Vol 1 Chapter 2

Story 02 Skill and Sling

Next day night, when I look again at the window more closely, on the Ability Score Area at the Status Screen, I realize that there are Up and Down b.u.t.ton on it.

When I press the STR Up b.u.t.ton, its parameter value became 2 → 3.

Simultaneously, Skill Bonus value decreased 2 → 1.

T/N: huh? how come it the skill bonus back to 2? is MC lvl up? - Arahetta~

Apparently, Skill Bonus is also able to increase and decrease a Status value.

Thus, I try to do some experiment.

First of all, I reset the numerical value, I try to do some push up on top of the bed.

It’s 3 times.

Pathetic.

I wanna die.

How Shameful.

I’m unable to do push up more than 3 times.

And then, when the STR parameter was increased from 2, what a surprise, I’m able to do push up 10 times.

It goes up from 3 times to 10 times.

In short, if I allotting the bonus value, it will be easy for me to improve my ability.

It’s just that, because of my pride as a man, I decide in my heart that every day from now on I’ll do push up, sit up, back, squat, and running training.

Incidentally, the result of my muscular training after a month has pa.s.sed is I was able to increase doing push up to 10 times.

And my status has increased 2 → 4.

In short, if I train it, though it’s just little by little, but I understood that my status is increased.

Again, there was something that I find out once I went to a place with a lot of traffic.

When I try to look at another person status by turning ON my skill <display>, I understand that just like a person, status can also have a large difference from person to person.</display>

<display>Jason-san 24 y.o. a member of the dispatch knight which have duties as a policeman of the village is LV 5 and his Skill Bonus 10.</display>

<display>The same knight member, Cain-san 19 y.o. is LV 2 and his Skill Bonus 4.</display>

<display>When I roughly calculated it in average, somehow, when your LV got up, your Skill Bonus will rise at the range of 1~3.</display>

<display>However, I understand that even when someone finally have a Skill Bonus, they are unable to use it.</display>

<display>Rather, to begin with, they are unable to display the window screen itself in the same way as me.</display>

<display>T/N: Welcome to The Gamer - Arahetta~</display>

<display>Even when I ask the Sister,</display>

<display>“You, what is it?, why are you saying such unknown thing?”</display>

<display>Saying that while giving me a face.</display>

<display>In other words, a normal person unable to see my ability in numerical value, somehow it seems that the power to see others power in numerical value is my my own unique ability.</display>

<display>Honestly, “What a waste!” was what my inner thought.</display>

<display>When I try to roughly saw who is the person that have the highest LV in this town, it was Father-sama.</display>

<display>He is LV 10 with 33 Skill Bonus.</display>

<display>With that many of Skill Bonus, someone could use a various ability. But if they are unable to come in contact with it, it’s the same as they have no Skill Bonus.</display>

<display>It’s a condition of a useless treasure*.</display>

<display>T/N: You can change that j.a.panese saying to “A waste of talent” - arahetta~</display>

<display>Well, because normally ability is raised by effort, will power, and talent, if I were to say that it can’t be helped then it can’t be helped.</display>

<display>Honestly, I thought that if you were not gonna use it then give it to me please.</display>

<display>Thus, for the sake of raising my Skill Bonus, I thought on how I should rise my LV.</display>

<display>So, I try to enquire a talk about LV to Father-sama just like that.</display>

<display>The answer from Father-sama is,</display>

<display>“I wonder what is that thing called LV?”</display>

<display>Like that.</display>

<display>In short, he doesn’t even know the existence of something called LV.</display>

<display>Thus, because he will just turn into a foolish child state if I talk to him any further regarding things like LV or thing that he doesn’t understand about, for now I try to enquire Father-sama on his career rough history.</display>

<display>Roughly saying, in the olden days, originally Father-sama as adventurer doing a journey and doing a living by defeating monster here and there.</display>

<display>In other words, The Sword and Magic World Theory was not removed, to raise your LV as expected you need to brace the danger by defeating a monster.</display>

<display>I try to ask Villager A (Carl-san) regarding Monster near the Village.</display>

<display>It seems that mainly there are 3 type of monster, 1. Slime 2. Horn Rabbit 3. Goblin</display>

