Chapter 54. Why so Serious?
Naruto POV
"We are adventure now!!! Does this make you pumped up Naruto?" Kurama asked his jinchuriki. His only experience became an adventure when playing RPG games on the computer.
Naruto chuckled. "Yeah... I cannot wait to test my new skills."
He has long thought when selecting the job he wanted because all of them have their advantages.
The example.....
Dark Lord: Increase his affinity with the darkness element and empower his demonic form. Grant him a horrifying ability like consuming the souls of my enemy and absorbing their ability to be mine not only that my presence can bring casualty to people near me and resurrect dead people to be my undead slaves.
Doom Bringer: Increase his affinity with the fire element and improve his ability to manipulate
Hellfire from Seven Hell. I can bring hellfire to burn my enemy and grant me a special skill called Doom. It's a curse from hell that made my enemy unable to cast any spell and nothing can cure the curse once it's inflicted on the target. The curse will burn my target body and soul into ashes.
Hope Bringer: It's the definition of the Power of Friendship according to Kurama. The more people put their faith in me more stronger I will become in a fight. Not only that any people near me will be healed or be more courageous when they are near me. It's granted me a special ability too called Guardian of Hope.
The Buddha: This skill will help me reach true enlightenment and grant me an affinity with light elements. This job does not explain much of their ability and the reason it shows up must be related to that.
Ashura the Destroyer: It increases his strength drastically when he on an angry state and grants him a special ability called Ashura Wrath.
Emperor of Shadow: "Like its name, this job gives me the authority to control shadow even my enemy shadow. Is Shikamaru maybe watching me from out there? Who knows?
Lord of Nature: "With this, my sage mode will enter the next step. I can control Nature to help me defeat my enemy, grant me the skill to turn the tree near me into an army of a treant, give me a connection with spirit, and lastly a special skill called Tranquility to heal my ally in a large radius.
Satria POV
"Why did you choose that job? Are you sure about it puppy?" Fatalis asked me.
"Why not? It's sound cool."
In Satria case, the jobs have unique abilities.
Example:
Dragon Knight: The jobs grant him regeneration ability and extraordinary strength. Give him the skill to breathe fire and advanced swordsmanship. What's special about this job is... I can transform into a Dragon. Very weird.
Dragon Tamer: This job improved my affinity with Dragon and increased my chance to tame Dragon species to be my Nakama. Yeah... Only that.
Holy Knight: It's a... Something like Paladin. Allow him to manipulate the light element. I can heal and weaken enemies who have a dark element. It grants him a special ability called Guardian Angel makes my ally immune to physical attack in ten seconds.
Silencer: This is an outstanding job. Nightmare for every magic user. Every kill I cause will increase my intelligence and every intelligence increase my power. Lastly, the special ability of this job is damn broken it is called Global Silence, This skill pauses every magic and sound in the world for five seconds meaning every magic user in the world cannot use their magic for the duration of the skill. Five seconds is a long time for a speedster like me to take down anyone who dares cross my path.
Outworld Destroyer: With this job, I can turn raw intelligence into destruction power, Grant me an unknown element called Arcana Energy. Every attack I cause can shatter the mind of my enemy and be able to steal 22% of their mana capacity with a skill called Astral Imprisonment. When I already have mana higher than my enemy I can destroy them with a blast called Sanity Eclipse the damage is based on the difference between my mana and my enemy's mana.
Invoker: This is the most versatile job. Allow me to access three elements Fire, Strom, And Ice. I can mix the three elements to create my original magic as I wish. Very tempting.
The Emperor of Humanity: Nah... This job is the most problematic one. Truth? Not my type. I must become the saviour of Humanity and my power increases every time someone bows to my knees. The special ability of this job is called the Union meaning I can use every skill of someone who vows to be loyal to me and absorb their power to be mine.
Grand Magus: Similar to Outworld it uses arcane energy but the skill set is different. With this job, I can use telekinesis and grant me an aura called arcane supremacy, it boosts my ally spell amp and increases the cast range of my spell. What is unique about this job? Yes... It can steal the skills of my enemy and use them to my advantage but I must see and trace their magical essence before stealing their skill to be my own.
