
Samuel was known by the villagers as a young man who was very open with people even though he was a serious man, he was also known to get along easily even among the elderly. In addition, he is a person who has a strong intuition in making decisions, to the extent that some people think he is a fortune teller.
From his strong intuition, he had helped the guards in the village to catch the bandits even long before they committed looting.
In essence, he was a village idol, even married and married women still cheated on him, because he was Samuel. Until finally eight months ago his nature began to change, precisely when he married a noble Princess of the family of Count Renesphere, Amyguella Renesphere. And simultaneously at that time, his sister (female) stepmother named Olivia, married Count Renesphere.
No one knows why he changed at the time, but some residents speculate that Samuel changed out of pity with his sister who had to marry a grown man they thought was fat and ungodly.
His family was known as the Norton family. A former noble family that three decades ago had been dethroned from his peerage.
The Norton family was a Baron family of subordinates as well as one of the other branches of the Duke Winston family. Their family is in a downfall as one of their family members has been caught supporting the pagan witches by duke Winston, so Duke Winston who was famous as a godly family immediately took them out of the list of nobles in his territory.
In the midst of exile, Duke Bellwyne who found them finally raised them to the family of the village head, and it has been promised that in the fourth generation, they will be promoted to the family of Baron subordinate to duke Bellwyne. Then with viscount Everdyne being their superior noble, the Norton family began their duties as the Village Chief Lord in the village of Neverhive.
But even though they had been titled by Duke Bellwyne at that time, the opposition among Duke's subordinates still came to the surface. They considered that the decision of duke Bellwyne at the time was very dangerous to Bellhaven territory. Especially considering that the Winston and Bellwyne family never got along in the past, because both were merchants who controlled the Lerian sea. These two families controlled the trade routes to the eastern continent of Houlus.
In short, after the ceaseless opposition in the nobility of the Bellhaven region, the Nortons remained the village chiefs of Neverhive and ruled there until now.
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Slatanis who stood among the citizens who began to fall on their knees for a moment heard his words could only fall silent. As for Amy, she barged in and ran towards Samuel's lifeless body.
“Tidaaaak! Samyoy! Huwaaaa .. hiks hyks hyks,” cries Amy with her screams as she continues to hug Samuel in her arms.
Slatanis walked out of the crowd, while the crowd began to approach Samuel's body. He continued to walk until he passed the end of the line of the citizens, and he arrived at the back and saw Aaron who was also there accompanied by several militias.
Aaron who stood with his staff could only be silent there staring deep into the body of Samuel who was covered by the crowd. Slatanis who found it immediately walked closer, then held his left shoulder.
“I'm sorry, I couldn't save him,” Slatanis said.
‘If I hadn't thought of capturing the monster, maybe Samuel wouldn't have had to die,’ thought Slatanis was down . ‘I was really careless ... is this because of my diminished sense of empathy that I didn't think to this extent? Where was my former consciousness as a Princess in times like these?’
Slatanis remembers being dominated by the consciousness of a succubus, even though he had only been in this world for more than a month, he could clearly feel his former self as a normal human being began to fade along with his sense of empathy for humans who also began to decrease.
In the midst of his mental transformation dominated by the instincts of a succubus, a small part of himself as a Man is still stored in the abyss of his consciousness. It is that consciousness that continues to keep Slatanis or herself as the Princess still maintain a little sense of empathy for humans, because if not, it will prey on all men in this world to "consume" without being picky.
“Not ... it's okay. Because the most important thing now is ..” said Aaron held back by his tears, then turned to look at the cut Dicen. “The most important thing now is, these savage monsters are up.”
Slatanis nodded without saying.
“Let's Mr. Aaron,” said one of the militias began to lead him toward Samuel's body.
“Nona Slatanis, Thank you for helping us fight those monsters,” said another militia standing nearby as it reached out to shake hands.
Slatanis also regretted it with a smile and then said, “I just did my job as I should.”
“Not not ... you were so amazing earlier, I even couldn't move because I was amazed to see you from a distance,” said another militia while giving half a smile. “I've never seen a witch before, but are witches really that strong?” continues asking.
‘Ah .. how to say yes?’ Slatanist.
“Ya-yaa .. more or less,” said Slatanis nervously.
“Then, we go first to clean up the bodies, Miss,” said the Militia in front of Slatanis.
“Good,” reply Slatanis then turn towards Dicen's body. “Except that one, just let me take care of it.”
While other militias began walking towards the corpses of other monsters and the citizens began to lift Samuel's body on stretchers, Slatanis walked towards Dichen's body. Then, when it was so close to the monster's body, Slatanis knelt down and began to touch its pooled blood.
The moment his hand touched the blue-colored blood, Slatanis could feel his Mana begin to fill up very quickly.
“The generational effect brought about by this blood, is almost the same as the medium ranked Mana Potion,” muttered Slatanis as he continued to touch the blue blood until his Mana began to continue to be fully charged. Then as his Mana continued to fill, the pool of blue blood he touched slowly evaporated.
‘It evaporates ... and becomes Mana particles!’ Raphaela.
‘True, I can feel it, even though I was in your inventory, Madam,’ Lilith said.
“Iya, this joins the Mana particles in the air,” Slatanis said as he looked up at the smoke vanishing in the air.
‘Try opening your inventory,’ advice Raphaela suddenly.
Slatanis thoughtlessly opened his Inventory immediately, and found his inventory has an interface like in a woc. It is transparent blue with so much detail and there are columns of boxes that each column represents a particular item and equipment. But unfortunately, the display still looks unstable with a lot of glitching like a broken screen.
“This is still not perfect,” said Slatanis.
‘Oh yes, maybe I can extract from the corpses of other monsters too, too,’ thought Slatanis and suddenly immediately flew with his [fly] spell towards the corpses of the mostly destroyed monsters. He flew with his inventory still open.
At a distance that was not even far from Dichen's body, suddenly his Inventory screen slowly disappeared and turned back into a black hole.
“Loh how?” Slatanis' words stopped from his flight and remained suspended in the air.
‘It looks like it only works for a moment the Mana particles around you reach at a certain quantity,’ Raphaela confirmed.
“Ah is very upsetting,” said Slatanis.
‘Then, let's go directly to the corpses of the monsters .. yes even though many have been destroyed, maybe you can still find a blue bloodstained to be extracted into the air,’ Raphaela suggested.
Slatanis was again speeding flying, and then a moment he reached the intended place, it turned out there was no more blue blood because the bodies were mostly destroyed.
“Well, what a pity,” Slatanis said as he continued to walk among the corpses of the monsters, while the Militias only began to arrive at that place while carrying their tools.
From there, the residents began to pick up the remains of monsters in the middle of an area that was already filled with craters from the magic explosion AOE Slatanis. Then, they immediately built a large cremation site and immediately burned the remains of monsters that did not burn or become ashes.
That afternoon, the militia began clearing the meadow west of Neverhive filled with ash, shredded meat and the charred corpses of monsters in royongs. Until late in the evening, they finished doing it all, and chose to mourn rather than celebrate the victory.
That day, they lost their idol, Samuel Norton.
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