Chapter 2: Lionheart's Solitude

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Note: This Chapter shall be written in a first-person perspective

After a 5 day hike, I was able to make to the capital of the kingdom, Solitude, I guess they named the kingdom after their city? Anyways, when I got it, wasn't what I expected, as I entered the front gate the area looks.. barren to say the least. It looked like an poverty town if anything, dirty stone walls, wooden shelters in front of people's door and no windows, just cloth of some type of canvas blocking view for privacy. I walked in of course, but I was so shocked and horrified to find this kingdom- not the city in such a state. However I seen encountered a board that has a detailed map of the capital and I am more shocked on the size. It's way bigger then Vatican City back in my way but it doesn't have any measurements so I can not accurately say its size itself. What it details is the city is similar to the Vatican City, but not quite. There is three rings; Outer, Inner and Central rings, the walls that acts as defenses so when one wall breaks the enemy still need get through another ring. However it seems the Outer Ring is a neglected place out of the Inner or Central, which I assume is far better then this. However my job right now is not to meddle in their affairs, I need to get to the guild and start work to earn cash.

As I walked through these streets, many people's eyes were on me, of course considering I am in what many seems very expensive equipment and the fact I am like way larger then they are. I made it to the guild and I walked inside to see a lot of people, but they seem like thugs and gangsters, criminal-looking people, almost like those in the Alessian Faction back in YGGDRASIL. The faction was known to hunt down and kill non-human players for fun and sport, and that was a common thing at some time in the game, but that was done and over before the game shut down and I got sent here. I walked to the counter and spoke with the woman there. I was able to get myself set up as an adventure, but despite how I look I am set to the copper rank, the lowest but I suppose rules are rules. However I do hear a lot of people murmuring to themselves, one of them talking about how I am from the central ring and very rich. That confirms that the Central Ring is the richest place, but I will not allow someone to talk about me about my own back. I go to walk across but stop once a foot stepped in front of me, I of course stop as I looked down at the man, a pitiful sight to say the least with a smug face I rather tear it out.

"How delightful that breaking your ankle is a customary service for you." I told him as I not only walk by him but I slightly kick his foot, the kick that could've break his Achilles' hill. He jolted as he screamed in pain and got up to my face, well to the best he can since I am over 7 feet tall.

"Are you insane fatty, who do you thi--- GAHH" Before the man even began to insult me and try to assortment his authority over me, I grabbed his hair and pulled him to my eye level, he was floating in the air as I held him and he tried to get me to let go, but he's very weak... **very** weak indeed.

"What was that? You call me fat and yet I wear armour that'll make crush you like a toothpick, strength that'll put all of you to shame. Come now, continue what you were saying, I am so intrigued on what you have to say." I told him threatening but the man stayed silent and went to apologise and that he wont do anything. I set him down and I told him, and to everyone else that if anyone has something to say about me, they say to my face. Of course none came so I walked out with a simple bronze job and I go to work.

Now after that confrontation, nothing has been insane since then as I work in the guild and performing quests at a bronze-level. However due to my stats I quickly rose to become quite a well known adventurer with a 100% client satisfaction, mainly the fact I can do what they want me to do. In the first five months since coming to this New World, I was promoted the *Platinum*-class, the fifth highest rank under Mithril. As I did perform duty, one of the quest I got had be me outside the kingdom of Solitude's capital and I head north. Apparently a village head sent out a request to assist dealing with bandit raids, and I took the job. It took some time, a week maybe, could be longer since I walked it. I got near the village until a man appeared and inserted his blade into my helmet but I stood as I looked at him, freaking the man out.

"W-what the hell?" The man said, a armoured soldier from the looks of it. I raised my blade and cut the man down effortlessly with my Excalibur as his upper body went flying from his lower half. As soon I killed the man, I finally noticed they were killing the villagers, men on horseback as well as I saw one cut down a man with a child under him. This enraged me and I called forth a Death Knight. As I did, the enemy armoured knights took notice of my presence and were seemingly awed and now terrified of my Death Knight. It's a level-35 summon and I bet these humans are not even level 1 due to their reaction.

"Death Knight." I called to the Death Knight as it looked at me. "You see those armoured men, I want you to slaugther every single one and protect the villagers from further harm." The Death Knight understood my command and began its do has its commanded, killing the armoured knights. I walked foreward to the child and the now-dead father as I lift both of them up. I used Detect Life and found a surviving group towards the south from my position. I head there but I did encountered by knights, but they were easily killed with just a simple kick. I delivered the dead father and the now-fatherless child to the people, whose mother was thankful to bringing her child but also to her dead father for a proper burial. I told them all is fine as I am handling the attackers as I walked out to confront the attackers themselves.

Seeing the line of mage looking attackers, I have the feeling their from the Slane Theocracy. I heard much about them thanks to my carer as an adventurer and the Theocracy I consider to being an magicractic society, a society fundementally ruled by magic due to the fact the Great Gods formed it. They also hands angels from YGGDRASIL and from what I seen while being here, it's almost impossible for anything magic caster to summon these angels.