Bunnykin or Bunny people, they belong to one of the largest races on Altenna, known as Beast race, Beast race possess a humanoid physiques with an animal features, for example Catkin possess cat like ears, long tails and furs. As for Bunnykin they possess long fluffy ears, bun fluffy tail and fur on several parts of their body. Normally when we think about Bunnykin, we picture them to be cute, bubbly and adorable, yet no, don't believe the anime stereotypes, hell don't believe any any stereotypes made from earth. Because I just meet one, and the only part that barely passed as a cute material was the fluffy white ear's.
"Boss.. what's wrong?...you don't look good..".( Karl)
"...Karl, I just got my dream shattered...".
"Huh?..why?...".( Karl)
"Look at this guy!... there's nothing, cute about this Bunnykin!...gosh!....".
".....Umm...Boss,...umm,..about that..this guy probably special amongst the Bunnykin..even me, I've never seen a Bunnykin this jacked up...umm..if it's make you any better, the females look much more decent.....so...have faith?..".( Karl)
"Hah~..forget it...just check him, also start treating his wound...".
Karl noded and started to treat the Jacked up Bunnykin. The reason I was in sudden slump was because, this Bunnykin was a Male, a Manly Man to be more exact. He is 2 meter high, brown haired and blue eyes, he got the masculine type face with strong features, and the one thing that changed my whole perspective was his overly jacked up body, although the muscle looks a little bit saggy due to Malnourished, but he doesn't lose his bulging muscular form. The easiest way to describe him was imagine a 2 meter high black bodybuilder with bunny ears on his head and bun tail on his bottom, forget cute, this guy was overflowing masculinity, the definition of Man. By the way, his name was Arnold, level 20, nothing really stand out from his status but one Unique passive skills [ Fast Learner ] which give him the ability to learn skills and increase his status point aqusition by 10% faster, he was also a Bunnykin warriors priest.
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Name: Arnold
Age: 19 ( 51 years life Spand)
Gender: Male
Race: Bunnykin ( Beast Race)
Class: Slave ( Warrior Priest)
Level: 20
Condition: Injured/Malnourished
Title: N/A
Status attributes:-
Vitality: 200 | Mana pool: 400
Strength: 65 | Dexterity: 56
Wisdom: 35 | Agility: 59
Magic:-
Life Magic (Lvl 5)
Healing Magic ( Lvl 2)
Skills:-
Unique:-
Fast Learner (Lvl N/A)
Passive:-
Strong Body (Lvl 4)
Active Non-Combat:-
N/A
Combat Skills :-
Active Combat:-
Body Shield ( Lvl Max)
Hard Hitter ( Lvl 2)
Passive Combat:-
Nimble Step ( Lvl 2)
Shield Master ( Lvl 5)
Affiliations:-
N/A
]
" Karl...does your community possess slaves?..".
"Huh?..of course,..when we usually get out, we would encounter other community.. sometimes we trade with them, sometimes we raid them..along the way we do obtain slaves for ourselves, it's fairly normal... nowdays there's a lot of people who would sell themselves for a single black bread...is something wrong boss?..".( Karl)
"..huh?.. Nothing... let's wait till he's awake..".
I don't really care about the slavery part, this is medieval fantasy world, this kind of thing was normal. But the things that bothered me was how they treat them, that maxed level [ Body Shield ] alone explained how horrendous the a slave experience was.
[ Body Shield ]
( Strengthen physical body to receive more damaged, if skill was activated, user body will temporarily be strengthen and bleeding will be slowed. Can only be used when fighting with no weapon or armour. )
In other words Meat shield, a sacrificial pawn, expendable resources. This guy have so many potential, I want him in my force, probably he can be my Ace Medic, but can he read?. Either way, he's going to become my subjects.
-- 1100 am --
4 hours has passed since we saved Arnold, we were waiting for him to wake up, relaxing my back on the wall, casually window shopping on the [Online Mall], Karl suddenly get up and looked at me.
"Boss.. should we go now?.. it's already 4 hours...we can just leave this guy here.. he's just a slave...we shouldn't waste more time on him....Boss..".( Karl)
Karl stop talking as he saw my hand up, what he said damp my moods.
"Karl...I already told you, we move or we stay.. it's up to me, what I say goes.....also, I decided to take this guy under my reign....so, you might have to refrain from calling him a slaves...after all, when he accepted my offer....you both fall into a same ranks........huh?...he passed out..".
I was actually pissed for the first time, I know he's rushed, But leaving someone behind just because he's a slaves, that doesn't sit well with me. Slave is a living being, I don't care if this kind of things happens to other but if it's something that I can meddled with, I will not allowed such things to happen. Karl need to know, that although I'm a bit lax, I also can get pissed. So, as I were warning him, i focus my anger and look at Karl menacingly, but upon seeing my cold stare, he shivered and passed out, on the ground.
[ New Unique skill obtained!]
