Chapter 30: New Sword
Evan and the others arrived in Oklima City in the afternoon. So, when Evan woke up after sleeping, it was already nighttime. He looked at the clock, and saw it was 7:30 p.m. He stood up and went to bathroom to wash his face.
"I wanted to stay here for some time and relax a bit, after all, it is my first time coming out from Astrate City, but we are leaving tomorrow," Evan said with a sigh. He wanted to chill here before going back to the academy. Unfortunately, Henry will be going back tomorrow.
'I should visit the market and buy a sword,' Evan thought when he remembered the condition of his sword.
"But first," Evan stood up with a bright smile, "I am going to enjoy the most expensive dishes of this hotel," Evan said with a smile, knowing that Henry will be the one paying for the food he will eat here.
"Since that guy is going back tomorrow, and I can't enjoy myself here by touring, I am going to plunder his money by eating every expensive dish here," Evan said to himself and ordered the most expensive dishes of the hotel through the landline phone of his room.
Just after ten minutes, someone knocked on the door of his room. When Evan opened the door, he saw a waiter with a trolley full of food. He allowed the waiter to enter the room, who left after putting all the food on the table.
"Although I ordered everything in excitement, can I even eat all of this?" Evan muttered to himself when he saw how many dishes he had ordered without even realizing it.
"Well, I am in my growing phase; I should at least eat this much," Evan said and started to dig into the food.
"I feel like I am a second-generation rich young master," Evan said while patting his round belly that became like a football after he was done eating everything.
"Let's see if there is a weapon shop nearby," he said, taking out his phone.
After searching on the internet, he found some shops not so far away from his location. "Alright, let's see if I can find something decent here," Evan said and left the hotel room.
After leaving the Four Seasons Hotel Evan went towards the market by following the map he got from the internet.
Many blacksmiths in the Arora world can create extremely powerful artifacts using various materials. Since Evan doesn't have much money currently, he wanted to buy a normal sword that he can use for the time being.
After ten minutes of walking, Evan came to a shop called "Hoze Artifacts."
The things that blacksmiths create from monster body parts and other magical materials are called artifacts. Only extremely talented blacksmiths can create artifacts. The other way you can get an artifact is by clearing a dungeon. After clearing a dungeon, there is a high chance that you will receive an artifact as a reward.
"Welcome," a male attendant said to Evan when he entered the shop, "how can we help you?"
"I am looking for a sword," Evan said.
"Please go to the second floor; most of the weapons are being sold there," the attendant said to Evan.
Evan nodded and went to the second floor. There were many weapons on the second floor, such as swords, spears, machetes, bows, and many others.
Evan went towards the section where most of the swords were placed. He ignored the E and F-rank swords and came into the D-rank sword section.
"There are more than I expected," Evan said when he saw around fifty rank D swords.
He came before a light blue sword and looked at it.
---) Frost Sword (D-rank): A light sword created from the bones of a frost tiger; it can increase the power of your sword attack by 50%. The sword has ice attribute that can freeze the wounds of your enemy making them slower.
"A 50% increase in sword attack is quite good," Evan thought and looked at another sword.
---) Moon Sword (D-rank): A sword made from the moonstone that absorbed the moonlight for twenty years. It does 10% extra damage to darkness-type monsters.
Evan continued to look at D-rank swords and eventually found a sword that he liked.
---) Nether Steel Sword (D-rank): A sword made from nether steel; it is very sharp and can cut through even the hardest metal. Because of nether steel, the flow of mana is improved by 20%.
Evan tried to imbue his mana into the sword and found it was flowing into the sword without any problem. Although this sword was normal when compared to other D-rank swords, Evan found this sword perfect because of its weight and size, which matched with his previous sword.
He went to the counter while holding the Nether Steel Sword, "I want to buy this."
"Nether Steel Sword, it will cost you 50,000 credits," the receptionist said after seeing the Nether Steel Sword.
Evan felt like his heart was bleeding, but he still purchased the sword. 'I just have five thousand credits left,' he thought.
Evan got one hundred and twenty thousand credits after selling the cores. He bought healing and mana potions along with some other things before coming on the mission. He spent twenty thousand credits on those potions. Then, he bought the core of a black ogre from George and others, and now this sword. In just a few days, he spent all of the money that he got after selling the cores.
'Sigh, I am dirt poor again,' Evan thought after leaving the shop.
He roamed around the city for some time after purchasing the sword and returned to the hotel after one hour.
When Evan came back, he met George and others who were talking to Henry.
"You are back from your tour," Henry said when he saw Evan, "we are going for dinner, want to join us?"
"Sorry, I already ate; you guys can go by yourselves," Evan said after hearing Henry.
"Alright, remember we will leave early tomorrow morning, so take a good sleep," Henry said to Evan and went with George and the others.
Evan came back to his room and started watching a movie on his phone since he had nothing else to do.
The night passed away just like this, and the next day arrived.
