On the outside of the castle wall, the Knights are on guard as usual.
"*Yawn~*..." (Knight A)
"Hey, don't be lazy. We're on duty, you know." (Knight B)
"Yep yep~ I know~" (Knight A)
"Do you really understand?" (Knight B)
"Tch, it's so noisy, you... Hey, who is that?" When (Knight A) was just about to reply to the suspicious words of (Knight B), he instead saw a figure of a person walking closer towards the castle.
"... Could it be that someone is going to visit the castle..?" (Knight A)
"... No, it's impossible. Look carefully! He was injured!" Unlike Knight A who didn't pay much attention, Knight B realized that whatever brought the figure here, it was not good because he was in a state full of injuries.
"Eh?" (Knight A)
"Tch, you slacker!" (Knight B)
Ignoring the completely slow Knight A, Knight B began to prepare his sword.
However, "Eh?" as he watched even more closely...
"P-prince Reidhas?!" (Knight B)
"... I'm home."
... It was Reid, in his tattered clothes.
*Thud!*
And that's it, he fell unconscious.
***
*Tap!* *Tap!* *Tap!*
"... Ugh?" Feeling that his body was shaking with the sound of hurried footsteps, Reid began to open his eyes again.
"... Wow, they huge." What greeted Reid was a big chest - no, no, that was Wendy.
"Y-young master?!" Soon, Wendy also finally realized that Reid had regained consciousness, she looked very worried.
"A-Are you okay??!"
"Yes, the scenery is so beautiful..." (Damn Wendy, she's body too blessed...)
"Yes? Scenery...?" Fortunately, the serious Wendy didn't understand what Reid meant by saying that.
"It's nothing. I'm fine, so, you can put me down right away, Wendy. It's shame." Although Reid looked a little happy, he still felt ashamed of being carried by a woman. After all, he is an adult inside.
"W-well, if that's what Young Master want then..." Following Reid's words, Wendy began to put Reid down slowly, although she still looked less convinced of it.
Of course, Reid also realized that, "You look like you're still worried, huh? Take it easy, I'm just a little exhausted." (Really, this body of mine still needs a lot of practice again.)
"Are you really sure? From the beginning, what happened to you, young master? Are you exploring the Dungeon again? From night to morning? Didn't I've warn you not to act rashly, haven't me? You are the first prince of this empire! The one who will become the future Emperor. The empire will be in trouble if something happens to you, Young Master!"
"I... Uh..." (She started to enter lecture mode again... Ugh.)
"And more importantly! I... I'm very worried, you know?" Tears began to shed from Wendy's eyes, the same eyes that most of the time always looked calm. She couldn't restrain her emotions anymore.
"Ah... I'm sorry." (Wendy, she's really worried about myself to this point... I'm happy. She is the only person who has ever cried for me since I lost all my family. Neither in my present life, nor my old life.)
"Please... Don't do anything like this again, okay?" Pulling Reid into her arms, Wendy began to sob.
"..." Reid didn't return Wendy's words, he couldn't. He could only lower his head.
(I'm sorry, Wendy, but after this, even more dangerous things will come to me. I might even make the entire empire my enemy if I'm less careful. I even... Can't force myself to lie to you...!)
... A few hours later, after Reid changed his clothes and packed up the things he needed before entering the Academy.
In front of the castle gate, with the entire imperial Order Knights corps in the capital standing guard from the castle gate to the exit gate of the city, Reid will begin his journey towards the Magic city of Brown, the place where the Magic Academy of Bolbalenae is located.
With several nobles and even the Emperor and Empress escorting him, Reid stood at the gate of the castle.
"... Are you really sure to walk towards Brown just by yourself?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Reid straightened up when answering questions from Emperor Lucius, his Father in his current life.
"In that case, I will give you some equipment as a provision for this trip of yours." Lucius raised his right hand as a gesture to a Butler who was behind him.
The butler came to Reid with a tray in his hand. On the tray, there is a long sword that looks quite strong and sturdy, several healing potions and antidote potions, then a ring that radiates magic power from inside.
In order to receive it, Reid slightly bowed his head first to the Emperor, then began to equip himself with all that. Reid saved the potions in his Item bag.
"Thank you for your generosity, your majesty." Reid lowered his head once more afterwards.
"Fumu, I believe that you will be able to achieve the best results. However, as a father, I'm actually quite worried about this, so you have to be careful out there. Good luck."
*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!*
After Lucius said that, the nobles began to applaud with a smile on his face, their fake smile.
(What a good act, Lucius. I didn't expect you to have become so good at lying like this even though you're actually quite wary of me, this Reidhas Ev Luminus.)
"Yes! I set off, Your majest - no, Father! Mother!" Although from the outside it looked like a fairly harmonious interaction between families, Reid knew what Lucius really was - or rather, Aria was thinking about right now.
