I headed out of the little concave under the trees. I thought about it for awhile, and never did I thought.
The vast openness and dense forest lit my view ablaze, it was amazing, fireflies were spread all around, at the time this was happening it was around 2am in the morning. The forest would have been pitch black, but thanks to those little fireflies they lit the forest with their little lights making it look as if I was really in a fantasy world in a Forest for mythical beings that appear in your fairytales as a child.
But… I guess I really am in another world at this point. It was great being outside and actually enjoying it, back where I came from the only thing you had outside was high rise buildings, what a sight for sore eyes.
I breathed in deeply, it made me feel alive. Like actually alive. It was really refreshing.
"Alright, Seto, is it alright to test my skills here?"
"Of course Kei-sama, the only civilization that nears us are at least 37 kilometers away."
"That should be far enough I suppose, with that I shall test out a few things."
So thinking about this, if Seto said that at this point my physical being was 100X more powerful than my prior self. I was able to punch at speeds about 9m/s in my previous world. And supposedly I'm 100X more powerful does that mean that I can punch 100X faster? If that's the case my punch would be 900m/s no? That would be Mach 3. So I can punch at speeds of mach 3?
I decided to try it, I took a stance and punched the air as hard as I could.
No sound, a few moments later boom.
…?
What was that? Did I just create a sonic boom while punching?
That's insane. So, how much force is this punch actually? I walked up to the tree on my right. Took a punch at it.
Was not the results I expected to happen, instead of the tree demolishing, it seems as if I have left a clean hole shaped like my fist through the tree. I guess that'd make more logical sense.
But just as I thought, it really doesn't make sense either. Why… you ask? As my punch went through the hole, it seemed like the surroundings air was affected too. At the start of my fist, the forest engulfing us lost a part of it. It seemed like a cone shaped clearance, it took the dirt as well.
That’s not what I expected.
“As expected of Kei-sama, that was a powerful punch.”
“Kanna, if I’m this powerful? How powerful are you? You’re supposed to be 44 tier higher than me. Could you try punching or using some sort of physical move so that I could see?”
“Hmmmm, Kei, that would not be a wise choice. And to begin with, I’m a battle mage, so I’m not physically as strong as I am magically, but that doesn’t mean that I’m physically weak either. If I was to take a full powered punch it’ll probably take 50km of land with it, and if I was to do so magically… let’s not talk about it. You get the point.”
Let’s remember to never get on Kanna’s bad side. I don’t want to see what would happen when that day comes.
Next, an attempt to jump, as usual, I tried my hardest and used the maximum power that I could muster to see what my limit was.
As I was charging up my jump, or at least I think I was charging up my jump, the floor started cracking, and when I reached what I thought was a ready position to jump, I’d made a depression of cracks on the floor that radiated about 2 meters out. Insane, I thought.
And when I jumped, as usual, no sound, plus… I broke more of the floor as I actually pushed against the ground to lift myself off the ground, that’s another 7 meters. It looked like I left an impression of 12 meters as I tried to jump off.
And just when I thought things couldn’t get crazier, my body flew up at speeds of mach 3.
Before I knew it, I was approximately 2207 meters of the ground, that was my top point… that’s insane, that was more than 2 times and almost 3 times the height of the tallest building in my prior world, the ‘Burj Khalifa’ ranging at 828m.
When I reached the top, there was no noise, 2 seconds later, however, it seemed like the sound managed to catch up to me.
*Poom*
A sharp sonic boom as I’d expect. I’ve gotta get used to that, it’s actually insane knowing that when I use maximum strength I can produce sonic booms using just my own physical body without any tools.
When I reached the top, it was like my body stopped for a few seconds, during that time period, I looked around, what a horizon, towards my right spanned the Great Forest, it didn’t seem like it ended, there was a lake somewhere in the distance away, I wonder how far it was. Everything wasn’t as clear as I thought either, I’d suppose my bad eyesight carried over huh. That kinda sucks.
The things that were further away blurred out the further I looked. We were pretty close to the beginning of the forest, I guess. I mean, when I woke up I just walked in to find a nice place to sleep.
On the left, I did manage to however catch a glimpse of the road? Road? It seemed like I was able to catch a slight amount of masses? Buildings? It seemed to dense up the more I look further, perhaps I was looking at the edge of the town that Seto mentioned. I couldn’t see further, neither could I see it clearly either, I was blocked by the horizon caused by the curvature of the planet I suppose.
*ding*
Hmmm? What’s that?
A notification popped out.
“Unique Passive gained - ‘Better eyesight’”
For some reason, it felt like it was mocking me the way it was put out, but the moment I received it, I looked out again.
Wow….. it was as if I decided to switch the quality from 360p to 720p. I could manage to see further out without it blurring out. It feels good that my eyesight was getting better.
With the help of the new unique passive, I managed to see that the masses or whatever I’d tried to infer from earlier that those were houses, it was what seemed to be hmmmmm. How do I explain this? Those were houses that looked like they belonged from the medieval times, but yet… there were houses that looked like they belonged to the modern time? And some that looked even more futuristic. I’m so confused. But it seemed like they were divided? Some were mixed in, but it looked like there were divided districts in the town ahead. I still couldn’t see pass the horizon, I guess I just wasn’t high enough.
*ding*
Another one?
“Vision Tree unlocked”
Ooooo, Vision Tree? I’ve got to look at this new skills with Seto when I head down. When I think about it, will I be okay landing from 2207 meters of altitude? I suppose I have to be able to do so… won’t it leave a crater…. Oh boy, I did not think about this.
