A Chat with a bard
"Well, you see, this time the empire declared war on the kingdom a little later than usual, though interestingly enough, this time they announced that the fortress city of E-Rantel rightfully belongs to the magic caster and even the mighty Slane Theocracy did not oppose them!
They must be scared if they allowed this to happen even after knowing that magician is — not human, not even living, — an undead..."
After looking at the obvious interest in the magic caster eyes Eric continued, "The things which I'm going to say will seem like an extreme exaggeration, but it is true!
That magic caster had command over hundreds of the legendary monsters known as Death Knights and Soul Eaters, he brought approximately an army of around five hundred of them!"
"Five hundred?! Tell me about the caster!"
"Yes, the information becomes even more extreme and bizarre with the fact that the magic caster used but a single spell to wipe out over one hundred and eighty thousand conscripted soldiers from the Re-Estize Kingdoms army! seemingly putting emphasis on the word 'single'
"After that, the kingdom had absolutely no choice but to retreat and accept their utter and complete defeat, all this happened thirty days ago."
"Please, tell me more about the caster! I will give you ten silver coins!" exclaimed Katsuma towards Eric
The bard put on a smile and continued, "Well as far as I have been able to collect accurate information from adventurers and my connections, that magic caster looks like an undead Skeleton or Elder Lich but seems much more, oh very much more powerful, he was accompanied by a dark elven child who rumour says is also an extremely powerful magic caster, he then went and established his kingdom with E-Rantel as its capital, and that is what is now known as the Sorcerer Kingdom."
"An elf child? Tell me more." said Katsuma seemingly still caught up on that part
"Well I don't know much about the child, but the magic caster is known as Ainz Ooal Gown, ah yes, I just remember, that elf along with one other who looked very similar visited the empire on a dragon, sorry, but I don't have any more details about it." said Eric after attempting to put emphasis on 'dragon'
Katsuma then began to start visibly shake, both looking happy and terrified at the same time.
"Hey, have you remembered something about the past?" Eric questioned, thinking that Katsuma might have remembered something, after all, he was suffering from amnesia.
"What a poor fellow he is." thought Eric
Katsuma uninterested in the bard's question only answered with a question for him.
"Did you say that magic caster's name was Ainz Ooal Gown? Tell me more."
"Huh, ah yes that's his name; he now rules over the Sorcerer Kingdom, sorry I don't know much more than that."
"Are you sure you don't remember anything else, I still have more funds?"
"Hmm, seems this information is important to you if you willing to give me some extra silver coins, I might collect more info about the subject from my peers."
"Here take forty silver coins, send a messenger pigeon back to me with more info on this Ainz Ooal Gown fellow when you go back to the city, make sure you gather any info as worthless or unbelievable as it may seem."
"Hey did you remember anything of your past?"
"Ah, no I am just interested in this powerful magic caster, y'know, the same profession after all, heh..." Katsuma said with a forced smile, Eric saw through it but decided not to say anything.
"oh ok, as long as you can pay, it doesn't concern me. The pigeon will reach you in 4-5 days" thinking that the conversation has ended he started moving towards the gatekeepers.
"Ah wait, what's the way towards this Sorcerers Kingdom?"
"What? You seriously want to go to that death hole?"
"Of course not, well I haven't decided yet, I don't know just wanted to know" kits said in a confusing tone.
" Oh well, you will have to head way south through the mountains, then will come the Republic , Then further south east is Kingdom, Then east is the Sorcerer Kingdom's E - rantel, It will take you easily 19-20 weeks to even reach there, You know it's not safe for centaurs to venture into human kingdoms."
"Well, I know that I won't do anything stupid, and thanks will wait eagerly for your message" Having said that both of then went towards the gate.
Bidding farewell to the bard and others, kits went straight towards his small adobe made of rocks, wood and grass. He was deep in thought
He closed the door of his small home but was deep in thought.
