《Lucky Me!》 Chapter 1: About Me Looking outside the window, I can already see the sun starting to go down. This is not good. Let me explain my situation and why it¡¯s not good. Currently, I¡¯m sitting in my class listening to lecture about Anatomy and Physiology even though the class has been long finished. The professor I have is one of those types that won¡¯t let you leave until he finishes. If you do leave, he gives you penalty for it. So my tip to those of you who are going to attend college soon, please use ratemyprofessor and never doubt the reviews for that professor. I wonder why I decided to ignore the reviews. Ah! Because there are no other classes left! Procrastinator like me deserves this painful punishment. Going back to the topic of why it¡¯s not good for me to leave late is because the neighborhood I live in is located in slum of NYC. Basically the chance of getting robbed, shot, kidnapped for organs are higher than any other possible neighborhoods. This is why I carry a Glock 26 with me on my side. Of course, I do have license with me but having a license doesn¡¯t help me much because it doesn¡¯t give me the right to bring the handgun with me to public. I do it anyways. You also don¡¯t need to worry about my aim in case something does happen to me, because I practiced a lot at the shooting range. I¡¯m superb. Hehe. Finally the lecture comes to an end and I hurriedly run outside. The sun was setting but still enough is out to leave its bright red color spread out through the sky. I continue to walk to the nearest train station while wondering whether if I should go home during this time. The train near the university to my neighborhood usually takes about 30 minutes and I would have to walk 15 more minutes. It¡¯s 7:00pm right now and thank god for spring! Sun sets much later than it should compare to the winter. I still think it¡¯s not smart for myself to go home at this time. Some of you may say ¡°Aren¡¯t you overreacting?¡± Sorry, but no. It¡¯s dangerous to a point that they have at least 1 or 2 people getting robbed or shot there. Of course, most of it happens during night time after the sun sets. I come to a stop front of the train station. I decided to call my friend and ask him if I can stay over for a night since he lives near the university and he got plenty of games to play. That¡¯s right, one may say this was all plotted beforehand and I admit that this was my backup plan from the start. Hehe. ¡°Hello?¡±(Friend) As my friend picked up the phone he coughed few times. ¡°Hey! Sorry for bothering you, but do you mind if I sleep over at your house?¡± ¡°Eh? (Cough) Why all of a sudden?¡±(Friend) Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. ¡°It¡¯s kind of late and I¡¯m kind of scared to go home at this time. Haha¡­¡± ¡°Uh¡­ Sure, if you don¡¯t mind me being sick. I¡¯m probably going to be coughing all night (Cough Cough)¡± (Friend) ¡°Alright, you want me to get you some medicine? You sound like you are about to faint soon.¡± ¡°Yeah, that would be nice. Seems like I don¡¯t have any since I thought that I couldn¡¯t get sick during spring.¡± (Friend) ¡°I got you, then I¡¯ll see you!¡± As I finished the call, I changed my direction and decided to head to the nearest pharmacy for the medicine. By the way, the guy that was on the phone is actually a really close friend of mine. I don¡¯t have many friends. I use to have a lot but they were all from religious community. Once, I left the community due to myself being too lazy to go there, we started to hangout less and less. After that, the people so called ¡°friends¡± never contacted me once again. We would see each other time to time on the train but it¡¯s awkward. Anyways, the guy that was on the phone, we knew each other since middle school and we are really close. I¡¯m glad that I have at least one friend that cares about me. My parents passed away 2 years ago when I was a senior in high school. My father passed away from over working and my mother passed away from cancer. So I¡¯m actually all by myself. I have no relatives because they don¡¯t live in New York. One can say that I¡¯m extremely unlucky, and I agree. For me, I am able to give my attention, effort and love to people who I care about but seems to never receive the same amount back. What a joke, and at the same time I¡¯m a part time student and part time employee and that¡¯s how I live. Working in the mornings and studying in the afternoon. The struggles. Now you know the reason I live in a bad neighborhood. It¡¯s because I can¡¯t afford anything better.Anyways, Enough of me complaining. After all the walking I have done while complaining, I have finally arrived at the store! Hmm, what should I buy? I decided to buy aspirin, and Nyquil. I bought Nyquil for the cold, and aspirin for the bad headaches? I guess. I also bought two packs of sour patch kids and Snicker bars. I have a thing for sweets. I¡¯ll buy bottle of water for myself. And so, the shopping spree has ended. I smile as I walk thinking about how fun it will be to play games over night. I also haven¡¯t slept over someone¡¯s house for a while so it¡¯s going to be fun. And as I step outside of the store something bright hit my eyes. By reaction, I covered my eyes and yelled out ¡°Ah Shit! My eyes! What the fuck is going on?¡± Chapter 2: Instinct I open my eyes and just couldn¡¯t believe it. I noticed that I was in middle of a road that spreads to my left and right with many trees front of me. When I say many, there seems to be endless amount of them. There was so many tress that I came to assume that I¡¯m either located deep inside of forest with one way path or deep in the mountains where one may never make it out alive. I looked around in confusion and I notice an old carriage. Because it looked so worn out, one may question whether if it was possible to even ride on the carriage. It seemed like there were about 6 people near carriage. These people looked to be about 20-30 years old and each of them carried swords or daggers with scabbards on their sides. Their clothes seems to be made out of animal leathers but it looked to be worn out. They also had these brown bandanas on their head. They look a bit out of place but if I were to compare them to someone or something, they would be the bandits in role playing games. Out of the 6 people 1 of them had fancier clothing. He was wearing a bright yellow suit. It didn¡¯t look good as a tuxedo but it did indeed resemble a suit. What a terrible choice of color. These people are suspicious. Suspicious I tell you. I don¡¯t know anymore. I continued to observe. The distance between me and them weren¡¯t too far off. I say it¡¯s about the length of end of MTA bus to the entrance of the bus. About 20M? I¡¯m assuming. Anyways, I noticed that one of the leather clothed guy that looked like a bandit was chatting with the guy that was wearing suit, but I can¡¯t understand any of it. (Fuck, we summoned a male. He is not going to be worth anything unless he has unique skill with him. Does this guy have any unique ability?) Said the bandit in irritated voice. (Yes, He does have a unique skill. Most people whom are summoned here possesses at least one unique skill.)(Suit Guy) (Do you know what kind of ability he is possessing?)(Bandit) (No, this magic artifact does not have ability to recognize what kind of ability the person has. Rather, it only glows to indicate that the person possesses it.)(Suit Guy) (He better be worth more than the money that I invested into summoning him. Do you know how much money the summoning materials were? And hiring you? The middle man to summon them. ((Even though half of it I got it from robbing one of the nobles.))) (Bandit) (No need to worry too much. You will definitely be able to make back all of your sums and even more. Nobles love having unique ability users as their slaves due to the power of unique abilities, or even perhaps you can make him your slave and obtain a powerful ally.)(Suit Guy) (I¡¯ll think about it after. Hey! You bunch over there! Grab him and put him in the cage! And hurry we don¡¯t have all day.)(Bandit) The bandit who seems to be the head commands the 2 men who are near him with authority, and walked to the front of the carriage with the man who wore the suit. The 2 men who were ordered quickly ran to the boy and grabbed him by the arms. The boy was startled when they approached him. Then he started to panic and started to throw ruckus. ¡°What the hell! Hey! Let me go! You Fools!¡±(Boy) Because the boy was throwing such tantrum, the bandits that were holding him became irritated. They decided to kick the boy in the gut in order to shut him up. Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!(Shut your trap kid)(Bandit) ¡°Oof!¡±(Boy) From the sudden hard kick I received, I gagged and lost balance. Fuck that hurts! Why the hell are they grabbing me for! Hello??? I think you got the wrong person. I didn''t do anything bad in my life! I swear! Perhaps I¡¯m being kidnapped? I don¡¯t know anymore. While I¡¯m being dragged with force, I realized this is no longer a situation to be idly wonder where I was, and wonder who they are, rather what to do against these people that were forcefully dragging me to their carriage. As I got closer to the carriage I can see the mini cell that can fit animals or even a human being. Approaching the cell closer and closer, I have become even more paranoid inside my head. Seeing the cell made me think of all the obvious possibilities that might happen if I end up in there. I¡¯m going to be either be sold to some people as a slave, or be tortured, lose all my organs and face death. You know I¡¯m really afraid of people that collects organs to sell them. Apparently they happen a lot in Asia and tend to happen in NYC as well. The point is anything can happen if I don¡¯t do anything right now. I don¡¯t know where I am or who these people are but because they are a threat to me and my future I¡¯m going to have to do something. I don¡¯t want to die. Nobody wants to be tortured to death. Nobody wants to face limitation in their freedom. Many thoughts were quickly going through my mind, and the ones that seems to resonate strongest were these: What did I do to deserve this? I don¡¯t want to die. I don¡¯t want to suffer. I have to survive. But how? They were still dragging me to their carriage. The seconds that passed while being dragged felt like eternity. I approached closer and closer to the cell. Wait! I do have a solution! I still have my handgun with me! Would the situation I¡¯m in right now be considered as self-defense? No, No, Now is not the time to worry about such thing. This is just survival. It¡¯s either to kill or to be killed. I wasn''t too sure if my mind can handle the killing but I decided to act soon as possible because it was either now or never. So then I decided act as if I didn¡¯t have any more strength left. Being dragged as if I was a sandbag with decent amount of weight. As I got closer to the cell, one of the bandits on the side released my arm real quick and brought out shackles from the sides of the carriage, and that when I knew this was my chance. I¡¯ll push him away far as possible and create space between us. As the bandit on my right was about to put them on me I pushed away the bandit as far as I can. The bandit on my right fell onto the floor dropping the shackles. The bandit on my left was left surprised and lost the strength of grip that he had on my left and my right arm. With this I created a small distance between me and the bandit on the left by pushing him with my body. We both fell on the ground. Then I quickly reached out to my pocket and pulled out my Glock 26 that I had with me. The bandit that I pushed down tried to get up in a hurry but I''m not going to give him the chance to. Bang! As the bullet pierced through his head, his body dropped like a ragdoll to the floor creating thud noise. Chapter 3: Instinct 2 The loud noise echoed through the area, and in that instant, the bandit on my left was killed and I have committed my first murder. It wasn¡¯t a pleasant view. I can see the blood gushing out through the hole that his head had. I also noticed that part of his brain matters were splattered on the floor. Looking at this I gagged a little and was about to puke, but I held back. Damn, seeing the real thing in front me, it¡¯s completely different from the dried corpses that I saw in Forensic labs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bandits were surprised and left speechless. From their point of view, one of their men was killed instantly without being even able to get up. It all happened way too fast. It was just not fair for them. Was it one of the unique abilities that this boy had? Did he obtain chant less magic upon coming to this world? Normally, you would have to be a person with high level in order to put skill points into the chant less magic. It wouldn¡¯t be possible for a person who just got summoned because his level will be guaranteed to be 1. Of course, the bandits are confused and were rapidly making endless amount of assumptions in their heads. They have never witnessed a gun. Why? Because it simply does not exist in this world. Nobody ever bothered to make such weapon because they had magic. Magic was very convenient and powerful, but at the same time magic was not completely superior to those who have invested into physical abilities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The shock only lasted for about 10 seconds. The bandits came back to reality and they pulled out their daggers and swords, then they took a fighting stance while pointing their weapons at me. I wasn¡¯t too worried though because I had decent amount of distance between us. When did I create that distance? It was when the bandits were surprised and was unable to move. I decided to create much distance as possible sprinting away from them. I was out of breath, and grasped for air. At the same time, I felt the adrenaline rushing in me. I felt as if my senses were heightened and became jittery. As I point my gun at them, I can see my hands shaking. No good, I can¡¯t properly aim. I breathe in and out hoping to calm down. Then I hear a loud shout that was incomprehensible which gave me the chills. It was the voice that I heard from earlier. The one that seem to lead these men. (What happened?)(Head of the Bandit) (Sir, this boy just killed one of our men in one go.)(Bandit2) (What? How is that even possible? Was it magic?)(Head of the Bandit) (No, sir. It was chant less and was faster than any magic that I have ever seen my life! It also gave off a loud noise!)(Bandit2) (If it¡¯s not magic, you guys have nothing to be afraid of! You guys are not afraid of a kid, are you now? He doesn¡¯t even have any sword or dagger on him. Hurry up and get that bastard. Don¡¯t kill him though because we still need to sell the boy, but you can stab him and torture him. Just keep him alive. Now GO!) After the bandit finished his speech while shouting, the men who pulled out their weapon started to run toward me while shouting. (((AHHHH)))(Bandits) Because of sudden shout, I got scared and pulled the trigger. This time I was not able to think about my morals, everything just happened spontaneously and I had no time to think or be calm. Bang! Bang! Bang! Again, you can hear the noise echo through the air. After the three loud bangs the three bandits that were running with such strength and vitality seconds ago have lost all of it and fell to the ground. One of them did not die like the other two, because he was shot in the lungs, but surely he would meet his death soon enough. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. (Kuuk¡­ Ho..w is this poss..ible..)(Bandit5) As he said some words that I could not comprehend while coughing out blood, he finally gave in and collapsed. After shooting these three men I looked ahead to where the carriage was. I saw the man in suit and a bandit. They both looked surprised and puzzled to what just happened in front of them. What I noticed was that there seems to be only 2 more people left. I didn¡¯t see anyone else in carriage when I was near the cell nor around the carriage other than the soldiers that were just killed. I took quickly changed my aim toward the bandit since he had a weapon drawn out. He was more of a threat than the man in suit behind him. When I aimed at him he came running at me while shouting words that I cannot understand. I wished for him to stop doing that. (You Brat!!!!)(HBandit) So then I fired another shot. Bang! Thank god for the adrenaline. I didn¡¯t feel any hesitation rather all I felt was relief that I can live on. I can survive. The bandit didn¡¯t stand a chance. The bullet I fired pierced through his head and the man¡¯s body fell and made a loud thud noise. It sounded like the noise it would make if I were to drop a brick from my height. Witnessing the instant death the man in suit started to scream and run. Seems like he wasn¡¯t expecting this sort of outcome. I didn¡¯t want to kill him because he seemed to be harmless but I can¡¯t let any witnesses of the scene run away. So I ran fast as I can, chasing after him in order to keep him in my sight and shot him. Bang! The man fell and started to scream in pain. I can hear the sound of his scream even though I was about 15 meters away. I caught up to him and pointed the gun at him. He grabbed onto my legs and started to say words that I cannot comprehend again. (Ahh, my legs! Please, don¡¯t kill me. Please, save me! It hurts¡­ I¡¯ll give you anything you ask, so please! Have mercy!) It seemed like he was pleading for his life but I can¡¯t do anything. I can¡¯t have any witnesses alive. If I were to let him go and he was to tell the policemen in this region that I killed 5 people, I would be sent to prison and I would have to rot away there. Of course, I¡¯m not sure anymore where I am or what world I¡¯m in or if I¡¯m still in New York or not but it would make all the killing I did just now to fight pointless. I look at him with pity and guilt, then I fire off another shot. Bang! The grip that his hand had on my legs were gone and he fell to the ground. 