And as I said that, I began falling.
*Boom*
And as I thought, when I landed, for some reason… it doesn’t seem like I have a terminal velocity as I drop to the ground, I just kept increasing in velocity, that’s really weird. I guess gravitational physics don’t apply to this world like it does in the previous world.
And the moment I hit the floor, it left another crater… right beside the one I created just 5 meters away, this time it seemed like the crater was 11 meters.
“Kei, could you not mess up the forest this badly… it’s going to be a lot of work and it may leave the people around afraid of a hostile being.”
“Hahaha, sorry Kanna, I was testing out what it’d be like putting my body to its limits right now, sorry about this.”
Alright, so I’ve always been wondering, but if I’ve come into another world, you’d think that magic would be something that existed right? I mean it has to, … I mean what kind of fantasy world wouldn’t have magic. And Kanna said that she was a mage, meaning that she majored Magic in comparison to Physical. I should try it out, I wonder whether there are things that are required before I can use magic, or … well, instead of questioning myself, I should just test it out myself at this point, but if I remember correctly, I don’t have any magic skill tree. Actually, when I checked the skill tab when Seto showed me, it seemed like there was nothing there actually, the only thing that were there was my Unique skill - ‘Lie Perception’ I wonder why it’s called a skill, it’s a skill that runs as a passive, you’d think that it’d be under Unique Passive instead of Unique Skill.
Hmmmm, when I think about it, Unique Skills, does that mean that these skills are unique to me only? Do the other otherworlders or exceeds not possess them? And does that mean that my skill trees are things that other otherworlders have? I mean, my skill tree does not have ‘Unique’ written on them, I’d assume that that means that the other otherworlders can also learn this skill trees… I’ve got to inquire more from Seto later on.
So, with that being said, back to the topic of having no magic skill tree, but if what I think happens, this would work well.
Based on my previous experiences, it seems like skill trees appear based on things I actually do, so there’s no actual general guideline, as long as you do something, and the system recognizes it as a significant tree it will appear. Or… at least that’s what I think it is, but I also think that you have to start things from the start, like for example, let’s say if you want to go mining, and you found Beryl ores, you try mining those ores using let’s say a copper pickaxe, based of hardness since Beryl is harder than copper, copper would not be able to even scratch Beryl, with that being said you can’t start out the skill tree with an advanced skill of that skill tree. Or at least that’s what I think.
So if I think using that methodology, I should be able to open a magic skill tree. Let’s attempt.
So… if I think about magic, based on my “amazing knowledge” of manga and anime, magic is supposed to be used through mana? Or a magic circuit? Or Spirit circuits through your body? Or there are certain ones where you have to use the flow of the planet?
From all of the options I had there, I think I should pick the easiest and what I think would be the most practical of ways to use mana. Considering that if I was to use a magic circuit or spirit circuits or magic energy or what not from the planet, I would be dependant on a certain source of magical index. So, if I’d assume that mana was to flow within my body and I can manage and increase my own capabilities to increase my mana power and magic power then I should be dependant on myself, which makes me independent when it comes to a magical source. That should be perfect.
So with that theory in mind, I tried imagining that mana flows in me and that I had my own magical circuit that was independent on my own individual being.
With that, I noticed, I sensed a fulfilling turquoise aura envelop me. And just as I thought.
*ding*
“Magic Tree unlocked”
A small notification window came up right in front of me.
And with that, I decided to call Seto.
“Seto, can you come here for awhile? I need to check my skill tab.”
“Yes Kei-sama on my way.”
*float float float*
“Seto, when I think about it, it’s really weird. If a humanoid form is really your true form, why would you be floating around as a cube? Is it possible for you to change to your human form and show me the skill window?”
“... Yes Kei-sama, that’s possible. Do you want me to do that instead? …” Seto was definitely hesitant and did not reply to that well. I wonder what that was, I guess I’ll figure soon.
“Kei, you’re such a pervert.”
…
“Ehhhhh? What did I do? I don’t get it.”
*Super magical transformational nooisesssssss*
“Okay here we go then Kei-sama.”
Seto then started to begin to undress.
“... wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Why are you undressing?”
“That’s because Kei-sama wanted me to project your skill tab when I was in my humanoid form.”
“I have no idea what you mean, why has that got to do with you undressing? … you know what, just carry on I think I’ll understand soon enough.”
“Pervert” Kanna decided to repeat herself
Seto carefully undresses herself.
Seto removes her dress from the top, she slowly slid the sides of and dragged it down towards her body removing it through her legs. All she had left was a pure dainty looking pink undergarment.
“What a sight, I shall store this in my memories forever Seto”
“... A-a-as… you … wish … Kei-sama……….” Seto said as she covered herself using her hands and blushed.
Now I feel like a bad guy…
As I said that, Seto's body then started lighting up, as if she had another layer of light on her skin. Then, a little circle of light appeared beneath her breasts right in the center along her midriff above her navel.
It shone out as if it was a projector of sorts, the first thing I noticed is… the screen was WAYYYY BIGGER like if I was to measure it, it's height was about 1 meter and the width was something like 2 meters, it was like a huge widescreen.
First thing I did obviously, was to ogle at that huge screen, something did catch my attention though, it was a home screen? That was weird, I never really thought about it, but I guess if opening a complex and intensive menu on a part of it's page for example, the character selection screen… idk, maybe I just prefer the fact that I like a home screen to something so complex.
