that was exactly the same as the second District with only having one difference: the gardens and houses were more luxurious and less old looking. The 4th was the place where the New Rich and recent noble houses lived for example the Minister of Commerce and his family.
The 5th was exclusively farms and had a 12 meter wall surrounding it. The starvation, long ago, caused by war and the eventual siege of the city led to the creation of the 5th. There were barns full of cattle and others full of cereal, meat and fish.
The 6th District is the second oldest district being both my family name and the city¡¯s name derived from its previous village name: Cladmin which means Blackwater. So the 6th was the harbour. Boats, ships and mans-of-war (WR: if u don¡¯t know what it means here is the link to improve your knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-of-war ) as well as trading ships and even small blimps, the size of a bus, landing in high plates of metal with stairs and weight elevators going to the ground or into warehouses.
The 7th District was the Merchant District, as you can imagine was full of, at least, three story houses being the third the home of the owner and his family. It was the smallest district of the city.
The 8th was the Slums District and was the poorest of all of them. But things seem to be turning around as some houses looked brand new. So curious as I am I went to the nearest tavern to discover why.
So after a while I finally understood what was going on.
It seems that the Minister of Arts, the Minister of Commerce, the Capital Minister and the Minister of Coin created a revitalizing plan called the Regeneration Project which was supported by both the people and the nobles by renovating old and decrepit buildings, monuments and statues across the capital.
The Project however now concentrated on the Slums so by giving the people a new and btter lifestyle and a good home the crime/murder rate would decline. With this the crime/murder rate did indeed decline and brought more support to the Crown and the Royal Family.
The 9th and the 10th were the middle class home which were divided by the main road to the centre of the capital and the other Districts.
Now before moving on to the Districts that are located outside of the walls of the capital, you may be wondering why I passed the 1st is because this District was were I live: the Citadel! A massive marble white castle with towers and landing pads for blimps! It was also were both the Cladmin National Army Headquarters, the City Guards Headquarters and the Dawn Brigade Main Headquarters resided. The Dawn Brigade I feel it needs some explaining. They are the guards that protect the lands and forests that are not under the capital, or any other of the city, jurisdiction.
So to the Districts beyond the walls¡ Outside the city were located many farms and small forests with very small congregations of houses and barns here and there. Everything inside of a circular radius of 20 km (12.45 miles) of the capital belonged to the 12th District.
The 11th District was a graveyard, in a hill southwest of the city, for the common people that was surrounded by a 15 meter wall to prevent grave robbers and necromancers from reaching the tombs.
The geography of the city was strange though as it was in the middle of a medium size man-made lake, and completely circular! Hum it is most likely a way to prevent a new siege to the city and better protect the capital from monster raids.
Hugh SHIT! I shouldn¡ät be here! I am a cute little baby not a raven! I must go home if they even see me not on the crib, heads will roll!
Chapter 4- Before the Party_part 1_
Hi guys! I didn¡ät post this yesterday cause irl halloween stuff that wasn¡ät planned happened and today was the Day of The Dead and I had to go pay homage to my family.
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A weird dream that is what I describe this moment.
The darkness that surrounds me is like a gas moving swiftly stopping me from seeing anything more than this ball made from it.
Suddenly a voice came like a distant memory, unclear at first but familiar.
It was singing an old song in the tongue of the gods, one that I didn¡ät heard since the death of Alduin during the Calamity Event.
From lands and worlds away a man will come
whose voice will destroy worlds and universes will tremble.
A powerful voice that will reign in silence in a throne made of stars.
He will stand above all.
But in that stillness a word is to hang in the air.
A word not uttered. WAR.
With is voice even the strongest realm will kneel.
And worlds will burn in a sacred flame
As his army will fight in a holy war, bound to consume all.
Enemies won¡ät stand long in his path
And many will fade like dust from the burning light
From muscles to skin and bones
Shall lay, broken.
Hell will bow, Heaven shall crumble, nothing can stop him.
Is this punishment? To hear this song now? I looked around no one. The song continued bringing memories I wished never to remember. ¡°No no no no no no no no I didn¡ät¡ I¡STOP IT!¡± By then I was already banging the dark ball hoping to somehow stop the song. ¡°This voice¡ no Elin¡no¡stop¡± The darkness opened revealing a woman in noble posture looking at me with mercy. Black and long hair and black eyes with red irises. A dress of white silk covered her nude body.
¡°..stop¡¡±
She smilled.
The Conqueror shall start a new age of peace
Forged from the fallen blood of friends and foes.
Prosperity and happiness will spread all over
With the Burning Light of the new gods shinning
She kneel in front of me putting her index finger under my chin and approached her face very near me and whispered:
From Treasis where the high beings are
She got closer and moved to my ear:
Under the flag of the Charred Council.
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¡°Ah HUH¡± I woke up gasping for air as I could not breathe properly. My heart was racing and I was covered in sweat. I sat in my bed still panicking trying not to make a sound. I looked into the window nearest to me to see the sun rise. ¨CIt is just a dream- I thought.
I got up and started thinking ¨CA dream, yes, but why to appear now? It has been six years since my rebirth. Six years since my last dream occurred. Today is the day I am going to be presented to society as heir to the throne. Is it because I¡äm nervous?- I walked as silently as possible to the bowl filled with water and splashed my face with water. Suddenly I hear a voice coming from behind the door of my room:
¡°My Lord Nox! It is time to wake up! Your mother Lady Cassandra wants to see you before breakfast!¡±
¡°Yes Miss Farah! I¡äm going¡±
I looked myself in the mirror before anything else. I was six years old, my long hair was bleached black and my irises were red. My muscles were well developed for a kid my age and my maturity was way above them. The entire capital regarded me as a genius child, by the age of 11 months I started speaking fluently and by age 1 and 2 months I already knew how to read and write. By age 3 I already dealt with highly difficult math problems, spoke 5 languages and already helped my mother govern the kingdom by advising her during the public tribunal session where my mother was presented with cases from all types of people.
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Of course I ain¡ät gonna tell them that is all because I am reincarnated and I kept most of my memories. After a quick choice on the wardrobe I was wearing black boots (modified by me to have metal behind the leather and a retractable knife on both my feet) black underwear with black pants with two hidden pockets both hiding a small throwing knife. A white shirt and a red ribbon on my collar. A black leather overcoat that reaches halfway to my feet with way too many knife hiding places. I attached sword half my size to my black leather belt. My entire clothing was upgraded with magic to be hard to cut, as hard as a metal armour. Of course with my skill I could defend from everything but it would be hard to explain why a dagger couldn¡ät cut my chest¡
Now, why so many knifes? Well after rumours about my geniality started spreading through out the continent some kingdoms and empires started to already regard me as possible future threat so they sent assassins to my tower. Let¡äs just say it was hard to remove the red out my walls.
I got out of my room with incredible speed going down the tower stairs. I can¡ät afford to be late with mother she is going to punish me if get late.
Finally I got to the last floor of the tower, where a great reinforced iron door stood. Behind that door was a bridge made of beautiful white marble with blue, black and red decorations that I choosed, that separated the tower from the rest of the citadel.
Six butlers and six maids displayed in a ritual manner, man in the right, woman in the left, all of them sons and daughters of senior servants of the citadel, were waiting for me outside and in the precise moment I put my right foot in the bridge an unison and courteous greetings from them.
¡°Good Morning Lord Nox!¡± all of them bowing in deep respect.
One of the butlers, the one that had short military brown hair and brown eyes and very tall with a goat beard, approached me and said.
¡°Good Morning, sir!¡±
¡°Good morning everybody! Good morning Jafar!¡±
¡°As Miss Farah already told you the news?¡±
¡°Hum?¡± I said as the small battalion of maids and butlers entered the door behind me all bowing at my sight. After that I quickly started walking to the reinforced iron door on the other side of the bridge. ¡° What news?¡±
¡°As my lord not been informed?¡±
¡°Of what? That my mother wants to see me ?¡±
¡°No, my lord, not that.¡±
Jafar started to slightly run in front of me to open the door. I quickly passed the open door entering the renascence style palace/fort that is the citadel.
"Then?¡±
¡°It seems we have a special guest arriving at the party, my lord, two ladies!¡±
¡°Who? There¡¯s going to be dozens of special guests at the party. Who cares for two more?¡±
¡°Oh! But my lord this one knowns that this ladies aren¡ät normal!¡±
I raised my eyebrow.
¡°This ladies are the oldest daughters of Count Vladimir, the High Demon!¡±
¡°I don¡ät want to be mean but WHO cares!¡±
He sighed as we turned left then right and we entered a secret passage behind a painting of an ancestor.
¡°They are half bloods! They are twins and both are geniuses beyond belief! And your mother wants YOU, my lord, to marry one of them!¡±
¡°Wha¡ my¡ excuse me what?¡±
We got out of the dark passage hidden behind a statue and stopped in the middle of a grand hall, a few feet from a massive door that led to the throne room.
