Lucio left the village with his mule, which was a "gift" from Gary. The mule was an adult and looked like it wasn't too fond of Lucio so he had to hire someone from the village to take him to the silver moon city.
A two-day ride cost him two silver and he didn't mind it as he sat in the cart that was being pulled by two mules, one which was his and the other which was the rider's.
Lucio didn't know the guy who rode the carriage so he kept quiet as he made some arrangements in his system.
[Congratulations! You have successfully purchased [Market] and [Friend List]]
Both of them cost him fifty million each, totalling up to eight thousand Aqua coins together.
[Unlocking [Market] for all players]
[Unlocking [Friend List] for all players]
[Unlocking tier-5 [Bank of Oscuro and Earth] for all players]
[Setting exchange ratio of bronze coin to dollars as 1:5]
[Setting exchange ratio of silver coin to dollars as 1:50]
[Setting exchange ratio of gold coin to dollars as 1:5000]
[Unlocking tier-1 inventory for all players]
[Tier-2 to Tier-5 will be locked and can be unlocked by buying the feature]
[Tier-2 inventory cost = 1 GOLD]
[Tier-3 inventory cost = 10 GOLD]
[Tier-4 inventory cost = 1 GOLD per MONTH of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-4 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest.]
[Tier-5 inventory cost = 1 GOLD per WEEK of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-5 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest THRICE.]
[Unlocking tier-1 [Inspect] for all players]
[Tier-2 to Tier-5 will be locked and can be unlocked by buying the feature]
[Tier-2 [Inspect] cost = 1 GOLD]
[Tier-3 [Inspect] cost = 10 GOLD]
[Tier-4 [Inspect] cost = 1 GOLD per MONTH of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-4 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest.]
[Tier-5 [Inspect] cost = 1 GOLD per WEEK of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-5 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest THRICE.]
[Unlocking tier-1 [Language Mastery] for all players]
[Tier-2 to Tier-5 will be locked and can be unlocked by buying the feature]
[Tier-2 [Bank of Oscuro and Earth] cost = 1 GOLD]
[Tier-3 [Bank of Oscuro and Earth] cost = 10 GOLD]
[Tier-4 [Bank of Oscuro and Earth] cost = 1 GOLD per MONTH of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-4 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest.]
[Tier-5 [Bank of Oscuro and Earth] cost = 1 GOLD per WEEK of Oscuro Time]
[Permanent purchase for Tier-5 will be available if a player successfully completes a WORLD Quest THRICE.]
Lucio looked at the screen and thought for a while before adding another rule.
[Purchases allowed only after the first week]
[Tier-3 purchases allowed after ONE year in Oscuro time]
'Hmm… that should be good enough.'
[Bank cannot function without gold, silver or bronze in the storage. Requesting host to add in some money.]
Lucio stared blankly before making other plans. 'Looks like I can't recklessly use the bank… Convert all my Aqua coins to Gold, Silver and Bronze'
[Please specify the ratio.]
'Hmm…10% Gold, 70% Silver and 20% Bronze'
[Converting…. Successfully converted 1,923,000 Aqua coins to [2,403,750 G], [1,682,625,000 S] and [4,807,500,000 B]]
Seeing those large numbers made him feel amazing but also overwhelmed. Then with the powers of a corrupt admin, he gave himself all the features and switched to his player interface.
[
Name: Samael
Age: 14
Title: Son of a prostitute
Job: None
Stats
Strength: 0.8 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Agility: 0.8 (Conversion ratio= 1:2000 EP)
Stamina: 1.2 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Vitality: 1.1 (Conversion ratio= 1:1000 EP)
Senses: 2.3 (Conversion ratio= 1:2000 EP)
Magic: 0.3 (Conversion ratio= 1:10000 EP)
Experience points: 21
(Exp points can be converted to stats. Minimum conversion value is 0.1 of any stat.)
Skills:
Magically gifted: Born with the ability to sense the mystic particles around one's self.
