Author's Spot: Ladies and Gentlemen!
The one who is talking to you today is your lovely ferret.
I know that it took me long enough to post a new chapter, but what I can say...
[table=brown]You should tell them that you're writing a new story, again.[/table]
HEY! This is MY spot! You aren't allowed to meddle here! Go away!
[table=brown]WOW! You sounded like Carn now... okay okay... I'll leave... but I'll let them know that it is a VR story.[/table]
FUCK! GO AWAY! THIS IS MY SPOT! *Sigh* It looks like that that Brown Screen is out now. Fuck... it messed all my plans... I didn't wanted to tell you guys about it since it is a closed project and just a few people can read it... I'll probably not post that until I finish one of the stories I have.
ANYWAY! Have a furry read!
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Incarnus PoV
We talked a little at the throne room and Richard got permission to walk in the common areas of the castle, so I took my time to ask some things of him as we gave a tour. He did the same to us and I made sure to be between him and Alice. I don't like the way he is looking at her. He is staring at her with some lewd eyes and I'll not allow him look at her like that.
"Sir Incarnus, I heard that you were called Hero by the king of Glater." Richard stated which almost caused me to choke hearing that. "I came here after asking some people and getting to talk with the king myself. Are you a Hero, or did you just claim to be one when the king named you as such?"
'This question is tricky... Richard, what do you really want?' I think as I look at his eyes.
"I am not a Hero, I was just lucky enough to be the escort of Princess Alice during that mission." I tell him, making a signal to Alice with my right hand saying that it is a needed lie. "And the enemies were powerful, but I was able to kill them with the help of the maids and the Princess herself."
"Hmmm... I thought you would explain more than that. The innkeeper said that you were a ferret when they booked a room, what was that about?." He says, looking at me with doubtful eyes.
'He is really sharp.' I think. "Oh, that was a magic I was born with. It was really hard to use at first, but with lots of training I was able to master it." I answer him with a wry smile in my face.
Richard looks at me with doubt in his eyes, it looks like he is trying to understand me.
"Sir Richard, may I ask you why you seem so interested about my life?" I ask him and it made him jump. 'It is suspicious...'
"Oh, I am just curious about it and some of my friends said that they may like to know more about you." He nods as if it was a good excuse. I just shrug it off, letting it slide.
We continued to talk a little before Alice says she had to go since she had some lessons to attend and I just give her a fast kiss on her lips. Alice blushes as she goes away. I look at the elf and he looks surprised.
"Hm? Is something wrong?" I ask him while I pass my hand before his eyes.
"It is nothing. I was just surprised to see a knight kissing a princess." He says and I nod to him.
"Well, Mother-in-law wanted to reward me because of how well I did on that mission." I said scratching my right ear, it had become a habit. "She said I should marry her youngest daughter, the Princess that I protected during the mission. It started as a joke but after a while Alice said she likes me so now we are together with the intention to marry." I tell him.
"You are lucky... Now, to the real question why I am here." He says as we walk to the guard's training ground. "Did you ever hear about the reincarnated Heroes?"
I blink to his question trying to understand what he wanted.
"Hmmm... Just as a legend. Never met one before, so I don't really know if they are real or stories." I say. I know that I have a high probability of someone coming to kill me if those Heroes learn of my existence. “Why do you ask? Have you heard about them from some other place?” I ask him.
“Hmm… Yeah, I have heard about them from my dad when I was a kid. It looks like they are real and that they appear once in awhile to help the world or just stay here making it progress.” Richard answers but I really don’t believe in him. Something about his manners doesn’t let me believe in him. “And I just came here today because I wanted to see if you were a Hero, but I guess you’re not.” He let his shoulders drop and I just nod to him.
“Sorry to make you waste your time with me. Yeah, if you say they are real I would want to meet them.” I say to him. ‘Not now, maybe in the future when I am strong enough to hold my own against them.’ I think. “But right now I have too many things to do and I’ll not be able to look for them for a while yet. I have my hands full with the things I want to do and I have to help Alegria a little, obviously.” I tell him and he nods.
“Well, I should be going, if you ever hear anything new about the Heroes tell me through this stone.” Richard takes a stone from one of his pockets and throws it to me.
I catch it with one of my hands and I look at it, tilting my head.
“You need to infuse a bit of mana and it will connect with its pair.” He says and takes another one from another pocket. I nod as I understand how to use it.
“I’ll tell you if I ever find something.” I make a small bow as he is escorted to the door by a butler.
‘For the first time in awhile I didn’t hear the Screen trying to intrude in my conversation.’ I think happily, but my happiness was short.
