Me and Zenith were above ground, just in front of the entrance to the massive underground stone hall we had left only a few minutes ago.
Extending her little and short arms out at me, Zenith wanted me to pick her up and put her on my shoulders again.
Picking Zenith up, I walked forward across the grass plain which stretched as far as the eye could see.
[Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding]
[You have received your skill Bounding Touch (U)]
[You have received your skill Beyond Existence (T)]
[You have received your skill Bite of Blood (Tr)]
[You have received your skill The Architect Eye (U)]
(Skills are rated from weakest to strongest as goes: Skills, Rare skills, Ultimate Skills, Law Skills, True skills.)
Not minding the voice which spoke to me about the skills within my head. I continued walking forward as just beyond the horizon I could see a huge body of water.
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The body of water was like a massive sea which cut off the surface of the land from stretching any further out.
Situated on the side of a wooden dock, a small paddle boat was tied to the wood pillar.
Inside of the boat was a man with disheveled brownish black hair who looked half asleep with a leaf resting on his eyes.
"Umm, excuse me?"
"Huh,what, oh hello. Would you like a ride to the Central Continent?"
"To where?"
"The Central Continent. The second largest Continent, and the only continent that is technically just a huge island."
The brownish-haired boy grabbed his paddle before saying. Then he rushed us onto the boat and cut the rope attaching the boat to the dock shore.
"I haven't had any people here in a while since most of them take the bigger but more safe and expensive ships to get to the Central Continent."
"And its only gotten worse ever since the demons started to grow in power rapidly."
Zenith was already asleep with the head rested on my shoulder so the man's words,simply, went in through one ear and out the other.
I ,on the other hand, was listening to the man's rambling but was more focused on the conversation that was going on within my head.
[I already said this. I am your skill Beyond Existence and I'm here to help you manage your other skills.]
'As if you must be some parasitic mind eating worm or something.'
[Ouch..You know it hurts to call someone a worm,especially a parasitic one,and you're saying that to the person who's here to help you on your adventures.]
'Ok, then if you're so much of a helping hand at least tell me what you can do.'
[I already said I am to help you to manage your skills, and I can provide the answer to almost anything you ask as long as it helps you better understand the world.]
'So what do you mean by managing my skills?'
[Most people have so many skills in their arsenal that they won't be able to remember ever last one of them. I help with that, I tell you what skill would be most useful to use in each situation and I am constantly informing your brain of all your skills in such a way it won't cause problems for you whilst you're fighting or doing anything.]
'So basically you're the auto-updater to my brain and are telling it its skills.'
[If that's the way you wanna think of it then yes, I'm the auto-updater to your brain.]
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In the far distance I could see a large over towering wall which had a huge dock with many larger boats leaving it as well as many large boats just sitting there.
Reaching the dock shore, I picked up Zenith and walked out the boat but before I could walk away I was grabbed by the leg.
"Eh, you have to pay for the trip. Give me my money."
The brownish-haired man remarked with his hand extending out.
"One silver coin."
"Yea, I don't have any money."
"What."
"We don't have any money."
"Why-you little!"
The man shot up and stepped out of his boat.
"How would you expect me to bring you to the Central Continent unless you have money!!"
The man voiced out whilst being enraged at out lack of competence.
"I'm sorry we're just dead broke." Vivy
After losing his cool the man ran at me and swung his fist.
Putting my hands up I moved them infront of me as I clumsily tried to block his incoming fist.
His fist touched my hands and I was able to block his fist mid attack.
[Skill Bonding Touch(U) has been activated.]
"My bad I wasn't in the right mind, Mistres."
The brownish-haired man took a knee and put looked at the ground as he quickly stated.
"Huh?"
'What just happened?'
'It doesn't matter. We'll be able to avoid paying now ,at least.'
Walking away from the man and the scene he caused I headed towards the looming wall ahead.
"What was that about?"
Zenith woke up and rubbed her eyes after hearing the commotion caused by the man and me momentarily fighting.
"Nothing to be concerned about. You can go back to sleep, or you could walk with me instead of resting on me whilst I do all the walking."
"Nah -yawn. I'll just go back to sleep." Zenith
"Huh.. Ok." Vivy
Patting Zenith on the head I continued walking forward on the huge wooden dock with giant ships to my left and right.
Passing through the crowds of people I finally made it to the huge wall which had a doorway to go through that was guarded by two people in armor.
"May I enter?"
"Wait. We have to make sure you posses nothing dangerous."
*****
Allowing us into the walls the guards went back to guarding.
'So this is the Central Continent. '
There were many buildings made of stone and all which presented different accessories all on display.
Walking past the many buildings I wondered into a tavern which would provide us with food and other nessary things.
"Six silver coins."
"Hehu... I don't have that."
"Then get out!!"
That was the tenth tavern that we had been kicked out of and it became even more noticeable that I'd need money...that I don't have.
"Guess we'll have to sleep on the side of the road.
"Zzzzzzz"
"Zenith..... your not awake are you."
Look over my shoulder my eyes met a paper stuck to the stone wall on my right.
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The Aquosis Academy
The entrance exam is tomorrow.
Only the powerful will be let in.
Test your luck.
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"Tomorrow, huh."
"We'll go and try it out."
Resting in the alleyway I fell asleep with Zenith.