《Hero Status: Revoked》Arc 1 - 06 - Better Than Nothing
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POV: Kyle Mercer
Having graduated from the mix of mashed up indescribable food they feed babies in this world, I have graduated onto the more substantial food. This took me quite a long time to realize though, because it is all basically the same.
The major vegetables consist of corn, potatoes, peas, onions, and kale. I really expected the vegetables to be back to the point it was at before the demon invasion, but I guess the farmland has not been repaired yet.
We have meat fairly often, however it is the worst meat I have ever tasted. I know a lot of farmland was lost to the demonic armies, but that shouldn't have made the animals actually taste worse! I can only imagine what they feed these creatures to make them taste like this.
When I traveled the kingdom, the majority of herded farm animals were bovine. They had huge bodies and enormous horns, but if the horns were cut off, the bovine would become self-conscious or something and not attack. The meat I have tasted in this new life taste nothing like bovine.
Food is meant to be separated into groups and eaten sequentially, but much like the language, most food is just thrown into a pot and pulled out in whatever way people feel like. It might just be because I don't currently have the most developed teeth, but that is not a reason to forgive these people for not having a single steak the entire time I have lived with them.
Mother, father, what are you thinking? You cannot simply eat soup every breakfast lunch and dinner, it just doesn't work like that. You need a variety of solid and semisolid foods. I won't get jealous, promise.
From my minimal investigations, there are less than half of the vegetables available here than we had before the war, and don't get me started on fruit.
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Alright, fruit. Apples, oranges, lemons, and grapes. That's it. I know what you are asking, where are the bananas? I'll tell you; bananas are gone. Apples, oranges, lemons and grapes. Those are the only 4 fruits I have seen so far, and they suck.
It's almost as if after we pushed back the demonic army, the farmers just threw seeds all over the place and used wind magic to spread them.
Second topic: Utilities. I have a bed. My parents have a bed. We have a table and 4 chairs. We have a three seat couch. That is the end of our seating and lying arrangements. For the final few years of my life I was always on the move with the other 4 heroes, and the beds weren't even this bad. That's right, the beds prepared for us when we got to a camp a few miles from a battlefield was better than the bed I have been sleeping in for over a year.
For cooking, we have two tools for that. A big pot on the ground that everything is thrown into, or a pan that everything is thrown into before later being put in the pot. Something strange that I have found with the cooking methods of this house is the use of magic. They don't use it.
Elena retrieves some wood from outside the back of the house and lights it on fire to heat the pot or the pan. This method is downright primitive. Elena and Fred act like mana is some precious thing to not be spent, and I hardly ever see them use spells except when lighting the initial fire.
Once a spell is cast, it can be maintained by supplying it with minimal mana, so if Elena or Fred would cook by using Flame spells, there wouldn't be so much smoke and we wouldn't need so much wood.
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Third topic: The house. From my limited movement, which peak performance consist of rocking my body, I think I have seen every room in the house. From the living room facing inside the house, there is the front door that I have never been out of to the rear. To the immediate right is my room and a little forward from that is Elena and Fred's room. Directly ahead is the bathroom, and a little on the left of that is the kitchen.
I am quite shocked that we have a bathroom in the house, because in my past life only businesses and the king's palace had those. It really makes me unsure if we are poor or just idiots.
The house is made from wood, like a log cabin, but the house was in the middle of a large town which made it completely out of place. The houses one each side of ours are also made like log cabins, but the ones on the other side of the street are made from normal cob. Strange as it might sound, I have not left the house yet, but I know the roof is wood too. The homes across the street have thatched roofs.
Judging from the materials possessions we have, I would say we are poor. Judging from how happy Elena and Fred are with this life and each other, I think they're just idiots.
POV: Fred Mercer
Every day is a challenge, but I am a champion. My father told me I would never be able to raise a family of my own with a job as a city guard, and only drunks and degenerates were good for that. I sure showed him though.
Got myself a beautiful wife at the age of 18 and had my first child with her just two years later. It might not be the best of houses, but at 19 when I bought my home, it was all I could ever ask for. A place for just me and Elena. Plenty of the other guards say I should have just spent the money on booze and prostitutes, but I know I made the right choice.
Elena makes delicious soup with the best ingredients every day, and then at night I go to sleep in the most comfortable bed in the human empire. Here with my wife and child, it is... a truly blessed life.
