I don't know, somehow this grimoire attract me to open it. My hand slowly open it, a wind blows me though it barely move any of my hair. I read the grimoire while Airi was standing beside me. she didn't even look at it as if she wasn't interested in it.
"Thank you, young man. This cave is a present from my master, a demon from the 'Dark World'.
Although people called him a demon, he is actually a human. He is one of the 7 ' Monarchs of the Dark World'.
His nickname is 'Monarch of the Dark World?"
"Master... that monarch is dangerous" Ascillia warned me. To think such powerful being such as her said that..
"Dangerous..."
I started to read it again.
"My master is already well known in the 'Dark World'. Due to his age, he is getting weaker. On the day I left the 'Dark World', he gave me this grimoire along with the dungeon. When you read this grimoire, I already prepare a present. This present was made by my master. He said to give it to the one who I really trust. To be honest, I almost gave it to Zoragon. Somehow, my intuition told me to not do that.
And I was right.
So, thank you.
On the right bottom of the grimoire written 'flip to the next page'
As I flipped, a magic circle with a magic symbol was written on it. It was a symbol that even the God's Eye couldn't interperate
"Dark World symbol." Ascillia voice seems shaken. I do not know what kind of history she has with the 'Dark World' but...
I put my hand on the symbol, I do not know why I did that at that time, if you ask me why, I would say it is a hunch.
Purple mana flouring out from the symbol wrapping around my hand, slowly went through my body and started to wrap my whole body. Airi jumped a few step far from me.
"Kuro/Master!"
In a few seconds, my whole body wrapped by the whole purple magic.
[System]
*host's soul is weak to fight against this magic. The host body will be invade by unknown magic.
"Invade?"
my mind was blank. I lost consciousness.
"Hello, young man." A voice reaches through me. For some reason, I can't open my eyes. My body won't move and I couldn't feel anything as if I don't have a body.
"I'm sorry to enter your soul without your permission, I am what you call 'Monarch of the World".
Is he the master of..him?
"Hahaha, to be honest, I once a Demon Emperor, but I refuse their devilish thinking and on the hierarchy, my rank got drop. Hahahaha.
He sounds happy with that.
"Why I am here? What do I do here? The fact that my idiot student gave you this grimoire shows that he trusts you. Well if you ask me, why I gave him the grimoire, it is because of my power. 'Monarch of the World' power. I could see the future ...I can change the future since I can see them, of course. But I cannot see this happen. I can see the day he got betray and the day he gave the grimoire to someone."
Does that power even exist?! That is crazy, to be honest. How many futures can he change? Such a broken power
"But, young man. I cannot see your future as if you are not from this world. I can see he gives you the grimoire but I can't really see you as if you are not being from this world---"
"Ahh, enough with the chit-chat. I will give you one of my power. This power is not just a normal one, the stronger you become the stronger the power is. To be honest, I don't have that much time left. I want to pass this power to my idiotic student.... but! I am more curious about you, young man. What future will await you? My power tells me that one day you will come to the 'Dark World'. I want to see your improvement when the times come. See ya!"
I opened my eyes slowly. I finally could feel my body and when I was about to sit,
"Ouch!" My head hit Airi's head. That's hurt, to be honest, this dragon sure have a strong body.
"Woah, Kuri are you stupid?"
"Ugh... "
"Master, are you okay?"
"Yeah"
"What happened Kuri, that purple thing suddenly disappear. Maybe around here" As Airi started to search every single place in this room.
"It's fine, Airi. That was 'Monarch of The World"
Airi snapped. "Did you just say monarch?"
"Yes" For some reason her eyes seems shocked.
"That's no good Kuri. If you fight monarch with your current strength, one second is enough to kill you."
"Master, amongst all of the monarch, he is the strongest." Ascillia came out of my body.
"Yes. To be honest...during the war, I could feel that his power is equal with those demon emperors."
