Chapter 1: The First Village, Part 7
Look, I know I must be looking suspicious as fuck right now, okay? I realize that and those looks of yours hurt more than a thousand actual verbal insults would!
Painful! This is just too painful! Its like I am forced to relive the trauma of my chuunibyou years all over again! N-No, be silent, oh the forbidden power that dwelleth inside of my left hand! Even though you feel anger at those insignificant peasants making fun of your host, you mustnt unleash thine wrath upon this unworthy plain of existence if the equilibrium is to stay unhard.. FUCK! I did it again! My dark history! The shaful past I was trying so hard to put behind ! Its all coming back to !
Well? How is it, Michio-sama? Can you do it?
I would if I could, but unfortunately it looks like my inventory space is completely filled up.
That was obviously a lie, but at the current mont I couldnt co up with anything better, to explain what happened to my Durandal, so I just have to hope that its going to sound believable enough for them to lay off of . And while were at it, where did that goddamn sword go anyway?!
Oh, then that is truly unfortunate. Tell , Michio-sama, have you ever been to the city of Veil?
Hm? No, cant say that I did.
Actually, I will be heading there tomorrow at dawn to do my rchant business. If its alright with you, I could carry all of your equipnt there on my wagon. The city of Veil has many shops that specialize in weapons and armor for Adventurers so it could be easily sold there without any problems.
The rchant offers. To be honest I was expecting him to buy all that crap off of right away, but it looks like things wont be that simple. Nevertheless, if hes so graciously offering to do this for then I should probably take him up on his kind offer.
Thank you very much. If you could do that for , I would be much obliged.
Its a good thing that you dont have to use any complicated nus to hand your possessions over to other people.
Marvelous. With that said, here is your Intelligence Card from the Bandits.
The rchant presented with a notepad sized card.
Intelligence Card?
I ask back at him, unsure of that that thing actually was.
It is a proof that you have defeated all those Bandits that dropped out of the body of their leader after the fight. With a group as large as they were, so of them are surely bound to be notorious wanted criminals, so if you present it at the headquarters of the Knights of Vale Order, Im sure youll be eligible to a handso reward.
Is that so?
At first that Intelligence Card term sounded like more trouble than it was worth, but now that the rchant guy explained it to in detail, the whole matter beca quite easy to understand. This is a world with a dieval setting where bandit attacks are commonplace, so it would stand to reason that so of them gathered quite a lot of infamy to their na, resulting in sending wanted posters with their faces all over the kingdom. So this little card is the proof that the deed has been done that everybody seems to be aware of, huh? And I might get so dough out of it? Well, count in!
Of course, after being killed, the sa Bandits wont co back to life again, right? Right, of course. If this is the real world, then it must be like that. Only one life per person, no redos or respawns allowed.
Even though I more or less understood the principles behind the Intelligence Cards and how they worked, it was still a hefty amount of information dumped upon all at once, so I couldnt help it but to feel a little bit overwheld. I examined the Card one more ti just to be sure that I didnt miss anything important and then I proceeded with the inspection of my share of the Bandits equipnt.
Most of it consisted of Copper and Bronze Swords, but my eyes were imdiately drawn towards an Iron Sword. It looked to be at least one rank above the rest of the common trash, making it a rare weapon. Well shit. I actually dont want it to be rare. The rarer the item, the bigger the chance that soone is going to target to steal it.
Looking at all the swords with Identify, there was one thing that caught as strange.
One of the better looking Bronze Swords had an empty window. The rest of the Copper Swords didnt have any windows at all.
Is everything all right, Michio-sama? Has sothing caught your attention?
The rchant asked as I was examining the Bronze Sword in my hand. Durandal also had windows like that, but they were filled with various skills. So could it be that this empty window is actually a skill slot?
This seems to be a good weapon, better than the rest of similar ones.
Oh, so you were able to figure that out? For soone who is not a rchant, you seem to have quite a good eye.
However, there is a small problem. I dont know how to acquire and equip skills.