Tenacity: You feel less pain and take less damage from any kind of physical harm.
Bank: Coin storage with extra functions to trade items and keep a list of people from earth.
Inventory: You gain 20 slots of stackable inventory space with the limit of 20 stackable items each slot. (Items should be similar to be stacked.)
Inspect: When target is in line of sight, shows all the information along with stats.
Language Mastery: You know all Languages.
]
He felt nice when he saw the increase in skills but other than Tenacity, no other skill directly helped him in combat. They would make his life a lot easier but weren't too useful in combat.
The words "magically gifted" entered his sight 'Ah I forgot about this…'
He looked at the rider who was busy humming and turned his back towards him before trying out the most "viable" way of using magic, Thoughts and Will.
Fire was a bit too risky in his current situation, so he tried wind. Saying things in his mind didn't work the last time so he didn't try it again, but instead, tried visualising a huge tornado forming on his palm.
A few minutes passed but nothing happened, so he switched to water and that was when the miracle happened. Lucio could see water droplets form on his palm and drip down.
He was excited but had to contain his excitement, lest the rider thought he had gone insane.
Lucio then tried toned down version of wind magic and visualised a smooth flowing breeze. Soon, he felt air dancing on his palm.
'My ability is too low so I guess trying out some fire wouldn't have a huge effect.' Lucio thought as he tried to visualise a spark form on his finger. He tried various methods to summon fire but was unsuccessful.
The day soon passed as Lucio tried magic while the cart moved further away from the village, towards Silver Moon Town. The rider found a nice place to stop for the night and started a fire with a piece of burning coal that he had brought with him.
When he asked Han why they brought burning coal for travels, Han replied "Starting a fire wastes a lot of energy and time, so we take a burning coal with us for starting fire easily with the ember."
The burning coal was kept in a cast iron bowl that was attached to the inside of the carriage.
After lighting the fire, the man took a few leaves and threw them into the fire, producing a lot of smoke.
"Why the leaves?" Lucio asked and the man replied "Keeps most of the animals away" to which Lucio simply nodded and sat in front of the fire, on a relatively big piece of rock that let his butt rest peacefully.
The sky turned dark as the man cooked food for both of them while Lucio played with the fire.
After having their dinner, the man threw two large bags of hay on the ground and lay down on one of them while Lucio simply took the other one.
The night was peaceful and cold as they lay down for a while, not knowing what to talk about.
A while later, the man said "One of us has to keep a watch while the other sleeps. I will keep watch for now and wake you up when I feel sleepy."
"Oh, It's alright. I'll keep watch for now. I've slept a lot while we were moving so you should sleep first." Lucio said as he sat up and the man agreed.
It took the man a while to sleep and Lucio waited for a long time to verify his theory. After making sure that the man had slept, he crept towards the fire and tried to manipulate the flames.
'It works!!' Lucio felt very happy but it also confirmed his theory that made magic weak in some ways.
According to Lucio's theory, Magic is the ability to manipulate matter according to the will of the user. This also meant that he couldn't conjure anything on his own.
This theory nerfed the fire magic that he always dreamed of using, unlike air which existed everywhere and water which also existed everywhere in the form of water vapor and ground which theoretically was also very strong as it was present everywhere.
Lucio could move the sand a bit but that barely helped with anything.
He took out some jerky and chewed on it to pass some time before checking the stats of the man sleeping near him
[
Name: Rake
Age: 23
Title: Kind Uncle
Job: Carriage Rider
Stats
Strength: 1.1
Agility: 0.7
Stamina: 1.6
Vitality: 1.2
Senses: 1.1
Skills:
Kindness: People feel comfortable when they talk to you.
]
Lucio frowned when he saw the senses stat and wondered why he had such high stats.
"Oh well, there's a lot more to do and so many more people to meet." Lucio muttered as he continued to try his magic in different ways.
'Looks like magic stat shows the amount of control I have over the surrounds and not the limit as I do