Chapter 20: Newbie Adventurer
After we finished the meeting, everyone left and I was left alone with my ideas.
'I'm going to try to make my own spells, which should be easy enough with the godly magic abilities of my job classes. First I will try to make spells that comply with the laws of the New World, such as soul gathering or Talent copying.'
It was easier to cast a spell to copy Talent, so I created the [Dominate Talent] spell, which has many functions such as copying Talent, transferring the copied Talent to someone else, sealing Talent, etc.
For soul spells, I studied the great ones such as time, summon, spirit, necromancy, resurrection spells, [True Death], [True Resurrection], and understood their nature and laws.
{Soul stat unlocked}
{Soulmancer job class obtained}
A new [Soul] was indeed added next to the MP and HP stars.
I created my first spell: [Summon Soul]
It is used to summon the spirit of a dead person. But the spell will fail if the soul has already been collected or if too much time has passed since the death.
{Soulmancer leveled to 2}
Then I created the [Dominate Spirit] spell to control the summoned spirit, so that I could now command the summoned spirit as I wished.
{Soulmancer leveled up to level 3}
Now it was easier to create Soul spells. It was as if I was going uphill before and now I was going downhill.
[Soul Plunder]-- loots the summoned soul and transforms it into the [Soul] stat. The higher the level of the soul, the higher the stat. Talent in the soul can also be stolen.
{Soulmancer leveled up to level 4}
[Reading the soul]-- you experience what the soul experiences, which is a burden on our mind, but it is an ideal for gaining knowledge. You also have the chance to get the soul's job classes, spells, martial arts.
{Soulmancer leveled up to level 5}
'The Shalltier prolem will take place soon. I'll prepare for it in advance, but I don't want to interfere too much. If I take advantage of this good opportunity, I can capture the world item and weaken the Slane Theocracy by destroying the Black Inscription team in one blow.'
I have activated the message spell:
{Nekomi come to the throne room}
{I'll be right there Ashfall-sama}
A few minutes later a stunningly beautiful girl with light blue hair and snow-white skin bowed to me.
"Greetings dear Ashfall-sama, do you have a mission for me?"
"Come closer Nekomi, only you and I will know the special mission I have for you."
Nekomi swallowed nervously, as if the fate of the world depended on it, and approached with a nod of approval.
"Come on, don't be so nervous."
I started to caress her head, my fingers ran through her beautiful blue hair, I played with her furry ears.
MHRR....MHRR....MİYAV....MHRR...MİYAV♥️♥️♥️
She rubbed her face against my hand with an ecstatic expression, her hazy heart-shaped eyes losing focus.
"My sweet Nekomi, your mission is to secretly follow Shalltier. In a few days, a group of humans will stop by the route Shalltier took with a World Item. There will probably be a war. I will give you one task: As soon as the battle starts, secretly kill the person carrying the world item before it is used and bring his corpse back to Nazarik."
Nekomi immediately became serious, stepped back and bowed, "Consider this mission done, Ashfall-sama. Then excuse me while I prepare."
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I opened the door of the inn and walked in. It was full of adventurers eating, joking and drinking ale to the calm music. My magnificent black and red armor drew even more attention than the beauty Nabe beside me. The huge swords on my back were a shape-shifted version of my guild weapon [Dominion of Chaos]. I slowly made my way towards the receptionist, a middle-aged man with tanned skin. I peeked out from under the helmet to observe the reaction of everyone inside. I had deliberately hung the bronze plaque around my neck so that it would be the most visible.
"5 copper coins for two people, food not included"
The man saw my bronze license plate and slammed his hand on the table with a confident grin:
"You're bronze-grade adventurers, aren't you? Seven copper coins! Payment is due now."
I put two copper coins in my hand and held his hand with the same hand.
"Oh, my two bronze coins?! A very tempting offer, then it's a deal."
