5 Archery Lessons (1/2)

After hearing the notification Yale smiled and continued his training, he wasn't satisfied with only two points.

Yale's training continued until the seventh day when he would start the archery lessons. In that short time, he managed to increase his Strength points to three, but not only that, Yale's vitality increased to four.

With Yale's actual stats, only the agility remained under the average mark for his age, using the system's stats, the average for a six-year-old kid physical stats is three, then Yale couldn't be considered weak among his peers now, but couldn't be regarded as strong either.

Of course, in the mind stats, Yale was extremely outstanding, the average was only two points. However, Yale cared more about his weak points as they can improve much more.

Yale reached the archery training ground while lost in his thoughts.

”So, you are that famous bookworm.”

A tall man with a hawk-like nose was who spoke those words.

”I'm Yale Roanmad; I applied for archery lessons.”

Of course, the tall man was mocking him, but Yale didn't care, as long as he could use archery to improve his Dexterity.

”I doubt that a weakling like you can hold a bow or shoot an arrow, but I can't deny you for more than a week, you're lucky to be a legitimate son.”

Then the man gave Yale a bow, a bow that obviously wasn't of the appropriate size for a beginner of Yale's age. Yale read about archery before, so he knew about the different kinds of bows and which suited him more, he even contrasted the information with the system.

”I rather choose this other one.”

Yale replied, picking a bow which was suited for him, he knew that even if the instructor can recommend a bow to the students, the students had the right to choose in the end. However, as the students usually didn't know anything about bows, they would follow the instructor recommendation.

The instructor's face changed when he saw Yale's actions, the instructor wasn't a legitimate child of the clan, and even if he became recognized in the end and became an archery instructor, he loathed those lucky legitimate children.

Choosing a bad bow for Yale was the limit for him. As an instructor, he couldn't harm a legitimate son of the clan without reasons and even less one under the world's protection; he could explain the fact of giving him a bad bow as teaching him the importance of choosing a bow well, the clan wouldn't punish the instructor.

Letting the students learn from their errors is still a valid teaching method, even if the mistake was trusting the instructor.

But if Yale chose his bow himself, then that's all, the instructor couldn't change Yale's decision and what frustrated him more was that Yale's selected bow was an appropriated one.

”It seems that you know something about bows, you passed the test; you can call me Instructor Nosehawk.”

Yale didn't reply, but in his mind, Yale was thinking.

”What a test, you were trying to annoy me. Furthermore, what's with that name? You have a hawk-like nose, but for your father to name you Nosehawk isn't that a bit cruel?”

Yale started walking until he reached the position set for the students to shoot. Including Yale there were only ten students, the training camp had room for many more students to practice at the same time, but archery wasn't popular enough.

Nosehawk started to give instructions to the students, he was teaching well this time, if all the students get injured he would be blamed without doubt and archery wasn't a joke, even if the arrows were modified so they wouldn't kill anyone, they were still dangerous.

At the instructor's signal all of them shot at the same time, only three people hit the target, two of them hit the very center of the target, they were the most veteran students, and they were already nine years old. The third was Yale, even if he didn't hit the center of the target like the other two, he still hit the target.

Yale thought that the results were not bad for his first try, then something unexpected happened.

”Quest Menu unlocked a new type of Quest. Dynamic Quest section added to the Quest Menu.”

Yale was shocked; he never thought that the system would unlock something because he shot an arrow.

”A Dynamic Quest is a special type of Quest; it's unlocked when the user performs a certain action, would the user like to activate notifications for Dynamic Quests?”

The system continued, and Yale accepted.

”New Dynamic Quest: Shoot one hundred arrows. Reward: Archery Innate Talent: Mid grade.”

Yale now had a wide smile. Fortunately, he just hit the target so no one would suspect anything because he was smiling.

”It's only a matter of time to obtain it, what a great surprise.”

However, the system continued.