A fairy is a life-form made purely out of magical energy and does not possess a flesh body.
It might sound unbelievable, but fairies are born directly with a proper ego/personality and knowledge. On top of it, they are not born from a mother but, with the magical energy of the earth and the divine protection of the fairy queen they are born similar to the blooming of a flower bud. It is a real life setting similar to – a stork bringing babies or babies coming from cabbage fields. Until you don't see one born in front of your own eyes, it's an unbelievable fantasy life-form.
So, these fairies can make contact with material substances, but since they don't possess an actual body they don't really have an animal's survival instincts.
Life-forms made out magical energy don't possess the 3 basic desires i.e. sleep, appetite, and sexual desires.
In case of fairies, even if they can sleep for resting their minds, food is absolutely unnecessary, and so neither is excretion required. On top of it, they don't have men either. They are a life-form similar to an ideal entertainment idol.
Again, they are all born in the form of a young girl and will remain the same until they disappear. Even though they are all females, the reason the species doesn't go extinct is because there is no need for reproduction. And they don't age probably because they don't really have an actual body.
For them to keep on living, what's required is an environment similar to the forest of fairies which has a dense magical energy. As long as they can replenish their magic, fairies can keep on living.
Even though they have the same level of intellect as humans, due to not having any instinctual desires, there are no disputes among them, again for the same reason they don't possess any kind of culture either. They are one the few races that have remained the same from the ancient times.
Since there is no other requirement for survival they don't have any work and spend 24 hours talking and playing around.
From the start, fairies were a race who loves freedom and chattering it seems. Somehow they are very similar to children.
Even though they don't require it, they enjoy sleeping under the warm sun and eating delicious food as a source of pleasure.
That was why they carried away the apple-like fruits. And so, they eat, sleep, and play in rotation every day.
On listening this, I wanted to become a fairy myself but fairies are a very exclusive race. Shouting hysterically and driving me away showed that part of them.
And thus, the half-human half-fairy Lily was also affected by it. Even though she was born as a fairy she was subjected to ostracism.
"I see it must have been hard. Shit, I feel like crying." Kurono said in a sad tone as he heard the story
"Don't cry Kurono." Lily smiled at him
Kurono listened to Lily's life story as they ate the apples. It really was a heart wrenching story. He had suffered since he had been summoned to this world and experimented on, tortured daily for two years but even then his dead heartfelt compassion for the little fairy.
Kurono was already emotionally attached to Lily, and Lily too had started calling him without any honorific; they were not at the level of acquaintance anymore as they had been living together for some time.
'That's right, we are already friends! We should be…it would be nice if we are.'
'Well leaving the fact whether we are friends or not aside, we were talking about Lily.' Kurono thought with a smile
"To have been alone from the time you were born is too damn sad…"
Since Lily possessed a proper body she also had survival instincts that meant that she had to eat to survive. She had to sleep to remove fatigue as well. Basically she had to work to find food and also secure a place to sleep, that too within this forest all by herself.
"It's fine. I have a proper house as well."
The home she talks about is a small hut currently in front of us right now.
This extremely aged hut built like a log house was once used by a magician a long time ago it seems. When that magician died, his body was carried to the graveyard by the neighboring villagers but his house was left as is.
And when Lily was born, she was driven out of the fountain of light so she started living in this hut near the forest.
"What do you do about food?"
"I pick up fruits and mushrooms. Also, I buy bread from the village."
"Huh? You can do shopping!? What about money?"
"I pick up medicinal herbs and make medicines out of it."
"And you sell it in the village for earnings?"
"Yes. Only occasionally though."
"Amazing! That's really brilliant!"
She is able to earn her livelihood even though she is so small. Compared to a modern child like me who has to do nothing but go to school, she is certainly amazing.
"Ehehe….."
Maybe because she was embarrassed on being complimented, Lily started squirming with her face down.
'You should be more proud of yourself!'
"If you're living alone, can't you leave this forest and live in the village?"
"No…..Fairies can only live in places which have received the divine protection of the Queen."
I don't know whether it was a rule or not, but still Lily didn't want to be separated from this forest even though she was not a full fairy.
Even if there was no rule, this place is her birth place after all. I can understand the feeling of not wanting to leave this place.
"But, aren't you being forced to do dangerous things like fighting monsters by those fairies?"
