I woke up in an alley with my head hurting, tried to look around only to find a dead end, turned the corner, human and human looking people with animal features appeared in the field of vision. Demi-humans? Medieval styled building everywhere, even the etiquette was different from the human world

“You are awake Daisuke”- I could hear a familiar voice in my head, sounds like Great Sage

“Great Sage?”- Was this great sage?

“Yes. That’s me. Do you want any information?”- Information?

“Yes, where am I?”- I looked around, couldn’t read anything, I didn’t understand the language here. Where am I, the only recognizable signs were fantasy signs from anime, but that’s it. A wine glass and a plate with steak that’s supposed to represent a tavern. A sword and armor sign, supposed to represent a blacksmith. A quil and paper that supposed to represent a guild

“Well, yes. You are in the country of Wiefra. The quil and paper represent the guild. You got the rest right, kid. Ohhh and you are the only one that can hear me and I can only hear you. People rarely hear us talking. Only you, me and a few select people can actually hear us talking”- Great Sage became silent after this

I knocked on the guild’s door. An elf? A female elf opened the door.

“How can I help you, sir?”- She had a straight face on her. I didn’t know what to say to her?

“I am new here. Can you show me the ropes, or more information about this world?”- I didn’t want her to see me embarrassed, I kept a straight face as well, it looked awkward for them

“New here, huh? Follow me”- I followed her to a counter, 3 more people were there.

“They are Demi-Humans, Daisuke!”

“Someone new? I see”- The elf girl whispered to the man

“Come here son. Show us your dominant hand. We shall use it to identify you”- The man had some kind of device in his hand, like an inking machine

“How will you do that?”- I looked at him starstruck

“This is a magical device. You will be able to keep track of your level and skills as well as class, the seal only works on your dominant hand. So please trust me”- I rolled my left-hand sleeve up. The elf man held my hand and applied some kind of tattoo on my arm

“Wait what is that tattoo?”- One of the wolf girl has seen the succubus tattoo, is this even relevant

“The succubus tattoo”- The man rolled my arm to see it

“Yes. He is one of those people, died in another world, came here and suffered the horrific fate of meeting the most idiot goddess ever, Sara. She branded 80% of this country with this, she acts brain-dead all the time”- One of the wolf-girl laughed

“Yes, sorry. Now let’s get back to reading your skills, follow me, these 2 will help you in the process, please come back once done”- I followed the 2 girls in a new room, began to look around the room, in the right it had paper and ink. I could see stacked shelves with paper, there were a few tables and a booth that I didn’t know how to read. Wait, how do I know the language?

“Ohhh, and about speaking and reading. I am doing all the translation for you, Daisuke, so don’t worry. Great Sage always here to help you. And this is the tavern Daisuke.”- I felt a little relief

I read the sign, monster loot exchange booth, the sign below read: We don’t care who you are or your reputation we will always offer a fair price

“Do you zone out often, kid?”- They were dragging me in the tavern along with them

“Yes. I don’t know how to talk to people. I do this often”- I tried not to look at the girl

“Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Daisuke Suzuki, you are?”- The 2 dog-girls were taken back a little bit

“Why do you want to know our name?”- They were suspicious of me

“I simply do. It’s pretty common from where I come. Sorry if I upset you”- I looked around trying to find out what are they doing

“I am going to give you a heads-up. Here demi-humans aren’t treated good, slavery is legal, and we are the main slaves that are sold. Normal people can get in trouble with the royal guard if they are overly friendly with demi-humans. Be careful not to pass too friendly with us, or you live shorter than in your past life”- One of them stopped in her tracks, she pointed to a door in the back of the tavern. In the most secluded part

“Enter here, this is the skill room. Sit in the chair near the hourglass”

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“I am Mitsude, and she is Petra”- Mitsude, grabbed my left hand and applied some kind of ink and wrapped a paper around it

“Nice to meet you 2”

“Just get this done faster, ok? I don’t trust him at all”- Petra turned her back on me

“I am sorry”- She turned around to look for a second then turned back

“My sister is like this. Don’t mind her. Ok now we should see your class”- She unwrapped the paper, as she read it in silence her jaw dropped

“Wait. This is almost impossible. Gods give only 1 class. He has 2 classes. And he had got 2 blessings and a curse on him”- She looked at me worried

“Let me see”- Petra grabbed the paper from her hands

“Class 1: Shielder Class 2: Assassin, Blessings, Memento Mori and Infinity, no details available they were protected and details can’t be extracted. The curse, Autonomous Great Sage, no info available here either”- Mitsude is perplexed

“Mitsude, go grab the guild master”- Petra got a dagger and shield for me

“I already have a dagger”- I pulled the dagger Great Sage gave me

“I have never seen this material before. Crimson Crystals heh?. I only heard about these in stories, but never thought they were real or if weapons can be made out of them. Who gave this to you?”- What should I say to her?

