《RE:Exiled Royalty》 Chapter 1: Death As with everyone on royal road they have to start somewhere. This is where I start. If you notice any mistakes throughout the course of this fiction please be sure to tell me so I can fix it. Also feel free to leave any comments about chapters. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masses and masses of people, the horde seems to never end. Screams, whining and horror are the only things you could hear... I call them horses but they are no horse, their fur is as black as the furthest reaches of space and time while they are in the middle of it. Or is it the end? Or the beginning? I''m not sure, then again I don''t think anyone is. This is what the Christians would call ''hell'' never ending agony, hmm fits the bill. But this, this ends. Very far away but ends. Not much can be seen anywhere but above, it is light up with red glow and the ceiling looks like it could give way any moment just adding to the fear. Though in this place of pain and sadness I am sane. Not worried nor bored. Just there... waiting for something to happen. Even though it seemed to be years before something did happen, something did. A creature with blood red skin and glowing yellow eyes fitted with full plate mail armor which had spikes all over it and had a certain black tint to the metal, silver? Iron? Maybe steel? But this... thing could well be given the title demon and everyone would never say a thing. It even had wings that seemed to reach as far as six people down here. He... or at least I think so. Was flying, every so often they would look round as if trying to find a loved one in a fire or a child whom have lost their parents. He did this until he fixated his eyes onto something, following his direction he was looking at... me? When our eyes met he swooped down as if in an instant grabbed me and started to fly into the gates and towards a huge western style mansion. When I arrived at the mansion the doors swung open and with the doors came a warm breeze almost inviting me in. As I entered an old man with gray hair and a mustache greeted me. ¡°Hello Sir, we have been expecting you. Please follow me I shall escort you to the drawing room, this is currently where the Master is relaxing.¡± Expecting me? The hallways were packed with armors, everyone getting older and more detailed as I move forward and at the end of the corridor was large doors. The doors were large enough to fit two army''s through and looked almost impossible to open. ¡°Here we are Sir¡± The Butler turned round and politely directed me in the right direction. As I approached the doors they opened as if they were alive. The room was a massive library with only a small candle light near the entrance. I started to walk towards the light. A small way away from the candle the one writing looked towards me. ¡°Hello¡± said an old man with black hair, long beard and wearing a cloak. ¡°I am The Keeper of History, but my friends call me Harold. I have seen you today to discuss your reincarnation¡± Reincarnation? What did I do to get reincarnated? ¡°I know you must have forgotten what has happened in your life... Dying will do that you know. You were born into a military family and served the king for most of your life. Before getting Knighted and progressing to the title of Knight Commander. Before you died you lead a group of 10 of the kingdoms best knights to infiltrate an enemies fort to destroy it from the inside. Only you and the new recruit survived but you succeeded. On the way back the kingdom he stabbed you in the back and left you for dead and in the end wolves came to finish you off... How sad, not many get it bad that much.¡± Oh... I wont dwell on it, there is no point to think of the past when you can focus on the future. Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. ¡°In a few minutes you will be automatically be transported to a dark room with no doors or windows just a floating screen to decide your race and depending on how many feel for you in your past life still you will be given points. These points may be spent of traits for your new life. In your new life you will retain your skills but not your memories. Good luck in your new life my child¡± the man said these words before my vision started to darken and a screen pooped up with a button labeled random and another labeled choose your race for 5000 points. I thought that I wouldn''t have that many points so I chose random and the screen turned into a list which was going through its self, slowly getting slower to the point it stopped and the chosen race was... revenant? I had only heard about these in myths and had never seen one in my life time as a knight. But I knew they were evil and deadly... One of the standard procedures of meeting one were hide and don¡¯t make a sound, wait a week and then run for your life to a secluded place away from the kingdom to lead it away. One of the myths said they were normal humans but something happened to them in life to start to understand their powers. Another said they would have red eyes, white hear and no emotions... After the screen went away another screen popped up and it wrote. ''The King and all of his subordinates are grieving for you. Points earned +10,000. Your killer has committed suicide over their decision you gained an extra +20,000 points. Any points you do not use will be used to level up your stats which will be awarded on your coming of age ceremony on your 16th birthday. The god of death, the goddess of poison and the god of monsters along with the god of war, god of evolution and goddess of illusion have taken an interest in you past life and will become your deities in your next life. All available features you get may have a negative effect on your life which is decided randomly. Good luck in your new life'' A new screen now popped up with many options from invincibility, immortality to great leader. Great blacksmith to founder of a new age. Many about master knowledge are about 1000 each though there are only about 10 and if you have picked one already you may not choose another. Invulnerability is 100,000 but max hp is only 500 so is max mana and stamina. So the list of feats I have chosen are: Max HP ¨C 500rp Max Stamina - 500rp Max Mana ¨C 500rp Immortal ¨C 10,000rp God-like Blacksmith ¨C 5000rp Immune to poison ¨C 100rp Immune to fire ¨C 100rp Master illusionist - 1000rp Evolve ¨C 100rp Those left me with 12,200rp (Reincarnation points) with which I thought to put on to increasing my stats for when I reach 16 just in case my life would not be a good one. With that done the finished button was pushed. Before the text went away it popped up quickly as ''Born into an unloving family in a Queendom'' (Like a kingdom but run by girls and only girls) ¡°Its triplets my lady!