"How much harder do you think a max Easy quest will be?" rhetorically asked Quast.
"I dunno." answered his friend "But what I want to know is what stats I should put my points into."
"Not yet. Don't invest your points yet." said Quast with something on his mind. "Invest them after you've hit your limit with the easy quests."
"My, but of course, how didn't I think of that." sarcastically replied Jerry.
"Wow." was all that came out of Quast's mouth, he jokingly acted as if he was speechless, he opened the Enemies tab and spawned the new enemy for the Easy quest, it was, surprise surprise... a slime! This time however the slime fought back and was faster, and unlike the previous slimes it had a chance of dropping an item.
Taken by surprise that another slime had appeared Jerry stumbled back a bit and a new quest appeared
[Defeat the strong slime]
[Difficulty : Easy][Reward : 150 Experience, 1 random common weapon]
"Uhh." was spoken by Jerry afterwards.
"Self-explanatory." responded Quast.
Jerry agreed and stopped talking.
The strong slime didn't wait for Jerry to attack and lunged at him. By the skin of his teeth Jerry managed to jump out of the way to avoid the attack, the stick was also of some help because before he jumped away he guarded himself with it, but because he had used his weapon to guard himself it had sustained some damage, the first thing that came to Jerry's mind was how much faster the slime was than he thought. He wasn't used to fighting enemies that attacked back, so he just sat still not knowing what to do, the slime however knew what to do and that was to attack Jerry, without wait it leapt once again.
With not enough time he tried to dodge to the other direction, however the slime grazed his arm. Pain shot up his nervous system and he gritted his teeth, this was the first real pain he had felt since he and Quast got the system, if he had any doubts about the system then they were gone by now, it was all real.
With determination in the eyes and pain in his arm, he stood up and turned around to the slime which didn't wait for anyone and jumped back into action, Jerry raised the stick and intercepted the slime, he managed to throw it off course and he stepped back, he had to think of a plan. Destroying the core was all that was on his mind, the movements of the slime had become pretty easy to read since everything it did was pounce at Jerry. It once again jumped to attack Jerry and he moved out of harms way and waited it for it to land, he located where he thought it was going to land, it landed near his predicted spot but that didn't matter since he was now holding the stick over it and in the next moment with all of his current power he plunged it downwards in the direction of its core, however something that was unexpected was how hard the slime would be, because the slime was so dense Jerry miscalculated and it only damaged the core a little bit, nevertheless even if it was only a bit of damage it still slowed the movements of the fiend down.
Jerry had to grasp that opportunity, but he wasn't the only one thinking of attacking. The strong slime was the first to make the move once again and this time it managed to graze Jerry's leg, and another wave of pain was felt, infuriated at himself for managing to let it happen twice, the strength of his grip around the already damaged stick strengthened even more, he tightened his leg muscles and was the first one to attack now, the slime wasn't going down without a fight though, it lunged at him for one last time, but he interrupted its attack midair and smacked it to the ground where he punctured the slime and drove the stick through its core, the stick went through into the ground and it broke near where Jerry's grip was.
Jerry sat onto the grass and let a breath of relief out.
The quest was completed and the window dissapeared, but another one appeared.
[You have unlocked : Metal Sword (Common)]
Under it was a little image of the sword and near it a description.
[Metal Sword]
[+5 Strength]
[This sword is made from an unknown weak metal, even though the metal is weak this sword is still good for beginners.]
"Wow, that was a nice fight." Quast gave a thumbs up. "Anyways, it seems like your previous weapon has sustained some heavy damage and is now broken, that stick was your first weapon, you owe that stick a lot." after a little pause there was a continuation "But nontheless check your Gear tab."
The Gear tab opened with a thought and there was now a new item in there.
[Gear]
[Metal Sword - Common]
[None..]
[None..]
[None..]
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"It's a sword, wait don't you need a license to own one?" jokingly said Jerry. "Don't mind if I do." he summoned it into his hands, it looked like a normal sword, a real fine sword, the light reflected off of the blade, Jerry stood up and gave it a few swings, it felt comfortable in his hands and he swung it without many problems, it was a little heavy, but the +5 Strength that it gave substituted finely.
Along with the sword he had gained 150 Experience from the quest, making him have 245 out of 300 Experience to level up, he still had the 6 Attribute points that he still hadn't allocated, all was going well.
"Next one." Jerry patted the dirt off of his pants as he stood up.
"On it." responded Quast.
A new quest window appeared.
[Defeat the strong slime]
[Difficulty : Easy][Reward : 150 Experience]
This time there was no random weapon, it seemed like it was a one time thing.
Another one of the strong slimes appeared. With a lot of confidence Jerry readied his cool new sword and didn't wait for anyone as he crossed the distance between him and the slime.
The journey to level 10 was going to be a long one.
The slime noticed the movements and swerved, dodging the incoming attack, Jerry repositioned and took another swing, but to his demise he missed again, something that he noticed was that the slime didn't have time to attack, but he was tiring himself out little by little, he intentionally didn't swing and waited for the slime to lunge at him, he was going to slice it midair.
His plan worked out, because as soon as the slime saw that Jerry wasn't attacking it launched itself at him, but Jerry once again miscalculated how fast the slime was going to go and he didn't even graze the core while it was midair, once he realised that, he tried to move out of the way as quick as he could, but once again the slime was faster and it grazed his torso a little bit and ruined his shirt, the same pain that he had felt 2 times was now once again inflicted upon him, he wondered how he could be so unfortunate but still thankful that he got away only with a little graze, because if he had been slower it would've resulted in a bigger injury. With his head turned towards the slime he didn't change his plan and waited for it to attack, this time he wasn't going to miss. As expected it leapt and charged at him.
Jerry exhaled and ran into the direction of the slime, he didn't have any plans of missing, the sword was swung as hard as possible in aim for the core, it wasn't a perfect cut but it still managed to destroy the core.
"Next." Jerry uttered while he was still in the fighting zone.