Axie Online

Chapter 11 - Past

After successfully killing 5 Rook Turtles, Rudy and Ravel returned to the Quest Center building to get a reward of 200 Byl and some experience points. By executing the quest, Byl and exp were all for Rudy. Even though the two of them were traveling together, Rudy and Ravel didn't form a party. So exp and money have become fully entered into Rudy's account. Only completing one mission, Rudy has already leveled up to 9.

Rudy used all the CP, Customize Points he got to Luck, Vitality, and Dexterity status points. Then the remaining points are added to Strength, seven points to Dexterity, three points to Vitality, three points to Luck, while the remaining six points to Strength.

Each level increases, both players or NPCs in the Axie Online game will get 3 Customize Points to strengthen the desired status points.

Of course, as a Swordsman, Rudy must increase Strength and Dexterity so that the attack damage to the enemy increases and increases attack accuracy. Due to his high Intelligence status, maybe in the future, he can increase his Job Class to Silver-Class, namely the Swordmage Job Class.

A combination of the Swordsman Class Job and the Mage Class Job allows one to use both swords and magic at the same time. Maybe later there will be another Job Class similar to Swordmage.

"My fellow Rudy, were you in the real world a swordsman? But according to my memory, I have never heard of your name in a sword competition."

Hearing Ravel's question, Rudy was quite surprised that the woman suddenly asked about his past. Even though Rudy felt surprised, the shocked expression only lasted for a while before returning to normal.

For Rudy, who previously always practiced swordsmanship with his father, things like this had become everyday. Especially when Rudy was 6 years old, he was already holding a wooden sword as a daily activity.

If children at the age of 6 play games, only Rudy has a hobby of swords. As people say, if the base of the building is not built solidly, then no matter how high the building is one day it will still be destroyed.

"No, I just like swords and then study with someone."

Rudy shook his head, he didn't think of him as a swordsman just because of a hard training taught by his father.

“Just love the sword and then be taught by someone? Doesn't that mean you're a genius?!”

Ravel looked at Rudy with a surprised look.

“Genius? Huh, that's just a sentence for people who never try. There are no geniuses in this world!”

"But ...."

“Even if others call someone a genius, they don't know how much sacrifice that person has made. All they knew was when that person was famous, but before that person was known as a genius? That person just works harder than anyone else, and gets the rewards of that hard work.”

Rudy couldn't help but sigh after saying that while looking up at the blue sky above with a sad look as if remembering events that happened in the past.

When Ravel saw Rudy's sad expression, she subconsciously began to remember the past that Big Sister did before Axie Online was famous.

"You're right, only those who can sacrifice something, deserve to get what they want."

Ravel could only sigh full of sorrow.

There is someone who sacrifices childhood fun, just to get a bright future. There is someone who sacrifices time with his family so that the family can meet their daily needs. There is someone who sacrifices his high status, to find true happiness.

At this moment, Rudy's emotions had returned to normal. Then with curiosity, he glanced at his status panel.

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Status

Name: Rudy

Level:9

Job Class: Swordsman

Side Job Class: Alchemist (Apprentice)

Byl: 3304

Fame: 146

Strength: 40

Dexterity: 51

Vitality: 40

Intelligence: 59

Luck: 31

Skill: Alchemy, Martial Arts I (Passive), Swing, Sword Art I (Passive) Title: The Harvester III, Another Alchemist, Bare Hand Fighter, Advance Player, Advance Swordsman.

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Alchemy (Level 1-1)

Can cultivate certain plants into first-rate Health Potions.

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Martial Arts I (Passive)

Increases attack power and speed using punches and kicks by 2%

Vitality +1, Dexterity +1 every level up

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Swing (Level 1-1)

Gives the enemy 200% attack damage in one swing of the sword

Energy: 30

Cooldown: 3 seconds

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Sword Arts I (Passive)

Increases sword power and attack speed by 2%

Strength +1, Dexterity +1 every level up

“Wow, only level nine but my status is already like this? Great... Wait, how about Ravel's status?"

