Yawning I started to stretch myself and got up from my bed. Last night had been a long one, as i couldn´t really hold myself back from reading the first few pages of the book a second time and then even a third time. Slowly the old goblin opened my door. "Young master its time." he said shaking his head when he saw me yawning.
"Did you get what I told you yesterday to organize?" I asked the goblin while I changed my cloths. With a happy smile on my face I grabbed my bag, as I was looking forward towards this day so long I had already packed a few days ago so I was immediately ready to get on the carriage.
"Naturally this old man already organized this few things for the young master and already put them into the carriage. I hope the young master is aware of the fact that after this carriage arrives at the academy, the madam has chosen before her disappearance, this old man fulfilled the contract with the madam and will have to leave the young master." I could see a sadden smile on his face. The old goblin is a resident of my mother’s Realm. My mother had chosen him from the afterlife and promised him that, if he would stay on my side and watch over me until we reach the academy she has chosen for me, that he will receive not only greater fortune in his next life she will even help him once to evolve.
With a smile on my face I put my hand on the shoulder of the old goblin. "Naturally I haven't forgotten that. It's my mother’s order. You can't do anything against it even if you want. I also know that you have a clan to take care of in my mother’s Realm, don't you? So let us enjoy our last year together and make a lot of happy memories."
Not even an hour later a carriage left the castle of the drow clan. The old goblin and I were sitting in this carriage. "Hey Gobto I have a question for you. I am clear that mother should have told you a few things new Realm Keeper should know right? Mind telling me what she thought I would definite need to know?"
The old goblin put his hand before his mouth and giggled for a bit. "Looks like nothing can escape my young master’s eyes easily. The madam clarified that I can only tell you the following things, if you realized yourself that I am indeed able to show you a few things. I am sure you have a question for me then right? What troubles young master, if this humble goblin knows the answer he will be glad to help."
I started to laugh a bit. "You and a humble goblin? Does something like a humble goblin even exist? Looks like you will be better rewarded the more you help me right? Well who cares can you help me clarify what use this point system has? I never heard about something like that."
I could see a sparkle in Gobtos eyes before he answered: "Naturally there are humble goblins, what else could this old man be instead of a humble goblin" //He neither denied nor affirmed it. So it looks like this old Goblin will really get a better reward the more he helps me with my Realm// I thought and was a bit happy for this old goblin. He was there for me since I was a small child, so naturally I was happy for the fact that the more he helps me the better his reward will be. "Looks like young master already wanted to create his own planet right?" the goblin said smiling.
"No the truth is, this old bastard of patriarch gifted me a Realm which is at most only two centuries old. My Realm didn´t even birth one planet from itself so naturally I wanted to spawn one myself than, but after I saw this point system I wasn't really sure if I should choose the World of Darkness Package or if I should create my world from scratch, what will most likely be more expensive than the Package. That's why I decided to ask you what you know about it." I said with a troubled smile and waited for the goblins answer.
"The mistress told me to advise you to rather go with the custom world than take a World Package, the reason for that is simply because young master can really custom design ever aspect of the planet. With a World Package young master can at most only do a few changes and is much more restricted to stay with the random picked design of the world." The Goblin sighted before taking of his ring and placed it on the table between us. "In this ring the young master can find a few things the madam left behind for him, so that creating a custom world becomes easier for him. If this old servant is allowed to advice the young master with something, he should take the Mana Vine he finds in this ring and place it where plans to construct the unholy ground, as this Mana Vine would farther strengthen the unholy ground and it would raise undead more likely and of an even better quality. If he also would place the sapling he got from the drows in the middle of this vine it would accelerate the growth of the sapling by a lot."
