Change of POV: Velzard
[Name: Velzard]
[Race: True Dragon {Expand}]
[MP: 100]
[Titles: None]
[Level: 70+13]
[Job Classes: Fighter LVL: 8 {Expand}, True Dragon LVL: 5 {Expand}]
[Un-Added Levels: 0]
[Skills: [Murderous Intent] [Expand] ]
[Ice-Magic Moves] : [Minigun] [Giant Sword] [Ice Trail] ]
"Interesting, System appears to be upgrading functions itself as I unlock more abilities?" I questioned myself, I'm currently in my Inn. 'Preparing' for quest. "For example, before I did not acquire any Skills, since I level Fighter Job-Class into to Level 8 I got [Murderous Intent]. As name sounds, it gives me ability send my killing intent at target or target. It's maxed out skill that can evolve as stronger I become. And it has paralysis effect against way weaker targets than user, and probably would cause heart attack on normal Human. I have yet to try it honestly."
I though for moment. "And beside slot for skills there is slot for my Ice-Magic, and it contains moves I named.. So weird but very good. I like it, it means the system could evolve." I looked at my clawed gloves.
I walked up into bathroom to inspect [Capitano's Armor] once more, I have to tell you, it's very intimidating. And I crossed my arms, cloak covering my body is making quite terrifying image if I can say so.
[Warning: I don't own this image! If owner wants me to take it down, I will!] I found this amazing fan art and couldn't help using! I originally wanted to use Capitano armor + Cloak from Natlan but considering I didn't find any amazing picture of that cloak I will settle with Snezhnaya Instead. You are freely to imagine whichever you want.
"What do we say three times? Well, Well, Well." I though for one moment. " Shall we end this today?" Cracking my knuckles I exited from my room then continued walking through hallway.
'Getting Brain Unglaus on my team would be quite useful. But how exactly could I do so, he won't just join me peacefully at first?' I asked myself as I walked into second floor, I counted walking on stairs.
'My safest option would be to break his pride like Shalltear did, and force him to join my team in exchange for not killing him or exposing his identity of being a bandit.' I descended upon first floor.
Ah, that might be fun. I chuckled then giggled before giggling turned into full blown laughter as I continued walking through tables into direction of doors.
Unbeknownst to me all Adventurer's in Cooper Inn glanced at me in shock. I have gained quite the reputation already, and I just laughed darkly as I passed through them. Sending shivers through their spines.
I already took quest for defeating 'Bandits' nearby E-Rantel who were capturing young woman, and no one knows what happens to them.
Rumors say that this group of Bandits are 'Death Spreading Brigade' a Mercenaries in times of war and bandits in times of peace, some say. But considering no one returned alive, it's unclear their objective.
Till now, Adventurer's up to Gold-Class were sent to deal with them, not even one returning alive.
All killed in action.
Apparently these Bandits themselves were not that strong, even if they were indeed 'Death Spreading Brigade', this left one other options, there is a powerful warrior or Caster on their side.
But unknown to everyone, that powerful warrior would be Brain Unglaus himself, who under his characters fall descended into darkness.
Don't worry, I shall free you from it.
I passed through city, many people making way for myself to walk through after seeing my Mithril plate and clothes.
They call me Black Warrior, at first it was Super Rookie and Black Knight, but it changed into the Black Warrior over time.
From North Gate of Around till about 3 miles or so are 'Bandits' supposed base discovered from scouts.
There is about 3 days before Clementine appears in E-Rantel like she did in canon, but due to my prior actions she might not take same route she did in canon.
But I do think she will, why? E-Rantel is fortress city bordering Slane Theocracy, Baharuth Empire and Re-Estize Kingdom. A wealthy city from impacts of war, route and merchants.
And very much fortified against attackers, possess huge population. Huge enough she may just be another person on street, and huge enough to stop Slane Theocracy's influence or at least slow it down a bit.
And she will carry [Crown of Wisdom] item that allows user to cast Magic on 7th Tier. Item itself is meaningless to me, but it may have it's uses in trying to contact Theocracy and exchange for something else. For example, a good sword.
Or get to fight Black Scripture's captain, that might be entertaining honestly.
I passed through North Gate, Guards looking at me with clear respect at me.
I nodded at them, they returned it.
My Mithril-Class status, strength and my humble attitude made me quite pleasant person to be around. Guards especially being in same line of duty as me, that is protecting people, respect me very much.
'My knowledge of future is limited and without Nazarick, knowledge value I know is even lessened. But Antilene Heran Fouche who goes by Zesshi Zetsumei is half elf, 85+ level warrior and Trump Card of Slane Theocracy.' I shuddered at just simple though of facing her.
