Because Vice already had know all about newbie knowledge, he saved his question about quest later.
“Chief, why this village called New Cursed, it feels like, hmmm, eerie. Is this village cursed or what?”
Chief Vor stared on him sharply, it made him shunder a bit. And then Chief smile,” Hahahah, no way this village cursed. It just name. but we, all residents have come from real cursed village, we call this village New Cursed Village, for remind us about our old village. And make our children don’t try to go to that place.
Anyone enter cursed area will gradually lost their life until their death if they haven’t leave. Its located about a day walk to north from here. so you too don’t go there boy.”
But, Vice thought, they should ask help from Church for purify that place. They had experts about purifying cursed item, and people, they should can purify a village.
“Ah, we did that before, we asked help from Freya Church, they even sent their best priests to do the purifying ritual, but it was futile. They said the cursed too strong beyond their power so they gave up.”
Oh so it was like that,Churh of Freya was one of biggest Church in Human Continent, if they couldn’t do it, that curse might be real deal, extraordinary. But why was curse like that in place like this.
Vice thought he would take a look on that place later. He hafto build his character first. And on initial stage, every players could take beginner quest from Chief or villager, or went to the field immediately to hunt some monster. Vice choosed to take beginner quest.
“Chief, give me work.”
“Oh, sure, I got some request from villager. The inn owner needed help to move some barrels from river port. Go to port and find Ruci, he will tell you the rest.”
Quest: Inn Owner RequestInn Owner, Pole, asked help to Village Chief to find someone to help him carry his stocks from riverport. You have to bring all barrels and Boxes from river port.Rank: F
Reward: Unknown
He ran to river port. He saw big river on the south village while he was running. After arrived, he estimated the river about 100 meters wide. Quite large for this small village. This village was considered small, with total 110 populations and 25 families.
He found cottage on riverside, with name plate written “Ruci Warehouse”. He walked to the man who was stood on the edge watched ship harboured.
“Hurry up guys, do it before noon, and you can rest for today. Hurry hurry.”
“Hello sir, I come here to do quest from Chief, for deliver barrels to inn.”
“Ah, all Pole’s stuff, you can take from warehouse, bring all barrels and boxes with Pole’s name written. Be careful while bring it boy, because some fragile item inside easy to broken just from small impact.”
Vice went to warehouse and found barrels and boxes. Their size was normal about a big hug an adult, but the number was too many.
“What the hell, all wood containers here written Pole?! 50 totals here, Sir!”
“That’s right, that why Pole lazy to carrying them himself. Hurry bring them, I want use warehouse for another stocks.”
Vice tried to lift a barrel. Very heavy, he didn’t know what inside but he carried it on his shoulder. He walked slowly toward Inn. After he arrived at inn, he put down the barrel slowly and than he fall back on the floor, exhausted.
..Heehh…heehhh…
He tried to breathe in a lot to try recover his breath. Even inside game, if someone unable to breath, it would affect his status, like decreased health and stamina, recovery would stopped, even death like real life. But there were no players would stupid enough to try die by hold his breath, because the pain was like in real life.
“Oh, newcomer came carried my stocks. What with you boy? Just brought one barrel and you tired already. What a pathetic! Why Chief sent a weak like you.”
Even what Inn owner said was true, it was realy hurt. Vice still Level 1, so he took beginner quest, but this quest too much for his level. He had to brought this heavy load for a half kilometer. Beginner quests in other beginner village weren’t this hard.
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“It can’t help, Sir. What you expect from level 1 like me?”
“Ok. Ok, just finish it before sun set!”
Vice returned to his quest, he brought another barrel, and another, one by one. After he carried the 33th box, he got message.
Ding* Stamina has risen by 1 point (Stamina +1)
By carried barrels, he had got stamina. Although he knew a player can get increased stats by a certain activity, but he had got it this fast is surprising. Before he had reseted his character, he sometimes got increase stat, but it had happened after several days. And now he had got just on first day his work. It made Vice entusiasted.
He took out a bread from his bag. He ate it, so his stamina increased. Stamina needed to make any movement. If someone lacked stamina, he would have hard time to move, or executed skill in the battle. To replenish it could be by stop move and rest, or eat and drink. But by eating and drinking would only work once, and had to wait sometime before eating could fill stamina again, usually when a player felt hungry.
