Author Note :
Hahaha, funny life is, I mean in the previous chapter I'm rushing my self and panicked when I only completed 1/3 of the chapter and thought the time limit of my self imposed 1 month per chapter is nearing, but when I see the updated date it only 1 week from it. (Of course, I'm procrastinated and the chapter still need 1 month to complete). This time when I completed 1/3 of the story, I see that it only 1 week left from my time limit and I rushed a little bit. Though, I still fail to write it in the time frame, since I don't want to rush thing up to the point it is very confusing.
Anyway I have something to say about this story in my profile, if you're curious just check. By the way it is not about me stop continuning writing this story.
So the review part now:
Kaisar Dinasty: Well, yeah that's my MC that I know. Well, he will change later, I need to write a believeable change of character. Since my reader self won't agree if his character suddenly change 180 .
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Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter.
In the morning inside the bar, a man is shaking up a young man sleeping inside the bar. The man who is shaking up the sleeping person is the bartender and owner of the bar, while the one who is sleeping is Iyan. The bar owner scratched his head, troubled by Iyan that is still sleeping when it is almost the time his bar opened.
"WAKE UP!" Shouted the bartender near Iyan ear.
Iyan is immediately jolting up and falling from his chair.
"Good grief, why it is so hard to wake you up. You are an adventurer, right?"
Iyan wanted to protest about hearing that same question again, but his head is in so much pain that he just answered it with a groan and trying to sit back on the chair. After sitting on the chair, he is holding his head with both of his hands and closing his eyes.
The bartender is sighing when looking at Iyan's poor condition.
"Drink the water in front of you first, you look terrible now. I will tidy up around the bar. If you need me, just shout."
Iyan opened his eyes and just realized there is a glass of water in front of him. Following the bartender's advice, he is drinking all of the water hoping it will remove the pain in his head. Unfortunately, it did not go away immediately, just like he hope. But it did lessen the pain a little bit.
So he decided to close his eyes and sit in the bar for a little longer. After the pain in his head is bearable, his stomach is starting to growl loudly.
"HEY!"
Hearing Iyan's shout the bartender is stopping tidying and coming to Iyan's table.
"What do you need?"
"I..ugh Damn! it still hurt,"
Iyan is closing his eyes again and his stomach is growling loudly. The bartender can guess what Iyan wanted after hearing that.
"Oh, you need to eat, then I will cook you something that could fill you up and good for a hangover."
The bartender left Iyan again.
"Hangover? What the fuck did I do last night?"
Then Iyan is trying to remember what happened last night.
After I provoked Juno and Mellisa to fight with each other again, there is nothing exciting happening at the escort quest. Occasionally, there is a monster got caught by my detection skill but, they either run away or keep a distance from us. When I asked why they are behaving like that, they said it was because of the monster repellent the merchant brought with them.
In the afternoon, we arrived at the gates of the Mashi Kingdom. When I looked at the kingdom's outer gate, I was amazed at the breadth of it. Given its size, even if four wagons having the same width that I was currently on, blocking the gate, there would be room for two people walking on the side. That is if what looked like a makeshift wall made with earth magic in the middle is gone.
"It seems this is your first time coming to this kingdom. impressive gates, is it not?" An amused Willes said.
"Yes it is, but the wall in the middle making it look weird," I said.
"Ah, how nostalgic, hearing that made me remember my reaction and question when I see the gate for the first time. By the way, for your information that wall in the middle is a temporary wall."
"Why they need to make a temporary wall?"
"My past party said, If an adventurer party is bringing a large hunt, say like a dragon, that wall will be removed momentarily and then rebuilt again with magic. Other than that, it is used for faster administration of going inside or out."
"Why they need to do removed and rebuilt the wall? I mean, could the adventurer just stuff the dragon inside the magic bag and let out at the destination."
There Mellisa answered my question, "There is not exist a magic bag that capable of holding the entire dragon inside of it, you know."
"Ah, So there is not exist a bag that has unlimited space," I thought.
