After looking at the horde of lizards Roy started to wonder if the Luck attribute was broken as even though the lizards were for sure dormant beasts and hold little power to him alone he was nothing against around a hundred of those things. And he was alone very very alone in a act he found magical and also kind of not cool the driver shone blue for a few seconds and then disappeared leaving him all alone in the small wooden carriage waiting to get burned alive at that moment he was really jealous of the driver disappearing act he wanted to vanish away from danger too but right now his only move was a hopeless one taking the water stone thingy out he was hoping for the random object to be a weapon of mass destruction but considering the fire in the original timeline that was likely not what was going to happen when it's active and he was correct and wrong at the same time it was a "weapon" but not one off mass destruction it did kill 2 lizards though yet probably in reality it was not a weapon it only floated a bit and rained down some water from above the lizards then broke yet even though he was not sure what the thing was meant to do the water contact with the lizards did kill 2 and weakened around 3 more and so in the midst of danger Roy got a massage for the first time.
[You have slain a dormant beast lingering flame lizard].
[You have slain a dormant beast lingering flame lizard].
[You have received a memory:lingering matchbox]
Of course at the moment he couldn't appreciate the luck he had in getting a memory so fast especially when after the death of 2 of the lizards he became target number one and every lizard out there targeted him especially ignoring anything else.
Roy was sure he was a dead man he was basically at fault for the path he chose yet at the time leaving the city seemed the most logical and to be honest he would probably choose the same if he was in the same position after all he really didn't have much choice mybe he could have bought security or something but he really wanted to get as far away as fast as possible and so he didn't even think of that possibility plus even if he did what good would that do after all the market did burn so most likely no one in the city had the power to stop it. And unbeknownst to Roy he was spot on this type of danger was lower in the scale of things but the timeline he is "in" was right before a strong creature attacked the city right next to his own and with its effect over 90% of the strongest people were gone leaving the immediate defenders that were strong and saved the city but not before the horde took down the market in fact if he stayed behind and simply left the market he would have survived it might have been a wimpy survival but a survival nonetheless but he didn't know that and right now that didn't help even if he gained that knowledge.
Roy had no plan of attack in fact he panicked so much he could barely make decisions but he did the one thing he could think to do he jumped on the horse a creature he had no knowledge of how to ride cut its connection to the carriage and hoped the horse would run away and take him with it and surprisingly it worked. For around a minute or so apparently horses while in a panic are not as useful as they might seem and the way Roy held on only agitated the horse more he was very much not holding on correctly he was kind of hugging the horse anyway it took the lizards a minute to catch up to the erratic horse and a few seconds more to kill it yet in what seemed horrible at the moment the horse gotten mad while being devoured and tossed Roy with so much force he found himself flying in the air only to crash into a tree and believe it or not the lucky attribute must have done some miracle because the tree was hollow. Out of all the trees out there probably only this one held a secret and by a roll of the dice Roy crashed into that very one yet at that moment he was unconscious and very much not aware he was falling down the inside of a hollow out tree into some hidden room that had no reason to be there.
The Funny thing was the tree was not supposed to allow anyone entry but a certain being broke in a few years ago and took everything of value from the place leaving it open to other people yet at the moment it was just a empty room a well hidden and hard to find room however and just what Roy needs at the moment.
It took Roy 15 minutes to gain concessions and he was awfully confused how he even survived he assumed he was dead the moment he lost consciousness in the midst of a horde of monsters yet at the moment everything around him was dark except a small hole that had a bit of light from really high above that hole was where he "entered " from and it really didn't help him see anything luckily for him after wondering around aimlessly or more accurately wadding around as he was very much limping a little he remembered the memory he got and it was great for his current situation.
[lingering matchbox: a box of matches with endless matches forgotten and old but working].
Well that sounds like a really low level memory but I didn't really expect much and it's just right for the current situation.
Without further ado Roy used a match to his surprise the match like all matches lit up and after a few seconds stopped yeah trying to use a match as a light source was not great that's for sure but he had no alternative at the moment and so in the next 20 minutes he looked around with matches finding a chair a table and that's it the room had only a chair and a table so he did what was obviously the best choice he sat down and tried finding anything on the table and in its drawer to his misfortune the table was empty to his luck by simply getting to the room he was in he basically finished his first nightmare and just by stumbling in this room he will gain much more than he should and probably more than he deserves but sometimes even luck is a skill and he had it in spades in this nightmare yet he was not over yet it took the nightmare 4 more hours to end in fact and he for the most part did nothing he did look around some more and played with his gold coins but that was it nothing more and when the market burned he finally got the massage
[Wake up,Roy! Your nightmare is over].
[Prepare for appraisal]
[Aspirant! Your trial is over].
[A apprentice merchant stole from his teacher and boss he run away from the city and found himself in great danger he fought a bit and stumbled upon a old wherehouse where secrets were long forgotten surviving against the odds and sitting on the chair of a great hero. Somewhere between a thief and a merchant and richer for it]
[you have collected a job item[gold coins]*133].
[you have collected a job item[silver coins]*33].
[you have collected a job item[bronze coins]*17].
[You have slain a dormant beast lingering flame lizard].
[You have slain a dormant beast lingering flame lizard].
[you have encountered a glimpse of the hero Traveler].
[you have survived against the odds].
[final appraisal:excellent you survived and got more money than any apprentice merchant should have truly remarkable].