Chapter 3

Stephanie looked around. She was able to quickly figure out the location of a city, with the help of the previously acquired map.

It was, however, a two-day walking distance as such she first decided to head to the nearby river and get some water.

Her 'System' had a currency, which you could get by selling goods, creating things that didn't previously exist, and sometimes even by completing daily tasks.

Se first decided to use 500 credits of the available 1000 to buy a manual for fire magic.

She wanted to be able to boil water and cook meat if she could find some.

It was quite easy to understand how to use magic, it was a mixture of imagination, knowing the structure, and intuition.

Stephanie only took around 3 hours to be able to conjure a flame, lasting long enough to build some water. Others would have taken at least 8.

She hated drinking warm water, but she wasn't able to use ice magic yet, even though she knew it would be one of her favored magic types and she would focus on it in the future.

Making her way to the city, called Armguard wasn't easy as countless unknown creatures were roaming around.

[Time skip 2 days.]

{First person Stephanie}

I have been traveling for two days and was tired. However, I had arrived at my destination.

„I hope I can get in easily, I don't want to converse with people that much". I wasn't very social, I tended to avoid having to converse with other people.

„TOPS MYEDITAELIM," a strong-looking dwarf in armor shouted from above the towering walls of the city.

I have never heard of this language in my life, it would be the best course of action to use the „system". I didn't want to grow dependent on it, but I had no choice right now.

I delved into my memory library and accessed the „system shop". I quickly searched for languages and with the help of the shop, was able to quickly purchase a pack. The common language, that was created by the Intelligent species, arrived before us.

It luckily only cost 10 credits as it was very common.

Only a second had gone by as I was able to understand what the guard had previously said: Stop Immediately!

As I had already halted I just looked up at the guard and asked: „What is it?"

{change perspective}

The guard looked menacingly down at, Stephanie and started to question her about her purpose of visit, her race, and who she works for.

Stephanie knew that she would have to answer truthfully to get inside the city.

She stated, that she was looking for a place to stay and she was a human.

The guard, checking the answer with a crystal, that could distinguish lies from weak people let Stephanie into a room near the walls to question her further.

„I didn't expect them to check so throughout," thought Stephanie as she followed the guard, who had previously introduced himself to be the captain of the castle guards, Ignar.

Ignar's questioning was very detailed making Stephanie even tell him if she had ever wielded a weapon or if she had used magic.

After noticing that Stephanie was no treat, Ignar made sure to give her an identification card, making it possible to go into the city and slums. Only restricting her access to the central district, where the rich were living. She was also told, that a few thousand humans had already arrived in the city and were currently staying in the slums, while not trustworthy humans, were denied entry.