Month of fire. Day 24. The fire that started in the slums also spread to the 3rd circle. Amount of the victims were approximately 93'000, from which at least 9'000 were citizens of the 3rd circle. Currently the authorities don't know who or what was the cause of fire, but supposedly it was diversion organized by the group, which were the perpetrators of the 'Vanishing' incident...
From the reports considering 'Vanishing' incident.
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MC POV
So... after the grand escape... not that it was very grand... but the aftermath of it was quite... funny... anyway after I sent those monster girls to arachnees... I actually got some promises of help if needed... being hero actually pays of... sometimes... who would have known?
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Elizabeth (Justice Jerk) POV
I was lying in the medical ward, and was cared about by some old priest... That man is scary... even more so after he found out that I have a holy affinity... and he teaches me it... I wish I never started that fight... The only thing I remember during it, is how I drew my sword and then... everything went black...
Julius: “-and so the first goddess descended-” yeah... oh and my name is Elizabeth... my parents thought that I was a girl... considering that they had five kids before me, and all of them were girls... so... yeah...
Julius: “-and so the light goddess showed us the way-” what's he talking about? Honestly... I don't care... but I am not the only one who has to endure... the Boris is actually here too...
Boris: “Magister Julius... But what about the god of order?” and he's a zealot... actually that merc, Pyro, gave all of us some nicknames... what JJ means though? BDL? Or MO?
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Finally... the lecture is gone... now we will learn the holy magic...
First thing we learn is [Holy Orb], [Holy Heal] and [Holy Cleanse], simple names, just as their use... [Holy Orb] is attack spell dealing holy damage, [Holy Heal] is holy version of heal, which is used to... well... heal your allies, the most needed spell for true hero... [Holy Cleanse] is used for removing debuffs... like curses, some weak poison, that sort of thing... but... it will burn you slightly... and it seems that Pyro was weakened when he fought me... I am surely the MC and will be stronger than him one day... but for now... I need to survive this bishop's training...
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Pyro POV
So... I am back at this shitty castle... no it's not bad, but... let me ask you one thing... if you lived in the compact, but comfortable room, soft bed, comfortable temperature... plumbing... and here... here just to take a dump you need to have a bucket... or some other container for shit... and then carry it outside to throw it away... and don't get me started on the bath! THEY DON'T HAVE SHOWERS!!! Not like I liked them in the first place, but I appreciate the choice... and here... you need shitload of time to get the water to the bath, then you need to warm it up, and the temperature is poorly regulated... I like it hot though... But... here's magic... so if you are strong enough mage you could make some sort of insta-bath and other stuff... *sigh*...
Ken: “What's wrong?” oh... Ken... and others are here too...
Pyro: “I miss civilization... I can't even bath normally...”
Brain-dead loli(BDL): “Yes, and there are no makeup!”
Pervert 1: “Do you need one? You're a child-” and he got smacked... seriously... never try telling a girl she's small, tall, old, or young... you will get either some insults, injuries, or serious problems in man's health... like the dude over there... on the bright note... it's fun to watch as some 1,4 meters girl kicks ass of a 1.9 meter muscular man...
Girl 1&2: “SCUM!!!” and now they also joined the fray... why do they hate him so much? And why does he smiling?
Guys 1-3: ““Do you need to be so cruel?”” hey those three are sadists... dunno about the regular novels, but either they love him, or hate him... either way he's smiling... creepy...
Pyro: “Um... so... any news?” … after a few more kicks, they got more... cheerful? Oh and they stopped the beating...
BDL: “Yes, there was a fire, it's already contained, but a lot of people didn't made it...” Really? So how many?
Ken: “Soldiers said that it started in slums, but also spread to the outer circle, where most citizens live.” Oh...
Pyro: “How many died?” just curious...
Guy 2: “We don't know, but... they say almost 100'000...” … How do I levelup? I needed like a hundred thousand kills to reach level ten, but what after? Million?
Pyro: “Hah... that's lame...”
Guy 1: “Yes and they couldn't extinguish it for quite a time... I must agree with you here, we need bring some civilization vonders, like internet...”
Girl 1: “First plumbing! I really miss the morning routine...”
Pyro: “And how do you wish to do it? I have no objections, but we are not engineers, scientists or some other eggheads... Still something simple can be done, but...” Hmm... maybe... if we either use human powered devices, or if we get water under pressure, for example from mountain lake... “Say... are there any mountains in the area?”
Ken: “To the north-east there are some, but they are like over 100 kilometers from capital...”
