{POV: Jona}

I feel so sore… but I can at least equip medic as my secondary for a little while to allow better healing abilities… though I have really low spiritual power… It is rather annoying that all my abilities almost require spiritual power it’s like I am not natural to these abilities.

Maybe I can add more mana… for the lack of spiritual power?

I casted heal on my legs by keeping an image in my mind and strongly thinking of not using spiritual power, though the results worked…. It took twice as much mana then a normal simple heal…

Though it did heal my legs and minor wounds, from the battle before even with my spiritual power using its healing capability I still have some deep cuts on my body, though it isn’t fatal, I will still need to pull out bandages…..

I am so happy Amanda gave me medical supplies… even though they aren’t many disinfectants and such. She did give me a lot of bandages which made it easier for me to bandage the wounds up after taking off the clothes…. But… my bad luck is… it seems once it was removed… it all went back to blood and was sucked into the red gems in the earrings…

I tried to re make them, but it seems even blood magic is not available in my weakened state… I mean it was minor without that cursed vampire form. It is even weaker now cause of all my stats, even my heal took a lot out of me to use, but at least I can walk… but if it came to a fight it would be a problem…

What I need is something with high defense… and stat bonus… I wonder if my good armors or clothes from my games came over.

I admit… like some gamers guys I have played games with female characters, some where the classes are gender locked…. And some just because I didn’t care about the males since they all looked rather bland…

For the most part I played male characters, but my female characters… I made sure to make them look good in their armors and even used money on the looks… way more than the males. Most of the bought ones I got gave minor bonuses such as exp and things of that nature, though what I am looking at now makes me want to go back in time and bash my previous self in the face….

Yes it was good armor… but the looks of it only seems to guard vital spots, though I admit my character in the game did look good in it, the only problem is… why me?

I know I have adapted quite well to female clothes and this body… but at least for the most part I was mostly covered… and… my clothes I came here with is dirty…

Yes it might have some magic features that I didn’t know to that old blacksmith told me, but even when I was a guy I made sure to always put on clean clothes… I admit I haven’t had much time here to do so… or kind of forgot… but now that I am changing…

This cave gives me a bad vibe… really bad… I could try the Knight’s armor I have… from being a Dragon Knight or Challenger.

Dragon Knight seems to be locked right now… but I wonder if the armor is useful… I mean I guess wearing too much armor would end badly cause of not being able to move silently…

But the challenger…. Really mostly gauntlets, chest plate, shoulder pads, waist armor that is linked with a belt and silk like cloth… that turns into a skirt, and leather boots that are just below the knees with armor padding in the front of the boots with straps around the back that go up to cover my knees… but as far as that goes it just guards my legs and front of my knees…

While I am pretty much bandaged up like a mummy… ugh so many cuts… I really didn’t pay any attention to defense at all…

Just makes me shiver thinking of how dumb I get when I lose it… like some mad beast not caring for living… and just wants to kill…

Well I guess I could… use the tamers… silk shirt… but it’s more like a vest with golden lace on it… and again… why did all my characters have to have to have either dresses or skirts….?

And the pants of my males characters… really doubt they would fit my current form… I am just happy the armors fit… but… somehow I get the feeling the Dragon Knight’s armor… wouldn’t fit too I get taller…

Looking at the underwear Amanda packed for me… made me cringe… why she had to always go pink…

After getting dressed… though luckily I had a habit of dying my clothes/armor all the same color combinations... I didn’t expect that it would come in handy here, the shirt from tamer… is dark red with golden trim with black tribal lines going through it like vines, while the armor plate is black with red outlining it like trim would be and golden flames covering it like a vinyl design.

Yes it seems ironic that I am supposedly part of the Flame Clan… but the Challenger… gear let you design your own vinyl out of a preset… and the best one out of it was flames to me.

