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"Wow, It's beautiful!" the young man excitedly said, "It reminds me of my time. Doesn't seem like much has changed even though it's been 850 years. "

"You know what they say, 'If it ain't broke don't fix it, right?'" Thor responded with a smile.

"You guys still use that phrase!?"

"Nah, but remember I majored in Pre-Meteorite History. There's a lot of information in that course. Anyway c'mon let's go!"

The young man still had many questions but reluctantly let them go. The city was beautiful. There were flowers planted around every corner, the houses although more old school still shined brightly. Children were playing around in the streets, many of them waved at the pair. On the other hand, many adults were whispering to each other. The young man could tell that they were speaking about him, but he didn't know what.

Thor saw his worried face, "Don't worry about them, they don't know anything about you."

They made their first stop at the shopping district. "Well this is the shopping district, the place were you'll buy anything you could possibly need," Thor told the young man

"Anything?"

"Just about. The blacksmith is over there, the market down that way, furniture around the corner, cards literally two steps from here, so basically everything."

"Ok," the young man whispered, his energy seemed to have been drained.

"Are you alright?" Thor asked desperately, "what's wrong?"

"I honestly don't know," he responded, "maybe it's just that… I don't know, probably because of what those guys said,"

"You could understand them? I thought you didn't speak auglis."

"Yes I don't speak it, however, I can understand some of it. I think it's derived from a language I used to speak."

"I'm sorry," Thor apologized, "how about this, I have to make a stop at the guild hall, but after that let's grab a bite to eat."

"Sure. I guess," the young man seemed to have cheered up by the most marginal percentage.

"Glad to hear," Thor responded cheerfully, "the food here is absolutely delicious. You're going to love it."

The two walked away from the shopping district just as a shadowy figure appeared around the corner.

* * * * * *

"Thor, you're back!" a voice greeted them.

"Sorben, how've you been?" Thor greeted back.

"Nothing much, just manning the table, Anyway who's that fellow next to you?"

The young man had been staring at the ground and was a little startled to be thrown back into reality. He looked up to see what seemed like a human with dark blond hair and sharp green eyes.

"Hello," the young man said, "I'm…" he stopped himself, "nevermind."

"Never thought I'd see the day you'd find a friend, a demonoid one even more so!"

The young man's eyes shifted, Thor was able to see this sudden change and responded quickly, "About that, he's not a demonoid, he's human like me, he just looks like a demonoid probably because he's a summoned."

Just as the word "summoned" had been spoken, every person in the Guild Hall looked at the two.

"Summoned?" they whispered, their voices merging with one another.

"No way,"

"We have to get him on our side!"

Everyone seemed to rush towards the young man bombarding him with questions.

"Will you join us? The Giant Gongons?

"Please, help The Elven Espers!"

"No no no, Dwarvus Divers!"

"STOP!" Sorben boomed, everyone immediately stopped, and moved away. Sorben seemed to be proud of himself. He leapt over the counter and came up to greet the young man.

"Pleasure to meet you, dear summoned. I'm Sorben, Elf of Wind, Leader of the Guild Hall, and you are?"

The young man seemed to still be in shock and was about to respond when Thor interrupted, "Sorben, he has amnesia he can't remember much of his past life."

"Darn shame, isn't it then," Sorben said, "Well kid, are you going to register yourself?"

"Register?" the young man asked in a soft voice, "What's that"

"Oh, it's just a way we know that you exist. So are you down or what?"

The young man thought for a bit, "Do I really want to? Is this a good option? Should—"

"Do it." the voice whispered inside his head.

"I'll do it," his voice seemed much more confident and less depressing.

"Alright then, I guess we'll leave your name blank for now unless," Sorben stopped and then exposed a grin, "You're hiding something from him aren't you kiddo?"

The young man was taken aback. The voice seemed to be inside his head. "What?"

"Telepathy," Sorben seemed to respond, "So what's your name or have you actually forgotten it?"

The young man was about to respond when the ghostly voice inside his head responded in a foreign language.

"HAHAHAHAHA!," Sorben laughed, "Dual minds huh? You're a mysterious fellow I'll give you that much, alright I'll register that name down, is that ok The…"

* * * * * *

"Alright, your registration is complete," Sorben said, "Now all you have to do is take these." He tossed a bag towards the young man expecting him to catch it only for it to clonk right against his chest.

"Damn, really thought that a summoned would be able to catch that,"

The young man reached inside the back and pulled out a map, a pouch of what seemed like coins and, "A phone?" he questioned aloud.

"Is that what you summoned used to call those things? Well, basically it is one. This kind is different from your time though. While it can still call other people, it has many different features which I'll let Thor explain to you. Can't take the fun away from him can I?"

They exited the Guild Hall. "Well that was a shitshow as you would've said back in your time right?" Thor joked.

"Definitely," the young man agreed, "Anyway Sorben said you'd explain to me exactly what this "phone" does?"

"Oh yeah, so open it up first,"

The "phone" was a dark blue brick with a crack along its side where the young man pushed which seemed to activate it. It shined a bright light producing a hologram that looked exactly like a phone screen.

"Alright," Thor began to explain, "This first "app" is to call others. You can register someone by scanning their Holdus or "phone" try it."

The young man held up his Holdus and began scanning Thor's. Once it had been done, he tried to call Thor.

"It works," Thor said, "Now, the app next to it is your profile, which will include your name, main deck name, and your win to loss ratio. After that the next one is your mana."

"Mana? Why would I need mana?"

"Ah shit," Thor cursed, "I forgot to explain to you how the cards are able to be used in real life."

"Use the cards in real life?" the young man thought to himself, "this should be interesting."

Chapter 3: The City of Aubergine END.