《DEFENSE KINGDOM》 CHAPTER 1 : Awakening CHAPTER 1: Awakening Full moon in night. Ash opened it in eyes in the world of monster and magic and knight. He is standing in front of a city altar where he has a feeling a warm undercurrent is happening in his body. He is getting information of this altar where he is standing in his mind. he knows that he summoned by this world of Eldros. here every time world of eldros summoned anyone across universe to bond with city altar for defending habitable land of this world against another entity and it is fighting for its survival and this war is going from very long time. This world has power to have human living long life, now he know, that he is bound with altar as much altar stand he will live if altar destroy he will die but its body become cannon fodder for attacking other altar in this world and become mindless . Ash is sighing what kind of luck I have to transmigrate in this killing world where he can die any time without burial It really suck to think I can die without getting virgin tag out of my identity in this killing world. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. " this sucks shit! shit ! . I hope that I will get some power to deals this shit killing world to survive as a human with fragile body . Give me some compensation to survive. A moment, he feels city altar shine brightly. Sudden information come in a mind. Now he knows every new altar owner, get a chance to choses ability ball from this world ¡®s treasury. It will become passive ability of altar .it will help altar city to grow in this world. He teleported to mysterious room where lots of ball with different color are available. Then, selected the green ball with hands and green ball are in hand of ash and suddenly he come back to city altar where ability ball is fusing with city altar. Then pop up in his mind. Name of city altar, he decides the name of city will be nexus city. I said window open, City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: none Population: 1 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. Chapter 2 : Gift pack Chapter 2: Gift pack Now, he feels what to do to increase my survival chance against killing in this world. first, search the city Second, build the altar building for getting more defense and attack power for survival. Seeing the full red moon of the eldros, he feels chill around his all body ''s parts. he started the search of city and its begin, after seeing all around the city he get a 2-bronze chest, that have a basic food and water and basic building blueprint, treasure. i.e. in altar storage here, foods: 16 hard breads, 8 L - drinking water. Hard bread Description: just eatable, very hard chew, generally eat by peasant of this world. Drinking water Description: drinkable water by healthy person. blueprint: market, house Market Requirement: 200 stones, 50 wood This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. Description: used to create building in the city altar for trading another destination House Requirement: 100 stones, 25 woods Description: able to protect 4 people from wind, sun light Treasure: guide mark, low grade sword, low grade gun with 20 bullets. Guide mark Requirement: altar to used Description: used to guide 1 person per days, just go territory altar, bound with altar low grade sword Description: commonly used sword by people for attack and defense. low grade gun Description: commonly used gun Good now I have a gun for self- defense now I will have to work on defense of city altar for protection. let ''s set up a guide mark and other things, in the city for working in city. Now, Status window ... ..... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1 Warehouse: low grade sword*1, low grade gun* 1, bullets * 20 Population: 1 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. Now I have to build market and house for living and prepare for defense of city, good, city has initial wall for support and attack will only happen for 10 mins only, after all, "Eldros will "not want new altar destroy without getting a chance to grow itself good for now. Time left before attack: 5 hours let use, guide mark for getting person so, person comes from city gate after bonding with guide mark in any time after activation, can come in front of the city. now, Guide mark status: active Description: every day 1 person will come in a city. After 10 mins, new person comes, let see it status Name: Evan age: 18 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 Evan says hello to me, then he asked ash "are you owner of altar", ash said yes again, evan asked, may I live here my lord? ash, first tell me about this world and about you, evan said " okay my lord" Chapter 3 : About world Chapter 3: About world I am evan, I used to live with my family in a city altar which name is moon and city altar with level 3 but it is attack by monster and its altar destroyed and most of its people killed by monster, some fled to another city altar. Ash asked how can you fled from city? Evan said citizen of altar can fled if its altar is destroyed or altar owner is not capable for securing loyalty and protecting of normal citizen. Ash asked, can altar¡¯s owner flee? Evan said " no " generally altar owner can flee but they will die if altar destroyed, so no altar owner can flee mostly, they can only fight to death if they want to survive. Ash asked, so how can citizen fled without altar owner permission, Evan said, actually they fled without getting permission but citizen only fled if living there actually mean death such as monster invasion that will possibly destroy altar, and if altar owner is killing people and it¡¯s wanted to kill you or possibly you committed a crime so you want to fled and some people possibilities trying to find more opportunity in another city altar. And, any people without protection of altar, they have to find protection otherwise they will become monster in a 6 months, without having any special treasure to protect itself . You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. Ash asked " how people lost altar protection ", Evan said " when the altar protect you, it got destroyed or generally altar owner decide who to give protection of altar who it does not want to give. so, Ash thought altar owner have collective power to this who will live in this who will died or become monster not bad I guess . Ash asked Evan, are you really want to protected by new altar. Evan said yes, ash asked "why ", Evan said because I am level 0 and no territory will accept me easily without harsh requirement or may be they used me as a cannon fodder without appropriate compensation . Ash asked "what about me " Evan said " no you will not use me as a cannon fodder without appropriate compensation because you also need trustworthy people to grow stronger and to grow your city altar to protect yourself. and you seem smart from your question after all, if you used me as a cannon fodder without compensation, I can try other altar too ash sigh ! ash thinking good to have some smart people rather than no one. ash said welcome to nexus altar and how many people can I have in this city ? Evan said see your city area on status and decide how many can live here without problem decide yourself so Ash said status window .... ... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: low grade sword*1, low grade gun* 1, bullets * 20 Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. Chapter 4 : Defense of city altar Chapter 4: Defense of city altar Now, let''s prepare ourself for exploration of outside of city altar for 2 hours. Ash sigh after seeing this. Time left before attack: 4 hours, 30 mins Evan said ¡°okay ¡° Ash asked" do you have any previous experience on outside city exploration?" Evan said " yes " Ash asked " tell me everything" Evan said " okay" Outside the city altar without protection of altar '' marks any level person can become mindless monster instantly without having special treasure and if having a altar mark person can live outside depending on level of person and territory they can work more or less. Or corruption can let person become mindless or death or become monster. Ash asked so " how much time we can live in outside altar protection " Evan said " for we can live 1 month or more because we 2 are only use altar '' marks for protection if more people used protection marks of altar, time can vary on depending on number of people using it. Ash " let'' prepare ourself for exploration outside" Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. Evan " okay" Ash " take this sword for protection", Evan "okay " Ash "by the way, why you know many things about eldros, is it common knowledge? " Evan " depending on altar level, common people known more or less, I mean I don''t want to say it but I am actually a son of my former altar city ''s owner so I know more compared to other people. Ash " oh, sorry about your dad " Evan " it''s okay, my father has numbers of son and wife so I am not very attach to my father " Ash " let''s prepare ourself in 10 mins to go outside the territory" Evan " okay" Ash watching on" Time left before attack: 4 hours, 10 mins " .... Ash "let ''s left for outside" Evan "okay lord" After 30 mins, A dense, forest just beyond the borders of their city altar. The air is thick with mist, and the sounds of unseen creature rustle through the forest. Ash " Evan cut the wood by using sword we need them for construction. Evan " okay lord" Ash "I will keep an eye here for precaution ", holding a gun in hand keeping an eye for monster " I hope no big monster come otherwise we will have to kill monster left instantly because of precaution, ash deep in his mind. After 20 mins, no big monster came, small monster didn''t dare to attack. Ash " let patch up the work and exploration " Evan " okay my lord, we have 40 woods for use " Ash " if we got some stone that will make our city some comfortable " Evan " it''s very fortunate for us we have forest as resource to use, my lord" Ash " okay let departure soon " After 30 min, they really come to city gate soon they will get some rest before fighting for our live, ash said" I hope we can live and become strongest power house in this world ". Evan " We will live more days my lords, first attack in the city altar is not difficult if we can prepare ourself and without cowardly mindset and with precaution" Ash " thanks my friend and so i am deciding, you will my second in command, I hope we will create powerful city where lots of people can live." Evan " thanks my lord" Ash seeing " Time left before attack: 2 hours, 30 mins " Chapter 5 : Defense of city altar 2 Chapter 5: Defense of city altar 2 Evan " my lords, why not we create some traps for monster after all they will only able to use narrow area to come here for attack. " Ash " let''s do it after all some hours are left before attack Time left before attack: 2 hours, 0 mins " so, what kind of traps we will prepare on short time with this narrow area. Evan "my lord we can create spike pit with use of 6 woods and dig a shallow soil " Ash " let''s do it quickly and prepare for some rest before enemies come " Evan " okay now " Ash " I dig a soil so you can sharp a wood then help me with the soil dig" Evan " okay my lords " After, Time left before attack: 0 hours, 30 mins " Finally, it''s completed Now, let''s rest before the attack. Evan , okay my lord After 25 min, Ash with his low-grade gun and Evan with his low- grade swords Time left before attack: 5 mins Time left before attack: 4 mins ..... The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Time left before attack: 1 min 30 sec Time left before attack: 0 min 30 sec Time left before attack: 0 min 00 sec ... ... Now, it started System Task .... Defend the altar: 10 mins Ash " Status window... ... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*34 Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. Now, my status ... .... Name: Ash (altar owner) age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 weapon: low grade Gun, 20 bullets Good at least I have prior experience in shooting. .... The night was unnaturally silent. No wind, no rustling leaves¡ªjust a stillness that settled over the city of nexus like a held breath. After seeing afar, Ash sees, a monster rabbit was coming with exact number of 12 among leader a monster rabbit was level 1 it¡¯s status, Gnawfang (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A small, rodent-like rabbit with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. And other rabbit is probably level 0. Ash watched them carefully then fully sure only commanding one is level one and other 11 rabbit monster are level 0 their Status window ... ... Gnawfang (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: A small, rodent-like rabbit with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. Ash thinking about best strategy for dealing of this kind of wisdom less monster. Ash said follow my command Evan " okay lord" Chapter 6 : Defense of city altar 3 Chapter 6: Defense of city altar 3 At this moment, Rabbit monster ''s eyes red like a blood and their speed is increasing after seeing us. They are coming fast as they their life long enemy come and they are going kill him for revenge. At this moment, ash is looking at his low- grade gun and aiming to directly kill level 1 rabbit monster first after that taking care of others monster. Ash prepared the plan how to handle this monster safely and better take care of his and companion safety. In this plan, first monster will get trap in pit and kill by wood spike after that they will deal level 1 monster with gun after that they will level 0 rabbit monster. Now Ash is seeing, Rabbit monster is near traps and they are suddenly under soil and 3 - level 0 rabbit monster stabbed into wooden spike but 4 level 0 rabbit monsters are injured because pit but 4- level 0 are fine with level 1 rabbit monster, they are fearlessly coming towards city area where crack is available. Now, ash is aiming according to plan but one bullet by ash towards level 1 rabbit missed and injured the level 0 rabbit, here comes second shot and it shoot shoulder of level 1 rabbit monster after 3 three more bullets directly shoot in the belly of level 1 rabbit monster and suddenly ash''s bullet shot into head of level 1 rabbit monster and it killed without getting any chance of battle with them. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. ash think " 6 - bullets are used and remaining bullet is 14 " Ash to Evan take care of remaining rabbit with me, Try take care of rabbit monster with sword after all I have only 14- bullet left but I take my position with gun if I feel your safety in danger, I will fire bullet to save you Evan " okay lord" don''t worry i can take them down with my experience, ash," I hope so take them with caution safety is most important in this right now okay. Here, Evan is taking a level 0 rabbit monster nearest into entrance area, he used his sword slash his neck two times and the monster rabbit died after he steadily going towards his next target monster rabbit and it is also successfully killed and remaining two rabbit monster is coming, and they are very close to each so Evan has to take one and ash decide to become bait for another monster. So ash throw stone to second rabbit monster to provoke, and Evan swiftly goes to the first rabbit used two sword slash into neck it successfully died. And, second rabbit monster is trying to bite ash then Evan comes with swords and swiftly killed it, with its attack onto neck of rabbit monster. Ash fives goes seven are remaining, Evan see the pit are any rabbit monster are coming here or getting out, so try to get rid of it swiftly, don''t fall in a pit after all we have to protect city against these monster ''s daily attack. Evan, yeah let''s see three rabbit monster level 0 are successfully killed by wooden spike and four remaining rabbit monster level 0 are trying to comes from the pit. Ash started to throw stone for taking care of most injured rabbit monster in a pit, After 5 mins, first rabbit monster level 0 successfully out of pit so Evan killed it ,easily with two sword slash in a neck .and 2 min after that ash killed second rabbit monster level 0 by throwing stone on its injury Then 5 mins later evan take care of third rabbit monster level 0 by slashing swords in its neck. Ash, let''s patch up here rest. Chapter 7 : Mana core Chapter 7: Mana core Evan " okay, first let''s collect all the mana core from the monster corpse." Ash, what is mana core? Evan, it is used in used to grow our level and fuel of special building and altar and other things but most important thing is it useful for everyone and it is also used as currency for trading all over eldros. And Every mana core has level, if mana core obtained by level 0 monster it''s mana core will be level 0 mana core. level 1 monster then it level 1 mana core Ash, okay Evan how to grow my level. Evan, You have to used mana core or mana stone in a altar and absorb the following mana mist for growing level fast otherwise you can just sit on the city altar it will release some mana mist to absorb very slowing that is obtain / absorb by outside of city altar. Ash, so city altar is only source of crossing level and it absorb mana outside the and release it for it'' s working and people to grow" Evan, yes, higher level altar provides lots of mana mist in the city for average person to warrior to grow. Ash, okay let loots the spoil and to the city. After 5 mins, in nexus city .... ... Ash, status window .... ..... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*34, mana core level1* 1, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1 Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (80/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (20/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. now, crack in golden light is recover, we can finally focus on another think. Ash, golden light saves us for at more 14 more days afterward so, how to utilize able days for growth of the territory. First grow my level for after tomorrow I will focus and resource gathering and other thing for growth of the city My status window ... You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. .... Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 ( 0/100 mana mist level 0 ) weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets Ash to evan take rest eat some food after that manage our food responsibility is given to you and remember tomorrow may be one new friend of our will come so manage food and beware of wastage. I''m going to increase my level so relax for some time bye In nexus city altar, Ash thinks I should use level 1 mana core so to save level 0 mana for altar upgradation. ... mana core level 0 Description: It can provide 1 mana mist of level 0 mana core level 1 Description: It can provide 1 mana mist of level 1 or 100 mana mist of level 0 Ash put mana core level 1 in a center of altar window pop up ... ... used mana core level 1 *1: mist core level1 *1 (option 1) used mana core level 1 *1: mist core level 0 * 100 (option 2) ash selected option 2, After that blue mist clearly visible is emerging very slowly in the altar. Again, Ash sat in altar and began absorbing a mist slowly steady and started simple doing meditation after 1 hour, ash, my status window .... .... Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 Status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (20/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets After 4 hours, 10 mins ash, my status window .... .... Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 Status: healthy abilities: non level: 1 (00/100 mana mist level 1) weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets finally, I am level 1 after a lot of meditation and dedication, now let '' go to meet evan After ash wondered in a city and finally found evan, resting in a corner of space and ash said evan " are you rest enough evan . evan said to ash " yes my lord " then, Let''s go to the exploration of the outside of the city and after all there are 5 hours before sunset, what do you think? Evan " that'' s good, my lord " Ash " okay let ''s with full preparation", evan " okay, my lord" After 10 min, Ash and departed of the city After 10 min, they come to forest where they find one bronze treasure and started cutting of trees and ash thinks I should open this treasure in the city, it will be safe and more transportation relief. After ash give evan task cut the trees and he explore the forest and come at 5 min, he turned towards deeper forest where he sees towering trees, stood like ancient building with branches almost blocking the sunlight and most the branches of tress is tangled like a fighting each other for growth and rustling fallen leaves in ground and carrying scent of damp earth and fallen leaves of tress. Somewhere in a distance monster are trying to a find a prey to eat and some monsters are gawking towards ash, and he tightly grip a gun and exploring confidently into a forest without trace of fear seeing in a face but in a heart, he is cursing the world for not giving him cheat to become overpower instantly. And somewhere in a distance people are tracing a person and then a fighting sound started instantly in area and ash is exploring confidently then he listens a loud sound of fight and lighting strike and fire blast, ash cautiously hide in a cave and he known if these are really powerful compared a single last finger will enough to him hundred times without a doubt so, In cave he can see from a far there are a spider of level 1 with lots of its infant in spider of level 0 may be a 100 number of spider level 0 and one spider of level 1. Ash is silently watching from front powerful people are fighting and in his back spider monster are sleeping soundly, as if any wrong movement his life will lost. Ash is watching silently a fight of powerful people all lighting, speed that make there movement invisible various kind attack is happening and at last the who is defending himself use equipment to out of himself and now attacker are trying to find him everywhere ,attacker also got track him Ash, 3 hours later, choose to out of cave and very carefully started to fled to the forest direction where evan would be cutting. 30 min later, Ash find evan, evan is cutting wood, at least evan cut 50 woods because it is in front of ash and ash said evan get ready we are getting to city fast so they started towards the city and 15 min later they are in a city After, ash a opened a bronze treasure where he finds a low- grade axe and knife, swords, hard breed * 12 and drinking * 5, low grade shield *1. ash give food item to evan and ash " status window".... .... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade axe * 1, low grade knife *1, low grade shield *1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (80/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0(20/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. now, In nexus city, Ash seeing dark sky with red moon, my first night in eldros under the sky without house and roof, I hope we can find stone for house building ash thinking at least there is golden light protecting the city for 14 remaining days. I hope our morning will be good Chapter 8 : Stone mountain Chapter 8: Stone mountain In a nexus city, The first light of dawn stretched across the horizon, painting the sky in hues of deep indigo and soft lavender. The stars, once bold against the midnight expanse, faded one by one as golden tendrils of sunlight crept over the sleeping land. A hush filled the air, the kind that exists only in the fragile moments before the world fully awakens. Then, sun emerged with bright sunlight as ember in a volcano towards the city, Ash opened his eyes and sat to ground, from near he see evan sleeping soundly, he lost in deep thought how evan sleep so soundly after all we can died anytime in this world but he thinks it''s normal for evan after all Evan is native of the world of eldros, so he started thinking how to survive in this world Ash said status window ... .... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade axe * 1, low grade knife *1, low grade shield *1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (80/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (20/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. Ash thinks, he should first try to find stone for building a house, living in a ground without a roof and only sky to stare with cold wind, it is really frustrating and in a long time it create some serious health in this situation and he has various problem to deals with, so he think to worry one more problem is not a wise decision. Here, Evan is also awake after some nap, he started to address ash, my lord what should we do for today. Ash said to evan you will stay here in city and welcome new comer and I will judge if he should live in city or not and use altar to absorb mist mana to grow your level and I will go out for exploration and come back before new attack from monsters. ... Time left before attack: 12 hours Ash said first, let''s distribute the treasure we get from the treasure box. Here, evan you take low grade axe and low- grade shield and i will take low grade knife with me, you have to distribute a low- grade sword or low- grade axe to new person who join our city. Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. Evan said ¡°okay¡±. Ash said status window ... ... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 2 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (80/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (20/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. then, Ash " my status " .... Name: Ash (altar owner) age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (0/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets, low- grade knife Now, evan goes to city altar for mana mist absorption he is thinking deep in mind. that he find a good altar owner for his future and he feels ash is trust worthy but he feel he have to see if he want to go another city for living or he trust ash more. and ash is preparing for deep exploration in forest but he thinks in mind I should eat first before going anywhere and he took bread and water and dry meat to eat from place where evan put food after that he ponder i will create biggest city in this world. may be super large empire and he will be an emperor without so much to worry about trivial things with unlimited power in his empire. After 10 mins, Ash started moving from dinning towards exploration in a outside of the city, as it is ash out from city he started seeing wild level 0 monster after 10 mins of moving away from its city he started seeing some level 1 wild monster. he started seeing a massive trees with frighting trunk and leaves branch very big and massive stem going into a soil, deep in a forest a loud of wild loud sound he can listen, some wild monsters are attacking each other for food and some monster grazing plant and trees¡¯ leaf are large and very massive river is flowing as it it¡¯s cutting a forest a two different line. After 2 hours of exploration ash come to the place where he sees a lot of monsters with level 1 started to appear in his sight and he started holding his gun tight as it life depend on it and he carefully and deep slow walking he is exploring the field. And sometimes he started to see some bronze and silver treasure but all he could to feel sad about it because he not dared to go there without enough preparation that is, there he can see many monsters live there some are at level 1 he clearly see .it so he explores other place for finding treasure and material that he needs in this world for future development of city. So, ash started moving quickly and steadily after sometimes he find a mountain where a many stone are there. In a one pop up window message to ash .... ... Name: Stone mountain (Resource point) status: unoccupied Ability: mine up to 1000 stone level: 1 In a stone mountain ash can see various monster with some are at level 1 and other are of level 0 After looking seriously into monster ash can look, status of the monsters .... ... STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. And other stone rat is probably level 0. .... ... STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. And other rabbit is probably level 0. After seeing some time, ash found, there total number that is stone rat level 1 *2 and stone rat level 0 * 13, Ash think it''s look like I have to deal with them another time there is enough if I attack now, I will probably not deal with them and I will be injured. And going to city, it''s likely impossible with injury so, let''s watch them some time to fully sure they are only 15 stone rat then I will start going to going to city. After 1 hours ,30 mins, Ash become sure they don''t have any new stone rat with fighting power so after ash started to steadily and slowly fleeing from the stone mountain. After some distraction he comes to near forest and after that he quickly going towards the city. After 10 min, he comes to gate of city and he enter to city and started to relax. Chapter 9 : Ram Chapter 9: Ram After, Ash arrived at nexus city, he started to relax after he went to city altar, and meet with evan and ask him how is it the progress? and evan said good after that ash try to see his status window and he can see it easily pop- up window started to come .... .... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 status: healthy abilities: non level: 0 (9/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade sword, low grade axe, low- grade shield Ash i can see status of my subject and he started thinking ,it is hidden features of altar , may be it is hidden because it will created lot of chaos in the heart of subject ,so this is not common knowledge about this or evan not told me about this but i hope my first guess is right and most altar owner hide this knowledge and ash can see ,why altar owner do this and ash is also not planning to tell this about anyone ,it will help determine the loyalty of the subject . Ash said absorb the mana mist and adapt with your new gain strength and i will wait for newcomer and there is a lot of time before attack of monsters, evan nodded after ash started to see time available time before attack and he see.... ... Time left before attack: 6 hours ash think half a time is spend before attack is really make me feel I am so slow but I am giving my all in this world i hope to find something in another trip that make my life easier and let my territory grow strong and let me first spend time to relax before attack after all I have to give my best defend my territory and before that I have to make some spike pit to defend a territory but first I have to relax first . After 1 hours, ash started to walk towards altar and he then see pop up window of attack .... ... Time left before attack: 5 hours And, he arrived near the altar and he went to call the evan and he said to evan loudly and clear evan come out and absorb mana mist later. We have to make new spike pit and repair the old spike and so get up my friends to work after all we have to defend city all we got, evan started to come out from altar he said to ash let''s go my lord we need to do our best. ash nodded and both go out of the city and go where monster will attack and here, they see many woods are broken and they have replace it and ash think they are in luck because monster will only attack the same golden barrier where they attack yesterday so they can expand spike pit and replace the broken woods easily and they will able to do some extra to increase sharpness of wood spike and create more fatal trap for upcoming monster. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. ash and evan started to work on expansion and upgradation of pit spike trap quickly and timely manner. After 4 hours, they completed all the work of upgradation of pit spike and they started to relax slowly and started to see if there are any error in their work and it need more perfection after 15 mins check of everything and not find any problem so ash ask to evan , should we head towards the city ? and he said ¡°yes¡± my lord, we should head towards the territory and relax and when they started to come to city gate from a far they see one person is standing in front of door of city gate and his cloth are dirty and blood in his shoulder and face and stomach is almost badly injured and his injury are everywhere in the body. And as if he can die anytime but he is standing in front of them and any other person have this kind of injury he would probably die. ash is thinking and he is seeing if I have half of this injury I would die a long time ago so they understand one think very much that this person is very strong and very high level so ash and evan are also nervous because they are not under golden barrier outside of golden barrier so they not have any protection against this person . evan told ash, in some high level people control territory owner with their will and territory owner cannot do a thing because they poison him or use some ability to control him or his life or their family ¡®s life . So, Ash started to go in the city gate in front of that injured man confidently and evan also follow confidently without any fear and ash not say anything to evan about coming confidently in front of injured man but ash know evan is smart person, he likely understand that person is very strong and he can listen our talk so both of us going confidently in front of him and that will not make that person react violently after all he does not know ash is city owner . After both ash and evan enter a golden barrier, then ash started to ask question to the injured man, ash said to injured man " who are you? and why are you here? and then injured man told his name is Ram and he is at level 3 and he is knight. he is injured because he is defending a city altar of level 3 and city altar is destroyed and he fled from the city and after a long time he sees this city and come to rest here for some times and after that he will go to the other city, for that he will give him one present to ash and help in defending his city altar. And ash ask why should I belief you that you are not lie to me and not try to kill me in the city or harm me in any other way, injured man i can take a mana oath with you if you want and it is most binding oath if you not follow your oath you cannot progress in mana mist absorption and the level will be stagnant after sometime. The level will drop because you cannot absorb mana mist and mana mist is necessary to full filled mana required on that level of person, bigger the level of person the more mana mist he has to consume otherwise his level will drop the level. After thinking 5 min ash decide to make him citizen of city because of his level and mana oath he will take before going to enter in a city. After that injured person say I ram take oath on mana that i will not attack or use any means that is harmful to this city and his owner and and his citizen and I defend this city when i live in this city. And ash started to see his status window pop up window comes .... ..... Name: Ram (altar subject) Age: ? status: injured abilities: ? level : ? ash see a pop- up window ... .... level not enough to see every detail of the subject. And Ash also takes oath in front of ram and say I ash take oath of mana that i will not attack ram or harm him in any other way provided that he will not attack my city or try to harm me or my subject. Ram started to see him as if he is joking but he thinks oath on mana must comply otherwise this altar is doomed but he thinks this altar owner is not a dumb so he takes his word seriously and ram enter the city without any hindrance. Ram ask a permission from ash to enter altar for mana absorption and ash gives his permission. so, Ram goes toward the altar and started taking mana mist in his body quickly without any problem Ash sees his monster attack window and pop- up window comes ... ... Time left before attack: 1 hours left, Chapter 10 : Goblin attack Chapter 10: Goblin attack Time left before attack: 1 hours left, After few minutes ash started to see preparation of his defense against monster attack and after checking everything is good and well prepared for defense of the territory, he said to evan which weapon you decide to take sword or axe, evan said to ash ¡°He will like axe and he will give sword to ram .¡± so, ash said to¡± evan give me the sword and i will give it to ram ¡°, Evan said¡± okay¡± ,ash nodded . and he said to evan rest before monster attack. Ash thinks in mind I hope he will rest and it will help him perform well in the defense of city and he started to walk towards altar of the city. after some few minutes, Ash arrived at the front of altar and he said loudly. here it is a low- grade sword and I put it here so you can take it and prepare yourself for monster that will comes at 1 hours after so get ready as much as you can. Ram remain silent and ash think he is busy to recover his injury so he doesn''t disturb him. And, he started to walk towards the place where monster will attack. After arriving here, He started to think what should I do to increase my city''s power after some deep thought he said my status window and pop up window comes in front of ash . .... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 3 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (400/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (600/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. .... ... After ash think in deep mind how can my city ''s defense and attack power increase so much, a few minutes deep thinking in mind, he started to belief it is contribution of ram, Again, he think a level increase in person really make defense and attack power of city advance very fast after all ram is injured very much and with very fatal injury, ash think what happened if ram is healthy without any big injury and he feels city''s power will increase very much . Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. Ash started to think time left before attack and he see a pop-up windows in front of his see. .... Time left before attack: 40 mins Ash started to breath slowly and also started doing some meditation for decreasing his nervousness and he said to himself in mind my city ''s power increase, so why I am feeling nervous about that, after all everyone comes to this world, someone die someday some die fast, some live very long life, I hope to live long life in this world at least I will live for 1000 years and more. then Ash began to rest and wait for the monster attack, with holding his gun in hand and playing with it. Again, ash said to himself, my status and a window pop up in front of his eyes... .... Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (0/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets, low- grade knife And he sees time left before monster attack and new pop- up window show in front of ash. ... ... Time left before attack: 20 mins After some time evan comes toward ash with his low- grade axe and low- grade shield in his hand And with look of full determination to fight to death with monster. Again, Time left before attack: 1 min Ash started thinking why ram does not here at this moment ,is he rebelling against me or his injuries are very serious and he will only come at last moment of attack ,few some thought comes into ash''s mind and after few second , ash stopped this thought, with thinking he will see what move ram has and have good explanation of not coming here otherwise he will not hesitate to expel ram from the city because he not want problem in his back after he is fighting for life in front of monster . After ash started seeing time before attack and a pop- up window comes in front of ash. ... ... Time left before attack: 50 secs Time left before attack: 00 secs Here, Ash and evan ready for battle with everything they have without holding back in their mind and ash grip his gun tightly and putting bullet in his waist for reuse and checking bullet in his gun and evan take his shield and swords in his hands with tight grip. Few minutes later, Ash sees a pop window in front of him .... ... Time left before attack stop: 10 mins Ash and evan started seeing to afar and they see 15 dots coming in the direction of the city. And few minutes later, they started seeing monster clearly, and in them, two are level 1 and 13 are level 0 Ash tried to see there¡¯s status window and pop- up window comes in front of ash ... ..... Goblin (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A small, Goblin with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wear weak armor. It lives in tribe, like to using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. And, Goblin (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: A small, Goblin with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wear weak armor. It lives in tribe, like to using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises Ash thinks it will be difficult to kill them all but he feels it possible if Ram help with dealing with two level 1 goblins. He sees goblin are started to comes quickly when they see the city in front of their eyes and their eyes started become to bloody red in colors. they shout loudly and again their speed increase and level 0 goblin are coming first after their back are level 1 goblins. And, all level 0 goblin suddenly felt into trap and last moment one level 1 goblin safely out back from pit and another level one goblin does fall in trap so, Ash started to shoot to bullet to one level 1 goblin and evan tried to fight level 1 goblin but he only protected himself because of shield otherwise he will die only and ash think after see this evan is doing everything to buy time to ash so Ash is successfully avoid the attack of goblin and he shoot the the goblin but first bullet misses by inch and second bullet is successfully hit the goblin in his stomach but the goblin started to fight more madly with ash, so ash has no time attack the goblin because he has to dodge the goblin attack. Then few minutes later, Ram opened his eyes and take the sword near the altar and quickly advance towards ash and evan are fighting and he quickly sneak attack first goblin and that goblin was fatal injured after sometimes first goblin is dead And, Ash injured the second goblin with 3 bullets in his stomach after he, evan and ram finished the goblin. And ram said I am going to the Altar because my injury is not healed , I need some more time heal. Ash said okay ram If you need something we will try to fetch within our capability and ram said " nothing I need but thank you and he left to altar for healing. Ash thought deep in mind with smile in his face, he need to give some respect to expert power if he want to keep them in this city otherwise it will make it difficult for city to grow. After, sometime later evan take care of the all level 0 goblin one by one without any problem. Ash said my status and pop-up window comes in front of him. .... Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 Status: healthy abilities: non level: 0 (0/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade Gun, 10 bullets, low grade knife Chapter 11 : Loyalty Chapter 11: Loyalty Name: Ash (altar owner) Age: 24 Status: healthy Abilities: none level: 0 (0/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade Gun, 10 bullets, low grade knife ..... After, Ash said in mind status window .... ........... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100 , woods * 25 ) Population: 3 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (400/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (600/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. In a war with goblins, they don''t get anything good, all the thing are unusable and goblin'' s things smell very bad so ash and others just throw those things out of the city because those smelly things have lots of health problem. Ash don''t want to deals with problem of illness where only three mans are fighting for life. and goblin don''t have mana- core so city don''t get anything. In a deep mind ash get new information which is telling him, he can see the loyalty of his subject for respect towards him in the city. because connection of him and altar city is getting because he successfully defended the city without a one damage in a city. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. so, Ash in mind try to see this information. A pop- up sound comes in ear of ash and in front of his eyes. . ....... ...... Name: Evan (altar subject) Age: 18 Status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (9/100 mana mist level 0) loyalty: 80 weapon: low-grade axe, low-grade shield And ..... ....... Name: Ram (altar subject) Age: 55 status: injured abilities: ? level: 3 (?) loyalty: 20 weapon: low grade sword Ash thinks, ram ''s loyalty is low then he thinks he will have to work on ram '' s loyalty. after all, he think a powerhouse of level 3 in a small territory is very exception it also make it easy for him to upgrade city level of 2 when ram healed. and, Ash started to rest in a ground of city after all there is no suitable building in a territory and evan is also following ash and started to rest. And, ash said to evan we have go to forest for getting more woods for development of city that will make our city development fast. Evan '' of course my lord, I will follow your instruction. Ash ''good'' After 30 min, Ash and evan departed towards the forest. before they inform ram, they leaving city for gathering of woods .and he nodded. Ash said to ram ''okay" we will come sooner. In a forest, Ash and evan are looking in a trees, soil and sky they see black fog in a sky from afar, they feel this black fog is peculiar and they already chopped 50 woods. so, they cancel their work of wood chopping because Ash feels black fog can be dangerous so he feels better out of this place. in mind of ash a risk is more than reward if he stay here so they pack up their think and slowly they started to go towards their designated place and in a journey they see a lot of small and large monster are restless and running or fled against a black fog. And they meet some monster face to face but monster prefer get out of the place rather than facing ash, evan. Ash, evan also don''t want to fight so they took defensive position if a monster comes but don''t attack and monster also fled without attacking them first. after 20 min, Ash, evan in front of city gate and seeing a sky where they see back fog and they can feel the black fog is very poisonous because they can see many monsters are becoming liquid after contacting with black fog. after seeing this, they enter a city and both of them are feeling safe and Ash started to hear the pumping of his heart. and he think in mind eldros world really is very dangerous and he feels they are going to meet lot of dangerous phenomena in this the world without a doubt. After 30 min later, a black fog comes towards the city and surround it and ash and evan can feel city''s golden light barrier is protecting the city and black fog is slowly going ahead of city but the a black fog as area and length is very big and ash can see it will take some time for black fog to get out of city area. After seeing back fog for 30 min, both preparing for their sleep, Ash said in his mind status, a window pop- up... ............ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 3 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (400/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (600/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. After few min later, Ash thinks, he and evan have to sacrifice some mana refining time in altar for Ram to heal fast and he feels with the ram''s help city defense against monster will be easy. and he think we need stone more because how many times he will sleep in a ground. it will make his city less attractive to coming person if he not even arrange a few house for people . he makes up his mind he will go to stone mountain with evan and mine stone for house and market tomorrow in the morning after waking up. and, he thinks, to tell this to evan that will make evan mentally prepare so he said to evan , we will go the stone mountain that I discover , for mining of stone for making house and market . Ash see evan and he found a small smile in his face because of expectation of having house to sleep, it'' s also making him smile and happy in his heart after all sleeping in cold in a ground no one like. And, Ash feels upcoming days will good for him and his city and he will grow his city that on one can see this, in this world. after some time, ash and evan began to talk something for 16 min and seeing sky of this world after they started to sleep. .......... In a morning, Chapter 12 : Attack on stone mountain 1 Chapter 12: Attack on stone mountain 1 On a morning day, sun started to arise and cool air are crossing in a nexus city and birds are making a sound of chirp - chirp. then, 30 min after morning ash started to awake from sleep and evan was already wake but he not dared to awake ash because he thinks ash should rest more. after all, there journey to stone mountain will not be easy but they have to take care of many things and take care of monster. so, Evan just wait for ash waking up by self, then ash open eyes in sleepy nature after he talk with evan and ash said to evan how are you feeling after waking up and evan said " good " again, Ash nodded after that he said let''s fresh up and meet with ram and eat some meat and then we start our journey to the stone mountain and where we have to deals with some monster and take care of stone mining for our future use and if everything goes well than we will have our first house and market in the city. then, Ash thinks in mind how many bullets he has use to deals with this kind of monster after that ash said my windows in mind, .......... ............... Name: Ash (altar owner) age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 1 (0/100 mana mist level 1) weapon: low grade Gun, 10 bullets, low grade knife .... ........ Ash after seeing pop up window in front of him, he think he only 10 bullet left, after using bullet he will have to fight with knife so he think he has to increase his level 2 to getting more protection and increase evan ''s level to level 1. After thinking deeply, he and evan started to do there morning work and fresh their mood. And then they go towards altar to meet ram and seeing how his injury was doing and asking if he want to eat with us. In altar, Ash and evan meet ram and ash ask ram if you want some foods or others thing for your health after that he asked how your injury. After some min, Ram answered to ash " my injury is healing Quickly after 4 days I will be able to walk in a city normally and please send some food to eat, I''m not eaten any food since 2 weeks. Ash nodded and he said to ram " okay we will give after we cook our food and I and evan are going out to city for stone mining, and you have to take care of the city and ram said to ash " okay and don''t worry i can detect all city in my meditation and if anyone attack,I can take care of that if new person come than you have to come to deal with him. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Ash said ¡°okay¡± After that Ash said to let ''s cook our food and both evan, ash going towards the place where evan puts the food after that both started cooking food in a simple way. After 30 min, Both ash and evan have eaten their food so ash said to evan I will go and give the foods to ram and you rest here for sometimes. evan said "okay my lord " later 10 min, Ash meets with ram and distribute the food and said here your food eat it otherwise it will become cold after saying this ash depart from altar and goes towards direction of evan And then both of them meet-each other After that he said to him let''s rest sometime and depart towards stone mountain before that prepare all supplies for this trip. Evan said¡± okay¡± Again, both began to prepare supplies for the trip. after they rest for 30 min. then, they began to go outside of the city after traveling for 40 min and meet with various monster and then they finally see the stone mountain where Evan finally sees the monster that occupy the stone mountain I.e. .... STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. ............... ......................... STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Cowardly but Aggressive ¨C Fights only when cornered or in large groups. Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises. And other rabbit is probably level 0. .............. ............ After 30 min, ash and evan looking the number of stone rat again they finally confirm number of stone monster is 12 where level 1 monster is 2 and level 0 monster is 10. After getting this number and previous number of stone monster by ash yesterday was same so, they started planing for the attack of the territory of stone rat after all they are in a stone mountain and they are very dangerous in a group if they mining stone mountain and they come in a group so they plan they will attack single monster if a they find monster alone after all they can''t underestimate two level 1 monsters, if they want to live in this world. And, They started spying of stone monster if some monster out of the stone mountain they will deal with them but two level 1 monsters are not going out of stone mountain so they are waiting for any of them come. They will finished that monster after conquest of the stone mountain is going to be easy. After 3 hr. they deal with 3 stone rat- monsters of level 0. Again, 30 min later, Ash and Evan started to see level 1 stone rat is getting out of the stone mountain. and they started to follow that monster after following 20 min they are in a forest of lush trees with long vine and stone mountain is very afar so they decided to sneak a level 1 stone rat after 10 min stone rat this time from far ash shoot a bullet that hit its stomach of the monster and stone rat take a defensive position and coming to attack ash , at this moment evan took one stone and hit in a head of stone rat and rat see him blood red eyes . look at evan and in his look it swallow, evan alive without hint of mercy and quickly going to direction of evan and moving quickly, and evan prepared with his axe to fight to the death with stone rat, At that moment, use his gun and trigger 3 bullet shot towards the stone rat and 3-shots directly hit to head of stone rat and finally he died without knowing he died. after that ash took his mana core from stone rat and then, he said status and a window pop up ....... .................. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *14, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 3 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. After that Ash seeing his status window he thinks increase in defense and attack power is very good sign that city is progressing in good direction but he thinks changes are very small and he will have to work more for progress of the city and his safety. they only collect mana core in stone rat because other part of stone rat is not valuable. Chapter 13 : Attack on stone mountain 2 Chapter 13: Attack on stone mountain 2 After 30 min, killing on first level 1 stone rat, ash and evan staying in the opposite of stone monster watching them if new stone rat get out of monster, they will killed it because ash think it is better to wait and killed stone rat alone, He feels, current number of stone mountain is average challenge to them but waiting more time to make challenge easy is worth after all, in a fight anything can happen so prepare before as much as possible. Ash thinks there are one level 1 stone rat and seven level 0 stone rat so, They waited for new stone rat to attack outside the range of stone mountain. 1 hour later, one stone rat comes outside the mountain range and started going towards the area where level one stone rat was going and ash feel that this stone rat is trying to smell the scent of first level 1 stone rat and following its scent very accurately and after sometime ash think he should get rid of level 0 stone rat so After 3 min fight, evan take care of this stone rat with axe very quickly. Again they began to spy on stone rat in a stone mountain. After some time, ash began to said status and window pop up. ..... ......... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 3 Specialty: none Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. ... ..... And few minutes later , he and evan see a second level 1 stone rat and seven level 0 stone rat started to come outside the stone mountain and second level one stone rat started to smell first level 1 stone rat , and second stone rat accurately follow first level 1 stone rat and ash and evan silently following those stone rat without attacking because ash feels he needs to more cautious of them , no nobody know may be there a one more level 1 stone rat , so If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. They keep follow rat without attacking them and those stone rat not get to notice of them. 2 hours later, in an upper mountain area with a lush and big trees and congested vine all over around there and ash took shot against second level 1 stone rat and he is on a big tree branch where finding him is not easy with so many trees and first shot hit stone rat ''s leg and its leg injured badly after ash took 3 -more shots and killed level 1 stone rat after that evan take care of other stone rat easily very easily. After taking mana core from this monster. now ash has only one bullet but he feels it''s worth it. then ash said my status ....... ....... Name: Ash (altar owner) age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 1 (0/100 mana mist level 1) weapon: low grade Gun, 1- bullet, low grade knife ...... he feel that he have to increase his level more but he also feels, evan has to go to level 1 from level 0 for city and for his safety too. After 1 hour, they come near stone mountain and ash see a pop- up window in front of him. ...... ......... Name: Stone mountain (resource point) status: unoccupied ability: mine up to 1000 stone level: 1 Want to occupy the stone mountain? Ash said in his mind yes. a new pop up comes in front of ash. ... ...... system detect no monster here, so occupation successful .......... ... Ash can feel a deep connection in his mind in front of this mountain stone. After some thinking, ash said status .... ....... ........ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building : Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50 ) , low grade house blueprint (stones * 100 , woods * 25 ) Population: 3 Specialty: none Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (0* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. After seeing a pop- up window, he can see there is additional column where resource point was written, after there a level 1 mountain stone is written. seeing this ash understand, he sees in the city status panel and he it is good and it will help on planning of the city''s resource. Again, they began to try to enter in the stone mountain and they enter here they can see lot of stone rock here- there. they try to search for sometimes and see if they find something useful to them or city but they don''t find anything except rock stone. After, ash said to let mine a stone first for our use after that we can see what we can find here. And, evan started to mine stone mountain and 1 hours later he mined almost 100. after some thinking ash decide he want to have a 300 stone minimum after we get to the city. after instructing evan to mine and ash started to wonder in stone mountain mine. 30 min later in distant place of mine he finds a peculiar stone in a soil after seeing in near a pop up comes in front of ash. .......... ............ Name: Mana tree seed (specialty) status: unoccupied ability: able to produce mana with different level of trees level: 0 (grow-able) Description: After planting in altar city, it will grow in a tree slowly, and able to produce mana naturally for city without harming city '' s mana production because it produce mana with the help of its root. Seeing this ash was very happy in his heart and he feels goods days are coming and he will grow its city, very powerful and very beautiful. after he is jumping because of this happiness. After 1 hour more wondering, he found no new treasure but he not feels discourage but he feel he mostly used all his luck so, he started to make plan to going city quickly, so he went to evan and he find evan has mine almost 310 stone. After that he want to change in city panel so, he said in mind status and a new window pop up . ............... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree seed Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. After this, Evan talks to ash " should we go to towards the city " Ash said "yes " After, they started preparing for their departure. Chapter 14: construction of house, market Chapter 14: construction of house, market After coming to city, Ash and evan both are happy and their smile is very genuine. Evan is happy because they will get a house to sleep and ash is because he get mana tree seed and get a house to sleep. first, they started to rest some-time after they will perform their duty on himself. Ash think deep in mind where he should plant a mana-tree seed and where should he construct house and market after some thinking he said status. ....... ......... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*114, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50) , low grade house blueprint (stones * 100 , woods * 25 ) , Stone * 310 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree seed Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Descriptio: city '' defense power level against enemies. .......... ....................... After seeing this, Ash began to wonder around city to find best place for construction of house and market and planting of mana tree seed. After some wondering ash think right place for planting for mana seed trees is near city altar, and house, market should a far from city altar. After wondering, ash decided to build house and market first and then ash think a pop up window comes in front of ash. ...... ....... would like to make a house here? ash think and he said no because he not selected this place for making but he understands if he thinks about making house if all materials available, he will get pop up window about this. 5 min later, goes where he wanted to make a house and he thinks about this a pop- up window comes in front of it. This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. ............ would like to make a house here? ash think in mind "yes" and he see a wonderful pop up in front of his eyes that say house will create in 2 hours. ..... ....... After, that ash go to place where he selected to make a market that just near a house for comfort. and As an altar owner ash can arrange building as he want after spending some mana in a city '' altar so he don''t to making this complicated for his mind''s peace. And ash get a new prompt from system...... ........... would like to make a market here? ash said in his mind " yes" he gets new message market will construct in 3 hours. After that, Ash said in mind status....... ........ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *1, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25) , Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree seed Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power leve: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. ................. ...................... After 1 hour later, Ash started to walk on a city and and near a city altar ash think in mind plant a mana seed tree and he get a prompt from system .... .......... ............ would like to plant a mana seed tree here? he said " yes " after that he sees mana seed trees went in soil where he decided after that seed planted and he see very small purple plant there in the soil. ash was very happy when he sees a purple and he is thinking he will get many mana from this tree in a city. After 5 min, resting there and ash see the plant he got a window in front of his eyes. ...... ........ Name: Mana tree (specialty) status: occupied ability: able to produce mana with different level of trees level: 0 (grow able) Production: mist mana level 0 * 1 per day Description: After planting in altar city, it will grow in a tree slowly and able to produce mana naturally for city without harming city '' s mana production because it produce mana with the help of its root. ...... .......... After seeing this, ash said in his mind my status and he got a new window in front of him. ................ ................. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Blueprint: low grade market (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *2, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1 , Stone * 10 Population : 3 Specialty : Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 1 per day ) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (500/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (750/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies .......... ............. ash was feeling good seeing they have a new way in territory for absorbing mana, with this one can use altar and other can use mana trees for mana absorption that is good and he don''t need put extra labor maintaining mana tree because it can grow itself without depending on city but have a need good soil for grow it can extent its roots various place growth that is very good for him. ....... ....... After staring mana trees for 30 min, ash departed from here and goes toward the altar. few min, ash meet with ram and he talk with him and ash said to ram, he need to out from altar because evan need to grow his level to level 1 for city ''s securities and ram said he understands and after some talk, ram said he needs a level 1 mana core for his fast recovery and ash agree. few min later, ash and ram get out of altar goes towards the place evan is resting and ash said to evan take this level one mana- core and upgrade your level as fast as possible and go to altar for absorb mana . And evan said " okay ". After this ash and ram talk about eldros world and its custom and ash get some new information about level system and he tells to ash that after a person level 5 he can get a class and get its class profession knowledge and it said it comes with free knowledge and power upgrade but people can learn new knowledge that make them get class too , but first class will become primary class and other are secondary and secondary class is not important because main class''s level is ;link with your level and power but sometimes primary and secondary class combine and a person get new class . ... .... After some talking. Ash feels ram is trustworthy so he asked him to stay in this city and give loyalty to this city ''s altar, it makes surprise because he thinks will not make him citizen of this territory because his level is higher than ash. After few min silent ram decided to accept his proposal. Chapter 15: About eldros world Chapter 15: About eldros world After ram agree to ash '' proposal of loyalty. And, Ram goes into his knees and pledge his loyalty towards this city''s altar and ash. ....... ...... Ash feel some awkward about ram ''s pledge but he think he should respect the culture of eldros and he embrace the world ''s rules not to change people believe because this is a world where great power make a law and there is only one law might is right and altar owner '' s might will be always higher than person in a world where most of the people have to depend on altar ''s purification power to live otherwise they will not become street dog and cat but become a mindless monster . And he also has some understanding of this world and he feels its power is more vast than he can compare and he has this gut feeling. ..... Don''t underestimate the of altar and altar owner , this power is only fraction that he can feel it and ram also know that meeting a new altar owner and become his trusted man ,it is mostly opportunities rather than risk ,and he know in the eldros world how many people want to become altar ''s owner and all most everyone want to become but very get this chance even kingdom level''s altar ''s heir want chance to become new altar owner rather than becoming directly having kingdom level''s altar owner because they can combine altar ''s talent if they have a new altar and their kingdom level altar, they inherit they can combine kingdom '' altar and new altar and get two talents first from kingdom level altar and from new altar. and they can boost the power of the their altar very much. and any price get new altar and heir of the kingdom of altar don''t get new altar than the price will become new heir of that kingdom of the altar, no matter what previous heir, they can''t do anything about it. ..... Because everybody is dependent from citizen to minster on altar for long live and peace so everybody wants to increase power of altar, they pledge their loyalty and their interest is to make altar as strong as possible. after all , new territory or lower level altar '' s assault by monster lesser compared bigger level assault by monster because every altar have to share brunt of monster attack in world of eldros .and more the level altar more the percentage of assault but everybody want to increase its level and there is no guarantee if your altar level is lower and your altar can''t destroy so most of the altar owner want to increase the level of altar as much as possible with having more fundamental strength in city . and having more than one talent in altar, always increase fundamental power of altar so it become apparent every altar owner has to increase their children because it increases the possibilities of having a child get new altar and after transferring their altar to him his altar foundation increase and become more powerful. increase a safety of altar. Ram also listens, some older altar owner gives new altar owner their daughter '' s bride and the baby born from them them after at 5 age can inherit both altar and combine the altar after that both the previous altar owner becomes deputy altar owner with baby ''s permission. rule the city but they can be removed by baby ''s permission but this type of method used by desperate altar owner and they know their altar can''t survive more attack from monster. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. so, they have used this method to survive so ram know the talent this city altar has should be good because he can feel his attack kill monster easily but he knows himself well and his power that''s how he survives after his previous city altar destroyed and he know this city has potential to survive this kind of the world after all ,if your city don''t have talent to become powerhouse and then your city will mercy of other city ''s protection but here a twist in fate .first you have to find a city owner that has capability protect his city and yours because if altar submit to other altar then altar '' percentage of monster attack of this city have to share by another altar that make altar submit but problem start here your city should has a talent that worth this problem because their city'' s upgrade will also increase compared to other city that don''t have another altar in submission so, generally most city owner not accept altar submission but in combination of altar resource problem and attack percentage share not arise and their upgrade resource will be same as normal altar that attract most city altar. it makes city altar survival more viable compared city submission. After 30 min, Ash said to ram, why not you absorb the mana from mana tree it, it will not heal you but at least it will maintain state of condition of your body and ram said what? After some silent, ram let''s see if mana trees can help me and ash said let''s go after both started to towards the mana- tree then, after seeing mana-tree ram it can help me but not like altar and then he said it is better than nothing and ash nodded. and ash see mana tree and a pop - up windows comes in front of him. ............. ..................... Name: Mana tree (specialty) status: occupied ability: able to produce mana with different level of trees level: 0 (grow able) Production: mist mana level 0 * 2 per day Description: After planting in altar city, it will grow in a tree slowly and able to produce mana naturally for city without harming city '' s mana production because it produce mana with the help of its root. ............ ................ After seeing this ash was surprised because he think mana tree will take some time then increase the output of mana mist but he feel this is very good because he having more mana mist output means having a more strength source in a city. that will ultimately make him more-stronger compared to others and his city become strong and he feel this resource will make attract more strong man. And ash about mana tree from ram but he said he don''t know anything about mana tree but he said that having a new source from mana increase fundamental strength of territory and no owner will publicly tell anyone to other people if he not sure about their loyalty. and he advised ash never publicly admit it and reveal to stranger because a lot of altar owner can become your enemies and blackmail you to get this special resource from you and maybe attack you . ....... Ram said to ash generally altar owner support each other because more altar they have in eldros, it is best for them because they will have to face less monster attack but sometimes fight for better resource happen and special and unique resource always slay many men of altar owner if both altar city have same level of strength and other can''t suppress other and sometimes both share 50-50% and sometimes they sale the resource if they don''t want fight. After listening of ram, ash understand more about this world and resource distribution and he knew that he gets something very precious and he proud of himself after all mana tree is upgradable and its contribution will always stand in this city in any level. After this talking with ram, ash said " goodbye" to ram and he started to walk in city for surveillance. And he sees in the altar where evan is refining mana mist in the body and window pop in his mind after he want to see evan '' status window . ................ ......... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (30/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield ............ ................ And after seeing ash know evan is refining his mana easily without having any problem in refining and he feel evan can easily upgrade his level to level 1 in next day without any problem. After that, Ash thinks deep in mind evan and ram is refining mana mist and he was survilance in the territory and he feel they are city owner and he is subject but he know evan''s upgrade to level 1 is easier compared to him and ram ''s refining is for healing his injury so he shouldn''t have these thought in his mind. And, ash just feeling bored but he sees the city very well and take a look in a outside the area if any monster started to come today. Chapter 16: Monster attack 1 Chapter 16: Monster attack 1 After 1 hour, ash get prompt from system from monster attack and window pop up. ........ .......... Time left before attack: 3 hours, 30 mins ........ ............ After seeing this ash think, he should notify this to ram and evan and ash goes towards altar direction. and some- time later, he meets with evan in altar and he told him about attack of monster after listening this evan said let''s him join for trap building for taking care of monster they belief they have enough woods for trap and time for create a lot of traps for taking care of this ordinary monster without problem. ash also agree with evan on trap issue, after some deep thought ash said status in his mind after that a window pop up. ............ .............. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Blueprint: low grade market (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *15, mana core level 1 *2, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 1 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (600/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (1050/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ......... ............ seeing a woods and it¡¯ s quantity enough, ash think in mind wood quantity is enough. after he look at evan and pop window open in front of him. .......... .......... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (50/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield ............ ................ Ash said to evan you go to make wood pit trap I will go inform ram about attack in the city. After that ash goes towards ram and there, he said to ram there will an attack of monster in the territory, so prepare yourself for city ''s defense and get in the altar for healing, evan vacated the altar for making wood pit trap in the outside of the city. And Ram said Okay "my lord " Ash said ¡°okay be ready for attack of monster¡± and I''m depending on you taking care of level 1 and level 2 monster and ram said don''t worry my lord I will try my best as much as I can do ash said ¡°okay ¡°and he started to go to the place where monster will attack. and he feels it will be good if he gets something after the attack of monster because he listens from ram that after monster attack. eldros world gift treasure to the defending altar if it finds exceptional ram mainly said it is will of the eldros, who will give treasure, it like support of world for his native but he not gets any treasure in any previous attack of monster but he thinks two attack is not enough for evaluate an altar who is exceptional who is not. ....... .............. After few thinking ashes quickly started to goes towards evan and few min later ash is seeing evan is making pit trap for upcoming monster and he think about golden shield that will be out from his city after 15 days complete after birth of complete altar and He thinks deep in mind that his chance of survival will increase after getting ram, evan '' s his subordinate and he belief in his survival. After that he started to talk with evan of trap installation and later few discussions they decide to where putting wooden spike will give good killing rate after that he started to dug a soil and evan is making wood sharper. 2 hours of work later ash dig a soil for trap making and evan is putting wood spike in pit for trap and he is doing a good work. And then he thinks about seeing time before monster attack and window pop up. ........... Time left before attack: 0 hours, 30 mins ........ ............ After some 5 min later, trap making is complete and he, evan checking the traps, few min later both are satisfied with trap. then they finally rested and they are waiting for monster attack. then he thinks about seeing time before monster attack and window pop up in front of his eyes. ........... Time left before attack: 0 hours, 10 mins ........ ............ Ash said my status, after seeing the time before monster attack. A window up in front of ash. ..... ........ .......... ............... Name: Ash (altar owner) age: 24 status: healthy abilities: none level: 1 (0/100 mana mist level 1) weapon: low grade Gun, 1 bullet, low grade knife .... ........ ash knew he has only one bullet left after using this bullet that he will have to combat with knife and he is actually practicing with knife with evan and get some trick of knife with ram but he is nervous about his fight with monster with using knife but he think he will try to do his best about this fight with knife and do as ram teach him to do let the ram this more about this and he in mind agree. after few thinking his mind and when he sees new time before monster attack and window shows this. ......... ........... Time left before attack: 0 hours, 4 mins ...... ....... After see the time ash ponder when ram is going to come but after some thinking he sees ram will come after the attack of monsters and directly killed the main monster for them after he see time. ...... .......... Time left before attack: 0 hours, 2 mins ...... ........ Time left before attack: 0 hours, 1 min ....... ....... Time left before attack: 0 hours, 0 min ....... ........... After from a far ash, evan can see a lot of dirt, is gather in the sky and come towards the direction where attack will happen. 3 min later, ash, evan can see dot of brown color in their eyes, few minutes later they see twenty big squirrel is coming towards the territory for attacking them. after few moments of seeing, he sees the status of these monster. ..... ......... Big squirrel (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A big, with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wear weak armor. It lives in big trees, like to using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Weakness: Weak to fire and sharp attacks ........ ............. Big squirrel (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Leve: 0 Description: A big, with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wear weak armor. It lives in big trees, like to using its numbers to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Weakness: Weak to fire and sharp attacks ........... .... After seeing this they quickly started to confirm the level of these monster after 5 min seeing, they quickly confirm their number with level. here three monsters are on level 1 and seventeen are level 0 and that is not good news for them but they are confident with pit traps for taking half the number of these monster with ease. Ash sees their eyes bloody red and he thinks this monster are in some kinds of some spell that control their mind that''s why they attack without the thinking and without fear of their life and death and their chance of wins and he feels that he is right about this guess. Chapter 17: Monster attack 2 Chapter 17: Monster attack 2 Few min after, Monster appear in front of the trap and almost all the monster trapped in the pit trap but level 1 monster use their leg and jump after few jumps most the level 1 exit from trap without any scratch in their body and level 0 monster are struggling but they are mostly safe few died in the trap, these monsters are really agile and quick. In this way they safe themself from deadly spike but they can''t overcome pit because pit '' height is not jumpable for them. And their paw ¡¯s helps them in climbing the pit but it is not enough, so ash and evan thinks that They need take care of these level 1 monster as soon as possible. Here, ash and evan are fighting each monster of level 1 mostly ash is avoiding the attack and evan is defending the attack of monster and attacking from axe, both are waiting for the ram to come and then they will finish them quickly. And both are also doing very to harm the monster that they can do. In Altar, Ram is seeing everything and preparing to kill the both monsters quickly and few min after where ash and evan are fighting the monster. . Ram come quickly and chop the head of the monster that is fighting with ash then he goes to the direction of evan since both ash and evan are waiting for ram ''s action so they are not fighting near each other but they tactically distance themself from each other with fighting with monster so that ram can easily sneak attack both monsters, without monsters see that their comrade die by sneak attack. ........... few min later, ram comes towards another monster and sneak attack it, this monster is highly careful and dodge the attack of ram, and few second later monster quickly attack ram ''s neck but ram avoid it and counter attack and evan is also attacking the monster simultaneously but monster counter attack to the evan but he defends it with its shield and monster ''s eyes are burning red with every attack towards the ram, evan. some distance from here, ash is taking care of the monster level 0 because he feels he should take care of them and not give them chance to create a group and join with level 1 monster so any monster come to the peak. ash attacked their neck, head, weak point and finish them. since level 0 monster are climbing from the pit, they don''t group together so ash easily finish the level 0 monster without getting a counter attack by monsters. After 15 min, level 1 monster are going into berserk and his attack becoming more powerful and his injury is also healing, after seeing this ram know, they are fighting with mutant monster with berserk abilities. Berserk abilities are not regarded very highly in eldros world but fighting against these abilities ¡®monster is really troublesome because they are regarded as suicidal warrior. after all their power increase have time limit after that they become very weak. And fight between level 1 monster and ram, evan are going on, and few min ago evan has forgo his shield because attack of the monster can shatter the shield so ram is taking a lead in attack. evan is following ram, ram speak to evan, we just have to avoid the attack of this level 1 monster after few hours. we can finish it easily so evan is careful about monster attack and not hurry in finishing the monster. And ash is already taking care of the monster of level 0, that is coming from the pit. Few hours, ash almost killed half the monster that are climbing from the pit and he is thinking, why are the evan and ram not return? After some thinking ash not care about it because if any of them die, he will know as an altar owner after all they have a protection of this altar, or change affliction on different altar he will also know, so he is not thinking much about evan and ram, because he thinks they are late of some important work. .......... besides his work in here is important too. After few hours, ash take care of every level 0 monster and ram and evan is also coming here after finish the monster without any trouble. After that ash ask evan and ram, why are you so late? Evan said that level 1 monster there, it has a berserk ability that make us, take some time for killing this monster. Ram said ¡°we should be happy that we take care of monster rather than indulge, why it takes more time. and upcoming battle will be more long and more deadly compared to this battle and previous battle, after all this city altar is born for some days ago, we not even see the real battle in this world yet, There many numbers of warrior could die in few second without knowing how they died .SO, long exposure of battle is good thing, Ash " okay ''", I understand, I am just worry about you and let''s see the good. Evan and ram " okay " After that ash think in mind " status window" A window popup in front of him ....... .......... ............... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Blueprint: low grade market (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *4, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 1 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (600/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (1050/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ....... ................. After taking care of all loot ash, evan started to make careful repair of trap and making some expansion of the trap for new monster for coming in another day. Ram left the battle field and goes to altar for mana mist absorption after looking for 15 min in a battle field. he and ash talk for some min. before he left to the city¡¯s altar. Ash gives him his permission to go to altar, because he thinks, ram ''s injury is not healed totally and this fight also make his injury increase, so he need altar '' s mana mist for recovering fast. he gives ram for four level 1 mana- core for increase his injury recovery and ram feel immense gratitude towards the ash in his heart. and he sure in life to ash and do everything he can to make this city and ram powerful. Giving a four manas core is also not easy for ash after all, these mana core can help, ash to increase his level upgrade speed. but ash think deep in mind ram ''s fast recovering to level 3 powerhouse is more important to the city .so for his too. And he feels in his heart ram is trustworthy and he also pledge to him and altar that means he has absolute loyalty towards him that is main reason he distributes level 1 mana core to ram. In eldros, if a subject pledge his loyalty to altar and city owner by himself, and without any malice and pressure of external force then city altar has power to decide his life and dead anywhere in the world and feels it if he is alive or dead anywhere, and city'' owner has power to control altar so ram¡¯s live and dead, it is controlled by ash and ash not told this think to anyone. Ash feels this thing, it is mostly the known core knowledge of the city owner and they not public to the world, for fear of people not pledge loyalty to them if they can control his life known to them. Chapter 17: Monster attack 2 Few min after, Monster appear in front of the trap and almost all the monster trapped in the pit trap but level 1 monster use their leg and jump after few jumps most the level 1 exit from trap without any scratch in their body and level 0 monster are struggling but they are mostly safe few died in the trap, these monsters are really agile and quick. In this way they safe themself from deadly spike but they can''t overcome pit because pit '' height is not jumpable for them. And their paw ¡¯s helps them in climbing the pit but it is not enough, so ash and evan thinks that They need take care of these level 1 monster as soon as possible. Here, ash and evan are fighting each monster of level 1 mostly ash is avoiding the attack and evan is defending the attack of monster and attacking from axe, both are waiting for the ram to come and then they will finish them quickly. And both are also doing very to harm the monster that they can do. In Altar, Ram is seeing everything and preparing to kill the both monsters quickly and few min after where ash and evan are fighting the monster. . Ram come quickly and chop the head of the monster that is fighting with ash then he goes to the direction of evan since both ash and evan are waiting for ram ''s action so they are not fighting near each other but they tactically distance themself from each other with fighting with monster so that ram can easily sneak attack both monsters, without monsters see that their comrade die by sneak attack. ........... few min later, ram comes towards another monster and sneak attack it, this monster is highly careful and dodge the attack of ram, and few second later monster quickly attack ram ''s neck but ram avoid it and counter attack and evan is also attacking the monster simultaneously but monster counter attack to the evan but he defends it with its shield and monster ''s eyes are burning red with every attack towards the ram, evan. some distance from here, ash is taking care of the monster level 0 because he feels he should take care of them and not give them chance to create a group and join with level 1 monster so any monster come to the peak. ash attacked their neck, head, weak point and finish them. since level 0 monster are climbing from the pit, they don''t group together so ash easily finish the level 0 monster without getting a counter attack by monsters. After 15 min, level 1 monster are going into berserk and his attack becoming more powerful and his injury is also healing, after seeing this ram know, they are fighting with mutant monster with berserk abilities. Berserk abilities are not regarded very highly in eldros world but fighting against these abilities ¡®monster is really troublesome because they are regarded as suicidal warrior. after all their power increase have time limit after that they become very weak. And fight between level 1 monster and ram, evan are going on, and few min ago evan has forgo his shield because attack of the monster can shatter the shield so ram is taking a lead in attack. evan is following ram, ram speak to evan, we just have to avoid the attack of this level 1 monster after few hours. we can finish it easily so evan is careful about monster attack and not hurry in finishing the monster. And ash is already taking care of the monster of level 0, that is coming from the pit. Few hours, ash almost killed half the monster that are climbing from the pit and he is thinking, why are the evan and ram not return? After some thinking ash not care about it because if any of them die, he will know as an altar owner after all they have a protection of this altar, or change affliction on different altar he will also know, so he is not thinking much about evan and ram, because he thinks they are late of some important work. .......... besides his work in here is important too. After few hours, ash take care of every level 0 monster and ram and evan is also coming here after finish the monster without any trouble. After that ash ask evan and ram, why are you so late? Evan said that level 1 monster there, it has a berserk ability that make us, take some time for killing this monster. Ram said ¡°we should be happy that we take care of monster rather than indulge, why it takes more time. and upcoming battle will be more long and more deadly compared to this battle and previous battle, after all this city altar is born for some days ago, we not even see the real battle in this world yet, There many numbers of warrior could die in few second without knowing how they died .SO, long exposure of battle is good thing, Ash " okay ''", I understand, I am just worry about you and let''s see the good. Evan and ram " okay " After that ash think in mind " status window" A window popup in front of him ....... .......... ............... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Blueprint: low grade market (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *4, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 1 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (600/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (1050/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ....... ................. After taking care of all loot ash, evan started to make careful repair of trap and making some expansion of the trap for new monster for coming in another day. Ram left the battle field and goes to altar for mana mist absorption after looking for 15 min in a battle field. he and ash talk for some min. before he left to the city¡¯s altar. Ash gives him his permission to go to altar, because he thinks, ram ''s injury is not healed totally and this fight also make his injury increase, so he need altar '' s mana mist for recovering fast. he gives ram for four level 1 mana- core for increase his injury recovery and ram feel immense gratitude towards the ash in his heart. and he sure in life to ash and do everything he can to make this city and ram powerful. Giving a four manas core is also not easy for ash after all, these mana core can help, ash to increase his level upgrade speed. but ash think deep in mind ram ''s fast recovering to level 3 powerhouse is more important to the city .so for his too. And he feels in his heart ram is trustworthy and he also pledge to him and altar that means he has absolute loyalty towards him that is main reason he distributes level 1 mana core to ram. In eldros, if a subject pledge his loyalty to altar and city owner by himself, and without any malice and pressure of external force then city altar has power to decide his life and dead anywhere in the world and feels it if he is alive or dead anywhere, and city'' owner has power to control altar so ram¡¯s live and dead, it is controlled by ash and ash not told this think to anyone. Ash feels this thing, it is mostly the known core knowledge of the city owner and they not public to the world, for fear of people not pledge loyalty to them if they can control his life known to them. Chapter 18: Market and house Chapter 18: Market and house Now, ram left towards the altar. evan and ash are working in the outside for expansion of the pit trap and seeing that anyone come today for refuge in a nexus city. After 2 hours, Ash and evan completed the expansion of the pit trap then they started to look the trap if there need some correction in the trap making. but they didn''t find any problem. After that ash and evan went to the direction of the nexus city, finally they enter the nexus city. Ash thinks deep in mind, that he should let evan used mana-tree for its level growth, after few min thinking, Ash said to evan " you should go to the mana-tree for mana mist absorption after all you need to advance your level from level 0 to level 1. Evan said " you are right ¡°my lord¡±, I need increase my level for myself and for city ". Ash said " good you know about this, I hope you upgrade your level fast without any problem, and go absorb mana - mist from mana tree after some hour, I will ask ram to vacate altar for some time for advance of your level." Evan said " thank you my lord but I need some more time for level upgrade " Ash asked why you need more time for level upgrade. Evan said my lord I feel that my body can''t absorb all mana-mist for level 1 upgrade now, and he said maybe I am young and my body is not ready for level 1 evolution yet. After few minutes deep in thought, Ash said don''t worry about your level 1 upgrade, just try your best for evolution, I''m not going to judge even if you waste some mana- mist for your level upgrade practice. Evan said " thank you my lord, I will try my best to upgrade my level without failure and without wasting any mana-mist. After that ash think in mind, evolution of common person is always a trial in this world and he thinks he is lucky, that he is altar owner so his level upgrade will always without any problem provided that he has enough mana-mist for upgrade. he also thinks this is also a reason in an altar city, most powerful person with level is mostly an altar owner. he thinks this is the world will''s major protection for altar owner, for growth of its the world. After all, the world which has leader, progress fast and became powerful because leader can make law or create rule that all society''s section follows whatever their personality and behavior, they have, compared to the world which not has leader, he further thinks eldros world''s will, make altar owner leader that govern or introduce change in their area and altar''s level decides which altar owner is bigger leader and who perform best, he feels this world trained its habitant towards the large war and military structure power base society compared to the blue planet where money is supreme and highly pursuing thing on that world. After that he said in mind " status window". A window pop-up in front of him. ............. ........................ City: Nexus city Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active) Blueprint: low grade market (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (700/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ....... ................. After seeing status window , ash feels amazement in his mind because every time he sees the status window , he sees latest data of the territory that he also don''t know yet , it likes real- time update of the territory without knowing that things, here he sees the increase and defense power of the city and production of mana-mist increase in the mana- tress, mana-core level 1 has zero quantity because mana- core level 1 was given to ram by ash . And He feels the population situation in the city is very grim but he thinks, he is only living here in 2 and half days and altar''s total days after born is also 2 and half days. so, he should think how to increase the strength and military strength of the city. After some hour, Ash was wondering in the city but city is not big. so, he is trying to find best place for the defense of the territory since he mostly has 12 days protection from golden barrier after that he has to defend the whole city area, and protect all the solider, he has and protect the town''s most critical structure for the safety of altar and this has critical assets such as: mana-tree, market, house. And, After seeing the market and house, he thinks deep in mind that he does not know how to use the market and he not even visited a house and construction of both things completed few hours before. few min of traveling he visited a house and he finds it, it is very satisfactory and very practical for them in this world, because this house has a good space for four people living without any space problem, after that house''s interior is simple but beautiful after all he is sleeping in the naked soil and sky for 2 days after coming to this world. but ash is feeling very happy about house, and he feels that his poor days and sleeping in ground is over. few minute more sight-seeing in the house, ash started to go the market''s direction. Here, in front of market building, he sees very tall and beautiful and big mysterious building. he gets some information in his mind after seeing the market building. And he knows how this market building works, from the information market building is unique building that every altar city can build. Eldros''s will provides this building to every new altar owner ''s a gift or in a treasure and mostly this building help them trade with each other without going to their city but this building consume mana-mist of the city or mana core of the monster for teleportation of the goods and mana-mist or mana- core consumption depends on the volume , weight , mana density( level) of the goods but five teleportation daily does not need mana because market building is also a high level like altar so it can also absorb some mana from atmosphere but not harm others production of mana- mist , and payment of the transaction happen in mana level ( mana- mist level or mana core level ). i.e. when altar owner deposit mana- mist level 0 or mana-core level 0 to the market building then it issues mana level 0 for purchasing from others city altar. it can also transform mana level and mana-core into mana- mist. ash feels this building , a really unique from seeing it works connecting most of the city for trade that means every city can sale their unique product to the other city for mana - mist ,and this is really a benefit for both people after all seeing party solve the problem of the buyers and in return they get mana-mist for increasing their strength , and transfer of mana to the mana-mist , no charge deduct by the market building. this also makes ash thrill. After few moments, ash feels deep in eyes that now after having market building, he can really survive and thrive in this world. After that he said in his mind "status window" and a window pop-up in front of him. ............ .............. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 3 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (700/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies Chapter 19: Robin Chapter 19: Robin After checking the market and house. He started to practice the knife technic but he prefers to use sword for killing monster because he feels, killing a monster with knife is riskier than sword, he wanted to kill the monster with take care of his safety. And Ram also recommended ash to use sword or bow for fighting a monster but he rejects bow because he thinks, bow can become his deadly mistake in a deadly battle in a place, where daily battle is routine for defending the city, but he also like sword compared to bow, because this makes him more respected among his future soldier. After 2 hours of knife practice, Ash started to think when new refugee will come, after thinking about that he suddenly goes to the outside of the city where exit the city door, he sees the vast field of soil with river in the middle crossing the field like a three lanes road with roughly straight in line but not full straight and he sees one person with average cloth was coming to the city. With bald hair and he seem like a middle age man to ash from afar. ash can see. After 25 min of waiting, middle age man finally come near the city. later he talks with ash about the city and ash truthfully answer all thing about city. after that ash asked some private question to middle age man and he answered the question, ash like the middle age man, he is the former butler of the city owner''s son of the level 5 city. he told ash about his previous problem, how he has to become scape goat of the former city owner'' son because city owner''s son makes a grave mistake in the monster hunting outside the city because of him 30 soldier and city''s powerful person ¡®son almost killed and gravely injured, because he is the butler of that person so he has face punishment of the mistake that his master makes. and city owner don''t want to make matter big. and offend the powerful combat person of the city thoroughly so he is used him for bury the anger of the powerful person. so, he has to become fugitive, and find a new place to live. ash asked him about his name. and he told his name is robin. after that ash try to see robin status. A window pop-up in front of him. ............. ......................... Name: robin (?) age: 48 status: healthy abilities: none level:? (? mana mist level?) .................. ........................... After seeing status of robin, ash asked him about his level and he said his level is level 2, Ash was surprised but not surprised because his level is 1 and he cannot see the level of robin, so he guessed his level is 2. After that ash asked him why do you want to join the city? and robin told him frankly that your city altar''s level 0 and you need someone with experience that can help you in your city and give some help in defending the city and he is not good with combat skills and experience. and he know how city with big level will treat him and he has no confidence in survival with fighting level 1 and level 2 monster horde. so, he ultimately decides to try joining level 0 altar city, so, robin is trying in the ash''s city but he also in his mind, has no confidence that ash will accept him in the city because high level subject compared to city owner can challenge, the city owner ''s power, Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site. As a butler in the level 5 city altar, he is also aware of this but he also doesn¡¯t want to die by used by person so he decides his suicide by asking level 0 city owner for joining him in the city but it is highly likely happen in this world but some courageous city owner took the person higher level than them, robin is betting a luck he finds that kind of this city owner. and his luck is really good this time, because he meets the person who can really took him in without caring about his level. After some consideration by ash, He finally took robin in the city and make the subject of the city altar. Robin is very surprised, because he became subject here after all he is fully prepared to die, with trying to become a subject in level 0 altar city. few second later, robin pledged his loyalty to the city altar and towards him with eldros world ''s etiquette. first, he stretches his back and bend down his knees and put his left hand in his chest and then he pledged his loyalty to the city altar and him. After, ash try to see his status window. A window pops up in front of him. ............... ................... Name: robin (altar subject) age: 48 status: healthy abilities: none level: 2 (10/100 mana mist level 2) After, seeing his status, window ash nodded. and he said to him " let''s get in the city and he tells him about city and he said " there is two more people here and there name is ram, evan and evan is level 0 person. And he is preparing for the advancement to the level 1 from level 0 and ram is knight of level 3 but he is injured and not recovered entirely. And currently he is refining the mana-mist in altar room, after fighting the monster with us. After 15 min of sight-seeing of the city. robin become some familiar with the city, after all level 0 altar city was not very big and it has not many people there, only 4 building i.e. market, altar room, one house, garden where mana-tree planted. And robin meet with evan when ash is introducing the city to him and he like evan, treat him like his son, after some talk with evan. Robin told ash to buy some potion or pill for breakthrough of evan ''s level 1 from level 0. and Ash agreed with him and he told him that he don''t know anything about breakthrough to level 1 because he as altar owner not feels any problem in the breakthrough. And he is currently building the market few hours before. after listening to ash, Robin said " you are doing good after all you got this altar only for three days exactly. and you are doing much better for his perspective and he should don''t mind any mistake, mistake and failure are part of life and you should learn from it. After robin told his advice to ash, then he asked " how many are mana-mist or core? you have because you need amount of core/mist for buying a breakthrough material. After some thinking, ash said in his mind status window. ................. ............................. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (700/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ................. ............................ After seeing the mana-core, he has in the status window, he closes the tab. he said to robin, he only has 33- level 0 mana core. and he said " I don''t have a man- mist and robin knew the mana mist produce by altar daily mostly used daily for cultivation of the warrior, people of the city. if mana-mist not consume daily by people all city it is an indicator, city is not doing well after all the city not cultivate their warrior is preparing their neck for monster to kill them easily. this is also why, any item or resource that can produce mana--mist from altar or mana-building or any structure that can produce mana mist without reducing the production of the city altar is highly sought and city goes fight to the death for this resource. When robin sees the mana-tree, he was surprised that ash managed to get something that precious, he was not able to judge mana-tree entirely but he advised ash not to tell anyone about this plant that is producing mana-mist because if it is publicly known by other person that he has a treasure that produce mana-mist even if it is three mana-mist of level 0 daily, people will come for this treasure and snatch it. Chapter 20: Market Chapter 20: Market Ash entirely agrees with robin. so, he not told him about mana-tree will grow in the future because he thinks these things will know later, telling this not make any difference here. but telling now can create uncertainty, who knows what kind of the spell people have in them in this world. if someone kidnap or capture any of his people and they can read or see their memory. they will really risk everything to get the mana-tree or sold this information to other city owner that certainty create unnecessary enemy by him because of his low-level mistake. After few second, ash try to see the mana- tree status. A window pop-up in front of him. .......... ................... Name: Mana tree (specialty) status: occupied ability: able to produce mana with different level of trees level: 0 (grow able) Production: mist mana level 0 * 3 per day ............ ................ After seeing the status of the mana-tree, there is a small smile in the face of ash but very hard to notice by others. then he tries to the status of evan because he gives some mana core to for refining. a new window pops up in front of him. ............. ................... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (60/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield ........................ .............................. Ater seeing this, ash was satisfied, with Evan¡¯s growth. later few talk with ash and robin, ash said to evan " You should meet with ram in altar room and get some time for refining of mana-mist for your level growth and I will try to find some pill for your breakthrough in your level. Evan said " thank you my lord" Ash " nodded with evan and he said " best of luck for your breakthrough" Evan said " thank you, my lord " After that evan left to meet with ram and talk about getting altar for mana-mist refining. ram nodded with him and he said ''''I will provide an altar for your breakthrough and refining of mana -mist tomorrow because I need that much time to heal my serious injury otherwise It will create problem tomorrow, with fighting with monster so I hope, you can understand this. And evan said "okay but remember what you tell me today" Ram said " of course" 15 min later, Evan meets with ash and told him about ram and ash nodded and not say anything to evan, After, ash said to evan ¡°you refine mana- mist from mana-tree in the garden¡±. And, Ash and robin going to the market building and ash asked him about market and robin tell him some public knowledge about market because sensitive news about market- building. he also doesn¡¯t know so how can he tell this knowledge to ash and ash also know about this therefore he not asks secret knowledge about market. Ash said status window in the mind. And a new window open in front of him. .................... .................................... The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (700/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ................. ............................ After that, few min later, he enters the market building. A window pop-up in front of him. .............. ...................... would you enter in market building? ................ ....................... ash said "yes" Again, a new window pop-up in front of him. ............ .................. Would like to allowed your subject to enter in the market-building? ..................... .............................. Ash said " yes" then again, a new pop-up comes in front of him. ....................... ................................ list the name of subject you want to allow in the market-building. .............. ...................... Ash said " allow all people in the market building.¡±, ash takes this decision with serious consideration, he and robin talked about the market-building in his former level-5 city where important people are allowed to trade in market-building as a reward by city owner. and robin suggested him to follow this type of incentive model in the market-building. but he not like that suggestion because this type of model not help his city to become behemoth city in this world. he feels free trade model with five percentage of tax for sales (export tax) in market-building and 10% percentage of taxes for buying (import) from the market-building, this method will raise innovation and research in the city and fill his city''s treasury more compared to restricted mode of using a market-building by the people of the city and this method can attract some more people and his new territory would become some famous in the area. After few second, a new pop-up comes in front of him. .......... ................ would you like put some taxes in the market building? ................ ..................... Ash said " yes" A new pop-up ........ .............. ........................ tell, how you want to tax people? ........ ............... Ash said " put 5 % taxes on item that sales from market-building and 10 % tax on buying from here". A new pop-up window comes in front of him. .......... ............... 1)do you want to trade from using text feature of market- building? Or2) trade with both party''s physical presence (extra mana charge because physical presence cost mana from market-building and for recovering mana is necessary) Or 3) Always ask people which features they want to select. ................ ........................... Ash said " select option 3." A new pop-up in front of him. ......... .................... welcome to market, would you like to use to text or physical features for trade .............. ..................... ash said go with text feature. After that ash sees a new pop-up in front of him, where main page is written. and up in the screen there is a search where you can search for any treasure and there is a name of seller and city name and there is also anonymous seller that is selling some higher-level practice and pill. and use of some money from the market-building, you can verify their product is genuine or fake by market or they say about the product is true or false and you can also identify higher level the treasure that you not know because of your level by paying some money to the market. the higher the level of the treasure you want to identify, higher the price, you need to pay the market-building. it means if you get higher level treasure or relic from anywhere, you can identify with help of market, and you can sale it with use of anonymous identity if you find the treasure useful you can keep it and you can also use it because description and manual how to use this treasure''s knowledge also comes market-building when we buy identify service of the market-building. Few min later, ash started to search a treasure for Evan¡¯s break through material from level 0 to level 1. After 15 mins of search, Ash finds the suitable pill for Evan. Ash tried to see the status of the pill. A few second later, a window pop-up in front of him. ............. ....................... Name: Red pill (consumable resource) status: good (pill) ability: 99% break-through chance from level 0 to level 1 level: 1 Description: made by level 2 alchemist for break-through from level 0 to level 1 when he was teaching his student about making pills. Price: 50* level 0 mana-core/mist ........... ................ After seeing the price, ash said in his mind status window. A window pop-up in front of him. ................ .................... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Tax (market): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, mana core level 0 *33, mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (700/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ................. ............................ Chapter 21: Mana point Chapter 21: Mana point After seeing the status window, his status window changes again, .......... ........................ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Mana (money): 33 Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (900/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (4000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ........... ............... And he gets some information from city''s altar that tell him about status window ''s mana (money) panel that all the mana-mist or mana core in the possession of city''s owner would convert into mana (source) point and he can use this point for trading in the market or allocate it for mana refining for his use or another use. it means city directly absorb all the mana-core or mana-mist owned by ash and his mana producing resource like mana- tree and altar for creating efficiency of use by city owner and mana that is store by city considered purer and refining of this man is easy compared to raw mana (used mana-core directly in the altar without giving to city for storing it). And, mana level - mana point level 0 mana mist/core - 1 (one) level 1 mana mist/core - 10 (ten) level 2 mana mist/core -100 (one hundred level 3 mana mist/core -1000 (one thousand) level 4 mana mist/core - 10000 (ten thousand) level 5 mana mist/core - 100000 (hundred thousand) level 6 mana mist/core - 1000000 (one million) After this information, ash also get information about city become more mature it will get more function with some upgrade of the city and some without city altar''s upgrade. and city and market taxes will also automatically show in mana point and it will store in the city''s mana- storage for making mana-pure and it also strengthen the city in the long-time. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. And he also thinks that he should also let the people used this function of the city. after he communicated with altar but altar said" this function is not possible for other people yet and it said he has to become powerful first. Ash was surprised that altar could communicate with him, but he thinks, in longer time, this altar can become more intelligent, anyway he said in his mind it is good that altar make it easy to govern the city after all, when city will make this function public to citizen then, in emergency situation, he can also use this resource, in the life and death situation also. and he can also find exceptional and talented people in the city by seeing their mana point. After ash clear his mind on the advantage of having mana point feature in the city. he started to think how to get more mana point for buying the red pill for the break-through of evan. 15 min later, Robin also checking the pill that is good for break-through but ash was not satisfied with pill''s quality after all evan is his first follower in this world so, he can¡¯t ignore the Evan¡¯s well-being and give the pill that is not best for his break-through. if evan break-through successfully territory ''s strength also increase and every bit of strength is very important for him. he is a cautious person and don''t want to die prematurely in the world. After sometimes both robins said to ash " my lord why not we buy this pill tomorrow since monster attacked the city daily, we can eliminate the monster and their core will help us buy the pill. ash consider for few min, he also thinks, evan will need sometime for break-through and he also don''t have enough money so, ash said to robin" let'' exit the market-building and he said " I learn various things about the market see many things, that is eye opening for him. then ash and robin exited the market-building, And, they see sky is showing the sign of the evening so they can''t go outside of the city, Robin said " in his mind good after seeing the sky because he doesn¡¯t want ash to have any thought of hunting monster at this time because he also knows if someone not live in the city at night, very few people come out of alive because of some monster become highly active in night and there''s power also get some boost. and he don''t want to reject ash''s command and create bad impression in the mind of ash." and robin thought is incorrect, ash is cautious person, and he likes when his follower gives his suggestion because he knows that he don''t know everything and he listen everyone ''s suggestion and point of view with utmost sincerity. Ash said to robin" let''s meet with evan and make some food to eat. Robin said " okay my lord" After that both meet with evan and ash said to evan " let''s prepare foods to eat" Evan also feels that he crosses his limit of mana refining so he agreed with ash. And ash said to evan that I give you new responsibilities. Evan ¡°my lord I am ready to go fire and ice for you my lord" ash nodded but not say anything then he said to evan in front of robin that from today you are responsible for garden of city. Evan feels surprised that he gets this opportunity because city''s garden is the place mana-tree is planted and its make refining-mana easy and he can feel mana-tree is growing and it output of mana is increasing also and evan can see this and ash is also aware of this, so this is why, he is surprised that ash gives this opportunity to evan and he feels thankful about this. Evan said to ash " thank you my lord" Ash smile and not say anything. After that he try to see status of mana-tree. and a new window pop-up in front of him. ...... .......... Name: Mana tree (specialty) status: occupied ability: able to produce mana with different level of trees level: 0 (grow able) Production: mist mana level 0 * 4 per day ........... ..................... After seeing this ash surprised that production of mana increases in mana-tree but he not let''s anyone notice this in his face. and no one notice also. After that ash, evan and robin goes to make food for eating. 15 min later, Evan and robin were making food and ash is looking at the sky because robin said ash shouldn''t make his own food, he said it not respectable for him to work on food making here, when people are available for cooking food and evan also agreed with robin. so, both started to cook food and ash is looking in the sky and he is thinking deep in mind that he needs to work more for growth of his city and thinking when the day will come that he will not feel man-power¡¯s shortage. After few more consideration. Ash started to compared mana-production of altar and mana- tree. and mana-tree''s production is half in context with altar''s production, he thinks this is because mana-tree ''s specialty in the mana-production. And altar¡¯s most important role is healing people quickly and mana-refining in altar is quickly and very most important protection of the city and supply of mana within the city and protection of people outside of the city also managed by altar. he feels after all altar is heart of the city. now food is mostly cooked and evan, robin is talking and robin is sharing some of his experience to evan, and evan is appreciating that knowledge without a doubt. ash is seeing them with small smile in his face. After 5 min later, They are eating their food with appreciating the view in the sky and they are seeing the vast views of stars with there''s eyes. After that ash tell the evan, they are going to buy a red pill for your break-through. after listening about this evan is happy about this and thank the ash. after that ash try to see evan ''s status. a new window pop-up in front of him. ....... .......... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (90/100 mana mist level 0) weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield ......... .............. After seeing the status of the evan, ash knows, evan is making a way to break-through from level 0 to level 1. Ash like this, After few more talks, ash and evan, robin go the house for the sleeping after all they are tired in the days with all the work and fight, they have to do today. Chapter 22: Preparation for Evan’s upgrade 1 Chapter 22: Preparation for Evan¡¯s upgrade 1 Next day, In the morning time, Birds are flying above the nexus city; animal are grazing grass and leaf of the plant. and sun is rising in the eldros world and a small wind is crossing in the face of ash. Evan and robin sleeping in the house. And ram is refining mana-mist in the altar all night. A level 3 human can extend their sleep for 3 days for important work since evan is going to use the altar today, so, ram decided to use the altar for all night and used of altar by human in night is very common in the Eldros world because place for mana-refining is only possible in the altar city or any land where mana-refining is possible is considered a treasure land in the Eldros world because most the place in this world has impure mana that cannot be used in refining for human-beings. so, most people have to come in the altar city for mana-refining otherwise when they even tried to refine pure mana-mist/core in the outside of altar city then pure and impure mana connect with each other and mana became impure. And their pure mana is waste because of this and if they forceful tried to refine that impure-mana then they show symptom of mindless monster time to time after long duration of this forceful way of impure mana-refining can make people permanently mindless. and more impure mana you have then more mindlessness duration you have to endure and after refining this forceful impure-mana and you wanted to get rid of this impure then it will take long time and hard work for getting rid of this impure mana in your body. And level upgrade become impossible for most people who have impure mana in the body. And mana- refining in the altar of the city, make it efficiency increase many times in altar because in the city altar you feel pure mana easily and mana concentration is also very high compared to other treasure or places, so refining become easy. ........... After 15 min later, ash opened his eyes and see evan and robin is in their sleep so he not bother them and he exit the house and started to see the sun rising and fresh and pure wind in his faced and mostly in his cheeks and he feels the sudden joy in his heart about his future and he is gazing towards the rising sun that mostly looks like an orange, some bright in color small circle that is increasing its size with time. After entirely seeing the arising sun, ash went to the altar for meeting with ram. Few min later, ash sees ram is refining mana-mist in the altar-room, some second later ram sees towards the ash, and he started to exit the altar-room and he comes near ash after that both started talking. ash mostly talk about his injury issue. And ram said to ash " he will be entirely healed in two days" and ash nodded. And ram talked to ash about robin and ash tell him about robin. After that ash inform to ram " that he will need to stay in the city and look after it because I and robin will go to the monster hunting because Evan¡¯s break-through pill need more mana-point they actually have and they need to further increase their inquiry about this area and where this mana-city is located. Ram agreed with ash after both walked to the house and they waked the evan and robin. Evan and robin''s eyes are in shame because they are waking after ash and ash has to awake them so they both are filling guilty about that. Ram, ash understand their eyes and shame but they not say anything about that because in this world every living-being is fighting for survival and sleeping more is not a big issue for ash, so, Ash decided, they should fresh themselves first after that they will cook their food for eating. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. 35 min later, All fresh themselves and they meet with each--other in the place where raw meat and food is stored for cooking. After that ram and robin started to cook food and ash said to evan " you go to the altar for mana-refining and prepare for your level upgrade" Evan nodded and he also wanted to go to the altar for mana-refining after ash, ram woke him up but he not dared to contradict the order of ash so he actually followed ash''s command without saying anything. before evan went to the altar, ash decided to see Evan¡¯s status window for seeing his progress. ........... ................... Name: Evan (altar subject) age: 18 status: healthy abilities: none level: 0 (60/100 mana mist level 0) loyalty: 90 (max 100) weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield ................ .......................... After seeing the status window of evan, ash think in his mind that evan ''s level upgrade can happen today if evan practice diligently and he provide the red pill for level upgrade. After that ash began to practice with his knife, and both ram, robin is preparing ingredient for food cooking, actually ash has not most ingredient but after some time of forest exploration ash, evan find some ingredient that can enhance the taste of food. that is ram, robin decided to use for enhancing the food''s flavor and taste and it also excite the ash because who want to eat tasteless food if you can eat tasty and healthy food. After Ash ¡¯s knife practice for 1 hour, and ram, robin also cooked the food. then ash, evan, ram decided to eat food first after that they will give it to evan in the altar after eating. 