Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 46 You are a Mage, right?
Option two is 52%, and option three is 48%.

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【Option [-]】

[Quick Casting]: Casting spells does not require reciting spells

Occupational Skill: Fireball Lv.1
Fixed Ability: Appraisal

……

Both options are pretty much the same!In this case--

Zheng Zhuo held out his hand.It was the short staff that he held.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Zhuo was engulfed by a sense of weightlessness.He started to fall, and kept falling—

suddenly.

All sounds are gone.

After a few seconds.

Explosive cheers and laughter erupted in the ears.

what happens?Zheng Zhuo blinked.He slowly looked around—

He was in a low tavern built of paulownia wood.

Floors, window frames, tables and chairs, bar counters.Everything is made with rough craftsmanship and crooked.The tavern is not big, but it is full of people now.Some still look human, and some—

"(That's...long ears...and...fangs...)"

Some people have exaggerated facial structures.Some of them are very tall and some of them are very short.Some have green skin, and some even have lizard-like tails.

Zheng Zhuo moved slightly.He stood up from where he sat - the weightlessness of the rapid fall was still in his head, and now, he was staggering as if drunk.

But no one pays attention to him.Because everyone here is drunk.

Laughing, roaring, and all kinds of dialects made the tavern a pot of porridge!The tall drinker with a ferocious face raised his wine glass, the glasses collided with each other, and the wine splashed all over the head of the short drinker among them.However, the short drinker didn't care at all and laughed.

It's noisy!Holding the short staff - the only thing he carried - Zheng Zhuo staggered through the crowd.He wanted to get out of the house first--there was too much alcohol in the air--that smell must have drunk an elephant!The smell of wine has already made Zheng Zhuo dizzy——

"Drink! Keep drinking!!"

When passing by the center of the crowd, Zheng Zhuo suddenly heard someone laughing and shouting in the busiest place under the stairs of the tavern.

"Why don't you drink it! Drink it quickly, drink more—what are you afraid of!"

Zheng Zhuo looked there.

"All - I pay the bill!!!"

Everyone cheered together, almost breaking the roof.A thin human being was thrown up by a strong orc. He held a dazzling gold and silver treasure in his hand, and a necklace made of emeralds and pearls hung around his neck, laughing loudly.

what.

When the human being was thrown to the top, Zheng Zhuo saw his face.

He had just seen that face——

——in the scene that the [Orphan] card showed him.

……

rustling.

In the tavern, the crowd suddenly became agitated.

what happened?

The rich and well-to-do human being who was drunk opened his dim drunk eyes and looked sideways.

There, people were shouting and cursing in confusion, as if to say "bastard", "what are you doing", "you stepped on my head".

At this moment.

He saw a young human male climb from the crowd onto the shoulders of the tallest male orc.

Hey?what happened……

Just before he could react.

He saw the young man wave the short staff in his hand.

"--you--"

what.

"--this--"

That short staff, it seems...

"--stupid--"

...from your own head...

"--goods--!!!"

... getting closer.

Boom!
Accompanied by a muffled sound, the eyes of the generous human man went dark, and he fell limply.

The last thing he thought of before he lost consciousness was...

"(The one with the short staff... shouldn't be a mage?)"

……

the next day.morning.

Same bar, same location.The difference is that most of the drinkers have already left.

The tavern returned to calm, only a few people who looked like adventurers occasionally pushed open the wooden door at the entrance.

thump.

In the corner, the thin and short man who treated yesterday knocked a large glass of draft beer in front of Zheng Zhuo.

The man's head was wrapped with gauze.Compared with yesterday, it looks a bit miserable...

... However, there are worse people.

"Hey, I really didn't expect that you are so poor and have nothing on you! Don't they all say that mages are rich—especially young mages—are they all rich young masters?"

The man knocked on the table with his knuckles, looked at Zheng Zhuo, whose face was black and covered with bandages, and made a "tsk tsk tsk" sound.

"Don't talk about compensating me, you can't even pay your own medical bills! I paid for you—what's the matter with you?"

"...Uh...I don't know..."

Zheng Zhuo held his head in his hands, he didn't know if he was still in a hangover, or the concussion from the angry drunks hadn't healed yet.

"Maybe I'm...poor drinking...and I'm airsick..."

"Dizzy what?"

"No, it's fine."

"I said you—"

The man tapped the table again with his knuckles.

Zheng Zhuo raised his eyes.

[Authentication] was opened.Zheng Zhuo saw the message on the opposite side.

……

【Zhuang Yusheng】

[Occupation: Thief Lv1]

[Skills: Space Target, Stealth Lv1]

……

Zheng Zhuo looked at himself again.

……

【Zheng Zhuo】

[Occupation: Mage Lv1]

[Skills: Appraisal, Quick Casting, Fireball Lv1]

……

"Hey, are you listening?"

Seeing that Zheng Zhuo was distracted, the thief named Zhuang Yusheng knocked harder.

Zheng Zhuo looked up blankly.

Seeing Zheng Zhuo's performance, Zhuang Yusheng couldn't help sighing exaggeratedly.

"Oh my god... what happened to me? Forget it, at least tell me why you beat me? It's not like this if you drink too much!"

"what……"

Zheng Zhuo rubbed the corners of his eyes.

"Because you took the wrong thing."

"what?"

"You took the treasure in the blue dragon's lair, didn't you? You took the wrong thing, you left out the most important thing... Soon, this place will be destroyed because of it. You and I will be finished by then -"

"—Wait, wait, wait!"

Zhuang Yusheng suddenly leaned forward and covered Zheng Zhuo's mouth.

"Shh!"

His eyes became tense.

"I drank a little too much, but my mouth is okay? What blue dragon, I told everyone that I dug the treasure from the ground of my own house... Where did you hear about the dragon?"

Zheng Zhuo thought about it.

"I saw it in my dream."

"...Let me confirm again, you are a mage, right? Not a shaman, priest...whatever."

"I think I'm a mage."

After all, [Appraisal] said so.

"Forget it." Zhuang Yusheng sighed exaggeratedly again, and sat back on his seat, "You are such a weirdo! If I keep entangled with these things with you, I will never figure it out...so."

He suddenly leaned over again.

"What do you think I missed?"

"A sapphire." Zheng Zhuo gestured, "It's about the size of a thumb, with a crack on it..."

Zhuang Yusheng's face changed a little.

Come to think of it, he had an impression of it.

"That sapphire is not big, and it's defective," he said.

"Why do you say that thing is important?"

why?
Zheng Zhuo didn't think of a reason for a while.

And [Subconscious Voting] always pops up at such times.

……

【vote】

[Why is it important to say that defective sapphires? 】

【Option [-]】

[There is a powerful enchant added to it]

【Option [-]】

[That is not an ordinary sapphire, but a special sapphire that is priceless]

【Option [-]】

[There is a special curse in that sapphire, you triggered it, and now the world will be destroyed soon]

【Option [-]】

【That is your personality】

　After [Option 1], [Option 1], [Option [-]] and [Option [-]], you can leave a message in the form of [this chapter says]. A message under [-] id counts as [-] vote.

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