Dark Knight: What is this edgy caption? The mist of death will come when the Dark Knight is present on the battlefield. Give me advanced swordsmanship technique, the ability to give my enemy a chilling curse that will silence my enemy or make them unable to use magic for four seconds and then give me tremendous speed when all conditions meet. The ultimate skill of this job is... Damn, it's a job for a masochist. I can turn every damage to me into healing instead of harm and this skill can affect allies too. It's OP but... Yeah.
Dark Terror: ££!#+ 2-2&2?#??#?2?2?2 ¢∆¶'{€ £££&2+2+2 ='÷'='=' The description of this job is... I cannot understand. It's like an alien language. It makes me very interested in this job thought.
Last?
Star Fall Archer: I can use the moon as a catalyst for my skill. Grant me the ability to hide myself in the shadow of night and rain a beam of moonlight on my enemy. This job is only useful when night time.
•
They all left the room after successfully registering in the adventure guild.
Fran walks to the front of Guild Master.
"You need something from me, young lady?" The Guildmaster ask her.
"Ehm... I want to sell material from the monster I'm slaying in my travel, We need money too to rent an inn and buy food." Fran tells him the reason.
"Sure, Can you show me the material?"
Fran takes many materials from her Dimensional Pocket and drops them all on the floor.
Guild Master's eyes widened in surprise to see many rare monsters brought by this young girl.
"You are... incredible, How long have I not felt like this? This feeling reminds me of my youth when I was full of curiosity." He bet this young black cat girl would become a well-known adventure in future even Legendary S-Rank. "Wait for a second okay?"
The Guildmaster called back up to pick up all the material Fran showed to him. After a while of valuing all the monster's body parts the Guild master delivers the money to Fran.
"Here is your payment Fran-san." He gives a sack full of gold coins in front of all adventure in the guild. "You earn 800.000 gold coins for every material you sell to us, Pleasure to do business with you."
"Ehhhhhh!!!!" All the people in the adventure guild are yelling because shocked to witness the brat get a lot of money especially given by the head of the adventure guild itself.
"... Eh?! The monster can be traded with gold? Fuck!!! Why I'm not picking them up before?" Satria fell to the ground after finding out what he had left in the wasteland was walking money, Now their corpse was surely already eaten by animals outside there.
Fran stroked my hair. "Don't worry Shin, With this money I'll take good care of you. Just tell me what you want and I'll buy anything for you."
"Really? I mean... That was your money, Fran. I don't want you to spare your money for me as a man it's my duty to care for good girls like you not you to coddle me." Satria refused to be pitied by her and acted tough in front of everyone.
"What with that pause? He is... suspicious, I feel this man if no one watches him will gladly accept my wielder proposal to him." The sword looks sharply at him. This idiot is bad news.
Fran smiled and whispered to him. "You sure? There is no shame in being spoiled by me, my hero. Don't be shy to ask me anything."
"How low you are my boy~ To have someone this young want to take care of you. What are your mommy and soon-to-be wives comment when they know about this?" Fatalis teases him until his face turns red.
"IDIOT! I am not a hopeless man as you described. Take back what you said stupid dragon." Satria is mad at her only makes her more fond of him.
"No~ It's your fault to be adorable. Don't worry this one will spoil you rotten too once I get out of your body and make you the happiest man in the world." Fatalis promised to him.
"Bodo amat! Malas ngomong ma kau." Satria is in a bad mood.
"Kok Marah? Hahaha." Fatalis never bored teasing her bearer.
Not long thug from Adventure Guild suddenly appears blocking their way.
"Hehe... If this moron refuses how about letting me take your money, little girl? We definitely can use it better than you." Demi-Human with a cat face grinned at her.
"Yes!!! A brat like you does not deserve to have that much money." A man with a magician's robe emits fire from his hand to intimidate them.
Fran glared at them without fear despite their differences in size. "Over my dead body, You TRASH!!!"
"She is so brave like a knight in shining armour ~ You should learn one or two things from her puppy," Fatalis said.
