“So, what are we going to do?” Reis asks me while her mouth is stuffed.
Right now we’re having our last night in Ariana’s place. As usual, I finished my meal earlier than the others. This night is the last night we spend the night in Ariana’s place.
My new mana ring had been filled by Erfia. This new mana ring replaces my old mana ring in my middle finger as the old mana ring is one of the needed ingredients. With this new mana ring, I can use 100 small mana magic or 2 grand kill magic like spiking ground. It has the same look as the same old red and blue stripe when it runs out of mana. But when it’s full, like now, it changes its color into black and white stripes.
Erfia with her recovered body could fill my mana ring way faster than before. She could fill it in only two hours even though its mana capacity should be 20 times of the former one. Tomorrow we have to get back to my main objective.
“Now that you mention it, I haven’t mentioned my objective of becoming a raider, have I?”
All three of them shake their head. Wait a minute, did Ariana shake her head too? Now that I remember it carefully, I never mentioned my objective to anyone in this life. It seems I’ll have to tell them the truth.
“Before I tell you my real objective and my story, how much did you hear from her?” I point at Ariana.
“Nothing. Just the story of how you got your one word title, how your life when you’re here, and,” Reis is silent for a moment. It seems she wants to say something but she hesitates.
“About dad’s previous life, the curse of being reborn and keep every memory, and about makes–.”
Reis and Ariana close Erfia’s mouth in hurry. I wonder what it is about.
“Makes?” I ask them.
“It’s okay, the last one is trivial.” Ariana replies to my question, but it’s not the answer I want to hear.
“Yeah, it’s nothing.” Reis agrees with Ariana.
Well, if you don’t want to tell me. Then, so be it.
“And, let me guess, Ariana also said about how I defeat two side of human and beast man single handedly, and how she knew about my curse by reading my memories while I was asleep. Am I right?” I try to pique some information.
All of them nod. I look into Ariana and she just smiles like nothing happened. She always spread that exaggerated rumor and makes my name became one of the most feared names. I always knew she read my memories when I was asleep. Basically, when you’re having a nightmare, it means someone is trying to read your memories or try to enter your mind. And I really had some nightmare at that time.
“Well, it makes things easier for me. But before that, I’d like to correct something. I didn’t kill all those people single handedly when I try to reach ruin of Uruan. Well, technically I did it single handedly, but I did not fight them fair and square like I did today. I had already set a trap in all of that place to eradicate all of their long range magic caster beforehand. I also used the trap that exist in the ruin of Uruan on them. So, the amount of people that I defeated only a quarter them. The rest of them is died by trap.”
“But dad, you never say anything about their number. How much are they?” Erfia asks me with her usual cheerful tone. She asks me with her mouth full.
“Never talk when your mouth is full. Don’t take after her, okay?” I need to correct Erfia before I answer her question.
Erfia nods like a normal good child should be while Reis throw a pissed expression at me.
“Well, the numbers? Let’s see.” I try to guess their number by my memories. I never know their true numbers. The only thing I got is my memories and the rumor. “The human side is about 60,000 and the beast man side is about 40,000, total 100,000. So, I only killed 25,000 of them.”
“And how long did you take to kill them all?” Ariana asks with a grin in her face. I could sense some pride in her words like she’s saying ‘as expected of my pupil’.
“Nearly one full day. I got pretty lucky the best they have is three words heroes.”
A silent moment emerge.
Hmm? What? What’s with this silent?
“That’s impossible in so many ways! There’s no way you’re that strong!” Reis stands from her chair and make a fist in her hand. She’s so pissed.
“Yes, it is possible.” I stop her protest. “To get a one word title, you can take so many paths. Starting by killing another one word title holder, selling country’s secret, making your own advanced weapon, and so many more. One of those paths is to kill at least 10,000 people within one week.”
“But,” Reis tries to deny my words, “Normally, people that kill at least 10,000 people within one week is doing it by destroying a city or by spreading some kind of disease. Killing all of them in a battle is unheard of.”
“Actually,” I’m adding more fact. “There is at least 5 to 7 heroes capable of doing that in each race and at least one person capable of killing 100,000 people in a single day in each race.”
Their power is too great to be handled by public so people normally just forget them or treat them as a legend or some myth. The truth is, people don’t want to admit there’s a person capable of killing 100,000 people in a day is exist. But, those people got a very high position in government and they only fight when their race is cornered. Their very existence in a battle can turn the tide of a war in an instant. That’s another reason this war never ends.
Reis backs to her seat after she hears my words and finishes her meal as fast as possible. Erfia just opens her mouth in awe while Ariana is still showing that ‘as expected of my pupil’ expression in her face.
“Okay, back to main topic. My true objective.” I set the train back on rail. “Each race has 2 legendary items that its capability is transcending human understanding. It’s called God Item. Each item is being kept or held by some one word hero. My objective is to get all those 12 God Items and remove my curse of being reborn when I die and keeping all of my memories. Currently I have two of the 12 God Items, 10 remaining. My previous objective of getting a new mana storage ring is to increase the possibility of success even if it’s just by 10%.”
“Daddy, daddy, why do you want to forget all those memories. Isn’t better to never forget?” Erfia asks after swallows her food.
“Well, something is meant to be forgotten.” I only answer it in a brief as I remember all of my memories when I answer it. Just by answering it, I could remember all of those sad and painful memories in the past. I wish it could just stop.
