Chapter 1: The First Village, Part 5
Yeah, thats right. I shouldnt allow something like that to bother me at all! In a medieval setting events like that are an everyday occurrence, so theres no sense in getting depressed over them if it was just a first from many more that will probably come my way. If I wont be able to at least do that, then I probably wont be able to go on living in this world.
I take a deep breath and make my decision.
From now on, this is my reality. A place where Ill have to live from today onward, and in order to live, I will definitely have to get my hands dirty, so I cannot be afraid of doing it. Do whatever it takes for me to survive. And speaking of surviving, there actually is a way for me to confirm my suspicions of this world being a game.
The Character Reset option.
What came to my mind was the Character Reset screen. As if I was sitting in front of a computer screen, I was able to see the images of how all of my stats would look if I decided to reset my character and all of his skills. As expected, resetting all of the stat points and Bonus Skills would be not very effective, because contrary to the character creation process a reset cannot be performed over and over again on one character page until you would achieve a desired result, and all of the changes would be apparently applied in-world without logging me out, so there goes my hope of bypassing the rules set by the system to no-way-fag my way out of this predicament.
So according to the system warning I have received at the end of the character creation process I have made a decision to permanently leave Japan and begin my life anew in another world. But heres the thing: it wasnt exactly my conscious, thoroughly thought-out decision, but rather one made while being tilted and annoyed that I couldnt begin playing already and just smashing the okay icon with my mouse. Had I known it was going to end like that, I would have never clicked that blasted OK button and just moved on with my life, probably to find myself a new game to play, preferably the one that would be less sketchy then this one.
Anyway, currently I had 1 Bonus Point left to use for some reason. I should have used up all of the ones I had, but maybe I overlooked this one? Ah, whatever. I guess I should just drop the whole resetting thing and leave my character as it is, at least for the time being and change into the clothes the village Chief prepared for me.
But really now, is the way back to the real Japan closed for me forever? If that warning was for real, then I guess that was really it for me. I cant go back and thats final. And oddly enough, that might end up working surprisingly well for me, since I was contemplating whether or not I should kill myself in the first place. Back in Japan, nothing is really waiting for me to return. Not the school where I had no friends nor my abusive shit-of-a-father.
Okay, now that thats done maybe I should twiddle with the Jobs settings for a bit. I imagined my character status screen in my head and moved to the list of Jobs I had available. Currently there were 3 of them.
Villager Lv2
Thief Lv2
Hero Lv1
That third one, Hero was not present when I awakened, so Im guessing it must have unlocked after the battle with the Bandits? I wonder if its maybe because the Chief saw me as a hero after I helped him? All right, lets examine that new class of mine a little bit closer, shall we?
Hero Lv1
Class Effect: Heroic Bravery Raises the value of each statistic by 10 points
Class Skill: Overwhelm
Looks like a pretty good Job to me, definitely efficient in terms of stat bonuses it provides. As for the acquisition since I obtained the Thief Job by stealing a pair of sandals, then I truly must have acquired the Hero Job after defeating those Bandits. Will I have to level this job up by performing other heroic deeds? And I wonder if the stat boosts are going to keep increasing with class levels? Because even at Lv1 its waaaaay better than those of the other two, but I guess that was to be expected from a class reserved exclusively for heroes. As for the other two, the Villager Job grants only a slight boost to the STR stat and does not grant any additional skills to go along with it, so in my book its literally the thrashiest of all Jobs. The Thief Job was somewhat better than the Villager, except for the fact that instead of a slight STR increase it offered a boost to AGI stat, but it also had no skills associated with it. In conclusion, those two starting classes suck so much ass that its actually unbelievable how bad they are.
All right, that settles it, Ill perform the character reset again since I managed to acquire that third Job. This time maybe Ill try to build myself around it and put all the remaining Bonus Points into the experience-based skills. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.