Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Back To The Island

In an hour, the boat took us back to Venezia Island. As we entered the Island’s waterways, I could see the snakes slithering out of the streets. With their leader gone, they were now scurrying away in hiding. We docked outside the Church. Father Jacob and the other townsfolk came out to see what was happening to the streets.

 

“Hey, Father.”, I waved at the old priest.

 

“Oh, Sir Ray, have you closed the Dungeon already.?” 

 

I nodded at him, flashing him a smile. “I promised you, didn’t I?”

 

Hearing my words, all the townspeople started to cheer. A few of them came forward and started to thank me. I just flashed them an awkward smile.

 

“Please Sir, come in.”, Father Jacob invited me into the church seeing my awkward state. I followed him into the same plain-looking office. Mike followed suit.

 

Behind me, I could hear some boat engines running. The townspeople are probably going back to their houses now, though it will take a few days for them to resume their daily lives again. 

 

“We thank you for helping us, Sir Ray. The town is grateful for all you have done.”

 

“It's okay. There was-”

 

“Father, you won’t believe it. I Awakened.”, Mike cut me off.

 

Father turned towards Mike in surprise. “Oh Lord, that’s so amazing, Mike. I am sure your father will be very proud of you.”

After a moment, I spoke up, “Hey, Mike. Would you mind waiting outside for a moment? I have something I need to talk to Sir Ray here.

 

Mike obediently left the room. I kind of knew where this conservation was going to head.

 

“Sir Ray, I hate to impose on you, but may I ask you for another favour?”, Father began nervously.

 

“I suppose you want me to take Mike with me to the Human Continent?”, I voiced his thoughts for him.

 

“I am very sorry about this. The islanders don’t like Mike very much. I try to help him as much as I can but even I am reaching my limits considering my old age. Now that Mike has got such a wonderful opportunity in front of me, I would hate for him to miss it.”

 

The door burst open and Mike marched in. “Father, if I go to the Human Continent, you need to come with me.”

 

“Mike, we shouldn’t burden Sir Ray too much. A portal to the Human Continent is way too expensive. And I don’t want you to miss such an opportunity for an old man like me.”

“But Father…”

 

“Can I add something to your squabble.”, I interrupted. “Father, I am in no way lacking in finances to not be able to teleport two people. Not to mention, right now I only have one Return Marble with me. So forget yourself, I won’t be able to take Mike with me either. And Mike, I was always going to bring you with me to the Human Continent. You have too much potential to leave you on this small island.”

 

“But, Father-”, he started but I shushed him with a finger to my lips.

 

“Father, I will need at least a month to arrange for proper accommodations for Mike. Also, I reside in the Academy dorms, so I would need someone to look after Mike in his new residence. It will be helpful if it's someone he’s familiar with.”

 

“All right, Sir Ray, I would take you up on your offer.”, Father finally gave up. I could see he held a lot of affection for Mike. He would have given up on his stubbornness sooner or later.

 

“Father, can you tell me what the best lodge is here? My return isn’t for another few days and I don’t have a suitable place to rest.”

 

“Oh of course. The best place to stay will be at Maria’s. Mike will take you there. I once again can't thank you enough for helping us.”

 

I gave him a gentle nod, before leaving the Church. The lodge I was guided to was a three-storey house on a beach. It seemed clean and well-kept from the outside, which I was thankful for. Mike left me at the door, saying he had to get back to his house

 

When I walked in, a lady in her mid-50s greeted me. She had dark hair and tanned skin, which seemed to be native to this area. Behind her, a girl who I presumed to be her daughter, was dusting the counter.

 

When they saw it was me, the daughter rushed in front of me.

 

“Oh my, Mr. Hero. What brings someone like you to our humble establishment?”

 

“Oh, I am looking for a room for a few days.”

 

“Oh, please, right this way. For the person who saved our town, I will provide you with our best room.

 

The room she took me to was a plain room on the second floor, with a queen bed and a small side table and chair. But it had plenty of sunlight and was well-ventilated. It overlooked the beach, giving it quite a nice feel.