"It's fine. I have been doing this from a long time. This is the only thing Lily can do for them."
"Lily wants to protect the fountain of light even though you were driven out of there?"
"Yes."
There's no way it wasn't painful for her yet there was strength in her reply. I shouldn't make anymore unnecessary conversation regarding this.
"Is that so? Then I won't stop you. But this time I'll do the goblin extermination in exchange."
"Eh!? No! It's Dangerous!?"
Lily was aware that it was dangerous for a human to fight monsters even if they were low grade monsters.
But unfortunately, wait, here I should call it fortunately right? I was no longer a normal human.
"It's fine! Even though I look like this, I'm a magician!"
"Magician?"
Lily stared at me absentmindedly with her mouth open. Looking at my own figure reflected in those big eyes of her I realized.
"Sorry but Lily is there something I can wear? Also tell me if there is a river nearby where I can wash my body."
My outfit is still the same plain white clothes given to me in that facility. On top of that it has 8 big holes I got during by fight with Sariel. Also, after escaping, I crossed the mountains for 3 days in the same outfit. It had become dirty as well as worn-out. Similarly, I haven't washed my body for that many days as well. Although I might not realize it myself, but my body definitely smells bad….
No matter how I look at it, I look like a vagrant with a bad nature. I don't look like a magician from any angle.
"Umm, River is that way, as for clothes…"
"No, it's fine if you don't have any. For the time being I'll first go and wash— wait, maybe I should first kill off those goblins, it feels like I'll get dirty again."
"You're going to go now?"
"Yeah, I'll wash my clothes after returning. Well then, Lily, guide me to this west cave where the goblins are."
"Ye, yes."
Maybe because she is still worried, she is making a troubled face.
"It's fine! Just leave it to me. If it gets dangerous I'll run. I have some confidence in running away."
After all, I was able to run away from that crazy evil experiment facility after facing that monster class albino girl. An encirclement of goblins is nothing.
"un, follow me!"
Led by my enthusiasm (?), lily began guiding me there.
All right! I'll show my strong point to the first person who showed me kindness!
I braced myself and started following Lily.
"There."
While hiding in the shade of a tree, Lily pointed towards a part on the rocky cliff.
"Ooh, there are definitely goblins there."
The main entrance seemed to be a cave of around 3m and around it were three more small entrances of about 1m. Neither of them is very big, but for goblins who are at most 1m in height, it is sufficient.
The goblins here seem to be the same type as the ones I faced during the maneuvering experiments.
The ones at that time were equipped with sturdy armor and sharp blades but the ones here are wearing just old rags and are equipped with what looks like weak handmade weapons.
The level of equipment was definitely low, but they seemed to be more than used to these weapons.
"I'm confirming this just in case but, it's fine to kill all of them right?"
I had long lost any hesitation in killing living things including humans, but I didn't feel like showing Lily blood-filled scenery either.
Although I doubt Lily would have any reluctance towards killing considering she has been doing this for a long time, but still I decided to ask just in case.
If she got scared due to me over-killing the goblins, I would be pretty sad.
"Yes, if you leave even one goblin then another 30 would come, so you must properly exterminate them all."
"Is, is that so? I see."
I felt a really big gap seeing her say things like [extermination] as if they were cockroaches. Is the pure cruelty special to only children, I wonder?
Well whatever. That's one thing out of my mind at least. As asked, I'll leave not a single one alive.
"All right. Well then I'm off!"
Without really trying to hide myself, I directly move towards the cave.
"—Load."
This technique of creating multiple bullets before the start of battle so that I can fire consecutively was developed while I was crammed in that box while crossing to the Pandora continent. I had lots of free time after all.
The amount of bullets I can stock isn't very big, but for now being able to concentrate 3 times my usual firepower on the first turn is enough.
"Blackening."
I use it on the 1m long 4 wooden branches that I collected while coming here. I had carrying it underneath my armpits till now, now I can control them without touching them. I make the 4 black sticks stay behind me.
"—–alright."
As I stand on top of a large boulder, I can clearly see the entrance of the cave. From here, I won't miss any goblins either.
Roughly, 20 goblins can be seen out of which around 13 of them are armed. There are probably more of them hiding in the cave. And as I saw the goblins, at the same time the goblins near the entrance were also able to clearly see me.