2 minutes have passed since the suit guy¡¯s death. My adrenaline started wear off. As my adrenaline wore off, I started to realize what I have done. I have killed 6 people in total with my gun. It was a massacre that I created. I was feeling nauseous and gagged once again. This time though I ended up throwing up. I took out the water bottle from my bag and drank some water to cleanse my mouth. ¡°Disgusting¡± I said aloud. The water helped me calm down a little, and I end up asking myself. What should I do from here and now on? Chapter 4: Conclusion Before I start making my moves, I decided to check my state of mind. I¡¯m calm. I¡¯m calm. Just kidding! I¡¯m very scared! Wait! Don¡¯t panic myself. Calm down¡­ you can panic later but not now. First, I don¡¯t know where I am currently at. I thought about it over and over, and I can confirm that I¡¯m not even in United States anymore! The language that these people spoke and yelled out I¡¯ve never heard of it. It doesn¡¯t sound similar to any language I¡¯ve learned and heard throughout my 20 years of lifetime. I know, I know¡­ that¡¯s not that long but still! I live in New York. I see and hear people of diverse race yet this language is way too different. It¡¯s hard to explain. Gibberish? No, no, it sounds better than that. Let¡¯s just say it sounds unique. Second, what should I do now? I am in a world where I have no knowledge, and I have killed six people. That¡¯s right I need to quickly leave the scene of crime! I have to run away from this place far as possible. But, where do I head to? From where I am standing and facing, I can see road to my left and road to my right. On my front I see many trees, seems to never end and to my back it¡¯s the same. Do I go left or right? Hm¡­ Oh well, eeny meeny miny moe¡­ It¡¯s decided I will travel to my left! And then suddenly I was struck by my own realization. How far will I have to travel in order to get out of this forest? You may wonder how I figured out that this place the forest. Heh, heh¡­ then let me tell you! It¡¯s because to my left, right, front and back I see no path that is inclining nor declining. Simply all the paths are straight with no hills to walk over or go down on! I¡¯m a genius aren¡¯t I? Anyways, I don¡¯t know how far I will have to travel but it can take a day or two¡­ or even longer! I don¡¯t have food nor any supplies¡­ ¡­¡­¡­¡­ After thinking for few minutes I have decided to take what these people had. Would this be considered as robbery too? I wonder¡­ but now is not the time to worry about that. Sorry, people but I will have to take your belongings. I decided to check the corpse that was closest to me which was the guy in suit. I almost puked again. The corpse started to smell and looking at it gave off an eerie feeling. I can never get used to corpses no matter how many times I saw including ones at the forensics labs. I looked close at the corpse and looked for pockets. It was hard to find the pockets due to the blood covering up the clothes. When I found them, I reached my hand into the pockets. The first few pockets I searched I couldn¡¯t find anything but the last inner pocket that was located inside of his coat seemed to have something. It was a leather pouch with decent weight. I opened the pouch and looked into it and it was coins that was made out of gold, and silver only. I took all of it out and counted it out. 1 gold and 25 silver coins. Score! I guess I don¡¯t have to worry about money for now. I¡¯m not sure how much the coins are worth but hopefully it¡¯s enough to be put to use. I mean, come on! Gold coin? Has to be worth something right? After I finished checking the guy in suit, I decided to check the rest of the corpses. ¡­¡­¡­.. It took a while because they were heavy to move around, and guess what I got! Nothing! The bandits had nothing with them. Except their weapons. Sigh¡­ It¡¯s okay though, I still have one main stash remaining to be checked on. The carriage. Oh, all mighty carriage! What kind of stashes are you carrying? I walked to the carriage and climbed onto it. It was actually very spacious. Enough to fit about 8 people and the mini cell. There were many bags and boxes and I decided to search them thoroughly. ¡­¡­¡­. So far I have found 4 small fancy glass bottles with light green liquid in them. It looked like common lime sodas that you can find in stores. Of course, I didn¡¯t know what it was so I decided to smell it. It gave a scent of lemon which confused me because the color was light green. I didn¡¯t seem dangerous so I decided to take it with me. Next, I found a sword that had a fancy scabbard. The scabbard had beautiful flower engravings on it. The engraved flowers on the scabbard had the color of blue and the rest of the scabbard was the color of black. I decided to take the sword too. Last but not least, I found a box that was tightly sealed with a lock. I tried opening it by smashing the lock over and over with the sword, and it opened up. That was probably not the smartest way of opening the lock but it worked! When I looked inside of the box there was a weird looking egg with cushions surrounding it. Why was it weird? Well, its size was similar to a basketball and it had many circular patterns on it. It makes me feel dizzy looking at it, and gave me this weird feeling. I¡¯ve never seen anything like it. Maybe it¡¯s the size that¡¯s intimidating me. Oh, well, I took it anyways. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. In the end, I decided take all of the things I found, and put them all into my bag. Unfortunately, the carriage didn¡¯t have much. I was kind of bummed out until I actually noticed that I have no space left in my bag. So, now I needed to throw out my books in order to create the space that was needed. Sigh¡­ These textbooks were so expensive¡­ I guess I have no choice right? As I threw them far into the forest, my heart ached knowing how expensive they were. Currently these are the items that I have in my bag. ¡¤ Bottle of Water ¡¤ 4 Small Fancy Glass Bottles with Light Green Liquid in them. ¡¤ 2 Snickers ¡¤ 2 Sour Patch Kids ¡¤ 1 Bottle of Nyquil ¡¤ 1 Bottle of Aspirin ¡¤ 1 Large Egg ¡¤ Coins ¡¤ Clip of ammo for Glock 26 ¡¤ Sword/Fancy Scabbard Now, I have emptied everyone¡¯s pockets and the carriage it¡¯s time for me to leave the scene of crime. Before I do leave though I decided to turn off my Iphone, it had about 80% battery because I might need the flashlight from it during night time, and not having enough battery life won¡¯t do. I really do hope it lasts long time. I also double checked for the bullets I currently have in my handgun just in case I needed to use it again. Standard clips of Glock 26 has 10 bullets and I fired my gun seven times against the bandits which brings me down to 3 bullets. Hopefully this is enough against wild life or enemies. Luckily I have another clip of ammo in my bag but that¡¯s all. In worst possible outcome, I will use the sword that I brought with me. I have finally finished preparing and decided to leave. Thus I turned around to my left and began to walk down the road. Chapter 5: Trouble In The Forest I wonder how far the next destination is going to be¡­ Currently, I am walking through the forest instead of the road. Of course, in order to not get lost I am not too deep in the forest. If I look to my right I can still see the road from afar. Basically, I¡¯m just following the road from the side and that side happens to be the forest. I just didn¡¯t want to be seen by other people because the chance of me being questioned or in danger are lot higher. It¡¯s been two hours since I have departed from the scene of crime. I¡¯m still walking but I can feel the fatigue building up rather quickly. I checked my wrist watch once again to confirm that it¡¯s 11:30pm. This indicated two things. One, I¡¯ve been in this world for about 4 hours. Two, if I were to be in my original world, I should be sleeping right now. This explained my fatigue. I walked for about 30 minutes more and decided to take a break. How does Bear Grylls do these kind of things? It didn¡¯t look that hard to me when I was watching his show but damn, reality hits hard. I probably can¡¯t even handle 1/10th of his travels. As I complained, I sat down and leaned my back against a huge boulder that was nearby. Then I relaxed. My stomach started to grumble. It¡¯s actually been some quiet time since I had last meal. I think the last time I ate was 7 hours ago, right before my lecture started. To satisfy my hunger, I took out my snickers bar and munched on it. Mm¡­ delicious. That¡¯s all I can think of. Delicious. While I was eating the snickers bar, I ended up thinking of many questions in my head. I wonder if I can go back to my old world¡­ Can I even survive until then¡­? Wait¡­ Can I even go back? Is my friend okay without the medicine? What happens if I like it here? Why was I the only one summoned? Why couldn¡¯t have it been somebody else? At least let me have a companion to talk to¡­ I felt lonely¡­ Even though, I knew that I wouldn¡¯t have companion, friends and family back in my old world either, I still sought out for love. (Well, maybe except 1 friend.) Frustration, loneliness, anger, and fear. I felt many negative emotions swirl inside of me. My chest felt like it was swelling up as if it was about to burst open. Then, my head felt hot and I felt my eyes swelling. Soon enough, I felt the warm liquid that ran through my cheeks into the snickers bar. I continued to eat the snickers bar. That was the saltiest snicker bar that I have ever tasted. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ It took a while for myself to cheer up but I managed to do so. When I was about to get up and move out, I noticed that the sun was setting. I can¡¯t believe I wasted so much time being let down but what can you do. I thought about continuing the journey inside the dark with my Iphone flash light but it wasn¡¯t a bright idea. I may get lost and never find my way out. So instead, I turned on my Iphone in case I need the light, then I marked the directions that points to the road and the direction that follows the road from the side. This will help me in case I need to move out during the night. All I have to do will be flash my light on it to grasp my direction. Once I finished marking, I went back to the large boulder and leaned next to it, trying to get some sleep. But, it was uncomfortable, so I took my bag and put it on my lap, and then I rested my head on part of the bag that was bulging out due to egg being placed in there. As I rested my head on the bag I can hear a sound. Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum It had a steady rhythm, and it sounded similar to the sound of a heartbeat. Some reason, it was very pleasant to listen to. It helped me relax, and as I was listening to the sound, I gradually lost my conscience. Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. ¡­¡­¡­... ¡­¡­¡­... All of a sudden, I felt intense pain on my left arm. It felt as if it was being bitten by something and was about to be torn off soon. It was so painful that I let out a scream. ¡°Ah, Fuck!¡± I hurriedly took out my Iphone and turned on the flashlight app. I pointed to my left arm and what I saw was a creature that looked similar to a wolf. It was biting my arm. In panic, I took out my hand gun with my right hand and planned to shoot the creature. The creature noticed my intention, so it quickly let go of my arm, and leapt back to avoid the danger. My left arm was in immense pain, so I flashed the light to my left arm to check its condition. My arm was in a very poor state. Its flesh was torn apart and if you closely you can almost see the bone on one of the holes that was left with the creatures teeth mark. I still thanked the gods that it didn¡¯t tear my arm off yet¡­ As I was looking at my arm, the wolf did not hesitate and launched the second attack. It jumped off the ground with tremendous strength and launched itself at me with its sharp claws out. Before I got to decide what I wanted to do, my body reacted faster than my mind can process the situation. I rolled to the left in order to avoid its attack. I quickly got up and tried to locate the creature by flashing my light at it. I found it! When the creature was found, it does not wait and launches its second attack to me. Unlike the first time it attacked me which caught me off guard, I was able to take aim at the wolf that was in midair and pulled the trigger. Bang! Unfortunately, the bullet I fired missed its body but hits the creatures¡¯ leg. The creature lets out a scream in pain and loses balance in midair, then fell to the ground. Before I got to fire another shot at it, it quickly got up and retreated back deep into the forest. Fuck¡­ it hurts so much¡­ I was a fool for not thinking about wild life or whatever that thing was for night time. It must have smelt the blood on my hands that I didn¡¯t get to wash off completely when I was checking the corpses. I deserved it. I didn¡¯t plan ahead enough. I only thought of the safety of myself at the moment, which brought this grave mistake. I can¡¯t stay here any longer. I have to keep on walking and somehow make it out of here, and find a way to treat my wounds. I was bleeding pretty badly and there are probably going to more of those creatures chasing me. I took out the water from my bag. Then, I used the water to wash off the wound in order to prevent infection much as I can. Fuck! It hurts so much. After rinsing the wound, I took off my Adidas jersey and tightly wrapped around my left arm. This was to decrease, and prevent anymore unnecessary blood loss. After performing the best first aid possible to myself, I took out my aspirin and took two pills from it. Hopefully, these pills help me cope with the pain. I reloaded my Glock with the one and only ammo clip and looked for the marks that I carved. Soon as I found them, I hurriedly followed the direction it pointed for me to go to. Chapter 6: Trouble In The Forest 2 Authors Note: I had hard time writing this chapter. I was originally planning to write in 3rd point of view but was unable to due to my lack of knowledge. Hopefully, the 1st point of view I wrote in compensates for it. If there are any mistakes, and inconsistencies please let me know! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not sure how much time have passed, but I have not stopped yet. I kept on going. Stopping here would surely mean death. However, my chance of survival is already low. I felt dizzy, nauseous and cold. I¡¯m almost at my limit and about to collapse any second now. I stopped walking to take a breather and recollect my thoughts. Currently, I know they are following me from the sides. The forest did not any insects that cried out at night times. Basically the forest was dead silent and you can only hear two things. My breathing, and small walking sounds that is combined with mine. I am being followed by the creatures. Do I just stop and fight them? Or Do I keep walking forward until I can¡¯t stop. My body is screaming in pain and it¡¯s letting me know I don¡¯t have much time before I collapse. So, I have decided. I will fight here rather than walking further. I took out the phone again and flashed it around. There it was. You can see the bright yellow eyes reflecting the light that I was flashing it on. Growling. There was something different this time though. You can hear multiple growls. I looked around the creature and this time there wasn¡¯t only one rather there was three. There was the one that got injured from the bullet I shot and two others that came with the injured one. Seems like they are here to secure the kill. But, I have no intention of going down that easily. I took my handgun out and tried to aim at it. I was still feeling dizzy so I wasn¡¯t too sure if it was going to hit. As I was about to pull my trigger, the two that weren¡¯t injured jumped straight at me, well, aren¡¯t you impatient? I shot the gun twice, and then rolled to the side with my remaining strength to avoid being clawed. Bang! Bang! You can hear the sound of the gun and the scream of the creature echo throughout the forest. You can see the one that got shot fall in the air to the ground. I¡¯m wasn¡¯t sure if it was dead or not. It was too dark for me to know its condition so tried to walk up to it quickly to confirm. While I was paying attention to the one I shot, the third one attacked me from my blind side and gave a deep cut on my right arm with its sharp claws. ¡°Fuck!