Chapter 49: The plan
---Chapter 46: The plan---
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"Say Alyem... must the one to wear the boots be really an elf? Can't other races wear it?" I asked while looking attentively at the Hermes Boots.
"Hmm... Well, it's not really certain. However, The legendary elf Hermes last words were to give these boots to the chosen elf in the future. So, as his descendants, it's our obligation to keep this boots safe until the chosen elf appears"
"And how the heck do you even know who is the chosen one? I mean, I don't think anyone could be crazy enough to try to wear something that could kill you in mere seconds... right?"
"Oh of course not, the royal family measures once a year the power of the souls of every baby born during the said year with an ancient artifact"
An artifact that can measure the strength of the soul? I wonder how strong could my soul be then...?
"The artifact uses a numerical system denominated as [Soul Power] to measure the level of resistance the soul has. Normally, an ordinary soul gets around 1-2 of [Soul Power]. However, the soul of the chosen one is said to be measured around 10-15 of [Soul Power] at least. Anything below that will only be destroyed thanks to the power of the boots"
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Then how high is my actual Soul Power? It gives me chills just imagining it...
"How high is your [Soul Power] Alyem?"
"Mine is 4, I was born with a strong soul, however, I'm still unable to wear the boots... So I don't think my talent really matters that much"
"Hm..." I just nodded.
So in summary, this is the treasure of the Elf Kingdom. And It's very unlikely for them to just give the boots to me if I just ask them nicely, as they seem to be specially reserved for the "Chosen one".
So angering the whole elf nation for these petty boots could be really stupid.
But you know...
I could not anger the Elves, if no one knows it was me in the first place.
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A few days later...
"HAH!"
*Swing!*
*Tak!*
"Don't forget about your stance"
*Whack!*
"U-uwaah!"
*Thud*
Alyem fell to the ground helplessly after being hit with a trainig sword by me.
Currently, I was having a spar against Alyem, as we agreed to work on his swordsmanship. However, unlike old man Harry, this guy was pretty lacking when it came to swordsmanship.
Even though he was an elf, which meant his speed, strength, and senses were a lot sharper than a human, I could still easily beat him when just using swords in a spar.
According to the levels of my system, this guy should have around mid-level mastery on swordsmanship, while I had the master-level mastery already.
I don't know if there was anything ahead of Master-level... But even if there was, I think it could still take me a long time before I could reach such a high level.
"Jeez, How are you so good with the sword, Aspen? We have almost the same age right?"
"I just had an awesome teacher" And a skill that increases my comprehensive and learning abilities by three times.
But that some minor details...
Anyways, currently, I have been following the same routine every day since my encounter with the Hermes Boots. Reading magic tomes, sparing against Alyem, practicing magic, and of course, sleeping.
My plan to steal the Hermes Boots was completely ready, but first I could need to learn every magic available in the library. Because if I become a fugitive while stealing the boots I doubt they will allow me to continue reading at their library.
Not that I'm planning to become one. After all my plan is to make sure no one knows that I was the one that stole it.
Sorry "Chosen one" But I'm taking those boots. Not that you will need them that much anyways...
Now, about my plan.
On my extensive research in the library, I have gathered a lot of useful information aside from magic. This being that elves actually go on expeditions from time to time to a giant island at the east to gather precious herbs.
An island that holds a giant jungle at the center of it.
Yeah, you heard right, a jungle.
The Elf kingdom actually has friendly relations with the inhabitants of the jungle, the pygmies. And both exchange goods once a year in a festival to preserve their good relationship.
Pygmies are similar to what you could expect to be actually dwarves. Petite, with beard, and good for forging things. Though all of them seem to be attracted mostly to spear.
However, unlike dwarves, these guys have a darker tone of skin than most humans, and wear tribal themed clothes all the time.
The things that matters here is that one of the goods the elves and pygmies trade between themselves is the Moonglow herbs! One of the ingredients for the invisibility potion.
Hehehe... I see you know where I'm going with all this.
What better way to steal something than using an invisibility potion? Silent, stealthy, and most importantly, not VISIBLE!
However, just in case I will be wearing my helmet so that they don't recognize me in case the potion wears off...
Also, there was another piece of information that I considered VERY important during my days of research at the library.
At the north of the continent where goblins live, two strange and dangerous lands can be seen at the border of the continent, opposite to each other, surrounding the goblin's Kingdom from the east and the west.
The description of both of these lands goes like this:
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One is covered in a thick purple mist that withers any plant alive and makes it get a purple color as well. It is also said that any living being that spends too much time inside this land will have their body slowly rot until they die helplessly.
