Talks

[I would just like to say that, due to external problems, I will be unable to update as often. I appreciate your understandings thank you.]

"You sure you don't want anything from your tomb?" Miss Valentine speaks, in quite the friendly manner.

This is a matter we just happened to be discussing, 'How are we supposed to share the damn loot?'

"I am certain, I need them not. There's not much anyway. Bunch of rotten metals." I replies. "Now may I ask about my immediate duties? As, for that, I am quite uncertain."

"Yeah sure, honestly not much. You'll get used to the lab first, probably very primitive, but hey, best in this country. Then you'll have to report to duty and get to know everyone. Now let me get one thing straight, I take no swine, so you will engage at the front of combat. But worry not, we have no immediate wars."

Great, I barely remember how to fight, only clinging onto basics. Nor do I remember much about magics anyway. Now that I think about it, combat is probably easier for me right now.

"Ok, got it." I'll ask for permission to access her books or whatever form of knowledge in a more private setting, not now.

"I am quite new to this world, may I ask for a bit elaboration?"

"Sure, of course."

Miss Valentine starts speaking: "We have no idea of our origins or anything, we have lost plenty of knowledge. In our recording, it all began with the Catastrophe, which in your tongue is the Disaster. It was never solved, the Catastrophe. All of those monsters that supposedly popped up, we got used to them. It might even be hard for us to fathom a world without them. Now, since the Catastrophe, we have been through stages of dormancy as a civilisation. Kingdoms were formed but we never recovered, or moved on. I shall spare you the details, but to summarize, we lost knowledge, and now we are running around looking for ancient dungeons to retake them. There were even wars that were fought over for them, my parents died in one of those wars, sadly the ruin, which was claimed with their sacrifice, was but empty. The only thing we found effective was some ancient metal. I didn't get any of those cake. The other dukes took them and gave me an honorary medal. How nice of them."

"Since then I lost my faith in those Dukes and nobles. The state of Silvan used to be much larger, now, with the **** of the greatest Duke and Duchess ever seen by the nation, this enormous land was swallowed bit by bit. The Dukes were greedy, the royals were suspicious, I can't fight, or my head gets chopped off, or perhaps I end up in a dungeon, either case. Now, to be honest, those did me a favor. I was more conscious of my people, I roamed my land to look after them, to learn their relations with the state. Till I realised, they aren't untrainable fools needing the blood of some self proclaimed higher noble to even start thinking. They can, they just won't, for had they done it, they die. Of starvation or otherwise. What I realised was, that perhaps they are the foundation of nations, may haps they, are the key to thrive. I hope my words did not bore you, I apologise, I digressed." She seemed to have a lot more to say, she needed someone to speak to it seemed. She seemed too lonely, doesn't she?

"Back to the main topic. This world has.................................So, that is all."

Ok, let me recap a bit.

There's 27 Nations in the whole damn continent, a lot less than what we had, but they are all a lot smaller than what we had, cause most of the land is inhabited by monsters. The land Fiersha is surrounded by land, Silvan is at the south-west region of it, and it is bordering 3 nations: Neurane, Glial, Neirve. Damn these names. Neurane to the East, Glial to the north-west and Neirve to the west-south. Fiersha only borders Neirve. From what I understood, I am the only one left, with the idea of Paths intact, so all of those great warriors are but half mages. Neat.

I feel quite confident with the situation in hand, supposedly they shouldn't be too tough, but if I can wake up, others can too. So grasp every second I should.

So for now, my plan is to bond further with Miss Valentine.