After that I went to back to the town leaving Greg’s corpse unattended. As I walk, blood drips from my wound creating a trail of blood.

‘What kind of dream is this? I almost died but I didn’t woke up. This is like the movie I watched a long time ago.’

When I thought about what happened to the movie, I felt every hair on my body stands up.

‘If it is that movie then if I die here then I would also die in reality.’

I shrugged my shoulder and walk straight back to the village. As soon as people saw me bleeding, a commotion occurred.

“Hey that man is bleeding! Call a doctor!”

One person shouted those words and some run away to get a doctor and the person who shouted run towards me and assisted me as I walk. We walked for about 3 minutes until we stop in front of a house made of wood. The door opened and I saw a man on his mid-30’s carrying a box. He seems to be the doctor of this village.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know, we saw him returning from the Dark Forest. Maybe he encountered a goblin since the wound seems done by a sword.”

The man who is assisting me explained it to the doctor. The doctor guided us on an empty bed and put me down there. The man strips my clothes as the doctor pulled something in the box. It is bandages and some herbs. The doctor tended my wounds with herbs and bandaged it.

* * *

Low-level bandages have been applied on the wound.

Health will recover by 5 per hour.

Due to application of Low quality Herbs, healing effect of bandages increased by 5.

* * *

“Now, what happened?”

The doctor asked me and I explained about how I got the wound from Greg. Upon hearing my explanation, the doctor’s face turned dark, not only the doctor but also the man who assisted me.

“Greg? He returned at last! Call the guards and find him!”

“Okay!”

The man ran towards the exit but I grasped his arms. I felt pain due to sudden movements and groaned.

“You shouldn’t move like that until you heal completely. Don’t worry, we will catch Greg.”

The doctor warned me but I looked at the man’s eyes.

“I killed Greg already but if you need his corpse, then follow the trail of my blood.”

I said to the man and he nodded. I let go of his arms and felt my consciousness fade and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it is already dark and the doctor is busy mixing some herbs. I tried to stand up but all I felt is pain.

“Ouch..”

“You must rest until tomorrow. Don’t worry, you will not be punished by killing Greg since he is a robber. Just rest until tomorrow.”

The doctor said without looking at me. A girl entered a room, she is a teenager. Her hair is long that it reaches her waist, it is color chestnut the same with the doctor and she is carrying a tray with two bowls on it. There is also two cup filled with water. She walked towards the doctor and put one of the bowl and cup in front of the doctor and said.

“Dad, please don’t overwork yourself okay?”

“Yes yes, after this I will rest.”

So she is her daughter. When I looked closely at her, she is wearing a glasses and she gives an aura of a strict person. Her eyes are also color chestnut and her height is the same with me. She is so beautiful that you would think that God concentrated every beauty in the world to her.

“Oh, you’re awake. Can you eat by yourself? By the way I am Kaezar”

Kaezar said to me smiling and put down the tray on the desk beside the bed. The bowl contain a porridge and it has an appetizing smell.

“Yes I can eat by myself thank you. I am Jasper”

I introduced myself and picked up the spoon but when I reached out my hand, I felt a dull pain causing my face to distort.

“Don’t push yourself too hard.”

Kaezar smiled as she picked up the spoon.

‘Is she trying to feed me?’

By that thought, I felt my face got hotter and maybe I am blushing. This isn’t the first time that a girl fed me but I can’t help to feel embarrassed if a girl that will feed me is as beautiful as Kaezar.

“Here say ‘ah’”

She asked me to open my mouth and I hesitantly followed her instruction. I opened my mouth slowly.

“A-ahh”

I ate the porridge she serve and it tasted really good.

“How is it?”

Kaezar asked me while she prepares another spoon of porridge.

“It’s the best. Are you the one who cooked it?”

“Yes, thanks God that it was good.”

