Lucian then bows gently with his hand on his chest, formally thanking the man in front of him, who is Trung, the captain and head of the Night Breeze special organization.
Trung laughs softly and signals with his hand for him to sit down again. Lucian is now another member of the Night Breeze team, Trung is their leader, and he will follow his leader's order, then sit down again.
Trung pulls out a piece of paper and a fountain pen, puts it on the table and holds it out to Lucian, who keeps a calm and generous smile -Sign it, it will mean your certificate of participation in our organization, you will also receive a special brooch to identify you as one of us.
Lucian takes the paper and decides to read the rules, he needs to have an idea of the restrictions of this organization. On this well-kept signature paper, free from dirt stains, was written in a sophisticated handwriting “When you join our organization, you will have to follow these rules. First: Never tell anyone that you are a member of this organization. Second: When you receive the organization's badge, make sure you always carry it with you if necessary, it gives you some permissions to visit places, carry things and do something you wouldn't normally be allowed to do. Third: To leave the continent, you need special permission from your captain and from the sacred cathedral of the Lady of the Moonlight.”
Lucian finishes reading and the only thing he doesn't like is the third rule, the one that forbids him to leave the continent for another without the permission of his captain and the sacred cathedral of the Moon Lady, but it's acceptable.
He picks up the fountain pen and then signs his name below, on a line that asked for his signature, writing in a slightly crooked handwriting, as he is still learning the language of this new world “Lucian Berfort”. And so he hands the paper to Trung, who smiles and puts it away in the desk drawer.
He stands up and bends forward and extends his hand -A pleasure, it will be amazing to have you as our new companion, call me Captain or Guardian, as you wish- He says gently, waiting for Lucian to shake his hand.
Lucian shakes his hand, and he realizes that his hands are hard and cold, but strong at the same time. Lucian lets go of his hand and turns to leave, and when he touches the doorknob Trung calls out to him -After all, Lucian, go to the first room on the left of this corridor, you'll find the person who will give you our organization's pin. If possible, also ask for a weapon, if a mission comes up or the moment arises when you can get your first Core, you'll need something to protect yourself.
Lucian nods and then leaves the Guardian's room, and ends up meeting Ruby again, the girl who brought him to the Night Breeze. The blonde hair that runs down to her shoulder sways slightly with the touch of her palm, and her green eyes sparkle in the lamplight.
Lucian walks past her, as he already has a destination, the first room on the right of the corridor, where he will pick up the Night Breeze brooch and a weapon. He walks down the short corridor lit by 4 lamps, 2 on each side of the corridor, and then arrives in front of the first door on the right.
He knocks on the door and waits for an answer. After he knocks on the door, he hears the sound of things falling and some grunting. Two voices are heard inside, a younger male voice and an older, hoarse female voice. The two seem to be talking and their voices come closer to the door, until the door opens.
The door opens slowly and reveals the image of a man of at least 17 or 18, he has messy black hair and wears round glasses, dark blue overalls and a white dress shirt, he wears black boots.
Behind him is an old woman of similar height to the young black-haired man, she wears a black linen shirt with a long white skirt, black boots, she has medium-length gray hair that is slightly messy. She has several wrinkles on her face due to her advanced age.
The young man looks confused when he sees Lucian, but then smiles gently and says - Hello sir, who would you be? I've never seen you here before.
-My name is Lucian, I've just joined the organization.
-How nice! A new member, new people rarely come to our organization, since well, they're secret.” He laughs softly.
-“What would you call yourselves?” He looks at the young man and then at the lady.
The black-haired young man fixes the collar of his white dress shirt and says: “My name is Rosty, nice to meet you Mr. Berfort.” The old lady then bows politely and says: “You can call me Emily, welcome Lucian.
The two of them made way for him to enter the room and the old woman said - I've worked here for a long time, I know all the initial protocols for the entry of a new person - she said as Lucian entered the room.
The room was nice and tidy, with a wooden floor, a table with piles of paper in the corner and a lamp next to it that illuminated the table. There were several bookshelves and a wooden door at the far end.
As the three enter the room, the door is closed and Emily passes through the door at the back, disappearing from Lucian's sight. The young man leads Lucian in front of a table full of paperwork, and then he searches the back of the room for a chair for him to sit on. He positions the chair for Lucian to sit on, and then he sits down. It's a comfortable wooden chair with some cushions on the seat and back.
The old lady returns and stands facing Lucian behind the table, she is holding a black gift-like box without a bow, it had a symbol made in silver on the lid of the box, showing the symbol of a half moon, hinting at the Goddess, Madame of the Moonlight.
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Lucian takes the box and tries to open it, but it doesn't work, it's strangely heavy! No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't open it.
Rosty touches his shoulder and says with a smile - “Mr. Berfort, it's not like that, do you know how to control your spirituality?” he asks with a certain familiarity.
Lucian shakes his head and then Rosty smiles wider, picks up a piece of paper from the table in front of him and says - Well, it's simple. As it's your first time, you'll need a longer method, but one that will be much better for your first time. Imagine the object in front of you in a white space, then imagine yourself holding the object, you're seeing your own transparent body where there are several bluish lines that begin to spread across your body, first from your head to your abdomen, then from your abdomen to both arms, then to your waist and finally to your leg. Next, imagine that these blue lines are intensifying in the palms of your hands, and then... Boom! Congratulations, you've used your spirituality and opened the box!- he said excitedly.
