Becoming stronger

What is going on kid , why are you so flabbergasted ? .

Can you use Appraisal on me and tell me what you are able to see,old man Regard ? .

Oh your strength is now 10 , your agility is 11 and your stamina even became 20 , i guess the few lightening shocks you had give your overall strength a strange boost , keep going like that and who knows you maybe able to use the attributes of that suit of armor sooner than you initially anticipated and let's not forgot about that you will also able to finally learn the Troll Force skill book .

I looked around to see if Rickan was around but he was reorganizing the pile of items and returning them back to their racks and shelves i then said : so you really can't seem to see it, old man Regard i believe i can use both of those items you just mentioned as my current strength was now 30 , not only that but my agility was now 22 , but even with The Novice Swordsmanship skill it shouldn't be like this and i think it's related to my sword attributes , but just to check, please use your appraisal and tell me what you can see and say about its attributes .

What that can't be i'm sure it was only showing me that your strength points are 10 and your agility is 11 , another bizarre surprise from you i presume, bizarre!! Don't tell me .

I nodded weakly and still told him : Just check it for yourself first .

Well, I can't see a problem with its attributes it's not not the best that Rickan can make, i can assure you that but even in comparison to the other common Ranked swords i have seen it is still quite powerful , hurry and tell me what is going on ? .

Better calm down a bit before i tell you what the sword attributes that i'm holding in my hands now were .

Don't tell me !!!. Regard opened his mouth wide and was unable to say anything else .

I nod and said whisperingly : the sword attributes in my hand were now like this .

1 - Strength Increase : boost the user's strength and attack power by 1 time .

2 - Slicing Precision : Grants a 100% increased chance of landing a critical hit on enemies .

3 - Finesse: Provides a 100% increase in evasion, allowing the wielder to avoid enemy attacks more easily .

4 - Chill Strike (Passive Skill) : Enemies struck by the sword have a 100% chance to be slowed, reducing their movement speed by 200% for 20 seconds .

And i can swear that i almost noticed his old body collapsing to the floor from pure shock i presumed but he was able to snap out of it and steadied himself but he didn't say a single word for a few moments before he took a breath of cold air and began saying in a commandingly tone: try to wear your suit of armor and tell me exactly what are you able to see okay ? .

I'm also quite curious and want to find out if the same would happen with my armor's attributes , but since I'm not knowledgeable enough about how to actually wear a set of armor i asked for his help and he hurriedly nodded , i can tell that he was even more both excited and interested to find out what was going to happen than i was .

After i removed my clothes and was just in my undergarments which happened to be a childish looking underwear it was able to earn a few snickers from Regard but i brushed it off trying to finish this as quickly as possible .

The set of armor was a one piece armor covering my upper and lower body to my feet it gave me an icy feeling when i wore it but it then became warmer but there was still some icy feeling appearing from time to time , so that was maybe the doing of the so called resentment , let's check what happened to my attributes then what happened to the armor attributes .

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Appraisal :

Name : Sakurai Ryuu .

Age : 16 .

Level : 1 .

Job : undetermined !!

Attributes :

Strength : 30 ( Up+20) .

Stamina : 20 ( Up+4 ) .

Agility : 55 ( Up+11+33 ) .

Mana : 7 (-) .

Spirit : 5 .

Hidden attributes :

Constitution : 10 ( Up+2 ) .

Will : 30 .

Luck : 15 .

Fate : 45 .

Spirituality : 2 .

Comprehension : 11 .

Skills :

Novice Swordsmanship Lvl1 .

Appraisal Lvl2 .

Titles :

summoned from another world .

Newbie Adventurer (New) .

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After i wore the armor , i felt the enhanced agility of mine more clearly, it's as if i was as light as swallow and that i can cover a huge distance in the blink of an eye it was quite an addictive feeling enough that i was standing there completely engrossed in feeling the changes that was happening inside my body , completely unaware of the old man who was losing his patience looking at me like this he raised his hand and was about to snap me out of the state i was in saying : hey kid spit it out already , will you ? .

But what happened next was something that would only happen in one of those Fantasy books i used to read in my old world i was still in my place but i didn't even know when i sidestepped to the right completely and unknowingly evading the incoming slap .

We both looked at each other he was bewildered at how i was able to evade successfully when i was unfocused and i was amazed at how i was able to evade this slap attempt when i remembered about my blade's finesse attribute , which provided a 100% increase in evasion, allowing me the wielder to avoid the attack quite easily .

I then used appraisal on the armor after i put back my clothes the armor fitting me like a second skin allowed me to wear it quite comfortably under my clothes then began to tell him the new attributes i was seeing in a quivering voice but who can blame me , the new attributes went as followed i told him :

1 - Reduces incoming damage by 100%, offering exceptional protection against physical and magical attacks .

