Anomaly - 33 Meeting with the king 3 12

„Questions? Of what type?”, the king asked.

„Mainly on the soldiers and their training.”, Allan answered.

„Of course, i will answer too my best abilities.”

„Well, i was curious from my perspective as a weapon designer, i can certainly understand the swords and spears, but why are the soldiers getting trained with rapiers of all things?”

„Isn’t it obvious? They are rather easy to learn to a usable levels of skill and are faster and lighter than spears.”

„But aren’t they completly useless against anyone wearing plate-armor? That’s actually my next question, how come the soldiers can run around the whole time with these heavy armors as if they weighed nothing? Are they using some kind of body strengthening magic? I’m sorry, i don’t know much in that regard as there was no magic in my old world.”

„Hmmm… Ah, i see, if there wasn’t any kind of magic than there wasn’t any magic metals as well i would guess. In that case it makes sense that you wouldn’t understand. Certainly a rapier made of steel would simply slip off of an armor made of the same metal or even get bend, but if you make the tip of a higher level metal, than than it can penetrate the armor if you hit it at the right angle. And as the tip of a rapier is rater small, even if rather costly it is still doable to provide every soldier with one. As a kingdom with a rather small army and comparatively huge wealth, that is one of our ways to turn that wealth into power.

As to your second question, i understand it even less, if every of our soldiers where capable of using body strengthening magic then there wouldn’t be anyone who would even dare to challenge us.”

„But how can they wear such heavy armor all the time? If i remember correctly in my own world that kind of armor would weigh at least 20kg.”

„20kg? How is such a light armor supposed to protect you from anything? Even our soldiers with the lowest level need an armor of at least 50kg or they wouldn’t even be able to fight properly, now wouldn’t they?”

„50kg?! And the armor alone at that? That means those guards on the outer wall of the castle are constantly carrying 50kg armor plus weapons and that giant tower shield? How is that even humanly possible?!”

„Oy, what are you taking our elite guard for? They are all high level warriors and there armors are made of at least 150kg half-black-steel!”

While the voices the voices of Allan and king Joseph started getting excited, Aya got suddenly struck by a pang of inspiration.

„Ehm, may i ask a question, your majesty?”, Aya asked timidly.

„Kuhum, of course.”, the king coughed, trying to use this chance to glance over the rather unsightly situation that almost happened.

„Your majesty was constantly mentioning the level of you soldiers, may i ask what you mean?”

„Of course, to become a fully fledged soldier one has to at least reach level 50. The guards on the outer wall are all elites that are at least level 150, while the ones on the inner wall is our palace guard which consists only of our most talented fighters of level 200 and up. And only the strongest and most loyal of them can become part of the royal guard, the weakest of which is currently already over 250. Even if only three have broken through the 500 barrier, but still!”

Six confused and one understanding faces, namely Aya who also spoke up again, looked at the king.

„I think i understand now what the problem is, it seems there is a little bit of a misunderstanding. Your majesty, if i’m right than the concept of levels exists in some of our homeworlds,just not in reality. Levels are something that only exists in fictional story’s where we come from, if at all. And if i’m right there certainly has to be a way to find out what our levels are, right?”

„No levels!? How can that be!? Or is it that you just can’t see them?”

„Your majesty doesn’t know, and there wasn’t a chance to tell you, but three of the heroes seem come from worlds without any magic.”, Eberhardt threw in at that moment.

„Urgh, i don’t know whats more shocking!? I never thought that i would have to explain sich things to anyone after becoming king besides my own kids, and especially not to the heroes! But… i guess it is a heroes nature to surprise you in the most unexpected ways.

Ok, let me beginn, to find out your level is rather easy, at first you may have to concentrate but it will become natural soon. You just need to concentrate on wanting to know how strong you are.”, Joseph explained.

Sure enough Allan found out, there weren’t any fancy pop-up’s or green hovering screen’s that would block his vision. It was more like he knew on instinct, as if it was something he always knew.

•••

Name: Allan Walker

Race: Human

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Talents: Scientist, Hunter

Titels: [Hero] [Craftsman] [Amira’s blessing]

Stats:

Body:

Endurance: 20 + 2 + 0

Strength: 15 + 1,5 + 0

Agility: 18 + 1,8 + 0

Mind:

Wisdom: 23 + 2,3 + 0

Intelligence: 25 + 2,5 + 0

Dexterity: 32 + 3,2 + 0

Skills:

N/A

•••

Realizing what the things meant that goddess had said, Allan started to concentrate on the three titels.

[Hero: 10% stat increase]

The first couldn’t be any more straight forward and was already reflected in his stats.

[Craftsman: Release of restrictions on production and creation related skills]

He couldn’t quiet understand the part about the skills, but he realized that this must be what he had fellt since the beginning, the mysterious feeling that it would be much easier to create many of the weapons he had designed and even improve them in ways he didn’t even know existed until recently.

[Amira’s blessing: it becomes easier to get new titles]

He didn’t understand the last one at all, but it didn’t sound like anything bad, so he waited until someone explained.