"Huh...huh...I can't go on... huh..!
I am feeling pain all over my body. Especially my lower body is in so much pain that it seems on the verge of tearing apart! "
"Come on bro you can do it. We are only doing it for 1 hours only. I can keep doing it for 3 hours without a single rest!"
Aetius is gasping for air non stop. After running around in a mountain, outside of the colos city for 1 hours straight, he is like a dead dog.
He is seeing augusto is full of energy and encouraging him to continue running around.
'Is this guy really same age as me? '
"Augusto I think, I will rest for 5 minute and go back to my school room. You can go ahead! "
Hearing Aetius, Augusto shook his head and said goodbye.
My stamina is really low, I was always far behind augusto since we started to run. I have to admit this guy is full of stamina and energy. This guy exercise 1 hour at morning, so I will exercise in the morning with him. Also I don't wanna be a terminator.
I am now siting in a small mountain under a small tree just outside colos city. I can easily see the busy city from here. The sun is slowly moving downward. If nothing else, it will be dark in 3 hours.
After lunch, I joined augusto and came to run around. we ran for an hour together, so it may be only 3:30-4:00 at most.
Let's take a small afternoon nap. Thinking so i closed my eyes and fell asleep quickly.
In sleep I was seeing myself being carried by 2 heaven defying beautiful angel womens . The are laughing with each other and time to time giving me light kiss in my cheeks. I was really enjoying these moments . They were talking that they are taking me to their beautiful female archangel for a cup of tea!
Suddenly I woke up from this heavenly dream. I wanted to stay in this dream for a little bit of more time.
I suddenly realized that I am no longer under that small mountains tree but was carried by 2 magic monsters!
I wanted to shout out loud for help but I came to sense that they tightly covered my mouth with some ugly hairs!
I wanted to run but they also like a professional kidnappers tied me. My each hand are bound at my both sides and have the rope wrapped around me!
My legs are also tied by these ugly hair like ropes. I started to struggle hard. I knew that if I can't escape, my fate will be anything but good!
Seeing my struggle, a old horrible women who is full of ugly white hair, as if not bathed for years laughed opening her razor sharp teeths and smiled viciously.
"Ha ha ha, look the human boy is just wake up. finally.....! Look how cutely he is struggling! "
Saying so she opened her 7 inch long ugly saliva drooling tongue and licked my cheeks. Every lick is giving me bone chilling shudders.
Soon my little face was full of disgusting stench of saliva.
I was desperately struggling now but I failed. A indescribable helplessness engulfed me. I was praying this was all a dream and wanted to wake up from this nightmare.
But I know that it is all real. I am cursing why did I fell asleep in that mountain? If I didn't slept there, I would be sleeping in my school room!
"Wow so tasty. Looking at you, I am sure you are still a virgin.So lucky ! Tonight I enjoy a human virgin boy to my heart content! "
Saying so, this creature started to lick me again while carrying me in her arms.
" You old bitch, this human virgin boy will be mine. I will taste his virgin essence tonight. Don't even dare to think about his virgin essence! "
Another women with a big dog head, naked human body, a dog tail, a pair of dog paws and dog leg said irritably.
"You kobold bitch, this virgin boy shall be mine. I was the one who first discovered this boy. So i will taste his virgin seeds.I am already imagining jumping over this cute virgin kids manhood and sucking his fresh essence. Ahhh.....i can't wait any longer! How long will it take to reach our camp? "Said the banshee coquettishly.
The kobold women blocked the banshees path and said bearing her yellowish teeths,
" Its my turn to carry, give me this boy! I warn you not to cross your line!"
"So what? wanna fight? then lets decide who will be the first! "
As soon as she said so, she put Aetius down in a small mountain fissure and stared at the kobold women with a blood-red eyes.
The kobold women also distant herself from the banshee and got into a dog stand and glared at the direction of the banshee showing her growing canine teeths.
Aetius at this moment was trying his best to crawl out of this mountain fissure to the open adjacent grass field. His both hand and feets were tied with that banshees hairs, so he is crawling like a bug now.
He is in no mood watching nor thinking about the two monster women's fighting for his first time.
Who ever wins or losses doesn't matter to him, because his fate will be tragic no matter which side wins.
Because of the reason that he is still a virgin, he is still alive or else they would have long since eaten him when he was asleep.
In monster women's a special ritual, they have sex with a virgin human in a magic circle and keep doing it until the human die because of tiredness. Then they chant magic spells and eat him from starting head to the toes!
They do so because doing this ritual , they can have a monster child which will have a higher chance of becoming a mana beast!
The Banshee women channels sound at high velocity to create a shock wave that propagates forward in a 180° cone. Even though i am opposite side of her attacking directions, my ears is in intense pain and i can feel warm fluids flowing out from there!
The kobold women is very agile and nimble. She quickly move aside from the banshees attack direction. She was slowly shortening her range from the banshee.
The banshee womens long ugly hairs coiling themselves in a whip shape. This whip made of hairs lashing out at the flexible kobold who is slowly closing her distance from the banshee.
