BODEN
When Boden entered the system room, seeing the amount of life energy lost due to the failure of the mission, he collapsed unhappily in the middle of the system room. He reached for his vodka within reach of his hand. He was as if someone had opened the cap of the bottle a million times and turned it over with experience. He was staring at the empty wall opposite him as he brought the bottle to his mouth. He sipped the bottle several times.
"Find me a good expert."
After a few seconds, the projection of a middle-aged man was showed on the wall. Boden told the man "Hi, I failed my first mission. Do you have any suggestions that can help me? I do not want such empty information. I want a suggestion that will strengthen me, not a suggestion such as complete tasks without causing problems, pay attention to everything etc. My first task was a very hard task, and I lost a lot of life energy. I also want you to sell me something useful. If possible, you should sell without profit so that I will repay your grace when I improve myself in the future."
The expert shrugged "You're not interesting at all, if you were a beautiful woman, I might have shared something" and then disconnected.
"Hoot! What is this! You even use 'the Ask the expert part' to hook women!"
Boden sipped his vodka again "Damn you. I could do the same if I had. I spoke a little silly. Yes. Anyway. System! Let's ask another expert."
A new expert has been linked in. It was an old woman. It's the same old woman who ran into Juan. Boden nodded after looking at the woman. The old woman said "Let me hear your question!"
Boden scratched his chin "Can you sell me something a beginner would need? Cheaper things than those sold in the system."
The old woman thought for a while, then explained "Actually, there are many things. The most important is the space ring. You can put everything on the ring instead of the bag. But you can't use the ring yet. Because you haven't opened any acupuncture points yet."
"I'll send you a globe. This sphere will show you what energy you are prone to. I will get 10000 TG as the coaching fee from you. At the end of the job, you will find yourself progressed more correctly. By selling some Life Energy you will at least survive, may even become an immortal. If you can manage to reach my level, we can work together. Since I am your coach, I expect you to help."
Boden said without much thought "Okay, coach. System! If the old woman really coaches, deliver 10000 TG immediately."
"Now take the sphere I sent you for free and hold it." Boden did as he was told, and after a few seconds the sphere turned white. The old woman smiled "You are very lucky. With a probability of one in 13 million you have become a person prone to brightness-force energy. Now let's see if anyone sells brightness-force energy conversion method in forums or auctions. Hmm, yes, I got it. A method with 99 acupuncture points. It's a rare method. You will give 120000 TG for this."
Boden swallowed "Well, my first mission was a very hard task and I failed. I lost 10 thousand LE already. Isn't that too risky?"
After some thought, the old woman said "You will get it for 12 thousand LE. I think it does not matter. You will win in the future. You chase success in your constant missions. I do not profit from this method I found. You will never find anything like this in the system. Finding rare-methods seem impossible. We will definitely buy this. I'll give you a 100 cubic meter ring. The normal price is 50 thousand TG, but I got it when I killed someone recently. I will give you a discount. 40 thousand TG."
Boden sadly spent 16,000 LE on two items. He paid coaching fees at 1000 HE. The old woman explained how to open the acupuncture points, producing mana, how to form when opening all the points, and the management of the formation. The woman talked about the core and Dao. Boden learned that in order to earn even better bonuses in missions, the things to watch out for on missions are special spells and mostly, he has to kill the strongest beings on the missions.
Boden eventually spent another 1000 LE and received a level 2 sword and a level 2 shield. He also received level 2 quality armor. He could not use the energy method because there was no mana in the system room. He chose the long-term task.
- Rise to The Level of Soul Formation in Bainyteria.
Duration: 12 months
Difficulty Level: Very-Hard
Reward: 200 TG, 2500 LE
Penalty: -10000 LE
"It will be much easier for me to complete the tasks that I have to accomplish, even if it is very hard, thanks to the coaching I have received." For the second time, Boden applied for a very-hard task at great risk.
'System alert! The continuous quest type.
'Agents join and leave this quest constantly. If the subsequently joining agent finishes the mission early, agents who cannot complete the mission before the successful agent, have to leave without success. You will be considered successful as long as you complete the main task before the agents that joined after you.'
Boden found himself in a territory of Bainyteri. It was a few kilometers outside of a town. Boden's attire was very interesting, with food in his backpack, shining armor and weapons.
