Sculptures of Her
Small changes since Volume 6 Chapter 8:
Yunopu Canyon to Yunopu Gorge
Translated by: IcedLance
Sculpture levels:
Negotiated(After this chapter) — This Chapter (and before in chapters by me)
Ordinary — Not mentioned
Fine Piece — Fine Piece
Classic Piece — Masterpiece
Masterpiece — Grand piece
Since Weed and Seoyoon entered the Yunopu Gorge together, they haven’t said a single word to each other.
But at every stop they were sharing food. And of course Weed was the one cooking, though that wasn’t bothering him much, as he didn’t have to run this time, but instead walked calmly while hunting Yetis along the way.
At first they were moving about 100 meters apart from each other. But that distance was gradually reducing. After another hard fight Weed was the first to shorten the distance to 50 meters, as he was worried about being attacked by another group of Yetis. And after a few shared dinners the distance shrunk to 30 meters.
Usually Seoyoon just approached him, taking her share silently and returning back to her place. Each of them ate alone, carefully watching the surroundings.
After another day they were already 20 meters apart. And they fought at the same distance from each other, which gave Weed a chance to observe the girl from up close.
“…”
After one of the battles Seoyoon stopped and took off her half-plate armor. She was fully equipped in heavy armor. Weed had a lot of opportunities to appreciate their expensive shine. But what he didn’t know was that she was wearing chainmail underneath them.
‘That’s the melee profession for you.’ -he thought enviously.
Knights and other melee fighters had the ability to wear all the different kinds of armor at the same time. By equipping 3 kinds of armor: iron, leather and cloth armors – at the same time, one could get the best possible protection.
The only problem was that the combined weight required high strength, endurance and agility attributes. If they were not high enough, one would quickly tire out and lose the ability to move.
After getting an Intermediate level of Blacksmith Weed also gained that ability, but as he lacked the attributes, he didn’t dare to equip all 3 kinds of armor like a knight.
Absorbed by those thoughts, Weed almost crashed into Seoyoon, who was carefully examining her unequipped armor.
‘Is it time for repairs?’
Almost all of the surface of armor was covered in cracks, some places even had pieces missing.
“Chwiik!”
Weed quickly approached Seoyoon and snatched the armor out of her hands. He did it unconsciously, as he was always repairing armor for people around him.
And then he noticed Seoyoon’s murderous glance.
“Chwi, chwiik…”
Reflected in her eyes was a small green thief! So he took the instruments out of his bag, repaired the armor, and returned it to her as quickly as possible.
Seoyoon took her armor back like nothing happened and started to examine it carefully. Its durability increased, and formerly damaged parts looked completely fine.
Then Seoyoon took off her chainmail and handed it to Weed by herself this time. He silently took it and repaired, and then did the same with her leather armor.
When the girl took off her last set of armor, she was left almost naked. As any proper man, Weed couldn’t help but try to oogle her, but at the last moment he thought otherwise.
He valued his life more.
And since that day he was responsible not only for food, but for equipment repairs too.
Actually, skills like cooking and repairing were very rare among unintelligent Orcs. Some Elves, Hobbits or Dwarfs did have Intermediate Cooking or Blacksmithing, but Orcs – never.
But Seoyoon didn’t seem concerned about it at all. Maybe she thought that the Orc she happened to meet wasn’t ordinary, or maybe she just wasn’t interested in surrounding creatures.
Whatever it was, Weed wasn’t eager to explain himself, so he just silently walked ahead. However when Seoyoon was logged out of the game, he didn’t have anything to do, as he didn’t dare to continue his way alone.
Seoyoon left Royal Road every 4 hours. Maybe she needed to eat, or rest. After leaving, she always appearing exactly 2 hours later.
Weed himself ate very quickly. Besides, for the sake of the quest he was spending all of his free time inside the game, and as a result he barely slept 2 hours a day for the past several days.
‘Since she’s logging out so often, I should do something useful in the meantime.’
And Weed started to make sculptures.
If one was to sum up all the time the girl was absent, there would have been enough for Weed to pass through the rest of his path alone and reach the fortress.
However the risk was far too great. Sometimes Yeti’s appeared in groups of 3 or more, and it was extremely hard to deal with all of them alone.
And if he died, he wouldn’t be able to login into royal Road for 24 hours! Which would be 4 days in Royal Road time…
Under such conditions the safest way was also the shortest and the best. Sometimes even Weed was able to silence his inner unreasonable greed.
“Yeah, sculpturing is always the best way to spend free time.”
Lately, his Sculpture mastery has grown significantly and his art became more diverse. Which actually wasn’t surprising, since he had cut many different monsters, castles, people, a dragon and even a tomb with a sphynx.
However Weed decided to make more sculptures of Seoyoon.
“I should cut what I have seen so far while I have time.”
The first sculpture was full of motion. The cold side of Seoyoon, fighting with monsters. He had cut the female warrior with a sword.