Not wanting to welcome the human who suddenly appeared, the faces of those goblins that looked like a mix of frog and monkey quickly distorted and looked at me with hostility.
"Gyoaahhhh!"
I don't know whether it was a signal for its companions or just a war cry but with the shout the goblin entered a fighting stance.
"That's right! Come at me—-wait Lily!? Why are you here!?"
"?"
The moment I was about to fire my magic, I became aware of the white shadow flickering near my legs. I was sure she was in the forest waiting patiently, so why is she so nonchalantly coming to the front lines!?
But, now I can't just run away while holding Lily either.
Lily has some experience in fighting monsters so it's probably unnecessary to worry about her.
Aaaah! I'm still extremely worried!
"Lily, don't leave my side. It's dangerous!"
"Ok."
Did she understand or not? Lily looks at me with a puzzled face.
I'm seriously worried but I don't have time worry about it for now.
"Alright, let's go!"
Once again motivating myself, I face the goblins. Out of the 13 armed ones, 2 were equipped with bows. Maybe due to the noise, 4 more goblins with bows and 10 others also jumped out of the cave. The rest all equipped with spears and swords, charge towards me.
"Rifle."
First I'll take out the long ranged ones. Before the six bow users could release even a single arrow, the fake full metal jacket bullets pierce through their heads.
Since I had them loaded in advance, I could fire all of them at the same time rather than one by one.
"Buckshot."
The next aim was towards the ones charging straight towards me.
I had defeated the bow users in the time required for a single shot so the attack group had not yet reached close enough to me. That distance was approximately 10 meters. Perfect to finish with Buckshot.
The already loaded 4 buckshot were fired and immediately covered the whole area in front of me in the form of a barrage. Having neither shields nor the time to evade, it pierced through the bodies of the goblins.
The goblins in the front were completely annihilated on a level that it was impossible to know which of the bullets had been the fatal one. There were even some whose thin arms and legs had been blown away.
"gih, gieaaha!"
Goblins who had avoided a fatal blow due to their companions becoming a shield for them raised a cry of anger and anguish and continued to charge towards me. Behind them were the ones who still unhurt, and again, more reinforcements appeared from the cave.
It seems they won't retreat with just this, or maybe they don't possess the intelligence to plan a retreat; either way, if they are coming then it'll only help me save time so I'm glad actually.
"Gatling."
Sticking out my right hand, I start using Gatling for sweeping fire.
Gatling automatically does the process of firing bullets so I am able to focus solely on creating bullets. This results in rapid firing faster than rifle.
But, using my right hand as a barrel, I can only fire in a straight direction from it with some slight aiming only. Thus it is effective against groups charging straight from the front. The opponent will indirectly get inside my range after all.
And so, without any means to defend against or avoid the bullets on the same level as Rifle, the goblins charging here one by one turned to minced meat.
This was not a battle but looked more like a one-sided massacre.
Nevertheless, the goblins kept on charging inside the kill zone of the black bullets.
Due to dead bodies of their companions slowing them down and my bullets flying all over, the distance between me and the goblins remained the same. When I thought that it was about time that I started moving towards the cave as well, it was at that moment.
"uoooooh!"
A load roar shook the surroundings. While firing the Gatling, I looked towards the source of that roar.
It was probably a part of the reinforcements coming out of the cave and had no difference in looks compared to other goblins. But the big hatchet held in its hand strangely stood out.
The goblins here mainly used handmade bows and spears which was definitely poor. Occasionally, there were some who held swords but those were also chipped and rusted without any signs of proper maintenance.
But that big hatchet alone still held sharpness and was releasing a shine even an amateur could see.
What it released was not just shine but also a darkish aura similar to my black magical energy.
The moment I thought that a troublesome one appeared, the goblin with the hatchet suddenly attacked its companions beside him with its weapon. With a short death cry, the neck of that goblin fell, clearly as if butter had been sliced with a knife.
"Oioi, that really is a dangerous guy."
Even goblins noticed the abnormality and stopped their charge to look towards him.
In that short moment, the goblins near it one by one fell under the attack of that big hatchet and had their heads cut off.
"Kurono, that's a cursed weapon! It's dangerous!"
"Cursed weapon?"
Now that I remember, during the Maneuvering experiments, there were strange weapons which raised strength or allowed the use of magic without actually learning them, just by holding that weapon. Similar to how I used blackening on weapons, I thought weapons could also be attached with various magical effects.
