2025-12-02 00:13:59They gave him a lead plate tag with his name on it. Him. Like he was some mammal.
“This is degrading!” Sen complained to his loyal lackey Kyle, as they flew above the farmlands of Blenheim. The news had put him in a foul mood. “Lead? Lead!” “Every adventurer starts with a lead plate,” Kyle explained, the wind in his face causing his lips to move in ways Sen found distracting. “That’s the ranks. Lead, copper, iron, bronze, silver, gold, and starmetal. I’m a lead adventurer too, Your Majesty.” “But you are a human!” Also, why the adventurer guild put that greenish unshiny starmetal higher than brilliant gold, Sen would never understand. “I am a dragon. Can you humans fly? Can you breathe fire that melts stone? Can you live forever? No, so why is that not enough for gold?” “You are a unique case, Your Majesty,” minion Kyle tried to assuage his wounded pride. “Forgive my poor species, who does not know how to deal with you.” “Just this once!” Sen said, flying over a vast forest, smelling the presence of trolls, slimes, and other beasts below. Birds and harpies flew away in fear at his arrival. “Are these the troll woods?” “Yes, Your Majesty. Trolls usually live in caves, if we look for one—” “Minion, I will not sully my peerless scales with some troll’s dung. I am a dragon, remember?” Sen took a long, deep breath, and then dove towards the woods. The forge in his stomach lit up, the infernal power within turning the air into flames. The great calamity unleashed his mighty dragonfire upon the forest, a torrent of bright, nearly white flames incinerating trees, animals, everything; Sen flew in a straight line around the forest, intending to make a full ring of fire and trap the trolls – and whatever creatures unlucky enough to live with them – within. Kyle screamed in surprise, held close to Sen’s own maw. “Your Majesty, what are you doing?!” “Fulfilling your kind’s request,” Sen replied, after taking back some breath and preparing for a second round. Thanks to the wind, the inferno spread through the forest far north, turning trees to candles and grass to embers. Sen dove again through a cloud of smoke, much to his minion’s terror, smelling trolls below. A bunch of these savage, green-skinned giants attempted to flee the coming flames, only for the dragon to bombard them, spitting his fire in the shape of fireballs instead of a continuous stream. The projectiles exploded on contact with the ground, vaporizing the beasts, blasting the dirt and forming craters. Congratulations! You gained a level in [Noble]! +30 HP, +1 INT, +1 LCK! Sen awaited the declaration of a new Ability, but nothing came up. Maybe he hadn’t burned the place enough. The forest bordered several hills forming a natural frontier, and so Sen bombarded this area too, intent on devastating the entire forest instead of just the troll’s lair. After a few minutes of firebombing the land, Sen finished remaking the Woods of Gevaudan into a nice, smoking hellscape. “There, troll problem solved!” Sen said, happy with himself. “All we need is to claim the reward now!” “Your Majesty, can I…” Kyle pleaded, the ash-filled wind making him scoff, “Your Majesty, flight is terrible when you hold me in your palm. Especially when you breathe dragonfire down my neck.” “This must be your lack of scales,” Sen said. “I empathize with your situation, I truly do, but what can I do about this birth defect?” “Can I… can I… can I ride on your back instead?” Sen looked down on his insolent lackey. “Minion, what kind of ungrateful demand is that? Have I not given you an honest occupation? When I found you this morning you were but a mere thief, purposeless, adrift. Now you are chief of staff. My chief of staff. Do not demand too much.” Kyle sighed at his master’s scolding. “I guess at least I got a level out of this.” “You did?” Was that not payment enough? “Yeah, I got a level in Monster Squire when you made me your ‘chief of staff,’ and now I got another. I didn’t even know this class existed.” “What is a squire? A human term?” “It’s, uh, the apprentice of a knight or a noble. They help them get ready for battle, do menial chores for their boss, learn the tricks of the trade…” “Ah, yes. A minion.” “Yes, it pays just as much.”
