Mindonics Entrapment

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

It knew it was looking into a being who was more powerful than itself. The Crab started to ease the pressure on its claws and started to walk backwards away from Ray.

"What is going on?" Tuffy asked.

"It looks almost scared; I've never seen that before." Candy said.

But Ray wasn't going to let the Grab go off that easy. Now that the Grab no longer had its claws on Ray, his hands were free. He placed both of them into the muddy water and then activated his skill "Ice bind."

The muddy water started to turn into a trail of Ice until it had eventually reached the grabs leg's that were hidden underwater. The front two of its legs were frozen. The ice wasn't powerful though because of the low points in Ray's ice attribute but he didn't need it to be.

Ray just needed the Crab to stay still for a single moment. Ray Gathered the strength in his gauntlets and punched it in the centre of its body. Suddenly, cracks formed across its whole body. The crab was badly hurt but it was indeed an advanced creature, one punch wouldn't be enough.

Ray continued to repeatedly punch the Crab each time damaging its hard shell more and more until eventually, a piece had broken and flew off. Finally, a notification screen had appeared.

Ray kissed at his teeth as he saw the notification screen pop up. Ray was hoping that the system wouldn't have given him a crystal for this one, as what he needed more than anything right now was a weapon. Ray still had the spear from Killer but Ray wasn't very skilled at using a spear.

He missed using a sword. Although the gauntlets were powerful, they had a problem with them. They were a brute force weapon and were blunt. If Ray had a high tier sword during the fight with the crab, he probably would have been able to deal with it a lot quicker slicing the Crab in half. Instead, he had to attack the Crab several times with his fist.

Tuffy immediately Ran up to Ray once the crab's body had fallen into the muddy water.

"Wow that was amazing, what rank are you? you must at least be an A-Class adventurer."

"A class?" Ray didn't know much about how guild's ranks worked, although they did teach this at school Ray would only pay attention to the things that interested in him.

Tuffy started to look all over Ray as if he was trying to find something.

"Huh, I don't see your tag anywhere?"

"Tag?" Ray replied

"You know this," Tuffy said as he pulled out a chain that was around his neck. At the end of the chain was a dog tag made of metal that was Red in colour.

"You see mine and Candy's are red, which means we're F class adventures."

"Oh yes, now I remember I lost it; I must get a new one when I can."

Ray was trying his best to cause no suspicion but then realised if he truly wanted to have this secret identity of an adventurer, he would have to learn about them. To make his story more believable it would be best if Ray joined a Guild under the adventurer's name Nes. But that would have to wait for now, while there were still things going on at Avrion.

Tuffy smiled and then paused before going over to the Mud Crab. Although it was dead and unmoving Tuffy still remembered that he and his sister had nearly died from it.

"Don't worry about getting the crystal form it, I already retrieved it during the fight," Ray said.

The three of them then started to head back out of the swamp area.

"So, what are you going to do now Nes?" Candy asked.

Ray now had a total of 25 Intermediate crystals he had obtained from the system and 22 intermediate crystals in his endless void. He was pretty sure that this amount would be enough for him and Noir to evolve. All he needed to do now was to find a quiet place.

"If you don't have anything to do you can come back to our town with us, you can get the reward money for destroying that Crab?"

Ray wasn't interested in getting a reward for defeating the crab. He was more interested in getting a room for the night where he could sleep and be alone.

Ray then asked the kids where this town was and it wasn't too far from where he was meant to meet the merchant the next day. It was getting late and the sun was starting to set, Beasts were a lot more active at night and Ray needed to be in an absolute safe spot when he was evolving. Last time he was unable to move from the pain and couldn't imagine if something tried to attack him.

"Okay, sounds like a good idea," Ray replied.

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151 - A New Evolution

151 - A New Evolution

151 - A New Evolution

The two kids along with Ray had finally arrived at the nearby town. The town was quite small compared to Avrion City. Which was expected but it was still big compared to Ray's village. The estimated population of the town was about a 1000 people.

The sun had now completely set and the streets were lit up with light crystals in lamps. It was quite a beautiful sight Ray thought.

Because of the time, the kids needed to head back to their family as soon as possible, otherwise, their parents would start to worry. They had agreed to take Ray to the guild early in the morning before he was due to set off.

Before heading , the Kid's took Ray to a nearby Inn to sleep for the night. When Ray arrived at the desk, he realised that he had no coins on him to pay for the room for the night.

"Do you accept Beast crystals?" Ray asked

"Only Coin!" The middle-aged women behind the desk said.

Candy then pulled some coins out of a little purse she had and put two bronze coins on the desk.

"Is this okay Auntie?"

The women looked at Ray and scoffed at him.

"Getting a kid to pay for your room." The women mumbled as she walked off to get a key.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to bring money out with me," Ray said

"It's okay," Candy said with a smile, "The three crystals you gave us will bring us a lot more than that."

After Ray was handed the room Key the two kids waved goodbye and agreed to meet Ray at the Inn bright and early in the morning.

Ray entered the Inn room which was pretty bare. All there was in the room was a bed and a desk. It felt like he was back at the dorms in the academy. Ray sat on the bed and made sure no one was around him before deactivating his transform skill.