2 - Increases the wearer's agility by 3 times allowing for swift dodges and agile maneuvers in combat .

3 - Provides a 100% chance to negate elemental damage from (fire, ice, electric) .

4- Offers a 100% resistance to poison damage and effects .

5 - Centipede's Swiftness (Active Skill) : Activates a temporary speed boost of 5 times for 15 minutes after successfully evading an attack ,this ability has a cooldown of 1 minute .

6 - Haunting Resentment :

The armor is filled with the anger and the resentment of the original creature that was used to make this armor , should the wearer become overcome with fear or doubt, the wearer's agility is reduced by 40% for the next 60 seconds, manifesting the armor's darker influence and its wrathful vengeance .

And my agility now is actually 55 .

He didn't have the chance to wake up from his stunned state from knowing about the attributes that i was seeing before i dropped another surprise in the conversation by telling him how my agility increased by so much and waited for his opinion on this matter , he stood there looking at me then to the sheathed sword in my hand and then to the clothes i'm wearing, i was aware that he was actually staring at the armor beneath my clothes , he took a 2 or 3 minutes in this state then he sighed and said : .

I'm neither able to see those increased attributes points of yours nor the increased attributes of the equipments you spoke of , but after the move you just pulled off their is no doubt about it , your equipments attributes weirdly increased your basic attributes by a large margin you are now comparable to B Rank Adventurers, and if those effects and attributes of yours worked as intended , you might already be the strongest Adventurer , right under The A and S Rank Adventurers and that's only because your attributes were lacking so much from the start , congratulations kid your strength is truly becoming more bizarre .

Drop the sword and tell me what do you see ?.

I nodded and dropped the sword and my strength decreased by 10 points i was about to pickup the sword and tell him of what i saw but i was only able to see a shadow of a hand flashing by me , then i was slapped and it hurt like hell but if i remember correctly it shouldn't be possible to feel damage since i'm wearing my armor, oh right i dropped the sword and my armor's attributes got locked because i'm not able to satisfy the armor requirements .

I looked at the him who was now smiling smugly with a pitiful look on my part , but i wondered how strong was he exactly, he was able to slap me while my agility already this high without even the ability to resist .

I don't know if he awakened the habit of slapping me every time i'm lost in my thoughts but o was able to notice him raising his hands again and pulled the sword immediately and evaded his attack and the only thought that was in my mind at that moment was now its payback time .

I unsheathed the sword and choose to strike towards the old man with the spine of the katana which was the unsharpened edge, i swung my sword at him and he only held one finger to block my sword , how idiotic was both of our actions were .

My sword landed on finger that he raised carelessly to block the sudden attack of mine but his forefinger was cut by the sword cleanly and this wasn't the only result of my attack, the place where the finger was which should have been oozing with blood now was actually covered in ice and it wasn't only the wound the ice was actually covering the whole body of Regard who was still having his smug face as before, he was looking like as if he was an ice sculpture frozen in time .

Two seconds later the ice covering Regard's body began to crack and shattered directly and weirdly enough the ice just disintegrated into the air as if it was never there , and again i found myself staring at Regard who was also staring at me with an incredulous expression plastered all over his face which i responded to with my own hefty and smugly smile .

Heal, he said directly after he was released from the ice and stared at me for long enough time and his cut forefinger which was now in his hand began to reconnect back to his hand and went back to normal in just a few seconds .

And Rickan finally finished tiding up and came back to join us seeing the armor gone he thought that Regard used his storatge ring to store it for me , but Regard only pointed to him that i was currently wearing it he was about to ask why , but Regard told him that i will be using its current defenses until i'm capable of unlocking its attributes in the future while mentioning for me to stay quiet which i did , Rickan then nodded and asked why i didn't wear the misleading compass pin, i looked to him straight in the eyes and told him that i was waiting for him to remove the bounding runes on it ,at which he laughed and said that it doesn't have any and that i was just being paranoid over nothing , nothing really?! i already got shocked twiiicee .

Don't be sore about it, you were able to get your strength and agility to increase , so you need to be more thankful, even if you are a former hero , that was the reason you wanted to buy a disguising tool isn't it, don't you worry after you wear this magical tool and as long as your will attribute is higher than the one who was trying to pry upon you he won't be able to see any information about you at all and with your current attributes i don't see you having any problems unless a more powerful detection skill was used .

