My heart drops. What does this old guy want? Usually he would tell me to go hunt, drag poop around, find people, but today, today he wants to have a drink with me? Perhaps he also knows that I’m nearing level 40 and going for a promotion soon, so “Scavenger” is no longer the appropriate job for me?
Whoosh!
“Experience +7000”
Immediately after I put down the two porcupines, a ray of light appears, and I gained a decent amount of experience. I also take out the peppers from my bag, throw them in the sky, and unsheathe my sword. With a flash of the sword, the peppers get shattered, and the smell of the spicy peppers flood the air as they fall with other spices onto Dalin’s barbeque pig. The flavor gets absorbed, and without a doubt, the pig must be very tasty.
Whoosh!
“Experience +5000”
Another ray of light and my experience rises by another chunk. Hehe, leveling up like this, it’s really a method that is to be liked!
I give a porcupine to the army officer, and I get another thousand of experience points in return. I drag the other one to a nearby river to skin and discard the dissolving fur. After that, I find some green onions and stick it through the porcupine and return to the camp. I start another campfire and before long, the juices from the porcupine start seeping out. They crack as they fall into the fire and a pleasant aroma starts to spread as well.
I sit across to Dalin, and respectfully grasp my sword.
“Come boy…”
Dalin throws something at me and a water bag made out of a wild goat’s stomach lands on me. Good wine is filled inside it but inside the game drinking wine doesn’t add any stats, and it’s just for taste. Just some virtual stuff.
I open the cap, and raise my head to take a drink. The sweet taste of the wine spreads around in my mouth. It is indeed good.
“How’s the taste?” Dalin laughs.
I nod, “Mm, very strong taste, good wine…”
Dalin strokes his beard, and smiles, “That’s natural, this is the fine wine brewed by the palace wine masters, and not a lot of people in the world can even drink it. Hmph, if I didn’t have to rush last time, I would have grabbed more from Fire Cloud City’s palace!”
I’m shocked, “You stole this?”
“Cough cough, just borrowing!”
“Okay…” I raise my head to drink some more, then stand up with my sword in hand and say, “Instructor, give some more missions to me, I want to do some more things for you!”
Dalin bends over, stretches, grabs a pig leg, and takes a huge bite. Drinking the wine, he laughs, “Boy, my [Binding Chains] is an original skill; I hope you won’t put it to waste. I’ve traveled around the continent for my life, but I haven’t learned a huge bunch. I’m most proficient in [Binding Chains], so I can only teach you this…”
“I understand. Instructor, give me the mission…”
“Okay!”
Dalin stands up, looks at me, and says, “First mission, a prehistoric huge bird has taken a crap 5 miles south-west of Dragon City. The poop has a radius of 7 meters, bring it back. Second mission, there’s a small town called “Bysickle” straight south of Dragon City. In the small town, there’s a woman called Heisha that sells tofu. She lost her pet white cat, so you help her find it. Third mission, at the bottom of Dragon City there’s a blind old soldier who has a broken leg and is going to die soon from sickness. He has always been single and his only death wish is to touch a woman’s breast. You are to help him to find a woman. Fourth mission…”
I quickly hold my hand out, “Wait wait, hold on instructor. 3 missions is enough, let me finish them first…”
“Okay boy, I’ll be expecting good things…”
“I got it…”
“…..”
……
After 10 minutes, I arrive at the south-west of Dragon City. It literally looks like a catastrophe happened here. The small trees are burning with flames and the ignition point is a huge pile of bird poop. It’s really huge, having a diameter of around 15 meters or so. It looks just like a meteorite…This bird poop has an abundant of fire attributes in it. Also, the bird seems like it ate something wrong, I see an over 50kg huge pea within the poop, apparently the bird was unable to digest that.
I walk up and a wave of intense nastiness attacks my nose. It’s so smelly! I wave my sword around, and cut into the feces. My determination doesn’t waver and cutting it like a pizza, I cut it into ten or so pieces and drag piece by piece back. This time the pile is a bit large and trying to bring it all back in one go wouldn’t be a smart idea.
I drag a piece of the bird poop, excitedly return to the camp and hand the feces to the army officer. I get plenty of experience and I joyfully run back, continuing to pick up the rest of the poop.
After an hour or so, I’m finally at the last piece. This piece is especially heavy; it’s the section that had the pea!
After dragging it for a while, I turn around, and unsheathe my sword. Screw it; I’ll just cut the peas off. So annoying and so tiring!
Clang!
When my sword contacts with the pea, sparks appear, and my arm also goes numb. Sigh, what is this? What kind of hard object can’t be cut by my sword?
I go closer, and use my hand to wipe away the poop on the “pea”. But this isn’t a pea! I scratch away the feces around it, and use my sword to chisel it a bit, and I find out that this is a 1 meter long stone tablet! On it there’s even small words written on it, but sadly they’re words from ancient times, and I can’t read it!
“Hup!”
I hold the tablet, and it’s at least 50 kg. Luckily I am a full-strength warrior, and carrying it doesn’t cause me too many problems. Also, under normal circumstances, I can easily carry 50kg in real life. I wave my hand, and try to get information on this stone tablet, but I only get a vague description——
【Ancient Tablet】: This is a tablet that recorded old martial secrets and it’ll collect experience with the player. When it collects enough experience, it will fuse with the player and become a skill. You must sign the contract to bring this around.
……
Looking at these words, I don’t even know what to think. This luck. Even when I’m picking up poop I get treasure. What is this madness…?
Whatever, I’ll sign the contract first!
Whoosh!
I slide my finger on the edge of the sword, and drip my blood from my finger onto the tablet. Instantly the area around me shimmers and the tablet suddenly shines and glows. Countless words surround me, and quickly afterwards, a ray of light stabs into my body and a system notification shows, saying that I’ve signed a contract with the tablet and it’s impossible to drop or leave behind.
With a clang, a heavy, dark stone appears on my back and if you look at it, it’s looks like a stone carving of a Chinese piano. It actually makes me look refined and gentlemanly. Next to the stone is the sheath of my sword, so it wouldn’t affect my movements in battle. Although I can feel the weight of it, my moving speed won’t change by much.
I continue and drag the last piece of bird feces to the army officer and hand in the mission. Instantly experience points comes in with a glow of light——
“Experience +5000!”
“[Ancient Tablet] experience +5000”
Indeed, the tablet gets as much experience as I do. Sadly, I can’t see how much experience points the tablet needs in order for it to be completed, but there’s no rush, I can take it slow.
……
I finished the first mission and my experience bar lands on 49% at level 39. Following that, it’s the second mission; help that tofu women find her cat.
After two hours, at the west part of the small town, I found a bard traveling around with the small cat. I retrieve the cat and also give the bard two knocks on the head. He knows his wrongs, and reflected on it, so I let him go. I carry the white cat back to finish my mission, and happily collect the experience points.