BXBX NOVEL Chapter 59 Breaking Through
"Mister Adventurer, please move aside and open the space for others waiting in the line, or I will call the guards."
"Okay, okay, chill, man. I was just joking."
Saying that the man left the deck, emptying the front.
Finally shooing the man trying to hit on her in front, Jane turned her attention to me.
"Mister Callius, you are here?"
"As you see."
"Cough, cough…. I mean, did you finish a quest on your first day already?"
"Yes. Here."
Saying that, I brought the horns of Red Bulls from the pouch, making them spill onto the desk.
"Wow, just how many did you kill?"
"Around twenty-five or something?"
"What? Isn\'t that a bit much?"
Hearing this, she got a surprised expression on her face.
\'Hmm…. Aren\'t the Red Bulls kind of weak monsters? Is it something to be surprised about?\'
I thought, remembering in the game, they were basically mobs to grind exp at the beginning.
"I guess. As expected from a D-rank adventurer. Anyway, please let me confirm if they are original."
Saying that, she left, but the atmosphere around me got a little weird.
Turning my head to see the surprised expression on the faces of people, a smile unintentionally bloomed on my face.
\'Look at that; almost all of you must be doubting my rank.\'
No matter where you go, hearing a young kid achieving what a person worked too hard for years to achieve would damage their ego. This is the nature of humans, and it can\'t be denied.
Although from the expressions, I could say that they doubted my rank, they were still mature enough not to cause a scene here.
"I verified the contents. I will deposit the reward from your quest into your account. Is that okay?"
"Yes."
"I see. By the way, if you want to sell the carcasses, you can either sell them directly to the guild or you can make a deal with a supplier to have better benefits. It is your choice."
"Here, I will sell them to the guild for now."
"Understood."
Just like that, I finished the transaction. Albeit, I still kept the carcass of the Alpha Red Bull for the time being.
\'Hmm, selling the bodies coupled with the quest, my haul for today is 8000 Aeria. Now, let\'s rent a room or something since I will be staying in this city for quite a long time.\'
With that thought, I left the guild, heading to the residential district.
Although there are also some detached houses with gardens in them which would make a comfortable place to train my sword, they were quite expensive, which I can\'t afford for the time being.
Therefore, renting a room with fine qualities was enough, albeit it cost me quite for a month.
After that, I started walking around in the blacksmith shops, looking for the materials and other things to have a general idea about how this world works.
Although I have played the game, acquiring real-world knowledge from the game alone wouldn\'t be enough, and in this case, the original Callius is not that helpful either, considering his closed lifestyle.
Entering a witch\'s workshop, I bought a map of the world.
After rewarding myself with a good meal at a famous restaurant, I returned to my room.
Taking a bath, I spread the map and slowly started planning my course of action in the future while marking the places I had seen in the game before, remembering the contents in the dungeons, legacies, tombs, or other things.
And it took fully three hours just to mark everything, albeit I was pretty tired, so deciding to go to sleep, I postponed the planning for tomorrow.
***
Waking up early in the morning, around dawn, the first thing I did was to get rid of the drowsiness coming in the morning.
\'Hmm, although now I am an adventurer, I shouldn\'t neglect my training either.\'
Grabbing comfortable but thick clothes, I left my room and started running.
Now, I don\'t need to use the spirit of the room since I can basically run around the city by myself, and there are training rooms in the guild or some special organizations that you can rent after paying money.
Albeit, right now, I don\'t need a training room; we will see when the time comes.
After running for approximately one hour all-around the city, I deemed that enough.
Albeit now it was time to practice my sword.
And to do that, using the outskirts of the city for the practice is enough.
Stabbing the air, trying to use the moves I have learned with my father while imbuing my aura everywhere around my body, I trained with my sword.
\'Right now, with the Authority of Lightning, I can coat my sword with the lightning element as well, but it still requires too much concentration. It is still far from being perfect; that is not enough.\'
Remembering the sensation I felt while stabbing the Alpha Red Bull with my sword, I started coating my sword with lightning elemental mana all around.
I also trained using lightning elements all around, trying to imbue my movements with lighting mana to increase my speed, albeit it was still at the beginning stages.
Mastering something in one day wouldn\'t be fun as well, would it?
After training for two to three hours straight, I was starting to get tired and hungry, so returning to my room, I started preparing breakfast.
For today, I will eat a normal meal until I break through the 2-star knight stage since I feel like my growth has reached its limit.
