Chapter Nine
"The current money has 1045$..."
You're staring at your remaining balance, wondering, that something's not quite right.
After you brought Hans back to Whale Mountain, you killed countless fur wolves, and your level rose from LV3 to LV6. Although the efficiency is much higher, the money doesn't increase much. What happened?
Could it be that Hans stole some of your gold coins?
A not-so-good idea floated out of your mind, no, no, this is just a pre-set world, NPCs are not as honest and corrupt as real people, they...
...wait!
You seem to remember that each of the three servants has a loyalty value...?
"hey—!give me back the money!"
While crying, you beat Hans who was tied to the tree with a small wooden stick, because he would run away if you beat him, so you simply tied him up.
"Ah! Im sorry—I will return the money to you!!"
"Spit it all out! Spit it out!"
After attacking him with a small wooden stick every time, Hans's body will drop gold coins, in the form of a dozen or so. The strange thing is that you can still see a red "stamina bar" on his head, accompanied by As your slap on Hans escalated dramatically.
This guy probably stole five or six hundred gold coins from you—
You were extremely angry, and kept beating Hans with a small wooden stick until he could no longer spit out the gold coins, and his barking turned into "Stop beating...there is no more money...", the voice was full of powerlessness.
You just stopped, but you didn't notice that Hans' stamina bar had reached its peak and turned golden yellow.
After getting back the money you lost from fighting monsters, your anger subsided a little. You didn't know what the stamina bar was for, you let go of Hans while muttering, unexpectedly Hans, who was about to die after being beaten, suddenly " "ahh" jumped up, and slammed you away like an elephant, yelling and running down the mountain.
You froze for a while, staring blankly at the billow of dust behind Hans, and didn't react for a long time.
System prompt: Hans couldn't stand your beating and ran away...
...
......
What, what? ! !
So that's what the stamina bar is for!
You were embarrassed immediately, but when you think of Hans taking so much money from you...let him go.
Someone with high loyalty should be hired. You thought reluctantly, you really shouldn't be greedy for cheap.
—— Whale Island ——
After going down the mountain, returning to the village and coming to the bar, you are speechless to find that Hans is still among the three people who can be hired.
System prompt: The employment amount is 450, do you want to hire Hans?
Why does the price seem to have increased... You remember that it was only 400 at the beginning...
No way! You'd be a fool to hire him again!
You walk around the stinky Ricky holding your nose, and walk up to the underpants instructor named Harrison, "It's up to you!"
Although I also dislike the underpants coach, but compared to Ricky who never takes a shower, he is the best of the three...
You pay the hiring fee and prepare to go up the mountain with the coach, but you suddenly remembered something important—since you finally come back once, you should save a file, or if you die, the previous efforts will be wasted again.
Thinking about it this way, you ran all the way home with the underwear trainer, and when you entered the door, you saw your mother sitting at the dining table drinking tea, and you were indifferent to you who came back with the underwear trainer. You are used to this kind of reaction, ignore your mother, run back to the second floor, write a few hastily in your diary, and go out.
However, not long after the slave is replaced by the coach, you sadly find out that the coach will also steal money...
But maybe because of his high loyalty, the probability of his corruption is not too high, at least much better than Hans. After all, the hiring money is there. But you feel that you can't tolerate the theft (you forgot what you did to the villagers), so you make various attempts to force the coach to spit out the money you swallowed, and then you found a trick: Although after attacking the coach, he The endurance gauge of the character will increase, but after each battle, the value of the endurance gauge will return to a part.
So as long as you master the trick of whipping, you won't run away like Hans.
So you did some more experiments, and finally came up with a perfect result: attack the coach once after two battles, the coach will spit out gold coins, and the endurance bar will increase. Then fight again for two rounds, and the endurance gauge drops to zero. In this way, the coach's patience can be kept at a balanced value, and you no longer have to worry about how much money he will take from you.
You are so smart!
