Chapter 13

(Ashborn's POV)

"What are you planning to do first? " Kaspian looked at me and asked.

"First of all, Spread news about the appearance of S-Class Adventurer. So that Royalty and maybe even different countries hear about it. " I told him.

I just need to pose a danger to Royalty so they will fear me. I heard that the King of this country is a greedy one, he will eventually invite me to work under him. When I will decline his offer I will make moves.

"This can be done easily. Now, what are going to do if they decline your demands?"

"Then I will have to use force If we only reach that stage because we won't have to. they will agree, no matter what."

"Why is that?"

"If King has a brain. He won't lead his life to unavoidable death." I answered and Kaspian seems to understand something.

"Are you planning to showcase your strength somehow? Wait, I may already know-how." I wanted to hear what he has in mind.

"And what do you know?"

"It's maybe not exactly it, but are you planning to compete in a 3-Race competition?" Kaspian does have a good mindset, I didn't even know if there was such a thing. He certainly has a good idea.

"First I was planning to clear S-Class and bring some valuable beast-cores from them, but now I want to use your idea." I answered honestly. (Should I make from Kaspian a Demiurg from Overlord? haha)

"Then you will have to reveal your identity sir."

"I will only reveal a face, with alias that I will have on Guild Card. " That was the reason why I was participating in this event. I wanted to make a reputation for S-Class Adventurer.

"I will prepare everything related to Guild-Card. Do you want a unique Guild-Card for yourself?"

"Just make it black."

"And about your beast-cores, do still want to sell them?"

"Ah, Yes."

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"This will cost you a lot, are you sure you want to buy them?" The man in front of me asked.

I wanted to buy a dimension ring for Arthur, they cost a lot. the one that I'm buying now can fit only a few medium-sized sword. I doubt it would even fit all the cores I sold...

"I'll take it." I said and threw a pouch of gold coins to the merchant.

The merchant looked at the pouch skeptically, but when he opened it his eyes shined and quickly bowed to me.

"Thank you for the purchase. Please visit us again!" He yelled out.

I took a dimension ring and packed it in a ring box. Quickly leaving the story I went to Helstea Manor. I prepared gifts, now I don't have to worry about anything. I spent a whole lot of gold coins just to buy few things from those presents, they will be glad.

For father, I just kept one beast-core that I was intending to sell before. It has beast-will that suits my father well, it will also help with moving on next stage of mana-core if not a few.

Other gifts can also be considered useful. For Twin-Horns, I managed to get communication scrolls, for Vincent he got a golden pen that looks cool and can shoot flares.

For Tabitha and Lilia, he got some golden necklaces.

And finally, for his mother and Ellie, I managed to get an artifact that stores the effect of strong spells.

Beru already had healing ability and it's strong enough to heal serious wounds such as missing limbs. I made him store 3 strong healing spells in them, 3 because the artifact couldn't hold more. I'm confident that my shadow soldiers can protect them even without me being here, I'm gifting this just in case...

It's now time to go home. to not spend time going there on my two, I'll just use Shadow Exchange.

[Shadow Exchange]

I sink in my own shadow and appeared in Helstea Manor's backyard.

(Arthur's POV)

I with my family were having dinner with Helsteas, everyone was joking and laughing. Ellie was sitting on father's lap and also tried to understand what elders were joking about.

Lilia was also feeling happy because she can also become a mage now. Uncle Vincent was the happiest man at the dinner, he is crying with happiness. The same can be said with Aunt Tabitha, but she is holding against her tears now.

My mother looks also happy. only if Ash was here, she would be even happier. Speaking of Ash he should be back toda-

"I'm back." Someone entered and announced I turned to the voice only to be meet my brother with the same expressionless face that I clearly remember and will always remember.

Everyone looked at him dumbfounded. I don't blame them, this was really sudden. Damn, he even changed for those 4 years, he looks like 12-years-old. I hope, I will become like him.

Mother stood up. Slowly walked towards Ash, and when she stood in front of him.

She slapped and quickly hugged him. Father soon followed with Ellie in his hands.

"What was that for?" Ash asked mother.

"That is for you running away from Arthur."

"What?" Ash turned face to me. My entire life flashed in front of me when I met his eyes. Fortunately, he looked away from me. That was scary.

"Haha, I don't remember telling you that he run away mom. haha..." I awkwardly tried to deny what mom said.

"Stop, talking about such trivial things. Ash is finally back!" Father shouted and hugged Ash.

Ellie could only hug Ash's leg because he grew taller. That was a cute sight to see, and I couldn't miss such a moment and joined a family hug.

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(3'rd POV)

"So, Ash what were you doing in your journey?" Reynolds asked Ash when we were eating.

"Nothing particular. I just trained and hunt some mana-beasts with Hawky." Ash answered he didn't want to tell them what exactly was he doing.

