Chapter 4 : Finally a start
Somewhere at the alleyway near the mages fight. A man stumbled down the the alleyway, steam coming out of his skin and his skin is dark green, the rest of the details is covered by the gray robe and the hood. He panted as he used the wall to balance himself.
??? : "Damnit... Getting out numbered is still isn't easy."
His voice is rusty.
As he breaths in and out, slowly the steam coming out of his body slowly disappeared, He place both his hand to his lower back and stretch his back, the hood falls back down revealing his face. Somewhat human, and somewhat hobgoblin, his ear is less pointy, his hair is black, and has a golden ring piercing on his left ear.
??? : "alright time to get the heck out of here."
He pulls out a small wand and pour his mana in it, it glows in beautiful blue sea, he then points his finger in the air Infront of him, and he jab his finger on the air.
His legs muscle flexs immediately, He then jumps up over the two story, as his in mid air he looks around and see's the enemy his fighting is now far away.
??? : "Calling themselves Crisis Control Area. HA! lame name~ should have made it cooler."
He falls down grab the edge of the roof, his muscles suddenly flex and pulls himself up making him fly over to another building. He smile in excitement.
??? : "I did my job hopefully they also do."
He begins to jump building to building to get far away from the enemy he fought.
***
Cut to the Crisis Control Area(CCA) wearing navy blue uniform. They both jumping building to building desperately trying to find the man they fought. One of the Man looks around 30s begins to scream in anger.
??? : "Where the FUCK is he!"
Another Man looks around 25s, he keeps looking around as well.
??? : "How did we lose him!"
The man who shout in anger rub the back of his neck and recall what happened.
??? : "He ran off somewhere as he put on his hood and run to the alleyway but we found someone who wear similar robe with their hoods on.
He groan in frustration.
???: I don't want extra paper work for punishment after this!"
His voice turn to anger to despair, and his face becomes like a pale ghost just from thinking about it.
***
Cut back to our Boy now out of the danger zone with other civilian evacuated, and the road is now block lable 'Danger Zone'. Multiple civilian of different race, all wearing formal clothing, the men wearing suit, a top hat and a fancy cain, and the women wearing very fashionable dresses, some has bustles and some does not. They all standing nearby to see the commotion, many conver to each other on what's going on, why is it blocked, and some helps the help injured, but only At least 9 are injured.
Jergen look around and see multiple buildings are not damaged from the fight.
Jergen : *I guess this side is lucky.*
He put both his hand on the side of his head, look up with wide eye and frustrated face.
Jergen : *Why am i here again-"
He stop an suddenly remember something.
??? : "Have your home got destroyed?"
A sweet old voice coming from behind. Jergen turn around and sees an old human women with a warm smile, as both her hand are resting behind her back, she's wearing black olive t-shirt with a brown apron on it covered in white dust, her pants is brown sugar colour, it looks baggy aswell, she has white and red stripes cloth covering her head she's around 5.2 feet and she looks around in her 80s, she has many wrinkles, and her skin tone is light brown.
Jergen think of a response. He nervously respond and nervously smile
Jergen : "Ah... No i don't have a home, thanks for worrying grand-."
Jergen paused almost said grandma without thinking.
The old woman laugh in a jolly way.
Grandma : "It's alright to call me grandma, it's been a while since someone called me that. oh my grandchildren doesn't even come to visit their poor old grammy."
She place her hand on her cheek make a swinging motion as she says that. For someone her age she's still not stiff to the bone.
Grandma : "You can call me Grammy Lei."
She smile lightly. As Jergen hearing this he sigh in relief (he sigh in his mind).
Jergen : *Oh, she's one of those types of old folks, that's actually great, i know someone like that and they're awesome.*
Jergen : "Thanks Grammy Lei."
Jergen relax a bit thanks to Grammy Lei chill nature.
Grammy Lei : "so you're not from around here."
Jergen nod.
Jergen : "Ah, yes i know a few about this place but this is my first visit."
He rub his hand the back of his neck.
Grammy Lei : "Then why not stay and help a bit at my Bakery. You also need to get yourself together."
She pointed at his dirty clothes, his right shoulder is the only area got scratches from the window, with blood coming out, and the that area got stained from the blood. It's very noticeable.
