บท 16: Chapter 16 - Humans?
Kyle woke up right before sunrise. This was the day that he would go further away from the forest and look for other intelligent beings that he would be able to communicate with.
Kyle had to find out a couple of things:
What is this word and who lives here?
What is considered a norm of the way to getting stronger?
Any insights in the ways he can boost his strength faster?
Kyle also wanted to understand that if survival can be dealt with just a little bit more of strength, what would other peoples end goal be? Defying heavens and getting immortality? Or is there some other thing that everyone in this world strives towards?
Kyle knew that he only wanted to get to the top of the world. Just like with any other MMORPG, he wanted to become the max level character with the best gear and become the final boss that everyone wanted to defeat. Kyle wanted strength, power and fame. Everything a young lad like Kyle would want.
As Kyle set out for the settlement, he marked the cave where he camped with a Red Cross on the entrance. He made the red colour out of the fruits that were growing close to it in the hope that rain won't wash it away.
Kyle wasn't sure which direction to choose, but it had to be further away from the forest. He hasn't met anything close to being intelligent there. So his path was north through the grasslands that he started to explore right after the huge battle.
Kyle moved like this for at least 7 days, constantly targeting only north. He was travelling at speed much faster than before as he could run without being tired due to the energy within and his running speed was much faster than before as well.
'I guess Catter didn't lie when she said something about this world constantly expanding. I am still on the same grass plane after travelling for so long.' Kyle was still travelling straight north as he didn't want to forget where the forest was. He had much to explore and absorb in there. Every night and morning right before Kyle started to move, he would do the practice for at least 2 hours, which slowed him down but also made sure to have some progress. Also, while Running Kyle practised the breathing technique to collect free qi into his dantian.
After 8 days of running, Kyle was standing on the peak of the huge mountain, at least a thousand metres above the ground, he climbed it to see if anything surrounding him suggested civilisation. Right now, you could see a huge smile appear on Kyle's face. He finally found a settlement.
From such a huge view, it was difficult to tell if it was still occupied, but it had wooden spikes that were also like walls and there also were many wooden building with dark red roofs. Kyle moved to the settlement.
After getting quite close, Kyle's observations got confirmed. It was a small and very uncivilised village. 'There shouldn't be any more than 200 population in here. I only care that I am not alone for now.' Kyle rushed to the gate.
There wasn't anyone at the gate, but at the wall, there was an old man that was dressed like a guard. He greeted Kyle, "Hello, and who are you? What are you doing in such a deep wilderness forest?"
Kyle at first didn't see where the voice was coming from as the wall were very tall, and the guard himself was not a typical human that he expected to see in such a typical village. He was around 1 and a half metres tall and had an unnatural intense brown colour to his skin, his proportion were in the norm that indicated that he was still a human, but nothing that Kyle saw on earth.
Also what surprised him that he didn't understand at first what the guard was saying, then a prompt from the system appeared.
[ Teaching the common languages of Game world ]
[ Rivendale Language learned ]
As the words were spoken, the guard casually asked the same question again, but now he understood what he was saying.
"I was adventuring in the nearby forests and stumbled upon this village. Is this a human village? Are there any more villages around this area?" As Kyle was about to ask more questions, guard smirked and said angrily, "I am not here to be your guide, go to the tavern, there are more of adventurers such as yourself there. You can also pay in the tavern to get information."
Kyle was really annoyed by this attitude, he didn't want to go inside the walls where an enemy of the human race could trap him, but it seemed he had no choice. Kyle walked inside the village and straight away could smell piss and other weird smells. Considering that Kyle always lived in a clean city, and he has spent all the last weeks before travelling in the forest, this smell was too strong for Kyle to tolerate. Kyle saw that there was a building up ahead from the gate that had a wooden sign with beer mug on it, he guessed it was a tavern. The building itself was not too big, but when he stepped in, he saw that there were many people and nearly all of the tables occupied.
The first thing that Kyle noticed was that these people were not only human. To tell the truth, he couldn't see a single human that resembled him. There were the same humans as the guard outside that were shorter and had darker skin. Also, he could straight away spot gnomes with heavy hammers, dwarfs that wore steel armour and a couple of elves that were all dressed differently and were only males. There was also a female elf, but she was wearing a cape that covered her face and body with only pointy ears showing through the cape. Nearly all of the people here had some type of weapon on them and also were wearing the full set of armour.