"Then how about cut them and put each part in a different bag."
"Are you stupid! a magic bag that can hold even a part of a dragon inside it is going to cost a fortune. How many bags do you think needed to stuff all the dragon parts? The cost of the bags alone will probably higher than the dragon itself. If I have that kind of money, I rather stop being an adventurer and have a relaxed lifestyle." Mellisa said.
"In that case, how about the kingdom provide it and rent it out to adventurers when they have to transport the monster inside."
There Zen responded to my argument, "The kingdom had implemented that in the past. But it does not work out because the rent is too high, and waste a lot of time to dismantle a dragon. Because of that, the adventurers refused to transport it inside and opt to sell it outside the kingdom's wall. The adventurer decision to do that was raising many problems like the littered unsold corpse is making the kingdom looked bad and an increasing monster around the kingdom. In the end, they compromised with that wall. After all, it is easier and cheaper to rebuild the wall because many magicians live in this kingdom."
"Talking about the transport, I heard this kingdom is trying to replicating the dungeon teleportation magic circle to solve that. Is that true?" Eric said.
"Yes, that is true and if they succeed, I bet it will replace the single person teleportation stone that can only be used in the dungeon." Zen said.
"You know a lot Zen." His teammate Juno said.
"Of course! I like to search for information at night, unlike someone else who rarely trying to do it even though he wanted to be a party leader."
"Wha-! I praise you and you are insulting me?!"
Zen let out a laugh and then said, "I'm sorry, it just a joke." Shortly after that, the wagon stopped moving. "Oh, it looked like we have reached the destination."
"Since you are insulting me, I will be the one who searches for the inn."
"Okay, After all, I can't trust a magician with physical work."
"Damn you! Still mocking me."
With that said, Juno is leaving the wagon. Followed behind him is Eric with the girls.
"Physical work?" I asked after hearing what Zen said.
"You did read the quest you take, right?" Willes said.
I tilted my head to show my confusion.
"Sigh, you should read it more carefully next time. I will tell you now, there are two kinds of escort quest, one where you get paid after reaching the destination and the other after you helping unload the merchant stuff. If you are a solo adventurer, it is better to take the former than the latter, even if the pay is lower. After all, you don't want to find out that the inn is full after your hard work."
"Eh! Then I must search for inn too."
"Relax, I have expected you are not read the quest carefully, so I have told Eric beforehand to search it for you too."
"Oh, thank you!"
"Though you must pay the fee to Eric, so don't forget about that."
"I won't."
After that, my grueling work of unloading the merchant stuff to their warehouse is beginning. If looking at the wares that need to be carrying, it seems this merchant is a weapon shop owner. The wares mostly are weapons, all of them made with metal, so each crate is very heavy. It need two person to lift a single crate, while in my case it need three person.
"Say why we need to move the crate when we can use a magic bag and unload it?" I asked Willes that is now helping me moving a crate
"It took a lot of mana to store and release something in the bag. If you are not possessing MP regeneration skills, then it will take a long time to filled up when you run out of it. Another problem is because there are stories where an adventurer managed to steal the merchant wares inside their bag. And the stories where merchant wrongfully accused an adventurer of stealing their wares. So you must not do that even if the merchant asking for it, okay!" He answered
"Okay."
Thanks to him, I didn't learn that the hard way.
We completed our work in the early evening. Zen and Willes received 100 Silver coins as the payment for completing the quest. While I only get 20 Silver coins, it seems my pay is getting reduced since I'm not helping that much when unloading. Still, I'm satisfied with that, since money is not my problem for now.
Not long after getting paid, Eric and Juno are back from their inn search. I asked Eric about the inn price and paid 15 silver coins to him.
Then Willes and Zen invited me to a bar for a drink and asked me to treat them. I agreed after all, if not because of their help, the merchant's impression of me will not be good. And so we decided to go to the bar that is recommended by Zen.
