Chapter 5: Appraisal & A plot .
So Hana i'm leaving now don't forgot what i told you before and stop crying already .
~Sob~sob~ but i don't want you to leave ~sniff~ you can still train and get stronger with us .
I whispered to her : i will come back stronger than ever i promise now could you please stop crying you crying face looks ugly , i tried to taunt here to lighten her mood a bit and expected to sacrifice a tooth or two now that she is way stronger but she just hug me suddenly and whispered Ryuu you better come back i will be waiting for you .
I'm talking my leave your highness will there be any problem with that .
Trollan : you can have those and you can come here and ask for more if you found yourself in need , then he ordered a guard to throw a leather pouch at me heard a few clangs inside so at least he gave me some money to spend but i ignored the part of coming here to ask for anything .
I was walking with a heavy steps towards the gate when a nice soothing voice came from behind and throw something to me a book with the cover having a big Appraisal word on it as she was saying yes the one who throw the old book at me was the red haired princess that didn't speak from the beginning to the end but she said : since you don't have any skills you can have this as a compensation .
I was able to catch the book and thanked her for the kind gesture not having any clue of what the princess was actually testing with this move on her part but this skill book will be absolutely beneficial to me and to my survival a new world here i come .
I was waking out of the palace no carriage no any means of transportation was granted to me so i will continue walking towards the kingdom capital Trond on my way i was reading the skill book in my hand quite excited to get to have my first skill the book itself wasn't long with two pages that had words and the rest of the book was filled with strange symbols after i flipped the last page the book turned into light and fused with me .
Appraisal i said and my status window appeared but was Different than before my status window appeared as followed
Name : Sakurai Ryuu .
Age : 16 .
Level : 1 .
Job : undetermined !!
Attributes :
Strength : 7 .
Stamina : 13 (-1) .
Agility : 8 .
Mana : 9 (-1) .
Spirit : 5 .
Hidden attributes :
Will : 20 .
Luck : 15 .
Fate : 40 .
Spirituality : 2 .
Comprehension : 9 .
Skills :
( Appraisal Lv1 ) { Active Skill } .
Titles :
summoned from another world .
..... .
The same blue screened status window but the skill appraisal was now there and a new column of something called hidden attributes appeared i checked with my ID card and yeah there was no mentioning it .
Is something wrong with the skill book that the princess gave me i she trying to plot against me too , i was contemplating about what was happening exactly until i got an idea can't i just use appraisal to find out .
Appraisal : the ability to detect most of the information about yourself and others work on items as well people with special tools can't be check and the ability is invalid against those 10 levels or higher than the holder of the skill , Cost 1 mana point .
I don't know if that how appraisal normally works or not i'm new to skills after all but other than that Hidden Attributes column everything is working just fine .
But is very taxing to use with my current mana points i already used it once and why did my stamina decrease too i only walked for a short distance and the road ahead of me is still long hope it would regenerate if i rested like that in the video games .
After spending some time walking approximately 10 minutes i used my appraisal skill and found out that my mana was back to 9 so at least in ten minutes or so i would be able to regenerate 1 mana point but my stamina wasn't increasing it was decreasing fast i already lost 5 points of stamina for some reason .
~Growl~ really i lost more than 3 points just because i was hungry how will i be even to reach the city that way and why the palace wasn't inside the capital city but outside .
Luckily a merchant carriage was now coming from the direction of the palace there was no horses pulling it and no driver too how was it moving i yelled stop and the carriage actually stopped and a voice come from inside the carriage saying go and the carriage was beginning to move again i shouted stop and again it stopped the voice from the inside came again and the carriage again started we kept on doing that for a few more times until the man inside lose his patience and decided to come out to see why was i stopping him .
The man that came out of the carriage door was a short dude wearing a luxurious clothes and have and i recognized him he was one of those who attended the summoning ritual and was there when i left the castle could he be a noble or some big shot hope he didn't get offended .
What is wro...oh how are you this evening mr hero or should i say former hero now how can Silver Wallace be of help .
I'm sorry to intercept your carriage but could you give me a ride to Trond .
I can but why should i do that ? .
I will pay you .
Nice to do business with you come up , he smiled widely as if he found a great opportunity or something .
I entered the carriage it was simple enough but there was a hovering blue stone above some kind of machinery oh the mana ston caught your interest or is it the extravagant carriage after all i paid a fortune to acquire it .
