Chapter VI. A new journey

Later, as the sun was already descending, I sat down on the town wall, holding a small bottle of liquor, wich I got from a tavern owner as a gift for protecting the village.

The last months, I spent here, were one of the best months in my life. I never had anything to call my own before and I knew, here in this world, I could achieve great things.

…

Far away, inside a deep dark cave filled with the smell of blood and corpses, a man was kneeling in front of a statue. Next to him, was a girl lying on the ground.

"Ancestor! Soon I will be able to revive you and take back the glory of the Blood Clan.

Hahaha"

He stabbed into the body of the young girl with a small knife. The blood was not squirting out but was pulled by a magical power out of the corpse. It flew towards the huge statue made out of stone. When it touched the forehead of the statue, the blood just disappeared. As if there never had been any blood before.

"Soon, Soon" A laughter could be heard.

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As I was enjoying the late evening, Zhang Yi came to me.

"Your Majesty, I thought you have already gone to sleep."

"Yeah, I just wanted to enjoy the setting sun" I replied, while trying to not answer like a drunk man. "And what are you doing here?."

"Ach, I was controlling the wall, if some demons were still alive." Zhang Yi replied in a respectful tone. "Should I help you with anything?"

"I don't think you need to.." In the next moment, I had already pulled him down next to me.

"Why dont you stay here a bit, sometimes it'a nice to have a companion, and talk about everything. Don't you think so?"

"Ah yes your majesty"

"You don't have to call me majesty every time" I replied while trying to not act as drunk as I am. I continued:

"You know, when I was young, I had some great friends too, you could even call them best friends, but later on, everyone went his own way. As it always ends. Nothing stays the same forever. And I accepted that, you know."

"I never experienced something like that before. As I know, I was solemnly created to serve you, my lord" Zhang Yu also started to talk about what he did before, but it seemed as if he never existed before I called him.

I handed him the bottle of liquor and decided that that, was it for today.

So I greeted some villagers on the way, the owner of the tavern, Glanc. Some of the farmers who had already done their part a month ago and now waited for the time to finally collect their harvest.

There were also some children playing, using wooden swords to fight against. When all these people turned to me, I could clearly see the respect in their eyes.

I slowly closed my eyes and enjoyed my huge bed, like no one else.

The next day, as I was putting on my clothes, I bought from a passing merchant last month, Zhang Yu and Zhang Yi had already entered the chamber, before I even noticed.

"Your Majesty!" Both of the said in union and kneeled on one leg.

"Stand up, we still have a lot of things in front of us today!" I waved my hand and both of them stood up.

When I had finished changing, I left my chamber and ran to the main entrance.

There were already 4 carriages, one for me and 3 for goods and food prepared. Also 5 Soldiers with horses were surrounding the carriages. These 5 Soldiers were the five soldiers who done the most in the demonic beast wave and had defeated many of the demons. So I told Zhang Yu about them.

I slowly walked towards the first carriage, when a servant, infront of me, opened the carriage door and greeted me.

"Your majesty, please enter"

I entered and sat down inside. A tea cup with hot cup had already been prepared and when I had made myself comfortable, I felt how the carriage was moving. And because there wouldn't happen anything for the next 3 days, I started to cultivate like the normal people in this world.

As they traveled from the land ways, to paths with holes everywhere, they arrived at a good resting place in the evening.

While some of the guards were patrolling the area to inform before enemies could attack, others preparing wood and sticks for a fire, everyone worked in union. Only ten minutes later the first fire was already burning, warming the soldiers under my command.

"We will rest here for tonight and the Continue our journey tomorrow, don't forget to get some sleep."

"Yes, your majesty" they replied and everyone took his part in keeping the area safe.

I also prepared to sleep when I saw a screen appear in front of me.

[ Quest Board ]

• Main Quest:

Make your town population go up to 10.000!

(6430/10000)

Reward: 50.000 Gold

100x 2nd Stage Infantry.

