《Dungeon of Apples? (Completed)》 Reincarnation. I messed up again... I am a regular worker in a regular factory in a regular town... But well... Everything doesn''t go as planned right? I was driving back home when I noticed that a truck crashed into me and I was slammed into a building on a 3-way intersection. Damn that truck driver... I clearly waited for the light to go green and still got killed? That just isn''t funny... Well death is a good thing in my VERY boring life. And it doesn''t actually hurt except when the truck hit me. It feels... Weird. Like ants walking over your body and some ants dragging your soul. Feels good actually. I wonder why people hate death now... Hmm... Wait... Shouldn''t I be dead. Why can I feel my soul and something like a body. This isn''t a joke... I clearly felt the pain when the truck hit me and I died. This is no joke... Inner Voice: "Oi! This is no joke. You got reincarnated as a dungeon! Be happy! Now.. Let''s get started! Wait... DUNGEON? Reincarnated as a DUNGEON? I''ve read about reincarnation in light novels and some people who died were reincarnated as super powerful dungeons... Cool I can be one too! Inner Voice: "Yes you can. Well... If you pick the correct paths and don''t mess up... If you mess up I am not going to like you much." So you can read my mind huh? Who are you or WHAT are you even? Inner Voice: "Oh me? I am your Inner Dungeon Voice. All dungeons have things like me. We give tips and help out new dungons and old ones too on the path to greatness." So... Is there anything special about me Oh great Inner Voice what will guide me everywhere? Inner Voice: "My name is Innver... Well that''s the name what comes to me naturally for some reason. And you have... Something special. Not. You only seem to have one rare option in your list..." List? What list? Innver: "Imagine a list of things infront of you." Ooh this list? Cool... What is this? What the hell is this thing? Innver: "A few choices of your first mob." The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.Hmm... Skeleton... Zombie... APPLE? What is an APPLE doing here?! Innver: "It''s a rare option you have. Pick skeleton instead of apple. I have a feeling Apple will be VERY useless." Ok... Umm Innver... I might''ve messed up. Innver: "What did you do..." I picked apple by accident. I was aiming at skeleton and when I noticed I had clicked the apple mob. Innver: "OH FOR GODS SAKE! You already messed up! On your FIRST choice! I have a feeling you are going to be a handful you damn dungeon..." Sorry Innver... Well let''s see what an apple can do... Ooh... It''s a red apple. Let''s put a rock next to it. Oh... Where am I anyways. It is a room what looks like a cube... Innver: "You are in your dungeon heart. Right now it looks like a cave-ish place but is a cube. Everybody starts off with this. It changes overtime." Oh nice... Wait... The apple is changing... OH DEAR GOD... WHAT IS THAT... Innver: "I don''t know! What the hell is that thing! It''s like an apple but the inside is pure sharp teeth and the core is an empty black abyss! My god! That is one thing I DO NOT want to touch... Or eat..." It''s... EATING... THE ROCK... Innver: "I can see... I can see everything except the choices you make in the menu." It''s eating the rock what is 3x it''s size... And it looks like it is doing it with ease! Innver: "A skeleton can''t even break a rock using it''s full power! You might''ve picked the strongest starter mob... An apple mob... Who would''ve guessed." Yeah... What should we do next? Innver: "Let''s go to sleep for now. Gather up some power." Hmm... Ok... Aaand i''m feeling... Sleepy... Zzzzzzzz ------ Creator''s note - Creating this LN because the other 3 are getting so bad reviews that I decided to drop them and FULLY focus on this on what i''ve been thinking about doing for a while. Chapter 2. Dungeon Creation That was a good nap... How long was I out for? Innver: "Only a week. You gathered up quite a lot of power... Enough to get an entrance and 3 rooms. Basic starting dungeon things." Oh good... Basic stuff. Shall we get going then Innver? Innver: "Yeah. I have a feeling that adventurers will come here. Especcially to see what was gathering up power." Oh... What should I do to make an entrance and rooms? Innver: "Focus. Just imagine making a staircase down and 3 rooms." That easy? Focus...... Something is happening... Innver: "You made the entrance and 1 room. Good. Now make the other two rooms." Ok... Focus.... Focus... Something happened again... New rooms... What should I do now Innver? Innver: "Summon new Apple Mobs. Adventurers should come soon." Ok. Summoning apples is easy...... Hmm? I summoned about 15 apples. 5 in each room I guess. Innver: "Now for a boss mob." Boss mob? Innver: "Remember that first apple you summoned? Gather some more power into it. Focus on it." Ok. Focus... Gather...... Done? I guess? I felt power go into it. Innver: "Good. Now watch the apple change." Ooh... The apple is turning bigger and... Changing? What is it doing... It''s growing twigs from 4 spots. Innver: "It''s making itself mobile and bigger. It''s easier to move and attack that way." Oh ok. It seems I get what mobs and boss mobs are now. Anything else I should know? Innver: "Not yet. You don''t have the power to get traps yet. And we shouldn''t either. The more lethal a dungeon is the more people gather and the more chances of being killed. Also... Have you looked at your body?" No... What does it look like? Innver: "I can''t see what you can''t. I can see what you can see only... We can''t look at the body we have yet. Some dungeons have really cool cores. I can''t wait to see what ours looks like." Innver... I can feel something walking on the staircase. Innver: "ADVENTURERS! YES! SO SOON! MORE POWER! YEEEEES!" What? Why are you acting like this? Innver: "When a dungeon kills a being inside of it what isn''t its mob.. It gets the power aka mana from it. And adventures this soon will think that the apples just fell in here and won''t suspect anything. Easy power for us." Let us see then. --- One of the Adventurers POV. --- Hmm... This new dungeon popped up recently. Damn guild sending us to look at a new one. This is really simple... Is that an apple? Adventurer: "Oi! Is that an apple I see!" Adventurer''s friend: "Yeah. That is an apple... I haven''t eaten an apple in so long..." He picked it u- WHAT THE! IT''S EATING HIM! Adventurer: "DUDE! LET GO OF THE APPLE!" Adventurer''s friend: "I can''t! IT''S EATING ME! IT HURTS! HELP ME!" I rush towards my friend... Aand I hear screaming behind me... The other 2 from my party stepped on apples and are being eaten too. Adventurer: "Hit it with your swords! They are just apples! But why apples!" Adventurer''s second friend: "Hitting it with swords doesn''t help! It only makes them eat me faster! We don''t have any mages with us! Run! Leave us! These apples are mobs! Report it to the guild!" Oh no... They are... Being eaten... The apples are just eating their arms and legs whole... I gotta run! I can''t do anything for them! I run and run up the staircase while hearing my friends being killed... Why.... Adventurer: "WHY APPLES!!!!" I see the guild house in the town... Gotta report this... That dungeon is dangerous! It killed 3 C ranks... Out of 4... Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.Adventurer: "Mayu! Report this to the master immediatly! That new dungeon... It killed 3 of us! I''m the last one surviving! The mob it has is APPLES. And those aren''t regular Apples! They are monster apples! They devoured my friends alive!" Mayu: "ALIVE!? APPLES?! WHAT THE HELL!? Are you joking!? Where are your friends! This is a prank isn''t it!" Adventurer: "It isn''t a prank! That dungeon is dangerous! Hitting the apples with your swords makes them eat you faster! It seems like the apples have an infinite abyss inside of them and razor sharp teeth what don''t let you go!" Mayu: "This... What the hell... Apples are that dangerous... Thanks. I''ll report this to the guild master of this area... That dungeon is dangerous... How far did you get?" Adventurer: "We couldn''t even get past the first room... We went down the staircase and one of us picked up the apple. It started eating him. Then my other friends stepped on them and then the apples ate them too... What shall we call the Apple mobs?" Mayu: "Apples. Why should we call them otherwise?" Adventurer: "Apple plus mob... Apobs?" Mayu: "We will just call them apples. Well I have to get going... If any C-class or lower adventurers go in they will die..." --- MC''s and Innver''s POV --- AAHAHAHAHA Innver: "That was hilarious! They got eaten by APPLES! And one of them ran screaming! HAAHAHAHAHAHAH" I''ve never laughed this much in this or my last life! HAHAAHAHAH Innver: "They should be in panic by now! Hahahahahaha! That was priceless... These apples... I like them already." Yeah... Never mess with nature I guess. What should we do now? Innver: "Gather more and more power. You start consuming the power from the apples what ate the adventurers. We can make traps when you are finished." Hahahaha... I wonder what they will call me? I have no name yet. Innver: "Yeah... The name Innver just came to me for some reason but I don''t know what your name can be. We just have to wait till the humans decide on something." Innver... What happens if a dungeon has a human soul. Innver: "Well... That has never happened... You are... Oh yeah you are reincarnated. I forgot. You are the first being ever to be reincarnated as a dungeon. I don''t know what you will turn out like. Other dungeons just appear out of nowhere and have a hivemind what controls them. And then the inner voice just tells them how to do things until they get it themselves." Yeah... This is going to be fun isn''t it. By the way Innver... I can feel like my body a little. It''s like a human body but crawled into a sphere... Innver: "Weird... A humans body as a core... Maybe it came from your last life? Because you have a human soul... I don''t know. Too many mysteries what a new inner voice can''t answer. We don''t know everything instantly. We just remember it when we really need it." Oh. Well... I''ll get to my mana feast then. This tastes quite good actually.... But these were only males... I don''t know what will happen if a female were to come here. Well... I''ll find out what I will do when a female one comes... No reason to think about it now... I''ll just eat the mana and rest for now... Chapter 3. Adventurers meet the boss mob. Oi Innver... This is annoying. I consumed all of the mana by the way. But it took 3 days. THREE days. Innver: "Another party is coming anyways. I can feel it now for some reason. I think they know the apples are not mobile... Well I want to see if they expect what the boss is going to be like. If they just think it''s a big apple then they are a little right... But they are about to die one way or another. I wonder why they don''t use magic on them. Apple mobs are supposed to be weak to mana by my memory." I haven''t seen anybody who had strong mana. I guess no magicians. But let''s see.... The adventurers are dodging all of the apples on the ground. Sad... They clear two rooms like that and are about to enter the boss room. SO EXCITING! Innver: "Yeah! Exciting indeed! Let us watch..." Sad that there isn''t popcorn... Innver: "Popcorn? What is that?" Nothing nothing! Just keep watching. --- One of the adventurers POV --- We made it... Those apples aren''t mobile like the report said. I hope the boss mob isn''t mobile aswell... If it is mobile then... We are dead. Adventurer: "Oi! Open the door already Leader!" Leader: "Yeah yeah. I hope you all are ready right? We cannot escape a boss battle." Adventurers: "We are ready Leader! Just open it!" Leader: "Here I go!" The leader opens the door and when we all enter... We see a huge apple on the ground. Like we thought... The door slams shut like in every boss battle.... Oi... What is the boss doing... It''s... IT IS GROWING ARMS AND LEGS... Oh... No... No no no.... This is not what I agreed to... Leader: "Chaaaargeee!" Well... Let''s hope for the best.... I''ll charge in like the rest... Oh... My friends head was bitten off and his body is being consumed... This boss... It''s teeth are the sharpest in the world by the looks of things... And the endless pit is there too... We are so screwed... Leader: "Men... We are officialy dead. We cannot escape this. Physical attacks only enrage it and do almost no damage to it. Magical attacks... We cannot-" The leader... He died... Bitten in half... The beast is killing all of us... We cannot escape... The more we hurt it the shorter our lives are. Oh... I died too... Bye wife... I guess you were right about the adventurer job... --- MC and Innver''s name --- PHHHAHAHAHAHHA Innver: "HAHAHAHAAHHAHA their faces! THEIR FACES! THEY ARE PRICELESS! It''s good that you can see what is happening in your dungeon with these screens! This is just priceless! They are being eaten by an oversized APPLE! Hahahahaha!" It''s oversized indeed. It is as tall as a human! But their faces! HAAHAHAHAHA! This will never get old! Everybody has the face of despair... INFRONT OF APPLES! I am so glad I misclicked that selection screen! By the way.... What do they call me? Do they still call me a Dungeon? Innver: "Don''t know. I''ve only heard something called Tinvarr what my human or beast language translator can''t translate. Maybe it is your name? Hmm... Can you split your soul from your body now?" Yeah a little. Innver: "Split it and look at the front of the entrance. Maybe your name is there." Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.Ok.... Huh? It wasn''t painful? Oh well... Entrance huh... Oh... What is this Innver? Innver: "Tinvarr the Apple Dungeon." My name is Tinvarr? Innver: "I guess so. Tinvarr. Oh... I just remembered something important... I guess the conditions were filled." What is it Innver? Innver: "Tinvarr... You are the... Weakest by stats... The only strong thing you have is... The apple mob... Your entire life depends on the apple mobs for now... Damn the Dungeon King." Dungeon King? Innver: "The Dungeon King is one of the oldest and strongest dungeon. It has power over all of the other dungeons birth and it decided to fool with you by putting you on the weakest level and giving you the apple mob. You are going to have a rough life my little Dungeon." Hahahaha... I''ll kill the bastard. Well... I''ll grow anyways. What shall I do with the mana I gathered from the last party? Innver: "Traps! Yes Traps!" Traps? Innver: "Imagine a pit or like a little hole where your apples roll out of." Oh... I''ll make a little place in the wall what when an adventurer is close enough the apple will roll out of. Like a slide. Innver: "Devious you little dungeon you are Tinvarr." The life of a dungeon is harsh Innver. Kill to gather power to survive. Innver: "Well get to work now!" I focus on the wall and a slide appears in the wall with a some kind of sensor infront of it. It is basically a tripwire what renews itself over time. I also create a few pitfalls. Then I make more apples and set them in the slides and pits. Have fun with those adventurers who think I don''t grow much. Now to my other dinner... The adventurer party of 5 who just got eaten by my boss. This is going to be really good! --- Mayu''s POV --- Mayu: "WHAT!? THEY AREN''T BACK!? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM!?" Soldier: "We last saw them enter the boss room! Then I heard screams! The boss mob must be something fearsome!" Mayu: "Damn it all! The apples are too damn strong and now the boss mob is even stronger?! Where are the damn mage corps I asked for! What is the Head Guild Master doing! This dungeon is no joke!" Soldier: "May I go now? My wife is waiting for me..." Mayu: "Yes you may go! Damn dungeon... Killing even more B and C ranks... Why did they even go in the boss room? I clearly told them to look for treasure in the OTHER TWO ROOMS." I wonder what the idiots where thinking... Running into one of the most mysterious boss rooms... WITH ONLY FIVE MEN... Clearly they need some female intuition... I''ll go in the dungeon myself! Men can''t handle themselves anymore! Next time Mayu will go into the dungeon! What will Tinvarr do to her? Save her? Kill her? Leave her in despair by making her look at his comrades die? We shall find out next time. Chapter 4. Mayu and the dungeon. Oi Innver. Are you sure this will work? Innver: "Yeah! Just make a new room and imagine a forest in it! The rooms should be tall enough to hold a small forest!" Ok... I''ll make the experiment room behind the boss room. I don''t want people finding out that I am making new traps and such and experimenting back here so they can prepeare. Innver: "Good idea." I focus on a room behind the boss room and it appears. Then I focus on making a forest in it and a forest pops up! Innver. This is fun! Innver: "Yes it is Tinvarr! Now... Imagine apples ontop of the tree mixed in with your monster apples. Makes it trickier to know which is not and which is an apple. This experiment room can also be... A garden I guess." Yeah it can. I focus on making the monster apples next to regular normal edible ones. It works and it looks really amazing. A full-blown forest in a dungeon room. Innver: "Perfect! Oh! I pick up something entering! Let''s go see what party it is this time!" Yes!!! I go and look and I see a party of 11. 10 men and 1 woman. Weird... Only one woman? Well they will all reach the boss room and die anyways. --- Mayu''s POV --- Today is the day I go into the dungeon! Damn that dungeon. Oh... There is already a party of 10 going in! Perfect! I''ll join them. Mayu: "Heeey! I want to come with you guys!" What? One of them smirked and seemed like he was checking out my body... Hahahah! They all fall prey to my good looks. Adventurer: "Sure. Come with us. We are going to clear the dungeon today. We won''t kill it though." Mayu: "Oh good! I want to see what is going on here anyways." Me and the adventurer company head down and then... Traps. 3 of us fall into the pitfall. The guys who rushed ahead afraid of more pitfalls fell prey to slides? Apples came from the walls and ate 3 others. Only me and 4 others are left. Beginners! Upcourse a dungeon has traps! Wait... It didn''t have traps before... This dungeon grew... Well no matter. We clear all the other rooms carefully and reach the boss room. We have discovered that the apples are weak towards magic through... A few tests... Damn idiot mages thinking that the apples are edible. Well when we get in... We see the bos- Wha...? Adventurer: "Hahaha. We can kill this boss ourselves and sell this little treat. Those men were truly useless. They will never be slavers like us right? Hahahaha!" The 2 mages that were with us kill the boss quite quick. Then they start to slowly take off my clothes... I can''t do anything because they knocked me unconcious and cut me in a nerve so it''s really painful and I can''t move... They... Are going to... No no no! --- Tinvarr and Innver''s POV --- Tch... They got past all our traps and defeated the boss... But why did they attack the female... WAIT... They are undressing her... They are those kinds of guys... Innver. Shall we kill them? Can I save the woman somehow though? Innver: "You can control the bosses yourself. Should be easy to kill them with a surprise attack." I''ll overkill them. I summon 4 bosses right behind them making the men who were undressing scream like women. My bosses EAT them alive. Swallow them hole. Only one of them is remaining and that is the woman I ordered them to save. Oi Innver. Can I somehow talk to the woman? Innver: "Indeed you can. But she must first go into your dungeon heart to hear you. Do you want to show your dungeon heart to a naked woman?" Hahaha! I saved her so she would not kill me! She would''ve been sold as a slave right? This world has slavery right? Innver: "Yeah. Slavers are quite common here. But slavers who first deflower their slaves... Are quite rare. Usually flowered slaves catch quite a high price. Well no matter. They are dead now aren''t they?" Yeah! By the way... Won''t it be difficult for people to defeat 4 bosses? Innver: "You can have them as experimental bosses for new classes. Take them into the dungeon heart until you trust her." Ok Innver. Oh it seems she realized finally that I am NOT going to hurt her. I''ll invite her inside. --- Mayu''s POV --- What... I was about to be deflowered and suddenly... 4 bosses killed them? Wait.. FOUR.... I am so dead... Why did I come here and think I could beat this dungeon without any proper magic... I only know a weak fireball spell what does almost no damage to apple mobs. Wait... They aren''t attacking me? Instead they are showing me a way to... A wall? I see a faint crack in the wall.. Is this the dungeon heart? I walk up to the wall and it opens. I see a glowing body of a human... Is that the dungeon core... Wait... I am still undressed! How can I show myself to my hero? WAIT... A DUNGEON SAVED ME! WHAT THE HELL!? Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.Tinvarr: "Woman. Don''t leave. Well it does not matter if you are undressed. As you can see I am undressed aswell in my human core. I am the dungeon you humans attack. Who are you?" Mayu: "I am Mayu... What is your name?" Tinvarr: "My name is Tinvarr. That is what you gave me right? I don''t have a real name so I just took the one you call me." Mayu: "Oh... I thought all dungeons have a real name what they never show." Tinvarr: "I don''t know about any other dungeons. I am... Different from them. I have a human soul. Why are you not attacking me Mayu? Don''t you want to get rid of a dungeon who only kills and doesn''t give?" Mayu: "You gave me my life... I would''ve been sold as a slave... A fate worse than death." Tinvarr: "Hahaha! Indeed I did. I didn''t want to see a woman be taken into slavery right infront of me. Men I don''t care about. They are pathetic. They all die to my apples! Me and Innver laugh every day at them!" Mayu: "Thank you Tinnvar... I will serve you forever as a thank you for saving me... But who is Innver?" Tinvarr: "Oh yeah... You don''t know about the inner voices. Too bad... Innver is there a way for you to talk to her?" Suddenly a new voice popped into my head. Innver: "Yes there is Tinvarr. I can speak to people in the dungeon heart like you. Hello Mayu the human. I am Innver this dungeons Inner Voice." --- Tinvarr''s POV 5 minutes after meeting Mayu --- This girl is funny! And interesting! She really serves me! Hahaha! Innver: "Yeah! Interesting! Well what shall we do now? I am quite confused about Human culture. Dungeons usually eat humans and don''t get friendly with them." Why not make a room for her? And let her get her clothing... It seems she is quite embarrased about talking to me naked. Innver: "Hmm... You did experiment with trees. You can give her a proper life and survival neccesities. I guess you can keep her here if she wants." I''ll ask her. Tinvarr: "Mayu! Do you want to stay here or go back?" Mayu: "I would like to stay here! You are much nicer than every human! But how will I survive here?" Tinvarr: "No matter! I can grow normal apples and food. Just not new mobs... But I also have trees. I guess I can make you a bed aswell with some wood and leaves. I don''t know how comfy it will be though." Mayu: "If it is softer than a pure wooden bed with only a pillow then it is fine! I am glad to be with you Tinvarr! Can you move your human form though? It looks really uncomfortable..." Tinvarr: "Not yet. I need to infuse a lot of mana into it Innver says." Mayu: "Oh..." She looks dissapointed... I wonder why... Well no matter. I focus on the wall next to the dungeon heart what is not connected to anything and make a new room. I also make a bed out of the 2 materials I can create: Wood and leaves. I made a shell of a bed from wood and filled it up with leaves tightly put together. It looks like a real bed. She immediatly jumps on it and looks really happy. I also make her a chair and a table with a wooden plate. It doesn''t cost me much mana because I took out 1-2 trees from my forest to gather up some mana. I also tested something. It seems now that I think of her as a... Servant/ally... She isn''t being attacked by any mob. Not even those I don''t directly control and it seems she doesn''t trigger any traps. She will be safe here for now... Unless humans come and take her away... That I will not allow! She is mine now. I saved her so she is mine. Oh... She fell asleep. She looks really happy and comfy sleeping... I almost just want to cuddle next to her. I figured something else out too... It seems I can talk to her freely from anywhere in the dungeon when she thinks of me as an ally and she thinks of me as one. Or i think of her as a servant and she thinks I am her master. Now that I look at her closely... She is cute... Really cute. Well no matter. I will consume the mana I got from the 10 idiots who came in with Mayu. I start consuming the mana while looking over at my mobs who are respawning and then go back to looking at Mayu when she sleeps. I began saving up mana to move my human core around like a real body... I want to move it around already... I want to feel like a human again. Chapter 5. New Apples. I finish eating the mana of the 10 people who came in with Mayu. Damn bastards... They will never get her. She is mine. Oi Innver. I got the mana. What now? Innver: " Good good! Now focus on evolving your apples." Evolving apples? To what? Innver: "Depends. It seems you can evolve them into many different... Elements. Just focus on an apple with some mana and change the mana into water mana, earth mana, fire mana or any kind of mana." Oh! Now I get it! I focus on some apples and they start changing colours. There are some weird ones in there too. Innver: "Magma apples... Water apples... Fire apples... Rock Apples... Yup I think it''s time to start making your 2 rooms into forests now." Ok Innver! I wonder what Mayu is doing in her room. When I was eating the mana she walked out of her room naked and cuddled up next to me for the night. Then when she woke up she blushed even redder than... The fire apple and left. I tried to ask her what is wrong but she just told me to leave her alone for now. Weird. I will never understand women. I focus on creating forests in the 2 rooms. I had a lot of mana from the party of 10 what had 2 magicians. I wonder If I can create mobs what aren''t Apples too... Innver? Innver: "Yeah you can. You just need sufficient mana to learn to make them. It seems you finished the forests huh? Your apples are quite well hidden. They will have trouble getting through. I think it''s time to start giving." What shall we give them? Innver: "Looking at your left over mana... You can create an iron and copper vein what will respawn over time in a new room." Oh perfect! I focus on making a new room with an iron and copper vein. The iron vein was in the wall and the copper vein in the floor. Innver: "Seems like you used all the mana now huh? How is THAT experiment going on?" Oh... THAT one... It is going quite well. I can move my body around a little. I don''t want to show it to Mayu yet. It is going to be a surprise. I put atleast 3 pieces of mana from the 10 I got from the party into my Human body Core. I can move the head around. I couldn''t see if I had facial features but... Now I saw. I inspected my body more closely. I had long emerald hair. No facial features at all. My face was basically a blank slate. Looking at how big my core is and how much room the body takes I should be atleast 2 meters tall. Well because I was a male in my past life I am one in this life... Luckily... What shall I do now Innver? Innver: "Can you make 4 elements come together? I wonder if you can create something." Ok... I take 4 elemental apples and put them together. A weird one appears. It looks like it would explode at any moment and it even looks like it''s twig is a fuse... I throw it back into the 2nd room and focus on making more and more apples with some mana I left over to create more. I put them around the 2 rooms and my boss is still quite strong. I don''t need to upgrade him yet. What is Mayu doing in her room... I do wonder. Innver do you know something? Innver: "I only know what you do." --- Mayu''s POV --- I am so embarrased!!! That was not something a woman should''ve done! I cuddled up to my savior in my sleep! And I wasn''t in the same room when i fell asleep! Though I felt his warmth in my sleep and it was... Nice and soothing... I want to sleep next to him again... It was such a good feeling when I did... I wonder when Tinvarr can move around. Actually Tinvarr''s a bad name... Tinvarr means Taker... But he isn''t a bad person... I should rename him to something nicer. Quinn? Quinn is an elvish name though... Well... No matter... Quinn means Angel of the Sky doesn''t it...? Well that is a nice meaning to his new name... I''ll tell it to him soon. I just need to get dressed... I slept next to him naked... That was so embarrasing!!! I put on some clothes and prepeare myself and then go out the door. He immediatly takes notice of this and starts asking questions and asks me if something is wrong. Mayu: "Tinnvar... I don''t think your name suits you... I think Quinn would be better... Do you like it, Quinn?" Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.Quinn aka Tinnvar: "... That is a good name... What does Tinvarr mean? And what does Quinn mean? It feels like they have meanings.." Mayu: "Tinnvar means Taker... Quinn means Angel of the Sky in elvish..." Quinn: "I''ll take the name! You gave it to me after all! I like the sound to it aswell!" Mayu: "I''m glad you like it... And sorry that I cuddled up next to you when I was asleep...That was so embarrasing..." Quinn: "No matter. I actually liked it a little. It showed me that you didn''t force yourself to stay here with me and honestly want to stay here." Mayu: "Well... Yeah... I never liked the guild. Everybody treated me nicely just to get closer to me and use me." Quinn: "Use you!? I will kill them if they come in here Mayu!" Mayu: "It''s fine! They won''t come in here for a while because I dissapeared and 10 others with me!" Quinn: "Tch... Damn annoying humans trying to use my little Mayu... By the way Mayu... Do you want to see what I have done?" Mayu: "What you have done...?" Quinn: "Yeah! I basically remade the dungeon!" I walk to the boss room and see no changes. Then I walk to the 2nd room from the entrance... It was a lush forest with what seemed to be brand new apples in hiding. I only saw them because I was so close with Quinn... Elemental apples? And a new element!? This dungeon would''ve killed me if it didn''t save me... Quinn: "Like it?" Mayu: "Yeah I do! It''s really neat!" Quinn: "There is 1 new room at the entrance. I gave it two veins. One for copper and one for Iron. They will respawn. The 2nd and 3rd room are forests filled with apples and traps!" Mayu: "So you are giving them resources? It''s nice of you to do that in one of the first rooms!" Quinn: "Also... Want to see my garden? I made it as an experimental room but It''s now just a garden. I could make it your garden! Or we could both share the garden!" Mayu: "We could both share it... Where is it though?" Quinn: "Go to the boss room and then touch the furthest backwall from the entrance to the boss room. A small door should be there just big enough for you now. By the way... Do you like Dryads?" Mayu: "Yeah! Drayds are one with nature and it is originally believed they were humans who really loved being in nature and refused to die leaving nature into the hands of evil! I really want to be one!" Quinn: "Good... I am trying to figure out a way to make you a Dryad so you will fit here better. Being a dryad will help you survive in this dungeon and help me live!" Mayu: "A dungeon... Helping me become one...? Dryads are basically enhanced humans what have high affiliation with nature! Every woman wants to be one! It''s like a dream come true to me! I really love nature!" Quinn: "Good good. It will take some time so wait for it OK? Well... I have to go back and try to gather some mana without eating adventurers. It will be good to try to gather mana from my surroundings." Quinn''s going to help me...? And to become a dryad in nature is basically to become immortal! This... I can never repay him... And he is going to gather mana from the surroundings? Quinn is special isn''t he... Even if he has a human soul in a dungeon body. Will Quinn gain enough magic to move his body completely and surprise Mayu? Will he be able to make Mayu happy? We shall find out in the future. Chapter 6. Second Floor. A rank Fail. Three weeks have passed since Mayu came here... And NO ADVENTURERS?! WHYYY! Innver where did my mana pool go off to? The humans ain''t coming here... Innver: "I don''t know Quinn... Well you gathered enough mana right? For the second floor?" Yeah I did Innver. Mayu is in the garden again isn''t she? Innver: "Indeed she is... You can feel her there can''t you." Yup, I can. Well now for the second floor. When I focus on making 3 more rooms below the ones I already had the whole dungeon starts shaking. It feels like a whole continent is shaking. The shaking goes on for 3 hours because it takes 1 hour to create 1 room. I then focus on making a... Jungle. An entire jungle in the 3 rooms. The mob in them? Bananas. I finnaly got enough mana to get a new mob after 1 week of gathering some mana... And when I chose a new mob it only gave me a BANANA option... I had to take it... Well no matter. These bananas are apparently quite dangerous. They attack you once you eat them. They consume you from the inside. They have a black hole inside of them what only consumes the person who ate them. How I know this? Innver told me. He immediatly got info on it when I chose it. The jungle I made in the 3 rooms is HUUUGE.... It''s amazing really. I put bananas everywhere and focus my mana on one of them and the one I focused on becomes a huge banana. Why do boss mobs have to be huge? Like really... Can''t they be small? Well the banana looks cool... The boss banana is like a regular one but with some weird yellow twigs coming out of it. 4 twigs in total. It also has an eye. I wonder what it can do against humans though... The bananas only attack when consumed... Well I will have to wait till one gets here. A sudden surge of mana... What is this Innver? Innver: "Probably one of those A-ranks Mayu talked about." Yeah. Let''s see what this one will do. --- A rank adventurer''s POV --- HAH! This little dungeon is what I got called to!? I thought it was a dungeon with 500 floors and ultra-high level mobs! This is easy! Hahahah! I enter and see people mining An iron and a copper vein. The dungeon gave them that? Weird. I will slay this dungeon easily though! I go into the first room and... Oops... I stepped on an appl- *Kaboom* WHAT THE! *Kaboom kaboom* WHAAAT! What just happened!? I remember stepping on an apple... Then the apple became really red and exploded... What the... WAIT! Why is my arm missing? Why is there an apple consuming my leg? I keep hitting the apple but no damage... I don''t know any spells! They told me to learn 1 spell before coming here! I should''ve listened to em! I hop towards the entrance with my one leg... *KABOOM* A FOURTH ONE! I then fall face first on... A really red apple.... With a few rocks coming out of it... IT BURNS! IT REALLY BURNS! The apple started eating my head and it burns! I... Can''t feel my body anymore... Me... An A-class adventurer is going to die in such a dungeon... This dungeon isn''t even classified as a B-class! This is pathetic... Bye Yuira... I wish I could see you again... A-class: "Don''t... Come and avenge me Yuira... Please..." --- Quinn''s POV --- That... Was... AN A-CLASS? What was that! It was hilarious! The human was so hilariously weak! Are my apples THAT strong against one of them?! Well he didn''t have any spells... And my apples only die to spells... But seriously! He walked in that arrogantly but died so fast! Even the lower classes survived longer than that! Well... I guess these new apples haven''t been tested on lower than A-classes yet. I quickly digest the A-class adventurer because I have gotten quite used to consuming the mana from the apples. I then focus every piece of mana from the A-Class to my body... It moved... It moved a lot... It has started to take on a face... I HAVE DONE IT! INNVER!!! Innver: "I see it! You finally got your core body to move! Nice! Now let''s go surprise Mayu! She is still in the garden!" I jump into my core body and try to move around. Because I haven''t walked around in such a long time I haven''t got a good grip over my new body and constantly fall. When I reach the garden door I got used to the new body and opened the door with my mind. When I enter Mayu falls back in surprise of my 2 meter body. I have emerald green hair and you can only describe me as "Ethereally beautiful"... Well... My will in my past life was strong I must admit that. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.Mayu: "Q...Quinn?" Quinn: "Yes. It is I Mayu, the one you named Quinn. I can finally move this body around." Mayu: "I am so happy for you! You... You look amazing! Even more beautiful than anybody I have ever seen! How did you suddenly get it to move!?" Quinn: "Well.. I ate an A-class." Mayu: "You.. Ate an A-class... Well no wonder then!" Then I suddenly feel an impact into my stomach. It was Mayu... She jumped and hugged me with all her might. She even kissed me on the cheek and then ran off into her room as red as when she cuddled next to me. Innver... Is this what you call Love? Innver: "I do not know... Possibly. I only know what you do and It seems that by your knowledge she would be in love with you. But a love story between a dungeon and a human? Well a soon-to-be dryad right?" Yup... I am so close to that aswell. Everything is going perfectly! By the way... I heard that A-class say something weird. Something about somebody will come here to avenge him. I only caught a little bit of it though. Innver: "Hmm... We are abotu to see a lot of fun. Not like the fact that apples and bananas are eating humans isn''t fun already. The bananas are what you would call Suicide Bombers aren''t they? They get eaten and then they eat the one they were eaten by." Yup... That is going to get confusing. Innver... Should I make my own room? I have my own body now? And since I finally got it to move it doesn''t take mana anymore for some reason. Innver: "The reason it doesn''t take mana is that you already infused enough for it to move around. It cannot use spells yet though. It has the strength of an A-class fighter though." Nice... Well time for me to go and create a new room. I focus on another empty wall near my dungeon heart and make a new room with a bed, a chair, a table and even a little figurine of Mayu with some leaves. Mayu is a cute girl with no bust. She is one meter and eighty centimeters tall. Quite tall for a human I guess? Well not as tall as me. She has short hair and usually wears clothing what reveals a lot. I''ve made her a lot of clothing using leaves but she refuses them. She wants to go up to buy new clothes apparently... Well I could go outside with my body couldn''t I Innver? Innver: "Yeah. Your body and dungeon are two different things now. They were one before but you used mana to sever the link between them so you are technically the new link." So I can go with her? Time to make some clothes for me using some leaves. I also gathered up quite a lot of gold from the adventurers... Mayu told me to check if the apples still had the gold inside of them. They did have a lot of gold in them. Apparently one gold coin is 50 silver and 1 silver is 100 copper coins. That is the currency in this world. A gold coin is what usually adventurers get for new gear after clearing a whole dungeon. I counted up how many gold coins we had... We had 50 gold coins in total. Quite a lot. I focus on making new clothing and lose track of time. What will Quinn do next time? We shall figure out next time. Chapter 7. Outside world. An S-class ruins it all. Me and Mayu are prepearing to go outside. I couldn''t take any weapons or adventurer clothing from the apples because... They were simply too damaged or show that I should be an adventurer... But no adventurer except the first one has survived this dungeon and nobody has recently entered except the A-class whose armor was too badly damaged to wear. So I simply made new clothing out of leaves... I guess this is what they call... Makeshift? Well me and Mayu decided to buy new clothing anyways... Well I am already at the entrance and I hear Mayu coming. Mayu also told me that she called S-class heroes to find my core and we need to stop them. Mayu: "Quinn! Are you ready to go?" Quinn: "Yeah. We can just pretend we were miners who came in late and left early right?" Mayu: "Yeah and people know me... They will ask where I was and I''ll just explain to them I fell into a pit but there was a pickaxe there and I didn''t trigger the apples anger for some reason and got out and then met you digging here and got to know you a little." Quinn: "Ok... That is all good... But do we need to meet your Guild Master?" Mayu: "YES. I must tell her that she must NOT send the S-class adventurers here. We had a plan to see if you were going to create new floors and gathered some S-classes just to find your core just in case you got too dangerous so we can destroy it... And well they are going to come here and deffinetly make you an enemy because of your.. Forest." Quinn: "So that means... I have no chance except telling the S-classes to leave?" Mayu: "Yeah... Sorry that I called them... And when the S-classes get here they will not leave..." Quinn: "We better get going then?" Me and Mayu leave and people look at us but just leave us alone. We immediatly go to the clothing store and buy some clothes what fit us. I change and I now have a pure white shirt with some black trousers and some black leather shoes. I also got a black fedora with a feather... I don''t know why Mayu wanted it. When we start heading towards the guild house we hear something... It is an auction and the prize right now is a sub-human slave girl... Mayu immediatly bet when she saw that it was a slave girl. I didn''t know what made her do that but no matter. We have plenty of money I think. Mayu keeps betting on the girl until nobody bets. We still have half of our money left after we win the auction... The slave girl looks at us like we are evil people because how persistent we were... But when the slave girl looks at me she immediatly lightens up for some reason... I don''t know why but I must stop the S-classes for now... I don''t want to be destroyed this soon into the game. I''ve heard that if your dungeon body gets out of the dungeon core before it gets destroyed you can live on and gather the bits of the dungeon core around the world and then fix yourself. I hope that I don''t have to do all that... But If I must I will for the sake of my future... I will live this life to the fullest. After half an hour of walking we reach the guild house. When we enter... The S-classes are here... And ontop of that the SS-class hero who is really strong compared to S-classes is here too... Mayu: "Umm.. Mirikin... Why is the SS-class here? I thought only S-classes were suppose to come and find the core..." Mirikin (Guild Master): "Mayu!? You are still alive!? I thought you were dead!!! I was going to hold a funeral for you tomorrow!" Mayu: "I fell into a pit but for some reason the apples didn''t eat me... I found a pickaxe in the pit and dug my way out... It took a long time with my stamina and strength though. Then I met Quinn here mining the Iron vein." Mirikin: "Quinn? You mean him? Wow... He looks amazing... But why was he mining Iron?" Mayu: "I don''t know. He won''t tell me... Well he is a friendly guy but does not talk much... But now back to the topic of the dungeon..." Mirikin: "Well.. The SS-class came here of his own interest. He heard of a dungeon what uses apples and got really interested in it. He wants to study the core..." Mayu: "Well... It seems I can''t stop you all from entering... I met the dungeon hive while I was digging..." Mirikin: "You met it!? Wait... It didn''t eat you!? What is up with that dungeon!?" Mayu: "I already dug away from it''s reach when It found me. It was actually quite friendly." The SS-class suddenly gets up and starts running towards the entrance. The S-classes soon follow. Mayu: "Where are you guys going!?" S-class: "Dungeon." Mayu: "By the way... Quinn had enough gold to buy this slave... Can you keep her for a while till me or Quinn come back? We have to do something real quick." They all leave and enter the dungeon in just a few seconds. Their agility is nothing to make fun of... We exit aswell and run towards the entrance. We reach it within 5 minutes of running full-speed and then use the secret exit and entrance I made in the first floor to get to my core on the 2nd floor. I hear explosions above but when I look there... I only see my apples being slaughtered... The 3 rooms are cleared within seconds. The bananas don''t attack them but still get burned with fire magic just in case... All of them burned... They start searching for my core... Quinn: "Mayu. Go. Leave me. You don''t need to stay here... I don''t want ANYTHING to happen to you." Mayu: "No! I can still explain your existence! It seems they realized how bad this dungeon is and how terrifying you could get... Those apples can litteraly eat through an A-Class''s magic armor... They will destroy you..." A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.Quinn: "It is of no matter to me. I have already seen Death once. I will see it again. Leave Mayu!" Suddenly the door to my core opens and the SS-class hero steps in. SS-class: "Holy! If we didn''t have spells we would''ve died to those apples! They ate through our mana like it was the squishiest and most delicious food in the world! Thank god that we had mages! Now... Time to destroy this dungeon. This one could kill even me if I wasn''t careful here. And what would''ve those bananas done... I don''t wanna know. Wait... Mayu!? What are you doing here?!" Mayu: "Well... I lived with the dungeon in co-existence! It helped me survive! Do not kill it!!! Please!" Suddenly an S-class jumps forward and cuts Mayu in half. S-class: "Heretic! We don''t like heretics! Heretics are the worst! They like dungeon so much they give the dungeons their mana and help it grow even more dangerous to human life! Because of heretics towns have been destroyed!" SS-class: "Seems this dungeon even has brainwashing abilities huh... I don''t want to know the growing capabilities of this one." They move towards my core. I left my body in my personal bedroom. I look at the dead Mayu infront of me. They called her a heretic? Hmm? I cannot summon mobs? What is this? Innver? Innver: "Seems they are using magic to seal your mana. Seems your road ends he- Wait! Escape to your body! It is a seperate existence right? Also bring all of your mana with you. If a sudden surge of mana happens into a seperate existence the barrier can''t hold! You can survive! You still have that slave girl to take care of right!" I immediatly jump to my body. The mages jumps back in fright but the moment they jump the SS-class throws his sword into my core. I feel intense pain before entering my body... Damn SS-class... Why did they have to kill Mayu? I must escape. The mages probably felt my mana enter here... Luckily I have a secret entrance here too... I open a door and close it and just run to the entrance and leave. I feel something falling from my eyes onto my cheeks and then to the floor... Is this what they call tears? Innver: "Feelings huh... Seems you have them Quinn." Oi Innver... How are you still here? Innver: "I am your mana actually. The dungeons mana is actually the same as the dungeons Inner voice." Oh... Well I atleast have you... I have to escape quickly before they come and find me. They might have some ideas about me being a Heretic also... Which I am not... I also need to tell Mirikin to take care of the Slave Girl for us... Innver: "Yeah. We can''t have her dragging us back. Maybe if Mirikin teaches her how to fight and then we return to pick her up when she is good enough?" Yeah... Even though that will be harsh I will take good care of her when we meet again. I rush to the guild building surprising Mirikin. Mirikin: "Oh Quinn! Where did Mayu go!" Quinn: "Don''t ask questions. I have to go soon. Take good care of the Slave Girl for me right? Train her to fight and survive in dungeons. This one here is going to collapse... And for the record... Mayu is now dead." I leave Mirikin in the dust as I run away and see the S-classes soon return to the guild house. I run and run until I notice something... I''ve reached a port. I pay to board a ship and jump on it. Apparently I jumped on a ship what is going on a trip around the world to find new places. I tell them I am not going to wake up soon so they don''t have to worry about me until something really bad has happened. I go to the lower deck and fall asleep on the rafter. I forced myself to sleep to be exact... I wanted to wake up from this bad dream. I knew the pain was too real but still wanted to wake up. I didn''t keep track of time... I only heard us land on shore and then go somewhere else again... Then suddenly I hear the sound of fire approaching my head. The ship was sinking because fire magic was used on it. One of the crew members was already on an escape ship and I jump on it too. The other crew members seem to have died or escaped. Crew Member: "Oh hey you. The one who payed to board the ship... You slept like a rock for like... 7 years? Damn... Didn''t know anybody could go without eating or drinking and only sleeping for seven years! The ship was shot down by pirates. We are close to the port we set sail from 7 years ago..." Quinn: "Seven years... The bad dream still continues huh... Well I will see the progress of that slave girl I left to Mirikin..." Crew Member: "The bad dream? Oh no matter. We won''t meet again when we land." Me and the other crew member row the small boat for 3 days until we see the port. When we reach the port it was night time. I had also been gathering mana when I was asleep for some reason. I think it comes to me naturally now... When we land the crew member heads over to the inn and I head over to the guild house. I want to see how Mirikin has raised the girl.... That girl is the only thing left that Mayu left me huh... ---- Creator''s note- Sorry if this chapter was really fast paced! And sorry if this seems really similiar to some other LN''s and the setting gets all messed up. I have a really good idea of what to do now! It will still involve apples though! I just saw an awesome dream what seemed destined to meet with this LN! I apologize again for the fast pace and stuff what I might''ve messed up! I apologize three hundred times! Sincerely, Creator of this LN. Chapter 8. Mayu and Death? Nope. Creator''s note- Couldn''t wait to surprise you all so... Here you go. And this will NOT be a dream... He will go on an epic quest while still using the dungeon powers he has and those he will get. ----- I walk towards the guild house... I remember everything what happened... The S-class just taking out his blade and cutting Mayu in half... I want that to be a dream but the pain was too real... The time I spent sleeping was too real too. I will re-make my core... I will re-make my dungeon and I will make it a beautiful Garden devoted to Mayu. ???: "Devoted? Hahahaha!" Innver is that you? Innver: "It is not me Quinn... Not me." Who is it then... Who else is in my brain? ???: "You don''t remember me? Oh yeah... I died 7 years ago... Well... I''m Mayu." No way... Another voice in my head? Pretending to be Mayu? ???: "I am Mayu! I spent so much time with you after being saved with you! I was killed yeah but my Soul ended up in your brain because you refused to let me go... Guess that happens if you refuse to let somebody go for 7 years... Especially if the one not letting the soul go is a dungeon... I guess you could call me your Second Dungeon Inner Voice? I will help you..." Innver? You aren''t pulling a joke right? Innver: "Nope. I am not. There is another existence except me in your head Quinn. It really is Mayus soul. She came back." So... Can I revive her!? Innver: "You can technically bind her soul what is in your mind to another body... Well you were going to do that and make her a Dryad were you not?" So this still falls in with my plans? Innver: "Technically yeah. Only the thing about your core breaking was not a part of your plan was it?" Not at all... Well now to the slave girl. I haven''t seen her in 7 years. Mayu: "So you left her alone... FOR SEVEN YEARS..." Not alone Mayu! I left her with Mirikin! Mayu: "That is fine then... I guess... Well now we have to get all the pieces of your core." By the way Innver... What can I still do without my core? Innver: "Everything but create floors. The core was basically just a table to build things. It had no other meaning when you seperated your body from your core." So I can still summon apples and use magic? Innver: "You can also consume magic from other beings. You have to eat something called the "Mana Heart". It is located just underneath the real heart of the being you are planning to consume. The more hearts one has the more Mana Hearts one has." Oh... So that is what i''ve been getting Mana from all this time? Innver: "Yeah. The dungeon core just simplified that action. The dungeon core just simplified your life and built your dungeon. It had no other meaning." Well now... That is a lot of good news really suddenly... Makes me want to just... Run off and get all my core pieces right now. But I first need to get the girl. I wonder what Mirikin named her... Mayu: "Yeah... I wonder that too. Let''s go!" I enter the guild house what I reached while talking to Mayu and Innver in my brain. Mirikin immediatly jumps out of her room like she felt I was there. Mirikin: "Quinn!!! You left me with a girl and left for seven years! You basically told me the worst news of my life 7 years ago!" Quinn: "Calm down! I have a way to revive Mayu now." Mirikin: "That... Is... Impossible! Reviving people is impossible! You aren''t lying right!" Can I tell her Mayu? Mayu: "About what? That I am here in your mind? Why not..." Ok thanks. Quinn: "Mayus soul is in my head... Is that simple? I refused to let her go as she was the first human female who approached me and I got really attached to her and because of that she is in my mind." Mirikin: "In your mind... You mean she can hear what I am saying...?" Quinn: "Technically yeah... She can hear what you are saying when I hear it." Mirikin: "... Well you wanted to see the girl right? You came here for that right?" Quinn: "Yeah... What did you name her anyways?" Mirikin: "Akuna... It means Last Memory in Dwarven..." Quinn: "That is quite the name... Well no matter... My name originates from the elvish language anyways." Mirikin: "Mayu always loved the elvish language... Well Akuna is right now training in the back. She has grown to be quite the woman... Apparently she looked like a 5 year old girl when she was just 11... She is now 18 years old she says." Quinn: "Well... I''ll head towards the back then." Mirikin opens a door for me and I enter. There is a long hallway and at the end there is a small yard. I head towards the yard and I saw a woman training there. She held two shortswords. She looks 18 years old, has a good body. Her hair is light orange. Her hair goes down to her waist. She is very good with her two shortswords. When I entered the yard and made a little bit of sound she immediatly stopped and looked at me. I hadn''t changed at all in the past 7 years. Akuna: "You... Who are you... You seem familiar... Like the one who was next to the woman who saved me from slavery and the one who left me with Lady Mirikin." Quinn: "Yeah that was me. I asked Mirikin to take care of you to be honest... I would''ve picked you up 7 years ago but a few things came before I could... Well I am here now. My name is Quinn by the way." Akuna: "Quinn... So it is you!!!!" Akuna immediatly drops the two shortswords and headbutts me in the stomach and then huggs me... It hurts like when Mayu did it. The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.Mayu: "She really grew didn''t she?" Innver: "I agree with Mayu on this one. I thought a human and a dungeon point of view on things would be very different but yeah... I have to agree." She hugs me even tighter while crying a little. Quinn: "Why are you crying?" Akuna: "I thought I would never see the pair who saved me from slavery and left me with such a nice teacher... I don''t know why she taught me how to fight in dungeons though..." Quinn: "I asked her to... I have to gather pieces of a core... I also have to find a way to create a Dryads body for Mayu." Akuna: "For Mayu? Is she dead? Or is her body that weak?" Quinn: "An adventurer cut her body in half. Her soul is within my head." Akuna then hugs even tighter like she was hugging me and Mayu at the same time. If I wasn''t in a stronger than normal body this squeeze would''ve killed me for sure. Quinn: "Mind loosening up..? This hug would kill a normal person..." Akuna then looses her grip on me. Akuna: "Sorry... It''s just that somebody came back for me for once... Usually people just leave me because I was too weak or just not good enough..." Quinn: "But what about Mirikin?" Akuna: "She never left me. Ever." Quinn: "Guess she did as I asked... Well now to get me some new clothing and weaponry... I have to loan some money from Mirikin... Is that a wise decision even..." Mayu: "Not really but why not? You need some money... Do you even have the money from our shopping trip years ago?" Oh yeah I should still have that money... It should be in my pocket... Ok it is gone. Not here. Mayu: "Guess you dropped it or somebody stole it..." Innver: "Probably while you were asleep for 7 years Quinn." Ahh... This is going to end badly for me isn''t it? I head towards the front again where Mirikin is already waiting for me with money and she is already geared up. Mirikin: "I knew you wouldn''t have money and I want to come with you! I also prepeared you a set of armor and a weapon suitable for a strong man for you... You are strong right?" Quinn: "Yeah. I guess I am." Mirikin then whistles and two men bring out a suit of armor and a weapon. The suit of armor looks like adventurers clothing. Light armor with a chestpiece and some kneecaps and such. The weapon... It... Cannot be explained simply. It is a huge black sword... It is almost as big as me... When I finish putting on the clothing in a seperate room and pick up the sword... It is really heavy. It has some weird red markings on it but I pay no attention. There is also a huge mark in the middle of it. Innver: "Hohoho! You got yourself quite the treasure! That mark in the middle is in dungeon language. Only known by dungeons! And this sword is crafted by one of the Dungeon Lords! This is quite the find!" I then look at Mirikin. Quinn: "Why do you want to come with us Mirikin?" Mirikin: "I want to revive Mayu too! She is my friend too! Where is Akuna anyways?" Quinn: "She was behind me when I left the yard... I guess she went to pack up her things." Mirikin: "Probably yeah... You must be hungry too right? Or did you eat somewhere with no money?" Quinn: "I might be a little hungry... Or a lot..." We wait for Akuna and she comes too. She is dressed in female light armor with two shortswords she was swinging earlier. We head towards an inn and eat there. We also have a little party there... We drank a total of 3 liters worth of mead. A man approached us while we were drinking to win over the girls... Well that did not end well for him. I forgot that I should not show I was a dungeon to anybody and accidentaly summoned an apple on his face... It consumed him quite quickly and dissapeared... For some reason nobody took notice of it and kept drinking. The only people who looked at me weirdly were Akuna and Mirikin. We soon left and then Akuna stopped me. Akuna: "Quinn... What are you... By the stories people have told about the dungeon what used to be here... It also had apple mobs like that..." Quinn: "Well Yeah I forgot... I am that dungeon... There was a way to not sneak my way out of that mishap but I don''t want to... I would have to explain to you later anyways why I want to save somebody Mirikin thinks I just met." Mirikin: "I was about to ask you that..." Akuna: "You are a dungeon...? But that core was destroyed...?" Quinn: "If a dungeons soul escapes into his... Secondary body you could say... He does escape certain death even if his primary body is destroyed. My primary body... Was destroyed." Akuna: "That explains a lot..." We then decide to head to another town. This town has no pieces of my core. Innver told me I would sense it if I was close to it because it is a part of me. I also didn''t like this town much. But one question rose into my head. I turned to Mirikin. Quinn: "Mirikin... What happens if you come with us? Won''t it halt all the processes of the guild here?" Mirikin: "Oh the new vice-master will take over and become the master of that branch of the guild. No matters here. I never liked that job anyways... I want to stay with you to revive Mayu." --- Creator''s note again - BTW... Aren''t LNs what their writers want them to be? I will listen to you guys comments but I will still involve a few things of my own. But I will listen to you guys. Also if you have any names for people I would be glad to accept them and possibly put them in my story! Chapter 8.5. During the 7 year skip. --- Mirikin''s POV --- What the!? He just came here and told me Mayu is dead and to take care of that little girl?! I don''t believe it! Oh the S-Classes are here. I wonder what they did... S-class: "We are sorry to inform you of this... Mayu was a heretic and we took care of her. We also destroyed the dungeon as it could''ve killed even us if we weren''t prepeared to face such a dungeon. Have you seen the man named Quinn?" No... No no no.... Mayu was a heretic...? I don''t believe it! But she is dead now... Quinn... I think he is running from the S-classes... I trust Mayu more than them! Mirikin: "No. I didn''t see him. But... Why did you kill Mayu?" S-class: "We don''t take lightly to heretics. We must be on our way now." The S-classes leave. The SS-class is nowhere to be seen... Mayu is dead... The little girl... Is the only thing Mayu gave me and the only thing what will help me remember her... I''ll do as Quinn said... If Mayu trusted him I will too... Even if it might kill me I will trust him and train the girl... I need to name her aswell... And find out info about where Quinn is at so I know if he is dead or not... I walk up to the girl. Mirikin: "Hmm... What should I name you... Akuna... Yeah you are Akuna..." Akuna: "A..Ku...a?" Mirikin: "Do you know how to speak?" Akuna: "..." Mirikin: "Seems like I need to start there huh... Mayu left me with such a responsibility..." I teach her to talk and it only takes a year for her to grasp the entire human and dwarven language. She is quite the fast learner in languages... Now for the training... I wake her up very early in the morning... Akuna: "Mirikin? Why did you wake me up so soon?" Mirikin: "It is time to start your training." I take her to the yard and tell her to grab a sword and swing it atleast 100 times. She looks at me weirdly but she eventually does it. Mirikin (whispering to herself): "I''ll do as Quinn said for Mayu... Mayu trusted Quinn... I don''t completely trust him but I will train this little girl... I was going to do that anyways." I train her in the basic and normal levels of fighting for 4 years... It is time to show her the fighting style I have. The two shortswords... It does look like she likes shortswords more than other swords. Makes it easier... Mirikin: "Akuna! It is time for you to learn my fighting style. You have mastered the basic and normal level of fighting with swords. It is time for you to learn the Advanced and a fighting style." Akuna: "Yes!! Finally!!! I have been waiting so long for this!" I train her in the Advanced and my fighting style for 2 years... Then suddenly while I was at the desk... He came back... Quinn came back... --- Akunas POV --- What... The man who was next to the woman who bought me at the auction came here and told the woman something and then left in a hurry... The woman next to me looks confused... What is going on? I don''t understand... The other men who were here before came back too... They are talking to eachother and I can''t understand them... The men leave... The woman next to me is looking sad again... What is she going to do now...? She walks up to me and says something... The only part I hear is Akuna... I repeat after her as It seems to be the best