[ Emperor Dignity ]
( A Unique passive/active skill, can only be obtained by possessing a royalty Class. [Emperor Presence] ( Passive AoE) will allow other below your class or levels to Revere and recpect your existance. [ Emperor Wrath] ( Active AoE/ Targeted) will put anyone you targeted under status Ailments ( Fear, Confused, Stressed, Unconscious) the effects will be Strengthen if the target was below your class or below your levels. )
".....don't expecting that...".
It's shocking actually to get this skill, I just pissed. it looks like right now I have a label on myself, thanks to the passive effect, it the same as having a big Labels on my head said [ King ]. Apparently the skill itself evolved due to my level and status, I guess it's relatively logic it's happened my collective status attributes already exceed 500 points. But the problem now, is I got 2 people unconscious, I guess I have to wait on them for now.
"I Should do something... it's kinda boring...I guess it's time to do some experiments..".
It's been awhile since I got a chance to test myself, now that I got free time, it's time to get full understanding of what I can do, I decided to run some tests on myself. 1st test was strength, I punched a solid stone wall, as a result I destroyed the wall entirely, I also can snap a steel sword into two with both hands. 2nd test Agility/reflex/speed, I can Sprint 200m in 8 seconds, I can evade bullets from point blank, and I can follow bullets path and cut them into 2 using a sword. In conclusion, I'm a freak, yep no doubt about it. For now I don't know if there's anything out there that were stronger than me, but at least in this Catacombs, I can easily defeat thousands of those Ferals single handedly.
Satisfied with my own performance, I head back to the room. Both of them were already awake, both of them already seems to get along well. As they saw me coming in, Karl was kneeling on one knee, while Arnold kneeled down with his head plastered on the ground ( Dogeza style).
"Bos..I mean Your Highness.. I'm..".( Karl)
"Forget It...I let it slide this time....but, remember next time, there will be consequences....I believe you already know, what and how, I do things...so, I hope you will served as an example for other's that will join us in the future....".
"Thank you your Highness!!.. This subject will take your word to his heart!...I will definitely be a great example as your loyal follower!..".( Karl)
"..Good...Arnold, how's your body?..".
I don't see any point of dragging this matter, I always said to him ' treat others like how you like to be treated' , it would take some time to follow my style. Once again, Karl fired up, I'm sure now that this guy has become my overly loyal subject. I turned to Arnold, he was still Dogeza with his head stick on the ground, when I called his name his entire body twitch.
"This lowly slaves body is good your Highness....I..I.. don't deserve your Highness and Sir Karl, kindness..".( Arnold)
"........I don't really mind if you want to stick with the formalities..but , right now.. I don't need all that...if you can just act normal, that would be helpful...".
"Yes, your highness.".( Arnold)
"Good,...now..why are you down here?..what happen?..".
"..The Master's has gone crazy!...they started to attack everybody.....".( Arnold)
Arnold when on about how he got here and what's going on. The situation has turned to worst the entire community has completely broken. The king faction@ Ferals, has started to go frenzy, and the resistance@ Karl buddies were shattered by the sudden attack by the crazed ferals and at the moment desperately running for their life. Arnold only managed to survive by running and defending himself using the Tower shield.
"I..I..I.. don't hurt the Master's your highness..Sir Karl!..I don't hurt them, I just pushed them away.... please, believe me!..".( Arnold)
To him, or to anyone who was a slaves, hurting or injuring anyone above their classes is a big offense that would incur death penalty, slaves is a property, they don't classified as a living being. That's how low slaves in this world, that's why Arnold desperately tried to appeal to us, especially me.
"...you should just kill them...".( Karl)
Karl interject with an upset voice.
"Well..you can't really blame him to act like he did.. he was tought to be like that...".
"Hmm... that's true..".( Karl)
"Anyway.... let's keep this simple, since we have to make a sudden changed in plans....okay, Arnold, about what you have done on your way here, I've pardoned you..Also, since I save you..you have to follow me from now on....I will provide the same treatment to you as Any of my subject..do you accept?..".
"I Accept, your Highness..". ( Arnold)
Then again, I have him registered in the Book of contract, then hand him the basic necessities. All the time Arnold were just blankly nodding at everything I told and ask him, he look blurred, but after opening the Dimensional pouch and found various things in it,he was seriously hesitant to eat the foods inside, when I said ' its your's' he was happily crying while munching on a whole wheat bread saying 'thank you', which I don't know how many times he said it.
I also do some on the spot policy changes, I decided to employ millitary ranking systems, taking the account of there will be a lot of people joining me in the near future, some changes had to take place. Military style administration make things easier, I don't have to deal with unnecessary 'medieval royalty formalities and courtesy' which is a waste of time in this pressing time, everything need to be simple and effective. So, I will assume the highest positions as General/King, Karl will assume WO1 ( Warrant Officer) ranks, while Arnold will assume PFC( Private First Ckass) ranks, since he don't know anything, so it's appropriate that he will hold the low ranks, but still, he won't be the lowest when new member comes in. I will be judging their promotions as to how they will perform, It's good to say that, I will go full millitary style ( Dictatorship) right now.
