"So my native skill is called Forgeron's System?"
Most people would probably be disappointed at this point Henry's eyes were shining, he had always admired blacksmiths and he could use this opportunity to become one ! If he didn't have a native skill useful in fights then he could just wear better equipment than other people !
'Wait... before that there are two issues. If the blueprints and items sold by the System suck then it will be useless to me, second thing is : if they are actually better than what the Forge can make then I'll be targeted by them for sure. I'll have to tread carefully !'
'Wait can you hear my thoughts ?!'
'Just more convenient, if I want to ask you something in public I won't need to pass for a weirdo who talks to himself, alright System how should I do to open the shop ?'
Without losing any time Henry did as he was told and a pop up very similar to a holographic screen appeared in front of him, the first items were already displayed together with their prices. He tried clicking on a random one and a second pop up covered the first one, this time all the equipment's characteristics were displayed!
'I can either buy the item right away or the blueprints... But then I won't need to make the items... ? I can just buy them from the store and sell them.'
'I didn't plan to use the easy path anyway, it's better this way. If the items I sell just appear from nowhere it would be really suspect.'
Since it was his native skill Henry wasn't in a hurry to try it as he knew there was no way it would suddenly disappear and asked questions at his own pace, after he understood what he needed to, he started scrolling through the holographic pop up in front of him to check what kind of items there was lower on the list.
Since most people in this era had their mobile phones on their holographic lenses even if he scrolled into the air in front of people they would just take it as him using his mobile phone and nothing else.
After scrolling through a few items he realized the rest were all in grey instead of green, he didn't need to click on it to know what it meant but did it anyway. After he pressed his finger on an item in grey a smaller pop up than earlier appeared.
[Item locked, required blacksmith experience: 1600.]
'I see... System can I see my experience?'
Without an answer a small screen appeared in front of him, while he expected to see only his blacksmith experience he was actually given a whole status page !
[ Status :
Name : Henry
Age : 17 years, 1 month, 4 days old
Job : None
Status : None
Title : None
Blacksmith level 0 ( exp: 0/100 )
Stats :
Strength : 9
Stamina : 9
Agility : 9
Speed : 9
Intelligence : 14
Charisma : 12
Luck : 6
Skills :
Native skill : Forgeron's System.
Inventory : closed.
Shop : open. ]
'Hey System, how are average stats for humans ?'
The natural limit for humans is 20, to break that limit you'll need to ingest Dimensional beasts.> Although Henry has never heard Dimensional beasts being mentioned, he knew that there was a limit to human's capacities and the way to break that limit was to eat the cores of Demonic beasts. 'Is Dimensional beasts the real name of Demonic beasts ?' 'Who gave them their first name ?' For the first time he felt like the system wasn't telling him all he had to know but he didn't mind it, since the system was part of him if it didn't tell him now then it meant that he didn't need to know. While talking to the system and getting all the questions he had for a long time answered he kept scrolling through the shop and enjoyed seeing all the beautiful equipment with insane skills. The more he looked the more he felt like he was holding a treasure, if someone learned about his system he would probably be tortured to give them all the blueprints. 'I'll have to be careful about who I show my items to and where I got them from if I'm asked, I wish I could start to make items now to start making money but I don't have the facilities to forge...' 'What are those requirements?' 'Damn.' Henry was disappointed but guessed there was no use in bargaining with the system. He scrolled back to the first few items that he could make and the first on the list was a dagger, it was pitch black, the blade was recurved and it had teeth on the side. If used on a human it would rip the skin and give way more work to the doctor who would have to fix that person's wound. He pressed it and the characteristics appeared. [Dark bone dagger : This dagger is made mostly from the bones of a Dimensional beast called : Ink turtle. Strength : +5 Speed : +5 This dagger have the ability to make heavier the body of whoever touch the blade by 5 times. The duration of the effect is 2 seconds and can be stacked, the owner isn't an exception : be careful to hold the dagger by the handle and avoid contact with the blade.] 'This is the cheapest item ? The skill it possess is insane !' Henry couldn't help but be surprised, he hadn't paid attention earlier to the cheapest items because he wanted to see how good this system was but now he had made up his mind : NOBODY could know about it, even this item could probably be sold for thousands of dollars ! The price on the system was only 130$ on top of that, even if he didn't have any ambition he could still be millionaire by using this system, however he had ambitions and wouldn't stop at being a millionaire. There wasn't any deep reason as to why he wanted to reach the top, he just felt like living at the bottom all his life wasn't for him : he wanted to be the strongest and the richest ! He sat down in front of his computer and opened his bank account. [Balance : 378$] Since he didn't work and also didn't have anybody to provide him with food and shelter he lived from his scholarship, since he was the best in his school he had enough to live outside of the school's dormitory and also live quite comfortably but it still wasn't enough to support him if he wanted to start a normal business however since he had the system he could just sell one dagger and earn a small fortune. He pressed the [BUY] button on the system screen and on his desk in front of him an object started materializing but it didn't look like a dagger. After a few seconds he saw a whole black box the size of a shoebox on his desk.