"Hey hey, did you heard about the rumors?"
"What rumor?"
"You know, the one about Ancient monsters fighting. I heard it even made a country near it feels an earthquake you know?"
"Isn't that like, really bad for us? What if they decide to come here?"
"Are you stupid or what? There's no way any monster can pass through that forest without using the teleporter that our first human Administrator set up."
"Oh, I guess my statement was really stupid huh?"
"Yeah. And also, in that forest, all of our attacks are reduced by 90%, so all our attacks are usually useless in that forest."
"Does that include the monster's attacks too?"
"Yeah."
"Man, you're really knowledgeable about this stuff, aren't you?"
"Of course I am! If I want to be the next Administrator I gotta work hard you know? And knowledge is also a key to survival sometimes."
"Yeah sure hell you are. There has been no administrator for the pass 1000 years you know?"
"And there might be one today~ You never know what would happen in life. After all, life is a mystery."
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"Yawn~" Shin stretched her body.
"Haven't had a nice sleep like that in a while."
"Hinata come here." Shin waved her hands towards a direction in the forest.
Coming towards her was a Fox at the size of an adult dog except with 5 tails. Behind it. On its mouth was a deer looking animal with blood dripping at the corner of her mouth.
"Can't you atleast do the work more cleanly?" Shin said as she took the meat from Hinata's mouth and proceed to stab it with a stick and put it above the fire.
'Hmm... its already been three months since that incident with the dragon huh. Time sure fly fast when you're enjoying life.'
'Well there's nothing much to enjoy anyways. Since everyday I've been lazing around. Of course whenever I notice Hinata getting closer I would pretend to be reading a book like a wise sage would.'
'I also found out that I don't need to actually do anything to gain levels. Since my [Glutton] title upgraded to [Gluttony], I only needed to breath air from my mouth to gain Exp. Overpowered right?'
'Of course anything I gain gotta be overpowered, after all I am the protagonist.'
'With that said! I even got a name from Alicia! I got this name around three month ago after I killed that dragon.'
'I don't know if Alicia's naming sense was good or not but I personally liked my new name. Shirori. I'm gonna shorten it to 'Shiro' since Shirori is a bit too long. ' As she thought of this, there was a slight smile at the corner of her mouth that is barely visible if you pay enough attention to it.
"Well there's nothing to do now anyways, so why not just experiment some stuff? The first experiment was to see if a monster can survive Mp being given to them that surpassed their limit. I already knew it was a bad idea to do it on my one and only pet or I guess servant. But what's the fun if there's no risk of dying right?"
"Hinata, come here for a second. Let me test something on you."
"Why are you walking like that? Here let me try to share my Mp A little bit." She patted Hinata's head then began the process of transferring Mp.
Hinata's body begin to shine in a bright golden color making it possible to go blind if you stare straight into it. But, Shiro's eyes were always closed so there's no need to be worried about going blind.
After a few more seconds, the light dissipated from Hinata's body making her looked normal again. But then it began to slowly changed shape. This process took almost a whole hour off the clock. Hinata's whole body my listless all the time since the start till the end.
What Shiro saw was not a fox. Instead it was a little girl that looked like a 12 years old except with 5 tails and 2 fox ears.
' I wanna cuddle those tails..... Wait calm down me, keep your dignity as a mysterious person even to your closest aid.'
"Ma-Ma-Master?" Hinata covered her mouth with her hands after that stutter.
"I can talk now! Master! I can talk!"
Shiro nodded at her excitement and tried to talked like usual.
"You probably need some clothes to cover your body"
There was a small stutter at the beginning but if you didn't pay enough attention, you wouldn't even hear it.
Shiro proceed to take out some clothes she made in her spare time from her inventory and gave it to Hinata. Hinata took the clothes from her hands with excitement in her eyes.
"Master, what is your magic attribute?"
"I can use any type of magic I know, as long as I have Mp for it."
Hinata's jaw dropped after hearing her said this. 'Mp?'
"A-and what does that include?"
"Anything you can think of."
"Can you please give me an example?"
"Sure"
A pitch black and round platform appeared beneath them.
"....and how much Magic mana did this took you to make, Master?"
"Stop calling me master. And the amount of ma..."
'Did she mean Mp?'
"Hm.. The amount of Mana it took was small enough that it felt like I took a cup of water from the ocean."
Hinata was astounded at her statement. 'You mean this whole platform that's atleast 4km in radius doesn't even scratch the amount of Mana she has?'
"...Un... One more question."
"Ask."
"Why do you keep you eyes closed all the time? How do you see your surroundings?"
"That was two questions. I'll answer your first question with another question then. Are you afraid of what you don't know?"
Hinata swallowed her saliva hearing Shiro's voice tone. 'Maybe I shouldn't have asked that....'
"Great choice"
'Eh? But I didn't said anything yet did I? Could Shiro-sama read my mind?'
Scary! Master is scary! Even though I've known her for over three months now I still don't know that much about her. Her aura is also intimidating. And more of that, I felt like she knows everything about me. More than I know myself! I don't want to know what would happen to anyone that annoys her.
"I treat my people better than my enemies."
Hinata sighed in relieve hearing her normal cold tone instead of a colder one. 'What could be in Master's eyes that she need to close it all the time even when hunting?' Hinata thought.
"Mas- errr, Shiro-sama, do you think you can show me your eyes one day?"
Instead of answering, she stayed quiet. Noticing the change in atmosphere, Hinata stopped asking any more question about Shiro's eyes. 'Although I still have many question like what does she mean by level.... There's no way I can ask her..... Her aura is scaring me....'
One night,
Before she opened her eyes, there were monsters sleeping under a tree in front of her. She then slowly opened her eyes. Before she could even get used to her new vision, the monster jumped out of its slumber and tried to run but was not able to as if it was in front of its biggest nightmare. Its legs were trembling, tears could be seen coming out of its eyes, cold sweats appearing all over its body.
After a few seconds, Shiro was finally used to her new vision and looked at the deer-like monster. She closed her eyes and the monster immediately started running as fast as it could the opposite way of where she came from.
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Meanwhile in a certain country where an earthquake hit.
"Have you still not found the cause of that earthquake yet?" A man that looked to be in his thirties asked.
"No, sir. We will find out the cause as soon as possible." A woman answered.
"That's what you've been saying for the past three months! Since our country is the closest to the most dangerous forest Immanuel, we gotta always keep sharp of any event happening in there in case it might bring down our country."
"Maybe you're thinking to much about this case commander." A man came out of the shadow and said.
"I wish that was the case but there's no way I can relax if a monster is fighting near our country. And possibly an Ancient type too! Although the forest is almost 200km away, we still felt the earthquake like it was under us! What type of beast could possibly go against the rule of the world?!"
"Put down request for adventures to explore the cause at the Great Forest Immanuel and return alive, the rewards will be 5 Platinum coins."
The woman's eyes opened wide in surprise hearing the man said this. "Are you sure, sir? Isn't this an overkill don't you think?" The woman said after recomposing herself.
"Ceh. 5 Platinum coins are nothing compared to the lives of the innocent."
She eventually gave up persuading the man and comply with his request.