“My name is Boaz Adaliah, I am the captain of the guarding wall. After today you do not need to remember that because I am not going to be that for you. I will be your swords instructor.”Said the bulky man in the knights’ yard.

“Sir, before we start our training can we please look around the castle to get ourselves adjusted to the place? I mean do you want us to work in a place we aren’t comfortable with?”

The captain had a look of understanding as to what they said while the others looked in surprise at the one who spoke out, Blaike.The others had that look do to Blaike not speaking out so much that when he did speak his classmates would make comments like “oooh, so the mute can speak.” or “If he could speak his own mind why didn’t he do that earlier.”

After a moment the captain told some passing knight’s to show the heroes around the castle even if it takes all day to get them more accustomed to it. The tour began with the yard going through the entire castle from the stables to the royal rooms ending after noon and missing the person who requested the tour itself.

Blaike, who was lost, was currently in a short secret tunnel out of the castle when he saw a beautiful lady in leather padded armor coming his way. “Uhm, Miss I don’t know where I am can you help me?”

The girl didn’t realize that he was in the dark tunnel until he spoke shocking her. “Sure, but can you tell me your name first.”

“My name is Blaike. Who are you?”

“ you don’t need to know, just follow me.” She said as she started to head back the way she came. Blaike followed her out of the castle trying to make small talk like “I was getting a tour in the castle only to fall through a wall ending up here.” only to be locked out of a wall again.

“Sheesh who was she, and why was she so mean.” he said as he slowly walked through the capital around the castle.

As he wandered he ended up at a slave market in the slums. “Prove how strong you are to get a discount on a slave!” spoke one vender as Blaike walked by with his slime in his arms. Blaike only glanced at the slaves feeling sorry for the poor circumstances they have he asked “how great of a discount I can get by doing your challenge” since he didn’t have any money.

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“You get a discount as great as the challenge you select, but if you fail you have to pay to keep from being a slave. How ‘bout it?”

“What is the 100% discount challenge?” As he said it the vender smiled like he hooked in a large fish.

“Oh, it’s quite simple you just have your little pet there fight against 10 of my own ones by itself one after another.” pointing at the slime in Blaike’s arms.

Uncertain Blaike asked if he could interfere with the fights.

“No you can’t interfere when the challenge is happening, but I will give you a slight chance by letting you do one thing with your pet between rounds.(not that it will help much.)”

“Okay I’ll agree, but please give me time to prepare like a few days.”

“Fine.” the vendor said as he shooed Blaike away from the slaves.

Blaike left back to the castle after the sun started to set since he thought it would be best if he stayed the night there. When he was noticed by the group of heroes they yelled and scolded him for disappearing and causing them to have an even worse first day of training than they expected.

The next day the group trained in swordsmanship until they got interrupted one of the sages saying something about training the group in magic. The group got lead to one of the towers by the sage, but again Blaike left the group by going in the secret tunnel.

Blaike exited the castle without his slime and towards the crafting section of town where the merchants, blacksmiths, and carpenters were. He to a blacksmith’s shop to view the different items and gear they had as he heard the shop owner yelling “get out of my shop we don’t need someone as weak as you as an apprentice!”

Blaike hearing this tried to stick up for the boy being yelled up. “Sir, do you need to yell at him I think that he might at least be able to bring materials or sell your products for you”

“Oh, you hear this boys the weak are standing up for the weak please be my guest and show me how well you two weaklings can do helping us!!”

“Wait I didn’t want to get involved in working. I just wanted to help him.”

“Well if you want to help him work for us for at least one day, if you don’t you won’t be helping him at all.”

Blaike ended up working in the shop for the whole day with the blacksmiths and their apprentices, while his pets had their own fine time.

Blaike’s slime was playing with the hero’s pets in the knight’s field and not dieing with the games the hydra did of using it as a chewing toy or the raiju playing with it as a ball. The games the pets played with it would all kill weak creature showing how durable it was. Meaning the slime could take more hits than anything else at it normal strength.

Blaike’s other pet the Sprite followed the hero’s to the magician’s tower in order to conduct magic in a wa similar to the humans and compare it to the way natural to it. Magic to creature’s of this world, is not something cast with words, but something cast with imagery and heart. Spells cast by sentient being that use word are often weaker than the true spell even though it is the more common method.