Author note:
It seems after my shyness gone my laziness is taking over. Damn it, this is why I hate myself.
That's why sorry this chapter took a long time.
Then again the battle scene is hard to write, I guess that's why a lot of people making OP character so it's easier in the battle part.
Me? I'm still suck at battle scene cause I like to read about OP character for now. so that didn't help me at writing battle scene
anyway I hope you enjoy the stories and review it
"Still can't find them."
Right now, I'm at the grass plain west of the kingdom looking around for a monster. "They must be somewhere nearby." I keep moving around aimlessly hoping my detection skill will detect something. "Oh, found something." With that I'm running toward it. When arrived at where my detection skill shows me, there's a scattered pile of rocks around. "Is this the monster?" I move closer to one of the rock and examining it closely. I'm trying to get a response by knocking it, but nothing happened. "Well... They called Rock sheep so this must be the monster and my detection never wrong, So Transform Rumia, Yes." As usual I can't feel anything briefly.
"I can't find it." After transforming I examine my body inside out, it's not because I'm curious about Rumia's body. I just want to take out the hammer from the magic bag. "Sigh, since I can't find it, Guess I will use my fist again." I clenched my fist and then hit the monster as hard as I can. "OOOOWWWW!" I screamed then crouched while grabbing the hand that punching the monster. I'm examining my hand and it is now dyed red by the blood and probably broken too. After the hand got healed by the regeneration I stand up. "Damn it, why the hell did I punch it? Well yeah, I can make the bandit body fly and that make conceited by the power but I shouldn't have strike it that hard!" I complained to myself. "Though that monster doesn't even react with that punch? I guess my plan to kill this monster must wait until my level rose. For now, let's do plan B: Attacking human." With that said I turn back to myself and transform into Star Sapphire.
In the middle of forest at night a light of campfire can be seen. Three adventurers are surrounding it. One of the adventurers name is James. He held a great sword sheathed on his back. The claw scar on the cheek shows he is a veteran adventurer. The other one name is Milles. A large shield can be seen beside him and a sword on his hip. The third adventurer name is Seth. He has the lightest equipment than the two adventurers. A short sword is held on his hand. The situation in around the fire camp is joyful.
"As usual you cut the ape head cleanly again, James." Adventurer with iron tower shield said.
"Milles, that's something you should have expected from me. Still I can't do that without you distracting it with your skill."Adventurer with a great sword said
"James, that's something you should have expected from me." Milles said.
"Well, you both won't kill the monster if this great scout Seth not found it." Adventurer with sword said.
After that they all are laughing.
Then James is remembering something, "Do you guys remember about the adventurer that I talk with, this morning?"
"The adventurer that can't even use the magic bag?"Seth asked.
"Yeah, that one. What do you guys think about him?"James asked his party.
"He's stupid and seems underestimate adventurer job." Milles stated.
"He is weak when I'm appraising his status everything is low." Seth added. "I wonder if he has good skill?"
"Haha, well he's definitely stupid but I don't think he is weak." James said.
Seth shows a face of disbelief when James said that.
"You don't believe me. Remember he brought a great wolf corpse and he said it was killed by his trap. Think about what kind of trap that can give that kind of wound."James said
The two of them closed their eye and thinking but before they can give James answer. Seth is standing up and said, "Something is coming."
After hearing that James and Milles prepare their equipment.
"It's coming closer" Seth said.
Then they see a silhouette of the monster. Before it can even react Milles invokes his skill "Provoke, Taunt."
Then they heard a loud bang on Milles's shield. Milles is making a face of holding the pain in his hand because of it. While the other two shocked of what they seeing. A young girl with blonde hair managed to hit the shield hard and causing a blood dripping on her hand.
"Hey, attack her!" Milles said while keep blocking the girl attack.
They stopped shocked after hearing what Milles said. Seth is the first to move, he moving toward the flying girl in front of Milles's shield and slashed her leg with his dagger. He expected the dagger will hurt the girl and made her stop attacking, thought what happening is out of what he expected. Instead hurting the girl the dagger is broken. "Her skin is hard!"
Milles bashed her with his shield and made the girl thrown back a little. Seeing the distance between Milles and the girl James now the one who slashed the girl body. Instead of cutting the girl he only managed to knock her back. The girl didn't show pain even after hit by James and the blood on her hand now is healed. Then she move to continue attacking Milles
"What! Taunt effect is not gone. That mean she didn't feel anything from my attack." James exclaimed.