¡°Your mother Lady Cassandra wants you to choose one of them and marry her!¡±
I sighed and unfortunately I let escape a cold and serious voice come out of my mouth totally unlike a six-year old child.
¡°Tell me everything you know Jafar...¡±
¡°They are twins and they are very beautiful and intelligent and look exactly equal to one another. With an exeption, one, Lady Kallisto has pure white hair, from her father while the other Lady Ariadne has black obsidian hair from her mother!¡±
¡°Both beautiful and both equal? This is going to be difficult¡¡±
¡°Not only that but they exceed their magical expectations in Light, Darkness and Ice magic! But they are also known to be very silent only saying a word or two at the same time!¡±
¡°You probably heard that from rumours, they are usually exaggerated. I am going in the throne room wait here while I attend with dear mother. If anything happens tell me and keep me posted through the telepathy skill.¡±
¡°Yes, of course, my lord¡±
Chapter 5- Before the Party_part 2_
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I stepped into the throne room.
A dozen meters away from me was my mother sat in a great throne made of stone on top of a dozen stairs. Behind her were five great cathedral style windows. The throne room was retangular and symmetrical, the ceiling was made from enchanted wood, resistant to normal fire and aging, from there dangled several banners with the family crest in them. I sighed silently while the guards disposed in a ordeal manner across the room bowed to me when I quickly passed in front of me. The red carpet that I walked on made my steps silent despite the normal echo that normally exists in a massive room like this one.By my mother¡äs side was my uncle Abraxas, a Level A veteran warrior and Level C mage with high afinity to Light magic, a powerfull tank who goes head on to battle, a thick headed idiot though. One of those rare people that could hold mana and ki inside his body. Wearing his full dwarve armour with his sword in his back he looked ready for war.
¡°Mother what do you wish of me?¡±
My dear mother looked down at me and said:
¡°I wish you, first of all, a happy birthday, my son!¡±
¡°Happy birthday dear nephew!¡± My uncle said making a big grin.
¡°Yes, yes.Whatever. Both of you are wasting my precious time. By now I would be at the Library. You have 5 minutes to tell me whatever you want. Then I¡äm out I still want to go talk with the old fart at the Labs before the party.¡±
Both my uncle and my mother sighed very loudly facepalming.
¡°Where did my adorable son go?Ha what I¡äm I talking about you were adorable for the first ten seconds then you became this weird augmented version of your grandad.¡±
¡°4 minutes and 32 seconds¡±
Facepalm again.
¡°Straight to the point then. Two girls are coming today, I want you to choose one to marry.¡±
Declined! That is what I¡äm supposed to say but the girls are the Daughters of Count Vladmir and if I marry one of them our position as an extreme neutral country with connections to all races and mainly being a commercial small country the marriage would strengthen our ties with the demons preventing from them attacking us and for them to have acess to our non-matched commercial and naval power. My mother was half elf as my grandmother is an elf while my grandad was a half-breed (?).
Their marriage strengthen the ties with the elfs while before that my greatgrandmother was a beastwoman and my grandmother before that was a draconic being and before that one of my ancestors was a dwarve and before that was a male elf while his wife was an half-draconic being daughter of this country¡äs founder who was a demigod hero that married a draconic being.
Yup I already know my full family tree¡
Blame Farah my old nanny¡
Mother might want to finnaly join demon blood into the family while estabilizing our position in the continent as full fledged world power.
¡°Fine, whatever as long as it doesn¡ät interfere with my researches¡¡±
My mother raised an eyebrow and said:
¡°Very well I also want you to join an academy in the Faultcram Empire. The Drasmitian Royal Academy as already offer you a place amongst his students and¡¡±
¡°DENIED! REFUSED!¡± I intercept her right there and then ¡°I don¡¯t need an a academy to teach me and I bet the old man knows more than any of the teachers they have plus here I already have acess to forbidden knowledge to..¡±
¡°The Drasmitian Royal Academy as already accepted to show their entire Library and forbidden records to you.¡±
¡°I`ll DO IT!¡±
¡°Very well then¡±
¡°Then if you don¡ät have anything else to discust I¡äm going to the Labs to speak with grandfather.¡±
I turned around and took a few steps before turning around and looking to the man behind my mother with a murderous glare. My now obsidian black hair covered my grin and my glare to my mother but my uncle almost shit himself.
I got out of the room and while the massive doors closed behind me Jafar walked to me and slightly bowed to me. He had, in each shoulder, a magical raven (a rare magic beast) the one in his right was female and her name was Munin and the one on the left was male and his name was Hugin. I named them after the raven¡äs of Odin because they knew many things. I first met them after one of my escapes of the castle disguised as a raven. The female tried to become my mate while the male was supervising her because he was her brother. After I revealed myself as a human they acknowledge that someone to be able to transform himself without the effect become permanent or even tired they started following me and soon became allies and confidents.
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¡°My lord, Grandmaster Althon has asked for your presence in his chambers, he told the ravens that he has brought the things you asked for¡±
The ravens seeing me jumped to my shoulders. Munin started to fondle my hair and peck my ears. Hugin however carefully posisitioned himself silently close to my ear as if resisting temptation.
¡°Good. Perfect.¡±
I ran to another hidden passage to the western wing of the citadel to meet my grandfather Althon Cladmin. I¡äll warn you after his sixtieth anniversary he was hit by pure lightning during one of his experiences trying to collect eletricity, event wich left him with a big scar in his face, after I told him what eletricity was and what it did. Being the eccentric magical/scientist obssessed with knowledge he didn¡ät care much for the risk of obtaining such knowledge as long has he had it.
After 5 minutes of hidden passage I got out in a corridor exactly like any other and went left.
A pair of big doors stood open with a dozen maids coming in and out. Wondering what was happening I tried to enter the room however a maid stop me and said.
¡°My Lord Nox! Lord Grandmaster Althon is waiting for you however I advise you to be quick with him, Grandmaster Aurea wants to go with him to the summer mansion in Valter village.¡±
"¡sure¡¡±
I entered the busy room filled with packages. My grandad was going around almost screaming at the maids. Which was funny to me as he looked like a D*mbledore on crack trying to go as quick as possible to the maids.
¡°No! Don¡ät be so hurried... Stop what do you think that is? That is glass ! Don¡ät do that YOU don¡¯t touch that and you don¡¯t put this in this case, in this one! You there!...¡±
stoped him halfway and said:
¡°Hello old man!¡±
¡°Ha! You! Hello to you too! Why are you here?¡± he said while he analysed Munin and ignored Hugin, who looked interested in the instruments around the room. I smiled ¡° Ah Yes! I called you didn¡ät I? Did I? Yes I did! Here I finnaly got the things you asked for!¡±
He put his hand inside his cloack and took out two small lether bags. I tooked them and examined the contents. This was why I was so eager to get to grandfather... to see if he already had this.
¡°I don¡ät know why you need Wither Pouder and Medusa¡äs tears for but I advise you to be careful! The Wither was hard to kill and it was guarded by Death Knights! It took out half of the A/S adventure team I sent there!And the Tears ! Do you Kknow how hard it was to find them in liquid state! And then when I did it cost me 1.000.500 gold coins in an auction at Elleth city! The fucking bider beside me was an alchemist for the guild!¡±
¡°So¡?¡±
¡°So?! 30% of the loot went to the adventures I want half of the rest! And the Wither¡äs dead body! And the information I asked for about metals that better coduct eletricity and that thing you called eletrons!¡±
I sighed.
¡°Fine you can keep 70% of the remaining loot and the dead body. Here¡± I handed him a small black lether notebook ¡°everything inside is everything I know about atomic science and quantic phisics as well as some notes about nuclear reactions. And again do not let this information get out of the notebook, don¡¯t write it anywhere else and tell only grandma Aurea.¡±
He smiled looking at the notebook. ¡°Like your grandmother would let me keep secrets from her!¡±
I got out of the room smiling while looking at the contents of one of the bags.
Tonight was the night I was going to find a new clue about my death.
On the subject of Rankings (not a chapter)
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Today we are going to talk about rankings! (Yeah this was a massive headache to make)
First of all Normal Ranks is what is used to rank ppl in Treasis! The numbers are Levels...
W (highest)- 1000 and plus
Y-500 to 1000
Z-400 to 500
SS-300 to 400
S-250 to 300
A-200 to 250
B-150 to 200
C-125 to 150
D-100 to 125
E-50 to 100
F-0 to 50
The Y Rank is divided in several Levels as it is the last Level mortals can achieve because W is reserved for Gods, High Angels and High Demons. High Demons and High Angels can have the same Level as a God however the difference in power is enormous as they have limitless mana, knowledge, unique skills and of course true imortality.
Y-Master Sage Rank- 900 to 1000
-Sage Rank- 800 to 900
-Master Rank- 700 to 800
-Experienced Rank- 600 to 700
-Beginner Rank-550 to 600
-Inexperienced Rank- 500 to 550
The SS Ranks and below are called the Sky and Earth Ranks : Sky Ranks are B to SS and Earth Ranks are C to F.
