Kingdom of Twilight, Era 3450, The Royal Capital's Outskirts.
In the back garden of a small wooden house, a young boy of around 20 was standing, with his sword in his hand and a determined expression on his face.
"Hooo... Let's get started."
Zeo concentrated on his sword and remembered the memories of training. The hard work and the training of years flashed by his mind. First started from a swing to complex movements and attacking styles. Practicing from a newbie to a fine warier.
He started executing the moves in his memories, with every move he got familiar with this body and after 6 hours of intense training, he finally adapted to this new body and now he can use all the skills he has.
"It's good that I had his memories, otherwise it would have been a problem to start everything from scratch."
[+100 EXP]
Hmm, I can get EXP by training too? Looks like being an NPC also have benefits because players cannot get Exp by self-training, they can only kill organisms to get Exp. But it looks like I have both choices, good.
But this small amount is not enough to even do anything. Not to mention, I will have to collect atleast 25,000 Exp to open the shop. If I had known I would come here, I would have set some cheat codes to become powerful.
Well, atleast I have my knowledge as the game developer. I can find some hidden things or I can go to steal the chances of hero. Anyway, hero have the heavenly luck with him, he can find another thing, even if I steal some of his chances.
For the first chance, I should visit 'that' dungeon. But, for going inside that dungeon, I will have to go towards the city of Richter. It's a city near the royal capital, it takes around 15 days to go there through the carriage. And If I remember correctly, that monster tide event will take place there in 20 days from today.
Hmm, it's a good timing, i can sneak in that dungeon during the monster tide so it will be easy to get the entry. Otherwise, I will have to wait for 3 months to get the entry ticket for that place from the adventurer guild.
In this world there are only two ways to get entry for a dungeon, either you should be a noble or related to a noble family or you should apply for the entrance ticket for a particular dungeon, through the adventurer's guild. Although, you do not need to go through any complex paper work but it takes long time to get your ticket approved.
But nobles don't need these tickets, they can just give money and enter.
Hmm, it's getting dark. I will go to the adventure's guild tomorrow. And it would be better to get some edible things. Remembering those brick-like breads, my tooth still aches.
After laying on the bed Zeo realized:
"This bed is as hard as Stone, damn it!"
Next day at the adventurer'sguild: -
A bald man sitting on the table with his party- "Man, you know I heard an amazing news, that bastard 'Second' got injured, during last hunting mission."
The second person with a scar on his face sitting on the table- "Seriously? that battle maniac got injured? Heh looks like people won't get beaten black and blue for a few days."
Third person- "Yeah, that lunatic last time broke my leg with a single kick, just because I was standing on his way. Just remembering his creepy smile when killing monsters gives me goosebumps."
Bald man- " you are right, see, when he is not here, this place is lively. Even though it's early morning Muhahaha...."
Bald man- " well obviously, that lunatic is No.1 in B rank, leaderboard rankings. It is said that he will eventually move and become an A rank adventurer in a few years. There are only 30 A rank adventurers in the royal capitals guild."
Second person- "Yeah, becoming an A rank is pretty difficult, you have to kill an A rank monster like Black Ogre."
Suddenly, the huge iron gate of the guild was broken and separated from the wall, it flew away and landed on the floor. Then a young man with Black hair and golden eyes came inside.
Seeing this young man, the lively atmosphere of the guild instantly became gloomy and some adventurers took cover under the table while trembling. The guild staff came rushing but stopped after they saw the young man.
"Damn it! why is this gate so weak? I just gave it a light push!"(Zeo)
Without saying anything, the staff started to organize a team to build the gate again, as if it was daily occurrence.
The young man moved towards the request list board then took a request and came to the main reception table. A young girl was trembling standing there, while stuttering she asked: -
"H-How shou-should I he-help you Mr. Zeo?"(Girl)
"Hmm... yeah, stamp this request I am taking it."(Zeo)
"O-Okay!"(Girl)
After completing the procedure, the young man left the guild. Seeing the fading back of the young man everyone heaved a sigh of relief. The staff started to repair the gate. And everything returned to normal, the only difference was that, the young man became the topic of talk for everyone now.
"damn man that was some dangerous aura he was releasing"
"Tsk, that damn lunatic, if that gate got dropped on me, I would have ended up becoming meat paste!"
"Hey! who was the one saying he is injured? from his aura I thought he was in a better condition than last time."
