The Amber Sword - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – Sophie’s world

Despite the fact that this home was previous it was immaculate. The previous proprietor had cleaned it very properly.

Sophie raised his head to have a look at the half skeleton that he pushed away earlier. A pile of damaged bones sat quietly there. Brendel’s counter assault earlier than his demise resulted in the one casualty amongst the undead scouts. He knew that these troopers certainly lack intelligence, however the necromancer controlling them was not. This error couldn’t be attributed to the youth’s fault, as a result of he didn’t find out about this in any respect.

Throughout this peaceable period, there weren’t many who knew about this.

That sliced portray laid flatly on the ground. The skeleton’s soldier’s chilly sword was not far-off. Sophie’s pupils dilated barely. The Madara troops most certainly supposed to assault straight after the scouts retreated as they didn’t even pack the place up.

However this actually conformed to Sophie’s reminiscence concerning the Warfare of the Black Rose.

“Hmm?”

Sophie raised his eyebrow slightly. His gaze laid concerning the sliced portray. He didn’t see wrongly, there was a hidden layer on the portray body’s floor.

Wait, the ancestor’s portray? Sophie immediately remembered, maybe this was the well-known portray of Bucce?

He instantly struggled over with strenuous effort, and vigilantly stored his ears open on the identical time. Sophie knew that the necromancer that killed Brendel was of the bottom degree, however even it was extra then sufficient to dispose of a traditional particular person.

Inside the ‘recreation’, the low degree necromancers had been ready to make use of the novice ranks of Black Magic, in a position to conjure up ghouls and skeletons within the close by cemetery. They’re naturally artful and skilled in sneak assaults. It may very well be mentioned that they had been an enormous menace to individuals who didn’t perceive them.

However Sophie was totally different, as a result of he most likely understood them greater than they understood themselves.

He laid on the bottom and tore the portray body open. A clink rang out as a hoop rolled onto the bottom. Presently he couldn’t assist however took a breath flippantly. The design of the ring was too acquainted to him. The ring that was made from silver glimmered barely at nighttime. Along with the looping look, there was a Holy Phoenix image on the middle of it.

Such a design was hardly ever seen within the Aouine southern area.

This was the northern Sanorso’s nationwide emblem.

Sophie fastidiously rubbed the ring. This was the well-known Ring of the Wind Empress, a mission reward for the ‘Bucce’s portray’, however this mission vanished together with the following patch. In the end the individuals who knew and accomplished this mission had been only a few.

Sophie was not one in all them. He solely heard of this story earlier than. Within the legend, this was a pretend souvenir belonging to one of many 4 saint, Delutte, how did Brendel’s grandfather had this?

The Ring of the Wind Empress’s impact was Agility+1, and it might expend the vitality inside to launch a wind bullet to strike on the enemies in entrance. Within the recreation it was in a position to take in slightly vitality each ten minutes, however it was unknown whether or not it was the identical right here.

He seemed on the ring and his coronary heart raced for a second, even forgetting the risks of his environment. This ring’s look had partially answered his guess, that this world was one which he was conversant in.

Sophie exhaled with out having the ability to suppress himself. His present temper had been swayed from the succession of occasions, however his hesitation was quick and he slowly put it on his forefinger. Magic rings solely labored when worn on the forefinger or thumb. In Roens, the area between the thumb and forefinger had been known as by the Talan witches as ‘The area of sacred thriller’. They believed that it was the place mana was gathered within the human physique, and lots of gestures had been advanced from that start line.

Naturally to Sophie, that was merely a recreation rule that he adopted as a unconscious conduct.

“Bang!”

He was about to check the consequences of the ring, when a big sound within the first ground transmitted over and made him turned his head abruptly.

Sophie’s coronary heart was startled and instantly turned alert. It was doable that an undead made that sound, and even when it was not, there was the opportunity of alerting the enemies outdoors. He shortly deserted the portray in his palms and retreated in opposition to the wall intuitively after which fastidiously gazed into the lounge under.

He immediately noticed a suspicious determine.

