Ray walks over to Ken who was holding the axe man's battle axe, it was a fine craft, an axe head on one side, at the top a spear point and on the other side a curved point, the funny thing was that the axe was currently taller than Ken, with him being 4 and a half feet and the axe being 5 foot exactly, but he would soon grow into it, he was probably close to evolving now too.
“So what level are you now?”, Ray asked.
“41 and you?”.
“43.”. Ray said as he walked over to the stone prison, he had made to protect the young beats-men and girl, he placed his hand on the floor next to it and the pyramid sunk back into the floor. As he looked up, he could see the shocked looks on all their faces, slave collars were pesky things, if you tried to remove them by force, they would detonate and explode, killing the person, they also wouldn’t let you disobey the masters and if you tried too it would send a stream of lightning through you. The only way to be freed is by the captor releasing them or for the captor to die. As if finally realising what happened the little children began to cry tears of joy, the word, “thank you”, just about audible in the mist of it. After southing the crying children, the older girl turned to Ray. “I think you missed one, she said looking at the goblin.”, half-jokingly, half-concerned.
“Nah he’s my loyal number 2, I beat him in a death match not long ago and he swore his allegiance to me, he’s great company, though can only speak Gobda.”.
At the words Gobda Ken looked at Ray, it was amazing how he knew all these languages, Ken thought as he slinked off to loot the bodies.
“You know, you're the strangest human I’ve met, you saved us Demi-humans and are friends with a goblin? Aren’t your two races like mortal enemies?”.
“About that, it seems I was dead longer than I imagined.”, Ray hated to have to lie, but he had no other choice, his ideals clearly didn’t fit the current humans, “Last time I was alive, Demi-humans and humans got along well, they were at peace, they may not have been best chums and stayed in their own territory most of the time, but there was no ill will... tell me, what happened 10 years ago.”, Ray asked. It seemed that she had decided she could trust Ray after what he did, though still a bit cautious.
“It all started 10 years ago, when the king of all humans died, he had no heirs or anyone to pass the thrown down to, until his supposed brother appeared, I don’t know all the details, I was about 7 then and so all I know is what I've been told. But 10 years ago, he petitioned to actively start changing human laws, he broke all contact with the rulers of the other Demi-human nations and declared they were beneath humans and should serve them, we thought at first it was just nonsense that a deluded man had thought up, but the movement slowly gained popularity and a movement began and then, the movement became action. Apparently, there was a small nation out there that was home to many Humans and Demi-humans alike, where they lived in harmony and peace and so they struck there first, they wiped out the whole nation to show that humans who sided with Demi-humans were just as bad. Almost as soon as it was petitioned the law passed, that Demi-humans of all kinds, Beast-men, Elves and dwarves were to be treated the same as animals. This started a craze of Humans infiltrating the north and southern woods in which us Beast-men live, the snowy plains in which the Elves lived and the waste lands that are home to the dwarven civilization. The nations have been holding strong against the Humans and the leaders of all of them were scheduling a meeting in the southern beast tribe however just before that could happen, the north beast tribe was raided, it was if they Knew and so took even extremer actions, during the commotion I was separated from my father, the leader of the northern beats tribe, whilst I was fleeing I was captured and sold and ended up here, the last thing I saw of my home was fire and destruction.”, Tears began to roll down her eyes, “I don’t know what happened to my mother, my little sister, my friends or my father.”. she fell to her knees, unable to speak, sobbing uncontrollably. The little ones all crowded around her and hugged her in the attempt to cheer her up. She wiped her eyes and stood up.
“Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable. Human scumbags, especially that king, he deserves to die, killing and enslaving innocent people just because he wants to, I’m glad I chose to cast aside my humanity and choose the Demi-humans, I don’t want to be associated with them any longer.”. Ray said, venom in his tone.
“Cast aside your humanity? Chose Demi-humans?”, the girl asked confused. Ray was panicking a little now, he had just let a secret out that he wasn’t supposed to.
“You see um, I was resurrected by a goddess allowing me to keep my consciousness however I had to evolve like a monster to do so, during the battle she asked me to choose a side and I chose the Demi-humans and now apparently... I’m a Demi-human.”, Ray looked at them, worried they wouldn’t believe a word he said, I mean it sounded quite farfetched, but this world did have their goddesses and gods, so maybe it would work...