¡± The pain that I received from the attack made me drop my gun and lose balance. This made me fall backwards. As I fell, the one that was waiting from the side after its initial attack failed, quickly jumped at me without any hesitation. I couldn¡¯t get up in time. My body was at its limit and I had no strength to get up. Ah¡­ It¡¯s all over for me now, huh¡­ Is what I thought until I saw a huge fireball blast away the creature that jumped to attack me. (Fireball!)(???) (Hey, Are you alright?)(???) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -30 minutes ago- In the forest you can see a group of three adventurers hunting down the demon wolves. There was a group of demon wolves that tried to fight back desperately but they were all easily killed. One by one, the group of demon wolves that fought back were annihilated. ¡°Sir, I have finished subjugating the demon wolves that were in this area but few managed to get away. Should I go after them?¡± (Jude) ¡°No, the sun is going to set soon. It will be dangerous to chase them during night time because there might be some other monsters out there. Instead, why don¡¯t you go start making a campfire and set up the tent? We can pursue the rest tomorrow.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Roger that~¡± (Jude) ¡°Alright, I¡¯m going to go look around the area to see if there are any more monsters left. While I do that, Sera, Could you set up a barrier around this area? (Aaron) ¡°Sure! Leave it to me!¡± (Sera) I left them with tasks and headed into the forest to check the surroundings. This was to prevent ourselves from getting attacked by a group of monsters during night time. Even though we have Sera¡¯s barrier, one can never be too lax. The wolves that were able to escape might come back to attack us in a bigger group. Of course, this is only possible if there are more of them left in this part of the forest. The subjugation request have mentioned that there are thirty of them but like I said one must never be too careless. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. I checked the area and the surroundings thoroughly. There were no monsters left, so I decided to head back to the camp. While I was on my way, I heard a loud noise from the direction where we were planning to rest at. Pi-yoong What the heck was that sound? Why did it come from the direction we were planning to rest at? Are the guys okay? With worries springing up in my mind I quickly headed to the rest site. ¡°Jude! Sera!¡± (Aaron) ¡°Sir?¡± (Jude, Sera) ¡°Are you guys okay? What was that noise?¡± (Aaron) ¡°I¡¯m fine sir, but I don¡¯t know what the noise is about. I¡¯ve never heard anything like it.¡± (Jude) ¡°I don¡¯t know anything about it either¡­ But it did come from the north side direction. Should we go check up on it?¡± (Sera) When Sera asked me if we should check up on it, I wasn¡¯t too sure. I¡¯ve never heard of this unique sound and wasn¡¯t sure what the cause of it was from. Was it a new monster? Was the sound from a new spell? It is likely that it was a spell but why was it used in middle of the forest? Monsters? That¡¯s when it clicked to me that the chance of it being spell was higher than a monster. The probability of the monsters that we were not able to subjugate attacking was higher than a high ranked monster roaming in this forest. ¡°Yeah, let¡¯s check up on it. The noise might be from an adventurer fighting group of monsters by himself. Leave your belongings here and grab your weapons, and a torch only. It¡¯s going to be a hassle to carry these with us, and it¡¯s going to be a burden to us if we do engage in a fight.¡± (Aaron) Jude and Sera followed my instructions and quickly got ready. then we headed toward the direction that the noise echoed from. Because the sun had set, it got really dark inside the forest. For a quick moment we lost our sense of direction but we heard the sound once again. Pi-yoon This time it was louder than before. I can tell that we were lot closer than before. I ran in hurry leaving Jude and Sera behind. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ When we arrived at the source of the sound, we saw something that we did not expect. A boy who was on the floor and was surrounded by 3 demon wolves. The boy tried his best to stand up but he was unable to. He seemed to be injured quiet badly. I can see from here that his left arm was torn apart by the wolves. It seems like he lost lot of blood from the wound. He was barely alive at this point. As Jude and Sera caught up to me, one of the wolf attacked the boy who was defenseless. So then I have chanted my magic at the demon wolf to save him. ¡°Fireball!¡± (Aaron) A huge fireball was created front of me and was launched at the demon wolf. The fire engulfed it and soon, reduced it to ashes. ¡°Jude! Sera! Quick go help the boy!¡± (Aaron) Upon my instruction Jude and Sera quickly ran toward the boy. ¡°Hey, are you alright?¡±(Sera) Sera used her healing skill to treat the boy¡¯s wounds and Jude quickly cut downed the 2nd demon wolf that was near him. The third one tried to run away quickly as possible, but Sera have noticed it. ¡°Not so fast! Wind Cutter!¡± (Sera) A quick, strong bursts of wind was shot from Sera¡¯s hand. The wind cutter that was fired hit the demon wolf and cut its body into two pieces. Thank god these guys are capable. Now, I wonder what this boy was doing in the forest this late by himself. We took him and his belongings that was dropped on the floor and took him to our campfire. Chapter 7: Questions and Answers 1 Authors Note: Sorry for the long delay guys. I have finally finished my midterm and am able to write more. Thank you for waiting. This chapter is a short chapter. I will try my best to write a hefty amount next chapter. Thanks again! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So many things have spontaneously occurred today. If I were to recap¡­ I was teleported? Transferred? Summoned? To a different world. I had to kill the bandits in order to escape. Then I was left with the decision of going either left or right of the road, and ended up choosing left. I covered a pretty good amount of distance by pacing myself and then decided to take a rest near a huge boulder. I manage to fall asleep but was attacked by a wolf looking creature. I managed to fend them off the first time but the second time they came, I couldn¡¯t. Then a mysterious fireball hit the creature and a group of people came out of the forest, and rescued me. Now, here I am being carried by a girl who I¡¯ve never met before and am being brought somewhere¡­ You see I wouldn¡¯t be surprised, nor be embarrassed if the girl wasn¡¯t carrying me in a princess carry and is running through the forest with the other two men. When I say running, it wasn¡¯t like a jogging type of running rather it was sprinting. She was sprinting through the forest carrying me. How was this even possible??? If I were to compare the speed, she would probably leave Usain Bolt in dust. Ha Ha¡­. As they quickly ran through the forest I was able to see a dim light from afar. When I got closer and closer to the light, I was able to find out what the source of the light was. It was a campfire. I know, I know, anticlimactic, but thank god¡­ I was not getting carried to somewhere dangerous. Or is it? I can¡¯t be too careless now. Next to the campfire you can see two logs laying down that seems to be about 5 feet long? It seems like they are using the logs as a substitute for chairs. And, next to the logs there were two set of tents that can fit one to two people in. When we reached the campfire, the girl placed me down on the log and left to the tent in hurry. As I was planning to sit straight, the man who seemed to be in his 40¡¯s came near me and started talking. Of course, I had no idea what he was saying. (Hello, my name is Aaron Rydan. I am a B rank adventurer. You don¡¯t mind if I ask you some questions right?)(Aaron) Uhh¡­ What did he just say? What should I say to him? How do I even respond to him? As I was trying to figure out what to say to him, I have decided to say the response in English in order to give him a hint that I¡¯m not from this world. ¡°Sorry, I don¡¯t understand a word you are saying¡­¡± When I said that, he had an expression of someone who had an epiphany, and started to move around hands in air with his index finger pointing out. It seemed like he was trying to touch something that I was not able to see. ¡°Do you understand me now?¡± (Aaron) Huh? A language that was familiar to me reached my ears. What! How? Wait calm down¡­ Let¡¯s answer him and ask him some questions. He seems like a nice person. ¡°Yes, I can understand what you are saying.¡± ¡°I see! That¡¯s great. Let me re-introduce myself again. My name is Aaron Rydan. I am a B rank adventurer. Nice to meet you. You don¡¯t mind if I ask you some questions right?¡±(Aaron) Eh? So there are people who identifies themselves as adventurers are here huh¡­ ¡°Hello, my name is Skylar Maelstrom. I just want to thank you for saving me, and yes, I don¡¯t mind answering your questions.¡± ¡°I see, alright. I can tell that you are not from around here. First question I want to ask you is, what are you doing in this forest by yourself, especially during night time? During night time there are many monsters out there that can easily kill people. Even adventurers that are ranked C are recommended not to come here by themselves.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Wait, let me explain my situation to you before I answer your questions. I think this will help you narrow down your questions. I¡¯m not sure if you are going to believe me but I¡¯m not from around here. What I meant to say is that, I¡¯m from a different world (Oh, man I sound like a lunatic). I¡¯m not sure why I was summoned but when I did, I was summoned near this forest. I didn¡¯t know my direction so I decided to just go to my left on a whim.¡± This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. While I was explaining to him, I decided to leave out some details because I don¡¯t think it was necessary to tell them about the killing. ¡°EHH??? You are a summoned one? That¡¯s so cool!!! Oh man, I¡¯ve never met a summoned one before!¡±(Jude) A young man who seems to be around my age came next to me, sat down, and then stared at me in amazement. He had the expression of a fangirl who have finally met their idol. ¡°Jude! Stop being rude to our guest. Sorry, about that Skylar. His name is Jude Crophil. He is a C rank adventurer. Anyways, Jude, please don¡¯t interrupt us.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Ah! Sorry about that!¡± (Jude) He then listened to Aaron and went back inside to his camp. He is still probably eavesdropping though. ¡°Is it really rare for a person to be summoned here? And what is summoned one?¡± ¡°Yes, it is rare nowadays. It used to be common when the summoning materials were abundant but after 100 years have passed, it became scarce. The reason behind it is because of the greedy nobles. Also, the name summoned one does not carry a special meaning. Just means the person is not from this world.¡±(Aaron) ¡°Nobles?¡± ¡°Yes. When the materials were abundant they summoned many people from the other world. Because they would usually come to this world defenseless, they would be captured on sight. They were used as slaves.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Slavery exists in this world???¡± ¡°Yes. Some people tried to go against the kings who ruled the kingdoms but they never appealed to it¡±(Aaron) So my assumption was right. Good thing, I fought off the bandits or I would¡¯ve been in a deep shit. ¡°Wait, if they have slavery already why bother summoning another person from different world?¡± ¡°It¡¯s simply because the people who were summoned here always gets a unique skill. It may be active and passive but in the end it¡¯s unique to themselves. People in this world cannot achieve those unique skills unless they are incredibly high leveled. The summoned ones were probably used for war power.¡± (Aaron) Alright, so at this point. I have no clue what the hell is going on. Skills? Unique? What? Slavery? Adventurers? What does this make me? Will I be captured and be sold if I were to be found out that I¡¯m not from this world? Wait, if summoned one always gets a skill, how come I don¡¯t have one? If I do have one, how do I even use it? ¡°You are worried aren¡¯t you? You also have no clue what I¡¯m talking about.¡±(Aaron) ¡°Huh? How did you know?¡± ¡°By your expression. Anyways, don¡¯t worry. I¡¯m not a bad guy and those two aren¡¯t the bad guys either. Since you answered my question, I will answer your questions. Just ask away. Long as it¡¯s within my knowledge range I will answer you.¡±(Aaron) ¡°Really? Thank you very much!¡± ¡°No problem. Now ask away.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Could you tell me the details about the slaves, and the skill? system? I think? Is that what it''s called?¡± ¡°Haha, yes, it is called skill system. Let me explain the skill system first. This will help you understand how the slavery thing works.¡±(Aaron) Chapter 8: Questions and Answers 2 Authors Note: This chapter has wall of texts. I tried my best to space the paragraphs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¡°Skill system is what everyone in this world has access to. It naturally helps an individual to bring out the magic energy that is dwelling within themselves. Of course, it can also help the individual to manipulate the magic energy that surrounds this world.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Wait, wait¡­ so what is magic energy? Where does it come from? Also, what does it look like? Are you able to see it? Where is it?¡± ¡°Woah, slow down. I will try to explain everything. First, magic energy cannot be seen by naked eyes. No matter how good your eyesight is you cannot see magic energy. But, you can perceive it by feeling the magic energy¡¯s flow. You can think of magic energy as the air. It exists everywhere, all around us. Even underwater, you will be able to feel the magic energy. It also exists inside of us. Now to explain where it originates from nobody knows. It¡¯s kind of embarrassing to say it but the researchers never figured it out. Nobody knows why people are able to access skill system, where it comes from, and the person who started it all. Some may say it¡¯s the gods but nobody in this world have met the ones called ¡°gods¡±. There are people who worship different gods but it¡¯s hard to actually provide a solid proof if they exist or not. Personally, I don¡¯t believe in one. There are many cults out there who actually gets gullible people to do things for them.¡± So those kind of people exist everywhere huh¡­ it seems like the magic energy is a lot close to mana in games. It make more sense for me to understand it this way because they use ¡°skill system¡±. Different world, skill system, and mana. I say this is pretty clich¨¦ but it¡¯s not like it¡¯s a bad thing. Who wouldn¡¯t want to live in this kind of world where they have magic? Like this old man was able to shoot a fireball! I thought about it but I should explain to you guys how this guy looks like. You guys are probably imagining either a fat man with his stomach bulged out or a man with white hair that looks very old? I guess? You know what I mean¡­ anyways, let me describe him. He had a haircut that was well trimmed on top and short on sides. Hmm if I were to describe it style it would be a two block cut? His hair color was brown and so were his eye colors. He also had a nice five o clock shadow. He just had wrinkles in some places that made him look very mature. His body wasn¡¯t too muscular nor skinny rather it was well built. He would make a perfect actor in a movie. While I was thinking of unnecessary thoughts, Aaron continued with his explanation. ¡°Though the researchers haven¡¯t figured out where the magic energies source, they do know that this magic energy exist inside of us and around us. And, because it exists inside of us, the researchers believes that the individual is able to access the skill system. Now let¡¯s move on to how to access into a skill system. If you say , you should be able to access into your information and it is only visible to you. Of course, if you wanted to you can show it to other people by transferring that information into a specific scroll. You don¡¯t have to say it out aloud. You can just mutter the as well. Now, when the status comes up you should be able to see your level, skill points, and skills. We don¡¯t know what exactly level is but we just assume that it is needed for the skills. You are able to increase your levels by accumulating points. It can be through killing monsters like the wolf demon that attacked you. You are awarded with 1 skill point when you level and are able to put up skills. These skills consume 1 point but as the levels go up it costs the same as its skill level. For example, if your skill level is 1 and you want to raise it to 2, you would need 2 skill points instead of 1. If you are trying to do skill level 2 to 3 you would need 3 points.¡±(Aaron) ¡°I see, do you mind if I just try it out right now?¡± ¡°Sure, go ahead¡± (Aaron) Okay, that was a lot of information for myself to take in but I understand most of it. Simply, this world operates like any role playing game would except it¡¯s not a game. First, I¡¯m going to check this thing by myself.