As Kyle entered, no-one noticed his presence and so he carried on walking towards the bartender that was a woman that was pouring another pint of beer or ale for someone. As she saw Kyle, she smiled and said, "What brings you into our little village? Are you an adventure with the White Wolf guild of Zrefton as well?"
Kyle greeted her back and replied, "No, I have recently only started my adventure and not really certain of where am I. I would like to buy information and maps of this place. The guard told me to speak to someone inside the tavern."
"Oh well how kind of him!" The bartender said, "Of course, I will answer all of the questions you have for one silver coin, or you can pay 300 copper coins for a single question." This seemed to be a transaction that she did often.
"In reality, I don't have any money on me right now," As Kyle said that the face of the bartender changed straight away and the smile disappeared, "But I have many items that I want to sell. I first need to appraise them. Where can I do that in this village?" Kyle had the items from the beasts but no normal gold that could be used to trade.
"Oh, you were lucky in the wilderness, weren't you? Don't go spouting about anything that you have for sale. You might lose your little life." Bartended looked at the figures that were talking passionately and drinking behind Kyle. "As you might see, we have a tiny village. There are no representatives from the merchant guild, so you will have to sell most of your things in the city. But if you have beast cores and spirit stones I can give you an 80% discounted price for them here." The grin on her face grew even wider. She didn't pause for a second and has poured at least 10 cups of ale while talking to Kyle.
Kyle had no other choice than to accept this scam; he could trade some small part of his stock of items here and save the most for later. He only needed money right now to get information, get a belly full of food and get a nights rest in a warm bed. "Okay, I am willing to trade some of the things for this rip off price. Can you show me an example of beast core and spirit stones so I can see the quality of stuff you want to buy?" Kyle didn't know how to explain this, but he had to hope that the bartender wasn't smart enough to question what he wanted to see. Kyle had no idea what she meant with those names.
Bartender without a second thought brought up a crate from a room that was just right behind her. There were neatly lying on a piece of leather a different sizes and shapes of the purple crystals, exactly the same as what he has been collecting. "This is the best quality monster cores that I have for sale, the cheapest one here is around 10 silver and the most expensive," she pointed at the red crystal, "This one I can sell for 100 gold to you. You probably know that you will get immense benefits if you consume a core. You can boost your energy considerably." She knew that Kyle couldn't buy anything but still named the prices to underrate the quality of beast cores that Kyle had. This was an excellent strategy to bargain.
Kyle, without understanding what was going on, brought out from inside his clothes as to not alarm the bartender of the storage device 10 purple crystals the size of a grape, "Okay, how much for those?"
1000 copper = 1 silver coin
1000 silver coins = 1 gold coin
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Simvolick It is very hard to describe different types of humans and have humanoid races descriptions in this world. There are different types of races of humans, but they are not too different. That is why it is still possible for them to have children.
บท 17: Chapter 17 - Rich
Bartender, as soon as she saw the crystals, became incredibly pale. She was showing Kyle the best beast cores she ever saw, and they were all smaller than the smallest that Kyle has taken out.
If Kyle's cores were the size of the grape, then her cores were the size of a pea, they were on a completely different level in quality. Kyle didn't know that and brought up the random cores that he found in his storage pile. It was stocked to the top, and so the first thing that was on the outer permitter he grabbed were this 10 cores.
She looked at the cores and then at the Kyle and back again, and she couldn't speak for at least a good minute. After a prompt from Kyle, she regained her composure and said, "I will buy all of these crystals for 1 gold, and I will also, for free, tell you all the information that you want. If you don't like this deal, then get out of my tavern!" The bartender was thinking about something in her head and was contemplating if Kyle will sell her this amazing cores for such a low price.
"Okay, that sounds fair, I guess." Kyle nodded his head and accepted the deal.
The bartender wanted to cry, and after giving him 5 gold coins, she said, "It is very rare to have gold coins, and they are worth at least 1100 silver coins. The rest I will give you in silver. She counted the rest of the money, even taking some from under the counter where she stored the money that customers paid for the ale. After the money were given to Kyle, she greedily took the beast cores from Kyle's hands and put them into the separate box and into the room behind her. "Thanks for this deal, maybe with this I can finally break through to the next level and move to the city!" She seemed genially happy.
"No problem. Now about the questions?" Kyle needed to understand things before he could move forward.
