Chapter 74
“Finally found one.”
I had stumbled upon a goblin eating a 10 ter long horned rabbit, deep in the very sa forest I had visited just the other day.
“Am I able to solo it?”
I grasped my dagger and stealthily approached it from behind as it gorged on its al without abandon.
“Enjoy your last al! Yiyap!”
Pueek
Kiiekk
[ 11 experience points]
[Acquired knowledge of Goblins]
It squealed like a pig in its very last monts of life.
“Hm I don’t seem to receive any bonus skills when killing new monsters.”
It appeared to be yet another weakness of being human.
“Guess I can only learn skills the hard way.”
“Left side, 30 ters out, two enemies inbound.”
As I was standing over the dead goblins body I once again heard a voice originating from behind my neck.
“What? This voice…”
I recognized the voice, it was Lena’s.
“Lena?”
There was no answer, so I hid my myself from the two approaching Goblins.
Kiiki?
Keei
They were from the sa tribe as the dead goblin, but they completely disregarded his corpse and began gorging on the horned rabbit.
Let’s take a look at how strong these guys are.
I silently opened up their Status page with a flick of my finger.
★
Status: Normal
Type: Goblin
Rank: H-
Level: 2/10
HP: 10/10
MP: 1/1
Attack: 2 ( 2)
Defense: 1
Agility: 6
Intelligence: 1
? Unique Skills
[Explosion]
★
‘Hmm… I can definitely handle one with my dagger, but two? Maybe not, if I’m going to take this risk I need to be sure to get the bonus experience from a double kill.’
I grasped my dagger and waited for an opportunity. The goblin’s feast had degenerated into a brawl as they fought over who would eat the bigger piece.
‘Now!’
Just as they were entangled and trying to bite each other, I lept forth.
Yiyap!!
Puusi
Keeeek, Kiek
[ 11 experience points]
[ 22 experience points]
[Level 6 ? 7]
I had tid it to pierce both their necks with a single strike.
“A success, experience is now streaming in Kuku~”
I wiped the blood off my dagger using the Goblin corpse.
‘What about that voice earlier, it was definitely Lena right?’
I touched the back of my neck but didn’t feel anything different.
‘If I didn’t hear wrong then has Lena followed over to this world?’
“Lena?”
I called out to her but there was no answer.
‘Was it just an illusion or do I have certain conditions I need to satisfy first?”
I tried out several things but nothing seed to activate her.
‘Well there’s nothing more I can do at the mont. It would be great though it she were here, she’d be a powerful ally.’
In a fantasy world such as this one having an A.I. would be a huge advantage, perhaps even more so than having magic. I therefore made it a goal of mine to learn what conditions were necessary to activate and communicate with Lena.
I then returned to the Adventurer’s guild to hand in my quest.
“You have successfully completed your quest! Here are the three silvers reward. The items you brought this ti are worthless junk, usually we wouldn’t buy them, but I’ll give you one extra silver as service just this once.”
“Oh thanks a lot Chou.”
“New quests have appeared, so please check out the board to see if any interest you.”
I stood before the board with my 4 silvers in hand.
“I guess I’ll stick with the sa one. Since it’s repeatable, I could make a decent sum if I focus on only goblins.”
Counting the coins in my hand before putting them away, I walk up to Chou and accept the quest.
“Well…a al consisting of bread and milk costs 13 copper coins, even if I buy food for tomorrow I’d still have 3 silver coins! ”
I crouched in the middle of dark a alley and counted my coins. I felt so proud that I could buy my own food and no longer be a beggar.
“Hey you! Where did you steal that form?”
So ruffians ca up to after seeing count all those coins. I had seen them in the area a few tis before.
‘I was careless this ti.’
I looked behind but realized I was in a dead end, with no way to run away from the three beggars.
‘Guess I’ll have to fight.’
“I’ve been looking at you for a couple days now, you stole copper from sowhere and then sold it to beco an adventurer.”
“Yea, I also saw that, you must be a suspicious character.”
“It isn’t a sin to steal stolen money, so hand it over!”
He extended out his hand, expecting to simply hand him over my silvers due to that twisted logic of his.
‘I can’t kill them right?’
I held my dagger behind my back, waiting.
