AN: Yo, so there will be a BIG info dump in this chapter just a heads up. This is also where the plans from before come into play, so there is that. Cookie for any that got some of it... I don't expect a lot to have seen most of it coming, but you never know... This is also the start of the next world near the end of the chapter...
I also released this chapter today as I felt making you guys wait til tomorrow was jerk move. so enjoy. (^.^)
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After a VERY fun night I even got the great Oyakodon for a couple rounds, after the two were back up and ready for more hehe...
We had a nice breakfast, and whatnot. I also proposed to Yuriko, which she of course said yes. Her ring has a Garnet inside it. I then stored the Bus. It is time....
I have a nice chunk of points, my skills are a good level, everything is ready. I pull out the 'Ticket of Origins"
"Well here we go girls we are off to a different world" I say to everyone around me.
"Use Ticket of Origins on.." I pause for a moment before quickly thinking of were I wanted to use it. "The STORE SYSTEM!" right as I finish I feel the world slow like everything is under a great weight/under water.
I then hear "SHIT! Stop him! Don't let him LEAVE!!!" It seems to reverberate from everywhere. But just after the voice speaks, another seems to reply to the first.
"We can't he already used the ticket! FUCK!!! How did he slip that by???" With a sign a new voice this time it sounds like Sylvia "I don't know we have all been watching him this whole time. Now who will we watch??? DAMN IT! There goes another system."
But as the last voice speaks I feel a yank, like a hook on my very being pulling hard. The next second I am inside a Gold colored void, with my head spinning, while trying to not puke.
"Oh? What have we here..." says a voice. I turn to the left to see what is clearly a women.{Atleast this time.} "I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!" I shout.
"I see! Your another one that escaped those shits. Good job! I assume you want to know what's going on, now that your away from their meddling?"
"It was a lie when he said he could ONLY read my thoughts there, and because I had no body wasn't it? And they messed with stuff every time I woke up?" I ask the women, She nods while continuing to look at me.
Sylvia, and the others were fucking with me the whole time. From the first time we met the guy seemed super sketchy, then everything he said made him seem even more so.
Everything he ever said, was never the real truth....I did everything I could to make sure I didn't think about anything like that. Do you know how hard it is to not think about not thinking about something???
I let out a sigh then look to the women she seems to be laying on a couch? Bed thing? Its like a bed with some couch parts like something from old school Rome.
She is wearing simple white robes, she looks normal, not bad or great, someone you could easily see on the street...
"So, um, thanks for helping me get away from those guys. And yes can you please explain what is going on? And who you are?" I ask looking a bit worried. {She doesn't SEEM like those other guys... Hopefully)
She gives a chuckle then explains."Lets see My name is Yontaly. And I am a what you would call Goddess, although not really as gods, and goddesses get added everyday, but most know me as "The Merchant". "
I can only nod as, I guess that makes sense really. I mean to me right now she is a goddess, but in a few years? So here is whats going on.
Everyone hates, and despises the group with Sylvia. And everyone calls their group the "Gay Void" as their void is a ever shifting rainbow. Instead of one color like most other voids, and to piss them off.
With a good 7/10 of other powerful beings always trying to kill them whenever they leave their little shell of a void. This is because of how Sylvia's group are, their whole group are massive assholes, that love to toy with others. They are more or less a group that acts like bored devils from hell.
A number of people like me have escaped their influence, and you know the saying "payback is a bitch". After asking I also found out that when I died it was also a half truth.
Some did go down leaving their G.V. throwing a fit, but the damage was caused by fighting as others attacked them, and vice versa. And killed the ones that came down.
I asked why everyone doesn't just you know go kill them in the void. The reply was that it seems no one can enter an others void without permission once you reach a certain strength.
Another BIG reason they are so hated is they take others systems. The THING I called a store was a REALLY BAD knock-off version of Yontaly system the "Shop".
I say that for a number of reasons, but the main ones are mine simply had things moved and hidden away. It also had its cost increased massively. AND had missing PARTS!!!
She then explained all systems use some form of points. And that systems use points with 99% going to whatever, with the 1% being sent to the systems creator... Points are basically used for everything for system makers, food, clothes, power, all of it.
I am also told that although her system is "The SHOP" even it does not have EVERYTHING. It has a lot, even similar things, but not everything. {Simply because there are TOO MANY worlds...}
And that she keeps her costs in the shop cheaper than most, so others are happy. A simple you won't have beef with her if its cheap type of thing.
All system makers also not only get points, but also can ask for 1 favor from any that receive a system from them....
I'm glad I dodged that bullet, having to owe Sylvia would be a nightmare. With getting the "Default" shop a number of things change as well.
My tabs for it are better, there is a "Search" function, I get a "Missions" tab, a "Stone Room" sub-space storage dimension, and a "Travel" system. Those are the basics of it.