Pyro: “Then the only two ways are man-powered pump, or magic powered... First one will be quite expensive, while second one will be quite... difficult to build and manage... but should be cheaper... Do we propose that idea to the king?”
All: ““YES!!!”” aren't they too... agitated?
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So... after our, or rather my, idea was heard out, the king decided to go with man-powered pump rather than magical... so I am now a supervisor... as the rest of heroes...
Pyro: “We got demoted from heroes to builders...”
Ken: “Yes... but we will have running water, and probably a normal toilet... we need to introduce toilet paper afterwards...” somehow... I forgot about it... I prefer the hot towel... they still wash it afterwards, so...
BDL: “Hey! Don't forget the makeup!”
Pyro: “They already have makeup, though it's quite primitive... if they somehow increase it in quality we may have a normal cosmetics... but first it's water, food and only after that we will go witch cosmetics... OK? Besides... I don't know how they are produced anyway.”
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BDL: “I know! My father was CEO of a pharmaceutical company. So I often nagged him about it.” Somehow... I'm not surprised...
Pyro: “Fine, but there will probably be troubles in getting the funds for it, not from the noble ladies though. But I would wait at least a year.”
BDL: “Why? You said that ladies-”
Ken: “What he means is if we ask for the money on new project, the funds will be insufficient. And if some noble ladies would hear about it, then the taxes will skyrocket, and many people will be in financial trouble.” well yeah, not only that... but that's a good point!
BDL: “Oh... I haven't thought of that.”
Pyro: “So ask them about it in a year or more... better after the subjugation though.”
BDL: “Why?”
Pyro: “Think for yourself.”
BDL: “... what do you... oh... but... no, that's not right... maybe...”
Pyro: “Don't worry... you can ask before the subjugation, but I don't think that's a good idea. I maybe wrong though.”
BDL: “... I will think about it.”
Pyro: “OK... now... let's continue with the managing...”
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Well... let's say that I got bored and ditched the construction... yeah... well... I'm not getting paid for it, no shares, nothing, so... screw it, I'm going on a quest!
Orc Menace. Reward 250 gold, 3 common token, 50 unallocated points.
Orcs started raiding settlements for the food and females. Stop them.
See? Quest! But that's not all...
Goblin rebellion. Reward 30 gold, 1 common token. Improved relations with God of Chaos.
After you massacred the warrior tribe, goblins had gone against their chief. Kill the chief and chief candidates, for smearing chaos amongst the goblins.
Easy right? Oh and the common tokens allow me to learn any new mastery up to basic level. The masteries that can be learned by me, but let's be serious... I can learn a lot of stuff... but I'm quite lazy, so I'll use points... for some at least.
Let's start with the orcs, well they are actually pig-heads, all males and horny as... well... humans? I mean humans are always in heat, regardless of season, are they not? So let's travel there... to the Crowfolk village... stupid fantasy names... not like I care anyway... well except JJ... him being named Elizabeth was an unexpected development... I mean I would understand if he was named Cookie, Jerky, Sorn (Some Other Ridiculous Name), but being named as girl? What did his parents smoke?
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So... Crowfolk village... rather unimportant village... access to river check, forest nearby check, burning... well not like it means regular, but check. Oh and rotten smell... check.
Pyro: “HELLO!!! TROUPE OF VIRGINS INCOMING!!!” dunno if that will have any... effect... hey it had effect... but...
Some Orc: “Human! Meat! Kill Human!” hah? It talks? In english? … wait... now that I think about it... why are humans here talk in English? I mean surely there should be some other dialect... or language... oh well... here comes the pork... heh... will they taste like pork I wonder?
So... there are what? Around... sonar is useless in such situations... so let's see by eye... around 40 orcs... let's start with-
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(Um... guys... how do I write change of perceptive to that of narrator/3rd person?)
One human and 43 orcs met in combat, in the usual circumsatnces the human would be quickly overwhelmed, but-
“LET'S DANCE PIGGIES!” was the exclamation of the human, as he covered his rapier in flames.
Orcs looking at the human started shouting “It's Mine! I HAVE SHINY FIRE STICK” and “MY SHINY!”, as you can guess with such intelligence, orcs can't think that it's magic, or some other stuff. First was to die some orc which was running at the human with scream “MY SHINY!” from the said 'shiny' in his skull. That started the wave of orcs.