Lucian spends a minute memorizing all the steps for using spirituality, and then begins. First his transparent body holding the black box, then blue lines begin to spread across his body from his head, down to his abdomen, then his arms, then from his waist to his legs. Then imagine the blue lines from his arm accumulating in the palms of his hands and then...
Whoosh!
A bluish energy comes out of Lucian's palm, and then he opens the box normally, as if the lid suddenly shifted its weight. “It seems to be a mechanism that he activates when using spirituality,” he thinks as he feels proud of his first attempt using spirituality.
In front of the blue sparks made by Lucian's spirituality, from inside the box you can see a brooch like a circular shield with the half-moon symbol and a crown above it.
This was the brooch of the Night Breeze organization, and Lucian was now officially a member of the Night Breeze.
He puts the brooch in his pocket and closes the box again, the blue sparks of his spirituality vanish from the air and the box is once again impossible to open normally.
Emily smiles and knocks on the table to get Lucian's attention, then says - Lucian, now there's the last step, you have to choose a weapon, you being a beginner member are entitled to 1 weapon.
The young man goes to the back door and after a while he comes back with a wooden box. He puts the box on the table and opens the lid, showing several short and long-range weapons.
The box is deep, where it is divided between wooden plates that divide the types of weapon, first there are the short-bladed weapons, daggers and throwing knives. Then come the long blades, there are only two swords. Then there are the long-range weapons, 3 bows. And then lastly there are the firearms, where there are 4 revolvers, which differ in their physical characteristics. Lucian thinks for a while and then decides to get a revolver, it would be the most useful in combat against any kind of weapon, human, animal, and perhaps the Corrupted, he hasn't seen any so far.
He picks up a revolver with a relatively beautiful design, an olive wood handle, metal barrel and some silver details.
Rosty hands him a holster in which the gun can be stored behind Lucian's back, where it is more concealable.
-“Thank you both very much, it will be a pleasure to work with you.” Lucian said to them both in a generous and affectionate way, showing his happiness at their kindness.
They both bowed to him and Lucian left Emily and Rosty's room. As he leaves, he finds himself back in the corridor, and meets Ruby again, only now coming out of Trung's room.
She looks at Lucian and approaches - You're the one I was looking for - she stops in front of Lucian and continues with a cold, neutral expression. Lucian smiles and says - What do you need Ruby?
Ruby looks at him seriously and says - Trung asked me to train you, after all, you don't even have 1 Core yet, you need one to become at least a little stronger, so he assigned me to train your combat and other important aspects.
Lucian nods, and thinks about how bad his days are going to be from now on, after all, now he'll have a training schedule, this will be good, because he'll get stronger and have a better physique, but the exhaustion will probably be great.
Ruby pulls a simple silver pocket watch out of her pants pocket and says - We'll start tomorrow at 9am, come to this location - She hands him a torn piece of paper, which shows an address “Puerto Rico, 15 Nirston Street”.
Lucian is immediately surprised, “Puerto Rico? This girl lives there? What does she do in Porto Ferro?” After a while, he puts the paper away and says: ‘Thank you very much, I'll be there tomorrow.’ Ruby sighs and says: ‘Okay, I'm going now, bye... after all, Trung asked you to go to his office, he'll give you something.’ She leaves the Night Breeze base without saying anything.
Lucian then goes to Trung's room and enters, and he is holding a simple bag, relatively large.
Lucian approaches the table and doesn't sit down, so he asks straight away - What do you want? Why did you call me?” Lucian asked. Trung took the bag and threw it to Lucian, who managed to catch it in the air, and then he said- Lucian, this is your advance payment, you will receive 4 Gold and 5 Silver coins every week, this is your initial payment, depending on your performance in our team you will be able to increase the amount of money you can earn, well, goodbye- He waved to Lucian, even though he hadn't taken a single step to leave the room.
Lucian is in complete shock, “4 gold and 5 silver coins?! that's a lot! The job I had at the pipe factory gave me only 2 Silver and 8 Bronze coins!!!” In this world, money is based on coins, Bronze, Silver and Gold, Bronze being the lowest cost, then Silver, and finally the highest cost, Gold.
He doesn't complain at all about his payment, and then bows to Trung and says - Thank you very much, sir! I'm going to take my leave, train hard and try to make myself useful in this organization!” He then turns and leaves the room.
Trung sighs with a smile on his face... He's very lively, he seems to be promising... they all are, I want to see what the future holds for this boy.
Lucian looks at his pocket watch and realizes it's already afternoon, so he decides to go back to his house. At the moment he has the revolver in its holster, hidden behind his back at the waist, with the tuxedo concealing it, he will later use his money to buy a larger suit of clothes to hide the gun better, he can't be discovered carrying a firearm.
Lucian has a quiet walk down the street to his house, with several people walking and horse-drawn carriages passing by.
This new job looks good... good money... a job that involves fantastic things... it's really bizarre, but strangely uplifting.
He feels excited for his training session tomorrow at 9am with Ruby.
To be continued