It will take some time to explain the details to them, so I told them for now there's only 3 iron rules, 1. My order is absolute, 2. Betrayals or any act similar to it, will be judged and dealt with death penalty, 3. The difference between Classes and races are not relevant in my command, and all must follow the rules set by me, no with exceptions whatsoever, unless it was allowed by me. That's make it simple, both of them nodded immediately, if they don't Understood that I don't know how else I can explain it.
Since the abrupt changes has occurred upstairs, I need to react fast, so after lunch we will immediately starts to ascend once more, but this time the operation will be changed to search and rescue. We can't afford to fully secure the entire floor, because if we did, probably the remaining resistance faction might get wiped out.
"Arnold... here, this is a shotgun..how to use it was..you hold it right this..make sure the buttstock stick to your shoulder, then point at the enemy and pull the trigger....after, it goes 'Bang' you cock it, like this..and aim, then shoot again.. 7 bullets, then you run out...".
Like that, I was teaching Arnold how to use a shotgun, since one doesn't really necessarily have to be accurate to use them. As for Karl, I decide to give him M249 Light machine gun, since he was already promoted and proficient at handling firearms, and I want to see how badass a dwarf would look like when using one, just for fun. Also I give them their ranks insignia's, I bought boxes of them although it wasn't a military issued one, but still it looks good like the real one. After we finished our lunch, Karl removed the stake and handed them to me, with me leading in front we head to the staircase and ascend.
---1600pm -- Floor 98 ---
[ BAANNGG!! BBAANGG!! ]
" RELOAD!.".( Arnold)
"Arnold fall back, Karl take point...[ BANG!! ]... watch your space!....".
""YES SIR!!.."".( Karl & Arnold)
[ TATATATATATTATATATA!!! ].
It's was kinda busy and hectic at the moment, I was teaching Karl and Arnold a tactical maneuver and teamwork. At previous floor, both of them just come storming in, as a result Karl nearly shot Arnold when he tried to sweep his LMG across while Arnold rushing to the front. Still, they picked up fast, especially Arnold, he already knows to handle shotgun skillfully, his aim also about 90% accurate. As for me, I just provide support and command them. The progress was quite good, enemy numbers slightly going up, in just 2 floor we already killed 510 Ferals.
"Karl! Count the enemy!..".
"..12 Ferals! Up front!..coming in fast!..".( Karl)
".. Reload and take a breath both of you...I handle them..".
"Yes Boss..".( Karl)
This time I decided to try the Time magic, I walked passed both of them, holding Sword of Power on my right hand, I focused on 12 Ferals before me.
" [ Time Magic : Stop ] ...".
All of a sudden, everything stop, water inside Arnold plastic bottle stop flowing down, Karl hand stop Midway as he reloading the magazine on his LMG, all the ferals stop moving in a running position, the blood and saliva that dropped from their mouths stop in mid air, The only one that moves is me.
"...So, everything stop huh.. I'm the only one that can moves...so, I can only hold it for 5 minutes...well, 5 minutes is plenty enough for me..".
I start decapitating all the ferals before me, still even when my sword cleave through their necks, they still in the same position, but their head that has been separated from their necks hovers a little in the air. Since I already used [ Stop ], I decided to utilize them to the fullest, I strolled further and killed about 300++ Ferals, all in the same style, clean cut at the neck. I continue on untill I found the next staircase, before I turned back to where Karl and Arnold were, and they still hasn't move a bit. As I grew closer to them, [ Stop ] finally run off it effects and time start to flow back.
[[ BBUUKK..BUUKK..BUKKK...]]
12 heads falls to the ground, followed by their bodies. The same sound echoes through out the floor, it sound like hundreds of sandbag falls to the ground one by one. Arnold sprayed a mouthful of waters and Karl gasped his mouth opened, at the sight before them. Both of them followed the bloodied sword on my hand and me.
"...all clear... let's go...".
"..... Your Highness... what happened?..when?..how?..".( Karl & Arnold)
"What happened?..I killed them...when? Just now..how?...I decapitate then with my sword... enough talking, start moving then..".
Still baffled, but since I already start moving both of them can only follow behind me, with an expression that still processing how all of this headless bodies come to be.
"Sire Karl..how did his highness do this?..how strong one need to be, to be able to do all of this?..".( Arnold)
"Arnold....his Highness IS strong, even without his weapon....I passed out just when he were looking at me....".( Karl)
"That strong?!.....a slave like me able to follow someone great as him..I was honored...".( Arnold)
" I know right...not only strong, but he's also kind and true to his words..he doesn't even cared about status.. he's different from all those ignorant, black hearted royalty...".( Karl)
I can actually heard them talking, I ignored them and hastened my steps, both of them followed the suit and we leave the 98 floor and ascend to floor 97.