So yeah, Brain Uglaus was not attacked by Shalltear here. He left before that. Since Solution and Sebas were not attacked by the bandits, Shalltear didn't find them until much later, and since the Black scripture was busy fighting the witch queen at the time, there was no meeting and all that.
As well for the girl called Brita, she didn't go with her team and decided to stay behind in the Carne Village, I will explain why later.
Hope you guys enjoy it, I am starting to editing some old chapters, slight detail first.
See you all later!
Chapter 20
The room is steamy and the soft cries of a woman are the only company of the man enjoying the pleasure of the flesh, his disgusting smile, and the grunt of release made for a horrible picture.
"That's it you slut take it all, get pregnant with my child!" the sobbing woman merely curdle into the safety of her arms, when he finally pulls his cock out.
"A weak woman only gives birth to a weak son," the man said with a twisted face, as the thought of a weakling child angers him.
"You are just another slut for me to breed, so disappointing and I thought you were an Adamantite adventurer," he said kicking the poor girl face.
"All my life I have been looking for the strongest woman, the one would who is my equal, my partner, the one who will take my seed and provide me with strong heirs... but all have been disappointing, such a waste of time," he said strolling to the painting in front of him touching the marble gently, he gently touches the face of the woman.
"Well that girl, the mother of the half-elf prove herself worthy enough to give birth to a powerful child but still not good enough to beat me... perhaps if I impregnated her as well... She would not be the first daughter I take for myself," he then licked his lips thinking about a new goal.
"But that new magic caster, the witch queen, now that is something I haven't heard in a while, capable of six-tier magic? powerful enough to command armies of the undead and skeleton dragons? Now she is quite something, I would love to break her and breed her, surely our children would be strong, but still, no one would ever compare to you my dear one, I am still waiting for you, to take you as mine," the painting of the ancient one was on the man room, the long black wings, her regal pose of superiority made him go hard once more.
He kissed the marble, the stone where the figure of his lover is, he was lost in thought thinking of the future, his fantasy of dominion.
"For now, I will have to wait and get this witch queen in my bed and see what she does against me, it's going to be fun after all, I love breaking strong woman," he saw that one girl who is chained looks terrified of him, she was trembling in the corner with a couple more, they are elf girls of a very young age.
"I guess for now all of you will satisfy me, as pathetic and worthless you lot are, there is always an opportunity to improve from shit to less shit," he smiled to the poor victims as he got ready to make sure these new toys are ready to bear more children of his.
"Oh, there is that new group of girls as well, they said that their leader is quite strong too, interesting this world is getting fill with capable mothers of my children, I need to investigate more about them perhaps I could even request a quest as bait again, it works doesn't' girl?" the girl in the bed was still sobbing, trying to disappear from this hell, only that she knew deep down that it would never happen.
"So much to do and so little time, whores come here and please me!" he ordered as he keeps daydreaming about the future and fantasy, not caring about anything else.
The rain and dirtiness of the capital is something that always bothers Brain Unglaus. He is bored of it all, after spending something with a mercenary group that prefers to mug innocent people than fight, he left them.
Then after a couple of days, he hears the news from an old acquainted of his, that the group got eliminated by some powerful vampire. He was very disappointed that he was not there when it happened.
A good fight was all he ever wanted, to find a way to get stronger and more powerful enough to beat his old rival, the warrior captain of the RE-Estize Kingdom, Gazef Stronoff.
Now he is unemployed, and he is honestly trying to find a job as a bodyguard or something of that nature.
He is lost in thought when he heard someone shout his name.
"Brain Unglaus?" he recognizes that voice, Brain would always recognize that voice.
"Gazef Stronoff," Brain whispered.
"It's been a while Brain, the last time I hear about you, it's that you were in some mercenary company," Brain nodded.
He wanted to fight him, to prove if he has indeed become stronger, but Brain knew it was not the place of time for it, besides he would like to have a decent chat with someone like Gazef.
"I quit, they were too disorganized, and the pay wasn't that good to begin with," Gazed nodded as he invited him to his place to have a chat.
It was better than being under the merciless rain and the smell of wet stone.
"So how have you been Gazef?" he asked.
"Pretty much the same, although I must say that these last months have been stressful," Gazef said drinking from his cup.
"How so? Are the nobles getting under your skin?" Brain asked.
"Not really, well at least not as much, is that almost half a year ago I meet a certain magic caster who saved my life," he said.
"Magic caster? How did she save your life?"
"There was a trap made from the Slane Theocracy, they wanted my death, so they keep attacking villages in our borders to get me there, it almost works if it wasn't for the Witch queen of Nazarick," Brain looked quite shocked for a few moments.
"Wait, wait! Isn't she the one causing all those problems in the Holy kingdom, the Theocracy, and the Elf kingdom?" Brain exclaim.
"Yes, the same one," Gazed responded, drinking again from his cup.
"She is said to be strong, well strong enough to be a six-tier magic caster, but tell me what happens later?" Brain asked.
"Well, she saves my life, after that she disappears and I didn't hear about her until the news of the south and the chaos she is been making there," Gazef said with a sigh.
"Well, that sucks," Brain said with a smile.
"It does honestly, but I hope everything has a reason to be, they must have pissed her off quite a lot," Brain snorts.
"You said it as she needed a reason for doing what she is doing," he said.