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Emperor of Steel
Shaymon, the man who has achieved the apex of dark magic, is framed as being a Demon King and is killed. ‘I will not let it end like this!’ He finally achieves new life but reality was cruel. Being born after 500 years, he was born as the descendent of his rival, the Sword Emperor!
8 320Path of the Berserker (A Daopocalypse Progression Fantasy)
A world destroyed. An axe to grind. And a path to infinite power. Welcome to my reality. When the cultivators came to Earth, they destroyed our entire civilization in a matter of hours. Armies fell, cities burned and that was before the moon turned red and filled our world with monsters. Now, over a decade later, what’s left of humanity slave under the heels of our Qi infused masters. The luckiest of us might even become one of them, they say—if we serve the Dynasty well enough and harness the power of Qi. But I want none of that. I’m sick of serving and I want nothing to do with their world. Instead, I want them to pay for what they did to mine. Maybe that’s why she found me. The dark, angry goddess who showed me a different path. Apparently, Qi is not the only route to power. I may be too late to save my family, but it’s never too late for revenge. Now, I’ll fight to take back my planet, to grow strong enough to beat the cultivators at their own game. I will free humanity or die trying. For that’s the Path of a Berserker. Path of the Berserker is progression fantasy novel for fans of western style cultivation fantasy, post apocalypse and xianxia. Click to enjoy now!
8 218Novos Hitchhiker
Meet the mysterious being that has given itself the name Novos. Once an unfortunate reincarnating spirit on Earth, it has now wandered onto a new world full of magic and monsters. Unlike its previous incarnations on Earth, this time it has awakened, with a jumbled collection of its previous memories of Earth, inside the body of Celestine, a girl with no special powers or distinguishing traits whatsoever. Novos is a hitchhiker, sharing the body with the young girl. Along for the ride, but able to take the wheel when needed. This is the story of Celestine's life as witnessed and influenced by the presence of the foreign spirit. Note: This is a rewrite of a previously submitted fiction I posted here. I rewrote it for NaNoWriMo from memory. Feel free to read what I previously wrote, but significant elements have changed. I am leaving that iteration of the story up un-edited for future reference and for anyone curious.
8 141The Draw Of The Unknown
Mia Campbell is your average introverted loner. Not exactly satisfied with her life doing pretty much nothing of import, she's also not that willing to break out and make a change. Until, without any preamble or warning, she is bestowed with a cryptic system that both grants her magical powers, and also operates on the logic of a card game. Things begin to escalate from there. **This project is a bit of an experiment! For any given chapter, Mia's 'decklist' will be built by the community, over on our Discord server. If you find this amusing, and want to participate in the discussion, as well as find the complete list of cards, you will be able to find the link to the Discord server at the end of each chapter. Discussion in the comments is also encouraged and included as well. Each chapter and/or scenario will be intentional, but the cards used will be chosen by you guys. And the draws made will be done via actual drawing of cards during the writing process, for bonus author street cred.**
8 142Nandemonogatari: A New Story of Something Else
New chapters every 10 days! *Currently on brief hiatus. We will return shortly! With the loss of Miyafuji High School, it's time for a new year and a new school for the Paranormal Club. Not only that, but new members and new adventures too! At Zonzai High School, the premier school for gifted children in Japan, things are run a little different. Each club will fight for supremacy in weekly challenges, with winners rising through the ranks and losers falling to shoddier accommodations. But there may be more action at this school than is sanctioned, and old fights may bubble back to the forefront for our Paranormies. This is the 2nd book in an ongoing series. Be sure to read the 1st novel, Nandemonogatari: The Story of Something Else here on Royalroad first!
8 198Pure Heart {EJ x Reader}
My first ever Wattpad story! I have never done this before and I'm so excited about it! -Description: (Y/n) is depressed with her sad life, mother hates her while her father left when she was young. She gets bullied everyday without mercy, (Y/n) is tired of it and wants to die but she's too scared to do anything about it so she waits. She gets away from her mother for the weekend and decides to stay at a cabin she used to visit a long time ago, after hearing sounds at night she decides to investigate it. Soon after she saves a random guy that was being attacked by a demon, she is happy but soon the man attacks her that she saved. She doesn't resist though, she wanted this so she let's him but he hesitates. He's never hesitated before so...Why now?An adventure awaits you and Jack filled with Romance, Humor, Adventure, Drama, Horror, etc.-----!⚠️ Cringe¡{Cover edited by me, Art belongs to owner}[#14 in eyeless Jack in 2019](1st of the CP series)
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