Gloria walks up to me and gives me a Canny look.
“At first I was going to let you be free after I won, but you used an artifact and tried to Sully of my father’s name who had great hopes for you. But I did everything to become his favorite, But I can’t believe he did all that to summon a fool with no shame. You are strong, but you, a cheater have no right to judge me as a warrior. I lost my only family because of you. I will make you pay!” She whispers with an evil tone.
“And I used to think gods were the pinnacle of perfection. It's quite refreshing to know they aren’t. Not in this world at least.”
“Quiet, from this day on you will not even breathe unless I permit.”
Gloria ordered me around for the rest of the day, orders like go eat that bread that’s on the floor, she would beat me up for no good reason. I had seen some shady organizations who had slave systems on Earth but I didn’t know how their lives were until now.
But thanks to my left hand I pretended to eat it but before I could bite it It would be reduced to a smaller size allowing me to keep my dignity.
And so days passed, and occasionally Warzheil would scold Gloria and take me away to give me Classes on Enchanting and Blacksmithing.
Meanwhile In The Holy Kingdom of Shevalon:
Many men are sitting around a big rectangular table all dressed like priests of a church.
“So, it is true that the God of fire and Heroism is dead, huh?” A priest says.
“We can’t do anything about that, But what about the bones Master Diodis?” Another priest asks the priest who seems to be sitting on the best chair.
“We had sent Gloria with a battalion of 40 paladins along with Cardinal Cruth. Cardinal Cruth, Explain what you wrote in the reports.” Diodis says.
Cruth who has been sitting among the other cardinals stands up.
“Y-yes, We did reach the Dead God’s place, But the Thundersmith along with a Demon had reached there before us and they put up strong resistance.” He says
“Strong enough to defeat 40 of our best paladins and one of the 7 heroes? Master you should have sent me, Cardinal Cruth seems to have lost his strength due to age.” one of the priests says arrogantly.
“Shut up! That Thundersmith was stronger than the rumors, if you don’t believe me then you can call the Commander here Master Diodis! It's her fault for not being able to defeat that demon.”
“Silence! A situation of this magnitude needs us to work together not against each other.”
Everyone becomes calm after the order of Diodis who looks like a man in his 30s.
“Summon Commander Ava here.”
Diodis orders the paladin near the gate but as soon as he moves Ava opens the door of the room and enters.
“You are right on time Hero Ava.”
“I was waiting outside Father.”
“Hmm, tell us, why did you fail to subdue the Demon?”
Ava remains silent for a moment.
“A demon? It seems like Cardinal Cruth thinks he is a demon, but the trust is that he is a human who has fused with a demon.”
Hearing this shocks everyone and they start whispering.
“Tell us more about this.”
“He was strong…Absurdly so, My holy magic and Divine possession didn’t even work against him. Only physical Attacks seem to work against him.”
Hearing this forces Even Diodis to reveal his uneasiness.
“Even the divine possession? Were you granted divine power?”
“No, Goddess Ethis herself took over me. And the man survived against her divine power and avoided getting hit by her physical attack.”
Diodis stands up with an expression with a mix of shock and seriousness.
“I don’t believe this.”
“Believe it or not it is the truth,” Ava replies.
For a moment Diodis gathers himself and sits back down.
“we will need to deal with that demon before the demon lord then. I was going to demote you and Cardinal Cruth but since you faced such a monster and defeated the Demon lord alone without any casualty then I will forgive you.”
“What? The demon lord? W-We didn’t Defeat the demon lord though.” Gloria says with a surprised face.
“What?” Cruth says.
“Yes, From what goddess told me it was the same man named Ronin who defeated the demon lord in a death duel.”
There is a heavy pressure in the room. The paladin near the door gulps hard.
“.... OK, Cardinal Hera, please use your Divine detection magic to find that demon called Ronin, send out spies, and inform the adventurer’s guild to gather information on any person called Ronin and with a demon-like resemblance. We will see if we can enslave him, if not then we will need to use force to avoid any future problems by killing him.” Diodis says.
