Chapter 58: Counterpunch
Grey startled awake. "What? Huh?"
He sniffled twice in quick succession, his nose coming back with a particular floral scent that caught him off guard. By the ti he realized he was still on the toilet, he had been convinced he’d sll a wave of sothing foul, but instead he slled honey and lilacs.
"...Technologia..."
Grey grumbled and stood. ’I guess I should shower. How long have I been out?’
Grey looked out to find that it was dark again. Had he slept through the entire day? ’I’ll have to ask the old woman to see. But first...’
He hurried to take a shower. Lucky for him, there was a laundry service, which was actually just him throwing his clothes into a vent and them coming back seconds later nicely pressed and refreshed.
Grey ignored it, though, sitting on his bed and flicking through the tutorial for the first ti.
’Damn, it is right there.’
The first thing Grey looked up was this talk of nobility and Registration. It turned out that one could beco a knight by finding a special ruin that ca with a higher-order challenge.
However, if one wanted to beco a minor noble or even a nad noble like a baron, more than just that was necessary.
’They need to find two of those and find a sacrifice for the Holy Goddess to beco a minor noble. They need five and the sacrifice of a Holy Goddess to beco a baron.’
Grey nodded to himself.
There wasn’t anything else in the tutorial that detailed such a clear path to nobility.
The only other way to beco a knight, for example, was to gain the acknowledgnt of an active knight, beco a squire, and then gain enough battle achievents to eventually be knighted by the Holy Goddess.
The "how" was all very vague. Even for minor noble and baron status, it only vaguely ntioned battle achievents and such.
It was no wonder the Great Udon was so smug. Registration was the best chance to do all of this. Afterward, it beca several tis more difficult.
’Hm? What’s this?... Arc one...?’
Grey’s gaze flickered as he paused.
’Interesting...’
It seed that this "season" of the Genesis Gas functioned in terms of arcs. There were the individual storylines of the people participating, but there was a larger, overarching plotline that the entire Genesis World followed.
Arc one signified the first leg of this overarching plotline. However, there was no clear information about what this arc entailed, how it would end, or anything of the sort.
The only thing the tutorial said was that every arc ended with a "cataclysmic" event. When this event occurred, the world would collapse.
This was all very vague. But it gave Grey an idea.
If he could figure out the plotline he was dealing with, that would probably be a good thing, no?
He already had a thread to pull on. No, in fact, he had two.
’The Goblins and the chanical Jaw Lineage... but it wouldn’t be so coincidental, right? I actually think the latter might be far more important.’
Grey closed the tutorial window, feeling like he had covered enough. After ordering food and stuffing his face, he left with nothing more than a dagger on his hip.
...
"Hey, miss, can you tell
how long it’s been?"
"It’s been 15 hours," the donkey-tailed old lady replied as Grey walked by.
"Gotcha. Has anyone else co to register?"
"I cannot tell you that."
Grey’s steps paused and he walked back to the counter. "Let
see the apartnts, please. There are only nine hours left until I might be kicked out, so I’d like to see how many more chances I have."
The old lady didn’t resist as Grey pulled up the list. There were, indeed, so apartnts lit up, but not many. From Grey’s count, there were 54 available apartnts, and only eight of them had been used up.
Seems not skipping sleep was a good idea.
’Making it around the rules of these NPCs isn’t that difficult either,’ Grey thought, closing the book.
"Thank you."
Grey left the cul-de-sac.
’I can level up my stats now. But doing that is easy. I just have to go out and kill monsters and the stats will co. What’s far more valuable are the Abilities. The trouble is getting them is far more difficult.’
Sure, Grey could improve his stats with ease. But all of that wasn’t as good as one Goblin Warlord Spirit.
Sabrina’s physical stats were probably pitiful considering how easily he had killed her after getting close, but that staff made her a difficult opponent to deal with nonetheless.
’If I can’t find what I’m looking for in the city, I’ll just have to head out then.’
Grey believed he had made the smartest choice by resting. This wasn’t just because he was tired in ways the other participants, who had had Safe Rooms and ti, couldn’t understand, but because forcing the issue would have left him on his back foot.
If he tried to go after Joaquin the mont Registration began, for example, the concentration of participants would have been so high that he could easily find himself surrounded.
With how amped up they had been, that was the obvious conclusion.
However, if he went now, by this point everyone was so focused on hunting down Registration Altars that they had likely dispersed.
So of them would still be in teams and near one another, but if he was careful enough, he could co out on top.
The only reason he didn’t do this was because of one simple question...
How would he find Joaquin?
By now, he could be anywhere, with anyone.
No.
It was just like his ti in the ring. You couldn’t just be on your back foot, reading and reacting to everything the opponent did. If you wanted to win a match, you needed to counterpunch, you needed to take control of the pace yourself sotis.
The first step of that was making sure he was as fresh as a daisy.
The next step was establishing himself well enough in the city that even if they ca back nobles, they would have a hard ti doing much of anything.
Grey’s steps suddenly paused.
’Hm?’
Sothing was blinking at the corner of his status screen.
’Sponsor...?’
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