The Empire

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The sun rises, bringing light to the City and the beautiful landscape. The Moonlight Inn was located far from the Empire's Castle which is in the capital of the City, the sunlight reached the inn.

As the sunlight enters the room, there's a woman sleeping with a satisfied face in the man's shoulders. The man woke up and removed his shoulders slowly and stood up bare naked.

"Kukuku! I really went wild last night, if it was me from the past maybe I would be very happy right now. But strangely in my current form there's no emotion within me about what happened."

Verion looked at Nezhia and covered her with a blanket.

"You've done a great job last night Nezhia." Verion looked at Nezhia and touched her hair and slides it down to its tips.

Nezhia smiled lightly even though she's in a deep sleep. She rolled over to other side and Verion pulls his hands.

Verion puts on his clothes that he wear last night, and opened the door and gone outside the Inn. He saw an old man cleaning at the street early in the morning. He asked him.

"Excuse me can I ask some questions?" Verion asked politely with a light smile on his lips.

"Yeah sure, ask me anything." The old man answered confidently.

"Where is the guild of this City?" Verion asked the old man.

The old man laughed.

"Hahaha!! This is not a city kid, this is just the outskirts of the Empire, so big right? The Castle is in the capital, but you can't just see it because it's about 8km from here."

"It seems I was right, this whole place really is not a city but a metropolis. It's impossible for a city to be this big." Verion said this this words to the old man.

*This Country has about 10km radius, then that only means one thing. This country is made to be a metropolis to made it easily gather strength and resources.*

"That's a smart-ass kid for ya, I wondered why would my beautiful daughter asked for someone's identify for the first time hahaha!" The old man laughed again.

"Your daughter? Then you're the owner of this place right?" Verion asked sounding like he already knew.

The old man tilted his head and asked Verion. "How do you say so?"

Verion answered him normally. "I just got the gist of it."

"Hahaha! I really like how you catch up things very fast, then let's get to the main topic." The old man patted Verion's shoulders and moved away a little bit as he became serious a sudden and the atmosphere suddenly changed but it has no effect on Verion.

"All you want is my information right?" The old man's words became heavy and a lot different from the normal old man that Verion was talking to recently.

"Yes that's right." Verion said this words calmly and also made the atmosphere heavier into his favor.

"I really can't beat you." The old man exhaled and followed up his words. "Even though you're just a kid you got that strong presence that feels like a royal." The old man laughed.

"Then let's talk inside since there's still no people in there it's still so early right now, and I'll prepare some tea for ya." The old man's expression returned to normal again.

Verion nodded and followed the old man as he entered the inn. The old man walked to the 2nd floor where staff room is located.

Both of them entered the room together. The room have many expensive materials and a few paintings. There's an only one thing that caught Verion's eyes, it is a painting that shows an adventurer who is trying to kill a dragon.

The old man noticed Verion looking at the painting. "Ohh!! That man is the first adventurer who killed a dragon in the history of mankind, that's about 300 years ago when the occupation called adventurers first started."

Verion answered him with "Ah, Is that so." And looked at the other paintings.

The old man offered Verion a chair in a round table at the edge of the room at the side of the table that is being used during the old man's work.

Verion and the old man sits on the chair opposite to each other. When they both are getting into their discussions, a cute girl in a maid uniform approached them slowly while holding a tray in the side of her waist.

The old man called to the girl. "Fianna, prepare some tea for me and this kid will ya?, oh! Make that special one for us got it?."

"Yes, Father." Fianna secretly glanced at Verion and blushed lightly, she then moved to the kitchen to prepare the tea.

"That's my daughter Fianna, I believe you've met her last night am I right?" The old man made out a big smile on his face as he said those words.

Verion answered him with a bit of smile. "Yes, she's the receptionist that we met last night."

"Where's that beauty that accompanied you? she said that you were with a beautiful girl last night.?"

"She's still sleeping, I didn't wake her up because maybe she wants to sleep more and the other reason is that I want to gather information alone."

"You really got wild last night ya know? We can hear ya from the other room hahaha! youth really is nice ya know?." The old smirk on Verion as he said this words and then laughed loudly in the end.

"I'm sorry about that, we've just caught at the moment there, we didn't mean to disturb the others." Verion smiled a little and returned to its cold face.

"By the way it's a bit late but my name is Elrick." He made a laugh and raised his hands to Verion.

"My name is Von, nice to meet you." Verion smiled in return and accepted his handshake.

"Then? What informations do you want from me?" Elrick made the first move to move on to the main topic.

"Everything that you know about the Empire." Verion's expression changed, the reason why is informations are so important to Verion in order to make a plan.

