Chapter 2
‘Damn simple, isn’t it?’
Anyway, whether I thought this or not, Noah continued her explanation.
“First, let me explain the important Health Points. This is a numerical representation of Rudin-nim’s life. As a typical example, if you are attacked by a monster, this Health Points will decrease, and if all of it is depleted, Rudin-nim will collapse.”
It’s an obvious explanation. Still, I nodded as if I understood.
“Second is Magic Points. Rudin-nim may not know this, but currently, your body is imbued with a power called Magic Points. You can use skills with this power. Simply think of it as the energy you possess.”
‘She’s talking about MP in online games.’
This was also an obvious explanation. Except for Noah’s next explanation.
“However, if you use up all of this Magic Points like Health Points, you will face difficulties, so Rudin-nim needs to manage it carefully.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Do you see the Stamina written below Magic Points? It’s related to that. If you use a skill while lacking Magic Points, your Stamina consumption doubles.”
‘Stamina consumption doubles?’
Does that mean I can use skills even without Magic Points?
Usually, in online games, skills cannot be used if you don’t have enough mana (MP), but it seems different here.
“Stamina is the value that allows Rudin-nim to move. It’s also the value needed to use skills. Additionally, the higher your Health Points, the lower the Stamina consumption when moving.”
“So I can move more?”
“Yes. But skills are separate.”
If skills are separate, wouldn’t that be meaningless? Of course, if I could move a little longer, it would be useful anywhere. It would be better than collapsing from exhaustion in the middle of a fight.
“But I can’t use this all up, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. If you deplete all your Stamina, Rudin-nim’s attack power and movement speed will be halved, and all skills will become unusable. The damage you receive will also double. Moreover, to recover, you need to rest and replenish your Stamina to at least 50%.”
“……”
I asked just in case, and as expected.
‘Oh, so……’
Let me think.
So, even if both Magic Points and Stamina are depleted, you won’t die? There would be difficulties in battle, but if I don’t die, it wouldn’t be a big problem.
“If you don’t understand, I can explain it again.”
“No, let’s move on.”
“Okay~ Next, I’ll explain about Stats. Do you see three Stats in front of you, Rudin-nim?”
“Hmm.”
I checked and there were exactly three.
Strength. Intelligence. Agility.
But why are there only three?
“Strength is Rudin-nim’s power. In other words, it’s also your attack power. The higher this Strength, the higher your attack power. Conversely, Intelligence is your magic attack power. Like Strength, the higher your Intelligence, the higher your magic attack power.”
I nodded at Noah’s explanation, which wasn’t much different from my expectations. Then does Agility represent speed?
“Agility is speed. The higher your Agility, the faster Rudin-nim can move. It also has the additional effect of improving dynamic vision. These three that I’ve explained are the basic Stats.”
Basic Stats……
“So there are other Stats?”
“Yes. In addition, Twilight isn’t about levels, but about skills themselves that can increase or even create stats.”
“Skills?”
“Yes, skills. No matter how much you level up, your stats won’t increase beyond the basic stats you see now, Rudin-nim. I’ll show you with a simple demonstration. Here we go!”
[Level has increased.]
That’s quite convenient.
Impressed by how she raised her level with a single shout, I checked my stats again.
[Name: Rudin]
[Title: None]
[Level: 1]
[Fame: 0]
[Health Points: 110/110]
[Magic Points: 110/110]
[Stamina: 100.0%]
[Attack Power: 1] [Magic Attack Power: 1]
[Defense: 0] [Magic Defense: 0]
[Stats]
Strength: 1 Intelligence: 1 Agility: 1
[Acquired Skills: 0/20]
“Now do you see what has increased?”
“Health Points and Magic Points by 10 each. And Strength, Intelligence, and Agility by 1 each.”
“Yes~ You got it right. Keep in mind that only these stats will increase even when you level up in the future.”
“What?! Only 1 stat increase per level up?”
For a moment, I wondered what she was talking about. But Noah kindly answered me as if it was nothing.
“That’s why skills are important. Skills also have levels. In other words, if you raise your skill level, the corresponding stats will increase additionally.”
So…… if you raise the skill level, your stats increase?
After hearing the explanation up to that point, I could roughly understand. It seemed that the game Twilight had a system where you had to raise skill levels to gain stats.
“I’ll show you rather than explain. Here we go! Skill Transfer!”
[You have acquired the F-Rank skill ‘Basic Swordsmanship’.]
[Stats will increase as you acquire the skill.]
[Strength increases by 1.]
[Agility increases by 1.]
The message window that popped up was located at the bottom left of my vision. A position where you wouldn’t see it unless you intentionally looked for it? Anyway, after reading the contents of the message window, I looked at the status information window again.
[Name: Rudin]
[Title: None]
[Level: 1]
[Fame: 0]
[Health Points: 110/110]
[Magic Points: 110/110]
[Stamina: 100.0%]
[Attack Power: 2] [Magic Attack Power: 1]
[Defense: 0] [Magic Defense: 0]
[Stats]
Strength: 2 Intelligence: 1 Agility: 2
[Acquired Skills: 1/20]
“Hehehe, your stats have increased, right?”
“Well, they did increase.”
A tiny bit. Or would that be an insult to tiny things? Anyway, it increased by a negligible amount.
“Then, just like with the status information window, try shouting again. Skill Information Window! Ah, all these commands can be changed to your preferred words, Rudin-nim, through ‘Command Settings’.”
“I can change that later, so let’s skip it…… Skill Information Window.”
[Basic Swordsmanship] (F-Rank)
Description: A technique for wielding a sword more effectively. You can gain additional abilities related to swordsmanship depending on your proficiency.
