《Enjoying My Second Life in a Fantasy World》 Chapter 1: My New Life in Another World ¡°Did I die?¡± That is the first question that came up in my mind since everything is dark. Let see¡­ The only thing I can remember before is I was returning from my class has just finished and since I didn¡¯t join any club, there¡¯s no point staying there, if you¡¯re asking if I have any friends? Well¡­ I have a little I am not really an active type of person and I love my peace kind of lifestyle. And this where the serious part starts, when I was walking home from the arcade I saw a girl happily walking with her mother holding hands while holding that it made envious but just a little, alright! But the girl suddenly run towards road it looks like she¡¯s chasing her balloon that looks floating away from her. That it made me smile how cute she is. You know that cuteness can save the world, right? When the girl was still in the road running a car appeared and fast approaching toward the girl it looks like the driver doesn¡¯t notice the girl yet. It looks like the mother was shouting to his daughter, but it looks like she doesn¡¯t understand what her mother is saying and it looks like she notice the car but it looks like it¡¯s too late to escape the approaching car If you¡¯re asking me what I¡¯m doing while the girl is about to get hit by the car? Weil¡­ I¡¯m currently running towards the girl trying to save her and if you¡¯re asking why? Well, I don¡¯t really know my feet just move on its own, so there¡¯s nothing I can do. Well, I manage to save the girl, but a cost of my life and now I¡¯m in this current situation. ¡°Hahaha¡­ I manage to save the girl I have no regret.¡± My body was disappearing slowly that it made smile since I¡¯ll be going to the afterlife, why not make a smile of no regrets But then a system window suddenly appeared. [You have died, now transferring to another world. Please enjoy your enjoy your new life to the fullest."] After reading the message I disappeared, I started opening my eyes, something surprisingly happened that I cannot believe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I opened my eyes was now inside the castle and it looks like there are also 3 people beside me who looks like the same age as me. And if you are curious about my age, I¡¯m 17 yrs. old. ¡°Ouch¡­ Where am I?¡± The first one to speak was the girl who has jet black long hair with dark black eyes and she¡¯s look really beauty that you could fall in love at first sight but it doesn¡¯t really concern me since she¡¯s out of my strike zone. ¡°That really hurt.¡± The second one who spoke was a boy he has light brown hair with dark brown eyes and he looks pretty handsome and can be considered to be pretty popular with the ladies, but I think we won¡¯t get along with each other since I hate popular guys ¡°Umm¡­¡± The last one seems the silent type since that is the first word she utter she has golden blond hair and has emerald blue eyes, she has really pretty cute face that you can even consider her a top idol, she¡¯s almost in my strike zone, but there is a problem she is still a kid and since I am not a lolicon so let¡¯s leave it. We four look at each other since we are right beside each other, but we heard a voice that made turn where the source come from. After we saw the source of the voice was an old man in his 60¡¯s he has white long hair and white long beard, he also has dark brown eyes and wearing a majestic clothes and a crown on his head. ¡°Heroes! Welcome to the kingdom of Anshea!¡± I was confused on what the old man said and it looks like the other three seems to be confused also. ¡°Who are you? Why are we here?¡± Nice question black long hair. ¡°I am the King of this kingdom and we summoned you here because the demon lord is about to be revived and we need your strength to stop him¡± The four of us were shocked on what the King just said to us. And the King continued to speak. ¡°I know you¡¯re confused why you are the one who is summoned here, but the one who have been summoned here are chosen by the summoning circle to have great power inside them. That¡¯s we need your strength to defeat him.¡± ¡°Even if we have the power, if we don¡¯t know how to use it, there¡¯s no point in it.¡± Oh¡­ This girl can hold an argument, she¡¯s been the only one asking questions with the king. ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about that before the demon king revives, we will train you so that you can defeat the demon king. Does any of you have any question?¡± It looks like the black haired girl seems to have no more questions, but it looks like this popular guy seems to have a question since his slowly raising hands looks like the king notice it. ¡°Speak.¡± ¡°Since you know that we have great power us inside do you know what it is?¡± The king nods after hearing the question as he clears his throat and speak ¡°Hmm¡­ That¡¯s a good question. That¡¯s why we have the oracle to explain things to you.¡± The oracle slowly steps forward and looked at the four of us and started to speak. ¡°I am the Oracle of the Goddess. The four you should have been given the blessing of his grace, try thinking of opening something.¡± Alright, let¡¯s follow what the oracle said and think. After thinking about open, suddenly a window open in front of me that made me surprised look what is written in it. Name: Ren Claudius Class: None Level: 1 HP: 500 / 500 MP: 300 / 300 Experience: 0 / 300 Strength: 19 Agility: 14 Defence: 13 Luck: 10 Magic: 15 Skill: Weapon Creation Titles: [Reincarnated One] I was amazed at what appear it was like game system that appear on rpg games that it was a little I was also confused what¡¯s in the window when I try to push the weapon inventory suddenly a new window appeared without anything inside except for the item that I had before we got summon that made me more confuse and started to look at the other three who is also surprise on what they saw. The oracle continues to talk after confirming that we saw the window. ¡°The goddess gave you the same blessing of her grave so you should have the same power to defeat the demon lord. I know that your level is still low, but you don¡¯t have to worry, we will train you so that you can defeat the demon king in his revival.¡± I suddenly look at my window to see if there¡¯s a level and found it, it looks like were still level one so is this some kind of rpg games where you need to level up to be strong. ¡°And in the bottom your window there should be a title with a hero in it.¡± Hmm¡­ it looks like I don¡¯t have a title so does that mean that I am not a hero. Then why am I here anyway. I have been in a deep of thinking, forgetting the oracle that is still explaining about something that I didn¡¯t notice that the oracle finish explaining. The oracle steps back behind the king who is stroking his beard and spoke. ¡°We have prepared you the room to rest since I know you¡¯re tired being summoned towards here.¡± As the king was about to call the maids I raise my hand the king look at me. ¡°Do you have any question?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not really a question but a request.¡± The king was confused on what I said while also three also look at me who are curious on what favour I am talking about. ¡°Speak.¡± ¡°Can I decline on exterminating the demon lord?¡± All the people inside the audience hall became silent after hearing what I said they can¡¯t hide their bewilderment. The king closed his eyes. It looks like he is also shock of what I said. After a few seconds past the king opened his mouth and spoke ¡°Is there a reason you want to decline on killing the demon lord?¡± ¡°Yes, it looks like I don¡¯t have the title of a hero.¡± The king was surprised about what I said and massaged his forehead. ¡°Is that true?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Then we have no choice since you don¡¯t have the title of the hero we will do our best to protect you so you can stay here in the palace since we are the one at fault who accidentally summon you without any reason, I hope you can forgive me on behalf of my kingdom.¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about it, but I want to ask you another request.¡± ¡°Name it.¡± ¡°I want to travel this world is it okay with you?¡± After hearing what I said the king slowly stroked his beard and started to ask. ¡°Is there a reason you want to travel? Isn¡¯t it more reasonable that you stay here so we can protect you from any threat?¡± ¡°I want to see what kind world this is.¡± The king smiled at me that looked like his satisfied with my answer and he started to signal someone and a man wearing some expensive clothes appeared slowly walking towards the king it looks like he is the right hand man of the king. After the right hand man reached the king, they suddenly began talking, but I can¡¯t really hear what they were talking about since they¡¯ve been talking in a really low voice that the only two of them can hear. After waiting few minutes it looks like the two reach an understanding on what they are talking about since they are now facing me. ¡°Can I hear your name young man?¡± ¡°Ren Claudius, your majesty¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ Ren I approve you going on your travel and I want you to start your travel tomorrow since we will have a festival for your summoning, I also want you to attend.¡± ¡°I understand.¡± The king suddenly clapped his hand after we finish talking after hearing that sounds 4 maids appeared and the king spoke in a calm voice. ¡°The four of you should be tired. The maids will show you the way to your room so I want you to follow them.¡± After hearing the king we followed the maid individually and the one I was following towards my room was a girl that looks one year older than me, she has a chestnut brown hair with pony tailed hairstyle and light brown eyes. When we arrive to my room the maid smiled at me elegantly bowed while saying ¡°If you have any request, please call me.¡± And she slowly gets out of the room after saying that. After the door close I slowly lay on the bed and started to talk to myself. ¡°Haha¡­ I thought I died in that car accident, but who would¡¯ve thought that I got reincarnated in another world this is unexpected.¡± As I slowly let go of my strength, my eyelids suddenly gets heavy that it started closing while I was thinking how many unexpected events happen that I forgot how tired I was, I started to fall asleep. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The festival has started and because it is a big celebration the whole kingdom celebrated even when you look at outside you can see people are smiling and enjoying it. I was leaning on the wall looking at the people celebrating inside the castle, while looking at the people who are celebrating the first one I saw was the handsome looking guy who is summon just like me but as a hero and it looks like he became really popular with the ladies And the second one I saw was the black long haired girl who is also summon as a hero, when I look at that girl it makes me want to laugh since the noble guys who want to get to know her can¡¯t seem to get close to her since she¡¯s been giving a hard to approach aura. As I was enjoying the sight looking at the people a little girl slowly walks towards where I¡¯m standing. It looks like it¡¯s that blond little girl who is also summon just like me, she stands beside me without uttering any word at all. When I look at the girl who¡¯s standing beside me she looks somehow sad, I can¡¯t blame her since she¡¯s still a little child and she got summoned suddenly. So let¡¯s cheer her up a little. ¡°Can I ask for your name, little girl?