Kaezar smiled. Whenever she smiled, my heart skips a beat. Suddenly, I felt someone who is staring or should I say glaring at me. It was her father, the doctor. The father seems pissed at me. Well, who wouldn’t be pissed if you saw your daughter feeding someone from opposite sex? Specially if that someone is at the same age as your daughter.

Feeling uncomfortable with the glare I tried to stop Kaezar from feeding me.

“H-hey, it’s okay. I can eat at my own.”

I tried to snatch the spoon on her hand but she held it high so that I can’t reach it. I tried to get up but the I felt a dull pain from the wound.

“Ouch..”

“I told you to take it easy. Relax so that the wound would heal faster. Leave everything to me.”

‘Uhmmm.. Kaezar, you know I can’t relax since your father is glaring at me the whole time’

Is what I wanted to say but I just nodded at her since her father seems to say that I should just follow her or else.

This old man, he glared at me when his daughter feed me but he will glare at me harder if I refuse the kindness of his daughter. Seriously, what would you like me to do?

I let Kaezar feed me until the bowl became empty, after that I drink water and lie down to the bed. Kaezar take the dishes and went out of the room. I look at the doctor and saw his bloodshot eyes. I bet he’s thinking how to kill me.

“Uhmm..”

“Don’t worry, I would not kill you for that. Kaezar is a kind girl and everyone that became my patient is treated that way by Kaezar.”

The doctor seems to read what I’m about to say and told me that I don’t need to worry about it.

“Anyways, it is amazing that you kill Greg. Killing a level 3 thief isn’t easy.”

“Eh? He’s a level 3 thief? He said he’s a level 10 warrior.”

I got shocked at what the doctor said because I perfectly heard from Greg that he is a level 10 warrior. Wait… Is he lying about his job and level?

“Boy, don’t trust someone easily, some of them will take advantage of you. If they said that they are warrior then let the village chief check it.”

“Check it? The village chief can check jobs and level by glance?”

I asked since I didn’t know about it.

“Nope, not by glance. It is through the ‘Identification Card’.”

“Identification Card?”

Of course I know what identification card in reality is. It is a card that contains basic information about oneself like name, age, gender, address, etc. but it exist here?

“Identification Card is a card that contains the person’s name, age, job and level. It is used to identify someone. There is a skill that allows you to summon it but it is only available for a few jobs like village chief or knight. They say that it is created by God after the mother gave a name for the baby. And it is located at your left hand.”

The doctor pointed the back of his hand when he explained it. I could avoid killing Greg if I knew about it before. Well, there’s nothing I can do now. And this is just a dream, there’s no point on feeling guilty when killing someone in your dream.

“Just rest for now and tomorrow went to the village chief’s house. And also, by tomorrow your wound will be completely healed.”

“Okay.”

The doctor went out of the room leaving me alone. I closed my eyes and sleep. It is weird. Sleeping inside a dream. I experienced waking up from a dream to find out that I was still dreaming but I never experienced sleeping inside a dream.

When I woke up, the sun is already up and it seems to be 8:00 AM or something. I sat down at the bed and rotate both shoulder. The pain is gone. I can now move it freely but there is still bandages attached to it. Is it possible to heal a wound from a sword overnight? Here it is possible since it is a dream. There is nothing impossible for a dream.

When I stand up, I felt chilly down there then suddenly the door opened. It was Kaezar and she is holding a tub of water with towel hanging on her shoulders. I don’t know if knocking isn’t practice in here or what but Kaezar’s face seems to be color red.

“Are you okay?”

I asked her and take a step forward towards her but she suddenly let go of the tub causing the water to spill and covers her face.

“KYAAAAAAAAAA!!”

She suddenly screamed then I realized I am naked. I don’t know why I am naked in the first place but I covered my ‘Sword of Light’ with my hand.

“W-w-wait!! Don’t scream!!”

I quickly covers my body with the blanket when I said those words but his father ran towards the room.

“What happened?!”

The doctor asked as he slams the door open and entered the room. There he saw his daughter covering her face and me who is covering my whole body with a blanket.