But, there may be times when the magic attached may not always be a merit for the user as well. That must be the so called [Cursed Weapon].
Attacking all without discrimination of ally or enemy, it's quite a simple to understand curse.
As I somewhat carelessly thought, I shot my Rifle towards the Goblin still swinging around that hatchet.
I had stopped Gatling, so the aim was perfect, and pierced through the head brilliantly, or that was how it was supposed to be.
"guaau!"
With a slight swing, the bullet was deflected by the hatchet.
"Are you kidding me? What kind of reaction speed is that!?"
With its eyes completely gone white, the already ugly face became worse and turned to look towards me.
Ah, this is, it's completely aiming for me now.
On top of it, its breathing became wilder than the time it appeared, it's drooling continuously, and its white eyes are now starting to become bloodshot. Did my single shot irritate it that much; the goblin's anger was clearly heating up.
This might be a little troublesome opponent.
"Kurono!"
"Lily, it's dangerous so get back a little."
Goblins were already an agile race like monkeys but that one jumped threateningly towards me surpassing it.
"Rifle!"
I rapid-fired my Rifle towards the goblin in the air but with unnatural movements it deflected most of them with that big hatchet.
Even though some hit its body, as if it didn't feel pain, it kept on swinging the hatchet with unchanged speed.
This is the type that'll keep on coming until I completely destroy it. The distance between me and the landed goblin was about 3 meters.
Now that it was in front of me, I could clearly sense an ominous energy what could only be described as the [curse].
"Automatic Fencing"
To block the approaching enemy I controlled the blackened sticks that were behind me. If my opponent was a normal weapon I could have blocked it with just these wooden sticks.
"gyoaah!"
In front of the cursed hatched, they were easily split in two.
The 4 sticks were somehow able to attack the goblin but it didn't seem like it was taking any damage. While it was fighting with the sticks, I fired Rifle towards it but with superhuman reactions it either deflected or evaded it. In 10 seconds it had cut the sticks apart and then rushed towards me in a straight line.
"Kuh, shield!"
The deployed shield somehow prevented my head from being split apart like a bamboo.
Even my strongest shield that wouldn't crack with my own Anti-material attack was cut till halfway. This will definitely break in the next attack.
"Buckshot."
But, I'm not going to let that happen.
Taking my Buckshot at close range, the goblin was blown away. Many bullets should have pierced through him but maybe due to the weapon strengthening the body as well; it was still in good health.
In mid air, it fixed its posture like a cat, and the blood stained goblin lightly landed on the ground.
The moment it took a step towards me to try and cut me again, the pieces of the broken black stick started coiling around its leg.
"gii!?"
It must have thought that the sticks have become useless after being cut apart, but Automatic Fencing won't be stopped just by being split into 2 or 3 pieces.
It didn't really have any effect against Sariel, but against the goblin corrupted by the weapon, it was effective.
With its leg caught, the goblin fell face first but it still didn't let go of the weapon in its hand.
"Anti-material."
Up till now the goblin had been jumping around, but due to it falling, I could precisely aim this time. And in that position it was impossible to swing that hatchet either, even a cursed weapon could not ignore the structure of its body. The fired bullet pierced through its strengthened arm and blew it away completely. The hand along with the weapon fell to the ground.
"Rifle."
At the same moment, the Rifle fired hit directly at its forehead and blood and brains burst out.
"phew, man close-combat really is scary…."
Without a user, the cursed weapon could no longer show its effects.
Wait, it won't fly by itself and try cutting me right? Is what I thought, but the blackish aura coming from that hatchet seems to have finally calmed down.
"For the time being I should recover it."
I don't want to fight another goblin who picked it up and went mad again.
"Kurono stop! It's dangerous!"
Lily who was standing quietly behind me as I asked raised her voice when she saw me coming close to the hatchet. Well, I am trying to touch a cursed weapon, it's normal to try and stop me.
"aa, it'll probably be fine Lily.
I without any hesitation touched the handle, at that moment.
—-hate—kill—love—die—–
"ooh, well this is a nostalgic feeling….."
It was similar to thoughts being forcefully put in my mind as done by the ring of restraint. The thoughts of love and hate entered my mind giving me a chill.