As I finished, I squeezed his hand so hard that the crack sound of his fingers echoed through the inn and his face looked like he had eaten shit. Nabe radiated her death aura, preventing the customers from getting up, lest the others intervene.
"Ahh I take your silence as an acceptance, come on Nabe let's go to our EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE ROOM"
We were on our way to the stairs upstairs, but the bald one of the three guys at the table in front of us grinned and stuck his leg in my way.
"Get your fucking foot out of my way or..."
The man immediately stood up and started talking as if he was upset, holding his heart:
"Hey Hey Hey Hey! Those words hurt my heart. In fact, it can be healed overnight by the beauty next to you."
'YOU BASTARD....YOU WANT TO LAY A HAND ON MY WOMAN, WHAT IS MINE....I WILL TEAR YOU TO PIECES!!!!!'
I sneaked a look at Nabe's face, her contorted expression as if she was being subjected to the ultimate humiliation. I leaned towards the bald man and pierced his eyes with my gaze. Both of my eyes were glowing red with anger and the man gasped as soon as he saw my eyes. I lifted my foot and with all my strength I stepped on the foot he had just placed in my path so hard that it turned to mush with a crunch and the wooden floor beneath it shattered.
"YOU FLY LARVA, YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO BREATHE NEXT TO MY NABE! I'M GOING TO SILENCE YOUR FILTHY MOUTH SO MUCH THAT YOU WILL NEVER SPEAK AGAIN!"
I put my fist in his mouth and knocked his teeth into his stomach. The man collided with his two unconscious companions, knocking them all to the ground.
"My beautiful Nabe, please give me a rag, the dirty blood of this fly is on my hand."
"As you wish, Felix-saa..n"
Nabe automatically stopped the mistake of using respect suffixes, albeit with difficulty. With a slight smile of pleasure adorned on her flushed face, Nabe handed me a white rag and waited patiently for me to wipe away the blood. I took a blue healing potion from my pocket and threw it in his face to stop the bleeding, then Nabe and I went into the room.
"Tic! Useless box. Felix-sama, you shouldn't stay in such a bad room."
Nabe noticed the state of the room as soon as she entered and complained in her usual neutral voice. I approached her and combed her jet black hair with my fingers.
"I realize this is nothing compared to the magnificent rooms in Nazarik, but this is our headquarters for now, and my beautiful Nabe, I told you not to use the honorific. You are now my companion in adventure."
"As you wish, Felix-sa..n."
Nabe turned her flushed face to the wall and averted her eyes from me, but just seeing her slight smile warmed my heart.
'You made a mistake again, but this is progress'
I took my hand out of his hair and sat down on the hard bed with its straw mattress. I could see from her face that she wanted me to never take my hand away, but she swallowed all her emotions and stood in the doorway.
"Nabe, we need to find work, both to earn money and to make a name for ourselves."
So we went downstairs and went to the duty board.
"I wonder how much he bought this armor for"
"His armor looks quite menacing"
"He must be the son of a rich snob."
I focused on the clipboard as flies buzzed behind us.
'Just like Momon, I can't read, but I have a solution. I started to use my brain to its full capacity and instantly created the [I tier magic: Translation] spell and used it with silent magic, not to learn the language, but to translate what I saw perfectly. I started to understand every writing on the board, but in order to kill some more time I pretended that I was undecided about choosing a quest. After waiting a little longer, the voice I was looking for came to my ears:
"If you are undecided about a mission, would you consider teaming up with us?" Peter asked gently.
"I'd be very happy to, we were undecided about the mission anyway, let's go upstairs and have a chat."
We went through the introductions, I went through them all again and when it was our turn I took off my helmet and put it on the table.
"I'm Felix and the mage lady next to me is Nabe. So what is our mission?"
We had started to talk about the mission when Lukrut, the blond boy next to him, suddenly dropped a bomb into the conversation:
"So Felix-san, what is your relationship with Nabe-chan?"
Nabe didn't move, as if she didn't care, but her eyes, looking at me with excitement and fear, gave away her neutral appearance.
