The warm and bright sun purifies my cold body while every tip of my skin rests on wrinkly skin. Skin?! I jumped away immediately. By looking at the position of the sun, it seemed like I slept for a whole day on top of the beast’s eye. My entire body shivered uncontrollably. At the same time, it wouldn’t stop shaking.

  “Ughhh… Ahhhh!!!!!” I couldn’t remove my clothes, I’ll be naked if I do so. After that thought, there was only one solution. The village. It must have clothes! I ran as fast as I could, not even looking at the dead beast. It was so disgusting and horrifying, such strength had probably made it into some blacklist of an adventurer guild.

  Then before I entered the forest a thought came to my mind. Does this beast have a monster core? Like does that exist in this world? But the money. Wait, do I need the money? I don’t but… it probably will be useful…

  I let out a long sigh and slowly turned around with my eyes closed. Even just thinking about that ball sack and resting on it so comfortably, I would throw up just looking at it. It was like sleeping on top of poop, but it was odorless and worse.

  Once I began to climb the beast, I could feel its skin as hard as metal. Just standing on top of it feels like I was on a mountain. My Qi core has already drained every last bit of energy I could exhaust. But, it doesn’t feel like my qi is completely gone. It felt the same shape and density from the beginning, however, I can’t seem to release any of it.

  Without my qi, there was no way I could even pierce through the beast’s skin. It already took all of my power to, if I wanted to look for it, I’d have to go from inside. The imagery of the exposed brain entered my thoughts.

  “Well, it is possible to enter from the brain, but, I don’t wanna go and enter this body at all,” I said, contradicting the entire process of achieving my goal.

  With that line out of my mouth, it was clear I would rather leave the core behind than do anything to get it.

  I sat in a lotus position and began to gather qi from the air. Unlike when I was just inside the cave, the amount of qi had significantly dropped. Before, it felt like eating a four-layered cake in one bite, and now it was like eating cupcakes in two bites.

  After absorbing the first half of a cupcake I understood what had happened. At the current moment, my “core” is just a container. The size or density of it didn’t define my strength but only the amount of qi I could contain. I probably never noticed it from when I started, but accumulating this much mana and filling my core back up from before would take me years.

  Then, I began to absorb qi, just to fill my core up a little bit. There was no tactic, nor proper breathing method, I just inhaled and took everything I could in.

  “Your Highness! Is that you, Your Highness?!” A familiar voice yelled from afar. My eyes stared at the endless darkness, with tiny stars flying like fairies. I opened my eyes to the dark canvas. It’s already night?! What? It felt like I just started a few minutes ago.

  “It is you, right? Your Highness?” The one behind me talked again and after coming back to my senses, the familiar voice could only be Harry. I carried my body up and turned around, shocked at what I could see.

  Once I started to sense mana, everything felt different. It was cold, constantly cold, weirdly cold. However, that was only inside the cave. After I got out, staring back at the sun, only by coating my body back up with this cold energy could I endure facing the sun.

  Well, that wasn’t the main point. I could not see mana, no matter what happens, I will never try to see something comparable to wind. But, I could sense it. It was vague, but I feel it.

  Then as I look at Harry, I can even feel his amount of mana. It was fascinating. Wait, if I can sense mana inside a living being, how come there was no mana coming from this beast?

  “It is you, Your Highness!”

  Are you telling me that this beast was that powerful without even relying on magic? Not a single ounce of mana? Just pure physical strength? What the fuck!

  “Are you alright, Your Highness?”

  “Yes, how about you?”

  “I’ve recovered Your Highness! This armor is not weak!” He knocked on his chest piece.

  “Well, that’s good.” I jumped down the beast, forgetting about the ball sack. I immediately covered my mouth, almost throwing up on the spot.

  “So, where is the one that defeated the beast, Your Highness? We need to reward him greatly for saving you.”

  “I defeated it.”

  “Wha- what? Wa- wa- wa- wa-” Harry’s head jiggled like a vibrator. “What?! But, it’s a forest beast! Are you lying to me, Your Highness?”

  “Why do you think I was sitting on top of it? I’m not crazy.”

  “You are, Your Highness!”

  “Hey, that’s rude. Anyway, if you don’t have anything else to say, let us go back to the village, I ain't in the mood to sleep in the middle of the forest again.” My body shivered from the image of a giant testicle.

  Finding our way back to the village was much harder than I thought. Not only was it dark, it wasn’t like we entered the forest from the path of the beast. We entered it from the middle, I didn’t even know where the path began or ended.

  But thankfully, Harry was much smarter than he looked. After only a few hours of walking, we were able to spot the marks we had done to the trees. Making our way back from that point on was easy.

  Once we arrived at the village, it wasn’t like our inn was paid until the current day it was, and at the same time, I wasn’t really all that tired. “Harry.”