The home screen had a title Seto - World Jumper. The first thing that came out was a security measure, it asked for my touch or anything that's got to do with my body's inner energy. The way the security system works is, when I touch Seto it sends my mana and identifies my life force, everyone's life force is unique, there is no such thing as someone with the same life force. So this was technically a full proof system.
I touched it, as I did the home screen appeared. It showed my four main major tabs as buttons on the top, I could also swipe to the left or the right that switches between the major tabs.
So, I decided to swipe.
*swipe*
"Kyaaa" Seto screamed, I'm so confused.
Next thing I noticed, as I put my finger on the screen, I noticed a little marker on Seto's body. Or at least, I noticed that it was my finger that made that mark. And as I thought, I slowly moved my finger to test out my theory.
*Hufff huffff*
Seto started making weird noises.
And just as I had expected and thought, the marker moved along the body as I moved along the screen…
Now that I think about it, remember earlier? When I swiped across the planet tab, Seto as a robot squealed as if I was harassing her.
…
"Seto… is the board an image that shares senses with your body? And is your body the true device? And, when you have to show me the UI that you have, you have to be completely naked? Is that why you only show it in your cube form, as technically, you're kind of naked as a cube?"
"As you have said Kei-sama that is right."
…
Whoever made Seto, what kind of a sick fucking pervert was you. But… GOOD JOB!
"Okay, I understand your hesitance from before Seto, my apologies."
"No, don't worry about it Kei-sama, I will do anything to make you happy. It's of no concern… okay maybe it is, but… for Kei-sama I will always do my best and I'll do anything!"
She said anything huh…
"Kei… you're thinking of something perverted again aren't you…"
"What do you mean Kanna, of course not… " I said in a slightly sarcastic voice.
“Even if I said that though Seto, I’m still going to be using this screen.”
“EHHHH? No remorse whatsoever?”
“I feel apologetic for forcing you to do this, but you said you didn’t mind, and I love seeing you this way, not to mention! The screen is bigger! WAYYYY BIGGER. I love big screens, who doesn’t.”
“... Kei-sama is really mean.” Seto mumbled as she blushed from Kei’s previous comment.
Okay then, let’s click on the tab on top that brings us to the skill tree. I’ve never really seen a skill tree before, when I entered the skill tab from before, it was empty, the only thing there was the “Unique ‘Skill’” - “Lie Perception”.
When I clicked on the screen, a big table appeared, there lead 2 different skill trees that I remember opening from just now. The Vision Tree, and the Magic tree. Each of them started out as a skill icon at the bottom, but it seemed like I could click on the root icon of the tree to open it in a separate solo window so that I could see better.
Okay so, since I only have 2 trees right now, it’s not necessary to do that, but I’m interested in seeing my magic tree and what I have unlocked.
*Tap*
As I tapped it, a header on the top appeared, “Magic Tree”. It was a rather typical GUI you’d usually see for a skill tree. But for some reason, it intrigued me, the title was covered in who knows what. But, it glittered and sparkled and changed to all different kinds of colors or things that I liked. It was a very nice title.
Okay, enough with discussing the title, let’s see what we’ve got here.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
「Rudimentary Magic」
Was the name of the root icon, when I tapped on the icon a brief description came out.
「Rudimentary Magic Type - Self Sustaining Mana infusion, this Rudimentary type of magic are one of the rarest Rudimentary types that exists in this world, this Rudeimentary type is one where the user manifests their own mana from their own capabilities and jar that they hold, it’s an independent source of magic. Mana is imbued through the users soul」
Okay, seems about what I tried to imagine out. But… what bothers me is the fact that it says that it’s one of the rarest types out there. Okay, let’s forget about that for now, let’s see what this leads to.
From the root icon, there were lines that connected the root to other skill icons. And for a start, there were 6 lines that was all connected to the root.
「Terra」
「Aqua」
「Ignis」
「Aer」
「Lux」
「Tenebris」
I’m assuming those are the basic elements of this world? Based on my assumption, those mean.
Terra, for Earth.
Aqua, for Water.
Ignis, for Fire.
Aer, for Air.
Lux, for Light.
Tenebris, for Dark.
Okay, so right now, I kind of get where this is going. Okay, first, let me test out these skills.
I really don’t like to chant spells, it’s so long and it’s sooooooooooo I have no idea how it even works anyways. It’s like, wowwww certain element god strike. BOOOOOOOM thunder. Damn. I don’t want to do that.
As I was thinking about that.
*New Unique Passive - 「Chanting Nullification」*
Ooooooo, so it’s really as Seto has said, if I think about it and wish for it to happen, it’ll happen. No wonder everyone has different skills. I guess even if the trees aren’t unique, you don’t really get to come across it unless someone teaches you their own ways to do it or think the same premises as you to proc an unlock.
Okay, so with that out of the way, let’s try.
… now that I don’t have a chant, am I just supposed to imagine it’ll happen? Like let’s say I just imagine a fire appear on my hand.
Let’s try that.
*Imagining*
*Tchuuu*
When I imagined it, a fire appeared on my hand. It wasn’t touching my hand, but it was floating above it, I could feel the heat but it doesn’t seem to burn me even if it’s touching me. That’s interesting.
“Kei-sama? Did you just… use Magic? … Without… casting?”
…
“Yeah I did, is that an issue?”