“You pervert!! What did you do to my daughter?! Why are you naked?!”

He’s angry.

“That’s what I wanted to know to! And besides, your daughter didn’t knock! I am finding my clothes when she opened the door!”

I explained to the doctor to avoid more trouble than this. I don’t want unnecessary troubles.

“It’s on the right side of the bed. There is a basket there and your clothes are there and Kaezar, I told you before that if we had a patient knock before you enter this room.”

The doctor voice is now gentle but his glaring at me as if I planned all of this. I scratched my head and put on my clothes. I say clothes but it is actually equipment. The sword and shield I got from Greg are put besides the basket. I hang the sword at my waist and put the shield at my back. Remembering that most of my equipment now came from Greg, I felt guilt but every time I felt it, the voice would say that ‘it’s okay, this is just a dream’.

I went out to the streets and remembered that I need to pay the village chief a visit. As I was walking towards to the village chief’s house when I someone pulled my shoulder from the back. I looked back and saw the doctor carrying my bag. I seems to forgot about it.

“Here you forgot these… And I don’t want to see you come near my little Kaezar… Or else… Understand?”

He gave me my bag and give a little threat to me.

Doctor, you don’t have to worry, after the accident I don’t know how I would approach her even if I wanted to.

I just nodded at the doctor’s words since he look serious. This man really loves his daughter. Now that I think about it I only saw his daughter. If his daughter is that beautiful, I bet his wife must be beautiful too. Maybe the doctor has another daughter and I hope it is older than Kaezar.

“Good and by the way, if you are going to the village chief’s house then you are going to the wrong direction, the house is located there.”

The doctor pointed towards his back which is the opposite of where I am going.

“And also you forgot to pay.”

“Gek! I thought it was free!”

“Boy, there is nothing ‘Free’ in the world, everything has a price.”

This dream… It’s so realistic that it somehow scares me. Normally, money transactions aren’t included in a dream right? This sure is a weird dream.

“H-how much?”

“Hmmm.. let’s see for the herbs that I used 5 coins, bandages are 10 and another 8 for porridge so a total of 23 kwart all in all.”

“Kwart?”

I asked the doctor since I don’t know what kwart it. Although I have a rough guess about it, it is better to let him explain since I might be mistaken.

“Kwart is the name of money. The currency used to represent kwarts is copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins. 1 kwart = 1 copper coin, 100 kwart = 1 silver coin and 10000 kwart is equal to 1 gold coin.”

23 kwarts! It almost took all of my money. 23 kwarts for one treatment huh, and moreover it is just a light wound but the price is too high.

“You might be thinking that the price is too high right? I am sorry but if I don’t charge for each treatment I did then people will suffer since I won’t be able to buy the items needed for the treatment.”

He got a point. If he treats people for free then he will be the one to suffer. I opened my bag and take out the coin pouch.

“23 kwarts.”

I take 23 copper coins from the pouch and hand it over to the doctor. The doctor accepted it and put it on his own coin pouch that is dangling on his waist. So now I only have 2 copper coins. 2 kwarts.. What can I buy from that money? 2 kwarts will not suffice for my food alone plus I need to rent a room inside the inn.

*Sigh*

I sighed as I saw the doctor going inside his house. I forgot to asked where can I find the cheapest inn.

“There is nothing I can do about it. I can’t earn money if I just stand here. Better went to the village chief’s house then hunt something outside the town.”

I went to the village chief’s house

I don’t have money.

If I don’t have money then I can’t eat or sleep inside the inn.

No I won’t survive this world if I don’t have money.

*Sigh*

I sighed again and I found myself at the building that the doctor is pointing. The building looks old and made of stone and wood. It looks similar to other building the only difference is the parts that are made from stones. I knocked at the door.

“Excuse me! Is this the village chief’s house?”

I shouted in front of the door then I heard some sounds behind it and the door slowly opened. An old man that is in his mid-60’s welcomed me.

“Yes this is village chief’s house and I am the village chief. How can I help you?”

