299 7.27 Finally, Isve Got A System...! (2/2)

The moment JL had reached the other side of the river and placed the plank he had used and lay it against a tree trunk, I sauntered over and withdraw my sword and pointed at his chest, just touching the clothes.

Matilda stood there wide-eyed as she saw me pointing my sword at JL's chest. ”Alright...out with it...coins, rings, gems, hidden weapons, et cetera, et cetera...” I instructed to JL and suddenly he broke down as he thought he had fallen into a trap as he removed his empty coin pouch, his storage bag that contained a few tomatoes and lay down his quarterstaff.

”Em...check his storage bag if he got anything valuable in it and check his pouch too in case he has some gold dust or something in it.” I didn't use Matilda's full name as I instructed Matilda to check everything and making sure that what he had said before was true.

It's not easy to trust any stranger, especially a human adventurer.

”Nothing here, R...he seems to be clean. He looks rather ragged though and seemed to crawl from his hiding place right to the edge of the river bank. Look...he might have rolled himself over some deer shit or something...! Eeewwwww...”

I placed my sword back in its scabbard and tell the man to stand up and clean his slobbering face. ”So Jean Lethal or aka JL, and that's your real name and not some made-up random generic name? How did you end up being so poor and pathetic right now?”

”In just three months, you managed to squander off all your savings and ends up with mere tomatoes in your storage bag? What's the capacity of your storage, the attributes of your quarterstaff and your level?”

”It's my luck to pool my resources in a band that I was in before and when I was killed by a best before I respawn in Leeds, I was disbanded and all my resources kena chongkong or never returned to me. My storage bag is a 5x5 capacity and is able to hold up to 255 items per slot. My quarterstaff was of Low quality that I had bought it the first time and my current level is 1.8.”

”Eeehhh....you can know of your level so easily? How do you do that? How come I don't even know what is my own levels?”

”It's simple, just press 'C' to bring up the character menu and from there you can already see your attributes of your skills and levels. Press 'I' to go to Inventory and you can choose which one you want to trade and so on. Press 'H' and it will bring you to a help menu and the list of all shortcut keys.”

I plopped down on the trunk stool and thought that this is sure becoming into fancy pants medieval English fantasy game after all...I gestured him to join me for a cup of freshly brewed sweetened tea and he gladly extended his hands to retrieve it.

”Can I trade with you for your storage bag? I have a 5 slot storage bag and I really need a higher capacity storage bag. How about we do a barter trade?”

”That would be fine to me since it's my last piece of investment. What's the capacity of your storage bag?”

”It's the basic one I got. it has 5 slots and each slot can carry 25 items only. Do you think it's alright with you? I mean I won't imply anything on you to agree in bartering with me. I'll even throw in 10 shillings for you.”

Hearing the mention of the 10 siblings made Jean Lethal's eyes lit up and he immediately agrees. ”Yes, R...I gladly accept the trade of my storage bag with yours to an addition of 10 shillings. Shall we make a trade now?”

Making a trade involves revealing my identity but for the sake of a larger storage bag with an enormous amount of items that could be stored per slot, I gladly accepted the trade request and completed it.

”This is Matilda. She is my left-hand lieutenant and my wife to be. She's a swordswoman and she hailed from York.”

”I am Robin the Firestarter, a swordsman and Bowman, a crafter and trader plus many things, and I am at your service. Welcome to our trading post at Flintstone. Yabadaba Doo...!”

”Matilda, could you prepare a bowl of gruel for this gentleman here? I'm sure he needs sustenance than just tomatoes here.”

I finally formally introduced myself and informed Matilda to serve our guest as I made a trade request with Matilda and received her bag of 5x3 with 99 caps per slot. She immediately moved her stuff around and handed me her emptied storage bag.

Alright...at least we are so-called equally equipped with good weapons, tools and storage bags.

”Could I ask a question, more like a favour from you, Robin?”

”Yeah, speak your mind...” I replied.

”Could I join your band...?”Jean Lethal asked in a rather timid voice and was half anticipating a negative answer from me.

”Ask the missus if you are interested to be in a band...” I simply shot back a quick reply as I was playing with the interface that was mentioned by Jean Lethal and what I saw astonished me beyond belief...! It was simply comprehensive and I didn't know that the interface was simply filled with information that had been hidden from me for nearly a year over.