Runeshield Mage: A LitRPG Fantasy Adventure by NJ Buller

Author:NJ Buller [Buller, NJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 51

Introductions

"Stig, show Theo Locheim where he is expected to sleep for the time he is with us," Arila said when silence came over them once again. "Show him around the village and answer his questions openly—if you haven’t started doing that already."

Wait.

"I’m allowed to just stay here?" Theo cut in, not sure if he’d heard correctly. That was a very sudden change in the situation. The guards outside had blatantly expected him to attack, and the leader had clearly not wanted him to bring his shield into the room. Yet now he was just, what, being granted a place to stay?

"We saved you from the clutches of death. There is no reason to force you out and let nature repeat itself," the leader of Zerdyl replied as if her words were the most obvious thing in the world.

It did make sense, Theo supposed, but it still felt a little wrong.

"If you truly want to, you can request that I let you stay here,” Arila went on. “I promise that I will at least act like I’m considering throwing you out."

Okay, that was just mean. Accepting the offer that he’d been handed, Theo saw the leader leave through the back and attend to her other duties. What those other duties were was impossible for him to guess. Instead, the [Mage] focused on the fact that he and a certain forest dwarf were alone once again.

And being alone meant that Stig didn’t have to keep quiet.

"Just how did it feel like, when you got teleported from another world?" the young forest dwarf asked.

Theo just sighed as he stood up. He’d been slouching while sitting on the pillow, and comfortable as it was, his thirtieth birthday wasn’t too many cycles away.

How does this place even handle years?

"And what was it like in that other place?” Stig continued, peppering him with questions. “Was the magic more advanced?"

"No magic," Theo bluntly answered, rethinking his decision only a second after. "Or another kind, at least. It ran everything you can think of, but I don’t have the faintest idea about how it worked. I was just an accounting assistant in my old world."

"That’s pretty cool. I guess your rune-crafters didn’t decide to become genocidal," Stig commented, standing up as well and walking out of the small room. "Your side must have been rather peaceful."

He noted the tensing of the dwarven guards as they left the room, Theo’s casual grip on his shield barely stopping them from charging at him. He was meant to be a part of this village from now on, but it would be hard if the other villagers kept looking at him like that.

"Yes…" the [Mage] decided to say, not wanting to get into the history of modern weaponry. Some of it was a little too brutal to bring up in polite conversation, and nobody here needed to know what you could do if you had the right technology. Granted, [Mana] likely already gave them plenty firepower, but he had no need to talk about long-range missiles.

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