He got 10 breads, a bottle of water, and a beginner sword free as starting gift.
After finished his quest, he found inn owner to report his quest.
Quest: Inn Owner Request CompletedYou had delivered all barrels and boxes to Inn.Rank: F
Reward:
- Fame +1
- Familiarity with New Cursed Village +1
Owner thanked to him and gave 20 copper coins for reward. Not bad. A single bread cost 5 copper each. So he could buy 4 breads. He had to gather money before he start his real game.
This quest increased 20% of experience.
He returned to Chief to get another quest.
“Ah, lad you returned. I have another request from Old lady Baba. She asked help to farm her apple in her garden. Go on help her.”
Quest: Old Lady Baba RequestOld Lady Baba need help to pick apples from her garden. If you help her, she will reward you as her gratitude.Rank: F
Reward: Unknown
After Vice arrived at Old Lady Baba, he met her was picking apples with a ladder in garden behind her house.
“Ah you young lad, so Chief told you to help me. Take that ladder, and carry that basket and start pick apple, we have to finish today.”
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Vice nodded and carried huge basket on his back and brough ladder from behind house. He counted this garden have more 34 apple trees with a lot ripen apples. And he started to pick the apples one-by one.
In middle of picking apples, he had got AGL +1.
After filled 13 baskets with full apples, he had finished this task.
Quest: Old Lady Baba Request CompletedYou have helped Old Lady Baba pick all apples in her garden.Rank: F
Reward:
- Fame +1
- Familiarity with New Cursed Village +1
He got 25 silver from Old lady. His experience was increased by 30%.
After he finished this quest, sun almost set. And he return to Chief. He found him there sat on the bench with a little boy around 8 years old. They ate a bowl of hot soup together.
“Oh, you boy, you finished come here,come join us eat soup! Din, go to home and bring a bowl soup from mother to this brother.”
“Okay.” And the kid ran to house and returned with a bowl soup. He gave it to Vice.
“Eat it Lad, I bet you didn’t eat tonight.”
After quest from old lady Baba, he didn’t eat a single bread, so he was really hungry.
Vice nodded and stuffed a mouthful soup by spoon. It was just a normal vegetable soup, but he could taste all ingredient mixed. Spinach and carrot, with corn. Even nothing special, but it was very delicious.
Ding*
Stamina has risen by 1 point (Stamina +1)
Wow, he got stamina increased just eat this soup. He curious about this but when he asked Chief, He don’t know. This soup don’t have any special effect like increased stamina.
This night, he had to increase his level while all villager sleep. He couldn’t get any quest from them this night.
He went to field outside village. after he equipped with beginner sword he went to find monster.
Beginner SwordAttack 1-2TypeOne Hand SwordDurability:-Quality:UnrankedA default sword given to every new player. Very weak on attack but unable to destroyed. Unable to sold or traded but able to be thrown.
He found a slime was walking slowly 5 meters before him.
That slime was beginner monster, the weakest. It was special monster for newbie or noob.
Brandished his sword he ran to the slime and slashed it before it noticed he came. BUk… something was weird, he saw his didn’t even reach the slime while it was walking slowly to his direction. Are…? What was happen? he asked in his mind. He was pondering the reason his body would not move like he wanted.
-9 HP
He got a hit by slime because he was thinking too long. He slashed and stabbed on the sticky body continuously.
-12 HP . -11 HP. -11 HP……
He needed 10 attacks to kill this creature. And suffered 5 attacks from the slime. He realized he didn’t have same body like he had used. Because he still thought he was inside his old avatar with his strength, he assumed his body could kill the slime easily. But his first attack didn’t reach the slime at all made him dumbfounded. And now he would need 10 attacks if he wanted to kill the slime. He now had realized how weak he was.
After the slime had died, it dropped 1 copper. His exp bar was increased by 2% and filled total 52% exp bar. He need 24 more slimes to level up. This monster was created to beginner, it had a massive number, easy to kill solo, and sometimes monster drop 1 copper. So if a player only grinding on slimes, he wont have to worry about eat. But who could endure killing slime without level up and went to another city for new adventure.
