Here it is the Seventh chapter! It took
extra time. The team is sorry about it.
The flue is going around here and combined with the college
project, chapters are taking time to get published. However, we assure that it
will not become habit.
And please tell us if you agree with the naming of the
skeleton or if you have some alternatives.
TL: ShovaTranslations
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The distant horizon looked as the endless void of black. The sky as always was dark and turbid grey like the darkest dusk.
The greyness in the sky kept on rolling but whether it was cloud or fog it could not be seen clearly. There was neither day nor night, not even the notion of time.
The forest, it had already lost all the vitality of the forest millions of years ago.The towering trees had only the body and the thick branches remaining in them. Hanging on the trees were the faint traces of web-like of spider, but they could not be the spider web. No spider could survive here.
There was mud all over the ground and one or two bubbles would appear from time to time in the grey mud. Occasionally, there would be skeletons of god knows what creature floating up and would spin and swallowed again by the mud.
The wind was damp and had a cold smell, blowing with it the stench of the dead forest.
Here was the world, paradise for death and devil.
...........
Romance had no idea how long it had been in this forest. It cannot remember where he came from. He just had the memory of that “Rogge” creature that gave it its name.
The romance felt the instinctive felt like vomiting about the name; however, it had no idea where this feeling came from. It wanted to spit just thinking of the name. Spit, ah it felt familiar to this word, but it could not recall how to spit. Of course, what can it spit?
It was bleak here, the skylights mottled on the ground and in its body through the branches of the towering trees.
Romance just wanted to get out of this forest, but as to why it wanted and where it wanted to go, it had no idea. I guess it was an instinct.
Romance could at times feel the faint trace of the energy from the “Rogge”, the person from up there.
Romance also knew that he couldn’t refuse the commands of Rogge. This world had many things that Romance didn’t understand.
But this energy made him comfortable, making him more powerful, but it was too little. He felt as the helpless traveller in the middle of the desert that only had a drop of water at a time to quench the thirst.
The romance was extremely hungry and thirsty. He was carrying a rusty knife, and aimlessly wandering in the forest, he himself had forgotten where he had gotten the knife.
He was very careful to avoid a number of local areas where his intuition told him that there was a strong and evil presence.
However, Romance was extremely clever, and while facing the skeletons like himself, he always came with some clever way to knock them down as they carried with them an energy that can satiate his hunger and thirst.
He had forgotten the day when he found some fine quality bones, and he used those bones to fill the empty place in his 24 ribs.
The romance felt that his ribs should number 24.
This patching of his ribs had led to exhaust his energy that he had been saving. If not for the timely energy transfer from the Rogge, he didn’t know if he could confront his first zombie.
.....................
The fight had been going for a long time. Zombie’s strength was not something that Romance could compete with. And after playing with three broken bones, Romance finally realized that he could not overcome the Zombie with the direct confrontation.
Romance keeping its distance began to circle around the zombie, and every now and then cutting the rotten flesh from the zombie.
By the time Zombie fell, Romance had less than 20 ribs in him.
...............
When other skeletons and zombies meet each other they didn’t seem to mind each other nor did they attack each other.
However, what Romance couldn’t understand was that whenever he saw them, he did whatever it took to beat them.
“I am hungry”. Skeleton kept on thinking.
There was no idea of time, and Romance was constantly wandering. He didn’t know how long he had wandered, nor did know how long he has to.
The forest seems to never end.
……………………………………….
After the fight at the small building, Rogge was interested in the skeleton that could play dead.
In the dead of night, on the second floor of the building, often a person and a skeleton stood eye to eye staring at each other.
However, after trying countless times to mentally communicate with the skeleton, without any result, Rogge finally lost interest.
Rogge didn’t know where the rusty knife of the skeleton came from. He tried to study for a long time but did not get any results, so he no longer delved into it.
..............
The Weather was getting hotter by the day. and before he knew, it was time to leave the Magic Academy.
Rogge had already passed his 20th birthday and the exam was in a few days.
