As me and Hermes sat on top of the stagecoach we couldn’t help but be covered in cold sweat because of the monstrous degree of killing intent gushing out of from inside where the three girls were located.
Our destination is the Adventurer's guild to regulate our registration in the elf nation.
Now why all the killing intent, well when we left the restaurant Luna outright quit saying her fetish was found and she couldn’t handle being far from Misaki causing the latter to be infuriated.
Then when we entered the stagecoach, Charlotte sat in the back seat facing forward and Misaki sat facing her while Luna sat next to her but on the left side. That said she slowly moved closer and now the two girls are shoulder to shoulder. Oh I forgot to mention, Luna has been blushing while still dressed in her maid clothes.
It goes without saying that the killing intent was coming from Misaki as Luna slowly inched towards her more and more. I really fear for Luna since she is rather cute and I wouldn’t want to see some missing teeth coming from her since she has the feeling of a mascot type character even if a bit eccentric.
“Miss Luna, can I please ask you to sit next to Charlotte? I know you like Miss Shinigumi but for us normally craft type classes like myself this degree of killing intent isn’t something good for my heart. Also it’s scaring the locals.” Hermes said as he bent over to look out her window.
“Ah~~!” Luna exclaimed but looking outside she did indeed see lots of people had at least a 2 meter breath between the stagecoach so she got up and dejected she sat over on the other side of the stagecoach away from Charlotte pouting.
The degree of killing intent instantly decreased and Misaki poked her head out and gave Hermes the thumbs up and she sat back down while still pissed off.
“Shinigumi-san… do you have to disagree with Luna so much?” Charlotte asked.
“You try being the target of her ‘Love’. I wonder, can you ‘enjoy’ giving her that type of ‘Love’?” Misaki bluntly said in the young princesses face making her blush.
“You just don’t want to be part of a lesbian love scene, I bet it would be hot though.” I say with a mischievous grin from outside.
The killing intent instantly surged but the damage was done because Luna began to fantasize and was looking at Misaki with a lovestruck and extremely lustful expression.
“SHUT UP! And you can talk you Daughtercon! Incest lover! Lolicon! PEDO!” She shouted and crossed her arms with a scarlet face from the tips of her ears down to the base of her neck.
The people around had heard but instead of looking at me strangely, they just giggled at Misaki’s outburst as if she was a tsundere fighting her love. Luna actually looked annoyed by something as if she had seen something that no one else saw.
We travel in silence until we reached the adventurers guild and left the stagecoach with one of the helpers from the guild who managed them.
“Do I have to register?” Luna asked.
“You and Hermes have yet to register, we are adventurers so at the very least you should. I believe there are discounts depending the rank of the adventurer, or at least that's how it works in the human nations.” I said.
With that we go to the register and have the two sign up and then hand over our adventurer cards for it to be registered in the elven nation system. That said, they took it and put it on a magical formation and what came out was a silver colored card.
“There we go, we have altered it to the magical cards. The human nation ones are simple identification and are rather lackluster for a guild card. If only humans studied runes more then we wouldn’t have to restrict the registration runic formation. It makes registration so much easier.” She said.
“How does that work?” I asked.
"There is another side connect to this and your information goes on here and the card is made while transferring the registration information to the main HQ for archiving.” She replied.
I sneer as I hear this. The human nation really are the same as medieval era on earth, lazy asses that don’t like change. They have resources to work with but don’t accept them, seriously how prideful are they of being poor as shit?
“Thank you for the help.” I say as I get my card back and the other two get their newly minted cards.
“The ranks are very different so if you do C rank missions, these two will only get one fifth of the credit. With them you are allowed to do up to D rank. In such conditions 1 D rank mission will raise their rank instantly to E and 3 D rank missions will make them D rank followed by the common 3 C rank missions to the next rank and equalize them.” She explained.
“Thanks you, I heard about the contribution thing to be able to access the runes for comprehending?” I asked.
“Contribution points are given for each mission. F rank gives none, E rank gives 10, D rank gives 50, C rank gives 200- 500, B rank gives 1000-3000, A rank gives 5000, S and above depends of the mission and can go from 10,000 and above. If a mission is higher rank than what is posted we give compensation points which normally is double the rank by how many ranks above the mission is. If you do a E rank mission but it's actually a C rank then you get four times the contribution of a C rank mission.” She explained.
I memorized that and thanked her for the help.
“So what now?” Luna asked.
“First I want to get some space storage bags and look for puppet makers to see if I can buy a few to research their working.” I say.
“I have a number of bags at home and I know a good puppet maker that can supply you with some puppets.” Luna said.
