Chapter 98: Leveling and Sword material
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I’m currently deep in the forest. A short sword on my hand and light armor equipped. Why I’m here? The answer is simple. It's for revenge. This time I’ll defeat the same bear monster that put me in a disabled state not a long time ago.
I used roasted fish as bait.
Meanwhile, I’m hiding inside a bush waiting for its arrival. I baited some other types of monsters like wolves and bugs. I don’t have any complaints about it, I still can get my experience killing these monsters.
I checked my status and notice that I had already leveled up from level 5 to level 6. My MP increased to 120 same as my HP. Seems like leveling in this world are difficult. I already killed lots of monsters, fifty monsters to be exact before I level up to level 6. Killing a lower-level monster indeed gives little experience.
To increase my level, I need to find a monster that has a higher level than me.
“There it is!”
The bear monster appeared. It took the bait as I anticipated. From the bush, I move forward to its back.
But before my sword reached the bear. My feet tripped and I fell to the ground face first.
“Urg!”
The bear monster notice my presence and immediately turned around with its claws ready to cut.
I rolled my body sideways to avoid the claw attack. I get up immediately and s***h the bear on its side.
One strike from my sword made it bleed hardly and fell on the ground.
“Did I kill it?”
I better not raise any flags. I cover my mouth. Walking slowly to the bear monster I use my sword to poke its head.
It's not moving anymore. There is no way this bear monster is playing dead either.
Defeating this monster is still not enough to level up. But it's fine, I already have my revenge on this bear monster. I’m quite satisfied already.
I dismantled the bear thinking that I can sell its materials to the local market.
I do have money, but it doesn’t mean I can relax and do nothing to earn money.
Earning money and finding money is a skill that everyone must-have. Even billionaires on earth work 100 hours a week. That was the mentality I learn from my wealthy father and mother. Despite having lots of money. I don’t remember them having time to play around.
I have some problems with my sword. Because of my high damage, I can’t just use a normal sword.
Just this time I already destroyed five swords.
My STR is not compatible with the sword I’m using. Buying too many swords is a waste of money. I tried buying the most expensive sword in the weapon shop, but it only last with ten swings.
I need to get a sword that has high durability.
I wrapped the bearskin and meat together and carry them. I walked to the entrance thinking about what should I do about my problem. Accidentally I took a glance at the fallen demon tree.
Because of its high durability. No one can cut it and use it as firewood. It remained laying down beside the big lake.
I stopped walking and have a realization.
“That’s it!”
I took my sword and run to the fallen tree. I cut one branch of the demon tree. Using its branch I tried to swing it around on full strength.
“It's not breaking… This is the twentieth swing already. There is no sign of it getting destroyed.”
I long pressed the item and checked its status.
Name: Demon tree branch
Life: 499,999
After swinging it many times it only took 1 life. Demon trees also have regeneration ability. Regeneration’s life back to 500,000. That means this branch can last forever even I swing it around using my full strength.
Demon tree branches can be used as material in sword making. Therefore, I need to search for a great blacksmith in the city.
“This branch doesn’t look good. I should pick a branch that looks straight and easy to mold.”
I hope I can see a smith as good as Umi in this world.
Remembering, Umi is one of the first friends I made in the Fantasy world online. It was nostalgic and made me smile. But also sad because I can’t see them anymore. I don’t even know how long it passed in the real world.
What happened to my body?
What happened in real life?
Why I’m transported in this world?
I don’t know any answer to those questions. I need to try my best in finding a way out of this world.
I’m here for almost a year now. It's almost a year since I saw my friends.
…
After getting, my demon tree branch as materials and selling the dismantled monsters.
I entered the smithing shop located just in front of the adventuring guild.
“What you like miss? Do you like to customize weapons? It's quite popular these days.”
“No, I’m here to hire a smith.”
“Is that so? Then you’re in the right place… In the greatest smith in this city. My fee is rather high, but I know you have money. You’re the famous kid that cut down the Demon tree after all. People called you demon slayer.”
I didn’t slay a demon.
I don’t have any idea if this woman is a great smith or she’s just wan to milk me because I have money. Should I ask Guild master Lugg first in this matter? No, as much as possible I don’t want to be a bother to other people.
“Don’t look at me with dubious eyes.”
She said.
“... By the way, my name is Eika. Nice to meet you.”
“I’m Kaede, nice to meet you too… I’m here attempting to make a sword using the demon tree branch.”
“Oh? The demon tree branch… Umm, I’m afraid I can’t do it.”
“Why is that?”
“My authority level isn’t enough for that material I can forge sword on it. My strength won’t be enough to mold it. Its durability is top-notch.”
Is that so? That means I can make weapons on this material.
“Don’t be sad, miss Kaede… There is another way to make that thing as a sword.”
“What is it?”
“You’re the key to it… Using your strength we can mold it into the sword. But first, I need to teach you smiting skills.”
“Are you doing it for free?”
“Of course, not… I have a fee in teaching.”