"I let that slide for now stupid doragon. Why is he not stopping them? Did he test us?" Satria looking at the Guildmaster's direction, He just observes them without doing anything. Well... Fran can handle this without my help and I am too lazy to move.
"I recommend you give us the money now if you or your friend don't want to feel any PAIN BRAT!" The man with punk hair points his dagger to Fran.
"Are you noble? If yes... Guide us to your lodging and give us all your belongings. Just want to warn you I have... little patience unlike my friend here." The big beast man with a dog face standing in front of Satria holding a big mace menacingly.
Instead of being scared Satria is laughing. "Wahahaha... Wait... Are you serious about robbing me? Guys, have you heard it? This dude wants to rob me. I mean there are thousands of people outside this place and this guy decided to choose me as his target? This is crazy! Wait... Let's take the picture as a memorial." Satria takes a selfie with the thug making the group member sweatdropped.
"And I thought Naruto is weird enough, This guy is just... on another level," Kurama said.
"Who you call weird?! You damn Furball!!!" Naruto reacts to his partner's insult.
"Fran, You definitely can't associate with him ever again." The sword warns her because he doesn't want his wielder to become weird like him.
"Are you looking down on us?! Huh?!" The demi-human thug with a cat face is furious at him.
"Looking down? Of course not instead I respect your bravery. You know there thin line between Bravery and Stupidity." Satria speak with an insulting tone making the thug more angry.
"... You leave me no choice, Go die, weakling and blame your stupidity for daring to mock on us!" The huge beast-man swings his mace to Satria.
Satria dodged his mace attack and dragged him outside the adventure guild with unbelievable speed.
(Illustration)
He ran to a volcano near his place and grabbed the thug hand who almost fell inside of Volcano.
The beast-man was shocked to see behind him is place full of lava.
(Play OST)
"What? How did you?"
"Any last word?" Satria asks him ready to throw him inside the volcano.
"Stop!!! I don't want to die!!! Please I do anything but don't do this to me." The beast-man begs for his life.
"Really? You will do anything for me?"
The beast-man nodded with a terrified face.
Satria pulled him back and the beast-man sighed relieved.
"Now you will do as my command right?" Satria reminds him of his promise.
"Yes!!! I'll do anything for you boss. Please spare me!!!" The beast-man kneeling to him.
"Then... If I order you to kill certain brat in the town. Are you gonna do it? There is a brat who annoys me in the town. I want him gone tomorrow, Can you do it? I... You know? Don't want to dirty my hand and if you succeed I will reward you handsomely." Satria asks him.
"Just that?" Satria nodded at his question. "It's a simple job for me boss, Please give me your first command." The beast-man smiled sinisterly.
"Good, Now your first job is...Go jump to that hole." Satria gives him the first command to jump inside the volcano.
"What?"
"Did you not hear me? Go jump." Satria smiled at him.
"But... But you said." the beast-man trembling with fear.
"You promise to follow my every command right? I mean your life is worthless... Why are you even alive anyway? You are just trash who... Not deserve to live. I not suggesting anymore, Go jump or I will give you a fate worse than death." Satria has a serious face now but the beast-man refused to jump. "Hurry up, I don't have time to do this sir. I will count from ten alright?"
"Ten."
"Nine."
"Eight."
"Seven."
"Six."
"Wait!!! Give me a chance to be a better person. Please spare my life." The beast-man begs Satria again but he ignores him.
"Five."
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
"Screw this! Die you, BASTARD!!!" The beast-man launched a desperate attack and charged at him.
"Zero."
Satria punched his vital spot with a time skip making him lose consciousness and dragging him back to Alessa city.
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In the middle of Alessa city, Satria sucks his ability to move and turns the beast-man into a living statue.
He still can see, sense, and think but only in empty motion.
The beast-man was completely naked all his fur was gone and made a weird pose, Every person who passed him made a disgusted face.
(Illustration Pose)
"Is that Bogota?"
"What is he doing here naked and making weird poses?"
"Is he okay?"
Someone waved his hand to him and his eyes followed the stranger in front of him. "He not moving yet... he still alive."
"That's wonderful." Someone throws a stone at him. "Do you enjoy that? Huh?! Consider this payment for what you do to me."
