Chapter 8
As she walked over to the gate she was picking up some of what they were saying.
"What-... she's crazy-... Who said-..." As she got closer it was making more sense as she heard more. The girl was being called crazy for saying she's from another world. The girl seemed to be around 10, that seemed young. Hestia picked up her pace and jogged over to them. When she arrived she swung her arm around the girls shoulders and side hugged her saying some things to the guards.
"Hey Mr.Guard! Remember me? I was the sick girl. Anyways this is my little sister that went away with my mother when I was young. What a coincidence right? So here's the 10 copper for her entry. She still has such an active imagination right?" Hestia then whispered into the girl's ear, "Go along with it. I'll explain when we get inside." The girl nodded and looked up at the guard with a smile this time.
"Mr.Guard, I am her long lost sister! I can't believe I'm seeing her again. It's a miracle!" She then walked with Hestia into the city. Hestia led them into the inn where she told the innkeeper to send a meal up to her room for the girl and then they walked up to her room. They waited a few minutes and then the food was there. Hestia started talking after the food was delivered.
"So you're from Earth too yea?"
"Yeah, I am. I can't believe those fuckers! I mean who sends someone to a different world for NO reason! Jerk faces that's who." The girl huffed and took a bite of soup.
"Well, I'm Hestia, the first trapped to return to Earth. I'm a tamer. What are you?" Hestia was excited to meet someone who would understand her emotionally because they were in the same situation.
"I'm Laura. My class is warrior. I know so basic but all I wished for was to be stronger. I shoulda chose a different thing but I guess being stronger is cool. But what's NOT cool is that I'm back at level 1! I mean the tutorial trapped me there saying that I couldn't leave until I was strong enough so I got all the way to max and then they reset us like this. So not fair!" Laura really seemed peeved about this whole level 1 thing and Hestia understood perfectly.
"I know! The tutorial held me there because it said I didn't use a combat skill or weapon so it wouldn't let me stop killing until I did. But I had neither of those, it was so frustrating. How many of us were there that got sent here? Do you think we will be able to get back for revenge? Also I didn't know they let 10 year olds into the tutorial."
"I was 20 when I was taken so this place set me back 10 years in visual age. It's been so hard to adjust. I mean who wants to take a 10 year old seriously so I came to the city to see if anyone here would listen to me. Thank goodness I found you. I think there were around 20 of us and I'm going to try to get us all back together then we can find a way back for revenge. But for now we need information on how to survive here. You got any info?" Laura looked up at Hestia hopeful for some information.
"I just have some basic things that I know. Like there's an adventurer's guild where I have already signed up. We will need to level you up to 10 before you can join though. I could only join because of my pets. Then there is a mages tower that you can get spatial storage at, we will take you there. And the last place I'll be going here is the information guild. That's where I was going when I met you." Laura nodded along.
"Yeah, levels are priority and information. Let's start with getting me to level 10 then go to the information guild. I'm really glad that I met you Hestia. I was really starting to feel depressed about this whole situation." Laura sniffled and finished up her soup and bread. Then laid down on the second bed in the room that Hestia had been ignoring until now.
"Hestia, I'm just gonna... take a nap..." Laura fell asleep. Hestia assumed that she must be exhausted so she left Laura in the room to go to the information guild by herself. Walking out of the room with Mr.Snuggles still on her shoulder she made her way to the information guild. At this point nothing surprised her. It looked like a bank out front with rooms on the side of the walls for private information meetings. She walked up to one of the lines for a person behind the glass wall. Once it was her turn she asked for a private meeting with someone with a lot of information on the world itself. They led her to a room and she waited for someone to come in. The door opened.
"Hello miss, I'm Darius, your informant for today. I heard you wanted information on the world as a whole?" Hestia nodded. "That's very unusual but since your story is so unique I guess it's expected."
"My story?" Hestia was confused about what he was talking about. "Yes. You were sick your whole life then miraculously recovered when your dad died. Your dad brought you 'strange and cool things' so that's where you got your pets that you have tamed. Oh and you just found your long lost sister who has an 'active imagination'. Anything wrong?" Hestia had her mouth hanging open.
"How did you know all that??"
"I work with information, anything unusual I look into and you are unusual. Now what exactly do you want to know?" Hestia recovered her mind after the shock of knowing people were looking into her.
"Well I want to know the kingdoms here and maybe just some common knowledge like classes that are common and stuff like that." Darius nodded.
"That I can do. You are in the kingdom of Ed. There are 2 other kingdoms named Fiona and Vlad. Each kingdom is named after the current ruler. Ed rules the kingdom of Ed and so on. The kingdom of Vlad is a kingdom full of vampires. The kingdom of Fiona is full of a mix of races. And Ed is mostly humans with some beast folk mixed in. People get there class at 10 and continue leveling up throughout their lives. Your class is not very common, it's rare actually. The most common combat classes are warrior, mage, and rogue. There are of course none combat classes and most people get those. A class is assigned based on what the system feels you deserve." He finished giving his basic information and Hestia felt very informed.
"Thank you for all the basic info. I didn't know any of that. How much do I owe you?" Darius was very happy with her respectful attitude. "It will be 1 gold piece since the information wasn't very complex." Hestia handed over the gold piece and went to leave. When she was walking back to her inn room she realized that she hadn't learned the spatial storage tome yet and would need to do that when she got back.
On her walk back to the inn she overheard people talking about a wizard in the kingdom of Vlad that would do anything for a price. Hestia made a note in her head to check that out when it was time to look for ways back home. On her way she got Laura the same outfit as her and a sword that she thought would go with it. The sword was all black and very thin, with the perfect length for Laura's height. When she got back to the inn room she set everything down. Then placed Mr.Snuggles on the bed and picked up the spell tome. She learned it and went to take her armor pieces off keeping the t-shirt and leggings on. Then climbed into bed with Mr.Snuggles.
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When Hestia woke up she heard some loud chewing noises. She looked up while stretching and groaning. What she found was Laura eating her portion of breakfast which was scrambled eggs and sausage with milk today.
"Good morning Laura. I went to the information guild while you slept last night and found some stuff out." Laura nodded for Hestia to continue. Hestia then told her everything she learned yesterday at the guild. It was pretty basic so there was nothing shocking to Laura.
"Hm, vampires? Sounds fun. We should go to Vlad kingdom to see vampires sometime before we return to Earth for revenge." Hestia nodded to that.
"Well what do you think we should do? Goblin subjugation or herb picking?" Hestia was thinking about the quests that they could do that she saw at the guild yesterday.
"Hm, how about something not for beginners? I mean your pet is still super op right? We could use that to power level!" Laura seemed to be onto something there. Hestia gave it some thought.
"I just thought it might be boring to have my companions do all the work but I guess we could try that for a bit until we can handle things on our own for higher level quests. Yeah, let's do that." Hestia and Laura agreed that the companions would do the heavy lifting for a bit until they could handle it on their own. At that they were finished with breakfast and Hestia brought out Foofoo the super sonic floof. They seemed the best option for protecting Laura since Foofoo was fast. They left the inn room with Foofoo on Laura's head and Mr.Snuggles on Hestia's shoulder. Ready for the beginning of their leveling journey.
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