"Just do it... again with...everything you got.. I still can... handle her." Milles said while blocking all attack.
"Physical Enhancement, Focus, Break limit." White aura is now surrounding James's body. "Milles, I'm ready!" Milles bashed the girl again. "I will cut you now!" James slashed the girl and her body blown away.
"Did you get her?!" Milles said.
"With that attack I highly doubt she is still alive." Seth said.
"No, she is still alive. I can't cut her deep enough." James said.
Then they see the girl moving toward them.
"Shit, my mana is empty and James attack isn't doing anything" Milles thought.
They prepare for her attack, but instead she asked them. "Hey, why you are attacking me? I just want something that has nice smell around here."
All of them are shocked they never thought that the girl can talk. They look at each other and nodded.
"Well, little girl is that our smell?" James said..
"No, you guys smell is awful." The girl said and put her hand on the nose.
"Ah, maybe what you smell is the monster that we kill behind us." Seth said.
"Yes, yes that's what I smell. Hey, human can you share it with me?" The girl said with hopeful face. Seeing the girl's face they drop their guard and feel guilty of what they did. After all in their eyes the little girl that in front of them are just a normal child.
"Uhm.. can you wait here, I will give you the most delicious part of it." James offered the little girl.
"Really?! Yay" The little girl jumping happily.
James moving to the ape corpse and chopping off it arm.
"Here." He said and dropped the arm near the girl.
She smiled and thanked them and flying away with the arm.
"So... what do you guys think about that girl?" James asked his party.
"Her normal punch isn't that dangerous, but her running punch is comparable to the ape monster we killed." Milles answered.
"That little girl has higher physical defense than the ape, and she can regenerate and capable to use flight without wing. She is a weird monster to me. So how about you James, what do you think?" Seth asked James back
"She shattered my pride, when I'm going all out I thought she will be cut in half or at least giving her heavy wound. Yet the only thing I can do just damaged her clothes." James said. "However her cuteness is similar to my daughter."
Milles laughed, "Well after seeing your daughter I think not only her cuteness her face is similar too."
Then their chat is sidetracked to James's daughter. They keep talking for awhile and then take turn guarding their camp.
Iyan's POV
When I'm far from them, I turn back and store the arm to the magic bag. "Damn it, why everything is not going as I planned! I just want to get a little revenge by scaring him! Why does it end up me getting beaten by them?" I grumbled. The cold air of night hitting my face made me calm down. "Sigh, Let's just go back to the Inn and sleeping." As usual when entering the gate I transform into Koishi and then headed to the Inn. Fortunately, the Inn is still open and there's a vacant room. After paying the Inn cost, I am walking to the room and sleeping.
Morning, Adventurer Guild.
Unlike yesterday, today guild situation is the usual lack of adventurer. Looking around the guild I can only found Eric's party look dejected. I'm curious of what happen but decided not going near them and continue my walk to the quest board. Upon arriving at the quest board, a frown could be seen on my face. The reason is because there are no differences between yesterday and today. There's only gathering quest and no subjugation quest can be found. Frustated by it, I decided to go to Lillia's counter.
"Are the quest board is updated?" I asked while pointing to the board.
"The board is always updated before the guild is open. Is there a problem?" Lillia asked.
"Well no, it's just there is no new quest in there."
"That's probably because there isn't new quest." She said it with a smile. "You want to do a subjugation quest, right?"
"Uhm...Uhm..."
"Even if there's a subjugation quest I doubt you can complete it. There's a lot of gathering quest in the board you can take those. After all you rank still low." She looked disappointed after seeing my face and said, "I bet you didn't want to take it because you didn't know what needed in all of the quest, right?"
I smile awkwardly.
"Sigh, for now how about you read a book about herbs so you can do gathering quest or you can read about monster's characteristic. I bet you don't even know what the monster that you will hunt can do right."
I got ashamed because of that and turn around to go back at quest board. When I'm going to move from Lillia's counter there's three adventurers going inside the building with two of them are carrying a large ape corpse.
"Oh, those three have comeback they probably going to report what happen last night." I thought then decided to hear what they're going to say.
When they arrive at the counter James let out a monster head inside the magic bag and said, "Lillia, Here's the usual."
Lillia observe the monster head in front of her then the corpse where the two adventurers drop it. Then she said, "Hmm, Where's the other hand? It's rare for you guys not bring all the monster part."