The beast-man fate now is sealed only to be a living statue until the end of his life.
•
"Where Bogota? And the white-haired guy is gone too."
"You bastard!!! Where did you hide him filthy black cat?" The cat demi-human points his sword at Fran but she swiftly cuts off his leg. "N-No way! My leg!!! My leg is gone!"
"What? Since when?" The sword was surprised to see the cat demi-human have lost a limb and sensed a black aura radiating from Fran.
"Don't you dare insult black cat and you are next..." Fran raises her sword ready to decimate the remaining thug but is stopped by Naruto.
He held her hand until she lowered her sword.
"It's enough Fran-chan, You take this too far." Naruto did not expect this small girl can be this terrifying, She was ready to kill them in cold blood reminding him of Gaara when he was young. "You guys leave now before I change my mind." His eyes turn red like blood making all the people adventure guild scared of him.
"Y-Y-Yes."
"Let's leave this damned place!"
The thug runs away leaving Adventure Guild immediately while carrying their friend who lost a limb because incapacitated by Fran.
"You guys done?" Satria suddenly appears behind them.
They both take a distance thinking he is an enemy who ambushed them.
"Shin."
"Whoa! You make me surprised." The sword said
"Where did you go before?" Naruto asks him.
"Not that important, I'm just looking for a nice drink and delivering the big man to his utopia. After all, I'm a hero who never hesitates to help everyone in need and someone who wants to redeem themselves." Satria gives them a thumbs-up and smiles brilliantly.
The guild master applauded them. "You three indeed special."
"Why you do not stop us? Are you the type who turns blind when something like that happens here?" Naruto asks the guild master.
The Guildmaster shake his head. "Not blind but I trust you three can handle the problem perfectly and these four deserve it because they often search for problems here." The guild master throws a bag full of gold coins to Satria and Naruto.
"What is this?" Naruto asks his intention.
"Think of it as my way to invest in you, Now excuse me. I have many jobs to do." The guild master goes back to his office.
"He is a weird guy but nice enough to give us this." Satria checked the gold coin and this was real gold.
Naruto sighed. "Now let's look out for an inn to stay."
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Now the group members looking around in the city. As usual, they are surrounded by women in town when search for a good inn and equipment for Fran.
"Go away! Don't come closer to him." Fran hissed to all the women who tried to seduce Satria and hold his hand very tightly.
"What a grumpy feline, You are too young for him brat and let the older ones do their business." One of the women said to Fran.
Satria carries Fran into his arms. "Sorry girl but I'm hers today, Please let us enjoy our day in peace okay?" He smiles handsomely at them all to flee from the girl who pursued him.
Fran heart blossomed when heard his words. 'I am his? Hehe... Then he is mine too. Should I put these thieving cats in their place?' Something new was born inside her. Something... Horrifying.
"Idiot... Did he understand what he said before? This surely will cause misunderstandings between the two later." Fatalis deadpanned.
"How considerate."
"Lucky kitten."
"He just plays nice for her, There is another day don't worry."
"If you want someone to warm you at night, You know where to find me stud."
"Bastard Harem Protagonist, If it's me I'll surely accept them, especially the elf but you choose to keep flirting with my wielder. You bastard lolicon!" The sword keeps trying to separate both of them.
Fran twitched when listening to her shisho stupid rambling.
"You are a horrible partner, I feel bad for Fran to have you as a guardian. I bet you gonna chase away every man to get close to her and I don't want to hear a sermon from a pervert such as you." Satria snickered at him.
"Yeah!!! Especially to you and I am not a pervert!"
They both suddenly feel a chill in the air. "You both stop or I will be the one who disciplines you," Fran warns them and they stop quarrelling immediately.
"Someone is following us," Naruto told them to be careful.
"I know~ Let him follow us to witness my awesomeness." Satria jokingly said.
"This moron takes everything as a joke, please someone give this idiot some life lesson." The sword praying to all God.
"Who are you? Show yourself." Fran looks at the spot where this person following them since they left the adventure guild.
"Haha... You caught me." An old man from the dwarf race came out from hiding. "My name is Granzel the honoured blacksmith pleased to meet you."
To be continued.