I stare at the screen for a few more seconds, hoping I see things that perhaps information would change, but no, you continue to say that I am "Soren."
"Ok, take a deep breath and think about this... I'm the bad guy... No more precisely, a bandit who sucks at his job... No! To be more precise, I wanna be a bad guy bandit!!!!"
Then from behind behind me, are you hear.
"Hey boss, are you alrig-"
"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!"
My instincts kick in, and I immediately grab the first chair I see and smack down on the guy behind me.
Boom!
There was a loud sound, and the chair was breaking to pieces as I hit the guy and made him fall immediately on the ground. To my surprise, it was another person right behind that guy. He looked at me with a complete shock before yelling.
"Boss!!! What the hell was that?!?!? Oh gods, Jimmy!"
(congratulations! You getting a new title!)
(New title: Horrible boss.)
(You not just hurt one of your henchmen, but you also made him remember his abusive childhood with you actions, unlocking their trauma in it fullness. Nicely done, idiot.)
(Title effect: You will now find it 20% more difficult to gain affinity with your henchmen.)
Oh damn!... I panic. I completely forgot that Soren was always surrounded by his minions in the prologue we are taught the basics of how to use combat against Soerens minions.
Be a bandit in the middle of the damn forest. On the way to a tournament, our protagonist gets ambushed by sword goons, and there is pushed to kill the bandits and their leader.
I didn't even realize... No! Calm down... you can salvage from this.
I take a deep breath, look at one of the Conscience henchmen, and imagine myself as a bad guy.
"He had what's coming to him, and you will too if you don't answer my questions."
I crossed my arms and got up close to him, staring directly into his eyes with a look of disgust. I had to make sure I imitated the best attitude I remembered this guy having. Otherwise, the other noticed something different about Soren.
The henchmen refilling look at the unconscious man on the floor before looking back at me. gulp and answered quickly.
"Yes boss!"
I nod slowly as I think of what to ask without sounding too much suspicious, I need to know exactly and what part of the story I am as a story finally kick off. Who am I in moments before getting my ass kicked?
"Good man... now tell me... what day is it?"
He just look at me funny.
"huh?"
I frown and look at him up and down with the meanest face I could possibly make.
"Are you fucking deaf? I ask you for today's date! Hurry up and tell me!"
The man begins to sweat on his forehead.
"We just entered the rain season, sir- I mean, boss!"
Rain season... oh crap... they don't use normal calendars here do they?
"What year?"
I quickly ask, only to get another strange look at the man.
"wh- wha-"
"Did I stutter?"
"874 post the Tree growth, Boss!"
The tree growth. Oh, they must be referring to the tree of life. Yes, a tree that kind of almost reaches out to space at this point.
Yep, that is one tall freaking tree... And how does that work, you may ask?
I don't know, magic? I never bothered to read lore. I just wanted to play the damn game.
"Good... now tell me... when is the tournament in River Gold?"
I ask. I'm trying to find out when I'll be in the game. There are too many things about to happen in the game behind the scenes. A coup was happening behind the king's back, which would cause a civil War, and an empire was thinking of attacking the Kingdom and trying to subjugate it.
Do you wanna know the real kicker?
Those are only the side quests.
The main quest is for you to only defeat the final boss.
You can usually do this at your leisure. However, there is a catch: we simply cannot go to him and defeat the boss. Why, you ask?
Cause the boss is Lv:999 with one hell of resistance to everything... Of course, I feel how many times the little cheats are like using coins and stuff like that. If one goes in there normally, they will need many weapons and a bag full of positions just to survive long enough to get to the second phase out of three.
"Uh... I believe it will be in the in the next week."
As I was busy thinking, the man replied, almost causing me to have a heart attack on the answer.
"What!?! Already?!?"
I look at him I hold him on the shoulder and shake him as I ask. Clearly, I was worried if I didn't do something soon, one of the possible protagonists would kill me.
"Booosssss! Why are you shaking me!?! What did I do!?!?!
The man yells as I keep shaking him, his face a mix of confusion and slight fear. He is still fearing the same fate as poor Jimmy, who is still on the ground, muttering something about how Dad is is still not back from getting milk.