Vol 1 Chapter 8 (2/2)
“Feel free to tell others about me Tell them I’ll punish other sneaky merchants with my balloons”
“Sure, whatever You’re quite the customer, aren’t you?”
I took the money for my loot, went back to the weapon shop, paid the owner for his clothes, and finally went to a restaurant to get some dinner
The food, however, tasted like nothing
It was like eating unflavored gu a trick on h I realized the problem lay with me
Where would I stay? I had no money, so I slept in the fields The balloons weren’t capable of hurting me, so there was no real problem
When I woke in thelike a Tibetan Sky Burial It didn’t hurt though, and I used the them one by one
I was already filling my pockets, and I’d just woken up!
Just then, I ca to kill these things all day
The first thing to do was to find some loot, besides the balloon skins, that I could sell for a profit There were grasses in the field that had medicinal value, and I’d seen an apothecary in town, and I arasses if I picked them
I walked around the fields, picking grasses as I found therasses as I picked them
Leaf shi+eld: conditions met
That reminded me, I hadn’t looked at the weapon book recently I opened it, and focused on the flashi+ng shi+eld icon
Small shi+eld: ability unlocked: defense 3
Orange Small shi+eld: ability locked:
equip bonus: defense 2
Yellow shi+eld: ability locked:
equip bonus: defense 2
Leaf shi+eld: ability locked:
equip bonus: absorption ability 1
I decided to look into the help menus
Weapon Leveling Up and Unlocking Abilities:
Weapon leveling up e form If you hold the weapon in hand, and picture what you wish it to becoe into the desired form
The weapon ability refers to abilities that can be unlocked si the equipped weapon Once unlocked the equip bonus will last forever
Equip Bonus:
Equip bonuses are special abilities that can be used while your weapon is equipped So if a weapon has unlocked the Air Strike Bash ability, that ability can be used as long as that weapon is equipped If a weapon has an Equip bonus of “attack up 3,” the user’s attack stat will increase by 3 while the weapon is equipped
I got it So as long as the abilities were unlocked, you could use them even when you have a different weapon equipped
The experience was so you earned, and slowly collected while you battled enemies and leveled up your equipment
The world really was like a video game
Despite being a little annoyed by the whole process, I did find the equip bonus of the Leaf shi+eld attractive
“Absorption ability up 1”
It mustitems
At the moment, I had no money What that meant is that I needed to find the best products to sell, for the least aed my shi+eld into the Leaf shi+eld
There was a sudden rush of wind, and suddenly reen now, and appeared to be fashi+oned directly from leaves
My defense stat didn’t drop at all Apparently inal Small shi+eld was as weak as they corass
Blip!
A positive sound rang out, and the clurass tore free easily
The cluht
Absorption up 1
Aelo: quality: fair to excellent:wounds
An icon describing the change appeared
Well, it was nice to get such an immediate explanation
I spent the rerass and fillingAlso, and I don’t know if it was because I had been collecting grass all day or just because time had passed since I switched shi+elds, the Leaf shi+eld equip bonus was unlocked
The rest of my Small shi+elds also had the equip abilities unlocked
I made my way back to town and decided to try and sell my herbs
“These are in excellent shape Where did you get them?”
“In the fields around the town Didn’t you know it grew here?”
“I did, but I’ve never seen such high-quality stuff around I thought only junk grew out there”
We chatted for a little bit, and eventually he bought the grass off of me My stash orth one piece of silver and 50 pieces of bronze… which was much better than I had done so far It was a new record
I had a cheap dinner at a restaurant As I was eating, a few people stopped by to ask if I would join their party Unfortunately they all looked… disreputable I soon ca
Ever since that day, all the food I ate tasted like nothing
“I’ll join YOUR party, shi+eld Hero,” said soht a lot of himself
Honestly, I didn’t like the idea of joining up with anyone at that point Besides, they all had this look in their eyes that rery
“Fine First let’s go over the employment conditions”
“M’kay”
Stay caluys will follow you everywhere you go
“All right, employment will be based on your performance Do you understand?”
“Nah-uh”
Jeez, I could punch the crap out of these guys
“It , we collect a certain amount of loot, yes? So let’s say we earned 100 pieces of silver, I will take a plurality of it, which is at least 40 and divide up the re to your performance If it were just you and I, ould split the reet anything The ament of the matter”
“What the hell! That ht?”
See what the people were like in this country?
“But if you do your part, you’ll get paid Get it? You got to do your part”
“All right, fine then That’s all good Let’s go buy some equipment”
“You buy your own equipment I don’t see why I need to take care of you all that much Take care of yourself”
“Pfft”
Exactly what I expected Even if I did buy his equipment, he would probably just slack off the whole tiht spot, and sell his equipall of these dirty men They were just like her
“Fine then Just give me some money”
“Hey, what’s a balloon doing here?!”
I had taken a balloon from my cape and let it bite the man’s face
“Ouch! Ahhh!”
People threw a fit I had brought balloons into the restaurant, but what did I care? I pulled the balloon off of the screa man, put money on the table for my meal and left
Were there no good people in this world? They all looked like rotten cannibals to me
Anyway, I kept this pattern up for a few days, and finally started to save a little money