Ding!
Fine Piece!
You have completed a statue of ‘Beauty with a sword’!
The master, whose hands create only great sculptures, left a statue of a beautiful woman in desolate plains! Her cold face is full of fury towards her enemies.
Artistic value: 260.
Effects:
- Everyone who looks on the sculpture has his health and mana regeneration increased by 4% for the next day.
- Movement sped increased by 5%.
- Strength and Agility increased by 10.
- Intellect and Wisdom increased by 3.
- Men have their fighting spirit increased.
These effects do not stack with other sculptures.
Number of Fine Pieces created: 10.
- Sculpture Mastery has improved.
- Fame increased by 19.
- Endurance increased by 2.
- Art increased by 1.
- Fortitude increased by 3.
His Sculpture Mastery improved again!
Weed exclaimed impatiently:
“Check skills. Sculpture Mastery!”
Sculpture Mastery: Intermediate 9 level (46%).
You can create sculptures, sell them at high prices, and win the favor of ladies.
Even though Weed created a Fine Piece, his skill increased only by 3%.
“Terrible work. The worst of Fine Pieces. What did I do wrong?”
Even if his aim was Fine Piece, that doesn’t mean he can do his a sloppy job and still get the desired result. Even when working on a small figurine, a sculptor has to put his heart and soul into it.
For example, in a fight, one can win even without using his full strength. But when engraving a sculpture, even the smallest one, one had to spend a minimum of half an hour not to get a failed work, which would decrease your fame.
The statues of Seoyoon required not half an hour but half a day of in-game time. He had to thoroughly work on every detail and facial features to capture the image of the girl into the sculpture.
And naturally, creating giant sculptures, like Ice Dragon, Pyramid and Sphynx, required weeks or more time.
“Maybe I’m noticing the wrong details?” – Weed asked himself.
In exactly 4 hours, when Seoyoon left the game again, he started to work on the next sculpture. And even though he made a Fine Piece again, ‘Female Warrior with a Sword’, his skill only increased by 4%.
“Maybe I’m lacking understanding? That’s why I get such small skill increases?”
The next day, once he was left alone again, Weed started to cut another sculpture. He was trying to convey the unearthly beauty that was driving him crazy.
He was cutting a sculpture of a beautiful girl, bitterly watching the sunset with a calm face and very sad, almost crying eyes. He was engraving an image of a girl, grieving deep inside.
“Hmmm. This is hard.”
Sculptures of Her
Small changes since Volume 6 Chapter 8:
Yunopu Canyon to Yunopu Gorge
Translated by: IcedLance
Sculpture levels:
Negotiated(After this chapter) — This Chapter (and before in chapters by me)
Ordinary — Not mentioned
Fine Piece — Fine Piece
Classic Piece — Masterpiece
Masterpiece — Grand piece
Since Weed and Seoyoon entered the Yunopu Gorge together, they haven’t said a single word to each other.
But at every stop they were sharing food. And of course Weed was the one cooking, though that wasn’t bothering him much, as he didn’t have to run this time, but instead walked calmly while hunting Yetis along the way.
At first they were moving about 100 meters apart from each other. But that distance was gradually reducing. After another hard fight Weed was the first to shorten the distance to 50 meters, as he was worried about being attacked by another group of Yetis. And after a few shared dinners the distance shrunk to 30 meters.
Usually Seoyoon just approached him, taking her share silently and returning back to her place. Each of them ate alone, carefully watching the surroundings.
After another day they were already 20 meters apart. And they fought at the same distance from each other, which gave Weed a chance to observe the girl from up close.
“…”
After one of the battles Seoyoon stopped and took off her half-plate armor. She was fully equipped in heavy armor. Weed had a lot of opportunities to appreciate their expensive shine. But what he didn’t know was that she was wearing chainmail underneath them.
‘That’s the melee profession for you.’ -he thought enviously.
Knights and other melee fighters had the ability to wear all the different kinds of armor at the same time. By equipping 3 kinds of armor: iron, leather and cloth armors – at the same time, one could get the best possible protection.
The only problem was that the combined weight required high strength, endurance and agility attributes. If they were not high enough, one would quickly tire out and lose the ability to move.
After getting an Intermediate level of Blacksmith Weed also gained that ability, but as he lacked the attributes, he didn’t dare to equip all 3 kinds of armor like a knight.
Absorbed by those thoughts, Weed almost crashed into Seoyoon, who was carefully examining her unequipped armor.
‘Is it time for repairs?’
Almost all of the surface of armor was covered in cracks, some places even had pieces missing.
“Chwiik!”
Weed quickly approached Seoyoon and snatched the armor out of her hands. He did it unconsciously, as he was always repairing armor for people around him.
And then he noticed Seoyoon’s murderous glance.
“Chwi, chwiik…”
Reflected in her eyes was a small green thief! So he took the instruments out of his bag, repaired the armor, and returned it to her as quickly as possible.
