- Adventure Start! -
I am lying down on the grassfield, again. Waiting for [Aeon] to fully [Heal] me up. I gazed myself through the blue sky again. It feels nice and warm, and the sun doesn't burn. The wind breezes calmly soothing the souls of the living in this wide open of grass field.
I've stabilized myself, as the time goes. My [HP] bar has recovered to 70%. My [MP] bar still on the 45%. I get up again and walk myself toward the road direction.
'Backpack, Hoodie Mantle', I commanded the backpack to turn it's shape back to a hoodie mantle. The backpack followed the command directly, changed its shape to a hoodie mantle and envelopped my whole perfectly.
I walk through the wide open grassfield, from afar I could see that this area filled mostly with grasses and few trees. Combined with some hills. I arrived on the road trying to figure out which direction I should take next.
"Hmm.. Let's do a coin flip to decide then", I said. I think about 1 Gold coin in my mind. Then, it came out from my right palm orb. "Head to the right, Tails to the left", I said it outloud while tossing the gold coin to the air.
The thrown coin spins in the air, and right when it falls down I catch it back with my right hand and open up my grasp afterward. The coin on my palm showing head. I save the coin back into my [Inventory] and begin walking to the right. Following the road to wherever it may be taking me.
While walking I looked around, to the left, to the right. Enjoying every scenery which can't be found in normal city back in my previous life. To be able to enjoy this scenery, one must walk out from the city and travel to the country side which mostly consisted with farms and ranches. But here, there aren't any cars or many machinery invented yet. The fresh air, fragranced with the greenery around me brought by the wind breeze, giving me a pleasant journey while walking.
I keep on walking, following the dirt-road with a pleasant mood. After quite some distance, my instict sensed on something. In quite some distance forward, there's a carriage fell to the side of the road on the grassfield, with the horse still attached to it, seemed unconscious. Near the carriage, there's a man next to the horse, making a stance with his spear like he was protecting the horse, and a Goat like beast-kin near the backside of the carriage using iron claws on both of his hands as his weapon. Around them, there's a pack of prairie wolves around 14 of them still stands, and 1 of them already beaten to death while its corpse laying down next to the carriage's side soaked in fresh blood.
I run immidiately to the direction. Pulling out my [Black Blade] with its scabbard which I named it as "Black Ayakashi" from my left palm's gem. I'm pulling it out with my right hand and casting some buffs on myself while running and activate [Conceal] to falsify my race to a [Human], and Level to 1. My statuses automatically followed the concealed level.
[Shadow Step]
Active/toggled
Assasin class buff skill. Supressed the presence of your movement and greatly Increases movement speed.
[Encourage]
Active: Buff
Warrior class buff skill. Strengthen the resolve of the user/party. Str/Vit/dex +20
duration: 15 minutes. (ingame 80s)
[Empower]
Active: Buff
Blade Path Warrior class buff skill. Empower the swing of the blade to be heavier. Increasing damage and resolce of the user. Str/dex +50.
Active: Buff
duration: 30 mins. (ingame 300s)
With the buffs active, my movements feels lighter, and my body feels stronger. I began dashing instead of running toward those men whose ganked by prairie wolves while hookinh the top side of the scabbard of my blade to my left side belt. My movements sounds and presence concealed by the [Shadow Step] skill. As I am getting close to them, I used another skill from the [Assassin]'s class.
[Shadow Clones]
Active
Assassin's class skill.
Creating 1 upto 4 clone(s) of the user from the shadow with shared consciousness.
Clone's damage: 35% x User's
Clone's receiced damage: 200% /hit.
duration: 1 hour. (able to be canceled manually)
I summoned 4 clones of myself, dash forward directly to the wolf pack and begin slashing. I intended to reduce the numbers of the wolves in one go with this tactic. 2 of the wolves began to jump up to the beast-kin man as I was preparing to jump into the fight. He prepared himself like he was about to confront the jumping wolves's attack. I, the real me, intercepting them by taking advantage of the dash and swing my blade from its scabbard to perform a dash-slash strike strategy. A clean cut which cuts both of the wolves head from its necks in one swing. the jumping direction altered by the force, going a bit to my direction. The corpse and the blood spilled fell near me. I sheathed back my blade after the swing and making a misterious warrior pose. As I seathe back my blade, I stand and turn my body to the beast-kin direction.
"Sir, Are you okay?", I asked to the beast-kin man.
"U..Uh..", he confused at start. With the face showing a confused of suprised expression. "Yes, I am. Please help my master at the front too.", he requedted as he got back on the track of the situation.
"It's already all right, sir. My clones has taken care some of them.", I replied.
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He looks even more suprised and confused. He moves himself trying to take a peek to the frontside. All he can see thay his so called master sitting there on the grass by holding his spear right next to him in a relieved expression. I did cancel my clones [Skill] right after they make the prompted slashes. My clones took down 7 of them. While me, took down 2 of them at the same time. The rest of the pack run and leave the scene as they saw 10 of their pack comrades were dead.
We focused on clearing the things up afterward. The beast-kin man dismantling the wolves corpse. The other man man waking up his horse from his [Sleep] spell magic, and I try to put the sided fallen carriage to its wheel.
"BRUAKK!!", the sound it made when I finally put the carriage back on its wheels. I proceed with pushing the carriage back to the road and sealed the wheels movement with earth magic by lifting up some dirt to prevent the wheels to move forward or backward.