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I pushed the ring back to the goblin. "For now I don´t plan to construct my custom world so do me a favor and keep this ring save until I decide to start with the world construction. It also looks like this ring is a rather vital treasure for you, so after I emptied the ring you can keep it if you want." I said with a smile on my face and already decided to leave one or two things that are not that important for me in the ring for the goblin to use. He will probably want it for his clan, so why not gifting him it than. //He raised me and looked after me all my life so why should i not also reward him with a few things?//
The goblins eyes sparkled while putting the ring back on and slowly caressed it. "Thank you, young master. Let us now come back to the question you asked this old goblin. The point system is really easy to be described. With these points you can make purchases from the Realm Net. On the Realm Net you can find systems like a predefined magic system for the inhabitants to use or you could buy an affinity to farther define what element should be primary used on this world. Realm Keeper can create content for the Net to earn points through that, the creator will always get a royalty of around 10-15% of the prize of the systems he designed when someone else buys them. It´s an easier way to get something to work in your Realm or only a few Planets or to even get something, which the Realm Keeper isn’t able to create by himself. For example you could design an unholy ground system yourself or buy one if something like that already exists on the Realm Net or you could use a lot of corpse and blood to turn the ground under your feet into an unholy ground. The unholy ground you could create by yourself would be a lot weaker than one you bought on the Net, but you wouldn't be as restricted as you would be if you would use a system."
"So you want to say me that I may can buy things on the Realm Net to make my life easier but I wouldn't have as much room for improvement as I would have if I do it myself right?" I said thinking about the things this old goblin just said. At the beginning I really was tempted to use systems for such things, but now I think I will use the Realm Net as less as possible. "Creating something myself will also provide me with things that make my Realm unique right? The more things I make myself, the harder it would be for an attacking Realm Keeper to destroy and loot my Realm right, because I am able to create specific monsters and also materials to aid the growth of my Realm. Also I could use these things that I made myself to trade with others to get things that is unique to their Realms, right? I am also pretty sure that things like this Mana Vine mother gifted me can’t be bought on the Realm Net right?"
“Yes your right young master only common materials and a few uncommon materials can be found on the Realm Net, there are a lot of things a Realm Keeper can only get through trades with others or finding them through pure luck. If someone is extremely lucky, it could also be that a few of these things are naturally created by the world. So master should keep his eyes open during this journey, as we will travel through a lot of villages and cities, if the luck is on young master’s side he may be able to discover a few good things along the road.” The goblin smiled proudly before he continued talking. “And it just so happens that we will arrive in a few days time in the desert, where a tomb auction will be hold at that time. This old man would advise to visit this auction as master could gain there a few corpses, if we are lucky we may find there a really good one.”
A Tomb auction is an auction organized by a rather large organization called the desert merchants. The reputation of these merchants is not really that bad and there are almost never any problems that happen during such an auction. These desert merchants’ auctions of Tombs of experts, they either found these Tombs themselves or they bought them from the descendants of these experts. Most of the time these so called experts aren’t that great at all, but still a lot of people hoped to get lucky and buy the Tomb of a really powerful expert. The reason for this is simply because these experts are always buried alongside treasures. I myself am not that interested in the treasures hidden inside these tombs, I am more interested in the corpses. To be true I don’t really care if this experts are as powerful as the descendants claim them to were, what really interests me is that I can legally buy corpse without getting a problem with these so called righteous people that claim they act in the name for what is good and right.
“Do we have enough money to buy a few Tombs right?” I asked the old goblin with a smile and his response was a nod. “Well than I think it is clear that we should visit this auction to get a few Tombs than. “Is there a city or a village we get through before we arrive at the auction side?”
“Yes there will be a small city called Garz. Why is there something the young master needs?” The old goblin asked with a smile on his face before he places a book as well as a feather and an ink bottle. “By the way this would be the things, which young master asked this old goblin to get. I hope this is to your liking, these were the best things this old man could organize in these short few hours that he had time to organize it.”
“Thank you, it looks like this old book that I have chosen on the coming of age ceremony is as complicated as you thought old goblin. I am sure this book will be a great foundation for my studies on demons. That’s why I need to take notes to easier get insights on this book, as for why we will stop at Garz, you will have to wait and see.”