“... I mean it’s not… but… the only one who I have knowledge of who can do that is Kanna-sama.”
“Ehhhh? I mean, if the system works the way you try to imagine or think about it, don’t you think that a lot of people would have Chanting Nullification?”
“That would make sense Kei, but for the majority, they don’t have certain prerequisites to hit that proc. For example, you have self imbuing mana, the mass majority are dependant on using the flow of the planets, or from spirits.”
“... I guess that explains the description of my Rudimentary magic type.”
Okay, let me get back to this first. So how do I off this? I suppose the same way.
*Fire please off*
That’s what I thought to myself.
The fire died down in an instance.
Okay, let’s try what I was going to try.
Fire on my left, Water on my right, and I just brought them together using my hands conjoining them together, and as I’d expected the elements combined, and a new skills appeared on my “Magic Tree” the element steam.
Back to Seto, I kind of forgot she was still standing there nude with the screen open in front of my face.
On the tree, it showed that the 2 lines connected adding up to another element, Steam, the new icon appeared above Water and Fire connecting them together with a line.
I see, this is interesting, okay. I got it, with that, let me try to use the basic elements to forge certain magic or defence type attacks first.
“Alright, with that, sorry Seto, you can wear your clothes now, but keep your humanoid form please, I prefer seeing you that way.”
“Y-Y-Yes Kei-sama.”Seto blushes even more.
Okay, I really wanted to use fire, but since we’re in the forest, I thought it’d be best not to start a forest fire on the first day I’ve been on this universe, that would probably bring bad news and probably a bad omen.
And so, I decided to start out with the element Terra, I first imagined a lump of Earth, at this point a stone, in my hand. I tried to shape it into a 2 meters stone arrow with a somewhat conical head. With the back of the stone’s center was also thick, perhaps a 30 centimeters in diameter. That lead to the tail, the tail grew and spread out in width.
As I thought of that blueprint in my head, the stone in my hand, lit from within and it started shaping into what I had in mind. It was perfect. But… I had no way to launch it. Let’s first use my strength to launch it.
I took it, I could guess it was somewhere about 200kg? I don’t really know, I wish I knew how much it weighed. With my enhanced strength too, it’s harder to gauge it, as I can’t even feel it as being heavy, it’s somewhat extremely lightweight to me.
…
…
…
Okay, nothing came out this time, I was really expecting a new notification saying that I learned some sort of weighing skill, where I could gauge weight and whatever similar to it. Perhaps, I’m missing some prerequisites. I’ll keep trying whenever I attain the chance to. Basically, it’s now one of my new golden rules ever since coming here. Try everything and anything you can as stupid as it sounds, if it’s something that is of significance, a new skill or tree will appear.
Alright. Let’s try this out.
I aimed it at the mountain towards our right.
I took a stance, and I threw it with all the power I had, as usual. I had to test what I was currently capable of at max.
When the stone was off my hand after I sent it, it went really fast, like REALLY FAST. It was at about Mach 4.
It flew, and… it never stopped, and, also due to it’s rather huge head and tail, it didn’t go as cleanly through the mountain, it left a bigger hole than its body. And, after awhile, about 10 seconds later. I couldn't see the arrow anymore. And about another 10 seconds later. I heard a very loud sound come from where I threw the arrow at…
“Kei… could you… stop, destroying the land…”
“... I’m sorry Kanna…”
… With that in mind, I tested out my next prototype with a smaller scale object.
This time round, I made the same model as I did in the previous arrow but only with a 30cm body length.
But, this time round, I wanted to utilize my ammo without me touching it. Basically, I wanted to make it so that the arrow could fly with magic, and that I did not need to require any physical strength for it to launch.
To stage this, I thought of rushing out air to push it into the arrow. So what I did was, mold the stone arrow upon my hand, and condensed a huge amount of air behind the arrow. After I did that, I released the very condensed air out in 1 direction which was the arrow. And as I expected. The thing flew, and… Really fast. Wayyyyyy faster, it was like 2 times faster than the bigger arrow, but since it was smaller it also flew lesser. But the penetration was insane, it went straight through everything and left a perfect shape of the arrow’s top view as it went through the mountains.
I never saw or heard of that arrow again.
With that, I spent the next hour or so creating new elements and testing other basic things from the start.
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“Alright, Kanna, Seto. Let us embark on our Journey then. Let’s first head towards that town and see what’s going on. Seto, you said that it was 37km towards the West side of us earlier today right? Let’s head there first.”
“If that’s what Kei-sama wants.”
“Un, let’s go Kei.”
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*Pondering*
“Kei, is something wrong? You seem to be pondering and looking around as if you’re looking for something… or someone?”
“Kanna, is there a reason why I don’t see anything around? I don’t really think that’s normal isn’t it? I mean there’s a village, it’s somewhat far, but that’s still pretty close to not see anyone. I think it’s weird? Or is it just like this in this Universe or Planet?”
“Oh, that’s not it Kei, the reason why there’s no one around is because you’ve been leaking an insane aura.”
“An insane aura? I don’t seem to see it.”
“An Aura is something that’s produced from one’s soul, the strength of it depends on the abilities and capabilities of the user.”
“I see. And I’m leaking it out? Is that bad?”
“Pretty much, the reason why there’s no one around is because they sense this strong aura, and you’re not suppressing it.”
