Toms Pov

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I better get some sleep so I can visit my guardian angel. Closing my eyes I smiled to myself wondering what Angie’s reaction would be when seeing me evolved. I was again brought to a white room where the beautiful Angie sweetly smiled at me .

“ welcome back congratulations on evolving so quickly Tom” greeted Angie

“ Hey Angie, do you mind me calling you Ang?” I asked in a curious tone. I've always had a habit of giving people a nickname.

“Ang? Hm I wonder if that sounds cute?” mumbled Angie in a small voice. I guess she doesn't really know what to think.

“ Well then Ang I'm going be visiting the village I found tomorrow any advice you can give me?”

“Tom beware the greedy adventures that lurk about they are always looking for profit!” warned Angie in a stern voice. I just nodded my head and bid her farewell.

That night I had nightmares again. It's always the same, the people I couldn't save come back to haunt me. Well no point in thinking about it too long. Now I'm in a new world and the past is the past.

Smiling I gradually crawled out my burrow and hide in the shadows of the large trees. I can faintly feel the effects of shadow walker as I run from shadow to shadow. While thinking about it I decided I should morph to see what happens.

*boom* ugh my head hurts did I do something wrong? Wait a minute … Haha I have hands again!! And I feel like I'm around 4’10” tall or so. I had a wry smile on my face while I continue to walk near a small puddle. What I saw was a handsome child who looked

around 11-12 years old with black hair, bright golden eyes that resembled stars, and cute horns slightly curved back on his head.

Hm is this really me?! Haha wow guess I'm not evolved enough yet to look older. Anyways from what I heard I should be fine people will think I'm some sort of Demi human. I pondered on what I should do about money for a moment, although my scales can be used to cover my body I do need clothes and maybe some food. Seems my appetite has grown since I evolved?

I decided to go towards the village I found yesterday and carried the corpse of a red demonic looking lion I found on my way. I can use this as an excuse and maybe get some money from it. As I got closer to the gates I noticed some of the guards were poorly dressed and some noble looking gentleman was yelling at them.

When I got closer this is what I heard…

“ do you know who I am?! I am the young master of the Fang house! Yet you dare hold me at the gate?” yelled the young noble in furious tone as he stormed off into the village. After that I slowly walked up to the guard and waited for him to ask me questions. “ hey son you must be new around here may I see your identification?” asked the guard in a polite tone. “ Sir do you perhaps know a woman named Selphy and a man named Brian? I helped the back in the forest, but lost sight of them.” I asked lightly. To my surprise he looked at me with a knowing smiled and said “ hohoho young Selphy is it? You're a little under her age but not that it matters. Let me go check to see if that old fart Brian is in the barracks. One moment please”

I patiently waited as he darted off into the village. When he came back the man known as Brian was with him, when he saw me he gave a doubtful gaze at me. “ hello son did you need me for something?” asked Brian.

“ my name is Tom we met yesterday, if you don't mind could we talk in private there's too many ears around here.” as I said that I moved off to side a bit away from others. Brian hesitated at first, but I guess he thought I was harmless and in the end walked towards me.

“ alright kid what is that you wanted to ask Me? When did we meet in the forest?” asked Brian's in a doubtful voice.

Instead of explaining to him I morphed back into my dragon form. As they say, actions speak a million words. Seeing my dragon form, Brian stared at me dumbfounded.

“y-y-you are that lizard that saved us the other day!?” exclaimed Brian. I nodded my head the morphed back into a child.

“sorry ugh still getting use to morphing, gives me a headache, you can call me Tom and I know your names from yesterday. The reason I called you out here today is because obviously I don't have identification and I thought it would be easier with you and Selphy helping me” I looked up at him with innocent looking eyes. Seeing this I think I saw him shiver a little bit. Well I guess seeing someone that could monsters stronger than yourself then look at you with an innocent gaze would scare you.

He stared at me for awhile before signing and nodded his head. Afterwards he spoke with the guard and I officially entered.

“Welcome to sito village since you don't have money let's go sell the claws, fangs and core of that flaming lion” said Brian. Hm speaking of money again… Should I buy armor? I don't really think any normal armor would help me any. Also should I buy a sword? Oh well we see when the time comes.

From the conversation I learn there was copper coins,silver coins and gold coins for the currency. 10 copper coins was 1 silver coin and 100 silver coins was 1 gold coin.we also sold the demonic core for 10 silver coins since apparently it was a rank 3 beast. I used the fangs to make into a necklace and then sold the claws for 2 silver total. Afterwards I bought light leather pants, leather armor with a white undershirt, and a magic bag that could hold up to 25 items. This cost me a total of 3 silver and 4 copper.

Brian told me that this was the basic setup for adventurers and it would help me blend in with others better. From our later conversation I learned that Brian was a retired guard that had helped Selphy with her first adventure. Apparently Selphy is the noble of the village and the man I met earlier is trying to force a marriage on her. Not really my problem though , but who knows? Maybe I'll end up saving her , I'll leave it up to fate.

I said my goodbye to Brian and headed towards the inn “Moonlights Night”. The cost per night is 5 copper coins  with breakfast included. When I walked into the door, a cute girl with brown hair and freckles welcomed me.

“ Welcome my name is Grace how may I help you?” asked Grace with a respectful look. Hm she must have been trained well. I looked 11-12 yet she is still so polite.

“ 1 room with breakfast please” I said with a smile. I've always loved kind people.

