ã€ŠCruel realityã€‹ Prologue. Plot wise it will appear later one. Dont blame me for making it short after all whats a prologue but the beginning of a story. A if you want to read it in google docs (im writing there and later posting here) just say it (be warned the google docs are to be edited). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prologue My whole body hurts. I Can''t muster the strength to emit any noise nor even open my eyes. The only thing i can do is suffer the excruciating pain and hear a discussion that''s occurring nearby. "Like i promised, heres the sample you asked for". A cold voice said. "How did you find him?" Responds a serious voice. "Easy, i just had to look for someone that had not a single person that would look for him". "And?" "And i made one". He says with a joyful tone. "Mhh you are in luck ,after i''m done with him i''m quite sure he won''t remember a single thing. about you...and about himself, but i cant promise anything, after all you know how complex the brain works. Heres the money i promised". If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Glad to help". Whit that the conversation ends. I can hear a pair of footsteps leaving the place and another one approaching me. "Brat, you look no more than 16... and you look like crap i wonder what you did to end up like a chunk of meat... well it doesn''t matter, now you are mine!". He says ending it with a subtle laugh. Immediately i feel a pain ranks above the previous one originating from my head and spreading from it to all my body. And it makes my consciousness fade.

Chapter 1

Chapter I If someone can tell me how to better place the table i would be so glad (incert south park meme here lol)

[/hr] Chapter 1 I wake up with the feeling of cold surface against my body and stagnant air. I open my eyes and find myself in a dirty and dimly lit room, but strangely, i can see my surroundings like in plain day. I incorporate and sit in what appears to be a marble table with carvings. How did i end up here? And... What is here? I begin to examine the room i''m in. It appears to be a storage like room with loads of putrid old linen fabric on the walls, some rusty pieces of metal leaning the floor, and even some full sets armor of course as rusty as the pieces of metal that i assume where once weapons ,anyway both of them are of no use now ,looking like if i even barely touched them it would crumble in a pile of rust. The floor seems to be made of some kind of rock different from the place i''m sitting in now and right across me there is a large glass panel. Taking a better look at it , i realize its a window and from the other side a being was knocking on it. It is as tall as the window, it has an old red ragged robe that covered its entire body and a white mask with a black pattern on it, the most terrifying thing about it was where one is supposed to see eyes, only black was present. When it notices that i''m seeing it, it points with a finger to a door made of rock at the far right, hidden by a pair of rusty armors. But i don''t go there right away because at the moment it pointed at the door i knew why it doesn''t have eyes. Its a freaking skeleton!. I start going to the door i move aside the armors and just as i imagined they crumble ... There goes the only thing that seems to have some defense in this room. I look behind once more desperately trying to find another way out but to no avail. Well i got two choices . Wait here until he leaves.. I don''t think he will because the fabric he is wearing seems to be as old as the ones in the room i''m currently in. Just how much time has been there? Maybe i''ll ask it if it doesn''t kill me right away. Open the door like the skeleton gestured and hope for the best. I choose the second one because i have no way to know when its leaving or if i can hold out enough .. I''m already starving and the cold i''m feeling in this room is not to be belittle. I take a deep breath as to calm my mind and open the door. As to baffle my mind i found the being kneeling in a knee and with an arm across its chest. "My, lord your humble servant rejoice for your awakening". He says with an overly manly voice. If could see my own face at this time i''m sure it would be a astonished one, because what are the chances that for a seemingly normal person like me to have a servant like that. I start pondering but i can''t come up with any possible event that could led to this even worse i can''t even remember myself!. i start to panic. Trying to focus only gives me massives headaches, but still, can''t remember my name, nor where i grew up, or my parents face¡ ughh when i think about parents i suddenly feel lonely thoughts and then hatred, and a little fear. Well anyways i seem to be suffering from amnesia maybe in a later date i can coerce the skeleton to tell me about myself or at least ask some leading questions. "Mmmh what do you mean by awakening?". I ask with intrigue while inspecting him for any sudden movement that would alert me of any hostile behaviour. It waits a second looking at my face and answers. "Its been a long time since your lordship was last awake, and... i stopped counting after 100 years so i''m sorry i can''t say how long its been". I was sleeping? for over a hundred years!! Panic struck me again. Seeing me in this state, the skeleton continues as to distract me and let me calm myself ,but his next words don''t seem to follow his wishes. "My lord your soul won''t hold out too long outside the room". My soul?, what does he mean? I was too scared about the situation i''m in that i didn''t check my own body. Now with just a single glance i fall to the floor in astonishment. My body it''s not a normal body its just... Composed of thick black fog that slowly but steadily is fading away . I start to scream when little by little my new discovered body fades into nothingness. . "Don''t worry my lord, there, your body is waiting". Says the being pointing with its bony finger to a place across the room. There a chair is erected made of the same material of the table i was previously laying on. And a body sitting on it.. With ragged black clothes as ancient as the skeleton. The body is no more than 6 years old with noble features that would mistake it from someone with royal bloodline and a tattoo matching the skeleton mask. If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Then a slight problem arises with the body that is far from normal, the size matches the face and it all looks human, so that wasn''t the problem. The problem is a huge scar with stitches attached to it on the torso just under the neck. Well if i could somehow hide it, it wouldn''t arouse any suspicion, except that apart from the face that has a healthy white color tone every other body part is grey colored. Did someone attach a head to a foreign body? my body?!. . Well i wont anything from complaining and most of all who am i going to complain to? The skull by the door or¡ And there i notice the other being¡ am i blind? or just too distracted by the one that seems to be my body?. How couldn''t i notice a being standing right next to the body?. Similar to the other one but with blue clothes ,a thinner body and with the same mask and hollow sockets of an eyeless skull. "Come" . she says with a feminine voice and gestures me to approach with her bony hand. As the fading starts to accelerate i''m convinced that if they wanted to hurt me i''ll already be dead or at least is what i think. "Just touch the markings and you will be able to enter it". She says after looking at my indecisive behavior. I lean forward and touch the bodys face markings hoping for the best. Then the markins start to emit a strange kind of light ,stronger as time passes and finally blinds me. When it subsides the scenery changes without me noticing how. Did they fool me?. I''m now in a place without walls or roof. All the place is white except for a grey road with no apparent ending. I approach the border of the road and make another step and immediately i start falling , with a quick inhuman reaction that even i was amazed of i grab the road. That now i can see is no thicker than one of my fingers and its magically floating in this white void. It baffles me but nevertheless i start walking in the road as i can''t see any other way out and i''m still hungry. Its been awhile since i started walking i don''t get tired and i''m started to get bored., nothing to see just kilometers and kilometers of homogenous road. And then in the horizon i see something different, hoping it to be an exit i sprint to it. The excitement did not last long as its just a crossroad, with a thick wood sign with rare symbols on it. Well at least it let me knows i was supposed to head here, imagine if i went the wrong way¡.. its better if i don''t, because i don''t think i would reach the place i started without dieing of starvation. The strange symbols are runes . And i don''t know why but i can easily read them.

The crossroad
The intelligent decides with logic, while the wise will grab the future and mold it at his will
	The devil path>

Mmhh i''d like to chose the wise ... But which path is the wise one? The gods path is white as the void but still i can differentiate it. While the devils one is pure black. Is this right? What if i belong to the good and make something wrong at the gods command?. On the contrary if i do something good at the devils command?. Am i simply white or black by belonging to a different faction or lets simply call it good or bad. Am i not good in the bad factions by the bads eyes?. Who determines the good or bad?. Isn''t the world a little different ? Isn''t the world just grey?. While i''m pondering ,the landscape changes. the white road is dyed in subtle black while the opposite does for the other one. And then a loud noise wakes me up from thinking ,the roads begin to crumble and fall to the void all three of them. In a while all thats left is where i''m standing on and even that disappears dropping me as well into the seemingly infinite white void.

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Chapter II Prepare for the UBBER MEGA LONG CHAPTER [th_096_K.gif] Sorry for the tables but i still havent learn to make them when i do ill edit this post. [th_0tive.gif] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 2 Its been awhile since i started falling, to the apparently never ending void. I don''t have a tool to measure time but in a strange way i know exactly to second precision how much time elapsed. Anyway two hours passed without something happening. I''m extremely bored. But after some time i see bellow me a white cube with the same markings i saw at the beings masks and apparently my body. Well¡ fuck, is it because i thought i was bored? Guess karma does exist. Or at least some entity that got mad at my train of thought . When i''m as close as i can get i close my eyes waiting for the excruciating pain i''ll have from falling from that high. But it never came. The only thing i feel is my bottom against a warm surface. I open my eyes and i''m on top of the platform. Nowhere to go i start to investigate it, to no avail. Nothing happens for a long time. I''m bored,... bored and extremely hungry. Why doesn''t this end?!. *Rumble* The markins start to shine just like the body but these ones don''t blind me. It just shines. And i swear to not think of that ever again, but please don''t kill me!!. A black fog just like my body starts to sip through the markings. After a considerable long time the sipping stops. And the fog starts merging above me. Then an ominous feeling can be felt from it as it starts speaking Waaaa don''t kill me!! Then a booming voice comes from the fog. "Haaaa don''t be afraid.. How could i ever kill myself?¡± Ehhh.. Well i''m not that surprised after all that happened. ¡°mmmm, how boring¡± He says¡ or i say to myself? i don''t know anymore. ¡°well don''t overthink it sooner or later you will know so lets end the formality and get us out of this place¡±. ¡°You ,the wise one, you who posses the most important piece of my soul, i bestow upon you the brightest and the darkest of futures, how you resolve them will forge you in the highest being ...or the lowest one". With the last word said it starts swirling forming a black tornado and envelops me, finally merging with me causing great pain that forces me to close my eyes as to try to endure it. A scenes appears in my mind, there a person being hit countless times with an iron rod. I realize its the body i was seeing before the white world, much older the stitches and scars are nowhere to be seen and all the body is the same color as the face. Now i can feel each hit. I don''t know when i transitioned from third person to first person and... i''m not glad it happened. But strangely what i can''t see is a hand holding the rod, the only thing i see are several faces laughing non stop with joy every time the rod hits me. I grind my teeth and shout at them so hard that my throat hurts, but the only thing that accomplishes is a momentary stop in the beatings and a myriad of laughs. They stop laughing and i close my eyes awaiting the hitting to continue, time goes by and the only thing i hear are blades being unsheathed. I open my eyes but this time the rod is nowhere to be seen, now the only thing i see are a bunch of swords, that slowly approaches me , and cut right through me, i don''t know why but the pain doesn''t make me pass out surely something they did to let me suffer all they can until i die for which my hatred for them reaches new heights. First they crush the bones of my arms ,after they make sure not one of them is healthy, they start making small skin wounds and peeling it off, adding salt to the arm, that makes me scream, and i black out. A hit in the left side of my torso wakes me up. The first thing i notice is a bunch of them stuffing their mouth with some raw meat. I start to weep as i notice those are my fingers and i''m impotent to stop them. They approach me and let me see in full detail how they eat them. i let out a defying scream and immediately regret it. The torture begins again. This time they hit a nerve and poke it and cut it like a madman. Damn!, they learned to stop before i pass out. And after a short break they cut the remaining flesh and toss my arms to a bunch beast noticing the reins , apparently those their mounts They hit them, apparently they are going to keep them as some sort of treasure and don''t want them to be eaten. I feel a scorching heat from a short distance a scream as they cauterize the stump. Can it be called stump? its just some centimeters long so¡ well it doesn''t really matter i dont think ill get out of this alive.. i hope this is a dream. The same process is followed for the legs minus the salt, they don''t want to waste time. After they finish they cauterizes the wounds. Little by little they start cutting my torso, making sure to keep my organs intact otherwise their enjoyment would come to an end. Finally when im about to die a single ball of darkish light goes out of my body and that is where my consciousness transfer to. Hahah finally!. They stop talking, eating and playing with the chunk of meat that was my body. Malicious eyes look at me in my new form, they desperately move and try to catch, but with this form i''m too fast for them and i flee the scene not before promising myself to take revenge from each one of them in my mind full of hatred. I travel at top speed where i unconsciously know i''ll be safe ,the pain from being in this form is too much for me , even more that when they tore my arms but lesser than when they poured salt. I close my eyes allowing my body to freely travel to my destination. When the pain subsides i open my eyes. Now i''m seeing the second room where i saw the two beings and allegedly my body. The beings are still there but the body is nowhere to be seen. Inspecting myself i realize that the body is now my own. Seeing me open my eyes the male skeleton approaches me. "My lord you succeed! .. But why are you so... angry and tears are falling from your face?". I touch my eyes and indeed they were falling, i still remember those feeling of hate and despair, i know it wasn''t me but i don''t wish that situation to anybody. I wipe the tears from my face and show them a thumb up to assure them everything''s is fine. "Its time to leave". Says the female one while patting my head with her hand. I look at her with a puzzled face? Why the hurry? if it appears that you''ve been here for at least more than some hundred years. As to respond to my puzzlement the female proceeds speaking. "They will shortly come and ...you don''t want to be here when they do, not before you regain your powers". My powers?. "The pieces of souls". Ahh... i remember .Thats why i saw that and why my body looks like this... But then who got my head?. But then who retrieved my head? I sure hope they killed those fuckers before getting the head. Well i''ll worry about that later. "Who''ll come?" Not answering and just pointing her hand at the window she urged me to look On the other side shadow appear to be moving, at first i think they are like my previous body, but then i saw their head, no eyes, no nose ,no ears, just a mouth with sharp protruding teeth. *Roar, creech. They start to emit savage noises like wild beasts. Scratching the floor growling at each other like real animals and then they notice me. They let out a furious roar and begin to attack the window making small fractures to the thick glass. "Ahhh what are those things?!!". "They are former comrades, that sadly couldn''t retain their sanity". Says the male skeleton with a sad and solemn voice. "Its time to leave, hurry!". The female urged my leading me to a door. On the other side of it a large corridor is in my view. As we start running through it i notice small movement through the passages we pass by. "There''s More of them?!!". "There are hundreds". They respond in unison. I start to panic. What if they catch up to us or one of the comes from the front. "Don''t worry we will protect you". They say after seeing my panicked expression. I feel a little relieved by their words but nonetheless i start running faster. Finally we reach a huge mossy door. With strange carvings all over it. "Open it master you are the only one that can!". Does that mean they stayed for me or because of me? But i don''t voice that question even i know its something that shouldn''t be said aloud. At least the male one seems to be truly concerned and loyal to me... I don''t know about the female one. I push the door and my tattoo starts to shine as well as the carvings on the door. It opens easily and as pass through it not before i look behind. What i see there horrorize me. Hundreds of teeth swarming in my direction. "Close it master!". "Close it fast!". I wake from my stupor and close the gate just as they are at a distance where they can chew me. From behind a wall that doesn''t resemble a gate at all, sounds of violent animals can be herds and i fall to the floor. *Grumble My stomach echoes in the mossy cave i''m currently at. "I''m sorry master theres no food in this place that i know of". I make an wry smile and make a gesture with my hand saying that they don''t need to worry about it. But right now i''m seeing the glowing moss with different eyes as well as their bones. Then something happens that lets me speechless A strange translucent light blue panel appear in front of me. "What''s this?!". "What''s what my lord?". I point at the panel.. But they just look at the wall behind it. They can''t see it¡ No matter where i move the panel follows and when i put it facing my companions and see them through it the strangest thing happens, they are skeletons no more and the mask is gone, replaced by beautiful faces. But when i lean upwards and see them from above the panel they are skeletons again and the mask appears again. I do this two or three time trying to figure it out.. The only thing that changes is the mask because the clothes are still the ragged ones i saw previously. ...perhaps its the mask?. ¡°By any chance¡ is that mask transforming how you look?¡±i say to them ¡°Ehh.. yes, you made them¡± answers the male one. ¡°can you hand it over one second?¡± ¡°ehh you have one too you know¡± says the female one. I do?. searching inside my clothes i found one similar to the others but this one has red markings instead of black ones and a small brand new black dagger with an intense crimson blade¡ How come the dagger isn''t rusted?. After inspecting them thoroughly i find nothing strange .. but i do notice that the panel grew a little longer.

Requirement fulfilled:
Be born in ancient tomb of the shadow emperor Reach an agreement with your previous self and absorb him Escape the tomb

Predestined class decided
Profession: Shadow Rarity : Legendary You can''t change profession in a normal way.
You have learned skill related to the nature of the profession. Shadow eye skill learned. Primal shadow skill learned. Primal Desire skill learned

Vecna mask
Rarity		Legendary artifact
Durability		Infinite
Vecna the principality of secrets bestowed this mask to his first son Lynx , after he betrayed his trust and exiled from his privileges he was hunted by his previous peers, seeing this his father took pity on him and granted powers to the mask.
Equip
Hides status, and faction. Allows to create Lynx masks. Allow voiceless communication to wearers of Lynx masks.

Black blood dagger (incomplete set)
Rarity		Artifact
Attack		1 - 1
Durability		50/50
Made as a set by an ancient blacksmith of a long forgotten empire, not much is known about this dagger or the way to make it.
Effects
+5 % Lifesteal. Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown 2
Requirement for unknown stats: Complete set
Requirement for unknown 2 stats: Unknown

I get what the mask does and i suspect what the skeletons have are Lynx mask. But¡ Profession?skills? and the dagger with these ¡°unknown¡±?. My mind is baffled i can''t understand a single thing! Am i just too unwise? Or is it a subject too difficult for anyone the first time they see it? Well i don''t know if i don''t try. Mmmhh...mhhh... I Can''t get it! What''s are these skills! Shadow eye?! Primal shadow?! And primal desire?!. Who came up with these names! Another panels pops up from thin air.. this one with much more information¡ i still dont get what triggers these panels.. but well theres nothing bad about hoarding information. [quart=Name,Age]Erobos,6[/quart][quart=Level,Profession]1,Shadow[/quart][quart=Alignment,Race]N/A,Unknown[/quart]

[quart=Healt,Healt regeneration]120/120,0.12 per second[/quart][quart=Mana,Mana regeneration]80/80,0.80 per second[/quart][quart=Stamina,Stamina regeneration]100/100,0.10 per second[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]5,12[/quart][quart=Endurance,Intelligence]7,4[/quart][quart=Wizdom,Luck]4,0[/quart][quart=Fire,Water]0,0[/quart][quart=Wind,Earth]0,0[/quart][quart=Nature,Lighting]0,0[/quart][quart=Holy,Darkness]-50%,150%[/quart][quart=Arcanum,Soul]0,-50%[/quart][quart=Baltoz,Lvl 1]Dragon Knight,On site[/quart][quart=Eos,Lvl 1]Dragon Priestess,On site[/quart]

Title		N/A
Fame		0
Attritubes
Attack		1-1
Deffense		0
Magic Resistance
Diplomacy
N/A
Vassals

Shadow eye		LvL 1 ( 0.50 %)
Born in darkness allows you to see in the night better than in the day. Nocturnal vision

Primal Shadow		Lvl 1 ( 0.00 % )
The source of all the shadows and your powers.

Primal desire		Lvl 1 (0.00 %)
Will you follow or reject?

