Set-up chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enough about dungeons. The rest of the information in the library was boring history. Even if it would have the possibility of giving me an enlightenment of something, I just can’t face history. It is too boring. Leaving the library feeling mentally exhausted, I went to an inn since it is currently nighttime. Paying 1 silver and 10 coppers to the receptionist for the night stay and 3 meals/ day, I took the key and went to by arranged room upstairs. Opening the door, I see a plain room with a wooden table, chair, and a decent bed that could be slept on. I went towards the bed and laid face down on my bed and slept.

Obviously I didn’t sleep at all. Just closed my eyes. I feel relaxed when I do so. As if all my accumulated mental stress had flown away. I decided that I shall close my eyes for the rest of this night so I could feel refreshed in the morning. I shall call this “Undead Slumbering.” Ah, such bad naming sense. Feeling a bit of self-pity for myself, I got up and went downstairs to the dining area and went to an empty seat. Nemaus finally waking up on my shoulders, he yawned. Well, he had been sleeping ever since I was reading in the library. I have been thinking a while, but what is the goal in this world right now? Why am I working as an adventure? I have been conflicted with these questions, but the only answers I had been able to come up with is because I am bored. Dismissing my thoughts, at the same time a waitress brought the meal to me and left shortly after. Bread, lettuce, fish with sauce on it was in the plate of food. Breaking them into pieces, I fed Nemaus.

“Papa, this is so good.” Nemaus is chewing happily and eating the food.

“I told you to not talk. I wouldn’t want unnecessary trouble.

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

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

Goblin Subjugation

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

1 silver per goblin ear

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

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

Brown lumps of shit appeared out of his butt,anus, ass, asshole, and came in contact with the clothes and bought from the clothing shop. I didn’t have any spells to clean my clothing, so I took off my top and pulled out a magic item ‘Infinite Water’ with the shape of a jug and poured it on my clothes while scrubbing it. Honestly, it could have gone worse if Nemaus shat out liquid instead. Was able to get the smell out. Taught him to get off of me when he is discharging out waste from his body.

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

Nemaus

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

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

[Death]

Progress: 15%

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

My guess is that in a week or so he would be able to have completed his absorption and capable of using whatever he is can use in the future. Ah, yes. He had grown a 2nd tail this morning. Believe how shock I was. But I didn’t have it in mind for a long time since I was expecting it sooner or later. I heard that nine-tailed foxes are only suppose to be growing a tail every 100 years. This is a little odd. I am worried that if he was shown to have 2 tails, it would be only trouble coming. I asked him if he could somehow hide one of his tails. One of Nemaus’s tail disappeared by going into the other tail. Maybe Illusion Magic?

Before going to get out of the city and travel and subjugate goblins, I am going to continue browsing through the shops that I had stopped doing ever since my first quests. With the incident with Nemaus, I wasn’t quite in the mood for shopping. and went to the library after all. Taking this chance to browse, I strolled down the many pathways. Reaching to a building that could rival a modern day mansion, I arrived to the Magic Shop Library where everything related to magic is sold there. Coming into the huge shop, my first impression was ‘Holy’. The shelves and books looked as if it was newly cleaned out and properly taken care of.

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

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

“Have no clue what it is talking about.”

This book says that magic can only be used by people who are born with the ability to use it. The chances of a person being born with the ability to use magic is 1:100. I guess it isn’t that bad of a ratio if this world is highly populated. It starts introducing various sorts of magic like mind magic, buff magic, curse magic, and also the element magic which dragons use, but weaker power compared to them. They say that magic comes from the soul and in order to use magic, you must have an some percentage of affinity to it. But it isn’t that relevant. Almost everyone who are capable of magic can use all sorts of magic. Just how much power and control can you exert over that one. Also…...

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

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

Basic Mana Storage Ring

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

Magic Low-Booster Ring

Increase magic damage by 6%. Other magic such as paralyze and curses are increased by 4% efficiency.

Lightning Scroll 4th rank

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

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

“Hiring Guards! On the way to Village of Furtp! Anyone!? I’m paying 5 gold for escorting me. Anyone!? Need one more!”

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

“Oh Lad, you want to get hired as an escort right?”

“That is why I am here obviously.”

“Will you tell me what are you capable of and who is that pet of yours on your shoulder?”

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

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

“Ridar Azzur, just recently hired for Wallis Drake. Nice to meet the 4 of you.”

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

“Mark’s my name.”-Mark

“Name’s Hudson, let’s do our best.”-Hudson

“Hi, I’m Kelly. Might you tell me where did you find such a cute pet”-Kelly(the female in the group)

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

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

“Alright everybody! It is time to head out!”-Wallis

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Maybe I should make the chapters even longer?

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

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