《Hero? I'm assassin, but that's the same right?》Chapter 29. 'The better future underground!' What a cheesy add...
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Pyro POV
After the instructions and allowing Garrus to hunt for some critters, I mean animals, I proceeded to make the golem, well it's carcass. I still need to make a 'core', which is actually a gem. Did I mention that I should also make some sort of mana-reactor? Well it's not that necessary, but it'll be much better, than just making a simple core.
Oh right the mission. It was quite easy. Go there, kill that, return with head, get paid, go back. That was easy. It was harder to enter the city with my group, so I just ordered them to meet with arachnees, Bones should be already informed about new minions, so he probably told others about them. But when I said about my plans.
Silvia: “NO!!!” she's rather strange one. I think she's just shy around people, those that aren't dead at least. Besides being reluctant to meet arachnees, she's also afraid to go into the city.
Ariel: “Silvi... I also don't like the idea walking amongst those... humans.”
Garrus: “Let's kill them! You won't be afraid of them when they're dead!”
Pyro: “Garrus! Sit!”
Garrus: “Commander!”
Pyro: “Bad boy. SIT!” and Garrus sat down.
Garrus: “It's embarrassing...”
Pyro: “Now Garrus... what did I tell you about killing everyone?”
Garrus: “Kill only when someone pisses you off. But humans piss me off, so can I kill them?”
Pyro: “Not now. Later you will get a participation ticket in a massacre, not now though.” and Garrus pouts.
Garrus: “Fine.” Seriously these minions are too free-willed. Not a bad thing though. Ariel for example tried to... now that I think about it, it was rather creepy... don't you try the cooking of lich, they usually make some sort of potion instead of a soup.
Pyro: “So squad... chop-chop. Meet up with the other members, I will join you in a week or so.”
Ariel: “Yes master. You two let's go. We need to prepare for master arrival, as well as get to know our allies.”
Silvia: “Sister... living are scary...”
Garrus: “... woof...”
Pyro: “Garrus stop pretending to be a dog.”
Garrus: “Yeah... got it.”
After that we separated and moved on our ways.
…
Let's say that all this guild stuff is rather boring, well at least I got myself a few more gold coins.
After the guild matters I met with Queen, heard about the hero 'escape' along with her daughter, which stole the knife by the way. Saw bounty on those two, which was only a hundred platinum. Afterwards I told that I'll be going on a journey and will meet with the others when the time is right. That was met with fierce protest from girl group when they learned about it, basically the same time I told the queen, as they immediately barged in shouting about 'dangers' and 'lecherous women' trying to get a hold on me.
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Really now? They talk about women?
Girl power activate!
No man, in this case womanizer power.
Whatever man. They just want some of that-
Dead meat?
Now that you said it, it's not that appealing.
As usual my internal dispute was cut short, by me of course. Who wants to think about such stuff anyway?
So I quickly calmed them down saying that only lecherous women I'm interested are arachnees, which got them a bit of relief, and that I won't go anywhere in the coming week.
Do they know that you are going to arachnees?
Nope, but you wouldn't want to break their hearts?
Right...
After the week passed I just took some of the kegs with kulpo and stored them inside my bag, from where I stored them in inventory. Oh right, they don't know that I can use inventory, but they know of my enchanted bag. Oh and ice-cream. I gave them the recipe and a few kilos of that stuff. So yeah the bags of holding are quite popular among nobility nowadays. All that I had to do was put some enchants like [Distortion], [Expand], [Fit], [Reduce Weight] and [Compact], resulting in the very first bag of holding in this world, besides those old artifacts. Yes even princess and JJ had them, well princess still has the satchel she ordered, but we digress. Ken and his harem all have at least two bags, while ken also has few more smaller ones for potions and orbs, his harem has a regular bag and a pouch for throwing weapons. Other heroes have the same stuff, while nobles have much weakened versions. Well the cheapest bag is a small purse for coins with starting costs at 1 platinum, while those that all heroes have costs at least 20. The reason? Let's say having a monopoly on this stuff is rather cool. And if you think that it's too much, then yes, for common trader it's too much, same goes for any regular citizen, but for most nobles one platinum is the same as some stupid statue in their name. Oh yeah, and all bags of holding have my own crest imbued on them, also only royal family and the trusted traders are allowed to sell them, as the amount of bags are less then hundred, most of them however hold only coins and other small items. Well at least I got 'legally' almost 200 platinum. Oh and before I created those bags, only three were known in the existence, with cost as high as 1000 platinum for one of them. I also have a ring of holding, belt of holding and other stuff of holding, but only Ken know about the belt, as I gave it to him after the 'graduation' of his. He is still a level 14, so I gave it to him in advance, with words 'My padawan, use it only for important stuff, like those magazines under mattress.' which resulted in slight chuckle and questions from rabbit-kin, I think her name is Mia, and fierce blush from Ken. Did I mention that I love their interactions?
