Chapter 2: Archer (2)

Chapter 2: Archer (2)

Chapter 2: Archer (2)

"Where can I try shooting a few arrows? Also, do we have an unlimited stock of them?" Jake asked after getting familiar with the long bow.

Richard shook his head, "I have five stacks, each of thirty arrows. You'd have to learn how to make arrows yourself."

"I hope you can teach me that... it sounds like it's best to get a subclass related to armorer, too. Could you help me with that?"

"I'm here to help! Of course I can," Richard cheerfully replied before going past Jake to the storage hidden at the other end of the wooden cabin.

He returned with five stacks of arrows resting in the quivers.

Each quiver was the same size that seemed to match Jake's back. He towered at the height of one meter and eighty centimeters, so a quiver this long with thirty arrows must weigh some kilograms. It was made from leather and seemed to have been blessed with magic as thirty arrows stuffed in such a narrow object appeared neatly organized without any hint of inward damage.

Jake chuckled, "I thought everything's made from wood in this cabin?"

"There are exceptions to anything, Archer," Richard awkwardly smiled before telling him about the inventory feature, "You can store those in your inventory, I believe. They weigh a lot, so only keep one quiver slung on your back and get familiar with it."

Once Jake touched the quiver, the system message appeared on his retina.

[Would you like to store "The Quiver Of Wooden Arrows" in your inventory?]

After wishing for it to happen, the inventory feature snatched the quiver into his spatial storage. Jake repeated that process thrice before hauling the last quiver onto his back.

It weighed more than he thought, and it surely restricted his movement.

Jake chuckled, "Let's get into it, then. I'm interested myself."

Once he decided on that, a sudden message window appeared before him.

[Your familiarity level with Richard has leveled up.]

[You are no longer acquaintances, but friends.]

'It's so odd to have such messages appear. I wonder if he sees the same? I'll refrain from asking him that 'cause it just feels weird,' Jake thought.

For the same reason, he wouldn't ask Richard about familiarity levels with NPCs and just question his big sister about it after logging out. One of the advice he had received from her was to be casual around NPCs and not expect them to give quests as something given.

Because of artificial intelligence, those NPCs were so real it was sometimes scary how they thought and conducted. No NPC could also be replaced. It meant that if a guild decided to subjugate a town or any other territory and killed their residents, those NPCs wouldn't magically return to life.

Realism was on a much higher level than in other games, though some fantasy elements were obviously in place.

For instance, Richard was on every tutorial island as though cloned.

Before long, Jake and Richard found themselves behind the cabin. The latter had prepared a training zone for an archer class and put ten straw effigies. It resembled a human so as to Jake could practice shooting various points.

"It's best you show me first what you are capable of without me instructing you," Richard said.

Jake nodded and raised his longbow. He extended his hand for an arrow, groping the air cause of his inexperience, then finally but amateurishly nocked it on the bow.

He pulled on the bowstring and let the arrow after a few seconds!