While these 2 monster women's are busy fighting in a deadly manner, Aetius was not idle either. He successfully dropped from the mountain fissure to the grass fields. But while he was falling, he hit his left shoulder in the rock wall. From the pain it is clear that his shoulder is broken.
Gasping loudly he tried his best to ignore the severe pain and think a way out of this predicament.
'System.... hey bastard talk with me... hey hello please help me... hay....give me a cheat to survive at least!.... ahhhhhh.....system hey you dumb fool answer me..... Hey if i die, you will too so help me damm it.'
Aetius tried his best, but he didn't received any response from the system.
On the other side,
The banshee women is trying her best to avoid the agile kobold women's attack. She already suffered some wounds from her magic enchanted sharp nails.
At this point, the kobold women has completely transformed into a big yellow dog. She also suffered some sound and hair-whip attack. But compared to the banshee, she is in much better shape.
When the battle between these 2 monster women's was nearing It's end, Aetius was trying to crawl away. He is tied with rope made from hairs. So he is trying to find a sharp rock or something sharp to cut these ropes.
"I surrender, that human boy is yours, but you must at least let me eat his half of the body, as i was the first one who found him."
The banshee got on her knees and said weakly. She is covered with sharp paws scratch marks all over her body. Only half of her long big hair is left right now.
The kobold women was also not in a good shape. She has lost one of her 2 canine teeth. there are big whip marks all over her body.
The kobold women laughed loudly and agreed with her. She looked at the struggling Aetius and licked her lips coquettishly. There are an indescribable lust in her eyes.
Seeing that the fight is over there, Aetius become intense. Not good, Now looks like they will continue to take me to their lair and fuvk me till i become a corpse!
Aetius was trying his best to untie himself but all for nothing. He is in a deep depression.
Why me? why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...
I don't wanna die again. I know death more than any living being in this world. I don't want to go through that procedure! This helplessness, this depression, this emotions, i am no stranger to please .
In my past live i spent my youths years after years in a hospital bed waiting to die. While people of my age out there making friends and love, i was stuck in a dead bed.
While they are busy making their career, I was busy thinking about my death.
While they are making their own family's, I was rotting in a hospital.
While they are growing old, i was died in my youth. "
I wanted to live like anyone. I wanted to have a family like any humans, I wanted to love someone too, I wanted to grow old like them too. Is my wish is so expensive? Why can't i have these wishes granted?
Please anyone give me a chance to live, i will lick your boots all of my life, please, i will worship you all my life. please i will spread about your religion all over the world.Please let me live. Anyone god, demon,monster,anyone please let me atleast stay alive! please.
Aetius was immerged in despair. He was trying to hold onto the worthless life he got to live for the second time.
But no one heard his hearts prayer. He knows that lot of god like beings, existence,entities exists in this world. He tried to pray all of the gods name he knows, but he received no response from any god, demon,monster.
'Ha ha ha gods demon they have no time for the ordinary mortals heartfelt emotions. If they really cared, why there are war,drought, flood,....etc.ha ha ha.
They live for themselves.Like me many many living creatures are about to die may be desperately praying to the gods, demons, entities they believe or didn't believe, but they receive no help.
It's all finally depend on your own abilities to survive in this cruel world.
If i can survive today, i swear i will kill all of those existence which ignored my heartfelt requests, i will kill all so called gods, demons .
They think my life is so worthless to even bother to save.
I Aetius will kill all of you, just you count your days and prey that i don't survive today.
Thinking these chaotic thoughts, Aetius is unknowingly crying. He finally had the luck to live for the second time but just a few day's later he was about to die.
Looking at the approaching monster women's, Aetius tried his best, but more he tried, the more the ropes tightens.He had no strength left in his body but he is still trying in a impossible hope.
The kobold women sniffed my whole body like a dog.Now she has already turned into a half human half dog body shape.
While Aetius almost lost all hopes and was preparing to die . He suddenly remembered something and his dead like eyes suddenly lit up!
The kobold women caught me in her right shoulder and was about to continue carry me to their camp.
She suddenly felt an indescribable pain her middle body. She throw me in the fields and started to moan loudly in pain. She is twisting in there and shouting in huge pain.
The banshee come close to her in a stupid expression and watched in a dumbfounded look.
'Why is this bitch is suddenly acting like she is attacked by someone? Looks like it is really bad, what happened? should i take this chance to kill her take that human boy with me ?'
While she was thinking about backstabbing her teammate and taking Aetius away.She suddenly felt tormenting pain in her liver.
It was as if someone forcefully took a a body part inside her away. She loudly shouted in agony and terror.
Aetius laughed to his heart content seeing this. He was feeling an indescribable joy and pleasure seeing this monster women duo's in agony.
Then he crawled to a nearest sharp stone slower than a tortoise because he is tied by that banshees hairs in a three moon night. Ignoring the massive pain in his shoulder or the fear of any carnivores animal, he slowly grinded and after 3 hours of arduous effort he succeed in getting himself free from these hair ropes.
He slowly came to close the monster women's who are still twisting in agony.
