《Storm I: DanMachi》 Chapter -1 - MC Status & Spoilers (Ch. 27) Note: The "What-if"s are not counted as chapters and are more like extras or bonuses. Silver Sterling Level 1 Strength: I-0 Endurance: I-0 Dexterity: I-0 Agility: I-0 Magic IV: E-404 Blacksmith: G Diving: E Fist Fighter: F Hunter: G Mage: F Mana Regen: E Metalworking: G Mixing: G Mystery: F Perception: F Perseverance: F Spearman: D Strong Body: F Strong Defense: F ?Magic? £ÛNone£Ý ?Skills? £ÛPolymath£Ý ¡¸Allows the user to have Blacksmith, Mage, Mana Regen, Metalworking, Mixing, Mystery, Perception, Perseverance, and Treatment.¡¹ ¡¸A skill that can create Developmental Abilities that are connected to jobs and occupations.¡¹ £ÛJuno''s Love£Ý ¡¸Allows the usage of other people''s skills that are connected via Falna or blood.¡¹ £ÛSpellcaster£Ý(Modified) ¡¸T?h?e? ?h?o?l?d?e?r? ?w?i?l?l? ?n?o?t? ?b?e? ?a?b?l?e? ?t?o? ?i?n?c?r?e?a?s?e? ?a?l?l? ?a?b?i?l?i?t?i?e?s? ?e?x?c?e?p?t? ?m?a?g?i?c? ?a?n?d? ?c?a?n?n?o?t? ?l?e?v?e?l? ?u?p?,? ?h?o?w?e?v?e?r?,? ?o?n?c?e? ?m?a?g?i?c? ?r?e?a?c?h?e?s? ?t?h?e? ?m?a?x?i?m?u?m? ?t?h?r?e?s?h?o?l?d?,? ?t?h?e? ?m?a?g?i?c? ?w?i?l?l? ?l?e?v?e?l? ?u?p?,? ?a?n?d? ?a?l?l?o?w?s? ?t?o? ?c?a?s?t? ?m?u?l?t?i?p?l?e? ?s?p?e?l?l?s?.?¡¹ ¡¸It was later modified to allow increasing all other status but slow progress on increasing all status other than Magic.¡¹ £ÛBase Power Level: 400£Ý £ÛFalna Power Level: 0 £Ý £ÛTotal Power Level: 0 £Ý Chapter -2 - Power Leveling System (Updated) The conversion of Falna Points, or the total value of all stats layer by layer except magic, will show a person''s power level. I think this calculation of mine is very close and realistic. Example: Name: Bell Cranel Level: 1 Strength: SS-1,091 Endurance: SS-1,019 Dexterity: SS-1,098 Magic: SS-1001 Falna Power Level: 227.25 All status except magic is equal to 4,545 Falna Points. Next, get the 5% which is 227.25. And since the average power level for humans is 5, let''s say Bell has 4 as a base, and then add the points together, making it 231.25 And each time they level up, the FP stacks up by layer which also has a bonus of 5% increase from FP stacks. Name: Bell Cranel Level: 1¡ú2 Strength: SS-1,091¡úI-0 Endurance: SS-1,019¡úI-0 Dexterity: SS-1,098¡úI-0 Magic: SS-1001¡úI-0 Falna Power Level: 227.25¡ú454.5 Total FP: 4,545 FP Bonus: 4,545 ¡Á 5% = 227.25 Total PL: 458.5 Next Name: Bell Cranel Level: 2 Strength: SS-1,088 Dexterity: SS-1,094 Agility: SSS-1,302 Magic: A-883 Falna Power Level: 454.5¡ú680.15 Total FP: 9,058 Total PL: 684.15 That''s all. Each time they level up, they get 5% of the Total Falna Points they''ve accumulated in total which will be added to their total strength as a barrier for each layer of Level. And they don''t get their base power to increase because it isn''t a part of the Falna. Also, even if they have high power level, if they cannot properly use Ki, they cannot do things like Flash Steps or some movement techniques that uses Ki because Adventurers don''t know how to use Ki except few individuals and do feats like obliterating a Goliath with a roar. Example: Silver have a battle power of 2 million. That means he can defeat Ryoumen Sukuna at his full power, though they will be equal with Sukuna being a curse user and a strong person while Silver can literally obliterate a Yellow Star. Chapter 3 - Polymath A week later after I woke up in a bed with an unfamiliar ceiling, I have been doing nothing except improving my breathing. I also noticed that, even without using my breathing technique, I am strong enough to carry an object with a weight of 25kg which seems absurd. When I used my breathing technique, my strength doubled, if not tripled. Also, I spent the next 4 days to mend my voice box because of shouting so loud. I collapsed after that roar of mine, so I don''t know why I am here until it was explained that my sister, Alfia, left me to him who was living outside of Orario at that time. And now, me and this man named Kane, started teaching me. We started at basics, which is reading and writing. What? I never paid attention to reading and writing and I learned how to speak because I have a body of a child who could learn faster than ?du?ts do when it comes to speaking a language. There was once a child who knew more or less than a dozen of languages and speak with those said languages. Well, reading and writing was so super easy that I don''t even need to spend a week to completely finish it. I think I have Eidetic Memory or something because it was still fresh on my mind or it''s because I am child with a temporary IQ of 300 until I turn 5 or so since that''s when usually a kid would learn on a school. But there''s no such school in a world like this... Maybe there is, but it''s about magic not about mathematics, science, or other subjects. History is a common knowledge, I presume. Well, my life was actually boring for the whole week until there is this young woman who have a child with her and visit us since 2 days ago. And since I am still a year old, she br??stfed me. Yeah, it''s hell for me an sit annoys me since that Kane dude was looking at me while smirking after I drink milk. Because of that, I decided to mess with his things. An example of that was when I turned a magical staff that would shoot a magic spell, but instead of shooting, it exploded on the spot. I was laughing at his misfortune when I saw him handing it to a mage and the mage used it, then it exploded on the mage''s face. Welp, I''m a genius. I also looked at his blueprints at which I took few failed projects that he tried and some prototypes as well. I started experimenting with a lot of those things and creating a bunch of theories of my own on each blueprints as to why they don''t work and how they should work. These things happened frequently which led to both of us arguing until Kane saw me picking up some failed prototypes and kept tinkering them until they worked how they should be. Then, he revealed himself and started making theories with me. Because of that, he gave me books about many things: smithing, brewing potions, making medicines, magic item crafting, magic weapons, and most importantly, the acupoints or acupuncture points on the body as well as the vital points. Acupoints and Vital points may seem like the same, however, they work differently. If you hit the right acupoints, you can paralyze a person. If you hit the right vital points, you can kill them without wasting too much energy as if you just stood up only to sit down again. Simply put, acupoints is more of a way for miracle doctors to heal people while vital points are for martial artists. However, if you combine the two, it''s a different story. Every time we conduct an experiment, I am always using my breathing technique to be able to carry some things that he wants me to bring to him. On the second year of living with him and suffering from his grin after each and every time I get fed. He brought a woman. Not just any woman, but it was none other than my sister, Meteria. Yep, she is alive but her sickness is still there because she can''t stand up because of the illness that made her be always on the bed. And because of that... THAT BASTARD RAPED HER! I already did my revenge. I didn''t kill him nor did I torture him, I just left the coward in the middle of a forest, tied tightly using the best knots. I''m not a fan of BDSM, but the knot from that is what I used in tying him down. He can''t escape. I didn''t kill him. He died on his own. Oh, by the way, he''s just a pitiful level 1 with all his status at E rank. I know it because I was with Zard at that time who wanted to have his status updates along with the other ones. The funny thing is, he, not Zard, all of his status never rose since the last 14 years that he joined. He was actually 18 when he joined and r?p?d Meteria at the age of 32. I think FBI already picked him up in the forest. He''s disgusting, but it doesn''t mean Bell was the same. He may have inherited his wish of wanting to have a harem and his cowardness, but it was wiped out because of Meteria''s personality. Stubbornness, kindhearted, and even the ability to defy the gods. Yes, Meteria, my sister, could defy a god''s order or request. She even made Hera kneel in front of her. After a few weeks of spending time with her, her illness suddenly flared up, making her cough up blood. Kane arrived and alleviated the pain before telling us to go inside the locked room we are forbade to enter. When we entered, the only thing we saw was a kitchen. When we looked around, we saw that the outside is white and blue, the ground and the sky. I can''t see any sun nor moon, but there is a light. Then, Kane arrived with a sack with him. Also, Meteria was using the wheelchair that me and Kane crafted for her to use. It''s a magic item which allows her to control where it will go if she wants to. Oh and, I never mention that I have a tail. Monkey tail at that. Kane spoke as he opened the bag or some kind of rucksack made of an animal''s skin. "These beads can summon a wish-granting dragon that grants 5 wishes. Anything could be granted by it. No matter how impossible it seems. However, such thing are a weapon when given at the wrong hands, thus they can only be used by a pure-hearted person." My big sister, or neechan which is normal here due to those Far Eastern people spreading their words. Anyway, she asked one thing. "Can it cure me? Are you really sure? I''ve been hoping for a cure for it but we can''t find anything." She asked with hopes. Kane replied, "Of course, you can be cured. After all, we''re talking about miracles here, not just simply magic or a trick." While Meteria-nee was crying in joy as she could be cured, Kane started speaking in a language that I don''t know or I don''t recognize. Then, a golden light shot up in the sky and then coiled around as it forms the figure of a dragon that is so big that it looked like it could devour an entire planet. "Who woke me up from my slumber? Speak, and let me grant your 5 wishes." Its booming voice reverberated in the whole place. Meteria couldn''t speak due to shock and amazement she is witnessing. On the other hand, I want to wish to become stronger, but I know that it wouldn''t grant power. Kane started speaking first before me, "I want you to cure Meteria''s illness and restore her health as if she never got any illness." "That is considered two wishes. Do you want to proceed?" "Yes. Grant it." "Your wishes is now s reality." Kane looked at me and smirked, "Kiddo, it''s your time to get wishes." "Before I wish, can I ask something first?" I asked. The dragon nodded. "What race am I?" I asked because it smells fishy as to why do I have a tail of a monkey as I never saw any person with monkey tails or ears. I don''t have monkey ears, though. "You, my child, is a Saiyan." "I want you to remove my ?ust for battle." "It''s reality now. Two more wishes." "I want to have a rival." "I can''t give you one, but I could bless such child to have such strength that could match you." "I want to have a skill that could allow me to use anyone''s skills connected to me, via Falna or blood, and use them." "Done... I will grant you another wish because I feel generous today." "I want to have a skill that could allow me to use any kind of magic: Elven magic, Arcane Arts, Mystic Arts, Space Magic, Time Magic, Space-Time Magic, and many more." "That''s a reality now. It has to have a drawback, though. Your physical abilities: Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, and Agility won''t move an inch from 0, but you can still level up whenever your magic rises to SSS rank, at 1,500." -------------------------------- Chapter 4 - Hera Familias Pride The second year of living with Kane and spending time with Meteria, my sister, I am already 3 years old. My nightmare starts here and now. Training. He trained me by making me run, do push ups, an dmany more exercises first before proceeding to the real training after an hour-long rest. Twice the strength of gravity, carrying a half of my own weight using weights that seems light but these bands are heavier than they look. These bands are placed on my arms and feet, while I wear a necklace like Broly''s in the non-canon movie that is also heavy, and a heavy waistband. Even with the help of my breathing, I am having a hard time since I could only maintain it for minutes. Since that''s the case, Kane said that I shouldn''t carry heavy weights yet and I should get attuned, or used to the strength of the gravity which is a challenged itself. Aside from that, Meteria and Kane were sometimes fighting since every single time I finished training, I will directly hit the bed. She wants to play with her cute little brother, which is me. No, I''m not a narcissist. Well, since I''m three years old now, I do not need a mother''s milk. Now that I think about it, did Bell also experienced hell? Probably not, he''s not a transmigrator or something. Since I''m 3 years old now, I am doing a lot of things around the house. But right now, we''re going somewhere else outside Orario. Meteria doesn''t need to hide her face since she''s exactly not participating in any expeditions of Zeus and Hera Familias does. "Silver, are you ready?" Kane asked me, who was about to go down. "Alright, I''m ready." I got down from the second floor and followed them. "Since we are going on a town, we''ll be coming along with the merchants going in there." Kane explained as we walked down the streets of Daedalus street. Yep, Daedalus Street have smaller streets since it''s literally a labyrinth which Orario got its title, Labyrinth City of Orario. We traveled to northeast gate since the merchants and their caravans are in there. Their caravans were much like what I expected. They looked like that from Vinland Saga. Also, the Anime itself was good as well. Did I say good? Oh now, all Otaku woul hunt me because I said good. They wouldn''t, right? I hope. As we traveled with the merchants, me and Kane, mostly Kane, were talking about what is happening around the world and news from other countries as I kept listening to their discussion. After a few hours, we finally arrived the right place. A town where we should go. The town of Atmos, a town that is kilometers away from east-northeast or Orario. It is more on the east than exactly northeast. "Alright, let''s drop off." Kane said, telling us to exit the caravan. "Drop off?" Meteria doesn''t know the word, even though we speak English with a little bit of Japanese mixed in, Kane''s way of saying to get off of the caravan was strange as we won''t be dropping, do we? He''s one mysterious person. First, he have Dragon Balls; next, his way of talking sometimes meant another thing; and lastly, he exudes a terrifying aura that I got used to after a year of living with him. I know that it was Kane''s natural aura and it also felt suppressed as I could also feel other''s presence which I can''t sense Kane as if he was a ghost, a phantom, something that shouldn''t exist yet exist. It was really terrifying. A big but, not those wiggly cheeks. But, I already got used to it so much that even if a level 5 tried to scare me, I won''t feel threatened at all. It will only feel as if the one that was looking at you was a caged wild animal that couldn''t do anything but stare daggers at you. Well, I got USED TO his SUPRESSED terrifying and powerful aura. Anyway, we got off and Meteria was calling my name as I was out of focused due to thinking that intimidation from a level 5 would be nothing but a breeze. "...lver! Silver!" "I''m awake, I''m alive. Don''t worry." I said with a smile that I tried so hard only to fail. Yep, I can''t properly smile after witnessing my own mother die in front of me. I pulled out my necklace with green gem on it from underneath my shirt and stared at it. It was my mother''s favorite necklace, her necklace. Now, it was mine. I hid it back underneath my clothes and looked at Meteria which I caught frowning that quickly turned into a beautiful smile. I think she thought that I didn''t caught her frowning. I''ll find out why she''s frowning, or it might be because she''s planning on getting Bell back along with Alfia. "Here it is! Hera''s house that is sitting like a sore thumb." then he mumbled which only I heard, "Man, that old hag is really crazy when it comes to Zeus..." ''A YANDERE?!'' I shouted in my head but shook it afterwards. "It''s been a year since I''ve met her. Originally, I was planning to..." Meteria said, but trailed off and then shooked her head to forget what is in her mind. "Well, shall we go in? I''m pretty sure that ha- I mean, that lady would be glad to see that you''re still kicking." "Kicking? Well, I can certainly kick." "N-no, not that. I meant, that you''re still alive and well." "Oohh... So, that''s what it means..." "It''s a... Nevermind. Let''s go in." He knocked on the door thrice with the same interval. Wait, how did I know? I think I have affinity for Time, or I have keen sense of hearing. The latter is much more possible than the former. "Zeus, is that you? Did you-" the door opened and thus the voice of an old woman stopped speaking. "I am Kane, and I''m sure you''d be glad to meet your Familia members." Kane said with a smile on his face. Hera turned to look at Meteria, then me, then back at her. She suddenly hugged Meteria because she disappeared after she gave birth to Bell. Then, she looked at a 3-year old young boy, me, and pinched my cheeks. "Soooo cuuuute!" Let''s skip what happened next and jump onto what is important. ? 3rd Person POV ? A young boy was seen sitting on a short stool. In front of the brat, were two people. A woman with silver hair and green eyes, and a man with black haired and black eyes. Meteria was the former while the latter was Kane. Behind the kid, was an old woman who seems to be already on her 60s. She''s holding a needle and prickled her own finger and let out a single drop of blood at the back of the child. His back shined until there seems to be a barrier that has been erected on top of his back. The old woman, Hera, was shocked at what she saw. She proceeded to write his status on a paper by placing it against his back and moved her finger in a circular motion on the paper. "Here, look at this..." They all looked at the paper. -------------------------------- Silver Sterling Level 1 Strength: I-0 Endurance: I-0 Dexterity: I-0 Agility: I-0 Magic I: I-0 Blacksmith: I Mage: I Metalworking: I Mixing: I Mystery: I Perception: I Perseverance: I Treatment: I ?Magic? £ÛNone£Ý ?Skills? £ÛPolymath£Ý ¡¸Allows the user to have Blacksmith, Mage, Mana Regen, Metalworking, Mixing, Mystery, Perception, Perseverance, and Treatment.¡¹ ¡¸A skill that can create Developmental Abilities that are connected to jobs and occupations.¡¹ £ÛJuno''s Love£Ý ¡¸Allows the usage of other people''s skills that are connected via Falna or blood.¡¹ £ÛSpellcaster£Ý ¡¸Allows the usage of magic of any elements, spells, categories, sub-categories, elven magic, Arcane and Mystic arts, and many more magic.¡¹ ¡¸The holder will not be able to increase all abilities except magic and cannot level up, however, once magic reaches the maximum threshold, the magic will level up, and allows to cast multiple spells.¡¹ -------------------------------- "I can imagine him bombing an entire city with one spell: Explosion." Kane said with a grin. "What?! He can''t get stronger physically?! How would he protect himself?" Meteria asked as she is worried at the young man''s safety. "Don''t worry, I''ll train him to get stronger in normal ways. Like the people in the Ancient Times do. Exhaust yourself until you can''t stand, breaking the limits of humanity by their own will and power." Kane replied to her with a smile. "That doesn''t make me feel comfortable." Meteria said she frowned. "I''ll be sure that he could handle anyone. Just, trust me on this one." Hera suddenly spoke with a proud smile, "Silver Sterling, the pride of Hera Familia! Soon, his name shall be known and will save the world." -------------------------------- Blacksmith - Enables the user to add special abilities to their creations. Mage - Improves power, widens effect range, and makes mind usage efficient. Creates a magic circle under the user that support the magic. Mana Regen - Allows to recover mind by automatically absorbing the mana in the air, from nature''s excess mana, and spells'' mana particles in the air that can''t be seen that hasn''t dissipated. Metalworking - enables the user to work faster when creating things that are made of metals. (just my opinion) Mixing - Improves quality when creating items such as potions. Mystery - Allows the user to activate a miracle and create magic items. Perception - Raises one''s intuition and all senses except the sense of taste. Perseverance - Pain resistance rises and mind down have less effect. Less effect means, faster recovery from mind down, but it doesn''t grant faster mana regeneration. Treatment - Increases the effectiveness of healing magic or simple treatment of wounds and injuries. Chapter 5 - Training 101 Believe it or not, I will start training since I am now three years old. First training is gravity training with a stronger gravity since I''ve already got used to twice the gravity. It might not increase my strength fully, but it will prepare my body for heavy lifting and also strengthen my muscles. Since I am a Saiyan, as I discovered not too long ago, I''ve already expected to use the Room of Spirit and Time for 2 years inside. After that, I can''t enter again because I won''t be strong enough during that 2 short years, but enough to help me. The Gravity Training made me exhausted faster, that is without using my breathing technique, as I can''t use it for too long or my lungs would burst. Or that''s what it feels. Aside from that, he also told me that my breathing technique is a crude method ad inconvenient because it speeds up my heart to pump faster which causes a strain to the heart, and too much strain will lead to heart failure if my heart can no loger take the hastened pumping. Then, he taught me of another breathing technique which I''m pretty sure that it shouldn''t exist in here, but oh well, I won''t say no to learning how to get stronger. "As you''ve already noticed, it was from "Kimetsu no Yaiba"." he said while looking at me with a smug face. "Total Concentration Breathing allows you to be able to strengthen your by absorbing oxygen and distribute it to your body to increase your overall fighting capabilities. If mastered, It will increase by a huge margin which is why a "Hashira" is worth more than 50 Kamado Tanjiro. The starting multiplier of increase is 10 times more because it is the same multiplier once a human turns into a demon." I nodded to each and all of those words. "You see, even though your breathing technique have potential of rising its multiplier to 1,000, it will also have bigger strain and shorter time duration of activation that will leave you with either a heart disease or directly kills you. The multiplier of Total Concentration Breathing at maximum is 100, it has a favorable technique without any drawbacks. Even so, I''m surprised you managed to something from "Kenganverse" which is "Advance". Well, time to start training, kiddo." Then, I started training. Just a few tries later, I already grasp on his to use Total Concentration Breathing in both mind and body. Then, he taught me the easiest Breath Style, Breath of the Water. It only took me a month to master all forms of it, then I proceeded to learn the next one. The next one, though, it was my choice to learn. The next Breath Style is Breath of the Thunder. It was fast, and since it was fast, it was also very deadly. One Thunderclap and Flash might enough to severe the head of an Obsidian Soldier. Well, that depends on who used it, and I doubt I could severe the head of an Obsidian Soldier yet. I mastered the all 6 forms in 4 months. It took longer since the 4th, 5th, and 6th forms are made by a demon who can generate lightning, and the 7th form is technically an form that is slightly behind the Sun Breath style when it comes to firepower, add the speed of Thunder Breath style, you will get a form that could probably kill Akaza. However, Zenitsu doesn''t have a Demon Slayer mark nor a Crimson Nichirin Blade, so all he can do is face the newly promoted demon, his senpai under Kuwajima Jigoro, Kaigaku. Well, the third form is strong and I need to master the first form, the form used as a building block for other forms. The 4th to 6th form is probably the attempt of Kaigaku on learning the first form when he turned into a demon but failed, but they became useful on fighting Zenitsu. That took 4 months overall. Next Breath Style was not my choice, I was forced to since the said reason is "You will soon be working with fire now: forging, making and selling charcoals, cooking, and a fire mage!". It''s fine for me to forge, make and sell charcoals, and cooking, but I don''t want to be a fire mage. They were always looked up to since they firepower is very high, it''s what they say, and was more favorable in destroying an army''s plank. However, I want something flexible, something that have a little bit of everything, a Water Mage. Water Element''s advanced stages are Ice, Mist, Vapor, and Scalding Water. These four are the advanced elements under water magic. Ice magic: It has different range from close quarter to long range fight. The only weakness of this is that it is harder to control due to the water particles being in solid form and it consumes more mana, or what they call as Mind, and heightens the possibilities of exhausting their mana or mind, or known as Mana Exhaustion or Mind Down or Mind Zero. Mist magic: Aside from most of its spells being supportive type, it can still be deadly since it can fake all the 5 senses of a person inside it if I want to, and kill them while they are trapped in an illusion of reality yet it wasn''t. The only drawback is, it consumes more man than Ice magic and only have few attack spells. Vapor magic: The opposite version of Mist magic, a hot water particles in the air version instead of a cold and condensed water particles. While it can''t fake other 5 senses, it can be used for some things like melting a rock. Yes, it can melt a rock and turn it into a lava-state. Its drawbacks is, it can hurt the user itself due to how hot it produces through the water particles in the air. Scalding Water magic: The opposite of Ice magic that could bun anything, even a lava, which is kinda weird and unbelievable, but it does. It might be too OP, but its range is drastically limited to 10 meters of radius and it is harder to control without learning fire magic. And so thus I am forced to learn fire magic, although I also learned Lightning magic to learn Firebolt and teach it to Bell to see if he could learn to use Firebolt. If he learned to do so, then he''s fated to use Argonaut''s magic swords'' special abilities. Well, since it is easier to control the fire through magic than through pumping it with gas or something since that''s all I know before, but now I know what they use. However, I''ll be using fire magic to better my fire magic manipulation and control while also getting better are forging many things. Oh yeah, after learning Sun Breathing, I managed to use the 7th form of Thunder Breathing in one month, the form is sure hard to learn. Learning the original style only took 4 months and making different combos with all 12 forms since it doesn''t have any set of patterns. Then, I tried to master it but only managed to be able to master it halfway for the next 8 months. Yeah, it is hard to learn. Tanjiro may not be talented in swordsmanship as he took 2 years to master 1 breath style, it doesn''t mean that he''s not gifted to do what his ancestors could. Also, he kept breaking his limits during the battle against Muzan, so it''s not surprising how he could learn it and master it faster. If he didn''t access to his ancestor''s memories, I doubt he could kill Muzan. If Tanjiro learned how to use it early on and during his 2-year training, I doubt Muzan could have a chance against Tanjiro. It took a year and a half for me to learn Water Breath style, Thunder Breath style, and Sun Breath style. Mastering Water and Thunder Breath styles, but still working on mastering Sun Breah style. Then, we, me and Kane, decided to call it using its name before it was revealed in the manga, Hinokami Kagura. The thing is, the forms will be called in their english name, which is suggested by Kane. "Alright, now that you managed to learn these three forms because of their traits ¡ª Adaptability (Water), Unpredictability (Sun/Hinokami), and Unforseen Speed (Thunder) ¡ª I want you to learn more breath style. To be honest, I want you to learn all Breath Styles and spread it." Kane said with a smile. "Why?" I asked, obviously. "Because, I think you are much better at teaching." Kane replied. "Yeah, I noticed. I noticed that you suck at teaching." Kane lowered his head in shame and said, "Ugh... My student broke my heart." "I don''t swing that way nor would I do something taboo." "Ack!!!" he spat out blood, literally. "Now what? Live a normal life? Fine...." Chapter 6 - Zeus Familias Honor Bell Cranel. 