''Yup, the chief of the village wanted me to give this letter to you,'' I said while holding the letter and showing it to him.

After he saw the letter and when his hand was about to reach it, his hand suddenly changed directions and he grabbed my wrist and without waiting for me to react, he quickly pushed me inside his home and without thinking twice he hurriedly closed the door as if afraid someone would see him.

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My mind was completely blank, I stood there dumbfounded while still having the letter in my hand,

Perhaps the man realized what he just did so he turned his head towards the dumbfounded me and said,

'' *Cough* *cough* Hehe... I am sorry missy, you just really surprised me there'' while wryly smiling at me

You were surprised you say?, I am the one supposed to be surprised!! Why would you even have to be surprised ?!?

I quickly calmed down and only looked at him suspiciously. At first, it was the village's chief and now he is also acting as suspicious as the chief...

Perhaps seeing me looking at him suspiciously he quickly grabbed the letter from my hands and as quickly as before he read the contents of the letter.

When I saw his hands I could not help but look at him more carefully.

His hands were filled with calluses, there are also cut marks everywhere as if done by a weapon like a sword, he has a sturdy body as if he was a mountain who would not fall down no matter what, his face was average, and he unconsciously released some type of energy that I could not identify.

When I turned to look at his eyes, I realized that he was also looking at me as if studying me.

''Missy, I really have to thank you for giving this to me... hmm...'' he said while rubbing his chin and after hesitating a little he said, ''You see, this letter has the location of something I really need but I don't have enough time to go and look for it, could you look for that item for me?''

Without thinking twice I quickly agreed, ''Yes!''

Blacksmith J. R. has entrusted a quest to the player.

While receiving the notification I immediately heard the blacksmith continue talking,

''That's excellent missy! I promise you that you will not regret helping me!'' he said while loudly laughing and not until a long time passed did he continue, ''You will need this-'' he quickly gave a piece of paper that had the image of an herb including information regarding that herb, ''and you will need a weapon to protect yourself.''

After saying that he asked for me to follow him and when I arrived in the basement I saw rows of different types of weapons, bows, swords, spears, axes, caltrops, flails, daggers... every type of weapons that I could think of I was able to see it in this basement.

''Hahaha... You can choose any weapon you want while you are here.''

I was quite excited to get a weapon, because why not?

Having one will not hurt anyone... well, will not hurt me.

I rushed and picked the first weapon I saw but somehow... it did not feel right? It felt as if something was pushing me out and I felt uncomfortable.

Without thinking twice I quickly put that weapon where it was and that feeling instantly disappeared.

I did not have any time to think about that so I only kept doing the same and not until a long time passed did I realized that the same feeling happened while I held all the weapons here.

I could not help but turn my eyes towards the blacksmith only to see him asleep in the couch with drool falling from his mouth...

With my lips twitching I was about to wake him up when I saw something with the corners of my eyes

I turned to look at the thing that my eyes caught and when I felt the familiar feeling but this one was not like the other weapons, instead it felt as if I was being attracted to this one.

I was excited until I saw the thing that was attracting me... it was a 'Guqin'

What is a Chinese instrument even doing here???

When I touched the guzheng, I instantly heard the blacksmith's laughter again,

''Hahaha, it seems that the missy finally found her weapon. Oh? that is an interesting thing you have there missy.'' When he saw the thing in my hands he only looked shocked for a few seconds before he returned to normal.

''Well, with this you will be safe. Oh, you can also have this'' after saying that he gave me an empty leather bag and asked me to leave.

I calmly took the leather bag, attached it to my waist and I was soon in the forest on the way to the village.

Why would I need a leather bag while I have an inventory? well, it's because there is limited space on the inventory given by the system, though it can be increased. The space of the inventory is only 10 which I was already using 10, the only difference of the inventory and the leather bag is that the things it can inventory cannot be stolen but the things in the leather bag are able to be stolen.

This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

I still can store many things in the leather bag as if it was the inventory but the more things the leather bag has, the more weight it has... and the only way to decrease the weight is to inscribe runes in the leather bag and depending on the materials of the bag it can also have more runes inscribed on it.

And in order to increase the space in the inventory, the players have to learn the ancient space magic which is said to be the harder magic to comprehend and cultivators have to be at a certain stage to be able to increase it.

While thinking about that, I was not able to hear the noises behind me until I heard a painful groan did I turn to look at that direction only to see a bunch of players fighting against a group of goblins.

Immediately realizing what was happening I quickly turned around in order to run away because, why not? Should I save those people just because they are players like me?

Unfortunately, I am not one of those people who would save anyone just because they need help...

But when I was about to escape, I heard the heavy steps of someone running in my direction and I curiously looked behind me once again only to want to curse the eight generations of that person,

He was running in my direction while eagerly shouting as if he was finally saved, ''Help!! Help!! Please help us!''

'Hell no!'

I thought while running away, why would someone even want to help you?

Don't you see all those goblins behind you?

When I a certain distance away I turned to look at that direction again only to see all those goblins running towards me.

'F*ck' I once again ran but this time my direction was the forest and after a few seconds I climbed on a tree in hopes of the goblins ignoring me but I forgot one crucial fact in my panic.

Goblins have an excellent sense of smell, especially when it comes to women, children, and elves. They can even smell metal, making them dangerous to anyone wearing metal armor. They also have excellent night vision.

When I finally saw the goblins again and stopping in front of the tree while sniffing did I remember their sense of smell...

I nervously reached the sword in my waist I managed to buy from the blacksmith before leaving and while mentally preparing myself I turned to look at the goblins only to see them looking at another direction,

I curiously looked at the same direction and saw the man I bumped with whom I collided when I was walking towards the chief's residence.

When I saw his cold eyes looking at me I could not help but feel my entire body shudder and when he turned to look at the goblins he slightly sighed before taking a spear out of nowhere.

He rushed toward the goblins without thinking twice and he swung his spear at the head of the first goblin easily severing it from its body, when the other goblins saw that, they immediately rushed at the man without any formation, strategy whatsoever.

When he saw them rushing at him, he smirked while muttering something I was not able to hear

He quickly stabbed another goblin in the head and kicked another one that was about to hit him with it a branch from a tree, after that goblin fell to the ground, the final goblin grabbed a rock from the ground and threw it to him which he only grabbed it with his hand and equally threw it to the same goblin directly hitting its head while making a loud sound before the goblin fell on the ground never to wake up again.

I was extremely shocked because he easily dealt with that many goblins as if they were only ants that are meant to be stepped on.

When I saw his cold eyes in my direction again, I could not help but tremble in fear.

Fortunately, I have the option to censor the gore or I would not be able to handle anything happening because as I said before, I don't like frightening things.

When I saw him awkwardly waving at me, I could not help but be flustered,

What is he doing? waving at me? eh?

Perhaps remembering something, his eyes suddenly contracted before he calmly took his hand down and went on his way as if nothing happened.

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My best friend... this time I can help you.

1,591 words (Exluding flashback)