04 - New life is all planning.
[Author Note : Thank you for reading.]
After a while , it was my turn to talk to the King.
"Sorry, I made you wait. The other ones, please have the maids guide them to their rooms. Make yourself comfortable. "
The king took me , and we went into a study room. Opposite to him are three men, in the center is an overweight middle age man with a long Caesar-like beard that couldn’t hide his effeminate smile.
In his right and left are two elderly men, one with a mole on his forehead and the other wore a white robe.
Aside from the King, Meld and me, was in the room.
"You don’t possessed any special ability nor magic, even though you are a being summoned as a hero. "
From my Karma view, i knew the oncoming scenes, so i played along.
"Unfortunately, it is so."
"Iya~a, I’m not an evil person. I don’t want to force a powerless human being to fight."
This was making me want to laugh, this king is not an evil person, just his karma is loaded with the dead of hundreds of his people.
I replied " I can't fight with the class against the demon king, so i would like to leave , and live a normal life."
This was full of lies, for better cause, a small lie was nothing.
All of them was smiling on my incapacity.
"Are there something you dissatisfied with? I can’t have you stay here but I’ll hand you some farewell gifts."
"I thank you for your concern."
This king is giving me a consolation money. I understand. The moment I receive the money, the tie between me and this country will be severed. If I die in the field somewhere, it’ll be unrelated to them. They played it well!
"Before i leave, can i bid farewell to my teacher and friends, i will make a story, So don't worry about it"
They agreed to it easily, otherwise i would have to use my powers to create a scene.
I left the room, guided to Aiko's room. I knock and she called me to enter.
"Sensei, i need to talk to you"
"Nagasaki-kun , what happen?"
"i am leaving the castle, to make a life in the outside, since i can't fight like you all."
Aiko-sensei was asking me to stay, she even went to call the girls, but in the end i left and reassured , i will be fine.
In my discretion , i added them to my [Contact List] as Friends. This was a precaution , if they died in future, i will still have them.
I was giving a 100 gold coins, and gently thrown out.
As to say , to keep my mouth shut.
The maid who was my fellow worker, had packed all my stuff in a bag.
I thanks her and asked her about the Adventure Guild and the direction to walk to.
I was exploring the Royal Capital by foot after leaving the Royal Palace. With these roads , i became confused.
The whole capital look like the renaissance times.
The canals of rivers, built to prevent rain water to accumulate through out the city.
Women's were wearing long robes, while female warriors had only a bikini like cloth plus the armor parts to cover the vital areas.
This was very erotic, they would give me angry stares, if i try to sneak a peek at their crotches.
I did a [x-ray view], loincloth was still used by the ladies.
These people did not invent the panties and briefs , but had bra.
Too bad , i wanted to see panties. Gosh , my magazines.
The men's were fully cloth, like mummies. Did they even had shorts!
Some were burly , too much steroids.
The roads were just like in France, pavements of rocks fitted together.
Some stalls , were selling veggies, fruits, tools and flea markets.
I ask the city people about the location of the Guild. By doing so, i came to know that it was close by.
I headed there to register as an adventure for now. Living and traveling here wasn’t free.
Somehow or another i had to save up money.
By the way, the money of this world could be stored on a Guild Card.
Likewise it was possible to pay with the card.
That’s what the city people taught me.
When i arrived at the Guild, the interior was rather crowded. Sturdy guys, likely adventures, lined up in front of various counters. The nearest counter had a sign above it with register application written on it.
As my typical Japanese black hair and dark eyes were unusual, i became the center of attention as soon as i entered. Naturally, since i was dressed in an familiar royal attire. I took note that i need some gear to cover my appearance.
I went to the counter, assuming indifferent to all the gazes.
"Excuse me."
“Welcome to the adventurer’s guild. How may I help you?”
Her voice is beautiful, not only that, she herself is a beauty. Those guys must have just been gossiping about her.
"Greetings, My name is Satou, and I want to register as an Adventure, Can you tell me the procedure?"
" Ok, my name is Rosa Barton, just call me Rosa!"
The woman at the counter explained with a business smile.
Various quests were filed to the Guild.
An adventure earned a reward by carrying out these requests.
The quests were classified into levels of difficulty from F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS till SSS.
A Guild Card was handed out upon registering, but it served the same purpose as the Citizen Card that all citizens had.
An ID so to speak.
The adventurers were ranked into the same categories as the quests as well. Although there were very few adventures with a rank S or above. Particularly the SSS rank had only three adventures from the ‘Human Side’.
