Aftermath in chains.

MC 2 Pov AKA Lucas

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2 fireballs come raining down and the hobs are disintegrated into flames and ash, my eyes open wide and I look to see the sorcerer Elrik, with smoking hands and teary and downtrodden eyes.

He sees me and quickly closes his window off, the first time I have ever seen the sorcerer ever cast a spell up close like that, and to save..me?

A peasant who's father died when he was 8 and a mother who was a supposed whore.

But why?

My eyes shut closed and the exasperated villagers now fully relieved and with most of them having piss and shit running down their legs, they pick me up and begin heaving me back to my home.

I wake up the next day and look around my room, all my armor is hung up and cleaned.

A goblin ear sits on my night stand with a note, I look down only to see my leg fully healed

My eyes widen in confusion, what magic is this for my leg to be healed just like that?

I must have been out for awhile.

I grab the note and unfold it.

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We would like to thank you for saving us from the monster, mister the whole village is indebted to your courage.

Sincerely,

Everyone

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I cant help but crack a smile from the note I look at the hobgoblin ear and smile brighter, that right there is worth 150 imperiums.

I stand up and cant help but feel a new vigor in my body.

I take off my dirty clothes and instead dress in a baggy white shirt and some brown trousers, I strap on my boots and belt.

I then attach my pouch and just when I go to look for my sword I forgot that I lost it.

I look around and see the hobgoblins axe, now sharpened, cleaned, and shined up.

That old fox blacksmith must have done this for me.

I take the hand axe and put it on the scabbard.

[Note its not a full scabbard, but those cheap ones wich are literally leather circles meant to shove handles/tools in.]

I open my door and take a big breath in.

I walk outside and walk the path to the main street of town.

I arrive to the square and see the people are working and busy as usual.

A distance figure waves at me.

I aproach and see her, its the mother of the courageous little girl that took the monsters axe.

"Im Aga, and to thank you for saving my girl I would like to give you this, its not much but this whole village isn't much to begin with."

She holds out a frosted nugberry muffin.

"Ma'am, Pa told me to never take from those who have less than me."

She frowns slightly.

"Thank you youngman."

She clasps her hands at me and bows as I walk away.

I enter the guards quarters to see the other guards and Felt all sitting with mugs of Ale quietly.

Felt looks at me and smiles sheepishly.

"Son, come sit down."

I walk towards the table and sit down, the old wood creaks lightly.

Felt looks at me like a proud man who just watched his son shoot his first deer on hunting season.

He grasps my shoulder.

"How did it feel?"

I look at him confusedly

"What do you mean old man?

"To absorb its life essence."

He replies cryptically, I look at him with even more confusion then before.

"When a monster is killed we absorb its core essence, monsters have a god called Matrica on their side who grants them the system, we have life essence, the stufd monsters absorb using the system, once we slay a monster we take it for ourselves and become stronger, we can check our strength at Atlatl pillars."

My brow furrows.

So this is how those adventurers get crazy strong, right now I am probably 1/10th the strength of Felt, and 1/5 the strength of the other town guards. I am still not strong enough to be an adventurer.

"How did your mission for that rogue druid go?"

Felt smiles once more and stands up, he waves me to follow him so I do.

We walk around town for a bit before arriving at the mayors house.

We enter the cellar and find the mayor crouched next to a cage.

"You will make a pretty penny on the slave market hehe."

He sneers and reaches his grubby fingers around the bars of the holding cell.

Felt bows to the mayor and so the fatman stands aside so we can get a look at the person inside.

They have a ragged cloak with vines wrapping around the cuffs if their shirt.

Their face is hidden and their hands and feet are wrapped up inside their clothing.

"What's their name?"

I ask felt quizzically.

"I dont know but it gave us a hell of a fight."

A grimace appears on his face as he speaks, I observe once more to see signs of dirt and battle across their cloak.

A feminine pale white hand reaches out and tucks the cloak further over its head.

"Its human."

I comment.

"No, im not."

A weak voice croaks out, its almost feminine but is so weak its barely discernible.

"Then what are you, A beast, a vampire, or what?"

Felt asks now slightly angered but more intrigued than anything else.

The druid hangs its hood back revealing a feminine girly face with light pink lips, red hair with small green highlights and piercing cold half green half blue eyes, with shoulder length hair swaying they look at me in surprise.

"Your, an elf?"

It asks quizzically.

But Felt answers for me, like he always has.

"No, he's a damned freak, an abomination, just a damned halfy, his whore mom got frisky with one of your damned kind" He looks at me and sneers. " I could be proud of you for only so lond before I puked, now that you've gained some power me and the boys have decided to get rid of you aswell, whether the townsfolk want it or not....freak."

He grabs me by my shoulders and the Mayor quickly kicks me in my legs, sending me toppling down.

I get shoved into the cage with the elf and I scream out in frustration.

"AFTER ALL OF THIS, JUST WHEN I DO SOMETHING GOOD, YOU DAMNED BASTARD, YOUR AS GOOD AS BANDIT SHIT!"

I smash my axe against the metal bars breaking it in half and sending the head of it across the room, almost hitting the now exiting mayor and guard captain.

I can hear speaking above me, its the mayor.

"TOWNSFOLK, LUCAS LEFT THIS AFTERNOON TO GO TO THE CAPITAL AND BECOME A GREAT ADVENTURER, REJOICE, I WILL HOLD A FEAST IN HIS NAME!"

I can hear the faint cheer of the townspeople.

Those damned sycophants, Im gonna go fucking crazy.

I look towards the elf and it only grimaces.

"So, Im Lilinette, who..are you?"