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Chapter 162

Abbot Silvertongue P.O.V

I was getting a migraine the likes of which I hadn’t gotten since I graduated from this place. While my time here learning was actually a pleasant memory, the interrogations I suffered through once I got back home were unending and dull.

It had been more than one hundred years since the family had asked anything all too political of me so it wasn’t like I could refuse but the next six years were going to be some of the slowest and most boring ones of m...

Chapter 161

As the Duke and his followers, as Ajax started to think of them since from the power he felt in the DUke’s aura he didn’t even think he needed guards, exited the dining room everyone else was motionless at the hasty manner in which the duke left. It wasn’t until the door closed with a solid sound that they were brought back to from their shock.

“Well that was certainly something, it also went a lot better than I expected.” Hatchet, who was the one with most experience and no d...

Chapter 160

Ajax didn’t even have to flash his token anymore to enter the noble district, the guards at the crossing had seen him coming and going enough to recognise him and just wave him through. Ajax gave them a nod for their expediency and headed for Luna’s house.

As he was walking Ajax thought on all that he learned after his own interrogation was over. Firstly, the complaint that fingered him as the prime suspect had been made three days ago. This meant that any nobles who were trying to ...

Chapter 159

An eerie silence descended on the room as the scroll was placed on the table. Showing their professionalism neither the captain nor the guard changed their expressions when Ajax reached inside his inner pocket and pulled out the contract, Ajax did feel the grip that had never left his shoulder since he first met the guard dig into his shoulder much deeper when he reached inside his tunic.

The rest of the room wasn’t so composed, the fat man visibly aged as he looked at the scroll with...

Chapter 158

The attack had put everyone on edge even after it was handled so swiftly. Half of the team was made up of newbies who weren’t accustomed to this and the other half weren’t much better only having done a few delves before. This was the disadvantage of having dungeons with low floor jumps, you wouldn’t really see teams that spent a decade on the same level range to build up experience as they would move to the next floor much quicker. The most experienced person here was the head healer w...

Chapter 157

“Good work out there newbie.” One of the sentries tells Ajax. The delve team had set up camp for the night.

Ajax simply nods and continues staring into the fire, supposedly men used to do this back when they lived in caves, just gazing at the fire. At least that’s what a documentary he once watched on Earth said, it likened it to their watching of TV in modern days.

Unlike what was said in that documentary however Ajax wasn’t simply mindlessly gazing into the fire. Ajax wa...

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TLDR : Reworked the last chapter (due to both myself looking back and feedback) Friday chapter to come out this weekend.

First of all I'd like to thank you all for the feedback on the last chapter. While some of it might have been worded a bit negatively I do appreciate it all the same. The chapter had a lot of influence from the original road map I made for the story at the beginning where the kingdom was going to be a lot darker than it turned out. I have s...

Chapter 156

The whole room was quiet as Ajax went through telling them all that happened today. He didn’t go into his beekeeping as that hardly seemed like the point on which they needed to focus. Hatchet’s joking expression from the beginning was now gone and he was looking towards Luna for an answer, after all he had never been this deep into it with the nobles back when he was an adventurer.

“So, you’re saying that you killed all five of them?” Luna finally asked after waiting for him ...

Chapter 155

As he watched the final member fall, knowing his arrow took him in the heart, Ajax slowly closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. Despite dodging the first hammer blow and the battle not lasting even a dozen seconds his adrenaline was surging through him since from the previous chase through the forest. Despite still being high on mana his stamina was starting to bottom out, the leader had been right when he said their stamina was higher than his.

Having caught his breath Ajax stop...

Chapter 154

AN : This chapter is contain a bit more gore than I have put in my previous writing, do you like this more descriptive fights more than my previous ones?

Ajax was stunned at the new development. It didn’t take longer than an instant for him to figure out what was going on but he pretended to be shocked at their appearance as he started thinking through his options.

In Ajax’s mind the most important thing right now was how strong these people were. A...