He walked around to find more slimes.
For every slime, he was lost around 40 HP, so he had to wait for his HP recovering if his HP fell below 50%. And after he had killed some slime his level was increased. He added bonus stat to STR and increased attack to 16.
At night, monster in Second Terra became stronger. They got 50% increased for their stats. But they dropped better rewards and had additional experience point by 30%. But level 1 monsters wasn’t very great.
After he had reached level 2, he continued his hunting. Every slime only gave 1% exp now. This night Vice only killed slimes. He never changed his target. He spent his night to make field filled with slime corpses. He stabbed, slashed, and sliced every slimed that entered his sight.
Because no other players was in this area, he only hunted alone. Using his experiences before he had reseted, he kept kill slimes for 8 hours straight. Sometimes, he got drop
When his satiety was depleted, he ate his bread and continue hunting. Until he got message
Ding*
New stat created: Fighting SpiritYou can call on superhuman strength temporarily, or bring weaker monsters to their knees with your force of will from your eyes alone. You are prohibited from distributing any bonus points to this stat, and it will rise spontaneously, depending on the avatar’s action, or especially if you're fight monsters for a long time, or often confront monsters stronger than your current level.
New stat: EnduranceYou’re likely to use less stamina from an action. You are prohibited from distributing any bonus points to this stat.
And he got skill battle related too.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Sword MasteryBasic10%Increase attack power by sword by 10%
Increase attack speed by sword by 5%
He stopped his hunting at the dawn.
Ding*
Strenght has risen by 1 point (Strenght +1)
Stamina has risen by 1 point (Stamina +1)
Agility has risen by 1 point (Agility +1)
Endurance has risen by 1 point (Endurance +1)
From his hunting he earned 3 level and now level 4 after killed hundreds slimes. He spend all his points to STR. He got another 1 silvers. He got 19
But from this level onwards, he wont get any experience anymore from beginner class monsters. It was one of beginner monsters characteristic, once players reached a certain level, beginner monster only give drop without experience. Players had to go to other area to find stronger monster with class Normal at minimum.
Monster class divided to 7 ranks. From the lowest is Beginner > Normal > Special > Elite > Boss > Ancient > Forbidden > God. And in this game, the highest rank monster in this game had been found is Boss class until now.
He knew if he kept grinding monster, he had chance raise his stat free. Even it was very rare case because it required great patience. He had found it when he play alone. When he was playing in party, he never get bonus stat. That the reason he only killed slimes to night.
He returned to village the dawn and went to then inn. He needed to buy some breads because he had ran out of breads. In this village restaurant was part of inn. He spent all his money for bread. He got 10 breads for 50 copper leaving him 50 coppers on pocket. One silver equal to 100 coppers.
He used the left money to buy 10 that could heal 50 HP for 1 minute (5 copper each). He didn’t understand why inn selling potion. Normally only pharmacy would sell them, but Pole said because this village population few, so he had to do multiple business because no one opened pharmacy shop. Not a lot would buy his potions because no adventure passed this village for several months. And villager would only buy sometimes. So a normal pharmacy shop woult not last long in this business.
Guah… this village really was isolated. When he asked last time outsider-player-like him visited this village. Pole gave answer one and a half years a ago. That was too long. By compared with speed rate in-game:real life was 4:1, the last player visited this village is one and a half months after Second terra launched.
Because still early morning, Vice decided to hunt some slimes on the field. He had been hunt for 2 hours before he stopped. He wiped his sweat and walked to village.
On the village gate, he saw Din, Chief’s son was walking towards forest with a short stick in his hand. He was walking slowly and sometimes turned his head with wary on his face if someones was following him. Sometimes slimes would get in his way but the boy killed them with two hits. He shocked how strong was the boy.
When the boy busy faced 3 slimes at same time, he came closer. He tapped the Din’s shoulder to call him. Din startled and turned his body suddenly.
BUaaakkk….!
Without a chance to understand, Vice’s body had flown 3 meters backwards as huge impact hit his face with 89 HP lost. He felt his face hurt suddenly as he was stunned for 2 seconds because huge damage he received.
“Ops…!” Din muttered and stuck his tongue. “Sorry!”