Chapter 5: Journey to Algrem and the three Orcateer
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"Ugh... Ugh, Haaaaah"

*Yawn*

I soon as I woke up, I immediately started my routine. Fixing the bed, daily exercise, taking a bath then I waited in my room until the maids called me for breakfast. When I entered the dining room, I found Queen Amanda together with Rea, and Cana sitting on the table. I also found out yesterday that these 3 women are childhood friends, which is understandable considering they eat together every morning, and how close they are usually are not like queen and subordinates.

"Good morning, Daemon" Rea was the first to greet me.

"Good morning, Daemon" Followed by Cana

"Good morning, Daemon" and Queen Amanda.

"Good morning, your majesty, Rea, Cana.

"So how was your hunt yesterday" Amanda asked.

"It was refreshing, considering I haven't had a good stretch for while, your majesty"

"I see, would you be interested in joining in escorting in delivering our goods, It would be sent to our allied kingdom in the north, the Kingdom of Algrem"

"Algrem??"

"It's a kingdom of beastkins, but the kingdom is mostly female beastkins, although there are still some male beastkins, they are at most a lowest noble rank. Ever since the last king was taken down due to its unfair treatment of the female citizens, the male beastkins can't able to rise into the higher echelon." Rea explained.

"Oh, I see..."

'Wth, did I get transmigrated to a world where females are the dominant gender?!'

"Well, I don't have anything to do anyway, so I might as well help in this kingdom, I get to live and eat free here, but I can't keep sponging off your kindness"

"Very well, Rea and the team will be leaving tomorrow, Rea I'll leave Daemon to you"

"Yes your majesty"

After the meal, I went back to my room to get my equipment and went to the gates where my previous team is already waiting. After a short greeting, we started to move out again. As usual, we kept going till it was sundown before returning to the city, and today's spoils are rather generous. I was able to obtain 4 levels, 700 coins, Lightning affinity, and my Basic swordsmanship reaching 80%.

[System: Status
Name: Daemon Ragen (???)
Age:15
Level: 11 (43.4% 21700/50000)
Race: Human, (???)
Experience rating: (G+ rank)
Attributes:
STR: 20 + 6 = 26
DEX: 18 + 5 = 23
VIT: 18 + 4 = 22
INT: 27
WIS: 17 + 3 = 20
CHR: 25
LUCK: 7
SOUL: 5
Unused AP: 12
Unused SP: 4
Skills & Abilities: (Passive - Basic swordsmanship acquired - 80%) (Active - Lightning Manifestation - lvl 6) (Lightning Affinity - 5%)
Bloodline:
Rank: Low Mortal Rank 2nd piece
Physical: G-
Magical: H

Currency:
Coins: 4690
AC: 250
(Locked)GC
(Locked)BC
(Locked)LP                                           ]

I also completed 2 quests, giving me 15000 exp rising my exp to 43.4%, 2500 coins, 250 AC, Hidden Quests Function, Heritage Quests, Achievement Shop & Coins.

I couldn't check out what the hidden quest is for, well I guess the name makes sense... The Achievement Shop & Coins, which open a shop whose items solely depend on my achievements.

Achievement Shop:

HP pot (S) 10AC        
MP pot (S) 10AC        
Basic Spearmanship 1500AC        
Basic Marksmanship 1500AC        
Basic Craftsmanship 1500AC        
Basic Alchemy  1500AC        
Evolution Stone 3000AC        
           
           
           

And lastly is the Heritage Quests, which gives me a chance to acquire the power of the heritage whose quest I completed. 

'So It's like becoming a disciple or something...'

[Please choose your starter Heritage]

[Adara, Aqua, Terra, Alizeh, Asterope, Forest, Alina, Achlys,]

[Adara's Heritage - Fire Sage Adara was the strongest Fire mage of her era earning the nickname Sun Dancer based on the way she fights by hovering using fire.]

[Aqua's Heritage - A undine and the guardian of the Great Waterfall.]

[Terra's Heritage - Terra, a Beastwoman and the founder of the Diamond Kingdom, who led her army against the Beastman army of Kaiser Kingdom bringing it to its demise.]

[Alizeh's Heritage - A sylph transformed to a half-human who's known as the Queen of Typhoons of the Aireal Isle Kingdom.]

[Asterope's Heritage - A sage said to be the founder of and guardian of the Lightning Dome, one of the abysmal zones.]

[Forest's Heritage - Queen of the Evergreen Kingdom, a dragoness whose strength lies in the greenery.]

 

|SBBL: Damn this heritage function fried my brain from thinking too much -_- |

 

'Hmmm...'

"Might as well continue strengthening my lightning"

[Asterope's Heritage selected.