<display>T/N: Hey, indra, you are here! - arahetta~</display>

<display>tlc: Duh, I’m everywhere, that’s because slime is a man romance and the girls nightmares - indra13</display>

<display>Slime is an extremely weak monster as one would expect, and it will die if it got stepped by an adult.</display>

<display>T/N: Yowa! - Arahetta~</display>

<display>tlc: What you would expect from a slime anyway? - indra13</display>

<display>T/N: don’t you guys should be impervious to physical attack? - Arahetta~</display>

<display>tlc: depend on the author that is - indra13</display>

<display>T/N: Heee~ - Arahetta~</display>

<display>Horn Rabbit is a rabbit with a small horn on its forehead, it seems that when Horn Rabbit saw a human, it will jump and ramming itself to them.</display>

<display>Its horn is short but, because the horn is sharp, it’s bad if you got hit and it can become a fatal wound.</display>

<display>However, it appears that the meat soft and tasty, and the fur can be sold at a nice price.</display>

<display>The problem is Goblin.</display>

<display>Its characteristic is its have a rugged body and ugly face with height around 120 cm.</display>

<display>On its hands, dunno where it gots it but, it have Short Sword, Hatchet, or a bow. It seems that for clothes the Goblin is clad with crude cloths.</display>

<display>When it see human, it comes to attack them immediately.</display>

<display>Because the Goblin is carrying a weapon, when someone taking easy on them even if that person is an adult they can seriously got injured by the Goblin.</display>

<display>I heard that every year, some villager is death because they got attacked by the Goblin.</display>

<display>It’s just, I don’t know how I should do the Goblin Extermination better, when I decide to went around the village for the time being to think for it, there were a fist size of leather and hempen string dumped in the village dumpster.</display>

<display>T/N: Yoji search the trash bin…… Yoji found 1 Leather & String - Arahetta~</display>

<display>tlc: now THIS what an RPG novel should be, so what next? breaking some vast? or intruding a villager house? - Indra13</display>

<display>For now, I picked that up and returned to the Church, using a kitchen knife I cut the leather into a suitable size, I make a hole on both ends, pa.s.s the string through it, and coil one side of the string on the wrist.</display>

<display>I insert some pebble in the middle of the string that I arrange on the leather, I grip the other side of the string with my hands, I twirl it round and around using a centrifugal force and then I throw it to the stone wall.</display>

<display>As expected, the stone hit the wall and then scattered away.</display>

<display>The Sling is complete.</display>

<display>Though this arms is very simple, this arms has existed since ancient times, and because it use centrifugal force, it’s power by far is more powerful than if a person throwing it.</display>

<display>If the pebble hits a head, it’s certain for the skull to have bone fracture.</display>

<display>All that left is whether it were able to hit the opponent or not.</display>

<display>Unfortunately, myself has a weak reflexes.</display>

<display>It’s not for show that I’m able to do 3 times push up (now is 10 times).</display>

<display>For now, I climb the slope behind the Village, I decide to train on the place where the first time I came to this world.</display>

<display>I make a target at a size of a head, first, I aim to hit from a distance of 1 m from the target.</display>

<display>After doing for 10 times, finally I’m able to hit the target.</display>

<display>The error margin is around 5 cm</display>

<display>2m, 3m, and then 4m, I gradually distanced myself from the target.</display>

<display>When the distance became 5m, I’m unable to hit the target anymore.</display>

<display>No, to be precise, from 3 attempts only 1 times I’m able to hit the target, it won’t improve no matter how many times I practice it.</display>

<display>Therefore, I allocate 2 Skill Bonus on SKL on the Status Screen.</display>

<display>As soon as I do that, the unskillfulness that I show just now disappear like it was just a lie, *bang bang* the stone hit the center of the target again and again.</display>

<display>The almighty Skill Bonus.</display>

<display>The result is I became to be able to hit the target even when the distance is 10m.</display>

<display>The reason I didn’t practice beyond 10m was because the power will fall down too much if the distance is further than this.</display>

<display>For the time being, I stuff a suitable stone on my left and right pocket, for emergency, I carry a log of stick as a club, and went to the outside of the Village.</display>

<display>Now, into the Goblin Hunt!</display>