Student To King: The Transportation To A New World

Chapter 23: Fresh Air

Grasping his head, Ace still felt the pain of Artes's skills flowing into his mind, recalling every procedure, every skillset, every process of his crafting, all jumbled up and out of order not knowing what goes where. Ace could recall a familiar weapon being built within his new memory, snippets of Artes crafting the infinity blade however there was another person involved in the process.

"Urk...!" Ace stepped back still baring the headache, his hands went to lean on the nearby table where Darklin could only wait until Ace was fine.

Taking a deep breath, Ace's mind had finally calmed down. He watched Darklin look at him with slight concern then smiled.

"I'm ok now. Hopefully..." Ace continued to huff and puff. 

"You do not sound confident."

"I should be fine, let's go." 

After their small conversation, Ace recovered from the sudden influx of skillsets embedded into his mind. He looked around remembering the enchanted map Artes mentioned on the table. Upon closer inspection of the map, Ace noticed it was enchanted. He could see his current position including the varying locations of both explored and unexplored dungeons in the continent.

"This will prove beneficial," Darklin commented.  

"Yeah, it's like a GPS, it even has names for various locations, it knows we're in the Creles empire as of right now." 

"GPS...?" Darklin turned his head. "What kind of word is that?" 

Ace's head shot up realising that the word was foreign for Darklin.

"It's just an otherworldly vocab, you'll hear more unusual phrases from time to time. But if you haven't noticed, this map only goes as far as the Hagi Kingdom, and they're the ones with the most cleared dungeons around their area."

"Do you think its the work of other Heroes?" 

"Probably, but it's the furthest kingdom away from here by foot. So we shouldn't worry about them for the time being." 

"Then with this dungeon cleared, shall we head to the next one if possible?" Darklin suggested.

"Not yet at least we'll need some sort of plan. For now let's take everything we can get from here."

Ace and Darklin spent time looking around the room. Ace took various metals near the crafting section but took more notable pieces of equipment. The first was a magical ring, capable of storing more than the highest of magic bags. 

'Would you consider this a masterwork item...?' After equipping the ring Ace found out he can easily summon his weapons to his hands rather than manually grabbing a dagger from the magic bag. The ring seemed to assume ownership of whatever Ace had put inside the ring's magical inventory. If Ace is in a certain range, he can recall an item previously stored at least a metre away.

"Are you going to continue wasting time with Artes' works again? I've grown tired from the shield gauntlet and you're experimenting with the ring?" Darklin expressed his annoyance.

"I have to use everything at the most efficiency. This works out since none of my weapons aren't bound to me." 

Darklin recalled his memory of Ace's amusement with the retractable shield, he can't count how many times he activated the gauntlet's function to activate the shield. 

"Right... Please keep it to a minimum. The shield experience was rather, unnecessary."

"Ah... right, my bad." 

Ace took a set of small knives, they weren't anything fancy but were of good quality to use as throwing knives. Although there was other weaponry, they looked unfinished but built enough to be used. Ace took a white dagger that far surpassed his previous silver one. The last piece of equipment Ace looted was a prototype helmet. There were several notes and designs alongside it but Ace needed it to protect and hide his face to keep a low profile in the kingdom.