After leaving the training hall Logan moved towards the city center where he appeared first.

“Since starting the game I haven’t yet played it in a traditional sense, I’ve just been spending my time fighting or talking. I’m supposed to do some quests to gain experience I think. I’ll look for some easy quests and then return to train.”

With that Logan arrived at the city center where people were still appearing from starting the game. He looked around and saw an old lady trying to drag a heavy bag somewhere.

Logan went to her and offered to help. That’s how he ended up at the door step of the old lady who owns the food store.

“Thanks young man, these old bones could take it easy thanks to you. As a reward you can have these” said the old lady and gave him a few fruits that looked like bananas.

“Thanks, uh miss. Can I ask you a question?” said Logan.

“MISS! OMG did you just call me MISS! Nobody has called me miss in 30 years! Just call me granny, boy. Now what was it that you wanted to ask me?” exclaimed granny.

“Granny, I wanted to know how these energy capsules work. They seem to fill my hunger but they don’t have a taste and they are too small to actually fill my stomach.” Asked Logan curiously.

“Of course it’s too small to fill your stomach. It doesn’t stay in your stomach for more than a minute. As soon as you swallow it, it dissolves and enters your blood stream and directly provides you energy, thus satisfying your hunger.

Though you are not actually hungry, the feeling of wanting something to eat doesn’t go away so it’s advisable to eat normal food if possible.

But energy capsules have their advantages too. You see food spoils after some days. But energy capsules don’t.

They are also small in size and easy to carry. As for how they are made, you can say it’s a branch of alchemy” explained granny.

“Alchemy huh, can you teach me how to make energy capsules?” asked Logan.

“Boy do you know what you are asking? Think that you need 5 fruits to fill your hunger and each fruit costs 3 copper, that’s 15 coppers.

But a single energy capsule fills your hunger yet costs 25 coppers. You are basically asking me to hand over my money making business to you?” scolded granny.

“Energy capsules are that expensive! I didn’t know, I’m sorry. I thought that since I keep disappearing for days on end it’s advisable to have a few capsules at hand and so better to know how to make capsules if I’m not around any people.” Explained Logan while apologizing.

“That’s ok boy. What I just said was for the high quality capsule with extra added effects. I can teach you the skill for basic capsule making only. But first you have to complete a task of mine. Are you willing?”

asked granny.

You have received a request for a quest.The granny at the food shop is asking you to complete a request in return for the capsule making skill.

Difficulty: F.

Rewards: Capsule making (basic) Skill.

Do you accept?YESNO

“Oh my first quest! Looks like they can generate quests as they want without any prior notice. Might as well accept it, I will get a skill that’s useful”

“Yes” Logan accepted the quest.

“Fine then. First take these, go to the pastures in the east side of town. There you will find creatures called ceva.

Feed them this and wait for a few hours. Then they will start dropping dung. Your task is to collect 100 dung droppings and bring them to me. It is a very important alchemical ingredient.” Said granny and gave him a bag of fruits. The fruits looked like apples but were blue in color.

“What are these fruits? And how do the ceva look?” asked Logan.

“Those fruits are poisonous to humans boy, don’t try to eat them. If ceva eat them, they produce a particular chemical that gets released in their dung. That’s why I need the dung. Got it? The ceva look like this” with that said, granny showed him a picture.

The ceva looked suspiciously like cows.

“Oh this is just great. My first quest is to pick up cow dung! Mom will tease me about this for weeks! I don’t have a choice anyway, I need that skill. Might as well get this over with”

After that Logan went to the pastures and found the ceva, and proceeded to feed them the fruits. They were surprisingly friendly after he fed them and started grazing the grass around the pasture.

The granny said it will take a few hours for the dung to drop so Logan decided to improve his skills and proceeded to practice striking the trees and getting used to instant step.

Logan continued practicing his skills against the trees for 5 hours, resting only to recover his Ki and stamina.

While resting he checked up on the ceva and found that they dropped a unit of dung every hour. As soon as they dropped the dung Logan would feed them another fruit and collect the dung.

Fortunately, he didn’t need to touch it, he could directly deposit it in his inventory as quest items and Logan was very thank full for this system.

There were 20 cevas in the pasture and it took 5 hours to finally collect 100 dung units.

Logan had emptied his stock of fruits and water while practicing, since working depleted his satiety bars pretty quickly.

Feeling thank full that it was finally over, he started returning to the granny’s store.

On the way he checked out his skills and their proficiency had increased by 2 for all the skills.

“Looks like the proficiency don’t gain that much if I don’t fight live opponents. It’s given that I won’t improve by just fighting stationary targets in real life, looks like that carried over here too.”

Logan reached the granny’s store and he knocked on the door since the store was closed.

“Who is it?” came a shout from inside.

“It’s me! Logan. I finished collecting the dung” shouted Logan.

“Door’s open, come in” said granny.

Logan pushed open the door and entered the store. The store was empty but there was a door inside that was open and sounds of cutlery could be heard.

Curious, Logan peeped inside and saw that granny was cooking something.

“What are doing peeping in like that boy? Come in and give me a hand here.” Said granny.

Intrigued, Logan went in and was about to help granny carry the pot when she hit his hand with a spoon and said “Don’t you know hygiene boy? Wash your hands before you touch the food” scolded granny.

Remembering that he was practicing the whole time and he felt a bit sweaty, he asked directions to the bathroom and washed himself.

After that he helped granny carry over the pot and other utensils over to the table.

“Come boy, sit, you must be tired. I doubt you have had your lunch. Care to give this old lady company?”

asked granny.

“Sure, I’ve been working on my skills while waiting for the ceva to drop the dung and I feel famished even though I ate all the fruits you gave me.” Said Logan after sitting down.

“Then help yourself to the food, eat all you want” said granny and both proceeded to eat their lunch.

Logan felt that the food was very tasty and ate to his heart’s content or in this case his stomach’s content.

After which they cleaned up and sat down. Logan had dropped the dung in a container.

“So now that you have completed the task, here, take this. This is your reward” saying that granny gave Logan a memory card similar to the one that the guard captain gave.

You have gained the sill Capsule Making (basic).Allows you to convert food items to capsules for storage

Cost: 200 energy.1:1 effectiveness of food consumables. (Capsule formed recovers the same amount of satiety that would have recovered if individual ingredients were consumed independently)

Happy after learning the skill, Logan bid granny farewell and went to find other quests. Logan completed to other quests that day of collecting herbs and babysitting, for which he got experience and 20 coppers as reward, he finally leveled up to lv2. Advertisement Previous

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