《The Death God》


 Ch. 1 Is this a dream?

    Countless bodies laying on  the flat plain. The air, which had been fresh and clean, is now contaminated with death. Any living being who would cross this land would die from the toxic air that inhabits this place. In the center of all the corpses that were wearing armor, swords, staffs, robes with a hood that may have been the clothing of a magician, is an abomination with the appearance of a skeleton wearing black tattered robes with red light that comes out of its empty eye sockets, holding a scythe that looks so sharp that it could cut  while just being near it. This being will be a legend in the near future where just uttering the titles or its nickname would cause fear in the hearts of many.


    The abomination mouth moved and what came out of it, "Ah shit. I didn''t really meant to do that, but whatever.I was scared. Isn''t this categorized as self-defense?  Whatever."


    ''Flight''


    Immediately after that, the abomination slowly levitated above the ground and flew who knows where.


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    Let''s rewind time a bit.


    I''m Rizar Azzur and I''m 28 years old. I''m currently working on the weekends fixing a couple of bugs in the program for a hype PC Multiplayer game called Elareven. This game is quite popular despite it  being 10 years since it was published. With variety of races, classes, specializations, it has even caught the attention of other countries by how much both kids and adults spend time on it.


    I''m also one of those  who had spend most of their time playing Elareven. Believe it or not, I''m the creator of the game. Yep, I came up with the idea of this game and created it along with some of my close colleagues. When it was publicized, it quickly gain popularity. Honestly, I didn''t expect it to go out very well. As they say, "Life never goes your way."


    As the creator, I have access to every information, items, weapons, gear, etc. Why am I playing the game which i created? Well, I love playing games. Even when I knew what to expect in Elareven, I simply enjoyed it. As soon as I started playing it, I became an addict to the very game I made.


    Unknown to my colleagues and workers, I am always playing the game in my office at work when they weren''t looking. There were times where I was almost caught, but it didn''t happened. Playing the Elareven for a few months, I have gained max level with the highest grade equipment, gear, legendary items which consists of different types of potions and scrolls.


    I also made myself a certain weapon secretly from my coworkers called Aedrihar. This weapon is a scythe which has an ability that would increase the damage cap of the weapon  for every boss that had been killed with it. The stronger the boss, the more rewarding it becomes. I altered it so that there isn''t a damage cap on it. Because of it, I was capable of easily killing normally, extremely, difficult bosses  in a few minutes that would take an hour to kill with multiple parties with the maximum of 6 players in a party. A young man in his twenties knocked the door and came inside my office.


    " Boss, we have finished fixing most of the classes and the program is running smoothly." He said with a tired expression.


    " Yes, good work. Please tell everyone they may leave for the day."


    The guy that had just called me "Boss", is a programmer that I had just hired about a month ago. He is Dan Mclaen. He is very proficient in his work. He is also one of the best workers I have in this company. Even though Dan is a very hard worker,  I always have to be careful around him. He is not just a good worker, but he also has a good perception. If Dan was to find out what I have done with the game behind the scenes for my own benefit and made it public, my reputation would be ruined. Why I even hired him? I was simply forced too. Dan Mclaen is known as a genius in the computer related field and if I didn''t hire him, it is very likely that it world arouse suspicions and questions to which why I didn''t hire him.


    " Ah, before that, have you heard of the player Qiran. He is currently the strongest and best player in Elareven. If I remember correctly, his racial class is that of a Lich and his class job is a Necromancer ."--Dan


    " Ya, I have heard of him. Qiran is currently in the top ranking of all the players in the game. He was also said to be the one to reach the max level to fastest.


    " I was thinking that maybe we could call him and ask him as the number one player for any advice or suggestions for the future of the game." Dan asked bright smile


    ''Shit. I gotta move the topic to something else quickly.'' I thought uncomfortably


    To tell you the truth, I am actually the one who is the owner of the character, Qiran. By using the various information that I have access for myself, I reached max level pretty quickly. I''ve put fake information on my account settings so it wouldn''t lead to me, but the topic is simply uncomfortable for me to talk about. As I was nervously fidgeting my fingers, suddenly a sound of a cellphone rang and Dan took out his cellphone from his pocket and looked at the caller.


    " Sorry Boss, I will need to go right now. Sister is calling me."--Dan


    Saying farewell to me, he left my office and closed the door as I sighed in relief.


    " Man that was close." As I slump down on my office chair.


    Taking a look at the time on the clock on the wall which says 6:30 PM,  it was also time for me to leave.


    I packed up my stuff and making sure that I didn''t forget to bring my keys with me, I left the company and I went to my car and drove home. Before getting home though, I went to McDonalds  and ordered a BigMac with an oreo frappe. After finishing my dinner, I went back to my car and drove directly home.


    Arriving at my place and going inside, I went straight to my room and fell onto the bed. Today I felt awfully exhausted. I was sure I didn''t do anything particularly tiring today. Was it just the dinner that I ate. I heard that eating fastfoods would get you tired after some time. I guess I should take a bath right now.


    I immediately took of my clothes and went for the bathroom. Filling up the bathtub with water, I dipped myself into the water. The warm water caressing my skin and hair felt like paradise. Feeling as if I might fall asleep if I stay in any longer, I got out of the tub after unplugging the hole to empty the tub. Finishing that, I put on my bathrobe as I went out of the bathroom.


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    Going back to my room, I turned on my PC. I typed in my PC password and logged into my desktop. Clicking the icon on Elareven, the game launcher appeared and I logged in to play it. Tomorrow is  Sunday, which is my break day. I no longer have to worry about work tomorrow. I select my Qiran as the character I want to play. In Elareven, you have character slots when you decide to create another character. I only stayed with Qiran though.


    Signing in my passcode for my account, I gained access to my character. After my screen finished loading up the game. I  looked at my inventory and equipment I was holding. No matter how many times I see it I felt like a total bad-ass. My potions have been collected ever since I played the game. I guess  I would be called stingy for never using any high-grade potions in battle and always used the low-middle grade ones when my health comes low. I just like seeing it my things keep piling up. That being said, I started to feel drowsy, I slowly and unconsciously closed my eyes and drifted to sleep.


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    Human Kingdom of Pledia     King Jaferdo


    I, King Jaferdo, am speaking with my advisers and other nobles of the kingdom in our council room about dealing with the rising number of bandits in the past month. Not just ordinary bandits, but extremely skilled warriors and magicians that are able to use a 4th rank spell are appearing in the groups. Because of those pests, many merchants have been complaining to me and requesting to remove or suppress them. It has been giving be many extremely painful headaches so far. From all the stress that was building up overtime, I had to release it on a couple of demi-humans and elves more than I can count. Some of them either gotten pregnant or died.  Seriously, after thinking about that, there is also the issue of the demi-humans binding together different tribes and forming a country to wage war against the kingdoms.


    "Your Majesty!"


    An old woman holding a staff barged into the council meeting room appeared. Her appearance shows her age of 70-80 years. With long silver hair, rotten teeth, long fingernails, big nose, and the face so ugly that someone accuse her of a witch that practice the dark arts if they didn''t know any better.


    I replied with a bored tone," Why have you some so urgently? Is it that of great importance and you would come without an appointment?"


    This old woman is named Serai and is an apostle of one of the almighty gods. She possesses an innate ability of foresight to see parts of the near future.Sometimes she would claim to have visions that would be hundreds of years in the future. In many occasions it had save my country many times if it wasn''t for her ability. Because of it, she holds a special position in my kingdom.


    "Your Majesty! A great c-ca-calamity will descend into this world!"--Serai


    ".....Tell me about is this calamity?"


    " A being with great power that could rival or maybe even surpass the 6 almighty gods is coming into this world!"--Serai


    I began to be skeptical and closed by eyes. I believe that so far, Serai has never been wrong with her predictions. Hell, there wasn''t even a moment where her predictions went wrong, but hearing that something is coming to our world and that could rival the gods in unbelievable. It is just not possible.


    "...When will this thing appear and where Serai?"


    " I am not sure, but if what I see was right, it would appear in no less than 3 years."--Serai


    ".... Hmmm, you may leave now. The council will discuss our future decisions about this later." Honestly, I don''t want to deal with any more problems.


    " But Your Majes.."--Serai


    I interrupted and said in a cold tone,"I said you may leave."


    Trembling, Serai quickly left the room.


    " What are we going to do? It might be possible that Serai''s prediction might not be true. There is nothing that could oppose the 6 gods of this world."-- Random noble


    " For now I believe that we should spread the news to our neighboring countries just in case if it were to be really true. Maybe we could use this as a possibility to make an alliance with the other kingdoms?"--Random noble#2


    Opening my tired eyes," We shall go with that. Spread the news the nearby kingdoms as quickly as possible. Even if they wouldn''t believe it, there is no harm in telling them just in case something really does happen. MEETING ADJOURN!"


    My advisors and other nobles got up from their chair left the room silently. After the last person went out the door and shut it, I thought about future preparations for the incoming war with the demi-humans and deciding whether or not I should make a truce with them if the calamity was to come. After further thought, I decided that it might not be possible to do so when my Kingdom have been invading their nearby villages and have been using them as our toys as we enslave their women. Seriously, those lowly animals who happens to have some intelligence and looked a bit human should know their place. I left the room exhausted. I need to catch up on my sleep or else I will get ill from sleep deprivation.


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    Somewhere     Rizar Azzur


    Waking up, I find myself in an empty plain. The moon in this place is up at its peak in the midnight sky.


    " What the hell?"


    I swear I was sleeping in my house, if not, near the PC just a moment ago. Wait, why am I panicking? This is just a dream. Yeah it must be a dream. Taking a good look at myself in this dreamworld, I found myself with a black robe that seems to look like just like the dark void. Looking at my arms, they were only bones while my right skeletal hand is holding a scythe that looks very very similar to that of Aedriha.


    "It doesn''t really matter. This is only a dream."


    That being said, I started walking in a random direction in this remote land, not knowing my life have completely changed for better or worse.

 Ch. 2 Lets access my situation for a bit

    Somewhere Ridar Azzur


    It has been a week since I have been in this world. There were only 2 possible things that have  happened to me. One, is that I am in one hell ass long dream, and two is that I have been transported to this goddamn place. Most likely I am in the latter. While in this deserted plain, the day time is annoying as fuck because of the godly light that spreads during that time, but I did loved  it when it was nighttime.There is no food, no water, but I can''t eat or drink either way because I am of course a Lich with the Physiology of a Skeleton.


    Ever since I have been here, I begin to remember the time back in my world where I was going to McDonald and eating a BigMac with some french fries and on top of that some Oreo Frappe''. Always treating it of as little value.  After being in this world for quite a bit of time, I determined that this body or character of mine is in fact my Qiran in Elareven. Initially, I didn''t think it was until the time I discovered a couple of nearby brown -furred rabbits in front of me.


    Looking at its beautiful, smooth fur and possibly delicious flesh under its fur, I imagine myself drooling and soon fell into despair because the only thing that would happen is the meat passing through my wonderful body of bones, but I don''t know how to cook anyway. Immediately my despair converted to rage for what in world and why I had to be transported here. I''m an otaku or was an otaku a couple years back during highschool. I always wanted to be the main protagonist that was transported to another world, traveling the world, getting strong, having cute little girls hugging me...


    NOOOOO! I am not a lolicon...


    Anyway during my emotional state I cursed at every light novels I have read.  As I said that I always want to be that main character in those novels, I changed my mind. I want to go back to my world where I was able to eat my favorite food and drink my favorite drinks. Then finally something in my mind snapped. A grey aura surrounded me and started to expand and reached outwards and made contact with the nearby rabbitsm and spreads even further.


    Wasn''t sure what happened and checked myself if I was okay, though I am not sure what would be okay when my body doesn''t have a single piece of flesh on its bones and even if my bones were to for random reason break, I wouldn''t know how to fix it. Fixing my gaze to the rabbits and walked there, I discovered that they were no longer moving.


    I sudden thought comes to my head. That grey aura that just came out of me was most likely Deadly Aura V. It was one of my on/off passives for Qiran in Elareven. Its effect was having a chance to cause instant death to my surroundings, and if any enemy, organism, or whatsoever were to resist and stayed a live, their stats were to be reduced depending on the level. In the game this ability was quite Overpowered. I almost forgot. My job is a Necromancer, but it is really not so simple as that.


    Every job in Elareven starts off with basic warrior and magical skills. Essentially every job in either warrior or magician alike had the same skills when they start off. It is just when you reached a certain level and get your job advancement, you go to whatever path you want to go as warrior or magic related fields. My Necromancer job have other job advancements such as Elder, Saint Necromancer, and even further Death Transcendent. I am as right now a Death Transcendent, after all I am max level in Elareven and I never planned to have update the max levels too.


    The game''s intention  was to get you to reach max level, and then finally really play the events that was only available to max leveled players. As for the skill ranks in the game, 1st rank would be the weakest magic available while the max is 10th rank. There is also what you could consider special abilities that can be learned by anyone and some of those skills have requirements for them to activate such as sacrificing experience or maximum health or mana or even a certain item.


    Back to the subject. After discovering that the grey aura was in fact my abilities. I determined that this was my Qiran in Elareven. Furthermore, I was able to access to my other abilities of my character. I had been ignoring and pushing this strange feeling in my head to the corner of my mind. Who would have known that those were just my skills. Accessing my skills, a list of abilities were listed in my head appeared. Listing some of my skills, Death-Force Manipulation, Undead Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Death Empowerment, etc.


    Since this is getting similar to that of a game, but this time I am using my character in 1st person POV, I thought of my inventory and moved my arm to reach out somewhere. Don''t ask why did I think I could get to my inventory with reaching my hand out. I just know. Back to the subject. My hand of bones disappeared into another space or dimension and a list of items, equipment, materials, scrolls, potions, cash items, and etc appeared inside my mind. Looking at my items, I laughed,


    " MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!"


    As always the feeling I get when i looked into my inventory never changed. 10000+ high-grade potions, 10000+ scrolls that have various abilities, and well you get the picture. Looking at this inventory, I felt a sense of security and began to relax.


    The next thing I checked out was my equipment. I thought ''Equipment'' in my head and a sheet lists my current equipped gear and weapons. All my gear is of the highest grade, Divine. Each of these equipment was of coursed farmed from bosses which I might have changed the probability of these cheat-like gear dropping just for me.


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    Hey, I like to feel the sense of superiority even if I did it shamelessly. Each equipment gives giant boost to by magic damage, instant-death chance, amount of mana, and surpassed godly level damage for my scythe, Aedriha. The damage has always been insane and can only be wielded by me. I made it for myself after all.


    Finished accessing my situation, I took in the corpses of the rabbits into my inventory. I have the Flight Magic in my skill set, but I decided to walk. Didn''t want to be involve in conspiracies  if I have to be associated with someone that could cause problems for me.


    Flight Magic will just reduce the time it would take to reach to a destination anyway. Let''s just enjoy a stroll  since I have nothing to really do except for remembering the events that happened in my former life. Maybe there is still a chance for me to return back home. On a second thought, never mind. I want to experience this almost never in a once in a life time experience while I am at it. I then went on my way.


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    Human Kingdom of Pledia     King Jaferdo


    It has been almost 3 years since Serai had claimed to foresee to great calamity. I had ordered my messengers to spread to news, but of course the other kingdoms said that I was bullshitting. There were also rumors that I spread the news because I''m facing a currently bad situation in my country and was desperate to hold an alliance with other kingdoms until whatever issues I am currently having had stabilized, and to make it worse,


    " Those fucking lowly demi-humans had been attacking the farms and villagers in the territory of my kingdom!"


    Rumors says that they were enslaving the residents of the area that the demi-humans have invaded. I have the to urge to call out to my General, Levnas Steslym, I order him to prepare for war against the demi-humans, but I am not in a situation to because I have ordered a good number of my soldiers to go around searching and killing the bandits. Even then the bandit problem just keeps getting worse. My kingdom is almost to the brink of a riot. The merchants continue to fear for their lives of getting attacked on their way to trade.


    There have been food shortages for the past couple of months. There was also a case where a low rank noble had been killed by a prostitute with a slit to the throat which he was spending the night with. His family is and other nobles are beginning to coward in fear and spending quite a some of their wealth on mercenaries and guards. They also began requesting me for an audience to solve these annoying issues.


    "Fuck those pieces of shits. How about dealing with it themselves. I already of too much problems."


    I don''t remember how nobles came to be in this world. Even in the history books I am read had no information about how nobles appeared. I suspect that somewhere in the past, a person who wants to to be something like a god and feel as if he was superior to others will gang with a couple of people and do whatever shit they had to do to increase their influence, and then select one person to be a king in the area.


    Then the king would bestow his gang titles of nobles and leech of the peasants. In other words, lazy leechers. Maybe they just appeared from the wealth they somehow attained or accomplish something amazing. Who knows.


    Right now I am currently whipping a slightly considered, handsome guy who is unconscious unfortunately; to relieve my stress. I don''t know when and how it started, but I began to enjoy a person''s suffering and pain. The expressions they make when they cry and beg me for mercy.. Makes me feel joy of where I''m currently right now.


    Finishing relieving everything I had on my mind,


    "Well, I guess I shall start heading off to the slave chambers I enjoy that blonde elf."


    Occasionally, I would invite a couple of nobles to my personal slave chambers to improve our relationship.


    I have a wife by the way. She is the Queen of the country of course, Celene Quar, the daughter of a important high-rank noble, but I have been getting bored with her. To begin with, I only made her Queen so that I because I was a bit interested in her. She''s quite pretty even though she is only 13 in age.


    That being said, I strolled to the chambers.


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    Human Kingdom of Pledia    Serai


    Currently, I have my eyes closed with both hands on top of a crystal orb. This crystal orb helps amplify my ability to see the future more clearly and also records the visions I have. I made it after the foreseeing that horrible creature holding a scythe moving who knows where. When that thing released some kind of aura like spell, I can feel it just my watching it.


    The dark energy that it contains and the cold deathly feeling you can sense with your skin. Ever since then I have isolated myself in my room waiting and waiting for a vision that would show me to future. It just shows how worried I am for this country.


    In my childhood, I have always been feared at because of my appearance. My parents also avoided me. I can''t blame them. Even I find myself disgusting when I look in the mirror. Even though I looked like that, this kingdom is my home nevertheless. There were some that came to understand my nature and I meant no harm. When I discovered my innate ability, I knew I could do something for this home of mine. I will do whatever it takes to protect my home.

 Ch.3 Testing my awesome skills

    Somewhere    Ridar Azzur


    In the present time, it is in the middle of the night. Remember how I said that I would walk because I wanted to enjoy it and somehow not involve myself in a conspiracies? I changed my mind in no less than 1 minute after I decided to take a stroll. What can you say? Bored as fuck. Activating flight magic, I levitated a couple hundred feet above the ground and willed myself to fly to the direction where I was  walking at. Being in the air, I viewed by surroundings to find any inhabitants or traces of it in the plain. There were a couple of creatures such as an animal that looks similar to that of a wolf. There were not many plants in the area so I think this location that I am currently in may possibly be a desert.


    Right now I am flying at probably 60km/hour. It is just a guess, but either way it is still quite fast. I am feeling slightly exhausted and I suspect it may have been my mana being consumed. Though there isn''t anything to worry about if it is just mana. 2 of 9 my divine level rings gives out many special effects. One of them is high mana regeneration so even if I were to supposedly run out of mana, I would just have to wait for a couple of minutes till my mana is filled up back up.


    The view begins to change from that of a plain to a slightly grassy field. There seems to be a road through the field and I think it may be used as a guide way to travel. Taking a look around, there is still no signs civilization. It is good though. I was the top and strongest player in Elareven, but I am not quite sure how strong am I in this world when not having enough information of the standard level of strength. As the old man says, "It is wise to be caution when you don''t know have enough information about the situation you are currently in."


    Thinking about that subject, I''ve  remembered that my appearance is a skeleton. I am quite used to looking at my appearance in Elareven from the screen. To be honest, I thought myself as beautiful. Descending onto a grassy field and deactivate my Flight Magic. I activated one of my favorite spells  I used in PVP.


    "Lifeless Body Creation."


    A screen appeared in my mind and shows my current body in a 3D format. In the game, I didn''t have a choice in creating what body I want. Usually the system would just remake my skeleton body or if I want it to, a human-like body. The difference between this world and Elareven would probably be ''freedom''. Staring at the screen, I assume that it would make a body if I were to just imagine it.Thinking of the body I wanted to make, just for a jokes, I pictured an extremely large black scaled dragon with extremely sharp spikes coming out of its back. The screen changed and the image that was my Lich changed to that of a dragon that I just described. There was then a ''Create'' button that appeared just below the dragon''s body.


    I clicked that button and a black dragon appeared in front of me.


    "Damn." I thought


    The body of the dragon is at least 40 feet in length not including the tail, and over 15 feet in width. The head of the black lifeless scaled dragon is at least 10 feet in height, and one pair of bat-like wings coming from its side. Suddenly I felt a huge amount of fatigue on my body. I guess it might have been the dragon I had created. The mana that is consumed is proportionate to the size of the ''Body Creation'' Spell I used.


    "Possession," activating the spell, the next second I found myself looking down on a skeleton which I assume was my former body. These two skills, ''Lifeless Body Creation'' and ''Possession'' is one of my mostly used skills in PVP. Whenever my health is in a danger zone I would use these two skills to replenish the health. Cheat huh? Though there is nothing to think about how cheap it is since other jobs have some advantage over others. There won''t be any surprise if such a damn skill was allowed in PVP. My style isn''t exactly to Overpowered. I could still run out of mana, though I usually never did in PVP. ''MUHAHAHAHA.''


    Anyways, I could feel as if I am still wearing my equipment even though I am a dragon that is essentially not wearing anything at all. Looking at my previous body, my clothing and gear including my scythe have disappeared. I don''t quite understand how it came to be. The scythe, Aedriha, felt like they reside in my claws and teeth. I think that means its the effects of Aedriha had merged with my weapons(Claws,Teeth).


    The dragon body I am currently in is just a test. It''s not like I would use this body and fly around. It would only just give me unwanted attention. I try to decide whether or not I should create a human body. I shouldn''t assume that the residents of this world have humans. It is better to find out myself. In addition, I don''t know if the body I created would require food and water. I decided to return back to my Lich because I wouldn''t have to be concerned with its necessity, and somehow store that huge dragon body in my inventory under the category of Special.


    Since I was a moment ago, testing my skills, I should also try other ones to see how one would work. Scrolling down a list of skills in my head, I picked Undead Manipulation. This skill allows the users of this power to rule both physical and ghostly undead, command the dead souls, condemn them to torment, or steal the souls of dead/dying to increase the the legions of undead. For the Undead that I''m able to summon, it includes Death Knight, Wraiths, Banshees, Ghouls, and stronger.


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    "From what I can see in the description, it says that I can control any Undead; however, in Elareven, I could only summon certain undead and even then I don''t know how they came to be."


    With that in mind, I took out 3 brown-furred rabbits that I had accidentally slaughtered, and I simply activated '' Undead Manipulation'' without much thought.


    Out of thin air, 3 streams of black colored aura surrounds the rabbits'' corpses and each one enters one of the bodies. After it seems as if it all of the black aura came into the bodies, the 3 dead, rotten rabbits stood up. I felt a a close connection towards each of them. The strange thing is that they looked as if they hadn''t died to begin, but I know for sure their bodies are currently dead.


    The next thing I did was taking out another dead rabbit and this time I activated ''Undead Manipulation'' with a Death Knight in my mind. This time the same thing happened to the previous rabbits, but now this one is wearing grey armor that came from who knows where with a steel crooked short sword, and somehow holding it on its right hand while an iron shield appears on the rabbit''s left.


    From what I can tell, if I was to use ''Undead Manipulation'' while thinking on a certain or specific kind of undead, it would become it in its very own version.


    "Hahahahaaahaha," looking at it, I can''t help but laugh. It is a bit cute, while a bit weird lookinf


    I put the now undead rabbits inside my inventory. I am consider thinking my inventory is just a dimensional storage which could contain anything. I wonder if there is a limit to how much it could hold, but I immediately put back to the corner of my mind. I don''t see anything in my surroundings that could be considered useful, much less anything to put in my storage. Finish packing up, I again activated my Flight Magic and search for civilization.


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    Night time in a certain Village   --  Human Bandit Leader


    "AHHHHHHHHHHH!"-Villager A


    "Someone please help me" -Villager B


    "Oi, Boss."--Bandit Vice-Leader


    "Hmmm?"--Bandit Leader


    "We still haven''t found anything that could be considered valuable. The most we were able to find was a few silver coins."--Bandit Vice-Leader


    "If you hadn''t find anything then let''s just have our fun here."-Leader


    "Then how about we and our men have a little fun with the girl you are dragging. Everyone of us are interested in her."--Bandit Vice-Leader


    This gang  are bandits who have been plundering villages and their reputation has started to become infamous. There were known as a very cruel and dangerous group. They all consist of rapists, murderers, thieves, backstabbers, etc, and their group continued to grow in numbers as they go along the way raiding villages. The bandits attacked any villages, human or not. They don''t give a shit about the situation between the humans and demi-humans as of right now. .


    Currently the leader is  dragging a crying young girl to a shed with his subordinates following him so they could relieve their lust. It has been days since they were able to rape a girl. The girl has an appearance of a 15-17 year old girl. Her face is quite lovely. She had exotic red eyes that could capture the souls of men, and her long black hair appealed to her slim, slender body even more. Unfortunately or fortunately for her, she is going to be fucked by them since she was the prettiest out of the other girls. As they were getting close to the shed, the leader noticed something hopping towards them. It was night time so it is hard to know what it was. When it came closer, he discovered it was a rabbit. It was unusual though. The rabbit was in armor and holding a shield and sword. He doesn''t understand how they were able to do so with out a thumb.


    Suddenly the weird rabbit jumped so high which could be considered abnormal, towards the Vice-Leader and slashed while severing his head from his body. It happened so fast that the bandits didn''t understand what was going on. To make it worse, more rabbits appeared out of nowhere and were making way slaughtering and biting towards my comrades. Letting go of the girl, the leader of the bandits and his men prepared themselves for battle and took out their swords.


    Out of nowhere the leader sees a scythe above him coming straight right at him rotating intimidatingly. It was so fast he couldn''t even think about jumping out of the way. Attempting to hope for a miracle to block the scythe from hitting him, he  lifted his sword in a defense stance. (In other words a blocking stance or whatever).


    With the scythe coming at him, its blade looks as if it would hit the sword and be deflected. Time seemed to slow down. The scythe slowly comes and hit his swor...? And it easily cuts its way through it as if it was butter? Still rotating the blade barely missed in slicing his face. Thinking he might had somehow became lucky and survived, The leader felt something cutting  the area of his crotch. The rotating scythe haven''t finished its attack. Cutting his body through the bones, organs, and finally reached his brain. The last thought he had was,"Fuck, at least let me fuck that girl before I died."


    And everything became dark.

 Ch.4 Planning out future careers

    Ridar Azzur


    Flying in the wonderful nightly sky. The air resistance pushing against my black robe and the black robe against  my bones. The stars and everything that was suppose to appear in the sky if it wasn''t for the light pollution that the other world has made. Looking at this magnificent sight, I was so inspired by it that I wouldn''t mind if I was to stay in this world for just a while longer if I had the chance.


    If I hadn''t told you, I have an older sister. She is always a maniac about nature to the point she would spend most of her income and allowance on a garden. I always thought it was stupid spending so much money on it. I was pretty sure my sister told me that she would live in the mountains, away from civilization. Of course, it was certain that she did it for her love of nature.


    Thinking about what should I do right now is occupying most of my mind. I don¡¯t have any particular goal in this world, much less know anything about it. Before I had been teleported here, I had always loved reading light novels, fanfictions, anime and I even enjoy waiting for new episodes to come out. Especially for my favorite ones. This was during high school by the way. Having to remember my previous life, I always did enjoyed every little thing when I was there. I also remembered when I was in middle school, I fell in love with this particular girl, or was it just my hormones getting out of control? To make it brief, she was very hot. I would take frequent glances at her and it was to the point of closely observing her. One day I got the courage to confess to her my feelings when she was alone at school. Usually she was with her friends everywhere she go so this is quite a rare chance.


    ¡°???, I love you. If you are okay with it, would you go out with me!?¡±


    That was what I said to her. Man, thinking about it was so embarrassing to the point I would run around the school 3 times over. After saying that, she looked completely unaffected by my confession. No, she looked as if she expected it to happen sooner or later.


    Guess what she said?


    ¡°Hey, you know that I have been confessed 12 times the past 3 months right? You say that you love me, but exactly do you like about me?  In addition, what makes you think that I would even go out with you, Ridar. I noticed you had been sneaky glances at me during class and it is to the point of being creepy. Could you stop doing that?¡±


    My first love or girl interest had rejected me so hard with the coldest eyes that you would never expect from a girl her age. That day I cried when I have gotten home, and still cried in the middle of the night. Because of that incident, I have gained an enlightenment of women. They aren''t so stupid as to not notice your gaze and intentions. They know what a guy is after when he asks them out. At least for the girl I confessed, she wasn''t so heartless as to tell my rejection to my classmates and made fun of me.


    Getting back to my reality, I was flying with a bored expression if my skull is capable of making an expression, until in the horizon,  I see a village in the right side of my vision. This is an opportunity to find information of this world. Deciding whether or not that I should use ¡®Lifeless Body Creation¡¯ so that I may lower tensions between the villagers and me.


    ''Wait...is it possible to communication with others in this world?''


    I was a bit excited when I found some kind of civilization I forgot that there might be a language barrier. ¡®Ah shit¡¯. Having no clue as to communicate, I still nonetheless flew towards it, this time slower.


    Taking a closer look to the possibly first intelligent beings I am going to meet in this world, I heard a loud cry in the village. From the tone of the voices, I suspected they may be in a bad situation.


    I don¡¯t want to disregard my safety, so instead of going there myself, I summoned my undead rabbits from my inventory. I sent them a mental order to go and investigate the village¡¯s situation.


    The rabbits obeyed and hopped towards the village while I just wait here in mid-air and chill. After some time, a received a mental message through the rabbits that it seems that there is an attack in the area. Thinking about it, I should take this chance to see how strong I am in this fantasy world. Checking myself, I took out a scroll called ¡® Void Disguise¡¯. Its effect was temporarily changes your appearance however to like and hides the user¡¯s name in Elareven. It is a rare scroll mostly used as a PK item since whoever uses it would be tardy from the penalty of PKing.


    ¡®Void Disguise¡¯ taking effect, I took the appearance of average-looking, young, light blonde guy with an appearance between 18-21. My clothing changes from a robe to a light set or armor. Now you may question why didn''t I use ¡®Lifeless Body Creation¡¯. Simply a habit from frequently Pking others in Elareven. I was also in simply in the mood to use and test a scroll in my huge collection.


    Finishing covering my appearance, I quickly flew to the village. When I got there, I see many (I assume) villagers laying on the ground. While analyzing the situation, I looked for the perpetrators.. I heard a conversation somewhere nearby and ordered my rabbits to take a look. I have to stay cautious. I still don¡¯t quite know strong they are. In the meantime, I looked at the scattered dead human villagers that have died. I thought about putting them in my inventory, but maybe after the surviving villagers pay respect for the dead and bury them, I will take the corpses when they aren''t paying attention.


    Again receiving a mental message, a group of men were heading to some kind of shed and one was carrying a crying girl. I immediately head to where my rabbits¡¯ location which were near the bandits and looked at a group of people. They were all carrying swords on their sides while wearing lightweight armor.


    "If you hadn''t find anything then let''s just have our fun here."--Unknown


    "Then how about we and our men have a little fun with the girl you¡¯re dragging. Everyone of us are interested in her."--Unknown


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    Surprised that I was able to understand what they are talking about, I take a look at the girl they were dragging, I was actually quite surprised at her appearance. She was very attractive to make it short if it wasn''t for her crying that sort of messed her face up. From the conversation, I just heard, I assume they were going to do her. I ordered the my undead rabbits to attack the group of men. Observing the first kill of my Death Knight Rabbit, I believe that the group isn''t that strong at all. The Death Knight is only a lvl 40 undead if assuming the Death Knight Rabbit should fit in the category. (By the way, the max level for a player is lvl 100). My rabbits started a slaughter and the group of around 20 men was reduced to 5 in just a few seconds.The man who was carrying the beautiful girl dropped her. He took out his sword from his sheath to prepare himself for a battle.


    I looked at Aedriha in my right hand. Activating a scythe skill, a threw it in a rotational manner. Spinning just like how the fan would look like when it spins. The man attempt to deflect it, but Aedriha sliced his sword easily and cuts him in half. Not a moment longer, Aedriha swerved in mid-air and returned to my hand.


