[ Host are you awake?]
Who is that voice that is calling me? I better get up if it is important...
???: "Who is it...?"
[Nice to see you awake host, I am inside your mind and real]
???: "Did I drink too much last night or what..?"
[No host, although you died from suicide. You are not crazy hearing me]
???: "WAIT WH- How did I die?!?!?!"
[Overdrinking from a sad situation you came upon]
I slowly started remembering about last nights events and made me tear up slowly as I started remembering slowly.
Now I know why I was overdrinking before smiling sadly thinking about my last moments.
???: "Guess I really did die and it was because of that woman..."
[Would you like for me to give you an update in your situation or how you can hear me?]
???: "Tell me both please, especially where I am at currently..."
[You can hear me because you were chosen as the only one that completed the most mods in your most favorite game. You also had a kind and ruthless personality that inclined with the creators wish]
???: "You mean Mount & Blade II...? The game was truly spectacular, especially the different mods that have potential yet overlooked…"
???: "Did I truly have such a ruthless personality...?"
[You did have a ruthless personality, you were ruthless in game and in-real-life but only used that bad side of your to help others or go against others to prove a point]
???: "That's right… but being picked because I am too inversed into a game..."
???: "Whatever, I might as well stop complaining especially when I have nothing holding me back…"
[Indeed Host, The place you are currently in is a fantasy world that humans have fantasies about and every race they dreamed about is living in.
???: "That's nice, and I guess there will be female monsters or something...?"
[Indeed there are, but before you can go anywhere to explore. Would you like to choose a type of mod you want to start with?]
???: "Oh? Never though I would actually be able to choose, then let's go with the Tetsujin Mod"
[Searching for Tetsujin Mod....Tetsujin Mod found... Acquiring Tetsujin Mod from archive... Tetsujin Culture chosen...]
[Would Host like to open Starter pack & Quest reward?]
???: "Sure, but call me Alexis, I would get irritated if I am called host all the time"
[Yes Alexander, Opening Starter Pack and 2x Quest Rewards]
Soon a blue screen appeared before me and it started showing what I received as rewards in a list top from bottom.
[Tetsujin Leather over heavy cloth armor
1x Fine Steel Katana
1x Leather Jingasa over cloth
1x Tetsojin Leather shoulder armor
1x Tetsojin Common plate armor
1x Wrapped Leather boots
5x Tetsujin Recruit Musako
2345x Gold coins
1x Town Hall]
I was surprised from the sudden notifications and started reading it slowly before saying it again in my head.
Alexis: "So it is real huh? Wait how the hell do I equip the Armor, don't tell me I will need to get naked!?"
[Don't worry about it, you can just go to the main tab and see your status. The empty spots next to your Model is where you equip the armor you get from any battles. Or you can do it as you regularly do but the main tab is the fast option]
I nodded before I touched the Main tab button and the screen changed and showed me my model with the empty slots to the left of my model.
I touched the headgear tab and it showed another small screen like an inventory. The Leather Jingasa with cloth showed up and I touched it before I felt something on my head.
I looked at the Jingasa ontop with fasciation before I started placing the other armor onto my body along with the wrapped leather boots.
Alexis: "Guess this is fine with me, At least I have some protection from whatever comes my way..."
[Would you like to accept your first Quest?]
Alexis: "…Yes..."
[~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quest~~~~~~~~~~~~]
Type: Monster Hunting
Time Limit: None
Difficulty: D
Total amount of Goblins: 30
Regular Goblins: 26
Special Goblin's: 4
Description: Kill the goblins in the surrounding area and the Hobgoblin Leader that have been attacking weak Adventurer groups & the passing trade caravans on the road.
Rewards: 10x Tetsujin Recruits, 5x traveling supplies, 3x Tetsujin Recruits Musako, 2340x Gold coins, 1x Companion Summoning Card
-Accept-
Y/N
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Alexis: "So I need to kill them huh? This should be easy then, can you direct me to them?"
[Your ruthless personality is coming out Alexis, but I will do as you say. They are 50m to the west and their nest should be 46m to the east]
Alexis: "Alright, I guess it is time for me to see the goblins and kill em off"
Alexis: "Also, how do I summon or get the Tetsojin Recruit Masuko that I have?"