¡± The girl looked at me with her blue eyes and spoke ¡°My name is Lorelie¡­¡± ¡°Lorelie ,right? You miss your world right?¡± The girl looks down the floor to hide her sadness, but it still shows how sad she is. As I look at the girl sad face it made me decide I will make her cheer up even for a little. I remember that all the things that I have, before I was summoned here the things that I have before was also transferred in my inventory and remember the prize that I got at the arcade. I opened my system window and looked for the item that I have in my inventory and took out the stuff toy that looks like a bear. I smiled when I kneel in front of her as I give the stuff toy to her who was surprised to see it. ¡°Here I¡¯ll give this cute bear to you so that he will keep you company when you''re lonely.¡± The girl slowly took the beer from my hand and hugged it tightly as she gently smiled looking at me gratefully that made me smile. ¡°If you have any problems at all tell me and your big brother will solve it for you.¡± I smiled at her while saying that we end up enjoyed talking the whole night of the celebration. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am currently now in the audience room having a talk with the king and it¡¯s been sometime when we started talking and the subject he always bring back to the story about his youth and his adventures and so on that I¡¯m starting to get sleepy. ¡°Then Ren, I would like you to have this in your journey, it¡¯s not much since the demons are starting attacking us that we have to use a lot of resources just to defend their invasion but I want you to have this. ¡±When the king raises his right hand the ambassador steps forward, holding a bag of coin and a sword as it handed on to me, I kneel to the king to give gratitude to him, isn¡¯t this what they do on the fantasy when give gratitude to the king and I really wanted to do it once in my life. ¡°I¡¯ll humbly accept your gift, your majesty.¡± ¡°Stand-up and start your adventures. Find out what your role in this world.¡± ¡°Thank you for your words, your majesty.¡± I turned around to face the door and started to walk and as I was about leave I turned around to the three heroes were and look at Lorelie and saw her sad face looking at me like a little sister who¡¯s about to get abandoned by his older brother that it¡¯s making it hard for my conscience to leave her. I turned around to where I was going and head towards and kneel in front her. ¡°Are you sad again?¡± Lorelie nods at me to confirm that it¡¯s true. Damn she¡¯s really cute that I want to protect her. And before you misunderstand what I said, let me explain, what I just said I am just weak to cute things that I somehow can¡¯t hold myself back when I see one I started to pat her head to cheer her up and spoke. ¡°I gave you stuffed bear, right? When you just lonely think of it as someone closed to you, alright? And if you are in danger just thinking of me and without a doubt I¡¯ll come running to where you are.¡± ¡°Yes¡­¡± Lorelie smiles as she answered my question. Damn she¡¯s even cuter when she¡¯s smiling that I really want to hug her, but let¡¯s restrain for now I will control myself. ¡°That¡¯s good, so take care, alright?¡± I stand and walk away looking at Lorelie who¡¯s waving his hand with a big smile at me leaving the audience hall. After I leave in the Anshea kingdom I started open my status window. Name: Ren Claudius Class: None Level: 1 HP: 500 / 500 MP: 300 / 300 Experience: 0 / 300 Strength: 19 Agility: 14 Defence: 13 Luck: 10 Magic: 15 Skill: Weapon Creation Titles: [Reincarnated One] ¡°Hmm¡­ weapon creation, I wonder what it means?¡± I pressed the weapon creation skill and another window suddenly appeared. [Weapon Creation: You can create weapons out of nothing. You can create any weapon that you think of. Owner¡¯s stats will increase depends on the weapon created if it is equipped. Weapon created will disappear if the creator decided it. Mana Consumption: 70] I started to walk to find where is the best place to try out my skill so I can survive in this world, it would be laughable if I got reincarnated in this world and die three days later. It took me an hour finding a good spot to use my ability and I¡¯m currently hiding in the bushes and II started to think of a weapon I can use. I started thinking of a sniper rifle that has been made in the Soviet Union and used by the Russians the Dragonuv suddenly appeared out nothing as I started to get in position. ¡°Alright, this weapon will be good.¡± And without further ado lets start the test. I started to place my eyes on the scope to find a target to shoot. When a minute passed by I found a target. The target is 72m away it looks like a wolf, but it has red fur with long, sharp teeth, claws that looks like a blade and a really muscular body. This wolf looks like it¡¯s looking for a food alone, so it¡¯s a perfect target. I positioned my Dragunov and adjusted the scope as I targeted the head of the wolf. Name: Blood Wolf Level: 7 HP: 721 / 721 MP: 331 / 331 Strength: 38 Agility: 42 Defence: 21 Luck: 15 Magic: 12 Skill: Howl, Accelerate Minutes pass by that I waited for the target to be in a better position to shoot since if I miss this shot, I¡¯ll be the targeted or worst case scenario I¡¯ll be the one to die so I have to be patient if I want a certain kill. When the wolf found its prey that looks like a deer, but its skin green that I¡¯ve never seen before, I started to place my finger on the trigger and waited for the wolf to stop for a second. The wolf slowly followed its prey as I slowly followed its movement. When the wolf stopped moving to start getting ready to kill its prey I pulled the trigger, the bullet fired out and flew towards the wolf¡¯s head and when the bullet hit the head, the wolf falls down to the ground, leaving a hole in its head and falls into the ground while the deer that who heard the gunshot hastily run to escape. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°Whew¡­ that was nerve racking and it looks like it was a good shot since this is my first time shooting for real.¡± I slowly walk towards the fallen wolf to see if it¡¯s still alive and started to poke it with the rifle to confirm that it is dead. ¡°Hmm¡­ it looks like I can eat it good thing I know how to cook since I¡¯m leaving alone when I was still the world when I was still alive. I should continue practicing until I get used to this skill.¡± Having gotten used in the skill by hunting and killing monster I stopped when I notice when the sun started to set. Now the only problem is I need to find a safe spot to sleep since the sun setting, I¡¯ll just find a town tomorrow.¡± I started looking for a place to spend the night after skinning the meat of the wolves that I killed without any problem arises and camp for the night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the morning came I was now about to arrive to the city of Namet and but I am still really tired since I can¡¯t sleep last night. Name: Ren Claudius Class: None Level: 8 HP: 860 / 860 MP: 462/ 462 Experience: 268 / 732 Strength: 24 Agility: 17 Defence: 16 Luck: 14 Magic: 18 Skill: Weapon Creation Titles: [Reincarnated One], [Marksman] As I arrive in the city I looked at the surroundings. The city is a you could say in the middle of good or bad since there people who are busy and some are having enjoying time chatting with each other and there people who are homeless peoples who are just doing nothing in the corner of the streets. ¡°Alright, the king said that there should be guild in here first I should buy some new clothes since it¡¯s not really good idea wearing school uniform in this world.¡± I started looking for a clothes shop in the market district. When I found clothes shop I started looking at the clothes that have been displayed and found a white leather jacket with black long pants and also a black scarf it that made me smile how lucky I am and quickly bought it. ¡°Alright, time to go to guild to register myself.¡± I started walking where the guild is. When I reach the guild I slowly opened the door and inspect at the surrounding of the guild. I saw people who are happily drinking, others are looking for new requests to take and some people are trying to sign-up to the guild.When I finish inspecting the guild I immediately line up towards people who are trying sign-up waiting for my turn. When it was my turn I walk towards the counter and the clerk who was at the counter started to speak. ¡°Hello, what can I do for you today?¡± ¡°I would like to register to the guild.¡± ¡°Is that so then can you please fill up this form, it is fine if you leave some of it blank and after you¡¯re done, please give it back to me so we can start.¡± The clerk handed me a form and when I took it, I try to find a chair to sit and fill up the form. ¡°Name... Ren Claudius. Birth¡­ since I¡¯m not from this world, I¡¯ll just leave it blank since it is okay and my class is.¡± As when I was focused on filling up the form a girl suddenly spoke to me. ¡°Is it okay if I can sit on this chair?¡± As I look at the woman who spoke to me, that girl looks 16 to 17 years old, she has ponytailed style light-green hair with emerald green eyes and she has the looks of a cute kind of girl. Name: Rosie Maels Class: Magic Swordsman Level: 5 HP: 735 / 735 MP: 342/ 342 Experience: 12 / 683 Strength: 19 Agility: 15 Defence: 14 Luck: 16 Magic: 17 Skill: Fireball, Fire Enchantment, Sword Mastery, Magic Mastery Titles: [Strategist], [Klutz] A magic swordsman and her titles somehow the klutz title is a little unbelievable. ¡°Sure, go ahead.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± The woman slowly sits on the chair and started to fill up her own form. It looks like she¡¯s also registering to the guild and it looks like she¡¯s good at using a sword since she has a sword on its waist but it¡¯s just my speculation, alright. So I should try to ask her. ¡°Are you also trying to register to the guild?¡± ¡°Yeah, since life has been bad when the demon king is showing signs of its revival, the demons have been attacking every city that it¡¯s making it hard to find a living.¡± ¡°Demons, huh¡­ Hey, um, sorry for not introducing, the name is Ram Claudius. Can I ask for your name?¡± "Ren, right? My name Rosie Maels¡± ¡°Maels, do you have more time after the registration I want to ask you more?¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ Since I am just here to register myself. So, sure, why not.¡± ¡°Thanks, want to submit this form together?¡± ¡°Okay.¡± We both stand up on our sites and walk toward the clerk. After we submit our form to her the clerk smiled as she took our forms. ¡°Alright, please follow me to the test ground.¡± After the clerk started to walk we followed the clerk. I don¡¯t where we are going since I know next to nothing how a guild works. So I should try to ask ¡°Excuse me, can I ask were we are going right now and what test are you talking about?¡± ¡°This test will tell us what type card, we will give you since we don¡¯t what your capabilities are, we don¡¯t want you dying on a quest that is more than you can handle¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± After five minutes of walking we reach the testing ground and the one waiting there was a muscular man who¡¯s standing there arrogantly with a big sword on its back and he is bald. ¡°Hey, Liz! Are these our new testers?