ã€ŠReincarnations of a Heroã€‹


 Beginnings and Beyond and Beginning!

    I regain consciousness and found myself in a new body again. I''m still probably inside a womb since I can''t do jack shit. Anyway my name is, well it doesn''t matter for now, I have many names after all, I get reincarnated every time I die, but my soul name is Monochrome Gamma not that It gets used a lot. It takes a while to get reincarnated sometimes even years, longest I had was 60 years where I spend the whole time strengthening my soul, I was sent to a very far away universe. Soul travel, I named it, happened thousands of lives ago, my first Soul Travel, I got powerful enough to regain consciousness in my soul form. In simple terms it feels like inside a train traveling around spaces. I was entranced by the beauty of space at first, but now I use it as a training ground to strengthen my soul, it¡¯s very important to do it since Mana comes also from your soul and around you, then when I finally reached the end of the universe for the first time. I was put in a white space, I called it The Queue because I get to wait for hours where I could see infinite amount of black dots and when it¡¯s ready my soul body moves towards a dot and swiftly I get moved into another universe, where my soul gets transported to another body.

    Now to explain how I got into this situation. I can¡¯t fully remember my first life not after years of doing this. I mean you get to see stuff that came out of fantasy or sci-fi novel if you compared that to how boring life was in my first, I have even died a virgin and alone if I remember correctly which I massively still regret, your first life is still very special after all. My first reincarnation was very simple, I thought I was given a second chance by God and thanked him so I enjoyed it and became a hero on a fantasy world out of a book, and went to fight the demon lord, when I thought I will die peacefully and fulfilled with a family and a beautiful dark elf wife, I woke up again reincarnated. Did the hero thing for a hundred lives mastered many types of Weapons, Magic and Ki and it became dull and boring to die peacefully and unchallenged, it¡¯s not like I didn¡¯t want it. Starting life is always the bomb, you get to show off your powers and skill then people are always stupefied and lose their mind which never gets old. Then on my hundredth death, it finally showed itself, the one behind all everything.  It was just a bright light yet it was super intimidating and majestic, the one behind my reincarnation, he was god. It just simply said

    ¡°Good, now you¡¯re strong enough and know what good is, you can be the ¡®bad guy¡¯ for now to understand greater good and cause¡±- God

    He didn¡¯t even gave me a chance to talk or for some reason it didn¡¯t feel like he even glanced at me. It was like God was emphasizing that I my existence wasn¡¯t worth any grain of his attention and simply ordered me, yet I followed, the voice was surprisingly pleasant in ears yet very strong and commanding. Of course after that happened I was immediately reincarnated and was pulled out of the womb where I instantly shat myself. I got nicknamed greenie because of that.

    It was a pretty funny life I had, I was born a demon and grew up as a lord general to serve the Demon Queen. Being a demon isn¡¯t actually all the great, sure it does get to feed my chuuni side which other demons find admirable and age very slowly, it was actually a pain that you get a powerful mind that can remember almost anything even things you don¡¯t want to remember in fact the top priority of your brain is to remember memories that you hated the most, no wonder demons where always angry and menacing, now I know what¡¯s like being a demon I could sympathize with them.  Then I get to fuck around human races that time. The great powerful me steamrolled the human races into almost extinction, they built a huge towering wall that reached the sky encircling the entire edge of the continent guarded by millions of soldiers, protected with massive rune marks. They manage to do it with the help of the giant, dryads and magical beings. We didn¡¯t even know it was being built, it was there top secret plan, I was very impressed and stunned of what they did and happily thinking how should I break there years of carefully worked masterpiece. I wasn¡¯t just going to back down on a challenge they clearly lay for me even thought I know they did it for survival, after years of trying  to break the barrier protecting the wall and failing miserably, I lose my shit and accidentally created an abomination with my mana, that thing eats space like vacuum, after it ate a portion of the wall it became stronger, of course I wasn¡¯t going to let it run around and do as it please to destroy the world since it wasn¡¯t in my control, I duelled it for 3 years, the humans were scared shitless and didn¡¯t even bother interfering and I told my armies to create a base far enough not to get killed from misfires but close enough to see what¡¯s happening, that thing grew pretty big after all in just a few years it even manage to speak words. After killing the monstrous bastard the humans blew their alarm horns signifying the start of the war, I was tired I may be demon and demons don¡¯t feel unnecessary things like hunger or exhaustion my mind was a mess and need some relaxation since I couldn¡¯t stop thinking of killing.

    The battle of the my army and the human army was pretty much like in equal grounds, sometimes we push them, sometimes they push as back it continued for a year like that and it became a habit amongst the generals to bet who would push back who or whose army will push them back, I didn¡¯t took the field since we demon lords have a thing for being the last one to fight we were quite a masochist for extinction even though we¡¯re strong, must be in our blood. Then it happened, I sensed a huge mana fluctuation, I disregarded it as one of those weird experiments they were conducting to rebuild the barrier that I received from the reports that they do from the past years but this time it felt stronger, I guessed they succeeded, I was very pleased for some reason in fact all the demon generals were pleased and it found it seemingly interesting.

    After a few years they never rebuild the barrier or even tried to push us back they hold their ground dignified and ready to give their life away for their kingdom, screaming like madmen ¡°Glory for the Holy Land!¡± and plunge themselves to death, we generals find it annoying and we were growing impatient with our advance on a standstill but our men actually found joy in it, as if every time they go to battle they find an equal opponent instead of a little coward maggot so we ordered them to tell us the best stories they had in the battlefield but something more fun for us was about to happened.

    Then it happened, we grown men and battle-hardened generals were all squealing like little girls who just found a new toy some was even drooling including my vice general, although he looks like a pipsqueak furred girly demon he¡¯s actually stronger than a normal great demon, but his strength lies in his mind, being half feline beast and half demon he was smarter than any demon I¡¯ve known, feline beast are known for their cunningness I guess he inherited there innate talent, he was in-charge of creating strategy and tactics for my armies but his a bit weird sometimes he looks at me like how is looking at the strong feminine man amongst the  enemy who is a part of the strong group that we are observing, it¡¯s a group of five, three women and two men who were all strong and easily slaughtering our men with ease, when they killed a thousands of our men within a few minutes, we generals cheered and congratulate them to which in exchange gave us annoyed look. Our men was the one motivated for some reason, someone started shouting about getting rewarded greatly if they manage to kill one of them, every demon soldier started running to the fray with joyous face, and that¡¯s why people fear us, we find too much joy in simple things like humans but we value our life lesser than them we¡¯re race of mad beings. But then I notice something else, they have a scent that are not native of this world, still have doubt, I decided to look at their soul using my mana eyes clairvoyance, Yep, they aren¡¯t from here alright is what I thought, Their souls wasn¡¯t from this world , I decided I wanted to talk to them and ask where are they from, I told to my generals that I will talk to them, they protested greatly against this saying I was going to hug all the fun, sometimes it¡¯s really hard to deal with this demons even thought we were all happy-go-lucky or we go rage and kill everybody type of demons it¡¯s still a pain to deal with them. My vice general decided to do a lottery and who win goes first, I cheated using foresight. Finally getting up and going to meet this otherworlders like me.

    God was throwing a lot of things on my way in my first villain reincarnation, well it¡¯s more fun that way.

    I flew with my sit and landed a 20 steps in front of the otherworlders, they were shocked and readied themselves, to which I laughed. I must have looked intimidating , I wore my black dragon scale armour set, My long silvery tail sharp pointed tail that has a stinger moving behind the chair, I have a black shorthair, purple eyes, dragonic horns coming out my forehead, My skin is metallic black with shards of black sharp crystals coming out of every joints of my body.

    ¡°Greetings wonderful humans, I am the commander of this great demonic army, you may call me Vour. May I inquire your names?¡±

    After saying this, One of the otherworlders , she was a woman with auburn hair, showed a disgust face, and spoke up.

    ¡°Why would we tell our name to a fi-¡°

    She was silenced shortly by a man with blonde short hair, green eyes. He came from behind her, I think he¡¯s the leader of the peculiar group. He was 6¡¯0¡± tall, fairly built body. I can feel his power oozing out from his body. He have two holy swords, one is adamantite the other is gold, a dual-wielder, Unlike the others from his group who showed hostility, he was calm and collected.

    ¡°My name is Christop.¡±

    He said while sheathing his two holy sword. Seeing this I lowered my tail to give them sense of security.

    I looked at him and smiled,

    ¡°What a wonderful name you have human.¡±

    I then looked at the others questioningly and patiently, they begin introducing themselves.

    ¡°I¡¯m Mich.¡± Said the man who raised his arm awkwardly which gave me a smile, He¡¯s a large man but a bit shorter than Christop, wearing full body golden plate armour, his entire face was covered with the masked cloak that matched his armour. He have a black metalic mace with magical runes engraved in it that I tried to analyse it with my mana eyes but failed , It was probably a meteoric weapon only unique to this world I thought. He was a cleric or perhaps a paladin.

    ¡°The name is Grace.¡± Said a girl, she is 5¡¯4¡±, wearing what it seems nun outfit with many holy runes, brown curly bangs comes out from her veil. Blue eyes.

    ¡°Saya.¡± said another girl swiftly, her voice was pretty cute. Long black hair, brown eyes. Wearing a white wizard robe, a magus level wizard I thought.

    The last one was the rude girl, wearing black furred leather made out of magical beast.

    ¡°Disgusting demon *spit*, You have no rights to know my name.¡±

    What a rude fellow I thought, As much as I want to bash her head and hear her agony I have better reasons, I need to know what they are. For now I¡¯ll just call her Bitch, yep.

    ¡°I¡¯ll cut the chase humans, I notice your souls lack any distinct features of this world, yours are actually something else. I am interested, where are you from? No, are you from another world?¡±

    With my clairvoyance throughout my hero days, I manage to understand that souls are all look unique but always will have something in common that differs on its universe, At the same time, I notice my soul adapts the universe I get reincarnated to.

    They seems to tensed up and a bit cautious to how will they answer, but Leader surprised me.

    ¡°Yes, we were summoned from this world from another.¡±

    I signalled my men to bring a table and chairs to us, the group was startled, I showed them a confused with no hostility in return the leader ease up his group. The human soldiers on the other side of the wall started moving, but a high ranking looking man commanded them to stop. I notice this men where different from the ones my army fighting, they were all well-equipped and very disciplined in their formation. ¡°Hohoho they finally bring out the guns huh.¡± They planned to end this war with the help of the otherworlders.

    ¡°Summoned you say, where from and for what?¡±- Vour

    ¡° We¡¯re apparently heroes. Why do you need to know?¡±- Christop, said with a serious face.

    ¡°More li-¡°

    ¡°Shut up.¡± Christop was glaring at Saya.

    Woah woah. Calm down guys.

    ¡°Well you see, hmmm?¡±

    As I was about to tell him my life story, I felt a very strong familiar menacing present. I jumped out of my chair out of fear and looked around, Of course this startled the whole place, my generals took this as a sign of the beginning of battle and with their demonic speed, instantly the heroes and my generals were in combat within a flash. The leader was about to draw his swords using my bloodlust I directed it to my generals and signal them to stop and retreat. They reluctantly agreed.

    God is such an ass, my generals would have died against them. Not that I cared thought, but training them was very painstakingly hard, I still need them to conquer the last human continent. I guess he doesn¡¯t want me running my mouth huh should have just said so, what a prick, I felt it again but this time I was ready but still I almost shit on myself again. Sorry God, I was just joking.

    ¡°Forgive me, Forgive me Heroes. I thought I felt something strange.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? Let us continue then and no scary moves this time, general¡±- Leader

    ¡°Yes, hmmm where was I.¡± fuck, I can¡¯t say anything to them. Must think of something else.

    ¡°Ah yes, Well you see, I find that you are very honest for a human and very calm too. do you have something in mind¡±

    ¡°ARE YOU GOING TO ASK IT?¡±- Saya with a smile on her face.

    Mich moved closely to Leader when whispered to his ears.

    Mufufu, what great luck I have. I think I hit a jackpot. I heard what the Cleric said, they¡¯re underestimating Greater Arch-Demon senses.

    ¡°There are prying eyes and gossiping ears nearby Vour, I would like to ask something privately.¡±- Christop

    ¡°hmm. I see, perhaps your great magus could help us with that. I wouldn¡¯t mind.¡±

    For now I would play a lot and hide my cards, they don¡¯t need to know I can use magic.

