《Ritz Aven : Can I live normally?[Hiatus]》 I am gonna destroy the world(Prologue) I am Shera Nillin, a 42 year old girl with a certain problem... I am currently fighting with my childhood friend, Kyle Feiran, the hero. There is a small reason why we are fighting, it is because we are mortal enemies. I am gonna destroy the world even though I am a human...there are a lot of reasons why I ended up having that goal, like being involved with shitty humans. ¡°Please, Shera, stop this. Don¡¯t be blinded by rage¡±(Kyle) Ah god, he is so annoying. If he is my friend, then he should help me kill all humans. Those lumps of greed that walk on the surface of the world should die, there are a few exceptions but it doesn¡¯t change the fact that humans should die. ¡°Ha, just watch. The world will truly be at peace after I kill those stupid humans¡±(Shera) ¡°Don¡¯t force me to fight you, please¡±(Kyle) ¡°hahaha what are you saying? We are already fighting¡±(Shera) Our fight lasted for a few days, sadly I lost. ¡°Kill me¡±(Shera) ¡°...please, stop this. The others will forgive you if you stop now¡±(Kyle) ¡°Hahahaha don¡¯t you think it is the other way around? The humans should be kneeling in front of me begging for forgiveness¡±(Shera) ¡°I know your reasons, but killing innocent people isn¡¯t gonna solve your problems¡±(Kyle) ¡°You are the hero right? You are supposed to help people, yet you weren¡¯t there when I needed help. Some hero you are.¡±(Shera) ¡°...¡±(Kyle) ¡°Just kill me, if you leave me alone, I would get back on my feet and continue killing humans¡±(Shera) Kyle raised his sword, and pierced my heart. My body slowly lost strength, my eyes slowly closed, and the last thing I saw was Kyle crying while hugging me. Remembering my life for the past years, all I could do was ask, why did i have to go though that? Why did it have to become like this? As I strength left my mouth moved on its own. ¡°T...thank you¡±(Shera) ___ Shera Nillin, a test subject for the hero project. On the year 4537, the Earth was invaded by unknown organisms. The world easily got taken, and the world needed a way to fight them. Shera & Kyle were both used as test subject for the hero project, Kyle became the hero, and the other orphans were moved back to the orphanage...or at least that is what the leaders of the project said. They used the failures as guinea pig, since the failures got higher physical abilities, they were used to test different drugs. Safe drugs were developed with their help. With the help of the drugs and Kyle, the humans won the war. Whole world was busy celebrating, so it was easy to discard the failures without getting attention. Most of them survived, but they couldn¡¯t get help, the lab sent information that they were failures, and that they are dangerous. The news didn¡¯t reach Kyle until Shera¡¯s name as the new threat to the human race, at that point Shera and the other orphans¡¯ hatred towards the human race was at its peak. They simlpy wanted the world to feel the same pain they did, using different means, they were able to get stronger and kill 50% of the world¡¯s remaining population. In the end, Kyle slowly made his way to Shera. ___ I woke up in a white plain, it extended infinitely. I was curious as to where I was because I already died yet my body is fully healed. As I observed the plains, a light descended and took a humanoid form. ¡°Look at what you have done to my world...¡±(???) As he spoke, images of Earth appeared in front of me. I calmly observed the pictures, and nodded with a satisfied face. 30% of the world is destroyed, and only a few thousand humans are left. ¡°You are even happy at what you have done...¡±(???) ¡°So, who are you? Probably a god or something¡±(Shera) ¡°That¡¯s right, based on what your people call me, I am god. Anyways, do you know the reaon why I am talking with you?¡±(God) ¡°You are angry because I caused too much chaos right?¡±(Shera) ¡°Wrong, I would like to thank you for killing those insects that plague the earth¡±(God) ¡°!?¡±(Shera) ¡°I can¡¯t really do anything but observe from here, so I asked the other gods to send their forces and kill the humans. It was a failure. But you did a good job cleaning the humans, I asked another god to clean the rest¡±(God) If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. ¡°So you were the reason for that...¡±(Shera) ¡°Looks like you aren¡¯t that angry about it, I mean, I was the reason you got involve in that project...¡±(God) ¡°No, even without the war, things like that would happen in different ways. Even if the war didn¡¯t happen, I doubt the experiments will stop, I might not be the victime next time but the humans will still use their kind for selfish reasons.¡±(Shera) ¡°It¡¯s good that you understand. Anyways the reason why I called you here, is to give you a chance to live a new life. Since you did help a lot, it is only normal to give you a reward.¡±(God) ¡°...How do I get a new life?¡±(Shera) ¡°So you are interested. I have already gotten permission from one of the gods, you can join his world and live there¡±(God) ¡°...so do I reincarnate there? Or do I go there with my body?¡±(Shera) ¡°It is your choice, you can reincarnate into any race you want, or use an existing body at that world. You can¡¯t use your body cause it is already dead, I can create a copy of it, but it is better not to do it. What¡¯s in my world stays in my world...except for the soul.¡±(God) ¡°I don¡¯t want to be born from scratch, so I will take the other offer¡±(Shera) ¡°Ok, I¡¯ll transfer your soul to the other world, and you can have a nice chat with my close friend before you start your new life¡±(God) I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, I was a purple plain. Just like before, a light descended and took a humanoid form. ¡°So you are the one transferring to my world, I already heard the details, so let¡¯s go directly to the important point¡±(Purple God) 5 images of humanoid bodies appeared in front of me. The shocking thing is that there wasn¡¯t a single human in the images...now that you think about it, the other god said something about different races. ¡°Pick one of those bodies, they are the shells I use when I want to visit my world. You can use one of them, and live in my world.¡±(Purple God) ¡°...um, what body has the longest lifespan?¡±(Shera) ¡°All of them have infinite lifespan...unless they are killed physically¡±(Purple God) ¡°Then...¡±(Shera) So I could live for as long as I want, this time I can live peacefully. Anyways let¡¯s pick a body that looks easy to use. After thinking a bit, I decided to use a body that closely resembled the humans except for the tail and horns. ¡°I see, that is my personal favorite. Anyways, for the language, I will add memories of the majin language into your soul. Anyways, enjoy your new life. I will visit my world in a hundred year or two, I hope you could give share your thought about my world by then.¡±(Purple God) After the conversation, I lost my consciousness again. ___ When I woke up, my body was extremely stiff, not to mention the addition of another limb. The tail felt like another leg, I could freely move it, but it feels kinda awkward...does a male feel something like this with their 3rd leg? I opened my eyes, and observed the surroundings. It seems like I was inside a cave, and a really small cave too. I slowly walked on the path inside the cave while slowly getting used with my new body, I don¡¯t know how much time has passed, but it has probably been a few days already. I didn¡¯t get hungry or thirsty, nor did I have to go to the toilet...not that there is a toilet in the cave anyways. I continued to walk until I stumbled upon a wall blocking the path, I touched it and lights suddenly appeared. The wall moved on it¡¯s own and created a path for me. I could see light from a distance, I happily ran to the light and finally got out of the cave. I don¡¯t know how much time I spent in that cave, but I am finally out. I realized that the cave was connected to a mountain, and that the mountain is located near a dessert. I can¡¯t see a single life form anywhere, all I could see was a sand, sand, and lastly sand. Oh well, I¡¯ll take my time, and explore this new world. This time I can live normally, I can experience being a normal girl, and other normal stuffs... by the way I am walking in the middle of the desert without clothes...In other words...I am naked... Ch. 1: City in the middle of a desert Nothing really happened in this chapter, muahahahaha who cares, not like anyone would read this story of mine. I¡¯ve been running for a few months now, yet there is no signs of intelligent beings. I did see other living creatures, sadly they were monsters that attack for no reason. I¡¯ve encountered different monsters on the past months, and I have to say, even with my strength, there are monsters that look extremely dangerous. One time, I saw a colossal fire breathing lion. Good thing it didn¡¯t attack, I doubt I could win easily. I used the hide of the monsters I killed, and made them into clothes. I am not good at creating clothes so I just took the skin, and cut a big enough skin to cover my whole body. I continued my journey, nothing good happened...until I saw a tall wall from a far. I rejoiced and ran at full speed to the wall, there was obviously a city inside the wall. As I got closer, the wall got bigger and bigger, and when I got in front of the wall, it was as tall as 10 people. I circled around to find the gate, after a few moments I finally saw humanoid life forms. I walked to the gate, but was blocked by the people wearing an armor, the are talking to me yet I couldn¡¯t understand a thing. Based on their voice, it doesn¡¯t look like they are hostile, more like they are asking me something. ¡°Sorry, I can¡¯t understand what you are saying¡±(Shera) Hearing my voice, they raised their brows in shock. They bowed to me, and started talking in a language that I couldn''t understand. ¡°Sorry, majin-sama.¡±(Guard) One took his helmet off, he had a blue skin with white hair. He was had a muscular build, and was about 180 cm tall. ¡°No, it¡¯s ok. So, can I enter now?¡±(Shera) ¡°Yes, of course¡± The guards made a way for me. As I entered the gates, I saw people staring at me. I ignored them and looked at my surroundings, there were a lot of buildings made in sand. Most of the houses only had 1 floor, and didn¡¯t have any windows, the city didn¡¯t have any paved streets, or at least that is what I am currently seeing. As I entered the city, people started walking out of their homes to see me...and not long after that, everyone is looking at me. This is refreshing, after all that time, I am finally seeing other people. There were a different variety of people, it seems like a lot of different races are gathered in this city, on a closer look, most of the people in this city are armed. I continued to walk, until I realized that I didn¡¯t really know where I wanted to go. I continued walking while thinking of what to do next, as I walk I saw something I haven¡¯t seen in months, WATER. I moved closer to the oasis, and used my hands to gather water. I drank the water, and after that, I could hear people clapping around me. I was confused at what happened, I could hear various voices around me that I couldn¡¯t understand. Since I didn¡¯t know what was happening I stood up, and walked away from the oasis. A child blocked my path, and gave me a basket of fruits. ¡°dank yu, madin-sama¡±(Child) He looked like he had a hard time speaking to me...maybe my language is different from theirs after all. Damn that god, why didn¡¯t he give me a language that I could use in this city? After I accepted the basket, more and more people gathered. The surrounded me, and knelt Am I some kind of god or something? An old looking man walked towards me, and bowed. ¡°I am the chief of this city, and I want to thank you personally for cleansing our oasis¡±(Chief) ¡°No...I didn¡¯t...¡±(Shera) ¡°No need to be humble, if there is anything that you want. Please tells us, we would like to be helpful to a majin such as yourself¡±(Chief) So is my race something sacred? ...I just drank a bit of water, I didn¡¯t do anything. Ah, who cares, I¡¯ll just get information that I need and leave this city before they notice I didn¡¯t do anything. ¡°First...I would need a change of clothes.¡±(Shera) ___ The chief guided me to a clothes store, he said I could take anything I wanted, so I did. I took 3 pieces of clothes that I think looked cute, I also asked if there are bags I could take, and guided me to another store. I continued to ask for different things, it didn¡¯t look like he suspected a thing, and happily guided me around the city. After buying tons of stuff, I didn¡¯t really buy since I got them all for free, we went to the chief¡¯s home. By the way, 2 muscular man, were lifting my baggage for me. It was made with the same materials as the other houses, the only difference is that it was a lot bigger and had a 2nd floor. As I entered his home, I could see 2 children running around the house, and a lady sitting on a chair while watching the children. The chief called the lady in a language I didn¡¯t understand, I knew it, my language is different. After that, the lady bowed, and took the 2 children upstairs. ¡°Please, sit here majin-sama¡± The chief pointed at a sofa. ___ After fixing my new things, I sat on the sofa. The chief sat on the opposite sofa, and looked directly into my eyes. ¡°I know you didn¡¯t cleanse the oasis¡±(Chief) ¡°...if you knew, why did you give me all of this?¡± I pointed at the clothes. ¡°With that, you owe me one. The citizens were too happy about a majin visiting our town, and jumped to conclusions. You just drank a poisonous water after all, and look, you didn¡¯t even look a bit affected by it¡±(Chief) ¡°Eh, the water was poisonous?¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha, so you didn¡¯t know. Anyways, since you owe me one, I want to ask something from you¡±(Chief) ¡°Sigh...ok, what is it? If it something I don¡¯t like, then I will leave this city...and I¡¯ll take all of this stuff with me¡±(Shera) ¡°Thank you majin-sama, don¡¯t worry. The request isn¡¯t something a majin can¡¯t do¡±(Chief) ¡°...before you ask me, I want to get a few information out of you¡±(Shera) ¡°W...what is it majin-sama?¡±(Chief) ¡°You see, I just woke up a few months ago, and it seems like I couldn¡¯t remember anything. I want you to tell me everything you know about this world¡±(Shera) Heh, that reason is flawless. He won¡¯t know I am from another world, and I would get the information I need. I am a genius, I did kill most of the humans without lifting a finger hahahahaha. ¡°You don¡¯t remember anything?¡±(Chief) ¡°I just told you...I don¡¯t remember a single thing¡±(Shera) ___ He started explaining things that I wanted to know. First, Majins are an immortal race that has always been involved in miracle acts. Majin¡¯s trait are the horns and tails, which is a lot similar to the demon race. A way to differentiate them is the Majin language, demon race hate the majins and would never even want to learn a word from the majin language. If you see a demon that can speak majin language, then that isn¡¯t a demon but a majin. I think this information is flawed, what if demons actually try and learn it, they can fool everyone around them...not my problem though. Second, the majin language is something sacred, it is passed down to important figures of cities, to welcome any majins that may visit their domain. So, why did the guards know the majin language? Are they important figures too? Third, I am currently at Hellion City, a city known to house mercenaries and adventurers that want to test their strength at the mirage desert. That explains the armed people around the city, since I don¡¯t plan to go deeper onto the desert, I didn¡¯t ask more about the mirage desert. The chief said that I could get out of the desert if I join caravans that are gonna travel to the Ballian City, it is a city near the entrance to the desert. Since I was interested, I asked what the other races are. I asked how many races have humanoid forms, and of course he didn¡¯t know what I was talking about...I changed the question a bit, I asked how many races have 2 arms and 2 legs. He said that the world is vast, and he only knows 7 races that satisfy the question, Majins, Talar, Gairn, Vallar, Palan, Heran, Leins. Good, it looks like there isn¡¯t any human in this world, the chief tried to explain how the other races looked like, but I stopped him and said it would be better to see them myself. ¡°...That is currently what I wanted to ask¡±(Shera) ¡°I see, so about my request¡±(Chief) ¡°Ah, right¡±(Shera) ¡°...I want you to kill the Hellion Baran¡±(Chief) ¡°Even if you ask me...it¡¯s not like I even know what that is¡±(Shera) ¡°It is a gigantic beast with four legs, it has a red mane the covers it¡¯s upper body. Its skin is a bit dark, and has 3 horns growing on its head.¡±(Chief) I think I remember seeing something like that... ¡°It is also called the Colossal Lion, by our ancestors¡±(Chief) Ah, I knew it. ¡°And if I refuse?¡±(Shera) ¡°We will accept your decision, we won¡¯t force a majin. We will take back the things though...¡±(Chief) Let¡¯s see, I could use this battle to test my strength, I could also get the items without feeling guilty, and hey, I also got good information from the chief. I guess I should go for it, as long as humans aren¡¯t the ones in front of me, it is ok. ¡°Ok, so where is it located?¡±(Shera) ¡°The guards will guide you to the right direction, the Hellion Baran could be located in front of the mirage desert. The core inside its body could be used to cleanse the oasis, and the journey will last for about a year...so you can take anything you want in the city as supplies.¡±(Chief) Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. ¡°No need, just knowing its location is fine¡±(Shera) ___ After packing up her new things, she also bought a new clothe, that she could use while traveling. She was guided by the guards, and she started running to the mirage desert at full speed. Having normal clothes feels a lot better than being naked under a robe, now then, time to kill some big ass lion. ___ (Chief¡¯s Point of View) I hope that majin-sama could finish this as fast as possible, we need to cleanse the oasis. If she can save our city, then I don¡¯t care what I have to give next...maybe I could let her bathe on the oasis after this...he...hehehe, and then I will watch as her soft white skin touches our oasis, her silky white hair will float on the waters, and her crimson red eyes will be peeking out of the waters. It would feel like a purifying ceremony, maybe we could really ask her for that...and she will drown, and I will be forced to save her. Her face would turn red as I pull on her jet black tail. I will pull her body, and hug her, her bosom will touch my chest as I swim upwards. ¡°He...hehehe¡±(Chief) *Slap* The lady from before was now in front of him with an angry expression. ¡°Father, what¡¯s with that perverted smile. Don¡¯t tell me you are fantasizing about majin-sama¡±(???) ¡°N...no, I just remembered your mother. I was remembering the times we spent together while she was still alive, and I suddenly remembered our first night together¡±(Chief) ¡°...what are you talking about, you are single, and didn¡¯t marry anyone. You even adopted me, because you were lonely about being alone¡±(???) ¡°Hahahaha...come on, it¡¯s hard to not think about a beauty like her. And to think she was naked under a pelt when we met¡±(Chief) ¡°Sigh...I don¡¯t know what you are thinking but please don¡¯t offend majin-sama, or our city will burn¡±(???) ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that, the city comes first. Go upstairs, and sleep with your brothers, Sefia¡±(Chief) ¡°Ok, just don¡¯t do anything stupid ok?¡± Sefia went upstairs. ¡°Hehehe...purifying ceremony is a must¡±(Chief) ___ It has been 2 weeks since I started my journey to find the gigantic lion...I think...the lion was also looking for me. ¡°I finally found you¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°...um, I was also looking for you¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha, why is it that a beauty like you is looking for me?¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°I came here to kill you and take your core.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha quite the feisty one, so is it to clense that stupid oasis?¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°Yup, so let¡¯s stop talking, and start fighting¡±(Shera) ¡°No need to fight, I¡¯ll go with you to the city.¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°!?¡±(Shera) ¡°You don¡¯t need to take the core itself, I just need to do the cleansing ritual at the oasis¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°...if you knew about the oasis, and you can cleanse it, why didn¡¯t you help them earlier?¡±(Shera) ¡°You surely know how to jest, I have been trying to get to the city myself, but this stupid desert is making me go around in circles. I should have joined you when I first saw you, but sadly, I was still half asleep at that time.¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°Huh, how could you get lost in this flat desert?¡±(Shera) ¡°It is simply, everyone except for majins get lost in this desert. I don¡¯t know how it happens, we just get lost for some unknown reason¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°...¡±(Shera) ¡°Believe in me, it is still too early for me to piss of a majin. Anyways, please guide me to the city majin-sama¡±(Hellion Baran) That was quite anti-climatic, after those 2 weeks, I didn¡¯t even have a chance to fight anyone...except for those small fries that keep on pestering me. Ah, I don¡¯t care anymore, as long as I bring this guy back, then I can go back and do my own things. ¡°Let¡¯s go¡±(Shera) We started our journey back to the city, surprisingly this big ass lion gets tired easily. I mean, we just ran for a week and he is already telling me to rest a bit... ¡°Should I just kill you, and take the core?¡±(Shera) ...I am still not sure how strong I am, but I am sure he is not someone I could easily take on. I don¡¯t know why he is scared of me...are majins really that strong? ¡°N...no, wait. I day of rest won¡¯t hurt right? Come on, I am not as sturdy as a majin...¡±(Hellion Baran) Sigh...I can¡¯t really challenge him right now, based on what I see, he is stronger than me in every aspect except for the stamina... ¡°You¡¯re annoying, sigh...alright, I¡¯ll just carry you back to the city¡±(Shera) Yes, I¡¯ll carry him until he rested enough, so that we won¡¯t waste a day resting. I guess I should make use of my almost infinite stamina. ¡°Wait, I¡¯ll change my form¡± Hellion Baran changed its form into small lion cub, he was as big as half of Shera¡¯s current body. ¡°C...c...cute¡±(Shera) My hand moved on it¡¯s own and hugged Hellion Baran. ¡°Do you like this form? Hahahaha with this you won¡¯t have problem carrying me¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°You should stay like this forever¡± Shera carried Hellion Baran back to the castle with a smile on her face. She would rub her cheeks on the small cub from time to time. ___ I was welcomed to the city, and went to the chief¡¯s house. After noticing me, the chief bowed and let me sit on the sofa, I was still tightly hugging the cub, cause I don''t want to let him go. ¡°It seems you have finished the job faster than, I thought¡±(Chief) ¡°Yup, and I got a great pet in return¡±(Shera) ¡°...I am not a pet¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°W...where is the core?¡±(Chief) ¡°I¡¯ll show you later, let¡¯s go to the oasis¡±(Shera) ¡°...I have prepared a set of clothes, you could use to bathe in the oasis¡±(Chief) ¡°Why, in hell would I bathe in the middle of the city?¡±(Shera) ¡°N...no, the others will also enter the oasis. It will be a celebration, where everyone in the city could enjoy the newly purified oasis¡±(Chief) I really haven¡¯t taken a bath since the time I came here...I will also be wearing clothes so it is not like I will go there naked. ¡°...Fine, it¡¯s not like I am the only one going there. I might as well enjoy being in water.¡±(Shera) ___ We all went to the oasis, Hellion Baran turned back into his true form, which surprised everyone. It was quickly resolved when I said the he isn¡¯t dangerous. Everyone quickly believed in my word, it felt like people just heard their god talk to them. Hellion Baran dived into the water, and after a while light started to ascend from the waters. ¡°The oasis is cleansed¡±(Hellion Baran) At Hellion Baran¡¯s word, everyone rejoiced and started stripping...it looks like they already have their waterproof clothes under their clothes. I went back to the chief¡¯s house and changed into the waterproof clothes. When I came back, everyone was waiting for me...am I your leader or something? sigh...I was the first one to enter the oasis Water, after all this time, I am finally bathing in clean water. I slowly closed my eyes, to relax and enjoy the oasis. The others started joining, and soon the oasis was filled with different people. Some were there to enjoy but most were there to watch as Shera floated on the oasis with a beauty that could rival that gods. She didn¡¯t notice anything and simply drifted around the oasis with a smile on her face. This is life, this is what I¡¯ve been searching for. Everything that happened so far, seems like a bad nightmare. All those hardships, all those things that I had to go through, everything feels like a dream. This time, I can wake up from the bad dream, and live my life in a different way from before. ___ The event ended, and everyone returned to their houses. Night started, pillars around the city and the top of the walls generated light. Doesn¡¯t feel like it is running with electricity, maybe there are other ways to create light? ...I am not really good with technology... I went back to the chief¡¯s house and decided to stay there for the night, Hellion Baran was back to his cute form and is currently being hugged by me, cause he is so cute that I couldn''t resist hugging him. ¡°...Can¡¯t breath¡±(Hellion Baran) ¡°No complaining, you are mine now, pooch¡±(Shera) ¡°...don¡¯t change my name¡±(Pooch) ¡°Are you saying my naming sense is bad?¡±(Shera) ¡°N...no¡±(Pooch) Shera went to her bed and slept while hugging Pooch. ¡°...I am a divine beast you know¡±(Pooch) Ch. 2: Being an adventurer? Still nothing...I wonder where this story is going? Where is the romance that I promised? Ah, what a great morning, I don¡¯t have any problems in this world, and a cute creature is currently sleeping beside me. Anyways, I really want to see the world. It¡¯s not that I hate it here, I just want to travel. A vast world that I haven¡¯t explored, new things waiting to be seen by me, I am so excited to travel around the world. I fixed my hair, checked my belongings, and went down stairs, of course while still hugging my stuffed toy. ¡°...Did you just think of something rude about me?¡±(Pooch) ¡°Eh? No, why would say something bad to my cute little stuffed toy?¡±(Shera) ¡°I am not a toy!¡±(Pooch) We went downstairs, and asked the chief a few more things. This time I asked about the world, how big it is, what kind of things I will see, and if there are any recent events that I have to be wary of, like wars of different races. This world is currently known as Ritz Aven, and there are 7 major continents in this world. I am currently at the smallest and most Isolated continent, Zeirberg. I didn¡¯t really got the exact information about the world¡¯s size, but it should be safe to say it is as big as earth...maybe? Anyways, the other continents are not that friendly but there isn¡¯t any big war happening around the world. I tried to get more information concerning majins, does a lot of people know about majins?...I mean it is kinda hard to move if everyone sees me as a sacred entity, not that I hate it, but I want to live normally. Majins normally hide their existence, and only appear once every 50 years. As of now, aside from me, there are 2 more majins known to have appeared. Not many know about our existence outside of this continent except for the leaders of each continent. Since majins are known for their language, maybe I should learn other language before starting my travel. Am I forgetting something?...Ah, I¡¯ll just deal with it when time comes. ¡°Is there a universal language I could learn? Something I could use when I travel around the world.¡±(Shera) ¡°There is one, should I get a few tutors for you?¡±(Chief) ¡°Yes please¡±(Shera) With this I can hide the fact that I am a majin. I am a genius, Hahahahahaha. ___ My days went by without anything big happening, aside from sightseeing and learning the Ritz language, there isn¡¯t really anything worth mention...well, Pooch¡¯s cuteness is something I can mention, I guess. I wake up in the morning, ask the chief a few things, walk around the city, learn the language, and sleep...yeah I don¡¯t eat that much, cause I don¡¯t need to. For races, I have seen 5 types of races in this city while I was walking around. Majority of the population are of the Talar race, the Chief is also from the said race. Talar are generally the same as humans except for their height, Talar¡¯s average height is at 6ft, quite tall right? By the way I am 160cm tall...just an estimate not the exact. Talar¡¯s also have darker skin, and a scales on their backs, it is said the a few Talars could evolve their scales into wings, although they still don¡¯t have a solid knowledge about that. The second one are the Gairns, the have an average height of 165, and are naturally wider then the other races. They have reddish skin, and one horn the extends from their forhead. The are best when it comes to physical abilities, the guards of the city are Gairns by the way. The third are the Vallars, I also call them birdman...cause they have wings, I am really good at naming. Anyways, Vallars the exact copy of humans, except for the gigantic wings on their back. The excel at air combat...for obvious reasons, they are also known to be good with directions. A group of caravans usually has 2-3 people of the Vallar race as their guide. The fourth...this is where it starts to deviate from humanity, not that there are humans in t his world anyways. Palans are gigantic lizards that has the same body as a human...or not, their body is covered with thick scales, and their body varies from light red to dark brown in color. Their body is naturally bigger, about 7-8ft. Despite their appearance, it is said that they are good at handicraft, my clothes were made by the Palans...is it a good time to say, don¡¯t judge the book by it¡¯s cover? Lastly there are the Herans, they have are small, and usually move in groups. They are about 140-150cm tall, and have tails...not like mine. Their tales are as long as their whole body, which they use as a third arm. Again, despite their looks, they are good at hand to hand combat. To compensate the small height, they use their tails naturally as a third arm to fight. They are also a lot of them that are good with creating weapons, I just heard it I am not sure. The demon race or also called as the Leins are not in this city, and the Chief also told me that there are none in the continent. There is also the possibility of other races in the other continents, the races that the chief knows are only those that he heard and saw in this continent. Everything I just said are just the things I heard, observed, and opinions. I don¡¯t really know much about the other races, the only one I am close to is Pooch. ___ It has been a few weeks since I stayed in this city, or to be precise, stayed at the chief¡¯s house. I can speak the ritz language, but only to a certain extent. I know the basic words for speaking, but I still don¡¯t know deep words. I still don¡¯t know how to write though, but speaking should be enough. A group of caravans will be here tomorrow, and the chief says he will help me get join the group and travel to Ballian city. I have also told him to keep the fact that I am a majin, a secret. I am currently going to the adventurer¡¯s guild, the chief said that if i join it, I won¡¯t have any money problem. The adventurer¡¯s guild is a few blocks away from the chief¡¯s house. It was big, the adventurer¡¯s guild is big, it has 4 floors and each could house a thousand people. As I entered, tables could be seen around, and a few rooms are at the side. There were many people inside, and each and everyone of them reeks...did I go into the wrong building? Is this a gathering of people that doesn¡¯t know the word bath? I went out of the building, and looked at the sign...Ah, I forgot I don¡¯t know how to read. I should just go back to the chief¡¯s house and ask him to guide me. Before walking away, a man blocked my path. ¡°Is there something that you need majin-sama?¡±(Man) This guy look normal, unlike those people from before, this guy smells...normal, wait...did I just... ¡°Is there something that you needed in the adventurer¡¯s guild?¡±(Man) ¡°T...this is the adventurer¡¯s guild?¡±(Shera) ¡°Yes, is there something that you needed? I could help you, are there any request that you wanted to make?¡±(Man) ¡°No, I wanted to join...¡±(Shera) ¡°...If it¡¯s that, then let¡¯s come in together. I¡¯ll guide you to the counter.¡± The man clung to my shoulders and dragged me inside the building. Ah...I can¡¯t stand this...can¡¯t they just all wash themselves before getting inside? It doesn¡¯t seem that they are wary of their own smell...by the way, I am currently holding Pooch, and Pooch is holding his nose. I acted like it doesn¡¯t affect me, the people noticed me and started to wave their hands, I also waved my hand in return. Seeing their smiles when I waved, I slowly forgot about the smell...it is still bad though. The man dragged me in front of the counter, and went back to one of the tables. ¡°M...majin-sama, what could I do for you?¡±(Man at the counter) The man was from the Heran race, he had a short brown hair, and a pair of plain brown eyes. He didn¡¯t look muscular nor athletic, so I guess this is his main forte. ¡°I would like to join the adventurer¡¯s guild¡±(Shera) ¡°Ah...is that so, um...are you really gonna join?¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°I just said I would join right?¡±(Shera) ¡°A...sorry, that would be 10 copper coins for the license plate, and 50 more copper coins if you want to be registered in every guild in this continent¡±(Man at the counter) I took out a gold coin which I got from the chief and gave it to the man at the counter. His eyes widened, and looked at me. ¡°M...majin-sama t...this is¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Register me to every guild around the world, that should be enough right?¡±(Shera) I actually don¡¯t know the value of money in this world except for the basic concept.
1 silver coin is equal to 100 copper coins 1 gold coin is equal to 100 silver coins 1 platinum coin is equal to 100 gold coins 1 reis coin is equal to 100 platinum coins
That is all that I know, actually, I don¡¯t know what a reis coin is...anyways, I still have 9 more gold coins in my bag. ¡°O...ok, that would be 50 silver coins...¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Keep the change¡±(Shera) If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. ¡°Ah, thank you majin-sama.........you we will have to check your stats, and put them on the license card. Don¡¯t worry, only your current level and rank will be shown on the card¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Ok, so what do I have to do?¡±(Shera) ¡°Wait a second majin-sama¡± The man went to the door behind him, and after a while he came back with another person. The new person guided me to another room, inside, I could see 10 floating orbs. How do they do this? This is a lot more advance than our technology... ¡°Majin-sama, please go in front of any orb and put both of your hands while holding this card¡± The man gave me a wooden card. I followed his instructions, and went to one of the orbs. I didn¡¯t really understand the part with both hands while holding the card, so I just held it with both hands, and tapped it on the orb. I glanced to the man, to see his reaction, and he smiled back to me. Good, looks like I am doing it right. Pooch is currently sitting on the floor on the same room, while waiting for me. A screen suddenly appeared in front of me, showing my stats, I could surprisingly read it...it¡¯s in english letters...
