All credit goes to Rick Riordan and nutthesoftchest.
Warning: Contains blood, gore, sex, possible rape, sword fights, dark shit you will never unread, demons, angels, witches, wizards, medieval crap, and finally pure unadulterated badassery.
All right with that done let's start Chapter Five.
LAST TIME:
"Fine you want to fight! Then bring it on! I will destroy you all!" I yelled as I pulled my 'borrowed' saints' sword from my inventory. As I did, I just about jump into the crowd and start to kill as something popped up in front of me.
Alert! Quest created!
Quest name: Survive the night and live to see the morning
Tasks:
Live for the night
Rewards:
10 silver coins
100,000 XP
lv-1 magic scroll
Failure:
Death and one hell of a mutilated body
Do you accept?
Yes/No
Let's just say I hit yes so fast I am surprised the screen didn't break. As I jumped right towards the astral soul closest to me, with one swing of the sword it cut right though it and it let out a cry of pain and dissipated in the air as I grew a wicked smile on my face.
"Now you can all die with him!"
NOW:
I took in long breaths as I slumped against a tree corpse of hundreds of monster drops surrounded most of them bones effectively making it looked like a graveyard. Along with the bones were other small items such as claws, horns, copper coins, and ectoplasm. My sword was currently pierced though a skull and a tree 50 feet in front of me. In my hand was a horn from a gazelle like creature that got mixed into the animals. Whatever it was it proved useful for me since I killed a few things with it.
Wounds were littering my body in the hundreds as blood covered a good amount of my body, no wounds as deep as the ones I got from the drake, but some were bad enough that I needed to apply herbs to them. But to regain some HP I raised the makeshift weapon in my hand and took a bite out of the horn. It was just like some dried up jerky, I thought as I snaked on the weapon, the tough bone breaking easily under my teeth as it was almost as easy as eating an apple. Still as I ate my snake as I watched the sun slowly rise over the horizon as the last remaining astral souls dispersed.
I had killed the last possessed corpse a little while ago and right now I needed a good nap, but I was too afraid to fall asleep with my HP so low.
Health 900 / 27500
Let's just say dealing with nearly 500 lv-100 enemies' kind of wiped me out, even if most of them were dead in two or three hits I still had to dodge and retreat. I wasn't used to facing so many enemies by myself, normally I had a friend with me or some sort of invulnerability. Still, I was forced to admit that I was lucky to survive the night.
I was also lucky my HP had gotten a bonus after Gaia had taken control of me. She said it was something to do with the size of my mana channels in my body which apparently increase HP and MP when they grow larger. After using them to the point in which they almost broke they healed and came back nearly 4 times stronger. Now my HP goers up 500 points each level and my MP goes up by 250, it can apparently go up even more than that.
Also, another thing I noticed while killing all the stupid astral monster was that the brand on my chest bled when they were around me. I guess you could call it my early warning system for astral beings and {Empowered} since I felt a slight tinge of pain when it bled. As I munched on the horn in my hand and stared at the sun I slowly sighed.
"Still 500 XP each still sucks." I said remembering the pitiful XP that each of the beast gave me. Even killing almost 500 wasn't enough to level me up once so I was down in the dumps seeing as I didn't level up.
Quest: Survive the night and live to see morning. Complete! Awards will be given in a second!
I blinked a few times staring at the box as I had completely forgotten about the quest to survive the night. But after a second something seemed to appear in front of me, 10 small silver coins dropped in front of me, and a scroll tied with a simple string. But as I waited there was still no level up signal as I sighed.
'How much XP more do I need?' I asked myself as I brought up my XP bar for my main level.
XP: 408,760 / 2,485,800 (1/5) = 497,160
"So close." I grumbled as I looked at my loot after I polished off my gazelle horn and got back 5% of my health. After I swallowed the last bit of that no pop-up sound, so I guess there was so skill with the horn but then again, I didn't suspect much from it. I then looked towards my loot first things first the silver coins went into my inventory.
Thankfully, coins went into a special place, so they didn't take up space in the inventory. But after that was done, I looked at the plain ass scroll that rested in my hand, actually it was more like a piece of paper rolled into a cylinder.
"Hmm." I said as I slowly undid the string holding the lame scroll together. The second it did a second screen popped-up in front of me.
Lv-1 magic scroll opened. Please select one skill to level up one time.
I was surprised to say the least an item that instantly lets me level up a skill, who didn't want that? But as I looked at it, I started to think about what skill to level. I knew I couldn't just waste this, so I had to choose wisely. So, I asked the smartest person I knew at the moment, even if she was useless most of the time.
'Any ideas?' I asked Gaia who hasn't spoken for the last hours.
'I would use it on your [Consumption Absorption] skill, but then again it could be useful for harder to level skills, so maybe your [Ancient Greek swordplay].' She said as I slowly nodded seeing her point.
'Hmm…I think I will save it, who knows what kind of skill, for now I will save it.' I said as she seemed to nod.
'Your choice.' She said as I nodded and retied the string on the scroll as the box disappeared. As it did, I put the magic scroll back in my item box and slowly stood up. As I did, I slowly stood up and scratched my aching body as I heard cracks and pops.
I then watched most of the wounds on my body slowly closed up as most turned into faint red marks. It was weird seeing my flesh body grow back so fast, but I didn't mind as I looked at the larger ones which turned into thin scratches as I sighed. Thankfully, none of them went more than a fourth of an inch deep.
"Everything seems okay, but I will need more time to heal." I said to myself as I scratched and slowly started to gather my loot that I had neglected to pick up. As I did, Gaia had to sometimes point me towards some of the loot that I left. All in all, most of it seemed useless but I guess they had to be useful since I got a sale price on it. In total these were the items I got.
Common Item: Animal bone x 345
Simple bone from a random animal that can be crushed and made into fertilizer or made into decorative items for weird people.