[table=brown]Oh! You missed me? I was just watching what you were doing as I was eating popcorn.[/table]
‘YOU! You do nothing and just stay there! Is that guy a Hero? Did he discovered that I am one as well?’ I start to question the Screen.
[table=brown]Calm down! And I can’t answer any of your questions… the system blocks me from saying it. I think I had already explained that to you! Stupid Ferret![/table]
‘I am not stupid and I’m not a ferret anymore!’ I tell the Screen.
[table=brown]No, you are! Your race is a beastkin but you are a ferret because you can transform into one and your race says that as well! A Ferret beastkin.[/table]
'Yeah, well, fuck you too. At least I have a race and a body!' That little shit is getting way too arrogant lately, I need to hurry up with my magic and enchantment studies to see if I can find a way to hurt the bastard!
Richard PoV
‘He is hiding something… I don’t know what it is but I feel he is hiding something…’ I think as I walk with the butler that is guiding me to the castle's entrance. ‘I should tell the others I have discovered that Incarnus is not a Hero, I am almost sure of it, his answers are like what a normal citizen would give.’
I continue walking just to find Princess Alice talking with another two girls. I look to the butler and with a gesture I have him wait for me.
“Princess Alice.” I say as I got closer to them. All the girls have a different shade of purple hair, so they are probably sisters. “May I be made acquaintances with the other princesses?” I bow before them. “My name is Richard.”
“Sir Richard, these are my older sisters Princess Mira and Princess Wendy.” The princess says as I look at them.
“I am honored to meet such beautiful flowers on my way out.” I grab the two older princesses' hands and place a small and fast kiss at the tip of their fingers. I hear some gasping sound and without waiting I try to get the third hand but I found nothing.
“Sir Richard, may I ask you what you are trying to do?” The younger princess’ voice has gone colder.
‘Fuck! I screwed up beautifully here!’ I think. “It is just a greeting in my home town. This is a way to express that you are happy to befriend someone.” I lie and Alice just nods.
“Very well. Sisters, I am taking my leave.” Alice bows to them. “Sir Richard, I will not tolerate it if you do it to me once more.” As she says that she walks away.
“Cold as ever.” Princess Mira says while shaking her head.
“Yes Sister, Alice really lives up to her title.” Wendy completes.
“May I know her title?” I ask even though I could figure it out.
““The Cold Princess Alice.”” They both say together. I didn’t need to discuss why she gained that title, the way she treated me just now showed that.
I talk with the two Princesses a little but as soon as I tried to make a move on them they walked away as some maids called them.
[table=blue]Your charm failed! It looks like the Princesses are more resistant to it than normal girls![/table]
‘And why were you silent until now?’ I ask the Screen.
[table=blue]Simple! I wanted to see how badly you would screw yourself over![/table]
‘You’re annoying as ever. Well, let’s just follow the butler, I need to contact the others.’ I walk to the butler who gives me a bow before continuing to guide me through the corridors.
“I’m saying that he is not a Hero! I talked to him and all off his answers were like the ones the ‘NPC’ would give!” I tell the others through my stone. This one is different, it is connected to all the other five Heroes.
[“I don’t believe it. The dark knights we fought in the past were tough! We needed to work together to cut them down!”] Milena says.
[“We would had been able to kill them faster if a certain someone had helped.”] Carmen says directing her hate to the dwarf in our call.
[“That is not my problem! Ya guys that are weak! Ah’ was already holding them back while ya were killing the others!”] Michael says.
“Guys, stop fighting! We need to discuss about this Incarnus guy. He is not a Hero, I am almost sure of it, but he is hiding something.” I tell them what happened while I was talking with him, the things he answered, the way he speaks. I told them everything.
“That is what I think. He is not a Hero but he probably has some good abilities, maybe an artefact.” I finish my report.
[“You’re sure…? He is suspicious. Try to gather more intel for us since it would be strange if we all appear together to talk to him.”] Lucy says with a somewhat indifferent voice.
[“Yeah, gather more intel, but don’t make it everyday. Ask the commoners around town as well.”] Larissa says and I tell them that I will be careful.
‘I should try to see what he does inside the castle, and probably find out his schedule.’ I think as I start to make a plan to gather more information about the royal family.
Alice PoV
‘Who the hell does ‘Sir’ Dickhead think he is? Trying to kiss a lady’s hand!’ I think as I walk to watch Carn’s training. Today he said he would train swordsmanship with the guards, he wants to see if he can use two swords instead of one.
(Ultrabenosaurus: I think someone watched too much anime in his past life…)
(AN: I think he really watched too much anime…)
I understand the logic that you can probably maintain or even increase attack speed, but he will lose the defensive ability of a shield. Though I can see Carn doing that since he prefers to dodge an attack instead of parrying or blocking it anyway.
