“South Korea’s politics are a hotbed of corruption. They often create a bank for money laundering, so it’s not surprising that they cannot give large profits.”
Every day, while fishing, Weed could not stop thinking about sculptural design. As a moonlight sculptor he was influenced heavily by the local ice sculptures in Mora.
“I wish I was at Baran or Laviase. The sculptures there are probably harmonized with their surrounding environment. Hmm, I wonder what kind of sculpture would fit a river landscape. “
Making a fine piece or even a grand piece was not so easy. He needed an original idea and he had to implement it perfectly.
“There’s a flowing river, and I catch in it…. I know! I’ll make something that attracts fish!” Weed jumped so that he almost dropped his bait.
He immediately contacted Mapan.
“Hey, Mapan!”
“Yes! Weed” he said with all of his attention and respect
After the auction he gained several levels along with unshakable faith in Weed. He would even go so far to say that as long as you're with Weed, gold coins will fall from the sky into your pockets.
“I need a stone, the larger the better. Also make sure it’s pure and clean.”
“It’ll take two days, especially since it’s a rock.”
Weed anxiously waited for Mapan as he fished. However, when the putted his line up, often there was no fish.
Weed had spent so much good bait, and had nothing to show for it.
“This is impossible!” Out of anger he threw the rod at the ground. “I’m missing something.”
The gears in his head began to spin wildly. Faced with a crisis he became fully immersed searching for his mistake.
Then he heard a voice:
“Ho-ho, you need to understand something. Fishing is something that cleans your soul. Fish freely float in the river, carelessly and deliberately. That is why we want to catch them so badly, right? But once we catch them, then they are not free anymore, they become just a piece of meat.”
On the river, there were a lot of players who loved to fish. Even more, in real life they were related to fishing in one way or another. And in Royal Road, these players did not play because they liked to game, but because they liked fishing.
It was a fishing club.
For them, Royal Road became a place of promise. They fished in amazing places not found on Earth. Ate delicious, exotic fish and chatted with interesting people. Their characters were developed only through fishing.
Luckily, in Royal Road, players are not forced to do one thing. If you choose a craft profession, it does not mean that you have to sit day and night, making stuff. Also, craft skills raised a large variety of skills. For example, if you made armor, it would raise craftsmanship, blacksmithing, and a couple of other skills. With this, all players could go hunt monsters and not feel too weak. As with sculpting and other skills, fishing also helps a player survive. It increases vitality, stamina, and endurance, and it also increases your reflexes because all you do all day is wait for a fish to bite your hook.
“I’ll learn how to fish. I don’t have to raise my levels again, but I’ll have to relearn the basics of fishing.”
Weed studied cooking by looking for new recipes in real life, and in game. But he was too impatient to fish. As he reflected on his crisis he found one problem.
You can’t rely on good bait, and your fishing skill. Like engraving, you have to rely on your own skill, while the system assists you. But as the saying goes, “trust but verify” so Weed decided to approach the problem from another angle.
He joined the fishing club and began to learn the basics of fishing.
He learned how to select and string bait, how to choose a place for fishing, and much, much more.
“So… Depending on where you are, the kind of fish you catch will be different?” Weed asked the jolly bearded fisherman
“Yup, that’s absolutely true. Think to yourself. At sea, you won’t find river fish, and at a river you won’t find any whales. “