Storm I: DanMachi - Chapter 28

• ??? POV •

Short blond hair and beautiful green eyes. That’s what people usually notices, the hair and eyes, next is the face. And lastly, the clothes they wear.

I’ve been training…

Training to escape my fated coronation of becoming the next King of Empire, therefore I trained. I don’t want to be a king, I never chose to be one, and I don’t want to become one. But I know it will come back hunting me if I escaped…

For now, at least. When I’m stronger, I’ll be back and defy my father.

My name is Arthur Róich, prince of the Empire, the only son of the current king, Luther Róich.

——–[Team ST?R]——–

In order to defy my father, I escaped my country, my kingdom. On my travels, I helped people who needed my help. I trained, challenged and defeated people with Falna. But I can only defeat Level 1s, and I’ve never expected that there is huge difference in power between a peak level 1 and a level 2.

I lost.

Then, he came. He taught me proper swordsmanship used mostly by knights which is not a problem because I could have chosen to become a knight to escape on becoming a king, but that would mean my father would use this as an advantage, or if ever Rakia found out that I left my home country, they will use me to conquer the Empire.

That only left me with one place to go. The city where adventures came from, those who lives in different ways of life: guards, thieves, information brokers, ȧssassins, etc. Even knights. Speaking of knights, I’ve made a friend who is a girl and tried to prove that she can be a knight as well, not just the men in her family or in general that are allowed to become knights.

It’s been years now, I wonder how’s she’s doing? Was she still training using those wooden sticks? Or is she training now using real weapons? The former is probably accurate as they don’t want her get hurt or get scarred.

Anyway, my master had called me through my mind using his mind. He told me to come at this Trizen which is close to Altena but closer to Orario.

And I’m fortunate that I did find one.

The travel didn’t have much problem. Sometimes, some bandits appear, but I’ll just smack them with my sheathed sword. There’s no need to use the blade if you can just solve it with the sheath.

By the time we’ve took a stop, I’m already at Trizen. Since I didn’t tell the merchant where I am going, he was shocked that this is my destination. I’m also kind of stupid for not asking where he is going to.

“Alright, what would you want to show me?”

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• ??? POV •

Let’s see… I’m looking good today, umu! My red and gold clothes compliments my red hair and gold eyes! Ah~ such things made my day so good!

From this day forward I, Lucius Augustus, will work hard for my future teammates. I’ve also noticed that you guys probably saw it coming just from the title.

——–[Team STLR]——–

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I donned my crimson cape with intricate gold designs. This cape of mine also have what master called as hood. I’ve never seen capes with hoods as I have been born and grew up in a royal family known for their iron fist when it comes to ruling. It’s not a bad thing in my kingdom seeing as there’s not much people that are disobeying the rules except from some thieves who came from outside.

Anyway, there are many things that I haven’t fully understood yet, but I am now free to make my choice, thus am now learning magic and anything connected to magic.

Magic fascinated me due to miracle-like effects they exhibit. Actually, magic is the miracle itself, but it was utilized in violence and war rather than making real miracles like reviving the dead. Although there is Necromancy, that art is basically about the dead, not bringing a dead back to life.

But there are traces of Light and Holy magic in the Necromancy book I have read about. That means, Necromancy was born from Holy and Light magic, and possibly, someone tried to learn the way to revive the dead and turn them back to life, but it failed and became Necromancy instead.

I’d like to tackle this path after I have enough strength to control my own power.

Riding on my trusty horse, Gypsy, I traveled through the plains. As much as it is very thrilling to travel by horse, the path itself to wherever you are going is boring, unless bandits stopped you from traveling further. Those who want to travel alone needed to be at least a level 2 to be allowed to travel alone, otherwise, you will be overwhelmed by mass numbers of level 1 and will never be able to escape.

Unless you have a bunch of wild cards in your sleeves, you might not escape unscathed.

Well, I can see the Trizen town now, I should be the first one to be informed.

“Knock, knock!” I knocked and also said it.

“Who’s there?”

“Mario!”

“Mario, who?”

“First name’s Mario, last name’s Mario. Mario Mario.”

“Come in!”

I opened the door and entered. That earlier is not a password or something, but more of a joke that I’ve learned on my own so suddenly. I don’t know why, but the joke’s kinda funny.