I immediately put my arm around Nabe's waist and pulled her to me, glaring menacingly at Lukrut like a territorial alpha wolf.
"She's mine, if you even look at her with lust, you're no longer a man"
Nabe turned her red tomato face to me and tried to speak in an excited voice
"But you are Alb....."
"Ahh and I understand Felix-san, don't listen to what this idiot says."
But Nabe's words were ignored by Peter and he was kind enough to apologize on behalf of Lukrut.
That's when the receptionist quickly approached us
"Mr. Peter, there's someone who wants to hire you personally."
"Hmm.. "Oh, yeah, do I know who that is?"
"Actually, it's Nfirea Bareare."
'What....Why...But I didn't give the red-haired bitch any potion.....Wait, the kid wanted this team, not me. I could actually use this to get close to him, use his innate talent.'
"So the most famous person in town is looking for you, I don't think you should miss this opportunity." I gaslighted them and pretended I knew him.
We all went down the stairs and met Nfirea Bareare, a skinny boy with bangs falling over his eyes.
Nfirea was tempted to hire the Swords of Darkness as bodyguards when they harvested herbs. But Peter was hesitant about the mission, after all, they had promised us.
"Peter, how about we take both jobs and kill the monster while protecting Nfirea?" I grinned knowingly.
"That's a great idea, I'll go to reception right now and accept the assignments."
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We set off for the meadows on Nfirea's mission. Along the way I learned a lot of information, chatting about spells and martial arts. As we loaded the goods onto the cart, Lurkut immediately warned us:
"They are coming at last, they are heading north-east. Get ready for battle, Nfirea-san, stay in the car."
'His usual flirtatious look has become more and more serious, I like it. Let's make some passes'
A horde of trolls holding logs and goblins with rags and scrap equipment were advancing on us.
"You flank them by spreading out to the sides, we'll break their lines from the front. Then we'll narrow the field to prevent their escape."
I took the swords off my back and moved slowly towards the trolls, then lunged forward and sliced the troll's neck like butter. I spun the second sword around and sliced the bellies of two more trolls around me. One of the disemboweled trolls swung a club, but my sword sliced both the club and his head in two.
'I wonder if I can create my own martial arts, this will be a good testing ground.
In my mind I started to design the martial art I would create. With job classes like Martial Master, Ki Master, Martial Adept, Yang Master, it was as easy as drinking water. I took a battle stance, opened my arm to the maximum and directed my Ki towards the sword. When I swung the sword with all my might, a huge red sword slah flew towards the trolls and sliced five of them in half at the waist.
All the monsters turned away from me after this attack and attacked the others. Lukrut shot arrows at the incoming goblins with his bow, Dyne slowed the charging monsters with druid spells, and Peter and Ninya took the opportunity to kill them all. The monsters realized too late that the situation was hopeless and the remaining nine goblins and one troll tried to escape. Nabe intercepted them and slashed 4 goblins with her trained sword moves and pierced the troll and two goblins lined up in the same row with her [Lightning] spell. The remaining three goblins were destroyed by long-range attacks from Lukrut and Ninya.
After a few minutes of looting and taking parts from the monster corpses, we set up camp to relieve our fatigue and treat our wounded.
"You are really strong Felix-san, I think you are almost as strong as the captain of the knights." (Dyne)
"How did you get these swords? These swords sliced monsters like cheese." (Peter)
"Nabe-san, using rank III magic at such an early age...You really are a powerful sorcerer" (Ninya)
"You double doves are really strong" (Lurkut)
Nabe immediately blushed and turned excitedly to Lurkut:
"What?! Double doves....What are you saying.... He is Al...."
As soon as I put my hand on her head, she stopped talking. I stroked her head a little and pulled her into my bosom, activating the message spell:
{"Tell me my beautiful Naberal Gamma, why not you too, don't you want to be my woman?"}
Her eyes widened in shock and she looked at me as if questioning whether what she had just heard was real. I caressed her face lovingly with my hand and kissed her cheek. Her face blossomed with the most sincere smile I had ever seen.