    Saya cast a golden barrier around us. Hoh Chantless magic I thought.

    I just realize what she did, I¡¯m inside a grandmaster level barrier alone with 5 heroes who can very well fight equally against me. I remained calmed to carefully not show fear, If they see it, I¡¯m pretty sure Bitch will be the first one to prowl. I can already feel her looking at me with murderous intent. What the hell is wrong with her? I cast away such thoughts for now. Let¡¯s start with more flattery.

    ¡°Hohoho, What great importance shall we discussed for your magus to even cast such magnificent spell¡±

    Trying to look calm and at the same time initiating the conversation.

    ¡°Like we told you, we are people summoned from another world.¡±- Leader

    ¡°Mmm mmm. But you have yet to tell me where from.¡±

    ¡°I doesn¡¯t matter where we came from. But I will fill your imagination Vour¡­¡±

    After a few minutes of him explaining and talking, well basically they came from Earth that is more advance, he just didn¡¯t say it was Earth, but he said some names of places that I remember.

    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

    They all came from different countries, Christop was a soldier who was on a firefight , Mich was martial arts practitioner genius, the two girl, Saya and Grace were apparently VR gamers, the Bitch well, she didn¡¯t say anything she just cursed me with names. I deduced it that she was some sort of religious fanatic or a convict that vent her bloodthirst towards demons.

    ¡°I see, what a wonderful place you have come from heroes. You have filled my curiosity. Now, I shall reward you with the same, what do you want to know?¡±

    I noticed Grace the nun looking hero, casted a mind spell to me. It was a lie detection magic.

    ¡°Hmmm? What is this for Ms. Hero?¡± looking at her with glaring eyes.

    ¡° It-It¡¯s something so we could know when you lie?¡±I smirked at her. I can use this fufufu.

    Releasing a tinge of my bloodlust.

    ¡°HAHAHAHA. I know that little hero, are you perhaps mocking me? I ask for what reason is it for, but very well I will let it pass, I don¡¯t like the feeling of being interrogated, but I shall answer truthfully with your eyes as well can see.¡±

    Little Grace whimpered in tears. The other two was pretty scared, Bitch was ready to strike me down when the Leader nodded in agreement. Leader is so cool.

    ¡°I¡¯ll get straight to the point, we want to use the device from the demon continent to return home¡±

    ¡°Device?¡± I was confused

    Leader just looked at Grace and she nodded. The fuck are they talking about?

    ¡°Are you sure you don¡¯t know anything about a magical artifact that can send us back home?¡±-leader

    ¡°*snort* If we had such device, we would have your world invaded instead of fighting this worthless war¡±

    Grace nodded again.

    ¡°I TOLD YOU THEY LIED, I HEARD THEM MANY TIMES WITH MY POWER BUT YOU WOULD¡¯NT BELIEVED ME!¡±- Saya, she seemed happy for some reason.

    ¡°YOU FUCKING LIAR! WHY WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS DEMON! WE¡¯RE ON WAR WITH THEM, HE¡¯S JUST USING SOME SORT OF MAGIC TO NOT GET DETECTED!¡±-Bitch said angrily

    ¡°Grace?¡±-Mich waiting

    ¡°Umm..Umm.He wasn¡¯t using any magic¡­ yeah.. He wasn¡¯t using any magic¡±-Grace

    ¡°So we really can¡¯t go back home.¡±- Leader said dejectedly.

    ¡°Don¡¯t believe him god fucking damnit! shit faced fucking demon! He¡¯s a fucking natural liar and a demon at that. Why would you believe such vile creature?¡±-bitch

    She was going to draw her weapon to attack me when Leader moved fast behind her and knocked her out with a choke. Yeah get that bitch.

    WOAH this guy is so cool, why is he so cool? What the fuck.

    ¡°Sorry about that.¡±- Leader

    ¡°Nothing to apologize hero, What¡¯s wrong with her? She seem to despise us demon like we murdered her love ones. But you said you¡¯re not from around here. Is she just venting?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing¡±- Leader, looked at me as if saying not to pry any further. Well whatever, he shut the bitch up anyway.

    ¡°So what is it about this device you were talking about?¡±- Vour

    ¡°It¡¯s nothing really, just what the people say to us to motivate us to fight your people in this war.¡±-Leader

    ¡°Interesting, perhaps they were also saying that we started this war? HAHAHAHA¡±

    ¡°Yeah, why you didn¡¯t?¡±

    ¡°Of course not, well not that I will know the truth, but the human races and dragonic tribes sent armies to exterminate our royalty long before I was born, Only the daughter survived to rule us as a queen, and her sons are merely half-blooded. You do know this war has been going on for hundredth of years.¡±

    ¡°You said something interesting, but aren¡¯t you an arch-demon? You should also be a royalty.¡±

    ¡°HAHAHA! I WISHED! Being a royal blooded demon would have been more easy, I had to work myself out to became an arch-demon! Although I was born with many talents, fufufu.¡±

    ¡°Oh, so are these royalty stronger than you?¡±- Saya, with a pleasant innocent smile that creeped me out, this one also have problems huh.

    ¡°Of course! At best I could only handle the Demon Queen in 30 seconds.¡±

    ¡°Is the Demon Queen beautiful?¡±-Mich

    ¡°Mufufufu, Of course, beyond any beauty that any mortal that can imagine.¡±

    I could see his eyes sparkles, I wanted to kill him. The Demon Queen is my waifu for this laifu, even if she was married to another demon lord. Well she doesn¡¯t like me, she said I was weak. I went to became the lord general and fight off the humans so I could prove myself.

    ¡°What do you mean?¡±-Grace

    ¡°She¡¯s immortal, you don¡¯t know?¡±- Vour

    ¡°Nope.¡± They all answered.

    ¡°I guess you poor heroes have many questions when you return to the human kingdom.¡±

    ¡°Yes we have, but we will to postpone it, after all we still have a battle to fight¡±- Leader said smiling

    ¡°Mmfufufu, I will be waiting¡±

    Once I left and returned to my sit with my generals, and the horns of war are blown.

    Well after that I pretty much got killed, my generals were weak compared to them and I was evenly match against them. Bitch was pretty much up my ass every time. I think she actually likes me, tsundere maybe? Turns out she just wanted to kill me badly. Mich was all excited going to the demon queen hope she also beat his ass. The two girls were thanking me for the huge experience point I dropped, apparently they all have game like ability, what a bunch of cheat characters I thought. Leader was pretty much sad that he needs to kill me and explain his plan to rule the human kingdoms and have peace with the demon race. I pretty much didn¡¯t care and was excited about getting to my next reincarnation and all in all it was good.

    God showed himself instead, ruined my mood actually, but didn¡¯t show any hostility, But he knows thought, he even snorted to make me know that he knows, what an ass right?

    ¡°Now I will explain everything you want to know¡±- God

    Well he explained me a lot of things so I was kind of thankful. Apparently the hero group I met was the same as me and will be reincarnated when they die, They were just lucky to be chosen and given a quick power start. I bet he planned all this and already know what will happen to me and the world I was sent, he was clearly trying to save that world, what a tsundere god kukuku. As I expected there are many heroes like me and that are sent to other worlds to restore balance for progress, He told me about his brilliant plan that he saw from human worlds to deal with monsters gave him an idea, the adventuring guild, instead he called it the Heroes Guild, we¡¯re basically his staffs, when I asked him why not  just do it himself, he got angry, saying his all powerful and tedious job doesn¡¯t suit him also that it¡¯s more interesting that way, he murmured about people not being thankful when he help them, so he created the guild so people could thank someone, God is really a tsundere.

    He explained to me the world types to me well they don¡¯t matter right now, I¡¯ll just explain it once I get to see what kind of world I¡¯m being born in.

    The hero guild apparently have its own universe that is specially created for us ,he was boasting about it I¡¯ll be able to go there once I reached a million lives, and at all cost heroes will not and must not speak about our super secret club around beings who isn¡¯t part of our super secret club, fufufu I thought I was special at first but turns out I¡¯m not but I feel more motivated now.

    He then dropped a bomb like it was nothing

    ¡°Oh and Scourges, be careful with them¡±- God

    ¡°Scourges?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re the bane of the Heroes Guild, they¡¯re just like you except they failed the trial¡±

    ¡°trial?¡± I asked

    ¡°Yes, when I first appeared before you, you already passed the trial.¡±

    ¡°Mmmfufufu was I good?¡±

    ¡°You all have a hundred lives to pass the trial, if you don¡¯t you become a scourge.¡±

    ¡°What are scourges?¡±

    ¡°They¡¯re like you except that they became drowned in power and lose themselves in it, thinking they¡¯re god themselves. They¡¯re not bad or good just souls that got very powerful, they just do what they want, Well the problem is that they always end up destroying the world they get reincarnated to. ¡±

    ¡°They why not just-¡°

    ¡°As I said.¡± I felt a very strong anger

    ¡°Hiii, nevermind.¡± I said as fast as I can

    ¡°The dangerous scourges are the one that can destroy a soul.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that simple for a god?¡±

    ¡°For me yes, for you it¡¯s impossible to destroy a normal soul. You heroes are given the power to destroy scourge souls. You will know when you see one, I specially made them easy to identify. Their soul release an ominous aura that you can sense anywhere in part of that world¡±

    ¡°How powerful are they?¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re an A rank,  A rank scourges have at least 10 times your power, but they¡¯re hard to discern, some A rank would at least have 100 times stronger than you.¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t that cheating!? Why would you even allow monster to roam around freely!¡±

    ¡°*sign* As someone who doesn¡¯t feel tired, you¡¯re awfully making me feel it. Fine, it¡¯s because it becomes a bigger problem.¡±

    I had a flashed in my mind, immediately I found the answer to my own question.

    ¡°You see now, its cause they manage to learn powerful magic with the help of their tainted soul. They ate the souls of my servants to become minor gods. I could destroy all of them at once, but I abide some rules that I laid off for myself. Then decide to let other minor gods to deal with them.¡±

    ¡°Hah. Okay. But hey there are other gods too?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I created many gods with my omnipotence¡± He said proudly

    ¡°Oh that¡¯s great then, I guess this gods can be problems too?¡±

    ¡°Good, you¡¯re getting the hang of this, they do. Most of the time, they became arrogant after millions of years and then start attacking each other just because they feel like it, they will end up destroying the world they live in. They¡¯re not as powerful as me so don¡¯t worry.¡±

    ¡°Haaaah¡­. Why are you creating things that will cause more problems?¡±

    ¡°What is the point of a world with no problems? No one will strive to do anything, they will just sit there like brain dead zombies. I created one, but over their planet¡¯s lifetime, they did nothing. Just waited till they were gone, never striving for evolution since it was unneeded.¡±

    ¡°Those problems aren¡¯t even normal!¡±

    ¡°What is normality, it just so happened you were born in a Source World. Do you even still consider yourself normal compare to what you used to be?¡±

    Source Worlds are planets like Earth, they lack Mana and Ki but are well versed in knowledge and science.

