I have always wondered if there are more than one choice after death… reincarnation never was apart of my future. After death was purgatory… which sounds like a waiting room then infinite happiness.
I was always thought that my soul was given to me because my God wanted us to chose him… i believed it…
Here is the deal… after death there is purgatory there is judgement there is a perfect life…
There are also the chance to get reincarnated… only you live life on hard mode...just because life is perfect does not mean you don't screw up…
I volunteered… why…. I was dared to do it...the soul was already saved… the body and life i had was perfect… the friends were good… i never understood why i volunteered i was very satisfied with my life.. I just did.
Welcome to my rebirth. well i came into the life of a 10 year old child… with magic power… and memory of my ex life plus a fuzzy memory of life in heaven.
I am male, short reddish brown hair blue eye and a very pale complexion.
I am not a noble or prince
Im a commoner… the best advantage for me is my grandfather is wealthy for a commoner and saved up enough for his family.
with lots of guards he makes about 3 trips a year to a different kingdom which is part of this empire…
My mother had children out of wedlock and was a hysterical women… she died in a riot or a dual...i have one younger sibling from that mother and many cousins and siblings from my aunts. I have 5 grandmas..
Poygamy is the standard.. However the more wives a man has the more respect he garners..
Women however rule this city. And a woman's rule has deep roots… how about i tell you about are home
First unlike other ln/wns… every home in this city is basically a tower… with the bottom floors not having doors or windows...engineering is huge… however metal is not used that much in construction… ceramics adobe bricks and other materials are used…
The walls are massive
The castle strides pillars and sits in the middle of the city at the highest point… most towers which is where we live, have the top floors as gardens… mirrors magic and engineering… do their utmost to create the best vertical gardens… many gardens have turntables so that plants on the inside also get several hours of sunlight.
Water is supplied from reservoirs and aqueducts that travel throughout the city using gravity and channels and flow charts.
When looking at the city from the outside the first thing you will notice is how massive the walls are… 80 meters of smooth magically polished walls
you actually don't see big gate houses, of any sort. just many small little gates...there are a few hills near the walls on the backside of these hill facing the walls are smaller gates big enough for wagons to go through...all merchants travel underground with their wagons no pedestrians are allowed down there ...many of these gates have one way of travel.
To be honest it makes me think of a parking garage back on earth.
Are home has an elevator that travels up the support pillar of our tower… grandfather moves his merchandise in and out of the tower using this..
There are farms abutting the walls… and near the castle there are well made roads traveling between point of interest...however unlike most pictures castles they're not massive planes of farms… nor are there many small towns that surround the castle… a few building heavily fortified hear and there...then the roads simple stop and turn into trails. That all there is… there are some orchards… however beast like to make dens in these orchards and regularly have to be cleaned out many orchards have smaller walls to help with this problem.
The kingdom subsides on hunted food and food grown from family gardens. Fields of wheat …. Those don't exist. Breed staple foods also do not exist… you would think the city would starve...well to be honest every winter the city does starve…
I just survived this winter as skin and bones. However i belong to the family...thanks to being a part of a family i got at least a little something to eat every day from the house garden… in the summer the city stinks… the shit and piss from a chamber pot is poured into holes in the wall that shoot it out onto the streets below…
However no one really walks down there… there are skyways that are regulated on the 4th floor. 6th floor 8th and on…. Through tamed slimes and water works slaves and other public works the streets are guaranteed clean every 4 days...it makes me think of garbage collection day back on earth except there a variety of services that clean the roads of trash and refuse.
There no limit to how many beast can be tamed… i have four beasts tamed to myself… however you share a conscience with your beasts. I have two large house cats i inherited from my mother and two slimes...having to many beasts sharing your mind is difficult thankfully cats are nocturnal and slimes really don't have a mind...however they do have a presence… beast prohibited by the kingdom from being tamed are large pests such as rats ferrets rabbits. Crows..there more but in that general vein.
Slimes can eat smaller pests such as bugs but larger rodents they have trouble killing… thankfully we have house cats… to kill larger rodents..
Slimes can remember something after all they do share a mind with a human for instants they know not to eat a plant…. But if a fruit is shoved down a chamber pot they know that it okay to eat…. Basically every action a slime takes is like a instantaneous ping to your brain.. Take action yes or no…. And your the computer… it's annoying at first… but after about 4 months you get used to it children faster than adults.