The woman at the counter gave me a white card and told me to drip a drop of blood onto it. I prickled my finger with the small needle, i received. After dripping the blood on it, the card started to disperse and vanished.
“Huh? It’s gone?”
“Please recite "Guild Card" in your mind.”
When i did as she was told, the card appeared in my hand. But the card wad different than before. It had been completely white, but now it had a blue border.
“The color represents your rank. From the lowest blue to violet, green, yellow, orange, pink, red, silver, golden and finally black.”
After i listened to the explanations with nods. Looking at this new Guild Card, i confirmed the inscription, it was my fake status that showed up. I felt relieved.
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Name : Nagasaki Satou
From : Unknown
Age : 15 Years Old
Sex : Male
Class : None
Rank : F
Quest : None
Equipment : None
Weapon : None
Accessory : None
Copper : 0
Silver : 0
Gold : 0
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I was glad that the FROM column listed his birthplace as unknown. If there had been written that he was from Heaven, it would have been troublesome to explain. Equipment meant his gear. It was subdivided into Weapon and Accessory. But i asked about the one thing that bothered me more.
“What’s this copper, silver and gold stuff on the card…?”
“Mh? That is the currency…”
The woman tilted her head baffled. In this world , money was divided into three coins.
Normally they should be address as coins, but people will just say Copper, Silver and Gold.
I didn’t know that, so i pretend to be from another kingdom. A country bumpkin.
On further inquiring, i learned that they nearly had the same value as Japan’s yen and that the [Quest] displayed his currently active quests. Copper Coins was used for people to pay as entry fee and for daily needs.
So the money in Fasuti went like this :
1000 Copper coins = 1 Silver Coin
10,000 Silver Coins = 1 Gold Coin
Copper was the common money for the folk, as silver and gold was for the nobles and kings to spend.
In conclusion , i had 100 Gold which was 10 million Silver , roughly 1 billion copper .
This was a good sum but a big trouble , as to buy small things like fruits or veggies , who would give me a change.
Thus , i took out 10 gold from my purse and exchanged it for the copper 's.
Rosa took my card and with tap of her pen on it, she gave the card back.
"Here you are, the money has been transferred. Beware of thief's and scrupulous adventures."
"Thank you Rosa-san, that was very fast, can you tell me how you did it?"
She wink at me , and said "Its a secret, only taught to guild staffs."
“ Can you guide to where can I take quests?”
“Please choose from the bulletin board over there. But remember that you are a rank F. You can only accept quests up to one rank above yours, meaning E.”
“I see. How do I raise my rank?”
“When carrying out quests and raising in levels, your rank will go up naturally.”
“In short, after I completed a number of quests, I saw the sign for Inn, What are the pricess?”
“uh, the prices are 20 copper per night, and breakfast is not included.”
“Thank you Miss Rosa!”
Then I headed for the bulletin board.
The first saw was :
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Quest F Rank : Church Roof Repair
Help repairing the roof of the Church.
Reward: 100 Copper
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Quest F Rank : Lucky Herb Harvest
Collect Medicinal Herbs.
Reward: 300 Copper per bundle
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Quest E Rank : Goblin Hunt
Kill 10 goblins in the dungeon.
Reward: 2000 Copper / 2 Silver
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Quest E Rank : Escort
Travel and Protect a couple to Town Sulbey.
Reward: 1000 Copper
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Lucky me, this was what i need to Sulbey. Then, a notice window had suddenly pop up.
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Mission :
Go to Church and inherit treasure of the Priest.
Description :
The Priest is a secret devote of the Goddess.
During his life , he was a famous craftsmen, due to war , he fled to the capital.
Later on, he has amassed a good fortune and when he was on doorstep of death, he has surrender to the church as a Priest.
Thus his own heirs was put aside of the heritage.
So for his goodness, the Goddess has appeared in his dream, and order him to make you his sole heir.
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If this was what the Goddess want, I shall comply.
Then i went out of the guild with the quest to repair for the roof.
With the direction given by Rosa, i quickly find my way to the church.
With some time, I found the church, with a big courtyard , some trees and children being lesson by a nun
With bizarre look, i was approached by a sister who was cleaning the windows.
The sister was dressed like in Convents, with a long blue dress, a scarf covering the hairs, and a cross on the breast.
A typical western Nun.
"Greetings sister-san, I came to repair the roof, what i need to do?"
"Greeting to you too, I am sister Rina, I am charge of the church maintenance. Come , you need to meet the Priest. He only can allow you to work and instruct."
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I followed behind her, with [x-ray view] I could see some amazing ass swaying inside the dress.
