Hero: Ray (Formerly Roys)
Vi - Vania (Sister)
Papa K - Kelsier (Father)
Mom Z - Eliza (Mother)
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New characters:
Merci - The leader of highwaymen going to Mirebelle.
Dr. Heinz - One of Francia's doctors.
Jane - One of the nurses.
Jake - Adventurer. Fighter. Weapon: Sword and Shield. (secretly Alpha member)
David - Healer. Knowledgeable on plant life. (secretly Alpha member)
Royce - Flip practitioner. Basically a rogue. (secretly Alpha member). Subordinate to Merci, for now.
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New Terms:
Folm - paralyzing mushroom.
Jinji - paralyzing frog.
Foyer - detoxifying plant.
Mellows - Sweet smelling yellow roses with paralyzing thorns.
Leirga - basically komodo dragons but thinner and faster.
Warg - Basically a wolf, but bigger.
Goblins - Well, goblins!
Ogres - Relatives of Shrek.
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Bad dudes:
Hooks - Leader of the simp, part of a Beta faction
Chiz - Hooks subordinate, with parents issues
Carl Cestis - member of a Beta faction (not a jedi)
Felix - subordinate of Carl
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Adventurer Guild boss: Ford
Judas: town guard
Albert - One of the alpha team leaders leading Caravan A, great horseman
Cicero - Alberts subordinate in Caravan A, an ex Claude soldier
Patrice - Cicero's friend in Caravan B, skills, unknown
James - Alpha member caravan B (good brother of john)
John - Alpha member caravan B (tried to sacrifice himself, failed and was saved)
Peter - Alpha member caravan C (always with Simon)
Simon -Alpha member caravan C (always with Peter)
New info:
Khabian Desert - The desert north of Frendo City.
Town name where MC lives: Francia
Mirebelle - town near Francia
Julien - a town near Mirabelle
Alma - a town near Mirabelle
Frendo - the closest city to Mirabelle
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We travelled for 10 days going to the Khabian Desert our travel made smoother by Alpha members keeping the Beta members busy and distracted along the way. We had undercover Alpha members posing as merchants as going on ahead by 10 miles, so if they meet a Beta Patrol, they inform us using carrier pigeons. We then wait then Alpha members would then attack the patrol and keep them in a merry go chase to the other towns then we proceed.
After 10 days of travelling. We finally arrived at the Khabian Desert.
The desert is miles and miles of just sand, sand dunes and occasional rock hills and some oasis. We had to conserve our water and food until we reached the north eastern part of the desert where there is are 2 hills near each other. At the back of these hills is an oasis. The bases are underground cave systems under the hills which reminds me of the underground bases of the Damonites on Earth, a long time ago.
The 2 bases are pretty spacious and according to intel, most of the hills here have Alpha bases as well. They usually travel in the evening or at night when it's a lot colder.
True enough, there are underground natural water reservoirs here, perfect for setting up bases.
We settled in, relieved that we are finished with the almost two weeks of travel. We have brought those acid spitting Leirgas. When we arrived, the teams here were amazed that we were able to capture them. We tell them that we just make sure to put them inside the caravans putting earth and clay in the walls. As long as we put water and food inside these caravans, they are docile and just sleep. Putting lots of cold water from the river also makes them fall asleep, if they are in the water, they become immobile for some reason maybe because of the cold. Common Leirgas stay in water as much as they can during hot weather, so we figure out that it would be the same for them.
The desert may look barren true, but at night dangerous animals would come out looking for food. The desert alpha foxes are one of them, the desert snakes as well. These snakes are as thick as two arms combined and 4 times as long. The desert foxes here are the size of the horse. Both of them hunt desert rabbits, foxes and burrowing birds that scavenge insects at night and eat desert cactuses.
We hunt the desert snakes to level up. They are more dangerous than the desert foxes as the desert foxes can be intimidated if the a lot of people are in a group. They are intelligent animals that can assess their chance of winning and how many of them would die for a successful hunt. So if they see that their chances of winning is low, they run away.
The snakes, however, do not have the concept of fear or death. One snake alone or many snakes, if they see a potential prey, they would attack. Why would they be afraid? Their venom is lethal and can paralyze and kill any animals. It doesn't matter if there are 20 or 50 in front of the snake, the snake would attack, thinking that it can defeat all because of it's nearly impenetrable skin and dangerous venom.
