Outside Ulmer’s house, a modern car-like vehicle with wheels that could spin in any direction in the 3D space was waiting. Using magnetic levitation, the car was able to float above the ground, at about three feet high.Two knights were standing next to the car, wearing silver armor.“Someone who can not only make a mid-ranked knight like Mobel retreat, but also survive an encounter against a monster like Nirvan needs to be with me,” Branwen was laughing inside his spacious car, with two beauties accompanying him on either side.Though it looked like a car, it was almost as big as an average bus.Branwen was a seven-foot-tall and fat man. He was smoking while looking out at the sun through the hole in the roof of the car.“What’s taking him so long?” Branwen impatiently said.“Maybe, he’s not in a condition to come out yet, Lord,” one of the knights said.“Ah, right. I heard he received forty floggings from Nirvan,” Branwen snorted. “It’s a feat, for sure, but I was expecting him to b
Taking the hundred gold that Branwen left would mean that Ulmer would feel guilty if he were to not prioritize Branwen over other nobles.But leaving it on the road would also be the same as offending the noble who left a gift, albeit with craftiness.As Ulmer kept staring at the bag, not sure if he should take the money or not, Ayana came up from behind, “What’s inside the bag?” she asked.“10,000 silver coins,” he said. “He left it here and put me in a tough situation. If I don’t take it, I’ll offend his generosity.But if I take it, I might have to work for Branwen. What do you want me to do?”“If you don’t want to take this money, then you should just donate this money in Branwen’s name,” Ayana suggested.Ulmer was pleasantly surprised by her words. “You are superb, Ayana!” he almost touched her cheek to pull it, but he realized what he was doing and quickly stopped.“It’s okay. You are my husband. So you can touch my cheek,” she said, “but let’s not do it outside on the street.”“
On the same night, Ulmer and Ayana were resting on the same bed.Ayana opened her eyes and looked at him. “Are you not falling asleep, too?”“Yeah, a lot is going through my mind,” Ulmer said.“Are you thinking about the woman that betrayed you?” she asked, but he didn’t say anything. “I won’t stop you from taking revenge, but it’s not good to think about revenge all the time.”“She killed my parents and my sister, Ayana,” Ulmer said, shocking her. “They were innocent. I was the only one who saw her doing something crazy. She should have punished just me, but she brutally killed my family. If I don’t do anything about it, how can my parents and my sister rest in peace?”Ayana went silent for a bit before saying, “You said her name was Brianna. I hope she’s not the princess.”“Even if the princess and her are the same person, I’m not letting her get away with what she did,” Ulmer said.“If the princess is a murderer, then she needs to be punished,” Ayana said, “but who can punish her?
The next morning.Ayana woke up early, and Ulmer was still sleeping. She sat up and looked at him. He was sleeping with his mouth slightly open, which she found cute. She smiled a little and then moved his chin up gently so that his mouth would close.But that didn’t happen as his jaw was locked in place.“Does he have the habit of sleeping like this?” she wondered. “This isn’t good. He must be lacking oxygen. I must tell Mom and Dad about this.”By the time she walked out into the hall, Dustin and Robin were already preparing the food items.Ayana told them about Ulmer’s condition, and Robin then prepared a herbal powder, which could be drunk with hot water twice every day. She gave the powder bottle to Ayana and told her to give a spoonful to Ulmer twice every day for the next three months.“Will it require three months for that condition to be cured?” Ayana asked.“Yeah, there’s likely a problem with his lungs,” Robin said. “It will take some time for the condition to be completely
Ulmer, Ayana, Dustin, Robin, Kale, and Suki.All six of them dressed up fashionably for the trip. Dustin called for bullock carts, as they were the cheapest and most affordable.They were charged ten copper coins per person to get to the destination, which was nearly three miles away. All this region came under the Bright Moon village.All six of them fit inside the cart, and it was a bit hot inside because it wasn’t very spacious. But they had to bear with it. Ayana and Robin waved hand fans for themselves and for others.Suki happily sat there and let her mother wave the hand fan for her, but Kale took the hand fan and started waving for her mother and father and Suki as well.Seeing that, Ulmer took the hand fan from Ayana and began to wave it for her. A few seconds passed, and she took it back from him and waved for him. A few seconds later, Ulmer took it again. Moments later, she took it back again. This kept on repeating for the next ten times, and Suki said, “Stop it!”Too much
Somewhere else in the city.At Lord Dracarius’ mansion.Dracarius received the princess with a grand welcome. With flowers and orchestra and wonderful fragrance drifting in the air, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Dracarius had exceeded her expectations.As Brianna stepped out of the flying palanquin, everyone kneeled and fully lowered their heads. Only Dracarius and his family members were slightly bowing to her.“It is an honor that Her Highness has decided to grace my home,” Dracarius greeted her. He was a handsome, muscular man with a scar running across his nose.Standing next to him was his fat son, Edwin, who was twenty-five years old now, but he looked bigger and taller than Dracarius. If not for his excessively chubby appearance, he might have looked handsome. “Princess Brianna…” Edwin couldn’t hide his affection for the princess because of her impeccable beauty as well as the fact that they were both childhood friends who hadn’t met in nearly ten years.“I hope my
