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As I sneaked across the streets of this town, I heard some people walking around, so I hid with [Shadow Sneak] utilizing the shadows of the night.
“Have you heard the news?”
“Oh yeah, the dungeon that spawned….”
“They said that there was a big D-Rank monster there that ate all the other monsters… Man, what the heck is wrong with the knight brigade? Can’t they move their asses and exterminate that thing already?”
D-Rank Monster?
Wait, dungeon? Lucifer’s dungeon? I see, so the guys we heard running away already informed the town…
Also, this place has a knight brigade… Should I ask these people? Wait, I am a ghost… Maybe if I suppress my power and shape myself as a woman and… Oh, there’s leather right there. I take a leather piece that is covered in some nasty stuff I found in an alley and then slowly approach the two guys talking near a bar.
“Heeeyy… Can you tell me what’s the name of the tooown?”
The two men slowly move their faces to glance at me.
“Huh?”
“Eh?”
“Pretty please?”
Their eyes are suddenly filled with utter fear as their eyes turn black, and foam begins to rise from their mouths.
“G-G-GHOST!”
“GYAAAAAGH!”
BOOM!
The two cried in fear and fell onto the ground, unconscious…
Ding!
[You’ve gained 300 EXP]
[EXP: [1156/2600]
Eh?! One of them died out of fear?! You’ve gotta be kidding me! Am I that scary?!
Wait, was that my Abyssal Body’s effect?
“Eh? What happened?”
“Someone cried…”
“Oi!”
Shit, people are finding out… [Shadow Sneak]!
I quickly dived into the shadows and rushed away. I better not ask any humans ever again. I seem to be lethal just by talking to them… Geez, how are they so weak, I mean, seriously? Maybe I am too strong? I need some way to suppress my scary aura.
But he gave me 300 EXP, and he looked like an average guy. He didn’t even have any noteworthy skills… And his stats were abysmal compared to a monster that could give me that amount of EXP… How strange… are humans naturally juicy in EXP? Are they born as EXP bags?
Or maybe, as a monster, I get more EXP by killing humans?
Huh…
Anyways, this wasn’t my mission. I rushed around the streets until I suddenly found something interesting, a large building that had a big book-shaped sign on it.
The library!
Somehow, I can talk and even read this world’s language, which was probably from my knowledge while I was alive. I entered the library, which was closed, through trespassing the walls like the amazing ghost I am.
Being a ghost is pretty cool, by the way. You can just phase through anything. Through my natural dark vision, I looked at the library’s interior and began to see the piles of books lined up on the shelves.
Oh damn, so many books. Wait, why do I have to sit here? I can just steal everything… I opened my inventory and began throwing every book I saw inside. Yeah, don’t mind me! It’s just books!
Hehehe…
I emptied the entire library in just a few minutes! I love to read books, so this is amazing loot for me! Now, what else? I might as well steal these pens, papers, and this… is this a watch? I threw it inside anyways.
And, done!
I quickly sneaked outside as I had already acquired what I wanted. I could get greedier and go steal food inside some shop or even magic items, but honestly, I don’t want to, and I fear that I might be found out by some Overpowered Priest who will purify me into the afterlife if I stay here for too long.
I rushed into the sky before flying outside the town.
Phew, success!
I also summoned my guys near me once I got outside.
“Uwah! Is this the Summon Skill? Don’t summon us without telling us beforehand!” Lucifer shouted.
“Master! I missed chu!”
Partner hugged me as she rubbed her face against me.
“I was just gone a few hours, Partner. It wasn’t too long….” I sighed.
“Mrao!” Kuro rubbed his face on my belly.
“Aw, you guys are so lovely!”
“Now, what did you get? I could explain to you a bit of how this world is, you know? You didn’t have to go steal books….” Sighed Lucifer.
“Yeah, but you’re super old, so your info must be outdated,” I said.
“That’s… true.”
We decided to move farther away from the town as we began to browse through the books.
“The Secrets Behind Magic, Top 10 Best Fire Magic Tips for Beginners, How To Raise Your Giant Bird, Lingerie For Witches, 60 Shades of White… So many literature books and magic teaching texts… I mean, they look interesting… But it’s not what I want….” I sighed.
We were browsing through a pile of books I threw onto the ground until Lucifer found something.
“Look, this one should have some info,” He said, as he gave me a book with the name “Encyclopedia of the World” and another book named “Yggdrasil’s Birth”.
I quickly opened the Yggdrasil’s Birth Book, which seemed to be something similar to a Bible for this world. It spoke about the gods, religion, and a lot of tales regarding them, alongside the presumed origin of the world…
Encyclopedia of the World spoke about the known world, the continents, countries, and even endemic life, tribes, and races… And to resume the first book… this world is named Yggdrasil. Yeah, very original.
The book says something about the world being born from the seed of another tree, which they named “Cosmic Tree of Life”. After that fruit was released into the universe to rot, a seed was left behind, and the plant grew from the rotten fruit, fusing with it and absorbing its nutrients.
It is said that the Gods came into motion after they looked at the enormous tree and decided to use it as part of their world. Taking care of it, they eventually used it as the pillar of their world.
This World.
There are approximately… 86 gods, or more. Yikes. All these gods represent an element of nature or even an aspect of humanity too. All of them combined their efforts and built this world using the tree as the pillar for all of it. Several continents were created, and many moons as well… Wait, even the sun?!
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