27 Shall we resume where we left off? (1/2)
Jericho lowered the box. ”Ken, help me with the items for a bit and then hop in.”
Ken put the excess loot that Jericho couldn't carry into his inventory. {When we log back in, we should clear out the random loot from your inventory. It will help.}
The two felines jumped back into the box.
”Sure thing.” Jericho sent a message to Princess. [Dinner and dance lessons in 45 minutes. Finish up your project and log off.]
Ken started looking over MExp's descriptions in detail and started carefully assigning things. {If I assign points to claw, bite, and tracking I can get them up from 3/10 to 5/10. I'll have 30 MExp left. If I assign it to monster form it will go up to 2/10 making spending less time on four legs more achievable. I didn't even have the option to put any into Human form. Master skills must be really hard to improve}.
{Ready?} Jericho asked.
The Bard and hunter logged off.
45 minutes later…
Moria swallowed her food. ”What did the two of you end up doing while I crafted things?”
Ken slumped. Today had already been a very embarrassing day for him. His 'cool' image had been totally ruined and he didn't want to make it worse by having to tell her he hunted for rats and enjoyed it.
Reading the mood, Jericho smiled. ”Ken, Lux, and I trained some of our skills. We didn't want to level up without you and thought it would be best.”
The girl smiled. ”Oh, then is that something you can keep doing for a bit longer?”
Jericho frowned. ”What are you making that is taking so long?”
”It is more than one thing and it's a secret.” She replied. ”Besides, I'm having a lot of fun making things. We can adventure more after I finish making the things I want to make.”
”Fine.”
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Ken grimaced as he finished his food.
Jericho smiled. ”Well Ken, are you up for more skill grinding?”
The boy nodded. ”Yeah.”
The adult picked up the dishes and put them in the sink.
”Shall we resume where we left off?” Moira asked.
Jericho retrieved his instruments and the two 12 year olds started dancing.
”Ken, your reflexes are getting better.” The girl exclaimed happily.
The teen chuckled. ”Thanks. Alex would say that it is something related to the natural benefits of gaming and some sort fancy explanation.”
Moira laughed as she spun. ”True, he would say something like that. He knows a lot about technology.”
The bleached haired youth smiled.
The girl smiled back. ”At this rate you should be able to perform a simple swing dance with me in game in a week. Assuming you are standing on two legs.” She teased.
***
On the walk home the two males talked once more.
”Thanks for the save back there. I didn't want to tell her that I had a competition on who could kill the most rodents with Lux.” Ken sighed. ”I'm also glad that my sighing didn't sound like a sad kitten tonight.”
Jericho chuckled. ”You aren't the only male to lose their cool image in front of Moira since the game started. I understand that desire to hide the 'uncool' part of yourself. Trust me; right now she thinks you are one of the coolest guys in her life right now.”
”Really? Even after today, cute fluffy paws and all, she still thinks I'm cool?”
”Yes she does. You wanting to dance with her has made her extremely happy and boosted your coolness by a lot. Of course, she will tease you forever about being an adorable kitten and will probably find ways to bring it up or embarrass you further, so get used to it. Since you said the patch will take some time to complete, you want to come over and dance some more during the patch time tomorrow instead of the evening?”
”Sure, it will give me something to do.”
”I was curious Ken, how were you able to adapt to being a cat so quickly?”
”The game's system has been helping a lot. It is part of the skill. I know you learned a lot of your skills in game by bringing your real life skills into the game world, but have you learned any from the system?”
”I have.”
”Then did you notice how the knowledge and basic experiences of how to use the skill seemed to just be taught to you?”
”So it is the same thing then?”
”Yep, it is the same technology they use at school. But a good portion of my current skill is the all the extra practice I got while wrestling with Lux.”
They arrived back at Ken's house.
”Thanks to the MExp my main skills are now at 5/10. I didn't know it was so OP.”
Jericho raised an eyebrow. ”MExp is OP? Explain.”
”Normally I would have had to repeat what I did with such perfect grinding conditions the last three hours again to reach where I am at, but because of the MExp I will probably reach Adept sooner than expected. It is way overpowered. Unless someone is extremely skilled, getting 3 skills from the start of beginner to adept in less than a day is extremely crazy.”
Jericho nodded. ”Well at least I know why Shiarra was saying that my skills were growing really fast. But MExp is what creatures usually use to level up. It only seems overpowered to us because we use it to invest into skills.”