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• 3rd POV •

“Want some tea?”

“Well, the travel did made me thirsty, thus I need to quench my throat.” He spoke like he used to.

“Well, to be honest, you’re the only one who talks like that but when it comes to battle, you’re a force to be reckoned with. The other doesn’t like to talk but when he’s pissed off his power greatly increases, the other is carefree idiot but strong as hell, and the last one may seem unguarded but he actually have no openings. You’ll meet them soon enough, just wait a few more minutes.” Kane spoke calmly with a unnerving smile that didn’t even made Lucius to flinch.

“I have a question, though.”

“Go ahead, Nero.”

“Can I fight one of them?”

“Nope! But you can certainly fight, just not them.”

“I have no objections.”

A minute of silence played in the room. But Kane broke the eerie silence lingering around.

“Umu! I’ve managed to create my own swordsmanship and also now on the phase of polishing my skills. As for magic, I’ve managed to control my Mana to releases the limits of my body and also enhances my physical attributes when it comes to close combats that I can’t escape even though I’m more of a Mage with a sword than a Magic Swordsman.”

*Light knocking sound*

“Hey, teach. It’s me, Arthur!”

Kane stood up and opened the door.

“A good morning for a tea, aye?” Arthur spoke in his carefree voice but shamelessly asking for a tea.

“Well, come in. I’ll make you a tea.”

Arthur sat down right in front of Lucius on the other couch.

Arthur tried to introduce himself, but was cut off by Kane.

“Introductions later, let’s wait for others first.”

*Mild knocking sound*

“I’m here now, master. I’m ready for whatever reason you want!”

Kane stood up and opened the door and found Leo in front of his door with some animal skin rugs.

“Ahaha… I’ve… kinda helped some people along the way so-”

“What are you waiting for? Come in.”

Then, once they are in the living room, they all sat down to wait for the last person.

Soon, a magic circle appeared on the ground and from it, appeared a silver-haired tall boy. This is Silver Sterling.

“It worked, but I felt my reserves were reduced by a sixth. The magic circle I’ve made lowered the mana cost but in return made the teleportation set up much slower instead of just a second teleportation in 5 miles.”

“Brother!” A wild Bell has appeared.

“””How cute!”””

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And that’s how things went into chaotic path. The three idiots tried to impress a scared Bell by telling him their “Heroic” acts.

Luckily, this was stopped by Kane.

“Listen up, kids! The four of you will be known as Team STLR (stellar) under my Multi-omniversal organization where I will send you to worlds and fight the anomalies of those worlds. This is not to make sure they follow the ‘right’ timeline, but to make sure that those outside forces will not kill some important people and also stop any huge divergence like a strong being was awakened forcefully.”

The four nodded as their faces adopted serious looks while the other adopted a stoic face.

“The first world is a world where demons from another world managed to enter the human world, thus wreaking havoc. Fortunately, the humans were able to fight them back with more numbers and strong and talented warriors and knights. Then, some time later, some demons copulated with humans, thus humans with magical power were born-”

“Wait, isn’t it normal?”

“Arthur, this place I’m talking about is another world. Anyway, let me continue: newborns with demonic powers were born between humans and demons. As those children grew both in numbers and age, so do the ordinary humans who were scared of the unknown, thus they started the Witch Hunt. As for why they call it the Witch Hunt, it’s because all male children that were born soon died for unknown reason. Now, as for your mission: make sure that no Hell Pride, Hell Lust, or even Hell Wrath will attack them. Now, are you three ready?”

Arthur answered with a huge grin, “I’m ready when they are. My name’s Arthur Róich, by the way. Nice to meetcha!”

Lucius replied, “Greetings, I am Lucius Augustus, but you can call me Nero. I’ll be ȧssisting you guys with my magic.”

Leo stepped forward, “We can also hunt them down by acting like a prey. The name’s Leonidas Terezis. You guys can call me Leo, I’ll be watching your backs.”

“Silver Sterling. I’m expecting a lot from you three.”

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Guess the world I’m referring to. This is not only limited to anime worlds, so worlds from games are a possibility. Also, it’s an Android game as a hint.

Phantom, out!