    That was a bit anti-climatic even though I didn''t expect anything to come out of the dead man.. I took a look around and find group of men have all been slain. Slowly, but surely, the human villagers come out of their hiding spots and shelter hoping the danger has passed. When their sight was on me, they gazed at me for quite a long time.


    ¡®I guess they don¡¯t know how to behave .¡¯


    ¡° You guys don¡¯t have to be concerned anymore. The people that have attacked you have all died.¡±


    The villagers began to relax. This world seems to use language English. I am really glad right now that I could talk to them without any difficulties.


    ¡° I, of course want some payment for saving your lives. However,  if you tell me a bit of information of this country, then I shall make do with it."


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    I was lead inside nice looking  house by the about-to-be-raped girl and into the living room. In this empty, plain living room, stood a shabby looking chair with several chairs around it. I took the nearest chair and sat down. It wobbled a bit, but was able to maintain my weight. I had been looking at their kitchen just a few moments ago and their wasn''t any mechanical appliances or machines.


    The girl who lead me in is Cherly. Her father was a wealthy merchant while her mother was a low rank noble in Pledia. Because of her background, she had more information on the current conflicts in the world then the villagers and also knows the geography of it. All they know was building shelters, farming, collecting fruit and some hunting. They also fish nearby a river very close to here. I wanted to meet her mother if she could give me clearer image of the world.


    Unfortunately, the mother caught a high fever and died several months later after she was born. As for her, Cherly is living in this village in the outskirts of the Human KIngdom of Pledia ever since she had lost contact with her father when they were traveling together to sell goods to a village somewhere. They were assaulted by bandits and in fear she left her father. He could be dead for all she knows.


    I found out the Demi-Humans and Humans have quite some tension between the two races currently. There had also been a dangerously rising number of bandits lately. Another race which are the Elves, only occasionally come out of their forest when they decide to get travel when they are bored staying home, or to know more about the current times if any advancement in technology or the like had improved. They usually stayed in a forest located in the center of this continent. Humans and other species are not capable of entering the forest.


    It is said that the one of the six almighty gods took a liking to the elves, and created a barrier to protect them from any harm that comes to them. The image I had of an Elf was one with long pointy ears while their facial features and body looking fabulous. Noting to myself to remember to go there for the girls.


    I asked them about magic. This world to me is a fantasy and I was quite curious about this subject. They told me it is common magic is ranked from 1st to 10th. Most of the beings in this world are only capable of reaching the 5th rank magic. Any higher is where only the 6 gods are able to use high rank magic, although there is still a few exceptions. Some people are born with innate abilities that could allow them to reach out to the higher ranks.There was also  a rumor that a giant fox was sighted with 9 tails and capable of using higher than 5th rank magic.


    Cherly and the villagers were also curious about me. How was I able to kill the bandits so easily? How was I able to tame and train the rabbits that had slaughtered them so quickly? Where was I able to make or find my scythe.Of course, I didn¡¯t answer them.  Though I did tell them I came from another country, which is true.


    After finishing taking it all the information they know, I walked got out of the wooden house and looked for the bandits¡¯ corpse and stored all dead bodies to my storage. I love collecting. Maybe I could use the undead to create a dungeon for me. I planned out my future opportunities where it could only happen in light novels. This includes, like I just mentioned, a dungeon.


    Currently I am in the mood of exploring this world. I have to mention that when the villagers told told me the rumor of the nine-tailed fox, the first thing that came to my mind was to go see it. Sadly, the villagers don¡¯t know where the fox would be. With that I flew to the Kingdom of Pledia.


    Realizing I didn¡¯t know where the direction of the kingdom is, I went back to the village and ask some directions.

 Chp. 5 I arrived at the Kingdom and played

    Human Kingdom of Pledia     Serai


    My mind is currently confused of what I''m seeing. It was so incomprehensible. Unable to understand the scene I am looking at. Wondering if my mind''s playing tricks on me, I replayed the scene I have recorded with my crystal ball I had used when my foresight was active.


    Replaying the scene over and over again, I was forced to believe it. The thing that I have called a monster is flying towards the direction this kingdom is located. Its red light for eyes shined brightly from excitement. Feeling chills on my spine and breaking out in cold sweat, I begin to dress up.


    I must warn the king this upcoming disaster. Taking out the royal seal in my drawers and keeping it in my long sleeves, I got out of my room and then my house. I locked the doors and went to the stables. Bringing out a horse and connecting the carriage with to it,  I got and the driver¡¯s seat and whipped my horse, speeding to the palace. Why in all the gods has this happened?


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    Ridar Azurr


    As of right now, I am dreaming of being an adventure with a couple of other fellow adventures which I could call my comrades. We are killing monsters, demons, dragons, all sorts of stuff. Raising my fame throughout the lands and every time, stepping into public, people staring at me with awe and respect. Kids from ages 7+ would call me a Hero, asking me if they could be my disciples or students.


    I am of course was dreaming and not as in sleep dreaming. Just embarrassing daydreaming. What did you expect from me? As an undead, I will be unable to sleep even if I wished for it. Lost many things that I have enjoyed as a human so far. No eating, sleeping, drinking, and even lost the ability to masturbate since I have nothing below.


    Obviously I could make a human body, male or female, with ¡®Lifeless Body Creation¡¯; however, I don¡¯t have any food or water with me including my storage. In Elareven, an undead doesn''t need such things. So if I were to starve in that body, I would have to repossess my Lich again. With another reason, my Necromancer class gives me special passives for my spells and damage, but only as a Lich. In addition, a human body has too many fatal spots. Slitting the throat, stabbing the head, stabbing the heart, kicking the balds¡­., are examples of it. In Elareven, there wasn''t such fatal points. If you stab at a human character¡¯s throat, it would merely increase the damage slightly.


    Regarding the dragon¡¯s body in my storage, with my Necromancer abilities wouldn''t work out well since it isn''t exactly undead. Wait? If I were to make a dragon, but with only bones, would it count as a Lich? I will have to test this later on.


    I stopped midway on the way to Kingdom of Pledia. Searching for a certain skill in my skill list so that I could disguise myself as a human. Like I said, I deem it too dangerous to go on as a human body. Finally found the intentioned spell, I cast


    ¡® Illusion Mimicry¡¯


    My body starts to change and imitate how a human looks like. Taking my mirror out of the storage for some reason I didn''t even threw it away in the game, I looked at my appearance.


    ¡°This should work out just fine?¡± I muttered while raising an eyebrow made from illusions.


    My appearance to make it short could be considered below-average in this world. Compared to the villagers and even though I don¡¯t want to admit it, the bandits too have a better face then me. If I was to stand with anyone of them, no one would spare this illusion created face a second glance. Maybe they would to just confirm how ugly it is? I could have made it better; however I didn''t feel like trying right now.


    Getting back on track, I started to see a stone wall. There was a wooden part of the wall, but people were passing through so it should be a gate. Descending onto the ground, I walked to the long line is in front of the gate.


    There were various of people. Some were those who are carrying a carriage of goods such as apples, grain, flour, jewels, etc. Others seems to be from the outskirts of the kingdom. Clothing from rags to riches were in line.


    There is one problem though. The rich looking guys skipped and ignored the line and came to the guards directly. Showing some kind of coin, no it is a seal, to them, they were able to get in without having to wait in line in this hot goddamn weather. How could the others stand this?


    No even 10 seconds waiting in line, I got out of it and confidently went to the front gates. Taking out a rock and cast ¡®Illusion Mimicry¡¯ on it,  the rock turned to a gold seal similar to that of the rich guy who owned it.


    Coming to the front gates, the guards took a good look at me and said.


    ¡°Halt! Are you stupid? You must have came from the outskirts right. There is obviously a fucking line. How about you go to the damn end of the line and wait for your turn?!¡±


    ¡®Man, this dude is grumpy like a bitch.¡¯


    Showing the imitation of a gold seal I had copied from that rich bastard, though I might be richer myself from the gold I collected in Elareven, the guards analyzed it while squinting their eyes.


    ¡° The motherfucking bastard, WHERE THE FUCKING HELL DID YOU STOLE THIS FROM?¡± the guard seems to be in rage mode.


    ¡° Huh~. You accuse me of stealing?¡± I put on an innocent looking expression


    ¡° Of course you stole it, a ragged person like you would have never attained this seal from the royal family!.¡± As he said that his face began to turn a slight red.


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    ¡®What the fuck?¡¯ I have nothing to say right now. I was always a slow thinker to begin with and I can¡¯t find a legit reason that could persuade the guards. Let''s just come up with them along the way.


    I said with an authoritative tone¡° Judging from my appearance alone and decided that I am a mere lowly thief, no wonder you guys can¡¯t get far in life and have chosen to guards. You would completely worthless if you hadn''t. Seriously, how about you guys kill yourself for the better good of society. Now then, if my father heard that you lowly guards obstructed me on my way home, you guys would be executed immediately. But how about making it easier for me if you guys just kill yourself.¡±


    Hey Hey Hey!, What the fuck am I involving myself in such a heated argument. I started to get irritated, and the way he looked at me. I felt a huge urge to punch him¡­,DIE ASS LICKER!


    I threw a shattering punch at the guards abdomen. Landing the hit on the intended spot, the guard was pushed back from the force that was exerted and his stomach concave. Throwing up blood as he looked up and stared at me in shock. I regretted my decision. This guy might have just been doing his job. He might have really had a bad life and needed to get money to live of by. Man, he might even have kids to feed.


    Kidding, I didn''t really give a crap, but it was my bad for  not acting like a proper adult just like in my world. After throwing the mega punch, I ran through the gates and jumped onto a nearby building''s rooftop. The guards went hectic and issed orders for other guards to search for me all over the kingdom. I don¡¯t know where I am at in the kingdom, but I do know is that I am having fun running away.


    I could have just fly over the wall with Flight, but there was really no fun in that. After a couple hours, the guards had given up. I decided to make an experiment so that I can have an easier time around this country.


    I looked around for any rich or wealthy looking people for experimentation. This test is to possibly get information for efficiently and that is to take it directly from a person. Searching for a couple of minutes I spotted a fat-looking pig in human form wearing elegant clothes that doesn''t look so elegant anymore, I ran at him full speed. Knocking him and bringing him into a dark alleyway I put my hand over his mouth and the other hand on his head.


    ¡®Soul Absorption¡¯


    A green light appeared from his body and entered into by mouth. Suddenly I taste something like steak cooked in rare-medium with steak sauce spread over it. I never tasted something so delicious ever since I came here. Although I was suppose to do this for an experiment, I can¡¯t ignore this wonderful delicacy.


    Coming back to the real objective. While eating his soul I felt a wave of information entering my mind. I now almost everything or most of everything in this country. I know where the brothel is, clothing shops , the armor shop, weapon shop, inns, and finally what I wanted. The Adventure Guild. I did kept all the not required information from entering me such as his personal life and etc.


    Knowing the location of the place, instead of going there, I decided to ruin a couple of people''s¡¯ lives. Looking around for any target that fits my criteria, I walked around the city. I see some homeless people asking for change to every person that pasts by. Decent looking men wearing nice clothes and spending their money on stuff for girlfriend or someone they are having a relationship with. Finally found a good target to play with, I activated ¡® Possession¡¯ after positioning my body as if I am sleeping in the alley where many homeless people sleeps.


    The target was a rich-looking man with a woman with above average looks. They were going into, I guess you would call it, a hotel. Using this opportunity, I let the woman lead the way to a room. I cast a simple Mana Barrier around just in case if something were to happen. If i were to be killed in this during Possession, I would immediately come back to my original body.


    I know my body is safe because whoever touches my body in the alley will have their souls captured by a variation of my ¡®Soul Manipulation¡¯ skill. All I can say to those that died by me is, "Too Bad."


    Coming inside a room, the woman started to undress herself while I too, do the same. My current body gets an erection. We got into a bed and I will just say it was the best moment of my life. Masturbating always felt good, but the real thing was definitely better. When I let out the white colored liquid into her, she convulses in pleasure as she panted from exhaustion.


    After we finished, I checked the man¡¯s clothes and found a sack of gold coins including some silver and copper. We exited the hotel and I said I will be back in a minute. Coming into the alley way, I threw some gold coins at the homeless people who were currently asleep. Finishing, I put the sack into my storage. I am capable of using the storage even if I am in another body by the way. I kept that money because it seemed that my money and his money differs so I merely stole from him so I could use the correct currency.


    I went back to the woman and slapped her face so hard that she fell down. I then hit her ass as a loud sound was made from it while deactivating ''Possession''. I open my eyes and turned to see just in time the confusion from the man¡¯s face and the woman looking at him from shock.


    They soon breakup, but that is another story for another time.

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 Ch. 6 My Adventure ID and Stores!

    Ridar Azzur


    Locating the Adventure Guild building that looks just like a tavern, I strolled to the doors and opened it,  attracting the gazes of men and women alike. They all soon went back to their own business after taking a good look at me, including and especially my face. A very typical behavior. If I was a hot babe instead I am quite sure things would worked out quite differently. Pushing the very thought to the corners of my mind, I searched for a reception of some sort and discovered a counter and went in front of it. Looking at  the counter, there was several sheets of paper stacked on top of each other.


    If it was before I wouldn''t have been capable of reading the common language of this world. But that was before. After I devoured a poor pig¡¯s soul, I learned the characters and their meaning, how they work with each other, and how just missing an essential word would ruin the meaning. When you think about languages, you would think that different species have different languages. Unfortunately or fortunately, this world has a Universal Language that is English. But that is only from speaking. The characters seems to be different. Somehow reading the writings on the paper which is on the very top of the stack, I obtained some ideas of general troubles outside of this kingdom. I had already known that demi-humans and humans have some conflicts with each other and the raising number of bandits. But in this report, even monsters such as goblins, ogres, beastmen, and even the dragons are increasing their rate in rampaging near human settlements.


    Goblins and ogres, I am sure you know, but beastmen are different from demi-humans. If demi- humans were leaning to the human side with having a few animal traits such as ears and a tail, then beastmen are animals that are leaning more to the beast or animal side with a few human qualities such as standing on two legs. Another difference would be they have fur all over their bodies. Some species are something akin to the werewolves. Some are similar to that of a tiger.


    Dragons are 2nd to the 6 almighty gods in this world. Nonetheless, they are extremely powerful. Their bodies are said to be very huge and intimidating while their scales are extremely hard and tough that swords of steel wouldn¡¯t even leave a scratch on them. The dragons are also quite unique in this world. They don¡¯t use or follow rank magic. They are born capable of using a certain magic. Their magic is mainly composed of elements such as Earth, Wind, Water, Electricity, Fire, Light, Dark, etc. The control they have over their specific elements are praise worthy. The only thing that really is a pity is that they are no different than animals. Even with such magic power over their respective elements, they aren¡¯t very intelligent. Actually, it is not as if they aren¡¯t completely stupid. They are capable of at least comprehending that are in a bad situation or if they are is in danger. But considering that they are one of the strongest beings here, I am sure their pride as the top of the food chain would get in the way.


    Man, I was planning to keep one as a pet. I thought maybe I could get a baby dragon or something, but I don¡¯t know where to get much less know where the dragons are currently at. It is said that a dragon would take several centuries to reach to full maturity from infant to adulthood. I wanted to experience being a father to a pet. But if I have to wait so long as to wait for centuries to feel as if my [child] had grown up to a respectable adult, I would say, ¡°Screw it.¡±


    I dreamed of wanting to be a father back at home. Especially having a daughter. I wouldn¡¯t be able to of course. Being as that I am not popular with girls and even if I go to an adoption to look for one, I wouldn''t be able to properly take care of him or her.


    Returning to the present. I found a bell on the counter and  assumed that I have to notify the receptionist  that I am here by using it. Tapping the bell ranging, a short old man wearing a leather coat and pants appeared from a room near the counter and walked behind the it.


    The expression he had on his face shows he is in a very foul mood today. He was glaring at me as if I had killed his wife or something. Minding my own business, I spoke to him.


    ¡° Excuse me, I want to register to as an adventure.¡±


    While he took a good look at me, he suddenly smirked.


    ¡®The fuck?¡¯ Is it just me or did he analyzed my face and did it. That was really rude of him. I tried to keep my illusion face from changing out of the poker face, but it didn¡¯t turn out well. I lifted an eyebrow and the damn old man continued to smile. Not hiding his amusement from finding a person that is as ugly or maybe even uglier than him. I am going to change this face when I have the chance. When I used ''Illusion Mimicry'' to shape my appearance, I didn''t put very much thought in it. I should change it when I get the chance. As long as I don''t forget though.


    ¡° Ye want to be an adventure uh. Just fill out this form and I will prepare ye Adventure¡¯s ring.¡±


    Writing and filling out my information on the counter, the old man continued to stare at me or is he looking down at me?


    ¡® Fuck you old man, you really want to die?¡¯ Suppressing my desire to beat up the old man right here and now, I finished filling my information. He took out a brown colored ring and touched the form that I had given him. The form disappears and he gave the ring to me.


    ¡° When ye want to know your current information, just press the button on top of the ring. When ye want to accept a quest on the bulletins over there,¡± he pointed at the right showing 6 different bulletins with papers pinned to it, ¡° Just touch it with your ring, and you are only allowed do missions of your current rank or below. When ye finish with your quest, come back to have it updated.¡± Finishing his explanation,  he turned walked away while spitting at the area near my foot.


    ¡® If this ass licker, were to do this again, I will definitely put him on my blacklist.¡¯ Putting on my ring, I checked out my information.


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    Name: Ridar Azzur


    Age: 28


    Job: Magician


    Rank: F


    Quest: None


    Party Affiliation: None</td></tr></tbody></table>


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    I finished looking over my information and strolled the bulletin. While looking for a F rank quest, I noticed a note on the board. It shows the necessary amount of quests to rank up. For a F rank to rank up to an E rank, i must finish 10 quests to rank up. For E to rank up to D, you must finish 30. And the list goes on. To go into S rank from A, is a bit different. S rank is the highest to can go and extremely difficult to get to. There are many benefits for S rankers. You receive 15% of for every item to buy and it is approved from the king. To get to S rank though, you just need to complete one S rank mission to rank up from A. Many A rankers attempted to complete one S mission, but many died.


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    Obviously there are some that succeeded. To those that were successful, they were very popular and well known amongst the people. Especially to kids. Some known ones were Eric Salaam. Known for mastery over many weapons and capable of using magic of the 5th rank which is known to be the general max you can get. There are also others, but he is the most popular.


    Looking for F quests, I found out this bulletin is has only B ranks. I determined the 6 bulletins must be far separating quests by rank. Going to the very last bulletin, I took a look at it. I skimmed through them. Most of them were herb collecting, no they were all herb collecting. I looked at the bottom of the papers and most of them seem to give not so good rewards. Only 10 copper for each herb collected with 15 herbs minimum. There is a currency that goes from copper to silver to gold. 100 coppers is 1 silver. While 10 silver is 1 gold coin. What I stole from the guy who I ruined his life, I have 25 gold coins. This is enough to last a normal family of 4 for a few months in luxury. I looked for quests and took 5 of them. Each of them wants different herbs used for different things. One is for medicine which helps with fevers, another is one with deal with poisons, and another is for digestion.


    I used the ring and touch the 5 quest papers and was absorbed soon after. Checking my ring to see if it successfully took it in, I pushed the button on the ring.


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    Name: Ridar Azzur


    Age: 28


    Job: Magician


    Rank: F


    Quest: 5 currently


    Party Affiliation: None</td></tr></tbody></table>


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    Seeing no problems, I walked out the Adventure¡¯s building and strolled through the city. I am currently planning to browse the stores and see if there is anything I took an interest to and desired to buy it. I noticed a sign on one of the stores which said weapons with a picture of a sword, dagger, bow ,and staff. Decided to know more of the weapons in this world, I went to the weapon¡¯s store, opened the door, and came in.


    I was greeted rudely by a middle-aged man maybe in between 40-50. ¡°Hey, what the hell are you doing here?¡±


    A question mark appeared over my head.¡¯ Why am I always not treated politely. Does everyone only judge by appearance.¡¯ Gotta really not forget to change it later. I took out several gold coins and showed it to him in between my fingers. He immediately changed his speech and expression and bowed,


    ¡°My deepest apologies Sir, I¡¯d thought you were a beggar who was about to attempt stealing my goods. Please forgive me.¡± I took a look at myself and I think that maybe after I finish browsing through this store, I should get new clothes. It should deem easier to get around. I replied to the man with a nod and start browsing while activating ¡®Item Appraisal¡¯


    The first thought that came to be was low-quality. Most of the swords that are put in display are decently fine steel swords; however, that was it. There is no effects that could help in combat. Just a simple damage dealing weapon. The staffs I see was even worse than I thought. They only give a slight boost to damage dealing spells.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Wooden Staff


    1 % increase spell damage</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I wonder where are the magic enchanted weapons. In Elareven, magic weapons were the most mainly used as weapons. They are better than normal ones. The difference is the bonuses you gain from it. The weapons and gear are all ranked between Low to all the way to Divine. The weapons I am seeing right now would of course to considered low- quality. Maybe the store owner is keeping other weapons in another place. Coming to the owner I asked,


    ¡° Is there any magic weapons.¡± The store owner gave me an odd look.


    ¡° No, magic weapons and items are very expensive. They are very difficult to find and even if they were to be discovered, no one in the right minds would sell it. It is priceless. Many people would kill for gaining such treasures. Rather than being bought, most of the time others kill the owner of the weapon for themselves.¡±


    Understanding the value of magic weapons, I left after tossing a gold coin to him and left.


    ¡° You are welcomed anytime!,¡± the owner shouted before I closed the doors. The next thing I did was going to the clothing shop. Taking my time to get there, I hear shouts of merchants shouting out their sales, people walking to the stalls to buy ingredients for dinner, others going to restaurants to eat lunch, parents holding their children¡¯s hands so that they wouldn''t get lost. Feeling pleasant from the life I see in the streets, I continued on my way to the clothing store.


    Arriving at the clothing store and went in, I see a grandma looking person sitting behind the counter. She analyzed me from head to toe. I can see she is probably determining what set of clothing would suit me.


    ¡°Grandma, would you give me the best clothing you have that would fit me.¡±


    She nodded at me and went to the started going around the store and taking pieces of clothing that would suit me well. When she was done, she went to me put onto my arms and pointed at a room which I suspect is the changing room. Entering it I see a mirror that shows my whole appearance.¡¯ No wonder people don¡¯t treat me nicely, I really do look like a poor beggar with my divine robes.¡¯


    The make my robe more descriptive, it is a robe with some holes on the arms and near the leg area. It would have suited my skeleton appearance though. It makes me more like the Grim Reaper. Changing my clothes with a blackish looking clothing shirt and pants, I take a good look at myself, my image looked better. The face is bad, but no longer look that bad.


    I exited the changing room and asked how much.


    ¡° 3 gold coins,¡± she said simply.


    ¡®Damn, so expensive.¡¯ Must be how much work it takes to make clothes. With that thought, I took out my pouch and take out 3 gold coins and gave it to her. She bowed while I left the store. I wanted to continue browsing the various stores out there, but I decided against it because I need to at least finish my quests before the end of today.


    There isn''t any time limit for the quests, but I want to finish 5 today and do the other 5 tomorrow which would help me rank up to E. Finishing that thought, I went out the gates of the kingdom and strolled towards the forest where supposedly some of the herbs I require is located there, and hummed my way there with a happy expression on my illusion face.


    *******


    I made it slightly longer. Is it good enough?

 Ch. 7 Pranks and a Pet!

    Ridar Azzur


    Taking a good look at the map I had purchased at a general store, I walked towards the direction where the forest is. It is embarrassing to say this, but I forgot to buy a map when I decided to go to a forest that had all the current herbs for my quests. I had to go back running while holding back curses when returning to the city. The guards who noticed that I just came back not soon after I left, gave me a questionable look at me, but allowed me to come back in. I went to the general store that wasn¡¯t really quite far from the Adventurer''s Guild. I bought the not so good looking map for 1 gold. If I wanted a better looking one, I have to purchase one for 5 gold. Sheesh, why are everything so expensive. A commoner would cry their life out their sockets if they had to pay so much for a mere map.


    Getting back in track, I walked on a road that was between fields of grass. I see and passed by a couple of people while I was at it. Many came from villages and wanted to make, and create a new life. It could be said that they are making a new start in their lives. Some of them desired to become knights in training and some desired to create their own shop or business. Though there are some that just needed to buy things they required back in their homes. I don¡¯t really get why they desired such dreams, but everyone is different in such regards.


    I closed my nonexistent eyes which my fake face also corresponds in closing its eyes, and continued walking. The sounds of rolling carriages, the low voices of conversations of a parent and child, and some herbivores eating grass. It feels so peaceful here. Grinning from my good mood, I opened my eyes. What appeared in my sight was a group of people walking with each other. They consist of 5 late-teen boys and unfortunately no girls. What caught my attention was the rings on their fingers. They appear to look very similar to my adventure ring I am currently wearing.


    I activated a spell of a divine ring on one of my hands, ¡®Concealment¡¯. My body slowly became transparent and soon disappeared completely. I couldn¡¯t see myself, but know my body is still there. The ¡®Concealment¡¯ spell have the capabilities to hide your body and sound such as your footsteps and breathing. It also went as far as to hide the very presence of a person so if someone were to cast a spell to detect someone, it would have no effect at all. I have mostly used this spell to play pranks and jokes on other players on Elareven.


    Well it wouldn¡¯t really be as soft as a prank actually. In many occasions I used ¡®Concealment¡¯ and followed an expedition with a couple of parties who were going to battle a difficult level of the highest level, the Abyss. While they are battling it to the death, I would activate ¡®Void Disguise¡¯ so I will receive no punishments in Pking. I will explain the true abilities of my divine ring. It basically allows the user wearing the ring to activate ¡®Concealment¡¯. But that is not it, the ring adds additional effects when using it together with certain items. Let¡¯s say when a Pker kills a player in Elareven. In the chatbox, the Pker¡¯s name would appear in killed player¡¯s chat it to mention who have slain them so they could avenge themselves.


    The ring completely nullifies that mentioning in the chatbox. This is where it gets interesting in my story. While the expedition is battling to the death against the Boss, I would silently time I kills. Just before a player is about to die from the Boss, I would attack them at the correct timing. They would die while dropping an item and losing experience. I quickly took the gear they drop and when they get revived, they will be confused. Normally when a player dies from a monster, they are able to take back their items in a specific time period before a player could take them. Though getting killed by a player, it Pker are allowed to take the item immediately.


    To make it worse and not having enough, I last hit the boss and gain the experience and take all of the items while I am at it. Since I wasn¡¯t in their expedition, the experience didn¡¯t spread to the others, in addition they aren¡¯t able to pick up the items. All the expedition parties were able to do was watch as the items for some reason disappear to nowhere. I remember hearing their reports not soon after, and emailed them it was most likely a bug in the system. You could imagine their rage.


    Let¡¯s get back to my reality, I quickly went to the the group of 5 men and looked at their hands. It was in fact an adventurer¡¯s ring. While I was at it, I listened to their conversation and discovered they were brand new adventurers just like me. It appears they are doing the same quests as me. Coincidentally, each one of them are working together to upgrade their ranks quicker. It seems that if you are in a party, you could complete a quest without doing it if one of the party members did it.


    I continued stalking this group of people.


    ¡°Yo, did you see that chick at the bar.¡±--M#1


    ¡°Ya, she was seriously hot. I think I am in love with her.¡±--M#2


    ¡°Budddyyy~, you can¡¯t do that because I am targeting her~.¡± --M#4


    ¡°You guys should just say the truth. You just want to put your toy inside her.¡±--M#5


    ¡°Guys, she is currently in a relationship with another guy. Give it up.¡±--M#3


    They continued to talk about the bar girl and joked around and laughing. Listening to their conversation, I can¡¯t help but remember my school buddies who hanged out with me. We would talk about the same subjects as them and played pranks with each other. I could say they and I are very similar in that regard. It was quite nostalgic.


    Some time passed and now the party of 5 and I are in front of the forest. This forest was rumored to have a demonic nine-tailed fox capable of using 5th+ rank magic. It was also said to be more than 900+ old as a magic fox is only able to grow a new one every century. Growing more intelligent as time goes on. Many known adventures came to this forest, including Eric Salaam who is an S rank, to hunt it down for fame and possible treasures. Some even believed that if you were to kill the demon fox, you will be given access to high-rank magic. This forest is popular because of such rumors. Though I did took an interest to this fox when it was mentioned in the village I had saved just before. I wanted to meet this fox.


    ¡°Alright guys, let¡¯s search separately and gather our herbs.¡± -Man#1


    The group of five soon started separating. When they are almost out of sight, I deactivate ¡®Concealment¡¯ and took out my undead rabbits. ¡®Follow them and tell me when one of them gathered 15 herbs.¡¯ Soon after I gave them my orders, they hopped towards each of the 5 teenage boys. Taking out ¡®Area Ruler¡¯ which is a scroll. I activated it. Its effect is to show where the strongest monster or thing in an area its location. Mainly used for avoiding dangerous monsters or targeting dangerous monsters in the game.


    Arrows started to appear on the ground which only I could see. I strolled into the forest while taking my time going to the strongest in this forest. Time passed by and instead of seeing trees, I see a small wooden cabin in front of me. The cabin is located in the center within a circle where there aren¡¯t any trees in the circle area. Think of it like a forest, but with an circle area where trees don¡¯t grow and appear and in the center of the circle, is a cabin.


    Slowly taking a step to know what is inside the cabin, I felt some kind of barrier which is blocking me from entering it easily. I could have still passed through, but decided against it. Activating ¡®Analyze¡¯ which shows information of anything in front of you, a screen popped up and read,


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Magical Area Concealment Barrier


    Effect: Forces any organism to subconsciously avoid this area. In addition, sets up a barrier so nothing is able to get inside.


    Source- Lilia, 9 tailed fox demon- deceased</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    ¡®........¡¯


    ¡®Ah shit.¡¯ I only came here so that I could find and meet the 9 tailed fox. Man that just ruins my good mood. I might as well just investigate the cabin. There has to be a purpose for getting out of its way to put up a barrier like this here. I stepped into the barrier with some little difficulty and walked my way towards the wooden cabin with the arrows also leading to it.


    I opened the door while it shrieked. Quite an annoying sound by the way so I break the door off. Looking inside, it was dark, but I had ¡®Night Vision¡¯ so I currently have no problems or issues seeing inside the cabin otherwise.  Inside this cabin, there wasn¡¯t really anything. Except a few old-looking books on a desk. Other than that, there are webs and dust everywhere. Going to the desk, I took a book to read what it contains.


    ¡®.......¡¯


    My mistake, this isn¡¯t exactly a book, but a journal and what it said was,


    ¡°I have finally found the forest which the legendary 9-tailed fox was said to lay its offspring. I didn¡¯t want my superiors to know of this information so I hid it. I investigated this forest with a magic item which detects strong energy signatures, but I was only led to this cabin. I didn¡¯t quite understand and searched for any possible hints; however, there wasn¡¯t anything.¡±


    Skipping a [few] pages because I have gotten bored reading this journal whom a guy wasted so much of his time [investigating] the cabin.


    ¡°........After a few years, I still had yet to find anything secret this cabin holds. I decided I will leave my journal here and hope for someone to discover the secrets of this cabin and find the legendary mythical creature.¡±


    Finishing, I threw the journal into the air and cast ¡®Nothingless,¡¯ a black sphere appeared on my hand and I shot it at the journal, making it disappear forever. That was a waste of my couple seconds of living. I did obtain some more or less useful information. This area was where the deceased nine-tailed demon fox gave birth to its offspring. The journal man had written he used a magic item that reads strong energy signatures and it led him here. Even more with my used scroll ¡®Area Ruler,¡¯ there must be more to this then it meets the eye.


    Looking at the ground, the arrows didn¡¯t just stop at this area of the cabin. Currently it is staying on a certain spot on the floor in the cabin. Looking at the area which the arrow is pointing at, I activated ¡®Analyze¡¯


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Trapdoor


    Description: A simple trapdoor made by an expert builder. Also had illusion casted on it to hide whatever is below this door.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I tried to decide what I should do next. One, activate ¡®Remove Magical Enchanted Object,¡¯ or number two, smash it with a stomp of my leg. ¡®...........................¡¯


    I stomped at the area of the Trapdoor and the area of the floor which [ I ] was standing on broke. Felling through the hole I screamed like a little kid,


    ¡°AHHHHHHHHHHH¡±


    If I was calm about the situation, I would have activated ¡®Flight¡¯, but I panicked at the sudden fall. I fell while continued screaming, but not very soon after, I fell onto a floor. Receiving no damage, I calmed down. Observing for any possible enemies, I deemed it safe. Looking around the area I had fallen upon, it had the appearance of an underground tomb which kings were buried in. The arrows appeared on the floor and I of course followed it. Being cautious, I casted several defence spells on me and took at Aedriha out of my inventory. I soon see a yellow light in front of me. Light coming from a crystal in the sealing.


