As i come back to the training hall

"Instructor!!" i shout calling him "Here are the herbs, but how about herbs that i need to buy? I don't have any money."

"Yes, yes, now since you already used the pool for today, we wont do any training yet. But pull out your bag again." taking my bag from inventory slots.

"Now the limit of your weight are around 3 stone, but since we can't use the pool so you only going to bring 1 stone only.

and you need to bring it where ever you go."

"Where ever I go? where should i go , should i circling the town again?" getting the bag into my back. 'ugh even not 3 stones at least I don't have to carry them in my hand.'

"hahaha, of course you need to go. Where do you think you will get the money to buy the rest of the herbs?"

"Emm, from you?  :sparkle:

"Th.. This boy, that won't do Eiden. You will work for your money, so since you need work its better to work that will get you something in your journey too."

"Somethings that will useful for me?"

"Yep, like blacksmith , tailoring , but if I could ask first, what do you think something that will you use in the future? Do you like to fight as support characters or someone in the front line?"

"Hmm... I think I want to fight as front liner!" 'to think i could do the impossible. "but i would try using magic too? what do you think sir?"

"Well as warrior or knight could get you as the main power in front line. but if you want to get magician too that's possible but it would be hard for you to accomplish."

"Ugh.. so what should I do then?"

"Hahaha don't worry for now, maybe we could focus on your training as the warrior first okay?"

"alright sir! So what should I do then?"

"Right, bring this to the blacksmith shop with Hammer, anvil, and skull as the shop sign to the owner."

"Okay sir!"

Recommendation later from Instructor Rickon

Later that you need give to the blacksmith owner in the town

Walking around to the central town, and after asking few people and i saw the shop ahead of me.

"Excuse me!" as I walk to the blacksmith shop. there are a male player with swordsman class standing behind the counter.

"Hello welcome to the Fred equipment store" he said excitedly, but after few second seeing me he become lazy to see me.

"Ah yes hello, is the owner of blacksmith here ?" i ask to the you man which seems like around 20ish with body taller than me where i only have 164 cm and he seems around 180ish.

"The owner? what for? Fred doesn't want to see anyone." he said while busy setting the swords and knifes that just come from behind with carts.

"Couldn't I see him at least? I have some latter that i need to give him." while showing the latter from my pocket.

"Ah you are on the quest huh? where you get the latter from? do you have it from the elder Todd?" Still busy tidying the shelf.

"No its not from elder Todd, but it's from instructor Rickon."

"Alright I will tell him, please wait a moment." 'huh? this is the first time i heard instructor Rickon? does the quest could be triggered from other npc other than elder Todd?'

after a while there are some mister with white hair and thick beard come to the store the same with John with bulky muscle all over the body. Without realize I flinch and stare at him.

"Hahaha what are you looking at lad? You said you got latter from Rickon yes? Let me see it."

"Here you go." handing the latter.

"Hahahaha so you already see John huh? no wonder you seems surprised when you see me. As you can tell me and John have the same teacher!" he said stroking his beard.

"I see, so what does instructor Rickon want me to do here?"

"No need to tell me the rest i know what you need here, come inside I will give you works behind."

"Alright sir!" I go inside the door behind the stall.

'What? how could he got learn blacksmith without become cashier first?'

***

"Hey old bastard!" Rickon walking into the table which big trees covering them from the sunlight.

"Old bastard my ass, you are the bastard! what are you doing here anyway? wasn't you going to wait at training hall to wait your non existence apprentice? "

"Hahaha I told you there will be someone that will be my apprentice wasn't I?"

"Pah that's bullshit I'm sure he will run after a while from your hellish training!"

"Haha thats what i though after there are few people that I train, but not this lad! I could see it in his eye, he have the will, just like us back then you know?"

"Is that so? what do you want from me anyway? Are you come here just to brag about it?"

"No, no,  not wrong thou. But that's not what I'm here beside bragging about him I have a favor from you, Would you help me?"