3 hours ago when he was sure of certain death, he suddenly had the idea if he can collect the gallbladders of the the living magic monsters.
He first asked the system to collect the kobold women's gallbladder.
As soon as he give the command, The kobold women started the dance of agony.
Then Aetius also snatch away the banshees gallbladder and she also followed suit.
Aetius looked at the system interface,
System Panel :
NAME: Aetius
SYSTEM LEVEL : Level 1 -
Unlimited data storage ∞
LEVEL UP CONDITIONS :
collect 2/1000 level 1 magic beasts gallbladder.
The 2 monster women's are in great pain. They don't know what exactly happened all of a sudden.
First the kobold women then the banshee started to feel pain in there liver.
As a magic monsters, they can clearly tell which body part of their inside is missing. They don't have any clue how they both lost their body part suddenly.
They clearly saw Aetius was grinding the ropes against a rock, but they didn't care. They were in so pain that they really didn't care if that human child run away.
They ate all the healing herbs they had in their level 1 storage bag. But can a healing herb really can grow back a lost organ?
Level 4 healing magi or medic magi or middle rank holy priests or at least rank 5 healing pills can really grow back lost body parts.
But we are talking about some lowly level 1 monsters who only knows how to fuvk. How they can have rank 5 healing pills?
By now, because of The Internal organ loss, they may be not bleeding in outside but they sure are bleeding inside. If they do not receive medical support, they are doomed to die.
Aetius slowly climb up to the small mountain nearby and started to throw stones at the monster women duo.
Aetius knows that they can move around so he got high up and started to throw small big rocks at them. With each throws he was feeling an untold pleasure.
First was the banshee to die then the kobold. To be on the safe side, he continued to throw rocks for 5 minuets more and after confirming their death, he climb down from the mountains.
He slowly sat down beside the 2 dead monster bodies and started to think about tonight's experiences.
Since the time i came this world, i really didn't think properly about what will going to be my goal, my ambitions or desires.
But after tonight i finally found my path. I experienced death once so there is need to experience it second time.
If this world has many many times more dangers then my previous world, then it also has many ways to become a god.
I must pursue true strength to help me to avoid these kind of helpless situations. From now on I must focus on my system level up more if i want to survive in this chaotic world.
These 2 monster women's opened my eyes today. In this world, I can only survive on own strength. I can't expect others to come for my aid.
I need to become so strong that i can live they i want to live as i wish.God, demon,angel , outer gods can all go to hell.Whoever will come between my goal will die.
I thank to these monster women's for giving me a purpose in this life.
As promised, i will hunt you all gods down, just count your dog day's!
He respectfully kowtowed to the 2 monsters dead bodies.
Then he searched the banshees dead body and found a spatial level 1 animal hide bag.
He took some blood from the banshees body and some blood from his ears which was still bleeding a little since the banshee and kobold fight.
He paste both blood sample in the outer surface the space bag.
Changing owner of a low grade spatial treasure is very simple. You just need blood of the past owner and blood of a new owner. Them it will change It's owner to the new owner.
Level 1 spatial bags can only store 1000 litters of water.Inside the spatial bag, there are various miscellaneous items.
1. there 12,390 gold coins of various country's.
2. womens things not worth mentioning but a golden comb do attracted attention.
3. 2 books which are written in a language that i don't know.
4. some unknown meat.
Except the gold coins,golden comb and 2 books, i throw way the rest.
Then i also opened the kobold womens storage bag.
there are -
1. There are 7,898 gold coins.
2. A lot of womens clothes, foods and exercising tools.
3.some low grade healing herbs.
4. A big 7 inch long wax dildo
Except the gold coins and the low grade herbs, I throw the rest away.
I chewed the low grade herbs and started to feel the pain go away. Within an hour my shoulder pain go away and the bleeding also stopped.
I now have 20,289 gold coins including that lovesick end fools 1 gold coin.
I become a rich from a dirt poor overnight. Looting others directly is really is a profitable way of making a living!
The sky now is full of dazzling stars like a sea full of shining pearls. Among these stars there are 3 big moons proudly standing out as if they are the main celebrities circled by die hard fans.
The white moon is in centre among the stars , the green one is in left and the red on in the right side.
It is now last part of the night. I am now sited down between the 2 monster women's corpses.
Suddenly, i started to hear an electrical sound in my mind When i checked i found a message,
[ Congratulations to the host for killing his first monster ( level 1 magic beast a Banshee). Because host is still mortal but managed to kill a rank 1 mana beasts, the system will reward you with 2 rank 1 worthy of gift. Would you like to receive them now? ]
"First blood reward!" The system will reward me for killing my first magic beasts. sadly it will not reward me anything for that kobold women. Well whatever i am very excited.
"Yes, open them now!" I nodded and give the command.
Soon I received 2 electronic message in my mind.
[ Congratulations, you have acquired a level 1 System Storage Space. ]
[Congratulations, You have got a rank 1 intuitive ability ('Danger acuity' level 1) ]
Aetius become a bit curious about this 'Danger acuity' ability. If it is as It's name suggests, than this will be my biggest trump card. This seems to be one of those rare magi path ability.