 Quest Completed: 0/5              ]

[Asterope's Heritage 1st Quest:

 Acquire a lightning skill: 1/1

Status: Completed

 Rewards: Lightning Stones 5

                   Random Lightning skill    ]

'Huh?'

[Basic tier Lightning Stone *5 acquired]

[Random Lightning skill book... Lightning Dash acquired]

[Lightning Dash - Envelopes yourself in lightning increasing your movement speed by 10%

 Lightning affinity required: 10% ]

'I only have 5% so I can't use it yet...?!'

[Basic tier Lightning Stone - 

 Increase lightning affinity by 1%

 5% chance of obtaining a Lightning skill  ]

'That was convenient... and a chance of obtaining a skill?!, now that's awesome'

'Well let's start consuming'

1st lightning stone... +1% lightning affinity

2nd... +1%

3rd... +1%

4th... +1%

But on the 5th stone, lucky 7 worked, not only a 1% affinity increase, but I also got a new skill.

[Thunder Fang - Lightning elements forms fangs that can pierce through targets and stunning them for a short amount of time]

'Wow'

"I should practice these skills"

I immediately grabbed my equipment and went towards the forest. I didn't stay for long since It's already nighttime but I now know what these new skills are, and they are pretty handy. The maids delivered the food in my room saying the Queen is unable to join dinner due to a meeting, so I ate by myself before taking a bath and sleep.

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The next day, I woke up and as always did my daily routine. After breakfast with the Queen, Cana, and Rea, Rea and I split off to see the team we're traveling with. There are a total of 20 escorts including me and Rea, and 10 staff also with combat experience managing the goods to be transported. After checking and making sure everything is good to go, the team went on the way.

"So how long does it take till we arrive in Algrem?" I asked.

"It should take around 1 week if we don't meet any problems." Rea replied.

"I see"

On our first day on the road nothing much happened, we only fought a few wild monsters along the road. When the night came, I decided to practice using my spear hoping to get a spearmanship skill and sword to upgrade my swordsmanship skill.

*Swoosh*

*Woosh*

"Haaah!"

*Swoosh*

"*Panting* Almost there, the spear is next... damn this is so tiring"

"Haah!"

*Woosh*

*Swoosh*

I kept going for a while till I heard a voice calling me from behind.

"Daemon? so you were here" Rea emerged from the shadows.

"Hmm? Oh Rea, yeah just moving around I couldn't sleep anyway"

"I see well anyway, I've been meaning to ask about you"

"About me? well fire away"

"How old are you?"

"15"

"Wah?!"

"Yep, now continue"

"..."

"How about a bit personal"

"Hmmm... well except for my name, nothing really worth knowing about, I lived in a small village, no mother, and one drunkard father, but I already left a long time ago"

"Oh, I see... about your mother..."

"Never heard of her, the drunkard wouldn't tell me anything"

"Oh sorry about that"

"Nah, It's nothing"

"..."

"Well It's getting late I'll head back, you should too"

"Don't worry about me, I'll stay here for a few more minutes"

"Okay, goodnight"

"Goodnight"

After she left, I continued my training and manage to upgrade my skill and attributes too, It seems I can raise my attributes doing orthodox methods for each attribute, though the increase is very low, It was still useful. After a while, I took a bath in the river and went to my tent to sleep.

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The next day, I woke up early and did my daily routine, soon everyone woke up and are getting ready to continue the trip, once everything was set, we continued the trip. A few hours later a roar resounded from the forest nearby and it alerted everyone.

*ROAR!*

Following that was a bunch of roars but weaker.

*Roar!*

*Roar!*

*Roar!*

*Roar!*

*Roar!*

"What was that?" I asked Rea who was sitting beside me.

"It seems like Orcs, and there's a big one too... this is gonna be troublesome"

"Oooh" I mumble as I couldn't hold in my excitement but it seems Rea noticed.

"Why do you look excited?"

"Hmm? I'm not excited~" 

"Your tone says so..."

*ROAR!*

"Miss Rea, there are 10 Blood Orcs and 1 Elite!"

"This is gonna be hectic..." Rea mumbled.

*BAM!*

"Hoooo, this is gonna be fun~" I said after forcefully opening the door.

"Haaaah!"

I ran straight to the orcs and immediately wielded my spear.

"And he said he's not excited *Sigh* It feels like he has two personalities the mature and the childish one"

*Chuckle* Rea chuckled then picking up her staff.

 

When I almost reached the orcs 4 out of the 11 orcs went to face me head-on, they are wielding axes on both hands.

*Swoosh*

*Shiiing*

"Hello Mr. Orc" I blocked the first orc's attack 

"Raah!" another orc immediately followed but I managed to dodge.

*Swoosh*

"Haaah!"

*Slash* I cut off the head of the first orc and shifted my attention to block another one of the orcs.

"Rahh!"