"Finally," Ray said.

The transform skill didn't take up much mana. If Ray wasn't fighting the amount of mana used would be gained back, which meant he could keep up the Nes form forever. It was still a strange feeling though; he could feel when the mana left his body and when it returned. It was as if he was consistently eating all the time and then going to the toilet.

Ray then opened up the status screen, he currently held 25 intermediate crystals that he was able to absorb. First, he would give the Crystals to Noir and save 5 for himself just in case Noir didn't evolve.

Last time Noir took a while to evolve, Ray didn't know the reason for this as his own evolution was almost instant.

Ray then started to feed the crystals to Noir one by one and slowly saw Noir's numbers go up until finally.

Elemental wolf.

The wolf will be given a random element attribute. Depending on the attributes given the wolf will have a resistance to that element, as well as perform certain attacks with that element.

Battle Wolf

This is a unique class of wolf that is only available to wolf's that have an "Owner" The wolf can equip weapons and battle armour made from Beast crystals. Note: Armour must be specially made for the wolf.

Ray looked at the two options and was struggling on which one to choose. The elemental wolf could be powerful but that really depended on what element it would get. If it got a rare element like thunder then it was defiantly worth it but it wasn't a guarantee.

The second option interested Ray quite a bit. There were search things as Tamer Mages. These mages were able to tame Beasts that had weaker magical ability then itself, so it wasn't unusual for someone to have a pet Beast but was rare. The thing was, Ray had never seen a magical beast wearing crystal armour before, this was a first for him.

After thinking over it for a while, Ray decided that Option B would be beast. The better equipment he could get for the Wolf only meant he was able to get stronger.

Last time Noir had taken years to evolve, Ray was hoping it wouldn't take that long this time as Noir had proved not only useful but a good companion for trips when he was on his own.

Now it was finally time for Ray to use the crystals on himself.

Ray started to absorb the crystals one by one and he could see his points slowly going up.

...

And finally.

Unlike with Noir, Ray had no option to choose from and the evolution had started immediately. A burning sensation could be felt throughout his body. Ray was doing everything he could to hold in his voice.

The pain seemed to be worse this time compared to before, he could see his bones breaking down forming again, his muscles being torn apart, forming again and again. It was the worst pain Ray had ever felt in his life.

Ray had clenched his hands so hard together that his nails had pierced his skin and blood was starting to drip onto the white bedsheets.

Then suddenly, the pain started to go away. Ray could start to feel a burst of energy. Once again all of the senses in his body had improved. He could hear the people from several rooms over. The people out on the streets.

His senses were currently too heightened and he needed a minute or two before he could adjust to everything. Then finally Ray opened his eyes.

Last time Ray had gone through an evolution his body hadn't changed but this time, when he looked down at his arms, they were different.

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152 - Race Change

152 - Race Change

152 - Race Change

Ray looked at the message then suddenly had a thought; did this mean that the evolution had a chance of failing. If it did, then would this mean that Ray would die? Or would he simply not evolve or even could no longer evolve. It was a message that hadn't appeared last time.

The system was truly a strange thing.

Then another notification had popped up.

Ray was no longer a Dragon knight but now was a new race called, Draco. With the Race change, Ray quickly then looked at his body to see if he noticed any differences. The first thing that stood out to Ray was his arms.

Where they used to be a clear smooth skin on his arms, it was now replaced with a scale pattern. The scales started from his hands and slowly started to fade as it went up to his arms but not only that. Ray had what looked like fins on the side of his forearms. Only, when Ray went to touch them, they were as hard as a rock.

Inside the bathroom, Ray was looking at himself in a small mirror to see if there were any other changes to his body. The mirror showed that his body had mostly retained its shape apart from the thin like things on his arm but with a single look people could tell he wasn't fully human.

Ray had the biggest smile on his face. At last, he was slowly turning back into a Dragon. Ray then thought of the possibility with each evolution he would slowly start to get his Dragon form back.

There were a few more changes that Ray had noticed, when using his dragon eyes skill on himself he could see his aura had changed. The red aura had grown in size compared to the yellow aura. The yellow aura still dominated most of Ray's body though.

When Ray left the bathroom there was one more thing that shocked him more than anything. It was his bedsheets. He lifted up the bedsheet and looked at the stained marks on them. There were small droplets of blood markings but these weren't bright red like a human, it was darker than usual.

Ray thought back to when he was in the middle of his evolution, he remembered trying to bear through the pain and while doing so he ended up digging his own fingers into the palm of his hand, causing blood to be drawn.

When Ray went to look at his palms they had completely healed, there wasn't even a mark, suggesting that he had been hurt. Ray then put his thumb into his mouth and bit down just hard enough to cause blood to be drawn.

A dark red colour could be seen. Almost too dark to notice it was blood. This was a problem. One of the clear differences between humans and beats was their blood colour. Black blood indicated it was from a beast while Red blood was from humans.

