The Guide's entrance looked and felt exactly like a receptionist desk back home but one thing I knew; it was not, Not when the ''receptionist'' had wings and was flying, May walked up to the receptionist and asked for someone called Rhea, The receptionist whispered something to her and May made me sit with her in a room, ''Rhea'' she explained ''Is a good friend of mine, She is actually a healer, but ever since the moss drought she became a tribe tester''
A drought?, In cosplay land?, Next thing they'd be saying I was the chosen one to save their land.
I was disrupted from my thoughts as someone came in ''Telling my history to strangers?, Just like you'' May got up and glared at the person who had just came in ''Well that isn't a nice way to greet your big sister you haven't seen for a while, now is it?'' For some reason, this person seemed angry? Discouraged from not getting a response from May, The new face turned to me ''Hello! My name is Rhea, I belong to the Elion tribe, I suppose you are the one who doesn't have a tribe?'' I looked around me, There was no one else here except me and May, I slowly nodded, In response, Rhea perked up,
''Now, If you don't have a tribe yet, That means you don't know the tribes right?, Well, There are six tribes here in Rui Mountains, There are Fi, Liko, Quo, Elion, Scenia and Unu''
''The Fi's are the lowest tier, They are the ones with the most domestic jobs as they have few special features and have to rely on their strength entirely, The Liko's tribe is not very different from them, Just that the Liko's can manipulate elements which helps them get slightly more well paying jobs, The Quo tribe consists of many magical beings; fairies, genies, those are the type of people that belong to that tribe, The Elion tribe consists of healers and many immortal beings, The Unu tribe is dangerous, stay away from anyone with a dark purple mark on their wrist, they are troublemakers who have a big laugh at ruining people's lives, they were one of the factors to the argument our tribes had a long time ago, Finally there is the Scenia tribe, This is the rarest tribe and little people end up being chosen, This is because this tribe has royal blood, and only a chosen few, Call them the ''heroes'' if you want, End up in that tribe''
I stared at Rhea in awe, Who knew that there was so much to this tribe thing?, I turned to look at May and suddenly started to feel pretty bad for how I had treated her earlier, She was someone from the Liko tribe who didn't have a lot yet she had taken me in her house without doubt, Let me sleep in her own bed and yet I was here making life hard for her? For the first in a long time I felt awkward.
Hopefully, I turned to Rhea to save me, She must have gotten the memo because she told me to come with her, And instructed May In that room, relieved I went with her gladly, We walked right past the receptionist and the place where it looked like somethings were going on, But I knew something was going on when I was taken into a place with dust on the floors and dim lights, Rhea laughed ''We have a bit of an underpopulation problem so recently we haven't got any new people coming to find their tribe, It's away from the other rooms as people who finally have their magic sparked inside them sometimes lose control and that could harm others who just came to get their bounty rather than getting burnt by some Liko tribe member who couldn't help it''
I laughed weirdly. What was going to happen here?
Rhea led me into the room, Held my hand and took some of my blood with what looked like an injection but did all the work for her, ''See, you first have to find out your tribe before you can cultivate your powers, Okay?''
I nodded and Rhea put my blood into a strange globe looking object, She chatted with me for a bit until I heard a beeping like sound and she turned to the globe, She looked at it and turned to me worried
''Um, I think there is something wrong with the machine today so, you might have to come another day, okay?
Rhea led me out of the room and after Rhea called May to her side and whispered something to her, Later May went out of the building with me and offered for me to stay at her house that night. Not knowing where else I would go, I accepted.
Later that night, May came up to me and asked if I was alright, I said maybe
Little did I know that while I was sleeping, My life as I knew it was going to become way more harder
Running through the cave entrance in pitch darkness, Three people came through it; they were not human
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Underneath the Telescope
FantasyA failing scientist discovers there's more to life than meets the eye