Chapter 2: Chapter 2
After walking for 2 hours from the forest I finally made it out.
From there, I continued to walk and saw a road which is a sign that it is used by human settlement. So, I decided to follow it.
Before getting out of the forest. I met more than 10 Forest Boars with 20s level. I increased my level to 15 and became fairly strong enough just by using Normal Mana. And everytime I level up, it seems my Life, Normal Mana, and Divine Mana recovers by 10%. Right now I have everything full again. This is my status…
~Status~
Name: Yoshua Humvee
Race: High Human
Age: 16
Occupation: Divine BlackSmith & WhiteSmith
Title: None
Sex: Male
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Level: 15
Life: 820/820
Normal Mana: 2720/2720
Divine Mana: 1360/1360
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Magic: 1920
Strength: 1320
P.Def: 720
M.Def: 720
Speed: 720
Luck: 300
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Grand Magic:
●Divine Arts
Unique Skills:
●Imagination & Creation Magic
●Appraisal
●Divine Box
Skills:
●Divine BlackSmith
-Material +1
●Divine WhiteSmith
-Magic Forge
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Titles:
●Blessing of Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Metalwork
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It seem for every status except Divine Mana and Luck, it increases by 30. For Divine Mana, it increases by 15 per level, while luck is 0. It seems my luck is already high.
After walking at the road for 30 minutes, I saw a stone wall. Looks like a human settlement with huge wall surrounding the whole area, it looks like the city of Alex in Konosuba for town of beginners. I was up in a hill, it looks like another hour walk to reach it.
Since I am not in hurry, I decided to get ready for a quick meal. That walk made me hungry, well it is just going to be another forest boar grill. I took out the rock and extra wood branch from my Divine Box that I gathered in the forest.
Waiting for the meat to be eaten, I heard some metals clashing near my area about 5 minutes away from the road.
Is this the part where I save a princess and make her in debt and repaying me by bringing me to her place?
Oh boy, is this the situation that they call a "Raising a flag" in japanese animes and novels?
With that in mind, I ran as fast as I can and got there in 2 minutes. As soon as I arrived at the place, I saw some knights being surrounded by bandits. Why I thought it looks like a knight? Because they have a uniform on with a dragon in the middle of their uniform with swords and shields on their hands.
"I am here to help!"
I screamed and rushed at one of the bandits. Killing and bloods was never a problem to me since when I was a kid, I saw a massacre next to our house and saw some people being killed and felt nothing about it.
So, I took my Excalibur from my Divine Box and infused a small amount of Normal Mana into it and slashed at the bandit in front of me without a problem and proceeded to the next one after.
~Knight's Side~
I am Prince Larry's personal Knight. Upon returning from Castlevania from the South. We were about to go back to Draco Empire after we succeeded on making a treaty with the Castlevania.
After a peaceful ride in the Royal Carriage. We suddenly stopped, I decided to go out and see what was happening. But before I can even get out, I heard the soldiers screaming and swords were clashing. As soon as I got out, I recognised who the attackers was.
It was the famous bandits of Castlevania called Red Lion. They probably followed us and set up an ambush for money in exchange for our prince.
"Shit!!! Protect the Prince!" As I shouted, the soldiers surrounded the Carriage. It is not that the Prince is weak but, he is still too tired from the battle he had in Castlevania against their strongest knight and used all of his Mana. Prince Larry was even one of the top 10 strongest in our Empire.
There was too many of them, there are 5 of us left. Worst comes to worst, they will get the prince while he is exhausted and kill all 5 of us. I can't die yet, I promised King Leon that I would protect his son even if it means death.
I was about to charge in and die for the prince, but I heard someone saying "I am here to help!"
I was overjoyed but there was only one man. No, he is probably not even a man yet. He look so young, this young lad has blonde hair and blueish green eyes.
I watched him charged and looks as if he is holding something in his hand. I can't see anything. Is he not in his right mind? Oh God, we are doomed. It looks like this young lad is an idiot. These Bandits are so famous because almost all of them are level 40+, the Red Lions are considered on par with C rank Adventurers. And the boss was rumored to be on par with B rank Adventurer whose level is 60.
I tried to close my eyes and suddenly, the young lad sliced those bandits one by one.
'What the hell is this young lad!'
This is good, we have a chance.
"Men! Help the young lad! Now is our chance while they are distracted!" as I shouted, the soldiers went and help the lad. Hahahaha this is crazy, who knew a frail looking guy would be this strong. And not just that, what is that in his hands. It looks like an invisible sword. I can probably not see it if not for the blood.
That sword shines blue before it reaches the body of the bandits. I looked at him and remembered how the Prince back then when his sister was kidnapped by bandits. He tears them up piece by piece due to his anger. He obtained the Mad Prince title due to that.
