《Grand Adventure》 Grand Adventure - Prologue In a deep dark forest lies a luxurious mansion. For a normal person it would seem arkward to encounter such a lavish building in a desolate area like this. The Big mansion is fenced whit sturdy steelbars that are all engraved with beautiful decorations. The House is imposing with it''s victorian style that would make anyone on earth be impressed by it''s owner, still with all it''s glory the gate of the villa looks dark and gloomy like a abandoned haunted house, uninviting and evil. The Paved way leads to stair steps on to the heavy wooden double doors with rustic carvings, the frontyard is overgrown with weeds that looked like nobody attended to it in years, the whole building seemed well maintained, untouched by nature and the four seasons, proudly standing in the middle of nowhere. Inside the pompous housing the marble floor is sparkling, on the walls are exquisite paintings to accent the magnificient sculptures standing on the side of the grand hallway, leading to a room. Where a person is sitting on a baroque styled chair, drinking a crimson liquid from a wine glass, putting it back on the antique side table, for a moment he sighed and looked outside the window with an expression of boredom on his face. His gaze wandered to a flat screen TV, where it showed a man clad in a black mantle holding a katana while slaughtering a group of people that looked like mythical creatures with two fangs in their mouths, upon contact with the japanese sword , one after another turned to sparking ashes, it was probably a well known movie but the mans handsome face that watched the action movie showed disgust and a hint of anger. ¡°Hmph, such a stupid movie. No wonder the humans think they can kill us. How unfortuned that I am the last of our kind, those lesser vampire scum think they are all so powerful but they can''t even take a stroll in broad daylight ¡±, said the long platin silver haired man with his crimson red eyes glowing, like a brilliant ruby, in the dark room. With a sad tone in his voice, he muttered to himself, ¡°Haah, how has it come to this, living for 8000 years and I am now alone, watching this hilarous movie, my daily life is full of boredom and scum pestering me about making them my allies, such idiocy. I now can understand my fellow comrades entering their eternal sleep. I was enraged, because they didn''t tell me anything, just leaving me alone with a note stating that they transferred all their soulpower to me and I am supposed to stay awake, because it would be a shame, if all the supreme pure blood vampirey died out, what comrades they are.¡° The Supreme pure blood vampire, swayed his right hand and the remote for the TV came flying into his palm, he turned the huge TV screen off that could fit in, a two meter full grown person in it. He emptied his wine glass with the red liquid that was definitely blood. This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.He putted the glass back where it was before and was heading to his grand kitchen, but before he could move a single step, he felt an ominous presence. His body reacted on his instincts and accumulated experience in battles. His left hand shot out to his side, with incredible speed like a bullet, grabbing the intruder at his neck while saying in a calm and cold voice, ¡°Who are you, what are you doing here and what do you want, when your answers are not satisfying, I will end your life.¡° He looked the intruder in the eye and scrutinized him from top to bottom. The Unkown individual has a pointed chin, slightly contrasting ears, thin lips that made him look like a sly fox with his slant eyes, truly suspicious. The sly fox looking man, was suprised for a second but regained his composure and answered, ¡° Lord Aluzar Refizul Hochstern. ¡° Aluzar raised a brow, because he was suprised that someone knew his full name besides his comrades. All the people he knew were unworthy to know his full name, is what he thought. So they all adressed him as Lord Hochstern, but how could this man know his full name, the name he hadn''t heard in 2000 years. The Sly fox looking man continued, ¡°It''s a pleasure to meet you, my name is Kallad. I am a manager of this universe, assigned to this planet called earth by the humans. The Creator of creators has send me to meet you and to tell you that you''re an existence too powerful for the population on earth and arranged a proposal for you, that will lift you from your eternal boredome in the near future.¡° Aluzar was suprised and excited because, he was bored to death for more than 2000 years, since his fellow supreme pure blood vampire comrades intentionally entered their eternal sleep and left him with tremendous power. With that power and his various skills and combat abilities it wouldn''t take week to conquer the earth and enslaving the humans but through out all his years of living. He had no interests in world domination and watched the humans and lesser vampires from the shadows. Earth has nothing to offer him anymore, all the wealth he collected, all the power he gained was nothing for him on this planet. He had reached the peak of the food chain. This Opportunity to free him from his boredom was peaking his interest, but he didn''t showed a tiny expression on his face, just an indefferent look, ¡° Go head and explain. I am willing to hear you out but be warned, you''re still suspicious.¡° The Sly fox looking man showed a smile while being released from the grip of Aluzar. Edit note: Fixed the misplaced commas and punctation and proof read it on my own, hope that their are no mistakes. Chapter 1. Adventure to a new world Aluzar was sitting in his baroque styled chair, while Kallad, the manager of earth, was standing respectively one meter away from him, ¡° Lord Aluzar Refizul Hochstern, you''re the last of your kind and the creator of creators, personally gave life to every species on this planet and it pains him, to see his creation suffering, from such trivial things, so he proposed that you should go to a new world, with swords and magic, were someone could become very powerful through hard work and efforts.¡± Hearing this, Aluzar was intrigued and showed a polite light smile, ¡° Very interesting, but that wouldn''t come with a price, wouldn''t it. ¡± Kallads eyes widened and his face showed a smile, ¡° It is as you guessed, it will limit your physical strength and mental capacity temporary, because we have to change your body back to a six year old child. Of course you will change back to your former appearance when you grow, naturally. ¡± Aluzar sighed, ¡° Haah, alright it''s a small price to pay, being a child for a while won''t affect my powers too much. Now tell me, what is this new world with swords and magic. The middle age looking Kallad, still having a smile on his face, continued, ¡°The World we will send you to, is in a different Universe, where infinite mana and elemental essences exist. The Planet is called Almastea and is two times bigger than earth and also has two moons. Almastea has four large continents, each in the size of Europe and Asia combined. The Residents of Almastea are humans and demi humans like beastmen, dwarves. elves, draconians, demons and there are ethereal beings called spirits. Most of the lands are unexplored, except for some regions with small villages, towns and several kingdoms. They live in a medieval age, similiar to earth at that time , due to magical beasts and various monsters over there, many places are still undiscovered.¡± When Kallad finished, his explanation. Aluzar broke into a mad laughter, like a child who found a new plaything, ¡°Hahahahahahahaha.....this is marvelous, but I have to inquire you, why me? Why have you chosen me? You should know I am, what the humans call, a monster. I can feed on blood and tamper with the minds of my enemies, an immortal abomination.¡± With a chuckle, Kallad said in a kind voice, ¡° Yes, you''re right in the face of humanity in this world, you truly are a monster caged on this planet, it is really unfortunate for you and the answer for your question, why we chose you, is simple ¡°He¡±, was bored. Just like you and felt something like ¡°sympathy¡±, for Lord Aluzar and decided, to offer you this proposal. Since the other Universe has no Administrator, it is supported by various gods and you can do everything you desire, over there and no longer endanger this world anymore, that ¡°He¡±, loves deeply for being the the first thing ¡°He¡± created.¡± Receiving an answer like this was unexpected, but Aluzar couldn''t care less. He wanted to go immediately, without further ado and asked with an indifferent expression, to hide his anticipation, ¡°When can i go.¡± The Manager, upon hearing this reply, couldn''t help but to smile brightly. He was overjoyed, it went as predicted and by finishing his task. He would be obviously rewarded, thus that made him simply happy. ¡°Since the concept of magic and mana doesn''t exist here. We have to change your body to a child, so that your body will be able to adapt to the changes more easily, if not you would die of mana poisening and it will be more exciting for you like this. When you have arrived on the other side, you will be able to perceive mana and manipulate mana at will, with constant training you will be able to perform spells in all affinities. Nothing will come for free and you will have to obtain it through hard work, but your racial traits and abilities as a supreme pure blood vampire won''t be affected, however, your physical strength and mental capacity will be limited, because of your small stature you will have over there.¡± Aluzar listened to Kallad very carefully, as he didn''t wanted to be a victim of some huge fraud scheme and a small worry came up in his mind, thus he asked, ¡° Wouldn''t the gods over there going to be really upset, when I turn their world upside down. I think I wouldn''t be happy, when someone came to my place and started a rampage.¡± Kallad, always having a creepy smile on his face, started to laugh and waved with his hands, ¡°Hahahaha....ehem, Lord Aluzar please don''t worry about those beings, they are not even managers of a planet and have no permanent power, they rely on the faith of their believers and without any believers, they will return to nothingness and fall into oblivion.¡± Hearing this truth from Kallad. Aluzar felt a little relieved, but he didn''t made it visible for him. He always kept a calm and cold expression, though inside him, Aluzar had a hard time supressing his emotions of happiness, excitement and curiosity. Just the thought of using magic got him almost jittery, because magic didn''t existed on earth therefor most vampires relied on telekinesis and mind manipulation, trough thoughts, brainwashing the targets. Aluzar, being the last supreme pure blood vampire had already mastered it, a long time ago. He could brainwash a whole country with his mind manipulation and lift a whole mountain with his telekinesis, without moving his fingers. Since Telekinesis and mind manipulation, required a lot of mental concentration and a strong soul, most of the lesser vampires can''t even imagine to exhibit such forces like Aluzar. He stands at the peak of this world and having absorbed the soul power of his comrades, when they went to their eternal sleep, made him unfathomable to predict how powerful he really was. The long platin silver haired Aluzar stood up and anounced, ¡° Well, when there is nothing more to say, I like to depart immediately, theres nothing holding me here.¡± Kallad, still having his creepy smile on his face, replied with a chuckle and his hand wandered to his chestpocket, of his vertical, black and white, striped suit. Bringing out a black signet ring, on the signet stamp, gold flashed in the patterns of a shield crossed with a death scythe and a sword, above them a beatifuly engraved crown. Aluzar easily spotted the ring and recognized the emblem. It was his emblem but what puzzeled him was, how they got that ring, that symbol should be long forgotten, though it was clearly in the vision of his eyes, before he could speak a single word. Kallad began to speak, The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. ¡° This Ring is especially created for you and if you wonder, how we knew about your coat of arms, you should have already grasped that ¡°He¡± is omniscient.¡± Aluzar closed his mouth and inwardly trembled in awe, thus came to an understanding how insignificant he was, in the face of the great creator of creators. Kallad, seeing that he answered his question, smiled lightly and continued to explain, ¡°This Ring is a gift to you and it is an interspatial ring, with unlimited space, inside the space of the ring time is stopped, it can store almost anything you want, but living creatures are restricted from entering, it is bound to you and no one else can use it.¡± Kallad handed the signet ring over to Aluzar and he inspected the marvelous engravings, in the shape of interwined clouds. The Ring is one of a kind, an unique artifact, created by the great creator of creators and it resonated with his soul in harmony. When he putted the signet ring on his right ringfinger, a bright light enveloped the entire body of Aluzar, ¡°What the hell is happening here !, damn it, you !, what did you do, whats going on !¡± The shouting Aluzar gazed at the smiling Kallad, thereafter he replied in a calm manner and was obviously amused by Aluzars anxiety,¡° Hahahaha, so you can show emotions, I wondered if you were an emotionless machine. Well, my work here is done and I wish you a safe journey, farewell and good luck in your new world.¡± As Kallad conveyed his last words, he disappeared into thin air. The lights around him began to shine even brighter and formed a globe enclosing Aluzars whole body. The Globe of light slowly dissolved into tiny orbs, scattering to the ceilling of the room then vanishing into thin air, till nothing was left except for his elegant pitch black shirts, pants, underwear and shoes. Deep inside a lush green forest, surounded by a tall mountain range, an eye piercing light flashed brightening the night, as if it was daytime and when the radiant light dimmed into darkness. A small figure of a child with long platin silver hair, reaching to his waist and crimson ruby eyes could be seen, his pale white skin shimmered in the dark. The Childs face was graced by a narrow snub nose, combined with his slightly slanted eyes and hardly noticeable pointed ears, covered by his hair, complimented his oval shaped face with his pointed chin, it made him breathtaking beautiful. Aluzar looked around surveying his suroundings, trying to collect his thoughts ,thereupon, seeing his small body. He was seriously shocked, not believing his sight. He moved his small fragile looking hand in grasping motion, while studying his entire body. Learning that he really had become a child, he could do nothing but to accept this fact and muttered, ¡°He could have left me some clothes, that asshole.¡± His voice was that of a provocative child and made him sound like an arrogant rich brat, if he weren''t naked in a dense forest.The Young child closed his eyes and concentrated his mind and soul, lifting him above the thick trees with telekinesis, he opened his eyes, gazing into the dark vastness of the forest. Aluzars vampiric vision made it possible for him to see in the dark, as if there was daylight. In addition he has superior eyesight surpassing a humans, allowing him to scan several kilometers ahead, but since his small body can''t keep up with his overpowered abilities. He could only see a few hundred meters without sending his child body into overdrive. He swirled around 360 degrees, while floating in mid air above the trees to capture every detail of his suroundings. He was searching for signs of civilization or something similiar, but unfortunately everything he saw was green trees as far as the eyes could see and they could see really far. He only caught glimpses of unknown giant beasts, but the huge trees, reaching up to about 200 meters, were blocking the view. Aluzar descented back to the ground of the forest, a look of disapointment could be seen. He hoped, he could have found a small village at best a town but sighed, ¡°Haaah, how troublesome. Well, nothing comes for free and I think, thats the best way for me to kill my boredom. Let''s see, the first thing to do is find me some clothing, but finding clothes in this wilderness is unlikely. The Only option is to make some clothes from animals, because I''m definitely not going to wear some weird ass flower outfit. So let the hunt begin.¡± With a sinister smile, Aluzar finished his self dialogue. While living in seclusion on earth, he developed a habit of talking to himself, to fight his loneliness. But occasionally some unlucky humans wandered around ,or were lost, in his forest. He would hunt them down without mercy and instilled fear into them, sometimes luring them into his mansion and torture them for months ,or even years, he loved to see the suprised expression and terror of his preys, so much, that he erased their memories of the moment they realized he was a vampire and tortured them like this. He repeated that scenario, till their brain couldn¡ät take it anymore, they were thereafter just living meatbags, unable to ever think again, for their whole life. The Young child with an old soul walked, while naked, slowly through the forest, leaving behind shrubbery and small branchest, searching for a fitting prey. He got excited, whilst thinking about what animals or monsters he would encounter. The Small youth, was highly interested in the ecology of Almastea, thus also in it''s inhabitants. Inspecting the woods and plants on the forest ground while doing that he found out, they all emmited a faint glow. He hypothesized that it is either mana or elemental essence and maybe both combined, he had to research further to conclude his theory. The Eyes of the young child, sparkled like well, like a child, however, in his mind he thought of uncovering the mysteries of this world of magic. He was so deep in his thoughts, that he failed to notice the approaching figure slowly ,but steadily creeping towards his back. But his vampiric senses was able to detect every living existence in a wide radius, although, it is now a mere six meters, as soon as the black figure was near enough to trigger his senses. Aluzar turned around, facing a ten meter tall, black fured beast, it was similiar to a bear except it was several times larger, plus it had two blade shaped horns sticking out of it¡äs forehead, the five talons of his paws were sharp, in addition each of them were big as an arm of a grown up man. The Beast lunged at him with it¡äs talons, it was confident to kill his small prey, however, Aluzars eyes began to glow, his calm demeanor changed to a fierce expression. The huge bear beasts movement instantly froze up, unable to even move an inch due to the ernormous bloodlust emmited from the 120 centimeter tall child. author note: hey guys , i finished chapter 1 puh, look forward to the next chapter thanks and enjoy. Edit note: Fixed some misplaced commas,pointers and proof read it myself, hope there are no mistakes. Also made some structuring please tell me how you like this. Chapter 2. The Great forest The skinny boy, scrutinized the black bearlike creature, after that he focused his mind, immobilizing it by restraining him with telekinesis and letting it float just above the earth. The Bloodlust grew denser, he could fully utilized the bloodlust, because it wasn¡ät related to mind manipulation, it was just pure instincts and the strong feeling of wanting to use violence. Aluzar, was barely able to restrain the beast while lifting it just above the ground, it took him serious concentration maintaining them. He walked towards the large monster, with the hands behind his back, a devious grin formed on his face, furthermore, the teeth in his mouth, began all changing into evenly sized fangs making him look all the more sinister. Aluzar, unlike lower pure bloods and lesser vampires, could change minor body details like, the color of his hair, eyes, transfiguring his teeth or face. It was one of the innate abilities, the supreme pure blood vampire possessed, to integrate with the humans. You can¡ät become a supreme pure blood vampire, your are born as one, in contrast to lower pure blood vampires that underwent transformation through an enzyme injected, by a bite from a supreme pure blood vampire. But since the fertility of them, is almost non existent, the birth rate was also at a rock bottom and only female supreme vampires are compatible with the male counterpart and we don¡ät have to mention the lower pure bloods ,or lesser vampires, they are practically impotent. Through human folklore and myths, vampires are believed to be undead beings, but that incorrect conclusion was caused by supreme vampires, faking their own death while living under humans, as to not raise suspicions on the basis of living to long. It could be said, that supreme pure blood vamires are one of the superior evolution branches, besides the homo sapiens, possessing eternal youth, a high regenerative body, physical strenght and mental capacitys, exceeding the humans by far. Yet the infertility of them was the fatal flaw, that led them almost to their extinction. With only males being born in the new generation, as well as the older generation entering their eternal sleep. The downfall of the supreme pure blood vampires, was destined. Aluzar standing in front of the large horned black bear creature, still having his evil grin all over his face was delighted, ¡° Mmhahahaha....Oh What, do we have here , a big teddy bear came out to play catch but unfortunately for you, I am not in the mood right now for such play, thus let me suggest a game we can play together. Hmm...Ah, I have an brilliant idea, let¡äs play doctor. You will be the patient and I will be the doctor. hehehe...,¡± The Fingernails of his right hand transformed into sharp black claws. He walked to the side of the bear creature, he straightened out an arm before him, with his vertically stretched out palm, then he twisted his palm to a horizontal angle and simultaneously the huge beastmonster swirled into a horizonal position. The young boy, slammed the beast into the ground with a downward hand motion. Lying on it¡äs back, the horned black bear wanted to growl and roar, but was completely immobilized, it couldn¡ät crompehend what was happening. The fragile looking child, climbed on top of the upper body, standing face to face, showing the monster his baleful smirk. He released the restraining on the head of the bear beast, it began let out a deafening roar, it tried to bite him, Aluzar could only chuckle, ¡° Now, now, you should behave a little, he he he, since you are my precious first patient, I will examine you really thoroughly, mahahahaha.¡± Aluzar, pointed out his clawed index finger piercing through the upper section and slowly cutting down to the lower section, an anguish roar echoed through the forest, as he finished bisecting through the abdomen. The innards were now visible, from the lungs to the intestines, everything could be seen. The Boy, inspected the insides of the beast very carefully, while the horned bear roared and whimpered in pain at the sametime, to him it was just amusing background music. He rummaged in the oversized stomach to find some differences, to bears on earth and the cause why the beast, he is rummaging through with his whole body inside it¡äs belly, grew so large. The young kid first of all, removed all the non vital organs like the intestines and gallbladder, seeing the young one inside it¡äs belly ripping out parts from it, the beast could only wail in agony of pain and despair, waiting for it¡äs seemingly far away death. After some time, Aluzar managed to remove most of the innards, leaving only the vital organs intact. The Black beast was left in a vegetative state, between life and death. The Young boy jumped out from the insides of the creature, coated with blood all over his naked body. He made his way to the heavily breathing, horned bear and revealed a gentle smile, ¡° I sincerely thank you, for being my first patient and taking part in my experiment, although, unwillingly, as thanks, I will free you now, from your suffering, farewell your remains will be of a great uses for me, you have my gratitude.¡± The Horned bear, couldn¡ät understand a word, but could vaguely feel what was conveyed to it¡äs mind. Aluzar, swiped his bloody right hand in the left direction, at the same time the head of the beast twisted to the left side, resulting in an ugly cracking sound and a broken neck. Aluzar, noticing his blood covered body, only sighed, ¡° Damn it, I overdid it again. Oh well, it can¡ät be helped, time for some blood tasting.¡± He concentrated his mind and soul, then the blood from the bear beast corpse and that what was covering him lifted in tiny orbs in the air, then it gathered into a dark red sphere, before stopping in front of the child. He put, his lips on the large sphere and began drinking, in a mere minutes the 50 cm in diameter big sphere vanished into the small boys mouth. Supreme pure blood vampires, aren¡ät required to drink blood it is just an efficient method, evolution developed, to absorb nutritions effectively, they could also eat and drink normal food, just like humans to sate their hunger. Aluzar, licked his lips, ¡° hmm...It has, a very strong gamey flavor, just like expected from a wild animal, it has also a sweet touch, in the aftertaste, really delicious.¡± After ascertaining the taste of the blood, he went into dismembering the corpse, before that the boy skinned the fur by peeling it of with his telekinesis, from the carcass. Leaving only red flesh and bones drained from blood. He extracted the sinews from the muscles, with that he could make some durable threads, he forcefully ripped of the pinkyfinger from the bearpaw, removed the flesh from the bones. After that he stored everything, besides the tendons and fingerbones, from the dead sknned beast inside the infinite space, of his interspatial signet ring. He disliked to be wasteful. The Sun, started to rise and the two moons dimmed. Aluzars nose, caught the smell of blood clinging to him, he could remove the blood, but not the smell, ¡° I guess, processing the sinews into threads got to wait. I can¡ät stand this smell, clinging onto my body, I need to find a lake , or river to wash myself off from this odour.¡± He had a keen nose and heightened senses, but firstly he cared for hygiene, if he is not too immersed with something he is interested in, and completely forgetting himself. The child, stored the tendons and bones, in his signet ring and was intrigued how it worked, just thinking of storing something and touching it with his hands, will make it disappear into thin air and thinking about wanting something that is stored inside, will make it appear out of nothing. When he finished, satiating his curiosity, Aluzar kept wandering through the dense forest, the sunrays lightly brightened the morning to come. He encountered small sized creatures, that instantly fled, but he didn¡ät concerned himself with them, they were unable to harm him either way. He hiked his way through an ardous mountain range, by the time he found a small creek flowing downwards. The Sun, was at it¡äs highest point, enliving the forest from it¡äs slumber, unknown sounds from living things could be heard throughout the thicket of the woods. He followed the flow the creek, the water flow became denser as he descended further downhill, until he reached a small lake, with crystal clear water shimmering in all colors, the sight was truly gorgeous. Aluzar, could feel and see the mana gushing out from the lake in the shape of, petite translucent crystals breaking the sunlight, into a rainbow colored aurora, above the surface of the water. He stepped to the lake shore, further in till the water reached his chin, he took a deep breath and dived under the water swimming around the lake, then he noticed a bright blue shine radiating underwater in the middle of the lake. He surfaced for a brief moment, took another deep breath and dived, heading straight to the bright light. He found a single unpolished gem, the raw gem was gleaming in a deep blue color, although, in the size of a pea and unpolished it radiated a strong dark blue light. Aluzar was fascinated and it raised his curiosity, he wanted to know of what the gem was composed of and how it was created. He stored, the raw gem in his interspacial ring and ascended to the surface. When he came out of the lake, Aluzar took out his sinews and fingerbones from the beast and prepared, the tools for making threads and bone needle. It took a relative flat rock and a smooth stone, he found them at the lake shore. He extracted the moisture from the tendons with telekinesis and laid it on the flat rock, the sounds of pounding could be heard, the sinews splitted into multiple strands, now it only had to be untangled and it could be used, as durable threads for sewing. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Now he just needed a needle, he crushed the bones, then took the oblonged splinters and shaped them, by grinding it against the flat rock, he morphed his index fingernail into an elongated claw and carved an eyelet, on the broader wider end of the needle. He brought out the skinned fur pelt. He recently obtained, he dried it from excess moister and started to cut out patterns for fitting shorts and a fur vest, he made buttons out of bone fragments, from the leftovers of the needle production. For Aluzar, sewing was a piece of cake, since he had nothing to do for a few centuries. He learned various things like, sewing , cooking, martial arts, science, math, chemistry, biology, business management, various languages, gaming and so on. He intermingled, wih humans till it bored him to death, he studied everything the humans offered him and then went into seclusion, because nothing could peak his interests anymore. When he finished the sewing. He put on the shorts and vest made from fluffy fur, the buttons are perfectly roundly shaped with artistic carvings on them. Even if they were, simple clothes made from fur, they looked elegant on Aluzar. The Sun, started to set and it became evening. Aluzar, wanted to make fire and thought that it was now a good time, to checkout how magic worked. The White haired child concentrated his senses and felt a strange energy coursing inside his body, he tried to focus the energy in his right palm, but it took his outmost concentration. When he succeeded focusing all the energy in his right hand, he stretched his arm, with open hands, directing it at a pile of branches prepared by him beforehand. Aluzar, imagined something hot, burning and blasting out in his mind and a fireball, in the size of a basketball, shot out from his palm, setting the pile of branches on fire, burning it nearly to cinders,then vanishing. He ran hastily to stockpile of wood branches and fed it to the fire, before it was completely extinguished. He rubbed his forehead and felt very tired somehow. The Young one deduced that the cause was, that he depleted all the strange energy in his body and concluded, the strange energy was mana. The Young boy sat down in front of the camp fire, that costed him great concentration and mental strain to create, but he was happy, because even if you can control most of the elements with telekinesis, you can¡ät create the elements through it, thus Aluzar was overjoyed, discovering his new power. He took out some meat, from his interspacial ring and roasted it on a stick, above the open fire. The Night, had already unfolded and the child devoured, the hot steamy meat. He really felt the fatigue, caused by using magic, so he fueled the fire with more wood and prepared the leftover beast pelt, into a comfortable sleeping mat. He laid down on the softfur of the pelt near the fire and let sleep overwhelm him. In his deep slumber he had a dream of a woman, he once met back on earth. It was back in the past, when he was young and inexperienced, he fell in love with her, she was human, but the love was genuine. They married and were happy, she wanted children, but he couldn¡ät tell her what he was and why she couldn¡ät bear his children. He kept it all a secret, he was afraid of being hated, a few years later, she was pregnant, he was stunned, he couldn¡ät believed it. He pretended to be happy and said, that he would be gone for a while. He stayed near his housing, late night someone came knocking at the door, it was a man. He saw it all , but didn¡ät accepted it, he walked to his house and opened the door. He saw a scene, that broke his heart, they were naked lying on the bed. He was overwhelmed by emotions, love, sadness, anger, madness, then everything collapsed in his mind, the woman told him it was¡ät what he was thinking. His heart began to froze by that lie, he changed to his true appearance, they were shocked, he grabbed the man at his neck and lifted him in the air. He ripped out the mans genitals and stuffed it into his mouth, the man gurgled on his dick in unimaginable pain, tossing the man aside, he walked to the woman. He asked why, but she couldn¡ät answer, she was scared stiff. He told her, she could have lived forever, but now he will watch her die alone,of old age, he will kill everyone around her, everyone touching her, everyone speaking to her and everyone related to her. The Sunrise signaled the awakening of the forest and the sleeping time, for nocturnal and monsters. Aluzar, woke up with a melancholic expression on his face, he murmured, ¡° It¡äs been a longtime, since i had this dream, such relics from the past are still haunting me, how pathetic of me, I am disgusted with myself.¡± With an angry look, he rolled up his sleeping mat and stored it away, the fire had already died out, he collected some wood branches on the ground. He once again concentrated his senses and noticed that the strange energy, identified as mana, has slightly densed up, he immediately knew that his mana pool expanded. He came to an insight, that his body is a vessel and the mana like a liquid coursing through his whole body, adapting to it. Everytime he uses magic, the mana condensed and becomes a little purified. Aluzar, raised his right hand and focused, half the mana inside his hand and created, a flaming basketball sized globe of fire floating just above his hand, but this time he splitted the globe into two, then into four smaller flaming globes, in the size of slightly bigger baseballs, hovering in a circle above his hand. He fired a small fireball, on the woodpile and it caught fire without incenerating it to ashes and fading away. He condensed, the remaining three balls, into small tiny glows of fire and fused them together, the result of the experiment was a tiny orb in the size of a pebble, but it radiated an extreme heat. He shot the glowing red orb towards the small lake, the small orb dived into the water and for brief moment the whole lake began to boil, he could see strange fish creatures floating upside down, showing der bellys. The Small boy had just now purged the small lake from every life it may have had held. Not even bothered, by his fish creature genocide, he took out some bear monster meat and grilled it above the fire. He didn¡ät had any appetite for fish right now, eventhough, the whole lake smelled like a bowl of fish soup. He ate his roasted meat, while doing that, he thought for brief moment about the woman he wanted to forget and instantly shook those thoughts out of his mind, he focused his mind on his insights in magic. Ending his breakfast, the boy extinguished the camp fire, by pouring water generated from using magic, Aluzar imagined something, wet liquified, formless and it started, flooding from his palm. The Young child, embarked on his journey, heading to the highest mountain top in this mountain range, in the hope to find civilization. He couldn¡ät fly long distances, because of his child body, thus he hiked his way through this seemingly endless forest. Aluzar, estimated the distance to be around 250 km, a normal human needed at least a week, but with his physical constitution, despite being restrained by his childlike body, it was enough to cover the distance in 3 or 4 day, by walking. He confronted, various beasts, like a eight meter tall white tigerlike beast with 30 cm black spikes coming out of his spine, a four meter big birdlike dove with a 90 cm long beak in the form of a saw , or a two meter large deer beast that was carnivorous and his antlers were bent forward, in the shape of multiple pointed stakes, they all had one thing in common. They all had met the same cruel fate, like the black horned bear beast had suffered from and they all had a dark blue core, unlike the bear beast. The Little boy was fascinated by this new world and the vast secrets it contained. He thought, about the first beast he met an the differences between the monsters, he recently encountered. Then a sudden insight hit him, they all could use magic, eventhough, he restrained them with telekinesis, they had still used magic against him. It was really difficult to bisect them alive, thus he had to kill them in the middle of treatment. He gained a white black striped tiger fur pelt and bone spikes from the spine, downy feathers from the saw beak dove and the pointed stake antlers and deer skin and also the magic cores, from the magic beasts he medicated, as a payment he received the knwodledge that beasts with cores can use magic, thus are called magic beasts , and monsters without a core are normal animals. Of course, he drained the blood and stored all the meat away. The Tiger beast blood tasted gamey, but more intense than the bear beast with a hearty taste, the saw beak dove tasted lightly sour with a metallic aftertaste, the pointed stake antlers deer tasted salty with a fruity flavor. Aluzar arrived, after 3 days without encountering any beasts, at the foot of the mountain. The Massive peak reached to the clouds, it was astounding gigantic, he estimated the height to be at around 6000 m. He wanted to climb the mountain, to have better view of the region, although, he could leviate himself up in the sky, he couldn¡ät reach a decent height to catch a look over the forest with his vampiric vision, without burning out his body, but before he could take the first step in climbing the mountain, a huge cave leading into the mountain caught his eyes. He smirked with an evil expression. Edit note: Fixed some misplaced commas, pointers and grammatical errors I found, hope that there aren¡ät anymore. Chapter 3. The Gates in the mountain Aluzar, entered the huge cave at the mountain foot, he casually walked through the darkness, because of his vampiric vision he could see perfectly in the dark. His ruby red eyes, platin silver hair and pale white skin are glowing and shimmering, in the pitch dark cave. Supreme pure blood vampires are all born with those characteristics, similar to albinism but more developed. The Pale white skin is shimmering, because of the lack of melanin, altough, he can stay in the the sun for a few hours, he will get several terrible burns, if he has direct skin contact with sunrays. The Reason he could move in broad daylight, was because of the large shadows from the trees. His ruby red eyes could see flawlessly in the dark, but when it¡äs daytime he saw only blurry figures, shades and contours, he had to rely on his vampiric senses to make it to the mountain foot and the answer to why he didn¡ät travel at night is because, when he caught a glimpse of the forest, at the beginning of his adventure, he saw creatures several times larger than the bear beast, or any monster he encountered before, thus he decided to travel when the sunlight was up and in the hope of not meeting one of those colossal monster, because if he would, he would be in serious trouble, not like when he met those small fry beasts, but in a life and death situation. Supreme pure blood vampires are not invincible they will die when, beheaded, burned to ashes, or impaled through the heart. He strolled through the ernormous cave and inspected every inch of the cave. On the walls were mysterious glyphs and paintings. The young boy tried to decipher the symbols, but could only assume what was conveyed on the walls. A serpent with mutiple heads and wings, flying over humans and humanoid looking beings while devouring them, were depicted on the wallpaintings. Aluzar, could only guessed that it had something to do with a very powerful creature. The Child walked further into the dark cave, a cold breeze fluttered through the air, as he arrived before a massive black gate, engraved with strange runes, he felt a powerful energy behind the heavy doors. He gave a shot at moving the doors with raw strength, but it didn¡ät advanced a single centimeter from it¡äs position. Next he tried moving it with his telekinesis, but still there was no reaction or even a sound indicating it moved a bit. The little boy was at his wits end and didn¡ät know what to do anymore, then he had an idea, he put both his hands on the double doors and poured his whole mana into them. Suddenly, the runes began to glow in a clomplex circle formation, in the middle a hexagon interwined with circled runes. He began to push again, but it still didn¡ät moved. Aluzar was really annoyed, not only he felt very fatigued now, but also has an incredible painful headache, it seems the magic circle drained more mana out than he had and still didn¡ät allowed him to enter. The young child was furious, he wanted to know at all costs, which secrets those doors are holding. He mustered all his consciouness, ignored the searing pain in his head and applying his telekinesis again on the heavy metallic doors, while pushing with everything his body got to offer, against the gigantic weights. Aluzar, desperately leaned against the colossal gates, but it still didn¡ät budge an inch. Now he had one last resort, the boy pushed his body over it¡äs limits. His muscle fibers expanded, till his slender arms and legs were bursting blood, from small rips across his limbs. The bleeding child didn¡ät stop there, he concentrated his mind and soul, exceeding the limits of his current mental capacity, blood dripped from his nose on the cold stone floor in increasing intervals. The blood drenched boy burned out his body and was in horrible pain, it was like a million hot needles piercing his body and brain simultaenously, with every second his conscousness slipped away, little by little, bit by bit. Finally the heavy doors moved, until a small gap was opened, by the exhausted Aluzar. The Vacuum broke and sucked in the kneeling child into the room, he crash landed on the hard floor and tried standing up, with his awareness on the brink of breaking down, out of nowhere he heard a female voice, ¡° Hahaha....tandem aliquis habet nos liberatum von habere aeternalis ergastulum...¡± Without hearing the whole foreign speech, he blacked out from exhaustion and immense pain. In his deep coma he found himself in a white space floating around like space garbage and in a flash, a giant eight headed black serpent appeared in front of him, ¡° Oh, what do we have here, you look tottaly different from what i have seen outside your head, what a suprise¡± It is true that Aluzar had a body of six year old child, but his soul and mind is still that of a 8000 years old supreme pure blood vampire, thus his appearance is also former to that, when he was on earth in his mind. ¡° Let us introduce ourself first, we are Saput Octo Kalamitas, the eight headed serpent of disaster, we are eternally in your debt young one for freeing our soul from this prison, even after our death our spirit couldn¡ät escaped this room, those foolish gods think they are allmighty, always fighting each other, but when something poses a serious thread to them, they set up a cowardly trap and didn¡ät even spared our soul, but you child freed us and we can finally enter the river of reincarnation.¡± Aluzar was at first puzzeled by his former appearance, but regained his composure when he realized that he was deep in his subconscious of his mind and spoke with a curios tone, ¡° I am Aluzar Refizul Hochstern, how come you can speak my language¡± The eight headed serpent hissed and wiggled all her heads, all over around the handsome man while answering, ¡° Hmm...Interesting, you don¡ät seem to be from here, we have never seen your race are you maybe from a different continent? Ah, also the answer to your question, aren¡ät we inside your mind, we can talk here without a language barrier, because you processed our thoughts into an understandable context, allowing us to converse with each other. Now, on a different issue, could you tell us how the outside world changed, before we enter the grand river of reincarnation.