 

“Thank you for the room.”

 

“No problems, Sir Hero. Dinner begins at 7.30 PM, but we can also send your meal to your room.” She explained before leaving the room.

 

I jumped into the bed as soon as she left. It's been days since I had slept in an actual bed and my bones were aching from all that camping and fighting. For a city boy like me, this kind of lifestyle was really exhausting. I closed my eyes and the next thing I knew, it was already evening. 

 

I dropped into the shower and after getting freshened up, I went down to have my dinner. The restaurant, whose entrance was beside the reception, already had other customers inside. When I entered the room, they stopped chatting and stared at me.

 

I quickly took an empty seat and ordered a soup and prawn dish. Soon, the daughter brought me my order, and I started digging in. I could sense the other customers’ lingering gazes on me as I ate. They were whispering amongst themselves, though it wasn’t hard to catch their words with my sensitive hearing.

 

“That Hero must be really strong for closing such a hard Dungeon by himself.”

 

“I hear that the Harpoon kid was the one who took the Hero to the Dungeon. He was bragging about it all over town.”

 

“What use would that troublemaker be inside a Dungeon? He must just have been in the Hero’s way. If I sent my Jake with the Hero, he would have been so much more helpful than that kid.”

 

“Did you know, that Harpoon kid was lying to everyone that the Hero gave him powers or something?”

 

“Haa. That kid is a liar, just like his father was. Saying he had friends in the Hero League. Well, those ‘friends’ never came whenever he asked. That liar, just showing off until his lies were revealed.”

 

“Well, maybe this will give us a chance to throw that kid out of our city.”

 

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I was pretty surprised by all the negative comments that were flowing around about Mike. But since I was an outsider, I couldn’t really call them off, so I just left for my room. As I sat on the chair, thinking about Mikael’s story in the novel, I took a look at my arm.

 

“Ah, I completely forgot about him.” The black snake tattoo was still there on my arm. “Deus, come out.”

 

The tattoo slowly started to move, and Deus raised his head before the rest of his body started to follow. Soon the tattoo was gone, and its real-life golden replica was wrapped around my arm.

 

Arcadeus was on the verge of crying. “Master, you are so cruel. How could you forget about me?”

 

“Sorry about that, my friend.” I apologised. He was my Spirit, so I should have a relationship with him.

 

Deus started slithering around the room, exploring the new place.

 

“So, Master, what are you doing on this island?”

 

“Hmm. I just came to sight-see.” Deus might be my Spirit, but there’s no way I am telling my secret to a talking snake. 

 

“Master, you do realise I am now bonded to you, right? I can tell when you are lying.”

 

“I feel like I am getting the short-stick of the deal here.”

 

“If you are so concerned with me spilling your secrets, you can always order me to secrecy with the Spirit Seal on your hand.”

 

“Spirit Seal?”, I checked my hand again to find a tattoo slowly inking into existence. It kinda looked like a tiny snake that was curled around my middle finger. I remembered reading about Spirit Seals in the books. They could be used to summon your Spirit, no matter where they were. And if the Spiritualist has a high enough rank, then they can even use the Spirits skills. 

 

“So, what were you doing in the Dungeon, master?”, Deus asked me again.

 

“Well, I got information that a Spirit Seed was supposed to appear in that Dungeon.” It technically wasn’t a lie.

 

“Ahh, then I guess we were meant to be together, Master.” Deus declared, snuggling close to my leg.

 

“Yeh, I doubt that.”

 

I took my smartwatch out of my dimensional ring and placed it on the table. The smartwatches here doubled as both smartphones and laptops in my previous world. I had stored it in my ring before entering the whirlpool and then totally forgot about it.

 

I pulled up a desktop screen. It floated above the table, popping up multiple notifications. Looks like my students had started posting their assignments. 

 

“Um, Master, I am kind of hungry right now.”

