He was just about to grab the ball, when he realized that his hand was still placed firmly on the lever.
"Ahh!!" he shouted scared because he was already feeling numb, and his head was spinning. He quickly removed his hand from the lever and pressed his finger on the wound, forgetting that he had a gase and bandages in his inventory...Yep he decide a while ago to just call it inventory. Much less hassle...
He only passively glanced at the tank, that once again was filled enough for another prize, and took out the bandage to wrap his hand, still feeling dizzy.
"Ugh...Now I'm not surprised how the old man died in this place. That you could forget about a knife stabbing your hand because of excitement is really... At least i hope it was worth it..." He muttered as he grabbed the golden prize into one hand and pulled the lever cautiously.
Soon enough a small black ball rolled out of the prize hole and Konrad sighed reading it.
[} Low Health Potion {]
"Nope...Not worth it at all...But i guess I'll use it now. The dizziness is killing me, and i fell like throwing up...again." He muttered and drank the potion as soon as it transformed from the orb.
He instantly felt much better. He was still weak from the blood loss but he wasn't feeling like crap anymore and the wound on his hand was gone, so... that's a plus.
He sighed in relief and sat down. The golden, striped ball was still in his hand and it was high time he checked what it was that just distracted him so much.
If he was a cartoon character , he would have most likely fainted as soon as his eyes registered the words plastered on the Golden Ball.
[} Observe Skill - Basic {]
This three words... It was once again a prize on the level of his space storage and improved regeneration. A freaking observe skill!
Some may say it's not such a great thing but Konrad always thought that just having an ability of perfectly describing something could be very useful. If the skill provides additional information then that's even more broken!
As people say - "Knowledge is Power" and for someone like him, that lately only increases his knowledge and strength, a skill which could help organize his knowledge is practically a godsend!
"Wow! I can't wait to see how it works! This is awesome!" He exclaimed after the extent of this situation finally settled in.
He wanted to just shove it into his head here and now, but just at this moment there was a loud sound that permitted the surroundings.
#RUMBLERUMBLE#
" Oh... you're already hungry?" He looked angrily at his belly. The rumbling didn't stop but instead increased as if it was mocking him.
"Watch out. I know where you live" He said threateningly. The rumbling stopped abruptly.
"Here! Now let's-"
#RUMBLE#
"You!...Alright, alright, I'm going home. I'll use this skill orb in bed or something. Now I'm too hungry. Stupid belly..." He muttered.
"..Gosh i really need some human interaction..."
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On the way back home, Konrad bought himself a giant double cheeseburger from the local fast-food, that somehow survived even though there was no customers when out of season.
The burger was great and his belly finally stopped the tremors it was making, allowing Konrad to get back home in quiet a good mood.
Soon enough the aspiring mage reached his house and got into his room after briefly greeting his mom and brother.
Mom was currently making dinner, while his 7 yo brother Sebastian was playing Cavecraft Like a proper No-life should do. Konrad just sighed seeing this and approached him.
"Hey little bro. You wanna play some board games with me?" Konrad asked.
His brother's eyes flashed with excitement.
"Yes! Let's play Lares!" He shouted excitedly.
'Lares' Was a name, that Sebastian made up from Konrad's nickname in the game. They would play together from time to time and He liked to call Konrad weird names and tease him.
Soon enough the two of them sat together playing Chess, or more like Konrad playing chess and Sebastian playing with war figurines on the same board...
Konrad wanted to go to his room and examine the changes and rewards he got from the lottery but he knew that his brother looked up to him. He just couldn't take it, seeing him playing and watching stupid videos all the time. It was all his past influence, since he wasn't different in the past and his brother was doing the same he did.
So, in the hope of repenting his past mistakes, Konrad started to spend more time with him and try showing him some fun ways to pass time, other than Computers and TV.
The best thing was...There was improvement! His brother could be seen every now and then playing with his toys or even reading a book when he wasn't visiting the neighbors. He was still an avid gamer but now it wasn't the only thing he ever did.
Konrad was glad with the changes, and he would try his best so his brother grew up to be a better person than he was in the past.
That's why he didn't go immediately to his room to experiment.
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With the dinner and his time with Sebastian already behind him, Konrad finally laid on his bed. It was so comfy after those few days in the lottery space, where his bed consisted of a bunch of clothes, that he almost passed out here and there...
But he wasn't going to do that yet. He had too much to do! And he had already slept back in the subdimmension anyway.
He sat up straight and waved his hand in front of him, causing a sword to appear on the bed.
It was his steel Broadsword. He wanted to try training for a while but then he realized that there was no space for it in the house. He snorted and stored the sword back after examining it for a while.
Then he took out the Orichalcum Ingot.
It was quiet big actually but that was to be expected with it weighing 5 kilograms.
He was actually surprised with how much of it he had because after checking on the internet, he realized that a typical sword wouldn't weight more than two kilograms if it wasn't a giant two handed monstrosity...
That led him to compare the steel sword he received from the lottery with the ones on the web and he came to a startling discovery.
The Broadsword was weighing over 2,5 Kilograms! It was quiet heavy for a sword actually! No wonder he struggled with welding it... But he knew from his sword manual, that heavier sword is better for training in his case. Then it was good. Even if his wrist cried, with the proper basic movements already ingrained in his head, he wouldn't hurt himself while training.
But going back to the Magical metal.
He had 5 kilograms of the thing... and another 10 kilograms of ore. With that amount even 7 swords shouldn't be a problem if he knew how to forge them...
But as of now he couldn't do anything with the thing.
He tried to experiment with it, and found out that he could pour his Mana easily into the metal which would then absorb it, but nothing else would happen. He couldn't force the metal to change shape or anything like this.
He managed to dig up a glass knife somewhere from his drawers. It was a stick of a really, hard metal with a pointy sharp end, used to make scratches on glass that you then used to break the glass in a way you want it to break. He tried to use the knife on the ingot and there was a really tiny scratch on its surface after Konrad put a lot of strength into it. He wasn't expecting to actually scratch the metal but seems like he was wrong.
But then he tried to scratch it after pouring a lot of his, now 20 points, of Mana.
The knife broke...
"Huh...'Orichalcum- Magical metal. Color:bluish-silver. Gets stronger after pouring Mana into it.' " He muttered while writing his observations inside of his notepad.
"Alright...Now what else?..."
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/Konrad's inventory list//
- Steel Broadsword
- 7x small light orb formation
- fire ball formation
- Smartphone
- few changes of clothes
- Jar of dirt
- two buckets of wet cement (for later)
- four empty buckets
- Orichalcum ore 10kg
- Orichalcum Ingot 5kg
- Konrad's favourite knife
- Konrad's personal Grimoire (Still empty)
- notepad for quick observations.
- •Apprentice Tome Of Swords And Shields•(Already completed)
- bunch of different trinkets he thought might come in handy someday...
- Prize orbs:
[} Steel Armour Set Piece (Gauntlets) {]
[} Medium Health Potion {]
[} Observe Skill - Basic {]
[} User targeted Summoning (Another World Hero) {]