Book 4: Chapter 13

Book 4: Chapter 13

Sitting in his private office with his feet up on his desk, Kay bust out laughing as he read the “primer” on how to get the Adventurer Class. “This can’t be real.” He held out the single piece of paper and waved it at Eleniah.

She looked up from her deep contemplation of the wall. “What?”

Kay stretched the paper out on his desk and started reading from it, “Step one: ’Imagine you’re in a VR environment but you’re controlling it with mouse and keyboard.’”

“I don’t know what that means.”

“Step two: ‘Open a command menu and type in the following symbols’, which I can’t even read because they aren’t in any language I know, ‘then hit enter and wait for the process to complete.’ That’s it!” He grabbed the paper and tossed it behind him.

“Wait,” Eleniah looked confused and tilted her head at him, “Doesn’t your Outworlder stuff translate languages for you?”

“Right? This is so weird. Did the founders of the Adventurer’s Guild actually rip me off?”

“Have you tried doing what it says?”

“No, I’ve been too busy mocking it.”

She gave him a look, “Try it.”

“Alright.” He sat up straight and closed his eye, imagining a computer monitor in front of him and a mouse and keyboard under his hands. Wait, it said imagine I’m in VR. He shifted his mental image to have a headset on, with a virtual environment that looked like his PC’s desktop. Moving his hand the way he imagined it and clicking on the start menu he opened a command menu like the paper said and imagined using the Alt key and his numpad to bring up the unrecognizable symbols. Opening his eyes when nothing happened, he reflexively jerked back and almost fell out of his seat when the System window popped up in front of him.

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Processing, Please Wait

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“Something happened, didn’t it?” Eleniah asked smugly.

“How the hell did her dad figure this out?”

“What happened?”

“System window telling me to wait popped up.” He replied, still staring at it.

“So, it worked just like the paper said.”

Kay just blinked at the screen for a moment. “There’s a lot of background context that you don’t have about why this is so surprising, but I’ll keep the paper so I can show Cindy and she can agree with me.”

“Could you try explaining?” She asked patiently.

Kay threw his arms in the air, “You can’t just randomly type shit into a command line and unlock hidden things! Especially if it isn’t your computer and you aren’t logged in as an administrator. And where the hell did these random symbols come from? Did he just spam nonsense in his own head until something happened?”

“That clarified nothing,” She sighed.

“We have long gone beyond my knowledge of things in more than one subject. How you got offered the Class was weird, so why wouldn’t accepting it also be weird?”

“I guess you’re right. Should I take it?”

“IT gives you spacial storage according to Honor and her family,” Eleniah replied with a shrug, “Even if you can store lots of blood inside you, having even more storage for things that aren’t blood sounds useful. And you’ve got slots to spare.”

“It’s a Noncombat Class too, which are the empty slots I have the most of. ...Yeah, alright.” He mentally accepted the prompt.

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Class: Novice Adventurer

- An adventurer is someone who adventures. Going off to explore distant lands, hunting for buried treasures or forgotten temples, or even uncovering untold secrets of the world, going on any of these kinds of adventurers could make you an adventurer. This isn’t that kind of Class though. This Class is much more similar to the video game and fantasy story type of adventurer, someone who goes and kills monsters and finds treasure in the search for glory and power.

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Skill: Inventory (Level 1)

-Open a temporary pocket space to store physical items at the cost of mana dependent on the size of the opening. Constantly drains an amount of mana from the user in order to maintain the pocket space while it contains items. Mana drain is based on mass and volume of store items. Higher levels in this Skill increase the size of the pocket space and moderately lowers mana drain over time while maintaining the pocket space. This Skill cannot store living organisms. Microscopic organisms will be killed, macroscopic organisms will be rejected from the pocket space.

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Kay read both descriptions as per usual, then reread the Class description. “You know what? I’m ignoring the questions this just brought up, because I have enough to be worried about right now. If there ever comes a time where we can figure out what’s going on with this then I’ll deal with it then.”

“More stuff I won’t understand?”

“I can take a few hours and give you all the details if you want, but short version is it’s referencing stuff from world’s like my Earth. I’ve sort-of explained video games before, right? It talks about those.”

“Yeah, I remember some of that. Technology we don’t have here to make stories into interactable games that are more complicated than board games.”

“Right.” Kay shook his head and dismissed the screens. “Whatever. Like I said, we’ll deal with it if it comes back up. Want to experiment with my new Skill?”

Eleniah popped out of her seat with a grin, “Always!”

Someone knocked on the door at that moment.

“Yes?” Kay called.

Meten walked in holding a sheaf of papers. “I just got a report that you’re going to want to see.”

“What’s up?”

“Remember those dungeons you found where one was open and let you travel between its two entrances and the two other closed ones? Apparently some of our people over there think they can open one of them up. Fancy another dungeon delve?”