The wheel started to spin. It was loud and I could feel how great this thing was. With every spin, my whole body felt the vibrations. After a while, the arrow pointed at “Rare and lesser.”
[ Eric ]
“What does it mean?” I asked.
[ Loki ]
“It’s simple. Now you’ll spin two wheels, one with a rare ability that I wouldn’t even think to give you for that simple quest. And the second wheel will be with abilities that were going to be your reward.”
Luck is on my side! Now I’ll get normal skill and something cool! Both wheels were as big as me and there were less than sixty possibilities. First was the normal skill. It stopped on “Lucky Throw” and after that was “Fire Breathing” which sounded cool but I can’t complain… On the wheel with rare abilities, an arrow pointed at “False Fear”.
[ Eric ]
“So… What are those skills?”
[ Loki ]
“You can guess what ‘Lucky Throw’ is by its name. It gives you a ten percent chance of doing double damage by throwing. There is a chance that if you throw an ax it will be like you threw two at once.”
[ Eric ]
“Hmm… That’s cool… I guess…”
[ Loki ]
“And False Fear is a skill that changes your presence for everyone. Even stronger people than you will feel like a god is standing in front of them. But it doesn’t work on monsters…”
[ Eric ]
“Still good. I guess… See you next time?”
[ Loki ]
“Not like I want that… but… with your luck…”
When I opened my eyes I was in a cave again. My back and my chest didn’t hurt anymore and I didn’t have a taste of blood in my mouth. I was completely healed. I looked around. Beside me was a dead bear and further away… was Tae… His arm was still shattered. I ran toward him. He was still bleeding. I held him close to me.
[ Eric ]
“Frejr! Please! Help the one you blessed! Do you don’t care?” I was going to cry but then Tae started to move again.
[ Tae ]
“What are you doing?”
[ Eric ]
I just simply dropped him and said “I was checking if you had any coins on you…”
[ Tae ]
“Ouch! WHAT?!”
[ Eric ]
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“Anyway… Now that you’re awake… You can help me with digging the way out!” I said as I threw a pickaxe at him. He just answered me with a disappointed chuckle...
While we were digging I noticed that Tae’s arm wasn’t completely healed. I could see that with every swing of the pickaxe he was flinching. The longer I was looking the more annoyed I was.
[ Eric ]
“Isn’t your arm healed?” I asked.
[ Tae ]
“It was but since I didn’t complete any quest like you I couldn’t get a better reward.”
[ Eric ]
“So why did Frejr reward you?”
[ Tae ]
“For helping a comrade.”
After around twenty minutes of digging, we finally had a way out. Pickaxes were completely wracked so we left them but I couldn’t leave without any trophy. Since the bear was dead he couldn’t use magic and he had no armor on him. I slowly chopped off his head with my small ax.
[ Tae ]
“You’re taking its head? Why?” Asked Tae.
[ Eric ]
“First to show people that we killed it… and second… For money!!!”
[ Tae ]
“I should’ve known…”
The head was too heavy but I didn’t like the idea of dragging it because I might damage the head. We all know that damaged goods are worth less than they would in a perfect state. I took off Tae's cloak and placed the head on it. Now I won’t damage it and I can drag it.
[ Tae ]
“What are you doing with my cloak?!”
[ Eric ]
“Using it?”
[ Tae ]
“But why mine?!”
[ Eric ]
“I’ll buy you a new one so shut up…”
When we arrived at the village once again we got everyone's attention. We went to Galmar’s stand since I’m on good terms with him. Before he said anything he just sat there in shock.
[ Galmar ]
“Is that what I think it is?”
[ Eric ]
“Yup… It’s Rock Bear’s head.”
[ Galmar ]
“It can’t… How much do you want?”
[ Eric ]
“For how much will you sell it?”
[ Galmar ]
“It can be sold for fifty… no, sixty silver coins”
[ Eric ]
“Then I’ll sell it to you for twenty five. How is that?”
[ Galmar ]
“No, I can’t… It’s worth much more…”
[ Eric ]
“I’ll sell it for twenty five and you’ll help me take the rest of the body.”
[ Galmar ]
“You said… rest of the body? It’ll be worth a gold coin if not two!”
[ Eric ]
“Great! Then I’ll sell everything for sixty silver coins.”
[ Galmar ]
“Are you sure?”
[ Eric ]
“Yup. I already got so much for killing it.”
[ Galmar ]
“What do you mean?”
[ Eric ]
“I would show you but… It might be too much for you… Let’s just say I have new powers.”
After our discussions, me, Galmar, and Tae took the rest of the body to the village. This time more people gathered to see it. We were even welcomed with applause. Also, Jarl came to see it, and like always he thanked on his knees for killing the monster.
He is too polite for a Viking…