Training

Abelard closes his eyes, prepares his body to hold all the pain that he will experience soon. But that feeling of pain never came to him and because of that, he opened his eyes slowly out of curiosity.

Blackness

Everywhere

Every single corner of his view, all filled with blackness, "Where am I? Is this some sort of magic space? Everything is black, I can't see anything, how to escape from this situation?"

But that blackness, doesn't last that long, it slowly disappear and the object that he saw just a few seconds before can be seen being lift up. He let out a huge sigh out of relief, then he notices a back.

A familiar one, he realize that it was none other than Abel himself, he couldn't help but talk to the boy about it, "Hey, did you just sat on me? Like, I was laying at the bed when you appear out of nowhere"

The boy shiver as he slowly turns toward the Abelard with heavy breathing, "Dude, didn't I tell you to not give me a heart attack or some sort, what are you talking about?"

Abelard told him, "So, here's my story, I was laying on the bed and was about to go sleep, then I realize an object appears out of nowhere and sat at me, there's blackness everywhere so I don't really know what it is"

The boy let out a few calm breath before placing his index finger at his chin and wonder about what object the miniature guy is talking about, "so, there's an object, out of nowhere and there's blackness?"

The miniature guy let out a slight nod and Abel is silent for a few seconds, thinking about it, 'Okay, so an object is likely to be me because Abel is laying at the same place where I logged off… and the blackness, oh! I got it"

He proceeds to tell his theory to Abel, "So, my theory is, I just sat on you, but since you are like a projection or something like that, this made you only visible to me but you can't get hit…"

Abelard raised an eyebrow on that theory but he slowly agrees with it, then emerges a question about it, "Wait, so if this is just a projection of my body, where is my real body?"

Doesn't take long for Abelard to find the answer that is most likely to be true, "I guess your body is in this body, it's more like your spirit rather than a body. By the way, what is the day today?"

Abelard guided him, "There's the status of time at the upper right corner of your screen, just right above the notification tab. You can see the time there yourself and not ask me"

Abel scratched his head and quickly looks toward the time, "Well, it says Thursday, about 2 pm right now, I disappeared for 30 minutes in real life but the time passed is 2 hours?"

Abelard butted in, "Well, I don't know about the time in your world so I wouldn't be able to help you in any way, but if my math is correct, that's about 1:4 ratio of the time difference, won't that be good enough?"

Abel gave him a nod and Abelard stated to him about what he has been doing when he was logged out, "So, when you logged off, I checked the notification and status tab. Your luck is really incredible!"

The boy doubted his words and quickly opens the tab for the status. He changed his mind in no time, "Woah! These stats, where do I even get them? I must be the definition of luck itself if this keeps happening"

Abelard let out a big grin, knowing that he is the one that is actually lucky and not the boy himself. The boy then closes the tab and opens the skill tab and he was even more impressed about it.

He started to list all these skills with words, "So, I have the strategy skill, magic, combat, art of war, cooking, hunting and crafting too! Woah, I'm very lucky that I have the chance to read all those books!"

The grin on Abelard's face is becoming bigger and bigger every time he heard the words that came out of Abel's mouth. The miniature guy soon started flexing on him, "Haha, look at that, you should thank me!"

That smile on the boy's face suddenly turns into a grin. He placed his hand on his hips and said, "All of these are a part of my plan, even though these skills are mediocre, it seems I'm getting better!"

Abelard is speechless about these, he looks like the type of kid that didn't realize that his flex is not working while snot is coming out of his nose, a quiet "eh?" was let out from him.

Abel then told Abelard his plan, "Well, all of these is good, but we should really go toward the training ground to waste time. All newbies go there, right? We can even do multitask with both of us!"

The mini guy is still speechless, but he follows the boy to the training ground at last. They made it there, a lot of people can be seen using wooden sword swinging it over and over toward the straw dummy"

Abel smirks after seeing this sight. He opens his inventory, grab the wooden sword that every newbie got and start whacking the straw dummy while right beside him, Abelard checks all the tabs.

The boy whacks and hits the dummy, over and over again. The day slowly turns into the night but he did not stop. He keeps doing that while Abelard is floating on the air with a half-closed eye.

It seems like he was about to fall asleep but the boy caught him by surprise, "sleepy ain't we? Well, I'm a bit sleepy, let's return to the residence. By the way, did I get something new?"

Abelard nodded and began telling him about it, "So, you get a new skill called the art of the sword, it's the basic is about 57% complete and the total of the mastery is about 17%, you also got a new title called patience"

Abel let out a smile upon hearing this all and Abelard continues, "this title "patience" grants you 100 of general reputation, the total is 125 right now, it also grants you 20 reputation with all the guild that exists"

A bigger smile began to form on his face and then he started to praise Abelard, "Good job on keeping track on my progress, you can be my secretary from now on with that skill!"

Abelard was speechless once again before he erupts like a volcano, "Who say I'm your secretary! I'm just doing this so you can get the fuck off my body and return to it!"

Abel didn't say a single word but he let out a small giggle that coincidentally was heard by the mini guy, "What you giggling at?! If only you didn't exist, would have live like a king right now"

Abel let out an even bigger giggle and stated, "I know you are angry, I'm sorry about all what happens, but… but you are so small and that you look cute when you are angry, ahahahahaha!"

That little laugh that ended that sentence made Abelard speechless, 'What am I to him? Am I just a nobody that he can mess with? Well, sure, I'm not going to help you anymore from now on!'

Abel let out a laugh this time. He stated once again to him, "haha! You do realize we can share each other mind, right? It's actually funny seeing you cussing me and not going to help me anymore"

Abelard was even more speechless, he slowly turns pale and his spirit seems to escape from his small little body, "Well, don't worry, if you don't want to help me, that's fine, I'll just log out and never enter this game ever again!"

This time, Abelard disappeared to god know where, he is inside his old body, with his head touching his knee, letting out sobs. But that's not important, Abel made it to Abelard's house and logged out there.

The next morning, about 9 hours since Abel logged out, he entered the game once again. Only to see Abelard still sobbing, he placed his face on the pillow, face-first towards it and continues.

But Abel couldn't care less. He went toward the training ground after giving a glance to Abelard. He then trains his archery skill there, still with the dummy straw with targets provided there.

The boy practically did what he did just yesterday and quickly log out at 9 pm. But tomorrow is different, he has a quest to retrieve Halius's father remain and belongings.

Right about 6 am at the game, he logged in, still welcomed with the sight of Abelard sobbing with his face still on the pillow. But once again, he left for Halius's house after giving Abelard a glance.

The boy met Halius, and the quest started from there.