Psychic vs. Metamorphosis

~Meanwhile on the group that vanished.

*they all shocked except the old wise hermit*

They are transport to a vast garden with trees, pond with bamboo shafts, one pagoda structure. One brother of goon passed out because he thought they just died.

Wise old hermit: Welcome to my world! Isn’t great?

Goon: what did you do? Old man come here and let me cut you open.

Kaito: *amused*looks like we’re on different world or something and why theres a huge closet just hanging around here.

Akim: this looks artificial i got a hard time breathing.

Yska: is this one of your tricks old “wise”man. Who are you really? So that closet must be where you change disguise or something.

Akim: but why there’s a ton of bra and women underwear laying around the underneath the closet is a ton of erotic comics.

Wise old hermit: *laughs* the reaction of people i bring here is always hilarious. I cant get enough of what they will notice first and their thought. *laughs* I should have leave my closet closed sorry for that. I used that for “research” purposes young man. Yes you are right again young lady that my disguise.

Yska: i don’t think you disguise as women too and i don’t think that sizes fit you..

Wise old hermit: *laughs* i just told you for research purposes.

Goon: enough fooling around old man now i just confirm I’m not actually dead. You’re a goner.. *about to slice old man with his scythe arm*

Wise old hermit: *sigh* ahh this hot headed delinquent is too energetic this early in the morning go chill out to the pond. The old wise hermit hit his forehead with his finger flick and the goon fly away to the pond 200 meter in distance.

Kaito: *amused* what is this old man he just flicks him like a booger.

Akim: *laughs* yeah what just happen his hand turn back to normal and became unconscious.

Yska: i guess that just one of his tricks..

Old wise hermit: *laughs* it’s not tricks young lady. Okay the reason i let you all here in my personal space is i want to answer your questions privately young lady. First if your that curious what is this world. This is inside my pocket dimension this is actually my magic. One of the rarest type the psychics, the psychics can control dimensions, gravity, minds etc. some branches are still unknown. Only 2% chance you will have this type of magic this space is empty when you first open your own pocket dimension i just put these things here so its not that boring. The magic that those goon have is called metamorphosis it have is own tier too animal, supernatural etc. Don’t worry we can return anything and we’re all still at the vanishing hills.

Kaito: hmm that makes a lot of sense why its called vanishing hill now.

Akim: what a good magic to “pick up” ladies huh old wise hermit-san. I bet those pagoda got a lot of room for one people.

Old wise hermit: you know in my younger years i use to “invite” people here and have some wild parties! Good old days!

Yska: what a terrifying magic. So how can someone escape in this type of magic old perv hermit? On our journey i guess we can encounter a psychic maniac type like you.

Old wise hermit: good question young lady! There’s two way that I’m aware of one is to knock out the user. Two is to destroy the dimension itself by using force. Apparently I can’t maintain this for eternity my stamina is a factor too. You see I’m old i cant mess with space and dimensions like in my hay day.

Akim: if pocket dimension is your magic why you are so strong to flick a people like that.

Old wise hermit: as you can see I’m bit trained myself. I’m a class “a” adventurer in my day.

Kaito: so he’s in the same league with zarki-san huh. That’s the least surprising part he got his own dimension and really strong physically too.

Yska: yeah what a monster I’m just glad he’s not doing some evil stuffs with that power.

Old wise hermit: come on young lady i maybe a little bit perv all men are. But I’m not a bad person. Okay i will just spill the beans now so about your question theres about 100 people scattered around the kingdom that is associated with the magic school. There’s three way to enter the magic school via quest, bribe and luck. 49 on station on quest 49 on bribe then 2 on luck.

Kaito: bribe? Why it have bribe?

Old wise hermit: we include that because let’s accept the fact that. The world is not fair and have some underground deals, and the magic school needs some funding to run too. Its just 200 gold coins fair enough for anyone determine to enter the magic school. You just need to find the right man to talk. But its not a guarantee that you are gonna reach it because all the applicants we undergo a dangerous trial first to filter the students. You will all experience that because you guys just passed my test.

Luckily I’m one of the magic school staffs, if you didn’t notice by now. I just picked out adventurer that i liked and saw through my disguise. So you two young man should thanks this clever lady.

*Yska tell them what happen inside the shrine*

Old wise hermit: tomorrow you guys go at the central cemetery on the bell tower 12 midnight a magic school staff should be there. That’s all lets go back and i feeling a bit tired keeping us in my dimension. *snaps his finger*

The old wise hermit is gone and kaito’s group is back at the vanishing hills. Dorobo already asleep at this point tired of waiting.

After being transported back they never saw the old wise hermit again and decided to go back to the city for celebration. They are now just waiting for midnight to their most awaited magic school.

Kaito: we just did it! Thanks to yska you’re heaven sent really!

Akim: *rejoicing* yes we are now just on the waiting game waiting for our magic school wagon i guess. Looks like the stars align for us the first time in the morning yska chan is waiting for us! A gift of god indeed! *about to hug yska*

*Yska dodge akim*

Yska: well i just do what i do. But that old man have still hiding something i felt like this is not the first time we met. His face kinda weird too.

Kaito: just stop thinking about the old wise man. Did he just push your botton somewhere?