""Ainz owl gown? Is it that guild or someone else? No, no one will give his son this kind of name. It is most probably that guild. On the other hand, some player pretending to be Ainz owl Gown? Maybe that can be a possibility.
Damn…except Touchme, Perorontino and ulbert I never had any contact with any of the members of that guild. I don't know anything even about the players of that guild. They had about 40 members. No 50. I don't even know about their numbers. Shit.
This sucks. Anyways I know that there is one more player here in this world. Maybe he can help me go back, Is he the reason I am stuck here? Probably no. Damn this is confusing. Let's see.
That guy created a country and spreading name of guild.
Maybe, he wants to live in luxury or simply wants to say his presence. Or either discredit the name of that guild or simply spread it. It seems more to be later or even both. So he can be both an staunch enemy or member of that guild. Anyways he wants to contact other players too. Hmm not bad, he is intelligent. (He smiled thinking that)
But these are both extremes, I think that guild leader was a Skeleton overlord was he in Ainz owl gown or some other top guild? Well there were so many players in Yggdrasil I had made friends in many guilds so its ok to not remember all of them. Its been almost a year now, damn this world is so real.
Hmm more stronger than me, seems interesting, Well bard haven't seen my true abilities anyways.
Wait he is confident of running a country. So does he has help from other players or a group of players has teleported to this world? If its Ainz Owl Gown then I really hope Touch me or Ulbert are here. Damn the info is very less. I don't remember any player who was an elf in Ainz Owl Gown. Damn I am not confident enough to even lead this small village and he took out a kingdom. Taking down a kingdom is easy he might have difficulties in running it. Or is he a normal undead and killed all life forms. No I am an undead too I can live in this centaur village with almost no Problems. So did he loose his sanity. NO probably not he calls himself Sorcerer King now so probably he has some left.
Its too dangerous to contact him without collecting information. What if he is simply spreading name to kill other players? No I too want to meet players to find a way back. Maybe they have another world item? Wait that guild had most of world items in the game so this Ainz Owl Gown fellow might be able to help me.
hmm What do i remember about them? Touch me started the guild, i remember that and all were strong in PVP. Their login timings were different than me so when touchme invited me to his guild i simply denied. I was doing good as a mercenary and there was no point being stuck in a guild. I do remember Touch me saving my ass several times and going for few missions with them but all that was 6-7 years before the server shutdown. I hope he got my mail about me collecting World Item. Damn I really hope Touchme is one of them. Still i don't know what to do. Did that guild come here along with its NPC's? No that will be scary. Anyways at-least NPC's will remain inside that tomb. I remember them wiping out 1500 of others with just their NPC's. Thank god I decided not to attack them and informed Ulbert about the same. Some of the mercenaries even left playing game after that indecent. If its Ulbert then also i can manage but he will ask something in return. But at-least he can come with the idea of ruling a country. Perorontino is probably not smart enough to control a country and Touchme wont kill so many people.
So what should i do? No if its not the three of them then its too dangerous.
Ok so this kingdom is far away, so for the time being its safe here. I should probably wait for 4-5 days for the bard to collect more info. I have already paid him. No I should go to city myself and collect info. ""
As he was deep in his thoughts, a small centaur kid knocked on his door. He turned around and said
"Is it time already"
"Yes sensai, all others are waiting. What will we be learning today? I think even though Se-aan tries he is still not able to make progress"
"Well learning magic is hard after all maybe he might be good in another form of magic"
"So can you teach him? He looks very upset he is no good as warrior either"
"Ah no, he might need another teacher specializing in another form of magic than me. Anyways lets go" kits said with a smile on his face to the centaur kid.
'I should wait for at least 5 more days here; these kids really have high hopes from me' Thinking that kits went with the kid.
Authors Note: The Character has no idea as of now about NPC's coming to life as he himself doesn't have any. He came alone in this world.
Shalltear Bloodfallen: This had quite a bit of editing to be done!