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age5 monthsGenderFemale
TITLES
[Forsaken Hero][Vengeful One][Rift Walker][Goddess of Beauty]
Level54ClassFree Lance
Vitality64,783Agility98
Strength146Defense132
Magic Attack43Magic Defense23
My race is ultima majin, then I am 5 months old, great. I also have 4 titles, I could understand the first 2 but when did I walk on the rift? And when did I become a goddess? For class...well, I don¡¯t really have a fighting style, so free lance seems suitable. For my stats...everything looks normal except for my vitality...WAIT MAGIC? THERE IS MAGIC IN THIS WORLD? *snap* HAHAHAHAHAHA GREAT, OF COURSE I WON¡¯T BE TRANSFERRED WITH A NORMAL BODY. Her body emitted an intimidating aura, which made Pooch and the man flinch. ¡°W...what is it majin-sama? Is the orb not to your liking? Maybe it¡¯s broken, please try again on the other orbs, please forgive us¡±(Man) ¡°fuuuuuuuuuuu¡± I exhaled, and relaxed my body. ¡°No, I just remembered something unpleasant. It¡¯s not your fault...here¡± I gave the card to the man. ¡°L...level 54?¡±(Man) ¡°Is it bad?¡±(Shera) ¡°N...no, I just thought you would be on the upper 300¡±(Man) ¡°Oh, so I am weak¡±(Shera) ¡°N...no, it¡¯s not that. Maybe the orb was broken, you could try again¡±(Man) ¡°No, it¡¯s ok. So what do I have to do next?¡±(Shera) ¡°You can wait on one of the rooms, we won¡¯t charge you so please feel free to use it¡±(Man) ___ I went to a room while holding Pooch, I sat on the chair tried to relax. An hour later, someone knocked on the door. I stood up and opened it, the man from before gave me a silver plate, My name, level and rank could be seen in front of my card...that¡¯s what he said, I am not really sure since I can¡¯t read. The back of the card was clean, the man said that it will be used when I form a part. It could be used to detect a missing party member. I went out of the room, and started walking out of the guild. Seeing the card in my hand, different people tried to make me join their party. I politely declined their offer, and went back to the chief¡¯s house...with pooch. It was currently dark outside, probably 6:30 or 7:00. I tried to use a shortcut, but a group of people blocked my path. We were currently in an isolated street, or to be precise, I don¡¯t see anyone besides them. ¡°Hi there, miss level 54 majin¡±(Man 1) ¡°Hahahaha this is the first time I have heard a majin under a level of 300¡±(Man 2) ¡°...Is there something that you want from me?¡±(Shera) ¡°Yup, we want you. We will play with you for a while, and after taming you, we will sell you off to a noble.¡±(Man 1) ¡°Oh, I see¡±(Shera) So there are also people like this, it seems there are also pieces of trash in this world. And just when I thought I wouldn¡¯t have any problems. ¡°Do you know what my pet is?¡± I raised pooch. ¡°No, is that the baby of a monster? Is taking care of monsters, the habit of a majin?¡±(Man 1) ¡°I see, so you didn¡¯t know¡±(Shera) ¡°Is it ok to kill them?¡±(Pooch) ¡°Sure, this world doesn¡¯t need trash¡±(Shera) Pooch reverted back to his Hellion Baran form and started killing them. ¡°S...so it was you body guard¡±(Man 5) ¡°Stop speaking nonsense, I am sure she is just hiding her true strength.¡±(Pooch) No...I am weaker than you, I don¡¯t know why you are thinking the opposite but...I guess this is fine, I could use his help until I get stronger. It is his fault for thinking that I am stronger. The noise of the battle was heard, and people came running to the place I am at. Seeing the corpses of 7 people and I who didn¡¯t have a single stain while holding pooch, who was now back to his cute form. People knelt, and begged for forgiveness. I went back to the chief¡¯s house, and went to my room. The next day, I heard from the chief that the 7 people pooch killed, were high ranking members of the black swords, a crime organizations that has been tormenting the continent for a long time. The chief thanked me for killing those trash, and knelt, to beg for forgiveness. It was his mistake to let a majin get involved with such people. ¡°It¡¯s ok, it is not your fault. Please stand, you already did a lot for me, and I am thankful for that. Those guys targeted me, and I am sure even you wouldn¡¯t expect that, so please don¡¯t blame yourself.¡± I smiled at him to show that I really meant what I said. ¡°M...majin-sama¡± The chief stood up while looking at me with respect. Tears started to flow down his cheeks, and seemed like he is looking at a benevolent goddess. That triggered the Shera Religion, which will gain more and more followers until it becomes the main religion of all continents...well that is still a hundred years in the future. __ At noon, the caravan entered the city. The chief went to the head of the caravan and introduced me as kind demon that helped the city cleanse the oasis. After observing me for a bit, the head of the caravan happily accepted me. I knew he wouldn¡¯t be able to resist pooch¡¯s cuteness. After delivering the supplies the caravan started to move out of the city, the whole city, waved at me as the caravan made it¡¯s way to Ballian city. There are currently 14 caravans which are guarded by 40 heavily armored soldiers. There are 5 Vallars flying above the caravan. ¡°So missy, how did you end up in Hellion city? I haven¡¯t heard about any Leins coming to this continent.¡± A Gairn soldier was currently inside a caravan with me, he is here to look after me. ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just woke up in the middle of the desert.¡±(Shera) This is bad, I don¡¯t know what to say... ¡°Ah, so you suddenly woke up in the middle of the desert...I am pretty sure even a Lein will die like that¡±(Gairn Soldier) ¡°...¡± I stared at him with an irritated expression. ¡°Hahaha, forget about that. It doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t want to tell me, you helped the city and that is enough to earn my trust¡±(Gairn Soldier) ¡°Then why did you ask me?¡±(Shera) ¡°Nothing, I just didn¡¯t know how to start a conversation with a beautiful lady hahahaha¡±(Gairn Soldier) What an irritating man... ¡°Pooch eat him¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, please don¡¯t let anger control you¡±(Pooch) ¡°What this little thing can talk?¡±(Gairn Soldier) ¡°...on the second thought. Ok, I¡¯ll eat him¡±(Pooch) ¡°W...wait, Im sorry¡±(Gairn Soldier) I threw him out of the caravan, Pooch jumped out and reverted back to his true form. The others stopped moving and focused their eyes on the colossal monster in front of them. ¡°Sorry sorry...I won¡¯t do it again¡±(Gairn Soldier) Pooch didn¡¯t listen and tried to eat the soldier, before anything could happen, I appeared between them. ¡°Stop¡±(Shera) ¡°...but he called me little¡±(Pooch) ¡°Don¡¯t let anger control you¡±(Shera) ¡°...¡±(Gairn Soldier & Pooch) After that the caravan continued moving, this time, they treated Shera carefully. They feared the power of the Hellion Baran, and the beautiful lady that easily stopped it from its tracks. Ch. 3: At Ballian City So I finally introduced a new character... and a long backstory...I don''t know if it is good, muahahaha who cares anyway? I am finally at the Ballian city¡­actually it took 4 months to get here, but nothing really happened except for a few monster attacks. It¡¯s not that bad, I actually got a bit more information from the people at the caravan. In the guise of amnesia, I asked the normal life span of each races, including the lein, which they think is my race, my disguise is a success. It seems that every race has the average life span of 300-500. Heh, beat that you stupid humans that can only live for 60-100 years. I was a bit curious about ranks of the adventurers, it seems I was given quite a good rank from the start. I was given a high silver rank, and the ranking system goes like this:
Wood > Low, Mid, High Bronze >Low, Mid, High Silver > Low, Mid, High Gold > Low, Mid, High Platinum > Low, Mid, High Reis > Low, Mid, High
I asked what a reis is, and they all answered the same thing. It is a rare metal used for high end weapons, it has natural purple color, and it¡¯s own mana. The metal is said to have the ability to store mana, and is usually used by magicians as supplies. If I remember correctly, they are using reis coins¡­I don¡¯t understand why they would use such a dangerous metal as money. Well only rich ass people will get that kind of currency anyways, but still, they should separate money and weapons¡­ The city was bigger than Hellion city, and unlike Hellion, this city has a gray wall. The houses mostly had one floor, and are made using the same gray rock as the wall. There were paved streets and floating orbs around the city. Like the first city, this one also has a variety of races, but I still haven¡¯t seen a Lein. I am currently walking inside the city, of course with pooch in my hands, when did I ever let him go? ¡°As always, you are attracting attention¡­¡±(Pooch) ¡°Ignore them, let¡¯s just go to the adventurer¡¯s guild, and get some useful information.¡±(Shera) While walking towards the adventurer¡¯s guild, a few people tried to talk with me, of course I ignored them, I don¡¯t plan on wasting my time with insignificant creatures¡­urg my personality is bad, I¡¯ll blame the humans for that. After walking a bit, I noticed I didn¡¯t really know where the adventurer¡¯s guild is. I searched for an honest looking person, and asked for help. A Talar guided me to the adventurer¡¯s guild, I thanked him by giving a gold coin, he declined and smiled before walking away. If there are more people like him on earth, then I am sure I wouldn¡¯t resort to killing them¡­not that it matter now. I entered the adventurer¡¯s guild, good, this time the smell isn¡¯t that bad¡­anyways, I made my way to the counter only to see a red winged vallar, crouching on the ground. It seems everyone around are looking at him with eyes filled with disgust. ¡°Please save my sister¡±(Vallar) ¡°NO, if you don¡¯t have money then get out, I don¡¯t want to be associated with a cursed being such as yourself¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Please¡± The Vallar begged with tears flowing out of his eyes. Tsk, seeing him getting treated like this makes me remember my past, those stupid humans looked at us with the same eyes¡­I tapped the man¡¯s shoulder and asked. ¡°What is it that you need help with?¡±(Shera) If you are not gonna help this guy then I will. ¡°!?¡±(Vallar) ¡°A¡­a Lein?¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Hurry up and tell me, if you don¡¯t speak up I won¡¯t help you¡±(Shera) ¡°My sister, my sister is being held captive by the black swords.¡±(Vallar) Black swords again? So they are also active in this city. ¡°Ma¡¯am there is no need to help this cursed being, and there is no need to associate yourself with the black swords¡­¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°I don¡¯t see a cursed being anywhere, the only thing I see is a man seeking help for his sister¡±(Shera) ¡°But that guy is¡­¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Come, let¡¯s talk elsewhere. I don¡¯t want to be near a guild that can¡¯t even save one person¡±(Shera) Before the Vallar could talk I dragged him out, and searched for an inn. At first the inn didn¡¯t want to let us enter, but when I said I will give him a gold coin for one night, he quickly agreed. Our room was on the third floor, so I dragged the Vallar, threw him on the bed and closed the door. The Vallar suddenly hugged his body and looked at my with fear. ¡°I¡­I¡¯ll let you have your way with my body after you save my sister¡±(Vallar) W¡­what is this guy saying? What am I, a pervert? ¡°Want me to rip your wings off? Look I am here to help you so just tell me what I need to know.¡±(Shera) ¡°You won¡¯t do perverted things with my body?¡± The Vallar looked a bit disappointed. ¡°You want me to bury you alive? Don¡¯t make me angry¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, calm down¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­¡±(Vallar) ¡°Look, do you want to save your sister or what?¡±(Shera) ¡°Y¡­yes¡±(Vallar) ¡°Tell me where those black sword bastards are, I¡¯ll quickly erase them from this world¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, please, stop your scary way of talking¡­¡±(Pooch) ¡°She was taken yesterday¡­the black swords are probably on their way back to their headquarters.¡±(Vallar) ¡°Tell me where they are headed, I¡¯ll stop them on their tracks an rip their heads one by one.¡±(Shera) ¡°Master¡­why are you so angry this time? You are speaking like a different person¡±(Pooch) ¡­I don¡¯t know, I just get angry at the thought of people taking away your loved ones, and especially the thought of being shunned by everyone else. The Vallar guided me to where the black swords are headed. I ran at full speed and caught up to the black swords, there were 5 caravans and a bunch of people wearing black robes. I quickly gave pooch the signal, and he went back to his real form. We made quick work of the black swords¡­pooch did most of the job, by the time we finished, the red winged Vallar caught up. ¡°CIELA!¡± The Vallar quickly descended and searched for his sister. Hearing his voice, a girl shouted ¡°BROTHER!¡±(Ciela) The siblings reunited and hugged each other, tears of happiness flowed down their cheeks. There were a few more people on the caravan, and we guided them back to the city. I spent the night on the inn, not like I needed sleep, I just wanted to relax a bit. When I woke up, I fixed my things and went down stairs, only to be welcomed by a crowd. It seems my name spread around the town as the savior who defeated the black knights. Seriously, why are they so happy about me killing some weaklings? After a few irritating moments, the crowd finally made a path for me. I walked away, and used different routes to hide from them. I am currently in a dark alley, I suddenly felt someone running towards me and turned my body around. A small winged brat jumped and hugged me. She looked like a child around 6-8, she had a long pink hair, blue eyes, and pure white wings. ¡°Onee-san¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­I am not your sister¡±(Shera) ¡°You are gonna marry my brother right?¡±(Ciela) ¡°No, why would I?¡±(Shera) ¡°Cause you are the only one who looked at him normally, so you are now one of the candidates to marry my handsome brother¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­No¡±(Shera) ¡°Why? Do you know how my brother talked about you? He was bickering non-stop about you until I fell asleep¡±(Ciela) ¡°I don¡¯t care what he does, I don¡¯t plan on marrying anyone, at least for now¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­please, marry my brother¡± Ciela looked at me with teary eyes. ¡°That isn¡¯t gonna work on me, I don¡¯t want to tie myself to a man without travelling the world, and it¡¯s not like I even like him¡±(Shera) ¡°How cruel, after giving him hope¡­you were just gonna crush his pitiful heart?¡±(Ciela) ¡°Why are you this energetic? I just saved you from a group of kidnappers yesterday¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°Because of love, love gives everyone strength¡±(Ciela) ¡°You should have used that so called strength to get out of the caravan¡±(Shera) Her brother appeared behind her, and pulled her away from me. Just like Ciela, her brother had short pink hair, red eyes, and just as I said before, he had crimson red wings. Now that you look at him, he does look a bit good¡­just a bit, but not good enough to make me fall for him. He looked like a young athletic man around 18-20, too young for me¡­I mean I was 42 before I was sent to this world. ¡°Sorry about that¡­¡±(Vallar) This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. ¡°You should be, going on about marriage and stuff¡±(Shera) You are supposed to go through a process called love first¡­or that is what I read in the orphanage. ¡°Ciela, you say sorry too¡±(Vallar) ¡°But brother, she treats you normally¡­and you also like her¡±(Ciela) ¡°Ciela what are you saying? I like her as a person¡­as a savior¡±(Vallar) ¡°You won¡¯t see someone like her again if you let her go now.¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­No, I have one request I want to ask her¡±(Vallar) ¡°What is it? If it is something I can do then I¡¯ll help you¡±(Shera) ¡°I heard you wanted to travel the world¡­and I wanted to ask if my sister and I can join¡±(Vallar) ¡°Oh it¡¯s just that, of course not¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­I would like to tell you about myself a bit, and if you still want to decline then I will accept your decision¡±(Vallar) I guess listening to his story isn¡¯t that bad, I should let the whole city calm down first so I guess I have free time. I am quite curious as to why he is called cursed. ___ (Nero¡¯s POV) I am Nero Ventus, Ciela¡¯s brother. I was born 76 years ago, and ever since I was born, everyone around me treated me differently. My parents were the only ones who loved me, they did their best to raise me, they didn¡¯t complain about how my existence made everyone hate them. They loved me, and I loved them. Because people didn¡¯t want to hire my father, we started to have financial problems. I know it was my fault, if I wasn¡¯t born then they would be welcomed by the city. Day by day, it got harder and harder to live, and father started working for the black swords. My mother stayed at home, and watch over me, our life continued. 46 years after I was born, Ciela was born. Even with our current life we are happy, it didn¡¯t matter if the whole world hated us, as long as our family stayed together. Our happy life didn¡¯t last, 2 years after Ciela was born, my father died. Since mother couldn¡¯t get work, she tried her luck in selling her body. With her youth and beauty, she easily got more customers. I tried to stop her and told her that I would join the black swords, but she begged not to, instead, I should stay home and look after my little sister. Being the mother of the cursed child, people that hated her, became her customer and abused her. My mother would come home with a few bruises, I wanted to kill the bastards that did it to her, but she stopped me. I wanted to make my family happy. I know I should be the one working, I should be the one supporting the family now that father is gone. But my mother begged me, none would accept me, and working under the black swords would endanger my life. My mother always smiled when she came home, she would always tell us not to give up. On Ciela¡¯s 10th birthday our mother didn¡¯t come back. We found out later that she died while working, she was raped by 10 man, those man that always scorned us, those man that always looked at us with disgust. In the end, I couldn¡¯t keep my promise with my mother. In my rage, I started killing everyone involved, everyone that became her customers, everyone that treated us badly. Call me a monster if you like, I don¡¯t care anymore, I tried my best, my family tried its best to live in this city, yet all of them didn¡¯t notice our efforts. They shunned us out, simply because I have red wings. They sent different people to kill me, but I killed them all. As I time passed, I got stronger and stronger, in the end none could stop me. Everyone stayed quiet, they no longer bothered us, but their disgust turned into fear. It didn¡¯t matter, since now I could live with my little sister peacefully. On a certain day, the black swords came to our house, and gave us an offer. If I work for them, then they would make sure we will live a good life. I am strong, nothing can kill me anymore, so I have nothing to fear. I should use my strength to support my sister, so I joined the black swords. As a proof of joining them, they made me wear an armband¡­which made me regret everything. With the armband I can¡¯t disobey nor attack them, it didn¡¯t matter at first, but as the jobs escalated, I started to resist. To further control me, they took away my sister, my only sanctuary, the only reason why I feel like living. I couldn¡¯t kill the ones that took her, as long as I have this armband, I couldn¡¯t possibly kill any member of the black swords. I didn¡¯t know what to do, so I tried begged the mercenary and adventurer¡¯s guild. None accepted my request, in the end, everything will end like this¡­I didn¡¯t know what to do, until I heard a female voice. A beautiful Lein appeared, and said she would help me. She easily carried my body with one hand, and threw me to a bed from the door, she didn¡¯t even look tired. I didn¡¯t know why, but I suddenly imagined doing it with her, and thought that she was gonna force me do it¡­she didn¡¯t look like someone I could take easily, and she was the only one who was willing to help me. I didn¡¯t care anymore, you can do everything that you want, but please save my sister. After telling her about the black swords, her expression turned in to anger. I guided her to where the caravan is and she suddenly ran at speeds I couldn¡¯t imagine, by the time I arrived, there was a pool of blood on the ground. Pieces flesh and organs were scattered around, and there was a white haired Lein holding a small monster on her hands. It looked like she was just casually taking a walk in the middle of a battle field. I looked at the caravan and shouted my little sister¡¯s name, I quickly descended, and after a few moments I heard my little sister¡¯s voice. ___ My sister and I came back to our house, I was so happy that nothing happened to my sister. We started talking with each other about things, and it looks like she is still energetic, good, looks like she isn¡¯t that traumatized by the events. Our talk suddenly shifted to the Lein that saved her, my mouth suddenly started moving on its own as I proudly talked about the Lein to my sister. While talking, my sister fell asleep. I caressed her hair while thinking of the Lein. She saved my sister, and treated me normally...not normally, but at least she didn¡¯t look at me with eyes of disgust nor fear. As I slowly fell asleep, the image of the beautiful Lein kept popping on my head. When I woke up my sister was gone, and when I searched for her, I saw her hugging the Lein. As I moved closer to her, I heard them speaking about marriage, and the Lein saying something about traveling. I quietly listened, maybe my sister could talk her into marrying me¡­but of course the talk didn¡¯t go anywhere so I stepped in. If she is gonna travel the world, then maybe we could join her. If this city couldn¡¯t accept us, then maybe if we go to other cities or even continents, we can find a place that can accept us. I felt like we could live differently as I looked into her eyes, I don¡¯t know if I love her, but I definitely like her as of now¡­ someone who helped me in times like that, and someone who could look directly into my eyes. I am definitely not gonna let you go. ___ Nero just finished telling me his story, and a vein popped out of my head. ¡°THOSE TRASH! I¡¯LL BURN THIS WHOLE CITY!¡±(Shera) ¡°W¡­wait master¡±(Pooch) ¡°SHUT UP POTS¡±(Shera) ¡°It¡¯s pooch¡­¡±(Pooch) ¡°Calm down, we are already fine¡±(Nero) ¡°WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THAT? DID YOU FORGET WHAT THIS CITY DID TO YOUR FAMILY?¡±(Shera) ¡°I know¡­even now I am still angry, I could kill them all I want but what does that change? If I was alone then it would be fine to kill everyone in this city until I lose all my strength, but there is someone I need to protect, someone I need to support.¡±(Nero) ¡°You should still kill at least half of this city¡¯s population¡±(Shera) ¡°No, what I did before was enough, doing more will only prove that I am cursed monster. If you really feel like helping us, then please let us join you in your travel¡±(Nero) ¡°Why did you even tell me a story that will make me angry¡­tsk¡±(Shera) ¡°S¡­sorry, but please, let us join your journey. I am strong, I could definitely prove to be useful, I could also cook¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­fine, but first we need to take care of that armband¡±(Shera) ¡°Ah¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°Don¡¯t looked shock, you can¡¯t use your full powers with that right? Tell me where those black sword bastards are, I really want to release some stress right now.¡±(Shera) ¡°No, as long as I don¡¯t have to fight a black sword member, I could fight at full strength.¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­tsk¡­just tell me where they are, they also owe me one from the Hellion city.¡±(Shera) Ch. 4: Finally out of the desert So, I just felt like writing more...sorry about that. Not much to say...I am just wasting space. I tried? I am currently running towards the black sword¡¯s hideout, Pooch is currently with me. Nero wanted to come, but I told him that I could take care of it. I gave him a few gold coins, so he they should be fine while I am away. Based on first enemies I have fought, the members of the black swords are nothing, and this will also serve as a training. I have been running for 2 weeks straight, pooch isn¡¯t running cause I hugging him tightly. ¡°There, after that fog formation, on a small hill, you will see the path leading to the hideout¡±(Pooch) ¡°Good, It¡¯s been a long time since I have killed someone¡±(Shera) ¡°So, you are finally gonna show me your strength.¡±(Pooch) ¡°I want to test my strength, so you stay out of it, and silently sit when we get to their hideout ok?...or you could kill those that try to runaway.¡±(Shera) ¡°It¡¯s actually better for me, less work. I doubt anyone could run away from you, so, could I eat the corpses?¡±(Pooch) ¡°You could eat the ones I killed.¡±(Shera) I started running again, when I got past the fog, I saw a forest. In the middle of the forest there is a hill, after circling I found a tunnel. Even at my fastest speed it took a few days to get to the other side of the tunnel. Inside, I saw another forest, but this time, there are a lot of houses, not to mention the people walking around. I started killing everyone In front of me, their bodies were so fragile that It didn¡¯t even take a lot of effort to separate their heads from their body. I used the corpses as a shield against projectiles, there were even flames coming at me from time to time, It looks like they have people that can use magic. Since I still didn¡¯t know how to use magic, I used the corpses as projectiles and threw them to the mages and archers. From time to time, strong people would show up, but I can still handle them. Luckily, I have an almost infinite stamina. I continued to kill everyone, and it took a few days before I reached the leader of the black swords. The leader was surprisingly strong¡­well he is the leader after all. In terms of strength we are at the same level, but as the battle continued, he slowly got tired which gave me the upper hand. Well it took 4 days to kill all members of the black swords in the forest, let¡¯s see if my memory serves me right, I have killed 2000 swordsman, 700 archers, and 400 mages. Not bad for my first serious battle on this world¡­I think. After the long battle, I didn¡¯t even feel a change in my body¡­I am not thirsty, I am not hungry, and I am also not tired. Ah, who cares, I¡¯ll go back to the others. I wonder if I got stronger while fighting the black swords, probably not, they were too weak. I took the leader¡¯s head, and put it in a bag, that I have bought before I went here. The blood of this guy will disable the armband, and his head could fetch some money in the mercenary guild. ¡°As I thought, you are dangerous¡±(Pooch) ¡°Come on, it was obvious that you have higher physical strength¡±(Shera) Ah, I blurted it out¡­is he gonna rebel now that he knows he is stronger? ¡°¡­what¡¯s the point of that, if I would lose all my stamina without doing anything. You would endlessly regenerate until I lose my strength¡±(Pooch) I can regenerate? I didn¡¯t know¡­don¡¯t want to try it¡­too risky. ¡°¡­Let¡¯s forget about that for now, let¡¯s head back to the city¡±(Shera) ___ It took another 2 weeks before we were able to return. After presenting the black sword leader¡¯s head, my fame rose¡­again. The siblings were in good health so I guess nothing bad happened while we were away. Since we would be travelling, I told Nero and Ciela to join the adventurer¡¯s guild. With my help, they safely got their plates, Ciela got a wooden plate, while Nero got a silver one. Spoiler :
NameNero Ventus
RaceVallar
Age76GenderMale
TITLES
[The Hated]
Level47ClassBerserker
Vitality83Agility68
Strength76Defense66
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
NameCiela Ventus
RaceVallar
Age30GenderFemale
TITLES
Level8ClassFree Lance
Vitality22Agility7
Strength6Defense5
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
Everyone in the city celebrated the fall of the black swords, there are still some left, since not all members were there when I went there. Since most of their members, especially the leaders, are dead, I doubt they would do anything big. Anyways, my name has already reached everyone on the city, and I am already being called the goddess of destruction¡­the name sound cool so I won¡¯t say anything. People started to gather around me, and the inn I am staying at, said I could stay for free. My anger has already subsided, so I don¡¯t feel like killing them anymore, and since Nero already said it is fine, I¡¯ll let them go¡­I am surprisingly benevolent. I got 100 gold coins for killing the leader of the black swords, even though I gave the head to the mercenary guild, my adventurer¡¯s rank also got raised, I am now a Gold(Mid) rank adventurer. Not that it makes me happy¡­it¡¯s just that, it is something I got through my efforts. Right now, I am planning to check my new stats, make a party with Nero and Ciela, and join a caravan that will go outside of the desert. I am sick of this sand,I want to go to grassy plains. A few days after my return, I went to the adventurer¡¯s guild with the siblings, the whole guild was quiet as we walked to the counter. ¡°I would like to form a party with these 2¡± I pointed my fingers at the siblings. ¡°I¡­Is that so, that would be 10 silver coins Shera-sama¡±(Man at the counter) The people around here started calling me with honorifics¡­not that I mind, It just that, I am starting to look like a divine being again. I took out a gold coin and gave it to the man at the counter. ¡°By the way, can I check my stats?¡±(Shera) ¡°Ah, yes. Checking the stat is 5 copper coins, and it is 1 silver coin if you want to update your plate¡±(Man at the counter) ¡°Add, that to my bill, and keep the change¡±(Shera) ¡°A¡­thank you Shera-sama¡±(Man at the counter) We were guided to the room with 10 floating orbs, first I checked my stats.
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age11 monthsGenderFemale
TITLES
[Goddess of Destruction][Goddess of Beauty][Rift Walker]
Level124ClassFree Lance
Vitality84,783Agility247
Strength455Defense335
Magic Attack58Magic Defense47
So I lost 2 titles and got a new one¡­and it looks like my birthday is near. For the level¡­its 124 hahahaha let¡¯s see, 54 + 54 is 108¡­124 ¨C 108 is 16¡­hahahaha. *snap* HOW DID I LEVEL UP SO FAST? ¡°I¡­is everything ok Shera-sama?¡±(Man) ¡°Look¡± I showed him my plate. ¡°1¡­124?¡±(Man) ¡°WHAT?¡±(Nero & Ciela) ¡°As expected of my master, to double her level in just a few months¡±(Pooch) ¡°WHAT?¡±(Man, Nero & Ciela) ¡°...Anyways, what do we have to do, to make a party?¡±(Shera) ¡°You just have to write the names of the party members, and the name of the party¡±(Man) ¡­I don¡¯t know how to write. ¡°Nero, you write¡±(Shera) ¡°I¡­I don¡¯t know how to write¡±(Nero) ¡°Ciela¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­I also don¡¯t know how to write¡±(Ciela) ¡°Pooch¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­How do you expect me to write?¡± Pooch made me look at his paws. ¡°I could write it for you, that would be an extra 10 copper coins¡­but I will deduct it on the gold coin from before¡±(Man) ¡°¡­Thanks¡±(Shera) We gave our plates to the man. ¡°So what¡¯s the party name?¡±(Man) I looked at Nero & Ciela. ¡°It¡¯s ok, we will go with whatever you want¡±(Nero) ¡°You are the party leader, so it is only normal that you pick the party name¡±(Ciela) It¡¯s time to show them my awesome naming sense. ¡°Good, I¡¯ll go with ¡®Pooch Lovers¡¯ ¡°(Shera) ¡°NO¡±(Pooch, Nero & Ciela) ¡°Why? It sounds cute.¡±(Shera) ¡°Please think of another name¡±(Nero) ¡°Master, I am not even a part of the party¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­then how about ¡®Shera & Friends¡¯ ?¡±(Shera) ¡°NO¡±(Pooch, Nero & Ciela) This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. We argued for a few hours before finally getting a decent name¡­I don¡¯t know why they didn¡¯t like the first names I said, I mean, Pooch Lovers, sounds good. ¡°Ok, so the party name will be Stygian Cipher.¡±(Man) We nodded¡­but I was still a bit sad that we didn¡¯t use Pooch Lovers. ¡°Don¡¯t be sad master, the party name sounds really good.¡±(Pooch) ¡°I think so too, even though I don¡¯t know what it means¡±(Ciela) ¡°As long as it sounds normal¡­¡±(Nero) After that we went to Nero & Ciela¡¯s house, it was a 1 floored building on the outer part of the city. It was made out cement¡­or at least something that looks like cement. It was quite well made, there are 3 rooms, one was open, and is used as a kitchen. The house was more or less empty, except for a few paintings and furniture. I sat on the chair, while hugging pooch. ¡°So, how do we get to the next city? Do we wait for a caravan going outside of the desert?¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­if you want, you could buy our own wagon, and travel outside ourselves. As long as we have a map, I would be enough as a guide¡±(Nero) ¡°What if I buy you a map, and we ran to the next city?¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, they are not like you. They will need food and water¡­and they probably can¡¯t run for 1 month straight like you. Even a divine beast like me can¡¯t move like you¡±(Pooch) ¡°You¡¯re a divine beast?¡±(Shera, Nero & Ciela) ¡°I understand if Nero & Ciela didn¡¯t know¡­but¡­master, you didn¡¯t know? I showed you my true form a dozen of times already.¡±(Pooch) ¡°How would I know, you only looked like a big ass lion.¡±(Shera) ¡°Master¡­that hurts a bit. Even I could get hurt you know¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­Sorry, but to think you were a divine beast¡­are the others that I saw in the mirage desert also divine beasts?¡±(Shera) ¡°You ventured to the mirage desert?¡±(Nero) ¡°What kind of place is that brother?¡±(Ciela) ¡°I heard that gods and divine beast live in that desert. It is written in books that I borrowed from the black swords.¡±(Nero) ¡°Just as Nero said, I have stayed in the mirage desert for more than a hundred thousand years. I am one of the 8 animal gods that live on the mirage desert.¡±(Pooch) ¡°He¡­so you were a god. I didn¡¯t know. Anyways, time to buy a wagon¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, don¡¯t push my story aside like some unimportant thing, that you don¡¯t need to know¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­Not that anything will change if we know you are a god¡±(Shera) ¡°THERE IS!¡±(Nero & Ciela) ¡°Huh?¡± I started directly into Nero¡¯s eyes. ¡°Nothing¡± Nero turned his head to the side with a red face. Why is his face red? Did he drink alcohol? I went out of the house, and started walking, but stopped. I forgot pooch¡­I went back to the house, and carried pooch on my arms. We started roaming around the city, in search of a store that sells wagons. Since it was going nowhere, I started asking people, and quickly found a store. I should have asked earlier. I was welcomed by the store owner, and guided me to his best works. He showed me different wagons, but they didn¡¯t really look good, he kept going on and on about how his works can cope with different weathers. We continued to move around the store until I found something. ¡°Master, no¡­please, have mercy¡­we would stick out like a sore thumb if we use that¡±(Pooch) ¡°T¡­the monster could talk?¡±(Store owner) ¡°Forget about that, how much is this wagon?¡± I pointed at the pink colored caravan with frills. It was elevated by 1.5 feet, and had 6 iron wheels. The top is covered with a pink wood instead of cloth, and there was enough space for 12 people, inside the wagon. ¡°Ah, I knew you would like that. That is one of my best creations, it is made for nobles, but I think it would also suit a fine lady such as yourself¡±(Store owner) Quit the sweet talk, and tell me how much this is. ¡°¡­So how much?¡±(Shera) ¡°This one costs 50 gold coins, but for you, I will sell it at 48¡±(Store owner) ¡°Deal¡± I quickly took out 48 gold coins and gave it to the store owner. ¡°Don¡¯t expect me to enter that fluffy looking caravan¡±(Pooch) ¡°By the way, we could add a logo at the back. If you want have something in mind then please tell me, don¡¯t worry, it will be for free.¡±(Store owner) I looked at pooch and smiled. ¡°No¡­no, just no¡±(Pooch) ¡°Could you please draw pooch¡¯s face on the caravan?¡±(Shera) ¡°NOOOOOO¡± Pooch tried to revert back to his true form, but I made him faint by hitting the back of his head. ¡°As you wish.¡±(Store owner) The store owner called 3 palans, they quickly painted pooch¡¯s face on the back of the caravan, and I am quite satisfied. The store owner gave me an offer, I could get 2 horses for just 2 gold coins, I didn¡¯t really know anything about price but since he said some convincing words, I took the offer. By the time pooch woke up, the caravan was already in front of Nero¡¯s house, and a large picture of his face could be seen at the back. The horses are currently at the side of the house, resting. ¡°¡­We are supposed to ride this? Nero tell this stupid master of mine how foolish her actions are¡±(Pooch) ¡°W¡­what? I think our caravan is cute¡±(Shera) Is there something wrong with my taste? I mean, this caravan really looks good, and I am pretty sure the others would agree. ¡°I think it is ok, as long as Shera is happy¡±(Nero) See? Even Nero thinks it is good. ¡°Nero? Are you blind? Look at all this frills, and this color, not to mention my face at the back¡±(Pooch) ¡°Stop commenting on our new caravan like that, I think it looks really good¡±(Shera) ¡°I also think it is cute¡±(Ciela) Even Ciela agrees, maybe pooch doesn¡¯t know true beauty. ¡°FINE, do what you want. You people lack logic¡±(Pooch) ¡°Maybe you are angry because it wasn¡¯t a full body painting¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°OF COURSE NOT!¡±(Pooch) What¡¯s with pooch today? He seems to get angry at everything¡­maybe he is in his period¡­is he a female after all? I doubt that¡­I still didn¡¯t experience mine since the time I got transferred to this world. ¡°Calm down, I don¡¯t know what you are going through, but please don¡¯t vent your anger on us¡±(Shera) ¡°GOD! GOD! ARE YOU THERE? PLEASE RETURN ME TO THE MIRAGE DESERT!