…
“Couldn’t you have told me that sooner… if I entered the village like this, wouldn’t I be marked? Or have a bounty put on my head or something... “
“I guess you’re right. You probably should suppress your aura before anything else, although the people around already know the general direction the aura is flowing from.”
“Suppress my aura huh, how do I do that?”
“You first have to sense the aura, it’s not really that hard. You know your mana circulation? You can feel that can’t you?”
“Yes, I can.”
“Aura is pretty much almost the same thing, give it a try Kei.”
“Alright.”
…
Feel the aura, I’m going to imagine the flow of power coming out of you. A soft, river flow. One of the souls purest wills.
…
“Ohhh, I feel it.”
…
“I see it!, I see it! Wow, it looks beautiful. What’s with this Cyan aura mixed with Gold.”
“The Cyan’s one is your Aura, the Gold one is mine. Since we have formed a contract, our aura mingles and intertwines with each other when they touch. Creating this beautiful flow of Cyan and Gold aura.”
“Wow, I can’t see it stop, Kanna, how far does this go?”
“It depends on how strong you are, but yours seem to be heading about 2km in radius.”
“..., that’s pretty dire isn’t it ==, I won’t even be able to see a single person even if their outside my aura range… and… why is your Aura not suppressed too ==?...”
“I wanted to see our aura’s mix, it’s beautiful isn’t it not?” Kanna says in a slightly provocative voice as she giggles to herself.
*Ding*
A notification window pops up.
「Aura Suppression - Level 1」
…
“Aura Suppression - Level 1?”...
“Kei-sama, there are different levels of aura suppression. Level 1 suppresses your aura to yourself, and only those who are weaker than you will not be able to sense your aura. Those stronger than you or have the skill 「True Aura Sight」will be able to see through your Aura Suppression.”
“I see, so there’s progressions to these types of skills too. That’s interesting to know, alright. Thanks Seto.”
“N-No problem Kei-sama”
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“Okay wow, this was a lot further than I thought. It’s sure not tiring but it was pretty damn mentally straining.”
“Well, at least we’re here now.”
…
I can sense it.
“What is this? Why is the aura of the town so black?”
“It’s always been like this, the majority of cities hold black auras like this.”
“It’s not only that isn’t it Kanna, I can sense it. Malicious aura in the center. Deep dark malicious aura. It was not of black, neither white. It was as if it was dyed in the color of black dirty blood. Red with an insane shade of black.”
“That’s, the top brass. Those of nobel classes and the ruling classes.”
“I see, it seems worse here. But in reality, it’s down to the same things isn’t it… anyways, Kanna, why are the houses all designed differently in each district?”
“That’s because the districts are those that are owned by the Ruling classes, the nobles, the common folks and then the untouchables”
“The… ‘untouchables’?”
“Those are the term people of the social hierarchy use to call them, the poor peasants, they’re apparently deemed so disgusting and poor that they are literally “Untouchable” to them. Which is precisely why they’re called the untouchables…”
“Hmmm, so it is the same. Is this a human city? Or do all the species coincide with each other here?”
“This is a human settlement.”
“Oh, okay, Seto, why do you know that anyways.”
“I have data sent to me about a certain area as long as they’re in the archives, and we’ve hit it in our sight or if we’re close enough to it. They will usually send me data about general things, for example, the race living in it, the type of alliance, stores that serve needs. Like potion shop, inn, or armor shop. And it’s blacklists.”
“Blacklists?”
“Yes Kei-sama, that means that this city will not take kindly to a certain type of race.”
“And is there supposed to be a race on that blacklist right now?”
“Yes, there’s one. 「Lycanthropes」”
“Lycanthropes? So that means wolf people? Or, what am I expecting here? It’s my first time here, and the 2 only living beings I’ve seen, that is considering you’re one Seto, Kanna and you.”
“YES I AM A LIVING BEING, hmmmph.”
“... Sorry about that Seto.” I say that as I pet Seto’s head with an apologetic face.
“H-H-H”
…
“I-I-It’s okay Kei-sama, so to answer your question. The Lycanthropes are people who are part wolf part human. They resemble a human being, but they have ears and a tail just like Kanna-sama here.”
…
“... this world really is the best isn’t it.”
“What?”
“... it’s nothing, carry on.”
“Okay, but there’s nothing to carry on anymore. And, anyways, why are we at the opposite of the city walls, there’s no entrance here…”
Hmmmmmm, she’s right.
“Now that I think about it, I don’t have any money on me. Will there be a toll to enter the city?”
“There’s nothing to worry about Kei.”
“Why is that so Kanna?”
“You’ll see.”
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There were guards at the entrance. The entrance was a rather large door, with a smaller door in the large door for people to walk by. It was made out of steel? I suppose that’s steel. It looks like it, it might be another alloy. Who knows, I don’t really think it matters anyways.
And there were people queuing to enter. And what looks like a toll fee as they were paying some sort of currency I’ve never seen before to the guards at the entrance.
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“See, they do have a toll. How are we going to enter TwT?”
“I said don’t worry about it Kei. I’ve got this handled.” Kanna said as she held my hand and dragged me to the start of the queue.
“Oh yes, Seto, before we enter. Please change to your cube form. I think that’ll help us a ton.”
“Yes Kei-sama.”
I couldn’t help but check out the people in front of me. It’s my first human contact after all in this world.