Skill. Skill Slot. Grant Skill. Assign Skill.
I mumbled to myself again and again nothing happened and nothing changed, as expected. Ah well, not like I hoped for it to go any different than all those other tis when I tried to use spoken commands only to end up severely disappointed. For now I should just finish appraising and maybe consider another character reset to see if anything can actually be done about that.
If you are wondering about the skill slots, then allow to explain. They can be created by the blacksmiths when they fuse them from the corresponding Skill Crystals. Does the sword youre holding have any skills assigned to it?
No, I dont see anything like that. The slot is empty.
That is unfortunate, but nothing to fret about.
So it looks like Im going to need those Skill Crystals in order to add skills to the weapons and I will only be able to do so at a blacksmith, or perhaps Ill be able to do it myself if I obtain the Blacksmith Job.
All in all, this isnt a bad sword, so I think I might do just that.
Michio-sama, are you able to tell if a weapon has a skill attached to it or not?
The Village Chief inquired.
Generally, yeah. I think you may call it, An Adventurers Intuition.
Since Identify id a Bonus Skill, very few people should possess it, so I think it would be wise of not to ntion that I have an ability like that.
If that is the case, then can I trouble you with looking at the rest of them with your discerning eyes? It would make our lives that much easier if we could pick the best ones possible for the purpose of defending ourselves and selling the ones that we wont need.
I guess I can do that, but dont bla if therell be sothing that I wont be able to understand.
You have my eternal gratitude, Michio-sama. Well then, lets get to it right away.
And I followed after the Village Chief to inspect the rest of the weaponry. Looking through all of them took so ti, but when I was finally done I could tell with absolute certainty that no other weapon aside from the ones that were assigned to had any skills or skill slots on them. It was the sa for all the armor and a bandana that were found among the things Bandits dropped when they died.
Huh? A bandana? Was that the one worn by the Bandit Leader? I mustve missed it in the heat of battle.
Or maybe not. Thinking about it now, it doesnt have to be a part of Bandit Leaders equipnt at all!
Just now, all the finer details began coming back to . Such a Bandana was not worn by the Bandit Leader, but by so of the common ones which were nad Bandana Bandits. Just a common piece of cloth worn by the most common of small fries. It totally makes sense. If a Bandit wears a Bandana, he Becos a Bandana Bandit, otherwise he would be a simple Bandit with no distinguishing features whatsoever. See? Completely logical not!
This is a world of a ga, so there must be so kinda hidden gimmick to it. So, my dear, Bandana, what are you, exactly?
What is this Bandana right here?
I think it is the common one worn by Bandits.
But contrary to my expectations, the rchant didnt impart any useful knowledge to .
Huh? What is it doing here. If mory serves correctly, none of the Bandits wore sothing like that.
The Village Chief said sothing truly outrageous. None of them wore it?! But but that would an that my own mory lied to or did it, really? Maybe there really werent any Bandana Bandits in the group that attacked the village and it was just a trick of my mind which was quite high on adrenaline at the mont it all transpired? But that would an that soone has deliberately placed it here. Or that it was simply a rare drop and I was just lucky enough to get it during the very first tutorial battle.
Its funny, isnt it?
Back when I was still living in Japan (it feels weird to phrase it like that when you consider the fact that I left it literally a few hours ago, but whatever). Throughout my old life I was mostly a loser who used to cry himself to sleep every night, I didnt like to stand out and get into fights. But this world is not modern Japan. In this world, if you underestimate even the smallest of threats, you might pay for it with your life. I am the perfect example of that. I dont know how I ca here but I did, and using my cheat-like weapon I have ended the lives of many people who probably didnt expect theyd die today, thus saving the village and its inhabitants from what would probably be a morbid end (even though saving the village wasnt my intention in the slightest, but telling them that would be too much of an arrow to my own knee, so Im just not going to do that.)
Anyway, I think Im getting off topic too much, so let get back to it before things get any weirder than they already are.
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