  “Yes, Your Highness?”

  “You fainted from being knocked down by the beast right?

  “Yes, Your Highness.”

  “That means you slept a really long time, you know, being knocked out makes you incredibly weak, causing you to be asleep for a long time.”

  “Yes, Your Highness.”

  “Let’s go the stables, you ain't sleeping until the sun sets once more.”

  “What? But. Your Highness.”

  “This is an order.”

  I had no idea if declaring things as orders is a custom in this world, but as Harry follows anything by command, I do not need to question it. After stealing a horse and a carriage from a village that felt like it was filled with ghosts, we had gone and went to our next destination. I don’t know where that was, but I didn’t care at all.

  Unlike the royal carriage that I saw when I went back for the dead commander, this carriage is a huge downgrade. Made entirely of wood, with only a cloth as a roof, it didn’t even have a door. I had seen such carriages before from multiple stories, but I wouldn’t want a comfy couch to sleep on more than after the last time I slept. Ughhhh.

  “Are you okay, Your Highness?”

  “Yes, yes, don’t take your eyes off the road.”

  In that entire night, I had closed my eyes and only cultivated till the day once again changed without me noticing.

  “Your Highness! Here’s your breakfast.” Harry said, staring as I sat with my eyes closed with no attachment to the outside world.

  “Your Highness?” He repeated, now with a much lower voice.

  “Your Highness!” Harry yelled directly into my ear.

  “Ahhh! What the fuck!”

  “I was just giving you your breakfast, Your Highness.” I looked at the cloth beside me having a single loaf of bread on it. “Bread?”

  “Sorry, we don’t have anything better than that. I just traded some of our missed meals from the inn for bread before I looked for you in the forest.”

  I wanted to be a bitch and question his loyalty by not even looking for me first, but food is food. However, I wasn’t really hungry. Is this how cultivators only eat pills? Without moving, I don’t exhaust any energy, and as long as I have qi, I’m not tired at all.

  “Well, thank you, go back now. Don’t waste any more time standing on the road.”

  “We have arrived at Numinity, Your Highness!”

  Not repeating the same mistake as before. Even though I wasn’t tired, this time I slept, just to avoid being yelled at in the ear. Once I finished rubbing my eyes off the gounds in my eyes, I looked outside the carriage, and tears started to drop from my eyes.

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  Okay, unlike before, I ain't gonna fucking say I’m changing and won’t. This shit is another world, I’m changing, it doesn’t matter what happens.

  From the tall medieval housings to multiple people with varied clothes, I stared at everything. It felt like I was country bumpkin seeing the city for the first time. But, even if this is smaller and much less advanced, it is much more beautiful than skyscrapers filled with poisonous gas. The feeling of that fresh air sprinkled with the delicious aromas of restaurants. Carriages of multiple banners of nobles and merchants. Paved road. Ragtags of people that were probably adventurers. Multiple shops. It was the city alright.

  “We have arrived at the inn, Your Highness.”

  “Here’s a gold coin! Get the most expensive and best deal you can, I’ll go explore the city!” I threw a gold coin to Harry and jumped off, running as fast as I could.

  “Your Highness! Please don’t get drunk on drugs again! Also, it’s a Nar! Not a gold coin!”

  Okay, first place. Clothes! I already saw one, and it had glass. I didn’t think glass existed in medieval times, well historically at least, just in fantasy they do. Well, this is fantasy. So, I’m rambling nonsense in my head again.

  After running for a few minutes, I arrived. “Galina. What an interesting name for a clothes store.”

  “Thank you.” Said a female voice.

  “Uhhh…” Shit, who the fuck says uhhh???? “Hello.” I waved my hands with a bright smile, covering my embarrassment.

  “Is this your first time in a city? Wanna come in?” Once I turned around and looked at her, it was like a fallen angel. Her hair glistened like the night sky, and her skin was smoother than butter. Sharp brows, blue eyes, and a smile brighter than the sun. She wore a brown dress and stood taller than me.

  How old am I exactly?

  “No, and yes!” I was so excited to buy new clothes, however, there was not a single customer in the store. Was it expensive? At this time, I don’t really believe window shopping exists. Only the rich shopped and the poor had no rights. Maybe that was why. My thought process sounded kinda harsh, didn’t it? Well, I was poor too, I have the right.

  The girl entered first, carrying a bag of groceries. I said I wanted to change, but being a gentleman. Does a gentleman ask a person they just met to help carry their grocery? Yeah no, that’s psychopathic. What the fuck.

  I followed her and a certain row of clothes already caught my eye. In this period of time, even suits had already existed. Those suits, I wanted all of them, well I just wanted them, there was no way I would wear such things at this time.

  “I’ll just put these down, please look around first.”