I tried more than 4 however that was too much information for my mind...there are some with more talent of course as tamers. There are others with less talent one in 5 people probably has some taming ability.
For instance there are tamers who only want to tame beast that can be used for warfare or to carry equipment. Guess who as children normally go this route boys majority of the time… strangely enough young boys trying to tame beast used in warfare...don't have a high survival rate… the few who do often bring in more game.. And hiring bodyguards and such is fine or even battle slaves they don't cost much however you are required to feed them...and food is always at an all time high… so commoner boys without resources often take risks…
Thankfully my grandfather was wealthy enough to equip us children. with slaves, food and even some minimum equipment, when we left the city to gather resources...equipment might only be a long dagger and a wooden shield for me and the slaves...the front line might have grieves and a better shield however none of us have cloths on… i own a leather belt with pouches… grandfather has a kelt. All my grandmothers have just a belt or a sash. But that pretty normal for commoners… everyone being naked or with just a bare minimum of clothing....
Now as a hunting society leather would be the norm for clothing… however it much too valuable for other industries… for instance leather armor is a hot commodity...furniture is often a mix of leather and wood… carriages use lots of leather instead of cotton or canvas… windmills use leather. In fact bags to carry goods have leather… there no cotton wool or canvas…
Ropes are made of leather…
Everything you can think of made on earth with any of those products of hemp, or cotton is made of leather…
Society is very unbalanced...here…
Because lower beast reproduce faster than on earth and are more dangerous than earth…
Living close to water sources is very dangerous… there is another problem… resources have to be fought tooth and nail to get a hold of...so below the castle are mines below the merchant road… for every little bit of metal that we can scrap we can not allow that to get outside of city walls unless who ever carries that metal can be assured to bring the metal back inside the wall… goblins are attracted to metal… big time.. They will tear down a house just to get to the nails...not only that they have a strong cunning to them…
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A normal human might kill a goblin on a one on one fight… if the human is a adult has a weapon know how to use the weapon...sees the goblin first and decides to attack first…
A child would be food for a goblin...Goblins are light green with dark veins...have large ears …. Are not cute nor do they have a disgusting beer gut… there like ripped with muscle… have long four fingered hands with nasty edge nails vicious teeth move quite fast, love to move in packs and they become a full grown adult in only 11 months not as fast as ln wn but fast enough to reproduce a second litter in less than a year and a half…
Also the little bastards won't be put down easily with a regular arrow or bolt… there smart enough not to take it out of there body while in combat...unless it is a instant kill they will keep fighting…
Most arrows have spells attached to them...goblins bane= the favorite are explosive and stun...bolts for crossbows often come with fragmentation and a bunch of glass is often layered onto a bolt…
For other beasts… depends on the animal...however arrows are expensive and commons often used ceramic or glass blades… they break easy...however it easy to get them enchanted...shields often are bone or wood with leather buffering on them..
This is a bleak world … everything is against humans it seems…
Everything is against humans it seems…. Huh my slave has cat ears…
Everything is against humans it seems….. Uhhh my king and queen are elves…
Everything is against humans it seems…...the city baths have no gender discrimination
Everything is against humans it seems…. The city baths have easy sex you only have to pay coppers if you screw the baby making hole...that for the bath attendants… otherwise it part of the bathing services…so anal is okay and free….
This is a bleak land…. But not everything is bad…
3 more years and i will screw my brains out at the baths… ill take a bath twice a day. when i'm in the city...
Grandmothers makes the decisions in the family… remember i have five of them...i have 18 aunts and 3 of them still live at home i have 14 cousins only two are male…
Today the house needs about 20 bags of dirt and ores and other stuff for the house..my 3 slaves are with me, my two cousin males are with me. each of them also have 3 slaves...my oldest cousin todd wants to be a warrior and aims for that… his slaves are all big men...daryl is the next oldest cousin he has 3 slaves… two are women and one is a man. One woman holds a crossbow dagger and a small buckler… she also has many different small magics...the male slave of daryl's is good with books accounting also manual labor..the last slave i don't know much about… she a mage.. She probably the oldest women other the grandma however she looks 16...my guess is her magic is around 1500mp points… she the support..she is in her 80s… and she did not get married when we first got her she was fat...one of the few women who are fat i have seen in this city… however her family forsook her… and she could not afford to live on her own…
From what i heard she was a horrible slave to begin with very lazy… now she is very obedient
She had a name however her family took it from her and gave it to a newborn child.