With this ability, i can have a premonition or similar feeling about an upcoming danger and help me to prepare in advance whether to stay or run.
He quickly checked the details about this intuitive magi ability.
[ 'Danger acuity': A ability which will give host some bad feeling about an upcoming danger. The condition of triggering this ability are -
1.You may face a life and death situation soon.
2.A person withing a meter around you has some deep hatred or malevolence against you.
3.Someone trying to make prophesy or divination about you with a bad intention. Please note that it can signal host more accurately if the diviners magi rank is 1.If a rank 2 existence try to divine about you, it may sometime not give you any premonition. If that magi,beasts,priest or magic item's rank or level is 3 or higher, than you will receive no signal at all. To improve this please upgrade. ]
Seeing this Aetius's eyes lit up brightly. This ability is more badass than he thought.
If someone tries to make a divination or try to locate you through any means with bad intention , you will have a bad intuition!
This is a life saving grace. As soon as someone tries to make a divination or try to identify me, i can use anti -divination magic items to hide myself from these hateful peepers!
Not to mention, the ability to identify anyone who has a deep hatred against me around 1 meter radius around me.
It can increase my chance to survive from a incoming danger or simply identify who has deep malevolent against me!
Unfortunately, Its radius is little, i hope it will increase. After All, it just level 1 right now!
Aetius can see a 'plus' sign in the right of this ability.He click on that and he now can see level up condition.
[ Rank 2 'Danger acuity' upgrade condition :
Collect 0/1000 Rank 1 magic beasts dead bodies.
or
collect 0/100 Rank 2 magic beasts dead bodies.
or
Collect 0/10 Rank 3 magic beasts dead body.
or.
collect 0/1 rank 4 magic beasts dead body.]
After checking level up conditions, he focused on the next great things.
In Those novels,for a reincarnated person, a system space is a very common thing.It is a very convenient tool for anyone. This space storage has no physical presentations, so there are no chance of losing your wealth unexpectedly due to robbery, theft or something like that.
['System Space Storage ' level. 1. Descriptions - You can store nonliving objects in this storage.
You can store 1000 kilogram material in it.The dimensions are (H x W ×D) mm: 1000× 1000×1000mm. Things stored in this storage will remain same even after millions of years.]
Aetius clicked the plus sign.
[ 'System Space Storage ' level up
conditions :
Kill or collect 0/100 rank 1 space manipulator magic beasts.All the magic beasts must be from different magic beasts.
or.
collect 0/10 rank 2 space related magic beasts dead bodies. All the bodies must be a different beasts
or.
collect 0/1 rank 3 space path mana beasts dead bodies.]
Seeing this, Aetius become disheartened all of a sudden.
Space path magic beasts are very very rare. Because of their ability to control space, it is very difficult to catch them. If they see any danger, they simply go hiding in a different space zones. It is very troublesome to catch them.Only professional hunters or mages can catch them with adequate preparations.
Okay, I am very happy that today i gained so much because of this near death experience.
With a happy mood, i looked at my surroundings.I am now in a grass field between 2 medium sized mountain both side.
The reason i am not afraid of being attacked by wild animals is because, no ordinary animal will dare to come to near a magic beasts. So i will wait with these two corpse till sunrises.
I know there are lot of nocturnal wolf,leopards, wild boars,blood sucking bats etc south side of the colos city's mountain are, which start to hunt for food during night.This nocturnal animals can easily feel 2 power mana monsters are here, so they will run away as soon as the smell strong mana beasts fresh blood by their sensitive nostrils.
Only strong mana monsters can kill these magic beasts, they at least know that. So they are not daring to come here.If they came, then Aetius would be in great trouble.
Aetius is admiring the starts in the sky and waiting for the sunrise. These wild nocturnal animals will go to their hiding place then.
If he collects these dead bodies in space storage or go away from here, he will be attacked soon.
So with peace of mind, Aetius is singing a song from the previous life in between these monster women's corpses and planing for the follow-up action.
He suddenly had a thought, "If i kill a god for the first time, will there be a god slayer reward?"
....
20 kilometers south of the colos city.
In a mountainous area, all kind nocturnal animals are rampant in the night.From time to time wolfs howl, mountain goats screams are resounding in this whole area. But unusually between 2 mountains narrow passage , no wild animal dares to go.
From there you can hear a human teen singing in a weird language from time to time. If any human came and saw that a human teen was siting between 2 rank 1 monsters and singing. They would definitely thought that an taboo occult is ongoing and that teen is reciting an evil chanting.
Aetius is really in a happy mood right now. He never spend whole night watching the beautiful sky full of stars. Because of the 3 different colours moon, the surrounding mountainous are is seem to be a fairyland.
In earth he never appreciated the night sky so much . Maybe because of the pollution of the past world, the night sky was less attractive back then.
He was stuck in hospital bed for year after years, so now he really enjoying this outside world very much.
It would be wonderful if i can enjoy the beauty of this magical world forever!