Boden, as the old woman told him, began to practice opening his acupuncture points by sitting cross-legged on the side of the road where he was, without entering the town or city. The breathing exercises were repeated for three hours and 5-points were easily opened at the end.
Boden, after examining the dantan organ, quickly tied the ring, sword, shield and armor to himself with his thought power. Then he sent everything to the ring. He entered town in his dark brown veiled outfit.
While walking to the town square, he did not ask anything to the villagers, but when he saw two young men with swords on their backs, he went to them and said "Hi, can I ask you something?"
One of the young people asked "What do you want?"
With a little smile, Boden pulled a bottle of vodka from the cloth bag on his back and said "I have a drink that is not from this land. I came from a distant land, but I have no valid money for here. If you give some gold, I can sell it to you. "
One of the young people took the drink bottle with interest and opened the lid and took a sip "Woa, I like it. It is very effective." Then he threw his hand into his pouch and pulled out 3 gold coins and gave him.
The two quickly walked away. Boden came to a inn in the town. He took a room and ordered a hot beef soup. Boden, who listened gossips around while drinking his soup, did not hear any important news except for a few thefts and murders. Then he started to live in this inn.
Boden went down to drink soup once a day, then went back to his room and opened the acupuncture points. Fifteen days later, he had to leave the inn when he had completely spent the gold he had exchanged for his drinks. Boden had opened nine acupuncture points at the end of fifteen days and was feeling very strong. *(1)*
He came out of the door of the inn. 'God knows how many dao-descriptor level and soul-core level there are on this planet. Or it could be countless people at the soul-formation level and hundreds of thousands of people at the gathering-energy level. I shouldn't take anyone's attention. The fastest way to make money is to steal, but it's too risky. If I go into a forest and hunt some monsters, I'll sell their meat and make money.'
He started walking towards where the town's hunters gathered. There were horse drawn carriages and wagons in front of the hunter club. They contained the corpses of huge monsters. The hunter club's building was huge and when Boden entered there were hundreds of people on the ground floor.
After some investigation, Boden found out that a group needs six people at the gathering-energy level, and when he went over, they included Boden in the group. Three hours later, six more joined, in addition to the previous fifteen. Twenty-one people in total gathered outside the club.
The leader of the group introduced himself to everyone. "We meet on the road. I'm the leader of the group. You just need to know my name. I'm Naser. Twenty people here will get a four percent share per man. I will take the remaining twenty percent. In fact, almost half of the group are already my friends. So twenty percent doesn't go to me. It is only in the image. In addition, all food and drinks consumed on the road will be covered by me. The wagons required to transport the bodies are also covered by me."
Under the leadership of Naser, twenty-one people settled in four wagons and moved on. For seven hours, the wagon kept moving without stopping and they had reached the depths of the forest. The leader of the group, Naser, said they will leave the wagons at this point and five people will keep watch over the wagons. A newly elected person and four former members of the group were chosen and left behind.
Sixteen people marched through the forest. About forty minutes later they arrived in front of a lair. At Naser's sign, they set up several traps. Then one of the founding members of the group walked into the lair and ran out after about forty seconds. He was pale. Behind him, a red energy-emitting snake came out, thirty meters long and a little more than a meter-diameter.
While the snake was chasing its prey, the six traps the snake passed over were all activated and the snake remained motionless thanks to the traps controlled by energy. Naser and the two men cut off the snake's head with energy axes. The operation was completed in a few minutes.
Boden looking at the body of the snake 'If I do the triangle ritual, I can gain a lot of physical power. But who could the other two be? I need to find two reliable friends for myself' he thought.
*(1)* [Boden Physical Power: 4.4 Agility: 4.4 Intelligence: 2.5]
A.N. : Calculations below for who interested in Maths of System.
[Calculating the increase of Physical Power with opened acupuncture points (9x0.3 + 1.7 = 4.4) The 0.3 coefficient is related to the quality of the energy method used. Without an original energy method, the energies of those who open the common points increase as 63 points. In the methods, breathing exercises and energy circulation direction and speed vary. With 63 acupuncture energy conversion methods, 0.1 power increase occurs in the practitioner's body every time acupuncture is opened. Energy conversion methods, respectively, the total number of acupunctures and the amount of power increase 72: 0.15 81: 0.2 90: 0.25 99: 0.3 108: 0.35]
[Intelligence calculation 1.5 + 1.0 = 2.5]
[The evolution by reaching Gathering-Energy level increased the intelligence 1.0 point]