King Arque came back to his room stressed with all the things that were happening around the kingdom.The monster attack that is plaguing his kingdom.Prince Gust hasn't sent any update on his whereabouts yet.Prince Adam, taking the spotlight in these dark times.The territories weren't able to send their tax and product.“Sigh…”Arque exhales while he glances out his window.But then… He squinted.There is smoke rising in the distance.He turns around to move towards the door but just as he is about to move.Knock! Knock! Knock!Knock! Knock!A rapid knock was heard from the door.“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”A panicking voice shouted from behind.“Come in!”The door opened and one of his advisers came in, sweating in his forehead.“They are here your majesty, they are here!”“Hmmm… who’s here?”“The insects your majesty, the insect monsters appear near the wall.”“How could that happen? Did the other territories fall or did the monster pass by them… even so, we have multiple fort
Boom!Another adviser lost his body and exploded like a fruit that was smashed by a stone.“Charge! Everyone! Charge!”While the other people run away from those monsters the knights charge towards it.One knight prepared himself, an aura manifested in his body and slowly absorbed it.Another one, coated his sword with an aura.“Take this!”Swiiissshh!Another knight swings his sword in quite a distance with the monster, but that is not the problem at all, the aura shoots out from his sword and forms a whip that hits the monster.Pang!A long slash is now visible in the monster's carapace.“Don’t let it in! Attack!”The other knight charges.Stab! Stab!The knight moves closer to the nearest monster and stabs it on the sides and moves away immediately.Then another knight will attack it from a distance.“Aura Whip!”“Aura Spear!”“Aura Pierce!”Different long to mid range aura attacks were unleashed to the monsters.Boom! Bang! Puck! Puck! Slash!Kiiiii!Kiiii!The carapace is beginni
The deer headshot up and both Arque and Notre stop immediately.They felt like if they move suddenly they will aggravate this monster in front of them and escalate the problem.The two watch the deer stand up gracefully and shake its body, like removing dirt in it.The monster didn’t move after that so King Arque decided to slowly move back but when he moved his legs just a little bit.Foooooooossshhh!A cold wind shot from the deer and burst in the corridor.Bang!Immediately Notre slammed his sword on the ground and released his aura.His aura formed and a monster with a lion face, humanoid upper body and a centaur-like lower body of a lion materialized.This monster is called Lionaur.Notre’s aura blocks the gust of wind.Foooooooossshhh!Foooooooossshhh!Fooooo…Soon the wind calmed down however there is an immediate difference in the environment.King Arque looked around.The corridor temperature goes down so much that he can see the forming of an icicle on the side of the wall.
Cole is now looking at the dead king and the aura master in front of him.(Legion did a good job…)Our plan is to hide Legion for a bit and attack the king when he is alone.We don’t know how capable an Aura Master is, but Legion is considered a normal monster, maybe a somewhat stronger monster than normal but still a normal monster.And Aura Master has great reputations, both in the books and in this world.That is why, our initial plan was to separate the Aura Master from the King first but it failed again and again.The Aura Master wouldn’t budge, he literally stayed with the king almost every time and he even had a small room beside the king's chamber which made it difficult to attack the king.Initially our plan is to kill the king and send some insects from the gate and destroy the body and the place, to make it look like that the monster invaded the chamber and killed the king, but those plans cannot happen until we separate the Aura Master, which is hard to do.Then finally we
Cole walks into the tavern.He walked towards the counter and looked at the bartender.“Give me one of your best products.”The bartender nodded and prepared the drink.“Sigh…”It’s been two weeks since the king died.The city went into panic but several of the higher ups kept the citizens calm.At the time, the monster invasion slowly retreated and they disappeared.It took a week before this city recovered but not everything recovers.Several buildings were destroyed.People, even innocent citizens were hurt.And the trading flow is still slow.But Cole didn’t care about that.However, he is also tired.Tired of doing a lot of things for this mission, so right now he went into one of the bars in the city to relax and have a ‘quiet drink’ by himself.“Tsk! Did you hear about your brother?”“Yeah, he sent a message to the Merchant Guild and they delivered it to me. It's bad man, really bad.”“Why?”“Count Ferdinand died, not only that everyone in his family died… no one will take over
(Sigh… so far the topics inside this bar are just the same.) Cole glances left and right and listens to various chats. He wanted to hear fascinating stories, like lore, or dungeon raids, or a special kind of monster that just appeared. But he got nothing. The topic is still about their king, the insect monster invasion and several things that were affected due to Prince Adam promotion. (It’s just been two weeks but Prince Adam immediately changed the slave system as the first order of his business, I guess that’s the kid’s priority.) (And the good thing is…)Cole smiled. (No one fought him… all of the opposing family died and the ‘spare’ family will not talk back to the crown if they want to earn that seat as the new leader of their territory.) After that ‘show’. Some nobles even show ‘kindness’ to their citizens, by providing food and shelter for them. They even use their remaining money to hire mercenaries to keep the territory safe. (Those nobles will do anything to get t
Cole is now in a carriage going towards the castle.The city is still recovering from the damage because some of the buildings were badly damaged, even this far off, from the walls of the city.(Geez… I should tone it down a bit when I do it again… those monsters are really out of control.)From left and right, Cole notices people fixing houses and damaging fences.(Shhhh… I really hit the city so hard… will the prince charge this to me…)Cole shook his head.(I don’t think he would do that, first of all he knows the plan and approved it… though…)He noticed several people with bandages, wounds or a scratch in their body.(The plan didn’t work a hundred percent… The knights and soldiers will surely get hurt and we already talk about ‘friendly fire’ because the ‘plan’ that I prepared will not distinguish a friend from foe and… I actually intended that some ‘friendly’ should get hurt to remove any suspicion from the people with ‘good eyes’.)He pauses for a bit and looks at the regular
(Reward… Sigh…)I looked at King Adam, a 15-year-old boy gently smiled at me.(Sigh… even though he had nice intentions to the ‘slave’ and he wanted them to have a better life. The fact didn’t change… this boy still thinks of slaves as ‘materials’ and he is no different than the others.)Cole understood this and was not in any way angry with it.First of all, Cole was raised in this world so for him slavery is a normal thing and a luxury for those nobles.The only difference between Cole and the other people of this world, Cole has Jon’s memories.Memories of earth, where slavery was abolished.He knew a world free of this system.However, he doesn't have the intention of transforming this world into ‘Earth’.(Oh! Well, it will be troublesome if I do something on slavery… at the same time…)He smiled.(Slavery is very useful isn’t it.)The image of Marbas, Lily, Crystal and the others under his ‘power’ flash through his mind.He cannot pretend that those are not slavery, heck he even