    The arrows leading me there, I continued forward while increasing my guard. Soon the arrows lead to a fox lying in a bird-looking nest with a blanket on top of it. If I was capable of sweating right now, all of my clothes would have been wet from all the moisture. Slowly I let my hand forward to the small fox. My hand came to a stop soon after.


    ¡®What is up with all these barriers,¡¯


    ¡°Negate Barrier,¡± feeling my mana dropping by 5%, my barrier dispelled. Again letting my hand reach towards the fox, it quickly opened its eyes. It happened so fast I embarrassingly jumped. The fox looks towards me, got up, showing one tail, and stretched. It then said something completely unexpected to me,


    ¡°Papa!¡±.


    ¡®.........¡¯


    ¡®The hell,¡¯ I not knowing how to react I stayed still. The fox jumped towards me and the prepared defences were ineffective against the fox. It must be because the target isn¡¯t hostile towards me. While thinking that, it snuggled to my face. Then it looked at me as if it was confused. Suspecting something, I deactivated my ¡®Illusion Mimicry¡¯. My whole appearance turned into a Grim Reaper looking guy. The one-tailed fox unexpectedly nodded as if it finally understands something. Oh ya, I should take this chance to change my face. Turning towards to the fox,


    ¡°This is my real face, I will frequently use magic so my appearance will change a lot. Remember it.¡±


    I, expecting it to understand, gave me a pleasing answer, which was a nod. Before I begin changing my appearance, I was thinking of a good name to name it. I remembered that I don¡¯t know the gender of this fox. I gently grabbed it into my hands and turned him over. Seeing there was something small popping out near his bottom, I determined it is a he.


    ¡°Your name shall be Nemaus.¡±


    Nemaus barked happily and snuggled to me. I activated ¡®Ilusion Mimicry,¡¯ and changed my appearance to that of a 5 feet 8 inches mid-teenage boy with white hair, purple eyes, lean build, and the most important part, a pleasant to look at face. I then heard a message from my rabbits. It seems that 5 boys have finally finished collecting the herbs. I put Aedriha back into by inventory, holding Nemaus, I cast¡¯ Nothingless¡¯ and an sphere appeared in front of me. I put more mana into it and enlarge it enough to cover my body. Casting it forward towards to ceiling of this underground place, I also used ¡®Flight¡¯ and followed the sphere threw the ceiling. ¡®Nothingless¡¯ completely erases everything in its way and not soon after, I came out of the ground and stepped into the surface.


    Finally back where the light blue sky exists, I had came over with a pet fox who thought I am his father. Leaving the cabin area, I came up with a theory that the nine-tailed fox bore its offspring; however, she was not in a good situation and had hidden her baby underground, and casted a barrier. I have no idea what circumstances which what lead the mother to do that, but it is something I am no longer interested in. I have no clue of why, so why waste time thinking.


    My rabbits continued sending me messages of the 5 boys moving. Quickly flying through the forest while casting a barrier to block the air resistance for Nemaus, I soon found the 5 walking together on their way back to the city. Immediately i told the rabbits,


    ¡°Knock them out, but don¡¯t harm or kill them in anyway.¡±


    The my undead rabbits following the orders, quickly hopped to the 5. As if sensing danger, the 5 boys looked backed startled from the sudden appearance of rabbits hopping towards them quickly. They attempt to take out their weapons, but the rabbits increased their spread, got behind them, turned and hop towards each of the 5 neck¡¯s, and karate chops it. 4 of them fell down unconscious. The last one was barely able to stand upright while in a daze, but I flew straight at him and delivered a punch to his face. Not so hard as to make permanent damage or scars though.


    After the last guy goes down, I looted their bags smiling on my good looking face. Taking the 15 herbs respectively to from each of the 5. I gathered all the necessary herbs for my bags, and I also took some silver coins from them. Putting back my rabbits into my storage, and strolled back to the city.

 Ch. 8 Troubles that end quickly

    Ridar Azzur


    Returning back to the city,Nemaus was currently eating some squirrels I have killed on the way there. He was sitting on my shoulder which I felt was very pleasant. I was quite curious of the Nine-tailed fox species so I used ¡®Analyze¡¯ on Nemaus. What I was notified was,


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently one tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    [Death]


    Progress: 3%


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    Seriously? This fox is now basically my child. I think I might enjoy raising it, but not so sure if I can do so properly. I have better take in some food and water just for him. It might even be intriguing to know what Nemaus would be able to be when he gets older. From the journal I have read in the cabin, I am sure there is some kind of organization that was searching for the fox species, but their motives are vague to me.


    I reached the gates, but again the guards stopped me. I activated Illusion Mimicry to show my previous ugly face and again to my current good one. They were quite shocked, but nonetheless, let me in. Entering the city once again, the familiar scene of life again showed itself to me. Smiling a charming smile that could attract all the young girls in their late-teens and lower, I walked to some stalls to buy food and water for Nemaus in the future. With my medium-sized white hair that barely reached my neck which contrasts my black clothing, and the fox on my shoulder, I received quite some attention and the gazes from everyone who I passed by regardless of gender. Maybe I look like a noble of the like?


    Entering the Adventurer¡¯s Guild building, I went to the counter once again and rang the bell. The same damn old man came out. When he saw me smiling the best smile I am capable of, he jumped back. Suppressing my laughter, I said,


    ¡°I would want my ring updated and the rewards that go along with it,¡± taking out my ring and the herbs I had looted from my leather bag.


    ¡°Yes, Sir,¡± the same rude old man who mocked me, is now being respectful towards me. Appearance will always matter no matter what world you are in huh?


    The old man took both herbs and ring and took out some sort of item that looked just like a coffee machine, and put the ring inside. The coffee machine like item made a couple of light blinks, and the old man took out the ring and went back to me.


    ¡°Sir, your ring has been updated, and here is 7 silver and 50 coppers for the rewards from collecting the herbs,¡± he said while holding out the ring with both hands while bowing slightly, which may be how people shows respect towards another person. And he doesn¡¯t seem to show that he knows or recognized who I am despite checking my ring. Does this mean they respect a person¡¯s privacy? Taking my looting worth, I again went to the very last bulletin in this building and took another 5 herb collecting quest and inserted into by ring. With this I can rank up to E.


    ¡°Papa, I¡¯m hungry,¡± Nemaus said while running around my shoulders. Ai, he just ate 6 squirrels this morning and not even 3 hours passed. Where did all the food go? Shit.


    ¡°Ok, Nemaus. I will take out some pork aga..,¡±


    ¡°Noooooo~, I am tired of it~.¡± Goddammit. I was going to expect something like this is going to happen whether you have a child or whatsoever, but sheesh, they need to know how to be grateful towards their circumstances. Nemaus,if I hadn¡¯t even taken an interest towards your species, I wouldn¡¯t have broken your seal your mother cast for whatever purpose it was supposed to be for. Show some gratitude will ya.


    ¡°......... Nemaus. If you become I picky eater, I will leave you¡­¡±


    ¡°Papa, why are you lying?¡± So not even the typical way asian parents, or is it my father, usually deal with their naive children works. I can only sigh at its intelligence and perception. Turning my head towards Nemaus, I give in and said,


    ¡° Alright, tell me what you want to eat when we get outside.¡±


    Nemaus made a lovely fox smile, and snuggled me again. I can¡¯t help but smile at him. It really felt as if I am a father now. Then I finally noticed the atmosphere. Everyone in the Adventurer¡¯s building were looking at me and my pet including the old man at the counter. I felt quite awkward. I was really never the outgoing and social type. If anything, I¡¯m a timid, shy, and usually doesn¡¯t give a fuck type. But attention isn¡¯t something I could give no fucks about. In any case, the people in this tavern must have noticed my pet speaking. Considering their reactions, talking animals are quite rare or even impossible.


    Smiling, I did my best to stroll without making any awkward movements from all those gazes. I am capable of handling attention as long as they don¡¯t go as far like making everyone putting all their focus and me while being quiet about it. I was able to handle to stares from this morning because I already expected something like that would happen. I went outside the building and the moment  left the through the doors, the tavern Adventurer''s Guild went into an uproar.


    I caught some of them saying something as dumb as,


    ¡°Hey hey, did you see that fox talk, what kind of fox is it?¡±


    Well of course everyone would want to confirm it isn''t their imagination. But still it is like seeing fireworks in the sky with your friend, and then you said,¡¯ Hey did you see that purple firework.¡¯ Of course he seen it you dumbass. But while having my thoughts around it, I heard something so outrageous that I had to stop in my steps.


    ¡°Hey, let¡¯s steal it. I bet a talking pet would be valuable even towards the nobles¡­¡±


    ¡®........¡¯ My illusioned eyes started to turn black while my normal red lights for pupils came out.


    ¡®Ah. Keep calm, keep calm Ridar Azzur. You need to take a deep breath and breath out.¡¯ Doing so after, my black eyes turned back to the white eye with a purple pupil. Looking around if anyone caught me, I sighed in relief. No one had yet noticed it. I must prepare myself from some unwanted trouble. Nemaus, is now my child and responsibility. I have to take proper care of him. Thinking so I went to a nearby dark alleyway and checked if no one was there.


    ¡°Lifeless Body Creation.¡± I imagined an eyeball no bigger than a normal human eyeball, but with a small pair of wings coming out of the eyeball. Clicking create 5 times, my mana pool went down ever so slightly and 5 ¡®Eyeball Corpses¡¯ which was usually used for my info gathering. In other words surveillance. This is used to watch players or observe and gain information in my surroundings in Elareven.


    Next I did is casting Undead Manipulation upon the Eyeball Corpses. Not long after, the Eyeball Corpses moved its wings and awaited my orders. Feeling the connection I got from them just like from my undead rabbits, I ordered my newly created minions to observe my every surroundings and notify me if a person or group of people is following me. They then started to fly into the air while slowly fading, but I can tell they are still there and observing me. Just in case I activated ¡®Soul Sense¡¯ which allows me to know every living person is located in a certain distance around me. Next I simply cast a Mana Barrier around me and Nemaus. It is just like my mom always said, better safe than sorry, but for Nemaus instead.


    Finishing my preparations, I got out the alleyway and strolled to nearby restaurants. From the smell, many of the restaurants are barbecuing meat and corn. There are also bakeries which sold soft, fresh, white bread. Nemaus, got excited and sniffed the air, trying to decide what he desires to eat. This lasts for a couple minutes before finally he said,


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    ¡°Papa, there there. I want to eat that,¡± pointing at a high-class looking restaurant with an open window where the smell of some kind of meat being kicked. I told Nemaus that if he wants to go there, he must not speak while their are others nearby, only pointing. Opening the door and went in, I was greeted by a cute waitress. She blushed when she saw me, but still did her job leading me towards an empty chair and table. The ¡®Eyeball Corpses¡¯ flying outside the building while sending me information of my surroundings. So far there aren''t any problems. Taking a seat on my chair, the waitress gave me a menu, and I showed it to Nemaus. He looked around the menu while pointing at a couple of dishes that looked like steak from my home world.


    ¡°Only one Nemaus.¡± Nemaus fox ears drooped down. Sorry, but if I have to keep up with your whims, the gold I currently have won¡¯t last for 5 days. Nemaus nodding showing it understood, pointed at the most expensive dish on the menu.. Telling the waitress my order, I relaxed and stretched. Nemaus took a nap in the mean time while waiting for the meal to be ready. As I thought this, I looked at the other customers who were with their friends or women. There is also a family here too.


    After a couple of minutes, the same waitress brought out my meal and set it gently on my table. Thanking her, I cut up the steak with a knife and fork. After finishing the last cut, I woke up Nemaus. He yawned and looked at the table, setting his gaze on the steak. He jumped from happiness for which I was barely able to calm him down. Taking the fork and stabbing it towards the steak, I brought it to Nemaus¡¯s mouth for he who bites and ate it whole. He grinned from joy, I continued feeding him. While doing so, I again, found myself at the center of attention. Seriously, what is with today.


    I continued feeding Nemaus and looking at the other customers, I lifted up my eyebrows as if saying, ¡°Got a problem bro?¡±. They looked away and mind their own business, while some looked at me in defiance. But I might have made a miscalculation. The ones that looked against me were all wearing elegant clothing while the aura they give is one of arrogance and superiority. They also had some knights standing beside them grasping the sword handle of the sword that is in the sheath as if preparing to kill. They were all looking at me. Then one of them stood up and went towards me with a tall knight following behind him.


    ¡°Good afternoon, Mister. May you allow me to seat in this table and have a talk with you?¡±


    ¡°Of course, go ahead and have a seat.¡±


    ¡°My gratitude.¡±


    He sat on the chair belonging to the table I am using. He seemed to be looking at me, or is it Nemaus? Both ways, I will need to properly settle whatever issues he have with me. I don¡¯t want to receive lots of attention.


    ¡°My you tell me Mister where you get that fox?¡±


    ¡°I have found him while traveling to this kingdom. Is there something you particularly want from me?¡¯


    ¡° Yes, yes. There is something I really want from you. Would you be willing to sell the fox to me.¡±


    ¡°My apologies, but he isn''t for sell.¡±


    ¡°How about 100 gold?¡±


    ¡°Not for sale.¡±


    ¡°110?¡±


    ¡°No like I said, I am not selling him.¡± That is strange, did he hear that my fox is capable for human speech? I am pretty sure that he was already here when I came in. Did someone perhaps used the magic ¡®Message¡¯ to pass information around?


    ¡°Mister, it would be wise for you to sell it to me. You wouldn''t want something unfortunate to happen to you.¡± Hearing the threat, I came to just one conclusion. He is an enemy. I called for the waitress for the bill and payed while leaving the restaurant with Nemaus. My Eyeball Corpses notifying me that a group is currently on the follow behind me. Coming up with a plan, I ran into the gaps of buildings, but not running so fast as to not let the group lose track of me. While they follow me, they were unaware that they were being lead and that they fell into my trap.


    Casting ¡®Information Nullifier¡¯ which messages won¡¯t be able to be sent in an area, I get ready to fight with them. I continued to run but every second I slowed down until I came to a stop and turned around. A group of 10 appeared in front of my vision, all in hoods.


    ¡°Is there something you mobs want?¡±


    They stared at me silently and then issued orders to each other. They quickly ran around me, blocking any kind of escape paths, except for the sky though. They missed that part. This is all going according to plan. My Eyeball Corpses messaged me that there are no more pursuers coming and there isn''t anyone near the area of the kingdom I am currently in with a group of 10. After receiving it, I activated a barrier which doesn''t allow anything to come out without my permission.


    The group of 10 still hadn''t noticed their situation, so I decided to give them a scare. Deactivating ¡®Illusion Mimicry,¡¯ I turned back into a Lich while red lights glowing brightly out of its sockets. The 10 got surprised. It turned to confusion and then fear after I turned on ¡®Deathly Aura¡¯, but only at the level of causing debuffs on enemies instead of instant death to weak enemies. I then asked,


    ¡°Who had sent you after me?¡± They didn''t answer because of the Deathly Aura. It was more effective than I thought even though I suppressed it to its weakest.


    ¡®Well, it is not like I need to ask them now anyways.¡¯


    ¡°SOUL MANIPULATION!¡±


    All 10 men stopped moving. Using this ability, I slowly pulled all 10 souls at the same time from range. Some seconds later, the group fell down dead. With 10 souls within my grasp, I read their souls which possesses memories and the such. Information comes flooding through me. I found out that I was wrong about them knowing the fox [talks]. Instead it was just a surprising coincidence. The boy which I met in the restaurant and the group here are part of the organization whose go is to collect rare magic items, artifacts, and magical creatures. They were really just eating lunch normally, but noticed my fox is actually a nine-tailed fox species. I also now know their hideouts and all the items they have obtained through the past decades.


    I modified the 10 souls so their only goal was to serve me. I then put them back into their respective bodies and they came back alive. I also took out my undead rabbits and ordered my undead minions to destroy the organization and kill everyone involved with it while looting their stuff. There weren''t that many members anyway. Just a little fewer than 500. I believe it would cause some uproars, but it is that or being stalked, followed, and attacked by them. Activating ¡®Undead Manipulation¡¯ and ¡®Soul Manipulation¡¯ I connected 10, undead rabbits, and Eye Corpses. They will be now capable to attract and give information of the locations of members with each other. Just in case if my minions need more manpower, I took out the bandits from the storage, turn them into undead and increased my soldiers. Telling them to do their mission immediately, they quickly scattered.


    Looking at Nemaus who was actually a sleep the whole time, I checked his current progress in taking my power.


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently one tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    [Death]


    Progress: 6%


    </td></tr></tbody></table>

 Some questing ideas plz?

As you guys can see, Ridar Azzur is about to and will rank up to E. I want to get some ideas about what quests you guys have in mind. Will be grateful if you do.

 Ch.9 Dungeons and etc

    Set-up chapter


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    During the past few days, there had been much rumors and gossips about a huge incident where multiple humans have been killed in different kingdoms. They were mainly killed by a stab through the back, a slit to the throat, or some that were  killed by some rabbits. There had been many messages throughout the kingdoms to be caution at night and don''t come out during that time too. There were many investigations right now, but nothing helped. Unknown to the public, which only myself know is that my minions were the culprit in all of these killings. This of course was only to protect my dear son from possible danger. I have learned from that situation when Nemaus was targeted is that I know too little of how much danger this world is capable of.


    This world is very similar to Elareven; however, even though they are both similar, there were some differences. One is that this world is more of the degraded version of Elareven. Second is that this world doesn''t work in a game setting. Basically it is like this. I am capable of seeing information in game terms like the screens that pop up when I received notifications. However, for the people in this world, no one sees such a setting. They don''t receive notifications just like that of a game. Actually,to begin with, I could have known about this from reading the memories and information from souls, but overlooked it.


    I began gathering more information about this world from the Grand library which I am currently at. The Library contains history and info about the world. Mostly history though.The Library looks very fabulous and just as the name says, it looks grand. What I obtained from there were more information that I have overlooked with soul reading. Next time I will definitely take and absorb everything. It seems there are these underground places which are called dungeons. No one knows how they are created. There were many theories such as god punishing the world and everyone in it for their wrongs, another one is that it is a gift from one of the gods to get people to become hardworking and strong to receive treasures when you captured the dungeon and defeated it. Some are saying that they were actually created from strong mages who seeked to hide their treasures from the greed of others before they die from old age, and the monsters were captured inside their dungeon spell. In anycase, all dungeons give out huge amounts of rewards from completion; however, a bright side always has a dark side. When not being attacked frequently enough, monsters such as golems, demons, and gargoyles comes out from being over populated in the dungeon.


    From what I learned from a book, these dungeons in this world are the spawning type. It doesn''t work naturally like feeding moss eaten insects, insects eaten from rats, rats to Snakes. No, it is more like being spawned out of nowhere as long as there is the dungeon core.They will keep spawning till no end until you defeat the Dungeon Boss. One other effect the dungeon core gives is that the monsters have no need to eat because of the abundant mana inside the core.


    Dungeons are categorized into 4 ranks. S, A, B, and C, while C is the weakest. C rank dungeons are the weakest and the most commonly conquered, nonetheless it is still quite difficult to do so. Many adventures and non-adventures had given up trying to conquer and gain fame and money. For B rank dungeons, its difficulty level is estimated to be around 4 times more difficult. I heard Eric Salaam, an S rank, who partied with his fellow S rank friends was able to defeat the B dungeon, but with some difficulty. From the rumors that people in the city were saying, he gained an artifact that holds an ability capable of increasing his strength and magic damage for a certain period of time with no side effects. The only flaw would be that it takes days to be able to reuse it again. Well, it is quite decent in my opinion. Also, it seems that when completing a dungeon, you gain unique power from it. It could be anything like increase in intelligence or speed, or maybe even be able to use certain spells like increasing growth rate of plants. It can vary. I am actually planning to go the the dungeons sometime in the future. This time going with a friendly party.


    So far ever since the time when dungeons appeared 1000 years ago, no one was able to take on an A rank dungeon or even the Godly S rank. It has been said in legends that the creatures inside are humankind¡¯s worst enemies, but it has been lost in the records the locations of the S rank dungeons are. In addition, there were no reports of strange abnormal creatures except for a dragon. But that is irrelevant right now.


    Enough about dungeons. The rest of the information in the library was boring history. Even if it would have the possibility of giving me an enlightenment of something, I just can¡¯t face history. It is too boring. Leaving the library feeling mentally exhausted, I went to an inn since it is currently nighttime. Paying 1 silver and 10 coppers to the receptionist for the night stay and 3 meals/ day, I took the key and went to by arranged room upstairs. Opening the door, I see a plain room with a wooden table, chair, and a decent bed that could be slept on. I went towards the bed and laid face down on my bed and slept.


    Obviously I didn¡¯t sleep at all. Just closed my eyes. I feel relaxed when I do so. As if all my accumulated mental stress had flown away. I decided that I shall close my eyes for the rest of this night so I could feel refreshed in the morning. I shall call this ¡°Undead Slumbering.¡± Ah, such bad naming sense. Feeling a bit of self-pity for myself, I got up and went downstairs to the dining area and went to an empty seat. Nemaus finally waking up on my shoulders, he yawned. Well, he had been sleeping ever since I was reading in the library. I have been thinking a while, but what is the goal in this world right now? Why am I working as an adventure? I have been conflicted with these questions, but the only answers I had been able to come up with is because I am bored. Dismissing my thoughts, at the same time a waitress brought the meal to me and left shortly after. Bread, lettuce, fish with sauce on it was in the plate of food. Breaking them into pieces, I fed Nemaus.


    ¡°Papa,  this is so good.¡± Nemaus is chewing happily and eating the food.


    ¡°I told you to not talk. I wouldn¡¯t want unnecessary trouble.


    Nodding as he understood, he ate and ate until all the food has been cleanly consumed from the plate. Finishing his last bite, I headed back to my room and rest along with Nemaus.


    Waking up in the morning, I got got up and headed to the Adventurer''s Guild. Entering , once again all eyes on me and went back to their conversation. Coming to the bulletin and taking out an E rank quest.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Goblin Subjugation


    Increase of goblins being spotted SouthWest of Pledia. Kill as many goblins as you can. Cut out the an ear of the goblin as proof of your kills.


    1 silver per goblin ear


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    Goblins are a species who are small humanoid creatures. They have green skin, pointy ears, and they are always a huge number of them because of their fertility rate and their growth rate, which is a lot faster than a human. In search for food, they attack farms, villages, other places with food when the goblins run out of food supply.


    I had recently ranked up a few days ago during the 500 hundred killings. I finished the herb quest by making more undead minions and ordering them to collect specific herbs. Forgotten to mention that the group of murderers [undead minions] who killed a bunch of known rich people, were named as the ¡°Plague¡± by how fast the killings went. Anyhow, nothing really happened while my undead were collecting herbs except for the incident with Nemaus. He shat on me.


    Brown lumps of shit appeared out of his butt,anus, ass, asshole, and came in contact with the clothes and bought from the clothing shop. I didn¡¯t have any spells to clean my clothing, so I took off my top and pulled out a magic item ¡®Infinite Water¡¯ with the shape of a jug and poured it on my clothes while scrubbing it. Honestly, it could have gone worse if Nemaus shat out liquid instead. Was able to get the smell out. Taught him to get off of me when he is discharging out waste from his body.


    It has been just a couple of days that I have freed him from his seal and been taking in my energy. Nemaus has been progressing very steadily and his affinity with Death is as shown. Also, he seems have gotten some skills.


    This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.<table><tbody><tr><td>Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently two tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    [Death]


    Progress: 15%


    Skills Gained: Cursed Fox-Fire Magic, Dark Lightning, Illusion Magic, Life-Force Absorption


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    My guess is that in a week or so he would be able to have completed his absorption and capable of using whatever he is can use in the future. Ah, yes. He had grown a 2nd tail this morning. Believe how shock I was. But I didn¡¯t have it in mind for a long time since I was expecting it sooner or later. I heard that nine-tailed foxes are only suppose to be growing a tail every 100 years. This is a little odd. I am worried that if he was shown to have 2 tails, it would be only trouble coming. I asked him if he could somehow hide one of his tails. One of Nemaus¡¯s tail disappeared by going into the other tail. Maybe Illusion Magic?


    Before going to get out of the city and travel and subjugate goblins, I am going to continue browsing through the shops that I had stopped doing ever since my first quests. With the incident with Nemaus, I wasn¡¯t quite in the mood for shopping. and went to the library after all. Taking this chance to browse, I strolled down the many pathways. Reaching to a building that could rival a modern day mansion, I arrived to the Magic Shop Library where everything related to magic is sold there. Coming into the huge shop, my first impression was ¡®Holy¡¯. The shelves and books looked as if it was newly cleaned out and properly taken care of.


    This walls were white with not a spot of dirt on it. The ceiling was needlessly high as fuck. Checking if I was really in the same world just a few moments ago where I was still outside the magic shop, I confirmed it really was the same. Getting in deeper into this Magic Shop Library  This shop has many customers and there are some that are seems to look as if they are studying from a book. I looked around if their was anything to obtain my interest.


    Looking around while walking in a chill manner, I found a book titled ¡°Basics to Magic¡±. Opening the book while skimming through it, I summed it up too,


    ¡°Have no clue what it is talking about.¡±


    This book says that magic can only be used by people who are born with the ability to use it. The chances of a person being born with the ability to use magic is 1:100. I guess it isn¡¯t that bad of a ratio if this world is highly populated. It starts introducing various sorts of magic like mind magic, buff magic, curse magic, and also the element magic which dragons use, but weaker power compared to them. They say that magic comes from the soul and in order to use magic, you must have an some percentage of affinity to it. But it isn¡¯t that relevant. Almost everyone who are capable of magic can use all sorts of magic. Just how much power and control can you exert over that one. Also¡­...


    ¡°Enough with this.¡± I said as I closed to book. Way too tired of reading books. Just yesterday I read so much from the library that if I was capable of sleeping from boredom, I must of already done so 100 times over. If only if they put all that information in a brief summary. Would be so convenient. Leaving the book on my table because I felt to lazy to put it back where it belongs, I got out of my chair and went to the store where they would supposedly sell magic items. Scrolls and potions, including enchanted jewelry that enhances your power. Jewelry such as rubies and emeralds, in general all jewels, are able to either boost your spell damage or save up mana for use in the future. With a limit of course. They come with wristbands, necklaces, and rings.


    Using Item Appraisal, I took a look at some goods in the store.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Basic Mana Storage Ring


    Save up to 2000 mana points. Usually used when a person runs out of mana


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Magic Low-Booster Ring


    Increase magic damage by 6%. Other magic such as paralyze and curses are increased by 4% efficiency.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Lightning Scroll 4th rank


    Using this scroll to user could activate a 4th rank lightning spell that attacks with a beam of concentrated lightning.


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    There were many others items, but I will return some time later if I don¡¯t forget after doing my E quests. I am starting to be in need of money. This is mainly due to Nemaus who eats like a pig. Stretching my bones, I exit this building and prepare myself for the goblin subjugation. I bought some grilled chicken and stored them for Nemaus. While preparing, I see and hear a person not so far from me yelling,


    ¡°Hiring Guards! On the way to Village of Furtp! Anyone!? I¡¯m paying 5 gold for escorting me. Anyone!? Need one more!¡±


    Taking a good look at the yelling man, I noticed a group behind him waiting near a big carriage. I assumed they are hired bodyguards and escorts. Taking out my map, I looked for the said village. It is coincidentally SouthWest from here. Even more when the sightings of goblins are commonly near there. Putting back my map in my inventory, I walked towards to the yelling man.


    ¡°Oh Lad, you want to get hired as an escort right?¡±


    ¡°That is why I am here obviously.¡±


    ¡°Will you tell me what are you capable of and who is that pet of yours on your shoulder?¡±


    ¡°I am capable of at least casting fireballs and lightning. Also can use spells that will alarm us when nearby enemies are coming. As for my pet fox, his name is Nemaus. I found him and currently raising him. I¡¯m Ridar Azzur. Nice to meet you.¡±


    ¡°Magician Lad? Nice to meet ya, I¡¯m Wallis Drake. A merchant. The rest of the escorts are here,¡± as he pointed to the group behind him, there were 3 guys and 1 girl. They all look to be at their late-teens. 2 of them which includes the girl seems to be in a magician clothing with a staff in their hands. For the other 2, one of them is wearing lots of armor while holding a sword on his back and another wearing a bow with light clothing. They are chatting happily at each so I assume they are friends. Going in front of them with a warm smile,


    ¡°Ridar Azzur, just recently hired for Wallis Drake. Nice to meet the 4 of you.¡±


    ¡°HAHA, finally someone came. It was taking so long that I should have just gone to the brothels. HAHAHA. My name¡¯s Allen.


    ¡°Mark¡¯s my name.¡±-Mark


    ¡°Name¡¯s Hudson, let¡¯s do our best.¡±-Hudson


    ¡°Hi, I¡¯m Kelly. Might you tell me where did you find such a cute pet¡±-Kelly(the female in the group)


    Kelly staring at Nemaus in infatuation, I told her the same reply I had with Wallis. The group of friends chatted warmly with me, while I can¡¯t deny I¡¯m feelin some joy from socializing with them. It has been a long time since I had not talked with my friends since graduating from high school. We went our separate ways. Being near this group of 4, I can¡¯t help, but remember the good times which I had spent with my friends in the past. A nostalgic, but warm feeling passed through my nonexistent heart.


    As if Nemaus sensed my feelings just now, he licked me and did his snuggle again.


    ¡°Alright everybody! It is time to head out!¡±-Wallis


    ------------------------------


    Maybe I should make the chapters even longer?


    I have read all your ideas and will use most of them. Thanks for your contribution.


    Note- Not sure if main character should have a particular goal. I am more focused on adventuring the world.If you guys want some kind of goal, comment please.

 Ch.10 Bandit Attack and Dragon

    Before we had left the Kingdom of Pledia, we had to buy horses for everyone. Specifically for me though, since I don¡¯t have a horse and sadly I have to pay it myself. We are going Village of Furtp which is also coincidentally where I want to go. Being an escort to Wallis, I hope there won¡¯t be any interruptions in the journey such as bandits attacking just like in the light novels.


    Befriending Alden, Mark, Hudson, and Kelsy was a good choice for me because I was able to learn more of the way people had been living and what kind of things things to expect later on in the future. It is not that I befriend them out of benefit, but out of the desire to have friends. I¡¯ve discovered the reason why the 4 were so friendly and familiar with each other was because they knew each other during their childhood. They were all quite open with each other, except for Hudson who is the archer in the group. He is more like the person who doesn¡¯t talk unless he was spoken too. Mark though is a person of a few words. As for the rest, Alden and Kelsy, they are quite talkative. Since I was the only person that they don¡¯t know, they start asking me questions on our journey to Furtp.


    ¡°Hey Ridar, you were just recently hired as an escort, but what are you able do? You don¡¯t seem much like a warrior to me.¡±- Alden


    ¡°Ya, that¡¯s right. Are you a magician just like me?-Kelsy


    ¡°Ah, yes. I¡¯m a magician.¡± I made a smile.


    ¡°What are you able to use?¡±-Mark


    ¡°Well, I could use Lightning, Fireball at the very least.¡±


    ¡°So you are a 4th rank magician? I learned that those who were able to reach to a 4th rank were usually hired as guards anywhere. What are you doing here?¡±-Alden


    ¡°Well, I don¡¯t like to stay in a place for too long, so I decided to be an Adventurer and go explore the world while getting money. Being an escort is also what I want to do ¡± It was really an honest answer. I have many things I want to do. But I didn¡¯t really need to rush it because as long as I don¡¯t know from something, I can basically live forever.


    ¡°That is nice.¡±-Mark


    ¡°Wow, you are pretty amazing. I am a magician, but I can only use support magic like healing spells and buffing spells well. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to fly and be able to shoot fireballs in the air.¡±-said Kelsy as smiled and she looked at me with respect.


    ¡°Anyway, knowing that you are a 4th rank magician really reliefs us. I pretty confident that we could fight and get through in any situations, but it is not bad feeling secured once in a while.¡±--Alden


    ¡°Would you tell me why are going to Furtp?¡±


    ¡°That is where we are homes are. I wanted to visit my parents for a long while. Actually, that goes for most of us.¡±-Kelsy


    ¡°I see now.¡± Did they know that there homes aren¡¯t exactly in a safe area right now. But from what I can tell from our conversation, they don¡¯t seem particularly worried. Let¡¯s ask them,


    ¡°Hey guys, but didn¡¯t you know that your village there isn¡¯t really safe right now?¡±


    ¡°Huh, what are you talking about.¡±-Alden who lifts an eyebrow looks as if he had been told that his family was killed.


    ¡°You didn¡¯t know? It is just that goblins have been frequently appearing in the Village of Furtp.¡±


    All four including not social Hudson turned and looked at me with shock in their expressions.