Immediate consumption effect: 1% HP regenerated
Sell price: 3 Copper
Common Item: Wolf claw x 24
A wolf claw that might be used in decorative items or magic spells. Can be crushed into powder to use in certain potions as well.
Immediate consumption effect: 1% HP regenerated
Sell price: 10 Copper
Rare Item: Ectoplasm x 89
This mystical substance can only be obtained from killing astral being or ghost like monsters. Used in magic spells, potions, smiting process, and many other processes.
Immediate consumption effect: Heal 250 HP and MP instantly + 1% HP regenerated
Sell price: 2 Silver
As I finished gathering all my loot including the random copper coins some of the monsters had dropped, I now had 10 silver and 892 copper coins. I didn't know how much this was in this world, but I had a good guess based on some goods I had seen Trista buy. Still, I needed more information if I was going to do anything in this world. Being forced to fight for 6 years kind of puts a damper on your real-world knowledge on just about everything.
I had the basic info from Trista but nothing more than a simple thing like nearby town and such, let along drop items. I was more or less a blank slate waiting for information to be etch into me. Gaia was of some help, but she had been acting weird lately, so I stopped asking her questions unless absolutely necessary. Plus, I wasn't up for a 3-hour explanation on money.
After taking a look at my inventory full of bones, claws, and green goo as well as the drake scales and claws, along with a few other bits and bobs. But I now had about 25 stacks of 55 random stuff I could still put in my storage. Happy that I had so much room left even after picking up so much useless loot I started on my way to the city. Also, a new piece of information that the city near Gullion dungeon just happened to be the capital of this place called the grass plains.
This capital also happened to be the largest city complete with several other smaller cities surrounding it. After walking for about 4 hours, I started to finally feel the effects of last night as the fatigue began to settle. Thankfully, I had found a road and located a nice shady spot under an old oak tree. As soon as I sat down my muscles began to cramp and my mind began to wonder as I sat there. After a while the cramps began to die down enough for me to reach into my inventory and retrieve the drake's back leg and moved it to my mouth.
'So, which one do we visit first? I feel that if we visit a smaller city first then it would be better.' I said to Gaia, as I took a bite of the leg.
'Indeed, you could use it to gather information, it's not like you have a talking Wikipedia with you or anything.' She said with a clear tone of sass as I smiled.
'You humour me. Also, I bet if I asked you a question you would just say something along the lines of, I am not powerful enough or I should just wait and figure it out for myself. Some sort of Wikipedia you are.' I mumbled the last part, but I heard an angry humph from her.
'I am just making it, so you actually have to seek out the information yourself. It would be detrimental to tell you everything at once, simply too much stuff to focus on at once.' She spoke.
'Well, I am following my plan and visiting one of the smaller cities first, gather some info and then heading into the capital, hopefully I should be able to visit the Guild and become a member.' I responded.
'Fine then, do it however you want to.' Gaia said in a grumpy tone.
'Good now I think I should take a small nap, good thing I picked up [Warriors Nap] because I need to rain some STR.' I said in my head as I put back the quarter finished back leg, I looked around and found a secluded spot as I slowly sat down with my back to the tree. But just as I was about to get comfortable and close my eyes I heard sounds in the distance, I only sighed to myself as I looked towards the sound as I pulled out my sword.
'Wait a moment.' Said Gaia as I stopped as I was about to leave the brush surrounding me.
'What is it?' I asked her.
'I sense a large mana source in that direction…it isn't human, but it isn't a monster either. I guess it must be a high-level adventurer of a different species.' She said as I thought for a second.
'Bandits?' I asked her.
'No…they have much higher mana levels than any bandit would. I am guessing it is a caravan of witches or wizards.' She said as I raised an eyebrow.
'What is their average level and age?' I asked her.
'For the lower mana power mana sources maybe around 18 to 20 years old and an average level is 60 to 80. But the massive mana source their age is about 45 and their level is around 600 to 650 maybe even higher. They must be some type of grand wizard.' She said as I let out a whistle.
'Any chance they are friendly?' I asked.
'There is a 73.45% chance of them being friendly.' She said as I nodded, I liked those odds. Also let's just say as it is simple information that is needed at that moment is where Gaia's forte lies. Like she said as long as the information is pertaining to the instant I needed it, she would give it to me.
'How 'bout we go and say hello.' I said more as statement then a question. I put the sword away and looked down at my body, since I was still shirtless and looked like I had just been in a fist fight with a rose bush I think it would be enough to attract attention to myself. With ease exited my hidden spot and stepped out onto the side of the road. As I did, I sat down and simply waited as I pretended not to hear the horses and the carriages as they thundered down the unpaved road.
As the carriages came down the road, I heard some muffled voices. I turned my head towards the oncoming carriages, as I did, I was stunned to see the most expensive carriage I had ever seen. That is coming from someone who was forced to 'accompany' many wealthy individuals. It was simple but even then, it looked fancy as it had blue tinted walls and golden trim. But the designs with the gold were beautiful to say the least, it even had pearls embedded in the walls.
The others were not as fancy as they were just a simple blue with golden edges. There were no complex designs like the fancy one. But as I stared at them, they all slowly came to a halt right in front of me as I looked up to see one of the carriages windows open revealing several faces of young adults in fancy robes.
"Hey you!" I heard as I looked up to see a male as he stepped out of one of the less fancy carriages. I decided to take a peek at his stats to see what I was dealing with, as I did, I inwardly laughed at him.
Name: Bobby Billiards
Age: 20
Title: None
Race: Human
Jobs/Class: Wizard apprentice (No Bonus)
Level: 60
Health: 9,000 / 9,000
Mana: 12,000 / 12,000
STR – 20
END – 41
DEX – 30
VIT – 25
INT – 70
WIS – 80
FAI – 35
LUC – 10
STAT – Basically a young stupid noble. No other information is needed.