I sat on a table near the place he was sparring with the guards. I saw that he had a good skill in using both hands, but he wasn’t getting the perfect timing. It was fun to see his struggling face as he tries to move both hands together.
‘I was like that when I was younger…’ I remember the day I started my training with my daggers. Mother never allowed us, her kids, to be defenseless and it is a tradition to let the kids chose their weapons at the age of four. Like my brother that has chosen a sword, Mira likes to use her fists so she uses gloves, and Wendy uses a glaive.
We learn since we are young to protect ourselves. The world has too much danger and when the time arrives the girls of this family will get their weapons!
I was there remembering the past just to be surprised by two hands over my eyes and a fluffy tail over my lap. I chuckle as I already know who it is.
“Carn, you can uncover my eyes already.” I tell him and the light comes back to the world. The hands go to my shoulders and he starts moving them in a good way.
“It has no fun… Beastkin can know who is close to them just by sniffing the air around them.” I hear his pout but I don't pay any attention since the way his hands are moving is relaxing my muscles.
I let him continue for a few minutes until I feel that my shoulders have recovered and I'm about to melt. I tap his hands to say that he didn’t need to continue doing it and he just strokes the top of my head instead.
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“I am quite troubled by the dual wielding… I can use both hands but it seems like they can’t be used together…” Carn says as he sits before me. “My left hand feels slower and always get in the way of my other hand.*Sigh*”
“I had the same problem before. It is just a small problem once you come to understand how to use them together.” I sip the tea a maid had brought to me before. “In my case I couldn’t use my right hand very well, but Mother said I should just do everything with it until I succeed. It was a devious plan and it was difficult at first, but after some time I got to understand how to use it.” I smile to him and I see that Incarnus is nodding.
“I just need to try harder… well, nothing that I didn’t expect I would need to do. *Sigh*” Carn looks a little depressed so I make a signal that I wanted to hold his hands and he quickly accepted.
“You really look happier when I do things like this.” I tell him, feeling my face getting hot.
“What can I say? My lovely Princess has a cute and shy side that she just shows when she is close to me. How could I not be happy?” Carn says and my face gets a lot hotter very quickly.
“Stop it! Idiot!” I turn my head to the other side just to hear him laughing. ”At least you’re a lot better than ‘Sir’ Richard.” I whisper.
“What did that bastard do?” I hear a cold voice coming from Incarnus so I look at him, worried he'd rampage like before, but his eyes were blue and not red, and I was not feeling the aura he had other day either. “Did he do something that you didn’t like?” He asked while looking straight into my eyes.
“He tried to kiss my hand, but I was faster than him so he couldn't touch me, and I left right after that.” I tell him and he goes back to the usual calm and gentle Carn that I like.
“Lucky, he is really lucky.” He says squeezing my hand. “I wouldn’t let that go without punishment, but I should lay low for a while… the way he talked to me… it looks like he is one of the Heroes.” I hear him saying and I nod.
I had the same impression. The way he made questions, his manners… everything about him is a little suspicious.
We chatted a little more before parting our ways as a maid appeared to call me. It looks like I have some new lessons that I need to study and Mother isn’t going to hold back now that I'm the first to get a fiance.
Incarnus PoV
The last month passed really fast. Dickhead came to talk to me every few days but since I didn’t have anything new about the Heroes he just talked about things he had seen and my suspicions regarding him just grew.
During this month I trained with my dual wielding technique that increased after getting that tip from Alice, just changing something I normally do with one hand is hard, but I got used to it really fast.
I did a new schedule for myself. Before breakfast I trained cooking in the castle kitchen with the cooks. It was fun to learn from them as well a good place to get some gossip from every part of the city. I would sit with the royal family to eat the breakfast I helped to make, and I can say that it was really worth making food for Alice! She would always say that it tasted good and it just made me want to feed her more and more.
My cooking skill leveled to 30. I could say that it leveled one level every day, but that would be a lie. It would just level up after I successfully made some food and it would evaluate every detail… it was strange that I needed to pay attention to details while cooking, but the cooks said I should just cook with love… I think my own mother would always says that to me, so I did it like that.
After the breakfast I would go to my smithing room to train either alchemy, forging or enchanting. It was tricky as I would need to pay attention to the time to make good potions in alchemy or for melting a metal in the furnace, as well know the limit of enchants you can place on a material. It is dangerous to enter the room while I am playing with my crafting skills.
If your enchanting fails it'll break the item while finishing the enchantment as well make the magic used explode. I have used the forge as a place to train it since I exploded some minor things every now and then.
