Chapter 20 - Urial's fun reincarnation-like tale I

Author review; This was made because I had the idea of a 'Skill lord' and the character Urial. I'm honestly not sure if I was planing on making it a isekai done by devs or a competition in the beginning.

MC; Speaks weird here, not very nice in any manner really, if I remember correctly.

World; Weird game world which the MC knows the rules of basically by heart.

Skills; Combo's and stuff, and other stuffs that were explained better in the second itteration.

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I am a loser, because I've never been good at communicating my ideas and thoughts, but in the game , I was able to talk to others without fear. No one could hold me accountable, and as such I had fun being evil, I was an avid player, with an even bigger miracle, the game hadn't died out after even a decade!

It was a sub-online game, with a single player world, and an mmo world, letting you play even if the game had burned out! Keeping people feel secure in buying it even a long time after release, since the single player was a good game, and not a fancy tutorial.

It was still popular, and, while I wasn't officially at the top of the game, that was for professional gamers, I was still well known in most circles.

I was a villain roleplayer, since even if I spoke weirdly, everyone would just think I was in character.

I made a different villain for each class, which all were pretty fun to play with. Though my least favorate class was 'Sword saint', since it was a newbie class for newbies. It just did everything for you, if you had even a modicum of skill, you would completely trample over a sword saint of the same level if you were a 'swordsman'

I was also one of the few who dared use the legendary 'Skill lord' in real play, you have 1 hp, one hit from any monster kills you, but you get op skills that let you defeat god with ease if you master them (Theoretically).

Why am I talking about my favorate vrmmorpg/vr-single-player-rpg? Because I just got thrown into the game I'm talking about, right after I got the class, 'skill lord'.

Some might be screaming at me why I didn't pick the class 'Hero', but of course I wouldn't that's my 2nd least favorate class! A class for losers with even more loser in their veins!

Right now everyone was looking at me with disdain, I was used to it in real life, so I ignored it.

[Alexander Zodac

Class; Skill Lord. Lvl; 1

Max hp; 1

Max mp; 200

Skills; ,

Money; 0g.]

, the basis of low-level Skill Lord play. And , the only reason this class is even slightly viable in the early game for those who grinded it. But to people like me who loved the skill, it was monsterous at low-levels.

I was smiling widely, I was so worried when I suddenly woke up with the class-choosing screen in the church. When I realized what was happening, I was scared, because npc's don't get a choice of every single class they wish of. Those game developers really didn't lie that I would get Skill lord as a choice.

Though I'd never choose or , something like or wouldn't be too bad. If I got , I would be pretty happy still.

I was luckily the heir to my noble family, though some girl was walking up to the pedistal now, no clue who she was, except that she came from some branch-family. I kind-of recognized her, but as a non-skill based class user, I would never remember her.

I was showing extreme contempt, as it would be seen to other people, but it was really me just looking at her in pity for not being 'cool'

"S-she's a sword saint!" The priest said with reverance, while my face contorted with disgust. Then it returned to normal, I also wondered for a moment why a parasite was standing on stage.

Suddenly, the parasite that was in the form of my father (Sword saint=parasite), ran on the podium and declared "You are my new daughter! The new heir to the Zodac family!"

The newly born parasite turned to look at me "Look at what happened now, I guess I'll have to take over your posistion~"

Though instead of feeling pain; "Oh thank you, my dear parasite, thank you for making me not need to waste my time with the idiotic, though... Please don't talk to me, your parasitic existence is, disgusting to say the least."

The arrogant parasite had lost her words "The parasite in the form of my father, may I now leave this place where parasites and true classes are born?"

"Yes you may, and you may never return to the house, trash!"

Then he left, with disgust all over his face as he left "Fools thinking the classes of trash as great, while thinking classes pertaining to true masters as trash."

Why do I talk like that? Habit, this world looks like the world, and in that world I always talk like that.

Why did I so easily leave, without even asking for a sword? Because I wanted to look cool.

And I don't need such things to use , I can use my hands, everything! even a small stone can parry! Just throw it at the right time!

Now, let's go to that nice and classic place, in almost every novel in another world, which (maybe?) originated from games. The adventurer's guild!

It was still extremely easy to join, like in the game. They don't even care about your class! Because they don't ask, for some mysterious reason (So that it made sense an evil class could be an adventurer)

Unlike what was recommended, picking up herbs (Since newbies needed to learn the ropes), I walked to a low-level hunting ground, the sewers with a quest registered. Hunting giant rats!

The place stunk, not as much as my lair, but it was pretty bad.

Speak of the devil, there was one just over there.

No let's do this, giant rats are violent accourding to the 'lore'. Which I learnt to know which monsters I could use to kill npc's/use npc's to lure.

It's all basic math, I mean basic gamer techniques.

The sole big boy rat ran at me, and went for the attack, but, I slapped it while it was jumping for my neck.

[Parry!]

[Combo=1]

[Perfect!]