The other land is covered in a thick layer of crimson mist that seems to slowly absorb the life force of any living being that enters it domain. Draining their vitality until they become nothing but weak and empty husk. After the vitality is extracted, the body of the victim turns into a deep crimson, plants included.
Both of these lands have been investigated and it has been discovered that they are slowly expanding towards the Kingdom of goblins.
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Yeah, as you might have already guessed, these are both the Evil biomes of terraria, The corruption and the Crimson. Slowly expanding through the world and consuming every kind of living being until only horrible monsters from their respective biomes populates the whole land.
Hehehe... And now I actually have to deal with BOTH of them at the same time. Unlike the game where you only have to deal one of the biomes and stop it from spreading through your world, now I have to deal with BOTH of them.
Why does everything goes so wrong in this world?
Sigh...
"Well... more reasons for taking that accessory for me then" I muttered under my breath.
"What do you mean with accessory Aspen?" Alyem confused asked at my words
"Nothing, now concentrate on your foot work!"
*Whack!*
"Ouch! Sorry sorry..."
Hmm... For now, I think I will need a week or so to learn all the other kinds of magic from the library. If it takes me more than that then I will have to steal the magic tomes as well.
Hmm, I'm becoming more and more of a criminal every day I spend here. With these treasures at my sight I really can't contain myself...
"Sigh... The human greed has really no limits" I sighed after seeing how shameless I was towards the guys that welcomed me in their Kingdom.
"What do you mean Aspe-"
"Shut it!"
*Whack!*
"Argh!"
I'll try to compensate them in the future when I become stronger.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Jarron7
Jarron7 The crimson and Corruption finally appear!
I saw a cat crossing the street today, when suddenly a mysterious truck appeared out of nowhere and decided to isekai the cat.
However, as the mercyful author I am, I used my godly powers and stoped time. Unfortunately, after stopping time I can't use my godly powers for a while. So the cat will die either way~
The only way to save it is giving me powerstones, so that I can recover some of my powers and move the cat out of the way.
I'll leave the decision to you, reader.
The life of a cat is on your hands.
Bye bye~
Chapter 50: The heck...?
(A/N: Now that the weekly power ranking has been reset today, don't forget to give your Power stones so that we reach a high place in the ranking.
At least for a few minutes...
Anyways, enjoy the chapter.)
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---Chapter 47: The heck...?---
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"Oh, so you do it like this...?" I murmured in a low voice while channeling my mana through my fingers.
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Soon, a great amount of dust in the surrounding air started gathering in just one point above my hand, forming a small sphere on my hand. After some seconds the ball of dust finally stopped growing in size until it reached that of a tennis ball.
"Now... What was I supposed to do next...? Ah right, I have to compress it"
The mana in my hand soon enveloped the whole dust sphere and started applying extreme force to compress it completely, reducing its size to that of a ping pong ball.
*Creak!*
*Creok!*
The dust ball soon started making cracking noises while it shrunk. And soon it's hardness and denseness reached that of a normal rock.
"Fuuh... That was quite exhausting..."
I glanced at my status briefly.
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Name: Aspen (Aeron)
[Human...]
Age: 20 (39)
-Status:
[Hp: 320/320] [Mana: 31/40]
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It took 9 points mana to form this small rock...? What the hell... It was supposed to be just 5 points!
I guess I still need to take care of my mana control a bit, otherwise I will continue spending unnecessary mana... which it's a no no.
Currently, It was only three days more until I began my plan for stealing the Hermes Boots. And I must say, I was quite nervous.
Not everyday you have to steal the treasure of a whole nation just to survive... right?
Anyways, despite my nervousness, my magical investigation was going pretty well. I was pretty sure I could be able to learn every magic available in this library before the day of the Plan.
Currently, my Skills panel increased quite a bit. Just look at it.
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-Abilities (Passive)
[Order's blessing: Universal connection]
[Order's blessing: Supreme body]
[Order's blessing: Supreme mind]
[The player]
[Swordsmanship: Master]
[Bow mastery: Expert]
[Martial arts: Expert]
[Alchemy: Expert]
[Nature control: Expert]
[Mana manipulation: High-level]
[Mana control: High-level]
[Fire control: High-level]
[Water control: High-level]
[Rock creation magic: High-Level]
[Mana manifestation: High Level]
[Mana shaping: Mid-level]
[Necromancy magic: Mid-level]
[Metal-bending magic: Mid-level]
[Electricity release: Mid-level]
[Summoning magic: Mid-level]
[Mana explosion: Mid-level]
[Ice manifestation: Mid-level]
[Ice shaping: Low-level]
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"Heh" Just looking at the great amount of skills I had made me grin in pride.