"Bobby don't." Said a female in a knowing tone as the male scoffed and walked over to me. Just from his wizard robes and face I could tell he was a young noble. But his robes were the same as all the others that were looking at me. I guess they were from some sort of school.
"What are you doing here? I presume begging. If so, I will give you a silver coin if you clean my shoe." He said in a snarky tone as I rolled my eyes.
"Nobles." I said as his eye twitched as he glared at me.
"You looking to die? Because I can kill me with such little mana?" I asked him as he was about to cast something when a clear female voice sounded.
"Bobby what are you planning on doing? I believed that I taught you better than to attack out of spite, but I guess I was wrong." Said a female's voice that sounded like smooth rippling water like it was right beside my ear, I turned to find nobody as I then turned to the fancy cart guessing the female was in there. She must have been the high-level adventure that Gaia was talking about.
"I-I was…he…n-nothing. I wasn't going to do anything." He said in a grumble while glaring daggers at me. Still, I felt the invisible gaze of the teacher on me as I smirked at the bobby boy when I decided to speak.
"Be a good boy and listen to your teacher, go back to your cart would you." I said as Bobby's eye twitched madly as I watched his hand tighten around his wand. Not his WAND thank God.
"Your brave for a barbarian…" said the female voice as I frowned a little as Bobby slowly walked back to his cart as his fellow students laughed at him.
"Says the witch that is hiding." I said as suddenly I got a deadly feeling behind me as I slowly turned to see a 2-foot-long arrow made of a glowing substance silently floating behind me. The tip was then slowly pushed up against my head as I didn't dare move even as blood slowly dripped from the point it touched me.
"Say that again boy?" She spat at me as the student mumbled incoherently.
"I meant to say what a privilege it was to meet such a strong wizard." I said as Gaia seemed to sigh in my head.
'You are the biggest trouble magnet that I have ever meet, and I am the one who has to deal with the backlash.' Gaia mumbled to me.
"May I ask you to not threaten this young man's life?" Said a voice that sounded just like Gaia's in the air as it vibrated just like the women's/ as this happened the arrow seemed to shudder as I guess the women was surprised.
"Oh my…a mana spirit?" Said the women.
"Indeed, I was entrusted to this young man by his parents, and I have been protecting him since he was born. I ask you to please not hurt him, if you need a sort of compensation for his rudeness, he does have a few things that might be used to you." Gaia said as the arrow put a few inches from my head until it disappeared like a wisp of air.
"I do not need any sort of compensation from him, if what you say is true then I suspect his mana is more than the average person? To support a spirit's mana is exceedingly difficult even for a 30-year-old and your being supported by a 12-year-old. He must have an amazing amount of mana." She said to Gaia.
"Indeed, but he has no formal training in the arts of mana, if you would like he can become a student at the school I presume you teach at?" She spoke.
"What!" Shouted a voice from a carriage as everyone turned to see Bobby come from the crowd of students that had exited their carriages.
"I am of noble blood and even I barely passed the test to get into my schools!" He shouted as everyone looked back at me.
"Silence yourself of you will be expelled!" Shouted the voice as Bobby instantly shut up.
"You, boy…you have no knowledge of mana, correct?" She spoke.
"I know of it, but I have never used it." I said which wasn't lying since I actually never had, after a few seconds the women seemed to be thinking for a minute.
"Hmm…" She seemed to think for a minute.
"Ma'am if I may." Said Gaia.
"Yes?" The women asked.
"Recently I was forced to take over his body to protect him from a high-level monster that managed to make it out of the dungeon. Due to the high-level spell, I was forced to use to save him his mana channels were shot, and he won't be able to use mana for at least a month. I ask if you are going to test him to take him with you to the academy and let his recover. Once he is recovered then you may test him." She said as the women seemed to think for a minute.
"Alright I will allow it, once his mana returns, I will test him. Until then he will stay in the academy." She said calmly.
"Teacher!" Bobby yelled.
"Silence! Two-week suspension! Once you obtain a rank 1 spirit like he does I will listen to you!" She yelled as Bobby seemed to begin to cry silently. Still, I had no idea how she got a rank 1 spirit from little information that 'we' gave her. I guess Gaia taking over my mind and performing high level magic was something that only a rank 1 spirit can do.
"Thank you…" I trailed off as I realised that I still didn't know her name.
"Miss. Night." She said as I nodded.
"Thank you, Miss. Night." I said as I stood up and bowed to her carriage.
"Unfortunately, there are no carriages with empty seats, so you are going to have to walk beside us." She said to me.
"That is of no issue." I said as I walked towards the carriages as one of the students stopped me. He seemed to be about 18 as he tossed something towards me. As I caught it, I saw that it was a simple white shirt. Surprised to see such a nice shirt I gave him a nod as he didn't even return it as he returned to his carriage. As he did, I manage to use [Analyse] on him.
Name: Alexander Griffon
Age: 18
Title: Young Genesis (+10 to all stats)
Race – Human
Jobs/Class: Wizard apprentice (No bonus)
Level: 90
Health 67,500 / 67,500
Mana 45,000 / 45,000
STR – 40 (+10) = 50
END – 80 (+10) = 90
DEX – 45 (+10) = 55
VIT – 50 (+10) = 60
INT – 160 (+10) = 170
WIS – 170 (+10) = 180
FAI – 70 (+10) = 80
LUC – 40 (+10) = 50
STAT –?
I was astonished to see such high stats and wondered how he got such high ones, but I gave it very little thought as I threw on the shirt which stung a little on my wounds, but I didn't care. As I put it one everyone was looking at the back of Alexander as he silently sat in his carriage as I inwardly smiled at myself.
"Thanks, I guess." I said as I jumped as I lightly landed on the roof of a carriage as everyone looked at me funny. I then silently laid down on the roof as I finally decided to get in my nap.
