Author Note :
thank you Guest for the reviews, yes English is not my main language so if you see any grammar mistake feel free to put it in reviews
for the king, I showing that up so I remember that the king are bad and have ulterior motive. if I want to change that I better have an explanation for that. After all I easily forgot and easily influenced by what I reading. For the power curve I hope I can avoid that.
And thank for Derago about giving me unlock condition and the Effect for Alice.
Anyway Hope you enjoy this stories
"Hmm, now that I know how good the fairies are, shall I try to unlock them first? Their unlock condition is not that hard and doesn't have any side effects like Koishi's wandering randomly or Rumia's dark ball. But, transforming into a little girl is quite embarrassing. On top of that, I don't have any clothes for them. It's not going to be funny if I transform into them and getting naked in public because my uniform is too large for them. That reminds me, I need to transform into Alice first if I want to unlock all the clothes. I wish it will be easy."
Alice Margatroid
Unlock Condition:
- Having 2 Doll that resemble shanghai or hourai doll
- Learn "Abandonment Food" Spell
- RP 3000
"As I thought, it will not be easy. What did I think when I expected that my skills would be easy to me!" Iyan sighed loudly, "Argh, whatever. For now, I better get money for registering at the adventurer guild. But where will I get it?"
Iyan tried to remember what many MCs of the Isekai novel he has read will do. Then an idea struck him, "I could steal from the bandits! No one will protest at me if I get money from them."
So he continued with that idea and started to wander around the forest with Star's ability active. His objective now is to find a group of people. In his mind, a group of people deep inside this forest must be a bandit group. Fortunately, after only a few steps, his detection skill picking up a human group.
"They are on the edge of my detection skill that means I have to walk 500m. That is too far!"
Though despite his reluctance, he still walked toward them. Luckily, the group is walking toward his direction, and because of that, it didn't take long before he got reached the group. When he got near them, he could see two males and a single female. The female is wearing a white robe while holding a wand, while the other two look like a knight protecting her. Rather than a bandit, he can only think that the group is an adventurer.
"Well, they are good enough too. I could ask those three about the bandit. Maybe I will get some clue where the bandits are, or are they even exist here."
Before Iyan could greet them, his entire feet suddenly got bounded by the ground. Then the group appeared in front of him.
"Who are you?" Said the tallest and most muscular person among the group
His strength matched with his look, he capable of pointing a large and heavy-looking iron sword at Iyan with just one of his arms. Iyan was terrified to the point his mind goes blank.
"Wait, Willes! It looked like he was panicking too much, [Brave Heart]." Said the other man.
After that, Iyan fear suddenly vanished, and his mind became clear. Because of that, he could assess the situation better.
At first, Iyan thought, it was a bear beastman that pointed the sword at him. Now with his clear mind, he saw that it was just a strong-looking old guy. Then Iyan looked at the man beside him and becoming smug. With his look, Iyan could guess that he is weaker than the man who pointed the sword. He was confident that he could beat both of them, even though they looked more physically fit than him.
With a smug tone, Iyan said, "Hey, release me!"
Willes, the one who pointed the sword at Iyan, was surprised by Iyan sudden change in behavior. Eric, the one who used skill at Iyan, was surprised by it too.
"Hey Eric, I think your skill is too effective."
"I...never thought that [Brave Heart] skill has this effect. It should only make you calmer, right?" Eric said.
"Oy, why are you two stand and do nothing? Release me!"
Willes sighed loudly, "We will release you after you answer some of my questions."
Shortly after that, Iyan could feel something enveloped his body.
"What did you do to me?" Iyan asked.
"It is just a lie-detecting magic, so I can know if you're telling a lie." Said the woman of the group.
She wears white nun clothes and holding a white staff. From her look, it was clear to Iyan that she is a healer of the group.
"You should not have bothered to do that. I will not tell a single lie."
Willes sighed again, "Whatever. Now answer me! why are you following us?"
"I want to ask you about bandit."
