We were walking/running back and we were speaking about this and that.
“So Drull, you´ve said that your stats are almost at the limit of the physical possibility. They sure are high with all of them over 90.000 but is this really the limit?” Me
“Yes, the limit is 100.000, the dragons, high elf royalty and a few demons were able to reach it. But master how do you know my status?” Drull asked, he walked a little behind me, like a butler.
Butler, I think that´s a good idea.
“The skill [Identification] makes it possible,” Me
“Ah there is that skill, but masters skill LV must be quite high, if master is able to see my status.” Drull
“It´s LV 10.” Me
“That is remarkable, I myself only have three skills on LV 10.” Drull
“Hoh, you´re the first I met with a skill on LV 10, “ Me
“I reached LV 10 in [Mana Manipulation] and [Quick Chanting] as I was 300 years old, may I know masters age? Master seems like a young elf girl, but master is clearly not even an elf.” Drull
“You could say that I´m 10, 13, 23 and 19.” Me
“How am I to understand that master?” Drull
“You see, my mental age is 23, this body is 13 and my other forms are either 10 or 19.” Me
“Which forms does master mean? The scaled half dragon?” Drull asked and I changed into Dex.
“Astounding, the ability to change age and gender. Master, may I know your stats? They have to be at the limit, and master must have some sort of skill for a further increase, maybe [Body Enhancement], such a quick defeat of myself wouldn´t be possible without.” Drull asked excited.
“Why are you so eager to know?” Me
“It´s merely my interest in an unique being like master, that and I want to train.” He said with a bow.
“Fine, my stats are all over 150.000 and you are right I have the skill [Body Enhancement], which allows me to double my stats. Is there anything else?”
“So young and yet so strong? How is that possible?” Drull muttered.
“I´ve met god, and he granted me a few wishes, my powers are part of said wishes.” Me
“Master, which god?” Drull
“The god, these 7 gods on this world are his creation.” Me
Drulls jaw dropped and his composure of a gentleman demon was gone, but just for a brief moment.
“So master wants to say that there´s a god above the gods?” Drull asked in disbelieve.
“Yes, he´s cool, thanks to him I´m able to live in this wonderful world.” I said and gave god a short prayer.
“Master is not from this world?” Drull
“Ah yes, my original world is quite different from this one, no magic, more technology, only humans, no monster and so on.” Me
“I´d like to see masters world.” Drull
“It´s so so, this world is more fun, say Drull why are you calling me so formally? Always master.” Me
“Demons have a rule, if they say that they´ll devote themselves to someone, they´ll serve this one with utmost respect, this gets more important the higher the demons rank is. And the master must qualify a set of rules to get the respect.” Drull explained.
“So what are the rules?” Me
“They are individually chosen by each demon. I think, that my master has to be stronger than me and I have to owe him a great favour. Master is not only way stronger than me, master even released me from this dungeon.” Drull said and I chuckled as I remembered the reason for his guard duty.
“Hey Drull, I took the thing that was behind your room, does this dungeon now stop with the monster spawn?” I asked.
“No master, these monster are artificially produced and use the mana of the planet to spawn, say master what was behind me?” Drull
“The deity of void and space, trapped in a crystal orb. You think we should destroy him?” Me
“The deity of void? I´ve heard of Piloro, he tried to destroy the world and was sealed by the high elfs. They used almost all of their mana for this feat and their descendants are only normal elfs.