That sounds like a lot to know about someone i know.. But she the oddest slave we have in the house..and that all i know about her… one paragraph is not much.
Now about me i have 3 slaves also… all of them are around 4+ years older… so around 14-17
I picked all of them for having the same attributes as myself. Tamer and healing...of course each of them holds a shield and slings… with spelled stones… to be honest i picked them because they were the cheapest...with a big power… however goblins can dodge a slung stone...they also have a glass or ceramic dagger..
Since there are so many of us i did not worry about that fact.. If nothing else spelled stones with fire damage or other attributes was good enough for crowd control.
Unlike rpgs of a party of five where you enter dungeons and level up… there no levels here… you get stronger as you age… but its not linear age equals strength… everyone is at level one and no one get to level two they just get stronger with experience…
For instance most nobles have been breeding with other species such as elves dragons dwarves… and they get a increased mana from start of birth… a pure human is much like a weak goblin we only get as far as we make ourselves… also most magic beasts have magic cores….
If you grind that up and apply it to your diet everyday… this helps increase your mana strength health and even helps you slow your aging by a noticeable amount…
Humans will still age however even with this…
Elves with a constant diet of ground up mana stones appear to stop aging...they also get stronger… but again it not a level it just they can do more with what they have… you won't see a great old elf jump from the top of the wall to the bottom and not suffer an injury no matter how old they are…
However you may see them expend a lot of mana at one time…
A common human has around 800mps in their middle aged years...a newborn might have 2 or 3mps
I have around 900mps since i used my mana up every time i woke up… as a child…
That enough mana to stop the bleeding in an artery...and repair if from a dangerous sword slash.
The gash will still be there… i would need about a week to heal that gash unless it is a shallow one…
To regrow a limb is months of a daily use of mp..unless other give their daily mp to help you out
I made some money giving my mp every day at the healers hall… after my own chores were done that why each of my slaves actually have ensorcelled stones to throw.
Anyone with healing attribute could easily make a wage there every day if they wanted to however few excepted dedicated healers will do so…
My two house cats… have armor on...it is ceramic plates with leather drilled into holes..like shoestring… the plates are small and are made to withstand one killing blow each..that little bit of leather was almost 5 silver pieces only food cost more for so little in perspective.
We are currently outside of the walls following a road to the farthest orchard… that happens to be fed from a stream… water carries mana diluted… so big water ways will always have mana beasts..hopefully we only meet up with other wildcats or beasts …. My biggest worry is a bear….or worse goblins…
Right now mana potions are not really around...sometimes you will see them on the market… it is easily a gold for a mana potion….that kinda rpgish… however no health potions…. This world really is hard mode…. Daryl warpig is dragging the cart we will use for collecting items… it is slightly bigger than a garden wagon...you would see on earth… however it has 8 wheels instead of the normal four… once you get past the roads the extra wheels help it roll. Off to the side of the wagon is a simple horn to stand on with another horn to sit on… he ride on that and uses a clever lever to turn the front four wheels it unassisted steering...
By the way that warpig is not tamed with a tamer… it was just raised by a pig farmer… who lives in a hill around here and takes his pigs indoors each day…
There is a adventure patrol that leave the castle each day goes from house to house to tell them there no goblins sitting above the doorway waiting for a farmers head to peak out…
Its a copper a weak… but they get to keep any wild beast they hunt while on the farmer's property when he is inside his home otherwise the farmer hunt there wild beast once out of there home…
Who would have thought there would be a industry of door knockers. It brings the meaning of neet to a whole new realm. There really are monsters out there that will get you if you let your guard down.
It takes about 2 hours of walking to get to the orchard...when we arrive i thought we where lucky.. We walked around for a bit and found no mana beast magic beast of any sort… then we got to work filling bags of food twigs… stones.. Clay from the riverbank.. And checking to see if there where any stones knocked off the wall..