There were what seemed to be 6 people in front of me. They all didn’t seem to pay attention to us. In front of us were what seemed to be 2 humans, an elf, someone who was wearing a hoodie. I couldn’t really tell who it was. And there were 2 other people who looked like cosplayers? I don’t really know, they were wearing things that was mahou shoujo poi? Well. It doesn’t really matter I guess.
And so, after 5 minutes or so passed, it was our turn.
“The toll here is 5 copper, or a citizenship pass.”
“We don’t have any of that…”
“If that’s the case then you’re not allowed access to the city.”
…
See this was what I thought. It just doesn’t really make sense to be able to enter a city without a toll or some sort. It poses a massive danger to the city.
“See Kanna. I told you this wouldn’t work…”
Kanna laughs gently.
“Di-di… DID YOU JUST SAY KANNA? AS IN KANNA-SAMA? THE MATRIARCH OF THE SPIRIT REALM?”
…
“I don’t believe you, Kanna-sama has not descended since 4 thousand years ago. Let alone, she has not chosen a master to serve ever since she was born, there’s no reason for her to be here.”
“Hohh- you don’t believe me?” Kanna says as she started to unleash her aura.
But unlike the aura she showed me or when she was around me when we first started, it was an aura of red, as if she was saying that if they didn’t allow us through, they’re going to be screwed.
*gulp*
Apparently the aura was so strong that they’re now petrified in position.
“It is the Kanna, the fox’s matriarch” as they said that they immediately knelt down before her to respect her presence.
“And so? Are we allowed into the city?”
“Y-Y-Yes of course. Who are we to say no.”
And just like that, we managed to enter the city for free.
“Kanna, who are you really?”
“I’m just a nobody huhuhu”
“Kei-sama, Kanna is the matriarch of the spirit realm, and the matriarch of the fox spirits. The fox spirits are the most beheld and are the top brass of the spirit realm, they’re also the strongest of all the spirits. That being said, there are also not many fox spirits. Only about 500 or so.”
“Wow, that is really a small amount if that’s their full strength as a species.”
“Okay, I get that, so why is it that they knelt down to Kanna? I mean if that were the case, wouldn’t that Kanna only be held highly in the spirit realm? And everyone here also seems to know her name.”
“That’s because the spirits are considered a higher rank in comparison to humans. And as Kei-sama has probably guessed already, the spirits are way stronger than the beings that hail our universe. But, spirits usually contract with humans who they feel are worthy of them. It’s an unspoken rule in the spirit realm to form a contract with an individual. And as the top of the spirit realm or known as the strongest realm in our universe, the matriarch is revered amongst the entire universe and is usually known. And Kanna has been the strongest matriarch the universe has ever seen. But she’s also infamous for never leaving the spirit realm and has never chosen a master in her entire lifespan. This was a rare case, she was known as the Ice Queen Matriarch”
“I see, that makes sense. Then… why me? And Ice Queen? How did that come to be, Kanna was so warm and sweet towards me.”
“I wonder why.” Kanna says as she blushed and laughs.
Oh wells, whatever, doesn’t really matter to me honestly.
“So which part of the city’s social hierarchy are we in?”
“If we were part of the social hierarchy, we would be ranked above the ruling classes.”
…
“What…. Is this the same for all the places?”
“No, this are only for those of the lower tier worlds. Those that are of a higher tier have a stricter stronger social hierarchy and those worlds or regions that are ruled by the stronger otherworlders obviously wouldn’t work. But usually, they will still welcome us with insane respect because of Kanna-sama. Not to mention, in time, Kei-sama would also be revered, after all Kei-sama is an exceed.”
“Regions ruled by otherworlders? So technically, World Domination is possible?”
“Of course Kei-sama.”
“That sounds interesting, and now that you mention it, how many otherworlders rule lands?”
“About 40% of the otherworlders rule lands. And 14/21 exceeds rule major lands. And, 8 out of those 14 rule planets. With the top exceed ruling 8 different planets in this universe”
“Wow, that’s pretty insane.”
“So with us entering the entrance which part are we in now?”
“We’re in the Commoners area.”
“We should head towards the noble area Kei, they have better lodging in comparison to this place.”
“Okay, if you say so Kanna, but how are we going to lodge there if we have no money?”
“With special treatment of course.” Kanna said with a wry smile.
As we walked to the noble area, I was looking around, the houses look pretty modern. Steel frames and concrete and they looked neat honestly. It was those that you usually see nowadays, those 1 to 2 story houses. And the inns here were pretty huge. The one in the commoners area looked like it ran an entire soccer field huge. It must have a lot of customers. And it looked really comfy honestly.
The roads were also made with proper pavement. Those that I usually see back in my world. Roads also made out of tar… wait… there are roads? What… does that mean that there are vehicles? I mean, I guess they must have those, the houses and technology looked like they’re of modern era age from my old world.
“Seto, are there cars? In this world?”
“Cars?”
“Yeah Cars, I mean, what are those roads used for then?”
“Oh, those are roads made for the custom made vehicles that the nobles or mechanics use.”
“Oh? Custom made? Does that mean that they are rare? Or perhaps there are not cheap ones that the commoners can buy?”
“Of course there are.”
“Then why don’t I see any here? I mean isn’t it a little odd that there are roads but yet not a single vehicle is being ridden on?”
“Oh, that’s because there was a crisis, and the vehicles are now made so that only those that possess magical tools are able to run them. And those come at a cost.So at this point, the vehicles that are able to commoners are almost 0 unless there is a revolution in the vehicle’s common department. But majority of the vehicles are usually custom made.”
