《A crumbling autumn leaf》Even today i won't be a city lord
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As he turned around and left the dungeon boss being guarded by Lea, Aki started to methodically kill every monster he could find, screaming and taunting at more to come immersing himself in slaughter for hours until finally he was ready, though he did take the chance to use some spells that’d been rather neglected.
Perhaps the points would make a difference in the end.
[Congratulations! You have completed the Meditation I path (50/50)! +5 Willpower. Your meditation skill is slightly strengthened.
Congratulations! You have completed the Meditation II path (100/100)! +10 Willpower. Thoughtful meditation (O) Lv 119 has evolved into Inner peace (Y) Lv 119, strengthening all effects.]
He didn’t take long to actually get back to the dungeon boss glade, neither did Lea say anything about how long he’d taken to come back. The whole time he’d not even gotten close to half health, and as sumon and summoner they had a basic understanding of how the other currently was.
Seeing him nod towards the reptile she’d been sitting at, the bird momma nodded back and quickly pecked through it’s skull thrice before successfully separating head from neck. The dungeon boss was dead.
The portal leading outside was a white square, probably shaped like that so that Lea could pass through without difficulty.
Breathing deeply, Aki calmed his mind to the most he could at the moment, focusing on his task and walking slowly towards the exit. At arm’s distance from it, he stopped, touching the tip of his finger against the shining portal.
“Join me.”
The world shook. It refused to obey his order.
The defiance only calmed him more. This was a battle he’d envisioned for some time now. There was just no way he was leaving this place behind after all.
“Kneel, for you have lost.”
His words echoed, small cracks seemed to swim in his vision.
The dungeon refused to submit. It fought back with it’s own collective, robotic mind.
“Repent, for you have sinned.”
His rage, sorrow, resolution and determination shrugged off the attacks, dismantling the flighty consciousness on the other side.
“Repent, for the Lord does not forget.” And there was darkness.
….
[Lord of death (B) is now Lv 121.
ERROR.
Space-time continuum is damaged.
Imminent breach detected.
Creating a stasis field.
ERROR.
High priority player detected close to failure.
Small scale reality shift authorised.
Creating a stasis field.
You have discovered the entrance of a growing dungeon!]
"Well, that was something I guess. Maybe if I could actually see what happened besides just being teleported out or if there was some kind of notification besides something about the creation of a stasis field…" Aki shrugged. One moment he had been in a mind duel with the dungeon he spawned at and the next he was standing all alone outside the apartment building he used to live at.
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Perhaps it'd not been only his family that'd gotten thrown in the dungeon, but he honestly didn't give a shit about his neighbours, despite having lived most his life in the same place he simply didn't know them.
If he found the helpful and polite gatekeeper then sure he'd help the man, but it was rather unlikely he'd find him soon since it was sunday and he lived far away, and he had no real way to know how many times his city had had territories spliced into it.
He did know that there had certainly been no tropical forest in front of the closeby museum however.
Either way, he should probably parse through his notifications to make sure he didn’t end up losing up on potential bonuses.
Let 's see.
Raid bosses will eventually spawn and they need to be cleaned up before they develop a horde, not immediately important.
Special monsters will drop tokens that allow for the creation of villages, which can then be upgraded and will be the center of system assisted societies, ok.
No monsters over level 20 before someone raised a village into a town you say? Since he was here perhaps he should control that before it became a shit storm.
As the first human outside of the tutorial I get what? Really? But that’s so bothersome! He should probably do something about this immediately then.
There is an invasion leader somewhere in the zone? He should probably deal with that quickly as well. Anything else? No?
Then there was only one thing to do first. Summon Lea again. After all, the advantages of having a flying mount were ridiculously good, so even if it was uncomfortable for him and humiliating for her, they were getting things straight before having any petty squabble.
He couldn’t give less of a shit if humanity survived this, he could still go to other planets and live normally, but the thought of simply throwing away the morals his mother held so close to her heart didn’t even cross his mind.
The woman could have tamed giants if she’d survived, she was just that charismatic.
….
Saying that ending the incursion had been hard would be one big fat lie. Even with bonuses of a dungeon boss and buffs from defending his fortification, the incursion master had simply been too weak as a level 20.
