84 The Small Village (1/2)

Yale was sure that if he could see such mass of water, he was far from anywhere he knew. There wasn't anything like that near Nacesai City or the Imperial City.

Yale, since he was little, had always felt curiosity towards oceans and seas, they appeared a lot in the novels he read, but he had never seen any. Thus, he was tempted to go observing the coast from near.

”Well, first we need to find where we are. I have read that people make cities near the coast, we can try to find one of those and obtain information about our whereabouts.”

Yale didn't plan to appear in front of the area natives to ask questions without having investigated by himself first. However, to obtain information Yale needed to find a place with people and spy on them to gather some general knowledge.

After that, he could think about the best method to approach the local people in order to obtain more detailed information.

Wyba nodded her little head. She didn't mind where they go as long as she was together with Yale.

Yale started walking into the coast direction with Wyba in his arms; he didn't dare to fly in a place he didn't know. After all, that wasn't the special realm with the rank limitations it had. In Yale's current location, real experts could appear, and Yale had no means to deal with them, so it was better to be careful.

On the way, he decided to check the Quest Menu; he had been too busy examining his stats, talent, skills and trying the new appraisal function, so he forgot to check the new sub-quest that should have appeared after finishing the previous one.

”Reach the expert stage in two different areas. Current Progress 1/2. Reward: Stats and Origin Points increase.”

That sub-quest was normal even if it was hard to accomplish, the special realm effects on the Quest Menu seemed to have ended.

Yale was already at the expert stage with the sword, and his only other area in which he could train to reach such stage at the moment he received the quest was in Smith Mastery.

If he could obtain a similar skill related to archery then he would be able to try reaching the expert stage with such weapon, but Yale didn't know any methods to obtain it, so he could only focus on Smith Mastery.

Yale had never created a weapon before; he had only read a bit about it. Yale was at the apprentice level, but he had less experience than others who hadn't reached that stage as he never tried to forge anything before. He had a long way if he wanted to enter into the expert stage.

Yale closed the Quest Menu and stopped thinking about the sub-quest as he wasn't in a place suitable to forge anything nor was his situation suitable for thinking about such things.

He needed to put in order his priorities and to discover where he was after having left the realm was the most crucial matter for him at that moment.

Yale and Wyba reached a forest where they only found some ordinary beast and 1-star monsters.

Fortunately, they hadn't appeared in a dangerous area and with their power surviving in the forest wasn't hard.

The night fell before they had been able to leave the forest. At night they stopped walking and seated on the floor eating some beast meat that Yale had roasted with Fire Ball. Given how many beasts were in the forest, hunting something to eat wasn't difficult for them.

In the forest, there were also a lot of edible herbs and fruits which Yale recognized.

All the knowledge he acquired from the books he had read in the Poison Class served to avoid any danger when eating something in the wild. Furthermore, with the system's database, there was no way Yale could make a mistake even if two herbs were extremely similar which was one of the main causes of deaths by intoxication.

Yale didn't dare to walk in the night as he didn't know the region, but nothing happened until the dawn. There was nothing to worry in such an area; it was as normal as it seemed at first sight.

The forest wasn't big, after starting walking again they left it in only three hours.

Outside the forest, there was a huge grassland with a small village composed only of three houses in it.

Yale was happy to find a place where people seemed to live, but at the same time, he was disappointed as he didn't reach the coast.

Yale decided that he would still visit the coast later even if he lost the reasons to go, he didn't want to miss the opportunity of seeing it with his own eyes.

Even if the village was small, Yale didn't lower his guard and cast Body Illusion on himself and Wyba, who had climbed onto Yale's head because Yale needed to be ready for battle if something unexpected happened. Thus, he needed his arms free and couldn't hug her.

Yale didn't take the shape of anyone else; he merely used the illusion to make it seem that no one was there, the illusion reflected the landscape. Unless the other party could see through the illusion, Yale was invisible to anyone who looked at him.

Yale slowly neared the village in silence.