MaelstromLevelSkill Points
72288/288
Unique Skills
?Lucky Me!Experience Gained MultipliedSkill Points Gained Per Level + 3 Formula: Level + 3(Level) or 4(Level)
?Family CrestAnyone Who Shares This Crest Cannot Be Tamed. *Must Have/Form A Bond To Obtain The Crest.
Skills
Woah!!! This is so cool! Now, I understand why Aaron hovered his hand into the air. He was trying to touch this status chart. Let¡¯s check my level. My level should be¡­ what? 72!?! What the hell? How is my level so high? Wait is this high? I don¡¯t know how easy or hard it is to level. Let¡¯s not go crazy yet¡­ ¡°Uh¡­ Aaron? Can I ask you something? What level are you?¡± ¡°I¡¯m level 54.¡± Oh damn. He is lower than me? That¡¯s insane! And How come I have so many skill points? Shouldn¡¯t I only have 72? I scanned through the status chart in confusion and noticed the unique skills. When I read it, that¡¯s when I noticed why I was able to have this much skill points. Experience gained multiplied, and Skill points obtained per level are +3. This explains why my level and skill points are so high. But what did I do to level? Hm¡­ Ah! It¡¯s probably the creature but was that enough for me to level this much? That wouldn¡¯t make sense. Unless it multiplies my experience by thousands or even more. ¡°What¡¯s wrong? You look surprised about something. Is there something wrong with your status? Status also shows the persons state. For example, if you were poisoned, it would state on the status bar saying that you are poisoned. Other people can look at your status. You can only see other people¡¯s level if their levels are higher than the other.¡± (Aaron) ¡°No, No. Nothing wrong. Just really surprised at my status. Sorry about that, you can go on and continue explaining. Thanks.¡± ¡°Now¡­ Where was I? Oh, yeah. Since now you understand let¡¯s move onto the skills. When you click on the skills you should be able to see many icons. When you hover over them you should be able to see the skill name and its information.¡± Like Aaron said, there were many skills. First, it started with 3 Icons. Melee, Ranged and Magic. When I hovered over them one by one, it gave more Icons. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. While I was checking the skills, Aaron continued to explain. ¡°You probably have noticed, but these skills do not give you the specifics. You already saw my fireball right? That¡¯s not actually a skill rather it¡¯s something that I have created by manipulating my magic. In order to be able to specifically manipulate the magic energy into fire you have to put a point in fire mastery. If you want to manipulate your magic energy into water then you would obviously have to put a point into water mastery. Now, for melee combat and ranged combat it¡¯s different. The person who put points into these are able to use magic energy to manipulate their movements. They are also able to manipulate their weapons with magic energy. As an individual put more points into melee combat they are able to learn sword movements naturally and able to use it. So for example, a person who has no knowledge of swordsmanship can become a swordsman with just 1 skill point into the melee combat. Same goes for Ranged combat. Vice versa.¡± ¡°I see. Skills are amazing. Hmm¡­ So what¡¯s the point of raising them to higher level if there are no specific moves to learn? Wouldn¡¯t level 1 skill and level 3 skill be the same? Not sure, if I explained it right so let me try to give you an example. Let¡¯s say you learn the move at level 2. In order for the person to learn a better move than fireball they would have to reach level 4 of fire mastery, but since that is not needed wouldn¡¯t you able to create a really crazy moves without having they high level?¡± ¡°I get what you are saying. You see, the higher the masteries are the person is able to manipulate more magic energy. Let¡¯s say that the size of a fireball you can create with skill level 1 is 30 cm. With level 2 you are able to use your magic energy to create up to 100cm. The person with higher mastery skill is able to use more magic energy. A person that has fire mastery skill maxed out should be able to burn up a whole kingdom by himself, but the person would need that much amount of magical energy, or be able to convert natural magic energy with efficiency.¡± ¡°Wow¡­ I see.¡± ¡°It¡¯s pretty hard to level up so try to make sure that you are raising something that you really like and need. Skill points are hard to come by.¡± At those words, I kind of felt bad. Why? Because I¡¯m rigged! Super rigged. They have hard time leveling up and get only 1 point per level but look at me! Actually, being a cheat isn¡¯t a bad thing. I¡¯m pretty sure there are stronger people out there. I checked the skills and I noticed that the max level for the combat, ranged and magic skills are level 15. How many points is that? 15 + 14 + 13¡­ 1 points? 120 points? What the hell? That¡¯s so many points. I forgot to tell you guys that the magic mastery has many branches of elements. It has Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Ice, Lightning, Light, Dark, and Recovery. To max all of this think about how many times you would have to level. I mean at least I have the unique abilities going for me, but for these people it¡¯s going to take forever. ¡°Now let me explain the about the slaves. First, only criminals are enslaved, but there are different kind of circumstances why people can become slaves. One can become a criminal from breaking the laws of the kingdom like trying to overthrow the king, being in debt and has not paid back, or simply because the individual has killed somebody. There are also people who forcefully enslave a person. These people are usually the ones who works in the black market. The slaves are usually the demi-humans. They are hated by the humans due to the war that broke out long time ago. You may ask if they enslave humans as well. No, they don¡¯t. Because, it¡¯s against their beliefs that they don¡¯t enslave a human being. The demi-humans are trying to establish peace by action but the humans are taking advantage of it. I¡¯m going to now explain the process of enslaving a person. The person who enslaves would have to have a skill called tame at level 12. At first, it was only used to enslave animals, and monsters but people found out that they are able to enslave humans, and demi-humans as well. Not many go for this skill though because they would have to be level 78 in order to reach tame to level 12. This would mean that they would only have to raise tame skill and would not be able to level up unless they have somebody to help them. So you are probably thinking, how are there people with tamer skill level 12 and up. There are scrolls that only nobles have that passes on the level 12 tame skill. Of course, once it¡¯s used it disappears. There was another summoned one who came to this world 100 years ago and he had a method of producing many of these scrolls. He then sold it all to nobles and have disappeared since then. Many nobles who obtained the skill have died from aging but there are many scrolls left unused and kept. The nobles are just planning to only have one of their heirs as a tamer and use them to enslave people. Of course, this is double edged sword. There are nobles who use it for the good and there are nobles that uses for the bad. The person who are higher level than the tamer cannot be tamed, but these nobles are usually level 25 and higher because they are able to level up by paying high leveled adventurers to level them up. People who are not adventurers are usually lower than level 20 and are targets to becoming a slave. Of course, there are rules from the kingdom to make this crime punishable but the tamers can just silence the enslaved people. If the slave¡¯s levels lower they cannot go against its master.¡± (Aaron) ¡°So, how do people avoid becoming a slave? Can¡¯t the nobles just take anybody as their slave long as their levels are lower?¡± ¡°Yes, but there is one way. Of course, you would need to be a noble to have this ability but it¡¯s the ability. Once the individual has a crest from somebody they cannot be enslaved unless the person with the family crest becomes enslaved. The taming system is very unfair but there is nothing you can do about it.¡± (Aaron) ¡°I see¡­ How does one become a noble?¡± ¡°You can become a noble if you pay certain amount of money and be an adventurer with a rank B or higher.¡± (Aaron) ¡°I see.¡± So I got really lucky with the skill, I should be immune to the skill since my level should be higher than the average people. Damn, it sucks for the people that wants to live peacefully. ¡°Anyways, it¡¯s getting late, why don¡¯t we call it a night for today and talk about it more tomorrow.¡± (Aaron) ¡°Yes, thanks for the explanation. I really appreciate it. It helped me a lot.¡± ¡°Ha ha, no problem. No need to be so grateful. Hmm, before we go though, I have to figure out where you are going to sleep.¡± (Aaron) ¡°I¡¯m fine with sleeping on the log. Don¡¯t worry about me.¡± After I said that, I heard a soft voice from my back. ¡°You can come sleep in my tent. There is enough room for a person since the tent is for two people.¡± (Sera) Chapter 9: Skill Tree In surprise, I turned my head around to see the person behind me. It was the pretty girl who had carried me all the way here. She looked different than earlier. She didn¡¯t have her weapon and armors on like she had earlier. Her long hazel-nut colored hair was let loose unlike earlier when she had her ponytail on, and she also had light pajama looking clothes on. Of course, the pajama did not look like the ones we have in United States rather it looked similar? Seemed like a summoned one from our world tried to replicate the pajamas. I was drowned in my own thoughts again until I saw Sera¡¯s face front of me. ¡°So? What¡¯s it going to be?¡± (Sera) Oh crap, Seems like she is still waiting for my reply. I didn¡¯t know what kind of answer I wasn¡¯t sure of what type of answer I was supposed to give to her, so I acted as if I didn¡¯t hear her for the first time. ¡°Uh... Sorry, could you repeat that? I don¡¯t think I heard it right.¡± ¡°You can come sleep in my tent. There is enough room for one more since the tent can fit up to two people.¡± (Sera) ¡°Well, Aren¡¯t you lucky Skylar! There is a beautiful girl that is inviting you to sleep next to her.¡± (Aaron) It¡¯s not the time to joke around old man. ¡°Uh¡­ Are you sure about this? I really don¡¯t mind sleeping outside. Plus, I don¡¯t think I will feel too comfortable.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t mind.¡± (Sera) ¡°Well, you guys figure it out on your own. I¡¯m going to sleep. I¡¯m tired.¡± (Aaron) Aaron!!! You are going to leave me like this? And so¡­ about 2 minutes have passed since Aaron went back inside to the tent that Jude went to sleep in. I still haven¡¯t gave Sera an answer. I¡¯m not hesitating because I¡¯m shy. I¡¯m hesitating because it¡¯s kind of weird to sleep next to a stranger¡­ especially a girl. Isn¡¯t that rather strange? A girl letting a stranger that she just met sleep next to her. Not only that I have a feeling it¡¯s going to be super awkward, but I can¡¯t her hanging like this¡­ ¡°Um, I¡¯m sorry. I¡¯m going to have to decline.¡± ¡°Alright. No problem.¡± (Sera) After replying with simple answer, Sera went back into her tent. Well, that was very anti-climactic. Anyways, It¡¯s okay for me to sleep outside on these logs for today because I wanted to check out my own abilities and debate which abilities to raise. It¡¯s one of those dilemmas you face when you have created your new character and have obtained a job in role playing games. If you are a player like me that really doesn¡¯t want to mess up, you would go on internet and look for guides. I probably spend more time looking for guides, and reading them then actually playing the game. But, I¡¯m in a different situation. Even though the world that I am currently residing in works like the games, once I mess up there are no restarts like games. Problems rises from the fact that I don¡¯t know how hard it is to gain the ¡°level¡± that these people have. If it¡¯s hard to gain a level, that means each skill points that I am carrying with me will be precious. First, I¡¯m going to check out what type of skills there are, then I¡¯m going to see what kind of skills I want to put up. As I muttered that word, the skill system popped up in front of me. Man, this is awesome. Now, there were three main skills that branches of too many other skills. Combat, ranged and magic. I wasn¡¯t sure what I wanted to actually do. I can either be master of one skill or be jack of all trades. But being jack of all trades means master of none. Of course, once you reach high level you can probably put more points into the skills but that¡¯s long way from now. So I decided to not invest my points into many different things rather only few. Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. Hmm, maybe I should put up combat skills? Investing into combat skills means I can use sword, axe, spears, and other close ranged weapons to kill monsters and again worst comes to worst, a person. I don¡¯t think I have the balls to fight these monsters again close combat so let¡¯s not put any points into close combat for now. What about ranged? I can use bows, and crossbows, or maybe¡­ I can even use my guns with the abilities. If I put my points into ranged skill will it increase my accuracy with my gun? It should count as ranged right? but, I don¡¯t have any many bullets left. So if I were to invest my points for the gun it would be a bad idea unless I¡¯m able to get some ammo. I highly doubt these people will have ammo for it because the bandits I shot earlier didn¡¯t know about it. Maybe, I can create my own ammo? If I can create fire, water, and wind with magic that means I can create earth as well. Meaning, I can make bullets out of rocks. But that won¡¯t make sense either because I can¡¯t shoot out rocks with my gun. Hmm¡­ Maybe, I can make the gun shoot out with energy. Like a rail gun? I clicked on magic to see what types of magic were there and these were the choices I saw < Fire >, , , , , , . Yeah, It¡¯s definitely not possible anymore. If I was able to require skills that had electricity, I could¡¯ve made a railgun but it doesn¡¯t exist. Not sure how efficient shooting a bullet with wind or energy from the fire would be. In the end, I had two options left. To either choose magic or ranged or to acquire both. I liked the idea of being able to use magic but at the same time I also wanted to use ranged weapon like bow or cross bow. Just the thought of carrying ranged weapon on my back actually made me feel excited. I can imagine myself going on a journey like that. Anyways, I have decided to put skills into both of the skills. First, I put my hand over the and it brought up more specific options. Bow, Crossbow, and Throwing. I wondered what the throwing skill was and apparently you can throw knives, stones, and any kind of things that are able to be thrown. Seemed very gimmicky so I decided to not raise that skill. Now I had to choose between skill mastery between bow and crossbow. For my personal preference I liked the idea of bow better because crossbow seemed bulky to me. Thinking about carrying one turned me off from the idea of raising its skill. I know I¡¯m contradicting myself from before but I think it¡¯s cool when other people carry that weapon but not personally. After deciding what kind of skill I wanted from ranged tree, I decided to raise its skill to max. Here is what I thought. Having many skills will make me jack of all trade, and a master of none, but! I can probably cover that up with raising only few skills to its max level. Meaning that, even if I have three to four skills, If I have them maxed out it means I will be able to use those specific skills to its fullest and not worry about being a master of none. I¡¯ll just be master of the few. I clicked onto the skill and raised it. At level 1 it took 1 skill point away from what I had. My total skill points went from 288 to 287. The max level of this skill is level 15. How many skill point is that? I took out my iPhone and punched the numbers in it. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ¡­ It came out to be 120 skill points. 120 skill points! That¡¯s outrageous. That means I have to be level 120 to be actually be able to master a skill. I¡¯m very lucky to have these unique skills with me or I would have never been able to obtain this amount of skill points I have right now. Matter of fact, I wouldn¡¯t be level 72 either. Anyways, I still went through with my decision and raised my skill to max level. Luckily, I still had plenty of points left. Now what to do with these points I have left. I had 168 skill points left. These amount of points were enough to either raise multiple skills to at least level 5 or to master another skill and have 48 skill points left over. I mean I thought about it already haven¡¯t I? It¡¯s to master at least 3 to 4 skills. Though, I will only be able to have 2 skills mastered. I opened up the skill tab and opened it. Like before there were 7 types of magic. Now, which element to choose¡­ Chapter 10: Skill Tree 2 Hello, Author here. I''m currently overseas and have different time zone then US. I''ll try to update frequently as possible and improve the quality of writing. If you have any suggestions, recommendations, and discovery of mistakes please let me know! Thanks for reading as always. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wasn''t sure how much time have passed. Though I was able to eliminate some options, I still haven''t figured out which type of magic I wanted to commit on. I''ve already warned you guys! this is going to take forever. Let me explain my thought process so far. I have decided to not raise dark, light and earth magic. Why these? Well, I don''t like the idea of earth magic. I thought of it''s uses. The only thing I can think of for it''s uses are being able to create a house with earth? So, something like a brick house made out of mud? Can I create soil, mud, or minerals out of nothingness? If not, the limitation of the skill is huge compared to other skills that is available. It''s too vague to understand what the skill actually does. I''m a stingy guy so I didn''t want to even put a single skill point into something else to test it out. I mean I do remember what Aaron said. According to Aaron, magics are heavily affected by ones imagination, and I know for sure that I lack imagination in earth department. This is probably all an excuse to support my personal preference in terms of selecting magic though. I mean come on, who uses earth magic? Anyways, Let''s move on to the next two spells. I''ll start by explaining why I chose to eliminate dark magic from my options. It''s simply because I don''t know what it does. Like does it create darkness? does it create void? what is the concept of the dark magic? is the magic dark in terms of being evil? such things like putting a curse spell on a person. Is it necromancy? I don''t know. I didn''t want to risk it and chose to not raise it yet. Every skill point is precious you know? Now, onto the light magic. The term light magic also seemed to be very vague. I''m guessing that the light magics are like something holy? Like in games? If that is the case, wouldn''t it be useless most of the times? it would only affect the undead monsters. Maybe I''m relating it to the role playing games way too much. I mean what happens if the light magic is something like a ray that pierces through every single cells of a person? that would be super deadly. I''m still not sure what it actually does so maybe I''ll ask Aaron about dark and light magic tomorrow. Earth is not in my preference zone so yeah. Not going to bother asking about it. As I venture onward I might see few people who use it right? Alright, Let me move on to the other spells now. I was planning to eliminate fire element as well. at first, it seemed cool because I can shoot out fireball and stuff but when I thought about it''s use of it, I had to consider it second time. For example, if I were to fight a monster and used fire attacks it would be fine, but if I were to fight against a person and had to burn them alive, I don''t think I would be mentally okay after all that. Some of you may say, "Hey, didn''t you work with dead bodies in autopsy class?" well, yeah, doesn''t mean I''m used to seeing people being burned alive to corpses. All the negatives aside, I might put a small point into fire to create light during night time. I might even be able to cook meat with that. Wait, wouldn''t light skill be better in terms of creating light during night time? I don''t know anymore. Now I''m left with water, wind and recovery spells. I thought about water spell and I might add a point to it. If the concept of creating fire from nothing like Aaron did applies to water, I should be able to create water from nothing. This will help me to not worry about carrying water at all times. Wait, doesn''t this mean I can create I can create all the other spells from nothing as well? Jesus, this is so complicated. Honestly, I should just raise skills that I want to raise the most. If I think about I wonder how good recovery and wind skills are. Will I be able to float or even fly into the sky if I''m able to manipulate wind magic at it''s max level? Would I be able to cure anything, everything if I max out recovery magic? It''s a huge investment if I were to put points into recovery skills because I won''t have any combat spells and would only have bow and arrow to work with. But, what happens if it''s that great? It might have such amazing cure ability that I can cure cancer? If I can go back to my old world with that kind of ability I will be known as the person who cured cancer. Well, literally only person who can cure cancer. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Ha ha ha.... ....... "Skylar? Hey, Skylar! Wake up. We are going to depart soon" A voice that carried a gentle tone reached my ears. Definitely an upgrade then my iPhone alarm sound. "Mmm..."(Skylar) "Come on, get up. Let''s go. We got your belongings already packed." This time the voice reached my ears with a tap to my shoulder. I opened my eyes and the person I saw immediately was Sera. Unlike, last night she had different type of clothing on her. Instead of the pajamas, nor the armor she had cloth shirt, leather jacket and short leather pants. She looked as if she were to part take in a southern cowboy moveis. She didn''t wear a funky looking hat though. "Sorry, about that..." "No problem, you must have slept late last night." "Yeah.. Thanks for waking me up." Oh crap, I can''t believe I fell asleep without even putting up a single magic skill. I guess I will have to do it later. I still have the ranged mastery skill so I should be okay? I guess? And I still have my gun so I should be fine. "Oh yeah, Sorry to bother you, but where are we headed to now?" "We are going to head to a town that''s named Asteralis which is located north of this forest. The kingdom that we usually lurk around in is located a little bit further to the north of that town."(Sera) "Aha, I see. Thank you." "No problem. By the way, I think Sir Aaron was looking for you. He said for you to come to him when you are awake. He should be over there by that tent." (Sera) Huh? He wants to see me? I wonder why? "Alright. Thank you, I''ll be on my way then." I got up from the log that I was sleeping on. As I got up, sharp pain ran through my back and my neck. Yeah, I think I slept wrong. Very unfortunate... Maybe I should''ve took Seras offer and slept in the tent. As I complained, I started to head to the direction that Sera pointed to. When I reached the tent, Aaron was sitting down on a chair with table front of him. As he was sitting in his chair, he was playing around with something an object which seemed awfully familiar to me. Oh shit! "Aaron, don''t play around with that!" (Skylar) As I shouted, which startled Aaron, the object which was familiar to me dropped on the floor and made a loud noise. Bang. The loud noise echoed throughout the forest, and faded away slowly. As the sound completely disappeared from afar you can see two people running towards the tent at fast pace. "Sir Aaron, Are you okay? What was that noise?" (Jude, Sera) "Yeah, I''m fine. Whew, goodness, that startled me." (Aaron) Yeah, so the thing that he was playing around with was my gun. Sigh... Chapter 11: Unfair As always, I''m taking all the constructive criticisms. Thank you again for reading. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As everyone had dumbfounded look on their faces, I facepalmed really hard. As I facepalmed, and asked him why I was called here, Aaron regained his senses. ¡°Uh, Yeah. Sorry about that. Ahem. So yeah, I was wondering what that contraption was. It shot out something similar to magic but much faster? And without any incantation? Also, what¡¯s with that loud noise? I saw you using it when you were fighting against those monsters.¡± (Aaron) Oh, so that¡¯s why he called me here. I guess there are no weapons like guns here. What a nice world live in right? People only fight with weapons, and magic. There are no such thing as a nuclear bomb or guns that can just wipe people out. Actually¡­ Magic might be an exception. Anyways, ¡°Oh, Yeah, that¡¯s a weapon called a handgun in my world.¡± I went ahead and picked up the gun that Aaron dropped and unloaded the ammo inside the gun. ¡°You see this? These are the ammos for the gun. It¡¯s similar to bow and arrow. Just like the bow needs it¡¯s arrows, a gun needs the bullets. The gun basically shoots out these bullets but at a much faster speed than bow and arrow. It¡¯s practically impossible to dodge it unless you have the eyesight? Or the perception of an animal. To be honest, even animals that are perceptive have hard time dodging the bullets. It¡¯s almost impossible to dodge these.¡± ¡°Holy shit, that¡¯s crazy. This is crazy. Sir, Aaron, If we bring this back and replicate it, our kingdom wouldn¡¯t lose to any foes!¡± (Jade) ¡°Yes, indeed¡­¡±(Aaron) Oh, god. I don¡¯t want them to replicate this in order to use it for war. I¡¯m going to be the reason for extinction magic at this rate, and war. ¡°Uh, I don¡¯t think you guys should do that.¡± ¡°Why not? If we can get this weapon, we can definitely kill those damned bastards who are constantly waging wars against the kingdom that we lived in.¡± (Jade) ¡°Yeah¡­ Look, I don¡¯t know your motives, and goals are and why you want the weapon so much, but I think it¡¯s a terrible idea. One of the main reason is that the weapons can be abused like in my world and it will definitely create a bigger problem than the one you guys have now. Even if we, or the kingdom that you are talking about has the weapon for now, eventually others will be able to obtain it and use it. It will be disastrous. I also don¡¯t want to be involved in a war, nor be the reason that the other people are getting wiped.¡± ¡°But, If I can get a weapon like this, I can finally destroy those fuckers. For that reason I need..¡±(Jade) ¡°Stop it, Jade. Don¡¯t get emotional. Sorry about that Skylar. We understand where you are coming from, and this weapon is yours, so it¡¯s your decision to make and call.¡± (Aaron) If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. ¡°Damn it all!!!!!¡± (Jade) As Aaron finished his sentence, Jade quickly ran outside and disappeared from our sight. ¡°Sigh¡± (Aaron) ¡°I¡¯ll get him¡± (Sera) ¡°Wait, Leave him alone for now and let him cooldown.¡± (Aaron) After that, there was a long silence in the room. ¡°Well, let¡¯s start heading out.¡± (Aaron) We all took our leave and left the tent. When I came out of the tent, I heard a voice. ¡°Hey, can I talk to you for a bit?¡± (Jade) ¡°Uh¡­ Yeah. Sure.¡± ¡°Thanks, come with me.¡± (Jade) I followed Jade into the forest. It wasn¡¯t too far off, we left just enough to not to be heard by the others. ¡°First, let me apologize about what happened before. I got emotional thinking about my past.¡± (Jade) ¡°It¡¯s alright. I understand.¡± After a moment of silence, Jade continued on talking. ¡°Yeah¡­ I lost the only brother I had long time ago because of the kingdom that is placed above Asteralis. The kingdom is called Korale.¡±My mother and father passed away, when me and my brother was still young. I was 13 and my brother was 19. Because I was still young, my brother had to get a job in order to pay for the house and the food. So my brother got a job as a cleaner at a food restaurant that only serves nobles. One day, he dropped a plate that he was cleaning front of the noble because he was pushed, and the glass pieces of the plate hit the shoes that the noble was wearing. Of course, my brother apologized but the the noble didn¡¯t listen. That piece of shit beat up my brother then he brought him to the court. You know what the court did? They gave him a death sentence. They favored him because he was a noble. I know it¡¯s ridiculous right? He was killed on the spot and nobody refuted. It''s fucked up. It''s not fair..." (Jade) .... "People who don¡¯t live as a noble in this world are treated as a livestock, a slave, basically a trash. It''s not only my brother. There are many others who shared the same fate. I wanted to change that. That¡¯s why I wanted the weapon. There are people who believes in what I believe, and would¡¯ve fought with me. So yeah¡­ Sorry about that, I just thought I would be able to change the way we live.