Ch. 15 New Quest

Looking down at the broken compass I hear a ding in my head.

*Quest: Repairing What You Broke

Accept? Refuse?*

Huh... I get a whole quest for it? I figured I could just just go repair it with engineering and blacksmithing... Hmm... Accepting the quest I got a long message...

*Quest: Repairing What You Broke

Acquire Iron Essence 0/1

Acquire Ghost Heart 0/1

Acquire Mana Stone 0/1

Forge a perfect mana magnet needle 0/1

Acquire Hearts from a living Marionette 0/100

Acquire Blood from a living Mannequin 0/100

Make Glasswork Clay 0/1

Make Glasswork Clay into mold for original shell body of compass 0/1

Acquire living Flame 0/1

Melt down the original compass with living flame 0/1

Take Soul Shard out of mixture 0/1

Reforge the original compass into a new orginal shell body 0/1

Acquire Steel Heart of First Golem 0/1

Acquire Acid Blood of Ancient Zombie 0/1

Acquire Hunk of Strange Metal 0/10

Create the liquid metal of longing 0/10

Acquire the broken heart of a scorn demoness 0/1

Forge the heart into a frame for the needle 0/1

Attach the needle frame to the original shell body 0/1

Acquire the blood of a ghost 0/1

Acquire Soul Searing Grass 0/1

Create Ghost Blood Glue 0/1

Affix needle with ghost blood glue to the needle frame 0/1

Mix a Soul stone with liquid metal of longing 0/1

Acquire blood from a fire dove 0/1

Acquire blood from a lonely island tortoise 0/1

Acquire blood from the innocent jungle kitten 0/1

Acquire blood from the wandering snake on cricket island 0/1

Acquire Zombie Powder 0/1

Acquire Acquire tongue of a necromancer 0/1

Acquire the essence of a young female ghost who died with loneliness in her heart 0/1

Mash the tongue into mush and mix it with the powder before stiring it all into the ghost essence 0/1

Acquire clay from basement of Saint Desnair 0/1

Mix the ghost essence mixture into the clay and bake into a pot 0/1

Mix the blood of the four beasts into clay pot and heat to boil 0/1

Fill the compass frame with liquid metal of longing 0/10

Drop the compass into pot of boiling blood and wait until all the moisture is boiled out 0/1

Reward: [Incomplete: Compass of a Love Lost]*

Whelp... That's a long ass quest... Also... it will still be incomplete? Huh... Looking at the tent where I'm not welcome and thinking of the happy family within I shrug and begin to walk towards the town. They brought us out to do some quests I've found my quest so I'll let them have their fun. It's not like they won't be able to speak to me through the system. So we will still be in contact. I wonder how long till they realize I've left. As I walked away I can hear the guards audibly relax... They were really conserned... After reaching the town I first headed towards the merchant to buy a map... Sadly the system doesn't give those... And asked for any information regarding ghosts. Seeing as I need so many ghost related object for my quest... Very quickly I find the map with the most undead through recommendations of the NPCs... or the repeated warnings it seems that the map is extremely dangerous... Hearing about a town of warring people living there constantly at battle with the undead I laughed amused. If there are living creatures on the map then I'm probably fine... The map has a level range between fifty and a hundred so I can't exactly fight the bosses on it alone but whatever... After getting the map I visit the stables and buy a horse. It's impossible to rent a horse if you don't plan to come back... Especially if you don't even know when you could come back...

Riding the horse out of town I spot the heavily guarded tent in the distance and smile before riding away. I totally left my armor a lot in the tent... I didn't even realize I was still in my underwear only when I went shopping in the town until I caught the disgusted glares of some men npc or otherwise and one or two eyes of burning passion in a couple men who definitely were following me till I escaped on the horse... The female NPCs didn't stare so much as they admired then ignored the pervert... Luckily I just look like a weirdo in super short shorts walking around shirtless with no shoes... I didn't have any clothes or armor in my inventory as Affie insisted that they be left out just encase inside the tent... So I basically just had no armor... I also don't have my gun... or any other weapon... But I got my sword and my genitals are covered so good enough... Giggling to myself I stop to hunt down some bandits I was told about that would be on my way and "reappropriated" some clothes and money... Without killing because of the story I heard about the ex bandit become head guardsman... I did happen to get super mad at one of the bandit groups I met along the way when I found the cages full of abused women... So those rapists may have died... but those weren't humans but trash so I didn't kill anyone...

Once my journey with the bandits has been finished and the group of trash has been cleaned up I let the women out and sat down to make clothes for myself... Some of the women who didn't run immediately also asked for clothes and I got a quest for it that rewarded exp so I went ahead and made them all simple dresses with the mountain of torn of up clothes from the bandit and stray cloth that they stole from merchants. After sending off the women and getting the exp I had no real use for... Which turned into an object in my inventory that's bound to me... Waste of inventory space tbh... Granted it's literally just one slot and will stack continuously forever no matter how much extra quest exp I get... I cannot get the exp pots from killing though... I did figure out that one point of exp can be used in crafting to make growth type equipment... Which is actually how pure craftsmen level up. They first build gear that's growth type for loyal costumers or guild members and then those guild members use the growth type gear till it hits it's cap level and then get new ones from the craftsman who can then disassemble the gear to get the exp back. It's a slow process but some of the more popular pure Craftsman players get exp super quick as they mass produce the gear and then get it sent back to them. Sadly you can only pull the exp out of growth type gear you yourself made. Otherwise it's only the base mats along with the one exp point. It's also quite difficult to make growth equipment without first reaching a max level. Unless you learn to do it while still in the growth quest. Growth equipment was designed for people to get a sense of progression when they have already reached their peak in level and are at a bottlecap. As some people never cross that bottlecap.