Chapter 153

After waking up the next morning, taking a better look throughout the compound and talking to some of the supervisors, Ajax found that his plan to get most of his chores done today wasn’t going to work. All of the kitchen shifts for the day were already taken so the only thing he could do was Watering and cleaning the garden.

To absolutely no surprise he had found that the garden was stocked full of plants that were useful for creating healing remedies. It was also the only other plac...

Chapter 152

Arriving at the trainee housing Ajax didn’t know what to expect but what he found was certainly not it. Instead of just a building he found an entire compound that could easily house over a hundred people. It had a canteen, garden and two dorms.

“Present your token.” The bored gate guard said as he put forward his open palm.

Ajax didn’t reply anything to that and simply placed the token Alfred had given him that morning into the hand of the guard.

“Ajax, new to the...

Chapter 151

A/N : Changed the ending of the last chapter to include the names of the dungeons. The level 25 one is the Goldmine and the level 30 one is the Highlands.

Ajax was deep in the forest as he used his knife to carefully collect the piece of glowing moss that was growing up the side of the tree. He hadn’t thought much about the request to do three jobs for the Healing Union but he had now spent well over four hours just collecting moss.

It was also pretty...

Chapter 150

“Is something wrong?” Luna asks, seeing that Ajax froze for a moment.

“No,” Ajax shook his head “Just that I haven’t met anyone else with the name Alfred before.”

He had no way to explain why a butler named Alfred would cause him to have such a reaction, but neither could he lie until he knew for sure Luna and Alfred didn’t have any skills that would point out lies.

“It is a rather unique name.” the man admitted.

“So how did it go at the Adventure...

Chapter 149

As he walked down the street Ajax wasn’t paying all that much attention to his surroundings, instead he was studying a piece of paper that he received from the receptionist after he finished all the paperwork for enrolling and getting himself accredited for the combat test.

The piece of paper represented the open slots for delving concerning the two dungeons near the capital. The situation was a real downer for him as unlike back in Lessis where the time queue time for a fully booked ...

Chapter 148

Jones caught Ajax’s eye and gave him a brief nod before he turned and followed after the representative with all the members of the Collectors who saw him doing the same. Hearing who the man was representing Ajax surmised that this was something to do with the reward they were promised all those months ago for picking him up.

That didn’t concern him much however as he was no longer a member of the Collectors. Ajax walked forward and joined the shortest line in order to talk with a r...

Chapter 147

Jones P.O.V.

The look of the Adventurer’s Guild in the capital really put into perspective just how much of a backwater we had been staying in. It wasn’t just the size of the place, but the line to talk to the receptionist was easily twice as long here despite them having three receptions instead of just one working at one time. Combine that with the fact that there were also a few guild outposts throughout the capital and you realized just how many more adventurers there were.

Chapter 146

AN : Sorry for the late post, I pressed post last night but it just got saved as a draft.

Right after Luna finished fixing Hatchet’s arm someone knocked twice quickly on the door and didn’t wait for an answer before coming in.

“Guild master.” A middle aged man that wore the same garb as everyone else in the building came in a little out of breath. “ Here you are, the meeting is about to start and all the council members are already here.” 2023-02-07 12:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 145

The entire room felt like the temperature dropped severely from the statement. Despite the cold tone and violent presence Luna had carefully started unwrapping the bandage and examining the stump attached to Hatchet’s shoulder.

As for Ajax he was still looking at Luna with shocked eyes. Hatchet had let him know that his friend in the capital would be able to help and that they were both once part of the same team, even if he was a bit older than her back then the difference between th...

Chapter 144

Ajax spent the last few days in an even split. Half the time he was pondering on all the different uses that magic might have. The other half of the time he spent cramming as much as he could about the noble territories, he felt he had a decent grasp on who they were and where they were but matching a name to a sigil was still a challenge.

