The Bard Town?

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (1)

"Today is my first step and the first day of a brand new journey."

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He picked Umbra City because it's was his past life main city.

It's in the surrounding forest of Umbra City where Lydro found the first treasure of God of Disguise.

It's also because he wants to go to one of the Mysterious Town that's located in it too.

After a year, this city will also become one of the most popular cities in Gemini Continent.

After arriving at the town, he saw many players wandering around the town, speaking to NPCs in hopes of obtaining a trail for a Quest. There were also quite a few players that went out of the village, going out to the wilderness to kill monsters.

Lydro checked first his surroundings, there's fountain in the middle of the park and the tiles are yellow and brown.

He exclaimed, 'It's a bard town!'

Bard town is the most common type of town.

There are 5 categories of beginner towns, they were only found out after a month by the players:

The Bard Town (normal, common town)

The Statues' Villages (Have a statue of someone in the center, rare town)

The Market's Village (have many stalls and the biggest villages)

The Spoiled Village (guards and knights everywhere, worst but good for guilds or teams)

And The Mysterious Village (this mysterious village will disappear after a month of open beta)

'It's not bad, the only special about this town is the wandering bard. I can just transport myself into a mysterious town after level 5.'

'There are not many people in here. There are only around a hundred players. It's as expected, only people who pick random place or have a closed beta tester information will go here.'

From Lydro's past life memories, the Wodah's Kingdom was the least populated kingdom until a month after the open beta.

Lydro first checked is his status.

[ Status:

Name: Lydro Lvl: 0

Race: Human Class: Support

Title: None

Bloodline: None

Side Classes: Need to be lvl 100

HP: 80/80 Mana: 160/160

Attributes: Strength 2, Agility 2, Endurance 3, Intelligence 8, Vitality 4, Defense 2. (2)

Attribute Points: 4 ]

'Not bad, all of my attributes except intelligence is still the same.'

'My intelligence was 4 in my last life. It's probably because of my experience from my past life. My Basic Attributes is pretty good though.'

There are also hidden Attributes, they can't be increased except if you have an equipment or bloodline to increase it.

The hidden attributes are Luck, Physique, Fortitude, Concentration, Charm, etc.

"Let's check my skills."

[ Skills:

None

Skill Points: 2 ]

"Oh yeah, my virtual gear is in basic plan I forgot."

There are two types of gaming virtual gear. There are Basic and Gamer plan.

The Basic plan gaming virtual gear is affordable. It's only 150-200 euros.

The Gamer plan for gaming virtual gear has two random skills, four additional attributes points, and better equipment that will be given to you at the beginning. It also has a better style and can custom your helmet. It's for the rich players and it costs 250-300 euros.

Of course, there will be more plans in the future.

For normal players, it's advantageous for them to have a Gamer plan. But for Lydro, he can earn all of that in an hour.

He doesn't care about the helmet too. Because after three months, the World United will release a capsule gaming virtual gear.

The best way to acquire a skill is to buy one in the 'hidden skill shop' in the town.

The location of this 'hidden skill shop' is always unspecified.

The only way to know is the seller is always in a red cloak.

He first checks what's in his inventory.

There's a dagger, 10 loaves of breads, 5 pouches of water, and 50 copper coins.

He checked his equipment too.

There's white tee-shirt, leather vest, leather pants, and sandals.

"Damn, this is a nice outfit."

The Basic plan players have only trash leather outfit, but Gamer plan players have also leather equipment and has better attributes.

For basic plan players, the first thing they would do is to do some errands or go to Mayor's training centre.

But for Lydro, the errands and the training are taking too much time.

'I only have 50 copper coins, I need to earn money first.' Lydro ponders, 'From what I know, there's eight quests that are related to each other and one of them is a hidden quest to be a hunter!'

'And this hidden quest is in Butcher's shop!'

Two hidden quests have been discovered after two months after the EoVT's open beta.

Every town has these two quests and everyone can have these quests if you say or do the correct way.

The first one is a hidden quest to become a hunter and the second one is for warriors. Lydro doesn't care about the second one but, he needs to do the first one.

The butcher's store is not that far. Only a street far from the center.

Hunter is a lifestyle job. It's not just a normal lifestyle job but one of the famed lifestyle jobs!

There are nine famed lifestyle jobs: (1)

1. Rune-master

2. Blacksmith

3. Alchemist

4. Engineer

5. Cook or Chef

6. Craftsman

7. Array master

8. Hunter

9. Tamer

Hunter is the butcher, the one who peels animals skins, take care of meats, cleanses the blood, the one who has skills that can collects wild herbs, and the herbalist.

It's a must lifestyle job for everyone.

90% of players in Lydro's past life have a hunter lifestyle job.

After a while, he arrived at the butcher's shop called People's Meat.

'It's a very weird name.' Exclaimed Lydro.

Inside the shop, there are only three people. They are all NPCs.

There are two apprentice novice hunters and one old man who are advanced hunter.

There are not many people who wants a quest from butchers shop, the quests in the butcher's is quite hard and it takes time to complete. It's common knowledge for everyone who researches.

Then, he [ Inspect ] the three people.

*Note: 'Inspect' is a system skill*

The old man is called:

[Name: Gregor Lvl: ??

Class: Guardian

Side-Class: Hunter

Title: Advanced Hunter Gregor]

And his two apprentice novice hunters are called Tim and Tom.

