Chapter 96: No lazy bones

Chapter 96: No lazy bones

I thank you for your answers, Sofia said, actually giving a slight bow to show her appreciation.

There was an instant of uncomfortable silence.

No need to thank me. You paid for them. Now show me your murder history and we will be done for today.

My murder history? Thats a thing? Why should I show you?

This caused a very ugly frown to show up on Valeures face. Her sharp canines were visible.

Sofia. Out of all things that do not amuse me

Ugh. Fine. Whatever. How do I do this? I have nothing to be ashamed of.

[Murder history privacy setting is now public]

[Murder history : Sophia **********]

[Armand Anzan Ovohen - Magisterium lv. 164][Akramaiazerfen - Son of Dread lv. 99][Jarvaud - Sailor lv. 42]; [Alester - Carpenter lv. 38]; [Eskan - Cannoneer lv. 65] ;[Veyan - Sailor lv. 52][Zhng L - Flamebringer lv. 182][Adrien - Butcher lv. 53]; [Marie - Illusionist lv. 87]; [Blaize - Swordsman lv. 99]; [Pascal - Thief lv. 82]

Involuntary : 4/11

Valeure merely glanced through it, talking before Sofia could read the first line. She relaxed as if her previous expression had never happened, Quite the amusing list. Alright, youre good to go.

Either that's a very high level [Fast reading] or she didnt actually look. Interesting that it let me hide the name. Don't want to bring any more attention on myself for now.The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

The fox woman summoned a small golden thing in her hand that she threw for Sofia to catch, Wear this at all times from now on, thatll save you some troubles. Ill send you back now. Do come back another time if you have a cursed item to sell or something. Im not always here so you can leave messages at the temple Farewell, it was amusing meeting you, Sofia.

Barely managing to catch the small golden trinket, a mana rich gust of wind picked up Sofia and flew her out of the coliseum. It then brought her back to the ground at a moderate pace.

Above the clouds, Sofia took an instant to take in the majesty of the sky once again.

Still though, this was quite the abrupt end

But I guess she did say she had matters to attend to.

[Fast reading] reached level 52

I wonder what Alith has been up to. Were still stuck at 119 Well, no matter. It is time to initiate the last plan before I go west: Pareth the colossus!

If the system wanted to keep breaking, she would be the one to initiate the breakage. And what better way than to turn her main summon into an unkillable juggernaut?

Watch as I turn Pareth into a being capable of miracles!

She had done some math, now that she was starting to have a better idea about how Pareth's stats worked, and the numbers she came up with were downright absurd. She couldn't wait. The first step was to procure a good base skeleton.

The criteria were : humanoid, about three meters tall, hands that can hold weapons, as heavy as possible. Simple enough. Three meters tall was about the maximum height she could have him be if she wanted him to be able to also fight in tight indoor spaces and heavy was to maximize the effects of his blessing of bloating.

As such, she found the perfect target for a good skeleton : stone ogres. Regular ogres were monsters around level 80, supposedly they didnt have much going on for them beyond their big size and strength. They were known to live in some remote forest areas. Stone ogres were a dangerous variant that lived in groups, were usually closer to level 200, and came with powerful stone magic to boot. But most importantly, they were very heavy, in part due to their sturdy skeleton. They also boasted two frontal horns and spikes along the spine, which Sofia found really cool. If they had a single flaw it was their blunt teeth, compared to the regular ogres sharp fangs. It couldnt be helped since they primarily ate stone.

Following directions she had bought for a fair price from a group of Dwarves with the adventurers' guild as the intermediary, Sofia flew north-east.

She also wore the Saint Alliance brooch. From her research, it seemed the Saint Alliance was a relatively low-profile group of peace adhering saints, which operated on the principle of a non-aggression rule between members. And more importantly for Sofia, it was a sign for all who could understand that she was part of a powerful organization. She had found at least three records of events that she believed to be big groups getting trashed for killing a Saint of the Alliance. Although no one was found to be responsible for the attacks. And these were not peaceful occasions in the least.

The soulbound part of the description was a bit scary at first, any time that had shown up until now was with items from the system. But after searching for a bit, what she found reassured Sofia a great deal. A soulbound item meant its magical properties couldnt be used by anyone else, and if it was separated from you, you could follow the connection to find it. That was it. The only way to undo it was to destroy the object, and if you died, the object would self-destruct. It was essentially the ultimate anti-theft magic enchantment. And it was very expensive to produce, getting harder to place on an object the higher level and grade it was in the first place.

She couldnt find much more about the group she was now a part of, except the name of the founder : Valeure Dargent.

She really could have at least explained the basics before sending me out Am I her subordinate now? No thats not what the name Alliance implies. Well, Scriptures, the Deep, Sorrow, whats one more pair of eyes on me at this point?

All that matters is that Im free.

Sofia re-entered the massive mountain chain north of the human kingdoms, then she turned to go fully east. Couvauz was already the easternmost kingdom of the human continent, but she needed to go further. Further east were only craggy hills, and then huge cliffs gave way to the ocean.

If she followed the cliffs north, a tribe of Stone Ogres had been spotted up there by the group of Dwarves a few months back, it was just a matter of locating them. Sofia hoped they hadnt moved too much.

Man, these Dwarves are terrible at drawing maps!

She exclaimed to herself, lost in the hills.

Did I get scammed? If Valeure has a skill to see through lies I want to have it too