I would not recommend to destroy the orb, you would free him. “ Drull
“I didn´t mean to destroy the orb, but him.” Me
“Master, not even the high elfs, which were almost as strong as me, were able to kill him.” Drull
“I have a skill that would be able to kill him, it´s called [Armageddon] I killed the dragons in the dragon valley with it.” Me
“These old farts are dead? Good, they were arrogant and thought of themselves as higher beings. But I would still not recommend to kill Piloro, he´s the deity of void and space, it might be that we would destroy the void if we kill him, there is a theory that says that the deity is the reason for the existence of the element they represent. Is master sure, that he can confine Piloro?” Drull
“I put him in my inventory, time does not move inside of it, and it seems like he is not alive inside the orb, I´m only able to put dead things inside of my inventory. But if he´s stated as dead, while inside the orb, wouldn´t that annul your theory?” Me
“That would be true, but if master is able to confine him, then why should we take the risks? He surely would try to destroy this world if he´s released.” Drull
“True, say Drull did you met a deity? You almost sound like you did.” Me
“Once, the deity of light, she almost killed me, as I tried to steal some liquor out of her temple.” Drull
“That´s a little overboard....” Me
“Well it was called Tears of Siria and it was said that it has the ability to resurrect the dead.” Drull
“And you tired to steal it, why?” Me
“It´s also said that it´s the best liquor of the world.” He said grinning.
“I would do the same if it were to be chicken,” I muttered and we continued our walk/run in silence.
We made a stop after 20 hours of constant running, and are now back at the 40th floor.
“Hey Drull do you want something to eat? I´m starving.” Me
“I don´t need to eat, I can sustain by mana consumption, is master not able to do the same?” Drull
“What do you mean?” Me
“Master your LV in [Mana Manipulation] is LV 10 isn´t it?” Drull asked and I nodded,
“Then master should be able to use the mana as food.” Drull said and I was surprised, that something like this would be possible.
I quickly tried to use the mana in my body as NADH+H and it really worked, so from now on I
don´t need to eat. Which I naturally keep on doing, chicken is too good, how could I stop eating it?
“You´re right, but what about water?” I said, and Drull had a wry smile.
“What?” Me
“It´s just that I needed 10 years to learn that and master was able to do it in less than 10 seconds. And it´s the same with water.” Drull said in a defeated tone.
“Sorry, that´s how I work, I instinctively know how I do something when I level the skill. But I have to try it first.” I said and did the same with water, I changed the mana inside of me into small water particles, which were then absorbed by the body on itself.
“How many skills does master have on LV 10?” Drull asked interested.
“I think around 64,” I said, while frying the chicken and potatoes.
“...” Drull
“Is something wrong?” Me
“...”Drull
“ARGH dammit, every single time. And here I thought he is different, he didn´t faint as I said my stats, why now?” I screamed.
Yes, Drull fainted while standing....
“Well, I´m almost used to it now.” I said and kept cooking, and at the moment I finished,
“W...master what happened?” Drull said as regained his reasoning.
“You´ve fainted as I said my amount of LV 10 skills, do you want something?” Me
“Please don´t say it so nonchalantly master. If I heard it correctly, master said over 60 different skills.... How is that possible?” Drull
“I gain 10 skill points for each level and can distribute them. You sure, you don´t want anything? The chicken is good.” Me
“No thank you master, I´m fine. More important than food is why master gets 10 points.” Drull
“Drull listen closely.” I said in a serious tone and Drull instantly stood a spur tauter.
“There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more important than chicken!” I said and Drull looked at me with disbelieve, in my extremely serious eyes.
“Äh, then thank you master, I´d like to have some chicken.” He said a little nervously.
“Good, and for your question, one of my wishes was to get the body of a gamer. It´s a term of my old world and it describes the player of a game. Most of the players in old games get 10 points when they level up, this also happens in my case.” I said and gave him a plate with chicken and potatoes.
“I don´t really get the term of player, but the rest would mean, that master is easily overpowering any being on this planet, only with a few levels.” Drull
“That was my intention from the beginning, where is the fun if you have to be careful of any possible enemy. “ Me
“That is sooo wrong.” Drull muttered quietly.
“You will like Lilia.” Me
“Why master?” Drull
“She has the same opinion as you, about my skills.” I said and continued to eat.
We ate and then continued our way back, I thought we´ll find the 7 people from floor 30 but they were gone as we reached the floor.
And as we were on the save zone on floor 20.5, 20 hours later, we were stopped by 30 guys.
“Stop, you are Clair, aren´t you?” A shady guy asked.
“My, I sure am known, but who are you?” I asked.
“Wasn´t she alone?” One Guy in the back said.
