The Insider System

Chapter 24: Rank

Lake had just finished eating, and while he hadn\'t eaten it all he had stuffed himself. He had given the leftovers to one of the people near the fire after he decided not to put it in his satchel. He didn\'t want the inside to be greasy. He would kill for some tin foil but he doubted it had been invented yet.

Checking the mark on Kyle and the one he left at the place they showed him he saw they were there already, so it was time to go say hi. Picking up speed it wasn\'t too long before he arrived. Lake could tell his agility had gone up; he felt like a race car.

Seeing Kyle, Lake said, "Hey Kyle I killed a boar, and told Stan to give you some of the meat later." Kyle stopped working and stood up, "Thank you, so how\'s that Knife treating you?" Mary had also come over to speak with him and Lake could tell she was just about to say this but Kyle had beaten her to it.

"Real good. I used it earlier to take this core out." Lake showed the boar core to them. " Alright I\'m gonna let you two get back to work, I just wanted to see if you needed anything." Lake could tell how much these two appreciated him checking on them.

"No, we\'re fine, see you later." Lake waved goodbye, then crouched down and picked some whanto leaves for his water and left. Lake was heading towards where he had killed the bear he wanted to see if anything had eaten on the carcass, maybe something big had come and it was already gone.

Seeing the bears condition things had definitely been here to eat it, there were a few places where the bone was showing but they had all left. The only thing still here was some gross bug. It was like a 2 foot cockroach; Lake decided this thing was too nasty to live.

Pulling his bow lake was hoping to get a head shot this thing didn\'t look too strong but with 10 times the Exp Lake bet it would give him around the same amount as the bear did.

Aiming carefully Lake got as close as he could and when he released, the arrow left his bow and entered the bug\'s head. [Level up] [Level up] [Rank up] That was almost cheating. It had taken no skill but it had been worth it. He just saw something he hadn\'t seen yet. "What\'s Rank?"

Race: Human Lv.2 ( 0/10 )

Job: Archer Lv.4(42 / 80)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 1/5 )

Stats

Health 20

Stamina 20

Mana 20

Strength 6

Endurance 7

Agility 19

Dexterity 24

Perception 19

Intelligence 9

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 10

It didn\'t take long for Lake to see what had changed; he was now a level 2 human and his health, stamina, and mana had doubled. He also saw his Dexterity had gone over 20 but he hadn\'t received a new skill. Lake didn\'t really understand Dexterity, it seemed to just make his hands better at moving his fingers.

Wiggling his fingers Lake could feel the power within them but so what, was he just supposed to smack the shit out of his enemies. "Actually that could work." Lake bet there was an unarmed job or something, and he had been worried about his spear breaking.

Deciding to test it out, Lake picked a not gross part of the bear carcass and punched it. His hands were like steel. He didn\'t even feel the impact but he felt his strength was lacking because it hadn\'t left any form of injury.

Then he remembered he was punching a bear and he could probably kill stuff if it was smaller like a goblin. Thinking of a goblin Lake thought about all the goblins he had killed around here yesterday. "I bet there\'s some living around here." Lake thought of a skill he had gotten earlier but not tried yet Mana Vision.

Activating it Lake saw dots appearing all over the place. Looking closely Lake knew these were cores of small animals hiding around him. Taking the goblin core out of his satchel lake studied it, all the cores he could see around him varied in color and size, but Lake would bet all goblins had similar looking cores.

Memorizing the core Lake started to head towards the goblin he hadn\'t taken the core from yesterday this would confirm if he was right. Seeing the dead body Lake could see the core shining in its chest.

Lake frowned, it looked different, using his knife Lake pried out the core. Feeling it, it felt much stronger than the other goblin core he had. Lake shrugged, no point thinking about it he was just going to show it to Kyle real quick.

Appearing next to Kyle, Lake saw that he to had something glowing in his chest, Lake wasn\'t to surprised that humans also had cores, so he put it aside and asked, "Hey Kyle why are these cores different?" Lake remembered Kyle telling him about rarity but he really didn\'t understand it and he remembered that the goblin with the better core had given him less Exp.

"Let\'s see." Kyle took the cores from Lake and a few seconds later said, " This ones a stat point I\'m not sure what though you\'d have to take it to an appraiser. That\'s pretty lucky it\'s worth quite a bit, but I\'d recommend you use it not sell it. So what did it come out of?"

Putting it back in his bag Lake said, "A goblin." Lake didn\'t tell Kyle it was the goblin he told him to forget about yesterday. Lake didn\'t want Kyle to think he was blaming him. " Very lucky indeed. Do you know how to use it?" Lake shook his head no.

"It needs to be brewed into a potion. It\'s simple, you just need to bring it to the alchemist guild and pay a few gold." Lake wondered if he could do it himself if he tried he was technically an Alchemist. Thanking Kyle, Lake went back to hunting. He wanted to find some goblins to punch.