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“Wow, so you're like a chosen hero mister skeleton, you’ve come to save the us?”, one of the little boys said. This sprung a wave of praise and admiration from the children around him, the older girl seemed confused, but shrugged it off, she would see if what he said was the truth, if he somehow managed to become a Demi-human and save them all, she would believe he was a chosen hero then.
“So, you were heading to the southern Beast tribe?”, Ray asked, the girl nodded.
“If my parents are still alive, that's where they would be, the south is incredibly strong, my uncle is married to their queen so I’m sure that if my dad has survived, he would have gone there.”, she said sorrowfully, her ears and tail drooping.
“I’m sure your family is still alive, if they’re as courageous as you are, they must be.”. hearing this the girl smiled, her tail wiggling.
“I’ve decided, I will escort you and these 5 children to the southern Beast tribe and see if I can help in anyway, whether that be a war against humans or a conversation.”. At these words the children began to celebrate with joy.
“Are you sure? We can’t offer you any money though?”
“Not a problem, I wasn’t going to spend my whole life in here and besides, I’ll eventually have to go there any way if I want to help and I won’t be able to move around as freely in the human plains since I chose to support the Demi-humans, helping you, helps me”, Ray replied.
If he returned this girl home it could out him in a favourable position with the leaders of both the southern and northern tribes, who could be very powerful allies in the future. Ray holds out his hand.
“My name is Ray Smith, it's nice to meet you, princess.”, bowing
“My names, Lillyanne Meowlron, but you can call me Lilly... not princess please, that's embarrassing.”, she replied, blushing slightly, shaking his hand.
“If it’s ok with you though, I’d like to clear this dungeon first is that alright?”
“That's fine, this is the bottom floor, so it won’t be long.”.
“Wait this is the bottom floor?”, Ray asked shocked, what a small dungeon.
“Yeah, I overheard them mentioning it earlier, I can understand a bit of human, they were searching for the boss level monster but couldn’t find it, apparently it’s some kind of giant wolf.”.
Ray let out a sigh of relief, if the boss was already dead them that would have been a great let down.
“Anyway, let me introduce you to the kids.”, she points at a grey-haired boy with a wolf ears and tail, who was smiling a toothy grin, “This is Leo, he’s 10.”. She points at a girl with brown hair and fox ears and tail, who was playing with her hair whilst looking at Leo, “This is Sara, she’s 9.” she then points at a set of children, a boy and girl who look identical, with ginger hair and cat ears and tails, they were currently playing some game with their hands, "These are the twins molly and tom, they’re both 8.” and then she points at a shy looking girl, who was clinging to her leg, she had small wings on her back, short blue hair and had a clump of feathers for a tail, “And her names Sky, she’s 8 too.”.
“It's nice to meet you all, if I could smile I would.”, Ray said playfully which made the children laugh.
“you’ll have to wait demon lord, to protect these precious smiles and those of others like them, I have a bastard king that needs to be taught a lesson.”. Ray thought motivated. Ray was glad he had come to this world, not only had it cured his boredom, but it has given him a chance to do some good and he won’t let that go to waste. Ray looks up in satisfaction, when he see’s something descending out of the sky Rapidly, towards them, Rat jumps up in the air and blocks it in the sky.
“RUN, hide behind Ken!”, Ray shouts as he comes crashing down from the sky. Lilly and the kids stood behind Ken, as the dust cleared, Ray stood before what appeared to be a 10-foot-tall red and yellow bird
“You're not the boss, buy your sure strong.”, Ray said projecting his voice into the Monsters head who merely stared back at Ray, seemingly as if he was sizing him up. Ray couldn’t tell why, but he was slightly nervous, he could tell that this monster was strong, stronger than him, he needed to be careful, suddenly, the bird let out a mighty Caw, wings outstretched, its feathers blazing alight with flames, this was the creature that had been stalking them, it must have watched their battle and decided that now was the time to strike, when they were tired from the battle, but what was it? He had never seen a monster like this in Evoden before. Ray looked at Ken and the others, Ken and Lilly were clearly tired, they wouldn’t be any help and he wasn’t going to use the kids, it was all down to him.