《Real Fake World》43
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Christopher enjoyed a rather fulfilling life, he was recognized with the title Jailor of despair, thus holding four titles.
"Master"
Given to a person whom a few peoples call "master", the title only works for the people whom are your slaves or subordinates, giving them more loyalty towards you.
"Pervert"
A title that makes everyone to look at you doubiously, lowers their favor towards you, but gives you access to some special circles.
"Jailor of despair"
A title that breaks the spirit of anyone whom you have captured or look after, the effect varies with time you have them under costodity.
"Most wanted"
People will more easily recognize you unless of course you use some disguise that will lower the chance but never zero it.
The first was a title he was given due to his old companions, Tris and the other girls.
The second title was given to him when he was tortured in jail, due to Melodie and the others and he was simply stuck with it.
The third was given to him due to him having taken over the jailor duties in the past month.
The last of course was due to three things, first because of the dwarves still looking for him, secondly because the Inquisition of Ecclesia was after him and lastly because all the other countries were also interested in procuring a hero in trouble.
Christopher however didn't mind it much, the cult had given him much needed time to grow and level up, he almost felt bad for not believing in whatever the faceless god thingy was, but since it was nameless, shapeless and faceless they couldn't exactly make sure if he was a true believer, but it was enough for them to know that he didn't believe in Ecclesis, the Demon god or some other recognised religion, in the end it meant that his place was there with them.
In time the temple he was part of begun to expand, but its direction wasn't that of a living quarter, but a top security prison, of which he was the chief, anything he said went.
Of course he wouldn't do anything dirty or immoral, his free time he spent burrowed in books as he tried to create his own spells, a pity however that he couldn't create even the weakest of spells, leadin to some thrustration, but he wouldn't take it out on the jailed prisoners, he simply hid it deep inside as he with a smiling face was visiting his prisoners.
By now he had reached a level of 200, of course the main reasons being that he learned new spells almost daily, thus gaining lots of experience from that and funnily enough since he forgot them after a few days he learned them again when he had some research that depended on them.
He even wrote his own spellbooks, categorizing the spells into elements, types and usage.
Elements were the common Fire,water,air and earth.
Types were the common Offence, defence and auxiliary.
Usages were the common Essential, useless and complex.
The reason for these categories was that there were spells that were simply too complex to cast without the help of a skill, there were spells that were only useful in certain sircumstances, making the spells useless and lastly there were essential spells that every mage should know.
Of course Offensive, defensive and support spells were easy to guess, offensive were any spells that caused damage, defensive any spells that raised defense or buffed others, in general you could also call them support spells.
Lastly there was the Auxiliary spells which included anything not included to the other two, including summoning and curses.
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Of course the four elements had a special significance to mages, since people in Axis commonly divide the elements into the four, so called basic elements.
Christopher's room was basicaly a chaotic library and he was even given assistants, just for the task of putting books into their own places, whom people begun calling the librarians.
Christopher's life was rather plain but he didn't dislike it, in a way he enjoyed it, he had even turned some of the prisoners into initiates.
It wasn't something as vile as brainwashing, it was instead the exact opposite, he broke the brainwashing done to them by the temple of Ecclesis by adding a few doubts into their mind, they even discovered that they could summon their angels without believing in Ecclesis, making their whole world fall apart.
Normaly people would commit suicide before discovering this fact, but they were unable to do so, many of them after learning about this face wanted to end their own lives, thus they were still held in their cells, others however decided to join the cult, they were given a long list of religions to decide from and even given classes there in the strage temple, called the Temple of enlightment or as the inquisition knew it, prison of despair, since anyone of their agents that entered it would turn coat, they could only imagine what vicious torture would be done to them inside.
This day however Christopher discovered that he was out of new spellbooks, the cult could not get he anything new, after all books didn't grow from trees, they were written by people, how could he imagine that spellbooks were too expensive for the organization, even their library was rather lacking in spellbooks.
Truth was that even if he entered Nivava's great library he would still be stuck in the same situation, since spells were limited to begin with, people simply didn't invent spells, they found them in strange shrines in the dungeon pillar thus there was no research in them, at least not by the human race.
High elves and elves in particular had their own understanding of magic, totaly different than that of humans, but they didn't exactly write books, they found it as a waste of time, their lifespawn endless and their memory perfect, why did they even need books when they could simply teach their children and grandchildren themselves.
Christopher out of new books was now stuck with ideas, but even with all the spells he knew he still could not find some patern in how magic works.
In this world where magic and skills existed there was no patern between them, although in general they had three things in common, they all needed a chant, they needed a medium and lastly they needed a catalyst.
