As I'm retracing my steps back to the room I was in, I smell something down right delicious in the air.
What is that enticing aroma. I think to myself walking down the hallway fallowing the scent.
I keep walking looking for the source when I come across a kitchen. I walk in and I see a few more maids and butlers, they seem to also be dragons.
"Umm... Excuse me." I call out to one of the maids and she turns around.
"KYYYAAAAAAAAA IT'S A ZOMBIE" She screams when she sees my appearance.
"N-no, I'm not a zombie I'm a human being I promise!" I try to explain myself to them.
She keeps screaming and starts to back away. Her screams attract the attention of the others in the room.
They start throwing things at me which prompts me to run. However, they start chasing me.
After what feels like an eternity of being chased around the Manor, I come across some stairs that go down. I falllow them down to find a hiding spot. I can hear them talking to one another.
"Where is he!?" One of the butlers shouts.
"Keep looking!" A maid shouts back at him.
They all run past the stairs and I'm glad they did.
I sigh after I feel I'm safe. "Damn what was that about, do I really look like a zombie?" I say to myself.
I turn around and notice a pair of double doors. I let curiosity get the better of me and I open them. I'm greeted by the sight of a bright room filled with metals, dragon scales, horns and some other unimportant stuff.
I notice something red, and glowing coming from the back of the room drawing me in like a beacon in the night.
When I see the source of the glow I find a black spherical crystal that is one foot in diameter. Astonished I think to myself there's no way I just stumbled upon a god crystal.
I walked toward the crystal in a trance without regard for my surroundings. As I'm walking I stepped on something then slipped and fell.
"Ow what was that" I rubbed my back as I stood back up. When I looked down I noticed a pure white mask with eye holes and a mouth hole that's in the shape of an unsettling grin. (1)
I picked up the mask then I put it on when I did I noticed some strange status window type things.
"Oh interesting it's enchanted with the appraisal skill" I mutter to myself. I keep the mask on and turn my gaze to the crystal.
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Information:
Pseudo god crystal
Color: black
Skills:
Foresight III
Language translation
Detection I
Poison heal I
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"Oohhhhh, It's a pseudo god crystal" I mutter to myself.
The appraisal from the mask allowed me to figure out what the crystal was. I reach my hand out to grab it.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" A voice from behind caused me to jump and turn around in surprise.
The owner of the voice was the same as the building, Malare Marduk.
"I umm err" I fumble over my words.
She narrows her eyes. "well what is it"
"I-I was chased around the mansion by some maids and butlers I encountered because they thought I'm a zombie. So I took refuge down here."
My response caused the dragon girl to break into a laugh.
"Ahahahaha, that's so hilarious" The dragon teared up from laughing so hard.
Her response made me frown. "it's your fault ya know" I muttered under my breath.
"What was that" the dragon girl said wiping away tears.
"Uhh nothing. So uhh what's up why are you down here"
"This is my own house human, I go where I please" she crossed her arms and huffed
"Yeah I guess it is, sorry" I respond flustered.
"But I did come here to talk to you" she looked at me with a serious expression.
I take a step back. "uhh what is it" I say nervously.
"Did you find anything you want from here?" The dragon girl's face softened.
"I uhh, I wouldn't dare-"
"Take anything you want from here." The dragon girl cut me off.
"Uhh are you sure?" I asked dubiously.
"Yes, I'm sure. Now go ahead, before I change my mind." The dragon girl narrowed her eyes at me.
"Y-yes ma'am" I respond flustered.
I turn my gaze away from the dragon girl and to the pile of metals next to her.
Thanks to the mask I could now tell what metals were in the pile. There is Adamantine, Mythril, Orichalcum, and another strange metal I've never seen before.
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Information:
Adamantine:
Color: dark grey
An extremely durable and rare metal. It's not very good at channeling magic through it but good at deflecting magic.
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Information:
Mythril:
Color: silvery blue
An extremely beautiful, light and soft metal. In it's pure form Mythril is very malleable however when infused with other metals it's extremely hard. It's magical properties are about the same as Adamantine.
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Information:
Orichalcum:
Color: black
A strong durable metal that is almost as strong as Adamantine. It's very good at channeling magic through it and can absorb magic from magic attacks.
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Information:
Astrium:
Color: vantablack
It's a metal the came from a different world. No other information available.
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"Whoa" A sound of surprise involuntarily escaped my lips.
"A-another world" I nearly shouted in surprise.
"Hmm?" The dragon girl made a sound of questioning.
I walked over to the pile of metals and picked up a piece of Astrium. "this is from another world, where'd you get it?"
"Oh, that's been in here since I got this mansion, 570 years ago when my grandfather gave it to me." She responded.
"I never touched or put anything in here other then the dragon scales and horns." She said with a shrug.
"Oh, is that so..." I say a bit disappointed. My disappointment doesn't last long however, as I turn my gaze to the pile of horns and scales.
There are black, crimson, blue and orange, scales and horns.
"Beautiful." I muttered as I admired the pile of horns and scales.
"Hurry up, human." Demanded the dragon girl who had her arms crossed in impatience.
"A-alright" I stuttered, surprised by her tone.
As I looked around the room some more I see a bag propped up against the wall.
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Information:
5th dimensional sling bag:
Color: black
It can hold an infinite amount of items of any size.
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I picked up the bag then walked back over to the pile of horns and scales and put some of the black and crimson horns and scales then put them in the bag. I then walked over to the pile of metals and took a little of each of them and also put them in the bag. Finally I went over to the god crystal and put it in the bag.
I walked over to the dragon girl with the strap of the bag on my shoulder and across my chest.
"Alright, I'm finished."
"It's about time." The dragon girl said in an annoyed tone.
"Now get out of this room!" roared the dragon girl.
Surprised by her anger I immediately dashed out of the basement and back up the stairs. As I reached the top of stairs I came face to face with Isabel.
I look up at her from behind the mask. "uhh, what's up?" I asked startled by her appearance.
She stares at me with a cold look in her eyes. "nothing." She responds flatly.
"Uhh, alright" I walk past her and down the hallway I came from.
As I approach the room I'm staying in I hear voices from down the hall. when I turned my head and looked behind me I notice the maids and butlers that were chasing me earlier. I quickly get back in the room I'm staying in and shut the door.
I hear talking from the other side of the door but I can't make it out.
I walk over to the bed and I take the items out of the bag and put them onto the bed.
As I lay the items on the bed I ponder what I should make, then the door opens and someone walks in.
When I turn around to see who it is I see Malare standing there.
"What's up?" I ask suspiciously.
"I just wanted to see what you were up to in here." Malare responds.
"Oh yeah, Malare, where are we?" Even though I probably already new the answer I wanted to confirm it.
"Alestra." She responds matter of factly.
"I thought so..." I mumble. Alestra is the continent of the dragons and 4 hours away from the human continent, Vantaria by boat so who knows how long it'll be for me on foot. It's also the only reason why I didn't try to escape.
After confirming my suspicions I turned back to items I had laid on the bed.
I glance at my stub of a left arm and back to the items a couple of times. It hits me.
"I'll make a new arm!" I say to myself enthusiasticly.
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(1) Think of Kagetane Hiruko's mask from black bullet