“You’d best back off, I’m a warrior.”
“Pfff so what? You’re all alone and there are three of us!”
“Ha! 3 versus 1, you think you can win this fight greenhorn?”
Their laughs were disgusting to watch as they were missing several teeth.
Puk, Uuuak! Pubuk! ahh
I knocked two of then down to the floor and grabbed the last one by the neck. His haughty look had by now been replaced by one of fear.
Usually a level 7 warrior was had about 3 tis the strength of a regular civilian. Normal people would never willingly fight one, it was only possible because we were in Gartmar, a place where most people still weren’t very familiar with adventurers.
“If I see you again I won’t be so lenient next ti.”
Puuuk
I socked the beggar one last ti before making my way out of the alley.
“I’m pretty cool right? But I exercised too much and now I’m hungry.”
I entered the store nad ‘Darryl’s bakery’, where I used to eat leftover bread as a beggar.
“Hey how are you doing? You are starting to look like a proper adventurer!”
I have been a regular custor and this bakery because I’ve been exclusively eating bread these last few days, so the owner was friendly.
“Darryl after eating the sa bread for a long ti it gets quite bland. Why don’t you try mixing things up or developing new tastes?”
“Hey are you complaining about my bread? If it wasn’t for , you would have starved a long ti ago.”
“Yes, I agree, but it seems like you don’t have the confidence to make new kinds of bread. Is that why you are dodging my question? Here are 20 coppers, that is the cost for 3 breads right?”
“Co by tomorrow Johra, you’ve lit a fire under to be more creative!”
He hopped his way to the back of the store.
“Well at least I can look forward to tomorrow right?”
I was sick and tired of always eating the sa bread, so I irritated him on purpose.
‘There are many other bakery but I’d like to support Darryl’
I mumbled to myself as I took my bread and headed off to the market.
“Is that you Johra?”
“Big brother beggar!”
It was Anne, the milk vendor with a little girl hiding behind her skirt nad Lina. Anne had one cow which she took care of. Ever since she had lost her husband, selling the cow’s milk was her only way to make money, but she had still given so free milk back when I was begging, so now I would exclusively buy form her.
“Here are seven coppers, is it okay to return the empty bottle later?”
“Thank you Johra.”
However the little Lina didn’t have such a good impression of due to my beggar-like appearance.
“Where did you get that money? Did you steal it?”
“No, I’m an adventurer”
In Gartmar it was quite rare to be an adventurer by profession. Most people were either miner or farrs , so when I ntioned I was one, they all stopped to look at see as if I were a boogeyman.
“Liar, you received so free milk from mom not long ago?!”
“No it’s true. Here take a look at this.”
I pulled out my guild token as proof.
“Whoa, is that real?”
She bit down on the token to check its authenticity.
“Hey don’t ruin that!”
“Lina stop that! I’m so sorry Johra, I spoil her too much.”
Anne gave be back the token apologetically.
“Ah it’s ok, it probably didn’t get damaged.”
I turned the token over to make sure there weren’t any dents.
“Such a naughty girl”
“Ahh!!”
Lina exaggerated of the pain of Anne’s flick to the forehead.
“Lena you shouldn’t call him brother beggar okay?”
“No! He’s my big brother beggar!”
She had a mischievous laugh, there was no way to beat a child’s logic.
“How can a beggar pay for food?”
“Hmm… then a beggar adventurer.”
“Omit the word Beggar!”
“Hihi No! hh~”
Lina shouts out before hiding once again behind Anne.
“Kids…!”
I returned to the area I had been staying in lately.
Pukk Pukk
The narrow alley I stayed in was very dark and deep, that’s why no one would usually pass by. But there were two strangers hitting a poor holess kid.
“Hey, stop that! It’s my sleeping ti
I had confidence in my power and I wanted to kick them out from my sleeping spot. It wasn’t at all any heroism on my part.
“This doesn’t concern you, mind your own business.”
One of the strangers gave a quick look before disregarding completely. But I ignored their warning and just watched them with my arms crossed.
They never expected to be an adventurer as I was the only one in the city.
“Hey you! How dare you try to run away, do you have any idea how much money your father owes us? Just be a good kid and allows yourself to be sold as a slave to pay off the debt.
