"How much mana I do or don't have isn't any of your business." I told her. "Besides, who the hell are you? I don't even know your name, why should I tell you anything about me?" I followed up while making my annoyance clear.
"You have a point, my name is Inra." she said while conceding. "Now tell me something about yourself." she added on with a smirk on her face. "Nah, I don't think I will." I replied with a similar look on my face before melting into the shadows of the alley. I saw the look on her face as I disappeared into nothingness. She was so shocked her mouth practically hit the ground. This little thing was fun in the past life but in this life its even more so because with the use of a little magic I can make it look like I literally disappear. I've only done it once before and the only person who has seen it in this life before is Mary.
"How the fuck did he just do that!? Maybe, I finally found someone who can help me." she monologued before leaving. "Man, I feel like I'm gonna have an annoying dog following me around for a while." I said while reappearing at the same spot I was at before I disappeared. I could have left but I wanted to hear why she wanted to know about me. Unfortunately, it seems she isn't the type to quit easily. Whatever, I guess I'll go and find an inn to sleep in for the next 2 weeks.
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Nothing! Not a single fucking inn has rooms left! How is that even possible? Actually, that's a lie. There is one inn with rooms left but I can't afford that shit. With all of the money I have on hand I could stay there for maybe 2 nights if even that. Its practically night already and I have nowhere to sleep. Fuck it! I'll just go out of the city and hunt goblins and wolves all night. Its only 2 bronze coins per ear or ang but if I hunt enough I can make a lot of money. I can also hunt further away from the city. Alright let's do it.
I left the city while the guards gave me strange looks. After getting out of their sight I ran towards the forest west of the city. I got there in one hour and started hunting. There should be a good amount of goblins in this area and probably a few wolves too. I shouldn't hunt all of them but as long as I leave a few goblins ther population will be back to the hundred very quickly. I spread out my mana to cover a range of 1000 feet around me. I could cover more but I don't really need a bigger area.
I walk around for a bit until I find a small group of goblins. Its a group of 4, they're probably hunters. I use my bow to kill off 3 of them and let the last one run so it can lead me back to their village. I cut off the right ears of the 3 goblins and then follow the last one. He lead me what seemed to be a small human village but the reality was a lot different. There are so many of them in there. It has be atleast 2500 or so goblins in there. How the hell did their population grow so much? I was thinking that when I felt 2 presences in my range, one belonged to the girl who was following me today, it seems she found me. The other belongs to a goblin king. That's why there are so many of them. When a goblin king is born into a goblin population, the reproduction rate of those goblins increases and they all become a little bit smarter so its harder to find them while they train more so they become stronger as well. I could kill pretty much all of them with a single magic but then I would have to manually go through and get their ears and some might be burned off so I'll just go around and kill most of them. I'll leave around a hundred so they can get the ears for me and when they finish that task I'll kill them until only around 10 remain. It seems I'll have an audience but I think I can use this girl, she seems to be the princess type so she probably has money. This will be the solution to my inn problem. Anyway lets get started.
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Inra's POV
I saw a strange human today. He carried a bow, sword and dagger but had more mana than myself who is a top tier mage. I have never met anyone with more mana than myself, so I assumed he must carry the other weapons to throw people off and surprise them with his magic. A way to test my theory presented itself perfectly. Two idiots walked up to im when he registered himself as an adventurer to show off and belittle him. Instead of fearing the adventurers though, he talked back to them and made them angry enough to attck him with weapons drawn. Just when I thought he would use magic to deal with them he instead pulled out his bow and quickly fired 2 arrows into their throats killing them before anyone knew what happened. How is that possible though? He is a human so he should only be 15 or 16 years old. Nobody should be able to master archery to that level while having so much mana at the same time in that short of a lifetime. This intrigued me even more so when he left I was going to follow him but 4 idiots beat me to it. I wanted to see what else he could do so I followed behind them and saw an interesting sight. He killed the first 2 with arrows quickly but the third one dodged and the fourth one fired magic at him. A normal human would dodge that attack but he instead put up his mana covered hand and let the magic hit it. The act itself isn't that difficult since I can do the same thing but the fact that a cowardly human would use such an advanced tactic at such a young age is what's surprising. He then killed the 2 shocked idiots before calling me out. He knew I was watching him! That shouldn't be possible. No one has ever been able to find me when I'm hidden. Not even my royal guards could do that. I didn't want to reveal much information about myself so I lied to him a litle saying he had more mana than my master. Well, its not a complete lie since I'm my own master but whatever. After that he did another surprising thing. This one shocked me beyond belief. I the Princess of Blood, am known among my people to be the greatest at stealth as well as the greatest counter against other people who use stealth. This is because no matter how well anybody hides they can never hide form me. That's what I believed until today when I saw this human, a mere human, disappear into thin air like he never existed. It doesn't matter though because I caught his mana scent, the next time he uses any mana I should be able to find him.