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Aria didn't even say anything to Reid when Reid started walking down the cobblestone path towards the outside of the Capital.
Aria just smiled, as she stared at Reid's back with her blank red eyes. Eyes that exude an absolute sense of triumph.
Against the background of the cheers of the people of the inhabitants of the imperial capital, Daina, a big smile began to grow on Reid's face when he stepped out of the Capital.
(You guys are naïve, still too naïve, Aria, Lucius. Lucius in particular, he really looked happy that I had finally left the Capital, he must have been disturbed by the existence of a justice-loving Prince who was full of talent and power as I continued to roam near him. I'm curious, will he start doing war or something when I leave?)
Smiling and waving his hand towards the soldiers guarding the city gate, Reid stared at the ring that was on the index finger of his right hand, the gift ring from Lucius.
Although Lucius said that it was his gift, Reid knew that the person who prepared the ring must have been Aria.
"How cute, she even started to try to kill me now, huh?... Analize." While laughing at himself, Reid activated the Skill he had just obtained a while ago, Analize, Skill to see the status of other living beings and various things that exist in this world.
And what appeared before Reid after that was...
•Name: Curse/seal Ring.
•Durability: 350/350.
•Ability: Owner killer(Lvl.50), Power seal(Lvl.67).
•Creator: Imperial empress Aira Ev Luminus, Imperial wizards Denmon Ev Realnoads.
"A ring that will kill the owner of the ring if the owner is below Level 50, and will seal half the power of the owner if the owner's level is below Level 67, huh?"
(Luckily I've managed to level me up before.)
Reid was satisfied that his hard work paid off.
"For Mily and Wendy... I've asked Lacth to take care of their safety, so, I think they'll be fine."
For the last time, Reid looked back at the Capital, "Lucius, Aria, you may think that this is your chance to do as you please. However, you guys are wrong, you know? I'm the one who's going to be able to do whatever I can now. True! This is my chance! In a place where I won't be charged with the task of being a prince anymore, I will start to slowly bring you guys down...!"
"Hey, isn't that Prince Reidhas?"
"-?!!"
"Ah, you're right!"
"Kyaa, he is so cute just like a girl!"
"Eh?" Before Reid realized it, there was already a group of three girls who seemed to be adventurers.
"Prince! Please give me your sign!" One of them showed Reid his sword so Reid could sign it.
"Uh, all right..." Having no other choice, Reid engraved his signature onto say it used one of the knives he used to use as a throwing knife.
The girl's face began to light up afterwards, "Uwah! I got Prince Reidhas' sign! I-I will keep this sword as a family heirloom!"
(No, that's weird, isn't that you supposed to use your sword to fight?)
"Ah, cheating! I want too! I want too!" Looking at the girl who had previously gotten Reid's signature, the other girl began to beg Reid for the same thing.
"Uh, but where should I write my signature to you?" However, that girl only had a bow on her back.
"I-I want too..." The other girl also began to beg for the same.
"You... You only have a magic wand, don't you?"
"Ugh, whatever! Y-you can write your sign on my clothes or something, prince!"
"Eh?"
"O-on my body is okay!"
"What?!"
"What happen? What happen?"
"Uwah, prince!"
"Signature, hum? I also want to!"
"What?! Me too, me too!"
"I-impossible...! Since when are they there!?" And there you have it, Reid ends up being surrounded by female adventurers, and his journey is forced to be postponed for a while.
Meanwhile some of the male adventurers who were there...
"The prince is very popular, huh~..."
"Yep..."
They were cast out like dust.
***
-A few hours before Reid back to the castle.
In the depths of the A-Rank Dungeon near the Capital, Reid is facing a black Dragon who claims to be the Dungeon master of that Dungeon.
"PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!"
"... Hah?" In front of Reid, the supposed (Great) dragon, immediately kneel down and start to apologize.
"I, I WAS JUST BORN A FEW MINUTES AGO, I DON'T WANT TO DIE NOW! Th-THERE ARE STILL SO MANY THINGS I HAVE TO DO!! SUCH AS LOOKING FOR A FEMALE DRAGON, OR A FEMALE DRAGON, AND EVEN A FEMALE DRAGON!!!!" He even started speaking in a polite tone.
"..." (No, he seriously just wants a female dragon?)
"P-PLEASE, PLEASE FORGIVE ME!" The dragon began to cry there.
(... Wait, why am I the one who looks like the villain here?)
"... Well, I'll for give you if you became my subordinate, I guess." Since Reid thought that even if the Dragon was lying to him he would be able to kill him quickly using his flying knives that were still on standby, Reid decided to at least listen to the Dragon first.
"IS THAT SO?! THANKS!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, MASTER!!"
(Well, looking at him, I don't think he's lying.)
