Banshee? No, an ogre!

Chapter 1: The Ogre Lunch Box

Og, I have foreseen this day for a long time... I really want to spend more time with you...'

'Father!!'

...

The morning light of summer shines through the window, reflecting some of the dust in the air.

It also shines on the young man who has just woken from his dream.

Huh...

After taking a few deep breaths, the young man habitually wipes a tear from the corner of his eye.

This young man is none other than the child raised by ogres, Og Kaixin.

He has been out for almost two years and is now sixteen years old.

I didn't think it had been so long, and I dreamt about it again...'.

This unique first-person dream is not entirely Ogre's imagination, and it has something to do with his ability.

In this world, a small percentage of people are born with extraordinary magical abilities.

Ogre is fortunate to be one of them.

He has named his ability 'Ogre Lunchbox'.

When this ability is activated, Oug can obtain some of the memories and extraordinary abilities of a creature that has been dead for less than an hour by eating its body.

It is not necessary to eat the entire body, but the amount eaten must be at least one thousandth of the creature's size.

After activating this ability, the memories gained are presented in a first-person dream.

Oug accidentally used this ability when he was nine years old. This time, he transformed into a bird in his dream.

The sensation of flying was unforgettable.

It was then that he told his father about his ability. His father was not very happy to hear it, and simply told him to use this natural ability with care - because too many external memories could make him lose his own existence.

Og always remembered that.

During this time, he really couldn't tell whether he was a bird or a human.

Therefore, Og always kept this ability in awe and did not use it until after his father's death...

He wanted revenge, and he wanted to see the person he was going to take revenge on!

So he took the initiative to use this dangerous ability and painfully gained his father's memories.

Unfortunately, until the ability was activated and completed, Oug was unable to discover who had actually turned his father into what he was.

In the end, Oug could only see in his dreams that the murderer who had injured and killed his father had used flames.

And the price of this long and repeated dream was that he almost lost himself.

Fire mage... Oug took out the notebook in his pocket that listed the person he wanted to take revenge on.

The Goblin King.

The ogre chief.

The Flame Mage/Unknown Professional (?)

These three are the targets of Oug's vengeance. The Goblin King caused the village's tragedy, the Ogre Chief caused his father's tragedy, and the Unknown Flame Mage was the real culprit who directly caused his father's death.

Turning to the second page of the notebook, he found it densely filled with records of the legends he had collected about resurrection.

However, many of the entries have been crossed out, and the only column left blank is the one for praying to the gods.

Ouge had never believed in gods before, but after his father's death he hoped that the legendary gods might exist, but they were just too far away...

Ouge is not even a formally extraordinary professional.

He has not even completed the so-called Revenge Crusade.

Power... Ouge muttered to himself and turned the notebook to the third page - this was the way he had explored in the past two years to gain power to take revenge.

Knight (x):

To become a knight, apart from breathing techniques and training resources, the most important thing is the knight's bloodline. Oug tested this stuff - he didn't have the aptitude, and it all depends on whether you were born with it or not.

Martial artist (empty):

Oug looked at the Martial Artist column, thought for a moment, then picked up the quill and crossed it out.

Martial artists are the path prepared by the Church of Truth for those who cannot become knights. They practise breathing techniques and build up their physical strength in the same way.

However, if you want to become a professional, the difficulty of becoming a martial artist is more than twice that of becoming a knight at the same level.

This is because martial artists must direct their own mind and energy to achieve balance and integration, a process that usually requires meditation to achieve balance.

A martial artist who has not achieved the integration of the three energies cannot be called a martial artist at all, but only a stronger person.

Only those who have achieved the integration of the three energies and cultivated their vital energy can be considered truly outstanding professionals.

Previously, he had been trying to reach the level of a martial artist and cross the threshold of the professional level.

For this reason, Ouge has been working hard for over a year.

But perhaps because he has used his abilities before, Ouge's three energies have never been able to merge.

Now it seems he may have to give up.

Mage (×).

As well as mental talent, a mage also needs the ability to sense and manipulate magic, and to sense and use the elements.

This is what Ouge tried first, because compared to knights and warriors, mages of the same level can do more damage, are easier to train and have a higher status.

Unfortunately, Ouge had none of these three talents.

If you lack mental talent, you can always make up for it with magic potions, and if your affinity with the elements is not strong enough, you can always transform and become a Shaping Energy mage.

But Oug happened to have a negative perception of magic.

As for the reason, Oug suspected that it might have something to do with his ability.

After swallowing his own father's flesh and blood, Oug discovered that the ogre's meal box talent not only erased memories, but also replicated some of the effects of the eater's race talent.

The prerequisite was that the opponent had to be an exceptional race.

The first bird to activate the Eater ability was not a monster, so Oug gained no abilities.

It wasn't until Oug awoke from the dream of his father's memories that he immediately noticed several additional abilities in his body.

These abilities all came from his beloved father.

Low-level digestive enhancement.

This is a basic ability possessed by most monsters, but ogres stand out in this regard. Through 'training', ogres can become even more powerful, and some can even become lava-digesting fire-stomach ogres.

Enhance low level regeneration.

This is another basic monster ability. Monsters that cannot heal themselves have largely been eliminated.

Basic Resistance to Magic and Poison.

This is the ability that the ogre clan relies on for survival, and it is a rare ability among monsters - perhaps because the ancestors of ogres fed on mithril, ogres are naturally resistant to magic, giving them good resistance to basic magic and poisons.

That sounds good, but there's a problem. Resistance to magic is a mixed blessing. This resistance makes the effect of Oug's potion consumption surprisingly weak.

It has taken away his greatest advantage as a human - his adaptability to magic.

It has directly cut off his path to becoming a mage.