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°So the two of you who wants to go first? But let me remind you even if it is a test I will fight you seriously to the point of killing you, so don¡¯t blame if I accidentally kill you.¡± ¡°So Mael should I go first or would you like to go first?¡± ¡°You should go first I want to see him first to find a counter measure to perfectly defeat him.¡± After reaching the conclusion that I go first I step up towards the muscular man and started to draw my sword the blade has a curved slender body and has a length of 60cm that has been on my waist that I have created before going to the guild. The clerk whose name Liz suddenly walks towards our side and smile the two of us. ¡°I will be your referee in this exam so tell me if you¡¯re ready to start.¡± The muscular man took out her huge sword from its back to say that his ready. ¡°I¡¯m ready!¡± ¡°Okay, this should be enough. I¡¯m also ready to start.¡± Liz looked at the two of us to see if we are ready, after confirming it she started to shout. ¡°Start!¡± As Liz shouted I suddenly dash towards the muscular man and swing my sword towards him, but the man also swings his huge sword over our to sword hit I was throwing back a few meters away on how strong he swung his sword that making my hands numb. Name: Windro Igil Class: Berserker Level: 15 HP: 1,330 / 1,330 MP: 521/ 521 Experience: 623 / 1632 Strength: 34 Agility: 18 Defence: 24 Luck: 13 Magic: 16 Skill: Strengthening, Iron Body, Tenacity Titles: [Hot Blooded], [Overconfident], [Rampager], [Arrogant] I was shocked by what I saw, his status, it was impossible for me to win against this man with my current equipment. ¡°Hey, kid, is that all you have got if that is the only thing you can do then do me favour and give up since you¡¯re too weak you started to bore me.¡± Somehow this guy makes me annoyed I hope it won¡¯t be a problem if I beat this guy to a pulp. I started to sheath my sword and started to think of a new blade that can cut anything to replace the current blade in my sword. I started to run towards Igil and started to swing towards him. ¡°That won¡¯t work kid!¡± Igil swung his giant sword again to parry my sword, but after it hit my blade continues to move slicing the giant sword that Igil was using as I stopped before it hit its neck. ¡°So how about it give up?¡± ¡°I give up.¡± The two girls were speechless at what they just saw, looking at their faces it looks like they can¡¯t believe that the giant sword was sliced into half like a butter. ¡°Duel End!¡± When Liz announced the winner another window appeared [You earned 1,860xp by winning the duel .] [You level up.] [You level up.] [You are now level 11] [You earned the class Swordsman] Name: Ren Claudius Class: Swordsman Level: 11 HP: 902 / 902 MP: 424/ 494 Experience: 82/ 892 Strength: 28 Agility: 20 Defence: 17 Luck: 16 Magic: 20 Skill: Weapon Creation Titles: [Reincarnated One], [Marksman] Oh, I can also earn xp in a duel this system is really convenient. I smiled after looking my stats and started to walk back to where Mael is. When I returned back to where Mael is, she looked at me with a suspicious look that made me nervous about what she¡¯s thinking. ¡°Hey, can I ask a question?¡± ¡°What do you want to ask?¡± ¡°Are you some kind of monster monster?¡± The question that Meal asked only leaves me a question mark in my head since I don¡¯t what she¡¯s talking about. ¡°Nope, I am just a normal human.¡± ¡°Like hell a normal human can do that.¡± Maels started looking at me with suspicion on what am I that I hastily try to change the subject. ¡°You should get ready.¡± ¡°Oh right, almost forgot about that, wish me luck alright!¡± Mael started to run to get started on her warm up for the test. I started to lean on the wall to wait for the test to resume. The test took about 20 minutes to restart since they have been looking for another tester to replace Igil since his weapon was cleanly cut that he don¡¯t have any weapon to use. There are now two people facing each other the first one is Mael holding her sword and the other one is also a woman and it looks like she¡¯s a dual wielder since she is holding a sword in each hand. When Liz shouted to start the test the two simultaneously dashes towards each other and started to swing their sword and the one who has been aggressively on the attack was the dual wielder girl while Mael was on the defensive. ¡°What¡¯s wrong girl is that all you¡¯ve got then you won¡¯t last long with this job.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s just see about that.¡± After three minutes of defending, Mael suddenly swings her sword horizontally, making the dual wielder girl to jump backward to get some space. Mael calmly stared at the dual wielding woman. The woman sensed a sudden change of Mael that she decided to put her guard because of that change. ¡°Get ready.¡± Mael dashed towards the dual wielding woman. Mael started to swing her sword diagonally to the woman making her to block it with her sword, Mael smiled when she saw that the dual wielding woman blocked her sword as she suddenly positioned her left hand towards the woman ¡°Fireball!¡± After saying that a fireball suddenly appeared and rush towards the dual wielding woman since it looks like she was surprised that Mael knows the magic she was unable to guard the fireball and hit her. ¡°Ugh!!!¡± Unable to withstand the pain she falls into the ground and collapsed. Liz ran towards dual wielding woman to check if she is alright Mael walks back to where I am while sheathing her sword. ¡°I thought you only know about swordplay, but I never have thought that you know magic.¡± ¡°Hehe¡­ My mother taught me about magic and the one who taught me about swordplay is my father.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± We notice Liz is walking to where we are, so we stop our conversation to listen what she wants to say. ¡°You passed the test, please follow me back to the guild hall so I can tell you about the rules of the guilds and so you can get your guild card.¡± When Liz starts on walking we followed suits back to the guild hall. When we arrive in the guild hall Liz was now ready to explain the rules. ¡°Let me tell you about the rules of the guild, the first one is when you take a guest you can only take a quest has the same rank as you or lower. Second, if you can¡¯t finish the quest want to abandon it you have to pay the half of the reward for compensation to us.¡± Mael slowly raises her hand. ¡°Do you have question?¡± ¡°Yes, if you can¡¯t pay the compensation what will happen?¡± ¡°Your guild card will be confiscated temporarily until you pay the fine.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± ¡°Then let me continue, the third rule is you need to take a quest once a month, but if you can¡¯t accomplish it with your guild card will be revoked since the guild doesn¡¯t need a guild member who can¡¯t contribute to the guild and the last one is that you cannot kill a fellow guild member you do you will be given a severe punishment from the guild association. If you follow those rules then there will be no problem.¡± ¡°Is it ok to take the two quests at the same time?¡± ¡°Yes, it is ok to take the two quests, but the limit is only three quests since it will be harder to compete and the compensation will double if you can¡¯t complete.¡± ¡°Then are there any question?¡± Liz looks at the both of us to make sure that we don¡¯t have any question after confirming that we don¡¯t have any question about the rules Liz took out two cards in the box beside her. ¡°Magic Swordsman class, Rosie Mael your guild rank is C, here¡¯s your card.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± Mael took the card that was handed to her by Liz. ¡°Swordsman class, Ren Claudius your guild rank is B, here¡¯s your card¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± After taking the card I looked at the card, the card has transparent color with glass like texture and the only thing containing in my guild card is my picture, name and class. ¡°The guild card contains magic where it stores you achievement on accomplishing a quest and if the guild card started glowing in a blue color it means that it needs to be updated so please go to a nearest guild and that¡¯s all there is to need about the guild. I hope you have a good day. ¡± ¡°See you.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± After we say a word of gratitude to Liz we exit the guild and looked for a place to eat. When we were eating Mael has been telling me everything she knows to me like the currency of this world is one gold is equal to thousand silver and one silver is equal to hundred bronze. There are five races in the continent, these are human, elves, beastfolks, demons and dwarves I also learned that the demon king was defeated by the previous heroes, but not from the other world but the hero in this world. Mael told me that the last generation of heroes didn¡¯t come back and they didn¡¯t leave anything like their next generation or secrets on how they became strong. So kingdoms didn¡¯t have any but started summoning heroes from another world, but the one succeeds the summoning was the kingdom of Anshea. It looks like there are four seasons, thirty days in one month, and twelve months at the end of the season. Mael said that this is the second month of the fall season. Since the demons have started to move since the demon king is about to revive they have been desperately needed heroes, those who cannot summon a hero they made an alliance to the other kingdom who have been able to summon a hero so that their kingdom can be protected. After having a chat with her in the restaurant I was in deep thought how should I proceed from now on since I finish gathering some information. When I was in deep thought, I suddenly heard the voice of Mael that made me postpone what I should and listen to her. ¡°Thanks for the food Ren. That was the first time I have eaten that much.¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about that I was the one who invited you so you shouldn¡¯t have to worry about that, but I should be the one thank you.¡± After hearing my gratitude Mael cheeks blushed with embarrassment. ¡°Stop thanking me already, it¡¯s really embarrassing!¡± ¡°Haha¡­ but seriously I have to thank you, I should be going since I still have some minor business to attend. So let¡¯s meet again back in the guild.¡± ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was now looking for inn so I will have a place to stay and found an inn name Bears Paw. When I enter inside the inn a woman was standing at the counter. ¡°Hello there, are you planning on staying?¡± The woman has a short brown hair with black eyes, she has pale white skin with and her face is really beautiful. ¡°Hello, how will it cost staying for a night¡± ¡°It will cost 32 copper and 47 copper if you want to have us cook a food for you.¡± I am planning on staying for a month it would cost me one gold and four silver and I the king gave me fifty gold coins. ¡°Then I will be staying for 2 months.¡± ¡°The total will be two gold and eight silver.¡± I handed the payment to the woman after she receives the payment she gave me the key. ¡°Can I ask for your name, dear costumer?¡± ¡°My name is Ren.