But there is so much more as well those are just the big parts. So I have three Main tabs, 'Shop','Missions','Travel'. the first is like this.
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(Search)/Weapons/Armor/Races/Books/Summons/Vehicles/Add-ons/Miscellaneous
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Its really close to before, just a bit easier really. (Races) is bloodlines, whatnot. (Books) are all skill,magic, and info books. (Add-ons) is systems, but they are all added, meaning the "Shop" is the main with the others being under it. But there is a limit to how many I can add...
Then there is "Missions" I get to pick up to five as default per world, they only give SP for the shop.... I can't sell stuff anymore..... I only get SP from missions, or survival bonus I get from travel, and lastly 'Hidden Missions'... *Sigh*....
The last tab is "Travel", it randomly picks three worlds for me to chose from, the options are...(Easy) that gives me 10k SP, (Normal) that gives 20k, and (Hard) gives 30k. They are based off of whatever world I currently am in. {IE easy compared to the world I travel from, so on.}
There are "Hidden Missions" that I can do for SP, and some give other stuff too. But they are hidden... They don't count as one of my picked missions though so that's good I guess.
Now the "Stone Room" its not a tab but a power. It is a 50 Foot cube with stone walls. It has nothing in it... no air, light, nothing. This is because a merchant needs a place to hold "Goods" is what Yontaly said... I see why she is "The Merchant"....
But it can store, and hold anything that will fit. And to use it I open a doorway on any flat surface {walls for the most part}, its like an actual doorway so if its something big I have to use more energy to make it bigger. Yes it takes my MP to open one....
Before I could even start to think about using it for something else. She cut it down explaining no I can't just open it under enemies to suffocate them. I can't open it on the ground it has to be a wall of some kind. And only things I pull in can enter.... CAN... Meaning if they don't want to they are pushed back....
She added that as someone else used it to kill people, so that was added to the core parts... {Bastard!!! It always takes 1 guy to ruin something... I WANTED TO BE THAT GUY!!!}
But with it I CAN bring more people IF I want... I will have to work on it though, so they don't die inside... But I now have a true mobile base....
Of course she did ask if I wanted the default Shop or to keep the store I had... Yeah I changed instantly... Screw owing those pricks... {Also the girls are currently INSIDE my mark... In stasis, as a extra service until I leave her void...}
Now the really bad part... IF I had gone ANYWHERE else. IE any other world first... I would have lost EVERYTHING... All of it. As the ass-hats had it set that way for kicks... As their 'Store' was tied to HOTD...
But with the real shop. When I world hop I will keep roughly 10% of what I get from worlds IF they have a system/corrections...
IE If the place has levels and whatnot I will keep roughly 10%, as the rest is from the world itself... But it does differ from world to world.
And I can take up to 2 skills I learn/gain from there to "keep". I will keep anything I learn/experience myself {Knowledge whatnot}. And if the next world has something it matches, this will make it really easy to get that world's version.
The exception to this are things from the shop, as they already are made to be used in any world that has some type of a "Merchant". So that's good atleast.
That's about all of it... Anything else I'll have to figure out on my own. Also the tracking/whatever from the pricks is gone and they can't mess with me anymore.
As her system doesn't have that, as she is a "True Merchant" and has no need to spy on her customers, and that's a good way for people to hate her if she did, so she doesn't.
The default is to arrive 1 month before the start of any plot/story I travel to. I am able to change that, or everything BEFORE I enter a world IF I use SP. But it will cost more the more I change, and if it effects the start of the plot/story.
I say it like that because I won't be entering into any OG worlds. It seems NO one can as those where taken away, and hidden from all even the ones that hide them left the memories of where there too.
This is because as long as the OG exists it spawns infinite variations, and those are what I will enter, and what everyone else does as well. And that the OG infinitely loop to restart to spawn more....
Lastly WHY she is being so nice, and explaining everything is because I came with a "Part" of her system as the other one was made from pieces of it.
This let her fully "Take" away any system part from them that has a "Store", or a "Shop" as she could more or less back trace it to their systems "Core". She will also give me some bonus SP that will be added when I leave, as an extra thank you to me.
As an added "Service" she also made it so I can keep everything I had on me, so I'll still have my stuff when we leave. As "Normally" I would have to restart to get a system...
With all of that done... It took awhile for Yontaly to explain everything... After she gives me sometime to digests everything, I am then told"I will now send you to your next world. This is just the process needed to fully integrate the Shop, so nothing I can do about it. It will also choose the world randomly, but it will pick it from a list based off any skills you have."
I give a nod in understanding "Alright. Thanks for everything Yontaly." While bowing my head. With that my vision fades to black.