“Then I will take my leave.” Saying this Ava exits the Big building which looks beautiful and dignified.
“*Sighs*….. Kill him, Huh? I doubt that will be possible anytime soon.”
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BACK AT NEWIN VILLAGE
I am sitting with Warzheil testing some ideas regarding Enchanting, and I wanted to test my idea out. Warzheil gave me the Ramoon blade which is now turned into a glaive as he removed its hilt and blade’s handle and replaced it with a spear pole. I started using the Enchanting ink that I made by mixing a drop of my blood and a piece of my left hand’s scale and mixing it all with water containing ground mana stones. The liquid seems cosmic black as if there are stars in the black liquid.
“Oh, I have never before witnessed someone end up with a black solution. Maybe you will be able to get cosmic enchantments with how it looks. If your idea works that is.” Warzheil said
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According to the 2 basic patterns Warzheil taught me one is a pattern that starts with a ‘3’ symbol near the hilt equally at both edges of both sides of the blade followed by a simple linear pattern along the shape of the blade. The ‘3’ symbol signifies Hostility in Enchanting, and is used frequently by enchanters on the blade area intended to harm the target. An inverted ‘3’ is used mainly on handles and hilts of weapons and enhances the wielder’s ability, Enchantments add to the user’s magic and Physical abilities and work as long as the user has 50% or more than 50% of their total mana.
I don’t have mana, but since my symbol removes the enchantments then it must have some additional effects. Since it can block divine powers and magic powers too. If this experiment works, then I think I will get closer to understanding the application of my powers.
I start enchanting and it takes 20 minutes to carefully paint both sides of the blade. My Art skills sure came in handy I guess.
The Area enclosed by the pattern I made becomes cosmic black while the Edge areas become Bright like the moon. This blade is named after the two moons of this world, one is Rag and the other is Munin. It was named Ramun but it felt natural to call it Ramoon.
Warzheil is mesmerized by the beauty of the black and bright combo of the blade.
“It's as if the blade’s material has changed. Let's test it out.” He said
And so we move to the training ground where a few soldiers are messing around instead of training.
“Hey look, it's Ronin.” Says a guy
“He looks like a Wierdo if you ask me Wyran, I wouldn’t speak to a slave if I were you,” One of his friends says.
“You are the one who needs to shut up. He didn’t cheat, I was assigned by Miss Gloria to get him some clothes and he changed in front of me and Oldman Warzheil, there was no artifact on him, and that’s right after the fight.”
“No way are you sure Wyran? Why would She lie about it then? Doesn’t that mean he is falsely accused?”
“Nothing can be done now. He accepted defeat and didn’t resist the unfair outcome, he must be considering something or he is too gullible.”
“Hey look, he has a weird black spear with him. Oh look he took a stance.” Another guy says
I get ready and thrust the spear forward which launches a Blackish blade resembling the Ramoon spear’s blade.
“Wait do that again, but this time against the dummy,” Warzheil says.
So I move close to the dummy but Warzheil tells me to not hit the dummy and just thrust in front of it at a short distance. I do exactly as instructed and a black energy blade flies forward with the thrust and without the real blade touching it the dummy breaks.
“The ancient gravity enchantment?!!” Warzheil shouts in shock
“Calm down and explain”
“Th-this is a long lost art. The cosmic enchantments work on laws of physics, this enchantment condenses the air at the real blade by creating Strong gravity and then shooting it without using the momentum of the blade. The more the distance the weaker the attack gets. But even so, your enchantment is already a level 2 out of 6 which was the highest known level for physics-based enchantments. At this point, you are just the favorite of the cosmos since these enchantments shouldn’t be possible without the use of a High concentration of mana.” He goes on to give me additional useless information but I can’t decline.
