Chapter 5
The good-natured giant, Feld, declared that he would spend a day drilling the basics into me.
While I more or less trusted him, I was still about 30% wary of adults, so I was planning to leave before I fell asleep, but given Feld’s true strength, I didn’t think I could escape. And I was worried that woman’s “knowledge” of close-quarters combat wouldn’t be enough, so I decided to obediently receive his help.
The next day, we woke up at sunrise, shared some of Feld’s rye bread and lightly roasted it over the fire for breakfast.
The children of the orphanage often complained that they wanted to eat white bread because rye bread was hard and tasteless. Certainly, at times it was so hard you’d think you were biting off a leather sandal, but I didn’t hate it that much.
It wasn’t as soft as white bread, but the inside was sticky and had a decent taste when chewed. The reason why it tasted so bad was because people used poor quality rye flour and did not take the time to make it properly, instead of grinding the flour to a very fine powder and preparing it carefully.
But even so, the rye bread at the orphanage was the absolute worst.
“Firstly, boy. Have you ever seen your own ‘status’?”
I shook my head at Feld’s words as he stood imposingly.
While there wasn’t such a thing in that woman’s “previous life”, this world had a useful technique for expressing one’s strength such as vitality and magic power in numerical form.
Status was the information about an individual’s abilities that could be seen through Appraisal. But there was no one near that orphanage who could do that, and I didn’t remember examining it when my parents were alive.
But according to that woman’s…or rather her master’s lesson, the Appraisal that was commonly used wasn’t a great sorcery that would connect the soul to the information of the world or steal the information of the other person’s soul, but rather it was a way to sense the other person’s ability through sight, hearing, skin and magic power, which was then converted into a numerical value.
Therefore, it was said that the only thing you could see by appraising an opponent’s information was their magic power, stamina, and comprehensive combat strength, which was a numerical measure of their power.