    ¡°Actually, I am doing a goblin subjugation quest at that place. I was being an escort because I was going to Furtp anyways.¡±


    The news was as if cold water was splashed on their faces. For the first couple of minutes after I had told them the problems with goblins, the mood and atmosphere was quite bad. But it didn¡¯t last long because the talkative Alden couldn¡¯t stand it anymore and spoke out,


    ¡°Kelsy, Hudson, Mark, there is not use in worrying right now. The only thing we can do is hope.¡± Because of that small little speech, it somehow helped their depression.


    ¡°Your right, the only thing we can do is hope.¡± Kelsy


    ¡°Ridar, you didn¡¯t tell us what was your Adventurer rank.¡±-Mark said curiously


    ¡°I had just recently became an E rank. Started to be an Adventurer just a couple days back.¡±


    We continued to talk and I could only say this. It has been a while since I was exhausted by just talking. I end up being silent for some time while I gave Nemaus some dried beef when he started wimer at me while his stomach was growling. I started to feel uncomfortable on the horse I am sitting on. I think that walking by myself would be more pleasant than this. But looking at the other 4, I couldn¡¯t complain since they showed expressions of being uncomfortable. This went on until the first night finally started. We are now no longer on the road, but in a forest. From the location we are now in, I say that just maybe one more day is enough to arrive at the villlage.


    ¡°Alright lads, set up the tents!¡±-Wallis said with a exhausted expression. Most of everyone was tired, except for me though. Just that my ass of bones felt a bit unpleasant. For Nemaus though, he just keeps sleeping. ¡®Come on man, you just sleep and eat, sleep and eat, sleep and eat, and all over again. I expect you to do some work later¡¯ on I thought.


    After everyone finishes up setting up for the night, we prepared taking out ingredients and food to eat. As for me though, I said that I have my own food I eat. They were quite insistent in letting me eat their food, but I can¡¯t really eat it can I.


    I went into the tent that I am currently sharing with Hudson, the not social type of guy. Getting to (pretend) sleep early, I simply wait for my turn to keep watch for everyone while they sleep. The new dawn shine once again. I simply can¡¯t deny I really am glad of nature. One by one everyone started getting up. Of course we didn¡¯t immediately head out. We ate breakfast and fed the horses. After that we pack everything up and continued on our short journey. No one seems to be talking much right now. It is most likely because they are just not really a morning person, or it is because they are getting closer to their home.


    Well, I would want to comfort them, but I don¡¯t like giving others false hopes. You must accept reality when you see it. We continued having no interruptions today until ¡®Alarm¡¯ turned off and rang in my head while Nemaus suddenly stood up and growl.


    ¡°Something wrong?¡±-Mark


    Nemaus usually only acts like this when something is coming over to us. Possibly a huge number of enemies coming in our direction right now. My ¡®Alarm¡¯ only works when something was recognized as an enemy with intentions to attack. Turning to the group of friends and also to Wallis, I told them,


    ¡°Enemies are coming,¡±


    Everyone starts taking out their weapons and getting of their horses. Everyone started to get serious. Alden and Mark took out their swords, Hudson took an notch an arrow to the bow, and Wallis and Kelsy stayed behind them. As for me, I just simply stood there while not tense at all. One of my passive skills ¡®Desperate Mind¡¯ which allows me to become stronger depending on the enemies level. It doesn¡¯t seem to react in the slightest. This shows that the enemies are pretty weak.


    At the same time I was thinking of this, I activated ¡®Soul Sense¡¯ and was able to immediately know what position the enemy is right now. Warning everyone that we are currently surrounded by about 30 bandits, everyone started to be concerned. What I really learned just now is that bandits will usually always appear in large numbers. However, fortunately for us, or rather my companions than me, the bandits seem to not be very strong. There was only 3 of them who were significantly decently strong. They seem to be staying back and only watching. I woke up Nemaus and told him that if he do something for me, I would give him some extremely high-quality meat. He looked at me in the eyes to determine if I was lying. I had an idea where to get the meat, or rather I already had it. Nemaus wasn¡¯t able to detect any lies, so I gets ready for his assignment that I made for him. For me, I activated ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯ which doesn¡¯t allow any souls to pass on while within this barrier.


    Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    A couple of bandits came up in front of us and said the following,


    ¡°Give us all your belongings and we will let you guys off. But you must also leave the gir¡­¡±


    An arrow swished through the air and pierced through the bandit¡¯s skull and quickly fell down dead. I looked at Hudson, and damn he seems extremely pissed. Never expected this quiet guy to show such an expression Not a second later, all the bandits that came up to negotiate(?) with us died with an arrow to the head. The next moment, bandits started to come out of the bushes and trees and attacked us. While Mark, Alden, and Hudson continued to kill the bandits with not too much difficulty, I shoot out ¡®Wind Slicer¡¯ a not strong spell generally, but enough the instantly kill weak people. I would use lightning and fire spells if it wasn¡¯t for the forest we are in right now.


    Taking a couple of glances at my companions, Alden was quickly slaughtering everyone and his reaction time, speed, and decision making was top-notch. Mark not even behind him was using sword skills which sharpens his blade is cutting and surely quickly destroyed the bandits. Hudson simply just keep shooting at the other bandits who were archers. As for Kelsy, she casted several buffs on everyone.


    Before the last half of the bandits were about to be massacred, 3 bandits came out and blocked us.


    ¡°You guys seem to have some skill. If you just give us your belongings we would let you go. We won¡¯t take the woman.¡±-Bandit Leader(?) smiled and said


    Hudson started to twitch a lot, and started to notch an arrow;however, one of the other 2 bandits that came out threw a knife at his arrow and broke. Hudson started to look worried while pissed at the same time. He have feelings for Kelsy or something?


    The Bandit Leader no longer smiling, he began to take out his sword,¡±It would be wise if you don¡¯t piss me off. My brothers and I are enough to take down all of you without receiving a wound. I believe you would be wise not to test our patience. We are already letting you guys for killing half our man. Be glad we recognize your skills.¡±


    Kelsy, Alden, Hudson, and Mark started to look at each other and at me. Wallis started to panic but it ended quickly when I said,


    ¡°Be at ease everyone. I will handle them, or rather my Nemaus would handling this.¡± I smiled in amusement and snapped my finger for the signal for Nemaus to start.


    The Bandit Leader(?) glared at me as if I threw horse poop at him. He was about to say something, but was interrupted with Nemaus appearing in front of him and bit his right arm. Nemaus mouth started to show a dark flame and breathe it out my biting the Bandit Leader and his arm began to look black. Nemaus lets go and activated illusion magic, after images of Nemaus appearing out of nowhere and the other bandits panicked. His after images began attacking the weak bandits, but they don¡¯t know which was the real one.


    Nemaus activated dark lightning and lightning came out of his tail which electrocuted the other 2 decently strong bandits. As for my companions, they didn¡¯t understand how a fox was able to fight with such power, but regained their senses and assaulted the rest of the weaker bandits. It didn¡¯t take very long, and when we looked back at Nemaus, the 3 Bandits started to crouch in pain. Black burns started to spread all over their body, and when they looked at Nemaus, their eyes were filled with fear. Not very soon after their bodies began twitching badly and went limp.


    ¡®That was fast.¡¯ I thought


    Nobody''s saying anything. Everyone was looking at Nemaus as if he was a monster. Right now, his fur and mouth is filled with blood. Even I was shocked at his display of combat prowess. He came back onto my shoulders and looked at me expectantly.


    ¡°You will get your meat soon. Good Job Nemaus.¡± As I said that, I kissed his forehead. He jumped a bit, but he licked me, leaving a small trace of blood on my face.


    ¡°Who exactly is Nemaus?¡±-Alden


    ¡°I have already said so didn¡¯t I? He is my dear pet and will always be a person I will love.¡±I said as I smiled one that gave of a feeling of deep affection. He is my son after all despite not being his biological one.


    Everyone being affected by my smile, they just gave a helpless smile and shrugged their shoulders and started to get back on their horses. They apologized to Wallis, but it seemed that he have forgiven them for almost letting him get robbed of his goods. We began the head out, but I t old them I will catch up soon. After no one was looking in my direction, I took out an orb from my inventory called ¡®Soul Orb¡¯ which collects souls for a certain use. Bringing it out, all the deceased¡¯s souls came into my orb. Many green auras quickly came into the orb. After the last one came inside. I deactivated  ¡°Soul Sealing Barrier.¡± Nemaus still looking at me, showing he is expecting something. I took out my dragon inside my storage, but only taking a part of it and cut it through with my scythe Aedriha.


    Taking out the scales, I gave it to Nemaus. I wasn¡¯t really sure if dragon meat is actually high-quality meat, as I just assumed it is. Nemaus took a sniff at it, and put that small dragon meat in his mouth. He stopped for a moment to chew it. His eyes opened wide and began to eat the rest of the cutted dragon meat from my dragon¡¯s body. I was a bit curious so I used ¡®Analyze¡¯, should have used it earlier before I fed it to Nemaus. I failed as a parent. Hoping it wasn¡¯t toxic or hazardous, the info said as the following


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Dragon¡¯s Flesh- Supreme Quality Meat


    A dragon¡¯s flesh that would taste like a heavenly food. No one was able to eat dragon¡¯s meat because of the strength of the dragons. It is said that when one eats it, the meat will be so delicious that it can¡¯t be described in words.


    Eating this meat the first time will give a boost to the eater¡¯s ability.


    Effect: Permanently increase physical and magic ability by 20%</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Holy Shit! This was too unexpected. I felt depressed because I wouldn¡¯t be able to get such an ability. I could use ¡®Create Lifeless Body¡¯ and use ¡®Possession¡¯, but I gain more powerful passives by being a lich. Looking at Nemaus with envy, I gently flicked his head. He looked at me questionably. Ignoring him, I absorbed all the bandits¡¯ bodies into my storage. Looking at the total number of bodies I have in total now, it already numbered 300.


    After doing so, I went on top of my horse and went to my companions and catching up to them. When I finally caught up, they looked at me and said,


    ¡°What were you taking so long?¡±-Kelsy


    ¡°Nature calls, Kelsy.¡± I said


    ¡°Ah, so that is why.¡±-Mark


    ¡°You could have just told us. We would have waited for you.¡±-Alden


    ¡°I can¡¯t exactly feel comfortable when knowing someone is near me while doing my thing.¡±


    ¡°HAHAHA, so it was actually taking a shit.¡±-Alden


    Giving him a wry smile, we continued to the Village of Furtp.

 Ch. 11 The Goblin Massacre

    After the incident with the bandits and Nemaus showing off his abilities and him eating a dragon¡¯s flesh, I discovered Nemaus¡¯s previous orange fur is now changing to a shade of grey. Also surprisingly,  he obtained a new skill when I used ¡®Analyze¡¯ on him. That being said, his description says the following.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently two tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    Passive: Permanently increased physical and magic ability by 20%


    [Death]


    Progress: 25%


    Absorbing ?  of the true energy signature of Death, Nemaus has now evolved into a rare-nine tailed fox species. Nether-Fox (Stage 1)


    Skills: Cursed Fox-Fire Magic, Dark Lightning, Illusion Magic, Life-Force Absorption.


    Unique Skill: Power Augmentation(Dragon)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    With the new skills Nemaus had obtained, Power Augmentation, Increased Power, and gaining some kind of rare racial traits, he would prove to be a formidable opponent in the coming future. I can¡¯t help but be proud of myself for raising this kid. Turning my head and looking at him, he in turn looked back at me with his slightly yellow glowing eyes. Maybe because of his Racial change, even his eyes that were at first color black is now changing. I am getting quite curious to see what would he look like when he have matured into an adult. However, that would be far in the future.


    My gaze turned to the group in front of me, which consists of a merchant, and a group of childhood friends who are all showing solemn expressions and their faces. Can¡¯t really so that I don¡¯t understand and empathize with them. In fact, I could relate to them to some extent. When I was still in school, I heard my father was killed by a psycho with a chainsaw from one of my neighbors. And he was killed not very far from our house. I didn¡¯t really want to believe it, but when I saw his corpse which was so altered from the chainsaw cutting him to pieces, it horrified me and made tears stream out of my eyes. My mother got into a depression for a large amount of time, and finally recovered after a few years. She realised that what she was doing won¡¯t help her in anyway.


    That being said, we are getting closer to the Village of Furtp. On a high hill we are on right now we could see a couple of wooden houses inside a stone wall that surrounds it. The village is located just beneath the foot of the mountain behind them and between the village and us, is a huge, green, flat plain. Despite being able to see our destination, it is still considerably far from where we are right now. If by an estimate, everyone could arrive there in a 2-3 hours. Telling from the location the sun in right now in the clear, blue sky, it should be around the afternoon.


    Alden, Kelsy, and Mark are beginning to show signs of stress on their faces and even their breathing is getting rougher. Hudson, as always not openly showing what he is feeling right now. But he can¡¯t really escape my senses. His heart beat is bumping and beating with adrenaline running through his body. I could feel that he is holding himself back from rushing to his home with the horse he is riding on. Wallis, the person we are escorting, could tell that his escorts aren¡¯t in a pretty good mood today, and he just understood just a while ago that if the village has been deserted, he would lose quite a bit of profit. Especially since he paid us a hefty sum of gold. He already paid me 5 gold coins to escort him, and since he was willing to pay me this much, I deduced that the village seems to be quite wealthy.


    When we sooner or later arrived to our destination, Village of Furtp, there were sounds of metal clashing metal, screaming, moans of pain, and shrieks behind the stone wall in front of us. Alden and his friends looked at each other took out their weapons and not a second later rushed into the village through the hole in the wooden gates located in another part of the wall that looked as if someone was breaching through it.


    ¡°Wallis, please wait here and use this when you are about to get attacked.¡± Giving the merchant a scroll which could protect the user with a sealed spell that would pretty much send attacks back in the direction which it came from, but with double to power. It is considered a high-tiered scroll, but I have way too many, and giving a few won¡¯t make a dent to be numbers of it in my storage.


    That being said, Wallis looked at me with a concerned expression. I told him that I will finish this quickly, and ran to the hole in the wooden gates and prepared myself by casting the usual ¡®Mana Barrier¡¯ around me and Nemaus. I also activated ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯ around this village. Taking a good look at the situation right now and analyzing it, all I could say and show is ¡®War¡±.


    The human villagers were all holding swords, knives, shields, spears, machete, and all other weapons that could potentially kill someone. On the other side are a huge number of goblins and some ogres. The ogres are pretty much a goblin¡¯s larger relative, but stronger, and dumber. They were using sharpened rocks shaped as a sword I supposed and also use the weapons the villagers use when one of them died and dropped their weapon. The difference of the numbers between the villagers and goblins are about 200 to 1000. With the ratio of 1:5 respectively. This means, a really really bad situation. All the goblins and ogres who are attacking were at least all fighters. But the villagers, some of them are only kids. If anything, the most they could even do was protect themselves for just a little longer until the drop from exhaustion.


    Fortunately, Alden,Kelsy, Hudson, and Mark joined in the fight. They were doing the same formations as they did just before in the bandit assault incident. Alden and Mark fighting in the front lines, Hudson shooting down as many goblins as he can and not the ogres because the arrows doesn¡¯t seem to go through all that muscle, and Kelsy applying healing spells and the wounded and casting buffs and everyone which increased their strength slightly for a period of time. Seeing this, I joined in the fight, bringing out a scythe that isn¡¯t Aedriha which I normally used. Bringing out a scythe that doesn¡¯t give a dangerous impression compared to Aedriha, I started cutting the goblins and ogres all together while telling Nemaus to help out. Though I really have to use the Dragon¡¯s Flesh in my storage as a bargain for him. Your Papa¡¯s affection for you just dropped a bit you know?


    When Nemaus and I joined in the battle, the tides of the battle starts to turn in favor for us. I kept slicing and cutting the ogres with a scythe in my right hand while casting basic spells such Lightning and Fireball with my other hand. Running, jumping, dodging, ducking, and spinning through the battlefield like the Legendary War God has descended, the goblins and ogres can¡¯t help, but look and tremble at the sight of me massacring their allies like cutting butter for the motive of applying it on my pancakes afterwards. I soon started smiling with amusement as I killed everything that I set my eyes upon. Nemaus just like me, is rampaging and shrieking with laughter as he casted Cursed Fireball and Dark Lightning at the enemies. Many villagers who at first thought that they could win this invasion, are now fearing for their lives when Nemaus and I were killing the last 10 of the green humanoid creatures as if those guys were the only defence they had against us 2.


    Finishing the last bunch, I realized what I have done to myself and the people¡¯s impression of me. The black robes now covered in red blood, my scythe gleamed with dark-red blood, while my face is still smiling. Noticing this, I reverted to a poker face and put my scythe into my storage. Nemaus jumped onto my shoulder and pawing me to give him his meal. The villagers looked at us as if we were demons.


    ¡®Come on. Is this the thanks I get for saving their lives.¡¯ As I began to become depressed, Alden suddenly walked towards me. I wasn¡¯t able to determine what is he feeling right now because he was looking down and the wet bangs he had on his forehead is covering his eyes. He is now standing in front of me gave me something extremely something unexpected. He gave me a strong hug.


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    ¡°Thanksss Man.Sniff. I thought my h-home wasss about to be gone. Thanksss Mannn. Sniff¡±-Alden told me as he cried while hugging me. The villagers seeing this scene, changed the way they see me. Kelsy and Mark had tears in their eyes as well and looking at me with gratitude. As for Hudson, again he was trying to mask his emotions, but he can¡¯t trick me as I could see the tears that were being hold back in his eyes.


    ¡°I¡¯m the Village Chief, Raldnos,How could we thank you for saving us, Mister?¡±-A bulky man with torn, bloodied, ragged clothes was asking me.


    ¡°Name is Ridar Azzur. As for a reward, there is no need. I came here because I¡¯m an Adventurer. I accepted a quest to subjugate the goblins in this area.¡± Though I think that the Adventurer Guild  has made a mistake with this one. The situation was worse than they expected. Who would knew that such an amount of goblins would be here, and even then ogres are here. This doesn¡¯t qualify as an E rank quest at all.


    ¡°In any case why you are here, you are forever grateful for saving us. If not for you we and the children would all have died a terrible and painful death. Let us take care of disposing the bodies. How about you rest in the inn after having a bath?¡±


    ¡°A bath would be nice. Will you be willing to show me to way to it.¡±


    ¡°Yes Mr.Azzur.¡±Raldnos the Village Chief, led me to an inn. The inn¡¯s outer walls were colored brown. As for the sign or name of this inn. It was called Tyron Ters. Coming inside, I was brought upstairs into a luxurious blue room with a huge bed that could fit in 3 adult men with ease, and a well crafted brown chair and table in the center of the room. There was a door to the right side of the room. This room seemed like a good place to rest for a while indeed. For Nemaus though.


    ¡°Where is the bath located in this inn?¡± I asked


    ¡°Yes, for the bath, this room has a personal bath inside. It is that door right there.¡± He said as he pointed his finger to the door in the room.


    ¡°Thank you.¡±I smiled and thanked him


    ¡°It is us that we have to thank you,¡± he bowed as he said that, ¡°Please excuse me, I will have to resume managing this place.¡±


    ¡°All right.¡±


    ¡°I will take my leave.¡± Raldnos left the room and the room became silent.


    Taking out my Soul Orb, a huge number of souls have been collected in this battle. It is still not ready for use yet. I deactivate ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯.


    Guess I should just take bath right now. Wait, when was the last time I took a bath.


    ¡®.........¡¯


    Opening the bathroom door, I see a bathtub, a mirror, and sink. Just good enough for me. Picking up Nemaus and taking him into the bath, I washed the both of us thoroughly with a bar soap and splashed water on us to remove the foam bubbles. Nemaus was a bit difficult to handle since the water was actually a bit cold. Nevertheless, I still finished the job. Drying him and myself with a towel, I got out of the bathroom and jumped into the bed. It bounced a bit before stabilizing itself from my weight. Nemaus too then jumped on it. He then stretched his body and yawned. Closing his eyes not very soon afterwards and slept. Considering that we took a long time to kill over 500 goblins and even though he is quite formidable, it is still difficult slaying so many. Though I could do it in an instant, the villagers and everyone would die if I didn¡¯t use my ¡®Deathly Aura¡¯ carefully.


    Activating ¡®Soul Sense¡¯ I could see many villagers carrying the bodies and disposing it in another area to burn it. Thinking about taking the ogres bodies because they might useful in my storage army, I activated ¡®Portal¡¯ after making sure no one was near the area where they drop off the ogres bodies. Appearing in an area with a large number of corpses stacked together in many piles, I begin absorbing and collecting all the dead bodies after casting ¡®Undead Manipulation¡¯ on them on turning them into undead ogres and goblins.


    Using ¡®Portal¡¯ again, I appeared back inside the inn in my room with Nemaus sleeping on the bed. I guess I should just chill till tomorrow. Getting to my bed and got under the bedsheets and laying my head on the pillow. I closed my eyes and [pretend] sleep until it was time to get up.


    The room gets brighter, showing that the sun is now in the sky, I opened my eyes. Feeling all the metal exhaustion gone. Remembering something, I looked for and picked up Nemaus who was still sleeping, I used ¡®Analyze¡¯ again to confirm something.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently two tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    Passive: Permanently increased physical and magic ability by 20%


    [Death]


    Progress: 39%


    Absorbing ?  of the true energy signature of Death, Nemaus has now evolved into a rare-nine tailed fox species. Nether-Fox (Stage 1)


    Skills: Cursed Fox-Fire Magic, Dark Lightning, Illusion Magic, Life-Force Absorption.


    Unique Skill: Power Augmentation(Dragon)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    It really was that. I had my suspicions about it for a while, but I wasn¡¯t really able to confirm it until now. Nemaus affinity to death is increased by merely being near me and absorbing my power. But he could also increase it dramatically when he is surrounded by death. By doing so, his affinity climbs up extremely quickly. I also found that the higher affinity you have for something, the harder it is for you to increase it. For me though, I didn¡¯t really have to think about since my affinity with death and other affinities were already maxed and all. Being the creator¡­ Well you guys get the point. Anyways regarding this thing about Death, I have to say that I have an extremely overpowered skill which shows the following


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Nether God


    Becoming the Nether God itself. Capable of using the Nether Element, the very essence used as a source for using the Death-Force, Dark Arts, and Necromancy. A being who drains all life away. A being that degenerates all matter. The being that destroys literally everything. The destructive part of reality which causes everything to fear it.


    Passive Skill: All spells and attacks related to Nether; increased damage 250%


    Active Skill: Nether Form


    Unleashing your true power, you gain the following:


    -Unable to be affected by anything physical.


    -Anything that touches you will be drained of 15% max health and max mana per second for 5 seconds(if you wish so)


    -All damage nullified


    -All crowd control spells nullified(Sealing, Trapping, etc)


    -All debuffs and curses nullified


    *While skill is active, your mana will be drained by 5% of current mana</td></tr></tbody></table>


    That being said, my point is that I really interested what Nemaus would be able to get when his affinity reach 100%. Putting Nemaus onto my shoulder, I went downstairs in the inn and when I arrived, I looked from a window and see a lot of people outside of the inn talking to each other about something. It seems that it is something dire going on. Coming out of Tyron Ters, everybody looked at me.


    ¡°Something happened?¡±


    ¡°Good Morning Mr.Azzur. Yes, something happened just a few hours. When we collected all the piles of corpses into an area and we were getting ready to bring the supplies to burn them, all the bodies disappeared out of nowhere when we came back.¡±-Raldnos


    ¡®.......¡¯


    ¡°Saying that, do you think we could do anything even if it suddenly disappears?¡± Trying my best to give them a questionable look.


    ¡°No. No, I don¡¯t think so.¡±-Raldnos


    ¡°Then I can¡¯t see what is the problem. It is not like it would affect your lives right?¡±


    ¡°Yes, you are right Mr.Azzur.¡±-Raldnos


    Everyone no longer talked about the incident where all the goblins and ogres corpse disappeared which I have stolen. No, kept is the more appropriate word. I was the one who killed them all after all.

 Ch. 12 Goblin Dungeon and Akuezhor

    Being in the Village of Furtp for a few days, I can only say that it was peaceful and quiet. Maybe it is just the incident of the goblin invasion. It was quite a shock to them. They are now always going around with some kind of weapon that is ready to be at use at anywhere and anytime. The village was still busy repairing all the damage property, buildings, and the crops they farmed near the foot of the mountain. Still, why in the world were there so many goblins and an army of them at that. Deciding to investigate, I took out Eyeball Corpses and some undead goblins. I had to repair an undead goblin¡¯s body because well you know, I sliced things apart. The best body condition I had was this undead goblin. It had a severed cut that came across its chest. I had to use ¡®Negative Energy Healing,¡¯ to heal the goblin¡¯s chest. It has the ability to heal with Negative Energy. It is very effective for undead to use it when their bodies are damaged.


    Using the Eyeball Corpses to use as surveillance and the goblin as a possible infiltrator, I send them outside the village so that they can do their job that has been ordered by me. Feeling the connection between my minions and I, I strolled around the village. When I pass by other villagers, they made a bow to me as if I was the King or maybe even God. Quite an unpleasant feeling really. With Nemaus snoozing off on my left shoulder once again, I looked for Alden, Mark, Kelsy, and Hudson. It has been several days since I last seen them. I wonder how they are doing. They didn¡¯t even visit me once. Well, we just met a few days ago, so it is not like we are close friends huh. Giving up on finding them, I activated Flight. Lifting off the ground, the nearby bystanders were noticed my display of magic. Unfortunately, after seeing my massacre just the other day, they were no longer surprised even if I could fly.


    Floating in the air, I looked around the village¡¯s surroundings to see anything that could kill my boredom. My gaze stick onto the mountain. It might be nice if see what is over that mountain, no?


    Directing myself to the mountain, I headed there.


    ¡°Papa, why are you always so busy?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not busy.¡±


    ¡°But you always go somewhere and someplace everytime. I never seen you even really sleep at all. How could you not be tired?¡± Nemaus said as he stretched his body.


    ¡°I am an undead. I don¡¯t need sleep.¡±


    ¡°Undead? How come?¡±Nemaus seemed like he really didn¡¯t know of this. I thought he was intelligent, but it doesn¡¯t change the fact that he didn¡¯t even know I was an undead despite seeing my face.


    ¡°Because we are already dead. That means we don¡¯t act like a normal living person who needs consumption of food and rest everyday.¡±


    ¡°zzzzzzzzzz.¡±Nemaus lost interest.


    ¡°.......¡±


    I have finally arrived on the peak of the mountain. I had to cast a barrier around Nemaus because of the air pressure. Now taking a look at the other side, what I see on the other side of the mountain was exactly the same as the side I just came from. A huge green field. Only difference is? There were goblins and ogres. Not just that, but goblin shamans who are able to use magic. Simple magic like a mana bolt or the like. However. that isn¡¯t exactly the problem. There were thousands of them. No, ten thousand would be barely enough to fit the total number of this population.


    ¡°What the fuck..?¡± Nemaus feeling my current emotions, opened his eyes and even this nonchalant kid was concerned. Anybody would feel the same. With this number, the morale the villagers would have to protect their homes would diminish to the lowest level. Though fortunately I am here. This is going to be definitely exhausting. Casting ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯ in a very large area around the army of goblins, my mana dropped by 7%. I think this should be enough to fill up the gauge in the Soul Orb. Next, I casted a certain spell that blocks out information from coming out of a certain area. So even if the villages over the other side of the mountain could hear explosions from magic attacks or screams, they would be able to hear it because of the covering spell.


    ¡°Life-Draining Tornado,¡±


    The air begins to spin. The winds are picking up. The sounds of wind clashing against each other. The blue sky with white clouds everywhere, now changing to a dark sky with black clouds. The grass on the green field flaying wildly as the wind starts picking up and going further. The winds begin to shape and form a black tornado on the grassfield. Directing the pathway to the army, the tornado rotating and spinning slowly picks up speed and heads toward the goblins. The goblins weren¡¯t stupid of course. They could feel it in their instinct that if they stick around for a bit, they would die no matter what.


    With that kind of thought, the goblins, shamans, orcs begin to retreat to the opposite direction of the ominous tornado. Despite trying their best to get away, each one of them begin to lift up in the air. The orcs took a bit of time, but they were soon flying into the tornado. This ¡®Life-Draining Tornado¡¯ is as the name says, Drain life(health), but not only that. They pull enemies towards itself to continuously and slowly kill them. This magic is 7th rank magic. Favorite spell to farm mobs. The orcs sooner or later finally reached to the calamity. If they have not been so heavy and full of vitality, they would have died a quick death. The winds started to calm down and it continued to do so until the winds are once again calm and the sky is once again blue.


    Numerous green auras flowed into the Soul Orb in an instant. Checking if I had taken in all of them, I checked the gauge. ¡®98% huh.¡¯ Just a few more and I could finally summon something. Just a few more. Seeing the green creatures splattered on the now red-field, I didn¡¯t think of storing the bodies anymore. I got way too many already. Also, with all that splattered bodies and broken bodies. I doubt they would do much good at being my soldiers or work force. If I have to heal them, it won¡¯t be an exaggeration if it would take forever to heal every single one to be able to be useful. ¡®Negative Energy Healing¡¯ is only a single target spell. However, what would I do with all these corpses? Should I burn them?


    No ideas coming into my head, I changed my mind and stored all the bodies inside. With the number of about 12000 goblins inside, I thought I would no longer think of storing anymore. Anyways, here is the important question. Why was there an army? How did it get here? Not having enough information, I contact my Eyeball Corpses and ordered them to change the area of surveillance to this side of the mountain instead of the outer area of the village.


    I can only wait. Nemaus who was watching the whole thing looked at me as if he was impressed.


    ¡®Ya, be proud of your father. That¡¯s right.¡¯ I thought to myself. Turning on ¡®Soul Sense¡¯,  I observed the surroundings. There doesn¡¯t seem to be any more here. How did they get here? The question keeps echoing in my head. I can¡¯t sense any living organism except for the villagers nearby. The 2nd farthest would be near the KIngdom of Pledia, which I just came from. Suspecting something, I took out a ¡®Nearby Dungeon Locater¡¯ and used it. The scroll burned up and something inserts something like a map in my head and red- marked certain location on it. If I assumed that red-marked location is the dungeon and the blue-marked location on the map is me¡­ Then the location was right below me. The plains. Jumping off the mountain and activated Flight, I descended onto the fields.


    Seeing a red-circle around a certain area in the plain fields, I went to it. Arriving there, I don¡¯t see anything particularly suspicious. Except for a boulder. Going around it to see anything special about it, I concluded that there was absolutely nothing.


    ¡°Papa, how about moving the boulder or blow it up.¡± Nemaus said nonchalantly. Ai, I was going to do that. Don¡¯t think that I am dumb. I really thought that. Really¡­¡­


    ¡°Of course I was going to do it. I was just making sure.¡±-If Nemaus was able to lift an eyebrow, then that eyebrow would be really above the other one up high.


    Deciding between moving and destroying it, I chose to destroy it. I don¡¯t like lifting weights. Never fun. Casting ¡®Nothingless¡¯ I moved the black sphere towards the boulder and expanded it enough to erase the whole boulder. What was underneath the boulder was a staircase leading downstairs. Looking at Nemaus and he looking at me, we went descended upon the stairs. A blue screen popped in front of me.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Chaotic Goblins¡¯ Dungeon - Rank C(?)


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    A dungeon that just recently created but the dungeon¡¯s core is malfunctioning. This dungeon consisting of all, if not, mostly all goblins. Conquering this dungeon shall grant you suitable rewards regarding its rank.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I wondered if the dungeon is really the cause of the previous incidents and what is with ¡®Chaotic¡¯. There wasn¡¯t even a Rank. Being concerned of this, I turned on my passive ¡®Deathly Aura IV¡¯, but setting it as it shall not harm Nemaus or affect him in anyway. I used various other spells to protect myself and Nemaus just to be cautious while I finally took the last step of the staircase, and onto the first floor.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>You have arrived onto the 1st floor</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Receiving the notification, I went on my way through the dungeon. Analyzing the dungeon, the walls are made from stone and weren¡¯t far apart from each other. It distance between them should be around 10 feet wide. Whenever I reach the pathways where you have to decide which direction you need to go, I took out the undead goblins from the inventory that I have slain in the Village of Furtp, and sent them to either directions. While the undead goblins were exploring this dungeon in the form of a labyrinth, I am mapping out the dungeon in my head. Many of my minions activated a trap and that sent them to a pit fall. Some of my minions battled against their former kin. Of course my minions were stronger. They received some passive buffs by just being an undead minion belonging to me. One of my passive skills increase their power. When my undead minions killed their kin, they evaporated into yellow light and disappeared while dropping an item, such as a helmet and sword. If my minions were to pick it up, the items would transfer to my inventory. Though, many of the items that were dropped were useless to me.  As for the others undead goblins, they are still exploring the dungeon.