“Quiet, one more person doesn´t matter we have A-Rank adventurers with us.” Another one rebuked him.
“Please don´t struggle, we don´t want to hurt you but you have to come with us.” The shady guy said.
“And where do you want to bring me?” I asked, my head a little tilted.
“That´s not important.” He said.
“But if I don´t know, where we´ll go, how am I going to agree. I mean you´re 30 grown man, you surely understand the worries of a maiden like me.” I said in a faked frightened tone.
“We won´t be rude, the opposite, we´re going to be reeaally friendly.” He said with a perverted grin.
Drull kept quiet, he´s completely ignoring them. As if he knows that I´m way stronger, okay he does, but he could at least fake his worry over me. And why does he no longer have horns?
“Oh my, how frightened. “ I said, now in a clear sarcastic tone.
“Yeah, so you should come like an obedient girl.” The shady guy continued, without noticing my sarcasm.
“Master, sarcasm doesn´t work on apes,” Drull said.
“Who´re you calling an ape?” A guy shouted from the back.
“You obviously, I don´t speak of myself and clearly not about master.” He said, nonchalantly and the group got further agitated.
“Well I take that as a no. Guys, kill him but don´t hurt the merchandise too much.” The shady guy said and they rushed at us.
Five of them ran to me and 20 to Drull.
“Oh nooo.” I screamed in a faked voice and applied mana pressure on my five opponents, who instantly fainted. Only 3000 mana and they faint....
Drull´s opponents had not as much luck as mine, they were sliced in half with a simple swish of his hand, producing a large red puddle around him.
“Drull, you´ve dirtied the floor,” Me
“My apologies master, but these monkeys have no more worth than the fertilizer, they now are.” Drull said, while bowing.
Yep a real butler.
“But Drull, wasn´t that a little anticlimactic? I mean you could at least have tried to rescue me.” Me
“Master you mean as anticlimactic as our fight, which was my first fight for over 2500 years and which master simply ended by cutting my limps off?” He said a little down.
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“Was that a problem? I mean why should I wait, we can spar at a later time.” Me
“I take it, that master doesn´t know the terms for a demon fight, it is extremely degrading for us if we´re handled like garbage.” Drull
“Sorry?” I said and stuck my tongue out, while hitting myself, with a °pow° on my head.
“Please take this seriously master,” Drull
“But you did the same with these guys,” I said and made an exaggerated gesture at the bloody leftovers of his fight.
“Hm, you´re right master. It was just so that these guys are way to weak.... You don´t mean...
master am I really so weak?” Drull asked downhearted.
“Äh, well you are the strongest I´ve met, but sorry it only amounts to a third of my power, I mean physical power, so without mana or runes or weapons or tricks or actual fighting skill or different skills or~” I said but Drull stopped me.
“Please stop master, I get it, I´m weak,” He almost cried and squinted down, throwing a tantrum and making circle motions with his pointy finger.
I looked at him and then at the remaining five guys and said,
“See what you´ve done? Now he´s broken, I don´t know how I can cheer him up.”
They looked at me and their boss said, “No, I think that was your doing.”
“Really? Oopps , sorry Drull, I´ll help you to train.” Me
“Boss, what now, most of them were C-Ranked.” One asked as I went to Drull and petted his back.
“So what? We´re all A-Rank, we could have done the same.” The shady guy said, with a tinge of fear in his voice.
“R..right boss.” Another one agreed, also worried.
“°Hick°, really master?” Drull
I like him, he is as funny as me, I think I´ll keep him.
“Of course, we´ll give you a special soundtrack and then a movie montage,” I said but he looked confused.
“Soundtrack? Master is that a technique?” Drull
“No it´s a term from my world, it´s a special song.” Me
“But master, how could a song train me?” Drull
“Forget it, the important thing is is that I´ll help you.” I said and stood up, turned around and asked the five guys,
“do you want to continue? Oh and may I know your employee?” Me
They did not answer me and rushed at us.
“Drull, let their boss alive.” I said.
