Riku’s POV + 3rd Person POV
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Entering a room with two girls having a cat fight is never a good idea. The room that we booked in the inn was meant for novice adventurers. It had a small hard bed that felt like a rock if you lay on it, but thankfully it should be big enough for Senna and I. The worn out wooden chair and desk affirmed the room be ancient. Scratches were universal around the base of the seat and the uneven edges of the legs of the wooden desk made a rocky sound whenever one made contact with it.
That darned inn keeper had ripped me off.
Even the corner of the room had spider webs that guaranteed my thoughts that the room was not cleaned very often. This was by no means a room for a novice adventurer. Without a doubt, this room was meant for a slave.
Looking back to the situation at hand, there are two girls in front of me arguing. I took a glance at the burnt rope on the dusty floor then looked back to the goddesses in front of me. If I ever had the desires of a man, I would have loved the scenario of two ruffed up girls with tattered clothing fighting each other.
Senna’s torn up loose fit school uniform showed the charm of her lean yet petite figure and her exposed nape of her neck awakened my cravings for pleasure as a demigod. Her sweat tricked down her face making it glitter off the reflection of the candles on the desk. The lolita’s usual prim and modest look had a 180 degree turn as her black frilly dress were cut up showing the adorableness of a middle school girl’s legs. Her long tender like red ponytails were cluttered making it look like she just got out of bed. The scene was so erotic that it even appealed to an emotionless demigod like me.
They were panting, trying to catch their breath. Senna was standing on the bed while the lolita was lying on the floor, next to the desk. From the looks of it, Senna was overpowering the lolita at a close range combat. Did I mention that Senna used a cleaver to viciously chop up monsters on the journey to the village? What made Senna scary was that she would eat the flesh of the monsters raw before mutilating their corpses to humiliate them for being weak while smiling. If the monsters were strong, she would pluck out their front tooth. It seems that she was making a bracelet out of teethes that she collects, like it were some kind of trophy. But Senna’s sadistic nature did not make me hate her at all, it was a part of her. Senna is my only friend.
It seemed that Senna had noticed me standing by the doorway as she shifted her attention away from the lolita immediately, before running up and hugging me. The softness of Senna’s mountains were pressing onto my chest. So this was what bliss felt like.
“Riku I missed you! Hurry up and give me permission to cut up this lower lifeform into a thousand pieces!”
Senna face was directly in front of me. I could feel her breathing when she opened her delicate mouth to say that.
“No, she is still useful. Don’t lay a hand on her.”
Senna pouted before cursing softly under her breath and staring at the lolita. Making Senna let go of me, I approached the lolita who was blushing at the sight of Senna hugging me.
“Sorry that our first meeting had to be done in such an indelicate manner. My name is Riku.”
“ … Angela Fortwing.”
She said her name out in a soft high pitched voice. Now that I think about it, she was pretty cute.
She then started to tremble in fear. Her face turned pure white as if she saw a ghost. When I turned around, I saw Senna carrying her cleaver showing a threatening expression to Angela.
“Senna you dare disobey me?”
It was the first time I ever talked with such a harsh tone to Senna, but after my eyes met with hers, she sighed before keeping her cleaver in her scabbard. In my opinion, it looked more like a leather casing meant to keep kitchen tools rather than a scabbard though.
After 10 minutes of awkward silence, we were cramped up sitting on the hard bed. The soft sensation of bliss was Senna pushing her chest onto my arm while hugging it while we faced Angela. Senna was not pleased at me for letting Angela off, she would give a furious glare at Angela ever so often. Wanting to ease up the atmosphere, I started to talk about fortune teller and my existence as a demigod.
One screaming girl later…
Angela had finally calmed down after a good 20 minutes of shouting and asking questions. She could not believe her ears. She could not believe the words that came out of my mouth. Never in the history of creation has such the occurrence of an existence called a demigod appear. The greater Gods could not enter <
Senna on the other hand, was pretty calm. She finally came to the conclusion that she came to existence due to my creation magic, which I inherited from my father. The Miscellaneous Magic of creation was more of alchemy. It was trading something with equivalent value to create something else. But to create something out of nothing was unheard of. Not to mention that Senna was a living, breathing creature with a mind of her own. Even after hearing such an implausible story, she said that she would believe in me. And nothing I did could ever change that fact.
When Senna told us her thoughts, Angela finally believed my story. She smirked. She thought that if she could get Riku into her faction, that it would have a higher chance in succeeding the Fortwing family. Angela was an illegitimate child, born from the mistress of the Fortwing family. She was the third daughter and was the fourth oldest child. The chances of her succeeding the family was close to zero with either the eldest daughter or the only son wielding the most power in the family. So she left her home in hopes of becoming a famous adventurer so that one day, if someone with influence or wealth could back her up, her dream of succeeding the family would no longer be impossible.
The Fortwing family were made up of rich elite nobles. They owned a large chain of merchant stores that spread out around the north continent of Cassian and they are 8th richest family in the Zarith Empire. They sold weaponry and are the biggest supplier to the human forces. Without of doubt they are one of the most influential people in this continent. Opposing them would be asking for a death sentence.
“Yosh! I’ve decided, I Angela Fortwing will follow you on your journey.”
“No I’m selling you off as a slave.”
I immediately rebutted giving no room for her to explain herself. The harsh words I said hit her hard as though an arrow pierced through her chest.