And now to the Adventurers Ranks!
Obsidian- Above SS
Adamantine-SS Rank
Orichalcum-S Rank
Mithril- A Rank
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Silver- C Rank
Steel- D Rank
Iron- E Rank
Copper- F Rank
Now this is were it gets slightly tricky. These are Rankings for mana capacity when I said Uncle Abraxas was a Level C mage I meant that he had an medium average mana capacity for a mortal human. Here they are:
W- 10000 and above
Y-7000 to 10000
SS-5000 to 7000
S- 3000 to 4000
A1-2500 to 3000
A2-2000 to 3000
B1-1800 to to 2000
B2-1600 to 1800
C1-1200 to to 1600
C2- 1000 to 1200
D1-800 to 1000
D2-600 to 800
F1-200 to 600
F2-0 to 200
I also want to make a poll! Do you want to Nox to have only one woman, two or more? Ha and I almost forgot! Wanting or not I¡äm gonna make Nox bisexual... because plot.
I will also make more of this "On the subject of..." because I see no reason to introduce some things in the narrative as the MC was the King of Gods of the same world he now lives in. He basically created the damned system!
And now! The goodbyes *sniff* I¡äll try to post a chapter in New Year¡äs Eve (or after or before who knows?)
(I want to thank my english teacher for letting me do the rankings during her class without her noticing)
Thank you so much for reading my fiction! Have a nice weekend and a Merry Christmas!
On the subject of Politics (not a chapter)
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Today we are gonna talk about everybody¡äs favorite theme: BOOBS!
:P Nah just kidding we are gonna talk about politics...
So Treasis is divided in 19 countries and Empires:
Faultcram- Also known as the Dwarven Federation of Clans! It is ruled by a king or queen elected by a counsil of elders representing each of the 5 clans ( Varrum- Clan of Fire, Eltrum-Clan of Water, Archum-Clan of Air, Fieltum- Clan of Metal and Poltrum-Clan of Earth) that represent each element nedded in blacksmithing. The king/queen serve until their death and then the Counsil elects a new king or queen. It is located in the south and englobes 80% of the frozen and mountainous region. The rest is draconic territory.
Elensir- Also known as the Elven Empire of Elensir it has the same political type of leadership as the dwarves, meaning that the Emperor or Empress are elected by a counsil, this time consisted by kings and queens of each elven subrace (High Elves, Wood Elves, Sea Elves, Light Elves and Dark Elves) However because of their enourmous lifespan the current king is the third king since Elensir the Morning Star¡äs death 849 years ago. It is located north of Faultcram.
Holy Human Empire- It is ruled by a king or queen by blood relation. The crown always goes to the oldest son. 50 years ago the youngest son was given a position at church as a Priest and became the leader of the Church of Talon, the main religion among humans only to revolt and create Ilian.
Ilian Theocracy- It is ruled by a counsil of influencial people and priests that designate the Pope. The Pope then has complete and absolute control over the country and Church.
Soraan Republic-Commanded by a President elected by a restricted voting system. Only those that can read and write and are citizens of the country can choose a candidate and vote in him. The sorans are also known as the Sand People. (The ancestors of these people coexisted with the Valerians and had a civilization similar to the Egyptians)
Veltrac- A sea kingdom which political system is a monarchy. It is a part of the Melroc United Sea Alliance. (Yellow)
Serim-A sea kingdom which political system is a monarchy. Co-founder of the Melroc United Sea Alliance. (Green)
Calroc-A sea kingdom which political system is a monarchy. Co-founder of the Melroc United Sea Alliance. (Light Pink)
Erivas-A sea kingdom which political system is a monarchy. It is a part of the Melroc United Sea Alliance.(Light Brown)
Haren a.k.a Independent City of Cladmin- Also known as the Neutral Country. Nox changed, at the age of 4,(behind the scenes of course nobody would think a 4 year old could do such a thing ) the political scenery of the country making it into a Constitutional Monarchy, the first of its kind. Before that it was a monarchy controled by a queen that wished to make it into a matriarchal society. Though the Queen still reigned absolute, 25% of her political power was taken from her and given to the Prime-Minister (her brother Abraxas elected by the people in a restricted voting system copying the sorans), the Vice-Prime-Minister (Nox himself), The Parlament, the House of Lords and The Constitutional Court and The Supreme Court. (executive, legislative and judicial power) There is 10 Ministeries:
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-The Ministery Of Coin; Alfeus Mort.
-The Ministery of Arts (new); Mordecai Veltrim.
-The Ministery of Agriculture, Hunting and Fisheries (new); Jayce Kant.
-The Ministery of Commerce; Traitis Van Celtum.
-The Capital Ministery; Albus Woltran.
-The Ministery of Justice (new); Michaelus Bracarus
-The Ministery Of Science, Magic and Education (new)- Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim
-The Ministery of the Armed Forces; Caius Factus
-The Ministery of International Affairs (new); Altem DeLapere
-The Ministery of National Administration (new); Felix Woltran
Kree- A country divided in civil war between the Independent Monarchists, the Independent Republicans and those who want to join the Holy Human Empire.
Belfan- A recent country which territory consists of a gigantic mountain that crosses the continent called the Spine. It is a monarchy.
Crisan- A empire which history is long and honor is the most important thing in a person. (It resembles the Chinese Empire from the old days. The ancestors of this people also coexisted with the Valerians.)
Seth-A country made of nomads and they are ruled by a king.
Elefis- A sea kingdom, the only one west of the Continent. It is a monarchy.
Valkos- A sea kingdom very traditional and persistent, for the last 20 years negotiations to becoming a member of the Melroc United Sea Alliance with little to no progress.
The Great Demon Empire- Ruled by a Demon Lord, the Demigod Kratos, son of the Demon God Oldar. They are currently in war against all races and have conquered 5 countries and part of Seth.
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The coinage system!
1 gold equals 100 silver
1 silver equals 100 iron
1 iron equals 100 copper
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Chapter 6- A Sudden Development
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After meeting with grandpa I calmly went about the castle while going back to my tower to eat breakfast. Jafar came back a litlle bit later with papers and documents for me to read. I felt extreme anxiety as I could not wait until tonight to perform my plans.
¡°Sir. May I remind that you have a meeting with them today before lunch and after that Her Highness the Queen wants you to go to the tailor to receive your new clothes.¡±
¡° Thanks for the reminder and by the way have you told the Ministery Of Magic my ideas for the future Academy?¡±
¡°Yes my lord they said that they would need time to implement those ideas to the building plans.¡±
¡°Thanks what about the Minister of Coin, what does he think about the renovating the coinage system?¡±
¡°He said exactly what you expected master¡¡± Jafar said while giving me a new set of papers to read ¡°though he was flabergasted by the idea of using paper money and substitute the usage of precious minerals in coins to normal metal and certain alloys.¡±
¡°The monetary system of not just our country but the continent is not ready yet for such a change it would destroy the economy and bussiness everywhere. Even I know that, Jafar. But sacrifeces need to be made for progress! FOR SCIENCE!¡±
I shouted. I look back at the papers.
¡°The newly made Ministery Of Agriculture, Hunting and Fisheries needs to step up their game. In this report it says that only 23% of farms owned by the State and 11% of private farms have implemented the triennial system of crop rotation in their farms. Make some law to make the substitution compulsory! Also tell them to legislate the prohibitation of trawling it destroys sea life and I don¡ät want any sea god angry at us. Ha! Also!¡±
I turned the report around and summoned my magical pen and started scribbling off on it.
¡°Here.¡± I gave Huggin the paper. He grabbed it with his beack and look inquisitively to me. ¡°Give this to the Minister of Agriculture, Hunting and Fisheries it is a draft of a new law forbidding fishing any type of fish during their respective mating seasons and fishing fishes smaller than the minimum size.¡±
The raven nodded and flew away to the Ministery Of¡
¡°AND TELL THE MINISTER TO GET A SMALLER NAME FOR THIS BLOODY MINISTERY!!!¡±
After a few other discussions with Jafar we finally arrived to my tower where the maids have been prepearing my breakfast in the second floor.
The dining hall of the second floor was decorated with flowers and statues and behind the retangular table,hanging in the wall, there was a portrait of me. With a black rose, sitting down in a small throne like chair with the capital behind me¡
Ha! A true work of art!
I went to the table and sitted while eating breakfast. When suddenly I heard a loud bang downstairs and footsteps coming up the stairs. But instead of coming to the second floor they continued up¡
¡°I am here!¡± I loudly said to the visitor entreating passage to my tower.
And the sounds of footsteps came closer to the dining hall. Jafar quickly went to the wooden doors, to open them, revealing a boy around his teen years preparing himself to quick the door open. I quickly filled the room with my killing intent.
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¡°Ajax I dare you to try to open the gates to my tower again in such a way and I shall make you clean my tower floors with your tongue.¡±
Ajax flinched and made a depressed face while coming closer to me.