 

“Ah, right, I forgot about that. What do you eat, by the way? I can ask Maria to send some fish if you would like?”

 

“Normal meat isn’t good enough for me. They don’t have enough mana in them for them to taste good. Could you take out the monster corpses that are in your ring?”

 

“You mean the s-snake monsters?”

 

“Yeh.”, Deus looked at me with sparkling eyes, looking like a Labrador that had just found a new toy.

 

Looks like I had just adopted a cannibal snake. Well, as long as it didn’t eat humans, I was okay. I took out the small Red Snakes that Mike had killed. Deus immediately started feasting on it, ripping the outer skin off and tearing into the flesh with his fangs, before swallowing the chunks of meat. I decided to keep the bigger ones that I had killed inside since I didn’t think Maria would appreciate 40-foot-long snake bodies in her room. I decided to feed them to Deus later.

 

I could have sold the corpses too, but Spirits ranked up after collecting enough mana in their body. It was more fruitful for me to invest them into Deus rather than change them for some cash. Anyway, for the cash, I was thinking of selling Ray’s Potions on the black market after I produced them. 

 

I quickly typed in the black market name I had read in the novel. 

 

Pandora’s Box. 

 

It was a very special organisation that dealt in the underworld. Rather than an organisation, it would be much more accurate to say it was a Dungeon. A sentient Dungeon. No one knew where it was located or who operated it, but one day it just latched to the Internet like a parasite and established itself as one of the biggest dark websites. 

 

In fact, Earth wasn’t the only place it could be accessed from. Various other planets had it too, so it couldn’t even be said if the Dungeon was on our planet or not. Even I didn’t know where Pandora’s Box was and I was the reader of the novel. But people did say that if you raided the Dungeon, you could find enough Artifacts in it to be able to buy an entire planet.

 

I quickly pulled up the website. There was a biometric lock in the middle of the screen. I placed my index finger on it and sent a shock of mana into it. Immediately, I was brought to the website’s homepage. 

 

Usually, someone needs to pass a lot of security restrictions to be able to register here. But, I never doubted that Ray would be denied access. Every famous Hero had an access pass to it and Ray was the son of the owner of the Rank #5 Guild. It was another fact that he never used it, but he would have been forced to register by his father. 

 

I scrolled through the site. There were quite a variety of products in it. Potions, monster corpses, Artifacts, and even slaves. There were also several brokers logged in, selling information. Though the prices that were displayed in front of them could make one’s eyes pop out. Every day stuff like mass-produced weapons and monster corpses were sold at market price. But anything rare or unique was sold for hundreds of millions of R.

 

I decided to search for something. I quickly typed in ‘Monster Repelling Potion’, but my search came up empty.

 

‘Looks like there is nothing like Ray’s potions being sold here. Well, they are pretty special. I doubt anyone has come up with them yet.’

 

Looks like Monster Repellents will be the first potion I would sell here. I had seen their effects first-hand. Usually, some non-combatant Heroes and researchers also entered the Dungeons to research the fantastical flora and fauna found there. Heroes with combat abilities were usually hired to protect them since they were very weak. This Potion could very well solve this problem and increase the security of the researchers.

 

I took the Potion Notebook out of the ring. The Monster Repelling Potions seemed quite easy to make. It didn’t use any rare ingredients. But, I didn’t have any of the equipment for distillation and other processes. So I decided to think about it when I got back. 

 

‘If I remember correctly, Ray had another house before he came into the Star Academy. It had a lab attached to it. I better go to his house when I return.”

 

I hadn’t really explored the world outside the Star Academy in the two months I was here. This excursion to Venezia Island was my first Other-World excursion. 

 

“Snore. Snore.”

 

I turned back to find Deus sleeping on the floor, not a trace of its meal left behind. The golden hairy-viper looked cute while sleeping, kind of like a puppy.

 

I chuckled at myself, comparing a monster to a harmless puppy, after remembering the amount of destruction it had spread in the original novel.

 

I went back to my screen, now checking the assignments I had gotten in the mail.

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