Well, he is once the demon emperor though. But to be alive up until now, I thought he already die.
"What did he do to you?"
"He said, he gives me something"
[System]
[World's Will: Acquired]
What... the system tab suddenly pops up and shows me that I have acquired a new skill.
"Master! that power... it is one of the monarch power!"
"What power?" Airi seems confused, I never explain any of this system to her and she can't see it after all.
"This is the power of master, I can see this thing call 'System' which is a weird power that master has. I think you can't see it because you aren't connected with master. Just now, master just acquires the 'World's Will' power.
"W...World's Will? That's the power to see the future of the world!"
"Yes, the fact that master has the skill, can you use it, master?"
"I'll try"
[World's Will] (Lv. 1)
Info: The power to see the future. The farther the future host's see the more mana it uses.
1 second = 10000 mana
The mana usage for this somehow is crazy. If I want to use it for one hour... I wonder if I will use all of my mana, even when using my gloves, this magic will consume too much mana from me.
Comes to think of that man, how far the future did he see. I wonder how high his mana. He also could easily enter my soul. That kind of power that even resist the system resistance...
"It consumes too much mana. I guess I can try it a bit."
I walk a bit closer to Airi. "What.."
"Punch me"
"Hehehe" somehow I have this bad feeling from Airi smirk. "All right" she releases this crazy amount of aura that makes me want to regret this.
"ugh... I mean punch me but don't use too much strength."
"Jeez" At least I can feel weak aura come from her this time.
"Here I come"
She started to throw thousands of punch. My eyes, I could see the future and somehow... Airi's punch was too fast. I do not know how to explain it. I could see her punch and in a few seconds, I came back to the current time as if I was travelling to the future but I didn't.
Even though her punch was fast... "God Enhancement!"
I evade all of her thousand punch at ease. I know the feeling right now. I could see what she want to do next, but my body cannot keep up with it. After seeing the future It feels like I was travelling into that time, and when I stop seeing the future my body came back to where it was and somehow I can't catch up with that.
Airi's punch hit me and my body was thrown far onto the wall.
"Woah! Kuri, you fine?"
That punch sure was strong though I knew that she was holding back.
"I'm fine, let's try again"
"What? Are you sure?"
"I could see it. The future. But my body can't catch up with it. So, help me practice with it."
"Hmm, you can see my future?"
"Yeah, kinda"
"So, it really the power of the World's Will" Ascillia was still outside of my mind.
"You sure want to continue?"
"Yeah, practice with me until I got used to it"
I was in a stance where I was ready to fight. I saw there is a status level on the skill. I want to see what It have.
After that, we did a lot of practice. Airi's punch was hurt to be honest.
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We were already back to the town. Luckily, all bruise I got from Airi's punch was already gone. I guess that's the power of my recovery.
Before we come back to the town we did some hunts so we could earn some money later and that's what I told Airi. Though Ascillia might know what my real purpose is. I want to earn some exp to level up before come back to the town. That forest has a lot of good monsters that can feed my exp.
Bwahahaha. I'm so genius.
"Kuri, you make a weird face right now." Airi shows me a scared face.
"Ehem. All right, let's go meet Old man Cain!"
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I was invited to the underground base as soon as I told Olva that I want to sell some monster's part.
She stopped me before I could take out them from my storage magic then told me to go to the Guildmaster's room. I guess it's better since people keep give me this weird glance when I enter the guild.
Well and here I am. I do not know why, but Old-man Phillot is also here sitting beside Old man Cain.
Well, the situation looks a bit tense.
"Why don't you sit first, Kuro." invited him.
Airi and I sit at the same place we sat the other day.
"Kuro, have you heard any rumour recently?"
"Rumour?"
Old man Cain stated something that might happen when I was in the dungeon.
Old man Phillot realise I was a bit confused about this situation. "Well, did you got some weird glares when you got here?"