“A crisis? Okay, nevermind. I’m not really interested to hear about it currently. But that basically means that vehicles are common knowledge in the area right.”
“To a certain extent yes.”
And before you know it, we were at the entrance to the noble district, the gates were guarded by armed guards. Those who were wearing uniform that looked like the British royal guards top. It was a little funny in comparison to everything around, it just looked weird.
The entrance were made out of what looked like magical stones. I wonder whether they worked the same way as metal detectors or something of that sort to check for certain types of contrabands.
At our approach, the guards looked at us. And almost at an instance. They started kneeling towards Kanna. I guess, Kanna really is a big shot huh. Makes me slightly a little weird being with her, but I’m more than happy to be.
“Please rise, there’s no need for you to do that.”
“As you wish Kanna-sama.”
“Would you allow us to pass through this gate to the noble realm?”
“Of course, anything for you Kanna-sama.”
And just like that, we managed to enter the noble district.
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Unlike the commoner’s district, the noble’s district was more extravagant. It looked like a place you saw from a fantasy… oh wait, I’m technically in that right now aren’t I.
The tiles were made out of marble. It was weird, honestly. But it left a fantastic look to the area. The current place we were at had roads and shops lined up upon the marble street.
There were cars, but the cars that roamed the roads in this district were not those that looked like the current model of cars we had in my previous world. They looked like they were made out of metal chunks, like those of a steampunk car. It was very dated.
“C2, or perhaps Seto. Could you please lead us to the best rated hotel or lodging area in this city?”
“Yes Kanna-sama, this way.”
As we made our way to the hotel, I’ve noticed, all eyes were upon us. Mostly me for some reason.
The eyes belonged to those of the human race, they wore clothes that looked like 1800’s noblewear. Man with their top hats and coats. Ladies in their one piece dresses.
And then, I noticed something else, a tail? I saw a couple of citizens here with tails that belong to animals.
“Seto, are those spirits? Or are they denizens? I mean, cause Kanna is a fox and she’s a spirit. So does that mean that all animal-human types are also spirits?”
“No, that’s not true. The only spirit types that possesses animal traits are, Foxes and Tigers, other types of animal traits are unique to the 12 Zodiacs. But other than this 12 individual spirits, only the Foxes and Tigers are those that are a spirit type race.”
“Hmmm, that’s interesting. Then the rest are Denizens? Who are the other spirit types?”
“There are too many spirit types to go through to be able to tell you. You’ll understand along the way. You have Kanna-sama after all.”
“Kanna, oh right. You are the matriarch aren’t you.”
“Yes, that’s right Kei.”
As we’re walking, I noticed that there was a road that lead down to the castle of the city. The aura there feels terrible, menacing. However, something peaked my interest along that road.
“Adventurer’s Guild”
Was what the sign of the shop said.
“Ooooooo, what’s that? Is that what I think it is Seto?”
“Sorry Kei-sama, I am not able to know what you think.”
“I guess that’s right hahaha, could we head there for a second?”
“Sure, doesn’t seem like it will cause an issue, Seto how far are we from the Hotel?”
“We’re about 200m away.”
As we were heading our way there. A weird faint sound came across my ear. It was not like it was slow. I guess I could just hear it. It sounded like it was a laser? What was it, no matter what it was it was coming our way, that's for sure.
I immediately shifted my person to the front of Kanna where the laser was aiming at and took a defensive stance.
*Shinkk*
The laser got stopped in its tracks by a blue shield that was a sphere around 2m in diameter.
What was that?
I looked at the epicenter. I see a blushing Kanna …
I’m so confused.
“Kei~, it’s so sweet of you to protect me, but their attacks are too weak to pierce my shield.”
“Oh… is that so? It looked like it might have been able to kill me hahaha.”
“Kei-sama, that’s true to a certain extent, that laser would be able to hurt you, but killing you would be a long stance.”
“Kei~, here’s a little gift from me.”
*Chuuu~*
Kanna kisses me on the cheeks while hugging me from the front.
“Wh-...”
*Ding*
“Notification - Enhanced Senses attained”
“What’s this?”
And just like that. I notice everything going around me. The gazes that lay upon me are colored Green? Black? Blue? Purple? All kinds of different colors, but the one that caught my attention was this one long mist of dark red murky bloody color but yet, I could feel a sense of guilt from this mist why’s that? The direction this came from was the direction of where the laser was shot from.
“What’s this? Is that red murky mist where the attackers are from?”
“Yup, that’s right Kei. Want to try to take a shot at them?”
“Are you sure that’s fine? Will it kill them? Damage them? Or leave them unscathed?”
“It’ll probably damage them. They probably have their own defense system. A shield like mine, but a thousand over times weaker. Just give it a go. I’ll make sure it won’t kill them.”
“If you say so Kanna, I trust you.”
With that in mind, I started imagining my arrow. I decided to use a 70cm arrow this time round. So that it wouldn’t be as destructive as it was when I used the 2m one.
I condensed the air behind the arrow. Took my aim at the start of the mist an-
“Wait a second.”
Kanna said that as she touched my arrow, a slight greenish aura decorated the arrow in certain areas.
“Alright, you can give it a shot.”
With that, I took my aim at where the mist began and condensed the air, and released it all in one go.
And just like that, the arrow in my hand disappeared. Those without enhanced or naked eyes would seem as if it was magic. The arrow left at a speed too fast for the eyes to see.