The bar is rowdy, many peoples laughing merrily and drinking what looked like a beer. Seeing it, reminded me of one of Suika's condition, that is to drink a lot of alcohol. Because of that, I decided to order an alcoholic drink and make a progress toward fulfilling Suika's unlocking condition. A decision that I will regret shortly.
I can't clearly remember what is happening to me after that, but I have a bad feeling that I do something very bad. I opened my eyes and seeing a panel in front of me that I missed because of the hangover. Written in that panel is "Mystia Lorelei is unlocked".
"Huh? What did I do to unlock her requirement?"
I am closing the panel and opening the status to find out what is her requirements are.
Mystia Lorelei (Unlocked)
Mystia Lorelei a night sparrow youkai who like to sing. Capable of driving people insane and bewildering them with her song. She is the owner of red-lantern stand that selling grilled lamprey eel, to drive out the other stand that serving yakitori.
Unlock condition:
- RP 2000 or more (Fulfilled)
- Singing in the middle of the crowd (Fulfilled)
I am shocked and embarrassed when I'm seeing her unlock condition. I can't remember what I did last night, but knowing that her unlocking condition, I definitely singing inside this bar. When I'm still agonizing by imagining what is happening last night, the bartender is putting food and water on the table.
"Eat, that could help with your hangover. "
"Thanks," I scratched my head, hesitating to ask the bartender. "Uhm...Did you know what happen to me last night?"
There I saw a mischievous smile plastered on his face.
"Where should I start?" He then put a hand on his chin and pretending to remember, while still smiling. "I guess I must say thanks. After all, you save me from going into red again by treating everyone inside the bar. Not only that, you too are kind enough to provide free entertainment to everyone."
After hearing what he said, I'm covering my face from the embarrassment. Seeing my reaction, the bartender laugh at me.
"Next time you should not drink alcohol, Ah! of course except in my place. And you know, you have a good friend, they keep watching you from getting mugged when you drunk."
"That reminded me, where are they?"
"They are going to the inn after their friend is getting too drunk. Zen said to me that I need to watch you until they are coming back and pick you up. But even after a long time, they never coming back probably forget about you."
"Uwah, how terrible of them."
"Hahaha, you are right, but try not to blame them for that. After all, they are very kind to you, and it looked like your hangover is better now."
"Yeah, I guess."
"Still, you better eat the food at least it could fill you up. Once you finished the food, you can pay me 8 silver coins. Wait, That coin bag still has money inside of it, right?"
.I searched for the bag inside my pocket. Fortunately, it didn't get mugged. After that, I am pouring my mana and see the number of the coin that I have are "425 Gold coins, 30 Silver Coins, 190 Copper coins".
"Yes, I still have money with me."
After that, the bartender is standing up and continuing his preparation for opening the bar.
With him leaving me alone, I start to count my money inside my head, "If I recall correctly, my gold coin should be 445 before coming here. So I spend 20 gold coins to treat everyone. Did I waste a lot of money? I mean I still have 425 Gold coins and I wonder is that amount of money considered a lot or not?"
I decided to stop thinking too much about it, after all in most of the story that I read, the MC never have money problem.
After emptying the plate, I'm paying to the bartender and then leaving the bar.
"My journey in this kingdom is having a bad start, but I bet after this, there will be a lot of good things happening to me." I cheerfully said.
Shortly after that, a loud explosion is happening nearby. Everyone around me is startled by the sound, Weirdly enough, no one is panicking instead, after getting startled they are continuing with their life like nothing is happening. Among the crowds, I hear someone is complaining, "Damn, that explosion youngster. To think he is doing it this early."
"Just my luck! After I said my situation would get better, someone made an explosion. No! I should not take it as my bad luck the explosion is merely a coincidence and nothing more than that."
With that positive thinking, I decided to transform into Koishi and seeing the kingdom from the sky.
When I'm flying high in the sky, I could see that this kingdom is larger than the last two. But this kingdom is a mess, unlike the previous two. To me, it looked like no one is organizing the building, many paths are branching, and some even have a long road only lead to a dead end.