After I got my key to my room I went to the bar area and order a drink. While I was sipping on some sort of poor ale, I heard stories about different monsters in the forest and where to get maps, armor, and weapons. After it settled down I headed to my room and slept. I talked with Angie for awhile about what I should do or where a good place to go was. Apparently a war was about to happen which was a reason a lot of souls were being brought into my current world.

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I was told the best thing to do was to work on my skills and become a rogue or a mercenary. In this world rogues could be hired to get jobs, or they could go to the town square where missions were posted. These missions were usually to hunt certain monsters or to join groups of caravans that passing from town to town.

There was a total of 3 guilds the mercenary guild, merchant guild, and the last guild was the Elites guild. The mercenary guild took on the request while the merchant guild was for those who wanted to do trade of any kind. The Elites guild was a special guild where you were tested to see if you qualified to join. It was known for having special missions along with special offers on rare materials and equipment.

For now I decided I would join the mercenary guild which allowed me to accept missions in the town square. They keep track of your missions completed and have a special system that calculates missions completed. If I get a certain amount completed I can exchange those “points” for lessons, equipment, or a referral to join the Elites. For every mission completed that person would get 1 point.

Hm in my past life I've always been interested in craftsmen, for now I'll try aiming for 10 points to get the private lesson on blacksmithing. With that I could make my own equipment. Since I can morph I would need special armor for when I'm in dragon form. Also I need a special helmet because of my horns. Sigh so much to do and so little money to do it with. I guess for now I will focus on money and mercenary missions.

With my mind made up I decided to go out of my room and eat breakfast. It was currently still early and the sunlight dimly illuminated the room. I ate some kind of soup with chicken in it known as rooster stew. After finishing my meal I cleaned up and head to the mercenary guild. The building was a three story building that looked rough but sturdy.

The first thing I thought when I walked in was “noisy”. A burly man stared at me while walked up to counter. When I got to the counter an elderly looking man with wrinkles met my gaze. “hello young man what can I do for you today? Ah you can call me Joseph” said the elderly man.

“hello I'd like to join mercenary guild. Can you tell me how much it cost please?” I asked in an excited voice.

“ that will cost you 1 copper coin along with writing your name. We have a special device that can use read your magic and give you the rest of your information is this alright? All information with be hidden from others and will not be shared, also your race doesn't matter. Oh I almost forgot, when you complete a mission your card will turn green and when you fail your current mission it will turn red.” explained Joseph in old but loud voice.

I then wrote my name and infused my magic power into the card and what filled in was

Name: Thomas Avry

Race: Baby shadow dragon

Age:1

Power ranking:4

Complete missions:0

Failed missions: 0

After seeing this I smiled and put the card into my magical bag. The man then asked me if there was any missions I would like to take. Thinking for a few moments I decided to take some simple hunting missions.

Mission: risk 1 hunt 10 slimes

Mission: risk 2 hunt shadow wolves

Mission: risk 1 recover 20 red worms for fishing bait.

All these missions were repeatable and could be completed at any time. After I accepted them I decided to go look for a blacksmith for a sword. I bought a map from the mercenary guild then head to the recommended blacksmith. On my way there I bought a couple of snacks. One thing noticed is a lot of people seemed to stare at my horns. Guess most people have never seen anything like me before, although it's not surprising considering I'm not really a Demi-human.

I arrived at a sooty looking building with a board the said “ Jacks smithing” which was the place I was recommended to. I entered his shop which was noisy from a *bang* and *clang* in the background. I looked around to find a decent sword, but the most I could find in my price range was a {steel short sword +5 dmg}. It wasn't much but I guess it will do.

“find what you need sunny boy?” ask a rigid voice from behind me. I turned around to are a robust man. Apparently he was a dwarf. He had rough large hands with a respectable white beard and blue eyes. I smiled and brought him the sword and handed him the 2 silver coins. “ I'll take this sir” I told him.

When I asked him if I could watch him forge some weapons he replied “ of course lad! Jus’ be careful not to burn yer hands!”. I laughed and followed him to the back where he forged an iron knife, and bronze short sword, and a specialized spear type weapon with a spear head on both ends of a long stick.

Time crept up on us while we were in our own little world. When Jack had finished I guess he saw how interested I was because he asked if I wanted to become his apprentice. Of course I said yes and told him that I would have to start in a few days because I still had some missions to complete.

“haha lad if ye want to work fer me ye need to pay yer own ores to work with” said Jack as he handed me a iron forging hammer and rough leather gloves.I was told to use them when making my own gear.

Putting my new tools into my magic bag I decided to head out to the forest and sleep in my burrow foe the night. I still needed to test my dark magic and see how effective my shadow walker skill was. I made my way to the town gates and directly used the shadows of the night to travel back to my burrow. Once back I tried the most basic dark magic skill {shadow ball} it trapped it's target in a shadow for 1 second and takes a small amount of their health.

After testing this he hunted a the shadow wolves, red worms, and slimes. He took the fangs of the wolves as proof, the nucleus of slimes, and kept the red worms for the bait in his bag. After hunting these he made his way back to his small burrow and fell asleep.

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sorry for the wait guys I did it on my phone enjoy.

Soo I wrote 2 chapters worth on my brothers laptop and guess what happened? To my dismay I didn't save it and he closed it while I went to eat T.T sigh I guess I will just rewrite it on my phone