"You going to be okay up there?" Asked one of the students.
"I will be fine, plus your teacher did say that there were no seats lefts, so I will stay up here for the time being." I said as I closed my eyes.
"Your choice." They said back as everyone reloaded back into the carriages as Bobby sulked into his. With that everyone was off again.
'I feel like this was your plan the whole time.' I said to Gaia.
'I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.' She responded while I rolled my eyes.
'Mmm, yeah right. You know that if you wanted me to go to school all you had to do was ask, besides, I was thinking I was going to have to learn magic somehow and what other way to learn it then go to school for wizards? Besides, I had a feeling that simply hunting monsters and going on quests from the guild wasn't going to cut it. I needed a place to truly train, if I could train then I had a feeling my stats would rise as well so it was worth it.' I spoke.
'Okay, maybe just maybe I did want you to go to school, not only to get stronger but for a couple other reasons as well.' She said as I raised an eyebrow.
'This academy specializes in many different spells and talents. Not only does it have a wizard program, but it also severs to teach many beast tamers, warriors, alchemists, and a little dark magic user. If you are looking for any type of skill, be it magic to beast taming, then this is the place to learn it.' Gaia said.
'Well, I can't say that it would be bad, plus the more skills I know the more power I will have in the future.' I said back to her.
'Also, you might gain a few powerful friends.' Gaia said as I laughed.
'We will see, but for now I think I only need one friend.' I spoke.
'And just who would that 'lucky' person be?' She asked me in a curious tone.
'Well not so much a person more like a spirt that I know.' I responded confidently
'You know other spirts?!' She screamed in my head, Because I swear to God if you do, I will castrate you when I get a body.'
'No, no, No. No there is no other spirt, you're the only spirt that I know of, I swear to God.' Percy responded quickly terrified that it was not theat.
'So, I am your friend?' She asked while I was left wondering how she just did a complete 180 personality change.
'Well why wouldn't you be? We have been stuck with each other for basically forever and you know what, I do actually really enjoy your company, for the most part. It makes me feel at peace that I have someone I can talk to from my old planet.' I said back as I suddenly heard an incredibly quiet, high pitch squeal. As soon as it stared it stopped and Gaia gave a cute laugh.
'Well then, I guess that ok. By the way when you start learning skills in the academy see if you can learn spirt skills. If you do there is a chance you can form a body of pure mana for me to use. That way I would be able to be in the physical plane and give you a physical lecture about things.' She said with a small laugh at the end as a grin formed on my face.
'Sounds...fun. But right now, I think that I am going to take my skills and use the best one, nap. Can you alert me if someone is trying to reach me.' I said as I slowly let my mind drift into darkness.
Passive skill [Warrior's nap] activated! 2 hours until process is done. If nap is disturbed before time is up effectiveness will be cut in half and cannot be used for the next 24 hours.
You have slept on a comfortable surface, all HP restored, and abnormal stats eliminated. Due to mana over usage of mana you will not regain any mana for the next 27 days, 8% bonus XP for the next four hours.
"Barbarian Boy." I heard someone say as I slowly opened my eyes. After my nap was finished, I had decided to stay on the top of the carriage and sleep for the day. As I opened my eyes, I saw an orange sky above me as birds flew slowly across it.
"Hmm?" I asked as I slowly rolled to my side to look over the edge of the cart to see a couple students sitting around a campfire as they cooked something in a big pot.
"Foods up little barbarian." Said a female as she looked up at me. As she did, she held a bowl of stew in her hands as I glanced at it.
Common item: Dangerous Potato Stew
Just your average stew but with an added bonus of laxatives, do not eat unless you want to poop your pants.
Immediate consumption effects: Heals 100 HP + 1% HP regain + Runny poop for 24 hours
Cost: 10 Copper
"I can smell the laxatives from here. Try again next time." I said as I looked at her face as it changed quickly into one of anger as her head snapped in a certain person's direction.
"Bobby did you fuck with my stew! I swear if you did, I would rip you dick off!" She yelled as said person flinched as the women marched her way over to the block head.
"W-What are you talking about? I didn't touch your soup!" He said as she just glared at him like a fierce tiger. What a funny bunch kid. Weight... what did I just say? Oh, right I am technically 76 years old mentally, so I guess it works out.
"If you didn't then you would be fine with eating some right?" She asked as his eyebrow twitched.
"I-I have to pee!" He yelled as he stood up and dashed away as the women growled and threw the stew at him as it sailed perfectly though the air and landed right on his head. This effectively made him trip and face plant into the ground.
"Hmph! I hope that medicine dissolves into your skin!" She let out an angry sigh as Bobby laid there twitching on the ground.
"Would you like another bowl Mr. Barbarian?" She asked me as I felt my own eye twitch. This woman was fierce.
"Please call me Percy, Mr. Barbarian was my father's name. And I am good, you can say I don't trust you stew anymore."
"Oh, seems Barbarian Jr is smarter than I first thought, also I really didn't mean to poison you. It was that idiot's idea and just as a heads up, you mess with my food you get hit." She said as I nodded in agree meant, "I don't blame you for not trusting us either, none of us trust you yet either, you have to earn that."
"Indeed, to earn ones trust it is a difficult task, the person I trust most is your teacher at the moment." I said glancing at the silhouette of the women in question, sitting down in the fancy carriage.
"Oh? So, you're into older women, are you?" She asked me as I ignored the question.
"Or maybe you prefer a younger woman?" She asked in a childish voice as I glanced at her as she was striking a pose.
"You're not fooling anyone Samantha; you may be 18 but you are older than he is." Said a new voice as I turned to see Alexander slowly eating his stew as she growled at him.
"Indeed." I said as she glared at me and stormed off, making sure to step on Bobby's toes as she went past.