15 min later after finishing his food, ash said to ram that you provide this food to evan and give him some advice and share your experience of your level upgrade and the problem you face in level upgrade that will help evan in the upgrade of his level. Ram agreed with ash ''s order entirely, and fully committed to comply with his order and help evan for his level upgrade because he also liked evan as his junior after all evan is an 18-year-old boy. That make them feel in the heart to help evan because he also learns from other experience veteran from his former city, how to upgrade level without serious problem in the upgrade. And helping evan in upgrade in level, also make city stronger ultimately ram knows in his heart ash, evan and robin, him are one faction and stronger their faction and are more powerful he becomes. After all, ash assured him that he is also part of his core team that will run the city and become top level figure in the city and he also pledged loyalty to ash and the altar so he has to do his best in teaching evan how to tackle upgrade shackle in his body to become level 1 human/warrior. before ram left for meeting with evan and giving his food. ash decided to check ram''s status. ......... ...................... Name: Ram (altar subject) Age: 55 status: slightly injured abilities:? level: 3 (?) loyalty: 60 weapon: low grade sword ............. .................... After seeing the status of ram, Ash sees ram''s loyalty increase and he feels good about that after all, no one likes disloyal subordinate and if that subordinate is more powerful than you, no one can feel ease about this loyalty issue because weak disloyal subordinate not work with full honesty is an issue that can easily handle but powerful disloyal subordinate is headache that you can''t handle easily. After that ash thinks why not he see loyalty of robin after all, he is the new addition in the city. then a pop-up window comes in front of ash. .......... ................ Name: robin (altar subject) age: 48 status: healthy abilities: none level: 2 (10/100 mana mist level 2) loyalty: 40 ............ ...................... Ash sees the loyalty of robin and he feel satisfied with robin''s loyalty because he the new in the city and he also expend less time with him. so, he really like the loyalty number of the robin. After ash thinks in his mind how much resource he needs to get from the outside of the city. after some more consideration. Ash thinks in his mind status window. a window pop-up in front of him. ............ ....................... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Mana (money): 33 Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (900/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (4000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies ................. ............................ Chapter 23: Preparation for Evan’s upgrade 2 Chapter 23: Preparation for Evan¡¯s upgrade 2 After seeing the status of the altar city, he knows that he needs 12 more level 0 cores for buying the red pill for Evan¡¯s upgrade and ash need 90 stones for constructing one new house for new coming people. After all, ash think in his mind that nobody like to sleep in ground and if his city not able to provide this basic facility. attraction of his city will become low; it will have a detrimental effect for long-term growth of the city. So, city must have more house for people. After, ash is also aiming for upgrade of his city in this upcoming day. therefore, most resource he gets will be used for city upgrade because upgrade of the city make his altar more powerful and efficiency of mana-refining and production of mana-mist will also increase. And city ''s defense and attack power will get a boost too. After that Ash ponder " how much resource he needed for buying the red pill and city upgrade" after some thinking, ash decided to see city''s status. ............ ................... City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Mana (money): 33 Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (900/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (4000/10000) Description: city ''s defense power level against enemies ......... .............. Ash did his calculation and resource he needed almost are for city upgrade and red pill, house: stone * 340, wood * 986, mana-core*63. After that Ash talk with robin and he said to robin " prepare for our travel in the outside of the city " Robin ¡°okay my lord after he said my lord I don''t have any weapon". After Ash some consideration tell robin ¡°Go and ask Evan¡¯s axe for weapon " And Robin nodded after that he went to towards the altar for asking Evan¡¯s weapon. 20 min later, in the nexus city, Ash is practicing with the knife and training his body with hard exercise. This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. few second later, Ash sees that Robin is returning with low level axe and low-level shield. Ash asks him about ram and he told him that ram is teaching evan best way to upgrade his level quickly and some mana-refining knowledge. it will take him minimum 5 hours for teaching his knowledge to evan. so, he is asking for your forgiveness for not coming here to let you go out of the city because evan is also new enlighten phase and he says maybe evan ''s level upgrade can give some surprise. Ash nodded and he not say anything to robin. but ash thinks evan ¡¯s upgrade is more important to him compared to see him off by ram. so, he not takes this ''s disrespect against him by ram. After that both robin and ash decided to go out of the city for monster hunting and resource gathering for city upgrade and constructing a house. After 30 min, Ash and robin took their weapon prepare for their exploration outside the city. ......... ............... 15 min of traveling ash and robin comes in the forest where they started to look for suitable prey for hunting, after some consideration they decided to mostly hunt level 1 and level 0 monster and in monsters level 1 monster must be alone for hunting. ¡­¡­¡­ ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. After some finding in the forest, they find two level 1 monsters but they are together hunting their prey so ash and robin not decide to take action against them. 5 min later they found a level 1 monster bear in a mountain alone sleeping and ash tries to see the status of bear monster before hunting it because it will give some idea about this bear monster. A window-pop up in front of ash. .................... ..................................... Stone Bear (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A big, Stone bear with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor but prefer to eat soil and rock. It prefers to live in alone near mountain, using its big size and body strength to overwhelm prey. Abilities: Berserk Fast Reproduction ¨CMid reproduction capability compared to other monsters. Gnawing Instinct ¨C Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps. Aggressive ¨C Fights only when it feels is powerful against another person. Weakness: Weak to water and blunt attacks. Easily irritated by loud noises. ................... .......................... After the status of the monster ash decides to take action against it. So, Ash took the axe from robin, gives his knife to robin after that he attacked stone bear and use the axe to suddenly hit the both eyes of the stone Bear since stone bear is sleeping it can¡¯t react quickly , so ash successfully attacked the stone bear but result is not favorable towards the ash and robin because ash not able to make stone bear blind but he took one eyes of the stone bear and second eyes is badly injured but stone bear can see clearly. After stone bear attacked ash with full power but it attacked miss because ash is ready for stone bear ¡¯s attack and taken precaution against it, after ten more unsuccessful attack by stone bear suddenly stone bear''s second eyes become extreme red like blood. And its power and speed also surge many folds, two min later, ash was struggling to avoid the attack of the stone bear then robin started to use the shield to defend against the attack of stone bear. And robin trying to confuse and anger the stone bear for helping ash, To avoid the attack of the stone bear but stone bear is mostly taking a grudge against ash and attacking him without thinking because ash almost make it blind, Ash also understands stone bear will mostly target him so he is trying his best avoid the attack of stone bear with minimum effort. Since stone bear used its berserk abilities, ash think, after few hours stone bear is dead. so, he and robin are focusing more on protecting themselves against the attack of stone bear. in 1-hour duration, stone bear attacked ash with all its power but in critical moment robin always used the shield for protecting ash. because of this, robin got some injury but robin is level 2 human. So stone bear attacked not critically injured robin but this attacked hit ash then ash will be having only half-broken body. After stone bear sees its berserk ability ''s time is going to up. so stone bear decides to fled its full-power in the opposite direction of ash, robin. And ash, robin decides to go after it but they are following stone bear but they hidden themselves from the stone bear after few 30 min later. Stone bear find a mountain and it decides to dig that mountain and started digging soil from it After that stone bear put itself in that pit for hiding itself. If any other person sees that mountain, they will not think there is stone bear hiding like a part of mountain but ash and robin are looking at stone bear after it fled battle. so, few minute later, ash give axe to robin tell him to finish the stone bear quickly, After robin ''s first attack to the stone bear, it died because it sustains enough injury with previous battle with ash and robin and it used its berserk few hours before so its health is a low compared to in its full health. After that robin take out the mana-core from stone bear, present it to ash and ash took it after that he calculate how many more mana core it needs for red pill and city upgrade after some calculation, ash need 53* mana core of level 0 because one level mana core: 10 * level 0 mana cores After some consideration ash started to see, status window of the city. ............ ........................ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Mana (money): 43 Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (900/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (5000/10000) Description: city¡¯ s defense power level against enemies. ............... ...................... Chapter 24: Preparation for Evan s upgrade 3 Chapter 24: Preparation for Evan'' s upgrade 3 After seeing the status of the altar, ash finds, how much more resource he needed for all his plans i.e., for city upgrade and red pill, house: stone * 340, wood * 986, mana-core (mana point) *57. Few min of thinking in his mind, Ash and robin started to find new prey for their resource requirement and ash only take mana core from slayed bear monster because more weight create problem for their hunting. And ash''s first goal is to take care of the city ''s mana-core requirement after that he will consider other resource. 30 min of traveling, ash and robin find a suitable monster for slaying because they are alone and ash sees status of this monster. A window pop- up in front of ash ......... ................... Big Goat (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 1 Description: A big, Goat with sharp mount capable of chewing through wood, leather, but prefer to mostly eat trees and plant. It prefers to live in pack and female big goat capable of birthing 12 child in a year. Abilities: none Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Weakness - fire and sharp attacks. ................... .......................... After few attacks by robin and ash, this monster started to think fleeing, but every time big goat tries to flee, ash and robin attack them with full power after few more attempt by monster to flee but not able to flee, it started to attack ash rashly because monster thinks ash is easy to deal compared to robin. but monster''s this attempt also fail because ash counter-attack it, with its his knife on its neck and big goat is successfully badly injured and from its neck green blood is flowing quickly. Then robin also attacked big goat in its neck with his axe quickly after that big goat''s head out of its body from few meters of distance. After that ash took mana-core from big goat''s body. and he started to see, if new monster come because of smell of blood. Few min later because of no response from monster ash and robin decided to roam the forest for finding new prey. Some sight-seeing later, ash and robin find two level 0 monsters. Ash tries to see status of this monster. a new pop-up in front of him. ............. ......................... Dark Pig (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: A Dark, pig with big mount capable of eating any things in its level, mostly prefer to live dark place or place places where they not get sunlight because in dark places, they 20 to 40 % boost in their power and sunlight strength decrease. It prefers to live in pack and female Dark pig capable of birthing 8 child in a 6-month. Abilities: none Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. Fast Reproduction ¨C If not culled quickly, their numbers explode. Weakness - sharp attacks. .................. ........................... They killed the monster without any problem because their strength is less compared to level 0 monster. After that they again started to find new monster for hunt. but their luck is not good because 30 min of finding, they not find any suitable monster since all the monster they find are in pack or with 3 to 5 level 1 are together. so, they don''t able to hunt any monster. After 15 min of more find, they find a monster pack where only eight -level 0 monster are there. After some consideration ash and robin decided to killing of this monster. so, they decide to employ kill and run tactics because terrain is in their favors, Robin decides to go to kill the monsters in their nest because his level is higher than ash so he can tolerate some mistake comparted to ash. And ash will wait for him with his knife to kill the monsters, that are after robin. Robin quickly and cautiously gets into monster''s nest, and he hides itself from monster after sometimes later, robin started to kill monster one by one. after he killed three monster, monster blood''s smell increase in the nest even with robin ¡¯s effort to control blood ''s smell. After some consideration robin decided to out of the nest because it will create unnecessary injury to him so, he exits the nest quickly after that he stand in front of the nest because he wants to make this monster comes for him. few second later, monster became aware of robin ''s killing of their kind in their nest. After seeing robin standing in front of their nest, these monsters started to flee in forest without attacking robin after he sees monster fleeing from him so he decided to kill some monster after some catching-up with monster robin only able to killed 2 monster and 3 - monster fled from their nest. Robin think, he should not underestimate monster survival skill, they know robin is level 2 person so, they flee without thinking any further. if these monster attack instead of fleeing, robin has to flee in the direction of ash. After all robin is butler as profession in his previous altar so his combat skill is not good. Robin goes to the direction of ash and he tell all the fact about how he deals with monsters. Ash said to robin "We learn from mistake, here our mistake, we overestimate the courage of level 0 monster against level 2 person but overestimate of enemy is better than underestimate the enemy because in this case we can die because of this mistake" After that ash said to robin "we can find new monster to hunt so don''t feel bad about it" Robin nodded" okay my lord" After ash and robin started to go to the deeper region of forest for finding prey but they not find suitable prey in the region but frequent encounter with group of level 0 and level 1 monster increase after 30 min of finding. they find a level 2 monster is the sleeping in the den and its aura is very suffocating for ash, and robin also very fearful of this monster because he can feel if he fights with this monster he will die without a question. Ash tries to see its status. a window pop-up in front of his eyes. ............ ................ Flying Tiger (Mid-Grade Monster) Rank: -? Level:? Description: A powerful predator in the monster hierarchy, be caution when it sees you.???? Abilities:? Weakness: ? ................. ........................ they are lucky, monster is sleeping so both ash and robin quickly fled with silently from deeper region of the forest. After that ash said to robin ¡°we should return to the city after all we get enough mana-core for purchasing of red-pill for evan and they are tired after hunting monster.¡± Robin also nodded with ash and he said " my lord we have to fight the monster in city too so going to the city now is also very good" After that both robin and ash started their journey to the city after 30 min travel, they safely enter the city but they also hunted two level 0 monsters in their 30 min of traveling. And ash tries also see the status of these monster. i.e. ..................... .................................. ostrich (Low-Grade Monster) Rank: F-rank Level: 0 Description: it has tall leg for fast running but their defense is very low, it attacks its enemy with its legs and its legs¡¯ nail and head, not powerful monster in monster-hierarchy but fast runner in case of danger, in some places are used for transportation with taming them. Abilities: Run fast Weakness - fire and sharp attack and poison. .................. ......................... After entering the city, he decided to calculate his gain so he " status window " A window pop - up in front of him. ............ ........................ City: Nexus city Ability: Territory defense double Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double. Altar level: 0 Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0) Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day Area: 625 square meters status: very small village Mana (money): 62 Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day) Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25) Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10 Population: 4 Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day) Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine) Attack power level: 0 (925/1000) Description: city''s power level to attack enemies Defense power level: 0 (6000/10000) Description: city '' defense power level against enemies. ............... ...................... After that ash notice, city ''s defense and attack power increase and total mana point, city ¡¯s mana-point is 62 that is more than enough for red pill. so, he decided to go to the market-building with robin.