Chapter 97: The Almighty Abacus

" I think three of the pieces should go to Rei, she did the most work to take down the boss." Marsil replied. 

"I can agree with that and the last two pieces can be divided between the two of us." Able readily agreed. 

"Umm… why don't I just take..." I wanted to give them two pieces each but before I could even finish what I was saying, they were already pushing the items in front of my face. After looking at their expectant eyes, I couldn't reject their kindness and ended up choosing a pair of wrist guards, gloves, and a pair of boots. The wrist guards gave twenty to defense and five intellect. The gloves gave ten strength and thirty defense. As for the boots they gave fifteen defense, a speed boost of ten percent, and also ten intellect. I was confused because when I looked at my game screen to see my stats, my intellect actually did not go up, so I was not sure how this worked.

"System why do the stats not affect me?" I could only ask the system.

"It is because the level requirement needs to be level three, I am currently level two. Only when I hit level three will new stats appear and it is also only then that you will be able to see your stats change in accordance with these special items. Only items you buy from the shop will actually change your stats at my current level." The system replied.

In other words, I would need to upgrade the system one more time to gain any kind of benefit from this new gear. I let out a sigh feeling a bit disappointed. I mean this would mean needing to go an entire month or more without the system, yet again. Well, I guess it really wouldn't matter since I did plan to save after returning home. I saved in the dungeon so that everything that had happened between me and Able would not disappear. There was no telling if a second time around would cause some kind of change in my future. We had just stepped into actually starting our relationship after expressing our love for each other. In any case, now we could finally exit this dungeon and I could race home and take a wonderful hot bath.

"System how many points for the next upgrade?" I asked. I wanted to get these new stats as soon as possible so the items of this world will allow me to take advantage of them.

"Ten thousand points. Would you like to upgrade now, Rei?" The system asked excitedly. 

Unfortunately, I had to say no since we were not home just yet. "I will once I am at home. So please wait a little longer."

"As you wish." The system said dejectedly, making me feel slightly bad. Only slightly because this was the same system that kept making fun of my small meat buns.

"Did you all miss this!?" Sam's voice made us all turn to look at him holding up a peculiar item. To be honest I had no idea what the contraption was that he was holding but it was imbued with a golden light.

"Is that an Abacus?" Able asked as he walked over and took it from Sam. I mulled over the word abacus in my head for a while until I finally remembered hearing about something like this before. It was basically an ancient calculator. If I recall correctly it was first used back in the Mesopotamian era. I only knew about this because I had found a picture about it on the internet and wondered what it was so I ended up boogling it. It was basically a wooden frame with rows of beads used for doing calculations, simple forms of math. 

"Wow this thing is amazing, it is a legendary ranked item!" Able yelled out in surprise.

"Oh? What are the stats?" I asked.

"It doesn't give any kind of stats, but it has a weird skill that uses math to give a random boost. I think it is more of a support item. It says, "Special buff or debuff amount is done based on random calculation". So I can only think of it as such." Able explained.

When I looked at that Abacus I could only think of one person for who it would work well. "I know this is not the best thing to do since we are all a group but do you mind if I give this to Alissa? She is a merchant's daughter and it might help her more than any of us… She will probably know how to use it properly..."

"I'm okay with that." Marsil was the first to speak up.

"Sounds fine to me." Sam answered as well. All eyes turned to Able who had a frown on his face.

"You really want to give it to that thieving cat!?" Able asked, a hint of jealousy could be heard in his voice.

"Thieving cat?" Marsil eyes opened wide with interest.

"She is a girl I ran into at the same time as I met Rei. She was being attacked by kidnappers and was saved by Rei. She is also my biggest love rival!" It was kind of cute seeing Able becoming so flustered with jealousy. It also made me feel quite good knowing he was afraid of losing me to Alissa. Even though that would never happen.

"Oh ho! Looks like I must meet this girl. Seems interesting things may happen while she is around." Marsil said, making light of the whole situation. Marsil's true personality was that of a teasing nature. In other words, any chance she got to tease me and Able, she would make sure to do it right away. 

"Able, you know you have nothing to worry about." I said walking up to him and giving him a hug to try to reassure him that I was his. 

"Fine! I know she is your friend. So go ahead." Able said reluctantly while passing me the abacus. I had a feeling Alissa was going to love this.

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