Too overwhelming to process it in a glance i stood there several minutes reading everything three to five times trying to remember everything and more important understanding everything. Now what to do about this panel.. its pretty bothersome. And while i''m thinking about that, it fades away. Is it perhaps controlled by thoughts? I try to make it appear again, and fail miserably, try a second time and fail as well¡ the fifth time i get it to appear, apparently I just have to concentrate in what i want. After that i make it appear a few times and get the hang of it. The most important thing i found are ''vassals'', i take a peek at the skeletons. Is that why the male one keeps calling me lord?. Well now...What''s the best way to get information from them? Because even if they are something like my vassals i can''t blindly trust in them before i really get to know them. "Baltoz... Right?" "Yes my lord" My lord?.. Is kind of annoying to hear those words after every sentence i don''t know why but ... It just doesn''t feel quite right "First .. Can you please stop with the '' my lord ''thing.. I don''t like it" "O-ok.. As you please" he says hesitantly. " now that we left that aside...." i think what i want to know about them and what i already know about them. "Why Are you..." I make a brief pause" an undead". He lowers his head. "Because it was the only way to remain sane ... And not turn..into ...them" he says with a sad coarse voice. Only way?.... That means they couldn''t just leave?.. Because .. Of me?. I feel terrible, did i force them to stay there? .. And force their comrades to turn into.. Beasts?. Who exactly am i... What did i exactly do?Should i ask them. I only know my name and that strange professions.. How can being a shadow be a profession?. I decide to do that later, maybe while walking to the exit.. I hope its nearby.. I''m so hungry!! "Do you know the way out ? ". "Yes.. But i''m afraid is a long way until we reach the exit and theres no food whatsoever" So.. I''ll have to hold up until then. "How long?". "A day .. Or three?" He says awkwardly waiting for my reaction. I make an wry smile. I hope i can hold on or i''ll end up eating that shiny moss. We start walking through the cavern. After a while ,Baltoz and eos a little ahead of me start Whispering or at least trying because i can hear them. "I don''t remember him being like that, and it seems he doesn''t remember himself¡ or us". "Don''t be like that.. He just woke up.. Maybe like us his memory is a little messed up". "Talking about memory.. You do remember the way out right?.. Otherwise we will be stuck here for a long time.. And i dont think hes body is going to hold up". Eyeing behind them they see me face and stop talking afraid of me hearing them. Looks like they are as afraid of me as i''m afraid of them .. Maybe despite their looks they are nice people.. Or maybe i''m the weird looking one. We walk straight for a long time.. And my hunger just keeps increasing. And then a new panel pops out out of thin air with a gong song accompanying it. I''m afraid to look at the new panel.. Because the color is different much darker than the pristine light blue from before.. Meaning nothing good.. But i know this damn panel won''t disappear by itself, so i look.

Hunger has decreased significantly.
Endurance decreased by 15 %. Stamina will not regenerate. Resistance to elements decreased by 10 %.

Endurance and stamina?... That means i won''t be able to walk much longer.. Damn. I will the panel to disappear and it does. I keep walking but food is the only thing i can think about. We keep walking, passing by crossroad and alternative roads, guided by Baltoz that i hope really know his way around. I start counting my steps as to avoid thinking about food, but the damn messages keep popping up saying the same message over and over again with more and more decrease in my endurance and resistance. We stop on the way to rest a little at least i am, they seem to never get tires as they keep watch while i sleep. Eyeing the moss i grab a little trying to not let them see me eat it. It has a bitter taste but still the only thing that seems edible here.

You have been poisoned
Life decreases by 1 per sec for 1 minute. Resistance to poison by consumption +0.2%

I''m disappointed and even angry. How could the moss be poisonous?!... well at least i know someday i''ll be able to eat it without getting poisoned.. but i''m afraid of how many poisonous food i''ll have to eat before that happens. We keep walking and i hope no more panels pop up before we leave this place.. but i know thats not realistic, because we''ve been walking for just 1 day ,more precise 18 hours after we left the door. This time is not about hunger, still not good news

You have have catch a cold.
Endurance decreases 10%

Now With a running nose my steps feel heavier and heavier.. And food is the only thing i think about. *I''m hungry!.. Why.. Don''t You eat them.. Those bone may quench our hunger* I make a sudden stop And look around for the source of that voice.. But i see no one. "Are you alright?" Says eos with a preoccupied voice. Well at least she seems preoccupied i think while i increase my image of her in my mind. "I''m ok.. Don''t worry let''s keep walking". I don''t know exactly how much time has passed but this cavern seems endless. The voice keeps urging me to eat the bones but i learn to ignore it after all how much can some meatless bones feed me?. But even with the logic on my side i start to imagine those bone filled with meat and me on top of them.. Devouring them. 50 hours has passed after we left the door and after a light rest that doesn''t seem to recover my sStrengthtrength i can''t walk anymore thus im being carried by Baltoz. *They are so close, delicious bones to chew on, what does it matter if they are meatless, eat them and try, you''ll grow on the taste after all the marrow is delicious* It takes all my willpower to ignore the voice.

Will power stat has been created

Will power +1

Willpower
Allows you to resist mental attacks and decrease crafting skill stamina consumption by 0.2 % for each point, extraneous physical work by 0.2 % and extraneous mental work by 0.2 %. Can''t add points to this stat

After that its been nothing but walking and me awakening for moments and then returning to sleep losing time notion. Then some noise in front makes me startle .. Small shadows moving ahead with little paws small nose and whiskers, those were rats!. *i''m hungry!! Feed with me with meat* This time i can''t stop the voice is just keeps going *Lest devour them, kill them and eat them, don''t hesitate EAT THEM!!!!* A numbness invades my head stretching from my head to all my body. Then something clicks in my head I need to eat them... I want to eat them. Tear their flesh with my hands and eat them. There was nothing i could do. It was like something is controlling my body and i just jump from Baltoz back and run towards the rats. They tried to outrun me. But i''m just too fast they try to dodge my hands but the reflexes i showed in the white world are still there. I grab them and tear them . they screech in agony but that just makes me want to do it more.. and more. I stuff them in my mouth and chew them some of them dead after tearing them but after getting bored of their squeals i start to eat them alive. Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. I cant stop its just too delicious.

Requirement fulfilled:
Eat 10 being while still alive.

Carnivore sub skill learned!

Agility +1!

Carnivore (primal desire subskill)
In ancient times it was believed that eating your enemy would take part of their strength and make it yours, now its a belief no more. Eating a being will grant you stats proportional to the being worth. Eating unique being will grant you special rewards.

Primal desire lvl 2!

Requirement fulfilled!.
Kill an enemy.

Primal shadow skill description changed!
Now your shadow will grow, devouring the body of the being you''ve killed The shadow will grow less from beings previously devoured.
Beings devoured
Grey cavern rat. Black cavern rat. White cavern rat.

Requirement fulfilled!
6 days without eating.

Title obtained pain comes with hunger
Time it takes to decrease hunger +12%
Equip
Time it takes to decrease hunger +5%.

Requirement fulfilled!
4 days with cold

Title obtained pain comes from cold.
Resistance to cold +8%
Equip: Resistance to cold +2%

And like the urge came it goes away. I feel repulsive.... eating like an animal. I look behind me and see my vassals running in my direction from far away.. How much did i run?. "Looks like you are full of energy! Where did you keep so much energy? Because before it seemed like you were about to fall apart". Says eos with an amused voice. Smalls squeals can still be heard nearby but it seemed the rats are too afraid to approach in fear of being devoured. I don''t blame them. "Rejoice we are a few step away from the exit!" Says baltoz while patting my back. "Just to ask..? But how many days have we been walking?" Baltoz starts fidgeting and tries to avoid to questions but eos intercedes. "Forgive him, but with so much time in confinement theres things one forgets" "I see...". I don''t continue because she used the right words to make me feel guilty. We sit down and rest because now that i''m not hungry anymore my stamina can recover. So we wait till it reaches 100%.

Requirement fulfilled!.
Be in a dark lightless dungeon for 7 days.

Skill learned accustomed to darkness
Spending considerable time in darkness make you more comfortable with dark places. Accustomed to darkness. +5 % speed in dark places. +5% visibility in dark places.

Requirement fulfilled!.
Gain skill Accustomed to darkness. Have Profession : Shadow.

Skill Transformation Accustomed to darkness to Dark walker

Subskill learned Native camouflage

Dark walker.
Spending considerable time in your native environment further strengthens your familiarity with the darkness. +10% speed in any kind of shadow. +20% stats in any kind of shadow.

Native camouflage		Lvl 1(0.00%)
Current range		5
When not attacking and in a shadow you are invisible to all except party members. Native camouflage can be broken with a direct attack or area attack. Enemies in a certain range will see you . Range Decreases with level.

Well this is quite the upgrade. Happy and smiling like that i take a long nap comfy nap. Waking up i see my two partners still taking the guard. I guess they don''t tire and they don''t sleep, perhaps it has to do with the undead stat, besides how do you tell if a skeleton is asleep, they have no eyelids. Noticing me awake they urge me to continue and i gladly oblige perhaps soon we will get out and i''ll get a decent meal that doesn''t include rats altough they were quite tasty. No stop! they weren''t!. *mmmhh i disagree* ¡°You shut up¡± ¡°Mhh?¡± says Eos. ¡°hehe it wasn''t to you¡± i say while i scratching my head. ¡°m¡¯kay¡± she says but i feel she still doubts my sanity, hell even i doubt it. We keep walking for over an hour, and finally!.... We reach a dead end¡ ¡°Are you sure this is the way out?¡± i say to Baltoz. ¡°Certainly, there''s no other way out, this must be a fake wall i''m sure of it!¡± I shrug and approach to examine it, Its moist and¡ a little hairy. Hairy!! How can a 3 cubic meters wall be hairy!!?. I jump back, because right now that wall starts to move, and a giant rat head appears from one of the sides. Will it try to avenge its little rat partners that i ate? *Hoho another meal, i wonder if it tastes different that those common rats, i can''t wait to try* And like always that stupid voice talks, that now that i think about it must be the skill called primal desire¡so then it actually is my desire or a different entity thats talking. *I''m most certainly you* Can i trust it? well¡ i can always ignore it. *Thats not very nice* Sorry can''t talk to you anymore seems that the rat is kinda mad and like me is pretty hungry. The giant rat opens its mouth and tries to attack me but just in that moment a shadow appears in front of me. Its Baltoz, with a huge sword with gold runes engraved in it and guessing by the long and width its a bastard sword, where did he keep it?, and just like the dagger i own how is it not rusted like the things in the room i was sleeping?. Well anyways thank to being that big hes using it as a shield defending against the giant rat attacks. And while doing that i notice eos is behind me with a black wood staff with a white orb on top that extends from the floor to a little over her head, chanting something that i don''t quite understand and little by little runes with the same color as the orb start appearing and shining on the staff. Boom.* A huge white projectile erupts from the staff heading directly to one of the being eyes. It screeches and falls back a little. Eos starts chanting again but this time when she finishes instead of a huge ball a little thread appears and attaches itself to Baltoz. And for the first time i notice it. Above Baltoz head a red short bar attached to a white one double the reds one lenght that little by little is becoming reder. When the red bar reaches half the giant rat starts attacking again, tacking a chunk of the red bar down¡ is it perhaps healt?. *You sure are slow* I ignore the voice. What will happen if the bar becomes completly white¡ will he die?. *And again your mind continues to amaze me* Shut up! I won''t let him die!. *Then start fighting* I get ahold of the dagger and ran past Baltoz and pierce the rats fur. A bar above the rats head show that it has half the bar red, did i damage it or was it Eos?. *Of course it was her!* mhhh i see then i guess it was because she attacked a weak point. *yeah¡ why don''t you try the same? hit his other eye* Theres no way i can do that! his mouth is on the way and i''m sure as soon as i reach it ill be swallowed whole. *want me to help you?* If you have to take over my body then no. *Hey i took over because we were about to die, and now i''ll just point out his weak point and you''ll attack it* mmmhh ok. I think while checking Baltoz Health that now is a quarter red. Looking behind i see Eos still canalizing that white thread. *Theres a patch of fur missing at the top of its head, if you hit it right you may be able to kill it in few good hits* Will i be able to do it?, i already said i couldn''t hit his eye how could i ever wish to reach the top?. *Easy just ask Balt to help* Reluctantly i look at Baltoz and hopping for the best ask him. ¡°Balt can you keep him still for a minute?¡± Letting a short laugh he shakes his head up and down. ¡°i Knew you were going to ask me something crazy again, i''m relieved you are yourself again¡± With that he time his attack and let the rat one visibly fake weak point. But the rat doesn''t notice it and attack. And with his sword held high he slams the nussle continues the attacking trying to keeping it down, taking small almost unnoticeable chunks of its life. *If you want to save him better hurry up¡±. I heed his word or my words? well i do what he says and start running to a side of the head. Using the dagger and grabbing tufts of hair i reach the top in 10 seconds. Instantly i notice a mass of pus and damaged skin. So its sick ¡ i won''t feel bad for it, if he didn''t attack maybe but now you are going to get it. I start digging in the skin and reaching flesh with my dagger, the skull is nowhere to be seen.

Critical hit!

And the rat starts screeching, every time i dig my dagger in the skin he screeches louder and louder. It starts squirming trying to make me lose balance but with the dagger and Baltoz holding him down he fails.

Critical hit!

Finally its bar goes completely white and just stops moving.

Lvl up!

+200 fame

Primal shadow lvl 2!

Being added to devoured list. Matriarch Venular rat!

Requirement fulfilled!
Kill the last example of a race.

Title obtained

The extinguisher.
+2% attack damage against unique monsters.
Equip
+3% attack damage against unique monsters.

Primal desire LvL 3!

I remember one of my subskill and reluctantly get one chunk of meat and eat it.

Strength +3.

Trait earned!

Durable teeth
By eating the unique monster Matriarch Venular rat you obtained hard teeth capable of breaking bones with little difficulty.

And at my will all the windows disappear. The next thing i see makes my eyes pop out. There they are my two skeleton companions looking and fiddling with light blue windows of their own. ¡°Hey!, didn''t you tell me you couldn''t see the windows!¡± I ask them. They look between them and then at me. ¡°We didn''t realize you were talking about the status windows, and besides no one ever could look at yours¡± Then i''m special? *You wouldn''t know how much* Then tell me. *I dont think its the time, and don''t bother asking them their minds are so damaged i''m surprised they still retain some of their skills* I approach them and look at their status windows as they called them. They are lvl 3 just like me but with some differences. [quart=Name,Age]Balotz,N/A[/quart][quart=Level,Profession]3,Dragon Knight[/quart][quart=Alignment,Race]N/A,Valenar[/quart]

[quart=Healt,Healt regeneration]400/450,0.50 per second[/quart][quart=Mana,Mana regeneration]40/40,0.30 per second[/quart][quart=Stamina,Stamina regeneration]300/300,0.30 per second[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]10,3[/quart][quart=Endurance,Intelligence]13,3[/quart][quart=Wizdom,Luck]3,0[/quart][quart=Fire,Water]-30%,0[/quart][quart=Wind,Earth]0,0[/quart][quart=Nature,Lighting]0,0[/quart][quart=Holy,Darkness]-50%,+50%[/quart][quart=Arcanum,Soul]0,-100%[/quart]

Title		The extinguisher
Fame		200
Attritubes
Attack		5-5
Deffense		15
Magic Resistance
Diplomacy
N/A

[quart=Name,Age]Eos,N/A[/quart][quart=Level,Profession]3,Dragon Priestess[/quart][quart=Alignment,Race]N/A,Valenar[/quart]

[quart=Healt,Healt regeneration]100/100,0.10 per second[/quart][quart=Mana,Mana regeneration]300/450,3.00 per second[/quart][quart=Stamina,Stamina regeneration]75/75,0.02 per second[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]2,3[/quart][quart=Endurance,Intelligence]3,12[/quart][quart=Wizdom,Luck]12,0[/quart][quart=Fire,Water]10%,10%[/quart][quart=Wind,Earth]10%,10%[/quart][quart=Nature,Lighting]10%,10%[/quart][quart=Holy,Darkness]20%,70%[/quart][quart=Arcanum,Soul]50%,-50%[/quart]

Title		The extinguisher
Fame		200
Attritubes
Attack		10-10
Deffense		0
Magic Resistance
Diplomacy
N/A

And titillating on their windows below the attributes is a 10. ¡°What''s that?¡± ¡°Its the point for leveling up¡± says Eos. ¡°Look into yours i''m sure you have the same¡±. I focus and it appears. [quart=Name,Age]Erobos,10[/quart][quart=Level,Profession]3,Shadow[/quart][quart=Alignment,Race]N/A,Unknown[/quart]

[quart=Healt,Healt regeneration]135/135,0.13 per second[/quart][quart=Mana,Mana regeneration]80/80,0.80 per second[/quart][quart=Stamina,Stamina regeneration]115/115,0.15 per second[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]8,15[/quart][quart=Endurance,Intelligence]7,4[/quart][quart=Wizdom,Luck]4,0[/quart][quart=Fire,Water]0,0[/quart][quart=Wind,Earth]0,0[/quart][quart=Nature,Lighting]0,0[/quart][quart=Holy,Darkness]-50%,150%[/quart][quart=Arcanum,Soul]0,-50%[/quart][quart=Baltoz,Lvl 3]Dragon Knight,On site[/quart][quart=Eos,Lvl 3]Dragon Priestess,On site[/quart]

Title		The extinguisher
Fame		200
Attritubes
Willpower		1
Attack		1-1
Deffense		0
Magic Resistance
Diplomacy
N/A
Vassals

And same as them theres the 10 points. *Use them to improve your attributes* But what do i use them in? *Well how do you fight?* I guess i don''t know, the first time i fought is right now¡ that i can remember. *Actually the first time was with the rats you ate, and you displayed an inhuman reflex, but as monster become stronger i assure you your body won''t be able to follow your mind* Then should i dump it all in agility? *Of course not, if you dump it all there you''ll be insanely fast, but with one hit you''ll be killed, you''ll be able to hit 10 times before they hit you but to them it will feel like mosquito bite* Then?! *Save them* But won''t the monster kill me? *Not necessarily after all what are those two here for*. I see, then i should first find my fighting style and then spend them. But not answer come from him, or me? ughh i wish i knew. ¡°Ok im ready!¡± i say to them. ¡°The exit is just a few meters away, but first¡ shouldn''t you get the loot?¡± Loot? Ahh! There was a faint glint besides the huge rat and i see some coins and a pair of metal gauntlets. After counting them theres 50 copper coins with a mask engraved and the gauntlets that seem made of layers of metal.

Plate gauntlets
+30 armor. Not identified

I try to put them on, it feels like the most uncomfortable thing anyone could make and then a window pops us. Not compatible with your profession. I take them off and throw them at Baltoz as he is a knight i suspect he can wear them and indeed he could and thanked me for them. We walk for a few minutes and there''s another dead end. But this dead end is different. Not the hairy different but the theres a runes on the floor different. As i approach it to examine it, it starts to shine. ¡°This is the Black rune teleport point, let me check which are still active¡±.Says Eos. She approaches the other end of the circle thats encasing the rune and starts to chant. A window pop out in front of her. A list appears, mostly blacked out names and a single legible name that reads ¡°Seashore plains¡±. She mutters another irreconocible chant and the rune start shining a blue light. ¡°Ok lets go¡± She says while grabbing my hand and Baltoz hand. And suddenly we are under water, i look at my side and there they are. I point up and start swimming, almost reaching the surface but the lack of oxygen makes me pass out.

Chapter 1[/b] width=50%]Chapter 3

Chapter III Mhh i dont know about lenght of chapters

[/hr] Chapter III Mhh¡ something smells beautifully. I keep smelling it but now i also feel the smell of grass, earth and the fragrance particular to the ocean. I open my eyes and there i see my two masqued companions sitting on a large trunk and grilling meat on a decent sized campfire surrounded by trees and behind me a sandy beach and the ocean. But i can''t appreciate that image entirely because for a while the *ding sound been hearing for a while trying to make me read one of those annoying windows that now needs me to call it to appear . Well its better this way at least they won''t appear in a crucial time¡ but that sound sure is annoying. I will it and it appears.