Yska: *blushed* idiot! Never in a million years! He can trick other young ladies but not me.

Akim: yeah she is the first one to see through his disguise in a long time after all. Let’s just move on to that what we need now is to prepare for the magic school. My weapon is destroy by that goon i need to buy one.

Kaito: are we just leaving them lying there they still unconscious?

Yska: lets just leave them its gonna be a problem when that good for nothing wakes up and threaten us again.

*they proceed to get down the vanishing hills*

The group men that should call the knight’s just went to their homes and tucked in the corner still in fear of what just they witness.

Meanwhile 3 knights with horses just arrived to the vanishing hill entrance gate they slam the gate open and the noise wakes up the sleeping dorobo.

Dorobo: *yawn* what i just slept the whole time? Just the two troublemaker remain here and they appear to be both unconscious. Then who are these dorks that is banging the gate. Their armor and horses looks so expensive and they don’t look knight’s at all. The one leading them is more like a noble spoiled brat from zone a and those two should be his guards. Hmm let’s see what happens.. *evil grin*

The noises from the gate banging wakes up the two trouble maker brothers too. They thought that’s actually a knight’s looking for them and they run into the woods back to the city proper. As the noble brat breaks the gate because somehow they don’t have that kind of lock in the zone a. He is displeased by the sight there’s no one there to greet him as well as the famous old wise hermit.

Dorobo takes interest of the noble and they starts to leave obviously they are looking for the magic school too.

Spoiled noble: there’s a lot of fresh footprints here but there’s no one present are we too late for the party? I thought that old wise hermit is appearing here almost everyday when the royal exploration about to start as papa says.

Guard 1: yes sir! By the looks of it there’s a lot of people gather here earlier. We can just do the plan b as your papa instruct we can look here again later.

Spoiled noble: I’m a little bit skeptical about these old wise man anyway. We maybe just a trickster luring and robbing newbie adventurer here. Okay let’s proceed to the plan b what is it again?

Guard 2: it’s to bribe the magic school staff sir. We need to pay for them to let us enter that’s the easiest way we just need to prepare 200 gold coins. He says its on the big dirty tavern on the west side of the city and ask the bartender.

Spoiled noble: Okay prepare the coins you two will come too we got about 1500 gold coins in my coins sack that papa give as my pocket money. You want to have magic also right? *inner thoughts* these two fools will be my human shield when it gets out of hand. *evil smile*

*Dorobo ears became big and his eyes became gold coins*

Dorobo: *light bulb glows* i need to prepare a plan for these dorks and loot them as much as possible. Their armors and weapons could take 2000 gold coins in total. Their horse is about 5000 gold coins but I can’t show up in the town with 3 horses and 3 armors and expect to sell them fast. Looks like all i can get is the pocket money. Not a bad day plus i got the information about the bribing game. *rejoicing*

Meanwhile kaito and others saw a commotion in the towns plaza. Apparently there a “ranking match” going on between a class b adventurer vs. class c adventurer. The Magic union are overlooking and facilitating the match about 500,000 people gather they can’t see the match well.

~Ranking match: a match between two adventurers that wants to rank up. It is a battle between a challenger and a title defender. If the challenge knocks out the defender or forced him out of the arena he wins vice versa. The defender can rank down if he lose 3 ranked match. This is only available for class “c” adventurer up and this system as well as quest points determined whether the adventurer is deserved to rank up or not.

~Quest points: the points added of the adventurer when the completed a guild quest certain points are require to rank up along with the ranking match.

Kaito: *amused* so this is how we rank up huh. I guess i have to do this a lot if I’m aiming for class “a”, and who are does guys in the stage on dress code.

Yska: they’re from the magic union dummy. They are the one who judge the match you aim high you don’t even know them.

Kaito: well this is my first time in the capital city and seeing them. I got to admit they got some edgy uniforms that stands out.

Akim: yeah they loot mysterious and strong, apparently we all have to do matches like that. Because there’s so much benefits when you are on the high class. Like accommodations, exclusive quest, exclusive dungeon etc.

Yska: yeah somehow the guild’s control some restricted area in the unknown region that they are observing or studying only high class adventurer can enter places like that.

Kaito: *thrilled* this is getting exciting magic union, magic school, princess jisoo jumbled in my head right now. I bet they’re magic is out of this world also.

Akim: yeah I’m excited too! But before that let’s our business too we to prepare for what we need to bring. I’m no comfortable with a spear in my back.

Yska: okay let’s go i need to buy new traveling bag too.

Kaito: i guess me too we have the money now, we can now buy at will akim without selling something. *laughs*

Akim: yeah but we should keep our gold medal as back up currency. *laughs*

Yska: i bet you guys still don’t have a bank right? The thing is the magic union and the king is partnered because of that. Those guys are from other region they proposed this system for the capital city to be more civilized and advance. Many “bank booth” are scattered around the world as they say even on the isolated place that are installed by them.

So the adventurers don’t need to carry all their money and rob dry in seconds. It’s very useful for us adventurer we can deposit and withdraw our money anytime in the bank booth all over the world as they says. In this magical world those things are i think one of the technologies that the royal exploration brings.