After few minutes, I saw the young lad facing the boss. I thought this would be hard but it ended the same thing. But this time, his invisible sword shined bright. He can use Light Magic!?!? Only Heroes and from the Holy Knights from the church should be able to use that.
After after a few seconds, he dashed to the leader and sliced him in half.
"Oi oi oi oi!!!" the knight was screaming inside his mind.
That's definitely not normal. It seems like that slash was too strong that the trees and rock behind the leader were shattered into pieces and some were blown away way too far.
As I was seeing such an unbelievable scene. I saw the prince peeking out from the window and had a surprised looked. Oh yeah who am I kidding. This prince is a war freak and a sword freak. He probably want that sword and fight that guy.
After the fight, light particles were being shattered next to him and his blueish green eyes looks like it was shining
~Yoshua's Side~
Oh boy, that was bad. I was too cautious about that guy. He seems to be the leader when I checked his status by my Appraisal. That guy was dangerous. Too damn dangerous indeed.
This was his status…
{Name: Barrette Brandon
Race: Human
Age: 45
Occupation: Berserker
Title: Red Lion Bandit Leader
Level: 60
Strength: 1750
Magic: 800
P.Def: 1200
M.Def: 900
Speed: 250
Luck:45}
Compared to my status from lv15, I definitely will lose if I don't use Divine Mana. That guy seems to be casting a spell with his Axe. And Berserker Occupation? That sounds dangerous. I ended up using 300 Divine Mana to make sure it will be a one hit kill and 300 seems too much. Even the rocks and trees from behind got shattered into pieces, some were blown away.
I am trying to keep a low profile but for now I need connection. I have no money or any means of identity to go inside that place I saw earlier. I will try to convince them to keep it safe.
"That should do it. Are you guys ok?" I asked the knight who was defending the carriage. He seemed to be a higher knight so I decided to talk to him.
"Yeah, we are good for now. We lost 15 soldiers. But it could have been 20 if you did not come to help us. I am Nick Von Alterio, the Commander of Dragon Knights of the Draco Empire, North from here should take around an hour. I am also a noble at that Empire and also the Prince's personal knight. Who might you be?" As the knight introduced himself. I felt like I heard the opposite of what I wanted to hear. A prince? Not a princess in the carriage!!?? No, no, no, no, this is probably what they call the "Wrong Flag".
Well, I can't do anything about that. For now, I need a connection.
Let's come up with some bullshit story for now.
"Uhm, this might sound weird but I don't really have any memories of where I am, well I still know my name at some point. I woke up in that forest and here from there. Can you help me enter that city with a wall on the North. I have no money or any identification to go in there. In exchange I will escort you to wherever you guys are going." As I said that, the knight looked at me with a sad expression and said.
"Well, I am sorry to hear that. It must have been a miracle for you to survive in that Evil Forest where the Pillar Tree of Darkness is in. That forest is so wicked that if you go in further till you reach the peak of that forest. Level 100+ monsters are in there. Even though the outer side is level 20-50 monsters, it is still considered D Rank in Adventurer's guild. But seeing you beat those bandits changed my mind. Anyways, you saved us and the Prince. We will help you with the things necessary to get in and live for a while there. And the Prince is somehow interested in you. After that we still need to reward you handsomely." After saying that, he led me to ride the second carriage at front since riding together with the Prince is not allowed except if it's a family member or his personal knight.
Before coming out of the forest. I made an armor Rare Class Set, it was all good.
Here, i'll show you…
""Name: Light Armor
Element: Earth
Type: Armor
Class: Rare Class
Attributes:
-P.Def: 250
-M.Def: 250
●Extra Skill
-Self-Regeneration(Small)""
""Name: Light Leggings
Element: Earth
Type: Armor
Class: Rare Class
Attributes:
-P.Def: 250
-M.der: 250
●Extra Skill
-Physical and Magical Damage Reduction""
""Name: Light Boots
Element: Wind
Type: Armor
Class: Rare Class
Attributes:
-Speed: 250
●Extra Skill
-Windwaller(Boost Speed While Running)""
Cape
""Name: Blue Cape
Element: Light
Type: Accessory
Class: Special Class
Attributes:
-Magic: 250
-Strength: 250
-P.Def: 250
-M.Def: 250
-Speed: 250
●Extra Skill
-Indestructible""
Nothing special about it. I made it with Normal Mana. But even if it's only Rare Class and one is Special Class, due to extra skill it can be considered more valuable than other Rare Class equipments.
After defeating all the Bandits, I also got a title. It popped up after defeating them.