As orcs ran at the human, said human lazily threw fireballs and used flamethrower aginst those orcs. In less than a minute out of 43 orcs less than 10 remained. But even they were not far from the dead ones. As the final orc drew his last breath the human started laughing. “Seriously? I completed quest AND leveled up? At least you provide more XP than those goblins or humans.” Actually average humans provide similar amount of experience points as orc, but the figure didn't know that, just as he didn't know that his Homunculus race has higher experience threshold, and his trait [Prodigy] increases the amount of experience gained.
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MC POV
Pathetic! BUT! They gave me three tokens and few unallocated points... oh and about level up... it seems that after level 10 I get more unallocated points and one common token after each level up. So now I have four tokens... but I will use them later...
So anyway in that village... well... it was not really pretty... killed and halfeaten corpses, ravaged women and... well... let's put them out of their misery. It's better than to live after such experience, I guess? I mean all of them had dead eyes... too bad they have low experience value... anyway off we go to goblins! Chaos wants some... chaos?
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(Sorry guys... again)
Goblin tribes. Usual buildings are some cloth huts, shelters made of branches or some other primitive type buildings, if you can even call that buildings. Usually goblin tribes consists of smaller tribes, commonly known as Goblin clans. Despite popular belief goblin tribes may include hobgoblins, greenskins, wolves and, in some cases, ogres and/or trolls. Trolls though use goblins as toys or food, but it's not like the goblins can do anything against that. However this goblin tribe had only goblins and some hobgoblins in it's main tribe, which was wiped out by some human adventurer. Now goblins didn't have the leadership, as the previous tribe chief was without his tribe, and other clan chiefs wanted that post for themselves. Little did they know about a lone figure which scouted the place.
Pyro: “Goblin, goblin, goblin~ here I go for you~ Goblin, goblin, goblin~ I so want steal your stew~... last part need some changing... I don't want their stew... oh... Goblin, goblin, goblin~ I want you in my stew... hmm... let's try goblin meat next...” this person was the reason for the goblin chief troubles, not like he cared about it.
Currently he spied at the goblin elders or, as some call them, chiefs. Goblins also in some cases had shamans, which were the goblins with high magical power, but in human terms that 'High magical power' was at most considered 'Pre-college magician'. That however didn't mean that shamans were weak. In case they were supported by some dozens of goblins they were a force to be reckoned with... for the E rank adventurers at most. Shamans however were usually escorted by dozens of goblins in 'peaceful' times and at least a hundred in times of war. One of the candidates for the tribe chief position was one such shaman. And he was quite unlucky, as he would be the one of first to die. The unlucky shaman was impaled by earth spike, running through body up to his skull. No need to say it, but the shaman died instantly, even his smile was still there. Surrounding goblins didn't dare to move an inch, as they were just as surprised as they were terrified. Nearby shadowy figure smirked in the treetops and planned the death of his next target.
The next target was one who would be called wolf-rider among the goblins. Those wolf-riders were considered the cavalry of the goblins, and the wolves were trained for them since birth, you could even say that goblins and wolves were risen together, as the maximum age of both rarely exceeded 20 years. These wolf-riders were the best of the best, elite among goblins and fearsome opponents even for evolved hobgoblins, as they learned the archery... even if they couldn't hit a tree in the forest. Nonetheless the goblin-riders were fearsome opponents for the lone adventurers, as they would tire the adventurer before coming in for the kill. That was one of the reasons for the creation of adventurers groups or, as the humans call them, teams.
This particular wolf-rider was the chief of a clan with the aspiration for being a tribe chief. Actually every goblin was quite greedy and arrogant, so every goblin wanted to rule other goblins. The elite wolf-rider was accompanied by the, somewhat, loyal wolf-riders. But even that didn't save him nor his wolf from the earth prison, which then just crushed them inside. Immediately after it other wolf-riders started on the 'debates' about who will be the next clan chief.
Third and last clan chief was the current tribe chief. It was quite old hobgoblin. Despite it being considered the goblin-kin the hobgoblins were actually quite close in their appearances and values to the regular goblins. When goblin was usually 80 cm in height, hobgoblins could be up to 1.1 meter in height, but looks were almost the same, except somewhat more yellowish skin. This hobgoblin was surrounded by few heavily armed goblins, but actually each of them was just equipped with wooden armor, shield and crude spear. The hobgoblin however had some wood and fur armor, with metal helmet and a short-sword which was more like two-hander for him. He was sitting on his throne when suddenly the tent caught on fire, and the old hobgoblin was incinerated almost immediately, by the fire arrow.
Nearby the shadowy figure, which all this time stayed in the treetops, finally laughed, before leaving the goblins to their new set of problems, after stealing some goblin corpse.