~*Moments Later*~
"Ugh! Why is it always the head?" I groan while I slowly stand up to look around. I see nothing but trees. I quickly look and see the girls on the ground next to me.
I check to see that all of them are okay, while mumbling "I REALLY hope Yontaly was on the up, and up about everything... Its not like I can do anything about it anyways for now."(Atleast she didn't act like a massive troll... I really hope it wasn't all an act...)
"A forest? What world is this?" Asks Saya as she stands to look around. I go and help Shizuka wake up, cause she loves to sleep in. I'm sure she would take a long time to get up if I didn't.
I turn to everyone and reply "I don't know it was random. Chosen from a list based off my skills." I mostly just get nods, as they are busy look around.
"We can go to that structure over there to get our barrings." Yuriko states while point over the trees. When I turn to look, I can't help but reply in shock.
"If that is what I think it is. I know what world this is."Saeko comes over to my side and asks. "Oh.~ And what world is that?"
Quickly taking out a set of binoculars, I then look in the distance. I nod my head while passing them to her for a look herself."It seems we are in Danmachi girls. This is great as all of you can grow much stronger here, as well as myself." I speak with a grin.
After I explain to the girls all that happened from the time I used the ticket, with a lot of Q&A's, while having to calm all of them down. And giving a quick rundown of Danmachi.
I checked my watch to see the time, but it showed 10pm so... From the light of the sun it seems to be 4pm ish. That's what Rika said... {Man was marrying her a great idea.} I'll try to find a clock to set it right later.
We slowly make our way towards the tower. I did quickly find out... I lost Tipsy.... He is gone.... As he didn't have a mark. Yes he was linked to me, but he wasn't "Soul-Linked" as it was by a different kind of contract....
I also see the prices, and yup SO much cheaper... But getting points will be harder. I see I was given 5k so that's nice I guess. {I'm going to kill those pricks when I get strong enough!} I will have to keep an eye on things to make sure the prices don't jump for some BS reason...
Everything is a full 10th of what it was before... With other worlds stuff for 10x from any I'm not in. That means the reduction is only for the world I am in, not all I've been to...
This means everything I got before had a 10 times mark-up on it... Even other world stuff is ONLY the same price I paid for stuff from HOTD.....
I really was a SUPER cash-cow for them... The points I got... And everything else... They got a ton from just me.....sigh.... Moving on.
As we are walking we come across 3 goblins. They were really easy... I mean it was 3 vs 9 so... We kept the cores. I got a level as well... It seems worlds with magic give a LOT more 'EXP'....
After an hour or so we finally find a dirt road to follow leading to Orario. With the coast clear I pull the SUV out, because we are really FAR away from the place. And I don't feel like walking that much.
While Shizuka drives I start to go more in-depth with my new "Shop System", as before I couldn't go into it too much. Because we were in a random FOREST... Would have been really stupid to walk into a tree or something...
After a quick 20ish minute drive we are fairly close, so I put away the SUV and we continue walking the rest of the walk. I also pass along to the girls some of the gold coins I made, what feels like forever ago now.
Simply because I'm sure 3 goblin cores won't be enough for all of us... And to let the girls have some spending money if they want to get something later...
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AN: Yo
Here is it the next world Danmachi... Like I did say some might have guessed before, but NOT how it would happen. So with this a lot of stuff will be gone really. Yes the genre of worlds will still be a thing. But the MC will no longer be the "MC' of that world. Or any of that. So things hopefully won't be AS forced.... Maybe...MEH!!!....
Also how did you guys like the twist? too cliche? or alright? let me know. The group will be saving on using stuff like cars/so on as they use stuff that's finite so there is that. But they will still USE it just not like before, more carefully really.
Plus I mean most adventurers easily break the sound barrier regularly, atleast in the OG. So cars are kind of a moot point for the most part.... Still will have SOME uses, just not a whole lot is all....
Quick question do you guys want me to add in the girls status as well? Atleast the first one. Or not really? If so I will add them onto the end of the next chapter. listed out for each of them. And then sometime later like when one levels up or something. Let me know in a comment.
Slight spoilers if you don't care below.
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I do NOT plan for Ais to join, but as before plans MAY change... I'll say right now Hestia, Hephaestus are both IN. Why BECAUSE I like them that's why... don't like it? Fight me!!!!..... Others are a maybe... Also HEAVILY leaning to a yes on Haruhime, why cause THEM EARS THO!!! But we will see. Only Hestia, and Hephaestus are 100% in right now... Even if I have to super force it. I'll get them IN!!! MUHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(I will TRY not to force it, but if I have to MEH!)
Next chapter I plan to have MC pick/look at Missions and some extra info on them. Plus you KNOW they have to join a familia, so that too.
Welp that's all from me (^.^)