Silence.
After Yuuto declaration the formerly lively atmosphere turned into sudden silence, if a pin drop it would be heard through entire room.
Even when stared at Yuuto's expression is as calm as ever.
"...would you kindly tell us the reason?" Gawayn asked dumbfounded.
"Use [Spy] on me and you will understand" Yuuto shrugged nonchalantly.
Once they do, another uproar that no less noise than previous one happened.
This time in a bad way.
After they calmed down considerably, Yuuto said "now you understand, right?"
Their expression toward Yuuto is that of pity, indifferent, sneer and disdain.
"After seen my stats, you won't send me to fight, right? Let alone not to get in your heroic ways, I just be a burden". Yuuto said that as he look at the King Joseph from afar with small smirk which goes unnoticed.
"What's with this guy? Is he that much coward?" The first princess sneered. Because previously Yuuto asked the way to return so she thought he happy that he didn't need to fight.
"Don't blame him, daughter. He is right after all, we can't send someone who is unwilling to battlefield, it just doesn't right" Joseph said as he lightly tapped his daughter's shoulder.
The mocking tone in his words is as clear as day.
"Damn, he is a shame on us. What would we do if people think we the same as him".
"Why does he is summoned with us? Isn't there a better candidate? Like Hazawa-kun or..."
And so the not so secret whispers continue, they purposely mutter loud enough for Yuuto to hears.
People, they tend to look down on someone beneath them to make their own self is special.
When their exam score is 20 they search for someone with score 19 or lower.
When they lose against someone on their caliber they challenge someone who clearly weaker than you so you feel better.
To put it simply, as long as they not at the bottom line it's fine.
Especially when the target of bullying is someone that unrelated or hated by them.
Currently the students and nobles divided into two, either they mock Yuuto or stay silent.
Even Hiroshi who supposed to be everyone heroes is just stay silent, in addition so with three madonnas.
Yuuto knew why Hiroshi doesn't stand up for him, so this is already within his calculation.
"Since there's no way back so I can't return, since I can't fight so I have no right to stay in castle. So I implore your majesty to grant me freedom to do as I wish outside".
"If that was your wish, I grant it. As an addition for dragged you here I'll give you some money and things as a compensation, just ask receptionist before you leave".
From outside it was an act of generous king but if you think about it is there a generous king who readily accept when a person that doesn't know left and right wander around city alone unprotected?
He just want to quickly get rid of rotten fruit so it not infect the whole tree, money and some useless things is a cheap price to pay.
After Yuuto nodded he turn back walks toward exit, without looking back and with galore of insult as farewell party he left the hall.
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After Yuuto left the hall, he walks slowly in corridor while muling over his plan.
This is a fresh start, currently he has neither allies nor enemies. For now he choose to stay low profile as he search for information.
While he already heard what the king said but Yuuto can't really trust everything that the king said.
Therefore his best choice is the library, there should be history books about this Dytika kingdom and Phantashia, about it's creditability he judge after he read. Also if he is lucky there might be something useful there, you never knew what you might find from small piece of paper might save you someday.
Also he needs to find a job.
Fortunately this world including adventure guild system where anyone above 10 years can be adventure and get a job.
It's really similar to MMORPG he often played so he already understand about it.
"For now I just go to library first".
When he about to leave the castle Yuuto stop at receptionist to take the compensation and in addition asked her the location of library.
What he got from the king is 100 golds, white storage ring, 10 small healing potion and 10 small magic potion.
The currency in this world is goes like 1 gold = 100 silvers = 10.000 choppers.
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Storage ring is used like those magic bags from RPG game to store items and weapons. They divided into 5 grades.
White storage ring contains 30 free empty space, with small preservation effect.
Black storage ring contains 50 free empty space, with medium preservation effect.
Blue storage ring contains 100 free empty space, with high preservation effect.
And lastly the most expensive red storage ring with 200 empty space, with very high preservation effect.
Yuuto hate to be in debt, the reason he accept this gift is because just like Joseph said it was a compensation.
Suddenly he summoned to this world without his consent without method to go back while leaving his everything behind, of course a compensation is necessary.
If not for that, he won't accept it even if he have to works his bones to dust.
Before long Yuuto arrived at library, it was circular three story building with size around half soccer field.
Yuuto can only stared in amazement with how big the library is, it's easily the biggest library he ever seen.
You don't need to pay as long as you read the books inside, if you want to borrow it you needs to create membership card by paying 1 gold as ware.
Yuuto took the books he deem necessary and then he sat at one of chair to read them.
Without he realized three hours passed after he finish read all of them, the interesting he found is...
Firstly, history books here is cannot be trusted. Every single of them made from this kingdom, in addition the obvious biased opinion makes him sick.
Thus Yuuto put the matter about history for later until he is not within Dytika territory.
The second thing is about stats and skills, the stats is already obvious so just took a glance and it just like classic RPG system.
However the skill system is pretty unique.
The skills is divided into two categories, Elemental and non-elemental. Both skill also has two different types, active and passive.
Elemental skill is a skill with attribute(s), there was seven attributes in Phantashia, they are Fire, water, wind, lightning, earth, light and darkness. Any skills without those above attribute is non-elemental.
To discern how strong a skill is they using rank and tier system.
Each times you kill enemies with a skill, that skill gain skill exp, if it filled to 100% that skill will rank up, skill rank divided from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). The higher the skill rank is the stronger it get.
Tier also divided into 10, from 1st tier to 10th tier. The higher your level is the higher tier you can use, the higher the tier is the rarer/powerful that skill.
Though currently the highest tier skill ever seen is only 7th tier, if you even has one 5th tier skill you get treated like royalty anywhere. Tier 8 considered as legend and myth because it was never seen ever since thousand years ago. 9 and 10 only appears in myth so nobody know about it's validity.
After Yuuto left the library, the day already dark.
After he read necessary books, Yuuto found some books about warfare or something similar. Yuuto being Yuuto of course can't ignore them and thus spent almost all day reading them.
"Let's find an inn first".
After asking a passerby Yuuto found out that the cheapest inn cost 1 silver per night, there were even an inn with 1 gold per night, only rich people stay there.
Yuuto obviously choose the cheapest because he basically can sleep anywhere as long as there roof.
Currently, Yuuto lay his back on the bed. He thought back about his current situation.
He has nobody to relied on but that was fine since that was how he always live, by relying on himself. First thing first tomorrow he gonna register as an adventurer to gain membership card.
Adventure guild using rank system to distinguish how strong the adventure are. They were divided by class F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS. The higher you rank is the more advantage you get. For example there were restaurant or inn that give you discount depend on how high your rank is, some even let you eat/stay for free.
Of course that was only one of many advantage as high-ranked adventurer.
Tomorrow Yuuto also needs to test his unique skill on some monsters.
Yuuto opens the skill book he got from Gawayn and starts memorizing it, compared to those syntax and anagrams numbers and words he needs to memorize for hacking, this is easier.