Novels by Corbeau

The merchants guild was much larger than the adventurers guild, at least twice the size and far more organized and luxurious. Victor was not impressed, he was used to places like that. On the demon continent even the adventurers guild had a similar structure. Humans like to separate people based on how much money they have and what they do for a living."I want to register with the guild," Victor said to a receptionist.She looked at him differently. She sensed something unusual about him, she could not see him as a merchant. Still, she said nothing about it."Good morning," she said with a smile. "I need you to fill out this form and pay a fee of twenty gold coins.""I will do that, thank you very much."Victor began filling out the form and realized something. He did not own a shop or a stall. He was pretending to be a traveling merchant. He could still register, but in that case he would not have access to all the informational benefits he wanted. He would be the one selling that i

Victor began filling out a form. The class he wrote down was mage. In truth, he was a swordsman, but since he also used magic and relied on it often, he ended up being considered a mage. Even so, his skill with a blade far surpassed his ability with magic.Vans was an alchemist, yet alchemical practice required knowledge of magic, so he also listed mage despite his class being alchemist. Eris was a mage as well, though her abilities were focused more on support. Niko was clearly a mage. Lysandra was a fighter, but since no such class existed, she registered as a rogue.The receptionist read through all the forms and asked whether they intended to form a group. They confirmed that they did."You're going to have trouble. No group succeeds with four people from the same class."Even so, she registered the five of them and formed the group."You can read the rules in this document. If you have any questions, you may ask me. What you need to know is that you start at F rank. After four ga

Victor asked Vans to hand over one of the item bags, then he asked the elderly man what the village's current population was. It was almost two hundred people. Victor had already planned for a similar situation, which was why he had extra item bags."I'll want the item bag back at some point, I'll return here eventually. The bag has food for at least three hundred people for about a year. For now, the bag is yours."The man took the bag and examined the items. His eyes soon filled with tears and he thanked Victor, offering more money, but Victor said the coins and the information were already enough. Still, he wanted two more favors. The first was a guide, it did not matter who, as long as they knew the routes. The second request was a place for them to spend the night.The elderly man formally introduced himself. His name was Alexsander, and the village was called Granforce. He was no longer suspicious. He handed over an empty house to the group and told them they could stay as long

Vans was investigating why the barrier had broken, but he could not discover anything. The most likely hypothesis was that Mirel had broken the barrier before being killed. Victor did not like the answer, but it was the only one Vans could give, so he accepted it. Even without knowing why she had done it or how the crystal had appeared in the forest."How much longer?" Victor asked."Not much, I have already sent the golems to the surface, soon we will have images of how everything looks."Vans touched several crystals, he was careful and all of his movements looked rehearsed. He knew what he was doing, but Niko did not see it that way, and she was holding herself back to avoid making a joke about him."Here, we already have some images," he said as he placed them on several screens that were sustained by Niko's mana.Two golems were walking through a forest, another golem could fly, showing a village about two thousand miles away. The village was small, but it had at least thirty hou

Vans was analyzing the reports from the magical terminal, he was confused, the spell had ended much later than he had programmed. They had slept for two hundred and fifty years."You used to be better, Vans," Niko said."Did you identify any error in the system?""No, no error that I could notice, it just went wrong. But I do not see this as something very bad.""In fact, it was only fifty extra years, but what I am curious about is your mistake, Niko."She changed her expression."I did not make any mistake, the golems were not made to last that long, that is why they broke and the monster stampede happened."Victor accepted it."What will we do now?""We need to plan. My idea is that we first explore the surface, little by little we will integrate, but we need to take some precautions, like setting days when each person can go out and not raise suspicion. Besides that, we need to encourage couples to have children, we need to increase our numbers.""And how will we do that?""Simple

Everyone in the Tower learned about Mirel's betrayal. The soldiers and servants were not very surprised. No one there liked her, everyone had some issue with her or a hidden resentment. She had always been detestable. With her death, everything seemed to improve, and no further supply problems occurred.The treasury room was full, many potions, scrolls, crystals, gold, and other metals. But something was missing, mythril. This metal grew in dungeons with a high population density, and the Tower dungeon had too few monsters. Vans came up with the idea of connecting the forest crystal to the dungeon and increasing the mana density. With that, more monsters would appear, and mythril might emerge. The idea was risky, but Victor agreed, as long as he and the other generals took part in the culling alongside many soldiers. He wanted to avoid another problem.Vans began the preparations. He seemed to have greater knowledge, which he truly did, but at that moment he was projecting confidence.