Soon the sky started to become brighter from the east. The noise from the nocturnal animals also started to low down.
Its already morning! I didn't realized when the time gone by so suddenly. I was so immersed in singing and enjoying the moments that I didn't grasp the time.
Okay looks like i should pack things up here and get out of this place soon!
Hmm, i have 20,889 gold coins now.To be on the safe side, let's put 20,000 gold coins in the system space. In the system space storage it will be totally safe.
To not attract any suspicion, I will put rest of things in the clothes storage bag.
About these 2 dead magic beasts body.... hmmm...let's put them in the system storage for now. If I sell them to a magic beasts merchants, I can receive a good amount of golds but there is a problem.
The problem is that, they are both missing their gallbladders. Which may attract unwanted attention.
I don't wanna be in any trouble. Let's first learn how to cut and process magic beasts corpse from someone. Then i will personally extract magic monsters organs, the cut their body parts and sell them.
Well in system space storage nothing will rot like these two ordinary storage bags from these monster duo.
I don't need two clothe storage bags, I will sell one and use other one as a decoy. My real treasures will be in the system storage space, i will use this clothes storage bag to trick my adversaries .
I have collected 20,000 gold coins, 2 monster corpses,1 golden comb,2 books in the system storage.
In a clothe bag, i have put rest 889 gold coins and 2 leaves of low grade healing herbs.
Because of the 2 magic monsters, my system storage is almost full.
I have to get rid of these monsters and convert them in the gold coins.
It seems already 6 am. The mountain is now clearly visible and wild animal have all gone to rest after a nightlong adventure.
Let's move north, I hope these monster women's didn't take me very far from the colos city. I know that south of the colos city is a mountainous area where just ordinary nocturnal animal roams.
East side of colos is the dangerous Thar mountain range where many rank 1 magic beasts lives.
North and west side of the colos city is full of human villages and towns.
So i am sure i am currently south of the colos city. I wish i am can find any caravans or merchants or kingdom soldiers patrol here.
If lucky they will let me go with them. I am also feeling both hungry and sleepy, i wish to get to the city quickly have some quality sleep after a sumptuous meal.
....
Between a narrow mountain passage a big merchants caravan is moving towards north direction . There are more than 100 carriages powered by different type of big draconic beasts.
In these carriages there are a lot of people's with a lot of products. Different carriages are full of different kinds of goods.
Some carriages are full of medicinal herbs, some are filed with ores,some have a lot of myriad types of clothes,some have Big glass tanks in which you can see sea fishes swimming,some carriage are full of different kind of salts and sugars.
A lot guards are guarding them in their horse backs. Most of guards are very skilled and battle hardened mercenaries.
Some guards are from the 'hulu merchants chamber of commerce '. They are rank 1 magic knights.They are the main powerhouse of this caravan.
Alfons is a mage working for the 'Hulu merchants chambers of commerce '.He is a rank 2 magi of the magic swords path. He is in charge of the security of this caravan.
He is currently riding a big red horse and is chatting with a fat middle-aged men.
"Dilam, how long will it take to reach our next destination ? It's already more than a week since we left last big city." Alfons said with a exhausted expression.
Middle-aged merchants Dilam replied, "he he he lord magus, we will reach our next destination within 5 hours if we keep moving at this speed.
Because the next city is a small one,we will only stay there for 3 days. Within 3 days we will sell and replenish our goods and move to the next one. "
Alfons nodded and said,
"Then it will be great, i am also tired of sleeping in the wilderness."
Dilam said respectfully,
"Lord magus, this is the life of a caravan merchants.We spend most of our life on the road's.
You just joined us recently so it is hard for you, you will get used to it soon."
Hearing Dilams words, Alfons nodded with a helpless face.
If not for high salary and magic materials promised by the 'Hulu merchants chambers of commerce ', he wouldn't have take this job.
He is now 121 years old but looks like a young men in mid 20s . In the eyes of mortal it is a extremely old age. But from the perspective of the magus, it is just a childrens age.
It has been more than 70 years, he become a rank 2 mage in magic swords path. But because of the scarcity of the rank 3 magic swordsman path, he is still stuck in this rank.
'Hulu Chamber of commerce ' had promised him that, if he work with them for 99 years, then they will give him rank 3 magic swordsman mage path resource,books,spell and tips.
To show their sincerity, they let him met with their one elder who is a rank 4 magic swordsman. It is said that he is working with this hulu Chamber of commerce for 1 and half thousands years now.
After talking with him for a whole day he got a lot of knowledge about his current path.He started to realize his paths true meaning and also clearly started to understand his shortcomings.
He finally chosen to work with them.
Alfons joined the Hartage kingdom army when he was a rank 1 magic swordsmen. There he worked for around 4 years.
But he was forced to resign.He had a dispute with a noble origin officer back then.
This kingdoms almost all important posts are in the hands of the aristocrats. Nepotism is a very serious issue in the army. All important posts of the military is full packed with the nobles. Most of them are incompetent in leading an army.
After leaving the army, he worked in many small organisation and did many odd jobs.