“I heard you need me for something.”

I said at the village chief. The village chief clothes is ragged and he look at me from top to bottom.

“Are you really the one who killed Greg?”

“Yes”

I answered the village chief question and he look at me with a doubt in his eyes.

“Well… There is no use on lying on me kid… [By the power of King he bestowed upon me! I command you to manifest and reveal the identity of this man! Reveal Identification Card!]”

The village chief says something that someone with an 8th grade syndrome would say. I wonder how can he said something like that. Maybe it is normal for this world to say something as embarrassing as that. Suddenly, my right armed heat up and light shone from it.

From my right hand a blue card appeared and floats in the air. The village chief took the card and read the content.

“Name: Jasper Perez, Level: 2, Job: None, Gender: Male. You seem to be Jasper and you have a last name but I never heard of Perez family.”

The blue card is the identification card that the doctor is telling me. So this is how you summon an identification card huh.

“I am Noe the village chief I called you here to discuss the matter about Greg.”

So the village chief called me to discuss about it huh… I think he would just ask some question regarding the incident. There is a limit to what you can learn about what you hear but I thought that they already found the corpse of Greg and I already admitted about killing him so what would the village chief ask me?

“Come inside. There is something I wanted to ask you.”

We went inside the house. The inside is plain and there is no electrical appliances that could be seen. When you enter the door, the first thing that you would see is a wooden table and chairs. Further would be the kitchen and on the left side of the door you would see the stair. We sat on the chair and an old woman brings a cup of water for us to drink. Maybe she is Noe’s wife.

“Thank you.”

I thank the old woman and she smiled at me and said.

“You’re welcome.”

The old woman went back to the kitchen and started a fire on the stove using firewood and flint.

“Now the reason I call you hear is about Greg as I said earlier.”

Noe said and I shifted my attention to him from his wife. I am quite interested on how did his wife make a fire using flint but I that is not the reason I am here. I am here because Noe wanted to ask me something.

“Are you really the one who killed him?”

Noe asked me with a serious face. Is he doubting that I killed Greg?

“Yes”

“Then can you tell me the appearance of the corpse of Greg if you really are the one who killed him.”

Noe asked me. Why did they need to ask me this? I already told them about the corpse so they should know the appearance of it.

“Both of its arms are severed and there are some stab wounds on the legs.”

I said as I recall the corpse of Greg. Guilt started to haunt me again but the voice calmed me.

“You really killed him huh… It’s not that I doubt you but killing a thief will award you depending on their level. Each level will give you 1,000 kwarts minimum. It changes depending on the weight of the crime.”

Noe paused and give me a red card. I looked at it and it contains the information about Greg.

* * *

Name: Greg

Level: 3

Job: Thief

Bounty: 10,000 kwarts

Gender: Male

* * *

So this is how the identification card looks like. It really gives the basic information of the owner.

I am fascinated by it and Noe coughed.

*Ahem*

“That is the identification card for chaotic person. Your identification card is blue meaning you’re good. Anyway I will be giving you that card since you are the one who killed him. Give this to the knight office at the city and they will give you the bounty listed on the card.”

Noe explained to me. So I need to go to the city to claim the bounty huh… Well, it’s too early for me to leave Pinar so I will be staying here for a while. The problem is the money.

“Say Noe, how can I earn money here?”

I asked Noe since he is the village chief. I can trust him since he is a public figure.

“Let’s see. You can hunt the animals at the forest and gather their meat and leather to sell it or you can do some various works at the shops. It would depend on what you wanted to do. I would recommend working at the shops since you can earn money safer there.”

Noe suggested for me to work at the shops. It is indeed safe but I won’t gain level if I don’t fight. Well, safety first so I think I would apply for various shops here for a while.

“Hey Noe can you recommend me for work here? I don’t know If I would be accepted if I just went here and there asking for a work.”

“I think I can…”

I asked Noe since he is the village chief and for him to recommend me means I have a higher chance of landing a job.