¡± Upon listening to the explanation and question he could only helplessly frown, because he didn¡ät knew shit about, how the world has changed and he didn¡ät want to lie to someone, who was about to leave this realm, thus he answered in all honesty. Even Aluzar knew what the great river of reincarnation was, the knowledge was handed down from generation to generation, if someone from their own entered their eternal sleep they left their knowledge in their soul power, leaving only the pure soul headed towards the great river of reincarnation. Soul power was the mental strength and knowledge an individual gained at operating his body and mind, in order to draw out the maximale power from both, or even beyond, destroying the vessel, if someone did not had enough soul power. The Wisdom someone amassed could also be absorbed too, it is like the physical wealth collected through out ones life. Since Aluzar was the last supreme pure blood vampire he possessed all the wisdom and knowledge handed down from his ancestors, but burning out his young body was very risky, ending in a comatose state was highly dangerous, maybe he will never be able to wake up again. He drove that thought out of his mind, he didn¡ät entered his eternal sleep yet, so he could try to find a way out of his coma, for a few centuries, because his body entered into hibernation, it was similar to the eternal sleep but not absolute. When a supreme pure blood vampire entered his final sleep he would have been fataly wounded in a fight, but that was unlikely, since they were the apex predator, evolution developed, on earth, thus the second reason would be, that they were tired of living through dozens of millennia and entered the so called eternal sleep. Seperating the soul from the body, while transferring their last will to a chosen successor, then entering the great river of reincarnation in order to be reborn as something else. The Last will, was the soul power and wisdom collected from the person, also how their kind should proceed from then on, although, Aluzar was the youngest of them he didn¡ät received any directive, or advice only messages like, ¡° do what you want, but don¡ät enter your final sleep.¡±, or ¡° have fun with your eternal life or better said eternal boredom, hahaha.¡± With those mocking messages they left him to be the last of their kind, recalling those irresponsible action he could only sighed on how enough time could change someones behavior, from decent and dignified to depressed and willing to do anything to escape a boring life, even pushing everything onto the youngest one. He glanced at the eight headed serpent, Saput Octo Kalamitas and spoke in a soft voice, ¡° I¡äm sorry Saput, I am really not from here and I am not even from another continent. Since you will enter the great river of reincarnation. I can tell you where I am from. I came from another universe, where there is no mana and technology is more advanced, unlike here. I am a supreme pure blood vampire, a so called monster in my former world, but here I¡äm one among many, although, I arrived here, I can¡ät tell you any details on how the world had changed, only that we are surounded by a vast forest, theres nothing more I can tell you.¡± Hearing such an answer the eight headed serpent wiggled her giant heads even more intense around him and said in a happy high pitch voice, ¡° Oh, how unexpected. Never in our dreams we thought, we would be meeting someone from another universe, that should explain why you look different in your mind, eventhough, we heard about vampires, we never heard about supreme pure blood vampires, your soul must be pretty strong it was really hard to get through your mind defense and you were seriously weakened. Well, since you don¡ät know anything about this world, we will give you our knowledge collected from our mind as a gift for freeing us.¡± Before Saput could do that, he immediately answered hurriedly, ¡° I thank you for your offer, but I must decline. I want to discover this world on my own and it would spoil my fun.¡± Aluzar didn¡ät want any spoilers ruining his discoveries, he wanted to explore those things on his own. The eight headed serpent, was dumbfounded and spoke in an amazed tone, ¡° You are really a strange one, well it can¡ät be helped, but we really want to give you something hmmm.... Oh we know, we will help you get out from your coma and give you knowledge about this world languages, eventhough, it is really similar to yours, but it will help you understand, read and write every language spoken on this world and we insist on it, that is the least we can give to you.¡± Aluzar frowned a little and finally gave in, after accepting this reward, a flood of information entered into his consciousness and he saw everything clearly becoming darker and a stinging pain began surging from his limbs and brain. He opened, his eyes and rolled up and down on the cold floor in pain, holding his scream inside him. The Boy felt an agonizing pain as if billions of tiny little welding torches were lit up inside his muscle fibers and brain matter. His regeneration kicked in before he blacked out and went to hibernation, it was a life sustaining measure instinctively issued from his body, keeping him from more exhaustion and dying. The small boy wanted to scream in pain venting everything out, but his pride didn¡ät allowed it and took every second of insane pain silently without even making a single sound. A few minutes passed, but for him it was as long as he was alive, such pain was new to him since he never exceeded his limits. It was good that his body regenerated so fast, but it was connected with mind breaking pain, when heavily wounded. The Pain, slowly subsided an the young one stood up, still shakey from the pain, ¡° Good, that went well. So Aluzar, you can have everything inside this damn traphole. Those Gods lured us in with the promise of power and providing a safe nest and tricked us, in sealing this room with chests, filled with shiny things that are useless to us. We would have taken our revenge, if you would have come 2000 years earlier, before our mana was used up for providing us with air. Such a pity, but with our last ounce of strength, we layed a fertilized egg, unfortunately we didn¡ät had the chance to hatch it, since it would have instantly died in this room, but we will transfer our soul power to this egg. We have one last request, please hatch this egg and guide this child. We know this is bit sudden and imposing, but nourish it with your mana and this child will recognize you as it¡äs master when hatched, thus it is not a bad deal, don¡ät you think so.¡± Aluzar was collecting his thoughts and weighted the advantaged and disadvantaged from this deal, having a servant, free of charge, was very alluring, but something bothered him a little, ¡° So Saput, you can¡ät take your revenge personally anymore, but you intend to send your child to accomplish it and I should help guiding it to achieve your goal, in return it will be my servant. I don¡ät think, that I will benefit much from it, don¡ät you think so.¡± This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. With a pained, cramped smile he spoke those words. A disembodied female laughter of different voices, reverberated through the dark room, ¡° HaHa-hoho-hehe-hihi-HAHA-keke-kiki-kaka... You are realy wise, but anyone with little insight could have seen through it. Well, since it can¡ät be helped in anyway, we can¡ät do anything about it.¡± Saput, couldn¡ät finished her speech, because Aluzar interrupted her, ¡° You don¡ät seem to understand, I didn¡ät declined your offer, I just pointed out that it won¡ät affect me either way, because I already calculated that those so called gods, will get in my ways, sooner or later. It¡äs just a little hassle to train a new servant and a serpent at that, before they interfere with me and right now I am not confident enough in my powers to go against them, but with time that will change.¡± The eight headed serpent, was astonished, by the little boy speaking those words, ¡° Hoo, you really thought it out, even considering the possibilities. Well, now it¡äs time for us to depart, thus we wish you good fortune on your journeys and please take good care of our child. Farewell.¡± Suddenly, Aluzar realized something, how could she have known about the smilarities of their languages and she mentioned something about vampires in this world, he immediately shouted, ¡° Hey, how did you knew about my language and you said their are vampires here too, can you tell me more about them.¡± Upon those questions she said in a mischievously tone, ¡° Oh, about that, I saw a little of your memories and about the latter, didn¡ät you want to find out everything by yourself, hehehe.¡± With those last words she fell silent, the boy called out to her many times, but was answered with silence. He was enraged and curses slipped through his mouth, ¡° Fuck, fuck, that shitty serpent bitch, maybe I will just make eight headed serpent egg omlette, fuck you Saput.¡± Calming down from his sudden rage, he looked around the dark room and saw a dozen treasure chests, distributed in all four corners of the room, in the middle of the grand room was a eight headed serpent lying their with no signs of life, obviously because Saput was already dead for a long time. The Lifeless body seems to be wriggled around something, the corpse didn¡ät began to rot until now, because of the vacuum, the boy smirked mischievously, ¡° I can have everything in this room you said, mmhahaha, damn serpent bitch for looking into my memories, I will devour your meat and feed it to your child, hehehe.¡± He staggered to the 300 meter huge wriggled up serpent and stored it in his interspatial ring, leaving only a, 40 cm long and 20 cm in width pitch black egg. The Boy lifted the egg that was almost half as big as him, from the floor and made his sleeping mat appear on the ground, rolled it out, put the egg down on the soft fur and layed himself besides it. Aluzar couldn¡ät infused the egg with his mana right away. The Reason was that he spended everything infusing the magic circle, even after awakening from his short coma, he was still extremely exhausted and the phantom pain, from his limbs and brain tormented him to sleep. He closed his eyes, in the hope of not dreaming anything about his past. He slowly fell into a deep slumber. He found himself in the white space again and felt a presence so powerful it sended a chill down his spine, a gentle voice rang through out the white space, ¡° Greetings my child. I think you don¡ät need an introduction, you should know who I am. I am everything and nothing, I am someone and anyone, I am the creator of creators.¡± Aluzar was petrified for a moment and needed sometime to reply in a humble voice, ¡° Great creator of creators, it¡äs a pleasure to meet you, why is a great existent like you, allowing someone such as me to converse with you.¡± The Supreme pure blood vampire was at it¡äs humblest attitude, because in front of an omnipotent being, that created everything that existed, he was surely less insignificant than a roach. ¡° Hahahaha...Oh young one, just drop the formalities. I know you very well, you can¡ät hide anything from me, you know.¡± Aluzar could only express a wry smile and the disembodied voice that was neither male or female continued, ¡° So let us continue on our matter, theirs no particular reason I proposed to you to come here. Well I could have forcebily send you here, but since you are part of my beloved first creation and your race was born from the seeds of life I sowed through out your former universe, I cherish every single being. Even you, although, your ways of thinking is really extreme in an others eyes. I still can understand your feelings, even if I know everything happening in the countless universes. The Feeling of boredom is really dreadful. Well, I just came to say that you can live it up in this universe. Just do what you want and yeah, when you get out of that cave, turn right and head straight through the forest, you will reach a small village. Now, I will answer one question from you as a small gift.¡± Aluzar eyes widened and immidiately asked, ¡° I don¡ät quite understand, why your greatness is helping me ? I never completed a feet, worthy of your present that is my only question.¡± The Omnipotent presence hesitated for a moment, ¡° Well, this universe was a side project and it accidently created gods from faith of the inhabitants. Since I refrain to interfere to much, I won¡ät destroy those lives, but since those so called gods are really full of themselves, I well .....send you as a plague to teach them a lesson and it seemed entertaining. Oh god look how late it has become, hahaha, it was a pleasure to talk with you, but I have to go now, hahaha, I will be watchin, bye.¡± Whithout even a blink of an eye the presence was gone. Aluzar floated in the white space, with a dumbfounded expression, while everything around him grew darker, till he opened his eyes still with the same dumbfounded look on his face. The Small boy, sighed, ¡° I shouldn¡ät have asked in the first place.¡± With those words he locked this revelation, deep inside his mental graveyard. He stood up feeling refreshed he got hold of the egg, laying besides him and sat crossed legged in front of it. He channeled his mana, sending it to the pitch black egg, it absorbed the mana instantly. Aluzar didn¡ät wanted to do a half ass job, stopping periodically to take a break, thus he put himsel in a trance, allowing him to contantly supply the unhatched egg and replenishing his mana, it also helped him to strengthen his mana pool, so it was like killing two birds with one stone. He incidentally roasted some meat to eat ,directly with fire from his palm, to sate his hunger. This Routine continued some time without daylight or a watch, he could only guessed that it was around a few weeks since he nourished this egg with his mana. The pitch black egg jiggled, the shell slowly cracked open and multiple small heads around 3 cm big poked out of the egg, with hissing sounds the 1. 50 meter long, eight headed baby serpent untangled itself and spread it¡äs leathery wings, spanning alltogether 2 meters. The eight headed serpent was pitch black and 6 cm width, it had beautiful emerald green eyes on all its heads. It looked at the 1.21 meter tall boy, while looking around his suroundings with its other heads. Aluzar was amused, hatching the egg gave him a feeling of pride, ¡° Now , since you are my first servant, you are part of my household. I will give you the name, Azariah Octo Kalamitas¡± As he finished a magic circle formed around them, illuminating the dark room, they both began to glow and translucent collars appeared on the necks of the eight headed serpent, then dimmed into darkness. A soft feminin sound of multiple voices resounded in the head of the boy, talking bits of the sentence and letting the other voices continue, ¡° We will-ssserve you-for all -our life-till we-will die-pleassse take-care of ussss massster.¡± He was suprised that he could communicate, so early with his new servant, he thought that it would take some time, so he inquired, ¡° Why can you speak right away, after your birth, is your race something special.¡± Thereupon, the baby serpent answered in the same manner as before, ¡° We are- an exsstinct-racssse of-magical beasstss-from what-we know-from mothersss-memoriesss we-are the-lassst of-our kind-and sssincsse-we formed-a masster and-ssservant contract-it wass-automatically formed-after giving-our conssent-thuss we-can conversse-tsshrough our-mindss becausse-we are-now connected-by the contract.¡± After answering his questions the black serpent wrapped around Aluzars small waist and upper body, till he was completely covered by the snake. Her eight heads were divided to four heads, stacked in two rows on each of his small shoulders, looking like pauldrons covering his shoulder. Her eyes gleaming emerald green and her black skin was smooth and soft. He had no difficulties moving around with the serpent enwrapped around him, so he didn¡ät care much, but for Azariah it was measures to protect her master, even if there were no individuals in the vicinity, except for them. The small child not giving any thoughts about that matter, rolled up his sleeping mat and stored it away. He walked to a corner of the room, where four of the twelve treasure chests were located, there were no locks on the chests, he tried to open one but couldn¡ät, thus he infused it with his mana and the lid gaped. He pushed the lid back and rusty weapons revealed itself to him, the boy was perplexed, he opened every box in the room anf it was filled with miscancellous goods, he thought that Saput was obviously scammed to death and said to Azariah, ¡° You know, I think your mother was not so bright in the head, because these shiny things is useless scrap metal, well even scrap metal has it¡äs uses¡± He stored the goods and chests seperately, because the boxes were more useful than the scrap metal, as he finished Azariahs voices rang out, ¡° I finisshed-going thssrough-my mothersss-memoriess and- i mussst-agree withss-masster, ssshe-wass too-naive believing-the godss- I am embarrassssed.¡± The little boy shook his head from right to left and said, ¡° What a tragedy, well since i freed her, your mothers soul found salvation, the time will come when you will get your vendetta and avenge your mother.¡± Azariah wiggled with her heads on his shoulder hissing and said in a cold voices, ¡° Yesss massster-i will wait-patssiently when-the time-comesss.¡± He released from his interspatial ring, the huge 300 meter curled up eight headed serpent and spoke in a cold manner, ¡°Now I will bisect your mothers corpse and her flesh and skin, will be used as food and clothes. I think your mother will be very pleased to be able to nourish you, even after her death , don¡ät you agree.¡± The baby serpent replied, ¡° I¡äm moved-by massterss-thinking I will-gratefully acsscept-massterss genourisssity.¡± Aluzar smirked with a feeling of accomplishment, he tried to cut through the black scales with his clawmorphed index finger, but it remained unscathed, his lttle eyebrow twiched and his curiosity was awakened, he tried it on different spots but was rewarded with the same result. The Boy was brooding how he could cut trough and Azariah tried to help him, but was stopped by him, because he wanted to find it out by himself and he got an idea. He focused his mana into the tip of his indexfinger claw and tried again and it was successful. The small child, skinned the huge snake with a lot of effort, removed the innards and organs and found out that each head held a magic core in the size if his head. He also found poison sacks in each head. As he finished, he stored everything away, besides the skin. He began to cut out patterns for a hooded cloack, the boy sewed with trouble and trial a magnificient pitch black snake skin cloak. It was simple but the scales made it look beautiful, ¡° Now it¡äs time to mingle with the inhabitants of this world.¡± His evil grin flashed through the darkness of the room, because of his flawless pearl white teeth, as he walked to the exit of the cave. Edit note: proof read it myself, hope there are no more errors Chapter 4. Road to civilization Walking out of the cave, sunlight blinded his eyes for a short moment, he could see blurry contours of trees and shrubbery, he turned right as the creator of creators adviced him. He was an omnipotent being, so he could be 100% sure that it was correct. As he strolled through the thick woods, he evaluated his discoveries. The Differences between normal monsters and magic beasts is because of the magic cores ,and discovered that some cores were bigger than others, like the magic cores from Azariahs mother. The Magic cores from the white tiger beast and the others fitted right into his palm, that peaked Aluzars curiosity, he needed to look further into this but left it for now. Since he hatched the egg his mana pool densed up to a state were it couldn¡ät be more thicker, he could use magic but it took him time and effort to cast one spell, thus he still relied on his telekinesis. He must search for a solution very fast, before his body was finishing the adaption stage, because he had a feeling if he adapted to this world at that stage his magic progress would stand still at this bottleneck. He hiked through small hills and riverbeds, occasionally breaking of small branches from tree saplings to not lose his way. What was pretty difficult, if he wouldn¡ät have had his vampiric senses, with a boundary of six meters, around him like a dome. Night fell and he setted up camp fire under a small cliff, where it should have been safe. His mana regeneration also reach it¡äs limits, it took him less than 2 hours to completely restore his mana pool, if he had depleted it. The Boy took out enough bear beast meat for Azariah and him, he didn¡ät wanted to waste single bone, or a shred of meat. It was a habit he developed in the past and was anchored deep within him. He asked the black serpent, if she wanted her meat raw or grilled, ¡° We want-our meat-raw massster-otherwissse we-can¡ät eat-it. ¡± Aluzar already predicted this answer, but he wanted to be sure, he had also other question regarding her race, ¡° So Azariah, let¡äs have a conversation before we have dinner. Well my question are, how potent is your poison? I wanted to know, since I found poison sacks and I am curious, if you might hold more then one poison. ¡± Azariah unwrapped herself from the boy sliding down on the ground and wriggled herself up besides him. One head was looking at the child and the other seven surveyed the surroundings, her voices echoed in his head, ¡° Yess massster-your guessss-wasss correct-each of-our headsss-hold different-typesss of-poissson one-can paralyssse-the sssecond-can put-sssomeone to-sssleep, the-thssird one-is melting-the body-, the fouthss-makesss sssomeone-rot, the-fifth awakensss-the lussst,-the sssixth-petrifies, the -ssseventhss letsss-someone halucssinate-and the-lassst one- makess anyone-die a horrible-painful death-sssince we- are ssstil- a newborn-we can only ussse-the paralyssing-poissson masster. ¡± Aluzar showed a sinister smile, he was engulfed in the thoughts of testing those poisons on different subjects and investigate them, but for now it was imposssible, so he kept those projects for a later time in his mind. He cut the 3 kg piece of meat in two and laid one half in front of Azariah, she discolated her jaw and swallowed the meat in one fell swoop like real snake. Well she was a serpent with wings, Aluzar visible amused by the scene, took out more meat and cutted them into 2 kg, 3 kg, 4 kg, 5 kg and 6 kg portions. He wanted to test, how much the serpent could expand her stomach and mouth, the black eight headed snake mistook those actions as a benevolent act of her master and swallowed all the five different sized pieces at the same time, with her other heads. The Young boy was amazed and took out even more meat, he cutted them now to 7 kg, 8 kg, 9 kg, 10 kg, 11 kg, 12 kg, 13 kg and 14 kg pieces each and laid it before her. Azariah visibly overjoyed now, ate all the meat simultaneously again, then he asked her, ¡° Little Azariah, do you even taste anything, when you gobble up your food like that. ¡± The Black eight headed serpent finished swallowing the last piece of meat and hissed intensly, happy voices transmitted to Aluzar, ¡° Of courssse-massster, we-can tassste-while ssswallowing- everything we-eat, it-will be-insstantly-turned to-energy and-stored in-our body,-that is-why we-can alwayss-eat, without-feeling sssatiated. ¡± The Small boy was intrigued and wanted to immediately test it, so he took out the rest of the bear meat he removed from the skeleton, alltogether around 8 tons without the weight of the removed bones. He sliced the meat into 100 kg pieces, with his morphed claws, Azariah told him that she was happy but couldn¡ät fit such large pieces of meat in her mouth, due to her still being a baby serpent, thus he sliced them into smaller 20 kg pieces, the mountain of raw flesh slowly disappeared into the maw of the serpent. He grabbed the skewered meat from the flame and wanted to take a bite, suddenly he perceived something with his vampiric senses and Azariah restlessly said, ¡° Massster sssomething-isss near-our placssse-and it¡ässs-huge, we-should flee- even if-it¡äss cowardly-I don¡ät-have enough-power to-go againssst-sssuch monster-in my-pressent ssstate. ¡± But it was already too late, from the thick 200 meter long trees a 50 meter tall three headed hound appeared, roaring and howling at the same time, the fangs in the maws, were deformed in various unevenly obscure shapes and drool dripped down from his three snouts. The Abomination stared down, at the small boy and black winged serpent, that wrapped itself around the child again. The Child stated in a calm cute voice, ¡° Hey Big doggy thing, I¡äm not in the mood right now, so scram or you will end up as raw materials for future researches. ¡± Azariah was shocked and already forfeited her life. The Grey colored, three headed hound undeniable angered by the words of the silver haired boy, loudly roared, ¡° You Insolent little human vermin, how dare you act so high and mighty, before me, the great Zarantil. I will squash you like the insect that you are. ¡± Aluzar was suprised that he could understand the pointless speech, he remembered that he could now comprehend every language thanks to Saput, including the stupid talking of the one called Zarantil. Zarantil moved his big paw, in the size of an earth elephant, above Aluzar and attempted to crush both of them. The Left front paw crushed down with the claws and the earth rippled, small cracks appeared around the area where the paw came flying down on the ground. The Hound lifted his left front leg and was sure it killed them, but was suprised to not even see a drop of blood on the ground where he supposedly should have squashed them. Then It¡äs right head detected a fireball, it tried avoiding it but couldn¡ät, the flaming globe hitted the right heads eye and it whimpered in pain. Zarantil then roared in his wrath, ¡° You Little imbeciles, I will absolutely make sure, that you will die a painful death. ¡± Aluzar, who avoided the giant paw attack, stood on the right side, from the three headed hounds view, where he shot his fireball, the youth showed a smug look and said in an arrogant tone, ¡° I told you doggy. We will see which on of us, will die a painful death. When I¡äm finished with you puppy, you will whimper like a punished lapdog seeking forgiveness, little whelp. ¡± Upon the boys speech, Zarantil opened the mouth of it¡äs right head and fired a thunderbeam in the direction of him, the child didn¡ät expected it to be so fast, so he could only avoided it in a hairsbreadth. He closed in to prevent it in shooting another one of those disasterous beams, he reached the right front leg of the grey hound and slashed with his transformed claws, but it didn¡ät even left a scratch on the fur. The Boy frowned and had to thought up a suitable strategy for this situation and instantly processed a solution, he kept slashing down on the front leg. Visibly annoyed, the greyish three headed dog twisted his whole body around and swept over the ground with it¡äs three tails. Aluzar jumped and clung himself on one of the tail tips, he channeled his telekinesis and accelerated himself with Azariah, throwing them to the rump of the beast. Zarantil was bewildered, tried to get rid of them but looked like a dog chasing his own tail. The Boy focused his mana infusing the transformed claws and rammed them into the rear part of the three headed grey dog. It was just a prick from a mosquito for Zarantil until Azariah decided to bite down, with her eight heads injecting from one of her heads her paralysing poison. The Poison circulated through the body and the grey dog visibily slowed down, it was a small amount but had an effect. It breathed fire, ice and thunderbeams in the hope of hitting Aluzar and Azariah, but since they were at it¡äs rear part, Zarantil couldn¡ät reach them with it¡äs attacks. Zarantil moved wildly in every which way it possibly could to shake them off, but it was futile it only led the poison spread further and faster. Aluzar tried restraining the groggy Zarantil, but it broke free with his sheer willpower. His telekinetic binding worked on any being with lower mental strength than him, but he had temporary limits. His mental strength was abnormal, but the child body couldn¡ät keep up with it and fully utilized the binding, thus the doggy beast broke free. After a few hours, the poison coursed from the rump through the whole body of the exhausted Zarantil. The silver platin haired child released his grip from the rear part of the grey dog and descended to the ground, with a sick face from the wild ride on the doggy. The Three headed hound, breathed heavily and whimpered, ¡° Ho...How...could ...thi..s...hap...pen,...wh..o...a..re..yo..u. ¡± Aluzar walked slowly with his hands on the back, in a noble demeanor and said in a disdainful attitude, ¡° I am your worst nightmare and unimaginable pain followed by death, will be the last thing you will learn in your life. ¡± Zarantil tried to utter some words, yet the paralysing poison unabled him to. Azariah creeped to the ruby red eyed boy, he began lecturing her and spoke in a teacherlike manner, ¡° Listen Azariah, it¡äs alright to retreat, it¡äs not corwardice but wise, it helps gaining time to plan a strategy and strike back, on the other hand, if the enemy already closed in on us and retreating is in the meaning of showing our backs to them, we will not only show them our backs but also our foolishness, followed by our deaths, thus it was inevitable to fight, because only true cowards wouldn¡ät die trying, do you comprehend what i was saying my little servant. ¡± The Baby serpent was astounded by the wise words , even the memories of her mother didn¡ät contain such knowledge, she only bit down because her instincts told her to. Azariah said in an admiring voices, ¡° Yesss Massster-we will -reflect on-our foolishssness-and engrave-thossse wordsss-into our-heart. ¡± Aluzar didn¡ät simply kill Zarantil, he skinned the three headed hound alive. The Dog gave off whimpering sounds with every breath it took, he concluded that the paralysing poison is a strong neurotoxin, immobilizing the whole body but left the consciousness awake, he thought that it would be very convient for the future. He slowly stripped off the pelt from the large body with telekinesis, every inch was unbearable pain for Zarantil, he wanted to roar in pain, but could only whimper. The Telekinetic force, finally removed the fur skin, while the magic beast was still alive. He placed the pelt in his interspatial ring, because he was far from finished with the beast. He ripped out the flesh from all it¡äs legs, till only the leg bones remained, he collected the sinews and fed the rest to Azariah. She swallowed the meat happily in front of Zarantil, it felt everything that was done to it, the youth burned the bleeding wounds to keep it from dying due blood loss, apparently it was a male until hid genitals was ripped of and fed to the serpent, seeing his manhood disappearing he wanted to die, but there was more to come. Aluzar scraped off the flesh in between the ribs, the ground was bloodstained even forming small red muddy puddles of blood around the dog monster. He didn¡ät wanted to drink the blood, because it may still contain the paralytic poison. When the handsome boy accomplished scrapping off the ribs and feeding it to the baby serpent, he only left the pumping heart, lungs and organs to show. The Faint scent of iron and salt filled the air, the child freed the three headed hound completely from his flesh, the fresh tender meat constantly vanished into the maw of Azariah. The Shimmering paled skinned youth started to extract the colons and intestines. He pulled out the soft slimey intestines out, as if it as a large sausage chains including the attached colon,next were the spleen, liver and stomach. He memorized the anatomy of every living being on earth, so he compared them and couldn¡ät find any differences between them. Finally he released Zarantil from his sufferings, by ripping out his heart and lungs. Azariah hissed and her serpent tongues always moved in and out from her eight snouts, she said in adorable voices, ¡° Oh, Massster-you are-not only-ssstrong and-wissse-but also-kind to-feed me-sssuch delicssiousss-flesh enriched-withss sso-much mana- I will sssurely-grow to-live up-to your-exsspectationsss. ¡± Aluzar was flattered by those words but had to admit that, if it weren¡ät for Azariah being with him he would be surely heavily wounded, or even dead and devoured by the three headed doggy. He was about to praise the black baby serpent until he recalled what she just said right now, that the flesh was enriched with mana. He came up with the theory that every being in this universe are born with mana strengthened bodys, capable of handling the dense mana, he shouted enthusiastically, ¡° Hahaha, you helped me killing an enemy and now you assisted me in gaining knowledge, you have truly gained my gratitude Azariah, mmhahahaha. ¡± The Young serpent was clueless, she didn¡ät know why her master was so exhilarated, laughing maniacally like a madman, even so she didn¡ät cared because she was happy that her master praised her. Aluzar gave all the organs and intestines to Azariah as a reward, he seperated the magic cores from the brain and presented the soft matter also to her. The Blood covered boy, stored the bones and pelt in his interspatial ring and cleaned himself from the blood with telekinesis. The Sun dawned over the endless forest and he could have started wandering, without sleeping but decided to rest and shifted his journey now to night time. The Reason for his change of mind was that it was too dangerous, he could easily handle the beast at daylight, but if Azariah wouldn¡ät be there he would have had trouble fighting Zarantil alone without the support of her. Until now he was lucky that no such beast, found him in a defenseless condition, it would have been fatal for him. So He made up his decision to travel at night, better be prepared than suprised, is what he thought. He glanced around the environs, spotting a devasted area with dozens of big trees felled by the magic attacks from the hound monster. He had a slightly displeased face, not because if the destruction of nature around him, it was caused by the stench of beast blood, the intense smell of iron and salt made Aluzar frown. He walked out of the bloody mud and generated water spheres splashing it over his head. He also got to the fallen trees and stored the 36 trunks including treetops in his signet ring. He missed the necessary tools for processing them into planks and beams, but it would be useful in the near future. He rolled out his soft sleeping mat made out of fur and layed down to sleep, but something was bugging him, so before that he tested a theory. He focused his senses and examined his body. The Young boy noticed that the mana coursed through his body, but refused to fuse with his body, naturally it was a normal reaction preventing foreign substances to harm the body. But for him it was a crucial matter, because he couldn¡ät draw out the full potential of his magic and he had a foreboding that sooner or later he would die of mana poisening, in the the time he grows up, if not assimilated into his body. It would slowly infest his organs and he would die a horrible death. He needed a solution and one that is allowing him to fuse his whole body permanently with the mana flowing through his body, before it beginns to deteriorate him from inside out. He never thought so hard in his life, for he never had his life been at stake. The adorable boy rolled around his sleeping mat from side to side, he was unsure when the mana inside him is gonna go rampant, it could be in a few years or a few hours, anytime it could show symptoms and he could do nothing against it, nothing at all. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. With every second without a proper solution his mind drifted into madness, he waltzed over the sleeping mat wilder and wilder. The black baby serpent looked at her master curiously and wasn¡ät sure what he was actually doing, thus she went to sleep in an arkward atmosphere. The Boy racked up his brain like never before, brainstorming through his knowledge and wisdom collected from earth until now, in the end he found nothing that could be of any help to him, he fell into depression. He came so far and it didn¡ät even started yet, will he die just like that without knowing when it¡äs gonna start and live a life of constantly fearing for his death. Never, he thought innerly, he will never accept such a humiliating death, he would either die trying, or cripple himself in the process and then put himself into his eternal sleep, at least he would have tried. The Child gathered his resolve and once again concentrated his senses, he carefully investigated the mana in his body, in the hope to find even a tiny clue, helping him finding an answer to his problem. He observed the mana flowing through his body, it didn¡ät had a calculated movement, or a set direction, it just circulated disorderly in him. The Mana was clustered together irregular, in several clouds allover his body. He tried a little magic to light a small flame on his index finger and watched a tiny cloud wandering from his body to his left finger, then it began strangely to condense in to a miniscule deep blue liquid, vaporizing before igniting a candle sized flame on his finger. Aluzar opened his eyes wide in excitement as if he was enlightened, before he didn¡ät paid any interests in the procedure, how mana created the desired results, because he thought his body has already adapted to the environment naturally. How wrong and narrow minded he was, was what he thought to himself, also the theory of that the body is a vessel and the mana is like liquid coursing through his body is partly correct. He added that the mana in him is still raw and in a colorless nebula form gathered in his body, unable for him to assimilate. Aluzar already developed a technique to let his body fuse with the accumulated mana, he proceeded immediately and focused the clustered nebula mana clouds in his head, he compressed and condensed it with his willpower, till only a few deep blue teardrops of mana were created. He putted himself in a meditative state like when he hatched the black serpent egg. The Small boy let the blue liquid seep through his body, it was refined mana, now it was like a huge vase slowly being filled with tiny little drops, but before reaching the vase it goes through a thick filter and that is is body. He kept producing the liquified mana through the day, until it was night. He awakened from his trance and packed his stuff in his interspatial ring and started walking in the direction the creator of creators hinted him. With Azariah like usually wrapped around him. He kept this routine every day, he went meditating when the sun rised and wandered at night while avoiding dangerous beasts, stopping at riverbeds o refresh himself. He had superior eyesight at night and could detect them from afar. Aluzar not like before, didn¡ät took anything for granted anymore, since he was a powerful individual on earth, he thought that eventually everything will come to him by itself. Such ignorance almost clouded him from the truth that was once conveyed to him by Kallad, the manager of planet earth. He thought about the words, Kallad said to him and sighed at his foolishness, ¡° Truly, in this world someone has to put hard work and effort, to become powerful. I will never make this mistake again. ¡± He wisphered to himself, then Azariah asked curiously, ¡° Massster did-you sssay-sssomething?¡± Thereupon he replied with a weak gentle smile, ¡° Well, I was reminded of my own ignorance and recalled some words a person once told me. Azariah, never underestimate someone, even if it is an object, or your surroundings, understood.¡± The Small baby serpent, shooker her eight heads up and down, ¡° Yesss Massster,-I underssstand-I won¡ät-becaussse you-ssshowed me-masster. ¡± From Azariahs answer, he had a wry expression on his face, he could tell that she had underestimated him, but also understood that with his appearance anyone would do the same. Three Months passed by and he couldn¡ät see an end in the vast sea of trees. His progress in actually adapting to mana, was halfway completed, the body from him is 50% soaked in liquid mana, although, he couldn¡ät feel any changes happening to him, since he started the treatment. Aluzar made sure that every fiber and and every cell was soaked, also his organs and blood, seeping them with the deep blue liquid he created, even his bones weren¡ät forgotten and he now realized what Kallad ment by, it would be more easily to adapt to. If he would kept his original appearance he wouldn¡ät be able to progress so fast and would be having problems soaking his grown up adult body with liquid mana, by the time he would have already died due to mana poisening. The Frowning child was terrified by the thought of it. Discovering something was partly knowledge and partly luck, if so happens so, nothing to shake about that fact. They kept hiking, while he studied the flora and fauna of Almastea, since recovering from his short depression he inspected every herb and leaf he encountered. Aluzar stored bulks of herbs into his interspatial ring for future experiments, some resembled plantlife on earth but he couldn¡ät verify it at the moment, he still had to get out of this ridiculous huge forest. An Idea flashed in his brain and he felt really stupid for not thinking earlier of it until now, he glanced at the eight headed snake heads on his right and left shoulders and asked Azariah, ¡° Say, the wings on your back aren¡ät just decorations, aren¡ät they. ¡± The Black serpent answered in various boastful tones, ¡° Of courssse- not massster,-we can-reach up-to 4000-meter in-our current-state we-can even-take you-wthss usss-sssince we-have enough -energy from- the great-feast, you-gave usss.