“Even if I …”
“Sorry seduction won’t work on me.”
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She looked at me with puppy eyes as she tried to slip the top of her frilly black dress off. But sadly as a demigod, I had no feelings of pity for her.
“Then marry me.”
She was pouting at me. Wait what? Did she just proposed to me? I looked at her only to see sincerity in her eyes. On the other hand, I could feel my muscles on my left arm getting shriveled up due to the force of Senna’s mountains. I could swear that I almost saw steam as well. But ignoring Senna, I looked to the window.
When I looked out of the window, I saw a majestic crescent moon in the middle sky. The way it glowed was angelic and with pale light brightening up the empty sky, it was a beautiful sight to see. I felt that it was an indication for us to go to bed.
“Let’s just discuss things tomorrow… it’s getting late.”
The two girls nodded their heads in agreement. But now, another issue arose. With only one bed, we had to share it together as no one wanted to sleep on the dusty floor that could potentially be home to creepy crawlies. With Senna on my left and Angela on my right, I was finding it hard to sleep as my … got hard. If heaven existed, the gentleness and softness of a women’s chest would be a close second to nirvana. Closing my eyes and giving in to the tiredness, I fell asleep.
I woke up early the next morning, I did not get much sleep due to what had happened last night. Sitting up, I saw the cute drooling face of Angela while she was hugging my arm. While on my left, Senna’s eyes were wide open. Did I mention that she loves to watch me sleep? She opened her lips to show mouth movement saying good morning. I put my index finger over my mouth and pointed to Angela. I did not want her to wake up and cause a fuss the first thing in the morning.
I gently pushed Angela away before getting up and sitting on the wooden chair. I’ve tried to use creation magic throughout the journey back to the inn. But my efforts led to no avail as I could not find a clue how or what to do to activate the magic. I even shouted a magic chant in the middle of the street, but that was embarrassing so let’s not pry on any further. [The exact chant he said was “I am Riku, Son of Lucifer and Liza. By the power of the God of Creation, Kami. Creation!”]
When Angela woke up, she tried to force me to answer her proposal. I gave her a flat out rejection that would probably scar the innocent lolita for life. But when she asked me if she could follow me as a companion, I said that she could do whatever she wanted. Senna was obviously not pleased at this but she accepted it anyways.
After bathing, eating breakfast and leaving the inn, we caught the attention of the townsfolk. The men were giving off envious auras while staring at us. Walking out of an inn as a cloaked mercenary with two girls hugging each hand wearing tattered clothing was making us quite famous. But with The Scarlet Magician next to me, no one dared to approach us.
We then went to the town square to buy some clothing to replace our worn out ones. With Angela being an adventurer, we got discounts for buying new sets of outfits. I was now wearing a long white robe that had a hood that camouflaged with my hair. The smooth leather material it was made of, made it an easy choice for me to buy it. Senna got rid of the school uniform she wore for the past week and was now wearing a charming red mini dress with a thin fur coat made up of rabbit fur. Angela was wearing nothing but a stripped bikini outfit as she said it would be easy to move around with it. Nah just joking. She chose something similar to the black frilly maid dress that she used to wear.
We then went around shops to stock up supplies for our journey. I had accepted a mercenary quest after all. It was a B class mission of finding a lost slave in the Ministro Forest. We had to catch a Cat species of the beastman tribe. The job was laid out by a slave merchant who had a runaway slave. The collar was still on the slave so with tracking magic, it showed that the slave was in Ministro Forest.
Even though the continent of Cassian was the home to most of the humanoid species, it was by no means safe. The natural grown forests that covered majority of the continent were filled with life forms and beings. As the Gods gave their greatest gift to living creatures, Mana, the forests fell into the influence of the power and started to modify itself as if it were a sentient being. It created a lot of dungeons and mutated creatures, forcing them to feed off mana. The difference between monsters and humanoids is that monsters do not have a mind of their own, monsters are not sentient. They live off their instincts and only bounded by one rule, only the strongest will survive.
The Village of Thal’ Kina is located near the center of the continent, which resulted in the mana concentration to be higher. Creatures that lived off mana grew stronger due to the higher supply of mana. The forests were filled with dungeons that welcome unprepared adventurers to their doom.
Thal’ Kina was also located in the neutral zone of the continent where all humanoid species can roam freely. Other than the guards that were employed by the adventurer’s guild to stop conflict, there are no rules. The northern part of Cassian was a human zone and they are arguably the most advance race in the region. The south was where the tribes of beastman reside. There are many different types of beastman but what separated them from humans were their animal features. There are hundreds of tribes in the South, with different species of beastman residing in each area. They usually align themselves as one huge faction to ward off invaders.
Ministro Forest was around 4 days south by horse travel from Thal’ Kina. It is also the border that separates the beastman to the neutral zone. It used to be one of the safer forests where novice adventurers that take on F – C ranked missions at. But there have been strange occurrences over the past year where adventurers and beastman who go in, strangely never go out. Even after a search party of C – A ranked adventurers that went in disappeared as well. It is now illegal for anyone to enter the forests without permission as the beastman tribes and the guild set tight security at the entrances which is why this mission was meant for mercenaries.
After we checked our supply and hired a carriage, we head south to Ministro Forest.
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Authors Notes:
As an adventurer, you can only take up quests that are one higher or one lower than your current rank. As a mercenary you can take up any quests at your own risk.