“Hey, what did we just see?” one of the trainee soldiers says
“I saw it clear as a day, he broke the dummy without his spear even touching it.” Another says
“*Smiles* The kids seem to be enjoying it. Let's see what else it does.”
I swing the spear with force as it is a glaive with a sword version of a spear and it launches a black curve of energy a few meters until it vanishes. I get so invested in trying to impress the soldiers that I show them a few of my moves but it doesn’t last long as I see Gloria standing in shock as I display my clean moves. Yes! Normally anyone who would see my spearmanship wouldn’t live to tell others how great or terrifying it was but it isn’t bad at all when people see it.
Gloria walks up to me.
“What? Impressive isn’t it?”
“Yes, How did you get a primordial class weapon?” she said
Before I know it she tries to snatch my spear but thanks to my age-old habit of never loosening my grip on my weapon she fails.
“What the hell do you think you are doing trying to snatch my spear?” I ask as anger boils my blood.
Warzheil pushes Gloria and me apart.
“Ronin! Your eye” he said.
I take out the mirror that Warzheil gave me and I see redish light leaking out of my eyepatch’s edges. I covered my left eye from the other’s view using my right hand lifted the eyepatch a little and saw that the ‘T’ symbol was glowing red. But when I pay attention to it, the glow starts to weaken.
So the ‘T’ symbol reacts to my emotion?
“What’s wrong with his left eye?” Gloria said
“Nothing that needs your concern. Just tell me if you have any order for me, and for goodness sake stop giving me useless tasks that will hinder my ability to complete the task that your father has given me.”
“Shut up! A slave is not supposed to speak to their master like that!”
“Enough of this bullshit!” Warzheil yells which startles Gloria.
“Oldman shut it. You will make it worse on her.” I said
“No, don’t stop me, kid, if I don’t act like this now she may as well end up as a goddess of Bandits in the future.”
“Listen well, Gloria. I have been quiet because of him all this time but it seems like I was to do so. You have gone off track. You have trampled on the teachings of your father and my friend. Yesterday he wasn’t using any artifacts. It is one of his Abilities to neutralize any kind of magic or powers. And what if he did use an artifact? Are you telling us you can’t fight against a mana-less human while wielding the strength of a dragon and a god?”
Warzheil goes on a spree as he humbles Gloria. But after he is finished she seems to be on the verge of crying behind her mask. I look at the soldiers and gesture them to leave and they obey.
Gloria runs off, I can understand by her heavy breathing that she is crying.
“You went overboard and you will accept you did, right now.” I force Warzheil.
“I don’t understand why you would let her treat you like garbage.” He said
“Because I know how a rude awakening might turn someone into an anti-social person, I made the same mistake when Ava was a kid. It took me a while to win her over again.”
“*Tsk* I couldn’t just stand–by and see the god my friend believed in getting slandered like this. And if not for you I wouldn’t be here, you are my savior.”
“I understand where you are coming from old man. But you were too selfish and mean just now.”
“No, you are just too selfless kid. Don’t you have any pride?”
“Why must I have any pride? All I have done in my life is cause trouble and deaths to countless people. No family, A sister that is happy without me, and no one to mourn my Death. Why should I have something called pride?”
I say trying to sound calm and hide my regrets.
Warzheil puts his hands on my shoulder.
“Hey, I am here for you. Until the day I die I will support you will all I can.”
“Thanks, but this is a problem I must face by myself. Any particular place she may have run off to?”
“You are going after her?”
“Obviously. Now tell me.”
“I don’t know whether she goes there or not but there is a small Cliffside near the Kobe river behind Sil’s house a few kilometers away, the scene there is beautiful during sunset and she used to go there without missing a single day. She might be there.”
I am about to sprint off but he stops me again.
“Hey Ronin, tell her I am sorry for being rude.”
“tell it to her yourself.”
I reach the cliff side and just like the old man said the scene is beautiful. The most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. And no doubt I see Gloria sitting with her legs near her chest, Under a Big tree with uniformly separated branches and enough leaves.
