Chapter 38 - 37. Level up

The party proceeds hunting for smaller monsters that can fit into their medium inventory slot. New monster means new attack pattern; it starts slow but as they learn the monster weakness and all, the experience start rolling in and they level up before they knew it.

With an inventory full of monster carcasses the party head back to town to unload their loot. After dropping their loot and Kana at Mr. Theo stall the party decides to do their own thing rather than wait for Kana until she finishes her job.

With half an hour of free time, Alice decides to look for her friend Emma to catch up while Albert and James split up doing their own thing. Albert ends up in the same bar he visits this morning chatting up with various people.

Albert meets with an interesting group of old people who loves to brag about the olden days. They are retired and now enjoying their lives in the village before they are assigned to this tutorial village. One particular old man who Albert finds out used to be a fisherman; brags about how fierce the sea in Eden and how he with his brave crew catch a sea monster.

Albert enjoying his time with his newfound friends and even buy them 1 round of drink with his small wealth. Growing up in a wheelchair Albert really fond chatting with older people as most of them didn't care about your condition and treat you as a human being. They didn't give you a pitying look nor treat you like a freak; some may be interested in your stories but most of them more inclined to share with you their stories.

The other party member ends up picking up Albert in the pubs; As he forgot about the time and the other spends almost an extra 30 minutes looking for him before they can set out again. Saying goodbye to his new friend, the old fisherman told Albert to look for him if he is interested in fishing. He offers to teach Albert how to fish and would even give him his old rod as he also likes this new friend.

The party set out for the second time today with 2 new bags sitting on Albert lap occupying Luna spot. The first hunt nets them a little more than 10 coins even after deducting the cost of 2 bags and stoking some of the potions. Granted they don't need as many potions as they have Kana's healing skill.

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The party spent the next 2 days hunting on the outskirt of the forest before the monsters around it gave almost 0 experience each and they decide to look for new hunting ground. Kana's quest is halfway done and James just got an apprentice job as a carpenter. The job seems useless but since he likes it no one is against it.

Alice finally successfully create her own skill on the 3rd day in the tutorial world. Similar to Mr. Hubert's skills it turns Alice's hand to a solid jade colored. It boosts her arm strength and defense tremendously that she can knock the big long tusked wild boar two meters with 1 punch. The skill drains her mana continuously when is active so she has to deactivate it after 1-2 minutes continuously fighting.

On the topic of skill, Kana also create a skill called Blood control. She can immobilize a target whos health below a certain threshold for a few seconds and control blood like a waterbender making her job as a butcher easier as you need to clean the carcasses out of their blood.

James got better control over his summon and he found a niche little trick to improve defense and offense. After 2 days of experimenting, nowaday he can cover his entire shield with his mana completing the first method of Mr. Hubert training. As a result of that training, he creates 1 new skill called shield bash and replacing the block skill with mana shield.

With mana shield skill blocking now cost him mana instead of stamina which arguably better because he has a much bigger mana pool compare to stamina. And he can also go on offense with his shield bash skill. Similar to his shield charge skill shield bass could stun the enemy but as a downside, it cost mana to execute and also has a cooldown similar to Kana healing skill.

Albert made no progress in the skill department but his health improve tremendously during this 2 day. He now can stand on his two feet and plan to attend a rehabilitation program to regain his ability to walk. Alice and his mom are in tears when they saw him stand up for the first time in 10 years and they celebrated with pizza that very night inviting Kana and James's family.

Name: Albert Ward(UNSPECIFIED)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Level: 2

EXP: 88%

Class: Minstrel ( +2 Dex, +1 Int, 2 Free)

HP: 49/70

MP: 95/95

Stamina:50/50

Weight Limit: 1

Str 1

Vit 6

End 2

Dex 12

Int 7

Wis 8

Free Point: 4

Mastery:

-Instrument Mastery LVL 0 (41%) rise by 7%

-Puppet Mastery LVL 0 (22%) rise by 8%

Mastery Point: 1

Skill:

-Sound Transmission

Transmit a message using sound

Mana cost: 2

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Name: Luna

Age: 0

Gender: Female

Race: Snake

Level: 2

Affinity: 144

EXP: 99%

Class: Puppet ( 5 Free)

HP:85/85

MP:45/45

Stamina:70/70

Weight Limit: 2.5

Str 7

Vit 6

End 5

Dex 9

Int 6

Wis 3

Free Point: 10

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Name: Alice Ward (NONCOMBAT)

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Level: 2

EXP: 90%

Class: Monk ( +2 Int, +1 Vit, +1 End, 1 Free)

HP: 110/110

MP: 35/35

Stamina:100/100

Weight Limit: 2.5

Str 7

Vit 7

End 8

Dex 6

Int 10

Wis 1

Free Point: 1

Mastery:

-Emerald Skin LVL 0 (25%) rise by 9%

-Amethyst Muscle (21%) rise by 8%

-Ruby Bone LVL 0 (20%) rise by 7%

Mastery Point: 1

Skill:

- Jade Arm

Increase arm strength and defense by 25%

Increase arm toughness by 25%

Increase arm pain tolerance by 25%

Mana cost: 2 per second

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Name: Kana Campbell (COMBAT)

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Level: 2

EXP: 9%

Class: Priest ( +1 Wis, +3 Int, 1 Free)

HP:240/240

Stamina:30/30

Weight Limit: 1

Str 1

Vit 6

End 2

Dex 3

Int 15

Wis 12

Free Point: 1

Mastery:

-Vitality Restoration (25%) rise by 2%

-Blood Manipulation (15%) rise by 1%

Mastery Point: 1

Skill:

-Blood Rejuvenation

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Name: James Smith (COMBAT)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Level: 2

EXP: 14%

Class: Necromancer ( +2 Wis, +2 Int, 1 Free)

HP:55/55

Mana:155/155

Stamina:60/60

Weight Limit: 1.5

Str 3

Vit 3

End 5

Dex 2

Int 14

Wis 12

Free Point: 1

Mastery:

-Shield Mastery (46%) rise by 16%

-Summon Mastery(53%) rise by 9%

Mastery Point: 1

Skill:

-Summon Skeleton

-Shield Charge

-Mana Shield

Blocking are 20% more effective

Blocking cost mana instead of stamina

-Shield Bash

Damage : STR +(INT/2) * Shield Weight

20% chance to stun enemy

Mana cost : 10

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