My Servant Is An Elf-Knight From Another World

Chapter 45

<<Be sure to stock up on Health Potions before entering a fight. You never know when you might need them.>>

Man, loading screen tips are useful as hell, aren't they? A lot of games have them. A lot of games shouldn't. Half the time, some of them feel just downright patronizing, honestly.

Like, what am I? Five? I know how to press the 'X' button, game, don't worry. I'm fully capable of using my thumbs.

Over the course of my playthrough, I managed to gather a list of favorites that would occasionally pop up on screen, a few of them, paraphrasing here, are basic things like -

<<Weapon broken. Go Blacksmith. Blacksmith fix good.>>

<<Party Members sometimes talk. Talk to them.>>

Favorite one being, after dying from a mob, was: <<To not die, don't die>>

Okay, maybe I'm giving the devs a little too much flak here. Besides, they do serve as useful suggestions when I get too cooped up in farming for EXP.

Fast-traveling that one time actually reminded me of a thing that I should be doing that I've been setting aside for reasons of the procrastination kind.

<<You can find interesting side quests by going to a local town's notice board and accepting quests from there>>

Convenient timing had me loading into the peaceful province of Astra. A rather prosperous kingdom. Definitely be earning top dollar here.

Course, I haven't completely forgotten about my true objective here. Like a dried-up desert sponge, I've been absorbing every new info I've come across, truly immersing myself in the world of Asteria.

It's no Kronocia, though, but it's the closest I'll ever get and that's good enough for me.

Now, most will say that for a purpose such as my own, a wise man would simply set himself walking on the path less troubled, and just google what it was that he sought for.

Let it not be unsaid though, that I'd agree wholeheartedly. But this arduous journey has since gone past the point of just simple curiosity. After everything that has transpired, it was so much more.

Asteria was personal. And I'll discover everything it had to offer to me with my own eyes, with my own hands, all in the eyes of Leonardo the Hero. My quote-unquote 'Father'.

That's a commitment I resolve to see through to its end.

Hold your applause everyone. I know. Video games are such awe-inspiring ventures, aren't they? What a brave man I am for sitting in my bedroom fiddling around with a controller. I mean, can you just feel the determination surging through my veins here? I can.

Oh wait, that's Redbull. Nevermind.

Then there was the case with Ash and her polygonized evil alter ego. That... I didn't really know what to do with. As a servant of Terestra, our paths were intertwined... I'm going to end up knowing her story one way or another.

So as they say, come what may.

"How about this one?" suggested a sorcerer companion of mine, pointing to the quest board.

In actuality, what my dear sorcerer companion, with his big hat and robes, failed to realize in time was the fact that I've already swiped every single piece of parchment tacked onto the notice board. So really, he was just pointing at nothing, making himself look like a complete and utter fool.

Which is ironic, since his intelligence stat far exceeded the rest of my party members, including me.

But that's just A.I for you.