He is now working under 'Hulu Chamber of commerce.'He will work with them for 99 years.
At glance, it may seem harsh but the conditions are far better than others.
He received a lot invitation from many nobles, lot of good, dark groups, organisations.
But he refused them in the end.He he hates noble to the bone, so he didn't want to see those shrewd guys.
Lot of small big organisation and business farms big him some conditions that he didn't liked.
As for secret organisations or banned religious factions. He also received a lot invitation with tempting treatment. But he rejected them without a second thought. He don't want to become a criminal nor a bad guy.
But this 'Hulu Chamber of commerce ' conditions are not that harsh. They also let him meet with their rank 4 magic swordsmen. So he finally decided to join them.
'Hulu chamber of committee ' is a famous merchants group in this kingdom. They rank top 10 merchants in Hartage kingdom.So there is no fear of backstabbing .
After living for 111 years, he got used to travelling across the kingdom. He will be paid 1 mana crystals every month.
1 mana crystal is worth 100,000 gold coins.
Mana crystal's are special crystals with full of mana. Mages can use them to replenishes their mana reserves in their body.
After mana tip-off, a human can use mana, but they cannot store mana in their body.
That's why you need mage schools help. They can help you to learn how to store mana ,control it, use mana, learn some class related skills and create mana props.
Before they start teaching you, they will make you take a oath in sacred names to not reveal their teachings to the outsiders without their permission .
So all the mana awakened teens of the Arcadia continent must go to the Adriana subcontinent to embark on the journey to become a mage.
From the mortal point, it may seem harsh of a 99 years of contract may seem harsh and untrainable.
But Alfons knows that this time is just a small nap session for those old mages in Adriana subcontinent.
A rank 1 magi can have a life expectancy of around 200 years.
A rank 2 mage can live almost 500 years
A rank 3 magi can live around 1000 of years.
This however is not the case for these forced awakened knights.
Thinking so Mage Alfons looked at the rank 1 magic knights guarding this big caravans .
Kingdom's army, rich elite's and many powerful organisations make those who didn't had mana tip-off before 15 years of age, to have a chance to become a magic knight.
Magic knights rank 1 forced awakening path is widely available. Adriana subcontinents mages made this formula public millions of years ago to the whole Arcadian continent .
The reason is to appease the mortal kingdoms to let their mana tip-off people to come to the mage subcontinent. Well another reason everyone knows but dare not to say is that it is a defect path.
The mages succeeded to make mortal with no aptitude to turn them in magi after millions of years worth of painstaking research.But they never succeeded in fixing its flaws.
This paths flaws are very harsh and severe. The success rate of becoming a magi in this path is 1 in a 100 and most of the unsuccessful people's dies after the ritual.
The magi in this path can never see their level becoming 2.They will stuck in rank 1.
And last but not least, Unlike natural awaken level 1 magi who lives for around 200 years, this forced awaken mages will die around 50 years of age.
For mages it may be a faulty and failed product but for most of the mortals it is a very tempting way to improve their lives.
In this age, an average ordinary mortals life expectancy is around 40 years of age only.So they don't really care if they will die at 50. Living to 50 is considered luck among ordinary people's. Only very few can live to 100's.
Becoming a magic knight is both honorable and sought after to ordinary people's. By becoming a magic knight, they can earn a huge sum of money.
Magic knight are a Kingdom's important force, so they received a lot of fame and fortunes.
Adriana subcontinent mages shrewdly used this failed product of theirs to make mortals want to become a mage and also showed their kindness by giving them a chance to become a mage. It is a great chance for those who gave up becoming a mage. It also helped the mages incredibly to increase their numbers massively.
Religious faction strongly forbade their followers to not to follow this evil path in almost all of their sermons.
They say to the ordinary people that they are lucky to not have evil mana aptitude in their bodies because god or goddess want them to not fall in magic paths.
Without those die hard followers, most of the ordinary man just ask for their sin to be forgiven and choose to participate in this forced awakening.
Most of the people in this world are peasant who works hard for a whole day for a single meals for them or their families . So if anyone promise to give them a good life in exchange of selling their souls to the devil. They will happily do so! Not to mention a chance to become an honourable mage!
While lost in these miscellaneous thoughts, he heard this caravans manager Dilam's voice.
"Just now , I have received a massage from our chamber.From today, The west of our country has entered in a state of war . I wish if i was in the charge of that region, i could have earned a lot of money."
Upon hearing this, Alfons furrowed his eyes in shocking manner and asked hurriedly,
"Dilam are you sure? Are we really in a war agaist those Hussar bastards?"
Dilam nodded serious and replied,
"Yes lord mage, 4 day's ago the Hussar kingdom imbeciles tried to assassinate our king, but failed to do so. I just received this news.The king has officially declared war against them.Every young men of West of this kingdom from the age 20 - 30 must join in this war!"
Merchants heavily depends on the information network.They must stay up to date to the various information which will affect market price of their goods.
War is a wonderful excuse for them to increase their products price. So dilam ordered the caravan merchants to double their goods price from now on.