¡± The Smart child already expected such an answer, he only wanted a confirmation from her, thus he commanded her to lift them up as high as she could. He only wanted to have a wide view from his location. The Wise kid putted his cloak in his interspatial signet ring. Well he could have levitated himself with his telekinesis, but couldn¡ät had reached up so high in the sky, only a couple hundred meters. Azaria thightened her grip around him, spreading her 2 meter long wings and began flapping rapidly, till they departed from the ground soaring to the starry night sky. The Stars glistened majestically in the background, begfore the two moons, now in the shape of two crescents facing the same direction. They reached an altittude of approximately 4000 meters, in a mere ten minutes, he could feel the strength behind the fragile looking leathery wings. He had now a magnificient view of the great forest, the trees and animals, the multiple river deltas that resembled pulsing veins pumping the life essences through the dense woods as if it was a mega organism. Never could such a marvelous sight be seen on earth, thought Aluzar. He could now comprehend how vast this forest truly is, the amazed boy looked back at where he came from and saw the huge mountain and behind it an even taller one and endless greenery surrounding them. He moved his gaze to the front again and concentrated his eyes, he couldn¡ät see and end of the various trees, so he infused his eyes with mana enhancing it, if he could infuse his transformed claws why not his eyes, he could now see several kilometers ahead and saw plains with no trees only grass. He told his serpent servant to fly into the direction heading for the grassy plains, it took them a few hours to reach the discovered area, they landed just before the forest ended, because the sun began showing itself, also he wanted to prepare himself, if he by chance he met a human or humanoid being. The Little boy lit up a camp fire, took out the black snake skin obtained from Saputs corpse and the fur pelt from Zarantil. Aluzar travelled barefooted all the time until now, he needed some boots and alter his current clothes to not look unappealing since he wanted to mingle with the inhabitants on Almastea. First he cutted out two sole patterns slightly bigger than his right and left foot for shoes from the fur of the three headed dog, since they were small in size there was still alot of it, he burned away the excess hair over the camp fire turning it black also it helped to remove the left over proteins. The Child stood underneath the raw soles to fit in his foodprints and formed an edging from tbe overlapping parts for the padding, he also extracted som moisture until it was dry but flexible. He cutted out another pair of soles, but this time smaller pieces than before. He took out the flat and smooth stone, he had used to make bone needles and flattened the skin, because the skin was 1.5 cm thick and enriched with mana it was fairly difficult to pound it flat. When he finished flattening the skin. He evenly distributed the downy feathers in the shoesoles with the edging and compressed them, till they were firm but still had a soft sprung, thereafter, he sewed the flat skin over it, with a neat stitching to tightly seal it off. The Handy child went on to the snake skin cutting out the whole pattern for a shoe, from the toe caps to the heel caps and shoe straps, he began sewing it on the insoles he created. He even patted the slip belt with downy feathers, everything with neat double stitches, for final touches he removed some moisture, making it hard and yet bendable. The End product were matt black elegant shoes, similar to modern shoes, it had no shoelaces because it was a tight fit, you could see the sinew threads sewed neatly like a prefessional tailor ,or shoemaker. He could do this, due to his knowledge and performing every job, while he was on earth. It sounds strange but he tried out everything aviable to him, it was his only way to kill his boredom. He cleaned his foot from dirt, dried it and slip in his newly made shoes, the six year old looking child walked around the campfire and was pleased with his work, a little amateurish but well made for the lack of tools and other materials to produce perfect modern days footwear. Now he added some sleeves to his vest and extended his shorts to pants, with the matt snake skin, without even wasting a piece of material. Since he was finished adjusting his clothes, he thought about making simple weapons. The Hoarding kid brought out all the bones that he had stored inside his signet ring, inspecting them while imagine what he would create, his gaze stopped at the black spine spikes. The Crafty boy picked out one 30 cm long spine spike from the white tiger beast, he medically treated and carved one sharp dagger, the blade was a clean double edge and the handle formed to fit into his small hands. Everything was carved with his morphed claws, the boy also made a sheath and a belt out of fur pelt. The Fur pelt belt was sewed together in between a buckle carved out of bones, making both sidesfluffy with fur, the sheath was grey, it was obvious that they originated from Zarantils pelt, the sheath was attached through a hole to the belt, it was located a the back of his waist to conceal it¡äs existent. He packed everything back into his interspatial ring, even the shavings from the bones. The Night spread, the air is filled with a meaty scent of grilled flesh. Aluzar roasted the tiger beast meat over the campfire on a skewer, he engraved his dagger with his emblem. The shield crossed with a death scythe and a sword, coronated with a majestical crown on the hilt, as he completed his pastime activity the meat was cooked. The growing child ate the big chunk of meat of course Azariah got a piece too, savouring the tasty flesh, he noticed the differences between the bear beast meat and the tiger magic beast meat, the differences was like an instant meal compared to dry aged steak. The Mana in the flesh enriched the hearty juicy taste and since it was drained from blood it was perfect, it would taste excellent with some sweet tasting blood he thought. He decided to journey at daytime again, because it would seem suspicious to wander around at night, if someone spotted him, thus he rolled out his sleeping mat and rested, while meditating in trance and condensing mana drops. Sunrays enlightened the woods, there were no danger coming from nocturnal beasts, considering he was near the edge of the woods. He stored away his sleeping mat and putting on his hooded cloak, the clothes he modified yesterday were slight slim fits clinging to his body, but were not thight fitted for better movement. Overall he looked well dressed, maybe overdressed for this world. He made his way out of the woods. The seemingly endless forest now finally found an end, for him. He left with a good amount of knowledge and material for future researches, who knows maybe he will return someday to uncover the mysteries he didn¡ät encounter during his journey. The Youth was refreshed by the change of scenery. Until now he only saw trees and surely he had enough of his share, he didn¡ät wanted to see an agglomeration of trees for while. Azariah surveyed the new terrain, she also enjoyed the tiger magic beast yesterday night, she peaked from inside the deep hood of the cloak with her heads right next to Aluzars face, but he paid no attention to her. He was busy himself in estimating a direction, he infused mana into his eyes to make it easier for him, it enabled him for a period of time to see like a normal human in broad daylight. The lesser vampires and lower pure bloods would have turned to ashes right now, it was clear since they were defective products, a cheap copy created by the supreme pure blood vampires themselves. Aluzar saw a clearance outlining a faint footpath, immediately headed towards the discovery, one way led back to the forest, the other away from it, not thinking twice he walked to the opposite ditection of the woods. The Plains were filled with overgrown grass and weeds, mixed with graceful flowers in every color imaginable, the blossoms of them had various shapes, were ranging from deformed clouds to wavy squares, or reversed pyramids. The many different scents mixed together with the grassy smell of the plains, it was intense yet delicate a composition of rosy, citrus and minty fragrances. The Small handsome youth was impressed by the diversity of this world, he would occasionally stroll away from the footpath to analyze the many flowers and plants close up and stored them in his signet ring in bulks, maybe they could be of use to him someday, better safe than sorry. He journeyed along the footpath for two months, he discovered small animals resembling rabbits, but instead of having rabbit teeth and ears, they had fangs and horns so small yet deadly. Azariah hunted them with pleasure it gave her experience in predatory hunting. The curious boy medically treated a dozen of them to examine, if they may had suffered from a disease, if they were magic beasts or not and found small magic cores in the size of his little pinky approximately 4cm long, naturally he stored the pelt, bones and meat in his signet ring. Aluzars small body progressed in assimilating the liquid mana, with every drop his body sucked it up like a sponge now, before it would reluctantly take it in but now his body considered it a part of it, a necessity to survive although he couldn¡ät feel any changes happening to his body. His small selfmade shoes, moved him with every small step forward onto his grand adventure in Almastea, a world filled with endless mysteries, secrets and long forgotten knowledge, he wanted to explore it all. He remembered that Saput mentioned that vampires also existed on this planet, he was excited how they came to be and how they will be different from him, if they would be strong or weak, he wanted to know if they were like him ot just only lowly pure bloods, or lesser vampires. Aluzar was immersed in his thoughts, that he didn¡ät noticed that a small village was within his sight. The Sun began slowly sinking and signaled the oncoming evening, the platin silver haired and ruby red eyed youth changed his hair and eyes to a deep black haircolor and icy blue eyes, he didn¡ät forgot to change his pale white skine to a more healthier human skin color. He smirked an evil playful grin and said in a mischievious tone, ¡° Let¡äs see how the inhabitants of this world are like, hehehehehe.¡± Authors note: Well now Aluzar reached civilization, well you can tell from the slice of life tag it will be casually and about finding out what to do i have a vague setting planned. Well please tell me about how you liked the story so far or think about it and point out any mistakes or inconsistents on the storyline. thank you and enjoy Edit note: I have proof read it myself, hope there are no more mistakes. Chapter 5. Adapting to Almastea Aluzar headed towards the small village, with every step he took the small boy could see distinct features of the village. It had a 2 meter tall stonewall encircled around the wooden housings, the whole settlement was encompassed by fields growing the same plants. Domesticated animals looking like a mixture of cow and sheep were problably used as cattle, they had the characteristics of the cow but also thick wool like hair enclosing their body. Such convient evolution the little youtht said to himself. The Small black hooded figure almost reached the entrance, he focused his mana into the eyes to have, for a short period of time, the sight of a human at daylight and see ahead, although, evening already painted the village in red orange light and he could just wait until nightfall, but it would seemed suspicious for a little child arriving alone in the night without being accompanied by it¡äs parents or relatives. He had to thought up an excuse on why he was alone, as he came up with an idea, the boy casually stepped towards the gate of the small village. There were two guards on each side at the entrance, that could fit through a cart or carriage, and they were talking about an amusing issue for one of them, as he was coming closer he could overhear what they were conversing about. The First guard had a middleaged looking face, with a square chin, thick eyebrows with no hair on his head, a flattened nose and a big mouth framed with fuzzy stubbles. His stature was sturdy having broad shoulders complimenting his muscular arms and fierce brown eyes, giving him a rough and brawny image. He said to the other guard with a deep manly voice in a teasing manner, ¡° Come on, you should share with a good friend, I heard you got that as a marriage gift from her father, why won¡ät you drink it with me, huh. ¡± The Other guard had an annoyed and helpless expression, he was visibly younger and was of slender build but also had some muscles. The Slender guard was slightly smaller than the brawny guard, who was around 2 meters in height. He had average looks not handsome but also not ugly, with a sharp nose and round blue eyes, chest nut brown hair and thin lips without facial hair yet, that was curved to form a troubled smile and answered in a brittle voice, ¡° Captain Pekaz p-please, that liquor was really expensive and rare you know and a-also it was a gift from father in law, p-please understand. H-how about t-this, I will treat you to a g-good meal if our s-shifts are over, okay?¡± Upon replying, the brawny guard named Pekaz slapped on the back of the spineless average looking guard, what almost caused him to vomit, and lauged loudly, ¡° Hahahahaha, it was just a joke Tobito. You have to man up a little otherwise you will definitely get whipped by your newlywed wife, you know. Just get some backbone, because this guard job is harder than it looks and just because you are now connected to the village chief, trough marrying his daughter, doesn¡ät mean you can slack off as you please, understood?! ¡± Thereafter Tobito clumsily saluted and replied, ¡° Y-yes s-sir, I will do my best protecting our village¡± Aluzar began sprinting into the direction of the two guards, he purposely tripped himself in front of the gate. Pekaz and Tobito who were in an arkward conversation weren¡ät paying any attention to their surroundings until they saw a small black cloaked figure falling before them. They catiously approached the strange individual and found an exhausted beautiful child, not older than six years, on the verge of collapsing. The Young juvenile looked up with his morphed icy blue eyes and choked ot fragments of words, ¡° H-help....p-please.......h-help.¡± With those words the young child fainted, of course Aluzar was only acting but it seemed so real it deserved an oscar nomination and it surely would have gotten one. He had stored his newly made dagger away in advance and firmly jammed his signet ring in between his belt and hips to hide it as not to raise greed and envy. The Two guards knelt down on one knee, Pekaz checked if the young child was still breathing and talked to Tobito in a serious expression, ¡° Tobito, hurry up and go inform the village chief and elder. I will carry the child to old granny Jedwigas place !¡± The panicking Tobito ran, almost tripping himself over his own leg, inside the village and Pekaz lifted the kid carrying, the unknown child over his broad shoulder, to a shabby wooden loghouse. The Loghouseroof was tiled with irregular small planks in rectangular shapes and the walls were logs, interlocked with notches to keep them together. The sturdy Pekaz knocked on the wooden door, it was like a hammer trying to smash the door into smithereens, an old croaky female voice rang out behind the door, ¡° Yeah, yeah, stop abusing my poor door damnit, it didn¡ät do anything to ya, didn¡ät it ?! ¡± A short wrinkly old woman opened the door, she had a haughty nose, squinted eyes that looked as if she was always keeping her eyes closed. Her wrinkly lips opened to grumble at Pekaz, revealing black and brown teeth, ¡° What is it, I hope ya have a good reason to come crashing at my place, if not ya can expect to be in a good thorough sermon from me. ¡± By this statement the strong brawny looking guard couldn¡ät help but frown, as he knew that old granny Jedwiga was the only mage in this rural secluded backwater village. She was also an alchemist helping the villagers with her medicine she produces, thus the villagers held her in high esteem, if hadn¡ät had a reasonable argument, he would be sermoned by the whole village all day long what was like a punishment and really embarrassing. He smiled arkwardly and said with his deep rough voice, ¡° Come on granny Jedwiga, don¡ät be like this if I hadn¡ät had a good reason, I wouldn¡ät have come you know. ¡± He pointed with his large index finger at the little black cloaked figure on his shoulder. Granny Jedwiga could already guessed what should have happened, she stepped aside to let both of them inside her home. Aluzar who was pretending to be asleep could vaguely feel where they were going to, with his vampiric senses, he also informed Azariah telepathically about his rough plan and commanded her to sty in the near vicinity of the village. Pekaz walked through the door and followed granny Jedwigas instructions, ¡° Bring himto the bed over there and then sit yer ass thight on a chair. I don¡ät want any needles motions destroying my precious tools and researches.¡± The bulky guard carefully maneuvered through a messy unorganized room, that was relative wide in space, it was a simple room with many bookshelfs, eventhough, there were only a few books in it and there were large tables where vessels, bottles, ingridients, mortars and pestles were disorderly placed. In a corner was a bed under a stairway leading to the attic.The muscular Pekaz finally reached the bed with much difficulties, as he didn¡ät wanted to destroy anything on his way and layed the kid down on the bed. Jedwiga took a closer look at the child and was suprised by the beauty, she checked the body temperature through feeling up his forehead and couldn¡ät find any signs of fever. Then the old wrinkly granny removed the mat black cloak and was amazed by the unknown rare material it was made of, only rich merchants or nobility could afford such exquisite clothing. She released the clasp, crafted from bones with artistic carvings, holding the cloak fastened togeteher and to have a better look she opened up the front of the fur tunic jacket to examine the body of any visible injuries. After Jedwiga finished the body check up, she said relieved, ¡° There are no visible wounds or traces of blood, the boy is only exhausted and needs to rest for a while, after he has woken up I will personally inform the village chief and elder, so get out and tell that to them. ¡± Pekaz raised an eyebrow, ¡° What ?! That beautiful child is a boy, how is that possible? Granny I think you made a mistake, such beatiful face could never belong to a male. ¡± The Grannys face twitched and she angrily scowled, ¡° Ya little punk, if I say he is a boy then he is one, don¡ät ya see the little adams apple at his throat, ya dumb country bumbki. I don¡ät need to show ya his dick or do ya prefer to see them, ya disgusting muscle head. Now get yer ass out before I decide to kick it allover around the village. ¡± Without a single word the muscular guard hurriedly left the house, informing the chief and the elder about what granny Jedwiga told him, fortunately he met them both on the way to her house. Aluzar pretended to sleep for a few hours, since it was in the evening when he arrived and realized his ideas. The night had already engulfed the village in darkness. He could have brainwashed the two guards, but that wouldn¡ät be fun so he decided to infiltrate them and study a little bit of their culture, also brainwashing them right now would cost him too much strain and he was catious about their mental fortitude. You never know, maybe there are some people on Almastea that could resist his mental attacks. He could only predict the thoughts of people, mind reading was impossible because the thoughts are always shifting to others and are part of the individuals soul and every soul is protected by an invisible power to guarantee their sovereignity. But their are numerous loop holes allowing Aluzar to bombard the brain, the processor of the body, with information or fake memories until the targeted mind was fryed and collapsed from overloading. After that he could implant new memories and change personality, just like installing a new system software on a computer unit. It all depended on the mental strength of the individuals soul, the operater of the body, and how long the victim could endure such mental strains. On Earth the humans were easy targets due to their low mental resistants, while they all were subconsciously controlled by mass medias telling them what was trendy, what to buy and what not. It was as easy as snatching away a babys candy, but here on Almastea it was a different situation due to the existence of magic. That made the supreme pure blood vampire all the more happy, as he saw it as a challenge for him. The Handsome boy slowly pretended to wake up from his sleep and tried to look suprised, what he magnificiently managed to do. Thanks to acting as starring roles in many famous movies, who won¡ät be mentioned since that would be a violation against the copy right owners. He glanced around the messy room and the old granny noticed him waking up, she grabbed the candle holder who lightly iluminated the dark room, walking over from a chair she was sitting in to the corner where the bed was. Aluzar raised his upper body making him sit on the uncomfortable hard bed, that smelled like old dead human, with stretched out legs and spoke in a confused manner, ¡° W-where am I, w-who are you ? ¡± The Old granny smiled revealing her unhygienic mouth, what caused the boy to frown a little, but he kept his act together. She said in a croaky gentle voice, ¡° It¡äs alright little child, ya are safe inside Desol village. I am Jedwiga Bernsal, could you tell me your name too. I guarantee you that nothing will harm you here. ¡± He was reluctant in giving her his real name, but on the second thought it won¡ät harm him at the moment, thus he gave her a honest answer on this question, ¡° My name is Aluzar Refizul Hochstern, n-nice to meet you. ¡± He acted shyly on purpose as not to raise unwanted questions, Jedwiga still showing her ugly gentle smile, ¡° Oh, Aluzar is it. What a beautiful name and such a unique second name. I never heard such names in my long life, is the Hochstern family maybe belonging to nobility? ¡± The Young boy didn¡ät know how to answer such question. In his former world the supreme pure blood vampire clearly stood above the humans and he was called a noble when he lived alongside humanity but they never elevated themselves, from one another in their own society. Everyone who belonged to their race was an equal, if problems occured they quench it from the world with a duel. Of course there were rankings separating the elders from the youngsters, but bestowing someone with a title of nobility was pure absurdity in their eyes, because only humans would give themselves a title to feel superior to other humans and making them special. The Supreme pure blood vampires are all born equal, just like humans are born equal but since the supreme vampires are more special than humans they obviously feel superior than them in many ways, giving them insights on philosophy. By watching human struggles and their needless wars over self declared territories, they decided to never elevate themselves, only setting up a supreme pure blood vampire codex with seven rules: Rule 1: Never forcibly put someone from our own race to his/her eternal sleep. Rule 2: Always act in secretive ways to conceal our existents, leave no witnesses except your trustworthy servants. Rule 3: All lives are precious, killing them won¡ät affect the balance, but never hunt down a race to their extinction. Rule 4: Conflicts between supreme pure blood vampires are to be quenched with a duel, but direct mortal combat is prohibited. Rule 5: The Loser of the duel shall admit his defeat and has to abide to the victors demands. Rule 6: The Sovereignity of a fellow supreme pure blood vampire can¡ät be touched or changed through a duel. Rule 7: All Supreme pure blood vampires are all equal and shall be equal through all eternity. Supreme pure blood vampires are almost equally in physical strength, it was pointless fighting each other in mortal combat, thus they used human armys to wage war and played it as if it was a real time live action strategy game. Only the wise, the cunning and the intellegent ones were victorious. Aluzar remained silently reminiscing the past were he played against his comrades to relief their boredom, from medieval castle sieges and crusades to modern warfare with rifles and bombs, where once a lowly pure blood clan tried to subdue him and were totally annihilated by him. The old granny gently spoke, ¡° Ya don¡ät need to answer, if ya don¡ät want to ya know, but could ya tell me what happened to ya. ¡± He snapped out of his thoughts beginning to cry crocodile tears and spoke in a wobbly sad voice, ¡° W-we were on o-our way t-to a t-town and... sniff...sniff...suddenly a d-dog b-beast w-with t-three heads a-appeared...wuaaaaahaahaaaaaa...sniff...sniff wuaaaahahaaaahaaa.. sniff...¡± Aluzar applied everything he learned from his successful acting carrier and it was a heart wrenching scene. Granny Jedwiga truly felt pity for the small boy, who she believed lost his parents, and said in a comforting voice while hugging the small frail body, ¡° It¡äs okay, everything is alright, yer safe here, it¡äs a miracle ya survived an attack from a hellhound, so ya have to live on for their sake, understood. We will help ya to find yer relatives and if ya don¡ät have one I gonna personally adopt ya. ¡± The Boy was still in the hug of the granny and looked behind her back over the shoulder. His face grimaced to a disgusted expression, he already found the smell from the bed bad but being hugged by the source was really the worst expierence ever. He wanted to rip off his nose and puke allover the ugly granny, for stinking like the waste products of a fish gutting factory, but he had to endure this karma like punishment, to uphold his efforts in acting the freshly orphaned child. Finally he was released from the clutches of the old stinky hag and immediately wiped his fake tears away. The Wrinkly hag told him to rest some more, while she would be going to the village chief and elder to inform them of what happened to him. It costed him ernormous willpower to voluntarily lay himself down on the bed, but overcame this hurdle by holding his breath and imagining the beautiful scents of the plains. The Sun was rising above Desol village and the boy equipped his snake skin cloak and was led on by old granny Jedwiga Bernsal. The hooded boy surveyed the structures of Desol village, it was build around a big water well, the housings were all just like the old grannys home, only a little bigger to fit in a large family. There were two unpaved roads centering in a crossroad at the waterwell and four entrances, with sturdy wooden gates, each one at the end of the roads. It was a stonewall encircled shaped village, similar to a compass with gates pointing to the four directions and the source of orientation was the waterwell. He received curious glances while walking through the small village. The small child concealed his face with his deep hood preventing the sunlight to touch his skin, the black cloak seemed to suck in the light around him. He estimated the population of Desol village to be around 50-70 people, with the village being big as a football field excluding the the farming fields, by counting 14 housings and considering 4-5 family members for each household. They arrived before the only two storied stone building in Desol village, the door was opened by a man in his mid thirties with shoulder length hair, slanted eyes and the same haughty nose as the old hag with a dense moustache above his lips curved into a smile. The man gestured with his hands to enter, while respectfully saying, ¡° Welcome Grandmother, little Aluzar, please enter this humble home of mine. I am Larus Bernsal the chief of Desol village. ¡± They both were led to a big table with chairs where an elderly man was waiting. He had long grey beard covering his mouth, his head was clean from any traces of hair and he had droopy eyes with thick grey eyebrows above them, that made him appear like he would fall asleep any moment entering his eternal slumber. The elderly man, spoke in a calm rough voice, ¡° Please take a seat, we have a lot to talk about, but I think you must be very hungry, so let¡äs have lunch while conversing.¡± Old granny Jedwigas faced grimaced, upon seeing the elderly man, ¡° Ya old bastard, didn¡ät ya learn some manners or are yer memories already dusted to the point that ya don¡ät need them anymore. ¡± The elderly mans droopy eyes squinted to the level of the old hag and on the side of his forehead popped a vein, ¡° Hahaha, how rude of me. I am Gregorio Bernsal, one of the two elders of Desol village, nice to meet you. For the other elder you are already acquainted with, I hope the stinky old hag didn¡ät harassed you too much. ¡± The black cloaked child putted on a forced smile and sat himself on an empty chair and stayed silent, while the granny spoke in a scoldingly manner, ¡° Ya old fart, don¡ät lump me in together with ya, eventhough yer are my little brother it doesn¡ät mean ya can casually insult the great me. ¡± Jedwiga sat herself besides the little Aluzar, that made him frown innerly because of the ordour, everyone was emmiting a foul stench, he was pondering about if they ever took a bath in their life or if that was part of their culture. If then he would surely introduce soap and shampoo in this world and change that nasty culture. As he thought about this issue, he drifted away in his mind and was brought back by Larus, the village chief, ¡° Hahaha, don¡ät think about the two of them too much, they are always like this and please don¡ät worry about your safety, we will help you find your relatives. ¡± He placed himself on the opposite seat and tried to peak under Aluzars deep hood, but could only see the skin colored lips. A pair of women accompanied by a teenage boy entered the room, they all carried wooden plates withcooked meat and sliced bread loafs to the table. The blonde woman, who looked like she was in her thirties, placed a plate on the table and her big breast wobbled while doing it and she said in a gentle voice, ¡° Here is the food, please enjoy it. ¡± Eventhough she was slightly chubby, her figure was well proportioned, her face was getting a little wrinkly but was still pleasing to the eye. The second woman also placed a plate of meat on the table and said in a high pitched voice, ¡° Here, sorry because of me it took a little longer. ¡± She curved up a forced superficial smile and tryed to make it seem natural, the younger woman had a monobrow that resmbled a famous fast food chain on earth and was fat, in combination with her haughty nose and the wart on it she was cancer to the eyes, although, she was ugly Aluzar didn¡ät had any prejudice against her yet. Maybe she had a nice personality. As long as they don¡ät get in his way he won¡ät kill them but it all depended on what he wanted for the moment. The teenager boy placed a plate with sliced bread loafs on the table and glared daggers at the cloaked figure and said in a disdainful attitude, ¡° Hey brat, didn¡ät your parents teached you any manners, take off your hood, your in the presence of ....¡± Before he could finish his sentence Larus shouted, ¡° Shut your trap before I smack it back to close it. You idiot, can¡ät you read the atmosphere, we are gathered to discuss some serious matter regarding Aluzar and you just shame me in front of everyone, prepare for a proper punishment after this is over. ¡± He scolded the teenage boy and turned to Aluzar and said in an apologetic tone, ¡° Please excuse my sfupid sons behavior, he is a little rough but actually really nice. I apologize for his rudeness, his name is Rafael and the women over there are my wife Lindi and my daughter Lara, now everyone come and let us begin our feast. ¡± Rafael tried argueing back but was interrupted by granny Jedwiga, ¡° Now Rafael, don¡ät ya argue back and stop making your father lose face in front of our small guest, he had it rough enough without yer yappin, so sit down and shut up. ¡± The teenage boy silently sat down next to his father and the two women next to him. Rafael had the same characterstic lke his sister with a big belly and less uglier but stil displeasing to the eye, they both glared at him with hatred filled eyes. Whats withe the shared hatred all of a sudden, he thougth to himself. He marked them both as a rock on his road, just only as small pebbles, as long as they don¡ät become a hindrance to him he won¡ät kicked them into the drainage of oblivion. The small boy putted back his deep hood and revealed his flawless face. Everyone, besides the granny, gasped in admiration of his beauty, even the hateful eyes of the siblings were filled with it. Gregorio spoke in amazement, ¡° Your truly beautiful, I have never seen such a handsome boy in my lifetime until now, the gods truly gifted you with a great present. Hahaha, you won¡ät have any problems finding a wife like this. ¡± Almost everyone nodded in agreement, some did that unwillingly in their thought. Larus announced, ¡° Now, let¡äs eat before the food gets cold. ¡± Everyone began eating directly from the wooden plates, it tasted average just like beef without any spices or herbs but he still choked it down. Gregorio asked, This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.¡° Aluzar, do you have relatives in the near regions, who we can contact, maybe someone in the town of Gringallos, that would be really good since it will only take two months with a carriage. ¡± Aluzars rough plan was unfolding as he predicted, but something didn¡ät feel right though he knew that some of the family members weren¡ät well disposed towards him, they probably excpected a reward ,or assumed he was the child of a noble because of his clothes. He clicked his tongue mentally, while shoving down the bland food, he regretted overdressing himself, well too late he thought. The handsome boy said, ¡° No, I came from far away and I was told that if something happens, someone in Gringallos would help me. ¡± Thereupon the elderly Gregorio replied happily with a relieved expression, ¡° Good, how fortunate for ...you, we can prepare a carriage in about a week, we will travel in a caravan since we sell our harvest in Gringallos and it will be safer this way. ¡± Gregorio smiled but only his thick beard motioned up, he thought of receiving a big reward for the beautiful child either way. Larus was also smiling but only granny Jedwiga remained indifferent. After they finished eating, Larus said, ¡° Now, on the matter of hospatility, you can stay here with my family until we depart, alright ? ¡± But granny Jedwiga protested, ¡° No, Aluzar will be staying with me, right Aluzar ?!¡± Gregorio and Larus slightly frowned and argued, ¡° B-but Granny isn¡ät it up to little Aluzar to decide ? ¡± Gregorio added, ¡° Right, nobody wants to sleep in you stinking shack of a house.¡± The little Aluzar was interested in the stinky old hags intention and answered, ¡° It¡äs alright, I don¡ät want to trouble your family any longer. I will be staying at granny Jedwigas place. ¡± The Old wrinkly hag showed a smug face what displeased the Larus and Gregorio, after this matter was closed, the granny and the boy were heading back to the shabby log house. He naturally putted the hood over his head, preventing sunrays touching his face, they entered the shabby housing after walking through a small crowd of starring villagers. When the both of them were alone, Jedwiga bluntly said, ¡° Oh little Aluzar, don¡ät trust those foolish idiots they all are blinded by the glittery gold. They will bring ya to Gringallos and expect a reward, or before that sell ya off to a slave trader. I should have educated them before they turned to such despicable greedy bastards. ¡± He asked the old hag, ¡° Why are you telling me these thing, aren¡ät they your family ?¡± She sighed as if she was tired of life, ¡° Aluzar, I told ya those things because they are my family and I want to protect them, eventhough, their actions seemed sometimes despicable and underhanded, they are still the only family I have and I want to protect them from harm, I also guaranteed yer safety, right ?! ¡± The young juvenile was puzzled and confused, he asked her, ¡° From what harm are you trying to protect them ? ¡± She sighed again and her croaky voice seemed even more rough and old, ¡° Listen Aluzar, I know your are not an ordinary child and there are also vicious beast on the way to Gringallos. When I was a young woman on my path of being an adventurer and mage. I met a monster that was terrifying and it¡äs power were brutal, it killed all the members of my party, we couldn¡ät even fift a finger, or even touch a strain of it¡äs hair it was a one sided slaughter in the middle of the night. ¡± Aluzar narrowed his eyes and readied to instantly kill her but he wasn¡ät sure if she was powerful or not, he only knew now that she was a mage. The boy carefully asked her, ¡° Granny how did you know I am not an ordinary boy and what beast killed your comrades ? ¡± The Old hag smiled and laughed, ¡° Hohoho, little boy I could tell from yer clothes that were either rich or belong to nobility and the fearsome monster that killed my comrades, was a ten meter tall black beast with two horns in the shape of blades on his forehead. It was called Dubukursi, I could only flee because my comrades were buying time for me. ¡± She sat down on an empty chair, looking devasted from recalling those sad memories, but Aluzar felt as he was being messed with and she was dead serious about that story, thus he remained silent. She added, ¡° Those vicious beast are roaming on the way to Gringallos, although, it safe in a caravan but it still too dangerous around this time, the village usually travels when the weather gets colder because the Dubukursi will enter their hibernation period. I am afraid that ya and my family will never reach the town of Gringallos, thus I decided to go with ya alone on this journey and leave those fools behind, I am old and about to leave this world anyway. ¡± The Supreme pure blood vampire admired her determination to sacrifice her live for her family and pitied her for being a human. He tought about it carefully, since he only wanted to know if there was a town in the near vicinity and he still needed to find out what he wanted to do from now on. The Child prioritized reaching the town first, after that he could establish himself and having a stinky old hag ,or a greedy family who wanted to sell him off with him on his Journey to Gringallos was more than he could bear with, but what could he do to prevent this from happening, without killing the whole village. He decided to make a gamble and change his act, Aluzar took out his signet ring and wore it on his right ring finger, it was a perfect fit because it changed it¡äs size based on the owners finger. Jedwiga seeing the golden patterns on the signet, her jaws dropped and made a turn in her attitude saying in a humble manner, while bowing, ¡° Oh my lord, only nobles or royals have a family emblem, so must be one of them. Young lord please spare my family for being so shallow towards you. I will bear the punishment, so please. ¡± Aluzar felt a little troubled he didn¡ät expected such much of a turn in her attitude, but he had anticipated this change to have his way. He inquired her about the beast, ¡° Jedwiga tell me, are those Dubukursi beasts really so scary as you told me ,or were you and your adventurer comrades just weak ?¡± She didn¡ät show any displeasing signs of being offended and answered, ¡° Yes, we may were weak at that time, since we were only E rank adventurers and I was only a 5th rank mage back then, but im confident because I achieved the 8th rank by now. I will definitely bring back to yer clan, young lord. ¡± He replied with an indifferent look, ¡° No need, I will go on my own, you are going to prepare a cart with water and food in three days. ¡± The Old granny slightly raised her voice and protested, ¡° But young lord, there are bandits and beasts on the way. I don¡ät believe anyone could arrive in Gringallos unharmed, please reconsider your decision. ¡± She was worried about the punishment her family would get, if the young noble child were to be injured, thus she needed to accompany him at all cost. From the look of his marvelous signet ring, it definitely must belong to a royal family or a clan serving them, because only those are the only ones that are permitted to have a crown in their family crest, those were the thoughts of the old granny, even she had a bit of knowledge regarding nobles. She thought about killing the young child to protect her family. The young youth being underistimated, he waved his hands and a large skull of the horned black bear beast appeared before her and he asked, ¡° Is that the Dubukursi you are talking about, this poor creature was slain by me and if you don¡ät believe me, we can proof this through a test but the cost will be your life. Don¡ät ask how, what or who I am. You should be grateful because I already gave you my true name and I let you know I am more powerful than you even if I am child. ¡± It was only a bluff, he couldn¡ät measure his strength and compare them to other individuals right now, but it seemed to work because granny was awestrucked and stunned silent and didn¡ät dared to object his demands. He talked with her about this world, in a manner a child would ask it¡äs parents about how the world worked, without disclosing that he was from another universe or a supreme pure blood vampire. He learned that this continent was named Vetra¡äZulo and that there were several kingdoms on this continent, she didn¡ät know about any other continents because she never left this one. There were also a ranking system for physical strength and magic power, it goes from rank 1 to rank 9, the ranks are all included with a title, the inhabitants of this world cultivate their mana either strengthening their body, or their mana pool. Upon reaching the ninth rank they all aspire to reach the ranks beyond the ninth ranks and become an Archmage or Warrior Lord. There were ranks beyond them, but they were only told in legends and myths, that was what granny Jedwiga told him and she couldn¡ät tell the boy anymore about it. She also advised him to not tell anyone about his interspatial ring, because they were rare and kingdoms waged war over a single ring, especially for such a piece of artwork on his finger. Three days have passed and Alluzar never left the shabby housing of the old hag even once, the reason was that he got hooked up on alchemy. After reading some books about magic and elemental essences, he was intrigued because it seemed everyone could see those elemental particles when they concentrate their senses except him. He channeled mana into his eyes numerous times but couldn¡ät see anything, maybe it was his incomplete assimilation and he would see them when he completed, was what he deduced, because elemental essences were needed to strentgthen ones affinities he was a little worried. He experimented with the herbs and powders the old granny had and she teached him the fundamentals of magic alchemy and different magic circles in those three days. He was eager to learn, eventhough, he wanted to discover it all by himself but admitted that, without a fundamental base of knowledge on magic he couldn¡ät progrees further, so he let it passed just this one time and immersed himself in the fun of mixing, brewing and creating suspicious potions and pills from his herbs and powder, bones grinded to dust, the boy collected through out his journey up until now. He only needed som test subjects now. He also received recipes for mana potions and healing potions from the granny, what he reluctantly accepted after being constantly begged to take it. Aluzar didn¡ät really needed those recipes but it won¡ät hurt, he thought. Darkness swallowed the day and the starry night blew a cold wind through the lands, what let him sew white tiger pelt on the inside of his hooded snake skin cloak, making him more overdressed but he couldn¡ät care less. He decided to play the role of the last child from a fallen noble household, hoping to rebuild it¡äs former glory. He sneaked out of Desol village where granny Jedwiga was waiting for him with a simple roofles cart filled with food and water in small chests and barrels, consisting of dryed beef and bread loafs, it was drawn by a single horse. He looked at the animal that will be pulling the carriage cart and suprisingly it resembled the horses on earth in every detail. He thought if horses were the perfect animals in both worlds, because they evolved in the same path as the ones on his former planet. He climbed up the coachmens seat, looked at the old hag and tossed her the dozen magic cores from the rabbits he slaughtered, medically treated, ¡° This is a reward for treating me well and for keeping your mouth shut, never speak about me if I hear some rumors about me, I know where it came from, be warned. ¡± The old granny was awed pressed out some words, ¡° Young Lord, yer are too genorous, one magic core of this size is 2 gold coins alone, but to give me so many it is really too kind of yer, with this we will prosper without worry, thank ya young lord. ¡± She bowed deeply and he took the reins in his small hands whipping it, signaling the horse to move, he looked straight ahead to the northwest from the village. The small youh telepathically informed Azariah to come flying to him as he left Desol vilagges farming fields. She came flapping her wings landing besides him and snucked under his cloak, like always enwrapping herself around him. Azariah was hunting animals and monsters in those days, while Aluzar was in Desol village, and learned the practics from the theories, alltough she didn¡ät grew any longer or larger in the five monthe after she was born, her grip felt stronger than before, how strange Aluzar thought. They embarked to the town of Gringallos and he rejoiced in the thoughts of finding test subjects for his potions and pills. One Month passed as they crossed through the lands on the unpaved earth road, the tree leaves began changing from green to various pallets of colors, red, yellow, orange, brown, blue, pink, violet, they all were slowly falling from the sparse woods on the side of the primitive road, yet he discovered another mystery of Almastea. He encountered dozen of Dubukursi beasts and they wer all slaugthered, medically treated. He didn¡ät comprehend how this monster, that isn¡ät even a magic beast, is considered dangerous and strong, the only noteworthy feature is that it was big and nothing more. He almost completely soaked his body with liquid mana, but he was somehow worried if it would truly help him in preventing his body from deteriorating. He sighed as six human figures jumped from the thick bushes, on the side of the road, one man shouted, ¡° Halt !!! Get off that cart and give us your valuables, we might consider leaving you alive and sell you off as a slave. ¡± Under his cloak he had a delighted smile as he remembered that he needed some test subjects. The 121cm tall cloaked figure jumped off the coachmens seat and mustered the humans, they were all six men about 1.80 meter big and had rough unkempt hair, all of them were wearing light leather armor and were armed with swords whose blades were chipped. Without giving a reply, he sprinted with incredible speed striking a low kick against the one who previously spoke the laughable thread, his leg gave of a crunching ¡° knack¡±sound, like a twig breaking and he started, rolling over the dirty ground while holding his leg, screaming, ¡° Aaaaaaah, aaargh kill that l-little b-bastard, aaarh my leeeg, aaahaaaarg!!¡± He won¡ät ever walk normally again with that leg, the bone was showing itself from the side of his calf and his screams resounded in the ear of his comrades, they all snapped out of their shocked state and approached the cloaked figure, encircled him and trying swing in some slashes, one of them said, ¡° You midget bastard, how dare you hurt one of our friends, we will fucking kill you and you will die a miserabely death.¡± Aluzar could only chuckle, it was like playing with a child, he drew his 30cm long black blone dagger leaping in front of one of the uninjured bandits and cutted right through his thighs, this showed how sharp his dagger was, severing the leg fom it¡äs owner. The Bandit spurted blood like a hydrant from his thighs, ¡° Aaaaaaaaah NO, aaaaaaaaaaah, MY LEG, MY LEG, MY LEG, aaaaaaaarhg¡± Only four waylayers remained and they couldn¡ät understand what was happening. They thought this shabby cart would be easy prey for them. Without letting them time to think further the small black cloaked figure blurred and reappeared before the group of remaining bandits and slashed off, with fast movements, one leg from each one of them, they cried out in a choir of screams and whining. Aluzar enjoyed the screams and crys and waved his dagger as if it was a conductors baton directing an orchestra and the instruments were the screaming bandits. He hummed some melodies while burning the bleeding leg stumps, preventing them from dying from blood loss, what made them scream even more. One of them said, ¡° Aaaaaaaaah arg aaaaaaah, just kill us already you fucking bastard are you enjoying this sick fucker ,or why are you doing this, arrgh.¡± He said in commanding tone with a preteen voice, ¡° Drink these potions and maybe you might feel better or even regenerate your lost limbs. ¡± The Small youth made six potion bottles appear from behind his cloak and layed them before the six waylayers. The Group of men looked perplexed at each other and one spoke up, ¡° If we drink those potions, you won¡ät kill us okay, if you guarantee us that we will drink them, if not we will spill them on the ground.