“Alright, please lead the way and once we get the things we need we can accept some missions to raise the ranks for you two.” I said.
“Ace, can I have a bit of money? I wish to search for a herbalist and potion maker to acquire Elven herbs that are known to contain more mana inside. It will surely aid you as well.” Hermes said.
I nod and fish out 10 gold coins and point at Charlotte.
“Can you go with him and make sure he isn’t ambushed. I will lend you 2 Warrior puppets as well.” I said.
“Sure, you can get the other stuff and I will guard Hermes.” She said.
I thank her and we leave before I summon the two warriors and the Guardian. The warriors I put under Charlotte’s control while the Guardian stayed with me to pull the stagecoach.
Splitting up I take the stagecoach while Hermes and Charlotte go walking off.
Luna’s house was at the northern edge of town in the residential area and it was a one story house but after asking I found there was also a basement and the content of said basement should be obvious since the door was large and made of metal like a safe with locks.
In Luna’s words, “My fetish is my weakness and I can be taken advantage of by others if they broke into my house and entered the basement.”
Misaki was shaking while clutching her fists because Luna actually entered the basement and came back with five high quality space bags but inside were an amazing array of ‘toys’ including a dildo made of the slime from the monster with the same name in the shape of a dick for masterbating held by a membrane that reminded me of condoms but after asking about it I found out that this was a restriction magic that was held together by runes that were hidden after activation. The slime inside was actually alive but the magic is very high end.
That said this can’t be kept ‘inside’ for a long time or the slime will actually suck mana from her body amazingly. It is a very good torture tool for keeping female mages from using mana by having the slime suck it up.
I did ask about butt plugs which made Luna a bit sad.
“They exist but they are made of materials that can’t be kept inside for a long time similar to the slime dildo and would cause harm to the user. It's the reason why I have this belt with the tail instead of a plug with the tail.” She said rather sad.
At this moment Misaki left while her body was nearing the point where a demonic afterimage was starting to appear.
“Maybe we went too far?” Luna said after Misaki was gone.
“Nah, it’s fun teasing her.” I said with a grin and Luna nodded.
She emptied her bags not really caring about the toys but she did store some whips, several metallic umbrellas including the one she had, and then came back with one that she said was given to her by her mother. It was made of mithril shockingly and what was even more surprising was that when she pressed a button on the side just below the one that releases the umbrella it popped out and she pulled out cane sword that glittered in the light.
“This is my family's Moon steel cane sword. This sword can only be made during a ritual where we gather moonlight for the entire cycle and concentrate it and flood it over the sword when forging. We can forge four swords a month and they are extremely powerful in the hands of a moon elf swordsman or woman and deadliest during the night of a full moon as our magic is connected to the degree of moonlight we can gather and generate.” She said.
“I’ve been meeting a lot of people that use moonlight recently.” I said with a sigh.
“OH RIGHT! There is a rune that is imperative you learn. It’s almost a humiliation if you are found without having comprehended this rune.” She said and began to draw it in the air.
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When it finished it began to buzz like a bee and I looked at it carefully.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Is the ‘Vibrate’ Rune! You need to comprehend it to perfection or you will be considered a humiliation!” Luna said very seriously.
I just look at her and face palm. “You're telling me that it has that use?” I asked.
“On yes, but it has combat uses as well if that is what you care about. If you are able to get one of those magic gun things that some of the royal marksmen have then you can add this rune to the compressed magic bullet they shoot giving it even more penetration power.” She nonchalantly said.
“Magic gun?” I asked.
“Yeah! It's something our great hero introduced by mixing our magic rune system with his old worlds weaponry. That said it was one of his last inventions so it didn’t get much development as it could have and is costly to make and hard to maintain so very few exist but those that do are large cannon sized weapons or handheld ones.” She said.
I really don’t know why the human nation still exists with so much power this nation has but then again, they aren’t warmongers, just horny treehuggers.
Still, as soon as she explained the rune I obtained it and tried it out but obviously I had little to no experience with this and it could only be called a shadow of what she can do with it.
Still I have time to train and all that so nothing to worry about. Still one of the bags I archive to have that kind of item inside then we take the rest of the bags and store some clothes, which is almost half erotic clothes and maid clothes. I was even tempted when she came out showing off a pair of pink underwear and white long stockings with garter-belt and long white silk gloves.
Hey! No hot blooded teen wouldn’t get a boner from such a girl showing off her assets. She is petite and looked like a 13 year old though so that helped me not do anything as long as I thought of her as underaged instead of being over 100 years old.