Protection of the shadow god temple is no longer active.

Fragmented soul condition activated

Fragmented soul.
Parts of your soul were forcefully removed from your main soul. Mana regeneration will be greatly affected. Mana regeneration 1 per hour.

Rotten body condition activated

Rotten body.
Parts of your body will not hold out long enough. The smell of advanced decomposition will annoy NPC that stand near you. +10% difficulty to befriend NPC. The advanced decomposition makes your body unstable impeding you to perform at full capacity. -50% to physical related stats.

Requirement fulfilled!
Rotten body condition

Assimilation skill earned.

Assimilation lvl 1 (0.00%)
Skill learned from extreme need to preserve yourself. Allows you to take body parts from humanoid beings and integrates them in your being. Cost: 50 mana. With skill level part duration and potential increases. Time until body part rots : 4 days. Potential of body parts intact : 1%

Great just great¡ i managed to escape that place and now i find out it was helping me!. I try to check my status window but when i do i only see question marks. Well at least i learned this skill. I''ll have to look for¡. humanoid being?? what the fuck!? I have to kill an humanoid being and steal a part of its body!?. Uff!... let''s calm down. Making deep breaths i try to calm down, and after 10 minutes i succeed.

Calm mind skill earned!

Calm mind (passive)
Allows you to remain calm in dangerous and mind vexing situations allowing you to think clearly.

Mhhh what''s a npc?... i can''t seem to figure it out. Well like everything else i''m sure i''ll learn it in due time. Feeling quite hungry i stumble near the campfire. Reaching it i take out my dagger and cut a piece of the meat. ¡°So good¡± Its well done and quite delicious and i''m not saying that just because the last thing i ate are a couple of rats and its mother. ¡°I''m glad you liked it¡± Taking out another slice after finishing the previous one i notice i''m the only one eating. ¡°Don''t you need to eat¡± I ask them. They look at each other and then answer something that makes me quite sad and guilty. ¡°We can eat but because of our condition its imposible to taste anything, if i would try to describe the flavour it would be of dirt¡± Eos respond in a quite sad tone. And in this moment i swear i''m going to find a way to fix them and make them taste the most tasteful dishes they could ever try. But i''m not quite sure how to do it. Is there a way to revive a person? Well like always im sure ill find out sooner or later. ¡°So where are we¡± I ask them because last i know we ended up underneath water. ¡°Mhh i''m not really sure, it looks like everything changed from the last time we went outside¡ not that i remember much, but still for a teleport location to be underwater¡¡± finished saying Baltoz. ¡°I don''t know how much time takes for a terrain to be reformed in such a way but¡ i''m not very confident that less than 10000 passed¡ and in such a long time i''m sure none of the kingdom or empires that we know of still exist¡±.Said Eos. Wow 10000 years!! Thats why they have memory loss its not because of their condition its because such a long time went by, i''m sure if such a long time passed i won''t ever remember my name¡ well truth be told i didn''t. Next i see how Baltoz suddenly stands up. ¡°I hear a fight nearby¡± He says. ¡°Should we check it out?¡± He asks me. I''m filled so i don''t see a problem maybe theres someone who can tell us where we are. I nod and he starts leading the way. We enter a dense wood, filled with trees with thick roots protruding from the ground and several kinds of herbs that from a glance i can tell they have some effect i''m not quite willing to taste after the moss accident. After some time i start hearing the sound of fight¡ just how acute is his hearing, another mystery to solve. As we reach a clearing, we see several humanoids fighting. A one sided fight as i see it. In the winning side are some dog headed group of at least 10 individuals, Kobolds....How do i know that? Well it doesn''t matter. And on the losing side a tiny beefy bearded man with a metal shield and a one handed hammer, a dwarf¡ and im not trying to know why i know that too,anyways hes trying to defend two human like females with pointy ears, or as i seem to recognise as elfs. One of them dressed in brown leather with a ¡äbow ,raining arrow to her enemies but her attacks are pretty weak and her rate of fire is too slow. The other one dressed in a blue robe and like Eos is holding a piece of wood but hers is 20 centimeters long sadly like her partner the fire balls she continuously casts are weak. And unlike the giant rat i cant see anyones life not Baltoz, Eos or mine. Now here''s the question. Should i help the losing side or the dog headed one? Well the dog headed are winning so i should even the things out. Inspecting the dog headed group i see that like the other group they are in formation. There are four rows of them, the first one consisting of two people with wooden shields and a one handed sword. The second row ,of arches and short staff wielders launching proyectiles from them, and i assume they are mages or at least aprentices. And the third one was weird, because again there is two people with shield only these one are made of metal and are dressed in a plate armor with a clearly superior sword compared to the first row of Kobolds. Lastly in the fourth row theres a big sized Kobold in a robe and holding a staff the size of Eos but lower quality barking orders to his clearly subordinates. Now if we wish to have a chance we should start with that one

Wisdom +1

Hooo! So just of thinking of way to win i can get attribute points? I need to make sure to take advantage of that. I state my plan to my comrades and get into position behind the Kobold leader not before putting on my mask and applying some berries to our bodies so they don''t notice our smell¡ or more accurately mine.

Wisdom +1

Stealthily we approach the fourth row i attack the leader making fast pinpoint attacks with my dagger, first i aim for the neck and hit it at least 3 times resulting in huge spurt of blood¡ wasn''t this the weakest dagger? it only has 1-1 attack. Critical hit! Critical hit! With the fourth attack i behead him¡ how did i do that!?, beheading a being with a dagger and not slashing it but with stabs. Is it the weapon or me? And while i finish of the leader Baltoz and Eos already finished the third row. One of them is crushed by the huge sword, seems that the armor did not help, and the other one is roasted by a huge fireball that continues to scorch the second row killing two mages and two archers. When i look ahead the first row is already decimated and the second row is desitned to the same fate. Shortly after the battle ends.

Level up!

Agility +1!

Strenght +1!

Stamina +1!

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Leadership stat has been created!

Leadership +5

Leadership
Allows you to command subordinates with effectiveness and precision, +1% moral in your troops for each point. Every five points allows you to command a unit with much greater efficiency. Can''t add points to this stat.

Pinpoint attack created!

Pinpoint attack lvl 1 (0.00%)
Allows you to attack at enemies weak point more easily. Whit level increases attack to weak point. +20% attack to weak point. +30% attack for successive attacks on same weak point.

After finishing the battle i feel a little wobbly and the reek of smell coming from my body is awful. Must be that condition¡ I approach the leader body with the intention to fix it¡ but how does it work? should i tear an arm and put it in me? or like the windows just will it? Mhh lets try willing it and saying out loud. ¡°Assimilate¡±. A flash of light emits from ,the now that i see it over its head, Kobold leader and then all that remains is the head that i quickly grab and eat.

Intelligence +1!

Assimilate Lvl 2!

Assimilate status can now be accessed.

Current body parts
Kobold Leader (small group) Rotten Body condition subdued Duration 6 days 23 hours 55 minutes.

And do the same with the rest but making sure to eat just one of each of them after all when i eat one it tastes like honey¡ but the second one is just raw meat and i don''t like raw meat.

Endurance +1!

Agility +1!

Intelligence +1!

Assimilation lvl 4!

I check my body that now its the same as the last kobold i use my ability on and luckily no longer reeks of putrid meat. Leaving behind 5 heads that i can''t find a use for,i grab the loot that consist in 1 silver and 30 copper coins a sword of the third row, a short wand, a wood buckler and head to where Baltoz and Eos are talking with the three member of the looser group, I''m sorry to them but thats how i met them and if they don''t prove it otherwise that''s how they''ll stay in my mind¡ and of course i won''t say it to them... but still. ¡°Hello boy, i was talking here with your friend, are you familiar with the man called Alexei?¡± Alexei?... who the hell is Alexei?. Seeing my confused look he smugs and mutters Npc loud enough so that his two female companion hears it. ¡°NPC?¡± I ask him because i''m curious what that word mean for a while. ¡°Hehe don''t worry is not important¡±. Mhh.. i don''t think he will ever tell me, then i''ll just ask him for directions and be done with it. ¡°Could you please tell me if theres a village or something like that nearby?¡± He scratch his beard and then point behind him. ¡°That way approximately 5 hours if you run non stop¡± ....Who could run 5 hours non stop!? I look at him , with his short legs, huge shield and hammer¡ how the hell can he ran five hours straight? Well i''m sure he has his secrets. I stop looking at him and signal my companions to follow me. But out of nowhere the three block my way. ¡°You know you could get lost¡±One of the elf say to me. ¡°Would you like us to guide you?¡±Asks the other one. ¡°But¡ i don''t have anything to give you¡± I answer back. ¡°Not a problem , after all familiarity is the root of all quest¡±Says the Dwarf with a joyful laugh. I don''t know what he means but if they are willing to take me, and they don''t expect anything in return i''m fine with it, after all who can pass a free service. Just that when i''m about to accept their suggestion a mighty howl can be heard from behind us, where several kobold heads still lie. There a two and a half meters Kobold with a plate armor shining in gold is standing and seems pretty angry. The kobold now with a red fur and red bloodshot eyes starts charging at us. Seeing this Baltoz and the dwarf put up sword and buckler acting as the tanks of the group. They try to hold him so he doesn''t attack the rest of us. The kobold tries to bypass them and he succeeds. As a last resource and just before the twin daggers that the kobold is holding reaches Eos, Baltoz lets out a huge warcry and charges at the kobold, and for some strange reason the kobold changes target and attacks Baltoz. Showing incredible swordsmanship Baltoz deflects attack after attack. Because this time Eos doesn''t have to defend against ranged attacks she is using the white cord to heal Baltoz, and the two elfs are attacking him while the dwarf is deflecting the attacks Baltoz cant with his shield. But the attacks are so weak¡ so its up to me to kill him. I start running to the back of the kobold and start attacking a single point in the back of its knee. A profound bleeding occurs but he is too focused on Baltoz to notice it.

Critical Hit!

After 10 attacks in the same spot a blood pool forms at its feet and he can no longer stand so he falls in one knee letting me climb up to his head and stab his neck, and just like the kobold leader i behead him...Still it baffles me how i can behead a being with stabs in a single point.

Lvl up!

Pinpoint attack lvl 3!

Stamina +3!

I assimilate the body, and of course i get a weird look from the dwarf and elves but not as much as when i grab the head and start eating it.

Agility +3!

Fame +20

Canine Nose
By eating the unique monster Rosen Kobold Vanguard you obtained a canine smell sensitivity.

Beings added to the devoured list.
Kobold guardian recruit. Kobold archer recruit. Kobold mage recruit. Kobold guardian lieutenant. Kobold leader. Rosen Kobold Vanguard.

Finishing the head i will for the trait to activate and now i could clearly smell the foul smell of blood that lingers in this place. No longer standing it i deactivate it¡ seems i''ll have to get used to it. ¡°So shall we?¡±I ask the dwarf. ¡°Of course!¡±He says smiling wryly, seems my act made them uncomfortable. And like that we head in the direction the dwarf pointed before the last kobold battle.

Chapter 2[/b] width=50%]Chapter 4

Chapter IV After reading this chapter please comment if you want chapter of the lenghts of this and the one before or long (and of course longer writing time) like the 2. Also please tell me if the "windows" are bad and you want me to change them to be more pleasant to the eye (if the answer is yes please say how (im an ubber newby))

[/hr] Chapter 4 On the way i learned they are called Dore for the dwarf, Narwen for the elf archer and harndes for the elf mage. Also i learned that the world is conformed by nine kingdoms or at least the ¡°civilized world¡± as they called it and the rest is the wilderness and from time to time the nine kingdoms are attacked that works as a way to train the troops , avoid war between the kingdoms, because as the dwarf said ¡°got no time to fight between them if the enemies is at doorstep¡±, and also as dark as it sounds control overpopulation,. The nine kingdoms are : The kingdom of Envia ,governed by an Envian queen, the envian are a humanoid race, like in all kingdoms, that creates their cities in the sky using gravity magic, unfortunately that magic is long lost and all that remains are the large floating cities, and by the dwarf words the only way to access them is by using a lift that leaves the soil in an hourly interval or by being an envian and flying to it, of course not all envian can fly that high and they only can do that because the area where the cities are located has some sort of magic that prevent the wind to massacre their bodies. The Dhrom mountain kingdom, governed by the dwarf mightiest blacksmith, Dhrom is a strange kingdom consisting of a long mountain range, that trades its goods with other kingdoms in exchange for some kinds of food, mostly grains and vegetables, sometimes meat when they are too tired to eat the beings hidden in the heart of the earth. The Dhrotar desert tribe, governed by the orc chief, powerful warriors with no magic affinity, they build their homes in mountains just like the dwarves and are reigned by the most powerful warrior of the orc race. The Rhonar kingdom, governed by the alpha prime of the beast race, consist in large woods that are used as hunting grounds. And their cities are few and are populated by some of the weakest sub races of the beast race. The Fargo region, governed by the human king, with a lot of small farming villages and a large capital. The swamp kingdom, governed by the matriarch, this swamp kingdom is inhabited by lizard people, caiman people and more that the dwarf doesn''t seem to remember. The kingdom of Milivar, governed by an Elven queen, its the kingdom we are currently are, they adore nature and they capitol that we are currently headed to named Evalance is surrounded by a tree wall,made by nature magic that the elfs specialize in, and houses huge mansions above trees, of course only for the nobles, the commonwealth have houses at terrain level and three floors top. The kingdom of Viredar, governed by dark elfs, much like the elf kingdom they specialize in nature magic, and are separated just by the kingdom sub-racial origin, but by no way they are enemies in fact they are the kingdoms that best relations have with each other. And finally the Monster region, consisting in a large number of tribes of sentient humanoid beings that govern that region, the most powerful race that has erected a queen is the Dorth race descendant of the mighty dragons, superior to all in strength and magic but with much less population. Then theres the tenth kingdom that is not governed by a single king nor queen or chief,etc. This kingdom is smaller than the rest but is in the middle of all of them, this kingdom has representatives of each of the other kingdoms that governs in a senate kind of government and acts as intermediaries of the conflicts between kingdoms, and helps in strengthening the borders with the wilderness I know is a lot to remember he said to me, but strangely i could remember every word he spoke me. Anyway on the way to the elf capital, we don''t just talk, we also fight a lot of wolfs that attacks us and bunnies and foxes that we use to eat gaining 2 points in strength for the sub races of wolfs and 6 points in agility for the subraces of bunnies and foxes. Three hours go by and night falls, but we don''t stop, we keep running non stop, and thats fine by me because when the night fell i could feel stronger and that helped with the wolf pack that approaches us just before reaching the borderline of the woods in i can clearly see the tree wall of the capital in the distance. The pack consists in at least 10 grey wolfs, a pair of silver ones, one red which i haven''t seen till now ,and a big black wolf, at least two times bigger than the rest. The Leader of the pack as i see it howls, and the wolfs start the attack. Like the last time Baltoz yells a battle cry, that in the trek i learned is to gather aggro, that i also learned in a simplistic way said by the dwarf ¡°is to let the enemies focus on one ally¡±. Swiftly i approach the wolfs and with one stroke of my dagger i pierce the head of the nearest grey wolf, and strangely it pierces and end its life in a single hit. I''m just standing there dumbfounded as well as my three other companions but Baltoz and Eos are still fighting and ignoring the last action like if it was normal. ¡°Attack¡± I yell earning a point in leadership. I continue massacring the wolfs, looks like they are no match for me, i look at the dwarf and the elves that are going for a wolf and all combined can take care of them but with some difficulty and of course thanks to Eos who is focusing on healing. I ran past the rest of the grey and silver wolfs and go for the red one, simply like the rest a dagger to the head and its dead, all thats left is the black one, it stares at me, and i notice something strange. Its malnourished i can clearly see her ,now that i notice her gender, ribs and decayed muscles. I look behind and i see the rest in the same state. So thats why they attacked, they are about to die, and i guess all their puppies are in the same condition, they don''t care for their lives, but want to at least let their descendants live. But why didn''t they attacks the bunnies or foxes?, is the reason their decayed state, did they thought we were easier than those elusive bunnies and foxes?. We will never know, but i don''t plan to be wolf food so im sorry but i''ll end your life. With a quick stab i end the wolfs life and looking behind the rest did the same. I follow the ritual that i do with all the new beings i kill and take a bit of the red wolf and the black one.

Lvl up!

Stamina +1

Strenght +1

Strenght +3

Primal shadow Lvl 4!

Pack Prime Leader.
By eating Lorea, pack leader of the Vitar woods wolf pack you gain the ability to lead non humanoid beast. Pack capacity increases with leadership. Current maximum pack: 1 (1 per 5 points of leadership)

The fight ends and i feel bad for the poor wolfs and the puppies that will surely died without their pack.

Quest acquired!

Save the puppies!
After killing the wolf pack you feel remorse and want to save the puppies that you have condemned to die, why kill all the pack and now want to save the puppies? only you know. Quest difficulty : G Reward : none.

So¡ i acquired a quest that say i''m stupid? nonetheless its right so i''ll accept.

Quest accepted!

Now how to find them, maybe with my smell trait? no¡ i dont think i can trace them im still new to that trait. Just when i''m about to walk randomly in the woods to try to look for them Baltoz puts his hand on my shoulder and asks me ¡°What do we do with the puppie?¡± ¡ He already knows where they are¡ but he said puppie, so the rest died, quite sad if you ask me but what can a heartless person like me that killed the whole adult pack say. ¡°Can you guide me?¡± And he leads the way, not far from where we killed the pack i start to hear the sharp howls of a puppie. The howls are louder and louder with each step, and when it can''t be louder we see a large tree with a cave below. The howls are from there. And when we get down the sight is horrific. There a single puppie munching on the dead bodies of its relatives. Anyway i''ve seen worse, like that time with the shadows¡ a chill comes down from my spine each time i remember. I take out a piece of rabbit meat thats left from the time we ate and use is to make the little white wolf to approach. When it notice us and especially the smell of the rabbit it runs to it and starts munching on it.

Do you want to make the cannibal white female puppie part of your pack?

If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Wow it only took a single bunny and i already can make it part of my pack, mhh maybe its because of the circumstance and the fact that he is a puppy. It worries me a little the cannibal part but i accept.

Name the Cannibal white puppie.

mmhm i think i''m supposed to use something about her to name her. I could use cannibal but every time i call her name i would remember this scene and i don''t want that, then something white? like whitey, no thats awful, should i use a normal name then? Yes i''ll do that. Then a sudden whisper to my ear says ¡°Astraea¡±... I look around and my companions are waiting outside the den, so who told me that?, i shrug it off because i think astraea is ok and i''m sure the name i surely would have choosen was going to be awful¡ I don''t have a good naming sense. ¡°Astraea¡±

Cannibal white puppy name changed to Astraea. Can''t see stats due to lack of necessary skill.

Mhh¡ guess i''ll need to find that out. Of course before leaving the den i grab a chunk of meat from the puppies bodies and munch on it gaining 4 more points in strength from the different sub species, red, grey, silver and black. Maybe the white puppies is a rare subspecies because i don''t see others white puppies bodies. Now don''t judge me because the one that suggested this was the all knowing and secretive voice in my head¡ and i''m not crazy. The voice no longer spooks me but the window that appears after the eating sure do.

Familiarity with Astraea +50% Astraea is happy you share her tastes.(damn psycho...puppy eater) Astraea is more likely to follow orders now.