???

• Side Quest. (Old)

Kill Neverland guards captain

Reward: 1 Level Up.

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A new quest? Well it seems like my speed of progression is even too slow for the system.

But a few rewards extra, I won't say no.

On the next day, the soldiers had already packed up everything, and we continued on our way to StoneHeart.

My soldiers were prepared to fight anytime and any moment. As we passed through one of the biggest forests and most dangerous in the kingdom. Many Goblins, Orcs and even a Dragon were known to live here.

"Watch out! Goblins ahead!"

The Cavalry pulled their swords out, prepared to attack any second, waiting for the signal to start a massacre.

A horde of creatures with green skin and skulls on their head jumped out of the

bushes.

1 2.. 6. 20 .. 46

There were about 40 to 50 Goblins.

Although Goblins were one of the weakest monsters in this world, but if you weren't careful enough, it might cost you your life.

Most goblin tribes were ruled by a shaman wich was mostly in the 3rd or 4th stage.

I didn't really want to fight, because that would cost us a lot of time, and merchants didn't like to wait. But now I couldn't find any other solution to end this quickly. So I showed my both generals, the signal. And a second later, I could hear the soldiers shouting.

"Defeat them and bring glory to our Kingdom!"

Through the window, I could see the 5 soldiers on their horses rushing towards the goblins, who blocked our way.

The goblins were frightened by this and some even started to throw their broken swords onto the ground and ran away.

Now there were only about 20 goblins left.

When the cavalry arrived in front of them, the purple blood could be seen splashing everywhere, on the armor of my soldiers, on the ground and on the trees, wich seemed to cover everything.

Now there were only about 10 left, but that only meant that these were the stronger ones.

[ Status ( Goblin ) ]

Cultivation: 1st Stage

Motive: Trying to steal goods.

Age: 12 years

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When I scanned each of the goblins, I saw that with my new cultivation stage, I had unlocked some more stats.

[ Status ( Goblin ) ]

Cultivation: 2st Stage

Motive: Trying to steal goods and take some for their own use.

Age: 16 years

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[ Status ( Goblin ) ]

Cultivation: 1st Stage

Motive: Trying to steal goods.

Age: 9 years

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Oh? I can see their age and motive now too?

Not bad, maybe I can use that in some business talks with the merchants too.

While I was thinking, my soldiers had already slaughtered almost all of them.

Only one was still left.

[ Status ( Shaman ) ]

Cultivation: 3rd Stage

Motive: Watching the others work and control.

Age: 27 years

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"Zhang Yi! You take care of him."

"Yes, your majesty"

A moment later, Zhang Yi had already appeared in the battlefield. Wearing his silver armor and holding his two handed long sword made out of enchanted metal, he really looked like a typical hero in any novel.

In front of him, the shaman holding his wand in his hand, using his mouth to chant a spell or so, I couldn't really tell.

But then, when Zhang Yi swung out his sword towards the shaman, a dark purple thin wall appeared and stopped the sword from continuing moving any centimeter.

Even after slashing his sword over ten more times, the wall didn't seem to get any weaker.

When I scanned the shaman again, something really interesting appeared.

[ Status ( Shaman ) ]

Cultivation: 3st Stage

Motive: Using his mana to form a shield of unbreakable mana.

Age: 27 years

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"Zhang Yi! Just hold on! Try to use up his mana, his wall is also made out of mana."

"Ah! Yes, your majesty"

He replied while slashing down a hundred more times.

On the face of the goblin shaman, sweat could be seen. He knew, that he wouldn't endure it any longer.

A minute later,

Ten minutes later …

Only after half an hour, the mana shield finally disappeared and Zhang Yi pressed his sword deep into his opponent's body.

"Your Majesty!"

"Good Job" I replied with a smile and gave him a thumb up.

In this fight, none of my men had died, so we quickly moved forward towards our next stop!.

StoneHeart City!