"You're being noisy, be quiet!—-Blackening!"
Similar to when the goblin held it, blackish aura started to come out of the hatchet but my much darker magical energy overcame it.
As I thought, this big hatchet has black magical energy inside of it similar to mine but the quantity inside me is far above it.
I don't know what kind of malice it possesses but against an overwhelming difference of magical energy, it won't be able to make me go mad and control me as the goblin. Basically, my compatibility with the hatchet was good.
"Ku, Kurono?"
"See, I told you it'll be fine."
Hahahaha while laughing I played and swung it around my hand like a pen.
I didn't have such technique in me but due to probably the effect of coming in contact with the weapon, I felt as if the weapon was like a part of me and use it with maximum skill.
"The curse?"
"Hmm, I can't hear the hateful voices anymore. But, Lily shouldn't touch it. The only reason I can is because my compatibility was high."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
"I see."
With the cursed hatchet in my hand, after making sure that I showed no change in presence, Lily finally showed a smile. But, isn't this scene of us smiling like this while surrounded by a mountain of goblin corpses a bit too surreal?
"Oh I almost forgot! There were goblins remaining."
Before I realized, the goblins that hadn't lost their fighting spirit were slowly surrounding me.
It seems they have finally become a bit more vigilant, they have shifted their strategy to slowly close the distance while moving on all sides. I can easily fight without any problems but it'll be dangerous to let Lily also become surrounded along with me.
"Lily, quickly—"
Move back, as I tried to say that, I heard the sound of something flying towards us.
Shit, they fired a bow.
As I looked up, numerous arrows were coming down towards us as if raining.
Will I be able to deflect them all with buckshot? Even if not, then with the help of the hatchet I will be able to defend my own body mostly.
In any case, due to the shield being partially destroyed previously I won't be able to reconstruct the shield in time.
For now, I should hold Lily and protect her from—-
"nn!"
"Huh?"
The moment I thought of holding Lily who was standing on the ground, I realized she was already on my shoulder. Sticking both her hands towards the front, with a "nn" Lily sound closed her eyes and groaned.
"eeei!"
With Lily's cute shout, her faintly glittering white body started shining more strongly than ever.
"Uooh, too bright!?"
The next moment, numerous beams of light were released from Lily's hands.
"What? It's a beam!? Is that a beam!?"
The numerous beams of light released by Lily flew towards the incoming arrows while leaving a trail behind it. With a speed much faster than the arrows, one beam of Lily's light destroyed multiple arrows.
"Could it be that it's automatically tracking them?"
Moreover, the targets are arrows which are pretty fast too.
As I muttered that, the rain of arrows had been completely destroyed in mid-air. The light that had counter-attacked had also disappeared.
"….amazing."
It's a highly efficient magic that makes my Rifle or buckshot look like toys. Amazing, can fairies all use such level of magic? Then it makes sense that goblins won't be much of an opponent.
"ehehe"
Receiving my respectful gaze, Lily became shy while sitting on my shoulder. Her face is close; her cuteness is also 3 times greater!
"ha!"
I can't calm down just yet; I'm still in a battle. The goblins have come close enough to be able to slash at me after one step.
"I'll have to also show my cool part it seems."
I gently lowered Lily back to the ground. Holding the hatchet in my right hand, I start loading in my left hand.
"Lily, I won't let the spear users come any closer but they might shoot the arrows again so can I leave that to you?"
I have no reason to doubt Lily's abilities any longer and at this point it would be better to cooperate as well.
"Leave it to me!"
While raising her thin eyebrows, Lily's face is filled with confidence.
"Alright! Then I leave it to you!"
At the same time, I start running towards the goblins in front of me.
Since my basis for black magic was a gun, my usual strategy was to fight from long range but that doesn't mean that I cannot fight at close quarters.
To allow me to fight from long range at all times, those maneuvering experiments were not that easy. Well, fighting in close range with an opponent so much that my body was drenched with blood was still scary no matter though.
"—Buckshot!"
I deal with the goblins in front of me with buckshot. Each of them held spear, knife, and a rusted sword. First I pick up the rusted sword.
"Blackening—-Automatic Fencing."
I control the blackened sword and throw it. In the same way I did the same with the knife then the spear as well.
"Pierce through."
The blackened 3 weapons turned around and launched towards the goblins approaching towards my back.