Chapter 31: Bandit Attack (Part 1)
Henry's eyes twitched when he saw the hotel bill. Everything was fine except the food bill, and when he asked about it, he finally found the culprit who ate the food of an entire football team.
"How the hell did he eat the food worth seven thousand credits?" Henry paid the bill with a bleeding heart while cursing Evan for being a Snorlax.
"Alright, let's go," Henry said to Evan and others after paying the bill and left the Four Seasons Hotel. While leaving, Henry was looking at Evan like he is his lifelong enemy. Evan already noticed this but ignored him because he was already aware of how costly his dinner was last night.
They all came near the city gate where Henry's driver was waiting for them. Just like previously, Evan and the other hunters sat down at the back of the van, and they all left Oklima City.
"Hey, did you do something wrong? I felt like Henry was looking at you strangely?" Dean asked Evan after they left the city.
Evan's mouth twitched when he heard this because he was aware of why Henry was looking at him like this, but for obvious reasons, he can't tell them about it.
"I don't know, maybe he is not feeling good," Evan said, making an ignorant face as if he didn't know anything.
When Dean heard Evan don't know anything, he shrugged his shoulders because he asked out of curiosity.
After six hours, the van suddenly stopped moving, and the driver activated the barrier of the van.
"There are some monsters in the way; we can't move forward before you guys clean them," Evan and the other hunters heard Henry's voice after the barrier of the van was activated.
They came out of the van and saw seven tiger-like monsters blocking their way. Three tigers were three meters tall, while four tigers were two meters tall, they had light yellow skin and black stripes all over their bodies, resembling the Bengal tiger.
"Three D-rank and four E-rank forest tigers," George said after seeing the monsters.
'Let's check out the power of this new baby,' Evan thought after taking out his Nether Steel Sword.
'Haste!' Even before George and others could react, Evan used haste skill and charged towards the tigers alone.
"Hey, wait for us!" Dean shouted, and he also dashed towards the tigers with James and George.
The agility of Evan after using haste was too fast for a D-rank monster, so even before any tiger could react, Evan came before an E-rank tiger and slashed horizontally without using mana.
Swish!
Like a hot knife passing through butter, the head of the E-rank tiger was severed cleanly.
'The fifty thousand credits that I spent on this sword were worth it,' Evan thought when he saw how even without using his mana, the sword easily severed the head of the tiger.
Roar!
The remaining six tigers roared when they saw how Evan killed one of the tigers.
Swish!
Suddenly, a green aura appeared around all D-rank tigers, and they charged toward him with far greater agility than a D-rank monster.
When Evan saw the green aura, he remembered George telling him at the beginning of their journey that the forest tigers are famous for their agility.
'They are fast for a D-rank hunters, but for me.. ,' Evan thought and without much effort, jumped back and avoided the attack of three D-rank tigers.
With his D-rank monarch core and E-rank prime core, his agility was already much higher than a D-rank hunter, and with the help of the haste skill, his agility was in a completely different league when compared to D-rank monsters.
Even before the D-rank tigers could react, George came from behind and slashed at the back of one of the tigers.
James and Dean went to take care of the three remaining E-rank forest tigers.
Roar!
The forest tiger roared in pain when a deep wound appeared on its back because of George's attack.
All three D-rank tigers looked back at George when he suddenly attacked them, but it was a fatal mistake because Evan, who was standing in front of them, didn't miss this chance.
In a blink of an eye, he appeared before a forest tiger using his haste skill and slashed at the head of the tiger. Surprisingly, the forest tiger reacted quickly and with a quick movement, jumped back.
Because of its quick reaction, Evan wasn't able to kill it in a single move, but a large wound still appeared on its left shoulder.
Roar!
The tiger roared in pain, and Evan was about to finish it off while it was still trying to recover from his attack when one of the D-rank tigers opened its mouth and shot a dark green wind blade towards him.
'Shit,' Evan cursed when he saw he did not have enough time to dodge the blade. He quickly used his Nether Steel Sword and slashed at the incoming blade while imbuing his mana in the sword.
The flow of mana was a lot smoother than his previous sword, and when the Nether Steel Sword, covered in a light blue layer of mana and a faint layer of darkness, clashed against the dark green blade, it destroyed the dark green blade without any problem.
After destroying the green blade, Evan came before the forest tiger who shot the green blade at him earlier and with a swift motion, beheaded it even before it could react.
After killing the tiger, Evan didn't stop and quickly charged towards the other D-rank tiger and in just ten seconds, he killed it.
George also didn't take long, and after a minute, he also killed the last D-rank tiger.
Soon, Dean and James also finished the three E-rank tigers without any problem.
"Let's look for cores and leave immediately," George said when he noticed other monsters would soon come here after smelling the blood.
But suddenly an arrow came out of nowhere and pierced the shoulder of George, and even before Evan and the others could react, three more arrows came towards them at lightning speed.
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
14 Power
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