Weapon Merchant - Lv1
Effects: +2 Physical Strength, +2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom
Skills: Weapon Appraisal
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Armour Merchant - Lv1
Effects: +2 Physical Strength, +2 Intelligence
Skills: Armour Appraisal
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Cook - Lv1
Effects: +2 Agility, +2 Strength
Skills: Rare Ingredient Drop Rate +15% (Passive)
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I got an increase in Classes--I have no idea how I got the two Merchant Classes, because I have been trading with Merchants ever since I came to this world.
However, their skills are worse than my general Appraisal Skill.
The increase of dropped rare ingredients should be useful, because it means that I can earn money.
I decide to do a trial run, with the Cook Class replacing Adventurer.
However, even though we beat all the Demons on the 6th floor--no rare ingredients drop.
But, I decided to push forward, because leveling the Cook Class up might improve the Drop Rate. Thanks to my enthusiastic exploration, we quickly cleared the 6th floor, even without using the map.
The boss was quite easy to beat, and we entered the 7th floor in only a few hours.
Escape Goat - Lv40
Escape Goat - Lv40
The most common Demons on the 7th floor seem to be the Escape Goats.
“I have heard that when it’s near dying, the Escape Goat runs away. Maybe it would be better if you used your spells Master.” Roxanne warned me.
Firestorm!
With a scream, the goats catch fire. Much like the sheep, it seems that they have a Fire-Element weakness; this fire doesn’t instantly kill them, but it damages them over time--so even if they escape, it’s likely that they will die anyway.
However, the Escape Goats don’t try to escape, they charge Roxanne and I--Roxanne smiled as she stepped forwards and met the goats with a wide swing of Excalibur; she seemed to enjoy combat, and had been smiling a lot more recently…she has a really beautiful smile.
The Escape Goats almost look like normal goats, except their horns are long, and straight.
Roxanne successfully deflected the charging Escape Goats with Excalibur, before stepping back again--there was no Fire-Resistance on her armour, which is why I tried to avoid using Fire Elemental Magic when she was my vanguard.
Firestorm!
The goats bleat in agony, and finally collapse.
It took a few more seconds before they burst into puffs of green smoke and died.
The next enemy that Roxanne located was a Cheep Sheep, which gets incapacitated by a single Fireball, dies to a second.
Killing the enemies on this level is pretty easy, so far. But mainly because I use my Magic--which is almost on par with the damage caused by Excalibur.
Which either means Excalibur is rather weak for something purchased with Bonus Points, or Magic is overpowered--or both, because it was the cheapest available bonus weapon named after a legendary sword from Earth.
The seventh floor was annoying, because the Escape Goats had to be targeted first, or they would run away. But, I did encounter a nostalgic Demon.
Horned Rabbit - Lv40
It was the same species as the very first Demon that I had encountered in this world; could it be that there was a Dungeon in that forest, and one of the Demons on the first floor is a Horned Rabbit?
Roxanne did tell me that usually Demons appeared near Dungeons, and the type of Demons are normally related to the Dungeon. If there is a Dungeon, there may not be an entrance yet--and no one knew about it; which also meant that when an entrance appeared, I could conquer it.
Just like the level 1 Horned Rabbit from the forest, its attacks are rather slow. But it doesn’t only use body slams and stabs, it also kicks--and generates a Magic Formation from its horn. I have no idea what the Magic Formation does, because Roxanne uses Excalibur to interrupt the Incantation.
I enjoyed the nostalgic feeling as I watched Roxanne easily decimate the Horned Rabbit.
Demons on the 7th floor required four hits with Excalibur, the durability of enemies should stay the same until the 10th floor--when the Second-Stage Demons start appearing.
Unfortunately, even with the Cook Class’s Skill.
Rabbit Fur
“Rabbit fur, I think that a few of the high-quality clothing shops in the Capital buy that, master.” Roxanne picks up the Rabbit’s Fur and hands it to me.
“Is that so? Good to know.” I patted Roxanne’s head as I received the fur from her hand, “Why would they buy the Rabbit Fur?”
The items that the Demons on the lower floors drop are fairly common, so a lot of people can get them without too many problems. It isn’t unusable or anything, but there is a lot of stock in the Guilds.
“It’s because coats made from Rabbit Fur are very warm and they are vital during the half-year of winter. It’s very popular among the commoners, because it’s cheap, master.”
“I see.”
“The noble women also like the look of Rabbit Fur coats, so they are in style at the moment. I hear that they can be a large source of income for the lower-leveled Explorers.” Roxanne paused, “Because I am a Beastkin, I am naturally strong against the cold, master.”
We hunted for a few more hours, before going back to the house for breakfast, after-which, Roxanne and I proceeded to the Imperial Capital; to a clothing shop.
After the numerous kills, Rabbit Meat did eventually drop--so we sold that to the butcher in Quratar. We killed around 40 Horned Rabbits in total, and ended up with 6 Rabbit Meat.