They remain unchallenged in the desert for so long, that they lost any notion or concept of fear.
This is a big mistake for them, as they are now fighting humans, which has developed a strategy for hunting them. First, blind and confuse the snake by throwing black tar in their eyes and body, so that the sands would blind them and stick to them, slowing them down.
It would take a while to kill one of them, and the only real way of killing them is attacking their eyes with those long swords. Some of them wouldbe as thick as a man's leg, some, as thick as a tree.
We are trained to find their burrows and lure them out by smoking them. They would be angry and come out in a murderous rage, some in the a group of 20, some in a group of 50. The largest would usually be a group of a hundred snakes.
After a few months of hunting them, our levels have quadrupled. We have also tried domesticating them by taking care of the snakes that hatch from eggs. But even then there is only 2 out fo 5 that the snake would be docile.
Merci had better chance of taming them by transforming to a snake himself. Apparently, the higher your level, the bigger snake you become. Merci, now level 50 changeling. Can now transform into a giant cobra king snake, the biggest size of them all probably as bigger than a tree and thrice as long.
Everyone is scared and mesmerized of Merci and soon, many of the Alpha members were able to become changelings as well. They transform into a snake and when a small snake is born and see the changeling snake beside them, they imprint to the changelings, making them subservient to them.
My parents became changelings too afterwards after reaching level 20. Afterwards, almost a two hundred of the Alpha members became changelings who can transform to Desert Leirgas and to desert snakes. A dangerous combination.
I was able to reach level 20 by killing captured high level Leirgas and killing them.
After reaching level 20, I tried transforming into a Leirga. It worked but I only transformed to a small Leirga. Understandable, as I am just a 2 and half year old boy. I know that they say that growth can be hastened if you eat a lot and do stretching exercise a lot so as my request, I told my parents to cook me Leirga and snake meat all day and I would eat them as much as I can. Luckily, they desert people also have lots of camel milk to supplement growth.
Camels you say? Yes, there are camels. There were camels here a long time ago but because of the snake infestation, the locals have decided to live underground and raise their camels in large caverns. They are well protected and very precious, they are not killed but are raised very well and the grass that they are fed from comes from the jungles surrounding the City of Frendo. The locals mostly lived on the border of Frendo and Khabian desert. You will only see a sign saying camel milk for sale that would indicate where they are.
They would trade for baby cows, baby ducks, baby chickens and other animals. These desert people are, which looks poor outside, are probably one of the richest people in this planet, as they have found gold, diamonds and other precious metals and gems in the desert that they would trade for animals and mining tools.
The locals industry is mining and farming apparently. Farming! Farming in the desert! How crazy is that!
What they do is that they make these artificial hills after digging underneath rocky places. When there are lots of rocks underground, they would most likely create an oasis on it later on. After making a hill that acts like a barrier against the sun, they make an artificial lake at the back of the hill. At the side of the lakes, they plant all kinds of trees and see which one survives the desert. The would then yearly make the hill bigger and bigger, the taller it is, the better the shade it provides from the sun and also from the sand storms.
So, what precious to them are animals, waters and trees. They don't keep their animals outside because of the dangerous animals. They plan to make a huge city in the future with multiple layers of walls so that they can live outside, but the problem are the dangerous desert animals.
After another 4 months of hunting and killing these snakes the snakes would not go out anymore. They are afraid of us now. Now we lure them out by using goats as baits. A crying goat is hard to resist for them and when they are exposed, we hunt them down and search for their burrows.
We plan to make these wild desert snakes extinct and replace them with the tamed desert snakes which we will train to protect desert animals in the future. The locals and the Alpha members have made a deal wherein if the locals make a lot of desert lakes, we will fill these lakes with fishes and use the snakes as guards for these lakes. The snakes will eat the fish and keep the desert people safe.
I have taught alpha members on how to do telepathy so that they can communicate with the snakes more easily in snake form.
Then one day, the unthinkable happened. Someone has tried an experiment to feed his blood on his level 21 snake desert pet. He transformed back to a human afterwards forgetting to hide from her pet. Her pet unbelievably, turned into a smaller version of her.
Thus began the creation of the Naga people. The humans descended from snakes.
The possibilities are endless now.
(To be continued)