After a while of complacency, you realize that you were patronizing skinned wolves and forgot to do the task of "collecting the horns of bleating sheep" entrusted by Aunt Mazi. Then you notice that you have been walking in this mountain for a long time, and all you have encountered are beasts like fur wolves and tiggers, and you have never seen a bleating sheep that you are relying on.
Open the system notification in doubt, and find the commission instructions in the task bar. At this time, you notice that there is a flash point at the bottom of the display, try to pull it down, and see a new prompt for the mission: Baa Baa Sheep, Live in Groups biology. It has a docile temperament, but it can be scary when it gets angry. It often haunts the lakeside area.
It's really boring to practice leveling and do tasks alone, you thought sullenly, and at the same time opened the menu bar to check your current status.
Name: carrot potato
gender: female
Age: 16
Grade: 7
Experience: 729
XP until next upgrade: 259
Life: 465
Mind power: 251
Attack: 61
Defense: 54
Hits: 45
Agility: 47
Nen attack: not open
Nen defense: not open
Charm: 30
Lucky: 29
Intelligence: 7
Current equipment:
Weapon: The wooden sword that Carrot Potato love to use; Attack +3, Hit +5
Armor: Cloth; Defense +2
Feet: Straw sandals; Dexterity +1
Accessories: Bowknot; Defense +1
After the level rises, various values such as life and attack have increased by leaps and bounds, but the only doubt is...
What is going on with an IQ of only 7? Does it mean that every level up is only a little bit higher? Obviously, the growth of other values is normal, okay?
But so far, this intelligence seems useless... You decide not to worry about it with the system for the time being, and complete the next commission first.
Take a small wooden stick and come to the place where Gon caught the Lord of the Lake before, and you see a group of bleating sheep grazing by the lake, your eyes light up immediately, like Hui Tailang seeing a Pleasant Goat, and you fly towards the flock .
The baa-baa sheep are as docile as described and did not take the initiative to attack you. However, when you relied on your higher level, the battle on Whale Island was no longer a problem, and after you triumphantly knocked a sheep on the head with a small wooden stick, the dozen or so bleating sheep by the lake suddenly stopped grazing and stretched out. Straight neck turned his head to you.
"Huh..."
More than a dozen pairs of hostile eyes swept at you together, and you froze involuntarily, with cold sweat dripping from your back.
What, what's going on...why do everyone look at you together...
"Meh~~——"
The bleating sheep that was attacked by you has a big bump on its head, and tears seem to be shining faintly in its eyes, you have provoked it! After it gave an order, more than a dozen angry bleating sheep all rushed towards you, and your feet suddenly softened, and you turned around and fled in fright.
...Never heard of such a thing! Aren't the battles one-on-one? !
You ran away desperately, and your stamina bar dropped rapidly, no, you can't stop, once you are caught by those things, you will be trampled flat! However, the four-legged monsters are always faster than you, and no matter how you run, you can't escape the pursuit of hatred. The coach stood there motionless, why didn't these crazy sheep chase him? you thought angrily. After running around the lake for a long time, seeing that the stamina bar of the fast running is about to run out, and the flock of sheep behind you are still chasing after you, you suddenly jumped into the lake with a "plop".
"Baa~~~——"
The angry flock roared at you on the bank. You floated your head out of the water and finally heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that it was a good thing you had a quick reaction. Something got stuck, looked down, through the slightly green lake water, saw a few fish with sharp teeth biting your calf underwater!
Piranhas...! ! Why is there such a thing in the lake of Whale Island! ! Didn't Gon come here to play all the time!
Now you are quite scared, you don't want to experience the feeling of being chewed into a skeleton by piranhas. But the angry bleating sheep still stood on the shore and refused to leave. There were lakes all around, and only in the middle of the lake was there such a small raised center where they could stand.
... Before the bleating sheep go away, swim there and hide..
