Wizard Of Cosmos

14 - Are You Interested in Hunting

“This is my seal. Boris will accept it.”

“Thank you, Master.”

“It is nothing. Now go next door and meet Amelia. She will find you a place to settle down. It is safer to leave tomorrow morning.”

“Yes, Master.”

…

“What do you want?”

“Are you… Amelia?”

Jason stopped in front of the young woman. 

Honestly, he didn’t expect to see a figure like this in such a place. She was definitely below thirty, and her looks weren’t inferior. She was a beauty except for the shallow healing scar across her left cheek. 

Her grey shirt and long pants gave her a daring look that matched her deep black pupils. Jason thought her silver hair was exceptional. Her voice and gaze carried a cold and distant feeling. 

What stomped him was not her looks or her cold eyes, but the strength she was hiding. This was the Grandmaster that observed him when he entered the village. She definitely had the ability to talk to any person in such a tone. Even to a weaker Wizard.

“I am. What do you need?”

‘Don’t you already know why I am here?’

He was sure she already knew he had been to meet Master Merlin. 

“My name is Jason. I am looking for a place to stay tonight. Master Merlin said you might be able to help me.”

“Hm… There is an extra room in the house. You can stay there. Are there any weird behaviours I have to know about you?”

“Huh? I might leave at night and only come back in the morning.”

He showed her the armband.

Her behaviour didn’t puzzle him at all. A person like him didn’t pose any threats to her. Jason felt she still didn’t know that he knew about her strength. However, her indifferent eyes made him wonder if she was thinking of him as a child. 

“If you can leave, why stay here?”

“I can leave back to my world, but I can only come back to the place I left.”

“That explains. Dinner will be ready by six, and I am closing the door by seven.”

“Thank you… Can I pay you with silver?”

He had no idea how much he should pay her, but he had no coppers or gold with him. He wasn’t trying to freeload, and he didn’t want to start on the wrong foot with someone as powerful as this. 

“Money? What good is that?”

“Don’t you trade with the Forestedge?”

“We do? But what can we buy? People here trade gems and minerals from abandoned mines for food and other basic needs. Money is useless to Light Shone, so just keep it.”

“I understand.”

Jason tied the small coin pouch back to his belt. He didn’t understand the current state of the village, but he decided to find out. 

“I will be back before the dark.”

This woman had enough strength to feed the entire village, and so did Master Merlin. However, both seem to be retiring in this place, hiding from the world.

…

“Here.”

Dawn gave the coin back to Jason.

She was initially unhappy about receiving one silver to share with detestable Logan, but she still had to respect Jason’s demand. Besides, she wasn’t that hungry. Because of the intense training she had, Dawn could stay without food for days. She just asked this to confirm if the others also felt hungry like her.

“What happened?”

Jason wondered if the situation was bad as Amelia said. 

“There is nothing for sale. The situation seems bad, man. Most people are not that well.”

Logan also wasn’t in the mood to fight Dawn. He saw the malnourished children and hungry villagers. Things were too real to the point where he failed to think that this was just a game and that these people were NPCs.  

“Doesn’t Alexandria support them?”

“Apparently not. This village isn’t a part of Alexandria.”

“What?”

Jason frowned.

“Yeah. We talked to the village elder. This village was originally a part of the lost kingdom. Something that is supposed to be inside this forest. Then after it was gone, this village was left alone.”

“Gone?”

“Hm… Yeah. Something that happened a very long time ago. This village is apparently very old.”

“So no one is coming here?”

“Not really. Adventurers used to come here long ago, but now most explorations are happening at the sea. This was what the village leader said. I recorded everything, do you want to see it?”

Dawn was happy to assist Jason.

“No.”

Jason fell into thought for a moment. 

‘This won’t do.’

He already established a valuable connection in this village. If nothing bad happened between him and Master Merlin, he would leave a great attachment to this place in the future.

Honestly, he had no idea what the future would bring to him, but Light Shone would be his starting point. He first had to make sure that this place was suitable for him to live in.

“Are you interested in hunting?”

This was the only way that came to his mind with the things available to him. Even for that, he wasn’t confident about hunting alone with his current body. 

Food was one of the most important factors, and he had to rely on the resources of this village for that. Besides, gaining the trust of the villagers could ease many things. After all, he was not even from this world.

No matter what he experienced this far, he couldn’t expect all the people of Yuriel to treat him equally. On Earth, there were many problems among humans who lived in the same world. 

He knew how people would treat the people from Earth once they started living here. No matter what they do, they would be people who came here from another place. 

‘I wonder if I could find a different place.’

Even if the Angel of Death made sure they were treated fairly in his past life, there were many things she couldn’t do.

‘I have to make sure I have the right to live here peacefully.’

In the end, this was the world he would live in the future.

“Hunting? Do you have a plan?”

Logan was interested. The hunger was real, and it was shown as a debuff on their stats. He wondered if it was even possible to play this game properly. 

“Hmm. Did you see any blacksmith?”

“Yeah. It is located on that side.”

“Let’s go.”

He couldn’t hunt with a sword with his current strength. Especially not the monstrous animals that lived on Yuriel.