
"I was still curious about the lightning earlier," Darren said as he walked through the trees. "Is that really me doing it?"
He saw his hand. His two broken fingers had grown back. He also wondered how this could happen.
"It's like it should be impossible. That broken finger is not something that is easy to treat" Darren told him. "Is this the effect of lightning magic?"
"If it's that easy to use magic, can I try to do it again?"
Darren opened both of his palms. He tried to write the words that appeared in his head.
"Fire Ball!" Instantly, a fireball appeared from his hand and slid into a tree in front of him.
"So this is what we call magic?" Darren didn't expect it to be this easy to use.
He tried to cast different kinds of magic that he thought was cool. Most of the magic he raced came from his knowledge of the anime and fantasy manga he had read.
"Earth wall!"
"Wind whirl!"
"Light bolt!"
"A water bubble attack!"
All of these words produce different magic. Just saying it alone could already make it this strong.
"It's great!" Shouts enthusiastically.
Suddenly he felt his head a little dizzy. The use of magic requires an energy called mana. Looks like Darren's out of nowhere.
"As in anime. I need to recharge my energy," thought Darren.
Without thinking much, Darren immediately put up a sitting position on the ground. With crossed legs and fingers that form the letter O, like meditating.
"Focus it!"
Before long, Darren felt an energy flowing in his body. The energy felt warm and cold at the same time.
After meditating, Darren's body became fresher. He stood up and moved his hand that felt lighter.
"In this way, I can continue the journey" Darren said.
The journey in the forest was quite heavy, plus it was already night. Many powerful monsters sprung up.
But with his newly learned magic power, Darren can crush all those monsters easily.
Often he was exhausted and exhausted. But he quickly overcame it by meditating. All of his lost power returned full quickly.
One by one the powerful monsters began to be defeated. Darren started to feel something different about him. He felt his strength was lasting longer.
"I don't get tired easily. Is this the effect of killing monsters?" Her thought. "As per what the goblin said earlier."
Darren recalled that he still had a gun. The axe he took from the goblin earlier. But he decided to keep it and preferred to use magic for now.
Since the night was still long, Darren thought of gathering as many levels as possible while he was in this forest.
"It's like grinding. Just like in the game."
That night, Darren killed a lot of monsters. But he didn't kill everything. He only kills mindless monsters.
According to him, senseless monsters would even be dangerous if left alive. Meanwhile, intelligent monsters like goblins and ogres, too unfortunate if killed.
Actually, Darren just can't bear to kill a resourceful monster. He could not imagine how sad their family would be if they found that a family member had died.
Darren often runs into a lot of monsters. Before he attacked, Darren always tried to talk to them to make sure.
Most intelligent monsters would still attack him. But Darren won't stay silent either. He will not hold back from retaliating. Then Darren would release them in a state of severe injuries, without killing them.
There were also some monsters that escaped when they first saw Darren. They seem to be able to see Darren's strength and choose to save themselves.
"As long as they don't attack first, I won't attack them either" That's Darren's motto in this world.
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The sun is starting to rise. At the same time, Darren managed to get out of the forest. After an entire night of monster hunting, Darren could feel his strength increasing tremendously from before.
"Finally! A world where I'm not a loser!" He shouted while walking away from the forest.
From a distance, vaguely, Darren could see a city. Due to the dense fog, Darren could only see the light.
"What is the city in question?" Thought Darren.
Hungry already, Darren immediately ran towards the city. He wants to eat quickly.
The city is surrounded by a huge wall. It reminds Darren of an anime.
"Eh, it's like that anime..."
At the entrance of the city, there were many guards. They were all armed with swords, and some were also using spears.
Before entering, people will be checked first. From their items, to their status, everything would be checked.
"If I had this axe, would I have been allowed in, huh?" Thought Darren while hesitating.
But anyway, he had to go in and look for food. He's been very hungry.
"Hey, you over there," call a guard.
Darren who felt called, looked back. He saw a guard approaching him.
"Where are you from?" Ask the guard.
Darren thought if he told him he was from Indonesia, people wouldn't know that name.
"Eh. anu, I'm from the Eastern Kingdom" Darren replied without thinking.
It seemed like training uniforms were a rare thing in this world. No wonder they thought it was strange.
The guard began to search Darren. He opened his bag and was surprised.
"W-what's this... Goblin Axe!?" The guard was surprised.
Darren panicked. He thinks he's in trouble. But...
"So you've already defeated the goblin king?" The guard was excited.
"Ah, yes. I defeated him," Darren replied awkwardly.
After that, Darren was welcome to enter without further questioning.
Darren sighed. He was really panicked, but luckily no problems occurred.
After wandering around the city, Darren saw a lot of new things. The city is inhabited by many kinds of living things. There are humans who have animal ears, there are also humans who have pointed ears.
"So here there are elves and animal humans, yes," Darren told him.
After a long tour, Darren found that the alphabet letters used here are different from his home world.
"⦣ ⁇ ∷" A writing board hangs in front of the door of a building.
Darren really did not understand what the writing meant. But he kept entering it.
The room was filled with seats. Many people were also seen eating there. It looks like this is a restaurant.
"Ah shit," Darren just realized something. "I don't have any money!"
Darren approached the cashier.
"Excuse me," he said politely, "Do you accept payment using goods here?"
The cashier looked at Darren. "Oh, are you a newcomer?"
Darren surprised. "Ah, yes. I just got here."
"Oh, so that's it," said the cashier. "Sorry, but we only accept payments using gold, silver, and copper."
Darren breathed. He already suspected this.
"If I may help," The cashier continued, "You can sell the items you have in the Guild. Usually they'll buy whatever's on offer."
Upon hearing the Guild's words, there was only one thing that came to Darren's head. Namely, Adventurers.
"Oh, so so. Thank you for the information" Darren replied.
The cashier told Darren the direction. He said the Guild was located in the center of the city.
In order to sell items, people were required to register to become adventurers first, which was a problem for Darren.
But he will still do. Anyway, the main priority is to find money to eat.
After walking around for quite a while, Darren finally managed to find the guild. The guild's construction was huge, like a towering tower.
While inside, Darren could see many people were gathering with their team.
"Do I have to form a party first?" Darren said slowly.
"no need. You can sign up right away, "Suddenly someone slapped Darren on the shoulder.
Darren spontaneously immediately turned his head back and pulled the man's arm down.
"Whoa... S-sorry, I didn't mean to attack you" Darren said.
"Ah, no. To be honest it was great," said the person while trying to stand up. "You have a strong energy, and your reflexes are also quite high."
That guy is a big man. He wore a shiny black armor and a large two-bladed sword.
"Are you new here?" Ask the guy.
"Yes, I just arrived this morning," Darren felt this person was not a bad person.
"I thought so" said the man. "Your clothes look different. Is that the typical outfit of your residence?"
"Yes, you could say so," Darren replied with an awkward smile. "This shirt is a sports shirt."
Crew... Darren's stomach rang.
"Do you know where to sell things?" Ask Darren.
"Yes. You just need to go to the reception desk. But you must register to be an adventurer first" replied the man.
Darren could sense that the person before him was a very strong person. But luckily the guy was good.
Darren also signed up to be an adventurer. In front of the reception desk, Darren is asked to touch a magic ball.
As per his explanation, the magic ball was used to measure one's level. And also used to measure the stats of adventurers.
Darren casually touched the magic ball.
Suddenly...
Crash!!! The magic ball broke the moment Darren touched it.
"W-what's this!?" The receptionist was surprised.
Since it was considered to have damaged the guild's facilities, Darren was fined ten silver coins.
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"It's just a list, it's unlucky."