3 Hours passed by as Mothy ran all over the novice village, fulfilling Roderick’s quest bit by bit. Meeting the village herbalist Vanesa, general goods store head Rickard, village militia leader Robert and a few others. Mothy managed to get 72 copper coins , 15 weak minor healing potions, 5 weak minor mana potions and 5 weak minor stamina potions. Returning to the smithy he saw Roderick sitting and reading the same letter he delivered before from Thomas.
I am back Roderick, I completed your task.
Ah yeah, the errands, good job Mothy. Did you have enough money?
Yes.
Good, now I will bestow upon you the skills of mining and smiting. For mining you will obviously will need a mining pickaxe, you will need to find various ores and rare stones to level up your mining, but even then it will require a lot of work and effort. The rarer the ores you find the more exp you will get. As for smiting you will need a hammer, forge and an anvil, I will provide you with a hammer and some basic recipes, but for more you will need to find other teachers or find. Buy it from someone else. As a bonus reward I will give you some ores to make your first recipe.
*Ding* you have received your rewards: mining skill, smiting skill. To access your new skills think crafting window to open the interface for them.
Awesome, is there anything else I could do for you smith Roderick?
No, but thanks for asking Mothy. You should venture out to the wilds and gain experience. And if you grow mighty enough I just might have something for you to do. Ah by the way there are several recluses out there in the wilds if you meet them you might get some task from them. There are 3 hermits out there. A dwarf warrior Thorgrim, a grizzled veteran who has for some reason wandered into our village some years ago and decided to stay around. Then there’s the Elf, Diana is her name, but be careful around her. She is a shifty one for an elf, reeking of a thief if you ask me, but for now she is a huntress, sometimes she trades game with the village, and she too arrived a few years ago and decided to stay. And last but not the least is the human mage Alfred, a wise man indeed and when we meet problems that our village head can’t solve we ask him for advice if you want to learn some magic he is the one to go. Now run along young one.
I will, just want to try the smiting recipe you gave me.
Indeed, the forge and anvil are in the back, feel free to use it for free.
Mothy went towards the back near the forge and opened the crafting interface. In there he saw his two crafting skills, he selected smiting and a further window opened showing his available recipes.
Crafting: Smiting
Available recipes: 5
Novice recipes:
1. Rough sharpening stone ( 2 rough flint stones, 1 linen )
2. Rough weighting stone ( 2 rough flint stones, 1 linen )
3.Rough low quality iron sword ( 2 low quality iron bars, 1 wooden log)
4.Rough low quality iron plated round shield ( 2 low quality iron, 3 wood logs)
5.Rough low quality iron rimmed round shield ( 1 low quality iron, 3 wood logs)
Crafting level: Novice
Crafting EXP: 0/1000
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Hmm, I can make 1 low quality iron swords and 1 low quality iron played round shield, and still have enough materials to make another sword.
Mothy began crafting, a bit disappointed that the crafting was so simple, just selecting the recipe and then hammering at the item outline. The sword came out first, having normal stats of 3-7 attack and 100 durability. The shield on the other hand had 5 physical defence and 100 durability. Mothy decided to make the second sword right away and as he was making it, suddenly he heard.
*Ding* Congratulations your crafting of rough low quality iron sword critically succeeded, coming out as a rough mid quality iron sword. 6 – 14 attack, 100 durability.
Damn, awesome. This sword shall make me invincible mwuhahahaah. Just joking, but it’s nice anyway. Now let’s go to the village square and sell the first sword.
Moving towards the square Mothy heard various things about the locations, monsters and exploits of other players. And just as he entered the square he heard.
*Ding* Server Announcement: Congratulations to players of party Faze, for killing the first low stage bronze boss monster! Their deeds shall be recorded in the hall of fame and they shall receive 100 reputation towards the kingdom of Estrea and 20 silvers each. We hope you continue to challenge yourselves further!
Wow these guys are as competitive as always, these esport teams just continued to grow in scale when the VR hit the market. Now quite a few of them are even more known than famous athletes in real sports. But that’s how the youth is they, like the flashy guys. Now to find a spot for my shop, ah there’s some space in the norther part of the square, got to hurry.
Once Mothy reached his free spot in the norther part, he quickly opened the shop window selecting sell, and a small carpet appeared with a wooden plaque on it with the words N13 SELLING in bold red letters, then he put the rough iron sword in the middle of the carpet and waited for someone to take interest. At first he was thinking to yell about his merchandise but the constant flow of messages and yells would make it almost a futile effort. After waiting for 5 minutes he still decided to try at least once and sent a message into the chat.
Selling a sword, 3-7 attack damage and 100 durability. Northern part of the square, N13 space.
But as the message seemed to go unnoticed, as more and more time passed. Mothy almost started giving up, but then finally a interested person appeared.
Hello, how much is the sword? Asked a young girl, with blond pigtails and average looks.
Hello, it is 5s or something that I could use, like armour or something.
Hmm, it’s a bit expensive for those stats, maybe you could go lower?
Sorry, I can’t I spent a lot of trying to make it. Mothy lied, but he just couldn’t go easy, he wanted to get a good amount for his sword even if he had to make some small lies.
Could, you wait a bit I will call some of my friends maybe they will be interested in your sword and have something to exchange for it.
Take your while, since it doesn’t seem like anyone else will come for the time being.
10 minutes passed and a small group of female adventurers arrived near Mothys stall. After taking a look at the sword and slightly discussing between themselves, the one who seems to be their leader finally came to Mothy,
Hello, I am the leader of our group, Leandra. I wonder if we could pay a part of the sum and trade you a few items that you might find useful.
That depends on what kind of items they are.
A pair of bracers with +1 physical defence and a helmet with +3 physical defence. As for the money we would pay 1 silver.
Ah, well alright I accept since it doesn’t seem that anyone else would take interest. Let’s trade.
After trading the items, Mothy equipped them and felt a bit more durable. Being a bit amazed about this strange yet good feeling, he decided it was time to contact his friends and find them. After bidding goodbye to the group of girls he went towards a more secluded and less populated area.
Using the VR integrated Discord app function he called his friends.
Well look who finally decided to call us, did you get struck dumb by the awesome of VR and forget us?
Robert, the game is indeed amazing but not that amazing to let be become awestruck, I just simply got busy with my first quest in this game.
Oh you got a quest already? That was quick, anything good?
Yep, got myself the mining and smiting professions and a better weapon and also a shield. By the way where are you guys?
Well I and Ivan are in the 2413 novice village as for Robert he is in 1834 village and I don’t fucking know where Darius is since he just got here too. (Pasha)
Wait what, there are different villages? (Mothy)
Have you gotten stupid Mothy, of course there are different villages, one village can’t contain all the players, it’s a single server in the whole world, how do you think they would all fit in a single village?(Pasha)
I am in village 9614 (Darius)
How do I check in which village am I? (Mothy)
Look at your chats left corner, there is a small icon and your location should be written there, if you are in the village right now it should show what number it is. (Pasha)
Oh I’m in the same village as Darius! Nice, let’s meet up. By the way when can we all meet up and what are your in game nicks? (Mothy)
Darius is Seike, Robert is Rimts, Ivan is Iwinx and mine is TotalPeisha. We will be able to meet once you hit level 10 and complete the ending quest to move onto the city. (Pasha)
Ok I am going to add you all into the friend list. (Mothy)
Quickly adding all of them, their names turned green, indicating that they are online. Then he sent a party invite to Seike and went to meet him.