The Rescue and Discovery

There are many cities that don’t care whether or not someone is a werewolf. This city is not one of them.

It is not without reason though. The city is within close proximity of werewolf territory, and the history of the land was filled with battles and wars with werewolf clans. Often the werewolves would send one of their own into the city to slaughter aimlessly.

The whole conflict left a bad impression of werewolves in general.

The death penalty was not the first resort either. First they would attempt to cure the lycanthropy. However the Cursed werewolf I created could not be cured by normal means. They would require the purification spell of a pope or pope candidate from the highest rankings of the clergy. No one would immediately jump to this conclusion, therefore when the usual purification spell failed, they would assume it is a new strain that cannot be cured, thus the infected should immediately be put to death to prevent further infection

If Talia infected someone however, they would only turn into a normal werewolf. Unless of course they were cursed.

Explaining the situation would take too much time, I had no legal way to free her before her execution. Therefore I would have to do it by force.

Talia was being held in a courtyard within a cage. The cage itself was in the middle of a magic circle that prevented magic from being cast. The point of the cage was to forcefully expose the convicted to the light of the full moon. Werewolves cannot help but transform under such conditions, thus the accusation of lycanthropy could be proven beyond a doubt.

The courtyard was also surrounded by about a hundred guards with several being very high level.

To free Talia, I would have to break into the courtyard, release her, and escape together. Breaking into the courtyard was simple. I could do so with my eyes closed. Freeing Talia and escaping was another matter entirely.

For the sake of imagery, image that a small animal was buried beneath a fire ant nest. How would you remove it without getting bitten, or allowing the animal to be harmed? It is easy to reach into the soft nest and grab the animal, but the act of doing so sets everything mad.

The main problem is that there is not supposed to be a way to save her. She stumbled upon a scenario with no escape option. Creating one from nothing should be beyond any player’s ability. That being said, recently I unlocked another spell for the dark spell armlet. It is an evil spell but its use is unavoidable if I wish to save Talia.

Dark Corruption. The spell summons weak dark spirits to possess target weak willed beings. The possessed follow simple orders for a short time. The possession is not permanent and at the spell’s current proficiency level I can only control a maximum of two people at once, but it is the only way.

Using this spell, my carded monsters and minions, and all the information at my disposal, I’ll have to do what can’t be done.

The plan begun at sundown. A minotaur was released in front of the guard station. It was weakened, but a level 350 monsters is still strong. With several quick cleaves of its great axe over a dozen soldiers died instantly. Soon the stronger guards were summoned. Although they did not match the creature’s strength, they were more than enough to fell the wounded monster.

At the same moment the minotaur collapsed, I used Dark corruption on two of the four guards that finished it.

They collapsed for a moment, but recovered quickly. The others thought it was a minor exhaustion from the fight.

I calmly walked up to them and the two possessed guards lead me inside.

One of the men stationed there asked, “Hey, who is she?”

He was answered by one of them with, “I have a few questions for her. Carry on.”

“Sir.” He nodded and remained silent.

After entering I handed one of them a deck of lizard knights. The commands were issued as I cast the corruption spell, so there was no need to say anything.

The other lead me the courtyard.

Within a few minutes, alarms were being raised and armed men were running by us.

The second possessed man was ordered to release all of the lizard knights in the training courtyard opposite Talia’s imprisonment.

After entering the courtyard, my escort followed his order and proceeded to take out his weapon and aimlessly slaughter every soldier he saw.

I ran over to the wall and lifted the cell keys off a hook. The man who should be guarding the keys and the man who should be guarding the cell were defending their lives against the mad knight that was trying to kill them.

Talia saw me and turned away ashamed. I hadn’t thought about it from her perspective, but she may have thought this was her fault, and felt bad for troubling me.

I unlocked her cell door and she said, “I’m sorry. Please, this is all my fault.”

I looked around to check how many guards were still in the area. Several who were on there way to fight off the mad knight suddenly noticed a woman had just released the prisoner.

I turned back to Talia and said, “Not now, we must flee.”

She nodded her head and followed me out. After we are beyond the range of the anti-magic circle, I told her to get us on top of the wall.

She instantly cast earth magic to raise the ground beneath us to the height of the wall. From there we move onto the path towards the city’s outer wall.

Along the way I throw hobgoblins, bandits, lizard knights, and another minotaur.

