Chapter Four

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Going on my first quest with Arlene had been interesting. I felt like the whole party was watching every move I made. Arlene though, she just trained me to use my spells more efficiently and the ins and outs of combat while working with a party. We hunted some giant chicken like beasts and brought back the carcasses for the guild. It turned out that the guild hunted these beasts to serve at the guild. It meant that I couldn't use any spells that would rot the meat, which turned out to be a good chunk of my current arsenal. I was able to use a spell called "ghost arrows" which spawned arrows from the underworld that slowed whatever they hit. After I'd hit one of the chicken beasts one of the warriors in the party would come and cleave the head off of the beast. Watching Arlene do this had been interesting. For someone so short her agility and strength seemed non-human.

"Oh would you look at that" Arlene said and pointed out my raised level on my licence that I was currently studying back at the guild building. I'd levelled up twice from that quest alone. "You're level rises fast Belle. Is that one of your blessings?" she asked me.

It certainly wasn't from either the god of reincarnation or the god of creation. I didn't actually know what the god of destruction had blessed me with. Sara had told me that the gods had each given me a blessing. I knew what the first two gifts were; the orb and Sara.

Sara suddenly spoke, answering Arlene's curiosity and my own, "the God of destruction granted you a creature. It's currently in a passive mode that grants faster levelling up for the start of your adventure".

I opened my inventory and could see an item registered as "Rat of destiny". Arlene looked over my shoulder and read the items name out loud.

"Rat of destiny" she read aloud. I opened the items description and read aloud for the both of us.

"The rat of destiny is the personal pet of the goddess of destruction. For adventurers it passively grants a faster level up at the start of their adventure. Once a certain level is reached the rat wakes up and becomes active" I read aloud.

Arlene took me to a table where we sat by ourselves, obviously wanting privacy.

"Belle, you were chosen by the gods for a quest weren't you?" she asked me directly. I slowly nodded. "I don't want you to tell me anything more about it. The gods only send people from your world to ours when a great calamity is about to befall us" she quietly replied and then let out a soft sigh. "Let's keep it between us for now" she said before adding. "I would like to offer my party to aid you though Belle" she stated more than asked. 

"It's going to be dangerous" I told her. "A lot of people will die" I added.

"It's a good thing you're a necromancer then" she only half joked.

"What about Renei? I asked, referring to her elven girlfriend. "You can't put yourself in so much danger" I stated, thinking about the very cute couple. 

"I'm half-dwarven. They tend to live hundred of years" she began. "Renei is only a young elf and yet she's over a thousand. She'll outlive me ten-fold as it is"  Arlene explained. "At least if I die fighting the next great calamity, my name will be remembered in song for as long as Renei lives. At least she'd remember me that way" Arlene said solemnly. I looked over at Renei behind the desk and couldn't help but feel sad at Arlene's words.

"Is that common in this world?" I asked Arlene, now looking back at her. Her face wasn't as sad as I expected it to be.

"Our customs and ways must seem strange to you" Arlene simply responded. "Dwarves live to be remembered in song. It's a great honour amongst my people and common knowledge amongst humans" she explained to me. "You're a hero though Belle, I wouldn't expect a hero would know much, if anything at all, about our world" she said as if she only realised this now.

I laughed feeling like the subject had changed to something lighter, "To be honest, I've been here for a day" I said laughing.

"Level five in one day, impressive" she said grinning. Then her eyebrows raised as if she realised something. "Are you human?" she asked me as if it wasn't obvious. "No seriously" she stated and I opened my stats to show her. She read my species. 

"Undetermined" we read out loud together. I looked down at my body which was currently covered in my ebony armour. It's stats had also gone up when my level had reached five. 

Her voice hushed Arlene tried to comfort me "you're a necromancer and a hero. The locals of this world are solidified in who they are. You arrived here a day ago, therefore things aren't so straightforward for you".

I closed my stats and smiled, "thanks Arlene" I told her before we rejoined the other party members and drank the rest of the night away.

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