¡°What do you say?¡±
¡°¡Im sorry¡¡±
¡°Good boy! Now what is it that you want?¡± I said while I munched a piece of monster bacon.
He raised his hair with a determined glare and said.
¡°My brothers seem to be planning to take your wives from you. But they thought that you would decline the marriage proposal wich you didn¡ät. So they came up with a plan to kidnape one of them and kill the other while they are coming here for the ball.¡±
¡°Hmhm¡±
¡°What do you say cousin?¡±
I kept on silently eating my breakfast. He like the short temper family he had started to become fuming out of his head.
¡°Huh... I say that this breakfast is really good! Jafar say to the chef that I loved his cooking and give him a slight raise in his pay.¡±
¡°Very well Master¡± Jafar responded.
¡°Nox are you not gonna say something!¡± Ajax yelled.
¡°Ha¡ I thought that I already taught your stupid brothers a lesson when I broke several of their bones when they tried to kill me in a practice fight. What do you want me to do now? Actually kill them would give me political repercussions and probably a small civil war and that would give me a headache¡¡±
¡°But they are going to harm them!¡±
¡°Fine! Very well but don¡ät come to me crying later!¡±
¡°Just¡don¡ät kill them¡ please¡?¡±
I facepalmed and said:
¡°Jafar give me a black robe and my Assassin Armor, the back one embebbed with the darkness spells.¡±
¡°Yes, my lord¡± He quickly went upstairs to the attic.
After a few minutes of awkward silence between me and Ajax, Jafar finnaly appear with my armor and a set of clothes neatly folded in his arms.
I dressed up as quickly as I could and quickly, without a word, I put myself in the edge of the window and asked:
¡°Where are they going to execute their plans you annoying brat?¡±
¡°In the Riverwood forest in the National Road¡±
¡°Very well I will deal with them personnaly. Jafar bring reinforcements to clean up the place after I am done.¡±
¡°Yes my Lord!¡± He bowed and continued ¡°What of them?¡±
¡°Postpone the meeting.¡±
¡°Yes, my Lord. Then good luck with your hunt Lord Nox.¡±
I looked at Ajax.
¡°Good luck with your hunt cousin.¡± He said avoiding my face has it started to develop into a sadistic grin.
¡°Thank you.¡± My voice was now modified deep and terrinfying causing Ajax to turn around and started walking out of the dinning hall.
I jumped out of the window. It was an amazing feeling, the wind rushing through my hair and face. I tried not to scream my feelings off into the air and started morphing. My legs turned black and small, transforming into a raven ¡äs legs. My nose grew and turned black as well as my arms that started to grow feathers. My body started to get smaller and smaller until I finnaly fully turned into a raven.
I could help but release a ¡°CRAW¡± while thinking deep in the fun I was going to have tonight.
Chapter 7- The Twins
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It took a few minutes flying west, at my top speed, in direction of Riverwood to find the forest which was divided in half by the National Road.
A carriage could be seen going in medium speed entering the forest.
So I descended from my current altitude and proceded to land on top of the carriage.
I got closer to one of the windows as to confirm that was the right carriage.
Inside were two exquisite girls that matched Jafar¡äs description with a man and a woman who I presumed to be their staff.
In front of the carriage there was the pilot and two guards.
I used the skill [ANALYSIS] in the people inside the carriage to confirm their identities.
Name: Alexis Valoir Lvl:157
Title:Bloodsucking Butler
Name:Anastasia Erinski Lvl:99
Title: Aprenticce Maid
Name: Kallisto Neopes Lvl: 115
Title: White Queen
Name: Ariadne Neopes Lvl:115
Title:Black Queen
Incredible! For these two girls to achieve level 115 at such young age.
We were halfway through the forest road when my senses picked up a small mana presence drawing near us. At that moment more presences appeared. They were 25 mages and I was sure there were twenty others with warrior class sensing the ki inside them while not sensing any mana.
Going by the amount of mana three of them were S ranked, one of them was a ki praticioner and a mage, and two were A ranked, the others however were C ranked,easy to be disposed of.
I was going to be cautius about it as I could not measure their phisical strength nor did I know if they had some kind of special skill or unique spell or scroll.
By the looks of things only the butler could probably deal with them but they were too many and the two guards sitting with the driver were not past B rank.
I flew to the closest mana presence. It was a man, a boy would be more accurate as he probably was little more than 18.
I quickly reformed myself into my human form while sitting down on top of a tree carefully watching the other mana presences with the corner of my eyes.
I could feel my facial muscles draw a huge grin in my face.
Altough it wasn¡ät my first battle in my new life it would be a first fighting against so many.
When the boy got himself right below me, I jumped down and with one of my many knifes I aimed the blade at his neck.
¡°What the¡! Gahh HU AHHH¡ah¡±
I swiftly slit his throat.
A shower of blood rained everywhere.
Oh this is gonna be fun!
-----------------------Kallisto`s POV------------------
My name is Kallisto Neopes, twin sister of Ariadne Neopes and daughter of Count Vladmir Neopes. Since me and my sister were born, we have been regarded as geniuses because of our magical prowess. We learned to talk and read before we could even walk and even after we learned to walk it was still early considering our age.
Mother raised us well while our father educated us in his free time.
However my father was a count and a distinguished member of the Demon Lord¡äs Council of Seven, representing the sin of Greed.
As such Dad had little private time for us and whenever he met us outside the manor or with some guests he acted cold, rational and exuded a menacing aura.
Because of that we never talked much nor did we do much in front of another person.
Two months ago Mother told us that we were to go to a birthday party in a foreign kingdom.[/size]
Curiosity overwhelmed us, as we never went outside the Great Demon Empire, we started reading everything we could about the kingdom that we were to visit.
The kingdom was more of an independent city with large forests and small villages inside the country. It was small, really small compared to the other kingdoms and empires.
But we knew better than underestimate them because of their size.
For such a small territory to survive centuries in the Human part of the continent where power and strength was everything, they had to have some kind of hidden trump card.
Their economic importance on the continent was one of the reasons not to fall prey to the greed of the surrounding rulers.
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The City of Haren or better the Independent Grand City Of Haren was an important trading spot because of their priviledge spot in the south-east part of the continent connecting several trade lines. Because of the rulling House espetacular mixed-blood with all races for the exeption of the demons while having a tolerance or even a ¡°passionate love¡± for all races, the country had several unique relationship with the Mythical Races of the south making the elven and dwarven merchants bring better and cheaper materials, books, artifacts etc. to Haren while excluding such priviliges to all the other kingdoms and Empires.
Their naval fleet was another reason. Known as the Invincible Armada, lead by the biggest ship of this century, Arion the Floating Chariot. Since the independence of the country the Armada was never defeated nor did it ever retreated from a battle and ensured the country¡äs independence during many wars over the century.
The rulers that led this country were certainly amazing and all the documents we had pointed towards an undying love for their people.
A month before we left however Mother told us that we will meet a boy.
He was the Heir Prince of Haren and he was a year younger than us.
One of us were to marry him after we met him.
We felt conflicted, one of us was to marry someone we did not know.
And then we will be separated.
We dont want to be apart. I want to stay with sister.
We tried to argue with Mother, but we said nothing when Dad arrived as he tried to explain the marriage as simply as possible to us.
"You see, my sweethearts, this marriage will allow us to previliged acess to the southern market. We will be able to have materials of better quality at very low prices compared to now, and gain political influence in that country. And do not worry. The people there seem to have a very high tolerance to the Mythical Races... or should we even say love?" He smiled "HA! Compared to the humans of the North and Center the population of Haren is very open minded. And again my loves do not worry did you really think Mom and Dad would let one marry off some stupid arrogant and weak human? You girls should go ask a few questions to Alexis about the kid. He is more special than you think."
So curiosity once more overwhelmed us and we investigated the boy.
He was a genius.
At least it¡äs what everything points towards.
According to Dad¡äs spies the boy was the one to drastically change the country behind the scenes while the public thought the changes were made by the Queen.
From making a assembly to represent the will of the people in the political power sphere to becoming Vice-Prime-Minister the boy was everywhere and anywhere controlling the country in such a subtle way it was hard to believe he was six years old and that his mother the Queen was now considered to be, for those who knew the truth, a puppet queen.
Not only that but it was also rumoured to be very powerfull.
We decided to give him a chance.
We could not wait to meet him.
So ten hours later we started to depart to the city of Haren. It took an entire week to travel at top speed to reach the border of the Holy Human Empire from then we sneaked inside and traveled even faster to finnaly reach the border of Haren by the end of the month.
Everything was going well until we reach Riverwood forest.
I suddenly felt a beyond incredible and powerfull mana presence on top of the carriage.
It was sudden and before I could do or say anything I sensed a lot of mana presences coming near us.
The biggest mana presence then left the top of the carriage and dissapear near one of the mana presences.
Then that person¡äs mana signal dissapeared.