Meanwhile, without even turning around, I slash apart the 2 goblins that came at me from the front.
"oooh, what amazing sharpness!"
The weapon in goblin's hand, the leather armor, flesh and bone, all were cut apart without any resistance at all. This might even cut an iron plate like paper. Due to blackening, its power must have risen as well, but I have never seen any weapon with such an amazing cutting ability. Cursed weapons are pretty amazing!
"deyaa!"
I split apart the incoming goblins into two one by one with the big hatchet. I had absolutely no knowledge of using swords but due to my body strengthening and the technique knowledge of the hatchet itself, I became able of using the magnificent sword dance as done by the samurai shown in historical plays.
"dodon!"
Behind me, along with this beautiful scene of carnage, an unexpected extremely cute scream could be heard. Probably, Lily just used magic. At the same time as the head of the goblin in front of me flew, the scene of the goblin archers deployed around the entrance of the cave being enveloped by a pillar of light came into my view. Seriously, Lily's fairy magic is amazing. Will I also be someday become able to shoot beams?
"—You're the last one!"
After splitting it from head to toe, the goblins around me had all been annihilated.
In my surroundings lay an innumerable amount of goblin corpses.
Every corpse lacked a hand, leg, head or some other part of the body. As such the amount blood was also amazing. The whole ground had turned into a hellish pool of blood and I myself was also drenched in blood as well.
The originally white clothes had already had already become blackish due to dirt. With the blood it had now become darkish brown, an even worse coloring than before.
Thinking that I matched with this place of massacre, my own thoughts may have become a bit twisted, but seeing Lily come towards even the current me with full of smiles, well I thought that it might not be that bad.
"Thanks for taking care of the archers for me."
"I worked hard!"
"aa, it was one-shot kill too! Lily's really amazing!"
"ehehe"
Lily seemed proud yet embarrassed.
"Well then, it's done more or less. There should be more of them inside the cave right? What should we do? Should we take care of it now as well?"
"No, it's fine already."
"Is that so?"
"Yup—"
And then, Lily shined for the third time today. The same pillar of light that purged the archers appeared near the entrance of the cave and just like that shot at the cliff itself.
I didn't know how much power that pillar had but, the slope of the cliff exploded and started burying the entrance to the cave with a crash.
The goblins that had been inside the cave started coming out due to panic but were crushed by the falling rocks and buried there and then.
"….waa."
As the landslide stopped, the entrance to the cave had been blocked and the goblins that might have been there had been buried alive. With a single shot, the extermination was complete.
"Let's go back, Kurono."
I was in a bit of a daze but came back to my senses when Lily pulled my cuff.
"Ye, Yeah, that's right, let's go back."
"Yup."
Looking at that small back walking through the forest in a good mood, I swore in my heart to never ever anger Lily no matter what.
The two stopped as they heard the sound of clapping and found a stranger looking towards them with a smile.
"That was wonderful; I have never seen anyone fight like that or seen a fairy." Naruto muttered in an excited tone as he closed the distance between them, he was close to the village now and sensed a fight going on nearby
"Thank you but who are you?" Kurono questioned in a cautious tone, he felt rage whenever he saw humans and seeing the guy brought to mind those looks he saw in the facility. Lily felt his change and stood on his shoulder for support
"Naruto Uzumaki, a friend for those good people in the world. So I am your friend, I can feel that you have suffered and I can understand it. Unfortunately I cannot send you back home as I have lost my powers." Naruto said in a friendly tone
'He knows I am from a different world, is he connected to the facility.' Kurono only felt suspicion and couldn't hold himself back from attacking
'Rifle'
Naruto saw that attack coming and didn't even block it as it was insignificant; he walked closer to Kurono in a casual manner.
"No need to attack as it is pointless, I already saw what you two did and it is nowhere enough to even scratch me. If I wanted to kill you or take you with me then we wouldn't be talking. I know it is hard to trust people now but know that I never side with evil and I fight for justice. I am your friend that you can always trust because I never betray anyone." Naruto muttered in a gentle tone as he tapped Kurono's cheek, the touch felt warm and reminded of family
"You can cry so that the pain inside can lessen." Naruto advised as his touch was healing the bodily and mental damage; the child had been scarred deeply even though he was just a soft kid who had never hurt people
With his words, Kurono felt tears come out but instead of pain he felt refreshed and his body felt alive again.
