《Decoder;Deconstructor》Chapter 10: Faustor City for Un-ordinary people
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*FlashBack*
I noticed that I never really had much of a childhood.
I did use to have a friend though, and I think I could still remember her clearly even after all this time. Since I haven't really had much of a choice between picking friends though, in the end, I was left alone.
It wasn't like I was forced to not have any friends, its just that I was always shy, had a bit of a rough time making friends even when I wanted to.
Still though, after all I tried, not one single person ever stood by longer then that girl.
I noticed many things about people though, they change, and even if I tried to change, people would still look at me with the same face. A nobody.
I held in the many negative thoughts and doubts about the friends that I made, even if they were mean to me I held it all in. But someday I was expecting to blow.
With a punch to the face of the one who always bullied me, treated me like shit, I never felt any better, but of course his name is useless even if I wanted to remember. As I did though the others that were there with us all pushed against me.
I would always try against a person, but opposing a group is harder then to fight just one person, even so, I did what I felt.
After what had happened, I was treated like the black sheep in the school community that I lived in, never had I ever felt so lonely.
Even after everything had happened, that girl carried on her days alongside me like nothing ever happened.
*Flashback end*
I had felt the sun on my face, as the warm feeling slowly woke me up, I noticed that I was covered in a brown rugged blanket. I rubbed my eyes as they opened, I looked around to see who had put the blanket, but everyone that was awake had been minding their own business. There were kids on the carriage as I was there too.
The carriage was going more faster then before and soon enough we came to a stop. I wondered if this was the end of the road but guards had stopped me raising their hands and telling me that we have only gone half the way.
As I had risen to get off, the guard stopping me had made me sit down again.
I looked down onto the blanket that was on. I could see that the person beside me had bandages on his arm, even when I looked at him I could only see his face covered in bandages like a mummy, but it looked tight, and only one eye was unbandaged. It made me think that this person was probably hurt or something.
I couldn't tell if he was hurt because he was wearing grey rags over his body. H was awake though.
I looked off from out the carriage, and i saw how the view was.
Plains. They were large areas of grass, some trees here and there but he whole area was wide and large. This new view made me smile unnoticeably.
Soon enough though, it was only a bit until we started the carriage again. I decided to think about what I should do, and another think about that scan skill was that I learned that I can use subskills without any similar cost having to do with the main skill. So its like I can use it freely like any other skill.
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And another thing is that my skill of being able to program itself was now on cooldown. I learned this last night...
*Flashback*
Apart from scan being an identity thing, how about I use it as an area scanner?
'Scan area'
You have scanned the area
You have found 27 Unknown 'Items, 11 Unknown living beings, and 46 Unknown resources.
All Objects are available for '???' (Higher Skill level/Special Code required)
Hm, then how about we make a special code?
I quickly opened the Code creator and started again but after a few minutes of creation, another box popped up with some shit.
System Over-exertion
System has been used too forcefully within the data of 'Personal System'
Skill now on Cool-down.
Cool-down time left: 12 hr(s)
Thats got to be fucking bullshit!! I barely even used it!!
*Flashback End*
Yeah so.. I haven't really gotten far with it, but I did learn that I need to create a system that holds more data with the coding that can be used, although I level it up the data might increase within the system, but who knows? only time will tell before I can fix this system.
I began to think about what the many things I could do with this fucking crazy skill, it just fits me since I have worked and learned so much about how to program, and now its like starting all over again with this skill.
After we had started moving, I had covered myself in the blanket again and began to think about all the things that have happened, and what would have happened would I have not met them.
Later on though I had began to think about many stupid things not having to do of any importance, although it was useless to think, there wasn't anything to do. All I could do was wait and think until we had arrived to the city.
I tried to sleep but the sun bothered me and I didn't want to move out of my now comfortable spot.
A few moments later though, one of the guards sat by the edges of the carriage as he felt tired and needed to rest for a short bit.
With this I wanted to question him.
"How is Faustor exactly?" Simple questions like this was on my mind at the current time.
The guard turned around looked at me slightly startled as I asked from behind him.
With just a few seconds later he turned back to look at the plains smiling.
