Where am I?
I thought to myself as I looked up to a blue sky while lying on the floor. After getting up and dusting myself off I looked around and noticed I was in a huge crater about 10m deep and 30m in radius. At the edge of the crater were strangely huge trees with leaves as big as humans, branches thicker than cars and trunks as big as a house. After climbing out of the crater I saw that actually all the vegetation here was really strange, like flowers with rainbow colors and pink grass that reached up to ones knees. A perfectly normal magical forest as far as I can tell. There were animals I've never seen before too like a huge cow with wings and 3 tails made out of fire fleeing from a bunny twice as tall as the cow with fangs like a saber-tooth and a crazed expression as if it wanted to rip everything in its way to shreds. Hm!? The bunny stopped chasing and they‘re both looking over here with blank expressions!? That‘s actually really bad, isn‘t it!? Oh shit, they‘re both starting to shiver like crazy! Are they going to attack!? Should I start running!?
...WHAT THE FUCK!? They‘re running away! I don‘t even look that scary though! Is something else behind me!? Or maybe above!? No, there‘s no one else but me here, so did they really run away from me?
Ah, screw it. I should concentrate on finding out where I am right now. I don‘t even know how I got here after all but judging from those ... things that happened just now I either got transported to another world or I‘m going crazy.
I really hope it‘s not the latter so I‘ll just go with the usual getting transferred to another world setting. I didn‘t really have much of an attachment to earth anyway.
BUT! Before I check if I really am in another world I should make sure I don‘t die. I mean, if I encounter one of those bunnies and it doesn‘t run away I‘m so totally dead. It‘s time to test out the stealth abilities I (not really) honed in my previous life!
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Well, it‘s been an hour or so since I tried getting out of this forest now and I haven‘t seen another one of those monsters or whatever the heck they are. The trees are gradually getting smaller the further I go and the other greenerie is getting more... normal I guess? The flowers don‘t look like the fart of a unicorn anymore and the grass only goes up to ones ankles. It‘s still pink though.
Anyway, I get the feeling I‘ll soon be out of this forest and I hope that wherever I go doesn‘t have any of those ridiculous animals. It would also be nice to find a town or something. I don‘t want to starve to death after all and I‘m not going to try eating anything that grows in this forest.
After walking for some more minutes I got to the edge of the forest and there laid a barren landscape filled with nothing but dried up light brown earth. Even though this forest I just came out of was filled to the brim with liveliness. Maybe that damned forest sucked out all of the vitality from its surroundings. There‘s nothing here as far as the eye can see. Oh wait, I can actually see something in the distance, like, really far away. Looks like a town or something like that. I guess that‘s my next destination because I‘m totally not going to stay in this forest, no thanks.
While walking to the town I noticed that there were actually bushes and some specks of grass all over the place. Or dried up brown ones at least. They blend in perfectly with their surroundings. Anyway, I can properly see the stone walls of that town now and they‘re huge, at least 20m high. No gates in sight though, guess I‘ll just circle around for now. It wouldn‘t be funny if they expect people to fly over the walls with magic or something.
After searching for a couple of minutes I finally found some guards stationed before a huge gate, checking the line of people who want inside. One of them is checking someone‘s cart and the other two are watching the gate so that no one passes without being checked. They‘re wearing full body metal armors without a helmet and all of them have a halberd in one hand. Walking closer I could see that the guards were actually demons! They‘re not wearing helmets so I can see that one of them has two horns, one on each side of his head, and the other two only one on their foreheads. After lining up I could see that all the people here are non-humans. Some of them even had animal ears and tails! After waiting for half an hour it was finally my turn.
„Halt!“ (Demon #1)
Demon #1, who is one of the demons with 1 horn by the way, said. Now that I can get a closer look, he doesn‘t look that much different from a human. He‘s huge and is about three feet taller than me and has a horn and vertically slit eyes. Whatever, I do as I was told and stop in front of the demon.
„State your reason for coming to this town!“ (Demon #1)
„I‘m just visiting an old acquaintance.“ (Me)
I lied straight through my teeth and now the guard is staring me up and down. I‘m already starting to feel really uncomfortable. I knew I‘m just no good with strangers.
