“You can do it”
“I don’t think I can”
“I believe in you”
“Stop distracting us and go back to what you were doing”
“Will the both of you stop I have to focus”
The man on the bed looks on in worry at James, Brother Francis and Sister Mary. This was the first day James was trying to heal someone and it had not worked yet.
“Am I going to die? I really feel the medical facilities at this location are not adequate for my medical needs causing a loss of life, specifically my life. Really should get the newly formed inspection ward (created in part with my father masterful guidance) to look this over, there is dried blood and a host of other issues…”
The man looked to be no older than 20, if not younger, he wore very fancy metal armor in James opinion. Flanking his bed were two guards that had come in with him but besides for requesting medical treatment they were silent. They had on a thick sliver color plate armor that covered nearly their entire body, both of them standing well over 6 feet tall. The symbol on there chest seemed to be a type of bird with four wings James did not recognize.
“”…Noble””
Brother Francis and Sister Mary said in unison while she gave a wide smile and he tilted his head back and groaned. To be fair they both suspected that but Sister Mary had made the bet he was in fact a noble while Brother Francis was on side of just very wealthy
“That’s good enough for now James, we will keep working at it. It was not expected for you to do this the first day and it may not happen ever. Sister Mary please help him get those things off Watch Captain Rick is here to pick up James”
“He is here?”
James almost worriedly asked while sitting up and glancing at the door while Sister Mary starts to pull the white robe off of him. Rick stood just inside the door and slightly waved with a reassuring smile. The reason for his visit was to take James to the Adventures Guild to sign up. The issue was James was told he should go days ago but he was to scared to go alone. James only felt safe inside these walls and now that it had been a week since staying here Brother Francis decided to get help getting him to sign up.
“You will be just fine! Now hurry up and become famous so you can support me. That way I can quit and live by the water”
Sister Mary said jokingly while taking the robe and giving him a little push forward in the direction of Rick.
“You know Rick I thi…”
“No buts, from what I hear your talented and we can’t have talent going to waste with the hunter over here”
“Watch Captain Rick you are once again putting false charges on me, show me your proof or drop the subject at once!”
Brother Francis called out after stopping the healing of an adventure and thrusted his finger directly at Rick
“Please don’t stop healing me, I think the bleeding is getting bad again…”
Pleaded the woman as she pressed her hand to her gut
“Do you really want me to provide proof?”
…They both ignored they adventures pleas causing Sister Mary to quickly make her way over to resume the healing
Brother Francis at first made a good show of not being affected by what Rick threatened with both his fist at his sides but they did not last
“I really must get back to my patient”
“Yes, that is what I figured, let’s go James”
With one hand on James shoulder and the other waving goodbye to the staff inside the two of them left. Immediately James had started to panic, the feeling in his body started to grow numb. This had been the first time since that night that he had walked outside
I can’t be ready, can I?
Name: James Level: 1 Strength: 120 Agility: 90 Constitution: 110 Intelligence 105 Wisdom: 95
Skills: Jump Start lv. MAX Axe Equip 1 Woodcutting lv.3 Swing lv. 2 Observation lv 5
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Woodcutter
After three days of staying at the temple James discovers how to look at his abilities, the reason for this looking in the first place was to understand how this skills and abilities actually affected him. He could still hold an Axe before he got the ‘Axe Equip’ Ability but after he did it somehow felt… sturdier? Easier?
“I can see how being out here could be hard, when I first moved here 12 years ago it was a big shock and had taken quick a while to get use to everything since I was not use to so many people”
Rick tried to talk about himself in order to take James mind off of his fear
“You did not always live here, why did you move?”
“Well let’s just say the place I use to live was just not a good fit for me, that’s why I came here, to the kingdom of Aupeanid or more specifically this town of Rerenth. Look at me now, I now have a family, my son is around 10 years old and his names Kenley”
Rick seemed very happy with himself upon utterly his sons’ names and James was happy to see that.
He really is a good guy
“Well here we are”
“What?”
“The Guild, see?”
Rick pointed to the building that had somehow appeared in front of the two of them. The building was four stories tall, it had double doors reinforced with iron bars that spreads across them. A constant stream of people was making their way in and out of the building. Two children with staff, a group of archers, a man with armor so thick it was a wonder how he moved. More and more types of people all left James quick speechless.
