"Just call me Kami. No need to keep calling me mister" Kami said without taking his attention away from the road.
"Kami, that's a weird name. Are you from a faraway land?" she replied curiously looking up at him
"Something like that, look I think we're almost there" he pointed his finger at the distance.
Near the horizon there was a couple of small houses you could see. It didn't look like anyone was outside but considering that this was probably the town that was just attacked by the goblins. If there were any survivors they wouldn't be walking around at this point. Kami had thought it would be a town of sorts but seeing how small it was and how it looked like it had small farms to the side it would appear to be more of a village.
"What's this place called Himari?" he asked her as they approached the village.
"Itsu Village. Mommy and Daddy always said we live far away from other people. Sometimes they go by horses and visit the city to get stuff when we need it." she told Kami.
As they got closer he noticed a lot of the place was a mess. Many of the houses had doors torn down and windows broken. There were broken objects all over the road as though someone had rummage through everything. Funny enough, there were no bodies that he expected to find laying around the roads or blood or anything of that sort. He was ok with it but he was preparing himself for that scenario.
"You remember which house is yours right?"
Himari nodded her head and gently pulled on his hand. She began leading him towards her house through the empty houses. He looked around hoping to see any signs of life but as far as he could tell, this village had been abandoned. They suddenly came to a stop and pointed to a small house in front of them. He smiled at her and pulled her hand back.
"Stay behind me, we're going to check out what's inside." Kami ordered her as Himari looked up at him and nodded her head.
Alright let's see here.
His eyes began to glow and the walls became invisible. He was able to see through the walls as he scanned the entire rooms. It seemed empty, just everything tossed around the home. He felt a sudden trickle on his body like something had just exited it but he didn't pay much attention. Kami walked up to the house with Himari following behind him closely.
"I don't think there's anything in there. I just looked around but just in case, you sure this is your home, right?" he asked her once more.
"Yes, Mister Kami" she nodded her head at him.
He walked past the door and gave the room around him a quick look. Just like he had seen, the house was indeed empty. It would be one thing to find her parents well and alive, even finding them dead on the floor would be understandable, but the fact that there was no one here and no one as he could tell in this village was suspicious.
"You said the village was attacked by goblins, did you see if they were trying to hurt anyone?"
She stuck the tip of her tongue out and furrowed her eyebrows. It looked like she was trying to remember what happened exactly. Kami gave a small chuckle, he thought she looked a bit adorable with that expression.
"No, I think they were just grabbing people and taking them away. Mommy just told me to run I don't know what was happening." she replied.
Her eyes looked sadly up at him. He felt that she wasn't expecting her parents to be alive at this point. It was a bit sad seeing it this way. As God of All Creation he had always seen many humans lose someone they love or care for but he had never truly experienced it this close to one of them. It was always as a far observer. Even so he always felt for them, it was the way of life. Many of them didn't know the lavishes they were to expect when they got to heaven but even so the loss of someone is great.
Well worse come to worse I COULD always Resurrect her parents, right? Would that be overkill, guy walks into this world can bring people back from the dead just like that? Or is that common in this universe, bah can't really know,let's give it a shot anyhow.
He concentrated on resurrecting her parents for a few seconds but nothing happened. He looked around puzzled as to why it wasn't working.
Huh...well that's the first time that doesn't work. Does it mean her parents are not dead? That's always a possibility. Wait why do I see a small blinking...light by the side of my eye. Is... is that a message? That how they see things here I guess.
He pulled up the message on the side of his eye. The message read.
[Cannot cast Resurrect]
Cannot cast Resurrect?! What does that mean? Maybe the Status Menu will let me know what's going on here.
[Status Bar]
Name: Kami
LVL: 1
EXP: 6/50
Title: God of All/Runaway God
Class: N/A
HP: 500/500
Stamina: 500/500
Mana: 474/500
Strength: 500
Endurance: 500
Intelligence: 500
Dexterity: 500
Charisma: 2
Wisdom: 500
My mana went down. Why did that happen? Did I do anything to reduce my Mana? Agh! Wait, wait, wait; in any RPG that means I have just used a skill or a spell or something right?
He immediately opened up his Skill Menu and saw the problem.
[Skill Menu]
Item: MP 5 Lvl. Max
Clean: MP 3 Lvl. Max
Data: MP 10 Lvl. Max
Scan: MP 8 Lvl. Max
Resurrect: MP 1000 Lvl. Max
{Skills
undet#ermined, pla%yers origin i^
nserted.}
When did I learn these?!
He stood still for a second before realizing what was happening.
Yes of course! When I had Omnipotent on I was probably able to use this stuff as I wanted with basically no cost. Since I turned it off now I have a range of stats and skills that will now cost mana and stuff. When I do use my abilities the Skill Menu gets updated and turns what I do into a skill with a set cost. Shame then, if I want to make this a bit fairer I won't be able to resurrect her parents if they are dead with my low mana points. Think I'm beginning to see how everything works for me in this world.
"Himari, I think we should sleep here for the night, if your parents are not here we should try finding them in the morning when you and I get some rest, don't you think?" Kami smiled at her
She looked down on the ground with a sad expression. Himari was still worried about where her parents could be and spending all night without them seemed to make her feel down.
"Can we just look for them now Mister Kami?" she asked
Ah, I've seen these enough times to see where this is going. If I say no she'll probably get upset and run off or sneak off on me when I'm trying to sleep or something. Brave little girl, not a smart one, but brave.
"Hmmm"
He lifted his fingers and snapped them at her. Himari immediately fell asleep. Kami managed to grab her before she fell to the floor and gently picked her up.
"Sorry kid I think I know what's best." he spoke as he walked over to the bed in one of the rooms and placed her on top.
Kami stared at the girl for a while before heading out the door. He stood in front of the house as the sun began to settle near the horizon. Wondering what he should do next he stared up at the growing dark sky before yawning.
Ah feeling tired? Am I? Ha! That doesn't normally happen. When was the last time that happened? Maybe I'm not so tired, maybe I'm just enjoying all this a little too much. Ah that's not right to say in this situation.
His mind wandered off into deep thought before letting out a sigh.
Fine. I'll make it like a surprise. I'll find her parents if they are alive and bring them back to her before she wakes up. That feels like an appropriate thing to do in an RPG-style story game.
He glanced at the house and suddenly a giant glass like ball appeared in front of it. Furthermore, the house began fading until it was completely invisible. Kami smiled at his handy work before his eyes began glowing. Through his eyes he could see all signs of life around an area. Anything that would be considered enemy should be glowing red while any signs of the villagers would be friendly, so blue. He extended his perimeter further and noticed something just a few miles away. There was a cave that had a large population of goblins and deeper underground there were what looked like humans. However, one of those humans in a different area was glowing red indicating that it was an enemy.
That's odd. That one is not like the rest. He reads as an enemy. He's also walking around the area with no fear of the goblins. Guess I'll find out what that's about when I get there. I should head on out if I'm going to do this before tomorrow morning.
He chuckled before shaking his head. This was turning out to be a little different than what he expected to do when he got here. If he knew any better, he was practically doing the same thing as he would in heaven but in a smaller scale. He had expected to come in slaying monsters and being praised for his heroics but instead he was in the middle of an abandoned village trying to save a little girl's parents from the smallest of enemies.
Well, all good adventures or heroes have to start out small right? Would be hard to raise the bar if an RPG started in the middle of killing some mythical creature. Slow steady steps.
With that in mind Kami took in a deep breath before punching his fist against his hand and smiling.
"God the Adventurer is off to save the villagers!" he exclaimed before running off into the sunset.