"The Great city of Faustor is not a bad place, whats bad are the people that live there, but everything else is good about it. The lands are beautiful and the women too, its just a place anyone would want to be there" He breathed in air after saying all that.
"is that so? But what I meant was how big it was though"
"Well, sorry about all that, Faustor is a pretty big kingdom, but there's also Rosevault and.." About to go off saying the rest I gave him a slightly scornful look "Um sorry, I will say that Faustor is about as big as a quarter of the continent"
I was pretty suprised, I do recall seeing how big the continent with one of the maps that Laj had carried on him... Laj, I wonder if people would know him, he did say that he was a well known adventurer.
Who knows, I decided not to ask, if I did, maybe there could have been problems that I don't know about.
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"Why do you want to know about faustor? Haven't been there before?" The man looked at me while I was zoning out.
"Hm? oh, I was told that there was a lot of adventurers there"
"Oh, You want to be an adventurer?" The man had a suprised look, like as if there was something special about it.
"Yes, is there a problem with that?"
The man shook his head and smiled.
"No, its just that its hard to become an adventurer, especially since there has been so much commotion about it these days with these 'Odd people'"
... Odd people... Is he referring to us? To those from the other world?
"What do you mean 'Odd People'?"
The guard looked at me and gave me a serious look.
"A few days ago there had been people with odd abilities appearing out of thin air everywhere in the continent. I have even heard from a friend in Rosevault that it has also had happened.
Whats even more odd is that there are some people who can use abilities like magic and other odd types of magic, they look a lot similar to you, but you're not wearing the clothes that they are so I know that you aren't like them"
"What kind of magic have you seen them use?"
"I've seen them dissapear, I saw one use a wooden stick and turn it into a sword, there have been lots of cases of destruction going around the kingdom, but people eventually learned that it wasn't hurting anyone, the only problem was that these people have no idea how to control their odd abilities
People with magic even better then mines, I am crying on the inside, but with time, maybe I can even make myself a skill that allows me to fly.
I was suprised at what the guards had told me, and now knowing that there were definitely other people like me, that just means that there are going to be problems, a lot of problems.
However, the man didn't notice that I had an odd ability, probably because its a computer that I use and since other people can't see the blue boxes that I have, I guess that I'm able to go incognito with this ability.
Thinking about my odd skill, I decided to check the cool-down it had said to have had, and I read to see that it had about 3 hours left, I did sleep a little more than 8 hours.
Everyone in the carriage was quiet, mostly because no one knew eachother.
The bandaged guy beside me looked to have nodded off back to sleep seeing his head keeps rising up... and down... and up... Yeah, you get what I'm talking about.
The ones on the opposite side was only a young guy, an old man, and a lady that seemed pretty good looking.. But I ain't about that life.
After another hour or so, we have come to a complete stop. this time they had let me out of the carriage, and given me some food.
The one that seemed to have lead the whole caravan had shouted to the other guards that they would have to share since their provisions were low.
When I had recieved a small loaf of what looked like break and a few other fruits, I quickly identified them.
Bread Sylos Fruit Dalpon Fruit
The lack of information must be becuase I didn't make this subskill well enough, it was just made to scan and Identify with little to no details, but in all odds I need to improve this skill, it could be very usefull in the futue to come, as I think I might actually become an adventurer.
Or maybe it's too much of a hassle to deal with if I really become an adventurer, maybe I should just stay in hiding and just live like normal with this ability as I improve it? I'm not exactly sure I am going to do if I really do plan on making this skill more and more powerful as I go by my day.
I spotted the guard and asked him what this place was.
He elaborated to me that this place was one of the gates that people passed by to enter Faustor kingdom. As it is pretty far from Vasor, it was only minutes before the skill would be able to be used again, but this time it would have to take my hp, magic, or stamina, and personally I think I'd want stamina to be taken rather then any other, since I feel hp is important and magic too.
If you had to choose between the 3, what would you pick?
Anyways, later on they allowed me to enter, they also gave me a map, since that caravan was just to take me here I asked to leave and they had let me walk on my own.
