When Viny returned to the system room, he saw that his room had grown twice as large. A queen size bed, wardrobes, clothes, food, drinks ... "Amos, you are amazing!"
It took Viny almost an hour to arrange the inside of the room the way he wanted. Meanwhile Boden, Mady and Harper were still on their new mission. Viny determined what he wanted to kick out of the room. There were useless things, and an impractical bow and arrows, pistols, lots of things inside.
Viny requested the mission report from the system.
'Agent 5864.
'Standard rewards to be awarded from the post: 200 TG, 2500 LE.
- Mission success experience: 0% (mission failed)
- Learning local special magic technique: 50% (triangle sacrifice spell)
- First opponent agent killing experience points: 100%
- An Agent kill experience point: 50% (Agent's experience level was only 1.)
- Bonuses earned for exceeding 200%: 280 TG, 2740 LE
- Failure penalty: -10000 LE
- Life energy lost: -30 LE.
Overall experience points: 200%. Viny (Emre) You have risen to level 3 (0%).
Total TG: 280
Total LE: 27020
'Warning: The reward has been increased by three times for getting the first kill success in the very hard mission.
The reward was a bodybuilding technique. Since the value of this technique was increased threefold, it was transformed into an advanced bodybuilding technique.
'Auraskep Bodybuilding Method: You can increase the physique by 0.2 points per day with fifteen minutes of training per day. This technique is useless when the bodily pure strength reaches 5.9'
After taking the scroll with the bodybuilding method from the centre of the room and examining it for a few minutes, Viny looked at his easy one-man task:
- Defend the Rufeng Castle
• Duration: 7 days
• Difficulty Level: Easy
• Reward: 30 TG, 100 LE
• Penalty: -200 LE
As it was a castle defence, he only brought food for seven days without buying anything from the system shop. He put his sword on his back. He did not take any mountaineer supplies. He didn't even carry a binocular and a compass. He took an unused notebook and a pencil with him. He felt ready with some clothes and left the room through the yellow door.
He was on a busy street of a bustling city when his eyes got used to the environment again. He looked carefully at passers-by. Everyone was wearing colourless dresses at the time. He thought he was on an ancient medieval planet again. The street was earthen, and the houses were wooden. There was a gentle breeze. It was like the end of the first spring. The weather was hot enough. Viny had moved along the road for a while and realized that he could understand the conversation of people passing by talking. He realized he knew the language of the people here.
Viny stopped a passer-by to get information about his mission. "Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Huh? Who are you, I've never seen you around here?"
"I. Well uhmm... I came from afar. I heard that Rufeng Castle was under attack. I wonder about the war. Where is the castle?"
The man reacted after looking for 3-4 seconds as if he was looking at an idiot. "Did Byanzuva send you? If you're going to mess with me, say something else, scum." Spitting on the ground, the man grunted away.
With a sigh, Viny decided to wander around without looking for anyone to get answers to his questions. The war trumpets began to squeal as the Viny advanced on the road. Then a man shouted: "Ufa Demons are coming. Everyone gets to their posts!"
Viny rushed to where the sound came from. Many men were leaving their homes and running in the same direction. Everyone had short bows in their hands. Viny followed, running in the direction everyone was running. After running for about 3 minutes, he arrived at the area where the regular army gathered.
Now the houses were left behind. There were huge walls across it. Viny looked at the walls and realized that he was inside a castle. "That's why the man thought I was kidding. I had been inside the castle from the very beginning, but I asked the man where the castle was. How stupid but just as funny." Viny couldn't help but laugh.
Viny was watching the commander's assignment after everyone was lined up neatly. In five minutes, the entire army was ready.
The commander boomed "Soldiers, we will defeat the Ufa demons this time too. They cannot cross our walls. I hope everyone has studied enough archery. Just don't forget to aim their eyes. I don't want to see the Ufa Demons until next year. Come on, take your positions"
There were open piles with quivers next to the wall. Each quiver had twenty arrows inside. The soldiers took three quivers and started to climb to the top of the wall. The commander was relieved to see that everyone was doing their job. Then when he saw Viny watching alone, he called out: "Come here!"
Viny was startled at first, then looked around, and when he realized that there was no one, he pointed to himself and questioned "Me?"
The commander was a little surprised that he was inquired, then scratched his beard and snapped "When I ordered the others, they would obey my orders without question. You're different. Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Viny replied with a smile "My name is Viny. I'm not from here. I came here for the first time in my life. I don't know much around here. When I heard the defence call while visiting the castle, I came to help."
The commander smiled broadly and threw his hand to his own nape. "My name is Commander Eddie. The people living in this castle are all stupid. It is very gratifying that there is still someone around who is not stupid."