Both actually mr... Wallace right ? .
Actually the name is Silver , Wallace is the name of my father we have an opposite way of naming to you guys from another world and you should have been be more familiar with this design it's the invention of hero Matsumoto i believe he said that those new carriages are related to your old world cars but it is working on mana extracted from the mana stone you see in front of you .
Stop , a voice came from the outside and the carriage stooped what with it stopping to anyone who says stop .
The door was opened harshly and a group of bandits appeared oh if it isn't our regular customer mr Wallace , oh and he have company as well our sincere apologies .
Oh so it's you Scar here i already have the passing fee 3 mana stones all yours .
The only thought that i had was bandits on the road between the city and the royal palace and from his words this happens frequently too .
This won't be enough for the two of you mr Wallace you will have to pay us another 2 mana stones for the companion of yours .
I can pay you but do you recognize the title he have or his identity, in the end you don't want to get in trouble with the kingdom .
The rogue hooded guy looked in my direction and i can tell that he used appraisal or something similar as i sense that he was able to see through every information i have , if he see my attributes he will doubt that i'm faking my title as someone summoned from another world .
We are very sorry for any inconveniences that we caused for the mighty hero you are pardoned for only this time mr Wallace for the sake of hero's face .
And they closed the door and Wallace took a sigh of relief and stored the 3 mana stones once again .
What was that even about ? .
Didn't you hear they left us pass through for your sake .
Yeah i heard i'm confused on why though ? .
Mr Ryuu allow you to call you as such after we reach Trond we will go in our separate ways so in the meantime i will tell you why .
I see that you are underestimating the weight of the position of the being a hero but let me tell you in authority it ranks below the King and the crowned prince only and if they have enough strength they can even claim these two positions like what happened in the kingdom of Terra , the bandit leader Scar he was looking around as if checking if anyone was spying on us then said is working directly as a direct subordinate to prince Ogo but that doesn't mean he have the audacity to attack a summoned hero like your esteemed self so he let us through .
So even that prince have his own source of income by exploiting those who came from the royal palace .
But he saw my attributes shouldn't that have increased his doubts about me more , i asked Wallace .
Believe it or not that's the reason why we will go in our separate ways when we reach Trond after he checked your status and i hope you take no offense with your weak attributes and your blank skill column he thought you already got some tool or something on that was interfering with his skill so not only this removed his doubts about your identity but enforced it even more and told him that you are appreciated by the king so he didn't want any troubles to happen and let us through .
So you are worried about his retaliation after he discovered that i had given up my status as a hero , and here i thought you were strong-willed from the stunt you just pulled but i did intend to do that in the first place but you really pulled me into a muddled water .
Actually , i believed i just saved your life there i don't believe that greedy king gave you any mana stones in that pouch of yours and mind you i wouldn't have offered to pay for your sake not because i was being stingy but i don't walk with that much mana stones on me you know the value of one mana stone , i don't need to tell you about your fate if you fall in their hands by then .
I opened the pouch and found 20 silver coins laying there so yeah no blue Stones to be found anywhere in sight
I only shock my hand and told him that i don't know how valuable it is .
Let me tell you your 20 silver coins won't be even able to afford a shard of it a one mana stone are worth 10 gold coins and it's in high demand too .
How did you know that i have 20 silver coins in my pouch, i said putting my guards up .
I have no interest in taking that pouch of yours and It was my keen sense as a merchant that told me of how much exactly are you holding in that pouch of yours , i will even willingly give you 1 of those three mana stones that i would have gave to that scar .
Ooh, how nice of your to do so .
I was able to tell he was just trying to shift the blame in a way as if the bandits was able to get me but wasn't able to find anything valuable on me they will fully target him as he was the one to deceive them from the start so i'm just something akin to a gift to those bandits a sacrificial lamb but i will still take it that's for sure since there is no going back from now on .
( Back at the castle ) :
Your highness Scar is here as you ordered .
Ogo : let him come in
Scar : What is your orders for me your highness .
Ogo : i want you to found this man for me , he waved and a screen appeared showing the face of a certain human male .
Scar gazed at the screen for a bit then said
: i will do as you wish but is something special about this kid .
You know about the kingdom summoning heroes this was one of them but he gave up on his position and now i will be taking his life force signature to have a chance to enter the shrine of skills once again .