'She is something I cannot beat yet, probably even if I transformed into my True Dragon form. She is higher level than me, has learned Martial Arts, has way more skills than me, and decades of battle experience.' I though so before adding. ' And better equipment too.'
People who can beat me in New World right now would be less than fingers on my hands probably.
Antilene, PDL and some of others Dragon Lords like Deep Darkness Dragon Lord and maybe Elf King too..
Oh, a realization caused me to stop running, it seems in my utter thoughts I have stopped walking and began running, but that all doesn't matter right now.
"Great Forest of Tob is occupied by three monsters, each one of them as strong as me or stronger than me." I mussed to myself . "That Monster tree that is above level 80 I forgot it's name and it's hard to pronounce so I didn't even care about it, Catastrophe Dragon Lord too who was the reason for Black Scripture for bringing their World Class Item: Downfall of Castle and Country. And there was theory that Deep Darkness Dragon Lord is also residing in one of huge caves underground Tob that Aura mentioned."
I clenched my fists at thoughts of fighting powerful enemies, supposedly Catastrophe Dragon Lord was dead but was supposed to revive and Black Scripture brought their World Class Item to use it against him and take control of him. And possibly use him against Platinum Dragon Lord.
But it would mean that Catastrophe Dragon Lord is not True Dragon Lord due to World Class item working on him if they were sure it would work on him. And Slane Theocracy was sure of it.
It's either random Dragon Lord who was almost as powerful as True Dragon Lords without Wild Magic or Slane Theocracy has wrong information.
And what of my possible relations with Dragons of this world? To them I'm Player and Dragon, Platinum Dragon Lord may be willing to let me be If I prove to him to not be a threat to New World, if his character till now was anything to go by.
But True Dragon Lords hated players usually and formed alliances to fight them, and I'm probably first Dragon player they would encounter so their animosity might be different this time around.
I clapped my hands once more.
"Enough of these meaningless thoughts for now. I have blue haired rat to catch."
1 hour later or so.
I finally found their base location, it appears to be inside the forest, on nearby's hill frankly connected with old caves and catacombs.
Surely, this must have been in work for some time before these bandits took it over.
Entrance of the hill is kept guarded by two bandits who were warily watching all around them for any sign of threat or movement.
They are clearly professionals but alas that won't help them much.
There are dozens of them inside that cave, and I can't spare them all. No, I must kill as many of those scums as I can.
They don't even have families if they are raping and killing innocent women, they are no better than damn pigs and nobles.
I clenched my right fast once again at this.
I began sneaking up on them by passing around the trees beyond their vision.
I walked around, quietly observing my 'prey'.
I might be able to level up, who knows.
I stepped around the closest tree to them, this tree itself is barely 30 meters away from them, but it doesn't matter.
Distance is fruitless against me.
With small twitch of my index finger, two Icicles manifested behind bandits standing as guards before they plunged into backs of their heads.
Ending their pitiful and pointless lives in a second.
Frankly, after I reincarnated, it's like I lost regard for life. Could it be my Dragon instincts taking over or something similar?
Ainz did stop caring about Humans after he got isekaied as Undead into New World too after all..
I stepped up from trees and walking walking into entrance of their base.
Inside it, it does resemble mine. Not really interested paying much interest in cave-like mine that was probably used up to already mine out every important resource it had.
As I walked, I heard numerous voices speaking at same time and also someone singing a song.
I slowly walked by the side, masking myself in the shadows successfully but I approached two corners . One leading to left and one to right.
Form the left are voices coming from, I squatted down and peaked from behind the wall. Just in case.
And I had a sight to see.
40 man. Some of them were sitting on chairs, tables. And some of them were standing. All off them appear to be equipped with some type of weapon.
From swords to daggers, to spears and even crossbows. And is that Bow too? And PAN?!
Pan wielding Bandit?! That must be their strongest swordsman no doubt!
But they all had something in common, they were all staring and drooling at poor girls dancing and singing in middle of the room.
Two dancers, almost nude if undergarments could be counted as something more than underwear. And Third girl is a bard, she is singing with beautiful and delicate voice.
A tale of White Hero?
"~White Hero~ Riding pure white and Holy horse~ He who slew Evil Demons~ He who saved princess~ !
I ignored her singing for the moment, concentrated on finding my target.
But.. Brain is not with them? I turned to corner on he right side.
And due to my Dragon senses being let out freely, I was able to hear people talk from right side. And also snoring from several too.