Though this armor does give me some boost to defense, health and agility… it’s barely enough to let me move unhindered, if I was to still come across a fight, even a weak bandit could probably be a problem to me…

Taking out the dragon katana... yeah that’s the name I gave it…. And switching Medic for Hunter simply because of its abilities would let me know the presence of threats around me… though in here it is probably useless…. Since it’s a passive here… but it’s more or less giving me constant warnings in my head that this place is dangerous… I already knew that…

Strapping the katana to my waist, with Braver and Hunter… at least I can somewhat hide easier… hopefully, since Braver if I use it… luckily it is one of the few classes that doesn’t need spiritual energy if I don’t use the power up stances of it… though… sadly I say power up stances they really just minor… and mostly boots my weapon sharpness and my agility… this stance is really the only useful one to me… as the others eat my health… slowly… without Nimue it would be suicide.

“Welcome” ???

I turned around slowly, luckily my calm mind didn’t let me panic cause if I move to fast even with the bonuses from this armor… even if it is not high I would have wasted the bandages…

But what I saw was just a ball of rock? With a light core coming in the center where an opening is… is that its eye?

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Yes… I seen Si-Fi stuff, but this isn’t any machine that you’d think it would be…

It really is just a round smooth rock, not metal or anything… as interesting as it is… I am disappointed…

While I was giving it a blank look… I guess if I seen myself in a mirror… I would probably see a minor frown…. It decided to continue.

“This is a cave of the Beast Queen of Flame, if you wish to have her power; you must be of the Flame royal family. If you are not she will kill you as an offering to try to revive herself. That is if you could get past the guardians of this cave that were sent here to keep the secrets of the Flame Clan from falling into the wrong hands, and to stop the Flame Clan from gaining too much influence. I am just an earth spirit tasked to guarding this cave… and waiting the revival of my master or to serve the next royal member of Flames.” Rock

… let’s just call you Rock… so annoying… why does this world keep sending or forcing this ‘Flame’ crap on me…

“….” Jona

“Any questions?” Rock

“Why…” Jona

“?? Why what?” Rock

“Why… does the Flame clan…” Jona

Why does it irritate me so much when it is Flame Clan this or that… I really hate it… being part of a family? Pfft… don’t make me laugh. Being part of a clan? Isn’t that the same as a useless family?

Why would I be so stupid… I let Nimue and Kira get close and look what happened? I listened to what they wanted cause I wanted to make them happy… and look where that got me… so annoying…

‘Jona, you care for them, well maybe not the Flame Clan… but you care for Nimue and Kira.’ Rose

And that is why it annoys me, to care for others is not how I came to be in my old life, I only lived to follow a promise. To survive isn’t to rely on others but you, my family was useless, and if I wasn’t there they would have all been on the street or in jail. To me they were a means to an end, to get things I wanted by just using them, even the abuse was understandable, since I used my own mother to get out of annoying cases by coning her into thinking it was what she wanted.

It got people off my back, even friends in my old life was just tools to me.

‘But that’s not how you wanted it to be, and not how you are now, you seem to just be too dense to realize it.’ Rose

Probably so… but I guess life being annoying is the way it usually is.

‘… You’re too weird.’ Rose

“Flame Clan was a race that came from a destroyed planet. Cause of their wars were on a high scale in one of them they made the planet un able to hold life, so they decided to make ships that was sent out in total of five ships one had crashed here and they decided to make their own kingdom here without influencing the world with their creations, but only created things such as myself which can be explained by magic, they used their knowledge to give me a simple spirit a body as I am now, though it isn’t that strong compared to the mindless weapons they made.

For people of this world they would be called Golems that have no master that was similar to how golems in dungeons are, just with an aim to kill all that ran into its domain, but they won’t harm each other, only monsters, animals, or the other races will become a target.

So like myself I am not a target for them, they were tasked by the Gods to keep people away… only the Flame clan members can draw the power without bringing back the Queen, since this clan caused a great change in this world, the gods don’t want or would allow them to be revived to cause a bigger change, though the Flame Clan didn’t bring all of their knowledge into this world.

It did change just from their presence such as their ship… and the ability to make things float. Before it was only the Sky kingdom that had this ability, and it was on the verge of falling, but the Flame Clan used their knowledge to save the kingdom, and stopped the God of chaos’s fun.