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I left from the alley and went to my room at the inn. This is supposedly the best room of the best inn in this whole city. This is not that good though. It's a real step down from my previous room. Anyway, I should sleep utnil night, being out during the day is not normal for us.
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I woke up as the sun was setting. I felt it, he used his mana. It seems to be from outside the city though. I wonder where he is going at this time, normal humans sleep at night but then again there isn't anything normal about him. I used void magic to hide my figure and wind magic to fly towards where he had gone. I followed the scent of his mana until I reached a forest. I saw him sitting in a tree looking down into a goblin village. I set myself down upon a higher tree so I could see exactly what he does in this situation.
What I saw was a beautiful sight. As soon as it started I was frozen, I couldn't look away from it. He used his sword to cut goblins close to him, he thre his dagger at enemies at perfect times to throw them off or kill them with precision. He would draw them into tight spaces, put down his sword and fire arrows rapidly killin many of them. As he did all of this he was firing magic continously to block the magic of the goblin mages or to kill off a groups of goblins at once. It was not a fight, it was a massacre. He didn't get a single scratch on him and the look on his face the entire time was that of joy. Joy for being able to reap so much life, joy that every plan he had in his head worked perfectly, joy that all of the goblins were dancing on top of his palms. He had even purposefull not targeted the goblin king even though normally a human party would target the king first and then pick of the scattered goblins. He instead killed almost all of the goblins leaving around 100 of them before fighting the king. Well, it wasn't much of a fight. He put his right palm on his chest and blasted wind magic though the king instantly shredding all his inner organs and killing him. He is the one! I have decided that I will put my faith in him. If I want to survive I will need him. He is already so strong I can only imagine how strong he will become if he becomes my bound partner.
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Alex's POV
I dealt with the simplistic goblins and the king. It was the most fun I have had since coming to this world. After I killed the king I used mana in my voice to command the goblins to cut off the ears and bring them to me. Normally, low intelligence monsters or animals can't understand the human tongue but if you fuze enough mana in your voice then you can comman them to do simple tasks even though they won't understand the words. After I commanded them, I looked into the tree that Inra was hiding in and motioned her to come down. She seemed surprised for a second before remembering what happened earlier today.
"What is your name human?" she asked me. I could tell she wasn't human because her eyes were red, glowing red. Her hair was also a fiery red. I couldn't see it during the day because she covered up her entire body in a robe but now I can perfectly see her. She is wearing a beautiful dress the color of blood. She has a nice pair of tits, not too big but not small by any means. She is a 10/10 beauty for sure and just as I had expected she is definetly the princess type.
"I'm Alex and you, are you a vampire?" she smiled when I responded and asked a question of my own. "Yes, I am a vampire Alex. Not just any vampire though, I am...was the princess of my people. The only people with more authority than me were my father and mother. That is until that bastard Mortas plotted agaisnt them and had them killed. He wanted to kill me as well but I escaped in time, naturally he hasn't stopped hunting me but I'm pretty sure I'm not super high on his priority list right now." she explained with rage filling her eyes until she calmed down for a second by shaking her head. "Let's move to a better place before continuing this topic."
"Yea, but first I need to secure a place to stay, can you help me with that?" I asked her honestly because I don't really like being roundabout. "You can come to my room, its nothing compared to my old one but its supposedly the best in the city."
I nodded to her proposal, picked up the gathered goblin ears, tossed them in my void space and then fired a magic at the rmeaining golbins killing most of them and probably leaving a few of them alive. I then saw her fly up into the sky and she smirked seeing I hadn'e flown up behind her. "What's wrong Alex? You don't know how to fly?" she asked while mocking me. She's right I don't or rather I didn't until I just saw her doing it. I smirked back before flying up to her height after copying the magic she used. Instantly her face showed annoyance but she quickly got over it and started flying to this city with me following behind her. It seems like I'm about to get caught up in really troublesome things but I don't really have a choice now. I decided the moment I saw her that I'm gonna make her mine and if I have to kill some idiot and take back a kingdom then its a small price to pay. Besides, when she becomes the ruler of her kingdom again I'll be able to do whatever I want in her kingdom. I should do this with all of the countries in this world so I can do whatever the fuck I want and nobody can tel me otherwise. I doubt I'll be able to do that but for now I'll take the one country that I can get. I smiled like a plotting devil while staring at Inra from behind.