NOVEL FROG Chapter 77: Noble Faction.
Chapter 77: Noble Faction.
The situation in Templeris Forest is getting dangerous; several mercenaries have disappeared. A few survivors manage to escape and report it back to the mercenary guild. Because of that, the mercenary guild and mage towers issued a warning to anyone who wanted to enter the Templeris Forest.
Levi, after finding out the information, ordered the monsters to lay low and not attack any more humans unless they got attacked first.
The mercenary guild sends people to investigate, and when they find out everything has returned to normal, they conclude that the monsters had a territorial war that caused many monsters to flee to the outer region.
The culprit, Levi, has already returned to Qraso City. As soon as he returns Serena, his assistance is already ready with the report.
Serena's life after becoming an assistant is good; the salary is more than enough, and the work is not that hard. At first, she thought that Levi would take advantage of her instead, and she was already mentally prepared to sacrifice her body, but nothing happened. From her observation, Levi is one of those eccentric mages.
"Had anything happened while I was gone?" Levi asked. If he knows what Serena is thinking, he will not care.
"Nothing unusual happened, and Ms. Kelsey asked if she should continue the investigation."
"Yes, and I want you to search for information about master warrior mana breathing techniques and martial arts that don’t require mana."
"Yes, Boss." After saying that, she leaves the house.
In the past, warriors who couldn’t use mana created a martial art that only required body strength to defeat enemies and monsters. Nevertheless, finding martial arts is hard because all warriors now follow the path of the mana heart.
Warriors train their bodies to make sure their bodies can accept mana and create mana hearts. But most of them, once they reach their body limit, will focus more on making their mana heart stronger.
From the last fight, he noticed he relied more on the power of the bloodline transformation and magic than that warrior's mana heart. It will be a waste if he doesn’t find a way to cooperate with the power of the warrior and his bloodline.
Too bad the Aurora Gem mage tower doesn’t have any information or research about the bloodline. He can try to buy the information using mana stones.
Levi, in his room, read the report. "It looks like they might be in the Infinite Tower." A few weeks ago, two primitive mages tried to kidnap a mage and got exposed. After being hunted down, they managed to capture one of the kidnappers.
With Levi's strength, it was impossible to rescue them from the mage tower unless Clara or Otis were imprisoned somewhere else.
After waving his hand, a small flame appears and burns the report to ashes. Levi closes his eyes.
[Mission: Create the greatest hero.]
[Reward: Random.]
[Death point cost: 10,000 DP]
[A random body will be chosen.]
[Power and ability will gradually restore themselves, similar to the main body.]
[Warning: the host soul will perish if it dies.]
[Further detail will be added when the mission starts.]
[Death point collected: 10156.03 DP]
Levi can start the mission, but he wants to wait until he reaches the peak of the fourth tier. This time, the voice creates a countermeasure to let his new body gradually restore his power. However, he doesn’t know if the blood-venom dragon bloodline can be transferred to another world.
He opens his eyes, gazes outside the window, and notices someone is looking in Serena's direction, not far from her.
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Outside Levi's house, the three thugs that robe Levi are bowing their heads in front of the blonde woman.
"Big sister, don’t worry; we will try to search in the city." Said the burly man.
"I had a lot of friends," said the skinny man.
Yes, yes," said the short man.
"Make sure you find it; if not, you will not get the payment." Said Serena. Although the three of them don’t look reliable, especially the short man named Roy, Del, the chubby man, and Glen, the skinny man, they help her a lot.
At first, when Levi introduces them, she is scared, but after Levi gives the thugs a warning by suffocating them inside a large ball of water, three of them become obedient.
A man is hiding behind a building and walks into the alley. What that man doesn’t realize is that an undead mouse is following him.
Levi already knows the situation in the city and can use the undead freely to spy. He just needs to be careful. Fortunately, when he turns into a ghost, nothing happens to him because the city has set up a formation and trap to prevent the undead from entering the city. As long as the undead don’t go beyond the city boundary, no one will know.
The man soon arrives at the building and enters. Another man is already waiting.
"How do you know how they get the money?"
"From what I found out, they work with a woman named Serena."
"Should we kidnap her?"
"Are you crazy? What if the people behind her are strong?"
"Don’t worry; as long as we robbed her and had fun before killing her, no one will know it was us."
"When are we going to start?"
"Tonight."
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In a room with a large round table, a group of people are arguing. If people saw them together, they would be shocked because all of them hold important positions in noble faction mage towers.
"Whatever you say, the leader and council already approved of the mage tower territory war." Said the shrewd, slim man.
Mage tower territory war is a way for two mage towers to settle a dispute. Because of that, civilians close to the mage tower will be evacuated.
Both sides can send their people to attack each other's mage towers until one of them surrenders or gets destroyed.
"You are too hasty; the neutral and non-noble factions will be wary."
"Don’t worry, they will not interfere, and The Mysterious Tower had no master mage for hundreds of years."
"You should let them disband on their own; why do we need to have a mage tower war?"
"We need to wait for a long time, and we need to procure the mana stone mine for our next step."
"Don’t lie; you don’t think that we know that your family swindled a lot of mana stones from your mage tower!"
"How dare you slander me!"
"You think I am afraid!"
"Quiet." The elderly man, who looked like a noble, spoke. "Since it's already started, it's too late to move back; you can do anything that you want." The elderly man gazes at the shrewd, slim man.
After several more discussions, most of them leave the room except for the elderly man and the handsome man.
"Why?"
"We need to see the other factions' bottom line, and if they help, we can see some of their strength."
"When is the war going to start?"
"It depends on the Arcane Tower patriarch; we are just the observers." Since he is greedy, let him test the water for us."
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At night, Serena returns to her home and, wearing lingerie, is ready to sleep. However, when she entered her room, two men pounced on her.
"Who are you?"
"Don’t scream if you don’t want to die."
"How about I have fun with her first while you search the house?" The man had a lewd smile.
"Fine, do it quick."
"Thank you; I owe you one; now let’s have some fun." The man touches Serena's breast while putting her on the bed.
"What are you doing? Stop!" Serena tries to break free, but she is too weak.
Hahaha, scream all you want."
Suddenly, a hand came out of the darkness and choked the man's neck.
Levi lifts the man from the bed.
"Who. Are." The man struggles to speak while trying to open Levi's finger.
"How dare you touch my people?" Levi put more pressure on his grasp.
The man's body stops moving, and Levi throws the corpse on the floor.
"Boss, thank you." Serena, although she can’t see in the dark, recognizes the voice.
‘I should train her to kill people later, Levi thought.
Levi already gave her the Basic Magic Elements Manual, and she is already an apprentice mage. But he can’t blame her entirely because the mage is weak in close combat, and she is like the magic academy student who had no experience fighting.
"You are making too much noise." Another man enters the room.
Levi cast a fire arrow and pierced the man's head. After that, both corpses disappeared.
"Take some rest; I am leaving." Levi's body disappears into the darkness.
Serena soon blushed and covered her body. "Did he see it?"
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When Levi walks down the street, many people still don’t sleep.
‘It looks like I need to build my force in this city.’ Levi had experience building a criminal organization. The reason he still hasn’t created one is because he keeps moving to different places.
After some contemplation, without anyone noticing, he disappeared.