Athena woke up soon after she started hearing a hammer hitting against metal in the morning, she was still half asleep, but she still stood up from bed. Athena was in her night clothes, the ones she wore at the ‘Starling Inn’, she walked towards the door to leave her room.

She walked towards Shiro’s room and knocked on the door, there was no response, so she entered it without hesitation and found the slime Azure on a table wiggling.

Athena picked it up towards her small chest and left the room, Azure didn’t mind Athena since it considered her an ally of its master Shiro.

She walked downstairs to find out what that sound was, her silver hair was covering a bit of her view  and her doll like face was pasted with a tired expression and her small body gave you the illusion that she was still a child.

She arrived downstairs to find Shiro, hammering a white red sword, it was probably heated to the point where he could form it, he was probably learning how to blacksmith.

The dwarf Willow was looking at him with judging eyes, he was a veteran at blacksmithing, so his judging ability was on par.

Shiro was hammering the iron sword with a small hammer, his face was still as emotionless as ever, but you could see that he was giving his best.

‘How long is this gonna take?’, I thought as I continued to hit the Iron sword that I was making.

After the iron ore cooled down a little and started to take shape after a sword, I started hammering it to get rid of the impurities of the iron, I would have to keep on hammering it till it would become the sword of my desired outcome.

By the time I realized, Athena was already up and about. She was looking at me working diligently, I was starting to get a little embarrassed, but I continued to work on my sword that I was making.

I picked up the sword and looked at it, the sword wasn’t completely clean, but it had a normal shine to it that any other sword had.

I showed it to Willow, and he nodded. “Not bad, boy. Ya might have a talent for it.”, Willow said with a smile. “Really….. huh.”, I said unmoved by his remark.

I finished my sword sooner than expected, it was average. Any blacksmith could make it, even though Willow said I might have talent for it, just because I was able to make one on the first try without help.

“Master, I think we should go to the guild and do another quest.”, Athena suggested.

We should continue getting money for later on, and also, I’ve got to repay Willow somehow. “Yeah, we should. Willow we will be going now…. You can sell the sword I made. See you later.”, I said a little unmotivated.

 

 

 

The quest we took at the guild was easy, we took Azure with us in this quest, and you could guess what the quest was.

 

Quest: Subjugate ten Rock Slimes and bring materials back.

Rank: E

Rewards: Thirty Bronze

Information: A Blacksmith has been searching for Rock Slime material and is requesting adventurers.

 

Yeah, slimes again. You could even start calling me ‘Slime Slayer’.

Athena tried slicing a rock slime, but her sword stopped mid way through its slime skin, Athena noticed that she couldn’t penetrate the slimes skin and retreated.

“It seems it has a really hard skin, no wonder the name rock slime.”, I said as if I were a professor of some sorts. I felt Azure moving on my shoulder, as if it were asking me for permission to join the fight.

I nodded and Azure started going towards the slimes, it started to jiggle in front of the other slimes… it was kind of effective. The slimes then started jiggling with him. Were they communicating?

Suddenly the slimes started gathering in one point and Azure started absorbing them in one fell swoop, after it absorbed them its size increased a little.

“What just happened? Did it just commit cannibalism?”, I said backing away with pitying eyes. “No, slimes are known for being able to evolve when they fuse together, they can evolve normally of course. However, it is most likely that it hasn’t evolved yet, so in a way it did commit cannibalism.”, Athena explained while watching Azure wiggling.

Azure’s color didn’t change much, you could say it’s still the same, the only difference I that its size changed, only a little though.

“Well….. now we have to find more of them.”, I said looking at Azure who then stopped wiggling and started to climb my shoulders unhappily.

 

 

 

We went searching for more Rock Slimes, we leveled up a little, Athena was ready to change jobs and I was slowly reaching level fifty on my job. Since I was fighting with my sword my job did not level up as much.

You can level up your job by fighting monsters, but it mostly depends on what job you have. If you have the job ‘Swordsman’ you will level faster if you fight with a sword or swing it the whole time. If you use magic it will not level up as fast as it would with swinging a sword.

Meanwhile, Azure evolved into a ‘Dark Slime’. Before it was a ‘Slime’ but now it evolved, the difference isn’t much as to what I was expecting, It can now extend his body, however it can’t change its whole shape and its color changed to a darker blue.

We were currently on our way back to Sintel when suddenly three adventurer looking men appeared. There were spirits haunting them, that meant that they were killed by them.

“It seems these are the new rookies. Ha, we got lucky that both are pretty girls. I’ll be the first one to have fun with the elf.”, one of the Adventurers said. Because I look like a girl and a boy, he misjudged me for a girl and an elf because of my pointy ears.

“No, let me go first!”, another butted in. However, among them there was one who stood out the most. He had a greatsword in his back and a huge body and muscles.