¡± ¡°I am Renelia Marie, the owner of Bears Paw and your room is upstairs. I hope you will have wonderful stay.¡± I walked away from Marie and proceed upstairs where my room is located and immediately take a rest since I am really tired. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors Note: Hello everyone, thank you for reading my work. This my first time making this so please tell me if there is something wrong in the story so i can correct it. Chapter 2: First quest and My First Bad Luck After morning came I was now in the guild while looking at the request board to look for a quest since I don¡¯t have anything to do, so I have been pondering what quest I should take but there are three quests that caught my interest. Quest Title: Slay the Horned Bear Quest Difficulty: B Location: Inside Green Wood Forest Reward: 5 Gold and 43 Silver Coins Quest Description: A horned bear had decided to make the Green Wood Forest his home and started attacking people who set foot in the forest. I want you to slay it since it has been hard to gather some herb for making potion and antidote. Quest Title: Gather 5 Violet Grass Quest Difficulty: C Location: Hanso Plain Reward: 57 Silver and 4 Potions Quest Description: I have been doing some experiment about violet if it can be used for as medicine or some other uses and almost discover something but I am out violet grass so please gather it for me. Quest Title: Subjugate the Bandits Quest Difficulty: B Location: Giant¡¯s Mountain Reward: 10 Gold and 23 Silver Coins Quest Description: There have been bandits that have been attacking some merchants that it¡¯s making it hard for them to come here. Please catch the bandits so the merchants can start their business here again but please be careful about the giants since it¡¯s their territory but it said that they won¡¯t attack people that they consider harmless to them. I have been thinking about what to choose between these three quests since it looks quite interesting and it would be cool to what kind of monster is a horned bear is. I also want to see the Hanso plains because what kind of place that is I heard that monsters who live there are all peaceful creatures and cute that makes me really want to go there. And the last one is the giant¡¯s mountain because since I am curious about what the giant looks like that it piqued my interest. As I was thinking about what quest is more interesting, someone tapped my shoulder that made me look looked at that person and that person was Mael who is smiling at me. ¡°Are you looking for a quest, Mael?¡± ¡°Haha¡­ I have already found one, look¡± I started to read at the quest that Mael showed me. Quest Title: Slay 10 Lizardman Quest Difficulty: C Location: Hanso Plain Reward: 75 Silver Coins and Speed Ring Quest Description: There have been sightings of Lizardman that has been roaming in Hanso Plain, it started attacking the monsters that are living there and people who are going there, that it became a problem. Please slay those monsters. When I finish reading at the quest I look Maels face again, who¡¯s still smiling at me that it became easy to predict on what she is going to say to me. ¡°Want to form a party with me for this quest?¡± ¡°If you want, but since we are going to that place how about taking also this quest.¡± I pointed at the Gathering 5 Violet Grass quest on the request board that has been posted where Mael started to look at it as she give an approving look, so I took it and gave it to her. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s give it to Liz so we can start.¡± We started walking towards the counter where Liz, who¡¯s calmly standing there. ¡°Liz we want to form a party and we want to take these two quests too.¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s you two, let me take a look.¡± After Mael handed the two quests to Liz, She started to read on what the quests contains, after confirming that it¡¯s okay the quests started to glow that looks like a bluish light that Mael handed to her. I was fascinated on looking the glowing light that Liz use that I didn¡¯t notice that she was already done processing. ¡°You two are now a party. Thank you for accepting the quest I hope you complete it.¡± Liz handed back the quests to Mael and bow politely. ¡°Then Ren shall we go.¡± When we reach outside the guild, Mael continues walking enthusiastically that I decided to ask her something since she is heading toward the city exit. ¡°Hey, Mael can I ask you something?¡± ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°Have you already prepared everything since you are currently heading towards the exit right now?¡± After hearing what I said Mael stopped walking and her face started to blush red in embarrassment that looks like she really forgot it. ¡°Ahaha¡­ I forgot¡­¡± ¡°Just as I thought, get back here and lets prepare everything first.¡± ¡°Okay¡­¡± And thus we towards towards the market district and started preparing everything on going to Hanso Plain. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Anshea Kingdom at the courtyard there are five people who are there. There are two people who are currently fighting it was a knight who is carrying an axe and the other one was the young hero who has light brown hair who is holding a sword, they were currently having a sparring match together while the other two heroes are trained on learning magic with the royal magician The hero dash towards the knight, when he got close to the knight he started to swing his sword but it was easily parried by the knight. ¡°Nice swing, hero George but you cannot beat me with just that you know.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not done yet! Fireball!¡± A fireball suddenly appeared in George¡¯s hand and flew straight to the face of the knight. The knight didn¡¯t dodge the fireball and hits on its face, leaving only smokes covering the knight''s face, but the knight suddenly swings its axe towards George, he quickly used magic to evade the swing that is heading toward his neck. ¡°Wind Glide!¡± He was able to dodge by jumping backwards in a nick of time before his head sliced off that he immediately check his neck and he sighed in relief after confirming that his neck doesn''t have a cut. ¡°Wahaha! You have improved hero George that you''re able to dodge that.¡± ¡°I wouldn¡¯t be able to defeat the demon lord, if I don''t try hard on fighting. Am I right commander Gale.¡± ¡°That''s the spirit, now let us continue!¡± ¡°Yes!¡± The two resumed their training as if there is no tomorrow the dark black haired girl sigh while looking at them thinking about how simple headed guys are while training to cast a spell. They are now training on how to cast lightning magic, but they have no problem with casting it because of the ability given to them. ¡°Hey, Lorelie are you tired?¡± ¡°I¡¯m still fine.¡± They started training after the day when Ron left the kingdom. Their trainers have been planning on making them strong by having swordsmanship and magic training for a week, three days of rest, a week of fighting to raise their level and also a three day rest, and they will repeat that method again so their level will steadily rise in a good pace. After their training was finished and now having a break George comes up to the two girls who are who are also taking a break on their magic training. ¡°That was fun¡­ I never thought that sword practice was really fun.¡± The black haired girl sharply stares at George but he somehow doesn¡¯t notice and the black haired girl sighs. ¡°You really have a simple mind you know that.¡± ¡°Haha¡­ I can¡¯t deny that.¡± George scratched his head softly and smiled wryly while responding the black haired girl¡¯s criticism. ¡°It¡¯s been a week since that Ren guy leaves the kingdom I wonder how he¡¯s doing.¡± ¡°Maybe he died on the road and just a pile of bones that remains from him.¡± After saying the black haired finish saying that sentence, they immediately felt the atmosphere suddenly gets scary where they immediately looked at the source of the scary atmosphere it was the little girl who¡¯s been holding a stuffed bear given by that boy who''s sharply staring at them that made them scared. When they feel that scary atmosphere from the little girl they instinctively remembered that day where some guards are bad mouthing and cursing Ren because of its decision on not helping defeat the demon lord, when that little girl hear those guards she immediately used firebomb magic towards the two guards where they are almost burnt to crisp if the healer wasn''t there. That¡¯s why there are no people who are now talking about Ren since they are scared to be the next one who will face her wrath. That is why they are sweating at the looking at the little girl who the name was Lorelie since they are also scared being hit by the magic Lorelie would use to them, that¡¯s why George nervously spoke to the black haired girl who is also scared looking at Lorelie. ¡°Hey, Elisa I think you should apologize Lorelie on what you just said.¡± ¡°I¡¯m sorry for saying such things I won¡¯t say it again so please forgive me!¡± Elisa bowed her head while asking for forgiveness as the atmosphere slowly turned back to normal that made the two them sigh in relief. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am currently in the market district, Mael and I decided that we should split the things to buy on what is needed for the quest. Mael decided she wants to buy some goods that will be needed and I would buy some health potion and mana potion that is why I am the only one right now still looking for the apothecary shop sign, since the people I asked said that apothecary shop are the only one selling health potions and mana potions so If I want to go there i should walk north until I see the shop sign. After some time of walking I found the apothecary shop sign, I immediately walk towards the door and open it. The person I saw on the counter was a guy in early adulthood, his black hair was somehow dishevelled and his eyes look like somehow tired while looking at me. ¡°Welcome¡­¡± ¡°Are you alright?¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m just dead tired since I haven¡¯t taken a rest since three days because of the new medicine I making but thanks for the concern. Can I ask for your name?¡± ¡°I am Ren Claudius just call me Ren.¡± ¡°My name is Huwilyr Gordon you can just call me Gordon.¡± ¡°Gordon do you sell some health potion and mana potions?¡± ¡°Yeah I¡¯m selling it, health potion cost 14 silver and mana potion cost 12 silver¡± ¡°I¡¯ll take 20 for each of those.¡± Gordon slowly took out one box of each potion and placed it on the top of the counter. ¡°It will cost 520 silver.¡± ¡°Here you go.¡± I handed the payment to Gordon and took the two boxes. ¡°Thanks for the business.¡± ¡°Then I¡¯ll be going.¡± After I exit the apothecary shop I opened the inventory window and put the two boxes of potion. I am really thankful to the one who gave me this kind of ability because it¡¯s pretty convenient since I can put anything inside it. I started to walk towards the destination where Mael and I going to meet in city exit after the buying everything. After arriving at the city exit, I started waiting for Mael who still buying some goods. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. ¡°Did I keep you wait.¡± Mael who just about to arrive at the meeting place called out, when I notice her she immediately run towards me after she saw me who is waiting for her. ¡°Did you buy everything we need?