If they were in the west region where war preparation is in full gear, they could have increased the price 3 times or more.That's why dilam expressed his dissatisfaction at the beginning.
"How dare they tried to assassinated our king! No wonder they were secretly moving their forces to our border regions for a few day's. They wanted to take advantage of the chaos of this country and send their troops to conquer this kingdom!"Alfons said with red eyes.
Alfons served in the army for a few years, if not for that noble brat back then, he wouldn't have left the army. He also fought against a hussar's rank 1 magic swordsman in a border skirmish back in those day's .
Alfons said seriously,
" If king orders for this All out war' i will definitely join the war and kill these Hussar bastards.What do you think dilam? Isn't your blood boiling like me too? "
The term 'All out war ' is used when a nation is forced to face It's near extinction by a foreign invaders, they asked everyone men, women, old to join the war for the survival.
Thinking this Dilam started to sweat profusely in this low temperature morning. He smiled wryly and said,
"Lord mage, i am only good at business and entertaining guests. I never killed even a chicken with my hand to this day! I don't think or wish that day to come. We have powerful Novgord empire as our ally, so that will never happen. If that really happen, i can only work at logistics at best. "
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Aetius is now walking toward the north. It has been more than 2 hours since he is walking towards the north but he still didn't see any sign of human settlements.
How far these 2 fvking monster dragged me? I hope it is not too far away. But if it is really is very distant away, than i am in very sous trouble.
This mountainous area is full of wild animals. During day time the mostly sleep and stay inactive.
But as soon as night falls, these nocturnal animals starts to get busy hunting for food.
I must reach at least reach a small village before dawn. Or i have to spend the night with these wild animals!
Thinking this i started to walk faster. I am very hungry and also feeling a lot of sleepy . So i speed up to reach a human settlements before it gets dark .
Soon i saw a lot of people with huge draconic beasts powered carriages.
Caravans! It is also a very big one!
Aetius go up in a nearby mountain to take a clear look.
Wow this caravan is a massive one. There are at least 100 gigantic carriages full of goods !From a little far, it looks like a huge snake is slowly moving towards north direction!
I am lucky to meet them. Even if they don't let me temporarily join them, i can stay close to them to avoid wild monster attack durning night!
I started to walk quickly and soon came close to the caravan.
A few guarding mercenary noticed me and one of them came close to me.
"Key kid, whatcha doin in these mountains? why you lookss like a poor thief beaten by a group of mobs? "saying so he and his fellow mercenaries started to laugh out loud .
Ignoring their jokes i asked them,
" How far is the colos city from here?"
"Colos city, he dough you know where this colos is? I think hear about this city somewhere.Where did i hear? "
Another mercenary said,
"You idiot old fool, our destination is colos city, did you forgot?"
They started to laugh again among themselves.
A mercenary asked a caravan attendant something then came close to me and said,
"Its close, just 12 kilometers away. Are you from there?"
So near! it only will take an hour or 2 if i walk faster! It is only 9 or 10 am now. So there is no need to go with these caravan guys.
I simply nodded, thanked them and started to walk faster to the colos city's direction.
Let's reach colos city quickly and have something to eat and go to sleep!
When i was quickly leaving behind the caravan, i heard someone said loudly,
"Hey, you kid there stop! "
I stopped there and looked behind. I didn't received any dangerous premonitions so i didn't panicked but i still remain a little cautious.
I saw a blue robe men with 2 swords both side of his waist and seemingly a great broadsword in behind his back, came to me in his red horse.
I saw hulu merchants batch and a nameplate in his robe.
Hulu Chamber of commerce
name : Alfons tuton pagone
Mage : Rank 2
"Kid, what are you doing alone in these mountains and how did you get injured? "
He pointed his finger at my bloody shirt and asked me?
What is this situation? he is a rank two mage. I don't know which path he is from or about his skills. So i better not make up a bad story.And also i have not received any bad feeling even after he is close to 1 meter from me. So has no malicious intentions.
I give a respectful vow and said,
"Lord mage, I was kidnapped yesterday at dawn by 2 magic beasts women just outside of the colos city. Yesterday night, they suddenly started to fight with each other. I took this opportunity to trick them and ran away. I am now going back to my hometown."
After saying these half truth, half lies i stared at the mage. I hope he will not punish me to lying to him!
The mage nodded and said,
"Ha ha ha, you are really lucky, i had a mage friend during my study at Adriana subcontinent. During our mana espouse ritual, he also encountered same situation like you back then and was the only one in his team to survive . That guy later become a luck path mage. Huhh....Maybe he is already a rank 3 mage by now.
Okay you are already covered in magic monsters blood, it will cause skin damage if stick for too long. Go change the clothes . Attendant come give this little guy some fresh clothes. "
After giving a nearby servant the order he started to patrol the caravan.
The attended brought me on a moving caravan led me inside. From outside it looks like a gigantic carriages but inside it looks way bigger than the outside!
I was standing outside and watching various clothes inside the carriages. Soon the servant brought a luxurious shirt and pants and said me to go to a small room change.
After changing , i came out and asked how much money will these clothes costs.