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“Truly, if they didn’t make the best princesses, there would be nothing to salvage from elves,” Sen agreed. “No matter how many times we dragons put them in their place, at the bottom of the food chain, they never learn.”“We Agarthans delighted when we learned how you cast down one of their outdated feudal states.”“Wait, are you dwarves, or Agarthans?” Manling Kyle asked, confused. “You keep using those words interchangeably.”“We are Agarthans by our nation and Duergars by our species, but we call ourselves dwarves as a political statement, for we are all equally small.” Too many names. Sen subtracted them a point in the potential minion ranking. “Most of the dwarves on the surface are traitors to the revolution or helpless drunks that we expelled.”“Interesting,” Sen replied. If these dwarves expelled their drunks, then he could perhaps eat them safely.“Emperor Sen, let me first congratulate you on your nation’s first step towards achieving Averagism,” Marbré said. “You are among
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“I still think Your Majesty should see them,” Manling Kyle insisted. “Also, I finally identified the scammers who took credit for your death.”Sen’s head immediately perked up in interest. “Where?” he asked, gleeful at the idea of settling the score.“Charlene studied the guild’s archives, and identified them as a disbanded Silver-Ranked adventurer company from the merchant republic of Barin, the ‘Blue Rose Legion.’ They were a classic four-person party specialized in big game, monster-hunting work.”“Disbanded? They are dead?” Disappointing. Sen would have Jules raise these criminals from the dead as skeletons, so he could kill them properly.“I’m not sure, the papers said that they separated in Barin twenty years ago, dissolving the group. I think that after claiming the reward for Your Majesty’s head, they earned enough money to retire.” The mere idea infuriated Sen, who had already taken their slander personally. “Thankfully, Charlene found a quest in Barin which could help us inv
Chapter 98
Sen Krendrath, First of His Name, Great Calamity of the Age, Emperor of Murmurin, Ishfania, and the Valen Mountains, and Protector of all Hoards, had waited so long for this moment.He hadn’t allowed anything else to distract him; for a whole month, he had waited in his great vault, sitting on his ever-growing hoard. He had counted every single one of these thirty days of patience, meditation, and focus; every hour between him and this golden moment of pure bliss.As the minutes separating him from his greatest pleasure turned into seconds, the pressure became almost unbearable. The echo of his tense breathing filled the underground vault, as his eyes widened in greed.Then, it finally happened.A large pile of gold, as shiny as the sun itself, materialized in front of Sen, perfection made metal.“YES!” Sen roared out in relief, as he hugged the coin pile tenderly like a father with his child. After a whole month of separation, he couldn’t put a word on the joy he felt. “It is fine, e
Chapter 97
The Black Rabbit oversaw the slaughter with his cold dark eyes, before raising his horn to the heavens. Electricity surged from it, as he pointed it at the Rangers while the weaker rodents distracted them. “Black!” Pink warned her ally, as the horn pointed at him, firing a thunderbolt. “Watch out!”But even the Black Ranger couldn’t outrun lightning. He barely had the time to look at the monster, before the bolt hit him in the chest and sent him crashing against the fence, defeated.“You beast!” Yellow snarled, breaking the formation and rushing at the Black Rabbit.“Wait!” Red shouted his rapier red with rabbit blood. “This is what he wants!”The last of his dread servants defeated, the Black Rabbit’s horn shone bright, the monster’s size increasing. Within seconds, he had become as big as a cart, walking on his back legs.The mammalian titan let out a roar and impaled Yellow Ranger with his horn, like a bull with a manling. The kobone was propelled to the side, his spine breaking in
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“His glorious Majesty, Emperor Sen’s Bragging Day will happen soon!” Red reminded them. “For the sake of the Emperor, we cannot embarrass him. Our dancing and motto must be perfectly executed. And… and...”“And?” Pink frowned, sensing her leader’s troubled mind. “What is stressing you out so much?”“Rolo has a quest for us,” Red continued. “A very dangerous quest. A monster is feasting on the vegetables. If this continues, the livestock will starve, and His Majesty’s Bragging Day Feast will be ruined!”“Who would dare launch such a treacherous attack?” Black spat on the ground. “The elves?”“Worse,” Red replied ominously. “A rabbit.”A rabbit. The ancestral nemesis of koboldkind; they fought those mammal vermin over burrows since the dawn of time. The brave fathers of the Rangers’ warren had managed to fend off one of their invasions before Pink was born.Now, it was her turn to defend the burrow of Murmurin against those hungry monsters.“And not any rabbit,” Red added, turning away
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“Your Majesty?” Kyle asked, his body slippery and sultry from the gold shower.“You know what I want, Minion,” After watching him swim in his golden hoard, he could barely restrain himself. “You are the shining jewel of my hoard…”Kyle blushed, his white skin glittering like silver in response. Truth to be told, he had never dared voice his feelings for his great, wealthy master.“Bragging Day is tomorrow, and I need to… treat myself,” Sen’s voice was heavy with desire. “Lay on the gold.”“Pink, what are you writing?”Writing in Nethermart’s cozy drink shop, Pink jumped out of her seat; she accidentally dropped her beer cup on the ground, much to the imp barista's annoyance.The other Rangers looked at her in confusion. “Pink, you’re late for the training, and Red is getting mad,” Black said, frowning at her as she whistled. “Now you’re acting suspiciously.”“She’s hiding the text behind her back!” Yellow said, trying to circle her.“No!” Pink turned to face Yellow, only for Blue to u
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