24. The Three Misfits

After the incident, everything went back to normal, David was taken by guards to a dungeon outside the academy grounds, and he was delivered some food and skills so that he could work on fusing them, David was mad at the orc lady who also threw him into dungeon but he was also glad that the academy had such a strict rule towards corrupt teachers and bribes. Granted he had fighted outside the arenas so he was also guilty no matter the reasons, David did also see the other 5 people getting dragged into the dungeon after their brief visit to the school infirmary.

In these following two weeks, Julius would visit him every day for like 10 minutes because that was all they were allowed to visit people, they would talk about all different stuff, Julius would bring in some food for David, there were some other people whom he had met at the inn or the carriage but they were there because of Julius most of the time.

David was also given many skill books to learn from(you don't just click it and learn btw) and he was tasked to fuse 4 skills for the following year as it was what it took normal people to fuse. Not wanting to set the bars too high, David decided to fuse the skills only after 6-7 months. He learned the skills. The academy had these skills separately but they didn't have the fused skill that was supposed to be a passive domain skill that could suppress pretty much everyone around your level by 20% after a few hundred levels of grind.

The skills were:

Dominance Over Area: you can suppress your enemies in a 5m radius circle around you.

Enhanced Presence: used to increase your presence, can work as a deterring factor against less intelligent beings.

User of Elements: grants basic use of fire, water, air, earth

Ferocious Mind: increases mind capacity

After learning all the skills and leveling them all up to level 50 in 4 days David decided to stop and work on his other skills and he passed the rest of the two weeks by leveling his punch of the gods by more than 20 levels and his close combat by more than 25 levels, if his skills were on lower levels they would have leveled up way more but you get what you can I guess.

After leaving the jail, David started spending his days by actually studying skill fusing to see whether he could actually make it so that he could also fuse skills without the system just in case he needed to at some point. He would still level up all his skills for more than 6 hours every day and work on his fusing skills for about 2 hours and the rest of his awake hours were spent with his friends, mostly Julius of course, they even took a one star mission which leveled up David by 10.

David also realized after the mission how much harder it was to level up now when it was compared to the first 50 levels, well his occupation didn't help in this matter but still, it would be way harder anyways.

The first ever mission that David had taken turned out to be a protection mission from one of the caravans that was going to move through a level 100-150 area and didn't want to pay for the average level 400-500 guards 250 gold for every day and decided to give a mission to the academy for 100 gold every day, most people scoffed at the money and didn't accept it but David and Julius weren't really there for the money anyways.

At first when they heard that David was only level 50, the caravan master was inclined to decline the offer and look for other people but decided to test the kid out first against some monsters and then decide and when he saw that David basically obliterated level 100-150 monsters in the arena he decided to accept the guarding mission. There were three people that accepted this mission, the two of them were David and Julius and the last person was a demon woman named Noxaa, there weren't a lot of demon even in the academy as they didn't have any borders to the academy.

David had grown up biased towards demons because of their bloodthirsty nature so he decided to not try to form any kind of friendship but he was quickly pulled off his comfort zone by Julius as he started asking the demon a lot of stuff, about her horns, her family, her kingdom, she was at first not answering any questions but as the 20th question was asked they were having a conversation and Julius was pulling David in too.

They learned Noxaa was a demon that came from the Kingdom of Bukhia and it turns out she came from a poor family and was going into missions every chance she gets so that she could send her family some money. They also learned that her fathers farm had been raided by some human raiders so her family was in need of some urgent money thus she had been taking a lot missions even more than before to send enough money back home.

After hearing this, David realized that Demons were highly intelligent beings that had functioning societies just like human did and they demonized humans like humans demonized demons.

Demons ancestors had been pretty bloodthirsty but those demons of the old times were long gone, the demons nowadays were just humans with horns and slightly different colored skins. After hearing Noxaa's story they both offered to give up their personal savings which was promptly refused by Noxaa.

While Noxaa was away from the caravan at some point David and Julius had a long chat about how they could help a friend in need and they decided to help her with her missions and take missions with her. They also wanted to give their share of the gold to her but they were aware it would be refused.

As Julius, David and Noxaa killed hundreds of monsters guarding the caravan for 5 days which was 1 more than the mission said it would take. They were given 600 gold each for their efforts.

While staying in the city that was inside the Colleges territories, they learned that she was the same as them a 17 year old talent student, when they asked what talent she had she refused to tell no matter what though. After a day of resting they started heading back for the academy. It would take only two days for them to reach the academy without the caravan.

In the first night, David caught and cooked a 5 rabbits for the group and it was at that point that Julius and David realized that she was a glutton. She ate three rabbits that night and still didn't seem to be full. They wondered how they hadn't realized this while eating their breakfast and dinner together in the inn. David realizing this went out to hunt again and came back with 3 more rabbits after 30 minutes and prepared them and cooked them too.

Noxaa realized that she was being a glutton today but this was not something she could hold as it was part of her talent, It turns out she had the bloodline of the actual demons, it was a slight bloodline but it was way more than what the royal family had at the moment. Her skill was, once every month in a random time, she would get super hungry and as long as her hunger was satisfied that day, she would grow stronger, her ancestors had this ability their whole life as it was the demons most powerful point. They would eat and the more and the more powerful things they ate the more powerful they would get, her bloodline was kind of the same but it was just a day of the month.

Noxaa realized that the rabbits were not enough to satisfy her hunger so in order not to lose sanity and attack her friends she decided to tell them her bloodline.

After explaining how it worked while eating the rabbits David and Julius sprung into action to go hunt for more monsters and animals that she could eat, for some reason these two kids she had met 5 days ago were helping her with all their strength. Noxaa was touched from her core and she decided to befriend these people. As the night came to an end, Noxaa had eaten more than 30 rabbits and more than 10 larger animals like sheeps or lions. Her hunger was definitely satisfied and she fell asleep right after finishing one of the lions while there was still quite a bit more food was left.

After making sure her hunger was satisfied, David smoked the rest of the meat and stored it that way so it would not rot easily. Noxaa didn't wake up for the whole day and it wasn't until the next day when she woke up exactly after 24 hours after her sleep. It was pretty clear that she had gotten stronger. Before the night she was on par with Julius in stats but now she had passed him by quite a bit, well the only downside of her bloodline was her skills leveled up slower than normal peoples did, so she was bound to have lower skill levels but higher stats just like the old demons did.