"What should I do now? It's to early to fight the orc but I can't find any monsters on the first floor or the garden. I saw the corpses of a few hobgoblins in the garden. I don't know who or what killed them but it must be something strong. Hobgoblins aren't that weak after all." I walked up the stairs to the second floor. "I just have to avoid the orc and the slime. Maybe there are some weak monsters on the second floor. This feels a bit like a dungeon."
"They should be on the left side. So, I just have to take the right way." I went to the hallway on the right side and when I arrived at a room with an open door I went inside. "I hope there is no slime in here. This room, the bed isn't as big as the other, maybe this room is for guests? But I think it isn't room isn't for noble guests, maybe the buttler or knight of the guest?" The first thing I did when I entered the room was to look if something is under the bed. "I'm like a little kid, who's scared that there could be a monster under the bed.
When I stood up I saw someone sitting on the bed, it was Malice. "Hey, you're doing great. You defeated all these goblins in just one week."
"Ah hey." I was happy to see her again. I haven't spoke with a person for one week. Asgar and this annoying god don't count. "Good that you're here I wanted to ask you something. Do you perhabs know why I'm so skilled with the sword?"
She looked a bit confused. "What do you mean? You were one of the best swordsmen when you were still alive." Does that mean this is someones body? So I became that swordsman she's talking about? "Well since you're dead you don't remember but this is actually your castle."
"What do you mean this is my castle?!" For real? That would mean the person i'm possesing right now was something like a king. This king died and turned into an undead and then I became this undead!
"Your name was forgotten together with most of this kingdoms history. The Luciah Kingdom, it was a big kingdom in the east of this continent but about 700 years ago it got destroyed in just two days. Nobody knows what exactly destroyed it." That's interesting. I'm curious what destroyed this kingdom?
"But when this happened 700 years ago, why did I turned into an undead now?" How is it even possible that I'm this king. I don't even have his body.
"I don't know the reason but maybe it's because you don't have a skelleton as your body. It's said the court magician of Luciah used an old magic to bind the soul of the king to this armor after his body was destroyed. Unfortunately this magic got lost over time." Does that mean I replaced his soul with mine? Malice jumped off the bed and walked around in the room. "It seems like the king died again in this body and now 700 years later he became an undead. That's you. You are the last king of the fallen kingdom of Luciah."
For some reason I feel bad now. "And the reason why I'm so skilled with the sword is because I am this king?"
"Yes, an undead who was good in swordsmenship in his lifetime will be good with the sword. The same goes for the speer, the bow and many other things." She came in my direction until her face was just a few centimeter away from mine. "Say, do you want me to give you a name?"
"Huh? A name why so suddenly?"
"Calling you Undead King is annoying. We're something like friends after all so I should call you by your name, right?" If I had a human body I would be blushing right now. "How does Shio sound?"
"Shio you say. I like it!" I don't know why but I really like the name. "From now on my name is Shio!"
"It's good that you like it!" Her smile in this moment was beautiful. I think if this goes on I'll fall for her. "It took me the whole week to come up with a good name. "Stop this. I'm sure it would be a problem to fall for her, she's a demon after all and her name is Malice. I'm sure she's an evil person and just acts in front of me. What a cruel world! But maybe she's just an angel born in the body of a demon. "So wht do you plan to do now? It doesn't look like you're going to fight the orc lord or the slime."
"Wait what do you mean by orc lord"
She sat down on the bed again. "The thing that killed you the first time. Don't tell me you thought this thing is just an ordinary orc." That's exactly what I thought. "Normal orcs are just two or three meters high and are much weaker than an orc lord. Orc lords are the stronges orcs after the orc kings after all.
Orc lord, orc king? It's the same like the goblins. Asgar said he was a goblin lord. "Then how strong is a normal orc compared to a goblin?"
"A normal orc should be a bit stronger than a hobgoblin. But weaker than a goblin champion." And how strong is a goblin champion supposed to be? "An orc lord should be as strong as a goblin king, the stronges kind of goblin."
She explained a bit more. There are five types of goblins and four types of orcs in this world.
Goblin - Hobgoblin - Goblin Champion - Goblin Lord - Goblin King
Orc - Orc Champion - Orc Lord - Orc King
Orcs are stronger than hobgoblins, orc champions are stronger than goblin champions and so on. But that only counts for goblins and orcs. There only exists one undead king in this world and he's the leader of all undeads.
After she explained all this to me she stood up and opened a portal again. "Before I go, I have an interesting information for you. There is a really strong weapon in the basement, but it's behind a locked door. Don't touch this door, there's a divine spell on it. Your soul gets erased when you touch it." She went through the door while she continued. "Rather than the basement you should go up to the third floor. I can't use my magic to teleport there and I don't know where the stairs to the third floor are. I would be grateful if you could help me find the stairs."
"Of course. You helped me a lot too." I don't know if she could hear me, I hope so. But were could these stair be? And I have to defeat the orc lord and the slime first to freely walk around the second floor.
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