Tolverstov and Nathaniel were walking through
the guest house in silence when Tolverstov said.
“we’ll go to my place, I just need to stop in the
market to by some things”
“No problem, I’m free for the foreseeable future.”
Tolverstov smiled.
I’m starting to like this guy.
Nathaniel was wearing the same body suit he
looted from the dalahar dog that he killed, and it
was hot, the weather outside was hot and he
started to think on going naked.
“Tolverstov, what currency do you use here”?
“I imagine that your world is very much different
from ours in that regard” Tolverstov said “we use
failed parts of magic circles, it’s used for creating
magic tools. Of cores, it would take a huge amount
of sybu to create high level tool. The lowest token
is kit, ten kit equals one pit, fifty pit equals one fog,
and hundred fog equals one sybu. And then you
have pure sybu which is equal to thousand regular
sybu, but it is as rare as your tool.
“That is too complicated, but I guess I’ll get used to
it. Is a thousand kit a lot of money?”
“it’s not a lot. Even here pit is the main token."
"Is it enough for some cloths"?
“Sure. But you can’t live off it.”
They left the house and the gardens and walked
down the hill toward the village.
“I have a question” Nathaniel said, “but I’m afraid
to hear the answer.”
Tolverstov smiled. “You should probably ask
anyway.”
“You know what I want to ask.”
“Educated guess.”
“so”?
“Why don’t you ask.”
“Right. What does the mayor care about a tired
homeless”?
“You mean, why did he put you in his guest
house”?
“yes”
“Because I’ve asked him to.”
“Thank you. Now I have another question.”
Tolverstov smiled again, “of cores.”
“What do you care about a tired homeless”?
“I don’t”
“Of cores. Let me rephrase, why are you helping
me?”
Tolverstov’s smile widened. “Well,” he said, “I’ve
heard about a stranger with no levels, yet with
high level tool. And to tap it off, that stranger
happened to appear next to… well, certain event,
and with no idea where he is. I’d be fullish not to
keep you near me.”
“The only thing I understood is that you want my
tool.”
“No, I can’t even touch it. I’m interested in you.”
“why”
“I want to study you and your circumstance.”
“Okay, I’ll drop it for now.”
They reached the village and entered the local
market. It was a medieval style market. It wasn’t
big but you could find there everything the village
people needed.
Not able to communicate Nathaniel used
Tolverstov to buy simple shirt pants and shoes.
Quest: naked and afraid
Objective: find some damn clothes!
Requirement: 3 cloth Pieces
Objective complete
Reward: blue level powder
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“I forgot about that.”
“what”?
“Never mind”
He changed clothes as soon as they entered
Tolverstov’s house. He was now wearing loose low
quality clothes. It was more comfortable than the
costume though.
Tolverstov made simple breakfast and they sat
down to eat.
“How much do you know”? Tolverstov asked.
“Explain it to me like I was just born.”
“So. Happy birthday Nathaniel.”
“Thank you.”
“I’m going to explain to you more details than
most people know because you didn’t grow up to
know all that. On top of our universe glued to our
reality there’s a sheet of magic. We don’t exactly
know what magic is, but we know how it works. All
the time magic flows into our reality, and
immediately interacts with matter. That mean that
it become part of the matter it interacts with,
although parts of it flow freely around the matter
it blended with. When magic enters our reality, it
breaks apart and form a potential circle to repair
itself. The way to complete a circle can be
everything, from moving one rock, singing a few
wards, or touching the core of every star in the
universe. When you complete a circle, your body
absorb the magic in its pure form. You can absorb
only enough magic to advance a level, if you try to
absorb more, the magic simply forms another
circle. In order to advance levels, you need to
strengthen your body, which is a little
complicated. You need to choose an appropriate
circle, I’ll come back for what an appropriate circle
is, and convert it to the appropriate level powder
and absorb it, I’ll also explain about converting and
level powder. When you at level one, you can start
absorbing abilities. You absorb abilities by the
appropriate level powder and circle. As you’ve
probably realized by now, magic blends with
concepts and believes as well as matter. Some
magic circles blend with level energy, those are
the appropriate circles to advance levels. But
magic also comes in various amounts, so you can
complete one circle and it’s enough to advance
level, and you can complete a hundred circles to
advance. In advancing levels, you can’t use weaker
magic than your level requires, you need to find
large enough circle with level energy. The same
with absorbing abilities. Sometimes magic
interacts with magic, then one circle absorbs the
concept from the other circle which cause the
other circle to fail and brake. Surprisingly enough it
breaks only to four sizes, kit is the smallest, then
there’s pit, fog, and the largest sybu. Now there’s
rare cases where a circle of magic forms without
blending with anything but matter, and it’s always
in sybu size. When a circle interacts with the rare
matter circle, the matter circle doesn’t break,
instead it forms pure sybu.”
Tolverstov wanted to continue, but Nathaniel
stopped him.
“Stop, I need a break. Too much information.”
“But I didn’t explain about...”
“Good. You can explain it later.”
“Okey. What are you going to do now”?
“I’m going to check my powers.”
“Your powers”?
“Yes.”
“Like your inventory”?
“Yup.”
“Can I watch”?
“You can, but you won’t see anything.”
“I’ll take my chances.”
“Be my guest.”
What do you say Siri, system check?
“Certainly, I wanted to check it already, but I can’t
do it without you.”
Main menu.
