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Chapter 06: Tutelage
After the sun set, Neuron had gained two strength, one dexterity, and even two in endurance.
That was because he fell down a lot, because of the thread being too weak, but it didn`t bother Neuron, because like this he could train everything, he even took back what he had thought about endurance, all because of what Kyle had said to him. He translated it to, If you work out now, you don`t have to do it later, and also what could he do, trapped inside town, for 3 more weeks.
And his Bow mastery was even close to level three.
When he went to upgrade more clothes another system message appeared
* Mana Connection has leveled up: Beginner Lv6
The thread has gotten stronger
It now costs 40 Mana per meter
When the thread is reeled back, the excessive Mana will be stored for 5min
And because of him working out so much he gained a new stat: Sustenance
* Sustenance
You are likely to use less stamina in action. You are prohibited from
distributing stat points to this stat.
It rises depending on the users action
After the sunset he went to his personal edge, took out the clothes and began to sew, Brairan seeing that went over and looked dumbfounded on what Neuron was doing, he patched up clothes, but that wasn`t the odd thing, it was how he did it. He used scraps of colors that didn`t even match and sewed them on the part of the knees for trousers, and on the elbows for shirts, but it didn`t stop there, he sewed those all over the clothes, making them look like a fool`s motley
“So what are you doing?” he asked with interest
“Well the Tailor framed me, I have to patch all those clothes to get the Tailoring skill, and if I don`t complete them this week, I’ll never be able to learn it, but he didn`t say how I should patch them up” the last part was said with a huge grin on his face
Every other person, would just have thought of this smile us upper creepy and thus distancing themselves from the boy, but not Brairan, he joined in at the smile, then sat down near him telling Neuron which scrap he should use next, both of them having a lot of fun, well they were kindred spirits after all.
“It being like this he worked through the night and somehow even finishing most of all the clothes Neuron had to patch, without the socks of course.
* Completed
179/200
But at daybreak the demeanor of Brairan suddenly changed
“Get up you runt, now show me what you can do!, Three rounds around the ground, gogogo!”
When Neuron didn`t want to stand up, Brairan took out an arrow and began hitting Neuron till he got up and started running.
Neuron not knowing what’s going on, because they were on such good terms throughout the night, jumped up and run around the ground groaning and swearing
But the instructor was only doing it to help Neuron, throughout the night he figured out his behavior. Neuron always needed a motivation, it didn`t matter if you where harsh with him, or if he was doing it for revenge, he always needed extremes to put his body and mind to the limit, but when a time like this comes, he was capable of completing monstrous tasks.
*Sorry boy, but this is the only way I can teach you, I hoped it won`t go like this, but with your character you`ll only complete the basic training if you have enough drive even if that’s only your hate for me.*
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While they were “working”, Brairan offered Neuron a quest, which he took
* New Quest: Tutelage
You have agreed to follow Brairans orders, at daytime,
till you complete the beginner archery training
Rewards:
Unknown
Neuron accepted, but only because he thought of him being a nice old man, but at daybreak everything changed.
After the day has ended, Neuron was completely exhausted, Brairan let him do sets of shooting arrows, then sprinting to gather them. Each time he missed, Brairan would hit him hard with an arrow, and as penalty, he had to sprint around the yard ones. But there was also a bright side, he didn`t have to eat Barley Bread, because Brairan provided food.
As soon as the night began Brairan changed his attitude, sitting near Neuron waiting that he pulls out the sewing utensils, but Neuron was too tired and went to sleep.
Standing up, Brairan whipped the dust from his trousers and said while covering Neuron with a blanket. “Sorry boy, but I have to do this, the world outside the city is a scary place.”
Luckily for him Neuron wasn`t fast asleep and thus heard that, if not he would have written a new enemy on his ever-growing list.
The next day:
Now Neuron was trying to run around the ground with a giant boulder tightly bound to his back with his Mana thread. His task for the day: to never let the boulder touch the ground. Each touch would imply a penalty, which he didn`t want to get.
