6 Stupid is what stupid does (2/2)
Bonus Perception +1
He smiled and took another arrow and pulled it with all his might. He let it go and it madea whoosh sound as it hit the dead center of the middle circle and bounced from the wood and hit him in the knee. It hurt like hell but the arrow did not manage to penetrate the leather pants he luckily wore.
'Damn I was lucky I am so weak. I almost got an arrow to my knee due to my stupidity. The would stop my adventuring days.', somehow this sentence popped up in his mind as he experienced the tingling of his knee and after he made sure he was ok.
He decided to call it quits for tonight and picked up the arrows and put them in the quiver. He returned to the cave and ate some bread with dried beefy meat lied down. His arms hurt so much he was not even remotely contemplating raising his masturbation level that evening.
As he covered himself up with the clothes the wind picked up bringing icy cold into the cave. Luckily the effect was not so pronounced as deep as his sleeping corner was. It was still chilly though and he decided he would make a wall tomorrow to cover part of the opening. As he contemplated the task his eyelids slowly dropped and he returned to the land of death.
'Ah crap I am here again,' he thought as he heard the by now familiar and sounds and smells of the ICU.
'Inventory', he decided to read the BOOK again immediately. It's not like he had any better things to do.
The inventory opened.
'Show books only.'
The number of boxes went from one hundred to four and in them were four books. He looked at the second one amd it had a sword and some rune text on it. The third one had a flower and the fourth one had just text.
He opened up the second one. He figured he might as well save the fun stuff for later.
There were some illustrations of sword moves and exercizes with accompanying text. He clicked analyze and waited until it finished. He wanted to click on the read button but noticed there was a learn button below it.
He clicked it.
There was suddenly a simulation in his head of a manequin doing the moves with the sword. It repeated a few moves a couple of times. He could hear pop-up notifications in the background while it was still performing the moves. Once it was done it closed by itself and he got a flood of information that caused a slight pain in his head.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Followed by:
Swordmanship skill unlocked.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 1 acquired.
Bonus Strength +1
Bonus Agility +1
Swordmanship skill LVL. 2 acquired.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 3 acquired.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 4 acquired.
He tried reading the book and saw that some of it had an overlay of translation over where the runic text was but most of it was still untranslated.
As he opened the other two and analyzed them both there was no learn button. As he pressed read he saw rows and rows of untranslated text with some words popping up here and there.
He went to the sword manual and noticed the analyze button was present again. He waited for another couple of minutes before the indicator finished. The learn button was back again.
The manequin was dancing with the sword again and pop-ups were heard.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Insufficient data.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 5 acquired.
Bonus Strength +1
Bonus Agility +1
He checked the contents of the book and noticed some more words were translated.
'I guess it's learning the language by analyzing and comparing different books. I should get picture books for children with text somewhere since they seem to work best. Luckily I had the porn book and the sword manual to get me started.'
He analyzed and started reading the goat man's adventures again and soon the nurse came again and sent him into the oblivion.