“This is the most beautiful sunset of my life. Oh Gloria you are here?” I say
She quickly wipes her face and puts her mask on.
“Hey, may I sit with you for a moment?”
“And why do you think I would agree?”
“You won’t? That’s odd, this is such a nice scene to sit with someone and share each other’s thoughts.”
“If you think I will be swayed by your words then leave me alone.”
I sit down anyway.
“It seems like you are mistaken about something. I didn’t ask to be summoned by your father. He summoned me of his own will knowing the risks. But I have respect for him for going as far as that to summon me anyway, I have a book that is supposed to tell me the task he has summoned me for but I doubt it will be easy and pleasant.”
“My father wouldn’t summon a god greater than himself if it was.”
“I don’t know what thing about me pissed you off but you have been hostile towards me from the beginning.”
“Why wouldn’t I? You don’t know how it feels to be alone, I trained since I was a kid just to get praised by my father who spent his life researching a fake god rather than spending time with his only child. And now you are here, The manifestation of the fake god who my father thought was better than him. I never saw my mother and didn’t have a sibling. And finally when I thought he would spend time with me after the summoning, he…….all because he summoned you.!”
Her voice feels heavy from holding back the pain and tears and yet she sounds like a flute being masterfully played.
“Well [pause] if you think punishing me would ease your pain then go ahead,” I said as I offered a dagger.
She hesitates for a moment but takes it. This is a powerful technique to win people over, or so I thought until I felt pain in my chest. She seriously stabbed me, barely missing my heart, and even twisted the dagger. Although it was a possibility that she would stab me I took the risk because I can regenerate. But instead of getting shocked, I give her a smile which makes her flinch. I keep the dagger in me and lie down against the tree.
“I hope you be happy after my death but Before I die, let me tell you my story.”
“W-why didn’t you dodge idiot! What sort of fool just stays still?!” she said
She starts to go crazy and tries to take the knife out but I can’t let her do this or else my plan will end up failing.
“No, if you take it out I will bleed out to death. Just sit and listen.”
She does as she says while sniffing. I remove my eyepatch and drop it around my neck.
“Your eye..” She tones off
“Let me see your face.” I said.
She hesitates a bit then removes it. I am speechless, so this is the beauty of a goddess? Her eyes seem to glow like fire as the sunset light hits her eyelashes which are also orange.
“Not even this beautiful evening can compare to your beauty.” I said
“I will heal you let me take the knife out. You will die.”
“Don’t bother, your powers won’t work on me. Just listen to my story.”
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“I was an ordinary bot, my family was rich, but they taught me all the good manners, I had a grandpa and a grandma, a father and a mother and a sister too. But one by one tragedy happened and I lost them. My Grandpa Disappeared suddenly when I was 12. My Mother and Father died in a car accident and I couldn’t even get a chance to see them, their bodies were missing. When I grew up and worked hard I got a job in the best software companies in my world. But my sister got kidnapped by a shady company called Shadow Company………” I talk to her for 5 or so minutes and she just listens without interrupting. I tell her the outlines of what I and Warzheil went through which saddens her even more. And for the Grand finale I fake death.
“I *coughs* am sorry I wasn’t able to live up to your father’s expectations. Some god I am.” And I finally fake death.
Warzheil arrives.
“Hey! what's taking you both so long? Did you work out something?” He said.
Gloria turns to Warzheil and Cries while explaining to him what happened.
“What? Did he tell you about his past? Even I haven’t heard of that! Oi Ronin stop acting she might Lose it.”
I have to drop the act and take the dagger out which allows my wound to heal quickly.
I look at Gloria who seems like she has seen a ghost.
“You…were alive?”
“*Laughs* I am the God your father worshipped. You think I would die just by a small dagger?”
And after that, she tries to beat me and chases me down. This was a fun day.
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