[Look at the Units Tab on the top of the screen and it shall show you the soldiers you have currently. They are Loyal and will follow orders so don't worry about betrayal only focus on buying food and taking care of them]
Alexis: "Alright, but will they be realistic or just simply follow rules?"
[They will be realistic and the reason why you will receive Supplies once you finish the Quests you accept]
Alexis: "Interesting, might as well just summon them and see if their appearance is the same or different"
I looked at the image of the Tetsujin Recruit Musako and they looked like they had Tier 2 armor and weapons already, which makes things more easier.
I touched the card and a prompt appeared saying if I want to summon 5x Tetsujin Recruit Musako which I agreed.
There was another message that showed and it was to let me summon the units on the card without saying yes and no every single time.
I agreed and soon a golden light flashed before my eyes, I shut my eyes before looking back at the new people in front of me.
[Tetsujin Musako Recruits]
When I looked at them, their unit names showed above their heads and made me smile before I wanted to test something.
Alexis: "It is nice to meet the soldiers who will be under my banner…my name is Alexis and our first mission is to hunt down Goblins and their leader"
All of them nodded at me and waited for my instructions, in which I smiled before walking towards ether area that the system had pointed out.
20 minutes later
We arrived at the place and I took out the fine steel katana from the inventory of the system. I took it out of it's sheath and wondered at how it looked.
Alexis: "It's a...nice looking weapon..."
I was genuine in my words, the fine steel katana had a certain black tint in the sharp edge of the blade.
The handle wrap gave a smooth feeling in my hands and the handle guard fit perfectly with the Katana sheath.
I held the katana with my right hand and had the scabbard held on my waist by some white cloth wrapped around the handguard.
Sniff
I looked around before stopping and sniffing the air, I looked back at the Tetsujin Musako and signaled them that there were things up ahead.
They nodded before going forwards with me, I walked forwards 14 meters before I pulled up the katana and had suddenly blocked a sword strike from above before shouting.
Alexis: "Ambush!!!"
Whoosh
Shing!
Clang!
I looked at my attacker and saw that it was a green goblin that I've seen in games yet it looked more disturbing than usual. I tilted my weapon and moved it forwards as the blade slid across the goblins blade and through it's neck killing it.
Clang!
Whoosh
Clang!
I looked at the Tetsujin Musako recruits who were fighting against two or three goblins each.
Whoosh
Clang
Shing!
Clang!
Garh!
Shrieek!
I swiftly moved to the left and slashed diagonally through a goblins body before blocking another strike in front of me.
Whoosh
Clang!
Whoosh
Clang!
I tried to move back but three small goblins appeared behind me from the bushes and trees. Swiftly two of the Tetsujin Musako Recruits finished their battles before they clashed with the iron daggers these goblins had.
Whoosh
Clang!
Bam!
Shrieek!
I kicked the goblin in front of me before I moved my elbow backwards and hit a goblin on its nose sending it flying somewhere. I swung my katana in a wide arc and split off the body of a goblin in half and cut through another goblins head.
Whoosh
Thud!
Whoosh
Bam!
I looked behind me before I hung my head down avoiding a swift swing from a sword. I punched forwards with my left fist hitting a goblin straight in it's face.
Whoosh
Clang!
After sending it flying, I rolled to the left before holding my katana over my head avoiding an overhead strike.
Whoosh
Thud!
Alexis: "Gah! Fucker!"
I felt my body be hit by a sharp object making me grit my teeth in pain before I grabbed the head of the goblin who was about to stab me, with my left hand and squeezed it head before I crushed it.
Whoosh
Thud!
I moved my right hand to the left with some strength before I swung my katana to the ground cutting off the head of the goblin that had done the overhead strike earlier.
Whoosh
Bam!
Alexis: "Gah!"
I looked back before elbowing the goblin who stabbed me on my back. I turned my body before swiftly thrusting my bloodied katana into the goblins stomach and pulled it back just in time to block another strike from the front.
Shrieek!!!
I slowly twisted the katana and let it shriek before I twisted it upwards pointing to it's head. I lifted my katana upwards through it's body and saw blood spray everywhere yet that didn't stop me.
I got up quickly before looking back at the Tetsojin soldiers who had four to five goblin bodies laying beside them. I smiled before telling them to spread out and kill the remaining goblins around the area.
Tetsujin Musako: "Yes Alexis-Sama!"