¡±she said and went onto saying ¡°Two girls... and a boy.¡± with a disappointed face while handing us to another woman. ¡°I shall call them Lilith, Lynessa and... hmm, I never expected one to be a boy so Victoria should suffice ... Yes, my lovelies will grow with these names¡± The other woman looked confused but seemed like she would not question her. Chapter 2: Years of Lies I was going to postpone releasing this chapter for another couple of days but because it has already gone above my expectations I am going to release the next chapter now. Why wait if it is already done? Again please notify me if you find any mistakes. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Growing is at a steady pace, I went to kindergarten with my sisters and by the age of six all three of us were having lessons about foreign countries... but when my sisters had free time I had to go to the alchemy guild and drink this magical potion to keep me alive. Well that''s what mother says and she says if I don''t I wont be able to grow up to be a big girl and be a queen. I''m ten now but I''m not getting better looking even though my sisters are. They have both got long blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes while my eyes are vibrant red and have slit like pupils (look at a lizard if you don''t know what I mean) with white long hair while my skin is pale too, so mother only allows me to dress in black and has never shown the affection she has shown to my sisters to me. Father doesn''t question mother so he just ignores me. Even my sisters are distancing themselves from me as if avoiding an ogre. I don''t like it here anymore. Today is the day of viewing stats, deities and abilities also giving titles. As I am royalty me and my sisters will go first. ¡°Victoria! Wake up already we are going to the viewing festival! I reeaaalllyyyy don''t want you to make me late! So come on already! I''m not going to wait another six years to see my stats!¡± said my sister Lynessa the princess who is entitled the throne as she was the first born by twenty seconds. She ran back down toward the entrance of the castle to where mother and sister where standing. As I was just lounging around in my room waiting until someone told me to come too... But like always they had forgotten about me until sister came. As we went to the shrine a whole lot of people were talking around the carriage, the majority of them women. Lots of people are going about their day even though there were very little men about. You may see one selling things in a shop but there was not many at all. I suppose in this country women are above men, that''s why its called a queendom. When we arrived at the church it was huge with massive stained glass windows with gargoyles looking down upon us as if they were alive. The building had giant doors made from a dark wood while the whole thing was made from a very pure white marble. As mother, sisters and I stepped in we were escorted toward the front row of the pews and after sitting down then waiting a few moments my sisters were called up to an alter to touch it by the sides and when carvings got displayed in a wall, these were my sisters stats and everyone looked at them with awe as they showed her stats. Name: Lynessa Crawhurt Race: Human Gender: Female HP 1000/1000 Mana: 100/100 Strength: 302 Speed: 207 Intelligence: 201 Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit.Charisma: 43 When everybody calmed down my other sister took her turn and after that it would be my turn... Name: Lilith Crawhurt Race: Human Gender: Female HP 300/300 Mana: 1000/1000 Strength: 103 Speed: 203 Intelligence: 405 Charisma: 35 Again the crowd is in awe... are these stats not normal? Its not like they did much but learn and bully their servants... Now its my turn, I walk up to the alter and place my hands on a glowing stone the size of a loaf of bread. When my hands are touching it a slight warmth goes through my blood. Only around 7-8 seconds have passed and the stats are already showing themselves. They are as follows: Name: Victoria Crawhurt Race: Revenant Gender: Male HP: 10000/10000 Mana 10000/10000 Strength: 54 Speed: 45 Intelligence: 56 Charisma: 67 ''So my sisters stats were not normal then¡­'' I felt a deep worry in my heart as I read revenant and confused as I read male. I looked back at mother. She was pale, for that fact so are all of the people in the crowd¡­ My mother nodded somewhere behind me but before I got to turn around I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up I was in chains with a straight jacket on. Looking around the room it looked as if I was in a cell. A dark, damp room with with straw covering the floor and a single door. A man with a look of disgust and contempt picked me up and took me to the throne room. The throne room was in silence mother was sat on the throne with my sisters either side of her also looking at me with a look of disgust and a hint of fear. My sisters just looked a bit afraid. The silence was suddenly broken by mother shouting ¡°For impersonating royalty you are to be exiled from this land to never return or the penalty is death¡± ''This¡­ This vile woman! I could stand them avoiding me but to throw me out into the wild by myself is unheard of!''. I got up, anger shown on my face and started to belt out ¡°Why must I...