It was a younger lady carrying a easy leather-based gown who fastidiously approached inside. She seemed round to the left and proper, however regardless of her tense look she didn’t take note of what was above her. She tightly gripped one thing like a hammer used for masonry with slight issue. She gave the impression to be trying to find one thing based mostly on her seems to be.

Sophie sighed.

He coughed. It was not very loud however on this empty home it appeared to resound loudly.

The lady was evidently startled and raised her head, her face awfully pale. In his coronary heart, the younger lady may very well be thought of as a magnificence. Her chestnut hair was bundled up in a dignified style, however her silky easy brow together with skinny lengthy eyes made her look enchanting. Her eyebrows had been barely raised, along with her eyes clear however bewildered. Her nostril was pointed and straight, and one look let one knew that she had a fiercely impartial character.

She had a particular high quality about her however she undoubtedly couldn’t be known as a girl. A minimum of when one noticed her gripping the masonry hammer, along with her leather-based gown hanging a cowskin bag discovered within the southern area utilized by retailers, they may not view her as a noble lady from an upstanding household.

The younger lady shortly noticed Sophie and relaxed as a substitute. She let loose a protracted breath and patted her chest, and displayed a ravishing smile: “So it’s you, Brendel, you scared me.”

“Miss Romain, how did you are available right here?” Sophie felt a headache developing when he noticed her.

This was a woman that Brendel had all the time adored. She and her aunt lived within the reverse home, and he or she often had some quaint aspirations, for an instance, she needed to exit to the surface world to grow to be a travelling service provider.

Sophie thought her view didn’t make any sense. A touring service provider in Aouine was not a good job, and a number of the residents grouped them along with conmen and thieves.

Within the Anson sixth century, there was a time when these individuals collaborated collectively and had been drastically despised, and even named as ‘Individuals who had two mouths and three palms.’

The 2 mouths meant they had been glib and good at deceiving. The three palms meant they didn’t stored their palms to themselves, usually stealing and doing unclean issues. They may very well be mentioned to be one of many greatest nice menace to public order. when Sophie was a beginner again in his period, eight out of ten missions had been about them.

“I climbed into your window out of your kitchen outdoors, ah that’s proper, your home window is actually small! It practically tore my gown.” The younger lady complained as she bent her waist to repair the corners of her gown.

“No one allow you to in to come back in from there proper!” With the inheritance of Brendel’s reminiscence, Sophie had a sure immunity to this lady’s character, however he couldn’t assist however grumble in his coronary heart.

“I’m not asking you about this,” He shook his head: “I’m asking you, what are you doing right here in the course of the night time?”

“I’m apprehensive about you, Brendel,” Romain answered whereas she seemed round, her expression extremely curious: “You probably did see it proper, this skeleton?”

She seen it too? Sophie noticed that the lady’s eyes had been on his chest.

“You’re injured?” The long run service provider lady titled her head and blinked.

“Yeah…..”

“Let me see,” She grabbed her gown and ran up noisily up the steps, and clawed on the youth’s hand which was urgent in opposition to the damage, “Come on, take your hand away, what are you overlaying it for, your wounds will get contaminated!” She grumbled, and peered at his wound.

She drew a pointy breath and raised her head: “That is such a horrible wound!”

Sophie felt the lady’s chilly hand grabbing his personal, and his coronary heart skipped a beat. Despite the fact that he knew this belonged to Brendel’s emotions, he didn’t make an effort to cease it.

“It’s fantastic…..”

“High quality—, are you mad!?” The service provider lady gave him a glance of reproach, then she dug the cowskin bag hanging on her leather-based gown: “Simply wait slightly, I feel I introduced bandages….”

Sophie checked out her with curiosity.

He knew that the issues in her bag had been her treasured treasures. Over half of them had been unusual issues, the seashells from the seaside, glass marbles of various colours, a bronze whistle, previous cash from the traditional previous, and numerous different issues. Most of them usually are not value any cash, however there have been hardly ever seen on this area.

