“Leave the supplies to me, I still got enough in my bones to do atleast that much for family”
I nodded while munching on the cookies he gave me. Delicious enough, also, no need to deny a free favor I guess.
He asked me to sit still while he went outside to arrange the supplies.
I reached my hands into the jar and…
Nothing!
Oh the pain of an old man, not even being able to enjoy cookies without them running out.
Anyways I stood up and started looking around, not a heavy task as the whole thing was just one big room.
There wasn’t really something too interesting except the painting and a portion of the wall which was decorated by wooden staffs of various sizes.
I took one out and started swinging it around.
“Hello Eric!” I turned around and the female guard who was standing with uncle at the door was waving at me.
“Hi” I gave her a response and put the stick back at it’s place.
“You will be eating food at my place today eric, along with Aubrey of course.”
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“Bye Eric! Continue to visit us in the future, Along with your father if possible” Uncle Aubrey said as he helped me put my stuff on the horses back.
When they said they will be giving me a horse to take along I had refused because horses are so expensive but when they told me that the horse was bought with part of the money my dad had to his name in my grandfather’s will.
They also bought the supplies for me with this money and the rest was given to me. A full 5 silver coins were spent on this while the rest, a total of 15 silver coins were given to me. A thing to pay attention to was the fact that out of the 5 silver coins spent, 4 silver coins and 78 copper coins were spent on the horse.
In this world the currency was the classic gold silver bronze coins.
1 silver coin was equal to a 100 copper coins and 1 gold coin was equal to 100 silver coins.
1 silver coin was enough for an average family of 4 to eat for about 6 months, a year if they were frugal.
So I had received quite a fortune for this trip. I had originally planned on using the 3 silver coins I had saved throughout the last 12 years to buy food, water sacks and a cart that would help in transportation of the said food.
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If the money was insufficient, I was ready to spend a year or 2 in this town to earn some bucks
Not the first time I would would have done that anyway, I had spent over 4 years in China because my passport was confiscated as I had contacted the Tibetan monks to see whether they could do anything ‘magical’.
I had to spend all my money bribing a border officer to let me go to Russia, where I contacted my countries embassy to get a new passport made.
While I had not spent much time on a horse back, I knew enough to ride one comfortably. Both from my past life and current one.
There was a course on horse riding in the school I went till I was 11 years old.
“You did said good bye to your aunt right? She will fight with me if you haven’t”
“I did uncle, good bye now, see you soon” saying this I loosened the reins of the horse, and the horse started walking forward.
I went out the east gate of the town while waving my uncle and aunt goodbye.
The journey till now had been really peaceful, but from henceforth I will encounter the creatures of fantasy, goblins, orcs and what not.
Soon I left the open area surrounding the city and was going through the forest.
For some reason going through a forest always invoked a feeling of awe in my heart, maybe because the first encounter I had with Ignia happened in a forest.
*crack*
I heard the sound of something breaking somewhere to the right of me. Intrigued, I would very obviously check what sort of mythical creature I encountered.
I silently jumped down form the horse, tied it to a tree and went towards the source of the noise.
I silently peaked through a bush when I reached what I believed was the source of the noise. Looking around I saw…
A rabbit… not really a mythical creature.
I had just turned around when I heard another sound from the same place. Turning around I saw a wooden spear embedding the rabbit to the ground.
A greenish humanoid creature walked out of another bush, this thing was absolutely huge, 3 meters tall minimum.
A orc!
Slowly I stood up, just as I did the orc’s focus changed from the rabbit to me.
“Hi?” I gave an awkward greeting just to make sure that this thing couldn’t talk. It would be sad if I killed a sentient creature without any reason.
*RAHH* it gave an high pitched scream and started to pickup the wooden spear, presumably to throw it at me, leaving the rabbit still on the ground, still twitching.
“Fireball” I mouthed quietly and a foot ball sized fireball flew towards the orc, hitting it straight in the head with a loud bang and a flash.
I waited for the smoke to clear and when it cleared, the orc was still standing, about 10 meters away from me, but now its head had a large burn mark, with the dense hair on its head having been burned off.
It looked at me with a angry look. It started running towar..
“Fireball”
Another fireball hit it at the same spot. A little blood oozed out of the injury and it let out a cry of pain.
“Fireball” “Fireball” “Fireball”
3 more fireball flew towards it. It tried to deflect them with the stick in hand but after the first fireball exploded the stick in hand the other 2 hit the same spot on it head again, the orc’s thick skull finally cracked open which resulted in its death.
I took a arrow from the quiver hanging by my side and poked it a little, confirming it’s death.
Orcs are defined anywhere from tier-F to tier-C depending on its side. The one I fought was a somewhat strong F-Tier. This forest was mainly filled with F tiers which was why I dared to come here alone.
I fired one more fireball at its head which burned its head off and revealed a small blue stone with a few small branches extending outwards. This was the mana core of this creature, Humans, for some reason, didn’t have a physical mana core.
Mana cores were not that useful, humans couldn’t absorb them and no known use for these cores was available to commoners. But, you could sell them to any church for a handsome reward.
Putting the Mana core in my bag I started moving back towards the horse.