¡± ¡°Of course, look.¡± Mael enthusiastically shows me the bag that she had been carrying to prove that she brought everything. ¡°Then let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°Ohhh!¡± ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¡°Haa¡­ Haa¡­¡± I was now on fours while catching my breath because of the fatigue when we arrive in Hanso Plains, well can you blame me, try walking for 3 hours without rest see if you don¡¯t get tired while carrying a bag of goods. ¡°Ren are you alright? Do you want to take a break before we start?¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± Mael started to sit beside me as she wait for me catch my breath while looking the scenery. ¡°Hey, Mael can you teach me magic.¡± Mael look at me after I asked her. ¡°I can teach you, but I can only teach you how to use fire magic since the only thing I know.¡± ¡°Yes!¡± Mael slowly opened her hands and showed it to me. ¡°It¡¯s really easy to use magic first you have to concentrate the mana inside your body after you started to feel it, then control it to gather in your palm of your hand and after focusing the mana in your palm say the spell word to give property of the magic, like this fireball.¡± A ball of fire appeared in Maels hand and after a few moments she closed her hands and the ball of fire disappears from her hands. ¡°Alright, let me try.¡± I followed Maels instructions by concentrating first but somehow I don¡¯t know what mana feels like. ¡°Hey, how can I feel the mana inside me?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see, when you concentrate your mana inside just try imagining of some things that is passing through your and the rest will be easy.¡± ¡°That¡¯s pretty vague kind of explanation.¡± ¡°I know it¡¯s pretty hard to understand so you should experience it so you¡¯ll understand what I am saying.¡± ¡°Alright¡­¡± I started to concentrate again while keeping in mind about Mael¡¯s vague explanation. After some seconds passed I started to feel something like liquid substance or is this what mana feels like which slowly passing through every inch of my whole body. ¡°So do you now understand what I¡¯m saying?¡± ¡°Yeah¡­¡± ¡°Then control your mana to gather towards your hand.¡± I started controlling my mana to gather into hand, when I started to feel like the mana that is gathering in my hand is enough. ¡°Fireball!¡± A ball of fire appeared in my hand, I started to feel like crying from happiness after looking at the fireball which is floating from my hands since I have finally achieved one of man¡¯s greatest wishes to have. While I was in the moment of happiness a system window appeared. [You have learned Fireball.] [You have learned Magic Mastery.] While I was looking at the system window I noticed Mael suddenly stand up and started looking somewhere while holding her sword. ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± ¡°It looks like something is coming.¡± After what she said immediately stand up and started to look place at the surrounding and what I saw were Lizardmen that marching towards the direction we are. ¡°It looks like there are 15 of them¡± ¡°15 huh... I will leave the planning to you Mael.¡± ¡°I understand.¡± Mael immediately started thinking of a plan while I am focusing my eyes on the Lizardmen that are currently marching to look at their status. Name: Lizardman Level: 9 HP: 861 / 861 MP:423/ 423 Strength: 25 Agility: 20 Defence: 23 Luck: 16 Magic: 19 Skill: Cleave, Hard Skin, Strengthening There are 15 Lizardmen and most of them are level 9 it¡¯s really best to retreat and attacked them one at a time. I looked at Mael who is still thinking and after a few minutes passed, she slowly sighs and looked at me intently. ¡°So do you have plan?¡± ¡°Yes, but I can only think of one plan since there are too many of them.¡± ¡°What is it?¡± Mael became silent for a few seconds and started to speak. ¡°Will you become a decoy?¡± ¡°Ehh¡­¡± It looks like I misheard what she just said so I will try asking her again. ¡°Can you repeat what you just said, somehow I didn¡¯t hear it.¡± ¡°I said will you become a decoy?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be unreasonable, I¡¯ll won¡¯t survive fighting those monsters that many!¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t say you would fight it I just want you lure it to that tree over there since I want to try a new spell.¡± ¡°And how sure are you that it¡¯s going to work?¡± ¡°About 15%...¡± ¡°Then you are just sending me to death.¡± ¡°We won¡¯t know if we try, right?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t right me my life is at stakes here!¡± ¡°Please¡­¡± Mael started to beg me in a cute way that it give me no choice but accept her plan. ¡°Alright, alright, if I die here I will really haunt you so you better make it successful, understand.¡± ¡°Just trust me. I¡¯ll be going ahead try luring them towards that tree after 10 minutes, alright.¡± Mael quickly ran towards the tree to start making a trap leaving me behind. ¡°Damn it¡­ How unlucky I can get.¡± I started to get ready for the plan to start and also for the worst possible outcome. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When ten minutes passed I was now waiting for the lizardmen, when the lizardmen started to see me. ¡°Fireball¡± A ball of fire suddenly flew to the group of Lizardmen, after confirming that it hit I started running away and the Lizardmen followed chasing me with bloodshot eyes. ¡°Damn it! Fireball!¡± I was running with the fastest speed that I can get while casting fireball when they are about to reach me since I decided that I¡¯ll only use weapon creation skill when I am alone. ¡°If this plan doesn¡¯t work you better be ready Mael! Fireball!¡± When I was near the tree where the trap was set I somehow saw the figure of Mael mumbling something but I can¡¯t really hear it since I¡¯m too far from her but when I passed through like a big circle. ¡°Flame Pillar!¡± From big circle a huge pillar of flame suddenly shoots out of the ground heading towards the sky burning those inside to cinders while those who manage to escape were gravely injured from the burn. When I looked at the Lizardmen who was burned I half happy and half sad since felt sympathy about those Lizardmen because it¡¯s a little overkill that I pray for them in my mind to reincarnate into some harmless creatures and also cute, I should not forget about cute so that there will be more cute creatures in this world. After the flame pillar disappeared there are only about three lizardmen who are barely alive and the rest are now just pile of overcooked meat then another system window appeared again. [You level up.] [You have earned the title Harasser.] Name: Ren Claudius Class: Swordsman Level: 12 HP: 923 / 923 MP: 286 / 438 Experience: 432/ 982 Strength: 29 Agility: 23 Defence: 19 Luck: 17 Magic: 21 Skill: Weapon Creation, Fireball, Magic Mastery Titles: [Reincarnated One], [Marksman, [Harasser] I saw Mael who¡¯s about to fall down that I immediately run towards to catch her. ¡°Hey, are you alright?¡± ¡°Yeah, I just exceed using my mana that I have no strength to move, so I need to rest.¡± I secretly took out three mana potion that¡¯s inside my inventory and give it to her to drink. ¡°Here, drink these and leave the gathering to me so take a rest as much as you like.¡± Name: Rosie Maels Class: Magic Swordsman Level: 10 HP: 840 / 840 MP: 334 / 412 Experience: 631 / 882 Strength: 27 Agility: 20 Defence: 17 Luck: 19 Magic: 24 Skill: Fireball, Fire Enchantment, Sword Mastery, Magic Mastery, Fire Pillar Titles: [Strategist], [Klutz] I carried her like a princess who is sleeping comfortably to place that is safe. After I found a safe place I slowly laid her down under the shade of a tree and started gathering violet grass. When I finish gathering the violet grass, Mael started to slowly open her eyes and started to stretch her arms while looking at the surroundings. ¡°Yo, have you woken up?¡± ¡°Ren¡­ How long was I asleep?¡± ¡°About two hours.¡± ¡°That long then we should start gathering some violet grass.¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about it. I already finished on gathering it, I am just waiting for you to wake so we can look for a place to camp since it¡¯s about to get dark.¡± ¡°You''re right it would be dangerous if we can¡¯t find a place to camp.¡± ¡°What do you mean?¡± ¡°I heard it from an adventurer that it is the time for some Rank S monsters to roam a place for food so it¡¯s really dangerous to continue walking in the evening since if you will accidentally meet it you will become their food.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­ but are you alright now?¡± ¡°Yeah, but we should quickly focus on finding a place to camp, so we should be going.¡± Mael started to walk and I followed her and started looking for a place to camp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After we found a place inside the woods we set up the camp immediately. Mael was now cooking, I wanted to help her cooked but the ingredients that she bought was unknown to me since I never seen any of it in my world so I was just watching for her to finish cooking. ¡°Alright, Meat Stew is done.¡± Mael place the Meat Stew on top of the table and we started eating. ¡°Oh, This is delicious you really are good at cooking.¡± ¡°Hehe¡­ Eat as much as you want.¡± ¡°Then don¡¯t mind if I do!¡± I started to wolf down the food that Mael cooked to the point where I can¡¯t eat another bite while Mael is drinking some tea. ¡°Ahh¡­ I¡¯m full this is the first time I¡¯ve eaten this kind food this delicious.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­ then if you want to eat my cooking again, just say it and I¡¯ll be glad to cook for you.¡± ¡°You said it, alright. I won¡¯t forget what you just said to me.¡± ¡°It looks like I¡¯m still tired so I will I¡¯m going to sleep first.¡± ¡°Alright, I will be keeping watch on the surrounding, so rest well.