¡±(Pooch) If you hate it that much, then I¡¯ll make you pull the wagon until you start to like it. ¡°By the way, you are the one pulling the caravan¡±(Shera) ¡°AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA¡±(Pooch) ___ After buying food supplies, water, things needed for travel, and other things I didn¡¯t think will be needed. We started our journey. Nero said it would take 5-6 months before we reach the nearest city, but we would be out of the desert in about 2-3 weeks. Finally, I am out of this stupid land filled with sand. By the way, pooch is inside the wagon. He really didn¡¯t like it, no matter how much I told him I like it¡­I guess we just have different taste, but I just feel a little bit sad that he thinks badly of this wagon. Anyways, Nero is the one driving, and Ciela is the one in charge of taking care of the horses. Nero would teach me how drive, and would always smile while sitting next to me. Is he that happy letting someone drive? If he didn¡¯t want it then we could have gotten a driver at the city¡­money isn¡¯t really a problem, I could kill some people or monster, and get some money out of it. Nero & Ciela looked really happy, probably because they have a chance to live a different life. If you think about it, they are somehow similar to me. I go shunned be the people around me, go abused, but in the end I resorted to killing the humans. For Nero, he had to change so that he could give a better life for his sister. If I had someone I wanted to protect, would I have chosen a different path? I doubt it, even if I changed, the humans will still be rotten, they are born as trash. Luckily, most of my hate towards them faded when I was killed by Kyle. I guess it¡¯s time to forget about my past, I have a new future that awaits me, and I won¡¯t let my past hinder me from living the way I want in this world. Days passed as we traveled, I slowly got used to being with them, at first I didn¡¯t care¡­but it really feels nice to have someone accompany you. Is this how it feels like to have friends? Do they think of me as a friend? I hope they do¡­ ___ We are camping at the plains, yup, we are finally out of the desert. Ciela is currently feeding the horses, while Nero is cooking food. I am busy sitting while hugging pooch, I somehow feel that I am not helping. Even though I don¡¯t need to eat nor drink, I have to show them that I am a normal Lein, so I eat and drink normally like they do. ¡°Dinner is almost ready.¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡¯ll be there in a sec¡±(Ciela) The other reason why I eat, is because Nero¡¯s cooking is good. Even with limited ingredients he could still make food that tastes good, I am not kidding, If I could, I will eat all day. I put pooch down as Nero gave me a bowl filled with soup, he also handed a spoon. As I took a spoon filled with soup into my mouth, different sensations were revived. It felt like everything disappeared and I got transferred to the world of flavors. The sour taste as the soup goes through your tongue, and the sweet flavor as it enters your throat, it just like being teased by the spirit of flavors, and makes you want more. Before I noticed it, my bowl was already empty. ¡°¡­more please¡±(Shera) ¡°Eating a lot as always¡­pft¡± Nero laughed a bit before giving me another serving. ¡°This is just normal, IF YOU ARE GONNA LAUGH THEN DON¡¯T MAKE A DELICIOUS FOOD! HOW COULD I STOP MYSELF WHEN A FOOD LIKE THIS IS IN FRONT OF ME?¡±(Shera) Seriously, you expect me to stop eating with this in front of me? ¡°Hahahahahaha¡±(Nero) There he goes again¡­laughing like that, should I kill him now? No, I can¡¯t eat his food anymore if I kill him. This is blackmail¡­blackmail I tell you. ¡°STOP LAUGHING¡±(Shera) ¡°Ok¡­you are cute as usual¡±(Nero) I am getting dragged at his pace again¡­I can¡¯t act like I normally do when he is around¡­ ¡°I am stronger than you, you know¡±(Shera) Ch. 5: A bath with Ciela I am not really good at writing H scenes, not that I am good at writing a story anyways, right? It has been 3 months since we started traveling, and I think I got a bit stronger. I would spar with Pooch everyday, and I finally know I could really regenerate. On our first battle, even though I said it will just be a simple sparring, pooch came at me seriously and ripped my body apart...luckily I regenerated. I got angry and attacked seriously, in the end, I died 7 times physically before draining his stamina and punishing him. I was still a bit angry for a few days, but since I didn¡¯t really die, I forgave him. As of now, I can fight him at full strength without dying, so I think I got stronger. When monsters appear on the way, Nero & Ciela are the ones to take care of it, Nero said that Ciela needed fighting expirience. By the way, I am finally a full fledged driver, cause I am a genius. From time to time, I drive the coach, and it¡¯s kinda fun. Unlike before, I didn¡¯t rush the journey. It was fun to see different things, the plains, forests, different plants, animals, a few small villages, and Nero¡¯s cooking. Even though I planned to go to the next city as fast as possible, I think we will deviate a bit from the plan, and enjoy the scenery. I am not acting all childish...even Nero & Ciela had this happy expression while looking at the scenery. As we were traveling, a group of bandits appeared. The bandits were mostly from gairns & heran race, and there was about 24 of them surrounding our wagon. Nero said he and Ciela were enough, but they he only killed 8 and Ciela killed 1, so I took care of the rest. Ciela was surprisingly ok with killing, humans without expirience usually get traumatized after killing for the first time...or at least that is how my human puppets acted. ___ ¡°So, how long before the city, and what was it called again?¡±(Shera) ¡°With our current speed, it would be 2-3 more months. The city is called Deron, as it says in the map.¡±(Nero) ¡°I see, anything we should look at before heading to Deron City?¡±(Shera) ¡°Not really, aside from the city, there are just forests and mountains¡±(Nero) ¡°So, want to rest a bit? I feel like driving this time¡±(Shera) ¡°Sure¡±(Nero) I went in front of the coach, and took the ropes. Our hands touched a bit, and he suddenly pulled his hand. I was shocked at his reaction, and quickly looked at him. ¡°Is there something wrong?¡±(Shera) His face was red...again, since he didn¡¯t drink alcohol, I guess he is embarrassed, but why would he? ¡°No, it¡¯s nothing. I just thought you might not like it if I touched you hand¡±(Nero) It¡¯s just touching hands, not really something major. I took his hand and held it, I looked directly into his eyes, to show him that it is ok. ¡°The ropes, the ropes¡±(Nero) ¡°I am holding it don¡¯t worry.¡±(Shera) ¡°F...focus on driving¡± Nero quickly pulled his hand, and entered the coach. It didn¡¯t felt like he was doing it for me...it was more like he didn¡¯t want to touch my hand. I looked at my hand for a bit. My hand isn¡¯t dirty though, I really can¡¯t understand him. From inside I could here Ciela say something. ¡°IT IS LOVE!¡±(Ciela) ___ While I was driving, I could see 3 coaches and 10 wagons from a far, that was heavily guarded. There were 20 Vallar soldiers, 50 gairn soldiers, and the drivers looked like Palans. When we got closer, they noticed our coach, and started heading towards our direction. Their coach was black in color, mine was bigger and had pink color, mine even had frills and a picture on the back, so mine is obviously better. It didn¡¯t look like they were coming to fight, so I didn¡¯t change my path. A vallar soldier descended in front of me, I stopped the coach, and stared at the soldier. With this amount of guards for 3 coach, the people in there must be important people. For now I will act friendly, it is better not to make enemy that has connections, If worse comes to worse I could just kill them all. ¡°From what family is your master from?¡±(Vallar Soldier) ¡°I don¡¯t have a master¡±(Shera) ¡°...Let¡¯s change the question a bit, who is the owner of the coach?¡±(Vallar Soldier) ¡°It¡¯s mine¡±(Shera) ¡°Eh?...why were you the one driving it?¡±(Vallar Soldier) ¡°Cause I wanted to, is there something wrong with that?¡±(Shera) The soldier bowed at me before speaking. ¡°I...I am sorry for being rude noble-sama¡±(Vallar Soldier) When did I become a noble? It soubds like a high ranking title. Since It will be easy talking with this misunderstanding, I guess I won¡¯t say anything. ¡°It¡¯s ok, so why did you come to me? It doesn¡¯t feel like you are just here to greet me¡±(Shera) Why would they change the path of all those soldiers just to greet me anyways? ¡°O...our master, Feric Morc Osdwin, the first son of Duke Osdwin, wants to talk with you¡±(Vallar Soldier) His name is longer than his father? I mean his father¡¯s first name is Duke. Anyways, since he has this much guards, it is safe to say he has a lot of influence, or at least his father has. ¡°I see, so where is he?¡±(Shera) ¡°Please, come with us to the coach...if that is ok with you¡±(Vallar Soldier) As I was about to go down, Nero pulled me up. ¡°Don¡¯t, we don¡¯t know what he¡¯ll do to you¡±(Nero) ¡°It¡¯s fine, it doesn¡¯t look like they are enemies.¡±(Shera) ¡°It isn¡¯t that, what if he decided to marry you?¡±(Nero) ¡°Why would he? It is not like we even met before¡±(Shera) ¡°You don¡¯t understand...¡±(Nero) ¡°Look, if anything bad happens I will ask for help, ok?¡±(Shera) ¡°...I¡¯ll kill him¡±(Nero) It think I just heard him say dangerous words...probably my imagination. I walked to the soldier, and he guided me to the coach. I entered the coach, and sat on a chair inside. Before the soldier left he whispered a few things to Feric. Quite spacious...is this guy Feric? I am currently alone with a man inside the coach. He was from the Talar race, he had silver hair, blue eyes, and gray skin. He had a lean muscular body, and was wearing this cold emotionless expression. ¡°How much?¡±(Feric) ¡°Huh?¡±(Shera) ¡°I said how much money do you need?¡±(Feric) ¡°Why would I need money?¡±(Shera) ¡°...based on what I see, you are a noble. Your looks, your clothes, even your coach, but you lack security which means your family is having financial problems. You are probably here to use your looks, and marry into a rich family. I normally don¡¯t want to interact with gold diggers, but I would make an exception for you. I¡¯ll give you the money you need, and you have to do everything that I tell you¡±(Feric) Hahaha so that¡¯s what he wants to talk about, he wants to make me into his pawn...calm down, calm down, let¡¯s just clear the misunderstanding and get out of here. ¡°I think you misunderstood, I am not here to marry anyone. So I don¡¯t need help, thank you for the kind offer though¡± I smiled at him before leaving the coach, he grabbed my arms and pulled me back to the coach. ¡°I don¡¯t know what you don¡¯t like about me, but please think about it for a bit. I am the son of Duke Osdwin, the 3rd largest force in this continent. If you promise to become mine, then you will never have to worry about money again. You are too beautiful to be given to the other nobles, I promise you will live a happy life with me¡±(Feric) How could I be happy working under someone weaker than me? I don¡¯t want to be restricted by some boss or something. ¡°Sigh...look, I am not really a noble¡± I took out my gold plate and showed it to him. ¡°You see, I am an adventurer, so I don¡¯t need any help, I can protect myself¡±(Shera) ¡°G...gold plate?¡± Feric was still wearing his emotionless expression. ¡°Since you did praise my coach, and there was a small misunderstanding, I¡¯ll forget about you calling me a gold digger. But the next time you say anything like that to me, I¡¯ll kill you, It doesn¡¯t matter what rank your father has.¡± I walked away and went back to my coach. Nero had this extremely angry look on his face, but once he saw me, he quickly changed his expression and smiled. ¡°So, nothing happened right? He didn¡¯t do anything to you right?¡±(Nero) ¡°No, anyways, let¡¯s go continue traveling. You drive this time, I want to sleep while hugging pooch.¡±(Shera) ¡°Ok, good, looks like I don¡¯t have to kill anyone.¡±(Nero) There it is again, no, it¡¯s just my imagination. ___ We continued traveling, and nothing big really happened. I somehow feel that someone is following us...I can¡¯t see anyone besides us so it¡¯s probably just my imagination. I can now overpower pooch, cause I am a genius, but I am kinda curious what magic is. It looks really convenient to use magic, I think I¡¯ll try learning it on the next city. I am also practicing on how to cook, I don¡¯t want to be a slave to Nero¡¯s cooking forever, and the only solution, is for me to make an even better dish. I noticed that I am good at cooking, I can make salty dishes taste sweet, I can boil water, and it may taste bad but it is still edible....OK SO I DON¡¯T KNOW HOW TO COOK! WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD? Tsk, even Ciela can cook better than me, and she is a child. No, it¡¯s probably because I am from a different world. My cooking skills came from earth, so it is not compatible with this world, that is the only explanation. Everything changed when pooch tried to cook, he was using his paws, but in the end, it still tasted better than my cooking. A child, a stuffed toy, and a cursed person...all of them are better than me in cooking. 1 month from reaching the city, we camped near a lake which was located in the middle of a forest. The coach is quite farm from where we are, but since pooch is guarding it I doubt anyone could take it. ¡°Ah, this is refreshing¡±(Shera) I was currently with Ciela taking a bath in the lake, it really feels good, I mean we only take a bath once every 3-4 weeks. Nero already took a bath before us, and is now cooking food. ¡°Onee-san, you really are lacking in the chest part¡± Ciela grabbed my chest. ¡°Don¡¯t grab it so suddenly...¡± I shoved her arms away. ¡°You look beautiful and cute, but It is still better to have a bigger chest¡± Ciela grabbed my chest again, and this time she held on to it tightly. ¡°S...stop that¡± I tried to stop her, but she suddenly pulled my chest. ¡°I think this is what the others do to make their chest bigger¡± Ciela continued to play with my chest, she would violently pull while softly moving her index finger around my n*ppl*. I tried to push her away, but strength slowly left my body. My face felt hot, and I started to get a little dizzy. This is the first time I have felt something like this...what kind of attack is this? As she continued, my body felt really ticklish, and there was a rising sensation I have never felt before...is this what you call an internal organ attack? The sensation got harder and harder to control, I bit my lips and closed my left eye. ¡°You are so cute, if this keeps up, I will take you away from brother, and marry you myself¡±(Ciela) What...is this girl talking about...don¡¯t talk...please focus on your movements...don¡¯t stop... Ciela moved her head closer and gently licked my chest, and one her hand remained on my chest while the other hand slowly made its way to my lower body. Her right arm started to caress my thighs, and slowly moved closer to my important place. My mind can¡¯t process what¡¯s happening, and simply stopped. I don¡¯t know what¡¯s happening anymore, but I felt really good. As she kept moving, I felt like something would come out. Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. ¡°W..wait¡±(Shera) ¡°If you hate it, then push me away¡±(Ciela) My body can¡¯t muster any strength, and even if it did, I felt like, I didn¡¯t really want her to stop. Realizing how weak I have become, tears started to flow on my cheeks. ¡°W..why are you crying? Ok ok I¡¯ll stop¡± Ciela stopped her actions and moved away from me. I felt a little angry that she suddenly stopped, It felt like she just stop on the best part... ¡°C...continue...please¡±(Shera) ¡°...Are you sure, it looks like you hate it¡±(Ciela) ¡°Stop speaking, and continue, if you don¡¯t finish it, I¡¯ll kill you¡± I sent a bit of blood lust to her. I can¡¯t control my emotions anymore, I even sent blood lust to a friend...damn....what¡¯s happening... Ciela started stroking my body again, due to fear, she moved a bit more violently, one of her finger entered my important place and started moving around, while 2 finger started playing with my cl*t. My body moved violently on its own, and released something. Realizing what it was, I held covered my face with my arms as I cried. I...I peed in front of a child. ¡°...¡±(Ciela) I cried for a bit, and went back to the camp with Ciela. She apologized a ton of times while I was crying, and continued to apologize at the camp. I didn¡¯t really know what to feel, something new just happened to me, and I showed an embarrassing display to a child. ¡°I am really sorry, I just thought I¡¯d tease you a bit...¡±(Ciela) ¡°...¡± I was currently sitting on the corner while hugging my legs. ¡°Master, I don¡¯t know what she did to you, but please forgive her. She is still a child, and doesn¡¯t know what she is doing¡±(Pooch) Nero is currently guarding the coach, he got angry at Ciela for making me cry and shouted at her. He couldn¡¯t control his anger, and went to the coach on his own. After a while, pooch came to the camp, saying that Nero will stay on the coach. ¡°Just how could one make master cry? What kind of monstrous thing did you do?¡±(Pooch) ¡°N...nothing¡±(Ciela) ¡°Just tell me, what if she snaps, and suddenly decides to kill you?¡±(Pooch) ¡°She isn¡¯t like that¡±(Ciela) ¡°...Just tell me, look, I am a god, maybe I could help¡±(Pooch) I silently watched as they talk to each other, I wasn¡¯t really thinking of anything, more like my mind was still blank. Ciela whispered something to Pooch, which made him widen his eyes. ¡°WHAT? How could I child do something like that? Where did you learn that?¡±(Pooch) ¡°...I am already 30, I know how to play with my body a bit...and I just wanted to tease her a bit¡±(Ciela) ¡°TEASE? YOU MADE HER RELEASE HER JUICES!¡±(Pooch) ¡°...but her expressions were too cute, that I couldn¡¯t help myself. I even tried to stop when I saw her cry, but she said to continue.¡±(Ciela) ¡°AND YOU, WHY ARE YOU CRYING OVER SUCH A SMALL THING? DON¡¯T TELL ME THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU EXPIRIENCED THAT?¡±(Pooch) ¡°What if it is the first, is there a problem? This is the first time I felt like that, and I don¡¯t know what was happening, my body didn¡¯t listen to me no matter what I did¡±(Shera) ¡°FIRST?¡±(Pooch & Ciela) ¡°...so what?¡±(Shera) ¡°...pure¡±(Pooch) ¡°A goddess...a pure goddess¡±(Ciela) The looked at me with respect, as if they have just witnessed a god descending from the sky. ___ We continued traveling, I ignored Ciela for a few days, but it was fixed...rather, we were more close than before. Pooch swore his loyalty to me, and is now proudly sitting on my lap. Nero on the other hand still didn¡¯t forgive his sister, he will glare at her sister from time to time. You said you will protect your sister right? Why does it look like you want to kill her? As days passed, I slowly forgot about the incident, it is embarrassing but, I did enjoy it... Anyways, we could now see the city from a far. We continued moving, and was welcomed by the guards at the gate...a grand welcome. ¡°Shera-sama, we have been waiting for your arrival¡±(Guard) Guards lined up and made a path for us. As we moved, we noticed that a lot of people were looking at us, it wasn¡¯t new to me, but it felt like something was different. I asked the guards where the adventurer¡¯s guild is, and happily guided us there. Many were surprised by Nero¡¯s wing, but it seemed like it wasn¡¯t really that big for them. Everyone wanted to check their stats, especially Ciela and I, I wanted to see how much I improved after fighting with Pooch. I already know my growth will be outrageous so I won¡¯t be surprised anymore. I wanted to go last so I let Nero & Ciela go first. Spoiler :
NameNero Ventus
RaceVallar
Age76GenderMale
TITLES
[The Hated]
Level50ClassBerserker
Vitality104Agility78
Strength96Defense72
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
NameCiela Ventus
RaceVallar
Age30GenderFemale
TITLES
Level17ClassFree Lance
Vitality52Agility18
Strength22Defense12
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
The only thing I saw was their level, and I have to say, Ciela grew a lot. After them, it was my turn. There is no need to be surprised, I am probably around 300 or something, I have been fighting with a god after all.
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age1GenderFemale
TITLES
[Goddess of Destruction][Goddess of Beauty][Rift Walker][Surprisingly a Virgin]
Level478ClassFree Lance
Vitality163,486Agility1136
Strength2184Defense1574
Magic Attack314Magic Defense194
The new title slightly angers me...my level is outrageous as expected...I don¡¯t care anymore. The plates were updated, and even without me doing any mission or quests, they gave me a platinum(High) plate. And it seem they were a little afraid of me when they gave me my plate. We went out of the building, and went back to the coach. The guards said that if we don¡¯t have anything more to do, then they would like to take us somewhere. I said we first need to find an inn, and a place to park the coach, but the guard said it wasn¡¯t needed. The duke will give us a place to stay at for free...so duke was actually a title and not a name. We were guided to a mansion where a Talar was waiting for us, which was actually the duke. Everything was ok until I heard him speak. ¡°Welcome, dauther-in-law¡±(Duke) Ch. 6: At the dukes mansion Well...I tried. We are now in front of the duke¡¯s mansion. We were guided by the guards to this place, and after getting here, the duke welcomed me¡­as his dauther-in-law. ¡°When did I become your dauther-in-law?¡±(Shera) ¡°I received a letter from Feric, using the einolon birds, he said a Lein, using a pink coach, will arrive, and the lady inside it will be his fianc¨¦. Our son finally found himself a girl, look at her honey, isn¡¯t she adorable¡±(Duke) Both the duke and his wife nodded while looking at me. ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°Don¡¯t be shy, come inside.¡±(Duke) I looked at my companions, for some reason Nero is irritated, so does Ciela, pooch didn¡¯t really care. ¡°I knew that guy was up to something¡±(Nero) Tsk, we can¡¯t fight someone like the duke without any good reason, I need to solve this misunderstanding as soon as possible. ¡°Calm down, I¡¯ll take care of it. Let¡¯s go, I¡¯ll talk with them.¡±(Shera) I entered the mansion and the others followed. The mansion was elevated by 1.5 ft, and had 4 floors. The floor was made out of marbles and so is the ceiling. Each floor was 8.5ft tall, and had different paintings on the wall. As we walked, I noticed that every door I have seen have different carvings, like the door I am seeing now looks like a snake, while the one before that was a lion. I don¡¯t really know if any of this decoration is good, or if the whole mansion looked good, I just have one tiny advice for them, they need more pink. If you paint the whole mansion with pink, it will definitely look good, no questions asked. The duke guided us to a wide room, there is a table in the middle and 12 chairs around it, 1 at both ends, and 5 on each sides. Again, there are a lot of paintings around us, and a few vases that aren¡¯t pink. There was a chandelier with a radius of one person¡­one human, on top of the table. ¡°Please, take a seat.¡± The duke made gestures to make us sit. The duke and his wife used the seat at both ends, I was in the middle left, while Nero was in the middle right, and Ciela was sitting next to me. Pooch has a special sit, and that is on my lap. ¡°Is that your pet?¡±(Duke) ¡°Yes, I got him the desert near Hellion city.¡±(Shera) I probably shouldn¡¯t say I got him from mirage desert. ¡°Oh, what a cute little animal¡±(Duke) This guy is surprisingly nice. ¡°Did you hear that pooch, he said you were cute¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­¡±Pooch stayed silent. ¡°Hahaha anyways, I want to know more about the woman, who made the ice prince fall in love.¡±(Duke) ¡°Ice prince?¡±(Shera) I don¡¯t remember seeing a prince that can use ice magic¡­not that I even know if a person can use magic. ¡°You didn¡¯t know? Feric was called that because he never got close to anyone especially females. He would always ignore them no matter how they threw themselves to him, Even if a princess stripped in front of him, he wouldn¡¯t bat an eye. I guess you are different though, I have never seen someone as beautiful as you¡­¡±(Duke) ¡°What was that honey?¡±(Wife) ¡°Of course except for my wife, she is also a beauty that surpasses others.¡±(Duke) ¡°I see, but we only met once. We only saw each other on my way here.¡±(Shera) ¡°That¡¯s even better, he sent me a letter, even though he only met you once. He really must have fallen in love with you.¡±(Duke) ¡°You see¡­¡±(Shera) I told them what Feric and I talked about, how he tried to buy me, everything that happened inside the coach. ¡°So, I don¡¯t really know why he sent you that letter. He probably just wanted to get revenge, since he couldn¡¯t get me¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°Is what you said true?¡±(Duke) ¡°Of course, I wouldn¡¯t lie to a duke¡±(Shera) The duke stood up and looked his wife, they both nodded at the same time and walked towards me. Nero glared at them while they were walking, and he was ready to jump any time, but I signaled him not to. I didn¡¯t want to fight with them¡­but I guess I have to. I readied my body so that if they are really gonna attack, then I will retaliate. The tension in the air vanished when the duke and his wife hugged me. ¡°Welcome to our family, Shera¡±(Duke) ¡°EH?¡±(Shera, Nero, Ciela & Pooch) ¡°We didn¡¯t know he madly fell in love with you, to think he would be that aggressive. Although I would have to apologize for his actions, even if he didn¡¯t know how to court a lady, that was still too much.¡±(Duke) ¡°Please forgive our son, and please think about it before rejecting.¡±(Wife) ¡°¡­I want to travel around the world first, before staying at one place. So I really can¡¯t marry your son¡±(Shera) ¡°If that is all, then why don¡¯t you travel with Feric. He also wanted to travel, and his first destination was mirage desert, before going out of the continent.¡±(Duke) They aren¡¯t gonna let me go¡­I have to think of another excuse. ¡°Isn¡¯t he going towards the mirage desert now? He would probably need at least 1 year to return here.¡±(Shera) ¡°He already canceled his plans, and is currently headed back to this city. He will be here in a few days or a week, so please wait for him before you go.¡±(Duke) Damn it, I need more excuses¡­ ¡°I can¡¯t let a group of people guard us every time, and it would take too much money to keep them alive.¡±(Shera) ¡°Feric is already strong, and all of his guards combined are only equal to one gold(low) rank adventurer. So you won¡¯t have any problems. It¡¯s just one more person.¡±(Duke) This guy doesn¡¯t run out of ideas¡­and it looks like Nero is about to explode¡­I need to handle it as quickly as possible. ¡°Then how about we make a bet, if he can clear it then I will let him join, if he can¡¯t then we¡¯ll leave without him.¡± I looked directly into the Duke¡¯s eyes. ¡°Sure, I am sure our son can do anything. But please promise me you won¡¯t runaway if he clears it.¡±(Duke) ¡°I promise¡±(Shera) Since he needed a guard, he is probably not that strong. So he is probably around silver(mid) to silver(high). ¡°If he can reach at least gold(mid) then I will let him join¡±(Shera) ¡°T¡­that¡¯s¡± The duke looked dejected. Good, based on his expression, it would be impossible. When Nero understood what was happening, he calmed down. ¡°Can¡¯t you lower it a bit, like silver(high)?¡±(Duke) Yes, I win, I am a genius. Look at his despaired face ahahahahahahaha ¡°No, traveling the world is dangerous. He has to be at least that strong to join us.¡±I was slightly grinning. Yeah, it was just an excuse at first, but if he is weak he will die. ¡°There is still a chance, even if it¡¯s just 1%. He might suddenly get stronger.¡±(Duke) This guy doesn¡¯t give up¡­there are no miracles in the world, if there was, I would probably be living a decent life on earth. ¡°¡­Just in case he gets stronger we need to make sure you won¡¯t run away. So please sign a contract, if he really can¡¯t do It, then we will give up. Please, our son finally found someone he liked, at least give us this much.¡±(Duke) Even if I sign a thousand contracts, if he can¡¯t become stronger it is useless. Well, since it¡¯s not gonna happen, there is no need to fear signing a contract. A nodded at his plea, and the duke called a few people, who created a contract inside the room. He signed the lower left part, and I would sign the right. I couldn¡¯t read so I let pooch read them out loud, and nothing fishy seems to be written. Good, with this everything is settled. I don¡¯t know why you liked me, mr. ice prince, but our story is over. The duke and his wife were still shocked at pooch, who read the contract. After snapping back to reality, I could hear them clap. ¡°With this, Feric is now a part of your party.¡±(Duke) ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Oh, didn¡¯t I tell you? Feric is already a gold(high) adventurer.¡±(Duke) ¡­¡­¡­¡­YOU TRICKED ME! ¡°T..that¡¯s, you didn¡¯t tell me¡±(Shera) ¡°Of course, you obviously didn¡¯t want him so I had to act a bit. It is for our son¡¯s future after all.¡±(Duke) I¡¯ll just let him join, and kill him somewhere. I can even make it look like we lost him while traveling. ¡°Just as the contract says, if he somehow gets killed, or get lost while traveling with you. Shera Nillin would become the enemy of the continent.¡±(Duke) DAMN IT! SHOULD I JUST BURN THIS WHOLE CONTINENT? No, I don¡¯t have my manipulation ability on this body¡­ I tried to destroy the contract, but it floated, and 10 layers of transparent bubble covered it. ¡°If you try to destroy the contract again, even if Feric is still alive, you will be the enemy of the continent. So please take care of our son, Lady Shera Osdwin.¡±(Duke) Nero tried to kill the duke, but I stopped him. Stolen novel; please report. ¡°No, it¡¯s ok. It was a bet, and I lost.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­tsk¡±(Nero) ¡°Hahaha don¡¯t be sad, I promise you will live a peaceful life after your travel.¡±(Duke) ¡°Wait¡­there wasn¡¯t anything in the contract that mentions marriage¡±(Shera) ¡°Don¡¯t worry, there isn¡¯t. But after traveling with my son, I am sure you will fall in love with him.¡±(Duke) As if, that¡¯s never gonna happen, especially now that I am angry. ___ We were given 2 rooms at the 3rd floor, one room for Ciela and I, and one for Nero. Nero wore an irritated expression from downstairs, until we got to the 3rd floor. I was still stressed about what happened, let¡¯s think of possible things we could do. Ok, the best solution is to accept Feric on our party¡­THAT¡¯S NOT IT! Why does he have to show up, why do I have to be a part of this? There are still other continents, so maybe I¡¯ll just go there, and leave Feric. I could also I could threaten the duke, and make the whole continent my enemy¡­.STILL NOT A SOLUTION! Tsk¡­so dukes are the politicians of this world, they are fishy, the act to manipulate you, they are corrupted, what else? I thought I could peacefully learn magic on this city¡­ I couldn¡¯t sleep, so I went downstairs. I walked around, and randomly got to the garden. I calmly looked at the flowers, and entered the garden. This garden is quite huge, and this relaxing feeling of fresh wind carrying the scent from the flowers. I continued walking until I saw small grassy plain enclosed by trees and flowers. I sat on the grass, and tilted my head upwards to look at the sky. If I can¡¯t shake him off, might as well get used to him. Not like I have to marry him, and having a gold(high) class adventurer isn¡¯t bad. It¡¯s just like the time Nero & Ciela joined my party, at first I didn¡¯t really like the idea of extra baggage, but it¡¯s not that bad. I enjoyed my time with them, especially Nero¡¯s cooking, and that night with Ciela¡­ok let¡¯¡¯s forget about that. I kinda felt comfortable on the grass, so I closed my eyes, and lied down. As came close to falling asleep, I felt someone moving closer. To come here at the exact time I was about to fall asleep, this is probably planned. For now I¡¯ll act like I am sleeping, and wait for the right moment. One person moved closer towards me, he stood in front of my head. I am still not completely sure if he is an enemy, so I continued acting. The man spoke, and I identified who the person is. ¡°Shera¡¯s sleeping face is cute¡±(Nero) It¡¯s Nero¡­oh well, I guess I can continue sleeping. Not like he would do anything other than to stare at me¡­ As I tried to sleep, I could feel Nero sit beside me. ¡°I hate the fact that another man wants to marry you¡±(Nero) Yes yes, I hate it too, so shut up and let me sleep. ¡°And he will even travel with us¡­if only I could kill him¡±(Nero) That is quite a dangerous statement, but since I also thought of killing them¡­I guess it¡¯s fine? ¡°Sigh¡­I thought I could stay passive, and wait for you to fall in love with me.¡±(Nero) Nope not gonna happen, and why are you talking to me? I am supposed to be asleep. Nero went out of the garden. Finally, now I could sleep. A few moments later, Nero came back. ¡­WHY ARE YOU BACK? JUST GO TO SLEEP! After a while, I could feel a piece of cloth cover my body. A blanket?... ¡°Night Shera¡± Nero went back to his room. After Nero was gone, when I was sure none would hear me, I felt like I had to say something. ¡°T¡­thanks¡±(Shera) He is not that irritating after all. Now that you think about it, he is the one doing most of the work on our journey. I guess I should treat him nicely from now on¡­I mean we are on the same party, not that I am doing it for other reasons. I am just a bit guilty that he is doing most of the work, so it is only natural to treat him nicely. After convincing myself, I fell asleep. ___ ¡°Shera wake up¡±(Nero) It¡¯s still early, I want to sleep longer. ¡°Shera¡­Feric is here¡±(Nero) I quickly stood up and shouted. ¡°WHAT?¡±(Shera) ¡°Finally awake, anyways, here¡± Nero gave me a comb. ¡°¡­It¡¯s still early.¡±(Shera) ¡°The duke told me to wake you up, breakfast is almost ready.¡±(Nero) ¡°He didn¡¯t bully you because of your wing right?¡± I looked at him with a worried expression. ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, it looks like he is acting carefully in front of me, since you are his daughter-in-law¡±(Nero) ¡°Che, I¡¯ll never marry into their family¡± I started fixing my hair with the comb. ¡°Pft¡­you can¡¯t escape, mrs. Osdwin.¡±(Nero) ¡°That¡¯s not funny¡­¡± I finished combing my hair and returned it to him. ¡°Ah, a part of your hair is still messy¡± Nero came closer and started fixing my hair. Why does this always happen, he always sees something wrong with my hair¡­ ¡°Done¡± After fixing my hair, he smiled at me. Of course I smiled back. ¡°Thanks, now that you think about it, you are always helping me¡­do you want to buy something on the city? I¡¯ll buy anything you want, just for today.¡±(Shera) ¡°Why did you suddenly feel like treating me? I mean, I was doing the same thing for the past months¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just felt like doing it now¡±(Shera) I don¡¯t know¡­I just feel a bit guilty for making you do everything. Driving, fending off the monsters, cooking, everything. He looked directly into my eyes and smiled, this time I could feel that he is really happy from what I said. Although I think he should be happy after I treated him¡­weird. ¡°It¡¯s ok, no need to buy anything for me. Just traveling with you is enough¡±(Nero) ¡°Don¡¯t be humble, just tell me if you want something.¡±(Shera) ¡°The thing I want, its something I shouldn¡¯t force you to give me¡­instead, it is something I have to work hard for.¡±(Nero) What¡¯s that? Sounds expensive¡­maybe we could work together, and save money for it. ¡°¡­just tell me¡±(Shera) ¡°Besides, you are already helping us a lot by letting us travel with you. If you really want to give me something, then promise me that we will still travel together.¡±(Nero) ¡°Isn¡¯t that obvious, you have to travel with me until you find a place that could accept you. This place is still not what you are looking for, so of course we will still travel together.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha so you still remembered that.¡±(Nero) I will always remember the pain of a friend, just like how I remember the pain of all my allies when we fought the world. ¡°Of course, I will remember the trouble of my friends¡±(Shera) ¡°A¡­I see, a friend¡±(Nero) He suddenly made a sad face, not just that. It even felt like he was hiding a deeper feeling in his heart. Is being my friend really that bad? ¡°Why do you look depressed?¡±(Shera) ¡°N¡­no it¡¯s fine, I just remembered something about my past. I didn¡¯t have any friends, and now I finally found one.¡±(Nero) As I though, he is the same as me, being alone, and rejected by everyone. Aside from my allies, I didn¡¯t really have a real friend. But that is all in the past, there is something I can do now, something exciting, something new, something worth living for. ¡°The past is already over, don¡¯t let it affect your future. Besides if you act like that now, it would look like you hate me.¡±(Shera) ¡°I could never hate you, even if the world sees you as an enemy, I will still be with you¡­cause I lo¡­cause I am your friend.¡±(Nero) ¡°Thanks, anyways, shouldn¡¯t we go to the dining hall by now?¡±(Shera) ¡°Ah, I forgot¡±(Nero) ¡°So even people like you could forget something. Pft¡­hahahaha¡±(Shera) To think such a responsible person could forget something¡­hahahahahaha ¡°So you could also laugh like that¡± Nero looked at me with a gentle smile. As I walked out of the garden, I heard Nero mutter something to himself, I didn¡¯t understand it though. ¡°Even if I am just a friend now, it won¡¯t stay the same in the future¡±(Nero) ___ After that, we stayed at the mansion for a few days. The duke and his wife weren¡¯t that bad, only their pushy nature is irritating. If it wasn¡¯t for their son, I would probably like them¡­I used the opportunity and learned how to write. The couple hired different tutors for me, and I easily learned the basics. Right now, I could read what is written on the my adventurer¡¯s plate, and I could also write simply sentences. Anyways, my peaceful days continued until Feric returned to the city, 6 days after I entered the mansion. Ch. 7: I want to learn magic The start of cheesy moments... what''s love anyways? could I eat it? Just a few days ago, I found out that pooch could use magic. I persuaded him to teach me, but he didn¡¯t want to, it took a few days of persuasion before he gave in¡­and the reason he didn¡¯t want to teach me, was because he didn¡¯t want me to surpass him in the only thing that he is proud of. ¡°Anyways, I am bad at teaching, So it¡¯s not my fault if you don¡¯t understand anything.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Ok¡± I nodded at him. ¡°I won¡¯t go over the basics, I¡¯ll teach you the hardest yet most effective way to use magic. First what element do you want to use?¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­Fire?¡±(Shera) ¡°It looked like you weren¡¯t sure¡­anyways, if it¡¯s fire. Imagine how a flame looks like, imagine how the enemy would feel when the flame hits the enemy, how far the range, how intense, imagine every single information about the flame that you want to produce.