9 Chapter 9 – Intelligent sister Fen (1/2)
”Big sis, The book spoke about developing magic tools. What are they?” Adam Asked about the thing that intrigued him the most from the book they previously read.
”Everything that works on magic is a magic tool. To be more precise it is an object that is designed to harness the magicules in the environment and performs a specific purpose.”
”The lights in the lantern over there are illuminating stones. They are stones that respond to vocal commands. I'm sure young master has seen us turn them on and off with but a word.”
”who makes them and how?” He asked her curiously.
”Though I'm not sure how they are made. Only Formation mages are capable of making these magic tools. There are also magic treasures, armours and so on but they are made by different professions.”
”I understand.” Adam learnt something new every time he asked a question so he continued.
”Big sis Fen, The book says that there are many races of humanoid creatures. Why have I not seen any? Which kingdom is Two fang City in?” Adam was a true sheltered child. He had never left the confines of the lodge.
Fen was expecting question's so she was ready. ”Two Fang city is located in the central regions of the unruled plains, Young master.”
”As for why you haven't seen any other races… you already have, young master! All the girls working here are of different clans of the people of the plains. I am the only human.”
”two sisters are from the feline clan while 6 others are from the hound clan and the last two are from the boar clan.” She would usually be asked things about the lectures and arts by the young master. This would leave her stumped.
Today he had asked her something so simple. She wanted to show off a bit so she spoke non-stop.
”how can you tell?” Were they the same as ordinary humans? Did they not have any distinguishing features? If they did he would have noticed by now. He saw them every day after all.
”they're tails and ears of course.” She said as a matter of fact. She soon realized her mistake and spoke up ” Ah! Young master, you have never seen them so how could you tell. The mistress makes us all do our hair up so their ears are usually hidden. As for the tails. They would get in the way of our work so the ones with long tails usually wrap it around their waist.” How could her young master know these things? So she clarified immediately.
”Oh.” He finally understood the mystery. ”what are clan's?” Not allowing her a chance to rest he fired another question.
”The people of the plains have as many variations of species as there are monsters. So to come together and reduce the complexity this would cause, clans were formed. For example, all bird type people of the plains are under the main Avian Clan, all feline species are under the Feline Clan and so on.”
”That makes sense. I also understand why I didn't recognize the other big sis's. What I don't understand is the customers I saw. None of them was of any other races?” this still puzzled him greatly. He should have seen at least one, right?
”this probably has to do with the personality of the people of the plains.” She replied immediately.
”Their personality?” He questioned.
”its nothing too serious young master. the people of the plains are known for being a little hard headed. It would be hard to find one who is into sophisticated things like poetry and art. Even in the bigger kingdoms, you might see only a handful.”
”this is one of the reasons the southern kingdom is called the land of farmers and free adventurers. The reason the plains remains unruled is that the people of the plains view freedom over anything else.” There was a wistful look on her face as she explained. It seemed she highly agreed with their values.
”freedom over everything huh? That is truly nice.” He nodded in agreement. ”what are adventurers then?” Adam had played a bunch of RPG's and had a basic idea on what adventurers were. He wanted to know if there was anything special about the ones in this world.
”Hmm…” She pondered over this a bit before replying. ”As young master read already. The various humanoid races have fought many great wars. But how did they get the strength to combat these tough foes? It is true that the people of the plains are a little more robust and other races also have their defining characters but there is a limit to their bodies capabilities after all.”
”we would have been annihilated long ago if we didn't have a way to grow stronger. The universe is fair in everything it creates. We were given a chance to rise up through becoming adventurers. Adventurers have the ability to choose classes. Training in these classes gives a person abilities according to their class. There are also Profession classes! Any career that young master can think of has an aligning class.”
”the guild system was created to monitor adventurers. The guild divided the classes into battle classes and profession classes. The battle classes brave dangers and obtains materials assigned by the guild in the form of missions. The guild then sells these materials at fair prices to the various registered profession classes.”
”you could say that the guild sets a standard and maintains it. The guild is run by senior Adventurers and they are the ones who send out adventurers in cases of emergencies or to capture criminals who try to slight their system.”
”There are various branches of the guild throughout the continent. I hear there's one in every major city. Apparently, one is being built in our Two Fang city as well. That would be great wouldn't it young master?” Guilds were common knowledge among people as most of their family members or people around them would be adventurers. It wasn't too hard for Fen to fill him in.
”Yes, it would. The guild really is nifty.” A rare compliment was given to the guild system by Adam. 'This seems to run along the same lines as what I knew. There are slight differences. Profession classes are new.'