Although having a passive skill like Reinforce seemed like a good this it never really got any better than the 100 attribute points it gave you. There was a huge amount of Passive Skills that were better than Reinforce, like 'Give and Take'. Give and Take could be a Unique Rank Passive Skill but the side affect could be seen as a terrifying existence. If someone was daring enough he could grow in leaps and bounds using self inflicted pain.
After they finished talking the party left to fight at the Slime Fields.
Saudo was in thought the whole walk there. After thinking about how he could use 'Give and Take' to its fullest extent. Saudo could buy the enhancement drugs from the black market but even though he just made some money from the Slime Core the worst quality drugs costed 500 Gold as they would increase all your stats buy at least 200 on the first dose. Saudo couldn't be spending cash like that and crossed it off his mind.
The other option is a lot more safe but it required on only chance.
Saudo had heard that there was some Passive Skills that had a Pain Tolerance buff that allowed someone to receive a lot more pain. There was more he could do so much with Give and Take it just was about what Saudo could tolerate and how much he was willing to risk.
Give and Take doesn't have any healing function so he can't just heal without end. He would need a fortune of healing potions or a Rank A healer if he was to put the stuff he was thinking into action.
They were approaching the Slime Fields so he threw his pipe dream ideas into the back of his mind to be focused on the enemies he is gonna fight.
Once again Saudo choose a area where only Rank E Slime's showed up.
After a few minutes of waiting a small green Slime made its way towards the group. They quickly got into formation and prepared to fight the Slime.
From what it looked like the Slime was a Rank E and possessed lower stats than the party. Mason made quick work of the Slime killing it in only a few minutes with the help of Oliver and Rogan.
The Slime dropped 3 Copper and a Slime Core.
Within the 3 hours that the party was there they killed 12 Slime making them 64 Copper and 12 Rank E Slime Cores netting them a solid 1 Silver and 60 Copper for the day.
After taking away the money they spent on supplies each member made 30 Copper.
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"At this point even with only 15 silver left in our dept it will take us over a few weeks to pay it back." Saudo sighed at this fact. "We should head back to the Old Elven Castle to kill some Kobolds."
They were back at the inn talking about what to do next.
Saudo didn't tell his party about the Gold he had saved up because that was his stash of money in case something really bad happened.
"Yeah it is a shame that I'm broke. . . Saudo can you give me some money?" Rogan asked giving Saudo a very sad face.
A drop of sweat slid down Saudo's face when Rogan asked him about money. He knew that the party was in semi-dire condition and that they were hard on money right now but how could Rogan be broke.
That nervousness quickly turned into anger as Saudo realized that if Rogan saved his money he would have some money.
"How the hell do you have no money! We still get a small amount of money everyday from killing monsters there is no way you can spend that kind of money when you know how poor we are right?..." Saudo yelled gaining the attention of the rest of the party.
"..."
"That's right next time save up your money instead of spending it all willy nilly." Saudo felt very satisfied teaching Rogan a lesson for once.
"Uhh Saudo actually I also have no money." Mason added timidly
'This party is useless. The more money we make the more they spend. They are lucky I separate the money for our dept before giving it to them or else we would be in so much trouble.'
Saudo being fed up with them gave up on trying to teach them the lesson. "You know what you can go spend money I'm going back to my room."
He looked like he was mad but Saudo had a sudden realization.
'Why din't I think of it before, I have so much money I can pay off our dept right now. Sure the rest wont know how we got out of it but we won't need to deal with it no more.'
Although it took him a while to figure it out Saudo ended up transferring the remaining amount of dept from his bank into the Guild's account making the dept disappear.
The next day the rest of the battle party woke up to the alert telling them their dept was paid off. Elated to this fact the party took a day off thanks to Saudo and went on a none spending day off.
They walked around Lurik talking to each other because even though they live in the city they've only been in about 5% of the whole city.
Getting to familiarize themselves with many new and exciting shops was so much fun that they decided the when they have more money they would come back to do this and actually buy something.
Turning off the bustling street they were met with the familiar sight of the inn they were living at. Since they were in dept before and had to live on the cheapest amount of money they had to live in the most horrible conditions. Although there was a restroom and such they had to sleep on beds with hay as blankets and the living space was like being in a closet.
While staring at the room with bitterness in his eyes Saudo sweared that he would never stoop this low for a room ever again in his life. He couldn't stand to be near this ever again. He would work his hardest to make money and keep himself from this room as long as possible.
'Now to think about how to use Give and Take.'
The way Saudo grasped 'Give and take' currently was that he only needed to feel the pain for his stats to grow so if he was hurt internally or something along those lines he would still gain from that suffering to. He could do many things to get hurt but thought his brain couldn't handle him causing so much pain to himself.
He could just buy a Anti Pain Potion to neglect the pain for an hour or two and make his stats move in leaps and bounds but since that costed 40 Gold making his saving look pitiful he threw that idea away.
'Looks like the thing I need right now is money and lots of it.' Saudo was set on get his stats to rise as quick as possible.