Chapter 198: Chapter 196: Holy Siberia
The only hard part of the journey was getting down to Holy Siberia city as the name implied it is the city that is owned by the church holy Siberia, they are very thorough about things especially when it comes to adventurers.
Pashar and the rest had started their journey and laid rest in the forest, the forest was the easiest path but that also meant that they should be ready to encounter bandits or even monster, though the forest near cities have been ridded of monster, so even if one was lurking behind it would be a lower-level monster.
"Are you really sure monster won’t come at us" Rein asked.
"Chill man, even if monsters will come, they can barely scratch you, I’ve been in this continent for about six months, I know how things roll"
’...I do remember the system telling me I was the first person to arrive here, does that mean there was no other starting point apart from the Western Continent’, "So are there no players that started in the central artic?"
"No not really, it was all within the Western continent but different locations, for example I started in the kingdom of Telioth, after helping a young boy find his way home." Dylan said.
"I see, so the quest were different" Rein said.
"Of course, have you not really met players?" Dylan sincerely asked this time around.
"I’ve been around dwellers the whole time."
Dylan sat down on the log he pushed after gathering woods together as he talked to Rein, he faced Yasmine who immediately casted a fire spell and fire lit up on the gathered woods. "How was being with the dwellers, the discrimination and all"
"No, they didn’t know I was a player..."
"Wowowo...that’s complicated, so you made friends with dwellers and they thought you were a dweller too, well that’s reasonable considering your look."
Reinard looked Dylan, "can you tell me more about the changes"
Yasmine scoffs, "you want to use your night to hear stories, you better save up your strength you’ll need it" Yasmine lays down on her portable bed and sleeps.
"She’s right Reinard" Pashar also laid down.
Reinard looks at Dylan.
"We can always talk later" He too lays down.
After some.minutes of watching the fire, Rein stood up and walked away from them, Jihi immediately opened her eyes, "Huh..." she stood up and followed him.
"Okay I think that’s far enough.", ’Ariel?’
{Yes master?!}
’Can you run a full analysis on how many skills I have?’
{Minus Passive?}
’Yes, active skills alone’
{17}
’Okay, actually Ariel I have been thinking, sometimes I lost count of skills I have, so is it possible to merge them, somehow?’
{Yes, since most are swordskills I can merge all sword skill into a single skill set}
’I don’t understand but just do it’
{Master}
’What is it?’
{I have two notice}
’Go on’
{First I can’t determine what skill will emerge from the merging, since I only conduct the experiment on a preceeded grounds}
’Exactly what does that mean?’
{Meaning that since I’m doing your work for you I can’t determine what will come of it}
{Second notice, you are being followed by a dangerous specie}
"Huh?" Rein was surprised,’even with my dragon senses, I couldn’t tell anything.’
"You noticed" Jihi came out from behind the tree she was hiding. "Are you talking to something like Dylan always does" Jihi said in her small stature and eyes that made her look like a twelve year old.
"...ah, yes" Rein answered with a smile. ’There is actually no reason to put my guards up, being with dwellers with my identity concealed has made me like this’ Rein sighed.
{Merging skills into four different skill-set}
{Moon slashing sword-skill cannot be merged}
{Rossdao is incomplete and cannot be merged}
{Flashspeed cannot be merged}
{All dragon skills cannot be merged}
{Fist of the north star cannot be merged}
{Others have been merged}
{Skill-set: Death sentence merged from all beastwill skill except shadow casting}
{Death sentence(UR)lv.1, a four stage skill}
{LordBlade(SSS)lv.1, a four stage sword skill, merged from line sword, draw sword, frostblade and blade rhythm}
{Extirpate(UR)lv.1, a two stage manipulation skill, merged from Deviation and eruption}
{Korche(SR)lv.1, a three stage fist skill merged from soul fist, Kaiser strike and gentle fist}
{You have a manipulation skill, a sword skill, a fist skill, beast will skill and fist of the north star, flashspeed, Rossdao, Moonslashing and two dragon skills, all together you now have ten skills}
’Thanks Ariel, that’s really manageable. Please do this for all the skills I obtain from henceforth’
{Understood}
Rein finally looked at the little Jihi who was already dozing where she sat, she opened her eyes, "are you done?"