¡± The cloaked figure smiled underneath his hood and agreed, ¡° Good I agree, I won¡ät harm you as long as you drink the potions, but everyone has to drink it at the same time and if one of you spills the potion on purpose, all of your heads will be send flying.¡± The Six men crawled over to where the potions were placed and each one of them grabbed a bottle. The bottle were almost identical, only numbers told the differences, they simultaneously gulped down the mysterious liquids. At first nothing happened for a few moments, but suddenly one of them began trembling and bloddy tears dripped from his eyes and small bubbles formed under his skin and instantly bursted and streams of blood came out of them, till he was only flesh and muscles, though he screamed for quite a while and rolled around, his movement stopped after his head exploded into pieces. Another one of them was convulsing and his body twitched while his mouth foamed. He couldn¡ät control himself so he urinated in his pants unwillingly and puked allover the place, after some time he suffocated on his own vomit. The Third subject was ripping out his own flesh with his long dirty fingernails, while laughing insanely. He gouged out his own eyes and screamed, ¡° It feeels soo goood, sooo soooo goood, hahahahaha...hahaha...hahahaha..¡± He spouted this nonsense until he ripped off his own tongue and teeth, after that he just bled to death. The Fourth subject was strangely excited, he had a bright smile plastered on his face and his eyes were open but the eyeballs were twisted backwards, he trembled and even got an erection that was constantly ejaculating, it seemed he was having the time of his life. The Fith one wasn¡ät so lucky as the fourth, he began to slowly shrivel from his fingertips and crumbled to dust, leaving only his gear, clothes and a pile of sand. The Last test subject began to let of steam from his body and he slowly became a muddy puddle of blood, bones and flesh. Aluzar watched everything and conversed with himself, ¡° Interesting, hehehehe, I think the first one separates the oxygen in the body. The Second over stimulates the muscles and the subject loses control of it¡äs body. The Third hmmm.., needs further in depth research. The Fourth is a non lethal....No, a lethal aphrodisiac, since his genitals just exploded now, too bad for him. The Fith accelerates the aging progress, I guess. The Sixth let¡äs the body heat go rampant until melting. Good, the third and fifth one needs more researches. Experiment closed, the results are good. ¡± The Small youth collected the leather armor and chipped swords, after cleaning them with a high pressure waterjet created with his magic. Azariah hissed under his cloak, ¡° Can we-eat thosse-humansss masssster ?¡± He replied with a wry smile, ¡° Sorry Azariah, I know you want to taste human meat, but I don¡ät want you to get a stomach ache, since I treated them with those potions they may still contain the same effect. ¡± The eight headed serpent wasn¡ä t disappointed, because her master cared for her well being, thus she listened to him. Aluzar was cold to anyone he wasn¡ä t fond of or considered an enemy, although, he kept a facade before them and acted the way he thinks was the best option. He cared for his family and since Azariah was a servant, she was part of his household, and every member automatically stands above any other being besides him and should someone harm them, they become his enemies and will be killed, until their families of every generation are extinguished. After storing the loot away, he jumped up the coachmens seat and travelled till nightfall. Under the light of the camp fire he thought about what to do in this new world called Almastea and he recalled for what the creator of creators sended him here and pondered over this thought, his mind wandered to the potions he gave to the bandits and an idea flashed. He came up with creating an oganization controlling and producing drugs and also training assassins to deal with obstacles, while he would explore the world and build up an public image as a good noble. He could rule legitimately in public and pull the strings from the shadows. He would also slowly destroy the religions and kingdoms on his way and replaced it with puppets kings, like a disease eating them up without even knowing they were sick. Having a new goal, he fed Azariah magical beast meat and ate some of it himself, after eating he rolled out his clean sleeping mat and began going into a trance condensing his mana. He did that until morning and his entire body was now soaked and in an impulse his whole bode convulsed and his muscle fibers, bones, ligaments, inner organs, eyes, teeth, genitals, veins, blood, arteries, skin and brain began burning with endless pain. He rolled around for hours on his sleeping mat. Aluzar felt as if small ants were nibbling on his whole body, he reverted back to his true appearance platin silver head and ruby red eyes, long ago. Under such pain it was impossible to keep up the transformation. The Pain subsided after evening came, from morning until the sun began to go down he endured the mind breaking pain. He stood up and the worried serpent instantly enwrapped herself tightly around him, as if she never wanted to let go off him ever again, his pale shimmering skin gave off a blue aura and he could see with his eyes like a normal human, eventhough, the sun was still up and his skin was just lightly burned from the sun, although, he was under the sun allday instead of being horribly burned, he also felt a bit stronger than before. The Boy focused his senses and found himself in a wide space in his mind and he could still see his current surroundings, it was filled with sparkling particles of black, red, transparent blue, brown, transparent green, and shiny white, he guessed that those things were the elemental essences and a giant load of wories transformed into joy and happiness. He was right and his gamble on this theory paid off, now he was a part of Almastea and he already set up a rough plan for the future, but those plans can wait for the moment until he finished savouring this moment of happiness. Prologue End Authors note: Sorry for the little delay some problems came up, here i hope you enjoyed it. Edit note: Proof read it myself, hope there are less errors. Anouncement and Poll Hello, dear readers I wanted to say something regarding the story of Grand Adventure First I apologize about the fact that it is not a new chapter and regarding the new chapters, I will try to post on a weekly base. I need the time to make sure that the quality and quantity is at least average and won¡ät destroy the fictions storyline, or create inconsistents. I also want to mention that from now on the story will be heavy and for a mature audience, althoug i will try to create light hearted moments depicturing everday life situations in a fantasy world, it will contain sexual content ( not sure how much or detailed), gore (how you have read in the previous chapters), torture ( that will be part of some chapters), rape will also occure, because it is a part of real life and can happen to everybody right now otherwise i cant tag it slice of life (but the MC will not be participating in it), i will consider tagging it drama. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Another reason is I want you to decide what race the harem canidate should be. I will post a poll so that you can vote for the existing races in Almastea. Thank you for reading up until now, I will give it my best, your humble asurasa edit note: i forgot to make a vote for beastmen, sry guys fixed it. Grand Adventure - The Seeds of discord Authors note: Hello guys, sorry for the little delay RL got the better of me, well here it is I hope you enjoy it. Aluzar was packing his sleeping mat, while feeling great with his adapted body. He had been resting since yesterday evening because of the huge strain caused by the reversed assimilation. His vampiric body fused with the mana he condensed, not only did he have been getting a little stronger, but also resistent to sunlight. The little handsome boy could see now, like a normal human, in broad daylight and he wont¡ät be getting heavily burned, by the sunrays, anymore. However, it doesnt mean that he is being fond of the sun, he was still a creature of the night. He only travelled at daytime because he didn`t wanted to be considered suspicious, what he already was. A small black cloaked figure riding alone on a cart without any hired guards, would be plenty to raise distrustfulness in the minds of the encountered people. He also checked on his magic power and surprisingly the casting of improvised spells were now instantly, without casting time. Although, it was only creating fire and water. The small youth was determined to learn more complicated spells that were already existing and after that he would try to create his own spells. Old granny told him that there were different techniques of mana cultivation based on their affinities they possessed. People of this world had one or two elemental affinities, when someone had three or more elements he was considered a genius. The Platin silver haired boy asked himself, if it was a gift from the creator of creators that he was able to see all affinities, if so he was grateful to the great creator for giving him with this present. Though, the old soul postponed the cultivation issue for another time. He required more information on those cultivation techniques, to create one for himself that draws out his full potential. The little figure putted on his deep hood, climbing the coachmens seat, preparing to depart again on his way the town called Gringallos. He pondered about the money matter and thought up various ways of making easy money, for when he has arrived in Gringallos. One of them was registering as an adventurer, but he worried about the adventurers guild having an age restriction, eventually he would have to find another way to make some liquid funds. The Cart was rolling over the muddy road, caused by the rain that recently has begun to fall. The Rain was also filled with mana, he could feel it with his senses that were now enhanced a little more than before and could perceive the translucent blue particles lingering in the air. The Ruby red eyed youth determined that the elemental essences constantly changed under certain environmental circumstances. In other areas he passed through he saw the same elemental particles clustered together building clouds in certain regions, depending on the weather, land and the day and night cycle. If the sun was smiling up above the sky, shiny white particles emerged from where the sunrays layed down their touch and when the night grinned over the gleaming stars an almost invisible black essences gather into a huge cloud, fogging over the lands of Almastea. The Only elemental essences constantly present were the brown earth particles, the translucent green wind particles and the translucent blue water particles because they were omnipresent in the world. He also concluded that fire essences and lightning essences emerged when special area conditions are met. Aluzar was travelling, on the muddy road, for seven days and nights. He couldn¡ät restrain himself from investigating how the elemental essences would make an impact on his magic. However, he first had to find a way utilizing the elemental particles, he thought up and tried various methods to forcefully pull them into his body, but it was a fruitless endeavour for him. He rolled down a small hill, the horse whinnied while pulling the roofless cart carriage forward. The Weather had gradually gotten colder everday and he rarely saw Dobukursi beasts roaming around the area. So it was true that they went into hibernation when the climate had gotten colder, he thought. In his field of vision a distinct outline resembling a rectangular settlement appeared, it was noticeably bigger than Desol village. The Load area of his cart was filled with consumeable goods and sheltered under a cloth plain that was bow taut to the corners of the carriage. He hadn¡ät been even touching one piece of dried meat, a loaf of bread, or a small barrel of water since when Aluzar and Azariah left Desol village. The young boy with an old soul got a sudden flash of insight while nearing himself the village entrance with every single jolt. He stopped the cart, left the coachmens seat and stored away the edible goods, replacing them with the scrapmetal armors, weapons and other metallic goods. Since he didn¡ät need them because he couldn¡ät reforge them to ingots right now, this was another one of Aluzars ways of making money. He would sell his acquired payment from the patients he medically treated, but the only problem was that his young appearance may lead to that people wanted to rob him. Not that he was overly concerned about those ill willed customers, but he would help them treating their kleptomania in a longterm therapy session until they were cured and would never think of such thoughts ever again. There were no guards at the gates, what surprised him and the stonewalls measured one meter taller than the walls of Desol village. He entered through the entrance of the rectangular laid out defensive walls, heading to the center of the village. It was nothing new that he attracted the attention of the local residents. The Village was arranged in four sections, in the middle was also a waterwell like in Desol village, separating the settlement were two stone framed roads that created four smaller rectangular areas inside the village, that was a football field bigger than Desol village. The Houses were constructed with a mix of stone and wood, the major difference in contrast to Desol village was that there were small stores and inn`s, they could be discerned through the signs above the open doors. There was a weapon and armor store, an open grocery market, at the center of the village, selling fresh meat and vegetable like things, a very small bookstore offering maps and lastly the magic and alchemy shop having ingredients, potions and magic tools. He first needed some funds, although, he looted the dead bandits they had no coins on them, seriously how can they have no single copper coin, despite being waylayers, he thought. The small black figure made his way to the weapon and armor store in the hope to sell his scrapmetal. The weapon and armor shop was named ¡°Ingrit`s weapons and gears¡±, he jumped of his loaded cart and crossed though the open welcoming door. Aluzar was greeted by a female voice, as he took a closer look of the individual that welcomed him. He saw a small creature and his curiosity was immediately peaked by that person. The One in question was a little female midget sitting on a high chair looking over the sales desk. She had pointed ears and looked middle aged despite being so small, the petite woman had beady eyes, full lips and a boxy nose that fitted with her slightly strong square chinned face. Her hair tied to the back in a ponytail and her puffed out huge breasts gave the mature midget a homey but also brute aura. Aluzar was greeted with a hearty smile and an energy filled voice came out of her mouth, ¡°Heyo dear customer, what can I do for you. We have splendid weapons and durable armors, eh...?¡± An arkward silence filled the room that consisted of three weapon racks, holding various medieval bats and stabbing arms, standing in different corners. On the walls were several armors hanging down fom the walls, while the service counter was placed next to the door. The Face expression of the little dwarven woman showed she didn`t knew what to think of the new customer, who just recently entered the store. Unflustered the cloaked figure said, ¡°Excuse me, I wanted to sell some rusty weapons and armors, together with other things and hoped you would buy some for your store. ¡± The short female dwarf tilted her head and replied, ¡°Oh, I am very sorry sir. We buy our goods from a blacksmith in Gringallos,...but let me see the quality of the metals and maybe I can write you letter of introduction.¡± She jumped down from the lon legged chair and almost vanished behind the counter, only to appear besides him on the same eye level. The little woman curiously peaked under his deep hood but couldn¡ät caught a glance of his face, then she asked, ¡°Hey, are you maybe a fellow dwarf, I don¡ät often see people of my race around here anymore because of the war between the humans and draconians.¡± He lifted his deep hood, revealing his silky black hair and icy blue eyes. He transformed into his human disguise after entering the village. The short middle aged dwarf womans eyes widened and her cheeks began blushing. He smiled at her what caused her face to redden even more, he said in a charming voice, ¡°Beautiful lady, my name is Aluzar Refizul Hochstern and I am a traveller, who came from a far away country, unfortunately I am not a dwarf but a very young human. I am also not from this region and could you tell me more about the war between the humans and draconians while we can go outside so you can inspect the goods.¡± The Dwarven woman snapped back to reality and hastily babbled out some words, ¡° Y-yes o-of course, my n-name is Ingrit Stone, nice to meet you. Now, first lets go out to talk about the quality, we can converse a-afterwards.¡± The charming boy smiled and showed his pearl white teeth and the both of them approached his cart that was covered with a cloth plane stretched out to the limit because of the huge pile of the metal goods, it looked like a small hill on a cart and barely fitted on it¡äs loading space. He removed the covering and a huge pile of rusty swords, armors and other metal goods could be seen, Ingrit took a closer look at the metal and said admiringly, ¡° Hooh, the quality is good, no it¡äs excellent, there is no chipped blade or dent armor. They were forged brilliantly but regrettably neglected for a long time, but it¡äs still can be polished and reused or reforged. Where did you acquired such materials?¡± Aluzar smiled sadly, ¡° Those weapons once belonged to my family and is the only fortune they have left me with, but unfortunately they are no longer alive and I can¡ät make use of those rusty gears anymore.¡± Ingrit nodded as she understood the explaination the cunning boy told her and said while giving a comforting smile and rubbing her palms together, ¡° I am so sorry for you, follow me inside and I will write you a letter of recommendation, since I guessed that you are on your way to Gringallos this will help you sell your goods there and guarantee you a safe entrance. When you have arrived there visit the blacksmith shop named Harolds Anvil, the owner will receive you and if you meet another male dwarf named Kusan tell him to move his ass, or expect a thorough beating from me.¡± She scribbled something on a parchment rolled it up and handed it to Aluzar, who made it disappear behind his mat black snake skin cloak and stored it inside his interspatial ring. The dwarven woman Ingrit caught a short glimpse of the black ring with the golden patterned emblem on a signet and humbly asked, ¡° Little master are you perhaps a noble?¡± The good looking boy answered in a modest attitude, ¡° Well, my family was once of noble lineage, but we fell from misfortune and now I am the only one who is still alive, since we were nobles from a distant land I hold no power over you, so please treat me well and I shall treat you the same.¡± Ingrit was surprised by his unboastful behavior because nobles usually were arrogant and looked down on a normal peasant, although, this didn`t applied to Aluzar because he didn`t cared. He saw most living beings either as cattle to raise food, or as stepping stones for his current goals and if it was necessary he would crush them to dust without even blinking an eye. The female dwarf Ingrit remembered that he wanted to know more about the war between draconians and humans, she began telling him about of what she knew, ¡° You wanted to know about the war right, I will tell you what I know. There was a war between draconians and humans that started about 50 years ago, I don¡ät know the reason though but it continued until a few years ago and both parties signed a cease fire agreement, eventhough it was peace, it doesn`t mean the deep hatred for each other vanished. The Humans were forced to sign the treaty because they suffered huge losses in the war, although, the draconians did had many casualitys too. The two races still obstruct each other where they can and since the dwarven kingdom lies beyond the draconian lairs they won`t let any direct trading be held between the dwarfs and the humans and thus dwarfs are rarely seen in these regions. Me and my husband are the only ones in Latis village.¡± The handsome youth listened to the speech from Ingrit and as she finished, he thanked her politely, ¡° I thank you for telling me those informations. I have another question, do you know anyone who buys magic cores from magic beasts?¡± The big breasted dwarven woman frowned as she heard magic beasts but answered friendly, ¡° Ah, yeah the only one who needs magic cores is the magic and alchemy shop, since this village is the closest to Gringallos it is used as a base for adventurers, eventhough, there is no branch here from the adventurers guild and those adventurers need a constant supply for healing potions and the like, which leads that the alchemy store requires magic cores and herbs for their production. I think you can visit Hendrick he is always in his workshop.¡± Aluzar thanked her once again and moved his cart in front of the magic and alchemy store. The Shop signs described what they specialized in and what they sell and on the magic and alchemy store sign were pictures of filled bottles, magic circles and mortars and pestles and the letters¡°Hendricks magic alchemy shop¡±. The Pictures were probably for analphabets in this world and what was likely for most people here. He entered the gloomy two storied building, the wooden window doors were closed, a wooden chandilier with strange luminous stones dimly lit the shops interiors. The Counter was unattended but a bell rang somwhere inside the house as he entered over the doorstep, a rumbling on the upper floor shook the ceiling and rash steps could be heard. The Shop reeked of various herbs, there were multiple shelfs behind the sales desk and a decent room between the entrance and service counter, even leaving enough space to fit in two tables and several chairs filling the room. A human man in his twenties appeared behind the service bar with a business smile and rubbin his hands, ¡° Welcome, how can I help you ehm....¡± Seeing the small child his smile slightly cramped, ¡° Little one did your parents send you to get some medicine for them.¡± Aluzar in his human disguise approached the counter that reached up to his eyes and said with his preteen voice, ¡° No, I wanted to sell something you might need for your production.¡± The Mans face changed to an angry expression and said in an annoyed tone, ¡° Hey kid listen, we don¡ät need your grass you picked from the side of some roads, now get out !¡± Little Aluzars eyes narrowed and he got also really annoyed but supressed his urge to kill this human bug because he didn`t wanted to cause a commotion yet, instead he made a magic core appear behind the curtains of his cloak and waved it before the mans eyes and said smug, ¡° Then I think you don¡ät need this right. Well, I thought of making some quick coins but if your shop don¡ät want it. I can`t do nothing about it, good bye. ¡± The young mans face behind the sales desk froze as he saw the magic core and the ring with the signet, he hurriedly apologized, ¡° I am very sorry young master, please forgive my insolent behavior a second ago. Sir please understand that we don¡ät have any patrons as young as you, but please don¡ät leave I will call my master, then you both can negotiate over the price. ¡± The small childs sensual lips curved up to a lite smile, ¡° Okay, I reconsider leaving but hurry up and bring me your master before I decide otherwise.¡± He left behind the shelfs through a small gap and ran up the stairs, after a while an old man with long grey hair, bushy eyebrows and a long full beard hanging down from his chin, his roundish almond eyes glanced at Aluzar, ¡° Nice to meet you little noble, I am Hendrick Silveglass and I apologize for my apprentices ignorance, although, we have never gotten a younger customer than you. Now, could you show me the magic core you wanted to sell.¡± He smiled with a gentle expression and thought of him as small child who didn`t know the value of magic core. It was true that Aluzar didn`t knew the exact market price, but from old granny Jedwigas reaction as he gave her the dozen smaller magic cores from the rabbit like magic beasts, they must be very valuable. He placed the core, that barely fitted inside his small hands, on the counter. Hendrick grasped the core and held it before his eyes, his hands began to shake but he evidently tried to keep his composure in front of the little boy. The long bearded old man laid the magic core back on the wooden sales desk and said in a calm manner, ¡° Good, I confirmed the geniunety of the magic core and I am willing to pay 5 gold coins for this. I think it`s a lot of pocket money for a noble child.¡± He brigthly smiled because Hendrick expected that a little kid couldn`t possible possess the knowledge on how precious something is and it was probably a present from his rich noble parents. Small Aluzar could hear the heartbeat of the old bearded man pounding like crazy as if he would be getting a heart attack any moment, right now. The Juvenile smiled back at Hendrick and grabbed the magic core while saying disappointed, ¡° The Price is really low here, I think I can get a better price in Gringallos, but thanks for your effort and good bye.¡± Hendrick was shocked by the sudden reaction and his wrinkly face changed to a troubled expression, he hesitantly shouted, ¡° W-w-wait, wait little noble please wait. I give you 8 gold coins, okay !¡± Aluzar didn`t stop walking into the direction where he entered and a big sweat pearl formed on Hendricks temple while he shouted, ¡° Urgh, okay I give you 10 gold coins. ¡± The Boy still didn`t stopped his steps, the old man was sweating bullets now and spitted his saliva whilst screaming now, ¡° Okay you got me damn it, I will pay you 20 gold coins for such a magic core.¡± The Youth abruptly stopped and turned around with a vicious grin and replied satisfied, ¡° Hehehehe, Mr. Sivlerglass you won`t regret your decision, that I can guarantee you.¡± Seeing this grin from a child a cold chill ran down Hendricks spine. Aluzar returned to the shop counter placing the magic core in front of the bushy browed granpa, who exhaled a breath of relief and frowned while exhaustingly sighed, ¡° Haaaah, you are quite the devil, little noble. I didn`t think you would be so mischievous, but oh well it was my mistake underestimating someone because I believed he was only a child, hahahaha you got me good little noble.¡± Hendrick slightly kneeled and pressed his hands against an area under the wooden desk counter, he focused his mana and a hidden from Aluzar a magic circle flashed and opened a small secret door. The Store owner wanted to bring out the money but before he could, the currently black haired boy added two magic cores and said in an innocent tone, ¡° Mr. Silverglass, you said you would buy such magic cores for 20 gold coins, right? You are lucky I stumbled on 2 other fresh magic beast corpses on my way to Latis village, they probably killed each other at the same time, aren`t I lucky ?¡± The Old granpa smiled wryly and he ought to be happy, however, his entire life savings was about to be greatly reduced, ¡° H-hey can`t we not set another price for three magic beast cores a bit lower since I will buy them all ?¡± The Youths face grew stern and he answered with an unwavering attitude, ¡° Alright, I will go now and take those cores with me, selling them in Gringallos would be fairly easier than here, for sure.¡± But before he could grasp the magic cores, Hendrick slammed a pouch on the service bench and added some coins to it and growled, ¡° Here 60 gold coins, you can count it on one of the tables over there, little monster.¡± He lifted the heavy pouch with a daring grin, ¡° Thank you, Mr. Silverglass and I have another question. Do you sell tools and utensils for alchemy?¡± The bearded elder sighed, ¡° Haaah, unfortunately no. You have to go to Gringallos, since it`s a large town you will surely find equipment ror alchemy there.¡± The Supreme pure blood vampire in human disguise sat himself on a chair and counted the glittering gold coins in the pouch while in the background Hendrick inspected the magic cores with sparkling eyes and wisphered to himself, ¡° Hohoho, three rank E magic cores, with thisI can make some good mana cultivation elixirs and compensate my loss, hehehe.¡± So there are such methods of using those magic cores, he thought as Aluzar checked his newly acquired funds. The small figure left the magic alchemy shop with the intention of going to the small bookstore to buy some books and maps of Almastea, or at least about Vetra`Zulo. He had to spend his money wise for now, he knew from granny Jedwiga that 100 copper coins equaled 1 silver coin and 100 silver coins equates 1 gold coin, but there were also gold plates and mithril plates. One gold plate amounts to 1000 gold coins and one mithril plate compensates for 100 gold plates, not to mention they were ment for saving up ones wealth. As he entered the small bookstore, he was greeted by a female voice, ¡° Hello cutey, are you on an errand for your parents, although, I never saw you here in this village, that means your family must be new in this village. I am Natlia Pagella, nice to meet you.¡± The voice belonged to a young woman in her mid twenties with curly reddish brown hair, she had a round shaped baby face, big round eyes under thin brows and full lips with a small button nose. Her body was slender and she had a moderate bust. The charming boy met her with a brilliant smile displaying his pearl white teeth, ¡° Unfortunately no, Ms. Pagella. I am the last survivor of my family and came from a remote country in the hope to restore it`s former glory. I am sorry i didn`t introduced myself first, my name is Aluzar Refizul Hochstern.¡± Natilias face changed to a guilty and sad expression, ¡° Oh, I am so sorry. You are so young thats why.....but you are so grown up in your mind. I will give you a discount on your purchase because it will certainly help you and how can`t I help such a cute boy like you, but can you actually read at such a young age?¡± He responded eloquently, ¡° Please don`t worry Ms. Pagella since I am well versed in reading and writing without those indispensable knowledge I wouldn`t have last so long, but I appreciate your concern.¡± Natilia held her cheeks with admiring eyes for the brave little child, ¡° Oh my, you are so brave and intelligent, please look around in this humble bookstore of mine.¡± His head nodded once and he quarried through the manageable bookshelfs filled with literature containing stories about herod and myths. Aluzar found what he sought, a book about basic mana cultivation and a book about elemental strengthening for beginners, he also requested a map of the region he is currently travelling through at the moment. The Button nosed woman gently smiled at him, ¡° Wow, do you want to be a famous mage or maybe a warrior? Since i said I will give you a discount it will only cost 1 gold coins and 50 silver coins all together, only for you.¡± The handsome child paid with 2 gold coins, ¡° Thank you very much Ms. Pagella, I hope we will one day meet again and maybe you will hear of my name in the future.¡± Natilia nodded with a gentle smile and he left the bookstore while discreetly storing the books, map and his change inside his interspatial ring. He jumped on his carts coachmens seat and headed the north gate, since there were only two entrances. One he already passed through entering Latis village and the other one is on the opposite of the rectangular shaped village. Azariah was coiled around him the whole time and unperceivedly watched her master interact with those individuals. The eight headed serpent had to fold her wings as smal as she could, eventhough, Aluzar permitted her to hunt in the near vicinity for the short time but she insisted on following him where ever he would go. The knowledgable Aluzar worried that his adaption to this world and his reaction caused by the pain, triggered a little trauma in her, since then she didn`t let go of him for even a second. He will have to correct her excessive clingy behavior sooner or later. He passed by a group of people, who were donned in gaudy armor and had flashy weapons they are probably adventures and had currently a heated discussion but he just rode passed them and paid no heed to the adventurers. The carriage cart left Latis village and the sun began slowly to descend, he embarked on the road to Gringallos with the parchment letter that stated that he had good quality resources for Harolds Anvil and is the inheritance of his family, the books he acquired from the small bookstore and the now 58 gold coind and 50 silver coins he received by selling three magic cores. 3 Weeks flew away in the blink of an eye, he was still on the move but he could see big fortified walls from afar and he gradually got closer to them. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. In those three weeks he read the basic mana cultivation and elemental strengthening for beginners books. The Information he gained was about various basic cultivation techniques to enrichen his body or mana pool like densing up the mana clouds by meditating and absorbing the surrounding mana into the body. What helped him greatly since his mana pool was now miniscule and his body produced a minimal amount now, he had deduced that the cause was his reversed assimilation. The mana didn`t adapted to him, his body adapted to the mana. The wise Aluzar also knew now, why the elemental particles wouldn`t gather around him because he first had to establish an elemental core for every affinity inside his mana pool or body by being one with the affinities nature and deeply concentrating, after that the elemental essences will naturally flock to him. The young boy left it for now since he already knew the crucial methods, he could start anytime, but he wanted advanced techniques, or even expert techniques for his mana cultivation. Aluzar with Azariah enwrapped under his snake skin cloak, whose interior was covered with soft white tiger fur beforhanded to fight the ice cold climate, arrived at a waiting line. Numerous carriages with goods and many people queued at the huge stone gateway, several hundred meters away flowed a partly frozen river besides the town and across the river started an open forest that grew denser when someone would venture deeper inside. The Town of Gringallos was surrounded by thick sturdy 50 meter tall stonewall encircled in an oval shape, there were several round towers integrated and measured up to 70 meters in height. On the walls, many guards patrolled and observed the vicinity at the gate, they controlled the goods and checked the incoming peddlers. The Line vanished into the town in a slow pace and finally it way Aluzars turn, he had put his deep hood over his head and advanced with his wooden cart, a guard stopped him and mustered him while demanding, ¡° Halt, show your face and state your business. We will also check your goods, if you have a certification of your person or a recomendation it will make our work easier.¡± The little juvenile showed the guard his human disguise and the rolled up parchment he received from Ingrit the dwarven woman, that he secretly made appear behind his cloak. The Guard rudely snatched the parchment from his hands, as he saw the beautiful boy what apparently displeased him because he himself was visibly not an eyecatcher. In the moment the rude guard opened the letter and finished reading, his face went pale and changed his attitude in an instant to a humble demeanor, ¡° I am very sorry sir, I didn`t knew that you are supplying for Harolds Anvil, please you can go on without further compications.¡± Now the humble guard waved him through the entrance and added, ¡° Harolds Anvil is located at the craftsmen quarter in the east section of Gringallos.¡± Aluzar slightlly nodded and whipped the reins, moving forward into the town, in a flash an extreme bad smell reached his nose. He had endured the lite stink in Latis village because the people there had an average odour especially Natilia smelled sweet to him since he prefered female virgin blood but he wasn`t stingy. However, the penetrating stench of human and animalic excrements made him nauseous as he rode on the rough paved stoneway into the deeper part of the town. The streets of Gringallos are full of life with people roaming the wide paved roads filled with different sized housings made out of either wood, stone or both. The Town was crossed by two 30 meter stonewalls incorporated into the protective wall around Gringallos with steep steps. The lively streets had no sewer systems what explained the horrible smell, but there were small alleys in between the houses where the residents disposed ofc their trash by either throwing it out their side doors or window. The small forehead of Aluzar frowned as he saw a woman pouring an obscure liquid out of her window, he thought to himself why are these people so primitive and just why they didn`t use magic to make their lives more comfortable. His old soul had already experienced the medieval time period on earth, but didn`t understand why they didn`t us magic. The small boy, who had his deep hood back on, shook his head and pitied those poor inhabitants that are blessed with ignorance, without possessing intuitiveness to control their own fate, or even the circumstances of their lives. His carriage reached the center of Gringallos and the sickening malodour lightened a bit up, but still unbearable in comparison it was like going from a dirty drain channel full of shit to a deep embrace from granny Jedwiga. Although, the housings became more elegant and colorful he must be in a rich quarter, he said to himself and questioned a passerby, ¡° Excuseme, do you know where Harolds Anvil is, I was told that it was located in the east section of Gringallos in the craftsmen quarter but alas this is my first time here, thus could tell me the directions, please?¡± The Passerby smiled whilst pointing to the left and saying, ¡° You have turn left, then you are in the craftsmen quarter, you can`t miss the store it`s the only dwarven smithery in town.¡± He thanked the guy and followed the description turning left, he arrived at a street filled with various shops offering a wide scale of products,but the smell turned back fron bad to worst. On the two side of the wide bumpy paved stonestreets are multiple crafted objects being displayed like, table, chairs, swords, shield, armors. Above the entrances of the stores were lettered signs with pictures of what they sell or produce like in the village of Latis, as he slowly moved through this street he saw a sign with an Anvil and the name Harold on it. The hooded child stopped in front of the smithery with his cart and made his way into the shop, that was neatly arranged with many well crafted weapons and armors, behind the counter two dwarfs sat on long legged chairs and laughingly conversed with each other. The cloaked figure neared himself the sales desk and interrupted the two, ¡° Excuse me, please...¡± The two noticed the black hooded figure and one of them said, ¡° Ah, sorry we didn`t noticed you. Welcome to my humble smithery shop, I am Harold Caminus the owner and if you came here to apply for an apprenticeship, note that I only take talented people.¡± The other dwarf besides Harold laughed out loud, ¡° Hahahaha, come on Harold. In your eyes everyone in the human kingdom is incapable to meet your demands¡± Harold shrugged his shoulders, ¡° Well, what can I do, if the humans in the whole Ehrental empire are unworthy, especially in this Superbia`Montis Kingdom. Now what can I do for you, hmmm.... are you maybe a fellow dwarf?¡± Upon this question Aluzar pulled back is hood and showed his human disguise, ¡° No, I came travelling to Gringallos from a far away country and happened to pass through a village named Latis, there I wanted to sell my old rusty weapons and armors with some other things in a shop named Ingrits weapons and gears, after she checked my goods Ms. Stone wrote me a letter of recommendation, telling me to visit this store.¡± He held the rolled parchment in his elegant little finger and handed it over to Harold, who overwhelmed by surprise read the letter and laughed, ¡° Hahahaha, how admirable of you to be so young and still able to take care of yourself. Hahahaha, how rare of your wife to personally write such a letter, she must have spotted their true worth, right Kusan ?¡± Kusan the dwarf, standing next to Harold,frowned and a troubled expression, his bulging almond eyes slightly narrowed making his old man face more wrinkly and his big hawk nose disorted upwards with his mouth framed in full beard curving downwards, showing a disheartened look of fear. The sadistic boy looked a Kusan and added in an inoccent manner salt into the wound, ¡° Oh Ms.Stone also told me, if I happen to meet a dwarf named Kusan I should tell him that he should move his ass or he can expect a thorough beating from her.¡± Kusans healthy face grew pale and cold sweat ran down on the sides of his temple, he grabbed his brown unkempt hair while his thick brows moved up wrinkling his forehead into many folds. Whereas Harold laughed till he cried tears out of his small round eyes with crow feet wrinkles besides them, his brows were burnt and his head hairless. The Blacksmith also had a brown full beard surrounding his big dry lips and his face had a leathery glint shining from his bulbous like nose. Harold snorted with laughter, ¡° Hahahaha, I told haha.....that your wife hahahaha....will get angry ha....hahah....you can`t just leave her alone with the store for so long, hahaha...you should have gone home weeks ago...hahaha.¡± Kusan wheezed in depression, ¡° I just wanted to have some fun, how can this be a reason to get angry. Well, I should pack my suff and get going before I get killed by my wife, thank you boy.¡± Kusan disappeared heading to the second floor of the shop and tbe dwarven craftsmen resumed the business talk about the goods, ¡° Ok small lad, show me the goods you wanted to sell.¡± They both walked outside to the cart and he removed the covering cloth plane, revealing a pile of rusty metal goods ranging from candle holders to swords and armors piled up to a small hill on the cart. The small muscular dwarf inspected the rusty goods and was astonished by their durability, ¡° So this belonged to your family? Although it`s a little rusty the blacksmith had to be amazing otherwise it would have already crumbled from the rust, but that is only on the surface, incredible !¡± He rummaged through the pile and was fascinated by the crafts as a fellow craftmen but Aluzar had seen better quality on earth, thus he didn`t cared much about the metal goods. He already inspected everything close up in the dark room inside the mountain. Harold turned to the small youth, ¡° Do you want to sell it all? I will give you a fair price since Ingrit hinted that you are an orphan in the recommendation letter and it belonged to your family, what do you think?¡± The cloaked juvenile masked himself with a sad face and said in a genle unwilling tone, ¡° I have no choice Mr. Caminus. I have to acquire money to guarantee my survival, even a single copper coin may sustain my life. I made up my mind to register at the adventurers guild, but I doubt they would let a six year old child take on a quest.¡± The rough looking dwarven blacksmith pitied the poor child and really wanted to help him, ¡° Hey, don`t fret I will write a letter for the adventures guild and you can work part time in my shop, since you seem more mature than your age tells.¡± Aluzar acted perplexed and relieved but he already anticipated this, ¡° Thank you very much Mr. Caminus. I am deeply indebted to you.¡± Harold gave off a rough laugh and resumed to the matter at hand, ¡° Good, since you need money and the quality of these goods are excellent, but only a little rusty. I can give you 450 gold coins without making any losses on my side and truth be told I can even make a good amount of profit with these because of the hardened steel and the magic steel.¡± The slightly slanted almond eyes of the boy twitched upon hearing the words, magic steel. He couldn`t believe it he worked on earth as a blacksmith for years, yet he couldn`t discern the hardened steel from magic steel and now he was dumbfounded again. His anger at himself boiled inside him, once again he was blinded by his narrow thinking and his vast knowledge what made him sighed inwardly. Aluzar maintained his composure and smiled bitterly, ¡° This is more than a fair price, I considered myself to work here as a part timer, too. I want to repay your kindness and maybe I can even learn a thing or two.¡± The Dwarfs expression grew happy, ¡° Well, first stop calling me Mr.Caminus just Harold is fine cause I am not good with formalities and a helping hand is always welcomed but don`t force yourself to come here everyday. I have some slaves and employees to help me out, if you can`t make it, so don`t worry about me and now lets get inside to seal the deal.