As Jake was looking around the throne room he saw that there were at least 20 people looking expectantly at him. He felt a bit intimidated with all these eyes on him.The throne room itself was built of a brownish material that looked like sandstone. From the ceiling there were hanging some kind of wisps which were emitting light. And around the walls were intricate woven carpets depicting the signs of battle against humans and monsters alike.
While Jake was still staring around a middle aged man looking around 40 years old with black hair and brownish tinted skin wearing a detailed robe which depicted a sun spoke to him. “Greetings Hero , I am high priest Benjamin. Welcome to this world you should be able to understand me from what the goddess has told me.”
Jake cleared up his throat a bit and said”Greeting Highpriest Benjamin , my name is Jake it is as you said I am from another world transported here and the goddess has indeed bestowed on me 2 gifts , but my talk with the goddess was short. I am also sorry if I am not following proper etiquette but I have a lot of questions that I would like answered.” As I bowed towards the priest and the person standing next to him wearing a golden crown , an older man looking around his 60s with the same features as the priest but greying hair.
The King burst out laughing “At ease Jake , I will not hold breaching etiquette against you. My name is King Rashid , but enough of this if u would kindly join the Priest he will answer your questions. The rest of you the summoning has succeeded, no need to keep staring at the poor boy.” As he waved his hand and made a dismissive gesture to the other people looking at him.
Jake, still feeling a bit intimidated by all the eyes, followed Benjamin to another room. Which he guessed to be a guest room by looking around with a few benches and a table in the middle on which they had put some tea and food. After Benjamin took a sip of tea he started.
“Welcome to the world of earth , we are currently in year 500. We started counting the years after the goddess sent her first divine message to our first archpriest.” He took out a map and pointed to a city.”We are currently in the capital Rameed , we have 2 neighboring kingdoms that we know of , to the left we have the Kunzang kingdom , to the right the Dawa kingdom”
As Jake looked at the map he indeed recognized the Middle East a bit , The Kungzang kingdom seemed to be around the north African coast encompassing modern day Libya and Egypt. The rami kingdom was in the middle starting a bit around the Suez canal and stretching till modern day Turkey and Iran borders. And lastly the Dawa kingdom seemed to encompass modern day Turkey and Azerbeidzjan region. And he saw that the capital would be the modern day Bierut of Lebanon.
Benjamin continued”Everything else is unexplored at this moment because of monsters and dungeons. We are neutral towards the other Kingdoms because we are all busy enough with the monsters as is.” Jake nodded because the region encompassing Saudi-Arabia , Yemen and Oman was on the map with no settlements. “We have monsters on all the unsettled places on the map and we only dare to sail close to the shore because if you go deeper into the water there are terrifying creatures. But enough of that, think of the word “status” in your head.”
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Which Jake did.
Name: Jake Smith
Race: Human
Level: 1
Class: Chosen(Solaris)
Class: None
Class: Unlocked at level 25
Class: Unlocked at level 50
Strength: 20
Dexterity: 20
Intelligence: 20
Wisdom: 20
Vitality: 20
Skills:Eidetic memory(Chosen),Universal Language(Chosen) ,Average(Human)
Spells: Minor heal(Chosen)
“Must be overwhelming for the first time , we unlock the status screen at 15 years old. Everyone has base stats of 10 and can unlock 3 classes. Strength is about how much power you can put behind your physical attacks and how much you can lift. Dexterity is about your nimbleness and speed. Intelligence about how much power you can put behind your spells. Wisdom about thinking speed and mental resistance. Vitality is about your longevity and how sturdy your body is.If u focus mentally on your skills and spells you will get a description.”
Eidetic memory(Chosen):
Allows you to remember everything since birth with perfect memory. U may choose to delete memories to keep your sanity.
Universal Language(Chosen):
No matter which race you speak to, if they have sapience they will understand you. You will also understand their language if they communicate by emitting sounds or gestures.
Average(Human):
Because your race is average in all aspects, stats , affinities. U get an extra class slot.
Minor Heal(Chosen):Heal minor wounds like scrapes , bruises and cuts. Cannot heal wounds that your body wouldn't heal by itself over time. May be used to reinvigorate yourself after feeling tired.
Class: Chosen of Solaris
U get the minor healing spell.
+10 to all stats.
Learning speed for everything is halved.
Jake was eagerly reading everything when he felt a sudden woosh. His mind was hurting because everything flashed by that had happened in his whole life. His birth , he quickly chose to forget the first 4 years of his life because the sensations were hurting him.
After he calmed down Benjamin continued. “ Classes are gained by practicing certain professions or jobs or studying certain aspects of magic. After which u can go to a Class orb to select one.”
“It has been 500 years since the system as we called it descended upon Earth so we are still in our infancy with our research on it and the classes. You are the first summoned Hero that we know of and we will do everything we can to help you prosper. "Any Questions?”
Jake guessed that he got an extra class because he was Chosen because he still had 3 class slots left. So he asked how to level and what the average level was.
“You level by performing tasks related to your classes or killing. There is no exact science to it but we have discovered that if you kill weak monsters or keep doing repetitive tasks your leveling slows down by a lot. As for the average level that is hard to describe, you can assume that most big shot adventurers and highly skilled soldiers are swerving around level 200. And most professions linger around 100. But with monsters it wildly differs. They can be anywhere from level 1 to level 1000 but we wouldn't know because the highest we have identified is level 300 which was a Kraken.”
Jake gulped imagining how terrifying such a creature would looks like.”Well I will be in your hands then , and could you escort me to such a class orb, I am wondering what I could unlock.”