"It's not for free ya know?" Elrick changes the way he speaks to Verion, that he seems like a veteran merchant.

"I know." Verion took 10 gold coins on his pouch and placed it on the table. "Is this enough?" Verion asked.

"Hey hey hey, that's more than enough!! that's 10 gold coins ya know? If you're carrying that many you might get attacked by bandits and some bad adventurer ya know?."

"I'm confident in my abilities." He answered calmly and showed a portion of his strength. The atmosphere became heavy.

Elrick returned his gaze as he also released his aura. As they were testing their strengths, someone approached them.

"Father here's your tea." Fianna who doesn't know how to read the mood placed the tea infront of both of them.

Elrick coughed to clear his throat and told Fianna to clean the Inn for awhile because he wanted to talk to Verion in private.

"It seems like you are really confident with your abilities, I can tell someone who is strong. I might not be as strong in the past but I was an A rank adventurer before, but I think the rankings of the adventurers have changed due to some circumstances in the Empire, well I'll leave it at that. Aight ask me anything kid."

After that, Verion asked many things to Elrick. As Elrick was explaining the things that he know, everything has been absorbed by Verion. It's because Verion's intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after he transformed into his game avatar.

*All informations that he says are sticking into my mind like a magnet, if I would go back to my world right now, maybe I'll achieve great things with this intelligence.*

As Elrick continues to explain, Verion listened again to everything he says. He received some unknown things that he could not comprehend but he didn't bother those things. He'll just know it when the time comes. Then the information that Verion really wanted was explained by Elrick.

Elrick said that they belonged to the new Empire which is the Verallion Empire, built by the new Emperor.

The Empire was in chaos until 5 years ago, that's because of the ex-Emperor who brought war blindly in power to it's neighboring countries. But a new Emperor has been crowned, and that's the current Emperor.

After the Emperor sitted on the throne, the Empire's economy bloomed to an extent that as if the Empire is not in chaos for the past years, and he built a metropolis. The Emperor built a castle that he called Kaiserpfalz at the center of the Empire, he then made an indestructible army commanded by the 10 Heralds.

The 10 Heralds was appointed by the Emperor after he rises to the throne. The strength of each Herald is enough to be a power of single country. But there is one thing that everyone did not understand, no one knows how did those powerful beings arrived and has been appointed almost the same time as the Emperor rises in power. There is no records or history that says anyone of them, not their name's, families, backgrounds and others, even the Emperor himself didn't showed himself in the public.

They just appeared just like a storm that passes by, no one has ever seen the emperor, only the Heralds have the right to see the him during their conference. But only the 9 Heralds came in public, even the Guild Masters didn't know who is the 10th herald. The Heralds said that the 10th Herald is the strongest among them and he is the right hand of the Emperor, so he has no time to leave his side.

Verion's mind cleared after this, it is because he already know the things that he needed to know.

"Artos, Ladras, Darknel, Xandros, Ceriom, Galdern, Methia, Kerina, and Anellia are the 9 Heralds." Verion muttered these words in front of Elrick.

Elrick stopped his explanations to Verion, the reason is because he was baffled why did Verion knows them. Elrick believed that Verion has just arrived in the Empire last night, that's what made him confused.

"Hmm, so? Is that the only Informations that you have?" Elrick came back to reality as Verion said those words.

"But, how did you know their names?" Elrick who is still puzzled said this words.

"That's the thing I can't tell you." Verion's tone is just the same as always.

"Fine!! You paid me for this so I'm not gonna bother you anymore." Elrick gave up and continued his explanation.

In the Empire, the adventures ranking system is different from the other countries, in our country we have the following:

[ Empire ] [ Others ]

Titanium SSS

Adamantite SS

Orichalcum S

Obsidian A

Platinum B

Gold C

Silver D

Copper E

"I think this informations are enough, I would like to go to the Guild right now and register as an adventure." Verion cuts the explanation of Elrick.

"Are you sure Von? I can still give you informations that you need ya know?." Elrick humbly said this words.

"That's already enough, just tell where the Guild is." Verion who seems to know what everything he needs wanted to leave immediately.

Elrick told Verion where the guild is located, after this, Verion stood up and thanked Elrick as he left. He accepted Verion's gratitude and drinks his tea, he then noticed that Verion didn't even took a sip on the tea, Elrick then laughed and drinks it as well.

Verion walks upstairs while the sounds of his footsteps surrounds the room. As he walks closer to the room he made a grin on his face.

"Kukuku~ out of all the names they could give, they have chosen that one."

*Well for now I need to wake up Nezhia and go to the guild to register. After that, we will just enjoy ourselves for a while to the things that those idiots have made kukuku~*