Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3: Wise and Lovely NPC
After wasting a lot of ti Miss Muay, Sila walked out of the Card Shop in the next hour
Sila gained a vast knowledge about card fro in the Card Shop were all supporting cards Every cards of this type ranging from F to D Grade could be found in the store As for cards in C to A Grade, they only dropped from monsters However, few C to A Grade cards could be up for sales in some shops in lie daily Unfortunately, Card Shop in Beginning Town didn't have any of those
S Grade card wasin special events or obtained through the hidden quests Not every card in S Grade are powerful, though, since card's Grade was classified by 'rarity' of the card Player should be cautious of this fact There were tiold coins in auction, but the result was horrible, it appeared that the card's effect was only to ht decreased by half
Moreover, only a limited number of cards of the same kind could be put in Card Window Same F to D Grade cards can be put up to 3 duplicates, C to A Grade can be put up to 2, while player can put only a unique S Grade card
Sila bought 2 cards that increased his attack by 1 while fighting bare-handed, 500 silver coins for each He inserted theether with 3 Pink Slime Cards even if he did not plan to hunt slime anyinner Building was not far away fronpost in front of the entrance saying, ”We, wise and lovely NPC, welcome all new players”
Sila stepped inside He took a look and found that atmosphere here was pretty much like a financial bank There was a queue ticket machine, which was very contradictory to the traditional Chinese atmosphere of the town There was no bank counter and line of custo player privately and individually When the player stepped out, there would be a sound to call out player in next queue
'It's designed like this for privacy purpose, I guess?'
Sila panicked a bit when he received the queuing ticket nu tined in relief when he heard an announcement
”Number 1849, please enter room number 4”
Sila noticed that time taken for each player in each room wasn't the sao out, while players who entered the room number 1 to 3 usually took about 5 to 6 minutes As for roo out of the room
Sila waited around 15 minutes till he heard:
”Number 1856, please enter room number 5”
'Lucky It's room number 5, this is the fastest one' Sila stood up and went straight into the roo with the town's atht atmosphere outside was contradictory, the inside was even more than that Inside the rooht from the las visible There were tooden chairs located at the opposite side of a table One of the chairs was currently taken by an elderly man hite hair and bushy beard His face had a line of the scar on left cheek, and his eyes looked very brutal
”Er rooo out But the door was completely locked
'What? Why can't it be opened? And it doesn't have a doorknob too'
”Sit down first, boy,” bass and intense voice came from the mouth of an old man, ”that door won't open until I finishthat, Sila was forced to sit down on the chair, thinking, 'what did his word 'finish' mean?'
”First of all, ”
Silence was there for a while, and the voice of Crow broke that silence
”Don't look atforced every NPCs working here to say, I don't really want to say it myself I just recently and te leave for one day Actually, the rooed by the popularity from room number 5 to 1, just so you know”
Sila didn't knohat to say, but his sto tiry? Take this rice with fried pork then We provide one free meal for new player anyway”
Crow put rice with fried pork bowl on the table It's a h he observed every old man's movements, he still couldn't follohere this rice bowl appeared
”Eat it and listen to me I don't knohat happens to newbies this day, they are all arrogant When they saw ”
Sila nodded, not because he understood Crow's feeling, but because he understood the reason why they wanted to go out
Well, due tosince childhood, Sila didn't feel afraid of people's faceto Croever, the things that Crow said were all irrelevant to what new player should know It's just pure complaints
Sila could summarize what Crow said that; Croas a real person who actually acted as a NPC in a place naent business in her real life, so she begged him to act her role for one day
One day in real life is about 4-5 days in game So Sila asked if Maded would disappear for days Croered that it would be fine, since there were not many people ere able to reach there,His day norons This request for his granddaughter was actually good for hions' spawned time was too slow for him to hunt
Sila put chopsticks down after finishi+ng his ht to main topic
”I a process suggested”
”Well Take these” Crow gave iteotten Liquid Bottle (500 ML capacity) 1 EA
Player Sila has gotten Hotel Coupon (free 1 night stay) 1 EA
Player Sila has gotten Sic Potion 10 EAs
Player Sila has gotten Sotten 2,000 silver coins
Small bento was full of rice and fried pork inside; it could store food for 3 days In the bottle was filled with fresh water Crow told Sila that, if he wanted bento or water bottle that better than these; such as one that had er; Sila would have to buy them his, which Croered only few questions Crow, ave out the sentence that very conflict to the title of wise and lovely NPC: ”I don't know too Go find out about that yourself,” though Sila didn't feel bother et to pay on soup for you”
Sila promised he would do so if he can Crow then pressed the red button on the table But nothing happened
”He” Crow pressed the button onceon?”
”It's this button I pressed it but the door didn't open” Crow kept pressing it again and again
”Is it broken?”
Now Sila felt a little uncomfortable It would be okay if he struck inside the rooe face like this
”God da with red aura He used it to slap the button on the table very hard Table then broke into pieces and spread around A piece of table debris fleard Sila
Sila raised his left hand to parry, but it seey within So it slashed Sila' ar wound
Sila felt numb at first, but later the pain sensation caritted his teeth while drinking two health potions that he just recently acquired Cro Sila bled so he stepped closer
”Health potion increases only health point For painfulness, you will have to wait for the wound to disappear”
Sila, who still gritted his teeth, nodded
Crow soned, and put his hand on Sila's shoulder
”Stay still and try to focus your thought toward the wound”
Sila felt as if so flowed into his body He then quickly concentrated it on the wound