[Ding!]
[Quest Complete!]
Just after I finished making the last tea, the sound rang in my head and a window appeared before me. When I inspected the opened window closely it mentioned that the quest rewarded me several things.
[10 base exp, 3 System Coins, 10 skill exp ]
Base exp? Is it for the job level?
"Stats!" I called the status window to see whether any differences or not.
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Status
Name: Hwa Aerin
Level: 1 Exp: 14/20
Job: Tea Sommelier
HP: 100
MP: 25/40
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STR: 5 INT: 8
AGI: 5 CHA: 8
LUC: 7
Stat Points: 0
🌐💬 │ 🛒🛒
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Were the 4 of my other exp coming from the successful tea that I had created by using the skill?
Probably, right?
Not only the base exp, but I also got 10 skill exp. When I clicked the exp, it opened the skill window. There, the exp could be divided into all of my skills if I wanted to. But let's just focus on the skill more useful in the meantime, which was the brewing skill. So I used all the 10 exp onto it, and the skill level up into Lv. 2.
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Active Skill:
[Tea Brewing]
Rank E
Level 2 (4/20)
Brewing tea to perfection.
Only with the non-aether related ingredient
MP: 5
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I guess the extra 4 exp also came from the amount of successful tea I brewed using the skill, meaning every successful attempt was able to give 1 base exp and 1 skill exp.
Besides exp, the system also gave me some system coins. When I clicked on the coin, it brought me to another window. It was a system shop, but there was something written on it. It said the shop was accessible once I was level 2 on my base level and also had finished my initiation quest.
After I was done going through all the rewards from the quest, it was late afternoon. I needed to hurry if I wanted to bring some of the stuff I made for Grandma Kim.
I packed 1 of each food and dessert I made in insulated boxes. For the tea, I made a new one as the one I made previously had 0 for freshness because it had passed the best period of time. After I was done remaking the hot chamomile tea, I put it in an insulated thermos flask. That was when I realized that I could move the tea from the kettle to a vacuum flask to preserve its freshness. Maybe this could be the next step if one needed the tea to go.
Taking all of the stuff I had packed, I walked out of the gate and went to Grandma Kim's house. She still wasn't sitting in her front yard, so I walked past her yard and knocked on her door. After knocking for a while, I could hear some responses from inside the house. Not long after that the door was opened by Grandma Kim.
"Hello grandma, sorry to interrupt your time."
"Hi, dear. No, no, you don't bother me at all. Come inside." She smiled as she saw my face and gestured for me to come into her house.
"Pardon the intrusion, Grandma."
I walked past the door and closed it. I followed her to her living room area. Her house looked homey. Her living room had a big couch facing toward the wall-mounted TV. Her walls are also covered with photos and some sort of certificates that belong to her children and grandchildren.
She sat me down on the couch and asked, "Do you want something to drink dear?"
"No need grandma, I brought you some stuff I plan to sell in the shop."
I gave her the tote bag with an insulated box and vacuum flask that I had packed.
"Oh dear. Thank you, let's try it together." She smiled happily holding the bag.
She then went to the kitchen attached to the living room, took the food out, and plated it. She also poured hot tea into her tea cups. She walked again to the living room while bringing all of that on a tray.
"Thank you, Grandma, but you need to taste it. I need to hear some feedback on whether the food could be sold in the shop or not."
"Okay - okay, let me taste them."
Then she sipped the tea and took some bites of the food I brought.
"Not bad, I think you really could sell this." while nodding her head and taking another sip of the tea.
"This tea, did you make your own blend? It tastes more deep, and somewhat sweet taste. It's subtle, not overwhelming, and has a gentle floral character, reminiscent of apple blossoms."
Wow, Grandma Kim looks really like some tea critics.
"Kind of…"
I couldn't answer that it was just a regular tea bag package from some grocery store right?
Maybe it was influenced by my skill, as the description did mention that it would brew the tea to perfection.
"So, when will the shop open? I kept seeing some workers go back and forth to your place these past few days."
"Yeah, I'm also here to invite you to come. It will be on Sunday."
"Ooh, I'm absolutely going to come by and bring all of my friends and grandson there with me." She clapped her hand happily after putting down her tea cups.
"I'll be happy to wait for your visit. So, is your grandson going to come this weekend?"
"Yeah, he already promised me that he would come tomorrow and stay for a day. He has been quite busy these past few months. I'll introduce you to him later."
"Let's not talk about my boring grandson. You know I'm so happy that you decided to move here and reopen the tea shop again…"
The time passed quite fast as we talked about so many things, from stories about my mom and grandparents. She also kept on talking about her family and friends. When we realized, the sun was getting ready to sink into the horizon.
"It has been so fun talking with you Grandma, but I need to go back now." I stood up.
"Yeah, I'll come on Sunday. It was nice talking to you."
She also stood up, held my hand, and guided me to the front door.
"See you, Grandma." I waved at her and walked out of the yard.
Back at the house, I needed to clean all the mess both in the house and shop as I made it in the afternoon. Because tomorrow I needed to focus on prepping all of the things needed for opening day.
After everything was done and cleaned again, it was already nighttime and almost past dinner time. So before going to bed, I cleaned myself up and made some ramyun for dinner. It was a nice and easy meal to unwind after a busy day.
Before bedtime, I got ready and climbed on the bed. I noticed the ??? spore at the bedside table. I was so busy with the preparation that I almost forgot about it. I remembered that the description mentioned that this could grow in a very fertile place. Maybe I'll try to plant it once I can open the system shop and see whether it would have an item to let it grow.
Then I slept as tomorrow would be a very busy one.
The next morning, from the moment I woke up I knew that today would be super busy. So, I started the morning by having a hearty breakfast of some tuna mayo rice with some dumplings that I had heated up.
After breakfast, I directly went to the shop and started to prep what I needed for tomorrow. I prepared many of the rice cake dough and cookie dough. I also prepared a bunch of fillings that I would need for the sandwich.
Once I was done preparing, it was already nighttime again.
Just after cleaning up, I invited Mirae and Aunty Jihyun to tomorrow's opening day. Mirae was the only friend I had during my time in the company. I knew that after our time in the dungeon, she had also gone back to her hometown. So I didn't have high hopes that she would come, but I still sent her an invitation.
Similar to Aunty Jihyun, she must be deep in the tower. I also didn't want to alarm her by sending out messages using the awakeners' forum. So I just sent her a regular message.
After that, the last thing I needed to do was to put up some posts about the opening day in the awakeners' forum. I didn't know if this would help but all things could matter as I didn't have any other way to market the shop.
When I was done, I went to bed with a lot of anticipation for tomorrow.
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Quest
Type: Initiation Quest
The Start of a Tea Sommelier
Objectives: (?)
- Open a tea shop (0/1)
- Serve tea to 100 customers (0/100)
⌛ — 10 days (04:23:50:00)
Reward:
Exp, 10 System Coins, ???
Warning:
Failing to complete the initiation quest
will result in penalties (teleporting into
??? Rank - Dungeon).
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