《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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I Don’t Want To Defy The Heavens
Seven years ago, she freely and easily abandoned ¥100 and ran away, carrying her unborn son with her. Seven years later, she returned with the lady killer’s genius son, never expecting that her darling son would sell her out to MBS International. Unexpectedly, her immediate superior was the Mr. ¥100 from seven years ago! “……Terrible girl, seven years ago, you dared to humiliate me so much! This time, I’ll definitely let you pay the price! For ¥1,000,000,000,000, I’ll buy you for the rest of your life!” Isn’t that too much for a buy one get one free bargain? The most two-faced couple, along with their two-faced son, staking their lives on the outcome…
8 294The Yes-Mage
Plenty of people have stopped and asked what it'd be like to simply have everything, and Sylvain Henry Camille Johansson was no different. He was a man who had a lot of things going on, with a name that'd make a supervillain blush and a family who'd make even the useless of their rank into someone important. It was a shame, then, that he was slapped with a dreadfully unfortunate condition that kept him from living up to any of those already low expectations. Stuck living a life where magic is everywhere while he's left working with nothing more than a moderate intellect, a little bit of whatever influence he could get from his family, and a lifetime's practice at making himself the ideal subordinate for his bosses' boss, Vane was still beating the odds and slowly working his way up in the world. When the cunning yes-man finally got a chance to really make a name for himself, he leapt at the offer, taking his first real step onto a road he knew he was always meant to walk. His goal? Nothing less than finding out why he and too many other unfortunate souls are barred from the wonderful world of the higher energies, and with any luck, fixing it. Of course, life has a knack for interfering in even the humblest of plans, and Vane's lofty ideals were anything but humble; he was practically a walking bullseye for disaster. The funny thing about catastrophe, though, is that nobody can ever say what form it's going to take. That’s why, when it all went wrong for Vane, he'd gotten everything he'd ever wanted foisted onto him, and Everything else, too. Watch as a man so used to saying 'yes' to everyone above him finds himself stuck with the power to make reality itself say it back.
8 73Phoenix Online
Emily longs to escape the life she has been dealt and daydreams of living in the various worlds of fantasy novels, video games and fantasy books. She gets more than she bargained for when a much-hyped game, Phoenix Online, goes live and changes her life forever. Did she stumble into a new existence full of adventure and excitement that she had always dreamed of, or did she get more than she bargained for in a world that is much more dangerous than she could have ever imagined? Schedule: 1 chapter a week on Wednesdays =====================================
8 122SIGMA HUNTER
An Apocalypse take place on earth monster's came out of Dimensional portal's. Seung Jin-Ho's father died in this incident. His mother went in a coma because a goblin stabbed her in her spinal cord. Seung Jin-Ho was coming home after cashing the magic crystals he has collected from a dungeon with a party where he works as a porter in. But some burglars takes all of his money and throws him into an abandoned dungeon a goblin attacks Seung Jin-Ho as soon as he entered the dungeon. "Wh-what this dagger is poisoned ?" But......will he die.... "I will not die alone" *chek* Seung Jin-Ho stabbed the goblin in his stomach. I killed the goblin yesss. 《Congratulations you're a awakened now》 Huh...?? 《You selected to be a Necromancer》 The goblin stands up as an undead. But he didn't turned into a skeleton instead he got healed and his eyes turned pitch black. And he bowed towards Seung Jin-Ho.
8 142The Diary Of A Successful Villain
Hey Guys! it's J here. I realized that there are a lot of successful heroes in this world. It makes me wonder ... where are all the successful villains at? Well, NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR. your boy J is HERE! I will teach you guys how I succeeded.
8 78Escape The Night - Season 3
"I don't remember much about what happened. All I remember was waking up in a coffin with the crown on my head."Joey Graceffa has survived two deadly dinner parties, and has no intention to live through another one. However, he received a letter from a distant relative, informing him that he has inherited a castle. When he went to investigate, he was attacked by the dark spirit that haunts the castle walls."I would have to go through it again. I would have to watch them die without being able to help them."Invites are sent, and twenty of his friends appeared at his doorstep, ready for a party in the medieval era. However, things are not as they seem, and the guests soon discover that they must fight for survival if they want to return home. The guests must protect, betray and kill one another to survive, but even the strongest people can fall. "My friends were going to die."Only a few can return home, but who will they be?
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