¡± The two figures who were on the same height went into the store and Harold shouted some names and 4 bulky muscular guys came out of the workshop part of the back of the building. They all went outside to the cart and carried the goods inside to the workshop area while Harold had gone upstairs and came back with one heavy small chest, it was 30 cm in height and width, and a wax sealed rolled up parchment. The Chest had no lock and Harold explained, ¡° This small chest has a magic lock and is hard to break open, it`s common for people to secure their belongings and since you are on your own take this with you as a small gift, the 450 gold coins are already in the chest look for yourself and open it by imprinting your mana, then it will recognize you as it`s owner afterwards.¡± Aluzar focused his mana into the lid and a magic circle flashed opening the box, revealing a pile of gold coins inside, though it didn`t reach to fill up the entire box, the old dwarf added, ¡° No one can open it now besides you, but if you die the the chest becomes masterless, then it can be obtained and opened by the next person who finds it, so be carful, it`s a lot of money for a little kid and here is the letter for the guildmaster show it this to the reception and they will take you to ¡°him¡±.¡± The small supreme pure blood vampire in disguise thanked him many times and left the store with the heavy box that weigthed like a pillow to him, what suprised the dwarven craftsmen for a moment but he quickly forgot about this phenomenom and directed his attention to the resources he newly bought. As he passed through the door he let the gold filled chest vanish in to thin air before he setted a step outside of Harolds Anvil. The Supreme pure blood vampire had delighted expression on his handsome face, he departed with his cart carriage to the merchant quarter, after he inquired some local residents about the layout of Gringalllos, that was only a corner away and located in the same east section as the craftsmen quarter. He attracted the glances of all the women and girls of all ages, they all blushed as they sighted him what earned him more annoyed stares from jealous boys and mans when they saw that their females paid no heed to them at all. The Merchant quarter was filled with merchant stalls and stores selling various goods, like spices and pots for cooking, fabrics and leather pieces for tailoring, , but his destination was a part of the merchant quarter that connected to the north section of Gringallos. The Area slowly became more shabbier every meter he advanced forward to the desired destination, he suddenly stopped before a big black building. The Sign only said Timothys slave shop and he decided to buy one, or two if he was in the mood, since he had now the necessary money to start a small cell of his organization here in Gringallos, that currently had no name. One reason that he required a slave was that he can`t possibly manage everything alone with his current appearance and the second was that he didn`t trusted anyone who wasn`t a part of his household, a slave was just a disposeable pawn for his plans. He knocked on the solid black double doors with his tender hands, but it sounded as if Pekaz would hammer on granny Jedwigas wooden door. The Double doors opened up and a shady individual with a fat belly and crooked nose looked at Aluzar with his darting eyes, he uncourtly snorted, ¡° What do you want brat!? This is no playground for brats like you, unless you wanted to become a slave to clear your families debts, now scram before I get uncomfortable with you.¡± Before the fat bellied man could close the doors, the boy waved a big pouch jingling with a metallic sound and made sure that the ugly fatass saw his golden signet on his black interspatial ring. The Attitude of that man made a turn like the day and night cycle, ¡° Oh young master, please enter our esteemed establishment. We are the only slave trading store in Gringallos, thus we can offer you a good quality and a wide range to choose your slave, I am Timothy Incenum the humble owner of this business and I am deeply sorry for my rude remarks earlier, I was too narrow minded to think a young noble like you couldn`t possibly visit my store.¡± Aluzar passed by the slave trader and said in a disdainful manner, ¡° Well ugly money hungry merchants are known to eat more thsn they chew, right? ¡± Timothy furrowed his brows and swallowed his rage down his troath, rapidly nodding in agreement, ¡° Y-yes right, You are truly intelligent young master. Now would you please follow me young master, I will show you my best slaves I have for sale.¡± The Whole front of the building was a big hall with iron cages alined into rows, forming small passages. In the cages men and women, adult and children were all confined alike and everyone wore a black collar with inscribed magic circles and they all smelled horrible. The fat slave trader led him to a separated room in the back of the building with a semi luxurious interior, the youth guessed that should have been a V.I.P room for rich customers and his prediction was on point. Timothy smirked evily, ¡° Please wait here for a moment, my employees will bring them in this display room, please take a seat and do you have any preferences young master ?¡± The Boy thought hard for a second and replied with an indifferent expression, ¡° I want to have something exotic and I don`t buy used products so they should be all virgins, understood!?¡± Ugly Timothy hurriedly left through another door that was right in front of Aluzar, he didn`t seated himself because the private room was dirty and run down, thus were the furnitures. After a short time two strong looking men, who were armed, opened the door before his eyes and the fat slave trader came in with several individuals that were also armed with various weapons ranging from double axes to pikes and swords. Timothy grinned despicable and snarled impudently, ¡° Hmmph, did you think that I would sell slaves to a little fake noble brat like you, even if your family belongs to nobility, I have never seen that emblem and noble children won`t even leave the vicinity of ther home without guards, so your attempt of deceiving the great me failed and I will surely get a hefty sum for such a good looking human specimen,hehehehe, now restrain him and put a collar on his neck.¡± The fat bellied slave trader laughed full of self confidence and the seven armed people surtounded the small youth, one of them said, ¡° Sorry little boy, the master ordered us and if we don`t obey his commands, we will get punished by the magic circles on the collars, too bad for you.¡± Timothy was about to leave the scene with the two strong looking men, but Aluzar only smiled a smug grin. He drew hid black dagger hidden behind his back and in a flowing motion he twisted in a circle and decapitated the seven approaching men and women, who tried to enclose him, in one full swing. Blood spurted out of their headless necks like multiple crimson red fountains around him, shrouded him in a fine red mist and fogging the area in a bloodred, filling the room with an iron and salty scent. The bloody raindrops pearled down his snake skin cloak and he opened his mouth, stretching out his small delicate tongue to catch a taste of the blood pouring down, as the seven beheaded lifeless bodies of the men and women stumbled down on the ground the fat slave trader witnessed the sight in disbelief. Timothy stuttered in rage to his two bodyguards, ¡° Don`t you two have rank 4 strengthened bodies and practicing swordsmenship that make you hold the Inquisitor title right ?¡± The two men drew their short swords without saying a word and released an aura of killing intent, they neared themselves and tried to grab a hold of the small child, but the boy gallantly avoided the attempts of the two bodyguards by stepping side to side. The two swordsmen became obviously annoyed, the undetestimated the small boy and were now serious, one took the front position facing Aluzar head on, the other one on positioned himself at the youths rear side. The Man at his rear slashed downards to him and while he avoided the attack, the man in the front stepped in and grabbed him, but in that instant where he touched him at his small shoulder a black serpent head lunged out of his cloak and bit him in his hand. The Inquisitor warrior stepped back in perplexity he stared at his hands and sank on his knees, couldn`t move anymore nor even talk then he just slumped down on the floor lying motionless on the ground. The other Inquisitor who attacked from the rear hurtied to his comrade and shouted, ¡° Craig what happened, stand up!!¡± Aluzar smirked with a smug expression, he didn`t kill them immediately because he wanted to see the strength of the humans here on Almastea. The remaining warrior turned to the boy and his eyes fueled with rage and hatred burned up and his body glowed in a blue hue and his sword radiated a translucent green light, as he shouted, ¡° You damn brat, you should have accepted your fucking fate, but now you will die by me Harzil Beckenberg. Take this! [Wind art: Translucent Wind Blade]¡± Harzil swung his green glowing short sword and a green 60 cm wide crescent wind blade arc flew in a straight trajectory towards Aluzar. The small child readied himself for the impact because the wind arc fast approaching him at fast speed he had no time to avoid it, he blocked the attack head on and had to use all his current physical strength to block it while being gradually pushed back with a strong wind pressure and he broke through a stone wall that buried him under it`s rubble. The Ugly slave trader screamed enraged at Harzil, ¡° What are you doing, you dumbfuck, destroying my store. I paid you to protect me not to rampage in my shop and now you even killed that brat, he would have been worth a fortune with his looks, damn you!!!¡± Harzil angrily glared at the fattso and he instantly shut his mouth because the swordsman could decide to kill him anytime he pleased, if he wouldn`t have paid him not to do so. Harzil walked over to his comrade Craig to check his condition, but in that moment the rubble began to move and float in mid air and a bleeding Aluzar resurrected from within the pile of stone. The small child bled from his broken forehead and his right arm holding the black dagger was also broken, his regeneration immediately started to fixed his broken and fractured bones to the right position and healed the flesh wounds he sustained. In a mere second he was back as he was before except the huge bloodstain on his head. He brushed over his brows with his finger where the wound was and licked them and laughed, ¡° Oh so lang has it been that someone was able to wound me, that was not bad. muhahahaha....¡± The Slave trader and swordsman trembled in disbelief and shock of the sight they just witnessed. The little boy added, ¡° Now lets play for real, show me what you got. I am Aluzar Refizul Hochstern and this name will maybe be the last name you will hear in your life.¡± He threw the hovering stone rubble from the former wall into the direction of the three people and Harzil cutted trough them, thereafter, Aluzar leaped with incredible speed to him and their weapons clashed together creating sparks, eventough, Aluzars dagger was made out of bone material it was hard as steel and could keep up with any short sword. clang, clang, clang,clang, clang, clang, They exchanged numerous blows at high speed and flashing sparks flew around them, the stunned Harzil had no time to think or speak and only swung his sword to defend and then to counter. The experienced Inquisitor titled swordsman thought that he got the upperhand with his skills and strengthened body, but he had a hard time defending against the attacks of the little brat. The same applied to Aluzar the only difference was that he had more experienced than Harzil, but he couldn`t fully utilized his strength with his current body, but he had all the martial arts knowledge from earth and was battle proofed a long time ago, tricks and deception was not honorable but decided over life and death and only the living can tell tales over their glorious accomplishments. He retreated and stood before the paralyzed Craig, he evily grinned at Harzil who ran to him to stop him from whatever the cunning child was about to do and thrusted his sword to stab him in the head, but suddenly Craigs body raised from the ground. The Thrust of Harzils short sword couldn`t be stopped anymore and impaled through the chest of his comrade, from Craigs mouth spurted blood and it dripped down on the sword stuck inside him. Harzil was stupified and horribly shocked, he grabbed his comrade kneeling to the ground and shouted while tears ran down from his eyes, ¡°BROTHER WHY!!!! why did you protect him!?¡± He cried tears for his brother and forgot about his enemy while mourning , the small youth grinned sinisterly at the dramatical scene he caused with his telekinesis and casually sneaked himself behind the Inquisitor warrior, he lashed out and as Harzil realized that the enemy was behind him it was already too late. The Head of Harzil was send flying to the air and the headless corpse collapsed on his brother, who was bleeding to death and could witness everything what happened, splashing the dying brothers face with his blood. He turned to the pale faced fat slave trader Timothy Incenum and slowly approached him with devilish smile, the fatass tried to flee but Aluzar focused his mind and had him running on empty air above the ground, he delightfully said, ¡° Now, now, you despicable fat bug tell me what should I do with you?¡± Chapter 6. Theater of despair Authors note: Sorry if it`s passed schedule but please give me plus one or two days since I write it on my portable console, since my laptop and phone is trashed right now until I have bought a new one I have to type it down word for word. Enough of the pathetic excuses and here is the chapter. Well please enjoy and tell me your thoughts about this fiction, I want to improve my writing and welcome reasonable criticsim. Thank you. Timothy Incenum was a small time slave trader, living in Gringallos. Since he operated the only slave shop in this relatively small town. He had cunningly monopolized this line of enterprise in these backwater regions, by bribing the city lord to keep other competitors away from snatching his massive profits. He even payed straying bandits to capture innocent travellers. Slaves are common in the Ehrental empire, they didn`t possessed any rights or required any payment. The only thing guaranteed to them was food to sustain their lives, that prescribed the imperial ruler regarding the slave treatment. Anyone could suddenly become a slave maybe tomorrow or the day after tommorow, who knows. The trivial reason for someone to fall into slavery ranged from debts, crimes to being captured and sold in foreign lands by anyone, who sought the quickest way of gaining the glittery gold. Without the means to protect oneself, many abided the humiliating treatment of being abducted and sold as a slave. The despicable Timothy had succesfully established his slave bussiness in this city, after many years of investing into bandits and the town lords treasury, now the harvest of his lifework stood before him because his shady enterprise began to flourish. But now he helplessly floated above the ground and struggled with his hands and feet to get away from a mere child. He orginally wanted to capture that good looking boy and sell him for a fortune and it would have surely gotten him quite a sum, instead his greed led him to an immeasurable misfortune. The ugly fat bellied slaver thought, that the boy would have been an easy prey and it was regardless to him of whether the brat belonged to nobility or not. Once he had become a slave the youths belongings would have automatically transferred to him and the kid would have been just like any other slave. Aluzar arrived standing behind the levitated Timothy and grinned a baleful smirk, he repeated with an authorative tone his question, ¡°I asked you a question you fat bug, don`t make me repeat myself again. Otherwise you will not be left unpunished like those bodyguards or slaves you sended to enslave me, ugly vermin !¡± The young boy drew a circle in the empty air with his index finger and the floating slave store owner turned around, facing the handsome youth who showed a displeased look, ¡°Dirty excrements like you don`t have the right to look down on me !¡± He pointed his finger down to the ground and Timothy slammed down, the telekinetic force made him kneel on the dirty floor while restraining him from moving away. The Slave trader sweated cold drops from his skin, he tried to break free from this strange power holding him down, but couldn`t twitched an eyebrow. He stammered, pleading for his life while his forehead kissed the floor and unable to even look up to his suppressor, ¡° P-ple-please ha-have me-mercy I-i w-was bl-bli-blinded b-by gre-greed you-young m-ma-master. Spa-spare m-my li-fe a-and I-i w-will g-give y-you e-everything y-you w-want, you-young m-ma-master¡± Aluzar snorted in disdain and stomped on the back of the kneeling mans head, ¡° Insolent fat maggot, know that I can take everything I want from you, understood !! You can`t give me anything because your powerlessness is incapable of protecting your useless material wealth from me. Your insignificant life is only there to be used as a stepping stone, nothing more. ¡± The small elegant shoes pressed on the unsightly Timothy as if he was squashing an ugly insect and inside the slave trader hopelessness and anger boiled up in him, making him shout while his tears and snot dripped down on the ground, ¡° Hicck...you damn brat hicck.....do you think you can...sniff...hicck....get away with this ....hicck....the city lord will find out...sniff...that I died and....sniff...hicck....he will surely find out....sniff...urgh...that I went missing....and will inform my family..hick...they will investigate this incident....and then...¡± The preteen voice broke into his pathetic speech and sneered amusingly, ¡° And then what? What can you do? What can the city lord do? What can your family do? Now the real question is; What can I do to all of you!? Dirty bug I will show you true despair, but first I will take everything you have as a payment because that is one of the various things I can do.¡± He walked over the kneeling Timothy and dragged him over the ground with telekinesis and wiped with him the ground behind his back. He passed through the door where his attackers came from and found himself standing before a stairway leading to an upper floor. The youth turned his head to look at the ugly slaver, whose clothes were slightly tattered, and the playful child showed an evil grin. The expression of his fat playmate disorted to desperating paled face and he tried to plea for mercy, ¡° W-wait pleas....aaaahaaargh ow ahhaaa aah ow aaargh nngh aah daamnaargh....¡± *rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble,* The boy climbed up the stairs without paying the screaming human any attention, as he reached the end of the stairsteps he inquired the exhausted and pained slaver, ¡° Now first tell me the location of your valuables and your so called best slaves, secondly; tell me the the location of your residence. I warn you once this time, there won`t be a second time, when you don`t give me the correct answers I will personally slaughter your family and torture them while letting you watch it, if you give me an honest answer your family won`t die by my hands. I give you my word and I am someone who keeps their promises.¡± Aluzar stated these demands without looking back but Timothy hesitated for a moment because if he doesn`t give him a correct answer, not only he would die but also his family and so he reluctantly answered with a despaired voice, ¡° I-i have two treasure chests one is in my personal working room and the other.....at my home in the basement. The he room next to my private room is were the two newly slaves are confined, the chambers are just straight ahead and you can`t miss them because those are the only rooms with magic locks on the doors.¡± He walked into the direction the fat slave shop owner told him and headed straight on while he incidentally asked, ¡° Oh!? So you can use magic?! Can you tell me why most people don`t use it to improve their lifes?! I am curios since I thought that everyone is born with the power to use magic. Am I mistaken or not?¡± The human fatso slithered over the wooden floor and tried to reply, as he not wanted to anger the little tyrant, ¡° Urgh, yes you are right but most people ....argh...can`t use mana...ow...due to their low spiritual strength, especially....ow..argh...us humans because of our short lifespans....aah..urgh thus we rely on magic...nnghhow...tools, but their are exceptions...like talented people, who...reached the 10th rank and are titled...Archmages or Warrior Lords, they have a longer lifespan....On the continent of Vetra`Zulo those experts ....can be counted on one hand and considered...living national treasures...aah argh....it is said that they have more influence than the emperor himself...ow¡± Aluzar silently listened to Timothys explanation and already knew that humans are mostly unable to perfectly utilize their mental capacity unlike him whose body was incapable to keep up with his advanced knowledge of applying his mental power or what they call spiritual strength. Although, his brain structure boasted more capacity than he had before since his brain matter fused with the liquid mana it soaked up, his potential rose to an unfathomable level. The supreme pure blood vampire in his handsome human disguise arrived at two doors with missing key holes after passing a long corridor with small sleeping quarters, they were probably made for employees or slaves. Those people are no longer, thus explained the dead silence and the opened empty rooms. The child stepped aside and gazed down at the ugly slave trader with his morphed icy blue eyes. Without saying a single word the chubby slaver understood and heaved himself up and staggered to one of the doors and infused his mana into the medieval doorknob, consisting of a round handle, and a magic circle pattern glowed on the gripping ring. With a small *klack* the door opened and the small boy forcefully pushed him through the room entrance using his telekinesis. Timothy stumbled due to the sudden movement on his face and felt that he was being restrained by the boys strange magic, no matter how hard he fought against this binding he couldn`t lift a finger and had to helplessly stay put on the dirty floor. Little Aluzar trampled over the plump slave shop owner, as if he was a carpet, and looked around the room. It supposed to be the fatsos private working room and had a wide space to fit in a big working desk, a semi luxurious chair, behind the desk stood multiple shelves filled with books and bundles of parchment. The only object that didn`t fit in the working panorama was a medium sized bed standing in a corner, The youthly looking vampire could imagine what unsightly acts the fat bug had commited on it. He searched the whole room for precious items and found a big chest with a magic lock underneath the desk, the youth levitated the magic safe and placed it before the motionless Timothy, the ugly slaver immediately knew what he had to do and placed his hand, that was temporary released from the telekinetic binding and infused his mana into it. Aluzar could have tried to forcefully crack open the safe but why inefficiently exhaust oneself if you have the key. *klack* The 60 cm tall and 1 meter wide chests opened and once again the small boy immobulized the big bellied man and pushed up the lid of the metallic chest revealing a pile of copper, silver and gold coins mixed with gleaming jewels and magic cores, reaching the edges of the chest. He looked at the grounded slave merchant and grinned, ¡° Hoooh, thats quite a fortune for a mere merchant in a town like this. I can see why you are so well nourished and I bet you even ate the share for the slaves as well, hehehe.¡± He stepped on Timothys head and pressed him face down on the dirty ground and Timothys face turned red from anger and frustration because never in his life had he been insulted and humiliated to this extent, but he could do nothing at all against this mysterious powerful child. Aluzar made a chest appear from his interspatial ring, it was one of the twelve chests filled with the metallic goods from the cave where Saput had been trapped. He twisted his stretched out palm upside down and the slave merchants fortune floated up while pouring it`s content into his chest and once Timothys ill earned wealth was in his black dirt covered chest. He closed the lid and stored it away in his signet ring and proceeded to the neighbouring room, where the high priced slaves supposed to be confined. Timothy couldn`t witness the young using his interspatial ring because his lips deeply kissed the floor and once again he scrubbed the wooden floor with his whole body, until the young boy stood before the magic locked room next door, yet again he had to rattle himself up to open the confining room. His chubby fingers touched the doorhandle and opened upon contact with his mana, but this time he twisted his wobbly body and attempted to shoot a fireball at the little devil in this desperating situation, but it was a fruitless endeavor. *thud* *bang* Aluzar sensed the rapidly increasing heartbeats from the weak fatass and figured out that he would try something to rescue him from this futile position he was in. But he instantly closed in before Timothy could use his magic and a well placed side kick in his stomach made his darting eyes bulge out of their eyesockets and his heavy body crashed through the room, denting the metal door due to the power of the impact. He rolled over the wooden floor and crashed against the stonewall, what knocked him unconscious. The young boy snorted disdainfully and strolled into the room that was furnitured with multiple beds and stinked of feces coming from a pit latrin in a corner. The chamber had no windows and luminous stones lit only a small range of the dirty space. In a corner where the light couldn`t reach, two hiding figures cowered in fear and he unconcernedly called out to them, ¡° Show yourself, if you don`t want to end up like that fat scumbag overthere.¡± One of the figures whispered to the smaller figure with a soothing female voice, ¡° It`s alright I will protect you, everything will be ok I promise you, ok.¡± The smaller one just nodded in the dark corner and they slowly moved to the light. Although, he already knew what they looked like, thanks to his vampiric vision, he wanted them to personally show themselves before him. He wasn`t here for charity reasons and not to free them from their shackles or the likes, he was originally here to buy some slaves capable of serving his purposes. The two individuals stepped into the light, before him stood a marvelous beauty, in tattered lumps of clothes, with long pointed ears and flawless white skin and hiding behind her trembled a small girl, that seemed to be in his current physical age, with small scales covering the sides of her arms and tighs and she had two tiny horns sprouting from her head. The both of them were shackled on hands and feet by cuffs. The 1.80 meter tall beauty began to talk first, ¡° I thank you young boy for helping us, we are eternally indebted to you, now could you please remove these enslavement collars. The magic circle prevents us from removing it on our own.¡± Aluzar was intrigued by the magic circle inscribed on the collars and he used his telekinetic force to make the tall woman kneel, but she could actually struggle against it and kept herself standing upright, ¡° W-what is this strange power. I can`t sense any magic from it. You! Are you doing this to me !¡± Her wonderous eyes turned to an anger filled glare and the small handsome youth slowly approached the bautiful elf and gave her a mischievous smile, ¡° Don`t mistunderstand me, I didn`t come here to free you from your unlucky situation. I came to claim me some slaves but since the ugly bug wanted to enslave me I am currently in a therappy session and I am here to collect the payment for it. Now stop resisting and let me inspect the collar.¡± He concentrated his soul power and motioned his hand into downward gesture and the elf immediate collapsed down on her knees while she showed a defiant expression. Because she couldn`t fight against the ominous force of the little boy, she was angry at herself and helplessness. The long haired boy took a closer look at the collar and noticed the multiple magic circles that were engraved along the circular black metal collar. He touched the black collar while the beautiful elven woman trembled in resistance and gave him a stare containing her complete hatred, as if she would have ripped him to shreds the moment he had extended his hands towards her neck, ¡° You lowly human !! Even a child like you is already corrupted by greed. I don`t understand what you ment by therapy but didn`t your mother or father teached you that Galizariz, the goddess of nature and mercy despises such acts of enslavement. She created our world and you should respect the freedom of the living beings on it, thus yield to her reason. Oh young human there is still enough time to change your ways.¡± Aluzars facial expression turned grim and he pulled her by the enslavement collar, showing her a disdainful glare and sensual lips curved to a challenging sneer, ¡° You foolish elf , my parents are no longer anymore and even if they would have been alive, they would have said the same thing that I`m about to say to you: Where is your goddess of nature and mercy when you have been enslaved?! I believe in beings that truly will help me, that is myself and my faithful servant and maybe even in the one who created me, eventhough unreliable he granted me this new world full of mysteries. So tell me why should I yield to an existence that doesn`t give a shit about you at all and why should I listen to a sermon about morals from an elven girl, who is powerless against her oppressors?! I don`t think you have let them catch you on purpose, right?¡± The beautiful elven woman couldn`t find a reasonable argument and bit on her lips, the small draconian girl had a troubled face and didn`t know what to do and so she mustered up her courage and tried to push him away from the female elf while shouting in a foreign language, ¡°Stop, don`t hurt Narlenia. She didn`t do anything bad to you.¡± The boy, who heighted a little taller than her, was annoyed by her sudden intervention and the shaking from her weak pushing and punching on his chest, a snake head preyed on the little girls hand and was about to snap at her but Aluzar reprimanded his serpent servant telepathically, ¡° Stop, Azariah!!¡± The little girl shrieked in fear as she was pushed back before anything could happen, the draconian child instantly hid behind the kneeling Narlenia. Azariahs protesting resounded in his head in many voices, ¡° B-but masster-that insssolent-girl attempted-to hurt-you, ssshe-desserved to-be punisshed-nobody iss -allowed to-touch masster-unless they -are loyal-sssservantsss like-ussss!¡± Aluzar sighed and face palmed himself while he shook his head in denial and transmitted his thoughts to her, ¡° Listen Azariah, I appreciate your protective attitude but don`t position yourself above your master and decide whats best for me or not. The only one who decides which person is allowed to touch me is still none other then myself, understood?!¡± The serpent answered in apologizing tones, ¡° Yesss massster-we are -sssory,-we will-reflect on -our misssstakess.¡± The small boy still had his hands on the black collar and he now poured his mana into it, the magic circle accepted his mana imprint and the whole magic formation engraved in the collar began to shine and on his frail tender right hand appeared a magic circle, recognizing him as the new owner of her, since it seems that the dumb slave trader didn`t personally owned her yet. As a test he commanded her while releasing the telekinetic binding, ¡° Now tell me, what you are, who you are and how you ended up in this god forsaken slave shop, I expect an honest answer.¡± The elven woman couldn`t help but reply with a truthful answer, caused bby the enslavement collar forcing her to heed to this young boys order, otherwise she would be feeling an unbearable pain if she lied or disobeyed him, ¡° My name is Narlenia Misflower, I am 300 years old and if you have eyes you can see that I am an elf, to be more precise I am actually a high elf. We are noble beings living with nature because we want to be closer to the goddess of nature. Our high elven village was deep in the western forest but one day we were attacked by vile human bandits, luckily most of my brethern managed to flee to the elven forest kindom. Only a few brothers and sisters were captured and sold and I was bought by this ugly man a few months ago and today I arrived in this backwater city.The girl behind...¡± Before she could finished her speech and tried to speak for the little draconian girl he broke her off, ¡° Ok thats enough, so in short you are a tree hugging, incest bunch, living in the forest, hmm.....The last two parts reminded me of something I watched, but I don`t remember....Well, it doesn`t matter right now. I told you to speak of yourself and not for someone else.¡± Narlenia protested with an irritated look, ¡° Just listen I think I am more wiser and older than you, so you should follow my advice. She can`t understand the human language even I have problems communicating because the draconian language is too complicated and so.....mmmmmgh!!!!¡± Aluzar prevented her from further speaking for the draconian child with his telekinetic binding and coldy stared at the high elf, ¡° Would you please shut up and don`t you think that you shouldn`t adress your master with ¡°you¡±. It is unbecoming of a slave and if she understands me or not doesn`t lie under your jurisdication, understood baby elf?!¡± Her emotion of rage rose to the degree, where her whole head turned red, even to the tips of her long pointed ears. The enslavement magic circles seemed to control the individual only to a certain degree. The person still have some of their free will and personality but can`t defy the order from the owner of them, who is identified by the magic imprinted into the black collar and the unwilling actions are forcefully executed by the magic circles, what also served as a saflety measures like when the slave tries to harm their master or give him false information. It will then trigger a horrible pain until she stops her rebellious acts, that was what he concluded in his mind regarding the functions of the enslavement collar. He wanted to create his own enslavement technique besides brainwashing and turning them into pure blood vampires, but he noted that for later times. The good looking boy approached the little girl behind Narlenia and grabbed her by the collar, she tried to defend herself with pushing and swinging her cuffed up hands, but he pulled her to him a centimeter before his charismatic face and spoke in her language while he imprinted his mana into the collar, what started the same process like before, ¡° You damn lizard girl stop struggling around, just consider yourself lucky because I don`t like killing children, but if you irritate me even more I might change my mind. I don`t have any remorses in ending an innocent life of the likes of you, but it leaves a bad aftertaste what I don`t particulary take pleasure in. Now tell me who you are, what you are and how you ended up in this place, just like your annoying elven friend.¡± The newly acquired slaves fell speechless because they couldn`t believe that a small human child could speak the draconian language, that even the long lived high elf Narlenia couldn`t fully comprehend. Narlenia was a tall elven beauty with long pointed ears that indicated that she belonged the proud high elven race. She possessed long golden hair reaching to her waist, her eyes gleamed ashen grey in their slightly rounded almond shapes. The thin yellow golden brows were enthroned over her eyes like crowns and Narlenias perfect narrowed nose flowed in a straight line to her full lips forming her sensual mouth on her heart shaped face. Her body was slender in an hour glass form, through the tattered clothes someone could estimate her voluptous curves of her breast and bottom attached to her long legs. Narlenia voiced her thoughts in a surprised manner, ¡° H-how can such a young human child speak in the draconian tongue. I must have misheard myself just now even if this not a dream I can`t accept it, I don`t believe it !! It was definitely my imagination playing tricks on me because I haven`t eaten in days, yes thats it....¡± The female elf immersed herself in ignorance and self denial, what visibly displeased him. He focused his mind and accessed the information about the languages of this world that Saput gave him. Aluzar had already unconsciously used it to communicate with the inhabitans and now he searched through the knowledge about a specific language. The young boy turned his head and said, ¡° Stop drifting into your own world, this is reality and shut your mouth already before I have to sew it up, you damn noisy elf.¡± Hearing the boy insulting her in ancient high elvish, her mental comprehension couldn`t keep up anymore and her ashen grey eyes lost the lively gleam while she started muttering something to herself. He now paid his attention to the draconian girl and looked closely into her eyes, causing her to blush in shyness.She began to tell her story in a cute girly voice, ¡° I-i belong to the d-draconian race and my name is Lofrinfel Ziivey, I am 6 years old. My family and I lived between the border of the draconian lairs and the human empire, we were on our way back to our home after we sold our dwarven goods in a nearby human village across the border, but suddenly many bad humans....blocked our path and mommy and daddy fought against those bad humans.....they told me to hide in the forest....b-but.....t-the b-bad sniff...sniff...h-humans c-captured me a-and b-because m-my da-daddy..sniff..hurt...sniff...so m-many o-of the b-bad hu-humans...the-they hurted da-daddy...sniff....and the-they d-did...sniff...something b-bad to mo-mommy too...sniff...a-after t-that ....sniff...mo-mommy and da-daddy di-didn`t m-moved a-anymore....uwaaaaah sniff.....waaaaahaaaaahaaaaaa...¡± Aluzar sighed at Lofrinfels story and pitied her misfortune while he patted her head and said in a gentle voice, ¡° Haaaah, what an unlucky child you are, but don`t despair. You have to live on for your dead parents sake and maybe one day you will exact your revenge on the ones that caused you this tragedy. Serve me and I guarantee you that you will get stronger. Well you are my slave now, but if you serve me on your own freewill, I will recognize you as one of my servants and not as a slave. You are then a part of my household. What do you think?¡± The teary eyed Lofrinfel looked at Aluzar and sniffed out some word fragments, ¡° W-will...sniff..I really...sniff..get..stronger...when ...I become...your...sniff.....servant...?¡± The good looking youth smiled soothingly and said, ¡° Yes, I will give you my word that you will get stronger¡± Lofrinfel nodded slightly and he patted her head again what caused her to lighten up and smile at him. The little draconian child was slightly smaller than the supreme pure blood vampire boy, she had black purple hair reaching to her shoulders and small scales on the side of her arms, thighs and shoulders in the same black violet color, only the lower leg was completely covered. On her tender fingers and toes were small talons and her small mouth was filled with little sharp fangs. Lofrinfels face was human looking except for her tiny horns on her head and vertically slitted pupils she had. Her big round eyes sparkled in a fascinating amber color under the short bushy eyebrows. Her slender button nose and her thin lips gave her a cute aura with her scaled tail wagging behind her. He turned around and annoyingly snorted in ancien high elvish, ¡° Oi, noisy high elf snapped out and get your ass moving and go find some proper clothes for Lofrinfel and yourself. I want to leave this stinking shithole as soon as possible and I have an appointment with the fat bugs family. So hurry up and make yourself useful.¡± Narlenia returned out of her delirium and growled while she left the confinement room to search in the sleeping quarters for useable clothes. Aluzar walked over to the unconscious Timothy and kicked him awake, ¡° Wake up filthy bug??! We have a house visit to do!¡± The fat slaver trader grunted in pain, ¡° I beseech your kindness you already have half of my fortune and the precious slaves I bought for a high price, if you take everything from me how will my family and I survive, please have mercy young master.¡± Aluzar coldly replied in an indifferent tone, ¡° Don`t be impudent you lowly vermin, I said I will take everything from you and thus I will take everything.¡± The elven woman came back fully clothed with a simple trouser, a linen tunic and a cloak, because there weren`t any clothes for children, the boy quickly modified a hooded cloak made out sturdy cloth to fit Lofrinfels small body. They headed down to the entrance of the shop and Timothy had to kiss the ground again until they reached the gruesome massacre scene, what frightened the little Lofrinfel and made the high elf furrow her brows in disgust and commented, ¡° What happened here ?! The only cadaver with a head is the guy under that headless corpse over there, such ruthlessness to cut even the heads off like it was an execution. Who did tha.....!!!¡± She suddenly realized that the only culprit could be the young boy before her and didn`t know what to think anymore. Azariah humbly asked through her mental connection, ¡° Massster can-we eat-thossse human-corpsssesss?¡± Aluzar laughed inwardly to her, ¡° hahahaha, be patient Azariah, I will take them with me and reward them to you later since you helped me to kill those brothers overthere, ok ?¡± Azariah happily thanked her master for being so generous and for praising her and swore to give it her best because she wanted to be praised even more. He approached the nine human cadavers and let them vanish into thin air, including the severed heads and weapons of course. The three spectators couldn`t believe their eyes and only one suspected something. Timothy walked ahead and Aluzar instructed him to open the cages and release the slaves in the hall from their enslavement collars. He had no use for them at the moment and claiming so many of them right now would have seemed to suspicious to everyone with a functioning brain. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. With each freed slave the pained expression on the fat pigs face gradually worsened, but he had no other choice as complying to Aluzars demands. The hateful glares of the slaves pierced the ugly pig slaver, but before they were released to their freedom he brainwashed them one by one and flooded their subconscious with subliminal information that undermined their awareness and thinking. He instructed them to listen the boy without questioning him and to never talk about this incident. It was fairly easy because their mental defenses pratically didn`t existed or they never hadn`t had any countermeasure against such kind of mental manipulation to begin with. He left them their personality and glorified himself in their minds as their benefactor, who freed them from their shackles of slavery and commanded the 30 individuals to make a name for themselves and never forget this act of kindess. He also gave each of them 10 gold coins. It was a small investment and a speculation but maybe some of those newly freed slaves will someday come in useful in the future, he thought. The handsome boy saw those people as sleeper cells, who will infiltrate and integrate themselves in the society of this world. Aluzar didn`t need to completely break their minds because on weak minded people it will work if he bombard them with subliminal messages and they will unconsciously follow those instruction, it doesn`t matter if they want it or not it is burned inside their mind like a habit. When the slave store emptied itself, the remaing people also proceeded to go outside. The night had already spread over Gringallos and a freezing cold wind blew the terrible smell through the sleeping streets. ¡° Get on the cart carriage over there and tell me the direction to your home fat ass. I hope you won`t lie to me unless you want your family die by my hands and rest assured I will eventually find them either way.¡± ,said the boy in a cold indifferent tone to the depressed Timothy, who climbed up the cart with great difficulties. As the elven woman and his new servant sat on the loading space, the ugly slave trader started to point out the directions while Narlenia gave him a deadly glare full of disdain and hatred, ¡° M-my home is in the west section of Gringallos, where the more wealthy merchants and nobles live...¡± ¡° Why are we going to go to him, I want you to release me already, if i had a choice I would have ran away the moment I got out of that building...¡± ,commented the annoying high elf unquestioned, but Aluzar calmy ignored her and sat himself on the coachmens seat and followed the pathetics slave shop owners described directions, until they stopped before a big house with a relative big frontyard. The boy warned him, ¡° Don`t do something stupid, believe me it won`t end well for you and your family.¡± ¡° Ye-yes but please don`t hurt my family.¡± ,pleaded the fatso and carefully jumped off the loading area and headed to the double doors followed by the vampire in disguise and his entourage. Aluzar ensured him, ¡° I guarantee you that I and my servants or slaves won`t lay a hand on your family.