Chapter 12: A New Skill That Is Helpful

 About 10 hours have passed. It is probably around 6 am. Meaning I slept for a long time again. Am I still healing from my last battle? Or maybe the running made me tired. Regardless, I have some pills to swallow. Not figuratively, but literally. C ranked pills here I come!

I opened my skill's mail tab. And clicked on the recent one. It had both of the skill pills. I clicked on the item twice and 2 skill pills manifested onto my bed. Okay, now Zephker. This isn't an F ranked skill pill. It is not huge like those ones are. These are still big, but aren't that bad.

After 5 minutes I had the courage to eat both pills one after another. I obtained two new skills. One of them is ok and one of them is great! 

Dagger Master B - You will always remember the ins and outs of a dagger and its uses. You tend to feel safer with one nearby since you are lightning fast with a dagger. Weapon based skills of this type tend to come about often. 

A dagger combat skill! I bet this would be useful with my night time skill. I need to test this today. If I can now combine skills and use them at once it would make my life so much easier. I may be able to grind stuff out at night. 

I always need a way to get stronger. Skills and stat raising things are nice to use. I just always need to remember, actual work can go a long way. I also opened up the mail tab one more time and looked for some stat raising potions. I found two and I drank both of them.

I am sure I have more of them, but I will make a day to clean out my mail system. I don't want to leave that mail tab cluttered with mail. I feel slightly more powerful. My stamina and strength went up by two stat points. 

I left my house and went to the guild to grab a few of the job requests. I took the ones that allowed me to go to the open field. The field with a lot of farmers. They will be happy that someone is finally helping them. 

The pay is low, because farmers make a living tilling the land. It is funny to me how people like them can remain poor. Every nation needs food. I wonder why these farmers don't try to price the food very high. 

If they did I am sure they would be able to pay better for jobs. Meaning they would get help a lot faster. I would have also gotten here faster if the carriage took me out all the way to the fields. They said that no carriage was available since the bandit invasion. 

Meaning to transport things including people. Had to be done by people. That must be a big reason we have a lot of jobs requesting logistical help. Since there were no carriages or horses around that I could see. I had to walk all the way to the fields. 

I took it slowly. It took me a while. I left the house around 7 am. I then left the guild around 9 am. Then walked all the way over here. Now it is 7 pm. This means I will have to spend the night here. I hope they can give me a barn to sleep in. 

I could sleep outside. I bet there is some type of shelter I could buy. There are many things I can buy using Sin Points. I just don't want to sleep in a tent. Since a wooden structure has better protection than some cloth. 

I sat down for a few minutes for a break. I then got up and went to a house I saw off in the distance. A farmer's house that I hope has a farmer. It could be abandoned. If it is, maybe I can use it to sleep in. I need to make sure it is abandoned. I would hate to get woken up from a scared person. 

When a person is scared because of a home invasion. Reasoning tends to be thrown out the window. I looked around the fields and could see some damaged crops. This is definitely being damaged by demonic beasts. 

Some of the damage looks like it was done by a humanoid. Maybe the farmer was trying to repair crops. No, they know once it is ruined. It is ruined and cannot be fixed. 

I got up to the small wooden house. This is a small house. This house has maybe 2 or three rooms tops. If it has more than that, those rooms are used as storage. I got up to the door and knocked. I also yelled a little so the people inside could hear me. 

I just announced that I am an adventurer looking for some information on a job I accepted. Even if they didn't personally request the job they would most likely help me out. Since if I get rid of potential pests. They would be happy not having to deal with the problems. 

It took a minute, but an old lady opened the door. She was short, had gray hair, and was slouching. She is on her last leg of life. It took her a while but she was able to look up at me.

I repeated what I said to her. Just a low ranking adventurer trying to help out with some boars and wolves. Wanted to get some type of information to go on. Like activity or maybe sightings. Anything that will help me be prepared. 

This will be a multiday quest. I left after receiving some information. I decided to manifest my demon blade using my skill. A rusty blade that is a lot more powerful than it looks. I need to kill skeletons and praying mantis with this. To upgrade the skill. I know I can expect boars and wolves. 

I just want to test something out right now. I got a dagger skill. Knives aren't daggers since this knife is more like a cooking knife. It could be a dagger if the skill recognizes it as such. I will be carefully and manifest a rare dagger.

It is a dagger I bought with my cursed skill. It is a rare knife because it was made by a dwarf or so its description says. ColdIron Dagger of White Steel. 

ColdIron Dagger of White Steal - A dagger made by the kingdom of ColdIron. ColdIron was a home for dwarfs. ColdIron is no longer around since the world it was in, got destroyed. This dagger was made by a legendary dwarf.

That is a scary description. I am using a dagger that can no longer be made. I do feel cool with this dagger. I also equipped some new armor. It is less bulky armor and it is easier to move around in. I also like the fact that it was made from a hard insect. 

I almost feel like a dangerous insect. Only if it was night would I be an apex predator buzzing around. Crawling through the night and bugging my enemies to death.