„Alright you can go through, just stay out of trouble.“ (Demon #1)
Just like that? No fee to get into town or something like that? Nobody wants to check if I have any hidden weapons? And now that I think about it, wouldn‘t a human be killed on sight? Is there peace between the humans and demons or maybe humans don‘t even exist? That‘d be nice, but I doubt that to be the case. Well, no use thinking about it I guess.
„Yes I will, thank you.“ (Me)
Walking through the gates I could see that this town isn‘t as bad as i thought it would be. Quite thriving, even. Lots of huge people with leather armor and weapons. I mean, if you walk through a wasteland and find a city there you wouldn‘t really expect much, right? I wonder if this is because of magic.
But now that I‘m here, what am I supposed to do? I don‘t have any money or anything that‘s valuable after all so finding some work should be my first priority. Maybe there‘s an adventurer‘s guild where I can take some requests. I always wanted to try being an adventurer anyway.
Searching around town for something that looked like an adventurer‘s guild I finally found a building that has a sign with two crossed swords on the wall. Below it are some symbols which are probably the language here but I can‘t read it. The building is completely made out of stone and is at least 40m wide. People with armor and weapons are going in and out of the two story sized building, so I think it‘s the right place.
Quietly slipping through the huge double doors I saw that the building was seperated into two areas. At the right one there‘s a bar with more than two dozen customers sitting there, drinking something that looks like beer and making a lot of noise. Probably the usual here and at any other adventurer‘s guild. At the left one there‘s a reception desk with quite the beautiful reception lady and one other person talking to her. There‘s also a board with a countless number of what I think are requests next to the reception desk. If I had to take a guess I‘d bet the people call it the request board or something like that. Anyway, by the look of things this is definitely the adventurer‘s guild.
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While trying not to get noticed I walk up to the reception desk and hide behind the hulking giant of a man while waiting for them to finish. After fifteen minutes they‘re still not finished talking about how good their lunch was so I lightly tap him on the back while trying to talk to him.
„Ehm, sir?“ (Me)
Suddenly the giant‘s whole body jerked up out of surprise. He quickly turned around while I was thinking of what to say and suddenly hit me in the face with all of his strength. I got sent flying across the whole building before crashing into the wall and stirring up a cloud of dust. Cracks spread across the wall and a small crater formed at the point of impact. The whole guild was silent and stared at where I landed. Suddenly the reception lady shouted at the man she was talking with.
„What the heck was that for, Ethan!?“ (Receptionist)
Fucking shit, that hur- Hmm? It actually doesn‘t hurt?
„I-I did it out of reflex! I couldn‘t feel anyone approaching so I just-“ (Ethan)
At least I can still stand and I think my nose isn‘t broken either.
„So you just punched someone in the face and send them flying!? Someone get a hea-“ (Receptionist)
„Don‘t worry, I‘m alright!“ (Me)
I said out loud while walking back towards the reception desk. After she saw me the receptionist got out from behind the counter and worriedly ran over.
„Are you really alright, little girl!?“ (Receptionist)
„...Yes, I really am.“ (Me)
Wait, what did she just call me?
„Thank god, we don‘t want someone dying just because this idiot over there can‘t hold back his reflexes.“ (Receptionist)
Did she just really call me a little girl? I guess there‘s only one way to find out.
„But you‘re quite impressive for not getting hurt by that punch, you know? That Idiot at least remembered to hold back before sending you flying.“ (Receptionist)
„Uhm, do you have a mirror?“ (Me)
„Oh don‘t worry, your cute little face is alright, but if you want to see for yourself, there‘s a mirror right over there.“ (Receptionist)
Looking into the mirror I saw a girl with long blonde hair, a cute face, two dragon horns, a dragon tail, eyes with deep blue slit irises and little dragon ears staring back at me. She‘s got petite breasts and is dressed in brown boots, grey pants and a simple dark green mantle worn over a brown leather vest. I touched my face with my left hand, the girl in the mirror did the same. I touched my face with my right hand, the girl in the mirror did the same again... I TRANSFORMED INTO A GIRL!
