Will of chaos

The turtle man called Alvin guided my entire group through the most important parts of the city that are located at the harbor and the center of the city where the Guilds are located.

On this island there are only 3 Guilds, these would be the Commerce Guild, the Adventurers Guild, and the Mages Guild.

By Alvin’s explanation, most of the population of this island are young people between 14 and 30 years old who are here for training, besides that, almost all of them belong to some religion.

For this reason, there are many churches and temples on this island, but they are far from the city center, it is also one of the reasons why fighting inside the city is prohibited, but conflict is allowed by other means such as discussions, games, betting and other forms conflict where no one gets hurt.

They do this to promote the rivalry that different religions often have while encouraging their own empowerment.

The Guilds that are allowed on this island aim to link this island with the rest of the world, thanks to this island having 9 different Dungeons many rare materials can be found here.

The Adventurer’s Guild posts quests that mostly come from other parts of the world to collect materials that can be found on the island.

The Commerce Guild buys the surplus materials to sell elsewhere in the world for prices that can reach up to five times the value, they are also responsible for bringing various products from all over the world to be sold to the people residing on the island.

The Mages Guild produces various magical items and does magical research with materials that are only found here, it also serves as a training ground for theoretical mages from other continents or combat mages who are not related to any religion.

This entire island was thought to be a neutral training center for everyone, so even discrimination is a serious crime here.

In addition to what Alvin told us, I also asked a few questions whose answers surprised me.

I asked about the government of the island and Alvin said that there is no government, this island belongs to someone who allows people to train here as long as they follow the rules Alvin told them about, but other than that they don’t require anything else.

There are many Turtle men like Alvin on the island, they seem to be natives and only supervise that these rules are followed, they also serve as mediators for various types of conflicts or judges for their competitions.

There seems to be no such thing as taxes in this place as almost the entire population here is just passing through.

Alvin doesn’t say who the person the island belongs to is, but I imagine it must be someone powerful to be able to keep all these religions submissive while they’re on his island.

It also seems that the language used on the island by default is the common language, in addition, the only currency used here are global currencies, he advises that if we need to exchange our money to global currencies we would have to go to the Trade Guild who charge a percentage 10% exchange rate.

This island also seems to maintain a pleasant climate, if no one looks at the storm on the horizon surrounding the island as if the storm is not capable of approaching the island.

As we walked I noticed that many Vampires we passed got down on their knees, moreover, they all wore clothes with the Blood Temple crest, a half moon that has a black crown in the center, and a drop of golden blood on the top of the crown.

With those symbols on their clothes, I was pretty sure they belonged to the Temple of Blood, that is to say, they’re from the neutral faction of Vampires, I’m worried they’re going to their knees because of me.

I know I am the son of a Goddess, I have been trying to disregard this in my daily life easily until now, but it always worries me when there are people from the Temple of Blood around, I was also worried in the City of Blood in the Dark Continent, I was lucky to not have anything strange happening there.

But it looks like I’m not going to have the same kind of luck here because I see a group of dozens of Vampires in Blood Temple robes heading straight for us.

I was very worried as everyone was looking at our group, when they arrived they had tears in their eyes and happy smiles on their faces as they got down on their knees.

“Praise the Goddess Saint for bestowing us with her presence, I am the High Priest of the Temple of Blood of Cyrion Isle, my name is Vladimir the Third, and I am honored to be in the presence of your Holiness.” (Vladimir the Third)

“Praise the Goddess Selene! Praise the Saint Vanessa!”

“Praise the Goddess Selene! Praise the Saint Vanessa!”

“Praise the Goddess Selene! Praise the Saint Vanessa!”

“…” (I)

“Please… everybody get up… help me Father…” (Vanessa)

“Bastard ran away… he’ll pay me for it…” (Vanessa)

I couldn’t believe they didn’t even look at me, I was so glad that for the first time I wasn’t guilty of starting a commotion.

Vanessa is always someone calm and serious in the things she does, but I know better than anyone that she doesn’t like to draw attention, she doesn’t like formalities like this either.

I saw her face go pale as the lead Vampire spoke her name and not mine, so before she dragged me into her troubles I hid in the shadow of Nix who was beside me.

It was a little funny to see her looking around looking for me, but the glint of anger in her eyes at the end had me worried.

Sigh

Sigh

“Please stand up Mr Vladimir the Third.” (Vanessa)

“I appreciate your welcome, but this is not the best place or time for something like this.” (Vanessa)

After sighing twice, Vanessa shifts to a more dignified posture as she speaks calmly to the people kneeling in front of our group.

Their leader who introduced himself first looks around before getting to his feet and bowing to Vanessa one last time.

“Sorry for causing this commotion, but when I heard about your arrival I couldn’t think straight.” (Vladimir the Third)

“Don’t worry Mr Vladimir.” (Vanessa)

He looks at Alvin and then the rest of our group, he even glances at Nix’s shadow where I was hiding for a few seconds longer, then introduces himself to everyone before looking back at Alvin.

“Looks like I interrupted your presentation of the city to them, I apologize Mr Alvin.” (Vladimir)

“Alright Mr Vladimir, if everyone accepts we can go to the Temple of Blood later.” (Alvin)

“I would like this.” (Vanessa)

“That would be our honor.” (Vladimir the Third) 𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝑚

After that Vladimir and his group of Vampires said goodbye to leave for the Temple of Blood for Alvin to continue guiding us.