¡± (Jade) ¡°... I see.¡± ¡°Anyways, Let¡¯s catch up to them before they leave¡± (Jade) Before I was able to say anything to comfort him, Jade hurried me and we got back to the camp site. Aaron, and Sera were prepared to leave with all the baggages. ¡°Alright, So let¡¯s head out to Asteralis. It shouldn''t take too long¡±. (Aaron) Chapter 12: Weather I Thanks for reading everyone! Let me know, If you have any suggestions or any kind of criticisms. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just have a feeling that today is not going to be a good day. Why? Well, aside from what happened few hours ago, it¡¯s the weather that¡¯s bothering me. It was sunny few hours ago, and now it¡¯s very very very cloudy. Did I say very? Yes. Very¡­ You can also hear the roaring sound of lightning that is passing through the clouds. Am I scared of lightning? No, I¡¯m not scared of such thing, but I hate rain. Not sure if many others can relate to me but weathers like this makes me lazy, and unproductive. I get this feeling where I don¡¯t want to do anything, and feel really tired. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. It¡¯s been about 2 hours since we have left the forest. According to Aaron we were close by and should be there before the rain starts pouring down on us. Now, you may ask wait, weren''t you in middle of the forest? How are you near Astralis town already? Uh¡­ yeah¡­ It¡¯s kind of embarrassing to say but Sera is carrying me again. Not sure why¡­ but maybe she likes carrying people? I declined her many times but she still insisted. I¡¯m pretty sure she has her own reasons. Basically, I was getting carried by Sera, while she is running at a fast pace, and Aaron, and Jade is basically following behind her. I don¡¯t think anybody can get used to being carried like a carriage on somebody else''s arms. Feels wei..r..d.. ¡­¡­¡­ ¡°Hey, Skylar? We are here.¡± (Sera) ¡°Mm... Huh?¡± Did I fall asleep? ¡°Pfft, Yeah, and you have something on your face.¡± (Sera) I noticed it right as she mentioned it. It was my drool that was running down left of my mouth. God, this is embarrassing. I fell asleep, while I was getting carried by a girl for I don¡¯t know how many hours! Someone please kill me now! I can¡¯t live with this embarrassment. Gah!!! In a hurry, I cleaned my drool and got off her arms. ¡°Uh, Thanks for carrying me here¡­ are your arms okay?¡± ¡°Oh. Don¡¯t worry about it. So this is nothing for me.¡± (Sera) ¡°Aha, I see.¡± Her saying that it¡¯s alright, does not make it alright. It¡¯s completely abnormal. Maybe I¡¯m just being culturally shocked?" ¡°Skylar, Look.¡± (Aaron) I looked towards where Aaron pointed and was astonished by what was in front of me. There was a huge white wall. It spread through the sides like a dome except there was no top covering it. It seemed like it was about 40 to 50 meters tall. How do I know that? Well, I don¡¯t. I¡¯m just imagining MTA buses and lining them up straight. MTA buses are about 23 meters long I think. Think of it as like this. The wall looked like the top part of pokeball cut in half with it¡¯s top shaved off. Tada, a dome like walls? I guess? Sorry, I¡¯m terrible at describing things. Anyways, There were many people who stood in many different lines in order to get through the gate entrances that was built through the wall. There were many kinds of people, townspeople, merchants, adventurers? And !!! rabbit ears? Are those people the demi-humans that Aaron talked about? Wait, they are in shackles.. ¡°Oi, hurry up you two!¡± (Guard 1) ¡°On our way. Come on, Skylar, Let¡¯s go.¡± (Sera) ¡°Wait, wait, I still haven¡¯t finished looking around~¡± I was dragged by Sera and was able to get into the inspection room. The inspection room wasn¡¯t very spacious. It¡¯s actually small, you might be able to fit about 5 adults in there? ¡°Please, place your belongings here. It will all be inspected.¡± (Guard 1) The guard handed us a wooden crate to put our bags in for it to be searched. Ah, the classic let me look through all your shit, and fuck your privacy. Oops, sorry, bad memories I had at the airport few months ago for vacation is coming back. Anyways, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s a good idea for me to let them inspect my bag. What if they find my gun? What about my nyquils, snickers, and sour patch kids. Nooo, they will definitely think it¡¯s strange and suspect me. ¡°Pss.. Sera¡­ What happens if they suspect me here?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry. Nothing should be happening because rank B adventurers can usually go through without any suspicion. You see how we didn¡¯t stand on that long line and came to the side? The side entrances are for B rank adventurers and above, and their companions. Since, Sir Aaron is an B rank adventurer they should just let us pass.¡± (Sera) This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡°Aha¡­¡± ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­... We¡¯ve waited for about 30 minutes? How am I so good with time? Because I have an Iphone! Tada! It¡¯s battery is at 20% though so for now, I¡¯m going to turn it off. Just in case, I ever need it. ¡°The inspection is done, but I have a question to ask. Who does this strange looking bag belong to?¡± (Guard 2) Eek! Did they find me out? ¡°It belongs to me. Haha¡­ Is something wrong?¡± ¡°No sir, we apologize for being rude earlier. I didn¡¯t know you were a noble sir. Here is your bag sir.¡± (Guard 2) Uh¡­ What? ¡°Uh, Skylar? Is there something that you need to tell us?¡± (Aaron) ¡°I don¡¯t think so?¡± After retrieving the bag from the guard, we decided to head out of the inspection room. We then headed away from the inspection room and entered the town, but¡­ before we got further into the town, the three called me and took me to an alley way¡­ I¡¯m actually really scared right now. ¡°What was that just now, they called you a noble. You lied to us?¡± (Jade) Jade sheathed his sword with after saying that with a threatening tone. This is not good. Why!!!! I knew this weather meant something terrible was going to happen to me. ¡°No, no¡­ I don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on.¡± ¡°Hold on Jade¡­ Hm, Skylar, Mind if I check your bag?¡± (Sera) ¡°Sure.¡± I handed my bag to Sera. She then started to take out my items one by one. Large egg, Bottle of Nyquil, Coins that I took, etc, everything was going smoothly until they saw the fancy scabbard that I took with me. ¡°You! How do you have that? Only nobles carry this with them.¡± (Jade) ¡°Uh, I took it when I killed the bandits. They had it in their carriage. Look, I don¡¯t know anything. I swear.¡± ¡° Calm down Jade. Do you really think Skylar would lie to you about him being a summoned one? How would you explain the weapon he brought. Think before you act.¡± (Sera) ¡°Hm¡­ I see¡­ Well, I don¡¯t see any problem here. All we have to do is discard the scabbard and move on. All we had to confirm was whether if Skylar was a noble or not right?¡± (Aaron) ¡°Yea¡­¡± (Jade) Whew, thanks to Sera and Aaron, I survived this one again. What is the scabbard even about anyways? ¡°Sorry to bother you guys but what is the meaning of this scabbard anyways?¡± ¡°Basically, this scabbard indicates that you are from a noble family. Every head of the noble household gets one with their name inscribed in it. If you were to found out that this is stolen scabbard you would be in a serious trouble. The name is inscribed with magic so it¡¯s not possible to reform it unless you are a top tier magician or a blacksmith. There are no top tier magicians here nor blacksmiths, so it¡¯s better for you to destroy it before someone else gets there hands on it. It is possible to abuse the scabbard for many things because commoners don¡¯t have the right to ask whether if the scabbard really belongs to the noble or not. They would just die on the spot for asking ¡®stupid¡¯ questions.¡± (Aaron) ¡°I see.¡± ¡°Anyways, we are lucky that they didn¡¯t suspect us. Actually it was kind of a good thing because they didn¡¯t ask you any questions about the strange belongings that you were carrying.¡± (Aaron) He is right. Thank god. ¡°Ah, I see. I guess this weather didn¡¯t matter much to my luck!¡± And as I said that it started to rain. Unlucky. ¡°Let¡¯s quickly head to the adventurer''s guild and avoid the rain there. I have task to hand in anyways, and the adventurers guild will probably be useful to you Skylar because they have most of the informations for newcomers. Also, that¡¯s where we will be parting for a little. Let''s hurry up and destroy the scabbard.¡± (Aaron) Aaron took the scabbard and put it on the floor. He then started to draw some circles with weird symbols on them. He then started to chant, and few seconds later Boom! with a loud noise the scabbard literally burned to ashes. It was another fire magic but way stronger than the one before. I''m pretty sure his fire mastery is not even maxed. If it''s that big when it''s not maxed, Oh my god. How crazy would it be to use a fire skill at max level? "Alright, Let''s head out, and Jade, apologize to Skylar." (Aaron) "Sorry..." (Jade) Sigh... Chapter 13: Weather II Hello guys. I decided to keep writing the way I am. Hopefully as you read, many questions you have will be answered. If you have any other questions, opinions, reviews or comments, feel free to leave them here. Thanks again!. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¡°Come on! Let¡¯s be haste or we are going to catch a cold. I haven¡¯t seen it pour down like this in a while. Here, Skylar, you probably don¡¯t have one so I¡¯ll give it to you. Take this. Not sure, if you will like the color but bear with it.¡± (Aaron) Aaron handed me a white cloak. It looked something similar to what a nun would wear. Maybe that¡¯s why he warned me, but it¡¯s all good. I¡¯m not the type to be picky in this type of situation. Hopefully¡­ I don¡¯t look like a clown. Currently, We were near the central part of the town. According to Aaron, most of the towns, and kingdoms have the same layout. There are southern, northern, eastern and western gates. The ones that we came through were the southern gate. Each gates have a straight road that leads to the central of the town, and for us to get to the central, we walked straight from the inspection room that was located right near the southern gate. As we were walking, it was hard for me to see anything. The rain was coming down so hard and fast that it was hard to see things visibly unless they are close to you. I probably won¡¯t be able to get a good tour of the town until the rain stops, but the rain might keep on going. According to Sera, it¡¯s actually monsoon season. It¡¯s not going to stop for a while. When we approached the central area, there was nothing. It was just a big open space. Uh¡­ I don¡¯t know what to make of this. What do they even do with this huge space? And as I¡¯m thinking that, like a psychic, Sera answered my question. ¡°You are probably wondering why there isn¡¯t anything in the central area. Usually there are many merchants with vendors that covers every area of the central but they are not here today, because it¡¯s pouring outside. No one would come out in this kind of weather anyways.¡± (Sera) Aha. I see. Yeah, I wouldn¡¯t want to come out in this kind of weather either. No wonder, why there weren¡¯t that many people walking around the town. After seeing the deserted central area, we walked west towards the area where the guild would be located. Of course, there weren¡¯t many people around but it had more people near the western gate road than the southern gate side. I¡¯m assuming that there were more people here because these people were adventurers. There are no other reasons to be near here right? ¡°We¡¯re here.¡±(Aaron) ¡°Eh? Already?¡± I should pay attention to my surroundings more. ¡°We¡¯re finally here! Whew. I thought I wasn¡¯t going to make it. Never have I saw that much rain in my life.¡± (Jade) ¡°Agreed.¡± (Sera) We stopped near a building that seemed to be built on logs. On the top of the building it had a sign that says -Adventurers Guild-. It¡¯s pretty simple. I like it. When we entered, there were many people working on the right, and chilling on the left. On the right, there was a receptionist desk. It looked like bank. There were lines of people waiting to be taken care of, and slowly but surely each one would be helped by the helper. On the left, there is a bar. There were many people sitting, drinking and eating. There were about 7 tables and each tables were full with at least 4 people. Few waitresses were working in a rush, trying to serve every table. ¡°Alright, Skylar. Me, Sera, and Jade have to hand in the quest we cleared and head out to somewhere urgently. We are actually quiet behind the time. If you walk to the receptionist table over there, they should be able to help you. Sorry, about this. Anyways, we will probably see each other later. Be careful not to get caught in a mess. Especially nobles.¡± (Aaron) Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. ¡°Alright, Thanks for everything, Aaron.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll see you then¡± (Aaron, Sera, and Jude) After abruptly saying their goodbyes, they headed toward the staircase that lead to the second floor of this building and left me. Now, What should I do. I should definitely do what Aaron said and ask some questions at the receptionist. I wore my bag and went to the receptionist table. Of course, I had to wait on the line. ¡­¡­. Some time have passed, and it was finally my turn. As I walked up, I was greeted by a pretty lady with purple hair. Is everyone in this world all pretty??? And is that natural or dyed? ¡°Hello, How may I help you today?¡± (Receptionist) ¡°Uh, I just had some questions to ask.¡± ¡°Sure, ask away.¡± ¡°How do I become an adventurer? What are the ranks? Uh¡­ How do I accept requests? What are the benefits of having high ranks?