Of course, she has. She’s a businessman after all.
On the other side, this is great. Having smiting skills would be useful in my future endeavor. I can do maintenance on my weapon on my own. It will pay a lot in the future.
The saying learning is earning is true.
I energetically nodded my head and replied:
“I’ll pay for it.”
“Then, let's meet tomorrow. I’m not free for today. I have something to do. You should be here at 8:00 AM. My fee is 2 golds per day keep that in mind. With that, we don’t have any problem with payment.”
I agree with her. It's better to be clear in anything involving money. Afterward, she then gives me a form. It's like a contract stating about me being her student and the fee is also written on it. After filling up the form I passed it to Eika.
“Kishimoto Kaede… That’s an unusual name. Well then, let see each other tomorrow.”
I leave the smithing shop and go straight home.
Satisfied with what happened today I happily look above the sky. I did many things today, leading me to forget the time itself. Weirdly, the scenery in this world looks refreshing. Some mechanics are familiar in a game. This world is still too real in my eyes. These people aren’t NPC walking around. They have their mind and think like real humans.
Kids are playing around. After the boy s running around. Two girls walking were seen.
Looking at them, I can’t help but remember Yuki. Yuki and I used to walk like this after school.
I reached the small bridge leading to slumps.
A familiar face blocked my path.
“We’re waiting here for ages. I’m glad to see you again.”
This man is the swordsman I defeated the other day. He still looks decent and dressed well. After his appearance, His teammates surrounded me.
No, their number increased. He added a huge number of adventurers with him. Judging their looks. They look like your average evil goons.
“Did you change your job from adventurers to bandits?”
“Shut your mouth little girl… I bet you know why we’re here.”
“For my autograph? I became popular after all.”
“Not your autograph! Money! Were here for your money! If you still love your life you better give us what we wanted. Or else well going to take it by force.”
The bandit swordsman said. Followed by his friends smirking in laughter.
Even in this world evil people truly exist. This is one of the reasons I wanted to live a frugal life. Despite having lots of money. I wanted to camouflage and have my freedom.
But them suddenly ambushing me is a problem. I still don’t have any control over my STR. I can accidentally kill these guys if I’m not careful enough.
“Give us the money you got.”
“I can’t do that… I have a plan in going to the central city. I need to ride a ship and some other expensese.”
“We don’t care about that. It's not our problem… We don’t have any choice.”
The swordsman together with his friend charged to my position in all directions.
Knowing the structure of Sacred art. Imagination and knowledge in how its constructed.
“Create plasma… Structure Paralyzing shout!”
I imagine my plasma to become like a paralyzing shout. I’m used to using it in a fantasy world online.
I closed my eye’s in fear. After a few seconds, I opened my eye slowly and saw them all stop moving in one place.
“W-What?”
“I can’t move…”
“Sacred arts?”
It worked.
I made a deep breath.
“You’re dead meat!”
A huge guy that wasn’t affected by my Sacred art. Sneak behind me and raise his sword.
My body moves and swings my hand to his body. His armor shattered into pieces and his body flew away 30 meters away from my current position.
“What the heck is with that power?”
They look to have their mouths opened and are agitated to see what happened to their big friend.
My fist didn’t kill him. When I cut the demon tree I used my sword skill “Sword slash.” Skill sword slashes enhance the damage of my normal attack. A weapon is also considered because holding an item can increase the attack power of a player.
By using only the right strength I can swing my sword at other people.
I turned my glance to the bandit swordsman. His armor looks sturdy.
I get my spare sword.
“Hey… What are you going to do? Hey…”
“Sorry, but this is for experimentation.”
Cruelly looking at him. I smash my sword to his breast armor. Breaking it and blasting him away to the ground.
I didn’t kill him.
Now moving to the next subject.
I turned my head to the archer.
“No! No! No! I still want to confess my love!”
He has low-level-looking armor. I test my sword swing on him and end up him being unconscious. It's the same as the first two bandits.
I’m getting used to it. There is still plenty of subjects. I can control my STR in no time with their help. I did my testing over and over again.
From dusk, the night turned into darkness. All the bandits that attempted to ambush me were unconscious. I reported them to the knights and now they are spending their night in the prison.
Going home, Kiri just arrived.
“Why do you look so happy?”
“Well, I did something fulfilling… What are we having today Kiri?”
“Can you stop calling me Kiri?”
“Guu, I wanted to call you in your real name. Are you still uncomfortable with me?”
“That’s not it…”
“Then, I’ll call you Kiri.”
“If there’s no helping it... Then it is fine you can call me Kiri. Then, why Kaede is so happy?”
“Well, did you know? I encounter those scumbags adventurers again. I pummel them down one by one. I also harness my Sacred arts. Not only that, I’m having a smithing lesson for Eika tomorrow. I’m excited.”
“That’s good.”
Alicia also visits and joins us in dinner.
We spend the night chatting about the things we did in a day.
- Writer
