Chapter 5: Discussion with Priscilla

Alex, Maria, and Sakuya silently walked towards the big hall where the others were waiting for us.

After a few minutes they arrived inside a big hall, it was a beautiful orned hall and in the middle of the hall was a big table and chairs. Leonardo and others were already sitting there. Alex saw priestess Priscilla and a few other people as well, they were not present yesterday Or he didn't notice them.

Leonardo's expression darkened when he saw Alex with Maria and Sakuya together. For him, it was unforgivable that someone like Alex was walking with those two. Alex seemed pretty close with Maria and Sakuya.

He deems Alex useless because of his gift not because of his background on Earth. Even though Alex had lost his parents when he was young, it doesn't mean that he was poor, far from that, Alex had lot of money, he was extremely rich. Firstly his parents were rich, his grandma possesses multiple jewelry stores. And Secondly, personally he was rich as well, because he was good at programming he created and sold a lot of good applications, earnings a lot of money coupled with his parent money. He was a billionaire, one of the richest.

In that regard, he can't look down on Alex even though his family was extremely rich as well, possessing a lot of a restaurant across the states. Well, here he can look down on Alex because he became a Hero while Alex's gift was useless and he didn't even have class.

Priestess Priscilla waved at the three indicating to sit across them.

Alex sat, Maria sat on his right while Sakuya on his left. Alex was in the middle of the two. The others were astonished seeing Maria and Sakuya behave like this. Leonardo coldly glared at Alex, in response Alex only shrugged his shoulders.

"Greetings. Did you three sleep well last night?" Priscilla asked.

They both nodded.

"I see. That's good then." Priscilla says with a smile. She looked at us before carrying on.

"Once again welcome. Welcome to our world, Mysthia. I'm the head priestess in charge of this temple of gods located in a forest not too far from the City of Eria. You already know my name but I'll introduce myself again. I'm Priscilla Havens. I will give you a brief summary of our world." She says before giving us a brief summary of their world.

To summarize, this fantasy world was called Mysthia, created by the gods a long time ago, there are many races and continents on Mysthia.

The continent Alex and others are currently on is called Alexa Continent, a human-populated continent but there are few other races mixed in.

There are many Empires, Kingdoms, and Principalities on the Alexa Continent. The city of Eria is part of the Drexia Empire one of the strongest empires.

There are also the Beastmen Continent called Bestia, the Elven Continent: a continent filled with nothing but giants trees, called Elfirra and the Demons Continent called The Dark Continent.

Demon races are enemies with the other races, they wanted to conquer the whole world. A bloody war occurred in the past that involved the other races, finally, the Demon King (Leader of the Dark continent) was slain by the hero bringing peace back. This happened a hundred and fifty years ago.

In this world most people have a class, some special people have gifts, but those that have one, are from the Royal families and Big families. Sometimes a commoner by chance can have a gift but that is an extremely rare case. Otherworlders always possess a gift. This, not the first time that there are Otherworlders reincarnating into Mysthia. The past Hero was an Otherworlder, Priscilla explained.

The currency used on Alexa continent and other continents apart from the Dark continent are the following:

From the lowest to the highest: Copper coin, Silver coin, Gold coin, White Gold coin, and Rainbow coin.

One Silver coin equals ten Copper coins. One Gold coin equal hundred Silver coins. One White coin equal hundred Gold coins and ten White Gold coins equal one Rainbow coin.

If Alex were to explain it in simple terms, one Copper coin is equal to $10, one Silver coin equal to $100, one Gold coin equal to $10 000, one White gold coin equal to $100 000 and lastly, one Rainbow coin equal to $1 000 000 million.

There are many associations like the Adventurer guild, the Mercenary Guild, Merchant Association, and so on. You can register in any of these associations to either become Adventurer, Mercenary or Merchant. Adventurer to slay monster and dive in dungeons to seek wealth, Mercenary if you are battlefield lover and Merchant to sell your wares to amass wealth.

This was the contents of Priscilla's summary of Mysthia's world.

After listening to her Alex had more or less a little understanding of their current world, later they can deepen their understanding of this new world, but there was something bothering Alex so he asked.

''Thanks, Miss Priscilla for the summary but I would like to know if by any chance the Demon King is about to awaken? And that's why a Hero appeared among the newly reincarnated Otherworlders, meaning us?"

When Alex asked these questions he glanced at Leonardo and her crew, they had a haughty expression as if saying we are the hero, future savior of the world, What a bunch of imbeciles. Alex inwardly thought.

Maria and her two friends had a serious expression on their faces, they were likely pondering about Alex's question.

"'That's a good question but I can't say for sure if it's related or not to that, but if it comes to that, we sincerely hope to have Hero and his friends cooperation to slay the new Demon King, if he were to awaken by any chance. Everybody will fully cooperate with the Hero and his team." She says while lowering her head.

"Do not worry Priscilla, with me here everything will be Ok. We seven will easily crush the Demon King if he were to appear. " Leonardo boasted and others in his crew nodded their heads in approval.

"That would be reassuring. Thank you in advance.'' Priscilla says with a beautiful smile, but a smile with a hidden meaning.

Ah! Truly a bunch of brainless idiots, I quit. Leonardo even added Maria and her best friends into his future Demon king slaying team. As for me, I was excluded, I can understand his reasoning though. My gift is sealed at the moment thus useless, it's better to quickly discard me, there's also another reason, that's he doesn't like me, my presence could thwart a lot of his plans. Mainly, those that concern Maria. Alex quickly analysed.

'Well, I'm fine with being excluded. I can do whatever I want, nobody will restrain me nor giving me an order like I must save the world because I'm Otherworlder. I'm a selfish person, to begin with, I'm neither a Samaritan nor a savior. At best I can just take care of myself and those dear to me, don't count on me to save the world, maybe I can think about it, If there's a lot of money at stake.' Alex mumbled to himself.

Anyhow, it's troublesome, so Alex was planning not to get involved with Leonardo and his world-saving team as much as possible.

Suddenly, Maria asked a question.

"Excuse me miss Priscilla but can you tell us the purpose of this temple? Is it to nurture Otherworlders like us in order to vanquish the Demon King or what?"

"Not really, Miss Maria, we are here to only welcome you, help you to understand our world, and teach some basics before letting you go. You can only stay here for one year. In this period of one year, if by chance you're scouted by an empire or any other major force and you accepted their proposal, you can leave earlier or if yourself choose to go before the end of the one year period we will give you a travel expense and wish you good luck." Priscilla explained.

"I see, thank you for the explanation.'' Maria says before looking at Leonardo and warned him, she was blunt.

''Leonardo it's a good thing if you decide to help others, but please do not include me, Luna and Sakuya in your team as you please. I have my own goal, same for them. I will live my life for myself, not for something like saving the world. I hope, I was clear enough.''

Sakuya and Luna nodded their heads while smiling. They seems to share the same feeling as their best friend Maria.

Everybody was astonished, Alex included, Leonardo had an unsightly expression, his attempt to rope Maria and her two friends in got smashed by Maria herself.

Even Priscilla expression changed for a second, before going back to normal again, she was also astonished by Maria statement.

However there was someone dissatisfied with the way Maria spoke earlier. Camilla snorted, she asked ''Who do you think you are?''

Maria glared at her and Camilla shut her mouth. Maria, Luna, and Sakuya excused themselves afterward.

The atmosphere became tense, after asking Priscilla a few questions, Alex went back to his room, leaving Leonardo and the others there.