"You know that you're tough to get along with." Said Alexander as I laughed
"Indeed, I am, after all not many have been though what I went through you lean to not trust many if ever. Plus, I have a tendency to piss people off, so I try to not talk to them." I said as I opened up my inventory and took out a potato, I had managed to find in the forest beforehand. I then started to much away on it as I looked up at the sky above me.
"It will be night soon." I said as I felt a small ache in my brand as I quickly finished up the potato. As I did, I slowly sat up and looked at the dense forest around us as I saw multiple eyes in the shadows of the trees floating around.
I looked around and stood up as I stretched a few times. As I did people glanced up at me, I looked around slowly. My body was back at peak performance, but I didn't know what to do with all these people around me. Sure, I could leave them but if I did, I had a feeling that I would regret it in the future.
"Hey, Miss Night I have a question." I said as everyone turned to me as I stared at the fancy carriage.
"Is there a way to set up a barrier around this place? I feel many restless spirits around here." I said as all the students finally noticed all the astral spirits that were hidden in the trees. Thankfully there was no possessed animals yet.
"Indeed, there are many spirits around, maybe a barrier would be a good idea...but I unfortunately don't have any items that will make a barrier to last for the night." Said Miss Night as I thought for a second.
"What kind of items would you need?" I asked her as there were laughs from the students.
"Like a barbarian would have such expensive items on him!" Yelled one of the students as a small chuckle sweep through the group. Ignoring them I keep my focus on the carriage.
"Any items would work; it is simply the durability of the item. The better the item the better the barrier." She said as her voice flowed over us.
"How many items would you need and at would rarity?" I asked her, as I opened my inventory.
"6 items all of the rare rarity." She said with ease as I scrolled through my inventory and saw a certain item which was numbered in the 700's. With a flick of my wrist, I sent several epic level items towards her. They flew right over to her and stopped a second before hitting the carriage as they floated there suspended by an unknown force.
"My goodness, for such a barbarian to carry items. I am impressed, these will do splendidly." Said Miss. Night as her students looked at the items floating in front of her carriage. They all gaped at the sight in front of them
Rare item: Earth drake scale
A scale from the toughest species of drake. When a drake is born their scales will harden till the point in which they are the same as diamonds. Once this has been achieved, the scales will never change become a high-level commodity.
Immediate consumption effects: .0001% chance to gain drake skin skill + 1% HP regained
Cost: 2 gold
Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat back down on the top of my carriage.
"Where in the hell did you get such precious materials?!" I was 'asked' by a few of the students as I sat silently.
"I guess you obtained these when you spirt killed that beast that forced your mana channels to be shot?" Questioned Miss. Night as I nodded.
"Indeed."
"If your mana channels could handle a spell that could kill an earth drake in one hit you are indeed special," Miss. Night said while clearly talking to herself, "but you are still a barbarian in my eyes."
I chuckled to myself lightly as I was somehow beginning to like the title of barbarian that my new companions gave me.
"Yeah, well I am still the only barbarian that would give such a gift. And if it would not hurt, could you set up that barrier." I said as she gave me a glare that cut through the carriage and hit me in the head.
"■▲■, ▲▲●, ●■▲… [Spirit Barrier]" As she spoke while I heard the words it sounded more like a song to me, I guess because I was not a wizard, I could not hear the actual words of the chant. But as she sang the scales flew into the air as a large pentagram began to appear in the air. The next second the scales were in six separate places around the camp, five points around the camp and one in the very middle. As it was complete the pentagram star points met the scales and the barrier wall slowly rose into the air.
The wall was glowing a faint blue colour and seemed to give off a warm glow as everyone awed at its impressiveness. As it did this all the souls made angry faces and went away, I could only feel hints of a gaze on me as I shot a glance at the silhouette in the fancy carriage.
"This should hole for a week or two, if I strengthen it, then it might hold for even longer. It can even be taken down and be reused, it a perfect barrier for traveling." She thought out loud, "These materials are splendid...you wouldn't happen to have any more of the scales, would you?"
"There might be...but only if I could get something out of it. You should know that nothing in this world is free."
"What do you want?"
"How much is two years of tuition for your academy?" I asked her as everyone was focused on the barrier.
"Depends, each course cost a different amount. But for the wizard course it is 50 gold per year. If you were looking at all the courses for two years...something around 1000 gold." She spoke.
I nodded and reached into my inventory and pulled out 500 earth drake scales as they appeared in a very large bag the size of well...me. As I pulled out the scales, I dropped them over the side of the cart as it landed heavily on the ground.
"That should cover the cost. Oh, and I also add a little thank you gift for picking me up and taking me in." As I talked the bag split open to reveal hundreds of scales as everyone's mouth dropped. The bag then began to float up and slowly made its way over the carriage as the door opened quickly and closed, but it was enough for me to catch a glimpse of some very lush black hair that went over the shoulders of Miss Night.
Then I heard it. It stared of quietly and then escalated very quickly to full blow laughing.
"What's wrong with her?" I questioned to the other students.
"She likes money." Alexander responded while sighing lightly." She likes it may be a bit too much for her own good."
I guess she found my gift then.
"What could you have given her that made her go that crazy?"
"It was just something I picked up. I think it was..."
Epic item: Earth drake bone marrow x 16 ounces
Bone marrow from an earth drake is a very rare item that can be used in many different ways such as potions and spell formations. It is extremely hard to obtain and is said to be one of the rarest items a person can get from an earth drake. There is even a legend that is someone consumes this they have a chance of acquiring the bones of an earth drake.
Immediate consumption effect: .0000001% chance to gain drake bones + 1% HP regain
Cost: 50 gold for half an ounces
"...something special." I said as the laugher continued.
"I don't see what a barbarian like yourself could give her to please her so much." Bobby quipped.
