"Well, this will be the room you will use." - Fred said as he opened the room. The two were in front of a room that had the number twenty-two, Fred took out the key that opens that room with a pendant with the number twenty-two.
"This is the bed, there is also a chair and table in case you need to write something, there is also a chest where you can put your belongings, there is the key, I remind you that once you leave the inn you must hand over all the keys." - Fred said as he lit some candles to light up the room.
"I get it." - Luciel answered.
"Good, here." - Fred gave him the key to the room and the bathroom. - "I'll be downstairs, if you need something, you can tell me or my mother, if you don't occupy anything, you can stay here for the meantime, I'll let you know when dinner is ready."
"Okay." - Luciel said. - "Thank you."
"You're welcome." - And in that way, Fred left the room closing the door, and with him leaving there, Luciel was left alone in the room, finally alone, in silence and tranquility, and the first thing Luciel did was lie down on the bed.
"Ah ..." - the day was not over yet, but Luciel was already very tired. - "Wow ... who would say that my life would continue in another world ..." - said Luciel while he sat on the bed and checked the room, realizing that there were no windows in this place either, only some small holes through which cool air and some light entered the room.
"Hm." - With nothing to do, Luciel got up from the bed and sat on the chair near the table, leaving on the table all the coins he had, a total of 33 coins, 18 were his, they were the coins that Maria gave him as change, and the other fifteen were the fifteen bronze coins Glover gave him.
Putting the coins aside, Luciel stared at the Black Book.
[The Black Book contains basic and necessary information about this world so that you can understand and adapt faster to this world ...] - that was what was written in the letter that Alamud wrote as a message for all the earthlings who have just arrived in the Great World of Gea, and although Luciel did not remember everything well, he knew that if he wanted to learn more about this world, he should start by reading this book.
"Basic information ... let's see if reading this can clarify some of the doubts I have." - Luciel said, he had been too eager to read the book after discovering that there was information about this world in the book, but due to everything that had happened to him since he arrived at the entrance of the Town of Hope, the wait became longer .
On the first sheet there was an index that indicated each section of the book, on the next sheet, there was a message from the author.
[The information in this book is mostly information about the Continent of Skypea, its inhabitants, its culture and history, although there is also some scant information about the other parts of the Great World of Gea.
The information is updated until the 50th day of the Month of Darkness of the Year 9987, so any event or change that has occurred in the Great World of Gea after the creation of this book may be very different from that stipulated by the book .
Sincerely, Gazette - High God of Writers.]
In the first sections came basic information that one should know when living in the Continent of Skype.
Identification Card: it is how the inhabitants of the Continent of Skypea can demonstrate their origin and citizenship, through which people can travel from town to town or from one nation to another.
A day has 30 hours, fifteen hours under the day and fifteen hours under the night.
There are five seasons a year: Spring, Summer, Storm, Fall and Winter. Each season has four months, so there is a total of 20 months in the year. Each month has fifty days, so a year has 1,000 days.
These are the months of each season:
Spring: Month of the Flowers, Month of the Breeze, Month of the Water and Month of the Earth.
Summer: Month of the Sun, Month of the Fire, Month of the Light, and Month of the Horde.
Storm: Month of the Wind, Month of the Lightning, Month of the Tempest and Month of the Rain.
Autumn: Month of the Harvest, Month of the Gods, Month of the Moon and Month of the Spirits.
Winter: Month of the Snow, Month of the End, Month of the Beginning and Month of Darkness.
The year begins on the 1st day of the Beginning Month and ends on the 50th day of the End Month.
Then Luciel read about the monetary system.
The official unit currency on the Continent of Skypea was the Jule, and there are five types of coins with the following values:
A grayish Stone Coin is the lowest value coin since it is equivalent to 1 Jule.
A black Iron Coin is equal to 10 Jules.
A Bronze Coin has a value of 100 Jules.
A Silver Coin has a value of 1,000 Jules.
A Gold Coin has a value of 10,000 Jules.
"As I thought." - said Luciel who more or less knew the values of the Iron, Bronze and Silver when receiving the change from María, in addition to already knowing the value of the Gold Coin that María herself told her.
In addition to the Stone, Iron, Bronze, Silver and Gold Coins, there are also three types of banknotes that are usually used by those with power, influence, wealth and who are above the norm of an ordinary person. These tickets are the following:
Real Dollar, which is equivalent to 100,000 Jules. Real Dollars can only be created by one Kingdom, and each Kingdom has a unique type of Dollar, although a Real Dollar from one Kingdom is the same as a Real Dollar from another Kingdom, all thanks to the Rockefeller Treaty.