While thinking that, Rudy looked directly at Ravel who was looking through the items in the Inventory. Compared to Rudy, Ravel had far more items in her inventory. Of course, Ravel has been playing for about 3 years since Axie Online was first launched. Meanwhile, Rudy just started playing about a few days ago.

In Axie Online, players can store anything in their Inventory depending on their respective capacity levels. In a special shop, there is an item that increases the Inventory capacity of the players, it is called the Inventory Ring. If a player or NPC uses the item, the inventory capacity will increase according to the inventory ring ability.

Inventory Ring has three types, Low Inventory Ring, Mid Inventory Ring, and High Inventory Ring. The Low Inventory Ring can increase the Inventory capacity by 20 storages, then the Mid Inventory Ring increases the Inventory capacity by around 50 storages, while the High Inventory Ring is twice that of the Mid Inventory Ring.

This item is very expensive and very difficult to get from drop items. Just imagine, one Low Inventory Ring costs 5,000 Byl, then what about other Inventory Rings that are higher than Low, namely Mid-Grade Inventory Ring and High-Grade Inventory Ring? Inconceivable, right?

However, some quests can permanently increase inventory without depending on items such as inventory rings. Of course, this quest is a very rare quest that can't be found anywhere. Not just anyone can find this rare quest.

To overcome the limitations of the Inventory, a 'Banking' feature is provided in Axie Online. In each city, there is a building called the Bank where players and NPCs can store and retrieve whatever is stored there. Unfortunately, every time you use the bank, you will be charged a fee of 500 Byl for each transaction. This is certainly a problem for novice players.

Of course, Rudy who had a fair amount of money had no problem with this.

However, Rudy didn't need to store his drop items in the bank because in his current inventory there were only first-tier Health Potions, several hundred Herb Leafs, and Turtle's Shell-drop items from the Turtle Rook.

Rudy turned his face away from Ravel knowing that the difference in their strength was huge. Even after advancing to level 9, Rudy still couldn't see Ravel's original level. If Rudy wasn't mistaken, then there was a huge difference to each other's level.

After finishing taking the rewards from the 5 Rook Turtle Hunting Quest, the pair of human players and female Elf players went to an armor shop in the starter town. Rudy only has a weapon in the form of a sword "Iron Sword +4", his sword's Durability status has been reduced after attacking the previous 5 Rook Turtles, which is 89 points.

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Arriving there, Rudy immediately looked for the most suitable light armor. He had seen a light chest armor with a normal defense status, but when he saw that the armor could only be worn by the beast race, he immediately looked for another armor.

Different from Shop Ten, all the goods in this place are normal goods and the quality is guaranteed to be good. Of course, the prices here are also normal, but Rudy really objected to some of the requirements written on the armor.

Like only the elven race that can wear it, only the Hunter Class Job is allowed, and so on. For a Swordsman Class Job focused on strength status points, more heavy armor than light armor.

Because of that, Rudy was reluctant to buy the armor. If Rudy was wearing heavy armor, it meant that his movement would be restricted by the heavyweight of the armor.

While Rudy was looking for good armor, Ravel went to another shop with a nostalgic look. It was as if she had taken a walk here to remember her past experiences as a novice player.

According to the information Rudy got, it seemed like Ravel had taken an Archer class job as a starting point. Even though Rudy didn't know whether the Job Class had been changed by Ravel or not.

Under normal circumstances, once players reach a certain level, they can upgrade the selected Job Class to the next level Job Class.

After about half an hour, Rudy finally managed to find and buy the equipment he needed. Light armor, a pair of gloves, a pair of shoes, and a pair of arm guards are all made of leather. Unmitigated, he bought all of this for 1,200 Byl.

“No matter where we are, the concept of money will never change. Earn money to buy things you want, then use those things to make more money so you can buy other things.”

Rudy couldn't help but sigh after knowing how expensive those things were in this world.