Walking along, seeing Suki walk slowly and breath heavily, Umichi wished he could do something about the situation. Occasionally throwing a knife out to kill a Dire Wolf or Frenzy Boar. Most of the path seemed to have been cleared by Yui and Yumi. He stopped for a moment and walked to her to see if he could help her. Lowering himself, and slinging her arm around his shoulder, he tried to lighten her body by lifting her a bit. She was quite heavy, well the weight of the carcass was more so the reason of that. It seemed to help a little though, and their pace was a little faster. It wasn't by much but it helped.
Once Ayame and Fujiwara started talking, Umichi sighed. "I doubt that contacting Kayaba would do us any good, he isn't going to just change his mind. I mean what would the point be then? In this world there are many ways to live though. Fighting is one, blacksmithing, cooking, setting up a shop, appraising items, fishing, etc. There are many things you can do in this game, and with each one you can live in this world. But to get out, I doubt there's much else to do but beat the game. Also, wishful thinking it maybe, it might not end that way. If the server screws up, many things can happen. Data gets jumbled, so you are weaker than should be or your weapons are broken for example. Some people might end up freezing. A lot of things can happen, it'd be nice if it only ends in a way where everyone is logged out. But it's extremely wishful thinking." He said in addition to their conversation.
After a while, they had reached Citadel. There was a crowd celebrating. Reeds, the town mayor, came up to Umichi.
Reeds said
"Thank you so much for getting rid of the blasted pest. I see you have brought us it's carcass as proof.
Hm... I think we can work with this." He turned around and beckoned an NPC over. The two whispered.
"We will take the carcass now. Give us a moment."
Status EffectDire Werewolf Carcass has been removed from Suki's inventory. Suki can now move like normal again.
The NPC that was beckoned over left and came back seconds later.
Reeds said
"Now please, accept this as a token of our gratitude. You may stay here for the next two days without worries of paying either."
All members of the party have received a pop-up box.
Creature of the Full Moon Complete said
Rewards
EXP - 750
Col - 1200
Items - Wolf Fur Jacket
The Stats of the Wolf Fur Jacket are as follows
Wolf Fur Jacket said
Health + 10
Defense + 5
Extra Warmth (Good in Cold areas)
<<Hearing>> + 5
Time skip = 10 days said
Since then, 10 days have passed. The main party have reached their way to Tolbana. There is a level limit of 10 max with exceptions of Umichi. Along the way, Yumi received a message at some point and had decided she had to leave the party. It was unfortunate but they said their goodbyes and wish to meet again. The maximum amount of col that can be added to each character's current funds is 10k.
"Finally here at Tolbana huh?" Umichi said. "Seems like quite a few of the other high end players have set up here already. Might be hard to find a place to board. Well, what do you guys think we should do? Three things we can try to do for now. Go to the Labyrinth, find a place to reserve for the night or do some quests" he turned to his party members. Smiling at them all, he had equipped the
Wolf Fur Jacket. It looked quite good in his opinion. The fur was nice, and gave him a rugged type of look.
He was just barely level 12 now. He had been juggling a few of his skills and they were fairly high level for the first floor. However, nothing went passed 150 except his Single-handed straight sword skill which was 163. It would take quite a long time to get to 1000. He had collected about 3.5k in funds, so he had 10164 col. He wasn't the richest player, but he was doing fairly well. Recently, one could sell a plain Anneal Blade for 25k. There had been only 4 reported to have been completed other than the ones Umichi and Suki had. He was considering he would sell it soon, his spare. The repairs for his enhanced Anneal Blade always cost quite a bit, which was possibly why his funds didn't increase as much.