Adjustable World: Tefter

Chapter 17

Part one:

Four months have passed since Zafer became a Temper candidate.

During that time he learned and trained like never before, as far as he could remember at least.

In the past, Zafer was so weak that every activation of his Almighty Eye was spontaneous and uncontrollable.

Due to that, he faced difficult symptoms of amnesia and unconsciousness almost every time his anomaly would activate.

His memory would practically reset each time.

It was only around the time when people started counting years when an adult paladin saw Zafer's curse and decided to help him and teach him how to control his anomaly.

That was the beginning of his love for paladins and training. Semi was the first freelancer who wanted to team up with Zafer and form a small gang. They cultivated some cheap magic flowers together and tried to overcome every issue they faced together.

It was hard, but they both managed to survive; and now, they have successfully integrated themselves into the world of the paladins, each creating their own network of people.

However, never could have Zafer imagined that the same people he became friends with could die so early.

That worry never even crossed his mind.

This was maybe due to his personality, but even if he considered something scary like that, it would have never prepared him for the loss of that day.

The loss of Skil.

He took some time to reflect on their first meeting, never imagining that such a profound friendship could have grown from it.

As mentioned, Zafer had no friends other than Semi before, so he didn't really know what a friendship looked like.

However, Skil really did a great job at showing him what a true friend was, and as Zafer's journey goes on, the more he will understand just how good of a friend Skil was.

Compared to others.

"Isn't it weird that only paladins bury people instead of igniting their bodies?", someone whispered.

"It isn't, because when a paladin dies, there is usually no body to be ignited", another man answered.

This was true and mostly due to the Vestige rune.

When someone was killed with a weapon that bore said curse, their body would get turned into an artifact.

This was probably what happened to Skil since his body couldn't be found.

Zafer approached the red gravestone and placed his bouquet of flowers as well as his half of the S-mail pair which he shared with Skil.

He won't need it anymore.

Since the two of them were mostly apart from each other, S-mail was the only way they communicated. It astonished Zafer that Skil always responded to his mails in a matter of minutes.

Some of their "texting" sessions would even last for several hours.

As mentioned, Zafer had too little experience to know what a true friendship looked like, but if this wasn't it, then he didn't know what was.

Skil's funeral was located near Razihelnor, on a small hill with a beautiful view.

It was called the Passy Valley, and it was a place where Temper buried its paladins.

Only a handful of gravestones resided here since Temper was a relatively new faction.

After the ceremony was over, most of the people left, but Zafer was one of the few who stayed.