Chapter 12: Fishing Time! (1/2)

"Un! Un! It's as expected Knox-sama!" Kaede who had greatly benefited in a lot of the skills made a joking prayer.

"Say aren't I so useful?" He was a little prideful about it. As his ego rose up, Risa looked at him with a weird glint.

"I expect more buffs, he~he.." Risa clasped her hand and rubbed it, seeing this, he shivered and felt somewhat cold. Feeling that he might have earned her ire because he teased her before.

With the moderate farce done, the three started fishing. Risa also bought a fishing rod, so they lined and waited for a fish to take the bait. When they fish, they can get experience.

He thought of making her grind the fishes first. He wanted to do the dungeon but it would benefit her more if she soloed it since it would give her a [ Unique Series ].

And with that, they started fishing. He used his wind spells to boost their AGI and DEX.

"Oh! Yes! Got another one again!" Kaede didn't feel surprised anymore, as on the last day she just experienced farming fish every thirty second. It was so amazing that it didn't make her feel asleep during the fishing, like she should have done.

"How did I get a skill just from that?" Risa was surprised when she saw a skill appear in her list. He answered straightforwardly while fishing another, making it seem like it's natural for him to do so.

"That's not a question to ask~" It made her somewhat irritated wanting to chop his head against his pridefully looking face.

The fishing result for half an hour were, forty fish for Kaede even with the relatively moderate boost on her stats, she had already gotten the fishing skill because of the enhancement from yesterday.

It made her smile and cutely bobbed her head to both of them. Even if the requirements of the skill had been removed from her stats, the skill itself didn't vanish on the skill list making it so convenient. Ultimately, she didn't get any skills and since they already had the maximum scales needed, he didn't have to boost her stats again.

He got a relatively tame count of twenty five fish and lastly Risa had gained twenty eight fish while in the process both had gained [ Fishing ] skill. When she found out she began making a smug face that made him beam a smile.

"Thanks for showing this location! Ya~ just fishing here has quickly increased my level!"

In fact, Risa's level had already rosen to 12. Aside from [ Fishing ], she gained [ Enhanced Speed ] when he used the two support spells earlier when they headed towards the lake.

Risa didn't deny the skills as she had somewhat expected something like this would happen, "Knox spells are too weird, why did it gave me skills when he just used them? It happened when he used it on you Maple, right?"

"Un~! One time, he used that [ Power Augmentation ] it could enhance any stats for one hour!"

"What!? R-Right, he would do something like this… Ha-ha-ha." Risa laughed helplessly.

She knew his quirks of doing things and while always unexpected would always give something that would benefit her. One of the reasons she liked to play with him, while they had a friendly rivalry, had been good friends ever since.

One of the reasons, she sometimes looked up at him and somewhat imagined herself to be..

"Sally? Sally? What's wrong?" Kaede, confused, stared at her daydreaming friend.

Risa found her nearly touching Kaede's curiously looking face, quickly backed away and waved her hand frantically, "Nothing! What are you saying again?"

"I was asking if you would use your newly gained status points?" Kaede walked towards her spot and continued fishing.

"W-well.. Kuhum, I will do that after acquiring more skills. All fighting styles are derived from skills… so I thought I should keep the status points since it would benefit me if I put the free stats points on the necessary stats for the skill needed later." Risa sighed in relief as she started fishing again while she looked at her new skills.

"You're good〜 to think so advanced, as expected from a pro player!" Kaede admiringly said.

"Well, it's true I played a lot of games, it's normal for me the great me~" Risa slid her hair while feeling a little prideful about it, while her friend applauded without thinking that made the scene pleasant and humorous. He just laughed silently at the side while finalizing the skill he wanted.

"All hail Risa-sama!"

"Maple, you know you're more than enough be praised~"

"Yeah~ commend the cutest large shield wielder!"

They continued fishing for an hour, Kaede's pearl count had reached triple digits counting those from before, while both had been following up earning more than sixty plus pure-white scales.

"How is it? Is it enough? You leveled faster here than fighting right?" Gram grinned.

Risa nodded and said, "It's okay~, but I want to fight some monsters too, so can I go dive in the water now?"

"U〜n… but we've only been fishing for two hours… is it okay? I think it's not good to rush." Kaede was concerned about her friend since she would be fighting underwater. Risa smiled at her cute friend before she gave her word of certainty.

Risa said, "No~ don't worry~ I just want to test something… I won't start the dungeon until I'm certain I had the chance."

"Yeah, don't be rash." Gram told her that they would head if she didn't return back after an one hour, then they would wait for her here or if not, at the spawn point.

"It's okay, but can you really do something like that?!" After Risa explained to Kaede in detail, the cute large shielder gained much interest fighting underwater, she knew she won't be able to move much so she can only imagine the scene. Still, she's a little hopeful though, being able to fight underwater or on air seems something to look up to in this game.

"I think it's possible. I mean, it is you two testing ridiculous things up until now.. I think that if it's with my AGI and DEX, I could probably kill at least one school of fishes? Since I'm good at swimming, it might also give unexpected results." Risa said in determination to prove that she could easily follow up to them. She wanted to get new skills, before she tried out the dungeon itself.

"Yeah, I remember we hunted fishes on one of the lakes when we had summer camping." Gram reminisced.

"You still remember that?" After rolling her eyes, Risa jumped to the underground lake.

"Then, do your best〜!"

"Un! I'll go try hunt a lot〜"

"Bring us some good loot too!"

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After replying non-chantilly, Risa dove deeper into the lake. And just like that, she swam around the underground lake and returned after an hour.

She returned while breathing heavily, but you would think that she had sprinted on a marathon due to her exhausted looking face.