“Yes master,” He said, stood up, bowed and chanted a quick chant, which I didn´t know.
“[Schatten Loch]” Drull said and the floor under four of them turned dark and they fell inside of it, while screaming in utter terror.
The last one saw Drull´s chant as a chance and tried to cut him, but Drulls chant was way to quick and he finished before the shady guy reached him.
Drull swept the sword out of his hands and broke his hands and feet after that.
“Master the monkey is ready for the interrogation.” Drull said and kicked the shady guy in front of me.
He did not scream, but looked at me with hateful eyes.
“So I´d like to know the name of your employee, “ Me
“Why should I say his name?” Shady Guy
“Because you´ll get 100gold, if you do.” I said and throw a pouch in front of his face.
His eyes went wide and he said full of greed,
“It is the duke of Turonis”,
“Oh, I already wondered when he makes his move. Thanks” Me
“So you´ll let me live?” Shady Guy asked, while picking the gold up.
“Nope,” Me
“But you´ve said,” He began but I cut in,
“I said, you´ll get 100 gold coins, which you did. I never said that I´ll let you live.”
“No, please, I do everything.” He pleaded.
“Drull, would you be so kind and kill him?” Me
“Yes master,” Drull said, bowed and then broke the neck of the still pleading shady guy.
“He can have the gold,” I said and left.
“You are too generous master,” Drull said grinning, and followed me.
“Drull, where are your horns?” Me
“I hid them, with [Bodytransformation]” Drull
“Nice, and by the way, how are you able to understand them?” Me
“The language of Kirk is old, a few things are different but most of the things are the same. It originates from the high elf language.” Drull
“Could you please say something on the language of the high elfs?” Me
“Yes master, Ich freue mich auf das kommende Training,” Drull said,
Skill:
Language of Kirika
This ancient and almost forgotten
language, it is the foundation of
every modern language. LV 0
I maxed it and said on Kirika, “ Thanks Drull.”
“Master already learned it?” Drull
“The language is a skill, I maxed it.” Me
“Master doesn´t stop to amaze me.” Drull said and we kept quiet, until we reached the entrance.
A few students looked at us, or more at Drull but no one said anything. So we went on and reached the mansion.
“Master, these stone statures seem alive,” Drull said as we reached the entrance and walked past the crocodile guards.
“They are, I enchanted them and made something like stone golems out of them.” Me
“Like the dwarfen guards?” He asked.
“Don´t know, I never were in a dwarfen town, but it´s on my to do list. Did you visit the Eisenberge?” Me
“Eisenberge? I never heard of that place.” Drull
“Maybe they changed the name of their town.” I said,
“We have to register you as person that lives here, and Drull?” Me
“Yes master?” Drull
“There are a few people inside the mansion, mostly maids, then a gardener and two women and a sword instructor, a half elf and an elf. The elf and the half elf are my friends the others are my employees. Don´t treat them as inferior creatures.” Me
“Yes master,” Drull said and bowed.
I´m so going to use him as my butler.
We almost reached the door as it swung open and René came, more flying than running. She dive bombed in me and cried.
“I´m so relieved to see you mistress,”
“What happened?” I said, and began to pet her head.
“ A few shady guys came and tried to destroy the mansion, they were quickly handled by your guards but miss Milinda said that 30 more were inside the dungeon and want to kidnap you.
I said that we have to rescue you but miss Malinda declined, even miss Bose refused. Only mister Gerd listened and said that he will get ready.” René said with a few sobs mixed in.
I continued to pat her head and began to play with her hair.
“You don´t have to worry over me. More importantly, did something happen on your side?”Me
“N..no, the shady guys were quickly handled by the guards. It was frightening, they were ripped apart and then burned to cinders. Was that what you meant as you said that we should not argue back to them?” René said with a pale face.
“They only stop you, but if you don´t listen and use a weapon they do this. Take a day off and spent some time with your daughter.” Me
“But mistress, what about the work?” René
“The work will still be here, when you´re back, but your mental health is not as persistent as the work.” I said and ushered her to go. She thanked me and went home, alas reluctantly.