¡± Timothy sighed in relief because as long as his family was alive they might be able to even avenge this humiliation one day even if he would be dying, is what he thought and took out a key from a hidden pocket. They entered the two storied stone building with wooden beams, roof and windows. A woman with a black collar in a simple one piece dress greeted them and was shocked from the wounds on Timothys body, ¡° M-master what happened !¡± ¡° It`s okay, it`s okay those people helped me when I was in serious trouble even my bodyguards fled before the enemy. G-go inform my wife and son that I have returned safely. I wanted to reward my saviours as such I need to go to the basement, I will guide them myself.¡± ,lied the slaver to protect his family. The female slave nodded, ¡° Very well master, please excuse me.¡± And left them, heading to the slave traders wife. The visible four individuals headed to the basement and passed through a massive metal door and found themselves in a small room with one chest in the same size as in his private working room. Timothy unlocked the box and presented the young boy with everything inside it, there were more gold and silver coins in the chest than in the private room safe at the store. Glittering jewels and magic cores replaced the copper coins the dozens and the wealth brimmed to the brink of the safe. Just like he emptied the last chest he did the same to this one. He made an empty box from the room in the mountain cave appear and poured everything in his dirt covered chest with his telekinesis. ¡° As i suspected you have an interspatial ring, who are you really?! Only supreme experts or extremely wealthy people like kings and emperors can afford them, they will wage war for a single ring ! How did you get such a rare item when you are only a kid ?!¡± , blurted the high elf out loud and the little boy answered annoyed, ¡° It`s not of your concern and keep your mouth shut about this issue or you will take it to the grave, understood!?¡± He glared an ice cold glance and released a tremendous bloodlust to intimidate her, everyone in the room shivered and a cold sweat ran down their necks and even Azariah never felt such a horrible feeling from her master, what let her tremble in awe. Narlenia immediately nodded without saying a word, her legs went soft and she fell on her butt and he glanced at Lofrinfel giving her a gentle smile, she instantly knew that it also applied to her. The plump Timothy hesitantly said in a humble voice, ¡° Please young master, spare me and my families life. You have promised me that you won`t lay a hand on my beloved family, so you will leave now right?¡± Aluzar smirked sinisterly and replied, ¡° Now, don`t be so hasty and I wanted to greet your family and pay my respect to them, I don`t like to leave loose ends when there are possibilities to tie them up nice and clean without grudges, don`t you thinks so too?¡± The chubby slave trader looked the youth in the face and could see the evil smile of a merciless demon that he had provoked, ¡° What do you mean?! You promised me didn`t you?!¡± The devilish child stood before the entrance of the basement chamber and gestured with his hands to leave this place, ¡° Didn`t I told that I want to greet your family. Won`t you introduce them to me?¡± Timothy walked ahead of them and his worries piled up to an unbearable mountain, he couln`t protect his family in anyway from him and realized his powerlessness. Before he entered the main floor again he dominated Timothys whole body through his telekinetic force, leaving only his perception organs and brain intact so that he can still witness everything that will happen from now on and he whispered unbeknown to the rest, ¡° Well I said I wouldn`t lay a hand on your family, but your hands will be sufficient to tie up the loose ends, I think.¡± The female slave who greeted them, informed them, ¡° Master, dear guests please follow me to the living room, the lady and her son wanted to personally thank you.....arg..ma...ster...nnngh..wha....urghngt....¡± Aluzar forced Timothys body to strangle the female slave and slowly but steadily the life in her eyes began to dim out of existence. Narlenia tried to interferre but Aluzar stopped her with a command what angered her because she had to watch the fat man murder an innocent slave. The boy smiled at the scene and the helpless expression on the ugly face of the slaver amused him very much, after the deed was done, he stored the corpse in his interspatial ring and let Timothys body head forward searching for the living room. ¡° Why did you do something like that? She was just an innocent woman you despicable asshole, even if she was just a slave, you don`t have the right to murder her for no reason. Hey are you listening!?¡± ,shouted Narlenia at the chubby slaver and suspected that something was not right, but she couldn`t say anything because she didn`t understand what happened. Timothy couldn`t speak the truth and was forced to remain silent and unwillingly open every door in search of his family, inwardly he hoped that they wouldn`t find them but that was just a delusion, nothing but himself trying to flee from reality and from the madness that awaited him. Lofrinfel followed behind Aluzars back and couldn`t comprehend what happened or what was about to happen. She only knew that she had to serve him from now on in order to get stronger. They arrived before a wooden double door decorated with mediocre carvings and as the fatso opened the door, unwantingly forced by the unknown power, two persons could be seen sitting on elegant soft padded chairs before a fireplace. One was a woman, who looked young and decent but the sand of time left visible marks on her face, and the other person was a chubby male teenager, he had the same ugly looks passed down from his father. They conversed while sitting before the fireplace and turned their sights to the group of people, who just entered the room. ¡° Oh darling!!! I heard that you were attacked by some scoundrels by Mary, but to be so heavily injured!¡± ¡° Father!! Who were those lowly bastards. We have to inform the city lord and have them punish for their vile acts!¡± , the pair of mother and son screamed those words while they rushed to the plump Timothy. His wife glanced at Aluzar and snorted arrogantly, ¡° Hmph, I thank you for helping my dear husband, since you have my personal gratitude you can leave.¡± The son added, ¡° Yes, be grateful that you even received a reward and now leave our house....oh wait a moment. Father can I get that elven slave over there, you promised me that I get an elf for my birthday....argh¡± In the smug smirk landed a punch from his father, remotely executed from Aluzar, and the chubby son stumbled to the ground. The fat boy was confused, F-father...why?....huh...argh...ow...argh...¡± His wife shrieked, ¡° Whats gotten into you honey?!¡± A barrage of punches came down on the ugly boy from his father, ¡° Fwather...plweeaase....shhtop...ow...ngh...argh...¡± Timothy mercylessly trashed his son against his will and his wife clung to him in the hope of stopping him but she was smacked away by a backhand placed to her cheek. Narlenia tried to intervene again but was stopped by the cruel supreme pure blood vampire in his human disguise, who enjoyed watching this dramatic scenario unfolding before his eyes. ¡° Why won`t you stop them with your strange powers ?!¡± asked him the noisy high elf and the the bitter answer she received didn`t sit well with her. The boy glanced at her with an evil smile, ¡° Why would I help them, didn`t he bought you and intended to ravage you ? And after that hand you over to his son ? They build everything on the sufferings of other people. Well, I do that too but I do what I want because I have the knowledge and power to do so. If someone wants me dead they should try everything to achieve that and vice versa. Do you understand now, foolish high elf? With enough power behind their back the cunning and the wise can do everthing as they please where ever they are.¡± Narlenia bit her lips until she bled and covered the eyes of Lofrinfel with her slender hands. His wife screamed in shock and tried desperately to help their son, ¡° Whats wrong with you honey. Stop !! Anymore and our son will die. You over there !! Stop standing around and help us already.¡± Unconcerned by the wifes demands, Aluzar watched the drama continue unfolding but Narlenia closed her eyes and blocked Lofrinfels view. He concentrated his mind and shot a fireball from Timothys palm to his wife. The burning flame ball hit her and she caught fire, but she managed to extinguished the fire by generating water through her magic. The fat slave shop owner sprinted with his heavy body to her and grabbed with one hand his lightly burned wifes neck and with the other hand he smashed his fist into her face, ¡° Honey...ow...sniff...please...sniff.....stop....¡± Salty tears dripped down his face and he wanted to stop, but couldn`t control his body to do so, he fought against this strange force with all his might but he couldn`t win against it. Timothy felt agony and despair, an immense pain surged in his heart while seeing himself beating up his own son to a near dead state and choking his wife while continuesly striking her with his bloody fist. Aluzar grinned at the horrible scene, to him it was like a real life theater drama giving him an entertaining show and the one who wrote the script for this amusing play was none other than him. Narlenia could only silently listen to the horrible sounds and screams, occasionally taken peaks at the scene what twisted her stomache upside down and she couldn`t comprehend why this is happening right now, she suspected the culprit to be the boy but she could do nothing but to only close her eyes as the slaver repeatedly smashed on his own family. Lofrinfel couldn`t see anything but she heard the horrible screams reveberating through out the house, she remembered the memories where her parents had suffered and died, she silently cried under the cover of Narlenias hands, she swore to herself to get stronger and one day kill her parents tormentors, this was her resolution she attained while reliving her cruel past triggered by the theater of despair. *thud* A near dead woman fell down on the floor with her blood sprinkled allover it, her face was black and blue and swollen beyond recognition. The teeth of her mouth lied scattered across the whole room, her nose was flattened and broken into tiny fragments, that slowly fell down from her face with pieces of flesh still stuck on it. She barely was alive but sooner or later death would fall upon her, Timothys right foot positioned itself over her head. His face remained unchange but deep inside him sorrow, despair, pain, anger, hatred brewed madness in him like a wild storm, mixed into his insanity are his love for his family and the powerlessness and that wrecked his mind into chaos. *knack* With a crunching sound the head of his wife began to crack into fragments under the heavy force of her fat husband. He stampeded rapidily like a madman and under his shoes collected itself the slimey brain matter of his wife. Her head became a bloody gooey puddle and the brain mass was mostly stuck under Timothys feet. His eyes showed an unbearable emotional scar and his mind drifted further into madness as he made his way to his son, moved by the devilish boy controlling him. The fat teenage boy couldn`t move because he was in a delirium, he didn`t wanted it to be true and believed it was all a nightmare until he saw with his own eyes how his mothers head was crushed into a thick soup of blood and slimey mass by his father, ¡°...Nwo...twhat...wcan`t....wbe....twue....twhis....iws....awll....a....bwad.....dweam....mwothew....wfathew...¡± The chubby father dragged the son over to the fireplace and plunged him, under Aluzars control, into the flames and a painful shriek resounded through the house, ¡° Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.....wit huwt, wit`s howt wfathew stowp....aaaaaaaaH!!¡± Several blisters appeared on his face and poped open, dripping sizzling fat on the fire, the teenage fatty furiously grabbed onto the foot that pressed on his neck to keep his head from bending forward away from leaving the burning hell. His eyes turned blind from being roasted, the hair ignited as if he was a matchstick and were gone in a flash. A smell of burned flesh filled the room, the screams subsided as his mouth charred to two crispy lips and he ceased struggling against his painful death. *clap, clap, clap, clap, clap,* The applauding came from the handsome youth, ¡° What a splendid play you gave me, hahahahaha. I told you that I won`t lay a single finger on your family, but you did it yourself with a little help from me. I also said that I would show you true despair as a punishment didn`t I, filthy bug. Now the theatrical performance is over and the curtains are closing for you, I hope you have more luck in your next life.¡± Timothy bowed courtesly by Aluzars will and began bending into bizzare postures. *knack*,*crack*,*crunch* After a while he looked like a yoga master doing obscure exercises and finally his head slowly twisted to his back, he wanted to scream and curse him but couldn`t even do that, he could only wait for this terrible nightmare to end. The husband and father searched for the corpses of his beloved family but couldn`t see them in his vision, but only for a short second he could see them as his head completely twisted backwards and then with a *knack* his sight went black and he died. The high elf angrily stared at the young boy and shouted, ¡° So it was you!!! Why are you doing this to your fellow humans, don`t you have any morals and values?! It`s ridiculous such a young individual like you possess such a strange power and even an interspatial ring and wield it for this lowly purposes !!! You should be ashamed if yourself and aplogize to your parents in heaven and to the gods and goddesses that are watching over them.¡± With the last sentence the calm and composed Aluzar finally snapped, he changed back to his true appearance, platin silver hair and glowing ruby red eyes. He lifted the noisy high elf in the air with his telekinesis and morphed his teeth into evenly sized fangs and furiosly shouted, ¡° You fucking high elf bitch, don`t you dare mention my parents ever again and your gods or whatever they are, are just manifestation of your stupid believes, someone like them can`t compare to the true one or higher beings and if you don`t know what happens with you after you have died, you should keep your fucking trash wisdom to yourself. You destroyed my good mood and I will give you a punishment that will accompany you until your death !!!¡± He slammed her down on the floor and she knelt before him, the young looking supreme pure blood vampire grabbed her hair and pulled it towards her back exposing her neck and Narlenia screamed in shock and immense fear, ¡° Y-you are a vampire??!! How can this be??!! Vampires can`t change their appearance even the high blood vampires can`t manage such feats !! In my 300 years of life I can`t believe it ?! Who are you....No! What are you!? You monster!! Abomination, stay away! What are you doing to me!!! No ....argh...I ...don`t...urghh....aaah....iiaaah...¡± He bit down on her neck and sucked some of her blood, it tasted sweet and she was probably a virgin or high elven blood always tasted like this. He injected the enzyme, that changed the body to a vampire regardless of wether someone is a virgin or not. That believe that only virgins turn to vampires was caused by supreme pure blood vampire because the blood of virgins mysteriously tasted sweet and delicious to them. The Enzyme entered her body and the high elf could feel that her body was about to change and she convulsed on the ground while giving off an earpiercing shriek, ¡° Iiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaahhhh...........¡± Narlenias ashen grey eyes mutated to a pale red gleam and her corner teeth grew sharper and slightly longer, her skin turned from white to unhealthy pale white like porcelain. The Enzyme he injected into her body triggers a mutation on a genetic scale, it restructures the cells after the closes image to a supreme pure blood vampire. But ordinary humans could only reach up to a pure blood when bitten by a supreme pure blood. When lower pure blood vampire bites another human, they become lessers vampires. Aluzars punishment was far from over he wanted to test the enzyme on her, it was also his first time injecting the enzyme. He knew through the passed down knowledge from his ancestors that the noisy high elf couldn`t disobey him after she had transformed because the enzyme contained soul particles from him and will merge with her soul and bind her absolutely to his will until she dies. It was anoher form of the enslavement collar but more effective since it reigned over everything she is as a being not restricting her with the magic circles. The Pain that tormented her slowly subsided and she stood up, the bite mark was already healed in the mutation process, ¡° YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!¡± She attempted to punch him but the collar prevented her from it and the supreme pure blood vampire snorted, ¡° Hmph, you didn`t learned your lesson. Very well, I will show you another form of punishment that awaits you. Your soul and body belongs to me now, understand that you little welp.¡± His ruby red eyes glowed and she screamed in pain while holding her head, ¡° Aaaaaah, what is happening to me.....why? Why can`t I remember her name? What did you do to me. I remember everything except my name. ¡± Aluzar erased all traces of her name in her memories, he had a tight grasp on her soul and mind now and that was another one of the loopholes to overcome the invisible power protecting the soul. She looked helpless and glanced at the platin silver haired boy and he coldy snickered, ¡° Damn high elf, You don`t deserve a name yet. You were so full of yourself and now you look for help, like you demanded it from me back in the store? How pathetic ! You are no longer a normal high elf and thus I erased your former name fom your memories and you will be earning yourself a name from me as long as it takes. You will be called noisy high elf during the time until you deserve a name and consider yourself lucky because I could have wiped out your whole personality. ¡± The noisy elven woman cried desperately and could only accept her new fate. Aluzar stored the three dead corpses away and commanded Lofrinfel and the noisy elf to search for valuable things that could be of use. He plundered the kitchen from it`s spices and tablewares it had. The draconian and noisy elf duo found dresses, jewelry and some leftover gold coins. Lofrinfel reluctantly asked him, ¡° M-master are y-ou a vampire ? And why did you turn big sister elf into a vampire?¡± The young draconian girl couldn`t keep up with what happened a while ago and only saw her new master transform into a terrifying yet breathtaking being, her deceased parents told her scary stories about wicked and evil vampires, who kidnapped little children to drink their blood. Aluzar gently explained her the truth in her draconian language, ¡° You see young Lofrinfel, I am an old being and I come from another world and the great creator of creators sended me to this world as a plague, well that was what he said but actually I can do everything I want. I don`t need you to understand it at the moment but someday you will. I am the last supreme pure blood vampire and big sister elf was really rude to me and mentioned my parents in her stupid speeches about morals, values and her gods and stuff, thus she went too far just a moment ago and I was angry at her, so I punished her by taking her name from her memories even if know her real name don`t tell her until she changed her meddlesome personality alright?! Oh, yeah I tell you one more thing: The gods won`t help you Lofrinfel. Where were they, when your family perished ?! Did they helped?! Did they send a miracle to save you? Power and knowledge is everything my child, so get stronger than everyone to protect the one you want to protect and kill who you want to kill and the world will be yours!¡± Aluzar had convinced the young Lofrinfel. Her amber colored eyes showed determination and she furiosly nooded her head to indicate that she understood. They left the house and got on the carriage cart, heading to an inn in the north section also known as the adventurers district. The Streets leading to the adventurers district gradually became livlier as they came closer to it. The north sections was filled with inns, taverns and a few cheap brothels obviously constructed for travellers and roaming adventurers. Under the deep hoods of their cloaks they headed to next nearby inn because the young child felt a huge mental fatigue from the repeated use of his mental powers. The inn they entered was named¡°The Falling Leaf¡± and a friendly greeting came from the reception, it was a young man growing into an adult, ¡° Welcome dear patrons, a room for one costs 5 cooper a night, a big room for a group costs 10 cooper coins a night and the stable service costs extra 3 cooper coins a night. The young man intensely looked at the cloaked high elf, they had all concealed themselves under their hoods because they didn`t want a commotion. The newly transformed high elven pure blood vampire answered, [i]¡° Yes we like to have big room for a group including the stable service, our cart stands outside. She paid with one silver coin in advance for further nights. The young man smiled and handed over a key to the cloaked elf, [i]¡° Here beautiful lady are those your siblings ? nevertheless could you please tell me your name, I can hear from your voice that you should be quite a beauty.¡± The noisy female vampire elf pleaded with her eyes under her hood to the also hooded Aluzar and he only sighed, ¡° Maamaaa I am sleepy and huungry. I waant to eeat and sleeep.¡± The male receptionist showed a disappointed look and said, ¡° I am sorry, I will send you three meals to your designated room as an apology for my rudeness. Your room is at the end of the way and it`s marked with a red colored 10 if you can`t read look for the color, thank you for your patronage.¡± The visible group of three climbed the stairway whose light source consisted of dimly shining stones, they arrived before the farthest door from the stairs and opened it with the key they received. It was a modest room with only two beds that fitted a total of four people, a desk with some kind of stone that should have probably served as a light source. As the door closed behind them the noisy high elf vampire reluctantly asked because she feared that he would remove all of her memories, if she enraged him one more time, thus she shed her pride and dignity and knelt, ¡° Ma-mas-master! Please I beg you tell me my name, I will do everything you desire. I didn`t completely understand the conversation between you and Lofrinfel, but I deciphered that you talked about me. Please I was already yours and now I absolutely belong to you ma-mas-master I deeply regret my rude behavior towards you, please reconsider and think of another punishment.¡± The handsome vampire back to his human disguise twitched an eyebrow, ¡° Noisy high elf you are still far to noisy, haven`t you learned your lesson!? I told you that you have to earn yourself a name from me and your gods or goddesses can`t help you with that, or can they?¡± The noisy elven vampire pressed her forehead on the dirty ground, ¡° I sincerely aplogize, p-please have mercy. I won`t be doing this again, but ma-mas-master allow me one question !¡± Aluzar raised a brow, ¡° Speak, what is it?!¡± She humbly asked, ¡° Ma-mas-master, I have never heard of a vampire that can transform into a human dusguise, even the high blood vampires are incapable of such abilities. Are you maybe the son of a pure blood emperor with a unique blood trait ?¡± He felt a little offended because he was being compared to a lowly pure blood, [i]¡° No I am not, sooner or later you will find it out on your own because you body has changed, I am intersested on how far you have mutated, we will have to make a few tests in the oncoming days.¡± *knock, knock, knock* The good looking youth opened the door and received the tray with the food and paid one silver coin for further meals in the next weeks. The elven vampire and Lofrinfel greedily devoured the soup and bread , they shared the portion their master gave them and he observed the newly transformed elf, he thought that it was strange because normally the pure bloods could only consume blood and vomitted when they ate human food. The supreme pure blood vampire suspected that her elven race mutated her to a higher vampire form than the pure bloods on earth. The things he wanted to research had piled up quite a bit, but he was in no hurry because he had enough time and more mysteries means less boredom. He removed his cloak and the eight headed serpent revealed itself to the others, the high elven vampire stuttered, ¡° Wha-what is this. That i-s a magical b-beast that s-should only exist in legends!!¡± Lofrinfels reaction was totally the opposite, ¡° Ooooooh wow, what a cute snake, can I touch it, can I? Wow she has eight heads how awesome! Master is she your pet?!¡± Well different people, different reaction he thought. Tomorrow he would be going to the adventurers guild with the letter Harold gave him but now it`s time to rest and to sleep. Chapter 7. Carrot and Stick Authors note: Sorry guys some shit happened and well some delay occured, please keep in mind that I type this word by word on a portable console. I took me 21 hours for this one and unusually longer than the last chapters. Well here is the next chapter enjoy. As the Sunrays faintly shone through the wooden window gaps, Aluzar rose up from his deep slumber. He only needed to sleep a few hours, eventhough, he wasn''t overly enthusiastic in waking up when the sun beamed over the sky but it posed as a necessary sacrifice for his future plans. The Sounds of chirping birds indicated that it was early in the morning, thus Lofrinfel and the noisy high elven vampire still lingered in their own dream world. Azariah slept besides him in a wriggled up position with her wings, covering her eight serpentine heads. Last night, Lofrinfel adored the 1.50 meter long eight headed winged serpent of disaster, what somehow was to Azariahs liking as she presented her snake body in various dignified and flashy postures with laugh-like hisses. Only noisy high elf vampire shrouded herself in silence and awe because afore her eyes stood a legendary divine magical beast presumed extinct from these vast lands. The Youthful supreme pure blood vampire had let them magnanimously slept longer after the eventful day they had to go through. Since he had looted a good amount of wealth yesterday, from the fat slave trader and his family, he decided to take stock of his newly acquired fortune. The Young boy summoned the two dirt covered treasure chest from Saput''s prison, first he removed the dust clinging to them and exposed two golden chests with silver ornamental decorations, in the shape of multiple snakes and gems in various colors were embedded in the eye parts. Aluzar nodded in self-satisfaction as he guessed right that the boxes of storage valued more than the scrap metal inside of them, although, frustration welled up in him because he couldn''t discern the hardened steel from magic steel. First; he separated the gold, silver, copper coins and gems, jewelry and magic cores into different piles with his telekinetic powers. Otherwise it would have been lasting for several hours or days if he hadn''t had this useful abilties with many application prospect. Second; he counted them, with his intelligence and superior information processing brain he could easily account the amount of different heaps of glittery accessoires, coins, cores and gems. He now had, with the gold coins he previously earned and spent, 3467 gold coins, 2172 silver coins and 3348 copper coins. The Gold coins filled more than one half of a treasure chest unlike the silver and copper coins combined together, what fully filled on entire chest. The Beautiful jewelry and gems took up the small box Harold gifted him and he only stored the several in size varying magic cores without a containment. It costed him a few minutes to assort the wordly riches he obtained and finishing his inventor check, leaving a single heavy pouche bursting with 467 gold coins he had prepared for his shopping, after he will have visited the Adventurers Guild in a few hours. Some hours passed by and Aluzar sat before a table with Lofrinfel and the noisy high elf vampire, eating breakfast. It seemed that sunlight had a minor effect on the new high elven vampire, but she got a few burns when he had opened up the wooden window doors to flood the room with light, waking them up. The Burns were more severe than his sunburn, nervtheless they quickly healed as they have appeared on her, but she still had to wear the smelly linen cloak, from the slave shop, protecting herself from what she once loved to bath in. The Supreme pure blood vampire in his eye catching human disguise found it amazing how her mutation differed from the human specimen and her resistance to ultra violet rays boasted more potential than the human pure bloods on earth. She herself showed surprise on her paled white face because she thought that she would have turned to ashes, if she had come into contact with the sunlight, now that she had transformed into a vampire, but to her unbelieving she only sustained painful burns that rapidly healed and her new high regeneration repeated the cycle of gaining wounds from the sun, then healing them. Afterwards she realized that she didn''t turned into a mere lower ranked blood vampire and felt more anxiety and at the same time, curiosity towards her new master, questioning his origins and his mysterious powers. She remembered the events from yesterday and how he talked about their gods and other higher beings or the true one, but she refrained from asking too much questions for the time being out of fear. The Three ate their meal in a leisurely pace, in a hall connected to¡°The Falling Leaf¡± that served as a dining hall for guests. Voices from many people could be heard chatting, over various things, giving the dining room a lively atmosphere whose interior was furnitured with long rectangular tables and benches placed randomly through the restaurant. The Reason as to why they ate at such slow pace was that he simply liked, enjoying a meal regardless of how dire the time pressed or bad it tasted and it also gave off a sense of belonging, what he wanted to convey to his new servants. Although, at first he saw the noisy high elf as a disposable pawn, but she possessed a high potential for being a test subject, not only did he had turned her into a pure blood vampire race, what inwardly astounded him because he thought that he already knew all the secrets and effects involving his innate physical body fluids on other individual beings. They finished their meal consisting of a vegetable soup and some bread slices. The Soup tasted of mediterrane herbs and exotic sweet fruits with unknown veggies from this world. The Bread had a nutty spicy flavor with a slight honey note. The Food was actually decent for a backwater town, by seeing how his two servants vigorously slurped up the meal. When they left the Inn''s dining hall and were on their way to the Adventurers Guild, Aluzar asked the noisy high elf vampire, ¡° Noisy Elf do you know if slaves can also be registered as adventurers?¡± She replied ashamed, ¡° It''s embarrassing but I''ve never left the elven village in the forest and only studied the language and culture through books and stories, thus I can''t give you any information about the Adventurers Guild but I''ve heard that a human child is considered an adult with the age of 15.¡± The Boy frowned and sighed, ¡° Are you serious! You''ve never left your forest and lived in isolation for 300 years. When I was in your age I''ve already crossed through all the nations and kingdoms at that time. Are all elven parents overprotective like yours or are there exceptions?¡± The elven vampire was puzzeled at his remarks, ¡° Ma-mas-master, what did you mean by ¡®when I was in your age¡¯ and yes, since we have a low birth rate but a long lifespan, thus most elven parents spoil their children and I was not an exception.¡± Without any hint of emotion and a facial mimic, or even looking back, ¡° Hmph, there are thinks that your mind can''t take at the moment without me completely erasing your memories and change your personality. The Truth is something earned but for you I will exchange it for other information if you want to take the risk.¡± He smiled a playful grin under his deep hood, unseen from passerbys and impossible to notice by his servants. The Vampire high elf silently followed behind him with Lofrinfel besides her, while holding hands with each other, she thought deeply about his offer. Their stroll through the two carriage wide streets, surrounded by Inn''s, bustling Taverns that stank of urine and feces because the drunkyards occasionally relieved themselves in the side alleys and sleazy Brothels with skimpy clothed women luring in the exhausted travellers and leecherous adventurers to have a relaxing break from their long journey, ended in front of a large building constructed with massive grey stone boulders in many shapes and sturdy wooden beams shouldering the weight, above the open double doors hung a sign with a crest. The Crest depicted a silver sword crossed with a blue magic staff before a golden shield, with white wings sprouting on top of it and below the emblem ¡°Adventurers Guild Gringallos Branch¡±. They entered the Adventurers Guild building and curious glances wandered to the newcomers from the numerous individuals wearing gaudy armors and gears, as they queued at the end of the line, some questioning expressions appeared on the peoples faces, but soon after they concerned themselves with their own things because they thought that those mysteriously cloaked persons were here to issue a request to the guild. The Waiting line gradually dispersed while the constant chatter remained the same and Aluzar''s unusual group reached the service counter, a female receptionist greeted them, ¡° Welcome, do you want to issue a request?¡± The Young girl, who looked pleasing to the eye but not as beautiful as the now nameless high elf, stared with expectant eyes at the noisy high elf, but and unfamiliar preteen voice of a boy spoke, ¡° No, we are here to register as adventurers, young lady.¡± The Receptionist girl, with hazel nut green hair and eyes, frantically tried to make out the source of the one who was speaking, but since the service desk heightened a little taller than him and has been broader than an average table, she couln''t see the dark cloaked youth. Only after he had placed the wax sealed parchment letter on the counter, she could see the tender hand of a child with the marvelous signet ring. She took the rolled up parchment and inspected the seal and recognized the ¡°H¡± in between an Anvil and a Hammer, she politely said, ¡° Please wait a moment, I will inform the guildmaster about this matter, please remain here for a short while.¡± She rushed up a stair leading to an upper floor and after a short while the young woman hurriedly came back, humbly saying, ¡° Young master, please follow me,I will guide you to the Guildmasters office.¡± Without further exchange of words he and his visible servants followed her, the young female receptionist felt the atmosphere behind her becoming heavier with the gloomy aura emitting from the cloaked figures. They shortly arrived before a plain wooden door on the 2nd floor and the green haired female knocked, ¡° Excuse me, I brought the person in question and his eh... I think family? Ah...No...ehm companion?¡± A strong firm female voice rang out behind the door, ¡° It''s alright damn it, just bring them in before I start crumbling to dust. Maira you have to become more poised about your actions and words, how can you become an adventurer like your mother with that attitude.¡± Maira opened the door and gestured Aluzar and his entourage to enter. Two open windows with wooden doors dimly lit up the room, but due to the shadows of the neighbouring buildings it was an indirect illumination. The Guildmasters office had a big writing desk and behind it were multiple shelves filled with bundles of documents and books, in front of the large working desk were on rectangular table and two benches cushioned with soft looking pillows on both sides of the lowered table and above it was a chandelier with luminous stones. Everything seemed plain and simple with no extravagant design. The Female Guildmaster glanced at the incoming group, scrutinizing them but couldn''t evaluate them because of the cloaks they were wearing, she knew that the black glossy cloak was tailored from expensive magic beast leather and from a high ranked one at that, with a single look. As Maira excused herself, the Guildmaster rose up from her comfortable chair, ¡° Please take a seat. I am the Guildmaster of the Gringallos Branch Adventurers Guild, Xeroly von Hakenschwert, pleased to meet you.¡± He lifted the deep hood covering his face and both his servants did the same, the captivating youth respectfully said, ¡° My name is Aluzar Refizul Hochstern and those are my servants, although, they are slaves that I have recently purchased, it''s a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Madam von Hakenschwert. I wouldn''t have thought that I am meeting such a beautiful woman, because Harold adressed you as ¡°Him¡± when he mentioned you.¡± Xeroly seemed like a mature woman in her late thirties but she looked younger than the estimated age, her oval shaped face with a sharp elegant chin showed no wrinkles. The Mature Guildmaster had deep blue eyes and dark curly blonde hair tied to a bun, with some strands hanging besides her long thin eyebrows. Her refined nose perfectly matched her full lips curved into a gentle yet menacing smile, ¡° Oh did he ! I think I must have a serious conversation with him in the near future and please don''t adress me as Madam because I am not married yet. You are sure a charming boy for your age or just a rascal, who says that to any woman he encounters, hahahaha.¡± The Handsome youth remained with an iron smile unfazed by her scary behaviour and the well endowed Xeroly came seating herself on the opposite bench, facing each other while Lofrinfel and noisy high elf remained standing behind him. The Good proportioned Guildmaster started the conversation, ¡° Now I''ve read the letter from Harold and know of your circumstances, but I''d like to personally interview you and know why you want to be an adventurer. Normally the Adventurers Guild age restriction is 15 years but in special occasions the Guildmaster can make an exception, thus tell me why you want to be an adventurer.¡± Thereupon he put up a pained expression and began to tell his story, ¡°My Family once were of noblity in a far away country, but before they told me that our ancestors were adventurers. Some other nobles framed us for treason and we had to flee but during our escape through and endless forest the pursuers catched up to us. My whole family payed with their lives so that I can flee, I somehow made it through the endless forest with the rest of my families belongings and after a long ardorous journey I made it to this kingdom. Many people desire to acquire fame and wealth but for me it''s a matter to survive in this world and one day become strong enough to avenge my family.¡± The priced actor swiped away his crocodile tears that even fooled the battle hardened mature Xeroly and what nearly caused the noisy high elf vampire to vomit blood upon listening the heartwrenching lie, coming naturally out of his mouth as if it was his spit. Xeroly von Hakenschwert felt guilt in her heart for making an innocent boy like him recall his terrible past, ¡° I-i am sorry....e-everything is alright. You''re in safety now, p-please s-stop crying.¡± The Blonde haired female Guildmaster had a troubled expression and didn''t know how to handle children in general, despite her age and she probably had no children herself, thus that explained her poor reaction in font of a crying child. The deep blue eyes of the Guildmaster showed a hint of pity and she sighed, ¡° Haaah, Aluzar, I am not good in dealing with children, but since I am also from a noble lineage I can understand the underhanded methods of other nobles to frame or accuse their rivals, that is one of the reasons I devoted my life to be an adventurer. I will be giving you a special permission to let you register as an adventurer, but you''re exempt from ranking up until you reached the proper age of 15. You also can only take on rank G quests because you will remain a rank G until then.¡± She walked to her writing desk and rummaged through the drawers of her desk, taking out an empty piece of silver metal and explained, ¡° This is a magic Guild Information card, it will be imprinted with yor mana pattern and the magic circle on it will show your name and rank, but ranking up needs the approval of a Guildmaster and can only be changed by them. The Plate will only react to your specific mana and it will be useless to others, it also serves as a identification and even normal people use them as that because they are free. We take 10% commission fees for requests and from giving out quests, we are basically work providers for jobless scoundrels roaming the lands and the more dangerous the mission the higher rewards, understood?¡± Aluzar slowly stopped his sniffing as if he had calmed down from his whining and asked, ¡° Do my slaves also need an information card ?¡± Xeroly shook her head in a denying gesture, ¡° No it''s not really necessary since they are bound to you by a magical enslavement contract they are pratically your belongings and it''s fairly common for adventurers to have slaves as their companions because they won''t have to share the profits with other adventurers.¡± Hearing this answer the noisy vampiric high elf frowned because she thought, that maybe through the guilds registration she could uncover her lost name, but it seemed that this oppotunity has been denied, adding all the more despair to her grievance. The Well bodied Guildmaster handed him the 8 cm long and 5 cm wide rectangular metal card and added in a lecturing manner, ¡° Here take this, it will be helpful for you. The Magic Association and the Warriors Union are daughter guilds and we''re all neutral and independent from political issues and wars between hostile kingdoms or empires on Vetra`Zulo, we can guarantee you our help if you get swept into some disputes between them, if you decide to personally intervene or are the cause in those matters I aforementioned, we will see that as an individual decision and won''t take action or help you. Since it has nothing to do with our Adventurers Guild or our allies. We have no obligation to rescue you in those situations, understood ?!¡± The Youth timidly nodded and received the information plate, ¡° I sincerely thank you from the bottom from my heart, Lady von Hakenschwert.¡± Xeroly frowned and uncomfort welled up inside her, ¡° P-lease just call me Guildmaster Xeroly. I don''t like formalities like these , it sounds so stiff and shallow.¡± Aluzar infused his mana into the card and the metal plate glowed on the guild card, reading his name and rank. He was intrigued and satisfied at the same time. It was obvious that these metal plates had some special magic imbued or had gone through a special manufacturing method, but he will eventually discover the methods sooner or later. He inquired Xeroly inconspiciously, ¡° Say Guildmaster Xeroly, who is the city lord?¡± Her pleasing face disorted to a disdainful look, ¡° Tche, that is Kaldrivas Ferraz he is a knight under the barony of the Talvis family belonging to the Montis`Superbia Kingdom, what is part of the Ehrenthal empire. He think that he is a noble, although, it''s true but he is holding the lowest title of knight. That greedy bastard curried the favor of his Lord with the bribes he occasionally gets or beautiful slaves he had acquired , in exchange for turning a blind eye on misdeeds or crimes they commited in this city. That guy is also a rank 6 warrior but he only swallow those crappy mana cultivation pills, thats why he reached the same rank as me. He doesn''t deserve to hold on the same title of Grand Warrior, ah ....I said too much. I am sorry for my ranting but you should stay away from that despicable individual, he will have bad influence over you, okay?!¡± Her mouth curved into a smile but her eyes wasn''t smiling she clearly stated that this conversation shouldn''t be ever mentioned, Aluzar couldn''t care less about those wordless threats and smiled back his innocent smile, ¡° How much costs a house in this town? Since I will stay here until I am 15.¡± Xeroly quickly replied, ¡° Well, an empty house doesn''t exist here in Gringallos you have to reside in an Inn.¡± With this new knowledge he said his good byes, while noisy vampire elf respectively bowed and Lofrinfel imitated her gesture, ¡° Thank you very much aunty Xeroly, I hope you will take good care of me and my servants.¡± Having a smile on his face the boy and his two slaves left, leaving an emotionally shocked Guildmaster, with a gaping mouth because she felt the heavy depression from a single simple ¡°aunty¡± because she had a complex from being the only childrenless woman in her family.She muttered, ¡° Damn cheeky brat !