"Shiing"

"Rahh!" another orc showed up and it looks like I couldn't dodge it, at most it would graze my hand, when suddenly...

*Swish*

*Swish*

*Swish*

"*Brrk* ARRRGGHHH" the orc was shot by arrows followed by a few spells, I looked in the direction it came from and there stood the elves and Rea, Rea waved at me when she noticed my gaze. When the pressure is gone I continued to move forward, the other elves also took care of the other orcs leaving the boss left.

*ROAR!*

It swung its giant axe at me but I dodge, followed by the support of the elves.

*Boom* *Boom*

"Haaaah!"

*Slash*

"Arrrghhh!" the orc let out a grunt.

I continued to put pressure on the orc when suddenly an axe came flying to me.

*Swoosh* *Crash*

It managed to graze me, and I quickly looked at my surroundings and found two more Blood orcs the same size as the current one we're fighting standing at 10 ft and bigger muscles.

"Daemon come back!" Rea shouted and I followed.

"This is troublesome" I muttered.

"Indeed, so let's devise a plan" Rea said before touching me with her hand wrapped in green light, and it healed my wound.

"We can split them and pick them out one by one" I said.

"Yeah we can do that"

"Well split the vanguard for the other two, I'll distract the last one"

"Wait! that's dangerous"

"Don't worry, It's just one orc... Okay time to move!" Not giving her time to protest I ran straight to the orc who threw an ax at me.

"Haaah!"

"Raaah!"

*Shiiing!"

"*Grunts* you're a tough one are you"

"Raaagh!"

*Chiing* *Swoosh* 

*Crash*

"Fuck! that hurts... Orcy you bastard!"

"Raahh!"

*Chiiing*

The fight went on for awhile and finally I was able to land a solid pierce on its head and its body fell lifelessly. The others seemed to be finishing up already, so I went to check on my status.

[2000 EXP] [ 100 coins]

[2000 EXP][ 100 coins]

[2000 EXP][ 100 coins]

[500 EXP][ 50 coins]

[500 EXP][ 50 coins]

[500 EXP]-

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It seems like I get exp as long as the enemy is killed near me, the exact distance required?  I don't know yet but I didn't care.

[System: Status
Name: Daemon Ragen (???)
Age:15
Level: 11 (66.4% 33200/50000)
Race: Human, (???)
Experience rating: (G+ rank)
Attributes:
STR:  26
DEX:  23
VIT:  22
INT: 27
WIS: 20
CHR: 25
LUCK: 7
SOUL: 5
Unused AP: 12
Unused SP: 4
Skills & Abilities: (Passive - Basic swordsmanship +1 - 10%) (Active - Lightning Manifestation - lvl 6) (Lightning Affinity - 10%) (Lightning Fang - lvl 1)
Bloodline:
Rank: Low Mortal Rank 2nd piece
Physical: G-
Magical: H

Currency:
Coins: 5440
AC: 250
(Locked)GC
(Locked)BC
(Locked)LP                                           ]

'Oh yeah I have spare points'

[System: Status
Name: Daemon Ragen (???)
Age:15
Level: 11 (66.4% 33200/50000)
Race: Human, (???)
Experience rating: (G+ rank)
Attributes:
STR: 26 + 4 = 30
DEX: 23 + 2 = 25
VIT: 22 +6 = 28
INT: 27
WIS: 20
CHR: 25
LUCK: 7
SOUL: 5
Unused AP: 0
Unused SP: 0
Skills & Abilities: (Passive - Basic swordsmanship +1 - 10%) (Active - Lightning Manifestation - lvl 7) (Lightning Affinity - 10%) (Lightning Fang - lvl 3)
Bloodline:
Rank: Low Mortal Rank 2nd piece
Physical: G-
Magical: H

Currency:
Coins: 5440
AC: 250
(Locked)GC
(Locked)BC
(Locked)LP                                           ]

'That should do it... I still have coins but it would look suspicious if I bought something right now, I guess I'll have to wait for a month at the very least.

"Hey Daemon! are you okay?" Rea called me.

"Hmm? Oh yeah I'm fine" I replied.

"We will be cleaning up for a few minutes before continuing the trip"

"Yeah, heard ya... now let's see orcy what kind of things do you have for me"

*Ruffle* *Ruffle*

'An axe, knife, the armor is quite sturdy, *Slash* hmm?... what's this'

[Monster core - can be sold in the city. (No power detected)]

'?... So sometimes it has power, every monster has a core so I guess except for the materials, the cores is another source of income'

*Sigh*

"I've only been in this world for a few weeks and I'm already getting used to it... I guess I don't have any attachment to my previous life, well there's still that love problem of this body, I'll take care of it later, Meh"

"Daemon we're moving" Rea called out to me.

"Coming"

'I'll face the problems one at a time no sweat"

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