2 years old. White hair. Fiery Red eyes. He looks like an Almiraj. Silver Sterling. 4.5 years old. Silver hair. Cold Blue eyes. He looks like a Wolf. -------------------------------- ? Silver ? 6 more months before the real training comes. My power level is pitifully the amount of a dozen. Nevertheless, that iss enough if compared to normal people. With TCB (Total Concentration Breathing) technique, the lowest is a multiplier of 2, and 10 when you got the grasp of it. Normal standards for humans. Start of training: PL 5 ¡Á 2 Training TCB End of Training: PL 20-40 ¡Á 10 Learned TCB That is all about it. That is without any Hashira training or something. Today, we will visit my nephew, or little brother because our age does not have huge gap, and it makes me feel older than what I am supposed to be. *Click!* *Creeaaak..." "Are you ready, Silver?" A wild Kane appeared and asked. "I''m hurt that you think of me like I''m some kind of savage beast..." He faked some tears, "Anyway, we''ve gotta go now or that old man would start teaching Bell his unrefined Dao Culture of Men." "I will stop Zeus even if you are against it or not." I replied with a monotone voice, "But it does not mean I would let anyone teach him that ''men of culture'' clich¨¦. I have had enough of Perverted Old Men who teaches the main character." "You are being taught by one." "I am already immune to your preaching. And I am actually a devotee of Gender Equality, so that would not work against me." "Well, in a world where you can literally get killed by an ''Abomination of a Bitch'', you shouldn''t be too nice women either." "Ne~ ne~! Aren''t you two a little bit slow?" Meteria chimed in with her kind and cheerful voice. She became this cheerful after getting her healed from her illness. She already tried to forget what that ''Bastard'' did to her, but it does not mean she would forgive him of what he did to her. Actually, she was actually about to suicide until Kane came and saved her. I have already taken care of ''him'', but it does not mean I do not want to torture the said person. Also, I can see that Kane is dense or he already found a person for this, thus he is acting dense while trying to think how to reject her mildly. I think that was it. I am sure of it because whenever I think of other 100 theories, my instincts tells me that this one was the most accurate. If I have to rate it, it is 95% with a 5% chance of being wrong. Yeah, like how you do theory, literally. I don''t know why, but I guess it is because I am connected to Alfia who is a genius and a talented individual that made me even more smarter. Anyway! The three of us departed Hera''s home since taking her to Orario is a big bad idea. We traveled and it only took us half a day since what we are using are pulled not by horses, but by unicorns. Yeah, Unicorns are rare species of monsters. Surprisingly, or not, they are much faster than horses since they ARE monsters. When we arrived, we hid Hera behind us, only Meteria and Kane can, as we trek the dirt path towards the farm that Zeus is living now since the banishment. *Knock* 3¡Á Kane knocked three times on different intervals between knocks. *Click!* The door opened and an old man appeared with his white hair and white beard. I am surprised that he is not bald yet. I guess, that is a perk of being a god. Speaking of a god, since I am part Saiyan, I don''t know if half or a quarter, can I achieve SSG? I think I would take a backlash for that since my body is not strong enough. But what if I used the remains of God Ki in their blessing and utilize it so that it will not backfire. Anyway, we entered the house after Zeus saw Hera. He tried to run away, but was caught by Hera who was saying "You will never get away from me!" which seems to be also the reason why Zeus ''died'' which caused Bell to go to Orario after a few years later. Old Zeus tried to escape, only to be stopped by Kane who blocked the way to the window that the old man wanted to use to escape. In the end, everything calmed down from being weird to a normal visit that we just want to do. "Ah, is that so?" Old Zeus said with a smile then turned to look at me, "Kid, did you know that having a harem is the best, don''t you think so?" I just tilted my head because I want to see his convincing skills. He earned a painful pinch, though. "Harem is any true men''s dream- Itte-te-te1!" He rubbed his waist where he got pinched, "A Harem is composed of beautiful and cute girls which loved you." I played innocent because I want to see their action. "Does that mean Meteria-nee and Alfia-nee were one of my Harem?" Zeus who was drinking water, spat it to the side. "Both of them are cute and beautiful in their ways, and they also loved me." "Tha-tha-that''s!" I only tilted my head, wanting to make him continue and to act innocent. "That''s ?n??st! I''M PROUD IF YOU, SILVER-SHOUNEN!" He gave me an ''All Might'' smile with a thumbs up. Meteria was blushing, but did not say anything. Does that mean anything? Kane was grinning, though. "Ahem! Bell, come here!" "Hai~, ojii-chan2!" A 2 years old boy with white hair and red eyes arrived at the living room. It is Bell, who really looked like an Almiraj right now and you won''t be able to see the difference unless you have good intuition to know if it is really Bell. I have sharp intuition too. "Bell, these are:" he pointed at each one of us while introducing us, "That''s Kane." "I''m handsome!" "A-hahaha..." Bell laughed awkwardly. Narcissist! "This is Hela, your obaa-chan3." "Hello, Bell-kun." "Hello, obaa-chan!" "That is Silver, your onii-san." "Un." I nodded. "Ano... Etto~ Hello... Onii-san." "And you will be happy with this, Bell. This woman is your okaa-san!" "O...okaa-san?" Bell went and hugged Meteria, of course she kneeled so she could hug him properly and both cried. After all, they never met each other for 2 years since Bell''s birth. "Ahem! Everyone, this is Bell Cranel! The Honor of Zeus Familia." I chimed, "But the God has no honor when it comes to being a perverted old man." "Gurgh!" An imaginary arrow hit Zeus right in the heart from behind. "Jii-chan, what is a Familia?" I answered for Bell, "A Familia is a group, like a family, formed by a Kami and gave them their blessings, granting them strength to become more stronger while in return, help them in what they want or simply raise money." "Well, I hope to meet a Kami." Well, Zeus did a good job at not revealing that they are god and even with his bad naming sense, Bell wouldn''t notice it even if he gets older. Then, we did what a real family does. Eat together, excluding Alfia and Zard who joined the Evilus out of regret and shame. Probably. The food was tasty as it was cooked by Kane, however, he will soon be defeated in cooking contest with me soon in the future. I will learn how to cook and progress even further that it could even rival a mother''s foods. I am not overestimating myself, I just feel it, I feel that I will become much more skilled than any mother could. I also think that even my intuition is much sharper, though I cannot say if it is equal or much exact intuition compared to a woman''s, but I''m confident that it is sharp enough to feel something dreadful, a danger, or something that will happen to someone. I''m not sure how accurate it is, but it is tested when I felt Zeus is going to do some shady ''research'' project. He also took Bell, which I just felt that Pervy Spark dragged Bell with him. Well, I can''t really stop him from being a perverted old man that creates a good Anime, but it doesn''t mean I can''t stop his devious plans. Alright, time to train to the fullest. ~ Half a month later ~ OOF! I let out a ROBLOX sound as I slumped on the floor, planting my own face on the floor unwillingly. That damn porcupine (Kane) made me carry 333 kilograms which is my limit for now. I mean, when he saw that my Battle Power is 40, he knew how much weight I can lift with that value. HOWEVER! My body is that of a 5 years old child, and I couldn''t endure the weight enough to not have my muscles to tear apart and my bones to get fractured. "All according to Keikaku." He said.... Chapter 7 - Sword & Magic I WELCOME! Today is a great ''cause I, Kane the Great God of Dimensions, have decided to be the Narrator for now. Why? Because Morgan Freeman is, well, not ''Free'' right now. However! Be grateful for this God has decided to narrate this chapter! Ehem! Anyway, let us start the story! Be sure to send those shiny stones! ???? -------------------------------- On a certain house in Daedalus Street... "What should I do now? I''ve already made lots of blueprints for future possible weapons that has looks equal to their lethality, made some weapons and b?r?ly created a weapon with Durandal property, already finished training with my smithing skills, made some highly concentrated potions using basic ingredients and a poisonous leaf that can become a healing material using a certain mixture to remove the poison which is equal to a Hi Potion, finished training with three Breath Styles, what else?" A 5-year old child who looked like 7 years old due to bigger height and also due to me training him as early as 3 years old. Well, he''s a quarter Saiyan who will soon improve one day. As to how he could be a quarter Saiyan, it is because I kidnapped a weak Saiyan woman, dropped her in this world who fought a strong Adventurer and fell in love with that person. Then, she gave birth to a Half-Saiyan, which is Silver''s father. Of course, his father bear the traditional naming sense of Saiyans, but he was lucky that he wasn''t named after vegetables or anything related to them. I feel like I am Merlin in this story, and Silver is soon to be King Arthur. Sadly, the reason why I said this is for the future to be revealed as it isn''t the right time to tell you all. Anyway, he''s been thinking of what to do now, so I thought of some things that could catch his attention and to make him motivated into getting stronger since his progress is definitely slower than others due to his unique circumstances, but his speed is constant. He still have some advantages until he hit the bottleneck. I approached him and talked, "Bored? Why not play with other kids?" "Why would I? You do know that I''m mentally older." NANI?! "What do you mean?" "I mean, I know that you know that I am a reincarnated person and so does do I know you are one as well. However, it looks like you''ve already reached the summit of your limits so you probably decided to act as a normal person and have a family because you have no time for that, no?" This kid... How did he- "How did I know? It''s probably because I am thinking of over hundreds of possibilities while my intuition tells me whether it is right or wrong." He nonchalantly said. ''That was too OP! Who let this soul to get reincarnated anyway?! Oh, wait, it''s me! My bad, hahaha!'' Well, I actually reincarnated him thrice, and this is the fourth. At his first reincarnation, he lived in early 8th century. Next was, during a King''s journey, the last being about a certain inevitable free-for-all battle. Dio Grail. Joke, that''s the magic of Filvis. "Yare yare, I got caught red-handed." I said and sighed. He deadpanned me in return, "????" I replied with my own, "????" *Angels singing in the background* "Cut the crap! Where did that sound came from?" "I don''t know." I shrugged. "Anyway, I''ll teach you the next Breath Style as well as teach you more techniques in forging. The next Breath Style is Breath of the Insect." "..?" Hm... He''s quite confused. "!!" Ooh, he got it. "Because of its nature and its way of attacking, it is the most suitable for going in the Dungeon since it mainly uses precise and quick stabs, mobility is also high even though the user of this Breath does not have enough arm strength to behead a demon." I nodded, "That''s right. It is suitable in the Dungeon since you only need to hit their Magic Core to kill them as it is precise." ? 10 minutes later ? "HARGH!" [Insect Breathing, Dance of the Centipede: Hundred-legged Zigzag] His speed is even faster than that of a Level 3 with D to all status since he was just starting training his physical strength. Since he can''t raise his physical statuses, I decided to train him using the old way that had died long ago and fused it with the new training regiment thanks to Dragon Ball that I got inspired. Of course, this was still considered as warm up exercise. The true training will be when he is ready to go down the Dungeon. "Alright, you''ve already grasp the Breath Style. 30-minute break before the next Breath Style, which is Breath of the Beast." Breath of the Beast is one of the most hardest Breath Style for a strategic mind as it fully relies on instinct, quick reflexes, and superhuman flexibility. This will be a challenge for him and it might take him for awhile. So, I decided to teach him how to forge a sword and important things and theories about magic, the basics are all important, during the 30-minute break. As to why I did this is because I''m gonna exhaust his mind first so he could learn faster by stopping on thinking too much and make his body fully recovered the mind is the opposite. But, it might backfire of him collapsing and he might go on a coma. After all, our brain is what keeps us moving while our heart is what keeps us alive. And of course, the body is what allows us to survive and improve. I''m amazing, aren''t I? I''m amazing, aren''t I?! *Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiii* I felt Silver gaze at me as if judging me if I''m a good or a bad nut. "Narcissist!" "Urgh!?" I''m critically wounded! Not physically, but mentally. This kid has intuition that is never seen before. His intuition is stronger than any woman I''ve met. Stronger than Riveria''s so far. As we continue, he decided to create another weapon property aside from Durandal which was said to make a weapon unbreakable. He said: "If there is a blade that has unbreakable property, then there should be a weapon with a blade that never get dulled. I''ll call it Caladbolg Project in the meantime until I can create such property. Then, add a safety measure so it cannot be combined with Durandal unless they knew about that safety, or rather God-mode switch." God-mode switch, he called it. Break nor get dull, a weapon that doesn''t. Wait, why am I speaking like that?! Anyway, it blade never dull nor break. That is really a god-level weapon but it is still a mortal weapon as it cannot still kill a god or even cut through a god''s divine power. Hm... Should I go to Nasuverse for him to get Caliburn? Nope! I''m just gonna let him be able to go there if he wants to, but I will limit it from three worlds. Though, I''m worried about Demon Slayer world. That world''s future is technically are the slice-of-life genre Anime, Manga, Light Novels, etc. Anyway, he started theorizing and made 10 full theories in the span of a few minutes only. His mind is working like a computer. If he could enhance his mind, it might reach the level of Accelerator. Despite being a 5-year old, his height is that of a 7-year old kid and he didn''t have any huge growth spurt when he was 2 years old until 5. He stood at height of 122cm, and I''m pretty sure he will either reach Non-canon Broly''s height which is 7''4". Actually, he reached that height with my future sight and saw that he indeed became that tall. Oops, he senses me even though I''m looking through space and time. Wow, I''m sure he trained very hard in sensing ki that he could sense space-time ki techniques, or he''s very attuned or compatible with space-time. Well, that''s all. Silver kept theorizing of creating a blade that never dulls or get nicked after training with Breath of the Beast. I think he was even theorizing while practicing as well, and that kind of thing needs high focus and splitting your mind into two. However, Silver can''t split his mind but it''s like his body like a machine but at the same time it was like a beast that relies on instinct and moves according to what he had practiced... This kid have no rightful enemy in his path except the person he will meet that wi become his rival through the wish granted by my wishing dragon. He saw through this! I can''t believe I didn''t see this coming without using any kind of future sight or eye techniques to see until now, and Silver probably knew it from the start of training... This kid is way terrifying... This kid might, no, he will outsmart the Braver, Finn Deimne. The world would soon shake in this kid''s brain and brawn. However, he has some things he''s not good at... He''s not good with women, but he got used to being hugged by Meteria that even if he is hugged by other women he wouldn''t complain, not because he liked it, but because he can''t control his strength. And because of that, he made a safety seal on himself so he wouldn''t accidentally hurt anyone, a safety limiter, but that is also can be considered as a curse. Chapter 8 - Sword & Magic II As a few months flew fast, his strength is terrifying for a kid without Falna. His strength still cannot rival a level 1 without relying on his breath style, so I will train him in my own version of ''Room of Spirit and Time'' to train him there for two years. Also, since he cannot level by normal means, his magic with a Roman numeral for 1 is now showing 2 after teaching him magic and him exhausting his Mana and letting himself fall close to Mind Down or Mind Zero. His Magic status was now level 2 in just 2 years. All of us, Zeus, Hera, Me, and Meteria, found out that his magic automatically raises its level on his own after reaching the maximum status that no one thought it was possible for any mortal beings, and that is reaching the SSS-Rank with the max value of 1,500. Of course, it levels up and resets like a normal level when the ability is leveled up and will be shown like this: -------------------------------- Silver Sterling Level 1? Strength: ? Endurance: ? Dexterity: ? Agility: ? Magic I¡úII: SSS-1,500¡úI-0 Blacksmith: H Mage: G Mana Regen: G Metalworking: H Mixing: H Mystery: H Perseverance: I Treatment: I ?Magic? £ÛNone£Ý ?Skills? £ÛPolymath£Ý £ÛJuno''s Love£Ý £ÛSpellcaster£Ý -------------------------------- Despite being weak, Silver trained his body through the old way of getting stronger... Training like your life depends on it, because it does. He will be in Orario when things would get chaotic around Bell and he doesn''t want to take the role of Bell because he doesn''t want to be a Hero nor would he want to be an Anti-Hero. He simply want to live as normal as he could which he knew it is futile with me here and being Bell''s uncle much to his annoyance because he''s still young but he''s already an uncle. Sword and Magic, his favorite combo. He''s a Magic Swordsman at this rate. And he also used a technique other Anime he watched before getting reincarnated here by me. Touki. No, not from DxD, but from Mushoku Tensei which is just an Enhancement through the use of Mana like Mana Skin from Black Clover, but not exactly weaker version nor the better version. The only difference is that Mana Skin is a Reinforcement Magic while Touki is just a Mana Manipulation as if trying to imitate Reinforcement Magic. Of course, Mana Skin is just a basic Reinforment Magic spell and there are even more advanced version of it, albeit they use more Mana. Since he tried it, I taught him how to better his control and how to raise the increase as well as use it on his swords as well in order for him to be able to send out sword slashes when breathing is not an option. He won''t use it often, I think? Aside from that, he wanted to join another Familia and be able to as an Adventurer. However, I have a better plan for that, and he will like it because it is indeed a good deal. That''s for another chapter though. -------------------------------- ? 3rd Person POV ? "Are you ready?" "For what?" He looked at Kane suspiciously, "Don''t Tell you''ve got something crazy in your mind, don''t you?" "Well, since you already got the hint, let''s go!" "OI! Can''t I have a say?" "Nope!" "Tch! Millennium-Age old man..." And so Kane dragged Silver in a room with just the two of them alone... . . . . . . . . . . "I don''t think it will fit..." you can hear the voice of Silver on the other side of the door. "Nah! It will fit, trust me." Kane reassured him. "That''s the problem! I don''t trust you! I tell you, it won''t fit at all!" Silver said witb slightly loud but calm voice. "Try it first." "*Sigh*... Alright, fine..." ? A few seconds later... ? "URGH! Too...tight..." it was Silver who said that... ? Inside the room ? Silver had a silver bangle on his neck that was a little too tight for his neck. In the end, Silver have to destroy it by ripping it off which made Kane pale because his creation was destroyed. "The bangle is way too small..." "I guess...I will make another one...to-" Kane did not continue any further. "To what? What was the purpose of that scrap?" Silver asked in monotone voice. "It''s not a scrap!! It''s used for 6-year old kids to raise their development abilities by a rank and speeds up the rise on their ranks." "..." "..." "I won''t need it because I''m pretty sure it''s useless..." Silver said and left Kane. Meanwhile, Kane decided to get revenge by training his rival instead. So, his plan of making Silver''s fated rival to get stronger so Silver would be defeated. He started searching right away that day. On the other hand, Silver was inside the library of their home outside Orario since he got his Blessing from Hera and other Adventurers would easily know if a person is normal or they had received a Blessing already, and they check which Familia they are into before they let them in if they didn''t arrive with their god or goddess. He started reading about magic, a versatile magic. Holy Magic, commonly known as Light Magic. It''s Holy because it possess the ability to drive out evil and exorcist evil spirits as well. They can also purify souls so they will enter the cycle of life and death through reincarnation. Right now, he''s learning a lot of things from short chant healing spell that heals huge amount of healing effect to more other types of Holy Magic such as the spell Exorcist and Purify, until to the most offensive ones like Excalibur spell that is technically the attack of Excalibur but weaker and doesn''t need a weapon. After learning a lot of them, with his eidetic memory, he could easily remember the descriptions and instructions on how to use the attacks. Branching out from Holy Magic, is none other than Sunshine Magic. Although it is a branch of Holy Magic, Sunshine Magic has more offensive in it''s arsenal and also grants the ability to store sunlight energy and the user gets stronger the higher the sun is in the sky and will become totally immune to all damage for a minute at noon. However, he doesn''t want to learn Sunshine Magic yet without knowing Holy Magic and its counterpart, Dark Magic. He''s gonna focus on these two magic along with mastering his Lightning Magic first so he could complete the Fire Emblem Magic Triangle which are composed of: Light, Dark, and Anima. Anima (Elemental) beats Light, Light beats Dark, and Dark beats Anima. That''s how they work. Even though there is a Lightning spell for Light Magic, its power is weaker than the element-attributed version of it instead of purely made of burning light but hits faster than the one with element. Of course, he''s still learning the basic spells first and master them to the point that it can rival an intermediate-level spell and he could cast it chantless. "More..." He trained and trained. He also cooked first before eating since Kane is still in somewhere unknown and Hera can only cook few dishes and they don''t have the ingredients in her recipes while Meteria doesn''t know as she was sticker in bed before and she never thought of trying to learn how to cook. After 3 months, Kane still didn''t came back. But within these months, Silver learned how to cook and became much better each day until his foods accidentally attracted a little girl from the nearby village who was clearly malnourished due to not being able to eat proper meals. Silver fed the girl each dayshe visited because Silver forced her too by rushing towards their house and told the poor family that they WILL eat with them like they were a family. And the Apricot family wants to pay all the goodwill they received from them so they started helping out in the house. However, there are too little of jobs to be done so they ended up starting a farm and they are different types of crops. Soon, Kane came back from finding the rival of Silver and train him a bit. He now knows which Familia the rival had joined into and his God''s familia was The which can pose a threat to any Adventurers 2 levels above themselves. However, he didn''t expect huge changes happened at Silver''s home in the span of 3 months which shocked him greatly. "Huh? What the fu?k?!" Chapter 9 - Secret I With Silver looking like an 9-year old kid with a height of 133.84cm, he didn''t look like he''s a 6 years old child and no one will believe that unless Silver told them so. 6 years old... That''s how old Silver is. His physique, though, is that of a 9-year old child with muscles with some fats on his body. He could also life boulders of his size and he''s more than enough to tend on the farm they started. Zeus also helped while Kane was busy making and thinking of blueprints for weapons and some magic items. Of course, Silver have some time into thinking of crafting some items and weapons as well. He also decided to create a magic item that will help the user to use magic without any chance of Ignis Fatuus and be able to use magic. "Program: auto-record spell after gaining understanding of how to use the spell. Program: the better the understanding of the user the better and stronger the effect of the said spell. Program: once lost or stolen, all spells will disappear and will enter Safe Mode and will not be usable until found by the user. Program: when given or lent to another person, the spells in this book will be available but only the spells the user can use. Program: this time will only store fire-based magic. Program: complete." Silver said after he''s done with the book. He tried to imitate a Null Magic, or known as Personal Magic, from a certain Isekai Anime where the Protagonist was fated to have more than 10 wives. Anyway, he copied some of it and tried to theorized on how they use their magic without need for Falna nor need for rituals to be able to use magic aside from them using gems that would help them use certain element of magic. "Done." He has a small smile on his face. Then, he proceeded to pick up a branch that came from year old tree that was so heavy that only those with levels could carry it with ease. It was not from the World Tree Yggdrasil since that''s a sacred tree so it''s not that tree. After all, it existed far older than a millennium. He then started to carve it instead of using magic on it because it''s a weapon, not a magic item. He considers this staff as a weapon, therefore, he wants to create this with little magic on it. After a long time, which is almost 30 minutes, he finished carving the staff. It''s a quarterstaff to be exact and it''s a 2.1 meter long staff. Then, he started adding some metals like mithril and Orichalcum as a think coating. The mithril is able to absorb magic while Orichalcum can easily fully defend from magic. However, since the Orichalcum that was used was thin, it could only shrug off a magic equal to that of a level 5 with S on magic status which makes it a strong metal against mages as an armor. With mithril in the mix, it will be able to reduce a Level 6''s magic at full power so the Orichalcum coating on it will be able to block such an attack. "Ruyi Jingu Bang... That''s what I was supposed to name you, but... But I''ll call you Eiga, which means Glory. Well, in the future, that is." Aside from weapons he created, he tried to study the cloth used by his Saiyan grandmother which was now in pieces and it''s hard to repair it with just normal cloth nor any kind of material here in this planet he was standing, or more likely to be another dimension. Since it was made of materials that is out of this world, he can''t repair this unless he can find new types of ore that highly reacts to magic. But the latter was easier, though. Just go and ask Kane for Magic Materialization so he can recreate the same fabric. He was successful, but it didn''t mean he could learn it easily since Magic Materialization is one of True Magics that uses Aether while its upgraded version is Divine Materialization which can materialize a being but it takes more energy to do it, but it''s worth it if he could learn them. BUT! He doesn''t really need Divine Materialization and he doubt he could use God Ki to be able to use it. At least, not yet, until he can find a way to get SSG transformation. Before he could continue any of his works, Kane came and spoke, "Kid, you''re going with me to Ouranos." "Hm? Did you make a deal with him?" He asked. "Yep!" Kane replied with a stupid grin, according to Silver. "And it''s about the Xenos, I get it." Silver said with certainty as if he saw the future or even predicted it. Even though