Title obtained Infant eater.
You didn''t kill them but neither buried them,what''s more you desecrated their little bodies by eating them. Damage to infant beast +10%
Equip Damage to infant beast +15% Animosity from Npc +20%

Holy fuck!¡ I take a peek at Astraea that right now is licking the blood of her dead relatives from my hands and looking me with her red eyes. A shiver runs down my spine but immediately i become enraged at the damn windows for the insults. And like always can''t make a dent in them, i can''t even touch them as my arms trespass them. I give up in the impossible task of taking my anger on the windows and exit the den with Astrea on toll.

Quest completed!

Save the puppies! Completed!
Sadly you only saved the most crazy puppy on the pack.

Lvl up!

Title obtained Deviant affinity
Earning familiarity with mental impaired beings or with deviant personality is easier.
Equip Mental impaired beings or with deviant personality will think of you as one of their own. Rest of population will look at you with pity.(i already am)

... What kind of fucked up title is this!!?... but maybe it''ll come handy sometimes in the far far far far future, far, until then i won''t ever equip it, and if those weren''t enough,far. By the way i already learned to ignore those comments appearing in the windows. On the way out i find all my companions looking at me and intermittently at Astrea, but they just look at astrea for few milliseconds and then the sight is back on me again. If only they knew what i did after they left alone there. The dwarf is smart and quickly takes the lead to the city and signal us to follow him. After a few minutes we are finally out of the tree lines and there is the city in all its splendor. As mighty as my description would be you''ll have to be here to really appreciate the sight. In the near distance i can see the tree wall with detailed engravings in all its length and further ahead a huge palace over the threes of course i can also see nobles mansions but in comparison with the palace they are crap. The city is huge ,more than fifty kilometers in length can be seen of wood wall, but i suspect larger because the line of trees from the woods are blocking my view. As i''m seeing this place for the first time the dwarf and elves stroll casually in the direction of a huge arc that acts as the how the dwarf called it south entrance. As we approach we see a long line of wagons and people carrying some sort of merchandise trying enter the city, and wolf, foxes, squirrels ,badgers and all kind of small creatures just loitering around and some of them being killed by other people, and by other people i mean elves,dark elves, dwarves, some humans, beast people some people that look like humanoid serpents, and more. And in the near distance i see a fight between two wolves ,one white and the other grey, at least half the size of the ones in the woods.with a surprisingly fast bite the white wolf attacks the grey wolf neck and kills it, but it doesn''t stop there after the white finish to kill the grey one, it starts to eat only leaving the head, it grabs it by the ear and starts approaching us. Of course the white wolf is Astrea, she nudges affectionately with the head on my knees and throws at me the grey wolf head, that i fastly munch down earning one of strenght.

Familiarity with Astrea +2%

I point at the rest of the different animals and she rapidly goes and brings me one of each for me to eat, she doesn''t even try to eat them, i guess i now know what she likes. By eating them i earn six agility points, so as a reward i go and kill another wolf and bring it to her and she munches happily while letting small whinings to me. Its a crazy puppy but i guess its my crazy puppy. While all this happens my five other companions look at me like i''m a crazy person, with eyes full of pity¡ what the hell i havent equiped the title why are they looking me like that!?. Anyways we head towards the arch that now that i''m closer i notice its a huge double door metal and black wood gate, that in my assumption could resist a siege.We cut line but none of the people waiting protest at us it seems strange to me but the three other seems unfaced. As we approach the start of the line i see two guards inspecting the goods the merchant are trying to enter to the city, some bring exotic food that i''ve never seen in my life¡ i don''t remember my life so i guess all food is exotic to me. Others brings weapons, swords, axes, hammers, morningstars, shields, armors, and other kinds of weapons and armors i can''t seem to recognise. When we reach the gate, the guard looks at us and the dwarf and elves show three identical bronze rings with a blue gem encrusted in them, and they are allowed to pass. When our turn comes the guard looks at us expecting some kind of action, but we don''t have rings so i show him my empty fingers. He opens his eyes wide and yells at me. ¡°You, how did you leave your born place without a ring!!?¡± All the people in the line look at us including the three already inside the city. ¡°Bernard!¡± yells the guard. A few minutes later a fat man in guard garment, brown eyes matching his hair comes and looks at the guard that yelled with no so pleasant eyes. ¡°What do you want Rod, i''m busy and can''t come every time you forget how to clean you buggers¡±. ¡°Shut up and look at these people hands¡± Says while signaling us to show them. After seeing them he lose the composure he showed moments before and starts to sweat. ¡°But there hasn''t been a case like this in years!, where they born in the wild!?¡±He says while taking out a marfil coloured silk handkerchief from one of his pockets and cleaning his temple.

Chapter 3[/b] width=50%]Chapter 5

Chapter V Typo erros accepted! Also tell me if its ok the pov from other charachter or you prefer for the Erobos Pov all the time. Ah also tell me if you want me to change the tables (form, arrangement colors, etc)

[/hr] Chapter 5 Bernard was a lower noble of the elven race, more specifically a Silver Elf, he always took things unpassionately , and never took a dream to follow, so he was placed in the position of the south gate tower, he was not always like this, once he had the dream of being an adventurer, but his heart illness crushed that dream, after knowing that any extraneous work could kill him he lost his will to live, he didn''t jog like he used to, he didn''t talk to his friends like he used to, the only friend he still kept in touch with was one of his childhood ones Rod, and one other but this one was more like imposition, not because he was interesting but because he was posted as a guard in the south tower and could share the story the adventurers shared with him and only at that time Bernard heart would make a jump and this would take him to the place he always wanted to be and that is outside this unchanging capital and to the wild, most precisely to conquer the wilderness that ,that hasn''t been achieved in a thousand years, at least the oldest record known says. Now he is 25 years old, his ranking never went past the white stone because he never left the city, ho how much he wanted to leave, how much he wanted for someone to reach its hands his way to cure him and take him in an adventure, but thats just another one of his delusions and one of his most cherished and recurrent dreams. Now when you are born in one of the ten kingdoms you are already in a capital, its because pregnant women are made to deliver in there for a very specific reason, the ring of ranking. The ring of ranking is bestowed to all childs directly be the queen or in recent cases the youngest princess. In the first day of being born the babies are taken to the palace and the ring is placed in their little hands. Its not custom made to fit the finger but magically enchanted to adjust, its made like that because every person only has one ring, and only one. And if you lose it a heavy punishment is given to you and a new ring is made for you, of course it costs a lot and if you don''t have enough money you are make to work for it. A week is waited with the baby and the mother in the capital if the baby does not show abnormal growth he is allowed to leave. If he does show the abnormality, or as the High priest of the temple of Liara professed years ago they will stay and will grow in a week to a full fledged adult, of course theres cases when abnormal growth shows but does not reach adulthood. They are equally powerful as the rest but instead of one month inside the capital, that the rest are made to stay as instructed by the goddess, they are made to stay six months. The stay of the parents that came with the baby is afforded by the palace and temple treasuries. So when two adults with strange beautiful faces and a child with noble features appeared on the south gate without rings, Bernard was stressed. Because it can be two possible cases. The first and more favorable to him, they lost them. Ho how much he wanted it to be this case. And the other one, they never got one, this case is special because every non-wilderness creature living in the different kingdom are accounted for, if by causality these three weren''t all hell would break loose, even if it wasn''t his job to begin with. That is this way because the ten year old princess is mad, well at least it was, was Bernard thought of her, other would think of her drowning in power at such a young age without any restriction imparted by the queen, and anyone trying to discipline her was lashed at least five times with the wip the damn princess always carry with her. If she is not mad, she at least is a future dominatrix, thats what Bernard think. He starts to sweat thinking in the unjust punishment he will receive, and the more time it takes to take them to the palace worse it will be. So after wiping his temple, he urged the trio to follow him not before asking Rod if they came alone. ¡°No, theres three people that came with them, but they did have a ring¡± He says while pointing at an empty space behind him. ¡°And ¡ where are they?¡± Rob doesnt answers, and just stays there dumbfounded, while the kid just mutters something about a loser group ditching them. ¡°Well its okay, you three follow me¡± He says to the parents and child, at least thats whats supposed to be.

[/hr] After the fat man make us enter the city i am marveled by the architecture of the houses and stores on the huge twenty meters wide road, or main road as i call it because theres smaller ones leading to side roads. They all have a flat rooftop where guards are guarding from above, some of them have white marble or wood pillars holding balconies, others just a normal facade with big glass windows with a wood frame. Of course thats the second floor, because in the first floor theres a lot of shops and stalls selling all kind of merchandise, from food to weapons armors herbs, some kind of beverages of different colors in a square bottle. There¡¯s also people selling more merchandise sitting on a blanket showing their products with a wood sign board that states what they are selling, of course no price, and as i see some people buying, the haggle. The main road in addition to normal merchandise shops also has bars and inns, the further you go better the quality and also the price. As we reach the main square we see a huge water fountain with a statue depicting a woman in a silk gown and a small plaque naming her Liara goddess of nature. Two roads at the sides leads to other gates, and at one corner of the main road behind the fountain theres a white marble temple that i assume worships her also on the other side i see stone building with a huge signboard that says ¡°Guild¡±. We don''t enter neither building nor change roads but keep going straight to the palace. I don''t know what expect of the palace but the man is sweating a lot. When he starts grabbing where his heart should be and breathing heavily i start to worry. ¡°Are you okay?¡± The man called Bernard as i remember stops and looks at me with loose eyes. Talking while trying to catch up his breath is pretty difficult for him but still he talks. ¡°I.. have.. a .. heart problem¡±

Quest received!

Bernard Heart problems
You found out Bernard has a heart disease, because of his unhealthy eating and care of his body he is going to die in two months, save him. Quest difficulty: E Time limit: 2 months Reward: Bernard¡¯s undying loyalty. Rod¡¯s friendship Unknown Failure: Bernard dies. Rod¡¯s hate

¡°Do you want me to help?¡± I ask him while pointing at his heart. He answer while looking quite sad. ¡°You know i''ve been expecting those words for my whole life, but coming from a little kid doesn''t give me much hope, anyways if you are willing to help me i won''t deny your willingness¡± Quest accepted! After Bernard catch ups his breath we continue towards the palace. As we come closer the palace, i notice the building at the sides no longer have first floor but huge threes acting as it, holding enormous mansions a top of them, they magnificently carved of marble with precious gems acting as the frame of windows, carvings of gold on the doors¡ such opulency, such waste of money. I don''t know if these so called nobles are corrupt and stealing from everyone, or they are just simply rich and wasting money like this. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. When we reach the palace some guards with much better equipment compared from the previous ones i see including Bernard, and some atop the mansions but not all of them, seems some nobles likes to spend on showing off. ¡°State your business¡± Says the guard with a lot of scars showing his experience in battle and preventing any offense with his penetrating glare. ¡°We come for¡ ring bestowal¡± says Bernard nervously. At those words the guard changes his face to one of joy. ¡°And where''s the baby?¡± he says much more friendly than before¡ or just friendly because last time wasn''t at all. He starts looking at us trying to catch sight of a baby but finding none his face goes back to a stern one. ¡°Where is the bay!¡± He says while glaring at Bernard which makes him tremble a little. ¡°Theres none, the bestowal is for these three¡± The eyes of both guard open wide and their jaws fall. Then the other guard that hasn''t been talking at all that now that i notice by her voice and figure is a female glares at us and specifically at Bernard. ¡°What did you do this time!¡± She yells at him. ¡°It wasn''t my fault Relia!¡± He answers back in the same tone at her, but after he takes a look at the other man who simply grins at the discussion. ¡°Don''t grin father, don''t you see how he is!¡± But he doesn''t answer and just starts laughing at the situation, which provokes a death glare from Relia. ¡°Ok let me go through, if she finds out we''ve been keeping a news like this from her¡± He just shudders. Both the guards give an understanding look at him and let us go through. I become marveled at the inside of the palace, it was the most beautiful architecture he has seen so far, all the place is constructed of white and black marvel contrasting each other perfectly with not one impurity, theres is hallways full of painting of different themes beautiful womens, regal mens, exotic landscapes, and much more. All this adorned with expensive looking fabrics in a light blue tone and in the center of each a rune, that to my all knowing eye i can read as ¡°The beacon that guides in the darkness¡±. Unwillingly i say that out loud, which provokes strange looks from guards and Bernard. ¡°You¡ how did you know the motto of this queendom?¡± And i just point to the rune. Which provokes a wide eye look from him and some of the guards, which they whisper strong enough for me to hear, ¡°Runic decrypter¡±. He urges me to follow him quickly. At the end of the hallway a double wood door with engravings is open by two guards standing besides it. And in the both sides i can balconies which can hold hundreds of people, and which are holding hundreds of people, by their attire nobles. A large blue carpet extends from the door we just went through to two thrones in front of me. They are both occupied, in one theres a beautiful adult woman, and in the other a child a little younger than me with a bored expression placing a ring in the hand of an elven baby. Theres a line with at least five woman in front of me each holding a baby except one holding two. Unhurriedly the line goes by, one by one, and when the womans leave with their babies they make a strange look when passing us. When finally theres just one woman ahead of me with one baby, i can see how the ceremony goes. First the woman kneels and when the princess as i see the crown in her head tilts it, the woman stands up and extends the arm of the baby letting the princess place the ring on right index finger, while a phrase is said. It sounds in another language but i can still understand it. ¡°I princess Edweneth bestow upon you the protection of the goddess Gaia, fulfill your destiny!¡± After the words a bright lights shines from the ring and subsides after being places in the finger. The mother kisses the princess ring and leaves not before giving the ritualistic look at me just like the rest of the mothers. As we come forward Bernard kneels and waits for the tilt of the princess head, but the princess does not tilt it because she is still waiting for the three of us to kneel. ¡°Hey, kneel!¡± Bernard whispers at us with pleading eyes. And when i kneel my two companions follow. Finally seeing us kneel the princess tilts her head, not before giving us a glare for making her wait. ¡°State your business¡±. She says calmly. ¡°Ehmm¡± follows up Bernard but he can''t decide on which words to say. The princess gives him another glare which makes Bernard shiver a little, and a little while after he calms down. ¡°I''m here princess, to bring forth these ringless people¡± At the word ringless all the noble start to whisper between each other. ¡°So be it, did they bring the fine?¡± ¡°Ehmm¡± Another death glare from the princess comes his way. ¡°I don''t think they ever had one¡± He says while closing his eyes in fear of retaliation. But no harm was done to him, just a lot of whispers from the nobles balconies. Annoyed by this the princess sends her death to them too and they immediately stop talking. ¡°Explain yourselves¡± She says directing her eyes at us. I make a not knowing what shes talking about face and she becomes enraged. ¡°Where were you born!¡± I give her another puzzled look, and by the look of the princess my two companions did the same. ¡°Bring the orb!¡± The queen at her side says to one of her guards. Shortly after the guard holding a transparent orb shows up, i feel relieved because the princess didn''t take her eyes of me giving the worst glare i could ever imagine. And just as the princess is going to talk a little whining sound can be heard from inside my ragged clothes where i''m holding Astraea from before we entered the palace because she fallen asleep. I let her out and the guards approach us with weapons unsheathed pointing them at Astraea. ¡°Hey, what do you think you are doing!¡± I shout at them while picking her up and holding her against my chest. ¡°Hand that monster slowly and no harm shall befall you¡± At those words i take out the red dagger. ¡°Ok let us stop here¡± says the queen thats been silent until now. ¡°Its clearly his pet so i''ll allow it, but don''t ever take your weapon out in this palace¡± She says to me in a gentle but threatening voice. I put back the dagger inside my ragged clothes and the guards stop pointing theirs at me. ¡°Ok now lets wrap this up¡± Says the queen. I put Astraea back in the ground and i order her to sit which she readily obeys. The guard thats holding the orb brings it to us and tells us to touch in turns. When Baltoz or Eos touched it nothing happens and when i do, still nothing. The whispers start again, and like before a glare from the princess makes them stop. ¡°Ok its been confirmed, you never had a ring, so Edweneth perform the ritual¡± The princess signals us to approach, and just before she is about to perform it i ask something that makes their jaws fall to the floor and the nobles whisper , it can''t no longer be called whisper more like yells. ¡°Why are you performing blessing in the name of Gaia if the temple in the square is from Liara¡±

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Chapter 4[/b] width=50%]Chapter 6

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[/hr] Chapter VI If someone knows how to fix the space before the tables please tell me.

[/hr] Chapter 6 The queen lose all her calmness and mannerism and call yelling at her guards to surround us. ¡°Who taught you!¡± She yells at me. Taught?... taught me what? *She means ancient elven* ¡ So¡ i''m supposed to think, that you''ll only going to appear in these kind of event? *Well yeah¡ i thought you already knew that* Well then? *Then what?* How do i know that language? *You don''t* ¡ You are not being helpful *I''m not supposed to be* Then what are you supposed to do? *Laugh at you* He says with a serious tone ¡ i''m not going to talk to you ever again. *Hehe just kidding, just tell her you know because of a skill and she''ll believe it, but no matter what you do never, ever show her the skill that does, because when you do¡* When i do it?. I say to him with anxiety who knows what''ll happen, will they kill me? or lock me up? what!!?? its vexin!! *Nothing will happen, so its ok to show her* Uff. You know you are annoying right? *I do hehe* ¡°It''s a skill¡± I tell her. The calmness come to her face like it never left and signals the guards to go back to their position. ¡°I''m sorry for such acts, but you must know that the ancient elven language is kept in secrecy and only a handful knows them, more precisely royalty and the heads of the nobility clans, even when i say know, it only amounts to dialect and can''t read or write in it¡± And then she adds ¡°Lets finish this ritual so you can you use the skill¡± With a voice devoid of her previous shown kindness.

Quest acquired!

Knowledge of Elven language
The Queen wants to know the skill you used to decipher the ancient Elven language Quest difficulty : G Reward : Unknown. Failure : Branded as Enemy of the elven kingdom Accepted automatically

The princess singal us to approach her with a face full of annoyance¡ she wants to hurts us, theres no doubt she does. She caress the whip at her hip while looking specifically at me. ¡®In due time¡¯ i can hear repeat again and again in a low almost imperceptible voice. Actually she is pretty with those long blond eyelashes, blue eyes and petite figure, only if she wasn''t such a psycho. She chants again what she did with the baby and gives Eos and Baltoz one ring each. Now its my turn and she looks at me wickedly, i hope those are just delusion and she won''t do anything to me. *I can picture that* Damn you made me picture that too!! She repeats the chant, grabs my hand forcefully and while pinching it and smiling she puts the ring on. Disappointed that i didn''t make any kind of action she hangs her head low¡ I guess if i did, that would be an excuse. A cold shiver runs down my spine as i imagine what would happen if i did. *Hehe and this time you didn''t need my help* Gaia blessing merge with current blessing.

Status Updated!

[quart=Name,Level]Erobos,5[/quart] [quart=Age,Alignment]12,Neutral[/quart] [quart=Main Profession,Race]Shadow,Unknown[/quart] [quart=Health,Health Regeneration]100%,3% per sec[/quart] [quart=Mana,Mana Regeneration]93%,1 per hour[/quart] [quart=Stamina,Stamina Regeneration]100%,2% per sec[/quart] [quart=Strenght,Agility]116,132[/quart] [quart=Dexterity,Endurance]100,108[/quart] [quart=Intelligence,Wizdom]106,106[/quart] [quart=Luck,Willpower]0,1[/quart] [quart=Holy,Darkness]-50%,Absorb[/quart] [quart=Soul,Other]-50%,1Q[/quart] [quart=Baltoz,Level]Dragon Knight,5[/quart] [quart=Eos,Level]Dragon Priestess,5[/quart] [quart=Astraea,Level]Unknown,Unknown[/quart]

Status
Title		The extinguisher
Fame		220
Attributes
Satiety		100%
Resistances
Diplomacy
N/A
Entourage
Vassals
Pack

Skill status updated!