As the caravan approached Ajax was awed by the sheer size of the city. With Lordin having turned them away he hasn’t gotten to see any other large ...

Chapter 143

With Hatchet’s having solved the food issues for the caravan until they reach the capital there seemed to be no animosity towards Ajax and him from anyone except the apprentice merchant that got fooled.

“Do you know what type of plague it is, considering the makeup of your team and the precautions taken in the city I assume it is helped along or even created by somebody.” Hatchet broke the silence after he finished his portion.

“The plague itself is not that dangerous.” ...

Chapter 142

Jones P.O.V :

Hearing there was a group approaching made me freeze for an instant. There are a couple ways that this could go bad for us. The most obvious is that this is a group of bandits, despite the most likely violent outcome this is then one I would prefer to go with right now since it is one we are likely to win. Anyone over level forty with a few combat skills has no reason to turn to banditry this close to the capital.

The second situation was that this was a fellow merch...

Chapter 141

The situation was tense yet both sides were somewhat mirroring each other. Ajax and the less experienced of the two guards were both on the edge of turning the situation physical, the tense atmosphere getting to them a little. The more experienced guard and Hatchet were determined to talk it out peacefully.

The differences came from who was doing the talking for each side, and the power they had, the experienced guard’s eyes had not left Ajax despite paying close attention to the conv...

Chapter 140

It had already been two days since they hadn’t seen anyone coming or going on the road. This wasn’t all that odd by itself as in the middle of their second week they had three days where nobody else approached them. The difference now was that they were within half a day's journey of a rather big city and having nobody traveling in their direction meant one of two things.

First something happened in the direction they are coming from and nobody wants to go there. This is very unlike...

Chapter 139

The following morning Ajax woke up early from one of the most restless nights he had in a while. He still wasn’t sure what to do about his grandparents and the connection they represented with the Open Plains Trading Company. In the morning his mother made no more reference to what she said last night and didn’t act any differently but if her bloodshot eyes were any indication she didn’t get much sleep last night.

The morning passed by in a blur as he said a quick final goodbye to...

Chapter 138

Ajax P.O.V

“Sorry about the shout everyone.” is the last thing commander Grievous says before he leaps back up to the open window.

I am very much still unsure what happened, after the first strike I had the upper hand during the entire match, not once did any of his counters do more than just lessen the pressure I was putting on him. Even now the dizziness hasn’t fully dissipated, and more than that I didn’t feel any mana at all.

This could only mean...

Chapter 137

Grievous P.O.V

I looked down upon the courtyard, a habit I picked up back when I first joined the army. The only difference was that back then I was looking and trying to learn and now I’m inspecting how my own people advance and what help they need that I can get for them.

One of the first things I picked up in the army was that so long as you are a little picky, people who come from small villages to join the guard are the easiest to build loyalty with. Even n...

Chapter 136

Designing new weapons turned out to be a lot harder than he had expected at first, with the curved sword being something of an outlier when it came to ideas. The main reason for this is the very nature of stat points, unlike back on Earth people have a lot more strength and this leads to the accessibility of different weapons.

As he unloaded all of the ore from the carts he found himself comparing the designs he thought up more with the games he played than any history lesson he learned...

Chapter 135

Ajax nodded to Hatchet and began downing one potion after another. Surprisingly he didn’t feel all that different at first but by the time he was halfway through them a dull pain started spreading through his body. It was nothing at first but by the end Hatchet had to feed him the last two.

The pain wasn’t all that bad, at least not to him after his pain resistance kicked in, but as his body processed the potions he started losing control of it slightly. After finishing the last pot...

Chapter 134

The greedy merchant had made it out of the guild hall with only a few ale mugs thrown towards him for his greedy uncaring nature. As all of this was happening Ajax was fighting an internal battle. On the one side was the will to continue with his training plan and continue delving with the Collectors until he became strong enough to go to the capital.

On the other was a deep rage the like of which he hadn’t felt since back in his first life when his parents killer was set f...