¡±(Pooch) I started imagining a red colored flame, because I know flames had red color. I imagined it slowly eating earth, and burning every life on that world. I remembered everything they did to me, and how much pain was shown through my allies¡¯ face while they were undergoing experiments. Instead of a burning death, what I imagined was an extreme, yet unending pain. ¡°If you have an image in your head, then try moving your magical power in your hands, imagine them transforming into flames, and release them. That¡¯s the only thing I can teach, if you can¡¯t understand then wait for a decent teacher.¡±(Pooch) I didn¡¯t know where my magical power was, so I simply imagined releasing flames from my hand¡­I didn¡¯t know what the name of my magic is so I just shouted magic. ¡°MAGIC!¡±(Shera) Nothing happened. ¡°That¡­was expected.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Where is my magic power anyways? I can¡¯t move something that I can¡¯t feel.¡±(Shera) Good thing we are the only ones here¡­that was kinda embarrassing. ¡°I told you, I am bad at teaching.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Then show me how you do it, maybe I could understand something.¡±(Shera) ¡°Fine¡± Pooch was still in his cute form. He jumped and shouted the name of the spell. ¡°Fire ball¡±(Pooch) At his word, a small ball made of flames was created on his paw and was released to the ground. ¡°Get it?¡±(Pooch) I jumped, and pointed my arm to the ground. ¡°Fire ball¡±(Shera) Like before, nothing happened. ¡°¡­Ok, let¡¯s go back¡± I went back to the city with a dejected face. ___ I walked back to the mansion while holding pooch on my hands. Like always, we were attracting attention. When I entered the mansion, I was welcomed by the guards. All workers on the mansion bowed to me, and all of them have a happy expression¡­it is starting to feel like I am a part of this mansion. I went back to my room, and practiced reading. Since I really didn¡¯t have anything to do, I spent my free time reading books. The duke gave me access to his library, and I found a lot of interesting books there. I am not fond of history, so I just read novels, and there were even big pictures on them like the one on the orphanage¡­ok, so they¡¯re picture books, so what? I enjoy reading them. Nero & Ciela felt like they have to do something, so they asked the duke for temporary jobs at the mansion. Nero became a chef, as expected. Ciela was in charge of taking care of the garden. Pooch was given the most important job, to be my stuffed toy. I was currently reading a nove¡­picture book about a vallar that steals from the rich, and gives them to the poor. There are a lot of obvious flaws, but I still enjoyed reading it. ¡°As always, people on these books are a lot better than the people of earth.¡±(Shera) I sensed someone moving towards my room, so I moved towards the door and opened it before he even got to my room. ¡°What is it?¡± I looked at the man in front of me, I didn¡¯t see him in the mansion before, but he looks familiar. ¡°¡­I came for you¡±(Man) The man I met inside the coach. ¡°Ah, coach man¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­it¡¯s Feric, Feric Morc Osdwin¡±(Feric) So he is finally back¡­with this, we can finally start traveling again. ¡°So¡­Feric, why are you here?¡±(Shera) By the way I am looking upwards, he is about 22-25 cm taller than me. ¡°I came here to check on my wife.¡±(Feric) ¡°We are only gonna traveling together, and I am not gonna marry you.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­If you won¡¯t marry me, then why are you still here?¡±(Feric) ¡°Ask your father¡­he made me sign a contract.¡± I crossed my arms, and made an angry expression. Feric stayed quiet and went somewhere, he wore an expressionless face on our whole conversation. ¡°Let¡¯s go pooch, let¡¯s start packing up.¡±(Shera) ___ I fixed my things, and a few hours later, Ciela came to the room. Seeing me move my things, she asked me if we are gonna start traveling again, I nodded to answer her question. She ran out of the room, and went to Nero¡¯s room to tell him that we are gonna start traveling again. We finished packing up, it is probably 6pm-7pm right now. We went downstairs with our things, and went to our coach. After leaving our things there, we made pooch guard it, before going back to the mansion. We were once again, welcomed by the duke, this time, with Feric. We made our way to the dining hall without speaking to each other, and just like before, Nero set on the opposite table. ¡°Why are you sitting here?¡±(Shera) ¡°Why? This seat isn¡¯t taken yet, so I am simply taking it.¡± Feric took the seat beside me, Ciela was on the right, and Feric was on the left. Nero was glaring at Feric by the way. ¡°Before we start, I would like to say something.¡±(Duke) All of us looked at the duke, who had a serious look on his face. He took out a paper, and ripped it apart. ¡°This paper is the contract between Shera and I. It is no longer valid, and Shera can now freely move without being restricted.¡±(Duke) ¡°Huh?¡±(Shera & Feric) ¡°Sorry, I simply used this as a means to make you stay on our mansion.¡± The duke walked near me and knelt. ¡°F¡­father?¡±(Feric) ¡°P¡­please stand up.¡±(Shera) ¡°No, it is only normal for me to do this. I wasted your time just to stall for my stupid son.¡±(Duke) ¡°It¡¯s ok, I did enjoy my stay here.¡±(Shera) Really, except for your son, everything that happened in the past days were fun, especially the novels¡­I mean picture books. You even hired tutors for me. ¡°Thank you¡± The duke stood up and went back to his seat. ¡°I really wanted to make you marry my son, but I don¡¯t want it to be a forced marriage. This is the first time Feric got interested in a girl, and the only thing I can do as a father, is to stall for time until he came back.¡±(Duke) ¡°¡­¡±(Shera & Feric) ¡°There is only one thing that I ask of you. Please let my son join you in your travel. It was not a lie that he is a gold(high) adventure, and if you let him join, you will no longer look for a magician. He is the best magician of this city, he was able to get his rank with his magic.¡±(Duke) ¡°Ah¡­¡±(Shera) That¡¯s good, if the best magician teaches me, then I will learn faster. ¡°If it is still not enough, then¡­¡± The duke took out another paper, and gave it to me. ¡°That is a contract that states that all of my 7 cities will be your ally. Even if you reject Feric, even if you became the enemy of the world, all of my force, will back you up. I, Feiran Morc Osdwin, will be the ally of Shera Nillin.¡±(Feiran) I read the paper, and everything written on it benefits me¡­and they don¡¯t get anything in return. It¡¯s like a one sided offer where I am the one who gets everything. ¡°T¡­this is too much, what if I used this alliance for something bad?¡±(Shera) ¡°Nonsense, Feric won¡¯t fall in love with someone like that, and I can also see that you are a person that can be trusted.¡±(Feiran) Nero, Feric & Ciela were silent. ¡°The only thing I wish in return, is that you let Feric join you, even for a short moment. It is not stated in the contract so you can leave him if you want, but I wish that you at least give him a chance. Your first meeting might not be a good one, but I wish that you will give him a chance to show his true self.¡±(Feiran) People like this are hard to handle, they are stating their reasons without hiding anything. I can see no hidden agendas, and I see no reason to decline. Just as he said, I could just leave Feric if he can¡¯t bode well with our party. ¡°Ok, I accept¡± I signed the contract, and gave it back to the duke. ¡°Thank you, and Feric, don¡¯t let this chance slip out of your hands. This is the best I could give you, so do your best, and don¡¯t do something that you would regret.¡±(Feiran) ¡°Yes, father.¡±(Feric) After that, we started eating. Everyone was quiet, and the meal ended quickly. Everyone went out of the room except the duke and I. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°Thank you¡±(Feiran) ¡°It¡¯s nothing, just as you said, I could leave him anytime I want.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha I just hope Feric, makes the right decision. Anyways, you are already at gold rank without magic, I can¡¯t wait to see you learn magic and get stronger. ¡°Ah¡­about that, I am already at platinum(high) rank¡± I showed him my plate. ¡°P¡­platinum¡­high?...and the level¡­478?¡± Feiran¡¯s eye widened. There was a monster near them, which was me. The fact that they were casually talking with someone stronger, made him tremble. ¡°S¡­sorry, I didn¡¯t know that you were platinum rank. Don¡¯t worry, we didn¡¯t make the contract to make you into our ally. So we won¡¯t force you to do anything.¡±He knelt to the ground. ¡°I know, I¡¯ve read the whole contract, and nothing states that I have to help you, yet it states that you will help me. You would do all that, just to help your son, I think it is quite admirable.¡±(Shera) Seriously, if there were more people like him, then earth will be a better place. Why wasn¡¯t I born with parents like these? I bet even insects in this world are better than the humans on our world¡­some superior race we are. ¡°Just as I said before, I enjoyed staying here. Except for the first day where you made me sign a contract, everything was great. After my travel, I would like to go back here, and take a vacation.¡± I gently smiled at him while stretching my arm, to help him stand up. ¡°L¡­lady Shera.¡± As he reach my arms, he looked at me with eyes full of respect. In the future, the Osdwin family will be one of the core members of the Shera religion. ___ I made Ciela go back to the coach, I also told Nero, to go back but he didn¡¯t want to. I forced him, and he started walking¡­only to stop and hide behind a wall. I know he is in there, but there is no point in telling him. If he is this stubborn, then nothing I do will make him go back. As I waited, I sat on the ground, and stared at the mansion. At first I hated it, suddenly being called a daughter-in-law, and being forced to take their son. Yet, I don¡¯t seem to have the same feeling about it now, in fact I like it here. Everyone accepts me, and even if the duke and his wife are a bit¡­pushy, they are good people. Almost all of the people I have met are great¡­except for the people at Ballian city, I won¡¯t forget what they did to Nero¡¯s family. I a stared at the mansion, Feric and his parents came out. Feric was holding 2 bags that are as big as me. ¡°Sorry for the wait¡±(Feric) ¡°No, it¡¯s ok¡­by the way, what¡¯s in the bag? Did you put your guards in there?¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­No, I took most of the books about magic that you might need. There are also old scrolls we could use, aside from that, it¡¯s just my clothes and a stash of gold coins.¡±(Feric) It was just a joke, you didn¡¯t have to answer seriously. ¡°So, shall we go?¡±(Shera) ¡°Is this really ok? We can start the journey tomorrow, we haven¡¯t even registered my name in the party¡±(Feric) ¡°We can do that on the next town, and if you want to travel, you have to be ready at all times¡±(Shera) ¡°That¡¯s right, if you are a man, then stop speaking, and start walking.¡±(Feiran) At the dukes words, we started walking to the coach. ¡°Good luck, you two, and always stay safe¡±(Wife) I felt a warm sensation on my heart¡­is this what having a family is like? Somewhere in my heart, I wanted to stay with the duke for a little bit longer. ¡°I am sorry, for my rudeness when we first met.¡±(Feric) ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, I already forgot what happened. If you have the strength to apologize, then use that strength to help us on our journey.¡±(Shera) ¡°You really are different.¡±(Feric) ¡°Huh?¡±(Shera) ¡°No, it¡¯s nothing¡±(Feric) We continued to move back to the coach, Nero followed from behind. He was still hiding, Feric didn¡¯t notice it, but I could clearly feel his presence. When we got back to the coach, Ciela had just finished feeding the horses. Nero came after us, and said that he just went for a walk. Pooch was doing his job, and guarding the coach. I ran to him, and dragged him into my arms. ¡°So, it seems you are letting him join, you could have left him.¡±(Pooch) ¡°So you knew.¡±(Shera) ¡°Of course, Ciela told me.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Not gonna say anything to your our new companion?¡±(Shera) Pooch reverted to his true form and moved his head closer to Feric. ¡°Shera¡¯s lap is mine, I am the only one allowed to sleep there. Understand?¡±(Pooch) Feric trembled while looking at the Hellion Baran. The other 2 were quite used to it, so they didn¡¯t really react. ¡°Don¡¯t scare him.¡±(Shera) ¡°Pooch is just protecting his rightful place¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­I am not a part of this¡± Nero shrugged his shoulders and went to the driver¡¯s seat. ¡°A¡­a monster¡±(Feric) ¡°I am Hellion Baran, one of the 8 animal gods. Don¡¯t lump me in with those brainless beasts.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Pooch, what was your name again?¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­I am Pooch¡­one of the 8 animal gods¡±(Pooch) Feric fainted, I had to carry him, and his huge ass bag to the coach. ___ Since it was night time, I was the one driving. Pooch was currently sleeping on my lap, only Nero and I were awake. He was sitting next to me on the driver¡¯s seat. ¡°You should sleep.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­I''m still not sleepy.¡± He looks happy, so having me drive make you that happy. Staring to get lazy on me huh? ¡°Suit yourself, you¡¯re gonna be tired when morning comes.¡±(Shera) ¡°Just a bit more, I want to monopolize you before that so called ice prince, wakes up.¡±(Nero) ¡°What am I? an item?¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha it was a joke. Anyways, I LOVE your hair.¡±(Nero) Well, he does help me a lot in fixing my hair, so that¡¯s the reason why. ¡°Thanks?¡±(Shera) ¡°I also LOVE your eyes¡±(Nero) ¡­Ok, that comment is a bit creepy. Although I am sure that he is just being honest. ¡°What are you up to now?¡±(Shera) ¡°If I tell you that I love you, what would you say?¡± Nero looked at me seriously. ¡°Eh?¡± I stopped the horses. L¡­love? T¡­that¡¯s something you say to the one you want to marry right? S¡­.so¡­ ¡°Just a simple question¡±(Nero) I looked at his eyes, and I think I should also be serious about my answer. But it¡¯s not like we were that close, I like him, I can also say I enjoy my times with him, but it¡¯s not really at the level of love. ¡°I¡­I am sorry, I like you, but I think it is a bit early for this.¡± I looked directly into his eyes. For a second he looked sad, but then changed to an expression that looked like he was holding his laughter. Maybe I just imagined his first expression¡­ ¡°Got you, hahahaha, you thought I was serious right? how was my acting?¡±(Nero) Somehow, I feel like a burden on my heart, that I didn¡¯t know was there, got lifted. I don¡¯t know why though. ¡°I knew it, things like love aren¡¯t something you should take lightly¡­and here I was answering seriously¡­¡±(Shera) I was a bit angry for being made into a fool. ¡°Hahaha I just wanted to see how you would react, I mean every reaction you make is cute¡±(Nero) I ignored him, and started moving the coach. ¡°Anyways, I¡¯ll sleep now. I suddenly lost all strength in my body. If anything happens just shout, ok?¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡¯m fine, I could protect myself.¡±(Shera) ___ When morning came, the first one to wake up was Nero. He took over, and I sat beside him, since there was nothing to do inside. ¡°So, where do we go now?¡±(Shera) ¡°There are 2 cities we could go to, and they are both the property of Duke Osdwin. I think we should go to Kanaria City, they will hold a tournament 4 months from now. It would take 3 months to go there, so we could still join.¡±(Nero) ¡°Tournament?¡±(Shera) ¡°That is the place where the strongest of the continent gather, and the prize for getting 1st place is 20 reis coins. I don¡¯t know if we could win, it is said that there will be reis ranked adventurers there. But we could use the tournament to test our strengths, and maybe get small prizes. I advice that we go there, the tournament only happens once every 10 years¡±(Nero) ¡°You have quite the information¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°The duke gave me a lot of information while we were staying at his mansion. Probably because I¡¯m the main driver.¡±(Nero) I think it should be fun, I could get a good look at the strength of the adventurers, especially the ones at reis rank. I haven¡¯t seen anyone stronger than pooch, but maybe there would be some on the tournament. ¡°Ok, let¡¯s go, and win 20 reis coins!¡±(Shera) Ch. 8: My first fireball Love is like a truck, you are dead when it hits you. I am now gonna practice magic, Feric made me memorize a chant. Unlike pooch¡¯ way, I only have to say the chant, and the name of the spell. I don¡¯t know what language the chant was, but I could easily pronounce it, cause I am a genius ¡°Fire ball¡±(Shera) A small ball made of flames was released from my hand, but it vanished before hitting anything. ¡°...So small¡± I made a sad face. ¡°You should be proud, do you know it takes a normal mage a month, just to learn their first spell. And you were able to create weaker version of the spell in your first try.¡±(Feric) ¡°It isn¡¯t strong enough to kill though¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­Why do you even plan to kill someone with magic?¡±(Feric) ¡°No, it¡¯s just a countermeasure. I¡¯ll only use my magic on dangerous situations, and when I do, those situations would probably force me to kill.¡±(Shera) ¡°We are just traveling, there are monsters, but we probably won¡¯t encounter the situations you are imagining.¡±(Feric) ¡°Anyways, what¡¯s next?¡±(Shera) ¡°Just practice using fire ball, if you can create a normal fire ball, then we will go to the next lesson. Don¡¯t rush it too much, and go at normal pace.¡±(Feric) I chanted again, and started releasing fire balls. There was something I noticed, I feel like something inside of me, is moving away from my body every time I cast a spell. I wanted to test something, and imagined a certain flame. I tried to move what¡¯s inside of me, to my arm. It was hard, it¡¯s felt like it didn¡¯t have any form, and when I lose focus they will scatter again. It took me a few minutes to focus every energy on my body, and started imagining the energy turning into flames. ¡°Fire ball¡± I said the name of the spell, a ball of black flame, at the size of a truck, appeared, I released it, and it moved at speeds comparable to my full powered run. When it hit something, it slowly expanded, after it expanded with a radius of 500 meters, it quickly got smaller, and disappeared, leaving nothing behind. ¡°That was stronger than I thought.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­That didn¡¯t even look like a fireball, it looked more like a void magic.¡±(Feric) I suddenly got dizzy, and blood started flowing from my mouth, and soon, blood also came out of my eyes and ears. My body is still strong, yet I feel like I have no strength left. ¡°SHERA¡± Feric ran to me, and carried me back to the coach. ___ I am now resting inside the coach. I can¡¯t move my body, which was odd. My body doesn¡¯t feel damaged yet I can¡¯t even move a muscle. ¡°WHAT DID YOU DO?¡± Nero looked like he could kill a person. ¡°¡­¡±(Feric) ¡°Weren¡¯t you just practicing basic magic? How did something like this happen?¡±(Pooch) ¡°I was just teaching her how to use fireball, she learned it quickly and started firing like it was nothing. She suddenly concentrated for a few minutes, and released a black ball of flames that is bigger than our coach.¡±(Feric) ¡°WHAT?¡±(Pooch) ¡°The flames expanded, before quickly disappearing.¡±(Feric) ¡°WHY DIDN¡¯T YOU STOP HER?¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡­I didn¡¯t know she would do that.¡±(Feric) ¡°Calm down Nero, it isn¡¯t his fault, it is master¡¯s fault. She used my way of using magic, and probably used more mana than her own capacity. A normal person would die from that, even I would die if I do that, but my master should be fine in a few hours.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Tsk¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­¡±(Feric) I could only watch as they argued, I couldn¡¯t even move my mouth. I didn¡¯t think using magic was this dangerous. ¡°For now, you should let her rest. She would regenerate on her own.¡±(Pooch) Good thing they didn¡¯t think much about my regeneration ability. Although it should be fine to tell Ciela & Nero that I am a majin at this point. After 2 hours, I could move my body a bit, and I could finally talk. Everyone was out, except for pooch and I. ¡°So, what kind of imagination did you have to create void magic from a simple fire ball spell?¡±(Pooch) ¡°Void?¡±(Shera) ¡°I looked at the area where you used your magic, and it is without a doubt, void magic. It may look like flames, but nothing was burned, instead everything was erased.¡±(Pooch) ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just imagined something from my past, and used it as a base for my flames.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­I don¡¯t know what happened in the past, but please imagine a normal flame next time. Wait, I thought you didn¡¯t remember anything. Ah, nevermind, just don¡¯t use that spell again, or at least don¡¯t use it until you have enough mana for it.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Ok¡­by the way, what¡¯s mana? Probably something like a stamina for magic, right?¡±(Shera) ¡°Correct, so what you did was something like, moving your body even after you have no stamina left.¡±(Pooch) Nero entered the coach and hugged me. ¡°Don¡¯t do anything like that again, ok?¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­Ok, so stop hugging me already.¡±(Shera) ¡°No, do you know how worried I was? Just the thought of something bad happening to you is¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°Sorry, so please let go of me.¡±(Shera) ¡°As punishment for making us worry, I¡¯ll hug you until you are better.¡±(Nero) ¡°What?¡±(Shera) ¡°I¡¯ll help Ciela a bit.¡± Pooch left the coach leaving Nero and I alone. ¡°If you don¡¯t like it, then promise me you won¡¯t do that again.¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡­I promise.¡±(Shera) For some reason, I was ok with him hugging me. It felt really comfortable, it felt like I could rely on him, and I felt happy that he was hugging me. I leaned my head on his shoulder, and slowly fell asleep. ___ When I woke up, my head was on Nero¡¯s lap. I could move my body, and everything seems ok. Only Nero and I were in the coach, and Nero was sleeping. I sat beside him, and observed his sleeping face. For some reason, he looked better than before. It stared at his face, his hair was still the same, his skin is also the same, lips¡­red as usual. While looking at him, his head moved to his left shoulder letting me see his neck. Nothing really changed, but his neck looked attractive. I stared at him for long time, until he woke up. I quickly jumped back, and acted like I was doing something else. ¡°Ah, looks like you are ok now Shera¡± Nero smiled at me like he always do, yet I feel like something was different¡­ ¡°T¡­thanks for the pillow¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha I just copied what you always do with pooch. He always looked happy when sleeping on your lap, so I just did the same.¡±(Nero) ¡°I see¡±(Shera) ¡°I am quite happy that you didn¡¯t hate it.¡± Nero stood up and started walking out of the coach. ¡°It is almost time for dinner, so I¡¯ll start cooking. Do you have any special request?¡±(Nero) ¡°No, anything you cook is fine.¡±(Shera) His lap felt comfortable¡­wait, what am I thinking? Ok let¡¯s change the subject, fire ball, fire ball, fire ball, fire ball, Nero¡­wait why did he suddenly appeared in my head? Since he helped me a lot, and he is always there for me¡­THAT¡¯S RIGHT, I SEE HIM AS A FATHER THAT TAKES CARE OF ME. It is only natural to think of you father, yup, I am right, cause I am a genius. ___ We continued traveling, and Feric became extremely quiet. He still teaches me magic from time to time, and pooch was there to look after us. I can use, lightning, fire, wind, and water magic. At first it was only basic magics, and when I understood how each element works, I was able to freely manipulate the strength of the spells. I could make a basic lightning spell as strong as an advance spell, and I could also weaken an advance spell to a basic spell, which was unique based on what Feric said. A spell is already set, it can¡¯t be changed. It can altered a bit, but not at the same level as mine, where I make a spell jump to a higher rank. The magic ranking are:
Basic > Advance > Black > Brown > Green > Blue > Orange > Yellow > White > Divine > Eternal
I am currently at advance rank, and if I use all of my mana for 1 spell, I can reach black rank. Feric is at Brown rank, while Pooch is at divine rank. For the spell I used before, pooch said that it¡¯s between yellow & white rank. Since he is at divine, he can even use an even stronger spell than what I used before, so if you think about it, he is a bit scary. I continued my training, and slowly increased my magical powers. Feric was surprisingly ok, unlike his initial behavior, he was quiet inside our coach. He is even doing more than work than me, he is the one in charge of cleaning, and bath¡­that¡¯s right, bath. He can use earth magic to create a tub, and water magic for bathing. Less monsters are appearing compared to the time when we were headed to Deron city. When they have free time, Nero & Ciela would spar. By the way, Ciela started using a sword, while Nero was using a gauntlet, which we bought at Deron city. For me¡­I don¡¯t really need a weapon, my bare hands are enough. Like that, our travel continued. By the time we got to the Kanaria city, I was already a yellow ranked mage. Most of my spells are created by me, with my awesome naming sense. ___ The first thing we did was to find an inn. The city was looked the same as Deron city, except for the fact that it was 3 times bigger. Houses made from stones, and some that were made from marbles in the middle of the city. Most of the houses didn¡¯t have a 2nd floor, and there were light post that works with magic. There were more stores and stalls in this city, and add the gigantic circular building in the middle. The dome was made out of white rocks, yup, it¡¯s not a rock painted in white. It is really a white stone, a special mineral of this world. It is called the saphia stone, which is the second hardest mineral on this world. They probably molded the rocks using magic¡­Anyways, it was 20 floors tall and there were 4 entrances. In the middle of it, there was an open space that¡¯s as big as 4 soccer fields. The ceiling was open except for the seats around the open space, which was elevated by 4-5 floors. This was the place where the tournament will be held, which was 3 weeks from now. People that want to join could register at the entrance, there were 2 different tournaments. Individual battles, and a party battle. The prize for both is the same, 20 reis coins. The people would obviously join the individual battle to get the money for themselves, but the party battle will also give noble a noble status to every member of the winning party. The king, dukes, and nobles will be watching the tournament, to scout for talented individuals. If duke osdwin will come here, why didn¡¯t he come with us? Anyways, we will join both tournaments, except for pooch, who will probably stay at the inn. Since Feric was still not a part of our party, we only registered on the individual battles. After that we went to the adventurer¡¯s guild to add Feric, and check our stats. The first to check his level was Feric, followed by Nero and Ciela. Spoiler : A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.
NameFeric Morc Osdwin
RaceTalar
Age156GenderMale
TITLES
[Anti-Social Prince]
Level58ClassWizard
Vitality47Agility30
Strength38Defense24
Magic Attack173Magic Defense112
NameNero Ventus
RaceVallar
Age77GenderMale
TITLES
[The Hated]
Level51ClassBerserker
Vitality107Agility80
Strength98Defense74
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
NameCiela Ventus
RaceVallar
Age31GenderFemale
TITLES
Level22ClassSwordsman
Vitality66Agility24
Strength28Defense19
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
¡°Feric and Nero¡¯s level aren¡¯t that far away from each other, why is Nero still at silver(high)? He should be at least gold(mid) with his level¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°You probably just started so you don¡¯t know much, but one could also raise their rank by doing quests. You can increase your rank by having a high level, but it stops at platinum(high), no matter how strong you are, you have to accomplish missions before you could move to reis rank.¡±(Man) Now that you think about it, we never did any quest on from the adventurer¡¯s guild. ¡°But to think you would reach silver(high) without doing anything, quite the talent.¡± The man glanced at Nero. ¡°Wait till you see Shera¡± Nero looked at me as I walked to the orb. ¡°She is a gold rank like me, and I think she also the same as Nero. Her sheer power let her reach the gold rank without doing anything.¡±(Feric) ¡°Ah, I forgot that I didn¡¯t tell you about it¡±(Shera) I took out my card, which made Feric and the man widen their eyes. ¡°P¡­platinum card? When?¡±(Feric) ¡°When we went to the adventurer¡¯s guild of Deron city.¡±(Shera) ¡°Don¡¯t tell me you got that simply by being strong? You can only get to platinum(high) rank without doing anything, if you are at level 250. It is even easier for a level 150 person to quest his way to platinum(high) than train himself until he reaches 250.¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­Actually, I¡¯m level 478.¡±(Shera) ¡°WHAT?¡± Feric looked at Nero & Ciela. ¡°It¡¯s the truth, we were there when her rank got raised¡­I didn¡¯t know she was 478 though¡±(Nero) Ah, so I didn¡¯t tell them, not that they needed to know. ¡°Let me take a look¡± Feric took my plate, and looked at my level. ¡°¡­it¡¯s true¡±(Feric) By the way, the man fainted when he heard my level. I took back my plate, and checked my stats.
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age1GenderFemale
TITLES
[Goddess of Destruction][Goddess of Beauty][Rift Walker][Void Magician]
[Chain Caster][Maiden In Love]
Level492ClassSage
Vitality165,754Agility1186
Strength2279Defense1624
Magic Attack1415Magic Defense987
What¡¯s with my new titles? Especially the last one, when did I fall in love? There is something wrong with this machine¡­not that anyone will see it anyways, so let¡¯s forget about it. I finally have a class¡­but why sage? Aren¡¯t I a magician? Sigh, there is always something new on my status screen¡­ ¡°I still leveled up a bit¡­I am now 492¡±(Shera) ¡°H¡­how? We didn¡¯t fight anything strong, how did you still level up?¡±(Feric) How would I know? I just enjoyed my life for the past months, and my level increased on its own. ¡°Ok, time to form a party. Nothing will change even if you ask her questions now, or do you want her to hate you by sending tons of questions to her?¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡­.no, it¡¯s ok. Sorry¡±(Feric) Nero is really good at handling people¡­he is a fatherly figure after all. We went back to the counter, while Nero was carrying the fainted man. We told the man at the counter to let ferric join, it seems that we need to make a new party if we want to add someone, but we could still use the name of our former party. I gave 10 silver coins to the man. Heh, I am good at handling money now¡­cause Nero would always scold me when I just gave out gold coins when we were at Deron city. The man gave me a paper, stick with a feather, and an ink. Since I know how to write now, I was the one who wrote our names, cause I am a genius. After writing, I still used Stygian Cipher as our party name, we gave our plates to the man. The man at the counter almost fainted when he saw our plates, especially mine¡­when our new party was formed, Ciela¡¯s rank was raised to Copper(High), and she was really happy about her growth. Since it was getting dark, we decided to postpone the registration to tomorrow, we have a lot of time before the tournament so we don¡¯t have to rush. Even though this city was bigger, it was crowded. It seems most of the competitors went to the city early. Only expensive inns were available, so we had no choice, I didn¡¯t really care about price, but Feric & Nero were strict about money. Using his name as the duke¡¯s son, we got a 50% discount. It is now 5 silver coins per day, and 2 silver coins for place where we could park the coach. It¡¯s just 2 gold coins a month, I don¡¯t see why they say it¡¯s expensive. Our room was on the top floor. We were all in one room, there were 3 beds, 2 small tables and a chair, and 2 small rooms. The first one is storage, and the other is the washroom. The washroom had a bath tub, and small hole for excretion, there were green slimes on the bottom, that eats the waste, and converts them into magical energy for the room. There was even a shower¡­wait, this inn is surprisingly advanced compared to the duke¡¯s mansion. After checking the inside of the room, I lied down on my bed. Pooch & I were on the left most bed, Nero & Ciela on the middle, and Feric was on the right....by himself. ¡°So, what do we do to pass time?¡±(Shera) ¡°We haven¡¯t really taken any quest since we formed the party, maybe it¡¯s time to try and take missions.¡±(Nero) ¡°I think it will be a good experience for our party. We could practice coordination, and other party stuffs.¡± Feric was surprisingly energetic about our party. It seems that he was a solo adventurer before he joined us. ¡°How does a quest work anyways?¡±(Shera) Ciela already fell asleep at this point. ¡°Quest have the same ranks like us, although you shouldn¡¯t take the same level of quest as you. It is recommended for 3 gold(high) adventurers to take a gold(high) quest, as far as I know, the hardest quest that the guild posted was a platinum(high) quest, where you have to kill an elder dragon. You can still get a higher rank even if you take lower level quest, every time you finish a quest, you will get points, and if you get enough points you can get to a higher rank. The thing is, the bigger the gap between you and the quest, the less points you will get.¡±(Feric) Nero was listening seriously, while I was starting to get sleepy¡­ ¡°The is also a limit to what you can get, an adventurer can only take 1 quest a week, so they can¡¯t hoard the lower leveled quest.¡±(Feric) ¡°What happens if you fail to accomplish a quest? Does point get deducted?¡±(Nero) ¡°No, you will have to pay as compensation though. If you can¡¯t pay¡­I don¡¯t know. It didn¡¯t really happen to me, and I don¡¯t really have that much friend to ask.¡±(Feric) ¡°So, what do you recommend that we take?¡±(Nero) ¡°We can take the highest leveled quest with Shera helping us, but I suggest taking a silver(mid) or silver(high) quests. It would be a challenge for the 3 of us, and she should only join when we are in danger. It would probably bore her though¡±(Feric) They continued talking with each other, while I slowly closed my eyes. The last thing I saw was them looking at me with a serious face, and walking out of the room. Ch. 9: Lets play at the park Ok, this story is turning into a shoujo manga...I mean shoujo fiction. I am a bit busy so I don''t know if I can upload another chapter today, not that you want another chapter anyway. So we finally went to the adventurer¡¯s guild to get a quest, only to go back without getting any. It¡¯s not that there isn¡¯t any silver or gold quest available, it¡¯s just that all of them are 3 or more months away. Most of the nearby quest was taken by the participants of the tournament to practice. The thing that surprised me is the rewards of the quest, the highest reward I saw on the silver ranked quest was 80 silver coins...and you have to travel for 5 months to the quest zone and another 5 months to get back. If you think about it, some will work for almost a year, and only get 80 coins when we are here casually spending more than 10 silver coins a day. Feric told us that most of the adventurers get their food on the wild, and camp outside to save money. There were also cheap inns that were quite good, 15-20 copper coins for one day., and if you add 5-10 more copper coins then you will also be given lunch and dinner by the owner of the inn. Sigh...I actually gave out a large amount of money without me noticing, I thought that since gold coins were a lot lower than reis coins, it was just a small amount... As of now I still have 27 gold coins, there is no need to ask why my money depleted this much. Nero & Ciera didn¡¯t really have their own savings, Feric showed me his stash, and there were 34 gold coins inside...I didn¡¯t think we are actually rich, well, Feric is a different story since he is the son of a duke. WAIT! The winner of the tournament gets 20 reis coins, that large sum of money is being given away just like that? no wonder everyone in the continent wants to participate...money is scary. After the adventurer¡¯s guild, we went to the dome, and registered for the party battle. Nero said it was time for celebration, and went to buy some ingredients, he said that we should be back before dinner. Ciela was fired up and went straight to an open space, to train. She wanted to catch up, and be helpful on the party battle. Feric and I didn¡¯t have anything to do so we walked around city. Guess where pooch is...he said he wanted to have a vacation, and he is now sleeping inside the coach. Feric silently followed me as I walk, feels like I am actually alone...While walking we found a park, and entered. I found a playground and a few kids playing on it, there were benches around for the parents. There was white sand on the floor of the playground to cushion the kids, when I saw the a vacant swing, my body moved on its own, and took it...not like I¡¯m playing, I am just gonna sit on a moving chair. ¡°...I¡¯ll be on the bench, I¡¯ll go to you after you have finished playing.¡± Feric said that, and slowly walked to the bench. ¡°I AM NOT PLAYING! I AM JUST SITTING!¡±(Shera) I saw Feric¡¯s expressionless face, turn in to a smile. While repeatedly telling myself that I should stay for a few more minutes, the sky darkened, and before I noticed it, an hour already passed. The kids were already gone, and only Feric and I were in the park. Since the slide was wide, and 12 ft tall, so it¡¯s obviously for the grown ups. Before leaving, I wanted to use the slide once, Feric was simply watching me from the bench...his blank expression returned. After wasting time, I walked to where Feric was. Seeing that I am finished playin...wasting time, he stood up, and took something out of his bag. I looked at what he held in his hand as I walk. It was a thin book, and had a colorful cover. He gave it to me and started speaking. ¡°Unlike Nero, I don¡¯t know how to make you happy...so I bought something that I thought you would like.¡±(Feric) ¡°T...this is for kids.¡± I pushed the book back to him. H...how did he know? Only the duke knows about my hobby... ¡°A...is that so, sorry.