    It was taking some time, so I formulated some plans such as destroying the floors with ¡®Nothingless¡¯ so I can immediately descend onto the other floors, but I threw away that idea because I am not sure if there won¡¯t be a floor there without me knowing and I will descend who knows where.


    Taking a seat on the floor, I decided to take out some dried beef to feed Nemaus. He whined for dragon meat; however, I told him that I would only give it to him if he does something that would reward him with with it.


    ¡°Papa so mean.¡±


    I continued to wait until I completed mapping out the first floor by the cooperation of my minions. After around 20 minutes, one of my goblins finally discovered the location where we can descend into the second floor.


    ¡®Man. So long to find the entrance to the 2nd floor. Guess I should should just summon my army to deal with this shit.¡¯


    Taking out 300 undead ogres, bandits, goblins in total, I ordered them to conquer the damage while relaying information towards me. They went to the 2nd floor and scattered through the labyrinth dungeon.


    ¡®This is the life~.¡¯I thought. I get to chill while everyone works off their ass for me. Well, it is not like they have feelings to begin with. They are undead which I created. Their souls only objective is to obey and serve me until the day they are destroyed. I continued to relax, feeling my minions conquering each and every floor. The 2nd floor was conquered a bit longer than the first. The rewards were shit though. Just a an enchanted sword that is slightly better than a normal one.


    The undead continued on until reaching the 5th floor. When they reached and entered it, my minions were slowly decreasing. From 300, 291, 276, 250,....... It kept on going until my last sent minion died and all my connections were gone.


    ¡®?¡¯


    I got up and walked through the dungeon. Going to the correct path and directions, not so soon after, I reached to the entrance of the 5th floor. This was where my mini-army died. Summoning Eyeball Corpse, I commanded it to investigate what is going inside, plus adding another undead ogre as a combatant.


    The 2 undead entered the 5th floor entrance and disappeared. The ogre died not so soon after died. I used Eyeball Corpse special ability which allows me to see what it sees. Just like Gaara in Naruto. I was only able to use it for a second, but I got the image of a being with a tall humanoid shape in a room with a blue orb on a pedestal. Lean body, sharp ears, and a dragon- like tail. I couldn¡¯t make out the facial features because the humanoid noticed the invisible minion and slashed it with his tail.


    Deciding quickly before my Eyeball Corpse gets killed I used ¡®Analyze¡¯. The tail hits my minion and died immediately after. You did your job well. Don¡¯t worry, there are many replacements for you.


    Checking out the information I have gained from that chance,


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Akuezhor


    He¡¯s race is of that of a dragon and a demon. An offspring between demon and dragon. His father(demon) desire to make a brand new species. One of intelligence and cunningness and with the power of a dragon to back it up. Kidnapping a female baby dragon, he raised it up for many centuries and finally got the chance to impregnate it. Being born from between the 2 species, he was very intelligent from his demon half, and gained the power of darkness from his other dragon half. His father was eventually caught and executed by his kin.


    Because of Akuezhor¡¯s origin, both races didn¡¯t accepted and persecuted him. Akuezhor desired a place where he could belong, but every one would fear him. His power of darkness could even match that of a extremely powerful darkness dragon. Because of his childhood, he longs for belonging, but there was nothing. Desiring to make one for himself, he plans to eradicate everything to make himself a home.


    Passive: Steel-like Skin- skin as strong as steel despite having its elasticity.


    Passive: Immense Speed and Strength


    Skills: Power Augmentation, Darkness Manipulation, Trapping Specialist, Combat Perception, Illusion Manipulation, Martial Arts</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Reading the for whatever reason, the brief summary of the Boss(?) and his abilities, I understood why my minions died and lost so easily. I decided to take out my strongest minion, the ¡®Death Rabbit¡¯ that I made from before. I didn¡¯t change the other minions into a higher-tier of an undead because I am too lazy. Anyways, bringing out my Death Rabbit, I commanded it to battle against the demon/dragon guy.


    My ¡®Death Rabbit¡¯ went inside and immediately attacked Akuezhor, which he too fought. The battle was actually quite one-sided. Death Rabbit swung its sword, blocked with its shield; however, Akuezhor always side-stepped the trajectory of the sword and swung his tail like an uppercut swing against my Death Rabbit. My DR quickly blocked the tail, but because of the immense power that was swung, my DR was lifted off the floor and smashed onto the wall.


    The impact from it causes my DR to lose 70& of its health. Normally a living person or thing would have some rough time getting up from broken bones and organs, but my DR is an undead. Standing up like a badass main character in an anime, it again assaulted Akuezhor.


    The next moment, DR lost all his health by a single swoop to the head from the Akuezhor¡¯s straight punch.


    ¡°What the Fuck?¡± This guy is the strongest I have seen so far. From the description I read from his Analysis, he should be one of the most powerful figures in this world since he can match an extremely powerful dragon. However, he is still weaker than me¡­¡­ by a lot. I felt my passive skill ¡®Desperate Mind¡¯ ,which increases my stats depending on the enemy, felt a small tingle. I can feel my stats increasing, but not by much. Shows the difference in ability. Closing my eyes I spoke to Nemaus,


    ¡°Nemaus, get ready. This person is formidable. He proves to be extremely strong. I don¡¯t know if I can protect you if we get in there. If you want, you may stay on this floor.¡±


    Waiting for a response, I felt the weight of Nemaus suddenly went missing. Opening my eyes, I see him entering the 5th floor.


    ¡°Mudda Fucker!!!¡± I ran for Nemaus while panicking.


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    * You guys want me to put levels of the character on the tables to measure the strength of someone?

 Ch. 13 The Face Off and Friendship

    While catching up to Nemaus, we went through the entrance of the fifth floor. We are now in the room where Akuezhor, the half-dragon and half-demon, had slain my army. Akuezhor turned around from where my DR died. His appearance is that of dark skin with nicely combed black hair, wearing a black suit. He is also wearing glasses that aren¡¯t like the modern day or my home back then glasses. They weren¡¯t see through. I guess he Akuezhor was using it to cover his eyes.(Shit. just think of Demiurge in a black suit with a cruel freepersonality)


    ¡°You have finally shown yourself.¡±Akuezhor said with an annoyed face.


    Picking Nemaus up and putting him in the corner of the room while casting a barrier around him, I turned back,¡±Might you tell me why have you been spawning goblins all over the place?¡± I knew the reason because of ¡®Analyze¡¯; however, I want to hear it from him.


    ¡°I want to end this disgusting world. Everyone regardless of race discriminates against others who are different than themselves. Humans see Demi-Humans as mere animals and they use an excuse such as God telling them to conquer them, ¡®the disgusting animals in human form¡¯. Using that excuse, they attacked Demi-Human villages and their establishments. Killing all the men, and old. Using and selling the children as sex-slaves. The Nobles who already have a their wives, fucked little girls more than they do their wives. Despite the Demi-Human kids and women crying and begging them to stop, THEY CONTINUED. In addition, when one race has an offspring with another, that offspring would face persecution and abuse. EVEN THOUGH NEVER WISHED TO BE BORN LIKE THIS! THEY NEVER WANTED TO BE ISOLATED FROM OTHERS. ALL THEY WANTED WAS TO BELONG SOMEWHERE!¡± As Akuezhor said this, tears started to come out of his glasses.. I mean eyes. His expression turned into sadness and grief.


    ¡°You¡¯ve gone through a lot huh?¡± I said so while with my arms crossed. I don¡¯t understand how much he gone through, but I do understand that he wanted to be needed by someone, someone that would accept him despite his origins. Someone that he can think of as family.


    ¡°...... Enough of this, I will just kill you and your pet if you continue to be in my way.¡±


    Rushing forward to be, he threw a jab at me. I took out my strongest weapon, Aedriha, and dodged his punch. Akuezhor swung his tail aiming for my head. Activating Flight Magic, I dodged my rotating myself in midair.


    ¡°Hoh, you are able to use Flight, I was pretty sure that it was one of the magic that was lost centuries ago. Only artifacts have the ability to use them now.¡± He said while making a dark energy ball and throwing it to me. Casting ¡®Nothingless¡¯ a black hole appeared in front of the dark energy ball and absorbed it. Akuezhor activated his Illusion Magic at me, attempting to confuse me thinking that he attacked with me with a spear-like fist. Unfortunately, such magic is doesn¡¯t affect me. I used a scythe skill and threw Aedriha towards him. Aedriha rotating diagonally towards him with extreme speed aiming for his chest area.


    Akuezhor sensing the dangerous feeling of my scythe, chose to quickly jump to the right and rolled, causing Aedriha to miss while returning back towards me. As it did, he build up his strength in his left legs and pushed forward towards me while forming his right hand like an Eagle Claw. Using ¡®teleport¡¯ to get into another location away from him, Akezhor suddenly appeared in front of me and threw a straight punch at my face and hitting it. I flew back from the impact. Fortunately, it didn¡¯t hurt, and my HP seems to not drop by much.


    ¡®Man this guy is way too fast¡¯ I thought while casting ¡®Hell Flame¡¯ at him. Seeing the small flame, he was still very cautious towards it and ended up avoiding it; however, I used ¡®Remote¡¯ and willed my ¡®Hell Flame¡¯ to follow him. Noticing this, he sped towards me, I swung my scythe at him while he dodged with the most minimal movement. Too bad though. Activating my scythe¡¯s special ability, I let go of my scythe. Akuezhor despite knowing how I fight by using ¡®Combat Perception¡¯, which allows him to know how a person¡¯s fighting habits and how they fight, was shocked when he saw me let go of my weapon.


    The scythe now floating in mid-air, swung itself at him. One of my scythe¡¯s special ability was to allowing it to be something akin to a minion for me. I then used several spells at once targetting him which consists of mostly curses and debuffs. He recognized that he was in a very bad position. With ¡®Hell Flame¡¯ coming towards him with the effect ¡®Remote¡¯ which would make the spell follow him until it hits, Aedriha attacking him, and me casting debuffs on him which causes him to slow down, temporarily losing his ability to think because of a confusion spell, and several others.


    Akuezhor decided to let ¡®Hell Flame¡¯ hit him, which was the wrong choice, but he doesn¡¯t exactly have many options wither. Hell Flame finally hits him and he suddenly distorts his face in pain. The effect of ¡®Hell Flame¡¯ was to burn a certain percentage of HP per second until someone nullifies it or until the person dies. He created Darkness from his hand and used it to absorb the Hell Flame from causing anymore damage to him while dodging the scythe. I can tell that he is getting really exhausted. He looked at me trying to find some kind of weak point. I immediately casted a special barrier. ¡®Life-Absorption Barrier¡¯ with a normal mana barrier. Akuezhor noticed this he decided to go all out now.


    Decided to hope for the best, he attempted to catch Aedriha and use it against me; however, I noticed this and cast crowd control spells. Using ¡®Bone Prison¡¯ he was surrounded bones while it builds itself quickly into a cage. After that I willed Aedriha towards me and made ¡®Bone Lances¡¯ out of thin air. Putting themselves into a spear like positioning. I willed them to pierce Akuezhor, but he then used his Darkness ability and absorbed the Bone Lances.


    I then casted ¡®Silence¡¯ which causes him to be unable to use magic for a short period of time, I then casted a spear of ¡®Nothingless¡¯ at him. Being unable to dodge it, the spear pierce through his right thigh and out.


    ¡°AHHHHHHHHHHHH!¡± Akuezhor screamed in pain. Blood flowing out of his thighs and dripped down his legs. He began the breathe extremely fast and hard. Controlling his breathing, he decided to use his last resort. Turning on ¡®Power Augmentation¡¯ his body started to radiate with energy. His veins under his skin began to pop out of his dark skin. He smashed the Bone Prison with his dragon tail and speed up to me. His strength and speed must have at least increases by triple. Being shocked at this, I casted my most useful defensive magic ¡®Body of Time¡¯ the air distorts around the area of my body just in time before he made a world shattering punch. The punch hits me right in the chest and the impact made me flew into the wall and smashed it. I felt my HP decreased by 6%. Setting of ¡®Body of Time¡¯ ability, my HP reverted back to almost full health. This ability allows me to negate all damage within a certain time period when I activate it. If I get damaged with ¡®Body of Time¡¯ on me, as long as the damage I received doesn¡¯t pass 5 seconds after getting hit, I could use this so that the damage would revert back in time and the damage would disappear.


    Akuzhor was so shock at this, he fell to his news in front of me and his expression turned into despair and sadness. Tears begins to fall out of his eyes. If I could see his eyes, then I might feel a huge amount of pity for him. He continued to cried, while I came towards Nemaus, who was again sleeping. ¡®God Damn, feel some concern for your Papa.¡¯ If I have to see this cold treatment from him anymore, I will definitely cry. Nemaus despite being asleep, patted my head. ¡®Who is the father now?¡¯


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    Waiting for Akeuzhor to calm down, I sat in the corner. I didn¡¯t really want to kill someone who cries after losing to a fight, and reading his life story, I can¡¯t really bring myself to do something like that to him.


    ¡°Why?¡±


    ¡°?¡±


    ¡°Why don¡¯t you kill me?¡± Akeuzhor said while looking at me. His tears seems to dry out now.


    ¡°Simply because I don¡¯t want too.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t understand.¡±


    ¡°I can tell that you have experienced a lot during your life. Even more when you shed tears while talking about the Demi-Humans. I just felt that I couldn¡¯t kill you.¡±


    Akeuzhor stayed silent. He is most likely collecting his thoughts on what to do. Since I am here to stop him from destroying the village nearby, I won¡¯t let him do his way.


    ¡°May you tell me your name?¡±


    ¡°Ridar Azzur.¡±


    ¡°Ridar, how are you so strong?¡±


    ¡°At least tell me your name man. I just told you mine.¡± I said with a playful tone.


    ¡°Ah, sorry. My name is Akeuzhor. Uh, no last name.¡±


    Taking control of the conversation,


    ¡°Akeuzhor, I understand that you aren¡¯t a bad guy. I can tell that you want to belong somewhere. Where someone would treat you kindly, where someone wouldn¡¯t treat you like an outcast, where someone could befriend you. But if you want to get that place, you must keep trying to obtain it.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know where to start with that.¡± He said with an expression of grief.


    ¡°Well, Akeuzhor, you can start with me.¡± I pointed at myself while smiling a genuinely warm smile


    Akeuzhor surprised by my statement, looked at me if I was serious. Seeing my smile, he jumped back a bit from his knees. Looking at me for some time, he again starts to cry. This time though, it was out of happiness. With him crying again, I took out a handkerchief that I would always kept around to clean Nemaus mouth when he finished eating. He took it and wiped out the flowing hot tears streaming down his face.


    ¡°Thank You Ridar, Thank You.¡± He finally looked at me in the eyes. Though I myself can''t see his since his glasses doesn¡¯t allow me to see it for God¡¯s sake.


    I came towards him and patted his back. He then asked me,


    ¡°Why do you want to befriend me?¡±


    ¡°What kind of stupid question is that? I am befriending you because I wanted to. Should there be any other reason?¡± Looking at Akeuzhor as if he was the dumbest guy in the world. He smiled.


    Nemaus suddenly punched me in the face and scratched me. My face distorted from the feeling of claws scratching my real skull face. My illusion mimicry started to lose its effect when Nemaus scratched me while using his Illusion magic to destroy it. My Necromancer Class doesn¡¯t focus on illusions so skill in it wasn¡¯t very good. I can only use the mimicry to make an illusion that can last, but won¡¯t if someone tries to get rid of it. Very soon my illusion magic lost its effect and revealing my Lich Form. Akeuzhor looking at me didn¡¯t seem to look surprised.


    ¡°I kind of expected you,Ridar, to not actually be a human. I''ve so far never seen a human that was capable of such magic. Even more when their records of magic was destroyed back then. Though even at that time, the magic being used wasn¡¯t as strong as yours.¡± Akeuzhor said to me like he already knew from the start. Nemaus noticing Akeuzhor¡¯s acceptance of me, made a defiance fox look at him. Then looked at me as if I had betrayed him.


    I can only sigh from this; however, why did Nemaus acted like that. Could it be that he liked to spend his time with me alone. ¡®Ahhh, you are so sly Nemaus~.¡¯ As if being aware of my thoughts, you shoot out Dark Lightning at me with his tail. I laughed at him while rubbing his head. Making an angry look at me, he closed his eyes and pretend to sleep on my shoulders. Akuezhor showed an amused expression at Nemaus. He then directed his gaze at me.


    ¡°Ridar, would you tell me why have you come to this dungeon. I mean why come to this particular area?¡±


    ¡°I was on a goblin subjugation quest. I am an Adventurer after all. Also I wanted to protect the village nearby from harm. One of my good acquaintances lived there.¡±


    Showing a guilty expression, he seems to finally decided on something.


    ¡°Ridar, would you not mind if I tag along with you?¡±


    ¡°Will you tell me why?¡±


    Akuezhor showing an embarrassed expression said, ¡°But you won¡¯t mind would you?¡±


    ¡°No. Actually it would be enjoyable if you are going to come along with me.¡± I smiled at him. This is true. Having a powerful person with you who you can befriend while being a companion of yours, would make definitely make it less lonely. Nemaus is more of my son, so I don¡¯t particularly have a friend in this world. Kelsy, Hudson, Alden, and Mark were friendly guys, but they already made their own circle. If i were to join them, it would make things quite awkward between us 5.


    Realizing what I had wanted to ask Akuezhor, I questioned him,


    ¡°Why exactly did use this  particular dungeon to destroy the world?¡±


    ¡°Ah that. Well, it was the closest dungeon where I was previously at, so I chose it.¡± Akuezhor saying it common sense just like a kid picking the closest school to go to because he wouldn¡¯t want to woke up in the morning early just to get to a better school. I can only sigh.


    ¡°Anyways, Akuezhor,¡± getting back to the point I wanted to ask him, ¡° what I do can be boring from times to times. Are you really sure you want to follow me?¡±


    ¡°Yes, I decided and I am sure I won¡¯t regret my decision.¡± He seemed to be in a very happy mood right now.


    Nodding my head I said, ¡°Wait, then where is the treasure when this dungeon is completed, do you have it?¡±


    ¡° I have it. But the only things it gave was a pile gold and jewels. Oh ya, it also gave this book.¡± Akuezhor taking out the book out of a dimension [inventory(?)], and gave it to me.


    Reading the title ¡®10 ways to get Popular with the Girls.¡¯


    ¡®........¡¯


    ¡°Seriously?¡± Saying it as if he was playing with me


    ¡°Seriously.¡± Akuezhor said with a serious face expression.


    ¡°............¡±


    Before deciding to leave this Goblin Dungeon, Akuezhor took the blue orb on the pedestal in the room and altered it with whatever it is and leaving it back on the pedestal. Also, I took out a couple of goblins out of my storage and started cutting the goblins¡¯ ears so that I could receive a reward from killing the goblins. I started cutting them out while Nemaus is still pretending to be a sleep. How I know? Raising him for a long time would grant you knowledge of all the habits he does and giving you the ability to tell what he is feeling from just looking at him.


    While cutting out the ears, Akuezhor joined me in cutting out the ears. I can¡¯t understand why would he do something so boring, but he seemed to me happy doing so, so I won¡¯t ask him. With that, we finished cutting out 1000 goblin ears before we went under mental exhaustion from doing the same old thing over and over again.


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    Slightly shorter than previous one


    * I think I should start making something involving a bit of love. Course it is female. This chapter is more of gaining a follower if you are misunderstanding

 Ch. 14 On my way back to the Kingdom

    ¡°Finally finished such labor. I should have just got one of my undead minions to do this shit for me,¡± I said while sighing from exhaustion. Laying on the dungeon floor with my back, Nemaus is dozing off on my chest. Turning my head towards Akuezhor, ¡°We will be going to be village to hang around for a bit before heading off to the Kingdom of Pledia.¡±


    Akuezhor nodded his head while also laying on the floor with his face looking sideways from doing a tiring task. I stood up and Akuezhor too did the same. Stretching ourselves, I casted Illusion Mimicry¡¯ to disguise myself. As for Akuezhor, he used a different type of disguise. He got out some kind of torn of skin of a person¡¯s face, and wear it on his head. Masking the dark skin which only demons uniquely have and also he somehow shortened the length and sharpness of his ears. Slowly ascending the floors of the dungeon, all 3 of us finally got out of it and the scenery changed from that of a dark dungeon to a green field. The sky is blue as ever with the bright yellow sun coupled with it.


    All 3 of us flew to the village where we were just at. Nemaus was in my arms while Akuezhor grew out wings from his back. These wings just look like a dragon¡¯s wing. Which looks exactly like a bat-wing image. From what I observed from Akuezhor, he doesn¡¯t seem very talkative. Though that is what I usually like. Conversations are good from time to time; however, I tire easily with that. Akuezhor being the silent type is a plus. We continued to head off to the village while Nemaus did his usual thing which is relaxing on my head. Thinking of dungeons, I did remember that I wanted to create one. From the information I gained from the library about dungeons, all it shows was what are dungeons. Not how to create one. Remembering the scene of Akuezhor doing something at the blue orb on the pedestal, I asked him curiously,


    ¡°Akuezhor, how are dungeons created.¡±


    Pushing up his glasses and a smile on his face, ¡°Dungeons are simply created by using a specific spell, but it isn¡¯t really that easy. The most problematic issue in creating a dungeon is the mana that is needed to do so. In the past, many people have created this spell  for entertainment. Gathering items and objects of value to reward a person when they complete it. However, just creating a dungeon with a system to drop items, recycling mana, and controlling the monsters within them, it takes a huge amount of mana. The spell also isn¡¯t perfect as it can malfunction midway if you don¡¯t fully comprehend what the spell means and does.


    ¡°Why were there rumors about dungeons being god¡¯s creation?¡±


    ¡°They are merely people''s ideas of it. This information which I had just a few moments ago said, is lost information in the centuries long ago.¡±


    ¡°I see,¡± I now understand that the dungeons had a bit more meaning in the past. Entertainment was one of the reasons. Well, even I was intending to create dungeon for my own entertainment.


    Arriving to the village, and landing near the inn, Tyron Ters, I went in along with Akuezhor. A female receptionist who wasn¡¯t there before spot us.


    ¡°Welcome back Mr.Azzur.¡± She said as she bowed with respect.


    Nodding, I ascended the staircase and went to my room. Checking if it was the right room, I went inside. The luxurious room looked the same as when I went out a few hours ago. Going towards my bed and sat down, I threw Nemaus onto the soft bed. As he dropped on landed on the bed, he turned around and around on the bed until he stopped. Turning my gaze to my demon/dragon friend,


    ¡°We will be resting here for a few more hours. I want to take the time to say goodbye to some of my acquaintances. You will be staying here along with Nemaus.¡±


    ¡°Understood.¡± And questionably, he bowed towards me.


    ¡°?¡± Not really being to comprehend why he did so, I ignored it. Maybe it is his own way to communicate with me. Honestly though, I don¡¯t really care. As long as it doesn¡¯t bother both of us, then it should be fine.


    Getting out of the room and outside of Tyron Ters. It seems that the villagers are still not done with the repairs. It was quite a battle still. By the progress they are making, they should be able to fix everything in 5 days. That being said, I searched for Alden, Mark, Kelsy, and Hudson. Asking a couple of villagers for where their current location is, I soon spotted those 4 near the spot where the villagers buried their dead neighbors. Coming towards them, they noticed me.


    ¡°Your family died?¡±


    ¡°No, fortunately all our family members are alive. We are just praying for our other friends here.¡±-Kelsy


    Nodding my head to show that I understand, I let them pray for a while longer. In a few minutes, they all stood up.


    ¡°So why are you here Ridar.¡±-Alden said while seeming to have an idea to why I am here


    ¡°I¡¯ll be leaving. Just here to say farewell to you guys.¡± I said with a smile


    ¡°Already?¡±-Mark doesn¡¯t seem to understand why I am so quick to leave even though the village was attacked just a few days ago. He might have asked this because he is fearing that something else is going to happen to his home. Must be feeling insecure without me here, huh.


    ¡°Yes, going to get my rewards in the Goblin Subjugation quest. If you are concerned for this village safety, then there is no need. I have already dealt with it.¡±


    The 4 showed a shocked expression on their face.


    ¡°What was the issue, Ridar, what was it?¡±-Kelsy


    ¡°It was a dungeon. Things happened inside of it.¡± I said making it vague for them to imagine the possible issues with the dungeon. I can tell from their face that they really wanted to know. Unfortunately, I didn¡¯t really feel like telling them. I don¡¯t believe it would make a difference if I told them or not. They didn¡¯t really need to know anyways.


    ¡°Anyways, I will leaving shortly after packing up my stuff in the inn.¡± I am in no particular rush to get out of this area, it was just that I am almost nearing the gauge in my Soul Orb. This item would guarantee my safety in this world. I only need a few more strong souls to absorb, or hundreds of weak ones, and fill in the gauge. I am more or less excited to activate the Soul Orb.


    ¡°Wait Ridar, would you be willing to tell us how did you get such strength. From what I can see, you are only about 16 years old which is younger than us. Despite this, you were capable of killing the ogres and goblins so easily. Even more when there were 1000 of them.¡±-Hudson asked me. The nonsocial guy finally spoke out more than 10 words from his mouth.


    ¡°That is a secret.¡± Giving him a helpless kind of smile. He continued and persistently beg me to consider my decision. It lasted for a while, but fortunately his friends put their hands on his shoulder and turning their heads to tell him to stop. Knowing that he won¡¯t be able to get any information to increase his capabilities, he gave up with a sad expression on his face.


    ¡°Sorry Ridar, he always wanted to be strong. That was his dream. To be able to do anything and save others.¡±-Kelsy told me.


    I nod and after a few minutes in conversing with them, I said farewell to them and went back to thr inn. Entering the inn once again and going to my room, I see Akuezhor napping on the bed along with Nemaus. Walking in, he sensed me and slowly get up.


    ¡°Welcome back Ridar.¡± Akuezhor greeted me while bowing. Okay, I¡¯m really curious now.


    ¡°Why do you bow towards me?¡± I inquired of him while forming some possibilities of the reason.


    ¡°Think of it as my respect towards you.¡± Akuezhor said.


    ¡°Though do you really have to bow?¡±  You could respect someone without having to bow right? I mean there isn¡¯t really need to do so.


    ¡°You are now my master.¡± Akuezhor told me while I froze in shock. What does he mean by that?


    ¡°Tell me how did I became your master.¡±


    ¡°The moment you allowed me to follow you?¡± Saying it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. I don¡¯t know what to do so I used ¡®Analyze¡¯ on him.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Akuezhor


    He¡¯s race is of that of a dragon and a demon. An offspring between demon and dragon. His father(demon) desire to make a brand new species. One of intelligence and cunningness and with the power of a dragon to back it up. Kidnapping a female baby dragon, he raised it up for many centuries and finally got the chance to impregnate it. Being born from between the 2 species, he was very intelligent from his demon half, and gained the power of darkness from his other dragon half. His father was eventually caught and executed by his kin.


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    Because of Akuezhor¡¯s origin, both races didn¡¯t accepted and persecuted him. Akuezhor desired a place where he could belong, but every one would fear him. His power of darkness could even match that of a extremely powerful darkness dragon. Because of his childhood, he longs for belonging, but there was nothing. Desiring to make one for himself, he plans to eradicate everything to make himself a home.


    Contract- Akuezhor is now Ridar Azzur¡¯s servant. He will obey whatever his master says. (Self-Made Contract made the moment Ridar Azzur allowed Akuezhor to follow him [what Akuezhor meant was to be his follower])


    Passive: Steel-like Skin- skin as strong as steel despite having its elasticity.


    Passive: Immense Speed and Strength


    Skills: Power Augmentation, Darkness Manipulation, Trapping Specialist, Combat Perception, Illusion Manipulation, Martial Arts</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®......¡¯


    Whatever. If I have to be concerned for every little thing that happens to me. I would have become insane long before I came to this world. I nodded towards Akuezhor to show my acceptance and understanding. Going to Nemaus who always sleep like a bum, I carried him in my arms. Turning my head to look at Akuezhor,


    ¡°All right, let¡¯s go. This time we have to walk instead of flying towards the Kingdom of Pledia. Unlike the village,ithe Kingdom were to find out that we are capable of destroying them as easy as eating cake, then unneeded attention would focus on us. If they were to know what we are capable of, they might try to involve us in their game of politics and doing so, my fun would be ruined here. Though, hypothetically, if they think we aren¡¯t as strong as we might seem, and attack us when we decline loyalty, we will slaughter them. Plus the King.¡± I said, ¡°Actually cross that, just a few of my undead minions would be enough. It would be more efficient and comes with low-risk too.


    ¡°Hahahaha. I agree. Even though we could be considerably powerful, arrogance always seem to kill the person.¡± Akuezhor laughed


    ¡°All righty, let¡¯s go.¡± We came out of our room and then too the inn¡¯s entrance. When I opened it, there were villagers in front of me. Bowing towards me.


    ¡°Thank You for what you¡¯ve done for us. We will forever be grateful. If you would ever need anything, please ask us and we will help however we can,¡± said  Raldnos, the Village Chief.


    ¡°I thank you all for your gratitude.¡± They might have known from the 4 who I had just spoken with a few moments ago. After that, they made way for the me, my pet, and my demon/dragon friend. They noticed Akuezhor, but since I was acting casual about it, they don¡¯t ask me. Finally leaving out the gates of the village, we continued to walk and the villager soon wasn¡¯t visible anymore from the distance.


    ¡®Oops, I forgot that I left my horse there. Nevermind that, I will be getting quite a reward from all the goblin ears that I collected. I plan to only give them in sets. If I give 1000 goblin ears at once, it would arouse suspicions.¡¯


    That being said, the sun was setting down and the day once again fell  asleep and the night wakes. We continued to walk despite that since we aren¡¯t exactly human to begin with. Needing sleep isn¡¯t a trait for undead. I asked Akuezhor if he needed sleep. He told me that having the traits of a dragon, he had a huge amount of stamina. He could last several days without needing sleep. So that problem was gone. Nemaus like always, had nothing to do, so he had his eyes closed to chill. Not sleeping though. I did noticed that he often glances at Akuezhor with a menacing gaze, which he also in turn gave it back to Nemaus.


    ¡®What is there problem?¡¯


    In a couple of hours the day awoke and the night slept once again. It was quite a long distance between our current position and the Kingdom of Pledia. But occasionally walking for some time isn¡¯t a bad idea.


    As we were midway between our journey to the Kingdom, I was interrupted once again by.. bandits. Sensing them following us and carefully blocking every possible way to escape, I did my normal routine, silently casting a ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯. Finally when the bandits are done, a couple of them went in front of us.


    ¡°Give us all your valuables or else you shall die!- one of them screamed. Akuezhor¡¯s face began to twitch. He was getting ready until I whispered to him.


    ¡°The moment they attack us, you are allowed to kill them. But leave some of them too me and Nemaus.¡± Nodding as he understood I turned towards thee bandit that had just spoken out.


    ¡°My apologies Sir, but I don¡¯t have any sort of object that could be considered valuable. As you can see that I am not holding any luggage with be except for this fox here,¡± I pointed to sleeping Nemaus, ¡°And for my partner, he is the same. Why do you think we have anything at all?¡±


    I am actually hoping for them to attack me, gotta fill up the Soul Orb. The bandit observed us for some time and said,


    ¡°Fuck you, it doesn¡¯t matter.¡± He then raised his hand as a signal to attack.


    ¡°Well then Akuezhor, Nemaus, let¡¯s party.¡± as I said this while grinning.


    The fight didn¡¯t even last 5 seconds and half of them died. There were about 10 bandits left alive and unharmed.


    ¡°Our a-apologies Sir, we didn¡¯t k-kno..¡± One of the surviving bandits tried to apologize while stuttering, but  I created a bone lance underneath the ground below him and made it pushed into his anus. The front of the lance soon came out of the bandit¡¯s mouth. I did the same for the others. Putting their dead corpses on display, hopefully the other groups could understand this place is a no go.


    Our journey continued onto the Kingdom of Pledia. We arrived to the front gates. There was a very small line in front of it. The people are getting through the gates while having their stuff checked. The guards frequently blocked the cart when a cute girl is trying to get in. It was obvious of their intentions. The girl was starting to be aware of the corrupted side of humans. Deciding to help out, I told Akuezhor to take care of my body and used ¡®Possession¡¯. Transfering my soul into one of the guards who have a lustful expression. I turned the current me towards one of the other guards. Noticing a change in his friend,


    ¡°Hey Hegeant, what¡¯s wrong?¡± As he said that I grabbed him and punched his testicles. The guard shocked from this bent down and cursed at me. The other guards were confused and in addition with the girl. I then again used ¡®Possession onto another guard. The guy named Hegeant regained his awareness and saw his friend bleeding from his crotch, he asked with a concerned expression,


    ¡°Are you okay?¡± LOL when you were intending to do to girl, you didn¡¯t even give a shit about her feelings. And now you are worried about this scumbag? That being said, I knew that anyone would care for their friend. Just that scumbags always befriend scumbags. I have reminded myself of human behavior. Hopefully someone does something about this. Actually, thinking of this made myself coming up with any idea. I shall order one of my minions to deal with this behavior by ordering them to kill anyone man that abuses his authority and rape or just simply rape anyone.