"You, asking for a favor, now that's new! What is it that you want?"

"When my apprentice come to you later can you train him in magic?" Rickon ask while sip the tea on the table.

"Hooo to think there are muscle freak want to learn magic?"

"You will surprised to see him. He isn't like the normal adventurers."

and they chatted for a while.

***

"So here is where you are going to work, but since you don't have any knowledge about them, I will show you how its work."

"There are things that you need to prepare before you start crafting progress, first prepare your smithing equipment and gears

like Bellows where you use this tool to manage your fire. and then Hearth where you make your fire.

Anvil where you work your metals into weapons or tools that you want to make. there are many kind of grades you could posses like normal ones are from steel or stone, or a better one like here we use Golden anvil and Oridecon anvil which used for different material where golden made from and used for high quality metals, and Oridecon anvil used for good quality metals, there are some more material that you could use to make anvil where the higher quality the anvil the better your work are.

Sledgehammer used when you shape the metals. and the Forge where you place your metals to heat them."

"Most basic technique that people used are heat the metals and after they got into right temperature you start hammering them using sledgehammer, and re heat the metals when the heat begin to drop. after you have the desired shape you could put them into water to cool them and you could get the product after that. "

"There are different technique later that you could learn but most of the basic are learning how to control fire and hitting the steel into shape. For now you could watch me working, and help for what ever I need."

"Alright Fred, let me help you with small thing."

For the rest of the day I watch him forge few swords, daggers, arrow head, and some throwing weapons. where i help him cooling those product that already got the shapes and put it into trolley and bring it outside to the swordsman outside which we chat for awhile and with his nickname  Lancelot. Mainly what he ask are where i got the latter which could make me learn blacksmith right away where he need to do some quest before Fred allow him to work for Fred.

After chatting for a while and get back to the forgery and do what Fred told me to, I got few status windows which indicate that i got some Str , Stam, and Vitality. to my surprise the training could get me some stats even what I do only walking around lifting some items. But after i got the stats few time I don't see them at all but the weight that i felt become like normal thing. I guess in this game I could get stronger with the status achieved.

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After the whole day working in the Smithy I tried to ask Fred if I could use his forgery when no ones use them. Which he allows me to use them but I need to get the materials by my self. And I ask him where could i find the Metals at and he told me where i need to go, and hand me pickaxe. Where he told me that I don't need to learn any skill for mining, because when I tried to mine them I will get the skill later.

before I go from the store i log out to get some foods from delivery service and get some shower + cleaning the room while waiting for the food to come. since i got lots of things to do in the game i don't feel like cooking so i could finish cleaning the house and then get shower before eating. Finish doing that i get back to the capsule but before I could start the game I heard phone call.

"Reid how are you there?" which its was from my mother

"I'm good here mom, how about there?"

"The same here, your brother asking when you going to get home."

"I will come home when the holiday start mom. Mom do you know about the capsule that lots of people use to play games?"

"Yes, I heard about it alot. some people that I know around here use them too, they said they could gather to have some chat and eat in the mountain?"

"Yes mom you could have picnic anywhere in the game, and the scenery are awesome too. people start exploring to have some sightseeing here mom, why don't you buy them for Felix ?"

"We will later if we got some bonus this year son. How is school, are you doing well?"

"The school got delayed mom for 1 week, because of the sleeping accident. most of people here are staying in their house afraid if the accident happen again."

"Yes your father company too, make the employee working in house for a while now."

"I see so dad is working at home now?"

"Yes he is, I will tell you say hi to him ok. Anyway you shouldn't play all the time ok. remember to take care of your self first."

"Okay mom bye."

receiving call from mom make me miss the house. but if I get back there I will waste money on the trains so I will wait for longer holiday to get back home.

****

Getting back to the capsule.

Logging in the smithy I head back to the training hall, because its still around 3 am in the game, there are almost no npcs in the game. I head back to the backyard and pick stone and put it in my bag, since one stone already like I was normal, then start to walk to the mountain where Fred told me where the mines are.