    ¡°You¡¯re making me tired as well.¡±

    ¡°Payback¡¯s a bitch.¡±

    ¡°I thought you¡¯re the good god!?¡±

    ¡°Anyway why didn¡¯t you want me to tell the other hero about me being reincarnated? They were heroes too right?¡±

    ¡°Simple, they were only starting their trial and isn¡¯t a part of my Heroes Guild.¡±

    ¡°I see.¡±

    ¡°We¡¯re almost done, I¡¯ll give you your reward for completing the trial.¡±

    ¡°ohohoh! Now we¡¯re talking.¡±

    ¡°From now on, your soul name will be known as Monochrome Gamma and I hereby announce your duty as a hero begins.¡±

    <table><tbody><tr><td>Congratulation for passing the Hero trial, you''re now a part of the Heroes Guild!</td></tr></tbody></table>

    ¡°Woah.¡±

    ¡°I will show you how to use it.¡±-God

    I suddenly had a quick flash of knowledge in my mind and started thinking

    ¡°Show Status!¡±

    <table><tbody><tr><td>Name:</td><td>Monochrome Gamma</td></tr><tr><td>Hero Rank:</td><td>A-</td></tr><tr><td>Level:</td><td>1179</td></tr><tr><td>Hero Title:</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>Stats:</td><td>Rank:</td></tr><tr><td>Strength</td><td>B+</td></tr><tr><td>Endurance</td><td>A-</td></tr><tr><td>Resistance</td><td>D-</td></tr><tr><td>Agility</td><td>A+</td></tr><tr><td>Intelligence</td><td>E-</td></tr><tr><td>Wisdom</td><td>B+</td></tr><tr><td>Willpower</td><td>A+</td></tr><tr><td>Perception</td><td>A+</td></tr><tr><td>Charisma</td><td>D-</td></tr><tr><td>Luck</td><td>F-</td></tr><tr><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>Miscellaneous</td><td>Points</td></tr><tr><td>Hero Points:</td><td>100</td></tr><tr><td>Villain Points:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Justice Points:</td><td>10700</td></tr><tr><td>Corruption Points:</td><td>110</td></tr><tr><td>Apocalyptic Points:</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>War Points:</td><td>6000</td></tr><tr><td>Tournament Points:</td><td>1000</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Others</td><td>=</td></tr><tr><td>Alignment:</td><td>Neutral Good</td></tr><tr><td>Popularity:</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Infamy:</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Masteries</td><td>Rank</td></tr><tr><td>Melee Mastery</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>Magic Mastery</td><td>D-</td></tr><tr><td>Range Master</td><td>A-</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Affiliations</td><td>Rank</td></tr><tr><td>Hero Guild</td><td>Beginner</td></tr></tbody></table>

    ¡°Pretty cool, so this is the game like ability they were talking about.¡±

    ¡°Yes, but what they have is not yet complete compared to yours.¡±

    ¡°I see, what are the points for?¡±

    ¡°Those are the currency of the Hero Universe. You can use them to buy things like gifts for reincarnation, soul weapons, magic, items, etc. that can be used in different universe.¡±

    ¡°Wait, so I can¡¯t just use the hero inventory to put things I want in it?¡±

    ¡°As a hero, once you die on that universe or leave you get to choose only one item from that universe to put in your inventory. You should pick carefully.¡±

    ¡°I see.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s that, anymore question?¡±

    ¡°Ah! The Hero Class and Title. Why don¡¯t I have them?¡±

    ¡°The Hero Title is very special and strong, you can only get them on Hero tournament that happens in the Hero Universe. The hero class system is something you get in the hero world.¡±

    ¡°Okay now, do I know everything I need to know?¡±

    ¡°The changes of becoming a hero. Most of your powers and specialty will be sealed until you reached adulthood.¡±

    ¡°I see.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s is all for now, then off you go Monochrome Gamma for your first hero mission! You will be given a quest once you reached the universe that you¡¯re put into!¡±

    -

    And that¡¯s how I got into this hero business that the God created.  I still haven¡¯t got into the heroes world that God was talking about, I¡¯m pretty much have lived thousands of lives, I should ask God next time to put a counter in the Hero Interface for that. Well you might think it gets boring, not really, sometimes I do feel tired but the Hero Quest I received often gets harder and harder the world to gets stronger and stronger, if you fail or die, you¡¯re send to another universe while another hero will take care of it. I met many heroes in my lives, most of them were just starting the trials when we get summon to a different world, I always feel lucky when I met other heroes who is also reincarnated, but that only means bad things, it¡¯s either the world is in severe danger or there is a scourge around.

    Yeah that¡¯s about it, my rank is now Veteran A+ hero melee and range hero. I tried grinding magic too but failed, I asked God about it, he said it was the limit of my intelligence, He said I could try to train but will most likely fail, which I indeed failed, I ask him why it doesn¡¯t work, He simply said that was how my soul made and I wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything about it, I gave up on it after that, I still could use a lot of magic but not Apocalyptic Level or Grand Magus Level, I could only use a single Grand Magus level spell [World Scout]which basically release all my mana to scout all information about the world, I used it one time and got into a big problem, they detected my huge mana release and immediately was revered as a son of God by the people, I kinda failed that quest.

    Oh! I can feel it! I¡¯m finally going out! I better get ready to cry, kinda hard actually.

 Chapter 1

    I notice I also have siblings who went out first before me, after minutes of waiting it was finally my time to go out, I feel myself being pulled out by a hand I felt that there was this sticky blob surrounding me, I tried to break out of it but I felt my limb strength wasn¡¯t enough thankfully I felt something broke it. Huh! I¡¯m missing something that I really hate, ah yeah the blinding light that happens, Wait am I blind!? What a troublesome life, I¡¯ve never been born blind.

    Shit, what should I do? am I even out yet? Probably since I can hear my siblings yelping, wait what!? Yelping?

    ¡°Nyu nyu¡­¡±-???

    ¡°Mew Mew¡­¡±-???

    I hear someone talking.

    ¡°Hmph! What a bunch of weakling, why are they crying?¡±-???

    It was a strong hoarse male voice

    ¡°Artashir, my stupid dear, all newly born cubs are like that, even you was once like that¡±-???

    Another voice said, it was a female voice that sounded motherly and pleasant with hints of exhaustion.

    ¡° *snort* What are you talking about? I, Artashir the White Devil was born a warrior.¡± ¨CArtashir

    I guess this man is my father, he sounded like a muscle headed person.

    You might be wondering why could I understand them, it¡¯s all thanks to this skill that I received when I became a hero.

    <table><tbody><tr><td>Hero Language Comprehension (Hero Ability: Passive)</td></tr><tr><td>You can understand and speak any languages naturally.</td></tr></tbody></table>

    It¡¯s a convenient skill that saves me time and effort to learn languages, when I wasn¡¯t a hero yet, I had to spend my time as a young kid learning native languages.

    ¡°Nyaah~.  That¡¯s because you were born in the wilderness as an orphan.¡±-???

    ¡°That¡¯s it! My wife Mayumi you¡¯re very smart as expected, we should send them now to the wilderness so they could become strong like me!¡±- Artashir

    Our father grabbed and carried us, I could feel him walking. Suddenly a loud feminine low voice stopped him.

    ¡°WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!!¡±-?

    ¡°Artashir!¡±- Mayumi

    Father stopped and turned around.

    ¡°What else but heading to the wilderness to train them. Worry not, we will not need food, I¡¯ll train them to hunt. ¡±- Artashir

    ¡°THAT¡¯S NOT THE PROBLEM YOU STUPID WARRIOR!¡±-?

    ¡°What are you nagging about you old hag?¡±- Artashir

    ¡°Your stupidity, I¡¯m already tired helping my daughter to give birth. I don¡¯t have strength to deal with your dumbness.¡±- Grandma

    So she¡¯s our grandmother huh.

    ¡°WHO YOU CALLING DUMB OLD HAG!?¡±- Artashir

    ¡°Who else but of course you, anyway just put them back on the bed and let them sleep¡±- Grandma

    ¡°HMPH! Old hag, can¡¯t you understand we¡¯re heading to the wilderness¡±- Artashir

    ¡°JUST PUT THEM BACK WHERE THEY WERE ARTASHIR!¡±- Mom

    Woah scary! I could feel my mother¡¯s bloodlust filling the entire place and my siblings begin yelping again.

    ¡°Look you made them cry again! How can they become strong if they will keep crying.¡± ¨CFather

    ¡°Just put them back or would you like me to beat you into pulp my dear husband.¡±- Mom

    ¡°Hmrgh¡­Fine!¡±-Father

    He walked us and placed us back on the confortable place where we once was and walk away.

    ¡°This is your fault old hag, my wife and I had a great plan and you had to stop us¡±-Father

    ¡°ENOUGH! Just name them before I get tired¡±- Mom

    ¡°What! That¡¯s stupid, they would get their name once they become warriors!¡±- Artashir

    ¡°NAME THEM!¡±- Mom

    ¡°*ROAR* Fine~ I will name them.¡± ¨CFather

    I could feel him walk towards us, he then picked me up, and begin talking.

    ¡°I will name this one, you name the others.¡±-father

    ¡°Hmmm. Why?¡±-mom

    ¡°He have not cried, we will become strong.¡±-father

    SHIT! I forgot to cry, I was losing myself thinking I¡¯m blind. Welp, too late now, I¡¯ll just go along with the father.

    ¡°What Isn¡¯t that a problem!?¡±-Grandma

    ¡°Urgh... I see, well but you do know that¡¯s a girl.¡±-Mom

    ¡°What are you talking about, this one definitely doesn¡¯t problem and will become strong. He will definitely become a great warrior, can¡¯t you see his strength. This is why I don¡¯t like shamans, I will name him Anaru, yes Anaru. HAHAHAHA! Anaru the great warrior!¡±-Father

    ¡°For Fera¡¯s sake it¡¯s a girl look she doesn¡¯t have one¡±-Mom

    After hearing what mother said, he quickly grabbed my pipi, wait where¡¯s my pipi? Oh I¡¯m really a girl. It¡¯s not like it never happened before, but it¡¯s very rare.

    ¡°Impossible.¡±-Father

    Said father with a shocked voice and dropped me on the floor

    ¡°ARTASH-¡°-mom who was immediately cut off by my father

    ¡°Look at her grip, her arms is incredibly strong.¡±-Father sounding very excited

    Suddenly someone picked me up again. It was my grandmother.

    ¡°Are you alright cute little cub? Did your stupid father dropped you bad? Yes he¡¯s very stupid isn¡¯t he. That stupid father of yours can¡¯t think of anything except Warriors path.¡±-Grandma

    ¡°WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING MY WARRIOR YOU OLD HAG!¡±-Father

    ¡°ANYWAY! My dear are you sure you still want to name her that?¡±-Mom

    ¡°HMPH! Of course, she is still a warrior.¡±-Father

    ¡°Come mother, let me get a hold of Anaru and bring the other two, I will name them.¡±

    ¡°You cute little blonde girl will be Kei.¡±

    ¡°And you strong silver boy will be Kyo.¡±-mom

    After I heard mom give them name I dozed off to sleep. Fufufu for now I¡¯m will be known the beast girl Anaru, what character should I play? Perhaps the caring onee-chan, sadistic onee-chan, pervert aniki or. Huhuhuhu So many choices, I¡¯ll just decide once I wake up.

    It¡¯s been 8 years since I was reincarnated to this world known as Thore, yep it¡¯s this world name for details let me show you

    <table><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Thore</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>World Of The Dead Gods and Ruins</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>-</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>World Difficulty</td><td>A+</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>-</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Status</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Era</td><td>Rank</td></tr><tr><td>Technology</td><td>Medieval and {Collection}</td><td>C+</td></tr><tr><td>Magic</td><td>Grand</td><td>A+</td></tr><tr><td>Science</td><td>Inexperienced and Undeveloped</td><td>E-</td></tr><tr><td>Culture</td><td>Collections of Eras</td><td>Undetermined</td></tr><tr><td>Weapons</td><td>High Medieval and New Gun Power</td><td>B-</td></tr><tr><td>Politics</td><td>High Monarchies and Republics</td><td>B</td></tr><tr><td>Dungeons</td><td>Abundant</td><td>S</td></tr><tr><td>War</td><td>Great War Possibility</td><td>=</td></tr><tr><td>Population</td><td>High and Increasing</td><td>=</td></tr><tr><td>Size</td><td>Three Earth Size</td><td>S</td></tr><tr><td>Monsters</td><td>Advanced,Civilized and Dangerous</td><td>A+</td></tr><tr><td>Gods</td><td>Inactive</td><td>=</td></tr><tr><td>Knowledge</td><td>Above Decent</td><td>D+</td></tr><tr><td>Society</td><td>Mediaval High</td><td>=</td></tr></tbody></table>

    {Thore, World of the Dead Gods and Ruins.  Is a world that recently taste peace from Thousands of Years Great Wars. The 90 Great Kings, 5 Emperors, The Republics and The Churches grew wary of the monsters fast and growing knowledge, fearing the worst that a Lord of Monsters was born in the vast unexplored wilderness, signed a peace agreement with each other to prepare for the worst. A hundred years have passed and their fear was confirmed they sent many scouts and armies towards the growing enemies and found a vast Kingdoms of Monsters ruled by an Emperor. In effort to stop their growing strength the Alliance created the Adventurer¡¯s Guild who explore the depths of the wilderness, Monster Hunter Guild who is tasked of killing dangerous monsters that will be troublesome in future, Military expeditions the sword of both adventurer and monster hunter guild a collection of both and the one who wars with the Monster Empire, while slowly growing the alliance power. }

    A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

    And here I, a member of the lion beast race, Anaru. Apparently we were all born blind but gain sight after a few months, it is for us to get use and strengthen our senses. I, Anaru was born In a backwater tribe near the wilderness where the Great Beast Horde resides. I¡¯m about 5¡¯0¡± due to beast races fast growth potential.  With a bust size of D cup, and a well-kept short boyish and greyish silver hair by mother, a sharp beautiful face with alluring gold eyes will surely break many hearts of many mortals, fufufu. My beautiful sister who have mother¡¯s gold hair and father¡¯s gold eye is in my far left and so is my lionbro who have father¡¯s silver fur and grandma¡¯s blue predator eyes standing on my far left with his special metallic silver spear given by father, the designs of it is masterly crafted, it was a spear that have well artistically carvings of a winged lion below its blade. They¡¯re my beloved siblings but today we¡¯re all enemies to each, because today is the special day I will gain my freedom and they will be the future of this tribe, ~nyahihihi. It¡¯s the unique tradition of the lion tribe to whom wins this battle will gain his freedom to create his own tribe, but of course I will not create a tribe, that¡¯s too troublesome, instead I will go to the nearest kingdom and join a monster hunter guild.