Skills
Shadow eye		Level 4 (85.43%)
Primal shadow		Level 4 (23.05%
Primal desire		lvl 3 (0.00%
Carnivore		Passive
Dark walker		Passive
Native camouflage		Level 1 (0.00%)
Assimilation		Level 4 (33.33%)
Calm mind		Passive
Pinpoint attack		Level 3 (59.13 %)
Primordial dialect		Mastered
Slow grouth		-
Majestic Opresion		Level 1 (0.00%)

The first thing i notice is the huge and awesome boost in attributes. So thats why i could kill those kobolds easily. ¡°Now show me¡±Says the queen while i''m still looking at the stats. ¡°How?¡± ¡°Say show, the name of the skill, to all¡± The princess says as the obvious thing to do.Well sorry i didn''t know how!. I look at the different skills that i have and notice that some, i got to know thanks to the windows and other i i''ve never seen, and decided on the most apparent one without looking at the description. I look at the copper ring with a Grey gem embedded and then say ¡°Show, Primordial dialect, to all¡±

Primordial dialect
Long forgotten dialect, the mother of all languages and forms of communications. Allows to know all languages. Allows to read all languages. Allows to write all languages Cannot be taught.

All the commotion that happened when i deciphered the ancient elven dialect repeated but this is much, much greater. There were people that started debating with each other about if it was real or not, about if it could be used in a way to relearn ancient languages, to decipher long undecipherable text, and even some which were looked sternly by the princess about killing me off. Of course if i were going to be killed the princess would lose a valuable toy, so thats why she shut them up.

Quest completed!

Knowledge of Elven language Completed!
You showed the queen, and thanks to the princess interjection all the people in the throne chamber, your unique skill. Reward : Fame +100 Reputation with elven kingdom +20

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Current reputation with elven kingdom 20/100 Neutral.

The queen looks at me, like looking at a moving living treasure, and it makes me quite uncomfortable, not as much as the princess but still. ¡°Now i need you to say show state of blessing to all¡± Says the queen expecting something favorable to her but my answers makes her scowl which she rapidly hides by feigning to settle in the throne. ¡°Show state of blessing to all¡±

State of blessing
Rapid growth hampered Remain six months

¡°NOOOOO!¡± I look at the queen expecting to be her, but it was the princess. ¡°Mother do something!¡± She says. But the queen calms her down and says something about going to the temple and the princess settles down. ¡°You can leave, but you''ll have to stay in the city for six months as the Goddess commands it¡± We hurriedly leave, because the sooner i leave the sight of the maniatic princess the sooner i''ll stop having the weird delusion of her in a leather outfit doing imaginable thing to my body. *I didn''t know we swung that way* We don''t!!, I mean i dont! But remembering something i turn and ask the princess. ¡°You still haven''t told me why do you use Gaia blessing and not Liaras¡± She looks at me like the answer she need to give me is one of obviousness and says ¡°Because Gaia has the higher ranking¡±. Well that only told me the gods has rankings¡ but the more information the better.. at least is what i think. I look at the queen one last time before leaving, and she has the strangest look, clearly unbefitting of royalty, but this time she isn''t looking at me but at Baltoz and Eos. I can hear a ding sound and the ring grey gem lets out a bit of light.

Shadow eye lvl 5 (2.00%)

The window scared me but lets me know we are still at night. Like reading my mind the guards start closing the doors behind us as to not let any more people in. We reach the outside and the guards that were previously there have already changed shift which makes Bernard let out a breath of relief. ¡°Do you already know what you are going to do?¡± Says Bernard while looking at us. ¡°Any suggestions? He thinks while scratching his growing beard. ¡°First a place to stay, thats covered by the queendom, so something to do during the six months?... How about learning some combat profession and a manufacturer one?¡± ¡°Seems fine by me¡± *And not be found by the princess would be nice* He gives us directions to the inn and his house if we would like to chat a little and head to the queendom sponsored inn. Its located in the nobles district, can''t expect less from royalty. As we reach the place we notice its above trees like every other building in this district, now the problem is how to go up. We didn''t have to wait long for another family thats staying in the same building. Its a father a mother and a the little baby, its one of the woman that was in front of me in the line. We wait for them to enter, but they don''t do anything strange they just walk to the tree and they disintegrate. *How is that not strange!?* Well.. it wasn''t strange before that! I try to defend myself against¡ myself? Ugg gotta stop talking to that thing. I signal Eos and Baltoz to follow me and, i hesitate to touch the tree, but after that think of the precarious environment that they had to stay for eons because of me, and just plunge in to give them a warm bed. Because i closed my eyes i didn''t notice the transition but i''m already inside a huge room with a bar full of people drinking different kinds of beverages, tables with people talking and eating joyfully , a chimney and people warming up besides it, a door leading to a kitchen leaking aromatics fragrances of food, and big wooden stairs leading to other floors. I spot a free table and we sit, after a while a waitress shows up. ¡°What can i get you cutie pie?¡± A silver eyed blond elf waitress ask us. ¡°I don''t have much money¡± She laughs and point to my ring and a signboard hanging above the bar that says, grey gems eat for free. ¡°Oh, then bring me the most delicious thing theres in this place, one for each of us¡± I say wanting to retribute a little to my companions even if i don''t pay for it. ¡°I''ll bring it asap¡± And she walks away not before i notice a head protruding from my ragged clothes. Ah i almost forgot. ¡°Can you bring me a little of wolf meat for my pet!¡± I yell at her. She nods and continues towards the kitchen. After a while the waitress comes backs with a silver tray engraved in gold lining, and at top of it theres four plates, with every step she makes fragrance fills my nostrils. When she finally gets at our table she delicately places the dishes in front of us, oddly every dish is placed from the right side of the respective comensal. Three dishes are the same, a big steak thinly covered in aromatic herbs, that i suspect carries flavor as well, and the fourth dish is a big raw chunk of meat that''s placed on the floor and quickly devoured by you know who. I start to cut the tender meat and place it on my mouth. ¡°Its delicious¡± I exclaim which provokes a laugh from the rest of the people and a big smile from the waitress. I notice how my newly aquired satiety bar gets full. I eat a mouthful of meat after another and really appreciate that i came to this kingdom, but while i''m eating i notice Balt and Eos looking at the magnificent steak in front of each of them. And then it hit me, they can''t taste it, they told me and i forgot how heartless i can be! Seeing them like this makes me renew my resolve to somehow help them.

Willpower +1

Quest received!

Of ancient friends and their salvation
Difficulty : A By your almighty will you have resolved to help your friends in attaining some kind of a normal life. Reward Unknown. Failure: Condemn them to remain undead for eternity

I accept immediately and call the waitress to please take away the two three plates and apologies to her about the wasted food and later to my companions about my heartless action. They just shrug it off saying that something like that is nothing but i can note it was. After that we asked about the room and a big red skinned bald and muscular man with a black beard on the bar give us a key and told us ¡°302¡±. I ask the waitress and she tells me that the first digit means the floor and the rest is the room, meaning that the room is on the third floor second room. I thank her for the information and we head to our room. The first floor has ten rooms at the sides of a huge hallway, we keep going up and the second floor is the same, we finally reach the third room and head to a door made of wood finelly carved with trees and leaves and a number carved as well, it says 302, i place the key and turn it. The room is at least ten square meters¡wait a second this does not match!. I head again to the hallway ,and its the same as the others one ten rooms placed on it. I calculate and nope, it doesn''t match, if i go by our room sizes i can clearly see it takes at least 3 rooms.

Quest acquired!

The strange inn sizes
Difficulty : E Noticing how the room doesn''t match the building size the only way this could ever work is by magic, find out how. Reward: Information in specific magic. Failure: Not knowing will haunt your dreams. Automatically accepted.

Its too late maybe tomorrow i''ll go ask that nice waitress. Like that i head to the room. It has two beds one is a queen size and the other a regular one, a double glass door leading to a balcony and a black metal table with three chairs matching with it. I open the one of the door and head to the balcony. The view in the middle of the night is breathtaking. Small lights illuminate an otherwise dark filled city. The lights are smalls insect that illuminate whatever is near them, theres thousand of them, on the trees that make up the nobles district, illuminating the scenery in a vivid and beautiful green. I don''t know how much time passes but i''m captivated by the view, and so are my two friends. We can''t stop looking. But finally the sleepiness beats me i tell goodnight and drop on the single bed instantaneously passing out not before promising myself to watch it tomorrow again.

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Chapter 5[/b] width=50%]Chapter 7

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[/hr] Chapter VII Typos, errors and suggestions are well received

[/hr] Chapter 7 Nine, is the number of people with the power to rule, and of course the set of skills to prove it,at least in the nine kingdom area. One of them is queen Aglarel. When crowned queen she was bestowed with a single skill. Her bestowed skill is called aura sight a severely rare skill. It allows for one to discern between allies and enemies, for a ruler like her this skill was and is indispensable, with all the schemes and usurpations the nobles try to accomplish. When activated it allows one to see an aura in every person. That aura at the beginning is only blue for allies, red for enemies and the neutral parties has no aura whatsoever. Of course the skill can see much more when leveled up, but the condition to surpass the bottleneck has not been met for at least 6 generations, but its said that the last person who did could see the very souls of people. This skill did not change until five months ago, when the ¡®irregulars¡¯ first appeared. Unlike every other denizen of this world, when brought to the throne chamber they had a golden aura contrasting the neutral status the other babies had. Of course it wasn''t that much of a surprise because the goddess Liara prophesied the coming of them, the adventurers that would come to change everything. Actually it wasn''t her directly but the High priest that supposedly had a divine revelation, and happily announced it to the world, the last time something like this happened was when the red plague desolated the land. All in all it wasn''t much of a change, just people with a different aura, at least for now because she was slightly afraid if she couldn''t label them as enemies or allies. That was until today, when she met two parents and their ¡®irregular¡¯ son, none of them with a ring. It wasn''t something strange for nobles to lose it on purpose and waste the court time, but these people wear ragged pieces of cloth, it would seem strange if they could afford a new ring. One of her guards who escorted them there said that they never had a ring. Thats strange, but there were previous cases, not in her mandate, but there were people that lived too far away and for a reason or another the wanted their child to be blessed in the elven kingdom. But just when they were about to bless the boy, he said something that clearly excited the queen, it was the knowledge of the ancient elven language!. The common populace would think that is not such a great feat, but she who knew there were spells, and ruins only accessible to the one who can read that language, it was a great opportunity to gain such an accomplished minion, and maybe a playmate for her daughter, or maybe plaything, unless she killed him he would serve his purpose. All kind of plans formed up in her head, thinking of the power she would gain, but when she asked for the blessing status, she became devastated. By order of Gaia the ¡®irregulars¡¯ must not be forced. They can be given the choice but being forced to do something they did not want to would come at a greater price later on. The goddess did not threaten but simply warn. Yes, she was devastated, but not as much as her daughter. She tried to calm her down and after promising she would do everything she can, could the princess finally calm down. She tried to use her skill to see if there was any chance for the strange party to be enemies or allies, at least to be neutral as they can be influenced. But she did not see any color and whenever she pointed her sight with the skill activated only a black blur could be seen. That let her dumbfounded, because it was the first time something like that happened, and the first time an irregular showed something different that the three plus one colours she was accustomed to. After they left she ordered for the ending of the court and she left in a hurry with her royal guard closely followed by her daughter. Her direction was the temple. When she arrived she went by the guards standing by the entrance, who started to rise their weapons but when seeing who she was they let her and her retinue trough. She ignored the questioning look of the workers and resident that still were there in this time of the night and went directly to the high priest chambers. After slamming open the door and be presented by opulence only comparable to the nobles manors she was staring at a man¡¯s back sitting on a wooden tabouter writhing with a quill in a parchment. Noticing that a persons had entered the room he slowly turned around and stared at the enraged face of the queen. ¡°What is the honor?¡± he asked nonchalantly. ¡°Can your goddess tell me, why an irregular had a black aura!?¡± She asked annoyed by the mannerisms of the man. He looked at her for a while trying to see if she was telling the true and then grabbed a staff leaning on a wall besides him. He stood up and started chanting some words which provoked a white light to gather at the tip of said staff, and spread in all its contour, making small carvings on its profile to stand out. A little more than half an hour passes and the glowing stops. The man profusely sweating and hyperventilating, wipe his forehead and sits trying to regain some air. ¡°And?!¡± Demands the queen. He looks at her eyes but doesn''t answer right away, after some more time goes by he who regained his composure speaks again. ¡°The goddess has told me that a child and two adults residing in this city have a way to hinder your skill usage¡± and after a brief pause he adds ¡°Is the answer to your liking?¡±. How could this be?, if there really was a way, it would mean that her skill to discern enemies would be useless, and if her skill was useless she could be assassinated!. That must not happen, she swear to herself she would do something, even if it means to go against Gaia.

[/hr] A shimmering light that comes from the curtain just in my eyes wakes me up. I groan a little because the bed i''m lying on is soft and extremely comfortable, at least enough to want to sleep at least another five hours. As the the lights multiply i give up and open my eyes. The first thing i notice are my friends sitting on the chairs by the table. Baltoz is maintaining his giant sword with a white stone, which seems to sharpen the edges while Eos is leaning on the table seemingly extremely bored and as she see me getting out of the bed, she looks happy to leave this place, i don''t know how i know she is happy as she is wearing a mask, but i still know. *You forgot that if she takes it off she doesn''t have any meat* ¡ I take a look at my surroundings looking for my ragged cloth and put it on me, and see the king size bed hasn''t been used. Guess that¡¯s the reason for Eos boredom. ¡°Shall we go down?¡± I ask them. ¡°Yes!¡± answers Eos without losing time, opening the door and going away. Baltoz and me follow suit. As we reach reach the restaurant bar area we see Eos already occupying a table and calling us to sit with her. I wait for a while for the waitress to come, but apparently she doesn''t like to work and is just sitting on the bar talking with the bartender. I call to her and notice is not the servicial lady from last night but a grumpy old pudgy woman with grey hair, she doesn''t look dwarven so i assume its just a fat human, and by her grumpy demeanor i''ll hold the question about the room size for the lady in the night shift. I ask for some breakfast, and this time i remember to just ask for me, she doesn''t ask why i don''t order three, and i don''t really think she wants to know. Later she brings a pink beverage in a cup, and some bread with butter and honey. She is grumpy but the kitchen certainly does not reflect her mood. After eating breakfast i ask them if theres something they''ll like to do, six months in this city certainly would allow us a lot of free time¡ and i don''t really have anything to do after the six months so i guess i''ll find a goal. Baltoz talks about the only hobby he had in the darkness was to maintain the weapons, and Eos is eager to look for new clothes but reminds me to not dispose of the current cloth, seems they hold sentimental value or at least is what i inferred when she talked about them with such care. Mhh then now i know what they want to do, at least in the short term, but what about me?. Top priority is Bernard, i don''t know why i want to save him but i won''t let him die. With that in mind we head out, but we don''t really know where we should go. *Why don''t you ask her?* And right in front of me i see a woman dressed in silver armor helmless and with a flowing red hair that reaches her hip. Its the guard Bernard was previously talking to in the palace entrance, what was her name? Relia i think. ¡°excuse me, Relia?¡± She turns around and inspects me. ¡°Aren''t you the boy that was with Bern?¡± ¡°ahh.. yeah¡± I say while scratching my head, i wonder what''s the relationship with ¡®Bern¡¯, not that i care too deeply about that. ¡°I was wondering if you could give me some direction¡± ¡°Sure, any friend of Bern is my friend¡± Such outgoing personality she has. ¡°My friend here¡± I say while pointing at Baltos¡±Has a hobby of maintaining weapons, is there a place to do that or something alike?¡± She blinks at me and look at me with some strange look. ¡°Well of course blacksmithing is what you think when you hear what his hobby is¡± ¡ im seem to be lacking in common sense apparently. *You certainly are* Stop talking!. *Ughh dont be like that* ¡°And a place to buy clothes?¡± Interjects Eos. She gives a quizzical look at her, seems neither of us has common sense¡ at least i''m not alone. *You have me* At least i have Eos. *Mhh¡* ¡°Well thats the tailor, but you''ll have to work for him to get some decent equipment¡± ¡°I''m ok with that¡± She says. ¡°And i w.¡± but i don''t get to finish my question when Relia interrupts. ¡°You first need to go to the temple, as a new adventurer you''ll find it pretty useful¡± Mhh i guess she knows i lack common sense and points where i could get some. ¡°Ok, thank you¡± I take the hint and wave goodbye not before she tell us where to find the blacksmith and the tailor are located in the commercial district, by the south entrance, and i guess is where i saw all the stores and stalls. We head to the square, and i hand over the loot we got from the kobolds to them so they can sell it, earning some money would be nice. We part ways and they head to south¡ those clothes sure are shabby, can''t wait to change them and stop the disdain stares from paserbays. I turn around and head to the temple meeting a queue of ten people waiting to enter the place. The line advances slowly and i learn by overhearing conversations that you can learn healing spells, ask for some kind of ¡®buff¡¯ and get special professions. Finally my turn comes up when i''m fed up hearing a conversation between two people behind me about what they were going to do today and debating about the best hunting place, of course i took note of them, but still an entire hour about the same theme with aired bickering between two people would make anyone fed up. In front of me stand two guards holding metal lances in chainmail with a green tabard depicting a forest with a river crossing it. I instantly note a look of disdain after they look at my current shabby self, i really want to change my clothes. ¡°Show your ring¡± Grunted the left one. After i show the copper ring with a grey stone, they let me pass but the displeased look only intensifies, looks like if i didn''t have this ring they would have lynched me. *Look like wealth discrimination* I just let out a sigh acknowledging his words. Still i will remember them and everybody that treats me this way. *Way to go* This time i ignore him. I enter the temple and see magnificent sculptures depicting the goddess in the fountain, but this time theres another statue besides her depicting a beautiful woman, if you could call Liaras statue beautiful, the other statue beauty would be out of this world. Both statues are in the center room fenced by a purple metal fence in a ring shape. Behind i see a desk that i guess is an information one with a girl dressed in a deep green robe sitting behind. I approach it and certainly the disdainful look doesn''t miss the chance to show in her face, which greatly ruins the already ugly face, and i don''t know why but seeing an ugly elf for the first time makes something inside me depressed. She won''t start the conversation, and its because of me, because i previously saw how she talked friendly while smiling with her previous customer. ¡°I was told to come to some kind of class, where do i have to go¡± I say not wasting any time and wanting to leave right away. She shows a sign of disgust and points at her right where a large sign showing a sketch of the building, small arrows pointed that the place i should go is to a left corridor, up a stair and i would be just in front of the door i''m supposed to go. I thank her, just because i won''t lose my composure and principally because i knew she would be mightily angered when a lowly peasant, of course in her eyes, showed more nobleness than her.

Chivalry stat has been created!

Chivalry +1

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Chivalry
Every noble must have this stat to show their qualities of high moral character, showing magnanimity and majestic appearance. This stat will greatly influence interaction with royalty and nobility. This stat will allow to influence the masses much easier. Majestic oppression effectiveness will depend on this stat. Equipment now has a Chivalry rate. Cannot distribute point to this stat.