Hmm?
Upon closer inspection, it seems that right side of the base is where they hold prisoners and people rest in. I can hear dozens snoring noises from them.
Does everyone snore in this world?
I shifted my attention to left corner. I will eliminate every single one of them.
But first, how many holes do they have for escape?
One.
Two.
Three.
And four including the corner I'm in.
"Time to start the show, I walked into room, but not before touching wall slightly, causing ice to form on it before spreading fast to other wall. Both connected before forming wall of ice.
At my manipulation,all other three exits were also encased in Ice.
There is no way for them to run away.
Three walls of Ice were soon noticed. I still walked into room so their attention was elsewhere.
"Hey boss! What happened to exits?" Asked one of the plain bandits who I was not going to bother describing. Just random EXP fodder, that's all you need to know about him.
"The fuck you talking ab-"Man who called Boss stopped mid-sentence as he finally understood what his underlings mean after looking at exits.
Boss is middle aged man, over 40s at least with short black hair that begins to turn gray on edges, he is wearing aesthetic eye-patch on his left eye. His body is tall, almost 2 meter or he is even taller from this distance. He is wearing old worn out leather armor, with Axe on his back as his weapon of choice.
All in all, he is quite intimidating to normal Humans that is.
My presence in their room is soon noticed as soon as I walked into light.
"Intruder! Pick up your weapons!"
"Adventurer no less!"
"Wait, guys he is Mithril-Class Adventurer! We need Brain, where is Brain!"
Panic surged through their ranks, as each one of them grabbed their available weapon. Some of them were sweating, some were backing away.
And three girls. Two dancers and Barb both looked at each over for a moment before running off into one of the corners of the room, away from trouble.
Smart move for them.
"Ready yourselves, one group break those Ice Walls. Second group with me, protect them!" Ordered Boss of the bandits as he picked up his Axe from his back.
After closer look, his Axe is two handed battle Axe with both sides having sharp angles. Handle of the Axe is iron or metal too.
At Boss orders, bandits hurried off, 10 of them run off to be beside their Boss, and behind first wall of people is another 10 people also preparing for battle. And 20 remaining are scattered around the base trying to break Ice Walls.
The moment Bandits hit Ice Walls, Icicles extended from those walls in their direction. Some of them managed to dodge, but most were not as fortunate as they were and got pierced mercilessly in return.
"[Ice-Magic: Minigun] " I chanted, even though I don't need to do anything like that, it's still part of that role-play!
Minigun manifested above me, causing confusion to spread on Bandit's faces. But it did not last for long before Minigun pointed itself at Boss of bandits and his band of 20 warriors protecting 10 or so remaining bandits behind them
~Whrl!
~Ratatatatata!
Minigun began firing countless icicles at them. Small as bullets, Quite many bandits died due to this small spell, but Bandit leader did not.
His danger sense kicked in last moment before he leaped into right side of the room. Several others followed too behind him. And those who did not have good instincts or were not able to keep up with their leader's speed were not so lucky.
From magnificent line of 20 Bandits barely 8 of them survived, and only due to their instincts.
"Tch! He is Magic Caster, the moment someone get's close to him it's ours victory!" Boss proclaimed before he rushed at me followed by several remaining bandits behind him.
Minigun whirled around before it pointed itself at Boss.
Boss grinned for a moment before he dodged once again, but people behind him were not so lucky this time.
10.
7.
Minigun aimed again, it fired.
5.
Boss dodged.
3.
Boss is three meters away from me, he raised his Axe above his head. His face revealed something akin to satisfied smirk. Before he muttered [Heavy Blow] a Martial Art. His Axe's head gloved for an instant before it lunged at me.
"It's over, Magic Caster!" He shouted one last time, as His Axe approached my head.
But Instant when it was under my arms reach, my left arm shot up meeting it. Creating minor shockwave, to blow off air slightly.
"Huh?" Confusion spread over Boss expression. It did not last much, because my fist approached his face. And the moment it was about to connect, his head was blown away from Air pressure.
I planned to hit him with full force of my punch but I suppose I was asking too much from nobody like him.
I threw his headless body away along with his axe.
"Trash. Trash, is this all you can do? You can attack and rape defenceless women but you cannot bear to attack someone of your own weight?" I spoke in Capitano's voice as I took step towards remaining Bandits.
It's needless to say there were 7 of them now.
All of those bandits were covering behind each other.
"Tch. It's even awful to breath same air as you do. " I snarled before I aimed with Minigun at them for one last time before they began pleading for help.
The last thing I need is someone saying " I have family!"
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