Chapter: 62

[Old Buckler]

[Defence – 15]

[Skill – Block] (Passive)

[Block – Negate 100% damage from an attack. 15% chance.]

“Hmm, not bad for 15 gold.” Thought Jay as he stashed the shield in his inventory. Looking around, he noticed some of the other adventurers weren’t too happy with their overpriced crappy weapons.

“Sucks to be them.” Jay thought as he chuckled and began walking to his home. “I’ll pick up some more bondtussle root and food supplies before meeting Anya.”

He decided to make his visit quick as he got home. He refilled his water bottle, then grabbing some bondtussle root and stashing it in his inventory, he decided to get some mist-sheep jerky too – licking his lips as he said “Hope she doesn’t think I’m gonna share.”

It wasn’t long before he left his house and made his way to the bridge.

—

Looking across the crowd, Matheson spotted a level three ranger, finding someone to join his party.

“You! Trenly! You’re going to join me, or else!” the noble brat said to the level three ranger.

Sadly, Trenly didn’t have a choice. “…ok Matheson.” He immediately lost his excitement.

“Good. As a reward, I will loan you a bow to use from my private collection. It’s much stronger than whatever you will have now.” said Matheson with pompousness.

“Thanks” Trenly said emotionlessly as he knew he was not allowed to voice his dissatisfaction to the local lord “at least I can try a better bow” he thought, trying to cheer himself up.

“Now, we just need a manacrafter..” said Matheson as he walked towards a level two manacrafter, but before he could reach one, the manacraft trainer noticed what Matheson was doing and spoke into his mind.

“You will not force a manacrafter to join you. They will choose which duo they would like to join. If you try, I will prohibit your participation in the event.”

Matheson’s face scrunched up in anger, ‘Bastard’ he thought as he death-stared at the manacraft trainer.

—

The more curious local villagers were outside their houses, watching the new recruits with joyful smiles as they made their way to the bridge.

When Jay arrived, he wandered through the large crowd of recruits to find Anya enjoying a muffin. ‘Huh, I guess she’s got a soft side after all.’ Jay smiled mischievously, thinking she was kind of cute.

“Hey” he said.

“Hi. Not long now.” She said, watching the class trainers as she finished her raisin muffin.

‘Seems like she doesn’t want to make conversation..’ Jay thought.

He looked around at the other adventurers, all their faces full of excitement. Some were showing off their weapons, while others were showing their skills – one of the manacrafters was even floating above the crowd in a cross-legged position.

Jay tried to play it cool, acting like he wasn’t excited by this event – Anya looked like she was bored, just another morning to her.