With that Jerry was off to the races, first came the 10 Very Easy quests for that free Experience.
[Defeat a fast slime]
[Difficulty : Very Easy][Rewards : 100 Experience]
1000 Experience was received.
The summer sun's rays shone through the crowns of the trees, very relaxingly.
That's when Jerry received a notification that a geode had spawned somewhere in a 100 meter radius. It wasn't within the visible area, and with all of the bushes around them he didn't want to bother looking for a single geode. But out of pure chance he saw the slight change of color in a bush around 10 meters away from him, the particles of the geode.
[Inside of the shiny geode was a : Coin]
Another common coin. Jerry pocketed it, like the other Coin, he now had 2 common Coins in his pocket.
"I can't believe it's summer already." Quast said. "And next week is our last week before the summer break."
"Yeah, same." "I fucking love summer." Jerry said as he prepared for the the Easy quests, although there was not much to prepare for.
[Defeat a strong slime]
[Difficulty : Easy][Rewards : 465 Experience]
+4650 Experience, making Jerry's Exp equal to 7700 out of the 14600 he needed for level 34.
It was relatively hot outside so Jerry was sweating more while swinging the Harnessing Sword, even though the quests up until now were not that taxing for him, physically.
"Man, I need to cool off somehow." The sweaty one said and opened the shop.
After going past the familiar items on the first page and the second page, he landed on the third page that he hadn't seen yet.
[Coins : 930][Sort Items by : Consumables(Lowest to Highest Price)]
[Bottle of Notemp : 175 Coins]
[Tropical Cavairo : 200 Coins]
[Cavairo : 250 Coins]
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[Bottle of Notemp]
[Cost: 175 Coins]
[A popular, cold and refreshing drink sealed within a glass container.]
"Popular where?" Jerry asked, but he didn't care enough for now. "It sounds nice, and exactly like what I need." Jerry decided that he would definitely buy this, yet he still wanted to check the other unfamiliar items.
[Tropical Cavairo]
[Cost: 200 Coins]
[A square fruit with rounded edges that is grown throughout tropical regions of the world, its taste is a mix of sour and sweet. Boosts Mana Regeneration.]
"Never heard of a fruit called Cavairo." they both thought.
[Cavairo]
[Cost: 250 Coins]
[A Square fruit with rounded edges that can only be grown in certain areas of the world, but not the tropical ones, otherwise it becomes T͟r͟o͟p͟i͟c͟a͟l͟ C͟a͟v͟a͟i͟r͟o͟. Its taste is mostly sweet with only a little bit of sour. Boosts Mana Regeneration and Stamina Regeneration.]
The underlined text was just a redirection to the Tropical Cavairo page.
A Bottle of Notemp was purchased for 175 Coins, making the balance 755 Coins.
"What a weird looking bottle." Jerry said. The bottle in question resembled a Calabash fruit, but more compact and it had kind of an elongated neck with a cork-like cap on top. The transparent drink could be seen floating inside the glass container. "Is this alcohol?" Jerry asked himself. "Oh well." he took a sip. "Damn, this really is cold, the system didn't lie." the one who drank proclaimed. "But it's very good, worth the 175 Coins I'd say."
"You wanna try it as well?" Jerry asked Quast.
"Sure."
Jerry bought another bottle and gave it to his friend. Bringing the balance down to 580, but he'd earn those Coins easily in the future.
"Yo, this kinda slaps not gonna lie. What a peculiar flavour." Quast remarked.
Then they continued with the Mediocre quests.
[Defeat a horned goblin]
[Difficulty : Mediocre][Rewards : 2950 Experience]
The first 4 out of 7 Mediocre quests were going fine, Jerry dodged most of the goblin hits but got hit once in the leg because of a miscalculation, it wasn't that bad but it still hurt. Somewhere along the way he leveled up.
[Name : Jerry Dankworth]
[Blood Type : O-][Negative Effects : None]
[Gear & Items]
[Gear : Harnessing Sword{embedded}, Endurance Medallion{embedded}, Arthur's Iron Gauntlets]
[Items : 2 Healing Mushrooms, 1 Rejuvenating Candy, Crystalus(Uncommon), Watermelon(cut in half), Amethyst Candy(Rare), Crystal Ovoid]
[Statistics : 32 (+15) Strength 35 (+3) Intelligence 36 Agility (+3)]
[25 Dexterity (+6) 19 Endurance (+14) 19 Luck]
[Level 34 : 4900/16200 Experience to Level 35]
[Attribute Points : 4]
[Skills : Slash(Common), Fire Magic(Passive Common), Geologist(Passive Rare)]
While Jerry was playing around with the system one day at home, he figured out that he can enable the stats from his Gear to be seen near his normal stats in brackets, and he has kept it that way ever since, finding it to be really neat and tidy.
Jerry was starting to sweat again because of all the movement he was exerting, so he decided to rest and take a few more little sips of the Notemp, which he had already drank half of, making sure to savor the flavor. "Alright 3 more Mediocres to go!"
The one fighting the Mediocre goblins could now defeat them without even using Fire Magic if he just struck the right spots with enough strength. And that's how the last 3 Mediocre quests were completed.
"Let's begin the Hard quests." Jerry said.
Quast knew that Jerry could not handle 5 max Hard quests yet, but he could ramp up the difficulty a little bit from last time.
[Defeat a Muloculus]
[Difficulty : Hard][Time Limit : 10 Minutes][Rewards : 9000 Experience]
It was now 9000 Experience per Hard quest, while it was 7500 Exp the last time, which meant that it would be harder.
Jerry knew that every Hard quest would be a challenge in in of itself.
The white egg shaped creature appeared in front of him again. So the challenger activated the Harnessing Sword's Skill, he was saving his Mana up for these last 5 quests. And then he added Fire Magic on top of that, and the Slash skill after that, making for a killer combo.
But the Muloculus was also pretty strong, with its long and thin appendages that were separated by little gaps that had the curious aura of Mana, which it waved around like nunchucks almost, but a hit from them would hurt much more than any nunchuck.
Jerry parried the arms of the creature and went in for a clean hit, but the Muloculus dodged just barely, and hit Jerry back, it hurt unlike any goblin attack, and it even hurt a little more than when Arthur cut him. But that was fine, because he wasn't concentrated on the pain. With his really buffed Harnessing Sword, Jerry managed to finally cut the creature, but then it transformed into its many eyed, dark green version. After a back and forth Jerry managed to win when Slash charged up again.
"Damn, were they always this hard to beat?" The one who was fighting up until now asked. "Maybe I was just really lucky last time." the spot at which he got hit, stung a little more now. "I'm gonna buy a healing potion." He said as he bought a Lesser Healing potion for 20 coins and drank it, the little flask disappearing into thin air after it was empty. The wound hurt a bit less now.
After a 3 Minute rest to recover some Mana, it was time to continue the Hard quests.