¡± Feric took the book from my hand, and slowly put it back to his bag, but I stopped him by holding his hand. ¡°...Since you bought it, it would be a waste to let it stay on your bag without being used.¡±(Shera) ¡°...¡± Feric stared at me. ¡°...¡± And I also stared at him. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll read it before throwing it away.¡±(Feric) It¡¯s kinda hard to say I want the book when I rejected it earlier...wait, a group of people is headed to the park. If the see the picture book... I quickly took the book, and put it inside my bag. I held his hand, and went out of the park, only to be blocked by a group of people. There were 6 herans, 4 gairns, and 1 talar. ¡°Would you look at that, a young couple alone in the park. Don¡¯t tell me you did it outdoors?¡±(Heran 1) ¡°We are not a couple!¡±(Shera) And what are we supposed to do outdoors? ¡°...¡±(Feric) ¡°I see, so it means you are single right? Want to hang out with us?¡±(Heran 2) ¡°Sorry, we have to go back to the inn. Someone will get angry, if we go back late.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha don¡¯t worry, it will just be for a bit, and I am sure you will want more.¡±(Gairn) Stubborn people, should I kill them now...NO! I am not the same as before, I should act like a normal person. ¡°Sigh...would you please let us pass?¡±(Shera) ¡°What if we say no?¡±(Heran 1) ¡°Then I¡¯ll Ki...¡± Before I finished talking, Feric pushed me back. ¡°I¡¯ll take care of it, just stay there and watch.¡±(Feric) ¡°I can take care of them myself.¡±(Shera) ¡°See, she said she would take care of us all night.¡±(Heran 2) I told you I will go back to the inn. Why would I stay with you all night? I don¡¯t even want to go with you. Feric¡¯s blank expression turned in to pure rage. He quickly took out a scroll, and 3 crystals from his bag. He crushed the crystal with his hands, and his body started to glow. ¡°Ifrit¡±(Feric) The ground vibrated, and a huge orange circle appeared in the sky. A giant covered in flames, descended from the circle, and appeared in front of Feric. ¡°A...a summoner?¡±(Talar) ¡°Burn them all, people that dared to look at her with indecent eyes are not allowed to live in this world.¡±(Feric) At his word, flames started to rise from the ground and burn the group, while pushing them upwards. When all of them were at the sky, the giant raised its hand, created a giant fireball, and threw it at the people in the sky. There was a large explosion at the sky, and not even an ash was left from them. The giant slowly faded, and the scroll burned on its own.The glow from Feric''s body disappeared. ¡°...what was that? Can I also do it? It looked cool.¡±(Shera) ¡°It was a summoning spell from the scrolls I made, and the crystal was my reserve mana which I stored before. I don¡¯t think you will need it since you already stronger than the one I summoned.¡±(Feric) ¡°Ah, that¡¯s so cool, can you do it again?¡±(Shera) ¡°No, it takes a lot of my mana, and I have to use an important scroll to do that.¡±(Feric) ¡°Wait, why did you do that? I said I could handle it myself. You didn¡¯t have to wasted a precious scroll on them.¡±(Shera) ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if you are stronger, It is a man¡¯s job to protect the one he loves.¡± He didn¡¯t smile, yet he had a gentle expression. ¡°L...love?¡±(Shera) ¡°I think, dinner is almost ready. We better get back before Nero gets angry.¡±(Feric) Ah, I forgot...we need to hurry! We ran back to the inn, and we made it back in time. We spent the rest of the day normally, and when everyone was asleep, I stealthly went out of the room, to read the book. I didn¡¯t really go that far, In fact, I was sitting in front of our room¡¯s door. As I opened the book, I felt someone move inside, and was walking to where I was. I quickly hid the book, and stood up. When the door opened, Feric was the one I saw. ¡°W...why are you still awake?¡±(Shera) ¡°Sorry, I also felt like reading with you. I got a bit interested, since you wanted it.¡±(Feric) A comrade! ¡°Ah, you won¡¯t regret you decision. Picture books might not look that appealing to adults, but I assure you, you will enjoy it.¡± I proudly stated it while crossing my arms. ___ (Feric¡¯s POV) I am sitting in front of the room, with Shera. We were reading the picture book I bought yesterday, and I am happy. This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.___ I was born with talents, and with the help of my parents, I was able to enhance my skills. My parents only asked my to necessary skills for the time I replace my father as a duke, other than that, they supported me in everything that I wanted. I was an attention seeker, I simply became the best at one thing, to get praise from others. Before I noticed it, everyone around me was treating me differently, it felt like I was above them, which was fine. As I grew older, female from different races, started to seduce me, too bad for them, but I can read them like a book. At first I wanted attention, but what I got was something else. Female flock at me without end, and none of them had a decent reason for doing it. There were people that respected me, and people that hated me for what I became. I had friends...only in name. Nobles that are close to the duke, forced their child to be friends with me, and some even forced their daughters to marry me. In the end, instead of gathering everyone''s attention, and having a lot of friends. I became isolated, and my only joy, was practicing, and researching about magic. With my successful experiments, and increase in magical power, I was able to slowly raise my adventurer¡¯s rank. A few of the things I have created was a fully working spell scroll with reduced mana requirement, and a mana crystal that can store mana, which I hid for myself. I was the one who created it, there is no reason to let others know. My life continued, and I lived my life as an adventurer, I would visit the city from time to time to check on my parents. One day I decided to venture to the mirage desert, in search of something new, something different, most of all, someone that could look directly into my eyes without hiding anything. My father was worried, and sent a ton of soldiers to act as my bodyguard in the mirage desert. While I was on my way to the mirage desert, I met Shera. One time, the guards suddenly spotted an odd coach. I told them to bring the owner, and the one I saw was a Lein, who has a beauty I couldn¡¯t explain. I made my own hypothesis based on what the guards told me, and thought she was heading to the city, to marry into a rich family, but I got irritated at the thought of others marrying her. I asked her how much money she needed and tried to make myself sound like I would accept her even if she was the lowest type of human...which I think backfired. Instead being seen as a kind person, I probably looked like someone that just balantly insulted her...If only I interacted more with others, then I would know the right words to say to her. She showed me her rank, but the first thing I noticed was her name instead of the obvious color of the plate. Her name echoed inside my head, like it was making sure that I would never forget her name. Before she went out, a certain word made me skip a beat. ¡®it doesn¡¯t matter what rank your father has¡¯ that¡¯s what she said, I couldn¡¯t explain why, but those words made me remember her more. Maybe I am just insane, maybe I simply got attracted by her beauty, but I like her...I don¡¯t know if I Iove her, but I definitely want to be with her. I quickly sent a letter to my father, which said that they should try and get close to Shera, and somehow persuade her into marrying me. My family always supported me, maybe this time they can also help me with this. When I got back to the city, Shera was still in the mansion, and it only meant one thing, she accepted the marriage, and was now staying at the mansion to wait for me. I ran with all my strength to her room, before I got there, the door opened. Just when I thought everything was ok, she said she was only waiting for me because of a contract with my father. I asked my father, and he told me everything about Shera that he knew. Everything I heard from my father was great, Shera didn¡¯t care about noble ranks, and simply acted the way she wanted. As father told me about Shera, my interest in her grew more and more. My father also pointed out what I did wrong when I first met Shera, and yes, it just looked like I was shoving my money to her so that she will go to me, while insulting her. I still had a chance, I could change the way she thinks of me. With father¡¯s contract, I can be with her, and with time, she will fall in love with me. When we went to the dining hall, I sat near her, I was happy that I could eat with her, until father did something outrageous. He ripped the contract in to shreds, and knelt in front of Shera. He destroyed the one thing that could make me stay with her, but he quickly fixed it by saying that all of our family¡¯s force will back her up. This time, I will walk on thin ice, unlike before were she is forced to be with me, this time, she can throw me away anytime she wants, if I do something that she wouldn¡¯t like. Since it would be like that, I took everything that could help me teach her magic, if she sees value in having me in her party, then I could be with her. I wanted to buy something for her as an apology before starting our travel, but didn¡¯t got the chance. She has other companions, so I need to act in away that won¡¯t anger them. If I don¡¯t know how to interact, then I won¡¯t interact, I also helped in thing that I could. On Shera¡¯s first lesson, she used a void spell which drained her life force...which traumatized me. She was next to me, yet she was hurt. I started to act more carefully around her, and simply watched her growth. The other members were also great people, even the cursed vallar was a good guy. At first he obviously hated me, but he slowly got used to me being in the party. As I traveled with them, I noticed one thing, I am happy. At some point they all accepted me, and I could see their true personality. I realized something, and asked myself, if Shera was forced to have me in her party, would she still show me her smile? Would everyone accept me? Would I see their true emotions? The answer was no. If I wanted to make her love me, then I should work hard for it. If she was just being forced then there was no point, I finally understand why father ripped the contract. After a few days, I noticed that Shera was glancing at Nero more and more. It was obvious that she liked him, but since Nero was a good guy, and it was obvious that he also liked Shera. There was no reason to foil a budding relationship, if they both loved each other then it is for the best. If I really loved her then seeing her happy should be enough...but something inside of me started to hurt. My mind was conflicting, should I help them? or should I also fight for my own feelings? Weeks passed, and they were still the same, they both loved each other, yet they never entered a relationship. The question appeared inside my head again, If I notice that they love each other, then I should help them...but a part of me told me not to. I got stressed about it, and finally asked someone for help. The most knowledgeable person, the animal god pooch, and he told me this: ¡°I can¡¯t really give you the perfect advice, all I could say is that you still have a chance. You are telling me that you could help both of them, but could you endure that? Just because you can doesn¡¯t mean you should. But don¡¯t use what I just said to ruin the possibility of their relationship, just try and make her look at you, make her like you, make her fall for you. In the end she is the one who will choose, and if she chooses the other one, then that is the time to stop. If she has already chosen someone then you should just support her, if you really love her...that¡¯s what Hellion Certz told me, so I am not sure.¡±(Pooch) With his words, I slowly got the confidence to try...but how? I don¡¯t know what to do. When we got to Kanaria city, I have resolved myself to take the first step. When I got free time, I went to a bookstore, and searched for all picture books. I remembered all the titles of the books she have read before. So I asked the store head, which of the books that she haven¡¯t read before, was good. On the next day, aside from the bad start of the day because of a certain guild, Shera and I were alone, not even pooch was with us. When we found a park, she suddenly got excited, and suddenly took a seat on the swing. I sat on a bench and watched as she enjoyed herself, she even used the slide...cute. When we started walking out of the park, pieces of trash appeared and stared at her with lustful expressions. I tried to calm down, but a certain comment from the trash, made me snap. I used the rare mana crystals, and a summoning scroll, and burned the insects that dared to look at her. After that, I suddenly blurted out that I loved her, but was able to change the subject...thank god. Ch. 10: A night before the tournament It doesn''t matter if you don''t look at me, as long as you are happy. The tournament is tomorrow. More and more people entered the city, as the tournament got closer. The city got crowded, and more irritating people showed up. Our days were spent peacefully, and Feric would buy me more books, which we read at night or from time to time, at the reading zone. He seems to enjoy reading the books, since he always had a happy expression as we read the books together. Unlike before, he started to talk more and more, but he still wore his blank expression most of the time. Nero on the other hand, was always gone. He seems to be busy, and didn¡¯t have much time to be with us. It¡¯s a good thing that he found something he wants to do, but I just feel a bit sad that he wasn¡¯t spending more time with the party. No, his main reason for joining is to find a place that would accept him. As it is now, maybe people around him are starting to see him in a different light. If that¡¯s the case, then I shouldn¡¯t force him to stay with us. If he finally found a place to stay at, then as a friend, I should support him¡­but it feels too early, I thought we would be together for a little bit longer. It just woke up, and Nero was about to go out of the room again. When he noticed that I was awake, he greeted me. ¡°Ah, morning Shera¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­You¡¯re going out again?¡±(Shera) He is no longer waking me up. Well, finding a new home is more important, I guess. Still, it just seems so fast¡­but I have to support him. ¡°Yes, I¡¯ll be back by tonight. Anyways, I might go back late, so don¡¯t wait for me. Sleep early ok? We have to get a good night sleep for the tournament tomorrow.¡±(Nero) ¡°Ok¡± I smiled at him. He smiled back, and started walking out of the room. If we have a tournament tomorrow, then isn¡¯t it better to temporarily stop what you are doing? You are also a participant¡­ I took a bath, and by the time I finished, Feric & Ciela woke up. After I got out, Ciela entered the washroom. I sat on my bed, while drying my hair. ¡°Want to go out? I heard that the bookstores will get new books today, want to check it out?¡±(Feric) ¡­I don¡¯t feel like doing anything, I just want the day to end. But since it would be rude to turn down his offer without a good reason, I guess I should go. ¡°Ok¡±(Shera) After that, Feric & I went out. Ciela decided to rest for today, and pooch persuaded me to let him stay with Ciela. Feric & I went to the bookstore, and searched for new book. We got 3 new books, and went to the reading zone of the bookstore. There were only a few people compared to before, probably because most are busy preparing for the tournament. As I started reading, I slowly forgot about my worries, and simply enjoyed the story in front of me. After reading, we went to a food stall near the park. We bought some food, and stayed at the park, which was filled with kids. Since there was no swing available, we sat on a bench. A familiar man approached us as we were eating. ¡°Eating again with your friend?¡± An old gairn approached us. ¡°Yup, anyways, where are the kids?¡±(Shera) The old gairn¡¯s name is Ranzal, we met him a few times while staying at the park. He is always taking his grandchildren to the park, and watches over them¡­or not. His grandchildren are too enegetic, so he loses sight of them from time to time. ¡°Hohoho they are running around the park. Young ones sure are energetic.¡± Ranzal sat beside us. ¡°Want some?¡± I offered him some food. ¡°Sure, I won¡¯t reject a beautiful lady¡¯s offer.¡± He happily took the food. ¡°Must be hard taking care of your grandchildren¡± Feric said that while looking at the children running around the park. ¡°Hohoho it sure is. Don¡¯t worry, you will also experience it once you get a child.¡± Ranzal smirked while looking at the 2 of us. ¡°W¡­what are you saying old man?¡± Feric¡¯s face turned red, and turn to the side. ¡°¡­how do you get a child anyways?¡±(Shera) I know it is done with 2 people¡­I doubt a child could be created by kissing¡­so how? That got me curious. Feric and Ranzal looked at each other. ¡°Cough¡­cough¡­don¡¯t tell me you seriously don¡¯t know how?¡±(Ranzal) ¡°Would I ask If I already know?¡±(Shera) ¡°Hohoho what an adorable lady. Very well, I¡¯ll tell you how.¡±(Ranzal) ¡°Stop, don¡¯t corrupt her.¡±(Feric) Corrupt? Is creating a child actually bad? Don¡¯t tell me we have to do a dark ritual or something. The old man stretched his hand to me, he extended 2 fingers, and rapidly pushed his thumb between them. He repeatedly put his thumb in the middle of his 2 fingers, and pull them. Feric stood up, and grab the old man¡¯s hand. ¡°Don¡¯t show her such things.¡±(Feric) ¡°She will need to know about it sooner or later, or do you not want to do it with her.¡±(Ranzal) ¡°I¡­I want to¡­¡± Realzing what he said, Feric turned to me with a red face, and started shaking his head. ¡°I¡­it¡¯s not what you think.¡±(Feric) It¡¯s just finger motions, even I could do it¡­but I don¡¯t understand how this will lead to the creation of a child. I copied the old man¡¯s hand motion, which surprised Feric. His eyes widened, and his face started to turn even redder. He grabbed my arm in order to stop me. ¡°S¡­stop that. It¡¯s indecent.¡±(Feric) ¡°Huh? It¡¯s just a hand motion.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hohoho To think you wouldn¡¯t understand the motion¡­maybe I should show a deeper explanation.¡± Ranzal smirked while looking at Feric¡¯s face. ¡°Grrr perverted geezer.¡± Feric¡¯s face started to distort in anger. ¡°Young ones sure can¡¯t take joke Hohohoho¡±(Ranzal) We stayed a few more walking out of the park. The old man teased us for a bit¡­but I didn¡¯t understand a thing he said, it was fun seeing Feric react that much though. I mean, he usually wears a blank expression, yet I just saw him get flustered and angry at the old man. Since it was still early, we decided to roam around. As we walked, we saw Nero walking with someone. When I looked closer it was a female¡­that¡¯s odd¡­something hurts. Nero was happily talking to a girl. We followed them, until they entered a house. My chest suddenly started to hurt, did I eat something bad? I grabbed my chest, yet the pain won¡¯t fade. I didn¡¯t realize it but I was making a sad expression. Feric simply stood up, while looking at the house. W¡­why? I don¡¯t understand, it¡¯s getting harder to breathe. I tightened the grip on my chest, but the pain was still there. A few moments after that, I could feel water running down my cheeks¡­Eh? I¡¯m crying? My body started to lose strength, and I felt like I didn¡¯t want to move. I simply wanted to curl around, and sleep. Feric noticed my reaction, and carried me back to the inn. When we got back to the inn, Ciela & Pooch weren¡¯t there¡­I don¡¯t care, I simply want to sleep. Feric gently put me in bed, and sat beside me. ¡°I think it¡¯s just a misunderstanding, he won¡¯t do something like that.¡±(Feric) What is he saying? I didn¡¯t misunderstand anything, I simply saw him enter a house with a girl, and my chest suddenly hurts. I don¡¯t know why, seeing him happily talking with another person, I should be happy for him. Someone other than us, was talking to him normally¡­yet why? Why does it have to be a girl?...wait, why am I reacting like this? He was just talking to a girl. ¡°¡­I see, you really like him.¡±(Feric) Huh? Who do I like? ¡°He likes you too, and I am sure whatever he is doing, it is for you.¡±(Feric) I don¡¯t understand what he is saying, I don¡¯t understand what¡¯s happening, yet his words were making me calm down. ¡°I like you too...No, I love you. But seeing you like this is worse than you choosing him over me.¡±(Feric) W¡­wait, what¡¯s happening. ¡°If being away from him will make you this sad, then I guess I should give up. What¡¯s the point of trying, if I will just take you away from the person you love?¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­wait, what are you saying? What¡¯s this about love?¡±(Shera) ¡°Let me tell you again, you like Nero, and he likes you. If you stay ignorant about this, then he will really be taken away by someone.¡±(Feric) ¡°I¡­like him, but not like that¡­¡±(Shera) All of it is happening too fast, I just wanted to travel with everyone¡­ ¡°Sigh¡­you really are different. It is obvious that you like him, yet you ignore your own feelings. Let me ask you, what would you do if he decides to marry the girl he was talking to earlier?¡±(Feric) S¡­since he is a friend¡­then I¡¯ll support him¡­ ¡°I¡­I will¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°He will live with that girl for the rest of his life, and he will cut his ties with you. It will never be the same again, and you will travel the world, without him.¡±(Feric) Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. H¡­he¡¯s only marrying a girl¡­ ¡°T¡­that¡¯s¡±(Shera) ¡°So would you let him get taken, or will you take him back?¡±(Feric) ¡­I want to travel with him. I want to travel with Nero. ¡°I¡¯ll¡­take him back.¡±(Shera) ¡°Do you like him or not?¡±(Feric) I don¡¯t know, but I don¡¯t want to be away from him. I want him to stay with us, I want him to be with me¡­I¡­I like him. ¡°I like him¡±(Shera) ¡°Then stop being sad, and smile. Take him back, and travel the world with him.¡± Feric smiled at me while patting my head. Ciela & Pooch came back an hour after that, good thing my regeneration ability healed my swollen eyes. We didn¡¯t say anything about Nero, and simply spent the day like we always do. When night came, everyone was asleep except for me. I was waiting for Nero, and was sitting outside of our room. When I saw Nero, I stood up. He was carrying a new bag with him. ¡°Why are you still awake?¡±(Nero) ¡°I was waiting for you.¡±(Shera) ¡°You didn¡¯t have to do that, what if you wake up late tomorrow?¡±(Nero) ¡°You just have to wake me up like you always do.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°I like you.¡±(Shera) Nero¡¯s eyes widened, and dropped what he was carrying. ¡°I saw you with a girl earlier, and finally realized that I want you to look only at me. I don¡¯t want to see you with other girls, I want you to stay with me.¡±(Shera) ¡°I¡­is this real? You¡¯re not joking right? Even I will get angry if this is a joke.¡±(Nero) I walked to him, and hugged him tightly. ¡°I am serious, I don¡¯t want you to go away. Even if you find a place to stay at, I don¡¯t want you to stay there. I want you to stay with me, and travel the world with me.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡­I like you too.¡± Nero also hugged me. ¡°I love you, I always did. The first time I saw you, every moment with you, I felt really happy. I love everything about you, and I would do anything for you.¡±(Nero) Hearing those words, it felt like a heavy burden was just erased from my body. ¡°I already found the place I want to stay at. The place that made me happy, and the place that accepted me. The only place I want to be, and that place is beside you and only you¡­ I love you shera.¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡­I love you too.¡±(Shera) We hugged for a few moments, until pooch went out of the room, and sat on the floor to watch us. ¡°Come on, please continue. Act as if I am not here.¡±(Pooch) Both of us glared at him. ¡°Don¡¯t look at me like that, It¡¯s not like I am the only one looking.¡±(Pooch) At his words, I looked around, and every room on the floor was slightly open. A lot of people were peaking at us, including Ciela & Feric. A bit after that, we could hear clapping sounds around the floor. I got embarrassed and ran back to the room. ¡°With this, you are officially my onee-san.¡±(Ciela) ¡°Congratulations¡±(Feric) ¡°Ah...eh, thanks.¡± I jumped to my bed and covered my body with a blanket. I stayed like that, and a few hours passed¡­I was still awake. I couldn¡¯t sleep, I can¡¯t get Nero out of my head. When I tried to peek out of the blanket, my eyes met with Nero¡¯s eyes, so I quickly covered my face with the blanket. ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°S¡­so you were also awake.¡±(Nero) ¡°Y¡­yeah, I couldn¡¯t sleep.¡±(Shera) ¡°Me too, I can¡¯t stop thinking about you¡­I love you.¡±(Nero) W¡­what is this guy saying? There are other people here you know? Don¡¯t say such embarrassing things¡­but¡­I also love him¡­wait if I don¡¯t reply now then he will think I hate him. ¡°I¡­I love you too¡±(Shera) Happy with our talk, we both fell asleep. I had an odd dream though¡­Nero and I were both alone in a room, he was hugging my tightly as our lips touch. His body moved around, like what Ciela did to me¡­it¡¯s not my imagination¡­my brain is just moving on its own. And like that, for the first time in me 43 years of being alive, I had a slightly perverted dream. I was so happy that I slept like a log, so a familiar voice woke me up. ¡°Shera wake up.¡±(Nero) Unlike before, just hearing his voice gave me a lot of strength. I didn¡¯t want to sleep, I wanted to stay awake and be with him. I woke up, and hugged him the moment I saw him. ¡°I love you¡±(Shera) Nero was surprised by my sudden actions, but hugged me back, and smiled before replying. ¡°I love you too.¡±(Nero) ¡°UWOOOOO LOVE IS IN THE AIR!¡± Ciela raised both of her arms, and started jumping. ¡°Master has grown up.¡± Pooch proudly looked at me. ¡°You should first arrange you things before flirting, we have a tournament to go to.¡± Unlike before, Feric was smiling¡­I felt it is forced though, maybe he is trying to practice showing more emotions. ¡°By the way, I have a present for you.¡± Nero proudly presented me the bag that he was carrying last night. ¡°I worked hard for it this past 2 weeks, I hope you like it.¡±(Nero) I got excited, he just gave me a present. I quickly carried the bag, and smiled at him. ¡°Thank you.¡±(Shera) ¡°No, it¡¯s not the bag, look inside.¡±(Nero) At his word, I opened the bag, and saw a light armor. It was made out of purple metal, and soft gray leather. ¡°I spent a lot of time working to buy that. Wear that for the tournament, don¡¯t worry it was made by someone great. You remember the girl you saw with me yesterday? Her dad is a master blacksmith, and I asked them to make that armor for you. I got it for 20 gold coins, since I helped with creating that armor.¡±(Nero) ¡°20 gold coin is expensive, how did you get that much in 2 weeks?¡±(Shera) ¡°I just helped with creating other armors, since my physical abilities are quite high, I was able to help them a lot. And I got a bit of help from Feric, I borrowed 15 gold coins from him, he didn¡¯t know what I used them for though.¡±(Nero) I looked at Feric and asked. ¡°You let him borrow such a huge amount of money?¡±(Shera) ¡°I believe that he will pay it back, and as a friend, I have to help him.¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°You don¡¯t like the armor?¡±(Nero) ¡°I didn¡¯t say that.¡±(Shera) ¡°Then try it on, I am sure you would look good in that.¡±(Nero) Nero¡¯s smile made me forget everything¡­that¡¯s cheating. Anyways, I tried the armor on, and despite the intimidating metal of the armor, it was light. I could freely move, and the armor doesn¡¯t hinder my joints. It feels like it was specially made for me. Well, he did ask a master blacksmith to make it for me¡­hehehe¡­just for me. I showed it to everyone, which made them widen their eyes. ¡°I¡­it looks good on you.¡±(Nero) ¡°Thanks¡±(Shera) ¡°No, seriously, the dark color of the armor compliments your white skin and hair. You look like an armored goddess.¡±(Nero) ¡°I agree, you look beautiful yet intimidating while wearing that. You look like a dignified empress, or even more.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Beautiful.¡±(Feric) ¡°Let us show the world you beauty onee-san.¡±(Ciela) By the way, Feric also bought equipment for the others, so we were all going to the tournament with new gears, except for pooch, who will stay in the room. We went out of the room, and started walking to the dome. There were more people in the city, especially since the tournament will start today. Except for me, the others were wearing plain looking equipment¡­which made me feel a bit guilty. I asked the others if it is ok, and they nodded. They said that since I am the leader, I should have better equipment. I wanted to argue about that, but all of them joined forces against me¡­unfair. As we made our way to the dome, more and more people were looking at us. There were 3 lines on the gate, one for the audience, and two for the participants. There was a short line, so we took it. The people around stared at us, and one started talking. ¡°Miss, this line is for gold or higher ranked adventurers. No matter how pretty you are, or how expensive your armor is, you can¡¯t go to this line.¡±(Gairn) ¡°¡­I didn¡¯t know about the line, but I do not see the reason why I am not allowed in this line.¡±(Shera) ¡°Miss¡­¡±Before he could start speaking, I showed my plate in front of his face. ¡°P¡­platinum?...492?¡±(Gairn) After that, everyone looked away, and stayed quiet. I was worried since Nero & Ciela weren¡¯t gold rank, but the guard said, as long as the party leader is gold rank or higher, we can enter using that line. After that, the long awaited tournament finally started¡­after a long speech from the king. Ch. 11: A normal day at the tournament Expect the unexpected. We are sitting inside one of the rooms of the dome, we are to wait for our turn. For today, only individual battles will be held, and all of the battle today will be a battle royale. The first round will be a battle between 10 or more people, and only the last one standing will get to the next round. There were 4 rings created from earth magic in the middle of the dome, which will be used for the battle. After the first round only 32 will be left, we have already seen our names, and luckily, none of us are in the same block. The first one to enter was Ciela. Since we can¡¯t see what¡¯s happening outside, the only thing we could do was pray. In the end she lost, she was defeated by a silver(mid) rank in her block, but we heard she was able to fight head on with the silver(mid) rank despite her only being at bronze. The next one was Feric. He had to fight against other gold ranks but still won in the end, and will be a part of the 32 fighter for the next round. Same goes for Nero, who defeated everyone on the ring by himself. My match will be the one of the last ones, so I just stayed quiet in the room. ___ I could feel someone moving to the room, and opened it before he even got here. ¡°Contestant Shera Nillin, you are next. I¡¯ll guide you to the ring now.¡± A palan with white uniform came to get me. As I walk to the ring, I could see that the other 9 and even the ones on the other rings were looking at me. ¡°Oi oi, they don¡¯t expect us to hurt her right? Why did they even let a fragile lady enter the tournament¡±(Armored Talar) ¡°If I suddenly touch your body don¡¯t get angry ok? This is a battle after all ahahahaha¡±(Heran wielding an axe) ¡°Let the battle begin!¡±(Palan) At his signal, everyone ran to me¡­why me? It is a battle royale right? Why does it look like they are ganging up on me. One by one, I threw them out of the ring, and 5 seconds after the battle started, I won. ¡°¡­AND THE BATTLE AT RING 3 IS ALREADY FINISHED! THE LADY IN PURPLE ARMOR EASILY THREW THE GOLD RANKS OUT OF THE RING!¡±(Palan) Everyone went silent, even the ones in the other ring stopped fighting. Everyone looked at me¡­but I didn¡¯t care, and asked. ¡°Can I go now?¡±(Shera) After that I could hear everyone yelling. ¡°UWOOOOO THIS IS IT! LIKE MAIDEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE FIELD! THE BIRTH OF A WAR GODDESS!¡±(Palan) Oi, don¡¯t add more titles to me. After that, the 1st day of the tournament was over. As we walked around the city, people kept following us, and some were even asking a lot of questions. We ignored them, and went to buy some ingredients. After a long time, Nero will finally cook for us again. Because of the people that kept coming to us like a swarm, it took us a bit of time to get back. When we got back to the room, Ciela started asking Feric about classes. I didn¡¯t really want to know, but since there is nothing else to do while waiting for food, I listened to them. It goes like this. A class is attained after getting a certain amount experience or knowledge. For example, you are blindly swinging you sword while fighting, after a certain amount of battle, you will get the swordsman class. You could also train in a certain sword art, and still get the swordsman class. Another thing is that, even if you have the same class as the other, it doesn¡¯t mean you have the same fighting style. The example Feric told us was a swordsman that fight normally and a swordsman that uses Iaido. They are basically from the same class, yet have completely different ways of fighting The other classes can also get skills, but unlike magicians that has a skill for every attack they make, other classes use skills as a last move. All of attacks of the magicians are skills, while the swordsman for example can kill by simply moving their swords. An example a non magician skill is the berserker¡¯s blood hunt skill, which lets them temporarily take a person¡¯s vitality and it to theirs. There is also a class up system, like I, who moved from Wizard to Sage. There are different ways to raise your class, but the most common is by sheer training. Your class will go up on its own as you get stronger. I wonder why I didn¡¯t get a class focused on fist fighting¡­I know I was just blindly punching and kicking, but I should at least get a class out of it. Anyways, the most basic classes are as follows:
Magician > Wizard > Sage > ??? > Priest > ??? > ??? Swordsman > Sword Dancer > ??? > ??? > Heavy Swordsman > ??? > ??? Fist Fighter > Martial Artist > ??? > ??? > Berserker > ??? > ??? Archer > Bow Master > ??? > ??? > Hunter > ??? > ??? Rogue > Assassin > ??? > ??? > Scavenger > ??? > ??? Knight > Royal Guard > ??? > ?? > Captain > ??? > ??? Etc.
