Even though basic combat only happened twice a week, the field was open for anyone to use. At least the section owned by the guild. Yuu made a note in his mind to come back to the field to practice at least five days a week.

Before he could start practicing, he went searching through blacksmiths and weapon stores, and he was finally able to find a few that actually had scythes in them that either wasn't extremely expensive or too unfitting. Even finding a scythe meant for beginners, he kept encountering troubles such as money, commission time, and even usage as some were meant for farming and not combat as the blade and placement were different.

It seems like scythe users were such a rarity that few blacksmiths he encountered have made only a few through their entire lifetimes working. This also applied to some store owners, having never selling one meant for battle.

Regardless, he was determined to at least be able to fight against goblins with ease using a scythe compared to any other weapon. He didn’t know whether he wanted to be serious about hunting, but he sure wanted to be strong enough to protect himself.

During the class, he did try swinging with a sword, spear, and even tried using a bow, however, they just did not click with him. While they were usable and seemingly more efficient due to the teachings, resources, and other factors that could be given or recommended, it didn't bring a flame to his heart.

Though either way, whether the choice was right or not, he had Leah to help him. Earlier, he had asked Jebon and went into the information center managed by the guild, he discovered more information regarding slimes.

Like in a typical RPG, slime's were regarded as one of the most useless creatures to exist. Being one of the things adventurers seek out to kill when they start out.

To begin with, a slime's only common way of attacking was just through brute force, slamming into their enemy. While their bodies were a bit acidic to absorb things, it took too much time to be effective. As for their strength, like Leah’s, their bodies were almost gelatin-like, at most, giving a regular adult human a sting. While they could potentially threaten a newbie, either if the adventurer was asleep or it was a group of slimes, their threat level was non-existent to even civilians.

Yet, even so, the slime’s had a weird thing that allowed them to be laughed at but feared. It was that they have unlimited potential, at least that anyone knows of. This world seemed to follow the same principle as Earth. It takes time for things to evolve. Granted it seems to progress faster with mana, it was still slow. Yet a slime experienced multiple changes, and sometimes these changes were rapid.

They are one of the few creatures that have the ability to change their structure and body, slowly gain strength in different areas, and there have been legends of them even wrecking kingdoms or turning into a humanoid figure, bringing blessings or destruction. Even though those are mere fairy tales told to children, there is evidence it had happened, and there are even a few slimes that exist to this day where even the strongest knight won’t dare to challenge it without preparation.

According to public knowledge, one of the few yet powerful slimes lives all the way up north, where snow falls down most of the year. The slime had apparently changed their sex to female, since they’re born without one, choosing it later in their life, and took on a humanoid form. She had severely injured groups of adventurers at and above A rank, even killing a small few, scaring everyone off. Luckily, the woman did not wreak havoc to bystanders but to those that meant ill will.

Despite slimes having the potential to become incredibly powerful, almost all of them never become strong, becoming a large gamble to assets if people choose to raise them. However, every now and then, slimes with more unique traits will appear, sparking controversy. Leah is a prime example of this, as traits such as intelligence and absorption, or to be more specific, storage, was shown. Someone can walk through many kingdoms and maybe have a chance to get to see one with intelligence.

While they are not sought after too much, even nobles and sometimes royalty will adopt them. But according to Joben and the informants, there is no method to raising a slime “properly” and get it to grow stronger. While potentially high in price for buyers, even thieves will sometimes ignore them due to the value being too risky or difficult to sell.

“When talking to Jebon earlier, he did make a comment that Leah is a rare and unique case even amongst the special slimes. While she had intelligence, which in it itself is already rare, she could also store things in her small body.” While there were slimes that had abnormal absorbing talents, highly sought after due to it being potentially useful even for something like cleaning, one that could absorb and actually store things, was nearly unheard of.

Despite having no idea how that worked, he cautioned Yuu to keep this a secret as much as possible, with only intelligence being the thing he should share if needed.

Walking back to his inn with his newly bought scythe, Yuu held Leah in his arms while thinking to himself, “Luckily Jebon said that he will try and temper with her strength as he’s also curious about her limits and wants to train her with me. Though I’m more curious about what Leah’s going to change too in the future.”

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With the moon high in the sky starting to slump it’s body ever so slowly, the sun rose, dominating it. The days cycled, and as Yuu opened his eyes, staring at the cold wooden ceiling, he slowly thought to himself, “today’s the sixth day that I have arrived here…”

Even though he had Leah, talked with some of the people here, and even talked to a few G-ranked adventurers, he still felt lonely. He knew it would go away at some point, but right now, all he could do was sigh and actually be productive instead of staring blankly at the ceiling.

Throughout the three days that he had been through, besides the slowly nauseous feeling that has been seeping into him, he took a few other classes, specifically Reading and Writing, History, Plant and Animal Species, and Basic Magic.

Not even mentioning the first two, as it was an incredibly hard challenge, even making the instructors pity him, he was able to get a firm grasp of the Plant and Animal Species class. What shocked him the most was that there were a few creatures that existed on both this world and Earth. Goblins, slimes, minotaurs, and even dragons, existed in this world. There were other creatures too, but there wasn’t a lot.

This made him have a thought when he was in class earlier, “Does this mean that Crossers came back to earth, or did beings here traverse to Earth-like that goblin? Though there really is no good evidence of monsters crossing over, at most it’s just questionable videos.” Whatever the case is, it was reassuring that there is hope to get back, but this still mystified him.

Besides the whole situation with the Plant and Animal Species class, the Basic Magic class went oddly well but a bit depressing as well. When someone learns magic for the first time, they will take a small test which helps find which basic form of magic they work best in. Just like in physical combat, someone could be talented in swords, spears, and other weapons. For magic, people can be more talented in more destructive magic, healing, summoning and control, and many other forms.

Even though the test didn’t give an idea of every attribute, it did at least give the very basics. There was also a side bonus of the test figuring out the current mana capacity someone has. While people could not store mana in their body necessarily, they had to work to expand the amount they could use during the moment.

Yuu managed to score a high mana capacity for a beginner, however, he only had a slight advantage when it came to magic that was targeted towards healing. Everything else that the test could determine was mediocre or below a recommended range. This wasn’t bad, but it meant he would have a rougher start, especially since he didn’t start training early in his life.