As usual the loincloth , could not see anything. Then shit, the sister stopped walking, and i bump into her.
She glared at me, wanting to eat me. Wished i could eat her instead.
The Priest came into view , he was in a room , more like a monk room.
Nothing except a closet, a chair, a desk and a bed.
I met with the man, he gave me a puzzle look.
Then he said "I was expecting you, i had no thought that you would be so young."
"Last night, the Goddess came to my dream, she told that i should give you the heritage. And you show up, that was a surprise! "
"Youngster, here take this ring, it contain all my fortune and ores, i gathered during my life. Use them well. Now i can pass on without any burden."
I said my thanks to him, which he nod with a gentle smile. Maybe his time is almost up.
"Boy, since you can all the way here, Could you repair the roof and help the sisters. May god bless you!"
He called the sister Rina to escort me to the stairs leading to the inside ladder.
While walking, i came to know that there are only two sisters here. The other sister was called Linda. She was in charged of the prayers and donations while Rina was for the cooking and maintenance.
She did not ascend with me, so i went up, climbing the ladder.
Me who wanted the sister to climb the ladder to have full view, maybe next time.
The height was about 10 meters with the stairs on elevation of 2 meters.
On the roof, a hole was made , so i did an appraisal, durability was very low.
Maybe this was the first time , it was broken or they had money only now.
Being on top, i use my [Craftsman] magic which repaired the roof. I made some sounds with hammer to mask my work.
"Tap!, Tap!, Clang!, Cling!"
After a while , i went down.
I was thanked by the sisters, a receipt was delivered to me.
I asked them that the Priest was old, and what would happen after he would pass away.
"Mister, we sisters are orphaned of war, so we have no place to go.
In the house of God, many people care for us. So don't worry for us."
A good argument which could fool others, but not me.
Through my [Karma view], i already saw that this sisters would die in the incoming war.
With a thought , i added them to my [Contact List] under the group of [Nuns].
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[Contact List] :
-> Friends = Hatakeyama Aiko, Shirasaki Kaori, Yaegashi Shizuku, Segawa Chinatsu, Ebihara Kotomi, Kotomi-Chan.
-> Nuns = Sister Rina, Sister Linda.
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Now , i was worry-free. Even they would die, i could still revived them in the future.
By the time, i finished talking, came to the courtyard, the kids had left. So i sat under a tree, and transferred my items from the given storage ring to my virtual space.
The items inventory, i got were :
1 Million Gold Coins
1000 Tons of ores [ Precious such copper, silver and gold. Metals such as Adamantine, Scarletite, Orichalcum, and Mithril. ]
Craftsman tools [ Basic ]
Weapons like sword, bow and spears.
Basic Armor.
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After calculating and sorting the materials, I went back on my way to the Guild.
There i went straight to Miss Rosa. I gave her the receipt and was rewarded the 100 Copper. It was a low income, sufficient enough to buy some meat brochette. A meat brochette was 5 Copper each.
Since the church work took about 4 hours, i bought 5 brochette at the street stall.
They were marinated with some spices, and left for a whole night before being grilled.
As they were being grilled, a dense aroma of Deer steak , was floating.
What a flavor, i was hook to eat that.
Eating took me about an hour, normally i eat very quickly, but i decided to stroll the streets before getting lost.
I could have Floated and see by the aerial view, but it was too bothersome to be seen as a freak here.
I asked some people for direction and went back to the Guild.
At the Guild , i took off the Escort Quest and show it to Miss Rosa.
"Satou-kun, this mission is rank E, but the difficulty might be fake. This request was made by a couple name Leia and Thays. From their looks, i think they are both swordsman."
With the detail description, that Miss Rosa gave, it was indeed fishy.
But what could i do, i needed to travel, so a little money was no harm.
"Miss Rosa, Can i have a room to stay and meet the couple?"
"Sure , you can meet them, wait a minute, i give a room key and called the couple."
Quite a lot of people was looking at me, some even approached me to join their party on quest.
But i decline them. my instinct told me, their original goals to rob me.
Waiting , was long for me, espicially standing at the counter, with no teller.
So i went to sit at a table. I order a juice for 2 copper. It was a bit salty, well will manage somehow.
Someone came, and touch me from behind on my shoulder, i look back it was Miss Rosa.
"Satou-kun , here is Miss Leia, unfortunately Mr Thays is on an errand. I leave you to talk, and this is the key to your room. Ja-ne!"
"Greetings Miss Leia. I am Satou Nagasaki, nice to meet you. You are very beautiful!"
I did some praise, to ease her tension. Her face was like she just eat a bun. Did she had a fight?