Though there is a single wide straight road toward a wide open field, Near it, everything is tidily organized. I guess the road that is used by the adventurer to deliver the big monster and is the only place that has a lot of thought put in it.
In the wide open field, many adventurers are selling their spoils. The adventurers not only selling monster corpses, they too are selling treasure like a weapon or armor even something that I can't guess what it is.
"Ooh, there is someone with a land dragon. I wonder how it looked like up close." I said.
Then, I somehow now in front of the land dragon corpse and touching it.
"How did I got here? ... oh yeah, Koishi,"
I'm giving up trying to find out more about how and what I did. After all, this is the usual thing when turning into Koishi, and I can not remember everything, no matter how hard I try.
The land dragon that I touched is having a rock covered skin and moderate size for a dragon in my mind.
"This dragon maybe not that big, but if I bring this with me here, I bet I will be famous. Though, I must unlock more Touhou character first especially the one that I can fully control. Before trying to beating it."
After admiring and imagining being famous for a little bit, I'm flying again and continued my sightseeing in this kingdom. Unlike the previous kingdom where I can easily guess which building is an inn or the guild, this time, I can not make a guess which is what since every building is unique. And the fact that this kingdom didn't separated by a disctrict is making it more confusing to me.
Then another explosion happened again. This time before it happened, I saw that one of the five towers in the kingdom brightened, then shortly after that, an explosion occurred.
"That must be the source of the explosion, I wonder ... and I'm inside of it now, damn it! I really need to unlock someone that I can control,"
I looked around the room and find a large black cauldron in the middle of the room. This tower feels like a room for witch experiment to me.
"Well, since I am here, I better find out what is causing the explosion."
I heard someone is arguing outside the door. I got curious about it, so I am placing my ear on the door to eavesdrop on their conversation.
"What is wrong with it! I have paid for everything, including the noise problem." Said a male voice.
"I know, but could you at least hiring someone who could soundproof first and not doing it this early?" said another male voice.
"My usual person for the soundproof is sick now, and I don't want to wait any longer when I'm close to creating my own magic."
"Urgh, fine! But you must not make another loud explosion or, I will kick you out."
"Hah, Ridiculous!..."
Knowing the reason for the explosion, I decided to stop eavesdropping on their conversation. Even in this world, it seems an obnoxious person is obnoxious. Well, he is not my problem so, I decided to get out and start looking for the guild.
I'm going back toward the open field, guessing the guild must be close. Sure enough, my guess is right. The building that I found is a two-story building with a red sword symbol on the hanging sign. Looking inside through the window, I see many people carrying different weapons and Eric's party is inside.
I undo my transformation and going inside the guild. When inside the guild, I could feel some of the adventure gaze at me. I ignore their stare and moving toward Eric's party. It seems they are having the same mind and approaching me.
"As usual, you can pop up out of nowhere," Willes said.
"My detection may not as good as Willes, but I can vouch for that. How do you even do it when you don't even have any stealth related skill?"
"Um, natural talent maybe. Anyway, do you have something to say beforehand?"
"If it's about the Inn, I'm sorry for forgetting to pick you up from the bar, but blame yourself if it's about spending a lot of money in the bar," Willes said.
"You could take this money back if it could help you forgive us," Eric said.
Eric then extended his hand to me while holding 15 silver coins on it. Though before I even move my hand to receive it, Mellisa is saying something.
"Uwah, so there is exists someone who blames others when he is too drunk to get back," Mellisa said.
"That kind of person must be the worst person, right?" Regnis said.
I'm swiftly stopped my hand from taking the money and annoyed with them saying it, but what they said is right so, I can't get back at them.
"You know what, you can keep it. I have forgiven you anyway."
"Well, if you said so." Eric said and pocketing the money back.
"That fast!? They must plan this, but they are right though, I better not saying anything." I thought.
"Ahaha, I see you getting annoyed right? You don't have to act saintly. Take the money, I bet you need it now." Mellisa said.