Kane could easily wipe out Silver and his whole existence, he can''t match the kid''s intuition that even beaten a woman''s intuition. "Silver, if you were to fight a woman, what would you do?" Kane asked in curiosity of what would be his answer. "Naturally, I have 100 answers for that, but the 3 general thing I would do is: One, beat her up until she''s unconscious. Two, kill her if she''s evil and cannot go back nor go to the right path. Lastly, if she was an S, I will make sure she will turn into an M. That''s it." Silver said as if it was the natural thing to do. "I would pray for the women you will fight in the future then..." Silver noticed the sentenced Kane had said which made him think of many things why he said those words. "I''m gonna become a shadow, huh? That works for me as I don''t want to stand out too much yet. Especially, when there''s that witch queen on top of her castle, watching from afar." ? Under the Pantheon, Guild Main Building ? ?10:11 A.M.? "I see that you have brought the child. I have some questions to get answers from his own opinion." Ouranos said as his gaze was locked at Silver. "Fine," Kane raised his hands, "I''m just gonna stay right...here." Kane stood right next to a pillar on the side. Ouranos started his interrogation, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" A simple question, "Owner of a popular Bakery, Clothing shop, and an Adventurer." Ouranos raised an eyebrow and asked, "You want to manage three things at once?" "I will focus on business first before starting out as an Adventurer. Money is what keeps this city going." "Hm..." Ouranos continued to question, "You know that monsters are creatures from the dungeon." He got a nod and continued, "What would you do if suddenly those monsters became smart enough to talk and learn?" Silver answered truthfully, "Depends on the situation. If they cause troubles, I will slay them. But if they''re friendly, why not befriend them? No matter how stupid it sounds nor how foolish it was." "What would you do if people despised you for befriending a monster?" "Mortals are mortals, always scared of something unexplainable or something that is too much for a mortal''s commonsense. They will eventually accept the unknown as do Mystic Arts Practitioners does." "I see that you know the lost art from more than 5,000 years ago. I guess Kane managed to get those book translated." Ouranos said with his stoic face. "Even so, I''ve decided... Do you want to be a Hero? To help these intelligent creatures to coexist with humans?" Silver replied without hesitation, "Hero? No, I don''t think so. Helping? I have no problem with that as long as it doesn''t entirely goes against my morals. In short, yes." Ouranos nodded and was about to dismiss them when suddenly Kane spoke. "Here, take this." Kane threw a palm-sized ball at him. Ouranos caught it easily since it was thrown without much force. "That magic item, is used for communicating with us, its signall cannot be blocked by disruption or any kind of magic that blocks it. We also have our own. And, don''t bother try to tinker it, it will explode due to the safety program added on it if it ever was tinkered or opened forcefully, it will explode." "The creatures are called Xenos, at least that''s what we decided to name them." Ouranos added as the two left. Ouranos nodded as he stare at the retreating backs of one of the keys to peace between the Xenos and mortals.. He''s mainly looking at the back of the small child whose air was oozing wisdom and life experience as if he lived for more than 100 years to understand humanity. Chapter 10 - Secret II In a certain home from Northeast of Orario, there live the lost and soon to be forgotten legends. This is the home of both Zeus and Hera Familia who were now only few of them. Even though there are few of them, and they disbanded their Familia, one of them wants to be a Hero while the other wants to get revenge from a certain First-Class Adventurer. Those two where Bell Cranel who idolizes Heroes from his grandpa''s stories, and the latter was Silver Sterling who was doing his all to get stronger and get revenge for his Familia. Other than revenge, Silver wants to find Zard and Alfia as the two of them whose pride took the most blow upon defeat. Regrets of being defeated. In a room hidden under that home, was a passage towards a room that is completely white except for the desk, chairs, and a door that seemingly existed out of nowhere. Sitting at the chair behind the desk, was none other than Kane. On the other side, Silver was sitting on the chair that is directly facing Kane. "I don''t like this... My intuition tells me that you''re going to throw me somewhere in the guise of mission or something like that." Silver said while staring warily at Kane. Kane''s grin slowly became wider and wider until he decided to talk after grinning for 5 seconds and Silver throwing one of his pair of slippers at Kane''s stupid grin. Now, equipping a serious face and atmosphere, Kane started to talk. "I am here to help you get stronger while also fulfilling any missions I give you. Don''t worry, you''re not alone in the future, but not right now. I''ve decided to create a Dimensional Organization to protect the world''s I copied from Evil Gods and their envoys, but I''ll call them errand boys. They will try to change the plot, forcing the world to destroy itself, and then destroy more. The more negative feelings they get, the more energy they will get to entirely defeat me using that energy. Of course, I''ll be upping my training as well and get stronger while you go and jeopardise their plan so I can get stronger without any delay. Also, these Evil Gods thought they could just defeat me, but they haven''t even managed to break the barrier I placed so they can only send souls and reincarnate them in specific worlds." Kane explained and waited for Silver''s response. "... How many worlds are there in your domain?" "There are 16 of them, the 1st being this world and the 13th being a cruel world going by the title of ''Attack on Titan''." "Can you tell me all the world''s you''ve copied?" "Alright, here are the worlds: 1st world, DanMachi; 2nd World, Lyndbaum; 3rd World, 13th Fantasy; 4th World, Nasuverse; 5th World, Earthland; 6th World, Mushoku Tensei; 7th World, Elibe; 8th World, Demon Slayer; 9th World, Norn9; 10th World, Clover; 11th World, Akashic Records; 12th World, Isekai Smartphone; 13th World, Attack on Titan; 14th World, Useless Goddess; 15th World, Remnant; and the 16th World, Numbers. That''s all of them. And you''re lucky that-" before Kane could continue, Silver cut him off. "I''m lucky because ''Nasuverse'', ''Fairy Tail'', ''Black Clover'', and ''Akashic Records of the Bastard Magic Instructor'' are one of the worlds you have which mainly uses Magic, right?" "Right." Kane sipped a coffee that came out of nowhere, "Now, would you like to protect these worlds as their Guardian? It will be like me, a God, while you are an Archangel." Silver argued, "Nope, I''m pretty sure it will be a Nephilim instead." "Whatever! So, do you agree?" Kane raised his hand, waiting for a handshake for the deal to be sealed. "As long as I get to do what I want to do and everything will be done in my way." "Fine! Anything other than killing these invading pests, you can do what you like." "Anyway, I''ll train you inside a Time Chamber where you will train for two days inside while only an hour have passed outside since we can''t have them notice that you suddenly grew taller in an instant. You will train like this for a while year at which you''ll be physically 8 years old. Also, Ouranos wouldn''t risk you on going in the Dungeon so I''ll be the one working first until you turn 10, which is 2 years from now own." Kane said as he stood up and walked to the side. There, a door appeared. "Let''s start, shall we?" Kane asked as they started their training. Silver nodded and followed him to the door and closed it. From here, Silver got stronger every each day, twice faster since he spends two days inside while he can have some time to relax after training. However, the training was so heavy that he could feel his muscles twitching in pain even after he rested for more than 12 hours. While Silver was training his body, he would never forget to train his magic, of course. As a training, he would always use elements and also to further improve mana manipulation. He also decided to train in manipulating natural mana that could allow him to use the true nature of lightning at its full potential and power. Of course, all of these happened in two years of training. He also learned a lot of ki techniques that shouldn''t be used in this world or he might blow up the whole village in one blast so he could only master those technique in the Time Chamber. Since the Time Chamber doesn''t have increased gravity, his mastery over gravity magic became better and better by using it on himself. Of course, that chamber''s climate was harsher so his body adapted to the climate. From burning heat to freezing breeze, he managed to keep training without going unconscious, albeit he almost fell unconscious a few times before if not for him being able to adapt quicker despite being a quarter Saiyan. While training, he never received any mission in the meantime as it was just what Kane had predicted. Even though Kane could just blow them up, with those Evil Gods being close to his territory, he couldn''t or he would blow up the supposed to be backup version of worlds which are also a key to enter the Prime Earth, the world where every fictional world came from. It is where gods cannot enter but they can interfere as little as making a person get tempted to **** an unconscious woman he just saved. The reason why they want to enter Prime Earth was none other than the ability of that world to create another world. An example of Overpowered Worlds are ''Dragon Ball Super'' and ''Reincarnated as a Slime'' at which people debates which character is stronger, Goku or Rimuru? As such, when these kinds of worlds were created, they will be exactly what they are written as, and they could amass a huge and strong army to defeat the strongest factors and concepts of every world. They are: Dream, Reality, Fate, Creation, and Destruction. Dream would collect imagination of a person and compile it while also giving the said person a motivation to write more or make more. Reality would make dreams come true, making it real while not being true. How? The world is real, but it doesn''t exist as true in Prime Earth. Fate would guide the creator of a certain story to decide what their fate was based on what the creator wants for the ending will be, be it a sad ending, tragic, happy, and many more. Creation would create and solidify the world created by Reality to make it True in physical form. It will also create the characters and their characteristics. And Destruction would help in expanding the world, making it limitless by destroying the boundary, allowing different types of worlds to be created. These 5 are the strongest out of all concept, with elements just right below them. No matter how strong Light or Darkness is, it all ends up what the Fate decided, what the Reality realized, and how the Dream wants to shape it. These were what Silver learned by listening from Kane...and from reading his books. Soon, two years have passed, and Silver was now 10 years old. Of course, he''s also waiting patiently to find his rival. After all, what is the use of getting stronger if you don''t have a rival? He''s 6 years old 2 years ago, but by training in Time Chamber, which technically made him grow twice than the timeframe outside the Time Chamber, making him physically 10. At last, after two years have passed, he finally got a mission to do as he''s stronger now and rivals the strength of that a Level 3 have with S on all status from Level 1 to 3. As his first mission, he will make it successful no matter what. He''s now 8 years away from the canon and he knows that a year later, he would soon face his uncle and sister. Since Zard is old, he will now call him uncle. "Becareful on your journey!" Meteria said as she base them farewell. Silver didn''t spoke, but he raised both of his arms to the side, said a password, and clenched his fist.. On his forearms, two insignia seemingly appeared out of nowhere, and those two insignia where both Hera''s Emblem on his right hand and Zeus'' Emblem on his left hand. Chapter 11 - Eventful Journey I Traveling through the plains, black forest, rocky road, and I got hungry because that''s what they are called. We came from a village in the plains nearby a mountain''s foot, and now we''re traveling by a horse carriage since we don''t only carry weapons with us, but we also carry some magic items to sell on the way if there are any rich and spoiled young master who wants to show off to his crush so we can get more money from them. Or. Or just outright steal their wealth from their treasury due to me learning how to lower my presence, and add the Repetitive Action which brings out the potential of every moves or anything like sneaking or lowering one''s presence, I became literally invisible to other people if they can''t detect my near non-existent presence due to the effect of Repetitive Action. I can just outright steal their belongings right in front of them. But I will only do that to those who pisses me off, insulting my family, or they are toxic and are a pest that should be eradicated. After all, I didn''t earned my Degree for nothing. As we were on the way, we decided to stop on a village. The village was not much, but it has the atmosphere of a normal and happy village with a little bit of danger lurking around. Basically, a Starter Village like in some games. We walked inside an inn where we saw a girl around my age behind the counter, based on physical age rather than chronological nor mental age. Chronologically 8, Mentally 36, Physically 11, Appearance 12. "Mama! A shady man and a mean-looking boy came!" the girl screamed. We sweatdropped at her answer. I understand if it is Kane, but me? I''m not that mean, she just said ''mean-looking'' and that''s it. Do I really look like mean? "Pft! She said you looked mean! HAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed heartily. "Yeah yeah... Yours is much worst, being called a shady man. That makes you worst than I am, that also makes you look like you''re abducting kids." He coughed to the side, intentionally. "Erm..." a woman came in with an apologetic smile, "I''m sorry if my daughter made you two look bad. Anyway, welcome to Darc''s Inn!" "Well, hello there! Me and my apprentice came here to stay for a day as we were traveling towards Orario. And since we''re still quite far from Orario, we decided to take some stops on nearby villages to rest. Also, do you have stables for horses as well? We needed them to be well fed, after all, they''re my horses." Kane spoke in a friendly manner. "We do have stables for horses. So, how many days you want to stay? It''s 600 Valis for each night with 3 meals a day." the Inn Owner said with a smile. "Well, we''ll take it. Only one night, and then we''ll only needed 2 meals, one for tonight and the other is for tomorrow in the morning as we will leave that early." "Oh? Is that so?" Kane nodded at her and she game them the keys to our room. He gave her a thousand Valis and told her to keep the change. We split up since he wants to check out the west part of the village, which seemed like it is the side where wealthy people lives, while the east side of the village was the slums. Well, I expected it, but why would there be a slums in a village? That''s a good question! They don''t have a church because almost all gods have descended and they don''t really need to pray to them as they can''t do anything while they are in Lower World or what they call as Gekai. Walking through the poor side of the village, my eyes saw something that is a quite rare scene, or maybe not. A rich kid was bringing lots of things to a girl who seems to be annoyed at him and save seems to not like those gifts. Well, it''s time to sell my wares. "Excuse me." I said, but he didn''t seem to hear me. "Um... Excuse me!" "What?!" He looked at me as if I was a pest. "Would you like to take a look at my wares?" I asked, pointing at the bag I am carrying. He just raised his eyebrow. Doesn''t he know of merchants? He''s probably a spoiled brat and he doesn''t even knew of merchants. "I''m a merchant." I said. "What''s that? Some kind of higher person living in a slums?" As I expected, he doesn''t know what a merchant is. "Pft! Hahahahahaha!" Oh yeah, other kids are also here as well. The kids seems to be friends with the cute girl at which they also knew of merchants while the spoiled brat doesn''t. "Oi! What''s funny?!" he asked in a very rude way. "It''s common knowledge to know about merchants." said one of the kids with a smug face because it made the rich boy go embarrassed. The kids laughed even more. But the rich kid talked to me. "Hey, you!" I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "Show me what you call as ''wares'', right now!" As a merchant, even though it''s not needed, I mastered the art of poker. You will not be able to read me using my body movements or able to see any facial expressions in me because I managed and mastered the said art. I showed him lots of things, from weapons, magical items, and even earrings that grants protection to some degree. He chose a necklace with red gem and gold frame to hold the ruby, and golden lace. It looks expensive, but it was only 3,000 Valis. It is one of the mistakes I made, but it doesn''t mean they are defective. "That, sir, is a necklace that raises one''s luck and fortune." which also does the opposite when the person who wears it is a bad person. "I''ll buy this! How much?!" "It''s actually free! You can have it, sire!" I said as I placed the necklace back in its box. "Really? Then, I''ll take it!" he said as he reached for the box in my hand. Meanwhile, I''ve been stealing all and anything valuable in his person while I''m giving him the box. Then, he also checked the necklace if it is there. He''s quite smart, but not perceptive as I stole his belongings while he was busy looking at the necklace. I left after he finished checked it. It was quite satisfying to see how he reacted when I suddenly disappeared, including the other kids as well. Only one of them paid attention, and it''s the girl. She tried to follow me. Yare yare~ "Ah! I lost him, darn it!" Well, no need to thank me ''cause I ain''t gonna come near you or the troublesome rich kid will approach me through misunderstanding. Then, walked around more and sold some more of my wares. All in all, I earned at least 10,000 Valis, excluding the money from that rich kid. The Rick kid have exactly 36,169 Valis. Well, those numbers seems ??wd. This might be a sign that, that rich kid would turn into a rapist who buys women for self-pleasure if I didn''t have him that necklace. I''m pretty sure the girl would not want it and reject the gift. "Are there any problems with my wares?" He asked them as if he was an idiot, but I knew better than that. "There''s no problem with them. The qualities are that of Orario''s." said the man who was outside the encirclement as he seems to be the boss. "Then, why not buy it?" He asked with a smile. "Why should I buy it when I can just get it from you?" he said as he gritted his teeth and said, "Get him and all of his wares!" Yare yare~~ now I know why big time merchants have minions working under them. Some are unorthodox, and we are one of them. He calls himself the Merchant Warrior while I call myself as a Craftknight. Yes, I was a fan of that game, but it''s absolutely one of the things that is a good choice as a job in a world like this. The only problem is, a Craftknight masters the weapon they forged. They don''t fully sell all the things they get. They also don''t rely on Falna as they trained their body. Their promises are stronger than any metal on this world. Their determination are tougher any metal. They also have summon beast to help them forge weapons. But I don''t have one yet. Anyway, time for some action. I came running to the side of Kane as if not knowing what is happening, and of course, acting like I don''t know what is happening. "Hey, Kane! Why are you being surrounded?" I asked. And no, we don''t use honorifics to each other. "Um, kiddo. I''m kinda in a pinch here! Can you lend a hand? Or should I ask, can you lend your fists?" Kane asked with a smirk. I shrugged and just said, "Troublesome... But I''m gonna fight anyway." I raised my fists with a boxing stance, Kane took Muay Thai stance, and the side characters called ''thugs'' and a mini-boss called ''Rich Villager'' all took out weapons. Most of them holds a knife, and some just their fist with the mini-boss holding a sword. First of all, they are clearly inexperienced in holding knives, but the boss does seem to have small amount of experience in swordfighting. A dozen of them uses a knife, 4 of them unarmed but they seem to pack a punch, and the mini-boss using a sword. 17 in total. Four thugs with knives came to us at once. I took care of the other two while I took the other two. A dashed forward and one of them tried to slice me up, but I only weaved to the right, out of the way of the knife and landed a left deadly body blow which almost push all oxygen out of his body if not for me holding it back. Without stopping, flowing like a water, I sent the other upwards when I appeared in front of him right before he could even react with a gazzle punch. Gazzle punch is a good way to send them flying upwards. Well, it doesn''t mean it''s my favorite attack. 4 down, 13 to go. "What are you idiots looking at? Attack them!" the mini-boss spoke to his minions. But at least, one thug was smart enough, "With that kind of strength? I''m outta here!" I salute you. You saved yourself from a 6-month long recuperating time in your bed. Well, 12 to go. All the remaining dozen attacked us, and I don''t need to explain how Kane fought, he''s already experienced so it''s hard to explain. 7 for me, 4 for Kane. Wow, this is child abuse. I first dealt with the first 5 who uses knives. They encircled me first before one of them tried to stab me. Slipped in landed a jab on his face, though it seems like what I did was a slight uppercut as I am not that tall. 6 down, 10 to go. Then, another one tried to stab me from behind, but I dodged by using the thug that I punched and jumped over the unconscious body as the knife that was intended to stab me was stabbed into the man I just sent to sleep. "D-damn you! You killed my brother!" "..." Stupid. Are really random villains with a sibling ends up killing their own and then blame the kill to the protagonist who didn''t even do anything? Well, it''s certainly like Saitama vs. the Giant and the Scientist, but the scientist was useless aside from being all brains than brawn. "You could''ve stopped your attack, you know." I told him. "You''ve already killed him with that punch!" "Yare yare... He only fell unconscious at that punch..." I paused a little before asking, "You''re an airhead, are you?" He got angry and tried to stab me. Keyword, tried. They would never be able to hit me with their low street-level mastery of knives. I dodged, but I didn''t took off my attention to others who tried to stabbed me from behind, and two who tried to squash my face using each of their fist. One way to get out of this? It''s nothing fancy other than pulling then to each other, and they all bu??ed heads with their own allies. 12 down, 4 to go. The other two remaining who are facing me tried to run away. So, I threw rocks at their heads and knocked them down. And Kane took the last one, leaving only the boss. Ehem, correction, mini-boss. 15 down, 1 to go, the other ran away smartly. Kane initiated the talk, "So, give up now?" "No! NEVER!" He rushed forward at Kane while screaming, "HIYAAAAAAH!" A vertical slash coming at Kane. Seeing as Kane didn''t move, he thought he got him. Well, there are some people who are too stupid. Kane caught the blade as if he was playing rock-paper-scissors and used scissors to catch the blade. And like a scissor, he cut the blade in half with his fingers. He turned tail and ran away. "I''ll come back and get my revenge! My familia will not let you go!" And there you go, classic mini-boss who keeps interfering the protagonist''s journey but is still alive until the final boss. I just knew it, and they mostly end up like this. "Coward!" Kane yelled at the escaping bollock. And then, we headed back in the inn and ate our meals. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver''s favorite color is midnight blue which he usually have on one of his clothes; a midnight blue trench coat over a black long-sleeved shirt, brown pants, and dark gray boots. Chapter 12 - Eventful Journey II After we ate our meals, we entered back to our room and talked first because Kane seems to want to say something to me, and I feel it''s not something bad. "So. Spill the beans." I said. "Woah, woah! I''m not hiding any secrets from you... Well, maybe a thing or two, but it doesn''t matter. Also, I am gonna give you permission to go to other worlds on your own using this pendant." He said and showed me a pendant with rainbow colored gem. "What''s the catch?" I asked because he can''t be that generous to me, he never really gave anything for free. "You can only enter 3 worlds back and forth or between those worlds. I''m going to tell you in advance, when you''re in another world, the time here stops. But!" I cut him off and spoke, "But it also means that I''ll owe you favors, right? Three to be exact." "Yep! Perceptive as ever. Anyway, aside from 3 favors, I want you to entertain me because I will be monitoring you through this pendant." I sighed at what he said. Entertain? I don''t even know how to do that, nor am I even a clown. He can monitor me using this pendant, and an item that should be sealed in a box when inside a bedroom or in bathroom. I''ll make one of those as I''m pretty sure he only use basic enchantment on it. "Fine. Which world are the ones available?" I asked. "The ones you want to choose." I raised an eyebrow at that and then started thinking about which worlds should I choose that will benefit me more? "You can also choose which timeline you want, even the alternate timeline. Basically, you can enter on different timelines, but you can''t meet yourself or it will cause a paradox, so I suggest you should enter when the past you left the world. Also, I''m gonna tell you that secret I mentioned earlier if you ever chose ''that'' which I won''t tell you which." I only nodded at him. I can learn more about the First Magic if I enter at the ancient times where Magic lies, not Magecraft, and learn more about Magic and deepen my understanding of it, I might be able to get closer to the Root, but that also means risking my life. So, Nasuverse is on my list. Next world, I need a world where there is a way to protect oneself while also obtaining a power or two. And that kinda sounds like RWBY if you ask me. Weapons, check. Aura that could protect you and prevent you from getting scars unless your Aura is broken or depleted, check. Semblance that is very compatible to the sould of the said person, check. Now, I wonder what kind of semblance will I have? It doesn''t matter right now, and RWBY is on the list. I kinda want to learn more breathing style, so Demon Slayer is on the list. Other than that reason, I want to teach Bell a breathing style, and then seal his memories that slowly weakens whenever he''s in danger or in a pinch. The amount of memories unlocked will be based on how fire his situation is. "Okay, I''ve decided." "Okay, which world are they?" "Nasuverse, Demon Slayer, and RWBY." "Wow, you chose RWBY, huh?" "Well, you''re a disgrace to gods who didn''t even tried to get God Eater world, which I would have chosen but it wasn''t available." "..." "Don''t look at me like that. Meeting adjourned." I said and left the room. "Wait a minute!" My steps halted. "You know, I think you and Shiki would be a great couple." Fortunately, I have a knife hidden in my blue jacket and pulled it out from its sheath. "Yep, you two will be great husband and wife!" He added with a stupid smile. I waved my knife at him and sent a sword slash that shined slightly as if what I used was a sword and swing so fast that you can only see the light getting reflected from the blade. He didn''t move because he knew I only sliced the fly that was kinda annoying me because I can hear it flying. And then, I left without any word. ? 