Tolverstov and Nathaniel were walking through

the guest house in silence when Tolverstov said.

“we’ll go to my place, I just need to stop in the

market to by some things”

“No problem, I’m free for the foreseeable future.”

Tolverstov smiled.

I’m starting to like this guy.

Nathaniel was wearing the same body suit he

looted from the dalahar dog that he killed, and it

was hot, the weather outside was hot and he

started to think on going naked.

“Tolverstov, what currency do you use here”?

“I imagine that your world is very much different

from ours in that regard” Tolverstov said “we use

failed parts of magic circles, it’s used for creating

magic tools. Of cores, it would take a huge amount

of sybu to create high level tool. The lowest token

is kit, ten kit equals one pit, fifty pit equals one fog,

and hundred fog equals one sybu. And then you

have pure sybu which is equal to thousand regular

sybu, but it is as rare as your tool.

“That is too complicated, but I guess I’ll get used to

it. Is a thousand kit a lot of money?”

“it’s not a lot. Even here pit is the main token."

"Is it enough for some cloths"?

“Sure. But you can’t live off it.”

They left the house and the gardens and walked

down the hill toward the village.

“I have a question” Nathaniel said, “but I’m afraid

to hear the answer.”

Tolverstov smiled. “You should probably ask

anyway.”

“You know what I want to ask.”

“Educated guess.”

“so”?

“Why don’t you ask.”

“Right. What does the mayor care about a tired

homeless”?

“You mean, why did he put you in his guest

house”?

“yes”

“Because I’ve asked him to.”

“Thank you. Now I have another question.”

Tolverstov smiled again, “of cores.”

“What do you care about a tired homeless”?

“I don’t”

“Of cores. Let me rephrase, why are you helping

me?”

Tolverstov’s smile widened. “Well,” he said, “I’ve

heard about a stranger with no levels, yet with

high level tool. And to tap it off, that stranger

happened to appear next to… well, certain event,

and with no idea where he is. I’d be fullish not to

keep you near me.”

“The only thing I understood is that you want my

tool.”

“No, I can’t even touch it. I’m interested in you.”

“why”

“I want to study you and your circumstance.”

“Okay, I’ll drop it for now.”

They reached the village and entered the local

market. It was a medieval style market. It wasn’t

big but you could find there everything the village

people needed.

Not able to communicate Nathaniel used

Tolverstov to buy simple shirt pants and shoes.

Quest: naked and afraid

Objective: find some damn clothes!

Requirement: 3 cloth Pieces

Objective complete

Reward: blue level powder

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“I forgot about that.”

“what”?

“Never mind”

He changed clothes as soon as they entered

Tolverstov’s house. He was now wearing loose low

quality clothes. It was more comfortable than the

costume though.

Tolverstov made simple breakfast and they sat

down to eat.

“How much do you know”? Tolverstov asked.

“Explain it to me like I was just born.”

“So. Happy birthday Nathaniel.”

“Thank you.”

“I’m going to explain to you more details than

most people know because you didn’t grow up to

know all that. On top of our universe glued to our

reality there’s a sheet of magic. We don’t exactly

know what magic is, but we know how it works. All

the time magic flows into our reality, and

immediately interacts with matter. That mean that

it become part of the matter it interacts with,

although parts of it flow freely around the matter

it blended with. When magic enters our reality, it

breaks apart and form a potential circle to repair

itself. The way to complete a circle can be

everything, from moving one rock, singing a few

wards, or touching the core of every star in the

universe. When you complete a circle, your body

absorb the magic in its pure form. You can absorb

only enough magic to advance a level, if you try to

absorb more, the magic simply forms another

circle. In order to advance levels, you need to

strengthen your body, which is a little

complicated. You need to choose an appropriate

circle, I’ll come back for what an appropriate circle

is, and convert it to the appropriate level powder

and absorb it, I’ll also explain about converting and

level powder. When you at level one, you can start

absorbing abilities. You absorb abilities by the

appropriate level powder and circle. As you’ve

probably realized by now, magic blends with

concepts and believes as well as matter. Some

magic circles blend with level energy, those are

the appropriate circles to advance levels. But

magic also comes in various amounts, so you can

complete one circle and it’s enough to advance

level, and you can complete a hundred circles to

advance. In advancing levels, you can’t use weaker

magic than your level requires, you need to find

large enough circle with level energy. The same

with absorbing abilities. Sometimes magic

interacts with magic, then one circle absorbs the

concept from the other circle which cause the

other circle to fail and brake. Surprisingly enough it

breaks only to four sizes, kit is the smallest, then

there’s pit, fog, and the largest sybu. Now there’s

rare cases where a circle of magic forms without

blending with anything but matter, and it’s always

in sybu size. When a circle interacts with the rare

matter circle, the matter circle doesn’t break,

instead it forms pure sybu.”

Tolverstov wanted to continue, but Nathaniel

stopped him.

“Stop, I need a break. Too much information.”

“But I didn’t explain about...”

“Good. You can explain it later.”

“Okey. What are you going to do now”?

“I’m going to check my powers.”

“Your powers”?

“Yes.”

“Like your inventory”?

“Yup.”

“Can I watch”?

“You can, but you won’t see anything.”

“I’ll take my chances.”

“Be my guest.”

What do you say Siri, system check?

“Certainly, I wanted to check it already, but I can’t

do it without you.”

Main menu.