    Back onto the action. Hegeant asked his friend if he was alright while his friend looked at him in rage. I stepped up to Hegeant and said,


    ¡°What the fuck are you doing?!¡± I then turned around and punched a nearby guard next to me. To sum this up in a brief way, I used ¡®Possession multiple times and caused havoc at the gates. Many times I crushed their balls and gouged out their eyes. Man that was great. In the end, everyone just passed through the gate while a different group of guards tried to take control of the situation. Each one of them were beating their former friends up to death, while I with my pet and follower, entered the Kingdom.

 Ch.15 The Auction

    The incident in front of the gates have began to spread throughout the kingdom. People everywhere were gossiping about it like it was worth freaking out for. Many don¡¯t know why such an incident occurred. Some say that the guards took some kind of drug while on their watch. Others say that the guards must have hated staying outside so long in front of the gates and took the stress out on their friends. The king heard of this and is trying to calm the situation down. Mostly because this was something to be curious about.


    The guards who attacked each other mainly aimed for each others crotch. Breaking it forever and shall never be capable of being used again. Even with a 5th rank healing spell, it was impossible. It was like putting a severed head back onto the main body while using ¡®Heal¡¯, hoping for the head to connect back to the body. That goes for the same as the testicles. As for the guards who had their very important part of life smashed to pieces, many of them had suicide. It became a very hot topic for quite a few days actually.


    Anyways, Nemaus, Akuezhor, and I are currently heading to the Magic Library Store. During these past few days in this kingdom, we signed Akuezhor as an adventure and did the F quests quickly with the help of my minions. Adding the Goblin Subjugation quest to his ring, which we kind have founded the loop hole in the system, we gave 100 goblin ears to the damn old man in the Adventurer¡¯s Guild. We received 10 gold from 100 silver and went to the where I didn¡¯t finish my browsing of a certain store, the Magic Library Store. So that is why I am going there.


    It was quite an enjoyable time. I was quite surprised when they brought out an high-quality item. Like weren¡¯t they rare in this world? That being said, they were way too expensive to be bought. It is not like I would be buying them anyways since I am only allowed to use one weapon because of my class. I am being more restricted than the people of this world man. They are allowed to use any kinds of weapons. The magic artifacts and weapons were cased in a glass display. I could feel the aura the weapons are displaying. Near them would be a tag with a price on them. Some of these items were,


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Ice Brinsinger


    A light blue sword that represents Ice. When coming into contact with a person or object, their speed will be stolen and is given to the user of this sword.


    +13% Damage


    Special-steals  target¡¯s speed when coming into contact with them. May vary depending on the target.


    300 gold


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    <table><tbody><tr><td> Blue-Fire Wand


    A wand capable of allowing the user to cast a blue high-tier flame which would completely burn the enemies targeted. In return, your life-force(health) would be sacrificed for every time you cast the spell that is merged with this wand.


    Special-The user is capable of using ¡®Blue-Flame¡¯ spell in exchange for 2% of their life-force.


    500 gold


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    These 2 magic weapons are examples of the magic weapons in this Magic Library Shop. All of them are over at least 250 gold. I can¡¯t help but laugh though. I mean in this world, these ¡°magic weapons¡± are extremely rare where people would backstab, betray, and kill for the treasure. I think they might even kill their very friends who they grew up with in exchange for a ¡°priceless treasure¡±.


    In the game, they were so common that when someone picks the high-quality weapon up, they would either trash it or not even pick it up at all. It seems in this world, when someone has a magic weapon and successfully sells it, they will be set for life with that amount of gold. That being said, what should I do with with the magic weapons I have in my inventory. If I remember correctly, I had picked up a high-class weapon by mistake, but was too lazy to browse my inventory to drop it out. What would the reaction be if I tried to sell it? Would I be hunted down? Would secret underground organizations put me on their blacklist to rob?


    Never mind that. After finishing browsing the store, I heard one of the attendants in this place yelled out loud, ¡°We are having an auction! We are having an auction! If anyone is interested, we are selling high-quality artifacts and weapons! They include Blue-FIre Wand and Ice Brinsinger, Accursed Blade, and various others.¡±


    ¡®?¡¯ Wasn¡¯t that the weapons I just ¡®Analyze¡¯? I turned around to find the 2 weapons that were just stated by the attendant. In a few seconds, I see a couple of people in the area where Blue-Fire Wand and Ice Brinsinger is. They were currently removing them from the display and bringing it into the Auction Room located in this building. Being confused, I don¡¯t quite comprehend it. After a couple of seconds, I collected my thoughts to attempt to understand what is going on. Asking myself a few questions, I felt as if I have reached the state of the Enlightenment. I felt pretty dumb right now.


    The conclusion that I obtained was a bit funny in my opinion. It seems that the previously stated items were merely being on display for consumers to see. It was probably to show the high-quality weapon is real because of the aura it emits. I almost forgot to mention this. What I learned in this world while the time I was here, plus asking questions to others, every weapon seems to release an aura depending on the quality it is categorized in. So if it was for example, a divine magic weapon, it would release an immense aura to boot.


    I wonder what Aedriha¡¯s aura would feel like, but I don¡¯t usually pay attention to that stuff.  Anyways, I determined that the weapons that were on display was just the proof. As for the price tag, it is most likely that it was merely the starting bid for the weapon. Otherwise, it would have been bought by a noble or a wealthy man or woman. So that means I would probably never be able to buy something like a high-quality magic weapon in this world. That hurts me.


    Putting my attention back in place, I followed the crowd of people who are probably going into the Auction Room in this building with Akuezhor behind me. We were slowly descending in this building. Most likely an underground area. Entering the Auction Room, I see the room is similar to that of a Coliseum with red chairs for seats. Choosing a sit in the corner of the room, I could see that hundreds of people have gathered for this occasion. Many people have came here to see a show of contest between the wealthy. As for the wealthy people, they had many guards around them. It shows how much danger having a magic weapon in your hand. Especially for the high-quality one. But, did they now think that their hired guards would kill them to take it?


    Whatever, not my problem. Akuezhor sitting down next to me and asked me curiously, ¡°Master, these items can only be seen as above average especially to one as great as you. Why did you come here if you were to not buy them?¡±


    ¡°Akuezhor, as you said, you didn¡¯t come here to buy such average items. However, I thought it would be fun to watch the show of rich people using up their money for it. Doesn¡¯t it bring you joy when you see them use almost all their money for just an magic weapon?¡± I said while trying to spot anymore rich people.


    ¡°I apologize for asking such a foolish question,¡± Akuezhor said as he raise up and bowed towards me.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, and please sit down, we are causing a slight scene.¡± I said to him. The surrounding people noticed the movement of Akuezhor when he bowed, so their gazes were attracted by it because the Auction hasn¡¯t started yet. He noticing this immediately sat back on his chair. At the same time, a young man in his 20s came onto the stadium and started his small speech.


    ¡°Welcome! As you have a heard, extremely powerful magic weapons have been found. Something that has never happened since the past hundred years. They were found in a cave in a mountain. It was said that it used to be the meeting spot of the 6 almighty gods. Who knows why it was in there and how come no one found it so far. That being said, LET¡¯S START THE AUCTION!¡±


    After the speech, everyone yelled and clapped in excitement. This includes the wealthy people who are contesting each other. During this loud applause, several men brought out the first item. Ice Brinsinger. Everyone in this audience were looking at it with greed and tensions grew. Sensing this, the young man said, ¡°Also for security measures, we have hired 20 5th rank magicians and powerful warriors. Including Eric Salaam the S rank adventure. Once again, this is for security measures.¡±


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    The tensions ease a bit; however, the nobles didn¡¯t even calm down. There eyes show that they are all more focused than ever to obtain what they desired. When all was quiet again, the young man began speaking again.


    ¡°This high-quality magic weapon is as you can see, a sword. This magic weapon allows the wielder to gain great strength while whenever you successfully strike the enemy, you would be able to steal their speed while increasing yours. It was said that whoever wields this weapon can go head to head with many of the most powerful figures in this country.¡± Everyone¡¯s eyes except for Akuezhor and me turned red.


    Nemaus was currently shitting right now in another spot in the Auction Room. I feel sorry for the people near that spot. Nemaus then ran back to me and sat on my shoulder. What about the leftover shit on his asshole? Well, it seemed that Nemaus had somehow mastered to way to shit clean. Damn, he doesn¡¯t even smell like shit. It was as if he didn¡¯t take a shit in the first place.


    The young man continued, ¡°Well, then let¡¯s immediately start this bid. The starting bid is 300 gold!¡±


    ¡°350!¡±


    ¡°400!¡±


    ¡°500!¡±


    ¡°600!¡±


    ¡°1000!¡±


    All sorts of amount of gold has been offered, but another person would bid even higher. This continued on until it reached to 3000 gold coins. The item was then removed out of the stadium and a skinny looking aristocrat seemed to have gotten it. The auction house would hold onto the magic weapon until the auction ends, or the bidded person could leave the auction and get bidded item himself or herself. I can¡¯t help but smile at this scene. I wonder why they use so much money to buy it though. Would they receive some kind of fame? I gotta find this out later on.


    ¡°Ice Brinsinger is sold. Now the next magic weapon is Blue-Fire Wand! It allows the wielder to have access to magic of the 5th tier Blue-Flame. A magic at the peak of our human capabilities! However, in exchange you would lose a bit of your life-force. Though as long as you have a healer with you, this would be no problem. Now BID!¡± As he said this he spread his arms in a dramatic manner. Bids were quickly being said while the rich people were staring at each other in resentment. Isn¡¯t this getting a bit too dangerous? Thankfully, the Auction House hired some guards. If they hadn¡¯t, I doubt that the nobles would just sit around doing nothing but glare in hatred.


    The bidding continued until a bidder won by using 4500 gold. Damn, how much money do these guys have. Hopefully, they don¡¯t do something like leeching of farmers and peasants. Wait a minute, isn¡¯t that the noble¡¯s usual way of life? Whatever, it shouldn¡¯t affect me in the slightest. Turning towards Akuezhor, I asked him,


    ¡°What do you think of this?¡± I asked him. Though I just noticed it was actually quite a vague question. So I made it more specific after saying it. ¡°The people here and the price bidded for the magic weapons.¡±


    ¡°Yes. Master, the people here are quite desperate for those magic weapons. If someone obtains just one magic weapon, their reputation would increase by many amounts. They use the money they took, or leach from others. Thinking about the price of high-quality weapons in my opinion with the worth of gold here, they are using more money that what the value of the magic weapon is. Though if you add the part where magic weapons are rare nowadays, it is quite understandable.¡± Akuezhor said


    ¡°What exactly is the highest quality level?¡± I inquired him curiously. DIvine was the max in Elareven, but how was it here.


    ¡°The highest I seen was a Relic rank.¡± [Have to use the rankings in Overlord]


    Legacy. I am pretty sure that is 3 ranks lower than Divine. After this thought, the auction continued and tensions just keeps increasing. The next final item is finally being presented. From the atmosphere, it seemed more valuable than the previous items. This is most likely where it would get bad.


    ¡°Now, finally the most shocking news we have received ever since the birth of this kingdom. We have obtained a Greater- quality magic weapon which is higher than high-quality!¡±


    The most of the audience became silent while some were already expecting that.


    ¡°This particular weapon of course surpasses that of the previous magic weapons. Its name is  Shibaem The Rotting! Its very ability is to drain a target¡¯s life-force when struck and gives them a powerful poison that is very difficult to cure. Not only that, but you also gain strength, speed, and even higher defensive abilities just by holding it.¡±


    This is starting out the same as the previous presentations; however, instead of the young man announcing the start of the bid. A person in the audience yelled out,


    ¡°5000!¡± Almost immediately bids were coming in like a tidal wave.


    ¡°5500!¡±


    ¡°7000!¡±


    Everyone was giving either expressions of awe or resentment. For the people in awe, they were mostly people who came here for the show only. That being said, the emotions of resentment only belonged to the wealthy. But soon something unexpected happen.


    ¡°YOU FUCKER! HEY, YOU GUYS HURRY UP AND KILL THOSE BIDDERS!¡± one man said while ordering his guards. The guards immediately started to head over to the other bidders. Everything went into chaos. Random bystanders died from being in the way. Bidders ordering their bodyguards to defend them or kill. Some guards actually killed their client and start heading for Shibaem The Rotting out of Greed. It was literally chaos itself.


    People were screaming while they died being in between the fights. The doors won¡¯t open because of security, but it seems it more or less backfired. The Auction House hired guards joined in the fight to control the situation, but it wasn¡¯t really help calming down everyone.


    ¡°Well then. This was totally unexpected.¡± I said to Akuezhor


    ¡°To me I think it was quite expected. People always tried to gain their way by force. That goes for everybody.¡± He said calmly


    I guess I should mind my own business. This is their problem. No mine, but if they someone involve me somehow even though I am in the farthest in the room, then they shall die. Watching and enjoying the manslaughter, a couple of minutes passed and it was still continuing. Isn¡¯t this getting too long. Why aren¡¯t the doors opening? People are starting to escape to my corner and honestly, I want my space. So I just silently casted ¡®Dark Lightning¡¯ at the doors so that the innocent bystanders can get the hell out of here.


    Losing my interest here, I got up and Akuezhor did the same and started to leave casually. We were about to get out until a stray earth lance was targeted at me. I honestly didn¡¯t think something like this would happen. Even Akuezhor didn¡¯t think something like that would happen as his guard was down from dozing off a bit when we were watching the fight.


    The ¡®Earth Lance¡¯ hits my head, the lance shattered, and my ¡®Illusion Mimicry¡¯ was cancelled. My lich form appeared once again. My red lights came out of my skull as I was trying to repair my illusion back. This caught the attention of everyone in the room which now only consists of warriors and magicians. There were staring at me in shock. They even stopped their fight midway.


    Nemaus and Akuezhor noticed this and are now looking at me as if to see how and what should we deal with this. The normally uncaring Nemaus is probably acting like this because it would cause some problems for us both if the news were too spread that there was a lich in this country.


    ¡°You two, kill them all for me.¡± I said unhappily. They immediately dashed towards the leftover fighters. Nemaus fried them all with his Fox-Fire and lightning while Akuezhor quickly killed them with his hidden tail. There were some that noticed what kind of situation it was and tried to escape. However, before they tried to I casted ¡®Disintegrate¡¯ which causes instant death to weak enemies. The targets slowly turned into dust while soon all the witnesses died.


    I guess I should take the Shibaem The Rotting. No one seems to be looking and my information canceller spells didn¡¯t seem to set off. So it was pretty much safe. I didn¡¯t do it out of greed. Just felt like doing it. That¡¯s all. After Nemaus and Akuezhor finished, we quickly checked ourselves if there was any blood on our clothes. Finishing, I activate ¡®Portal¡¯ and brought us a decent distance away from the Auction House.

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 Ch. 16 Church and Slums

    Together with my pet and follower, we are heading off to a church where many people prayed and worshiped the 6 almighty gods. A few days ago with the incident in the Auction House, it got pretty big in just a few minutes after it happened. Almost everyone in this country was talking about it. Information does spread fast. Everyone was sympathizing with the dead nobles who had just died. Trying to obtain the Greater-quality magic weapon, anyone especially the nobles would¡¯ve tried to get it even if it meant risking their lives for it. As for Eric Salaam, it seemed that he had died when the 3 of us eradicated everyone. I don¡¯t remember myself killing him though, but I don¡¯t even know what he looks like so I might have killed him not knowing this famed S rank Adventure looks like. Maybe Nemaus and Akuezhor killed him. I almost forgot that he was hired for security in the auction though. Tossing the irrelevant thoughts away, I have been a bit busy the past few days.


    Ever since that time, the 3 of us had been doing quests on the Adventurer¡¯s Bulletin. Such as wolf hunting. Actually, that was really the only thing we did. Wolf hunting was a D rank quest. How we ranked up to D so quickly? We turned in large amounts of goblin ears after the old man suspected that we had a large amount of goblin ears in our bags and instead of receiving the money, we got our ranks up to D. It seems that the unofficial rule in the Guild was that if the person did the job a bit too excessive, then they would rank you up instead of them paying you. Cheapskates. I don¡¯t quite mind the money though since I could just request Akuezhor for some money that he obtained in the goblin¡¯s dungeon. He doesn¡¯t even use it so when I asked him for some, he insists that I just keep the money. Very convenient.


    When we were doing our wolf hunting quest, it was really boring. Compared to the incident with the goblins, this was nothing special at all. We would fly to the forest where the wolves were and slaughter them. It was nothing exciting. When I found out that the wolves were starting to move to a new territory and move out of this country, I decided to let them go instead of killing them and use ¡®Lifeless Body Creation¡¯ and made a couple of wolves and cut their ears off. Then I let some random carnivores eat the bodies. As long as they don¡¯t come to waste then I am fine with it. What do Adventurer¡¯s usually do when they had to leave a dead animal after cutting the ears out as proof of their killings. Do they at least bury it.?


    Akuezhor stretched his upper body while next to me, ¡°Master, we are almost there. Have you set up the spells to cover ourselves yet.¡±


    ¡°Yes I did.¡± I said as I nod. The church had holy barriers and spells to either block or detect evil beings such as an undead being like myself, from entering their sacred ground. If I did then I would get burned and have my status debuffed for a bit. The 6 gods were said to be known for their power and ability. Each one are capable enough to destroy countries if they desired to on a whim. They were all not just worshipped by humans, but demi-humans and elves alike. Nevertheless, the races are always hostile to each other. Mostly humans though.


    We arrived at the church grounds.The church could be said that they are an organization itself.  They worship the 6 gods and it seems that there are people who are called apostles. Apostles are messengers or representatives of their respective gods. They possess considerable power which their gods blessed them with and can be used to match that of a dragon. Depending on which god they followed, their weapons would be the same as them. Anyways, the apostles were to be said that they can match dragons. Because of this the church can be said that they had more power than kingdoms all together. No one would want to offend them since the church could just accuse them for insulting the gods or whatnot and kill them for their insolence for disrespecting them.. They are just another political party in my eyes though. The Apostles usually travel somewhere else in the continent so to make sure monsters are kept under control.


    In this church grounds, there are many buildings including 6 of them which stands out the most. Probably those 6 buildings corresponds to the 6 gods where people pray to the different gods. That being said, even though they worship them, they don¡¯t even know their names. I mostly got this out by overhearing people¡¯s conversations. They mostly referred the 6 as weapons such as ¡°The God of the Long Sword or Bow. Those are 2 examples. They wouldn¡¯t dare assume what name they had because it would be disrespectful if the names were actually wrong. Fortunately for them, all 6 gods uses different weapons so they could refer to a god without mistaking one for that one.


    That being said, I then nervously went inside the visible barrier in front of me along with my companions. Nothing seemingly happened when he passed through. No alarms. No debuffs. Nothing at all. Even so Akuezhor and I didn¡¯t let our guards down. Getting to know the layout of the map here by buying it in a store in church grounds, we explored this place for its certain attractions. This place seems to have things such as the tournaments where different teams consisting of members of the church would face each other, a fortune teller who tells you what kind of fortune you will receive in the future, and some seemingly rich food that are expensive as fuck. Still bought it for Nemaus. I decided to watch the tournament because you can¡¯t deny that seeing fights could make you excited.


    Going to the tournament area because it seems more attractive, the fight between 2 teams in an arena came into view.  There was one unusual thing about the atmosphere of the tournament though. Each team were looking at each other with immense killing intent. They aren¡¯t going to kill each other right? Also, they are all wearing shirts with a symbol of something which I assumed which god they follow on it.


    ¡°Why are they so unfriendly with each other? Are they not from the same religion?¡± I inquired Akuezhor


    ¡°Despite them being in the same church or organization, they are in different factions. Even though they have respect for all six, they would follow one specific god. To be honest, I don¡¯t really know how this started to begin with. It might have been for increasing a person¡¯s influence and power within the church. Maybe not. I want to know this as well.¡± Akuezhor said with sigh


    I nodded, ¡°I see. Let¡¯s watch how this contest goes.¡± Coming to the audience and sitting in the very back. Even being this far, I could observed the teams who are beating the hell out of each other. Each team seems to be holding some Medium Grade magic weapon. How did the church have so much money? Buying an expensive magic weapon for everyone on the teams is outrageous. How much importance is this event anyways?


    Turning my gaze to Akuezhor who was sitting next to me, ¡°Do you know how much significance this tournament is?¡±


    Akuezhor almost dozing off in boredom, ¡°Huhh~, oh no. I was pretty sure this started when I was still a child; however, I have no clue as for the reason behind it. Maybe there is some kind of reward for the winner?¡±


    ¡°A reward huh.¡± Doesn¡¯t matter to me. Whatever kind of reward it is makes no difference to me unless it is something a special item or something.Nodding my head I continued to watch the fight.


    After it finally finished, my thoughts were that they were a bit creepy. The ugly faces they make especially when they were at a disadvantage in the fight, and the amount of killing intent that was released from them was not pleasant at all. Getting up and leaving the tournament attraction with Akuezhor and Nemaus on my left shoulder, we next headed to the churches where a couple of worshippers were praying.


    We didn¡¯t go inside of course. If we did, we might have to start praying, and honestly I don¡¯t know if it involves a specific way or whatnot. While we were just gazing at the place inside a church, a young man wearing a black robe with white clothing underneath while wearing some kind of necklace, came to us. He looks like a person who usually gives out teachings about religious things in a church. Is it a sermon? Whoever it is, the way that he dresses and the feeling I get from him is something akin to authority. He may be young, but he is probably an important person. But why for what reason did he come to us?


    ¡°Good Morning young man. Is there something you need help with?¡±-Sermon


    ¡°No, we were just on our way to leave. We have some business to take care of.¡± I smiled


    ¡°Oh? I could have sworn that you were eager to pray inside.¡± Sermon said with a confused tone while moving an eyebrow as he looked at the inside of the church buildings next to us.


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    ¡°My apologies, but we only came here to sightsee. Excuse us.¡± I bowed


    ¡°I understand. Sorry for keeping your time. May you at least tell me who is the person next to you is?¡± He gazed at Akuezhor


    ¡°His name is Aku. We were friends since kids. We are both currently traveling the world. Trying to see as much of this world while we can.¡± I smiled with a lie


    ¡°Nice to meet you.¡± Akuezhor bowed


    ¡°Oh dear, how could I forget to introduce myself. I am Judom. A high-priest of this church.¡± Judom smiled but I can¡¯t help but feel that he is interrogating us as he gazed Akuezhor and me with suspicious eyes.


    ¡°Is there something wrong?¡± I inquired


    Getting back to his senses, ¡°Hmm? Ah, there is nothing wrong. It is just that I keep getting a weird feeling from you guys.¡± As he said that he started to twirl his necklace. Getting suspicious, I silently used ¡®Analyze¡¯ on him and his cross while at it.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Judom


    A High-Priest that is part of the 6 gods that are worshipped in this world. Ever since he was a child, he was extremely skilled with magic, especially light magic. Judom was raised to be a well-known magician ever since he was found out of his abilities. Doing well in his studies, he achieved a recommendation from the 6 gods¡¯ church. Because of his high affinity of light magic, he is sensitive of dark related energies. With that he can sense [evil] beings nearby.


    Skills:Healing, Cure, Light Manipulation, Darkness Perception</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Well Fuck~. Now I am getting quite concerned whether or not Akuezhor and I would get tagged as evil beings that have infiltrated the church sacred grounds. Checking the cross if their is something I have to be aware of.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Holy Cross


    A cross that increases the wielder¡¯s magic and senses.


    Special: Increases senses to dark beings nearby


    </td></tr></tbody></table>


    Immediately after reading the special effect of the holy cross, I activated ¡®Equipment Power Nullification¡¯. The effect of this spell was to negate an equipment¡¯s abilities for a duration of a time. The time varies on the amount of mana spent. Usually another player is capable of negating this spell by simply enhancing it with special enchantment gems in the game. So it wasn¡¯t really used often when a person reaches max level. Anyways, after casting the spell on his cross silently, Judom suddenly have a confused expression. His eyes squinted as if he was trying to focus on something.


    ¡°High Priest, is something the matter?¡± I said with an innocent tone


    Judom gives me a strange look and said, ¡°No.No. Nothing is wrong. I almost forgot. I still have to welcome to other guests. Please enjoy your time here.¡± He smiled before turning around while muttering to himself if his powers are diminishing.


    ¡°Do you think he found us out?¡± asking Akuezhor for his opinion on this matter


    ¡°I believe he only at most suspect us. He doesn¡¯t have any proof, but maybe he doesn¡¯t need proof as long as he suspects us as dark beings.¡± Akuezhor said with a grim expression.


    ¡°Let¡¯s just get out of here. I casted a spell on his cross to negate some of his sensitivity to darkness. It is enough to nullify his Holy Cross¡¯s power for a couple of hours, but who knows if we would be found out by others.¡± I sighed.


    ¡°I agree.¡± And with that we got the hell out of the church. Leaving the church¡¯s grounds, I sighed in relief. I last thing I want to do is attract attention towards myself in mass-scale. Though if I calmly think about it, I could just change my appearance anytime. With ¡®Lifeless Body Creation¡¯ I could pretty much never be caught as long as no one finds out that I am capable of this. I wonder if they can even do anything even if they did know about it. I turned my head sideways to Akuezhor.


    ¡°We won¡¯t be doing anything for the rest of the day. Let¡¯s just stroll around this kingdom again.¡± I said with a bored expression. I guess I have been getting bored of lately. The quests gave me a small reason to do something while here. I began thinking about what kind of goals I want for this world.


    Nothing comes to mind except making a dungeon. Though I planned to do that in the far future. I have yet to make the plans that are necessary to establish a dungeon. It must be in a good place where people could spot it easily. Also, I also need to study more about dungeons the moment I decide to go and make one.


    Browsing the many stalls here and buying some apples that Nemaus wanted to eat, I decided to also go to a bakery store which is located a bit near the slums. I want to know what kind of cakes they make and possibly collect them into my storage when I decide to eat them with another body or something at a later date. Walking towards the location of the bakery shop, I started to feel the mood became gloomy which was just a lively and happy one initially. Taking a look around this area which doesn¡¯t have any sunlight because of the buildings, I could see that this part of the kingdom is quite dirty. I could smell urine, shoot, vomit, and other things that smell horrible in this area. Is this the slums perhaps?


    The floor doesn¡¯t seem to be clean, the windows and doors were broken. This place doesn¡¯t seem to be a good place to raise someone. What makes it worse was that when I took a look inside a building with a broken door, I saw people who were sleeping in the room. The smell human odor that filled this place entered my nose. Nemaus and Akuezhor both had distorted faces when they smelled the place. Someone woke up and when his eyes focused on me, he jumped on hit his head under the table which he was sleeping under for some reason.


    The noise woke up the others who began to notice my presence. They took a very good look at me and backed a bit. Inside this building, there wasn¡¯t any light, but because of my Night Sight, I could clearly see as clear day in this room. Men, women, children, and even the old are in this building. Their bodies show signs of nutrient deprivation. Many of them were very deathly skinny while some of them were just slightly skinny. Nonetheless, I could see the what is going on. They are starving because they had no work or something else might have happened to them.


    I took a glance at Akuezhor and he looked as if he was in pain. His expression truely shows that he is hurt from seeing this. Especially the children that are sleeping on their parents lap. Their faces showed signs of tears coming out of their eyes. It really pains my heart. I want to help them, but I am not sure how to. I suddenly sensed a soul being departed from this place. Turning in the direction of where it was a few moments ago, I could guess what had happened. One of the woman here died. I couldn¡¯t sense any life in her body. As if noticing my gaze, a seemingly young man very slowly got up and went to the woman. Checking her pulse on her throat, he started to drag her out of the room, passed by us, and left her outside the building. Going back inside ever so slowly I looked into his eyes.


    The feeling of hopelessness, grief, sadness, misery, are all embodied in his very eyes. Not just him, everyone here have the same eyes as him. They were all staring at me with those eyes. I believe that even if I were to kill them, they would actually see it as salvation. Akuezhor turned his eyes away from them as a small stream of tears slowly comes out of his eyes. Nemaus no longer looked and faced another direction.


    ¡°May you people tell me why has this happened to you?¡± I said as I can no longer endure this scene.


    No response.


    ¡°If you guys tell me how you guys get into this situation, then I can probably help you.¡± I said trying to give them some kind of hope.


    Again no response. But I was able to see them react a bit when I mentioned help. However they immediately went back to their pitiful state. They all began to continue sleeping, waiting for their deaths to come.


    ¡°Akuezhor, let¡¯s leave.¡± Surprisingly he agreed by nodding. I thought he would say something, but he must have seen the endless hopelessness in their very heart. Leaving the building, I took the dead woman¡¯s body and put it into my storage.

 Ch. 17 Soul Orb Summoning

    After the encounter with the people in the slums, Akuezhor had requested me to aid them or at least investigate the matter to which how did they get themselves into this. He wasn¡¯t particularly in a good mood, which you can tell just by looking at his body language and especially since he was grinding his teeth after he made his request to me. I¡¯ve also wanted to help them; however, we need information if we were to act to help them. The most needed information would probably be, ¡®What has happened to them,¡¯ and ¡®Who did it?¡¯. How should I go with this?. I at least should summon ¡®Eyeball Corpses¡¯ to gather intel of whatever kind that may be required to find the source of the problem.


    I took out a couple of ¡®Eyeball Corpses¡¯ from the storage and commanded half of them to observe the slums. This is too warn me if someone were to enter the slum area, I would know. They began to slowly vanish and disappear while I felt that they are currently heading to the slums. For the other half of the intelligence squad, I commanded them to look around the city for any important looking people. They were to tell me if anything is unusual such as someone is acting suspiciously in the dark or always checking who might perhaps followed them. Maybe I would get involved in a conspiracy who fucking knows. After issuing this, the intelligence squad headed off to do their jobs. When they completely vanished out of sight, Akuezhor came up in front of me,


    ¡°Master, you shall forever have my gratitude,¡± Akuezhor said as he bowed to me.


    ¡°No problem.¡± I replied.That being said, I guess I did this only because of the pity I felt towards them. In the  former world, I always did ignored the homeless and the people sleeping on the streets. Many of them were actually just lazy asses. Though I am sure that there are others that were unfortunate in their life. Shit happens always in life. The people in the slums I haved encountered were different than most of the homeless I have seen. The difference I seen between them and the other world is the sense of giving up hope. They truly had given up because of something major.


    Getting out of the remote place in the kingdom because I was taking out my Eyeball Corpses, I went towards the Adventurer¡¯s Guild to kill some time with quests. Getting inside there, I walked to the bulletin to grab myself a quest. Taking a look at the different quests available right right, I could say that I am not that interested in doing these things right now in my current mood. Nevertheless, I took several quests that included beastman hunting and ogre hunting. These quests are actually higher rank then D rank. They are A rank honestly. The ogre wouldn¡¯t be normally be an A rank, but now they are starting to frequently attack in huge groups. The reason why is that I am able to take these quests was because I have read a notice on top of the bulletin just a few seconds ago that says the following:


    <table><tbody><tr><td>


    Adventurers are now allowed to take quests higher than the current rank they are.


    Adventurers shall be assigned appropriate rankings depending on their success on the quests they took. Your ranking would be updates every month. You either stay at your rank or promote to a higher one.


    Adventurers ¡­¡­.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    It continues on. However, I have read the first 2 changes in the Guild was what caught my attention the most. It seems that the king is trying to get rid of monster invasions by removing the restrictions that they had before. If people were to kill an immensely strong monster without any rewards, why should they do it in the first place? What is the point in trying to put effort to do something good if you won¡¯t even be rewarded with a ¡°thanks¡± at least once.


    Making sure my Eyeball Corpses are doing their work through my mental connection with them, I then exited the gates of the kingdom to do my job. I guess I shall just do the beastman quest. As for the ogre quest, I already have some materials in my inventory to use as proof when I turn in my quests.


    Currently walking on a trail to the location of beastman that should be located NW of the Kingdom of Pledia, which I was previously at a few moments ago, I am on my way there alone with Nemaus who is lazing off on me as always. Akuezhor didn¡¯t come as he wanted to also investigate with his own methods. From what I can see, he seems very determined to help out anyone who doesn¡¯t deserve such a life.


