The Rise Of Rim
Chapter 8 - Starting a new life

What do living things need to survive? That's eating. For wild animals, they can hunt, food is everywhere, they just need to find and catch them.

But for humans, whether in any world, they need money to survive, not least rim.

Rim are human descendants, biologically, they inherit human intelligence and the ability to adapt and think.

For the rim and man, money remains the main thing, whether in any age they are, even in different forms.

In this world, each race had its own medium of exchange, such as reams with bronze, silver and gold coins. Money reams are almost the same as humans, thousands of years apart it is not easy to let go of their culture.

For a day's meal, usually one needed 5 bronze coins, it was complete with meat, bread and water.

A laborer is usually paid 7 bronze coins a day, a small amount, but, what is expected of this age? The rim civilization is only a city-state.

After Louis worked at the blacksmiths of Borgeus, Louis received much attention from the borge that Louis had not expected.

For a day, he was paid 10 bronze coins, even Borgeus promised to give a bonus if the sale increased.

Louis and Borgeus split their working hours, from morning to evening, and Louis would look after stores and serve customers and make weapons. For day and night, Borgeus will take over.

That was the deal, Louis was quite surprised that Borgeus quickly gave his trust, but it was probably related to nobility.

One day after their meeting, Louis begins his life in a new world as a blacksmith.

***

"For the first time, I got a good night's sleep." Louis said.

He was sitting on a slightly hard mattress, though not as good as on earth, but better than sleeping on a cold wood in the middle of a forest.

Borgeus gave him permission to stay in the blacksmith's shop, saying that there was one room he always used, but since there was now Louis, he could spend more time in his house.

Louis got up from the bed and walked towards the mirror that was not far from his place. A moment after he arrived, he looked at his body as a whole.

His skin and hair were white, his eyes lit up blue, and blue streaks like veins ran down his hands. From his face, he was arguably handsome, but Louis did not know about the taste of the rim, so he could not decide whether he was handsome or not.

"Is this rim? Notably, my muscles look very stocky, I'm sure the rim lady will be fascinated to see this. But I can't get out without clothes, there should be clothes here." Louis looked at his body without clothes.

He remembered that night, Borgeus said that Louis could wear his clothes in the closet.

Louis opened the closet next to the mirror, where he saw a lot of clothes, though shabby, but still worth using.

"I have to thank Borgeus later, he helped me a lot." Louis said.

Next, he had to shower and cleanse his body.

***

A few moments later.

The blacksmith Borgeus had 2 floors, when Louis came down from the 2nd floor to start work, he felt a new atmosphere, a bright and refreshing morning filled his body.

Unlike the atmosphere of the previous morning, it was full of challenges.

He looked out the window, there was no snow falling, the sun pierced through the window and made the entire room bright.

"Let's work." A sweet smile was seen on Louis's face.

Louis walked towards the window beside the door, where he saw a board hanger that said open in front and close in the back.

Louis immediately flipped the board over until the people outside could see that the blacksmith's store, the borgeus, was opened.

After that, he returned to the reception desk to sit down and wait for the customer to come.

Although the rim is famous for its barbaric life, the culture and design of the city almost resemble human civilization, as they once lived together for thousands of years.

Humans teach many reams of knowledge, ranging from making weapons, buildings and cooperation between groups.

Until it grows into an advanced race. It's just that, because of the dragons, the rims were eliminated into the North's interior.

The rims of this century knew nothing about their ancestors until their relationship with humans in the past, because they were accustomed to survival rather than pursuing unneeded knowledge.

Here, no different from the forest, the rim region may be safe, but not with the outside.

*ting!*

A bell rang that was attached above the store entrance, there, the door was opened because it was pushed from the outside, a customer had just walked in.

Louis quickly stood up and said, "Good morning," he tried to give a warm greeting.

"ah! Mr Louis?"

When he looked more clearly towards the entrance, he saw a woman with blackish-red hair.

"Ashley, is that you?"

"Sir Louis, it's good to see you again."

That's Ashley, the woman who told Louis the direction to the blacksmiths of Borgeus.

"I'm also happy, I didn't expect we'd see each other again so soon" Louis said.

"Haha.I usually go out in the morning to shop," as he spoke, ashley walked towards the reception desk where louis was standing.

"I can't forget your kindness that helped me at that time, thank you" said Louis.

"You don't have to think about it, it's just a little help." Ashley.

Yes, even so, it is very rare to meet good people. Louis's appearance yesterday made the people of this city feel disgusted and even away from him.

That was because louis looked like a slave, and the slave master was a noble, that is, they were not afraid of slaves, but afraid that if they helped a slave, a noble would accuse him of stealing his goods.

"So, you work here, Mr. Louis?" Ask ashley.

"Borgeus accepted me yesterday, he said I was talented and recruited me as his worker,"

"really? That's great, now you can start raising money to get back to your hometown" Ashley said.

"You're right, I need to start saving right now. By the way, what do you need here? You can ask me,"

Before answering louis' question, Ashley began to think for a moment, he hesitated, so he turned to look around where the sword, shield, and spear were on each wall.

Ashley then said without looking at Louis, "Is there a good sword?"

"Sword? Yeah... I'll choose it for you" said louis.

Louis did not ask why he needed a sword, perhaps someone threatened him so much that he intended to buy a sword?

No, a woman would not be able to lift a sword, even if it was a rim woman. Not because of physicality, but women mostly do not like violence.

Maybe because his house ran out of guns, because in every town or village, there must be thieves.

If a stranger comes into your house and you let him empty the house, even give your own body to satisfy the thief? Sure didn't.

But, whatever it is, it's his business, meddling is not good, it's better to be quiet and think positive.

"My father was very eager to join the expedition to the western forest, but since our family sword was brought by my brother, we had to buy a new one," Ashley said.

'For his father? Worth it, ' thought Louis.

"Expedition to the western forest? What'sthat?" Ask Louis.

"Recently, the wolves had appeared in the western forest, the oirat nobility were afraid of their arrival, because the city was currently empty, and the city was empty, the young warrior was brought east by king Thorin to fight against the snow Orcs, therefore, the nobles asked for help to the city of thorin," Ashley replied.

"And, they're giving you help?" Ask Louis.

"No, they refused because thorin had no soldiers left. Therefore, rather than letting the wolves come, the nobles would rather kill them directly in the lair,"

"What! Isn't that dangerous? It's better to wait for them to come and kill them from the wooden wall" Louis said.

"The original plan was, but our cities of roden, pompey and oirat would form a coalition against them, because it was an expedition" Ashley said.

"In that case, his success rate will increase drastically,"

"That's, but... It's impossible that no one died" Ashley said.

Thinking of death, Ashley became moody, she thought of her father who would follow the expedition.

Besides, his brother in the east is at war, if both of them die? Louis is sure Ashley will be sad.

'Ashley's face looks sad, should I help her, but how?' thought Louis.

Louis began to think hard about how he would help Ashley. Words alone would not appease him, nor was Louis good at stringing sweet and soothing words.

In the end, he could not think about it.

'Wait, wasn't the expedition good? I can try, ' Louis thought.

Louis began to smile.

To be continued...