"We have a report for that." James responded. "We're getting attacked by a demon child." Then they are telling their point of view of battle with me last night and Seth is giving my current status to Lillia.
"That's all, unfortunately my appraisal level is still low so I can't see the skill that make her skin tough." Seth said.
"Thanks for the reports now it seems I need to raise the rank of the quest." Lillia said and then she is taking something under her desk. "Here's 500 Silver the payment for the info."
James then took the pouch from Lillia with a smile then said, "Thanks, with this we can rest for a while now."
"Wait, you get paid by just giving the info about the new monster." I exclaimed. "Then I want to report something too."
James's party and Lillia look at me now. Then Lillia said, "What do you want to report about the monster?"
I'm closing my eyes thinking what info that I can share without looking suspicious. "Yeah, I remember now when I'm going to hunt in the forest and it's at afternoon, I saw a weird dark ball so I observed it from far."
"The dark ball is the monster?" Lillia interrupted.
"Well, I'm going there. When it's getting dark the dark ball is shrink then I saw the same monster as they are. So I think the monster is sleeping at day and active at night"
"You are not lying, right?" Lillia asked
"No, what I tell is the truth I see it with my own eyes." I responded and pointing my eyes.
"I'm sorry, but I can't trust you since you lying about the wolf kill. So sorry I can't give you money." Lillia said.
"No, what he said is the truth." The voice behind me said. I got surprised and turning around to see that the voice source is Eric. "What they see is probably the same monster that we attacked when our party escorting the merchant."
"Well, if you say so then his info probably the truth." Lillia said and then she is looking at me. "Here's 10 Silver Coin for it."
"Only this much?" I asked.
"You can only give a little info about the monster so this much is what I can give to you. If you don't want it then I'll take it back." Lillia said.
"No, No, No, I will take it, Thanks."
I take the coins in Lillia's hand and then she smile. After putting the coins inside the pouch James asked to me, "Hey brat, what did you do when you see the monster?"
"Run, of course since I have a bad feeling about the monster." I said while looking annoyed since I can't tell him that I fight it.
James responded with a laugh then said, "As I thought, but still that is the best decision you made. Don't be ashamed of what you did, being an adventurer it means we risk our lives but that doesn't mean you should throw your life away." Then he patted my shoulder. "See you later, brat."
I was shocked by what he said.
"Never thought he cares about you right?" Lillia said.
"Yeah, I'm not expected that." I said.
"He actually cares about you, no, he care about everyone around here. He doesn't want you to make a same mistake as him. You see his scar happen because he overconfident and try to fight this monster" Lillia patting the ape's head. "So are you going to hunt or learn about the monster first?"
"Ahaha so, did you know any good place for me to learn about monster?" I asked.
"Nice answer. You could read the books in the left corner it's telling all you need to know about the surrounding monster." She said with and pointing to the book.
"While you're at it can you give me the location where you find the monster?" Eric asked me.
After telling Eric I found Rumia's around the west gate area. I move to read guild book.
"So that's sheep have physical resistance at night." I said to myself after reading the book.
Right now I'm transforming into Star and flying to wolf's den forest trying to level up. After learning the rock sheep ability and their part is easily spoiled if they took too much damage it made me reconsider too kill it. I try to find another monster around here, so I transform into Star but I can only detect sheep monsters and adventurers. With that reason I'm deciding to hunt at the Wolf's den forest since there's a lot of monster there. When I'm arrived at wolf's den forest I turn back to myself and activate all the skill that can be activated. After activating the skill I take out the hammer from magic bag and preparing to grind my level here.
When hunting I can't relying on my transformation since it have a side effect of making me don't want to kill the monster or can't see anything. Because of that, it's hard to kill a monster especially the part where I needed to swing the hammer hard enough to kill it. Not only that, the distance between monster are quite far and they rarely staying in one place means I need to move to them and somehow still have enough strength to beat it with the hammer. I try over and over again to kill them but they either moved fast or I'm too tired running to their place.
"That's it I give up." I said and drop the hammer. "I will wait until night and kill them with Rumia." With that I decided to find a safe place. I'm walking around and searching for a place where there's not a lot of monster. I'm exploring the forest without care about getting lost and found a cave entrance. My detection skill is only detecting a few monsters. The inside of the cave is supposedly dark but to me it's like a light illuminate the entire cave since I have Night Vision skill and it look like there's still a long passage to go deeper to the cave. But since I only need to rest, I stay near the cave entrance. After sitting down I take out the food that stored inside the magic bag.