Ray could use his transform skill to cover up the markings on his arms but there was nothing he could do about his blood. For now, it was okay as the blood was just darker than usual which wouldn't arouse suspicion but, in the future, Ray would truly have to worry about this.

After finishing his evolution Ray went to look at the time, he noticed that is was already 6:00 Am and the sun was starting to rise. He had been going through the evolution a lot longer than he had thought.

Ray decided to get as much sleep as he could before meeting up with the kids.

A few hours later and Ray could hear knocking on his door outside.

"Sir, there are some children outside who are waiting for you." A maid said through the door.

Ray quickly got out of bed and instantly transformed into the man named Nes. The kids were currently waiting downstairs in the Inn. The reception area doubled up as a restaurant for guests and the kids were currently eating a large meal.

As Ray walked down the stairs the kids couldn't help but stare at him. They had only seen him yesterday but something about Ray felt different. The kids couldn't quite put their finger on it though. Tuffy then waved to Ray, Ray spotted the two and started to walk over and sat down next to them.

"Did you pay for this yourselves?" Ray asked, he knew the two weren't well off just from the equipment they had and he also noticed that their food was a lot better than all the guest sitting around them.

When Ray was walking past, he had heard the guest mumbling about the kids wondering if they had stolen some money to be able to afford something like that.

As soon as they saw Ray walk over to them their opinion quickly changed. Nes looked like a wealthy adventurer, especially with his high-end armour and Gauntlets. If he had paid for the meals they could understand.

"We cashed in those crystals you gave us and got 3 Silver for them." Candy said.

There were four types of coins available, a Bronze coin was worth a 100 pence. Pence were small pieces of coins made out of stone but had the stamp of the kingdom on it. A silver coin was worth a 1000 pence or ten bronze coins and finally, a gold coin was worth 10 silvers.

If one was to trade in a basic tier crystal they would receive one bronze coin, if it was an intermediate crystal they would receive one silver and finally anything else above would be paid in gold.

The Armadillo chest piece that Ray had bought had the price tag of 10,000 on it. Meaning you could either pay 10 silver or 1 gold. Or you could even do what Ray had done and traded in ten intermediate crystals.

The amount shocked Ray but not because of how high it was but because they had been given the same prices, he got at Avrion. Students were meant to either get a 10 percent discount or 10 percent increase when trading in stones, which Ray had never once received but thanks to Slyvia the Blacksmith never charged him for forging the equipment so he couldn't complain now.

The kids had finished eating their meal and then Candy asked.

"Well, should we head to the Guildhall then?"

Ray nodded and the three of them headed off to the Guildhall together.

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153 - Guild hall

153 - Guild hall

153 - Guild hall

The two kids and Ray walked through town to the Guildhall. It was a unique view for Ray, unlike Avrion the town was filled with ordinary citizens, merchants and adventures who wore all different levels of equipment. Just like Tuffy had said, nearly all of them had their tag out on display.

There were a few adventures Ray noticed that didn't have their tag out on display but those ones generally had worse equipment than others. Most likely they were wearing a red tag which was the lowest Rank of F class, so they didn't want to have it out for embarrassment.

At last, they had finally reached the Guildhall. It was the biggest building in town and stood right in the centre. Upon entering the Guildhall there were many long tables with groups of adventures sat down on them.

Then to the right there was a huge bulletin board that was split up into different sections, above each section was a letter then went from F to S. The further down you went the fewer quest they were as they got harder.

Ray looked at the bulletin board and noticed there actually wasn't any quest past B class on the board, in fact, there was only one on there and that was to defeat the Mud crab.

"Aren't they any harder quest?" Ray asked.

"In a small town like this?" Tuffy replied, "The quests are paid by the town's taxes, that's how the Guildhall make their money. Because this is a small town, they probably wouldn't be able to afford anything too expensive. Besides, there's nothing around this area that would warrant anything above B class in the first place."

As Ray carried on moving along, he noticed there was a separate bulletin board which was a fraction of the size, on top was written the word "Guild quests".

Tuffy noticed that Ray was looking at the bulletin board strangely up and down.

"Oh, you must have never seen one of these before," Tuffy said, "It would make sense if you come from a big guild. You see this Guildhall is owned by the government and its part of the town, so it doesn't belong to a specific guild. Some quest they receive will be too much for one person to handle so they put up guild quests. These quests are based on your guild Rank though which is separate to an individual Rank."

Ray continued to ask Tuffy questions as he was suddenly interested in these sorts of things. His Red Wings needed to gain influence not just at Avrion but around the whole world and what better way to do it then to create his own guild.

Tuffy explained to Ray that for each quest someone completed you would get two types of points, Guild points and Ranking points. You were only allowed to take quests of your rank and once you reached enough points you would be upgraded to the next rank.

Ray also learnt that there were two types of Guildhalls. Depending on what town or city you were in there might be more than one Guildhall. One was a government-run Guildhall that was owned and funded by several merchants around the continent. This meant that the Guildhall didn't belong to any Kingdom or empire but the system was recognized no matter where you went.

In these Guildhalls, you were allowed to, accept quests, accept guild quests, trade-in beast crystals and weapons and rank up you or your guild ranks.