“Was that one of said maids?” Drull.
“Yes,” I said as we went to the living room, where we found Gerd and Lilia arguing.
“Why should I not go? I heard that five of them are A-Rank!” Gerd shouted.
“I can´t tell you but you don´t have to go, she´ll come back.” Lilia argued against him.
Ilza sat beside them and noticed me as we both came inside, she smiled and her mouth opened but I signalled her to stay quiet.
“Miss Clair is only 13 years old, she may be an exceptional mage but 30 guys on C to A-Rank are too much.” Gerd
“I already said you don´t have to go, she´ll be fine.” Lilia
“How can you be so calm? Miss Bose please say something.” Gerd said and sought help by Ilza.
Who simply smiled and said,” I think she´s fine.”
“Even you?” He once more screamed and turned around, seeing Drull.
“Who´re you?” He asked, not noticing me who´s more than 30cm shorter than him.
“I´m masters new servant.” Drull
“And which masters servant are you?” He said, still not noticing me, who´s looking up to him.
Drull slowly raised his hand and pointed down. Gerds eyes constantly following his hand and then seeing me.
“Hi,” I said and grinned.
“Miss Clair would you please explain miss Malinda the dangers of a 13 year old girl against 30 experienced adventurers?” Gerd said, still not fully noticing me.
“Eh, okay, Lilia these guys were small fries, the duke gave the order. Am I still not allowed to visit him?” Me
“What are you saying miss Cl...miss Clair you´re back.” Gerd finally noticed.
“Yes, I´ve found Drull here, inside the dungeon and we managed to kill the kidnappers.” Me
“That is good, you have my gratitude.” Gerd said to Drull.
“It was my pleaser to defend master.” Drull said.
“ As if, you did not even try to defend me.” I said quietly.
“Did you already eat? I am hungry and chicken might be the right thing now.” I said and Lilia sighed.
“No we did not, let´s eat, you can tell us your story at a later time.” Lilia
“Gerd, do you want to eat with us?” Me
“No sorry, I have to meet my brother, he wanted to help me rescue you.” Gerd
“Really? How nice of him, you can invite him to dinner, sometime later.” I said and Gerd left.
“So who´s this man?” Lilia
“That´s Drull,” I said and cut the chicken. Chicken with cheese and noddles are on today's menu.
“Good day, my name is Drull, master saved me from the 100th floor. I´m an arch-demon.” Drull said and bowed, letting Lilia and Ilza fell down, quivering.
“Why are you quivering? Are you cold?” I asked from the side.
“Don´t you get it? Arch demons are the strongest beings after dragons.” Lilia cried.
“Don´t group me with these lizards, I´m stronger than most of them.” Drull
“You were stronger, most of them are dead.” I corrected him.
“Are we going to die?” Ilza asked and crawled over to me, hugging my leg.
“Why should you?” I asked, loocking down.
“The people say that demons are frightening and will slaughter us on sight. It´s said that they eat children.” Ilza said, chattering her teeth.
“A..and he´s an arch demon on top, one of the strongest kinds of demon.” Lilia
“Drull do you eat children?” I asked him.
“Once, tender meat, kinda taste like chicken.” He said and Ilza squeaked in fright.
“Really? I kinda want to try that.” I mumbled, only Drull was able to hear me.
“Master want to try? Should I fetch one? There is a girl in nearby, she has the right age.” Drull
“Maybe later, if there is the opportunity.” Me
“Please don´t joke around, do something!” Lilia
“Okay, please calm down, Drull is not your opponent. As he said I saved him,” Me
“Then beaten me down,” Drull chipped in,
“Then beaten him down and he pledged loyalty to me.” Me
Ilza looked up at me, tears in her eyes, and asked“ really?”
“Yes, I won´t harm others without masters consent. At least as long as they don´t try to harm master.” Drull said.
“Is he really saying the truth?” Lilia
“Yes, now sit down, the food will be ready in a few minutes.” I said and they sat down, with the most distance to Drull as possible....