"Thank you, I can't trust you yet but I will repay you for this favor. My name is Kurono Mao and this is Lily." Kurono said in a soft tone
"It is nice to meet you two especially you Lily, I have never seen your kind." Naruto said in a friendly tone as he extended his hand to touch Lily who acted shyly and flew behind Kurono
"Haha"
"Okay, I guess this is enough. We will be seeing each other later since I am staying in the village for awhile so meet me if you want someone to talk to." Naruto chuckled and turned around heading for the village
"Kurono, is he from your place?" Lily questioned
"I don't know but he might be a friend so if anything happens do ask him." Kurono said as he walked towards the river, he knew the world was a cruel place and any help was welcome
After some time, a fence of height around 2 meters came into view. The village was covered from all sides. But, this wooden fence and the buildings of the village were very small compared to those Naruto was used to.
Also not the entire village was covered inside the fence; it seems that the fence only covered the centre of the village.
At first the village was only inside the fence, but due to increase in population the area of the village kept increasing. But they have been unable to build another fence as of yet is what Naruto concluded from a simple look.
Naruto walked closer to the plain wooden door which was open and beside it stood a gatekeeper with a long spear in his hands.
Lightly armored and holding a long spear, his whole body was covered in blue scales and the head was that of a lizard.
'Is this what they call a Lizardman?' Naruto thought with a curious glint and he approached the man with a friendly gaze
"Hello, Mr. Lizardman. Can I touch your tail, if you don't mind?" Naruto asked as he was curious about it
"No, please state your purpose and clear the entrance." The Lizardman replied in an annoyed tone and a suspicious look that implied he was being careful of his hands
"Hehe"
"No problem, my name is Naruto Uzumaki and I am here to register as an adventurer. Can you tell me where the guild is?" Naruto replied with a chuckle, he used a bit of mind control so that he won't ask from where he came from
'A noble'
"Sir, I apologize for the disrespect. The guild is that way." The Lizardman quickly changed his tune as he heard the name as only nobles had surnames everyone else just had first names.
"No worries, I don't mind and thanks." Naruto said as he patted his shoulder and walked through the gate
In the central square of the village, probably because it was lunch time, a lot of people of different races had gathered and could be seen eating. Just looking in this square, along with the previously seen humans, goblins and lizardmen, Elves with long ears, dwarves with brilliant beards, beastmen with dog and cat ears, etc. all can be seen.
Naruto looked at them with sparkling eyes of child as he loved seeing these new sights and hoped to get to people of these races but for now he went directly for the guild.
When Naruto entered the guild he saw the building filled with brawny men with wide variety of armors and some women here and there. He didn't stop and walked to the reception counter of the guild. The one who was standing there was, a cat woman with the head of cat.
"Good afternoon and welcome to the adventurer guild."
"Are you looking for a request?" The receptionist asked in a friendly tone
"No, I'm here to register as an adventurer."
"I see, so you are a newcomer!"
"Yes, I'm just a novice so what do I need to do for the registration." Naruto asked as he looked at the cat like person and he couldn't stop smiling, he hoped it didn't feel creepy
"Please fill in the form and that will be all"
Naruto nodded and filled in the details, passing the paper he asked, "Would you mind if I ask for your name?"
"You are very polite, Naruto. My name is Nyarko and you can see me here and at the restaurant." Nyarko smiled and said in a friendly tone, he could tell she was a very outgoing person
"So now what do I do, can I take a mission now or do I have to wait till tomorrow."
"Just wait for 10 minutes for you tag to be ready and then you can take a simple task. Or you can just look through the tasks for now and when the tag arrives, I will approve the task." Nyarko advised
"Thanks, I will do that." Naruto said as he left the counter and went to the quest wall and as he was looking through the tasks, he sensed a change in the atmosphere and the strange quietness
Naruto looked away from the wall and found his gaze attracted to a very beautiful woman, she had long snake that was golden above and black below. Her legs were also scaled along with her hands, she had purple hair and very large bust but what was strange was that she was wearing a blindfold.
'A presence so cold, she must have killed a lot and lost herself in it. I can feel her pain so it must be an instinct.' Naruto thought as he looked at her as she went to the counter and handed in her report
A.N hope u enjoyed