BXBX NOVEL Chapter 6 Felix Root
Every heir of the melvix family gets assigned a servant for them to use. These servants have been trained from a very young age to protect their future Lord no matter the cost, even if it means to sacrifice themselves.
This servant aren't just to take care of them in their teen, All of them have been trained in assassination and different forms of self defense.
They must follow all the orders given by their Lord no matter what it is. All the servants have taken this oath with the god's contract. If they ever were to break this oath it would mean their instant death.
The God's contract is an exclusive product of the goddess of fairness, Fiona's church.
The old Zick wasn't aware of this fact but right now after Noah took over the body, he understood this fact easily with the knowledge of the novel he read before dying.
Eating the bread which looked like it was just baked a few seconds ago, Zick thought about what he should do now.
'It doesn't matter if this world is real Or not....what matter is what I am going to do in the future'
Closing his eyes while chewing the bread in his mouth, he thought of all the things that he could remember from the novel 'the hero of velveric fights the demon lord'
Just remembering it annoyed Zick to no end.
'Without strength my survival chances are quite low....'
In this novel, there was one incident after the other where surviving without strength is almost impossible.
'Wait, does that even matter? the whole world was taken over by the demonic race in the end.....'
"Sigh..."
Zick sighed out loud thinking about it.
Feeling Von's gaze landing upon him, he turned towards him and smiled.
Looking at Zick's smile, Von turned his head away.
Continuing to eat his food, he tried going through his memory again. While going through it, suddenly his eyes opened wide.
Zick found something that was different from the novel in his memory.
There were only five heirs in the melvix family in the novel but in his memory there were six heirs.
Thinking of this, he remembered a line from that novel.
["The melvix family's head can only be taken by the heir who's the strongest among all the other heirs without exception. Melvix family throws away anyone else who bring shame to their name or aren't worth their grace"]
This was said by the First born son of the melvix family in the novel. He was the closest to become the next head of the melvix family.
When Zick thought of this, his heart started beating faster.
'I was already dead before the novel even began.....'
With another problem added to his already messed up head, he felt like flipping the table over and making a mess out of it.
"phew....."
Breathing out with his mouth loudly, Zick looked towards the plate on the table.
It was already empty. He didn't notice but he had already eaten his breakfast.
"Young master Zick, please let me...."
Before butler Von could finish speaking as Zick interrupted him.
"from now on make all my food with felix root, no matter what it is, my breakfast, lunch, dinner everything should be made with that root"
Still with a smile hanging on his face, Zick said this and left the dining hall with graceful steps.
Butler Von looked towards Zick with a blank look till he left the dining hall completely.
Snapping out of it, Von thought of what he just heard.
'Felix root...did he go crazy?'
He couldn't help but have this thought, the Felix root is not even eaten by the beggar because of how disgusting it tastes and smells.
With a frown on his face, Von took the plates from the dining table and worked as usual. It didn't matter to him what Zick did, all he had to do was follow the orders.
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Walking in the quiet corridor, Zick looked out of the window at his left side.
There was a reason he wanted to eat felix root, though he didn't remember the whole novel he still had some recollection of what he read.
In the novel, the protagonist had met a beggar who had mana in the lowest rank even though he had almost no potential.
After talking to the beggar, he got to know that the beggar ate the felix root for months to live as he had nothing else to eat with his sister.
The beggar was 18 year old, he ate Felix root to let his sister who was still 12 year old eat the things he got from hunting monsters.
After becoming a lowest rank knight, the beggar was able to hunt weak monsters with some hard work.
This was what the novel had told about the beggar.
The felix root doesn't increase your potential but just gives you mana and the ability to sense it.
That was enough for me.
'Right now, all my problems comes from the reason that I am weak'
Only after gaining strength could he think of the other problems. There were only a few things he knew that could increase his strength right now.
Zick knew another method that could increase his strength and potential at once in his current situation. There was only one reason he remembered this method, the procedure was very simple.
But, he was still thinking of how to gather the material needed to use this method. The materials weren't rare at all, instead they were very easy to find.
Zick was hesitant to gather it because almost all the material was poison leaving one thing. If he gathered it openly, people would become wary of him for no reason.
Zick didn't hesitate for long in this matter.
'I will leave the task of gathering the material to Von'
Zick was aware of the oath taken by the servants of the Melvix family. After an oath is made it is almost impossible to break it unless the goddess of fairness, fiona does it herself.
Now that Von was his servant, Zick wasn't worried about leaking any information that he was gathering poison.
'let's order him to gather the materials after I am finished with the felix root'
The felix root had a limit to how much it could increase his strength, Lowest rank knight is the limit with it.
The knight ranking is as follow-
Lowest rank knight.
Low rank knight.
Middle rank knight.
High rank knight.
Peak rank knight.
After the peak rank it is not called knight any more.
Master swordsman.
Grandmaster swordsman.
The protagonist of this world was at the grandmaster level at the end of the novel but still couldn't defeat the demon lord.