“We can’t stop now let’s go”
Rick pushed him onward and they made there way inside to the spacious hall. Directly in front were three women that served as the receptionist that were left, right, and center. On the left were people who had mostly the cheapest looking armor and gear. The center had the longest line, not just single people put groups in parties with someone always having a piece of people torn from the wall to the left. Finally, to the right had a massive table were dead creatures were places.
Dead bodies, so many dead bodies! No!
IT was a horrible sight for James even if they were not human. Lizard-people-creatures with blow off arms or legs, heads that seemed to be sliced off. A number of those bodies were brought in by a party that were congratulating themselves and even the receptionist seemed pleased with the results.
“The Lovers, The Dreamers, and me”
A man sung while standing on one of the tables with a small crowed around him listening to the end of the song. They clapped and he pulled off the stylish hat off his hand and passed it around, he had short blonde hair with a bow strapped to his back. He had a charm about him that even James had to admit to, with his hat back and the money pocketed the man left after an exaggerated bow and skipped away out the doors.
“Since your new we go left, don’t worry the process is quite easy and Blaize is a nice woman”
Once again without waiting for a response James is pulled along into the line, but just like Rick said it seemed to move fast and sure enough in less then 20 minutes they two of them stood in front.
“Welcome to the Adventures Guild Branch in Rerenth, I assume you’re here to become a new Adventure if you came with Watch Captain Rick?
“…Yes”
The buzzing grew louder causing James to scratch at the headband he normally can’t feel. Blaize acted like nothing was out of the ordinary like a true professional, she pulled out a piece of people with a thin metal circle embedded in the center.
“Great! So, what skills do you have”
“…I can read and write”
“That’s quite impressive, most people can’t do both and some can do neither, can you tell me what this says?”
Blaize quickly pulled a small piece of people form under the desk and wrote on it, she then turned it to face James
“You Pass”
“Yes! That is correct, I am sorry for the test but those skills are valuable and people have tried to lie in the past”
“I understand”
“Now I am getting excited, what other skills do you possess?
Why do you rise me up just to bring me down?
“I can cut wood”
“You mean metal trees? Or have you taken part in cutting down a mile tree?”
“No… wait, what’s a mile tree?”
“You must know, those are trees that 1 mile wide”
“…Your lying”
There was no way James believed what Blaize said, it had to be sort of newbie training
“No I assure you they are quite real”
“You won’t get me, mile trees? Ha! Just crazy talk”
“James there real”
Rick told him with a flat voice, when James heard that he wanted to go die in the hole. This left the three of them in awkward silence.
“…So no experience with either type of tree then…”
“Yes that’s correct, in fact I have never cut down a tree before. I have only cut wood before”
The woods spilled out of James with great effort on his part so he can wrap this up and go back to his bed.
“Then in that case I will put down your use of Axes, and now we are finished”
Blaize touched the metal circle on the center of the page, a light pulsed from where her light touched then like a wave spread to the edges of the paper. As the wave came back to the center so did the paper itself until it formed into the small metal rectangle. The letter ‘A’ appeared to burn in on one side with his name on the other.
“You are now officially A rank, if you wish to rank up complete assignments listed on the board over there or grow your skills. If you have any other questions you may ask me or another other person working here at the counter. As for the bill…”
“I will pay it”
Before James could respond Rick pushed over 5 sliver coins which you took and place under the desk.
“Don’t worry about it, if you feel really bad about it you can pay be back later. In fact, I know just the assignment to start you off with. Since it’s a basic one and always in demand it should be…here!”
Rick gave James the paper to look at it, it talked about collecting herbs and it paid 1 copper per herb
“We are going now?”
“Well that demands on you James, do you feel up to it?”
Am I up to it? The paper has a drawing of what these looks like but I have never done this before. Well if Rick paid for me to become an Adventure then I have to pay him back and if he’s here I won’t end up like those people I see everyday
Staying with Brother Francis Truly was a double edge sword for James: while being inside with a place he knew felt safe he also felt constantly on edge from the screams and pain around him. This had caused him to struggle to sleep but Sister Mary or another one of the sisters were there.
“Let’s go”
“Great to hear that, after about an hour of walking outside the gates we should be able to get there”
Thus the party of two made there way out