“Enough, if we scratch her then price of the rchandise will drop.”
“Shit! Look at my arm, she bit and now I’m bleeding.”
From what they were saying I gathered that they had taken soone’s little girl as compensation, and were now going to sell her at the slaver’s market.
‘Hmm there is no reason for to help her. I have my own business.’
Although I was considering helping out, I was worried that any actions might affect the flow of history, so I decided to continue my role as a simple observer.
‘Please leave quickly.’
They tied up the child’s hands and left my alley, as they were leaving I locked eyes with the kid.
‘Dammit, I see it in his eyes that he blas , I didn’t even do anything!’
Her eyes had a sharp glint, it was a look of promised vengeance, the sa one I gave to Michael and tatron or Lorina.
‘Ugh… if she has such a deep grudge against then I have already changed history.’
“Hey, wait up a sec.”
“What is it, just who do you think you are looking at?”
They appeared pretty intimidating and strong.
“Is that child a slave?”
“Not quite yet, not that it concerns you.”
“But isn’t it wrong to hit a regular citizen in this city?”
“Oh is that so, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
One of them ca to and grabbed my neck.
“Did you just grab by the neck? Then this is self-defense!”
“Self-defense? What kind of nonsense are you talking about, I will whoop your ass!”
Puk, Kung!
Despite his bravado he was sent flying with a single fist.
“Shit! Son of bitch!”
Tuksuk
“How dare you attack our wolf family!”
Tuduk
The person carrying the kid put her down threw a punch my way
I ducked slighly to dodge his swing, then connected straight with hs chin.
“Hmmm.. Wolf Club? You are gang? I’ve heard you guys steal money from rchants in market. Even threatening store owners.”
“Haha. You knew us, and you still do this? Prepare for your funeral!”
“Hmm..yeah most people think like you… that is until they get a taste of my fist!”
Huuunh Puck!
I once again easily dodged his punch and hit him lightly on the jaw.
Pakak, dropped.
Having put just a bit of strength in my last blow, I still easily knocked him down onto his knees, and a few of his teeth had co loose.
“You!! Don’t go anywhere!”
One of the gangsters who had fallen down earlier escaped while I dealt with his friend.
“Ah….it beca annoying….or is it a good thing in the end?”
Darryl and Anne had also complained about these local thugs because they would extort half their revenu as protection money. They were nothing more than a cancer on this town, one that required treatnt.
“Hey are you okay?”
I untied her hands pulled out the gag from her mouth.
“Thank you”
She looked about 7 years old. It was still hard for to tell other people’s age because I wasn’t a good reference. I was in the body of a 15 year old boy but had the mind of an adult which had lived several lives and been married.
“Well I saved you this once, will you be able to take care of yourself now?”
She shook her head.
“Fine, wait a mont.”
I used the rope to tie up one of the mbers of the wolf club.
I heard the girl’s stomach groaning.
“Are you hungry?”
She nodded in response and I gave here so of the bread and milk I had recently purchased. The second she laid her hands on it, the food disappeared as if it were a magic trick.
‘Soon the wolf club’s mbers will surely co for revenge. I can’t take care of this girl forever, I need to find a safe ho for her.’
I considered giving her to Anne, but she had a hard enough life as it was trying to raise Lina by herself.
“I guess I have no choice.”
I decided to bring her over to Darryl’s bakery and hope they’d take her in. as we walked in town people would give us a strange look. After all I was dressed as a beggar accompanying a bruised and ragged young girl, so in all fairness we did look quite suspicious. However people were accustod to strange things in such a small town, and after a fair bit off staring they went back to their own business.
“Darryl Darryl!”
“Who is it! I have dough to make. Oh Johra, didn’t you buy your bread earlier?”
Darryl appeared through the door with his hands full of flour. When he saw the poor condition of the little girl he seed worried.
“What happened to her, who did it? Was it you Johra?”
He rushed up to her and held her tenderly, looking at with an expression of disgust.
Author’s Note—-*
Ownership:
In certain areas where several creatures gain awareness, a title of ownership is ford from their influence. The title can be given or acquired by killing the previous owner, and gives you certain privileges within the area such as creating alliances.
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