I nodded before sighing and went around the nearby area the system had marked and man were there a ton of them everywhere.
Alexis: "Sigh…time to grind up and get that quest over and done with!"
40 minutes later
During the past hour I had encountered multiple groups of goblins and had a difficult time due to their numbers and their small height but I won in the end with some wounds but nothing serious.
(Protected by the Mount & Blade logic that will make him be alive even if he has 3% or 10% of his HP which is crazy thinking about it)
I met up with the rest of the Tetsujin Musako recruits and we all found ourselves filled with blood or guts on our armor and weapons.
I quickly checked how many more were left but saw there were only four more goblins left to kill and I looked at the mini map before seeing their last locations be deep in a cave.
[26/30 Goblins Killed]
I led the group of five Musako Recruits towards the cave where we had encountered a weird goblin that had a strong physique and was the size of a regular person which is alarming.
I looked at it's left hand that was holding a Spear and saw it wore some broken parts of chainmail armor and had markings around it's arms.
Alexis: "Well, time to truly test ourselves against an evolved type of goblin!"
Whoosh
All of us took a defensive position and I was in the middle of the formation. The first Musako Recruit charged over and swiftly slashed diagonally surprising the goblin and making it bleed before it shrieeked loudly in pain.
Whoosh
Cut!
Shrieeek!!!
The second Musako recruit went up ahead and jumped to the side of the humanoid goblin before sweeping his legs and blocked a left fist but a third Musako arrived just in time and smoothly sliced the weird goblins left hand and a blood curling shrieek was released from it's mouth.
Shrieek!!!
I moved forward covering the distance before bracing myself for something I would never do back then in my regular life.
The other two Musako came forwards before they sliced off it's right hand and left arm simultaneously as it's heavy club fell to the cold floor.
Whoosh
Cut!
I gripped my fine steel katana before swinging it in a wide arc chopping it's head off and blood sprouting out it's neck and amputated body parts reaming the inside of the cave with blood.
Alexis: 'God even it's blood stinks up the place…'
I held in my stomach with the condensed smell of blood and how bloody this is compared to the other goblins I killed before.
I slowly breathed in and out before gripping my katana tightly and looking at the determined faces of the Trained Musako made me feel better about this before leading them deeper into the cave.
[1/4 Special Goblins Slain]
[890 XP Gained]
When we arrived at a crossroads of tunnels which I looked at the tunnel we arrived in before I had started drawing an X shaped mark on the walls of the rocky tunnel we came from.
I looked at the other three tunnels before three Musako Recruits made some marks like C, V and W on the walls with their katanas before it reminded me of my old pals that I used to be friends with.
Musako Recruit: "This will help in case of an ambush and if we retreat…"
Musako Recruit: "But the tunnel with the V marking reeks of blood and danger.
Musako Recruit: "The Tunnel with the the W mark has a putrid smell coming from it and there was a trail of ripped articles of clothing which we believe it to be their...breeding grounds...."
I stopped and looked at the Soldier who said it and had a shocked face while looking at him. He did not just say breeding grounds right? Because If he did this takes things to another level...
Alexis: "Wait..wait..say that again will you?"
Musako Recruit: "Yes Alexis-sama, the smell coming from the tunnel is that of putrid smell and a scent of blood and something I wish to burn…"
Alexis: "Then fuck it, since this isn't a fairy tail of goblins just fighting humans but even having their breeding grounds make me realize that I need to finish them off..."
Alexis: "So, all of you will go in groups of two in each tunnel and kill the remaining Goblins I'll go into the dangerous tunnel and kill the rest of the goblins"
They nodded and soon after I went ahead with the last Musako coming with me to the dangerous tunnel leading deeper inside the cave.
The Musako recruit had gone ahead first to guard me in case something happened to which I agreed after careful consideration.
5 minutes later
While on the way we saw some broken bones, skulls, skeletons, and rusty weapons laid before us.
Crunch!
Once we reached a big opened space, we saw a tall 2m goblin with a muscular body filled with scars and a carved Club that had spikes on its edges ready to tear apart anything in its way.
Crunch!
I held my katana with both hands tightly before the Musako recruit told me to be behind him and ready for anything.
Crunch!
Looking around the open space and I saw decomposing human bodies with their guts splattered everywhere and some racks holding what seems to be peeled off organs making me want to throw up.