"So you were in Beast Glades?" Mother asked and covered her mouth in shock.

"Yes, but with Hawky close to me." Mother felt relieved at this.

"Ash, On what stage are you?!" Father asked in a challenging tone.

'I can say that I'm still on the Dark-Orange stage, but they will think that I left for nothing.' Ashborn thought, he didn't really care about core since he only formed it just not seem suspicious to others. But he had dark-orange stage 4 years back then when he left for "Training".

"Solid-yellow stage. " Ash answered.

Everyone looked at him with surprise. Such progress for an 8-years-old boy is not just surprising. It would be called monstrous talent if Ashborn wasn't Monarch previously.

"Wow, no words..." Tabitha muttered and removed sweat from her forehead.

"That's my son! already surpassed me!" Reynolds yelled proudly.

"are my bwuders strong, mom?" Ellie climbed on mother's lap and asked cutely.

'Damn, this human heart. this is too cute...'

"He is too strong to be 8-years-old." Vincent answered and laughed with Reynolds.

"Father, on what stage are you?" Ash suddenly asked.

"Your old man is still stuck on dark-orange stage. " Raynolds's expression saddened a little bit

"That reminds me, I prepared a lot of things before I came back." With that said Ashborn took off his backpack (That he had only for show)

He opened his backpack and took out a silver-colored beast-core.

"This should be enough to break through the stage. It also has beast will inside." Ash tossed beast-core to his father who caught it with wide eyes.

"I can't accept this Ash... and how did you even manage to get a core with beast will..."

"Hawky managed to get a few of them, I decided to keep one for you." Ash then took out more things from his backpack.

"And those are things that I got for everyone." Ashborn took a small ring box and opened it and revealed... of course he revealed ring.

"Arthur this is dimension ring. I thought it would be useful for you so I bought it." Ash handed the box to Arthur. Arthur just stared at the ring for some time before thanking.

"Then I got those necklaces for Aunt Tabitha and Lilia." Ashborn took bigger boxes this time and handed them to Tabitha and Lilia.

"Thanks, Ash." Lilia smiled and did thumbs up which Ash returned but with a black expression.

"For Uncle Vincent, I found this special pen. It can also shoot flares. For a businessman, it's necessary to have a pen with him." For Vincent, the most interesting part was that the pen can shoot flares. He happily accepted and thanked Ash.

"And now for my mother and sister, I found those rings. They have stored healing spells, and whenever you are hurt it will automatically heal you." He took both small boxes in his hand and approached mother and Ellie.

"Your hand, please. " Ash motioned Alice and Ellie to pull their hand to him.

Mysteriously boxes were opened by themselves and rings slowly flew out from them. They floated towards Alice and Ellie. They floated towards their hands and were put on other respective fingers. Rings then altered their size for the user's comfortability.

Ellie looked excited, her eyes shone while looking at the ring.

"Ellie you should thank your brother. "Alice pushed Ellie towards Ash.

"Thnks bwuder." Ellie hugged Ash who even kneeled for her. (I know for such a person kneeling is something unacceptable but for the family it's ok.)

'Cute.' Ash's heart even hurt from such display of cuteness from Ellie.

"Thanks, honey." Alice soon joined and hugged Ash together with Ellie.

"It's what family does." Ash said. Arthur even smirked at this.

"I still don't understand how you managed to get those things? They would cost a chest of gold coins." And here we go, now Ash has to convince Alice that he earned such an amount of money and not steal.

"Ash, also Art is going to become adventurer soon. maybe you also want to go with him." Reynolds said and Ashborn shook his head.

"No, I'm good." Ashborn was already an S-Class adventurer. He will have other work to do other than just being an adventurer.

"By the way, when are Twin-Horns coming? I also prepared something for them."

"They should be there soon. At the start of the Auction." Reynolds answered.

"I also heard that Royal Family will be attending the auction."

"Uh, Yes. But where did you hear that?" Vincent asked.

"Heard in Adventurer's guild. You should be happy." Ash answered.

"Yeah, but we won't gain any serious profit from this auction probably. haha..."Vincent said.

"Why is that?" It was now Arthur who asked.

"Whatever king will decide to buy, probably will be sold for the lower market price..." Now everyone understood.

"So nobody will dare to compete with the king." Said, Arthur.

"That's right." Vincent heavily sighed.

"Is that soo..."Ashborn muttered.

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There weren't any actions in this chapter, but I thought it would be important to write a family reunion scene.

The next chapter will be about Auctions. Also, news about S-Class adventurers will start spreading and something interesting will happen on auction.

Also, sorry this chapter was small compared to the previous one.

Cya.(Btw in chapter 12 Shadow Sovereign was changed into Shadow Monarch bc people wanted so :)) )