I looked at my sister, she too realized what was happening, and we both looked at Alexis with worried faces.
Alexis, our vampire butler, was looking out from the window with is ussual expressionless face, altough I could feel his uneasyness he showed no worries in his face.
And then more and more mana signals dissapeared.
We heard a loud scream, then silence and then loud sounds of battle roared through out the forest.
What in the world was happening?
Chapter 8- Bloodbath
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After slicing the boy¡äs throat I jumped on a branch of a nearby tree and started to move from tree to tree until I got on top of two men.
Before I plumped down I pull out my mask from my pocket dimension and put it on. ( https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d3/e4/dd/d3e4dd29949ec51008ffc8645039cb79.jpg )
I jumped down inserting my sword vertically in one guys head, while using the sword¡äs hilt to help redirect my fall on top of the other men¡äs neck cracking his spine.
As I hit the ground I immediately let go of the sword and reach a bunch of throwing knifes in my pockets and threw them at five other men a few meters in front of me. While with my left hand with another bunch of knifes I threw them at three other men by their right.
All of them hit their targets in the back of their brains.
There was a guy behind me, probably a loner, and by his shocked face he was a noob when it came to killing.
I reacted as quickly as possible and threw another throwing knife at him.
He jumped.
Why the¡?
He probably thought he could dodge it.
Well shit.
He dodge it.
Partially, it hit him in the shoulder, not the head.
Dammit.
I ran but it was too late he screamed.
¡°Ah¡Well then¡±.
All other mana signatures ran towards me.
They surrounded me and pointed their weapons at my cloacked figure.
There was a few seconds of silence while I was waiting to see who would do the first move.
One, however, the S rank magic swordsman, watched carefully the assasinations I previously did and moved a few footsteps in front of the circle and raised his voice.
¡°We are the First Holy Order of the Ilian Knights sent by His Grace Pope Alenxander V! Who dares kill his knigths? State your name!¡±
Another man stepped forward and whispered in his ears with an irritated expression. The other waved at him whispering something else in response. And raised his voice again.
¡°My partner thinks we should kill you already and move on, but I do not think it I should kill without at least know your name, for you are skilled and as such deserving of a honorable fight.¡±
My time to asnwer. I deepened my voice or better I answered him in my previous life voice.
¡°Your logic makes no sense, mortal (I could not help but add it in my speech! Boy is it good to speak normally again instead of my six year old kid voice!) This is not going to be a fight but a massacre. But if I comply to such a rule should you not tell me your name as well? Not only that but could you not use your skill [ANALYSIS] on me?¡±
Pffft.. I cant hold it.
If it werent for my [EMONTIONLESS PUPETEER] title and the skills involved in it I would already be dying of laughter at seeing this guys faces!
All of their jaws were dropped at my sudden deep voice that seemed to echo on its own. (Writer: If you are curious about his voice check out Aurelion Sol on youtube or just go to this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-pxxx6qOw )
The S rank magic swordsman blinked a few times and said.
¡° My name is Jhin Faust, knight commander of the First Holy Order of the Ilian Knights! It is not like I have not tried to use it on you but it does not show your name, titles or level. I also tried to detect your mana signature but I do not see mana or ki in you.¡±
¡°Hm. So you got curious and delayed an eventual fight just to ask? Have you never heard that curiosity killed the cat? Well, knight commander, my name is Valaar and I am your worst nightmare¡±
I jumped backwards making a flip and landed right in front of some random dude and poked him in the left eye with my finger through the helmet. With a rapier I stabbed him in the private parts.
He screamed and yelled and cried.
A guy ran towards me screaming his friend`s name trying to hit me with a massive greatsword I backed up a single footstep.
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The sword hit the ground with great strength.
And with the same amount of strength I punched his defenceless belly with the rapier!
And¡ now the rapier is stuck inside him.
I¡äm now weaponless. NOT!
But crap. I should have thought that through¡.
I jumped on top of that men¡äs back and kicked an aproaching soon to be headless man in the left side of his head with great force dislocating his spine and ripping his muscles tearing off his head.
Then I jumped behind the group of men that gathered up near the guys I have just killed.
¡°It is arrogant to think you can defeat me.¡± I have things I need to be doing.
¡°[ Grand Area Spell: Moving Sands]¡±
The ground beneath me started moving and breaking. My boots started to be quickly swalloed by the earth.
I jumped again. That guy Jhin predicted that move already and sent the other two S rank knights to try to cut me in pieces mid jump. So I, mid air, rotated and escaped their blades.
I landed in front of a tree and one of the S rank tried to cut me in half. I jumped to the left.
A grin was creeping up in me as the tree previously behind me got cut in two.
I motioned my hand towards both S ranks.
The two guys got crushed under the pressure of a mini sun leaving nothing but a human soup and a very thin piece of metal previously a sturdy and high quality armor.
¡°Voiceless Incantations!¡±
I got up and pulled out an enchanted sword from my pocket dimension.
I jumped towards Jhin and was about to kill the bastard when an A rank yelled.
¡°[Mana Bolts: Multiple arrows]¡±
I quickly defended myself with my sword each bolt hitting the enchanted blade.
¡°You call that Mana bolts?¡±
I raised my hand and behind me several dozens threatening looking blue arrows appeared.
¡°Try this!¡±
Jhin jumped in front of the terrified man and threw him out of the way of the arrows.
¡°Pathetic!¡±
Several arrows followed the man and killed him hitting him in many vital points.
Blood showered towards Jhin while the rest of the arrows went towards him.
¡°[Grand Area Spell: Holy Shield of Talon]¡±
Hm? A specific incantation to the god?
The arrows hit the shield with no damage to Jhin. But before he could recover I had already jumped towards him. He had no time to put up a stance so he had to move himself out of my blade trajectory.
For a two minutes me and Jhin did nothing but attack and defend from each others attacks, leaving the remaining 9 man astounded.
I could do way better, I thought, but this body of a child has its limits.
But one thing that Jhin had has a bigger disavantage was the fact that the was only human and quickly got tired from defending my very strong attacks.
After several jump attacks and sensing the other 9 lowering their guard while watching our duel. I said.
¡°Enough!¡±
And with gravity magic I killed the 9 remaining from the inside, exploding them into little pieces.
Blood, guts and muscles flew everywhere distracting the horrified Jhin from the fight.
And with a clear opening I cut his face.
I did not kill him.
I need information.
And with magic I made him faint.
¡°Huh geez this was troublesome¡.¡± I sighed.
I was about to start walking to grab Jhin and transport him to the citadel to wave him in front of the stupid twins that dared to do this when I heard screams coming from the road.
What the¡.?
Chapter 8.5- The Man Who Stole The Sun
This chapter is a LONG and BIG (that¡äs what (s)he said) BACKGROUND/BACKSTORY chapter and fuck, it took me a while to make. I didn¡ät post it yesterday ¡äcause I went to see Batman V Superman.... Enjoy the extra chapter!
The wheelchair made no noise as it slided through the massive hallway.
The chair made of heavenly steel glowed and shined like it had a mind of its own while the cover of the seat was made of confortable cotton and dragon leather that shined when the sun hit it through the windows on the left of the hallway.
It was like the chair itself was made of rays of the brightest sun.
The person who drove the wheelchair was dressed with a black suit and white shirt with a white tie. A white rose also stood out in the front pocket of the jacket. The person¡äs posture was perfect while walking and his steps showed determination. The suit did not hide the light muscles of the man and an aura of righteousness and holyness that followed him.
His eyes were of pure white without irises and his hair was golden and went to his shoulders.
However the thing that stood out the most was his wings. Wings! As white as white could be.
The man¡äs entire figure seemed like the incarnation of divinity.
The entire opposite of the man sitting on the wheelchair.
The person was wearing a white robe covering from the neck to the knees with the exeption of his arms. The person¡äs figure was thin like it was dying from hunger, one of his eyes was red like blood and the other was golden like the sun.
His head hanged low and his eyes stared the ground like it was watching everything and nothing with great attention, however his eyes showed no light like the person in question was dead long ago. His hair was black and white, from the roots was white and in the edges was black.
Yet the angel driving seemed to care a lot for the person sitting in the chair, driving with the utmost caution and care.
Slowly moving the wheelchair through the corridor to wherever their destination was. The angel was looking to the man with what it seemed to be love and respect like a caring grandchild watching his grandfather.
After a few moments of silent driving they came to the end of the hallway.
There was a huge terrace of fluffy grass that gently waved as the wind went by.
It was occupied by several figures sitting in white metal chairs by white metal tables.
Some were chatting, others were eating and drinking, some alone or with groups.
These beings were gods and goddesses, spirits, dragons (in their human forms), angels, high demons and high elves and ghosts.
But despite the aura of divinity and absolute power that each one of them possessed no one stood oblivious to the entrance of the two men.
Everybody raised from their seats and bowed, not to the angel but to the man in the wheelchair.
The duo passed through them.