“Honesty comes a long way, Daisuke”- Is this great Sage?

“What. How should I say it?”

“Tell her some fox god gave it to you. Not far from the truth”

“Someone else gave it to me. In fact, it was a fox god. He also gave me these blessings as well. I don’t know about Great Sage”- I tried to modify things as good as I could. I was telling something close to the truth

“I see. 2 goods clashed, and the fox god won and gave you this. And you say you don’t know what Great Sage really does. Well your situation is strange nonetheless, usually gods will strip any blessing or class given by other gods, but it’s great that they let you”- Petra was sniffing me. Does she know that I didn’t tell the complete truth?

“Well no, not that much”

“Well I think you might hear a little voice in your head that tells you stuff, like useful information or even if you ask for information it will try to give it to you, that’s what people with the Great Sage skill told me that it does. It’s still an obscure and rare skill”

“This was the voice I was hearing then. Thanks”- Petra had a worried look, does she know I am lying?

“Why didn’t you tell me about the voice?”- Her question threw me back a bit

“From where I come from, people that hear voices have some kind of disorder or are considered crazy”

“Figured as much, this world is a lot different, magic and things like this might be myths in your world, but in this world they sure damn exist”- Petra’s gazed was directed at my knife

“Is it weird to have 2 classes here?”- Petra seems to have this ominous feeling lingering with her, like she secretly despises you

“As a level 1 like you that just got here, yes it is weird. You can get a second class at every 50 levels, but it messes with your statuses. You sacrifice 50 levels and all the stats from them for a new class. Most people here don’t do that, they use to prestige their classes, so they have doubled the stats. Example: if you are level 100 and you prestige you are reduced to level 50, but your stats stay like level 100 and the next time you level up to 100 all the stats are doubled like you are level 200”- Petra was sitting near me on another chair. How did the chair get here?

“So. Why are demi-humans treated so poorly here?”- This was on my mind since I saw her. I couldn’t hold my curiosity

“Well, people are idiots here, that’s why it happens. Most people spout that we have animal features and therefore not humans. That’s the gist of it. Be careful, you can lose your head if you treat them too kindly or treat them like trash and there is a chance to lose as well, but it’s not 100%.”- Petra gave the meanest stare I ever saw

“I am not that big on these things. Like I don’t really understand why all that hate towards demi-humans, but I won’t treat you trash.”- Petra scoffed at me

“Yeah, try to be a better liar next time. Many of you kiddos that come here from another world are like 16-17 thinking they can talk their way to respect or to anything really”- Petra left the room, she sounded disgusted

“Here he is, guild master”-Mitsude lead the guild master into the room where I was staying. He was examining my status list

“Ok, time to see your skills that were given to you by your class”- The guild master took another piece of paper, it was red this time, and wrapped it around my arm. After 1 minute, the paper was ready. He took a look at the paper, and he was in shock at was he saw

“Skills: Empathy, you and your companions gain double exp, this applies to slaves if you have a good relationship with them too. Great Sage, source of most knowledge, knows almost anything. Insidious, if you stand still while you activate it you become invisible to monsters until you move again. Great Healer, Healing items gets upgraded by 3 levels while in use by him. Impenetrable, your defense status ignores every defense reversing skill or attack or defense nullifying. Feral Frenzy, it’s a special 20-second speed dash with a knife that you can deal repeated damage to someone, your speed will increase by leaps and bounds. Info Sponge, allows abnormal skill growth and evolution Pentimento, that’s his last skill, it is a skill usable on lying people, it apparently brings extreme pain if they lie or are hostile towards you”- The guild master was surprised by my last skill, Petra re-entered the room

“Let me his skills as well”- Petra took a look at the paper, she was surprised for a little before returning the paper to the guild master, Mitsude moved behind me

“You really have good skills. Make good use of them kid”- Mitsude whispered this in my ear