I turned on my skills back and began to head out and making my way towards inn .
As i walked, i kept trying to understand the use of that vial and how exactly was the prince going to use it to get stronger but i wasn't able to wrap my head about it .
Since it wasn't making any sense at all no matter how hard i tried , i believed that what was really blocking me was none other my complete ignorance of how things worked in this world, hence i don't even know if it could be called as such even .
But now that i keep following that line of thought, i'm beginning to believe that those Demons invaders and that Bloodlord might be out of the influence of the World's Will or to be more accurate the Shard !!!.
Yes, i currently believe that the World's Will was the Shard's Will and that there both were the one and the same thing and if my conclusion was correct, then the number of levels i got after i fought and defeated that Bloodlord was now quite acceptable .
It also allowed me to know that the World's Will wasn't omnipotent as i firstly believed, i even begun to believe that it was completely alive and quite aware of everything going around in the land too.
I sighed to myself that there were a lot of mysteries ahead of me to uncover the truth, the complete truth when i find my mind drifting to another mystery, trying to uncover what role do the monsters play in all of this .
They were ranked like how the Adventurers are ranked but i'm quite certain that they aren't able to use the same features as we humans or they could be unable to use it at all, at least from what i have witnessed so far, but if that was actually true .
Then why was it like that aren't the monsters born and raised here then why weren't they under the influence of the Shard , could it be possible that the monsters are somehow linked to the Demons or the Bloodlord in someway and if so why didn't the Shard wipe them out completely, what purpose could it be intentionally saving them for .
And how exactly was that Blazan able to control and command the monsters to do his bidding, not to mention the colossal SSS creatures like the Dragon that i have been told about by Regard who clashed with the Demon king and even was able to repelle him and what could the other creatures like him opinions about this, or were they clueless about all this , Blazan trying to take over the whole Wicked Forest commanding an army of monsters i mean , at least we won't be hearing any news about the Kaiju-0 monsters any time soon, probably .
But why were they really being penalized not to have access to the leveling system that the Shard created and out of what reason , i will have to begin conquering lands soon just to get rid of that agonizing headache.
3 days, i have been in this land for 3 days and was already fed up with the way things were going around here , not to mention the ton of questions that kept appearing in my way and simultaneously popping in my mind too , not to mention new concept popping out of nowhere as well like The Real World that the Bloodlord mentioned previously .
I really hope that Regard could clarify some of the things that were said by that Bloodlord or at least give me some very needed answers that could help me uncover this on my own .
I arrived at the entrance of the inn and on the way i noticed that the streets were more quiet than usual even though it was already night but we aren't this late of night yet the scene was currently deathly quiet , it was probably related to the soon to erupt monsters raid .
And i can't really blame them , not that i can relate much to them acting like that since it will be my first time to actually witness a Monsters raid , but one thing was certain, i was overcoming this .
The deathly quiet was broken once i reached the inn as i came closer and closer to the door i was beginning to hear crashing sounds so i quickened my steps a notch wanting to find exactly what was happening.
And the scene i saw left me quite baffled as just as i entered the inn i noticed Regard who was amidst the crashing sounds docking under a table as if he was taking cover or hiding from something or to be more accurate someone .
He took notice of my arrival and i was about to greet him but he gestured to me a stay silent gesture that left me speechless and quite confused but my confused was cleared in a mere seconds later as i heard a voice coming from inside the kitchen that had me covered in sweat .
I was only away (a lot of actual crashing sounds on the background as she kept on taking ) for only half a day and you already emptied most of our drink storage not only that you kept throwing the bottles everywhere too as if you believed that the inn was your own personal trash yard , look the inn is really looking like as if it will be torn apart any minute now , do you have a death wish, MASTER .
And i could swear that i saw Regard's body twitching under the table he was hiding under and i then looked at the inn walls and decoration and found them to be all pulled off with some of the paintings having a few claw marks on their frames , the inn wasn't like this when i left it on the afternoon, did the crown prince sent someone to do this or were it really caused by Regard while drunk but how did he claw those paintings . how weird .
I looked at Regard accusingly and he just shook his head and pointed out his finger towards the kitchen leaving me even more bewildered and as if she sensed what he was doing and where was he hiding a nail, a steel nail from who knows where she pulled it off from was directly shot at the finger he used to point at the kitchen with which blasted both his finger and the table he was hiding under and continued to whistle as he pierced through the inn wall and continued on his journey towards who know where .