thing to do... I need to learn what is going on... Akuna: "A..Ku...A?" She then says something else and starts teaching me things... She teaches me how to speak for one year and I master 2 languages... I go to sleep and suddenly wake up and see Mirikin next to me. Akuna: "Mirikin. Why did you wake me up so soon?" Mirikin: "It is time to start your training." Training... What training is she talking about? I now understand that the woman who bought me at the auction is dead... The man who was next to the woman who bought me is on the run from something... But what is the training neccesary for? I follow her to the yard and she tells me to pick up a sword. I look at her and then do it. I swing 100 times like she told me. She muttered something under her breath when I started... I master the basic and normal levels of fighting in a few years. She then approaches me again and tells me it is time to start with the Advanced and her personal style... I have been waiting for this! I am finally becoming closer to her power! But I wonder when the man who left me here will come back... Mirikin told me he will come back and his name is Quinn... The woman who was next to him was Mayu... I train in the advanced and her personal style for a few years until I hear a commotion coming from the front... I keep training only to find somebody coming towards me... I immediatly stop and look at them... It is Quinn... He came back for me... This is the first time somebody has done that... I immediatly jump up to him to hug him... I am too overjoyed by him coming back... He also helped buy me out of a fate worse than death... A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. --- Captain of the ship where Quinn was sleeping at for 7 years. --- Hooh? Somebody boarded our little vessel and payed for it? He better not get in the way because I will drop him into the sea if he does... Wait.. Did he go to the rafters just now... He fell asleep in the rafters!? Hahahaha! This little guy is going to be interesting! But if he gets in the way I will drop him into the sea... We ride from port to port for 5 years. The guy who was with us is still sleeping! I took the libery of taking the payment myself. He is quite rich... He could''ve funded this entire expedition himself. We then start heading back with the ship... It is going to take 2 years to get back... We have to take THAT shortcut huh... Crew member: "Where are we heading Captain? That way is... The Devils Sea." Captain: "I know! But if we stay here longer we will run out of food and die one way or another! This is the best bet!" Crew Member: "I''ll tell the rest of them to ready up." The crew member runs out and I hear shouting on the deck... We ride towards the Devils Sea for a year. The man is still asleep... How long can a man sleep without eating or drinking? He might hold the world record at this rate! Not like I know what the record is... When we reach the devils sea we all go on lookout. We don''t want those pirates after us. They just like burning ships for the sake of burning ships! We ride through the Devils Sea for 1 year... It is quite a big sea... More like an ocean. But at the end is something quite terrifying... The Devils Raiders... The pirates I did NOT want to see in this trip. Captain: "Full speed ahead! Those who can use water magic use it to deflect all the fireballs what are coming our direction!" Crew Member: "None of us know any magic!" Damn! We have to hope we can swim to shore now! We ram one of the pirates ship and the ship sinks. We have quite a few hull breaches from the fireballs. We then see... 3 more approaching from the side... Too late to do anything. Fire magic already hit us and we are going down... A captain goes down with it''s ship does he not? I go to the captains quarters and sit on my chair... I then feel the water rushing through the window onto my back... Soon after I go down with the ship... There goes my life. I hope the crew got out safely... And what about that man? Well no matter now... --- Mayu''s POV --- W..What happened... I was slashed in half wasn''t I... Why am I still... Concious? Is this what they call the afterlife? Hahahha.... This place looks like a grand palace ???: "Hoh... A new one." Mayu: "Who are you!?" ???: "The goddess who gave the person you know as Quinn reincarnation. It seems he doesn''t want to let you go... I took quite an interest in the mind of that person. He might''ve seen like a regular person in his past life but his potential was too good for that world. It seems that if you die he will... Be depressed forever... That is not a way my champion should act! I will let you reincarnate girl. Make Quinn happy alright? His potential is to be that of a God Dungeon..." Mayu: "God dungeon!? What are you talking abou-" A small light covers me and when I come to... I see 3 things. A sleeping soul of... Is that Quinn...? And is that Innver?! Mayu: "Innver!" Innver: "WHO!?" Mayu: "Innver! It''s just me! Mayu!" Innver: "Mayu is dead!" Mayu: "The goddess allowed me to come back to this world to help Quinn... " Innver: "Hoh... Which goddess?" Mayu: "I don''t know.. She told me Quinn had the potential to be a God Dungeon while I was in a thing what looked like a grand palace..." Innver: "A higher Goddess... Quinn really is special. Well now we have 2 existences in his brain not counting THAT one..." Mayu: "That one?" Innver: "Look in that corner of the brain." I look behind me into the corner... What is that... Innver: "That.. Is what every dungeon has... It''s darker self. Well in Quinns mind that part of the dungeon is really weak. The only way it can grow is when he goes into a major depression... It only came into existence when you were slashed apart." Mayu: "So we also help surpress it?" Innver: "Yeah. Well let''s wait for him to come back to his senses. Quinn is sleeping." We wait for 7 years till Quinn comes back from his sleep... Me and Innver talked to eachother. Apparently Quinn really has the potential to become a God... Innver also told me that I can have a body again and we can rebuild Quinns core. Innver told me a lot of things what I really liked... I can''t wait until I get my body back and live with Quinn again... Well I am living in his brain... I wonder what the slave girl is doing. Chapter 9. The first Piece located. We are travelling towards a town what has a dungeon in it. Innver told me that the pieces of your core usually go to other dungeons so people don''t abuse them to create things. Mayu is currently giving me the details of the world. Mayu: "Quinn. There are a total of 5 continents here. The 1st is the one we are standing on, Euin, Euin is in the east part of the map. The second is an island in the middle of the map, Brias. The third is in the most northern part of the world, Celden. The fourth is in the west, Rhey. The fifth... Is in the south. Deani. We don''t talk about Deani much... Every continent is controlled by a single kingdom that shares the same name as the continent they are on. Euin is usually quite full of plains. It has a huge mountainrange in it''s southern part though and that is where a dragon resides. The capital of the kingdom of Euin is Eiah. Eiah is one of the richest cities in the world and it''s defences are high. The military power in Euin is in the 2nd place not counting Deani... There are plenty of forests in the Eastern part though. Brias is an island continent. Well you can''t call it a proper continent... It has rivers seperating it everywhere and a lot of hills making battles with horses nearly impossible. Brias is usually filled with archers or assassins. The capital of the kingdom of Brias is Byur. Byur is the 5th richest city and it is still highly defended by archers. The military power in Byur is quite weak on land but on the sea it is unbeatable. The third... Celden. It''s a frozen winterland. A frozen wasteland. The kingdom of Celden is the 3rd richest only because of the location of its capital. The capital of Celden is placed ontop of a huge deposit of different types of ores. Even some what we don''t know the uses of. The barbarian footmen of Celden are quite fearsome. They are trained to survive in the coldest and harshest enviroment after all. The fourth is Rhey. Rhey is the land of the Sun as some call it. The reason for that is because all religions in the world orginate from the capital of Rhey. The capital of Rhey is called Jerion. Rhey has plenty of lush forestry in a quite flat but still hilly area. The military power is on the 1st spot there due to it''s strong Paladins. It is also the richest kingdom with it''s capital. Not coutning Deani again upcourse... The fifth... Deani... We don''t talk about it. It is the land of Darkness... The land of the demons... It is rumoured that the Dungeon King resides there with the Demon Lord. I won''t give you more details about it as we lack information on that continent. Nobody sent there comes back but only a select few... And those select few are shocked beyond reasoning. The dungeons of this world are scattered everywhere. Every kingdom builds their cities around dungeons so it won''t be hard to find any old ones." Thanks for that. I didn''t know anything about this world. So I am in Euin huh. What about the different races in the world? Mayu: "Well about that... There are thousands of sentient races what are in cities. The main ones are Humans,Elves and Dwarves." Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.So where are we headed right now? Mayu: "The town of Milkenn is our current destination." Innver. How much do you know about the dungeon there? Innver: "The dungeon there is quite weak compared to your apples. It only consists of skeletons and zombies. The apples you summon can easy devour them." Oh good. Where are Mirikin and Akuna... I lost track of them... I walk forward looking around and when I reach a tree I feel something jumping onto my shoulders. It is Akuna. Akuna: "Yaay! Finally got a better view!" Quinn: "Where is Mirikin?" Akuna: "Right... Here!" Akuna pulls Mirikin down from the tree and I catch her in a princess carry. She blushes immediatly when I put her down and she realizes what happened. I keep walking towards the town of Milkenn with Akuna on my shoulders, Mirikin walking a little behind me still embarrased. She has some... Similiarities... With Mayu. Do you know something about that Mayu? Mayu: "Well... I''ll tell you... Me and Mirikin are sisters. We were slaves... Born into slavery, forced to live as slaves. Then a man came along and bought us. A traveller just like me and you right now Quinn. He bought us and let us go free. We joined the guild and got our ranks up high enough in the non-explorer or fighter section that we got our own branch... I still liked to explore and fight dungeons." Oh.. Sisters huh. So that is why you bought Akuna? Mayu: "Yeah... She reminded me of me and Mirikin." We continue walking for hours until we reach the town we wanted to get to. I immediatly feel something... Innver: "You are feeling that your core piece is here. We should go. Leave the girls here... You have that feeling too Quinn right?" Yeah... Something doesn''t seem right with that dungeon. Like a stronger being is controlling it from the inside... I turn towards the girls who were with me. Quinn: "Girls. Go get a room in an inn. I am going into the dungeon. NO MATTER WHAT do not come after me. Something is wrong with that dungeon." Akuna: "No! I was trained to fight in dungeons and this is my first chance!" When I hear Akuna retaliate I look at her with the eyes of a person who just got mad. REALLY mad. Akuna: "Ok... I will go and not follow..." I calm down a little. Quinn: "Mirikin. You are fine with that too right?" Mirikin: "Yeah absoloutely. I will trust you if you feel something is wrong with that dungeon. You are one afterall." I head towards the dungeon and the girls head towards an inn. Something is not right here. The mana flow is really wrong in that dungeon. It''s all concentrated in one place and could easily feed the dungeon enough that it can make 3-4 floors with armies of mobs inside each floor. But why is it concentrated in that specific room? Weird... Really weird... I need to find out soon before something happens. This is all too weird. Chapter 10. Oni. What is this dungeon... I entered a while ago and I am currently on floor 1. There are 4 rooms and 1 locked room. But there are NO mobs. I figured that there were little to one mob around but no mobs? Weird. Innver? Innver: "I have no idea. Nothing pops up into my head." Mayu? You got any ideas? Mayu: "Nope." Hmm... I''ll open the locked door. I make one of my apples eat the lock on the door and open it. What I see there... Is a winged creature, fully dark red.. Next to a dungeon core what has spots of black in it and is mostly dark dark green... Innver? Any idea... Innver: "Corrupt dungeon. The winged one is a demon. Throw apples now! Before they attack us!" I start swinging apples like a maniac. Apple after apple after apple. But I can see only the dungeon core being eaten... The demon is using a flame wall to kill all of the incomming apples. I throw a fire apple with an explosive one right behind it at the flame wall while throwing regular mob apples. The fire apple gets through but the demon slashes at it and splits it in half but the explosive apple... It surprises him. He was putting up the flame wall and didn''t notice the explosive one approaching his wing. The moment it touched the wing... *KABOOM* The demon''s wing gets blown off. It doesn''t seem like the demon has regenerative powers... Or it just can''t spend more mana making healing spells. I also saw while the flame wall was broken at one place that he was only using half of his mana. One of his hands was in contact with the corrupt dungeon and making it even more corrupt. I throw many different kinds of apples. Mostly fire and water ones to take down the flame wall and then a few explosive ones behind them. I also throw a banana at his face and he takes the bait. His hands were busy with the 2 different things, his wings exploded, his stomach heavily damaged from the explosive apples. He bites the banana. I smirk a little before he realizes he ate a bad banana, the banana what consumes everything in a black hole. He tries to cough it up but he can''t. He then focuses all his mana into the corrupt dungeon trying to power it so it would help him... But my apples left only a piece of it alive. I see my own piece behind the demon uncorrupted. I throw explosive apples at him and explode off his left arm and damage his right one really badly to the point of seeing his black bones. Demon: "What are you..." Quinn: "I am Quinn. A dungeon." Demon: "The new one huh... The one the Dungeon King did not summon huh..." Quinn: "The dungeon king didn''t summon me? What do you mean?" Demon: "Hahah. I''ll die anyways. You want to consume me right? For my power." Quinn: "Maybe..." Innver. Is it safe to consume both the demon and the corrupt dungeon core? Innver: "It is if you purify their essence inside of you. At first it will be painful but after you start purifying it, it will stop hurting." Good. I throw another explosive apple into the face of the demon. He dies instantly and has his face blown off. I start consuming all the mana around me aka from the apples and the banana. Once I consume all of it.... I fall to the ground in pain... This pain... It cannot be explained... It is worse than having your real body cut to pieces... It is worse than dying by the worst kind of torture ever... I hold my head and roll to the sides screaming in pain. I focus mana on purifying it while screaming. After half an hour of screaming the new powers start to purify and the pain lessens by a lot. Now it''s just like a small cut on your cheek. It hurts very little. I head out from the dungeon and look behind me... Only blood is left and an empty platform for a dungeon core. I hear rumbling and then I realize... The dungeon is going to collapse. I grab my core piece and force it into my Secondary body. I don''t know how I did it but Innver told me to focus my mana in the Core and push it towards my stomach. It started to grow smaller until I felt that the core entered my mana and made me stronger. Then I start running at full speed. I run and run and look behind me. Collapsed or collapsing walls,doors and pillars. I manage to barely get out and when I look around me... There is a mass of people. A few adventurers included too. There are a few guardsmen who point their spears at me and the adventurers bring out their swords. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.Guard: "Who are you! What did you do in there!" Quinn: "My name is not important. And this dungeon is now dead." I try to leave but they try to poke me with their spears. I use a smoke apple (Combination of water and Fire apple) and escape. The smoke apple what I didn''t ever get to properly try was perfect. The moment I squeezed it smoke came out like crazy and let me escape. I quickly run towards the inn what I saw Akuna and Mirikin head to and I run in. I ask the manager about them and tell them my name. Akuna already told them that they were waiting for me. The manager tells me they are on the second floor, 3rd room. I walk towards the room and when I open the door... They were coming out of the personal bath in the room. I just ignore it and head towards the middle of the room where the beds are located. It is more like a small apartement. The girls look at me and try to cover themselves with cloths. Mirikin screams at me but I don''t listen. I am still purifying the Demonic and Corrupt mana inside of me. Mirikin comes closer to slap me but Akuna stops her. Akuna: "Look at him... Didn''t you hear the rumbling outside and the screams? He must''ve found the source of that weird feeling... And don''t you see that the tips of his emerald hair are red or black and they are turning emerald again slowly?" Mirikin: "Now that you tell me... Yeah... I wonder what he is doing... I don''t think he hears us." I hear them but I can''t spare time to answer them. I lay down in a bed what seems to be open and fall asleep purifying my mana. When I wake up in the morning my mana is purified and I feel no demonic or corrupt mana inside of me for now. It might''ve hid itself in the deepest corners of my mana pool. I try to get up but feel something hold onto my stomach and legs. I look under the blanket and see Akuna sleeping next to me. I smile a little and try to wake her up. I notice Mirikin is already up and is making her hair smooth with some water magic. Akuna wakes up soon too and notices she hugged me while sleeping but seems not to be too embarrased about it. I get up too and look around. I forgot that I fell asleep with my huge black sword on my back... I didn''t use it in the battle because Innver told me to throw apples... Maybe the demon was skilled in fighting with swords? I have no time to think about dead demons. I look at Mirikin. Quinn: "Where are we headed towards next?" Mirikin: "Well... The next town would be Ironrock... But what happened yesterday?" I explain to them what happened inside the dungeon. Mirikin: "Oh... So the Demons have started a move? This is troublesome... A big war may break out..." Quinn: "Why? Against the Deani?" Mirikin: "All the countries are on the edge of war with Deani and some with eachother. If a war against Deani breaks out Euin will be at war with the Deani and then the Celden. We would be fighting a 2-way war. The others would fight against Deani too but not against Celden unless it is the Brias." Quinn: "Oh. That might be really troublesome. Well let''s head towards Ironrock. I still have to get my core back together and find a Dryads body to infuse Mayus soul into." Mirikin: "Yeah... We have to do that. Mayu is very important to all of us." Quinn: "Time to go." I start heading out the door and the girls quickly pack up their things. We head out the door until guards approach me again and point at me with their spears. Then they spot Mirikin with me and put down their spears. They bow and leave us alone and then start talking about some things. I hear them saying that "Mirikin finally got herself a boyfriend huh?" and some other things. Mirikin luckily didn''t hear them so I kept walking. The road to Ironrock is still unclear... I don''t know what will happen while walking towards Ironrock... Chapter 11. Ambush. Me, Mirikin and Akuna are traveling towards Ironrock. There is a dungeon there what I want to check out. But something is wrong... I can constantly feel something following us and sometimes I hear humans talking to eachother in the forest. My hearing and sight are enhanced thanks to being a dungeon and having a lot more mana than regular humans. I turn towards Mirikin. Quinn: "Mirikin... There are people following us. There were people who knew you in the town we came from too. How famous are you? And don''t look back." Mirikin: "I have a lot of people who want to be my suitor just because of how I look... And they also just want a branch manager to marry them and I was the only branch manager who wasn''t married. And also for a third reason... The traveller who bought me and Mayu... Mayu told this to you didn''t she? Well... He gave us a lot of money... We haven''t even spent half of it yet..." Quinn: "Hmm... Understandable. Mirikin, be prepeared for an ambush this midnight. You heard them talk too or no?" Mirikin: "I don''t have enough mana like you to hear people whisper. I''ll prepeare and tell this to Akuna." Mirikin walks towards Akuna and explains the situation. Seems people really want Mirikin for her looks and money. Well no matter. I can sense mana after I consumed the demons mana completely. These people don''t have a lot of mana compared to Akuna even... And Akuna has the least amount of mana from all 3 of us. I have almost triple the amount of mana of Mirikin and Akuna put together and then a dungeon core there too. That demon was filled with mana... The dungeon core had a lot of mana too but I can''t use any spells... I''ll need to address this issue. We continue walking for a bit until midnight approaches. We set up camp in a little flatter area because the forest we were walking in was hilly and uneven. I keep my black sword next to me and wait. I hear them coming closer and I grab the hilt of my sword... And then I got up and slashed in just a mere three seconds. I killed five of them in one slash. Looking at the amount of mana near me there are atleast 25 of them left. There is one person with more mana than the rest. Probably the leader of this little assualt on our camp. I look at the five I killed and I spot something. A pentagram engraved into their gloves. They were wearing all black with a cloak... Well the cloak is now slashed in half. I move towards the tent the girls are staying in. There are 10 of them approaching the girls tent. I start running and notice I am way faster than them. I close the gap between me and the 10 men in just a mere second surprising them. They look like they are in slow motion to me right now... This is the gap of power between me and some measly bandits. I kick one of them and he is thrown into 4 others. I slash the other 5 with my black blade tearing them in half. I look towards the ones who got knocked down by the one I kicked. The one I kicked seems to be dead. The other four fell unconcious. I hear the girls mumbling behind my back about something. There are only 15 bandits left after I slash the 4 unconcious bandits into small pieces. I head towards the 15 who are staying in a clearing in the forest. The girls are dressing themselves behind me but I leave them behind and start running. It only takes me five seconds to appear infront of them with a cloud of dust covering me. I let the dust settle down and look at them. They all have pentagrams in their gloves and the stronger one has a scepter with a red orb ontop of it. Interesting... I jump in the middle of the small group and swing my sword in a circle. All of them fall except the one who had a scepter. He noticed what I was going to do and jumped up but couldn''t avoid my swing and had his legs cut off. I look towards the legless bandit. Good time to get some information about these guys. Quinn: "Bandit. Who sent you?" Bandit: "HAH! Why should I tell you!" Quinn: "Because I will make it hurt. A LOT." I step on the guy right where a nerve is. I constrict my strength to not kill him and he screams loudly in pain. Quinn: "Talk." Bandit: "I REFUSE!" I kick the guy in the face throwing him into a tree. I walk towards the tree where the bandit is. Quinn: "I told you to talk. Now do it." Bandit: "No!" I ready a strong punch. Bandit: "OK! Do not kill me please! We were sent by the lord of the castle nearby! He wanted to get Mirikin as his wive even if he had to use force!" Quinn: "Good bandit. Now tell me the location of the castle." Bandit: "Find it yourself!" Quinn: "Bad bandit." I kick the bandit in the groin. He screams in extreme pain. Bandit: "Damn... You... You are a demon... Aren''t you..." I hear footsteps behind me and look. It''s the girls who caught up. Quinn: "Oh hey Mirikin and Akuna. I took care of the guys. Seems it was an organized ambush by a lord of the castle nearby. Want to drag this guy there?" Mirikin: "Oh... We are in the are where THAT guy is at... No just kill him..." I look at Mirikin for a bit and then pick up my blade what I left behind. Bandit: "You told me I wasn''t going to die!" Quinn: "When? I never agreed to it." I slash the bandits head right off. It flies up into the air and lands on my blade exactly on the tip. Quinn: "Let''s go talk to the lord of the castle. Just in case he tries to do something like this again." Mirikin: "Whatever suits you... But beware... This guy is an absoloute idiot who believes he can get everything with money. Even more money by using money... He only has money and his good looks... I almost fell for him at first sight..." Mirikin starts blushing a little and I notice it... Quinn: "You fell for him at first sight didn''t you. And now you saw me and fell out of love with him because I looked better?" Mirikin: "Yeah..." She blushes even stronger. Akuna was just standing there and looking at the carnage I created single-handedly. Akuna: "Mirikin... Are you capable of doing this? Am I capable of doing this?" Mirikin: "Quinn is a dungeon after all... He is stronger than a regular human and he consumed a Demons mana... The more mana you have the stronger and more powerful your body and your mind become and the older you can get." Akuna: "So I have to get more mana..." Akuna starts muttering to herself and I clean my blade with the black cloak of the people I just killed. We decided to take a detour towards the castle what was just a few kilometers east of the path we were at now. I''ll just "kindly" knock on his door and "kindly" clean the trash in his house and "kindly" repay him. "Kindly..." Hahahha. That demonic mana must be gettign to my mind. I thought I got rid of it all... Maybe my own mind is creating this? Hmm... No time to wonder. I already know what I am going to do. I head towards the east with the girls. I notice they are slower than me and then I pick them up on my shoulders. They are surprised by my sudden action but I don''t have much time. I start running at full-speed towards the castle and the girls are enjoying their little ride. We get there in 15 minutes of me running. I am quite fast... You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.I stop infront of the castle doors and guards immediatly take action. I put down the girls and walk towards the castle doors. I knock on them with full strength and they just blast off towards the keep. I look in both ways to make sure there are no guards and keep walking. I squashed most of the guards with the castle doors and the others who weren''t dead are now too scared to come at me. I walk infront of the keep doors and hit them with my leg. They blast off too but I restricted my power to not kill him instantly. It would be troublesome to kill a lord and have a small civil war go on for who gets this castle. When I look towards the castle throne... I see a good-looking man with 2 slaves next to him. The slaves seem like they are for a certain entertainment purpouse... But it seems they are really unhappy about it looking into their eyes. I look at the lord. Lord: "Who are you! Who gave you permission to enter MY castle! And why are you eyeing MY slaves!" Quinn: "Oh sorry humble idiotic Lord. I am just here to knock some common sense into you and make you free all your slaves from their imprisonment... And also to stop bothering Mirikin." Lord: "Oh! Mirikin''s lacky huh? If I defeat you I get her huh? Hah! Guards take him down!" A small elite squad of guards come out of the door but when they see the castle doors on the floor and guards dead outside... They start running backwards. They litteraly ran out of there because they knew that I was too dangerous. I started laughing and so did Akuna and Mirikin who caught up to me after I entered. The lord looks at me in shame and the slaves who were next to him and the slaves around the keep were laughing too. Quinn: "That was your elite guard squad? Hahahhaha! They ran so fast! Well... Time for some tutoring." I move so fast it looks like I teleported infront of him. A gust of wind goes through the keep as I appear infront of the lord. The slaves fall back in surprise but they are kept up by chains what are connected to the throne. The throne itself is a stone throne what is stuck to the ground. Quinn: "First. NEVER bother anybody else again. Second. Help people. Third. Free all your slaves. If you cannot do all three of those tasks. Punishment." Lord: "Never! Give me Mirikin or I will make the king make you an exil-" Before he can finish his sentence I cut off his entire left arm. He screams in pain. Lord: "Ok ok! Slaves you are all free to go! You can go! Here are the keys!" He throws the keys from his pocket out. I bandage his left arm so he won''t bleed out with a cloth I found on the floor. Lord: "I will help people and not bother people with annoying things again!" Quinn: "Promise?" Lord: "I promise, I promise!" The elite guard comes in again but this time they run at the lord. They look at me and I see some of them crying. Quinn: "Guards... Why are you crying?" Guard: "We were bound to him by a slave contract... Everybody here is a slave of that man... The left arm you cut off was never supposed to be cut off by a mortal blade... But it seems the contract was terminated the moment you stepped in the keep... You saved us from a tyrannical leader.." Quinn: "So he had hundreds of slaves?" Guard: "Yes... You are allowed to have 10-20 slaves but any more than that and you would need to explain it to the King personally... But he never did and kept getting slaves and pretending they were hired by money... He forced people from towns to give him money to help him..." Quinn: "What about the party of 30 he sent at us?" Guard: "Those were assassins and thieves trained by him... They were also slaves... He made them look like Bandits just in case.. How did you find out..?" Quinn: "I asked one of them nicely." The guards start laughing while crying and I head out. Mirikin looks at the scene inside and laughs a little. We leave for Ironrock and the girls want to get on my shoulders again. I let them jump on my shoulders and then I run towards Ironrock. We reach it in a few minutes. I was happy because I could test out my sword but it seems like I still need to learn magic... I feel like a core piece is in the dungeon in Ironrock... But somebody with high-mana is here. We head towards an inn and get a room. The manager of the inn winks at us. When we enter there is only one bed... I offer to sleep on the floor but Akuna says no. Mirikin seems to be in a state of deep thought and then she finally decides to let me sleep on the bed with her. I fall asleep in the middle of 2 girls and hear Mayu and Innver having a conversation between eachother again. I can hear them talk to eachother but they didn''t talk to me much. Probably because they don''t have anything to talk about. They are talking about Mayus death and Heretics right now huh... Mayu: "Quinn. I know you can hear us." Quinn: "Yeah yeah... I''ve been listening in. What do you need?" Mayu: "I need to explain to you about Heretics." Quinn: "Oh yeah.. The S-class did call you an Heretic." Mayu: "Heretics are technically people who went into a dungeon and killed themselves voluntarily. They believe Dungeons are sent by