Ascyaf O Vivid: The VRMMORPG Story

Chapter 25: Buying an Item

A few days had passed since the first day he set foot in the Theocracy.

 

And with the money he had received from the Cathedral for helping Blaise find Naurel, Akuji's purse was filled with an undisputed sum of 1,000,000 Inars.

 

‘Is this what luck is?’ Akuji felt that was what happened when he was convinced that he would be able to buy enough items to be able to achieve his goal, burning himself.

 

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The problem was, where could he find such an item? The Trade Union? Akuji rejected the idea. Even if he managed to find a magic book, a grimore who had quite good stats he doubted whether his wallet was enough since he not only intended to buy another type of weapon, a dagger.

 

Indeed, Akuji has yet to reach level 40 which allows him to use a second weapon. But that didn't mean he couldn't use it at all with the consequence that he couldn't feel the effects of the stats that the weapon had.

 

After all, it did not matter since what Akuji was looking for was not the weapon stats themselves but rather a bonus to the skill that the dagger had, for example to the Assassin Skill Tree. Although since he had been halfway to level 40, Akuji did not want to just waste money on a type of weapon with high attack power but had low stats.

 

... Although maybe something like that would be chosen if he could not find the dagger that was in his expectations.

 

“I guess I can only play guess and find here.” Akuji mutters.

 

After all, he did not want to disturb Naurel. Although she felt Naurel would answer her if she asked, she did not want to interfere with Naurel's needs since it seemed important.

 

As for Arsy .. he quickly returned to the magic academy after reporting the completion of Blaise's duties and the unseen trunk of his nose ever since.

 

Starting to walk at a steady pace to rely on his personal judgment, Akuji thought it would be nice if the food in his hand could contain poison.

 

Walking up, Akuji roamed from one store to another over and over again, rehashing, and rehashing times just to shake his head again and again. “This is also not.”

 

Putting the grimore in his hand after doing another assessment, Akuji was still unable to find anything in his criterion and sighed, choosing to head to the other store before his steps stopped seeing the dark alley across the street.

 

‘Is there a black market?’ thought Akuji. “Yeah, better just try.”

 

However, the dark side of things will remain how much light it emits.

 

Akuji thought that and began to go deeper into the dark alleys, wandering around without a clear purpose until he saw the slums that became the residence of the residents.

 

The Ladian Theocracy is not a perfect place even if this is where the Church of Light is centered. Even Akuji can think easily since food crops must be difficult to grow with snowy weather that always envelops.

 

Seeing one of the shops that remained standing in a slum like this, Akuji decided to step in and try his luck. He doesn't know if the store is connected to the black market or not, but there's no harm in trying.

 

The door opened, making a sound as if it would come off at any time as Akuji walked in, showing some kind of unusual equipment strewn across the floor. Guns, magic devices (magic devices), ammunition, even.

 

Good. The whip was indeed not a type of weapon since there was no skill like the Magic Mastery that Akuji had learned. A skill that would increase various stats while wearing a grimore or magic device as the main weapon, but the whip specifically worked as a second weapon.

 

“What are you ... looking for something, son?” ask the old man, the owner of this store from behind the counter lazily.

 

“Do you have grimore here?” After all, Akuji was interested in something like that and just casually walked in. Looking for a grimore that might be tucked between all this mess.

 

“Search if there are. Anyway, it's just a thrift store.”

 

“Is that?” said Akuji who was greeted by a nod from the old man as he began to search further around.

 

Some were too bad with a durability level that had reached single digits, leaving the equipment to shatter if one was to touch. However, not everything was that bad since Akuji's eyes sparkled looking at the old book in his hands.

 

[Book of Rise

Attack :132 ❖ Defense :4

 

Type: Grimore

Weight: 1 kg

Durability: 13

 

The magic attack now contained fire elements. 

Magic power and owner's cast speed increased by 10%, also slightly increased mana regeneration (low).

 

Magic Mastery Level +1

 

Terms of Use: Magic Mastery Level 5

 

*weapons statistics decrease according to the level of damage the book receives.

 

Elements of magic books! Moreover, it was the fire element that focused on the right attack with the increase in magic power as well as the speed of his cast, making Akuji's fantasy when he could burn himself floating.

 

Moreover, it had a rare bonus to a skill. It was quite rare since such a thing was equivalent to having bonus skill points since this kind of bonus had no restrictions.

 

If the player has not learned the skill with a level bonus, simply put, the skill becomes available to them by being at the same level as the bonus level of the weapon. While for someone like Akuji, whose skill is meant to have reached the level of ‘maximal’ determined by the system, the skill level will increase through the normal limit.

 

“How much is this book price Sir?”

 

“... 30,000 Inar.”

 

‘cheaper than I thought,’ thought Akuji secretly before—

 

“20.000 Inar.” He offered.

 

“30.000, “take store owner won't budge.

 

Makes Akuji sigh and points at the grimore in his hand. “Look at this grimore, doesn't it look as if it will crumble at any time? So, 22,000 Inar. “

 

“Can you not be cruel to this Old Man? That price hasn't even returned the money I used to buy it.”

 

“Then, 22,000.”

 

“27.000 Inar!” the old man shouted as if all his drowsiness had disappeared.

 

“Yeah, well 27,000,” replied Akuji managed to make the old man relieved, feeling Akuji was not the type of customer he least wanted to meet. “... With this dagger too.”

 

Until the old man heard Akuji's follow-up. Making him think hard after seeing the dagger that Akuji meant had a row of wounds on his blade, it was enough to show that it was blunt before finally nodding.

 

“Alright! I received it!” he replied, feeling he was still at a profit for having sold a dagger that no one else would be interested in.

 

“Thank you,” greetings Akuji, hand over the amount of money mentioned upon seeing the dagger.

 

[Theif Dagger

Attack :110 ❖ Defense :1

 

Type: Dagger

Weight: 0.8 kg

Durability: 9

 

Movement speed increased by 5%.

 

Terms of Use: Tricky Weapon Level 3

 

*physical damage decreased due to damage the dagger received]

 

As Akuji thought before, at most he would just end up choosing a dagger with a high basic attack power but a low overall statistic.

 

And even though in the eyes of others this dagger was no more useful than trash since it had a reduction in damage to all kinds of physical attacks due to the lack of sharpness of this dagger, it had no use for it, it didn't matter to Akuji since his attack was magic.

 

At most, he would only use it as a tool to withstand enemy attacks.

 

However, did he have to thank her because this dagger wasn't that expensive?

 

Akuji was satisfied, intending to leave this place. Till—

 

“Pak Dex, where is the grimore I have been asked for ..?” Someone shouted, blocking the entrance before his gaze focused on Akuji, no, to the grimore in his hand and exclaimed, “Isn't that the grimore I ordered?!”

 

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Note :

 

The type of increase/decrease in Vivid is divided into two types, fixed and non.

 

Examples remain like the above grimore where the increase in magic power is expressed with a clear and fixed value.

 

While not fixed like Akuji hair tie/statistical reduction on grimore, expressed from weak, light, medium, etc since its value is not fixed.