"Well, if he has drake scales in such quantity, then maybe he had the luck of the heavens and obtained an epic item." Alexander replied as I laughed at the irony
"Like a barbarian like myself could have such precious items. Who do you make me out for? A rich man?" I spoke while lowering my back on the carriage looking at the sun rays that shot across the warm orange sky. "Just because I have a class 1 spirt it does not me that I am that lucky."
"That's just great, he is just accepting the insult now." Said Samantha.
"Well, I am barbaric. If you want, I could show you, we will just need to go outside of this barrier." I said with a smirk as the students shot glances at the outside and what lies in the woods.
"Tell me again why we have to keep him?" Asked Alexander to Miss. Night.
"Anyone who can support a class 1 sprit's mana is worth raising. Besides I had a feeling that if he had a good spirt and he didn't lie at what happened he would have some good drops on him." Replied Miss. Night still coming down from her fit.
'So, there are people like her on this plane as well.' I thought to myself. 'That's good to know. It's not like money is powerful, and I would be lying to myself if I didn't think that same.'
'Me and you will get along very well Miss. Night. Let's just hope I don't fuck it up.'
LINEBREAK: 1 Day Later
"Hey Mr, Barbarian hop off the roof, we are almost at the city.' I heard Miss. Night's soothing voice inform me as I was forced to open my eyes. As I did I could only sigh, somehow, I was starting to enjoy the sound of her melodious voice. I had currently changed carriage rooves to Miss. Night's, the students weren't happy, but I couldn't care less about how happy they were.
"You know that my name is Percy." I said as I closed my eyes again.
"Nope, your Mr. Barbarian. And I would recommend that you get used to it."
"I don't know why I try with anymore." I said with a sigh.
"So rude, I don't even know why I decided to take you with us." She replied
"Because you like money as much as I like to be called by my name." I said as she laughed.
"Indeed, you're not wrong, but so does everyone else. I just love it more."
"I don't think you would be the best role model for me then. I might go into relapse."
"You need to have money first." She replied
I acted like I had just been stabbed through my heart, "Those hurts."
"Well, I don't think that I have every been told by anyone lower status than me that I was a bad role model. And if you think I am bad then you might want to brace yourself when you get to the academy. Especially if you still plane to take all the different course, the dark arts teacher is going to have a field day with you. She is a really shy lady bit when you make her mad … let's just day that I am looking forward to when you do." She said with her signature laugh.
"You must not be a very social butterfly, are you?" I replied
"Right back at you. Also, I would hop down if I were you. The guards will be in a panic if they see you up there." She said as I sighed and slowly sat up and rolled off the carriage. As I did, I landed lightly on the ground and started to walk alongside the carriages with the guards.
"It would have been fun to watch though." I said with a yawn as I stretched slowly, "So what are we doing once we arrive in the city?"
"I must report to the Academy about the students I went to pick up and which test they are going to take. I also need to tell them about you as well, in the meantime I suggest you go the the adventure guild and get yourself a guild card and exchange any items you may have on you. Or put them in the adventures back to keep them locked away, the school doesn't allow monster drops in its gates anymore. Let's just say there were gambling problems a few hundred years ago." She said as I nodded.
'Gaia can you make it look like my inventory is empty of monster drops?' I asked her.
'Yes, I can, but actually there is a hide button on your inventory so nobody can see it. But if you want me to double up on it so I can hide thing as well, I can do that.' She said as I nodded as I opened my inventory and pressed the button that Gaia was talking about. It changed all my items so that you could barely see them other than the outline of the object. I unhid all my food and extra clothes I had received from Miss. Night. Once I was sure my drop items were hidden away, I decided what I was going to sell at the adventure's guild.
"Sounds nice, maybe I will make a nice amount of money from this." I said as I thought about the amount of money I was going to come into possession.
"So, I have a question?" I said as Miss. Night seemed interested.
"How much a one silver buys me?" I asked her as she suddenly coughed in surprise.
"What?" She asked.
"Well, I was asking how much a silver coin can get me, and like what are some prices of some simple things that I might need." I said as she started to laugh for a second, afterwards she put back up her normal demeanour.
"About 10 silvers can support a normal family for about a year if they don't spend their money on anything stupid. And the currency operates in 100's. For example, one gold is equal to 100 silver and one silver is equal to 100 coppers. There is also some higher currency like white gold which is above the normal gold, and above that is platinum." She said as I began to like this type of currency. It was easy to figure out. Still, I felt as though platinum was something that only countries exchanged with each other. Like the billion-dollar trade deal back on earth.
"But don't worry, I don't think a barbarian like you will see anything higher that gold coins." Miss. Night said.
"Didn't I just give you enough monster drops for several white gold?" I asked her as she very quickly stopped making a sound.
"Well, umm... oh look the gate. Can't talk about this anymore." She said frantically as I rolled my eyes. As I did, I looked ahead as I froze in place as the carriages kept going.
This place was massive, and I don't mean like twice the size of the slave capital. I mean easily 20 to 30 times bigger than that city, thanks to our elevated position from coming out of some mountains I could truly see just how large this place was.
Several massive rivers and maybe thousands of smaller ones ran thought its walls, most of the rivers being the size of the Mississippi and some being larger. Along it left edge ran what looked to be a massive lake or even an ocean as I saw thousands of boast sailing across it. Some were even floating in the air above it. I couldn't even see the end of the shoreline as the city went on forever, the wall surrounding it was just as large if not bigger then the slave city but there were rings of walls that slowly lead inwards.
Villages with cast green fields were present and even castles in each ring, but in the third ring I was something larger than any castle or building within that ring and even some rings that followed. It was a building that reached for the sky, it looked like Hogwarts but way bigger. Around it was floating objects each held up by a magic circle. Many were platforms which seemed to hold vegetation and had fields to practice certain magic on. There was even serval story budlings on the floating rocks. I just stared in awe at the massive building which I guessed was the academy.