He said that magus give me free chance to choose clothes from here, so i won't need to pay. If i am not satisfied then he will show me another set. I was satisfied with these clothes so i declined him.
These clothes are really expensive. In colos market, it will coat at least 100 gold coins.
I gave a servant 1 bronze coin as tip and got out of the caravan. Outside i didn't see the mage but i will always remember his kindness.
Lets quickly go to the city and book a room in a hotel baths.Then after a meal i will sleep peacefully.
From now on, i will live in the cities best hotel and only go to school 2 days a week! I don't wanna my baths and toilets interrupted by anyone, not anymore. Because i am now rich!!!!!!
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After more than an hour of walking, i can finally see the outer village and small towns of colos city!
The colos city is divided into 3 main part. One is outer sections which is outside of the the colos cities surrounded by a big walls. Other part is inside of the wall fortifications.
Last but not least there are another layer of walls inside the middle of the city. Inside there Colos noble family lives .
Total area of current colos city is about 95 square kilometers. Outer part of the colos city is full of slums and low level shops and taverns . Security is very bad there. All kind of gangs are very active in these parts.You can hear gang fight, beasts attack, murder, thief, robbery there all the time There.
Aetius looked at these slums from a distance and shook his head. He was thinking if he can live here because it will be very cheaper than the internal city.But looking at these ugly and dirty slums, he rejected the notion.
The security is very poor in these places so it is not ideal for me to live here.
Aetius was hungry so he was thinking to eat something cheap, but looking this slum, he lost his appetite and decided to go to eat at the main city. In front of the city gate, there are a lot of people going in and out. There are 4 big gates in the four direction of this city. I am now at the south side of the city.
Every gate has 3 ways . One for common people who are carrying things in their hands or on their backs or simply empty handed . They don't need to pay anything. Another one for merchants and carriages, who enters with a lot of goods with them. They need to pay city entrance toll.The last way is reserved for the nobles to easily go in and out.
It is now around 12 pm. The common people's entrance now full of people.I tightly griped my left pants pocket with my left hand and approached the busy city gate. You never when you will pass by a busy place and you will suddenly realize that you lost your things from your pockets!
Aetius thought of storing the 2 spatial bags in his system space but he failed.Like most other spatial storages, you can't store a space magic item inside another one.
The common people's gate is not monitored by the guards, so it is a bit chaotic here.
After successfully passing the gate,i checked my pockets. Both the spatial bags are safe. I am finally back in my hometown. Now i can finally have some peace of mind!
I first entered in a good looking restaurant and ordered to show me their menu of magic beasts meat.
After looking, I decided to order magic beasts armoured camel's meat.1 plate full of armoured camel's meat will cost me 10 gold coins.If it were school,the same thing will cost me 30 gold coins.
Armoured camels meat is very famous in this city. Different magic beasts meat has different kind of effect on ordinary mortal People. Armoured camel's meat can heal muscle pain and helps to improve your sleep quality.
While they are cooking my magic beast's meat, i looked around this restaurant. This is a very luxurious restaurant. So there are very few rich people around.So there are less chances to hear about the current news for free.
Looks like i have to book a room in a busy tevern where many people gatherers and gossips. That way i can learn a lot of information at free of cost.
Information flow in this medieval style world is very backward and poor. To receive information of your own interests, you have to pay according to that informations value and secrecy.
While i was trying to hear other peoples talks. The waiter brought my cooked magic beasts meat.
The moment he removed the lid, a rich aroma spread around. This very fragrant meat i ever smelled. I started to feel a little energized just by taking smells of this.
Not only me, the surrounding peoples also stared at my direction.
"Look at that kid, he is now eating a delicious magic beasts meat!"
"Looking at his clothes, he seem to be a first son of a very rich man.It has been a long time since i last ate a magic beasts meat."
"Dear husband, please order a plate of that meat too. "
"Honey we are a little short this month, i promise you that i will let you eat magic meat next month. "
"Hmph, don't you dare sleep with me tonight! "
Ignoring others comments and remarks, i was busy enjoying this special food.I never ever ate anything so delicious in my 2 lives combined.
In my past life, before becoming sick, I travelled dozens of famous cities across europe and ate a lot of different types of foods. But none of them taste so good like this one!
This magic beasts meat is cooked by skilled mortal chiefs. I know there are some rare magi path related to cooking! It is said that their cooked foods are the best food you ever eat. I wonder how this meat would have become , if they cooked it for me?
Shaking my head about these nonsense notions, i started to enjoy my food.
The moment i take a small bit,It melt in my tongue as if chocolate.All the stiffness i had in my left shoulder started to go away.
After finishing the plate, i realized that i am now full. So i got up from my tables,paid 10 gold coins and left.
After a quality meal, i am now full of energy. I decided not to go to school to sleep.
I don't like to wait in lines to go to washrooms. And it also make me angry, if someone keep knocking on the door while i am taking a shower or answering to the natures call in the toilet.
I have more than 20 k gold coins with me, so i will use them to book a hotel in this city and plan my future goals.