Problem was that they had nothing to indicate the why the chant was so, no indication why the medium was air,water,fire or earth, lastly there were spells that used a catalyst other than mana or more than one catalysts.
Trouble however didn't take long to find him as a spy infiltrated his temple, which meant that their time there was at its end, would however he retreat just because of that?
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Woodaria, the Coutry of beastmen, last time we saw the two beastmen heroes they were forced to breed children in hopes of having a heroic child.
Unfortunately however not even one of the 440something children met the standards, although Theodore also known as Oxen did have one that was over the standard, but it was a pure human, a legendary Bandit.
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At first the lion King wanted to sell it to the humans at a great price, but as there wasn't even one heroic child he decided otherwise. The child was kept as a potential leader of their clan, giving everyone a headache.
The next month Dimas was sent to the dungeon pillar acompanied by Silfaria the deerwoman.
Dimas was a Warrior whose cheat power was to summon his indestructible sword, he had some shortcomings in that however as he had evolved into a beastman and now lacked fingers to use it.
Of course he had become a powerful manticore like beastman whom could even fly, his speed was simply crazy, even at his low a level he could easily shred the monsters in the dungeon pillar into pieces with his mighty claws.
Thus in the past months reaching level 189, and succesfully reaching the second floor of the dungeon pillar, through the lizardmen and snakemen.
Dimas easily gained a new cheat power called sword lengthening, it extended the length of any sword he used, it was a rather strange ability especialy since he couldn't use swords anymore, even so however he could still kick them as they appeared, it was a rather strange fighting style he came up with, kicking swords in the air into flying, of course it wouldn't always successfuly pierce into the enemy, many times it simply pomelled them with the blunt sides of it and other times it would even miss them entirely.
Of course as fast and strong as he was he would have no problem in the dungeon pillar, even the Lion King, whom was a Heroic warrior was able to reach the 100th floor so how could it be difficult for him to do the same.
His plan was to reach the 10th floor and wait there for his classmates, hoping that they would recognise him and descend together, after all if one person cannot defeat the final boss, then the solution was simple, gather a party of heroes with cheat powers.
While he however was descending into the depths of the dungeon, Theodore(Oxen) was stuck on the surface level, still breeding children, most of which were talented half beastmen and he rather enjoyed it, passing his days like a king, hunting once in a while just to gain some levels which was rather easy with his stats and racial traits.
Holding a greatsword in his hands while walking towards his newest victim a large hunging snake.
With his cheat power Quick slash before it could even approach him, it was already cut in half.
Although his level was as low as 58, his main focus being on mentality, since he wanted to be able to control his own strength, he however was far from the 120 points needed to control his monstrous strength, of course the reason why he wanted to do so was because he was sick and tired of beastwomen, he wanted to ravage some mixblood or human beauties.
After all the only beauty that he had at the moment was the fox lady, whom was gifted to him as a present, sort of like a personal servant/sex toy.
In general there was nothing to talk about with him, since he was content with his life in Axis, maybe he even liked it more here than on earth, thus slowly creating a chasm between the heroes.
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Lastly Aquatica, here was the world of the fishmen, where under the directions of Ariel, Jones and Nicko had easily reached level 150, their stats being distributed as she told them to do.
Jones was a mereman rogue, with a cheat power that allowed him to move as fast as lightning, his first power was called flash move and his second was the instant punch.
Nicko on the other side was a fishman mage and his cheat power was ignition touch and Heat touch, one made things he touched burst in flames giving off a small explosion in the process, while heat touch could melt things he touched with his hand, sort of like passing through walls while turning it into liquid in the process, it was a skill that could easily kill most of the monsters they fought and since he was huge and had big hands it was deadly in combat even though he was a mage.
The strange however thing was that Ariel wa slowly moving her whole territory towards the dungeon pillar, right now they were only a few kilometers away from the dungeon pillar.
At the moment the three of them were sitting idly inside the huge Seashell as they were waiting for Ariel to make up her mind whether they were ready or not to enter the 1st floor of eternal night, the Dark ocean as they called it.
She of course was sure that she could easily pass them safely until they reached at least the 70th floor, but would they be able to help if they weren't level 400 at that time.
The other problem was that she was a little sentimental, she knew full well that subordinates and friends wouldn't be able to survive in the dugeon pillar, after they reach the 5th floor, since the monsters there are already too much for common soldiers, only her elites would survive when she left to hunt, since without her there they would be vulnerable to attacks.