Todd went to the outside of the wall with his battle slaves and patrolled the orchard… two of my slaves watched are back while me and daryl and his slaves actually collected the materials we were required on the list.. Loading the cart…
The sun was about to come down and todd had gone to the gate at the far side...waiting for us there… i was in the lead daryl was back on the cart… the slaves were all facing the gate headed that direction when two goblins dropped from the tree…
they went right after daryl and the male slave… male slave had his head chopped off then and there daryl lifted his arm and lost a hand i had already reached for my dagger as i brought my shield up the girls each did their own thing however the pig was startled and burst straight for the gate… having me jump out of the pigs way… that definitely saved daryls life… however it was now me and five girls with two goblins in the middle of us...daryls female battle slave among other things had actually jumped for the goblin that killed the male slave.. While i noticed daryl goblin was racing towards me...i was lying on the ground… daryls female mage slave threw a fireball between me and the goblin making him hiss angrily. The goblin pausing that moment gave me a moment to get up on my knees and point my dagger at him… when that goblin was hit by two explosive rocks...followed a moment later by another...killing him off however wounding me with several shards of rock… the last goblin was doing well against that goblin she was fighting every time she tried to back away the goblin would close the distances… making it impossible to attack the goblin alone… i looked at them… then decided what the hell why not.. And threw a stone right at her back thinking that she would eventually switch positions… with the goblin… it almost did not happen… she stumbled back and the goblin jumped forward the stone i cast hit the goblin right in the mouth the goblin lost its head however the slave lost an eye and a ear… with damage to her mouth…
The girls were stunned looking at me then the girl… grimacing i screamed hurry up put dirt on here wounds so they clog up.
There is no first aid… there are no bandages.. Pulling off my belt and the sash the mage women had when tightened the flesh to the girl's face as we applied healing magic to her… one of my girls ran to daryl to stop his bleeding...the other two and myself poured all of are magic into the girl...then we meet the others at the gate… and hurried home...i asked todd for the two slaves he had to sell to me while his arm regrew… he agreed easily...once home
Todd daryl and i went and reported to grandmother… not much was said about it other then we were lucky to survive which i agree...daryl handed off his slaves to me to keep in front of grandmother… the slave seals were changed… he could use that extra money to regrow his hand… while i would have to spend more resources...taking the two additional slaves in… however it would be cheaper than having to go to someone outside the family to heal the slaves even daryl got the benefits of having several healers in the house… for lose of a limb however a dedicated healer is still best.
That night all the slaves gathered in my room like normal and again all of our mana would be dropped into the slave who had her face injured...we went to sleep… while one girl suffered...the next day i took her to the healing hall so that the base of her ear and eye could get regrown… and we at the house would continue to just apply healing mana to it so it could speed up. This continued each day we would get up dump are mana into her.. Eat a meal then do some physical work around the house… get a second meal and sleep… for one weak…
After all the major wounds had closed up… we got assigned are next mission… it was to go right back to that orchard and collect more food wood and clay daryl on his cart with some new slaves me and my five and todd with his three.
I had used up all the extra money i had on food and getting a dedicated healer to look at the slaves face…
My house cats were with me again.. This time i sent them into the trees like i should have last time..
The warpig was excited or skittish it was hard to say daryl kept looking around… all of us where jumpy...after checking the orchards… i had my cats comb the trees this time. Then we started working it took longer and i was determined to harvest more food… in fact all of us where… it was dusk by the time we headed back.. I actually had my cat's guide us home...on the way back a wild beast came about however todd got to be a warrior with the help of my cats directing them into the spears and arrows they used… we got meat to take home we didn't even bother to drain the blood the meat was cut fast and thrown into the sacks it was to dark to see well enough and the dark was not the friend of us humans…
At the city gate it took a bit to get in there was a line. However there no fee to get in or inspection… terrorism does not matter or even happen...spies well what's the point of spying…intelligence network there simple no point to it... the only reason it took so long was there was a line and the guards had to make sure no vermin got into the castle...simple put there is a slime at the gate big enough to cover the portal you have to walk through the slime while it eats all insects off of you. You have to pass materials through the slime piece by piece… the guards tell the slime what to eat...this helps with lice and bedbugs not to mention parasites..for instance fruit with parasites in them will have the whole fruit eaten… they have the biggest slimes in the merchants quarter..
Making it home.. Again we report to grandmother. After a month daryl's hand is back my slaves all look there best...everything is healed up and everyone is healed up. …. There are no sheets… there are no blankets a simple animal fur is the bed. Possible even two… sleeping with others to share heat is the best...and all these teen slaves are mine hehehehehe i wake up late often.