Chapter 11 - Fate

I look at all the items I will bring with me. My main objective in this journey is to buy a rune from the rune shop in the Suikoden universe. Not only buying and attaching a rune into my body, but I also want to hunt monsters in this universe.

Suikoden is the universe tied with something called True Rune. True Rune has power over many things that tie the world. For example, there is a rune called Beast Rune. This rune is one of the 27 True Rune that represents animalistic rage and passion. While this rune is too big for a human to equip it on their body, it can summon a gigantic silver wolf with two heads.

While not unkillable, this beast can cause massive problems to the one fighting it. Not only its physical ability surpasses many humans, but it also can cast many types of spells, from elemental spells to debuff and buff spells.

All True Runes represent a certain aspect of existence, such as punishment, beginning, or even the basic elements (fire, wind, etc.). They are tied to the foundations of the universe, bringing both benefits and curses to its bearer, such as agelessness, immunity to disease, incredible magical powers, but most notably, the ability to control the destinies of entire nations.

While the power of True Rune is really tempting, I don't think I will hunt for those runes. The True Rune has massive power, but every true rune also gives the bearer a curse.

The Rune I want can be considered a common rune, but they are still very powerful. I want to buy Water, Lightning and Fire runes. These Rune can be bought from the rune shop.

There is also a rune I really want, but it was a rare rune. The rune is called Pale Gate Rune or Blue Gate Rune. This Rune can only be obtained from a ċhėst inside a cave called a cave of wind, and that is my destination.

I want to try to get the Pale Gate Rune first, and if I cannot find the rune, I will travel to the nearby city to purchase the other rune.

Anyway, when I arrive in front of the Dimension Hopping room before saying.

"Cave of Wind from Suikoden Universe."

When I see the door open on its own and see a Kaleidoscope color inside the room, I walk inside, and suddenly my view begins to change.

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Riou looked at the people in front of him before sighing a little. He and his companion arrived in front of the Cave of Wind where the Star Dragon Sword was located. Coming with him on this journey are Viktor, Freed Y, Eilie, and his sister Nanami.

After the fight against Neclord, Riou and his companion go to the Cave of Wind to get the Star Dragon Sword, the only sword that kills Neclord, the vampire.

"What? There should be a boulder closed in the cave."

"Viktor is right. There should be a boulder sealed in the cave as there are too many monsters roaming around the cave."

"So there must be a person inside the cave before we come here. Stay alert. We don't know if the person coming inside is hostile or not."

"Roger"

Riou nods his head and follows Viktor's lead. He really hopes the person inside is not hostile but rather a friendly person.

Riou and his companion are already exploring all the corners of the cave. The reason is that Viktor forgot the path inside the cave, so they needed to explore all the corners of the cave to know the location of the sword.

After they successfully cover all the wind holes in the wall, Riou suddenly smells something. It was not something bad, but rather something pleasant. It was the smell of food. Riou is not the only one who can smell it. His companion also smells it.

"Let see what it is."

Riou slowly walked toward the gap near them. As he walks closer, Riou can see smoke coming from the gap between the walls. When they arrive, Riou peeks at the gap and sees a man sitting next to a campfire while waiting for the meat on the fire to be cooked.

The man looked at them with a surprised expression before saying.

"Hello, is there anything I can do for you guys?"

Riou can see while the man asks us politely without any hint of hostility, the man grips his weapon and ready to fight if Riou and his companion become hostile to him.

"I'm sorry to startle you. My name is Riou Genkaku, and we are here to search for a sword called Star Dragon Sword."

"Wait, Neclord is still alive?"

"What do you mean he is still alive?"

"Well, there is this rumor that Neclord is dead. Killed by someone named Viktor? I don't know if the name is true."

Riou looks at Viktor, who looks away, embarrassed when the young man mentions his past.

"Viktor?"

"... Yeah, I fought him in the past and defeated him, but I don't know how he is still alive and well even though I defeated him."

"I see."

After nodding his head at Viktor's explanation, Riou looked at the young man in front of him, who looked at Viktor in a surprised expression. Before he could ask what the problem was, Viktor beat him to it.

"What is it, kid. Are you surprised by my handsomeness?"

The young man nods his head and says.

"To be honest? Yes. I hear the rumor that Viktor is more like a bear and a human hybrid. So pardon for my surprised expression earlier. I don't know that Viktor is human."

"Pfft!"

Riou looks at his sister, who holds her laughter but fails. On the other hand, Viktor looks at Nanami with an annoyed face. After a few seconds of laughing, Nanami looked at the young man before them and asked.

"Yo! What is your name? My name is Nanami! This is my brother Riou, the one with a sword in his back is Freed Y, the woman next to him is Eilie, and lastly, the human-bear hybrid over there is Viktor."

"Oi! Don't call me Human-Bear Hybrid!"

"Anyway, what is your name?"

The young man chuckled a little before saying.

"My name is Isaac Lionheart. I'm a traveler and Treasure hunter. I came to this cave after hearing a rumor about a Blue Gate Rune located inside this cave."

"I see. Do you get the rune you want?"

"Yup. There is this older man that asks me if I want to go back to the cave entrance. Right now, he said that he wants to take a break, however."

After beating all the monsters inside the cave, Issac begins to search for the Blue Gate rune and notices that this cave is really different from the game. The cave is huge, and there are too many branches that lead to a dead end.

However, Isaac successfully finds what he wants inside this cave. Isaac already stores the Rune orbs in his pocket dimension.

While fighting the monster, Isaac can see there are a few differences from the game logic. The fight is not a turn-based fight like in the game, and every person can dodge or attack as much as they want. The AOE attack also can be dodged, but a little bit harder as the attack is so big you need to either leap away from the battlefield or block the incoming attack.

The monster is still dropping some loot that he can take, but it was rare. Isaac only gets money from one out of thirty or so monsters he killed. So while he has some money from hunting the monster inside the Cave of Winds, it was not much. The total amount of money he currently has is 1000 potch.

Potch is the currency of this universe. Potch is a coin made of copper coated with gold. It is no difference between potch, unlike the money from his universe that has a different coin, from Gold, Silver, and Copper.

Not only money, but the monster will also sometimes wear armor, and when Isaac defeats them, they will drop their armor. However, Isaac knew that it was a rare occurrence. After four hours of fighting, Isaac only meets one monster that wears armor.

"Isaac, will you come with us? We need all the power we can get to fight against Neclord the Vampire. I know I ask you too much as I only met you just now, but we really need as much help as we can."

Isaac snaps from his thought when he hears Riou invite him to join the party to defeat Neclord. Now Isaac knows the reason why Riou and his companion came here. At first, he doesn't know which era he arrived at, but it looks like he arrived just in time when Riou was about to fight against Neclord and get a headquarter for his army.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, Isaac nods his head before saying.

"I will come with you."

"Thank you! Thank you very much!"

Just like that, the star of destiny changes without them knowing.