This future service provider lady’s greatest curiosity was to dig issues from this pile of previous stuff. Despite the fact that they’d no cash to talk off, she all the time managed to purchase low cost and uncommon issues that she beloved.

He held Romain’s hand and shook his head: “Let’s go into the room and search, it’s too harmful right here.”

“I’m not afraid of those bones,” She glanced up at him as she lastly discovered a primary assist field: “Have you learnt tips on how to tie it? I don’t know tips on how to do it.”

Sophie opened the field and retrieved bandages and hemostatic cotton, and paused for some time in confusion. He initially deliberate to search out these emergency provides, however his consciousness nonetheless handled this world like a recreation. As soon as he utilized the bandages within the recreation, it will routinely stopped the bleeding and replenish his blood, however he immediately realized doing it in the actual world was knowledgeable ability. He couldn’t presumably randomly go spherical his damage a couple of occasions proper?

“Brendel, would you like me to strive?” Miss Romain seemed like she’s about to lunge at him.

“Nope.” Sophie shortly rejected her. Even when he had 9 lives, he mustn’t waste it like that.

He immediately felt that this final resort was not a nasty one, if this was how the sport did it then simply do it like the sport. If he died he would simply blame the gods. He bit one finish of the bandages and took off his shirt, then wrapped the bandages from the facet throughout the damage spherical after spherical. He was a minimum of a veteran at doing this inside the sport, and so he may very well be thought of as properly skilled, and he fastidiously averted to tie too tightly.

However he promptly stopped.

He noticed a light-weight inexperienced quantity, +1, slowly floating from his damage.

At that second it was like a bomb had immediately blasted in his thoughts and rang in his ears. He couldn’t keep in mind what he ought to do subsequent. However he instantly reacted to it, and shouted in his thoughts like he was Professor Xavier: “Stats! Stats! Oh my gosh, simply come out proper now!”

He waited with a coronary heart stuffed with expectations and dread, and after a second, a collection of knowledge appeared and floated on his arms, legs, joints, torso and his coronary heart.

Power 1.0, Agility 2.0 , Physique 0.9

Then one other set of knowledge appeared in his eyes like a ghost immediately showing:

Intelligence 1.1, Will 1.3, Notion 1.0

Total energy ranking 1.0, Aspect (Sealed)

These set of knowledge and contours of phrases, had been like a waterfall gushing out, and poured forth right into a translucent window panel:

Brendel, Human male, Stage 1 (Power sort physique: Bodily, Shut fight)

XP: 1 (Commoner degree 1 —-, Civilian soldier degree 1)

Well being (Weakened): 60% (Bandaged standing, 1 HP shall be recovered every single day)

Abilities

Commoner [Basic knowledge (Level 1), Geography Knowledge (Level 0), Local knowledge (Level 1)]

Civilian Soldier [Military Swordsplay (Level 1), Grappling techniques (Level 1), Tactical Theory (Level 0), Military Organization (Level 0)]

Simply as anticipated, simply as anticipated!

Sophie needed to say that the sentiments of a traditional one that simply scored 5 million {dollars} would most likely react the identical method like he did.

Was this a dream?

No, he knew that an individual inside a dream wouldn’t have the ability to assume so logically, and only a few individuals would even assume they had been in such a dream.

Then was he nonetheless within the recreation?

No, the present yr was the 2nd period of the nineteenth yr.

The younger man felt his thoughts was in a fantastic mess. All of the unusual ideas sprang out in a rush and made him felt slightly giddy. However Sophie shook his head and understood that it was actuality.

Mom Marsha, do you actually exist right here?

Sophie couldn’t assist however prayed closely in his coronary heart to the the final word goddess. He stared blankly on the digital information mirrored on his retinas, and couldn’t assist however ask himself:

“Isn’t this your world, Sophie? What else did you need?”

Sure, as a veteran who had over 130 ranges, what else might he ask for? Expertise, he had them. Information of the long run, he additionally had them.

If these items didn’t enable them to manage his personal destiny, then he actually would have dedicated suicide by smashing his head in opposition to the wall. However actually, the sensation of a assured coronary heart was so good, so excellent.