When she stopped we just chat a bit more as she put away more of her clothes, including the ones I’m sure she will have to throw away which were the S&M skimpy leather clothes, then finally load it onto the carriage.
Then I opened a single room dungeon into her bedroom and she used some kind of magic to push them inside and arrange her room inside. Then I was forced by her to waste an EXP crystal and make a large empty room with stone walls and floor where she set up her ‘toy’ collection from the basement.
When all was said and done the room actually got categorized as ‘Torture Chamber’.
When we finally finished it was already getting a bit dark so we headed to the adventurers guild where we had agreed to meet up with the others.
***
After me and the Crowned Princess split up from Sir Ace and Miss Shinigumi we walked around looking for the herbalists and alchemist shops.
“Erm… where are those shops?” I mutter dejected since we have been walking around for over an hour.
“Maybe we can ask someone?” the princess said.
I look at an elder elf sitting in front of a strange shop.
“Sir, we are looking for a herbalist or alchemy shop, can you tell me where we can find it?” I asked.
Her looked at me strangely and raised his brow and looked at us both.
“You're standing in front of an alchemy shop and you asking about it?” He said.
We looked up but all we saw was a sign saying “Pill Emporium”
“Isn’t this just a shop that gathers and sells the pills off alchemists?” Hermes asked.
“Nope, the market of alchemists is concentrated in these shops. We have 1 grandmaster alchemists, 20 graduated apprentice who can make their own stuff and 30 apprentice learning. Now what do you need kid?” He asked.
“Well, I am an alchemist and was hoping to purchase some herbs from here. If not the grown plant then at least the seeds. Oh and a book on the region's wild herbs.” I say.
The old man gets up and straightens his back making the sound of cracking come from his body. The next moment his body began to glow and he suddenly turned, in human terms, 40 years younger regaining the vitality in his body of a 40 year old man and looks quite dashing with the age.
“Much better, was getting tired of sitting here like that.” He said.
“Why were you in the form of an old man?” I asked only slightly shocked but quickly adapted since I have heard that elves are much stranger than that and I have already seen part of their strangeness from the little moon elf following Miss Shinigumi.
We walk inside and the man walks to the back corner and behind the counter before looking at a large bookshelf back there. After looking he took out two books.
“Dark Vine forest herbal encyclopedia and Dark Vine plant monster encyclopedia both books is 50 copper.” He said bored.
“So cheap!” I exclaimed unconsciously.
“We aren’t humans who live a dirt poor life half starved because of their pride. We have long since developed the art to quickly produce books and paper.” the elf scoffed.
Charlotte frowned. The elf looked to be some negative guy and sure wasn’t a wood elf… not dark either since dark elves are tan and all have either purple or black hair.
The man had light brown hair and slight tan skin that looked more like it was baked under the sun instead of natural. This made one type of elf appear in my head that match the negative or somewhat apparent prideful and reclusive nature he was showing, Wild Elves. Supposedly the most reclusive they are extreme experts at hiding. Wonder why this guy was here.
I pull out a gold coin and he frowns.
“Well we do need the herbs and seeds.” I said and he shrugs.
“Seeds we don’t sell. Doesn’t go well for business to sell rare seeds since we need to plant them as well. As for the herbs and flowers, humans can get only up to tier 3 common herbs. Anything higher than you can scram.” he said with a sneer.
“Tier 3 common that's it! We can't even get mana herb which are tier 1 uncommon!” I exclaimed.
“Well tough luck brat.” The elf said and grinned.
That was, of course, until the next moment when a big meaty fist smashed into his face and sent him flying.
“You blasted racist bastard! Stop ruining our business! If you don’t want to work than you can get out!” Shouted a burly man.
My eyes instantly widened at the extremely rare half breed. This tall man was a dwarf elf hybrid and from the looks it's a dark elf parent.
“Sorry about that kid. The bastard is already a fucking bastard to our normal customers but other races he is a total ass.” The man said.
“You fucking mix! You think you can boss me around!” The other elf shouted as he got up wiping the blood from his mouth.
“Get out of here you idiot. This is the last straw, I don’t fucking care if your father saved me from that nature wyvern or if it was even a fucking full blown dragon, a fucker like you doesn’t have a place in my shop.” The hybrid said
“You… is this how you repay gratitude!” The wild elf said but what happened next shocked everyone.
The bulky man sprang forth like a blur and sucker punched him deeply with his left fist in the gut before he pulled his right hand behind him and opened his hand into a wide palm.
The sucker punched expelled all of the wild elf’s breath and lifted him off the ground. Ironically he was also standing in front of a window.
