Chapter 6 - 7 : Reading (1/2)

When Arthur entered the buildings, he could see tables scattered all around and people were either drinking beer or eating something, they were all chatting heartily, but few of them gazed at Arthur when he walked in the building, they threw suspicious gazes at him because of his attire but those glances lasted for a couple of seconds before they continued their laughter and chatter.

Arthur ignored them and headed for the reception desk, there was a big muscular lady at the reception desk, she was frightening like a gorilla but Arthur didn't seem affected by her appearance.

The muscular lady saw Arthur coming toward her, she frowned for a second then smiled at him and said

”Hello customer, would you like to reserve a table to eat or do you want to stay at the inn?”

Because in his past live Arthur was isolated for months, his interactions with people became non-existent, so it was hard for him to respond properly, even when he speaks his voice seems cold and devoid of emotion, he stared at the lady for a second then just said

”Inn... a room”

The lady didn't seem bothered by the lack of words of the man before her and just replied

”A night at the inn is 1 silver, with breakfast, lunch and dinner it's 2 silver”

Since Arthur was new to this world, he didn't know if the price was expensive or cheap but he had thousands of silver coins and even more gold coins in his storage so spending 1 or even 100 silver didn't seem much to him.

He merely waved his hand and 5 silver coins appeared, he handed them to the lady and spoke yet again

”5 days”

He didn't want to stay a lot of days, he thought that 5 days should be enough to familiarize himself with the town, and if he wanted to stay more, then he would come back and pay for more days.

The lady accepted the 5 silver coins and said

”Thank you for your payment, if you would like to follow me upstairs, I will guide you to your room”

Arthur nodded and followed her, the building was made of stone but the interior was made of wood, it was clean and tidy, even the stairs were clean and well preserved.

After walking upstairs he found himself in a 15-meter corridor with doors left and right, he followed the lady until they reached the end of the corridor she then opened the door to the left and showed him the room.

”This is your room sir, if you would like a hot water tub then come and ask me, it costs 20 copper coins” she then turned around and left hurriedly to serve the other customers downstairs.

Arthur entered the room and looked around, he saw a simple wooden desk and a chair. There was simple candle with a flickering flame, it illuminated the whole room but it seemed that it won't be long before the flames is extinguished. Despite that, Arthur didn't mind as his high Dexterity gave him super sight, which allows him to see clearly at night.

On the left of the room was a simple bed with sheets tidied up on it but because of his infinite stamina, the bed seemed totally useless for him, he could stay awake all day long without getting tired and even if he would sleep he would only have nightmares about his past so he preferred staying awake and avoid unnecessary trouble.

He sat on the chair near the desk and bought a book from his storage, but he didn't retrieve a random book, instead, he took a history book and began reading it.

The reason he chose a history book was because he is new to this world and the better he knows the countries and historical events the better he will be able to understand his surroundings and his current location in the world, furthermore, it will help him better adapt to the environment.

He began reading fastly through the pages, because of his tremendously high intelligence, his reading was far better and his memory was strengthened too, so the contents of the books would not fade away from his memory even after some time, he even could remember what he has read letter by letter which was truly amazing, I guess that's what they called a photographic memory in his previous world.

After 1 hour or so he finished reading the book but he wasn't sure if it was the same or not, after all, this book was very old and maybe many things changed from back then.

The contents of the books were about this world and the continents in it, apparently the world was divided into 4 continents, in the South was the human continent which was ruled by a human emperor the empire was called The Nida empire.

In the north was the second continent, also called the Demon continent which was ruled by a council of demons and a demon lord.

In the west was the third continent which was a wasteland, it is a deserted land with few people living in it, usually, those people were savages and barbarians, you can also find beastmen clans there too.

Last but not least was is the 4th content , also called the Itas continent ,the continent was in far to the East and was practically a big forest composed of mountains and rivers with some dangerous places here and there, it is inhabited by elves, fairies, and various other races, it is the smallest continent and the most peaceful one, even though it's peaceful and small, it's by no means weak, there are some strong individuals lurking there.

Arthur wasn't sure if the information he got from the book he had just read were still true or false, so he decided that tomorrow he would go look for a history book in a library if there was one, because in a new world, information is everything, and if he goes around and provokes someone powerful, then he would most certainly be doomed.

He then picked another book and started rampaging in it and in just half an hour he finished, this book explained various cults and religions, apparently the human continent had the most religions and church, and the main one is the Holy Church which has the highest authority, it is said that even the human Emperor has to listen to the orders of the church and cannot act against it or it would be regarded as treason.

Also, the holy church had branches all over the world, even some secret ones in the demon continent, Arthur was surprised about how detailed the book was about the holy church, inscribed its location, army, and even the pope who was a very mysterious person and is rarely seen in the public.

Time passed and Arthur continued reading books until it was morning, he learned many things such as the existence of many races like dwarves, Fishman and even the dragons which surprised him even though he believed they existed since he was in such a fantasy world.

He also found out that there are various kinds of mages, a mage who can use any kind of attribute ( AN: by attribute I mean fire, water, wind etc...) was very well-known, usually mages are nobles or royalty which were trained to be mages from birth by using either elixir or they got a blessing from the Holy Church so they could use holy/light magic.

There were also geniuses who would be born with an attribute and be a prodigy in controlling it but those were extremely rare to come by.

Also, any mage who can use 2 kinds of attributes is called a dual-mage and you can find one in every 10 to 100 thousand people, it is said that every dual-mage had good fighting abilities and can be sought for even by kings.