The man, for it had indeed not been a monster, had shouted obscenities and complained about how broken all of this was, begging the system to reevaluate things and spare his life even as he burned alive.
No divine intervention came to help him however, and the wooden outpost that’d only begun construction had it’s hundred or so inhabitants slaughtered, the portal supposed to bring them reinforcements completely useless as the tutorial had not even ended at this point in time.
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He’d been rather surprised when the system suddenly informed him that Champion had risen fifty levels after the invasion was declared over, but apparently that had taken most of the ridiculous benefits he was supposed to receive from such an achievement. The rest had gone towards a class he was supposed to receive plus two tokens that were apparently meant to be used to grant special upgrades to a village.
And with that, he decided on the location for setting up his village. Just on the way here he'd killed a stupidly big boar, toad, eagle, porcupine, bison and what seemed to be a walking venus fly trap.
Both the boar and venus had been special monsters.
As he finally accepted the notification to create a village, he threw the thing to the ground of the cleared forest ground at the feet of a big ass mountain as the following instructions told him to, but something rather irritating happened.
As a tall, blonde elf stepped out of a portal that blinked into existence above the coin, she smiled brightly at him.
"Are you my new city lord?" She asked with a voice sweeter than sugar.
[Will you accept the City lord cla…]
"No. And could you tone the charm down a bit? I'm getting quite close to just punting you back into where you came from and throwing my other village token out." Was his immediate answer, the grimace on his face telling of how serious he was. Nevermind that as a human he should be drooling over such a beuaty even talking to him after months of isolation, the good impresion he had for her was obviously not natural, and since he could launch spells, obviously other people would at least have skills with effects that looked magical from a normal stand point.
From a more analitical problem though, the notification had already explained to him that his base class would be Orange grade, improving together with his city as he upgraded it and grew it's level, and he could probably have it immediately go towards Green with the four tokens he had, but he quite doubted the class would go above Blue without conquering several more planets, and this was just not the game he wanted to play.
"Apologies, but I don't see anyone else around. I don't actually know how you escaped the tutorial so quickly and became powerful enough to get the token, but each person can only use one city creation token, and those are linked to specific managers, so you are not getting rid of me so easily." She answered, clearly confused but still able to maintain her smile. Though her voice was still melodious, she clearly had deactivated whatever skill made people want to listen to her every word.
"I see. And does that mean that you cannot create a village without appointing a city lord?"
"You can, but then the class can be exchanged for credits by someone with enough contribution to the city. Even if you are the founder, you'd still lose any and all administrative privileges."
"And what would qualify as more contribution to the city? More than the one I have at any given time or a set amount determined by the city?"
"More than the founder has. There is no way around it."
"Great, then take these and start making a village." He nodded, turning the palm of his hand upwards as four coins appeared in it, one golden, one cyan and two purple ones.
The tokens literally only existed as marks on his hands unless he ordered them to become material, so it was fair enough that she assumed he didn't actually have anything but the black armour currently covering his whole body.
Still, the manager saw the purple coins and didn't stop looking weirdly at him until he put them directly in her hands.
"How?" Was all that she could utter after a minute or so.
"Time fuckery. You don't have the clearance to know more. Now are you going to do your job or do I need to wait for someone else to use a village token so I can sue your ass?" His voice was tired, but his words bit down on a rather terrifying prospect she'd just formulated in her mind.
Even if he didn't know everything about the system, someone who got this powerful so quickly could not be simple. If they had a backing in the wide universe, than she would not only be losing her job for asking stupid questions now and interrupting some master plan.
"Understood sir, I will begin now." Said a now palid elf as the portal which she came from closed down and a wooden building came up from where the coin had been.
"And keep everything below a town level outpost, don't want to break things too soon." Aki added from behind her.
He could only guess as to why she suddenly looked about to shit herself, but he didn't know her personal life and it could be that she really wouldn't be able to pay the fines after losing her job.
He had just gained two new skills in his new social collum of skills, intimidate and negotiate, which had appeared as he taunted more monsters into attacking him and gained the respective skill, so he didn't really mind that things ended like this. He could be cold and scary.
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