As he straightened up a bit in the air that palm smacked right into the wild elf’s face and shot him out the window into the streets.
“If your father and mother want to complain have them come directly here instead of doing something else. I would love to tell them how you are acting.” The half elf shouted.
With that he dusted off his hands as if he was removing dirt after hard work. Following that he waved his hand and several dozen runes appeared and connected to the shattered glass. It began to float and returned to their place before the whole window began glowing and the cracks vanished.
“Alright then, now what do you need?” The half elf asked.
We explain and like the wild elf had done he said the books were correct but unlike the other guy the type of herbs I could buy was vastly different.
Items are categorized by Tiers 1-3, or Low, Medium and High similar to Ace’s guardian which is Low Grade, then by rarity which is Common, Uncommon, Rare, Extraordinary, Mythical, Godly.
“Alright then this shop isn’t big but we have up to rare herbs but we are only permitted to sell those to certified master rank alchemists. So Up to Tier 3 Uncommon herbs we can sell.” He said and then brought out a book. Inside were pressed herbs and flowers which showcased their collection.
Those with seeds packaged next to the flower showed which they were willing to sell seeds to.
First and foremost Mana herb were obviously chosen with 3 bags which were 20 silver each, 100 silver in human coin.
I flip through all the common flowers and herbs and get all those we were missing and was making a big dent in my productivity. A total of 4 gold went for common flower and plant seeds because of the sheer amount of different herbs. That said I took the most important ones since I know ace can’t hold an infinite amount of types.
Then I got some uncommon ones but not too many. The mana herb was already purchased so I took a different secondary ingredient that is optional for mana potions and normally had good effects for increasing its power if processed right. It was the seeds to a unique citrus fruit. The fruit itself was bitter sweet and had a distinct taste making it tasty but the bitterness vanished when mixed into a mana potion giving the normally dull potion a sweet flavor. Stronger and tastier potion a win win situation.
With the new herbs we return to the adventurers guild to await them. I was already imagining putting all these inside that dungeon to be farmed, being Ace’s alchemist truly is a blessing as there is unlimited herbs. I just need to supply the higher quality ones and he will grow them with even better quality allowing me to train as I please.
With a grin I walk with a spring in my step.
That was until we got about 5 blocks from the guild when a group of 10 men, one of which was the wild elf that was beaten.
“Bastard! Because of you I lost my job!” He shouted.
“That was your own fault that lost your job.” I replied
He sneers and pulls a sword. “Even if I go to jail I will kill you!” He shouted and the others pulled out bows or swords.
That was until the warrior puppets suddenly stepped up and mercilessly did a preemptive thrust with his spear to his throat with the other one with the halberd coming at the waist.
The speed was rather quick and the attack was precise and the man could only block the attack to the throat but was cut in the gut.
BOOM!
Behind the group the guardian fell shaking the ground. The street had been cleared up to 10 meters way and everyone was watching.
“Charlotte, Hermes let's go. If these guys even think of following us they will die.” Ace shouted as he walked over from the guild’s direction.
At that moment several figures appeared on the empty streets.
“What is going on! And who dares to kill in this city under my watch!” A stone faced tan skinned with bronze hair elf shouted.
One of the men from the attackers quickly woke up and pointed at us.
“Its them! Our boss was just walking on the street when they sent their puppets to attack!” He shouted.
“Cut the bullshit you idiots.” Ace said and the Guardian stepped forward.
“Call off your puppets this instant or you will be put in jail!” The woman shouted making Ace frown.
“Miss, that man on the ground had just lost his job because he was being highly rude and racist toward us being humans. Then he blamed us and came to attack. These puppets were left by our party leader to attack any confirmed threats that would definitely cause our untimely demise.” Charlotte said in a courteous tone.
Instantly the eyes of that elf woman turned sharp as an eagle and she scowled.
“Take them away! As for you all, confirm this with those around her what happened. Now miss, what was your destination?” The woman shouted at her men then turned and with a gentle tone asked Charlotte as if looking at her own child.
“Holy shit! Don’t tell me this woman is into that!” I thought. Looking at the woman's eyes they were indeed discreetly roving the princess's body.
“We were on our way to meet our leader who is that young man there at the adventurer's guild.” Charlotte said.
“Then I shall escort you while my men confirm everything.” She said with a gentle motherly smile on her face.
“Thank you.” Charlotte said with a smile making the woman blush a bit but her tan skin hid it unless you focus.
With that we were escorted by the woman that kept next to the princess. I had to hold back a grin but Ace was already giggling as he also realized it. Truly elves are an interesting race.