Jergen look at himself and then his shoulder.
Jergen : "oh yeah right... Aaaaaagh!!"
Apparently he didn't feel it until he looks at it.
***
Outside the Town 2 people in cloak standing on the tree branches. Then another cloak figure coming towards them, they land on one of the branch and look at them. A rusty voice coming out of their mouth.
???: "Have you gotten what you needed?"
One of the cloak figure pulls out a note, with numbers on them, a deep voice coming out of their mouth.
???: "We have gotten what we needed, all that left is the vault."
One of them spoke in silly tone and high pitch.
???: "Great job, this will be a long road ahead of us but, once we have it all, the great calamity will come."
The rusty voice spoke.
???: "hope it's long enough as my life so i could enjoy this world for bit more... i don't have the luxury to live long so~"
The rusty voice laugh.
The deep voice spoke.
???: "shall we go get something to eat first, using magic is still making me go hungry fast."
They all nod and begin to move somewhere no one can see.
***
Back to Jergen who's in the bakery getting healed by the grandma using a small blue crystal with a painted symbol. Jergen groaning in pain.
Jergen: "Why is the healing hurts much more than getting hurt!?"
Grammy Lei: "Oh so you've been careful all your life? Typical Elf. It's because the healing is speed up the process but much more effectively, the muscles, the tissue, connects each other again with rapid speed."
Her body begins to steam up, while the blue crystal glow mix of blue and green tangled together. Jergen wound now fully healed, there's no mark left behind.
Jergen: "Thanks Grammy Lei."
Jergen noticed her body steam up.
Jergen: *I guess using magic can steam you up like a steam engine.*
He then got curious about the crystal she's using.
Jergen: "Grammy Lei why are you using that crystal?"
Grammy Lei: "Oh, you don't know? Oh right you just left from home, Elf do tend to focus on spiritual teaching than teaching about existence of other intelligent creatures."
She smiles and tells him.
Grammy Lei: "It's very simple, this crystal store formula and structure of magic. Some like humans, orc, goblin, dwarf, gnome, beastfolk, and so on, can't use magic unless we have this crystal call Tear Crystal."
She shows the blue crystal she uses.
Grammy Lei: "The symbol is just a label so you know what you're using. In order to use magic we need to build structure and the formula inside the crystal by using our mana. We can't use the crystal if it doesn't have the formula and structure inside it, or it'll just be glowing and does nothing, good for light source."
She chuckles and puts the blue crystal back in her drawer.
Grammy Lei: "There are others that doesn't need crystal to use their magic thanks to their connection to nature, like elf like yourself, fairy, merfolks, treefolk, and so on, but there's a catch, it's harder for them to use magic because they have to build the structure and formula in thin air over and over again, so the crystal is needed when comes to emergency or being lazy of course, like me, oh wait I'm a human. Ohohoho!"
She laugh a little.
Jergen nods.
Jergen: *hmmm... Wait hold on, that's similar to skills in the game, though it's only a display, but a lot of players want to make their own magic a lot of good and bad one in the community, even made cancer bone spell, hopefully that won't work here.*
Grammy Lei: "Tell me young elf, are you going to the Collector Academy?"
Jergen looks at her little surprise
Jergen: "How did you know?"
Grammy Lei: "oh well, knowing you're new to this place and this is the first time in this city you've gone outside your home, it's highly possible that you're gonna enrolled to the Collector Academy."
Jergen nods: "Y-yes, but the fight and the big explosion made my journey stop for a bit."
Grammy Lei gave Jergen a heavy, sturdy big paper roll.
Jergen un roll it and sees a baker shop advertisement poster saying '15% off', go to 'Bakery Sweetly' even says the location.
Grammy Lei: "Be sure to spread it around the Campus."
Jergen sigh but smile a little
Jergen: "well I'll take this as my way to repay then."
Few moments later Jergen clothes got stitch up thanks to Grammy Lei, and Jergen is few steps away to the door
Grammy Lei: "oh by the way, what's your name young elf?"
Jergen looks at her and smile brightly: "My name is-"
Epic music out of no where, dun du du du dun~♪ dadun~♪ da dadun dun da~♪ and end.