I fill up the rooftop paths with a large assortment of monsters, creating an absolute chaotic mess of things.

For the guards we encounter along the way, Talia used earth magic to throw them to the courtyard below.

That however only worked on small groups on the narrow walkway. Before reaching the outer wall, we came across twenty soldiers of substantial level and skill.

“Surrender! You are skilled but you are outmatched.”

Instead, I pull out another card and tear it in half. From it appears a book.

I press it against Talia and say, “Learn it.”

She immediately said, “Learn,” and the book disappeared.

The commander from before shouted, “Archers! Ready!”

Before he can say fire, Talia instantly cast Magnetic field three times. The three points she cast it on had a wide enough range to affect most of the group.

Suddenly the men were pulled together a bit, The archer’s aim was thrown off a bit, but not enough to miss from this distance.

The archers however did not get a chance to re-aim. In the next instant, Talia cast Eruption.

The ground beneath the group burst upwards. The wide area spell was a great example of a powerful earth magic. But Talia wasn’t done yet.

Before the rocks and debris could land, they suddenly increased speed and a shower of stones struck the group from above.

Although she had never used the spell, Talia naturally knew the best combination to use it.

First magnetize the enemy group, then use eruption. Eruption not only brought damage from below and threw the enemy off balance, it also caused a massive amount of loose rocks to shoot into the air. Last, use Stone strike, which causes loose rocks to shoot at target enemies. This spell is not very accurate, but due to the targets being magnetized prior, the iron containing stones naturally seek the targets and even increase speed, dealing even greater damage.

Magnetic Field, Eruption, Stone Strike. Combining the fact that Talia can instantly cast magic without casting, this was a combination that was almost undefeatable.

Of course for now her mana pool could not sustain her casting speed. Eruption on its own was a powerful spell that took many thousands of mana points to cast. That and depending on the size of the group, Magnetic Field and Stone Strike would have to be cast repeatedly. Even for this small group, to magnetize the lot required three castings. Stone strike had to be cast twice in succession to strike of the group with the debris from eruption.

The group fell. From what I saw five of them died. The rest were too injured to move. We ran past them and over to the wall. Talia used earth magic again to get us over, but after that her mana was spent.

I of course planned for this and had two horses tied near the wall with a bandit guarding them.

We rode off into the night as fast as the horses could take us.

Our destination was the next kingdom over. It would not take long for bounty posters with our faces to be spread throughout the mand, but bounties were only good in the kingdom they were issued, so a criminal record does not extend beyond borders.

We camped out that night when the horses grew too tired to run any more.

Talia remained silent mostly. She explained earlier what happened. Her class quest turned out to be a simple extermination quest. After completing it she returned, but due to bad luck passed in front of a guard dog that happened to be trained to recognize the smell of werewolves.

Something as simple as that lead to this situation. She was immediately arrested and questioned. But she remained silent. They tried casting purification on her, but the dog still reacted. So they locked her in the courtyard cell and awaited the full moon.

I told her it was not her fault but mine.

She didn’t believe me. She thought it was her fault that I had to flee the kingdom.

Suddenly I felt something. A cold feeling ran down my very existence. It had been so long since I felt this that I had almost forgotten what it was. But I knew it. I knew it well.

The eyes of god was upon me. Not the god of the outer world, but the god of this world. The goddess of Versailles was looking right at me.

I cannot explain how I know these kinds of things. It is simply my nature I suppose. When the god of a world looks at me, I notice it.

I could not help but sigh. I had overdone it. I did not use a single cheat ability during the rescue, but I had still done something that should not be possible to do. A Red Flag had gone up. And now she was looking right at me.

It wasn’t like there was a giant eye in the sky staring down on me. The AI, the program known as the goddess of versailles was looking over my data. Whether she had been instructed to do so by her master, the creator of this world, or whether she herself decided to look over my data on a whim, either way, the result was the same.

She was not just looking at my current state. She was combing over every single detail and tiny bit of data that passed through my existence in this game.

This was what I had been trying to prevent since coming here.

Overall on my account, a cursory glance from a normal AI maintenance program will reveal that nothing is wrong. The goddess on the other hand was a different story. By analysing every bit of data, she would know that I had gained data without a source. She would know that I knew things that I should not have been able to know. It would not take very long, but eventually she would come to the conclusion that somehow I was hacking.