Instead of a normal goodbye, i cross an arm in my chest and bow to her just to make her a little more infuriated and of course i succed making of her brows twitch uncontrollably.

Chivalry +1

Great, i guess i''ll keep doing these kind of actions¡ but what kind of skill is majestic oppression i think remembering that the only time i saw this skill was in the throne chamber.

Majestic Opresi¨®n: lvl 1 (0.00%)
You generate a majestic aura that oppresses your enemies. This skills depends greatly on Chivalry stat. Creatures in higher level requires more level and Chivalry.

I elegantly walk through a horde of people gawking at the weird me. I guess if i saw a ragged kid walking like a noble i too would look, in the middle of my walk Astraea who is already accustomed to sleeping inside my ragged clothes wakes up and starts walking besides me. Because of my stunt i gained 3 more points in chivalry before reaching my destined place. Inside i found a room filled with small individual desk with a large pouch resting above each of them, and in front a platform at least 30 centimeters above the floor where a larger desk is placed. The room was filled with different kind of people, mostly elves, although i could certainly see that most of them were like Bernard, there were some who had darker skin, i assume are dark elves. The attire of some of them denoted a noble birth, while other much more humble wear a simple shirt with matching pants and shoes of varied colors. The nobles equipment is one i couldn''t really believe, some of them have a black metal cuirass with golden and silver engraving that i''m sure i won''t be able to afford in the foreseeable future with a red leather scabbard at their sides sword included with a gem of different color in the pommel and a shield matching the cuirass, some of them opted for different weapons and instead of the metal cuirass, robes or leather armors, but they all shared one thing, the expensive looking equipment. And the lower birth resident in the room have no weapon, of course there were some exemption still they would never reach the quality of the rich ones. I spot a desk in the front row thats empty, actually its a full line thats empty, dividing the rich from the poor. And while i sit the strangest thing happen, at least half strange, the nobles of course take a glance at me and decide to empty another two seats so they aren''t near me...and so do the poor ones. Seems i''m so poor that i''m being obstatrised by the rest, well it doesn''t matter to me because i plan to take the rest of the sacks with me, and being away from them will make it easier for me, of course if somebody else wants a sack that doesn''t belong to them, they will have to fight me for it. *You are clearly resentful* Of course i am!! who do they think they are! I sit and wait and so does Astraea who coils herself and sleeps in my thighs,time goes by and its been already 20 minutes and no one showed up. I take out my dagger and start making tricks with it to pass time, like throw it from behind me and catching it, passing it from one finger to another skillfully, actually when i started the second trick i didn''t stop i keep doing it for several minutes to the point i don''t need to concentrate to do it. After a while of doing that three nobles approach, the one leading in a pompous way, all of them female light elves. Although i say pompous she is actually quite stunning with her long silver hair and perfect porcelain skin, wearing a red leather cuirass that accentuates her hourglass figure, and a pair of daggers at her sides¡ i think i know where this is going. *You sure do* ¡°You plebeian hand over that dagger* She says in an authoritative tone. I look directly at her eyes and in the same tone i ask her in a way that hopefully awards me some chivalry points. ¡°If its not too pretentious of me, could i ask you, who are you and what gives you the right to command me?¡± She was taken aback and the plebeian whisper and hold their breath¡ i don''t think any other plebeian have answered like that to her. ¡°I am Evalen high noble of the house of Karthas, and yes with only that i have the right to demand from you dirty mongrel¡±. Whoa dirty¡ the only part of my body thats dirty is my face, the rest was clean thanks to my assimilation skill, i have to remember to clean when i get back in the inn at night. ¡°Still, this is mine and not even royalty will take it from me¡±. ¡°Don''t lie, theres no way a dirty mongrel like you could have that kind of dagger, i''m sure you stole it!¡± said a brunette elve next to her. ¡°Thats a serious accusation you are implying, do you have any proof?, or is it just the rambling of a child?¡± The look they give me says that my speech is rank above theirs and the windows popping out confirms it.

Chivalry +5

Charisma stat has been created!

Charisma +3

Charisma
A special personal quality or power of an individual making him capable of influencing or inspiring large numbers of people.

Majestic oppression skill updated!

Majestic Opresi¨®n: lvl 1 (0.00%)
You generate majestic aura that oppresses your enemies. This skills depends greatly on Chivalry stat. Creatures in higher level requires more level and Chivalry. Area of effect and quantity of people affected determined by charisma stat

If the reward for speaking and acting like this is always this good, i may adopt it as my way of life. Evalen face contorted and a fierce look is directed at me. She pleases her hands on her daggers and when she starts pulling them walking step make them stop. Everyone hurriedly sit in their place just before the steps reach the room, of course the glaring daggers of the three girls are still pointed at me. Standing at the doorpost is an old beardless man with white long hair, he is dressed in a white robe and a green tabard just like the guards at the entrance, and wearing round silver glasses resting in his long crooked nose. He looks around the room and walks to his desk a little dissatisfied and with his first words i know why. ¡°First of all, i do not care about your family, you''re all going to be treated equally and if you infuriate me you will be treated like you deserve, contrary to that if i behave like you should you''ll be treated like a normal student¡±. He said giving a slight wink concerning the last words. I think i like what he is saying and im sure those noble bastards are going to get what they deserve. *Revenge is a dish best served cold, specially if you don''t have to smear your hands* I agree!, hehe. ¡°Now, lets talk about this course, this course will last a week, you''ll be taught about all you need to know about adventuring¡±. Ahh so thats why Relia sent me here, well i''m glad because i wasn''t planning to stay here for the rest of my life¡ just thinking about what that princess would do to me is sending shivers to my spine. ¡°Now, the required age for this course is fifteen years old, there are exceptions of course, so can you tell me why are you here?¡±. He says while looking straight at me. ¡°I need to leave this city for¡ personal reason, in six months¡±. *Hehe, we all know the reason, don''t feel the need to lie to him* He silently nods and continues with his speech. ¡°This is the schedule so note it down, for the ones that didn''t bring any kind of means to do it, i took the liberty to add it to the beginner satchel¡± Says while pointing at one satchel laying in a desk. I open the one in front of me and analyze the contents. (transformar a windows)

Black leather notebook.
Low quality notebook containing low quality parchments. Great for begginers

Small yellow bird feather
Material of low quality mostly used as a quill

Low quallity Inkwell
Inkwell filled with the most cheap ink.

Small poach.
Magically imbued to carry large quantitys of money. Great for begginer adventurers with low quantity of coins

Wow this poach is quite impressive, i wonder how it works.

Quest updated!

The strange inn sizes II
Difficulty : D Not only rooms can be enchanted but recently you found out all manner of objects can be as well. Reward: Information in specific magic. Failure: Not knowing will haunt your dreams. Automatically accepted.

Without saying another word he turned around facing the wall and started moving his hand in a certain pattern, then letters started appearing where his hand had passed, after a while there was a neat table depicting the schedule of the week. [quart=Day,Quantity of hours]Class,Shedule[/quart] [quart=1,2]Introduction,8:00 to 10:00[/quart] [quart=2-3,6]Mana,13:00 to 19:00[/quart] [quart=2-3,6]Combat,13:00 to 19:00[/quart] [quart=4,4]Foraging,8:00 to 12:00[/quart] [quart=5,4]Alchemy,8:00 to 12:00[/quart] [quart=6,12]Blachsmithing and Tailoring,6:00 to 20:00[/quart] [quart=7-8,34]Mercantilism,5:00 to 5:00[/quart] [quart=10,-]Test,-[/quart]

Chapter 6[/b] width=50%]Chapter 8

Chapter VIII If you have not already notice it this is the first time ive writen anything, speacialy in english, now here are my concerns, do you like the lenghts of the chapters, do you hate the way I write, do you hate the time it takes me to write and post new chapter, well deal with it hehe, naa just make some constructive criticism and suggestion for the story and maybe Ill try harder, btw if i dont fix things you pointed out in previous chapters is for a reason :=B: So without further ado heres chapter 8, aaahh another thing i forgot i may make some maps, not like the mushoku tensei maps ( i hate them) but nice ones.

[/hr] Chapter 8 ¡°I''m Frederick Aclaire and I will explain the basic functions of this world, I don''t care if you already know it, this class is obligatory and all information I will be imparting to you today was directed by our local goddess¡±. With a wave of his hand the table disappears, and he starts writing again. ¡°The basic functions are the ones the supreme goddess designated to us mortal to live easier, there are several common ones, the way we will be doing it is I say the command to access it, you repeat, after each explanation i''ll allow questions¡±. ¡°First is the ¡®Watch¡¯, which allows one to see the time of the day, legends say of a faraway place beyond the wilderness where the time will differ greatly with the one in the nine kingdoms area, but here the most it changes is six hours from the westermost to the easternmost, now activate the command¡± Then all over the place can be heard the word ¡®watch¡¯, and I as well say it. ¡°Watch¡±, a dim light shines from the ring and a small window appears.

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¡°Its eight hours seven minutes thirty seven seconds¡±. After those words the window changes and state the time Frederick said.

08:07:40

He waits a little while to see if someone has a question and continues. ¡°Next is the ¡®map¡¯ function¡± ¡°Map¡± I say followed by a myriad of other people doing the same. A window popped out this map but with no information just a black window with some blue, green and a miniature of the capital with a red dot and blue ones. ¡°The map function will only show the places you already went to and will not show places like the wilderness where Gaia has not yet reached, a red dot in the map will locate yourself, at the top right of the map you will see a compass, when you acquire a quest with clear location the compass will show you the way¡± ¡°Next is the ¡®Status Window¡¯¡± He waits a little while and seeing all the rest saying the same words I do the same. [quart=Name,Level]Erobos,5[/quart] [quart=Age,Alignment]12,Neutral[/quart] [quart=Main Profession,Race]Shadow,Unknown[/quart] [quart=Health,Health Regeneration]100%,3% per sec[/quart] [quart=Mana,Mana Regeneration]93%,1 per hour[/quart] [quart=Stamina,Stamina Regeneration]100%,2% per sec[/quart] [quart=Strength,Agility]116,132[/quart] [quart=Dexterity,Endurance]100,108[/quart] [quart=Intelligence,Wisdom]106,106[/quart] [quart=Luck,Willpower]0,1[/quart] [quart=Leadership,Chivalry]6,10[/quart] [quart=Holy,Darkness]-50%,Absorb[/quart] [quart=Soul,Other]-50%,1Q[/quart] [quart=Baltoz,Level]Dragon Knight,5[/quart] [quart=Eos,Level]Dragon Priestess,5[/quart] [quart=Astraea,Level]Unknown,Unknown[/quart]

Status
Title		The extinguisher
Fame		320
Attributes
Satiety		100%
Charisma		3
Resistances
Diplomacy
N/A
Entourage
Vassals
Pack

¡°This will be long but stay focused¡± he says and starts the long explanation about everything and anything. ¡°The first thing you''ll see are the basic information, most of you have the same, your name, level that most of you still have at one and when you increase will allow you to allocate five points in your attributes, your age that everyone except¡± and he looks at me, ¡°are fifteen, your alignment with the majority of you are Neutral, be careful about what you do because your action will be reflected in that parameter, your main profession, you must be careful at picking it, because once you do you are going to be stuck in that profession for a good part of your life, of course the profession can evolve, which i''m going to explain later on, and your race, wich you can determine by your looks¡±. and he sends a small weird look at me, I guess he is trying to determine my race¡ but even I don''t know. ¡°Next is title, some of you may have something like son/daughter of¡¡± He says while looking at the nobles side, ¡°and maybe some may have task wise titles like farmer, etc¡±This time looking at the peasant side and of course me, wich makes me quite uncomfortable because all the people in the room looks at me and I swear I could hear someone which I can recognize clearly the voice say im sure he has the title of dirty mongrel. ¡°You must try to gain all kinds of titles, because each of them will let you gain considerable advantages, the way to gain them varies, ones are gained by simply killing different kinds of monsters, other by doing menial tasks, and of course there are ones given you by birth, to know which titles you have acquired through your life use the command ¡®Collection of titles¡¯¡± Again following the stream I repeat like everybody else ¡°Collection of titles¡±.

Collection of titles
Pain comes with hunger: Time it takes to decrease hunger +12% Equip:Time it takes to decrease hunger +5%.
Pain comes from cold: Resistance to cold +8% Equip: Resistance to cold +2%
The extinguisher. +2% attack damage against unique monsters. Equip:+3% attack damage against unique monsters.
Infant eater You didn''t kill them but neither buried them,what''s more you desecrated their little bodies by eating them. Damage to infant beast +10% Equip: Damage to infant beast +15% Animosity from Npc +20%
Deviant affinity Earning familiarity with mental impaired beings or with deviant personality is easier. Equip: Mental impaired beings or with deviant personality will think of you as one of their own. Rest of population will look at you with pity.(i already am)
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I remember seeing all of them trough the time we spend coming to the capital, but whats going on with the one with question marks? Guess thats one question to ask this Frederick. ¡°With that we finish the lesson about basic information, we still have the non-main profession but i''ll let it for later¡± He waits some seconds like earlier to let us formulate question and he is about to proceed but i raise my hand. ¡°Yes¡¡± ¡°Erobos¡± I say to him thinking that he doesn''t know my name. ¡°What question do you have Erobos?¡± ¡°I have a title which only has question marks¡± He seems clearly surprised i have a title like everyone else in the room except the girl that repeats dirty mongrel¡ i swear i''m going to make her regret that. Frederick recovers his calm demeanor and answers. ¡°Thats because you don''t have enough information, rest assured when you gain information concerning that title it will update automatically¡±. Seeing as i don''t have anymore question he proceeds. ¡°Now lets proceed to the attributes, the first three you will see are health, mana and stamina with their respective recovery rates, those are obviously self explained, next is the satiety which is the amount of hunger and thirst combined in a simple porcentual bar¡± He finishes saying fast without giving it much importance. ¡°Now here are the things you really should try to remember and improve¡± He start writhing in the air again forming small windows with information pertaining the attributes.

Strenght Determines attack power with melee weapons, throwing weapons and maximum encumbrance weight.

Agility Determines movement speed, attacks speed, and reflexes.

Dexterity Determines firing rate and attack damage for ranged weapons.

Endurance. Determines natural maximum health, natural body defense and pain resistance.

Intelligence. Determines natural maximum mana and additional magic attack with spells.

Wisdom. Determines Mana regeneration rate.

Luck. Determines critical attack damage, and finding of loot.

¡°Those are the basic attributes you are born with, and in those you can allocate your potential points gained by leveling up, of course there are others you can acquire but are harder to improve because of the impediment to allocate potential points in them, but like the rest can be improved by doing an action that directly uses them, for example by lifting great weight for extensive period of times you can gain strength¡±. ¡°Next is the resistance which most of you will be not shown because you still haven''t acquired them, so we will skip that but I will tell you that like with attributes you can improve them by in this case being affected by them, i don''t recommend this because is quite painful¡±. ¡°Next is the Diplomacy which will show your familiarity with different factions, not much to explain as it explains itself¡±. ¡°Now I will explain about monster that roam outside the city walls, and to explain that first I need to explain about the world, every being including monster and sentient races have mana, not your usual mana to cast spells but a more primordial form, which of course can be absorbed, thats the way one levels up by killing monster and it means to absorb the primordial mana from a monster, and when that mana is larger that we can absorb is when loot is created, different than the loot one can gain from defeating sentient beings which is their current equipment and the beast and non-beast beings which are its flesh and fur, loot is a special item formed by accumulated primordial mana, more of this will be explained when you have your mercantilism class¡±. The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Next I will explain about professions, please listen with great care, because this will allow you to get the profession you really want, now to explain about professions i need to explain about skills, the way to gain difference between one another, but all of them have a requirement to be acquired, some asks you to repeat a menial task like repairing a metal object which will allow you to gain the repair metal skill, others will ask you to kill certain monster, or attack in a certain way, and theres also some skill that can''t be acquired normally and asks you to accomplish a great deed or just simply need to be of certain race or profession to gain them, the skill have tiers just like items¡±. And starts writing in the air again.

[b		Item[/b]]Skill
Common		Common
Uncommon		Uncommon
Magic rare		Magic rare
Rare		Rare
Unique		Unique
Legendary		Hero
Artifact		Forgotten
Legendary Artifact		Fortgotten Hero

¡°As you can see the items and skills have a common rank until Legendary, to access the skill command, just say ¡®Skill window¡¯¡±. ¡°Skill window¡± I say and a window like the one in the palace shows up.

Skills
Shadow eye		Level 5 (43.22%)
Primal shadow		Level 4 (23.05%
Primal desire		lvl 3 (0.00%
Carnivore		Passive
Dark walker		Passive
Native camouflage		Level 1 (0.00%)
Assimilation		Level 4 (33.33%)
Calm mind		Passive
Pinpoint attack		Level 3 (59.13 %)
Primordial dialect		Mastered
Slow growth		-
Majestic Opresion		Level 1 (0.00%)

Waiting for everyone to finish seeing their skills he then continues. ¡°Now that we know about skills I can proceed with professionals, to acquire a profession is like acquiring a skills, you just have to fill requirements, some of those requirements are indeed skills, for example a warrior needs proficiency in some kind of weapons like a sword or lance, while a paladin needs also the healing spell, following that you can indeed evolve the warrior to paladin or acquire the paladin at the beginning, then what''s the difference?, the difference is that if you first go through the warrior profession you can acquire the warrior skills as well, now that we know that what happens to the jobs that we acquire the requirements for but don''t accept as our main professions?, those are called the non-main profession and have a command of their own, now most of you don''t have even the main profession but i will explain either way, you must try to gain non-main profession, because skill that don''t have their related profession acquired are ten time as hard to improve, but if you have the profession as a non-main profession its only five time harder¡±. He finishes with an enthusiasm demeanor. Then he adds ¡°If you already picked a profession and the profession you acquire the requirements for is not an evolved from from your already acquired one, then it will automatically be acquired as a non-main profession¡±. ¡°Last but not less important¡± He continues speaking after seeing that not one student asked for something, ¡°there are the quests and the guild, quests can be simply acquired, there are several ways the acquire one. One is to simply ask someone that wants something done, they will asses if they want to give it to you. Other way is simply given by circumstances, and usually gives the reward as experience or knowledge. Other way is by gaining knowledge of certain legends, histories or even eavesdropping a conversation; last is quest by guild, to attain these quest you first need to sign up in the guild as an adventurer, they will give you a rank according to your power and that rank will allow you to take quest accordingly to your rank posted in the various guild subsidiaries scattered through the nine kingdoms, coincidentally the guild branch of this city is just across the street, i recommend you to sign up¡±. ¡°And with that the class is over, remember to go to the magic institute at thirteen sharp¡±. With those word he waves at the things he wrote during the class and they all disappear, following by him leaving the room. I fastly do what I was planning for the whole time and take every satchel stuffing it inside my satchel and nothing it has the same incantation as the pouch. Without losing any time I follow after Frederick as to avoid confrontation with the pesky nobles. Seeing me follow him he turns around and looks at me with an inquisitive look. ¡°Erobos.. right?, is there something you want me to answer?¡± ¡°Emm... ¡°, damn I have nothing i just wanted to get away, mmm lets ask something random and be done with it, ¡°How did you write on the air?¡±. ¡°Ahh thats easy but if Im sorry you''ll have to ask tomorrow in the magic class¡±. With that he leaves, and of course I walk to the exit before someone bothers me again. I should probably check the time and go look for Balt and Eos so we can eat lunch together. ¡°Watch¡±