But enough of checking my progress. Now let's move onto the next magic!
*Knock*
*Knock*
*Knock*
"I guess not... I'm coming!"
*Click*
"Oh Alyem" I exclaimed as I saw Alyem outside the door with a hurried expression on his face.
"I see you got used to the elven inns" He said while peeping inside.
"I guess I'm comfortable anywhere as long as it has a good bed"
"That's nice. Anyways, I came today to tell you that today the Elf Kingdom is measuring the Soul Power of the newborn babies this year. So if you want we can check yours"
"Today? You didn't mention anything about this some days ago"
"That's because this event is always on a different date. So no one knows exactly when will it be"
That's kinda messy. Don't they have any problems with coordination with such a sudden event?
Meh, maybe they prepare everything before the event, and then wait until it's announced its beggining.
"Will they allow me to measure my Soul Power? I mean, I'm an adult human... Wouldn't the artifact have problems measuring the strength of my soul? After all I'm not an Elf baby"
"Don't worry, The artifact has measured the strength of other races before. So it won't be really a problem"
"Oh..."
I guess It's worth a try... Maybe after seeing my Ability to hold multiple accessories they will forget about the said "Chosen one" And decide to give the boots to me?
Err... But if I ask them and they refuse... Then won't that make me more suspicious when I steal the boots...? It could appear to coincidental in the eyes of the elves.
And If I just run away once they have their suspicions... then that could make me even more suspicious...
The last thing I want is the Elven race to attack the Human Kingdom to retrieve the Hermes Boots...
Hmm... What to do?
Whatever, I have my inventory. So even if they want to investigate me, they won't find the Boots as they could be inside my inventory.
Also, I'm pretty curious how large could my Soul power be...
So, why not?
I like to flex in front of the elves anyways. They are kinda arrogant when they see me. Alyem excluded of course.
"Sure"
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A few minutes later...
We arrived at the center of the city, there a great line of parents holding their babies could be seen waiting for their turn to measure the Soul Power of their children.
"Soul Power... 4!"
"Wow!"
"Nice soul"
"Incredible"
At the end of the line, a man with clothes similar to a Herald was announcing the results of some elf baby while the surrounding people gasped at the results.
As I formed in the line, I received odd looks from the surrounding Elves. But as soon as they saw Alyem next to me, they shrugged and continued looking at the spectacle.
"Soul Power... 2!"
"Soul Power... 3!"
"Soul Power... 5!
"Soul Power..."
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Soon my turn was about to arrive. However, curiosity invaded my mind at the last moment.
"Hey Alyem, what's the average [Soul Power] For every race?"
"Hmm? Well, if I don't remember wrongly, Goblins have around 1 to 3 of Soul Power normally, and humans have... around 1 to 2 soul power. It doesn't really change that much between races, so don't worry"
"Oh..."
"Soul Power... 8!"
"Woah! Such an incredible soul!"
"A prodigy!"
"Incredible!"
"Hmm? Hey Alyem, why are they so impressed? Didn't you say before that if the Soul Power is below 10 or 15 then it doesn't matter, as they won't be able to wear the Boots anyways?"
"Oh, yeah, they won't, but it's commonly believed that if you have a great Soul Power then you will have a great talent in everything you do. Though this rumor hasn't really been proved to be true, There has still been a lot of cases of elves with high Soul Power that have incredible talents"
Oh...
Well, I'm pretty talented... if you could call my abilities "talent"
So I guess it's right in some way...?
"Soul Power... 3!"
Oh, finally it's my turn!
"Name?" The elf asked me while writing some things on paper.
"Aspen"
"Full name?" The Elf asked with a bit of annoyance in his voice.
I guess it's pretty normal to have a surname in this country huh?
"Just Aspen, we didn't have surnames in my village"
"I see... now, show me your back"
"Alright"
Soon the elf started using something like a staff on my back, as I felt something traveling through my whole body.
It was quite a bizarre yet refreshing feeling.
*Beep Beep*
Soon the elf took a few steps back and waited for the results to come out.
"Soul Power... EH?" The Elf stopped talking and started looking between me and the artifact repeatedly.
Yare yare... I guess it's time to become the center of attention once again...
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"Soul Power...[0.1]..."
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Huh?
"Huh?"
""Eh?"" The surrounding elves exclaimed.
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The heck?
CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Jarron7
Jarron7
So, Aspen's Soul Power was actually shit...
Or not?
Who knows.
Anyways, don't forget to give your powerstones if you are liking the story so far. That way we can reach more people to read this story!
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If you don't do it, then I will make Aspen an Edgelord because you didn't give him your power stones.
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No pressure on you.
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