<Stat Increase: Strength (1), Agility (1)>
<Current Proficiency: LV1 (0.00%)>
Some simple information popped up. Basic Swordsmanship, huh……
“By the way, if you want to know the effect of the skill you learned, shout ‘Detailed Information. Basic Swordsmanship’.”
“Detailed Information. Basic Swordsmanship.”
[F-Rank Basic Swordsmanship Effects] (LV1)
Sword-related power (Attack Power) increased by 1.
Sword-related speed (Agility) increased by 1.
Stamina consumption for sword-related skills decreased by 0.01.
“Yes~ You did well. By the way, to use the skill, shout ‘Skill Use. Basic Swordsmanship’. You just changed the command in front, so it’s not difficult, right?”
“Of course not. Skill Use. Basic Swordsmanship.”
[Cannot be used.]
“Of course, Basic Swordsmanship is a passive skill, so it’s always applied.”
“……”
Huh? Did this fairy just make fun of me? Was I tricked?
After barely grasping the situation, I glared at Noah, but she was still looking at me with a bright smile.
‘Tsk, even the anger I was feeling is disappearing.’
As the saying goes, you can’t spit in a smiling face. That’s exactly what it was.
“I roughly understand the system. But what’s the maximum skill level?”
“It’s 30. If you raise the level of Basic Swordsmanship to 30, your Strength and Agility will each increase by 30.”
“……That’s not much.”
“Because it’s an F-Rank skill. Don’t expect too much.”
I nodded and analyzed this Twilight system. You can learn a total of 20 skills. What if I learned all 20 with skills like Basic Swordsmanship? It means my Strength and Agility stats would increase by 600 each.
A total of 1,200 combined.
‘Thinking about it, it’s not that small……’
“Do higher-ranked skills increase stats more?”
“That’s right. The stat increase for F-Rank skills is only 1-2, but it’s different for higher-ranked skills.”
Interpreting her words, it also meant that higher-ranked skills had a larger stat increase.
So, this means I need to obtain higher-ranked skills.
“Now that the explanation about stats and skills is over, I’ll take it back.”
“Take what back?”
“The skill. Here we go!”
[The F-Rank skill ‘Basic Swordsmanship’ has disappeared.]
[Stats will decrease as the skill disappears.]
[Strength decreases by 1.]
[Agility decreases by 1.]
“……”
“In addition, you can delete skills this way. If there’s a skill you don’t like, Rudin-nim, delete it with the command ‘Skill Deletion’.”
Wow…… I’m speechless because of how sneaky that is. To take back the skill she gave me under the pretense of an explanation. Grumbling inwardly, I asked a question about skills.
“What’s the highest skill rank?”
“It’s S-Rank. Skills exist from F-Rank to S-Rank. For reference, the stat increase for S-Rank is 16-20.”
“20?”
If there’s a skill that increases Strength by 20, does that mean it can go up to 600? And if I fill all 20 skill slots with S-Rank skills, would it be 12,000?!
‘……That can’t be right.’
The better the skill’s stats, the harder it’s likely to obtain. And the reason I started this game was to earn money, not to become the strongest by obtaining skills, so I didn’t need to obsess over skills.
“Ah, right. Is there something that enhances items?”
I quickly asked the most important question I almost missed.
“Are you talking about the enhancement system? Hmm…… Yes, there is.”
“Oh? Really?”
“Of course. There are even skills related to enhancement.”
“……Related skills?”
‘There are even related skills.’
Hearing Noah’s answer, despite my previous resolve, I felt a desire to obtain skills. Honestly, skills might be meaningless to me with my intuition, but an increased probability meant that much less time spent.
Wouldn’t it eliminate the need to struggle for days over a single enhancement like today?
“Now, let me explain about the item storage.”
“Item storage?”
Is she talking about the item window?
“Yes, the item storage. If you open the storage, you can put items in and take them out…… Try putting this stone in.”
As she spoke, a fist-sized stone was floating in front of Noah. When did that stone appear? Anyway, I picked up the stone and tried to put it in the item storage I opened, but……
Poof━
“Huh?”
The stone disappeared. Why did it disappear? When I looked up, the stone was in front of Noah, just like before.
“Hehe, you can’t take it like that.”
“Then how do I take it?”
“You have to obtain it through the trading system. This stone belongs to me. You can only take items owned by others through the trading system.”
“Trade?”
“Repeat after me. ‘Trade Start’.”
“Trade Start.”
Poof━
As I said “Trade Start,” my right hand started to glow faintly yellow. It was a fascinating sight even to my own eyes. This kind of trading method.
“If the other person also has a glowing hand and you shake hands, a trade window will appear. Now~ shake hands.”
When I shook hands with Noah, whose hand was about 1-2 cm in size, something that looked like a trade window appeared in front of me.
“If you put the stone in this trade window……”
“The stone is placed.”
“That’s right. Now you have to receive the stone, right? Just say ‘Trade Complete’.”
“Trade Complete.”
“Trade Complete.”
[Trade has been completed.]
“Now, if you look at the item storage, you’ll see the stone I gave you.”
As Noah said, when I looked at the item storage…… that is, the item window, I could see that the stone was inside. And I could also see that the strange number that appeared below the item window had changed.
[1/50]
“This number is…… a limit?”
“Wow!~ You’re so smart. As you said, Rudin-nim, you can put up to 50 items of each type. It seems like you’ve completely adapted now.”
“Well, this much is nothing. But it feels quite insufficient.”
“That can only be solved by the player’s capabilities. For your information, there’s an item called a Magic Backpack, which can also increase the item storage.”
“Magic Backpack, huh……”
“Yes. Now, lastly, I’ll tell you about requests.”
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