Sniff
WAAARGHH!!!
After I calmed myself down somehow, the buff Goblin charged at us with immense speed as it swung down it's club doing an overhead strike to the Trained Musako that had backed off quickly and slashed at the goblins thigh which pierced it's flesh but didn't make it flinch.
Whoosh
Cut!
Whoosh
Cut!
The Musako soldier charged forward again before he started slashing the goblins body avoiding swing after swing but he was tiring himself quickly.
Whoosh
Slash!
I moved forwards before I slashed at the goblins right hand but the goblin tried to grab it while swinging his club at me but the Musako Recruit struck it at the right time.
Whoosh
Whoosh
Cut!
The Musako recruit had circled up behind him before dealing an Overhead strike cutting a part of his arm off and the goblins flesh peel down with the katana that had struck it.
AARRGHH!!!
Whoosh
Cut!
Taking this new opportunity I swung my Katana vertically towards his right hand with the intent of chopping his hand off.
Whoosh
Cut!
GARGHH!!!
Whoosh
The Musako recruit had retrieved his katana from the goblins torn flesh and dropped down quickly dodging a swing from the club the goblin is currently holding.
Whoosh
Crack!
Cut!
I move to the right before a bloodied up fist heading towards me, to which I instinctively raised my katana up before gripping it tightly and it had gone through the bone of the goblin as it screeched once more and used the rest of it's force trying to squash me with it's remaining strength.
Whoosh
Cut!
I forced myself to pull out the katana and swing it with the strength I have towards it's neck that had successfully slashed it's throat making it gargle in it's own blood but not before it swung down it's club towards my body that was inevitably going to be crushed under the club.
I had stopped and looked at the club going straight towards me and I could not move at all except beinh paralyzed with the fear of death.
Whoosh
Clang!
Musako: "I won't let you kill the young Lord!!!"
Whoosh
Cut!
GRAHHH!!!
Then suddenly the Musako Recruit I came with, had jumped onto the buff goblins back and swung his katana downward cutting apart the arm that held the heavy club and had used his katana and held a tight grip on it before it clashed against the club and it had pushed it beside me.
Whoosh
Cut!
Waking up from my inevitable death I gripped my Katana in a tight grip and sliced the buff goblins neck cleanly as it started spewing out blood from it's slashed neck as it rained blood once again over our now bloodied figures.
THUD!
Cough!
Cough!
Once it's body fell down I slumped down to the ground and started breathing heavily before I crouched down and started vomiting and the Musako recruit that came behind and pat my back.
[2/4 Special Goblins Slain]
[890 XP Gained]
Musako Recruit: "It will be fine young Lord!"
Musako Recruit: "This is the first time you have seen such a gruesome sight but I congratulate you fighting against an incredibly tough opponent even for me!"
I wiped my mouth with my hand before the Musako Recruit had taken out his leather Water pouch and popped the top off before I washed my hands with him pouring the water.
I got myself together and thanked the Recruit and soon after we could hear the sounds of fighting and the cave walls trembling.
ROAAR!!!
The cave walls were trembling and the thumps of the rocky floor was heard throughout the cave even to where we are.
Musako Soldier: "Lord, we should loot this Brutes Lair and take what they have"
Alexis: "Alright....Let's loot the place quickly"
I slowly followed The Musako Recruit and started looting the barrels and crates filled with vegetables or weapons.
Alexis: "Uh, System can I take all this stuff into my inventory?"
[Yes Host, counting everything in the caves will take 6 inventory slots and if your inventory is ever filled up, the Soldiers you have summon have their own inventory space of 10 and may increase according to their level and strength]
Alexis: "Good to know, then I guess I should start looting and placing this barrels with me"
I touched the barrels and Crates that dissipated once I touched it and when I looked at the Inventory space there were two Inventory slots containing the things of what I looted.
In total 2 out of 100 Inventory slots were containing something from this single cave which was surprisingly good loot similar to a bandits camp.
Alexis: "Let's meet up with the others and get out of this place and summon the other soldiers…"
Especially that Companion which I don't know from which mod or if I can choose from the good mods. I wonder if I can get some characters the YouTubers/roleplayers use and man will they be amazing to use especially their stats.
Musako Recruit: "Then let us meet with the others young Lord"
Alexis: "Let's go ..."
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To be continued