Book 1: Chapter 1
Volume 1: Secret Departure. Guided Encounters.
There are skills in this world, and you can acquire them through skill orbs. Depending on the rarity of the skill, it requires a certain amount of slots. And each person in the world has only 8 skill slots, which is what I learned from old man Hinga.
I, however, have 16 slots. The reason seems to be because I have a “previous life” in which I was a Japanese high school student. And probably because of the existence of a previous life, I possessed knowledge beyond what a kid my age should. Though, I didn’t know the words to express them and I also had few opportunities to demonstrate my knowledge.
「Everything in this world revolves around skills… Oh, this tastes good!」
A fist-sized fruit – which looked like a green apple – I bit into was juicy and sour. This fruit was hanging at the end of a long branch which looked like a fishing rod with bait attached to the hook. I got a feeling that it was “harmless” from 【World Ruler】, so I plucked the fruit from the branch. And interestingly, the branch bounced upwards.
I plucked a few of these mysterious green fruits, as much as I could carry with both hands, and I strolled through the forest while eating them.
I was not walking aimlessly. When I was saying goodbye to old man Hinga, I saw smoke rising from beyond the forest, which seemed like smoke produced from cooking, so I was walking towards it. I was thinking if that’s the neighbouring town to the mine, but I wasn’t too sure. The road that connects the mine and the town was crowded with many soldiers, so I tried to keep as far away as possible.
Although the conditions were poor – forest floor covered in leaf mould, undulated surface, thickets everywhere – I was able to walk through without much problem.
「I want to get to a town by nightfall…」