I'm both shocked and amused at the current scene which was talking place in front of me but that previous attack and the miserable state that Regard's finger was currently in left me more unsure of whether to laugh or cry, we then began to hear a few more crashing sounds coming from the kitchen's direction and it continued for a few seconds more then it finally stopped .
Then a heavy steps were beginning to echo from the kitchen and the sounds of each steps were becoming louder as if she was coming closer towards us and i saw Regard looking around as if trying to find a new table to crawl under but in the end he surrendered and said with an assuring tone :
I will, i will clean it all Liliana and we will even expand your room a bit more and i will give your room a new spacious bath, i will make you two new bathes and did i mention that i will start cleaning the inn instantly, and i will go and later no i directly will go and get all the supplies that the inn needed, do you want something, my dear .
Alright it's decided, i will be laughing since i wasn't able to hold it anymore after hearing and witnessing myself on what Regard was currently saying in trying to appease Liliana to forgive him for more or less destroying the inn and wasting away their drink supplies, i actually quite believe that she did most of the damage but whatever that i believe is best being untold .
Liliana then stepped out from behind the bar's counter and the moment she saw me standing there, her demeanor completely and suddenly shifted to the cute expression she always normally had when she talked with me, or when she was in a good mood .
I was dumbstruck at two thing the first was the previous cold face she was making before it shifted to the normal cute one, it was so horrendous that the blood on my veins ran cold by just being witnessing it and the second was how fast her mood and demeanor shifted just now .
She paid Regard no mind and didn't even answered him as she came directly to my side and without saying anything, she then proceeded to hold me in a tight emprace like the one she gave to Regard but not as much closely as him, i was about to tell her that she didn't need to worry about it and that i will always lend her a hand if she ever asked for help when i heard her sobbing on my chest and i swallowed all the words that were in my throat .
Hero Ryuu had saved me once again from an ill-fate or even in this situation Death , thank you, thank you, thank you , i really really appreciate your help and patience with me and i'm in your debt in this life and all the other lives of mine if there were any, thank you Hero , she said while sobbing and i was lost of words since her actions and words took me by surprise .
But luckily i was able to quickly regain my composure and said noticing something that could brighten and ease the tense mood a bit :
You know that ribbon does really look good on you, since we are back to call each other with titles now do you wish for me to answer you from today as ms.Liliana , didn't we agree on not to call each other with honorifics , i said while patting her head that was currently snuggling to my chest .
Ryuu , ..... .
Yeah that sounded a lot better, and why are you still crying aren't we all here safe and sound and if my words can offer any sort of sentimental support to you , i will tell you that not only did i want to save you the moment that i know you were imprisoned but i was also beginning to consider whether should i turn this whole kingdom over in search for you, and the fun part was that i was more willing to do so even after you got release , after seeing your previous state and how they treated you, so don't cry alright just say the word and this whole kingdom will be turned around over in mere seconds , until the pretty lady here is satisfied , want me to get started .
If someone was to be obligated to apologize it should be me , since i was their target all along, sorry Liliana i hope you find it in your heart to forgive me for the suffering that i unintentionally put you through .
She raised her head and looked at me and i looked at her back and was able to see a flashes of light coming from her still tearing up eyes as she started to shook her head sideways and buried her head back in my emprace while murmuring weakly saying :
You already did enough for me to forsake my whole life for you, so i really don't want you to do anything dangerous , you did enough Ryuu .
We were both engrossed in this harmonious scene completely forgetting about the wide eyed old man still watching, and were only back to our senses when he decided to intervene, causing the harmonious scene that we were having to collapse .
Ahem...Cough cough, shall i take my leave and leave you two lovebirds to do your thingy , we are back to being on a good terms as before, ain't that right Lili ?
I now aware of the hug continuing for a bit long than usual and was beginning to held another new and weird meaning to it decided to broke the emprace and blushed a bit embarrassed at what he just called us , unfortunately for Regard the only answer he got from the now back to fury mode Liliana was a chair beating that had him coughing blood for the next few minutes .
Hmph , was all she gave him then she waved at me while blushing for some reason and went back on destroying the kitchen as we both heard the crashing sounds coming from there .
I asked Regard whether she will be okay , and he answered by staring at me intently for a seconds then he nod his head as he began on saying that she is already are but she was currently just releasing some of her frustration on the pitiful kitchen and that she will be returning to her highspirited mode by tomorrow hopefully otherwise the inn won't be able to survive another beating , and that i have some hands in this so he thanked me and bowed in gratitude in front of me .