¡± ¡°You can become an adventurer just by registering. After, you register you can start accepting requests which are known as quests. You can look for them on that pinboard over there. When you find a quest that you want to accept, you just bring that paper here and the guild will look over your record and approve it, if you are suited for it. After that you can start your quest. There are 7 Ranks. F, E, D, C, B, A, S. Though levels are needed, having quests received and done will let you obtain higher ranks. Certain ranks like A and S, there are level requirements. Now, there are benefits once you are B rank and above. For B ranks, you receive monthly pay, and you are able to quickly go in and out of city. For A rank, you get the benefit B gets but you also get the title of noble. For a person to become a S rank, you will get a special title that only S ranks have. There are currently only 6 S ranks in this world.¡± (Receptionist) ¡°I see. Thanks for the explanation. Could you also tell me what the currencies are?¡± ¡°The currency?¡± (Receptionist) ¡°Ah, yes. Sorry, I¡¯m not from around here and was wondering what each coins were worth.¡± ¡°Ah I see, Currently, 100 copper coins are equivalent to 1 silver coin. 100 silver coins are equivalent to 1 gold, 100 gold coins are equivalent to 1 diamond coin.¡± (Receptionist) Hm, I see¡­ So that means I have good amount of money? ¡°I see. Do you have any map of this town? ¡°Yes, we do. Hold on a second, I will get it for you. Would you also like to be registered as an adventurer?¡± (Receptionist) ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°That will be 50 silver, and you would have to fill this form out.¡± WhAT? 50 silver? That¡¯s so expensive¡­ well, I have to have some kind of identity, so I have no choice¡­ The form just asked for name, age, and whether if I was a noble or not. ¡°Alright. Here you go.¡± ¡°Thank you. Just wait a bit here¡± (Receptionist) Sigh¡­ Now, I only have 75 silver coins left. Hopefully, there are some cheap motels or something. After waiting for about 5 minutes, the receptionist lady came back. ¡°Here you go. This is your adventures ID, and here is your map. Is there anything else you need?¡± (Receptionist) ¡°No. I¡¯m good. Thanks for everything.¡± After saying my thanks, I left the receptionist desk and headed towards the guild''s entrance to exit through there. I opened the map and looked. I¡¯m currently located near the western gate. The Inn was located near the eastern gate. I have to walk all the way to eastern gate in this weather¡­ ha¡­ So I took the white cloak that Aaron gave me and re-wore it over my head so that it covers my bag too. I came outside of the building and took few deep breaths. Then I headed to the eastern gate. Chapter 14: Weather III The rain has not stopped yet, rather it got worse. How can it get worse than before? The rain is constantly pouring down, and now¡­ it¡¯s windy. Yes. The worse possible outcome. Windy and rainy. As I¡¯m trying to walk toward the eastern gate, I¡¯m getting pushed back by this wind. If I were to look around again, there is no way that people are walking outside. Ridiculous. That¡¯s not even the worst part. You know that feeling? When you are walking in rain, and you step into a puddle of water and the water goes into your shoes. You start to walk sloppily and you already expect that your shoes, socks, and feet are going to smell terribly. Yeah. It sucks. As I kept complained and walked, I have already reached the central of Asteralis. There still was no one to be seen, or maybe I just can¡¯t see anything in this terrible weather. I kept walking. I can¡¯t stop here. If I were to stop here and take a break, I don¡¯t think I will make it. As I walked in silence, I hear a shout and see something afar. ¡°We can¡¯t help you. Now, get out!¡± (Stranger) After the shout, the stranger from afar threw something out of the door. When that thing hit the ground, it made a loud thump noise. The distance was about 25 meters. It was hard to see but it was something different than an object. It had weird shape, and had light blue color. I waited to see if it was a person or not but it didn¡¯t move, and it didn¡¯t budge either. Should I go closer to it? I have a bad feeling about this... Just incase, I will keep my gun standby. I took my bag off. I had to hurry because the bag was getting wet really fast. I took the gun out and put it in my pocket. Luckily the cloak that Aaron gave me kept dry toward my upper body. I put my bag on, then walked toward the light blue colored object. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. When I got near, it was something that I had not expected. It was a girl with long light blue color hair that covered up to her chest. She looked about to be 15? 16? I wasn¡¯t too sure. I¡¯m not good with ages. She had no sort of proper clothing on her, rather just barely. She had cloth around her waist to cover her private parts, but her upper left part was completely exposed showing her left breasts. Another thing she had on were the shackles that I saw earlier before I entered the gate. She had it on her neck, and hands. Is she a slave? Never mind that now, I have to check her condition. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. I put my head near her mouth to hear whether if she was breathing or not. *ha*ha*ha She was breathing very shallow and slow. Almost as if she was being suffocated. ¡°Hey! Are you alright?? Hello? Hey, Do you hear me? Are you okay?¡± I touched her head and her shoulders to see her conditions. It was very cold. I was barely able to feel the heat that she was exerting. She was barely conscious. While I continued to check, I heard a small voice. ¡°Please, don¡¯t hurt me¡­ don¡¯t take me back there.¡± (Girl) After saying that she tried to crawl away from me. Back where? Hey, Hey, don¡¯t make me look like a bad guy. ¡°Look, I¡¯m trying to help you.¡± ¡°....¡± (Girl) Alright. This is not good. What should I do with her? Normally, any white knights would¡¯ve just picked her up and took her to a doctor or something but things don¡¯t work like that. I don¡¯t know the laws here, so I can¡¯t just take a person with me even if my intentions were to help them. It¡¯s even worse, since this person has shackles with them. This means they are slaves and if I were to help them, I can be in a serious trouble. But¡­ I can¡¯t just leave a person here. So then I took off the cloak Aaron gave me and put it on her. I took my bag off and took out my ripped adidas sweater and wore that. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Look, let me help you. If you stay like that here. You are going to get sick and worse comes to worst you might die. Stay still.¡± After saying that I wore the bag in front of me, and picked her up on my back. ¡°I¡¯m heading to an inn. You don¡¯t mind right? You can visit the doctors after.¡± ¡°....¡± Seems like she didn¡¯t have enough strength to say anything. After confirming that I didn¡¯t forget anything and I was in the right direction, I continued on to get to the inn. I had to take few breaks here and there to regain strength. I was starting to lose my temperature as well because the adidas sweater wasn¡¯t as good as the cloak the Aaron gave me but one thing for sure she started to regain her temperature, because I can feel her heat on my back. As I kept walking while wondering how she ended up this way, I¡¯ve reached my destination. The Inn. I walked in quickly and ran toward the receptionist desk. I was getting the weird looks, but I didn¡¯t have the time to care about that now. When I reached the receptionist desk, there was a man who seemed to be about 40s taking care of the customers. ¡°How may I help you?¡± (Inn Keeper) ¡°Can you give me a room with 2 beds? I want to stay for a single night.¡± ¡°That would be 50 silver coins.¡±(Inn Keeper) 50 Silver coins? That¡¯s already 3/4th of what I have left!!! ¡°Uh¡­ Sorry, how much is room for single bed?¡± ¡°Room for 1 is 20 silvers.¡± (InnKeeper) Ugh¡­ If I get the room for two bed, I would only have 25 silvers left. I don¡¯t know the price of weapons, and food so that would be very risky. I¡¯ll just stick with 1 bed... ¡°Alright, Could I just get room for 1?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± (InnKeeper) After handing the Innkeeper the money, he handed me the key to the room. ¡°Your room is on the second floor. The door for the room should be second door to the left side.¡± (InnKeeper) ¡°Thanks¡± I followed his instructions and took the staircase that led me to the second floor. Then I walked until I saw the second door to the left, and opened the door with the key he gave me. The room was very tiny. The room was about 3 meters long and 4 meters wide. Just enough space to walk in and, fit the bed and a person¡­ There was another room connected to the right and that was the bathroom? you can''t even call it the bathroom because it just had bucket of water, a place where I can make fire to heat up water and a really old fashioned toilet. The ones where you squat to take a shit... Sigh¡­ I laid the girl I carried on the bed. She still seemed to breathe very shallowly, and heavily. I placed my hand on her head to check her conditions. It was burning hot. She had a fever. Problem after problem. I should be used to this by now. Anyways, I thought about what I can do, and then ta-da! I remembered that I bought an Nyquil that I was unable to give my friend! This should help her for now. I took the Nyquil out of my bag, and ripped off the wrapper that was surrounding the top. I took the mini cup off and placed it on the side. I opened the bottle and poured a whole cup full. Then I placed the cup near her mouth for her to drink. She resisted to drink the medicine by closing her mouth but I have a solution for that. I grabbed her nose still so she couldn¡¯t breathe through her nose. She eventually opened her mouth gasping for air, and that¡¯s when I forcefully gave her the medicine. She made a face any kid would make when they drink Nyquil for the first time, she then wanted to say something but didn''t have the strength to, which made her give me a death stare instead. Chapter 15: Why Me? -(Chloe) Silver Hair Girls POV- When I woke up, it was like any other day. Scent of summer breezing through small window, and beams of sunlight that shines brightens up the room of mine. As I get up I follow my routine. I leave my room through the door and walk down to the first floor. I turn to my right. There is a hallway and between that hallway there are rooms. I walked straight to get to the kitchen. I see my dad starting to prepare breakfast as always. ¡°Can you go wake your sister up? Chloe?¡± (Dad) ¡°Uh, Sis told me not to wake her up so early today. Apparently, she had to work on a request until late hours.¡± ¡°Alright. Then you¡¯ll be back by the time the breakfast is done right?¡± (Dad) ¡°Yeah. Dad.¡± ¡°Be safe.¡± (Dad) ¡°You worry too much. Anyways, you take pretty long time to prepare breakfast anyways. I¡¯ll feel it out.¡± I turned back and walked through the hallway again to leave the house through the front door. It¡¯s a simple design. If you were to walk in from the entrance of our house. You will see the stairs to the right which leads to our rooms, and to the left you will see the hallway with room to the left and right, and a kitchen ahead. As I¡¯m about to head out, I wear my equipments that are hung near the entrance door of our house. It¡¯s nothing much. I just wore some leather pads and a bronze dagger. I usually go out to train myself, and to collect herbs. Collecting herbs and studying them are my hobby, and I train myself to become an adventurer. It¡¯s not like I wanted to be an adventurer though. In case, my dad, and my older sister gets sick or whatnot, I would need to be able to bring the income on my own, and take care of them. There are many ways of making money such as trades, teaching or selling in medicinal herbs but I have no knowledge in trade, and you have to be a noble to do things like selling herbs. It doesn¡¯t matter if you possess the knowledge. It¡¯s all about the status. Currently my level is 6. That is pretty high for a girl who is not a noble. Nobles are usually able to level faster due to them being able to hire a mercenary to party with them to kill the monsters. They will share the experience and will level. Most commoners cannot do that. I headed toward the usual spot that I train in which is the deeper part of the forest. I forgot to say it but currently me and my family are living in the forest. My dad couldn¡¯t afford to pay all the payments and had his debt increase. We decided to run away from it all. They gave us a pursuit but eventually it stopped. As I got to my usual spot, I searched around the area for herbs. It took a while but I managed to find few. The ones I found were the most common ones that you can find in the forest. It was aloe plant. These are usually used to reduce inflammation of the skin. Not sure what other uses it has though. Strangely, there were no monsters nearby. I wonder why? Usually there are low level monsters lurking around but there are none. I had a bad feeling. I decided to return home. The sun started to go down and it was getting late. The mini pouch I brought with me was full as well, so I had no reason to stay here any longer. It takes about 15 minutes to get home. It might not sound bad but gathering herbs all day tired me. If I were to fight a monster right now, I would probably lose and be eaten alive. As I reached my house, something was strange. All the lights were off. Usually around this time, dad should be making dinner. I wonder what¡¯s up. Maybe he headed out into a town somewhere to buy ingredients. As I entered the house, something smelled. When I say smelled, It reeked. Something rotten. ¡°Hey, Dad? Claire? I¡¯m home. Anybody home? And what¡¯s with that smell?¡± I took off my boots, bag, and equipments and headed inside. I headed up the stairs to check if my sister claire was there, because usually she is home even if my dad leaves the house. Just like I thought, there was a little light coming out beneath the door of her room. ¡°Sis, you there? I¡¯m coming in.¡± As I opened the door, I heard a mumbled sound. ¡°Mmmm!! Mm! Chloe, don¡¯t come in here!¡± (Claire) ¡°Huh? Ah!!¡± Something struck me from behind and I instantly collapsed to the floor. I was barely conscious. ¡°Heh? Another girl huh. We are going to make so much money this time boss.¡± ¡°Yeah, look boss! This girl got a light blue hair. She is going to sell for much more!¡± ¡°Tie her up, and bring the carriage. Let¡¯s get out of here.