"Aren't you that boy whom zero fire lit up three months ago?" The king asked…
"Your majesty, I'm shocked you remember me" He replied coldly, removing his hands from the emblem..
"You definitely cheated or did something bad, there's no way someone would level up this fast… tell me, what did you do to level up this fast?" He asked…
What a selfish King that was, instead of acknowledging his skill.. of course he wanted to know how he did it….
"Father, how he did it is not our concern, having such a skill like this is of great help to our city.. why haven't you given him his title?" The lady sitting close to the king asked..
"I presume you're the queen?" Gillian asked as he stood waiting for the king's.
"Princess actually, I'm the first royal to be a Blacksmith…"
"Nice meeting you, I'm Gillian.." he said as he stretched out his hands to shake her..
But his plan was interrupted by a signal from Steve, the guy who went first…
"But then again, it's Rude to shake a member for the royal family" he said withrawing his hands.
"I hereby pronounce you Lord Gillian, since we have no whereabouts as to how you leveled up so quickly, you're to work under Steve and the princess as an assistant…" the king said as he stood up to leave..
"Assistant? I'm clearly higher than them" Gillan protested, hitting his hands against the statue..
"You do not question the king's judgement" the dark looking soldier said… preparing to unsheath his sword…
"What kind of king judges based on how it did it? Instead of the fact that I did it? Ehei?"
"Last Warning lad!!" The soldier warned…
"Gillian, let's go… Akemi interfered and took him by the wrist, directly away from the palace…
"Of all the stupid things you could've done is to question the king… are you just dumb or too proud?" Akemi asked frustrated….
"Dumb? Proud? Of course you've lived your whole life in riches, you're free to always insult a peasant like me…
But know this, I am now Lord Gillian, so you'll watch your tone when talking to me" he said as he walked away into the dark night, with not idea as to where he was going..
Everyone looked at him as he walked past them..
"Why would the king appoint a peasant as to be a Lord?"
"How did he even get there?"
They murmured, Gillian just walked straight ahead, then he made a steep turn into the darkness… and everyone lost sight of him….
"Gillian Rolthier…what a rare talent you have…"
"Look, who the fuck are you and why are you following me?"
The figure whom followed him was too scared to talk to him, so he stayed in the shadows.. there's no telling what someone can do when he's angry, especially Gillian….
"Look, I'm Steve.. we met briefly earlier"
"Oh, you're that guy who signalled me not to shake the princess.. can I ask why?"
He adjusted the ground nearby and sat down, go on, I'm listening….
"No reason, I'm sure you figured out that shaking the princess would inflict more of the Kings anger on you… all I did was instruct you not to shake her."
"I'm going to be working under you tomorrow right?" Gillian asked in a rather consoling tone..
"Yes, but I'm sorry about that also, is it okay if I ask how you were able to reach the Moonlight Stage?" Steve asked..
"Hardwork bro, just hard work" he said in a convincing tone, folding his two hands around his leg…
"Come to the city gate by 7am tomorrow morning, we'll go together!!"
"7am? How do you guys tell the time around here?"
"Take this, Steve replied tossing the round device towards Gillian.
It's a portable watch, the short hands that moves slowly is the hour, and the long hand that moves slowly is the minute..
The second is the long hand that moves fast…
We'll see tomorrow, seems like you have a visitor!!" He said as his footsteps retracted into the shadows.
"Why did you run? It's not like you have anywhere to go to here.. do you?" Akemi said as she walked into the alley..
"Hush, you can only say I ran if you didn't find me, but here I am… so I didn't run"
"As expected, always trying to prove that you're right!! Come on let's go!!"
"Nah, I ain't going nowhere with you" Gillian replied keeping still against the Wall…
"It's night, and it's about to rain, so come on let's go…" Akemi said stretching out her hands…
"Quiet, do you here that?"
"Hear what?"
"Who the hell is there? Why are you spying on us? Gillian got up and shouted into the darkness..
Phew, a curved blade twisted right through is head, but due to his quick reflexes.. he was able to evade it quickly.
Then a figure jumped out of the roof, wearing a mask which concealed his whole face…. And a robe that looked like that of an assassin..
"You don't need to know who I am…" the figure said in distorted voice.
All you need to know is that I'm here to kill you!!
The large saber immediately appeared on the man hands, descending towards Gillian With full speed…
"Get outta here and get help.. now.."
Gillian said as he jumped to the side, trying to evade the attack…
"You just sent the one person who can help you away, I don't know if that's stupidity or common sense" the figure said as his foot touched the ground.
"Now, let's do this like men"
System Expansion: Definite Darkness…
Gillian roared..
"But it's already dark, why do you need more darkness? The figure asked with a Sense of humor in his sentence.
"There's a difference, in this darkness… I'm in control…"
He brought out his shockwave sword and charged towards the figure, aiming directly for his heart.
Before he knew it, the figure dodged his attack and hit him in the chest with a palm while disappearing to his back and hitting him on the neck, rendering him completely useless, unable to do anything.
That was the fastest anyone had ended a fight..
"Who are you?" Gillian asked as his blood splattered on the ground…
"You need more training, I'll come back when you least expect me, so be prepared…
Remember pride goes before a fall.."
The figure said as he disappeared into the tin Air, leaving him half dead on the ground..
His final words….
So this is death?
Quest Completed successfully: Die Once
Tree Point Acquired: 300
Total Points Acquired: 600
Respawning in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1….
Respawn Completed….
"What the fuck? How am I not dead? Did the system save me?
That was the first that entered his mind…
His wound has stopped bleeding…
[Daily Quest: Forge A Healing Potion..]
[Time left till completion: 22 hours, 19 minutes, 3 seconds…]
Forge what?
He was utterly confused..
A healing what? What would happen if I did not forget it? He asked himself…
He didn't want to find out, since the system had saved his life once, it could also take it back.
He had to look for things to Forge a healing potion and fast…
"The Forge, or whatever it's called!!" He thought
He could use the resources at the forge to craft a healing potion…
All this while his mind never thought of that, but the problem here was how was he going to brew the healing potion, he had no idea on what resources he needed..
He only specialized in making swords, knives and shields..
Weapons used for war.
The the system screen popped up, he saw the red dot in the notification corner like before.
He tapped on it and saw a reward there again.. a reward for completing the task
"Die once"
He tapped on claim, and a portable book appeared on his hands, it was a nameless book, Waiting for the new owner to write a name on it…
As he opened the book and went through it, he found spells and resources for some potions and different types of swords…
"Page 23,
Title: How to forge an healing potion"
Resources needed: A spelled chamber container, damin water, purified oil, Phoenix root"
Note: not for fun purposes!!
Alright then, let's get this party started…
He said as he got up from the ground and headed out of the alley.