《"I Am The Hero"》Chapter 9
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After Ash left the room. Leaving me behind by myself.
Maybe I should think what should I do, now that I am where I wanted to be. Ah right, the plan looking at the quest to do the next day and after finding the quest that got my interest, maybe go out explore the city a bit more till the sunset. I saw an inviting looking alleyway while I was on my way on the city center. After that find a place to rest for the night and then go back on the adventurers’ guild to take the quest on the next day.
Now that I think of it. Andrew is such a nice guy bringing me to the adventurer’s guild building and he didn’t leave any of my belonging behind even though it’s kind of heavy and all (well the weight of my stuff probably won’t be that much of a nuisance to him with that body of his). Perhaps I could thank him by inviting him to lunch, of course I’ll also ask Ash to join after all Ash said they are related (I don’t believe that they are really related compare to the huge difference in their physics). No perhaps I’ll invite them some other time, after I completely recover from that encounter.
I think I am fully rested now especially my mental health from that encounter. I stand up, after I finished preparing my stuff and move close to the door to go outside of the room. This door probably leads to the adventurer’s guild lobby. I grab the doorknob to open the door, but before I could open the door, I hear voices.
“Hey pretty lady, how bout ditch this place and have some fun together”
“Please let go of me and stop calling me a pretty lady”
That voice, I know that voice its Ash. She's in trouble I need to help her!!
I hurriedly open the door and saw Ash getting pinned down against the wall by a buff looking guy. He’s probably an adventurer or someone aiming to become one. I look around to see people just staring at them some are even trying to hide their smile. Why is there no one helping her? Are they all sadistic? They just watching someone right in front of them getting harass. It’s not just someone it’s the most beautiful girl in here its Ash. I need to stop this guy and save her.
I toss my baggage somewhere near me and rush toward them to save Ash from his hands… I step on a banana peel before slipping and losing my balance I blindly stretch my hand out to hold on something to maintain my balance.
“Ah, I got something!!” but it didn’t matter for it didn’t maintain my balance, dropping to the floor and it seems that the thing I grabbed slide down. Now that I think of it what the hell did, I grab onto, I look toward my hand and saw it was a black cloth wait… this look the same as Ash’s skirt. So, this is the time where I can finally see a girl’s panty, I never thought that I can see a girl’s panty in this young age (it’s not really a young age if you count my previous life age together with the age I am now). I look up to where the guy standing, I saw his jaw-dropping expression to what he is seeing right now. Well who am I kidding to see the panty of the most beautiful girl any man will have the same expression. Ah I think I prepare myself to look at her panty.
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I turn my head with excitement towards Ash, but to meet with utter horror. The once joy I had, immediately turn to misery.
“Ha-ha look an elephant with a huge trunk. Oh, look the elephant raising his huge trunk.” Gabriel said with a dead voice.
“What’s with all the ruckus!!” a man voice coming from upstairs.
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-Aqua’s perspective-
I kept watching of the bastard waiting for an opportunity to see his demise, but of course that won’t happen unless I act.
After reaching the human settlement they called Eyinas. The bastard walks around and then he met a guy named Andrew and for some reason he fainted, perhaps he’s weak and fainted from walking around. Well that guy carried him to a building and inside a room. There’s only one human in there that seems to be resting. Andrew left the bastard in that room. Now that I am talking about this human settlement it feels like I have been here before, after all I’ve been all over the world looking for this bastard. Or perhaps it’s just a coincidence I don’t see any familiar human I met and there’s some building I don’t remember being there.
Ah finally the bastard conscious. As he opened his eyes, He immediately look towards to the human that were in the room. That human introduce itself as Ashley and wanted to be called Ash. They talk about a fruit of a man-eating plant, which I don’t care about. Ash offered the fruit to the bastard but seems that was denied. Ash seems to be saddened by getting rejected, but after seeing Ash becomes sad the bastard changes his mind and accepted the offer of the fruit. After receiving the fruit from Ash, he gives five small round pieces of gold. I don’t know why he exchange the gold for a fruit. To be honest I have not much knowledge about human culture or any other race culture to be exact.
The human named Ash finally left the room, leaving this bastard behind. He is just staring there or is he thinking of something. Oh, he finally stood up and approach the door. He stops as his hands grabs the doorknob. I hear voices on the other side of the room, oh there’s a familiar voice I think it’s from the human named Ash.
