Orb of life

"Amazing...!" Jiho's mouth was left agape after seeing the effects of the orb of life.

[Orb of Life]

[Level: 1]

[Rank: Epic]

[Special Effect: Heals the player's wounds automatically every 10 minutes!]

He had gotten his hands on an epic rank item! He was in utter disbelief after seeing the special effect of the orb of life.

The epic rank was only one level below the legendary rank, Jiho knew this from the forums. He quickly put the orb in his inventory.

He grinned and thought, "Now I don't need to worry about HP in long battles!" He exclaimed in his mind.

He was really excited to see the orb in work but he decided to head back to the village first and sell a few items.

So far, he had gained the items from the players he had killed earlier, and a lot of other items from his hunting spree.

He decided to sell his old assassin's cloak, as for the steel dagger, he had a better use for it.

He quickly rushed back to the village and after around 8 minutes of running, he finally arrived at the village entrance.

He walked to the merchant store and went near the desk where the old and bored merchant was sitting.

The merchant glanced at him before asking, "What do you want t-" he was about to finish his sentence but Jiho answered before he could finish, "Sell!"

"Show me the items..." The merchant stood up and spoke.

"Here" Jiho waved his hand as tons of items appeared on the desk.

These items caught the attention of the old merchant. His bored face now became amazed.

He looked at the items, all were of good quality. The meat and fur of high-level monsters were stacked. He didn't have any plans to not give a fair price to the young man in front of him.

"How about 5000?" The old man stated his price, ready to negotiate if needed.

"Sure! Thank you!" Jiho instantly agreed, he had no use for these items, at least for now. And he was getting a high price for them so there was no reason for him to reject such a good deal.

The old man placed a bag of coins on the table. Jiho picked up the bag, and it instantly turned into pixels before vanishing. 

The old man nodded and put all the items on the table away. 

Jiho quietly left the store. He had no complaints, he was more than happy that he could get 5k for the items that he didn't need.

This amount of money in the early game was an overkill. He already had 12k by killing the boss and now, he gained another 5k coins which added up to 17k coins.

He decided to have a look at the weapons store but then he suddenly remembered, this was the starter village, he already had the highest level of items available for an assassin in the village.

He decided to explore more shops in the village and then a certain shop caught his attention.

[Alchemy Shop] 

A large board hung on top of the shop. Jiho knew about these kinds of stores, they sold alchemy items like healing potions and others which could help in a battle or other work.

He decided to give it a visit as he now had enough money to buy a lot of items.

He couldn't find many players near the alchemy store, and he knew the reason. Not many players had enough money for now to buy from such expensive stores.

He headed inside the store and was greeted by a beautiful lady who was the owner of the shop.

"Hello! What would you like to buy today?" The lady was very sweet. She had perfect curves, sweet pink lips, and big black eyes. 

Jiho replied, "Hello, I would like to see the items first, then I will decide." Jiho was exceptionally polite to her, he had always learned to be polite to people who are polite to you.

"Ah, alrighty! You can take a good look at all of the potions, I hope you like them!" The lady gave a bright smile before sitting back in her chair.

Jiho walked towards the shelves, many potions of different colors packed in glass bottles were put in an orderly manner on the shelves.

He inspected a potion with a shiny greenish color.

[Health Potion]

[Grade: Common]

[Purity: 20%]

[Heals 25 HP]

[Price: 250 coins]

He gasped, looking at the price of a single health potion. Not that he didn't have enough money to buy it, but that the price was too much for just a single potion.

Although it was a really important potion in times of battles, it was still too much.

The price was outrageous, if someone wanted to buy more than one, he would end up spending a whole 2500 coins. And it was just 20% pure at that.

He sighed and decided to buy 5 of these health potions because he had enough money to buy them, and preparing in advance for the future was always good.

He didn't want to die in a battle just because of low HP. He had the orb of life but it only worked after 10 minutes, enough to lose 10 times.

He then shifted his gaze to the other potions but none caught his interest.

[Mana Potion]

[Grade: common]

[Purity: 20%]

[Restores 25 mana]

He did not need mana potions as he was an assassin, not a mage. He didn't have a mana stat, so the mana potion was completely useless for him.

He decided to go with the health potions at last and went to the shop owner.

She noticed him coming and spoke first, "So, did you like the potions?" She was excited to hear his answer.

Jiho spoke, "Yeah, I wanna buy the HP potions, 5 of them." He gently smiled, seeing her cute face.

"Ah! I am glad that you liked 'em, here." She handed him 5 HP potions as Jiho handed her the money.

The 5 HP potions cost 1250 coins, which was just a small portion of Jiho's current balance.

The lady waved her hand and spoke, "Do visit again!" Her sweet words reached Jiho's ears.

He nodded and left the store. He decided to log out of the game opened his interface and pressed log out, instantly fading into pixels.

***

A meeting was being held on the top floor of a tall building with over 80 floors, which stood as the tallest building in the capital city of the country 'Sunset', the city of 'dawn'.

The people in the meeting room were dead silent, but only a man in his 20s was speaking. He had charming looks, a fit and healthy body, and blue hair.

He was the CEO of the 'Ascend' company. He was discussing about the upcoming update in their newly released game 'Ascension'.

"Ladies and gentlemen, as many of you already know, Ascension is going to go through its first update soon...."