    Especially the starving children. I can still remember those kids sleeping on their parents laps with the dried tears on their faces. Feeling sadness for them, all I can probably do is to aid them in anyway possible. However, can I really give them a future where they can live at least in comfort? I gave Akuezhor a ¡®Message Scroll¡¯ so that he may contact me when he was ready.


    With that thought, I activated Flight to rush the quests I am doing. Raising up into the air, I quickly flew to my desired destination. No longer than 10 minutes passed, I arrived and landed near the Silent Forest which was said that the beastmen inhabits this place were causing problems in traveling even when hiring near peak human potential escorts.They have been coming out of the forest more often in the past few months attacking travelers.


    The reason why it was named the Silent Forest was because no one that has entered, came out alive when they were trying to eradicate the beastmen living in there. Though there were actually survivors, just that they were only the few out of the hundreds to live.. No one knows much about beastmen in general;however, physical strength seems to be their main usage in fights. They don¡¯t use weapons such as maces or a giantsword.


    Their fighting capabilities were largely dependent on their strength, speed, and reflexes. Everything physical. If they were to go against any race, human, demi-human, elf, but excluding dragons, they are capable of dealing lots of damage to any race. All beastmen senses are ridiculously sharp even for a normal animal. So when they know that an invasion is coming, they would run quickly away. They are very troublesome bunch to everyone.


    Entering the Silent Forest, I observed my surroundings. Plants, trees, bushes, dirt. Seems to be just a normal forest in my eyes. Passing through the many trees, which I didn¡¯t noticed their were quite a number of scratch marks on it meaning I passed through a certain territory. Going into their territory unknowingly, Nemaus stood up, lifting his ears to different directions from where we are at. What is he doing? I am sure he only acts like this when something is coming our way with hostile intent. Knowing this, I turned on ¡®Soul Sense¡¯ to spot anything that is coming towards me. I think I should just let my ¡®Soul Sense¡¯ passive be on from now on. I wasn¡¯t really used to seeing people while seeing their souls in them, but perhaps I should do this for safety reasons.


    I have to admit that Nemaus really have been helping me a lot. Especially when I don¡¯t know what is coming after me. His senses aided me very well.


    With my senses, I could feel a couple of blue souls a couple of meters away, slowly surrounded me in a circle. Numbering fifty, they successfully circled me. A beastmen that looked like wolf standing on its two hind legs, came out along with 5 others wolfman coming up behind him. Nemaus got off my shoulder, landing on the ground silently as he  growled at them.


    The beastmen who was leading the other 5 wolves had his head up higher than the others. Showing his confidence that he is capable of anything and achieving anything he desires.That particular beastman feels different than the others. While he looked almost the same as any other wolfman without much of a difference in height.


    Although there is a slight difference which is located on the his face where a few claw marked scars was over his left eye. It displays his past how he battled other wolves to gain the position of alpha in the pack.


    The Wolfman looked at Nemaus with interest growled at Nemaus while ignoring my very existence as if I wasn''t there in the first place, and Nemaus in return growled back to the alpha wolf. His subordinates feeling anger from the display of defiance against their leader, released killing intent towards Nemaus.


    ¡®Are they perhaps speaking in some kind of language?¡¯ Nemaus, being affected by their aggression, starts to tremble. Being interested in what was going on, I asked him with a curious tone,


    ¡°Did they say something to you Nemaus?¡±


    As I said this, Nemaus¡¯s face twitch in response. Replying to my question, he answered in an irritated manner,


    ¡°Those lowly dogs dared to suggest that I, one of the nine-tailed fox species, to obey and serve under them in servitude. Especially that alpha wolf. He doesn¡¯t think of me as a threat at all! I will make them recognize that as one of the strongest species in this world, I shall make them know their place! They shall know who is the stronger in the dog species!"


    Nemaus spoke in a manner where I am not sure if he was addressing me, or just to himself. He began to release killing intent while a black aura slowly manifest itself from Nemaus¡¯s body. His slightly grey fur slowly turned into a stronger shade of black. His eyes turning to a color of dark red. His one tail became 5¡­.


    Five tails? When did he have five tails? I didn¡¯t remember him even showing even 3 tails. The last time I seen his number of tails was that time back in the Village of Furtp if I did remember correctly. Activating ¡®Analyze¡¯ on Nemaus to see his current abilities, a blue screen appeared in front of me and shows:


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Nemaus


    One of the nine-tailed fox species which was known for it''s trickery, craftiness, and intelligence. It in takes magic power from partners they had formed pacts with ever since they were an infant. --Nemaus, currently five tail. He formed a parent and child pact with [Ridar Azzur].


    Passive: Takes in the energy signature of its parent/companion and making it its own. Essentially being able to control the magic they had taken in for their use.


    Passive: Permanently increased physical and magic ability by 20%


    Death Passive: Become stronger when the user is getting closer to death(health).


    Toggle Passive-Deathly Aura II (Ridar): Kills the living nearby. If resisted, stats are reduced(varies).


    [Death]


    Progress: 50%


    Absorbing 1/2 of the true energy signature of Death, Nemaus have evolved into a rare-nine tailed fox species. Nether-Fox (Stage 2)


    Skills: Cursed Fox-Fire Magic, Dark Lightning, Illusion Magic, Life-Force Absorption. Flight, Astral Form, Power Concealment


    Unique Skill: Death Wave (Ridar) Power Augmentation(Dragon)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Oh ya, I almost forgot that incident where I killed those goblins and ogres on the other side of the mountain. He must have been able to progress his power when I massacred them.


    Seems that he got a few new skills such as Flight, Astral Form, Power Concealment, and the Death Wave which has a chance of killing the surrounding targets instantly.The skill ¡®Power Concealment¡¯ allows to user to hide his true stats and abilities. He most likely used this to obviously hide his abilities from others. It is very useful to use as a surprise attack when the enemy underestimates him. The skill doesn¡¯t affect me as my ¡®Analyze¡¯ is pretty much maxed out and unaffected by disguising abilities.


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    As for ¡®Astral Form¡¯, it  gives the user the ability to turn into a spirit which allows them to ignore physical damage. In spirit form you can avoid physical things such as passing through them or the object passes through me. Either way is the same. However in ¡®Astral Form¡¯ in return, you can¡¯t use any physical means to do what you desire. Punching, kicking, holding, throwing, all those actions can¡¯t be done while in that form.


    In return for not being affected by the physical world, you can¡¯t affect the physical world either. Magic would deal more damage when the user is in spirit form. It is because magic affects things both physical and spiritual. As for Nemaus other new gained spell such as flight which is easily understood already, Death Passive seems to be more of a berserk skill where the closer you are when you¡¯re about to die, the stronger you get.


    I also have a skill similar to that, but since I haven''t really been near death ever since transported to this world, the skill doesn¡¯t set off easily. He also seems to have gotten my ¡®Deathly Aura¡¯ skill.


    Getting back to the topic, as the ¡®Deathly Aura¡¯ starts to come manifest from Nemaus, the beastmen stepped back as their sharp instincts finally told them that they are next to danger. The alpha leader became silent, either he is regretting his decision to insult Nemaus, or his pride is telling him that if he retreats, his pack would lose their respect for him as he made a mistake. As the alpha leader tried to weigh which is more important to him, Nemaus made his assault. He activates ¡®Deathly Aura II¡¯ and with ¡®Death Wave¡¯ simultaneously to increase to effectiveness of instant death.


    The trees¡¯ leaves began to turn yellow and fell off their branches. The insects under the dirt dies as the black wave made contact with them. The beastmen souls began to depart while coming into my soul orb as I casted ¡®Soul Sealing Barrier¡¯ to capture the souls and absorbed them. With Soul Sense, I determined that out of the 50 wolfmen that surrounded us, only 27 survived. Though they seemed to be breathing for air as they slump to the ground, heaving for life. The wolfman were weakened badly while Nemaus hadn¡¯t finished his assault as he activated dark lightning which surrounded his body like armor.


    He used ¡®Flight¡¯ as he charged towards the other wolves. Nemaus didn¡¯t go for the leader since he wanted to save the alpha for last, he decided to cause psychological damage to the alpha by getting rid of the pack who respects him for his combat prowess while causing terror to build it in him.


    ------


    The massacre ended in no longer than a minute. The wolfmen weren¡¯t able to run in their weakened state, so they can only await death on their knees. The alpha leader decided to run as his pack were getting slain; however, he didn¡¯t get far as Nemaus noticed this and breathe out ¡®Cursed Fox-Fire¡¯ at him, causing the fur which came on contact with the fire, burned in hot temperatures as he was weakened even further by the debuff effect of ¡®Cursed Fox-Fire¡¯. Nemaus levitated above the crouching alpha. The alpha whimpered and looked up at Nemaus, begging for mercy with his pleading eyes.


    Nemaus not bothered in the slightest, used ¡®Life-Force Absorption¡¯ on the alpha. The alpha started to throw a tantrum, but in no time, he wasn¡¯t able to resist the spell and his soul slowly departed from his body and transferred to my Soul Orb. Checking the gauge, it showed 100%. Just 50 beastmen were capable of giving 2% to the Soul Orb. It must be because of their strength and abilities. The 10,000+ goblins and ogres did give quite a lot to the gauge; however, it was because of their quantity. The beastmen is categorized in the quality section because of their abilities. Since my gauge is ready now, I capable of summoning my partner in Elareven.


    While Nemaus was finally calming himself down from the offence he received, I activated my ¡®Soul Orb.¡¯ I guess it is finally time to explain the effects, but before that let¡¯s explain how I got it. In Elareven, every job receives a companion when they reached a certain advancement in their jobs. They would then receive a quest which is part of their storyline for their respective jobs.


    For example, a tamer when receiving their job advancement, gains a quest to be an a journey and coincidentally found a dragon egg. He or she would then raise the egg and when the dragon hatched, the baby dragon would see the tamer as his parent or master, which it would soon later become the tamers partner in battle after fulfilling some requirements such as taking proper care of the dragon by feeding it, and killing monsters to let the dragon grow in power.


    There are other partners and companions such as having a kung-fu panda martial artists for a healer. Of course, players are allowed to pick the gender of their companions. Just like with the tamer and dragon, every companion have their own little story to make it more attracting.


    For me who is a Necromancer, I obtained the Soul Orb which allows me to summon a fiend who is also known as an archdemon. Of course, I chose female. My quest is simple and a little harder than the others. I just have the kill and absorb a huge number of monsters to activate it to summon my destined partner. Though the downside is it would take a huge amount of time just to wait for the monsters to spawn after I killed them, and killing bosses could increase the progress, but they take even longer to spawn. So I didn¡¯t really attempt to fulfill to necessary requirements.


    Activating the Soul Orb, a red magic circle appeared in front of me. As the circle glows with deep red, the clouds in the light blue sky, begins to swirl around and around. The clouds turned dark as it covers the sunlight from reaching the world. In the center of the swirling clouds, a purple beam of light shot itself into the red magic circle. Nemaus jumped in surprise and ran behind me while giving me a suspicious look on his face. The ¡®Soul Orb¡¯ gauge begins to slowly decrease as the purple beam of light continues being in contact with the magic circle.


    90%


    76%


    50%


    As the percentage continues to decrease, a form started to manifest inside the magic circle. A humanoid form is forming itself inside circle. Slowly, it becomes clearer and clearer. The gauge finally hit the bottom 0%. The red magic circle slowly vanished and disappeared. In its place is an emerald-eyed young girl who looks about 15-years-old with purple hair that past her shoulders, wearing a one-piece that seems similar to that of a jester. The skirt slightly above the middle of her thighs. As if noticing that her surroundings changed, she observed her surroundings.Spotting me, she smiled to me while the beach ball she was sitting on bounced towards me.


    ¡°Hey Master Ridar! So you finally freed and summoned me! How¡¯s it been?!¡± While she said happily while the ball was bouncing with her along with it.


    Her name is Nylen, a field who is known as an archdemon. From what I was able to access in the information terminal, she is a really strong close combat fighter mainly using a sword, Byakko, which manifest a target¡¯s fear in them causing the enemy to be paralyze, and can also use her unique magic to snipe of enemies from a distance, dealing damage huge amounts of damage. When I read her stats in the terminal, her strength,speed, and evasion stats were very high. She also doesn¡¯t have any particular weaknesses to any elements such as light and earth. Using ¡®Analyze¡¯ on her, her character screen shows,


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Nylen


    Created by [Ridar Azzur] a few thousand years ago. Her master put a huge amount of effort to create her as a fiend with immense power. Her purpose was to aid him in anything he desires. Being together with her creator, they traveled together while getting stronger with each passage of time and soon she grew affection towards her master. However things would never be as they are. The various churches discovered that her master had summon a dangerous existence that could endanger the residents of the world. The churches believed that her master¡¯s goal was to destroy the world rather than to discover and learn various magic. Especially since he started learning magic that could leave utter destruction if decided to use it on a whim, they ordered all the strongest holy knights to subjugate her master.


    She and her master had no choice but to fight against the world. Soon, her master was slain while she was sealed in another dimension to make sure they won¡¯t be able to bring harm towards the people. Being sealed, she always held onto the hope that her master would come back and would be able to free her so they may be together once again.


    Fiend Passive: Ferocity V-Deals huge additional damage.


    Fiend Passive: Prevail V- The lower health she has, her strength, defence, and evasion stats                        would tremendously increase


    Passive: Strength, Speed, and Evasion stats are increased by 20%


    Passive: No elemental weaknesses


    Unique Passive: Resurrection(10% health and mana) as long as [Ridar Azzur] is alive. Can only be used once per day.


    Skills: Darkness Manipulation, Fear Inducement, Distort Space,Flurry Attack, Explosive Barrage. Flight. </td></tr></tbody></table>


    Reading her story and skills, I have to so that if she were to have a fight with me, Nylen would cause me headaches.


    ¡°Hey Master! Are you alright? Hey!¡± as Nylen said that, she brought herself closer to me. Her emerald eyes looked into me while her expression shows concern of me. Snapping myself back to reality, I replied


    ¡°I am fine Nylen.¡± I smiled. I am just thinking that even though she has her story setting and supposedly knows me well, I in return, don¡¯t know what she is like. What can you expect, I just met her just now. She seems to be always excited so I guess fun-loving could be her personality trait?


    ¡°Ah~, could it be that you were enchanted with me~,¡± Nylen said with a seductive voice, while licking her soft lips with her hand on her cheek. Unfortunately or fortunately, I don¡¯t have a sausage which could be erect and I don¡¯t have any blood in my body so I couldn¡¯t get turned on anyways.


    ¡°Sorry Nylen, but as you can see,¡± I turned off my Illusion Mimicry, showing my skull. ¡° I can¡¯t feel anything towards you right now.¡± Trying to prove something to her that I don¡¯t even feel slightly turned on, in fact my mind is a bit in chaos from her behavior. I never was popular with girls so her doing this made me a bit nervous.


    ¡°You don¡¯t have to lie Master, I already know everything about you.¡± Nylen said with a cheerful smile, while I went total-retard trying to understand what did she meant by ¡°everything¡±.As she said that Nemaus looked between Nylen and me while looking confused. In the end he somehow shrugged while on his 4 legs and jumped towards my shoulders and slowly closed his eyes as he dozed off even in the daytime. He doesn¡¯t seem to be interested in who the girl is. At the same time, I was messaged by Akuezhor that he had found some information related to the slums.


    *************


    Always glad for some input in the arcs guys

 Ch. 18 Information

    ¡°Master, what are you doing?¡± Nylen said as she cocked her head sideways showing she was curious.


    ¡°I¡¯m preparing the destination point of the ¡®Portal¡¯. We are going to work after going there.¡± I replied and at the same time ¡®Portal¡¯ finally connected the two points which is here, the forest, and the kingdom. Portal is a very helpful spell when you want to go somewhere quickly, but you need to set up a point and record it in your spell so you may teleport to it. I had forgotten to set up the destination point for ¡®Portal¡¯ in the kingdom, so I was using one of my Eyeball Corpses to substitute for connecting a certain space in the kingdom and in this forest. Honestly, I didn¡¯t know how I came up with this idea.The first thing that came to my mind was the mental connection between me and my minions? We could have just simply walked back to the kingdom, but I don¡¯t want Akuezhor to wait too long.


    ¡°But Master, what are going to do there?¡± said Nylen with a confused tone


    ¡°Well, I¡¯m currently trying to help a couple of people who had fallen into a horrible state in life and investigate the causes of it.¡± I said while being nervous. The reason why I¡¯m not in a comfortable position right now is probably because Nylen is quite familiar with me and also very close to me right now. She¡¯s currently having her head in contact with my harm while holding my arm with her own two arms. As she looks at me, her two half-closed emerald eyes looked at me with an affectionate gaze.


    ¡°Hmmhmm. Then who is the fox on your shoulder?¡± Nylen inquired with her gaze switched to Nemaus who had dozed off after killing a good number of beastmen. After the massacre and the summoning I did, I moved all the beastmen corpses to one place and began cutting off the ears of them. Nylen also helped as she wanted to be close to me. I really can¡¯t help but think of her similar to that of a little sister character in a certain eroge. Whatever.


    ¡°This fox here is Nemaus. I met him while on a search for something and coincidentally met him. Ever since then I raised him.¡± saying that I patted Nemaus¡¯s small head as he slept. Nylen being interested or just wanted to touch him, reached out for him and attempted to pat his head; however, when Nylen¡¯s hand almost came in contact with Nemaus, he opened his eyes and growled at her. Nylen being surprised from the sudden change in behavior, immediately retreated her hand.


    ¡°Not friendly huh.¡± Nylen made a saddened look.


    ¡°Nemaus isn¡¯t particularly in a good mood right now. He had to deal with someone who irritated him a lot just a few moments ago. Well, tt was the alpha of the pack who was the leader of the beastmen who we cutted their ears just now.¡± Explaining to her so she could get the gist of it.


    ¡°Hhmmhm, well it doesn¡¯t matter anymore since it has been dealt with already, she said with a cheerful smile.¡± After that being said, I told her we gotta go into the ¡®Portal¡¯ before it vanishes. We then stepped through the dimensional-looking portal and reappeared the next second at a different place than the forest. The place was noisy from the shopping and the steps of the people walking through the area nearby. Being at the remote location where I took out my Eyeball Corpses to investigate the matter with the slums, I see another person was in front of us waiting patiently for us to get through the portal. After Nylan and I took out our last foot out of the portal, it disappeared like it was never there to begin with. Looking at Akuezhor who moved his body and made a bow, Nylen widened her eyes from being surprised.


    ¡°Welcome Back Master. How was your time spent on the quests you taken?¡± Akuezhor asked considerately. Even so, I can see that he doesn¡¯t seem to be holding good news about the slums which we are investigating. It could easily be told by looking at his clenched teeth even though his mouth his closed.


    ¡°I¡¯m back Akuezhor,¡± I replied and then gestured my arms towards Nylen who was still sitting on her huge beach ball, ¡°and this is Nylen, my servant that I just summoned a few moments prior before coming back here.¡± As I said this, Nylen waved to him with a smile on her face, showing that she is happy for having an addition to our group. Continuing, ¡°And Nylen, this is Akuezhor, my friend and servant who decided to tag along with me a couple of days ago.¡±


    ¡°It is a pleasure to meet you Nylen.¡± Akuezhor said with a slight nod.


    ¡°Same for me Akuezhor.¡± she said with sparkles in her eyes. I could see that she is happy about our circle of friends and companions? Getting back onto topic, after the introductions between my 2 servants, I asked Akuezhor for what he said about information about the cause with the slum people.


    ¡°Yes, I was able to find some people who seems to be related to the cause for the state of those people.¡± he said unhappily and continued, ¡°However, I was only capable of finding the ones who directly did it..¡±


    ¡®Huh? What did he meant by that?¡¯


    ¡°What do you mean Akuezhor?¡± I asked with a concerned expression. What did he mean my directly?


    Akuezhor scowled, most likely to himself for being incompetent, ¡°I meant that the culprits who I have found weren¡¯t exactly the mastermind. I mean to say is that they were most likely hired to do so. After capturing them, I attempt to gather information from them, but they didn¡¯t bulge. It may seem that there is a spell that bound them to not be capable of telling me even though they want to.¡±


    ¡°How did you attempt to get the information from them?¡± I inquired


    ¡°Yes, I just played a psychological game with them and I can see they gave up. However, they just can¡¯t seem to be able to tell me what I wanted.¡±


    ¡°Hoohh~.¡± I heard Nylen muttered to herself. I can see from the corner of my eyes that she is enjoying herself for some reason. I think that she is quite interested in our current operation. Nylen doesn¡¯t seem to mind people¡¯s suffering as we were having the conversion. I guess as a different species, you would have different morals. I was only able to obtain getting information about Nylen with ¡®Analyze¡¯ and the biography of her doesn¡¯t mention morals. What are the standards of a fiend¡¯s  morals? The only thing I could find was that she only desired to be with me just like before in the past.


    ¡°Is that so? Lead me to where those guys are. I just might be able to get the information we need from them.¡± I said. Akuezhor then walked while Nylen and I followed behind him as he lead the way. We went to dark alleyways in between the buildings, turning right then left then right¡­¡­ and we are now in front of a trapdoor. Akuezhor then released the sealing magic he used on the trapdoor and lifted it open. We then moved inside the trapdoor. With all of us having something similar to ¡®Night Vision¡¯ we traveled in a dark tunnel which leads to who knows where.


    We then arrived to a ladder that was leaning on a wall. Akuezhor then got onto the ladder and climbed it with us following behind him. He then lifted the lid which is above the ladder as he went up and get himself out of the tunnel. Why is there a tunnel here in the first place? A hideout? Why here of all places?


    That being said, everyone soon got out of the tunnel and what had appeared in front of us when we are out were several men tied up together. The arms were tied up while their mouths were gagged with a sphere object. However, there was one thing I wasn¡¯t able to stand, and that was the smell of human feces all over the place. Well, being tied together would be bad if you had to remove some waste out of your body. Worried about the toxic air and Nemaus being poisoned, I made a mana barrier around him. Nylen seems to be fine, but she is now wearing some kind of mask that looks like a magician mask or something. Where did she get the mask? As we show up in front of the captured people, they all looked at each one of us.


    When they looked at Akuezhor, they panicked. When they look at me, they gave me an envious expression. Nemaus, they ignored. As for Nylen, well, they widened their eyes and something started to pop out of their pants in a couple of seconds, which everyone noticed. In the end, everyone of them had their manhood bleed except for the women by Nylen when she threw some darts at them. Again,where did she even get those? Does she also have an inventory like me and Akuezhor too?


    That being said, while they were attempting to scream from the pain located on their crotch, I moved towards them while lifting my right hand up and grabbed the nearest person¡¯s head. Activating ¡®Soul Reading¡¯, I begin to read all that person¡¯s memories while removing some of the irrelevant parts such as the days where he or she shat their pants, or the memories where they were shoving a branch up their ass. It was quite disturbing by the way. After reading all the information they had, I modified their souls to obey and serve me. By doing so, I could obtain information immediately when they get contacted by their clients and the such. I did this again and again until I finished absorbing all the information they had.


    Akuezhor asked, ¡°What did you found out Master.¡±


    Nylen nodded in agreement, ¡°Ya Master, what did you get from them?¡±


    Turning to them when they inquired, I turned towards them and told them, ¡°These guys didn¡¯t have much information about their client. It seems someone sent them a mail which tells them to do things such as gathering information, spying, killing, stealing, deceiving, and the other likes for money. I guess they are some kind of group who does anything as long as it is for money. But being as the client sending a mail instead of going to them themselves, they are being quite cautious. In other words, we haven¡¯t gain any information about the culprit.¡±


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    Saying this made me frown in frustration. Despite being able to find something or someone associated with whatever that made a group of people lose their will to live, there wasn¡¯t any good leads that could help us find the problem. Being frustrated,all I could do was grit my teeth. Though I think the most affected was of course Akuezhor, as he was the most compassionate person out of the 4 of us. He was releasing killing intent while thinking of whatever he was thinking. His body started to release and radiate with energy as the veins in his head began popping out.


    ¡°Akuezhor, behave yourself in front of Master¡¯s presence, there will be a right time for you to release your emotions, however, right now isn¡¯t the time.¡± Nylen said as she scowled Akuezhor


    Noticing and remembering what he was doing he turns towards me and deeply bowed, ¡°I apologize for my unseeming behavior. Please forgive me! ¡° showing his regret.


    Raising my hand and gesturing him that it is ok, ¡°It¡¯s okay. I know very well how much this matters to you. Anyways, since we didn¡¯t find anything that is really relevant, all we could do is let my new minions gather the information for us. Hopefully, that client would hire the same group for his next motive and goal.¡±


    Nylen and Akuezhor bowed showing they understood.


    ¡°And also, it could be good to take a slight breather, no?¡± smiling brightly at Akuezhor which he replied with a grin. He seems to relax, if not slightly. After our conversation, I sent out the newly acquired minions who would act like how they normally are before as they pretend as if nothing happened to them. They soon are gone from sight and we decided to get back to the surface.


    Appearing and getting back to the surface from the dark tunnel, the sun was setting, showing that the day is about to end. I then asked my 3 companions if they were hungry. They all nodded so we tried to decide where should we eat. I am also eating too. I, who haven¡¯t eaten since the day I was transported here, was interested how to food here tastes like. Since Nylen is here along with Akuezhor, I am sure my safety is pretty much guaranteed. Ah, can¡¯t forget that Nemaus would probably protect me too. Probably. So I created myself a body with exactly the same look for which I made for my ¡®Illusion Mimicry¡¯ and successfully made the body. I then used ¡®Merge¡¯ spell so my lich body and my human body would as it said, Merge.


    Allow me to explain the effects of ¡®Merge¡¯. Simply put, it just combines several things together. Mainly used for professional jobs such as blacksmith, alchemy, accessory crafter, and much more. For me, I¡¯m an alchemist. Though since I never really had to use my skills as an alchemy in this world where there aren¡¯t many valuable materials if I didn¡¯t mention this. By the way, alchemy is just creating potions with various effects like turning yourself into a new race or heals your HP and MP to full. Anyways, I used ¡®Merge¡¯ to combine my lich and human body while gaining actual flesh which I eat now while retaining my abilities as a lich, though somewhat dulled by about half when I checked my stats. I had already experimented this a couple of times on other created bodies before doing it for real, which just now I really did merge my lich body and human body. Though even if I were to lose it, I could just make another one without any abilities being dulled or weakened. And even if it doesn¡¯t work, I have ¡®Diffusion¡¯ spell to separate things when anything goes wrong to separate the bodies. My skills capabilities really changed this much huh.


    In the end, we chose the most luxurious restaurant available in this kingdom. It is located quite close to the castle of the king. From the various information I have obtained through ¡®Soul Reading¡¯ on my victims, I knew that the inner part of the kingdom mostly have nobles occupying it. There are also slightly better shops such as the brothel. From what I heard, the girls there are quite pretty. But only nobles or wealthy merchants are allowed to buy them. I¡¯m sure from reading the memories of my victims, I heard that someone said, ¡°Hmmph, enjoying a woman¡¯s body which was already used by a commoner is distasteful. Only ones such as myself deserves it.¡±


    Honestly, I don¡¯t give a fuck. Not really something I should be bothered with anyways as long as I¡¯m not involved in it. Anyways, Nylen, Akuezhor, Nemaus, and I who was in my merged body were dressed up nicely while going to where the luxurious restaurant called Baylon Paradise is located. We dressed up because clothes is what makes a person after all. Actually, only Nylen and I had to dress up since Akuezhor¡¯s suit was what a nobleman would usually wear. My clothes which I bought from the clothing shop was already in tattered ever since Nemaus been frequently waking up on my shoulder while extending his claws into my clothes. So it was pretty much have holes in them.


    So before we went to eat, we bought some clothes to match our appearance while at the same time, look fabulous. Arriving at the front of Baylon Paradise, he pushed open the door and came inside while being greeted by a handsome male receptionist.


    ¡°Good Evening Sirs and Lady, please, come this way.¡± with a well practiced smile, he lead us to a vacant table and seat. Looking at the inside of this building, I see the room was decorated with nicely drawn paintings along with some art sculptures that are sitting on a couple of pedestals. The wallpaper was white which gives a sacred feeling of this place and whatnot.


    The other wealthy customers were having conversations with their party which gives off the image of a high society social party. Unlike the feeling when you go to a place to eat while talking about sex and how many people you slept with which is completely stupid. We soon arrived at our assigned table and sat down when the receptioner pulled out the chairs for us. Why are they even pulling the chairs for us anyway? We could do it ourselves. Is it just the culture or custom that they have?


    Being seated, he gave us the menus. Opening them, all I see were the dishes names with a drawing near it. If only if it was a camera taken picture, then I would have a better image of what the dishes would look like. Considering this is in the medieval times setting with magic included, then it was understandable. Looking over the meals, I choosed the meal which looks like white bread, with corn, and a slab of meat of a sort. Nylen and Akuezhor picked something similar to mine, but with differentiations such as having veggies like lettuce on the plate, or something else like eggs.


    A waiter came by and we told her our orders. She made a slight bow and went to the kitchen to relay our orders to the chef. Waiting for a while, I took out small pieces of dragon flesh to feed to Nemaus. He seemed uninterested in the food here so I gave him his usual amount of food. He is getting more pickier as the days past. Thinking about that, I noticed with the corner of my eyes, I could see that there was quite a few people were staring at our group. They consist of late-teen boys and girls. They seemed quite curious of our group.


    A dark skinned lean man wearing glasses with a nicely combed black hair, with a suit which makes him look like a dependable lawyer or businessman(Akuezhor), a white haired guy with purple-eyes with especially nice facial features and a slim build, and a purpled haired girl in her early-teens with exotic emerald eyes. My group seems to be quite a looker. Also not to forget Nemaus sleeping on my lap. He also brought some attention since his fur his quite a grey color.


    After several minutes, a waiter brought us our food. Smelling the food and actually having some appetite for a while now, I digged in. Nylen and Akuezhor also did so and I have to say, it was quite good. Better than what I expected it to be. I thought at first in the medieval times, the food wouldn¡¯t be good as the modern times in my world. Especially because of the sauce that were made and how it was cooked. The food here is quite good, but in my world the food was still better my leaps and bounds. Mostly the desserts that I love eating though.


    Finishing out last spoonful of food and cleaned up the plate nicely, we asked for our bill. For this meal, it was 1 gold and 5 silver. Man that was expensive considering it was only one meal. After paying for it, we left. As we were leaving, I could sense that a couple of people from the restaurant were quickly coming towards us. I can¡¯t sense much hostility from them, but the feeling I get from them wasn¡¯t something I liked. Nevertheless, I awaited them to come to us and see what are their intentions.


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    Late chapter. Wasn''t particularly in the mood to write for the few days. Did the quality drop?

 Ch. 19 Relic Weapon

    Sensing the annoyances who¡¯re closing on to us, I collected my thoughts for how shall this situation be dealt with. First let''s consider the pros. Knowing them who are pretty much rich sons or daughters from seeing them eating dinner in a luxurious restaurant, they should at very least know some organizations that have certain goals or objectives. Perhaps, there might be a hidden group that is possibly the perpetrator who affected and made the people living in the slums miserable. Just like the group I had enslaved, they were also an organization for the reason of doing anything for money. However, if I was to associate myself with others without considering how it shall affect me, I will end up with the short stick in my plans. Not only that, I wouldn''t know much for what these kids who lived in luxury all there life, have plans for me. With these thoughts flowing through my head. I''ve decided to pry into their objective for why have they followed us.


    Numbering 3 in total, they at last catched up to us. Huffing a little from the small exercise they had done, one of them shouted, " Oi, you three with the grey fox!"


    Turning around the moment they shouted, I first looked at who the 3 were. The most obvious thing i noticed when I looked at them was they were all males. They wore the same clothing, a black suit with some yellow trim on it. Having short black hair which is very common in this world, which makes colored hair such as white and purple rare, one of them asked us, "Tell me which household you 3 belong to.¡± When saying this, I could hear the curiosity within their voices. However, I can¡¯t help but have my suspicions for the reason they had came to us. It was very doubtful if they merely desired to know which household we belong to. Although in truth we don¡¯t belong to any household.


    Giving the 3 an odd look I spoke out, ¡°These 2 belongs to my Azzur household. Is there something you require from me?¡± Attempting to come up with a cover, I tried to create a nice name to use. However, nothing came to mind except for my last name. In the end, since it would¡¯ve been strange if I didn¡¯t answer to them immediately, for which they may have suspicions if I¡¯m whether or not a noble despite my looks that gives off that aura, I made my decision to use my last name. Even if it sounds unusual or weird, I believed I can fend of any questions they may ask of me or my group.