When he shouldered the boulder a message appeared
* You are overloaded, your movement speed is decreased by 30%
your stamina will drain faster.
*How am I going to run around like this?*
Then he began to run, well ponderous would be more accurate when…
“Ooooouch!”
Neuron spun around a few times and then landed on his back, waving his hands and feet like a bug, that was turned upside down.
At this he heard huge laughter, when he looked around he saw Brairan and Warnton both lying on their backs holding their stomachs, “Look at that, just like a bug” Khuahahaha
Cursing Neuron tried to get up, but couldn`t, because of the heavy weight on his back, the only thing he achieved was more and louder laughter.
“Kuhahaha, someone haka help him, kuhaha I can`t hold kekeke any more kuahaha”, because of them both laughing Neuron didn`t know who said it, but that didn’t matter because no one got up to help him, because they were enjoying the show too much, to actually do it.
At this he only swore some more
New skill: Swear
* Swear: Passive
The censoring will be disabled for you
The object of your swear will understand every word!
To use with caution!
If the target is underage you`ll gain Infamy depending on what you say
Their Reason will lover depending on the ingenuity of what you say
Possibility of aggro rises
*Oh shit I shouldn`t have cursed so much*
“Oh come on, you shouldn`t say something like this” was the only reaction of Brairan, Warnton was simply laughing more.
When he finally got up accompanied by streaks of laughter he noticed an arrow laying by his side, “Who the hell shot this arrow at me?!”
“Guilty” said Brairan while holding up his and as if he was in school and questioned by the teacher.
He continued “Now resume your round, but this time Warnton will shoot at you, but don`t worry he isn`t as an accurate shooter as I am, and the arrows are dull, so it will just hurt, and not costing you any health points, that means, if you aren`t hit one the head Kuahaha”
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“So why did you shoot the first arrow, without even warning me?!”
“Well I wanted some fun, and the hell it was worth it!” he said, while beginning to laugh again.
“Just you spinning around would have been great, but then you fell and topped all of my expectations, hilarious!”
*Can`t ….swear….have….to endure.*
“Oh come on just continue swearing like before, I love your imagination, and your always using new combinations kekeke, I’ve actually learned something from you” Brairan said
With this he continued his round, but this time he kept his attention towards Warnton that promptly started shooting at him.
“That’s quite fun” exclaimed Warnton towards Brairan
“Well for me it isn`t!” cried out Neuron while ducking.
*Fortunately he can`t hit me when I`m far away, his aim is crap, but what, when I am about to finish the lap and come near him, he practically doesn’t have to aim at that point*
Because worrying doesn`t help In this situation, and thinking that, he also got confused, letting himself getting hit on the leg.
“Ouch!”
“I hit him!”
“Good work”
Now Neuron had to turn towards the front, dodging some arrows on the way, when he finally was 20m away Warnton stopped shooting, but took out an arrow and hit him on his behind shouting
“Faster, common, even my Grandma is faster with her trolley!”
“Yeah I bet” grunted Neuron
He had to repeat this 5 more times, till he laid on the floor, completely exhausted, he didn`t care for the arrows, that landed all around him.
“Ok, stop now!, it’s time to gather the arrows” Said Brairan, while clapping in his hands
The day before, Neuron showed them hiss current skills, and they were really interested about “Mana connection”, because they never heard of that skill, and thus they had Neuron do quite some experiments.
The result was, he now knew exactly how he could use the thread skill. One thing was, the storage of excessive mana in another bar for 5min, now he finally knew how to make use of it.
They also found out, that if Neuron made a connection towards many objects at the same time, he had to concentrate hard, with which he wanted to make the thread, if not upon activation all objects would be linked with him.
“Oh come on, I`m not some compass for missed arrows” he said while beginning to work, of course, Brairan had him touch all the arrows they shot at him beforehand, so he had to only go
through the field creating thread after thread, But while reeling the arrows back he had a problem, because they didn`t stop, before every cm of the mana thread was back inside his body, and thus he had to catch all arrows with both his hands, missing a few, which hit his Bellybutton really hard.