Willes glanced at the nun, and she nodded confirmed that Iyan was telling the truth.
"Well, what are you going to ask us?"
"I want to ask whether there is a bandit around here and if it's okay if I'm taking their loot?"
Will face-palmed after hearing Iyan's questions, "I was a fool to think you are a threat." Then Iyan restraint is gone, "Well, to answer your question, yes, there is bandit around here, and yes, it's okay to take their loot."
"Oh! That's good to hear."
"But you should give up on that." Will immediately replied.
"Eh, why?"
"You're weak. How are you going to take their loot?"
"I have my way to do that!" Iyan Interrupted.
"NO! You better give up and go back! We encounter a strong monster on the highway, so please go back. I don't want to see you again as a corpse. If you need money to eat, I could give you some coins."
"I don't need your pity! I'll show you the result later, Willes!"
Then Iyan turned around and walked away from them.
"Hey! If you need help, you can come to me at the adventurer guild!" Willes shouted at Iyan.
Iyan didn't turn around and kept walking away.
After some time has passed, Iyan crouched down while covering his face with his hand.
"Arggh! Why the hell did I do that?"
Once the [Brave heart] skill effect is gone, his emotion changed suddenly again. He deeply regretted his earlier action toward Willes.
"That skill name is [Brave heart], so why did I become arrogant and overconfident? Argh, whatever, what is done is done. I better search for the bandit, like I was going to do earlier."
His plan to find the bandit was still the same. Though rather than walking around the forest, he transformed into Star then flying around the forest. Still, despite having transformed into Star, he didn't find the bandit easily. Only in the afternoon that he found some group of people near the road to the kingdom.
This time, Iyan was sure it was the bandit group since he detected many people gathering in one place. He rushed to where they are and stopped when there was quite a distance to reach them. After that, he transformed into Koishi to avoid the same incident, with the previous adventurer, happened again.
When Iyan near the place, he saw a cave guarded by two men holding a wooden spear.
"At last, I found you, bandit! Why you must be so hard to find?"
After deciding that they are bandits, Iyan confidently moved toward the cave. Before he even reached the two people guarding the cave, a loud sound of metal clashed together could be heard near him. Alarmed by the sound, the guards looked closely at Iyan's, causing him to frozen stiff.
"Did some animal trip the alarm again?!" One of the guards said.
"It could be." The other guards said.
"*Sigh*... We really need to improve that alarm so no animal will trip it."
"Tell that to the boss, not me!"
Iyan was relieved after hearing the guard's conversation. Since they cannot saw him, he boldly passed them and going inside the cave. The inside of the cave should have been dark and hard to see, but to Iyan it was not a problem.
"Huh, even though I don't have darkness vision skill, I still could see this as bright as outside!"
Deeper into the cave, he arrived at a branch. Iyan goes to the left since there is a torch on the wall. He kept following the torch until he reached a room where there are many bandits in festivities.
"Once again, for our success, cheers!" Said A wild-looking male while raised his glass to the air.
That man is the boss of this bandit brigand. He has a wild-looking face and black hair. His body is not bulging with muscle, but all of the bandits knew that he was capable of beating all of them.
"CHEERS!" His entire member replied.
"Cheers!" Said by a feminine voice a little bit later than everyone else.
Every bandit turned around and found a girl wearing a black hat doing the same as them. They are frozen in their place and confused at the sudden appearance of the girl.
"Wow, what a cute lady you are! Who are you, and why are you here?" The boss said.
"My name is Komeiji Koishi. I'm here because it looks fun!"
The boss grinned and walked toward Koishi. After he got close to her, he raised his glass again. "For this cutie chick, Cheers!" Some bandit didn't immediately raise their drink because they got confused. "You lot, what are you waiting for?"
Hearing their boss demanded it, they raised their glass again, "Cheers!"
Some saw their boss grinned, they knew what their boss planned and can't help to stare at Koishi. Then they continued their parties as if nothing had happened.
"This girl is still too young for my taste. Meh, I can't ask for more. It's been so long for me to have a woman companion." The boss thought.