"I wonder how this bread tasted like." I said then grabbed the bread and bite it. "Ugh..It's hard." After that I try to chew and taste it. "As expected it taste bad." I remarked after swallow the bread. "Sigh, here I hope those novel are wrong about food taste since I can't cook. Then again I'm buying cheap bread. Though I wonder why I rarely hungry it's because of the racial trait too?" I asked myself "Ah, whatever as long it's convenient too me I won't think much." I sighed and looking up. "I want a party." I muttered. "This kingdom doesn't feel like a starting village at all. There's no goblin or slime or something that I can easily kill and worst of all there's no girl adventurer. If only..." I scratched my head and stop daydreaming. "I better stop daydreaming. They won't partying with me if I'm still weak. I should hurry and unlock most of the characters." Then I tried to find a comfortable place to sleep.
The forest situation tonight is different than usual. The forest is quiet and calm yet it's giving a creepy vibe. If someone is walking around the deep forest they will find a corpse of different monsters scattered around. If the corpse inspected closely they all have the same wound that something hit them on top them. When one look to the sky, a figure of a child can be seen flying while wielding a hammer on it hand. Sometime the child will descend and a sound of sickening crack can be heard before the sound of a hammer hitting the ground. After that is happening a new corpse will be added in the forest. Then the child will ascend to the sky again and what happen before will be repeated over and over again.
I laughed like a maniac. "Killing monster while transforming and using hammer is much easier than when I am not." Then putting down the hammer and counting with my hand to count how many monsters I killed tonight. "Let's see I kill 3 Great grey wolfs, 10 Grey wolfs, 5 deer monsters and 3 bear monsters. I am killing a lot tonight! I should've level up now let's see, Status Open."
Status | Unlockable Items | Unlockable Characters
Name : Iyan Gilder
Race : Human
Level : 5
RP : 256524
FP : 800
NP : 0
MP : 350
AGI : 97
STR : 81
MAG : 120
INT : 150
LUCK : 39
PHY Def : 134
MGC Def : 49
Unique Skill :
Eastern Project lvl 1
"What! That's it! My level only raised 3 Level! Even though I kill a lot of monster, they're not small fry too, WHY ONLY 3 LEVEL!" I complained. "Then how many item points did I get?"
Item Points : 265
"I have 150 points left before, so I get 115 Points. Well I get a lot I guess?" then I equip my hammer again. "Ah well, I will let out all my frustration to this monster that keep following me."
I can hear a running monster getting nearer and nearer. Then I can see the monster, it's a wolf monster with fur as white as snow and run very fast. The wolf itself is huge that his leg is bigger than me. When the monster in front of me, I need to look up to see it face and see that the wolf is not happy. He growling at me and seems very pissed off. Though I ignored it and said what I think out loud, "Is this the same wolf that I meet the first time I arrive here?"
*BARK*GRRR*
The wolf keep growling and not attacking me. "Ugh, I really don't want to kill this wolf without him attack me first, though I wonder." "Can you understand me?" I asked.
The wolf is barking and nodding his head then growling again.
"So you can understand me! Hey, did you mad at me?"
The wolf is doing the same thing as before.
"It is because I killed a lot of monster?"
The wolf is responding the same as before. With the wolf confirming my question make me feel awkward and scratch my head. "So do you want me to leave this forest?"
A bark and nod is the wolf answer. I asked the wolf to show me the way to leave the forest and the wolf goes in front and leads me. I transform to Rumia so I can catch up with him and sometime trying to escape from him but each time the wolf turn around and growling at me. We keep moving until we reach the same place where I enter the forest. I want to go back to the forest but the wolf keep watching me so I decided to leave.
"Ugh, I'm still want to grinding in that forest." I let out a sigh and said, "There's no use to complain I guess and I don't want to kill that wolf. Though I wonder if I can kill the sheep now" I put my hand to my chin and thinking. "Ah well, let's just try it." With that said I move to the direction where I detect the sheep.
"With this hammer and Rumia's Strength I think I can kill this sheep. Thought I wonder why this sheep is ranked-C? Probably it's because of the physical attack resist." I remarked then I'm flying high after that I descend with the hammer. When the hammer is making contact with the sheep's rocky skin the handle is broken. I was dumbfounded with what happening, "Really, the sheep doesn't even feel anything at all. Rumia's strength right now is 163 and yet my hammer is the one that broke." I exclaimed. "Damn, they are tough. I guess the handle of the hammer need to be steel not wood if I want to crack this monster."