    I unsheathed my ninjato from its black scabbard on my waist. It have a dark stone like green blade that was made out of a rare poison stone from a dungeon, the effects is severe soring of the wound it inflicted, it was given to me by grandmother, it was her weapon during the great wars.

    Then using my feet, like how you would start to juggle a soccer ball, lift my second weapon towards my right hand, and grab it. It was a spear, a regular bronze spear given by father, although nothing special can be seen in this spear, it was special for father, it was father¡¯s first spear that experience a lot of hardships with him, even after all that there is no trace of scratch or damage and can be seen as a well maintained weapon, throughout father¡¯s experienced with this spear it developed a magical property known as {Unbreakable}, it may be nothing compared to the second spear of father that is my lionbro holding, his spear also have the same magic property and 3 others {Stone Piercer} {Deadly Strike} {Armour Crusher}, a very deadly lionbro spear. My sister who can only be seen as visibly unarmed is not, she is a shaman genius who can use plenty advance nature spell, a master of spirit summoning and talisman, she also inherited grandmothers ability of hidden weapons, her throwing knives with specialized cursed talisman, hidden blade and hidden sword breaker, she¡¯s an adorable walking armoury and grimoire.

    You might be wondering how come they¡¯re strong? Our parents are incredibly strong, with constant war that our family was involved and raids from monster in the wilderness they¡¯ve become what they are. But I also made sure they will be strong, not that I anticipated such event in fact we were surprised when father said this a month ago. It was because it was my part as there big sister that I had to made sure they become strong, so I decided to play the hateful genius talented onee-chan for them and it worked, fufufu. Then I should begin

    ¡°Do you have something to say to your onee-chan my beloved little brother and little sister, perhaps a farewell? After all¡­fufufufu¡±- Anaru

    ¡°¡±WE WERE BORN FIRST!¡±¡±- Kei and Kyo

    ¡°And thinking you already win, aren¡¯t you full of yourself Anaru¡±- Kei who was talking in a mocking tone

    ¡°That¡¯s right, you see, kyo will definitely win and get many women for his tribe! I will have many women from every beast race and then¡­ *mumble* *mumble*¡±-Kyo who was looking in the distant sky

    ¡°Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Have you grown disrespectfully Kei, that you can address your big sister in that manner and enough dreaming Kyo.¡±

    ¡°Hmm!? *cough* *cough* sorry onee-chan, I was just thinking of something huhuhuhu *roar*.¡±-Kyo with a smile and drooling face

    ¡°Why are you addressing her as big sister kyo!? You even said you were born first! Wipe that drool on your face, its disgusting, ugh.¡±- Kei contorting her face in disgust

    ¡°Fufufu, isn¡¯t it only naturally my little Kei that you should address me respectfully? I mean, Me being superior in every way is fact, aren¡¯t I worthy of such title? Nyahahahaha¡±

    ¡°Tch, I-i really hate you! Kyo it¡¯s time to get serious!¡± ¨CKei

    I see, they meant to tag team me, it was just as I most expected.

    In a manner of second kyo¡¯s face that was filled with perversion suddenly change into a face of strong resolve. Swiftly moving into his stance, holding the spear with both arms downward, a rush stance. Suddenly he moved in a flash, no he disappeared, In the corner of my vision I notice the sudden eruption of fog coming from my left.

    Clicking my tongue, Using my ninjato I move into defensive stance as I get eaten by the fog. My ear suddenly twitched and I sidestep on my left. There I see to where I was, Kyo thrusting his weapon in thin air to where my body was supposed to be impaled looking at me with a shocked eyes. I jumped back with a smirk on my face away from the fog since it¡¯s disadvantageous where I can¡¯t sense the other enemy, sure I can try hearing her but she is a master of stealth and the fog blocks my sense of smell. While thinking what¡¯s the best course of battle I notice my landing space had an odd looking vine plant sprouting from the ground, it was obviously a trap so I backflipped in air to change my position once more when the fog erupted again and suddenly moving with the fog I saw the silhouette of my brother in, he then launched himself in air towards me.

    I see, everything was a trap all along. I smiled at this, thinking this is what have they been doing all month, it was a well devised plan but they made one big mistake. Is that they underestimated me. I dived towards my brother, just a second away from my brother¡¯s spear I spin towards my right and dodge the spear then stabbing my brother stomach with the ninjato and left it there.

    Before already landing gracefully I could already sense moving objects towards my landing spot and so I used my spear to impale the ground to delay my landing and use it like some sort of a pole vault. Finally landing on the ground, I immediately readied my stance holding the spear with both hands for the next wave of weapons that are being thrown, using the blade of my spear I deflected the incoming objects, when I finally thought the waves of knives finally come to an end, from every direction I sensed objects coming for me, As they were about to hit, I span my spear gracefully and fast enough to deflect all the incoming knives.

    Then there I heard a gasping voice from afar, with all my strength I threw the spear.

    After a few seconds of waiting the fog finally dissipated and what comes to my vision was the sight of my little sister lays unconscious on the ground while already being healed by my mother and grandmother, My father was also their and so is my brother, who was both standing and looking at me, my brother who have a huge grin on his face and my father who had a fierce look in his eyes.

    Thus I won the battle as expected.

    <table><tbody><tr><td>For reaching adulthood, your Hero Seal have been removed.</td></tr></tbody></table>

    kukuku.

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    Sorry, did some quick edits, forgot to do some proofreading before posting.  :blush:

 Chapter 2

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    A lone man can be seen standing on the side of the dirt road and looking at the distant

    ¡°Hmph! She¡¯s finally gone¡±

    The huge crossed arm beastman said to himself as he was looking at the distant road. This beastman has silver fur and a body full of scars. on his back a black spear can be seen with a horned lion chimera carvings. This warrior of a beastman is Artashir The White Devil. He is here to escort his daughter to the road that leads to the nearest kingdom.

    ¡°Hmph! She¡¯ll be fine¡± He said to himself trying to console his own worries.

    ¡°She¡¯s strong and smart, no need to worry.¡± And again.

    He fears his daughter will be endangered in the kingdoms, he had been there himself, its filled with corruption and evil that he himself couldn¡¯t understand. Slavery, treachery and such he had witnessed. For the beastmen it was dishonourable to commit such vile actions, but to humans and such it was luxury, he had been hired by those so called human nobles as mercenary during his youth and even now he still doesn¡¯t understand the pleasure to partake such actions. He was even enraged to see fellow beastmen to be enslaved to fight for survival, but he wasn¡¯t dumb to take actions about it.

    Artashir wasn¡¯t a man of god or a faithful being, as he was born in the wilderness alone that he doesn¡¯t understand to why people need gods, but now, all he could do is to pray for her daughters safety to the Old Gods, and now he understood why people do it, it was to tell someone of their worries, he felt relieve after wards and journeyed home.

    His daughter was a warrior since birth he thought, even when hunting she would run towards the target and kill it with apparent ease, disregarding the ways of hunt. She wasn¡¯t born a hunter but her warrior blood is strong. She is also smart like her mother, that I am grateful, but not as smart as her sister. All of my children are strong, he thought, but even my wife wonders why they¡¯re strong, it was like we gave birth to the future of the whole beast horde, but I know, my daughter Anaru will always bring out the blood of the warrior from her siblings, I know because her eyes always look like that of the old man who taught me, the old beast king, Fenrir The Wise, it was filled with power that no normal beastmen can see, only the true kings could put much power in those they look at.

    But even if my daughter is that magnificent, I still worry for her, the kingdom is full of many schemers

    When she said she will live for the kingdoms as soon as she won and packed herself, I felt scared for her but I knew I couldn¡¯t change a warrior¡¯s mind, my wife tried to stop her but of course it was futile, even the old hag saw it coming. My son who¡¯s always thinking of women, simply said that to bring him back a women of the kingdoms, but I could sense his worries in his voice, my son is also warrior I thought who is similar to me and can¡¯t deal with such subjects, fuhahaha to think I had such great seeds.

    As soon as I see my home, a long and wide hut made out of wood and tree leaves . I notice my daughter Kei, her eyes are teary red and she is on the floor rolling and throwing a tantrum crying.

    As soon as I approached her she noticed me and the first thing she said was while looking at me in the eye.

    ¡°Where did you take onee-chan you devil!¡±

    I laughed internally, to think she loved her sister this much that she would let others see her in this unsightly figure and then suddenly something hit me in my mind.

    ¡°Fu..fu.. fuhahahaha!¡±

    To think I could think of such plan, yes this could work, but not now, they¡¯re still na?ve and weak, I¡¯ll make sure to train them in the ways of the kingdoms.

    ¡°why are you laughing you stupid devil warrior lion, blegh¡±- Kei sticking out her tongue

    ¡°huhu¡­hu.. Nothing my little Kei. Nothing at all, huhuhu¡±

    ¡°Urgh, creepy old man, you look a lot like like brother right now.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? You look a lot like your mother right now.¡±

    She then blush and ran away somewhere. Then I announced their hell training that I created just for them that dinner.

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    In a beautiful plains of the beastmen, can be seen lush lands filled with life. Peculiar glowing colourful insects and flowers that contains great beauty, some of these flowers have an out of the world look to them that made them look as if they¡¯re made of expensive crystals that made them glow, this is caused by great mana concentration around this area that they evolved in such way. In this paradise-like place a beastman with eyes full of greed, cuts the delicate looking flowers while drooling. If you see this beastman you would immediately think she¡¯s a thief committing heinous crimes. Yes, the beastman is a female with a boyish yet feminine face that you might mistake her for a bishounen but once you see her chest you¡¯ll think otherwise.  She wore a brown opened fur coat, inside are dark leather clothes, leather furred pants and metallic boots. she carries a robed spear behind her waist, while on the side is a dagger, and on the other is a bag. To confirm it, she is indeed committing a great crime on this nature¡¯s sanctuary. You might ask, "who in their right mind would defile such beautiful place?"  but it is none other than Anaru the defil- warrior. As soon as Anaru was done defiling the place, she stood up and looked at her collection of thievery.

    ¡°ompf! Time to return to my travels on the road to become the greatest monster hunter in this world!"

    These flowers that had mana materialization around them are rather rare and indeed worth lots of money as they can only be found in places similar to this.

    ¡°ompf! Time to return to my travel and the road as greatest monster hunter in this world!¡±

    The easygoing fellow returned to dirt road with careless attitude while singing a lullaby.

    I¡¯ve been traveling for a few days now, it was rather uneventful since there was no bandits or slavers around this area that I could toy with, even the monsters I hunt to fill my stomach were rather weak. My leaving as well was rather uneventful if you didn¡¯t count my mother rolling on the floor crying and throwing a tantrum.