Each flame clan member has a different upbringing then others, since birth they have an angelic side inside them talking and guiding them, while the dusk maidens are born differently this only happens in the royal family, they have a darker side inside them helping them.

The dusk maidens are basically the magically made twin of the angelic and true Flame royalty. And on the thirteenth birthday they go through a process of fusing, the angelic side, is fused with the demonic side to make the true princess, though this process has many failures, they have at most cases use an outside force with the same wave length as the demon side, but have the compatibility of the angelic side.

This also caused the gods that loves humans, angels, elves, and demons to be angered since they are being used as simple materials to finish making the dusk princess.

Some cases once it’s done the one they used with the high compatibility is the one in charge of the body, in most cases this is actually what happens at the start, then over time however they either go to the dusk side or dark side of high compatibility. The ones that went to the angelic side are hailed as the princesses of the kingdom, the ones that went to the dusk, would be treated as soldiers of war, and not having an easy life like the angelic side would have.

But in cases of the few that were compatible with both and keep both sides by the time they were sixteen they would be considered the heir of the whole kingdom, since the emperor and empress can be only people that can host both the dark and the good side.

Their kingdom had five kings and queens, one of each race, usually when one turns sixteen they would pick one race and stick with it since it feels closer to their true self. They can still change to other races of their abilities, but would usually stick to just one.  And each had their own land inside the kingdom similar to how nobles here work they had taken their place in this kingdom.

In most cases after fusion, the Angelic side will guide the princess as far as they can, though the dark side will usually not cause a problem, but would influence their anger to a point of uncontrollable, and then at one point let their mind go into a despair to the point the dark side wins.

This being said the females are the only ones that have this hard, since for some reason or another the males of the race are born with both sides inside them, they have to only fight and control either side, but outside of royalty the male race will only have been born with one side, even if they have both the minor side is not enough to even be considered a side.” Rock

Did… it think I wanted to know about the Flame clan? Wait angelic side? Dusk side? Demonic?

If that’s the case then Rose… is the angelic side?

‘Bingo I have just recently figured it out myself….’ Rose

So… the dark… dusk side?

‘Been fighting it… for you’ Rose

Ah… let’s not call it ‘it’ I rather treat it as part of myself… even as frustrating as it is… and it is also the cause of my black outs… but the rage is still on me not her. So let’s just call her Kuro? I mean… bad naming sense but at least it would feel better to treat her as another persona… since I know I have one voice in my head… what’s another?

‘You’re really something, you know?’ Rose

I could… swear I heard her sigh at me…

‘You… gave me a name…’ Kuro?

I think… that is Kuro? Sounds more machine then anything…

‘Why did you?’ Kuro

Cause rose has one wouldn’t be talking about you or to you be easier, really… it’s just to be easier on me then calling a part of myself ‘it’ all the time… or dark side…

She went silent and stopped talking to me which means she might have not liked it…

‘Jona I think she just does that on her own… even during fighting her she would randomly just vanish…’ Rose

Well I know better now… but not like I care for this old Flame clan or its kingdom, I mean it’s their fault it failed and angered a power they shouldn’t have.

‘Just tell this thing you’re a Flame Princess, it might lead us to the exit’ Rose

I guess…

“I am a Flame Princess…” Jona

… Even saying it irritates me somehow…

“Confirmed, I will lead you to the chamber” Rock

Not questioning it? Well it did say it could go through the golem things it said without any issues…

“I detect abnormal health problem, do you wish accesses to the Queens foundry?” Rock

“… Yes?” Jona

“Confirmed” Rock

As it was leading me in one direction after asking if I wanted to go to the foundry it changed… this cave… is it actually a dungeon?

On the way I seen a golem blocking the path… unlike the ones I seen in games this one is pretty humanoid… I mean even the shape is about the size of a seven foot male only made of rock with metal joints that intersect like bones or maybe something like muscles on it. Its head though… is the same as Rock only instead of a big hole there is just a small one in the center.