In the afternoon.Ulmer and others were roaming the Bright Moon Circle. Ulmer did not hold back when it came to spending money.He bought clothes, hats, belts, and other accessories for everyone in the house. He bought goggles especially for Kate because he couldn’t ask for himself. And Ayana had told him that Kate loved to wear cool glasses.After Ulmer bought a pair of golden-framed glasses and then gave them to Kate, it almost brought Kate to tears. He put the goggles on and then made a gesture that looked like he was blowing a kiss out, which was equivalent to ‘thank you’ in sign language.The costly glasses cost twenty silver, and that was not a small amount. Most people would buy glasses in the range of one to five silver, so putting twenty silver for a kid seemed a bit excessive for Dustin and Robin, but Ulmer was spending his own money. And it both surprised and worried them.They were surprised because they didn’t know he had that much money, as he kept taking coins out of hi
Ulmer stood, and the sound of him clenching his fist was heard even by Henry.“Are you perhaps coming to pinch us in your wife’s stead?” Henry asked.“Pfft,” Henry’s four friends spilled the food in their mouths and burst into laughter. “Henry, stop joking when we are chewing. If food gets stuck in our throats, who’s going to save us?”“Ah, my bad,” Henry picked up a glass of fruit wine, which had very little alcohol in it. “I just said what I felt like.”Ulmer walked to their table and said, “Apologize.”“Ah?” Henry snorted. “I can’t hear you.” “I won’t ask you again,” Ulmer said in a deep voice. “Apologize to me and to my family.”“Or what?” Henry asked arrogantly, not even looking at Ulmer.Ulmer’s fist was still clenched. He raised his arm and smashed the table in one blow, sending all the dishes flying.“What the hell is wrong with you!” Henry’s friends shouted at Ulmer. “Manager! This man is causing a nuisance. Punish him, and then kick him out.”The manager speedily arrived th
THANK YOU::The novel may have come to a climax, but the curtain for Ulmer's grown-up journey has just risen!The last arc made me pretty emotional at times, and it was difficult to write. I hope you enjoyed the novel till the last page. Thank you, to one and all, for reading Ulmer’s story and traveling on his journey of ups and downs in love and life.Thanks to the readers Corazon, Princesamdanking, Wongani Kanyenda, Tommy Wangeline and Gephysun for your votes and support.A special thanks to Mickey Ritch for your singular support, Brother. Do you want me to create a character with your name as a protagonist or as a villain in one of my novels? Please do comment about it.CHARACTERS::I hope you can take away some memorable characters from this novel. If I had to pick a favorite character, it would be Ulmer for me. The poor guy has just been through so much in his life, and the spirit system really changed his life for the better, and you know how. I also like Ayana and would love to
A few months later.Ben and Amelie not only started their business together but also got married, and Ivy as usual caused a lot of noise during the marriage, asking Ross Richard to give her son this and that.Ross had to give in to her demands because of his daughter Amelie.Ivy’s brother took some gold from her and started a restaurant business because Ulmer had commanded him to stop his finance business as he was sucking people’s blood with it. His wife didn’t like it and went back to her home, but she would eventually return to his side a few years later, after her mother would die.Rick Orsini’s right-hand man, Lexor, was sitting alone on the rooftop of a big hotel, reading the online news on his tablet.“Someone called Urban God joined the Underworld Kings competition?” Lexor raised his eyebrows. “If he’s the real deal, no one will be able to stop him.”Underworld Kings was a world-wide martial arts competition where people with all kinds of superpowers competed, with loose rule
“Your wife?!”“That girl who looks younger than Ruth is your wife?” Ivy quickly said. “Are you out of your mind, Ulmer?”“She’s 19,” Ulmer coldly glanced at her. “So, what’s the problem?”“T-That’s…” Ivy found her throat shaking. His gaze felt intimidating. “I-Isn’t there too much age gap between you two?”“What bullshit are you saying, Ivy?” Mollie snorted. “My grandson is not even thirty, and you say there’s an age gap? Can’t you see that they both look nice next to one another? Also, it’s actually nice if there's a five to six year gap between the husband and wife.”Mollie gently held Ayana’s cheeks and lifted up her head.“Where did you hide such a pretty girl all this time from us, Ulmer?” Mollie said. “You will get punished for this later.”“Ulmer always talks greatly about you, Grandmother,” Ayana said. “So, please forgive him this once.”“Hahaha,” Mollie laughed heartily. “Your wife is already defending you so much, Ulmer. She’s not just beautiful but also smart. I think it’s