    At this pace I will arrive at the first city of the Kingdom of Agishirian in a month, it was one of the closes to the beast horde and considered to be welcoming to our kind and even formed an alliance long ago with the horde, although you might think they did it because the beastmen are known to be honourable allies and great warriors, their kingdom is actually known as the unmatched fortitude of all kingdoms, not because they fear the other countries that borders them but because they¡¯re the closes to the wilderness, the Agishirian Kingdom is located north of the beast horde plains and east to the wilderness, northwest of it is the great Neith Magic Empire and west lies Roses Knight Republic which both have constant skirmishes and dispute on their borders, southwest lies the Vile Lake, a great lake that inhabits numerous undead monsters, in the center of the lake a dungeon tomb that generates many undead around the region, it¡¯s popular for the guilds to hunt there to gain experience for battle, the dungeon itself is huge and still have not conquered for its depths and strong monsters.

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    As I walk on the road I could see from a far a carriage ahead the road, I run fast to its driver side and a see bearded old looking human person sitting on it and to what it seems two huge ferrets pulling it, the old man who was wearing a well sewed robe with a moon necklace symbolising his faith, there is a sheathed sword on his lap.

    I smiled the best smile I can while looking at the old man who was looking at me and said trying to look cute

    ¡°Heya old man, where are you going?¡±

    ¡°Why? are you going to rob me? As you know I¡¯m very strong, you pesky bandits are no match to me.¡± The old man said loudly with annoyance and stopped the carriage.

    My face contorted and as I was about to say my request another voice rings in.

    ¡°Grandpa! Are you picking a fight again? How many times do I have to tell you that you¡¯re too old to do such things.¡±

    ¡°Forgive me young master. As you see my lady, the young master is not quite fond of bandits as well, if we may live.¡±

    ¡°Stop grandpa!¡±

    The voice came from inside of the carriage that was about to move again, I could hear it made a loud exaggerated sign. The door on the side of the carriage then open, and what it looks like a short young blonde human boy around the age of 6-8 came out from it. He had messy hair, and his eyes are blue, he wears a noble outfit.

    As soon as the cute little noble saw me, he looked surprised and whispered, ¡°a beastman¡­¡±

    ¡°Hallo hallo¡± I said looking at the little boy while waving my hands.

    ¡°Greetings sir, to what do we owe the pleasure of helping you?¡± said the boy

    ¡°I was wondering if you¡¯re going to Agishirian and would mind to let me join the ride? Also I¡¯m a girl, look here¡± I said as I puff my chest

    ¡°Hey! Don¡¯t you dare seducing young master you lustful beast and what do you think? This road only leads toward the Agishirian Kingdom!¡±- old man

    ¡°Grandpa!  F-forgive our rudeness my lady, of course we wouldn¡¯t mind a little company, please come inside.¡±

    ¡°No need, I don¡¯t want to intrude you any further young man, I¡¯ll just sit together with old man.¡± I said happily

    ¡°I-is that so, please do as you please.¡± Said blushing

    ¡°How dare you reject the young master kindness, you ungrateful girl.¡±

    ¡°grandpa!¡±

    Thus I joined the peaceful travellers on their rode to the kingdom, but only to get it rowdier.

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    We¡¯ve been travelling for a week now and the old man said we will arrived in 4 days when I asked him, the old man is a quiet man but talks when you talk to him, he seemed always annoyed thought but when I realized what was going on, I couldn¡¯t help but feel annoyed as well. His name is Kane Rodrick Lordran and the young master was Arisland Ulfric, a son of a wealthy merchant and now also a merchant. When I ask him why he calls him grandpa when he calls him young master it turns out this old man used to be a veteran mercenary and a friend of his grandfather that and he just also started calling him grandfather, I don''t think this old man gets tired too, we haven''t stop a single day or rest for sleep, when I asked him if he was not tired he simply said "If I can''t do this much for the young master, I wouldn''t be his personal caretaker". We are pretty quiet today since the surrounding was tense but as trying to break the ice I spoke.

    ¡°Ne~ ne~ old man~ ne~¡±

    ¡°What do you want now you annoying brat?¡±

    ¡°What is the city called that we are heading and what does it look like?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s called Ivory City, what does it look like? Calling it a city might not be right, if you build a city in a fortress that might be it, a fortress city it is brat¡±

    ¡°Is that so old man? I can¡¯t wait, by the way old man why are there people tailing us?¡± I said nonchalantly

    ¡°Hmrgh, so you knew, well not that I¡¯m surprised, you¡¯re a beastman after all. They¡¯re most likely criminals after the young master to try and kidnap him for ransom, not that they can. I¡¯m strong after all.¡±

    ¡°Hoh~ I see, so old man is still strong?¡±

    ¡°Of course, I¡¯ve fought in the Great Wars myself and survived when I was still young.¡±

    ¡°I see, so who did you fight for? My grandparents also fought in it.¡±

    ¡°Agishirian who else! I see so your grandparents did too? I was a well-known mercenary at the time and worked with many beastmen myself.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know about my grandpa but my grandma title was Painful Jade¡±

    ¡°Painful Jade¡­where did I hear that¡­ oh! I see.¡±

    ¡°What old man?¡±

    ¡°Your grandmother was known as well! She was known as the poison executioner amongst the ranks of the kingdom, to think I would meet an allied grandchild in my travel. I have fought a long with her myse-¡±

    ¡°You seem delighted old man. My grandmother is amazing isn''t she, of course I¡¯m amazing too fufufu.¡± I knew it was going to be another one of his long story so I cut in.

    ¡°Yes, but the grandchild turned out to be a brat.¡± Giving me a smack on my head

    ¡°Kugh!¡±

    ¡°How about you old man? What was your title.¡±

    ¡°Lordran The Twinblade¡±

    ¡°Hoh~ but isn¡¯t that just a sword and there¡¯s only one of it¡±

    ¡°I have long abandon the title and the art of blade along with it, right now I¡¯m just the old caretaker of the young master.¡±

    I see. By the way, the people tailing us are getting closer, they¡¯ll meet us in a day. What will you do?¡± I said smiling

    ¡°Hmph! Just as you said, I will meet them.¡± He looked annoyed but there¡¯s a little prideful smirk on his face.

    I couldn¡¯t help but laugh

    ¡°Nyahahahaha! I see, that¡¯s good old man, it¡¯s great you¡¯re still kicking. I can¡¯t wait for it.¡±

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 Chapter 3

    Inbetween two ridges of the road that leads to Ivory City, the young merchant Arisland Ulfric and his personal aide Kane Rodrick Lordran along with Anaru stopped the carriage. The old man went down from the driver seat of the carriage and unbound the beasts that pulled it. He then moved them on the side of the road and tied them on a stake. He ran back on the carriage and knocked on the door.

    ¡°Young master, quickly give me the magical device.¡± ¨C He said in a hurry

    You can hear objects being moved or thrown inside the carriage, after a minute have passed the door opened with the young man handing over a steel tube. Arisland had a pale face filled with worrying, he was anxious but didn¡¯t say anything.

    ¡°Lock the door young master, do not open it until I come back or the help arrives, Do not forget to doubt them, they might pretend they¡¯re from the guilds, ask them to get your uncle and not your father, he¡¯s a knight he¡¯ll come when he hears your troubles, he likes you very much so do not worry.¡±-Lordran

    ¡°Be careful grandpa! I will do it just as you say!¡± ¨C His voice was filled with concern but a strong resolve can also be heard from it.

    ¡°You do not need to worry young master, I am strong and pesky bandits are no match against me. That is all young master, now use the scroll and cast it on the carriage.¡±

    Although normal eyes wouldn¡¯t be able to sense it, a surge of mana filled the carriage, it was a protection magic that enhanced and strengthen objects that are targeted by it.

    The old man walk ahead in front of the carriage and used the steel tube, he pressed the rear end of the tube then the other end release a gold light that launched into the sky, after reaching certain height the gold light stopped but only for a moment and begun to move towards the direction of Ivory City.

    Anaru seeing this jumped down from the carriage and approached the old man who was watching the gold light.

    ¡°Ne~ ne~ ne~¡±

    ¡°What is it now brat? Can¡¯t you sense we¡¯re in trouble?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not it old man, I was wondering why didn¡¯t you do that from the beginning and what was that?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s an expensive magical device sold by the guild to call for help they only sell it to guild members and some merchants who can afford it in extra price, why I didn¡¯t use it before it¡¯s because it lacks range and it¡¯s an insurance to assure the safety of the young master. It will trigger a receiver in the nearest guild calling for help.¡±- explaining while annoyed

    ¡°So what will you do now old man? You see there is about 30 people tailing who will be here any moment now and about 50 ahead of us.¡±

    He looked surprise for a moment but his face turned into a serious one.

    ¡°That many, hmph! I should be the one asking you that beastman, what will you do? Maybe you can ask them to let you through, but I highly doubt they will let you pass.¡±

    ¡°Nyahahahaha! That¡¯s right old man! The bandits will definitely defile this pure maidens body as they take turns in raping me after all I¡¯m a real beauty fufufu.¡±

    ¡°Tch, Now that you mentioned it, you should have gone inside with the young master when you had the chance, I don¡¯t have any leeway to babysit you brat.¡± He seems more annoyed this time

    ¡°Now now old man, you insult my warriors pride if you say something like that.¡±

    ¡°A warrior huh, figures, so what will you do now?¡±

    ¡°How about this old man, I¡¯m extremely nice and really getting stiff , I shall lend you a hand, I¡¯ll take care of the front while you take care of the back.¡± Anaru said with fake sincerity in her voice.

    ¡°And they say warriors of the beastmen are honourable, no, maybe you¡¯re an exception you¡¯re a brat after all. I was expecting you to think of it as a repayment for your free ride.¡±

    ¡°Kindness cannot be repaid old man, since the value will always not be equal, so what do you say old man?¡±

    ¡°Not like you have a choice yourself and no I¡¯ll take care of the front and you go deal with the ones tailing us, brats shouldn¡¯t play with that many flames. If something happens to you it¡¯s your own damn fault for being a brat.¡±- He looks unsure but he didn¡¯t have any choices.

    ¡°What a greedy old man! Nyahahaha! Do not worry of me old man, as I said I can take care of myself.¡±

    With that done, the old man walk away and drew his sword throwing it¡¯s sheathe on the ground.

    With that, Anaru move to her position on the rear while removing her fur coat and leaving her robed spear on the driver¡¯s seat.

    I wasn¡¯t planning on using the spear since my plan is to attack them head on as soon as they arrive in range carrying the spear will only slow me down. My attack will throw them in surprise and confusion and when they recover they will surely aim for me, it¡¯s on of the oldest trick in the book and that is to do the most unexpected of the enemy.

    After  minutes of waiting  they arrive at my field of vision, I moved into my crouching stance that look similar to a Wushu stance were your right foot is stretch towards your front and your other foot is bending in crouch, I hold my dagger with left hand in front of my face.

    I smiled at the tailers who were riding on horses with no formation whatsoever, the rider who was either the tracker or leader who was leading them will be my first target. He was ahead of them by a few feet, so I shouldn¡¯t worry about getting ran over by the horses.

    As soon as he entered my reach, directing enough strength to my feet and send myself flying towards the first rider, I used my elbow to drag him off his horse, when we both landed I stabbed his neck leaving my back exposed to the other riders, I could hear the horse growls behind me then my instincts clicks in and I jump rolled away.

    What I saw was a throwing spear sticking in the ground. The riders who are now more serious than how they looked before assumed a formation. It then hit me, the realization that I was fighting no ragtag bandits, this band of riders was equipped with chain mails and all have head protections of either leather or metal domed helms.

    I remained calm and slowly move back away, as soon as they saw me move they begin to slowly surround me but maintaining a safe distance, slowly but surely they surrounded me. Those who have swords or so dismounted while drawing their weapons as they surrounded me.

    A man on horse stepped forward, I could sense he was the strongest of all them and my instincts tells me he was the one who threw the spear. His head wears a bascinet helmet with metal mask covering his entire face, inside of it is an aventail. He wore a green robe and on his shoulder cuff can be seen a long sleeve of chainmail and below his knees are leather hide boots. He¡¯s a tall man with huge built arms and wide chest.

    He then came down from his horse and another man took it away, he pulled out his weapon from his back, a greatsword known as Zweihander he then positioned himself into a rear left stance.

    The man in front of me speaks

    ¡°You¡¯re very agile for a beast.¡±

    ¡°You¡¯re quite a big guy for someone in chainmail.¡±

    He looked surprised that I answered and paused for a moment then continue speaking again.

    ¡°Only few men survived my throw.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? I am honoured.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why we have a tradition here, those who survive my spear is my prey.¡±

    The surrounding men laughed and begun shouting there threats.

