CHAPTER 14: GETTING READY FOR INSTALLIA
Six months have passed since the first official event happened after the awakening incident which is now mostly called 'THE REVOLUTION' by most. In these 6 months the hunter association had been fully organized in every part of the world and the headquarters changed to the US and the leader of the world association being the president of the US who is now the former president and also being the guild master of the top guild in the world right now, the Seraphim guild and in Japan, a new guild had been made, the Luminous guild, led by Ryota Takahashi.
Additionally, the world had changed a lot; monster drops became a famous and expensive thing because the hunter job became one of the most wanted job with over 50% of the awakened wanting to become hunter and the desire for other jobs decreasing tremendously, for that, weapons were needed and using monster drops, hunters could either get ore to make a weapon or have a fully made weapon as your drop but, mostly the weapon is dulled or not that durable and would be destroyed after some attacks with it, the only way to get a fully made weapon is having very good luck or defeating a boss monster. Another things that had gotten fame was a stone that remains after monsters have died but, it wasn't a drop and it varied according to the monster's type, size, strength and whether it was a boss or just a normal monster. Scientists after studying this stone for 2 months, named it, "MANA STONE" and discovered two uses for it. The first one was for hunters, as its name implies it was a stone made out of mana and it could be absorbed by hunters to increase their skills as going up in rank had become a thing and the most notable rank ups was, Isabella Martinez's and Alex Johnson's rank up from A to S as it was clear they had stood in another level of power among A ranks based on what they had shown on the event 6 months ago and the work they have done as well.
The second use the scientists found was, mana stones as an energy fuel as they thought the mana contained in this stones can be used as how people use mana and after some trials, that proved to be the case.
This stones were divided by rank as well, from E to S and so were monsters based on what kind of mana stone they give. This stones were the main income source for hunters as even an E ranked stone could be sold from 50 USD to 100 USD and the higher the rank of the stone the pricier it gets.
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This past six months were also the time limit given for Haruto's training quest and since the quest had been given to Kaito, they both went everyday to the other world to train and not only for the daily quest. The condition for fulfilling the quest was to make Haruto's average stat 40 and Haruto passed that mark with flying colors making his average stat was 45. Kaito didn't slack of either but it was rather hard for him to level up and increase his stats after he reached level 20 and making his average stat over 50. After this 6 months the stats of Haruto and Kaito looked like,
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Haruto stats: | Kaito stats:
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Strength:53 | Level:23
Stamina:45 | Strength:75
Intelligence:40 | Stamina:69
Mana:42 | Intelligence:62
Sense:40 | Mana:59
Reflex:50 | Sense:53
| Reflex:55
Haruto didn't have a level yet because, he was still in training and hasn't been recognized by the system as a sub player, even though he had finished the requirements, the quest seemed to be running and it displayed there was still a week left as so , Kaito decided to finish the quest by relaxing and as he was thinking where to go, he remembered his first encounter with Alex and Isabella. They said something about having a guild in a kingdom of this world.
Kaito thought about going there as he was interested in meeting humans from Gorgoria as he had never met any human in Gorgoria and the only signs of civilization he saw was, the house he found in the center of the forest he first spawned in and the city that later became the dungeon where he met Drakonos in. After a lot of thinking, he decided to go to the Kingdom Alex told him about. He tried to remember it's name and he remembered it was Installia.
Kaito called Haruto and told him to get ready to be in the other world for a week. Haruto agreed and said that he will come tomorrow morning.
[THE NEXT DAY]
Kaito and Nakamura met at Kaito's house and Kaito explained to Haruto about why they would be going to the other world for a week, "This isn't particularly for your training after all you have finished your training so, consider it as a reward for both of us. We will be going to a kingdom in Gorgoria my friend told me about and we will spend the week there."
"Oh it seems like it would be nice." replied Haruto smiling as he now considers Kaito as his friend. He continued, "So where is this kingdom"
There was silence for some time and Kaito said, "Oh, I don't know, he just told me to go there but he didn't actually tell me the location", Kaito was mad he didn't ask the location but he continued, "Ah well, we will just have to find it ourselves and if I remember correctly, I think they went to the east"
"Oh well, exploring doesn't seem too bad and we can just return here if we don't find it"
"Well ok then, lets go and find it" saying that, they both murmured,
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3 days have passed since Kaito and Haruto came to Gorgoria to look for Installia and at last they saw the first sign of civilization and when they arrived at the entrance, they saw a writing they didn't recognize but some moments later, the writing changed into Japanese by the systems effect and the writing said, WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF INSTALLIA. This assured them that they had arrived at Installia.
CHAPTER END