I reached to him hurriedly and told him that he didn't need to do something like that since it was really my fault from the starters .
A minute later after we both calmed down but the noise of the kitchen was still ongoing, he began to ask of how did i exactly pulled off getting Liliana out of the arrestment and by getting that Arthur to withdraws his accusation .
I told him the whole story of how i appeared inside his home and told him about the threat and the actual plot that the Royal Family had in mind for me, everything .
He looked at me up and down as if he was unsure of who was he currently talking to then he asked :
And were you really going to finish off his entire family if he hadn't choose to comply with your request.
Which i replied to by saying in a sad tone looking to be quite hurt by his lack of confidence in me :
Of course not, i would have just maybe give him a punch or two and thought of another way to release her but luckily it all worked well in the end .
He then proceeded to pat me on the shoulder as he kept saying that i was a good kid who had a good self-restraint , then he began asking about the things that happened on the day before and why do i look like a whole new person .
I then began to tell him about everything that happened from the moment the inn to the moment i reached the Wicked Forest first .
Telling him about the assassination attempt that i had and the the incident that i had with that chubby coachman and my encounter with Lora and the new skills that i was able to get on my way there .
And as we were conversing i heard a more clear and deafening sound coming from the kitchen which shocked both me and Regard the moment that i mentioned my encounter with Lora but it easily subsided when i mentioned that she left to Animagia .
And after taking deep breaths to calm both of ourselves down, he then began to tell me that the noble who enslaved Lora had issued a task on finding her and the accomplice that helped her to escape, the rumors said that he was informed of how that young man who helped her was looking like from the coachman who was responsible for driving the carriage , so that i have to be careful when going out in the next days .
My only thoughts about this was that the coachman didn't really learn his lesson in our previous encounter but anyway, he won't be able to catch up to Lora and he is more welcomed to try capturing me .
So you got a unique skill and gained a lot of skills from our sparring session that increased your strength even more, if i had known this i wouldn't have been so worried about you after i heard about the goblin swarms that kept appearing near the safe zones, i heard that they were even led by an S Rank Goblin Lord , how were you even able to cope with that? .
I beat him with a single and easy punch .
Oh, so that's what you did, huh, what , what did you just say ? .
I know that it's quite shocking but i really did beat that colossal Goblin Lord with only a punch and it wasn't a full power punch .
He just stared at me with wide eyes and a wide opened mouth for a few minutes then he nodded in understanding but i can tell that he was shocked to the core since he kept muttering : he took down a S Rank Monster and by a mere a punch too.
A few seconds later he regained his cool as stared at me in wonder and asked me about how strong was i currently was and i told him truthfully that even if that Dragon that repelled the Demon king were to come i would be able to blast him with a punch .
And his eyes contracted a bit telling me that he was stunned at my words but he was now more or less numb to shocks but he then asked me of how did i encounter that Goblin Lord from the start and i began to describe what i had been through and what i had seen occurred with my own eyes from the second that i stepped in the Wicked Forest and getting teleported to the safe zone that was already occupied by goblins and used as a trap to lure even more humans in.
His face become ashen when i mentioned the reactions of some of the experienced Adventurers who fled on their own leaving the newbies and those inexperienced lot to their fate but what really enraged him was the guy that betrayed his fellow Adventurers and even tried to plot against them in attempt to use them as some kind of a bargain to his escape plan .
But he just sighed the next second after he know that the fate's of that person was still to die at the handa of the other swarms of goblins .
I then told him about exterminating the goblin's swarms after getting all the skills that i wanted to get from them using steal and also told him about the weird owl that was the catalyst for my skirmish against that Goblin Lord and how by unintentionally killing it , i even increased the wrath of the Goblin Lord and simultaneously i almost upraised his strength even more, almost or already reaching the attributes of SS Rank monsters .
And that news left him quite baffled not knowing whether to laugh or cry at this sort of news, i told him that the reason my current explosive strength was very much attributed to the skills that i got from that Goblin Lord after i knocked him unconscious and told him about the notifications that the World's Will kept giving me and the warning notice about being ejected out of the land .
And this time he directly fell to ground unsure of what to say as he kept on saying You, you, you and continued like that for a dozen of times until he was finally able to get the whole sentence out of his mouth saying :
YOU ARE THE NEW SSS RANK FIGURE THAT THE WORLD'S WILL KEPT ON TALKING ABOUT .