Chapter 43: Jail

The Spearman checked his skill cooldowns, unfortunately, there still was a time before he could use weapon skills. He wasn’t in his right mind when despite having a low health bar and no weapon skills he decided to charge. He just couldn’t let a witness of his disgrace be alive. His ego couldn’t let that happen. So he grabbed his spear tightly and ran towards his target.

A player without any weapon shouldn’t be a threat to anyone, a newbie like that wasn’t his match. He didn’t need to replenish his health for the upcoming battle, it would be better if he would kill that player being low on HP.

"Die!... Huh?"

Not only the tree-head guy dodged his attack but managed to knock him down. Now a "newbie" was on top of him pummeling his face. He saw his own health status bar at the top left side reaching its end. Before he could comprehend the situation that he dragged himself in, he died.

[You have killed the TheGreatSpearman]

[Your status has been changed to - Criminal]

"Oops...I didn’t mean to kill him. I overdid myself a little bit." He looked apologetically at the kid that was sending him laser beams with his angry eyes.

"I knew you were lying!" The kid stood up and started to chase Safo Nur who decided to run to the Cilla Village. He was sure that there he would be out of the problems. Safo didn't want to be involved in other player's matters anymore.

Four people were emerging from the gates of the village. Three NPC town guards and a player with a copper sword.

The older brother who was killed by BloodSpot62 spawned in the village and issued a case to arrest his killer. NPC in the game was in an instant gathered around him and together they left the village.

Safo Nur felt relieved when he saw NPC guards, now they could interact and stop the fight and his persecute-child.

"Ah, guards, good. Go help the guy there, other players attacked him and me..." But suddenly the guards came at him with a stern expression. Right after the guard touched him, Safo Nur had been teleported to the jail.

"WHAT? WHAAT? Why me, you stupid NPC? I did nothing wrong. It was self-defense, you as*hol*.

[ You had been put in jail by the Cilla Village guard. You were incarcerated for one day. ]

Safo Nur cursed that guy who attacked him so ferociously and cursed himself for not running right after he woke up but instead stayed to watch the spider's fight. He was short on time, it was one day left before the tournament and he desperately needed to fight monsters to gain experience. His imprisonment slowed down his growth drastically.

With nothing else to do, he went to check his status.

[Name: WorldDestroyer

Status: Imprisoned criminal (1 Day)

Level: 4

Exp (Experience) 98/100

HP (Health Points): 25/25

MP (Mental Points): 0/0

Strength: 0.4

Agility: 0.4

Mental Power: 0.4]

"Oh, wow, I've reached level 4 and I'm almost at level 5." Safo Nur wasn't sure how many mobs he hunted before the Mud Boss's appearance, although by his guess it couldn’t be more than twenty though. The only thing he could think was that Mud Boss gave him a hundred or so exp points.

[ You have killed a Mud monster. You gained 1 Exp. ]

[ You have killed a Mud monster. You gained 1 Exp. ]

[ You have killed a Mud monster. You gained 1 Exp. ]

[ You have killed a Mud Boss (Creator’s enemy). You gained 100 Exp. ]

[ You have reached Level 4. ]

Safo Nur decided to check his journal and found out that he had killed 14 regular Mud mobs before the Boss. Further inspection showed something unexpected though.

[ You obtained a God's gloves. ]

[ You received a Secret Quest of the Creator. ]

[ You received a Quest Item - Circle of Time. ]

[ Attention Adventurers! Secret Quest of the Creator is started. Eight items left. ]

[ Attention Adventurers! Cube 8 is open now! ]

[ Attention Adventurers! The message, left by the Creator: "Greetings, adventurers! Thank you for playing my game. I hope you are enjoying exploring this fabulous world. For those who are the most curious I have a Secret Quest, finishing which will grant you a Creator’s Castle at Cube 9, it contains all secrets of the game. Additionally, with the Castle, the authority to be the Lord of the 9 Worlds within the Cube will be gifted to an adventurer. For that, you need to seek the items hidden in each Cube. To make things spicier, with every item found this world will face significant changes. Keep up and enjoy your time in the game!". ]

"Wow, did I kill something important? Does it say that Mud Boss was an enemy of the Creator of this game?! Is that a joke? And this item seems to be rare. I wonder if it is powerful." Safo Nur read carefully all the notifications that thundered the game while he was asleep.

