Character Name
Ark
Race
Human
Fame
0
Level
1
Profession
None
Title
None
Health
100
Mana
100
Strength
1 (-14)
Agilitiy
1 (-14)
Stamina
1 (-14)
Wisdom
1 (-14)
Intelligence
1 (-14)
Luck
1 (-14)
He had to get stronger somehow and get his revenge on those bastards! But for now there were more urgent matters.
- Thanks to a lot of experience, the Strength and Agility that was lost to a huge blow has been found again. Strength up by 1. Agility has been restored by 1.
[T/N: A bowl of black bean noodles costs around 5 dollars.]
Truthfully, the harsh training in reality helped him to learn a lot.
In other games, victory was split into the attack and defense stats. There was no room for any other elements. However, in New World, a real sense of fighting and experience played a major role.
The user’s real strength and agility were not applied, but experience and reflex speed counted for a lot.
That is, if someone was attacked ten times with 10 points of agility, they could generally evade once. On the other hand, if they handled the situation with quick judgement, they’d be able to evade two or three out of ten times.
‘This is the same concept for when I’m attacking.’
By following the enemy’s movements, he maintained an advantageous distance.
It was a concept drilled into him over and over again when he learned Taekwondo a long time ago.
Of course, with an advantageous position, it was easier to avoid or counter-attack your opponent.
In New World, the rules of reality were directly applied.
It wasn’t a game where you could just recklessly strike once and get hit once.
It was a big enough benefit to know that.
Hyun Woo began to exercise in his spare time from that day on.
Exercise was the best way to hone his reflexes.
The only exercise Hyun Woo could without spending any money was the Taekwondo he learned in elementary and middle school.
When he went into high school, he stopped because of examinations, but he still had the skills of a third-dan. He didn’t remember everything he had learned, but it was still enough to work out by himself.
As he was cleaning out the mart cellar, he moved his body in the spare moments.
Afterward, he loosened his stiff body, stretched his legs, and did image training of fighting a bloody struggle with the mice. If he had a new thought, he adapted it in-game against the mice.
The days passed like this and he regained 30 stat points.
Even though he still had 50 points less than he’d had from the beginning, now he could fight the mice with his eyes closed.
There were approximately twenty to thirty mice to face with each quest he received, and now it didn’t even take him 10 minutes to clean them up. Of course, the speed at which he received the quests increased as well.
‘My thought was right after all. Ark gets stronger the more I exercise.’
Afterwards, Hyun Woo tried using his Taekwondo techniques in New World.
At first, there were a lot of awkward moments, but as he fought the mice he became more accustomed to them. And after a week, he could face two or three mice at once without the use of the dagger.
Thanks to that, he was able to save on the dagger’s repair costs.
What a truly deep and complex game!
He was in the worst situation, but Hyun Woo was getting more and more fascinated with New World.
You have obtained a New Skill. Combat Skill (Beginner, Passive): Art of fighting utilising your fists and feet. Fighting without equipping a weapon will not demonstrate your strength, but your evasion and accuracy will become higher. These additional benefits can be had even when using weapons. Bare-handed striking power increased by 10%, accuracy up 3%, evasion up 3%.
You have learned a new skill. Nursing (Beginner, Active): You can give patients hope by restoring their vigor and courage. You give the patient an increase of 20% in vigor and courage by using this. Mana use: 10
"Can't I give it to you next time? I only have 10 coppers."
"No. Come next time."
"I only believe in money."
“What?”
Ark was shocked.
There were no commissions? Doesn’t this mean there wasn’t a way to restore the remaining stat?
Just like in the past, he was still level 1. But because of his excessive fighting experience, he was confident he could knock out a Wild Dog.
But one death meant experience was cut by 30%. Because Wild Dogs gave a lot of experience, 30% exp would fill up before he could earn 6 points. In the end, it meant that even if he died fighting the Wild Dogs, he’d still lose out on points.
‘I never thought these quests had a limit line.’
Even if you looked in the forums, there wasn’t anything about the limit of requests in beginning villages. Although he hadn’t counted, Ark had done over three hundred quests so far. Ark had also thought there were unlimited quests. To suddenly say there were no quests...
‘Do I have to end it here and start with 1 point missing?’
It was similar to having something stick out like a sore thumb. If there were a lot of points missing, then he would simply overlook and ignore it. However, giving up with a single point missing didn’t sit right with him.
At that moment, Hansen suddenly grasped Ark’s hand and opened his mouth.
“Until now, I have seen a great amount of people in this place, but there has never been anyone who gave as much as you have for the village. I am touched.”
‘Well, that’s pretty obvious. Are you nuts? Who would repeat these types of quests over 300 times?’
Ark was enraged but put a tight clamp on his anger and awkwardly tried to laugh.
“This place is like my home. If it’s something I can do, of course I have to help out. It hurts my heart that there isn’t anything else I can help with.”
His intimacy with Hansen was already at its maximum. Though there wasn’t anything that would come of it, there was no need to cut down the intimacy he’d raised.
This was something he’d felt so far while playing New World. The NPCs talked and acted like real people. It was rumoured, each and every one of the NPCs globally could think independently like real people.
It was a given that they worked in the day and slept at night. There were even times when they caught sick and didn’t open shop.
There were cases of them interacting with users and deciding the user needed to learn to speak more politely, which caused the intimacy to drop and their prices to rise.
“Don’t you think there might be some other kind of job? I want to help so badly I’m going crazy.”
“No, this is plenty now. You didn’t look over anyone with contempt and worked without rest for this frontier village. You even went as far as to have several near-death experiences. I know it all. You are already a hero in this village. And I, with the feeling that I have nurtured you, venture to call you this. You are a Mouse Hunter!”
Suddenly, as cheerful music flowed forth, the information window appeared.
You have learned a new skill. Spirit of the Cat (Beginner, Active): A cat’s roar which, in the eyes of mice, will cause them to tremble in terror. 30 second paralysis. Attack and defense (Fighting Morale) decreases by 20% (Only applies to mice). Mana consumption: 80
The Bar Owner Kraydon’s Worries The bar owner Kraydon has been agonizing over a new worry for several days. Meet him and listen to his situation. Level of Difficulty: —
Ark used that money to repair his equipment and left for the Harilal mountains.