a country for an eye.

Me and shiva left after 3 days with an merchant that was traveling through the desert with few more people and lots of food.

And it was guarded by 7 level 1 adventurers and 2 level 2s, it was almost comical how food here was guarded more strictly than million valis weapons, then again people need food and water to survive not a shiny sword used to silt someone's throat, we jumped inside a carriage which had a two families and three level 1 adventurers they were near level 2 I would say at the verge of leveling up, they will be changing places with the ones guarding the food. Yes not the people but the food. Our safety was our own responsibility here.

It was truly a hellish place to live in. The food carried here was being transported to various rich nobles in warusa. The country warusu was a small country but comparing to other places in kaios desert it was one of the largest, but it was dirt poor, people didn't even have food there to eat, strife, killing, robbery was an everyday occurrence throughout the country only the inner section of the capital where the nobles and ruler resided was where people could get food and water, but only ones who work for the ruler.

The thing about this place that bothered me the most was this place had slaves. The three major countries in kaios desert, warusa, israfan, shalzard. all practiced slavery and traded slaves. And most of the slaves came from this place, warusa. and the country that was destroyed by black dragon was shalzard. many people who survived the onslaught were either turned to slaves here and in israfan, some died in the desert, but some managed to get out the desert and get to better places.

The carriage driver suddenly started talking with the passenger, it looked like even he was bored from watching the same sandy scenery. Suddenly the topic of conversation became me. I noticed I was the youngest in the carriage, even the children in the two families were definitely above 15. And here I was barely 9.

"so kid, you travelling with your deity?"

"yes"

"oh! Then you must be an adventurer?"

"yes"

"then what level are you kid, you seem strong" asked one of the adventurer, and the others nodded, as fellow adventurers they could somewhat gauge their opponents abilities

"level 2" I replied, no need to create a commotion by declaring myself as a level 6.

The people were surprised at the revelation, I looked barely 10 and had already reached the next level,

"you have talent kid, make sure you don't waste it"

"yes" I said and the topic changed, shiva was busy reading his book, not minding anything that was going around here,

"and kid why were you in zolingham, looking for a weapon?" the carriage driver asked, and I nodded. he has been talking with everyone in the carriage even the adventurer, guess it was his way to enjoy his job.

"why are you wearing that" the carriage driver asked, again my turn came to be interrogated,

"my eyes look weird due to my skill" I replied

"oh! Is your skill related to your eyes" he again asked, he is way too curious, learn to draw a line you old man.

"something like that" I replied, seeing my annoyed face because of his pestering he laughed and didn't ask anything else,

It took us full three days to get to the capital of warusa. It didn't even had a wall around it but a wall around its inner section.

The carriage driver showed us around the town, but not the inner sections because to enter that you have to be a noble or direct subordinate of the ruler. The current king of warusa was Ali gol rah. He kept all the strong adventurers under him, I think there is a level 5 there as well but due to distance rinnegan can't tell exactly but I am certain there is no one above 5. Here I can take out anyone even without the S rank skills.

But the ones I always look out for are gods near me, there were many in zolingham but here I only saw one, inside the inner section there was a mansion there was the deity.

We reach the Inn by evening and decided to dine there, the driver showed as this traveller's Inn, we will only spend one night here and next morning leave for loiad city.

While sitting in the room, I finished creating another durandal weapon.

[quest(warlord's treasury) : create durandal weapons (127/50,000)]

It took me a week to create only 127 weapons though usually the best blacksmith take weeks to create one durandal and here I was mass producing them, if any of them hear about it they are going to flip. I also created about 200 adamantite weapons, just in case. After closing the system I went down to have dinner, shiva was already there and had ordered the food, there were very less people here, then again who wants to visit a literally starving country.

We started eating after a few minutes I started feeling sleepy, maybe I used too much mana, but I had enough to at least stay awake. When shiva suddenly collapsed,

Oh the food, crap I don't have abnormal resistance, fuck I don't have any kind of resistance. As my conciseness faded I saw the carriage driver at the entrance grinning.

That fuc... I fell unconscious.

...

I felt my consciousness return, my body felt heavy, very heavy. My body wasn't heavy my strength was almost gone. How long had it been light's out for me.

The food, there was something in the food, I fucked up big time but where am I?. As I tried to move my arm I felt there was something binding me, the sound of chains. There were chains around my hands, waist, neck and legs. My eyes were still closed, I couldn't open them

Why couldn't I open my eyes, I brought my arms up to my eyes, I touched my eyes, they weren't there. Huh?,I could feel the dried up blood on my face.

that's when the pain kicked in.

"AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa" I shouted, it hurts, it hurted really bad, I wanted to cry but there were no eyes to cry,

"seems like the brat woke up" voice came from in front of me. I ignored him.

It was really painful, my entire skull was hurting as I clutching it, [system] [system][system][system][system] I repeated again and again and each time I said it a "gong" sound was heard in my head, I still saw nothing, it was there but I couldn't see it.

Suddenly someone kicked me in the face and started dragging me somewhere as I was busy dealing with the pain, I even tried casting healing magic but every time I casted it I used system, I had no magical knowledge, I didn't know any chant, always a procedure and a button from system and job done, but without my eyes I couldn't see where was the button was.

My rinnegan was definitely gone along with the EMS and susanoo, right now I only had [Gates of Babylon] and my level 6 stats. My strength was slowly returning, falna and system were the only thing keeping me alive in this condition.

My captor suddenly threw me forward, I tried getting up but a foot planted me down.

"name" a arrogant voice said in front of me.

"where is shiva?" I asked.

"his majesty ali asked you a question brat" the person beside me kicked me but I didn't even flinch whereas I heard a painful "hiss" beside me that guy was definitely below level 3,

"as they said brat's endurance is very high for a level 2, they had to use those adamantite dagger to damage his eyes" someone said. I am Level 2 and taking out my eyes to remove the skills, it has to be that fucking driver, once I get my hands on him I will...

"I asked for your name, peasant" the voice of 'his majesty' asked me.

"where is shiva?" I repeated the same thing, this time the annoyance of everyone was vocal. Suddenly I heard heavy foot steps approach me, as I was suddenly hit in the face it was pretty weak, but the attacker was definitely holding back, this was the near level 5, I saw from inn.

Alright he needs to die first,

"lio" I said

"hmm, you are strong for a child so I will give you a chance to join my army and I will have your eyes healed" the arrogant voice proclaimed like it was some kind of great honor,

"what if I refuse" I asked

"then I have no use for you" he said

Huh so this was there recruitment method, get talented kids, cripple them and then give them the carrot but what if they revolt, why haven't they revolted maybe because of the god I saw. Whatever one last thing to confirm.

"where is shiva?" I asked again.

"your god is currently having a chat with our supreme deity in his mansion" supreme deity? When did gods have rankings must be someone with a mountain worth of ego behind him gave himself that title.

That was good. Alright now that I heard everything, both shiva and the god isn't here.

I see no reason for this country to keep existing.

The boy stood up as the others watched in curiosity, they didn't feel a least bit threatened the brat was only a level 2, talented but still in his infancy there was a level 5, 2 level 3s here and some more level 2s if the brat tries anything he will instantly die.

The boy grabbed the chains that were holding him and crushed it using his hands ,this alerted the level 5 who was near him as he jumped to restrain him but then everyone heard,

[divine chains]

as the level 5 suddenly burst open by golden chains that emerged from behind the boy through a golden portal.

I heard a "gong" sound in my head, system might have a quest or a notification regarding my first kill. the king felt threatened and ordered everyone to attack the boy but evryone who approached the boy was torn to shreads,

"wait.. wait... boy, listen we can heal your eyes" the king said in a panic there was no way the boy was just a level 2,

the boy didn't said anything as a single chain impaled him in his shoulders and lifted him up,

"don't worry I won't kill you, you are the bait that will draw out every single pest in the place"

using the chains I can figure out the path even without eyes, the ministers around him started praising his strength and telling that they were forced to do all this by the king....they were being nothing but noisy.

"then blame your own luck"

as the sounds of chains was heard followed by splattering sound. as the everyone in the room are reduced to smears on the floors and walls.

.....

at the edge of the capital city of warusa a group of powerful adventurers arrived.

"this is the place" a demi human in the group said.

"this place disgust me" an elf in the group said.

"don't complain we are here because we had received reports of the royalty forcefully enslaving children here." the human in the familia said.

"what do we do lady artemis?"

the goddess of the familia looked towards the castle, and said

"we will move at once, and meet the king of the place"

but when they entered the city, they found it to be in complete chaos,

one of the adventurer stopped a civilian that was running away from the palace, just like many others.

"what is happening here" the adventurer asked

"it... it's a massacre, swords, spears, weapons are raining down for the sky"

the entire familia after hearing it ran towards the castle were the supposed massacre was happening, when they arrived they saw that the castle was in ruins, blood and pieces of people littered all over the place,

they all had the same thought 'what kind of monster did this' .

as suddenly they heard commontion behind them, a group of soldiers arrive with two gods in tow, one of whom was tied up and dragged forward.

"a little help here" the tied up god(shiva) asked.