The bartender, as if still ecstatic from the transaction, couldn't get her head in order, "Oh well, of course! My name is Marta, and I have been an owner of this tavern for over 30 years! What exactly would you like to know…" Marta wanted to get the name of such a stupid adventurer that agreed to such transaction with beast cores.
"Kyle. Just Kyle." He didn't want to give away the surname Lin that was given to him by his teacher. He had no idea if it meant anything in this world. "My main questions are, is this a human village and human territory? Are there any more villages around this area? What kingdom is this and why I can see dwarfs and even elves here?"
Marta looked at him with wide eyes, "Well, that is too simple of questions. I thought you wanted to know more about the wilderness, well, alright. You are right now in a small village that we locals call the Last Village as it is on the most outer perimeter of Kingdom of Rivendale. The Kingdom itself is not specific to a certain race, and any race can live peacefully in it. Our kingdom is one of the ones that got established very recently after the Splinter wars. Also, due to the sudden increase in power of the beasts all around the world, we have got only one trade path with other kingdoms left. You must know what is the most interesting fact about the Rivendale Kingdom, right?" The bartender stared at him, awaiting a positive answer.
"No. I have come from another kingdom and arrived through the wilderness, and in the process lost a sense of direction. This is my first time hearing about your Kingdom of Rivendale." Kyle made up this lie a while ago.
Marta looked at him as if he was a demon, "With your strength? Travelled through the wilderness? Impossible…" But she didn't want to ruin her good relationship with this idiot, so she decided to take it as Kyle said, "Well then you are in for a surprise. The Kingdom of Rivendale has been created by a coalition of 10 other Kingdoms to explore the forests of north-east. It is one of the most mysterious areas of the continent. The world of Game has constantly been expanding, and beasts have been reproducing and filling all of the new areas. The Kingdoms and civilisations have all been born in the middle of the world in the centre of continent Unica, that is where we are right now." Marta kept on pouring more ales, and there were already nearly 20 mugs ready standing on the bar.
Marta continued, "As you can image not many people would be willing to explore this area and so around 300 years ago after the first 5 waves of settlers got killed by the beasts, all 10 of the kingdoms made a decree. Any criminal, any deserter or those that were sentenced to death, or a slave can choose to become a citizen of Rivendale and become a free citizen that had to live in the kingdom forever." Kyle was stupefied at this explanation.
'A nation of criminals and killers? That is a very dangerous place.' Kyle understood that he had to be as careful as possible in here in order to survive; he couldn't bring any unwanted attention to him.
Marta saw that Kyle was getting nervous, "Don't you worry that much about it! Even though the immigration of bloodthirsty criminals is immense even to this day, most of the folks here are the slaves that wanted to be free." Marta smiled and said carefully, "It is still very dangerous, but you can still find good people here. So, don't be surprised when you see so many different races in here. It is either that they escaped living peacefully without a constant discrimination here, or it is that they joined the adventurers guild."
That was the first time Kyle heard about Adventurers guild, "And what exactly is adventurers guild? Why would people want to join it?"
"First off, you get a benefit of being able to do quests that get submitted all around the world to the guild. Those are the tasks that pay for the resolution of some problem or gathering of some rare materials. Only those with an emblem of the guild can do them. Also, you can freely travel nearly anywhere where the guild has been established without being penalised for what race or what character you are." Marta enviously looked at the bunch of people behind Kyle, "We have been getting more and more adventurers to our village in the last decade due to the constant beast flood. They have been getting stronger and stronger too. It is all going towards people establishing a village even closer to the areas that the adventurers are exploring nowadays."
Kyle couldn't get something straight, "What is the reason for this people to risk their lives? Is it about the money? Also, how did they started becoming stronger? Is it also because of rare materials?"
Marta started laughing, "Don't tell me you don't know about the system as well? What type of dumpster did you crawl from?" Marta went into a laughing frenzy, making everyone in the tavern momentarily look at both of them.
"All people in this world, when born have the Live System. It is what lets people to grow. Every time they beat a monster, they get experience and can level up. For sure you have one as well? Most of the adventurers here are level 0, but you see that elf in the cape? She is the leader of their guild; she is level 1." Marta looked at the hooded elf in admiration. "If you want to survive in this world, you need to cultivate and reach higher levels of power. If beasts don't kill you with your small strength, then bandits and other beings will kill you."
"And lastly, why are they here? This is the most dangerous and unexplored area that is full of experience and treasures that are still up for grabs!"
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Everything is getting cleared up for Kyle finally! Kyle, you can do it! Go go go
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