Capítulo 21: Chapter 20

Congratulations! Through your own efforts, your swordsmanship has leveled up!

"Haa, ha"

At the back of a small inn was a figure tirelessly swinging the sword in his arms.

After the person saw the message, he paused for a moment before continuing to perform the same movements.

After an hour of intense exercises, Allan finally stopped looking straight ahead and said:

"Status"

Name: Allan

Race: Human

Level: 10

Job Level: None

Strength: 24

Endurance: 30

Agility: 18

Intelligence: 12

Wisdom: 16

Skills:

??? Beginner Swordsmanship level 4

Beginner Skinning level 7

One of the reasons Allan doesn't look at his status often is because after reaching level 10 no major change had occurred, so he didn't consider it necessary.

It's been three months in the game since Allan was killed by Roderick.

Allan's life hasn't changed much since then, but that event strengthened his will to get stronger in the game.

One could say that Allan's progress has been extremely fast, we must not forget that the young man who appeared in the videos showing his sword skills had been practicing for ten years to achieve the intermediate level, however, Allan's progress is not as fast as it seems.

First of all, when a skill is learned, it does not matter in the game or real life, the difficulty of progressing increases considerably the more skilled you are, so Allan's progress is not as exaggerated as people might think.

Second, when a person practices a skill in real life several limits prevent you from training as much as you want, whether these are time limits, physical limits, and limits to your concentration, depending on the skill you are practicing.

For example, the young man who practiced with the sword for ten years practiced two to four hours a day to not damage his body and attend to other obligations that he had with his family, friends, etc ...

In a capsule the physical and time limits are reduced considerably, even so reaching the level that Allan has in only three months in the game is not so easy.

Allan's routine is normally been:

Wake up -> Enter the game -> Practice with the sword -> Speak with the town's people -> Practice with the sword -> Sleep

Allan was completely focused on the game except for meeting his basic needs like eating, going to the bathroom, and calling his parents from time to time.

Fortunately, he is now on vacation, so he doesn't have to worry about skipping classes to play a virtual game.

During this time Allan finally managed to accumulate enough money to pay off his debt to Sara, and even bought a small gift for Tom, allowing him to stay at Sara's father's inn without having to worry that one day Tom would show up on his doorstep to arrest him.

Compared to his technique with the sword, his skinning level has raised like crazy these months.

After spending two months hunting rabbits Allan decided it was time to start hunting wolves, needless to say, the result was a disaster.

After a couple of shameful deaths that may or may not happen, Allan went to the library to find all the possible information about wolves, and after an extensive search, Allan concluded that it was impossible to hunt wolves at their level.

(It is not surprising that Roderick said I could go to his store when I had wolf bones) thought Allan.

Wolves are animals that hunt in groups and defeat their opponent by exhausting them while protecting each other to avoid being hurt, it would be easier to hunt a wild boar than a wolf.

Seeing that hunting a pack of wolves was impossible, Allan decided to hunt lone wolves, wolves expelled from the pack for being weaker, injured, or having failed to challenge the head of the pack.

After some time searching for lone wolves, and even more time fighting them, Allan emerged victorious.

The moment he started skinning the wolf, the level of his skinning skill, which he had stopped at level 5 from hunting bunnies began to rise again.

Luckily, while Allan was studying his future rivals, he also discovered the method of skinning wolves, so he didn't have to ask Tom for help again.

After resting for ten minutes waiting for his stamina to recover, Allan entered the inn to eat something.

"Good morning Allan" said a cheerful voice.

"Good morning Sara, what are you doing?"

"What am I doing? Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Hey, eleven o'clock?"

"Three in the afternoon!!! You've skipped the meal again, I won't understand why you paid for it if you didn't even try it, my father is starting to lose faith in his dishes because of him" said Sara.

"Umm, tell Sam I'm sorry, I'll try it tomorrow for sure" Allan replied as he tried to calm Sara down.

"That will not be necessary, I have taken care of reserving a table for you to try my cuisine"

Samuel, Sara's father is also the inn's cook and the person who takes care of the customers at night to take care of the troublesome guys, so he is rarely seen during these hours.

However, he was here today in front of Allan to make sure he didn't run away, it seems that what Sara said about her father losing confidence in her food because of Allan was not a joke.

"That won't be necessary, I didn't want to bother you with how busy you must be-"

"It's not a bother, it's the least I can do for a client, you won't tell me that you have something more important to do, right?"

Now Allan knows where Sara got that intimidating voice that does not allow for rejection.

"No sir" is all Allan could answer as he was dragged by Sam into the dining room.

Once the group reached the dining room Allan sat at a table while Sam walked into the kitchen to prepare food.

"By the way, where were you going to go before my father found you" Sara said to relax the uncomfortable atmosphere that had formed after Sara's father left.

"Mmm, I was going to the cake to face the big gray"

"Again, you never get tired said Sara tired of Allan coming back with his butt kicked every day"

"No, this time I'm sure I can beat him" Allan said with determination in his eyes.

"Yeah, sure" said Sara while rolling her eyes.

The great gray was a very large lone wolf that roamed the woods near town. It is said that he was the leader of the largest wolf pack in the forest before he was defeated and kicked out of the pack.

When Allan met him two weeks ago, he couldn't believe there were wolves that big. It is eight feet tall, with huge teeth and claws that ask to pierce trees with ease, but the most characteristic thing about this wolf is that it only had one eye and shiny gray fur, so people called it big gray.

"The food is served" said Sam who brought two large plates.

"Then I come in good time"

From the entrance of the inn came the voice of Tom who had just arrived.