There are other classes, but those are the most basic ones. You could also get more than one class, and even combine them. If you train as a magician and as a fist fighter, you will get the rune fist class. There isn¡¯t that much information on other unique classes, especially fusion classes. I was a bit curious about class fusion, rune fist sounds kinda cool, imagine all the possibilities. There are even other classes that aren¡¯t known yet. By the time they finished talking about classes, Nero finished cooking. Since Nero and I didn¡¯t really know how a relationship should go, we talked about things that didn¡¯t make any sense. In the end, we stared at each other until we fell asleep The tournament was a bit disappointing, the first match didn¡¯t even last a minute. I hope there are at least a few that can fight me, if not¡­Ah, who cares, at least we get 20 reis coins. Tomorrow will be for party battles, and they all told me to stay still unless they were losing to the enemy party. ___ The next day, people were moving to see us, but unlike before, they are making a path for us. When we got to the dome, we were given seats were we could see the fights. Finally, I could at least watch the others fight. I looked around, and saw the king, who was staring at me for no reason. I also found Feric¡¯s father, and when our eyes met, he waved at me¡­since it was rude of me to ignore him, I also waved back. I wonder why he didn¡¯t visit Feric yesterday. When it was finally our party¡¯s turn, people started cheering. ¡°SHERA SHERA SHERA¡±(Crowd) ¡°THIS IS IT, THE MOST POPULAR FIGHTER IN THIS TOURNAMENT. WAR GODDESS SHERA!¡±(Palan) ¡°SHERA SHERA SHERA¡±(Crowd) Ok, so I will officially be called a war goddess now, great. By the way, the other team was composed of 4 swordsmen, 1 archer, and 1 magician. ¡°ON THE RED CORNER IS THE STYGIAN CIPHER!¡±(Palan) Red? Where¡¯s the red color? I can¡¯t see any¡­Oh, the stairs we used to get to the ring was red. ¡°SHERA SHERA SHERA¡±(Crowd) Oi, it¡¯s called stygian cipher not Shera, stop shouting my name. ¡°On the blue corner is Blue Verdict!¡±(Palan) This guy is obviously showing favoritism¡­he didn¡¯t introduce the other party with the same intensity as he did to our party. ¡°BOO¡±(Crowd) ¡°DON¡¯T TOUCH OUR GODDESS!¡±(Group wearing purple t-shirt) ¡°Are both parties ready?¡±(Palan) Our party, and the other party nodded. For the rules, the king already said it yesterday. First killing is aloud, if you kill the enemy or the entire party, you win. Second, you win if you make the enemy faint, or make them admit defeat. And lastly, you are free to fight any way you want, all job classes can join. ¡°Let the battle begin!¡±(Palan) At his signal, both parties started to fight, except for me who was sitting on the side, watching them as they fight. The other party was good, I think? Ciela & Nero were keeping the 4 swordsmen at bay, while Feric was having an intense battle with the archer and the mage. The crowd seemed disappointed that I wasn¡¯t fighting, but didn¡¯t say anything, and simply watched my party members fight. I was sitting, quietly, until a fireball, and an arrow was sent to my direction. ¡°SHERA¡±(Nero, Feric & Ciela) When all of them, panicked when they looked at me, the enemy used the opportunity to attack them. All of them were caught with their guard down, and were defeated¡­except for Nero who was still conscious but no longer had the strength to fight. I got a bit angry, so I sent a spell to the enemy party. ¡°Thunder Rain¡±(Shera) Blue lightning was shot down from the sky, and hit everyone of the enemy party¡¯s members. Only the magician was still standing, and sent a tornado to my location, but I simply ran around the tornado, and punch his stomach. With that, I completely defeated the enemy party. The crowd went wild, with my display of power. ¡°UWOOOOO DID YOU SEE THAT? NOT ONLY IS SHE STRONG PHYSICALLY, SHE CAN EVEN USE HIGH LEVEL MAGIC! THAT FOLKS IS THE POWER OF THE WAR GODDESS!¡±(Palan) This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. ¡°SHERA SHERA SHERA¡±(Crowd) After that, we all went back to the inn without watching the other battles. All three of them looked really tired, with this it looks like they will have a hard time fighting tomorrow¡­so that¡¯s why there wasn¡¯t much party battles. If a person would have to fight continuously, then he will run out of steam before reaching the end of the tournament. It is ok for me to fight non-stop, but I don¡¯t think it is the same for them. I seem to have underestimated the tournament¡­maybe I should let them rest on the next battle? Tomorrow would still be party battles, and we will have to fight twice tomorrow. ¡°I think you guys should rest for tomorrow, I¡¯ll handle the party battles.¡±(Shera) ¡°What are you saying, we will go with you.¡±(Nero & Feric) ¡°You still have your individual battles the day after tomorrow, so you should rest.¡±(Shera) ¡°We could still fight.¡±(Nero) ¡°Let¡¯s just say I want to enjoy my battles, and fighting a party by myself is the only way to do it. So please rest for tomorrow.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­still¡±(Nero) ¡°Please, this is the first time I will be selfish, so please listen to me, and rest for tomorrow.¡±(Shera) ¡°What are you guys so worried about, you know master¡¯s strength right?¡±(Pooch) ¡°It¡¯s not just about strength¡­we just¡±(Feric) ¡°Please¡±(Shera) ¡°Fine¡±(Nero) ¡°Thank you¡± I hugged Nero, Feric & Ciela. ¡°F¡­food¡­hungry¡±(Ciela) After that we ate, and the day ended with all of them sleeping the rest of the day. When I woke up, everyone was still asleep. Looks like the battle yesterday really drained their strength. I took a bath, wore my armor, and said something to pooch before leaving the inn. ¡°Take care of them while I am away.¡±(Shera) The people at the dome, where shocked that I came alone for the party battles. Just like before, when it was my time to fight, the crowd went wild. ¡°OUR LOVELY GODDESS SHERA WILL FIGHT ALONE! CAN SHE WIN AGAINST THE ENEMY PARTY?¡±(Palan) ¡°SHERA SHERA SHERA¡±(Crowd) ¡°OF COURSE YOU FUCKTARD, THERE IS NO WAY OUR GODDESS WOULD LOSE!¡±(Group wearing purple t-shirt) You said I was the war goddess yesterday, and now I¡¯m called lovely goddess? What¡¯s next? And wait, there are more people wearing purple t-shirt. ¡°ON THE RED CORNER IS THE STYGIAN CIPHER!¡±(Palan) ¡°WE LOVE SHERA! WE LOVE SHERA!¡±(Crowd) ¡°MARRY ME SHERA-SAMA!¡±(???) After that, a group of people wearing purple t-shirt ganged up on someone. And we never saw the one who shouted ever again. ¡°On the blue corner is the Love You Troupe(L.Y.T.).¡±(Palan) ¡°KYAAAA IT¡¯S THEM¡±(Female crowd) ¡°Teach that attention seeker a lesson!¡±(Female crowd) ¡­Should I kill them? The one in front of me were a group of young people from different races. They all had well shaped body, and looked better than normal. Heh, Nero & Feric are more handsome compared to them. I don¡¯t see the reason they are so well liked. ¡°Are both parties ready?¡±(Palan) ¡°Wait, I want to say something to the lovely lady in front of us.¡± A talar winked at me¡­tsk. ¡°Honey, if you forfeit now, we will let you monopolize us for the rest of your life.¡± A vallar was slowly opening his vest, while licking his lips. ¡°KYAAAA¡±(Female crowd) ¡°NO, just start the battle.¡± I looked at them with a disinterested face. ¡°Come one darling, I know you want it.¡± Another vallar was thrusting his hips violently. What¡¯s that? Is that supposed to make me like you? ¡°KYAAAA¡±(Female crowd) ¡°DON¡¯T TOUCH OUR GODDESS!¡±(Group wearing purple t-shirt) ¡°HANDSOME PEOPLE SHOULD DIE!¡±(Male crowd) ¡°This is going nowhere, just start the fight already.¡± Did I just say what¡¯s inside of my head, out loud? ¡°L¡­let the battle begin!¡±(Palan) ¡°Wait!¡±(Love you troupe members) Since I was slightly irritated, so I punched them a bit harder. All of them went down with just a single punch¡­ ¡°THERE IT IS! SHERA-SAMA¡¯S STRENGTH!¡±(Palan) ¡°WE LOVE SHERA! WE LOVE SHERA!¡±(Crowd) Sigh¡­I didn¡¯t think a tournament could be this irritating. After the battle, I went to a seat given to me by the king¡­I am currently sitting beside the king. The king was from the talar race. He had silver hair and blue eyes like Feric, he also had a well shaped body. The only thing different from Feric was the king¡¯s white skin. Feric was still better in terms of looks though. He looked around 40-45, and had a slightly long beard. ¡°That was a splendid display of power, lady Shera.¡±(King) I need to act friendly in front of the king¡­sigh¡­what a pain in the ass. ¡°It was just a fluke, I am sure it would have turned badly if they attacked first.¡±(Shera) ¡°Quite a humble lady, I like it. After this tournament, would you mind visiting my castle? we will welcome you with open arms¡±(King) I guess it¡¯s ok, it¡¯s not like I plan on staying here. And visiting the castle sounds fun. ¡°I¡¯ll take offer, and visit your kingdom. I don¡¯t plan to stay here anyways.¡±(Shera) ¡°Good, I¡¯ll let you meet the first prince. I am sure you would like him.¡±(King) ¡°¡­meeting him is ok I guess, I don¡¯t plan stay in the kingdom either because I want to travel the world.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see¡± The king touched his beard, while thinking of something. Since he didn¡¯t say anything after that, I simply watched the other battles. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, and it was finally time for my last battle for the day. The enemy team had 3 members, and all of them wore a robe that covered their whole body and hid their face. ¡°IT¡¯s FINALLY TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT OF THE DAY!¡±(Palan) What main event? There are still some battles left after my fight. ¡°THE GODDESS WHO DESCENDED FROM THE HEAVENS TO SHOW US HER BEAUTY AND STRENGTH. EVERYBODY GIVE AROUND OF APPLAUSE TO SHERA NILLIN OF THE STYGIAN CIPHER!¡±(Palan) The crowd goes wild again, and started spouting different things. ¡°STEP ON ME SHERA-SAMA¡±(???) On that day, another man was never seen again. ¡°On the blue corner is the mysterious party who won their battles with a single spell, Genesis!¡±(Palan) So they are magicians, something feels odd about them though. Probably because I can¡¯t see their faces. ¡°Are both parties ready?¡±(Palan) I nodded, and the other party simply stayed silent. ¡°Let the battle begin!¡±(Palan) After this there will only be 4 more party battles¡­ While I was thinking my feet was getting dragged to the floor, and was frozen by ice magic. The ice started to spread through my body, but I easily got out. There were still small ice crumbs on my body, and they suddenly pierced my body. ¡°Release¡±(Hooded Man 1) At his words, the ice inside my body expanded, and ripped my flesh off. Kuuu¡­that hurts you retard. I ran to the enemy, but a 6 layered barrier imprisoned me. I started punching the barrier, and destroyed them one by one with my fist. Just before I destroyed the last barrier, the 3 finished casting a spell. ¡°Azrahel¡±(3 Hooded Men) The sky darkened, and 3 white circles appeared on the sky. The ground started to crack, and lightning started to fall around the city. Violent tornados started appearing around the city, and a colossal humanoid with 4 arms, 4 feet, 2 faces, 12 demonic tails, and 6 wings descended from the sky. The 3 hooded men that summoned it turned into sand, and was carried by the wind. Monsters started to come out of the cracks made by the summoning spell. Soon a voice echoed throughout the city. ¡°Greetings people of Zeirberg, I am Zaladin, the current ruler of 4 continents. I plan to expand my territory here next, so I sent a little gift. I hope you will enjoy it, and don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll send more in the future. If you survive that is AHAHAHAHAHA¡±(Zaladin) After that, the whole city was in total chaos. Monsters appeared everywhere, and people were getting killed one after another. I started killing every monster in sight, but more keeps popping out. The humanoid started attacking the citizens, so I punched it upwards. I jumped to the humanoid, and started attacking it to stall for time. When I looked around, a monster was moving to the king. ¡°Tsk¡± Since I couldn¡¯t move around that much while in midair. The only thing I could do was to keep attacking the humanoid, and simply watch as the king gets killed by the monster...or so I thought. The monster was cut in half, and the king was standing gracefully. He had a sword in hand, which he raised before shouting. ¡°EVERY KNIGHT AND ADVENTERURS PRESENT, HELP EVACUATE THE CITIZEN!¡± The king started to go down, and cut monsters in front of him. He helped the citizens get out, and a little bit after that knights entered the dome, and help kill the monsters. The humanoid kept regenerating no matter how much I attacked it. So I used a special spell. ¡°Void¡± I sent black flames to humanoid, but was deflected back to me. I small flame touched my body, and slowly started to spread. ¡°I am Azrahel, one of the 11 artificial gods that were created by lord Zaladin.¡±(Azrahel) He moved closer to me, and kicked me back to the ground. The black flames were still spreading around me body¡­and it hurts a lot. He roared, and cracks started to appear from the sky. Flying monsters started descending from the cracks. ¡°I am here to kill every mortal in this continent, and none of you can stop me.¡±(Azrahel) Tsk¡­how did this happen? Ch. 12: A fight inside the dome You don''t know what you have until it''s gone. Spoiler : Listen to I''ll be there by kana nishino(optional) This is getting dangerous, the whole town is infested with monsters, and there is this huge ass humanoid that regenerates every damn time. I was still inside of the dome, fighting Azrahel. I somehow managed to take the flames off, good thing it was a weaker version of the first void spell I ever used. ¡°Lady Shera, do you need any help?¡± The king asked me while panting. Looks like the unending horde of monsters took a toll on his old body. ¡°Shut up, I¡¯m busy. If you have the time to chat, then evacuate everyone so I can fight seriously.¡±(Shera) ¡°Very well, I wish you luck lady Shera.¡± The king continued went out the dome. All of the people in the dome have safely been evacuated, except for the ones that died of course. Azrahel punched me, but I blocked it with my hands, and kicked it back to his body. Its hand pierced through its stomach, but it didn¡¯t stop. It used its 3 remaining arms, to attack me. I ripped on of its hand, and used to push the other arms away. I jumped to its face, only to by grabbed by one of its arm, and crushed to the ground. While I was being held, it started piercing my body with his other tails, and punched me with its regenerated arms. My body regenerated enough to produce the needed strength, so that I could get out of the enemy¡¯s flurry of attacks. I pulled the tail that was grabbing me, to make the enemy lose balance. I used the opportunity to jump, and start my own flurry of attacks. I successfully ripped one of its head, and its regeneration seemed to slow down a bit. I tried to destroy the remaining head, but was grabbed by one of its tail, and was thrown away from it, to stall for time and regenerate. That tail of his is annoying, if I could just rip both of his head, then I could finish it with a void spell to erase its body. ¡°You are quite strong for a mortal, and you seem to have the same regenerative ability as me.¡±(Azrahel) I ignored his words, and jumped back to him. While I was in mid-air, I started releasing spells. ¡°Elemental spears¡±(Shera) 7 spears were created, and circled around my body. This is my own spell, which is a combination of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Light and Dark elements. I used the spears to deflect any of his tails that hindered me, and simply focused on ripping his head of. Every time he will block with his hands, I will crush them, and this cycle continued until I ripped 2 of his head of. I jumped away before releasing the final spell. ¡°Void Expl...¡± Before I could finish casting, Azrahel grabbed my head, and slammed me to the ground. ¡°Celestial Flare¡± Azrahel released a beam of light at me, I tried to dodge, but failed to do so. The attack vaporized half of my body. By the time I regenerated, Azrahel was on top of me, and repeatedly crushed my body with its foot. My body continuously regenerated, but was crushed every time by Azrahel. Unlike before, I couldn¡¯t regenerate enough to get myself away from his attacks. It would take a few hours before I could get enough strength to kill Azrahel...sigh...he is just prolonging the fight. ¡°This is what happens when you defy lord Zaladin. But to think you can regenerate this much, I wonder how long it will take to finally kill you.¡±(Azrahel) My body was scattered on the ground, and I can¡¯t even utter a sound. Azrahel started to raise his tails, and arms. Black flames started to form from its hand and tails...this is bad...if he releases that on the city. Just before Azrahel finished, pooch entered the dome, and pushed it away from me. ¡°Master, sorry I am late.¡± Pooch was back to his true form. My body finally regenerated, but armor that Nero bought for me was destroyed...I have to apologize later. ¡°Where are the others? Are they safe?¡±(Shera) ¡°Celestial Flare¡±(Azrahel) ¡°Celestial Flare¡±(Pooch) Both of them released the same spell which canceled each other. I used this opportunity to land a clean hit on Azrahel¡¯s face, and ripped one if its head off. Pooch jumped to Azrahel and released another spell to the remaining head. The enemy fell to the ground, and since it was the second time it lost 2 of its head, it stopped moving. ¡°So, how are the others?¡±(Shera) ¡°They are helping the other civilians to evacuate, and Ciela is already out of the city.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Void Explosion¡± This was the same spell I used before, it will expand after contact, and erase it¡¯s body so that It can never regenerate again. Just before the flames reached the corpse, it vanished. The corpse began regenerating again, and before we could send another attack, Pooch and I were sent flying. While in mid-air, Azrahel followed us, and threw us to the ground. ¡°Fighting 2 gods is too much, but for lord Zaladin I will sacrifice all my remaining life force to kill you, and erase 2 threats that might block lord Zaladin¡¯s grand plan.¡±(Azrahel) The moment my legs touched the ground, I immediately jumped upwards but was sent back to the ground. When I looked up, Azrahel¡¯s body emitted light, and his body got bigger. We tried attacking, but its body was regenerating faster compared to before. It was even moving faster, and its attack was getting heavier. We continued to fight, yet as time passed, Azrahel got stronger, and stronger. It¡¯s body got bigger, and suddenly got slower. It¡¯s humanoid form turned into a sphere, but it was still regenerating no matter what we throw at it. Even void exlposion simply vanishes before hitting it. Since magic wasn¡¯t effective, we simply continued attacking physically. While attacking, a force suddenly pushed Pooch and I away from the sphere of light. I looked back, and watched as a new entity come out of the sphere. It was a humanoid made from light. I...it was a cocoon? ¡°Lord Zaladin, watch me as kill these two gods that wants to stop us from creating eden.¡±(Azrahel) Azrahel got smaller, and was now on the same size as me. He arms became 2, his legs became 2, his wings were no longer there, and all of his tails were gone, yet I feel a really dangerous power around him. And as I looked on his face, I could see nothing, a face without eyes, mouth, ears, and nose. I could have attacked, but I felt that I should wait, and simply watched as the entity in front of me talk to someone in thin air. ¡°Lord Zaladin, thank you for everything, and farewell.¡± As it finished talking, its body of light turned black, and eyes started popping out of its body. Azrahel ran to me, and I couldn¡¯t even see a thing. He punched my face, and pierced through my skull. While his arm was inside my head, he dragged his arm downwards, cutting my body in half. He grabbed my body which was now separated into two, and started crushing my body. ¡°Celestial Flare¡±(Pooch) Before it hit the enemy, the beam disappeared. ¡°You can have your ally¡¯s attack.¡± Azrahel pointed his finger at me, and Pooch beam came out. ¡°MASTER!¡±(Pooch) Only small chunks of my body was left, and by the time I regenerated, pooch was about to get killed. I ran to the enemy, and pushed him away. ¡°Pooch go back to your cute form quickly.¡±(Shera) Pooch understood what I wanted to do, and simply did as I told him. Once he was back to his cute form, I threw him away. My body suddenly got cut to tiny pieces, and lost consciousness. I wasn¡¯t awake yet I knew that Azrahel repeatedly killed me, and my body¡¯s regenerative ability got slower and slower. When I woke up, Azrahel was still attacking me, but it looked like he was exhausted. His attacks were a lot slower, even compared to his normal form. He was weaker now, and so was I. Both of my arms and a leg were missing, and it could no longer regenerate. I knew that the next time I died, I will no longer wake up. I jumped away, and started running. Azrahel ran after me, and when he lowered his guard down, I turned back to kick his face. It still had its regeneration ability, but I continued to kick his body. As time passed, my body started regenerating slowly, while Azrahel¡¯s regeneration got slower. By the time my arms regenerated, Azrahel could no longer regenerated. ¡°Why is a god helping the mortals? Do you not want the wars to stop?¡±(Azrahel) ¡°Yeah, and killing everyone will stop wars. I completely get it, it is so understandable.¡±(Shera) ¡°If lord Zaladin conquers the world, then everything will be peaceful.¡±(Azrahel) Stolen novel; please report. That scenario sounds familiar...wait, sounds like what I was trying to do on earth. Azrahel¡¯s body was starting to turn into dust, and left a few words for me. ¡°You will regret defying lord Zaladin.¡± The was its last words before disappearing. That guy was strong, I could have died without pooch¡¯s help earlier. Pooch entered the dome, and looked around. ¡°Master finally killed a god.¡±His body was healed to the extent where he could walk, but he was still covered in wounds. ¡°...Both of you are gods yet the difference in power was high.¡±(Shera) ¡°I told you regenerating types are my weakness, and besides, You and I could defeat him alone if he didn¡¯t use that last move. He expended his almost infinite lifespan to fight both of us, and should I tell you that none of the gods I know have ever used their life force to fight? That somehow explain a lot, I guess? Anyways, we have to help the city. ¡°Pooch, do you know a way to stop the monsters? Where did they come from anyway?¡± I was talking to him, while casually killing every monsters near us. ¡°Since the entity that created it is now gone, it will stop after it runs out of mana. So I suggest that we keep killing them, until they stop spawning.¡± Pooch was also killing the monsters while talking to me. ¡°If that¡¯s the case, let¡¯s kill them all. I¡¯ll go that way, and you go the other way.¡±(Shera) Pooch didn¡¯t say anything, and simply followed my instructions. Since my armor destroyed, I took clothes from one of the corpses, and started running around the city. I met different people, that were still fighting. There were some adventurers, knights, civilians that were trying to protect their home, and even the mercenary guild was helping. I wonder what the mercenary guild do... I ran around killing monsters in sight, and everyone saw as I easily ripped the monsters into shreds. As I cleaned the city, blood from the monsters started to pile up on my body, but I didn¡¯t have time to clean myself. It took half a day to finally quell the chaos. We saved the city, but a lot died. Now that everything was over, I tried to find the others. ___ I quickly found, Ciela with the other civilians, and Feric was talking with his parents...but I couldn¡¯t see Nero. I asked everyone yet they didn¡¯t know where he was. I was still not sure where he was. Where is he? I didn¡¯t see him while fighting the monsters. Ah, he is just probably chilling somewhere in the city. I grabbed pooch to use his nose to find Nero. The city was filled with corpses of people and monsters, so it was hard for pooch to find Nero. I already went back to the inn we stayed at, and I already searched every place near the inn, yet there was no sign of Nero. W...where is he? For some reason, my body started to weaken, and my chest started to hurt. I ran around the city, and as time passed, the thought of him dying entered my mind. I have circled around the city, buy I couldn¡¯t find him. T...this is unfair, we just started our relationship... We searched everywhere, I already roamed the whole city twice. Yet I couldn¡¯t see him, the person that I started to like, the person I started to love, suddenly gone in a flash. It doesn¡¯t feel true, maybe all of it is a dream. Pooch stayed quiet as tears flowed from my cheeks as I ran around the city for a third time. Maybe we just forgot to look somewhere, maybe Nero was somewhere hidden. I finished running around, yet there was no signs of Nero. I suddenly lost all of my strength, I felt like I wanted to rest...rest for eternity. I sat somewhere in the city filled with corpses, and pooch reverted to his true form and let me use his body as a pillow. I slowly close my eyes, and started thinking of things that I wanted to do in this new world I was sent to. I wanted to live a new life, I wanted to have fun, I wanted to love someone...and right now, I just can¡¯t see it coming true. The smell of rotting flesh was starting to get spread around, but I didn¡¯t care. I simply wanted to sleep for a while, and maybe I would hear Nero¡¯s voice to wake me up, maybe I will see him again. I covered my eyes with my left hand, as my tears continued to flow out of my eyes. As I was about to fall asleep, i felt something move. I thought it would be Nero, I thought somehow he heard me, and come back for me. But when I opened my eyes, what I saw wasn¡¯t Nero, but a monster. I didn¡¯t feel like moving anymore, so I just let Pooch handle it. The monster suddenly start expanding, and exploded. My body suddenly jumped, my hands curved around a figure, and my mouth uttered a name. ¡°Nero¡±(Shera) The one in front of me right now was the person I love. I don¡¯t care what others say, I don¡¯t care if I become the enemy of the world again, I only care about being with the person I love, Nero Ventus. ¡°N...no, I¡¯m, covered in monster blood. You¡¯ll get dirty.¡±(Nero) ¡°I don¡¯t care, I¡¯ll never let go of you.¡±(Shera) I don¡¯t want to feel like that again, I don¡¯t want anything to happen to you, I don¡¯t want to lose you. ¡°...¡±(Nero) I hugged him tightly so that he could never go away again. He simply stayed silent, as I hugged him for hours. ___ We went back outside the city, and camps were set for the civilians. It wasn¡¯t hard to find Ciela & Feric, and reunited with them. Just like before, the day ended, with all of us sleeping on the same tent. This is how it should be, this is how I want to live my life, a life with everyone. My body slowly relaxed, and after observing Nero¡¯s face for a bit, I finally slept. ___ (Mirael¡¯s POV) I just felt my brother die, how could this happen? Only animal gods were supposed to rival us, but Azrahel was sent far from mirage desert, so how? I was walking to the great blood hall, and entered the void room. I knelt down, and started talking. ¡°Lord Zaladin, Azrahel has died.¡±(Mirael) ¡°That stupid good for nothing, to die without even destroying half of the continent.¡±(Zaladin) I hate it when lord Zaladin is like this, we are doing everything for him, yet all he sees are the things we couldn¡¯t accomplish. We can¡¯t talk back though, he is our creator after all. ¡°Damn it, for him to be this useless. Mirael, take a humanoid form, and spread your legs.¡±(Zaladin) Sigh...as always, whenever he gets angry he uses my body to relieve stress. I can¡¯t fight back though, he is our creator after all. By the way, I am Mirael, the leader of the 11 artificial gods, and the right hand man of lord Zaladin. ___ When I woke up, I stared at Nero¡¯s body. Yup, he is alive, and he is here with us. I was the first one to wake up, so I wanted to do something different for a change. I poked Nero¡¯s face, and tried to wake him up. ¡°Nero, wake up.¡±(Shera) After hearing my voice, he opened his eyes, and stared at my face. He smiled at me all of a sudden, so I quickly turned my head to the side with a red face. ¡°D...don¡¯t suddenly smile like that.¡±(Shera) ¡°Do you not want me to smile?¡±(Nero) ¡°I...it¡¯s not that.¡±(Shera) ¡°Then look directly to my eyes, and tell me you love me.¡±(Nero) How did it get to this? We were just talking about your smile you know? ¡°If you don¡¯t, then I¡¯ll start to think that you have me.¡±(Nero) E...EH? I quickly turned my face towards him, and started at his eyes. He was still smiling, and was also staring at my eyes. My head started to heat up, and my face started to get redder. I...It¡¯s hard to look at his face for too long so I turned my head downwards. ¡°So you hate me after all.¡±(Nero) It¡¯s not that...I just can¡¯t look at you directly for some reason, it¡¯s too embarrassing. Since, I couldn¡¯t utter a word, I simply shook my head. Nero suddenly hugged me, and my heart started beating faster. ¡°Just kidding, I told you that no matter what happens, I will always love you.¡±(Nero) My mind went blank, and my body hugged Nero on its own. ¡°I love you shera.¡±(Nero) ¡°I...I love you too, Nero.¡± My hands let go of his body, and grabbed his head. My face moved closer to his, as I pulled his head towards mine. I closed my eyes, and felt something touch my lips...when I opened my eyes, I was kissing nero. Our face matched, and was dyed in red. E...Eh? WHAT AM I DOING!!!!! Ch. 13: I became a duchess? Can Feric''s ship defeat Nero''s battleship? The next day, the King made a speech to everyone that survived. The king will support the city until it recovers, and every noble is ordered to also help. Once the speech was over, the king called me in front of the crowd. It didn¡¯t seem like he will do anything bad, so I walked to the king. ¡°Lady Shera Nillin was the one who saved the city, and fended of the colossal monster. For her achievements I will give her a raise in adventurer rank, and a rank of Duchess.¡± At the kings word, a strong looking person walked to us. He bowed to the king before speaking. ¡°I am Lanza Keriol, the branch head of the Kanaria Adventurer¡¯s guild, and I hereby raise Duchess Shera¡¯s rank to reis(high) for all her accomplishments.¡±(Lanza) Am I supposed to be happy? Since I didn¡¯t know what to do, I simply smiled while they continued their speech. I listened quietly until the king said he will give me land, how am I supposed to travel if I need to take care of something? ¡°Sorry, I can¡¯t accept the land. I plan on traveling, and taking care of the land will hinder my plans.¡±(Shera) The king raised his brow, and rubbed his beard. After a while, he smiled at me and started talking. ¡°Do¡¯t worry Duchess Shera, I will send people to take care of the land while you are away. The land will stay yours, so you could come back to it anytime you want.¡±(King) ¡°I see¡±(Shera) I smiled for the rest of the speech, and finally got out. After me, other people with great achievements in the defense for the city, were given rewards. It seems that 3 reis rank adventurers killed a lot of the monsters while I was fighting Azrahel, and were given nobility status. Although it didn¡¯t seem like the came for the status, just like me, they came here to fight strong opponents. Feric was raised to platinum(low), and Nero finally got to the gold(high) rank. It seems that Nero saved a lot of people, and was eaten when he got tired. Using his blood hunt skill, he continued to sap vitality while inside the monster, and got out after getting back a bit of strength. After giving gold ranks, the king walked away. Members of the adventurer¡¯s guild were given rewards by the branch head and his assistants. The whole day was about giving rewards, and at night, everybody celebrated for the successful defense against the monsters. I don¡¯t know why they are celebrating, even though we won, the city still lost a lot. Based on what I saw while running around, more than half of the city was destroyed, and many citizens died. I didn¡¯t say anything because, I didn¡¯t want to ruin the festive mood of the citizens. I was the center of attention of the celebration, and I had to go with the odd events, they even made me sing. Feric, Ciela & Pooch retired early, and went back to the tent. The children are already back to their tents, and a few adult and nobles were left for the celebration. The nobles started giving out bitter tasting drinks, but it looks like I am the only one that didn¡¯t like the taste. Since most of their faces turned red as the drank the liquid, I understood that I was drinking alcohol. The nobles were quite decent, and when they noticed they were getting drunk, the returned to their tents. One by one, people slowly went back to their tents, and in the end, only the King, Nero and I were left. ¡°Duchess Shera, I have a proposal to make.¡±(King) ¡°...What is it?¡±(Shera) ¡°First is that, I want you to be the next queen of this continent.¡±(King) ¡°Eh?¡±(Shera) ¡°I fear for the safety of my citizen, and having you with us will solve the problem. Since I am asking a lot from you, I have to give you something in return. If you protect this continent from future enemies, I will support you, and make you the queen of this kingdom.¡±(King) ¡°I told you I want to travel, I don¡¯t want to stay in one place, or at least until I am satisfied with my adventure.¡±(Shera) ¡°I know that, you don¡¯t have to accept it now. The offer will stand as long as I am alive, so you can enjoy your life for now, and if you decided to stay at one place, the kingdom will welcome you as its queen.¡±(King) ¡°B...but I have to marry someone to become queen right? I already have someone I love.¡±(Shera) ¡°If that is the case, then you can increase the power of your soon to be duchy, and when you have enough forces. The royal family will step down, and let you become the queen.¡±(King) ¡°Are you taking the title of a ruler seriously? I mean, I may be strong, but I don¡¯t have the same blood as a royalty. I don¡¯t even know what a royalty does, look I am obviously the only lein in this continent, are they even gonna accept me as a ruler.¡±(Shera) ¡°Have you seen how the people reacts? Even though they only seen you for a few weeks, you already have a lot of supporters. When I gave you a noble title, none rejected the Idea, even the nobles accepted it. I doubt anyone would reject the Idea of you being the queen, although you have to study a bit in ruling over a continent.¡±(King) ¡°T...this is too much responsibilities, and I think you should think about it more. You don¡¯t even know much about me, I think you should reconsider.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha I have seen a lot of people in my life as a king, so I can easily tell that you are what this continent needs. People will jump at the offer of being the queen, yet here you are, rejecting the offer with all of your strength. Your charism is another factor, you naturally attract people to you. Well, your strength is also another factor. You have the strength to protect this city, and I don¡¯t.¡±(King) ¡°I still think you are rushing it a bit.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha I guess the alcohol is starting to affect my head, so I¡¯ll rest now. Anyways, I am serious about my offer Duchess Shera, please think about it.¡± The king started to walk back to his tent. Why can¡¯t I just travel normally? Different things pop out and try to hinder me. Can¡¯t I just enjoy my life while traveling with my friend?...by the way, Nero is too quiet. I looked at Nero, and he was already sleeping. I raised his head, and put him on my lap. I caressed his hair, and stared at his face. ¡°Heh, he is sleeping so comfortably.¡±(Shera) I doubt the tournament will continue, so what do we do now? We haven¡¯t really planned our next destination. Ah, who cares, I¡¯ll just enjoy playing with Nero¡¯s hair. I enjoyed my time with the sleeping Nero, and slept outside. The next day, people with high status congratulated me. Feric¡¯s father said he would help in the construction of my duchy, since as of now, my land is only an empty space. There were some people that wanted to serve under me, but I felt it was to early to rule a land, and postpones that kind of talk. Our party was getting a lot of attention, and it seems the hate for Nero faded. Some were even calling him the Crimson Hero, which is sounds cool in my opinion. There were too many people on the adventurer¡¯s guild, despite what happened yesterday, so we didn¡¯t update our plates and stats. We roamed around, and it seems the tournament is already finished. The winner of both tournaments will be us, and will be given the prize money later, which is 40 reis coins in total. Large sum of money will be given to us, it¡¯s kinda scary holding on to it. The construction of the city started, and other cities will send supplies later. The nobles sent a message to their territory using einolon birds. I happen to see one, and it looked like a human sized blue eagle, with horns. No wonder they could send fast messages, by the way, einolon birds are summoned beings, and not a native animal. Now that we talk about animals, let¡¯s remember what Feric told me. Animals and monsters are differentiated by destruction levels. Destruction levels span from level 0 to 15, and every creature at destruction level 2 or higher are treated as monsters, while those at destruction level 0 or 1 are animals. Animals are generally creatures that can be defeated by people, even if they don¡¯t have experience in fighting. Monsters on the other hand are creatures that needs to be handled by experts or a group of people. In short, animals aren¡¯t a threat, while monsters are dangerous. Creatures in this world are different from our world, although there are some resemblance. An example is the juggernaut rabbit, it was blue in color, and looked like a normal rabbit, except for its intimidating size. It was at destruction level 4, and is as big as a 2 story building. I remember how big the elephants on my world are, and in this world they have a slightly deformed body, and violet skin. Guess what the destruction level of the elephant is...it¡¯s 0, it¡¯s as small as an apple, and can¡¯t do any lethal damage to the people. The thing I noticed is that, as the destruction level increases, it gets farther and farther away from how animals look like on earth. An example is the one we saw before getting to Kanaria city, a Groagan, which have a spherical body, 6 arms, and 2 legs. Now that you think about it, maybe I should buy books about creatures of this world. We spent the rest of the day visiting different places of the city, we happen to pass by Ranzal, it seems that his grandchildren are safe, but his own children died protecting them. I tried to help by giving a gold coin, but Ranzal rejected it. He said that the thought was enough, and the other nobles were already sending help financially. After dinner, we started talking about our next destination. ¡°The land given to you was here, so if you want to check it out, we could pass through the kingdom and go to your land. After that we could pass though this city, and directly go to the port city, if you want to go to other continents.¡±Nero was pointing at the map. There are a lot of cities we won¡¯t see if we use that path, but I guess it''s ok. Not that I want to see each and every city in this continent. ¡°I think we should go to other places on our travel, instead of just directly going to cities. There are good places to visit, like Lanara falls, Ether canyon, and other places.¡±(Feric) That¡¯s it! It feels too bland to just go to cities. ¡°Are there any good place we could visit in the middle of Kanaria city and the kingdom?¡±(Shera) ¡°There are 3 choices.The fastest should be by going to the Ether canyons, 2nd should be by the Iosop forest, which houses rare mosters, and the slowest path should be the Erald Lake. We could just use the plains for a faster travel though.¡±(Nero) ¡°Can¡¯t we pass through all of them?¡±(Shera) Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. ¡°...That would be impossible, we would have to go back to use the other paths.¡±(Nero) ¡°Don¡¯t worry, there are also other places we could visit between the kingdom and your land.¡±(Feric) ¡°The problem should be our supplies, and coach. We need to restock, and buy a new coach.¡±(Nero) Ah, now that you think about it, our coach got destroyed...those damn monsters, how dare they destroy my beautiful coach. ¡°Most of the stores got destroyed, and I already asked everyone, but it seems there isn''t anyone left that sells coaches.¡±(Nero) ¡°...so we have to stay here?¡±(Shera) ¡°We could use father¡¯s coach, he said he will stay here to fix the city anyways.¡±(Feric) ¡°For supplies, I guess we should just store water, and get food from the wild.¡±(Nero) Why is it so hard to travel? It¡¯s irritating how we have to prepare tons of stuff before we could travel. ¡°Um, if we can¡¯t get water then we can use this path, there are lakes in this path that we could use to restock. And the place is brimming with animals.¡±(Ciela) Ciela pointed at the Iosop forest path, and also marked places on the forest, which tells us where the lakes are located. ¡°When did you get this information?¡±(Nero) ¡°People usually tell me different stuffs when I jog around the city. I piled up a bit of information from different people...¡±(Ciela) Our talk continued, and in the end, we will use the duke¡¯s coach, and go through the Iosop forest. With that our day ended. When I woke up, Feric was already out of the tent, probably talking to his father about the coach. When it was time for lunch, Feric returned with black colored coach. The emblem of their family was carved on a yellow piece of wood at the back. There were windows around the coach, unlike before where only the door had a window. It was elevated by 3-4 ft, and had stairs below the door. ¡°You came at the right time, I just finished preparing food.¡±(Nero) ¡°The adventurer¡¯s guild isn''t that crowded anymore, we should go there after eating.¡±(Feric) As he said, we went to the adventurer¡¯s guild, and updated our plates. As always, I was the last to check my stats. Spoiler :
NameFeric Morc Osdwin
RaceTalar
Age157GenderMale
TITLES
[Awakened One][Savior]
Level61ClassWizard
Vitality50Agility31
Strength39Defense24
Magic Attack198Magic Defense148
NameNero Ventus
RaceVallar
Age77GenderMale
TITLES
[Awakened One][Crimson Hero]
Level55ClassBerserker
Vitality127Agility87
Strength122Defense83
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
NameCiela Ventus
RaceVallar
Age31GenderFemale
TITLES
[Hidden Gem][Awakened One][The Hard Working One]
Level28ClassBlade Dancer
Vitality70Agility36
Strength42Defense39
Magic Attack3Magic Defense2
Everyone got stronger...wait, it¡¯s just been 2 weeks yet their level increased dramatically, especially Ciela. If this keeps up, Ciela would surpass them in a year or 2. Aside from that, it looks like all of them were shocked at their stats, did they get a new title or something? Ah, anyways, it¡¯s my turn.
