What do you see beyond the hill?

"Welcome heroes. Welcome to our world." Among the almost hundred people that are standing before us, a woman wearing a stylish armor is talking. Her helmet doesn't show even the color of her hair or her eyes. Most of the others people also wear armors but she has the most stylish. Some of them are wearing indigo priest attire with hoods hiding their faces. "What is happening?" "What is this? Is this a prank?" The guys present all start looking around with dumb surprised faces. But I guess I must have the same kind of face right now. "I can't believe it." I blurt it out without thinking. But I don't think anyone would resent me if they knew. That fucking old bastard was telling the truth. The whole time, it was all true. Right when I was about to give up and accept that I was mistaken, I am shown the way. "I know that you may be surprised but we beg you to remain calm as we will explain everything." "Hey!! What the fuck

I still remember that conversation since it was one of the few we had where he wasn't yelling or trying to kill me. "There is one skill that you must get if you ever make it there. It is the only skill truly amazing that was hidden among trashes. That skill, I neglected it and regretted it as well. If I knew how much of a fool I was then." "I don't understand anything of what you are saying anyway so please, just let me sleep." "You will certainly, but for now, remember the name of the skill: Amplify." *** I didn't really believe in all this back then and I only wanted to run away from you at the time, but now, I would almost want to say thank you, almost. "You…don't you understand what-" "I don't care, Ian. You guys have your problems and I have my own. And it is not like we need all of them to teach us, right?" "What are you going on ab-" I grab the priest's hand while Ian is talking. If I let them go with thi

We enter the courtyard and to my surprise, the butlers and the maid from earlier are already changed. "That's some awesome speed they have." I don't think it took us two minutes to get here. And yet, not only did they change but they arrived here before us. And they are not even sweating? Maybe they wore a one-piece armor above their butler uniforms? The maid then comes to me. She is wearing a tight leather armor that follows her body to the clock. She also has daggers attached to her waist. She is holding a white shirt and pants and three different weapons made of wood: a sword, a dagger, and a mace. "Sir, would you like to change?" She presents everything to me. "Hm… I don't really care but, yeah, no problem. Just the shirt though, I don't want to waste too much time." I take the white shirt with long sleeves then as I remove my school uniform, I hear a weird noise coming not from the girl but from Telestal. "What is it?" I l

"Do you bear enough hatred to see through it?" That question that he asked me when I was on the verge of death. My mind still vividly remembers that day vividly. No, even if it didn't, the scars I bear are a constant reminder of everything I went through. When I was five years old, my parents decided to go on a trip to a nearby mountain. For three days, or was it two? Anyway, we stayed there, and I was listening to stories from my father about the world he has seen when he was traveling. Then, during the night, I heard some noises. I woke up and saw the shadow of a gib animal outside. But by the time I could scream, it had attacked us already. "Was your father able to do something?" Telestal is listening to my story with such attention his eyes are shining a bit. "If you are going to interrupt me every second, we won't be able to finish this." "Okay, okay. Sorry." "As I was saying then…when we were attacked, my father indeed tried to d

It has been four days since I managed to use amplify on the spoon. Since then, I have tried to use it on a bunch of things and the end result is pretty satisfying. "I have to admit that this is surprising." This morning, I have tried to test the wooden swords that we have after amplifying them. I asked Telestal to use his real sword to break a wooden one I have amplified and even though the weight hasn't changed, its sturdiness has increased so much it took him one serious hit to slice it in half. One would have thought he had no difficulty doing that at a first glance but the fact he is admitting it is surprising by himself means I definitively did it right. The only problem now is how far can amplify go. After our training session in the morning, Telestal leaves for the town. I stay in my room when suddenly, I hear people running in the hallway. When I leave, I see the maid still standing at my door while other butlers are running up and down. Some are wear