[Name: God's gloves

Tire: 4

Damage: x10

Defense: 10% of HP (2.5)

Weapon skills: Weapon design (upgradable), Time thief (upgradable), Destruction (upgradable).

Weapon design: level 1 (active) - Can replicate any weapon or shield from the list. Creation Tire: 1. Success rate: 50%.

Time thief: level 1 (passive) - Steal Time fragments from anyone, simply touching one. 10 per second. Killing will steal 100% of available Time fragments.

Destruction level 1 (passive) - While fighting with gloves only, activates effect "Rusting" and "Removal".

Rusting - extra x1 damage, 1% chance to destroy weapon, shield, or armor.

Removal - 30% chance to cancel the skill. ]

‘Oh My God, this thing is awesome. And it is Tire 4? Kutch told me that the highest tier was 3. I bet he didn't know about these items. This weapon is a hidden item so probably one of a kind. Equip!’

Brown gloves appeared, they covered his whole arm, from fingers to shoulders. Gloves were made of thick brown leather, with horizontal straps filled with rivets circling the entire thing. Rivets on the straps made the construction sturdier to the damage. The knuckle part of the gloves was hardened and sharpened with some dark metal. The same metals were used to make nail claws. The overall look was nice, but not fierce. They looked more like the gloves for the blacksmith rather than for the warrior.

Apparently, gloves had three states; short, main, and a replica. While in a short gloves mode it lost most of its part and became fingerless, still two stripes with rivets covered the glove. No metal knuckles could be seen.

Before Safo tried a replica state he was interrupted by a sharp voice.

"Hey, you... You got those gloves from the big mud monster, am I right? That should be the hidden item. You can hand it over and save yourself from being my prey. You already know who I am. BloodSpot." Arrogantly said the spider in the cell in front of Safo.

The guard's building was circular in shape, and the jail cells were located in the dark and cold basement. Filling the hall but leaving a circle in the middle, the cells were placed in a round and faced each other. The jail bars despite being constructed from wood, were a game object, meaning that they were indestructible.

“Huh? Hahaha.” Safo Nur burst out laughing. “Man, you almost scared me. Up until you said your name. BloodSpot? For real, that is your name? Ahahah.” It was hard for Safo to stop himself. “It sounds like you named yourself to honor a bed sheet after a tampon leaked on it.” He laughed even more, unable to breathe, with his eyes full of tears. “Oh...oh…" He huffed gaining his breath. "I’m fine, I’m fine. So, you were saying what?”

BloodSpot was screaming and cursing at him, promising to kill him the whole time. He was never humiliated like that in his entire gaming lifetime. He made sure, that his name will a synonym of a terror, a serial killer who had never been stopped. People talked horror stories about his deeds, while some nobody was laughing at him his as* off. He regretted that didn’t kill him when he had an opportunity.

"I will follow you and kill you every time you leave this village." BloodSpot62 said through clenched teeth. "Hand it over now and I might even give you some money. If you refuse, you will regret it. I will keep killing you until you give it to me or it will drop from your dead body. I promise!" His voice was boomed throughout the hall, even though his instability was certainly caused by Safo's taunts, he sounded severe and confident in his capabilities.

Wiping away his tears, Safo Nur also changed his facial expression. "Okay, Billion zees." He said with full seriousness.

"Are you nuts?! With that amount of money, I can make you a target in the game, every Assassin will be glad to hunt you down."

“Then teach me, to fight like you!"

Safo Nur saw his fighting skills, even a brief moment was enough to be dumbstruck by his admirable moves. He fought with 3 players and not once got hit. Safo Nur desperately needed a teacher like that. Kutch’s training was good, but more was always better, he could learn and practice arachnid's martial arts while sleeping.

BloodSpot was silent. He couldn’t understand the motive behind the request. One billion was a more realistic price for the item. Some enormously rich players could afford that much with ease, for one of the hidden items it was not much. Even if he had that much money he wasn't willing to pay it. But the next offer was even wilder, the green tree-head agreed to give away an almost holy item in exchange for learning combat skills. What kind of a person could make such a bargain?

"What is your name?"