The first thing Solomon did after leaving his parents was to transform into a long legged, brown furred, jungle cat. This was for him to be able to traverse the forest in a quicker fashion. Like this Solomon traveled at a steady pace and he soon reached the edge of the forest in around four hours. When he reached the edge of the forest he saw nothing but a few birds playing together in the air. This gave Solomon a brilliant idea that he wished he had thought of four hours ago. But hindsights 20/20.
Solomon once again transformed but this time he transformed into a swallow. After that he started traveling to the country, Yumei, at upwards of one thousand miles per hour.
After nearly six hours of flying Solomon reached the massive expanse of farmland that was the country Yumei. The country itself was around the size of a large city from the United States of America from Solomons old world. But despite the small population, the country was comprised of farmers, livestock farmers, and merchants trying to get decent produce. This lead to all the land owners giving the royalty of Yumei in order for the farmers to have a legal monopoly. This meant that all the farmers had rediculous prices on their stock, this made the situation for the poor and merchants rather dificult. But the if the poor wanted to leave them the distance from Yumei to the closet country was at least a few thousand miles. And the situation would have been worse for them in a different country, plus the produce wouldnt of been as high quality.
After a few more minutes of flying Solomon landed on a dirt path and transformed from his swallow form into a mostly human one. He turned into a bronze skinned, seven feet tall, sculpted adonis of a man. He changed his hair into crimson chin length hair that he slicked back italian mafia style. He had zero body hair, made his dick a foot long and three finger lengths wide. He made his eyes match his hair to look like crimson fire. While he kept his face basically the same, still the epitome of masculinity.
After he finished the minute long transformation Solomon pulled out the car he had made to look like a carriage being pulled by bison. The carriage was a basic wooden box shape while the bison looked like above average sized bison. The carriage was made of metal with a wooden outside, while the bison were also made of metal with real bison hair covering them. ( Dont know if its bison hair or fur. )
The carriage was what actually help the motor while the wires went through the reins and powered the wheels that were under the bison. The bison had a comforter blanket covering them to hide the wheel, unfortunatley they wouldnt hide the tire tracks. But in all honesty Solomon just didnt care.
After around thirty minutes of riding Solomon finally reached the city wall, which was around fifteen feet tall. The wall was a solid grey with zero blemishes, the wall looked almost like concrete but Solomon thought " thats impossible. "
The reason the wall had no scratches, cracks, or damage, is formations that Solomon soon determined. At the archway which leade into the city was a small line of three people the first two with backpacks on, while the last fellow in a carriage. After around 5 minutes it was finally Solomons turn so he rolled up and and hopped out of his carriage.
" Hello sir may I ask what is your buisness in our fair city. "
" I am a young lad from a few countries north looking for adventure. I thought I should experience the rumours of your wonderful city. "
" Then I will have to ask your permission to search your carriage, also it will be one Mana Mineral to enter the city. Might I ask how long you intend to stay? "
Solomon naturally didnt have anything in his carriage except for some food and bedding to keep up the ruse. So he was happy to let the soldier search his small carriage. While the soldier was walking by Solomon handed him an impure Mana sapphire, that should cover the cost.
" Id like to stay for around a month, but if the rumours are true then I will probably stay for longer. "
The soldier just nodded his head and stepped inside of the carriage, after looking around inside for awhile he walked out.
" Alright sir youre free to enter please enjoy your time in our fair city. "
When he entered Solomon like a man on a mission went straight towards the slums. The slums took up one third of the city, and didnt actually mean that only poor people lived there. In all honest the slums had the least population in the city, and the only reason they were called the slums is because of horrible house up-keep.
Solomon first found a small area not directly in the middle of the slums but instead founb a spot slightly to the left of it. After he found a spot with litterally nobody living within two miles of it Solomon then started digging a large hole. The hole was dug under an old, empty, tore up library. He dug a hole that that lead straight down around fifty feet with four offset rooms, and one large room at the end. The large room would be for storing his stolen treasure. The rest of the rooms were around the size of an average living room, twenty two feet by twelve feet. The rooms would be the planning room where he would plan out his next hiest, his library, a room where hed keep plants to purify Mana. And his last room was his central formations room, his library would be where he would rest.
He planted some small moss like plants along with mushrooms and a few other types of fungi. For the rooms centerpeice he planted a Ground Dragon Tree that grow solely underground. The Ground Dragon Tree dont actually grow anything other than bark on themselves. While the tree would grow it would use the purified Mana from the fungi which would let it purify even higher class Mana. He would use that Mana to power the multitude of foramations protecting his home.
After he completed planting the plants Solomon puled out the thousands of books he brought with him from his masters cave. The books covered from formations, to magic theory, to wood working, to tribal histories, sex techniques, how to identify various races, and many other topics. He put the books on hand made book shelves that he made some random point during the million year solution.
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When he finished laying the books he layed a dozen premade formations barrier in and around the cave area. He also added multiple detection formations in a three mile radius of his base.
It took him thirteen hours to completely finish all of his preperations. And when he was finished he decided to find a target for his theiving.