In the past several months, he had read more than 30 volumes of the history of the continent. He also had read a lot of adventure, travel biography, and all kinds of notes.
Emmett had passed the magic exam three months ago, was now working towards developing himself as a magic knight. After all, he was too wasted as the magician considering his big body.
Keith had become a good Rank 5 knight under the training of his old man, according to common belief, the father and son seem to be in the path of becoming the Dark Knight.
As for the Lawrence and Franco, instead of being idle they have improved their swordsmanship. What was more unusual was that, instead of chasing the women, art and wasting money on wine most of that money was used to own good equipment, so their strength far more than their actual Rank.
...............
Few people are really aggressive by nature but were forced by the situation.
After the fight in the small building, there were some situations when somebody tried to seek and seize the relatives of the mercenary group but some people would jump out to help.
The sword and blood rose mercenary group was not large; it was not even a third-rate mercenary group.
But the head of the group (the Mage who died) was known as a magnanimous person.
Moreover, Kiwei had her own charm and her pursuers were numerous.
There were many mercenaries that knew the truths and were willing to take revenge.
…………………………..
The weather was hot, the people were moving as their will had dried up.
On the day of the examination, in the examination room, Rogge showed the two finger-flame magic to the examiner to fulfil the requirement of the exam, letting him pass the examination.
He was rewarded with the mage robe and in the afternoon he went to the mage guild to register, officially becoming a junior magician.
After passing the exam, if he wished he could be recruited as the Rhine city magician and withdraw the monthly allowance of 5 gold coins.
But after going through the belly full of history books, Rogge had entirely another idea.
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"Tink" a few wine glasses touched each other heavily.
"We brothers have not been together for a while, Grandma, there are killers everywhere, and come, today we will not return till we are not drunk."
The bear-like Emmett was taller than a pure knight Keith. He raised his glass high and drank it in one breath.
Keith's face was full of vigour and had the look of righteousness. He was flushed red at the moment.
As for Lawrence and Franco, their looks were also pretty handsome but were considered ordinary in the nobility as the noble ladies were also pretty good.
This group of people had faced not little risk together and nearly died many times this year, which lead to the forging of a deep friendship.
“Brothers, tomorrow I will go to Fort Worth to join the guard there. Alas, we cannot keep in gathering like this. But later you guys must often come to visit me there; certainly, the travel expense is not that much.” At that Keith had a depressed look on his face.
Franco said: “Farborg, it is the one that is close to the magic forest. There are many thieves and monsters nearby."
"I heard that recently Rowen Duchy also frequently had a small band of scout passing through that forest to reconnaissance. You have to be careful”.
Keith took a sip of wine and said: "My father insisted on me going there to accumulate the military exploits; he said this will be good for me."
"Besides, the captain of the knight garrisoned at the fort and my father is childhood friends so he will take care of me. Last time he visited the family, he gave me a black elf breastplate.”
“Brothers, Farborg’s a good place!” Rogge was spirited.
He sat straight in the chair and said: "That place is close to the magical forest, close to the front lines. There are many adventurers!"
"This time Keith will be there as a cavalry captain……. Ah? Is it Platoon leader? It doesn’t matter, isn’t the head of the knights your family friend?"
"We can have a good development there. Think about what those adventurers, monster hunters, even the military need?"
"It is Weapons!"
If we open a weapon shop wouldn't it be a heaven-sent?"
"It is not good to do what everybody is doing, there are many restrictions, but why do we have to limit ourselves to the restrictions?”
“ Think again, those who enter the magical forest, how do they earn money?"
"Yes, they hunt monster for their monster crystals, fur and sell them for money. We do not have that strength to hunt monsters at the moment, but we can purchase their prey. These things, in the hand of Frost, are perfect material for the magic items.”
Then we sell those magic items back to those adventurers, we just sit there not taking the risks and just taking profit over and over.
Lawrence also became spirited.
