Omen: 9, 18

  ‘Hey, I was w, how y bonus is so low?’

  [It is +1.]

  ‘Shouldn’t it be higher?’

  [No.]

  ‘I’m Level 3 now, and I have a +1 bonus? That is ridiculous.’

  […]

  ‘ I increase my bonus?’

  [At your Level, you increase the Trained Bonus to +2 for 1000XP.]

  ‘A steep price, but very fair. I’ll upgrade the Trained Bonus to +2.’

  With that, Adam began his routiraining with Jurot and the others, with Lucy joining them too, practising with her rge axe, even practising utilising the ability to dismiss her on and resummoning it into her haween strikes.

  Once he was doh his m routine, Adam checked his equipment. There were a rge number of items he had kept, including two axes, a dagger, several sets of clothing, and…

  “Why do I have four boar tusks?” Adam whispered.

  Currency: 165GP, 15SP, 13CP, (30) Tiger Eye, (1) White Pearl, (1) Silver Pearl, (1) Pink Pearl, (1) Gold Pearl, (1) Bck Pearl

  He was filthy ribsp;

  Even after using one of the White Pearls he had gained from Saerat, he had over two thousand gold in gems.

  “I should do something with these tusks…” Then he looked at his dagger. ‘Though, I should probably do something with that too?’ He wondered what kind of entments he could p his ons. ‘ht. I should probably ent my sword while I have the time. So many entments…’

  “Where are you going?” Sonarot asked, spotting Adam carrying his bde, his pockets full of gems.

  “I was going to ent my sword,” he admitted.

  “You have only just finished enting Lucy’s axe,” she said, staring up at him. “You’re w too hard.”

  Adam cleared his throat. “Well, you know…”

  Sonarot stared deep into his eyes, waiting for his response.

  “I feel really lucky today so I thought…”

  Sonarot sighed. “Don’t stay out too te,” she warned.

  “Yes,” he replied, rubbing the back of his head before heading out to ent. First, he went to the warehouse, finding an Iyrman on duty.

  “You aren’t allowed here,” the Iyrman said.

  “I’m a nephew of the Rot family,” Adam said.

  The Iyrman narrowed his eyes suspiciously. “Do you have any proof?”

  Adam stared at him. “I don’t think so.”

  “Then you must leave.”

  “What kind of proof do I need?”

  “You may bring a Rot or an Elder with you.”

  Adam rubbed his . “Oh. I see.” He wondered if he should bring Jurot along.

  “What are you doing here?” called a familiar voice.

  Adam gnced back over his shoulder. “Oh, Elder Zijin,” Adam replied. “I was here to trade some gems out.”

  “You want to trade gems?” Zijin asked.

  “I need some gems which are worth more so I ent my sword,” Adam said, tapping the bde at his side.

  “A sword?”

  “Yeah, yeah, I know…” Adam gnced aside. “I fot.”

  “You fot the on of your family?”

  “Well, you know, I just always used a sword, so…”

  The Elder side and shook his head. “I ’t believe you’d break their hearts like that.”

  “It won’t happen again…” Adam flushed, feeling like a little child who had been caught stealing biscuits.

  “You trade gems with families,” Zijin said. “o e to the warehouses.”

  “Oh. Well, that does make sense…” Adam rubbed the side of his nebsp;

  “It’s awkward for you to go to the warehouses alone, s someone else along. Any other Iyrman will do, as long as they’re willing to sign for you.”

  “I’ll keep that in mind, thank you,” Adam said.

  “What kind of gems are you looking for?”

  “Anything worth the same as a white pearl. I have tiger eyes to trade.”

  “Tiger eyes are quite popur,” Elder Zijin said, nodding to the Iyrman on duty, who disappeared.

  “Yeah, no kidding. I have about thirty after all the enting I’ve been doing.”

  Elder Zijin stared at him. “It’s not as much as I expected, sidering how many ons you have ented.”

  “I gave a few of them away for free.”

  Elder Zijin tio stare at him. “For free?”

  “Yeah.”

  Elder Zijin remained silent as the Iyrmaurned, with a box of all kinds of gems, from ambers to gars, each of varying sizes. He pced it down at the side and brought out a small slip of paper, ready to note down what was being traded.

  “ I s as many as I like?” Adam asked.

  The Iyrman nodded. “As long as you trade an equal amount.”

  “I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Adam said.

  Currency: (30) Tiger Eye -> (10) Tiger Eye, (1) Amber, (1) Jade, (5) Gar, (2) Amethyst, (1) Diamond (100GP)

  “Why did you split it in that way?” Elder Zijin asked, noting that he could have easily traded for ten of the same gem. He signed off on the paper.

  “I’m going to use the gars for enting, and the ems for other things,” he admitted, clearing his throat. He sighe paper too, and the Iyrman took it, signing it too.

  “What kinds of things?” Elder Zijin asked.

  “There are some spells which require diamonds.”

  “What about the ems?”

  Adam shrugged his shoulders. “Must I say?”

  Elder Zijin stared at Adam, narrowing his eyes slightly. “It would be suspicious otherwise.”

  “ you keep a secret?”

  Elder Zijin slowly bowed his head. “It is my role as Elder to keep the secrets of others.”

  Adam go the other Iyrman, who looked to Elder Zijin, before retreating away. “Well, I was thinking that some of the ems could be used to make something.”

  “Make what?”

