Hi guys! It’s been awhile since my last chapter.

Here is a new chapter, I hope you like it!

Oh almost forgot to tell you that this is UNEDITTED chapters, so there are gonna be a lot of mistake in grammar and word spelling! Just give me some slack okay.

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Chapter 8 : First Month Of Traveling (UNEDITTED)

Part 1

Two days had passed since our departure.

Right now we were on our way to Norland River, a very large river with wide about 10 km and extended from Mountain Calvas in the northern region of Sylfania Kingdom to the sea in the south near Agatha City.

By following this river to the north, in about 6 months of smooth sail, we would be to reach the capital city of Sylfania Kingdom, Daia City.

From the captain of the ship, Daia City was a very big city just like Agatha City, but compared to Agatha City which famous for its commerce and business center, on the contrary, Daia City was famous as a tourist city filled with beautiful parks, gardens, art center, theaters, coliseum, artistic buildings, majestic palace, and many other tourist attractions. All kind of people from all over the continent who visit Sylfania Kingdom usually visited this capital city once to tour around the city.

If there was a time, maybe I should tour Daia city too before continuing to the academy.

I also heard from the captain that this river were quite dangerous, sometimes vicious monsters from the sea would came to the river looking for prey. The monsters itself wasn’t really a problem because the academy hired about two dozen high rank adventurers to protect the ship. But what worried the most was the ship itself, though this ship was really big, a galleon ship with 55 m length, 25 m wide, and 10 m height. If the monsters from the sea really attacked this ship, which their size were usually very big, the first thing they would do was to sink the ship. They would attack the ship from under the water which made it hard for the adventurers to kill it.

Monsters from the sea weren’t like typical river monsters which only targeted small and medium ships like fisherman boats, plus anyone who foolish enough to swim in their territory, these sea monsters would target everything, whether it was small boat or large ship.

“Gahaha princess you really got a big one this time.”

A hoarse voice could be heard coming from behind my back, I turned my head a little and saw a big burly man with a thick beard.

This man name was Juan Hedfall, the captain of this ship, Armored Turtle.

“Ah captain, want to join us?”

Except for Harris who was in his cabin, doing some works for me, right now, I, Cecil, Debby, Restia and her maid, Melisa were on the deck near the guard rails, sitting on stools and were holding long rods with long strings at the other end of the rods.

Yeah, we were fishing.

“Thank you, but I still have other works to do. I just want to check on you guys for awhile. Do you want these fish to be taken to the storage?”

He gestured at the floor next to him where a two meters long fish and dozen other fishes were lying motionlessly.

We had been fishing since this morning and had caught quite a lot of them.

“Yes, and please use them for our dinner tonight.”

“Gahaha Good then, we will have a fish party tonight!”

After he said that, with his hoarse voice, he yelled very loudly calling a few of his subordinates and ordered them to take all the fish to the storage room.

“Oh yeah princess, I heard that you met some bastards from Helios Empire, do you know what are they doing here?”

Juan walked to my side as he asked me that question out of the blue.

So the news has even reached to him huh

It really amazed me on how fast news and rumors spread out, that incident only happened not too long ago, and only in three days, the entire city already knew about it.

People from this world really likes to gossip, whether man or women, young or old, all of them are the same. They must be really bored.

Oh well that doesn’t matter.

“No, I don’t really know.” I shook my head and continued “I just prevented them from killing a girl and leave the rest to father.”

Sorry captain, I can I tell you the truth.

If people were aware of what really is going on.

There is a high probability of a huge panic which can lead to war if it’s handled poorly.

Moreover if Helios Empire found out that we know their secret plan…..

There’s no telling what they are going to do to silence us.

“Bah! Those bastards will never change. Their worthless pride and sickening bullshit of lies and deceits, they must be planning something stupid like conquering human continent again.”

Wow right on the spot.

To have say that, it means he must know them pretty well.

Moreover from his tone of voice, I can feel hatred, disgust and grudge.

Helios Empire must have done something really bad to him.

“Kyaah! I got another one! It’s so heavy! Someone please help me!”

Suddenly a lovely scream of a girl asking for help interrupted our conversation, it was coming from my left side.

When I turned my gaze, what I saw was the scene of Restia struggling with her fishing rod, her face was red from trying to hold onto the fishing rod, slowly but surely, her two feet were sliding on the wooden deck floor, dragged by the fish toward the water, but thanks to guard rails, she managed to keep herself from falling into the water.

Her maid, Melisa, who saw this, quickly pull her fishing rod, throwing it onto the deck floor and moved next to Restia, helping her pulling the fishing rod.

This girl…. today should be her first time fishing, but what the hell with these 17 strikes in a row….

