5 Contract signing

"I guess humans are one of the four races, which are the others then?"

"Humans are indeed one of the races and even the one with the most population. But we are the one with the weakest individual base strength too. Besides us there are the Beast men, which are similar to us in population, but much more diverse, since they are split up in groups according to their totem animal. Then there are the Dragons and Elves which are both races with low numbers, but great individual strength. Later you will learn more about them, but for now a simple introduction is sufficient. You may even meet them at the campus, since there are members of all the races.

For now lets go over the contract. It is a standard contract for newbies, so there is nothing special to it, mostly it's just lawyer talk, so I will go over the important points.

First of all the most important, remuneration. As I said unlike others we won't pay a basic wage, but we will offer a place to sleep, which quality depends on your rank, as well as basic living needs, like food and clothes.

Besides that you will be able to take missions to earn points which you can trade for different items, including regular money."

"Sounds good, since I don't really have a need for money now."

He laughs, "Believe me, soon you will be in great need of money, but if you are doing well you can earn much more than with any other job.

Now let's talk about what you have to do. Basically it's just completing 5 missions a month for free. As your rank increases there will be more freedom, as you can move them to another month or finish them in advance, but they will be harder too. Besides that you will have to train to be stronger, but there is no check up on that."

"That seems quite easygoing."

"It is, but that's only because people with big initial inventory are so rare."

"Why is it so important to have a big initial inventory?"

"It has to do with our basic skills. You will see when you will get them, but I can tell you, that the minimal requirement is 20 m³ and most will have less than 60 m³, so the amount of new members we have each year are only about 30 for Imperial City which has a population of above 2 millions."

"Wow, that really seems like a small amount."

"Mm, it is. So do you have any other questions?"

"Only one, how do I get from my living-quarter to school each day?"

"For that you can use the travel app on the phone. Each new member will get two travels each day, but they can only travel from there living-quarter to one locked spot, which will be the school gate for you."

"That sounds great, but what is a phone?"

"Oh right, you are hard reset and came to the slum here, so you won't know about it. Don't worry about it, after you sign the contract you will get a welcome packet which contains a phone as well as other things you will need to get started."

"Alright." Ivan then quickly goes over the contract before signing it.

<< Title: Member of Slavers Alliance (Unranked)

You are a Member of the Slavers Alliance

You now have access to the faculty of the Slavers Alliance as well as their apps.

You can't take missions of you own.

Your mentor is: Carl van Bergen >>

"Great, welcome to the Alliance, I hope you can make it far."

"Thank you. I hope so."

Van Bergen smiles at him, before pulling a packet out of his inventory. "This is the first part of your welcoming packet, the rest we will get at the library on our campus."

He then opens the packet and shows Ivan the items in it. The first item is a flat crystal with some buttons on the side.

"This is the phone, you can activate it by pressing this button on the side. It runs on magic power, so you have to load which you can do at your room."

He then presses on the button and a second later one side of the crystal lights up. Displaying a circle with a string of words above it. ' To activate this phone please press your thumb on this circle.'

"Go ahead so the phone is bound to you and you can use it."

Ivan stares fascinated at the crystal and then presses his thumb on the circle. 'Welcome Ivan Hope, you are now the owner of the screen.' Below the text is a button labeled 'Ok' and after pressing it another screen is shown. This time there are a few icons displayed.

"These are the apps. You should play around it a bit to learn more about them, but for now the important one is the one with the shoe icon as that is the travel app. Tap on it to open the app, and then select the plus button to set a travel location."

He follows the instructions and on the screen he can now see a image of his surrounding beside the little house button and on top a display shows '1/1'.

"You have now set this location as a travel location. At the bottom there should be a display about how many times you can travel today."

At the bottom of the screen there really is a display '0/2 travels'.

"Alright, now click on the little house to enter your room and wait for me there. I will give you the rest there since it is more private and comfortable."

He then pull out his own phone and a diagram appears below his feet before he vanishes.

* Guess I will go too.* Ivan then too uses the app to travel and as with Van Bergen a diagram appears below his feet after which the world went dark.