"When you said that, I do get that. Wait, did I do something?"
they sighed. "You tell me that you want to keep a low profile and now look at you who shows his 'Disastrous Goblin' in front of the crowd.
"Ee..A.. umm" I scratch my face - felt guilty.
"Well, don't worry. We old man have settled that with our own way."
"What way--"
"And... you should be grateful with that" He cutted my word. I feel like they were up to something for some reason.
"Are we good?"
"Yeah..." I replied awkwardly.
"We good aren't we?" Old Man Phillot repeated what old man Cain said.
I sighed. "Wait.. you guys want me to do something as to pay for helping me?"
They make this annoying face as if I was right but they still try to hide it.
"Whaaaat? No no no"
"Of course not, we old man always do something for free right, Phillot?"
"Yes, of course, we are"
They sure love to act. I guess I'll join this stupid acting then.
"Well, thanks for helping. Is there anything I can help yall old man with?" I make some pissed off face.
"Oh my, so kind of you."
"Yes, yes."
I hit the desk
"Just said it!"
They both laughed. I do not know they love to tease people.
A few seconds after that their face started to become serious.
"Hahaha well, can you take a look at this picture first?" As old man Phillot gives me a paper with 3 people face on it. 2 women whose age around 20s and a man with almost the same age as them.
"You see, they are all A-Rank adventurer. Three days ago, they accepted this B-Rank quest to collect 10 'Sylv Stones'. This type of stone can only be found on the Mount of Terraris. This mission is only a B-Rank quest so we thought it might be easy for them and since the stones only a bit far from the mount entrance, so there might be only a weak monster there, even for a B-Rank adventurer they can do it in one day... but you see, they haven't come back since then."
I'm not sure who they are, but I'm sure by the look on Mr. Cain's face, they seem really important to him.
"Also, don't worry. We will pay you a huge amount of rewards. 100% no tax."
"Well, I want to accept this request but, why me?" They can just request this to the other A-Rank adventurer. They look really worried and as desperate as them to find this lost people, they also have the duty to protect this town so they can't leave this town.
"Well, as you can see... those 3 were supposed to be the strongest A-Rank adventurer in this town and the highest rank we could have in this small town. Only us guild master has higher rank than them, the fact that the strongest adventurer would be lost while doing their quest, the other adventurer would not dare to accept our request."
I see it now.
"Well then, I will accept this request."
"Sorry, Kuro. We have bothered you with this."
"It's fine." After all, there must be a lot of exp there.
"Seriously, he makes this scary face again," thought Airi.
"Ah, Kuro. Didn't you come here to do something?"
Ahh, I forgot all of that. "here" I said as I let out all of the monsters that we hunt.
"Whaa--" their mouth opened wide for a second then they looked at each other. They were laughing and their face looked like as they were saying "This is no longer a suprise".
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And on the next day, I have done preparing to go to the mountain. Susuki and Lua send me off along with the 2 guild master and their secretary. I did tell them that I was going on a mission.
I wave at them as we walk along the road. To be honest, I want to teleport straight to the mountain, but I can't do that since that place that I have never see before.
"You know, that mount full of dangerous. Is it alright to bring Airi along?" Lua can't help but worry for her.
"Kufufu, that girl... if you are that worry, you should worry about Kuro instead since that girl will be just fine," said Old man Phillot.
"Hmm, why is that?"
"Now, now, their family are weird. We might not know something.. is it?"
"Yeah, Maybe. But... I think they forget something"
"Nah, don't worry. It's Kuro we're talking about."
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I was shivering, what the hell, is this cold. Even my body has high defense and I still feel cold. Airi just standing beside me in front of the mountain entrance. She just put her normal emotionless face.
"What the hell with this cold mana?!!"
What Kuro didn't know is that this mountain are snowy mountain that fills with high cold mana wrapping it. Nornally people would use some gear that have enhancement on it before go to this mountain.
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From afar, a monster with red eyes heard Kuro scream.
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