Imperial Dollar has a value of 1,000,000 Jules. Imperial Dollars can only be made in the Empires of the Continent. In the same way as with real dollars, the Imperial Dollar of one Empire has the same value as the Imperial Dollar of another Empire.
Lastly, the Continental Dollar, a special dollar that is worth ten million Jules, only the most powerful, influential, and wealthy people on the Skypea Continent can have the opportunity to own one of these dollars. They can only be created at the Continental Bank Headquarters located in the City of Almas, which is also the capital of the Great Empire of Rilentor.
"Rockefeller Treaty? Continental Bank? City of Almas? Rilentor Empire? " - Luciel wondered when he saw new information.
He kept reading.
The Great World of Gaea has five large continents, each continent many times larger than all the continents on Earth combined. The five continents of the Great World of Gea are:
The Continent of Skypea in the West, the Continent of Tremía in the South, the Continent of Antigua in the East, the Continent of Fallen in the North, and the Immortal Continent in the Center.
The Continent of Skypea where all of you have been sent, is a continent that is inhabited almost entirely by humans mainly, there are ten nations and five forbidden zones in which no sane person would enter without any reason.
The ten nations are: the Kingdom of Antares, the Kingdom of Arcadia, the Kingdom of Celia, the Kingdom of Dan, the Kingdom of Flora, the Kingdom of Kardia, the Kingdom of Nadia, the Ancestral Empire, the Great Empire of Rilentor and the Sacred Empire.
The Kingdom of Arcadia is in the west part of the continent.
On the page next to this explanation there was a detailed map of the Continent of Skypea, with which Luciel could better understand where each nation was located and more or less know a little about the area in which it was.
Then there was something about the Forbidden Zones, where the Five Forbidden Zones were described a bit.
The Five Forbidden Zones are so called due to the high degree of death that every human being possesses when entering one of these zones, this is due to the large number of monsters and magical beasts that inhabit these places, in addition to the nature and climate that they are extreme in these places.
The Five Forbidden Zones of the Continent of Skypea are regions that any rational person would not think of entering, and only the strongest or for some important reason are able to enter these zones where death is present at all times. It is in these five zones where the most powerful monsters inhabit, while many of the Magical Beasts of the continent inhabit.
"Hey?" - Although Luciel had more or less an idea of what a Monster should be, he had no idea what a Magical Beast was, so he quickly looked for the page where that would be explained to him, luckily, in The Black Book did come with an explanation of what a Magic Beast and a Monster were:
The Magical Beasts were long ago common animals like those that can be found in different parts of the world, but with the passage of time, these animals managed to successfully absorb the World Energy into their bodies, thus managing to create in a natural and stable a Pure Energy Crystal in which the World Energy was stored, thus giving them an immense burst in their physical condition and abilities, but some could do things they could not before, such as controlling the elements or possessing the ability to speak.
Meanwhile, Monsters are creatures that should not exist in the world, creatures that damage the natural order of things. A clear example are those animals that absorb World Energy, but cannot control it, losing control over it and being in the end corrupted by World Energy that makes changes in their body, yes, it makes them strong, but also gives them immense hatred of those beings that are not corrupted like them, being able to kill relatives or close people who are not corrupted like them. Humans and other intelligent races are also prone to turning into Monsters, so care must be taken when farming World Energy.
Monsters are practically corrupt beings whose sole purpose is to destroy and thereby create Chaos in the World. Evil beings that can only coexist among those who have also been corrupted by World Energy, and totally abhor all those who are not like them, so if you do run into a monster, you should be careful, if you are not the one. Strong enough to annihilate said monster, escape as fast as you can.
Usually all the Magic Beasts have intelligence and the monsters not much, although there are certain monsters with a great intellectual capacity, being in such a way more dangerous than the monsters that you only think about destroying and killing. You will have to be careful of all monsters, and although the Magic Beasts are mostly peaceful, some also loathe humans, so you should be careful not to insult or annoy a Magic Beast.
"Wow ..." - said Luciel, who read again about the Five Forbidden Zones.
The Five Forbidden Zones are: The Great Dark Forest, the White Mountain Range of Ganbus, the Great Red Desert of Osiris, the White Forest of Death, and the Great Lake of Neptune.
At that moment, Luciel looked at the map again, as it showed the location of the Five Forbidden Zones.
"It can't be ..." - Luciel said with surprise and fear, because the Town of Hope was just a few hundred meters away from the Great Dark Forest, that's right, the vast forest that Luciel looked at when he arrived was the Great Forest Dark, and that was not all. - "Two ..." - that is right, the huge mountains in the distance were part of the Ganbus White Mountain Range, near Luciel there were two forbidden zones.