"Here, drink some more!" The boss said while handing Koishi his glass.
Rather than receiving it, Koishi stared silently at the glass.
"This is a good drink. It would be a waste if you didn't want to drink it."
"Ah, Yes!" The girl took the drink then gulped it down in one breath.
The boss was amazed, "Oh, You're a good drinker! Hey, give this girl another one!"
Then a bandit gave Koishi a large glass full of alcohol. Just like before, Koishi finished the drink in one breath.
"Ne, Ne! Is there a shiny coin? I want to look at it!" Koishi said to the leader
"Oh, are you interested in coins too? Quite a greedy woman you are, but I don't hate that kind woman. Come, I'll show you!"
The bandits moved away from them, making it easier for their path toward where the boss headed up. While on their way, some of the bandits glared intensively at Koishi, causing her to shudder.
Iyan's consciousness is coming back to him when Koishi was silent at the party. At that time, he was surprised to be ended up in the middle of the bandits.
"Why Koishi must always doing random things! Luckily those bandits didn't immediately jump at me. If they knew how strong I am, they would run away with their money, and it's going to be harder to steal it. Though because of her, I will find out where they are storing their money, so it didn't end up so bad." Iyan thought.
After getting deeper into the cave, Iyan and the bandit's boss reached a room where many barrels filled with swords are present. At one of the corners, there are leather pouches piled up on top of each other.
"Wow! Are they managed to steal from a weapon merchant cargo"
"Did you like what you see?" The bandit leader said.
"Yeah, there are a lot of weapons."
"Haha, but you still want to see the gold, right?"
"Of course!"
Then the leader walked toward where the pouch is.
"Now that I know where the coin is, I can leave him alone. How does my passive stealth skill work again? Maybe I should move further away from him?"
"Huh, why am I coming here for again?" The leader said. "Oh yeah, I need to check again whether my share is bigger than the other."
At the opposite corner of the room, Iyan was happy that it worked. Then he saw the leader took out one pouch from the pile. After that, the leader smiled and then left the room, leaving the pouch on the floor.
"How generous of him helping me finding the pouch that has the most coins. This one will be mine." Then Iyan crouched down and opened the pouch, "Huh, that guy smiled very wide earlier, but this one is empty. Maybe this one is a magic bag? Hmm, well, since I need to apologize to that adventurer party, I should ask them about this too."
Then Iyan standing up, "Now, I think I should punish those bandits. They stared at me creepily earlier, so I will humiliate them all by beating them as Rumia. I highly doubt anyone capable of hurting her. While I am at it, I could let some escape to spread a rumor about me. Though I should attack at the front, it's not going to be good if they think they lose because of a surprise attack."
Iyan retracing his step toward the cave entrance while hoping Koishi won't somehow control his body and goes somewhere again. Fortunately, he could reach the cave entrance without anything happened. Then he moved far away from the cave and tripping the alarm again. After Iyan was a little further from the guard, he transformed back to himself.
He saw that his pouch is now on the ground, so he took it and put it in his pants pocket. Because of his experience getting stuck inside Rumia's dark ball, he didn't immediately transform into Rumia and instead waited until night come.
"Huh, did I sleep?" When Iyan wakes up from his nap, the forest turned into a very dark place. "Looked like it's my time for me to punish those bandits."
Then Iyan transform into Rumia.
"I just remember I still don't know what the Youkai race effects are."
Youkai
Youkai is a term used to refer to japanese folk creature. Not many physical weapons could affect them, but magic attack will harm them more.
Bonus Effect :
- Physical attack Immunity lv8
- Regeneration lv3
- Magical damage UP
Physical attack Immunity lv8
(Passive Skill) Giving immunity to most of damage through physical means.
Current level effect: If the attacker STR status is below 810 it won't hurt the possessor of this skill.
Magical damage UP
(Passive Skill) Increase the magical damage received by the possessor of the skill.