"Hi to you too, I am Leia Shelben, Can we find a place to talk?"
"Sure, then do you mind coming to my room, i just rented it."
"Ok, let's go" , i said.
I called Miss Rosa, to lead me to the room.
There on the second floor, we entered a small room, located on the street view.
Miss Rosa left us inside, winking at me. The wink was fast, i think Miss Leia caught it too.
I sat on the bed while Leia took a chair and sat.
Miss Leia body was hidden with a cloak,but with my [x-ray view] , i could see, she was taller than average city women's.
Long silver boots hugged her smooth legs, simple silver waist armor covered her hips, silver chest armor wrapped around her chest, and silver gauntlets protected her hands.
Her tense upper arms, thighs, and stomach were left boldly exposed by her revealing combat gear, but the seemingly defenseless areas were protected by magic jewels which meant the armor had no real weaknesses.
This mixture of functional beauty and aesthetic beauty was the ideal form of the light fighter type of female knight.
Her delicate face with a prominent bridge of the nose and long slit-like eyes, had a charm on its own.
As i was checking her up, she said
" For a low fee of 1000 coppers, I thank you for accepting it. Maybe you have notice my sword."
She was sitting with open legs, the cloak had open up a little, maybe she though i saw her sword tip against the cloak.
"No, I haven't see it, its my pleasure to serve you for this quest. May i ask , how would the travel proceed to?"
"The travel is relatively easy, we will pass through prairies, and a forest. Then walk until we reach the Town Sulbey on the outskirts. You don't have to worry much. I myself and Thays are knights."
"Thank you for the infomation. But if you two are so strong, then why choose to request a escort quest?"
"Well that is, because we were on a mission, and the quest is disguise to return home. We will handle the enemies. That's the reason."
"Great plan, thank you for being honest with me. Is there any details , you might have to inform me?"
"No there isn't, I have seen your Guid Id, so i readily accepted you. I need to go now. Lets meet tomorrow morning at 8am."
"Ok, i will be there, thank you!" Then she left the room.
A few hours was left until the sunset, so i went outside of the city towards the plains.
After searching , i found a nice spot. Not many trees and less animals to poke into my stuff.
I sat down, crunching on my brochette, open my menu screen. In the [Alchemist Magic], i read the propertise of the metals , i got.
Browsing through the notes were annoying, one metal had a flaw in which the other metal would fill in.
What if i could combine them together , and create a new alloy.
I took out the ores [Adamantine, Scarletite, Orichalcum, and Mithril] and using [alchemist and space magic] , i made a special space in which they would combine at high temperature and if explode , the plains would not suffer.
I wasted some 1kg of the metals , at different temparatures, sometime exploded, or it would not react at all.
Finally after my trials and error, i made a combi. It was quite light and look solid.
The strength was above the the metals used. It was very flexible yet stainless like diamond.
I put it to a series of test, it so good, and indestructible.
I made up a name , and called this [Adsom] , a word from the metals names.
I took all the 1000 tons of each metal, and made the [adsom] metal ore.
I could use [adsom] for all my armor, weapons and accessories.
I will first make a sword, pehaps a katana, this might cause other to fear me.
I created a different space to make the katana. The space for theore fusion, i squash and poof , it was gone.
Using [time magic], the process was quite fast.
It took me two hours for the ores, while for the katana it was 1hour.
The cheat was, i added [time magic] to the space, which was 1year in space, 1hour in the world.
I was outside the space, so it was on fast forward.
The sword has a length of 54*4 cm, it was short of a katana , called a Wakizashi, but i would called it a katana.
Using my magics, i added a curse and resistance.
The effects were :
HP/MP Absorb as curse.
Physical/Magic Resistance.
Wind Speed.
Earth Weight. [can be light and heavy]
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I did a swing of the blade on the mountain , the wind blade generated from it , cut a thin slice in vertical.
The mountain was 1km from me, but still took damage. The damage was not big, only a surgical cut , not disturbing any animal.
All the animal felt a breeze, passing by.
This was very good, i could slice an entire army of thousand in one swing.
I name it [Kaze] , a wind blade. I carved the name on the handle. The blade was cold, impossible to scribe.
I kept a note , in future to make another [kaze] but to add some carving when its hot.
I pack , deleted the space used. I went back to the city.
Passing by the city gate. Showing my Guild card was all easy now.
I met with Miss Rosa, she was going home. She reminded me to take care for the journey.
I wanted to escort her home, but she denied me following her.
All i could do, have some food at the stalls and sleep for tomorrow's adventure.
A new life starts , with an early rise.
To be continued...