    ¡°Cut his feet!¡±

    ¡°Show him hell that he¡¯d wish he was killed by that spear!¡±

    ¡°Look at this fierce shorty! Slash of his eyes!¡±

    ¡°Just kill him already!¡±

    And so on

    ¡°Quite a bunch of rowdy fellows you have here for me.¡±- I said

    ¡°You seems confident.¡±

    ¡°Not really, by the way you don¡¯t look like bandits.¡±

    ¡°Is that so?¡±

    ¡°You look like soldiers.¡±

    ¡°Maybe?¡±

    Looks like I will not get any answers from this guy.

    I moved into a more practical and tight knife stance, The blade of the dagger is now above my hand, I¡¯m completely disadvantage in range, power and protection. My only chances of winning this disadvantageous fight is by aiming for his eyes or slowly chipped away his chainmail by hitting the same spot over and over again but both will be difficult, damned my stupid excitement I should have brought my spear and this would have been so much easier.

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    I casted High Tiered Spells on me [Wind Boost][Lighter Burden][Mana Field][Mana Blade].

    [Wind Boost] is an intermediate spell that increase caster¡¯s mobility using mana that will push you towards the direction you¡¯re moving at, the more you move the more it will eat your mana. It¡¯s called wind boost despite not being a wind spell because it feels like a wind caressing your entire body when you use it.

    [Lighter Burden] an advance enhancement spell, it decreases the caster¡¯s body weight for a period of time.

    [Mana Field] Magus tier spell, detects any movement around the caster¡¯s decided radius field. The bigger Mana Field radius the larger the mana consumption. Movement detected around the field will also decrease your mana to replace it. An overload of this spell can create a mana explosion effect, its advice to only use it in a short period of time.

    [Mana Blade] Creates a sharp mana around the targeted object, mana blade gets broken after first impact is done.

    As I was done with my preparation, A voice screamed out amongst the rider.

    ¡°Be careful Loreine, he¡¯s a mana user!¡±

    He was shocked on hearing this, and I smiled I wouldn¡¯t let this chance get away, I stepped in as fast as I could, My dagger was already near his face before anyone could see, he tilted his head making it only grazing his helmet, my mana sense detected a movement from his sword heading to my back, I dodge down and kick his knees before diving away. But he wouldn¡¯t let it end there, he pursued me with an above the head stance and was going to slash me down, I regain my defensive stance as fast as I can, It was too late when I realize it was a feint, he had already pulled a reverse back kick on me and was sent off balance. I was too focused on the movement of his long sword that I made a mistake. I saw him again approaching with a above the head stance, but this time he will surely cut me down, I disabled my [Mana Field] and put a large mana on [Wind Boost] and rolled to my side before the sword hit me. Doing this made me now unable to use both [Mana Field] and [Wind Boost], if I continue using [Wind Boost] I would be unable to use any [Mana Blades] right now I can only use 20 of them. As soon as I rolled out of danger I did a kip out while facing the ground and quickly performed a low spinning sweep kick to return the favour. With all my strength once again I move to stab his eyes while he is immobilized but was stopped by his left hand, his hand that stopped the blade was cut deep and started bleeding profusely, he let out a groaning noise before I notice his other hand that was holding his sword moved and slashed me, I jumped back and let myself deliberately fall behind my back but was still grazed by his sword due to its ridiculous reach. Never mind, calling it a simple graze was stupid, that thing tore off my flesh making me unable to use my left arm.

    While we were both trying to get as much rest possible, the surrounding men came back to their senses and started saying their opinion.

    ¡°That kid ain¡¯t half bad.¡±

    ¡°To manage to wound Loreine and even to push him back at that!¡±

    ¡°Loreine must be wet down there, to accidentally find such opponent while we¡¯re on a mission!¡±

    ¡°What just happened?¡±

    When the commotion stopped, I get back on my feet and see the swordsman name Loreine do as well.

    He then talk.

    ¡°What is a beast warrior doing here so far away from his lands?¡±- with voice filled with questions

    I smirked and returned a question

    ¡°Why is a talented swordsman playing banditry?¡±

    With his left arm wounded I don¡¯t have to worry of his speed and his power is decrease. He used a Fool¡¯s stance, although this stance disadvantage him the most, he didn¡¯t have any other choice. I also could hear him whisper pains, I guess the dagger¡¯s effect kicked in.

    Finally this duel is about done, I¡¯ll take hostage of him so I can run off back to the carriage and grab my spear, thinking along those lines I readied my crouching stance, it was the same stance I used before but this time I only have an arm and it will be more difficult to control my body.

    As I was about to eject myself I felt a huge killing intent coming from behind. The world became slow and my instincts kicks in, I moved my entire head towards my right shoulder as I feel the gust of wind passed me, what was inside that gust of wind was a wooden arrow with red broadhead imbued with mana.

    When I looked to see who the assailant was, I saw a drow elf smiling with devious grin. She looks exactly like a drow elf, black skin, red eyes, white hair, long ears, beautiful elongated face and wearing black leathers. It didn¡¯t surprise me that I wasn¡¯t able to detect the drow since they are natural born stealth race, but what surprised me was an entire new band of riders containing a bunch of strong people. The one who stands out the most is next to the drow elf ,he is riding a rhinoceros looking animal with lizard scales and six feet it wasn¡¯t as tall as the horses but it will be around my shoulder height, he stood in the middle of this band, extremely large muscled arms with veins popping out of it, completely hairless, an intimidating sanpaku face, wearing only a white sleeveless shirt, pants and a shoe, this man who is completely lacks protections looks the strongest of them.

    When I understand where did this band came from, I shuddered to think that the old man was defeated. My survivability have reached it¡¯s lowest, with the drow with them even If I hold hostage I would just be cut down, and my only hope of getting the spear is block by 20 or so strong men, even if I somehow manage to get my spear the only thing I could do is escape, leaving the poor young boy behind and wait for reinforcement but even so with one broken arm and the continuous blood loss will I even manage to get far away? But thank the gods that luck was on my side as they begun to speak with each other.

    ¡°Looks like our little Loreine find quite a catch.¡± Said by the drow

    The strong band laughed and some snickered.

    ¡°Enough! Loreine thanks to your stupid games, this operation is a complete failure, the guilds have arrived and we weren¡¯t able to gain the package, get back on your horses we¡¯re pulling out.¡±-baldy said in a very angry tone.

    After hearing that, both bands begun retreating, the drow elf rode next to me and gave me a flying kiss, while a black wolfman approached to analyse me and started laughing maniacally when he was done. When they finally reached the end of the ridge that leads back to beast lands, A consecutive explosions of black smokes covered their escape.

    When they were finally gone I took a deep breath, realizing I was spare from death. I looked towards the carriage and I could see from a far the old man is running at full speed towards me with a large bleeding wound on his chest and cuts all over his body that destroyed his robe. When I saw the old man, I definitely thought he was an undead, no he¡¯s definitely one, what the hell is up with this old?

    Not far behind the old man were more riders, this is the guild rescuers I thought.

    The blood loss finally affects me as I am slowly drifting to unconsciousness.

    It was all thanks to me getting overconfident and underestimated the strength of the bandits and those were now simple bandit groups, i''ll definitely make the old bastard spill who they were.

    ¡°nyah~ damn it, I lost.¡±

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 Side Story: Loreine and the Roses Knights

    A long time ago a healthy baby boy was born in the noble household of Agatha, this boy was named Loreine and the only successor of the Agatha nobility because his mother died after giving him birth, ever since he was a kid he was very fond of the heroic tales of their nations, the Roses Knight Republic, the tales of heroic knights who slayed countless dragons that razed villages and purges of vile magic who spread darkness, in the name of justice. Thanks to his father who told him this stories and the books that he read he then he inspired to be a knight and serve the nation. He was proud of his own country at the very young age that he will even argue with adults when he hears them complaining about their country.

    In pursue of knighthood he approached his father and told him he wanted to be a knight, his father of course was delighted and immediately hired a sword instructor even though he was still young. After only months of training, his master was surprised at the speed of his developments, he could easily grasp a basic technique after a day of training and master it in a month, his battle sense was on par with veterans, after seeing this his master told to his father that he was a sword prodigy and suggest to send him to the Republic¡¯s Knight Academy in which he could hone and master the style of swords on his coming age and without a doubt his father readily agreed, when he heard of this good news from both of his father and instructor he vigorously trained himself for the next years.

    After the day of his coming age and the first day of his young man years, a 15 years old. He went to Republic¡¯s Knight Academy in the capital of Roses Kingdom, Azure. In there he was given both written and physical exam, but on his case like a few others who already knew basic swordsmanship or other weaponry, they were given another test for it. Of course he passed it, instead starting of as a trainee, he was moved to a scholar rank, he only showed the basic techniques so he could follow his master¡¯s plan for him, his master told him that It will be better to start at the bottom were he could show his worth as a knight and swordsman at the same time revised and re-mastered his stances. Everything went just as planned. He caught many eyes of the people of the academy, in only a year he manage to be given the highest academic rank as a senior free scholar, the next year he finally became an initiate to train his sword, with his mind completely trained and understand the principle of swordsmanship from his scholar days he could now easily learn the styles and stances just by seeing them performed and he himself will analyse it in complete detail. At this point he was already known throughout the whole academy as the prodigy and the youngest initiated, even his fellow initiates knew he was sword genius. The next year he became the youngest of the 10 savant of the academy, the savant itself consist of only older adults who was around 20 years older than him who even used to serve as knights.

    During these years he met many friends, foes, and rivals alike and was even was blessed with a lover.

    His savant year was extremely hard for him as he didn¡¯t made any progress at all and reached the bottleneck of learning swordsmanship, he feared he was going to be stuck as a savant, in resort lowered his pride and asked the other savants for guidance, they simple said to him that some things can¡¯t be learn by studying. He couldn¡¯t understand what they meant but someone cleared it for him.

    It was the master of the academy, a legendary figure of the Great Wars, he¡¯s Jeanne the Silver Roses Knight, his greatest feet the Battle of Eden were he slayed thousands of thousands of enemies.

    Jeanne''s side story

    <b>Spoiler</b> : <input type=''button'' value=''Show'' class=''spoilerButton''> Jeanne along with his fellow Silver Roses Knights was given an order of no retreat and no surrender on the Castle of Eden against the invaders siege. Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months, slowly their moral and munitions even food supply decreases. A week later the turning point happened, the Knight Commander of Silver Roses was slain when the invaders manage to climb up the walls, the knight commander himself continued to fight even all the wounds he had, he fall next to the vice commander and repeated the orders of the Republic. This cause panic amongst the order but those who were near the Knight Commander were more resolute than ever, this includes Jeanne. After seeing the knight commander¡¯s honourable knight¡¯s death, all those who were near him is ready themselves to face death with no fear.

    After a few weeks, Jeanne caught a wind of instigators planning to open the gates to surrender. Jeanne thought they were blinded by fear and turned into brainless men. He told this to the commanding officer, the vice commander, he ordered him to deal with it along with the loyal men. Jeanne along with the men who witnessed the Knight Commander, captured the instigators, of course they fought but they were overpowered by Jeanne and his fellow loyals. This caused confusion in the order but was soon cleared up by the vice commander by shaming the instigators and removing their ranks. The vice commander then explained how they basically are selling us to death, ¡°who would think they would let us go after slaying countless of their men?¡± a lot of the knights thought. Jeanne who was given the honour of punishing them then proposed to attach white flags on the leader and throw them all of ledge. This was not the vice commander expected of Jeanne, since treason is punishable by death according to martial law.

    As soon as the instigators recover from their fall, they ran towards the enemy lines only to be brutally killed. The whole order was watching this scene transpired, they finally understand there was no escape or room for surrender only survival.

    Two years have passed, only 4 remained of the knights of Silver Rose and still 3000 thousands of invaders remained. The day before is the death of the vice commander and handful of knights, he was killed by barrages of arrows that was aimed towards Jeanne, his rusty and unmaintained armet was penetrated by an arrow that went straight to his head. Jeanne vowed that he will kill every enemy before he die.

    The final day of battle, with only Jeanne and three others were alive, and the enemy decide to move all their remaining forces.

    A republic scout who was tasked of collecting information about the invaders on Castle of Eden saw an active siege occurring, he was surprised and rode back to the republic council as fast as he can.