¡± before I could finish many people were screaming and again I had succumb to getting knocked out by the hilt of a weapon from a guard. Yet again I found myself confined but this time in a much smaller space while it being much louder¡­ ''The sound of horses?''. I came to the realization that I was on a carriage even though it was made of iron¡­ About three hours and a half later the carriage stopped and my metal casket was thrown to the floor. A voice then said ¡° We are in the Mortem Kingdom you have 1 hour in there until the door will unlock. Hahaha...¡± He laughed as the sound of hooves grew quieter and quieter until they could be heard no more. The Mortem Kingdom was the country bordering the Queendom which they are at war with¡­ The whole place is made of humanoid monsters with a ranking system instead of aristocracy. The lesser monster like Goblins were at the bottom of the rankings being an E grade whereas Minotaur''s or Werewolves would be an A grade. There are also S, SS and SSS. S being something like a Vampire, SS being something like an Demon King and SSS would be a reaper. Chapter 3: Cavebase - Make a Cave a Home Hello again! Long time no see! Sorry about the delay in chapter but I was planning on making a map with some details to go with it but I am distracted very easily and have been playing swtor a lot lately and have not done much about the map. Though Good news! I have a chapter here and soon there will be another. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As soon as the cage was open it was turning night and I was hungry. I crawled out of the cage and was met by a lush green forest. It was obvious that I had been dumped in the middle of nowhere, to die no less. My first priority was food, I had to find berries or something to keep me alive. Next was shelter then warmth and protection. I stood up and started to go though some nearby bushes to find food. I found some edible foods named ''Dragon Berries'' and ''Drowning Berries'' which are native to lands near small mountains and hills. When I was picking the berries I notices that my arms were a bit bulkier, more like a man¡¯s arm. Which got me to the revelation of what the stone said was the truth. I was indeed a man. Was is a Poly Potion? Even if it was it wasn¡¯t going to be a good one, for good ones change the names even the truth cannot be determined by divine beings¡­ I better not dwell on it too much. I started to follow the grass toward a mountain using a survivalist trick I was taught back in the capital. I will be honest I never thought I was going to need it, unless things took a turn for the worse. Worse than it already was that is¡­ Anyway, about half an hour after following grass and eating berries while gathering them on the way I found the mountain and a cave. Shelter, check! Inside the cave there were basic furnishings and a blacksmith''s station with pretty good looking materials. In the corner of the entry room were bones of a dead man. It sure does make for a good deserted look to the place along with the dust¡­ It must have been deserted for centuries before I found it. Just outside off the cave was a well, it was not dried up so I took some water in the bucket and started to drink¡­ ¡°Eww!¡± Not good at all¡­ Then again it isn¡¯t the palace so it is to be expected. It was dark so I went back into the cave and started to sleep. My dreams were filled with death¡­ and a lot of it my sisters, my mothers and a whole lot of other people. I was strangely calm; it gave me a sense of security¡­ I woke up laughing, I don¡¯t know why but it was hysterical. Then it dawned on me that I had no door to keep away wanderers or creatures looking for a meal, thankfully nothing came in the night. I went off to the blacksmithing station and started to see if I could forge a sword¡­ Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. All in all I think it went quite well, I made a sword with an iron, black tinted blade and a silver hilt with gold encrusting¡¯s on depicting the fall of the Queendom. A single shoulder pad made from silver and a pair of gauntlets with gold trims. I also made an abundant of sword and other weapons and shields, as well as some armor made from ¡®Molybendium¡¯ because you never know when or if they will break. I was very tired by then and decided to once again go to sleep. I went to bed with a smile on my face hoping that the same dream would come again. The night was quick and I was woken up, in the morning? Maybe. By some people dressed in robes and armor, there was a bulky man, a woman wearing white robes and a smaller man wearing leather armor. It seemed that only one of them was armed, the girl with a staff with a jade in the top. At the entrance was where they were waiting. I was still wearing my clothes from yesterday because the cave was not very warm without the forge on. The adventurers whispered quite quickly as if they were worried but there was on reassuring voice throughout the crowd which seemed to calm the other two a bit. I walked to the door while the two men had semi-worried looks on their faces ¡°Hello¡± I said in an indifferent tone ¡°Hello¡± the voice came from the woman ¡°We are here to see the blacksmith here, is he in?¡± ¡°In the corner I suppose¡­ But you may not like it¡± The group had a confused look on them as I shown them to the pile of bones in the corner which I had yet to clean up. When I shown them they looked worried more so did the men who must have been here to procure weapons. ¡°Do you mind if we could buy some of his old weapons, if there are any?¡± ¡°There were none when I got here, though I did make some myself. If you wish you could take a couple of those¡± The men seemed a little reluctant to take them at the start but they soon came to the conclusion that they have no choice in the matter and agreed. I went to the forge and got them a great sword with a gemstone in the hilt and daggers which were made from a dark steel. I went back into the room and gave them the weapons. They gave me a purse of gold coins in return and left heading towards what I think is the capital. I went back to the forge to start forging more shields and armor and went back to bed.