Dawn~~

In the upper floors of the Volance Palace, inside the royal knights dormitory, Yuusuke was toying with some small items in his room. By taking advantage of the special effects enhanced by the customization ability, he applied a recovery effect and a tranquility effect to his pajamas, and as a result it allowed him to awake earlier in the morning and shorten his sleeping time.

And so for the past few days, Yuusuke have been performing a daily routine of manufacturing customized accessories during the wee hours of the morning.

"Hmm, like I suspected the clearer the gems the better the enhancements"(Yuusuke)

Using his pay, he purchased precious gems to create rings and bracelets with special effects through his customization ability, this is to prepare himself with items to suit the various situations that he would encounter. The numerical value compensation of the special effects were several times more than the cheap rings which he bought in the stall near the vicinity of the observation tower 8 days ago.

In order to hide the fact from the upper echelons, Violet and his underlings were to say that "it takes time to make even one" of these special effect equipment.

Thanks to his enhancement ability, Yuusuke generally have a daily peaceful and quiet life in the palace.

Due to the successful mission, when he returned from the fortress, whereby Yuusuke and his group unexpectedly wiped out an entire Blue Garden elite team, the so called "Princess Pet" have caused an upset and shock within each of the different factions of palace elites.

In particular, the rise of Yuusuke cause Princess Violet"s fiance candidates to get wary of him, whose unexpectedly lucky. Also, being accompanied by his men who isn"t talented made him more suspicious, thus they can"t figure out where his loyalty lies.

As it was the policy of King Esvobus to avoid a full scale war, there wasn"t really any opportunity to make a quick credit and get a feat of valor.

As a retaliation on Blue Garden"s repeated provocation, there were people from the funeral of the victims who raised their voices to fan the flames of wars, but due to the lack of information of the divine arts user Yuusuke whom have said to have annihilated the enemy using aoe, the number of people who agreed to it were few.

Meanwhile, unhappy with Yuusuke being bestowed with the feat of valor, the fiance candidates set out to take testimonies from Yuusuke"s underlings regarding the incident of the daggers which was "bestowed by Captain Yuusuke" due to it"s incredible performance.

Just by holding it you could feel yourself being powered up, your body becomes lighter and it also amplifies your divine arts, although the appearance seems like an ordinary dagger. One of the fire soldiers equipped this dagger for a divine arts trial and he was able produced a 1.5 times larger size fireball than his usual.

So they approached them with all means to get those daggers, but Vermeer and his party refused them politely by saying," this item is personally bestowed to us by our captain". And so as to avert jealously and trouble in the future they shrewdly said, "if you absolutely want one you could go and negotiate with our captain.".

After knowing about the situation, he consulted with Violet and Kreilov to work out a plan. By re-adjusting the stats on the 4 rings which he previously use for the ascending and descending the observation tower, he gave them to each of the 4 captains of the royal knights.

"The Ring of Fire Arts", "The Ring of Water Arts", The Ring of Earth Arts", "The Ring of Wind Arts" these were the enchantments the rings were adjusted to to fit the different divine arts. Changing the design to fit the different type of divine arts element, these rings possess a higher amplification ratings compared to Vermeer and his party daggers.

Krielov equipped the ring that was given to him and tested out his own fire arts. Normally when he imbued fire to his spear there would be a wavering flame that seemed to twine and blaze around the spear, but with the ring the flame seem to be from the spear itself like it was focusing on the spear, thus appearing like a flaming spear instead of a spear wearing flames.

The flaming spear performance became the center of attention in eyes of the soldiers, while the soldiers were still in awe, Krielov begin to discuss about it with Yuusuke.

"I would be very delighted, if you could make these equipment for my subordinates as well."(Krielov)

"I could, but I can only make them in my spare time in between missions, as it takes quite alot of time....."(Yuusuke)

This came to a mutual understanding between the soldiers as, "if you would like to have equipment made by Yuusuke, you must not interfere with him". As a result from the palace to the city, almost no one would dare to come and offend Yuusuke"s mood.

In this case "almost", although there were some exceptions. In the first place, there weren"t much ways to upset Yuusuke"s mood.

"Hey, Yuusuke. Can I have one of those rings?"(Hivodir)

"Not yet. Shouldn"t the vice captains be next on the list? Usually."(Yuusuke)

While on his way towards the dinning halls, he coincidentally encountered Hivodir in the hallway and walked along side with him, thus he appealed to Hivodir that manufacturing process is time consuming,  "the wait is roughly around 50 days".