¡± The Three covered themselves with their hoods before leaving the Adventurers Guild, while earning more prying eyes from frequent adventurers, who used Gringallos as their base. Since he got his hands on an information guild card without a hitch, he was in a good mood, smirking a creepy grin under his hood, what led to an arkward aura emitting from him that scared away the passerbys, sending them a chill down their spine. The Youthful Aluzar cheerfully announced, ¡° Now we will go buy some goods and since I am in a generous mood I will give you anything you wish for, so don''t hesitate it''s fine.¡± The Noisy high elven vampire immediately knelt down and begged, ¡° Ma-mas-master, I swear upon my family that I will serve you until I die, but please I yearn for nothing more than my name. I beg of you please ma-master!¡± Under her hood her cheeks blushed from shame and humiliation from lowering herself in public and even before human spectators, what hurt her pride even more was that she had tossed her dignity away for the sake of a common privilege every being had, that was her precious name. Aluzars eyebrows furrowed under his hood and he regretted his statement and thought that he should have been more carful with his choice of words. He said that anything would be granted and it would tarnish his reputation and pride, if he went back on his word, even if she was just a mere noisy servant, thus he had to comply to her request with a feeling that he had stumbled into his own sword, ¡° Hmph, you are really a cheeky servant, for taking an advantage of her masters words. Well you made me trip over my own words in a moment of my unawareness, what is an accomplishment in it self. I have only myself to blame, hehehe. You will serve me until death anyway, but don''t get level headed and think I am soft hearted. There will be no next time, I can promise you that.¡± Deep under his black hood the young boys morphed icy blue eyes turned glowing ruby red, while in a flash memories of her name returned to Narlenias mind. Tears of joy and relief poured down her cheeks, ¡°Ye-yes ma-master, I will remember your kindness and repent my past rudeness towards you until I die.¡± A crowd of residents and spectators curiously watched them and thought that it was some kind of street performance, Aluzar didn''t wanted to attract this attention at the moment and felt discomfort, ¡°Let''s get going before my mood turns sour !¡± They left the adventurers district and slowly loitered through the merchant quarter shops, he entered a store selling high class fabrics and textiles. At first the merchant disdainfully told them to leave but after showing him the bursting pouche, he humbly welcomed them in without further doubts. He bought 3 fine black wool fabric rolls with a smooth and firm interwined surface, 3 sleek black dyed silk rolls weaved from magical spider beast threads, 3 red soft velvet textile rolls and 3 rolls of thin black laced fabrics with flower patterns. It costed him 72 gold coins including the heaps of fine threads in red, black and gold, braided silk cords in the same colors and a set of hair thin sewing needles in a small leather bundle. Narlenia didn''t quite understand why her master bought those goods, but even so she didn''t dared to question him. He secretly stored the goods in a stinky alley way between some buildings. They visited a magic tool and alchemist store and after the same procedure of displaying his pouche he purchased multiple high class alchemist paraphernalia and magic tools like mortars and pestles for grinding and mashing the ingredients, multiple small vessels as containers, cauldrons in different sizes for boiling, funnels and long spoons for bottling and mixing, a magic tool resembling a portable stove using mana as a fuel to ignite a controllable flame and many luminous stones for a better light source. The Sly shop owner eulogized a magic bag that could carry 1000 kg, for the bought goods and the cloaked boy had no choice to buy it because letting such a huge amount of goods dissapear into his interspatial ring didn''t posed a problem, but ¡°how¡± was the question. The Amount of items were to numerous to carry for the three and it would cause more commotion than needed, thus he took the magic bag without complaining and paid 200 gold coins for everything. It wasn''t like standing in a supermarket with to many bought products to carry and with no more money for a bag. The Gold he spent was a fortune with that a normal peasant could have lived for 5 or 7 years in pure bliss and luxury. The Dark brown magic leather waist bag had magical runes engraved on the fastening belt, the orifice edge was gravured with a magic formation and widthened 30 cm horizontally and the depth of the bag couldn''t be seen from the inside but from the ouside it heightened up 20 cm vertically. The bag opening was covered by a slick leather lid also engraved with a magic circle and closable through a button. On the two side of the 10 cm broad rectangular square bag were more magic rune formations. The Magic waist bag almost covered Narlenias soft butt when she putted it behind her, the inscribed rune formation made it weight less for her. The Procured products magically disorted their shape to fit in the 30 cm wide opening. Aluzar and his entourage left the money grubbing oppurtunistic store owner and made their way to Harold''s Anvil. When they passed through Harold''s store entrance, the group was instantly greeted by a bulky muscular dwarf, ¡° Oh hey kid! How was the meeting with the old dragon, hahaha. How are you doing?! Wait a moment and let me guess ! Those guys are your new slaves right!? Hahaha.¡± Narlenias long pointed ears stiffened straight from anger, but she swallowed this disgrace because she didn''t wanted to enrage a certain someone. Aluzar replied with a smile and unveiled his hood, ¡° I think Guildmaster Xeroly is realy angry at you for adressing her as a ¡°him¡± and yes, you''re right Harold. I bought these slaves just yesterday, right after I sold my goods to you and I think that I made a renumerative investment, considering my circumstances, what do you think?¡± Harold squinted his eyes while heartily laughing, ¡° Hahahaha, you never fail to amaze me young Aluzar. You are truly a little intelligent human boy, I must give you that. Children at your age usually don''t have to worry about finances or they don''t even have the possibilities or knowledge to make money to keep them alive, they just starve to death or have to beg for food scraps. Your newly bought slaves will help you in the future but I suppose that fat Timothy made your chest lighter and that husbandless old dragon from the adventurers guild should stop going to the brothels and mess around with the girls, muhahahaha.¡± Aluzar gently chuckled and thought that Xeroly von Hakenschwert was a lesbian or bisexual but he kept it to himself and said, ¡° I actually got them really cheap, although, he seemed to have been in a hurry and really afraid of something.¡± The Dwarven blacksmith lightly shrugged his shoulders with an insightful face, ¡° Well, he wasn''t a Saint to begin with and I am not suprised when he end up disappearing or dead because he has alot of illwilled intents and grudges directed at him, if it hadn''t been the city lord he would have been dead a long time ago. Now stop with the idle chat and tell me what you want. I can tell from your eyes you want something made, right?¡± The Boy enumerated what he desired, ¡° I need a 1 meter long saw for cutting down wood, a woodcarver toolbox, a leather processing toolbox, a hammer for all purposes and multiple nails and hinges. I want them to be made from magic steel if possible.¡± Harold raised one of his slightly burned eyebrows, tilting his head from side to side and finally relied with a resigning voice, ¡° Haaah, alright boy I give you a discount. I already have a vague Idea what you are trying to do with these things, they are without a doubt useful but they need the right knowledge to apply, I won''t be asking you unnecessary questions since I know you have a good head on your shoulders. Come by in two days and bring 192 gold coins and normally it would have costed around 50 gold coins and some silvers, if it would have been forged from hardened steel.¡± The Youth nodded, ¡° Thank you Harold, I will be coming in two days with the money. I will frequent your shop and come working here part time.¡± Aluzar left the dwarven blacksmith shop with his servants in tow and strolled through the craftsmen quarter. He faced towards Lofrinfel and asked her in a friendly tone, ¡° Little Lofrinfel, if you wish for something don''t hesitate to tell me, I will buy it for you.¡± The small draconian girl fidget with her little fingers and reluctantly answered, ¡° I-i am really thankful towards master and master treats me well, I don''t have any particular wish, but to get stronger and become knowledgeable and one day kill my parents murderers.¡± This wasn''t something a six year old child should be saying, but Aluzar chuckled and gave her an advice in the draconian language, ¡° Be patient Lofrinfel. Only the stupid go to the war unprepared and gain nothing but death, resulting in a disappointing defeat in the end. I will create a personal training schedule for you and you will have to work hard and learn in order to get stronger, understood?!¡± Lofrinfels conviction grew even stronger and she replied in a strong determined voice,what actually made her sound really cute, ¡° Yes master !! I will give it my best !!¡± Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. Since Lofrinfel had no proper shoes and only wore tattered sandals, they went to a shoemaker and he bought a pair of high quality black leather boots for her and Narlenia. He also procured some educational books about fairytales and legends and a big bundle of parchment with a set of feather and ink and paid a bairgain of 1 gold, 90 silver and 50 cooper coins. After the shopping spree they returned to ¡°The Fallen Leaf Inn¡± and had lunch in it''s attached dining hall, this time they had a meat stew with strange vegetables and the nutty spicy flavored bread, but only Narlenia ordered the vegetable soup, it seems she refrains from eating meat and the likes. The meat stew tasted beefy and had a hint of lamb in it, flavored with hearty herbs. The Flesh came probably from the cow like animal with wool covering it''s body. After their hearty lunch, they proceeded to their room and he stored away the alchemy goods, emptying the magical waist back covering Narlenias ass. The High elven pure blood vampire curiosly asked him in a humble tone, ¡° Ma-master can I ask you on why did you bought all these objects, instead of going to a tailor or buy a finished potions ?¡± He answered Narlenia with an indifferent tone, showing no signs of any emotions surging in his voice, ¡° The Products in this town are mediocre and are poorly made except the items from the textile merchant, the magic tool and alchemy shop, Harold''s Anvil and the shoemaker, the books and writing utensils are undeveloped, but oh well, you have to work with what you get. I learned some basic alchemy and will deepen my skill by experimenting and regarding the many fabrics I purchased I will tailor my own clothes and yours too of course because the quality here is overall insufficient.¡± Narlenia couldn''t restrain her nosiness any more and blurted out her thoughts and questions, ¡°Ma-master what are you really?? I know now that you are a vampire but they live far to the north in the darklands, where the sun shines for only a few weeks and on other continents were different elven species, beastmen, draconians, dwarfs and demons are more frequent, but I only heard that from tales told by the village elder. She also said that vampires are part of the demon species and are mostly creatures of the night. The lower ranked vampires can''t even step into the daylight under a cloak and only high bloods and pure bloods are capable of staying in the sun, but just a few minutes without being burned to cinders. Only the blood emperor can stay in the sun while receiving several burns without a cloak and he has to go through a blood rite to obtain such feats, but ma-master you freely wander under the sun and only get a sunburn when it touches you, in addition your not only fluent in ancient high elvish but also in the ancient draconian language and to top it off my body changed to a vampires but I still can eat normal food, usually a vampire can only sate their hunger with blood. What being are you master, I can''t truly define what you are, thus could you please enlighten this small minded creature?!¡± The Supreme pure blood vampire discarded his human disguise and changed to his true form, showing an amused smile of superiority, ¡° Since you gave me a good amount of information about the vampires of this world, I shall grant you an epiphany moment and guide you to the truth. You see we call ourselves ¡°Supreme Pure Blood Vampire¡± and I hail from another universe where no magic is existing, instead science played a major role in the developement in my former world and only humans and my race emerged from the seeds sowed by the great creator of creators. I became the last of my race caused by a misfortune and slowly boredom crept into my eternal life, but one day the manager of the Planet called Earth visited me and proposed in the name of the great creator of creators to come to Almastea, but my body had to be rejuvinated into this younger form of mine to properly adapt to this mana filled world and thus I ended up with this youthful appearance. I will show you what I have encountered up until now with fragments of my memories but only crucial parts. I need to strenghten your mental fortitude for this so that your mind won''t break under the truth, hehehehe.¡± He connected to her consiciousness and displayed a part of his memories in her mind like a movie that ran on fast forward, as she regained her awareness emptiness spreaded in her heart and she didn''t know any plausible excuse to uphold the image of the so-called gods and began to tremble while tears of sadness dripped down from knowing the truth. Narlenia couldn''t deny the memory fragments she saw; what being he was and still is, how he met the manager Kallad and crossed over to this world, the conversation with Saput Octo Kalamitas and the great creator of creators, who he encountered in this world up until now and foremost the truth about the gods and why the great creator of creators had sent him here. All that knowledge burned into her recollection in broken fragments but are the genuine truth about him and this world. The high elven woman, who got not only transformed into a vampire but also her firm believe in the pseudo gods shattered in a mere second, said in a strained and lifeless voice, ¡° I...w-what.....w-why ...I-i.....I am sorry master. I need some time to stomache this revelation, please excuse me¡± Narlenia laid down on one of the two beds and tried to comprehen her mind and personality. Aluzar added a remark, ¡° I give you time until we go to Harold''s Anvil and collect the ordered products, when you can''t live with this burden I will erase your current personality and create one to my liking.¡± Her thoughts violently raged around the things she had lived through and that amused smile on his face and Lofrinfel stared at the situation while tilting her head in a quizzically manner to the side. Aluzar had still that amused smile on his face and called out to the puzzeled draconian girl, ¡° Lofrinfel come here and help me with making new clothes for you.¡± The draconian childs amber colored eyes sparkled after hearing her masters words and hurriedly went to him. The Handy boy took out a smooth black wool fabric roll, a black dyed silk fabric roll weaved from the magc spider beast and the red velvet textile roll. He measured the waist, her small shoulders and height and cutted out a rectangular pieces from the smooth and tightly interwined wool textile and black dyed spider silk fabric. He made smal vertical folds and stitched them horizontally and created a padded waistband, he also stitched the edges removing frantics and unsightly loose threads. He added the black dyed silk on the side where the seam and frantic edges were, adapted it to the folds of the smooth wool fabrics and sewed them on, giving the slightly folded skirt a sliky inside when worn. He created a hole for her tail to pass trough and stitched the two ends of the folded rectangular sides together, leaving a room for a button clasp system. Small white buttons were made by leftover bone fragments for the clasp and carved in with his coat of arms and sewed on the side where he left some space to fit in the vertically folded skirt. The Young looking boy cutted out a pattern for a shirt from the black dyed silk and made it lenghten a bit longer, so that it can be jammed underneath the skirts waistband to look proper, he created buttoned long shirtsleeves and folded collars with neated seams. He cutted out pieces for a military jacket in her size with epaulettes on the shoulders, usually for a badge of rank and carefully sewed them together. He also sewed black dyed silk on the insides of the jacket and embroidered his coat of arms on the left breast side and on the left shoulder side with golden threads and contrasted them with framing the emblems with red threads. Since it got tangible colder he prepared to tailor a fitting long mantle for her with a deep hood out of the smooth wool silk as an outer layer, black dyed silk as a middle layer and at last red velvet fabric as an inner layer for the soft and comfortable feeling. He also tailored a summer version of the military uniform, what took him until night and they ate their meal, while Narlenia stared into nothingness with her lifeless eyes. The hyped draconian girl wanted to immediately wear her new clothes but Aluzar send her to order a basin of hot water and clean linen clothes for them to wash themselves first. As Lofrinfel happily changed into her clothes, he face palmed himself. How could he forget something like that, he thought. Aluzar immediately sewed several pairs of knee socks from red velvet for the ouside and black dyed silk for the inside, undershirts and long legged underwear with openings for her tail and that reached slightly above her knees, fastened with black silk cords. The Skirt fitted perfectly like the black shirt that was neatly stuffed between the skirts waist band and with the black uniform like jacket and red velvet knee socks with the black leather boots she looked like a cosplaying japanese loli middle schooler. Lofrinfel reluctantly said, ¡° M-master isn''t the material to good for me!? I am just a slave, I don''t deserve such luxurious clothes.¡± The Boy gently shook his head and said in a friendly tone, ¡° No I don''t think so and stop degrading yourself. You are now part of my household and you automatically stand above the rest in my eyes, you should wear clothes worthy of representing me. The Clothes of a servant shows the status of their master and I am surely standing above those emperors and kings, thus you stand above their servants and nobles or the like.¡± She didn''t completely comprehend what her master had said but hearing that she stood above the nobles sufficed to change her mind. She thanked her master sincerely and bowed, ¡° I am really grateful master, thank you !¡± The Youth smiled and patted her small head and stroke it, what let her felt comfortable and secured around him. He began to tailor almost the same style of clothes for Narlenia after assessing her measurements from the spaced out high elf without her knowing. He sewed an easy to move trousers that fitted tightly to her legs and bottom, the same shirt and embroidered military jacket fastened around her waist with an attached belt and clung close to her upper body emphasizing her voluptuous breast and thin waistline. He created a string tanga with a creepy giggle from the thin black laced fabric with flower patterns and a provisional bra, what will push up the size of her breast another notch, thus he had to slightly adjust the jacket. Lofrinfel went already to sleep likewise Azariah that took a liking to the draconian girl, only he remained awake and sewed a summer version for Narlenia with short sleeves like he did for Lofrinfel. The Night flew by and the Sun enlived the bustling backwater town. Since Gringallos was located besides a river they naturally cultivated crops on the surrounding lands. The Boy and his groups stayed inside the room and the high elf vampire was still immersed in her thoughts. Everything she had been teached about the gods, everything she and her fellow elfs believed in was a lie. Who was she without her believe, can she still trust their gods and goddesses, she tought and lifelessly stared in to empty space. Is it somethin worth believing in when it was created from the believes of many Individuals, she pondered. She realized to think for herself, she had been fed with words from sacred scriptures and never saw the other perspective. She never had the chance to decide for herself, they said that the gods predetermined their fate but in truth they couldn''t decide nothing, only wispher sweet lies to keep them to believe in them without questioning. Her mind became somewhat clearer and it was already night and she remembered that her terrifying little master told her that he will erase her memories and with that her personality but she was still indecisive about abandonding her faith towards her goddess. Lofrinfel slumbered in her dreams and next to her Azariah in a wriggled up posture but the supreme vampire stood at the open window and bathed in the silver light of the two almost complete moon. Narlenia gazed in fascination at the beautiful true appearance of the handsome boy, bathing in the moonlight. Aluzar softly said in a soothing voice, ¡° Still don''t know what to think ? Well, I understand your confusion and hesitation. You can''t easily discard the beliefs you have been raised with and I won''t condemn you for it, but I let you know that you shouln''t expect that everyone will abide to those teachings. Everyone is trying to get the best out of their situation, taking advantages of each others and I am not exempt from it either. Most beings have that craving deep enrooted in their personality. Some feign symphaty for the weak and poor, to put them in a better light and some kill people to survive. Good and Evil don''t exist in my opinion, they are just words created to justify the actions done to one another. Everyone is twisting the truth to suit their cause but nothing will last forever because we are constantly moving forward and people die with every blink of an eye, maybe I will be killed someday in this mysterious world of magic but until then I will repay my debts and do what I want to do, don''t you think so too?¡± Narlenia silently listened and his speech gave her the final push to live from now on for her new master, who is a being she can believe in, but she will also try to live and do want she wanted to do, free from naive thoughts like her master. The High elven pure blood vampire approached the moonlight bathing boy and knelt on one knee behind his back, ¡° Thank you for opening my eyes master, I will serve you with all my heart but I want to do it my own way and save the people, who deserved to be saved and kill the people, who deserved to be killed if possible, master¡± The Platin silver haired boy snorted with a smile, ¡° Hmph, Impudent noisy elf, do what you want but don''t betray me or get in my way, otherwise you will truly regret it.¡± Aluzar handed over the uniform with the embroidered emblem as a sign that she became part of his household, after she received the formal military outfit and several pairs of revealing seethrough laced underwear and bras and had been clarified what those were, she blushed deep red. He also prepared multiple black silk pyjamas for Lofrinfel and him and thin black laced night gowns for Narlenia. He giggled while he sewed it for the elven vampire. On the next day when the Sun illuminated the lands and life once again pumped through the streets, where a freezing cold wind blew and clouds occasionally block the sunlight and increase the low temperature. He went to Harold''s Anvil with his cart carriage after they had breakfast and his group cought glances, they stared at the strange clothrs thst seemed to made out of high quality material. A yawning dwarf greeted them, ¡° Heeeeh, Hey how aaaare you doing. I pulled an all nighter only for your sake, little boy! Here are the requested tools.¡± Harold disappeared into his workshop area and shortly came out carrying a big open crate and placed it on the sales desk, a 1 meter long sword like saw blade sheated in a wooden scabbard laid on top of thr crate with a metal hammer with a big head on one side that firmly thined out on the other side then broaden like a blacksmith hammer. Inside the crate were two boxes in the same size and on smaller box, they had the letters ¡°Wood¡± and ¡°Leather¡± carved on the lid. He controlled the woodcarver toolbox and inside were four different moulding planes, various chisels and gouges, mortising chisels, mallet and hammer, different saws like crosscut, rip saw and a fret saw, marking gauge, brace and gimlet, square and ruler and a hatchet. Next was the leather working toolchest with a halfmoon blade to precisly cut the leather, sharp flexible knifes and chisel like piercing and shaving gouges with varying tips for the wanted decoration or carving, small pining nails to fix the raw leather. The smaller box was only filled with many nails and hinges and suprisingly a screw like nail. Everything metallic had been forged with magic steel. The satisfied Youth finished controlling the quality and praised the dwarfs work, ¡° I am really grateful to you Harold and your work is excellent. I can''t wait to learn such craftsmenship from you, if I work part time in your workshop.¡± The sleepy dwarven blacksmith with the charred beard laughed, ¡° Hahahaha, of course ! At first I tought about giving you a part time job as a clerk but if you wan''t to learn a bit blacksmithing from me it''s okay but my lessons are though so you better prepare.¡± The Youth wanted to learn the secrets of magic steel and working in a blacksmithing store will help him alot in this matter. He chuckled and said in a polite manner, ¡° Then I will start coming in the afternoon, the day after tomorrow when I have settled my matters. Here is the pay, 192 gold coins.¡± Harold received the pouche enthusiastically, ¡° Thank you for your patronage little boy. The Clothes your slaves are wearing are really from high class materials, I thought you needed every single coin, but why are you dressing your slaves in such luxurious tailormade clothing??¡± The Supreme pure blood vampire in his human disguise smiled, ¡° These clothes were tailored by me and I have learned these sewing techniques from my deceased mother, since I had no female siblings she passed it down to me.¡± The midget craftsmen widened his heavy eye lids in amazement, ¡° Hoooh, true I hav never seen these kind of cloth designs and such clean stitches invisible to the eyes. Hahahaha, you truly are an amazing boy, you have earned my sincere respect as a fellow craftsmen and maybe you have also a gift for blacksmithing.¡± He replied jokingly, ¡° Hahaha, we will see, maybe I have only a talent with threads and needles, who knows. Well I will take my leave for now. Narlenia put the items in the magic bag.¡± The vampire high helf clad in her black mantle and under her deep hood, putted everything in her magical waist back covering her firm bottom pressed and emphasized by the thight pants and belt. The almost sleeping Harold couldn''t keep his eyes away from her breast and ass, what made her furious but she refrained from slapping him because it would made her master lose face. They headed with their cart carriage to the west section gate and every local resident, gaudy dressed adventurer and suspicious individual couldn''t help to look at them as they left trough the west gate in the direction of the river and the forest. They crossed over the river on a shallow part with their cart. A few distance away from them a group of four prople followed them, ¡° Hehehehe, look at those fools they are heading to the Forest of Nal`Vartha¡± ¡° Once they are deep enough we''ll ambush them from behind and subdue them, there is only one woman and two kids, this will be more easier than haggling with a brothel whore.¡± ¡° Hihihihi,we will make easy money but don''t you think that Timothy is absent for too long. We knocked several times but nobody opened, do you think something happened to him?¡± ¡° Ah, don''t talk shit like that, he has Craig and Harzil as his bodyguards they are peak rank 4 Inquisitors don''t forget that. Until he returned from who knows where, we will have our fun with that woman over there, hehehehe¡± The Sneers and wicked laughter could be be heard from afar by Aluzar and he anticipated such outcome. When they arrived deep inside the dense Forest of Nal`Vartha, he delightfully chuckled to Narlenia, while giving her a sword, ¡° There are some bugs tracking us and I want you to capture them alive. Show me your skills in actual combat or whatever you specialize in, hehehehe¡± Narlenia gripped the handle of the one handed short sword and bowed, ¡° Eventhough I prefer a bow and arrow, but I will try my best with the sword.¡± Aluzar turned around and grinned, ¡° Little Lofrinfel watch Narlenia protect us and learn from this fight.¡± She formed two fists and held them before her non existent breast and firmly agreed, ¡° Yesss Master !¡± The four Scoundrels slowly approached them from behind and one of them announced, ¡° You should drop that sword before someone gets hurts, Lady!¡± Another one of them added, ¡° Yeah, my friend here is right, we advice you to lay down your belongings without making a fuss unless you want to get injured.¡± The Youngest of them, who looked like a teenager smirked, ¡° Why are we waiting, let us just bind them with our ropes and enjoy that woman, hehehehe¡± The rough looking burly man, who seemed like the leader reminded them, ¡° Hey don''t hurt them too much, we will get less for damaged goods and I will get the first dip, understood!?¡± The hooded high elven vampire disdainfully insulted them, ¡° Hmph, trash like you are the scum of this world and I deem you all unworthy of living on, but my master instructed me to capture you filthy bastards alive for whatever reason.¡± The four Men showed dissatisfaction at the the degrading words and one of them rushed to her in attempt to punch her, but the vampire elf swiftly evaded with a side step and knocked him out with a hard knee blow into the stomach and a hit withe short sword hilt to the back of his head. *thud* The man slumped down like a sack and the remaining three snorted in annoyance while the leader commanded, ¡° Be careful she is skilled!! Try to get to those kids behind her and take them as hostages, I will deal with her!!¡± The two executed at command and ran pass her, she attempted to block them but a sword slash from the burly leader distracted her attention and forced her to avoid his attacks, unveiling her flawless beauty. The rough looking lrader sneered in surprise, ¡° Hoho, how lucky to meet an elf. The Profit will go through the roof to the sky, hehehehe¡± With self confidence he brandished his two handed broadsword and smashed down with the flat side of his broadsword as not to kill her. Narlenia blocked the incoming swing from above with her short sword, while supporting the sword with both her hands and braced herself for the impact, but astonishingly she didn''t even budge a centimeter or sensed any pain from the shockwave. Now she realized that she gained strength surpassing her race, she wasn''t a normal high elf anymore. The bautiful elven vampire pushed the heavy broadsword back with all her might, what made the muscular leader startled in having his powerful attack repelled so easily and he flew backwards with his bastard sword from the unblievable force enforced by the elf. In the meantime the two other men approached the two children with evil grins, ¡° Now be good kids and don''t try resist or we have to use some force.¡± The teenager looking guy also sneered, ¡° Yes, listen to us uncles and it won''t hurt, hehehehe¡± Lofrinfels heartbeat pumped like crazy and various memories surged up in her head, she clung herself on to the black cloak of Aluzar. The youthful looking supreme vampire smirked a malicious grin underneath his hood , ¡° Azariah, I think your new companion needs some help. Show me your hunting techniques improved, but only subdue them because I need some tst subjects. I will feed you with the other human cadavers I kept in my ring as a reward.¡± Under his cloak multiple hissing sounds could be heard and a excited voices resounded in his head, ¡° Yesss massster-your wisssh-isss our -command.¡± The eight headed winged serpent shot out underneath the boys cloak, like a spring and spread his 2 meter wide wings and scared the wits out of the two pathetic men. Out of fear they jolted back, falling on their asses and struggled backwards with their shaking legs, while screaming, ¡° WHAAT....WHAT IS THAT MONSTER!!??¡± ¡° I don''t care, we have to get out of here¡± Narlenia avoided with smooth movements the desperate attacks from the bulky swordsman, he had no choice but to use his trump card, ¡° Tche ! You fucking elven bitch, I am a peak rank 3 warrior and hold the title of Proeliator, don''t underestimaze me! ¡± The High elf vampire snorted in disdain, ¡° Hmph, even so you are only a mere human scum, commiting vile acts. I don''t cafe what cultivation rank you have. I am clearly above you and have gained tbe power to end your miserable life !¡± The 2 meter tall leader furrowed his eyes in to a menacing glare, his broadsword emitted a yellowish glimmer and he shouted, ¡° [Earth Art: Earth Shattering Strike]¡± He swung his bastard sword vertically down at the high elf, but the superior agility enhanced by her vampitic mutation made it fairly easy to avoid the slow strike, nertheless the mighty blow hit the ground and crushed the earth, creating a creator around 5 meter radius and shaking the area while exploding a couple of trees in the vicinity into small splinters. The burly leader smiled a victorious grin but was dumbstruck as he saw that she had vanished, leaving only an afterimage. Narlenia reappeared behind him and with a carefully aimed strike on his temple, she knocked him unconscious. Meanwhile Azariah rapidly flapped her wings and the wind pressure pushed them down on the ground while she whipped them with her mst black serpent tail, with two accurate whips from it she immobilized them. He playfully laughed, ¡° Hahahahehe, good it was clumsy but passable. You still have a lot to learn Narlenia. Azariah your technique is quick and on point, very good. Now tie them up so that they can''t move or free themselves with their own rope. They will serve as good test subjects for my potions and further my research of developing a drug.¡± The high elf vampire Narlenia searched through their bags and tightly roped them up. Lofrinfel calmed down and asked in an adorable tone, ¡° Master, what are we doing in this forest, can''t we go back to the city¡± He gently pattec her head, ¡° We wl live in this forest for a while and train ourselves to get stronger. We will also build a house and don''t worry you won''t get hurt anymore by greedy beings¡± When he finished explainig they searched for a suitable place and found an area clear from trees. He summoned a 200 meter long and 2 meter thick tree from his storage and it was one of the trees from the seemingly endless forest that had been felled by Zarantils terrifying magic attacks. First he extracted the good amount of magic tree resin. He processed the tree into several 5 meter and 10cm thick wooden beams, 2cm thin and 10cm broad wooden planks with a lenght of 10 meters. He moved with telekinesis the several shaving planes and smoothend up the surfaces while he also carved out plugs and notcheswith the chisels and gouges. He laid out an elevated rectangular wooden square floor with an area of 90 squaremeter,he separated them with wall frames into three rooms and attached an elevated corridor floor connected to another wooden square floor that witdthened to 30 square meters. The little Architect put up the frames for the walls while leaving out a corridor space of 1 meter, surounding the 90 squaremeter wide area and integrated the corridor under the roof. Everything till now didn''t required a single nail, but now he carefully nailed the planks in a vertical position and serrated other planks into tiles and planed them in wave forms. When he also planked the roof he covered the house with resin and polished it with cloth linen from the Inn and also aplied the tree resin on the tiles and tiled the roof with it arranging them in a ditch like formation that will let rain flow perfectly along the tiles. He made sliding doors for the interior and covered them with Dobukursi fur, for the outside two double doors with hinges and a gap as a grip. He didn''t forget do create a fireplace inside the house with a ventilation system, on the the tip of the roof were gaps in the sides in four direction but roof tiles were covering over them and protected from incoming rain. The traditional Japanese house was neatly constructed with magic strenghtened wood from the seemingly endless forest. He furnitured the in three separated room building with a lowlegged square table and a white tiger fur carpet. The other two room received a Dobukursi fur carpet. The attached building connected to a corridor was his laboratory. From the leftover beams he made a wooden cage and enprisoned the four unconscious men. The Boy enthusiastically said , ¡° Now this is our new portable housing, since it isn''t attached to the ground I can store it in my interspatial ring. When you get inside you have to take your shoes off, this is an iron rule. ¡± The Youth made all the human corpses appear in a corner of the house where the wooden cage was that had no lock or entrance, it was constructed with telekinesis wnd the static made it firm enough to hold them. He went to the separated room from the main building and sinisterly grinned, ¡° Hell, I will invent some fucking soap. Why is there no soap in that damn stink hole. How ridiculous is this. Well, now what should I do first...ah!!? I know the potions that needed some more research, muhahshaha!¡± Narlenia could only look weirdly at her master with an arkward feeling while sighing at his mad laughter and Lofrinfel tilted her head with a questioning expression. What a strange master they had, they both tought simultaenously. Chapter 8. Planting the Seeds Authors note: I am very grateful to all of you and your consideration and not complaining about me always crossing the deadlines, I write the story down on paper and alter it when I type it down since I change things when I think that it will improve the story. Thank you very much for your patient, and I will tell you that it will be writing extra fast for special Christmas releases and new years releases, since I got time at hand in those days. Now enjoy. Aluzar entered the living room of his self constructed house, without his shoes of course and the two Girls did the same. Azaria saturated her craving for human flesh by slowly swallowing the fresh corpses, preserved by the frozen time within his interspatial ring. In the middle of the main building, with additional two rooms, was a square shape hole, left out to fit in a stone frame and a metallic square thub for safely igniting a fireplace. The two other rooms located on both ends of the rectangular square shaped building and they had sliding doors with Dobukursi fur as a coverage, their were also two windows in each room with wooden double doors attached to hinges. The Living room had almost no furniture and only a short legged table and a soft white Tiger fur as a carpet under it, there weren''t chairs as for there wasn''t a need for them since they could comfortably sit on the soft pelt and the low table had the perfect height when sitting in front of it. The Three assembled before the low table and sat on the soft white Tiger carpet and he spoke with Narlenia about his future plans, although she already knew his intentions but he wanted to clarify without any misunderstandings, "I will be blunt Narlenia. From now on this world will experience an age of chaos. This is the sad truth for you and the purpose for which I have been sent here , although I couldn''t care less about this objective but I am someone who pays back his debt because I don''t like the feeling of being indebted to someone. In truth it is pretty difficult to destroy several different religions and prevent their faith towards those pseudo gods, but I have a rough Idea and it will be a funny project to kill some time, hihihehehe." The busty vampire elf knew of his ambitions but not about his plans to achieve this goal, thus she asked him with a sad and complexed expression, "Master! Could you enlighten me about those Ideas of yours?" The youthful looking old vampire chuckled in amusement because her righteous character and naive thinking showed itself through her face and voice, he grinned mischievously, Alright, I will tell you, hihihi....I will create something called a drug that is an entrancing substance and processed into a consume able state and these substances will cloud their minds and give them an unimaginable feeling of happiness that will have them want more and cloud their minds so that they won''t be able to even think clear. The Results are disorder and chaos, despair and craving, greed and betrayal, hate and last but not least doubt, but it also can backfire thus I need to calculate other variables in case something unexpected happens." Narlenia had goosebumps from listening to her masters explanation. She understood his plans and a emotion of bottomless fear surged up, deep in her awareness, because never in the history of Almastea had someone came up with such a terrifying objective and even more frightening were the methods he just explained with the foresight he had displayed. The High elven vampire could only appeal to her master with words, "Master, I beseech you to exercise compassion on those parviscient people, who are innocent, even if they are the cause for several self proclaimed gods, they are unknowingly contributing to this situation and unfortunately I can''t think of any solution that will please master, I can only speak for the innocents that are involved and beg of you to spare those and search for another way to end the reign of the false gods." Aluzar sighed and shook his head in a denying gesture with a tired gesture, " It seems that you didn''t carefully listened to my conversation with the great creator of creators. I have been sent here as a plague and I can do what I want, this is like a new playground for me and I will enjoy it to the fullest. But since you are persistent about this I can give some chances to save innocent lives when we will journey through this world. I intended to just to cause some disorder but ending the rule of those self proclaimed gods doesn''t sound too bad. When I think more about this way it''s the most possible outcome anyway, hmm..hahaha. I thank you my servant you washed away the clouds that fogged me from seeing the best exciting challenge that will keep me from boredom for a long time." Her pale white skin changed to a faint blue green color and her stomach cramped, making her almost puke on the table because she had cranked on the cogs of the approaching chaos and accelerated it''s progress instead of buying time or suggest another way in order to save the innocent but ignorant worshippers. She could only blame her foolish attempt to change her masters mind and instantly regretted her decision, but she will try to rescue as many innocent beings that deserved to be saved, she reaffirmed her conviction. The young boy curiously asked the vampire high elf, "Tell me little well, are you a mage or a warrior? I am curious since I haven''t decided on a cultivation path and a technique yet. Can you tell your cultivation rank and element, what technique you chose, if there are things I should know please don''t hesitate to elucidate it to me, even though, I''m a knowledgeable person; I am not omniscient." The tall beautiful female elven vampire snapped out of her deep thoughts and hurriedly told him, "Ah o-oh o-okay master. I chose the path of a mage and a warrior to originally protect my village and I specialize in fighting with a bow and wind magic, but because I walk on both paths my cultivation progress is very slow and I am currently a 5th realm warrior and a 4th realm mage, it took me 250 years to reach those stages. Once you decide on a cultivation method you can''t change or rather you shouldn''t change it because your powers will be weakened or in rare cases become even more stronger upon switching the mana cultivation technique, at first your body will reject the new applied routine since it already adapted to the previous one, but if you still force yourself the body will either be destroyed or gain a tremendous boost." He listened without missing a detail and as she stopped for a brief moment, he asked her, "You are really impressive for walking on both paths, but someone could surely create his own unique cultivation method, right?" Narlenia swayed from her explanation and nodded in agreement, answering in a warning tone, " Yes , but most people with such self developed cultivation usually keep it a secret and rarely give them away, it also bears many risks with it. Because when someone attempts to create a technique for themselves and fail to breakthrough a bottleneck or couldn''t completely purify the mana from impurities, they will always remain at the state they