Chapter 59 – It WAS quiet.

[Mountain Panther – Level 180]The mountain panther charged at the Phantasia, but Phantasia quickly dodged the attack before then firing [Poison Shot(s)] at the beast, dealing a perfect counter attack, but not killing the beast. The beast quickly recovered and rushed at Phantasia again, but then Phantasia left arm changed its shape. The arm ended up becoming a sword before then stabbing the panther in the chest and then going upwards, cutting the lion head in two. "…." "Huh…." The man arm changed shape again, changing back and forth between the blade and normal arm in almost instance. (Good. It seems to be working properly.) (I went for a simple form for the start, but I got to say, even though it's simple, its deadly.) (Grab, change, stab. Instant death.) (Enemy coming at you, change form, counter.) (Simple, but extremely effective.) (Still. This experiment did provided me with some interesting info.) (I let monsters attack and damage the blade as well as my modified arm in order to see if anything would be revealed and stuff.) (I also tried fighting only using the blade as well as trying to do some combos.) (And yeb.) (This cyborg thing is broken like hell, even though I'm just using prototype arm.) (Not only that, I can still use my magic without any problem with my modified arm…... That is quiet broken no matter how you look at this.) (….) (DAMN! I REALLY WANT TO HAVE AN CHAISAW ARM RIGHT NOW!) "…." "Anyway, the monsters here seems to be loner types… But they are extremely strong." "Well, I'm not complaining, they give a lot of EXP." (On top of that, they will be quite good for creating chimeras.) (….) (Hm… What should I do?) (I want to go back and test out different modification I can do with my arm now that I seen and felt how its feels to use modified body part…. Nah., I need chimera materials as well as materials from monsters for my cyborg research.) (But should I use chimeras?) (…. Nope.) (There is good chance that I'm not the only player here. I can hide my arm without much problem, but chimeras? Yea they are quite easy to spot with their special appearance.) (Speaking of players.) (I wonder how long it will take more players to get here?) (Hm…. Nope. It shouldn't take too long for the people to get here. The only problem is distance though.) (…. Should I open a business.) Suddenly the mountain panther began rushing towards Phantasia and as soon as the monster was about to pounce at mad man, the giant red tail suddenly appeared out of nowhere and straight up slapped the monster across the face. The monster stopped in its movement and saw the giant red cobra monster standing it is way. However, it wasn't all. Before the panther realized it was already surrounded by horned wolves from all directions. "Huh. Next one already? Lucky." – said Phantasia while approaching the monster. The monster was panicking after suddenly getting ambushed from all directions. It tried to attack one of the wolfs nearby, but then it ended up getting attacked by behind by another wolf and then when it tried to counter attack the red cobra attacked. No matter the action the monster took, it was always the one taking the damage. The monster and panicking more and more, but then it stopped as Phantasia straight up grabbed its neck with its arm before then turning its hand into a blade, stabbing the monster at point blank range and finishing him off. "…." (The new wolves as well as the red cobra I had tamed are pretty nice.) (It was worth it looking around for it in order to tame and as for the horned wolves, they work well together in team.) (But once they evolve, they will get turned into martials.) (Well, they have to level up first to evolve and everything.) I continue hunting the monsters on the mountains and collect their materials. I also wanted to collect their bodies, but for now I need materials for the experiments as well as to sell some of them for money. Its better if keep making a steady income in between even if I have a lot of money to spare, since I never know what may happened. As for leveling up, it was steady. I wasn't using chimeras just in case somebody saw me, but the normal undeads and the tamed monsters were alone. I was also using the hunting grounds for my experiments regarding the different type of modification I could do with my body. I had also changed my right arm into a mechanical part as well. I also had experimented with the mountain panther claws. They were quite perfect. My normal arms currently look like they are wearing gloves, but in reality, they are not. Before I only turned half of my left arm into a robotic one, but this time both of my arms are special weapons. The form that people see; the claws are my arms base form. They are both my equipment and part of my body. They provide a lot of defense and are quiet good weapons. They kind of helped me cut off the mountain panther head without much problem. I was planning on adding function like an ability to fire my hand while being attached to my body by a rope, but I have few problems with this. However, I did added little surprise to both of my arms. But, like chimera and the plague have problems of their own, so does the [Cyborg]. I wasn't planning on becoming one, but by the look of things I have no choice by to became an all rounder in terms of stats, meaning put points equally in every single stat. I thought I wouldn't need to become one if I replace my body parts by replacing my body parts with machine, but I guess I was wrong. The mechanical body gets bit lighter since its part of my body, but its still weights, so by adding more modification or straight up mechanizing my entire arm, the weigh increases accordingly. Its like heavy and light armors. I get the weight reduction effect from my skill called [Cyborg Body Weight] passive, but it's based on skill level, so yea, right now its problematic. There are also some other problems. Like for example I need to learn how to properly turn the object into my limb. Since for example the mechanical sword and the normal swords ARE different as well as the fact that the weapon is my body and everything. So, I need to find out what form of changes and adjustment I would make to a blade or thing crossbow if I were to add one to my limb or had my entire limb be turned into There is also the problem with mana. Whenever I do the change form, I would need to consume some amount of MP and any bigger special actions for example firing would need consume even more mana or special made parts. I'm also quite new to all this, so I don't know if I'm in deep hole or not right now, but either way right now is all about learning. So far, I