“There are 200,000 people in Farborg, and there are ought to be a lot of beauties. Keith is an official there so we don’t have to live like this rather as the grandchildren of the kings. I'm okay with the plan, Roggee, I am partnering with you. ”
"When it comes to taking the risk your eyes shines brightly, you had not had enough of that girl last time, huh?" Emmett laughed and stared at Lawrence.
"Damn it, why am I so unlucky, pulled legs at me to say hello. Made me unable to touch any woman for a month, grandma, and later could not even taste her for all my trouble! ”Lawrence gnashed his teeth.
"That girl, are you still thinking about her?" Franco asked.
"Of course, I am, how could I let her go so easily. How about it brothers, let’s go to my place later tonight”
The people at the table laughed.
……………………………………
They kept on drinking wine. Except for the Keith, rest of the people were unemployed and were raring to have a go at the plan.
And hence, they agreed to go to the Farborg Fort together, and open a weapon shop to purchase and sell the goods to the adventurers.
Keith went first, and the remaining people packed up and left together after a few days.
As for the Frost, he had been dragged off by Rogge, but his stuff at the lab will take some more time to move them.
……………………………………….
Around midnight, several people swayed out of a pub, their robes stained with wine.
When they reached a dark street, several people dressed in masks suddenly jumped out and circled those few people in the middle.
"You scums, deserve to die! Today I will avenge Kiwei."
A few sighs sounded, this opening statement had been heard at least seven or eight times till now.
Several masked men flashing their weapons rushed towards the people in the middle of the circle, and one magician in the sidelines began chanting an incantation.
Suddenly a crossbow bolt flew like lightning and entered the chest of the magician, Rogge, now was known as mage killer.
Meanwhile, several surrounded people took out their weapons from under their robe; their action didn’t slightly exude of being drunk. Moreover, under their long robe, they impressively were fully armed.
With the tacit understanding, they rushed together to meet with the attack of the masked men in front of them.
The masked men were shocked, one rolled, fell into the roadside ditch and finally escaped the fatal disaster.
The people in the long robe immediately broke through the siege and fled. The masked men were like a spilt bag of soybeans, letting the ambush go belly-up, only to watch them disappear into the night.
The greyness in the sky kept on rolling but whether it was cloud or fog it could not be seen clearly. There was neither day nor night, not even the notion of time.
The forest, it had already lost all the vitality of the forest millions of years ago.The towering trees had only the body and the thick branches remaining in them. Hanging on the trees were the faint traces of web-like of spider, but they could not be the spider web. No spider could survive here.
There was mud all over the ground and one or two bubbles would appear from time to time in the grey mud. Occasionally, there would be skeletons of god knows what creature floating up and would spin and swallowed again by the mud.
The wind was damp and had a cold smell, blowing with it the stench of the dead forest.
Here was the world, paradise for death and devil.
...........
Romance had no idea how long it had been in this forest. It cannot remember where he came from. He just had the memory of that “Rogge” creature that gave it its name.
The romance felt the instinctive felt like vomiting about the name; however, it had no idea where this feeling came from. It wanted to spit just thinking of the name. Spit, ah it felt familiar to this word, but it could not recall how to spit. Of course, what can it spit?
It was bleak here, the skylights mottled on the ground and in its body through the branches of the towering trees.
Romance just wanted to get out of this forest, but as to why it wanted and where it wanted to go, it had no idea. I guess it was an instinct.
Romance could at times feel the faint trace of the energy from the “Rogge”, the person from up there.
Romance also knew that he couldn’t refuse the commands of Rogge. This world had many things that Romance didn’t understand.
But this energy made him comfortable, making him more powerful, but it was too little. He felt as the helpless traveller in the middle of the desert that only had a drop of water at a time to quench the thirst.
The romance was extremely hungry and thirsty. He was carrying a rusty knife, and aimlessly wandering in the forest, he himself had forgotten where he had gotten the knife.
He was very careful to avoid a number of local areas where his intuition told him that there was a strong and evil presence.
However, Romance was extremely clever, and while facing the skeletons like himself, he always came with some clever way to knock them down as they carried with them an energy that can satiate his hunger and thirst.
