Ridar Azzur

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

Nemaus

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

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

[Death]

Progress: 3%

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Sir, your ring has been updated, and here is 7 silver and 50 coppers for the rewards from collecting the herbs,” he said while holding out the ring with both hands while bowing slightly, which may be how people shows respect towards another person. And he doesn’t seem to show that he knows or recognized who I am despite checking my ring. Does this mean they respect a person’s privacy? Taking my looting worth, I again went to the very last bulletin in this building and took another 5 herb collecting quest and inserted into by ring. With this I can rank up to E.

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

“Ok, Nemaus. I will take out some pork aga..,”

“Noooooo~, I am tired of it~.” Goddammit. I was going to expect something like this is going to happen whether you have a child or whatsoever, but sheesh, they need to know how to be grateful towards their circumstances. Nemaus,if I hadn’t even taken an interest towards your species, I wouldn’t have broken your seal your mother cast for whatever purpose it was supposed to be for. Show some gratitude will ya.

“......... Nemaus. If you become I picky eater, I will leave you…”

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

“ Alright, tell me what you want to eat when we get outside.”

Nemaus made a lovely fox smile, and snuggled me again. I can’t help but smile at him. It really felt as if I am a father now. Then I finally noticed the atmosphere. Everyone in the Adventurer’s building were looking at me and my pet including the old man at the counter. I felt quite awkward. I was really never the outgoing and social type. If anything, I’m a timid, shy, and usually doesn’t give a fuck type. But attention isn’t something I could give no fucks about. In any case, the people in this tavern must have noticed my pet speaking. Considering their reactions, talking animals are quite rare or even impossible.

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

I caught some of them saying something as dumb as,

“Hey hey, did you see that fox talk, what kind of fox is it?”

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

“Hey, let’s steal it. I bet a talking pet would be valuable even towards the nobles…”

‘........’ My illusioned eyes started to turn black while my normal red lights for pupils came out.

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

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

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

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

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

“Only one Nemaus.” Nemaus fox ears drooped down. Sorry, but if I have to keep up with your whims, the gold I currently have won’t last for 5 days. Nemaus nodding showing it understood, pointed at the most expensive dish on the menu.. Telling the waitress my order, I relaxed and stretched. Nemaus took a nap in the mean time while waiting for the meal to be ready. As I thought this, I looked at the other customers who were with their friends or women. There is also a family here too.

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

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

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

“Of course, go ahead and have a seat.”

“My gratitude.”

He sat on the chair belonging to the table I am using. He seemed to be looking at me, or is it Nemaus? Both ways, I will need to properly settle whatever issues he have with me. I don’t want to receive lots of attention.

“My you tell me Mister where you get that fox?”

“I have found him while traveling to this kingdom. Is there something you particularly want from me?’

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

“My apologies, but he isn't for sell.”

“How about 100 gold?”

“Not for sale.”

“110?”

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

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

Casting ‘Information Nullifier’ which messages won’t be able to be sent in an area, I get ready to fight with them. I continued to run but every second I slowed down until I came to a stop and turned around. A group of 10 appeared in front of my vision, all in hoods.

“Is there something you mobs want?”

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

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

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

‘Well, it is not like I need to ask them now anyways.’

“SOUL MANIPULATION!”

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

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

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

Nemaus

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

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

[Death]

Progress: 6%