The man in the wheelchair continue to stare into nothingness but the angel looked to both his sides gently releasing his sweat voice from his mouth telling them to rise their heads, for them not to bow for him, but for the sitting man.
From the terrace came a circular balcony that had red roses growing from small vases around it, they contrasted with the white marble that the balcony and the terrace were made.
The angel drove the man to the balcony that stood higher than the terrace.
In the middle of the circular balcony stood a marble table surrounded by marble seats stuck to the ground.
There were 6 seats and where the 7th should have been the angel parked the wheelchair.
A youngster with wings with a neat black and white suit (without the rose however) came carrying a soup dish to the angel.
All conversations went around the duo in the balcony.
¡°Is it him?¡±
¡°You must be new! Of course it¡äs him.¡±
¡°He is thiner than the last time I saw him¡±
¡°The last of the Ancients.¡±
¡°Ironic is it not?¡±
¡°I heard he stopped eating.¡±
¡°Heaven curse me if I not want to see him dead already.¡±
¡°Shhh! He will hear you!¡±
The duo pay them no heed.
The angel sat by the left of the man and put the soup on the table.
He pulled out a cloth from a pocket of his suit and carefully positioned it on the man¡äs lap.
And started feeding him like a parent would do to a child with all the care and love someone could give.
But the man refused to eat, at least he showed no reaction to the spoon filled with soup hoovering near his mouth.
After several attempts of feeding the thin man, the angel stopped and just stared at him with a sad look.
Suddenly a person appeared in the balcony.
A woman wearing a simple black dress, with black hair, pale skin and red eyes.
Both the end of her dress and the end of her hair turned into black dark smoke.
Despite her beautifull face and her plane look everything in her emanated strength and power to a level beyond the people behind them in the terrace.
The angel put the spoon back to the plate, and raised himself from the chair and, with a smile, he gently said.
¡°My Lady Nyx. What a surprise to see you here. We were not expecting you. How are you adapting to being the new patron goddess of the demons? ¡±
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She spoke sofyly as well but her voice was not gloomy, sad or heavy but joyfull and happy.
¡°Everything is going well Lord Raphael. The demons are tired and overwhelmed by sadness, they dare not do the same things as before. At least for the next generations.¡±
She smiled and her eyes deviated from the angel Raphael to the man sitting in the wheelchair.
¡°How is father today?¡±
¡°High Father still refuses to eat. I am at a loss¡ I do not know what to do.¡±
Raphael went back to the chair and Nyx went calmly sitted next to High Father.
¡°Hello father.¡±
She smiled but the man continue his immobalization.
¡°Brother Talon has been asking about you, he is very worried.¡±
She continued to smile.
¡°He says that the war campaign is doing well.¡±
She continued to smile, a beautiful smile filled with hope and care.
¡°Brother Fargas is also disrupt. He asks why do we still call you father, or why do we call ourselves brothers and sisters, when we are not even blood related to each other. He is¡ confused, losing hope, father, like the rest of us.¡±
She continued to smile, despite the sadness filling her voice.
¡°There¡äs also been rumours going around that most of the lower gods, especially the new generation, want someone to replace you father, with someone more¡ competent. They say that the image of the Pantheon being ruled like a family with a person in the lead is outdated. They¡ want to get rid off the old ways and make a republic.¡±
Her smile started to dissapear.
¡°Brother Fargas is starting to agree to their ideas¡The others say nothing but I know that they are considering this as well.¡±
Her smile was gone.
¡°They want to bury you! Seal you away like we did with Oldar¡¡±
Her eyes were now humid and tears started to form.
¡°Dad¡Please wake up¡ This is not what Mother would want¡¡±
She started to silently cry.
The view of their goddess crying, stopped all conversations in the terrace, some of them were crying as well because of that. Others silently watched, while the older gods started to kneel to High Father begging him to wake up, but the ones old enough to remember the golden days of High Father¡äs rule simply did nothing but look to their own hands and cry, for those happy days were long gone.
Raphael got up and walked next to Nyx and placed his hand on her shoulder.
A few seconds passed when a young god, with a small horn in his forehead, raised up from his chair and said.
¡°Why do you all cry? Why do you all waste your tears for some old geezer who no longer cares to walk the paths of divinity? Our Lord Fargas is right! We should set our eyes on the future and get rid of these ancient ideals and move on to a better thing! This old god belongs in a museum! He no longer has the power, nor the will, to command us and guide us! He his weak! And we should get rid off him!¡±
He walked through the terrace to stay near the balcony, then he showed his back to the people in it and talked to those in the terrace.
¡°The Ancients were all great gods and their ways were honorable and good for the times they existed, but, now, their time has passed! It is time for new High Gods to create new ways! Why do you think the other Ancients dissapeared and left us? Because they knew their time was up!¡±
He looked back to the balcony and spits near the chair of High Father.
¡°I do not follow a god that does not show his might and shares his wisdom.¡±
All were perplexed.
Raphael was the first to react, with great rage he materialized his holy staff and was about to cut the young blasphemer into two when¡
Suddenly¡
High Father¡äs hand was raised.
Raphael stopped immediately with his eyes wide open from surprise.
Nyx looked surprised as well but couldn¡ät help but smile.
A whisper was heard directed to Raphael.
¡°Ye-y-y-yes High Father!¡± Raphael went to the wheelchair and turn it around in direction of the rebellious god.
The man simply pointed the palm of his hand upwards and his eyes started to glow.
Then everything simply started to lose colour.
The light surrounding the gods diminished and they started feeling weak and they felt to their knees.
Even the sun in the sky started to dissappear, his light wavered and it simply vanished from the sky quickly bringing darkness to the Great High Realm.
In the palm of his hand something started to form. It was a ball rotatting fast. It started to shine and generate heat clearing the darkness of this midday night.
Everybody looked beyond astonished as they realised what that ball was.
Nyx¡äs tears simply evaporated from the heat and she raised herself from the chair, got down to the terrace and knelt to the man.
Everybody quickly did the same, including Raphael that dematerialized his staff and knelt near Nyx.
The young boy simply made a look of sadness and defeat and knelt.
The man, High Father Ayers! He was awake!
And in the palm of his hand, shinning bright, spreadding heat was a small sun.
Chapter 9- Savior?
Kallisto¡äs POV
After we started hearing battle noises somewhere in the forest, Alexis jumped out of the carriage and yelled to Anastasia:
¡°Keep the ladies inside. In case something goes wrong run for it we are just a few miles away from the capital.¡±
¡°Yes, Sir Alexis¡± Anastasia responded closing the door behind our butler.
¡°Sister¡¡± I heard a whisper from my left side.
I turned my head around and I felt my sister¡äs hand on top of mine as she looked me in the eyes.
The truth is, if whatever landed on top of our carriage attacked us we would die.
We both knew it.
As we heard Alexis give orders to the two demon knights, I felt my sister¡äs fear and I steeled my emotions for whatever came next.
Then I heard a loud movement coming from behind our carriage.
A horse.
I quickly heard yells, people running and swords clashing.
I don¡ät know how long the battle took but by the end of it a loud knocking came from the door and we heard a shout:
¡°Miladies! Wanna come out? We promise we won¡ät do any harm to ya¡±
We didn¡¯t answer. A minute passed and we heard another shout.
¡°Okay you don¡¯t leave us with much choice¡ if ya don¡¯t come out we¡äll cut your butlers neck! And don¡¯t think about escaping from us you¡äre surrounded¡±
Anastasia tried to keep us away from the door as we tried to leave the carriage to save Alexis.
When, suddenly, the door behind us was ripped open and a couple pair of hands pulled us out from our seats out to the open.
I yelled, surprised, and I closed my eyes.
¡°Ah look what we have yer boys! Three pretty ladies! Sad really the boss told us not to touch these two! BUT he said nothing about this one! Lets have a bit of fun with her boys!¡±
¡°Wait Boss wasn¡ät it to kill one of them?¡±
¡°Change of plans, we¡äll keep the other, c¡ämon let¡äs tied them up.¡±
I opened my eyes to see around thirty men, all of them equiped with black lether and silver armour. They were mercenaries as I noticed some with the thief symbol on their semi-naked left arm.
However they were a little too well equiped to be the average run-of-the-mill merch.
Alexis was bleeding everywhere, kneeling on the left side surrounded by five men grinning as some other men were trying to neutralize and strip Anastasia.
Anastasia tried chanting a spell but a man behind her put his hand on her mouth while laughing.
We struggle as we could, tried to scream too, but to no avail.
They dragged us to the horse and tied us to him.
Alexis didn¡ät stood oblivious as he yeld our names while trying to get up and help Anastasia.
However the men were higher leveled and quickly subdued him.
When they were kicking and punching Alexis, me and my sister notice a strange shadow coming from the forest to the left of the horse. The shadow turned into a figure that stood along my own height, only a little taller though, and was wearing a complete black armour and a cape.