Viny's world was completely turned upside down. "How can it be, are all these five hundred people stupid? I just asked someone for an address, and he looked at me like I was an idiot."
After Eddie finished his meeting with Viny, he instructed "Follow me" and took action to climb over the wall. Together, they climbed to the bastion of a wall of the castle. Viny realized that the place that looked like a city at first was actual castle because they built walls on the mountain slope. Between the castle and the lower parts of the mountain slope was a treeless, hilly and rocky terrain.
Everyone was waiting tensely with their arrows attached to their bows. After a while, the Ufa Demons came within sight. When Viny saw the types of things coming in, he immediately thought of the squirrel men on his first mission. These creatures looked like chimpanzees and were 1 meter tall. They were one-eyed and one-armed. They were running quickly towards the castle. After the soldiers started shooting arrows, it turned out how bad shooters they were.
Viny was stressed by the failures of the soldiers. They were able to kill only 2 - 3 of the demons by shooting them in the eyes with two or three thousand arrows. He immediately took a bow and arrow from the bottom of the walls. He thought that all demons should die, as the time for the mission was only seven days. Viny started shooting without stopping. On the other hand, he was confused by the commander, who was watching without doing anything.
About 2 hours later, he shot a demon in the eye for the first time. Then, looking towards the commander:
"Why aren't you trying to kill? Why are these demons attacking?"
"Whether I shoot or not, the soldiers on the walls will continue to attack until the last death. You can even see five-hundred arrows fired at the last one at the same time. Complete army of fools."
Viny didn't know how to react. He was confused by Commander Eddie's constant calling soldiers stupid and idiot.
"Demons are attacking for the red paham fruit in the cellar. If they eat the fruit too much, they will be able to evolve. When they eat the fruit, their second arm comes out. Even the 3rd. The more fruit they eat, the stronger they become. Therefore, this fortress was established at the only crossing point to keep them away from the paham farms. Our only goal is to stop the annual influx of demons."
"Paham fruits also make us extraordinarily strong. Do you even see that idiot over there? He got the 3rd ball because he ate too much. As people eat, they get physically stronger over time, but their intelligence regresses. Paham fruit even extends life span, if you made a wine with them. Mental retardation is often seen in poorly produced wines. So, you see, the General of Bikan made me commander of the army of idiots. I've been commanding these fools for 320 years."
Viny continued his shooting while thinking about what the commander had said. "Woah. You shot 11th in the eyes. These idiots couldn't even kill fifty. You are shooting arrows for the first time, as I understand from your grip. Despite that, you were able to shoot down the eleventh, congratulations.���
Viny was not tired yet because his physical strength was slightly above normal human values. Six hours after the defence started, the soldiers began to sleep where they were. Only Viny and the commander were standing.
Viny felt tense, looking at about a hundred and fifty dying demons. Nearly one thousand seven hundred and fifty demons were still standing. Demons hit the castle walls with one hand and their heads. The fortress walls were shaking strongly at intervals. Because demons' skin and muscles were so strong, they could only be killed by hitting them in the eyes.
After killing about 20 to 30 more, Viny accepted the commander's dinner invitation. There was bread, meat, and wine at dinner. He drank wine, although he shied a little. Viny, who really liked the taste of Paham Wine, rested for an hour or two after eating for 5-6 people and started shooting again. A question came to mind. Could he find the technical books or similar, sold in the system shop, in this place where he worked?
"Commander, I'm fighting this much, what reward will you give me? There must be some reward for my help, right?"
Commander Eddie inquired without glancing at Viny "You have in mind to buy a bunch of fruits, right?"
Viny replied directly without thinking, "Is there a booklet, a resource to increase my ability to use archery or swords? Or whether you will teach me? I was thinking things like."
Commander Eddie nodded at Viny "You are such an interesting man, why are you here and you don't know how to boast, I don't know how you could have drunk Paham Wine with me for the first time. But what makes you so much more interesting is this desire. Well. Take this key, there is a library in the city centre. You can only enter the second floor with this key. Go to the library and find the books you want, come back to me with the books."
Viny took the key and made his way to the library. He didn't do much to find the library. Because it was the only two-storey building around. After entering the library, he could not see anyone inside. Looking at what books were on the first floor, there were books about the most famous people in Bikan, plants growing in the lands of Bikan, mines, historical events, etc.
Viny looked through biographies of two different people, wondering if this place was just a dream. The contents of two books of the same thickness were completely different. Even the spelling was different. Having firmly decided that he was on a real planet different from Earth, Viny quickly climbed to the second floor.