“Alright, let me explain how things work, if you want to live a little longer you have to give us everything you got. And then we will show you a good time, do not worry we’ll be gentle.”, the adventurer said with a disgusting smile.

If I had to guess, they are actual adventurers, but they’ve committed crimes and were never found out by the guild and the victims were either silenced or killed.

Right now they probably thought that they could make easy money by threatening us, and then they would have fun with us since I looked like a girl and Athena was one.

“I’m sorry, however I’ll have to turn down your offer.”, I said politely trying to annoy him. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem effective since my voice was flat and emotionless. “Ha! You think there is a way out. We are D class adventurers, we could easily beat F class losers like you!”, one of the adventurers said with a pitying gaze on us.

I kept staring at their leader’s eyes without a hint of fear. “Argh… AAAAAAAAARRRGG”, their leader started shouting holding his head as if he were heaving a headache. He fell to the ground twitching. “What’s wrong boss?!”, one of them asked.

However, their boss did not show any reaction to their voices since he was under the effects of my spell ‘Brainwash’. The spells allows me to manipulate my opponents mind, whether it’s through eye contact or verbal contact.

“Tch! It was you wasn’t it! You little!”, one of the boss’s lackeys realized that I was the one behind the mental attack. He picked up his sword that was hanging from his belt, and tried to slash it at me, but he lost his grip on the sword and let it fall on the ground.

“AAAAAAAAH?! PLEASE STOP! IT HURTS!!!”, the lackey screamed holding his body feeling his body in pain because of the effects of possession.

The last one was confused and scared by the reaction of his friends. He was looking at me with his eyes trembling, down his pants you could see that he leaked himself out of fear.

I slowly walked towards the adventurers and inspected their equipment, the swords were coated in some type of liquid it was probably poison. I found two things that looked like a potion or maybe some sort of bottled substance, I picked it up from the twitching body of the leader and walked towards the last one who was still sane.

“Hey, what were the swords coated with and also what are these?”, I asked him as he was looking at me with fear. My body was surrounded by black miasma, I was using the skill ‘Dark Aura’, it instills fear in my opponents, unless they possessed the skill ‘Mental Fortitude’ or ‘Mental Corruption’.

“T-t-the swords were coated with poison and that flask is filled with aphrodisiac, and the other one is a healing potion.”, he explained trying to hold back his tears. “What would you use them for?”, I asked as I noticed that my voice was getting colder.

Athena was behind me looking at them with a cold gaze, she did not have any intent to spare them.

The adventurer was looking at me as if trying to find out what I was thinking about. “W-w-w-we would use the poison t-t-to make you suffer a-and then we would use the healing potion to heal you and then torture you again. And the aphrodisiac to—“, he was about to say something that I couldn’t tolerate to hear, so I cut his throat with my sword.

The leader started to gain his sanity, he tried reaching for his sword, but I stomped on his hand. “AAAARGH! You bastard, you think you can get away with this?! If somebody finds out that we are gone, they will come after you two.”, he said trying to threaten us as his body started to be in pain because of the poison.

I sat on top of his stomach and looked at him in the eyes. “Is that so… but the question is, how will they if there is nothing to find out?”, I said coldly at the adventurer, he looked at me realizing what that meant.

 

 

 

“Master… are you sure that was alright?”, Athena asked me. “Yes, trash like them don’t deserve to live.”, I answered casually.

We were back in the capital, and Azure was juggling happily for being able to help us. The so called adventurer’s were disintegrated by Azure, I had no reason to let them live.

I used ‘Brainwash’ to get rid of their spirits memories if by chance there would be a spiritualist in town.

Athena looked at me and simply just accepted my short answer. The town was starting to get empty, and the sun was about to set, and some stores were about to close.

We were walking towards the guild to get our reward for finishing the quest. We arrived at the guild and were greeted with tremendous liveliness, the adventurers were talking about their adventure and the receptionists were occupied with paper work and attending adventurers like always.

In the guild there were elves, dwarfes and Demi-humans, however there were not many of them. Since Dawnwell is a human supremacist country, other races are not as many in masses.

I look like an elf because of my ears, but you could also mistake for a vampire which is most likely described as a monster. I might be a vampire since I can suck blood because of the Skill ‘Bloodsucking’.

“Welcome back to the guild, how did your quest go?”, the receptionist asked as we arrived at the counter.

 

 

 

Skill Explanation: Mental Corruption

This skill measures one’s trauma. This skill is mostly gained by assassins and soldiers who had undergone wars. The guild does not recommend somebody to gain this skill, even though it protects somebody’s mind from mental magic attacks or monsters who have skills like ‘Instill Fear’. People who have this skill are known for being psychopaths or crazy killers.