A few seconds later.
*Booooom*
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“Are you sure that didn’t kill them Kanna?”
“Yeah I made sure with my little buff. Be right back Kei~”
Kanna said that as she opened a portal and leapt into it.
17 seconds later. The same portal she used opened up in the same area again. Only this time, with 7 people in a bubble came through first. And after the bubble, Kanna.
The 7 people were what consisted of 5 females and 2 males. They were what looked like 7 year olds, it was only 1 male that looked like he was around the age of 12. They were adorned with what looked like ragged clothes, but those that had magical properties on them. An Alchemist group? A Magic group? Who are these kids?
…
SHIT. AREN’T THEY VERY INJURED? It looked like they were hit with an insane shrapnel.
…
It was me wasn’t it? Rock crashed and it broke apart causing a shrapnel.
The kids were covered in wounds.
“KANNA, KANNA, CAN YOU HEAL THEM PLEASE? I DON’T KNOW ANY HEALING MAGIC.”
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“Kei~, they just tried to attack us.”
“I DON’T CARE RIGHT NOW. HEAL THEM FIRST PLEASE KANNA PLEASE.”
“If you say so Kei.”
As I pleaded Kanna, she started healing.
Green light a soothing green light of aura flowed from Kanna towards the kids. It was as if I was seeing magic. The wounds that the kid’s have lit up. It lit up in green a very bright vibrant shade of green. It lit up in its place, and just a second later. They had become fully healed again.
“Oh thank god.”
…
As I said that, I got annoyed. God doesn’t exist after all. It was a word of habit.
“God?” Kanna said.
“Sorry, it is a word of habit. Thank you so much Kanna.”
I said it with extreme relief.
Kanna lit up in pink.
“Okay kids, so what’s going on? Why did you shoot the laser at Kanna?”
*Sniff sniff*
“We’re sorry we’re sorry. Please don’t kill us. Please don’t kill Zefira onii-chan”
“Zefira onii-chan?”
I’m assuming that that’s the oldest one.
If only I could see their status.
…
Nothing. I was expecting a notification again. Bloody hell. I guess it’s just not as simple as that.
Zefira huh.
6/7 of those kids were crying. The only one who didn’t cry was the oldest one. The one I’m assuming is Zefira. He looked worried.
“Sooooo, Zefira onii-chan care to explain?”
“Could you please let them go? I’ll give you my life.”
“ZEFIRA ONII-CHANNNN”
The 6 kids started bawling.
“Mouuuuu, I won’t kill neither of you. Could you guys please stop? People are starting at us weirdly. As if it wasn’t bad enough.”
As I said that the Enhanced Senses visions showed me the color of their visions were of those of red, black. Mostly red and black. I don’t really know what those colors mean. But they don’t feel pleasant, so I suppose they’re bad.
“Kanna, considering you can teleport around. Could you teleport us to somewhere secluded right now? Doing this in the middle of town where everyone can see us is pretty damn awkward and bad. It’ll probably ruin our reputation too.”
“If you want to Kei.”
*Shwooong*
And into the portal we went. With the bubble roped 7 kids.
The portal lead into the forest? The forest? Wasn’t that? That’s so far. I need to ask Kanna about her portal ability later on.
“So what’s the deal here Zefira onii-chan.”
“We were trying to kill Kanna-sama.”
“You were trying to kill Kanna-sama? And? Why is that so? And how did you manage to shoot that laser? That seemed to be like an insane power.”
“We are abandoned test subjects from a bombarded facility. We survived the war, but there was no one left. It was just the 7 of us. The reason why we are trying to kill Kanna is because we need to feed ourselves. I need to feed the little ones.”
“Is there supposed to be a bounty on Kanna’s head?”
“Yeah, there is Kei, I have a really huge bounty on my head. One big enough that you could buy a bunch of few big planets on them.”
“Isn’t that a lot?”
“Yeah it’s a lot, the current bounty on Kanna’s head is B989,276,918,763,123,756 universal currency”
“... won’t that make me a hostage DConfused [https://www.royalroadcdn.com/public/smilies/confused.png]”
“That won’t happen. You’re plenty strong yourself too. You’ll one day outgrow me.”
“I hope so Kanna. It’s my dream to protect you. Hahaha.”
Kanna blushes insanely this time.
“Kei-sama, Kanna-sama. We’ve got no time to be flirting around in front of kids here.”
“Uhummmmm, my apologies. So Zefira onii-chan, you guys are survivor subjects of a failed facility? What did you guys do there?”
“We were tested and experimented upon before birth, we are born with a very high magic aptitude. But during the years. Last year, the facility was bombarded by a rival organization. We have no idea what was the reason. But we are the only sole survivors from all the subjects that were in that facility.”
“I see. So you kids have nowhere to go? Correct?”
“Yes that’s correct.”
“I see. Well, then. I’m adopting ALL OF YOU, the whole lot of you. Muahahahaha.”
“EEEEEEE?!?”
“Seto screeched.”
“Kei~, what’s with the maniac laugh. But I guess, we need to set up base or something then. If not, this will not work. Haizzz, Kei, you’re too kind-hearted, but I also cannot deny the potential this kids will bring to the table in the future.”
“Really? Will you adopt us?”
“Yes, Yes I will.”
“Kanna if you would please.”
“Yes yes.”
As Kanna said that the ropes were removed.
“Is this really just happening....” Seto said.
And, that’s how we got our first party.