[Combo=2]

[Opening created!]

[Combo=3]

[Efficient!]

[Combo=4]

Ah~ That's the reason I like so much, it's a skill based ability.

The rat which had an opening, got kicked while falling to the ground.

[Kick!]

[Combo=5]

[Critical!]

[Combo=6]

[Opening created!]

[Combo=7]

Then with that opening, I flung the rat up with my foot, and then...

[Round house kick!]

[Combo=9]

[Critical!]

[Combo=10]

[Kill!]

[Combo=11]

"That's a dead rat, this is an extermination, and I don't want to cut off that rat tail."

With great regret, I walked off with a rat tail in my pocket, feeling great shame.

This went off until I got 10 rat tails.

If you couldn't tell, I kinda skipped this part, why? Because it was litterally me just getting a combo going, before killing the rat in one attack.

This wasn't enough for me to feel excitement, it wasn't enough to flex my skills. And... You need people to see your flex.

Why is this important? Because the skill Lord class gets more exp when they show off their skill and 'controls', and it's fun to see people with their jaw to the floor when I completely outplay a monster.

It's the only way I can make friends with my weird way of speaking.

After handing in the quest I got 100g, this was enough for one day in a normal inn, not including food and drink.

I thought of another place to hunt for some quick cash, where the monsters actually drop loot so that I don't need to depend on my F-rank adventurers liscense to make some cash.

[Wind wolf extermination!

Group quest; 20 D-ranks

35000g per person.]

If I remember correctly, wind wolves usually have good hide for making boots and such, pretty expensive materials too... But I'm not D-rank yet, and more importantly, I don't know where they're hiding...

This was easily overcome though, you need to be able to predict at least 90% of all monsters' favored breeding, resting, hunting, and hidding locations and conditions to be a real gamer.

Wind wolves like highlands, around 200m above sea level, there needs to be enough vegitation for 4 different kinds of E-rank monsters to live there too, prefereably Sole stags being one of those. Which means that there should be a mission for that.

[Sole stag antler hunt

Bring back 25 Sole stag antler pairs. E-ranks only

8500g.]

And now I know where they are, if I could just find a map.

"Oh~ receptionist~ Where could I find a map?"

"Oh, it's right there."

There was just was one on the wall of the adventurers guild... It was trash too, not even depicting the area's max and minimum temperature, at least the height was sort-of depicted.

Though, even if there was a map with my specifications, it 100% wouldn't be free.

There were only 2 places with the vague conditions nesaccry to keep wind wolves alive, if you consider their closeness to where farms would usually be made.

Now, if you take into consideration the fact that there's probably a trade route through one of them, and the other would be very hidden to normal people, pretty much solidifying that place as my destination.

But I would need money for a carraige there, preferably, I would straight up buy a horse. How do you ride a horse again?

So uhh... I usually ride monsters I jumped on and then steered in some way, it's been a while since I rode a horse.

So let's remember that map, let's also remember where the rivers and where cities and towns are usually established.

If I consider the fact that wind wolves are here, that means that this world uses the 3rd, 5th or 8th map's monsters.

If we consider that, there should be an E-rank Mad boar right there!

Looking at the quests, it checks out.

[Mad boar mating season

Mad boars have become overly aggresive due to their mating season.

E-ranks and above only.

3200g per killed Mad boar.]

These Mad boars are great early game mounts, they're so easily steered due to their anger.

I had a good smile as I walked out of the guild and the town, but suddenly I was interupted in that process, my instincts from set in "What is it?"

Standing there was an elf, usually rare, but it wasn't so in the 2nd map "I'm sorry to bother you, but could I ask you a few questions?"

"No, get lost, no one will ever love you." These few words are the response always given to scammers, letting them know you're not a newbie that'd get scammed.

I walked away silently, while checking if nothing got stolen.

Though the elf didn't catch on and kept following me "W-wait! At least listen to what I have to say."

"Fine," I said, waited for one second "I have now listened to what you had to say for 1 second, now get lost."

"Wait!"

"No!"

"Please?"

"Maybe."

"Really?"

"No."

I then left the town, but for some reason the elf just wouldn't let go "What do you want!? I've got shit to do!"

"Tell me what you thought of my map!"

I looked at her "Which one?"

"The one at the guild!"

I stopped on acted like I was pondering, the said in a serious tone "It's trash."

"Wha-?" She seemed to be expecting a different response.

"There's nothing except the hight of the place, rivers, towns, and cities. You should at least do the minimum and maximum temperature if you want to have a barely useable map. I had to go in depth with average places a city would be created to figure out where Mad boars were hiding."

"R-really?"

"Yes, that was my honest feedback, now get lost."

"Alright..." She seemed very downtrodden, if I were to quantify my affection it should right now be '3' I believe, sadly the skill lord discards all 'Unnecessary' abilities, including the affection meter.

She left quietly, with me not knowing that she would search for me again when she had a better map.