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age1GenderFemale
TITLES
[War Goddess][God Slayer][Rift Walker][Void Magician][Chain Caster]
Level494ClassSage, Fist Fighter
Vitality165,894Agility1216
Strength2319Defense1684
Magic Attack1495Magic Defense1027
Nothing new here, there are additional titles, but it¡¯s not like this is the first time it happened. Wait, I finally have a fist fighter class...but isn¡¯t it supposed to change to rune fist? I can also use magic after all. When all of us finished, it seems like Ciela got raised to silver(low). Seriously, if you think about it she has the most talent out of the 3. She isn¡¯t even half of Nero¡¯s age, and she is already at this level. For Feric...since he is the researcher type, I guess I shouldn¡¯t expect him to have the same growth as Nero & Ciela. After getting Ciela¡¯s new plate, we headed to the dome. The money was already packed in a stash by the time we got there, after getting it, we have no more business with this city. We used the our free time, to say our farewells with the people of the city. Most of the noble, and even the king will stay in the city for a while. When night came, we started heading to Iosop forest. It would take a month or 2 to get to the forest, and 3-4 months to get to the kingdom. As our coach started moving, I remembered a few things that Azrahel said. If you think about it, Azrahel mention 11 artificial gods. If there are 10 more like him which will attack this continent...Ah, it doesn¡¯t concern me. I am not the protector of this continent, so I¡¯ll simply move as I want. ___ As we traveled, I saw a lot of new things yet again. Because there were more windows, I could clearly see what¡¯s outside. Different animals, monsters, green grass, blue grass, different colored trees. We could also see different rock formations from a far, and a few villages, where we replenished our supplies. Well, at most we could get 3-4 days worth of supplies from the small villages, so we still had to get food from the wild. Feric would drive most of the time, and he always pushes me to Nero. It feels like he is helping me, what a good guy. Pooch seems to be interested in training Ciela, and they would go off somewhere when we take a break. Nero was in charge of food, supply management and driving, Feric was in charge of cleaning and driving, Ciela was in charge of taking care of the horses, and I was in charge of sitting inside the coach and hugging Pooch...Ok so I don¡¯t help that much, I did feel guilty, but they all told me to stay inside,what could I do? As we traveled, Ciela¡¯s growth could easily be seen. Unlike before, Ciela alone could fend off the monsters, and she even killed 3 bandits on her own. She still look around 8, so it was kinda funny seeing grown men get defeated by a child. Her fighting style also improved, she was starting to use her wings to boost her speed even while fighting on ground. Seeing her growth, Nero & Feric also started training themselves on their free time. I guess they didn¡¯t want to see a child surpass them. It was fun, everyone was doing their own stuff, seeing them have fun, bonding like a family, and a lot of things that I never could have experience before. As we traveled, we got closer and closer to each other. The silent Feric was replaced by a more cheerful and supportive Feric. A few weeks passed, and we finally reached the Iosop forest. It composed of blue and orange trees that were 15-20 ft tall. The ground was filled with blue grass, and small creatures could be seen moving around. There wasn¡¯t really a road for the coach to enter, but there were visible paths we could enter. By the way, it was still morning when we got to the entrance. ¡°It¡¯s pretty¡± I went out of the coach to observe the entrance of the forest. ¡°Yeah, it is.¡± Nero also followed, and looked around with a happy expression. ¡°IF YOU LOVE HER, THEN GO FOR IT!¡± Ciela suddenly shouted inside the coach, and pushed Feric out of the coach. There she goes again, energetic as always. ¡°Ciela that was a bit...¡±(Feric) ¡°Ok, time for training, come with me pooch¡± Ciela started running inside the forest. ¡°Master, don¡¯t worry about her. We¡¯ll follow you later, so you can enter the forest without us.¡± Pooch started running after Ciela. ¡°Ok, everyone time to enter Iosop forest!¡±(Shera) Ch. 14: Swimming on the lake What happens when a hidden gem awakens? Expect the unexpected. We have been traveling the forest for a month now, and I have to say, it was a great experience. It was exciting to camp inside the forest, not to mention the cute animals that I see around here. It was a peaceful travel, unlike the plains, monsters were rare at this forest. Actually, it is probably because of Ciela. She always moves ahead of us, and probably kills every monster she sees for training, Feric scolded her for that though. Feric said that even monsters have a right to live, and we should live them alone if they aren¡¯t attacking us, I doubt it would stop Ciela though. Right now we are camping near a lake. Nero & Ciela are running around the forest for food, while Feric was temporarily in charge of the horses. I am swimming in the lake, with a swimsuit that Feric bought for me. It was a one piece swimsuit with transparent skirt...what¡¯s the point of adding a skirt if it doesn¡¯t cover anything? Since the lower part of the swimsuit was kinda embarrassing, I also wore white shorts. I used air bubble spell on my head to breath underwater. I compressed air into 40 small air bubbles inside the main air bubble covering my head. If run out of air, one of the smaller bubbles will pop, which restores the air around me. Right now I have 50 story building amount of air, so I can dive all I want. I used water to boost my speed underwater, and I found a small hole in the deepest part of the lake. Since it was probably time to eat, I went back to the others. When I resurfaced, Nero & Ciela were already back. Nero was already cooking the food, while Ciela was swinging her sword repeatedly. Feric handed me a towel, and helped me get out of the water...really, it¡¯s not like I even need help. ¡°So, did you have fun?¡±(Feric) ¡°Yes, there were a lot of colorful fishes that ran past me. There were a lot of corals, and old looking object under the lake. Ah, and I found a small hole in the deepest part of the lake.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hole?¡±(Feric) ¡°It was enough to fit one person, since it looks interesting, I plan to go back after I eat.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see, since we will still fix the supplies for a while, you can still play on the waters. Come back after 2 or 3 hours, and stay safe ok?¡±(Feric) ¡°I am not playing, I am swimming, they are two different things.¡±(Shera) ¡°Ok ok, for now go to Nero, I am sure he missed you.¡± Feric pushed me to Nero¡¯s direction. I was just gone for a few hours... After that, I spoke with Nero about the different things I saw on the lake while eating. When I said I would go to a small hole in the lake, he told me not to. If I wanted to go on such a suspicious place, then Nero also had to go. With Feric¡¯s help, we persuaded Nero to let me swim alone. 20-30 minutes after eating, I went back to the lake, I wanted to go earlier, but Nero said I should rest after eating or else my stomach would hurt later. I went to the hole, and started swimming. I used light magic to see what¡¯s in front of me. The path was small, and only one person could travel here. I have been swimming for an hour, and there was still no signs of the path ending. I used higher leveled magic, to propel myself faster, and after another hour, I found and open space. I used a yellow class light magic called, Astral Nova. It is a spell I created, the name also came from me of course. It is a spell that expands by a few kilometers, and doesn¡¯t affect the caster. Everyone aside from me that is inside the range will slowly vaporize. Ok so it is a copy of celestial flare, but mine is better cause it expands outwards, unlike the original that just goes in one line. Anyways, the light spread through the waters. It was empty, I couldn¡¯t see anything except water. I continued to go down, and my body started to feel more and more pressure, still not that much for me though. I continued to swim down, and casted Astral Nova every time the light fades. I have been going at it for hours, should I go back? The others are probably worried, but I am curious as to what I will see in the deepest part of this place... With a slightly worried face, I continued to descend to the vast yet empty waters. ___ (Nero¡¯s POV) ¡°I TOLD YOU, SOMETHING HAPPENED TO SHERA AND WE NEED TO GO AFTER HER NOW!¡±(Nero) ¡°Calm down, I believe master only saw something interesting, and probably forgot about returning for a moment.¡±(Pooch) ¡°IT¡¯S ALREADY BEEN A DAY AND SHE STILL HASN¡¯T COME BACK!¡±(Nero) ¡°Brother calm down¡±(Ciela) ¡°We are also worried, but we have to believe in Shera.¡±(Feric) ¡°Nero, I don¡¯t think she would be in any dangerous situation that you are thinking. Only gods could defeat her as she is now, so calm down.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Fine, I¡¯ll go after her.¡±(Nero) I am disappointed, Shera has been missing for a day and yet you still don¡¯t want to search for her? Even if she is strong, there are still things she can¡¯t handle alone. What if she got lost? What if something sealed her powers and imprisoned her? Damn it! As I was thinking, Pooch reverted back to his colossal form, and blocked my path. ¡°You have to go through me first, If you can defeat me, then I¡¯ll allow you to go after master.¡±(Pooch) If killing you will let me save Shera, then I¡¯ll do it. I think of you as an important comrade, but Shera comes first. ¡°Blood hunt¡± My body started releasing red aura. Just before I could get punch Pooch, a 3 layered wall appeared in front of me. My punch destroyed 2 walls, but was stop on the third. While my movements were suspended, I felt a strong killing intent from the back, which came from Ciela. ¡°Brother, please stop this. If you continue, I will be your enemy.¡±(Ciela) ¡°I¡¯ll also stop you.¡±(Feric) ¡°You have grown a lot Ciela, you already got this strong...but I won¡¯t let you stop me. I will save Shera, and I will do it NOW!.¡±(Nero) ___ (Pooch¡¯s POV) I am back to my child form, which master keeps calling ¡®the cute form¡¯. I am currently watching as 3 of my friends fight, and I¡¯ll have to say. They are surpassing my expectations, by a gigantic margin. I have been alive for almost a million years now, and I have traveled a bit before staying in the mirage desert. I have met a lot of people, other gods besides the animal gods, and majins. So I could easily say that the 3 in front of me now, will become a part of the strongest in this world. They have talent, they are growing faster than the average...No, they are even growing faster than the so called prodigies. At first, I thought it was just because they are getting a lot of experience from traveling with master, but I was wrong. They are people that were born to do something big in this world, and right in front of my eyes, these people are growing at a frightening level while fighting. Especially the person that I think has the most potential, Ciela. ¡°Do you give up brother?¡± Ciela was currently pointing her sword at the beaten Nero. She wasn¡¯t that injured, in fact her body didn¡¯t have any injuries at all. It may be because Ciela & Feric ganged up on Nero, but I feel she could fight Nero by herself as she is now. In fact, even though there is a large amount of gap between us, I could feel a bit intimidated just by looking at her. ¡°...¡±(Nero) ¡°Please stop, we are all worried sick, but it¡¯s not like we can even travel in the waters like Shera.¡±(Feric) ¡°...¡±(Nero) ¡°Brother, I believe in onee-san, do you not believe in her? Do you mean your trust in her is that little?¡±(Ciela) ¡°It¡¯s not that, she has been gone for more than a day, and we don¡¯t know what¡¯s happening to her.¡±(Nero) I walked in front of Nero, and returned to my true form. ¡°Nero, I promise you as one of the animal gods that master is safe. If by some chance something did happen to her, I would allow you to kill me.¡±(Pooch) After that, Nero calmed down, and stayed quiet inside the coach. I know he is still worried, but it is also the same for us. Does he think we care not about master? If I have to choose between my life or hers, I would choose hers. If I have to, I would sacrifice myself for master. I don¡¯t know where master is now, but I am sure no matter what she faces, she could protect herself. ___ I am currently on top of a gate...gate on the deepest part. I don¡¯t know how much time I have spent swimming, so I punched the gate with all of my strength...and I fell. The gate opened and sucked me inside. When I opened my eyes, I was inside an expensive yet old looking castle. There was one thing that I noticed, there is no water, and there is light. I could see the castle in front of me, and everything around me were gigantic walls. I jumped as high as possible, but the walls extended infinitely. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. After running outside of the castle, I entered it. I couldn¡¯t sense a single life inside, so I simply checked each and every room inside. All I could see were old decorations, paintings, equipment, and letter. I found a secret passage while checking everything, and entered. The path went downwards, and as I got deeper and deeper, I started to sense someone. At the end of the path, was a gate, a gate that is 30 ft tall and 25 ft wide. Just like before, it opened on its own, and a figure was there to welcome me. ¡°Welcome, to my castle...I mean secret basement.¡± The person that welcomed me was an old lein at about 65-70. He had horns like me, and a red tail. His skin was glossy white, and his body was well developed despite his age. He had a short purple hair, and red eyes. He spoke to my in majin language by the way. ¡°T...thanks?¡± I tilted my head in confusion. ¡°Please come in, it has been 400 thousand years since I have seen someone.¡± The Lein...I mean majin guided me inside. Despite being underground, there was a lot of light. The was an expensive looking table and chairs in the living room, and two rooms at the side. He guided me to the chair, and gave me a cup of tea. ¡°Please, drink that. I am sure you would like it, it was the favorite of Miya after all.¡±(???) Who¡¯s miya? Anyways, I drank the tea, and despite its slightly bitter taste, it was surprisingly delicious. I smiled happily while drinking the tea. ¡°I am glad you liked it, so, why did such a young majin visit me?¡±(???) ¡°Eh? No, I just happen to find this place.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahahaha to find this place by simply swimming randomly, quite an odd fellow.¡±(???) That¡¯s rude, I am not odd, I am a bit different but I am not odd. The majin noticed my expression. ¡°Ah sorry, It was just a bit rare for someone to come here. You didn¡¯t even know about this place, yet were able to find my castle.¡±(???) ¡°S...so where are we?¡±(Shera) ¡°I am sure you already have something in mind, this is a castle I built underwater. The gate you saw before entering this space stops the water from flowing inside the castle. There are some magic circles carved in the gate to block the water even if it opens.¡±(???) ¡°I see, but why did you create this castle? I mean, there isn¡¯t anyone here except for you.¡±(Shera) ¡°You see, us majins have the strength to rival gods, we could even be called gods ourselves. Because of our power, greedy people try to use us for their own schemes. We tend to hide, and simply act as we see fit, Like if we could do something to stop a war from happening, we will do it.¡±(???) ¡°So you created this place to hide from people?¡±(Shera) ¡°Yes, but that¡¯s not all. It is quite a long story but if you want to listen, I¡¯ll tell you.¡±(???) ¡°Sure, I already came here, might as well get something out of it.¡±(Shera) The majin¡¯s name was Theiros, he was a majin that ventured around the world seeking for something that would make him feel alive. He has lived for a long time, but it also has its flaws, which is boredom. One day, he met a severely injured Vallar child, and just like nero, the child had red wings. The people around the child hated her, so Theiros started traveling around the world in search of a place that would accept the child. As time passed, the child grew up, and Theiros could no longer let go of the young girl. He got to attached to her, so he just decided to look after her. It¡¯s just for a few hundred years, it¡¯s not that long for a majin. Both of them traveled together, enjoyed each other¡¯s company, and soon, fell in love. The child he found, became a beautiful lady in no time. Both of them loved each other, and see no reason to hide their feeling. Years passed, and both of them lived blissfully. Each and every moment with each other felt like a million years of happiness, and Theiros couldn¡¯t ask for more. They were happy, and nothing hindered them...except for the girl¡¯s lifespan. No matter how strong he is, he couldn¡¯t change the life span of the girl he loved. As years passed, the girl started to age, the beautiful girl started to be look old, her red hair started to turn white, lip color started to fade, and wrinkles started to appear on her body. It didn¡¯t matter, no matter how the girl looked like. For Theiros, she will stay as the mot beautiful girl in his eyes. But no matter how he felt, the girl would die sooner or later. Being from different races, the girl couldn¡¯t leave a child for Theiros, and apologized for it. He didn¡¯t care about those, the only thing he wished for was for her to live longer, and stay with him forever. As time passed, the girl got weaker and weaker. In the end, they could no longer travel like they used to. Theiros asked the girl for anything she wanted before she died, and the girl simply wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. Theiros felt that he had to give her something, and forced her to ask for anything, no matter how impossible it is. With his plea, the girl¡¯s final wish was to be buried in a castle located underwater. It sounded impossible, it would take thousand years to finish, and the girl would be already dead before he could show her the castle...but he could do nothing but create the castle that the girl wished for, which lead into the creation of this castle I am staying at right now. He said it took 130 thousand years to complete the magic formations for the castle. Right now, Miya, the girl he loved, is buried in the basement near his room. ¡°Hahaha you don¡¯t need to cry for me, I am already fine. Mira is peacefully enjoying her life in the afterlife, so I don¡¯t need anything else. I am simply guarding this place, until my life runs out.¡±(Theiros) Just like he said, I am crying. I mean how could I not? After hearing his story, I felt like I had to cry. ¡°I...idiot, I am not crying. I...I am just...that¡¯s right, this is a special spell I created to protect my eyes.¡±(Shera) ¡°Pft...spell? Ahahahahaha¡±(Theiros) ¡°Stop laughing, I am serious. I casted a spell to make it look like I am crying.¡±(Shera) After his irritating comebacks, I finally stopped crying. Since it didn¡¯t look like I could get anything more, I asked him how I could get out. ¡°You¡¯re already going back? Stay here for at least a year or two, it¡¯s been a long time since I have seen someone...¡±(Theiros) ¡°My friends are waiting for me, so I have to go back. I bet they are worried about me.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha if that¡¯s the case, lets fight.¡±(Theiros) ¡°Huh?¡±(Shera) ¡°It has been a long time since I have done anything beside drinking tea. So before you go, I want to at least move this old body of mine a bit.¡±(Theiros) ¡°B..but, I need to get back.¡±(Shera) ¡°I know a shortcut, so if you just give this senile old man a fight, then I¡¯ll tell you the quickest way out of here.¡±(Theiros) Sigh...I guess I¡¯ll fight with him for a bit, It¡¯s not like I even know how to get out of here. We went to an open space upstairs, it seems like we will be fighting here. ¡°Before we start, do you want to give a present for your friends?¡±(Theiros) ¡°...Like what?¡±(Shera) ¡°I have created the best weapon and armor while living here, and if you defeat me, you could take anything that you want. Good deal right? Not only do you get a shortcut, you can even take legendary equipment back to your friends. I am sure you could defeat this senile old man with your eyes closed.¡±(Theiros) ¡°I...I see¡±(Shera) ¡°Anyways, it is only normal to introduce yourself before the battle, may I ask what your name is?¡±(Theiros) ¡°I am Shera, Shera Nillin.¡±(Shera) ¡°I am Theiros Grandall, and was once called the strongest entity of the world. I hope we could both enjoy this battle.¡±(Theiros) E...EH? STRONGEST? W...WAIT I DIDN¡¯T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THIS! Before I even noticed, his fist was already blocking my sight. Just like that, I was sent to a wall...and died once. ¡°I suggest that you get a bit serious, even if I am old, I should still be strong enough to rip a god in two.¡±(Theiros) ¡°T...this isn¡¯t what I had in mind...¡±(Shera) Ch. 15: The underwater castle Time skip, yet not at the same time...wait, which is it? What¡¯s with this guy, suddenly attacking me even though I wasn¡¯t ready. ¡°Suddenly punching me like that...¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha sorry, I just wanted to test something.¡±(Theiros)\ ¡°TEST? YOU JUST KILLED ME ONCE!¡±(Shera) I can¡¯t attack carelessly, If he could do this much, then I¡¯m sure he could do it again... ¡°Hahaha Anyways, by the end of this day, the moment you step out of this place, you will be a lot stronger than you are now.¡±(Theiron) ¡°Oi, what are you planning, I don¡¯t plan to stay here you know.¡±(Shera) ¡°Don¡¯t worry, with this spell, we can train all we want. Chrono¡±(Theiron) A transparent sphere covered the whole area, I couldn¡¯t feel any pain though...so it¡¯s not an attack. ¡°This is a eternal class spell which burns 100 thousand of my life force for a time spell. Inside the sphere, we will move faster, to be precise, 1000 days inside the sphere is equivalent to an hour outside. The spell disables after a day, in other words, we have at least 65 years to teach you.¡±(Theiron) ¡°1...100 thousand? Are you stupid? You just threw away that amount of time just to teach me? If you wanted to, you could have just begged me to let you join us in our travels.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha I do not want to get out of this place and leave Miya alone, and the next time someone gets here, I would probably be dead. So I will use all that I have to make you stronger, much much stronger than you could ever imagine.¡±(Theiron) It¡¯s here again...I always get into a situation where I benefit a lot that I couldn¡¯t even reject their offer. The attack before was still a bit angering though... ¡°65 years isn¡¯t enough to tell you everything I know, so I¡¯ll ask you, what classes do you want to learn. I lived for a long time, and I could proudly say that I have mastered every class known in this world.¡±(Theiron) ¡°...Fist fighting, magic, other than that, I don¡¯t really know.¡±(Shera) ¡°It seems you already planned the first 2, but with the time we have, I could teach you 3 classes...is it fine if I pick the last one for you?¡±(Theiron) ¡°I...it¡¯s fine¡±(Shera) Actually, I don¡¯t know what¡¯s happening anymore...I clearly remember that I was swimming happily near the others, and now here I am, talking about spending 65 years with an old man to train...should I react more? Should I reject it and go back now? But he already sacrificed a lot, and I would benefit a lot. I will just be gone for a day in this world...wait, I¡¯ll still feel all 65 years normally right? Won¡¯t my personality change? Won¡¯t I start to forget them? This is actually a lot more serious than I thought. ¡°Then I¡¯ll recommend getting a swordsman class.¡±(Theiros) ...Wait, something seems wrong, I would use both of my fist to fight, where does swords come in? ¡°Why?¡±(Shera) ¡°Heed my call, Ragnarok¡±(Theiros) At his words, a black colored long sword appeared. Intimidating aura was flowing out of the sword, and it feels like even a peasant could kill me just by using that sword. The handle was made out of purple metal, and the blade it self was made from black metal with glowing purple crystal in the middle...looks really good... ¡°This is the best weapon I have, and probably the strongest sword in the world. It is called a soul sword, and is connected to the user¡¯s soul until the user decides to cut ties with it.¡±(Theiros) ¡°S...strongest in the world?¡±(Shera) ¡°This is made from both reis metal, and my own bones. I have repeatedly cut my body and took bones, which I compressed and made into the blade.¡±(Theiros) T...that sounds a bit disgusting. I made a disgusted face, which made Theiros raise his brow. ¡°I PROPERLY CLEANED IT! Anyways, you probably know that the body parts of majin are highly compatible with mana right?¡±(Theiros) I nodded, even though I didn¡¯t know what he just said...I know now anyways, so I wasn¡¯t lying. ¡°What do you think would happen if a thousand majin bones were compressed in to a blade, and was subjected to high amounts of mana for more than a hundred thousand years¡±(Theiros) How would I know? ¡°The bones will continuously harden, and a core will be created. Once the core is created, it will start to have it¡¯s own mana, and would regenerate on it¡¯s own even if the user doesn¡¯t give it mana. Once a link is created between a soul sword and a majin, both of them will get stronger. The stronger the user, the stronger the sword will be, and vice versa. In other words, if you master swordsman class and use this sword, you will be a lot stronger compared to what you are now.¡±(Theiros) ¡°That sounds great, are you really gonna give it to me?¡±(Shera) ¡°I don¡¯t want my creations to rot in this place, and it is better to give it to you, instead of other¡¯s who might use it for something bad.¡±(Theiros) It¡¯s here again, why do people think that I am a good person? I am not! I am neutral! I have already killed countless people before! ¡°Anyways, you could sync the 3 classes like this.¡± Theiros threw the sword to me. I dodged the sword, but Theiros used this opportunity to get close to me. He punched my left shoulder, and kicked my left leg. He summoned the sword to his arms, and cut my head away. By the time I regenerated, he pierced the sword to me body, and started punching me. He delivered the final punch to my head, and released a spell on my face. ¡°Celestial flare¡±(Theiros) The light was sent directly to my face, and vaporized it. Once I regenerated, I jumped back. ¡°See? You could use all 3 classes at the same time.¡±(Theiros) ¡°Why did you have to do that just to show me?¡±(Shera) ¡°It¡¯s better to learn them the hard way.¡±(Theiros) Starting that day, I trained in various ways. For fist fighting I mastered the god fist, for magic I simply learned the advanced method of what pooch told me, and for the sword, I learned the 4 paths of the Majin sword style consisting of, wide explosive motions, fluid trajectory change, fast mobility style, and flash draw. It¡¯s easy to learn each of them, but hard to combine all of them into one fighting style. Once I mastered every movement, I sparred non stop with Theiros. Every time I reach his strength, he would seal one of my sense. The first time I defeated him head on, he made me seal my sight, next was the ears, next was the nose...I kinda felt like a dog fighting only with my sense of smell. For the last part, it was my sense of taste...just kidding, it¡¯s magic perception. In the end, all I could do with mana perception was notice when he starts casting a spell, and where his location is. With that, the training was over...exactly after 65 years. ¡°Are you a monster or something? You were only supposed to learn basic or intermediate level of the classes. Look at you know, you are already at the top of all 3 classes in just 65 years, are you kidding me? That¡¯s something that took me 150-200 thousand years to achieve you know?¡±(Theiros) ¡°Calm down master, I only got to this level because you were a great teacher.¡±(Shera) ¡°Great teacher my ass, I can¡¯t believe this...¡±(Theiros) ¡°Maybe we should spar a bit so you could calm down.¡±(Shera) Theiros started to get edgy when I first mastered the god fist. After that he started to get irritated every time I mastered a class... ¡°Spar? You want to bully this old teacher of yours just to boost your ego?¡±(Theiros) ¡°...It¡¯s not that¡±(Shera) ¡°Sigh...I hate that fact that you got this strong in such a small time, but I can¡¯t help but feel proud of you...I guess old age is starting to affect my brain.¡±(Theiros) It seems that 65 years is just a small time for majins, well it is kinda understandable if you know a majin¡¯s normal life span. Each majin could live for 700-900 thousand years, so 65 years just looks like a day, No, actually it just seems like half a day for them...not for me though, I think 65 years was already too long. I already miss the others, I worry everyday at the thought that I might forget them. The one thing that changed aside from my strength is probably the way I see thing. Living 65 years away from everyone made me start thinking about a lot of things, especially my past life. I know I should forget about it, but I need to face my past. I started looking back at life with a different perspective, and I could say what I did was a bit too much, but it was still understandable. The people didn¡¯t know the truth, so it is only natural for them to protect themselves from a posible threat, but our side was also right to a certain extent. I have only viewed things as right or wrong, but it was naive of me to think that way. There are a lot of factors affecting a person¡¯s action, so we can never fully judge them. Another thing was Kyle...even in the end, he wanted to save me, yet I couldn¡¯t see it until now. In the end, it all comes down to luck, we were simply unlucky, and vent our anger on everyone that lived a happy life. People that didn¡¯t know anything, children that simply wanted to live with their parents, and even those that tried to help us, were killed by us. Simply because those bastard scientist experimented on us. Well my perspective change a bit, but that doesn¡¯t mean I got smarter...I simply see things differently, I think. Maybe the 65 years away from the others were starting to affect me. There was one thing I am sure of though, I miss the people that made me feel happy on this world. They were good people, I could be myself when I am with them, and I want to stay with them. These 65 years can¡¯t compare to a year that I was with them. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. ¡°I guess this ends our training.¡±(Theiros) I bowed deeply, before hugging him. ¡°Thank you...teacher.¡±(Shera) ¡°Oi, Miya would kill me if she sees this.¡±(Theiros) ¡°Hahaha I am sure she will. Anyways, thank you for everything.¡±(Shera) ¡°The pleasure was mine. To actually get a monster as a disciple on my last moments, it made me enjoy my last years.¡±(Theiros) Tears started to flow down my cheeks as Theiros slowly turned to dust. ¡°Don¡¯t cry, Miya would scold me if I make a girl cry.¡±(Theiros) ¡°No, I just felt like crying.¡±(Shera) ¡°Hahaha anyways, farewell. I had fun on this past 65 years, I hope what I taught you could be a help for your future struggles.¡± Theiros smiled before completely turning in to dust. Teacher was already on his last leg the first time I met him, and he only saw the opportunity to pass down a bit of his knowledge to a new generation, which is me. Now that he is dead, this place will slowly lose power, and will fall apart in a few years. Teacher told me it was ok to leave it, the last wish he made was for me to use some of the equipments he created. For the first time in 65 years, I would go out of this space, it was quite funny how I stayed in 1 place for such a long time. I used air magic to gather teacher¡¯s remains, and went back to the basement. I went back to the place where I first met teacher. ¡°Teacher¡¯s room should be on the left.¡±(Shera) I knocked on the door despite the fact that no one was there, and entered. I put master¡¯s remains on a jar, and buried him next to lady Miya. ¡°With this, you can now be with her forever, I wish you happiness on the after life, teacher.¡±(Shera) I bowed before going out of the room, I then went to the room on the right. When I opened it, it was a lot more spacious than the other room. It was as big as 2 soccer fields, and filled with equipment that master made. I already told master the other¡¯s fighting style, and told me which equipment to take with me. I already have ragnarok, which is sleeping inside me. For the armor, I was to take the rune mail. It was an armor made from reis and master¡¯s bone, just like ragnarok, it can be linked with my soul, so I could store it, and summon it at will. I cut my finger, and let blood flow to the core of the armor. It glowed, and started floating. It sent waves to my body which was painful, I have to endure it until the armor syncs with my body. The armor faded into thin air, and as a test, I tried to call it. ¡°Rune mail¡±(Shera) My body was filled with light, and the armor covered my body. It was a bit big for my body, especially for the breast part...teacher, your big breasted armor is starting to hurt my pride. Soon, the armor adjusted to my size, and fitted me perfectly. I moved around to check, and the armor didn¡¯t hinder any of my movements, it¡¯s well made. For Nero, I¡¯ll take the cerberus gauntlets, and balzan armor. For Feric it is the rune orb, and Krion robe. For Ciela, it is the sun sword & moon sword, for the armor it¡¯s the leezian armor. I grabbed teacher¡¯s Zid pouch. It compresses the items, and stores them in the bag. It activates with the keywords store and open, ¡®store¡¯ let¡¯s the bag store an item that the owner touches, while ¡®open¡¯ summons the item that is stored in the bag. The bag can store an item no matter how big it is, although it can only store one item at a time. I put everyone¡¯s present on a large sack, and stored them on the bag. It seems that it identifies the sack as one item, despite the number of things inside it. ¡°Teacher, thanks for everything, and farewell.¡±(Shera) I started walking out of the castle, and stared upwards. I couldn¡¯t see the top, but I know the gate is there. I checked everything one last time, and after that, I started running upwards. The gate opened the moment I got near it, and I casted the air bubbles before going back to the water. To think all of that would happen simply because I was curious...but I don¡¯t regret meeting teacher. I started gliding upwards in the water, using water dragon, which is a white class magic. When I finally got to the small hole connecting to the lake, I disabled water dragon, and casted water walk, a yellow class magic. I moved at high speeds in the water, and reached the lake. From the underwater castle, it only took 30 minutes to get to the lake. I swam upwards, and finally got to the surface of the lake. It was morning, and I could sense someone from afar...it¡¯s them...after 65 years...I could finally see them again. I ran on top of the water, and went to the coach. I could see them waving at me, so I waved back. Everyone, I¡¯m back. ___ When I got back, I got scolded by everyone. It seems I have been gone for 4 days, and they were all worried sick about me. ¡°Do you know how worried we were?¡±(Nero) ¡°Master, even I will get angry if you do things like this.¡±(Pooch) ¡°I couldn¡¯t sleep thinking of you, you know?¡±(Feric) ¡°PUNISHMENT!¡±(Ciela) Seeing them like this, my heart felt warm, and I decided to hug all of them. ¡°...Hugging us won¡¯t make us forgive you¡±(Nero)w ¡°I know, sorry, and thank you for waiting for me.¡±(Shera) ¡°Of course we would wait for you.¡±(Nero) ¡°You are the party leader after all.¡±(Feric) ¡°You are no longer allowed to swim alone master.¡±(Pooch) ¡°No food for you.¡±(Ciela) I spent the morning telling them everything that happened while I was away, and also told them about my past. I didn¡¯t tell them about god and how I got this body though, I told them that I reincarnated as a majin, after dying on earth. They were all shocked about what I said, but after they calmed down it seems that they still want to travel with me. ¡°I told you that no matter what you are, I will always be with you.¡±(Nero) ¡°Those bastards, how dare they play with Shera¡¯s life.¡±(Feric) ¡°Onee-san will stay as onee-san, or am I older?¡±(Ciela) ¡°Since I am probably at 66 or 67 years old, I am older than you Ciela.¡±(Shera) ¡°Urg...I was defeated by a majin that wasn¡¯t even a hundred years old?¡± Pooch seemed a bit depressed though. ¡°...so about our presents.¡± Ciela hugged me, and looked up to look at me with puppy eyes. Her being like this, makes me think that what she did to me before was all a dream... ¡°Master, you also brought something for me right?¡± Pooch jumped to my arms, and rubbed his body on my chest. ¡°Of course, I have a present for everyone. Open¡±(Shera) The bag glowed, and the sack appeared on the ground. I gave them their new equipments one by one. Each and everyone got their own soul equipments, and started to make the link by letting their blood drip to the equipment¡¯s core. All of them experienced extreme pain which made them faint, the weapon and armor successfully synced though. I forgot that it was painful for for me who was accustomed to dying... Pooch got a choker for his cute form, and he seems to like it despite it not being a weapon. It was already night time, and Nero was the first one to wake up. Pooch started walking away, to leave the 2 of us alone. ¡°To think that I fell in love with a majin.¡±(Nero) ¡°...Do you hate me now?¡±(Shera) ¡°Of course not, I just suddenly felt like I should act differently around you...¡±(Nero) ¡°No! just stay the same, just act like you always do. I want everyone to treat me like they did before, I don¡¯t want anything to change.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see¡±Nero looked upwards. ¡°Sorry¡±(Nero) ¡°...For what?¡±(Shera) ¡°You had to go through all that, yet I didn¡¯t do anything about it.¡±(Nero) ¡°What are you saying? How could you do anything when it all happened in a different world.¡±(Shera) ¡°It¡¯s not that, you went through all that, yet I was only focused on making you fall in love with me. We were already in a relationship yet I didn¡¯t try to know more about you. I got blinded by the thought that we were already in a relationship, and simply thought about myself.¡±(Nero) ¡°Remember the time I first used magic?¡±(Shera) ¡°...¡±(Nero) ¡°You stayed with me while I was weak, and it made me feel secure. That was enough to make me happy.¡± I held his face, and stared directly to his eyes. ¡°I only did that because I was scared that something might happen to you when I am away.¡± Nero¡¯s face turned red and looked down. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, I felt happy and that¡¯s that.¡±(Shera) ¡°B...but¡±(Nero) ¡°Do you love me?¡±(Shera) ¡°Y..yes¡±(Nero) ¡°Do you want to stay with me forever?¡±(Shera) ¡°Yes¡±(Nero) ¡°Then this conversation is finished. I love you, and you love me.¡±(Shera) I pulled his head closer to mine, our foreheads touched each other, and I started talking. ¡°We aren¡¯t perfect, and we can¡¯t make the perfect choices, but as long as we both love each other, it will be solved. We don¡¯t need to rush things, we can proceed at our own pace.¡±(Shera) As we stared at each other¡¯s eyes, my hands slowly slid down to his shoulders, while his hands slowly made its way to my waist. We slowly pulled each other, and as our face moved closer, our eyes closed slowly. On that night, we kissed for a second time. Ch. 16: Traveling to the kingdom This is the final chapter...of the Iosop forest arc(nothing really happened though) After I came back, we started traveling like before¡­at least that is how it looks to them. I may have come back, but 65 years is still too much time. It will take awhile before I could get the same feel as before¡­ I also know that I need to learn more about this world. I realized that I lack knowledge about this world, so I guess I will stay in the kingdom and gather information. I also have to sort out things with Feric, I need to clear things up before we get to the kingdom. On the first week of our travel, everyone tried to get accustomed with their new equipment. They could all feel a large boost in their body, and used the first week to try various things with their new found power. On the second week, I started training them. Since I am under the same class tree as them, I know how to make them improve. I would train each of them twice a week, giving me one day of break. I asked Pooch opinion on their growth cause I probably shouldn¡¯t compare them to me, and it seems that they are growing a lot faster than average. Nero was training in the god fist style, although he was having a bit of a hard time with the different footworks. His Cerberus gauntlet was spiky, and had slightly sharp fingers, like a claw of a beast. It had a black color and extended to his elbow. The balzan armor was spiky like the gauntlets, and was purple in color Feric was simply learning the concepts of magic through imagination, while I also taught him higher level spells. Rune orb was a purple crystal ball at the size of a person¡¯s head, and can float around the user at will. Krion robe looked like a long-sleeved shirt that extended down to his foot. The shirt starts to separate in two after his waist, leaving the lower body visible. He had also had purple pants under the lower part of the shirt, which more or less covers his lower body. The krion robe had a black color. Ciela was training under the fast mobility style, and fluid trajectory change. Unlike her explosive personality, her fighting style was composed of sending a lot of feints to confuse the enemy. The sun & moon swords become short swords after Ciela synced with them. The sun sword had an orange blade, and a yellow hilt. The moon sword had a grey blade and a black hilt. Her leezian armor was looked like a smaller version of my armor. Both of us had purple colored armor. With that, we looked like a suspicious group, because we are all covered in dark colored equipment. I just hope we don¡¯t get mistaken for a cult or something¡­ ___ One day, after training Feric, I finally had the courage to ask him. I made sure that the others weren¡¯t around, so the talk would only be between us. I looked directly in to his eyes, which shocked him because he wasn¡¯t expecting a serious talk. ¡°Feric¡­do you love me? If I remember correctly, your reason for joining us is¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°Yes, I love you.¡±(Feric) After a long moment of staring at each other, I finally spoke. ¡°I see¡­sorry but I already love Nero.¡±(Shera) ¡°I know that. I still love you, but I already gave up. There is no point in me hindering your path of happiness.¡±(Feric) ¡°Will you still stay on the party?¡±(Shera) ¡°I could still stay for a few years, if that¡¯s what you want. I enjoy being with the party after all, and hey, I need to make connections with the Duchess Nillin.¡±(Feric) After talking a bit more about it, he has decided to help me first in the construction of my duchy before returning back to his family. He still has lingering feelings, but he said it would fade in time¡­it¡¯s not like everyone could be successful on their first love. I felt guilty about it, but it is better than giving him false hope¡­ ___ (Mirael¡¯s POV) I was called to retarded¡­I mean lord Zaladin¡¯s void room. I am summoned here from time to time to give the current information to lord Zaladin, because he doesn¡¯t really go out of this room. I have just finished telling him about the state of our territory. 4 of continents that we have conquered are rebelling, but are being quelled by my brothers and sisters. ¡°So those fools are still at it¡­What about the other 2 continent? How long will it take to conquer them?¡±(Zaladin) ¡°It seems that the other 2 continents are putting up a fight, but it wouldn¡¯t last long. We would probably conquer the other continents in a few years.¡±(Mirael) ¡°Good, now only Zeirberg is left.¡±(Zaladin) ¡­I also want to see the people that killed my brother. ¡°Anyways, that¡¯s all that I wanted know, you can leave now.¡±(Zaladin) I hate the people that killed my brother, but the one I hate the most is Lord Zaladin who gave my brother the order. If I am given the chance, I would rather serve a normal majin instead of lord Zaladin. How did he create us anyway? I went out of the void room, and walked past the great blood hall which connects the void room to the hidden basement of Crysalia Castle. Our main forces are scattered to different continents, but my own elite servants are with me inside the Castle. When I back to my room inside the castle, I was welcomed by one of my servants. ¡°Welcome back Mirael-sama¡±(Servant) ¡°Sigh¡­good thing lord Zaladin didn¡¯t do anything perverted today.¡±(Mirael) ¡°¡­if lord Zaladin hears this.¡±(Servant) ¡°He won¡¯t, unless you tell him.¡± I directed a bit of blood lust to my ever so faithful servant. ¡°Of course, even if we are under lord Zaladin¡¯s rule, you are the one I serve.¡±(Servant) Jokes aside, this guy is really loyal to me. I bet he would even fight lord Zaladin if I told him to¡­ Anyways, I am currently at my humanoid form so that I could fit inside that castle¡­OF COURSE THAT GIGANTING WINGED MONSTERS AREN¡¯T OUR TRUE FORM!¡­the colossal figures we have are the result of us passing through the gates that lord Zaladin created. The gates give us strength which forcefully changes our body into those hideous winged monsters, but we could still change back to our humanoid form. Lord Zaladin usually sends 3-5 rune king/queen to a place, and makes them use all of their mana and life force to summon us through a gate. The gate in the void room makes me transform into my colossal form¡­and it seems that lord Zaladin thinks that it is our real form¡­so much for being a creator, he doesn¡¯t even know much about his own creations. Sigh¡­I wish someone would punch our creator in the face, and cancel the contract which makes us follow his commands. Tsk¡­I am forced to lie to my brothers and sisters, and tell them that everything we do is for the sake of the world. It is a bit frustrating that I am the only one who truly knows what¡¯s happening. ¡°You seem tired Mirael-sama, you should rest for a bit.¡±(Servant) ¡°I¡¯m fine, did anything happen while I was gone?¡±(Mirael) ¡°The rebel forces are still at the Elidor city, and our forces are currently attacking the city. If this keeps up, we would probably wipe the rebel forces in 8-10 months.¡±(Servant) ¡°I see, did any of our spies get inside the city?¡±(Mirael) ¡°Yes, 5 spies have successfully entered the city.¡±(Servant) ¡°Then make our forces retreat, make the enemy lower their guard, so our spies could do their work.¡±(Mirael) ¡°But Mirael-sama, we could just take prisoners, and torture them to get information.¡±(Servant) ¡°I know that, but I am sure most of them are trained to resist torture, and would probably kill themselves before we could get anything useful¡±(Mirael) ¡°I see, Mirael-sama¡¯s knowledge is really above ours. I¡¯ll give the order right away.¡± My servant went out, leaving me alone in my room. Actually, what he said is true¡­I am simply using the loop holes in lord Zaladin¡¯s contract to move in a way I want. Since I can¡¯t blatantly tell my forces to stop attacking, I have to make it looks like I am doing it for the advancement of our conquest. Whenever we disobey his rules or command, our body undergoes extreme pain. I am the only one that is still trying to foil lord Zaladin¡¯s plans¡­he thinks I am his pawn? Think again! I will make sure your plans will fail...or not. Sigh¡­lord Zaladin has already conquered 4 continents, how am I supposed to stop him with all of my restrictions? SOMEONE! KILL THAT DAMN MAJIN IN THE VOID ROOM ALREADY! ___ We are staying near a lake, and we are all swimming since they don¡¯t want me to venture around on my own again. Come on, I am already this strong, I can protect myself!...Oops, I reverted back to my old personality. The others didn¡¯t need my guidance on their training that much, since they have already found their own styles. They have gotten stronger, stronger than I first saw them, stronger than what they could imagine¡­they still have a long way before mastering the basics though. Pooch would also spar with my from time to time, it seems like he also wants to gets stronger. Anyways, I am relaxing my body, as I float around the lake. ¡°I¡¯ll go back, I¡¯ll start cooking dinner.¡±(Nero) By the way, everyone already knows that I don¡¯t need food or sleep. Although I told them that I still wanted to do it though. Even if I didn¡¯t need it, it doesn¡¯t change the fact that Nero¡¯s cooking satisfies my tongue. For sleeping¡­It¡¯s simply a way for me to relax, and to make Nero spend time waking me up. While relaxing, I suddenly felt the urge to ask pooch something¡­I want to know more about this world anyways. ¡°Pooch, can I ask you about the other animal gods?¡±(Shera) ¡°Why? Am I not enough for you? Will you abandon me?¡± Pooch moved his cute little paws to swim on the lake, and get close to me. C¡­cute ¡°No, I was just curious.¡±(Shera) Pooch jumped from the water to my stomach. He curled around, and started rubbing his head on me. ¡°I won¡¯t replace you¡­I simply wanted to know.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­Hellion Rancar, Hellion Certz, Hellion Ganri, Hellion Balda, Hellion Erial, Hellion Hairn, and Hellion Valma.¡±(Pooch) ¡°¡­They all sound the same, what about their second name? you have colossal lion as a second name right? what about the others?¡±(Shera) ¡°Master¡­promise me that I will always be your number 1 pet ok?¡±(Pooch) I thought you hated being called a pet? ¡°Ok, I promise¡±(Shera) Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. ¡°I will say their names on the same order as before.¡±(Pooch) The only thing I remember is hellion¡­ ¡°Shadow Eagle, Burning Fox, Raging Rabbit, Unstoppable horse, Tyrant panda, Sleepy Serpent, Havoc Owl.¡±(Pooch) I thought they would all have ¡®colossal¡¯ on their names. Their titles are kinda hard to imagine¡­especially the last one. Havoc owl? You gave a calm looking animal a dangerous title? Really? Ah, forget it, this is a different world after all¡­but who gave them their 2nd names? They all have names of the animals from our world¡­ ¡°I see¡±(Shera) ¡°You look like you are thinking about it¡­just don¡¯t forget I am number 1 ok?¡±(Pooch) A few minutes after that, and the food was ready. We ate and had fun talking with each other, this is life. Still couldn¡¯t forget about the Havoc Owl though¡­it just sounds really off. Nero and I haven¡¯t really done anything aside from traveling together in the coach. I am sure we wanted to do more, but we just didn¡¯t know what else to do. Maybe I could research more about relationships once we get to the kingdom. There are probably a lot more things I should be thinking about, but since I can¡¯t remember, I might as well just go with the flow¡­Wait, I am starting to be irresponsible again. I thought matured a lot after those 65 years? Why does it feel like I am slowly reverting back to my past self? ___ I have started doing other things in the coach. Unlike before, I am helping Feric or Ciela clean the coach. From time to time, I cook the food¡­it¡¯s edible, and tastes normal. I started asking about Feric about things a duchess should know, and as I thought, I wasn¡¯t ready for it yet¡­so I¡¯ll simply enjoy life for now, and study later, promise. ¡­Even though I said I¡¯ll study later, Feric got angry. I am now inside of the coach, and is being taught about how a duchess should act. It¡¯s so simply, even a baby could understand it. For our first lesson, it was divided in to 3 parts. First is about how a noble should act, second is about how a noble should act, and last but not the least, I have to learn how a noble should act. ¡°Isn¡¯t there an easier topic?¡±(Shera) ¡°This is already the easiest topic I could teach you.¡±(Feric) This is the easiest? Then what kind of complex things will you teach me in the future? ¡°¡­¡± On that day, I realized that there was one thing more difficult than training, more painful than dying, and more dreadful than fighting a million gods¡­studying. Gruesome days went by, and after 7 months of traveling from Kanaria city, we finally arrived at the kingdom. For my studies, I am still learning economics, how money affects everything and how to make my duchy flourish¡­or things like that. I could probably live an easier life by being an adventurer, could I somehow take away the duchess title away? I am really not fit for it. As we got closer to the gates, we could see a line. On a closer look, it seems that the guards of the gate are inspecting the coaches before letting them in. We quietly waited for our turn. When the guards saw our coach, and saw the emblem at the back.All the guards bowed to us, and let us in without inspecting our coach, Nero was the driver by the way. Since this is the first time everyone went to here, we didn¡¯t know where to go. Nero asked people for direction, but it seems like they dislike him¡­so even people here react to his wings. Feric stepped out, and started asking for where the adventurer¡¯s guild is. It has already been our custom to check our stats once we get to a city, and it seems they are also quite excited to check their growth¡­it is the same for me, I wonder how strong I am now. A red winged vallar driving the coach, the emblem of the osdwin family at the back, and a beautiful lein that could be seen inside. Those are the reason why our coach attracted attention as we got went to the guild We entered the guild, and left pooch to guard the coach. Our party attracted attention, as always, but we just ignored it and went to the counter. We paid the fee for checking our stats and updating our plates. We were guided to a room with 20 floating orbs¡­how long has it been since I last saw this? As the others check their stats, the man with us almost fainted after seeing their plates... Spoiler :
NameFeric Morc Osdwin
RaceTalar
Age157GenderMale
TITLES
[Transcender][Awakened One][Savior]
Level75ClassSage
Vitality63Agility47
Strength59Defense45
Magic Attack259Magic Defense235
NameNero Ventus
RaceVallar
Age77GenderMale
TITLES
[Transcender][Awakened One][Crimson Hero]
Level72ClassWarmonger
Vitality236Agility127
Strength182Defense98
Magic Attack12Magic Defense8
NameCiela Ventus
RaceVallar
Age32GenderFemale
TITLES
[Hidden Gem][Transcender][Awakened One][The Hard Working One]
Level68ClassPhantom Swordsman
Vitality168Agility103
Strength172Defense129
Magic Attack20Magic Defense18
They all leveled up, and CIela¡¯s level rose at a frightening level again. It seems that, Nero would stay on the same rank, while Ciela will also enter the gold(high) rank. The man felt like he just saw a legend in the making, a 32 year old girl reached the gold(high) rank simply by getting stronger.