"But what is a cute little girl like you doing here at the adventurer's guild?" (Receptionist)
Adventurer's guild? Ah, that's right! I wanted to get some money! I don't have time for being shocked!
"I wanted to become an adventurer." (Me)
"A cute girl like you? It'd be such a waste for you to work as an adventurer." (Receptionist)
"But it's always been a dream of mine to be one and I finally have the chance!" (Me)
Or more like since I read my first web novel.
"sigh~ Well, if you insist so much I guess I can't say no to such an adorable girl." (Receptionist)
After walking back to the counter and giving Ethan one last cold look she took out some sheets of ... whatever the heck that is, at least not paper, and a crystal ball from a drawer and placed them on top of the counter. Below the crystal ball she placed a blank card.
"Please touch this crystal to record your status. After you're done please fill these out to get your own adventurer's certificate. Also, it may be a bit late now but my name is Clara, what‘s yours?" (Clara)
Oh shit, I don't have a name! Let's see, what would be good? Oh, I know!
"My name is Celina." (Celina)
"Alright, Celina." (Clara)
Clara started fiddling with the crystal for some time and after she was done she told me to touch the crystal.
Putting my hand on the crystal the card began shining brightly before words started appearing on it. Somehow I can read the words on the card but no others. After it was done I took my hands off the crystal and the receptionist took the card to examine it. After seeing that nothing was wrong she handed it over to me.
"Here's your status card. The way it works is to say the word ´stats` and it'll show you your stats. If you say ´stats all` everyone around you can see them. Only the owner, in other words you, can use it by the way." (Clara)
Now this is interesting. On the card are written only my name, age and my adventurer rank, which is E and probably the lowest rank. There‘s also a picture of me on the card, however that was made. Magic I guess. Either way, I guess I'll just try the card out for now.
"Stats." (Celina)
STATUS Name: Celina Age: 16 Level: 100.000/100.000 Race: Calamity Dragon HP: 6.207.000 MP: 2.705.000 END: 560.000 STR: 607.000 INT: 541.000 DEX: 679.000 Active Skills Passive Skills
Holy shit these are some high stats! Probably. I don‘t really know but I‘m really curious if this is high. And now to my race... what the heck is a calamity dragon!? Well, I don‘t want to ask so I‘ll just find out while staying in this world.
„Now that that‘s out of the way you only need to fill out these documents and you‘ll be an official member of the guild.“ (Clara)
Clara hands me the documents but I don‘t even know how to read or write this language. I guess I‘ll ask if she could fill it out for me but damn this will be embarrassing.
"Uhm, I can't read or write. Could you please fill it out for me?" (Me)
"Aww, of course my dear. It‘s not that rare that people here don‘t know how to read and write at first you know?" (Clara)
After about 15 minutes of telling her what she needed to write down we finally finished and I was officially part of the guild.
„So, now that you‘re part of the guild, do you want me to search for an easy quest for you or do you still need some time?“ (Clara)
I really need some money so I can just as well take one right away I guess.
„I‘d like to take a quest right away, please.“ (Celina)
Clara walks over to the request board and starts looking for an easy quest. After finding a specific quest and coming back to me she hands me the sheet of paper with some words I can‘t read written on there and a picture of a strange plant.
„For your first quest I‘d recommend this one. It‘s a quest about gathering the plant shown here, which is an ingredient for quite a lot of potions and is also used as an ingredient in cooking. Its name is mendal and it‘s in a forest that‘s about a day‘s walk from here. Although it‘s quite far away it‘s a safe quest most beginners start off with.“ (Clara)
Hmm. If I were to go there now and find what I need in 3 hours I‘ll be back in a bit more than 2 days. Can I get by for that long without food or water? Well, it‘s not like I really have a choice, now do I?
„I‘ll take this one, then. Where is this forest?“ (Celina)
„If you walk out the city gates and go left you‘ll arrive at the forest in about a day.“ (Clara)
„Okay, thank you. See you again.“ (Celina)
„Goodbye and take care.“ (Clara)
I wave Clara goodbye and head out of the guild. It‘s time to start my first adventure!