    Hearing my reply, the same one questioned, ¡°...Azzur? That is strange, I don¡¯t know of any house who has that name. Is it that you¡¯re from another country?¡±


    Smiling, I answered, ¡°Yes, I came from another country. However, I would like to keep where I came from to myself.¡±


    ¡°No, no, no. We always respect a person¡¯s privacy. Only,¡± he directed his eyes Nylen as he looked at her with unhidden lustful eyes while having a slight grin, ¡°you 3 have some sort of aura which attracted us.. We can¡¯t help but look at you 3.¡±


    With the obvious lust the late-teen boy displayed, I see his friends weren¡¯t that different as their eyes keep moving to the direction to Nylen. Jeez, I didn¡¯t expect someone to be so bold for going after Nylen. To be truthful, I knew Nylen would attract many gazes because of her unordinary purple hair and beautiful facial features. With long eyelashes and small pink lips, and with absolutely nothing on her body which could ever be considered not beautiful and attracting. Unless it is a person¡¯s specific fetishes, then Nylen¡¯s appearance is flawless.


    Responding to his praise, ¡°Thank You for the flattery, but you guys have yet introduced yourselfs to us.¡± Pointing out this out to change the topic.


    Taking a moment for the message to come in,¡°...My apologies. I¡¯m Norton Barton,¡± gesturing a hand to his right, ¡° the guy to my right is Carlos Bekorth, and my left is Elmore Sky.¡± He said it as though he expect us to know of them. Are they famous or something?


    ¡°I¡¯m Ridar Azzur. The other man next to me is Akuezhor and the lady here is Nylen. It is a pleasure to meet all of you.¡±


    ¡°We too feel the same way.¡± Politely finishing the introductions, they attempted a conversation with us, especially with Nylen. However, I told them that we had to go somewhere. Hearing this they questioned where and how may they help us. Unfortunately for them, I answered it was for personal matters and it wasn¡¯t for others to get involved with. The 3 men still insisted to come with us very persistently. Because of this, I ended up leading them to an alleyway and karate chopped them at their necks after making sure no one was looking. Akuezhor and Nylen made sure of it by guarding the entrances to here. The 3 men should wake up in a few minutes or an hour later since I hadn¡¯t hit that hard.


    Laying them on the floor, I then exit the alleyway after letting Akuezhor and Nylen know I¡¯ve finished dealing with the horny animals.


    The sun had finally set and the moon rises up into the midnight sky. The many stars as they do, shines brightly with all their might. The torches in the streets, lit up so many could be on their way to their residence. The sounds around the kingdom slowly diminished. Although there are many people drinking at a beer tavern at this current time, it had become mostly silent. Kids would usually be asleep by this time by the parents forcing them to. The image of a child, skinny and frail sleeping with their heads rested on their parents lap in the slums.


    These thoughts swirled around my head. Unable to think of anything else, I mentioned to my 2 servants that we are going to the slums area to see how the people there are doing. They both agreed. With that, we slowly walked there.


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    Arriving there, the first thing that was noticed was the difference in smell in this particular area and the other areas of the kingdom. It smelled of vomit, feces, urine, and maybe possibly the decaying corpses. Remembering the way to the building where the miserable people slept at. Worried, I went and followed the directions I had in my head. Before long, I arrived to my destination and immediately I could hear the weeping and moans of the miserable in there. Reaching outwards to the doorknob, and turned it while pushing my way in, Akuezhor had a nervous expression and Nylen had one of curiosity. Nemaus is the usual. Stepping inside, what caught my attention first was a woman of only bone and skin, was weeping with a child lying still on her bony lap. She was hugging the child with a bit of red in her eyes. Her frizzle hair showing signs of stress and agony. The child was lying still ,ever so still that you would only think he or she was sleeping peacefully.


    Wrong. The child was very still, however, his skin looks ashened like it hadn¡¯t have blood run through his body. The smell of a corpse I¡¯m familiar with is coming from the child. The same man from last time who tossed away a woman¡¯s corpse, stood up and went to the child who must have died hours ago from the color of his skin. Maybe he¡¯s sympathizing with the mother from losing her child who she raised with all strength. When he went over to her, he picked up the child. The mother desperately held onto her baby, however, her already weakened body wasn¡¯t enough to aid her.


    The man got a hold of the baby and went towards the door of this building while ignoring us, and again did the same with the dead woman. Tossing the dead body to another location so it may decay without bothering him, I started to get back to the gloomy building. Since there wasn¡¯t any nearby soil where you can bury a person here, you can only either burn the body or let it decay somewhere else.


    As he was about to leave off, I activated one of my divine ring¡¯s ability, ¡®Concealment¡¯. Slowly my body vanishes from sight. Stealthy getting up behind him, I made contact with him as my hands grabbed onto his head, ¡®Soul Reading¡¯ activated, I read through his memories. I wouldn¡¯t want to do this normally, but my desire to save them weighs more than the guilt I would feel towards them by this act.


    Memories passed into my mind as I slowly took out what I required from the flow and before long, I got a lead. After finishing ¡®Soul Reading¡¯ I let go of the man after using ¡®Soul Manipulation¡¯ and took out memories from the soul.


    The ¡°soul¡± is pretty much a container of memories even power can be measured by the soul. Depending on who the person is, their source of power may come from the soul, which allows you to use magic, but some depends on their physical body for power, and they are warriors.


    Letting go after I was done altering his memories, he slumped down on the ground. He wouldn¡¯t be able to remember anything after the moment he threw the child¡¯s dead body away. Setting him up right so he doesn¡¯t sleep on the dirty ground, I then returned to Akuezhor and Nylen. They noticed my actions just a few moments ago, however, Akuezhor seems to be totally fine with it. SInce he was the empathy kind of guy, I previously thought he would question me and all that. Unexpectedly, he was totally fine with it. At that moment, I realized that I didn¡¯t really know much about Akuezhor. The only thing I really know was he isn¡¯t an evil guy and he is lonely. Not knowing my companions for how they are like makes me feel awkward.


    From now on, I¡¯ll understand and know more about my companions, or fail trying.


    Nylen and Akuezhor listening, I told them what I¡¯ve gotten.


    ¡°He found a Relic level weapon?¡± Akuezhor frowned as he hears this and looked to the man sleeping.


    ¡°Only Relic level? That wouldn¡¯t really do much to me sooo it isn¡¯t really a threat.¡± Nylen yawned as she was bouncing on her huge beach ball. Akuezhor gives her ¡®Only Relic level? What the hell are you saying!?¡¯ look. But as he looked at me and then into the starry night sky, his expression of doubt vanishes as he most likely remembers the weapon, Aedriha. He must had have a feeling that weapon surpassed even of that of an Artifact or Relic level.


    ¡°Sorry, that wasn¡¯t what I meant. I meant that nothing really happened on a huge scale .¡± I said,


    Suddenly Nylen asks me with an exhausted tone. ¡°Master~, can we sleep now? I¡¯m so tired~. I want to sleep~¡± Saying this, she bounced towards me and hugs my chest.


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    Being surprised a jumped a back a bit. Looking down on her, I found out she is sleeping. Sighing, I carried her in princess style while giving a look to Akuezhor that we would talk about this tomorrow. He smiled wryly as we start to return to the inn.


    Allow me to explain what I got in detail. (Small Story)


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    First of all, the man to which I absorbed memories from, was a former low-ranked noble named Arand Kuisto. His family deals with wheat trade mostly and gets decent income for their family. If anything, the life that he had was a very normal life. He learned from tutors ever since he was 8-years-old and does his studies at a proficient level.His father and mother were also very normal. They never had to deal with high-society parties as they are low-ranked nobles who are just a little bit wealthier than the common people. His parents also got himself a fiance. Neither ugly nor beautiful, but nevertheless, he loved her for who she is.


    This very comfortable life though, took a sudden change the moment their family found a very powerful item when they were returning to their house. A black colored dagger with a grey hilt dagger was left on the ground irresponsibly. It has releasing a dangerous aura as if you touch it, you would die. They could feel the ominous aura leaking out from the dagger. Although they wanted to get away from it, they weren¡¯t able to as if the black dagger was attracting them and pulling them in. Telling them to use the ominous dagger. In the end, they took it as they quickly come home.


    They hired some of their private ¡®Appraisal magicians¡¯ to analyze the dagger and its power. Their private magicians in the end, failed to learn anything from it as their ability in ¡®Appraisal¡¯ wasn¡¯t very strong. Coming to this, the Kuiso family had a family meeting to discuss how they should deal with the black dagger. They wanted to sell it, but someone could kill them if he or she knew they had such a unusual dagger. Maybe they could sell if off cheap, but who can say if one person who wanted it, wouldn¡¯t threaten their family if they don¡¯t tell him or her who they sold it too or got it from.


    Because they weren¡¯t able to come up with a good conclusion to sell it, they decided to keep it for themselves and hid it. They will only take it out if their life were to be in danger. It was suppose to end this way. However, rumors spread out of nowhere about the Kuisto family having to obtained an extremely powerful weapon. It was actually one of their magic appraisers who were part of the group who were attempting to analyze the black dagger. Though the Kuisto family only knew later on.


    The higher-ranking nobles caught the attention of this and have been persistently and insistently asking their family for a visit. This caused them to be trapped in a corner. If they decline their visit, who knows what would happen to them. It wouldn¡¯t be surprising if they were assassinated by someone. However, if they did accept it, the nobles with greed would try to find it as they visit their house. And that person could pressure them to give the dagger away by threatening them. Even the fiance¡¯s family started to request them of the dagger. It was causing much stress within the family in just a few days.


    How they dealt with it was to run away from this kingdom and start anew somewhere else. That was supposed to be the plan. However, as they took all their needed items and objects of value and tried to flee from here through the gates at night, they were interrupted by several black cloaked men. Those cloaked men ambushed them and immediately killed the mother and father with a stab through their throat, heart, and head. Arand quickly grabbed the dagger for his confrontation with death.


    Before long after the assailants killed his parents, Arand sprinted towards them with the dagger in hand. As he was holding it with the desire to kill them, the dagger suddenly glowed with darkness. He felt as though his life was draining away, but he still continues on to avenge his beloved parents.


    His speed dramatically increased as his life was slowly being drained away. The assailants surprised by this, gets into formation as they knew the dagger wasn¡¯t ordinary. A skilled fighter will always triumph the unskilled fighter, but if the unskilled one was to hold a weapon that could kill with one scratch, then he would be dangerous.


    Unfortunately for the assailants, Arand¡¯s speed was to fast for any of them to react. The first assailant dies as Arand thrust the black dagger into the assailant¡¯s arm. Blood begins to flow out of the arm, but that wasn¡¯t the only thing. black curse marks appeared on his arm and starts moving towards his head. Before long, when it made contact with the assailant¡¯s head, a Black Skull appears on his head as it was laughing. Arand feels as if his life force was coming back as the Skull¡¯s laugh is giving him power. Soon after, the assailant that was wounded with the dagger, went limped onto the floor.


    His other comrades started to hesitate as they were wary of the dagger. With just a stab through the body, the assailant died with a skull¡¯s laughter. At this time, it was in the middle of the night. Fortunately for Arand, everyone was deeply asleep and even if they did hear it, they will soon doze off and not get out of their warm blankets.


    Arand turns his gaze from the dead body to the other enemies. The group tried to think of a method to kill Arand, but it would highly risk their lives as they remembered how their comrade died. In the end, they decided to go all in, which was a mistake on their part as they have forgotten that the black dagger was more powerful than they would have thought to be. Powered by Arand¡¯s desire to kill to avenge his family, the black dagger activates another ability as it gives information towards Arand¡¯s mind. Instinctively, he raised his arm and points the dagger towards the group. Suddenly, a black magic circle appeared underneath the cloaked men on the ground.


    They quickly acted and attempt to get out of the circle. However, black hands erupted out of the ground and immediately grabbed onto all of the men¡¯s foot. As it made contact with them, other hands erupted out of the magic circle and attach themselves onto the cloaked men. A burned smell starts to spread around the area. The cloaked men starts to melt from the area where the hands were. Before long, all the men became a puddle of blood.


    Arand took a deep breathe as he relaxed. Until a throbbing pain was felt all over his body. The pain was so tremendous he lost consciousness afterwards. Waking up in a daze, he finds that it was early morning right now. Though everyone was still asleep right now. Thoughts and memories surged out from him as he remembers what happened at night. His parents died, avenged them, and he lost consciousness.


    Checking himself out, he finds his dagger was still in his hand. He then went to the area where his parents died. His parents were laying on top of each other with ashen skin. His eyes became teary and hot tears soon came out. Weeping and weeping.


    Hoping for something to live for, he stealthily went towards his fiance¡¯s house. Not long passed as he arrived to her gates and behind those gates was an above average white mansion. Arand jumped over the gates and sneakily went towards his fiance¡¯s bedroom. Passing through bushes and stepping on the backyard¡¯s garden and climbing up the tree where it would allow him to see his fiance sleeping through the window, he finds himself in grief and agony. His very fiance was sleeping with 3 other men. They were heirs to the Barton family, Sky family, and Bekorth family and they had an ecstatic expression on their faces. He could see white fluids on her fiance as he was on the tree branch.


    Losing all his desires to live, he quickly ran away from the area where his former fiance lived. He ran wherever he is going. Thoughts keep appearing in his head. His mother giving him his birthday present when he finally reached the age of 16. His father drinking with him and shared his funny childhood stories. His fiancee he was to marry before long if they hadn¡¯t gotten into this kind of trouble. Hot tears kept coming out of Arand¡¯s eyes. He soon stopped running and finds himself in the slums. He finds himself looking around and see many people were sleeping everywhere. Outside of buildings, inside a trashcan, and much more. For some reason, he felt as if they were similar to him. Arand¡¯s intuition tells him that everyone here had lost something important to them and decided to live with others who they can connect with even though the environment isn¡¯t that great. However it doesn¡¯t change the fact they lost most of their reasons to live. Everyone was simply waiting for something to happen. Either death or something to live for when it appears in front of them. And for some reason, everyone who lost their will to live comes here. It was unusual, but no one gave it much attention since they no longer cared.


    Arand then spent months living here. Occasionally killing people who were searching for him and it seemed that his fiance died from an incurable illness which she caught a couple of months ago. However, it didn¡¯t affect him much. All he desires is to see how his life would end up.


    ---


    Ridar


    Well, that was basically what happened. I have found out the reason wasn¡¯t really a big scale at all. That place is a gathering place where people go to when they lost everything they lived for.


    Anyways, it seems that Arand had found a Relic Weapon just a couple of months ago. Knowing this, I unintendedly got a good comprehension of the current situation. It seems that even the King is trying to find Arand for the Relic Weapon.


    With these thoughts, Akuezhor, Nylen, Nemaus, and I went to sleep in the inn.


    ***


    Bit better mood.


    (Will include the info of the Relic Weapon next chapter)


    See you next time

 Ch. 20 The dungeon plan!

    As the sun rises up into the air, as if sensing it, I woke up from my small slumber.


    Normally an undead wouldn''t be able to sleep; however, since I have fused my human body and lich body, the fused body as a result was somewhat affected by my human one. I would now require sleep, but not very much as I''m also part undead. Maybe just around 30 minutes I guess.


    Which means I would sleep even later than Akuezhor and Nylen. Though normally I don¡¯t sleep at all, so it isn¡¯t really much of a change. I pretty much stay awake all the time since I was here.


    I turned my field of vision to my (servants/companions). They were sleeping on the bed that was provided by the inn.


    There were only 2 small beds which could only fit one person, so one of us had to sleep on the floor.


    When we had this trivial issue about who or not should sleep on the beds, I took out my own personal one which I had in Elareven.


    For what reason do I have a bed in my inventory?


    Simply, there is a feature in the game where you have your own personal house. I bought transportable house in Elareven and is currently in my inventory which actual costs a shit ton of money, game money of course, but I got it easily because of my cheating. Obviously I bought some furnitures such as drawers and beds, plants, and decorations for my transportable house, but I had yet to organize it. I was planning too, but was however transported here before I knew it.


    Houses aren¡¯t really that necessary in the game; however, it allows a player to practice their professional skills like alchemy, blacksmith, etc. This is because when you buy a tool set for your respective profession, it can only be used in your house where you can set it there. There are some who grew alchemy plants in their house by making a greenhouse section for the plants where they can harvest rare materials to use it for alchemy or maybe even sell them.


    Anyways, since I was the one awake first, I waited for them to wake up as I thought about what would be my future actions for the slum people and about Arand who has a relic weapon. The relic weapon actually has a lot of unique abilities when I checked it with ¡®Analyze¡¯.


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Lauden Drach


    Cursed Relic-Tier


    A black dagger which drains the wielder¡¯s life force as fuel in exchange for power.


    Passive Skills: Instant Death Chance, Life Drain


    Active Skills: Melting Decree, Quick Steps, Frenzy


    +500 Strength


    +547 Avoid


    +370 Dexterity</td></tr></tbody></table>


    Honestly, if ignoring the part where it drains the user¡¯s life force, this Relic-Tier weapon for me is considered one of the best weapons in that Relic-Tier level in Elareven. Especially the stats shown.


    However, it is a cursed weapon nonetheless.


    Cursed Weapons are normally stronger than that of a regular magic weapon.


    The cons of a cursed weapon though is even though you gain strong stats or abilities from the item, in exchange, you would probably lose HP and MP continuously if used in combat. For Lauden Drach which Arand currently wields, that weapon is pretty good if you have potions to recover health without relying on the Life Drain Passive Skill on the dagger.


    Despite that aspect of losing health, as long as the enemies aren¡¯t significantly powerful, this weapon may have already given any wielder in this world the ability to influence much of this world. Given the behavior of people for magic weapons even if it is High-Tier and Greater-Tier, it is pretty much a fact.


    Even with though it is cursed, it¡¯s still a powerful Relic Weapon. However,  I don¡¯t believe it is recommended to use Lauden Drach for a long period of time against strong opponents if Arand is using it.


    If you don¡¯t have any potions or skills to keep your health up, the cursed weapon would kill you by you just using it.


    Weaker enemies would be the best where you could have an easier time draining another person¡¯s health so you may use it to prolong the time of wielding the dagger. But Arand should have known about this already since he has been using Lauden Drach for a long time already.


    No doubt, if anyone knew of this its abilities, trouble would stir, which had already happened though.


    The king and the high ranked nobles such as Sky, Barton, Bekorth were still stubbornly searching for Arand. I just realized who were the 3 shitbags which I knocked unconscious the day before. Well, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem for me anyways.


    That being said about the Relic Weapon, I guess that would be considered normal and matter of course since it is hard to come across such a powerful magic weapon in this world which not even an adept appraiser can ¡®Analyze¡¯.


    I believed in this world, countries are compared by wealth, military strength, and by artifacts instead of technology which my world was focused on most of the time.


    If two countries are comparable for the first two, then it all comes down to the weapons and items they have in their disposal. Which meant magic weapons and artifacts are extremely valuable. This kinda reminds me of the incident in the auction where all those rich guys have gotten mad with reddish eyes as they looked upon a Greater-Tier weapon which I had taken.


    Coming back to the subject, for those reasons, it would be obvious why this kingdom is spending so much time in searching Andor. If they didn¡¯t, they have pretty wasted their opportunities for increasing their influence and power in the world and also making a huge reputation for themselves.


    As I thought about this Akuezhor seems to have woken up.


    His race is a dragon/demon, so with both racial traits within him, it could be said he is superior to both races. With the strength of both dragon and demon along with a demon¡¯s intelligence, it is obvious how strong he is in this world.


    Because of the racial traits, his need of sleep isn¡¯t very much. I believe it is around an hour everyday, but he can decide if he wants to sleep longer. Not like he could die anytime soon.


    "Good morning Master, how was your sleep?"


    " ...Well If anything, it was refreshing in fact. Being a living being even though it is just partly, definitely have some joy in itself."


    This is quite true especially since I missed the pleasure of eating and sleeping. Maybe even the feeling of exhaustion gives me joy when you knew you worked hard and decided to rest.  Maybe I just missed my important object in my crotch area.


    As an undead, I felt mostly nothing except for physical or magical pain. My former senses were deteriorating ever since in my lich body. Especially my sexual desire. Compared to my former world and this world, I didn¡¯t have as much desires to have sex. Of course it is the result of being undead.


    Being able to taste something last night in the luxurious restaurant brought me a small form of happiness and gratitude for being (alive).


    Akuezhor and I waited for the other 2 to wake up.


    After an hour, Nylen woke up and Nemaus was still napping.


    I continued with Nemaus since I believe it doesn¡¯t matter to him whether or not he knows what our group¡¯s objective today. Both ways he would be tagging along with me.


    I then told Akuezhor and Nylen everything about what I learned from reading several people''s memories through ¡®Soul Reading¡¯ which I have been doing for some time. Other sources of my information is my Eyeball Corpses which listens to other people¡¯s conversations and reporting it to me depending on the subject of that conversation.


    I then told them what is our objective today and how we are going to act.


    First, I once again explained to them about Andor''s circumstance and for some unknown reason, every poor person kept going to a specific area in the kingdom. Which is a bit unusual. Normally you wouldn¡¯t expect a group of poor people being isolated in a certain area. It would be expected if they were all separated all over this kingdom.


    I then explained the recent activities of the kingdom from what I found out from my Eyeball corpses. Many of the increase of poor people was related to the situation the human kingdom was facing.


    That is the war with the Demi-humans. Right now they are preparing for war with them and all 4 human kingdoms are signing a treaty and alliance to not attack each other until the Demi-Human war is over.


    This the cause and one of the major reasons why people are becoming more indebt and poorer. Taxes were being raised to hire people and soldiers to go to war. Conscriptions were also being used so even if many young males didn''t want to be enlisted, they were forced to anyways especially when the taxes were pretty high right now and if they didn¡¯t, they wouldn¡¯t be able to eat or feed their families. Of course there were several people preparing for riots because they don¡¯t want to fight and possibly die in a war, but with the help of certain magicians who uses investigation magic in the kingdom, the riots were suppressed.


    The adventures are also taking part in the war. Usually they wouldn¡¯t be involved in political related things, but since demi-humans are pretty much the enemy of the human race currently, it was decided that the adventurers would do their real job and protect humanity. It was issued that if the adventurers were to take part and protect humanity by warring with the demi-humans, those who participated would get a suitable compensation and land would be given to them.


    Though believing in promises made by government officials or other people with power is foolish.


    How would they be able to compensate anyway? Pretty sure in history, slaves were once promised they would gain freedom if they were to participate in the war and survived, but the leader who made that promise never honored it.


    Anyways, unfortunately for the human side, I killed Salaam the S rank adventure. I am sure that the humanity would have a bit more room to breathe especially when they have some artifacts that may be of use. To bad I killed him.


    ¡®....Wait¡­.did I forget to take those guys¡¯ stuff in the Auction Massacre? If assuming Salaam was there, then maybe he brought that artifact with him¡­.Maybe if I¡¯d known, I could have obtained some info from it. Also, if Salaam did die in there, shouldn¡¯t this kingdom already have that artifact which Salaam was using if they cleaned up that Auction House. Or maybe did it disintegrate from my ¡®Disintegrate¡¯ spell?¡¯


    I decided it was useless thinking about it.


    Right now, the humans are doing other preparations for the incoming war and are gathering huge amounts of mana and collecting it into a certain mana container.


    There was a rumor that the objective for collecting enormous amounts of  mana is so they may do a hero summoning where they would literally summon a person from another world, which they would use to help out in the war with the demi-humans.


    This was necessary for them because if humans were compared to all the sentient races, they would pretty much rank bottom in power. That is why a hero summoning was a necessity.  A Hero is said to be the strongest possible human to exist who also comes from another existing world out there. Their power and abilities could potentially match an extremely powerful dragon.


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    The reason they probably haven¡¯t died out is because of their huge population and interference of the Apostles and Church. It seems that one of the almighty gods were sending messages to their apostles to stop any wars if it threaten humanity¡¯s survival. Makes it seem like humans have special treatment, but elves were protected by a barrier made my one other almighty god, so I suspect the demi-humans might also have one. All assumptions though.


    ¡®Anyways, I honestly don''t know what a hero is capable of, but I think it should be interesting. Maybe I should get one of my Eyeball Corpses to observe him as he grows stronger? Maybe even play the bad guy as the Overlord of the Undead?¡¯ I kept these thoughts to myself though.


    Telling all of this to Akuezhor and Nylen, they nodded their heads showing they understood.


    There is some information which might not be necessary for our objective today, but it is always good to let your companions be aware of the situations around them.


    "Well then, let¡¯s start off with solving the slums predicament. Currently the taxes are pretty high right now, taking away even the poorest person¡¯s money and leaving him or her homeless. Even we should avoid buying things here since there has been a noticing able increase in prices and it''s not like we need to spend much anyways.¡±


    ¡® Though I heard the entitled nobles were excluded from the taxes. Such utter bullshit.¡¯


    Thinking of the possible solutions, I thought maybe I could threaten the King to lower down the taxes? I¡¯m sure the King would obey if I altered his soul with ¡®Soul Manipulation¡¯, but how would the poor obtain money? Should I steal some and give it to them? No, it won¡¯t really be a stable income in their lives if I do that and sooner or later, the money would run out.  From what I can see, they already gave up on life, so I¡¯m not sure what would they even use the money for.


    Taking some time to collect my thoughts, I continued


    ¡°If we are to solve this then...how about making a village out of them?¡±


    Akuezhor inquires, ¡°..What do you mean by making a village?¡±


    ¡°Could it be Master Ridar wants to make a settlement for those people?¡± Nylen asks


    ¡°Yes, allow me to explain it very briefly. To be honest, I don¡¯t think the people who are living in the slums would be able to live here in this place. Especially with such high taxes. So if they can¡¯t live here, why not just move them somewhere else?


    Creating a settlement for them would allow them to live there while making a new start in their lives. While at it, they won¡¯t get taxed from anyone since they won¡¯t be affiliated in any kingdom if they desired too. However, I don¡¯t know much about land management where people claim it is their land? Anyhow, I will just deal with those problems later. If someone comes to whatever area I chose to make a village and says that it is their land and whatnot, I would just alter their souls a bit and the problem should be solved for a while.


    Akuezhor as if catching up to what I had in mind, ¡°Yes, it could work, but if we are going with this, which place should it be located? In this continent, there are 4 kingdoms including this one and many villages and other locations that may be possible to inhabit. But how would those guys be able start of with in that area. Would they have to farm, or would be something akin to a trading town?.... Is there something in it which they could make a living with?¡±


    Hearing this, I realized what I was missing.


    ¡®Even if I planned to save them out of poverty, how would I do it? Starting with a village could be a start in itself, but what would they do from then on?¡¯


    Putting some thought into it, I end up giving up not long after.


    The first thought I came up with was actually farming which Akuezhor had said. But it is doubtful whether they would do such tiresome work. If I were to choose between farming food, eating it and selling it with living a poor man¡¯s life, I think I would go for the poor man¡¯s life. I think I would be too lazy to wait for crops to grow. But since I never once did farm, my perspective of it is limited


    Sighing, I scratched my head.


    Nylen then said innocently, ¡° Hey Master...why are you focusing so much on them?¡±


    ¡°....What do you mean by that Nylen?¡±


    She begins leaning on the bed, ¡° Well...ever since you had freed and summoned me, it always seem that you been focusing so much on those slums people.¡± She begins curling up her small body as she hugs her rainbow beach ball , ¡°And what exactly do you get from this? I don¡¯t see the point in helping or saving them. Is it really that important?¡±


    ¡°......¡±


    Akuezhor stays quiet, but I can feel that he didn¡¯t like what Nylen is saying. He is a nice guy after all. He empathizes with other people who are suffering pretty easily.


    Well, it is ultimately true even if I don¡¯t save them, it wouldn¡¯t affect me much. I guess I could even ignore this problem and just go on and do whatever stupid things to relieve my boredom. But emotionally, I wanted to help change them. Seeing such poverty caused me to think what I want to do something about it. Kids who aren¡¯t even in their teens were starving and dying. People who were awaiting death as their salvation. People sleeping in the streets where they would be vulnerable from robbery and abuse. Though maybe in whatever world or place you would be in, there would always be poverty somewhere.


    ¡°...Yes, what you are saying is actually correct. Whether or not we helped them wouldn¡¯t change the fact it wasn¡¯t necessary for us to do so. But¡­,¡± pausing for a moment, ¡°This is something I want to do personally. I hope you understand that I¡¯m doing this for self-satisfaction.¡±


    I don¡¯t plan to be a hero or savior, it would be hypocritical of me. But I at least want to save the unfortunate families who had suffered because of the circumstances they were in. Whether or not it is taxes or war, I believe they should have another chance in their life. That is something I believe.


    Maybe I was just influenced by all those ADs and propagandas about saving others and whatnot in my former world. I believe if I there weren¡¯t so many of them in my world, maybe I would¡¯ve thought differently.


    ¡®Ah wait, thinking about taxes, those fucking income taxes. The damn government taking shit load of my salary. Who the fuck created that tax anyways. All they are fucking doing is stealing my money away, goddammit.¡¯ I cursed at the unrelated topic in my mind.


    Went off topic there.


    Nylen hearing reply suddenly changes her mood, ¡°Oh! If it''s about Master¡¯s satisfaction, then I for sure will help you out. Count me in Master Ridar.¡± she smiles happily.


    ¡®Uh, okay?¡¯


    However, I can tell that she truly doesn¡¯t care whether or not unfortunate innocent people are dying from poverty and whatnot. Might just be her settings or something. Everyone have different values and ethics afterall.


    After that small and trivial disagreement, we pretty much discussed how should we make a settlement to create a community. We decided the location would be a bit farther than the outskirts of the nearby kingdoms. We chose an inhabitant place where people have yet to build or settle there, but suitable for living.


    It was in a place called Kebriel, just East of the Kingdom of Pledia.


    The Kingdom of Pledia is located in the North, so in other words, going East from here, Kebriel would be located just right there. Also, it is located near another Kingdom, the Kingdom of Hekyr. Well known for its magic weapon crafts(though only capable of making the Medium Tier weapon), they have the strongest military force in the human race. With each magic armor and magic weapon that may be cost a fortune to any peasant, they have more than 1 million soldiers with a set of magic A/W. I guess the reason why the human kingdoms have some confidence in the war with the Demi-Humans was because of Hekyr.


    The Kingdom of Hekyr were keeping their secret of manufacturing their goods which were considered treasues in other parts of the continent. But there were only little variety in the magic weapons and armors. If what I think is correct, the Kingdom of Hekyr must have gotten an artifact or magic item that could duplicate an item.


    I know one such magic item in Elareven, but it wasn¡¯t very useful. Though it could duplicate items, it could only duplicate of those in a certain Tier or lower. If someone chooses to sell those duplicated weapons, it would be useless since they don¡¯t sell as much in shops.


    Anyways, I was on my way to Kebriel with Nemaus on my shoulder and Nylen was tagging along. Akuezhor was currently tasked for persuading the slum people that they could have a chance to start their life over again. Which meant making a new life, not literally starting over their life. (s for slum)


    By the war, Kebriel is a land that has yet to be inhabited by humans or other races. Which makes it a good place to reside. I had a feeling that this place would soon be targeted by other human settlements, so I might as well do this early and claim this place as my land. I don¡¯t need permission from anyone anyways.


    Currently for us, we would be going to Kebriel and start making a dungeon which Akuezhor had wrote down the chant for me on a piece of paper. This most what we discussed in the inn. Akuezhor made that idea and I believe there were no problems. The plan was to create a dungeon where the types of monsters in their would be undead, which would be my minions by the way. The items that would be dropped would be items that I have obtained from the goblin dungeon, and also the items Akuezhor had in his storage.


    Of course, I won¡¯t be taking his stuff and putting it as a prize for defeating a floor in my dungeon, I would be using the duplicating magic item I was talking about. As before, I said that I didn¡¯t need such trash items in the game, but there were times where I forgot to throw them out of my inventory. Honestly, if you were to look into my inventory right now, all you could say is, ¡° Damn you got a lot of shit in your pack.¡±


    --


    We would be building a dungeon first instead of building houses for people to reside in because we don¡¯t know whether or not the people would want to start a new life or stay like how they are currently. If they do plan to move on and come to this area which Akuezhor may have instructed, they would be using the dungeon so that they may start trading and getting money.


    However, that was all Akuezhor told me. This is because I am not well talented in this business or whatever it is suppose to be. So I just told Akuezhor if he can manage this operation, and obviously he agreed.


    Either way I would be creating a dungeon both ways. Though it would be nice if Akuezhor is able to persuade them into leaving the kingdom where they are and make a start somewhere and it doesn¡¯t have to be here in Kebriel.


    I soon arrived to a flat green plain with a couple of trees around here.


    I guess this is where I would create my first dungeon then.


    With that, I chanted the chant.


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    I''m back!  Were you guys bored with this chapter since there wasn''t much action and just some descriptive stuff about the current circumstances with whatever? I guess that would be too bad huh. :(