3rd Person POV ? Back in the room, Kane only sighed at the kid who was smarter than how he looks and shows to all people, he almost thought he''s still doesn''t know about a thing or two but it always ends up in Silver showing his intellect. "That kid... Hm... Should I make a clan of which Silver is the sole surviving member after being massacred by an unknown person. But that person from Kokutou family. Hehehehehe, matchmaking master is here." Kane laughed sinisterly... "Oi! I''m not that creepy, am I?" You sure are. Also, you seem like a pedophile. "What?!" Just shut up and don''t break the 4th wall! Meanwhile... Silver looked around the village once again and decided to let his feet go wherever it would take him. Taking a turn, he saw some adolescents bullying a weak and small boy that seems to be 10 years old. He walked near them, presence erased, and his steps being as silent as he could which were being covered by strong sounds of flesh hitting flesh. "...Sleep." he whispered when he finally arrived in their vicinity. All kids in there fell asleep as he already have mastered the basic sleeping spell. Of course, he broke some few bones of them that will never be healed. They can only use it on small task such as writing, walking and the like, but if they go running or tried to carry heavy objects, they will feel pain. With some Mind Magic, that what they used to call it, he erased their memories of bullying a kid nor will they remember being knocked out if they even remember that. Then, add some traumatic memories that will make them see it on their sleep, making them traumatized and not sleep. Silver is a person who will punish a person according to what they do, however, if he found out that there''s more that they did, he will not hesitate giving them a live concert ticket to hell. As they live, they will feel hell upon them. These bunch of 12 to 14 years old kids, r?p?d a 10-year old girl who was later found dead. Now, everytime they sleep, they will be the ones that are r?p?d. Then, he healed the sleeping boy and true to read his memories so he could just drop him off to his home. He touch his head and read his mind. After a few seconds later, he was stunned, but his face was still the stoic face carved into a wall. This ''boy'' was a ''she'' not ''he'' as he saw her memories when she was hiding her ''growing'' ?ssets and was acting like a boy because her father wants a boy but she is a ''girl'' and her mother was forced to do the deed day and night. But... ''He tried to ?mpr??n?t? her in order to get a son, but was not deserving to have one, thus his futile attempts never became fruitful which resorted into him sleeping with other women instead. That also caused her mother to get depressed which further made her father to sleep with other women more because of stress, making her ugly. I can see that the mother loved her husband, but a child witnessing these at an early age, will make them rebellious than normal. But...'' He picked her up in a piggyback because giving a princess carry or bridal carry would be inappropriate and might cause misunderstanding since she was wearing a boy''s clothes and acting like a boy in order to help her mother. ''But this ball of sunshine managed to convinced her mother to go to another village and leave that man. Good choice. Then, they found this village and managed to get a house given by a wicked mayor. Then, there is a rule here that all married women can only work on their houses while young women can do nothing but get married. So, she dressed herself like a boy in order to be able to work. What a sad story.'' After reaching the house, Silver knocked on the door. The door slowly opened and a woman who seems to be slightly stressed can be seen, despite that, she still have some beauty under those stress. Some people just don''t look properly. "Excuse me, ma''am. Is ''he'' perhaps your ''son''?" He asked while also dropping hints using his tone. The woman let him enter and took her ''son'' to ''his'' bedroom. Meanwhile, Silver was looking around and looking at the house. It seems like this house was that of a rich person''s house and a person like her wouldn''t be able to pay it even in a decade. ''The mayor saw her beauty, huh? Then gave her a house she could never afford to pay and will pressure her into paying. When she''s desperate enough, he knew she would do anything and would agree into marrying him. What a bastard.'' He left quitely but left a letter and lots of gold nuggets that he normally uses for crafting items because they have many uses and is one of the metals with high conductivity. Also, it''s not a big deal for him to give these gold nuggets to them because, compared to his gold ingots that he have, those nuggets would not even the value. After leaving, he immediately escaped from the vicinity as if he committed a crime, but the reason why he did it is because they look like the people he knew in the past which would not help him in the present, which is right now. Time flew very fast, it is already nighttime. Silver and Kane are meals together. "Hey, Silver." Kane called out. "..." But he didn''t seem to hear even though he continues to eat which is kinda unbelievable for someone who was deep in thinking. "Oi, Silver!" Kane flicked his head to bring him to reality. "!!?" Silver was about to retaliate but stopped along with thinking deeply. "What?" He asked as if nothing happened. "I want to tell you something, but that''s for later. Right now, you seem to be thinking about something." "Well, I saw someone familiar. She looked like my friend in my past life. And both of their financial status are the same¡ªpoor broken family¡ªand will probably end in a tragic end. I''ve never had the chance to help her due to prioritizing school, but I decided to help now since I already have too much and sharing excess things is not a problem." "..." Kane only let out a small smile. ? On their room ? "And so I''ve decided, that you can either chose to enter a certain world that will have the same time ratio as the other 3 worlds and you can also stop the time from other worlds aside from the world you are in. Remember, once you are in your main world, DanMachi, you can chose which timeline to go in other worlds but you can only come back at the same time you left your main world." "Meaning, I can''t time travel in my own world but I can in other world?" "Yes. Because everytime you enter another world, you are protected with high level protection from entities like Alaya and the like. And since this device right here considered this world as ''home world'', you can''t time travel here as the protection bestowed on you also allows you to time travel as well, and it disappears when you''re back ''home''." "I understand." The next day, Silver did his usual routine of running for over 20 kilometers, did a hundred-thousand of push-ups on each arm, did a hundred-thousand squats with each leg, and did parkour, agility, and dexterity running on the forest nearby. He did all this in just 3 hours. After doing exercises, they ate 7 in the morning, which is early, they set out a few minutes after eating so they can prepare their things and depart from this village. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver, in his past life, loves to play Summon Night Series games and was very interested in Summon Arts and might try if he can use it. Chapter 13 - Eventful Journey III The next day, Silver and Kan elect early along with the other merchants who tried to hire some men to protect them on the way since humans without Falna can still fight monsters from 1st to 3rd floor with numbers around more than a dozen. Unfortunately, the men who joined them to earn money saw both Silver and Kane and we''re now scared and backed out. "Wh-what?! I though we have a deal?" One of the merchant asked. "Yes, we have. But with those two with you, we won''t!" said one of the men who seem to be the boss of the group. "Why? We paid you guys!" Then, a bag full of golds were thrown back at them. "Our boss was beaten up because of them! I was surprised as to how they can still walk out of this village even though they committed a murder!" The merchant looked at Silver and Kane and asked, "Is that true?!" Kane spoke nonchalantly with a smile as of he was innocent, "About beating up their boss, no. That coward ran away before we could even beat the crap put of him. And about the murder, we didn''t do it. It''s one of their men who tried to stab this kid here," he pointed at Silver who wore an innocent expression, "but he dodged out of the way and the said man still continued to ?ssault him even after stabbing his own brethren." One of the things yelled, "You''re lying!" Kane replied, "Nah, I''m not lying." then, he pulled out a device. "This magic item right here can detect lies." The thug asked, "How can you be sure about that?" "Let''s see... I''m going to say truth and a lie about one thing." Kane said and placed the Lie Detector on the ground. "Ehem! I never forces my customers to buy my wares." " . . . " They were all silent and so does the Lie Detector. Kane spoke again, "I forced them to buy my wares." *BEEP!* "See?" One of the thug was slightly smart, "I won''t believe it. For all we know, you can activate that using magic!" But sadly for them, one of the merchants spoke. "Erm... I may be a merchant, but I am part of a Familia and I am a mage with Mage Development Ability. I can sense if he used magic or not. And in this case, he didn''t." "Then, he might have something to activate it!" the goon didn''t gave up. As if the heavens wants to prove their innocence, there is a fight nearby. "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE!" yelled the woman who threw clothes outside of her house. "HEY! WHY ARE YOU SUDDENLY THROWING MY CLOTHES OUTSIDE? DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG?" the man asked, or in this case, the husband. "YOU! You are sleeping with other women while I am busy at home!" yelled the wife. *-_-* "NO! I AM NOT!" the husband denied. *BEEP!* "What the fu?k was that?!" the husband looked at the box on the ground. "A trash." Kane said. "I mean, a lie detector magic item." *-_-* The wife raised an eyebrow and then thought of something, "If you''re not sleeping with other women, then whose panty is this?" She showed a panty... Which made other men in the vicinity to act like a saint and look away. "Really?" Silver sighed... The husband retorted, "IT''S YOURS, OF COURSE!" *BEEP!* "See? It works!" Kane said with a smug smile. The husband looked at him, "What do you mean it works? This trash can only do noises that irritates me much!" Kane let out a sly smile, "This, sir, is my invention. This is Lie Detector 3000! Say a lie, and it will set off! No, not a bomb, but it will set off." "L-lie detector?!" "Yep!" Kane nodded. The wife chimed in, "Now, husband of mine! Tell me which woman owns this?" "I-i-it''s-" he sighed before saying, "It''s from my ex." *-_-* *Slience* Kane spoke first, "Okay... So, is it a man or a woman?" Kane asked with a grin. And that grin made the husband broke in sweat. "Come on! I know you''re going to say it''s a woman! You''re a man right? You''re not scared, are you?" The husband yelled, "It''s a woman!" *BEEP!* *Silence* *Crickets* *Gasp!* After 3 seconds... "HAHAHAHAHAHA! Whoo! It''s been years since I laughed." "What?" the woman was confused, because her husband just confessed that the panty was from his ex. Kane spoke, "Your man fancies another man before you even met him. That''s what it is." Then, Kane quickly told the merchants, "Let''s go now, before the volcano starts erupting." "Man, that was bizarre..." Silver mumbled while looking back at the village with his stoic face and then closed his eyes. "It sure is." Kane replied with a smile. "Do you think we''ll have adventures like the Joestar family?" "Maybe. But I don''t want to do those poses. Only few that I can do pose that doesn''t embarrass me. And own of those was the badass point finger of Jotaro." Silver said in monotone voice. "I agree. I guess, you should replace that leather jacket of yours into a trench coat." Kane said with a small smile. "..." Silver opened his right eye and stared at Kane from the corner of his eye, then closed it again. Silver fell asleep. ''Wake up!'' ... ''Wake up!'' Silver opened his eyes and saw a platinum dragon, a demonic dragon, and a human. Silver readied himself and reached out for his knife, only to get shocked that his knife wasn''t even there. He turned tense, but his face is as hard as stone and colder than absolute zero temperature. The human spoke first, "Wait! We''re not enemies! We''re simply here to tell you that you are between life and death right now." "Life and death? Limbo, I ?ssume." Silver responded, but didn''t let his guard down. The dragon spoke next, "I see, you are still wary of us. Let me introduce myself." It paused a little before saying, "I am Bahamut." "Bahamut? Which Bahamut? I''m just asking to confirm my suspicion." "Well, Bahamut from what that man called as Final Fan-something." The dragon added, "And he said he fused me with other 2 dragons like me. He said: the King, the Primal, and the Astral." "Hm... Is that so?" Then, the demon finally spoke, "I am called Laplace, known as Demon God Laplace or Magic Dragon King Laplace." "And I guess that''s the reason why I have huge reserves of Mana and it continues to grow each time I empty my reserves which either results in Mind Zero or Mana Exhaustion." The human soul spoke again, "Anyway, we''re digressing to what we need to discuss, but I''m Od von Arin. As I said, you are between life and death." "Did something happened while I was sleeping?" The human replied, "Unfortunately, yes. You and your friend were attacked by an unknown entity. That entity was targeting you, however, we are here to help you to survive this." "Is there a side-effect if you ever tried to help me?" "Yes. That side effect would be losing almost all of your emotions, leaving you only a little portion of each emotions. Though, negative emotions such as anger and hatred never disappeared, making them almost your dominant emotion aside from one positive emotion that managed to resist. It''s love." "I won''t say no to keep living." Od smiled and said, "You''re a real Adventurer." Then, he added. "We will also watch you from your soulscape, and hoping that you can enter this place without trying to die so we can tell you what you must hear." Silver nodded and smiled at them. "See you later. Even if it will take some years." -------------------------------- "Wake up!" On a road somewhere northeast of the famous Orario, a man can be seen trying to wake up a child to see if he could survive a lethal attack without the need of a revival spell or a healing spell. This person was none other than Kane. The kid he was trying to wake up was the body of Silver which has a hole that could fit 3 fingers through his stomach. The attack was lethal, yes. But the kid was from a race that could survive such attack, and also because the kid has hidden power sealed inside him that he won''t be able to use, unless he found a way to access it without Kane''s help. "Wake up!" Soon, the wound on Silver''s stomach visibly healed and can be considered a weaker version regeneration of a demon, but enough to keep one alive. As the wound closes, the child''s eyes opened and tried to refocus due to the light hitting his face. "What happened?" Silver asked as he tried to sit up, only to feel pain in his stomach that was healing slowly. "You were attacked by an unknown entity. I think, one of those evil gods plotted on killing you by sending a soul at an earlier time and then gave that person an item which can hide from the gods. Though I am stronger than them, I only noticed it when the attacker appeared using a teleportation magic." Kane said as he finally gave Silver a Pain Killer Potion to drink. "Is that so? Are we near Orario? Urgh... My eyes hurts." "We are near now. Just-" Kane looked at Silver was now sleeping, "...sleep..." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mystic Eyes, huh?" -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver hates chokers or any kind of accessory that wraps around his neck except scarf and headphones if there are. Chapter 14 - Welcome to [Soulscape] There are three souls in a soulscape, taking a good look at the landscape. They were the souls from another world, and their power are out of this world. Bahamut, Laplace, and Od von Arin were taking their time in this soulscape, but it also serves as another way to escape reality. As they were waiting, one of them got bored and decided to take a nap. Laplace was its name, a dragon who specializes in magic and is considered a demon entity due to how powerful his magic is. One of them, decided to fly in the sky and landed on a high mountainous area and took a rest in there. It cannot be mistaken, the platinum scales it has proves his existence, Bahamut. One waited patiently under the shade of a tree, looking at a kingdom in the far distance that is only a memory of a soul that lived since the Age of Gods until he met the King, Od von Arin. The demon dragon once said, "The only thing that you can fear, is yourself. Then, become one with that fear and become stronger." The king of the dragons once said, "After you gather enough knowledge and wisdom, is only then you can become better and stronger." The ancient soul once said, "Beware of fate, once provoked, it will turn your life upside-down. But those who thrived to change theirs, wins in a battle of trickery." After sent out the soul, their host, back to his body and revived him, they started going to where they are now. But only after a moment later, a light appeared and dimmed until it revealed a human. Laplace, who was taking a nap, woke up upon arrival of a person and said sarcastically, "Well, that didn''t take too long." "Well, I''ve expected this to happen. Anyway, what do you want to know?" Silver spoke, "The big mystery is how you guys are in me." Od smiled and said, "Aside from him placing us into you to help you when you needed it, we are also connected to you in some way." "Please, explain." "Before that, I want to say this: Welcome to Soulscape! Which also serves as your, our, reality marble if you managed to use it. Sadly, you can''t project us outside using reality marble as of you are now, much less your reality marble itself." "My reality marble..." Silver looked at Od, who similarly looked like him. "You are thinking why I similarly looked like you. Here, let me tell you: I am residing within you your whole life before reincarnating in this world where there is a city and a tower that was used as a lid of the dungeon." "Linked Souls?" "Yes. We are Linked Souls, souls that are compatible and are chosen. I will tell you bits of information: born in the age of the gods, a member of the Argonauts, a loyal knight of the King, and the other half." "When you said ''King'', it oddly sounds familiar the way you pronounced it." Silver squinted his eyes at Od. "Whatever you say." Od only smiled. Now that Silver took a good look at Od, he looked like he was around in his mid-20s, clean of facial hair, wears a blindfold, all clothes are darker shades of blue, and holding a spear made of metals unknown for Silver. The spear''s side of of the blade, there are many times he doesn''t recognized, but he felt familiar with those. Now only the side of the blade had runes, but also the handle. Od noticed his stare at his spear, "You probably know the spear, but doesn''t know how it exactly looked like. This spear here, is Declaration of the Great God Gungnir." "!?" "Well, this weapon wasn''t a Noble Phantasm when it broke Gram, and Archer Emiya said that Gae Bolg: Striking Death Flight exceeded the original Gungnir. It was now Noble Phantasm, making it stronger than before, and much more stronger after it was now enchanted with runes and got repaired after the second clash with newly repaired and upgraded Gram." Silver didn''t say anything. "And now, it only existed here in mindscape. But..." "But I can recreate it in this world, isn''t it?" "Yes. This world has all the necessary materials for Gungnir, and with the Blacksmith ability thingy, you can add a strong effect on it. Adding a Durandal property on it will make it unbreakable by brute force equal to a Anti-Fortress, Anti-Divine, Anti-Crown, and Anti-World types." Silver continued, "And if I were to engrave runes like those in there, it will turn into a weapon that can never break, can never get dull, can never destroyed by any means, can kill divine beings, have chance against Grand Servants, and can easily break fortified structures." "Right! Though, this weapon might be too much in this world, you''re simply too weak to wield it much less even craft it. It might take years to do so, but I know you won''t stop growing stronger." "I will. Any advice?" "There''s no need for advice, is there?" "Nope, not really. No." "Well, good luck!" -------------------------------- Silver opened his eyes and met a familiar ceiling. Saying that he doesn''t recognize this ceiling will be a lie. He slowly sat up as he know that he''s injured thanks to his mysterious helper in hi soulscape who wields a spear but doesn''t seem like Odin as he suspected, but was close enough. A wet towel fell down from his forehead as he sat up from his bed. He also noticed that his clothes were changed. Suddenly, a strong headache hit him which forced him to close his eyes. "Urgh..." monotone grunt was heard made by himself. Upon opening his eyes, his vision was flooded with thin red thread-like lines on some items. He looked at the chair nearby and saw it normally, until lines appeared when he thought of breaking it. The lines disappeared once he calmed himself down. He looked around to try and see if he can find a mirror, and he did found one on top of a drawer nearby the bed. He looked at himself and saw his eyes glow in rainbow color. *Click!* The door opened and Kane entered the room. He was holding what seems to be a dog collar, and instead of a bell, it has an orb with a rune instead. "Ah! You''re awake, I see." Silver noticed it, and he doesn''t like what he was holding nor his intentions. "No! I won''t wear that!" Silver''s voice raised, but his voice doesn''t seem to contain emotion, just plain shouting. "Aw, come on! Wear this! Don''t tell me, you prefer blindfolded?" "Of course." "Urgh...*sigh* Fine!" Kane left the room and then came back with a black cloth as a blindfold. "Here." Silver took it and covered his eyes with it. He can''t see, yes. But he tried to sense the natural mana in the air, which is harder to sense, and used it to project the surroundings in his mind, allowing him to see what was impossible when blindfolded using a plain cloth with no special effects. Then, Silver tried to use that natural mana to light up a fire on his palm. Instead of a normal flame, it was a crimson flame with shades of yellow and orange as well as darker shade of red. The fire was hotter than before even though he used the same amount he does with his own mana. Then, he put out the fire and tried to stand up, only to feel his stomach hurt which resulted in his legs turning jelly but was able to reduced the pain he felt by using shallow breath to reinforced his injured parts and also on his legs so he can stand up properly. "Your clothes are on the wardrobe over there." Kane said before he left the room. -------------------------------- Walking around Orario, he heard a familiar sound. When he got a good look... "What the fu?k?" It was a railway train car that was coming and stopped. It''s not big nor that fast, but it is fast enough to travel around Orario at a faster rate than walking or using carriages. Its disadvantage is that it is not connected to any nearby city or village as the train cars are small at the size of a bus, and was slow so any monsters like Loup Garou that are very fast would easily be able to attack people who are riding on it unless it is a bullet train and could carry more people. He shook his head and walked around more until he mumbled upon the Pantheon, the main building of Adventurer''s Guild. As he have no any business in this place, he turned around. "HELP! THIEF!" A cliche scene happened and a very fast thief ran very fast. A green blur followed. And as there is nothing for him to do, he decided to help. Utilizing the Flash Step technique and concentrating much oxygen on his legs, he dashed forward and disappeared. He appeared in front of the thief and took him down easily by using his own force and slammed him down. The thief was knocked out in an instant. He quickly left and disappeared in thin air. "So fast!" the green blur was now clear, revealing an elf with a golden hair. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver''s Alignment is True Neutral. If Silver wants to destroy something, he will destroy something unless he was convinced to not destroy something, like the moon. He doesn''t care if he is accused as he would rather prove his innocence by action, not by words, or he might just outright ignore it until the truth gets revealed but he will never forget those who doubted him or didn''t believe him. He doesn''t care about rules that restricts his freedom and will oppose anyone who messes with his family regardless of what they want: for justice, to wreak havoc, or revenge.. He helps if he could, especially when there''s something bad happens in front of him with an exception that he won''t help if civilians are not hurt or affected. Chapter 15 - Orario Looking around Orario having a railway train car made Silver dumbfounded as there is no way a medieval type of world has trains like these. Unless Kane interfered in the timeline by using his ''godly'' powers that was never witnessed by Silver. He didn''t care, anyway. But it does give him flashbacks back when he was playing the Summon Night Series, and Orario slightly resembles Savorle City in Summon Night 5. The only difference is, Savorle is a place where Lyndbaum and other 4 worlds are meeting and shared the land while Orario doesn''t care about monsters and just want them to be killed or used in Monsterphilia for entertainment. Former being in modern era theme while the latter was still in medieval era since there are no creatures called Mechanical Soldiers from a world called Loreilal. "Feels like I''m playing Summon Night 5..." He muttered. As he walks by, he saw the Guild and entered the place. Due to him sneaking slot and hunting animals while he has yet to get a mission from Ouranos nor Kane, he busied himself in the art of hunting. He failed many times but managed to get a good grasp of it after just a few days until he can sneak up on the most s?ns?t?v? animals than are hard to catch and can easily outrun people, but not Silver with his sneaking even when he''s holding back. No one noticed him except a Prum, a High Elf, a Dwarf, and a Boaz in the vicinity. Luckily, he''s good at controlling his emotions now than before after his emotions got suppressed after the incident earlier. Before, he''s easier to piss off after insulting him for 2 hours or pestering him at the same timeframe. But now, he could easily suppress his anger and managed to not leak out bloodlust and killing intent after he met the eyes of the one who is also the cause of the death of his mother. He quickly looked to where people were looking at. Aiz Wallenstein became level 2 within a year, becoming the fastest to level up. But the future is uncertain, but Silver is certain that without even a cheat like Liaris Freese or a bloodline of a Saiyan, he''s sure that he could level up in just 10 months with just honing himself in Ki Control and train with Ki, but also have time for forging and lazing around enough to not neglect the body. Aiz, on the other hand, was pushing herself too much that she didn''t even care what happens to herself as long as she gets stronger and get revenge for her parents. And that''s where her skill came from, her d?s?r? for vengeance, the Skill Avenger. If she knew that all the points she got from her status, except Magic, will help her in giving her power solely based on her fighting style and preferred status. After looking at the board, he didn''t see anything interesting. So, he decided to do one thing. Become an Adventurer. But before that, he has to do something first before doing so. He entered an alley with no people around and used magic to change his height back to original. When he''s transformed, he has an average height of a 10 years old boy. With a height of 170.6 centimeters with a weight of 58.20872 kilograms. As to how his weight was determined with 5 decimal numbers, no one knows. All I know is that I''m narrating this information. Ahem! With a BMI of exactly 20, or not, he has a lean build despite his height. He have 6 packs that threatens to become 8 once he reaches a height around 7 feet as he still have a space on his stomach for another pair of ab. He decided to register as an Adventurer. He walked up to a redhead were wolf who seemed to be 18 years old. Right now, she''s still let out small smiled to the once in front of him since there are few ones before him, but this was the shortest line. And once he was next, he prepared for something to say. "Hello, sir! You seem to be new, do you want to register as an Adventurer?" She asked in a professional way, with only a small smile. ''Well, I guess she would transform into a more strict throughout the years, I guess?'' Silver decided to speak, "Yes, I am." Her smile suddenly vanished, but it doesn''t mean that smile earlier was because of her being a bubbly girl she used to be, but because Guild Employees should smile to people if they can take the job knowing that if they got too attached to an Adventurer who