"Perhaps not, but I know she is smart to realize that she is getting more and more infamous and that would bring many people against her, she is not doing this as a tantrum, she knows that this would bring the attention she wants," Brain saw Gazef eyes and how deep in thought he is as if he is trying to figure it out this strange puzzle in front of him
"You think she is planning something? Like a big show?" Brain said to bring the warrior captain back to reality.
"Perhaps, only time will tell but enough about that, what about you? Are you looking for a job?" Brain sighs as he was trying to look tired.
"Yes, the work of mercenary is not the best and is boring, perhaps I will try to see if there any bodyguard job or something like that," Gazef look at him for a few moments.
"Why don't you join the royal guard?" Brain almost laughs.
"Gazef that job may be for you but is not for me, I hate nobles and their little games, I have not the patience for them," Gazef sigh but smiled his so proclaim rival.
"I guess so, but honestly you have natural talent, I feel like you are wasting it like that," he said making Brain stiff.
"I want to defeat you, and I won't stop until that happens but I agree with you, I truly don't want to waste my time as a sells word, but I need to take my road to become stronger, I hope you respect that," Brain said with a determined voice.
"I do, honestly is just the concerns from warrior to warrior," Gazef said with a smile.
"Thank you, but sadly I do need a job for now, I have no place to sleep you see," Brain said a little embarrassed.
"You can stay here, it's big enough for both of us," Gazef said with pure honesty in his voice.
"Are you sure?" Brain asked.
"Definitely," Brain nodded as he heard the warrior captain's conviction.
"Thank you."
"I will pay you, I promised," Brain said.
"Forget about it," Gazef said with a smile.
After a few days of no luck at all, Brain was quite tired of not finding a suitable job for him. There was just no one to work for who will pay him what he believes he deserves.
Then as he was walking felt it, a strange aura coming from an old butler. His eyes quickly saw how this old man sidestep in the middle of the crown to stop a couple of guys from hitting a poor boy.
There is no way someone could move that fast, Brain was sure of it, then he saw it.
"Get out of the way, old man!" the thug said.
"Well I asked nicely," the butler said.
The way he got rid of the thugs was so fast, so clean, there was no other way to explain it, Brain was speechless. He saw it all. Then he left after making sure a blond boy treated the kid.
Brain followed him, he must know about this old man's style, how he could be so fast and light, Brain just need to know.
He was careful to not bring attention to him, he just simply stood away as he saw the old butler speak with the boy.
"What business do you have with me?" the old guy said.
"M-my name is Climb A soldier of this country, I wanted to say I am grateful for saving that kid," Climb said.
"Don't worry about it, now then, I will be going," before the Climb could say anything Bran step out of the shadows.
"Wait!" he yelled, bringing the attention of both Climb and the butler.
"Who are you?" the butler asked with iron-on his voices, making shivers down Brain spine.
"My name is Brain Unglaus, I saw your side step and the way you move, I wanted to ask you if you could teach me that!" he begged.
Climb for his part seems to be quite surprised to someone of a renowned name like him, was here in the city.
"Teach you?" the butler said, a little confused for a moment.
"Me too!" Climb said as he was just thinking about asking the same thing.
"Mm, I see, can I see both of your hands?" both Climb and Brain obeyed as they saw how the old man watch with intense their hands.
"I see, Climb, right? I saw that you practice quite a lot but I must say that... you don't have a talent for this, you must know this right?" Climb looked a little ashamed of it, but after thinking about his beloved princess it went away.
"Because I want to protect something dear to me, she needs my sword no matter what, and if I can't protect the one I love, how can I call myself a man?" The declaration of the boy shocked Brain, he didn't share his views, he wanted to become strong because he wanted to defeat Gazef but after that, if he achieves it, what will he do with his life? He doesn't know.
"You have talent, I can see it but your goal is too small, you know this right?" Brain said nothing and only looked down.
"I will show you something if you are prepared of course but be warned, you will die if you don't move," it shocks both to hear that but the idea of becoming stronger lingers in their head so they both refuse to back down.
"I see, get ready then," both Brain and Climb got ready to whatever may come, they pulled their swords out and the moment they did it, the butler aura grew colder and murderous, full with intent of killing them.
Neither of them has ever felt something like this in their life, so powerful, so terrified.
"Now die if you want," both of them knew that they will die if they didn't move, every part of their body was frozen, they didn't have an escape and as close the fist of dead approach their dream appear in front of them, it was enough to make them move a little, enough to evade their fate.
Both of them fell to their knees gasping for air, Climb is relieved of being alive, but Brain was questioning himself.
"All this time... I spend years practicing, years' training, all of that for nothing? The genuine power that I wanted is nothing, but a child dreams," Brain said to himself.
"I don't know what power you seek, but after conquering the most common fear, death, you could become stronger if you try but you must know, that you only become more of what you are when you find a worthy goal to follow," Brain heard the words of wisdom of the butler.
"Perhaps you are right... perhaps I should have found a worthy goal for myself, something truly important," Brain said softly thinking about all this time he wanted to only defeat Gazef.
All his life there was nothing he truly wanted, but after seeing what true power is and how far he is from it, he is truly lost now.
He trows all away; he had no family, no friends that he could rely on, nothing worthy of protecting.
"What should I do?" he asked the old man.
"You can start from zero," said the butler.
"From zero... to start again?"
"You never know, that' all I can say, after all, I am only an old butler," he said as suddenly shadows emerge from the alley.
"Finally, they move," the butler said.