failed to overcome or either die from the mysterious magic sickness. Everyone is capable to cultivate mana, but from what I''ve heard, the human that don''t have a technique or are insensible at spiritual perception are doomed to stay weak and taking in regard their short lifespan of 120 years they are unable to reach higher realms and prolonging their life. Every expert strive to perfect their cultivation and reach a state, where their mana they cultivated is pure like the clear water without impurities or a brilliant flawless gem. My "Nature''s Calling" allows me to be one with nature and the vast mana it holds and by circulating it trough my body I can decide to whether strengthen my body or increase my mana pool in my soul realm, it is a superior ancient cultivation technique passed down from my tribes ancestors. It is special and perfected trough out thousands of years and it needs a lot of spiritual strength, but I am sure master can also learn it, if you want me to teach you." Aluzar pondered about those words and immersed himself in his own world of thoughts, forgetting his surroundings and Narlenia''s offer. He had already adapted his body to Almastea and surprisingly the highest form of mana is liquefied or in a crystallized form. The youth tried to figure out how to combine them and create a supreme cultivation technique, worthy of a supreme pure blood vampire like him. He wanted to also walk the path of a warrior and a mage, one of the reason was that their were possibilities of further strengthening his body and the other, that he also wanted to learn magic and create his own spells, thus he needed a way to make him enable to strengthen his body and increase his mana pool at the same time. At the word soul realm he furrowed his brows and had a foreboding that his theory, that the body is a vessel for the mana had been wrong the whole time , he sighed and felt excitement at the same time because he could now grasped how vast this words mysteries are. The young child plunged himself deep into his thoughts, brainstorming through various possibilities and analyzes of the future outcome, since he had absolute control over his spiritual perception and strength, the supreme vampire had already purified the mana once before, when he condensed the thick mana clouds circulating through his body and absorbed it, soaking his entire being and every nook and cranny, causing him to also adapt and mutate to an even better form. Suddenly a flash of insight struck him and he created a mental manual in his mind. Aluzar took the condensing techniques and slightly modified it to his preferences and his needs, it had to be able to make him stronger, surpassing the limits he had on earth and improving not only his physical body and mana pool but also his mental capacities and soul. Every Individual with a high mental perception could tamper with his own soul, like transferring their soul power or forcefully enter their final sleep, but it only worked on oneself when someone doesn''t know how to bypass the invisible soul protection. If anyone could cultivate their body strength and mana pool,then there should be a way to also cultivate his soul power by infusing mana to it. He imagined that he could gather the lingering mana in the surroundings and purify it, while condensing it to a liquid but the wise childlike looking old vampire went even further and assumed that he could crystallize the mana liquid and slowly nurture his body, mana pool and soul with tiny crystallized nano mana particles. This procedure would seriously take a lot of time, but the results would be boundless and definitely more powerful than even some secret cultivation techniques from veteran experts. As the handsome boy gradually came back to reality, he noticed that the high elf vampire stared at him with expectant eyes, as if she was waiting for an answer to something. Narlenia had asked her master if he would like to learn the the cultivation method of her ancestors, of what she has been proud of ever since it had been passed down to her and a few others, even though, it was forbidden to teach it to outsiders but this method required a lot of mental fortitude and perception control. She readily offered it to him because the cunning elven vampire wanted him to feel indebted to her and use that as a pretext to change his mind about his plans, thus she made up her mind and offered her help to also show her new found loyalty, but she had been answered with silence, a very long silence and she felt awkward as the time silently passed by, finally her master looked at her and said, "Did you say something, while I was thinking ?" The beautiful high elven vampire smiled wryly and repeated her offer, "I am willing to teach master my cultivation method if you want because I think that master is capable of grasping this technique." The presumption Narlenia thought that her master would gratefully accept her proposal and that she could reap a big favor from it, with the thought of using this favor to change his mind about infesting this world with his strange substances. However, Aluzar had already developed a suitable cultivation manual in his head, thus he thankfully denied her, "Oh really? I appreciate the thought but I''ve already chosen a path and created the perfect cultivation for it, so you don''t have to teach me, but thank you." Hearing this unexpected reply, her smile stiffened and she helplessly went blank in her mind, while stammering, "Re-really !? Ma-master is really something else. How come that esteemed master had a cultivation technique? Could you tell me about it, maybe I can help you to improve it." Narlenia knew that her master hailed from another word, where magic doesn''t exist, thus that made her become more and more perplexed about him because she had been firmly sure that he had no such things in his transmitted memories, which she had seen in her mind. Perhaps he had specifically with eld this information from her. Aluzar explained his newly invented cultivation to the confused vampire elf and her eyes widened in disbelief jus like her mouth, "T...this ,...this...this is incredible master ! The execution of condensing is something even high level experts can''t attain with their spiritual control, but if someone would succeed in cultivating in this manner, he would gain unimaginable physical strength, an almost infinite mana pool and somehow even strengthened spiritual powers." Her amazement turned into a cold shudder spreading trough her whole body because she realized that her masters former true powers were still unfolding itself, while he is going to grow up into his former adult appearance. What will happen and how powerful would he have gotten, when he had fully grown up , she thought to herself. *grumble* *rumble* *grumble* A small stomach growling could be heard from Lofrinfel, who held a hand above her belly, while her cheeks lightly rose up to a faint pink shade. The good looking youth smiled a gentle understanding grin, "Hahaha, well I guess it''s lunch time. Let''s go outside to light up a campfire, since we can''t use the fireplace right now." They went outside and the youth piled up some leftover wood strands from serrating the magic wood and some unusable wood pieces, as he lit up the pile, the fire ignited in a darting flame, piercing on and a half metres into the air because it seemed that the mana infused wood fueled the flame even more. Seeing this he doubted his newly made housings durability and decided to slightly modify it when he found good materials. Although, he could create a flame or a fireball, he couldn''t use a more powerful variant or develope a more complex phenomenon, even tough, he had wisdom and knowledge on how the elements are working but something restricted him from further controlling and applying his knowledge. He already knew the reason, thus he paid it no further heed and took out a big chunk of white Tiger meat and skewered it with a thin planed beam, he specially thinned out for this occasion. He roasted the heavy chunk of meat, while evenly rotating it around over the flames, with his telekinetic powers. The Aroma of the magic beast meat and the smokey fragrance of the wood spread trough the vicinity, fusing into an enticing barbecue smell and causing drool to drip down from the side of Lofrinfel small mouth and even Narlenia gulped down her saliva. Aluzar questioned Narlenia about her eating habits and it seemed she rarely ate meat because most elven tribes lived from fruits and vegetables collected from the forest they reside in, but she made a small exception with the excuse that she is no longer a normal high elf, it was obviously an excuse to uphold a fragment of her elven pride and to get a piece of the fantastic meat. When the meat was ready he took out some silver dishes and cutlery, they had all esthetic decorations in form of flowers. He cutter the skewered meat into bite size portions and floated it towards the girls, holding the silverware, with his telekinesis. Lofrinfel led a fork with a piece of juice packed meat in her small mouth and chewed it hastily, while happily saying, "So tasty ! It''s so tasty, thank you master!" The elven vampire also delightfully praised, "This meat is exquisite, master might I inquire your about, what meat this is?" The youth nonchalantly answered, "This is flesh from white Tiger like magic beast, I don''t know how it''s called but it had many spikes poking out of his spine." Narlenia choked and nearly suffocated from listening to his describing, *cough* *cough*, " Kekhek ehem, WHAT! This is magical beast meat from a Whiteblack Spine Tigris ! No wonder it''s so delicious and melts directly in your mouth." She remembered the gruesome scene of the medical treatment of the beast from his shared memories she received, but couldn''t resist in taking another fork and she chewed with a feeling of guilt and pity but swallowed it with an emotion of culinary bliss. The Three finished their meatpacked lunch, but stayed outside enjoying the comforting warmth from the campfire. The climate changed to an even colder temperature but the soothing flames from the campfire provided the necessary heat. He left them alone and told them to do what they wanted to, heading to the separated building connected to a roofed corridor, what supposed to be his new laboratory. First he unpacked the multiple alchemy cauldrons and medieval metal vessels and the stove like magic tools and placed a cauldron on it. The crafty boy took out mortar and pestle with a bulk of different herbs and flowers, some bone fragments and shaved strands with an encyclopedia of herbs for beginners that he had bought with educational books. He dried the herbs and flowers from excess moisture with his telekinesis and filled the cauldron on the stove like magic tools with it. He memorized the recipes for the two potions he wanted to research and wrote them down on the parchments he also purchased after identifying the herbals, roots and flowers with the help of his small encyclopedia about the green life on Almastea, though it contained only a small portion of the plants he had collected trough out his journey to Gringallos. The Recipe for the mysterious potion that led the test subject rip out and mutilate himself with joy had five ingredients. 1. Square Frenus Cistae: A black flower with square shaped blossoms, emitting an entrancing fragrance and also had an mesmerizing effect. 2.Trigon Radix Hypnotisare: A yellow brown root from a green triangular leafed herb that pushed the mind and senses in an overdrive , causing a fascinating or paranoid feeling. 3.Paga Rubrum Solari:A red flower with a circle shape blossoms, it had the effect of temporary widening the muscle fibers more blood and increasing the physical performance for a short time. 4.Venetus Gaud¨ª um Radix: A plant root from a blue herb that was also blue in color and it stimulated the endorphin household in the brain, bringing an immense feeling of happiness and joy. 5. A mysterious green golden flower with twisted oval shape blossoms, there were no entries about it in the encyclopedia, he needed to affirm her effects tough, thus he had a plan for it. He grinded all the dried herbs, roots and flower ingredients in to a fine powder and ignited the magic stove, while he mixed the powder with a long spoon into the clear water and it changed to a light green golden yellowish color. Heating it till the strange soup constantly boiled, filling the room with a sweet flowery herbage smell, he added some finely grinned bone powder from a random beast as a to give it a viscous texture. The experimenting child prepared another batch of the powder mixture but this time without the mysterious green golden flower. He bottled up the green yellowish liquid in a metal vessel and began to brew the batch without the green golden twisted oval shaped flower. He filled them into two potion bottles grandma Jedwiga gave him and remembered, that he forgot to buy potion bottles and sighed, "Am I getting too old ?" He had arranged that one had been filled with the original recipe withe the mysterious golden flower and the other without it, since the bottles were numbered he could distinct them from each other. Next had been the time accelerating potion he was intrigued by the mystical effect, but it also consisted out of one more ingredients than the mind maddening potion. The Aging potion consisted of six ingredients that were rather rare he found out, but he couldn''t care less for him it was just some plants he plucked out for the earth, that will help him to uncover the world in their own way. 1. Purple Tempus Hydrangea: He only needed the violet stem from the orange purple blossomed flower, that had a good effect on the digestion but highly toxic when consumed too much. 2. Memoria''s Anchor: A grey root from the Memoria flower that boosted the growth , but he suspected that it actually stimulates the free radicals in one''s body. 3.Aetas Crown: A beautiful legendary flower in the shape of a crown with white, black and golden color, named after the Goddess of Time and had the power to turn someone to his or her youth, or into a shriveling old being, it''s a very rare flower found in extreme rural regions. 4.Hora Leaves: A a sand colored leaf in the shape of an hour glass, highly dangerous because after consuming it the person will slowly crumble to little sand grains within a year. 5.Etas Herb: A white colored, round shaped leaved plant, intoxicating the persons mind and disorders his vision. 6.The Spatium stem: A black stem from the The Tempestas Spatium flower that had white silver blossom, it enhanced the time perception and let the person experience the time faster for a short while. He also grinded them into a fine powder and mixed them with clear water, he gained a grey viscous fluid with a biting bitter smell. The young alchemist child also prepared a potion without the impacting ingredient that caused the major phenomenon and filled them into two numbered bottles. The rest went into the metal vessels for safekeeping and later researches. He visited the wooden cage, that had been placed at a corner of the laboratory and where Azariah was still having her meal and about to swallow down the last remaining corpse. Since the Alchemy session is finished he would obviously need some test subject, one of the reasons he left them alive. He kicked the wooden prison cell as to wake up the stinking unconscious men, who were constrained by their own ropes, how ironic he thought. The muscular leader woke up from his deep forced sleep, feeling an intense pain at the back of his head and firstly looked around only to find a lone child standing before a strange constructed wooden prison. He tried to move but noticed that he had been bound by the magic infused rope, they had especially bought for stronger enemies but it seemed it came back and bit in their arsenal, how ironic he thought to himself. He shouted angrily, " Hey brat! Are you with that damn high elf, if yes tell her that she will be in real trouble if she doesn''t release us from this shifty situation. I have a backer, who knows the city lord and if you don''t let us go, he will send his two warriors who are at the 4 rank, holding the title of Inquisitor!" Upon hearing this puny threat, the young charismatic child giggled playfully and showed no traces of being intimidated, what made the burly boss even more aggravated and he screamed, "DON''T YOU UNDERSTAND YOU LITTLE PUNK!!! YOU AND YOUR WHATEVER YOU ARE TO HER WILL DIE!!!THERE ARE STRONGER WARRIORS THAN ME, NOW LET ME OUT!!!" The loud outburst of his voice woke up the rest of the hoodlum quartet and Aluzar laughed at the foolish screaming and useless idle threat because he knew who he was referring to, thus he laughingly said while he tried to suppress his mad laughter, "Hahaha haha......, haaah, put. Sorry I can''t help but laugh at such cowardly foolishness. What will you say when I tell you that I know your backer and his two bodyguards?" The three others, who had recently awoken also noticed that they were trapped and effortlessly struggled like squirming worms and the bulky leader answered smug, while snorting through his nose and arrogantly ''smiled, "Then you should go with us and turn yourselves into slaves that will make our work easier, but not when I had my fun with that high elf bitch!" The Supreme pure blood vampire in human disguise chuckled at the bandits boss self confidence and could not wait to see his agonizing expression of having his only hope crushed, "What if I tell that he is dead along with his two bodyguards!? Hihihhihehehehehahaha." He tossed a head towards the cage and it landed before it and at the sight of it the face of the leader of the hoodlumps disorted into an ugly fear packed expression, he recognized the head and the face of Harzil Beckenberg and he uttered some words in disbelief, "H...how..?.....this....is....what....are....you....people....what....do....you...want....from...us.?!" The beautiful child giggled in amusement at the sudden change of expression and attitude of the formerly arrogant and confident Boss of a bandit group. The youngest gang member realized the situation and informed the other two, who haven''t noticed yet, "He..hey guys! Isn''t that Harzil''s head !!! Boss!!! What is the meaning of this , who are those people !!!" "Yeah what is this shit, why is Harzil''s head over there, damn it and who is this child!?" "Fuck, I only remember when that hooded bitch gave me the finishing blow that blew my lights out, now I am tied up in a fucking wooden cage, well done Boss!!" They all began nagging at their leader and he could only stare at the bloody head with the terrified expression as if something horrible happened before he had died, he blended out the voices from his comrades and tried to imagined what could''ve happened to him. The thought process was interrupted by a playful preteen voice, "Now,now, don''t go drifting to your own fantasy world, he hehe. I give a chance for all of you, if you are willing to play along and maybe you''ll survive this ordeal." A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. He placed four potion bottles in front of the wooden cage with his soft tender looking hand and explained, "These are potions and they are no healing potions, that''s the least I can tell you and what I want from you, is that you each drink one potion and if you survive you can leave,hihihehehe. " The group of four hoodlumps glanced at the white porcelain bottle that had all different numbers on it, ranging from 1 to 4. Muscular boss tried to confirm this deal, "If we drink those potions you''ll let us really go?!" He was cautious even against such a kid even more as that boy threw out Harzil''s head out of nothing, Aluzar nodded in agreement without a word but had an expectant smile plastered on his face and released the binding rope with his telekinesis. The Bandit group of four each grabbed a potion and popped opened the cork, they stared at each other with intense glances, they all knew that if the group they attacked killed Harzil, they could also be easily killed by them as such they had to obey or even the slightest chance to survive would slip by. The youngest one, the teenager drank first and gulped down the bottle with the number two, it was the mixture without the strange green golden twisted oval flower. He started to smile, what made the other three perplexed and he also shouted, "Hahaha haha, this feeling is so fucking great, a hahaha, I am invincible you suckers! Come here brat , when I got of here I will rip you a new one!! A haha, finally I can see an elemental essence, now I can finally cultivate like you, boss!!" They awkwardly looked at him with a dumbfounded expression and thought the same substance were in the bottles and the hesitating remaining three gulped down the viscous liquid. The one who drank the potion withe number one died the same horrible death like the who went insane and started to mutilate himself. Everyone besides the one who drank the potion number three because he rapidly turned to dust and didn''t even had the chance to scream in pain like his other comrade. The bulky boss stared blankly at his subordinates as his facial hair grew longer and longer and his face became more wrinklier than before. The Teenager youth trembled with vigour and drooled while his eyes rolled back because of the ultimate high his brain gave him in that moment. The intellectual young juvenile stroke his chin and was satisfied with the test result he gained today, he identified the mysterious green golden flower as the cause for the subjects to go mad and hurt themselves and by the age accelerating potion the cause was the legendary Aetas Crown flower because he left that out in the new recipe. With this new knowledge he could drink the age acceleration liquid and gain his former appearance, but he enjoyed growing up and sooner or later it can''t be stopped anyway, thus he decided to naturally grow back to his former looks. He had said that he would let them go but not with their minds intact, the cunning child bombarded the two remains waylayers with a barrage of information and the last remaining two, gripped their temple in agony and pain and instance later the two had empty lifeless eyes without any vigour or any will to live. Aluzar planted instructions and knowledge to speak in their mind, he commanded the bulky bandit leader to confess the murder on Timothy and his family and other people the youth killed at the slave shop. He tasked the teenager with distributing free samples of the non lethal maddening potion, he programmed him to be inconspicuous and that he would follow his command without batting and eye, he will be the first foul seed with the virus that will infect the other seedlings. Aluzar would stay in the shadows and pull the strings like a puppeteer, while he will also build a good reputation as an adventurers, or even become a hero and by those thoughts he couldn''t help but laugh to himself. Such irony he thought, to be the hero, but also the ruination at the same time seemed to be quite interesting he assumed and he might walk this path. The hard working boy prepared himself to establish the elemental cores and secluded himself in one of the rooms in the main building. The Supreme pure blood vampire closed his eyes and found himself in a space staring out of his head like a TV and beneath him was a black abyss like floor. He remembered Narlenia mentioning something like a soul realm, where the mana pool should be located, now he finally realized and had a confirmation that his theory about the body being a vessel like pool had been wrong the whole time. The memory of igniting a small flame on his finger as to allow him to see how the mana flowed and liquefied before it created the wished phenomenon and then it struck him like a lightning strike and he put up a new theory and that said, that the body ist just a catalyst for spells and physical elemental arts like the magical sword attack from the opponents he had seen, the mana pool is in his soul realm and provide the body with mana to create the magical phenomenon with the body as a catalyst. Aluzar smiled with joy at this new insight and concentrated his mind and tried to become one with the laws of nature or rather physics. The youth imagined the concept and nature of fire, rapid oxidation of material and releasing heat as a form of energy in the process of combustion, unsatiable and fierce but warmth spending, gradually a c.uster of red elemental particles from the campfire lingered to him and filled his soul realm with a gentle warm heat, while forming an intense burning fistsize red orb like the sun. He thought of the laws of waters and it''s properties, a chemical compound of water molecules and oxygen, it has many forms like in a gaseous state, liquefied or frozen, it can be cold or hot, violent yet gentle, undestructetabble but so fragile at the same time, a large amount of translucent blue particles from the river came bursting in his soul realm like crashing waves from a tsunami and twisted into an transparent light blue sphere in the same size like the flaming orb and floated on the same orbit above the boys head like his counter part. He focused and visualized the concept of wind, high pressure and low pressure colliding against each other crafting a gush of air pressure, free and everywhere, a motion in the atmosphere and a breathing from the planet, gentle like a fresh breeze but can be violent like a rage g storm, a blazing storm like hurricane of translucent green particles entered his soul space and formed a transparent green ball with small tornados and hurricanes inside floating above his head with the two other orbs. The Boy wanted to create every core and now was the time to create the earth elemental core and he imagined the forming of it''s components, minerals, organic matters from dead remains, enclosed gases, liquids and countless small grains and molecules able to form a whole planet, soft like sand and hard as steel. The brown yellow earth particles from the soil gathered and overwhelmed his soul realm like an avalanche falling down on him and build a solid brown golden sphere that also orbited with the others above his head. Finally he only needed to establish three more cores, light, darkness and lightning, one reason was that he wanted to make himself more resistance to the ultraviolet rays more than he is right now and thought that maybe he will accomplish that through creating a light core. He focused his mind and recalled the laws of light, a electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion the electromagnetic spectrum making the sunlight visible to the eye, there are many other light forms that are invisible, bright and often symbolising life for many beings. The radiating particles from the sun flooded his soul realm brightening and enveloping the whole space in his soul in blinding light and caused his skin on his physical body to slightly sustain sunburns that immediately healed, they compressed into a shiny moonlike orb that ranked itself to the other four elemental cores. The creature of the night smiled and imagined being enveloped in darkness, absorbing the light into nothingness, being a shadow and without this blackness there would be no vision for the living beings to see hope and without light no darkness to fear, the absence of light means death and despair, a foreboding of evil. Suddenly a large clusters of black misty clouds emerged from the shades and shadows created from the sun and seeped into his body even golfing him into an aura of thick heavy darkness particles and painted his soul realm pitch black for a few seconds. Narlenia who sat in front of the campfire, felt some discrepancies in nature, since her spiritual perception was reasonable high for being a high elf, because she lived most of her life in the forest. She could sense a menacing cold aura being formed and got up to inform her master about the dark grim aura, Lofrinfel didn''t sensed anything and busily stroked Azariah smooth skin, who hissed in comfort by the nice felling of being caressed and she already had a clue who it supposed to be, but she had been told to guard the vicinity of the house and it happened coincidently that the draconian child wanted to stroke her. In Aluzar''s soul realm the masses of black darkness particles sacked itself into a pitch black sphere and floated over his head with the other five balls. Only lightning was missing, thus he thought about this phenomenon, a electrostatic discharge, during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions, discharging to equalize themselves to temporarly, forming a visible plasma. The charged autumn clouds on the sky released a thundering sound and blue buzzing lightning elemental particles slowly descended to him into his soul and created a constantly zapping ball of plasma. The seven elemental cores circled around over his head like a halo and made him seem almost divine with it, he established all the cores and now will be able to apply his knowledge to learn and create new spells.. The vampire high elf reluctantly opened the sliding doors and barged in the room and said in a dire tone, "Master, there is someone near with a menacing aura, we have to hurry back to the city or..." Her little master tilted his head and looked at the agitated tall long legged servant and said, "What are you saying, I''ve just finished creating the last core maybe you sensed the the oppressive darkness aura from me, and don''t just barged in without knocking it''s rude, but I''ll forgive you this time since knocking on a sliding door seems a little inconvient." Narlenia stared at him with a dumbfounded expression and asked him with a tired voice, "Establishing the last core? Master, which affinity do you have if I might inquire you about it." He replied with anticipated voice waiting for the desired face he loved to see, "Well I have darkness,earth, fire, lightning, light, water, wind, is something wrong with it?" Her lips began to tremble in awe and disbelief but she knew that her master had no need to lie to her as she was only a servant to him, but her world had been turned up side down a second time and her face showed puzzlement and a blank mind, not to know what to say. A strange feeling welled up in her and it needed to be vented, thus she blurted out with a loud voice, "THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT!!!!NOBODY HAS EVER HAD ALL ELEMENTS IN HIS SOUL REALM AND IT''S NOT NORMAL,EVEN THE MOST TALENTED ONES HAVE AT MOST THREE AFFINITIES AND YOU HAVE ALL. HOW CAN I COMPREHEND THAT!!!EVEN AN HIGH ELF HAS A LIMIT OF UNDERSTANDING THINGS AND ACCEPTING THE TRUTH, BUT FACING YOU EVERYTHING SEEMS RIDICULOUS, DAMN IT, DAMN IT!!!! I DON''T CARE ANYMORE! !!!" Aluzar was taken aback by the sudden outburst and Narlenia realizing her mistake instantly kotowed in front of the supreme vampire with her forehead touching the wooden floor, her whole being shook in fear and she apologized with a sore throat form the loud screaming, "Please, master forgive me, forgive me, I''ll never do this again, I was just at my limits because masters greatness surpassed my common sense, please forgive me!" But to her surprise he began to laugh heartily at her, she didn''t dared to take a peak or to even move a millimeter from her dogeza like posture, he said in an understanding voice, "Well, my servant. I had a part in it too because I wanted a reaction from you that would amuse me, though it was a reaction I didn''t expected this but it still gave me the desired amused, seeing you act so fierce and on the edge, but you shouldn''t always show me this side because you will might do it at a wrong time, we''re I won''t be so understanding like now, understood !?" She cried tears of relief and thanked her master for being so benevolent and immediately left him alone, so that he can focus on his cultivation. She had also been tasked with finding edible herbs, fruits and mushrooms or vegetables. He spread out his spiritual perception and entered his soul realm, dragging in the fine mana dust clouds swaying through the surroundings with his mental strength, processing them into floating drops of liquefied mana, next he over saturated the blue liquid mana and pressured them with his spiritual power and formed small pure nano mana crystals, gleaming like stars in his soul space. The brilliant youth send some mana crystals to circulate in his physical body and those will slowly naturally join with his body and strengthen his body even more. Some nano mana crystals stayed in his soul realm and joined with his avatar with the halo of elemental cores representing his soul and some dropped down to the pitch black abyss like mana pool and glistened. He continued this tiresome procedure until his mental capacity reached it''s limits, Narlenia came back just in time with some strange fruits that had screaming faces on it and mushroom like things with hard shells on top, herbs that smelled aromatic like Lavendel with an orange note. They skewered Whiteblack Spine Tigris meat along with the herbs and hard shell mushrooms that are called Durucamalla fungi and slowly grilled them over the flames. The enticing aroma from the meat mixed with the Lavendel like herbs with a orange note and the mushroom fragrance, the Duruscamella fungi lost it''s own moisture and it''s hard shell, loosened up and the spongy fibers soaked itself with the meat juice from the hearty magical beast meat that also took in the flavor of the herbs. "Delishious!!mmph" Lofrinfel happily shouted and Narlenia silently enjoyed the rich herbal and lite citrus flavor with the prominent mushroom flavor gushing with the hearty meat juice, her mouth curved into a rare smile, indicating that the food tasted splendid, even tough, there was meat with it but she couldn''t resist. After the dinner they headed inside the house and Aluzar produced two additional sleeping mat and covers made from Dobukursi fur for them to sleep on, the two slept in the opposite room. He had no desire for lustful nights for now and his manliness didn''t reached and efficient size yet. 2 months passed and thick white snow together with a hint of a blue hue covered the lands, the biting cold made the local residents more sluggish and lazy than usual, but nevertheless the busy streets were filled with roaming with travellers that came from rural villages since the Dobukursi went into hibernation and wandering adventurers came to exterminate them for easy and quick money, while they were sleeping. The Supreme pure blood vampire had worked in Harold''s Anvil in his human disguise at the dwarfs workshop and Narlenia attracted many customers with Lofrinfel at sales clerks. He learned that magic steel is only iron infused with mana and could be forged like normal steel but required more force than normal steel. It is desired by warriors and makes at the same time because of it''s durability and potential as a magic tool material. He also had to forge various equipment, although, with his life experience it has been an fairly easy task, Harold widened his eyes in surprise and recognized him as a genius at blacksmithing at such a young age, his products were high quality and even surpassed the old Dwarven craftsman , thus it made the nosey midget inquire him many times about his talent and knowledge on smiting, but he always received the same answer, "It''s just as you said I am a genius, didn''t you said it yourself?" The bulky dwarf left it at that and didn''t bothered for any further answers, since he also profited from the rise of customers, storming because of the unequalled beauty of the town, Narlenia. Aluzar had tested out his magic capacities and if his elemental affinities had an major impact on how strong a magic spell attack , surprisingly his fireball became double in size. He took the opportunity and created fired bricks from soft mud and pressed them, and burned them at 900-1000¡ãC, producing sturdy bricks that he had used to build and integrated them in his housing unit and laboratory as an isolation and a safety against fire. The little boy also trained Lofrinfel and Narlenia early in the morning and teached them about physics, reading and writing, maths and biology, although , Narlenia didn''t really required it she still listened to his lectures and helped out little Lofrinfel, who was eager to learn more due to to her strong desire to become stronger. The early morning is like a military drill with him as a demon instructor, running around the forest for hours, sprinting large distances at full speed, push ups, sit ups and combined that all while teaching them martial arts like Boxing, Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Judo, Jui Jutsu, Ving Tsun, Krav Maga and Ninjutsu in a changing routine. It was literally hell for the two, he showed no mercy since he also participated and showed them how it was done and since Lofrinfel was a draconian with a more powerful physical body constitution she had good aptitude with the training unlike a complaining someone. The handsome devilish instructor also created a cultivation technique for the draconian child, that involved her body and soul. The Boss from the former bandit quartet confessed like planed and had been executed a short while ago and with the death of ugly Timothy, other slave traders and slave shops opened up in Gringallos. The body enhancing and mind blowing potion found a wide range of consumers, from adventurers to hoodlumps and even rich merchant or nobles are buying it, what made his mindless flesh puppet pretty popular, apparently his name had.been Leon Otters. People who used it call the potion "Golden Happiness" because it has the yellowish color and caused an enormous amount of endorphins to be generated from the brain and even slightly gives the body a power boost, what made most users instantly hooked on it and for one silver coin they could get high for three days with a potion, when drinking the right dose. The mastermind currently hammered on small piece of magic metal in the workshop and heated the lump of steel in the incredible hot furnace, he took it out with a iron tong and laid it on the Anvil, hammering it with a force so strong the whole anvil resonated with the vibration, luckily nobody was in the workshop, because Harold had been actually lazing of since he came to work as a part timer. *clang* *clang* clang**ting* *ting* *ting* Powerful hits from the smiting hammer collided with the form able red hot steel and it it''s upper part flattened into a small blade part, he slowly formed an ergonomic grip for the handle and shocked it in ice cold water to hardened it even further. While it cooled down he began to forge another tool this time in the form a small handsize staples and forceps, next he created a sharp fine teethed bonesaw. As the tools cooled down he brought out glass like vessels resembling syringes without needles, he made them trough melting sand without impurities and carefully Glas blowing. The little genius encased them with a metal frame with a hollow sharp needle he before handily forged. When the small, blade with the long hilt had cooled down he sharpened it on a good whetstone and smoothen out the grip. Aluzar held a scalpel in his hand and made multiple surgical tools for his own personal use. He took out a leather roll with small straps and holding for the syringes and pliers and forceps. The time came to go home where Azariah was keeping watch over the housing, many locals greeted him because he self gained quite a good reputation, since he invented soap in this world by separating animal fat with heat until it saponifies the oil, pouring it into rectangular shaped mold and letting it cool down, while adding fragrances from flower essences. It became more popular than Golden Happiness and sold like hotcakes and the various demanded the recipe and many alchemist tried to reproduced I, but utterly failed and there were even situations where they send thief''s and thugs to harass him, but unfortunately they ended as test subjects for his cruel experiments. Aluzar didn''t really slept, he cultivated in trance during the night with his technique, what he decided to call Supreme Star Soul because the further he absorbed and processed the mana, the more star like gleams shone inside his abyss like mana pool and his soul avatar inside his soul realm began also to glitter in a blue light. This Method slowly but surely made him more powerful, but he didn''t even reached the first stage of a warrior to a mage, his elemental cores also grew a bit bigger since he did everything simultaneously he could only do this for a few hours before reaching his limits but everyday he could keep extending it for a few minutes longer than the day before. There were vast amount of spells to learn and far more to create, his thirst for knowledge wanted to know them all. Mana seemed to be able to create phenomenons and effects, when correctly applied it can even enchant or curse a living being or tool if it''s magic defense is lower than the magical force or the material is capable of storing magic inside. He immediately bought dozen of books about enchantment, curses, from the local bookstores. The Sun shone over the Nal`Vartha forest and after the exhausting drill in the early morning and the lectures, they headed to the town of Gringallos after supplying Leon the human puppet, leaving Azariah house sitting. The Three entered through the west gate and were headed to Harold''s Anvil after visiting the Adventurers Guild to turn in a herb collecting quest like everyday up until now since they registered here and had build a home in the forest, they also stopped at the merchant quarter to sell the newly made soap batch. As he stood at the stores sales desk to receive the pay for selling the soap an unpleasant intense stink reached him from behind and suddenly a familiar voice rang out, "Hmph, look who we have here! The brat who refused my father''s and grand uncles kindness. I hoped you would have died on the way here, but it seems your fine, what a pity.what are you selling!? Oh, you must be buying food scraps because that''s the only thing and orphaned mutt can afford, isn''t that right Tobito!? Hahaha " When the store clerk returned and handed him a big pouch bursting with silver coins, Raphael ''s Bernsal eyes and mouth gaped wide open, revealing his brown dirty teeth that made the room even more stink than before or was that his imagination, he thought. The merchant humbly said, "Thank you young master and please come again to sell your goods at my store, I''ll give you a good price." Aluzar received the money and nodded, as the merchant noticed the foul stench he glance at the two incoming people with disdain because their clothes were dirty with stains and he snorted with an arrogant remark, "What are you two stinking country hicks are doing her, if you don''t have anything worth selling, get out!! I won''t sell you anything because you infested my store with your terrible odour." The Child felt relieved because he thought that he was the only one that smelled the nose cramping stench but fortunately the store merchant also reeked the bad smell. He passed by and held his breath, while giggling at them just for the snot nosed brat to hear, what infuriated Raphael even more and made him glare a hat filled stare at the little handsome child''s back. The youth thought that he overcame this trial but he saw the whole Bernsal family, what made him frowns and scowled inwardly. Grandma Jedwiga holding herself upright with a wooden magic staff delightfully greeted him with her rough old voice, Young Lord, I am delighted to see you healthy and I apologize but I told my grandson and that old following about your origins, because they pestered me about your whereabout." They both looked shocked to see him and couldn''t even squeeze out a single word, he scrutinized them and said with a smile, "Granny Jedwiga please don''t worry as long it is kept between the three of you I don''t have any problems, but unfortunately I have to hurry now, I need to attend my part time work at a Dwarven blacksmith, it''s the friend of mine I''ve told you about him. Maybe I can give you a discount if he allows it, good bye and ....see you." He moved to the carriage, where two deep hooded figures with exquisite mantles waited for him. Aluzar and his servant finally arrived before the Dwarven blacksmith after the short reunion and the horrifying smell, but what awaited him was unexpected. Multiple guards stood in front of the building and a pompous carriage had been parked to the side, as he neared himself the guards blocked his further advancement and questioned him, "Halt! We are the personal guards of the city lord, since the lord has some business here, you have to wait!" But just as he finished speaking, a man in gorgeous noble clothes with a gaudy decorated sword on his waist exited from the entrance and was about to climb into his luxurious carriage but his gaze caught on the flawless face of Aluzar and he started to smile brightly if he had found a huge pile of gold on the streets. The noble man approached him and asked, "Are you the rumored genius child that invented soap and is forging brilliant weapons, even surpassing Harold himself!?" The young boy eloquently replied, "Yes sir, but may I inquire you about your name, I am new in this city an I might be ignorant about the leading figure of this town." The noble man laughed and it reverberated trough the whole quarter, "Hahaha hahaha, I apologize I am Kaldrivas Ferraz the city lord, I came here to especially invite you into my mansion for your accomplishments and talk about your well being." A hint of greed and malicious intent could be heard from him saying the last sentence, but Aluzar grinned inwardly a sinister smile and casually answered with an iron business smile, "Of course, esteemed city lord."