I wasn't surprised at how was he able to tell that i was a hero from my title but i was more surprised to find out that he was able to see my hidden attributes , i composed myself and pinned the item on the coller of my shirt,thanked him for his service and reminded him that i was cheering for his success in making the sword that he promised to make for me , he brushed my thanks off and asked me to began filling my pockets to get ready to pay for the cost of the sword then without any warning, Regard tone became grave all of sudden before saying :

I guess our work here is done, Rickan be sure to tell me if you heard anything from your grandpa ,Terra kingdom isn't peaceful like it used to be any more .

Rickan answered him in the same grave tone and said : I will be sure to tell you, i tried to convince him not to go back there but he said that it was his duty as one of the ten sages in Terra and just left .

Strong-headed as always anyway thank you for everything that happened today, we will get going now, let's go kid , goodbye Rickan .

We both bid farewell to Rickan and left Doren's Smithy and as we began walking he suddenly turned and asked me : do you know the reason for why i didn't want you to tell Rickan about why you were able to equip the armor ? .

I guessed you didn't want him to know about my weird strength or something like that .

He sighed and told me in a more gentle tone : It's as you guessed, Ryuu you yourself can only describe your strength as weird imagine how other people can feel about it, imagine if someone that harbor ill intentions towards you know about something like that do you believe he will set back and leave you to increase your strength, we already bought that disguising tool to be able to hide your title from the prying eyes .

I have no doubt about Rickan character but this is one of the topics that is better that you leave it to yourself and it's better to not talk about with anyone else, even me i will try to answer all your inquiries as long they aren't related to that weird power of yours and always remember kid, this isn't your old world anymore, here there are tons of ways to force someone to tell you all of his secrets and you are quite lucky that whatever that bizarre power was, it wasn't detectable at least not from the status window .

Ask about anything you want to know even if it's related to something about that bizarre power of yours and don't worry about someone finding out about it from me because after we finish our conversation i will also visit an old friend of mine who should be able to clear my memories about the whole conversation .

Old Man Regard .... .

Don't get so sentimental, i'm helping myself by doing so too, after all i'm not the one who was being targeted by the crown prince .

Thank you, i was only able to come with those two words and sincerely bow down to him in gratitude .

Hurry up and ask your questions we already wasted enough time , he yalled at me in anger but i can tell that he was just trying to ease the now heavy mood .

Okay okay, so could you tell me the how the ranking system of both the items and monsters works ?.

For the items ranking system :

Here's the known ranking system in our world, categorized by tiers based on quality and power , each tier provides a clear differentiation between the levels of gear available to adventurers but be aware that their is no absolutes in this world as every region might have its own ranking system and even this ranking system doesn't work as intended in some unique circumstances .

1. Common Rank :

- Description : Basic gear made from simple materials, would have been widely available and affordable , often the first choice for novice adventurers .

2. Uncommon Rank :

- Description : Improved quality with better materials and craftsmanship. More reliable than common gear but still quite basic .

3. Rare Rank :

-Description: Specialized gear with unique designs or enchantments, offers distinct advantages in combat or utility, and harder to find or purchase .

4. Epic Rank :

- Description: High-quality equipment made by master artisans or imbued with powerful magic, exceptional in both appearance and performance, often sought after by seasoned adventurers .

5. Legendary Rank :

-Description : Rare artifacts or weapons with rich histories, forged by renowned heroes or magical beings , they possess extraordinary capabilities and a significant history .

6. Mythical:

- Description : The highest rank, comprising ancient and almost the strongest known items, often having world-altering capabilities, rarely found and spoken of only in legends .

There is some additional factors that could make the previous ranking system unable to gauge their worth or Rank because of different reasons like :

- Rarity Modifier : Each tier can have variations based on availability and regional crafting skill , for example, a rare weapon in one region may be more common in another due to local resources .

- Condition and Upgrades : Equipment can degrade over time or be upgraded through

crafting, enhancing its tier or effectiveness.

- Enchantments like you have tasted beforehand from the runes on the weapon at the smithy, yes they are a type of enchantment the other enchantments mostly add additional magical properties can be applied to equipment, further enhancing their abilities regardless of the base tier .

And as i keep telling you over and over be always cautious on who are you dealing with , greed is humanity dangerous enemy in these lands .

That's a brief explanation on everything you need to know about the items ranking system .

And as i said before ...

There is no absolutes got it .

Good that you are listening, now for the ranking system for the monsters you have to understand two things : hierarchy in the monsters territory is based on strength more than ranks and second those with lower strength have no rights whatsoever against someone whose strength is higher than them .

You are talking as if they have an intelligent society out there , weren't monsters supposed to be dull minded and have basic desires and a chaotically desire for destruction , that's why they follow the demon king Blazan .

Dull minded !! , i guess you will understand how wrong were you to say that , after i clarify their ranking system to you .

It goes on like this :

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