Especialy when considering that the underwater monster's greatest strength was their size, they could simply gulp you down or munch you to death.
Thus they traveled slowly, but safely, she even had plans in putting the other two heroes in training in charge of protection duty, meaning that one would be left behind to babysit, while the other would be going with her for powerleveling.
Seeing however how weak they were at the moment she was reluctant in doing so, not that she was any stronger when she was at their level, but she has long forgotten those times that she struggled to kill a slightly strong monster.
Since there was no other choice she begun a trial test for a few months, their hunting speed would slow down, but they would gain some additional good qualities, like team work and her favour if they could do a good enough work.
The first victims however didn't need much time to appear, a patrol had simply disappeared to never be seen again.
Normaly it wouldn't have been a great matter, but knowing that this was a test for them, it became a great disadvantage for Nicko whom lost the patrol while playing around with the mermaids.
His level begun to fall behind of Jones, but that was only until Dimas suffered the same problem.
It took Ariel two days to find the crux of the situation, it was a rare S rank monster, the Sea serpent, which was commonly used as a mount by the powerful, but to the common soldiers it was a nightmare to encounter it.
Ariel tamed it and gave it as a gift to one of her friends or something, whom gifted her a few good soldiers as a return gift.
Days passed by and no further disappearances were to be seen, the Seashell Palace of hers was safe and sound.
It was about time for them to head deeper into the tower, but another disturbance occured, which was Nicko's newborn children.
He simply had to do something stupid like that, now they were in a strange predicament, Ariel as a woman was not immune to the charm of children and the little mermen babies were not less adorable than human babies.
Jones could only curse inside as he saw what was happening, of course to Ariel it wasn't something shocking, the question was whether he would continue to travel with them or stay on the surface level, protecting the Seashell palace and the people inside from all and any threats.
Like Ariel he too was a mage, thus it wouldn't be hard for him to become a master of some domain and live there, of course the domain she ordered him to protect was right next to the Dungeon pillar.
Thus with a clear heart Ariel took a few of her most important people and left, a small group was easier to protect than a huge Estate, even if they weren't elites, it would be easy for her whom could control water to a terrifying degree to.
Nicko was of course conflicted at first, but he was simply too weak to children, thus he decided to heed her order, but he wasn't a complete fool, he begun to further fortify his domain, in turn building a small village there, with him living in a tower like structure that oversaw the whole village, the Seashell palace was still there, but it was considered Ariel's house, meaning that she would return there, thus detering other sea mages from trying to take control over the domain.
Jones was now traveling with Ariel as the two went deeper into the pillar, he looked only once behind to look at the now familiar to him seashell palace, the village not formed yet at the present, but he valiantly entered the tunnel going into the pillar, leaving the causy seashell estate behind.
Ariel before leaving had left Nicko a few gifts that would help him hold the line until they returned and begun going up the tower and towards Ecclesis.
They would then take him with them, since by then he would probably be sick and tired of playing king, not that it would be any time soon, they would need at least 30 years to reach the deeper floors and as much in order to return, meaning that they wouldn't see one another for years to come.
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Years passed by and in the blink of an eye 10 years passed them by, people changed and the countries were now in tourmoil, the demon kings were all disposed of, but the important thing was that the Heroes were simply too many and at this time every single one of them had reached the limit of 1000level, gaining just one level from there was impossible and all of them had unused skillpoints now since they had long filled all their skill slots.
The important matter however was that right now there had formed three teams, one was those whom had given up on returning to their own world, the second those whom didn't want to return at all and lastly those that wanted to return even if it took them ages to do so.
There was a small conflict between the two and in the end they came to an agreement to not ascend or descend the tower for the next ten years, meaning that the majority was stuck on the surface level, enjoying themselves with meditator being their teacher Mr Gold or as he was know known the Great Sage Mr.Gold .
While there was light there was however darkness as well, where there is good there is also evil, there was a minority of heroes whom didn't have the greatest of time as they spent their time in hiding or in prison.
Christopher being one of the three whom were in such a situation, the other two being Alexxa and Kris.
Alexxa was imprisoned because she went against the legendary existence known as Queen Bloom of Nivava, her class changed into that of a common farmer.
Kris was imprisoned because he owed a fortune to the dwarves of Munnero and couldn't pay them back due to tons of problems that appeared in his path, right now he was fighting in the arena to pay off his debt and was widely known as the Hero of the Arena.
Christopher however was still loose in the world, but non knew where he was and if he was dead or alive, or even by what name he went by, all you however should know is that the Jailor of despair was now the most wanted person by the inquisition.
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