* thoughts*
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Chapter 14: Quest
When he entered the library Neuron saw the clerk peacefully sleeping on his desk.
*This is gonna be fun*
So he approached the secretary while sneaking, and when he was near enough he smashed the book on the table, producing satisfying bang.
The secretary rose up, looking confused, but when he noticed Neuron and the book laying on the desk, he just pulled out a book, looked inside it and
*Damn, I hoped for a more vivid reaction*
Then said: “You owe the library two gold”
“What!”
“This book is long overdue”
“Hey, I didn`t borrow it, look at the name, the name!”
“You returned it, so you have to pay”
“That isn`t fair, I just found it on some shelf, noticed, that it was the property of the library, and decided to give it back!”
“No, the policy of this library states, that the one who brings a overdue book back, has to pay”
And with that a loud quarrel began, attracting an old man that looked like the stereotype of every librarian, pale, skinny and of course old.
“What’s the ruckus about; some people are trying to read!”
*Hoi your even louder than us*
“Head librarian, this man refuses to pay the fee”
“Eh, don`t go spouting bullshit, I`m just refusing, because I only brought it back, you should go and get the fee from the person who borrowed it”
“Don`t start anew, you” he points towards Neuron: “pay the fee” at this the receptionist looked satisfied, “But only if you are sure, that you can get the money back”
“That shouldn`t be a problem, but you have to rethink your policy”
“Well, this won`t be possible”
“Why”
“Well before I begin, please tell me why you’re here, so I can tell you everything, while procuring the books you are searching for.”
“Fine with me. Well I`m here to find books about bows and maybe powerful archers, and if possible construction manuals for bows.”
“Well, we have those books, but no descriptions, on how a craft can be learned, now please follow me, but before, I need to go somewhere, I´ll be back in a couple of minutes” and with this he hurried up the stairs, which were located behind the desk.
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After he came back: “Good, now please follow me” and while saying that he opened the door leading to the library, but it wasn`t a big one it just had 10 rows with 5 shelves each.
“I see your disappointment, I know, that this library isn`t big, so, if you want to further your studies, I’d recommend you visit a big city. But for beginners we have all we need, so where was i?”
*Is that guy senile?*
“You wanted to tell me why it didn`t work to charge the ones who actually borrowed those books”
“Ah yeah, you see, we are terrible understaffed, so we can`t gather every book that’s overdue…”
“Before you continue, I won`t do it”
At this the old man looked rather sad, but soon caught himself and asked: “so, I assume you are an adventurer, so would you please tell me about your adventures?”
“Well sadly I wasn`t outside this town yet, but I plan to be”
So they continued their conversation, while the old guy browsed through the shelves picking out books and placing them in Neurons arms.
“Good, so these are all the books we have on the theme you requested”
While Neuron looked down on the small pile the librarian said:” I know, it aren`t many, but as I said before, you can always go to a larger city and continue your studying, that said, there are some rooms, where you won`t be disturbed by worldly noise.”
*Worldly noise, he doesn’t get out much, heh?*
Neuron may think like that, but he knows, how much disturbance a little noise can do while reading, especially if the book is boring, and he had a hunch, that those he carried where exactly like that.
“Thanks, for the offer”
In the room, was only place for a desk and a chair, that were fixed to each other, like he had seen in movies about old schools. After getting a good look on the interior, although three wasn`t much to look at, he sat down and placed all five books he received on the side of the desk.
But before reading, he remembered something he had to do, and so he whispered Kyle
“Hey Kyle”
“Yup, tell me”
“Can you make me something with your blacksmithing skill?”
“Sure, what do you want”
“Well some throwing knives and shuriken if possible”
After pondering for a while Kyle answered “Yes, tell me how many you need”
“Hmm. About a dozen throwing knives and as many shuriken as you are willing to make”
“So many, what are you going to do with them”
“Well, that you will see soon enough, ah, and before I forget, please make me also Two throwing axes, of course I`ll compensate you”
“Good to hear that, then I’ll work for now, later”
“Yeah, sanks, later”
And after that being done Neuron could fully concentrate on the books before him.
The first book was a waste, it had only a small chapter about bows, and inside this chapter, the autor was only badmouthing bows, how they are inferior to swords and so on.
The second was like this too, only that it was about a hero who started out with a bow, but changed his weapon to swords.
*Oh great, lectures about why bows are bad, I reaaally appreciate it*
But the third book which looked really old finally revealed something.
* In the warring period, there was one army that mainly used bows.
No one knows where the soldiers from those army came from, or where their nation is located anymore, but most leads point to the east behind the Mountain range of WILM?R, they were laughed down, because the art of shooting bows was frowned upon, and close combat classes where the manifestation off manliness.
But as soon as those soldiers joined in the war, the opinion changed completely, that was because their bows where vastly superior than any the other nations had.