did made quite interesting things. The arms of mine are currently an alpha version and not finished product, but they are indeed quite deadly. As for the between the experiments and hunting…. There was really nothing going on. Nothing like an princes in the distress or anything like that. So, I can just focus on my- Or so I fuking though. [Current location: Market. "…." (Okay…. What the fuck is going on?) (Why are there guards walking here everywhere?) (A first thing I see from the morning are guards going around and asking people? Did something got murdered or something?) "!" Phantasia walked towards the goblin merchant nearby he knows. "Hey." "Hm? Oh, its you. The new guy that." – said the goblin merchant. "Hey Mario." – said Phantasia. "Em… What the hell is going on?" "Why are there so many guards here? Was there an accident or something?" "…" 'Sigh' "Yea…. And pretty big one at that." "?" "Do you know dwarf named Evilin?" "Em… No? Should I?" "Wait, you really don't?! I though you would since you are a blacksmith and everything." "Sorry, but I'm quite focused with my own work and research. Anyway, who is he?" "Em… So do you want the whole story or a bit?" "Whole story, since the situation seems to be bit problematic by the look of things." – said Phantasia while pointing at the guards. "True." "Well, Evilin is this city the best blacksmith if not one of the best in this entire kingdom." "Many of his creations are well known through the city as the masterpieces and each of these masterpieces sells for the fortune." "His workshop where is a place where many different blacksmiths from many different races hopes to study under him." "Some of the pupils he trained personally became master craftsman and created their own companies in order to surpass their master." "Not only that, this dwarf is one of the richest people in the whole city." "Fame. Glory. Wealth. You name it." "This guy is an extremely big of a deal in and outside the city." "So, he is a big time celebrity that has many things?" "…" "Huh… So did something happened to him?" – asked Phantasia. "I mean, so many guards so early in the morning going around isn't normal at all." "So for so many people taking actions right now…." "Yea…. He went missing yesterday." "Wait, wait, wait. Stop." – said Phantasia suddenly. "So, you are saying, all of this is happening, because something happened to 1 person in specific?" "Correct." – said Mario. "What kind of…... Or not…." – said Phantasia before stopping. (Really? I mean really? 1 person is gone and so many people are on the move?) "…." "Please continue." "Okay." – replied Mario. "Evilin had many enemies." "Raging from merchants who wanted them to have an exclusive contractor with him or wanted straight up having them work only for them, to a greedy nobles who wanted to have his talent for himself." "There are also a lot of people that would want him dead to either get rid of the most dangerous competition or take his riches." "Being extremely successful like him has many benefits, but also downsides." "However, that guy want to be free and everything, so he straight up said "No" to them all." "He just wanted to do his work in his own way without getting distrusted." "This guy has a lot of connections of his own and not only that, he also knows that many people would want him for their own gain or to just get rid off him." "So, to deal with that problem and secure his disciples safety he straight up fortified his workshop with security and defenses." "However yesterday, all of the defenses he had were destroyed, guards were killed alongside the workers that were in the workshop at the time." "As for the Evilin? He was gone. His special tools he was known for using when crafting were also missing." "The situation is extremely bizarre." "Nobody even realize what happened until the disciples had come to the workshop early in the morning to find it in its sorry state." "The money wasn't stolen or anything, nor were any valuable creations the blacksmith made." "To add even more problems, there are way too many suspects and there is also the fact that the best dwarven blacksmith was kidnapped in the dead of night without anybody noticing." "There are way too many unknown factors and no answers…. " "No evidence or main suspects. Nothing!" "All that is known is that he was possible kidnapped alongside his tools he used for creating his masterpieces." "Not only that, because of how important of the figure Evilin was, it was straight up impossible to not let the news not to get find out as well as spread around the city like wild fire. Straight up the entire city knows about the fact that Evilin was kidnaped and is now missing." "This will be… Extremely chaotic time…. For crying out loud. Who could do something like this?!" "Right now, people only know about his disappearance… But considering the bizarre of the situation and how it was done without anybody noticing straight up scares people." "There is also the fact that nobody really knows if he alive or not and that makes the situation much worse." "…." "Oh…." (This… Huh…. Was that guy really that important?) (The whole city is going crazy after the event about his kidnapping ended becoming public….) (Based on the people reactions and how guards are looking for him nonstop, it makes sense to speculate that dwarf is probably the most important person in this entire city. Even way more important than the mayor or even the lord of this territory if the people are straight up reacting like this.) (Even Mario, this cheerful and merchant mood got affected by it. Jezus.) "…" (FOR FUCK SAKE!) – though Phantasia. (This time I didn't wanted any chaos happening since I wanted to calmly focus on my research and everything.) (But when I decided to be a good boy for now, somebody else went and made a mess?) (For crying out loud.) (I'm fine when I'm the one making the mess and making other people lifes miserable, but not the other way around when a victim!) (….) (Okay calm down.) (This is first time I heard about that Evilin guy, but for his kidnapping to shake the entire city that much means a lot to the people and the city itself.) (Still, this is way too sudden.) (The entire city was extremely peaceful and everything.) S~eaʀᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. (But now?) (A chaos is slowly rising.) ("Calm before the storm" huh?) (But still, it's way too…... Okay. I kind of did the similar thing myself with the whole appearing out of nowhere with plague and chimeras, so I did that myself.) (…. Wow… Yea I kind of see now more reasons why people despise me… This isn't nice at all.) (….) (Should I do something about this?)