Regeneration
(Passive Skill) Raised the natural recovery of the bodies.
"Wow! That immunity skill is the best! With this, those bandits won't have a chance of winning against me. Though what counts as damage? I don't have any HP in my status. Ah well, whatever. Not like it is going to be a problem even if I don't know about it."
With confidence, Iyan walked forward to the cave entrance and then tripped another alarm again.
"Oh, for fuck's sake! Where the hell did they place those alarms?!" Iyan screamed.
"Who is there?" Someone at the cave entrance screamed.
"Hmm, I could use them to test Rumia's dark power."
Iyan tried to wave his hand toward the guards while imagining darkness enveloped them. It was success, darkness now covered the whole cave entrance.
"That was easy. I wonder if I could kill them with my darkness."
This time Iyan imagined many sharp tendrils inside of the darkness. Then he imagined that all of the tendrils stab to the ground. Even when he can not see it, He could feel that his magic successfully formed, yet there was no scream of pain from the guard.
"Oi, stop this and face me fair and square."
"Did my darkness failed to hurt them? If that's true, then I should rely on my fist to hurt them."
Iyan then rushed at one of the guards and missed his punch. "Did you move? Where are you at now?"
"As if I tell you that, Idiot! You just pretend that you can't see me, right?"
"You know what, forget I asked. I could test my strength on the people inside of the cave."
"Ha! You won't lower my guard with that."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. OW!" Iyan walked toward what he believed the cave entrance but instead, he hit the wall. "Damn it! I can't see anything in here."
Then Iyan removing the darkness away, and immediately the guard broke his spear after trying to puncture Iyan head. The guard was surprised to see it happened, but before he could say anything, his body launched far away from the spot.
"Wow! Even though I did not punch him with all I got, that guy still flies that far." Iyan then turn around to the cave entrance, "Huh, there should be another one of them? Ah, He must be running inside to alert them. That is good! Now, the bandits will gather at one place, making it easier for me to beat them all."
With a joyful feeling, Iyan goes inside the cave. The inside of the cave should be dark. But because of Rumia's [Darkness Vision], Iyan could see everything clearly without a torch.
"There they are. Uwah, they seemed raring to go!"
What Iyan saw was a makeshift barricade made by the bandits.
"You ran away and alerted us because of a fucking child!"
Behind the barricade, Iyan witnessed the boss holding the collar of a bandit and lifting him with just one hand.
"But, this child is not normal! She must be a demon child. That guy not coming here is the proof of that."
The leader suddenly released his grip on the bandit, causing him to fall on his butt, "You are lucky that is true. If not, I will end your life immediately, since I don't need a coward on my team," Then The leader looked at Iyan, "Oy! You child, what do you want with us."
"I smell some delicious human here, so I come. Everyone here is human that I can eat, right?"
"If that your reason then die!"
The leader said that in front of him while aiming his sword at Iyan's eye. Iyan was shocked, the boss suddenly in front of him and there not enough time for him to block it. The attack was hit Iyan's eyes, staggering him, and made him took a few steps back.
"I can still see, and it doesn't hurt that means,"
"Damn, you have a hard eye." The leader said it with full of anger.
"Why, thank you. Now it's my turn, die!"
Iyan charged at the leader with his hand balled into a fist. But before he could reach him, his body suddenly can't move.
"Oh, it seems [Paralyze] could affect you. Look like we will have some fun tonight!"
All of the bandits smiled and giving a lustful gaze at Iyan.
Iyan can't move his body, but his mind now in a chaotic state. "Hiii! This is the worst! Think, think me! There should be something I could do even in this state. How about my magic?! Tch, it doesn't work! What about danmaku skill then?" Then a same panel as the status screen showed up, "Wait, are those Rumia's spell cards! Does that means it still works?! Must I shout the name of the spell card to activate it? But I can't say anything now. Ah, whatever, I hope shouting in my mind still works! "Darkness sign [Demarcation]"
"Huh! What is that sound?" The boss said.