Because those bows were terrible accurate and their arrows deadly, even killing a man from a distance off 200m and more, and not to mention their flight, it easily crossed 1km distance. More, than the most powerful spells of our wizards. Also their fighting power was on par or even superior than those of the other nations
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But as suddenly as they joined in the war, they were defeated. Their superior bows and fighting tactics where their doom.
Many Kingdoms acknowledged them as threats and thus cooperated to wipe them out completely, even their Kingdom.
Sadly succeeding, and thus forever blocking us from learning how to make those bows.
Today, no lead whatsoever can be found about them anymore.
*Damn*
* Quest: Gaining past Knowledge about Bows
Uncover, how such powerful bows can be made again.
Difficulty: B
Quest Rewards:
Unknown
Restriction:
Must have the Bow mastery skill
Must not have the Blacksmithing skill
Friends can be added even if they don’t fit the restrictions,
but their rewards will be different than yours.
Friends added: 0
*Hmmmm, difficulty B, hmmm seems awfully difficult, well whatever*
“I accept!”
* You have accepted the quest.
“Kyle!”
“Ouch!, damn don`t distract me while working, you know, I`m doing this for you!”
“What happened?”
“I hit my finger with the hammer, those shurikens are hard to make, they are so small!” Kyle complained
“Poor you”
“Ah!”
“What?”
“I gained +1 in endurance”
“Good for you and now listen, I have a proposal for you”
“What” asked Kyle warily
“Just look, Send Kyle Quest Information”
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“What the heck is that, a level B Quest!, how did you get it”
“While reading books”
“Ah, ok, so what are you going to do?”
“I already accepted, and now I`m asking you if you want to participate”
“Oh, well, this quest seems to be made for you, so…”
“Ok, ok I get it, just think it through”
“Sorry”
“NP”
*well, good that he thinks about it, I thought he wouldn`t even do that and just decline*
Now Neuron that Neuron has found a lead, he went outside, to bring the read books back, he didn`t even bother to read the other two books, because they seemed the same as the first two.
But to be safe, he made a quick glance inside, found his worry confirmed, and thus closed them.
When he arrived at the reception, the guy was, again, sleeping.
*Oh come on sleeping again?*
But nonetheless he activated Stealth, and repeated the action of waking him up, only to get the same result. He rose up slowly, looked around, and after seeing Neuron and the books in his arms asked:
“Do you want to borrow them”
*How disappointing, he must have gotten used to be woken up like this a long time ago*
“No, I finished reading them, and because I don`t know where to put them, I decided to give them to you, Ah, and while where at it, do you have any Geographical books, preferably ancient.”
“How ancient, about the time off the warring period”
After hearing this, the receptionists mouth dropped and he said, “Are you crazy, we don’t have anything this ancient, each and everything about that time has been lost in the waves of that big war.”
“And how do you explain this?” and while saying this he pulled the book, from which he got his quest and opened it at the page he had gotten his quest from”
“Wait, how was that even in the library, this is from the restricted area, tell me how you got that!”
“I didn`t steel it, if you mean that!”
And with that another loud squabble came into existence, again drawing the head librarian near, like a moth to a flame.
“What is going on now?”
“This guy has a very precious book with him, and this should belong in the restricted section, I don`t know how he went up there, but he has it with him, so I assumed he has stolen it!”
“Witch book”
“This” And while saying that he handed the book from which Neuron gained his quest to the old Librarian.
“Ah, this!”
“What do you mean by Ah, this, tell him already that you personally gave it to me!” shouted Neuron, because he wanted that matter cleared rather sooner than later.
“Yes, I gave it to him, I assume you have read it?”
“Yeah, and now, I have some questions”
“Tell me” The old man said, while completely ignoring the receptionist who made an unbelieving face
*You yourself said, that this book is a treasure, and you handed it to someone you don`t even know?*
But the conversation went on. “Could you give me maps from the so called Warring period?”
At this the receptionist “You!, do you even know what the warring period is?! All informations from that time are lost, the head librarian only found this small book. And even that little information is worth more, than you will ever have!”
“?”
After noticing Neurons disbelieving face, the old man added:” yeah, its true, but I believed that this info would benefit you much more, than it would us librarians, so back to your question. Sorry, but I can`t give you any more information, but ask, what did you hope to find on those maps”
*I can`t believe it, he just shrugged it off, if what the sleepyhead said is really true I stumbled upon one hell of a quest*
~Hrrrm~ Neuron cleared his throat:” A mountain range called WILM?R”
“that’s it?”
“Do you mean you`ve heard of it?!”
“Yeah, actually it is the mountain range behind this city, but now it’s called Willamar”
“?”
“Right, if you just look at the names and how those change in the course of history…..”
But Neuron didn`t listen to the explanation attentively, as he was lost in thoughts, only after The Old man finished he regained his sense and dashed out of the library, not before thanking him of course.
*This was really worth it, I gained one hell of a quest and even +1 in Intelligence and Wisdom*
End Chapter 14