'And now I have proved that you are my woman by marking you with that kiss'
When I turned to look at the others, they were all red and Ninya hid her face.
"Ohm...well I'm sorry to interrupt this loving moment but we should get going" Lurkut put his hand on his heart as if he was suffering from heartache and said jealously.
"You go ahead, we'll apologize to nature for the creatures we killed, we'll catch up with you in a few minutes." I sent them away with a half-believable excuse and came with Nabe to the middle of the area full of corpses. I took out the storage orb and used the [Consume] spell to store the blood and mana of the corpses.
We hurried away from the area, caught up with the car and drove to the village of Carne. From there we went to the forest to gather herbs before heading to the city, where I tamed Hamsuke. We returned to the city with a rather large load and parted ways. After registering Hamsuke at the guild, we went to Nfirea's house.
We met Nfirea's grandmother on the road and came home. The smell of blood immediately assaulted my nose. Immediately realizing the situation, Nabe drew his sword and we rushed inside. When we reached the warehouse, the corpses of the Sword of Darkness team were in front of us.
Suddenly they all stood up and rushed at us. Nfirea's grandmother rushed out into the street.
"Nabe, calm her down and bring her here."
"Understood, Felix-san"
I decapitated all the bodies and examined them, they were really riddled with holes, so Clemantine had done his job well. I came to Ninya and summoned the soul with the [Summon Soul] spell, a small bright yellow orb appeared next to the corpse. I copied [Magic Talent] with the [Dominate Talent] spell and looted all the souls with the [Soul Plunder] spell.
After Nabe and Nfirea's grandmother returned, we carried the bodies outside.
"Where is Nfirea.....Is he okay....Why..." I turned to the old woman who was still not fully conscious.
"Nfirea is not here so they kidnapped him and these kidnappers can cast rank III magic so they are very powerful. If you go to the guild and give us a mission to find him, we will do it, but I can't promise that he will be alive or dead."
"But you just said it yourself, they are powerful, will you be able to do it?"
"Don't worry, we are the only ones in this city who can do it, for a price of course."
"How many you want?"
"Everything."
"Whhhaaatt!!!? You're the devil?"
"So what if I am? The main thing is to find Nfirea. We'll try to locate him, and in the meantime, think about my proposal."
Lizzie nodded and left us alone in the warehouse. I put the map of the city on the table.
"First we need to locate them. Since he's a Necromancer, he's probably in the graveyard, but we need to investigate for confirmation."
"How do we do that Ashfall-san?" Nabe asked.
I opened my Inventory and put the pouch full of scrolls on the table.
"The enemy didn't take anything from the bodies, except the adventurer plates. We can locate them."
I took out a Scroll of Locate Object from the pouch and gave it to Nabe
"Just use this for now. But if our enemies were strong, we would have to take precautions against the counter-detection spell."
As soon as Nabe used the scroll, the paper shredded and Nabe marked the graveyard area on the map with her finger.
"They are really in the graveyard. Ashfall-sama, your wise guessing skills amaze me."
We left the room and Lizzie, who was standing opposite the door, came to us.
"We found his location, they are in the graveyard. If you want, go to the guild and hire us for this mission, but remember, I make no promises that Nfirea will return alive."
"Okay...I'm going to the guild right now"
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So we immediately went to the graveyard.
There was a huge wall with a few soldiers guarding it, but there were too many undead coming out of the graveyard.
"Don't come any closer, this is no place for bronze level adventurers, if you want to live, move away"
"We are adventurers on a mission, don't worry, we will take care of this, just inform the adventurer's guild. Hamsuke, you stay here for now and destroy the monsters that want to break through the wall."
I immediately jumped and went beyond the wall, and Naberal Gamma followed me with her flying spell.