    When the scout explained what he saw near Eden Castle the whole council was shocked and immediately scramble the entire reserve of knight orders to reinforce Eden Castle. This wasn¡¯t the Republic¡¯s fault, but was the cause of the invaders continued moving towards the capital from the western defences, they concluded the entire western have fallen to the invaders, they only manage to know it now is because they¡¯re finally regaining footholds in western lines.

    The four Silver Roses Knights, who are defending the walls, killed the enemy with every strike. Hours of hours doing this and they get tired, losing energy, and such, one of them finally falls, loud cheers from the enemies roared, and another dies until Jeanne and his last fellow knight is left.

    Then the echoes of hope rode amongst the wind, it was the horns of war only belonging to the Republic. Every knight orders were present, The Royal Blue Roses, The Blood Roses, The Golden Roses, and more. The Invaders signals the retreat.

    Jeanne who saw this, cried tears of joy inside his helmet, but the battle is not yet over, his fellow knight yelled at him, his voiced was hoarse, when Jeanne look at him he could swear he saw tears as well from the space of his helmet, but then Jeanne saw his last friend looming death. Close behind him was an invader standing from the ground still holding his sword. Jeanne run as fast as he can ignoring all possible dangers that surrounds him while screaming the name of his fellow knight. But alas, he was all too late. The invader stabbed his friend at the back and pulled his sword out, his friend fall on the ground, the invader delivering the killing blow was killed by Jeanne.

    Jeanne turned his fellow knight around, removed his own helm that he was wearing all this years and removed his fellow knight¡¯s helm.

    Jeanne said to his fellow knight that they won, the dying knight replied by whispering ¡°Glory to the Silver Roses.¡±

    Jeanne cried more but this time it was sadness. ¡°Was it truly glory?¡± Jeanne thought, but stopped this train of thought because he didn¡¯t want to disrespect all of the sacrifices of his friends made. He told the knight that he doesn¡¯t know what to do without the Silver Roses.

    The dying knight asked Jeanne to grab the nearest banner of the Silver Roses and Jeanne did. He grabbed a tattered banner. The dying knight asked him to stand him up and Jeanne did. The dying knight asked Jeanne to wave the banner and Jeanne did. The dying knight screamed with all his remaining strength ¡°Glory to the Silver Roses!¡± and Jeanne also did. The knight¡¯s arm that was on Jeanne¡¯s shoulder was removed as he falls into the ground, Jeanne cried, he did. Jeanne continued waving the Knight of the Silver Roses banner while screaming the Silver Roses chant, Jeanne now knows what to do. All knight¡¯s eyes were staring at him, all the knights who were present starts yelling the same chant ¡°Glory to the Silver Roses!¡±, no one could cheer for themselves for winning this battle for they have no rights to do so, no one else but Jeanne and the fallen Silver Roses.

    Jeanne continued fighting the invaders as a lone knight representing the Silver Roses, He retired when the invaders were finally kicked out from the country and offered a peace negotiations. Jeanne was given the highest knight¡¯s award and a heroic title along with the entire Silver Roses order. He was immensely rewarded for his actions.

    Jeanne didn¡¯t rebuild the Silver Roses order, but instead founded the Republic Knight¡¯s Academy using the banner of the Knights of the Silver Roses as the insignia for the Academy.

    Loreine who was approached by the Grandmaster Jeanne gave him an advice, he said the academy can no longer teach him and he should find his own battle. He told Loreine that he should graduate this year and joins a knight¡¯s order.

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    At the graduation day, Loreine was in disbelief, he who was the prodigy and a savant of the academy wasn¡¯t recruited by any knight orders while all of the initiates were recruited.

    He couldn¡¯t understand what was wrong, his entire resume was of a knight¡¯s. But to his surprised he was approached by an unknown order, the man approached him called himself as a member of the Black Roses. It was Loreine¡¯s last chance of getting into a knight¡¯s order, and so he did.

    Loreine¡¯s was very happy to join a knight¡¯s order, it was his dream come true, or so he thought at first. Loreine¡¯s death was faked by the Black Roses order as part of the requirements of joining, he was of course was unsettled at the beginning but he had no other choice, he didn¡¯t liked the idea of lying to his father, but in pursue of knighthood, he must.

    The Black Roses present themselves as those who purged the corrupt of the Republic¡¯s. They also do covert operation in the nearby countries and many top secret operations. Loreine felt that he was more of an assassin than a knight, it greatly removed his true goals from his sight, always hiding in the shadows, always covering your face, it didn¡¯t felt right, but if it¡¯s for the good of the republic he will serve even if he¡¯s no knight or so he thought again.

    After three years of service in Black Roses, a certain incident triggered his doubts for the cause of the order. ¡°Is this really just?¡± ¡°Is these what¡¯s a knight¡¯s like?¡± ¡°What have I been doing!?¡± ¡°This is not right! I¡¯m blindly following something I don¡¯t know.¡± he thought. He begun secretly investigating all his operations and found all he have been doing is nothing but petty assassinations for the Republic¡¯s Council to control the government and people, he was murdering innocent people in the guise of a knight. He was angered and disgusted by the Council¡¯s actions, but he was angrier to himself for being a fool. They broke every chivalric code that he knows.

    He went AWOL as soon as he had the chance, after a few weeks he was branded as a rogue knight and an enemy of the republic in a different name. He had to run all over the country just not to get caught not stopping, not resting. Then news reached him that his father was being executed for treason, when he heard this he immediately head to save his father, he knew this is one of the councils schemes. When he arrived he saw his father being shamed and barraged of rocks coming from the masses. Of course he was angered and run as fast towards the stage to save his father, he unsheathed his weapon, the Zweihander and jumped towards the executioner and cuts him in half. The audience who saw this gruesome sight unfold screamed and ran away in terror.

    Loreine cut of his weakened father¡¯s bindings and as he was about to carry him on his back, he was stopped by his father.

    ¡°Loreine¡­. I knew you¡¯re still alive.¡± Said his father in tired, weakened and painful voice while tears fall from his eyes

    ¡°Yes..*sob* Yes father I¡¯m alive.¡± Loreine cried as he speak

    ¡°Let us go father, I¡¯ll carry you on my back.¡± Loreine said trying to regain composure

    ¡°Leave me Loreine¡­ my beloved son, you will not *cough* be able to escape if you carry me, quickly before the Peace Order arrives¡­¡±

    ¡°Bu-¡°

    ¡°Leave at once Loreine! In the name of household Agatha, I order you as a noble and you as a knight to leave the country! This Republic¡­ is no longer the same *cough* It saddens me that you have to see the lowest of the Knight¡¯s Republic my son. Goodbye Loreine your father is glad to see you alive in his last moment.¡±

    His father touched his face and slowly the remaining life on his eyes was gone.

    He cried more but he wasn¡¯t going to dishonour his father¡¯s order, for he is his knight. Loreine run and run trying to escape his pursuers all around the city, until he was finally cornered by the Rosa Peace Knights.

    Loreine will not dishonour his father¡¯s wishes even if it¡¯s the causes of deaths of his innocent fellow countrymen, for he is his knight and this is his oath. He drew his sword once armour with no fear in his eyes and resolves of murder, then out of nowhere, black smoke erupted and before he could think of anything he was knocked out.

    Loreine is in a wooden cabin looking place when he woke up surrounded by unknown people.

    Near the window was a female drow elf vigilantly scanning the outside surroundings. On the kitchen is a huge black furred wolfman wearing nothing but an apron cooking, it was a surreal sight to behold. Next to his bed is another huge being sitting on a stool, it was a bald hairless man.

    ¡°Boss the kid is awake.¡± Said the drow elf.

    ¡°Hmmm! Oh! you¡¯re awake, good good.¡± Said the bald man

    He then hand over to me a letter with no seal.

    ¡°Dear Loreine, I know you¡¯re confused right now and have a lot of questions, the people surrounding you will answer them for you, for now read this letter. I¡¯m sorry for not being able to do anything to help you. It wasn¡¯t my intention for you to be recruited by the Black Roses, it was my fault for making you leave the academy. As soon as I heard the news of your death, I was suspicious and made my own investigation, as much as I wanted you to get out of the damned Black Roses I didn¡¯t have any power to do so when our republic is in the hands of vile people constantly monitoring me, I didn¡¯t want to blew my cover. This long peace have turned our leaders into corrupted people, leeching from there own people and hugging the vile sit the corrupted them. You¡¯re a great knight Loreine and have a heart of a hero, if you wish to pursue justice, follow these men, they¡¯re branded as criminals just like you but they fight for a just cause. They could use a honourable knight like you and my deepest apologies again Loreine of Agatha. -Jeanne¡±

    Loreine closed the letter and looked at the big man sitting next to him.

    The big man took the letter and shredded it into pieces before burning it on the fireplace. Loreine was shocked at first but it was a logical thing to do.

    ¡°Have you made your decision? We don¡¯t have much time for you to think, we must leave as soon as possible¡± ¨C Bald man asked in a serious tone.

    Loreine quickly give him his answer

    ¡°I will join you and your cause but there will be terms of agreement that we both must come into understanding.¡±

    This time he didn¡¯t want to be a fool not knowing what he is doing.

    ¡°Good, I like the sounds of that. We will discuss it later on when we return.¡±

    The bald man stood up and spoke to the wolfman.

    ¡°Ishmar I¡¯m damn hungry be done with it already.¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not ready yet you pig, can¡¯t you see th-¡°

    ¡°Just shut up and be done with it.¡±

    Loreine who see that they were about argue he interjects.

    ¡°Who are you people?¡±

    The trio looked at Loreine and all smiled a proud smile.

    ¡°We¡¯re the Circle of Death.¡±

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    Loreine have been working in Cirlce of Death for 2 years now, he liked it better than the Black Roses. He was given every information and detail he needed to know, he is free to investigate in his own accord. Although he was no knight, he fights for the true justice that he lost and now regained.

    Loreine sat on a couch staring at the fireplace contemplating what just happened on their recent operation. The baldy known as the Boss apologize to him, the boss explained his outburst was unnecessary and thanked Loreine for saving the band. Loreine was confused and told him that his little hunt for strong people disrupted the plan and asked for his forgiveness. He explained to me that if I hadn¡¯t fought the beastman alone that my entire band would have been killed. Loreine was shocked to think that beastman was that strong, he couldn¡¯t believe it. Right now he¡¯s thinking about that, but he still couldn¡¯t believe he was that strong.

    The objective was to capture the ¡°package¡± that could send the entire Agishirian Kingdom into civil war leaving it vulnerable to the neighboring countries. This will be the worst case of result for the Circle of Death who is most important goal is to maintain peace to prepare for the Monster Lord threats. The Circle of Death is an organization goes back from the reign of great kings when the peace treaty was signed they had to make sure that their descendant and vassals will comply, thus they made a top secret operation known as Circle Of Death.

    A beastly voice calling to him stopped this train of thinking

    ¡°Yo, Loreine, how¡¯s your hand?¡±- Ishmar the wolfman said

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t hurt anymore.¡± Loreine said.

    ¡°Irene said it was a magical weapon.¡±

    Irene is the drow elf.

    ¡°Is that so, no wonder it hurts that bad.¡± Loreine looking at his wounded palm, just the thought of the pain that he experience made it hurt.

    ¡°Yeah, you got your ass handed by a beastman. Harharharhahooooo¡± He teasingly said

    ¡°Leave me alone Ishmar, just the thought of it makes me feel bad.¡± Loreine said dejectedly

    ¡°You should be glad you came out alive, the girl was definitely strong. I know it.¡± He was very serious when he said this.

    ¡°The boss said the same thi- a girl!?¡±

    ¡°Aye, that beastman was a girl. I could tell from the smell.¡±

    ¡°I¡­I¡­I got beaten¡­by a girl?¡± Loreine felt so low right now.

    ¡°Do you know her? You used to have a lot of connections from the beast plains.¡±

    ¡°Not exactly but I know.¡±- Ishmal who was unsure starts scratching his back.

    ¡°Huh? What do you mean, just spill it already Ishmal.¡±

    ¡°Well you see Loreine, amongst the lionkin, there¡¯s only one man who has silver or grey fur¡­¡±

    ¡°And who would that be?¡±

    ¡°¡­The White Devil.¡±

    Loreine eyes pops out when he heard this, the White Devil is also known as the Tournament Dominator, a beastman that travels the world and joined almost all tournaments held by different nations and won every single one of them.