The armour itself was strange as the material seem to be made of some kind of snake-like leather and it was wearing a mask(Author: u guys know the Nightingale Armour from Skyrim? Yeah but forget the other mask of the previous chapter cause spoilers not really he traded between fights u will see y)
He was dragging a man behind him with a full gold and purple armour that seemed unconscious.
His approach warned the mercenaries as they readied themselves to a fight drawing their swords and putting up a stance.
At that moment the boy said:
¡°So let me guess, you are the guys I was supposed to kill.¡± He facepalmed and continued ¡° Whatever¡¡±
He stopped speaking when he saw the state of Alexis and Anastasia as his glare inspected the surroundings and the people in it.
For moments, his eyes seemed to rest on me and my sister.
¡°Let¡äs be done with this.¡±
Behind the boy, on the floor, was his shadow and from it tentacles rose and quickly stabbed through the heart of several men.
They yelled and spitted blood as their comrades started to charge against him while some were chanting at the same time.
[Medium Boost]
[Small Area Spell: Great Body Resistance]
[Shadow Step]
[Wind Blades]
[Mana Bolts: Multiple Arrows]
[Mana Bolts: Sniper Arrow]
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So on and so on¡
All of them attacked at the same time but the boy, despite having more than 20 men attacking him with spells and swords, simply dodge everything with grace and fluidity.
Me and my sister, despite the initial surprise, took advantage of the commotion and through a mutual agreement we started to wobble about trying to get rid of the many ropes that tied us down.
At the same time I kept an observant eye to the boy.
In the middle of the fight the boy started to parry with his armored forearms altough he had a sword in his waiste.
The merchs thinking that he changed from dodging to parrying because he was getting tired intensified their attack speed and increase the force they used in to the blows.
I could see however that that made no difference to the fight as the boy still didn¡¯t seem to make any openings for them to deal a proper blow.
My astonishement and admiration was growing. Who was this boy? He couldn¡ät be older than me so how come he was as powerfull as one of the demon-knight captains, and all of them had half of a century, at least, to train and gain experience.
However a question rouse from my mind: was he saving us or was he going to do something to us afterwards?
My sister seemed to share my concern as we intensified our struggle to get rid of the ropes.
Alexis also took advantage of the fight and helped Anastasia getting up and quickly try to walk towards despite his injuries.
The boy then gave up on defending and started to attack.
Each blow that he did with his hands killed a man in many ways.
Then a bulky man apeared behind him brandishing a two handed weapon, while screaming:
¡°[Fire Blade]!¡±
The weapon caught fire and went down towards the boy, threatening to cut him in two.
With his right hand the boy caught the flaming sword, by the blade, a few centimeters from his head and took it from the man¡äs hand and sent it flying to a merch in front of him, rotanting in the hair and hitting him in the middle of his chest.
With his left he took his sword from his waiste and punched the bulky merch with the hilt leaving him unconcious in the dirt.
Men were dropping like flys leaving the dirt of the road red with blood.
Alexis picked up one of the fallens weapon and started cutting the ropes.
¡°My ladies¡± he said while freeing my sister and moving on to my ropes¡°take this horse, go to the city. Don¡ät look back and don¡ät worry about us we will meet at the palace as soon as we can!¡±
He freed me and we mounted the stalion ready to go, however before we could ride out we heard a voice.
¡°Leaving so soon? You don¡ät even say thanks to your savior?¡±
Before any of my comrades could react I said:
¡°I would happily congratulate him if he didn¡ät had the need to hide behind a mask! A true savior would show his face, I believe.¡±
The boy shrugged and came towards us avoiding all the dead man. He was leaving behind alive however the leader and the previous man that he put unconsious.
He stopped a few meters from the horse and took his mask off.
¡°My name is Nox Cladmin Prince Heir to The Crown of the Independent City of Cladmin, Vice-Prime-Minister of The Royal Court and yours true savior!¡±
He said with a exaggerated bow leaving all of us flabbergasted.
¡°Now can I have the pleasure to escort the princesses to my city?¡±
Chapter 10- Breaking The Ice
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Nox POV
I tried to be as educated as possible, making small talk with the four people I saved. I talked everything from the city to the several noble houses that existed there and supported the royalty.
The butler, an old man with gray hair, was the one to make all the questions all regarding the comfort of his ladies.
Tired of making small talk and not being able to make the girls speak, whenever we took stops along the road I amuzed myself with Jhin, the ¡°great¡± commander, trying to wake him up through normal means (slapping him of course).
And I got bored of that quickly.
With my bird form I could already be at home where work waited me until I had to go to get my new clothes.
We stopped once to get fresh horses and get refreshments because of the scorching heat that was reaching its peak in a hour or so.
By the second stop (one more to go) I changed form to a black cat with green eyes and and robed a mug full of cold beer from a tavern basement nearby which I happily drank on top of the carriage when we made the road again.
While I was enjoying the horizon watching the top of the Citadel appear as I drank a zip from the mug I noticed one of the girls peeping from inside the carriage.
I smiled to her and she, surprised, quickly put her head back inside the carriage.
Curious little kitty, huh?
Another stop later and another mug of beer later, a question was asked by soft voice beneath me, inside the carriage.
¡°How did you do that? With the shadows?¡±
The girl with the white hair was peeking through the window looking at me with eyes craving for knowledge. I smile and drank the remaining beer as I watched the city gates appear on the road. Took you long enough to ask that.
¡°That was a [Combined Spell] made from a Darkness and Nature magic¡±
¡°I did not knew Nature could do that.¡±
She whispered to someone inside the carriage, probably her sister or maybe the maid that was resting.
¡°There are a lot of things people seem not to know.¡±
¡°Like you now more than the scholars at Dragonstone¡± The Black haired girl said with a certain hostility and sarcasm.
¡°I probably do¡± I smiled ¡°What do old farts sitting inside a fortress far older than their tired bones reading books and recording every time a king pisses or a city is burned know about magic? Magic TRUE magic is learned the hard way through sweat, blood and sacrifice an inch of magical growth is paid with too many tears. Grind, eat, repeat. That was how I became a true magician.¡±
One of them opened their mouth but before she could utter a word her sister asked:
¡°What about sleep?¡±
¡°Sleep is for the weak. The more powerfull you grow the more resistance you have. One day if you work for it you will be able to not need sleep, food or go to the bathroom as you consume and fuel your body with mana¡±
The black haired girl, this time, was quicker than her sister and said:
¡° You speak as if you are more experience than anyone I know. And nobody is able to become that powerfull since the Age Of Magic ended¡±
¡°That is what you think! It has been 1626 years since the Age Of Magic ended and 605 since the Age Of Heroes ended. But if magic is still around than why do people say that the Age Of Magic ended?Its because if you lived in the Age Of Magic, which lasted three thousand years, more than half of those the Valeryian Empire rule the great majority of the continent, the very air you breath would be filled to the brink with pure raw mana, there was no one that couldn¡ät use magic and the best magicians were the Valeryians. The Age Of Magic officially ended with the desmantaling of the Empire, however the Age of Magic truly ended when the non magical population reached 10% of the world population and Ki a ¡°fuel¡± less powerfull and refined but stronger than raw pure mana reserved for beginners to get a feel for the practices and spells started to substitute mana. People with mana started to become less and less and people with both ki and mana became more rare than a diamond in a bathtub. Nowadays only through beyond hard training spanning years of your lifetime can you reach the intermidiate level for an apprentice in the Age Of Magic. Those that were able to reach that status nowadays are hailed as heroes and penicles of society. Disgusting really. But I have a theory. I think something happened to withdraw all the mana that previously existed, something harnassing for years decades maybe centurys for some reason. But from time to time a great amount of mana is dispersed into the world and following those dispersions I concluded one thing¡±
¡°You don¡ät mean¡¡± Ariadne said
¡°Yes indeed I do mean it¡±
¡°What? What?¡± Kallisto spoke irritated.
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Ariadne looked at her sister and said:
¡°The dungeons!¡±
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¡°The first dungeon appeared during the Age Of Heroes and it was only a small tomb with undead and a single dungeon floor boss. It was first found and explored by the last generation of Summoned Heroes. A long time after another one appeared a few years before the death of the Last Hero Anji by the hands of the Traitor Amato that ended the Age of Heroes. Back then mana was already starting to become a rare thing really. I theorize that the reason for mana becoming rare is because the Dungeon Cores were harnassing all of it in massive quantaties in order to create the great labirithian dungeons we have today. And¡¡±
¡°Whenever an adventurer beated the dungeon they would destroy the Dungeon Core and release great quantities in the surrounding environment. You have a good theory seems plausible but how do you prove it?¡± Ariadne interrupted me with a forced serious expression.