The Shop Assistant politely greeted us, and when I told him that I planned on selling Rabbit Fur, he lead us to the back of the shop and over to a cashier.
The cashier and assistant was successful, when she turned to me and asked me to place the fur on a tray. There were a total of 34 pieces of Rabbit Fur.
The female cashier inspects each piece, one by one and very carefully, before nodding once and then brings the tray into a back room; she soon returns with another tray that has 10 silver coins.
Roxanne walks forwards and counts the coins, before placing them into a small bag, and presented it to me.
Our business was very simple, and concluded in half an hour.
On the way out, I spot a certain line of clothes. They are rather sheer, with a glossy luster--they look like a camisole, made from satin. While not completely transparent, it’s thinner in…certain places.
“This is really popular among aristocratic women, it’s used as underwear or nightwear.” The male assistant explains to me with a knowing smile, and a quick glance at Roxanne, who is standing beside me.
Roxanne looked between us with a slightly confused look, though the camisole seemed to interest her.
“It would really suit you.”
She smiles at my words.
“So, how much is it?” I ask the Shop Assistant.
“3 Silver.”
“Alright.” I nod to the man, before directing a question to Roxanne, “Which one do you want?”
She looked through the three available styles, “I want this one, master.”
The one she selected was a soft, blue camisole; it was short enough that it would stop mid-thigh. The cloth was quite transparent.
Roxanne watched me as she chose--she knew which one that I wanted to see the most, “I like the colour of the first one.”
She points at one that is pink.
I offered to buy both of the pink and blue ones, the shop assistant said that he could get a pink version of the thin, satiny, one. So, we ended up buying two of the same kind.
5 silver, and 40 copper; fairly expensive, but it would definitely worth it to see Roxanne in that clothing.
Later, Roxanne wore the pink variation after the bath.
The clothing was very tight on her, accentuating her large breasts, shapely hips, and round butt. I can see her small nipples pushing against the sheer fabric--the shop assistant modified the camisole to enable Roxanne’s tail to poke out.
Her tail was swaying rapidly as she looked at my face.
“Wow, I love it! It really looks good on you.” I couldn’t help but say with enthusiasm--I also wanted to just push her down then and there.
“Thank you, master.” Roxanne speaks with a lowered head, her ears twitch and her tail speeds up.
Stepping forwards, I embrace her.
Thanks for the chapter. Friendly fire did not seem to be a consideration in the original, though that's a minus if you ask me. While the world is kinda gamelike, there was plenty of elements that didn't feel that way (like the pvp or vhuman fights and one shotting everyone, but then against a low level monster in the dungeon it was a slugfest). I would definitely be interested in the magic system being evolved too, instead of a static this many spells equals a dead enemy, or limited to fire > ball / wall / storm to instead control fire in different ways (or just able to modify the spell to where they make a big fireball with more mana, that kind of thing). The idea that all spells are just say the words and the magic occurs (or for MC with chant omission, merely will or think the spell for it to occur) like someone clicked a spell on a mmorpg spellbar feels a little lame.
I'm curious about how your writing process for this works. It appears you try to match up the chapters exactly, perhaps copying and pasting sections as a framework and modify and edit them in to match your changes to the characters? I just find it interesting you didn't remember about the cook job just a few chapters before (as per our discussion), but it appears now and I see it appears in chapter 43 of the original WN. While it is a long ways away, I am interested in knowing what happens when you run out of chapters, or when you decide to veer off significantly from the original story. Also, a popular webnovelist I know explained that often when they write they do a large portion of 9-10 chapters ahead of where they are now (with each chapter being ~2500 words, this is quite significant). Then they come back and fill in (several) paragraphs and edits into the day's chapter to tie today's in with the next 9-10 better. This can be from foreshadowing, to fitting in some daily activity that pays off later, to just a thought about how something might work for it to be confirmed later, to some dialogue to build the characters further or pre-empt their future actions when future event occurs. When people write a book I think they more or less do this anyway, but for a webnovel once you submit a chapter it's annoying both for you and the reader for you to go back and significantly change it.
I can work on the Magic System.
As for how I do it, I download all the chapters, combine them into a single word doc, use search and replace for things like names and removing japanese honorifics; then I do the basic changes outline, write the chapters (noting large changes in that happen spur-of-the-moment in another document; which I then cross-reference with my changes outline document), since things also change as I write.
Then I upload the chapters, having 2 written ahead (though on busy days I upload them as I write them). I also try to add foreshadowing.
As for when I run out of chapters, I base the next ones off the outlines and changes documents, but my writing slows down because it changes from a fix to a unique work.
Usually I remember changes for fixes, but ones like this that I haven't read in a long time I only remember large events. So I am basically reading it again as I change it.
@Tek I see. Well this means that sherry will be joining within the next few days I guess. It seemed the lightnovel/manga condensed this starter arc quite a bit by adding the part where Michio + Roxanne defend against the thieves assaulting the slave merchant. That seemed to speed up obtaining Sherry quite significantly.
@bilinear She should be. I haven't actually read the light novel version, so I have no idea about that.