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± Mael started to yawn as she slowly stand up and slip inside her tent and spend my night keeping watch of the surrounding. Chapter 3: New Weapon and My First Successful Quest After some hours passed, I was keeping watch in the surrounding I was deep thought about creating weapon from the anime I watched but I failed on creating one when I was first transferred here since there are many requirements that are needed to create one that I failed concentrate on making it and since I never gave up on things I fail until I accomplished it so I always try to create it when I have free time while staying locked up in my room at the inn. After confirming that Mael is sleeping, I started to concentrate on creating a weapon, it was slow in taking its form since I want the weapon to have the capabilities, its specifications, its appearance, etc. to be same from the original. After some minutes passed the appearance of the weapon was starting to take form, it was a western sword were it has an appearance that looks like a majestic sword where it looks exactly the same from the one that I watched. ¡°Alright¡­¡± After confirming there are no problems, I started concentrating on the capabilities of the sword I added a usage of you can say mana amplifier where were it converts the user¡¯s mana to increase the sword¡¯s power and I carefully added with holy attribute to finish it. My eyes was now focus on the sword that was now brightly shining with a beautiful golden coloured which is still floating in the air waiting for its owner to hold it. I slowly reach my hand towards the sword grasped it. After I grasped it the golden light that was emitting began to disappear remaining only its majestic appearance. [You have made the Holy Sword Excalibur.] [Excalibur: The pinnacle of all holy swords and one of the ultimate god forged weapons. It was once use by a certain King who rules the knight of the round table. HP: 1000 Mana: 400 Strength: 55 Defence: 20 Magic: 56 Agility: 22 Luck: 13 Special Attack: Excalibur: Sword of the Promised Victory: releases a wave of holy light equal to user¡¯s amount of mana that is given from the sword.] [You have earned the title Creator of Holy Swords.] After reading the message I immediately look at my status window to see on how much it increase my status when equipped. Name: Ren Claudius Class: Swordsman Level: 12 HP: 1923 / 1923 MP: 768 / 838 Experience: 432/ 982 Strength: 82 Agility: 42 Defence: 37 Luck: 32 Magic: 77 Skill: Weapon Creation, Fireball, Magic Mastery Titles: [Reincarnated One], [Marksman, [Harasser], [Creator of Holy Swords] I almost shout in joy but i manage to restrain it since Mael is still sleeping. When I manage to calm down I started to swing Excalibur, first I tried to swing the sword diagonally and then swing it vertically, a faint golden light also follows in every swing that the only thing I can say about it was its beautiful that I became completely on swinging the until I notice that I¡¯m starting to feel a little exhausted. ¡°Whew, I¡¯m became a little overexcited. Then the next one.¡± I started to firmly hold the sword and slowly giving some of mana on it, after a few seconds the holy sword started to faintly shine with golden colour and as I given it some more mana it the faint light became more brighter that I stopped before it shines more brightly that it will engulf the night forest. ¡°I can¡¯t believe that my hard work paid off, the dream that I never thought that would never come true just come true and now I will try to create all the weapons that I have been longing for but since I won¡¯t be using this sword I just store until there will be a need to use it.¡± I put the holy sword Excalibur in my inventory and I resume keeping on watch the surrounding while humming since I am really in a good mood. --------------------------------------------------------------------- When morning came we continue travelling back towards Namet city and after some hours passed we are about to reach the city and my condition is still the same I was now from before going to Hanso Plain who still desperately catching my breath because of the fatigue and I was still also carrying the bag that only contains the remaining goods since it is a man¡¯s duty to carry things and it will not let my pride to make a girl carry it while walking together with Mael who¡¯s beside me who looks concern about me. ¡°You look really exhausted, I can carry the bag you know or we can take quick rest.¡± ¡°Haa¡­ haa¡­ there is no need for that since almost Namet city, let¡¯s continue so we can arrive early.¡± ¡°But somehow you look like your about to collapse any moment now.¡± ¡°What are you talking about even if I am in this condition I will not collapse, I can still go on.¡± Since last night I wasn¡¯t able to sleep properly because I was really good mood about the creation of Excalibur and the fatigue accumulating from last night activity that it is now taking it¡¯s toll in my body that it is becoming hard to move. While walking back towards the city I promised deep in my heart that I will try to create bike even how many years it will take, I will not give up since long walk not really my thing and as I was filled with that thought. ¡°I can now see Namet city!¡± ¡°Haa¡­ Haa.. Thank god! We are almost there!¡± My eyes shone like I found some oasis in the middle of road that I begin to run forgetting all the pain in my body while Mael also run to follow me. When we arrive at the entrance at the city Mael was currently stretching her arms and me who was still the same who is catching my breath that I am starting to feel pathetic at myself. ¡°So should we go to the guild to report about the quest?¡± ¡°Haa¡­ haa¡­ Just let me rest a little until I catch my breath.¡± ¡°Okay.¡± I immediately sat and Mael also sat beside me at the bench that was near from the entrance of the gate and started to rest. After thirty minutes passed I was able to recover tiredness that I slowly stand up. ¡°Now that I am all rest up, shall we go?¡± ¡°Alright¡­¡± We started to continue walking towards the guild so that we can report and get our reward. --------------------------------------------------------- The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. We arrive at the guild as we open the door we walked directly toward Liz who still standing calmly at the reception desk and after she saw us she showed a sincere smile, we continue to walk towards her. ¡°Welcome back the two of you, how was the quest?¡± ¡°We finished it, here.¡± Mael handed the quests that are finish and started checking after confirming it that the quest was complete she nods and took out the rewards of the quest that are 132 silver, 4 health potion and a speed ring. ¡°I have confirmed that you have completed the quests, here are the rewards for the quest you just cleared.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± Mael took the reward handed by Liz to us and she immediately gave half of the reward to me. ¡°Ren, should we celebrate we succeed in our first quests.¡± ¡°Sure, do you know a good bar here?¡± ¡°Of course, just leave it to me, Liz we will be going now.¡± ¡°I hope you have a good day.¡± Liz politely bowed at us as we leave the guild and after we are outside from the guild I followed Mael who continue towards a good bar for us to celebrate. ------------------------------- Sometime has passed after we arrive to a bar I have been drinking a glass of beer since there is no law that you are not allowed to drink any alcoholic beverage so I have been drinking it to my heart contents that I have been starting to get drunk while Mael was just drinking some juice while looking worriedly at me since I have been talking nonsense with other drunk people. ¡°Hey, you¡¯re already drunk.¡± ¡°Of course not, right guys?!¡± ¡°Yeah! Let¡¯s continue drinking until sunrise!¡± ¡°Ohhh!¡± Mael was dumbstruck looking at the drunk people who are merrily drinking like there is no tomorrow, she could only look at those people who are also adventurers and sigh that looks like she give up and start drinking her juice again waiting for me to be knocked out drunkenness. After an hours passed of drinking with other adventurers my vision started to go black that I don¡¯t know what happened after that. I was now supporting the drunk boy who was now wasted, they were all drinking so much that all the adventurers that was drinking with was now sleeping inside the bar even the bar owner could only sigh because they have been sleeping on the floor that its impossible for the bar owner to stay open his bar. ¡°Ren, where are you staying right now?¡± ¡°¡­Bears ¡­Paw¡± ¡°Okay.¡± I continue to support his body while walking towards the Bears Paw inn while sighing. After I arrived at the inn there was a woman who was standing in the counter after she saw us come in she immediately walk towards us and looked at Ren. ¡°Oh my, is he drunk?¡± ¡°Yeah, he overdrunk and become and become like this, do you know where his room is?¡± ¡°Yeah, just go upstairs and his room is on the second door to the left. Here is the key to his room.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± I took the key that was handed to me and started climbed up towards the stairs after I reach his room, I walk inside I slowly lay down on the bed and covered his body with blanket and started to head home. ----------------------- When morning came, the sunlight shine through the window I slowly opened my eyes and when I get up my head suddenly feel a sudden headache that that immediately touch my head. ¡°Damn it, I really overdid it.¡± I slowly walked out my room and then head downstairs. After I head downstairs I saw Marie who is preparing breakfast for the people who are staying in the inn, after she saw me she smiled as I proceed towards one of the table. When I sat in the chair Marie place the food on the table, it was fish soup with a loaf of bread and a Milk Thisle tea. ¡°Marie, how did I get to my room?¡± ¡°A girl brought when you were drunk so you better thank her, okay.¡± ¡°I will, thanks for telling me.¡± Marie head back towards the kitchen and continue preparing breakfast while I started eating the food that is prepared for me. After I was done eating, I leave the inn and since my head hurt because of the hangover I started to walk slowly toward the guild. When I arrive and head inside the guild I saw Mael who was sitting who was sitting in the lounge area that I immediately towards her. ¡°Yo! Thanks for helping me get to my room.¡± ¡°Ren, you don¡¯t have to worry about it. Are you going to take some quests?¡± ¡°Nah¡­ I¡¯ll pass my head hurt so I¡¯ll just relax today.¡± ¡°Is that so, I should relax also for today.¡± After we order some tea and now waiting for it a mascular guy appeared to us. He was person that I defeated in the exam name Igil. ¡°Your name is Ren, right?¡± ¡°Yes, can I ask what do you want from me?¡± ¡°Please have duel with my friend.¡± ¡°Ehh¡­¡± Me and Mael were both speechless on what Igil, I never thought someone would have duel with me since I am still new and not really famous so I don¡¯t know how to answer right now so I should start asking for reason why he wants to duel with me. ¡°Can I ask why he wants a duel with me?¡± ¡°Yeah, but first let me clarify that she is woman not a man, alright.¡± ¡°Okay.¡± ¡°You know that I lose to you, right?¡± ¡°Yeah, so what does it have to do with it?¡± ¡°After I told her that I lose to you. She suddenly had the urge to have interest on having a duel you that she is asking me that she wants to have duel with you.¡± ¡°Please tell her that I refuse.¡± ¡°Please let me finish what I saying first.¡± His face started to get distorted like it¡¯s the end of his world it made me feel bad about him. ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll listened stop it with that face.¡± ¡°Thank you, at first I refused on what she asked for me but when days passed he started to ask me every day that she wants to have a duel with you and I still refused but yesterday if I don¡¯t ask you to have duel with her, she¡¯s going to tell my wife all the things about what I have been doing when she isn¡¯t looking so please accept her request, I¡¯ll do anything you ask.¡± I looked at the man with sympathetic eyes, leaving me only on choice. ¡°Alright, tell her I accept her duel, tell her that tomorrow will be fine and can we used examination area for our duel?¡± ¡°You need to ask permission first if you want to use the examination area but leave it to me I will ask permission for it so we can use it tomorrow.¡± ¡°Then I will leave to you.¡± ¡°Okay!¡± Igil enthusiastically run away with a smile on his face and while watching him running until he disappear from my sight, Mael sigh and didn¡¯t ask why I accepted the duel. Chapter 4: The Duel that I Started to Regret Somewhere in the Demon Continent in the meeting hall inside the castle, there are five demons who have gathered. ¡°So what do you want to discuss about that you made us all come here?