"If one must say, certainly with the G.o.d corps, I may be just one of the elites, but within the palace, my n.o.bility rank far surpa.s.ses the captains."(Hivodir)

"I don"t know, and I am not aware."(Yuusuke)

Having friendship with her highness Violet, not to mention having the ability to be touted as a hero, this darkness G.o.d captain is already in the same standings as the other 4 G.o.d captains. While the majority of the royal knights have their hesitation to approach Yuusuke, but the one whose the worst person to encounter with, Hivodir was the only person with the a.s.sertiveness to approach him.

In his own way, the signs of the burden of being the lineage of a high ranking n.o.ble family, having a complex of not being strong enough, while feeling that his pure divine arts power isn"t enough, thus wanting to compensate them through other means and changing the state from when he came here.

For such a person like him, he was the only one who approached Yuusuke, without realizing he used his family name and inheritance as a tactic, although it was just a waste of time.

"Well, I expected the best equipment appropriate for me."(Hivodir)

"Ehh, you"re not eating?"(Yuusuke)

While Yuusuke and Hivodir walked into the dinning hall, Hivodir suddenly swung his hand and placed it on Yuusuke"s back, Yuusuke turn his head back and looked at him, Hivodir said with a killer smile, "In the morning, I had taken breakfast at my parent"s house."

The waiter came in front of them was pushing the food wagon as he tried to intrude on them, Yuusuke felt he was interesting as he left an impression on him while he walks into the dinning hall.

"Yo-YOU! Watch where you are going, you weird guy"(Hivodir)

"Awawawa, I am so sorry! Are you okay?"(Waiter)

"Hmm, that"s a surprisingly interesting guy."(Yuusuke)

Afternoon. As usual Yuusuke went to show his face to his underlings in the resting/waiting room for the G.o.d corp soldiers. A few days back when Violet brought Yuusuke and visited this place, the overall atmosphere is said to be like a tavern, now it had been transformed into a furnished room not inferior to the resting/waiting rooms of the royal knights.

Although there isn"t any wasteful luxurious decorations, there were special sofa and tables that could not be found in the upper floors.

"Oh, the captain is here."(Fonke)

"Thanks for the good work, Captain Yuusuke."(Aisha)

"Yoz. Today, only Fonke and Aisha is here, where are the others?"(Yuusuke)

"Isotta is off-duty today, old man Vermeer is out patrolling."(Fonke)

Shaheed is currently at the training grounds doing his personal training. Although within the resting/waiting room it wasn"t just Yuusuke"s underlings only, there were other different groups of G.o.d corp soldiers inside too, but most of them weren"t hesitated to exchange dialogue with Yuusuke unlike the Royal knights.

"Mr Captain, could you produce the fruit drink flavor again, please."

"I am sorry to disturb, the lamp have broke.........will you be able to fix it?"

"Mr Captain, the underwear which you made it for me before, could you make it one size larger for the chest(b.o.o.bs)?

As usual the general soldiers who have a variety of requests came over to him. Using the excuse of meeting up with his underlings, Yuusuke have been frequently going to the resting/waiting room, he had repaired and customized the furniture in the room, adjusting the various taste of the fruit wine which they brought to him, thus deepening their fellowship between them.

As it was Yuusuke"s mission to observe the common people, listening to their voices, and report the findings of what he heard to Violet. He is also able to hear the different kind of gossips and stories from the general soldiers who goes onto patrol mission within the city. From interesting stories to depressing stories that causes one to frown, a variety of stories that he have heard.

A horror story about a royal ghost whose body was buried under the city due to imprisonment, a story about a man who wet his pants when he reached the top of the observation tower! There are also stories like these which can"t be laughed at.

"Captain are you heading to the city today? Hey tag me along"(Fonke)

"Err, since I have always been heading towards the direction of the observation tower, today I want to explore a different location."(Yuusuke)

While responding to the soldiers requests, Yuusuke handed over the customized fruit liquor and jerky to Fonke, whereby the drinking group made a weird sound of "UHyo", while hastily leaving the resting/waiting room.

Looking at the way they escape, it was amazing how Aisha"s faced migrated from a shocked look to an angry face in mere seconds. As it have already been the 4th time she scolded them.

"Captain!"(Aisha)

"Hiyo~"(Yuusuke)

Hearing that Yuusuke dashed away with all his might down the corridor.

While leaving the palace without a carriage, Yuusuke make use of his movement enhancement ring and started running towards the commoner district. The items that were enhanced with special effects of defense were the darkness corp uniform set which included gloves, belt, boots, the other parts including rings, bracelets and etc.