Looking onto the map I had no idea what the words had meant, this will most likely mean that the books will be another language too, I did understand the signs though, since this place is pretty big though, the map was only a rough drawing of the main streets and not the alleys.
I saw many merchants along the main road that lead to a giant fountain.
Within these merchants and shops there were alot of people wearing clothes from the world I used to be in, I could tell easily that they did not fit in with the crowd by how odd they looked.
And me? I should say that my hair is commonly brown and my looks are about avarage to these people. Even since I am wearing farmer clothes, the armour padding that Gerhest had given me along with the sword just said that I was someone of authority, but it also showed that I was somewhat of a wannabe.
Seeing no one complaining that I have a sword meant that Weapon control wasn't something known in this country, since it seems anyone can have a weapon.
Apart from that small specific detail, I did see that they were all in front of what would be the guild since the sign of 3 swords is also shown here in a much more bigger sign.
I decided to approach the building behind the people.
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Many of the people that were wearing my clothes seemed distressed, and looked terrible. I wanted to know what was happening, but I knew that if I showed that I was similar to them, I could lose some advantages that these normal fucking people from this world have, so I decided not to just go up and talk to these people.
As the guard referred to them as odd people, or mysterious, I tried to act like I was different, like I was from this world.
I quickly walked into the guild and saw the difference in the guild in vasor and this one.
The interiour decour was made of marble flooring while the walls were made of polished stone I think? I wasn't sure but it looked like giant stones that had been polished.
The floor was checkered as the carpet lined red from the entrance and the people in here were not those that were waiting outside. But I knew that some of those people in armour were the ones that had been part of my world.
They fit in well, more or less like me but they fit in.
I stepped up to the counter and I had in my hand the few gold coins that the guard leader had, I guessed this would be like 100 Dollars or something? I have to figure out the values of these coins before I start buying with this, people might rob me.
And if it really is that much, then I guess I should be greatfull for that great fucking guy!
A moment later and a young-looking girl appeared in a uniformed fashion.
"U-um Is there anything you need?" It was quite easy to tell that she was most likely inexperienced.
"Yes, I would like to apply to become an adventurer"
"Ah! One moment please" Quickly she left and soon after another girl looking more sturdy came out, seems like that young-one is still learning.
As the other one came out, she smiled and handed me a paper from under the counter.
"Here please sign out this form and tell me when you finish" With a nod she gave me the sign-up sheet, I had one before but I think I left it at the farmhouse, after the girl gave me the sheet she gave me a quill... How odd.
I started signing out the sheet in front of the girl as she was doing something behind the counter, but whatever it was she was probably organizing some things.
On the sign-sheet, I only needed to post my personal information, like my age, my occupation, if I have ever worked before (which by luck I have), and if I was able to use magic, obviously I didn't write yes because I wanted my skill to remain a secret, if this is found out, then that would be a great disadvantage for me.
I finished and I handed back the paper indicating that I was done.
"Good, now all I would require is a fee of 10 Silver coins" Wait a minute, wasn't it 50 Copper before?
"Hey, Um, about that.. Wasn't the price supposed to be 50 copper?"
As I questioned, the girl shook her head.
"Not exactly, the reason why is probably because in other towns or other smaller cities they allow lesser pay for those adventurers that cannot afford for a price like this in the city, is there a problem with the fee?"
I shook my head "no, there's no problem, I just thought that there was a high change in price"
I immediately grabbed just 1 coin from my hand and handed it to her.
Without a care about the money she gave back the change of the gold coins which was only 40 silver coins. My guess is that 50 copper is enough for a silver, and 50 silver is enough for a gold. I could be wrong about the copper though.
"Alright, in 2 days your official guild status card will be here, so until then please wait and be patience, if you have any questions, you can ask any one in the counter, have a good day!"
After that I thanked the girl, turned around and headed out the doors.
For once, I have now become part of the guild, the problem is that since the prices in this place are higher, I might have to be careful that no one steals this pouch.
I looked back into the map.. Sadly I didn't know the sign for the inn, I needed to find that inn and get a place to sleep there.
This is probably going to be a hard find...
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