12 Nathan Makes An Appearance! (1/2)
Beep Beep Beep!
Once Leo put one of the cards into the screen, a message popped up.
-Click to accept a weapon, a consumable, or an exp pill-
”Wait, I am unable to choose a skill this time? But that monster seemed to be extremely strong compared to my current level!”
Leo almost cried from this robbery. First it was when he lost hundreds of potential cards, and now a card he looted seemed to not be very helpful.
”Inventory” Leo said as he pulled up his inventory. He wanted to figure out how he could possibly see the weapon he earned from completing the quest's stats. Since this blue screen treated everything like a game, it was possible that he could even see descriptions of weapons!
After spending several minutes experimenting, Leo finally realized that he had to hold his finger on the inventory slot in order to see the stats of what was inside and its usages.
”Interesting, for completing the quest, I got a basic potion that helps replenish my health, while the sword is the lowest ranked sword and only adds four strength points to my attributes.”
”Since the sword is only E ranked, maybe I should use the card to gamble on a stronger weapon? Right now, I lack strong skills, but maybe a better weapon could increase my strength even more, which in turn, can allow me to automatically increase my current power?”
With his mind finally made up, Leo placed the card back into the screen and clicked the weapon icon.
Beep Beep Beep!
-Weapon has been delivered into user's inventory-
Now eager to see what type of weapon he received and the additional benefits, Leo did not hesitate to pull up his inventory immediately.
”Whoa! This card was absolutely worth looting!”
Leo received what was called ”The Asclepius Dagger” it was a rank D weapon that gave the user five additional strength points as well as three additional wisdom points and even two additional charisma points!
”Now for the next card.” Leo thought as he pulled out the second looted card from his inventory.
Beep Beep Beep!
-Click to accept a consumable or an exp pill-
”Weird, it seems as if there might be a limit of rewards you could receive for each type of monster? Well, that makes it harder for me to grow, but, if I run into enough monsters of the same type, I could max out on those rewards.” pondered Leo as he clicked to receive a consumable.
”This can be very useful, too bad I do not want to lower myself to using poison in a battle.”
The consumable Leo received from the card was some snake venom in a powder form. Though, able to paralyze strong enemies, or instantly kill a weak enemy quickly, Leo hated the idea of using poison.
”Maybe if I come across a big city at some point in this world, I can find some place to sell this and receive something more to my liking?” thought Leo as he started to walk towards the large group of teenagers in the nearby field.
”Oh you are that outsider, correct?” an adult militia man walked over to Leo as he was approaching the area. In front of him, Leo could see that all of the teenagers who were in their own patrols were being trained by some of the adult militia men.
This made sense to Leo because it seemed as if monster waves to this village was a normal occurrence. It would be strange, if no one had training added to their daily routine.
”My name is Hans and I am one of the adult leaders here. If you are going to join our village officially, you need to start training at least three hours every day with the rest of those your age. This is the rule of our village, no exceptions.” Hans told Leo in a polite manner.
”Actually, I wanted to go out exploring. I apologize, but I really should get going now.” replied Leo as he respectfully tried to excuse himself. He did not want to draw any attention, and he knew that the best way to become stronger, was to explore and kill some more monsters.