‘Sigh. I hope everything goes well.’Jason made his way back to the village almost an hour later. The red clouds in the distance signalled the bright day ahead. The smoke coming from the houses and the various voices filled the air with energy. He took his time to familiarise himself with the effects of his vision of mana. It was a novel feeling that could bring him many advantages; especially when he was up against a wizard.He saw the mana rotating around him when he channelled it through his nodes. Which meant he might see a spell before it was completed, as long as he was fast enough. ‘I should unblock ten more.’He already decided. If he only unblocked eight more magic nodes, he would have enough space to guide the mana to cast the first few spells. However, this came with enormous risk. There was a high chance of someone detecting his two unusual magic nodes. ‘Amelia… Who exactly is she?’He was sure that she also had her own secrets, and he had no reason to think she would e

“Hehehe….”‘It is so difficult to deal with Children.’Listening to Hanna’s cheerful laughter, Jason wondered how her mood suddenly changed.Hanna cried for a while before stopping. However, after she stopped crying, she was constantly smiling. She even looked a bit shy about crying, and there was no answer to her reason for crying. In the morning they went to the tanner to make a pair of slippers and a pair of shoes for her. Jason also brought a pair of shoes and coarse leather pants for him. Since his cape wasn’t with him during that so-called training, it was in good condition.He had to warm up the horse before going back, so he placed Hanna on the horseback while he walked it around the village.Hanna seemed to be enjoying it a lot. Still, he had to keep his eyes on her because the horse was too tall, and a fall could do some serious damage to the child. ‘Well… With her around, I shouldn’t worry too much.’Amelia had never left Hanna’s side since they came out.…“Are you goi

“Your name is Matt, right?”“Yes, Lord Initiate.”Matt struggled to act respectfully, but he couldn’t let go of the feeling of disdain in his heart. Contrary to Julian’s words, he didn't see a notable strength in this young alien. He admitted it was impressive to defeat five guards, but the guards of Forestedge were simply armed peasants. Also, he didn’t have any confidence in these plans against the bandits. ‘Well… I can take care of this one. But… Julian….’They were getting close to one of the weaker bandit camps. This group of bandits were so weak that they didn’t even have an Elite among them. If nothing went wrong, even he could finish off these bandits. Besides, there were ten armed guards with him. Although these were not seasoned guards who had experience in combat, they were enough to hold on against these bandits.‘But what about the others?’Forestedge only had about fifty battle-hardened soldiers, and all of them were supposed to follow this young man for the next battl

Elsa looked at the dried blood on her shaking hands. She lost everything, and she didn’t know if her mother was alive. The bandits came and killed every man in her village. She lost her father and brother. They only wanted to capture the women and didn’t even spare those innocent kids. She saw Josie, their neighbour bashing her head until she passed out after bandits killed her husband and her infant. They brought them to a large bandit camp, and later some others took her to this camp. She prayed to the gods to give her a chance for revenge, and she killed the man who tried to violate her by bashing his head with a metal vase.‘Who are they?’She looked at the young man standing in the middle of the camp. They were the reason she managed to live like this. If they didn’t come, she didn’t know what would happen. Several people had armour that resembled soldiers, but everyone was listening to this young man.His body was covered in blood and he had a dangerous aura around him. How

“Roar!”A mighty roar echoed through the forest as the gate to the wooden fortress opened. Bruce thought he lost his balance as he felt the world going silent for a moment.He held on to the tree, trying to stabilise his shaking world.“I… Really hope it is not a mutated cave bear.”When he regained his hearing again, he saw the guard captain, Julian, frowning into the trees.“Mutated? Are there such creatures…?”The moment he asked, Bruce felt almost all eyes fall on him. They all had the same question in their eyes.‘Are you serious?’“Eh… Did you guys know about this?”He looked at the other players.“Yeah.”Logan shrugged with the vivid memories of his first day in the game.“Jason killed one on the first day.”“First day?”His surprise didn’t last long, and the ground started to tremble. “Roar!”The second roar felt much closer and threatening.‘Jason…?’For a second, they all saw Jason running along the palisade before barging in through the half-open gate.The trees crashed a