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“So, now I’m asking both of you to think about this thing seriously. Are you going with me? I’m telling you that my objective is the same as making the whole world as my enemies and of course, clash with one word heroes with a capability of killing 100,000 people in a day is unavoidable.”
I wait for their reply. If any of them show even the slightest bit of hesitation, I’ll leave them here. This is my objective, and they have nothing to do with it. Making the world as my enemies is something that I’m ready to take. But, I can’t let young people like them get mixed in it, especially Erfia. Even though I need her to fill my mana ring, I can’t really let my only daughter in this world to get caught up in my mess. It seems my soft side for kids is something that I need to take for granted.
“So, daddy, where will we head tomorrow?” Erfia asks me as she already finished her meal.
“Hmm?” I’m humming to her. Did I just hear it wrong?
“She’s asking where we’ll head tomorrow. Don’t ask her back.”
“Umm, both of you, are you serious about coming with me?” I need to ask them once more time to make sure.
“Well, it’s not like I have any other person I could return to. And I don’t want to stay here. It will bore me.” Erfia answers in her sincere and cheerful tone.
“And I’m your slave, you know. It’s not like I have another choice.” Reis answers me in a straight tone but she’s not looking into my eyes.
I can see no hesitation in their words and their body language. I can understand Erfia as she doesn’t have any family left. But I still can’t understand Reis’s reason as I already killed all of her friends in the desert. But, I can’t feel any hesitation either from her.
I realize whatever I’m trying to say will only get rejected by them. So, I put the probability of convincing them to stay out of my mind.
“Actually, I haven’t thought about it. Is there any Idea?”
“Hah?” All of them are letting out a simple reaction to my question.
“Seriously? I can’t believe you at all. You’re making us think about taking the whole world as our enemies but you don’t even know where those God Items are?”
I finally let it out. “I know the possible places of the God Items, it just that I don’t know which one to after first.”
“Where are those places dad?”
“Each one in each capital or their most sacred place. The other one in a secluded place that’s within another race territory. The one held by undead race are moving in random as they have no capital or sacred place.” I explain the possibility to them.
“How about going with the one in the Capital of Beast Man? Most of their army should be still in Avareel, so the problem should be not as much as usual.” Ariana gives her idea.
That’s not a bad idea. The beast mans must be having a party for the next few days. It’s in their war culture. They have to hold a big party in every city and village when a battle is won and a city is seized while the human race will have their hands full to make a new troops placement and such.
“That’s not a bad Idea.” Reis gives her opinion.
“I think that’s a good idea too, dad.” Erfia also agree to Ariana’s idea.
“Well, then, tomorrow we’re heading to Ul Thadur. We’re taking the God Item, Voice of Obedience.”
“YEAH!”
Reis and Erfia stand and cheer on our new objective. While they talk to each other, I look into Ariana’s eyes that shows me a pride and confident look. It seems she still believes in me, in her best pupil ever.
“By the way dad, could you show us those God Items you have?” Erfia comes and pulls my clothes.
“Sure, but to do it we need to head outside.”
They follow me without any complains. We’re heading out and I took one mask from the Keeper. Well, it’s not really a mask as it only covers my right eyes with some gray skin mask and red eyes shape.
“This one that I currently wear is called the Shackle of the Dead. By using this,”
I pause my words as I’m waiting.
~whoosh whoosh whoosh~
A wind is blowing so hard towards us.
“Wha, what’s happening?” Reis yells as she feels the strong wind.
The ground is shaking. By the time, it shakes so hard and feel as it moves. Suddenly, a lot of figures come out of the ground. They have a body that looks just being gathered and their flesh looks like it’s been torn apart. A mass of dead beast man that I killed today just rise as a zombie.
From above, suddenly a big figure is covering us from the light of the moon. Slowly, that big figure become bigger and bigger until finally it lands in some place behind me.
~rawwrrrrr~
A zombie dragon is letting out its terrorizing voice as it lands.
Three of them get their jaw open wide. They look so hard like their eyes could pop out any moment. I can see they’re surprised and shocked.
“I could revive any dead being as my servant in radius of 10 kilometers. Hahahahaha” I speak to them in a very proud tone and a very nasty laughter.
After they look closely into the zombies, I let go the control, and all of those zombies turned into a flesh and bone except for the dragon. The dragon turned into dirt and became one with earth once again. I take the mask of and hold it in my hand.
“This is one of two God Item of Undead. As you can see, just by using this God Item I could make an entire city full of zombie. And because it’s the God Item of Undead, it consumes no mana from the user as undead don’t have any affinity towards mana unlike other races. It takes the mana directly from the nature. But of course the mana can’t be used for something else than reviving and controlling those zombies.”
They come closer at me and take a closer look at the mask. As Reis try to touch it, I pull it away and put it in the Keeper.
“That God Item can only be used by Undead or people with no affinity toward mana like me. If a person with affinity toward mana touch it, their mana will be absorbed and completely dried out by this God Item.”
“Ohhh.”
All of them open their mouth so wide, reacting to my explanation. Now, the other God Item.
“About the other God Item. Actually you already saw me use it countless time.”
“Huh? Countless time?” Erfia tilts her head.
“Yeah,” I hold my right hand and show them the yellow ring with red line in the middle of it in my pinky finger. “It’s this ring, the Keeper. It’s God Item of the Angels.”