¡± The one who ask was a demon with a body with an average build, with sharp red eyes with a face that is void with emotion and a single black horn in the middle of its forehead. Who is crossing his arms while waiting for an answer. ¡°It¡¯s about our demon lord. It looks like his revival is near but¡­¡± The demon who was talking with concern has a build of an old man that is between fifty to sixty years old wearing a butler suit, with a wrinkled face that shows his old age. ¡°So what is the problem about his revival?¡± The demon who asked has a short black hair with a muscular body that with a huge sword that is much bigger than human hanging on his back, with a bull like horn, with also intimidating black eyes, face and aura that can terrify anyone at a sight of him. ¡°It looks like he is going to sleep much longer again so we have to postpone the ceremony of his revival.¡± ¡°Just as I thought, He¡¯s always been doing that on his revival that there is no surprise there. So when will he wake up?¡± A demon that has a bat like wings, with silver white long hair that looks like sparkling when a light shine on it, a beautiful face with a lightly closed eyes and a gentle, pure smile that can captivate any man and women at a sight of her. ¡°He will wake third month of Spring, so we have no choice but to wait and continue doing what were always doing our demon lord wake up.¡± After hearing what the old demon said the four of them sighed while the hooded demon just stayed silent. Since they already accepted their lord as a lazy bum who only likes to sleep they started to negotiate to the former heroes who was able reach the castle to tell to the people that they killed the demon lord and when they know when the time is right, they started to make their followers to attack human settlement since if they don¡¯t do it another problem will arise so they have no choice. ¡°Haha¡­ that¡¯s what we have always been doing isn¡¯t that right?¡± The beautiful woman sighs dejectedly as she said those words while asking the hooded demon, but the hooded demon didn¡¯t reply and just stayed silent. ¡°Why are you being quiet in the entire conversation and why are you now wearing a hood now and your body somehow change since we last met? The hooded demon didn¡¯t reply and continue showing no reaction about the question of the muscular demon making the muscular demon more curious and continue to press an answer of his question to the hooded demon. ¡°Then that¡¯s end our meeting and as always please continue on doing our objectives.¡± When the old demon leaves the audience hall the remaining four also leave on their own pace and the muscular followed the hooded demon still pressing for an answer as they leave the audience hall. ----------------------------------- After the day had passed after I accepted the duel, when me and Mael arrive in the testing ground Liz in a calm attitude who was already there waiting for us to arrive and when she saw us arrive she gently smile at us. When I accepted that duel yesterday I always got an unpleasant feeling that is always creeping into my body that I couldn¡¯t be comfortable even for a moment that I started to get nervous on why I feeling this way that I can¡¯t help but become cautious while heading towards Liz. ¡°Liz, did they arrive?¡± ¡°Not yet.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± After some minutes passed, we saw two figures arriving at the testing ground, the first figure was Igil and the other one was a woman whose age is between 18 - 20 years old, she has a silver white hair, emerald green eyes, charming face and a smile like a mischievous child, she was also wearing a light blue hakama that really suits her slender body and a slender hanging on her waist. When the two saw me the silver white haired woman suddenly ran at a lightning speed that I didn¡¯t notice that she is already shaking my hand with a sparkling eyes staring at me. ¡°My name is Brynhilde, I really wanted to meet you!¡± I was shocked about her speed since she just close the 20 meter distance between us in just a matter of second that all the people inside were also shocked except for Igil who just depressingly sigh . ¡°Okay¡­ My name is Ren Claudius, just call me Ren.¡± ¡°Ohh! You can also call me Brynie!¡± ¡°... I¡¯ll stick with the name Brynhilde.¡± ¡°Boo! Boo!¡± Brynhilde started pouting like a child that doesn¡¯t get what she wants that I immediately looked at Igil who is rubbing his forehead that looks like he just got a headache. ¡°I am really sorry about this woman¡¯s behaviour. She¡¯s always been like that when I met her after some time passes it somehow became annoying that I am starting to regret meeting her.¡± Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.¡°Somehow I get the feeling what you are trying to say.¡± Igil dejectedly slump his shoulder as he sigh and started to seriously look at me. ¡°But you shouldn¡¯t underestimate her. You saw how she easily closed the distanced between you two, right? So you should go all out when the duel start since that girl doesn¡¯t know how hold back.¡± After hearing Igil just said to me, I slowly inspect Brynhilde¡¯s status out of and after I saw her status I immediately froze at what I just saw. Name: Crommwel Brynhilde Class: Swordsman Level: 45 HP: 7,132 / 7,132 MP: 2,855/ 2,855 Experience: 12,449 / 322,681 Strength:102 Agility: 129 Defence: 84 Luck: 60 Magic: 83 Skill: Sword Mastery, Blade Draw, Assault Mastery, Strengthening, Multi Slash, Blood Lust, Kamikaze, Regeneration, Light Speed, Mana Sword, Mana Divide Titles: [Annoying], [Genius], [Speed Goddess],[Slautherer], [Sword Saint], [Loved by Mana], [Happy-Go-Lucky] After looking at her status the only conclusion that I could come up about our duel was certain defeat. After I calmed myself, I hastily grabbed Igis muscular arm and dragged him a meter away from Brynhilde who is looking at us curiously. ¡°Hey, is it alright to take back what I said about the duel?¡± Igil was puzzled about what I said he was unable to understand why he said that and started to sweat nervously. ¡°Hey, are you serious?¡± ¡°I am serious.¡± ¡°Wh--?!¡± Before he can shout in surprise, I quickly covered his mouth to stop him from speaking, I quickly looked at Brynhilde who has curious gaze at us while tilting her head I sigh in relief and slowly looked back at Igil. ¡°Keep your voice down.¡± ¡°Alright, so why don¡¯t you want to fight her?¡± ¡°The gap between us is too big that I refuse to fight because I still don¡¯t want to die.¡± ¡°What are you talking about? The two of you are only going to fight in a duel so you won¡¯t be dying in a duel you know, so just relax.¡± I scratched my head after while sighing on how hopeless this person. ¡°I wouldn¡¯t have any problem if it¡¯s like that but did you just forget what you just said?¡± ¡°What did I just say?¡± Somehow I get the urged of punching this guy on how he easily forgets the important parts of what he just said, but I should restrain on punching this guy since it won¡¯t solve my problem and just focus on the main issue, so calm down me. ¡°Alright, let me refresh your memory, you said that that woman doesn¡¯t know to hold back, right? So if I fight her in a duel what will happen to me?¡± ¡°You will die¡­¡± ¡°Correct, so can I take back what I just said and you tell her that I can¡¯t have a duel her.¡± When Igil heard that his forehead started sweat like he is against on what I said and started to panic. ¡°Like hell I am going there to tell here, I don¡¯t want to die yet so you should do it!¡± ¡°I still have many dreams I want to accomplish so I still don¡¯t want to why and aren¡¯t your dream already had already been true since you already have a wife, right?!¡± ¡°Even I already have a wife I still have dreams I want to come true, so no way!¡± While we were having in a heated argument Liz, Mael and Brynhilde started to feel suspicious of the two of us who are huddled together while whispering, Mael immediately heads towards us and tapped our shoulder that made us surprise that we immediately looked at that person with a scared expression. ¡°Are you two alright? Your faces are really pale and what have you been whispering about?¡± Igil and me simultaneously sigh in relief that it wasn¡¯t Brynhilde who come towards us that made us a little calm. ¡°Were just fine and we were just talking about something, right?¡± I elbowed Igil side to notice me while nodding as hint to pretend to agree on what I said and when he realized my nodded he understood immediately and nervously smile at Mael. ¡°Yeah¡­¡± ¡°Is that so¡­ Oh, the duel is about to start so you should go now.¡± After I heard what Mael said, so all I can do now is smile in helplessness and started to walk preparing to accept what my fate would decide for me and as for Igil, he looks like he was praying for someone but I don¡¯t who it is but I wished that prayer would come true. Chapter 5: Giving up can Also be Good Choice Me and Brynhilde are now facing each other and in the middle of us was Liz who is going to be our judge of our duel. Brynhilde was now doing a light exercise which is still smiling while waiting for our duel to start and me who just found a good idea how to fight her in an even ground so I need to get out of here. ¡°Liz.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Can I go to the restroom?¡± ¡°Sure, just come back quickly so we can start, alright?¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± After I got Liz confirmation I quickly run out the testing ground. Brynhilde who was doing a light exercise watched me leave the testing ground immediately panicked and looked at Liz. ¡°Hey! Where is he going?!¡± ¡°You should calm down for a bit, he¡¯s just going to restroom.¡± ¡°I thought he was going to run away, that¡¯s a relief.¡± Brynhilde resumed her light exercise while smiling after hearing the reason I ran away. After a minute of running I stopped and started to look my surrounding if there are people passing and when I confirmed that there are no people around I quickly took out the holy sword Excalibur inside my inventory and started to calm myself. ¡°Let¡¯s start¡­¡± I looked at the holy sword Excalibur and started to concentrate in changing its appearance. I started to modify the holy sword ignoring other process and proceed on changing its outside appearance and the sword slowly change on what I imagined. After a few minutes passed the holy sword had already changed its appearance, its golden blade had changed into an ordinary blade that exactly the same as the sword that currently hanging on my waist. I took out the sword which is hanging on my waist and put it in my inventory and put the holy sword Excalibur on my waist. ¡°Alright¡­¡± I took a deep breath to calm myself for a few minutes and started to walk back in the testing room. ------------------------ ¡°Alright, the two of you are you ready.¡± ¡°¡°Yes¡±¡± ¡°Begin!¡± When Liz shouted to start the duel, Brynhilde suddenly from where she was standing and appeared on my back that made me surprised who now about to swing her sword. ¡°Damn it!¡± When the sword I hastily swing Excalibur to deflect the sword that is currently swinging towards me towards my neck, when the two swords clashed, I was pushed back a few meters away and immediately focused my stares towards her. I almost died there if it¡¯s not for this sword I would be in a brink of death right now but just how fast is this woman. I look at the Brynhilde who was staring me with admiration I think, but to me he looks like a demon who is out to get me and just thinking about it scares me. ¡°Alright, I will get a little serious alright so do your best, alright!