Reincarnated as a betrayed prince

Chapter 4: Quests And The System

Evan woke up, but he didn't see Noche, so he started getting worried because he didn't want to lose his grimoire so fast. He started searching all across the room, unable to find Noche and started panicking since he would be losing his only way to know how to recover all the skills.

"Noche? Where are you?" Evan asked as he looked around, since he didn't want to lose his only source of information of his tutorial seal.

"Inside your body. When I sleep, I enter the current Dark Lord's body. I can also stay here, to not attract attention. And if you had telepathy, we could talk with only our thoughts. Noche said, as his voice echoed inside Evan.

Noche's voice came from inside Evan, to be exact from Evan's torso, which felt extremely weird to Evan but decided to not worry about it. Mainly because otherwise it'd be a headache, and also because he wouldn't be able to sleep soundly ever again if he did.

"I see. Can you tell me about the tutorial quests?" Evan asked.

"Yes. The first quest is to learn more about this world. Mostly, you can just grab any history book and read it. The second objective is to learn about the different countries." Noche explained.

"Well, today I will do these two quests. If each quest is that simple, might as well do them as fast as possible, recover my powers... And get onto bloody living my sweet life by making an army, sitting back, chillax, and eat some fire wings. If I can get enough undead, I can just conquer a town, make it independent, and live an easy life." Evan said as he smiled.

"Good idea, for a lazy dark lord. But I am sure you want to do way more than that. After those two quests, the third one is to learn about the ways of this world. You have finished 65% of it. You know about slavery and all that, but you don't know about the darkest secret of the orphanages." Noche said, as if he was withholding some information.

"I have to guess that the orphans that cannot get a job... End up as slaves." Evan said as he looked angry at Noche, noticing that he was keeping quiet about something.

"Not exactly, ask Legias about it. 85% completed. If you complete these 3 quests, you will be able to level up, open the status window and the skill window." Noche said as he looked forward.

"Fourth quest?" Evan calmly asked, as he pondered the situation.

"Level up. Only one level and you complete this one. After that, you have to learn a skill. The fourth reward will be your extra inventory, and the fifth is the journal." Noche explained.

Evan looked impressed, and was hyped about getting the inventory back. That is, until he noticed that Noche said extra inventory and not his. Then he noticed that until the 4 years passed, his old items weren't coming back, but wanted to confirm his suspicion.

"Good. How many quests are in total? And wait a second... Only an extra inventory? Not mine from Dawn's World?" Evan said as he squinted his eyes, worried about his inventory since it carried many items that could be of use. Without counting the valuables he had, which would speed up all the process of upgrading Cherub's Rest.

"Namika said that sorting out that hellscape would take 4 years, and I heard her cry every time she thought about your inventory. So yeah, 10 quests in total. But the last two will take you 4 years. Because one is to survive until you are 10 years old, and the other is to do the blessing bestowing ritual where you will be given a job skill. That said, what you have in that inventory?" Noche explained calmly.

"Well, let's say that inside my inventory... You could find a lot of things. From building materials to my equipment. But well, the quests are easy to do for now. By the way, don't scare me like this again." Evan said as he scratched his head, knowing that his inventory was a hellscape of legendary and unique items of all kinds. Mainly he was interested in one particular item known as Crisse's Blood. A consumable item with both status enhancement attributes, and healing properties of the highest caliber.

Crisse's Blood increased the vitality of one person by 100 points, which was a lot, and restored the user's body completely, but was almost impossible to craft due to the insane amount of materials required for it. 100 hearts of minotaurs, 50 hearts of lizardmen, 200 gallons of hydra blood, 3 kilos of a special healing herb known as Vitalum Herbaceum, and 4 hearts of wyverns.

Evan never used it since he never truly required it, and while most would have sold it due to the problem that Crisse's Blood could only be used in a safe place since the one who used it would attract all kinds of monsters for 24 hours after using it... Evan was a hoarder of the highest caliber, a loot goblin, and he kept items like that hidden in the inventory to the point where even thieves with skills to steal items from the inventory received damage just by looking at the sheer disorganization that inventory had.