Even I, the person who taught her on how to fish, only got 8 strikes so far…

I can’t believe this a normal thing.

And the only explanation I can think of for this is because of a Gift.

She probably has a Gift that grants her great luck or a talent for fishing.

Do you want to know why Restia was fishing with me?

Well, at first I just wanted to have a fresh air so I went to the deck, but when I got there I saw Restia, once again was staring blankly toward the distance sea. Yesterday she pretty much did the same thing, so I concluded that she must be really bored and didn’t know how to spend her time on.

Looking at her like that I involuntarily thought of a way on how to spend time at the sea. And all of sudden a flash of idea passed through my mind. I remembered my training with the old hag Helena in Galabas Mountain, at that time for a break from training or just to relax ourselves, we usually went to river and started fishing.

So I took three fishing rods, at that time it was only me, Restia, and Melisa who were on the deck, Cecil and Debby came later on, I invited Restia to fish with me, but she refused it by shyly saying that she didn’t know anything about fishing.

Since the beginning I knew that she would refuse regardless of her reason, so I forcefully gave her a fishing rod, I had quite a lot of them from my training, and pulled her along with me to the guard rails as I told her I would teach her how to do it.

After awhile she got her first strike and caught a medium size fish. She was so happy that she almost incidentally threw her fishing rod and the fish back to the sea, thankfully I managed to catch it before she threw it. After that she caught some more fish and now became addicted to fishing.

Seeing Restia and Melisa managed to take a few steps back while pulling the fishing rod, I judged that the two of them could handle the fish and wouldn’t need my help, so I turned my gaze from Restia to the water where her bait was.

WHAT THE HELL!!!

I was so surprised and almost fell into the water when I saw that THING, a three meters long shiny golden fish, with a pair of big golden eyes staring at the ship, on its head was a beautiful golden crown embedded with large diamond at the center and various small precious gems around it. Its mouth was gaping and there was a very thin shiny string that tried to pull it to the surface towards the ship, but it refused and struggled to dive back into the water.

IS THAT THING REALLY A FISH!!!!!?

The captain who was standing beside me also had a surprised look on his face, his two hands were on his head and his mouth was also gapping like the golden fish, meanwhile both of his eyes were opened wide as if they were about to jump from their sockets.

“A GOLDEN KING!!!”

Suddenly he screamed like a mad man, causing me to immediately plug my ears with my two index fingers.

With a two large steps, he quickly jumped to help Restia and Melisa, his right hand moved swiftly and caught the fishing rod that was in their hands and along with them, he began to pull the fishing rod.

What is golden king?

Is that that fish name?

But that fish….. Is it edible?

I mean, just look at its body… it look as hard as real gold.

Anyone who tried to eat it maybe, no surely will lose all their teeth.

Well I guess it can be sold for hefty sum of money though.

But I don’t need any more money for now.

I had gotten quite a lot of it, precisely 4600 G after selling low and mid quality materials from those giant monsters I brought from Gabalas Mountain.

While I was looking at them, sounds of footsteps and people talking started to gathered near us, I turned my head and found crowd of people had gathered, making a half circle around us and started yelling and cheering the three of them.

Ohh this is becoming more interesting.

Okay, I have decided not to help them.

Let’s just enjoy the show.

As the time passed, the crowd started cheers louder and louder.

They seems to enjoy this too.

I wonder who will win this tug of war.

Well at least they don’t have to worry that the rod or the string will snap.

I have enchanted it with “Fortification”.

It should be able to handle that fish.

Thirty minutes later, their tug of war ended with the golden king as the winner. And as the trophy of its victory, it took away the fishing rod along with it into the water.

“Huff huff huff Damn! It’s just a bit more and we will catch it!”

Juan seemed to be so frustrated over their defeat to the golden king.

With a smile I tried to cheer him up.

“Come on, that’s a good battle you have there.”

“A battle huh… that’s true enough Gahaha I can be proud after having a battle with a legendary fish!”

Hoo so that fish is a legendary fish.

That’s interesting.

After that I asked Juan what was that golden fish just now.

He told me that it was Golden King, a legendary fish that lived on this area, not many people had seen that fish nevertheless succeeding in catching it.

Though it couldn’t be eaten because it was made of pure gold metal, just as I thought, but it could be sold for an insane amount of money, about 100.000 G or 100 P, moreover the legend said that it would bring a great luck to whoever owned that fish.

I turned my gaze to Restia who was standing not to far from us, she was breathing heavily while beads of sweat still dripping from her forehead.

“Huff huff what’s wrong princess?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

What a scary Gift.