He had forgotten the day when he found some fine quality bones, and he used those bones to fill the empty place in his 24 ribs.
The romance felt that his ribs should number 24.
This patching of his ribs had led to exhaust his energy that he had been saving. If not for the timely energy transfer from the Rogge, he didn’t know if he could confront his first zombie.
.....................
The fight had been going for a long time. Zombie’s strength was not something that Romance could compete with. And after playing with three broken bones, Romance finally realized that he could not overcome the Zombie with the direct confrontation.
Romance keeping its distance began to circle around the zombie, and every now and then cutting the rotten flesh from the zombie.
By the time Zombie fell, Romance had less than 20 ribs in him.
...............
When other skeletons and zombies meet each other they didn’t seem to mind each other nor did they attack each other.
However, what Romance couldn’t understand was that whenever he saw them, he did whatever it took to beat them.
“I am hungry”. Skeleton kept on thinking.
There was no idea of time, and Romance was constantly wandering. He didn’t know how long he had wandered, nor did know how long he has to.
The forest seems to never end.
……………………………………….
After the fight at the small building, Rogge was interested in the skeleton that could play dead.
In the dead of night, on the second floor of the building, often a person and a skeleton stood eye to eye staring at each other.
However, after trying countless times to mentally communicate with the skeleton, without any result, Rogge finally lost interest.
Rogge didn’t know where the rusty knife of the skeleton came from. He tried to study for a long time but did not get any results, so he no longer delved into it.
..............
The Weather was getting hotter by the day. and before he knew, it was time to leave the Magic Academy.
Rogge had already passed his 20th birthday and the exam was in a few days.
In the past several months, he had read more than 30 volumes of the history of the continent. He also had read a lot of adventure, travel biography, and all kinds of notes.
Emmett had passed the magic exam three months ago, was now working towards developing himself as a magic knight. After all, he was too wasted as the magician considering his big body.
Keith had become a good Rank 5 knight under the training of his old man, according to common belief, the father and son seem to be in the path of becoming the Dark Knight.
As for the Lawrence and Franco, instead of being idle they have improved their swordsmanship. What was more unusual was that, instead of chasing the women, art and wasting money on wine most of that money was used to own good equipment, so their strength far more than their actual Rank.
...............
Few people are really aggressive by nature but were forced by the situation.
After the fight in the small building, there were some situations when somebody tried to seek and seize the relatives of the mercenary group but some people would jump out to help.
The sword and blood rose mercenary group was not large; it was not even a third-rate mercenary group.
But the head of the group (the Mage who died) was known as a magnanimous person.
Moreover, Kiwei had her own charm and her pursuers were numerous.
There were many mercenaries that knew the truths and were willing to take revenge.
…………………………..
The weather was hot, the people were moving as their will had dried up.
On the day of the examination, in the examination room, Rogge showed the two finger-flame magic to the examiner to fulfil the requirement of the exam, letting him pass the examination.
He was rewarded with the mage robe and in the afternoon he went to the mage guild to register, officially becoming a junior magician.
After passing the exam, if he wished he could be recruited as the Rhine city magician and withdraw the monthly allowance of 5 gold coins.
But after going through the belly full of history books, Rogge had entirely another idea.
……………………
"Tink" a few wine glasses touched each other heavily.
"We brothers have not been together for a while, Grandma, there are killers everywhere, and come, today we will not return till we are not drunk."
The bear-like Emmett was taller than a pure knight Keith. He raised his glass high and drank it in one breath.
Keith's face was full of vigour and had the look of righteousness. He was flushed red at the moment.
As for Lawrence and Franco, their looks were also pretty handsome but were considered ordinary in the nobility as the noble ladies were also pretty good.
This group of people had faced not little risk together and nearly died many times this year, which lead to the forging of a deep friendship.
“Brothers, tomorrow I will go to Fort Worth to join the guard there. Alas, we cannot keep in gathering like this. But later you guys must often come to visit me there; certainly, the travel expense is not that much.” At that Keith had a depressed look on his face.