Overall, none of this would be too bad. If the Goddess were an ordinary maintenance program, suspicions would be all she had. But the goddess was a hacker too. After identifying me as a suspicious individual, she would investigate everything about me. Eventually she would discover that I do not exist.

That is what it means to be under the eye of the goddess of Versailles.

After that point my account would be locked. If I wanted to unlock it, I would need to come forward, thus revealing more information about myself. The act of locking my account would be more to gain information about me than to stop me from cheating. But in gaining information, the goddess would use it to attempt to discern my method of cheating.

My only choice was to leave the game and create a new character. That was my only choice. That was what it means to be under the eye of the goddess of Versailles.

I look back over to Talia. Perhaps it is for the best. I intended on having her follow me for the rest of my days here, but in doing so she became completely dependent on me. She can fight an army on her own but if captured in a city she has no idea what to do.

I break the news gently to Talia. That it is time for me to leave this world. That from now on she’ll have to get by on her own.

She cries at first, but I comfort her.

The next morning when she woke up, I wasn’t there. I preempted the forced log out and left the world. In my place, I left her a deck of cards, all my possessions, and my Dark Spell armlet.

I explained the situation to the dark spirit within and it had no problem. It had become docile over time, and did not mind switching owners.

With the Dark Spell Armlet, Talia at least would have a companion.

As for me. I started a new character under a different name with a new set of Irises. This time I’ll play without a single cheat. I even created a personal history for this identity so that the goddess would not find nothing if I was investigated again.

I would like to find Talia within the game, but being her companion again would set a red flag. I think she’ll be ok though, I raised her to be strong. Of course I’ll still check in on her every once in a while. If it means protecting her I’ll cheat and break the whole system if I have to. But that’s a story for another day.

—The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you wish to create a new account?

“Yes.”

The End.

Thankyou for reading until the end of this story. Apologies for the abrupt ending, but I didn’t want to leave it without an ending.

By the way, for those who did not know this, the account Curiousbeing, is my second ff account. My first account is Gnomebob. For those of you who have heard of me, I’m that Gnomebob, author of Tales of Adventure, Chronicles of the Blade, Dragon’s Road, and now, Maker of Heroes.

I wrote this story on a different account to see how many people would pick up on something that is a pretty good story, without having my name attached to it.

The results were a bit disheartening. I would put my heart into writing a quality chapter for this story, then write a low quality chapter for something like Chronicles of the blade. 24 hours later, the chapter I wrote for this Story would have 400 views, while the shitty chapter I wrote for Chronicles of the Blade would have 2k views.

But, that’s the effect of name branding.

For those of you who found this story, congratulations. People should put more effort into finding random stories on this site to read. Now that LMS is not even on this site, that is all this site has.

Now then. The reason I ended this story, was because I had an idea for another story.

So far, every story I have written, basically has no plot or character development. I have written a lot, but I am still an ametuer writter. My next attempt at a story will have both, in depth, detailed plot, and full character development. Also, I intend to base the next story off another tale. Like how Dragon’s Road is a LMS DBZ knockoff, so too will my next story be a RR version of another story many of you should have heard of. Fullmetal Alchemist.

I looked around a bit, and other than characters like Crane that have Alchemy as some potion making skill, no one has tried to make any kind of Alchemist ff.

So my next ff will star an Alchemist MC. He will have full access to alchemy skills, of which I am still working on. I researched these off various other Alchemist class sheets. The current skill list is as follows:

-Form Alteration

Change shape, composition remains unchanged

-Transmutation

Changing a material’s composition

-Alchemic Extraction

Using alchemic skills to create concoctions and items that normal pharmacists and potion makers could never make.

-Infusion

Uses alchemist’s mana to increase potency of extracts.

Items enhanced or altered by Infusion can only be used by alchemist that infused their mana into it. Alterations made through Infusion degrade over time and must be re-infused to reclaim potency.

I won’t spoil too much as for the story, but I intend to have RR equivalents for most of the best known characters from FMA making repeated appearances throughout the story. The story itself will also be my own adaptation of a RR version of something similar to the Brotherhood storyline.

I wanted to call the story Fullmetal Alchemist, but a few people complained I should name it something different. Maybe I’ll go with something like Halfmetal Alchemist. or something..

It probably won’t come out until mid or late february. And as I write it, I won’t be writing much else. I might release a chapter of something every once in a while, but I would not recommend holding your breath. Sorry.

But hopefully it will be worth the wait.

-Gnomebob