30 Market
Early in the morning, everyone got together and left to find the market. Leaving the castle and looking around they noticed a lot of small buildings and stalls that they didn't pay attention to earlier. A weapons shop, armor shop, potion shop, alchemist, trap shop, and many more that offered a wide variety of things to buy or make.
"Hey, since this is similar to a game, shouldn't we be able to learn how to do these things as well, do you think we can get learn from these guys how to do that, like Adrian, shouldn't he be able to help someone become a smith?" Shadow excitedly asked everyone as he looked at all the shops and buildings around them.
"I guess, but first let's go and see if we can sell any of these items, we should check with the old man if he can make anything from them first though." Reign calmed the excited Shadow down and told in a calm voice.
They all agreed and made their way to the smithy first, seeing Adrian smoking a cigarette as usual, they approached him and showed him all the items they have collected.
"Hmmm, the kobolds bones are useful, the scales I could use to create some vambraces but I don't think they will be anything special, you have to bring me some better material if you hope to get anything like that sword or better." Adrian shook his head and took a deep puff of the cigarette as he told them.
"I see, so we can sell everything else to the market except the tail bones and fangs, the scales I don't think will be that useful." Reign proposed to everyone, seeing them all nod their heads, they all went to the market to sell their goodies.
"Hello dear customers, are you buying or perhaps selling something?" A fat man behind the counter asks them, the man looked like a generic merchant you could see in dramas and games, wearing a gold chain and being decorated with rings on his fingers he gives a smile that looked friendly but felt weird. Looking at the man in front of them everyone had the same thought.
"This guy's a fucking snake!"
With that thought in their minds, they all approach quite calmly, trying not to show any nervousness in front of him, lest he took them as easy prey and rip them off.
"We're selling materials." Wolf lead the party and told the merchant, he worked with a lot of slippery bastards before and knew the best way to talk with them, the key element is to always be calm and collected, the other one was to never back down in front of them, the bigger the bastard you are, the better things will be for you.
"Ohhhh well isn't that nice, you lot are the first to come to poor Oscar with something, well come one, bring it out, what do you want to sell?" Oscar said with a hearty laugh and a big smile.
"Here it is." Wolf waved his hand and a bunch of monster materials started dropping from the air on the counter, after a couple of seconds the counter was full of them.
"Well let's see what we got here, hmm some kobold scales, zombie brains, zombie hearts, some beaks, fangs, claws…" Oscar started looking through the pile in front of him, he expertly named everything and gave an estimate on the quality and damage of every piece. Finally finishing, he counted everything down before looking straight at them. "Not bad you guys, there are some good things mixed in this pile, they are worth a nice sum but unfortunately a lot of it is damaged, I'm afraid the most I can do is 113 S Coins," Oscar told them calmly with a regretful face.
"200." Wolf didn't even change his expression as he told Oscar, hearing the number the fat merchant almost fell off his chair. "200?!" He shouted. "That's impossible, I can give at most 125, and that's because you guys are the first to try and sell anything."
"210." Wolf calmly replied, everyone glanced at Wolf but did nothing to stop him, inside though they were far from calm.
"What, boy do you even know how haggling works, you lower the price, you don't make it higher!" Oscar was fuming at Wolf, his face all red and now looking very different from the calm and friendly face he previously had.
"220, the more you wait the higher it gets." Wolf again replied.
"What, impossible, that's impossible, 150, and that's final, take it or leave it." Leaning over the counter Oscar glared at Wolf only to see a smile blossom on the cold face.
"You have a deal, mister Oscar." Taking his hand Wolf shook it.
"Wha-" Oscar looked befuddled as he gave a handshake to Wolf, finally realizing what was happening he snapped out of it and took his hand back. "You little twerp, you're a tricky one huh."
{Trade made, 150S Coins gained.}
{Distributing equally to everyone.}
{30 S Coins received.}
A series of notifications were heard as the materials in front of them suddenly disappeared.
"Alright, shall we go and level up, we are running on a tight schedule now you know." Wolf turned around and told everyone, absent-mindedly, they all nodded their heads and slowly moved toward the gate.
Somewhere on Earth...
Bam!
An earth-shattering explosion suddenly took place, and a group of monsters got caught in the middle of it and got blown to pieces.
"Success!" A man walked out of a ruined building nearby, wearing formal attire he slowly moved towards the corpses of the monsters he just killed.
"Even though it drains all of my mana right away this skill is simply incredible, with this I'm certain I can kill that thing."
The man suddenly hears a notification and looked in front of him.
{Level up!}
{Players current level is 19 … }
"I wonder if there are any people with a similar level as me, I guess not, not everyone got thrown into this kind of a hell hole right away."
The man turned around and looked at the ruins of the once prosperous city, the huge skyscrapers have become nests for huge aerial monsters, many landmarks in the city turning into dungeons filled with incredibly strong enemies and a huge snake could be found right outside of the city, coiling around the statue that once signified freedom.
"I wonder if I'll be able to defeat all of them by myself, it doesn't matter, I have to, till then please survive and wait for me Lee and Reign, I'll find you boys no matter what.
The man picked up any materials that had any worth and slowly made his way back to the ruins.
3 days later.
Slash
A Hobgoblin's head traveled through the air as it got cut off from the body. Landing on the ground it got crushed by huge boots that step on it.
{Level up!}
{Current player level is 10, additional stats gained}
{Spirit +1, Agility + 1 }
{Please get a class and finalize the level to get full rewards.}
Name : Reign
Level : 10 ( 420/3000 )
Class : None (more info in the class menu)
Race : Human? (more info in the race menu)
Attribute points : 0
Strength : 18 (21) (+2 from ability, +1 from item)
Agility : 20 (25) (+3 from ability, +2 from item)
Endurance : 12 (13) (+1 from item)
Vitality : 14
Willpower : 14
Spirit : 17 (25) (+2 from ability, +6 from item)
Proficiencies:
Knife Proficiency D+
Hand to hand combat B+
Sword Proficiency C
Skills:
{ Lighting movement } – Rank C
{ Lightning Stab } – Rank B
{Compact Punch } – Rank C
Ability:
Lightning manipulation S ( lvl 15 exp: 13%)
Unknown rank ??? ( lvl ? exp ???)
"Finally, I didn't think it would take us this long to finally level up, we only have 1 day left until the tutorial phase is finished, let's go to the dungeon right away." Reign put his sword back into his scabbard and told everyone.
Everyone nodded with a serious face and slowly they made their way towards the dungeon they previously entered, finally arriving at their destination, Reign put his hand on the boulder and got a notification.
{Hidden dungeon detected, enter the dungeon?}
{Yes / No }
"YES!"
