Mythran's Master Of All

Ren distracted everyone for almost 20 minutes with the baby pictures, then he ended with showing a short clip of Renardos and several women's hands ruffling his auburn fluffy hair.

“Aww! He's so cute and cuddly!” Diana said happily and chuckles were heard all around the room.

“Thank you, Princess Diana.” Ren said to her.

“He definitely looks like you.” Lady Eleanor said in a conservative tone, but Ren felt her emotions and knew she was just as enamoured of little Renardos as her daughter was.

“Is it the hair or the chubby cheeks?” Ren asked as he ruffled his own hair and puffed out his cheeks with a breath of air.

“Definitely the cheeks!” Diana said and laughed, as did several of the representatives from the Pervaria Kingdom, and Lady Eleanor let a small smile touch her lips for a moment.

Ren thought that was the best compliment Renardos was going to get from the very reserved woman, so he gave her a nod of acknowledgement and turned towards Princess Diana.

“I came right here after the birth, and a side a trip to see the Sage of Ages.” Ren said. “I'm having her register the birth in the Libraries she has access to.”

Tatya gasped and looked at Kenkoth beside her, then back at Ren. “That would mean...”

“Despite being born in the dwarf lands, he will be a citizen of the kingdoms his birth is registered in.” Ren said with a smile.

“That was a smart thing to do.” Kenkoth admitted.

“I know.” Ren said and then grinned. “Especially since I'll have the privilege to go to those kingdoms to inspect them and ensure his safety. When he is of appropriate age, he'll be allowed to visit.”

Kenkoth hid his sigh. “I suppose with our caravan leaving today, you'll want to come along?”

“I'd be honored to, and I will meet up with your caravan before it leaves the Human Kingdom; but, I have to visit the Giant Kingdom first.”

“The Giant Kingdom?” Tatya asked with surprise, then closed her mouth when Kenkoth looked at her and let her feel his annoyance.

“I would normally say that Giants are a myth; but, you apparently have proof that they are real.” Kenkoth said.

“He must be annoyed that she admitted they were ignorant of the existence of giants.” Teepo said.

“Of course I have proof.” Ren said and took out his book called Close Encounters of the Giant Kind, where he had saved the giants from the brain arthropod grubs. All of the representatives from the kingdom of Pervaria caught sight of the image on the front of it and liked what they saw. He stepped over to Tatya and her hand reached out for the book automatically. Ren smiled and handed it to her without comment.

“You've seen that he has updated his armor a lot since then.” Artemis added, just in case they assumed he still had that armor. “Not that he really needs it anymore.”

“Yeah, having full stats is awesome.” Ren stepped back to stand in front of Princess Diana.

“So is having all of the abilities of every Adventurer.” Artemis touched his shoulder and gave it a squeeze.

“I'm using Mage right now, just because it's easier to use Mana for the things I use it for.” Ren said and glanced at Meccis. “That's probably why you don't feel good about losing, because you're subconsciously detecting that I'm an Artificer Mage right now.”

“It's not subconsciously.” Meccis huffed.

Ren chuckled. “Just a second.” He said and chose the fighter class as his sub-class and was covered in a slight glow for a second, then all the Pervarians took in a quick breath. “There, is that better?”

Meccis nodded slightly and only felt a little better about losing to someone so short.

“I've been wondering about something.” Diana said, and Ren looked over at her. “During the duel with the condition that it ended when you broke a wooden sword, what would happen if you had broken it right at the start?”

“It would have ended in a tie.” Kenkoth responded automatically, then his eyes widened. “You intentionally let us fight your Doppelgangers until we all had been hit at least once.”

Ren nodded and gave him Respect for figuring it out. “You all wanted a fight to test my skills without having an actual fight.” He said and laughed. “It took a long time to figure out how to do it, let me tell you.”

“You were barely gone for half an hour.” Tatya said and everyone looked at her inquisitively. “Not that I was keeping track of it or anything.” She said in her defense.

Ren snorted a laugh. “Just because I wasn't here for such a short time doesn't mean that I wasn't gone for a lot longer than that.”

Artemis felt their confusion through Ren. “Ren has had access to a Sanctuary for a long time now.” She said, and everyone in the room recognized the significance of that.

“You've been using the retreat to train.” Kenkoth said.

“Sometimes.” Ren corrected. “I usually use it so I can spend time with the people I care about, without having it impact our normal lives.” He chuckled. “Of course, when I needed to get serious with it, I really did.”

“Did he ever.” Artemis said and squeezed his shoulder again, then let it go. “Since I'm pretty sure you were here when he did get serious with it, you know what he's talking about.”

Everyone felt King Alamast's annoyance fill his Aura at being reminded of that, and Ren took out the device to change all the displays around the country to a live feed of him, and the people in the room noticed the display box behind Ren change from a baby picture to Ren himself.

“Before you overreact to me creating and then harvesting all of those emotions from everyone to level myself up, I did it to show you all what I could do and then I saved the world.” Ren said, and his voice had been slightly amplified because it came out of the displays behind him as well. A ripple of unease flowed around the room, and he felt the surprise from the royal family and from the representatives from the Pervaria Kingdom because they knew that he didn't lie.

Diana was the first to speak. “Ren... King Ren... how did you save it?”

“After the Sea Dweller fiasco where everyone suddenly had knowledge of things they never should have known, certain Adventurers tried to undo what everyone thought and felt about it.” Ren said. “Unfortunately, what they did was remove the unnecessary knowledge, then they removed everyone's connections to everything.”

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Everyone remembered that and the things they had lost. Ren gained the Angered condition and the whole room shivered as they felt it.

“That's right. Bonds with people, their houses, their pets if they had them, and even some of the special items people owned were either lost or cut off for no reason.” Ren said with a sneer. “It happened right before my big training routine. I hadn't planned on doing what I did, mainly because I hate using an exploit when it's not necessary; but, after losing pretty much everyone and everything I had in my life at the time, I couldn't take their interference anymore.”

“What did you do?” Tatya asked for everyone, since she could feel their emotions, too.

“I did the only thing I could do. I asked Great Vasalor for help.” Ren said, and he felt that most of them felt astonishment, except for the Pervarians. Quite a few people in the audience didn't recognize the name, however. “For those of you that don't know who he is...” He activated his country-sized artificial Aura. “...Great Vasalor was the one that created this world and most of the realms within it.”