9:15:23

What!? wasn''t the class supposed to last two hours?, damn now what should I do to spend time, looking around I see the guild building and decide to enter it. A wooden door led to a bar filled with people talking and drinking from pints filled with beer, its similar to the inn i''m staying at but here the people have combat ¨¦quipement, swords bows cuirasses, robes, staffs and lots of other things. Another difference is there are two counters, one serving food and drinks, while the other theres just a teenage woman standing there with boredom. I deduce thats the place where i should register and approach her. She doesn''t notice me and keeps watching at the air. ¡°Excuse me¡± She wakes up from her stupor and looks at me. ¡°Is there something I can do for you?¡± She ask doubtfully while checking my ragged clothes. I should really get some decent clothing. ¡°Yes, i''d like to register as an adventurer¡±. She tilts her head and looks at me strangely ¡°You do know it costs forty copper coins to register right?¡± She says while i''m certain she doubts i even have a single copper coin. I grumble at her and proceed to look for the first satchel where i stored the money I found on the giant rat. I look at my fifty copper coins and give her forty, while thinking now i''m poorer than before. She looks at me skeptically and then at the coins placed in front of her. ¡°Identify¡± She says. She makes a funny face and repeats the same command at least a dozen times before she gives up. ¡°These aren''t normal coins, you can''t use them as normal, go to the antique shop and ask for Pablo, I don''t know how you got them but you can be as lucky as it can or unfortunate as you are¡±. I don''t know if she just said something nice to me, or insulted me. *Maybe you need a little more intelligence, he he he* ¡°Where can i find this place if i may ask this lovely lady?¡±

Chivalry +1

Charisma +1

She blushed a little and then remember i''m a little dirty kid with no real clothes. How do i know this, because from a blush she changed to a disgusted face. ¡°Just follow the western main road, and you will see a shopfront with Pablos boutique written in it¡±. She dismissed me and not just to the drinking area but kicked me out of the establishment¡ I swear this ones going to pay me, she was even more disdainful than that noble girl. Still i followed her words and head towards the western exit. On the way I see shops like in the south exit but this ones have low quality products and I can tell from just a simple glance, the only good thing here is that the mantles that were unoccupied in the south exit here are filled with people with mismatched equipment selling different kinds of things, exotic things like strange meat, curved blades, blue pointed arrows, and much more. I of course ignore it all and they seeing my clothes show the same demeanor. After ten minutes walking I spot the place the bitch at the guild depicted me. *Looks like you really hate her* I open the door and an aroma of old objects invades my olfactory sense. But that is not the most important thing, not even the fat ridiculously dress man behind the counter, but one of the clients browsing the store, he has a purple robe, which is nothing strange, the strange and horrible thing is his skin, it doesn''t look at all natural, actually it looks like he got the skin from someone else and made a mask, it horrifies me, so I ignore him and make way to the fat man. ¡°What do you want¡± He says just as disdainfully as the bitch, which now that i notice has some similar features, not the fat but the eyes and the nose and as repugnant as ¡°he¡± is i notice by her voice its a woman, an horrible one, but still a woman, I don''t want to think how her daughter will look like and how her future husband will want to run away... or maybe I do. *You sure are the vindictive type of guy, I like it* I open my pouch again and place the coins on the counter. She takes one, and casts identify, just like her daughter she doesn''t get anything and makes a strange face, but after the tenth time she does get something and opens her eyes wide. With a great smile and greedy twinkling eyes she just says ¡°five hundred gold coins for the batch¡±. Chapter IX Hello, sorry for the late coming chapter. Have several problems with this site, first I dont know what the heck happened to the table and i dont know how to fix them or make new ones as the tools wich used to be showed when making a new post went, also i dont know how to make the letters in previous chapters show, but if you select the tables you can see they are there but in almost the same color as the table. Anyways enjoy!. Pr apreciated, as well as suggestions (for future story) Chapter 9 Five hundred gold?, is that much? in moments like this I wish i had more common sense. *You can''t acquire what you can''t acquire* I''ll show you i''ll get that common sense thing and you''ll be apologizing. *... You do know i''m you, right?* Well it doesn''t matter, 500 gold is better than nothing. I''m about to take the little pouch of coins she has in her hands when, human mask guy, thats how i''m going to call him from now on, stops my hand from reaching. ¡°Don''t¡± he says in a hoarse voice, and it scared me, the skin when he talks doesn''t move, so its indeed a mask, I wonder where he got it, and more important what''s it made of. ¡°She is not giving you even one percent of the coins value¡±. Not even one percent? then how much are these worth. I like at the ugly fat woman that now is severely sweating, my eyes turn cold, just like her daughter she is indeed a bitch. ¡°How do you know their value?¡± I ask him not doubting his words. He let out a small snicker ¡°Its because I have this useful skill that allows me to meddle in other peoples business, of course it has an effectiveness radius¡± He adds after I give a what-an-omnipotent-skill look. ¡°Show coin description¡± He says while looking at me.

Ancient coin
[/color		Grade of rarity width=50%]Legendary artifact
Engraved coin of ancient civilization. Procedence: Unknown territory. Maker: Unknown.

"As you can see being a Legendary artifact the value each coin hold is much higher than the one she offers you, I can even tell that if she offered 5.000 gold coins for each coins she still would amass a fortune from the profits, and thats why I intervened, you have to be wicked to be a merchant¡ but she''s clearly rotten¡± He finishes sending a glare to the woman. I glare at the woman, I can''t believe she was going to scam me in such a way, must be the clothes, everybody thinks they can take advantage of me, but not anymore, i''ll show them and i''ll start from this ugly fat woman that now is sweating profusely. ¡°Make it 10.000 for each coin¡± I say in a commanding tone. The womans eyes goes wide.

Requirements fullfiled
Haggle with a merchant.

Haggle skill learned!

Haggle lvl 1 (20.00%)
Allows you to haggle with more success the higher the level of the skill is.

Her face distorts in rage ¡°How dare a dirty brat like you haggle with me!¡± I see everybody sees me as a little dirty kid¡ i''ll show her. ¡°15.000 each¡± I rebuke her. ¡°Dirty stupid kid you can''t say that to me!¡± I start walking to the door grabbing the coins beforehand and whispering to myself while making sure she hears ¡°Im sure theres more than one antique shop in this city¡±. I hear gritting teeth behind me ¡°Fine i''ll buy them for 15.000 each¡±. I turn around, glare coldly at her and just say ¡°20.000 take it or i''ll leave¡±. Her teeth grind so much that i''m afraid she''s going to put the powder in a bag as a souvenir. She exits the counter and passes besides me opening the door ¡°Follow me to the bank¡± She says. I follow behind her trying to avoid looking at her ever jingling mass of fat that one could call an ass but is far from looking like one. The store was closed when we left so the human mask guy had to leave as well, and judging by him following us he has free time. On the way I learn the different kind of currency, I learned because I didn''t want to be scammed again, and it sure wasn''t the human mask guy trying to initiate an amicable conversation but me bluntly asking information I would surely need and that would allow me to gain some common sense, take that i''m already a step closer for you groveling on the ground asking for forgiveness. *You do know you are going to do it as i''m you* .... Anyway the currency goes likes this, first theres copper coins, then silver coins equivalent to a hundred copper goins, than gold which does the same for silver, after that theres crimson gold and finally mithril coins, following the exchange the previous coins does in that order. In resume a hundred coins makes a coin of higher value. And just to gain a little more common sense I ask him what a guard gains, in which he answers that the recent enlisted gain fifteen gold coins a year. So¡ after this, I''m filthy rich? Well thats good I''ll be sure to not waste it. After asking and getting the desired answer human mask guy asked me just one thing. He asked if I was currently in the goddess guidance lessons, when I realised thats the name of the classes i''m currently doing I answered which brought a creepy smile from him. After following her for at least half an hour we reach the main square where the fountain is placed and we turn left towards the nobles district. Then we walk ten more minutes and we reach a huge white building with a signboard on top depicting a huge money bag. Why we came to the bank, is one question I told the human mask guy, and he answered ¡°Why do you think anybody would have that amount of money on oneself, that just asking a thief to show up¡±. Seems commons sense is a great investment for the future. We enter following the Fugly ,which is how i named the shop owner, while trying to avoid looking up as the entrance has stairs. Inside theres a wall with two arcs leading to two different places, one says bank while the other says auctions, Fugly ignores the second one and leads us to the bank. As we walk past the arc I see a large counter with ten chairs behind them and only one being occupied at the moment, we head straight for the elf woman sitting on it. ¡°I would like to transfer funds¡±She say way more polite that when she talked to me¡ I see its just only me and realising that only make me hate Fugly a little more. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. ¡°Ok, how much would you want to transfer and to which person?¡± The clerk says while taking a card Fugly hands her. She lets out a resigned sigh. ¡°A hundred mithril coins to him¡± She says while pointing at me. She makes an amazed face after hearing the amount of money and an awkward face after looking where Fugly¡¯s finger is pointed. ¡°Is everything ok?¡±She says while sending a cold stare at me¡ I really hate people staring at me like that, I''ll have to note her as someone to take revenge on. *You are going to end up with a long list at this rate* Its not that much people!. *... Two people per day is a lot*. ¡°Its fine¡± Fugly says with a resigned voice, and not missing the chance to take a look at the satchel i''m carrying which makes her smile creepily for an instant. ¡°Ok.., then I need your information card¡± She says while looking at me. Information card? what¡¯s that? Rolling her eyes at me she speaks again. ¡°Your information card where your guild and bank information is¡± She says slowly thinking i''m retarded¡ Shes going to be noted twice just for that. ¡°I don''t have one yet¡±. She takes out an orb from under the counter and places it between me and her. ¡°Place your hands on this¡± I place my hands on the orb, it¡¯s rather cold to the touch but some seconds pass and it starts to shine and becomes warm. A silver card appears on top of my hands and I take it. [color=#333333]

Bank assets Money: N/a
Guild Not yet applied.

I look at the card and then at the clerk. ¡°I don''t have any money yet, to pay for the card¡±. She makes a strange face. ¡°The cards are free here in the bank as well as in the Guild branch¡±. ....Then why the hell Fugly jr tried to charge me!. *I guess she goes in the notes twice?* Of course she is going, but thrice for being Fugly¡¯s daughter. The clerk does some sign with Fugly¡¯s information card in front of her and a light similar to when I see my status from the ring appears and rapidly subsides. A slight pulsation diverts my attention to my information card, in which the information has changed.

Bank assets Money: 100 M
Guild Not yet applied.

Fugly looks at me expectantly and I hand over the copper coins pouch which she grabs rudely and darts off to the exit, surely to get a huge profit provenient from some rich noble¡ that rotten merchant, although i''m quite happy that some noble is going to get scammed. *Are you sure you are not a merchant?* Of course Ignore him. Now the thing that I need is some coins to get by and the rest i''ll let them in the bank, but how much do I need?, these are the moment where common sense would work delightfully, I guess I should ask someone. The clerk?, no she still has that suspicious-that-i-did-something-illegal look in her eyes, then the only one I can ask is the human mask guy. ¡°How much do you think I should carry around?¡± I ask him. ¡°You mean money?¡± After seeing me nod he continues, ¡°well that depends, but looking at you i should say fifty to a hundred gold coins, that ought to let you live comfortably for at least three months while buying all necessities you wish for¡±. Well he did help me before so I guess I should hear to him. I hand over my information card to the clerk and the same light as before appears in my card, when it subsides she hands me the card and a hundred gold coins. ¡°Thats ten gold coins¡± He says with a hand extended and a chuckle after he says my dumbfounded face ¡°Nothing is free you know, also after I made you gain this enormous fortunes what''s ten gold to a filthy rich?¡±. *He has a point* This time I agree, I take ten gold coins from the mountain of coins and place them in his hands, which now to my horror I see are similar to his mask, so should I change his name to full body human disguise?, better not. I place the full ninety gold coins in one of the pouch which surprisingly fits leaving room for way more and doesn''t change sizes or weights more, I should really learn how to make this, imagine the possibilities. *I can''t imagine them* Me neither, but someday I will. Several seconds after the voice stops laughing at me I exit the bank while the human musk guy left when he received the money. ¡°Watch¡±.

12:23:33

Damn im late, I promised Balt and Eos to met them in the square at midday to eat lunch together. I ran in the direction of the square and Alatea runs besides me because she waked up after I started running. ¡°My lord where are you¡± I hear Baltoz voice in my head the same way I hear the other voice, then I remember the mask I''m currently wearing and the effects it has wich allows me to communicate with other mask wearers. I concentrate and speak through my mind the same I speak to the voice. ¡°I''m sorry, I was occupied, dont worry Im on my way there¡±. After running for one minute at my stop speed I arrive at the main square, It still amazes me how fast I can run, I even had to grab Alatea because I was out matching her. When I arrive I see Baltoz now wearing a shabby looking breastplate of the lowest quality, but he is happily showing it off as if it was one from the nobles, which I probably guess he made himself, and Eos is wearing a low quality robe with mismatched stitches and lots of faults, still she is happy or even happier than Baltoz because in her hands a black outfit consisting of a shirt, pants and a pair of shoes are on her hands. She hands them over to me and urges me to put them on, I slid my legs into the pants trying to not let anyone else notice i''m naked inside the ragged cloth and after successfully putting them on I continue with the rest, they are quite shabby, still I''m so happy that she made them for me that I hug her, of course I only reach a little over her hips so i don''t know if its a proper hug, nonetheless she pats my head and seems quite happy I liked the clothes she managed to make in a little over four hours, damn she is talented, even if they are of low quality four hours to make something you are not accustomed to do is quite an achievement. After I finish the hug and part from her I see Balt in front of me on one knee just the way he did in the shadow god temple but this time offering a dagger of low quality just as his breastplate, still I take it, order him to stand up and as with Eos I hug him, he doesn''t seem to hate it so I hug him for several seconds, while in contrast of Eos which caressed my head delicately Baltz opts to ruffle it. ¡°Thank you very much, I don''t know how to thank you, but I''ll start by inviting you for something to eat¡±. Chapter X Completed chapter 10 just deleted the previous one. Please see if there is any mistake and ill correct it. And answer these questions if you want. 1.Long or short chapters?(btw this one is medium size, long would be chapter 2) 2.may include some gruesome things in the future, do you want warning before the chapter? Chapter 10 ¡ An awry silence reigned between the three of us, interrupted momentarily by Alatea¡¯s Whining and barking intended to attract our attention. What is going on? .... *Looks like your common sense classes have not advanced and your memory is deteriorating in an alarming rate, that or you are more dense than appear to be*. What are you talking about, my memory is just fine!. And I¡¯m certainly not dense. *Have you not realized it yet?*. What did I not realize?, the only thing I said was to get some food¡ Ahh! So thats the problem, now i certainly can understand this awkward mood. ¡°I mean lets go explore the south market district!¡± I try to fix the situation, and they seem receptive, so we head to the market in a fast fashion without further problems. Although I would certainly want to know a way to see their facial expressions without the need of the windows, as the only thing I see are the mask in their faces. We head for the stalls and see a wide variety of objects and foods they sell, I take a silver coin from my pouch and head to a stall placed in front of a shop which sells cooked meals using the raw materials sell inside the shop, I guess is a way to advertise their products, which I assume are meat and fish. Of course theres a basis as why I assume those are the ingredients they sell, because there is a huge wooden signboard atop the store that state it name as Butch, Fish and Chick, did the owners pick that name because of what they sell, or are those their true names?. It doesn''t matter because what attracted me to this stall is the sweet aroma coming from the brochettes which are currently being cooked in front of some customers. I go through the crowd that are waiting in line for their turn at buying its product, of course it''s polite to wait for my turn.. but i''m too hungry to wait that long. I got to three spots behind the first in line as to not alert the owner of my delictive action. The smell of the meat being cooked is even stronger here and I distingue the light aroma of herbs mixed with the meat. Damn I''m drooling here, hurry up!. Finally my turn. I place the silver coin in front of a burly man with a scar in his check and he eyes me. ¡°What would it be?¡± He asks me. ¡°Two brochettes please, and do you have one exclusively from wolf meat? If that wouldn''t be a problem of course¡±. I say in a courteous manner remembering Alatea as well as the charisma and chivalry stats.

Charisma +1

Looks like I can''t gain chivalry from talking like this to him, maybe there is some kind of restriction , like the person i''m trying to impress or the action i''m interpreting. He smiles at me and pats my head. ¡°Here you go young¡¯n, but i''m afraid you''ll have to content for raw wolf meat, by the way why do you need it for¡±. He ask while handing two brochettes and the change from the silver coin. I point at Alatea thats lurking in my feets. ¡°Mmm its weird to find a white one in this territory, and it actually eats its own brethren?¡± He rubs lightly his grown beard while looking at her. ¡°Are you perhaps a tamer?¡±. ¡°A tamer?¡± ¡°Yes, the ones that make monster their companions and strengthen them as their master, with the advantage to actually be able to see their state just like¡ He pauses for a moment but doesn''t continue. Perhaps I should investigate this, because when previously I tried to look at Alateas stats I got a message about not having the necessary skills. ¡°No, But Im indeed interested in learning¡± I say to hi pretty excitedly. He smiles at me. ¡°Are you perhaps in the goddess lessons?¡±. Strange, is the second person to ask me and when I answer that I am, the second to smile at the answer, of course this man smile is not creepy like the human mask guy¡¯s. Still it concerns me how people are interested in that course. ¡°Ok i''ll teach you about that if you first come and learn from me¡± Learn?... Exactly what would I be learning?.. I have six months Im sure Ill be capable of successfully completing his teachings. ¡°I accept¡± I say while giving a slight bow and crossing my arm along my chest.