later died would leave a devastating blow. Right now, that small smile earlier was just there as a display. "Do you have a Familia?" She asked. "I have, but this isn''t the best place to tell you. Can we get a room?" He told her as his eyes wandered to his target. "Alright, follow me." The redhead said and walked from the counter to the hallways at the side and entered a room. Silver followed without any problem. He was actually mirroring her steps while softening his own, making it look like she was walking alone, causing her to turn around only to find Silver looking at her in confusion. This was a habit of Silver, a habit of softening his footsteps in crowdy places or places with few people. After entering the room, both sat down on the chairs. This room was used for only one person for an advisor to use and it is small as it wasn''t necessarily needed to be big. There are also other bigger rooms with bigger purpose, but that is for another chapter yet to be revealed. "Hi, my name is Rose Fannett. Now, tell me which Familia you are affiliated with." She introduced herself with a nod and seemed to be tense. "I am a member of Hera Familia." He finally said it. "Eh?" Her brain short-circuited for a second, "EEHHH?!" It''s a good thing that she did shout on a lower volume than most you will see in Anime. "Are you SURE?!" She asked as she slammed her hands on the table, not believing it. Silver stood up and turned around, then he removed his trench coat and shirt to show the symbol of Hera Familia: a throne with a lion heads on the armrest of the throne and peacock feathers around the throne "Tha-that''s..." "I would like to have a like to be an Adventurer, I''m certain that I can''t be registered as Hera Familia''s member as they were banished and that would lead to unnecessary attention. I have to find another Familia to join, don''t I?" Silver said with his voice between that of a growing child and a m?tur? person. "That''s right. Since Hera Familia has been banished from Orario along with the Zeus Familia, many other Familias will try get you to join them no matter what. Have you already gotten your permission to change Familia?" "I already have a permission." *Flashback* "Silver, since you are going to Orario, I want you to become an Adventurer and become famous. After that, save the world from the One-Eyed Black Dragon if it ever wreak havoc." Hera said to Silver who was about to depart. "... If I can''t defeat it, then at least, I must erase Freya Familia out of existence." Silver said with strong determination. "Revenge will get you nowhere." Hera commented with her stern gaze. "I don''t care what people thinks of us, but if they hurt my family, consider them corpse needed to be mutilated and thrown in the ocean for the fishes to eat." Hera only smiled as he really is her child, child of Hera Familia. After all, Hera is also a Goddess of Family and a vengeful goddess, and she completely understood what he meant, but hers was slightly different than what Norse Mythology has told us. "I just need to find a new god." Silver said with burning passion in his eyes. "I see. Then, let me get a list of possible Familia that would suit you." Rose left and came back after a few minutes of waiting. "These are the list of possible Familias you can join." She explained as she hands over the papers. "Freya..." Silver scowled in hatred, but controlled himself with such finesse so he won''t leak out killing intent even though his hate could rival the gods altogether. "Loki..." Silver only raised an eyebrow but didn''t want to join this Familia. Even if he could lie at any Gods and Goddesses, since he trained with Kane, he doesn''t want to be near that mischievous goddess and want nothing to do with the Sword Princess. "Astraea..." As much as he wants his revenge, this familia only wants justice while he wants peace and freedom for his family. He doesn''t care about justice as long as the punishment for those who messed with him and his family would bathe in their own blood. There are more on the list: Aphrodite, Frey, Surtr, Goibniu, Hephaestus, and few others. As to why there are smithing gods on the list, it is because he can buy armors and weapons with a 20% discount if you are a member of these smithing familia respectively. Silver picked up a paper and showed it to Rose and said, "I choose this..." "Cliffhanger-kun is here! DANG IT!!!" -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver likes to wear trench coat because they were originally used for warfare and also to hide his tail. His trench coats always have belts attached to the waist, allowing him to let the upper part of the coat to become a waist cape while not risking of his tail being recognized as one.. His trench coats always ends up a little bit below his knees. Chapter 16 - Familia ?In the last chapter, our protagonist found himself in a slightly different Orario due to railway cars existing as if it was a world in a game called Summon Night 5 played on PSP, or in the phone using a PSP emulator.? ?He looked around and found himself in the main building of the Guild called the Pantheon, and entered. There, he saw a crowd of people looking at a board, a poster of a young girl named Aiz Wallenstein of Loki Familia and was recognized as the fastest to level up to level 2. Amidst all that, his ''eyes'' through high-level Mana Sense ''saw'' the one he hates the most, a tall Boaz known for being the only level 7.? ?Determined and have strong will, he decided to become an Adventurer. Of course, you can''t be one unless you have joined a Familia. Thus, we will now witness it right now.? -------------------------------- Silver picked up a paper and showed it to Rose and said, "I choose this..." "Hephaestus Familia?" Rose only stared at Silver, waiting for a reason. Silver thought of a stupid reason and said, "It''s because that my soon-to-be dungeon advisor is a redhead and Hephaestus is also a redhead." Rose only stared at him as if she saw an insect instead of a person. "I''m only joking. I''m not that kind of person to make decisions with trashy reason." Silver let out a small smirk. Rose sighed in relief. "But I''m expecting you to be my dungeon advisor." He added. Rose sighed in annoyance. I mean, she met this handso- young man in front of her and doesn''t want him to die since he mentioned about her being his dungeon advisor which means that he will be going into the dungeon rather than try to make armors and weapons. But, she does hope that he won''t be like some of those who she advised and then died when they got ???ky. She doesn''t want to witness another dead young Adventurer. But she''s still hoping that the soon-to-be Adventurers in the future would not be as reckless as they are right now. "Um... Hello? Rose Fannett to Eden!" Silver called her out as he waved his hand in front of her. "Hm?! Oh, uh! Who''s Eden?" Rose faked a cough to bring forth her professionalism and spoke once again, "Come back to me when you''ve successfully joined Hephaestus Familia or not." "I will tell you one thing, Fannet-san. I don''t disappoint." Silver stood up and exited the room. Rose quickly followed, but when she opened the door, she didn''t see him as she didn''t hear any sounds of footsteps running, but only walking with her sharp wolf ears. "..." -------------------------------- Upon entering an alley with no people coming through, he transformed himself back into a height that children of his age should have. After doing so, he quickly left and walked to southwest part of Orario since he sensed that Kane was there. As he neared, he got tired of having his eyes blindfolded, he removed it. When he finally removed it, his cold blue eyes met sky blue eyes. "Um... Excuse me." Silver finally broke the awkward staring contest and walked past her. He decided to escape quickly as he''s not yet ready to talk to her in person and quickly disappeared using the maximum output he could with Total Concentration. Once the elf turned around after the boy in front of her just walked past her, she saw that he disappeared and she didn''t even felt him move and only felt gentle wind. Sounds of footsteps in running pattern came and a group of three females appeared. A prum and 2 humans arrived to where the elf girl was and saw her shocked faced that quickly disappeared once they arrived. The red haired young woman called out to the elf, "Lion, why did you suddenly run off?" "It''s nothing." She said. But the prum girl said otherwise, "There''s probably something when she said ''nothing''." The Far Eastern girl spoke, "We should go back now, Astraea-sama told us to be back earlier since she want us to meet someone." The redhead nodded, "Let''s go!" And thus, the band of girls walked back to their Familia''s home known as Stardust Garden. -------------------------------- "Why am I here again?" Silver asked with his original height back to 170.6 centimeters. Kane replied, "I thought you have photographic memory?" "I do. It was just I tend to not listen in what you say." Silver replied with both eyes closed, without any blindfold. He managed to figure out how to deactivate his eyes to be able to see in normal way. However, it didn''t mean that his ice cold blue ice didn''t scared some people due to how cold his gaze was. Other than that, he also has an air of something that of a royalty even though he''s not. "Well, we are here because we will be staying in this place for awhile, and we''ll depart once again once we''re done." Kane said with clear-cut instruction. Muffled voices can be heard behind the door. "I told you! We need to save everyone!" "How can we save everyone with our current strength? We can only save by sacrificing the few!" "Girls, stop arguing! We''re here!" The two girls stopped arguing. Green eyes met blue eyes. The redhead Adventurer saw two men, a white haired tall young man and a black haired 6 foot tall man. "Um..." The redhead looked at her goddess who was in the room as this was the office, "Who are they, Astraea-sama?" "They are our guest. The white haired young man is Silver Sterling, and the black haired man is Kane." The walnut brown haired goddess. "Un..." Silver nodded at them. "Silver, don''t be like that! Be more extrovert if you want girlfriends!" Kane said with a happy-go-lucky tone. The room temperature dropped and the feet of Kane were slowing being covered in ice. "I prefer being introvert. Also, what''s with that ''girlfriends'' comment?" Silver said with his eyes close while the ice slowly creeps up from Kane''s feet. "Whoa, wait! I''m just kidding!" The ice broke and the temperature returned. No reply came from Silver, but he sent a strong and piercing cold glare at him. He didn''t send any killing intent as he would be in trouble since you can only get one if you have experience in killing before. "I''m leaving." Silver opened the window and said something before jumping, "I''m going to join a Familia..." "Hm... Oh well, let''s start what we need to do." -------------------------------- ? Silver''s POV ? "So? I heard you want to join my Familia?" In front of me is a redheaded goddess with an eyepatch that covered almost half of her face, mainly her right eye. I am in my original height so I looked like 15 or so right now based on ?Disabled World? website the last time I checked it. Still in blindfold, mind you. I am also carrying a bag for forging and some materials as well. The male version in mythology, Hephaestus is crippled, and thus what Fujino Omori did to her was much better than crippled. Anyway, I can feel something dark in her right eye, but I''m not sure if it is either a curse or a side effect of being the greatest smithing god in general. I replied to her, "Yes." She asked, "Why?" I answered, "Because, I plan to craft my own weapon while getting stronger. After all, I don''t want to make weapons to those who are not worthy to wield them." I added in my mind, ''They will be sealed and cannot be drawn by those with darkness or evil intentions in their hearts. Almost like Caliburn, but chooses a kind person instead of a worthy King.'' I also think that I can try to learn Hieroglyphs in order to be able to get some idea for making Runes as Hestia Knife became a growth type weapon because of those hieroglyphs. "Is that so? Then, make me something." She said. I can see her eyes shine in interest. "Where should I work?" I asked, knowing that she have hidden forge behind her bookshelf. She stood up and pulled a book, and the secret door to the secret forge where I will forge a weapon is in front of me. She entered and I followed. She have some ores here, but mostly are basic materials. Most of those better ores are store in another secret room inside this secret room. I can sense them, it was easy for someone like me who have unorthodox way of sending Mana and instead uses it for seeing things without using my eyes. "You can now start." She said and I bowed at her. I opened my bag and pulled out a cheap and low-quality hammer. I pulled out a Tamahagane, which is mostly used by Far Eastern due to their forging style. Mahogany for the scabbard and handle. Small copper for habaki, the one that is placed between the blade and the handle on order for the weapon to fit perfectly in the scabbard and also to lessen the stress on the blade, making it more tougher. Battle Boar''s tough horn for the scabbard''s parts known as fuchi and koiguchi. Lastly, a satin finish. He have all the materials needed and I only have a hammer, so I need to borrow the tongs and clamps here. With all things ready, I put my gloves on made of Salamander wool and wrapped around an Undine cloth that was turned into a scarf around my neck and started forging. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver can''t use Mystic Eyes.... Chapter 17 - Craftknight After bringing out all the materials he needed he started out with making a fire in the furnace where the steel will be forged in fire on. Gloves made of Salamander wool and was enhanced with enchantments on, he is now ready to start. With the use of his fire magic, which is helpful for a blacksmith to have magic connected to forging, he started a fire in the furnace and threw some charcoals inside. When the fire is now big enough, he placed the ore in the fire to heat it until it is ready to be hammered. Once it does, he pulled it out using tongs and hammered it. He made it flat but not to think nor thick, just enough while it slowly cools down. And when it cooled down, he smashed them to pieces the size, at least, of a thumb. Then, he pulled out a metal with paddle-like at the end where he placed and sorting the pieces of tamahagane by their carbon content as the breaking earlier was because it has high carbon content. This was a traditional forging technique of a country known as Japan. He started stacking them on the paddle-like metal stick made of tamahagane itself. After stacking, he wrapped them in wet paper and ashes to hold them together to prevent it from falling apart and coated with clay which also helps in keeping the structure together as well as get converted into flux under very high heat. The charcoals in the furnace are burning lightly but you can still see the fire still burns. The ashes on nearby it where the cause of the burning from when he started flattening the tamahagane. He placed the head where the steel are right in the middle where there are still some charcoals that are still burning. After he lay it down, he placed more charcoals on top of the structure, the pieces of tamahagane put together. It is easy to control the heat and fire if you have fire magic since a good weapon also depends on the heat controlling technique of the smith. When the steel is ready, Silver picked it up by using hands instead as his gloves are resistant heat that was flowing through the metal stick from the hot metal at the tip after he raised the temperature at a specific height. He first hammered it down until was enough. He started the cutting part where he will cut slightly more than halfway to the middle of the still burning hot steel and then fold it. He repeated this process until he''s satisfied with how much layers it will have. -------------------------------- "Where''s the boy who wants to join, Hephaestus-sama?" A black haired woman with red eyes, big br??st with bandages wrapped around not because she''s hurt, but because she''s a half-dwarf with the human part being a far easterner. "He''s in the hidden forge. It''s just been an hour or so since he started, Tsubaki." Hephaestus told her Captain Familia. "Really? Did he use high quality metals like mithril?" Tsubaki asked as she knew that being able to work on a rare metals takes a lot of skills and time to craft one unless you are an Adventurer. "He''s using a Tamahagane. But the ore seems to have more impurities than normal, and he might not be able to forge a good weapon with it and will break easily." Hephaestus said with her stoic face while doing her paperworks. "And you didn''t lend him a better material to use?" "No." "Why not?" "Because I can see a potential in him." Hephaestus said with a noticable small smile. "Hm?" Tsubaki saw that smile and she herself smiled as well, "I see..." Forging an Iron Sword as Level 1 might take more than 16 hours of continuous forging without stopping. But if you managed to level up to Level 2, it will lessen by a lot on the same thing to forge and might roughly take 12 hours. It also depends on the smith if he''s skilled or not. It''s also faster if they have apprentices or partners in forging, but they might also end up crafting a weak weapon or armor if two or more Smith''s forging together can''t agree or can''t go in sync with each other. A reasonable backfire. -------------------------------- After a work full of hammering, it is now time to for the tip of the blade after the preform. Then, he started bevelling. After a handful of hammering later, he started preparing the blade''s surface for the heat treating. Then, he started placing a thin layer of clay with ground stone dust on it, then a thicker layer of clay on the spine. After that, he started heat treating it and heated it in the forge. When it is hot enough, at the necessary heat, he quenched it in the water carefully and watch it until its form is finished as he quench it. Then, he started polishing the blade using a whetstone that he mostly uses when he was training, when he was just an apprentice. This whetstone was not that of high quality, but it did accompany him for a few years in training. Usually, polishing takes at least a month. But that might be because the one who polishes it is quite busy and was polishing other blades as well as they themselves deliver the polished blade or their apprentices. But for Silver, it will only take a few hours or so, give or take. -------------------------------- A few hours later... "Mou~ It''s so boring waiting~!" Complained by a half-dwarf. "Sigh~ then why wait? Surely, you have something to do." Hephaestus told Tsubaki, whose head was lying on her table, "Also, you''re in the way of my paperworks." "Fine! I''m gonna get some drinks or whatever!" Tsubaki stood up and left the office and dressed up properly before exiting the Babel Tower to go and buy some drinks. He started working on the habaki, a part that absorbs the shock and reduces the stress on the blade, making it tougher than western swords as the soft metal eats up the stress took by the blade. As he hammered the small copper ingot, he also heated it and quenched it in water as, instead of getting harder like iron, it softens instead. With the polished blade covered in paper, he started to size up the habaki so he could perfectly fit it in. He also added a machigane to make it much more fit and soldered it properly using a sterling silver as a solder. Well? Ain''t that a pun? A few hours later, Silver was now fitting in the koiguchi, or the mouth of the saya or scabbard as well as to make the size of the koiguchi and saya the same. He already have the menuki, the ornament under the wrapping of the handle, ready. The pair of menuki were hammers. He also finished making the tsuba, or the guard, that has no holes or something but has a design on both side of the tsuba, a halo flame with a dragon head. Inspired by the Hinokami Kagura''s Solar Halo Dragon Dance. He had yet to place a ray skin on the tsuba nor the wrapping. He knows that what he did wasn''t exactly the right sequence, but that makes him of what he is and his style of forging. After placing the habaki, seppa, tsuba, and fuchi, he next place the tsuka, the handle. After he placed the tsuka, he placed mekugi on the holes in there. The hole on the tsuka and the tang are aligned properly and fitted it in. Then, he started adding the ray skin of a stingray that he hunted down when Kane brought him near the ocean. He then placed in the kashira he made earlier and tied the wrapping on the kashira. After he finished, he pulled the lever on the wall which opens the hidden door back inside Hephaestus'' office. When he stepped out, his eyes met a shocked stare from a redhead and a half-dwarf. Though, the latter was happy with a teasing smirk. "I didn''t know that you''re hiding such a hot young man in your hidden forge, Hephaestus-sama!" The half-dwarf told her now blushing goddess. "W-what? No!" Hephaestus denied. Silver spoke, "Well, I''m sure that being inside a forge will surely make you hot." Tsubaki saw the weapon in his right hand. He is ambidextrous person, but he mostly uses his left hand more and uses his right hand mostly for chore or hammering in forging. "Is that your weapon?" Tsubaki asked. "No." Silver replied as he placed the katana in front of him, "This is just a newly forged katana. Its materials are made of that from cheap materials, but I don''t know about the quality." Tsubaki was about to inspect the weapon, but Hephaestus beat her to it and took the weapon to examine it. On the spine of the blade, between the middle of the katana and the first few inches away from the habaki, there is an engraved named on it on both sides. "Kagira?" Tsubaki was the one who read that out loud. "..." Silver didn''t spoke and just waited. "That means... Limited...right? Though, I don''t know why you spelled it like that, but who am I to interfere with others naming their forged weapons?" "..." "Oh? Erm..." Hephaestus noticed that Silver seems to be waiting for something and was now focused at hand. "Ehem! You are accepted to be a part of my Familia." Hephaestus said with a little tinge of blush on her cheeks. "Thank you, Hephaestus-sama!" Silver bowed and left the office to take some refreshments. "I''ll be back after I drink some tea. ''How could I forget that he was trying to join my Familia? It''s a good thing he didn''t say anything. Either he is too shy to speak, or he''s smart to not speak until I did...'' her mind wandered to what he said earlier, ''he''s a tea lover, huh?'' Silver walked around through the southwest main street, going to Cafe Wishe. But on his way, there were some idiots who bumped into him going by the name Hyakinthos Clio, Lissos, Luan Espel, and full of weak insects. His eyes calculated their strength. Hyakinthos Clio: 404 Lissos: 213 Luan: 101 The rest are below 100 as they seems to be all level 1. He bumped into Hyakinthos but Silver made Hyakinthos fall on his rear. Hyakinthos stood up with an enraged visage and tried to kill Silver, only to have his sword get deflected back as if it hit a tough and immovable object. He also saw that he didn''t even scratched him with his sword. Silver stopped and turned around with a wicked smile that is equal or even much more scary than Accelerator''s smile. "Oi... Be careful which tree you bark, or you''ll get swarmed by quick and powerful wasps." Silver then left after leaving a foreshadow. Wasps and bees are known to fly while leaving buzzing sounds that seems to be coming from different direction which is a foreshadowing of Lily who will disguise as someone from their Familia while the tree is the Hestia Familia. "Honestly, I don''t like that Melon Jiggles at all. She clearly didn''t trust Bell as she hid his skills as to why he grew so fast. If ever Bell finds out that they hid it to him, he might change Familia. Well, I can take care of that once I am strong enough in the AU of Nasuverse." He mumbled to himself. After he drank some tea in Cafe Wishe, he also attracted some admirers from teens around 15 to those who are older around 30s or so. He used his precious technique, Misdirection, to get out of their sight or anyone''s. As an Assassin of the Brotherhood, he needed to learn Misdirection at a certain level. When he finally got back in Babel Tower at Hephaestus'' office, he was met with a Tsubaki and Hephaestus dropping a paper on top of Kagira''s blade. The paper was cleanly cut into two. Silver pulled out a paper from his person and threw it at a wall nearby Tsubaki which the paper sliced the wall and was now stucked in there. ""What?"" Both Hephaestus and Tsubaki saw that show of power and we''re astonished. "Anything can be a weapon." Silver closed his eyes for a moment before opening his left eye as he said, "Anyway, Is should get converted." "Who are you? No, wrong question. WHAT are you?" Hephaestus asked. "I''m a Craftknight. A warrior and a smith who makes weapon while also trains their body to use the weapons they forges or sell them. It depends on circumstances. Earlier, it only took me about 8 hours, 21 minutes, and 43 seconds to finish Kagira." Silver said with no lies. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver has affinity for Time, thus he can exactly calculate of how much it took for something to finish or some sort of cooldown without needing to count in his head. Chapter 18 - Bend the Rules "I''m a Craftknight." "I''ve never heard of it." Tsubaki said as she slowly examined the katana. Hephaestus is just silent. "The handle was made earlier, not pre-made." Silver said and saw their reaction. Hephaestus was the most shocked, "You just made the handle earlier? It normally would take a day to make one using a ray''s skin so we use animal hide instead and then paste it." "Replace my current blessing with yours since I already have permission to change from my deity." Silver said as he walked closer to them since he was standing near the door to her office. "Wait, you''re already a part of familia before?" Hephaestus asked, wanting to know how he could craft such weapon in short time. "What level are you?" "Hm... Level 4, reaching Level 5, at the same time Level 1." Silver told them vaguely, making him a mysterious entity. "Fine." Silver removed his shirt which earned a blush from the deity and a whistle from the Cyclops. His body muscles are compacted properly and his body is lean. He have 6-packs that has another room for another pair of abs. Silver sat on the chair nearby the table of Hephaestus. Since Tsubaki was there, there is an extra chair that wasn''t supposed to be there but, wherever it can from or whoever brought it shouldn''t be the one we should focus on. With his back facing her. She used the katana he forged and used the tip of Kagira which is so sharp that she only pressed her finger a little against the tip to prick her finger. But before she could drop her blood on his back, she noticed and recognized the blessing on his back. It was Hera''s blessing. She was shocked to see a member of Hera Familia join her own Familia. "I am not fond of wasting time, you know." Silver commented with his monotone voice which means he''s annoyed of the delay. Yes, when he''s annoyed, his voice is monotone. Unlike when he normally talks like a stoic and stern person with a little bit of stubbornness. As to why the members of a Familia needed a permission, it is because there is a lock on the blessing, trying to resist forced conversion. However, there is another way to convert someone by force, but that is for another story. "What?! How could you have many Development Abilities? I see, it''s because of this ?Polymath? skill... Juno? No way... And ?Spellcaster? that allows you to use ANY Magic? Level 1, but your Magic is weird. It says, 4." Silver answered that question, "It''s Level 4. It levels up once it reaches past the maximum value. So, my magic is equal to a level 4, or maybe higher because it broke through S-rank and became SSS-Rank at Max before resetting back to lowest value, but the number beside Magic becomes higher. It''s because of the ?Spellcaster? skill which also doesn''t allow me to increase the rest of my Basic Abilities other than Magic." She placed a paper on his back and printed it on his back. "It''s done." Hearing those words from Hephaestus, he covered his body back and stood up. Hephaestus passed the paper to him. "I can''t list all your Development Abilities nor all your Skills. And since your skills are basically a cheat, I didn''t listed them just imprinted all your Development Abilities instead. I don''t want anyone to know." ''Even if they know, they can''t get since I got it from an Eternal Dragon who grants wishes to those who managed to find all Seven Dragon Balls.'' Silver chimed in his mind. Silver looked at the paper. Silver Sterling Level 1 Strength: I-0 Endurance: I-0 Dexterity: I-0 Agility: I-0 Magic IV: E-404 Blacksmith: G Diving: E Fist Fighter: F Hunter: G Mage: F Magic Resistance: F Metalworking: G Mixing: G Mystery: F Perception: F Perseverance: F Spearman: D Strong Body: F Strong Defense: F Treatment: G £ÛNone£Ý ?Skills? -------------------------------- "Your Development Abilities are not just too many but also high. How long have you been in ''that'' Familia?" Hephaestus asked. "8 years. I''m 20 by now." The last one was a lie. But Hephaestus didn''t detect any lie. How? Just look at this. -------------------------------- Hidden Development Abilities Deceit: C Hide: C -------------------------------- Not even gods could discern if he''s lying or not as long as he have his stoic face and is very calm since it is still have some few holes, but thanks to being cold, calm, cool, and stoic, those holes are covered as gods are like living lie detector. Deceit for bluffing, Fake for both emotions and status, and Hide for both hiding and sneaking as well as hiding emotions. These are the abilities of a professional con artist. If Explosions can be an Art, if Stealing can be an Art, then Bluffing is also an Art? No one knows, but if the right person have these, they will be useful in underworld, not the underworld of gods, but the underworld of humans. Soon, Silver left after he fed her answers to her questions with either lies or truth to satisfy her curiosity. After coming home, he was greeted with nothing but a silent house. He entered and looked around. He saw many bedrooms upstairs. When he looked around again in the first floor, he saw a room with many books. He looked through all the books'' covers until he saw one that shouldn''t be even there. He pulled it and the bookshelf the book was in was pulled back until it was deep in the wall before it move downwards, making the book he pulled go back to its last position. "An entrance that would automatically close itself once I enter. Nice one, but could have been better." Silver commented and entered through the secret passageway that appeared. After walking in there, his eyes met lots of books. When he looked, all of them are about magic and some things like concept and there''s even books on how to use photon energy and manipulate it. There are so many books for different things that he concluded that he might find something he needed here. And after almost an hour of searching, he found many books. They are for: Magecraft, Projection, Tracing, Reality Marble, and Hacking. All of these except Reality Marble are connected to Magecraft. Since he can''t use Magic Circuits, he searched for a book that can unlock one''s Circuits. Unfortunately, there are no books for that but there are some list of people of how they unlocked theirs, and they are all different on each person. He''ll find a way to use these Magecraft without Magic Circuits, but right now, he needed to find a book about tampering because the book for Hacking of Magecraft was different. And he found one. He started using it, and the guinea pig is himself. He used it to tamper and change the set of rules his skill ?Spellcaster? have in order for it to allow him level up. Despite getting OP skill like this one, he is doomed to be a mage, and he doesn''t want that as he prefer to be a Magic Swordsman as their DPS and Range are balance and are not limited to either Physical or Magic power because it is both. As the rules are hard to change, he managed to bend the rules it has. Rather than being not able to level and all his 4 other Basic Abilities are always zero, he bent the rules to make it: Slow level up speed and the values of other 4 Basic Abilities are slow to increase at a certain speed. Would that slow him down? No. How? He''s a Saiyan. He will just keep braking his limits and fight on a life and death battle, plus he have an extra power level of 342 from training under Kane which is equal to a Level 2 with B-700 average on all 4 Basic Abilities, making him strong against those who have leveled up with their Basic Abilities at D even with increase percentage despite the level up. He used his magic and hacked the Falna system without any problem, and then he hacked his skill to allow himself to increase his other Basic Abilities, albeit slower, being born from a warrior race is a cheat itself. After hacking it, bending the rules also known as restrictions, he can now raise his other 4 Basic Abilities. He planned on doing something absurd: by leveling up each year, which means that he will try to reach Level 8 and take his Alias "King" and defeat him on a duel in the Colosseum or he could take on the whole Familia. After all, his base strength is much stronger than his extra (falna) strength. Meanwhile, in the whole world, humans or not, except a certain dragon, felt their spine shiver in coldness. As if a storm is about to come during this calm state of the world. -------------------------------- Deceit - The ability to decieve anyone through actions, gaining what psychologist called as "Poker Body". Fake - The ability to fake or give false information without being seen through his lies, and status board can be faked as well. (Fake cannot be used on printed papers or anything that wasn''t "in" the body.) Hide - The ability to hide the real intent of the words spoken as lying is an "intent to lie". It can also hide from any kind of intuition, even divine intuition won''t work. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver once watched Jujutsu Kaisen and for him, the number 1 best girl for him and him only, is Kugisaki Nobara due to her wild nature which was technically what her name means.. Zen''in Maki being the second due to her skills in using weapons. Chapter 19 - Dungeon & Guild After he got out of the hidden passage, he felt as if the atmosphere inside that room is very weird, as if something is there but no matter how you look at it, it was just a normal hidden library inside another library. When he left the house, a pair of eyes were looking at him with amusement. ''The kid have crazy spatial awareness to the point that he can feel as if something is there but there''s nothing but a library... Interesting!'' Soon, the owner of those eyes disappeared without any trace. -------------------------------- While walking down the Northeast Main, one of the 8 main paths, he was looking around until his eyes fell on a black-haired, golden-eyed cat person, Allen Fromel, the brother of Anya Fomel whose name was pronounced as if there''s an "r" sound in her name. He just walked passed him and didn''t show any emotions. Then, he tried to scare him. When he was in front of him, his presence is like any other person, but as they walked past each other, Silver hid his presence completely. This startled Allen who turned around only to see Silver walking towards the Guild with presence, making him think he was just tired and decided to take a rest after coming back to their home. Meanwhile, Silver felt Allen''s ki fluctuate due to his sudden presence concealment which he knows that scared the hell out of him, but he was sure that Ottar would shrug it off if he did it to him. Either way: Mission Accomplished! Respect+ As soon as he entered the guild, he saw many groups of adventurers returning to their home after they exchanged magic stones for Vali, a currency of Orario and the nearby towns and villages. The Empire have different currency but you can exchange them for Vali instead. Take note, Vali is the currency while Valis is the money itself. As he walked on the hallway in the Guild''s main building, the Pantheon1. The place was huge and he was kinda taking in the design style and art if Daedalus who built this Guild. He lined up on a certain line and waited until it was his time. "Fannett-san, I''ve successfully joined Hephaestus Familia." He''s also very formal. "And I take it that new adventurers are given some lessons about the dungeon and the monsters." And he''s also not stupid, unlike those who just outright entered the dungeon. However, she didn''t put her hopes high only for it to drop like a bomb when she discovered that they died in the dungeon. "Yes, we give free lessons to those who are interested in learning more about the dungeon, from floors to monsters to level difficulty as well as some advice to make sure that those who learn these information would survive in the dungeon." She explained. "I see... I want to take some lessons after I got registered as an adventurer." Rose nodded at him and they proceeded to register Silver as an adventurer. Throughout the process, Silver noticed that they lack some things such as an identification card, so he thought of trying to make one using his ?Mystery? to create ID without needing to be renewed. Please, do remember that he is not helping people, but he is a neat and organized person. Also, they already have trains but no IDs? Though, the IDs should be two types: citizenship, to show that a citizen is living in Orario so the slow lines of people going in and out of the city would be way faster and efficient while those who are not a citizen would either become an Adventurer or become a citizen in order to stay in Orario. Money is what he needed right now. He needs money for many things and to finish creating some of his project that will sure help him in the future. After a few hours of reading and taking a test afterwards, Silver finally got out of the room with a small smile that showed victory. Why? It''s because Rose was very shocjed that he managed to get perfect score of 100 points. Silver decided to come back home didn''t dare to check the Hostess of Fertility because of one reason: he doesn''t have any reason to. And even if he have one, they are just lame excuses, and also because he doesn''t want to be seen by Syr for personal reasons if she ever started working at a young age. As he got home, Silver sensed that he was being observed and that person, despite hiding her presence, she will never be able to hide her ki signature since she didn''t train on how to control and sense ki. The owner of that ki signature is none other than Ry¨± Lion. As for the reason why, he doesn''t care. Unlike other reincarnated or transmigrated characters from fanfics he read, he is the only one who never cared about having someone to love after in just a few chapters. He''s not that kind of person nor is he a hormonal teen before. He''s actually a part-time member of Thot Slayers and FBI: Must Protecc Squad. He doesn''t care if he falls in love with soneone or not, have a harem or just stick to one, become a villain, a false villain, a so-called hero, or even a savior. He doesn''t care! What he cares is what is present, he either go with the flow or create his own flow. Finally, Silver got hone without any problem nor any intention to shake off someone who tried to stalk him or just simply observing him as long as it doesn''t interfere with his peaceful life. Silver, of course, is the cook and cooked many food as both of them eat equal to 50 plates or more. The next day, Silver still took lessons and treid to learn more about the dungeon and otehr information that the Light Novel didn''t stated and some other important things about the Dungeon so he will be sure of many things. He won''t risk it as long as there is 1% chance of dying. Actually, he could now venture until Floor 12 if he wants to but decided to not go in yet nor did he loaned basic equipments from the Guild. After all, he just crafted a weapon when he tried joining Hephaestus Familia, and his clothes themselves have protections and arevery sturdy. This continued on until he finished learning all the things he needed as well as monsters from the floors that the Zeus and Hera Familias that had encountered that were named by the Guild and listed their drop items as well. It only took him a week to finally finish all of the lessons and each and every test he took, he always get perfect scores. The reason is, he have developed a pseudo-eidetic memory when he was reading a lot of books about different things since when he was 1, which is the sole reason why he managed to get perfect score. Silver knew that he doesn''t have eidetic memory because if he wants yo, he can forget about one thing and poof, he doesn''t remember it now. It was as if his mind was like a computer when if he deleted something, it will be in the recycle bin and can retrieve those memories or delete them completely, or he could just place them in folders to organize them properly. And yes, if he were knocked out with an intention of getting him to have an amnesia, it might work, but like a computer, he can retrieve these information through recovery. Or he could also recover his memory by hacking his own brain like when you do in order to get a deleted file from a flash drive that was unintentionally deleted. -------------------------------- There, right at the foot of a gigantic tower known as Babel, was a silver-haired young man with a katana on his right hip. Some of the Far Easterners who saw his katana on his left side, were surprised to see a left-handed swordsman who uses a katana. However, what they don''t know is that he''s ambidextrous, he can use both of his hands with the same level of skills when it comes to fighting. "Ready perfectly. My preparations are complete." Silver said as he looked at his clenched right fist Soon, he entered inside and walked on the staircase where it leads down the hole. The hole''s radius is at least 10 meters and the staircase was wide enough for big parties to come through. As he got down right at the bottom, which he estimated to be 20 meters, 30 meters at max. As he got down and entered the dungeon along with other people, a goblin spawned from the ground like a zombie. Yes, since it is still the upper floors, most of the monsters spawned from the ground. What surprised them more is that he left the body right there, without even retrieving the stone. Then, all of them, except the solo adventurers, tried to fight for who should get the magic stone. "There''s no boundary for greed." Silver muttered as he walked through the halls of the dungeon. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver once crafted a dual-blade, single edged sword because of the reach it provides and more ways to attack, though it is made of hard wood because it was intended for training. Chapter 20 - Title on Authors Thoughts During the time Silver was learning about the dungeon from Rose, he also created a spell called "Reset". As the name suggests, it''s a spell used on someone to permanently reset and remove any anomaly. An example of anomaly is a skill or an ability, racial or bloodline or not, will reset back to zero like: "physical abilities and magic power increases over time with super buffs like resistance to all negative effects, incredible properties, a human whose magic is permanently spirit magic without even possessing bloodline of a spirit, all the while boosting the negative effect of the said ability or skill by a thousand times and permanently destroys a person''s dragon core without any dragon lineage. This skill is not negative effect or debuff, but a blessing instead as it grants eternal youth in return, though in a 10-year old child''s body.". The reason why he created this is because he never liked people who cheats their way. He might be hypocrite, but he does not go too far and too low as to go and copy other''s magic in order to get more stronger magic. He also despises people who have magic that they consider as useless as there''s no way that magic itself is useless. Those who copies have no creativeness, those who says the magic they have is useless, is useless themselves. He also hates those manipulative bastards like the fanfic he read before which is full of bullshit and cheating along with manipulating. For him, they are weak as fu?k as they rely on a lot of things rather than rely on themselves, which causes them to cheat their way rather than earn it. He also met a person named Dox who have a cheat ability of gaining strength over time, and he practically gave him his blessing, forcefully stopping his skill to work and granting him an eternal youth with a 10-year old body. This spell is perfect. So perfect that if a person has defense or immunity for blessings, means that they can''t use buff or skills like their physical and magical abilities increases overtime. Also, even if the person have one, this spell replaces the immunity skill with a skill named Reset on their status board, forcing them to get stronger without cheating. Silver never really activated his skills as they were all passive and there''s no need to activate them. Aside from that, his status increases way more slower now, and Development Abilities are way more harder to rause rather than the Basic Abilities. So technically, he doesn''t cheat. Cheaters Never Wins Gods are also cheaters. No, not the gods in this world, but the gods on a higher plane, except the Christ. Why? It''s because they are already strong right on the day they were born! Those who doesn''t cheat rises through from below. He also developed a spell- no, more like he recreated it for the purpose of dealing powerful attack using magic. That magic spell is called¡¸Mega Flare¡¹, a powerful non-element or neutral element, true magic that completely ignores defense and deals 100 times the damage on dragons or anyone with dragon core or dragon heart, basically any part of a dragon. Silver is an exemption and will not receive 100 times from this spell as those dragons exists in his¡¸Reality Marble¡¹which is technically not a part of the soul, but the projection of the reality of the soul itself. Like Shirou''s Reality Marble which is a barren land full of swords stabbed in the ground which signifies that all the battles he fought for is nothing but a waste, a barren land along with the weapons of the lost lives. -------------------------------- Right now, Silver was now on Floor 6 and monsters are quickly killed before they could even come close or even react by using his lightning magic spell called¡¸Zap¡¹which is chantless but pack a punch depending on how much he put mana on it. Because of his skill retricting his physical abilities to be fixed on 0 value, his magic already reached level 4 at which he also trained his body in normal way without falna to compensate for his magic. And now, he was clearing a bunch of Frog Shooters and War Shadows on 6th floor, which is very easy considering be can rapid fire it like bullets and even faster if he wants to. Also, he never really used Zap at its full potention which could destroy a pantry on 24th floor in one shoot, killing about thousands of monsters in once shot at a speed of more than half the speed of light, slightly faster than natural lighting strike. On the way down as he goes further, he met Ottar and launched a full-powered, concentrated Zap spell. And when it hit, the poor level 6 was paralyzed. Silver walked in front of Ottar and said, "I think I should have increased the output by 10 times more." And then he left the Boaz paralyzed there since he won''t die just like that. If he did die, then he''s just another pathetic idiot who placed his loyalty on someone blindly. "YOU!!!" Ottar''s PL: 4,199¡ú6,298.5 Ottar stood up and rushed toward Silver who only thought, ''Beastification only an increase up to 50%? Pathetic!'' "Kai¨­-ken!" Silver''s PL: 400¡ú6,400 An increase by 16 times, enough to beat Ottar into a pulp considering his sanity is now lost and will just attack like a brute with no brain. When Ottar used his greatsword and slashed at him, Silver just stood there as he created a revolving ki barrier around him. When the sword came in contact with the revolving ki barrier, it broke into pieces. When it broke, Silver quickly punched his stomach and through it. He left him there, bleeding. He knows he will survive as he felt that Allen Fromel was near. As much as he wants to cripple the person, he doesn''t want to do it until he was granted the recognition of being the fastest adventurer and will show him who is faster. Then, he hid away and just watched from the shadows. When Allen arrived, he quickly saw Ottar on the floor and quickly picked him up and ran as fast as he could. "No movement techniques on it? When he sped up, the ground wasn''t broken. That was only because he put all the force to go forward rather than digging his feet on the ground for more speed, but all in all, it''s just brute strength. He found a way to fully utilize the increase in speed by unknowingly using physics, but still using brute strength with no techniques. Is this the adventurer known to be the fastest? Pathetic! I could go even faster than him by the time I reach level 5 while he is level 6." He muttered with a dangerous glint in his eyes. As he goes down further, he killed a lot of monsters. When he reached Floor 12, he just continued and tried to see what Floor 13 is like. When he arrived, a party quickly pass paraded him. He then quickly dealt with the monsters in just mere seconds with his movement technique called Chisenpo. The name translation of this technique is "Thousand Flash Steps" which is a technique that not only enhances one''s speed, but also move at utmost speed that you can never be caught. This technique consisted of many steps, a thousand steps. Each steps is technically 10 times faster than your maximum speed without using this technique. Silver could use up to 213 steps for now, which he can use it for burst, or more likely to use as a means to catch an enemy''s off guard. Since he was still weak, but his mastery is off the charts his body''s limit can do, he usually uses only 10 steps because no one can really outspeed him. Right now, he''s not even intending to train and practice this technique. Ehem! Let''s go back to the main story. When the party looked back, all they saw is the same man standing on the same place without any monsters on sight. At first, they thought they were just hallucinating which is very stupid, but when they saw the magic stones on the floor, they were shocked that he could kill all those monsters by himself very quickly. They were so shocked that they dropped the person injured in their party. Soon, when Silver started collecting the stones, the party started going back up and so did Silver. When Silver emtered the Guild, he didn''t hide what he was holding. A huge sack of magic stones and then he nonchalantly said, "Where''s my money?" in a threatening manner at the guildswoman who was at the exchange counter. "But, sir! It won''t fi-" before the guildswoman could speak any further... And soon, the guildswoman gave him the equivalent value of the magic stones that he collected. All in all in total, he earned a total of 347,169 Valis. This is just the first haul of the day, and he just started. He plans to go even further the next day. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver''s type of woman is a tough cookie or a wild rose.. No, not Rose Fannett. Chapter 21 - Safety Point [A/N: Yo! It''s been awhile! ] The next day, Silver started to go down even further in the dungeon. He planned on trying to reach Floor 18, the Under Resort. Also, the reason why he earned so much money was because he sweeps each floor cleanly, especially the Killer Ants. He basically exterminated them. He also destroyed a lot of walls which made a lot of rumors about an adventurer who kept breaking the walls. As for why, it is because he is killing the monsters even before they could land properly or ready themselves. Seriously? Why watch monsters spawn from the walls when you can literally just kill them even before they have a chance to attack, or at least kill them even before they are ready to fight. He can''t believe that these people would actually wait for theses monsters to be ready to fight when the latter doesn''t need to wait for adventurers to be ready. He sweeps each floor like a janitor once a again, but without breaking the walls since it won''t spawn a strong Juggernaut unlike yesterday. He expected them to be weak, but they are incredibly way too weak for physical attacks. Even a rouge type like Bell who have equal speed as the Juggernaut would be able to kill it, if they both have the same speed. Anyway, as he comes down further, he slayed a lot of monsters on the way. He got swarmed many times by monsters on the middle floors, but none could hit or even hurt him despite being a new adventurer and a level 1. On the way, he also met a lot of parties who are killing monsters. And when those parties ran away because they got swarmed easily, Silver stepped in because the profit he''d gain in killing the monsters that are preying on the weak is very good since they are huge in amount. Monsters on middle floors have a little intelligence on them, all they know is to pressure the weaker adventurers or smaller parties so they can kill them faster and then kill the next party. Unfortunately, it''s the end of their existence as Silver rips and tears through monsters that comes at him. He is sure that this one will be a big haul because the Guild posted an update that the Goliath have spawned. He wanted to see how different is this Goliath compared to Titans. The former is a monster while the latter are transformed humans. "Rip. And. Tear." Silver muttered in monotonous cold voice and continued to rip apart monsters and tear through their resistance. If he was buffed and uses a huge sword named Dragonslayer, he would have been mistaken as that person aside from difference in hair and eye colors. As soon as he stepped in, a group of Minotaurs arrived in front of him, carrying a landform or a natural weapon shaped like an axe. Landform or Natural Weapons, are the weapons used by monsters that came from the dungeon itself. One of them rushed at Silver and swung its axe, only to get its axe blown into pieces just by hitting Silver who used his yet-to-be named revolving ki barrier that behaves like a Rasengan or Kaiten. Wasting no time to dilly dally, he rushed forward and broke their horns and killed them by stabbing them in the ?h?st using Kagira, his newly forged katana, and pierced it''s core. The same thing happens to other monsters as he quickly dispatched the other Minotaurs. Soon, he reached Floor 17... -------------------------------- Several tents were built with a flag of a clown with a card behind it. This symbol is none other than Loki Familia''s emblem. A green-haired elf was looking around, observing all her familia members as they just started to come back from their expedition as well as a quest to get some Skull Sheep''s Robe on Floor 37. "It seems like she is doing a little better, doesn''t she, Riveria?" A voice sounded in her ears, speaking to her. When she turned around, she saw a hobbit, mostly called as prums instead, is none other than the Captain of the Loki Familia. "She is, but she kept pushing herself too far, Finn." Riveria hoped that she won''t be too reckless and die at such young age. Silence for just a moment until steps can be heard. "All of them are now well rested. Once we go down, we needed to quickly run away from the Goliath so that we can quickly come back and plan our next expedition." A gruff voice of a man in his late 40s spoke as he strides towards them with his short but buffed stature. "I think we go now. Riveria, Gareth, inform them all that we will soon depart." Finn ordered two of his comrades, his Vice-captain and a Lieutenant of some sort. Soon, they finished packing the tents and are now about to go down. -------------------------------- Looking at the huge monster in front of him who sent out a roar that did nothing but to force Silver to cover his ears. Then, it swings its fist towards Silver. He jumped over it and ran forward on its arm. The other fist was coming at him, but he just used it as another platform and continued to run towards its head. As he was very close, he sped up a little and used the force of going forward for a kick at its temple, sending it to the side. As the monster is big, it has many openings compared to enemies with smaller bodies or fast enemies. He landed on the ground and waited for the Goliath to stand up. He wanted to test his strength against this monster. A punch was coming for him, but he quickly dodged with his body in mid-air horizontally. With him in horizontal position, his katana in its sheath, his left hand ready to pull his katana out. He concentrated and slashed in a very fast move and easily sliced off its forearm from its elbow. After cutting it off, the Goliath roared and used it''s other hand. Silver prepared his own attack too. His katana on his side, in his left hand. As the punch was about to reach him, Silver front flipped even before the fist gets connected, allowing both of his feet to land on the back of its fist and used it as another platform as he rushed forward. As he was close, he jumped forward and... £ÛTotal Concentration£Ý As he gets close to its ?h?st... £ÛWater Breathing, First Form: Water Surface Slice£Ý With a single swing, his teared through its ?h?st and broke its core, killing it instantly with one form of Water Breathing Style. As he picked up the stone, he was approached by a little girl. "How did you become so strong?" She asked. "..." Silver just stared at her until he closed his eyes and said, "Use your strength, not for revenge, but to live your life the way you like it. That''s my motivation." ''I''ve changed my mind... I will not pursue revenge, but it doesn''t mean I won''t retaliate when the time comes.'' When he reached the first Safety Point of the Dungeon, he quickly walked to Riviera to look around. When he tried to asked some the prices of some items in there, they were low quality and overpriced. He''s not surprised. He wandered around in Floor 18 and he found a lot of things. He luckily found some Crystal Drops, Gourdberries, and Honey Clouds. Then, he came back up with lots of money. As he have many of them, he luckily have created an enchanted pouch that can store 1-meter cube size of a pocket dimension. He created this when he first got it, and simply called this item ?Spatial Pocket? since that''s what it does and what it is. A little earlier... Silver entered the Guild and quickly exchanged his magic stones and earned a total of 896,698 Valis. Actually, read that upside-down to get the exact amount. Silver told Rose that he ventured deep until the 18th floor which he got yelled at. However, despite all that lecture, Silver didn''t even flinch one bit from the woman''s outburst. All he replied was "I won''t die, unless you want me to." and "You don''t have other people''s life at your mercy.". The latter was not intended to be encouragement, but it did made Rose feel a little better. As to how, try searching it on Google to find out. -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Chapter 22 - Knowledge is Power It''s a beautiful day outside... Birds are singing, Flowers are blooming. On days like this... Readers like you... SHOULD PLAY BURY THE LIGHT! Ehem! Let''s get back into the story. Here we go. Anyway, let''s get to the story and start. Silver, inside his old home where he grew up for the past 3 or so years. He is in a separate room with separate space. "A photon is a tiny particle that comprises waves of electromagnetic radiation. Photons are just electric fields traveling through space. Photons have no charge, no resting mass, and travel at the speed of light. Photons are emitted by the action of charged particles, although they can be emitted by other methods including radioactive decay. Since they are extremely small particles, the contribution of wavelike characteristics to the behavior of photons is significant." He recited since there are no modern books about science here, only astrology which is technically about stars. No such thing about electromagnetic waves. "By using lightning magic to generate waves of electromagnetic radiation, and by removing its charge to make it lighter since having a charge means having a weight most of the time. Then, fuel the particles with energy source to charge it, which I''ll use mana for now, then it will do this-" He shot an armor made of orichalcum that has the highest resistance to the point that it won''t be scratched by a level 6 with both physical strength and magical power, not even Nine Hell. When the attack hit in the speed of light, the said omnipotent armor have a hole in the middle of it with the sides in red color because of the heat the attack emitted. "And that, is one of the most powerful scientific magic. I doubt Alaya would interfere with that since I technically recreated a natural energy of the world. Photon Magic. Still, it''s weaker than Void Magic since it can swallow any kind of energy and disperse them. Technically, Anti-Magic is Void Magic''s natural effect since the void itself disperses any kind of energy." Then, he proceeded on his next trial. He imbued himself with Photon Magic and he moved, leaving an after image, and disappeared after 5 minutes or so while Silver is running around at the speed of light. So fast, right? He''s still 11 but he already surpassed the Flash and Son Goku in terms of speed. You know what? He''s the fastest in the early stages, but he doubt he could reach MUI Goku''s speed of 10 times the speed of light. 