NameShera Nillin
RaceUltima Majin
Age67GenderFemale
TITLES
[War Goddess][God Slayer][Rift Walker][Transcender][One at The Top]
Level954ClassHybrid Chaos Queen
Vitality245,797Agility2876
Strength5649Defense4357
Magic Attack4785Magic Defense3957
When it was my turn, I kinda expected a lot of change, so I didn¡¯t react much. Seems like my level doubled¡­I kinda expected it to reach 4000 or 5000, I guess I¡¯m wrong. I guess the training made me increase my skills, instead of my level¡­or maybe this is my cap? After updating our plates, and getting Ciela¡¯s new gold plate, we searched around for an inn. We found a good inn for a good price. It was a slightly packed room that has 2 double decked beds, and it was only 2 silver coins per day. There were only 3 washrooms on each floor, and a hot spring for both genders on the first floor. The building was made from both saphia stone, and dark colored wood. For our coach, the inn also has a stable which were we can park for 10 copper coins a day. We have also paid for lunch and dinner, which are 40 copper coins a day for 4 people. After eating lunch at the inn, we decided to walk around the city. We went to the gates of the castle, and left a letter with the osdwin family¡¯s seal on it. The letter just states that we have entered the city, and just that. I don¡¯t need to see the royal family anyways. Since it will be a bother if a lot of people welcomed us, we didn¡¯t use the einolon birds. We decided to buy equipment, since we don¡¯t need to always use our main equipment, and it would attract attention if everybody saw weapon and armors suddenly appearing out of nowhere. We made our way to the weapon shop first. The store head welcomed us, and guided us to his best creations while smiling the whole time. We observed and examined the weapons, and after an hour we got our new equipment, for only 3 gold coins¡­ok, it¡¯s expensive. For armor, we just bought things that would make us look good while not hindering our fighting styles. Ciela and I both bought a light armor, Nero bought leather armor, and Feric bought a fashionable robe. After spending 20 silver coins on equipment, we went back to the inn. It was still a few hours before dinner, so they decided to test the new equipment, and went outside the city at full speed. I went out of the inn, and walked around the city with my new bought equipment. Seriously, doesn¡¯t Nero want to walk with me? He is starting to ignore me because of all this training¡­ Ch. 17: The mercenary guild As always, nothing big happens on this chapter. It has been a long time since I walked alone on a city, the last time was when we were at Kanaria city. I randomly walked around, and stumbled upon the mercenary guild building. I wonder what the differences of the adventurers and mercenaries are. I got curious, so I went inside the mercenary guild. Unlike before where I simply got interested in what¡¯s in front of me. Now, I want to know what¡¯s around me, and the mercenary guild seems to be important in the continent, so I should check it out. The inside was clean, to be precise, it¡¯s well kept. The people inside are well dressed, and there were even some nobles inside. When a person noticed me, he went to my direction. ¡°Do you need something noble-sama?¡±(???) ¡°Is it ok to ask about the mercenary guild, I¡¯m quite interested in what the mercenary guild does.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see, then if you want a brief introduction then that¡¯ll be 10 copper coins. If you want more information about the mercenary guild, then you can use the library on the 3rd floor. The entrance fee for the library is 50 copper coins. it¡¯s a bit expensive since it has a lot of information about the guild.¡±(???) ¡°Then I¡¯ll go with a brief explanation.¡± I took out 10 copper coins, and gave it to the armored gairn. ¡°Then please follow me.¡± The gairn guided me to a small room, and let me sit on a chair inside. He left me, and after a while, a new person entered which had the same armor as the gairn before. He sat on the opposite chair, and started speaking. ¡°First, I would like to say that joining the mercenary guild is dangerous, especially for a young lady like you.¡±(Gairn) ¡°I don¡¯t plan on joining. I simply want to know more about the mercenary guild.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see, if that¡¯s the case, then I¡¯ll start.¡±(Gairn) The mercenary guild is just like the adventurer¡¯s guild, which takes request from different people. The first difference is that, the mercenary guild is composed of retired soldiers and nobles. The 2 guilds both do the same work, but the mercenary guild is more reliable since most of its members are from a decent family. Simply put it, mercenary guild is for the rich, and adventurer¡¯s guild is for the poor. Because of the high rewards in the mercenary guild, a lot of people try to join them. Unlike the adventurer¡¯s guild that doesn¡¯t have any requirement to join. The mercenary guild is a bit strict on recruiting members. There are 3 main requirements that a person should have before joining. First is that the person should be from a decent family. It doesn¡¯t have to be a noble, but your family shouldn¡¯t have a history of any crime. Second, you have to be referred by 3 active members of the mercenary guild. Third, you have to pass the mercenary exam which is held twice a year. The exam is divided in to a written exam and practical exam, and you have to get at least a 70% score to join the mercenary guild. It seems that the mercenary exam will be held a week for now, so he thought I wanted to join. ¡°That¡¯s all for the introduction, if you still want to learn more, just head to the library. Being a mercenary is dangerous, so ask your parents first before participating in the exams ok?¡±(Gairn) After the introduction, we both went out of the room. I wanted to ask the others about it, since it will be easier to get money here¡­we don¡¯t need money now though. I started to walk out of the mercenary guild, until someone called me. ¡°Wait!¡±(???) I looked back, and saw a young talar around 16-18. He was wearing expensive clothes, and was escorted by 2 heavily armored knights. ¡°Will you also join the mercenary guild?¡±(Talar) ¡°I still haven¡¯t decided.¡±(Shera) ¡°You dare speak equally to ¡­¡±(Knight) ¡°Stop, inside here I am just a normal person trying to join the mercenary guild.¡±(???) Based on the knight¡¯s reaction, the person in front of me is someone important¡­probably a prince? Since this is the kingdom, probably a prince¡­I think. ¡°Sorry for being rude.¡±(Shera) ¡°There is no need for that. I told you I am just a normal person inside this building.¡±(Prince) Just like the king, he had a white skin. He had a short blue hair, and his bangs were covering his eyes. He didn¡¯t have much muscle, so he probably a mage. He had a slender figure, and was quite feminine. ¡°If you want to join, we can take the exam together.¡±(Prince) ¡°Ok, I¡¯ll remember that.¡± I bowed to him before walking away. I got back to the inn, an hour before dinner, and the others are still not back. Let¡¯s see, I don¡¯t really have anything to do¡­ ¡°Master, you didn¡¯t take me along when you went for a walk. You are no longer carrying me like you used to¡­are you starting to get bored of me?¡± Pooch jumped to my lap. ¡°N..no, I just forgot.¡±(Shera) ¡°That doesn¡¯t make sound any better¡­¡± Pooch rubbed his back to my stomach. ¡°I enjoy being carried by master, so please don¡¯t ignore me.¡±(Pooch) ¡­th¡­this is, CUTE! I held pooch upwards, and started rubbing my face on to him. ¡°I¡¯ll never ignore you stupid.¡±(Shera) We played for a while, until the others came back. They were all out of steam, and were covered in sweat. ¡°This weapon can¡¯t compare to my Cerberus gauntlet, but it is good enough to not break even after my strongest attack.¡±(Nero) ¡°Same with these swords, they are duller and heavier but they are still decent weapons.¡±(Ciela) ¡°This wand¡­is just a decoration. It doesn¡¯t increase the output of my spell like the rune orb¡­¡±(Feric) ¡°Guys¡­take a bath first¡­the smell is starting to spread.¡±(Shera) ¡°Sorry¡±(Nero, Feric & Ciela) They all started going out, but I held on to Nero and made him stay in the room. ¡°You guys get a bath first, I¡¯ll have a little talk with Nero.¡±(Shera) After hearing my words, Feric silently went to the washroom, while Ciela was grinning widely as she walked to the washroom. ¡°Master, I¡¯ll walk outside for a bit.¡± Pooch also went out of the room, leaving Nero and I alone. The air was tense, and we were silently sitting beside each other. ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) Should I tell him that he isn¡¯t spending much time with me? Will he get irritated if I say that? ¡°I think I should leave¡­I don¡¯t smell good right now.¡± Nero stood up, but I held his hand. ¡°N¡­no, it¡¯s ok. The smell is not that bad¡­¡± I sniffed his body to show him that it is ok. ¡°S¡­shera?¡± Nero looked at me with a shocked expression. Noticing what I just did, my face started turning red, as my eyes widen in shock. ¡°T¡­that¡¯s not it, I just wanted to talk with you for a bit.¡±(Shera) At my words, Nero moved beside me, only to fall over and push me to the bed. I could have dodged it, but I felt that I shouldn¡¯t. ¡°S¡­sorry, my legs got numb all of a sudden and¡­¡±Nero quickly moved away, but I held his shoulder and pulled him back. I watched his face get dyed in red, as my arms got soaked from his sweat. We stayed in that position for a while, and his sweat started to drip on my body. ¡°Y¡­you¡¯ll get dirty.¡±(Nero) ¡°Say, are we really in a relationship?¡±(Shera) ¡°Of course¡±(Nero) ¡°Then why are you ignoring me?¡±(Shera) Hearing my words, he made a confused expression, and asked me. ¡°Why do you think I¡¯m ignoring you?¡±(Nero) ¡°You are always busy with your training, and you don¡¯t spend time with me like you used to.¡±(Shera) He still cooks for me, he still wakes me up, he still talks to me every day, but I feel that there is something missing. ¡°I don¡¯t really get it. I am still with you like before.¡±(Nero) ¡°W¡­we should be doing more right? I mean we are already together for a long time, yet everything is still the same.¡±(Shera) ¡°I also want to do more, but you said we should go on our own pace¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°Going our own pace doesn¡¯t mean to stop, we could at least kiss once a week or something.¡±(Shera) I am being unreasonable, I know¡­but I feel we need to be moving forward¡­ ¡°If that¡¯s the case, then do you want me to be a bit aggressive?¡±(Nero) Aggressive? Are we gonna fight? I told you I just want to move our relationship forward¡­ Nero held my body and lifted me up. I don¡¯t know what he¡¯ll do so I just stayed quiet. He made me stand, and after a while, his left arm coiled around my shoulders and pulled me closer to him. His right arm slowly slid down and gently groped my rear. ¡°Wha¡­¡± Before I could finish talking, Nero¡¯s kissed me, and after a while, he slowly moved his tongue inside my mouth. WHAT¡¯S HAPPENING? WHAT¡¯S HAPPENING? WHAT¡¯S HAPPENING? WHAT¡¯S HAPPENING? My mind went blank, as Nero continued. His sweat started to cover my body, as he held me and caressed my rear. His tongue started to move around my mouth, and his arms that were on my shoulders moved to my chest. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. It continued for awhile, and my arms slowly moved to his shoulder. My tongue started rolling around his tongue as his taste covered my mouth. As time passed, his arms started to get more and more violent, but it felt¡­nice. I forgot about everything, and the only think I could think about was the person in front of me. My sense started to get dull, and my body craved for something¡­I want more. ¡°Ciela, why are you still outside?¡±(Feric) When we heard someone¡¯s voice, we released our hands and started fixing our clothes. Nero was still wearing his leather armor so it still looked fine, but I was in my 1 piece dress, and it was a mess. There were a lot of folds, and the dress was drenched from Nero¡¯s sweat, which revealed my underwear from the outside. I quickly went to the door that was slightly opened, and notice the Ciela was peaking. I quickly closed the door, and took a towel to cover my body. ¡°Shera? What happened?¡±(Feric) ¡°N¡­nothing¡±(Shera) After that, I also took a bath. Feric didn¡¯t ask anything, and simply acted like before. Ciela on the other hand, was grinning while looking at me¡­she saw us. I am now inside the washroom on the same floor as our room. I am still a bit shaken from the events earlier. It was the same as with Ciela, It feels like something takes over my body, and moves my body on its own. While we were kissing¡­violently, I sensed a tingly feeling on my abdomen. I felt like something good will happen if we continued for a bit, but the others just had to show up. My thoughts conflicted, I wanted to continue, I wanted to do more, but I also didn¡¯t want to do it. I feel that our relationship would change a bit if we continued, and I am scared it might change in a bad way. As I was busy sorting my thoughts, I could feel a tingly feeling again. It felt like something was about to be released, and when I looked down, my hands were rubbing my important place. I tried to stop, but my hands wouldn¡¯t listen. As time passed, I move my hands more violently, and my mouth was starting to let out weird sounds. I bit my lips to stop my mouth from producing the weird sounds. As I continued, my legs started to shake violently, and my body started to get stiff. Just like that, liquid started pouring¡­good thing none saw. I¡¯ll keep this a secret until I die. I finished taking a bath, and went back to the room. The dinner was already there, and all of them are waiting for me. After that, the day ended without Nero talking to me¡­did I do something bad? He is really ignoring me this time. I lay down the bed, and I could still smell a bit of Nero¡¯s scent. I still haven¡¯t told them about the mercenary guild, so I¡¯ll tell it tomorrow. I spent a few hours thinking while sniffing my bed, and fell asleep. ___ The next day, I told them what they think about the mercenary guild, but Feric told us we would fail badly at the written exam. After breakfast, they went somewhere to train again, leaving pooch and I alone. ¡°Do you think Nero hates me?¡±(Shera) ¡°Why do you think that?¡±(Pooch) ¡°It seems he is avoiding me¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°I am sure he doesn¡¯t hate you, he is probably just sorting out things on his head right now. Don¡¯t worry, I am absolutely sure that he loves you.¡±(Pooch) I carried pooch on my hands, and started walking on around the city. I didn¡¯t know where to go, so I just aimlessly walked around. As I was walking, someone called out to me. ¡°It¡¯s you!¡±(Prince) When I looked back, I saw the prince. He was with 10 knights this time. As he walked closer to me, I bowed. ¡°What are you doing raise your head.¡±(Prince) ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°You dare ignore the pr¡­¡±(Knight) ¡°Stop, don¡¯t frighten her.¡±(Prince) The prince is fine, but dealing with his knights will be bothersome. I should cut my ties with him while it¡¯s still early. It looks like that one is the only knight that hates me, the others doesn¡¯t look unfriendly. ¡°It¡¯s ok, and I am sorry for offending you or your knights.¡±(Shera) ¡°Nonsense you didn¡¯t do anything.¡±(Prince) ¡°You are a kind person. You will be a great ruler someday. It seems that your knight doesn¡¯t like me, so I¡¯ll be on my way.¡± I bowed again, before walking away. I sensed the knight run to me, and grab my shoulder. I didn¡¯t do anything since I don¡¯t want unnecessary enemies. ¡°The princess is still talking to you, how dare you walk away.¡±(Knight) ¡°Albert, stop.¡±(Princess) Eh? Princess? I thought she was a male? Why is she wearing male clothes? And why is her hair short? The princess ordered the knight to step back. She went to my direction, and grabbed my hand. ¡°I apologize for my servant¡¯s rude behavior. Please don¡¯t let this hinder our marriage.¡±(Princess) ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I understand his reasons¡­EH?¡±(Shera) I just met you yesterday, so when did we decide to marry each other? We are both females so how can we even get married?...we don¡¯t even know each other¡¯s names. ¡°Princess what are you saying? Don¡¯t be fooled by her beauty! People like her tend to act innocent, stop before it¡¯s too late!¡±(Knight) ¡°Silence, how dare you speak badly of her?¡±(Princess) ¡°¡­¡±(Knight) How did it get to this situation? I don¡¯t remember signing up for this¡­ While the princess was busy scolding the knight, I quietly walked away. After that event, I stayed at the inn to cool down. ¡°Pooch, why is this happening?¡±(Shera) ¡°I don¡¯t know. I was not with you when you went to the mercenary guild yesterday.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Sigh¡­I¡¯ll just stay here until everything cools down.¡±(Shera) An hour before lunch time, everyone got back. The day went by normally, without me going out of the inn. Nero was still avoiding me¡­he really hates me. I don¡¯t even remember why we are staying at this kingdom, everything is a mess¡­ The next day, the others were already gone when I woke up. Nero didn¡¯t wake me up today too¡­Maybe I should by books, so that I won¡¯t get bored. What books should I buy anyway? I will only buy from a bookstore, so I am sure I won¡¯t meet the princess today. While thinking, I felt someone move to the door. When the person knocked on the door, I opened it, and I saw a hooded person. ¡°Is there something you need?¡±(Shera) The person took her hood off, and her face looked familiar. ¡°I need you¡±(Princess) The princess hugged me, and sniffed my hair. ¡°Are you alone?¡±(Princess) ¡°¡­Yes, my friends are currently training outside the city.¡±(Shera) ¡°I see, then that means we are the only ones here.¡± The princess locked the door. ¡°W¡­why did you lock the door?¡±(Shera) ¡°Isn¡¯t it obvious? I locked the door so that none will interrupt us.¡±(Princess) ¡°¡­Interrupt us from what?¡±(Shera) ¡°Geez, what are you making a princess say? Of course we will pleasure each other.¡±(Princess) I suddenly felt a chill down my spine. ¡°W¡­what do you mean pleasure? Are we gonna massage each other?¡±(Shera) ¡°In a way yes, I¡¯m gonna massage your whole body, and make you mine.¡± The princess started stripping down. I quickly took pooch, and ran away from the room. It wasn¡¯t safe there. I ran as fast as I can, and was now hiding in a park. I am a thousand times stronger than her, yet I felt that she was an extremely dangerous entity. ¡°Pooch what do you think we should do?¡±(Shera) ¡°Go back to the room.¡±(Pooch) ¡°What if she is still there?¡±(Shera) ¡°Master, you could just throw her away from the room. I doubt anyone in this continent could even resist your strength.¡±(Pooch) ¡°NO! I feel that she would continue doing that even if I push her away from the room.¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­Then kill her.¡±(Pooch) ¡°You are not helping.¡±(Shera) ¡°No matter what I say, you won¡¯t go back right? Then let¡¯s just go to a place you want to go to, like a library.¡±(Pooch) ¡°Great idea.¡±(Shera) With that, I stayed at a library until lunch time. I am sure the princess would have already gone back, she will get hungry if she stays there after all. I went back to the inn, only to see knights around it. I had a bad feeling, and when I entered my room¡­ ¡°Welcome back.¡±(Princess) ¡°You made friends with the princess?¡±(Feric) ¡°That¡¯s my one-san, she works fast.¡±(Ciela) ¡°C¡­congratulations I guess.¡±(Nero) Let¡¯s observe first before reacting. They are casually eating with the princess, and it looks like they are already on friendly terms. ¡°Greetings, Duchess Shera. I am Alice Veralia Seiran, the second princess of the Helia Kingdom. Starting today, I will follow you to the end of the world.¡±(Alice) This isn¡¯t happening. This is all just a bad dream. I pinched my skin, and it hurt¡­so this is real hahahaha *snap* ¡°NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO¡±(Shera) Ch. 18: The lovers quarrel Love is like a c# algorithm, it¡¯s complicated. After lunch, the princess stayed at the room for a few hours until it was time for her to go back to the castle. It seems the kingdom didn¡¯t know about us or any of our achievements. Either the king didn¡¯t send the message, or it was unable to get here. Since the one that told the story was Feric, duke osdwin¡¯s son, Alice instantly believed the story¡­I think? She did call me Duchess Shera, so she probably believed it. The hours passed, and everyone did their own thing¡­and Nero still avoided me. I was at my limits, especially because of the bizarre events, so I dragged Nero to a place where we could talk alone. ¡°Do you hate me?¡±(Shera) ¡°No, I¡¯ll never hate you.¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­Then why have you been avoiding me these past few days?¡±(Shera) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) No answer? So he hates me after all? No, I¡¯m just jumping to conclusions¡­.but. Why is it like this? I thought that once we get to a relationship, it would develop further as long as we love each other, why does it feel like we are going nowhere? Why does it feel like instead of flourishing, our relationship is falling apart? Is it because I¡¯m not good enough? Is it because of what I did in the past? What did I do? What should I do? Nero stayed silent as we stared at each other, and it didn¡¯t look like he will say anything. I¡­if we are just creating more distance between each other because of this relationship, then I think it¡¯s better for us to stay as friends. I admit that I don¡¯t want to do this, but if the current situation continues, then Nero will slowly move out of my reach¡­ ¡°I¡­I understand, if you don¡¯t want to continue this relationship, all you had to do was tell me. You didn¡¯t have to ignore me, we could have at least stay as friends¡­¡±(Shera) At my own words, my chest started to hurt. It was the same pain I felt when I saw him with a girl¡­No, it was more painful than that. With a few tears forming on my eyes, turned around. I stated moving my legs, but was hugged by Nero before I could run. ¡°It¡¯s not that¡­I just feel a bit guilty from what I did the yesterday. I don¡¯t know what took over my body. The flow of our conversation went somewhere, and my body couldn¡¯t help but do that to you. As time passed, I wanted to do more and more. If Feric didn¡¯t come, I don¡¯t know what would have happened¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°¡­¡±(Shera) ¡°I don¡¯t know what to do. I don¡¯t know how to act like a proper partner. I don¡¯t know if we are moving slowly, or if we are moving too fast. I don¡¯t get how a relationship should work, and I am afraid I might do something that would make you hate me¡­¡±(Nero) Because I was also a bit angry, I couldn¡¯t understand his reason, and forced myself out of his arms. I ran away from him, I ran away from the inn, I ran away from the city. I went to an isolated place far from the city, and stayed there. I am now in a place that looked like a canyon¡­or is it a canyon? It took my 2 days with all of my strength to get here. They are probably fine even if I am away for a few days. I just want to be alone for a bit. I stared at the middle of the canyon with a blank expression. Now that I am alone, and have a lot of time to think, I started to ask myself. ¡°Why am I even here?¡±(Shera) Being sent here, living in this world¡­what for? The only reason I lived for was to kill, and now I am just blindly walking with no path in sight. I didn¡¯t have a clear goal, and simply move on what I think would make me happy. I wanted to travel to find things would make me happy. When I found Nero, when I found everyone, I finally felt like I have a place to call home, a place that would accept me. I didn¡¯t really thought this much about it when I was training, since I knew that Nero will still be the same after I came back¡­but now. I longed for him for 65 years, I wanted to be with him, and now this is what awaits me? When did everything fall apart? I don¡¯t know how this love stuff works¡­How am I supposed to react? How am I supposed to act? When should I act? When should I stop? How do I know that he loves me? How do I know I love him? I continuously asked myself different things, yet I didn¡¯t find an answer. ___ It has been a week now, and I still haven¡¯t found the will to go back. Everyone is probably worrying, they probably want me to go back, but is it the same for Nero? Would he still be the same Nero that loved me? Will he still be the same Nero that I loved? As I asked myself, I felt a creature moving to my location, and it was moving on the sky. When it was close to me, I got a bit curious, and looked at it. It was an einolon bird, and it was carrying a package. It left the package beside me before vanishing. W¡­what¡¯s this? Who sent this? How did they even know where I was? I ignored the package, but as time passed, I got more and more curious as to what¡¯s inside the package. 9 days after running away from the city, I decided to open it. There were 2 picture books, and a letter inside. The osdwin family¡¯s stamp and Feric¡¯s name was on the letter. Since I didn¡¯t want to read the letter, I looked at the picture books first. Both of the books were about love, a story about two people falling in love and living happily ever after. After reading the story, I somehow eased a bit. A bit later and I finally started reading the letter. Shera, you have probably read the books first before the letter right? Don¡¯t ask why I know, it¡¯s quite obvious based on your personality. Anyways, we all miss you. I don¡¯t know the whole thing, but I know you had a fight with Nero. If you are not sure, then I will tell you. Nero loves you and that is a fact. Both of you are still inexperienced so things like this are bound to happen, I know since I spent my childhood reading books about love by myself. I am not a good talker but I am confident in my knowledge. I have always been looking at you, so I can say that you also love him. I hope this letter somehow made you clear your mind, and I hope the books helped because it took quite some time to find those. Don¡¯t worry, they don¡¯t know about the books. You don¡¯t have to force yourself to come back immediately after reading this letter, but I hope you will come back soon because Nero is extremely worried about you. Seriously, just looking at his expression proves how much he loves you. Lastly, I know you are strong, but please stay safe. -Feric Morc Osdwin I stared blankly at the sky, and sorted my thoughts. There were a lot of things that I wanted to solve, and a lot of things I wanted to ask, but I feel that I should go back. I wish I was smarter, I wish I could understand my own thoughts¡­ ___ (Feric¡¯s POV) It has been more than a week since Shera ran away. The whole party was a mess, everyone was worried, and everyone wants Shera to come back. Ever since Shera ran away, Nero has stayed silent. Pooch was asleep most of the time, and Ciela was comforting her brother. ¡°Nero, stop being gloomy and fix yourself. If you stay like that, then you will only hurt Shera again.¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­It¡¯s too late, I already did.¡±(Nero) ¡°I¡¯m telling you, you could still apologize. Everything could still be fixed, so stop acting like that.¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°Pooch, Ciela, could you go out for a bit? I want to talk with him alone.¡±(Feric) After my speech, Pooch woke up. Ciela and Pooch silently went out of the room. ¡°Look, if you continue like this, I¡¯ll take Shera away.¡±(Feric) ¡°!?¡± Nero widened his eyes as he looked at me. ¡°You know, I have always liked her¡­no, I always loved her. I wanted her to look at me, I wanted her to be with me, but I stayed silent because she already has you. But seeing you like this, I might change my mind. If you will only hurt her, then I will step up. I will take her from you and make her happy.¡±(Feric) ¡°WHAT?¡± Nero stood up and grabbed my clothes. ¡°Looks like you don¡¯t want that.¡±(Feric) ¡°OF COURSE NOT!¡±(Nero) ¡°THEN STOP BEING A SISSY AND ACT LIKE A MAN! IF YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG THEN APOLOGIZE! IF YOU REALLY LOVE HER THEN FIX THIS SITUATION NOW!¡±(Feric) This was the first time Nero heard him yell, it was the first time since he joined the party. His eyes were filled with different emotions. Sadness, anger, and envy, those were the emotions that was shown through his eyes. ¡°I love her¡­why did she have to pick you?¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) He released his grip, but after looking at him, I couldn¡¯t help but grab his clothes. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. ¡°Tell me, why is it that she didn¡¯t pick me? Why does it have to be you? Is it because she met you first? Is it because if our bad start?¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­¡±(Nero) ¡°SPEAK DAMN IT!¡±(Feric) ¡°I¡­I don¡¯t know.¡±(Nero) Enraged by his words, I punched him in the face. With the gap between our physical strength, he didn¡¯t even budge. ¡°Look, if Shera decides to end your relationship, I will not back down. I will use the opportunity to replace you from her heart. Do you want that?¡±(Feric) ¡°N..no¡±(Nero) ¡°Then stop acting like that. Don¡¯t waste the opportunity, and do your best to fix this relationship. You are supposed to protect her not hurt her. Not knowing what to do is just an excuse, you could have asked us for advice, you could have observed how people acted, you could have read books, and you could have just asked Shera herself what she wanted.¡±(Feric) Why am I even helping you? I could use this chance to steal Shera away¡­ ¡°I¡¯ll go out for awhile and I¡¯ll take the others with me, use that time to think.¡±(Feric) I went out of the room, and went to the city with Ciela and Pooch. Princess Alice came 3 days to ask for Shera, but of course the answer was obvious. The princess has been going to the inn every day, and was always asking for Shera, but suddenly stopped coming 3 days ago. I guess she is also busy as a princess, so she doesn¡¯t have that much free time. I am sure Nero would man up after that, if not then I will really go for Shera. Everything I said was true, that was my true feelings. I know I said my feeling would fade with time, but I just can¡¯t seem to move on. Every day that I see her makes me fall for her more and more. I probably should get out of the party, and distance myself from her¡­but I just can¡¯t imagine being away from her. Even as a companion, even as a friend, as long as I can see Shera, then that is enough. I know I am only making it hard for myself, but I just can¡¯t take a step away from Shera¡­I am scared that I won¡¯t see her again. Why wasn¡¯t it me? Tsk, this is the best time to move, but I know that she still loves him. I know that both of them want to continue the relationship, I know that they both love each other¡­DAMN IT! THE ONLY THING I COULD DO FOR HER IS HELP THEIR RELATIONSHIP! Although I was filled with such thoughts, it wasn¡¯t shown in my face. I was simply smiling as Ciela, Pooch and I, were walking on the streets. ¡°If you have something to say, then tell me.¡±(Ciela) ¡°Huh?¡±(Feric) ¡°It¡¯s obvious that you are hiding your feelings, so instead of hiding it until you explode, then it is better to let someone here it right?¡±(Ciela) This kid says good thing from time to time, not that she is a stranger to me anyways, so I guess it should be fine. Even if she is young, she may give me some advice, she is a girl after all. It was still early and it hasn¡¯t even been lunch time yet. Anyways, the 3 of us went to the park and sat down on a bench. The park was surrounded by red trees, blue grass, and different colored flowers that were protected by a fence. There were benches that surrounded the playground in the middle of the park. Since it was still early, there weren¡¯t any people, so it was only the 3 of us in the park. ¡°You already know this but, I still love Shera.¡±(Feric) ¡°Yeah yeah I know, and then?¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­No, it¡¯s nothing. I can¡¯t say it after all.¡±(Feric) Now that I think about it, she is too young to know about love. What am I even thinking? To ask a girl for an advice? ¡°Just tell me.¡±(Ciela) ¡°It¡¯s about love, so you probably don¡¯t know much about it.¡±(Feric) ¡°What are you saying? I am already 32 years old, and I already fell in love once.¡±(Ciela) ¡°WHAT?¡±(Feric and Pooch) ¡°It¡¯s true, I fell in love 17 years ago.¡±(Ciela) 17 years ago? You were just 15 years then. How can such a young child fall in love? Now I¡¯m curious. ¡°Can you tell me more about it? Maybe I can use it as a reference.¡±(Feric) ¡°¡­To use a girl¡¯s love life as a reference.¡±(Ciela) ¡°Ah, sorry. Anyways, let¡¯s go buy some food.¡±(Feric) ¡°I¡¯ll tell you my story first.¡±(Ciela) I thought you didn¡¯t want to tell me your story? ¡°¡­¡±(Feric) ¡°You remember how the people treated my brother on balian city right?¡±(Ciela) ¡°Yes, I heard the whole story from your brother.¡±(Feric) ¡°Well, my brother wasn¡¯t the only one shunned by the city. Being his sister, the people also hated me.¡±(Ciela) Those stupid commoners, to even direct their hate to a child¡­ ¡°One day, we ran out of supplies and brother was still working. Since he left money for emergencies, I took the money and went out. The people didn¡¯t really do anything at first, and simply watched me as I walk around the city to buy food.¡±(Ciela) ___ (Ciela¡¯s POV) B¡­brother, please come back¡­the others are looking at me with scary eyes¡­ I walked around, as the people continued to gaze at me like I¡¯m a parasite that needs to be killed. Since there wasn¡¯t food left on the house, I had to buy some outside. I didn¡¯t know where the store was, so I tried asking for directions. The people around me didn¡¯t help me, and instead, said cruel things to me and even mentioned my brother. I continued to walk, but I couldn¡¯t find a store. Being a child that was spoiled by my brother, I wasn¡¯t used to walking for a long time, so I was slowly getting tired as I walk. I could feel people¡¯s stare around me, and I could also hear them snicker as my body shook from the long walk. It didn¡¯t look like I would find anything, so I just went back home. As I walked back, my body got weaker and weaker, not only from being tired, but also from hunger. As I got closer to our home, a group of people blocked my path. ¡°Look, it¡¯s the cursed one¡¯s sister.¡±(Heran 1) ¡°Hahaha she looks like she¡¯s about to die.¡±(Heran 2) ¡°That¡¯s good. There would be one less evil in this world.¡±(Heran 3) ¡°Quiet you two, what if the people see us?¡±(Heran 1) ¡°I think that the people would be happy if she died.¡±(Heran 3) ¡°Anyways, just take her money and let¡¯s bail out.¡±(Heran 2) Hearing them, I quickly hugged the stash of money. Brother worked hard for this, so I won¡¯t let them take it. The group started beating me up, and took the money when I could no longer hold on to it. They were about to go away, but someone yelled. ¡°HALT!¡±(???) The voice was so strong that the group of heran¡¯s looked back. I also looked back, and saw a tall person with a shiny gray skin. As I looked up, I could see his glossy silver hair that covered his eyes. ¡°How dare you beat up a child, and you even took her money? The commoners of this city are trash. I don¡¯t know why father even visited this rotten place.¡±(???) The group was enraged, but couldn¡¯t move. A group of knights were behind the tall person, which made the herans stay where they are. ¡°Give the money back to the child, or I will kill you right here right now.¡±(???) Fear ran through the herans¡¯ body, and they left the stash before running away. The man took the stash and gave it to his knight. ¡°W¡­wait, t¡­that¡¯s mine¡±(Ciela) ¡°Take that child back to her home, and tell the people around here that if they do anything like this again, then the osdwin family will be their enemy.¡±(???) The man wore an expressionless face the whole time. It was like he had no emotions. ¡°Yes, Feric-sama¡±(Knight) ¡°Before that, little child, these things happen a lot in the slums. So I suggest that you train so that you could protect yourself.¡±(Feric) The noble walked away after that, leaving a knight to carry me and the stash back to my home. After that, I started training myself¡­I didn¡¯t know how to, but I still trained. My brother didn¡¯t want me to train, and told me that he would always protect me¡­but I still wanted to train, because the only person aside from my brother that protected me said so. ___ I told them my story, but I left the important information hidden, I didn¡¯t want Feric to know that he was the one in my story. ¡°So you fell in love with the noble? Did you ever see him again?¡±(Feric) ¡°Yes I fell in love, and I saw him a second time on our journey.¡±(Ciela) ¡°¡­Tell me his name, maybe I could help you.¡±(Feric) Ok, let¡¯s change the subject. ¡°Anyways, if it¡¯s love, then you should just do what you can! If you love Shera then go for it!¡±(Ciela) ¡°She is still in a relationship with your brother you know¡­¡±(Feric) ¡°Love knows no bounds!¡±(Ciela) I¡¯ll simply continue what I am doing, and slowly make you look at me. LOVE KNOWS NO LIMITS!