At that time, I didn't realized that both of them were frozen in a shocked state like their eyes poped out or something. When I realized their behaviour, I turn my back to their direction from beside the carriage, trying to act normally.
"Is everything okay?", I asked them from afar with a trying to act natural like nothing happened way.
They were just replying me with nodding their head and continuing whatever they were doing. I walked to the beast-kin man trying to provide him a hand. He was skinning all the wolves and chopping the meat to some portions.
"Is there anything I can I help with?", I asked him politely.
"Umm..", He stopped, turning his body trying to look at the person who asked. "I don't know if this kind of work suited to a fine young lady as you are.", He in a polite way.
"Umu, don't worry.", I tried to convince him. "I want to become an adventurer or hunter or such anyway. So, I must know how to properly doing this.", I implied.
"Ah..haha, I see.. adventurer.", He laughed warmly. "Me and master were also an adventurer. But nevermind, the dismantling is about to finish anyway. I'm Grimjack, a Goat Beast-kin man.", He replied back and introduced himself to me while continue to dismantling those wolves. His dismantling work id quite quick and fast! Like a professional butcher.
"Umu. Nice to meet you Grimjack-san. I am Irumi.", I introduced myself back. "You know, the materials are still wet. Do you mind if I use my [Spatial magic] to preserve them, and help you carrying them until you reach any city or village?", I offered him the help while I'm watching his work in awed.
"[Spatial magic]? You.. you can use that kind of magic?", He asked while his hands stop moving.
"Uh, yes, I guess? But, I can only use that for storing things, though it's limited.", I lied. Ofcourse it is unlimited.
"Oh.. Hahaha. I see, I thougt Irumi-dono were one of those heroes who can use [inventory] or such.", he laughed. "But yes, ofcourse. I think Master will be grateful for the help as well.", He said.
"Sure. I will start storing the raw materiald which has been dismantled then.", I said. I'm storing my [Black Akayashi] back to my [inventory] and start storing the dismantled raw materials which consisted of the wolves heads, pelts, claws, meats, and bones one by one.
Time goes by as we help each other out. The spoken master already patched the horse back to the carriage. Grim and I, fetched the dropped goods from the ground and carrying them back into the carriage.
"Thank you, young adventurer. I'm Fuyoumi a traveling pedlar. I am indebted my life to you for saving our lives.", The master of the carriage bowed to me in gratitude politely.
"Ah, nevermind.", I bowed back replying his gratitude. "It is a duty of strangers who help others in time of need. It is all right, Fuyoumi-san. Instead, I am the one who should be thanking you for allowing me riding the carriage to the next stop.", I replied back, showing my appreciation.
"It will be our pleasure to have you in our journey, Irumi-dono.", He answered.
"Please, chan or just Irumi will also work. Please skip the honorific, Fuyoumi-san.", I insisted.
"Irumi-chan then. Let's proceed.", He smiled and showed me the way like a gentleman.
Then, we hop on the carriage. I sat on the front next to fuyoumi. I canceled the [Earth magic] which blocking the carriage wheels to move and we start marching following the road trails.
Everytime, I am getting amazed by each new sceneries that we passed and passes by. Non-aggresive wild animals, forest trails, etc. We talked a bit around with simple and easy chats. As the time goes by, the sun is about to set.
We took a camp right next to a river. Fuyoumi blocking the wheels movements with stones which could be found nearby. Grim building ul a tent. Then Fuyoumi also brings some stones after, putting them some distance infront of the tent which is under development by Grim and arranged them in rounded formation while I fetch the firewoods nearby.
I fetch the firewood with my [Inventory] function. it seems the effective range is up to 3m around me. This function is really convenient as I don't need to burden myself carrying anything on my back in every journey. I am quite into it. After some time collecting them, I'm going back to the camp. I put out the firewoods, which somehow quite alot, and some wolf meat from my [Inventory]. Fuyoumi-smiled sincerely. he took some firewoods and arranged them inside the arranged stones. Then he started the fire with magic, making a bonfire. Grim is coming closer from the carriage direction bringing some iron bars and a pot with cooking utensils in it. It appears the tent has already finished.
He's passing them to fuyoumi and excuses himself. Then he walks off to the river direction for taking a bath. Fuyoumi arranged the iron bars in a way, so that the pot can be hooked on it for cooking purposes. Then he casted [Water magic] to put some water inside the pot. After that, he took and brought the meat with him to the river side to be processed.
It seems, Fuyoumi is the one who incharge with the cooking and as the master of the carriage. While Grim, acts as the bodyguard and companion of the carriage in the travels. I spend some time creating some convenient magic while grim san preparing the foods with some distance with the bonfire and sitting on a stone. Grim whose back from his bath, carrying 3 wooden logs stacked on his right shoulder while his top clothes on the other. With his well built body muscles and those goat horns on his head, he really looks alike a demon lord in some fantasy mangas or games that I have ever read and played in my previous life.
He puts down the wooden logs and arranged them to encircle the bonfire. He politely ask for Fuyoumi, whose on cooking duty, with his gesture showing Fuyoumi that he's about to put down the log for Fuyoumi to sit on later for eating. He waved at me with his smile. Making a gesture to come over and sit on the log. And so, the night was quite a warming welcome for me, whose on my first day living in this new fantasy world.