Hellbents
Chapter 3: The One Who is Good to Me
“[Status].” After concluding the method to summon a transparent blue screen, it imitated River's behavior. Ava understood the way, it was easy. But there was something strange about the status screen.
Name : *** ******
Race : Human
Level 1: 1
Power :1
Speed: 1
Duration : 1
Intelligence :1
Indra :1
Status points: 1
Skill: Observation (innate) (level 1)
256 coins
Why is his name censored? In addition, he remembered the notification before he fainted yesterday “level increased” and “process error!”. Ava assumed that after killing the lizard man yesterday, he should have gotten a level up, but something went wrong. This logic applies only to .. RPG games that are usually shown by Lexa, but it can usually be seen through a mobile phone, laptop, or computer, not visual in plain sight like this. Virtual reality? It still does not explain the pain and swelling in his body that is clearly real.
He needs more information. That's when River knocked on the door. “Log in.” Ava immediately put on a business smile. For the umpteenth time, River again brought honey water and some pieces of paint. After secretly swapping out the glass River had brought in a few hours ago and seeing that the man was fine, Ava ended up drinking what she was carrying, she said, but he did not know that River was a person with excessive attention. The first three glasses he drank were for courtesy, but the glasses after that he threw the contents into a pot of plants by the window after River had left. Drinking too much can also lead to death. “Thank you,” says Ava. Then River, as he had previously sat by the bed, drinking his glass, would not speak until Ava broke the awkwardness.
“Sorry, is there a library around here?”
“Library? Ah, there's an old library near the town hall. But you should rest first for the next three days as recommended by Ms. Leslie.”
Leslie's? Looks like the female doctor.
Ava plans to sneak out, but considering River visits her every two hours, walking through a strange town to find a library seems impossible.
While on the other hand, River who felt bad to forbid the girl in front of him to just read chiming again, “Anu, if you are bored, I can lend you some books, I have some, I have some, but maybe the type is not too entertaining,” River said hurriedly.
“What type do you mean?”
“History and Encyclopedia of monsters.”
Ava's eyes flashed, a book like that was all she needed. “I really like to read, so anything I can read.”
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After the Tenebrist rebellion occurred, the earth which originally only had one large land called Insulae was divided into 5 islands, each named Meridianam, Edodale, Afrein, Uflaria, and Feretrum Sanctus, respectively, the plains became the center of the development of witchcraft, knowledge, economics, military, and politics.
After the Regio negotiations that took place at the Feretrum Sanctus, finally issued a boundary rule that divides the ocean-south
Earth with a different history.
[Systems] that have emerged since the time of the creation of the earth help humanity to develop and improve its standard of living through the benefits that are brought with it. The content of [System] itself is governed by [Game master] in accordance with the requirements and approvals and under the supervision of [The developer].
Like the game system he thought.
Green lizard reproduces using --
A real monster he faced himself.
Though hard to believe, Ava concludes that she ... entered another dimension? Another world? Parallel universe? The multiverse? The Mille-Feuille Hypothesis? Or it's just someone's nosy work to work on it, a complicated mess that's on a very, very large scale. But what's the point of doing that? To be honest, all of these possibilities are equally impossible. So Ava decided to accept this misfortune for what it is.
But the priority is definitely, back to the original situation. Lexa needs.
The next three days Ava did not move from River's house at all, but that did not mean she was just silent. Ava had read through the two books given to her on the first day and only memorized the contents in the following days, especially regarding the list of monsters that could have attacked her out there. In addition, if River did not visit him, he actively did sports such as push-ups, pull-ups, and floor exercises even though his body still feels pain, he said, but maybe because it was also swollen around his neck still not deflated completely.In addition, when River left his house, that's when he did a secret investigation, he said, start the escape route and how he will escape if something happens, what kind of weapons River has, or other ordinary things. There was no sign of anyone else in the house, but he found some old women's clothes that fit Ava's size in the room she was now sleeping in, it was likely that the owner had a close relationship with River in the past but had no longer lived with him. A lover? The sister? A sister?
Also, after finishing his first porridge, Ava asked about the bag he was carrying, River immediately ran and appeared instantly with the bag Ava was referring to. That way his personal belongings he has again. The knife and the gun inside immediately moved to the bottom of his pillow, in case there was an attack, whether it was from evil humans or other monsters.
On the promised day, River escorts Ava to the library. Although she finds no way to return to her native earth, Ava gets other information that helps her understand this world other than the ones River has described.
The setting of this world is more like medieval, so there is no advanced technology as in modern times, besides there is still a caste system that distinguishes between working members, nobles, commoners, and others, even slaves, the difference is only magic and artifacts that can be used for daily activities. So that he could not steal a motorbike, a car, even anyone's bike to accelerate his journey, there was only a horse carriage, Ava who initially never wondered how to ride a horse, now requires this skill.
Not expecting River to wait until night in front of the library, Ava is stunned and offers to buy food from the restaurant that is still open with the money she got from the carcass of the Green lizard, apart from being an apology, the treaty was also intended as a farewell greeting.
“I'll go tomorrow.”
River spoon stopped in the middle of the road. “What's your next destination?”
“Maybe in another city there is information I am looking for.” Of course Ava did not tell him that he was looking for a way to return to another world, to avoid being labeled as crazy or alien.
“Drug that can treat anything? Elixir life you mean?”
Ava just nodded, pretending to understand. It is also not entirely a lie, if there is indeed a drug like that of course Ava will take to cure Lex, he said, in a world full of magic and monsters like this there could indeed be such a medicine right?
“Di Tezia could be there.”
Tezia, the capital of the kingdom of Igoceolon, one of the four great kingdoms of Meridianam. Big cities do have more possibilities in loading the information they want.
“But do you have enough equipment? The money? What vehicle? Food?” I don't know why those questions are going against him like a police interrogation.
“I have enough weapons for some low-level monsters. Money can be earned from selling the monsters I killed. For vehicles, I can ride a merchant transport train that is in line with me. Food can be bought with money, besides that I can also hunt small animals.”
A huge frown appeared on River's forehead which usually seemed friendly, he was angry?
“Do not! Not only are there low-level monsters roaming around, if you're not careful you can get killed, it hasn't been a week that you lay dying because of a Green Lizard!”
Ava wanted to interrupt that she wasn't dying, just pain and swelling for four days.
“In addition there are so many bandits who target the merchant train, your life can be threatened!”
“But I have to be soon--”
“Then I will keep you at Tezia.”
“But I don't want to trouble you anymore.” Why did this man go so far as to help a stranger? But with River present, Ava can lower her risk of losing her life considering she hasn't really adapted in this world.
“I don't feel bothered.”
Well, then Ava won't refuse the bail offered to her.