[Title Acquired. Bandit Killer: 1.5x damage to Criminals when equipped]
After equipping the title, I also Leveled Up from 15 to 32 due to the Bandits I exterminated. Now this is my status…
~Status~
Name: Yoshua Humvee
Race: High Human
Age: 16
Occupation: Divine BlackSmith & WhiteSmith
Title: Bandit Killer(1.5x Damage to Criminals when equipped)
Sex: Male
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Level: 32
Life: 1300/1300
Normal Mana: 3200/3200
Divine Mana: 1600/600
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Magic: 2650
Strength: 2050
P.Def: 1950
M.Def: 1950
Speed: 1650
Luck: 300
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Grand Magic:
●Divine Arts
Unique Skills:
●Imagination & Creation Magic
●Appraisal
●Divine Box
Skills:
●Divine BlackSmith
-Material +1
●Divine WhiteSmith
-Magic Forge
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Titles:
●Blessing of Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Metalwork
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Equipments:
●Excalibur ●Light Armor ●Light Leggings ●Light Boots ●Blue Cape ●Normal Magic Knife
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This status is considered C rank adventurer. I need to be careful not to let anyone see my status without my permission.
[Would you like to turn off Appraisal to see your status?<Yes or No>]
"What!!?"I was shocked when that screen popped up but I guess it was useful. I said "Yes" in my mind and the screen disappeared. I guess that means, I am cleared for now.
*Sigh*
I made a huge sigh that the soldier asked me if I am okay, so I just told him that I was just echausted from the battle.
It was just my 2nd day in another world yet I already killed humans and monsters without feeling anything. I guess that tragedy back then on Earth really did affect my emotion.
"I wonder what happened to the meat that I was grilling" as I was murmuring to myself. I faded off to sleep since they told me it would take an hour to get there.
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…
I heard a light knock so I decided to open my eyes and opened the door.
"We had arrive at the Royal Palace."
Wait, what!!!? Why the Palace, I thought they will drop me off and give me some money and a place to stay.
"Uhm, Why are we here? I thought you guys will drop me off at the entrance and help me with my living expenses and help me find a place to live?" I asked and did a poker face.
"Oh? Yeah, about that. The Prince told us to let you stay at the Palace for now. He said he will buy you a house and tour you around the Draco Empire. Please follow me." As the soldier said, he told me to follow so I did.
But I did not expect for that Prince to buy me a house. To be honest, I saw his status but I forgot what it looks like. Well, it almost looks the same as mine but that Prince is level 89 and almost has twice my status at lv 32. I guess at level 60 I can beat him. Well, I can beat him if I use my Divine Arts and Create new techniques or skills soon with my Imagination and Creation Magic. But for now, I don't want to stand up that much.
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...
As I was led to the hallway, there was a huge golden wall in front of me. Isn't this one of those throne room in animes where you wait before you can see the king!? The soldier stop, opened the door and said...
"Please go inside. You are about to meet his Majesty." Said and left me.
*Gulp*
(I KNEW IT!!!) I screamed inside my head and did as instructed.
I went in as instructed, there was a bunch of knights lined up for as long as 50 meters till the King's position. I was walking in and looked nervous. It took me 30 seconds to get there, and I remained standing since on Earth we do not bow to anyone.
"You low life creature!!! Kneel in front of the King or I'll behead you!"
It was a man at his prime. Maybe 40 to 50 years old. He is probably the King's Prime Minister. He was standing next to the King on the Left while the Prince was on the right smiling.
"Well, I do not have any memories. But I remember a little that we never kneel even if it is a King except if it is a God. I do apologize if I offended you in any way." As I said that, the Prince now looks like he is about to burst into laughter.
'What's his deal anyways.'
"Hmmm I see, well in that case. I do not mind. You saved my son's life so I will make an exception to you and not kneel if you meet me." as the King said while stroking his beard. This guys is also strong. It seems that he is Level 128, and has 5 times status than myself. He even have a Title. It was Wise King. His age is 67. But he looks like 40 to me.
"Thank you, Your Highness" As I said that, the Prince opened his mouth.
"Father. I want to reward this man to have a house in our Empire. It should be close to the Palace. This guy has an interesting sword. I want to have a spar with it." the Prince said that and the King's eyebrows went up and said " oh, ho?" and looked at me.
Oh god, not that look. Well, I do not mind but I need to set up some rules.
"Young man, will you allow me to see that sword?" The King said.
"I do not mind. But you must promise me to never let anyone know about this sword? And my name is Yoshua" upon saying that. He looked at the Prince and both nodded.
"Okay, that is fine by us. Right, Prime Minister Biscotti?" the King looked at the Prime Minister and said "Of course my King!"
I took out my sword from my Divine Box and allowed the King and the Prince only to wield the sword. Well, they will only see it as a blue wind so I do not mind.
I handed them the sword.
Wait, now that you think about it, the person who can wield the sword can see it's real form. Does that mean....
I looked at them and they had a serious look on their faces. The 2 keep looking at me then at the sword.
Shit!!! I wonder what's going on...
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