8 Chapter 5
A memory of that morning floated into his mind once again, and this time for once, it was a useful bit of information.
The Title of the boy that had been hurt was Game Lover.
If there ever was a more obvious clue as to who he was supposed to talk to, Harry had never seen it. Hence, he quickly looked around the class and found Gordon, who had been ranting to his friends about the teacher punishing him for sleeping in class. Harry knew that the punishment was the fault of that Boris person, but he wasn't stupid enough to open his mouth, especially when one of those three people was one of his teachers.
Gordon Jack Game Lover
LV-3
Harry got up from his seat and walked over to the brown haired boy, absently noticing that he was a level lower than he had been before.
"Excuse me, Gordon," Harry said, tapping him on the shoulder. Gordon turned and looked at him in surprise, "Harry? What do you want?"
Harry fiddled with his sleeve nervously, "Well I...um...Gordon I was thinking...you're pretty into Role Playing Games right?"
Gordon looked at Harry with a frown, almost as if he was suspicious that Harry was here to make fun of him, before slowly nodding, "Yeah...I DM from time to time."
"Well," Harry asked, "I was wondering whether you could help me out with a game I started playing."
"Really? What kind of game?" Gordon asked, interest piqued and all traces of suspicion gone from his eyes.
"Well...it's kind of like an adventure game. The hero wakes up and has to do quests and all, he finds himself in...let's call it the magic world. I was wondering whether you could help me do better by giving me clues and such."
Ping!
Skill Created!
Lying, Lv-1 (20%)
This is your ability to lie to people, the higher the level the better the lie and less chance of discovery!
2% chance of success, less based on how extreme the lie is.
Harry frowned. The 2% thing was a rip-off. Harry knew he was a better liar than that. He lied successfully to the Dursleys all the time.'This game is rigged!' he thought angrily.
Luckily though, it seemed that Gordon had bought the lie. He nodded and thought about it for a minute before saying, "Okay so what are the Hero's stats?"
Harry recalled them from memory and then told them out loud to Gordon.
"Well there is a plus point to the low stats," Gordon said leaving Harry surprised, "This means you can choose to improve whatever stat you want. Meaning you can make your own character."
"What do you mean?"
"Well usually in games there are classes. You improve the stat that helps you for each class. For example, a warrior will require an improvement on Str, Dex and Vit while ignoring the rest."
Harry nodded, understanding that clearly, "But what about Int, Wis, and Luck? Isn't that a disadvantage?"
Gordon shrugged, "True, but most players don't care."
"So what are the best ways to improve stats?"
"Well, that would be to do things that would improve them, like say for Str you should make the character lift heavy stuff, for Vit you should make him run a lot. Things like that."
Harry then connected the dots, "So let's say character thought a lot about ideas and such, would that increase his Wis?"
"Well, theoretically yes. I suppose. But that's not possible since game characters can't think. The best way to improve Wis would be to solve puzzles. Reading books would improve Int, but other than that I don't really know of any other ways."
"What about stat points? How do I get those?"
"You get those as you evolve Harry, but you've got to be careful so that you never use them."
"Then what am I supposed to do?" he asked, wondering what the point of them was.
"Save them for a later date, since for now, it is easier to train each stat by doing some work. For example, since your game character has an Int of 2, if he simply reads a book or two he should automatically gain a stat point if Int."
Harry's eyes widened, "Seriously?!"
"Yeah. But if Int was higher, let's say 30 or something, he would have to read a hundred books just for one extra stat points. You see where I'm going with this?"
Harry nodded, grateful, "Yes I do. You're are saying that it will be difficult later on to obtain stat points and to do so now by doing menial tasks."
"Yup."
"Thank you so much, Gordon. This helped me a lot."
Ping!
Quest completed!
Find someone to teach you about video games so you can be good at your life which is now a video game!
Rewards:
50xp
Exp-200/400
Gordon nodded at his thanks as Harry waved the window away and added, "Just don't forget to always save and have plenty of health potions in your inventory."
"Inventory?" Harry asked out loud, and suddenly a brown box appeared in front of him, causing Harry to jump in surprise. Quickly regaining his composure, he looked around to check whether anyone was looking at him. Finding no one, Harry studied the new box carefully.
It was labeled Inventory, and it had several empty boxes. Harry slowly walked to his desk and sat down with the inventory box in front of him. He took out an eraser and then pressed it against the box, pushing it forward. Golden ripples spread across the box, and the eraser disappeared from Harry's hands and reappeared in the inventory, labeled Eraser.
Harry smiled. The ideas were already starting to churn in his head.
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