He ate bread with the others and Han gave him some jerky which Lucio happily chewed on after cooking it in a small pot filled half with water. He rested his lazy bum for a while before he started jogging all around the village for warmup.
Then he headed off towards the river with a pot of soup and a few pieces of extra bread placed in a bamboo basket which had Han's spare clothes in it.
The first thing he did after reaching the river was to run. Then he did some push-ups, sit-ups and a few other exercises. He repeated them in sets until he felt totally exhausted.
After resting for a while under a nearby tree, he entered the river after removing his clothes.
"At least one fish…." he muttered as he looked inside the water before starting the hunt to redeem his long lost pride.
A few hours later, he decided to use his brain instead of hands "My stats are bad so the result will not change even if I try to catch these things for a week without increasing my strength."
He had already noticed that he had the speed and observational capability to catch some of the fish but the fish always slipped away from his measly grip.
Lucio came out of the liver and took his long shirt. He walked back to the river after tying up one end of the shirt with a thin rope he made from the grass nearby as he muttered to himself "This should be better than my hands…."
Which was right as he caught a fish after about half an hour. Overjoyed, he caught many more fish and the day passed slowly. He caught the fishes and left them back into the river as he did not bring any bucket with him to keep the fish.
The noon passed and Lucio felt his stomach grumble "Oh man….. guess the fun ends for now."
He then wore the extra pair he had brought and ate the bread with the cold soup. After finishing his meal, he ran back to the village with an empty backet and wet clothes.
After reaching home, he kept the shirt to dry and went out to play with the boys as even playing gave him a bit of points.
Lucio completely dominated everyone in the game of tag and the only one who could keep up with his speed was Mark but all he did was keep up. Lucio lost track of time as they played till the evening and the game ended with Lucio going "SIUUUUU" in front of Mark before crashing into him.
The boys walked home as they talked about how fun it was to see "Mark losing". It wasn't a bad day for Mark either as he finally had fun after a long time, using all his efforts.
"I'll beat you next time, Samael." He declared as they both went to their homes which were beside each other.
"We'll see." Lucio muttered to himself, smiling as he looked at the screen in front of him.
A group of women walked to the bakery as they chatted but they were a few minutes earlier than the previous day because of a certain someone who almost burnt down the bakery.
They saw light from the bakery when they got close enough and ran towards it as they panicked.
The old woman entered the bakery, ready the kill the boy but stood at the entrance in surprise. The boy stood in middle of the room with a bundle of branches and logs that were chopped into quarters.
He looked all around the room with calm, calculating gaze as he threw a log into the fire, managing to maintain the perfect temperature. The old woman waled to him and asked "Boy, how did you do it?"
"Do what?" He asked as he backed away from her, which irritated her.
"Maintain the temperature…It took us more than ten years of practice and experience to get more familiar with the optimal temperature needed to bake the bread. So, tell me. How did you do it?"
"Oh that… hehe… it's a secret." Lucio said which annoyed the woman more. She raised her hand up high and took a step forward. Before the rock hard knuckle landed on his delicate head, he conceded defeat.
"OKAY! I'll tell you how, so please don't hit me."
Which made the girls standing at the entrance, laugh. One of their laugh was a bit too contagious and they didn't stop for quite a while.
The old woman ignored them and looked at Lucio as she raised her eyebrow.
Lucio sighed before saying "Well… yesterday I observed the way you guys maintained the temperature so I just replicated it by adding the required amount of wood and changing the position of the wood."
The women in front of him couldn't believe what he said as she simply stared at him in bewilderment. "It's not as easy as you make it seem." She said letting out a drawn-out sigh to which Lucio replied with a smirk,
"What can I do if you guys are dumb. Who would've thought that a young boy would surpass an old monst- OKAY, OKAY I'M SORRY!!!"
Lucio had gotten about a little more than fifty exp points yesterday for various things that he did. Baking, distribution of bread, running, push-ups, sit-ups, swimming, catching fish and finally playing tag.
Today he tried heating up the oven which seemed like a "Hard" job and it actually gave him quite a lot of exp points. It did take him a lot of concentration to keep the temperature stable.
He took care of the temperature for the day and maxed out the exp it could give him in just two hours of work. It provided him exactly thirty exp points and Lucio was happy to receive so much in just two hours.
He went back home after eating breakfast and took some rest as Han prepared to go on a hunt. There were some pieces of jerky that Han had left for him for the day.
Lucio repeated the things he did yesterday and he continued the repetitive grinding process for three more days until he neared the end of his 160 hours.
Lucio looked at the timer that was hidden at the bottom right which said [6 days 14 hours 12 minutes]
'About 1 hour 48 minutes left….'
He thought and continued chatting happily with Amelia and Mark who he had gotten quite close with in the past three day. Although his friendship with mark was a bit childish and funny to Lucio.
When it was almost time, Lucio walked into the hut saying that he needed rest as the warrior's trial was tomorrow.
The 160 hours still wasn't complete yet as Lucio logged off with just a thought, and felt his consciousness slip. Samael slept soundly as Lucio woke up in a different planet called Earth, his home planet.
***
It was almost four in the morning when Lucio woke up. It took some time for his eyes to adjust to the darkness as he sat up slowly. He didn't feel tired nor active. He just felt lazy, not wanting to do anything as he sat in the same place and stared at the wall for god knows how long before he headed to the bathroom.
He didn't feel like taking a shower so he turned on the hot water tap to fill up the bath tub. He then went out to get his phone before taking a dump as he checked the newly developed forums which was only available in Korea.
The forum was a copy of most other forums that were found in Korea and his team were working on it to make it more user friendly.
Lucio looked at the time and it was almost ten past four in the morning for him, but for Koreans, the time was probably nine in the night and they would probably already be in Oscuro for the second time. Lucio opened the forums to check the responses from the users.
Only beta testers were allowed to post and everyone else could comment.
Lucio read through most of the posts and didn't bother with the comments as they were mostly just trolling or treating the comment section as a group chat.
The posts were pretty good and most said that the game felt very real. There were posts that covered topics like time conversion which stated that people could technically play for 24 hours or even a few days. Lucio was curious what the man had found out even though he already knew about it.
[Posted by: Handsome Donkey]
Good news to all the virgins, sex and a lot more is possible in Oscuro. When they said that it is close to reality, I didn't believe it as I thought it would be the same as other games, attractive ads which overexaggerated the games too much.
If you don't have a girlfriend on earth, it is not so hard to get one on Oscuro.
I miss my right hand
Bye guys