10 times is still fast considering you''re adding 10 times more amount of speed of light. Soon, he stopped running around and focused on the next one. "Spatial magic is Void magic''s sub-element. So, if I created a separate dimension at which inside it, I skip time." He tried it, but it didn''t work? "Wait, skipping time is way harder. Maybe, I''m too slow?" -------------------------------- A purple-skinned man sneezed. "Is there someone talking about me? Nevermind." ?Time Skip brought to you by Hit? -------------------------------- The next day after Silver managed to become the fastest kid alive, because he''s still 11 years old, and it only took him one time to reach the speed of light, far faster than a certain first speedster in a world that starts with D and ends with C. Silver never received any backlash or any sideeffect of some sort as he understand magic the most. Although he receive no drawbacks, just by simply moving at the speed of light for 20 minutes is enough to drain to the point he might die of mana exhaustion and emptying his reserves. When it comes to Time Skip, he can b?r?ly use it 3 times a day, so he will only use it against strong foes right from the start since enemies usually don''t know your strength if you''re hiding it, surprising them and also removing them. [A/N: By 20 minutes, it means the minutes in Silver''s point of view, at which he can tell how much time have passed for reason I won''t say because it''ll spoil the story.] Right now, Silver is reading reading a book about monsters on a certain floor, the 37th floor. The floor where Spartois, Barbarians, Lizardmen Elite, Obsidian Soldiers, Skull Sheeps, Loup Garou, and the Udaeus. Looking at Silver who is diligently reading, Rose couldn''t help but look at his face that wants to learn- no, a face that wants to devour knowledge. For her, it was kinda cute. But what shocked and she almost not believed was that, every time Silver gets a huge haul of monster cores that are commonly known as magic stone. She knew he would''ve dived even deeper, but her anger at that time was quenched when he said that he literally sweeped the first 3 floors of monsters to the point the dungeon won''t spawn monsters in there in a day. Little did she know that Silver did that to test his magic against the Juggernaut because it has high resistance to magic. Other than that, he''s only testing newly developed basic spells, so it''s not entirely powerful as it could only support those who have no level to peak level 2. Sadly, the Juggernaut could only withstand 13 spells in succession. The spell he develop was a water magic that he named as Reflect Bubble at which any attack, physical or magic, it takes will be reflected back as a water burst with double the damage it received. Also, it doesn''t reflect physical attacks with physical attacks, so the Juggernaut could last longer than it would due to its immensely low physical defense despite all that high magic resistance, high physical abilities at which if one was summoned on floor 37, it is even faster than the floor boss Udaeus. [ Insert song: Immortals by Fall Out Boy ] Standing in front of a monster party, he readied himself and brandished his weapons. Looking at them with such wits and intelligence. Each one of them, he knew their weakness and how to deal with them easily. He rushed forward towards them as he pulled out two katana with serrated blade that is intended to copy a beast''s powerful ability to tear it''s enemies apart. He cut off the wyvern''s head very quickly and moved on to decapitating other monsters such as Crystal Mantis, Lamia Mormos, Hellhound, Minotaur, and Lygerfang. Then, a Minotaur with a landform axe tried to cut him, which it did hit, but it was just a clone that turned into water and splashed on the floor. Meanwhile, Silver is already right behind it and killed the monster in one attack. Who am I kidding? All monsters in these floors are all one-hit kill for him if he can get to their blindspot and focus his attack on one point and maximize the power using ki to fully use 100% of a person''s power that is mainly restricted only to 30%, and then goes to 70% when adrenaline is added, which doesn''t exactly allow a person to exert his full power. ?Beast Breathing, Fifth Fang: Crazy Cutting? And then, after killing all monsters and destroyed the walls because of his attacks, a Juggernaut appeared. The both of them rushed towards each other, and were about to attack. Unfortunately for the Juggernaut, Silver is simply faster than it when it comes to reaction speed as he already prepared an attack. ?Beast Breathing, Second Form: Rip and Tear ¡ª Guts? Instead of "X" slash, what he did is a "??" slash. With that, the Juggernaut was technically ripped and teared apart. It''s been just a few weeks and he had yet updated his status, and wants to see it either sooner or never at all as he could still get stronger even without falna. However, because of the freebie of being able to use magic, why wouldn''t he want a falna? -------------------------------- He soon returned back up to the Guild and confessed to Rose. "Rose, I''ve got something to confess to you." Silver said with loud voice for reactions. Silver just completely ignored it. "I ventured deep down to 20th floor." Silver said in deadpanned voice and face. (Seiya deadpanned look.) "You what?! DO YOU KNOW THAT''S VERY RECKLESS OF YOU?! You''re lucky that you didn''t die as you''ve been just an adventurer for a few weeks! A FEW WEEKS! DO YOU- !?" Before she could finish talking, she was interrupted by Silver. Giving her head pats with a small smile on his face, Silver only said one sentence. "I thank you for your concern, but you don''t need to worry about me. I can more than handle myself. Plus, your lessons are a huge help when it comes to monsters. So now, I''ve got a huge haul thanks to your lessons." Silver proceeded to exchange his magic stones for money while keeping drop loots for experimental things and trying to see if he could make a convenient item that is both an ID and a bank account, which there are no banks here as the richest people in the city are Familias with guards to their treasury. [ Music stops like a broken record ] -------------------------------- Ki is one of the Origin Forces, just right below the Primordial Forces of the world. However, there is one thing higher that Primordial Forces, and that is the Chaos Void, where Chaos itself was born, from nothing. For the Void, everything is nothing, nothing is everything, and nothing lasts forever in the face of it, which is a big slap in the face when it comes to the gods, not even the All Father could force it to use 1% of its power. The only things that could fight back are the First Forces, not Primordial nor Origin. Primordial is a source of energy from more than billions of years ago. Origin is a source that supplied the world. Meanwhile, the First Forces are so powerful that even helping the will of the world would cause it to collapse. There are 5 First Forces: The next is the Vector, the opposite of the Void. As the name suggests, it is about movements. Not just any movement, but constant movement. Even though it exist in the same dimension as the Void does, its influence to movements made all stars, planets, the galaxies, and other celestial bodies in the universe to move constantly. The third are two energies which gods, mortals, and demons were made of. Gods being created with pure Holy or Demonic Essence, mortals with balanced of the two, and demons with pure Demonic Essence which some have a small portions or even a quarter without being half-demons, of Holy Essence. The fourth is Chaos, which is technically the Primordial god who produced other existence like "it" because "it" was bored by using "its" own energy and splits it into small portions until its power is depleted to only equal a Primordial Force. Even though it is weak, its influence to other worlds is still strong due to splitting his power. The last is the Order, the opposite of Chaos. Order was suppose to stop Chaos from wreaking havoc, unintentionally or not, and contain it. However, due to the Chaos splitting its power, the Order tried to search for Chaos'' fragments only to find out that Chaos created more. So, in order to both stop the original and the fragments, it also decided to split itself to the point the two of them are equally strong while the fragments of their power are playing hide and seek throughout the world''s, dimensions from dimensions, causing wars and making heroes rise. "Now then, where is that book about the ''First Force: Void of Endless Possibilities from Nothingness''...." Chapter 23 - Forbidden Knowledge Looking around the hidden library inside a hidden library. Once again, looking for things that will help him to get stronger for no reason at all. He already finished reading the "First Force: Void of Endless Possibilities from Nothingness" which gave him a lot of information about Void Magic and the omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient Void that were entered by both Broly and Gogeta due to the power of their concentrated blows. At the 42nd row of shelves at section C, on the fourth floor. There, he looked around and read through the books and their ideas and the effects of what seems to be magic tools of some kind. Some can increase magic power in exchange for your physical body that will slowly rot, to decay, whatever you want to call it. Some grants infinite boosts on physical power in exchange for the person''s lifespan. Some even increases both, but you need to trade your soul to the devil to do that. And yes, Devils exists, but on another plane as they don''t really care about humans, mortals, or even angels and gods unless something piqued their interest. In a nutshell, not all devils are evil. Some of them even give things freely without any exchange. Among the books Silver had read, books about devils got his interest. After all, they are much better than Gods as long as there''s contracts. Yes, Devils do what the contract says, but you need to be careful because they can find loopholes to their contracts. They''re devious, but not as petty as gods, not as liar as gods, and they are much civilized. The only reason why there are history of them being summoned and causing havoc is because the summoning ritual is very, very wrong. The magic circles are done incorrectly that causes them to lose their IQ and just trust on their instinct on causing problems to any race, even other devils. They don''t discriminate. The most notable ones are the Gremlins. They might look like playful little devils, but they are much more intellectual than what they looked. "I guess, I''ll try summoning a devil. I''ll try summoning a spirit too." He muttered to himself. [A/N: This is Laplace ?when talking?, this is Od ?when talking?, and this is Bahamut £Ûwhen talking£Ý. That''s all.] ?You should try to learn Mnemonic chants while you''re at it.? ''Laplace?'' ''Od?'' £Û????''?? ???? ?????. ??? ? ??????? ???? ???''?? ???? ?? ???? ? ??? ?? ???? ?????? ??????? ?? ???? ?? ????? ?? ??? ???????? ??????, ??????? ???? ???? ?? ??? ?? ???? ???? ????????? ?? ??? ????? ???? ???? ??.£Ý ''Bahamut? And you used coffers for saying capacity?'' . . . They turned silent. ''Well, it''s not like I''m desperate to need their help.'' He continued to look into the library more until he saw a book with theories and blueprints. Well, not exactly a blueprint, but it was drawn in the book along with the parts and how to make each of them. However, the effect of the magic tool is only theorized to be able to produce an infinite amount of energy injected into it. Right now, it can only be used as an infinite Mana tank since it is made for magic. It''s called... . . . . The Akashic Engine. It''s ability is to multiply Mana infinitely without losing the quality. ''Who the hell would make something like this? If this fell into the wrong hands, it will only cause destruction. It''s a good thing that it wasn''t made yet and it is still a theory. Whoever thought of this, has a few screw loose.'' -------------------------------- *Achoo!* "Who''s talking bad behind my back?!" Kane asked literally no one. -------------------------------- All in all, he found absolutely over a thousand ideas on how to improve it, and then reduced it to 600s as some design of the engine can''t or is not designed to be able to do some things. And then he broke them down to two hundreds of possible things to add. Another second later, he reduced it down to hundred, to 50, to 20, and then stopped at 13. 13 ideas that are very useful to create and improved the theorized Akashic Engine even though it hasn''t been created yet. However, with the information on each parts on what is their purpose, their flaws, and what they can''t support are all in the book and he easily found 13 ideas on improving it drastically. However, he''s not going to do it right now as he is busy looking at some possible useful things in the Forbidden section of the library where most knowledge that are store there are too powerful, have too much drawback, some are heaven defying, and some are in there because of how they were created. And the amount of them is like 2 floors of a building in one floor. It''s like comparing the size of the whole Korea to Japan. He stayed there for three days without eating, sleeping, or even drinking water. He persisted, even if his huge pit of a stomach complained, he didn''t stopped. After three days, he got out of there and he cooked himself a feast. Yes, a feast, as he can eat more than people can and he haven''t eaten in three days, so it''s expected of him to do so. Almost all of the food in the fridge, that looked like a huge ice cavern, has been used to cook himself and eat until he''s full. He managed to finished all the food he cooked and not even a single piece is wasted. After learning in the Forbidden section, he found and learned a lot of things, he even tried them in there. Of course, what he used are the ones that guaranteed him that it won''t cause any trouble or explosion. Well, except mnemonic chants. Because if he said "Explosion" in reverse, a magic circle will appear in front of him and will fire a blast of explosion. He even saw on how to permanently fuse something inside a human body. Some of the experiments are about fusing the body with water to gain water body that will grant some kind of immortality for unknown reason. Of course, Silver knew why. Water particles is everywhere, and if a person obtained a water body, they are literally made of water and cannot be hurt or killed with ordinary means. The only ways to do so is to use the opposite element, or freeze it with its own branched element, or use null elements such as Space, Time, and Void. He also saw how to store something inside a human body without needing a surgeon for a transplant. This kind of thing have some disadvantages as expected. There''s 99% chance of dying. But that is in the mages'' minds since most of them, if not all, have weak body even though it is better than normal average humans. And him being physically strong, he will surely survive it, and he will also get a bonus if he ever did so. For now, he''s not a fool to risk his own life without any reason at all. Why does he want power? No reasons at all. Why does he keep training? To protect himself? To protect others? No. He''s training without any reason. Why did he liked crafting? Because it is fun? Because it gives a sense of achievement? No. It''s because he just want to. Why did he wish for a rival? To feel the heat of the battle? No. It''s to make sure that there will be someone to stop him if he ever become crazy, or evil. The only thing he cares about is the consequences of his decisions, not the people affected by them, he doesn''t care even a bit. He only cared for his family, and the rest of the people in different worlds can burn for all he care. After he finished eating, he decided to get his status updated. He knew that he will get a huge jump on his status since he can literally increase his power by up to thrice his power by enhancing his body with Mana and boost his Ki. And no, it''s not Mana Burst or Power Buff of some sort. He have no real technique or control to do it, but he''s planning to develop one. And by him going further than floor 20 in just a few weeks is way too impressive and astonishing to the gods as he''s just a level 1. ''Time to upgrade my status.'' -------------------------------- [Vault of Information] Silver doesn''t like to get attached to people who can''t even change their own destiny paved by other people for them.. Keyword, "doesn''t like to get attached". Chapter 24 - Thaumaturgy Also known as Magecraft, Thaumaturgy is a scientific way of using Magic. Using science as a base for creating or producing miracle-like ability that is close to Magic but is not entirely Magic. Silver was sure that he won''t be able to have Magic Circuits, but he knew he can apply these Magecrafts into Magic with much better effect. Since he doesn''t have Magic Circuits, he is not limited, nor will there be the Will of the World to stop him, plus even if there is, he''s using real Magic, not Magecraft. The first thing he learned is Projection. Learning the basic first and refining his usage of it will help him further in the next level of the said magecraft, and will also give him some insights as learning more of the basic version will lead to a better understanding of the advanced version. It is much like swordsmanship where you should learn the basic and have some enlightenment about the basics that will lead to one''s own style even if the swordsmanship is the same style. An example is when Silver trained under Kane who taught him Thunder Breathing style. Kane prefers to use the speed to counterattack rather than attack while Silver uses the speed for multiple attacks in seemingly one stroke, making his own style deadly, but will make him exhausted faster. However, that is where Silver''s lineage comes in. Each time he gets exhausted, the next time he recovered, he will last longer. Anyway, since he doesn''t have Magic Circuits, at least not yet, he decided to use real magic and use the knowledge he learned to recreate it into a more mystery. Luckily, he learned the Mystic Arts, which helped him progress with his mastery over different types of magic. At the first try, he managed to create a weapon, but it got dispersed afterwards as it does not have solid or physical body, unlike the magecraft version that can be thought of as computer, and you are the programmer who created a software and placed it on hard drive, or some disks, or even some chips that can be used for machines to make it work as if it has physical form. Meanwhile, magic needed to be learned properly and use it at a certain way of thinking, mysticism. At second try, he managed to create Kansh¨­ and its wife, Bakuya. But Silver prefers to call them G¨¡n Ji¨¤ng and M¨° Y¨¦, but this world is very lucky that there''s no speck of Chinese young Master virus has appeared not chinese-like country in this world, otherwise he would wipe them out in one blast even if it means killing other innocents. He doesn''t care about them, why? It''s because those poor people, if they happened to get stronger, they will develop Young Master virus which means that there is no cure for their illness. After all, in most cultivation novel he had read, the protagonist ends up developing young master virus, even if it is slightly smaller scale than the deadliest version. Anyway, the story have digressed. Silver successfully created Kansh¨­ and Bakuya without any problem. When his hands left the blades, they disappeared. Well, they are made from nothing, so they will go back to nothing, however, he can''t say if the strength of the weapons were of the same as the originals, nor does he know that what he creates were only replicates of the original ones. At first, he only added water attribute. He gave the sword a few swings in front of a fire, and it produced water, but the water was as strong as ordinary water against a fire made of magic. So, he decided to add some attribute where it will be feeding off on the user''s magic power output and mana while also su?k?n? some natural mana in the air so that the sword won''t continuously suck the wielder''s Mana. He also added some magic cores on it to make it store some mana so it won''t leak mana. His now ordinary iron sword has turned into water-attributed sword and was now named as Caldis. Caldis can send a sword wave of water that can cut through metals depending on the force used and also how physics was applied. Though, it cannot destroy nor make a scratch on things made of orichalcum, it is still powerful against enemies without magic resistance of some sort as well as it can be used for close quarter fights, making an artificial Magic Swordsman on the spot, albeit unskilled. After learning how to make Magic Crest in Magic version, he called this version as Magic Glyphs as he used some magical glyphs to form the effect of the Magic Glyphs. Magic Glyphs are crest-like magic while magical glyphs are writings with magic power and mana with unique frequencies on every letter to form a word and a magic spell. "Alright, it''s already past 5." His sense of time is very accurate to the point that he knows the exact time by observing his own body. He''s basing mainly on circadian rhythm which is a biological clock of living organisms. By sensing it using Ki, he can check the exact amount he have been awake since he woke up and by also sensing how much time left for him to get his sleep within 24 hours. It is due to this way of sensing when to sleep is how Silver developed himself a internal alarm that he can set so that he will wake up at exact time he wants. If he wants to wake up at 10 A.M., he will wake up at 10. If he want to sleep for 5 hours, will will sleep for 5 hours, if he wants to take a nap for several minutes, he will be napping for several minutes before waking up. After that, sleeping is always on schedule as well as other things such as eating, inventing magic items, crafting weapons, and always on time, not a single one missed since then. After getting out of the library, of course he didn''t forget the project that he took an interest on, about the engine that can endlessly produce mana at constant rate. Of course, this engine will blow up any magic items even if they needed large amounts. This project is far from complete, but with the new knowledge he just acquired, he now have a way to fix the said problem with already more than hundreds of ideas but only around a dozen of possible and useful add-ons and upgrades. As he got out of the house, he walked towards a certain pub with only few workers for now. The Hostess of Fertility, otherwise known as Benevolent Mistress. How come it has two names? Well, it started as Benevolent Mistress until it got changed after getting popular, and at the same time, got a very good cook and got a contract with the Demeter Familia that deals with agricultural part of the city and without this familia, there will be "eternal winter" even if it wasn''t winter. As the goddess of the familia is the goddess of agriculture and harvest, the qualities of their products are of high quality and is the best you can find. Because of having a contract with the Demeter Familia for fruits and vegetables as well as meats, they decided to change the name of the pub to Hostess of Fertility. You readers already know who are those people, but I know you want to know the last one. They were the Astraea Familia. Who am I kidding? It''s obviously them! "What is nyour order, nya~?" Anya Fromel, sister of the "slowest" adventurer alive. "I want to order the best meal." He paused as he looked at her with apathy, "Your brother is a snail, by the way. Too slow even for a level 1." He spoke very loudly. "Haaah? You said that a level 5 is slow for a level 1? Which level 1 are you talking about? You?" A certain white haired werewolf suddenly chimed. "Yes. I am." He released a huge pressure at the whole pub, "Do you have a problem with that?" *BAM!* They turned to look at the owner, Mia Grand who slammed the counter and broke it. "Don''t dare fighting in here! If you want to fight, go outside, you runts!" She also released a pressure. Bete Loga backed down, however, the other didn''t. "Did you say something, old hag?" Silver spoke in a cold, emotionless, and apathetic voice that sent shivers to all adventurers in the pub. *CRACK!