Seoyoon took her armor back like nothing happened and started to examine it carefully. Its durability increased, and formerly damaged parts looked completely fine.
Then Seoyoon took off her chainmail and handed it to Weed by herself this time. He silently took it and repaired, and then did the same with her leather armor.
When the girl took off her last set of armor, she was left almost naked. As any proper man, Weed couldn’t help but try to oogle her, but at the last moment he thought otherwise.
He valued his life more.
And since that day he was responsible not only for food, but for equipment repairs too.
Actually, skills like cooking and repairing were very rare among unintelligent Orcs. Some Elves, Hobbits or Dwarfs did have Intermediate Cooking or Blacksmithing, but Orcs – never.
But Seoyoon didn’t seem concerned about it at all. Maybe she thought that the Orc she happened to meet wasn’t ordinary, or maybe she just wasn’t interested in surrounding creatures.
Whatever it was, Weed wasn’t eager to explain himself, so he just silently walked ahead. However when Seoyoon was logged out of the game, he didn’t have anything to do, as he didn’t dare to continue his way alone.
Seoyoon left Royal Road every 4 hours. Maybe she needed to eat, or rest. After leaving, she always appearing exactly 2 hours later.
Weed himself ate very quickly. Besides, for the sake of the quest he was spending all of his free time inside the game, and as a result he barely slept 2 hours a day for the past several days.
‘Since she’s logging out so often, I should do something useful in the meantime.’
And Weed started to make sculptures.
If one was to sum up all the time the girl was absent, there would have been enough for Weed to pass through the rest of his path alone and reach the fortress.
However the risk was far too great. Sometimes Yeti’s appeared in groups of 3 or more, and it was extremely hard to deal with all of them alone.
And if he died, he wouldn’t be able to login into royal Road for 24 hours! Which would be 4 days in Royal Road time…
Under such conditions the safest way was also the shortest and the best. Sometimes even Weed was able to silence his inner unreasonable greed.
“Yeah, sculpturing is always the best way to spend free time.”
Lately, his Sculpture mastery has grown significantly and his art became more diverse. Which actually wasn’t surprising, since he had cut many different monsters, castles, people, a dragon and even a tomb with a sphynx.
However Weed decided to make more sculptures of Seoyoon.
“I should cut what I have seen so far while I have time.”
The first sculpture was full of motion. The cold side of Seoyoon, fighting with monsters. He had cut the female warrior with a sword.
Ding!
Fine Piece!
You have completed a statue of ‘Beauty with a sword’!
The master, whose hands create only great sculptures, left a statue of a beautiful woman in desolate plains! Her cold face is full of fury towards her enemies.
Artistic value: 260.
Effects:
- Everyone who looks on the sculpture has his health and mana regeneration increased by 4% for the next day.
- Movement sped increased by 5%.
- Strength and Agility increased by 10.
- Intellect and Wisdom increased by 3.
- Men have their fighting spirit increased.
These effects do not stack with other sculptures.
Number of Fine Pieces created: 10.
- Sculpture Mastery has improved.
- Fame increased by 19.
- Endurance increased by 2.
- Art increased by 1.
- Fortitude increased by 3.
His Sculpture Mastery improved again!
Weed exclaimed impatiently:
“Check skills. Sculpture Mastery!”
Sculpture Mastery: Intermediate 9 level (46%).
You can create sculptures, sell them at high prices, and win the favor of ladies.
Even though Weed created a Fine Piece, his skill increased only by 3%.
“Terrible work. The worst of Fine Pieces. What did I do wrong?”
Even if his aim was Fine Piece, that doesn’t mean he can do his a sloppy job and still get the desired result. Even when working on a small figurine, a sculptor has to put his heart and soul into it.
For example, in a fight, one can win even without using his full strength. But when engraving a sculpture, even the smallest one, one had to spend a minimum of half an hour not to get a failed work, which would decrease your fame.
The statues of Seoyoon required not half an hour but half a day of in-game time. He had to thoroughly work on every detail and facial features to capture the image of the girl into the sculpture.
And naturally, creating giant sculptures, like Ice Dragon, Pyramid and Sphynx, required weeks or more time.
“Maybe I’m noticing the wrong details?” – Weed asked himself.
In exactly 4 hours, when Seoyoon left the game again, he started to work on the next sculpture. And even though he made a Fine Piece again, ‘Female Warrior with a Sword’, his skill only increased by 4%.
“Maybe I’m lacking understanding? That’s why I get such small skill increases?”
The next day, once he was left alone again, Weed started to cut another sculpture. He was trying to convey the unearthly beauty that was driving him crazy.
He was cutting a sculpture of a beautiful girl, bitterly watching the sunset with a calm face and very sad, almost crying eyes. He was engraving an image of a girl, grieving deep inside.
“Hmmm. This is hard.”
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