Equipped with a mantle, running past the streets of the n.o.ble and middle cla.s.s district like a shadow as if a sudden gust made by a divine art user. The figure of the "Hero of Gear Hawk Fortress" running, became recognized as a famous sight in the city.

"Hmm let"s see, today I shall head over to the direction of the morph ranches."(Yuusuke)

For convenience, Yuusuke used the direction of which the sun rises to the east, and started walking towards the northwest side of the city. It was the exact opposite direction of where the observation tower stood. By the way, Gear Hawk Fortress is located at the west. The village of Rufk is a little south of the direction east.

On the west side of the city were once hectares of ranches, but due to the recent activities from Blue Garden, there were many appearances of wild beasts and monsters wreaking havoc, thus the planned relocation towards the north or east side of the city.

Yuusuke was currently walking down this road of the commoner district when suddenly he saw a familiar face and stopped afoot.

"Isotta!"(Yuusuke)

Rather than her normal soldier appearance, Isotta was wearing a casual city clothes, while trying to trot past hugging a bag on her chest covering half her face. Thus, Yuusuke’s eyes began to follow her movement as she gave out an impression that doesn"t really feel like a soldier, but an ordinary girl.

Isotta was hugging a bag, and without noticing Yuusuke, she walked out of the crowd into an alleyway which leads out of the city. For some reason or another, Yuusuke felt it was weird and headed towards the alley way leisurely. As Isotta stride was small even while trotting, Yuusuke was able to walk normally to catch up with her.

After exiting the dim alley, it was a corner where the artless live, a slum which have been spread out like an artless street. What does a child like Isotta doing around the artless street? And, Yuusuke being worried about Isotta, began to set foot into the artless street.

As the residents saw the appearance of Yuusuke, whose a royal knight, they all panic and shut themselves inside their houses, there were those who ran into the side alleys to hide, as they hastened themselves to not standout. From the reaction of this area, it seems that apparently the divine users doesn"t have a good impression to those living in the outer area of the city.

"It seems like, this is their reaction if the opponent is a soldier, due to the ‘criminals’ being the divine art users and the victims are the artless, it is conceivable that they are too scared to move/do anything."

There was almost no topics regarding the artless that was being told by the soldiers. Thinking about using his hearing to pinpoint her location, Yuusuke drops his thoughts as he saw Isotta heading inside a house.

Along the way to this place, you could see the artless exchanging greetings with Isotta normally. Unlike the usual soldier figure, she seems like a ordinary girl, and currently she is having a friendly exchange with some acquaintance.

Isotta was currently exchanging her greetings with an old lady normally, but the time when she walk pa.s.sed Yuusuke with averted eyes, and her timid atmosphere when she walked into the road around the vicinity.

"Hmm"(Yuusuke)

The little stand alone house which Isotta entered was made up of square stones and wood. As Yuusuke walked up to the front of the house, he could hear a weird speech coming from inside.

"Are you heading out again? You could do the things slowly though"(Man’s voice)

"Yes.....but, I don"t want to be left behind in the G.o.d corps training.....I don"t want to be a burden to the my fellow comrades."(Isotta)

The usual stuttering Isotta dived under the cloth door of the house as she saw the appearance of Captain Yuusuke, she did a sudden jump.

"Hiii! Cap-Captain!"(Isotta)

"Yoz"(Yuusuke)

"Eerrrmm Why-why are you here?"(Isotta)

"Well, I was wandering around the city, and thinking where should I go...."(Yuusuke)

Yuusuke wanted to say that he came here with a purpose but if felt difficult to say,"I came with a purpose", though the words seems a little uncomfortable if you put it that way. Isotta who misinterpret the meaning of his sentence begin to force an explanation out.

"Th-th-this isn"t what it seems! I didn"t mean to hide it! To-to be released from duty.....I-I will be in trouble"(Isotta)

"Hey, calm down, calm down. I have no idea what is going on here"(Yuusuke)

"......what"s going on, Isotta"(Man’s voice)

The voice seems different from the man"s voice which he heard just now, his head and body is being wrapped with bandages as this largely build white haired young man came out of the cloth door. Standing behind the young man were 2 elderly, a man and a woman who is anxiously looking towards them. Those 2 elders were also the artless as both their hair were white.

The young man who had bandages winded across his body immediately had a convinced expression the moment he looked at Yuusuke.~~

"So you are the Hero of Gear Hawk?"(man"s voice)

He was standing there with a fearless smile while saying so.