Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Felix remained lying on the ground absentmindedly as he stared at the ceiling with his lost eyes.

But it was all an act he was doing to fool the two guards who were still inside the room.

Meanwhile, he was brainstorming in his mind the series of events that had transpired within this couple of minutes.

'I couldn't do anything at all....'

Felix recalled the moment when he was facing against the Rank 4 man.

It felt as if his very soul was trembling, and his body just refused to listen to his mind when the man calmly stared at him.

Indifference.

That was what he could see in the man's eyes. The kind of stare that one gave towards someone so much weaker than you that you would ignore their whole existence.

'Sigh....I'm lucky he didn't outright kill me.'

Closing his eyes, Felix remembered all the times he had fought against someone stronger than himself.

Even the system only gave him skill points when he killed a being higher than his own rank, but this time, he realised the harsh consequences of meeting someone truly stronger than himself.

If it weren't for his face, which seemed to have some value in the eyes of that man, he was sure he would've been dead by now.

'Alright, it's time I escape from here.'

He opened his eyes when he heard the door of the prison room closing.

Getting up, he glanced through the bars of his cell and verified that the two guards had left the room.

As he did so, the other cells present in the prison room came into his sight.

Felix clenched his fists when he saw the malnourished bodies of many kids and weak women being jailed in the cells.

They wore nothing but a single piece of cloth on themselves, with bodies so thin that they could escape from the cell bars if they wanted to, but they knew the consequences of doing so would be unbearable.

Their figures reminded Felix of himself when he had been reincarnated in this world as a slave.

The feeling of having no freedom and the fear of the many inhuman things that were going to happen later on, these thoughts messed up their mind until they could no longer perceive what was right or wrong.

'I wish I could save them....'

Felix thought as he gnawed on his lips in silence.

Though he wished to save these people from the dark guilds, he knew it was nigh impossible for him to do that with that Rank 4 person in the play.

Not only that, he didn't have any information regarding this base and the number of strong people that were present here who could easily kill him.

Giving the slaves a last glance, Felix let out a sad sigh before he used his skill.

'Earth Swimming.'

His body sank into the ground, leaving nothing behind in the cell that revealed his existence and the fact that he was ever here.

The more he used this skill, the more he realised how useful it could be in many difficult situations.

After submerging in the earth, Felix swam horizontally for a lot of distance until he felt that it was safe and swam back towards the surface.

In the dark forest slightly illuminated by the three moonlight, a silver head poked out from the ground and carefully surveyed the surroundings.

'It seems fine here.'

After feeling that the place was far away from the dark guild's tent, he surfaced on the ground and started finding his way back towards their small camp.

It was challenging for him to search for the way back, but he used his new idea of analysing the three moon's orbital movements to calculate the general directions and ran towards where he thought would be their camp.

In the end, he found that the idea worked as he came across the several marks he had left behind on trees while hunting there.

Sometime later, after he had followed the marks, he reached the camp where the bonfire had been completely exhausted.

'It's too dangerous to stay here anymore, we'll have to leave at the earliest...'

Glancing around the camp, he entered the single tent to wake up the two boys.

Roven quickly opened his eyes and moved towards his weapon when he felt the presence of another person coming inside their tent.

Just before he could strike the dark figure, Felix let out his voice in panic.

"Wait-! Roven, it's me! Don't hit me!"

Pausing with his sword raised up, Roven narrowed his eyes in the dark and asked.

"Felix, is that you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

"I'll tell you the reason alright, but first please lower your sword.", Felix replied while sweating.

The boy would've chopped his head if he wasn't quick enough to stop him, making him realize that it was not a good idea to suddenly wake up any sleeping people.

After Roven kept his sword aside, Felix woke up Eric too, who looked around sluggishly in confusion.

Without wasting any time, he conveyed to them the reason he woke the both of them up by mentioning the bandits and the dark guilds, to which they lost all their sleepiness and got ready to leave the place.

Hurriedly removing the tent and fetching the horses, they took care of everything at the scene and left the place with their carriage moving onwards into the dark.

Eric stayed beside Steve's unconscious body as he glanced at the forest in fear, while Felix sat with Roven at the front of the carriage.

"Do you know the right directions?", he asked with a frown, afraid that they'll arrive anywhere near the dark guild's tent base .

"Don't worry, yesterday night I had sorted out the directions with the map. We'll be able to reach the city in a few hours if we go along this path.", Roven took out his map of the surrounding region and pointed out the way.

Felix raised his brow, looking at the map, and requested.

"Can you give me that map for a second?"

Roven didn't mind as he had already memorised the path and passed the map to the boy.

"Sure, take it. The map covers a thousand kilometres of distance of villages and towns from around Edenmont City, including some of the other nearby great cities at the edge of the map."

He explained briefly about the contents in the map as Felix knitted his brows and searched for what he wanted.

A few minutes later, he marked a location in his mind from the map and handed it back to Roven.

The look on Felix's face suddenly turned worried as he glanced back into their carriage.

"Also, about Steve.....is he going to be alright? He's not waking up no matter how much we call out to him..."

His concern was shared by Roven, who titghtly clutched the horse reins at the mention of Steve's unnatural condition.

He knew more than anyone what forbidden thing Steve had done and the way he had suffered at the hands of the Rank 2 bandit.

"I don't know Felix,...this is the first time I've ever seen him in such a state. We.....we can only hope the guild may be able to treat him.....", Roven sounded sad with a hint of guilt in his voice.

Felix nodded with a sigh, wishing Steve would get perfectly treated by the guild, and turned back to stare at the road ahead.

The rest of their journey remained eventless, the carriage moving onwards the path as a few sunrays shined from across the end of the horizon, signalling the start of dusk.

In the chilled atmosphere, the boys didn't let down their guards as they rushed the horses to move faster, hoping to reach back to their guild as quick as they can.

Fortunately, it seemed that there weren't anyone chasing after them as the four boys reached the Edenmont City wall after a few hours of travelling.

Their tired faces brightened up seeing the gates of the city, where the city guard enquired with them of their arrival and allowed them entry into the city as they showed them their id cards.

Rushing past the early morning streets, their carriage trotted towards the eastern part of the city, arriving at their gothic styled guild building.

Roven suddenly halted the speeding carriage at the gates of the building; the horses jolting around with a neigh, and the boys jumped out of the carriage.

Without wasting any time, Roven carried the unconscious Steve as Eric and Felix opened up the way through the gates into the guild building.

Their hurried footsteps revealed their worry for the boy, who had remained unconscious for more than a dozen hours now.

Felix hurriedly took out his guild card and displayed it to the eye design on the building's door, which automatically opened up as it glowed reddish at the edges.

He rushed inside the hall without any care for his actions and banged the reception desk in urgency.

Miss Elsa, who had seen them enter in like a storm, smiled as she responded.

"Easy there, what's the rush? You guys came back pretty early-"

Her words were interrupted by Felix who shouted out loud with a tense face.

"PLEASE HELP STEVE! HE'S NOT WAKING UP!!"