13 Ignorance is bliss (2/2)
”Anything else?”, he looked around and everyone avoided his gaze. After that Kuruk disappeared followed by all the others. The only things left were the table, the twentyfour seats, five scrolls and the clouds.
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Harison let out a semi satisfied burp and tossed the bones into his inventory. It was finally time to check on the children's books. He read them one by one but other than getting his vocabulary expanded in the language of this region nothing happened. The learn option was not available as if the system did not think anything in the books was worth learning.
He reanalyzed the book titled ”Basic swordmanship for beginners” next which could be titled Swords for dummies on Earth. After what seemed to take forever he clicked on the learn button and after a few moments there were continuous pop-ups.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 6 acquired.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 7 acquired.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 8 acquired.
Swordmanship skill LVL. 9 acquired.
'Ohh. come on,' he lamented the loss of attribute gains which would happen if he managed to reach level 10.
He opened the book manually and noticed more than 90 % of the book was translated. The main parts that were missing seemed to deal with correct breathing while doing the moves as the word like breathe through followed by unknown words was where the translation mostly stopped.
'I guess I need a medical atlas next,' he thought.
He got the other two books reanalyzed also. The book about flowers actually gave him the option to learn it but the other one remained stuborn.
Clicking the learn button he experienced wast knowledge flowing into his brain and two dings soon followed.
Herbology skill unlocked.
Herbology skill LVL. 1 acquired.
Bonus Wisdom +1
Herbology skill LVL. 2 acquired.
He opened up the book manually and saw that he could understand around 40 % of the text of which most were the names of shapes and colors describing the various plants. The other descriptions like what they can be used for were a mystery for him. Even a lot of names of the plants were usually something like ”White #$”$#”.
'Well, at least if I pick one up I will know if it's usefull for something just not what so it's not if it is a total waste,' he thought as he closed the book.
He checked his skills to decide on further action.
Lumberjack : Level 10Carpentry : Level 1Masturbation : Level 1Archery : Level 7Swordmanship : Level 9Mathemathics : Level 10Fitness : Level 5Bartering : Level 1Herbology : Level 2
He thought about hitting a tree with a sword but dismissed the idea as it would only dull it so he turned to the next best thing archery. He had plenty of arrows. Even those that were in bad shape could still be used for practice.
So he went over to the tree with the painted targets and started shooting arrow from 20 meters distance. He hit a lot more than he missed and soon he heard a familiar pop-up.
Archery skill LVL. 8 acquired.
He used the same 20 arrows over and over again. Picking them up either from the ground or plucking them from the tree after every round.
After level 8 he went a bit furter and shot from aproximately 25 meters and he soon reached level 9.
At the 30 meters mark a tree was in his way but he moved a bit sideways and the target was still well in sight. As he finally reached level 10 his arms and fingers felt like they would fall off at any moment and to hear the familiar ding was like a blessing from heaven.
Archery skill LVL. 10 acquired.Bonus Strength +1Bonus Perception +1
Sticking the bow into his inventory he went one last time to pickup the arrows and left for the cave. In the cave he crawled into his bed and checked his attributes which he had diligently acquired trough the day.
Strength : 8,5
Wisdom : 12,5
Inteligence : 17
Dexterity : 10,5
Perception : 12
Agility : 11
Water element affinity : 10,5
Vitality : 10,5
Fire element affinity : 10,5
Energy : 10,5
With satisfaction he closed his eyes and dozed off.