* He broke one of her shoulder and left without paying for anything. But before he completely walked out, he spoke. "Remember this that you''ve been defeated by a newly recruited member of the Hephaestus Familia, a level 1." Amusement, shock, awe, fear, and respect lingered around the place. No one has ever tried to argue with Mia Grand! Yet, this young man did not only argued, but ALSO broke her hand and the counter of HER pub. There''s a human girl who saw the whole scene whose quite interested. She wants to know how he became so strong. -------------------------------- "So, you want me to train you? And in turn will pay me however much I want?" "Yes..." "Why..?" "I don''t have any speck of respect to those who can''t progress on their own! I only learned how to fight, but I got stronger on my own.. That''s how." Chapter 25 - Team S??? I Today would have been a normal day. A redhead with gold eyes can be seen with an arrogant smile wearing gold and red clothes. "I, the great Prince of the Empire, will be in your team. Let''s make our name known throughout the world in full GLORY!" Then, a black haired young man with red eyes can be seen with a face of irritation. "Can you not shout when he''s just basically 10 feet away from you? At least, consider it when there''s someone who is even closer!" And then another annoyance in a form of a yellow hair with green eyes with a smile of an idiot. "Wow! It seems like this team is going to be interesting. Even so, I''ll soon reclaim what is rightfully belonged to me!" Silver could only sigh at the opposite of what he liked the most. What he loved is his peace and a quiet environment. -------------------------------- Earlier that day, Silver had recently finished reading books that are mostly fundamental in him understanding what truly Magic is. As a result, he decided to continue the incomplete theory of artificial unlimited source of mana, which is overpowered, but the downside is that it wasn''t yet tested and there are still some parts that are lacking as well as the drawback of exploding due to unlimited mana being generated inside the body that could not handle such amount of mana, especially when the project said that it will produce natural mana that exists from something natural such as mountains, fertile land, the ocean, the lightning and the thunder it produces, and much more that is a natural occurrence, even the sun and moon along with their vector, movements, and rotation are very natural. Anyway. It has just been roughly 2 weeks since he have arrived and started living in Orario, and he doesn''t have any personal forge given by Hephaestus. Not that he needed one when he already have one in this small mansion with a fairly huge open field perfect for testing weapons like cutting things. Well... Not until he got called by Kane through Telepathy. {Silver, you''ve got to come back to Trezin Town, it''s time.} Silver sighed. -------------------------------- Trezin is almost like "Treason" with "z" for "s". -------------------------------- "So, you''re asking for permission to leave because of some matters?" Hephaestus asked with her stern voice. "Yes." He replied with the same stoicness. "Let me explain why. You are this familia''s goddess, and like a shop owner, it''s your call when to let your workers to get a day off." Silver reasoned. "Okay, fine..." She sighed and then added, "But, come back quickly. All of the level 1s already received an update, except you." "..." He only blinked a few times, then nodded afterwards. Silver left the Babel with black body-fitted long-sleeved shirt, black martial arts pants, and crimson red ragged cloak that was only placed over his right shoulder because he mainly uses his left hand than his right even though he''s ambidextrous. As he walked out and headed straight towards the northwest gate because the the town of Trezin is in the northwest of Orario, and southwest of Althena, which is not too far nor too close from the Black Desert. Departing from Orario, he traveled using his own two feet that were obviously stronger than a horse''s leg. -------------------------------- ? Silver''s POV ? Sigh... A heavy sigh for the day, I might get my hair turn grey, which apparently close to what gray color is to a silver hair, which is funnily my name. Sometimes, I''m not sure whether my mother didn''t know what to name me or just named me Silver right off the bat. However, I''m not complaining. I decided to turn a blind eye and go away without anyone noticing me. I just used my footwork which I mastered over time and my steps are as silent as they can be, but if the place is pin drop silence, there''s a chance my steps are heard depending if they do have sharper hearing than normal. "Hey, you! Don''t act like nothing happened here!" Yare yare... These buffoons just dug their own grave by noticing me. I should''ve sneaked away as fast as I could, but I''m kinda lazy today, so I only lowered my presence a little and steps are muffled. I only stopped, stood still. "Hah? Why are you just standing there? Nevermind, it''s better if you just stand there!" He pointed at Silver and ordered his men. "Kill him! We only need the princess, also, quickly kill that damn butler already you weaklings!" Stupid leader with stupid tactics. Why would you keep using weaklings to attack a butler who is clearly on defense for the time being, waiting to go offense. These men seem to be stronger than normal, possibly a member of a familia, and so is the butler, but on the same level with higher status. Anyway, while I was thinking, why am I not getting attacked? Simple, I am faster and I use magic to make my mind process even faster and basically am thinking within a span of 0.01 second every second you wasted on reading this from the start of me getting seen. [Phantom_Zero_v2: Oi! Don''t break the damn 4th wall!] As they got closer, they are moving at a slow pace because I can see and have e faster perception by spreading my ki all over my body. Even if it is just small amount, the power output is still the same unless you suppress it. As they though I was weaponless, then they did a mistake. By observation, I know that they didn''t use their full power. So, they thought I''m just a normal person? "AAARRRRRGHHH!!!" Multiple wails, groan, and even grunts of dying cannon fodders reached my ears. And yes, I''ve practically managed to learn Projection and implemented it into magic from being Magecraft. There''s a difference, but people who are new to magecraft doesn''t know the difference. I''ll explain it next time. Of course, this made the leader wet his pants. I mean, I didn''t even moved, I seem defenseless, yet swords appeared and pierced his men in a blink of an eye. Then, he started to run. "Tch! Coward like you doesn''t deserve to live!" I pulled out a black bow and shot a mana-infused arrow and shot him down. Next, I killed the rest of the bandits and even th ones who tried to run away. And when I was about to go on my way to Trizen, I was stopped by a hand. It was the butler who is wearing a gold and red combo clothes that seems to be customized to allow one to move like a fighter would, but as formal as it could. "Wait, the princess wants to-" I disappeared and reappeared 10 meters away from him using my speed and also left a lot, and when I say a lot, it''s a lot of dust. I don''t care if he gets angry, and if he did, I''ll skewer him by using swords as projectiles. I can also use spears as projectiles as the magic version doesn''t really give me any limitations, really. Alright, spears it is. Imagine getting rained down by millions of Gae Bolg. An d since I have no limit, I think I can project Excalibur, but I liked the proto version more based on how Arthur have two seals on his Excalibur, and the second seal having 13 seals and he only used 6 in the game, never fully releasing all 13 seals. And Ea, if I ever met a Gilgamesh in DanMachi world, I will slap the sword on his face. Well, it seems like I''ve got to say goodbye to all of you. Also, it''s been a while since you''ve got a chapter on this fanfic.. I hoped you enjoyed it. Chapter 26 - Team ST?? II ? ??? POV ? My name is Leonidas Terezis. But I always go by the name Leo instead because it''s shorter and nearly everyone always call me like that. Today, my master who taught me how to hunt, which doesn''t seem to far from what you call as "Assassination", however, it proved useful when bandits attacked a nearby village that I have come across after leaving the capital. The bandits, killed men, chained the children, and enslaved the women. I was lucky that I managed to arrive before any of the bandits could even touch any of the women. And now, I owe my master for teaching me on not only how to hunt animals, but also how to hunt "animals in human skin", but I also hints monsters, so it''s the same thing. And now, I''ve got to pay him back to all the teachings he ingrained on me. The skills I''ve polished, they are the things that keeps me alive, and will keep polishing my "hunting" skills. Other than that, of course, I can''t just hunt without being able to track my prey, that would be worse than dying. He called me in my mind using what he called as telepathy, which I didn''t know what it was since it''s a new word, he explained that it was some kind of temporary metal link that connects two or more people together in their minds, allowing them to talk to each other at such great distances. However, what made it piqued my interest is that it''s not magic. However, I do also have some tricks with me that seems like magic, but I ?ssure you that they are not. After all, I learned these from a Far Easterner that was traveling. It was an old man in full black clothes. Anyway, I digressed. Today, is the day. Today is the day that I will soon pay the neverending debt of mine that kept me alive. After all, life is precious that even if you can live a million years, you can''t buy it. He talked to me through that telepathy of his. {Leo, come to Trizen and find me there.} -------------------------------- From the carriage, a what seems to be a butler came out of the vehicle wearing red and gold combo of clothes. And by the looks of it, he seems kinda wary but has no any intention of hurting me. "Um, excuse me, young sir. Do you, by any chance know which direction Altena is at?" He asked in a calm voice. Impressive. "You''ll just have to follow this path, and when you''ve arrived at a split direction, take the path going around the mountain instead. There were rumors that there is a dangerous beast in there which I''ll have to hunt soon, but I''ve got to go somewhere more important." "Thank you very much, young sir." Then the carriage left. A dangerous beast known as the White Tooth. It was not a monster you know that are instantly killed upon hitting them in the ?h?st, neither they are animals with stronger physique. My instincts tells me that there are some itchy human hands involved. I''m not in a hurry. Patience is what hunters should have before becoming one or trying to hunt an animal. So, I''ll hunt it soon enough, but not now. -------------------------------- After a few years of traveling, which I''m just exaggerating because I''m bored. However, I''m already more than halfway there because I''m unexpectedly lucky that I was closer to that Trizen town or something. I also have a map, and a map is a must for hunters. And if we don''t have map for the place? We send scouts to map out the place on paper. So far, there hadn''t been much aside from- Really? Who would pay that much? And from the looks of it, these bandits doesn''t seem to be powerful, and only seemed to be new based on the video I get from them, they''re nervous, except the fool in front of me who talked. "Here," I slowly put my hands underneath my cloak and reached for my daggers, and stabbed him in the neck with a nimble attack. "Keep the change, I''m sure you''ll need that for Charon." I then stabbed the one who first to try to draw their sword. They did "try" but I didn''t even gave them enough time as I pushed one away while stabbing that idiot and also pulling out his short sword and used it to stab the opposite side where someone managed to draw their sword. Then, I stole his sword and started a swordfight. Well, almost a swordfight as an axe came falling down from above. It was the other who is a veteran at this kind of work. In a fight like this where you have an opponent with a heavy weapon, parry is the best defense and then counter them with quick hits. As I do so, I also paid attention to his minions who tried to attack me thinking I was distracted.. And when the axe man was left, instead of parrying, I''ve redirected his strike towards the grough with a short sword and slit his throat with my sharp dagger. One thing I learned from hunting is: "never let your prey take the advantage of space and terrain". As for how, the space is utilized by trying to conquer bigger space if you are cornered or surrounded, and also by using the terrain to your advantage will allow you to have better mobility. Luckily, I''ve trained and hunted in different places with complicated or simple terrain. Oh? It seems like I''ve arrived. Well, where''s that master of mine? -------------------------------- "Heya, Leo! You''re looking good today!" He gave me a thumbs up which I just grinned at. I nodded and looked around. And then I saw myself on a mirror. Wavy black hair with strange red eyes that have white pupils instead of black, with the crimson red color looking like a circle in red color. -------------------------------- ? -------------------------------- Chapter 27 - What-if I This is not canon, however, if you want to somehow, involve Silver in Record of Ragnar?k, I''ll do it, but until he''s as powerful as he is in this What-if side story. I''m bored and I''m watching Record of Ragnar?k and decided that why don''t I do a side story like that Author who looked like Jellal but have a mustache. Tell me if you liked it, I just want to know if I should stop it. Anyway, start reading now, enjoy! -------------------------------- On a certain battlefield, two combatants are fighting. A human, and a god. These two are none other than L¨¹ Bu and Thor. As Thor''s hammer came back to him and he was ready to dish out his strongest attack, L¨¹ Bu came rushing towards him to receive what a god can give him, a fight that he sought for. Someone worthy to fight, someone strong enough to either fight him on equal grounds or even stronger than him as he became the strongest human of the Great Three Kingdoms. They clashed! *BOOOM!* Everything fell in silence. Gods and mortals are still waiting until the dust settled. However, in the next second, they became shocked. A man with a tall stature of 216 centimeters, towering over the two combatants who are both 190 centimeters. [A/N: Based on YouTube: youtu.be/zLJzXh5Po0s ] "Oi... You two, have you seen my brother somewhere? He have white hair and red eyes, he looks like a lost rabbit, because he''s actually missing right now." Said the man with no care in the world rang in their ears. The peculiar silver-haired man spoke, "Huh? Are you talking about Tione Hiryute? Anyway, did you say humanity''s end? I can''t have that until I found my brother. After that, I don''t care what would happen to humanity." He then pushed Thor away while his other hand is holding the weapon of L¨¹ Bu. "Hm?!" "Interesting..." "Ara~ what a handsome guy~" Zeus, Hermes, and Aphrodite reacted while the other gods are shocked. Meanwhile... "Wha-?! I don''t who he is, but he somehow managed to stop Thor''s attack! Hilde-nee-sama, is he one of the fighters you''ve brought?" "No. I didn''t know anyone in Heaven like him, G?ll. He''s still alive." A third-party voice sounded near them, "Oh, that''s my brother." ""H-how did you-?!"" The two looked at the person, a boy who looked like 17 years old with a height of 178 centimeters. "Yo! I''m Bell Cran- no, I''m Bell Sterling. Nice to meet you! My brother over there is Silver Sterling! He''s the most awesome person you can find, although he only cares on very few people while he have no care about humanity after living for more than two thousand years." Bell replied, "I won''t come home until you save these people, I mean the humanity." "Why should I do that?" Silver asked in a cold monotone voice. "Brother! I''ve learned that these gods have the same names and divinity as the gods in our world." Bell asked which a reply quickly came. "So?" "That means you can beat up the gods who pissed you off in our world!" Bell said with a smile! "... Fine. Oi, go away, this is my battle now." Silver told L¨¹ Bu whom he doesn''t know yet. L¨¹ Bu raised an eyebrow while speaking rudely, "Huh..? No, this is my fight, you get out." Pissed, Silver just gave him a gut punch which made L¨¹ Bu bend down and then quickly hit his neck to knock him down. He then teleported L¨¹ Bu at where Bell is. Silver turned to Thor. "You... By the looks of it, you''re name''s Thor. To show some manners, my name is Silver Sterling." Thor only nodded. "Do that move again. But this time, put all your power behind it." Silver looked at Thor intently, and the latter took the signal. Thor threw his hammer towards Silver who nimbly got out of the way and was already 10 meters away from the hammer in the same standing position. And when the hammer was about to come back to Thor, Silver ran right towards Thor so that they will be equal, but that depends on how much damage Silver would take. Geirr?d Thor''s Hammer And then- *BWOOOMSHHHH!* The attack was so strong that the esound of explosion seemed to be distorted. The attack kicked up a lot of dust than before. As the dust settled, all the gods were filled with shock while the human side cheered! Thor''s hammer, Mj?lnir, met and hit the face of Silver who just stood there, unmoving without any care in the world. "Is that all you''ve got? For a god, you''re simply pathetic. At least, the minor gods in my world can still give me some wounds here and there, but can''t even put a single scratch. I guess, it''s my turn now." ?Trace On? And this is where made the gods shocked to their core. A perfect copy of awakened Mj?lnir. "Let me demonstrate you the perfected technique of yours at the hands of a human." He threw Mj?lnir which moved at the speed of sound and came back very quickly at which Silver threw it again, but this time, it emitted blue lightning that not only coated the whole hammer, but also destroyed anything that are 4 meters near it. And when it finally came back, he held it and used the force and the velocity to make a swing while going forward by running to the side, guiding the direction of the force and slammed it in front of Thor which the man thought he would slam it at him. The aftermath: Thor was obliterated by his own technique perfected by a human and used the same weapon against him.. Such an ironic way to die, killed by his own technique and weapon. Chapter 28 - Team ST?? III ? ??? POV ? Short blond hair and beautiful green eyes. That''s what people usually notices, the hair and eyes, next is the face. And lastly, the clothes they wear. I''ve been training... Training to escape my fated coronation of becoming the next King of Empire, therefore I trained. I don''t want to be a king, I never chose to be one, and I don''t want to become one. But I know it will come back hunting me if I escaped... For now, at least. When I''m stronger, I''ll be back and defy my father. My name is Arthur R¨®ich, prince of the Empire, the only son of the current king, Luther R¨®ich. --------[Team ST?R]-------- In order to defy my father, I escaped my country, my kingdom. On my travels, I helped people who needed my help. I trained, challenged and defeated people with Falna. But I can only defeat Level 1s, and I''ve never expected that there is huge difference in power between a peak level 1 and a level 2. I lost. Then, he came. He taught me proper swordsmanship used mostly by knights which is not a problem because I could have chosen to become a knight to escape on becoming a king, but that would mean my father would use this as an advantage, or if ever Rakia found out that I left my home country, they will use me to conquer the Empire. That only left me with one place to go. The city where adventures came from, those who lives in different ways of life: guards, thieves, information brokers, ?ssassins, etc. Even knights. Speaking of knights, I''ve made a friend who is a girl and tried to prove that she can be a knight as well, not just the men in her family or in general that are allowed to become knights. It''s been years now, I wonder how''s she''s doing? Was she still training using those wooden sticks? Or is she training now using real weapons? The former is probably accurate as they don''t want her get hurt or get scarred. Anyway, my master had called me through my mind using his mind. He told me to come at this Trizen which is close to Altena but closer to Orario. And I''m fortunate that I did find one. The travel didn''t have much problem. Sometimes, some bandits appear, but I''ll just smack them with my sheathed sword. There''s no need to use the blade if you can just solve it with the sheath. By the time we''ve took a stop, I''m already at Trizen. Since I didn''t tell the merchant where I am going, he was shocked that this is my destination. I''m also kind of stupid for not asking where he is going to. "Alright, what would you want to show me?" -------------------------------- ? ??? POV ? Let''s see... I''m looking good today, umu! My red and gold clothes compliments my red hair and gold eyes! Ah~ such things made my day so good! From this day forward I, Lucius Augustus, will work hard for my future teammates. I''ve also noticed that you guys probably saw it coming just from the title. --------[Team STLR]-------- -------------------------------- I donned my crimson cape with intricate gold designs. This cape of mine also have what master called as hood. I''ve never seen capes with hoods as I have been born and grew up in a royal family known for their iron fist when it comes to ruling. It''s not a bad thing in my kingdom seeing as there''s not much people that are disobeying the rules except from some thieves who came from outside. Anyway, there are many things that I haven''t fully understood yet, but I am now free to make my choice, thus am now learning magic and anything connected to magic. Magic fascinated me due to miracle-like effects they exhibit. Actually, magic is the miracle itself, but it was utilized in violence and war rather than making real miracles like reviving the dead. Although there is Necromancy, that art is basically about the dead, not bringing a dead back to life. But there are traces of Light and Holy magic in the Necromancy book I have read about. That means, Necromancy was born from Holy and Light magic, and possibly, someone tried to learn the way to revive the dead and turn them back to life, but it failed and became Necromancy instead. I''d like to tackle this path after I have enough strength to control my own power. Riding on my trusty horse, Gypsy, I traveled through the plains. As much as it is very thrilling to travel by horse, the path itself to wherever you are going is boring, unless bandits stopped you from traveling further. Those who want to travel alone needed to be at least a level 2 to be allowed to travel alone, otherwise, you will be overwhelmed by mass numbers of level 1 and will never be able to escape. Unless you have a bunch of wild cards in your sleeves, you might not escape unscathed. Well, I can see the Trizen town now, I should be the first one to be informed. "Knock, knock!" I knocked and also said it. "Who''s there?" "Mario!" "Mario, who?" "First name''s Mario, last name''s Mario. Mario Mario." "Come in!" I opened the door and entered. That earlier is not a password or something, but more of a joke that I''ve learned on my own so suddenly. I don''t know why, but the joke''s kinda funny. -------------------------------- ? 3rd POV ? "Want some tea?" "Well, the travel did made me thirsty, thus I need to quench my throat." He spoke like he used to. "Well, to be honest, you''re the only one who talks like that but when it comes to battle, you''re a force to be reckoned with. The other doesn''t like to talk but when he''s pissed off his power greatly increases, the other is carefree idiot but strong as hell, and the last one may seem unguarded but he actually have no openings. You''ll meet them soon enough, just wait a few more minutes." Kane spoke calmly with a unnerving smile that didn''t even made Lucius to flinch. "I have a question, though." "Go ahead, Nero." "Can I fight one of them?" "Nope! But you can certainly fight, just not them." "I have no objections." A minute of silence played in the room. But Kane broke the eerie silence lingering around. "Umu! I''ve managed to create my own swordsmanship and also now on the phase of polishing my skills. As for magic, I''ve managed to control my Mana to releases the limits of my body and also enhances my physical attributes when it comes to close combats that I can''t escape even though I''m more of a Mage with a sword than a Magic Swordsman." *Light knocking sound* "Hey, teach. It''s me, Arthur!" Kane stood up and opened the door. "A good morning for a tea, aye?" Arthur spoke in his carefree voice but shamelessly asking for a tea. "Well, come in. I''ll make you a tea." Arthur sat down right in front of Lucius on the other couch. Arthur tried to introduce himself, but was cut off by Kane. "Introductions later, let''s wait for others first." *Mild knocking sound* "I''m here now, master. I''m ready for whatever reason you want!" Kane stood up and opened the door and found Leo in front of his door with some animal skin rugs. "Ahaha... I''ve... kinda helped some people along the way so-" "What are you waiting for? Come in." Then, once they are in the living room, they all sat down to wait for the last person. Soon, a magic circle appeared on the ground and from it, appeared a silver-haired tall boy. This is Silver Sterling. "It worked, but I felt my reserves were reduced by a sixth. The magic circle I''ve made lowered the mana cost but in return made the teleportation set up much slower instead of just a second teleportation in 5 miles." "Brother!" A wild Bell has appeared. """How cute!""" -------------------------------- And that''s how things went into chaotic path. The three idiots tried to impress a scared Bell by telling him their "Heroic" acts. Luckily, this was stopped by Kane. "Listen up, kids! The four of you will be known as Team STLR (stellar) under my Multi-omniversal organization where I will send you to worlds and fight the anomalies of those worlds. This is not to make sure they follow the ''right'' timeline, but to make sure that those outside forces will not kill some important people and also stop any huge divergence like a strong being was awakened forcefully." The four nodded as their faces adopted serious looks while the other adopted a stoic face. "The first world is a world where demons from another world managed to enter the human world, thus wreaking havoc. Fortunately, the humans were able to fight them back with more numbers and strong and talented warriors and knights. Then, some time later, some demons copulated with humans, thus humans with magical power were born-" "Wait, isn''t it normal?" "Arthur, this place I''m talking about is another world. Anyway, let me continue: newborns with demonic powers were born between humans and demons. As those children grew both in numbers and age, so do the ordinary humans who were scared of the unknown, thus they started the Witch Hunt. As for why they call it the Witch Hunt, it''s because all male children that were born soon died for unknown reason. Now, as for your mission: make sure that no Hell Pride, Hell Lust, or even Hell Wrath will attack them. Now, are you three ready?" Arthur answered with a huge grin, "I''m ready when they are. My name''s Arthur R¨®ich, by the way. Nice to meetcha!" Lucius replied, "Greetings, I am Lucius Augustus, but you can call me Nero. I''ll be ?ssisting you guys with my magic." Leo stepped forward, "We can also hunt them down by acting like a prey. The name''s Leonidas Terezis. You guys can call me Leo, I''ll be watching your backs." "Silver Sterling. I''m expecting a lot from you three." -------------------------------- Guess the world I''m referring to. This is not only limited to anime worlds, so worlds from games are a possibility. Also, it''s an Android game as a hint. Phantom, out! Chapter 29 - Sorry Note Hello, my dear readers, I know I haven''t been uploading chaps recently, but that is because of rushed Midterm Exams which are technically projects and some performances. I''ll try uploading tomorrow and see if I could make 2k to 3k words. As for the world they are going to, some of you might be gamers who knows this game. The name of the game is Epic Conquest (EC1), a game that has a very interesting story and the programming group consist of 5 people, I think, but they''re incredible at making the game and even made a Sequel which sometimes reaches a maximum of 2 months and a week as minimum for updating the game. Also, if you''re interested in playing the game, you can just play the EC2 but you''ll miss a lot of things in EC1. To support them, either buy premium or watch ads. Chapter 30 - Note (Sorry) Sorry, but this fanfic and my JJK fanfic are now dropped. . . . . . . . Just kidding! And no! I will not pay you back for the tears you''ve shed! Anyway, I''ve wrote an AU of this fanfic. The title is: Chapter 31 - Sorry I must say, I''m sorry for not uploading. School and all, doing these activities projects and ?ssignments etc, which gave less time for writing. And so does the final term nearing the end. So, I ask of you to wait until I can upload chapters. I can probably start writing by the start of February. So, see you guys, sorry for long absent as I''ve found little time to write. I''m the type of person who busy''s himself in learning.