He suddenly opens the door as soon as he heard the voice of Ash. He stood at the door frame and looks around sees that Ash is being pinned to the wall by another human. Hmm now that I look around there’s a lot of humans in this building oh, the floor is littered with the fruit’s peel, I can remember from their conversation that the peel is quite slippery I should warn hi-wait no this will be fun to watch.
He seems to be preparing to run towards Ash and the other human, oh he really didn’t saw the peel of the fruit on the floor.
Gabriel runs then step on the peel and slip.
Hahaha what an idiot he even lowers the cloth on Ash as he was holding it while he fell. Too bad it seems that it didn’t hurt him that much.
He looks at the other human besides Ash, He seems to be happy. What the fuck. Does he like slipping and falling down face first on the floor? It looks like he’s filled with joy, but after looking at Ash it seems as if had lose everything in life. He’s just there not moving an inch as if he turned to stone.
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“What’s with all the ruckus!!” a man voice coming from upstairs.
That voice is familiar.
Footsteps of the man can be heard as he sprints down the stairs. The man stops just a few inches behind Aqua. The man out of breath, wheezing behind her neck.
The audacity of this human to stop right behind me and annoy me with his breathing. I should teach this lowly being to respect a higher being like me. Oh wait, he probably can’t see me. Well might as well look at this human, so I can remember his face and punish him if he ever disrespects me once more.
Aqua looks at the man behind her. She looks at him and shock to see the man’s face. The man has short white hair and a beard, with a well-built body and a brown colored eye. Wearing a trench coat with a black scarf covering his neck.
I can’t believe it! This human I-I…. have no idea who he is. I really thought I know him, for his voice is a familiar one. Well if I do know him as one of the people I given buff to, while I was searching for the Otherworldly bastard. I could perhaps ask him to dispose this sad weak creature, but alas I don’t know him. For those people are grateful for the buffs I given to them and will return the favor to me tenfold. I think they are grateful; no, they should be.
The man looks at Gabriel and the other guy and see them as if their soul has left their body.
“Ash, how many times do I have to told you, that you should stop wearing skirts because others might mistake you for a girl.” Said by the man as he looks at Ash from top to bottom. “And how many times did I told you that wear your underwear whenever you work! STOP GOING COMMANDO!!!”
“But wearing a skirt and without an underwear feels refreshing from this hot weather especially in this month. So, can you let me do this just for this month”
“NO!”
“Pretty please” Ash said with puppy eyes
“NO MEANS NO!”
“I hate you! Francis!!” Ash said as he runs upstairs.
“I SAID STOP CALLING ME FRANCIS AND CALL ME DAD!!! AND WEAR A FREAKING CLOTH BEFORE RUNNING AROUND WITH YOUR LOWER PART EXPOSED! YOUR MAKING ALL THE MAN HERE QUESTION THEIR MASCULINITY!!!”
“Uh, guild master sir?” said by a man wearing the guild staff uniform, with glasses. A man with a short dark hair, a slim body and has a dark brown colored eye.
“Ah, Dick what is it?”
“Um, its Richard. Anyway, what will we do with these two guys that seems to be mentally damage after being exposed to um sir Ash uh... Dick”
“What do you mean Dick? What are trying to say about Ash with your name”
“I am talking about his male genital” Richard said.
Francis replied with a shrug
Richard let out a deep sigh and said “BIG PP, ASH’S BIG PP”
“Ah, that. Just splash them with cold water that will bring them back”
Richard went to a room.
What kind of drama did I just witness? Wait did they call him Francis?! That name and that same voice, but that human had such a frail body. This human has a sturdy muscular physique, it’s the complete opposite! I need to make sure if it’s really the same person I met in the past.
Aqua went closer to Francis and look at him intensely.
“Why do I feel like someone’s staring right directly at my soul?” Francis mumbles
Aha!! I saw it. It’s really is the same person; I can’t forget that huge ass mole on the side of his neck. Like of all the humans I saw while I was searching for the otherworldly bastard that huge ass mole is the one and only feature this human has. It’s so huge that I actually holding myself back to call him mole man instead of human. If only he didn’t hide it with a scarf, I would notice it immediately.
“Now, why do I feel like someone’s making fun of my mole? I thoroughly covered it with my scarf” Francis mumbles as he covers his neck where the mole is located with more cloth.