To be able to fish a legendary fish in less than a day after learning how to fish

That Gift must have a name of Goddess of Luck or something along that line.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

Hmm if I find a casino or a place where I can gamble later, let’s bring Restia to test out my theory about her Gift.

Hey wait a minute……

I just realized something very absurd.

With a very serious look on my face, I turned my attention back to Juan

“Captain…. If that fish is made of gold metal, then how can it float and swim in the water?”

“…………”

Part 2

One month had passed since we left Agatha City.

Right now we were docking in a city called Tuan, a mid size city with most of its populate were fisherman and farmer.

We were here to resupply our food, medicine and other daily necessities which we almost run out of them. And while the crew of the ship went to buy and restock our supply, the captain gave us a free time on the land for two hours so that we could explore and bought our own personal necessities if we needed it.

Our group, except for Harris who still holed up in his cabin, had decided to visit the market for window shopping and if we found something we like, we could buy it.

I was actually wanted to stay on the ship and helped Harris doing some projects, but the girls, mostly the persistence one was Cecil, forced me to accompany them to the market. Cecil begged while kept saying it was too dangerous for weak and fragile young ladies to go to a crowded place without someone to protect them.

Who the hell weak and fragile ladies! Never mind Restia, but you and Melisa should have receive a special training as a personal attendant and also as a bodyguard! I was screaming all of that inside of my mind.

What? Did you think personal attendant for noble kids were a normal maid or butle? Hell no! all of them must have gone through some kind of combat arts, whether magic or martial arts, for there weren’t just to serve their masters but also to protect them.

I didn’t know how about Melisa, but for Cecil, she was chosen as my personal maid wasn’t just because she was close to my age, but also because she was the best student of the head instructor Grant.

I had seen her beating 4 senior knights with ease in a sparring match. Her martial art rank was actually a saint rank of seven sword stars!

The market place weren’t too far from the dock, in less than fifteen minutes we had reached there. Just as you expected from a market, stalls, shops, peddlers, and costumers were everywhere.

The first thing we visited was a tailor shop. It seemed that Restia wanted to buy new clothes, a normal one and not a dress type clothes. Restia said her expensive looking dress attracted too many attentions when she was on the ship and she felt uncomfortable because of it.

It was a good thing I had bought normal clothes before leaving Agatha City, no one really pay much attention towards me… Probably?.. Okay I would be honest, It wasn’t really effective, people still stared at me whenever I went to, that was why I wore my cloak and covered my head whenever I left my room.

Nothing much in here, just like any other normal tailor shop it had quite a lot of collections. Except for me who didn’t really had any motivation for shopping and need for new clothes, the girls started to browse trough the clothes as soon as they entered the shop.

I didn’t follow their example and just sat on the nearby chair. And while watching them choosing clothes, my though wandered off, recalling anything that had happen this past one month.

After that incident with the golden king fish, many other passengers who mainly other new students just like us, also start fishing on the deck, seemed like they were hoping for that golden king fish to get caught again.

They were so enthusiastic to the point where some of them fought for a good fishing spot on the deck, thankfully captain Juan was there when that happened and stopped them before it escalated even more, he threatened to throw anyone who fought to the sea and left them there to be eaten by monster, a good way to threaten the kids.

Well, this sudden fishing festival ended one week later after no one managed to catch it.

I didn’t know if it was a good or a bad thing because I still couldn’t taste anything but rotten food whenever I ate, but for that whole week every menu in for breakfast to dinner were made of fish, they were all from the fish that the passengers had caught.

It seemed this was also one of the major reason why everyone stop fishing, eating fish for a whole week made pretty much everyone sick of it including the girls, but there was always an exception for everything, some passengers were happy to eat fish everyday abd kept fishing.

You must have realized who they were by now, yeah they were the Beastman from the Catman tribe. As expected from cat…

After that week the girls also stop fishing and started gathering in my room to chat and gossiping… At that time I really wanted to kick them out of my room. Their giggle and laughter… Ugh, just because they didn’t have anything else to do that didn’t mean I also the same. I couldn’t concentrate in doing my projects, drawing a few blueprints of various devices and did some research for my future plans.

In the end I evacuated myself to Harris room for a quite place where I could work peacefully. With my space magic, I had turned Harris room into a very spacious place which he made it into a workshop.

Well for the most time of this past month, I spent it in Harris room, doing researches while helping him to make some prototype of the devices I had designed.

A good thing that happened to me this past month was that my taste slowly started to return back to normal, everyday I could feel a slight change in the taste of food I ate. Thank god that this curse wasn’t something permanent, I didn’t want to imagine what would happen to me if it was a permanent thing… Ugh, it sent chill down to my spine. At this rate my taste would be fully return back to normal when I arrived at the academy.

