First Skill

"This wood is surprisingly strong," Joseph laughed as he raised his stick. It amazes him, how can a mere wooden stick help them kill some monsters without breaking in the middle?

After beating the 8-Legged spider, they needed roughly 2 hours just so Joseph could recover. They managed to kill 2 more low leveled monsters that made them level up instantly.

Carter nodded, agreeing with what Joseph said. Well, obviously the game wouldn't give them a shitty compensation gift.

"How many coins have we gathered so far?" Dandrik asked them.

Carter went into his menu page and checked his coins. "I still have 11 coins," he answered the man.

"Me too," Joseph, seconded after checking.

Nodding his head, Dandrik looked around. "The sun will rise already. Should we leave now?"

"Let's buy more food first, The food that we bought earlier was already gone. We couldn't afford to be hungry in the middle of the fight, no?" Carter stood up from sitting down. He cleaned up his clothes, which were a little bit dirty because of the soil on the ground.

Without nowhere to go, the three of them decided to just take a rest in the woods. Even though it got colder around dawn. In order to survive the night, they gathered a lot of wood and made a fire with it.

Joseph followed and stood up as well. They started to walk downhill. Stalls and shops that were computer-generated were located in front of the Lost Village. Maybe that's why lesser players went into this side.

But of course, the three of them couldn't just stay here until the end. In order to level up in a faster way, they needed to go on the other parts of the map too.

Although the monsters in the game refresh every day, with the high number of people inside, then it's still possible for the resources to run out.

While walking down, Carter opened up his menu tab and checked his stats. He wanted to see if there was something new.

[Stats are loading, please wait.]

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< Name: Hairy Man >

[ Level: 2 ]

[ Rank: Bronze 3 ]

[ EXP: 0/100 ]

[ HP: 250/250 ]

[ Mana: 50/50 ]

[ Strength: 10 ]

[ Agility: 10 ]

[ Stamina: 10 ]

[ Intelligence: 10]

[ Weapon: Wooden Stick (+2 STR) ]

[ Skills: None ]

[Stat points available: 8]

[Skill Points Available: 1]

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"I already have a stat and skill point. Let me use this to unlock one."

Carter added 3 stat points on his strength. 2 on both stamina and agility and 1 for intelligence. After killing 2 more monsters yesterday, they gained 50 exp. 25 for each monster. Dandrik told them that the exp reward was high because they were still unranked at that time.

Now that they have unlocked the lowest rank, the exp that they would gain would already be normal.

'How do I use this skill point?' he asked himself. His eyes roamed around the buttons available on the menu page.

Pressing the skills page, the screen suddenly flashed some words.

[Welcome to skill page. You have 1 skill point remaining. Do you want to use it?]

Carter clicked the yes button under the question. The words faded in and were replaced by the locked skills.

[Skill: Air steps]

- Description: Movement speed will increase by 50% for 10 seconds.

- Mana cost: 10

- Cooldown: 1 minute

[Would you like to unlock it?]

[ Skill: Fire knuckles ]

- Description: Deal 50% more damage to enemies for 5 seconds. If the player is not hit by any damage for 10 seconds, then the next attack will deal 75% more damage.

- Mana cost: 25

- Cooldown: 3 minutes

[ Would you like to unlock it?]

Stuck between the two, Carter chose the second one as he found it more helpful to them. He pressed the yes button below the question after giving it some thought.

[Congratulations! First skill unlocked.]

[Remaining Skill points: 0]

With a satisfied expression on his face, Carter followed his friends when he saw that they were already far away from him.

"What did you do, Carter?" Joseph asked enthusiastically.

"I already brought my first skill."

Joseph chuckled and said his congratulations. "Have you seen your quest?" He curiously asked the man.

"It's available already?" Carter asked back when he recalled that it was still locked yesterday.

Joseph nodded. "Yes, go check it now so we can do it already."

Carter opened his menu once again and clicked the quest page. There were two buttons on the page. The Daily one that refreshes every day and the main one that refreshes in a given time.

He picked the Daily first since it's the one that needs to be done faster.

[Daily Quest: Eat food]

[Refreshes; 17:13:09]

[Reward: 5 EXP]

After reading it, he quickly opened the next one.

[Main Quest: Unlock Shop]

[Refreshes; 6: 17: 12:51]

[Reward: 50 EXP and 1 silver bald coin]

"My Daily Quest says that I need to eat food," Carter told them after closing it.

Dandrik nodded, "Let's go now. It seems like we all have the same daily quest. It's better to accomplish it already."

The three of them started to walk faster. They went near to one of the food stalls and bought some bread that costs 1 bronze coin for 2 pieces. Carter made sure to buy 4 more pieces in case he got hungry later on.

[3 bronze coins have been deducted]

[Remaining coins: 8 bronze bald coins]

"It seems like we need to find more monsters again or else we'll lose money." Joseph scratched his head. They will become poor at this rate.

All of them sat in front of the table first as they eat quietly. When they finished eating, a notification flashed on Carter's screen.

[Daily Quest Completed!]

[Rewards: 5 exp]

'Nice!' Carter murmured.