    The drow elf known as Irene joined to end the conversation

    ¡°Hey boys~ the boss is calling us. It¡¯s about the next plan.¡±

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    AN=

    I was debating of putting this up this early. Was planning to put it around the end of my first arc, but decided that it might give better perspective and putting it in the end might lost its importance. Hope it''s not as out of place as I think. Thanks for reading.

    Loreine''s backstory more specifically.

 Chapter 4

    Ivory City, One of the three fortress cities and the original amongst the three in Agishirian Kingdom. The three great fortresses stands at the borders of the country, In this case, Ivory is located near the borders of the Beastlands and The Wilderness. The fortress city is a circular shaped city divided by inner walls, Ivory City has five of this layers of walls. The first wall or district is manned by military and the guilds, the second is the commerce district where a lot trading happens, the third is the housing district were commoners lives, the forth is the governance district and noble district, the last district is the Ivory castle itself, due to the location of the city, it can be considered as the central operation of the guilds, .

    The castle used to be a dungeon filled with animated knights making it the first and original Fortress City, it was conquered by the Prince of War ¡°Ivory¡± a thousand years ago during the Great Wars, one of the children of King Melas Arthur Leshir who is known to be a greedy fool, This belief was strengthen when he named his children, a quadruplets, after precious materials. Ivory Luther Leshir ¡°Prince of War¡±, Gold Frederick Leshir ¡°Prince of Wealth¡±, Silver Oswald Leshir ¡°Prince of Wisdom¡±, Platinum Arthur Lex Leshir ¡°The Lost Prince¡±, All of the princes showed extreme capability on their art but one stands above them all, prince Platinum, he was a capable ruler and warrior but also an easy-going troublemaker, he went missing after his father died. When King Melas Arthur Leshir died, he didn¡¯t leave any heir, the Royal Brothers decided that Platinum will be the king, but the problem didn¡¯t end there, he also hid the Royal Crown of Agishirian and at the same time prince Platinum went missing also without a heir, after that problems start appearing after one another in the matters of ruling that even rebellion started happening amongst the missing prince¡¯s court and there courts, the remaining princes decided that their shall be no king and the Royal Brothers shall all rule, with that Agishirian became a powerful kingdom without a king and ruled by the three royal families descendants, they bestowed the title of ¡°Great Fool¡± to their father on his funeral to repay all the trouble he caused.

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    A wide wooden building that is supported by cemented rocks, in front-center of it lies a swinging door, above the door a huge sign painted with an artistic insignia, A blue recurved bow and instead of an arrow loaded into its string, a sword is taking its place, This is the Monster Hunter Guild of Ivory city. Within the guild building a tense atmosphere can be sense from the present beastmen, this mood was cause by a single person, the person in question didn¡¯t even do anything, but simply just entered the building, the beastmen who was signalling each other with eye contacts move into an empty long table started huddling each other and started discussing something.

    ¡°You think that¡¯s him?¡± said a fat looking racoon beastman.

    ¡°Aye, it¡¯s him alright, lionkin ears, white hair, white lionkin tail.¡± Confirmed by a rogue beastman who looked like a panther

    ¡°That might be so, but I only see a dagger on his waist as his weapon, where is his signature weapon?¡± asked by shirtless brown bull humanoid.

    ¡°Maybe that robed long thing in his back is a spear?¡± a short looking catgirl said.

    ¡°Aye that might be so.¡±

    ¡°But he looks like a woman than a beastman.¡± A slim tiger beastman said.

    ¡°Indeed, but I heard some special cases like the Sage of Foxmen who was born with a woman¡¯s face.¡±

    ¡°Aye, that¡¯s definitely the case, just take a look at him staring at the terms of agreement so intently with a ferocious face.¡± Panther rogue

    ¡°S-scary!¡± catgirl squicks while hiding her ears with her little cute arms.

    ¡°Does he think the guild will trick him? I heard he had many experience of trickery, what if he find something displeasing? He might start killing people.¡± Bull guy whose face just had a sudden realization

    ¡°Aye, we better watch him carefully, he might cause trouble.¡±

    They started sending the subject with glares, the little catgirl bloated her cheeks while pouting.

    The people who aren¡¯t sure what was going on, look at the scene with curiosity until one of them break the ice and came up to the grouped beastmen.

    ¡°Hey, you guys don¡¯t look so happy, what¡¯s wrong?¡± Said by a man wearing a cuirass

    The group who was a bit surprise by the man¡¯s sudden appearance ushered him to get closer. They then whispered many words to him.

    Once the whispering was done he stood back and stared at the subject with a wide-eye, it then change into a glare while he slowly walk back to his table, he then ask the people present on his table to come close and whispered the same thing he was told, the group then did the same wide-eye face and quick glare and whispered the same thing to the others, this caused a chain reaction to all the monster hunter present in the guild until everyone was glaring at the subject.

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    Anaru who couldn¡¯t sense the tense mood because she was reading the parchment on her hands carefully showed a satisfied smile signifying she was done. Anaru then walk back to the receptionist on the counter.

    ¡°Hey, I¡¯m done what now?¡± Asked Anaru who still have a smile

    The receptionist who saw her returned her a twitching smile.

    ¡°I-I see, p-please fill t-this up.¡±

    Anaru who could sense something was wrong but let it go since she was too excited begun filling the other parchment, once she was done she gave back the parchment to the receptionist, the receptionist gives her a copper necklace with the same design that the monster hunter guild insignia have while shaking. Anaru couldn¡¯t notice this since she was thinking what kind of quest she was allowed to have and simply got the necklace and hop her way to the request boards near the entrance.

    There are five boards, in one is of a different ranks, the nearest in the entrance is the only one allowed to taken by the newcomers. The ranks a based on what kind of necklace they have, copper, silver, gold and gemmed the highest is the diamond gemmed, it have a diamond blade on the sword while the edges of the bow have circular diamonds the others like the sword handle is made out of gold.

    When Anaru finally found a the quest she wants, she hop away back to the counter still a huge smile plastered on her face with no hints of being gone.

    ¡°I¡¯ll take this!¡± she said while gently slamming the parchment on the counter.

    ¡°I-I¡¯m sorry! But this is a party request! We highly advice Anaru-dono to get a party before registering this quest¡­¡± The receptionist said meekly with an ¡°Oh no¡± teary eyes face.

    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

    The people who heard this are all in shock but they expected something like this scenario already.

    ¡°I don¡¯t want to say it again, I¡¯ll be taking this request!¡± Anaru said while glaring while putting a hint of annoyance in her voice.

    ¡°iiieek! Y-yes! I¡¯ll register it right away! Please wait please wait please wait...¡± The receptionist who already couldn¡¯t control herself started crying and repeating ¡°please wait¡± over and over again while hurriedly took the parchment and another one from her desk and stamped them both, she hurriedly return the request parchment that Anaru had.

    ¡°Fufufu, Watch me accomplish this request with ease.¡±

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    Earlier,

    Inside one of the guest rooms of the mansion of the Ulfric merchant family located in the noble district. The guest room itself was well furnished with victorian-esque chairs and tables even the white sheets that covered the soft bed have an elegant design.  It was only natural to have an extravagant guest room for those who live a wealthy life, the guest room is the place important people who come to visit and stay to sleep, in this world both blood and wealth is power, showing it off have merits and disadvantages for people who can.

    In this glamorous room two people are arguing who were both sitting across each other, it¡¯s Anaru the lion beastgirl and Kane Rodrick Lordran.

    ¡°You stupid old man, those were no simple bandits at all!¡± Anaru

    ¡°It wasn¡¯t my fault that they were no mere bandits you damned little brat! In the first place I never said they were bandits.¡±

    ¡°What? If my memory serves me right, you keep blabbering about how a pesky bandit is no match to you, you¡¯re a bad liar old man.¡±

    ¡°I never said that to you stupid little brat, I am old but not senile. I only said that to young master and to him only. Hmph.¡±

    ¡°Tch. How long was I out old man?¡±

    The old man simple ignored the question and started drinking from a teacup that was over the table between them.

    ¡°Ne~ Old man~ ne~ How long was I out old man?¡± Anaru said in a mischievous manner

    The old man who was clearly annoyed speaks up.

    ¡°A day or two, I¡¯m not a calendar, I¡¯m an old man don¡¯t ask me stupid question little brat.¡±

    ¡°Nyahahaha! So you¡¯re senile, you can¡¯t even tell how many days have come to past.¡± Anaru said mocking the old man hysterically.

    When Anaru laughter finally died down she ask a question again.

    ¡°So who were those people old man?¡±

    ¡°A group of infamous criminals, although no one exactly knows who they are but they are pretty well known, remember the hairless man?¡±

    ¡°mm-hmm, what about him?¡±

    ¡°I investigated him, but nothing useful came up, who he was before he was a criminal nothing came out at all, right now he is known as the hairless monk assassin, he¡¯s mostly known in the central continent, he was also the man who gave me all those wounds, remember what happen? His punches were sharp as sword. Their crimes are even more surprising, rumours say that no one survives their attacks, of course I¡¯m an exception, I am very strong after all and you¡¯re lucky they let you off the hook.¡±

    ¡°I see, now that you mention it, the damage I had in my arm seems to be gone, what happened to our wounds?¡±

    ¡°I went to the church to get myself healed, you of course wasn¡¯t allowed to be healed by the church, you do know how the faith of Yureah treats beastmen, the young master bought an expensive potion just to heal you. You should be thankful little brat, I was against it since your wound will heal in a few months if it¡¯s taken care but the young master insisted it.¡±

    ¡°I see, the young Ulfric did that nyah? What a noble child, you should learn from him old man.¡±

    ¡°Hmph! Of course the young master has a kind heart. Do you more questions? I still need to feed and wash the mounts.¡±

    Anaru then started asking questions about the Monster Hunter Guild and about the city to know where are the shops, Ins,etc then asked about the rules. After minutes of the Old Man answering and explaining, Anaru was satisfied and stood up.

    ¡°You¡¯re leaving now?¡± said the old man with a cold face

    ¡°fufufufu, You¡¯ll miss me already? I¡¯m very sorry old man but we only just met and I am very young.¡± While moving her body in a very haughty manner

    ¡°Cheeky brat, the young master will be glad to see you awake and energize. While we¡¯re on the topic of young master, I¡¯ll say this now keep your hands off the young master.¡± The old man said while glaring at Anaru.

    ¡°Kukuku, I don¡¯t know about that old man, he¡¯s pretty cute after all.¡±

    ¡°YOU DAMNED BRAT! IF YOU DARE-¡°

    ¡°But I digress, I¡¯m not into kids after all.¡± She cut him off with a mischievous smile

    ¡°The young master is no kid, he¡¯s a noble man! Remember that.¡±

    ¡°Whatever old man, so where is he?¡±

    ¡°You can find him at the family shop over the 2nd layer, just ask the guards about Ulfric shop they will show you the way.¡±

    ¡°Thanks old man! See ya later.¡±

    ¡°Hmph!¡±

    Anaru who was about to leave and just a few step from the door suddenly turned back and faces the old man who was waiting for her to leave so he could as well with a serious face.

    ¡°Ne~ I just remembered something very important old man!¡±

    ¡°What is it now brat? Are you asking for a reward? Forget it, just so you know the potion that healed you was very expensive, even if you became a gold rank Monster Hunter you will not be able to repay it.¡±

    ¡°Nyah~ That¡¯s not it old man, The criminals who were after your young master were trying to retrieve a ¡°package¡± I was wondering if you¡¯d know something.¡±

    The old man had a quizzically face himself.

    ¡°Package?¡±

    ¡°You know how professional criminals are, even they follow certain ethics. It must be young master, he¡¯s very precious after all.¡±

    ¡°Hoh~ well, okay.¡± Anaru had a disinterest painted all over her face. She turned back and this time she finally left to head to the commerce district to say her thanks to Arisland Ulfric then head to the Monster Hunter Guild.

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    AN here~

    Sorry about being inactive for a week. Things suddenly came up and got more work, couldn''t focus on writing. I do not plan on abandoning my work here, it just so happen things that preventing me to write started popping out. Anyways, Thank you for reading, I hope you liked it even though this chapter is quite uneventful, next chapter is about Anaru, Arisland and the quest.