“According to what I just read, this artifact should be able to heal my leg?” said Biff to himself, still being bewildered by the sudden situation. These knew big changes came way too fast.
“Can this be real?!” certain artifacts had incredible power, so his leg being healed wasn’t so hard to believe.
There were a lot of question marks, and things appeared too good to be true at a first glance. Thankfully, the veridicity of some of these aspects could be demonstrated pretty easily.
“Alright… Let’s calm down and think this through…” Biff walked around his room for a couple of minutes to cool his head. Sitting on the bed, he massaged his temples. “Apparently, If I touch some of these words, I can get additional information.”
Slowly moving his finger, he touched the ‘absorb’ word that was right next to the ‘status’ one. In a split second, the information displayed in front of him quickly changed.
Status
Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
Can absorb the essence of a creature’s corpse.
Note: If too much time passes from the moment the creature was killed, the absorption is not possible.
Available targets in the vicinity: None
“Hmm…it looks like this artifact needs to be charged up this way in order to work. Seems logical, after all, making something from nothing can be done only by God.”
With this information, the trustworthiness of the artifact went up by a bit. Holding his excitement in check, Biff calmly pondered about some of these aspects. Soon enough, he will be able to have additional, and more solid proof. In case everything turned out to be a scam, or a very exaggerated joke, Biff wanted to have the minimal amount of expectations. That way, he wouldn’t be too heartbroken.
Next, he checked the skills' menu.
Status
Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
Farming skills: None
Combat skills: None
“Fair enough!” Biff was a little disappointed by the absence of any abilities. “Maybe it shows only the abilities that I show after equipping the device…” adopting a boxing stance, he started to punch around, imagining he was fighting an imaginative figure.
After a few minutes, nothing happened. “If only skills would be so easy to acquire…” the possibility of him acquiring skills this way, skills that would be acknowledged by the artifact, could not be totally excluded. “Maybe if I invest more time in such actions, I would be able to see some results.” That, however, was out of the question at this moment, after all, he had more pressing matters to attend to. “Let’s go next.”
Status
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Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
Farming: No blueprints
Fighting: No blueprints
Biff chuckled. “I see…” in a way, it was pretty logical to have a plan for anything that you wanted to craft. Otherwise, the end product would be something without any purpose, or functionality, depending on the case. “Next.”
Status
Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
There were twenty slots in total, and sadly, nothing was present inside. “I wonder how this works…” getting off the bed, Biff went towards the kitchen and took a knife in his hand. “Store!”
A subtle wave of light extended from the watch to the object he was holding. Then, in the blink of an eye, the knife disappeared from his hand, and appeared in his inventory.
Status
Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
1x kitchen knife
The process was magical, and very hard to understand. “Take out kitchen knife!” the knife appeared yet again in his hand. This time, Biff took the knife, and tried to insert in manually into the first square. Surprisingly, it worked just fine. The same applied to extracting the item as well. He could simply just extend his hand, and grab at the text in the first square, and slowly, or rapidly pull it out to retrieve the kitchen knife.
Biff started to laugh, and needed a few moments to calm down yet again. “This is a very useful feature to have in an artifact.” Especially when finding some type of treasure, or rare material. With the help of the inventory, one could hide it in a very convenient approach.
There were multiple tests that needed to be done about this aspect, like the quantity, and the size permitted to be stored. Storing an entire building wasn’t something very realistic. Nonetheless, it wasn’t the appropriate time to do such a thing. “Next!”
Status
Absorb
Skills
Craft
Inventory
Store
Map
Farming:
1. Stone axe blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
2. Stone pickaxe blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
3. Iron sickle blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
4. Iron hoe blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
5. Iron rake blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
6. Modified tomatoes seeds; Cost: 1 power/piece
7. Modified potatoes seeds; Cost: 1 power/piece
8. Modified strawberries seeds; Cost: 10 power/piece
9. Special fertilizer; Cost: 100 power/10 liters
10. Improved special fertilizer; Cost: 100 power/1 liter
11. Pesticide; Cost: 10 power/1 liter
12. Non-toxic pesticide; Cost: 100 power/1 liter
13. Special, universal animal food; Cost: 10 power/kg
14. Premium quality animal food; Cost: 100 power/kg
Fighting:
1. Stone knife blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
2. Bone knife blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
3. Iron knife blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
4. Short bow blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
5. Iron arrow blueprint; Cost: 1 learning point
6. Iron sword blueprint; Cost: 2 learning points
7. Leather armor set blueprint; Cost: 3 learning points
Biff slowly went back to sit on his bed. “Interesting…” the way he could obtain all these stuff was through learning points, and power. He currently had one hundred power and six learning points.
“As things go, everything should revolve around monsters, and farming.” Biff currently had a small amount of resources in case he wanted to test things further. “What should I get?” pondering over the matter for some time, Biff decided to wait a little longer. Since those resources were limited, he wanted to use them as efficiently as possible.