As he was walking around the city Solomon ran into a young orphan girl and a young orphan boy. The girl was distracting a vegetable saleman while the boy was stealing some vegetables similar to potatoes. It seemed the operation was going smoothly when all of a sudden a man walked up behind the boy and grabbed him around the chest. The boy didnt even turn around before he stomped down onto the mans foot, right when the man released both the kids dashed away while holding onto a few vegetables. The men chased after the kids leaving their stand un-attended.
Seeing this Solomon absorbed the entire stand of vegetables and tok off after the four. After 7 minutes of running the kids ran through a gap in a wall to small for the men to go through, which meant the kids finally got away.
When the men grumbled and turned around to leave Solomon turned into his ghost form and went throught the wall. Afterwards Solomon continued continued chasing the children, such a situation went on for ten minutes before the kids reached what seemed to be their base.
Inside of the halfway decent building were a dozen children ranging from seven to twelve. The boy and girl gave the vegetables out to the youngest kids first and then started to eat the food themselves. Watching such a scene Solomon didnt say anything, and instead just took out the fruit stand and left it in the front room of the building. After that he just floated off in search of a target.
He continued like this for an hour but he didnt see anything else interesting going on so he went back to his house.
Solomon kept up a routine of searching for a particular target for exactly two weeks before finally he found someone.
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Solomon was sitting in his ghost form while watching a carriage made of pure gold. Inside of the arrogant carriage was sitting two people, a chubby middle aged man, and his twenty year old daughter. Solomon chanced upon this specidic target when one day while he was walking down the street the daughter walked up to him. She walked up to demand him to be her boy-toy sex slave. Solomon of course back handed her a block away. That lead to a fiasco which involved her dad, who was a big time merchant in Yumei. In the end Solomon resorted to transforming himself to be an old caucasian male, with a hunched back and a beard down to his chest. After that Solomon spent a week stalking the man and his daughter. After a week he learned the patterns of the two as well as their guards, workers, and even the people who live near them. But he didnt think it was enough so he decided to spend another two weeks tailing them.
In the end he spent another month tailing them, he spent so much longer because half way through his stalking both the two changed their patterns. It turned out the reason they changed because their was a party they attended.
Once he had their pattern down Solomon decided to finally rob them. He even decided to challenge himself by not using his ghost transformations.
On the day of the robbing Solomoon prepared a dark blue suit that blended in with the non-light-polluted night. He then snuck in to the manor and hid inside of one of the trees, he did all this while the noble family was gone and the guards were changing shifts. The tree he was hiding in was next to the wall of the manor so he could make a quick get away, while also being near other trees so he could progress from tree to tree without touching the ground.
Solomon then waited until the dead of night when the nobles were asleep and the guards were once again changing shifts. During the golden time Solomon snuck into the manor through a window on the second floor after that he went through the pre-planned path. Despite not taking full advantage of his ghost form, Solomon did use it to canvass the manor and learn where the vault was. And so he slowly but surely went through the hallways, dodging guards, unlocking locked doors, and even knocking out one of the family members who woke up unexpectedly.
Slowly but surely Solomon went through the house all the way until he reached the vault, which was protected by generations worth of formations. Some of the formations were slightly difficult for even Solomon to crack taking him an hour for the hardest. But the majority of the formations were easy peasy lemon squeezy. By the time he got through the formations he had had to hide from the shifts worth of guards who were required to check the vault every shift.
Solomon hadnt checked inside of the vault despite the multiple times he had cased the joint. He wanted to save the surprise for himself.
When the metal vault door slowly swung open Solomon suddenly saw something that truly surprised him. Inside of the vault was a full set of lightly carbonized bones, previously belonging to an elven skeleton. On the skeleton were runes that looked like an acient forest. Solomon couldnt wait a single bit longer and swept up every single item into his and Lorettas world. From seeds, to books, to items, and last but not least the skeleton.
After he got the loot Solomon closed the vault re-activated the formations and then turned himself into a ghost to escape quickly. When he reached his base Solomon activated the formations and then set himself up in the plant room. When he was settled Solomon pulled out the skeleton and quickly started to examine it. He got so close to the skeleton his eyelashes would touch the bones.
After much examination Solomon deduced that the skeleton was at least sixty when it died. But the level of the runes suggested that the being had to be a God at least which made it truly difficult to determine the age. He also determined that the skeleton dies at least three million years ago, but once again its hard to determine. All Solomon knew was that the runes on the bones could help some one immensely to comprehend the forest or wood Dao. Solomon decided to keep the skeleton inside of the plant room, he litterally grew the skeleton intoa world tree. Meaning the skeleton would litterally poke out of the tree while growing out of it.
After that Solomon went through and sorted out everything else he got. He acquired ten different spiritual seeds all for a bush or shrub, Solomon didnt know what the bush did so he planted it in his and Lorettas world first. He also got four skil books all of them four growing plants, Solo just out them in the library. He also got seven chests each filled with thousand of Mana minerals. Apart from the chests, seed, and books Solomon got four swords, three axes, one hammer, two bowls, two plates, two forks, two spoons, and one mug. Each of the enchanted with odd enchants like bowls had Mana Condensation, the forks had extra piercing, while the hammer had extra sharpness.
When he got all his treasures set up Solomon decided to rest for awhile as a celebration.