Chapter 85: A Day of Rest: Part I (2/2)

“So does the dance have any other effects? Like maybe it’s a rally dance to buff you and your allies or something?”

“Nope,” Joe replied dryly, “It’s just a dance, nothing else.”

The other players in the tavern all gave an audible gasp, shocked by this turn of events.

“So what you’re saying is, that the quest reward wasted one of your skill points to get this useless skill?” Ivan furrowed his brows, thinking that this quest was a bit too evil.

“Skill points? No, no. The skill was straight up given to me, I didn’t have to spend my skill points on it,” Joe explained, “It doesn’t show up on the skill tree either, it opened up some weird ‘Collectables’ tab, it had some other stuff in it too, I think…”

“Oh I see.”

Ivan nodded, deep in thought, then suddenly slamming his drink on the table. “Boss, bill please! Paul, could you tell me where you obtained the quest?”

“Yeah?”

Joe looked at Ivan in confusion, not understanding why he would ask such a question. “You want to do it too? But this skill is pretty pointless…”

Ivan let out a sigh then laughed. “It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s useful, I’m just a completionist I guess, I wanna collect everything I can! Plus, your little dance seemed like fun, so I’d like to have it in my possession, since it doesn’t waste a skill point anyways.”

“I want in too!” Ivan’s teammates all joined in on the excitement.

“Stop joking, why would you want to learn this?” Ivan frowned at his friends, scolding them in case Joe thought they were teasing him.

“Well you see, the previous two banquets, even though I went, I kept feeling like something was missing. Well for one, there weren’t any female players there to chat up, but thinking about it now, there wasn’t any dancing either! If I could dance, I’d look like such a baller!” The player was practically drooling at his own fantasy. “If I could do that dance during the next banquet, I’m sure it’ll be great!”

After his enthusiastic speech, a few of the remaining players who were reluctant at first were now very much ready to participate.

“Yeah, yeah, since it doesn’t use up any skill points, it wouldn’t hurt to learn!”

“Ahem, I’m personally a person of a higher standard, I just think the dance looks nice.”

“Let’s get those girls!”

Joe didn’t care about keeping a secret, telling the guests of the tavern everything from the NPC they had to talk to to the best spot to find a suitable animal. And thus, under the lead of Ivan, they went off on their journey to master the art of dance, thanking Joe for his help as they left the tavern.

Leaving Joe alone in the building still trying to process what had happened.

After a bit, he inexplicably started dancing again.

“Hmm, I guess it’s kinda fun…”

The Iron Cauldron’s boss was watching the whole event play out from the sidelines after putting up his notice, it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened.

He could already see it, a bunch of players showing off their weird dances during the next banquet, their clunky armor not hindering them at all as they danced through the night. Oh the chaos that would ensue…