Alchemy can make explosives, acids and other evil things. I made some of them that would not fail with my level… others… I just let it explode in my face, burning some of my hair and sometimes my clothes.
Tailoring is the only ‘safe’ crafting method I have. I say ‘safe’ because I can make it in my bedroom, though sometimes I cut my fingers with the scissors or pierce my finger with the needle… And yeah… that thing is tedious! I need to measure perfectly how to make a cloth, but since I had some experience with it I just almost cut my fingers off damaged the materials a few times, nothing that's worth mentioning.
Tailoring level 25, blacksmithing level 30, enchanting level 27 and alchemy level 23. These are the levels of the skills I have trained until now.
I didn’t forgot to train my swordsmanship. I just made it that I would train with the guards during the afternoon.
And I bought a new skill after learning that I couldn’t really see what I have done:
[table=brown]IdentifyCost: 10Using your eyes you can see details you couldn’t before. This skill lets you identify items, good for checking if it's safe to eat things you pick up off the floor. Doesn't work on living things other than plants and eggs. Upgrading this skill will let you discover more about an item.[/table]
I tested that skill after buying it and the thing that appeared to me after identifying a table was:
TableA table made from wood.
Nothing more than a SIMPLE table! Nothing worth saying. What was the wood used to make it, or the name of the creator… NOTHING! Just a basic description… I bought the first upgrade after that so I could see the full description of things.
RoseA rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species and thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles.
I was thinking about why the color had changed and Screen answered why.
[table=brown]It is pretty simple. It is because that is a ‘system’ Screen. It doesn’t have personality and it is just there to show the description of things.[/table]
‘So it is a normal screen? Why could I not receive that one? My life would be so much easier!’ I think dropping my shoulders.
[table=brown]That is also simple. If you were to get that Screen it would gain personality and it would be substituted by another one.[/table]
‘Fuck. Are you serious? I thought I would be able to get a ‘normal’ Screen that would not disturb me.’ I think shrugging. ‘Nothing I can do about it.’
[table=brown]Now that you and I are both bored, are you planning to bed Alice today?[/table]
‘Hell! No! Today we are going on another date since her stupid Father stopped us before we could finish the first one!’ I scream in mind.
[table=brown]
Took you two long enough to continue that date! I thought you would want to continue it right after waking up.[/td4]
‘I wanted to continue it, but Alice and Mother-in-law weren’t letting me, saying that it was not time… and we had an unexpected visit of that Richard guy which disturbed my plans to go on a date with Alice since he could appear while we are wandering, so no, thanks.’ I say as I am waiting for Alice.
[table=brown]You really are meticulous with your dates… so why now? I think Richard said he was leaving the city a week ago![/table]
‘He said that, but what will I do if he was in the city and starts to create a problem just to see what I will do about it?’ I tell the Screen. ‘If he is at the city I’ll just ignore him. I should have marked him…’
[table=brown]You would need to touch him and he could do the same with you, if he is a Hero and has that skill.[/table]
‘Yeah… that is what I thought as well and I don’t want any problems like that.’ I think as I discover an Alice walking towards me. ‘Talk to you later, today I will have a nice date.’
[table=brown]Don’t forget that I am always here, observing you.[/table]
‘That is creepy! You sounded like a stalker just now!’ I think as I take Alice’s hand with mine. “To where are we headed today, my Princess?” I ask her.
“Today you lead. I know that you can walk alone in the city now.” Alice says and I nod to her.
“As you wish.” I smile, leading my Princess to our first second date.
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[table=brown]STATUSNameIncarnusRaceFerret Beastkin (Demonic)Level75GenderMaleClassDemonically Fluffy Hero FerretHealth100%Mana100%Stamina100%Satiety100/100Strength140Vitality130Agility145Dexterity140Intelligence140Wisdom130Unlocated points0[/table]
[table=brown]SKILLDemon BodyUpgradeRollUpgradeTiger ClawsUpgradeInflammable GasUpgradeCharming God EyesUpgradeSummon FamiliarUpgradeInventoryUpgradeFlame WheelUpgradeDemon WingsUpgradeDominationUpgradeSemen DemonUpgradeHumanificationUpgradeSpinning Mana ArrowsUpgradeMana EdgeUpgradeBasic Fire MagicUpgradeBasic Water MagicUpgradeBasic Wind MagicUpgradeBasic Earth MagicUpgradeBasic Light MagicUpgradeBasic Darkness MagicUpgradeHidden Skill: Thigh SensingUpgradeMini Mind MappingUpgradeTailoring25/100Blacksmithing30/100Enchanting27/100Alchemy23/100Cooking30/100Iron TailUpgradeIdentifyUpgradeUnlocated points19[/table]