The first task

"Master, can choose any task."- the system responded.

For a while, Lei Peng tried to digest what this meant, but then he asked: "What do you mean, any one? "

" Master, he assigns himself a task, because as the successor of the Mad God, NO ONE and NOTHING has the right to tell you what to do."-Lei Peng was taken aback by the system's response.

"So I'm my own master and no one else? "

"That's right, master. "

"And the task can be anything? "

" Yes!"

Lei Peng began to think about what kind of task to set for himself: "I just got into this world and if I choose something excessively difficult as my goal, then I will get a reward for fuck knows when, you need to choose something easy that I will do without much effort. By the way, where am I anyway? I need to find out more about this place and, based on the situation, lay the foundation for my future." *

Jin*"Task: Get information about the environment,do you accept?"

2 buttons appeared in front of him:"Yes", "No"

Lei Peng immediately, without further thought, accepted the task.

Then he tried to remember something about the world around him, but to his surprise, unlike the novels, he had no memories other than the local language.

Then the guy began to look around the room in which he was. It was a stone room with a straw mattress and a small table, the room itself was about 6 square meters in size. There were several books on the table. One of them was called "1000 Recipes of the Imeri Kingdom", to Lei Peng's surprise, as soon as he read the title of the book, a notification appeared: "Information about the environment has been received, would you like to complete the task?"

After thinking for a couple of seconds, the guy realized that his task did not have a clear goal and therefore the task is considered completed as soon as he completed at least something that technically corresponds to the goal, in this case, he received information about the name of the kingdom in which he is located. But remembering that the reward is given based on the difficulty and evaluation of the task, I realized that if he now passes the task, then the reward will be appropriate. So Lei Peng decided not to take the assignment until he felt that he knew enough. In addition to the book with the recipes of the food was still 2, namely "How to handle a knife, a guide for dummies" and "the World of meat", the first obviously had knowledge of the operation with the knife, and the second about how to cook meat, which spices to use in any particular case, etc.

"Apparently, I should probably learn to cook, or something like that."-Lei Peng analyzed.

"Hmm, system, could I somehow quickly learn the contents of these books?"- the young man asked the system at random, wanting to know the capabilities of his system.

"Yes, for a certain number of points, the owner can learn the content of any technique or professional skill and perfectly integrate them into their use."

"Fine!" -Lei Peng, was grateful to himself for having read thousands of novels in the past, because otherwise he could have found out about this opportunity much later, but now he did not have glasses, so he decided to postpone his idea of studying cooking until better times. Plus, in his past life, food was the only thing that made Lei Peng happy besides being immersed in fictional worlds, so Lei Peng's cooking skills were quite high and he was sure that he would not be inferior to the local royal chefs, because he knew many recipes from his own world, and his new world seems to be focused on strength and without technological progress, so Lei Peng doubted the culinary skills of local chefs.

After that, he decided to look out the window. The landscape outside the window reminded me of a medieval European city. Next, Lei Peng decided to leave the room and explore the surroundings, leaving the room, he found himself in a long corridor with many doors, passing to the end of which, went down the stairs and found himself in a small, about 20 square meters. meters hall, where two soldiers were sitting at a table at the entrance. One of them was leaning back in a chair, asleep, and the other was tending to his sword. When he noticed Lei Peng, he said to him, " Ares, are you going somewhere?"

Lei Peng immediately realized that this was probably the name of the previous owner of the body and quickly made up an excuse, and said:"I need to buy some spices. "

" All right, come over and sign in to the session log."-the guard replied.

Approaching the log, Lei Peng quickly ran through the log with his eyes, since in his previous life he had learned to quickly find important information and key words among a large volume of text, and almost immediately found the only person in the magazine with the name Ares, namely, it was written: "Apprentice cook-Ares Algra", which Lei Peng wrote in the first column of the magazine, then repeated the signature, controlling his handwriting with the help of "Hands of the Devil".

When he was done he turned to the guard and asked:"Can I go now?"

He nodded and said:"Yes, you can go, but do not forget that there will be a training session at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, do not be late, or Captain Royce will arrange for you..."

"Captain Royce is probably the soldier responsible for my training."-Lei Peng noted to himself.

While Lei Peng was looking through the magazine, he noticed that most of the soldiers in it, there were also a few people like him, cooks or for example a couple of healers-students. From this, Lei Peng deduced that he was an apprentice cook in a military camp or something, and the training that the guard was talking about probably meant self-defense lessons, because even though he was in a military camp, he was an apprentice cook and no one was going to make an elite soldier out of him.

"I'll walk around and listen to what people are talking about, maybe I can find out something." - the guy thought to himself and began to look for as lively places as possible on the streets, a good option for getting a primary idea of the environment would be to go to the bazaar. Lei Peng seemed to be walking in the direction of the city center. On the street, the commoners gossiped about everything.

"Did you hear it said that the young Marchioness of Wessley was caught with a lover?!"- said one stocky man.

"Oh, come on! She only got married a week ago! "-the lanky man shouted back. The system made the task notification sound again, and Lei Peng immediately called out to the system, "System, could you please turn off these notifications? "

"Of course, master!"-The system obeyed.

Lei Peng returned his attention to the conversations around him.

"I heard the orcs have started attacking again on the northern front!"-someone in the crowd was saying, Lei Peng stopped, this conversation interested him, the speaker was a man in his fifties, he was standing in the company of two men, about the same age.

"Bullshit! Everyone would know about it if it was true!"-said his companion.

"I'm not lying! The grandson of my sister-in-law's grandmother's niece's cousin's uncle, serving on the northern border! That's why I know about it! " - the man began to shout because they did not believe him.

"Are there any orcs in this world? Interesting! "-said Lei Peng in his heart.