“Bye everybody!” I call out from the the dirt path leading to the harbor right outside my small town/island off the coast of the the continent of jewels, adventure, and mystery. The Continent of Fortuna is a place of where people of all races live and anything could happen to anyone. My reason for going to the Fortuna is because of becoming an Explorer. A job where you go to the most dangerous places in the world to search for treasure or knowledge of former races, it could be anything you could think of.

The ship was filled with people trying to leave the island, but luckily I found a space near the stairwell. It was pretty small corner with that small place, I couldn’t do what I like to do the most, which is to build things. Since I was little, I was always fascinated, how were things were made and how they worked. From then on I have made a few things that helped me with life overall, like the “watch” I made. I came with it because I had always been late to everything, so I made a device to watch the time for me. I divided the watch into 4 parts which is dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight.

As the day passed into night, we finally made to a harbor on the coast the continent. I was so happy to have land under my feet and stretch my limbs for the first time in like forever. The harbor was connected to a huge town with rock walls to defend from bandits or anything else. The streets were filled with merchants and vendors trying to sell their wares to those who were willing to listening. Looking down the street, I could see a magnificent building, made with the finest marble and stone. The building name was “Reinfield’s Explorers Branch” in thick bold letters, my face lit up with excitement. I rushed through the crowd of customers and visitors, and made it to the stairway into the building. Pushing through the glass door did I see all kinds of people. Most of the people looked like they have been many life and death situations. Their bodies seemed to be forged in fire to become the perfect human weapons. I was scared by their gazes on my bodies, it seemed to their eyes pierced my body to tell my every weakness.

I made it up to the reception desk, to be greeted by women with a smile to stop a war between even sworn enemies.

“How may I help you” her voice sounded like the angels were singing. Shaking my head from other thoughts and said “Where do I go to sign to become an Explorer?”

As soon as I said that, roaring laughter ranged throughout the hall. The Explorers were all laughing at him, like they heard the funniest joke in the world. The reception women pulls my face closer to her face, my face turns deep red. “You do know that you don’t become an Explorer just by asking, you become recruited from a school or some sect. Everyone here has been to some sort of school or sect you do know that right?!” Pushing my head back I let out a small “oh” and walk out of the building.

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Using the small amount of money I have, I rent a room for the night. I wake sore everywhere around my body. Getting dress for the day, I look in the small handheld mirror on the cabinet provided by the Inn. my black hair had a terrible disease called bedhead. Everyday I woke up from bed, my hair looked like it had been through war. Drowning my hair with water, and grabbing another invention I created called a hair straightener. Pushing it through my hair it straightin’s hair out so I can make any kind of hairstyle I want. After finishing my daily routines, I head out to the city streets.

The time right now was between dawn and noon according to my watch. Asking the locals, there is an event called Ascension. It means that you are able to become a higher power of society, if you show enough talent a person could recruit you. It happens every six months and the next one was tomorrow at noon in the city’s Crane Mansion.

I stop by the local bookstore called “Scholar’s Wisdom”. Inside there were books everywhere, they were in huge bookshelves taller than 5 meters. At a desk near the front was an old man reading a thick book in his hands, his face was filled with wrinkles and glasses that seemed it would break at the slightest notice.

I walk up to his desk and say “Hello Sir”, he looks up from his book and gives me a paper. It had written all the places where the books were separated. There were stories of old that interested him, one book had caught my attention. It was called “World Builder”, the story was about a man who was the greatest inventor of all kind. He once crafted a pair of boots that could fly across the sky for hours on end.

One day I thought to myself, maybe I’ll be able to make that. Till night came, I never once moved from my seat as I finished the book about that great man. The storekeeper walked up to me and said in a deep voice “Shop is closing”, the voice woke me up from my daydreaming.

Thanking the man, I walk out and go back to my room to sleep, tomorrow was big day for me.