gods to control the world and save us from the Demons. Upcourse the S-class and SS-class people know that Heretics are idiotic and only help the Demons... Because as you saw a Demon was corrupting a Dungeon Core. After 12 months... Usually...A demon comes to a dungeon and if it is too pure,it corrupts it. If it is evil and weak it offers it more power. We usually take care of the Corrupt Dungeons but new non-corrupt ones pop up near the dead Corrupt ones and over time they begin to corrupt too. But the dungeons usually give us items so we can''t just instantly kill them..." Quinn: "Understandable. Well... What do you think about the situation I am in currently?" Mayu: "Well... You are sleeping between what is technically my slave and my sister... I don''t... Really... Mind..." Quinn: "You hate it don''t you." Mayu: "Maybe... A little.... A lot..." Quinn: "I''ll get you a Dryad body and infuse your soul into it. I promise Mayu." Mayu: "Thanks Quinn.... Thanks..." I fall asleep but in my "dreams" I talk with Mayu and Innver about some things. Mostly about my other world because they were interested in the world I was reincarnated from but I am still bothered about the big mana pool in the town... It is coming from a human... An S-class? Maybe an A-class? It''s a little bigger than my mana pool so I am worried if I can kill it without using my dungeon apples infront of everybody... Chapter 12. Revenge. I wake up at 3 o'' clock. Well I forced myself to wake up... I want to kill the S-class. The S-class is currently sleeping so I decide to go and get my core real quick. From my mana sense there are only 15 floors. I sneak out and make sure the girls are sleeping. I rush towards the dungeon and enter it. There are many little spiders and skeletons but an explosive apple cleared them all. I made sure there was nobody near the dungeon or in it with my Mana Sense ability. I quickly cleared all the 15 floors because the mobs were really weak compared to my explosive apples... These apples sure are something. I leave the other core alone because it seemed to panic when I enter. I just took my core piece and made it enter my body again... It feels weird doing that. I leave and quickly run out. The S-class wakes up at 4 o'' clock. He comes out after I released a bit of my mana into the air to signal him to come South into a flat area. I made sure only strong beings can feel it. He gets here really fast and looks at me. He feels that I am... Weird. Quinn: "Hmm. You aren''t who I was looking for. But it is still good. I will destroy you... You killed Mayu because you thought she was a Heretic. She was not." S-class: "A heretic she was. And so are you." He takes out two small blades. Twin sword style huh... I grab my huge black sword and he looks at me weirdly. S-class: "How... Can you even swing such a big thing around... It''s even bigger than a shield!" He rushes at me but when I suddenly throw an explosive apple at him... He panics. He stops and tries to run away but the explosive apple makes contact with his left leg. The left leg is completely blown off and he screams in pain. I start walking towards him and before I notice it... My emerald hair has turned Ruby. The tips of my hair are as dark as the darkness next to the sunlight. My hair is still down to my waist. The hair however... Has formed a mask. The mask is half-emerald color, half-ruby. There are spots of black at my eyes though. I looked like a literal demon right now... Just with no horn, no wings and no tail. The S-class looks at me like I was a real demon. S-class: "Demon... You are a demon..." Quinn: "Maybe." I grab his right arm and twist it around 3 turns until it snaps off. He screams in pain during the entire time I did that. I felt myself unconciously smiling under the mask... But I didn''t stop. This one was an S-class who killed Mayu and destroyed my core. Now I will destroy their "core". I grab his left arm and notice him crying even more than three hundred children. It seems he is in shock... He is crying and trying to say something but can''t. I twist his left arm off too. He screams in pain during the time I did that too... My smile only got bigger the more pain I inflicted upon my "killer". I then heard laughing... It was me. I was unconciously laughing... Then before I noticed it... I grabbed out his real and his mana heart... I ate his mana heart and felt all of his mana flow into me at the same time. He was dead the instant I grabbed out his heart and then I just squeezed it above my head until it blew up... I threw apples at the dead body to clean up the remains. I notice a locket on his neck and open it up. It was another S-class but a female. Why I knew this? I noticed her. I noticed her grinning in the back as I was destroyed. When the killing had ended I noticed it was... 12 O'' clock... I had tortured him for so long... How was he able to survive until I tore out his heart? Then I noticed... I was fully covered in his blood. Only my emerald hair what turned back from the ruby form was clean somehow. My mask was also gone... What was that just now... Was that my form of hatred... I don''t want to know about that again... But I will ask Innver about it. Innver? The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.Innver: "I... I don''t know... I don''t know what that was... None of the secondary bodies of dungeons have done that...." Mayu: "No demon or human has done that either... What are you... What goddess reincarnated you into this world and made you into this..." I wonder that myself... But a goddess reincarnated me? What do you mean? Mayu: "Ignore it for now... Mirikin and Akuna must be really worried about your sudden dissapearance." I nod in my head and run towards the city. I walk in and all the citizens who are awake and saw me screamed. A person with no injuries but fully covered in blood was rare. They looked at me like they were looking at a merciless monster. Luckily there were no kids around because I would''ve given them a trauma. I head into the Inn where all the people who were already drinking ale dropped their mugs and looked at me. The manager freaked out too and let all the papers in her hand down onto the floor. Soon after Akuna came down but didn''t freak out. Then Mirikin came out... She freaked out too much. Quinn: "Mind if I go take a bath before you bombard me with questions?" I walk up after they made a path for me. Almost everybodies but Akunas jaw was dropped. I laughed a little while going up. Why were they so surprised about me being covered in blood? When I was taking a bath and washing my hair just in case... I stumbled upon what they were looking at. I was growing horns. I immediatly assumed it was from the demon... Damn demon making me grow horns when I was killing an S-class... Well torturing him. Luckily they weren''t too big so I just covered them up with my hair. When I finish my bath and go downstairs where Akuna and Mirikin are at Akuna looks at me like she is dissapointed. Akuna: "Aww.... I liked your horns... They made you look so cool..." Quinn: "Hmm? But I looked like a demon." Akuna: "Can you bring them back out... Pleaaase...." Akuna looks at me with puppy eyes... I can''t just say no can I...? I move my hair around again and show my horns. They were about five centimeters tall and 2 centimeters wide. They were in a small arch. Mirikin looks calmed down. Mirikin: "What happened... Where did you go...?" Quinn: "Revenge." I tell them everything about what I did. Well I whispered it only to Akuna and Mirikin so the others won''t get too suspicious. The manager sometimes tried to listen in but I stopped for a bit when I noticed and until the manager left. I then get a genius Idea... What if I serve under a king... And get some tomes of magic and learn some basic magic and gain a stable living location and a location where I can rule the town above my future dungeon? Quinn: "Mirikin... Is there a chance for me to get a meeting with the king." Mirikin: "Indeed there is... I could use my connections to see if the king will accept it." Quinn: "Please do. I''ll tell you the reason later." Mirikin: "But for that we must head North West to the Capital." Quinn: "Ok... It will be a bother to stop the search but might as well." We start heading towards the Capital. I know this genius idea of mine will work... But will the others like it? Probably not... I wonder if I could save every slave... Hmm... Might as well try? A small fief full of freed slaves? Hahahha... That sounds completely insane honestly. But might as well give it a try. I''ll upcourse have to constrict my power as not to kill everybody I see in a mere instant. And I also must silently build my dungeon when I get the core back together... The path to the Capital is safe... So what will they do in the capital? We shall find out next time. Chapter 13. Capital of Euin. Hmm... The road to Euin''s capital was safe. No problems arose... Now what will I do. This capital is huge... The keep is atleast a kilometer up in the air but connected to the ground by walls... The entire town is huge. We are currently infront of the gate waiting to get in... The reason why we couldn''t get in? My unnaturally colored hair... I can''t change the color of my hair on will now can I... Mirikin is currently talking to the guards and Akuna is just patiently sitting on the ground. There are atleast fifty guards with bows or crossbows aiming directly at me only... Well... The second reason I can''t get in is because of my small horns... I know I should''ve concealed them but that would''ve been bothersome to constantly keep track of whether my horns have popped out or not. I just need to clear the problem by proving I won''t hurt anyone... Well If need be I will kill them, hide my horns and then continue on my path. But even more problems will arise then... I''ll just trust Mirikin on this one... I wait and wait... And wait... It takes half of the day for Mirikin to convince them to let me in... And that was just fifteen minutes after a captain came here... The guards are really on edge here. Just because of horns they won''t let me in... And my unnatural hair color too... Is it that uncommon to have these two paired up? I''ve heard tales of races who have horns but are on the side of humans. Well atleast we got in. We head towards the keep but I spot a library and a magic store next to the library. I look at Mirikin and she offers to go there for a bit. I immediatly rush into the magic store to find a book for basic magic but to no luck... There are only magical weapons sadly... And I wished for some books... I run into the library and ask around for magic books. Sadly no such thing is here either. I grab a couple books for races and some to learn the history of this world. Mirikin paid 5 gold coins for it and we left. We kept walking towards the keep. I am managing to not trigger the senses of every magician in this town for now. I am containing my magic as best as I can but I feel if somebody would directly stare at me they would deffinetly notice the aura of magical power around me... And I even wonder if the king wants a new vassal! We just have to find out... We keep walking for what seems hours... Well it was hours. I see quite a few... Red districts... In the way to the keep. Euin has quite the... Fascination... For that kind of stuff it seems. Or is it just my dungeon sense to not get what the red districts really offer? No matter for now. When we reach the keep, finally, we are greeted by gigantic decorated doors... They really like their huge doors here in Euin. Then two guards approach frm the sides and open the doors. They look like they are really pushing their strength to open the doors. Well they try to open the doors but it looks like it will take a while so I just walk up to them and push the doors out of the way with one finger. The guards look like I am a monster but I ignore it. I enter with Mirikin and Akuna behind me. Mayu seems... Excited... Inside my head. Innver keeps bothering me to look around. Well... It isn''t good sharing your own mind with 2 other beings with conciousness. It''s quite annoying sometimes to be honest. When we enter we are greeted by a long line of royal guards. We walk the red carpet to the throne. I am impressed that we were let in this soon. I expected some kind of wait for a day or two or a month. Well it''s good. I don''t have to waste much time. I bow down because Mayu kind of... Ordered me to. Mirikin and Akuna bow down behind me too. King: "Stand up. Please introduce yourselves." Mirikin: "I am Mirikin, former adventurer branch leader." Akuna: "I am Akuna. Former slave." Then they look at Akuna in surprise and then they look at me. The unknown mystery. Quinn: "I am Quinn. What I am is not neccesary to know... Just think of me as a monster if you wish." I hear loud gasping as I look behind me. There are a couple people who are dressed in fancy clothes. Nobles I guess... I look back at the King who is also looking at me with an open jaw. Then I notice that all the guards have drawn their spears and aimed them at me. The person next to the king who I am assume is the royal guard captain drew his longsword. King: "Sheathe your weapons! I don''t need any unneccesary deaths here!" They sheathe their weapons but still look at me very carefully. King: "State your business here." Mirikin steps up and starts talking: "Quinn wishes to become a vassal of you, the king. But why does everybody immediatly unsheathe their weapons if Quinn tells them they can think of him as a monster?" King: "The reason for the unsheating of weapons... Is his horns. We thought they were just some make-up at first but until he said that we may think of him as a monster... We knew he wasn''t lying by the sincerity of his words and then... They took action. And to become my vassal huh... That won''t be easy you know?" If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.Quinn: "I would still like to be a vassal. May I?" King: "If you beat my top royal guards yes. The captain and the 5 best." Quinn: "Acceptable. I thought I had to kill a dragon or something..." King: "My royal guards are dragons! Hahahaha!" Quinn: "So May I kill them then?" King: "No... I still need them... But if you are that confident... You must be strong right?" Quinn: "You will see, My Lord." Quinn smirks and heads outside. He saw a huge field that looks like a training one. The 6 royal guards come out to the field soon too. They are fully armed against Quinn who is just wearing casual clothing and has a huge black sword on his back. King: "Is everybody ready?" Contestants and Quinn: "Yes." King: "Then begin." They all charge at him but in an instant Quinns sword is unsheathed and hit into the ground creating a massive shockwave what felt like an earthquake. Everybody but Quinn stumbles onto the floor. They quickly get up but it is too late. Quinn is already infront of them with his black sword already being swung. But the part what hits the guards is not the sharp part. They all get thrown into the wall. Quinn: "Is that all that is needed King?" King: "...." Quinn: "My lord?" King: "O..oh! Yes yes! That is all what is needed! Back to the throne room! Maids, prepeare the ceremony!" We hurry back to the throne room. King: "Maids! Take our new vassal to the changing rooms and get him an outfit what matches him!" The maids quickly come to us and signal us to follow them. We follow them until we reach the male and female changing rooms. I enter the male one and I meet a squad of maids what bow to me. They quickly start taking my measurements and finding a new clothes for me. Then they start taking my clothes off and helping me put on the new ones. The time until I got out was only five minutes. Quite fast... I wait for an extra five minutes till the girls get out too. Their clothing matches mine... I have an emerald-green top and emerald green pants. The girls have emerald green dresses. It is made out of the finest quality materials one of the maids said. We rush to the throne room where everything is already set. Only 10 minutes was all it took? We begin the ceremony and we bow down. The king comes to me and does the ceremony aka just puts a sword on both of my shoulders and says some words. Then he orders us to raise. The words the king said were: "I dub thee, Quinn, a royal vassal of the kingdom of Euin. I give you the title of Count. Now raise a Count, Quinn." I get up and everybody except the king and the nobles bow down. King: "The ceremony is now over. I arranged a carriage for you to take you to your county. I wish you a safe trip, Count Quinn. Mind I ask you... What is your family name?" Quinn: "I have no family name. I was a wanderer with no relations before I met Akuna and Mirikin a few days ago." The King looks relieved and when we leave I hear him say under his breath: "Finally... I can get somebody strong in my family line..." I wondered what those words meant but I decided to ignore it for now. On the way to my County I read a book about Euin. Apparently the royal family is losing all of its power with every new prince or princess. The only way they have secured their stability on the throne is thanks to marrying all their princes or princesses to their royalty and other kings. So I guess I am going to have a fiance¨¦ too because of those words... Hmm... No matter for now. I wish for peace and quiet in my county so I wish, if I am going to have a fiance¨¦, that she will be calm... We are currently still heading towards my county... Those royal guards were really weak compared to me... Only a few people in this kingdom could even stand up to me without being blown down by just me hitting the ground slightly with my sword... Probably... I wonder how many powerful beings are in this world even? Well... I first have to fix all the problems in my county if there are any... I wonder what Mirikin is currently thinking of this situation... No matter... I slowly drift off to sleep while being in the carriage taking us to my County. The book I was reading falls down to the floor before I fall asleep... I haven''t properly slept actually... Well... I''ve always forced myself... To.. Sleep... --- That''s the end of this chapter. Next time we will bring back the management part of our little LN... Also point out any flaws I have. I want to fix them as quickly as possible. Don''t just post things like: "Boring" or "so many mistakes!" as I''ve seen in quite a few other LN''s i''ve read. Please tell me all the problems I have and I will improve upon them. Thanks. Yours truly, Katsune. Chapter 14. County. Quinn is still heading towards his County. Meanwhile... The king is explaining to one of the princesses about his decision of giving him a county not barony. King: "The decision is made Jenica! I will give him a county not a barony!" Jenica (Princess): "But Father! He has no achievements! He is just strong! We don''t know ANYTHING about him! He might be a spy!" King: "We have enough problems with our power! We need somebody STRONG in our ranks! We are running out of strong and powerful physically people! The last ones are my royal guards! The last strong royal died suddenly! I allowed him to have over one hundred slaves without him knowing it but he just up and died! He is our last hope against all-out war!" Jenica: "But father! He is a demon! Those horns on his head tell us everything!" King: "Shut up Jenica! He is the strongest in our kingdom! My eyes couldn''t see his mana power at all, but that doesn''t mean anything! He might be that strong to hide it from even me!" Jenica: "Yes Father... I will accept your decision father..." King: "Good Jenica... I will place all my bets on him... The man who introduced himself as Quinn. And we don''t have much time... The demon army is heading towards here at the same speed... Only a few weeks remaining..." And now back to Quinn. He has finally reached his County (after a few more hours...) I wake up and see... My county... I think? Well... I see a huge castle atleast. When we reach the castle we stop. The door to our carriage opens. I exit with Mirikin and Akuna right behind me. I am still in my... Outfit... But I ignore it and start heading towards the keep. When I reach the Keep Doors two guards try to push them open... I just lift a finger and touch them slightly and they swing open. The guards look at me like a monster again. Hmm... I''ll have to find the library here. I couldn''t ask the king for some tomes yet. Might sound too suspicious... I''ll also need to notify the king about my lack of... Information. Luckily I look like a teen still. Hmm... Too many questions and problems what need answering. I''ll handle the ones here first. I head over to my throne and sit on it. A maid looks at me. Quinn: "If there are problems in my county please address them to me now. I will handle all the ones I can right here, right now. The rest I will handle later." The maid nods and looks at the wide open door and then walks out from the throne room. Then a stream of people enter. They look like village elders and other important people. I gesture with my hand for one of them to step forward. An elderly woman steps forward. Quinn: "Name your problem." Elderly woman: "My village is starving from all our young''uns from leaving... They want to go to the capital for better jobs than what they get here... What can we do?" Quinn: "Hmm... What kind of crops or animals do you have?" Elderly woman: "We are growing potatoes and we have cows." I explain to them the best way to handle potatoes and cows that I learned from my past life. The elderly woman looks in surprise and then about fifteen percent of the people leave in hurry. I wonder if they had the same questions. I gesture for the next one to come. A younger kid comes forward. Kid: "Please... Please my lord.... Help my mother... She is sick and we cannot afford medicine... Please give us some money... We will serve you forever..." I then look at Mirikin and she immediatly understands and hands the kid a couple gold coins. The kid runs off with the money crying. Quite a lot of other kids and elderly people approach Mirikin and ask for money. She hands them the money and they all leave. Only fifty percent of them are left. I gesture for the next one. A teenager comes up. Teen: "My lord, we are constantly under attack my goblins and such. Please help us!" Quinn: "Stay here Teenager. When I am finished with the rest I will go with you to your goblin problem and fix it. Personally." They look in surprise and the teenager steps to the side. So do quite a few other younger people. Only fifteen percent left. I gesture for the next one. A female with a kid approaches. Woman: "My lord... We lost our house due to a wildfire... Please let us stay in the castle... Please..." Quinn: "Ok. You may stay here. Maids, please look after her." A team of maids approach her and signal her to follow them. I gesture for the next. Another kid approaches. Kid: "Please help us... We ran out of people to help us cut wood... We don''t have enough wood for the cold nights... Some of us are being taken by frostbite..." Quinn: "Mirikin. Please give him some money and keep supplying them with a couple gold coins until we get production back up here. Then I will start giving them gold. Kid, use these gold coins to hire adventurers as lumberjacks. Make sure you don''t waste them." The kid nods and happily runs off with some money. I help the other people with their problems too. Then I head towards the people with the goblin problems. I follow them all around my county clearing goblin camps in an instant by swinging my black blade with full strength and creating a massive air wave what decapitates all the goblins. I then head back to my throne room and close the doors. It is evening now. I fixed all the problems in just a few hours. Mirikin doesn''t seem one bit troubled that I am using her money for now. I go to the treasury after getting back to the throne room and see that it only has a few coins. If I were to use these I couldn''t do anything. Too little money. I need to ask the king for some support. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.I head back to the throne room and signal the maids to show me to my room. A maid with cat ears approaches me. I wonder why none of the maids talk to us. I tried to talk to some on my way to the throne room but they all bowed and didn''t say anything. Infact they looked scared when I approached them. Quinn: "Maids. Why do you look scared when I approach you? Why do you look at me like a monster? Is it because of my unnatural hair color? My unnatural body? My horns? Please tell me." The head maid appraoches me... Well I think it is the head maid from her outfit. Head Maid: "Our lord... We cannot talk to royalty such as you... We mere servants, lower than commoners, have no such right..." I hit the closest wall and create a crack in it. If I weren''t holding back my power the entire castle would collapse. Quinn: "Nonsense! I might be royalty now but I wasn''t before I met the king! Me and everybody in my county are the same! I might be the royal who owns this place but that means nothing! I expect all of you to trust me and not just serve me out of fear!" I start screaming at them. They look scared and Akuna with Mirikin look at me scared too. I then calm down. Quinn: "I am sorry for screaming at you maids... It''s just... I don''t want to be an overseer or a ruler of fear... I want everyone to be equal." The head maid approaches me but is clearly still shaking. Head Maid: "Y..Yes... We...We understand... We are your equals..." Quinn: "Don''t be afraid of me." I put my hand on her shoulder and look at her. She starts calming down when she looks linto my eyes. I then let her go. Quinn: "Please show me my way to my room." The cat eared maid comes up to me. Maid: "Please follow me, Quinn..." I follow the maid and soon reach a huge bedroom. Two other maids took Akuna and Mirikin to the same bedroom. There was a huge bed what seemed to fit 5 people in the bedroom. Maid: "We hope that... You all are fine with sleeping in the same bed... We don''t have any more beds..." Quinn: "I think it is fine. Is it Mirikin and Akuna?" Mirikin: "M...May..be..." Akuna: "Yes!" I then signal them to leave and they understand. They still listen to me but they do their own things too now and don''t just wait for my command. I go to a desk and look for a paper and pen. I find some and start writing my letter to the king with the help of Mirikin upcourse.: Dear King, I must ask you to support me with some funds. I just inspected my treasury and it is basically empty. I also must infrom you of my lack of knowledge of this world. I need some basic education so can you arrange for me to attend an academy? Also... Are there any magical tomes? I know nothing of magic. Yours truly, Count Quinn. P.S. The writer of this is actually one of my fellow helpers. Mirikin. I then go up to the head maid and ask her to send this to the King. She then goes somewhere outside and I soon see a horse leaving. For now all the problems are taken care of and I am quite tired from swinging my sword around. I start undressing but leave my underwear on. I then go to sleep and soon after feel two girls cuddle next to me. I soon start talking to Mayu and Innver about the current situation. They are quite happy with everything for now. Hmm... I wonder if the king will allow me into an academy. I am a count after all... And I really hope he has some magical tomes or a grimoire. I need to learn some magical spells and fast. I can''t depend on my apples and my sword forever. The apples might not be usable everywhere If I don''t want others to know of my... Origins. This day was a success I think. I got all the problems fixed. I was expecting there to be some I couldn''t fix but I could fix all of them. They all shared some common problems what I took care of really fast. But I feel something coming from the underneath of the castle. I used my mana sense what allowed me to locate something what looked like an egg... I couldn''t see the insides of it but I ignored that fact for now. I want to know what that egg holds and what to do with it... But how do i get to there is the first problem. I will find the answer in the morning probably... For now i''ll wait... Chapter 15. The Egg. I wake up with Akuna and Mirikin next to me. I use mana sense again and the egg is still there... Still emitting it''s mana... I can only see the mana it is emitting and not it''s real mana capacity... I dont know how powerful this creature might be... But I want to get stronger don''t I? The stronger you are, the more chance of survival. I get up without waking the two girls and dress up. I didn''t put on the clothes that I wore yesterday. I put on a plain white shirt and some black trousers. I also put on some armor aka just some guards and a chestpiece. I also take my black sword with me. I never know what I will find down there if I do find the passage. All of this is a mystery to me... I exit the room to find one of the maids here. It is the cat eared one again. I know that there are only a few beast race maids here. And this one is the only one with cat ears. Quinn: "Hello. Please speak quietly, Mirikin and Akuna are sleeping..." Maid: "I will Quinn... But where are you heading off to already? The sun hasn''t properly come up yet..." Quinn: "Underneath the castle. Do not mention this to anybody else ok? I will return soon probably. What is your name anyways... None of the maids give me their names." Maid: "My name is Suzu. But there is nothing underneath the castle..." Quinn: "Thank you Suzu. I will remember your name." Suzu: "Quinn... Do you have a family name? I''ve never heard you use one.." Quinn: "No, I do not. I didn''t need one. I need to wait for the King to give me one right?" Suzu: "Indeed... I will now return to my duties. I was waiting for Mirikin to wake up... I have... Something to ask her..." I leave and knock on the walls to find a passage way down. The castle shouldn''t have a cellar Suzu told me... Well there always are secret passage ways. I keep knocking on the walls for a while until I hit in a brick. A door then starts opening with magic. My mana sense told me that. I go down and the door shuts. Torches are being lit up and a stairway is going down. I walk down for a while and reach a huge room what is lit up by an light emerald-like color. The origin of that light? The egg. The egg is emitting that light together with the mana. Well to be precise... The mana is the light. I approach the egg... Innver: "Step back! I feel something trying to invade your mind Quinn! Step back!" Mayu: "Quinn! Do as Innver says!" I keep walking forward. I know what they said. But if it wants to invade my mind... I will destroy it completely if it tries to take it over. ?: "You... What are you... You are a mix of many things... A demon... A human soul... A dungeon? Interesting... Very interesting..." Quinn: "Wha... Who are you?" ?: "Me... You shall find out about me later, abomination... Name yourself first." Quinn: "My name is Quinn. Yours?" ?: "The master of me can give me a name... But I have no master... Hence I have no name... Shall you become my master, Quinn the Abomination?" Quinn: "I will. Your mana is powerful... It shall help me with my quest..." ?: "Amusing... Infuse your mana with mine... It will take me three days to start hatching though..." I walk up to the egg and infuse some of my mana into it. I feel the egg starting to change. ?: "Return to me in three days. I shall hatch then." I nod and leave the room... That egg... It could take before hatching... And I became the master of a stronger being? I am excited to find out what its real body is... I go back to my bedroom just to find Mirikin and Akuna still sleeping and Suzu fell asleep too waiting for Mirikin. I pick Suzu up from the floor and put her on my bed. I then sit on a chair and look at the girls sleeping. I do that for two hours waiting for them... Akuna was the first to wake up. When she got up and looked at me she blushed a little... She actually blushed once. Well she got dressed up and then Mirikin woke up at the same time as Suzu. Suzu notices she is on my bed and freaks out. She gets up and apologizes many times but I just laugh it off. Mirikin gets up and notices me. She blushes a lot and then dresses up while blushing... Was it that weird for me to just watch them sleep? I had nothing better to do. I then get up and head towards the throne room. The messenger to the king left yesterday... I heard that it takes 4 days by horse to get there and back. That means I have enough time for the egg. I sit on my throne and fall into a deep thought. Before I fall into a deep thought I notice that there are two smaller throne-like chairs on my sides. Mirikin and Akuna sit in them. Well I guess you could call them princesses... Or queens? Well no matter... I wonder what that egg is... I need to wait for the king to send the message. Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!I wait and wait for three days... I couldn''t sleep at all during the three days so Akuna and Mirikin got worried for me and asked me if something is wrong. I just told them it is nothing. I go down to the hidden chamber. The egg has a couple cracks in it. ?: "Hoh... Perfect timing. I am about to hatch, master." The egg shines brightly and an Luna Moth appears from it... Based on my knowledge of that moth it should be a female... (Author - For reference head to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actias_luna) The moth approaches me. The moth is big compared to regular ones. But it isn''t a giant one like in fairy tales. This is a regular-looking one.. It flies onto my shoulder. ?: "Master, this is my real body. I can also change into a human form. I am a female just so you know. What shall be my name, Master?" Quinn: "Your name... Acila... Yes. Acila." Acila: "I will take that name. What does it mean?" Quinn: "It comes from my past world. I learned some Latin and I learned the Latin form of your... Race. The Actias Luna. Hence Acila." Acila: "Latin...? No matter. I know you are from another world now." Quinn: "Can you also not call me... Master... It doesn''t feel right." Acila: "Then how about father? You did give me enough mana to hatch and a name. I couldn''t hatch with only my mana alone. I needed some from the outside world." Quinn: "Father...? Well I guess it is fine for now... It''s better than master in my mind..." Then I feel a sting on my shoulder and I notice Acila is gone but a weird tatoo of a Luna Moth appears on the back of my right arm. I also feel a lot stronger. Acila: "I fused my body with yours. We are now one. I can come out of your body and go in at will. Our mana pools are fused together too." Quinn: "Mayu... Innver... Are you fine with it?" Mayu: "Yes. It feels like I am the mother of Acila for some reason..." Innver: "It is quite fine with me. It gives us strength and ontop of that I feel like... Something humans call an Uncle?" Quinn: "Good. Acila. I want to introduce you to Mayus sister, Mirikin and Akuna. I guess you could say they are your big sisters or mothers...? Even though we are not blood related at all... Well no matter. I just want to introduce you." I head upstairs and Acila turns to her human form. It is a small human with wings like a fairy. She looks really cute and looks like an eight year old. She hovers around me as I enter the bedroom and Mirikin jumps in shock as she sees Acila hover around. Akuna jumps in shock too. Quinn: "Calm down you both. This is Acila. She hatched from an egg I found in a secret chamber. She calls me her father because I gave her a name and helped her hatch." Akuna calms down but Mirikin is still shocked a little. Akuna: "Aww.... She is so cute... What kind of race is she...?" Acila turns to her Luna moth form. Akuna looks at it. Mirikin: "A Luna Moth... These moths are supposed to be extinct... They carried a lot of mana with them and were good prey for humans in the early stages..." I explain the situation to them and then notice... The letter form the king. It came back faster than I thought. Quinn: "Hmm... It is here already? I expected a few more hours of waiting. Well no matter." I open the letter. To count Quinn. I shall fund you with regular sums of ten gold coins a month. That should be enough for now. And about the academy... I already prepeared everything for your arrival. I also prepeared room for Akuna and Mirikin because I know they are going to come with you. A person is coming to look over your county while you are gone. And as for the magical tomes... The academy has them. Grimoires we don''t have. Yours truly, The king. Hmm. Good to know. I luckily can read but I can''t write. I tell Mirikin and Akuna to prepeare things and the head maid prepeares a carriage for us. We head off towards the academy. We looked the location of the academy up on a map of our kingdom. It is only three days of riding a carriage away. Closer than the capital. This will be an interesting location I am going to. Magical tomes too. Good... Everything is proceeding as planned. Chapter 16. Academy and demons. We reach the academy after 3 days of sitting in the carriage and getting out sometimes only just to see the sunlight for five minutes... When we get out of the carriage I see an old man with a huge gray beard. Like Dumbledore from Harry Potter... Even this world has its own Dumbledore huh... Old Man: "I am the headmaster of this academy. I welcome you Count Quinn. I''ve heard about your situation from the king. So you can only read and not write huh... And you need magic too? Atleast you won''t need physical training because that is one thing I cannot help you with. Oh and my name is Mackwell." Quinn: "Nice to meet you. Where should we go? We have to unpack our things." Mackwell: "Follow me Count Quinn." Quinn: "Just call me anything you want. I am not too familiar with the Count ranking yet so it is not neccesary." Mackwell: "As you wish, my boy. Oh and I must mention this... Jenica arrived yesterday." Quinn: "Jenica...?" Mackwell: "The only princess who isn''t engaged or married to anybody. And you are the only royalty left to marry." Quinn: "I am going to get a headache from this aren''t I?" Mackwell: "Quite a lot, my boy! Jenica is known to be one of the most arrogant of the princesses! I should really put up some viewing wards around here now. This is going to get interesting." Quinn: "Ahh.... Annoying... I just wanted to get some magical tome and knowledge and not be forcefully engaged to a princess..." Mackwell: "You only became a royal for those reasons! Hahahaha! You are certainly different my boy! By the way, your classes are going to start in a few hours. Better unpack fast." We talked for a little while until we reached a manor. There were some butlers and maids waiting for us and they immediatly took our things and started unpacking them. A butler tried to pick up my black sword but he couldn''t even lift it by one millimeter. He called for help and a huge muscular butler comes and tries to lift it. The same happens. The headmaster then takes interest in the sword and looks at it. Mackwell: "This... Is your sword...?" Quinn: "Is anything wrong with it?" Mackwell: "It''s a Dungeon Sword... Only Dun-" I decide to stop him from talking even though he was 5 meters away from me but I closed that gap faster than the speed of light and put my hand infront of his mouth. I then whisper to him. Quinn: "Do not... Tell anybody of it. I do not wish for people to come after me knowing I wield a dungeon sword and I can give them rewards. You mention what I wield to somebody... Prepeare for pain in the general area of... Everywhere." Mackwell gulps and then nods. I take my arm away. The butlers and maids look at me like I am a maniac, shutting up the headmaster of the academy I am going to attend. I then pick up the huge black sword. I stop whispering. Quinn: "Do not worry about the black sword. It is a special sword what can only be lifted by me. I will also be taking this sword with me to the classes. Is that OK Mackwell?" Mackwell: "Yes it is my boy! All the royals can take their personal blades to classes if they wish. Yours is just... Way bigger than usual. The biggest sword a royal carries around is similiar in size to an axe. The longest was a bastard sword. Yours is thrice the size of a greatsword and one and a half the length of a greatsword..." Quinn: "Good. Well I should get going shouldn''t I? I don''t want to be particularly late to my classes." Mackwell: "You do that. I will have a chat with Mirikin and Akuna seeing as they start classes tomorrow." Quinn: "Bye then." Akuna and Mirikin: "Bye! Come back safely!" I laugh a little. They litteraly sound like a wife now... Not like I know what one of them sounds like. I have to watch out for the headmaster... I walk to the main campus and enter. A teacher is already waiting for me. Teacher: "Ahh. Count Quinn. I was waiting for you. Your class is already waiting for your arrival. All they know is that a new student is coming." I follow the Teacher and she tells me to stay outside until She tells me to enter. I wait for a little while. The teacher is female... Teacher: "Please enter, new student." I enter and everybody looks at me in shock. Every teacher had a notification about my... Looks... So they didn''t freak out as much. But the students... They freaked out. Some of them drew their swords. Some of them started casting magic. Some of them soiled themselves by accident.... Others just plain old fainted. I tap the wall, gently, and create a crack in it to signify that I will not take disobedience right now. The teacher was about to quiet the class down but I did it faster. I approach the teachers table to introduce myself. Quinn: "I am Count Quinn. And can you all not freak out because of my appearance? I might be somewhat of a demon but I am still one of the... Royals... Of the kingdom of Euin." Some of the girls who quite clearly almost soiled themsleves but were quick enough to hold it in and start casting mana get back up. Everybody sat down when I gently tapped the wall. Aristocrat Girl: "Hahaha! You cannot be Count Quinn! You are too young! Count and higher ranks are given to strong and experienced men! You probably did that crack in the wall using all your power and mana!" A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.Quinn: "Hmm.... Want to place your bets? I will fight the strongest in the class in a duel." A young man who is surpressing his fear approaches me. He has a normal sword on his hip. The hilt is decorated with gold lines. Aristocrat: "I will fight you! After all I am superior to these other lower aristocrats! My father is the Duke of Everlake!" I nod and look at the teacher. She sighs. Teacher: "Follow me... I''ll take you to the duelling grounds... Class, if you want to see this please follow me." Almost all of the class gets up except those who seem to have soiled themselves. And most of the ones who soiled themselves look like pampered aristocrat daughters and sons. I follow the teacher and a mass of students follow behind us. In the few minutes in the class I noticed that the class had... Fifteen rows and ten columns. There were fifteen students in one row so one hundred and fifty students in the whole class. Well except the ninty empty desks... So sixty students... But there were more students from other classes mixed in too. The other classes heard the commotion from my new class and decided to check out what was going on. We reached the duelling grounds and I noticed a huge barrier around a square area. I enter on the right side and the boy enters on the left. I decide to scare him a little so I show just five percent of my total mana pool. Half of the students nearby just faint from that amount.... Are they really that weak...? The aristocrat boy is even more afraid of me... The teacher begins the countdown. Five seconds pass and it starts... And it ends in one second... What happened in that one second? Well the boy tried to cast magic but I ran infront of him and hit him in the stomach throwing him out of bounds while breaking over half of his ribs and I also hit his shoulder with my other arm rendering one of his arms completely useless... Nobody saw what happened because as soon as I started running a huge cloud of dust appeared around us and it didn''t dissapear until ten seconds later. Nobody noticed where the boy was at and they were looking into dust and not towards the walls. The dust settles and they look in shock. The boy is nowhere to be seen and I am just standing there. I laugh a little and point towards the wall. Quinn: "There is your student. Might want to rush to his aide. I might''ve broken his shoulder and over half of his ribs. And for the students... I am not here to hurt you. I am here to study just like you. But if you try to attack me in a fight... Prepeare." I then look at the teacher of my class. There were other teachers here too who immediatly after I pointed to the boy ran to him and cast healing magic. Teacher: "Well... You showed us something amazing already Count..." Quinn: "Just call me Quinn. And can we start with our lessons now?" Teacher: "Immediatly Quinn!" I laugh a little and we head back to my class. I just study regular things and when I head back to my manor... I see Mirikin and Akuna looking at me worried. Quinn: "What is the problem? Is it because I crushed an aristocrat?" Akuna: "Not that... You have to already leave..." Quinn: "What do you mean?" Akuna: "The king... Ordered you to go towards the coast line. A demon army has reached the shores... They want you to fight..." Quinn: "Hmm... And I haven''t even properly got accustomed to the school yet. Akuna. Mirikin. Do not follow me." Mirikin comes up and tugs on my shirt. Mirikin: "Please... Come back safe... I don''t want to lose you too..." I smile. Quinn: "I will come back. After I kill all of the demons. I don''t know about the safe part though... I cannot use... Those... Infront of humans." I go inside and put on some heavy gear that was already sent to me by the King. He really thought this through didn''t he... He really wants me to go and fight an army of demons... I hope he atleast sent an army of men there to help me... I am about to leave after putting on the armor and grabbing my black sword. I feel something holding me back when I am about to step outside. I feel something soft on both of my cheeks and then I look back. Akuna and Mirikin are there. I then realize what they did... They kissed me on the cheeks... Hahahaha. They really are acting like my wives now. You aren''t jealous right Mayu? Mayu: "No... It is my sister and the slave girl I helped save... I don''t mind sharing you with them..." I start running. I run at Mach 5 but it still takes me five days of running without break... That is how big the continent of Euin really is compared to the small area I was at before. The small area of where the capital, the academy and the County is at was really like zero point five percent of the total size of Euin... When I reach there I spot a huge army of demons and a huge army of humans. None are engaging in combat. The humans are in a formation. Heavy-armored at front and the less armored at the back. It is time for war. Chapter 17. War never changes. I am here... With about one point five million men against... Two million? Two point one? There are too many of them to see. Hahah... This deffinetly won''t be a safe fight... I''ll probably get a huge scar somewhere... I just need to make sure I don''t get a fatal injury or decapitation or I lose a limb... I approach the camps. The Demons are just floating above the shore not doing anything. All of our men are ready for a fight any time. I even saw some sleeping with their eyes open. I enter a tent what seems more important than others and has stronger mana from the inside. I see two people arguing with eachother. As I step in they notice me. The people are a man and a woman. Man: "Oh... Count Quinn... Pleasure to meet you. I''m Captain Gonzo." Woman: "Hello Count Quinn. I am Commander Rachael" Quinn: "Nice to meet you both. What was the thing you were arguing about?" I approach them and a maid brings a chair. I sit on it. Quinn: "Hmm... No other royalty here? Am I the only one fighting from the Aristocrats side?" Rachael: "Indeed you are. The others are too afraid to fight themselves so they sent their men. Damn cowards I tell you... And the problem is... The soldiers. They cannot co-operate with each other. They can get into one formation but co-operation seems impossible. When some of them even touch slightly they try to stab at each other." Quinn: "Oh... Is that a problem...? Where is the highest point here?" Gonzo: "The cliff of the shoreline. You should''ve seen it if you came here." Quinn: "Oh. I''ll be right back then." I go out, run to the top of the cliff and then prepeare to shout at the top of my vocal cords. Quinn (While shouting): "Men! This is Count Quinn! If you cannot co-operate with each other you will all die infront of the Demons! You fight together and live together or you fight seperately and die together! Some of us may fall but while co-operating many more demons will fall! If you cannot co-operate then I suggest you leave now instead of fodder!" I see some people getting up and trying to leave. I shout again. Quinn: "But if you leave... You disgrace your entire family! You disgrace the entire army gathered here! You disgrace the kingdom! You disgrace the continent! You disgrace the gods of war! Do you really wish to be known as a runner!? Do you wish to be known as the deserter!? Or will you stay and become a hero!? Will you stay and slay demons side by side with fellow man!? Shall you fight together with the men you live on the same continent with or eventually be slain by demons from another continent, another kingdom! Will you die in battle or die in shame in your cozy beds or in the hands of a demon who you are not even fighting!" The men stop and smash their spears into the ground. Every man gets up. Quinn: "Hear me men! These Demons are not immortal! They can die! Some of them might be invulnerable to magic, but we have spears and swords and axes! Some of them might not be affected by blades or the sort but we have magic! Some of them might be invulnerable to both but we shall bring them down even knowing that! For we are the army of Euin! For we are the honor and pride of Euin! Now stand fast and tall and wait for the battle of the century! Wait for the fight that every warrior wants to fight! Wait for the battle what bards will talk about for hundreds of years to come!" The entire army starts shouting like they are encouraged by my words. I spot a team of demons flying at me. When they get close to me I kill them with my blade. Quinn: "Men! Assemble formations! Fight as one! Kill as one! And if neccesary die taking down twenty enemies! We are warriors of Euin! We are the pride of Euin! We are the honor of Euin!" The men repeat the last two sentences while getting into formation. I jump down and head to the camp. Apparently Rachael and Gonzo heard the speech and were impressed. Gonzo: "Marvelous! I didn''t know you can rally one point five million men with a speech! You are certainly a man worthy of commanding the biggest army of Euin Quinn!" Rachael: "Truly wonderful Quinn! I doubt any king or strategist is good enough to make such a speech! Well we should get to battle now right? The demons already instigated the first attack." Quinn: "Let us go then. You guys handle the tactics. I like brute force..." Gonzo: "Affirmative Count Quinn." I head out from the camp and go to the front. The men look at me as they are looking at a demi-god. They all are prepeared to lay down their lives for the kingdom of Euin. I might''ve even riled some of them up too much. The demons don''t seem as enthusiastic about their little attack.... Gonzo and Rachael split the one point five million man army into two halves and each commanded one half. I was at the middle front. Every line behind me. The sound of the waves coming to the beach just before one of the most bloodiest battles in the world... The sound of the calm breeze... Just before the storm... And then... It starts. I almost instantly use all my speed to ''teleport'' infront of the demons. Upcourse they were taken by surprise by my sudden insta-attack and the humans were confused too but soon started attacking. The ones who couldn''t reach the demons waited until they came down. It was an even battle. I cut through demon after demon. The calm breeze wasn''t so calm anymore. The speeds of attack changed it... The sound of the waves... It was still there... But red due to the blood of demons and humans alike. Then I spot something what looked like commanding their entire army. I keep cutting through enemies... Their blood everywhere... Their insides flying out... I even occasionaly when my blade was away tore out a few hearts... Demon heads flew before me. I use the falling demon bodies to help me stay in the air. I didn''t know any magic after all. I jumped from demon to demon killing them. I look behind me to find human and demon heads flying in the air. Bodies everywhere... I don''t know how long we were fighting them... I got closer and closer to the commander of the enemies... Until I reach it. I grabbed it and threw it to the cliff while using its comrades body to propel myself towards it. When it got up my blade was already cutting it''s left arm. I landed on the left side of it with its arm cut off and two huge craters were made on that cliff. I swung my blade and it dodged. It hit me in the stomach with its claw. Luckily the claws avoided anything vital. I swung and cut off its left horn. It sounded in intense pain. Then it pulled out its claw and swung towards my right arm. I barely dodged becuase my blade was heavy and I was in pain. It grazes my arm though... I then swing my blade and cut off its right horn. Before the right horn could fall down I grabbed it with my left arm. I usually swung my blade with both hands but can also swing it with one... So I stabbed its own right horn into its right thigh and swung from the left cutting off his left leg. He falls to the ground and I stand above it. I throw away the horns and grab my black blade with both arms. I then cut off its head slowly but surely. I also make sure to kick it in the horns to make it scream. The demons are losing by a long shot now. They lost all order and started attacking at random but they died fast because they were attacking a group with only one demon. The battle continues for five hours... I fight for five hours with a hole through my chest. When the battle ends I go back to the spot where I started the battle and put my blade into the ground. Gonzo and Rachael approach me with some wounds on their arms and chest and legs... Stolen story; please report.Gonzo: "Quinn... You... We need to heal you now!" Quinn: "Keep the demon leader body here... Keep me here too... Nobody can wield my black blade... And I want to consume the demon leaders energy..." Gonzo: "As is your prize... Leader." I fall unconcious. The last thing I hear is every man screaming: "Count!" or "Leader!" I wake up ten days later... On the same beach next to my sword imbedded into the sand and the demon leaders corpse next to me. I was constantly consuming its mana while being unconcious so it is now just a dry husk devoured of its mana. I wake up just to see Rachael attending to my countless smaller wounds I recieved without noticing. My bigger wound was healing but it seemed certain that a scar was going to be left... If I weren''t a dungeon I would be certainly one hundred percent dead. Quinn: "We won right..." Rachael: "Count! You woke!" Quinn: "Hahaha... Why would you think... I was going to die?" Rachael: "That wound in your stomach! It was most certainly a blow what would''ve taken any man, no matter how powerful or persistent, down! But you fought for five hours after that! You really are a demi-god of war!" Quinn: "Hahah... May I get up now...?" Rachael: "Stay down you bastard! You got such a wound and want to move so soon! It will take months to heal!" Quinn: "Can you then take me to my blade... And take me back to the academy? My two ''wives'' should be waiting for me..." Rachael: "Wives...?" Quinn: "They act like they are my wives... They aren''t yet." Rachael then brings in Gonzo with a stretcher made from wood and some strong cloth... They put me on it and bring me to my sword. I pick it up with ease and put it ontop of myself... I cannot hold it while they are transporting me. They carry me and the sword what changed its weight to better accomodate the people carrying me on a stretcher. I see tent after tent I also see rows of men bowing to me. They see that I am awake and alive. I know this wound will heal in a matter of days and i''ll be back to my energetic ways. They bring me to a carriage and I cannot keep count of the hours what go by. After what seems a few hours are actually another twenty days to take me back to my manor in the academy. When I reach it the headmaster is the first to greet me. But when he sees me on a stretcher and being carried out of the carriage alive... He knows that I didn''t come out unharmed. The headmaster shows the commander and the captain the way to my manor where I see Mirikin and Akuna unpatiently waiting for me. When they see the headmaster and two unknown people with a stretcher and a black sword ontop of it they rush over here. They immediatly run to me and look at me. Quinn: "Hahha... I''m alive don''t worry. I''ll be back to my energetic ways in a few days..." Akuna: "Quinn.. I thought you left me for good when you came back on a stretcher..." Quinn: "I''ll never leave you... After all I still have to take care of you, put back together that thing and then find Mayu that thing..." Mirikin is crying on my left and holding my arm while the others are transporting me to my bedroom. I am put down on the bed after I put my sword on the wall near the bed. If anybody would see this situation they would think of a dying man and his last moments next to his small party of trusted people. Fortunately it wasn''t like that. I was just in a weakened state. Two days after I came back to the mansion a girl came to visit me. She introduced herself as Jenica, a princess. Ah... The annoyance I heard about... Luckily I am not too weakned right now. I could fight the royal guards in a one vs thirty fight. The weird thing is... My mana pool has never gone down since my core was broken into pieces. My mana pool just keeps increasing and increasing... Is it because I haven''t used magic? And don''t apples take mana to come to life? Or is that just the smallest sliver that I don''t notice it...? Right now Jenica is right next to me, sitting on my bed... Mirikin and Akuna are on the other side of the bed. Well Akuna isn''t sitting... She is actually asleep on my arm. I am talking to both Jenica and Mirikin. Jenica: "So... Quinn... You do know about our families... Tendency?" Quinn: "Yes, I do... You royal family members tend to marry your princesses off to strong men and princes to important women. I am guessing you are going to be my forcefully engaged princess." Jenica: "Hmph... My father knows that you are not worthy of me but because no man is worthy enough of me I will have to put up with you. After all that is what my father wishes." Quinn: "Mirikin... Are you fine with that?" Mirikin: "Absoloutely... Not! Quinn is Mayus and Akunas! And mine..." The last part was whispered but I still heard it. Akuna is still soundly sleeping next to me. Jenica: "Well you shall be fine with it! Or I will have you decapitated for not listening to me and becoming a rebel!" Quinn: "And then dare fighting me...?" Jenica: "Yes! Because you deffinetly cannot be as strong as the stories make you to be! Even though you have horns and a weird hair color you cannot take down a demon leader single-handedly! I bet you beat every opponent with luck!" I smirk at that fact and drift off to sleep. No reasoning with an arrogant princess who knows nothing of reality... Just before I lose all conciousness I hear the princess running off fuming and Mirikin comes to the other side where Jenica was sitting and falls asleep. I should resume classes soon... Mayu: "Hahahah! So what did you hear then!?" Acila: "The man then jumped out the window into the pond just to get the red ants off himself!" Mayu: "It''s funny hearing your past life! And some of Quinns too... I cannot access his memories directly... I can only gather the more recent ones. Not even Innver can get into his memories. How can you Acila?" Acila: "I don''t know mother. I just... Can." Quinn: "You tapped into my memories, Acila...?" Acila: "F..Father! I didn''t know you were listening in! I thought you still had to handle that arrogant princess!" Quinn: "I got bored listening to such an arrogant person... I doubt she listens to anything reasonable... And the king wants me betrothed to her!? Hahaha! I doubt she will accept the ceremony and just refuses it in the middle of it! I cannot refuse because the king would exile me then and It would be troublesome." Innver: "Yeah. That woman does seem especcially annoying. Even compared to other dungeons and dungeon voices what can be really annoying..." I talk to my ''daughter'' Acila, my ''wife'' Mayu and my inner voice, Innver. Tomorrow I''ll go back and try to find the ability tomes. And the stories about that battle have already spread too? Ahh... Tomorrow is going to be hell... I am going to be bombarded by questions about the battle most likely... Or they all will be too scared to even stand in the same room as me. Ahh... Such annoying things... We will see what tomorow brings though. Chapter 18. Tomes and Tales. I wake up at the same time with Mirikin and Akuna this time. We all put our school clothes on and go downstairs... The arrogant princess sipping a cup of tea already... Wait... Why is she even inside? Did my maids just let her in? I look to Mirikin who is just as surprised as I am. Akuna is even more surprised. Quinn: "Oh... What is this little gift?" I say in a sarcastic voice... I hate annoyances... And this one is supposed to be one because it is an arrogant princess and my future fiance¨¦... And I didn''t accept the latter. Jenica: "Joke all you want. I came here because I have to wait for you... You are my future fiance¨¦ after all... We just haven''t gotten to the engagement party." I roll my eyes and go downstairs. Jenica gets up too and we all leave. Why do i have a feeling that I am about to have the biggest headache of my entire life...? I really need to find that library... We walk for a little while until we reach the campus. We enter my class because we all are in the same class now.. Damn king... The moment I enter everybody gets up and rushes to ask me questions. Quinn (While shouting): "STOP! I will not answer any questions!" Everybody stops and then looks at me dissapointedly. I really don''t want to answer questions. I''ve always hated being bombarded by questions. I head to my seat and Jenica sits next to me... Why didn''t I notice this earlier? Because I was too distracted to think about who is sitting next to me probably... Well I ignore it. Mirikin and Akuna sit on the seats left and infront of me. I am in the back row. I am now surrounded by girls... And why do I feel like this formation I am in is going to make every boy in class mad at me? Ahh... So many annoyances... When the class begins and the teacher comes in I ask her if I can leave and go to the library. She is surprised a little but says I can. I rush off to the library where nobody is at right now. The peace and quiet here is enjoyable. First I need to find tomes... Tomes tomes tomes... I search around for a little bit and find an entire section about magic. Quinn: "Yes!!!! So many tomes!!!!" I couldn''t hold my excitement so I litteraly screamed. Finally! Magic! I rush over and search for the nature section. I need to learn about nature magic because Apples come from trees. Trees are nature. I also get some instructions from Acila to learn some earth magic and a little bit of wind magic to help grow Moths. I grab about thirty books. Twenty of them about nature. Eight about earth and two about wind. I read them for what seems hours. I think I skipped every class because when I came out it was midnight and the only people left here were me, Mirikin, Akuna and the arrogant princess Jenica. Quinn: "So you waited for me?" Mirikin: "Upcourse! We couldn''t enter though... Jenica tried to enter but when she did she saw you concentrate on books so much that she came back out. We didn''t want to interrupt you. Not even Jenica." Quinn: "Hahaha... I lost all track of time and everything around me huh." Akuna yawns and then looks at me. Akuna: "Can we go now.. I''m tired..." I laugh a little. She acts like a little kid sometimes. Quinn: "Sure. Let''s go." We head back. I recollect everything what I read about nature magic. Apparently you need a place filled to the brim with nature mana to train nature magic. Nature mana is plentiful in forests but it is filled to the brim only at the Elven Forest. There are always Nature Orbs inside of beasts what you can use to gain better control over Nature but it isn''t as effective as training in the Elven Forest. Sadly the Elven Forest is filled by strong beasts too due to its strong mana. The Elven Homeplace can only be there because it has a magical barrier blocking every beast. I wonder if it has any effect on me... I also recall everything about Earth magic. You need to go to the depths of caverns to train that fully. The deepest cavern is the Cavern of the Spider Queen. Even S-classes don''t want to meet the Spider Queen because of her excellent control over Earth magic due to living underground for so long. Wind magic... Now that was a problem. The best part to train that was actually at the peak of the tallest mountain. The tallest mountains peakl is so thin that you can only stand on it with one toe... That is why Wind magic is really hard to master due to it being everywhere but in small amounts and not easily trainable. I also learned a little bit about fire magic in the Nature Tomes. Fire Magics best training spot is at the Deanis capital. "The Fiery Capital" is its nickname due to the extreme heats inside the core of the keep. Only the Demon King and supposedly the Dungeon King can enter the keep without being burned to death instantly. That was all I learned about the elements so far. I need more info. While reading up on Wind magic I found something interesting... There might be a hidden element. An element nobody can use. It is only reffered to as the "Collosal" Element due to only Collosals having the element and when they die the element quickly switches to a random one. Collosals are now long extinct the books say... I want to find the "Collosal" Element... It souds... Powerful. At our house I also found some story books. I read through them at night... I must say some of these are quite hilarious. Some of them talk about a man who used the power of friendship to win a battle against a demon who could''ve slain the entire world. The power of friendship cannot change a mans physical and magical capabilities... I guess these are just story books. There were some more realistic darker ones. One of them caught my interest. It was about some gods going rogue after a huge battle in the divine plane against some Evil Gods. And the tale ended with this: "Now there exist three types of gods. The Evil Gods, The Rogue Gods and the Real Gods. The Real Gods keep the peace. The Evil Gods destroy the peace. The Rogue Gods do both." Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.I wonder if that story is true... When morning came and Akuna with Mirikin woke up I was still reading. I didn''t want to sleep much anymore. I also got a message from the king during the time I spent in the library. I read it at midnight. Apparently the king is prepearing me a present for winning such a hard battle and surviving. The damn bastard had this all planned when he first saw me power didn''t he? He even sent me a suit of armor together with the message to go to war. I decided to practice magic and skip classes again. Well not all of them. I went to the class where you learn to write... The letters vastly differed from the ones I am used to from my past life. I once went back to my home class just to find my desk scribbled full of bad words. I heed them no mind because they weren''t directly physically attacking them. They are trying to test my mental fortitude. I''ll test their mental fortitude later too. Just to see if they can handle seeing a real monster... But first i''ll have to figure out what THAT side of me was... When I fought that S-class... I asked Mirikin and Akuna about it... They didn''t know anything. I also searched the library for things about such a change... Nothing. Not even the demon section offered any help. I even searched the dungeon section of the library. Nothing. It''s like that is only my ability... I am afraid to know what it might do to me if I don''t know how to control it if it comes out... I recalled everything what happened with the S-classes and the moment I thought about killing an S-class, one of those I hated, the form came back... The half-ruby half-emerald mask... With black spots around my eyes... Ruby hair... This time... My horns were way longer... I was in the library when this change happened and Mirikin stepped in and saw me. She screamed and Jenica and Akuna came in and screamed too. I luckily changed back before the students could come. Hah... So that is the form what comes out when I think about killing those I hate. There was one distinct change about my form though... I had a tail and I had wings. My tail was that of a dragon... My wings that of the Luna Moth but they seemed way stronger and harder to pierce. I tried to cut them with my sword once but couldn''t. I then asked Akuna to swing at my wings and the sword she had split in half on contact with the wings. Having wings and a tail felt like having extra limbs... Once I calmed down and stopped thinking about S-classes I turned back. I practiced my control over magic for a while. It took me a few days to start using wind magic though. Nature magic came to me naturally... Heheh... Earth Magic I dug a hole for myself. I am not kidding. I dug a literal hole in the ground with a shovel and meditated in it to learn Earth Magic. When you go near my manor you will see a hole just good enough for one person to fall in. I jumped in and out of that hole to learn Earth Magic. Once a maid fell in but luckily didn''t break a bone. I got her out of there and then warned everybody about the danger of the hole. I also had them put a fence around it. Wind magic I trained at the top of my manor. There was a chimney what went 5 meters above the roof. I jumped ontop of that and meditated for a while every day. I can now use advanced Nature magic, Basic Earth and Wind magic. Fire Magic I can''t train because of the... Mana... Around me. There is litteraly no fire magic around the Academy. Well It would be troublesome if the academy suddenly caught on fire. Water magic I did want to learn but there was also no water mana around. I have time... "I must find the Collosal element" I thought to myself every day. I also didn''t forget about my core pieces. I gathered some info about my core pieces over time. Apparently all of my pieces have been found by adventurers except the ones I have. Now I just need to get them out of the adventurers hands and into me... There is also one more problem. Jenica won''t stop troubling me about the Engagement party. Her father said that he will disown her if she doesn''t get engaged with me in a month after I recover. That is pretty harsh to tell your own daughter. I really don''t want to marry her but it''s a good chance to get more valuable info. And some very valuable connections to the kings family tree. Upcourse I am still going to marry Mayu... And maybe Akuna... And Mirikin... Four wives for one dungeon? Hahhah... My ring finger is going to be glistening with rings isn''t it? When I thought about that and laughed loudly everybody looked at me. It was on a coffee break my manor had. I set up a small little coffee break for everybody in the manor on the same day. We had a huge table what had enough chairs for the 3 girls, me and all the maids and butlers. We all ate and drank. Upcourse... I made the food. I never cooked before but it naturally came to me after learning it from the original cook for a while. I made a couple dishes from Earth. They were surprised about my selection of ingredients but still ate it. They all said it was delicious and we ate and drank coffee. We also talked about any problems the manor has. At one time the problem of what will happen to the maids and butlers when I leave came up. Apparently all of them are coming with me to the county after we are done here. I also felt some... Uninvited... Visitors around the academy. I''ll handle them soon. And then I''ll find the sender of the visitors. I won''t play nice and let them attack first. They won''t like me very soon. Hehehehe. Not a chapter. Authors ramblings. You can skip this if you want. This is just me (The Author) talking about some things. First of all... I won''t re-write the earlier chapters. They weren''t meant to be rushed and bad but I''ll keep em this way. Under the pretext of: "Patience". If you cannot wait out the bad part for the good part then you are not qualified to read the LN no? Second. I always listen to all of the suggestions you guys make. So make every suggestion what comes to mind here. Just post them here and i''ll read through them. I''ve already taken some of your guys ideas and put them into the story if you have noticed. Third. If I have mistakes please point them out. I have no proofreader or anybody helping me with this LN so I am doing this all single-handedly while still being pestered by school and reality. So if you spot any mistakes just tell me and I''ll fix them. Fourth. If you think there is no plot line... There will be. I already have a small idea in a notepad ready to be unleashed once our little hero takes over the world. Patience is a Virtue. Fifth. I have taken into note that I mess up "what" and "that" a lot. Even if my English is good that doesn''t mean I was born in England or the United States and that it is my first language. I actually come from a country what has very little similar words with english so I had to learn it myself. (I learned it before the school started teaching it infact.) Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. Sixth. Bad habits are hard to fix aren''t they? I have a bad habit of involving most of my ideas into my LN and shaping it in the way I want it. All of my LN''s are just ideas I put together to make a story. So yeah... Sorry for the rushing parts of my LN. So overall... I am truly sorry about my mistakes! I try my best to fix them but.... I can''t. I am not a perfect being sadly... Even though I wish to grow into a writer what can please the majority of the people reading... Also... If you post something about my mistakes what does not help me... Like: "The execution is horrible" then please tell me how! A human cannot see his mistakes until someone points them out and makes it clear. Even if you tell him where it is you must also tell him how to help fix it! Sorry that this is not a real chapter. I just wanted to get these out of the way... Oh and also! Should I include (ontop of every chapter) a little backstory about the world? Like small spots about the history of the world and the different elements and gods. Comment everything down below and I''ll read them all until I am overflooding with unread messages. I will continue making this because I know how to continue the story for atleast 20+ chapters. - Sincerely, The author, Katsune. Chapter 19. Asking the visitors... Nicely... Warning! Some more gore than usual. Maybe. ----------------------------------------- I wake up and immediatly grab my sword. The uninvited visitors are still here if my mana sense is correct. I get up from the bed waking both Akuna and Mirikin up and put on my school uniform.The school uniform is just a black vest ontop of a dark blue shirt and with black pants and shoes. Well... I also have an extra piece of clothing involved in my school uniform now. A trench coat. A black leather trench coat reaching my knees. Every person in the school has an extra piece of clothing or something what symbolises their difference from the rest. I just got the trench coat by luck. I walk out with my blade on my back. I modified my trench coat just to have a big enough scabbardy thing on my back. This is my first time wearing the trench coat in public though. I tell the rest to go on while I head off in another direction. Straight for the visitors. It''s time for a chat.... A nice little quiet chat. Might involve a couple twisted arms though. We will see. I start walking really fast. My walking speed is that of a regular man running at full speed. I reach the visitors in a few minutes. I upcourse don''t show myself. I ''teleport'' infront of them and grab one of them by the neck. I use a little bit of nature magic to create a wall of trees around us. This is not a real spell because this is just one spell repeated many times. I call it "Wall of Trees". Original right? Well enough of that... Time to ask our little visitors. I bring out my blade and carve myself a little chair out of a tree. I sit on it while still holding one of them by the neck. I count how many there are... Ten of them. An entire ten uninvited visitors. I start slowly squeezing the life out of one of them. Quinn: "Who sent you and for what reason." Leader of the visitors: "We will never tell you!" I squeeze stronger and snap the neck of one of them. The head flows off by the sudden strong squeeze. Quinn: "Do not make me ask twice." Visitor: "We will never tell you!" I walk towards them slowly... And cut off one of their fingers from each of them. They scream in pain. Quinn: "Do you want more cut off fingers?" Leader: "Ok ok! We''ll speak!" Quinn: "That is better. Who sent you?" Leader: "An S-class sent a request to the Assassin guild... To kill you." Quinn: "Which S-class?" Leader: "We don''t know!" I detected a small... Lie... In there. And slashed an arm off the leader. I then threw him into a tree in my little room of doom. Heh. That rhymed a little I think. Well... I must say something first... I look like my angry self again. The mask and all. It''s quite amazing they aren''t completely soiling themselves. I notice a woman in their party. I smirk under my mask. I wonder if they''ll talk once I slowly torture her to death. She notices me looking at her. I notice one more thing... They really don''t bother to mask themselves do they? I can clearly see who is a man and who is a woman. I ''teleport'' infront of the woman and grab her by the hand and jump up to a tree. I smash her hand into a strong-looking branch and she gets stuck up there. The men look in shock. Quinn: "I see you told me a lie here. I won''t completely destroy your bodies as I want to show what happens to you people when you mess with the wrong person. Now... Tell me the truth." Assassin: "We will never tell you!" I grab the other hand of the woman and smash it into the same branch. She screams in pain. I don''t want to kill them... Yet. So I made sure to hit her hands so she won''t bleed out. Quinn: "She only has a couple limbs left. Tell. Me." She starts trying to kick me with her legs. Well.. She''s hitting my face but not doing any damage. I grab her boot and pull it off. Their boots have metal underneaths so anybody who gets kicked... Won''t like it much. I grab her other boot off too. I see they aren''t speaking up so I tear one of her legs off. I pull off her pants. The men start looking at her in lust. Quinn: "Well.. You going to tell me?" I wait for a minute. They don''t speak up but look at her in lust. I guess they... Don''t need her. I cut off her legs and waist completely and all her insides just fall to the ground. The men scream. Quinn: "Hahaha! You thought I was going to do something else to her?! I was going to let her live after I got my answers but you stalled for too long. Now... Talk." One of them looks at me like he wants to talk but the others shut him up. I look at their leader and ''teleport'' infront of him. My teleport is litteraly just me using my speed to move really fast. I appear infront of him and grab him. I smash his head into the tree killing him. Eight left. Quinn: "Talk!" I unleash my bloodlust. I sense people approaching really quick. Well anybody would feel this bloodlust of mine... I look at the assassins and they... Soil... Themselves. Weaklings honestly... Were they going to poison me or something? Quinn: "I told you... Talk!" They keep themselves shut. I approach one of them and tear him in half. All of his insides fly everywhere and I can see his heart fly all the way into the treeline I made. Blood covers my coat now... I have to clean it... I hate cleaning my clothing.... It is tedious. Quinn: "Why are you not talking? If you talk you might live you know?" Assassin: "It was the Highly Armored S-class! The only one who wears really heavy and strong armor!" Quinn: "Oh... That guy... Where is he?" Assassin: "Last time we heard he was heading towards the Elven Forest to train!" Oh... Exactly where I want to go too... Coincedences do happen. Quinn: "How long ago?" Assassin: "Three days ago!" Quinn: "Good good... Were there any others involved?" They immediatly gulp and look at each other. Hah... There was somebody else involved. Quinn: "Who... Else?" They look at each other in panic. I go towards one of them and start tearing him limb from limb spreading blood everywhere. When all of his arms and legs were torn off I took my blade and started cutting all of his insides out. He died when I tore off his left arm but it still creeps them out. My hair... I feel like it''s consuming the blood that falls on it. Quinn: "Who else!?" Assassin: "The girlfriend of the armored S-class! The Female Mage S-class!" So the S-classes want to play with me? Well I don''t need any more info so I tear them all apart leaving their faces untouched. The people I felt moving towards here reached the line of trees. I nailed them into one of the biggest trees. The one where the woman is at. I nailed every single one of their body parts and the torn out hearts. The entire field I was in is filled with blood. Just so men won''t look in lust I put the pants on the lower half of the womans body back on. Their insides are slightly spilling. I stuck all of their body parts in with nature magic. I used really sharp and strong tree branches for it. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.I cut an archway in the treeline to make an entrance. The people who came immediatly jumped to the entrance looking at the scene behind me when I left. The first one to make it was the headmaster. I contained my bloodlust once again. Quinn: "Do not mind the little... Situation... Behind me. They were uninvited visitors with a certain quest to try to eliminate me. The S-Class heroes do not like me much..." Mackwell: "They know your secret?" Quinn: "Not exactly but they know something close to it and don''t like me because of it." Mackwell: "What did you exactly do to the... Visitors..." Quinn: "Well... Tore them apart. If you want to see go inside and look right. There is a big tree there with all of their... Bodies..." I go back in with the teachers and headmaster and they gasp in shock as they see what I did. Quinn: "Well... This is it." Mackwell: "Quinn, my boy... You certainly... Made quite a show... We should not let the other students see this." Quinn: "Then better keep them contained. I sense about a hundred of them coming already." Mackwell: "Teachers! Keep them out of here! I''ll talk with Quinn for a bit." The teachers nod and leave. Quinn: "So..." Mackwell: "What did you learn?" Quinn: "Highly armored S-class with his girlfriend put the contract on me. I am going to leave for the Elven Forest to get some revenge. Also... Can you tell which one of these visitors is a female?" Mackwell: "The one in the middle?" Quinn: "Yeah. But why did they send only one female? I thought females were more excellent in assassin jobs and more cunning. Did they underestimate me?" Mackwell: "Looking at these men... Seems they were confident in their abilities... Probably the higher levels of the Assassins... And you dealt with them so easily." Quinn: "But they looked at the woman in lust the moment I took off her pants. Do not worry I didn''t do anything indecent. I don''t like doing that." Mackwell: "Hmm.... They fell to their lust seeing the woman''s body... Must be an enchantress." Quinn: "Enchantress?" Mackwell: "A special type of Assassin. They specialize in charming their target and then killing them in bed." Quinn: "And they sent one of these to fight me? Hahahah... Idiots. I guess I have to tell them personally what it means to mess with a protector and member of the kingdom of Euin..." I hear screams coming from the little archway I made. Alot of mana is coming from there. I turned back to my normal form before the teachers came in. I head to the entrance. I see all of the students rushing to get in. I laugh at the sight of teachers trying so hard to keep spoiled brats from getting in. Quinn: "Mackwell. Wouldn''t it be a good idea to show them something from the harsher part of the world?" Mackwell: "Well... It would traumatize some... But... Ahh.... I don''t know... It''s a good expereince but can traumatize the more spoiled ones..." Quinn: "Just let em in. If they can''t handle it they can''t handle being the future of the kingdom." Mackwell: "Teachers! Let them in! You heard Quinn!" The students rush in and go towards the direction we came from. I hear screams coming from the location of the tree. When I go back there I laugh. Most of them puked on the ground or soiled themselves. Quinn: "Spoiled little brats. Hahaha! They don''t know how brutal one can be." Mackwell: "Students! These were uninvited visitors and they got handled by our Count Quinn. He will protect us during the time in the Academy if we the teachers cannot. That what you see on the tree is the harsher part of life. And that is how Quinn handled the Assassins sent to kill him." They all look at me in shock before noticing the huge blood stains all over my body except the face and my emerald-green hair. I go back to my manor. No point in going to the school today... The teachers have to clean up the mess I made. I practice my sword fighting becuase I didn''t actually learn how to properly wield a sword. The one who taught me? Mackwell. He might look like an old man who is way past his prime moments in life... But he sure does have a weird sword fighting style. I couldn''t beat him using only brute force because his movements with a blade smaller than mine (A greatsword) were more elegant and flexible. I learned how to use his style and he was quite... Impressed... By my learning speed. At the end of he day I could attack him before he could make a move using only the sword-style he taught me. Apparently the style is his own personal one and he encouraged me to teach it to others. I asked him if I could switch it and change the style a little and he agreed. I decided to try to use magic with the style. Just not right now. I saw Akuna and Mirikin look at me madly because it was midnight and I wasn''t getting to bed. The two have gotten too used to sleeping in the same bed as me... I go to bed and talk to my little daughter,wife and my inner voice. I decided to tell them about my past life a little. They were surprised about the facts about no magic and technology. Acila told me that she will soon come out and start spending more time in the material world with me. I also asked Mackwell a little bit about the core pieces. Apparently they all are being sold to royals all over the continent of Euin. I guess i''ll have to knock on the doors of the royals asking for the core pieces. If they retaliate.... Knock knock, your castle has now only 3 walls. Well... I''ll have to start heading towards the Elven Forest in the Euin kingdom tomorrow. I need to talk with the two S-classes. I''ll take Mirikin and Akuna with me. If Jenica wants to come... Why not? I''ll teach her how... Merciless... I am. I still haven''t learned about my house name though. Every Count has a house name what is their family name. I have none. Infact... I have no crest either. Weird... I''ll need to ask the King about those. Well no matter right now... Tomorrow I''ll fix the problems I have on hand. Chapter 20. Mercy for the King. I wake up and immediatly bring out a map once I get up. I look for the direction of the Elven Forest. It is towards my County but the Capital is in it''s path. I can ask the King about the... No Crest and Name business. It''s weird. It is like he expected me to die in that battle. Well... It is time to go. The academy... Taught me well. I now know how to write. I also found out there was a small song going about me what is also a rumour... He is the one, The one who bathes in blood, He is the one, The one who fights with no mercy. He is the one, The one who cannot be killed, He is the one, The one even Kings fear. He is Quinn, the slayer of demons. He is Quinn, the Commander of heroes. He is Quinn, The Bloody Hand of God. If you see him, hide. If you search for him, stop and hide. The Bloody Hand of God is on this world with us, The Slayer of Demons is walking on the continents we walk on, The Commander of Heroes searches for Villains to vanquish. Do not wait for his mercy, run from his sight. Do not wait for his fall, run from his sight. Do not wait for his rise, run from his sight. The sight of Quinn. The sight of the Bloody Hand of God. Pretty nifty song is it not? I have no idea who wrote it. It appeared in the academy and started to quickly spread around. Well no matter. I go downstairs to eat before I head towards the Capital. Jenica is already there... Bouncing around happily... Why is she bouncing around happily... I do not like this... I do not like this at all..... Oh no... She spotted me. Jenica: "Quinn!!!!" She runs at me and jumps into my stomach until she remembers that she is a princess... Jenica: "Quinn! Our engagement ceremony is a week away from now! You are not worthy of me but I am still excited for my first Engagement! Most of my family is already engaged or married... I was the last..." Quinn: "I never agreed though..." Jenica: "My father told me to come back for the engagement ceremony! I got the message today! A bird gave it to me!" A bird... Shouldn''t it be a message carrier? Birds are too easy to shoot down. It''s like the King wants me to get ambushed by bandits and killed... If it is so... Well... Let''s say he won''t have to use his legs anymore and can stay on his throne. Quinn: "Hmm... Well I was already planning to head back to the capital. I have to ask the King about my... No crest and family name situation." Jenica freezes up when she hears the last sentence and when she looks at me she quickly runs off. Did I say something wrong? A maid comes to my side. Maid: "You... Aren''t... Going to kill... His Highness... Are you?" Quinn: "Why should I?" Maid: "Crests and family names are sacred for Nobles... If one does not have a crest or family name it is the same as being a slave..." Quinn: "So why didn''t he give me one? Did he expect me to die in the battle against the demons?" The maid freezes up and runs off too when she looks at my face. What is going on? Did the rumour spread so much they are afraid of me? I go back upstairs to Akuna and Mirikin. They scream at the sight of me. Quinn: "Not you too! What is going on? Why does everybody scream when they see me?" I go to a mirror... Quinn: "There is nothing wrong with me except that... I have four horns." Akuna: "F..F...Four.... H..Horns..." Quinn: "What does four horns mean? Why is it so bad?" Mirikin: "Four...Four horns... Means that you are.. A chosen one... A chosen one by a Goddess or God..." Quinn: "But why is it so bad?" Mirikin: "Four horns mean that you are Evil unless it is a certain Goddess... But that Goddess shouldn''t exist anymore..." Quinn: "Well... I am not evil?" I joke a little. There is no way I am evil. I mean I did rip some assassins apart but I won''t harm people who don''t harm me. Mayu... Do you know something? Mayu: "No." Acila? Anything? Acila: "I know nothing, father." Innver? Please say yes.... Innver: "I know nothing. I apologize." Quinn: "Oh come on! You mean to tell me that I am supposed to be evil!? I won''t harm anybody who doesn''t harm me!" If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.Mirikin: "Do...Do you... Promise...?" Quinn: "Yes... I promise." They then sigh in relief and get out of bed. Akuna runs to me and hugs me. Acila... Didn''t you say you were coming out today? Acila: "Yes. I am prepearing my material body right now." Oh. Ok. Well... We should head off? Quinn: "Girls, we are heading to the Capital. I don''t need to finish the Academy. I also need to have a chat with the King and then I have to head to the Elven Forest to finish some business." Mirikin nods and Akuna nods too. I start putting on my clothes. I hear knocking on the door. I go downstairs and open it. Mackwell comes inside. Mackwell: "So you are finally leaving huh?" Quinn: "Yes. Yes I am. Why do you ask?" Mackwell: "Well... It''s sad to see such a strong and bright boy leave without finishing the Academy. Also... Keep the clothing we gave you. Keep everything we gave you." Quinn: "Why?" Mackwell: "Parting gift. Well. You should hurry now. The S-classes won''t stay put forever." I nod and run off. We pack our things in a few hours and then leave the manor. The maids and butlers follow us out too. We find a lot of carriages waiting for us outside like everybody knew we were leaving today. This is the work of Mackwell isn''t it? I get in a carriage and everybody else does too. Jenica runs into my carriage with Akuna and Mirikin. I spot the cat-eared maid Suzu looking where to go. I wave to her and signal her to join us. She comes in and sits down. We ride for a couple days and I am awake during that time. I didn''t even feel a single bit of being sleepy or tired. I was on the lookout for bandits mostly. When we reach the capital I tell the maids and butlers our countys location. They head towards the county and I head to the Keep. I am actually a little bit mad at the King so I kick his doors down. The queen screams. I laugh a little and walk in. Quinn: "King. I think you have a couple things to explain." King: "And what are they?" I look at the king and see the fear in his eyes. Quinn: "My crest and my family name are non-existent. Shouldn''t they exist?" King: "Ah yes yes! We will work on those immediatly! Do not worry Quinn do not worry!" Quinn: "Also.. Did you think that I would die in the battle? And the third thing... Engagement ceremony? I never agreed." King: "A...Ah.... We..well..." I bring out my blade and ''teleport'' infront of the king and then I hear screaming behind me. Jenica is screaming at the sight of me infront of her father with my blade out. The Queen is also screaming in fear and all the princes and princesses too. The royal guards are coming towards me. Quinn: "If you think I need you in my life... You are mistaken. I won''t kill you because I don''t need more problems than I have. I won''t disagree with the Engagement party because Jenica will scream at me for years to come if I don''t accept. But the fact that you thought of me as a pawn... I do not like it." King: "Ah... Yes yes...." The king is very afraid. Quinn: "Now... I have to head over to the Elven Forest to handle a couple... S-classes... They sent Assassins after me so i''ll handle them... Personally." I sheathe my blade and walk towards the doors. The royal guards don''t want to approach me. Jenica runs to my and hits me in the stomach. I don''t feel a thing though. Jenica: "You bastard!" I gently push her aside and walk outside. Mirikin slaps me from the side. Mirikin: "What were you thinking! If you killed the King it would''ve caused the world to be at war! I''m grateful that you didn''t but that was an idiotic choice!" I look behind and see Jenica crying at her fathers side. It''s not like I hurt him... Quinn: "Mirikin. Grab Jenica. I want to show her something." I go back to my carriage and take the reins myself. Mirikin comes back with Akuna carrying a screaming Jenica in a princess carry. I signal them to go in the carriage and then I head to the elven forest. It''s time to show Jenica what one can do to their enemies. Especially if the enemies are weaker than him or her. Heheh. I''ll kill the S-classes... I''ll kill em. I''ll rip them apart... I''ll make them regret being born. And i''ll show Jenica... What I am capable of. I might traumatize her but no matter. Mirikin and Akuna are most likely going to be disgusted but no matter. Revenge comes first right now. I also heard the Elven Forest has Dryads. It''s like the pieces were put there just for me! But i''m still worried about the four horns thing... What Goddess or God blessed me... I am worried... A lot... And Acila didn''t come out after all! Well she will come out when I am at the Elven Forest one way or another... I ride towards the Elven Forest... I grin and look like the Devil. Quinn: "The S-classes are going to die... And not in a peaceful way... Heheh..." Chapter 21. Fear. I am currently riding the Carriage towards the Elven Forest... I still wonder about the four horns. I didn''t have them when I went to sleep with Mirikin and Akuna but then when I woke up small bits of them appeared. They are like baby horns right now. A goddess? Hmm... I guess I will find the answer later. The crest and family name... I''ll think of it myself. The king will probably try to get rid of me some way or another using the information I gave him. I want to see if he is afraid of me enough not to mess with me. The door to the carriage opens and Mirikin looks out. Quinn: "Mirikin. I have a question for you... Why did you freak out when I had four horns all of a sudden? I thought you trusted me." Mirikin: "Umm.... Well... I thought that.... You might''ve changed... Usually a person who has four horns loses all control of their mind and slaughter everything in their path... Even if it is their child, father, mother or wife... I was shocked to see you walk in with four horns and not slaughter us immediatly but I still screamed..." Quinn: "Hmm.... Ok. That is good enough. Is Jenica ok? We brought her by force..." Mirikin: "She calmed down. Akuna is still holding her though. How far away is the Elven Forest now?" Quinn: "Four days." Mirikin: "Ok. We''ll sleep for now... Tell us if you want to change and sleep yourself." Quinn: "Ok. Now go to sleep, Mirikin." She goes back in and closes the door. Hmm.... So that''s why they were afraid of me... But my crest... An apple because that is my signature mob... With a hydra right behind it with open eyes... And two branches at the side... Yes. That will be my crest. My family name... Evergreen? Hmm... That is good. I''ll need to ask somebody to draw it for me based on my idea of it... But where can I get a artist in this world? Hmm... I''ll look into it later. For now I''ll ride. Towards... Them... Heheh... I ride for four days. Mirikin and the others constantly told me to take a rest but I refused. I am too excited... I can rip them apart finally... They killed Mayu... So they die. That is how it goes right? When I reach the Elven Forest I immediatly activate Mana Sense. Hmm... Left of us... Seems like they are... In the elven forest. Quinn: "Follow me!" I start marching straight towards them. The girls are right behind me. I can rip them apart... Crush them... I can make them scream in pain... I can make them bleed... I can make them... Feel the sweet kiss of death... Hehehe! I look at the girls and see them looking at me scared. The mask activated again huh... I get a good look and feel the shape of the mask. From the inside of the mask I see no emerald color on my mask. I also feel like there is something at the spot where my mouth should be. A huge... Smile? I also feel around my eyes. A... Ring? And a... Pentagram? Weird. I also feel the location of my horns. They are really long now. When I reach the S-classes they scream at the sight of me. Everybody screams at the sight of me now! It''s going to get really annoying... Quinn: "Stay here. I''ll... Handle... Them.... Hehehehehehe." I unconciously start humming a weird creepy tune. Jenica: "You.. Are.. Going to kill... S-class... Heroes?" I look at her while still humming and nod. I then ''teleport'' infront of them making them even more afraid. I grab the female one by the neck and the male one by the neck too. A small nameplate pops up on both of them. The Male... "Akin" and the female... "Jill"? Hmm... No matter. I throw them into the ground creating crevices. They try to get up but I stand on both of them. I pull off all their armor one by one. The woman starts screaming the moment I reach for her glasses. When I touch them they break and she starts crying. Heheh... Must''ve been something important. I reach for the mans arm. He tries to push me away but when I get a hold of his arm I twist it around two times. He screams in pain still on the ground. I then grab their legs and twist them so they are rendered useless. They both scream in pain. I get off them. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.Mirikin: "What are you doing!? Why are you torturing them and not just killing them?!" Quinn: "For... Mayus... Sake..." I start humming the tune and before I notice it... All around us are crows who seem to be following the tune. The moment I elevate the tune they start trying to follow it. When I lower it they raise their wings. I look towards the two trying to crawl away. I smash my blade into the ground infront of their faces. They scream and start crying in fear. Who knew? I look around again and see something in the shadows. Big glowing eyes full of rage. I hear the same humming tune coming from the entire forest. What is wrong with this forest? I grab the man by his still functioning leg and then... I smash him into the ground many many times. I then throw him into a tree. I look at the woman. She is crying... I grab her by the hair. She has long well-kept hair. Shame if something happened to it. I reach for my blade and cut off her hair. I then with the same motion cut off her arm. I upcourse used nature magic to seal the wound forcefully with twigs and such. Wouldn''t want her to die yet.... I throw my blade at the mans arm cutting it off and use nature magic on the ground piercing his arm with sharp needles made out of wood and grass to seal his wound too. They scream in pain. I then start to tear through the womans flesh with my own bare hands. I use the limited amount of fire magic I know to inflict some burn marks on her body aswell. I then tear off all her limbs one by one and stuff one of her arms as far as I can down her throat. She dies with blood all around her. Only the man is alive screaming. I approach him as he tries to wiggle away. I grab him by the hair too and tear away his flesh spreading blood everywhere. I break all of his bones before starting to tear away all his fingers. Then I start tearing off his limbs one by one... Very slowly... He dies to the extreme pain. I couldn''t do as much as I wanted but there are still more S-classes around... Even an SS-class to kill. I consume all of their magic and head towards the capital. When we reach it in 5 days I order the king to make my crest and family name like I wanted it. He didn''t send anybody after me like I thought he would. Means he is afraid of me. Jenica,Mirikin and Akuna don''t talk to me anymore after what I did to the S-classes. They are too afraid to even look at me now. I''ll get them to stop being so afraid of me when we get to my county again. We wait for a day for my Crest to finish and my family name to spread all around the world. I see many messengers run out of the Capital when the Crest was finished and my Family Name announced. I start riding back to the County. I need to talk to Mirikin, Akuna and Jenica again... This is going to be more troublesome than killing all the Demons and S-classes with the SS-class at the same time.. Ah... Well... I''ll handle it at the county... Chapter 22. Author''s Note - Sorry that this came out so late... I just got my hands on my computer because I was away for a long time (same with tomorrow...) so yeah... I hope that you all still remember this exists. ----------------------------------------------------- The Dungeon King. A fearsome entity. No adventurer has gotten through all of his levels... None have even passed Level 75. Even the SS-Class hero had to retreat because of the power of Level 75''s boss monster. None know what lies past level 75. The dungeon Kings dungeon resides in a peaceful area of Deani. The Dungeon King appeared over a million years ago during the First Great War. None know what kind of power the Dungeon King holds. - From the Chronicles Of Dungeons. --------------------- I am currently riding towards the County... Wait.... Wasn''t there another reason I went to the Elven forest..... Oh... Yeah.... I forgot... I need to go back there... I really need to go back there... I guess I''ll have to ask them a favour... Quinn: "Girls... I need to ask you a favour." Mirikin, Akuna and Jenica: "..." Quinn: "Come on... Please talk to me." The Girls: "..." Quinn: "Please!!!! Please I really need this favour!" Mirikin: "F...Fine... W..What is it.... Qui..Quinn?" Quinn: "I need you girls to look over my county... I forgot to train my nature magic in the Elven Forest. Also girls... Do not be afraid of me. I won''t do anything to you girls. I only vented out all my anger on them... They killed Mayu after all." Jenica: "H..Hmph! I was...Wasn''t... Afraid of you! I just... Didn''t feel the need to talk to you! Hmph!" I can clearly see Jenicas fear in her eyes. We also got a real carriage driver from the Capital when we got there. I am sitting in the carriage with the girls. They all are on the opposite side of me and are staying as far as they can. Quinn: "I promise I won''t do anything! I promise I''ll take care of you all just... I need to go back to the Elven Forest but i''ve been away from my County for too long. I am afraid that too many problems might''ve popped up when I was gone." They start whispering amongst themselves. I can hear everything though.... Mirikin: "We''ll... Look over your county... But do you promise... To take care of us?" Quinn: "Yes. I promise. I will use all my power to keep you safe from all the enemies." I say that but I just want to get back to the Elven Forest to train so I can take over this world faster... And get Mayus new body... And train enough to infuse Mayu to the new body. Mirikin: "Good... We honestly thought that you were just... Tricking us... I trust you but... Fear overtook my mind. Seeing you do all that to two S-classes and they had no chance against you... Well they aren''t the strongest things in this world but... They are still powerful... I''m sorry I doubted you Quinn..." I nod and prepeare to jump out of the carriage but I feel something starting to materialize on my shoulder. I look to what is happening on my shoulder to see Acila appear. Acila: "Sorry father that this took so long... I honestly thought I would be quicker with materializing but I got too into talking with Mayu so I totally forgot about it!" Quinn: "Ah It''s nothing Acila. I am just glad you finally came out to enjoy traveling with me. Well I should get going shouldn''t I? Mirikin, Akuna, Jenica. Please look over my County. I am placing all my trust on you right now. I believe in you girls. Well... I''ll get going now." I jump out while the carriage is moving and put Acila in one of the pockets on my shirt. She pops her head out and I start running at full speed towards the Elven Forest. I tottaly forgot about training myself and getting the Dryad body because of my revenge... I''m sorry Mayu that I forgot! Mayu: "It is nothing! I am just glad that you actually remembered before I had to remind you!" I rush towards the Forest and reach it at midday. It was a little past twelve when I left the carriage. I hope the girls actually take care of my County. I don''t want to get a bad name for myself right now. Especcially with my current reputation. It''d be hard to get connections to other countries to get more resources then. When I reach the Forest I decide to meditate in a little bit denser area of the forest. I meditate for three days straight. I need to get my nature magic really strong. When it''s the third night of my meditation training I feel something coming my direction with Mana Sense. I don''t engage immediatly and wait to see what is coming towards me. It might be a bunny what just ran from a fox or something. When the beings with Mana come to my meditation spot... It''s Elves. The elves actually came here. I laugh a little at that. I heard that Elves rarely communicate with anything living except Nature Spirits and things involved with Nature. They immediatly aim their spears and bows at me and I get ready for a fight. Mayu: "Do not fight them! The Elves are really important to humans because they actually allow us to pick things frm their forest! If their party were to be wiped out by something meditating they would find out the cause and probably blame humans for allowing this to happen!" Ok ok... I won''t fight them. They approach me carefully and speak in some kind of language. I do not understand but then one other elf comes up. Quinn: "Don''t kill me! I''m with the humans! I don''t want to fight you elves!" Elf: "Human, what are you doing on our land!? We thought we strictly told the King and the Royals to not let any human into the Inner Tiers! Damn humans!" Quinn: "The other humans don''t know anything about this. I''m sorry if I intruded." Elf: "You are coming with us! You must explain to the queen about this!" Quinn: "Alright. I have nothing against it. Just put down the spears. I do not like getting attacked." The elf speaks in their language again and they lower their spears. They take me through the forest into a... City... I guess this is the Elves capital or something. They coexist with the nature in this place. They built a whole city ontop of trees and on the ground with wood. I get taken to a huge temple-looking thing made out of stone. When the doors open they throw me in without locking me up. Weird... Usually somebody puts some kind of rope or cuffs around you when they throw you somewhere. I look up and see... A woman with clothing of a Queen. Ok this must be the Elven Queen or I must be an idiot. She is sitting on a throne. Queen: "Stand up, Abomination!" I stand up like the Queen asks me to. Queen: "I am Queen Kaylessa Havioris! Queen of the Elves! What were you doing trespassing on the Inner Tiers!" Quinn: "Meditating. Trying to become one with nature." Kaylessa: "What are you exactly... Abomination..." Quinn: "Well I was a human... Then I got four horns... And didn''t turn insanely evil... I don''t really know what I am. A monster of some sort?" Kaylessa: "Hmm... So you describe yourself as a Monster. But what were you doing tresspassing on the Inner Tiers?" Quinn: "Inner... Tiers?" Kaylessa: "You don''t know about the Inner Tiers?" I shake my head to tell them I don''t know about the Inner Tiers. Kaylessa: "Hmm... Well the Inner Tiers are two areas out of four in the Elven Forest. The Elven Forest is split into four areas aka the Four Tiers. We only allow other races to get into the Third and Fourth. You came into the second. That is a violation of our law so we must punish you accordingly. But... You aren''t one of the races we made a deal with... But you look like them... I don''t know what we will do to you because... I don''t know what you are and what I should classify you as and how I shall punish you." Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.Quinn: "Don''t punish me at all? I didn''t know about the Inner Tiers after all. I didn''t know anything about the Elven Forest." Kaylessa: "I guess i''ll let it slide this time, abomination. What is your name anyways?" Quinn: "My name is Quinn Evergreen. I am a count of the kingdom of Euin. A new Count. I also named myself Evergreen if you were wondering. I can kill the King if I wanted to." Kaylessa: "Interesting. You claim you have the King at your disposal?" Quinn: "If I wanted to get rid of him it will be an easy task for me." Kaylessa: "You are funny, Quinn! I''ll let you stay here for a few days if you wish. The First Tier is perfect for trying to become one with Nature." Quinn: "And I''ll take you up on that offer." Kaylessa: "Can you join me for morning tea later? I want to know more about you." A guard approaches. Guard: "My Queen! You cannot trust an abomination like him! He might attack you and kill you!" Kaylessa: "And what can he do to me?" Guard: "Well... I don''t know... You are very powerful..." Kaylessa: "See? Nothing to worry about." The guard steps back. Kaylessa: "Maids, can you please take our new visitor to a room?" Two maids come and I follow them. We walk out from a small door in the side of the Temple and over a bridge. On the other side is a normal-sized house. Is my room in there? Quinn: "Is my room in the house?" Maid: "No, that house is your room." Quinn: "Hah... So a full-blown house is called a room around here..." I walk into my new ''room''. It has anything you would need for living. I look around and the maids leave. I meditate until it''s morning on the balcony of my new house. I then go back to the temple where I am shown to a real room inside the temple where the Queen is already waiting. Kaylessa: "Sit down Quinn." I take a seat like the Queen suggests. Quinn: "So what do you need me for Queen?" Kaylessa: "Call me Kaylessa please. I just want to know you better is all. You are similiar to things i''ve seen but not at the same time. A completely new race." Quinn: "I''m just a monster. A mix of things probably." I chat with Kaylessa for a while. And by a while I mean for the entire day. Time flew by so fast. We also touched some sensitive topics about each other. Apparently Kaylessa has no husband to take over the spot of her father, The King. The King and Queen died of old age and she had to take over the throne alone. I also told her about my real race. A dungeon. She was surprised about that fact but I only told her as a reward for telling me so much about herself. We also started talking about love and marriage in the afternoon. It just came up as a topic but she immediatly blushed when I told her I had no real lover. Well not if you exclude Mayu. She also made a lot of... Hints... During the talk. And by a lot I mean a lot. If I was the most dense and stoic person in the world I would still notice them. Every time our eyes made contact after we talked about love she would turn into a strawberry-red coloured elf. Funny how elves body-colours work. You can clearly tell their current mood by the tone of their skin. When I left she looked a little bit depressed. I went to my ''room'' at midnight and meditated for five hours before I noticed something crossing the bridge. The person who entered was the Queen. In her nightgown... Why did I know this was going to happen... Kaylessa: "I''m sorry if I seem to... Pushy... It''s just that... You are the only one I feel like I can trust a lot and you wouldn''t let me down... You also have a lot of mana what can protect me... And the fact that you are a Count... And your appearance and personality are great too... I fell for you after a few hours of speaking... And completely fell for you after the topic about love..." Quinn: "Why did I already see this coming... Well.. Why are you here though?" Kaylessa: "I don''t feel safe in my Temple... I have never felt safe there. When I talked with you while drinking tea I felt safe for the first time in my life. You have such an aura around you..." Quinn: "And why are you here...?" Kaylessa: "I want to sleep in the same room as you... Please.... I feel like I am going to die in the Temple if I stay there longer... I never liked being the Queen. All those problems. All those suitors trying to get your hand for their own benefit... You aren''t like them are you...?" Quinn: "Well... Not really... But it seems you won''t take a No as an answer will you?" Kaylessa: "No. I will not. I want to sleep peacefully for once in my life... Even when I slept next to my mother and father I never felt safe." Quinn: "Well... I''ll go to sleep then..." I go to the bedroom of my house and start to fall asleep on the couch there. Kaylessa soon comes in too. Kaylessa: "What are you... Why aren''t you sleeping on the bed?" Quinn: "I thought you wanted to sleep on the bed?" Kaylessa: "Well... I want to sleep next to you..." Quinn: "Isn''t this fine though? For now?" Kaylessa: "I guess so..." I fall asleep on the couch while Kaylessa falls asleep on the bed. My routine for a week is simple. Wake up, eat breakfast, meditate for the entire day, go to sleep. I then decide to go back. I left the girls alone for long enough. In the middle of the day I approach Kaylessa. Quinn: "Kaylessa. I have to go. I left three girls to run my County until I came back. I''d feel bad leaving them forever." Kaylessa: "I''ll come with you!" Quinn: "But... Wouldn''t that destroy the Hierarchy of the Elves?" Kaylessa: "My cousin will take over! He is the next in line anyways and I was about to leave silently too!" Quinn: "You are not lying right?" Kaylessa: "No I am not!" Quinn: "Fine. Then come with me." We leave. I am still hesitant to take Kaylessa with me. I met her a week and a few days ago. Well I took Akuna and Mirikin with me the same way did I not? Mayu... Are you OK with it? Mayu: "She seems nice. Also... I''ll let you take as much wives as you want but I must always come first ok!" Fine fine Mayu. You will always come first. I care for you more than the others because I know you a little better... When we left the forest I also hunted down a Dryad. It wasn''t even bothering to hide in the Third Tier. It was easy to just kill it without damaging it''s body too much. It is still repairable. I just need to fix it and put Mayus new body in it... Like that will be easy... It seemed easier to just switch souls between bodies but Mayus soul is within my mind so that is out of question. Meh. I''ll do it anyways. I rush back to the County with Kaylessa on my back. Acila also talked a lot during our stay in the Elven Forest but... She only talked non-sense most of the time. Only jokes... I got tired of Acila''s jokes after a while but Kaylessa seemed to like them. Kaylessa is an elven woman. She has sharp pointy ears like elves do. Sapphire-blue eyes, blond hair down to her waist and a big bust. She is also quite tall. One meter and eightyfive centimeters. I need to find out what the girls did to my County while I was gone... This won''t be nice to find out... I hope they are all fine... Chapter 23. Hatred. I head back to my county and when I reach the gates... I don''t like the sight of it... I see... Nothing. Everything has been burned to the ground.... I was only gone for two weeks! Kaylessa and Acila look at the sight with worry. I put Kaylessa down and start rummaging through the rubble. I only find one living being and no bodies or anything. Only one cat-eared maid. Suzu. Suzu: "Q..Quinn... You... Finally... Came..." She coughs out a lot of blood. Quinn: "Suzu! Are you okay?! What happened here?!" Suzu: "The...The king... He... Came... With an army.... And took everybody... Prisoner... I ran and hid in the manor... They burned it down with me inside... We couldn''t... Protect them... We couldn''t... Protect the manor... While you were... Gone..." She stops breathing. It''s the damn king.... I should''ve known that if he didn''t do anything to me he would do something to the girls! And I thought they were powerful enough to take down the royals in a fight but that damn king actually got the support of the others to take me down! Kaylessa: "This... Used to be your... Manor?" Quinn: "Yes." I look around and see a big shield on the wall with my coat of arms on it. It''s undamaged even in this amount of rubble. I pick it up and put it on my back making sure it doesn''t hinder me at all. I''ll find the bastard and shove his own body parts right down his throat... Right down to his stomach making sure he is dead and can''t be brought back ever... I walk towards Kaylessa and pick her up in a princess carry surprising her. My... Masked... Self comes back. I become worried. What did the King do to them? There were so many of them here but they all were taken care of... I start running. My speed is faster than usual. A strangely large bloodlust surrounds me. I look at Kaylessa and see her afraid of my current state. Acila even retreated into my mind when I released my bloodlust because I knew I couldn''t keep it in anymore. I keep whispering to myself: "I''ll kill them, I''ll butcher them, I''ll massacare them, I''ll... Tear... Them...Apart... I''ll shove their eyeballs down their throat..." and such. Within only three hours we reach the Capital. I didn''t notice it because I ignored the Keep but it''s deffinetly fortified to the brim. They tried to make it into the strongest fortress into the world. There are a lot of guards ontop with bows and all the royal guards are guarding the doors. The moment I appear infront of them I put Kaylessa down. I stare at them with my bloodlust showing. They try to stab me even though they are afraid. I grab the spears and show it down their throats as far as I could. I then picked up one of the bodies with a spear inside of it and threw it to the top of the keep. The archers scream as they see the man. I jump up to the archers and grab one of them by the neck and another one by the leg. There were thirty spearmen before the gate and there are fifty archers here. This is no army. I smash the guy who I caught by the leg into the roof breaking his neck. I make the other guys neck pop straight off before massacaring all the archers. I then break the roof from one small spot and fall down right in the middle of the keep. I never actually noticed how big the keep is. It''s enough to hold an entire army. And that they did. An entire army is inside the keep waiting for me. When I fell down I had a huge grin on my face. If they didn''t know who I was they would mistake me for the Devil himself. The king is arrogantly sitting on his throne. I notice thin strings of magic coming out of his body. He broke out of fear and somebody took control of him huh? I also notice the three girls behind him all bruised and wounded. I laugh at the sight of an arrogant king. Arrogance only gets you killed. Especially if you are weak. The army is crumbling under my intense bloodlust but some are fighting back against it and trying to get up. I stare at the king who is obviously being controlled and has no control over his mind or body. The girls are unconcious so I don''t have to worry about them seeing what I am about to do. I release all the pressure on the soldiers to give them SOME chance. I still let my bloodlust loose but just without the crushing pressure what comes with it. They can either stand up and die or stand down and still die. Because they messed with the wrong person. The wrong monster of this world. I use my mana sense to detect how many people are in here. About... Two million? Damn this keep is big. No matter. They all shall die. My already big grin grows even bigger influencing the mask making a really dark grin appear on it too. I stare at the king before appearing infront of him. Quinn: "King, look at this army. You caused the massacare what is about to happen. Well I should say the one who is controlling you caused the scene what is about to happen." I look towards the army. Quinn: "Those who want to escape. There is no escape from my wrath. There is only death. Only pain." With those words I jumped into the middle of the mass and start swinging my blade around what I unsheathed while I was jumping. I could crush them all with bare fists but that would take too long. With each of my swings I take atleast ten of them down instantly and wound atleast forty. They also bump into eachother causing others to fall down and be trampled. That''s the problem here, this keep is packed full. I wonder where the royal family is? The Queen didn''t break under fear. I also wonder why they took everybody but Jenica from the Royal Family. Ah too many questions. I''ll control this world and find out then. I''ll find out when none oppose me. None decide to... Stand against my wishes. I massacare them for hours. I took my time because... I wanted to. I wanted them to feel fear, to feel pain, to feel powerless in the face of a true monster. You cannot call me anything but a monster anymore. Kaylessa tried to open the keep doors but they were being blocked by a huge amount of people and bodies. I swing my blade, guts fly out. I swing my blade, legs or arms fly. I swing my blade, heads fly. I swing my blade, blood flies. In the middle of my massacare I noticed that the three girl woke up. They should''ve stayed unconcious because I was not going to let any of them live. They burned my county. My things! They took the three girls precious to me! They killed a maid of mine! They took all the maids and butlers I had and are probably torturing them for following me! So they all deserve. Death. I laugh during the entire massacare. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.There is no escape from a monster. No escape from a mad monster. No escape at all. Only death. Near the end of the massacare I blank out. I lose all control over my actions and see myself just stuffing body parts down their throats or pulling out their eyeball and stuffing it down their throat. I also threw them into each other and some of them I just crushed with sheer power. The only area untouched by my wrath is the are where the girls are at. When my massacare ends I walk towards the King. Only one string remains. I try to track the String and notice that it is connected to... The kingdom of Deanni. Right to the location of the Dungeon King. The Dungeon King tried to stop me? That shall not happen Dungeon King... I cut off the head of the king and look towards the three girls who are glad to see me but afraid at the same time. I am coated by atleast fifteen layers of blood. Quinn: "I came to save you didn''t I? I''m sorry I came late." My masked form turns back to my normal one. My ruby hair turns back to it''s emerald form that is not coated by blood. Mirikin: "Atleast you came..." The Keep Doors open and Kaylessa uses wind magic to fly over all the bodies. Kaylessa: "Quinn!" She looks at me and screams. Mirikin: "Who... Is... That... Quinn?!" Mirikin and the other two girls look at me furiously. Yeah this really wasn''t a good idea to bring Kaylessa with me was it? She gets up and coms over to punch me. Quinn: "I can explain! I can deffinetly explain this!" Mirikin: "Then explain! Why did you bring such a beautiful woman here?! Who is she even!? Did you just find her on your travels back to the Elven Forest and became lovers with her!?" Quinn: "First of all we are not lovers. We just slept in the same bed. And she is the Queen of the Elves, well... Former queen. Her name is Kaylessa Havioris. And I found her when I was taken prisoner by the elves. And she came with me because she wanted to. She didn''t feel safe in the Temple... Don''t be mad at me Mirikin... Please..." Mirikin: "Fine! Just... I want a compensation reward for you bringing in another girl!" Quinn: "And... Why do you want it?" Mirikin: "Well... No reason! I just want it!" Quinn: "What is it then...?" I sigh and soon after I am kissed by Mirikin. Mirikin: "That. Is my reward." Quinn: "Hah... I was saving my first kiss for Mayu but you stole it." Mirikin: "I''m sure she won''t mind." I know otherwise... I really do... I can feel Mayus anger inside my own mind. It is nothing... Weak.... I''m sure Mayu would beat up her own sister for stealing my first kiss... Mayu: "I would!" Oh yeah I forgot you can read my mind. Acila: "Father... You are scary... Too scary...... Your bloodlust is bigger than anything I have ever seen... Your massacared two million humans with ease..." Hahah! Well... I do want to become the ruler of this world. Innver: "And that you shall become. But the Dungeon King got involved personally? Was it to weaken you or strengthen you...?" We will find out. My next course is straight for the Dungeon King. Hmm... I wonder if I can grow wings if I consume a dragons mana. Well... There is a dragon on the continent. Why not find out? I fall into deep thought about what dragons wings would look like on my body before I notice that I am kissed again. This time by Kaylessa... Kaylessa: "I thought it would be fair for me to kiss you if that girl kissed you too..." Then Jenica approaches me and kisses me too... What is up with this? Shouldn''t they be afraid of me and staying away instead of kissing me? Jenica: "As a reward for saving me." I wouldn''t be too surprised if Akuna would kiss me too. Akuna stands up but comes over to me and clings to my arm. Akuna: "Never leave me behind ever again! I only took out fifty of them before they took me down by sheer numbers!" The others cling to me too. I am now surrounded by girls and cannot move. I mean it... I cannot move because I don''t want to hurt them. Quinn: "Umm girls... I cannot move at this rate..." Akuna lets go but then I feel somebody jumping onto my shoulders. Akuna let go of me just to jump on my shoulders... Jenica lets go and looks at me. Her legs are clearly trembling because I can see that even she was attacked and hurt. The king hurt his own daughter in his fit of rage and being controlled. I pick her up in a princess carry. I leave the keep leaving behind a blood-filled room what used to sparkle. Now the sparkles are dyed with blood. I call for a carriage and put Jenica in it. I also put Akuna down and the other two sit down themselves. I tell the driver to head towards the Dragon. He looks at me weirdly. Carriage Driver: "If you want to, buddy. But that is a death wish. And why are you covered in blood?" I throw a bad of gold at him for his troubles and go back in. Using all my power for so long tired me out so I fall asleep on the floor of the carriage with the girls sleeping on the sides where it''s better. So the Dungeon King finally got involved with me? I thought he wouldn''t notice me until I got my core back together. Well... I''ll first go and kill the dragon and consume his power. I need all the power I can get to absoloutely destroy the dungeon King. I wonder if I can eat his mana too? Hmm... I go into deep thought about those and lose all track of time. ------ Next time a fight between a monster and an even bigger monster. Which one is which you decide. Chapter 24. Dragon. I wake up in the carriage... Well... We are already at the mountain where the Dragon is at. I completely lost all sense of time and then ontop of that I fell asleep.... How many days passed? Mirikin: "You finally woke up! It''s been a week since you fell asleep!" Quinn: "A week huh..." I get up and stretch my muscles. I have to fight a Dragon after all... I need to give the Dungeon King a little present. A present of the sweet kiss of death. In my deep thinking I concluded that if I eat the dragons mana I could beat the Dungeon King. I might have to sacrifice an arm and a leg for it though. But no matter... This is only my secondary body. I also decided to forge Mayu''s new body. Using pieces of the dragons tissue, dryads body and a little bit of other creatures. I know I can live forever but I need her to live forever too. I also concluded that if the bodies of the other girls get too old I''ll replace those bodies with new ones. That way we all can be together forever. I get out of the carriage. The driver starts going back towards the capital when we all get off. I hope the maids and butlers can wait just a few more weeks. I''ll save them all soon enough. I''ll unite this whole world under my rule. I''ll command every being with an Iron Fist. I''ll become a tyrant just so everybody can be at peace. Well I won''t become evil. I''ll just try to fix all the problems in the world. I head over towards the mountain. Time for a fight. This dragon won''t be having a sleepless night this time because I am here and it''s night! I have no humour anymore... I will also use my apples in this battle probably... I know I am powerful without them but with them.... I don''t know. I really don''t know how powerful I will be. Quinn: "Girls, stay here. I cannot guarantee your safety if you come close to the mountain. The Battle of the Two Beasts is about to begin." I jump high up into the air and immediatly use some wind magic to make a small platform of wind in the air to boost myself straight towards the dragons den. Well it''s the only thing big enough for a dragon what I noticed immediatly in the air. I land infront of the cave making a huge hole in the ground. Something immediatly rushes out of the cave. It''s... Damn big. REALLY big. Is this mountain hollow or something!? This thing is half the size of a three kilometer mountain! Now I know why nobody has killed this monster yet. It''s really big and powerful. Well... I''m small and powerful I think. Dragon: "Abomination! Why have you come into my Mountains?" Quinn: "To consume your mana. I need it to beat the Dungeon King." Dragon: "Hahaha! You are funny, abomination. We shall see if you can beat m-" I throw an explosive apple in his face as a surprise attack. I then throw a couple magma apples towards his eyes and a normal apple at his leg. The magma apples burst when they come into contact with his eyes and burn his eyelids because he barely closed his eyes before the magma hit. The apple is munching on his leg. Slowly... But surely. And is that apple getting bigger? It is getting bigger isn''t it? Well no matter. I throw more apples at it and then jump up at it''s face. I see that it is about to use its wings and I jump onto an air platform and boost myself towards his wing. I make a huge hole into it. I didn''t cut it like I wanted to but it''s fine. Seems he can''t fly. Dragon: "Abomination! What powers do you have?! These little apples are eating through my flesh and skin like it''s some kind of squishy food! And those different apples almost burnt my eyes! What kind of trickery have you brought with you!?" Quinn: "I am a dungeon. A demon. And one hell of an annoyance aren''t I?" Dragon: "You sure are." Quinn: "Hooh... You aren''t surprised by my fact of being a dungeon?" Dragon: "Killed plenty of dungeons with bodies. Know how they usually attack." I jump up again and slash towards his eye with my blade. His eyelids are completely burnt off making his eyes vulnerable until he regenerates them. Well he must have regeneration otherwise he would be too battle scarred right? I don''t see any kind of damage except the ones I have inflicted on him. I make a deep scar in his eye and make it unusable during the battle. Quinn: "Hah... You are on-" I get thrown into the mountain... He hit me so fast I couldn''t see anything... I jump back out and keep throwing apples. Note to self... Keep away from the dragons claws! His speed is not something you can match! Quinn: "That was a nice slash... I couldn''t see what you did!" Dragon: "Well you shouldn''t underestiamte me. I am a dragon." I throw even more apples just in case. I notice that one of his legs is almost completely devoured by one big apple. And by big I mean... Really... Reeally... Big. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.I jump towards his mouth and notice he is about to breathe fire or something and take the chance. Banana away. I throw three bananas down his throat into his stomach before they start slowly devouring him. Dragon: "What did you throw down my throat!" Quinn: "My second mob." Dragon: "You truly are a fearsome enemy. Might I have the honor of knowing your name?" Quinn: "My name is Quinn. Yours?" Dragon: "Ya''Kil." Quinn: "Nice too meet you and sorry this had to end like this." Ya''Kil: "No matter, Quinn." I throw an explosive apple at his other eye to blind him completely. This old man is interesting but I need his power. I decide to try an Omniapple. An Omniapple is well... All four major elements combined. This thing is going to completely evaporate his leg isn''t it? I throw it towards his leg and before I notice... His entire lag and a bit of his stomach is gone. Just a big massive gaping hole is there. He is trying to kill the apples with his tail but its only making his death come quicker. I have no need to do anything. I can only make him die painlessly by hitting his stomach with a row of explosive apples to reveal his heart and kill him. And that I shall do. I won''t dishonor him. He was a worthy opponent. I look towards the arm I got hit. My hand is basically half-gone. You can see the bones completely from one side. I can''t feel any pain because he cut off all my nerves to the arm too. I throw a lot of explosive apples until I find his Mana Heart and his Real Heart. I cut off his mana heart and throw an explosive one at his real one. I then sit down and start consuming all his mana. This old man was a real good guy. He only wanted to survive. But then along came me... A random dungeon who just suddenly crushed him in a few moments. After a few hours my arm has completely healed and I have taken in all his mana. I''ve gotten used to taking in mana so it goes by fast for me. But then... Intense pain hits me. The nerves reconnected and my body is going through an intense change. Well atleast I think so... The pain is unbearable... I scream at the top of my lungs... The process goes on for two hours. The girls got here in one hour after I started screaming... They are trying to make sure that I am not going to die from the pain. Well like i''ll die. I will never die. When the process ends I feel something on my back... Wings? Yes! Wings!!! I jump up in excitement. Quinn: "Wings!! Finally! Now I can fly towards the Dungeon King and kill the bastard!" The girls look at me in surprise. Just a few seconds ago I was screaming in intense pain and now I am jumping around better than ever. Mirikin: "You actually pulled it off... And you were only hit once? You used the apples didn''t you?" Quinn: "Yes. Yes I did. With these apples I am unbeatable! They are too overpowered... Really..." Mirikin: "Indeed they are..." Quinn: "Well we should get going shouldn''t we? I mean we have to cross the sea between Euin and Deani." Mirikin: "Ok, Quinn. With your new... Dragon wings... We can cross it. Probably..." I pick them up. Well it''s more like I picked up Jenica. Akuna jumped on my shoulder and the same is with Mirikin. Kaylessa is also in my princess carry with Jenica. I am surprised I can hold them both. I jump up and try to fly... Well... I start falling down. I''m not used to using wings. Just a few meters above ground I got the hang of it. It''s actually quite simple. Just think of it as new arms or legs. I start flying towards Deani. The shorter path towards Deani. I won''t go through every continent... I''ll just use the small sea between Deani and Euin because the world is round. I fly at full speed. Well at the full speed I can go right now. It''s hard trying to keep the wo girls who are sitting on my shoulders... Well hanging on my shoulders... And the two girls in my princess carry from falling. I fly for two days without rest before we reach the Dungeon Kings Dungeon. I''m finally here you bastard. You gave me such a good invite. Why shouldn''t I have taken it? ------ Author''s note - I know this is rushed. But I have finally decided to just finish this Light Novel and start a new sequel to this. A better one. Think of this Light Novel as a ''Test Drive'' for the next one. I''ll tell you the details of my new one in the next chapter what is coming out today. And don''t complain. I already said in my ramblings that this is just a bunch of my own ideas and the things I want put together. I listened to your guys... Needs. And included those here too... Also... I really need a name right now. For the next hero of the next Light Novel. Please comment it down below. Chapter 25. End. Author''s Note - I fully know this is rushed because I am not blind. As I stated before. ''TEST DRIVE.'' So please excuse my selfishness this Light Novel? I''ll try to not be as selfish in the next one what I fully know how to do. I am a beginner and don''t know what the hell I can do and what the hell I can''t do in Light Novels to make them pleasing to the readers. I promise that the next light novel I will do whatever I can to make pleasing. The next light novel comes out tomorrow so please give me names and such for characters! (Puts himself in dogeza to apologise for his insolence and also to apologise for the rushing and to ask for new names.) ------------------------ The Dungeon Kings dungeon. I''m finally here. And finally going to become the ruler of this world. I fall down infront of the entrance surprising everybody near me. I put down the girls. The dungeon kings dungeon actually has a really large town around it. This is in the demon lands is it not? Well no matter. I''ll soon control everything. Random Civilian: "It''s a demon! Run!" Guard: "How did it get past the barrier!" I enter the dungeon ignoring the guards and civilians around me. I go down a path of stairs and notice a really long hallway... I don''t have time for this... I really don''t... So I just hit the floor with my strength and make it collapse. I do this for 74 floors until I reach the 75''th. I need to do this quickly. I don''t have much time. The maids and butlers could die at any second. The Dungeon King also might just barricade himself in a room what I can''t enter if I take too long. I can''t take those chances. I go into the boss room of floor 75. I want to see this infamous unbeatable boss myself. I enter and see a huge white minotaur with a huuuge axe. This is the thing what kept them from moving forward? The boss runs towards me at full speed the moment I enter. I catch it by its horns and smash it into the ground. This thing is way bigger than me but it feels like I am throwing a feather around... A really really large feather. I snap off its horn and smash it into it skull. I start crushing floor after floor like this. I challenge the bosses only. All the bosses are weak... Was that dragon really that powerful? Did I only get by because I used my apples? I do not want to know what would''ve happened if I didn''t use my apples... I shiver at the thought... I reach floor 200 before I notice... There are no stairs down. Floor 200 is the end. A large door opens after I beat the boss. I walk in and see a huge titan sitting on a throne with a crown and the room has lots of pillars. Titan: "I am the Dungeon King! Name yourself, dungeon!" Quinn: "I am Quinn. Or by my dungeon name... Tinvarr." Dungeon King: "Ah... That dungeon. I knew that you would be the one who would end me. But to come this soon? You really think you can beat me?" Quinn: "I am certain. I must do this for Mayu. For the people who depend on me." Dungeon King: "So you got familiar with humans?" Quinn: "Yes. They crushed my core though.... Well no matter. I''ll take full control of this world once I kill you." Dungeon King: "Hmm... And why do you think I haven''t done that yet?" Quinn: "I don''t know... Why?" Dungeon King: "I don''t want to. The Gods will notice me. They will come and offer me godhood and such. Too much responsibility. If I just keep myself in this state I can gather mana and disperse it into the core of the world to make it stronger and live longer." Quinn: "Well... I''ll do that too after taking over the world." Dungeon King: "Well the gods already notice your existence. Your horns tell all what I need to know. A troublesome entity in this world. The gods will either kill you or make you join their ranks to keep you on a leash, Quinn." Quinn: "That is not what matters. As long as the women I care for get what they need... Then I am happy." Dungeon King: "So you had a better love life than me huh? Well... We should get to fighting. I don''t like talking much." The huge titan gets off his throne and reveals... A really long beard and some ancient-looking armor. Also he picks up a really long sword what is just big enough for him. Dungeon King: "Let us begin." He charges at me while I charge at him.... It is like an Ant attacking an elephant. Let''s see if this Ant can kill an Elephant. I jump up at his eyes and pull out an explosive apple. I throw it at his eyes like I did with the Dragon... But the apple explodes in thin air... I get attacked from behind... The king moved so fast I couldn''t follow his movement. I take out a lot of apples and throw them in every way possible. Only five of them hit the King and begin eating him. But he is way more massive than the dragon. The entire room he is in is about 150 floors big. And 50 floors away from the dungeon itself. And 150 floors is about.... 500 kilometers? I didn''t count. He tries to get them off but they eat him faster. Quinn: "You cannot get these apples off you." Dungeon King: "So these apples actually did something? I always thought they were the most useless mob in the existence of the dimensions. If I knew they were this powerful I would''ve taken them myself." I throw a magma one at his beard to burn it off. I just want to anger him so he makes foolish mistakes. And it really seems like he likes his beard. His beard is the most clean and most tidy part of his entire body. Most of the magma hits thin air but I notice that some of it got on his beard before he teleported. I grin and my masked self comes out. My speed, strength and thinking speed with reaction speed increases. It''s time for a real fight. I charge at him again while using small wind platforms to boost me. He slashes at me from below with his huge blade and I block it. His blade snaps in half when it comes into contact with mine. The shockwave from the clash creates a huge earthquake. I luckily left the girls above ground.... This place is too dangerous because it seems on the verge of collapsing due to being unattended for too long. Dungeon King: "Huh? Is that my lost sword? The sword inherited from Dungeon King to Dungeon King?" Quinn: "Wait you lost the sword that dungeon kings inherit from each other?" Dungeon King: "Yeah... I fought the Demon Lord and it kind of flew away and I lost track of it." I laugh at that remark and run up his sword and then hand. Even if he teleports I teleport with him now. I stab my sword into his arm and drag it along with me. Blood flies everywhere when I run up his arm. I reach his elbow by the time I get thrown off by his extensive amount of shaking. He teleports behind me and throws me into the ground. A sharp stone pierces my leg but I still get up. I can''t give up yet. I jump towards him again and throw my combo. A normal apple with an explosive one right behind it. I also throw a ton of omniapples at him. Those seem to do the most damage. He notices the power in the omni apples and tries his best to dodge them but one of them hits his finger and blows three of his fingers and half of his hand clean off. The elements are scary things... Especially if they are combined into one... Dungeon King: "What are those things? They are immensly powerful." Quinn: "Omniapples I call them." Dungeon King: "Those things could scratch a god. Not hurt a god but scratch one. Even I can''t hurt one probably." We laugh a little and resume our battle. I throw as many omniapples as I possibly can. I use some nature magic to plant poisonous plants to the ground which pierce his leg when he steps on them. They actually work a lot. He sometimes screams in pain when one of them hits. He also got me a lot of times. My entire left arm is gone after one of his attacks. My left side of my head is basically skinned. My skin was torn off by the air pressure of his arm slashing my left arm off. My wings are completely useless right now... They are torn off. I lost track of their location a while ago. Every time our hands hit each other a huge shockwave what ends up in an earthquake appears. I wonder what they are feeling up there... Snap out of it me! I need to focus! Oh... Too late... I see a huge hand approaching from my right side. I put my right leg infront to atleast minimize the damage. With one hit my entire right leg is blown off but I wasn''t hit luckily. I throw an omni apple at his arm and blow it off. Now we both have lost atleast two limbs. His beard burnt off too. Dungeon King: "You are persistant, kid. I''ll give you that." Quinn: "And you are one tough old man. A dragon died after taking one omni apple and about twenty explosive ones and three normal ones." I notice that his left side of his chest is missing because of my apple. A dungeons secondary body is dead when it''s core is dead or its mana pool cut off. I jump back in and throw an omni apple at his face and secretly one at his leg. He dodges the one I threw at his face but he doesn''t notice the one I threw at his leg until it''s too late. His left leg is no more. I take the chance to throw a lot of omni apples to blow him up. And that is what happened. He got completely obliterated by my omni apples... Now to find his core... A huge core appears from the wall infront of the throne. Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.Dungeon King: "You beat me in combat so you won. Take my core as your prize. I''ve lived long enough anyways. Live long, kid." I throw one of the bigger apples at his core to eat it. Once it''s eaten I start to consume it. I consume it for atleast two days and go through a process of making the mana completely mine and my body changing with it too for three days. I check his little treasury. He has all my damn core pieces! And I thought the adventurers had em! Well no matter... Atleast I got them back. I consume them and put my core back together... Finally! I go back upground after I put my core in his cores place. I put a lot of my mana into it so it expands. I left Innver in charge of it. The girls are patiently waiting for me still. When I come up they all get up from the ground and jump towards me. Mirikin: "You are back!!!" Quinn: "Let us go back down." I take their hands and jump down the 200 floors until we reach the bottom one. Upcourse I made sure they won''t get hurt using my body as a cushion for the air speed and such. Quinn: "Welcome to my new dungeon, girls." I notice that Innver has made the bottom floor quite... Homey. It litteraly looks like a cottage. Thank you Innver! Innver: "No problem. I''m surprised I can do this though." Well... I did a little bit of this and that as my authority as Dungeon King. Well I just threw my mana around to change the laws of you, Innver. My mana pool is HUMONGOUS compared to before I fought the Dungeon King. Innver. Make a small room for me. I need to make Mayus body. Innver: "Affirmative." Mayu: "FInally! I haven''t walked for such a long time!" A small room with a stone table is made for me near the throne. I enter it and close the door behind me. Innver. Make the girls cozy. I''ll be in here for a while. I take out a couple apples what still retain the materials of the Dryads body and the Dragons Body. I start trying to put the two together after taking apart and reconstructing the DNA of body bodies. I try to match them to eachother so the body won''t... Break. After one or two days of messing around I finally create the body. Now I just need Mayus soul to enter it. Innver... Do you know how? Innver: "Well... Not really... But how about you try to do it like when you make a new apple? But this time focus on making Mayus soul enter the body?" Well... Worth a shot. I focus on making Mayus soul go into the body and... It works. It actually works. I don''t feel Mayus presence in my mind and the body is starting to wake up. Mayu: "Did... It... Succeed?" I hug the body the moment I heard that. Quinn: "It did Mayu... It succeeded. It''s time to show Mirikin and the others... Your body..." I look at her body once again. It''s like a mix of a dryads and a humanoid dragons. It has wings and claws. It has a human looking body with long hair. It''s still small-chested though... Didn''t have enough materials to go by. It has dragon-scaled twigs running through it. She notices that I am looking at her and closes in... And kisses me. I blush a little and head out. What I see there is something else. There are the four girls with one big woman... With a holy aura... Mayu comes too and notices the... Woman. She immediatly bows. Mayu: "Goddess! It''s you again!" Goddess: "Mayu. It''s fine. You don''t need to bow." She gets up. Goddess: "Honestly Quinn... I''m surprised. I expected it to take twelve or so years to take over this world. You did it in eight. Well... Your legacy is over. But your sons legacy... Is far from over. Quinn. I have only one question for you." Quinn: "What... Question?" Goddess: "Do you want to help your future son?" Quinn: "Who doesn''t!?" Goddess: "Even if it means giving half of your current mana pool to him?" Quinn: "Yes! I want to help him! I want him to be powerful enough to protect people the moment he sees them in need!" Goddess: "Well... I can only give your son power. I cannot guarantee what he will look like and what he will be like. There have been cases of the son being completely different from the parents." Quinn: "But only one son?" GOddess: "Indeed. Only one son. Only one descendant. Not like you need any more. You already know how to be immortal and how to make the other girls immortal too don''t you?" Quinn: "New bodies, old souls." Goddess: "Correct." Quinn: "Who is going to bear my son?" She points at Kaylessa. Quinn: "Kaylessa...?" Goddess: "Yes. Your reproduction rate is very low but hers is high. That means she can have your child while the others cannot. Aphrodites didn''t like you much... We gods talked about what you should be like and only me and a few other gods out of the hundreds who came took a liking to you. Your son however..." Quinn: "You already talked about my son? But he isn''t even born yet?" Goddess: "We gods and goddesses can talk about something what will never be born for millions of years. We are gods and goddesses after all..." Quinn: "True..." Goddess: "Well I just came to tell you these things. I should get back now. You have your own problems to take care of don''t you?" Quinn: "That is true." The goddess leaves. Innver: "Quinn. I found the Maids and Butlers. They are on the continent of Euin. In keeps of castles." Quinn: "Bring them here. You can do that right?" Innver: "Well... I can set them to friendly. Also our area of control is currently three out of five continents. I am increasing it even more using your mana." Quinn: "Ok. Good to know." Kaylessa is blushing on the sofa and so are the others. I can understand it. Mirikin is furious though. And so is Mayu... Jenica and Kaylessa are just... Pure red. While Akuna is just pinkish. Well no matter... I sit down and talk with them. I gain control of the world a few days later. I gain all the butlers and maids I know of back... Except Suzu. Suzus soul is somewhere else already. All the butlers and maids actually weren''t harmed. They were just put into cells for supporting me. I also made the leaders of the continents come to my place. It took them a year to get here though... In that year I solved all the problems in my dungeon. I also made all the dungeons listen to me and made them know of my new position as their leader. They actually didn''t retaliate at all and just merged with my dungeon while still being their own entity. Funny how that works. When the leaders come here we discuss about politics and such. When I propose that we make one huge nation they call me out on non-sense. The only reason they came here is because they thought they are meeting the Dungeon King. When the Deani king told them I wasn''t the real Dungeon King they got furious and called me a liar. Upcourse I shortly showed them that I am the dungeon king and they calmed down. We finally create one big nation what is made out of 6 leaders. Me as the Matriarch. The tip of the world. The kings retain their positions but they must listen to me. We also talk about the problems in the world. The talks go on for two weeks. We fix all the problems we could. I used a lot of my previous world knowledge to fix things. The world is now under my complete control. I fixed the world... In the one year the Kings were coming to my place I also made the child with Kaylessa. Well it''s more like the Goddess forced us to. She put us in a room and didn''t let us out until we did the act. Damn goddess... I wanted to take it slowly but she just forced us. I thought Goddesses weren''t supposed to directly interfere! The Goddess offered me Godhood. I accepted. It was basically just all the gods coming together and meeting me and then they gave me some kind of holy aura and that was it... Just a glorified ceremony... Now it is time to see how my Son does things. The Goddess said that he is completely different from me and has recieved a lot of blessings from gods. Mostly from gods of darkness and death for some reason... The gods of life decided to just look for now. I couldn''t give my blessing to him because I am too weak... At the end of the... Year..? I have one formal and four non-formal wives. I am younger than most of them though... I am just eight years old in my body but look like i am 18... Funny huh? Well now back to watching my son. We are watching my son from a huge screen in an arena-looking place. A lot of gods are coming or exiting to view this. My son is born in this world but the gods decided to send him into a really harsh world. I don''t know why but I couldn''t say no. They threw him into a world that is about to destroy itself. It is way bigger than most of the worlds the gods say. Seems that world is really important to the gods. This is the end of my legacy... And the start of my sons. Personally I say that my Son''s legacy is way better than mine. ------ Author - (Still in dogeza) Forgive meeee! I am such a selfish author who just wants to write things his own way! Forgive me! (Apologizing intensifies by him smashing the ground with his forehead) Also... I need names for both my new Light Novel and the characters there... Pleaaase help this selfish insolent mess of an author out! Information (Not a real chapter and has nothing to do with the story at all.) Ok... The story ended and that''s all good right? Well I just (a few minutes ago) submitted a new Light Novel what takes Quinn''s son as the main character in another world. Name of it? Re: Dystopia. I also took into account some of your suggestions for names and that really helped me out. I don''t know when the new LN will be accepted so just wait patiently for it ok? I will link it here if it gets approved. So prepeare for a new adventure what I won''t try to rush. I''ll also try out the new table Codes in it. That''s going to end up horribly for me probably. Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. If you want to be in my new story (what will probably soon get approved) just PM me or say it down below and i''ll try to find out how to make your name appear there. You can also say what race you want to be because this world is going to be versatile and VERY different from Quinn''s. Edit: Finally got it approved! Here is the link for you all who were waiting! http://royalroadl.com/fiction/6735 Synopsis. Yes, this is the final thread I am going to post on this LN. The LN itself is over but the two latest threads were just info and this one. The story is simple... Guy gets reincarnated into a new world as a dungeon. He gets a special mob what is really strong aka an apple... And grows his dungeon for a while until the girl named Mayu comes into play. He helps Mayu and grows his dungeon until he goes to the outside world and finds an SS-class who destroys his core and kills Mayu with S-classes. Then he goes on a ship for seven years and comes back only to go on another trip and picks up Mirikin and Akuna and also kills an S-class with ease, then he becomes a count. He fixes all the problems in his county and goes to school. He learns a couple things about his world there and then fights an entire army of demons. Then he handles all of the assassins sent to kill him ,if he wasn''t dead already, by the King. He then goes to the King and scares him to the point where his mind broke. He then went to the elven forest and killed two S-classes for the sake of revenge. Then he trained in the elven forest after sending the girls to the county (he forgot about the training part) and gets taken prisoner by the Elves who then release him because he explained the circumstances of him being there. He stays there and trains with nature magic and also talks with the Elven Queen. The Elven Queen falls in love with him and he takes him with her after realizing she was not safe there. They then go to the county what was destroyed by the king and then went to kill the king. The king was controlled by the Dungeon King because his mind was broken and he had two million men waiting to kill the main character. The protag killed everybody in his path with ease and killed the king. Then he went to a mountain what had a dragon and killed it and consumed all of its magical power. Then he flew to the Dungeon King''s dungeon and smashes every floor to bits. Then he fought the Dungeon King and killed him and consumed his power. He became the new dungeon king and took over the world. The gods and goddesses gave him a choice to become a god and he accepted. He had a child with the Elven Queen and that is where the story ends. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. Simple right? But that is not where the childs story ends. The childs story is still going on. In my next light novel: "Re:Dystopia" (Here is the link http://royalroadl.com/fiction/6735) That is all what happened in the light novel in this one small tiny chapter of a wall of text. I heard and saw somebody say make a synopsis so I did. I also did a little bit of shameless advertising for my next LN what is following the story after this LN and in another world. Still has tie-ins with this one though.