“Does your staff or armor made a difference in what you can cast? Or how fast you can do so?” Heart asked him, working things out in his head. Right now it seemed that Ash was the mage and he the warrior, he was meant to be on the front lines protecting Ash and Ash himself came in with some strong attacks to deal a lot of damage in one go. Right now though he hadn’t seen Ash in action so he didn’t know how strong those attacks were.
“Yes a better staff means lower cast times, more spells sometimes. As for armor, it just adds better defense, and less health taken when attacked. Well at least for me. Have you chosen a class yet?” he asked now, to return to his side. Having felt silly he hadn't asked this sooner.
“No.” Heart told him, still looking thoughtful. “Thinking about it though, I’d likely be a warrior. I don’t think I’m the kind of person to hide beside someone or something. I might be a bit reckless as well.”
“Well do you want to go register your class in the guild? If you don't like it, you can always change your class later on, though you'll have to start over in experience for that class. Though there are some people that level up in more than one class... “he whispered the end part in awe. “...But either way, you can only be one class at a time.”
Heart thought about it, but that seemed like a pain to do at the moment. “Is there a bonus for picking a class?”
“Um… not really? Other than a few cooper for meal or towards items you want to buy.” he explained. It was a small amount, enough to get started really, but that was all.
“I see.. What level are you?” He wondered as he noted that his Stats - well, at least his attack had gone up by one. Five attack, four defence, no magic at all and a hundred and ten health. Leveling up might be easy enough in the beginning but it seemed he wasn’t really boosting much right now.
“I’m level two.” he smiled, he had worked hard for that. As far as he knew anyways. “So I have six attack, three defense, four magic, 4 stamina for magic and a hundred health.”
“I see, so we’re both pretty low right now.. Leaving the town right now might really be a mistake for both of us.” He said softly. “Well, let’s go to the guild then and sort of class, then take up a few more quests.”
‘Okay.” he smiled. “Don’t worry, leveling up will be easier with the two of us.” he grinned, following him back through the town as the sun was beginning to climb low into the sky. “So what do you wanna do? Your dream, you know?”
“My.. dream..” Heart said softly, thinking. “Right now.. I think I’ve forgotten it. So I guess my current one is to remember it.” He raised his hand up to touch the side of his head, looking troubled. “I know they’re there, memories, but right now it’s difficult trying to remember them.”
“Eh?? You can’t remember your dream?” he couldn’t help but smile, amused. “That’s weird. It’s like you’re a main character or something.” he laughed now. “Don’t you have any family or something to tell you?”
“Yeah, haha..” Heart said as he looked away a bit. “Mm, I don’t know? I guess I can’t really feel bummed out about something I don’t remember a lot. Though.. When you asked me my name, I remembered it because.. It felt like someone I knew used to say it alot to me. I can’t remember them though but I remember the feeling I got when they said it. Maybe I’ll remember later on though.”
“Oh.. huh.” Ash looked thoughtful before nodding. “Well.. I can be your family.” Though at Heart’s confused look he grinned and said “Well… working together and being in a team is kinda like family. We have each other’s backs you know?”
“I wouldn’t really call that family. You’d have to be really shitty of a person to leave your friend’s back open for an attack.” Heart pointed out to him. “You can call it that, I can’t really rip the idea out of your head - yet anyway.. But I’ll just stick to calling us friends.”
Ash pouted a little at his explanation but it did make sense to him. “Okay, okay. Friends it is.” he smiled now. The pair arriving to the guild building again and this time, the large white columns on the outside had lit torches on them. Lighting the entire front of the building up comfortably as entering the place again this time around showed less people. There were some- sitting and chatting, others sleeping in waiting areas, but otherwise, the hub had died down now for the night. Ash got the feeling once he exited the building, he would come out to see night.
“Heart, over here.” Ash said, having gone to another area of the building in his staring. It seemed like a box. One slot at the top, and a slot on the bottom. “It only needs a cooper for a class change.” he said, pulling out a coin from his back pocket, and slipping it into the coin slot on the side before a paper popped out promptly. On the paper there were only four classes: Mage, Warrior, Archer and Assassin. “Here.” Ash gave him the paper and a little pen that had been spat out as well. “Just checkmark the class you want, and then push it in. You won’t be able to change your class for a whole day though, so choose carefully. Oh and certain quests can’t be done by certain classes too by the way.”
“It is surprising pretty forward.” Heart said as he checked warrior class, a list of weapons he could use appearing on the bottom of the paper now. Swords were pretty common but there were others he didn’t know what they were. He guessed assassin was speed based, mage was magic of course, warrior attack power and he guessed archer was the same as warrior and assassin. Maybe. He guessed the fact that he didn’t have a speed stat meant his was shit, which would make sense given how difficult it had been just to run the last bit to the town. He should start working on that. “And there. But since it’s night and the clerk is gone I guess no quests after all. I should head home then.. After I by some food..”
“Well the quests are still here, you just can’t accept them until the clerks return tomorrow morning. They have to sleep too you know.” he smiled now. Nodding at his words as he said “Is there something you want? Or I guess.. It depends how much we have.” he said thoughtfully. “How about we go use a silver for a good meal at the tavern?” he grinned. “I’m buying.”
Heart flinched when the tavern was brought up. “Um. Maybe not. I can cook a few things.” Better not head back there and have them see Ash buying him food. “It’s fine. We’ll meet up tomorrow here, yeah?”
Ash blinked before smiling. “Sure, see you bright and early then.” he smiled, patting his back now before moving away. Leaving the guild building to head to his own home.
Heart watched him for a moment before looking over at the request board, moving over to look at the job offers. More seeds, some wood from the forest - normal small village stuff it seemed. A hundred gold was good starting money, but what sort of level should they be to leave? They couldn’t just leave with sticks either, though Ash already had a weapon. It felt like he was going to be here a while, maybe that was why he had started in that house. Was fast travel a thing in this world? If it was that might explain the fancy as hell house too..
Turning he headed out of the guild and back to the edge of town, though when he reached the sign he took a deep breath and started jogging now. It took a while, but it didn’t feel as far as when he had first set out to reach the house again. When he did he had raised his speed up by one. Well, it was a start he guessed. Coming inside he found a pot on the table and moved over to it. A meal? A note said it was thanks from the old couple. How had they gotten it all the way out here? Getting a plate and fork, he sat down to eat slowly. The taste.. It was pretty good. Lamb? As he ate he felt tears pooling in his eyes. It felt like a very long time since he had eaten a home cooked meal..
End.
Chapter end levels:
Heart current level one:Six atk, four defense, no magic and a hundred and ten health. Speed one.
Ash is level two: six attack, three defense, four magic, 4 mp, casting spd 3 and a hundred health.
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