Sweet, it's a skill to deal with range opponents. He had no problem at this stage dealing with such opponents due to his high Dexterity, but this skill would be a great help to normal Warriors who had slow speed. Of course, with his fast movent, the Charge skill in his hand would beco even more deadly.
After becoming a Warrior, he looked around and was confused about what to do next. There was no exit around the platform. Was he to travel back via the colored floors again? Would those puppets attack him again?
He called Gruff and asked about it. Those warriors at the opposite sides were snapped out of their daze due to the call. They were still having trouble believing what had just happened.
"The outworlders really aren't a simple bunch." One of them mumbled.
The others nodded.
The female warrior however said, "I don't think so. I think this one is special even among the Outworlders." He then whispered to Gruff, "you noticed that skill he used with his staff, right?"
"Yeah," Gruff answered. "Let's keep it between us first. I bet the King would be especially interested about this."
While they were talking among themselves, Jack called out again the second ti, "hey! Can sobody tell
if the puppets will co after
again if I step onto these colored floors?"
Gruff chuckled. "Co over, it's fine! They will stop once you passed the test."
Hearing it, Jack let out a relieved sigh. He then walked over. He looked at the immobile puppets, couldn't believe he was having a life and death struggle with them just a few monts ago.
Once he arrived at Gruff's side, he said with a grin, "So, where are my coins?"
Gruff's mustache twitched. The others who were just about to congratulate him, froze on their spots. Their friendly faces turned stiff once they were reminded about the bet.
"Can't you be a little more lenient?" Gruff pleaded.
"A bet is a bet," Jack refused.
"Argh! Fine! Take out your coins, lads!" Gruff ordered.
They flocked together in a circle as they took out their coins.
"Ugh, I'm missing two coins, can I borrow first?"
"Brother, I also lack so coins."
Gruff knocked them both on the head, "why do you make the bet if you don't have enough coins? So how much are we missing?"
After they piled the coins together, they counted them together. Gruff used his coins to cover the coins his underlings lacked. He then put the coins into one leather pouch and handed it to Jack.
Jack felt bad after seeing Gruff sacrificed his own coins for his n. "It was noble of you to cover the shortage," he said.
"No worries, I'm deducting them from their next wages anyway," Gruff replied.
Jack instantly didn't feel as bad after hearing it. He accepted the pouch with glee, there were 252 silver coins inside! When the pouch entered his storage bag, silver coins that reach hundreds in numbers automatically converted into gold coins. He now had 2 gold coins, 70 silver coins, and 53 copper coins.
He felt rich now that he possessed his first gold coins.
"Okay, show is over! Now go back to where you belong!" He shooed the rowdy n away, then turned to Jack and said, "you, co with !"
Jack was confused, wasn't his business with this academy over once he received his Warrior class? But out of curiosity, Jack followed him.
Gruff took Jack past his office and into another room. It looked like a storage place with a very ssy organization. Gruff opened several drawers and storage boxes searching for sothing. As he combed through the room, he said to Jack without looking, "So are you going to tell
why you have both Fighter skills and Magician skills?"
Jack didn't answer.
"Don't take it wrong, I have no problem with that," Gruff added. "I have t people with multiple skills from different classes and have even fought with so, but they are all the natives of this world. It should be different for you Outworlders however, from what the Gods had told us and what we can read from the history books. It was said that you folks possessed a limitless potential for growth. However, your path of advancent in terms of class had always been fixed. So imagine my surprise when the first Fighter that ca to apply to beco a Warrior ended up breaking this common knowledge… Ah, found it!"
He took out a pant armor that was made of several interconnecting plates and covered by dark-colored fur.
"This was one of the armors I wore in my adventuring days back when I was young. Here, take it!" He shoved the armor to Jack.
Jack was puzzled as he received the armor. Why did this veteran warrior give him an armor? Is this a secret reward for being the first player to pass the Warrior test? He checked the armor stats.
Shadow Bear Tasset, level 15/35 (rare dium armor)
Physical Defense: 22
Magical Defense: 20
Durability: 40
Endurance
3
When HP is below 50%, defense is increased by 80%
A rare dium armor! Jack was dumbstruck. Did he really just get a piece of rare equipnt as a secret reward? And the additional ability this armor had was quite a life-saving ability, his survival rate would increase dramatically with this armor. Jack looked at Gruff with surprise. The Warrior laughed, "Hehe, it seed like you really like that armor."
"It's a really good armor," Jack agreed.
Gruff smirked, "of course! I don't spend my ti with trashy equipnt. This here was among the top even for rare equipnt. It was made by a master craftsman using materials I got after killing a Shadow Bear."
"But why gave it to ? Is it because I am the first Outworlder to pass the Warrior test?"
"Don't be absurd, why do I give out my armor just because you passed a test?"
"Then why?" Jack asked with a confused expression.
"Take it as an investnt," Gruff replied. "I can see you are unusual even among the Outworlders. There might be a ti in the future when we might need your assistance. At that ti, I hope you won't let us down."
Jack gave the guy's words so thought. If this guy had been a player, he would have rejected him and gave the armor back. But the guy's an NPC. If they need assistance, then that would an a quest. Doing a quest would be beneficial to him unless it was an unreasonable one, but he did not believe this world system would throw him a quest outside of his capabilities.
After so thought, he agreed and thanked him for the Tasset. He changed his armor at once, replacing his level 1 leather pants with this new Shadow Bear Tasset. With this new armor, he looked more dazzling and different from the other players who mostly still wore standard leather and cloth armor.
"So how will you be contacting
if you need my assistance?" Jack asked. If it were with players, he could simply just add the guy as his friend, so they could send ssages to each other when needed. But he had yet to learn of a communication system with NPCs.
Where do you stay in the capital? Tell
which Inn and I will send a ssage to the Inn when I want to look for you.
So it was a primitive ssaging system, Jack thought with so disappointnt. He then replied to Gruff, "I didn't stay at an Inn. I stayed in a shophouse called Amy's Bakery. You could leave your ssage to the shopkeeper Amy or her mother, Samantha."
"We will do that then," Gruff nodded. He then invited Jack to have so drinks outside with the other Warriors. Jack accepted. Now that he was also a Warrior, the other n treated him like one of their own and chatted cheerfully. Jack was relieved, as it seed that these NPCs didn't bear any grudge against him for taking their coins.
After a few rounds of drinks, Jack decided to bid them farewell and made his leave.
He passed the female warrior who had just returned from an errand when he was on his way out. He greeted her before he continued on his way. The female Warrior went to sit next to Gruff.
"You have let the King know?" Gruff asked.
"I've passed the ssage to the Royal advisor," the female Warrior replied. "He said that he would send soone to keep an eye."
Gruff nodded.
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