Charisma+2

Quest Meat! A butchery owner has proposed to teach you how to handle yourself around the meat. Reward: Butcher job Unknown

He looks at me strangely. "Lad, are you a noble?". Am I, I don''t really know. ¡°Why is that?¡± "Well, is the way you are acting, of course without the demerit which causes us common folk to hate you". ¡°Demerit?¡± ¡°You know, that superiority complex they have, of course some of them are lower than trash and that we can in no way retaliate against them.. At least inside the city¡±. He whispers the last bit, but i manage to hear him. ¡°What are you going to teach me?¡±. I ask him with some intrigue which clearly shows in my face and provokes a loud unrestrained laugh from him. ¡°I''m going to teach you about meat!¡±. ¡°Meat?¡± ¡°Yes, don''t worry it will result pretty useful in the future¡ When are you finishing class tomorrow?¡±. I fathom the time it''ll take me to reach this place and of course some unfathomable accident it may happen and answer him "Not until after midday" "OK, then come to grab a bite, and of course you can bring your parents" He says while looking at my companions waiting for me at a near distance. I stuff the bronze coins he gave me in my money pouch and proceed to enter the store. I find myself inside a room with a large counter made of glass as to be capable to see the wears; the place looks pristine with not even a grain of dust, accentuating the white floor, It even reflects my image which makes me quite embarrassed as it show a dirt covered face, which makes me remind I have not cleaned myself since I got out of the tomb. Behind the counter I see two people, one is a scraggy looking man, clearly his body has seen better times as he is badly malnourished, besides him there is girl around my age with long ears like the rest of the elves in the city but her hair and eyes red as blood, apart from the showy eyes and hair she is wearing a big chunky collar. Without looking me in the eyes, she tries to catch my attention, "Is there anything you needed, sir?" She finished saying after continuously trying to avert her eyes from mine as I try to make eye contact with her. As I''m about to ask for wolf meat, a group of ten people enter, nine of them behind a fat man with a creepy smile plastered in his face. "Hello" He says while ignoring all existences apart from the red haired girl behind the counter, and now not only his mouth but his eyes as well show creepiness, I guess that how I''m going to call him, Mr creepiness. "I come here to buy a slave" says Mr creepiness. Slave!!? I don''t like that word, I don''t know what it means but when I heard it a knot appears in my throat and causes me and uncomfortable feeling. *I can''t agree more, slavery is not something one should be proud to mention in broad daylight like this so well called Mr creepiness is doing, slavery is what makes an individual own the right of another one, not like a person paying to perform a job, but a person paying a third to own the right of freedom form another being, the right to eat, the right to live, and to die, its a despicable act and its plausible for you to get that kind of feeling* Its the first time he talked that long, but I can''t agree with him more. "We sell meat, nothing else" A dry voice answers him. When I turn around to the voice direction, I see the scraggy man standing in front of the girl, while she is laying on the floor, clearly scared of Mr creepiness. He smacks his lips repeatadly. "A fine meat is what I want to buy" He says without averting his eyes from the girl, which provokes a slight cry from her. "We sell meat" the scraggy man repeats. Suddenly Mr creepiness eyesight turns to the scraggy man, he mouth still in a creepy smile, but his eyes no longer smile. "I think is the third time I come to this filthy commoner place, with the prospect to buy her" He says while looking around at the immaculate clean place, only lacking the lascivious decoration the mansions in the nobles district have. "I''ve been patient, this time, I''ll take her" He says while gesturing to his guards to step forward and makes themselves useful. An elf dressed in slightly better equipment than the rest steps forward. Unlike the previous guards I''ve seen this one''s personality can be defined at one glance, and is one similar to Mr creepiness , one that stipulates his superiority . He unsheathes his sword, mutters "Veteran pressure" and instantly the air in the room becomes heavier, not to the point of wanting to leave, but a slightly uncomfortable hot air travels from him to the rest of the room. At least that''s what happens for me and his group, but the scraggy man and the girl are postdated on the floor making noticeable pain noises. A clamor outside is made and I clearly see a group of city patrols impeding the owner to enter the store, now I see why he said one can''t freely confront the nobles, and of course that some of them are lower than trash, although offending the trash. The two behind the counter are suffering I can hear them, while Mr creepiness is has a sadistic smile which reaches his eyes. Even the guards are smiling, have they fallen with him, has the city fallen with them, can no one confront them... I will. *Are you sure?, there''s is no comeback once you do* I''m sure, I''ll save them, I''ll save her, I can''t allow this, I don''t need to kill them, but I want to make him think twice before doing this again. *Fine, I''ll help you, just follow my directions* "Majestic oppression" The lead guard pressure fades, and he is astonished as well as all the guards, except Mr creepiness, who is still gloating in the two suffering. "Against defenseless people, you dare to oppress them" my voice is larger and oppressing, even I who notice it. "You are scum serving scum" I say while sending a sharp glance to Mr creepiness, to which he continues gloating. Some rustle and punches can be heard from outside a black fog which formed in the entrance impeding the light to come in and making the ambience darker. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. At this point the guards are on the floor. While the girl and the scraggy man have long lost consciousness. "And you" I say while pointing a finger to Mr creepiness and slowly walking to him "Slavery? How can you do that, you are trash, no, you are lower than trash" Mr creepiness for the first time take notice of my existence, and that, that sealed his fate. He looks around to his fallen comrades, they try to get up as Mr creepiness sends a cold stare at them and of course some well placed kicks, but my pressure keeps luring on them making their struggle uneventful. Noticing his kicks won''t help them, he sends a cold glance at me. "You commoner, how dare you confront me, don''t you notice? I''m the law, no one can go against me!". "Hahaha, you are no one" with every word I say I see him caving even more, his face distorting in a cowl of despise and his ever present creepy smile fading. "A noble represent the pinnacle of chivalry, making the rest honour them through splendor, not through fear!" "Chivalry is long dead, and however has it is a poor fool, that begging to be trampled on" I notice his words too have effect on my majestic oppression. "Slavery?, slavery is a vile act if not the vilest, how can an ugly existence such as yourself be capable of becoming a noble, that''s what makes me wonder if this kingdom is as corrupt as is nobles or you are an isolated case". I won quite a bit advantage with those words, making him fall to the ground. "You are just saying that because you have not still tasted tender meat, one you do, hours of torture won''t be enough". He says in a desperate attempt to win over me. What did he just say?, tttaste tender meat?, ho-o-o-ours of torture?, I look at his eyes and see no such hint of lying, I look at the girl behind the counter, she has my age, an age where one should be playing, I imagine dozens of kids just like her. "How many" I say to him in an incredible cold voice. "Hundreds, I promise I can lend you some of them you just need t" But I don''t let him finish the despicable phrase, I approach at a steady walking speed, making the ambient tremble with my rage, tarnishing the pristine floor with dark marks wherever I walk, the guards screaming in agony, but Mr creepiness is nailed to the floor, he doesn''t feel pain but can''t stand, the only thing avoiding me killing him is the hope of somehow saving the children. I grab his hair and yank him, meeting his eyes with mine. "Where are the children" He looks at me with unbelief. Sensing that is the last thing he will ever say, he finishes with the most devastating sentence. "Of course they are dead, the five thousand forty three of them" He showed a smile that reach his eyes, and is the last thing I see of him because the next moment screams of anguish can be heard from everyone in the room except the two behind the corner, everyone of them burned by a black fire.

Majestic Opresi¨®n updated!

Majestic Opresi¨®n You generate majestic aura that oppresses your enemies and awe the rest. This skills depends greatly on nobleness stat. Creatures in higher level require more level and nobleness. Additional skills can be triggered. Level can be bypassed depending on development of situations.

Chivalry +10

Charisma +10

Level up!

I do not care about the messages, I just can''t seem to take of my mind Mr creepiness last words, and I''m sure he did it on purpose. All those children, killed, and not just killed, I''m certain, by the way he looked at the girl, he did unbelievable things to them, acts of utmost depravity. But what can I do, I already killed him in my momentary rage. *There may be others* Others?, other children? or living trashes? *Both, and you should do something about them* But what can I do? *You can kill them, every single one of them* I can?. *Yes, you can* But what about the children? *... you can save them too, and get revenge for the deceased ones*

Quest acquired! Cleansing of the corrupted This kingdom is corrupted by its slavery antics, no matter who you are no mather what you are, you can be a slave and once you become one, there is no longer a future for you. Go forth and cleanse this kingdom of this depraved act, get revenge for those victims that can no longer speak, but beware if you are found out, your freedom will be lost. Difficulty : C Reward: Unknown. Requirements for failure: If being found out.

I immediately accept this job, first I have to find out who they are, then kill them, all of them, without leaving a single clue of their existence, that means to kill all that who catch the slaves as well. ¡°Now, what to do about them¡± I say while looking at the two behind the counter, one a slave and the other one her owner. I promised I would do something about the slaves, their catchers and finally, their owners. I raise my twin daggers aiming at his neck and let them fall. *Wait* But immediately halt as the voice is speaking to me. *She is not her owner, she is her mother* ¡ This is clearly a man, an ugly malnourished one, but without thinking twice a man. *This is a woman, just drop a couple of blood drops and see what happens* I''m quite acceptable but I heed his words and cut a little into my finger, letting the drops fall into his, or her mouth. Over time her once ugly mans face becomes a little plumper, and I sure distinguish her womanly face becoming healthier and healthier, as to not letting her heal completely I remove my finger from atop her mouth. ¡°What is she?¡± *A vampire, a pretty ancient one as it can walk freely on the sunlight, and her daughter that can do the same because of her mixed heritage* He says while hinting at the girl with a slave collar and the man outside as her father. The mangled pieces of churned bodies remain in the floor, should I do something creative?, I will keke, to show them i''m coming for them all. After finishing my deeds I head out using a side door that leads to an empty alley aside from the piles of trash that emit a foul odor. Walking leisurely after finishing a fine job but still hungry after the meat I bought burned down with the rest of, lets call meat around me. After looking for a moment through the crowd forming outside the shop I find my two skeletal companions waiting for me. The once colorfull world ive seen when reaching the city is now dyed black by the innumerable looks of emptiness in the slaves I see all over the concurred street. In the moment I approach them, behind me in the directions of the shop, screams of horror are heard, when I look the the black fog has disappeared and I''m sure they have found my gift. *You sure are evil, hahaha* I smirk, but it quickly fades as my stomach rumbles from hunger, luckily there are various stands to buy food, still it took me quite a while to find wolf meat for Alatea, which I found from a strange looking guy with a wide variety monster parts and some rare items like accessories and weapons which I assume he got from high Primal mana condensed monsters. After relieving my and Alatea¡¯s hunger we browse a little on the market and I get a couple of sheaths for my dual daggers, a large one for Baltz Giant sword, and since Eos doesn''t need one we got her some accessories from the man I bought the meat, earrings are out of questions, because you know, she doesn''t have ears, so I bought a nice necklace with a nice looking blue gem inserted in it. After that we keep browsing the stalls for something nice, which we can''t, and there is no way of knowing the difference between one objects and another without the fear of being scammed, so I guess I got something to look forward in the merchant lessons day. When the night comes upon us, which I can''t seem to distinguish because of my shadow eye and only find out because I timely used the watch command, we head out towards the inn. Today the inn seems quite different, the tables are directed to a small scenario mounted made of wood, and seems it can be removed at will, a bard is standing on it singing ballads about heroes and history, I enjoyed quite a bit, because this way I learn a little about the world. I''m quite intrigued about the weapons of the heroes which the Bard clearly depicts as weapons made by gods. Later on while we were eating, or at least me and Alatea, some dancers and musician come on stage, showing a grandiose show, matching their movements to the music, I should really learn to play some instrument. After the third presentations it is already more than twelve in the night and I feel quite sleepy so I head out with Alatea to the room, Balt and Eos tried to come with us but I say to watch the rest of the shows as I already know they are going to get mighty boring through the night. I open the windows and look into the view expecting something like before, and it sure does not disappoint, today three moon show up in the sky, one red, one light blue, and the silverish one from yesterday, the cicadas are singing noisily, but it is quite an expectable with the different bugs shining intermittently in different colors matching the moons, which if I remember were created by, according to a legend sang by the bard, three sisters who were infatuated from a man, promising to correspond to them after a gruesome war, when the war ended he found their bodies killed by their enemies, Gaia feeling pity on them, made them the moons and him the sun, promising to make them reunite once every five years. Remembering the stories the bard sang to me and the audience I fall asleep with Alatea sleeping atop of the pillow next to me. Chapter XI After writing this (it was different and shorter) my sister told me I should inscribe myself in a madhouse and that my mind is perverted and twisted, what do you think? Also try to figure out who the father son pair are before reaching the end! All chapter is complete now, wait for next chapter. Chapter 11 I was born to an ancient lineage, adept at managing certain products, born in a motherless family by tradition. Rightly called Hardhandealer, by our ancient peers, and the name stuck as our family one. When I was little that name signified nothing to me, the only thing I knew was my father, who raised me caringly, nothing was missing in my childhood where I was presented to our respectable profession, that of slavers. As I was growing I saw how my father was delighted by his, so as I soon as I could I selected slaver as my profession, did not regret it then don''t regret it now. The approving look my father gave me when I gave him the news won''t ever fade from my memory. Time passed and with the close tutelage from him I learned the right way to conduct our trade, how to check the health and quality from a slave, how to look for future prospect, and at the same time catch them, there were various ways, but to know them first I had to know of the types of slaves. First came the poor, it could be anyone, one that joined voluntarily by offering their freedom in exchange of money, ones that were orphans and easily lured in our hands, and of course ones we catched by means of connections or by force. Second came the variants, those were slaves since birth, the only difficulty in gaining their ownage was finding them, and of course buying them of their current owners, of course if the variant seemed expensive and of good quality we always could dispose of the owner, I never really knew why the variants were different from the rest, I always counted them as higher quality products and never cared about the overtone of why they were, they just were and are slaves at birth. I remember once I asked why, my father just shrugged and said if I ever wanted to know, I wouldn''t be a good slaver, because slaves problems don''t matter, the only thing that matters is how much are we going to get from them. First and second, could be found in the nine kingdom area, but the third and last category was fairly difficult, because one had to travel to the wilderness to find them. And by law one cannot sell the being captured but had to keep it and sell its offspring. So in a way it was a long term business commitment. After raising the offspring a little until their childhood was over, then one could sell them and gain an enormous benefit, why was it so big?, thats because one first had to catch the being, if it did not reproduce asexually one had to find it a mate, this was done usually by an agreement between fellow slavers, because finding two of the same race was quite difficult, more if the race was particularly rare. After finally getting the slave to reproduce one had to actually pay to know how to raise them, and those bloody brokers asked for a whole lot of money to sell the information, of course one could buy the information from elsewhere, just¡ if you were found out, the consequences would be catastrophic, just to say if you and your entire direct family were killed, that punishment would be light. After rising the offspring to at least to a certain age, one could finally sell them, by another annoying law each and every race had a specific age when one could begin selling them, if you ask my father that is actually a huge disappointment because by his word and actually his favorite phrase which I only could understand after I turned thirteen, the childhood is the tenderest age. Back on topic my family earnestly invested in the first and second category, and we actually gained a huge profit, I did not know why, until My thirteenth birthday. Late at night my father ask me to come with him, to show me my birthday gift, we went down the basement, where the cellar and some rare variant we owned were locked in their respectives cells. I did not usually came down here, but my father insisted earnestly to come with him, after coming a certain distance in a corner of the room and after pulling an unsuspicious torch, an aperture opened. I was quite surprised I didn''t know about this, we walked in the dark passage that was slowly being light up by torches magically enchanted to when a person approached them. After a brief walk, we arrived in a square shaped room where my father poured some magic in a magic array, making the floor open in half and a old wooden lift appeared. My father signaled for me to stand besides him on the left, and with a little more puring we descended in the darkness, only to be surprised by the view, the grandiose and magnificent view and sounds of hundreds of slaves being tortured under the unshielding hands of their captors. After looking a little more I notice the people playing the torturer roles were of course were nobles and upper echelons of the kingdom, and i realised where the money came from. I looked at my father and a sense of pride could be seen on his face. After arriving on a stone platform, we found ourselves surrounded by the opulence of sculptures dep¨ªcting incredibles feat of torture, I recognized several of them as my forefathers and one of them of my father, mutilating a small kid, and thats when I knew the meaning of my father¡¯s favorite phrase. ¡°Come¡± my father said, ¡°Let me teach you all about our magnanimous profession¡±. He then lead me to several of the nobles, introducing them to me, letting them know that in the future I would be their host, he also asked them to teach me several techniques they developed, they first were reserved about them, but when they saw me earnestly learning they softened and letting me participate, correcting my technique with each mistake i made. That very day, I got the torturer profession. After I told my father the only thing he could be was genius, and he said it repeatedly, I was very proud of myself. While muttering how proud he was of me he led me to a different stone cubicle, laying on a table was a sleeping boy, no much older than me, I dare say he was the same age as me and that of course was made on purpose by my father. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.The first thing the nobles taught me, was how to tie them up, this had to be done carefully as to not make any mistake, if you did and the slave escaped it would be disastrous. After making sure the blinds were tight and could not be untied, came to time to wake up the future tortured, how the nobles including my father usually called their victims. He woke up after some burns to his tights were made, of course with a scream. His continuous begings and swearings while I tortured him were like songs to my ears, and more when I added my torturers abilities to my repertoire. After four hours of continuous hours he lost consciousness. That signals the job of the day was done, and I knew a long week of torture marathons was waiting for me, more than feeling apprehensive to that I feel quite excited. When I looked back I saw my father who gestured an approving nod with his head and his widely characteristic smile. On the way back he told me my mistakes and how to fix them in addition to suggestion for future sessions. Along the week my father came with me, in his word it was merely to instruct me, but I knew better, he obviously wanted to torture some tender meat not far from my cubicle. By the end of the week a group of tortures were watching how I finished my torture, when it all ended a loud cheer could be heard. With time I became acquainted with all our clients, and they in exchange taught me multitude of different techniques. I found out only our family and a few selected in other kingdoms owned the Tortured chambers. So in total Nine places like this. And of course the grand chamber of Brehogues, the biggest and of course lost chamber of torture, lost would be wrong, because everyone knew where it was, sadly no one knows how to open it. Time passed by, torture became a hobby to me, with torture tough and stressful weeks could be a breeze with a torture session every two days, which I found out makes the tortured panic not knowing when I would go back. Days bacame week, week years, until today, today changed everything. My father had been frequenting the not so poor district, intending on buying a variable. He offered to come with him, but I said I would keep looking for some future prospects while he did his business, I knew he and I would be safe, because we never left our mansion without our guards. I was wrong, so wrong. Screams were heard, and a giant man was struggling to enter the shop my father went to aquire a new slave. The entrance was clouded with a black impregnable and impenetrable black fog. Nothing could be heard from the inside, so me and my guards approached as close as we could while leting the patrol of local guards restrain the man. Not too late agonizing screams could be heard from the inside, fearing for my father¡¯s life I instructed my guards to break down the barrier, but no matter how strong they hit their weapons against it, nothing could be done. At least fifteen minutes later, the fog rescinded, and the gore could be seen in all its splendor, I was attracted to it until I saw my father¡¯s body burned and mangled forming words that made me pop a vein in my forehead. ¡°The cleansing of the elven Kingdom has begun¡±. In that moment I swore to find the culprit lock him, and torture his family and friends in front of him making them go mad and lose the hope in their eyes while watching him or her. But first I have to wait until all cools down to finish my father last job.I think while watching the burly man hug a woman and strangely a slave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I see shadows, depicting a sad story. First I see a couple, that grew up together, finally having a son, becoming a family, owning a house, celebrating the baby¡¯s first birthday. Then it all became bleak, an abominable man wrecking the picture with slashes of its knife. The child losing its parents, no family to care for him,he went to a place, where hundreds of other in the same situation reside. His life was uneventful, filled with sorrow at not remembering his parents, with his inability to get friends, and obstratised for being a lonely person. The only thing that saved his mind where books, where he could submerge himself in the fantasy stories, where he could become anyone do anything and finally have a family. This went on for several years, with every year becoming more and more inmersed, in consequence becoming more alienated from his peers. Until one day, he was called from the directors office, knowing not to ask and not to ignore he went straight there, he knew it wasnt about adoption, there was no way to be adopted, he was an outcast and as an outcast the people that came to adopt saw him as such. He knocked the door as he knew he should, a deep voice urged him to enter, it was the voice of the director that ruled the facility with iron rules that mustn''t be broken, if you did¡ its better if you didn''t so you did not need to find out. At this point the shadows become images, the images become reality and I am standing in the office, ¡°Hello Adam, I''m glad you came¡± Said the director, a shiver run down my spine, I have never dream of this, I don''t remember a single dream, I only remember the thing after waking up in the tomb, but I intuitively know, I should be afraid. I try closing my eyes, but I cant Im just a doll that moves by itself. ¡°There¡¯s someone here to see you¡± At this point I start trembling, my teeth chattering, my breath becoming erratic, I know what is going to happen, don''t ask me why I just do. The woman turns her head along her body from the chair she is sitting in. She is a beautiful woman, with a warm-hearted look, but I can''t stop the cry from my throat neither the tears falling from my face. She smiles at me, but I know better, that is not a true smile, even Mr creepiness smile could be considered normal compared to this one. ¡°Hi Adam¡± She says nonchalantly oblivious to what''s going trough my mind. At that point it all becomes black I try opening my eyes without stopping the scream; a bony hand falls on my head, patting my hair as to calm me down. After several minutes of sobbing I do and fall asleep again.