Lydro looks at Gregor and said, "Good morning Mr Gregor, I'm Lydro, an adventurer. I will go to the mountains to hunt some wild horned rabbits and wild boars. May I know if you need some hides or horns of wild horned rabbits and wild boars?"

"Hmm, young adventurer, you are still young but if you insist, I may really need your help. Can you help me get 5 hides of rabbits and 3 hides of wild boars and its meat?"

"Yes, thank you, Mr Gregor, I promise you will get it in an hour!"

[ System: Common Quest "Mr Gregor's request" accepted.

Details: Get 5 hides of rabbits and 3 hides of wild boar and its meat of at least E-rank. As you promise, you need to finish it in an hour. ]

The qualities are ranked into F-rank to S-rank for the foods, hides, meats, etc. It also depends of the animal you killed.

For example, if you killed a corrupted beast and got its meat, its meat is going to be inedible or if it's edible, it will be F-rank meat even if this corrupted beast is lvl 50.

Then, he turned his way to the two apprentice novice hunters and said, "May I know if Sir Tom and Sir Tim have also request?"

Responding, Tom said, "hm, I don't think so, you've already got a quest from our teacher."

Then Tim said to Tom whispering, "Tom, I think we need a scented violet flower."

"But we don't have money to reward him." Tom replied to Tim whispering.

"Then, …" Tim whispering to Tom planning something.

After a while, they gave Lydro a quest of getting 10 scented violet flowers of at least E-rank, but it's due in an half an hour. The reward is an intelligence ring and some Exp., but if Lydro failed, he will have to give 5 scented violet flowers to them.

Lydro accepted it unhesitatingly and wandered around the town to accept quests and to find the red-cloaked skills seller.

The quests that he accepted are:

- [ Mr Gregor request ]

- [ Tim and Tom's request ]

- [ Novice blacksmith request ] : Get 5 pairs of tusks of a wild boar.

- [ Tamer's daily problem ] : He needs 2 liters of blood of a boar for his pet.

- [ Little Tooth Worker's request ] : Get 10 pieces of horns of horned rabbit.

- [ A Promising Tailor's request ] : Get 10 pairs of long ears of a horned rabbit.

- [ Psycho's favorite candy ] : Get 5 pairs of eyes of a rabbit.

After that, Lydro finally found the red cloaked skill seller store besides the psycho's house.

The store doesn't look like selling skill books because the store is selling sculptures and carved materials.

He then went to red cloaked man's store and then stared him.

Then, the cloaked man said, "What are you staring at?"

"If you are here to buy stuff, say something and don't stare at me. Are you looking for something in particular?"

Then, Lydro replied still staring at him, "Yes, I want to buy skill books!"

"Hmm weird, how do you know that I'm selling skill books?" questioned the red-cloaked manLydro.

"Oh, because of your red cloak, you are a member of Crimson Skill Guild, every towns, cities, kingdoms, and empires have at least one member assigned in." Lydro stated while smiling.

"Oh, how do you know the Crimson Skill Guild?" asked the mysterious buyer.

The Crimson Skill Guild is a merchant guild that main commodities are skill books or stones.

The Crimson Skill Guild is actually not rich as other guilds, their whole guild is all over the continent because they have been assigned all over the continent to sell skill books or skill stones, or like living in a carefree life? No!

They are actually preparing for the war that will be happen in a year!

The Crimson Skill Guild is actually the strongest NPC guild in Gemini Continent.

They have at least 16 hidden people ranked among the 100 strongest NPC in Gemini Continent!

After thinking for a second, Lydro said, "I actually read books of the accomplishments of Crimson Skill Guild before and I'm a fan of your guild leader!"

Then Lydro added, "But unfortunately, I have never had a chance to meet any members of Crimson Skill Guild before. But a few minutes before, I saw your red cloak and thought you were impersonating the Crimson Guild and stared at you, but after your reaction I finally realized that you are a true great Crimson Guild member! I'm sorry, I beg for your forgiveness grandmaster!"

From what Lydro's memories, Crimson Skill Guild members are quite prideful about their guild. If you give their guild full of praise, your Intimacy level with them will increased and sometimes they'll even give you discounts!

Then, two system notification ringed at Lydro:

[ Your Intimacy level with the Crimson Skill member, Kazuki has increased by 20. ]

Kazuki's face redden a little bit. He's quite surprised and slightly embarrassed about the praises of Lydro. He's just the lowest ranked member in his guild and quite shameful about that. But after Lydro's praise, he gained a full of pride of his guild.

Then, Kazuki said and asked, "It's nothing, so what type of skill books do you want?"

"Really‽ This is my first time seeing my idol! I mustn't lose this chance!!" It looks like Lydro is going to lose himself, but Lydro is just very good at acting.

Then, Lydro's face turned bitter and said, "I would like the support type skills, but I only have 50 copper coins. This may not enough to buy one skill."

Seeing Lydro's expression, Kazuki said, "As your first time seeing your idol, I'll give you a discount for one skill book!"

"Here, choose one."

[ Skills: Support types

- Mana Channeling (10 bronze coins)

- Drain Touch (30 bronze coins)

- Restore Mana (20 bronze coins)

- Heal (15 bronze coins)

- Magic bullets (12 bronze coins)

- Barrier (25 bronze coins)

You can choose one that will be discounted to 50 copper coins ]

Without hesitation, he chose...

The End of the Chapter.

(1) : from the most preeminent, Runemasters are very important everywhere in this world!

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