He was also called the guild master, to think the old frail mole man I meant human would achieve such a high standing. To think that instead of choosing the dying rat that I felt pity towards to, would help me tremendously in the future. I was really having a hard time to decide who to help, either the dying rat or this frail human that was also on the verge of death. Thank goodness it paid off, but I still feel bad for not choosing that street rat. Eh that’s all in the past now. This human will help me after all I chosen him instead of the rat. He should feel grateful to be chosen instead of that pitiful rat.
“Why oh why do I feel like someone belittling me?” Francis mutter
I will ask for his help in my plan to destroy the bastard! He will soon meet his end AHAHAHAHAHA!
Richard came back with two wooden buckets filled with water holding with both of his hands.
“Here, sir” Richard said as he hands one of the wooden buckets to Francis.
“You should do it alone; I think I am not feeling that well” Francis said as he heads upstairs.
“yes, sir”
After Francis went inside a room. Richard place both of the wooden bucket on the floor. He removes his glasses places it near a table, then reaches for his hair and pull it. “This motherfucker keeps ordering me and kept calling me dick even though I told him my proper name so many times to him. He doesn’t even raise my salary!!”
After a few minutes of Richard ranting.
“Calm down me, calm down. I can almost quit this job just few more months I can resign, because I have been saving my salaries for years now. Only a few more and it will last for the entirety of my life.” Richard said as he rubs both of his eyes with his thumb and index finger. He gets his glasses and put it on.
“Time to bring these two back to reality” Richard said then gets one of the wooden buckets and splash the water on the other guy.
The guy that were splash by cold water, came back to his senses and immediately leaves with the expression that as if his soul has fallen to the deepest and darkest part of the abyss.
“Alright one more left” Richard said as he holds the wooden bucket and look towards to Gabriel.
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8 174Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. 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8 153I was Reincarnated as Bai
The young boy opened his eyes, what he saw was something that he never expected. He was sitting on a chair in the middle of the dark room. And in front of him was a computer monitor. "What is this?" The boys uttered as his dark eyes opened wide. "A script?" The young boy even surprised at what is displayed on the computer screen. "The author of { Legend of the Perfect Emperors }." The young boy narrowed his eyes and read what he saw. "I'm Bai. The best author in the world. No one can criticize me or fool me. I'm perfect." Spoiler: Spoiler This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."
8 167Chaos: Another World Betrayal
It feels like an eternity since I was trapped within this dungeon... My arms have been crushed, my spine is broken, and my friend is dead. I was summoned to this other world along with my classmates in order to save it, but being betrayed by one of my classmates, I fell deep into one of the dungeons. My friend sacrificed himself to keep me alive. And it also seems that the people of this kingdom have been lying... ‘Demons are evil!’ Don’t make me laugh! They’re the ones who saved me! I swear I’ll get back out of here and destroy everything. Not one person will survive my wrath. Wait for me motherf*ckers, because your worst f*cking nightmare’s still alive!
8 60You broke me first [Taekook] ✔️
Jungkook is the nerd of college. Taehyung is the popular boy from college. And yet somehow they are a couple. That changes one day when Taehyung decides to dump Jungkook in front of the entire college and tell him he was never in love with him. And that Jungkook is just an ugly fag. Feeling humiliated and hurt, Jungkook decides to change college.But what if they meet again after two years? Is Taehyung going to apologize to Jungkook? Does Jungkook want revenge on Taehyung for what he did to him? Or does Jungkook still have feelings for Taehyung?Finished on; 10/03/2022
8 208Adopted by McQueen (humanized) Book One
Chloe is a 9 year old girl in Creek of Angels Orphanage. Her parents died when she was only a baby. The crazy guard of the orphanage, Mrs Nelson, abuses Chloe for her own pleasure. Chloe does chores and stays in her room everyday. She doesn't get to have fun like the other kids. For years she has been adopted, but also brought back. The families only wanted her for slave reasons. Chloe loves to watch the Piston Cup races and watch her favorite racer, Lightning McQueen. Once she hears that he's coming to her orphanage to adopt, she prays that he'll be the one. The one who would be her hero to save her from this prison. Her prayers come true; she's adopted by McQueen. But Mrs Nelson threatened that if Chloe ever came back, she would suffer the consequences. Will Chloe love her new life? Or will she be brought back and spend the rest of her life suffering and rotting in an orphanage?
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