\'Status\'
Mumbling like that in my mind, I started observing the panel appearing beside me.
Name- Callius Augustride ????
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Age – 13
Class – The Sorcerer of Beginning, Ruler of Lightning
Knight rank – 1 star
Mage rank – 1 star (Sealed)
Attributes – Aether
Traits – [Perfectionist], [Prodigy], [Aesthetic Sense], [Tyrant\'s Aura], [Ego], [Witcher], [Duelist]
Arts – All-Seeing Eye (1-star) (%62),
Skills – Disguise
Stats-
- Strength – 2.0
- Speed – 2.0
- Stamina – 2.0
- Perception – 2.3
- Magic – 0 (2.7)
- Luck -???
- Charisma – 6 (sealed)
- Intelligence – 9
- Perseverance – 10
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\'Aside from my perception stat, my every other stat reached the peak of the one-star knight. I should start preparing for breaking through.\'
I thought while eating my meal.
\'Hmm, I should be able to break through this week. Let\'s prepare everything.\'
With that thought, I left my room to go to the Adventurers Guild.
Reaching the guild, I saw a quest related to the carcass of Alpha Red Bull.
Quest – Bring a Carcass of Alpha Red Bull
Quest Rank – E
Location – None
Time Limit – Four Days
Rewards – 4000 Aeria
Looking at the quest in front of me, a smile bloomed.
\'Saving the carcass was certainly a good idea.\'
I thought since the guild was offering 3k Aeria for the carcass.
Anyway, it doesn\'t matter that much for the time being. I need to prepare myself for the breakthrough, and I need money for that.
Picking a bunch of quests ranging from F to E, I left the city, slowly traveling.
***
Around the evening, I returned to the guild, bringing my haul from the day.
However, the frequency of quests appearing, as well as the frequency of the monsters appearing around the city, is quite limited.
No matter where you look at this, I won\'t be able to grow too much if I stay in this place for a long time.
Although, for the time being, they will be enough for me to be prepared.
With all those thoughts, I returned to my room and started planning a plausible route for me to follow with all the elements I wanted to acquire.
***
Generally, while breaking through a rank, you need to be prepared.
Since when you attempt, your body will start going under a lot of changes that have the risk of damaging it.
If you are attempting to increase your rank as a knight, your body will evolve, and for the mages, their mana core and mana circuit in their body will evolve.
However, this process might be painful or might not be regarding the condition of your body, your innate traits, and your preparations.
Albeit, of course, since breaking through two-star knight rank from one-star is pretty common, the things that you can use are common as well, albeit not the ones I will use.
Now, it has been a week since I started my life as an adventurer, and right now, I can now feel the breakthrough is near.
So, I am now here in an alchemist workshop, buying the materials that would make the foundation of my next stage as solid as possible.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
Entering the alchemy shop, I saw a woman with glasses on her face.
\'Somehow, she looks like a teacher I know from Earth.\'
I thought.
"I am here to buy some ingredients."
"Okay, please name the things you want to buy, so we can check… Doris! Come here for a moment."
"What is it, master?"
"Check the customer. I will be working on the back. You can call me if you need something."
Saying that the woman went back, leaving the job to the little boy looking tired.
\'Ah, being an assistant is sure hard.\'
I thought, remembering those tired expressions of assistants in the college.
"What were you here for, the customer?"
"I am here to buy, ....."
After naming the ingredients, the boy was slightly surprised.
"Umm, sir, what do you need those for?"
Asking such questions to the customers is not tolerable since it is an act of intruding on their private life.
"I will use that for an experiment."
Hearing me avoid a vague answer, the boy realized his mistake.
"Ah, sorry for intruding. It is just they are not commonly used materials."
"So, do you have them?"
"Yes."
Just like that, I bought everything I needed and went to my room, although it cost quite a lot, with the price of 50k Aeria.
Albeit, before leaving, I could see a slightly suspicious expression on the woman\'s face. I didn\'t care much about it. After all, you can always be suspicious of another person, and it is your choice to think whatever you want.
Entering my room, I grabbed the ingredients, spreading them everywhere around.
\'Ah, this will hurt quite a lot.\'
Thinking that I took a bite of the 50-year-old Red Ginseng, munching it.
And immediately started feeling the heat in my body increasing.
My aura is reacting violently, now is the time to make use of my knowledge as a transmigrator.
However, the pain that came with that was nothing but unbearable.
\'Ah, compared to the pain I felt while awakening my aura, this is nothing.\'
Just like that, at that night, I broke through.