While looking for the source, the boss got hit by a pair of a sharp blue magical bullets. Even though leather armor was covered his body, he could feel the magic bullet was going through it and hitting his skin. Then another pair hit him again. He ducked to avoid getting hit again, only to get hit by many round blue magical bullets.
After the spell card duration ended, Iyan stopped moving automatically and can control his body again.
"Ugh! So that what happened when I'm using a spell card, my body moving automatically just like when Rumia using this spell card. Looked like the [Paralyze] effect wear off too."
Iyan looked around and saw most of the bandits all lied down, including the leader.
"Heh, look like you have a problem to stand, let me help!"
Iyan kicked the lied-down leader, causing his body to fly to the opposite end of the wall while hitting one other bandit. Seeing their leader is defeated, the rest of the bandits started to run away, deeper into the cave. Iyan ignored them and walked straight toward where the boss is.
"Wait! Please let me live! You said you want to eat. here," The leader then slashed the throat of the bandits that got caught up with his body when he was thrown away, "you can have him!"
"Wow! That guy doesn't even hesitate to kill him. I guess bandit camaraderie is not that good. Urgh! I want to kill that bastard for paralyzing me, but sadly I need to make him spread a rumor about me, damn it!" Iyan thought.
"I'm starving, you know. I wonder if he alone will fill my belly. But you will still be here even after I ate him, right?"
The bandit leader nodded furiously. Iyan then cast darkness over the dead body and goes inside it.
"He definitely lying. I could hear him running now. Well, it doesn't matter anyway. My plan in the first place is to scare them and let them go anyway."
After waiting for a while, Iyan coming out of the darkness. Then he goes toward where the bandits store the goods. When he reached it, his anger is rising.
"Fuck! They took all the money here!" Iyan breathed slowly to calm himself. "That reminds me, where is my pouch? I stored it in my pocket, but now that's gone, where it ended up? Did it get dropped when I'm transforming? Fuck!"
Then Iyan rushed toward the cave entrance.
At the place where he transformed into Rumia, Iyan wildly looked around the area and found nothing. When he gave up on finding the pouch, a thought came to his mind, "Maybe it will go back with my uniform." So Iyan turned back into himself and immediately put his hand into his pocket. Then his panicked face turned into relief. Inside his pocket, he could find the pouch he stole from the bandit's leader.
"Still, how did I can take out the content of this bag? I hope I will find those adventurers. I hate to ask that bitch!"
After that, he put the pouch into his pocket again. Then he looked at the bandit's cave again. He knew there are some swords that the bandits left inside that cave. But since he still doesn't know how to use his item bag, he decided that it is better to left those swords there and come back later.
Iyan opened his status to check if there is something changed.
Status | Unlockable Items | Unlockable Characters
Name : Iyan Gilder
Race : Human
Level : 1
RP : 251524
FP : 20
NP : 0
MP : 250/250
AGI : 37
STR : 38
MAG : 25
INT : 90
LUCK : 39
PHY Def : 34
MGC Def : 37
Unique Skill :
Eastern Project lvl 1
"Well, my RP is raised, just as I planned. Though I wonder, are those bandits going to tell others about this?"
Iyan remembered he beat them up as Rumia since he wanted that. At the same time, Rumia is the only one that unlocked, and the bandit could see her.
"But because of that, I doubt they will talk about it to others. *sigh* It's better for me to show up to an adventurer. I bet they will report it to the guild even if they lose. Then the guild will make a quest to eliminate me, every adventurer that sees the quest will start talking about me. Yeah, I guess that will be my next plan."
Then Iyan transformed into Rumia and flies over the tree.
"Huh, so that cave is not that far from the road. I should have thought that the bandit won't be far away from their prey."
Iyan flies to the road and the draw a doodle on the tree, "There that should be enough to mark my way to the cave."
After that he flies again, this time toward the kingdom directions.
Author note :
Another rewrite done! this time I write the transition instead of avoiding it and writing the battle scene a little longer. So what is your opinion on that battle scene?