Doing this he even gained a new skill:
* New skill: Ambidextrous: Passive
Enables you to equip weapons with your off hand, without penalty
Slightly increases attack speed with two weapons
Slightly increases Attack damage with two weapons
After collecting all the arrows he had to shoot those arrows at the target, but simply shooting wasn’t enough for Brairan so they both tried their utmost to disturb his concentration and aiming, they whistled or blew air inside his ears, or used some arrows to whack him in critical situations, the task being to hit the target. With each arrow that missed, he had to run one more lap with that heavy boulder, while Warnton could shoot at him.
Like this half of the day passed and Neuron was utterly exhausted
*This can`t go on like this, I have to get back at that damn Tailor, but i`m too exhausted to do anything*
With that in mind he approached Brairan
“Sorry, but could we postpone our training for this week?”
“Why”
“Well I have things to do, and clothes to fix”
“Oh so you do, but can`t you fix them in like a day and then we can continue with the training?”
“Not really”
“Well then tell me what is it you have to do?”
Neuron pondered a while what he should say
“Well I have something I can only do at night”
“Ah, so you’re doing also some shady business, come on tell me I won`t be mad, I promise”
“Ok, I want to frame the tailor”
“How?”
“Secret”
He said with an apologetic grin
“Hey Warnton did you hear that he wants to get revenge on the Tailor?
“What Tailor?” came the only reply from him
“That one down this street, right?” Brairan asked, aiming the last part at Neuron
“Yeah”
“Ah, that one, do your worst, I hate this dude, every time he sees me, he talks aloud, saying, how I fit in this town, being the only weapon smith and having nothing to do”, Warnton said in disgust
“Well, then, could you tell me why you’re the only one?” asked Neuron
“Well I`m not the only smith, the other being a dwarf, Freya knows how he ended up here, but he never makes a weapon only everyday tools. Could be some oath but no one knows.” He explained. “And due to this city not being so big, they only employ a small army, if you can even call it like that, being composed of 100 soldiers.” At that he paused for a moment
“I sometimes have to make weapons for them, but they hardly train and so I don`t have to repair or forge new weapons, thus my business is stagnating and I don`t have any work”
“Don`t worry, your business will flourish soon enough” Said Neuron with a knowing look on his face
“But aren`t you happy about this, like this you can enjoy your hobby” came the reply from Brairan
“Hobby?” asked Neuron
“Well this dude is a weapon maniac, he can use any weapon, but only with the bow he has his problems Keahaha”
“Oh shut it”
While they began to argue witch weapon is the most difficult to master Neuron left them alone and walked towards his edge, sitting down, he took out the garments and began upgrading them
While working he suddenly gained another new skill
* The skill Garment investigation has been added to your Tailoring Skill
You can see, where garments are worn out
This applies to everything, a tailor can make
When Neuron looked at the clothes that had to go through his upgrading, he saw parts of them glowing in reddish light, but that didn`t matter to him right now, because he patched them everywhere
When the sun went down he finally had only 20 more to upgrade
Before that happened Neuron took all the scraps he didn`t use, because they where to plain, or kept aside because they were of dark colors, and used them to make himself a mantle, it wasn`t made from one color, but from different dark colors, like the armies camouflage uniform
* Scrap mantle
Defense: 0 Durability: 10/10
Because this mantle was made only out of scraps, its defense is nonexistent, and the durability is low
This mantle was made by an unskilled tailor with stealth in mind.
Because of its unique pattern, you are likelier to hide in shadows
Properties:
Merges you with the shadows, making you harder to notice
When he tried it on, the mantle touched the ground, so he could also cover his feet, and of course, he added a hood, to cover his face.
And so a dark hooded figure left the archery, soon lost inside the shadows.
End chapter 06