"Not really! I still have a lot to spare." I said.
"Oh really, then I guess you really don't need that money. And Since you like to waste money, how about you join the magician tournament. It is going to be hilarious to see you fail the first round."
"You will be surprised then."
"Wait, you are going to do that, please don't. You will only embarrass yourself. Then again, the tournament officer will not accept your registration since you can't use magic."
"No, it is not me that participate, but my friend, and she is a very skillful mage."
"So you have a magician friend. I don't think someone that befriend you will be strong so, I will keep my expectation low."
"You will see at the tournament how she is a better magician than you!"
"Oh really, you are very confident that your friend will win, huh?"
"Of course! So, where can I register for her and show you she is better than you?"
"For registering at the tournament, you need to come to the coliseum in person, three days before the tournament start. The prize for the winner is a skill book from the legendary hero with the effect of "Hermit Art lv1" and 300 gold coins. Though your friend will not get it, because that prize will belong to me." Mellisa answering.
We glared at each other until Willes moving between us.
"Do you know where the coliseum location?" Willes asked me.
"The coliseum is that big round building next to the open field where many adventurers are selling their hunts, right?"
"Yes, that is the coliseum. I guess you properly do your job to scout this kingdom."
"Of course! Anyway, does this guild have a book containing about the monster on the second floor?"
"Oh, that is unexpected, I thought you are a reckless person, but yeah, there is a book about that on there." Willes said
"I'll go there first, then." I said.
With that said I move to the second floor. Before I am leaving, I could hear they are muttering, "So he is not a reckless person."
"Damn it! What they think of me anyway that reading a book is enough to give that impression about me."
I do want to protest at them, but decided not to, something that Mellisa said is interests me to find more information about it than bickering with them.
When I am alone on the second floor I opened my status.
Status | Unlockable Item | Unlockable Character
Name : Iyan Gilder
Race : Human
Level : 15
RP : 2023
FP : 0
NP : 5040
MP : 550/550
AGI : 65
STR : 114
MAG : 340
INT : 250
LUCK : 39
PHY Def : 129
MGC Def : 111
Unique Skill :
Eastern Project lvl 1
"Oh! my RP is not becoming near zero again. Looked like Wriggle rampage at the previous kingdom is a good thing."
Then I go to the character tab in there I see that Mystia's name now is becoming white.
"Urgh...Seeing her name reminded me of that embarassing accident. It is a good thing that no one inside the guild is saying anything to me,"
When I looked at her name and I feel conflicted.
"Still, her power of blinding people is a good thing and I do want that skill, but if I can't control her and she is rampaging here, the result won't be good and I will need to leave this kingdom to cover myself. If that happened, then my chance for unlocking Patchouli and Alice will be gone, since this is the only place I heard for getting the "Abandonment Food" spell easily."
I close my eyes and thinking more about the pros and cons of changing to Mystia immediately. Then I opened my eyes again.
"Yep, Patchouli and Alice will probably have better skill than Mystia. I should unlock them first and it not like the unlock status will change."
After deciding that, I continued to browse the name that is making me open the status panel in the first place. The names that I search for is the Taoist of Gensokyo and that is : Mononobe no Futo, Soga Tojiko, Toyosatomimi no Miko, and Seiga Kaku. I have a hunch that all of them will have a requirement of having hermit skills.
My hunch was proven right when I stumbled on Futo. Her requirement is this:
Mononobe no Futo
Unlock Condition:
- Learning Hermit Art skill.
- Burn a temple down.
- Defeating a grim reaper once.
"What the hell with this outrageous condition. It said, I need to burn a temple. If I did that, I will be branded as a criminal, not a hero, and what with that outrageous condition of killing grim reaper. As usual, the condition is always ridiculous,"
I stopped my whining for a little bit, then reminded about something
"Oh yeah! this is a fantasy world, so that thing should exist as a monster in this world. Well, it's better to find out about that first after all, if Futo requirement is killing it, I bet the other will need to do the same."