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Anyway I am now far away from capital, well far enough to use [Gate] without drawing attention. Telling my minions thorough the link that I'm coming, I transported inside the underground city of arachnees. Well it was previously a cave, but giving Bones a few orders, the first underground city, that was not created by dwarfs, was made. Oh and for now it's the headquarters.
Minions: ““Welcome master.””
Pyro: “Nice one! But I don't need that. First things first. I need to meet the leader of Arachnees, make equipment for arachnees and finish Golm, my golem project.”
Bones: “Master. Follow me.” oh and Bones finally talks normally. Well he mostly talks with short sentences.
Pyro: “Let's go. Oh and where's the mascot?”
Bones: “Master? Mascot?”
Pyro: “Oh yeah, it's Mr Peanuts.”
Bones: “He's training.”
Pyro: “In what?”
Bones: “Magic.”
Pyro: “And results?”
Bones: “Dance.” OK... so the rodent is dancer at heart, well core more likely, considering he's a skeleton. Dunno what magic has to do with dance, but whatever.
So let's see, the Arachnees have a queen, or matriarch, which rules over arachnees from the tallest tower. At least I wish it would be so in the near future. I hope that this queen is cute, but considering the spider species... oh well.
Bones: “Master. We came to Matriarch.” Let's see...
Pyro: “Um, Bones? Is it matriarch?” what I saw was just a regular arachnee from all that LN, animes and mangas. Top half is human, lower half is spider. Well at least this one isn't hairy, but have matte exoskeleton. Cute, more or less.
Matriarch: “So, human, you also find me rather disturbing?”
Pyro: “Yeah... you should cover yourself, or at least set a sign 'Nudist Queen ahead!'” You guessed it right, she's naked. Ehm... I guess... D-cup? Seriously, isn't it rather strange?
Matriarch: “... You are not disgusted?”
Pyro: “I am! You idiot will die from simple shot at you! Come on! You don't even have armored bikini!” At least with that thing I could at least check parameters.
Matriarch: “Bones, is he your master?”
Bones: “Yes.”
Matriarch: “I thought you said he's more...” Oh again with misunderstanding.
Pyro: “Bones? Did you tell her that I like naked arachnees?”
Bones: “No.”
Pyro: “OK. So matriarch is just a nudist. Well considering her species-”
Matriarch: “My daughters told me that you made them sweat, so I thought that-” wait a minute...
Pyro: “Um, yeah? It was rather fun thirty minute session, I honestly was surprised that they were not unconscious by the end of it, looking at how breathless they were.”
Matriarch: “OK... So you did what with my daughters?”
Pyro: “Don't forget the other four arachnees, or was it five?”
Matriarch: “Fiend!”
Pyro: “Don't have one as a minion, yet at least.”
Matriarch: “You-”
Pyro: “Wait! I got it! You misunderstood! I just cuddled with them. Dunno why those idiots panted though.” matriarch has quite a blank look on her face. “Oh and get something on yourself, I always have at least a bit of armor on me.” I still have that ballistic vest, not that good as an armor, but will help with small stuff. Oh right, maybe make kevlar? No, it'll be quite long process and rather annoying, so I'll stick to fantasy metals, like mithril.
Matriarch: “I heard that you assaulted them.”
Pyro: “Yeah, well, it was misunderstanding, from their part, I just wanted to play around.” and I still want to.
Matriarch: “Have you-”
Pyro: “Nope.” dunno what she had in mind, but denial doesn't need a reason.
Matriarch: “OK then. Oh right... Welcome to the Caverns human! I am-”
Pyro: “Eh... I'm vampire, recently converted, but still a vampire.”
Matriarch: “... You're undead? But how? It doesn't make sense. Why would you-”
Pyro: “Correction! Vampires are not entirely undead, they are only half undead, well maybe more or less, but that doesn't matter. Next is I'm from wizard family, so... wait why am I telling you that? Oh right, see I really like magic, just as experiments and tortures... wait, no, that dude Shepard liked them, well delivering them. Yeah, I just like experimenting with my magic. I even have ice flames.” and I produced [Icy Flame] “Cool right? It's both chilly and can envelop the target fully, given enough time.”
Matriarch: “*Sigh* why do you tell me that?”
Pyro: “Oh right... Dunno. It's fun that some of my allies know something about me.”
Matriarch: “Ahem! Back to introduction. My name is-”
Pyro: “I'll call you Noir.”
That's a-
Unisex name.
… It's pointless.
Glad you understand.
Noir: “Wait my name is-”
Pyro: “Noir. Get used to it.”
Noir: “You! YOU DARE-”
Pyro: “Yep. Oh wait better call you Nora, Noir is a name for a horse, not spider.”
Bones: “Get used to it. Nora. He doesn't listen.” Hey! I am quite good at listening! If I'm paid for it... Kinda...
Nora: “B-But!”
Mr Peanuts: “*Squeak**Squeak*,*Squeak*.”
Bones: “Exactly.” Um... what?
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