The sun shined through the window and gleamed right into my eyes. Squinting I rolled out of bed gave a big stretch and yawned. Otto walked into my room and greeted me with a tray full of eggs, sausages and some toast. He placed the tray on my bed.
"Gods this looks good, who ever falls for you is one lucky person." I said munching down on the food.
"My wife says the same thing every morning at breakfast."
I guess I assumed wrong about him. Where did he get the food? Whatever it didn't matter I was starving, After wolfing down my meal, we left. The demon's body had already disappeared over night; Otto said demon bodies are only temporary once dead their bodies will slowly decay and only leave behind types of minerals. That's why the claws can be scavenged.
"Ah, I almost forgot, welcome to Rayliv, a world full of magic, wondrous adventures, oh and demons."
Otto laughed at himself. After an hour long walk back we finally made it to the town the guards greeted Otto and went back to their positions. After stopping by Otto's bakery so he could drop off his apron, we made our way to the market plaza.
"what are demon claws used for anyways?" I asked.
"different alchemical potions and for some enchantments."
"speaking of enchantments, the one you used was badass how do I use something like that?"
"Can you box, or know any martial arts?"
I shook my head.
"Then these wouldn't be a good fit for you, focus on your magic, with your stupid amount of mana you could become very powerful."
We passed the dwarf who sold me the sword, and I waved at him, and he waved back. Now that I look around there are a lot more shops and market stalls open than yesterday.
"whats going on?" I asked Otto
"what day is it Thursday? on Thursday the Duke comes to visit the market place and buys anything he fancies."
Speak of the devil, just as Otto finished talking an old stern looking man with fancy robes and many gold rings surrounded by guards and tailed by a few dozen more guards walked into the plaza. One can only assume he is the duke of this town. Seeing one man being followed by half the city guards made me wonder something.
"Hey fairy, you said before that this is a level one kingdom right? whats up with the levels?"
Fairy poked her head out with her hair ruffled and let out a big yawn. She flattened her hair the best she could and flew up to my shoulder.
"There are ten different levels for a kingdom. Level one is the weakest and Level ten being the strongest."
"whats the difference between each level?"
"As an example, this kingdom current has two warriors with a single gold star power level, for it to advance to the next stage it would need to either get ten more single gold star warriors or have one warrior rise to black star."
"If you were to stay here, we would have three single gold star warriors." Otto cut in.
As the Duke looked around the different stalls and shops, Otto and I found the person we could sell the claws too. The merchant looked ancient as if he would keel over and die at any moment. He wore black robes and held a staff with a dark grey crystal atop it.
"Ahh, demon claws, I can give you two silvers a piece."
His voice was only a little more than a whisper. As Otto and I handed him our claws, we had five each, the Duke walked behind us and shoved me out of the way. I was normally a calm person but for someone to just walk up to me and shove me was inexcusable.
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"watch it jackass."
I snarled wiping the dirt off of my butt.
"Who is this, wench?" he looked down at me
"I'm Aleksandra Reid; I don't see how you can look down on others when your massive nose blocks your line of sight."
His face now looked as if someone shoved a lemon in his mouth. Some of the people around us were covering their mouths trying not to laugh. The guards drew their swords.
"execute her." he said as if he was only ordering a sandwich.
I placed my hands together and created a fire ball. The guards looked shocked some of them even stepped back a few paces. Otto didn't want to get involved considering he had no reason to and also had a wife that lives here, so he sat down by the black robed enchanter. One of the guards stepped forward.
"it's only one woman what can she do?" he said bringing his sword above his head about to strike.
I threw my fireball at him, and he turned to ash with in an instance. Though I just killed a man I dare not hesitate as all the guards had their sword drawn now, I lobbed the next one at the group in the back, and it exploded knocking them all back a few feet. I drew my sword, though I didn't know how to box or fight using martial arts I did know fencing. Lunging my sword forward I quickly stuck it through one of the guards face plates and threw another fire ball at a group of guards running towards the scene. There were only two guards and the Duke left. The Duke fell backwards over a merchants items trying to back away from me. The guards stood in fear. Just as I was about to run two heavily armour soldiers emerged from the crowd of people encircling the fight.
"What is happening here?" the one in the dark blue armour with orange trim asked.
"Do you wish to die?" said the one in black plate-mail.
At this Otto stepped in.
"these two are the Single gold star warriors."
He said putting his gloves on and getting ready.
"Why are you helping me?"
"We are both from the same world, so we have to stick together but also because the Duke and his men have been ruling with an iron fist for a month now."
Otto leapt forward and began swinging at the man in black armour. I shot a fireball at the blue one which seemed only to move him back a few inches.
"not bad girl, but looks as if you only just started using magic."
He moved forward and began to swing his sword at me each slice of the sword sounded as if it was cutting metal. I was only able to dodge or block each of his hits; I had no chance to counter. The man's blue gauntlet started to glow green, and he began to swing his sword even faster. His gauntlets must be enchanted, what do I do? At this point, I'm bound to be killed. I blocked one of the attacks, and as I blocked it he punched me in the gut, and I flew back a few feet. I hit the ground with a loud thud, and I laid curled in a ball coughing. There is no way I can beat him if he is this powerful. But as a rubbed my stomach to try and stop the pain I thought of an idea. I clenched my fist and began to concentrate as the blue knight moved forward. Come on please work, as I thought that my hand became engulfed in fire. I got off the ground and blocked his sword, and we both went for a punch against each other. Our fists collided but my punch was much stronger causing his gauntlet to shatter, and his hand to explode. The man screamed in agony as he dropped his sword and clenched onto the stub that was his hand. Lifting up my sword I drove it down into his suit of armour with all the force I could. He collapsed on the ground in a pool of blood.
"I'm done over here Otto how are you doing?"
As I looked over to check on Otto, he had already finished the Black knight and was sitting on a barrel eating an apple. One of his gloves was torn up but other than that he looked fine.
"I'm good."
The crowd around us erupted into loud cheers and applauding. The Duke and his men were clearly not loved. Speaking of the Duke, I looked over to where he had fallen over. He was still there and in a puddle of his own making.
"what do you wanna do with him?"
I asked Otto grabbing an apple as well.
"we could give him to the people."
He suggested grabbing the Duke by his collar. I nodded, and Otto threw him at the feet of the citizens. We grabbed our silver from the enchanter and started to head for Otto's bakery.
"why was the Duke able to treat so many people like trash if a king is running the kingdom?"
"the king died just a month ago leaving the nobles to fight for power; the duke killed all of them, so he ran things until now."
"who will run things now then?"
"Well by the law to rule, you or I, but I honestly just want to bake stuff and being a ruler I wouldn't see my wife often."
I could rule my own kingdom if I wanted to? It was only my second day in a new world yet things have unfolded unexpectedly.
"Where is my throne?"
I asked with a big grin on my face. Otto laughed, and we made our way up town to the castle. Word seemed to have spread fast most of the guards moved out of our way, and the citizens bowed as we walked past. All the eyes staring at us made me feel slightly uncomfortable, but I kept my head held high and stayed strong as any decent queen should. We finally made it to the castle where two guards were standing awaiting our arrival. The castle was rather large but run down. I stood at the threshold of the gate that leads to the courtyard. With a single step, I would be in my castle and would officially become a queen.