Chapter 98: A Matter Of Skill Pt.2

Chapter 98: A Matter Of Skill Pt.2

Lake hadn't thought about the fact that someone could use magic to fix something before but now that he did it was pretty obvious. He wished he had known this before he had spent so much to get his knife fixed, but most of what he had paid had gone towards upgrading it, not just fixing its shape.

Not wanting to give Donny the chance to pick up speed for his strike, Lake Used Burst to close the distance and swung for Donny's arm. Lake doubted Donny would be able to reattach his arm as easily as he had his spear, so Lake guessed he was going to have to take a risk and use Crunch on Donny. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

Donny seemed to understand Lake could just go through his spear if he used it to defend, so he moved out of the way of the strike instead of blocking. Lake had expected this and made the next strike towards Donny's fingers as fast as he could using both Burst and Fast Hands.

Lake stopped the swing before he took all of Donny's fingers so he would be able to heal him after he passed out from blood loss again. Because of his Blood Loss skill Lake had a hard time with being nonlethal, so if he went overboard with how big of a wound he opened on Donny there would be no way to stop Donny from bleeding to death.

Donny didn't react much at first but once he saw the amount of blood he was losing It looked Like he was about to run so Lake said. "If you pass out where I can't find you, you'll die before I can close your wounds." Lake marked Donny just incase He didn't take his advice, but it seemed it was unnecessary because Donny laid down the spear and said. "Fine you win!"

Lake watched as Donny got on the ground and started squeezing the two nubs where his fingers used to be and said. "Almost bleeding to death twice in one night is pretty dangerous. You should have quit after the first one." Donny didn't seem to be in the mood to talk so Lake shut up after he said this.

Lake could tell Donny had some time till he passed out because this wound wasn't bleeding anywhere near as much as the one in his neck earlier, so he knew this would be a boring couple of minutes so he had been hoping to talk to him while they waited.

Once Donny's face had started to turn white they both could tell he could pass out at any moment and surprisingly Donny asked. "Is this poison or a skill making me bleed this much?" Lake had no idea why he would answer this so he said. "Does it matter?"

"No. Just wanted to know if this was a skill from Assassin because it seems specialized in killing people." Lake could see what Donny meant but he was wrong, he was pretty sure Ripper was actually one level higher than Assassin, but he didn't actually know since his said U where the rarity was.

Lake didn't see a place to turn the shield in for a reward, so he walked through the only door he could see to find a much more office looking place with counters and people at desks. It seemed there was a lobby for people to look through jobs before you came back here once you completed them.

Walking over to one of the desks, Lake showed the person behind the counter the shield and said I was told to bring this here. "Do you know what mission this was for?" Lake had no idea so he shook his head. "Well usually I'd be pissed at you for not knowing the mission code, but since this is obviously Donny's shield I'll let you slide."

Lake saw the person get up and go into one of the doors that were in the room and come back out a few seconds later holding a bag that Lake assumed held gold. It was kind of large and Lake didn't want to lug it around for the rest of the day, but he guessed this was still a good thing since it got him closer to his goal of a million.

"Here's the reward, can I see your badge to update your status?" Lake didn't see a reason to say no, so he held out the piece of gold that was his guild badge. "This was your first job. Does that mean you're new?" Lake nodded.

"Ok then I'll give you the rundown this badge of yours has all your guild info so you need to have it whenever you come in. You already know how missions work so I'll skip that, so the last thing is the gold storage we offer. I'm sure by the name you can figure out what it is but I'll still tell you we will hold your gold in the vault if you would like and as long as you have your badge you can come and get it whenever you'd like. It's not popular with the new members like yourself, but once you get richer, and gain more trust in the guild I'm sure you'll take advantage."

Lake guessed he wouldn't mind keeping this here until he found a good place to keep his secret stuff that he didn't want at the guild. If everything was at the guild it could all be taken at once if someone like Lucas ever thought it would be best if Lake didn't have it anymore.

"How much is this?" Lake asked while pointing to the bag. "It's 11000. It's not everyday I see someone not know how much they're getting paid for a job." Lake was also a greedy person but last night he had been in a hurry so he hadn't even spent that much time looking at what the mission entailed let alone all the other details.

"Would you mind putting this in the vault, and do you buy stuff here, or do I need to go somewhere else?" He wanted to know where he should go to sell stolen things that were too advanced for the guy in the alley from now on.

"You see the guy behind the green desk he's the best Appraiser we have so most people like to go to him when they have something good." Lake thanked them and walked away after they updated his guild badge, and walked over to the man behind the green desk. Handing him all the items from the jewelry store he was going to sell.

After the guy looked at each item he said, "19,500." Lake nodded to show he approved of the price. "Ok let me go get it for you." Lake stopped him and said. "Can you just add it to my vault?" The man nodded and said. "Let me see your badge then."

Lake did his best to see what the man was doing to the badge but he still couldn't tell any difference once the man handed it back to him. Lake guessed it made sense that this place would use such a secretive method to store personal information but he still wished he could tell how they did it.

The man told him his total in the vault was 30,500 and after Lake heard this number he left the building. Seeing the time Lake headed in the direction of the Blacksmiths guild. It was early but not by much. Maybe they would be done with it already.