And just like that, the day continued...
(Zeo's Pov)
At morning, after buying important things from market, I started to move towards the Adventurer's guild. In the game 'Hero's path' the adventurer's guild is a kind of loose organisation, made by adventurers.
You can just go to the request list board, take a request, get it stamped by the guild, complete the mission and then report the result to the nearby adventurer's guild, these are some simple things you have to do, when accepting a mission.
when I reached the adventurer's guild, I had a sudden urge to kick the door, I don't know why but after seeing that door, I didn't think much and just gave it a light kick. And to my astonishment it flew away like a piece of paper.
I was truly surprised and thought that the members of guild will start attacking me. But I was even more surprised when no one said anything and instead some adventurers were trembling after seeing me, they were avoiding me like a plague.
Well, as expected I am a villain not a protagonist. If the protagonist was the one to do this, he would have been troubled by these people then some face slapping would have happened. Sadly, I cannot enjoy that face slapping privilege.
Although I was surprised but the expression on my face still remained same and as cold as ever. This is the personality of Zeo afterall, even if my soul has replaced the original but I cannot change the personality of this body.
Without delaying too much time, I moved towards, the request list board and searched a suitable one and I easily found one.
[Mission Rank- C]
[Object- Help the member of a Baron family in reaching Richter city safely, while escorting the carriage.]
[Reward- 8000 Exp, A random lottery card]
'oh!... I can get missions from the system too! good!'
After getting the request I took it to get it stamped. I can see the young girl trembling in fear while stamping my request paper.
'oh, come on, I am not a blood drinking demon, why are you trembling like that?'
After taking the paper I left the adventurer's guild and reached the departure place written on the request paper. When I was looking around for the carriage a knight approached me:
"He-Hello Mr. Zeo, my na-name is Ashtel, I-I am the leader of the guards escorting the noble ca-carriage. Ca-Can you show me the req-request paper?"
"Yeah... here, when are we departing?"(Zeo)
Seriously man, even a well-trained knight is stuttering, am I really that scary? What will happen to these people when they meet the main villain then? Oh wait, the main villain is a sadist, he shows a smile on his face but is rotten from inside, so maybe he won't scare anyone.
Sadly, Zeo had no knowledge of how scary his aura was, together with his cold personality.
"W-We will be leaving in an hour you can take this horse."(Ashtel)
"Hmm...Okay"(Zeo)
Zeo got on the horse, started to wait for the party to leave. After an hour the party of 40 people with carriages left the capital and moved towards the Richter city.
It was a long journey, but Zeo remained vigilant and throughout the way helped the guards to slay the monsters. He also got a good amount of Exp this way.
On the 8th day, Zeo noticed some odd behavior from a group of guards. A sudden thought came in his mind:
'are they planning to assassinate the noble? I should keep an eye on them, my mission will fail if something happened to the noble.'
And as expected, at the night these knights, attacked the carriage but since I had made Ashtel aware of their strange behavior, he readily blocked their attack with his companions and I assisted him by killing those assassins. I was surprised by how weak they were or maybe I am too strong.
[Killed an Intermediate rank knight +800 Exp]
And just like that I got a decent amount of Exp by killing them. Then the journey proceeded as normal, well although Ashtel said he will repay the favor and the baron will reward Zeo fairly, I didn't minded it too much.
Due to the delay we reached the city of Richter by the morning of the 16th day. First, I submitted the request paper in the branch of the adventurer's guild then booked a suitable inn to sleep for the night and waited for my reward.
Next day Ashtel came with butler of the baron family they thanked me and gave a decent amount of money. Well I can buy some good things with this money.
[Mission complete!]
[Reward- +8000 Exp, A random lottery card]
Well, now finally I have enough Exp to level up myself. The random lottery card can only be used when the shop is open, for now it is of no use. That monster raid is just a few days away.
Well it's still day outside I think, I should take a tour of this place to figure out the best route to sneak in that dungeon.
When I was passing by the main street of the city, I suddenly received a message from the system that surprised me: -
[Mission Rank- E]
[Object- You are being followed by unknown person, please escape from their tracking range]
[Reward- None]
Hmm, someone's following me? From the mission's low rank, the person must be a novice or do not have bad intentions, anyway let's leave this place. After that I increased my pace and taking a few roundabout turns, I successfully escaped.
[Mission complete]
[Reward- None]
Let's go back to the inn for today....