"After getting [ Swimming I ] and [ Diving I ] skills, it felt so much easier!" After saying that, Risa took out eighty pure-white scales from her inventory.

"Hey~ You should have this." Risa put out the scales on her hand but Kaede denied.

Kaede shook her head, "Hnn~.. I have so much already, you should save it for yourself. In case you want a weapon to commission, I will introduction you to a weapon crafter later.."

Risa looked towards Gram, but he also denied. "I don't need it too… in exchange, just do your best and if you want, do what she just said, it might be worth it in the long run." Gram said while smiling, Risa thought for a moment before nodding.

"Ok! With that! I promise.. I'll also help out in the future!" Risa motivated herself.

"That's Sally-chan for you ehe~he.." Kaede gave a high-five towards the two, which both accepted with a smile.

Afterwards, Risa changed the topic to the most serious one. "Ne〜…Maple, Knox, I surveyed the location of the entrance of dungeon but I didn't enter it, I want to get more skills first before I started conquering the dungeon… with that, I'll need some help."

"Ummm… Un Are you sure though? You just started out after all~" Kaede was feeling a little worried.

"I'm not going to capture it now~ I'm thinking of doing it once I gained more skills myself. With that.. I have to prepare so that I can acquire Unique Series gears like yours!"

They understood what Risa was trying to say, which wasn't debated and quickly agreed without saying so.

"Un, we'll help you to come to the underground lake! So you won't get in trouble, we will be searching for nearby areas to discover unique materials. If anything needs help, just chat.." Gram said. The focus they had right now was to gain money, leveling up is unneeded since they were a lot higher leveled in the current stage.

"You don't have to tell me." Risa nodded and was grateful. They currently had a massive gap even though they were in a party, and clearly she needed some time to experiment alone, like what happened to the two in their earliest point in the game.

She already benefited with the two but as a gamer, she couldn't just let others 'dictate' and help her acquire skills.

"If anything comes up then you could always return to us!" Kaede prompted.

"Hmm~ I thought that you won't tell me that!" Risa giggled as she felt grateful.

"Ehehe〜it's not that much〜!"

"Once you start the dungeon, tell me so that I can use [ Power Augmentation ] and support spells on you!"

"Un… Thank you."

They only needed to logout to return, Risa then told them her first plan which was to increase her skill [ Swimming ] and [ Diving ] mastery to max.

Risa once again started swimming. While the two continued with their things.

532. Name: Anonymous Large Shield User.

Had other players passed the second stage already? I just passed the challenge just earlier and advanced to the next stage!

533. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

Yeah~ I won the boss earlier and entered it as well~

534. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

I won without any hitch.

535. Name: Anonymous Magic User

I also.

I won!

I did it!

536. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

Somehow, I also reached the second stage..

537. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

A-re? Aren't we pretty strong.

538. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

When I was raising my level, due to my motivation to follow Maple-chan's ridiculousness.

I unexpectedly arrived to the front lines and yeah, I had defeated the boss with my party without trouble~

539. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

The same happened to me as well.

539. Name: Anonymous Large Shield User.

Maple-chan though, seems to be busy on the first stage. I mean, it shows that she's currently on a [ Party ] in my friend list.

540. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

Yeah~ I can confirm that.

541. Name: Anonymous Magic User.

>540

Give us more details about that!

542. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

I dunno the name but Maple-chan and Knox-kun had a new friend joining their party. She's wearing beginner's outfits so I think it's their other friend in real life.

543. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

What's her weapon? I'm a little curious.

544. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

It was a short sword yo~

545. Name : Anonymous Magic User.

That's surprising.

I was thinking she would be another shielder like her or in a different case, another range type build.

546. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

Woah! Same...

547. Name: Anonymous Large Shield User.

Well, adding a new player with a dagger won't be useful at all. But.. it's their friend right?

Who knows if she really is a normal beginner.

Maybe.. she's another type of a "beginner" like a Maple-chan and Knox-kun.

548. Name: Anonymous Magic User.

Humu~.. that surely is a possibility.

548. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

Maple-chan, full build is already strong you know?

A new friend again? Really?! Then I'll do that!

This… kewk, don't add Knox-kun who was much more ridiculous.

549. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

A party with three Maple-chan's huh..

There's nothing that can be done with that.

I think we can call them the three saga's now~

550. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

Hey guys, calm down.

It's a short sword user you know.. she won't probably help that much.

Is she?

550. Name: Anonymous Magic User.

Ahh~ that's right!

Somehow, I instinctively imagined a large shield.

551. Name: Anonymous Large Shield User

If it's a short sword, then she should be AGI specialized?

552. Name: Anonymous Bow User.

But, that doesn't seem very strong.

553. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

Well, no defense powers means getting one-shotted, that's about right.

On top of that, she would have zero fire power if she put all of it to AGI.

554. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

Well, she will probably show herself soon.

When's the next event again?

555. Name: Anonymous Large Shield User.

Umu~

From what I know, it will be about a month from now, it looks like they're going to accelerate the game time from real life.

Because of the time acceleration, they said participation and leaving isn't allowed.

It looks like the game management shortened the span of time from the previous event, just a little bit.

556. Name: Anonymous Magic User

Wow~

Their game management seems to be super competent, although, I still had questions regarding unique skills though.

557. Name: Anonymous Spear User.

Even if it's a month, they probably would train. It's easily seen with their passive aggressive playstyle.

We can determine that they would probably clear the boss to head the next stage, and they are just preparing themselves for the upcoming event.

558. Name: Anonymous Large Sword User.

Ah〜next event, please come faster〜

I'm so curious about their new skills!

Now, with that another 200+ forum post, the clueless people did not have any idea that they were again being talked as usual.

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