Franco said: “Farborg, it is the one that is close to the magic forest. There are many thieves and monsters nearby."
"I heard that recently Rowen Duchy also frequently had a small band of scout passing through that forest to reconnaissance. You have to be careful”.
Keith took a sip of wine and said: "My father insisted on me going there to accumulate the military exploits; he said this will be good for me."
"Besides, the captain of the knight garrisoned at the fort and my father is childhood friends so he will take care of me. Last time he visited the family, he gave me a black elf breastplate.”
“Brothers, Farborg’s a good place!” Rogge was spirited.
He sat straight in the chair and said: "That place is close to the magical forest, close to the front lines. There are many adventurers!"
"This time Keith will be there as a cavalry captain……. Ah? Is it Platoon leader? It doesn’t matter, isn’t the head of the knights your family friend?"
"We can have a good development there. Think about what those adventurers, monster hunters, even the military need?"
"It is Weapons!"
If we open a weapon shop wouldn't it be a heaven-sent?"
"It is not good to do what everybody is doing, there are many restrictions, but why do we have to limit ourselves to the restrictions?”
“ Think again, those who enter the magical forest, how do they earn money?"
"Yes, they hunt monster for their monster crystals, fur and sell them for money. We do not have that strength to hunt monsters at the moment, but we can purchase their prey. These things, in the hand of Frost, are perfect material for the magic items.”
Then we sell those magic items back to those adventurers, we just sit there not taking the risks and just taking profit over and over.
Lawrence also became spirited.
“There are 200,000 people in Farborg, and there are ought to be a lot of beauties. Keith is an official there so we don’t have to live like this rather as the grandchildren of the kings. I'm okay with the plan, Roggee, I am partnering with you. ”
"When it comes to taking the risk your eyes shines brightly, you had not had enough of that girl last time, huh?" Emmett laughed and stared at Lawrence.
"Damn it, why am I so unlucky, pulled legs at me to say hello. Made me unable to touch any woman for a month, grandma, and later could not even taste her for all my trouble! ”Lawrence gnashed his teeth.
"That girl, are you still thinking about her?" Franco asked.
"Of course, I am, how could I let her go so easily. How about it brothers, let’s go to my place later tonight”
The people at the table laughed.
……………………………………
They kept on drinking wine. Except for the Keith, rest of the people were unemployed and were raring to have a go at the plan.
And hence, they agreed to go to the Farborg Fort together, and open a weapon shop to purchase and sell the goods to the adventurers.
Keith went first, and the remaining people packed up and left together after a few days.
As for the Frost, he had been dragged off by Rogge, but his stuff at the lab will take some more time to move them.
……………………………………….
Around midnight, several people swayed out of a pub, their robes stained with wine.
When they reached a dark street, several people dressed in masks suddenly jumped out and circled those few people in the middle.
"You scums, deserve to die! Today I will avenge Kiwei."
A few sighs sounded, this opening statement had been heard at least seven or eight times till now.
Several masked men flashing their weapons rushed towards the people in the middle of the circle, and one magician in the sidelines began chanting an incantation.
Suddenly a crossbow bolt flew like lightning and entered the chest of the magician, Rogge, now was known as mage killer.
Meanwhile, several surrounded people took out their weapons from under their robe; their action didn’t slightly exude of being drunk. Moreover, under their long robe, they impressively were fully armed.
With the tacit understanding, they rushed together to meet with the attack of the masked men in front of them.
The masked men were shocked, one rolled, fell into the roadside ditch and finally escaped the fatal disaster.
The people in the long robe immediately broke through the siege and fled. The masked men were like a spilt bag of soybeans, letting the ambush go belly-up, only to watch them disappear into the night.
thank you for the chapter but where is the next chapter.....
ReplyDeletesorry for the delay Sima..... i was down with viral fever and fragrant pig was busy with college project so we couldn't manage our time as we wanted... but it will be regular soon.... next chapter is out... enjoy!!!!
Deletethx for the chap
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