9 Who wants to be Next? (1/2)
The village head tilted his head sideways with a puzzled expression. ”Is this your first time acting as an outsider?”
”Excuse me?”
[Is this your first time playing a game?]
”Ah yes, this is my first time.... being an outsider.”
”I see, well that explains a lot about your confusion. To start things off, why don't you say status for me?”
”Status?”
Immediately, a transparent two dimensional box appeared right before his eyes.
[Kim Seojoon (Bookworm Teacher)
Class: none
Lvl: 1 (60/100)
Health: 100/100
Vitality: 50/50 Mana: 50/50
]
Seojoon furrowed his brows and started to bite his thumb as he went deep into thought. ”I'm guessing that.... health represents the amount of hits I can take?”
”Indeed.”
”Is vitality.... my endurance? How long I can keep up strenuous activities?”
”Correct.”
”And if I am correct, mana helps me determine how many more spells I can use?”
”Wonderful.”
Seojoon frowned. ”So what happens if I lose all my health? I suppose that I die and come back to life?”
”That is correct.”
”What if my life is at 1? Will I die if I take a single hit? Or will I require a fatal blow to die? It does not make sense after all if I die after getting lightly smacked on the hand.”
The village head let out a grin. ”You are absolutely correct. Are you sure this is your first time as an outsider? You seem to understand how things work even without my help.”
Seojoon shrugged. ”It's basic logical reasoning. I apply the terms that I'm already familiar with to the current situation and make an educated guess. Besides, I never knew that seeing your status was a possible thing.”
Seojoon squinted his eyes as he analyzed the status screen for any other information he could obtain.
”I'm guessing that my skills tab contains skills that I have learned? As for this attribute tab.... show attributes.”
[Attributes
Agility - 1 Dexterity - 1 Intelligence - 1 Strength - 1 Endurance - 1
Attribute points - 5]
Seojoon frowned once again before looking up at the village head. ”I can understand what the general use of my attributes are but what exactly do they correlate to? Agility probably refers to my speed? But does that factor into my linear speed or into my angular speed? Or maybe both? Strength is obviously my strength but what kind of strength? Will my strength increase my speed or unaffected it? More power should mean more bursts of speed, but the faster I strike, the stronger my blow becomes. I'm guessing that dexterity is referring to my flexibility? Or maybe the control I have over my body? Intelligence has to do with increasing my mental strength and if I refer to most fantasy magic books, more mental strength means a higher capacity for magic so I'm guessing this attribute affects my mana capacity? Endurance most probably refers to my vitality but then again it could also affect my health.... is that correct village head?”
Seeing Seojoon expectantly stare him, the village head wore a wry smile on his face. ”It sounds about correct. Better than any example I could've came up with.”
”Thank you, village head. I'm guessing that the attribution points can be allocated to one of my five basic stats to give myself a power gain?”
”It is indeed so, but once you allocate them, you will not be able to take them back.”
Seojoon nodded his head in satisfaction. This was almost exactly like contracted investments, something that he could understand.
”From what I've experienced so far, quests are like extra credit assignments right? Not necessary but very beneficial.”
”Erm, I don't really understand your comparisons-”
”It's ok village head. You have cleared up things for me greatly.” Seojoon gave a deep bow as he expressed his gratitude. He finally understood how the game worked. Classes would most likely be something akin to professions in the real world. He enjoyed how much inferring he had to do to understand the game. It was like solving a puzzle or a really tricky passage analysis.
The village head shrugged his shoulders. ”If you don't have anymore questions, do you want to obtain your class quest?”
Seojoon nodded. ”Yes please. That would be great.”
The village head's eyes immediately sharpened as a slight grin slowly creeped up his face. ”What do you wish to be? A warrior? A swordsman? A ranger? Or a mage??