I closed the status panel and moving around the second floor. There are many rows of shelves on this floor. There are not many adventurers on the second floor. Most of the people that I see here is carrying a staff as their weapon, so I concluded that they must be a mage.
When I'm browsing the shelves, I found that all of the books inside the row is having the same cover, though they have varying thicknesses. Once I found a very thick book with a good title, I took it out from the shelf and carrying it to the desk in the middle of the floor.
The book that I take out is titled "Global wide monster encyclopedia.". Luckily, the book has indexed the monster neatly. This way, it is easier for me to find what I want.
"Let's see, Grim Reaper is always described as skull monster wielding a scythe, so that monster must be under the undead category."
When I flipped the page, I saw a peculiar name listed inside the bird category of the index.
"Sun God!?" I intentionally shot it out loud.
Everyone in the surrounding glaring at me and looked annoyed. Though I just shrugged it and continues to flip it toward the indicated page. When I'm reaching the page, I read the monster description.
"The Sun God or Flame Ball Crow is a monster that only roams the Jitte desert. Initially, this monster was named Flame Ball Crow because there is a living bird-like crow that lived in a moving fireball of the Jitte desert. The name changed into Sun God after the monster saved a prominent noble of the past. After the accident, the noble demand the guild near the area to change the name of the monster. Weak to water, once the bird inside is getting wet, it will have a hard time to create the flame that protects it. It will stay in one place when given food and waiting to eat it until you are far away from it. This monster is very benevolent and never attack unless agitated. CAUTION: Avoid killing the monster since many merchants find its behavior of staying and lighting the road of the desert at night is beneficial."
I am amused when reading the monster description. I never thought a single person is capable of changing the name of a monster into a god. Well, It is convenient for me this way unlocking Utsuho is becoming easier
"Considering Utsuho's power is nuclear, I will become a powerful person if I change into her. But I need to swallow the monster when it still alive, hm...Guess I should rely on the glutton character of Touhou. That means either Yuyuko or Yoshika. I think Yuyuko will be hard and need to unlock Youmu, like Remilia's and Yukari's condition. I want to see Yoshika condition first, if she is easy then I will unlock her."
Yoshika Miyako
Unlock Condition:
- Unlocking Seiga Kaku
- Creating a jiangshi as Seiga
Surprisingly, the condition is easy to fulfill. I only need to unlock and transform into Seiga and her condition will be fulfilled easily. Now, let's see if Seiga is having an easy condition too.
Seiga Kaku
Unlock Condition:
- Learning Hermit Art skill.
- Defeating a grim reaper once.
Luckily, her condition is just a degraded version of Futo condition. That means I only need to hope that Grim reaper is a normal monster and not a god.
Excited by the situation I turn back to the index and seeing the undead category while hoping it exist. Fortunately, the grim reaper is listed there and the location of it appearing is at the undead dungeon of this kingdom. I was overjoyed by this convenient situation.
After I calmed down, I thought about something, "Fighting that crow without killing it, will be a hard task and with the flame that it created it's going to be painfull to eat it. Though, Even if, I changed into Yoshika swallowing a live crow is gross."
I think for a little bit about how i'm going eat it. For the flame I think I can use Nitori's weapon to douse it, since most of her weapon is water powered. So I try to find her weapon in the Item tab, luckily it exist but sadly it can't be purchased by points and I need to unlock Nitori first.
"Then I should unlock her first, her condition is realtively easy too after all."
As for the gross part, I can't found the solution other than to stomach it. Well, if it's rewarded by Utsuho's power then I will do even that.
But first thing first, I need to win the mage tournament and get the prize first before everything else. That mean I need to unlock a magician character before the deadline of participation. With that time limit I decided to unlock Patchouli first, since her unlock condition is easier than Marisa that need me to learn fire and light magic or Alice where I need to have Shanghai and Hourai doll.
"Well, I should start raise my RP now, after that get the elder mage to teach me magic. hehehehe, I can't wait the day when I could blast strong monster with nuclear and being famous by killing it."