On the way I saw 5 people partying to fight the wolfs and foxes with beginner clothes and there are 2 people use swords and blades and one man use shield and one hand sword which i think he was the main tank. and 1 man use bow to attract enemy from the plain, while the last one are using daggers to inflict damage whenever there are chance. for team of beginner without jobs they are doing really well. Because I could see they finish monster in just one or two minutes and they don't stop if the shield user still have health.

walk pas them i go straight to the mine and saw few people solo hunting here and there, and when i come near the mine there are 2 users that resting in front of the mine chatting. And when they see me coming they just giving me a glance and ignore me while I walk to the cave.

"Huhuhu that noobs going to die when he could see level 7 bats inside there. to think he come to this place with level one?"

"You are right, anyhow do you want to go eat first? we already play past the lunch time now. shouldn't we go outside for a while?"

"Alright I will wait you outside the VR Cafe"

***

Hrmm there are some bats in the entrance, but since i have this necklace i should be fine. After walking for few minutes i saw few copper vein and iron ore vein. standing in front of them i hold my pickaxe and after thinking where i should hit them. I saw blue like dot that blinking. After pondering a while I decided to try hit it with the pickaxe and after few tries the vein destroyed and i got few copper ore

Copper Ore

Ore that harvested from copper vein

Could be used for crafting

seeing that i could get ores like this I start to mine all the vein around here. where there are so many ore vein that when i finish to the last vein i could see while walking inside the mines, and see that the first copper vein that i harvest already start to respawn.

Happy to see that I could gather as many as I get i start hacking them until i fill my bag with ore, and to think that i couldn't move with that many ore in my backpack i decided to put the bag into the inventory slot and start gathering the ores until I fill my bag, but before i could finish the last 4 slots of my inventory there are few player that come and seems angry with me.

"Hey how could you take all the ore here!" he said yelling

"Well I was alone here and since i don't see anyone around I collect them all, is that wrong?" i ask confused why he angry to me.

couldn't say that i wrong and with pompous sneer he said " You need to Get out of here or I will kill you!"

"Wha... what?" Shocked with what he said.

"Hahaha are you deaf? i said scram! or I will kill you." While few people around him chuckling the 6 of them start to bring out their weapons and point it at me waiting for what i want to do.

"Huk... can you let me mining here for few moment? I only need a little more?" I tried to ask him nicely.

"I don't want you to stay here scram or we will kill you if you don't!"

seeing that i couldn't reasons with them i start to walk away deeper inside the mine leaving the safe mining spot where there are no bats spawning.

"Hahahahaha" i heard them laughing behind me. Pissed that there are trash like them even in the games. but thinking that i only need few more slots to fill my bag i start to walk deeper inside there.

After few moment I saw the cave with two branch. thinking that there should be more ore vein inside i start to walk there. To my surprise at the end of cave there are magic circle like at the stone next to the wall. Walking to the circle and then the circle start shining. With few moment later i saw the different place but still inside the cave, there are few bats here and there hanging in the ceiling. I try to sneak around carefully not to wake them up, and seems work that i don't attract the aggro.

Getting into the clearing where there are big bat around there with few little red bats around him sleeping guarding him. Tried to focus on what the monster name.

Blood Bat (rare-Boss)

Level: 10

Health: 2200

Armor : 100

Attack : 90

Skills: Sound attack, Blood sucking.

Due living long enough the bats evolve and become leader of the cave"

Seeing that there are boss monster here with his bodyguards i couldn't help but excited. my first boss monster but i couldn't try to fight it. and I stay there for a few moment watching the bats sleeping. seeing there are few ore that different from ore at the front.

Silver Ore

Ore with good quality

used for weapons and art work

Excited that I could get the good quality ore here, I walk there and tried to use my pickaxe, but when I hit the ore I heard the sound of bats awaking

KEAAAAkkkk

With sweat all over my clothes i stop hitting the vein and turn around to see