42 Possibilities 2 (1/2)
As soon as Lazar thought of using the Inventory, a window with several rows of empty boxes appeared in his mind. There were 3 horizontal rows of 10 boxes, above each box was another small rectangular box with a question mark inside and below each box was written '0/20kg'.
With the visual information he had, Lazar thought he had already figured out how to use the Inventory, but since there was an [Inventory Explanation] button at the bottom of the inventory window, he mentally pressed it to confirm his assumptions.
▼ [Inventory Explanation] ▼
⚫ You can store whatever you want in your Inventory by simply taking the trouble to think about it and as long as you respect two prohibitions and three restrictions.
⛔ You can't store a living being.
⛔ You can't store several items of a different nature in the same box.
⚠ You must touch what you intend to store.
⚠ Limit on the number of boxes ➞ 3 ✖ your level.
⚠ Weight limit for each box in kilograms ➞ 2 ✖ your level.
Lazar was wondering if the Inventory was perhaps more complicated to use than he initially thought. One of the prohibitions was confusing, 'What does the system consider two objects of different natures?'
He understood from the description that he couldn't put food and his weapon in the same box, but how accurate was that? Could he store a pear and a strawberry in the same box?
'I've got to stop asking myself shitty questions. I'll do tests or I'll ask Amandla, it's no more complicated than that.'
Realizing that he still had to discover the store and that it might take some time, Lazar stopped thinking about this issue and examined his weapon.
He wanted to see how many rank E monsters he still had to kill before his blade would follow his example and evolve.
▼ [(Rename your blade any way you want, kid)] ▼
???? Grade ???? E ★★★★★
???? Bonus and malus ???? +1 agility ✦ +1 energy ✦ -1 constitution.
???? Skills ????
▶ Energy slash (Offensive skill) ▶
???? ▶ Description ▶ ????
???? Evolution conditions ????
⚫ Kill 150 monsters of rank E ⚫140/150 ☐
⚫ Achieved level 10 ⚫ 10/10 ⌧
Lazar had intended to look at the bottom of the weapon window immediately after opening it to directly check the conditions for which the blade would evolve, but a blinking message written in place of 'Gift of [?????????]' caught his attention before he did so.
When he had finished reading the message, he raised his eyes up the sky thinking that it was the kind of 'honor' he would have gladly dispensed with, 'I wish Death hadn't given me this choice, I'm obligated to do it now.'
Lazar hadn't forgotten where he came from, a background where superstitions and traditions are omnipresent.
One of the traditions his grandfather followed was to name his favorite weapon for good luck. For him, it was the sniper rifle he had used during the war, he called it 'Zmeï'.
According to a legend from their country, Zmeï was a multi-headed fire-breathing dragon symbolizing chaos and destruction.
It was a suitable name for a weapon, pretentious too... 'At least that's what I thought before I saw him use 'Zmeï'. No wonder he was allowed to keep it after the war.'
If Lazar had to compare his sniper skills with those of his grandfather at his peak, he was a little better. But how could he consider himself to have any merit to have surpass his master?
His grandfather had learned how to use a weapon in a self-taught way, unlike him, who had benefited from his tutoring before he even fired his first bullet.
'Sorry in advance Grandpa, but you know I'm bad at finding names.' Deplored Lazar when he mentally pressed down on the blinking message of Death.
The space where the message was located emptied but continued to blink. Lazar understood that he had to think of something to fill the space and thus confirm the name of his blade.
Lazar thought about the name he would choose, 'He would have said I have no personality and Lana would have liked this solely if I won't use it on humans.'
After giving up Lana's and his grandfather's names for his weapon, a better option, according to him, came to mind, 'I'm going to name it with something that characterizes me well...'
▼ [Hate] ▼
Lazar didn't know if it was a good name for a blade and it certainly wasn't the best, but still, he liked it.
Now that this detail was taken care of, Lazar went to the very bottom of his weapon window to do what he had planned from the beginning.
'Only 10 more.' Of the 150 E-rank monsters to be killed, Lazar had already eliminated 140. He was a bit surprised to have been so prolific.
He then thought of storing 'Hate'.
his blade disappeared and when he saw it in the first box of his Inventory window with its name on top of the box where it was, he finally decided to close it.
It was time to see the latest novelty.
'Shop.' Thought Lazar to bring up the corresponding window.
'This is the most organized window I've seen so far.' This was Lazar's first thought after seeing a preview of the Shop window.
It was actually a huge board with Lazar's contribution points balance at the bottom of it, 'So, it's definitely a currency.' And at the top of it 3 different tabs which were all blinking.
The 3 tabs were respectively; Skills, Equipments and Miscellaneous.
The board was empty. Lazar was used to it by now, he understood that he had to mentally select one of the tabs to see something, 'Miscellaneous first.'
Lazar saw that the Miscellaneous tab was now highlighted and that other small tabs appeared below it; food, clothing, construction, furniture, etc...
Lazar selected 'clothing' as soon as he had finished reading all the subtabs of the Miscellaneous.
About 15 various generic clothes appeared in the board and a tiny scroll wheel on the left side of it indicated to Lazar that there were many other clothes underneath those 15.