[You managed to conquer the Black dragon who is a Dungeon master.]
"Hm?" When Reid was busy trying to calm the dragon down, the monotonous sound of notification that he had heard since childhood echoed in his head.
[You successfully qualified to get the title: 'The one who conquer Dungeon master']
[As a bonus of the title: 'The one who conquer Dungeon master', you get Unique skills: 'Dungeon System', and 'Dungeon Catching']
[Dungeon No.135609 has successfully become yours with dungeon master(Black dragon) as your subordinate.]
"Ueh?" Being too surprised, Reid accidentally made a strange sound.
(Dungeon? Unique skills? Subordinate? Title? Eeeeeehhhhh?!)
"Ugh, well, well, calm myself down, a lot of things I don't know, but let's calm down first." Since his head was dizzy as things started to enter his head and forced him to process it, Reid decided to calm himself down first.
"Okay... Unique Skill, huh? It's the first time I heard it..." Putting his hand on his chin, Reid began to make an effort to think about it slowly.
However, before Reid could even come to a conclusion, a screen similar to his status screen appeared.
The screen is inscribed with...
•Unique skill: It is a designation given by [Higher entity (God)] to a Skill formed from various types of Skills that have been mastered to the fullest potential by a person, or a Skill that has only one in the world / individual Skill. Unique Skill has many times greater uses than ordinary Skills. For example: The 'Dungeon System' skill is a skill to access the Dungeon's system that has been possessed by the owner of the skill.
"..." (Uh, is that so, now I understand.)
... After a few full minutes of question-and-answer conversation between the mysterious 'Screen' which seems to be one of the features that exists because the 'Dungeon System' Skill passed.
Speaking of which, the black dragon has been asleep since just now after crying.
"Then... Dungeon System!" Raising his hand, Reid shouted his Skill name.
In response, another screen appeared.
•[Dungeon menu]
•Dungeon status.
•Dungeon point.
•Summon.
There are three options that will appear, namely: 'Dungeon status' option to check how many Dungeons you have and to check the characteristics of the Dungeon.
Then, 'Dungeon point' option that will tell you what you're going to land/earn using dungeon points(DP).
And, 'Summon' is option to summon monsters or Dungeon masters.
"Um, first, Dungeon status."
•[Your dungeon: 0001]
•Dungeon No.135609.
•[Dungeon No.135609]
•Number of floors: 68.
•DP income per day: 19700 per day.
•Dungeon Ranking: 234/999999.
"This dungeon... Bigger than I thought, huh? Uh, no, is this actually just evolving or something? According to the book I read before, the Dungeon near the Capital only has 34 floors, anyway."
After that, Reid started looking for anything he could learn about dungeons and his new skills.
Reid also didn't forget to give a name to the newborn dragon(Dungeon master) while he was there too.
That's dragon is Lacth now.
And, that way, Reid started to return home with useful Skills that he could buy in the Dungeon points catalog such as: Analize, Space Magic°l, Light magic°l, and Dark Magic°l.
Reid also summons a monster called Doppelganger which has the ability to imitate the appearance of anyone with a very high concealment ability. The price is also quite expensive, around 35700 DP.
Reid summons two of them to be his spies in the capital as well as guards for Mily and Wendy. Just in case, Reid also asked Lacth to help Mily and Wendy if something happened in the empire.
"Well, It's time to back, I guess? I'm getting sleepy, though."
#Status Reidhas/Vincent now:
•Reidhas Ev Luminus(Vincent)
•Race: Human.
•Level: 81.
•HP: 23100/23100.
•MP: 40000/40000.
•STR: 1260. •VIT: 1499. •INT: 3590.
•LUC: 265. •WIS: 6800. •AGI: 16800.
•Charm: 99999.
•[Unique Skill]
•Dungeon System(only on Dungeon).
•Dungeon Cathing(only on Dungeon).
•[Active Skill]
•Ex-Hero power(Lvl.197)
•Disguise.
•Strong bone.
•Mind Eye.
•Hawk Eye.
•Elemental Sword.
•Acceleration.
•Elemental Armor.
•Analize.
•[Passive Skill]
•Swordmanship°X.
•Holy Swordmanship°X(Lvl.99)
•Divine Swordmanship°lll(Lvl.150)
•Spearmanship°X.
•War-Hammer Mastery°X.
•Assasination°X.
•Archery°X.
•Martial arts°X.
•Mysterious Martial arts°lll.
•All-Elements Magic°X.
•Spirits Magic°l.
•Light magic°l.
•Dark magic°l.
•Lighthing Magic°Vll.
•Space Magic°l.
•Multi-task°lll.
•Divine Magic°ll(Lvl.120)
•[Title]
•Reincarnated Hero.
•Luminus Empire 1st Prince.
•The one who equal to a dragon.
•The one who conquer Dungeon master.