I feel down when that happen and planning to go back to sleep at the inn, then the rock in front of me sliced sideways and cleanly cut in half. In it I can see the red of meat and a white fur inside of it. The lump of rock that scattered around is now standing up and revealing the sheep body that hidden beneath it. Then each of them is running in the opposite direction of the sheep that got killed.
"Uwah, they are big. Ei, it's not the time to examining the sheep -"
"Hey, little girl over there won't you be my pet?" A voice interrupted my thought.
I turn around and see the one who said it. What I see is a woman with black leather outfit that barely cover her busty breast and her important part. Her dark violet skin is blending well with the night, if I didn't have night vision skill I probably can't see her well. "Is she a demon, what is she doing here? And why I didn't feel anything seeing her body? Am I a gay?" A lot of thought is swirling in my head. But I got interrupted in my thought she hit my shoulder with her whip.
"Hey, don't ignore me~" she threatened me with her wicked smile and whipped me. "You are a tough girl that attack should've blown your arm yet it's only leaving a little scratch. Kuh.. It's making me wanted you to be my pet more."
"A scratch you say! My cloth is torn and my arm is bleeding a lot, you know!" is what I want to retorted her but I'm too scared to tell her out loud.
"You even have regeneration too. Really, how much you want to be my special pet." The girl now is making a dangerous face. Her reaction is making my body tremble.
"I need to run fast, this woman is very dangerous." I thought.
"You don't have to fear me. Since you're cute I won't hurt you and I will protect you too. You are intelligent girl right. Here 'Status Open' 'Share' look I can protect you from all of the bad adventurers."
Name : Lilim
Race : High Demon
Level : 89
MP : 5580 / 5580
AGI : 897
STR : 1423
MAG : 823
INT : 650
LUCK : 79
PHY Def : 798
MGC Def : 987
I'm shocked when see her status to the point of forgetting my pain. There's a lot of skill in it but her status panel is disappear before I can read or even remember them. "Really what the heck is she doing here!? I really, really need to run, after all what she like is Rumia not me. But I doubt I can outrun her or out fly her and my transformation will show her myself. I don't want to get hunted by her." My face is showing a smile but my mind is keep trying to find a way to run away from her. "Hmm.. maybe spell card will work." I thought and I shout. "Darkness Sign : Dark Side of the Moon" after that my body moving automatically following the spell card pattern and shooting the bullet.
When 1 of the bullet hit Lillim she is immediately using her Barrier skill "What is that light!? My magical defense status is very high yet I can feel a burn sensation when that bullet hit Me. Thought I should show her how strong I am." Lillim thought. "Haha..it seem you want to play first before I can tame you" She said it with an arrogant tone then a broken sound can be heard "Tch, Barrier. Your magic can even break my barrier. How many time you will surpass my expectation. Now, I really want you to be my pet. What! Again. Double Barrier."
She keep using her barrier and I keep shooting her until the spell card time out. "Damn it, I don't know if it hurt her or not but she using barrier mean I can hurt her with spellcard. if only she can't use that barrier the spellcard will probably hurt her enough so she can't keep up with me when I run."
"Is that all?" She questioned me. "Then it's my turn now."
"If spell card doesn't work how about this." I thought and then enveloping her and me with Rumia's darkness.
"HUH, so we play hide and seek now." She happily said. "But this still my turn you know. Dark arrow." Lilim is shooting the arrow in direction of the girl. "With that she can't run away" She thought.
Her skill hit my leg but since I'm still being Rumia I can't feel anything. "Turn back, Transform Koishi." I said impatiently without even checking if I can even do it. Fortunately, I transform into Koishi. With that I walk to the Inn direction, somehow forgetting that my life is in danger.
"Huh, where are you?" Lilim said and look around trying to find the girl. "Ugh... I never thought you are good at hiding." Now she is flying around to find the girl unfortunately she didn't found anything. She sighed, "Next time I found her I will immediately 'Tame' her."
Author Note :
I said in one of the note that I easily influenced right?
well in this chapter I ask to myself whether I still writing the same MC, thought I think I still write MC.
Since i'm bad at build up so I decide to spoil you guys a bit.
The next touhou character that I will write is "wriggle nightbug" if you guys have an idea or knowing wriggle personality just PM me.
I do have the story planned in my head but there's still weird as long as it in my head. but probably better when I start writing. Probably.