As the Sun’s bright encompassed my body in warmth, I slowly wake up and stretch my body for today. Picking my best clothes, I head out to the Crane Mansion. The Crane Mansion was on a hill that always saw the sun rise over the ocean. Upon the road, thousands of other people willing to show their talents to become someone not a nobody no one would remember. At the Mansion gate were 20 guards line up against the wall.
“Halt! Get in line for mandatory check” As one of the early birds I was able to be done with it and wait in huge hall able to house thousands. I waited near a pillar waited for about an hour before everyone had finished their checks.
“Please welcome Viscount Zarqis Reinfield!” A servant had called out.
The man walked in with a whole entourage. The man was incredibly tall and super bulky in stature. He had blue hair with a scar mark across his right eye and had piercing blue eyes. His skin was fair bronze.
“Welcome to our annual Awakening” His voice seemed to roar like a dragon awakening from his slumber.
Viscount Zarqis divided the people into 3 different groups, Fighting, Crafting, and Miscellaneous.
I moved to the crafting line which seemed to be the shortest of them all, one by one people walked into a room and came out a few minutes later. Some even don’t come out, I guess they got chosen. My turn soon approached, the man directed me into the room. There were 3 people there, one in their 20’s, one in their 40’s, and one extremely old man which I couldn’t even guess his age.
“Show us something that would impress us to recruit” said the one in his 20’s in extremely arrogant tone. It was like he was entitled to everything in the world, it was extremely annoying.
“To…Today I will show you an invention I made called a watch.” The young and middle age one gave a look of slight interest.
“One day you wish you could able to tell time even in a dungeon without looking at the sky or sleeping and waking up what time is it “Clumsily I grab the watch out of my bag.
“As you know right now, it is between noon and the dusk. Walking to them closely, I showed them the mechanics of the invention. There were some really good questions asked by them, and it made me really excited that someone had the same interest as me.
“Thank you your time” As I pack my things up, but for the first time in this whole entire thing…
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“Wait, I will recruit you” said the old man, when the old man voiced this the other two men were shocked by this development.
The old man walked up from his seat and gave a note, “At dusk come to the forest road, that is where I will meet you.” The old man went back to his seat and returned to his uninterested face for the next attendant.
I scream in my heart with much joy. “Mom I did it!” I say silently and walk out.
Returning to the Inn, I pack up all my stuff for my journey. I was so excited I got there when sun was still in the sky.
Along the way, I bought a notebook to draw out all of my thought and inventions. While waiting for the old man, I was daydreaming of what would happen in the future when I become famous.
“You do know when you see your elders you should greet them properly” said a voice. Flinching in fright as I look to find the old man from earlier siting next to me.
Standing up properly, “So… Sorry” I said with much nervousness. The old man slowly got up and said “Couldn’t you stand up in the first place kid, you do know that I’m old right.”
Helping the old man to stand up straight, “I haven’t introduced my self fully. My name is Alfred Diamond.” Diamond? What kind of last name is that?
“Oh, my name is Marvin Wave” My hand reached out to shake his. Alfred hand was actually really rough and hard. It seems like he works a lot with his hands.
“Ok, Marvin from now on you will the disciple of Master Craftsmen Alfred Diamond!” He gave me a look waiting for a look of admire and awe but it wasn’t there.
“What is that suppose to mean?” As soon as I said that Alfred walked behind the tree and was in fetal position rocking himself back and forth.
“… Am I not famous that even a normal commoner doesn’t know my name” Alfred quietly said.
“I’m sorry, I lived on an island my whole life. I don’t know many things” When I said that, he jumped up and smiled. But I could see a glint of mischievous in his eyes.
“Well then I should tell you, in this continent there are only 100 Master Craftsmen. And I am one of them. We are respected all over the Continent, and even a Kingdom Royalty treat us with respect. We can build the most powerful structures in the world, but for a nice price. I even constructed an item able to travel people without any horses or mount. It requires a special fuel and but the item took me about a year to make.
The item’s name is called a Wind’s Breath. Wind’s Breath was sold to the Bress Kingdom for 2 million gold!”
“Two Million Gold!” My mom told me when I was younger that 1 gold could last us for 3 months if used carefully.
“I know, now you know how great your master is” His nose seemed to increase in size for some reason.