But past the academy was what I supposed was the kings castle or whatever this place was ruled by. It was like a skyscraper made of clear blue crystals and it went up to at least 1200 stories tall. I could tell that magic was the main building component that stopped this building from falling over. There would be hundreds, if not thousands, of barriers that surrounded the building. No, a single building on earth got even close to being this tall back on earth.
"Thats one tall building." I said as I caught up to Miss. Nights carriage. As I did, I started to notice hundreds of thousands of fields around it, I guess you got to feed you people somehow.
"Yes, they call it the Tower of Babel, tower that will touch the skies and bring the fortune of the gods to the people. That is where only the most powerful people in this country can go to acquire a small amount of that fortune. It is also this country's strongest defence and can act as a major deterrent for any attack countries." She stated.
"So have you ever been in it?" I asked her.
"No, I have not, I am not yet a high enough level to even step foot in it." Said Miss. Night as I let out a whistle.
"What level do you need to be to go in?" I asked her.
"You have to be a minimum of 1200." She said as I coughed violently as I looked at her carriage.
"A 1200! Wait then who is the strongest in the country?" I asked her still trying to wrap my head around that.
"There are actually two that share that title. They both have a level of 1893 and are classified as walking natural disasters. They can be thought of as the guardians of this country as they always looked over it." She said as I stood there is awe. Even I was impressed.
"What are their names?" I asked as I could see her silhouette shrug.
"I do not know and neither does the guild. They like to keep their info under wraps. But one thing I do know is that the male is a demi human of an ancient chaos dragon bloodline while the female in also a demi human, but she comes from a phoenix bloodline. Both are incredibly powerful and if you ever see them don't make them angry." She said as I nodded.
"Fair enough." I said as I finally decided to use [Analyse] on the capital. But as I did nothing popped up as I frowned, I guess we were too far away for it to be used.
"Also, in general don't piss anyone off while you are here." Said Miss. Night as suddenly a new box popped up in front of me.
Alert! Quest Given!
Quest name: Don't piss anyone off
Quest tasks:
Go into town
Go to the Adventurers guild and get your guild card
Sell the loot items you plan of selling
Make it back to the academy
Quest requirements:
You cannot piss anyone off or make them mad at you or you will fail the quest
Rewards:
10 skill points
10,000 XP
?
?
Failure:
Miss. Night's disappointment and jail time.
Do you accept?
Yes/No
"Sure." I said as I felt my eyebrow twitch as I looked at the box, I wasn't that bad...was I? But seriously why was the reward so much? Since it was making it appear to be a high-level quest...I had feeling that the game was simply making fun of me now. But I simply sighed and pressed yes as I looked ahead of us ignoring my own hurt feelings.
"So, Miss. Night, any ideas about what you're going to do with my gift?" I asked referring to the earth drake's bone marrow.
"Add it to my personal collection, well at least a small amount. The rest I am going to sell and make a lot of money off of." She said with what I bet was a grin.
"That sounds great so I guess that means since you have all that money that means you can drop one class a week and use it to personal train me." I said as she laughed.
"This isn't even half the money I would want to personally train such a barbarian, especially you. Besides I am far from the best magician in the school, if you would like I could ask one of my friends to train you." She said as I sighed.
"But having someone with such beauty that yourself possesses would only make me strive harder." I said in a dramatic tone.
'Playboy.' Said Gaia in a stubborn tone with a hint of anger as I had no clue why.
'Hey, I have my reasons for this so shush your mouth.' I mentally told her.
"Haha you're funny, but don't try that crap on me again of I will castrate you." She said in a oddly sweet tone.
A grin formed as she spoke. "Well, I guess I am going to have to give all these precious items to my other-." But I was quickly interrupted.
"What items?" Asked the greedy demoness as my grin grew.
"Well, you know this and that, but I might have a couple of gallons of earth drake blood and several earth drake tendons. I may not know much but my spirit tells me these can be used to raise a water mages level and mana flow and also can be used in powerful spells. But alas I am shunned from becoming Miss. Nights personal disciple so I must rid myself-." But was again interrupted.
"Fine! You win! I will become your personal teacher...so give it to me." She spoke.
"Half now and Half when I finish." I said making sure she would follow through with her promise. I bet her face was one of anger right now as she let out a sigh.
"Fine!" She said again as I smiled and took out half the items which I promised her, as they appeared they arrived in a bottle and sack. I guess the holding containers were generated by my inventory. Still as they popped up, they instantly were controlled by an invisible force and flew right into her carriage as I heard her giggle lightly as she looked over the items.
'So, you plan was for her to become your personal teacher...playboy." Gaia said again as I shushed her.
'No, it was so that I can have a friend, like you wanted me to after all I will need some in the world if I want to live. And I help if they are powerful friends, a level 600 is really high right?' I asked Gaia since I actually hadn't used [Analysis] on her. Well, I couldn't in the first place because I hadn't even seen her physically yet, and I don't think you can [Analysis] a voice.
'615 actually but yes, I guess this plan of you was more thought out than I first believed...but does it have to be a female?' she said as if judging my new 'friend'.
'Yeah, so what? She is 60 years old, and I am sure he looks like some hag by now.' I said as Gaia went quiet for a second.
'So, you are saying that you're not into older women?' She said as I coughed as the guards looked at me funny as I rubbed my mouth.
'Where did that come from?' I asked Gaia mentally.
'I am just worried is all, it is not natural for a man as young as yourself to going after older women. I think if you do 'hook up' it should at least be with someone your own age.' she said as I raised an eyebrow. How in the hell do I keep somehow get on to this topic.
'Could we not talk about this. I don't really want to discuss that with you.' I spoke.