¡± When she said that she suddenly disappears out of my sights and in a few seconds, I felt a sudden pain in my side of the body as I flew another few meters away from where I¡¯m standing and I manage to land on my feet. I touched the side of my body that was hurting like hell, which took out five hundred of my HP and also her speed is much faster than before that I didn¡¯t even have the chance to move. I started to ready myself again and stare Brynhilde again while trying to predict on where she will strike. Brynhilde dashed towards me with a blinding speed, I immediately swing Excalibur to my right side trying on leaving it to my luck since I don¡¯t even know where she will strike. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. After I swung Excalibur I was able to deflect my sword which was coming to my right side which made me surprise since I never thought that it would she was going there and a notification window suddenly appeared. [By trying to predict your opponents move and succeed you learned the skill [Prediction].] After reading the notification I was about to burst with happiness but the thing I felt was pain in my stomach since I got kicked on that part, which made fly a few meters away again, leaving me lying on the ground and smiled because of the new skill that I learned. I slowly stand up suppressing the pain that Brynhilde inflicted which leaves only 903 of HP out of me and I also learned a valuable skill so I should now give up now since I still don¡¯t want my life to end. ¡°Ohhh! You manage to react with my speed only rank SS adventurer or monsters are able to react to that. I am starting to like you more and more.¡± ¡°I¡¯m glad that you to hear that but¡­¡± Brynhilde looks like she didn¡¯t understand about what I just said to her only tilting her head while looking at me who now putting Excalibur back to my waist as I looked at Liz, who looks like she understand on what I just said to Brynhilde and now waiting for my word. I slowly raised both of my hands in the air and sigh. ¡°Liz, I give up.¡± ¡°Since Ren is giving up the winner of the duel is Brynhilde.¡± ¡®¡¯Ehhh!¡± Brynhilde was surprised about the sudden decision since she looks like she doesn¡¯t want to stop the since she is starting to enjoy that duel she can¡¯t accept the outcome. ¡°Hey Ren! Your joking right I was just starting enjoy our fight why are you giving up?!¡± ¡°You should know that I can¡¯t even fight equally with you so why would I continue fighting you and most of all my body hurts like hell so I give up.¡± ¡°B-But!¡± ¡°See you.¡± I started to walk away from Brynhilde who still can¡¯t accept that I surrender who started to pout while staring at me intently who was looking at me walking away from her. ¡°Are you alright?¡± Mael asked me in a worried face while checking if I had any serious injury that made me smiled how concerned she is. ¡°You don¡¯t have worry about I¡¯m okay.¡± ¡°Is that so¡­¡± ¡°But Ren, who would have thought that you can endure her monstrous strength.¡± ¡°Shut up Igil, my body really hurts that I don¡¯t want to fight her ever again.¡± ¡°Haha! I can¡¯t argue with that, but you should you should be prepared since she took a liking to you she won¡¯t give up so easily with just words you know.¡± ¡°I will ask Liz later to find me a quest that involves in a far-away place so I can escape from her and I needed to train anyway.¡± ¡°Haha! Then I wish you luck that you would become stronger!¡± ¡°Thanks¡­¡± While me and Igil were talking, Mael tapped my shoulder that I looked at her. ¡°Hey Ren, can I also go with you?¡± ¡°Sure, let¡¯s meet at the guild alright and don¡¯t forget to buy everything needed since we are going to take a quest that involves a long journey.¡± Chapter 6: About Halflings and Monster Encounter One week had passed after the duel with Brynhilde, me and Mael are now heading towards the place of the quest given by Liz. When Liz handed the quest, she explained it to me very carefully. The quest was posted a few days ago, but no one was willing to take it since the place was really far since it will take about three weeks to arrive there and the quest only contains about investigating the cause about a monsters called Death Python and why it is showing an irregular behaviour in the forest that made the people in the village scared since the Death Python is considered to be a rank B monster because of its deadly poison in its body and how they always move together making them more dangerous so it was considered to be its difficulty to be a B. When we leave the city and started to going somewhere every night when Mael is asleep, I started to train my weapon skill creating weapon and if I created some awesome weapon I immediately put it inside my inventory but I won¡¯t say what weapon it is since it will ruin a surprise. When we also saw some monsters on the way we immediately kill so we can raise our level that made rose seven levels, making her level 17 and I raise ten levels so I am now level 22 since I also hunt some monster every night and it is also the time that I can let loose of my abilities since Mael is sleeping. We are now inside the Twisted Forest. The forest here is very dense that sunlight can¡¯t almost passed inside, making the surrounding somehow dark but not us dark that you can¡¯t see were you are going. ¡°This is the first time I saw a forest that¡¯s really thick.¡± ¡°Somehow I got the feeling that there are elves living here.¡± ¡°Why do you say that, Mael?¡± ¡°I heard that elves had a magic that is connected to nature and they used it to hide their village by making the forest just like this making it denser and they used to attack intruders.¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ Is that so, can human also use that kind of magic?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think so since I have never heard of someone can use that kind of magic, but I heard that a Halfling can learn that magic.¡± After I heard what Mael said all, the only thing that come up on my brain is nothing since I have never heard of Halfling after I was reborn from this world so the only I can do is ask. ¡°What is a Halfling?¡± ¡°You have also never of Halfling somehow you really are mysterious Ren, but I¡¯ll explain you see Halflings are people that are born from a race and another race.¡± ¡°Born from race and another race?¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ll give you an example, let¡¯s consider a human and an elf in a relationship gave birth to a child, when the child is born the child will look like from the race on who gave birth to it like if human give birth to its appearance will look like human, but some part of it body will look like an elf like their ears and if an elf gave birth of the child its appearance will also look like an elf.¡± ¡°I thought that elves also look like a human, but the only difference is their ear isn¡¯t it just the same?¡± ¡°Yeah, they also look like us but their beauty is so much above than us so if an elf gives birth their child well you can pretty much guess that they will really be beautiful with an ear of a human unlike human give birth to its appearance will only like the beauty in human looks.¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ is that so.¡± I continue on listening intently at Mael while nodding at her. ¡°Alright, let me continue. After they give birth to the child, they will inherit the mana of their parents so if their parent is an elf they can easily learn magic that elves know.¡± ¡°I pretty much understand now but I never saw Halfling before so I really want to see one.¡± ¡°Well, that not really surprising since it¡¯s pretty much rare to see Halfling since all five races only ignore each other and some of them are in bad terms. I also haven¡¯t seen one.¡± If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Mael face that looks like she also wants to see a Halfling but the only thing she can do was sigh dejectedly. ¡°Well, it¡¯s no use thinking about it since a Halfling won¡¯t appear if you just think of let¡¯s just focus on getting the other side of this forest.¡± ¡°Yeah¡­¡± After we finished our conversation we continue on going deeper into the forest since we don¡¯t know the exit of this forest. ----------- After a few hours passed, but we are still inside the forest and we haven¡¯t seen any sign of an exit as of yet. ¡°We have been walking in this forest for an hour now, but we haven¡¯t seen any signs that were near the exit that it¡¯s starting to get strange.¡± ¡°Yeah, somehow were just walking in circles.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t tell me!¡± Mael immediately started to search something desperately on the ground after she saw a green flowers that she started thinking while her face looks grim. ¡°Is something wrong?¡± ¡°Yeah, we got caught in an illusion.¡± ¡°What do you mean?¡± ¡°Do you see those flowers?¡± I looked at the flowers that Mael pointed and no matter how I looked at it there is nothing I feel like there is nothing wrong about that green flower. ¡°Those green flowers that you are looking are called Illusion flower and it looks like we smelled its fragrance that we are put in an illusion.¡± ¡°How do you know?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve read it in a book before and I am sure that this flower¡¯s appearance is the same as the appearance in the book so I¡¯m sure that this is an Illusion flower.¡± ¡°Then we just have to destroy the flower?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not easy to destroy this flower since it is growing in the whole forest.¡± ¡°So how do we escape its illusion?¡± Mael was in deep thought, trying to remember everything about the Illusion flower after a few minutes passed her eyes lit up that looks like she remember something. ¡°So do you know how we can escape?¡± ¡°Yeah, if I remember correctly, these entire Illusion flowers growing inside this forest has a host and if I remember it that host is a giant flower monster called Death Trap who is passing the entire mineral needed for the Illusion flower live so if we can find it and kill it maybe we escape it¡¯s illusion.¡± ¡°In other words search and destroy.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± ¡°Then do you know how can we find it?¡± ¡°Even we are inside an illusion, but the only real thing in her are the Illusion flower so if we just follow it I highly believed that will reach monster Death Trap.¡± ¡°Alright let¡¯s go!¡± We immediately run following the illusion flower that had been growing looking for the monster. After some time had passed, when we reach the place in the forest that many Illusion flowers grow in one area we also saw a huge flower monster that deep crimson huge petals, the middle the huge mouth with a hundred razor sharp teeth and uncountable vines with sharp thorns that are moving around. Name: Death Trap Level: 27 HP: 3,652 / 3,652 MP: 932 / 932 Strength: 62 Agility: 40 Defence: 53 Luck: 35 Magic: 37 Skill: [Regeneration], [Corrosive Saliva], [Thorn Whip Barrage], [Wrap] When I saw the status of the monster cold sweat started to form on my face and I don¡¯t know what Mael is thinking, but the only thing that it¡¯s in my mind is this is going to be a dangerous fight.