The news of so many Thorns dying did not get leaked in the underworld, much less to the common public.However, some of the topdogs in the underworld eventually heard of the heart-shaking news that more than half of the thorns died in the hands of someone called the Urban God.And the title Urban God started to be feared by those who have heard about it.Also, a new bounty appeared on the Urban God, whose name and face were kept hidden by the thorns on purpose.His current bounty was a quadrillion dollars, twice as much as the current world’s known wealth.The amount was so ridiculous and crazy that many bounty hunters thought it was just a fake bounty. A scam. A joke.But then there were those who believed that it could be real and started to investigate the name Urban God. However, most of them would give up on their search the more they learned about the recent history of the Urban God.A few weeks after Crimia was buried from the hidden face of the earth.Minerva had woken up, but
At around two in the night, the vibrations stopped, and the people finally were able to breathe freely.Many of them went back into their homes and slept. Some still stayed outside, afraid of the quake happening again.Around three in the night, Dark Monarch arrived at the Bronich city, but he was surprised to find out that the entire Crimia had been buried by mud. All the entrances were sealed off by mud.“What the hell just happened here in the time I was gone? Was he responsible for this?”Just then, he looked up into the sky.Miles high in the sky, Abbie was flying away with her mother’s body in her arms, her expression dark and desolate under moonlight.“Isn’t that…”Suddenly, immense pressure was put on his body.“Gravity Cage…” Ulmer appeared next to him.Dark Monarch’s body was crushed from every angle by pressure he had never experienced before. He screamed at the top of his lungs.“You should have never returned,” Ulmer did not spare even an inkling of mercy on him. “Gravity
“She’s going to live,” the royal healer, Irvi, an old lady with poisonous pimples all over her face, said. She was 120 years old but was still able to stand straight. However, her voice was not steady. She was observing Minerva’s pulse.Minerva was lying on the bed in the medical chambers not far from the royal palace.“However, her system has integrated with her body, so we can’t take it out,” Irvi said. “If we do it right now, she will die.”“Is it not possible to separate the system without killing her?” Ulmer asked.“It is, but that’s only possible when she overcomes the system?” Irvi responded. “The chances of that ever happening are slim.”Ulmer frowned but then said, “Do what you can to heal her.”“I will. That’s my job, after all,” Irvi said. “No matter how wicked a person may be, if they come to my doorstep, I will not turn my back toward them.”Ulmer slightly bowed his head to her and walked out onto the balcony of that building, where Minerva’s dad, Neodus was present.“I t
The vines suddenly dashed at Ulmer from behind.Ulmer didn’t even move an inch and stood unmoving.The vines rushed past him at a terrific speed and pierced Minerva’s body everywhere. She coughed out a lot of blood.“I didn’t want my blood on your hands,” she tried to smile despite the pain coursing through her body. “I’m… really sorry… for everything.”She was collapsing forward.Ulmer let go of the sword and held her shoulders, stopping her from falling to the ground.Minerva’s eyes began to turn completely dark. The vines that pierced her body began to turn direction and then pierced through Ulmer’s body from behind.Blood rushed to Ulmer’s mouth, but kept his mouth shut. Still, blood slowly leaked from a corner of his mouth.He sent a mental message to her. “It’s okay…”He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.Minerva’s eyes shed more tears, and the blackness in her eyes began to disperse slowly but surely.In a few moments, Minerva’s eyes closed.He could still feel her spi
Minerva thought she could kidnap Ulmer’s family but now realized that she was the one who was tricked by him.He was already well prepared for her.And he wasn’t going to let her harm his family twice.However, now that Ulmer was looking up at her, both sadness and anger filled his eyes.What has become of his ex-girlfriend? Someone with whom he had gone shopping with? Someone who seemed so innocent and lovely when he first met her?Remembering the times when they both went to a jewelry shop, and she studded herself with all kinds of gold and acted like a royal made Ulmer laugh heartily back then.He thought he fell in love with the best girl there was.But look, what has become of her now?She was reduced to someone who would hypnotize a little girl in order to lure Ulmer’s relatives out of the house.Even though Ulmer was just standing, he felt his heart strings playing hard to the point they were hurting because he knew that the time was near.“U-Ulmer…” Minerva could feel his emot
The Drunken Disaster Dionysus, the Wild King Enkidu, the Snake-haired Perseus, the Moon Goddess Artemis, the Sun God Apollo, the War Goddess Ishtar, and the one standing in front of them all and more was the mighty, monstrous King of Heroes Gilgamesh who stood nearly six meters tall.Not one of them could be called anything less than a monster.They were all absolute powerhouses, who made a name for themselves around the world in their times.Some of their powers transcended common sense and logic.“How dare a mere artificial system holder stand in our path? Know your place, vermin!” Ishtar, the war goddess, who looked extremely seductive as well as scary, squinted her eyes, releasing a powerful wave of energy that was supposed to suppress her opponent.Ulmer felt goosebumps all over. “Whooo… that tingles.” He smiled with excitement. (She saw through my system with a glance. I don’t know who she is, but she’s very dangerous. It’s not just her….) His gaze fell on others. (They are all