  My eyes followed the girl until she went and disappeared from the back of the store. It wasn’t because of infatuation from her beauty that I was looking at her. Actually, it was the opposite. Seeing such a woman who almost met my depiction of perfection, there was not a single interest in my body. Did I become an asexual…? This body is an asexual? I was so happy that I smiled lightly tapping both sides of my cheek while releasing the squeal of a little girl.

  “Are you alright?” I quickly turned back to my normal smile and placed both my hands behind my back.

  “Yes, there's no problem.”

  “Thank goodness. Sorry for the wait.” She walked closer to me from the back and continued. “So what are you interested in, dear sir.” She chuckled.

  “What’s so funny?” I said, still keeping my smile. Even though I wasn’t that used to it.

  “Sorry, I just laughed because it’s the first time I’ve called someone younger than me a sir.”

  Then why call me one? That is what I wanted to say. But that wasn’t anything close to being appealing. It sucked that I had zero experience with actual proper conversations. That made me sad based on how long I’ve lived.

  “You don’t have to be so respectful to me,” I responded, based on my attempt to understand the reasons for her concern.

  “No, no, it’s okay.”

  “Well, you’re not thinking I can’t pay right?”

  “No, no, sir.” She waved her hand in concern.

  I chuckled to lighten the mood. “Well, I would like to just get a few sets of good clothes, enough for a few days of traveling till I get home.” I still didn’t clearly know that I was going home, but I would love to believe I was. I should really ask Harry about it next time.

  “Oh, then no worries sir, we have a lot of good quality clothing for nobles like yourself.”

  “You know I’m a noble? How?”

  She hummed before answering. “If you are hiding it, sir, It’s not really that effective, considering your clothes are made of pure white silk. At the same time based on the mana surrounding it, it even has a Stainless blessing on it.”

  Stainless blessing? I looked down and inspected my suspiciously clean clothes. “Oh, hahaha! Sorry, this is kind of.” I leaned to her ears. “The first time I sneaked out from my guard.” Then I chuckled after leaning back out.

  “It’s okay, sir. It is also my first time seeing such a kind noble.”

  “Thank you.”

  “If it was anyone else, they would have barged into the store and yelled at me without reason!” She punched into the air, mimicking the villain of her story. “Hehehe.”

  “Why don’t you try this sir? It is engraved with the highest quality of mana layers to keep you warm any time of the day.” She handed me a thick multi-layer set of dresses that looked eerily similar to my old clothes.

  “Uhh, I’m kind of not looking for those types of clothes,” I said. So that is the reason why I first felt hot without my stacks of clothes.

  “Oh, I totally thought you wanted something to keep you warm, sorry.”

  “I am an aura user, so I don’t really need such things anymore.”

  “Wow! An aura user at such a young age?! You must be a genius sir.”

  “Hahaha! Not really, I was just blessed with parents obsessive with power.”

  She chuckled again. “Oh, sorry, it’s just, that you don’t seem like a noble at all.”

  “Well, you’ve just never seen one like me then.”

  “Then because of that, follow me sir.” She grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the back of the store.

  “Wait a second, sir.”

  After a minute, she came back carrying a sea-colored smooth leather tunic connecting to a kilt, brown pants, high black boots, and a fur coat matching the tunic.

  “This the only noble set of clothing in this store. But please don’t report me okay.”

  Well, that’s interesting. A long process of medieval procedures went into my head. It’s probably because noble clothes are made by specific tailors for those nobles. So having one is illegal huh?

  “I’ll buy it, also don’t worry, I won’t. How much is it?”

  “Two Nar!”

  I reached into my pouch and took out two gold coins that I just believed were the Nar everyone had been talking about. While I was taking out my money, I asked the girl something I should have from the very start.

  “By the way, what’s your name?” I then took the clothes and placed them on the next beside. After which, I placed the two Nars directly into her hand.

  “Ga-Galina!” Her cheeks turned slightly red and stuttered her name. What? Am I that handsome?

  “Nice to meet you, Galina.” I took my hands off hers. “Oh, by the way, do you have a place to change?”

  She directed me to the back of her store, which was her home and I quickly changed, embarrassed enough to be naked inside her living room. I came out and thanked her with a bright smile on my face. I finally had a proper pocket in this set of clothes.

  “Thank you, Galina.”

  “Uhhh, sir, if you wouldn’t mind me asking. What’s your name?”

  I chuckled once and placed my index finger in front of my mouth. “Secret.”

  I had already spent far too much time inside the store, after cringing myself to death, I hurriedly tried to escape before my heart exploded. But then I remembered a crucial thing about that “Secret”.

  Before I exited the door, I stopped. “Oh, by the way, if you ever learn who I am, can you trust me that I’ve changed?”

  “Huh?”

  “Never mind.” There was no point in telling her. She was just a normal person, and I’m a prince holding the legacy of cultivation.

  Also, not like I wanted to hide my name, I really just don’t know my full name.