"Yes..." Rein sat beside her, "what’s an Arachnid?"
"..." she sprouted out her four pink-coloured spider legs behind her. "What do you mean?" She asked Rein.
’Ah, she’s so cute’, "How old are you?" Rein asked.
"422"
"Eh?"
She kept looking at Rein.
"How come you now have such a small body"
"No, I have a really big real body" She said.
Ariel intercepted Rein’s thought in order to help.
{Arachnids are huge spider that gain sense of self after several evolutions, they are rare and can morph into a human form, however the human form they morph into will be their permanent form unlike dragons who can morph into different form.}
’...makes sense’ Rein recovered from his sudden surprise. "We should go back now"
She stood up.
"Why did you follow Me?" Rein asked her.
"I need to protect Pashar friend"
Rein smiled, "I’m heart broken, I thought I was your friend too"
She paused, "Re-in, my fri-end" she smiled.
{Arachnid has taken the form of a kid plus I suspected that Arachnid is a little retarded}
’That explains her soggy speech’ Rein smiled and held Jihi’s hand. "Let’s go" He said, as they went on, her eyes sparkled, to Jihi who was an arachnid and was always seen more of a weapon than a companion, she was marveled and touched to be treated as a fellow human for the first time.
The next day they continued their journey to Holy Siberia and by evening they arrived there. Unlike anything Rein would’ve imagined, the city had prestigious buildings and holy knight in silver armour and a white robe hanging around their armour, and on the white robe was engraved a blue cross.
They were first stopped at the gate by two holy knights.
"Identification please" the light one with deep green hair said.
All of them brought out their identification tag except Reinard whi was dumbfounded.
"Wait don’t tell me you don’t know you need to have a special identity tag like this one" Dylan said.
"...no" Reinard answered.
"Come on now even Jihi has one, how come you don’t?" Lot slapped his face.
’I do have an identification tag’, Rein brought out a silver tag from his sub-space inventory, they all went silent the moment they saw the tag.
The holy knights saw the tag and respectfully bowed their head, they opened the gate immediately.
There was total silence as they walked for awhile but Dylan broke it.
"Seriously bro you attended the academy?"
"Yes" Reinard answered.
"Dude you never said that"
"You never asked"
Pashar smiled, "it’s okay Dylan, I always suspected that Rein was a very strong person, but you turn out to be a graduate from the academy. That exceeded my expectations" he said.
"I must admit, it took me by surprise" Lot said, "but I’m rather curious why you are an adventurer instead of being in millitary. Don’t tell me you passed all the test with the help of your friends and now you are scared of being entering actual battle"
"Stop it Lot" Pashar corrected.
"But Seriously how did you do it" Dylan asked.
"Dylan stop" Pashar cautioned him.
They arrived at the holy church and was greeted by a priest.
"Is this the academy graduate that was around, it’s an honor to have you around" the priest bowed to Rein.
’The priest would never bow to an individual except their pope or bishops, yet for them to bow him just because he is a graduate of the academy... thus might go easier than expected’ Pashar thought as Rein was greeted by the priest, others were just ignored and taken into the lobby of the church.
Without waiting for too long, a bishop arrives.
’Just because a graduate of the academy is amidst us... normally this could have taken longer’ Pashar could not help but be happy about Rein’s presence in the party.
"I am Priest Gerared, so what are your reasons for wanting to use the teleportation machine"
Pashar spoke, "actually we are a gr-"
"Stop" he was paused by the bishop, who faces Reinard, "speak our humble guest"
"...seriously, after rudely shutting up my subordinate like that..?"
"It’s okay Reinard, just tell him what we need and let’s get out of here" Pashar said as he smiled.
’There goes the annoying smile again’ Rein sighed and glared at the priest, "we want to travel to Kazimir’s dungeon, we are adventurers"
"Hmm, is that so, then the fee is 1000 silver gold coins per head"
"Damn! Why is it so expensive?!" Dylan grunted. "I really do not have that much on me"
"Then you don’t deserve to use the machine... player"
"Huh... I never remembered telling you I was a player" Dylan immediately bore bloodlust towards the priest. He was instantly subjugated and pinned down.
"Inside the church, you dare threaten the life of the priest" one of the guys subjugation him said.