But still, how long are they gonna choose just a few clothes? It’s been 30 minutes and they still haven’t done yet.

“Hey quick choose the clothes already, we don’t have all day you know?”

“Ah yes, sorry princess, we will be done shortly, please just wait for a moment.”

Cecil answered my question as she took a few clothes and ran towards the changing room along with Restia and Melisa.

30 minutes later.

I was grinding Cecil’s foot with my toe as I asked her “Didn’t you just said for a moment? Or did I hear it wrongly? What the hell did you guys do in the changing room huh? Answer me!” I put a bit more force to my toe.

What can I say? I am really pissed right now.

“Ouch ouch please forgive me! Princess please I beg you! Ouch ouch my feet!!”

The other two girls who saw me in rage, took a few steps back, afraid that they also would receive my rage.

“Um p-princess w-we are very sorry, we just- HII SORRY!!“

Restia was trying to explain themselves but I glared at her with a yakuza like face and she went hiding behind Melisa’s back.

“You don’t have to explain it to me, I know that Cecil is the one at fault here. She must have used you as a dressing doll! She always did that to me whenever there’s a chance, every cute maid in the castle also have became her victims.”

I almost forgot about Cecil’s bad habit.

Maybe because I was training in the mountain for months and rarely saw her.

The last time she tried to make me her dressing doll was when it was Leon’s birthday party, but I hit her on the head before she could do a thing to me.

After releasing all my anger on Cecil’s now almost crushed foot, we left the shop. But a few moment later I halted my steps. Scanning the surrounding area.

Someone is watching us.

But from where?

I can faintly felt his/her present but cannot find his/her location.

To think that someone is able to hide from me who had gone through hell training from that old hag.

Dangerous.

That’s the first thing that appear in my mind.

Someone really skilled is obsersing us right now.

And most probably have no good intention towards us…

No, seems like it only toward me.

Assassin

But who? I never made someone hate me enough to want me dead.

But I can think of some people who want me dead, even though they didn’t really have a grudge against me.

They are only afraid that I will become a troublesome enemy in the future.

The court magician of Helios Empire and that scar faced man.

Heh, interesting.

Let’s see how this will play out, shall we?

“Princess, why are you smiling? Did you see something funny?”

Cecil who was behind me also followed my example and started to scan the area.

“No, it’s nothing. Let’s continue our shopping, we don’t have much time left because of you.”

“Ah uh yes… I am sorry.”

Part 3

Three days before Armored Turtle docked in Tuan City.

A black cloaked man silently, as if trying not to attract any attention, strode along the street of the market place in Tuan City, cautiously scanning the whole area with his sharp eyes, confirming no one followed nor paid any attention to him, he headed to the small alley next to a food stall on his left side.

The man just kept walking deeper and deeper into the dark alley like maze until he reached a dead end, as if the wall in front of him was just an illusion, without giving it a second thought he walked pass through the wall.

Behind the wall was a simple room with only a candle on top of a round table as the source of light.

“Welcome Commander Marco.”

A man in a ninja like garb suddenly appeared out of nowhere and greeted the man.

From under the hood, a man with a long scar on his face smiled at the ninja. “Tenny, it seems you have improved your skill again since the last time we met.” Said Marco as he sat on the chair.

Tenny gave him a slight bow “Thank you commander. So what business brought you to my humble home today?”

Marco gestured him to sit as he explained “I have a mission for you.” Taking a piece of paper from his pocket and put it on the table “A dangerous one.”

Tenny took the paper and frowned as he glanced at the drawing on the paper “A little girl? Dangerous??”

“Not just a little girl, she’s the first princess of Whitestar family. Ariel Whitestar, I heard recently he gained the rank of Emperor in Seven Sword Stars sword style.”

“Emperor rank… That’s will be really difficult…”

“Don’t worry, I am not telling you to assassinate her with normal methods, I don’t think those will work on her. That’s why I permit you to use that thing.”

Tenny just gave a nod of affirmation and then Marco continued “Good, that girl is currently on a ship called Armored Turtle heading to the capital and in three days that ship will stopped in this city for a while to resupply. Don’t attack her just yet, wait till the ship depart again and you can attack her when she was in the middle of the river, so that she won’t be able to move freely.” He then took two scrolls from his pocket and put them on the table “Use this scrolls to force her out to the deck.”

“Understood, what will commander do now?”

“We were busted by that girl when we were almost done with our mission, so now we are forced to return back to the empire.”

“That’s unfortunate.”

“Well. better leave now, our ship will depart soon. Immediately contact me when you are done.” Marco stood and walked toward the entrance, or rather the wall he passed through before.