¡± ¡°*sob* *sob* Chloe! Are you okay? Chloe? Answer me!¡± (Claire) .......................... I feel the cold air rushing through my hands and feet. It¡¯s so cold that it started to become numb. I tried to move my hands and feet between my crotch to warm them up but something was held my hands in place and my feets in place. Uncomfortable. I tried to open my eyes, but it simply wasn¡¯t happening. All that came out of trying to open my eyes were a sharp pain to my head. I¡¯m so cold. As I kept trying to move my hands to my crotch, I heard a familiar voice that was trembling from happiness. ¡°You are awake! Are you okay? *sob* I thought you were never going to wake up¡­¡± ¡°Sis?¡± ¡°Hnng.. *sob*¡± (Claire) ¡°Sis, My head hurts¡­ what happened? Where are we?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know¡­¡± (Claire) ¡°Where is dad?¡± When I asked her where dad was, there was nothing but silence and sound of her crying. I tried to figure out what was going on and as I was doing that she answered. ¡°He¡¯s dead.¡± (Claire) ¡°What?¡± ¡°Dad is dead. He is gone. They killed him. *sob*¡± (Claire) Who? What¡¯s going on? When did he get killed? When did he die? My older sister kept crying. The news should be shocking but it wasn¡¯t, rather I was confused. Only questions, that won¡¯t be answered was coming up. Why? What did we do to deserve this? Why is it us? Why can¡¯t it be somebody else? Why can¡¯t it be somebody else?? Why does it have to be me? Why can¡¯t it be you? Why can¡¯t it be you instead of me? It¡¯s not fair.. As I was caught up in my own thoughts, My sister kept grieving the death of our father. ¡°Hey! Shut your mouths. You keep crying and we are going to sew your mouths.¡± ¡°Hieek!! Sorry, We won¡¯t do it again.¡± (Claire) ¡°Wait, who are you guys? Where are we? What¡¯s going on? ¡°Aren¡¯t you a stupid brat. Don¡¯t you know what¡¯s going on already. You guys are going to be sold into the slave markets.¡± (Bandit) Slaves? ¡°Don¡¯t do anything stupid until we get there if you don¡¯t want to die that is.¡± (Bandit) After that, we stayed silent. We couldn¡¯t do anything. We were helpless. It was hard to tell how much time has passed but it felt like eternal. I started to get hungry, but no matter how much time has passed, those people didn¡¯t give me anything to eat. If I wasn¡¯t getting fed, my sister probably wasn¡¯t getting fed either. The ride didn¡¯t stop and kept going. At this point, I couldn¡¯t take it anymore. I was never this hungry. So, I asked. It seemed like we were in a carriage, so it was easy to just speak out for them to hear us from the front. ¡°Excuse me¡­ Is it possible for us to get something to eat?¡± ¡°Huh? What is this bitch saying? You are asking us for food? After that line, I felt a sudden stop from the carriage, which tipped my balance off a little. Then I heard a sound to my right coming closer and closer. Then I felt sudden pain to my stomach. ¡°Ow!¡± He kept beating me up. My sister must have heard my moans, she got up and begged for them to stop. He didn¡¯t stop and kept going. He kept on punching, kicked and threw me around. It hurt. It hurt so much. I wanted him to stop. ¡°Please, stop¡­ I¡¯m sorry. I beg of you. Please. Don¡¯t hurt me anymo..¡± As I tried to finish off my sentence, I received a blow to my mouth. ¡°You can eat this fist you bitch! Don¡¯t you ever dare to ask for food again.¡± (Bandit) I felt intense pain. It hurt so much that I started to puke. For sure, I puked out only my stomach acid, because I didn¡¯t have anything to eat. It burned my throat and I really wanted some water, but I know that if I were to ask. I would be beaten again and I didn¡¯t want to go through that again. All of a sudden, I felt something warm fall down my cheeks. It was my tears. Out of desperation I tried to drink them. It tasted salty. I kept crying in silent, and soon I fell asleep. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.. Dududududu Dududududu As the noise echoed throughout the carriage, I woke up to the sound of it. When I woke up and opened my eyes, I was able to see. The blindfold they put on me must have loosened and fell off while I was getting beaten. I looked around and there was nothing, and there was no one but me and my sister. My sister was fast asleep but she seemed cold. She was shivering. In fact, I was pretty cold too. The noise kept on going. If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Dududududu As I was looking around trying to figure out how to get out, the movement stopped. Then I heard voices from outside. ¡°Boss, seems like the rain is going to worsen. What should we do? It seems like we won¡¯t be able to continue.¡± (Bandit) ¡°Gr¡­ We are pretty close to the city. Just keep going and make it before it worsens.¡± (Bandit) ¡°But sir. We are going up the hill and we have high chance of fallin ov..¡± (Bandit) ¡°This is an order. Get to it!¡± (Boss) So this was rain the sound of the rain? It must be pouring a lot. Maybe we can use the rain to escape? But how? I kept thinking. But there was no solution. Currently, my hands are kept tied to my back by a metal shackles and my legs were tied by metal shackles as well. I can definitely walk in them but I can¡¯t run in them. I can¡¯t do anything with my hands. We¡¯re trapped. I don¡¯t think we can make it out of here. I sat back down and just became depressed. Just thinking about living my life as a slave made me realize how unfortunate and sad my life would be. I¡¯ve read about it. The lives of slaves are simple. They are bought by nobles, and then the roles are given. Males are usually given the work of labor, and the females are usually used as sex slaves. The nobles will use the females as their toys till they die. Soon, that¡¯s what I¡¯m going to be. I couldn¡¯t stop thinking about my future. I was drowned in my thoughts until a the carriage shook really hard. ¡°It¡¯s a landslide, quick take cover!¡± (Bandit) It was a landslide. The carriage shook horribly and instantly it fell to the side. I fell over in every direction, and soon I felt like I was in the air. The carriage was probably fell off a high place. I tried to grab onto whatever to hold myself in place. When I was able to grab the side of the carriage to hold myself up, I heard a loud shriek. ¡°Ahhh!¡± (Claire) ¡°Sis! Grab onto me!¡± I reached my hands far out as possible for her to grab. She grabbed onto my hands but I started to lose grip and she was losing her grip as well. I couldn¡¯t hold her properly because I had no strength left. I tried to my hardest. Tried my best. My brain kept sending signals to my body but in the end my body ended up letting her go. ¡°Sis!!!!¡± ¡°Ahh!¡± (Claire) With a loud crash, we all fell over, all over the place. I tried my best to get up but my body wouldn¡¯t let me. ¡°Sis!!! Where are you?¡± I tried to shout again but I couldn¡¯t my throat was too dry. I looked around but didn¡¯t see any sign of my sister. As I was looking for her, I heard a shout. ¡°Shit! Quick, look for the slaves that was in the back of the carriage and bring them back here! Don¡¯t let them take this chance to escape!¡± Escape? It was a chance. For me to escape. Hah. How could I have forgotten about that all along? But what about my sister? I can¡¯t just abandon her here, but¡­ I can¡¯t just stay here either¡­ What should I do? I had to make a decision. There is a high chance that she is dead with a debris, though I believe that she is still alive but unconscious. Worse comes to worst, if I stay here like this I will be caught again. I have to escape. I took deep inhales and exhales. I mustered up all my strength to get up. After I got up, I tried my best to walk. I walked away into the forest. Kept on walking and walking and walking and walking. I walked. Did I tell you I walked? I didn¡¯t think, I just moved my body unconsciously as the flesh wanted to survive. ........................... I walked and walked in the rain. I felt very dizzy. I knew for sure that if I walked any longer than this in the rain, I won¡¯t make it. Luckily, from afar, I was able to see the walls of the city. I walked in haste towards the walls of the city. When I got close enough, I was able to see long lines of people waiting to get into the city. I looked around. Looked for a way to get in. Then I noticed that there was a line with bunch of other slaves with shackles so I decided to blend in with them. Slowly but surely, the slaves were let in and was checked one by one. Crap, I haven¡¯t thought about it but what will happen if they check me and I¡¯m not in their list? As I thought about a way out, It came to my turn. ¡°Your name?¡± (Guard) ¡°Chloe¡± ¡°Hm¡­¡± (Guard) ¡°You are not in the list. Are you sure you are on the right line?¡± (Guard) ¡°Yes. Could you please check again?¡± ¡°Yeah, I did, and you are not on the list.¡± (Guard) ¡°That¡¯s strange. Maybe the slave trader forgot to put down my name on the list?¡± ¡°Maybe¡­ I¡¯ll go get him and ask him directly then.¡± (Guard) ¡°Wait, wait, wait! Uh, I¡¯m pretty sure, he will be bothered by it. Please just let me pass through. Plus, he is a noble. If you were to delay this any longer you will probably receive a punishment. You know nobles, they are very uptight about this stuff.¡± ¡°Ah, you are right. I haven¡¯t been working here for too long so I haven¡¯t thought about that. Thanks. You may pass.¡± (Guard) Whew, thank god, this guy is not too bright. I was let in. I didn¡¯t stop though. I kept on walking. Then I kept knocking on the doors of commoners asking for help. ¡°Could you please help me?¡± ¡°A slave? Get away. We can¡¯t help you.¡± (Commoner) ¡°Please¡­ Help.¡± ¡°No! Leave! We can¡¯t help a slave and if we do we will be punished as well as you. Now, leave.¡± With that the person shut his door tight and left me in the rain. This happened for every house that I went. I wonder how many houses I asked. I¡¯m surprised they didn¡¯t rat me out. They probably pitied me. I didn¡¯t stop though. I kept asking and begged. Some told me I can come in if I had sex with them but I declined. They threatened me by saying they will rat me out. I quickly left and looked for another house. House after house. I was tired. I couldn¡¯t take it anymore. This is probably going to be the last house before I fall. ¡°Could you please help me?¡± ¡°Huh? What¡¯s a slave doing here? And No.¡± (Commoner) ¡°Please, I''ll do anything but sexual favors. Please take me in.¡± ¡°If you are not able to do sexual, what are you going to be useful for? Leave now!¡± (Commoner) ¡°Please. I beg of you!¡± I lost my balance due to sudden loss of strength and fell on him. He then got mad and strike me with his fist. ¡°I said no! You piece of shit. Don¡¯t you dare bring troubles here.¡± (Commoner) It hurt. I felt the same pain as I did before when I was getting hit by the bandit. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. Please stop.¡± He then stopped. I guess he didn¡¯t want to make a scene. ¡°We can¡¯t help you, Now, get out!¡± (Commoner) He grabbed onto my torn shirt and threw me far as he can into the street. I was treated like a thing. Not even a thing, a garbage. I didn¡¯t even have the strength cry anymore. I just wanted to die and end this misery. I was about to close my eyes. It felt pretty good in the rain. I didn¡¯t feel anything anymore. Everything felt numb, until I heard a voice from afar that closed in. ¡°Hey, are you alright?? Hello, Hey, Do you hear me? Are you okay?¡± (Stranger) He had a face of a young man. He looked a bit different. I don¡¯t know how to say it but he doesn¡¯t seem like he belongs here. He had black eyes, and black hair. His hair was well trimmed and cut. He had this weird white cloak on but when he crouched down, I saw a weird clothing that I¡¯ve never saw before. He didn¡¯t look too big nor small. Just average proportioned. He was also wearing a black bag that I¡¯ve never saw. The stranger asked me if I was okay. Then he touched me. His hands felt really warm. Ah, it¡¯s the warmth that I missed. I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I wanted to cry but I couldn¡¯t. I just didn¡¯t have the strength to. But suddenly, I felt fear. What happens if this person is a slave trader as well? Or a noble? Or a commoner that will turn me in? If that¡¯s the case, please just leave me here. I don¡¯t want to go back. I don¡¯t want to be hurt. Please just let me die here. ¡°Please, don¡¯t hurt me¡­ Don¡¯t take me back there.¡± I tried to crawl away from him, but he came to me again and said ¡°Look, I¡¯m trying to help you.¡± (Stranger) Help? Help? *sob* My eyes felt hot and tears started to flow out. I tried to say thank you but the words won¡¯t come out. ¡°....¡± He then, took off his white cloak and put it on me. I can feel the warmth of his. Everything was good until I noticed his expression, he looked a bit troubled. Maybe it¡¯s because he just noticed that I¡¯m a slave? That¡¯s right. Who would help a slave? Even I would leave them there. ¡°I¡¯m heading to the inn. You don¡¯t mind right? You can visit the doctors after.¡± (Stranger) What? You are not going to leave me here? Why are you helping me? As I was wondering about the reason, he picked me up and piggy backed me on his back. Then he walked to the Inn. As he entered the Inn, I tried to bury myself with the cloak. I didn¡¯t want anybody to see me like this. He then procceded to talk to the Inn Keeper and rented a room. When he got to the room he dropped me off, and laid me on the bed. Then he started to search for something in his bag. He took out many things but once he found the item he looked for he stopped. It was something red in a bottle. A drug? I heard about drugs like that. Red drugs that nobles use for sex slaves that resists. Apparently, it¡¯s type of an aphrodisiac combined with a drug that makes you high. How do I know? It was all in the herb book that I was reading. So he was acting like he was a good guy for all this huh. He poured a bit into a mini container and tried to give it to me. I tried my best to reject him but didn¡¯t have the strength to. I¡¯ve put all my strength into my mouth trying my best not to drink the foreign liquid. I won¡¯t lose! He then stopped for a second. I did it. I won¡¯t lose is what I thought. He grabbed my nose to stop from me breathing with my nose. I tried to hold off but I couldn¡¯t, I had to open my mouth to breathe. At that moment, he gave me the liquid and I had to swallow it all. It felt warm, and gross. It tasted very bitter, but sweet at the same time? Cherry? I don¡¯t know. I frowned. I gave him the stare that I won¡¯t lose to the drug.