Chapter 17: Alice
[ Alice POV ]
My name is Alice Berggard.The daughter of Berggard duke.My father is a good person who likes to help people. He is always nice to me and always says that I will have a wonderful future.
My mother is a beautiful and kind woman who was always with me when I needed her. Always, except now. A short time ago, the king died and the prince became the new king. He is a man famous for his corruption.
The new king wanted to control the kingdom's money for himself and the corrupt nobles supported him. My father stood against him and gathered the honorable nobles to fight against him.
But the king hired a curse wizard to cast a curse on my mother. To make my father surrender to him. The king imprisoned all the high priests who could do purification spells in the royal capital. Until we can break the curse. Those who can perform the purification spell are very few and all of them are now held in the king's hands.
All this happened when I was visiting a neighboring kingdom. When I heard the news, I quickly returned, which turned out to be a wrong choice.
The king's knights tried to kidnap me to put pressure on my father. But I managed to escape by entering the Emerald Forest. Which, in fact, is suicide. The Emerald Forest is one of the most dangerous forests in the world.
But.... I would rather die here than be used against my father
A group of orcs that could never be defeated attacked us. I had only my bodyguards with me. I knew this was the end. I felt guilty for dragging my bodyguards into this.
I noticed little Sora trying to calm me down.This made me smile a bit. Sora is just an ordinary turtle but I felt a connection with him when I saw her and somehow I gained the taming skill, and since then he has been with me.
Suddenly, something strange happened. A spider, a snake, and an owl joined the fight. They ended the fight in seconds.
I got off the carriage to check them out, but when I tried to Evaluate them, [evaluation] failed.
[ evaluation] is failed.
This is the first time this happened to me so I was surprised.
Suddenly, I found myself rising off the ground and flying into the carriage.
*Kyaaaa*
Then I found them all in the carriage after a small talk.....
*grrrrrrrr*
I couldn't hide my embarrassment. I can't believe this happened at a time like this and in front of my bodyguards.
The spider stopped the carriage and cooked the food. Quickly I found a large piece of meat in my hand.
[Cooked orc steak] Rank : B -
Orc meat cooked with high quality ingredients. It can increase stats permanently.
I couldn't believe my eyes, what is this?How do you make something like this?
I ate the food quickly, ignoring the noble manners.
+2 VIT
+1 INT
These amazing stat-increasing items are very rare and precious.Even a duke's daughter like me couldn't have it.
We stayed like this for a few days. It seems that the snake and the owl have acquired the skill of telepathy. We can communicate now, although they do not use words, but we still understand each other.
We are approaching the city now. Look, Nagini, Luna to the city.Here are my stats now after eating orc meat all these days.
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Name : Alice Berggard
LV: 4 XP: 8/45
Rank: C-
Species: Human
Class :----
Female
HP:20/ 20------>HP:45/ 45
MP:100/100------>MP:165/165
SP:15 / 15------>SP:30 / 30
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STR:3------> 7
VIT: 4 ------>9
AGI: 4------>9
STA: 3------>6
INT: 20------>33
WIS:17------>27
Luck:13
Charm: 27
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Magic :
[Wind Magic LV : I ]
spells:
[wind blade]
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Passive skills:
[Noble aura] LV : I
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Skills:
[ sewing ] LV : II
[Tame]LV: II
[Evaluation] LV: II
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