¡°The following years after conquering a dungeon the number of magicians in those Dungeon Towns increased tenfold all of them possessing above average mana pools. I intend to beat a dungeon and carefully study the environment surrounding it if my theory is proven to be true I¡äll conquer every Dungeon that exists to bring magic back into the fold.¡±
¡°You dream too big.¡±
¡°Oh really?¡±
¡°Yes really. First of all I have to point out the great economic disavantage that is to conquer all dungeons, then you have several political isssues, then, I also like to read history books, and so I know the pure chaos that existed during the Age Of Magic. Everybody had magic and tons of it. Empires rised and fell in a blink of an eye. The Valeryans are an exeption¡± She added before I could point out the long reign of the Valeryians ¡°They had dragons and the active backing of the previous God of Humans, and altough the churches besides the Elven and Demonic ones don¡ät like it he was the most powerfull god that has existed so far. But beyond their lands everything was fair game, only the dwarven lands stood sometimes peacefull beyond valeryian territory. And may I remind you that the Valeryians only ruled during 1800 years so that still leaves 1200 years of chaotic events.¡±
Before I could make a counter argument we reached the city¡äs limits and were about to reach its gates.
I strapped my hair and put on a hood.
Instead of going right to the normal passageway where a massive line of people stood, we went to the left to a line that was empty, reserved for nobles, merchants and people who wanted to enter town quickly.
You would expect for this line to have at least some people but the lack of nobility outside the fortified walls of the capital and the amount of money asked in this line (double the payment in the other line; thirty copper in the right, 1 iron in the other; an attempt in increasing taxes to the rich) made the line deserted as even the nobilty decided that it was better to wait patiently than to ¡°waste¡± a iron per person to enter quickly.
Two armed soldiers wearing the citys coat of arms on their sleeves stopped us with educated smiles and said:
¡°Please show your identification papers and/or cargon manifest papers. The entrance fee is 1 iron per person so have the money ready to give to my coleague here¡±
He pointed to the other soldier with a rounded copper shield branded with the citys symbol (a serpent wrapped around a trident)on the right arm and holding a purple velvet bag (that was somewhat devoid of coins compared to the leather bag on the other line) with both his hands.
Alxis took out a small red velvet bag and looked at me, propably thinking that he didn¡ät had the money to pay for me or that he din¡ät want to pay my entrance fee.
Probably the last.
I shrugged and said to the soldier next to me:
¡° Hey Jhon hows the wife¡¯¡±
The soldiers smile became bigger and he turned around to the soldier next to him:
¡°See Norman I told you it was him! You owe me twenty copper!¡±
Norman grumbled a bit, looked at me and whispered.
¡°Ya well. I thought it wasn¡¯t him. My lord I thought your Majesty the Queen prohibited you from going outside the citys walls again?¡± He then looked around and said bit more loudly ¡° All your papers are in order Sir you just have to pay the fee.¡±And added ¡° We don¡¯t want that confusion to happen again do we?¡±
I answered while taking my own pouch and giving him the one iron.
¡° Well ya but you now how it is I had to go see my future wive for myself before all that glitter and gold and fake smiles in the party get in my way to know her¡± I winked at them throwing them an extra silver each and added ¡° The drinks today are on me and guys¡ I was never here.¡±
They both looked to the carriage with an expression of awe and realization, then they looked at me and nodded.
¡°Yes sir!¡±
¡°Never even heard of you.¡±
We proceed to enter the city.
Chapter 11- Receiving Guests
So heres a chap for u guys! Man has it been complicating and stressfull to begin university! But everythings fine but I dont know when I will release the next chapter. the first arc is gonna end 3 chapters from now and then I am gonna release a new "On the subject of something"
So goodbye and see u soon!
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NOX`S POV
After showing myself to the Citadel¡äs Guards and introducing the princesses and their escorts to the maids ordering them to bring their things to the already prepared rooms and to make a warm bath for each one of them, Alexis asked me if I could show them around the castle.
¡°Sorry I cannot. You can however ask around for Jafar my personal butler and I dare say that he is a friend of mine, when not working he should be around the Servants Quarters trying to get a girl to bed with him (not that he can¡ät) I on the other hand have bussiness to conduct not far away and I am already quite late and if I delay myself any longer I will no longer arrive fashionably late as (already) usual. So if you don¡ät want anything else¡ Then goodbye and we will see each other at the party tonight¡±
With the two unconsious idiots ( Jhin and the other guy¡) I went to my tower. I proceeded to emprisoned them in the attic and after confirming that they won¡ät escape I ran to the tailor to receive my new ceremonial clothing. Black, blood red and white, those were the colors that always suited me best and as such my new clothes were made from rare matrials from monsters I personally killed during my escapes outside of town that matched those colors.
Lightning- Eater Viper skin (black with streaps of red) for the inside of the long coat.
Direwolf skin (black) for the outside of the long coat and the tottality of the trousers.
Snow Fox (white) fur for the inside of my gloves.
Winter Snake (white) for the outside of the gloves.
Swamp Queen (a mini-boss Crocodile) skin for my boots (funny story I made a promise to her while she was yapping about killing me that I was gonna make her into my boots. Well am I not a man of my word?)
A scarf made of Arachne¡äs First Daughter¡äs ( another mini-boss, for this one I had to venture deep into a cave system underneath th castle that connected to an abandoned part of the citadel) pale white silk.
A Lunar-Silver (or Starsteel) diadem made by the Western Elves.
A few rare-jeweled rings made by King Orin II of the Dwarves.
And of course a three headed hydras skin for my three pointed hat and used its scales to make my vest.
Then I headed back and dealt with some of the bureacracy waiting for me in the tower.
Afterwords I met with some people there and prepared myself for the party.
I went down stairs acompanied by Jafar.
Near the main gates I positioned myself above the stairs to the Main Halls Gate to receive the guests.
Soon after they started arriving.
First my uncles (and my stupid cousins and Ajax).
Then the Blackfishes, one of the noble houses, this one specializes in comercial navy and has underground monopoly of all naval commercial deals.
Then House Seaworth, another noble house this one speciallizes in military navy and usually guard the docks and port entrance. The Blackfishes and Seaworths once belonged to the same family under the name of Craven. Due to their rivalry they almost stepped on each other trying to be the first to arrive and be received by me.
Afterwords I welcomed House Forrel, the Knights of Gray Hill, a military family mostly male all of great muscular build and well trained even the ladies were rumored to be able to kill you before you even notice it.
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The next one was House Quirrel, another military family deeply connected to the Forrels they held the honorable dutie to protect the City gates and tax the people that enter. Their Manor was the West Main Gate itself making it ginormously big and well defended (well enough to be called a separate fortress and people reffer to it as West Gate Castle).
The last big proeminent family was the Woltrans, a politic and academic family whose heir and House Lord were Ministers in my cou*cough*cough* mothers Court. The members of this Court however were not there from influece, power or money but either talent or cunning brought them there, so they were the only nobles in the Court.
Then came the minor houses and merchants, dignataries and other ministers.
The first of those dignataries to arrive was the 3o Prince Miran Bellan of the Royal House of Bellan rulers of the nation of Belfan in the north. Their family directly descends from the royal valeryian household (meaning that they were my descendants) and although most royal family descended from nobles that had valeryian blood in them one way or another they were the only ones that directly belonged to the House of Ayers and had the valeryian silver hair to prove it.
Miran Bellan had that hair. Blue icy eyes, a strong jaw line, and a well proporsioned nose and a muscular and well defined build but he was at same time as slender as a snake. Gostly pale, quick witted and smart his way of walking was one of an experienced warrior making no unnecessary movements. He seemed to be in his guard as he had a thin but hard breastplate covering his white shirt but slightly hidden under his red vest. He carried a ceremonial sword in his waist but something told me that it could be used for something else other than ceremonies. He was 17 and he already seemed like an old war veteran.
He was acompanied by his butler and by several other men that composed of his escourts.
I welcomed him thanked him for coming and wished him a goodnight while he coldly gave smart compliments to the Citys defensive system, to the West Gate Castle and its syze, to my clothing and in the end he looked at me like he had enough small talk had asked me if we could duel¡
¡°I heard you are quite a good fighter despite your age maybe we could fight¡¡±
O god why are his eyes glistening?
¡°No thank you Prince..¡±
¡°Oh please just call me Miran were both royalty after all we do not need to add that type of stuff to our conversation.¡±
¡°So Miran I don¡¯t think this is an opportune time for that maybe in another occasion¡±
¡°Yes, very well.¡±
Afterwords came delegates from other countries.
The one that caught more attention from the gathering crowd of people wanting to enter was the elfen delegation they came they awed and they went inside. The beauty and natural elegancy of the Elves reminded me however of other purer times. Rumors were circulating that the Elves were ¡°moving on¡± building armadas and leaving west never to be seen again. They are leaving the continent and nobody knows to where they are fleeing.
Even I don¡¯t know.
This simple thing reminded that I was someone else. Not a god but a simple mortal.
I shrugged the darkening thoughts and continued receiving the guests.
After personnaly receiving everyone I went inside the Main Hall and cheerfully asked for a cup of water.
I drank it whole heartidly.
Then I gave the empty cup to Jafar and said:
¡°Lets start the party shall we?¡±