But even if Oug had to choose again, he would not regret it!

He has no choice but to follow the truth.

I still have to work hard," Oug said, looking at his pale hands, which did not look like those of a martial artist.

The body's passive ability to heal had kept Oug's skin in good condition.

His hands looked better maintained than those of an ordinary noblewoman, and no one could tell that they were hands that had fought a lot - not even a single callus.

'I still have other directions to choose from...' Oug looked at the last two columns on the page.

Witch (pending).

Unlike mages, witches are illegal in the Kingdom of Engador.

Oug didn't want to choose this path if he didn't have to - it would make him a wanted criminal.

No one knew where the first witches came from.

This was the only way for those without magical senses who wanted to use magic.

A transplant of an extraordinary organ or the consumption of a f*******n sequence magic pill could turn a mortal into a (witch) professional.

It sounds so wonderful...

But there are often side effects to extraordinary organs or f*******n potions - either physical collapse and death, or the gradual loss of one's true self. It is said that the more advanced the wizard, the more like a monster he becomes...

The most famous of these are the legendary Dragon Sleepers - they can actually turn into dragons.

Of course, Oug doesn't have to worry about this at the moment, as he can't even get his hands on f*******n potions.

Mentalist (blank).

This is a very special profession.

To become a mentalist, all you have to do is condense the seed of a mental image through visualisation.

There are no other requirements. But having no requirements is the greatest requirement of all. Usually you cannot condense a mental image before you become an adult, so you should basically forget about it for the rest of your life.

As for the benefits of becoming a Mental Image Artist, Ouge is not sure - as he has not yet condensed a mental image, the profession is very mysterious.

He only knows that a profession that can be used as a standard for professionals must be useful and powerful.

Looking at the title of 'Mind Image Master', Oug sighed: 'One more year...

In one year, he would reach adulthood, which was the age of majority on this continent. After reaching adulthood, the option of becoming a Mind Image Master would be basically ruled out.

Until then, the only path left for Oug would be that of a sorcerer.

I won't give up! In fact, Oug still had one more path to choose from.

That was his innate ability, the Ogre's Lunchbox.

Without this ability, Oug would probably have given up on his impractical revenge long ago. It was the irrational power of devouring that gave him confidence and conviction.

The Ogre's Lunchbox.

This ability does not activate at will.

Oug felt that if he did not fully 'digest' the last 'food' before activating this ability, something dangerous would happen.

Before his revenge was complete, Oug did not dare to gamble.

Besides, if he wanted to rely on this ability to loot and replicate extraordinary power... there were other requirements - Oug could not be much weaker than the 'food' that was the feedback left from the last time he had devoured it.

Of course, if the opponent willingly 'ate' before dying, this restriction might be broken.

This restriction meant that after 'digesting' the ogre's power for the past two years, Oug had only done one more 'eat'.

It took Oug almost a year and a half to get rid of the extraordinary abilities from the previous 'digestion' of the ogre.

Oug felt that this was probably because he had 'eaten' a life stronger than his own.

So for the second time, he chose a less powerful monster - the Talon Falcon.

This is a very common, low-level monster bird in the Monster Forest that hunts magic rabbits for a living. It is common and ordinary.

The reason for choosing it was

was that Oug remembered the first creature he used his power to eat - a bird. He felt that it would be much easier to digest if he ate the same kind of creature.

Of course, it was still quite difficult for Oug to catch a magic hawk, so he simply bought one from a hunter at the monster market.

Again, it was much easier to digest.

Perhaps it was because of his previous experience as a bird, or perhaps it was because the demon he ate this time had a short lifespan; Oug was not as affected as he had been the previous two times.

But still.

It took him almost half a year to digest.

But there was good news. Because of the high degree of digestion, the power Og received was much more complete.

Although he did not get the mighty talon power he wanted,

he did gain an even more incredible practical power - Super Dynamic Vision!

The Hawk's dynamic vision is very powerful, and as a Demon Hawk, it is even more so. This ability has allowed his vision to reach a terrifying level.

This has played a small but useful role in Oug's wealth accumulation over the past six months.

Get ready for some new 'food' as well...

Oug let out a breath, put down his laptop, stood up and walked to the metal mirror to tie up his long hair, which extended past his shoulders.

His hair grew relatively quickly, so he had to cut it often.

The reason he didn't shave it was because it would be too conspicuous.

Og didn't want to stand out too much, and the length of his hair was just right, a relatively normal and unremarkable length among the inhabitants - provided you ignored the face, which was even better looking than a girl's.

After tying up his hair and wiping his face a little, Og took a wax mask from his bag - he had made it after learning his father's disguise method in a dream.

It was made by mixing silver needles with beeswax and the fat scraped from a magic rabbit, and then applying it to the face after treating it with herbs.

After removing the mask and leaving it to dry in the sun for three days, it could be used for several months.

After wearing the mask, one would appear slightly rigid and paralysed, but that was enough for Ouge, as long as he did not show his true face.

Ouge was well aware of the trouble this face would cause him.

Even though he was protected by the laws of the Empire, it was still very easy for a professional to hurt a non-professional.

It is always better to prevent trouble than to fix it after it has happened. Oug will not save a little effort and invite even more trouble... He is too weak and must always be careful.

His father has always taught him this.

After covering his beautiful face with a simple mask, Oug took a mask out of his bag with satisfaction.

I have to earn today's money first.

He walked out the door, down an empty street, put the mask on his face and transformed.

He became a regular in the gladiatorial arena, and not just any regular.

Because of his speckled mask, Oug was incredibly famous in the apprentice gladiatorial arena.

He had a very loud and embarrassing nickname there:

The Strongest Mortal!

The Strongest Mortal 'Gourmet'!