You quickly swim towards the center of the lake, and the piranhas are chasing you and biting you non-stop. You are startled and frightened, as if you can still see your life value dropping rapidly, and you are crying in your heart.
Swim to the land in the middle of the lake in an extremely thrilling way, and when you climb up with your wet body, you have only your last breath left. There is only a little bit of red left in the blood tank, and the system prompts that it has entered the DANGER warning state. So you hurriedly took out the hemostatic grass from his backpack, and after chewing several pieces, his body gradually recovered.
Cheating... Absolutely cheating... What the hell is going on with this broken game!
You sat down on the wet ground in distress. The bleating sheep on the other side have not left for a long time, so you plan to just lie down for a while, but at this moment, you suddenly notice that there is something stuck in the wet grass soaked by the lake under your feet, which is faintly shining.
...could it be a valuable gem?
You suddenly became agitated, and immediately took out the small wooden stick to dig the glowing place under your feet. After just a couple of digs, you find a small transparent chip embedded in the dirt. You picked it up and blew off the mud, and held it up to the sun, so it was even more dazzling, a bit like fragments of gems.
"How much is this worth...it won't be some special item."
You muttered to yourself, but the system did not display the item prompt, but at this moment, the transparent bracelet in your hand suddenly emitted a strong flash, as if resonating with gem fragments, getting more and more more intense.
You couldn't stand being stabbed by the light, you couldn't help turning your head away, but when you opened your eyes again, you found that the gem fragment in front of you had mysteriously disappeared.
...What happened? ?
You can't figure it out, but the bracelet in your hand is still there. I wonder if it's a psychological effect. You vaguely feel that the color of the bracelet seems to be a little darker than before...Of course it may be an illusion, after all, the system has not appeared any tips...
When you came back to your senses, you found that the flock of sheep on the shore had dispersed. You looked down into the lake, and there seemed to be no piranhas nearby.
Although there are psychological shadows, it's not a problem to stay here all the time... You gritted your teeth, made up your mind, and "plopped" into the lake and swam to the shore at high speed.
You went ashore safely, and this time I didn't encounter piranhas or anything. However, when You was thinking about the plan to capture Baa Baa Sheep, You found that my weapon, the small wooden stick, was missing.
So the weapons are also lost? You were a little surprised, but soon realized that you were stupid again. Of course you would lose your weapon. Although the small wooden stick is not a valuable thing, it also means that you can no longer fight, and you have to go back to the village to buy a new weapon.
Disappointed, you turn around and prepare to go down the mountain, when you suddenly notice movement in the lake behind you, the sound of gurgling, as if something has floated up.
You thought it was a beast, and immediately turned around vigilantly. Unexpectedly, floating on the lake was a blond woman with a wreath on her head and light silk gauze. Can't help but wander in some parts of her body - it's too dazzling! You stared at her blankly for a long time, until she pulled out a golden sword, a silver sword, and a small wooden sword from the lake.
"Which sword did you lose? My child."
What? ! Isn't this the story of the farmer and the axe? There is this in Hunter World? Wait, is this a goddess?
You still find it incredible, until the Goddess asks you the same question a second time, and you realize it—whatever it is! This must be God favoring you! Or maybe that piece of debris triggered something...
"I lost the wooden sword, goddess!"
This is not too much to ask!
Of course you know the tale of the farmer and the axe! That is the story that the teacher used to teach you to be honest when you were young! You raise your hand with joy, anticipating an honest reward from the goddess.
"An honest and good girl."
The goddess smiled lovingly.
"As you wish, return the wooden sword to you, don't drop it again."
As you said that, a golden light flashed in front of your eyes, and a wet wooden sword fell at your feet.
System prompt: You got the lost wooden sword.
"..."
Your smile froze instantly.
Yes, you got the wooden sword...
The goddess sank to the bottom of the lake in satisfaction, and you were so stupid that your eyeballs would pop out, staring at the lake surface with only circles of ripples left as if petrified.
...what is this...