'But I am! Now first thing first-.' I tuned her out as soon as she started to list things about relationships. You don't need to remind me Gaia, I was in one for 50 years, still she went on to lest that I had to be proper and that I had to be sensitive about a woman's feelings. I just ignored her as I focused on the fields around me. Thoughts of if they had crop rotation or fertilizer usage, stuff like that.
'-Finally, you should always introduce any female friend you have to her because if they disapprove of her then you can say goodbye to that relationship. Are you listening?' she asked me as we were not standing in line to get through the gate.
'Yeah totally.' I said in a non-caring tone.
'Did you really?' she asked me again.
'Yeah, I have to ask you about a girl or whatever.' I said waving my hand at a horsefly so big that it could go toe to toe with Mike Tyson. Seriously how big do bugs get here?
'Good.' she said contently as I rolled my eyes. Gaia had gotten weird lately and I can't tell what it was, so for the instant I ignored it.
'So, what if I want to have plain simple loveless sec with a girl my age?' I asked her. What I guy had needs! Let's just say in my last life I more or less was horny 24/7 and me and Annabeth were having sex nearly 2 times a day, every day and it seems that the sex drive I once owned sort of carried over with me. I am just so lucky.
'Absolutely not!' Gaia yelled at me as I brought my fingers up to my ears as it began to ring.
'Why not? I have needs Gaia.' I said to her as I feel her anger in my head as I broke the camel's back.
'I understand that, but you should at least have a relationship if you are going to have sex!' She screamed at me as I sighed, she was one of those type of people. I mean it could have been worse, she could have tried to get me to wait for marriage.
'Alright then how about we make a deal.' I offered her as we slowly started to get closer to the gate, maybe a 30 wait.
'No.' she said bluntly as I sighed angrily.
"What are you so angry about?" Said voice that wasn't inside my head as I turned to see Alexander staring at me though his carriage window.
"I just really don't like waiting." I responded.
'Now hear me out, I will promise to do as you say until I find a girlfriend. But I have a rule that I want to add.' I said as she thought about, I might say.
'What rule?' She asked.
'Once a month you allow me to go out and enjoy myself with a woman who is not a prostitute for just one night. Each time I do this I will give you something you want, be it any items or a IOU, no matter what I will provide it for you. Cause I don't know how much longer I go with just myself.' I said back to her as she thought it over. Let's just say that puberty wasn't doing me any good either.
I was starting to grow even taller as I stood exactly 5 foot 1 and I was as lean as a 12-year-old could get. Due to my time in the arena, I already had a mostly defined 6 pack. My body was not overly large but build more compact.
And let's just say that Percy Jr. was already out shining my old body, it was close to being 6 inches long and not showing any signs of stopping. But with the size increase came with a horny Percy increase as well.
'Fine.' she said as I grinned. Now to be honest I was not a virgin in this life, far from it in fact. I was forced under many women in the arena that Gabe selected, but as I was forced to have sex with so many women, I discovered something about myself. That I was very interested in having many different partners. I wasn't satisfied with just one.
In my past life I had Annabeth to control my hunger for women since she was my number one and I only focused on her. But now without Annabeth to stop me 'rest her beautiful soul' I found myself gazing at women. Craving them and their body, wishing that I could force them under me and make them submit to me. I didn't know if I was overly horny, or this was my true nature but what I wanted was multiple beautiful women surrounding me at all times.
But I am sure that if I told that to Gaia my head would explode so I kept it under wraps. For now, I was okay with one woman a month, my sex drive not yet being a full power yet, but it was still growing. Still, I couldn't stop this craving inside of me and I knew whatever it was wouldn't stop.
'Thanks Gaia.' I said with a smile as she let an angry humph as she seemed to fade from my conscious. I Still had no clue what was wrong with her, maybe she has some type of period, can sprits get periods? I know that women can get crabby on their period, so that might be it.
"Hey little barbarian what was your name again?" I heard Miss. Night say as I ran up to her carriage as it was now by the toll gate. Great I was starting to respond to the nickname now.
"Perseus." I said as the guard nodded and wrote it down.
"Alright everyone here is okay to pass, have a nice day." Siad the guard as the carriage started to go thought the gate. As we passed under a massive stone wall, I awed at it. I have a thing for medieval castles and the general aesthetic.
"Everyone you are free to roam the city till dark, take these medallions with you and explore. I am sure most of you have never been in the capital before. Remember that all drop items must be sold or stored in the Adventurer's guild, so I suggest you all go there first. Make sure that you are back at the academy by dusk." Said Miss. Night as 30 silver medallions flew out of her carriage and towards us.
The medallion that landed in my hand was simple and silver, just an imprint of a magic circle on one side and one the other a crystal tower. I put in in my pocket as I noticed that everyone was unloading for their carriages as they all stood near me. I raised an eyebrow as I looked at them as the carriages wheeled away behind Miss. Night.
"You're walking?" I asked them as a joke, most rolled their eyes at me.
"Most of us don't have the strength of a barbarian." Siad on of the females as I shrugged.
"Whatever, so where are you guys going?" I asked them.
"Well, we did kill a few monsters on the way here, so we do have a couple of monster drops, so we are going to the Adventurer's guild." Said Alexander who became the DeFacto leader of the group.
"As do I, besides I have to get my guild card." I said as a few nodded as they seemed to not have theirs either.
"Then what?" Said Alexander as all the women smiled evilly as a shiver ran up my spine.
"Shopping!" They yelled in unison as my eyebrow twitched, I had a feeling that not pissing anyone off was going to be a lot harder now.
Hey guys, so update to the story. It is really difficult to rewrite this story cause its just so long and I don't have the original source martial meaning I am writing with the two documents side by side.
And I also lost myself for a while there and just needed a break from most things, but I am better now.
I want to make it clear that I have no idea about the upload schedule cause it all about the word count of the story and how much that needs to be changed. I hope you enjoyed.