  “You kns and neckces, that sort of thing.”

  Elder Zijin nodded his head. “For enting?”

  “Potentially.”

  Elder Zijin narrowed his eyes. “That is not why you’re retrieving the gems? For enting?”

  “Well, you know, I might want to have a neckce made for Lanarot’s birthday, or something,” Adam said, clearing his throat awkwardly.

  Elder Zijin stared at Adam for another long moment before he threw his head ba raucous ughter. He almost began g with how hard he was ughing, uo trol himself. The ughter caused the other Iyrman to gnce back towards them, staring at the Elder.

  Adam waited for the Elder to finish with his ughter. “I expect you to keep that between you and me.”

  “You do not cease to surprise me, son of Fate.”

  “I will take that as a pliment.”

  Elder Zijin shook his head. “I should have tried harder to cim you.”

  “You couldn’t have offered me anything to have me switch,” Adam said.

  “Everyone has a price, Adam.”

  “There are some things which are priceless,” Adam said, smiling at the Elder.

  Elder Zijin nodded. “You’re right.”

  With his business done, Adam went to ent, only to realise he had enough tiger eyes for two ons. ‘I should have kept more of them…’ Adam pced down his various gems, including a gar, and began enting.

  Mana: 8 -> 7EntingD20 + 7 = 11 (4)Omen: 9, 18 -> 918 + 7 = 25

  The dwarf almost caught the sword, but somehow it had struck against his face, cutting across his bare flesh and blood spttered across the area. He cursed in his tongue, smming his warhammer across the bandit’s side, and an arrow fihe man off.

  Adam stared down at the sword, seeing the runes settle on the bde. He was trating ing forth a simir entment to Lucy’s greataxe.

  Omen: 16, 20

  “Ehm, I’ll be bae te tonight,” Adam said, avoiding Sonarot’s searing gaze.

  She sighed, watg as he left. “He’s w far too hard,” she said.

  “He is in a rush,” Jurot agreed.

  “He’ll get sick if he tinues like that.”

  Adam cpped his hands together, rubbing them to warm his palms up, befrabbing onto the hilt of his sword, and he trated on enting again. “e on! Big money, big money!”

  The Iyrman assigo him leao che him, w what he to, but pulled her head back to leave him in peace.

  Mana: 8 -> 7EntingD20 + 7 = 19 (12)Omen: 16, 20 -> 1620 + 7 = 27

  The human woman mao duder the icy breath of the dragon, but stumbled aside into the dwarf beside her, who tripped into the breath. Shouts filled the air as the dragon tore apart a guard in half, tossing them aside.

  Adam panted, staring at the sword, which was now warm to the touch. ‘I feel it,’ he thought. ‘Yoing to be a good one, aren’t you?’

  Mana: 7 -> 6EntingD20 + 7 = 23 (16)

  Intelligence SaveD20 + 5 = 16 (11)Omen: 16 -> 016 + 5 = 21Health: 39 -> 29

  The four panted, hidden within a small crevice, surrounded by a magic, which obscured them from the dragon. The dragon roared, pained from its previous bout, and fled to rest.

  Adam gasped as his magiearly drained from him in its ey, and his muscles seized. His body fshed hot for a moment, before fshing cold. He coughed wildly as he felt something invade his body.

  But as quickly as it had e, the moment passed.

  ‘Fuck.’ He gasped for air. ‘Okay, maybe I shouldn’t keep enting?’ He resolved himself to plete the st parts, to expend some XP and to .

  XP: 900 -> 400

  Adam stared at its statistid began to ugh, remaining on the floor, clutg the sword to his chest.

  ‘Is he crazy?’ the Iyrman asked, who had rushed to him, but noting how he seemed fine, had left him be.

  “I dub thee, Lightsear!” Adam decred, pointing the bde up to the sky. “Thou art my greatest creation!” He go the side to the see the Iyrman, who retending that he couldn’t see the half elf, and he quickly gnced back up to the sky. ‘How embarrassing.’

  XP: 400 -> 900Great Entme!XP: 900 -> 1100

  It was quite te, and though he was exhausted, the half elf rushed back to the estate.

  “It went well?” Jurot asked, staring at Adam as the half elf clutched at his knees, panting for air.

  Adam gasped in response, before holding the bde out to him, and made vague motioned with his hand, though Jurot uood that he’d o meditate with the on.

  Adam dropped to his side, and the other Iyrmen gnced his way.

  “It’s never b with your nephew around,” Citool said.

  Sonarot sighed, rubbing her forehead. “He o learn to rex.”

  Once Jurot was doating with the on, he could feel its raw strength c through him. “It’s quite powerful,” Jurot said, cutting into a wooden target which had been prepared for him by the others. The wood gave in with little resistance, aed how the wood wasn’t just cut by metal, but by the force of light too. “No,” he said. “It’s more than quite powerful.”

  “Right?” Adam said, grinning wide. “Now let me beat you up.”

  Jurot stared at Adam, holding the bde tightly in his hand. “…”

  “Just trust me.”

  Jurot stared at Adam, silently.

  Adam stared at Jurot, silently.

  “Okay.”

  Attack (Unarmed)Hit!1D6 + 6 = 9 (3)9 damage!

  Adam struck Jurot in his gut, feeling his hard abs resist against his blow. Jurot didn’t so much let out a single grunt.

  “Is he…” Citool stared at Adam as he wound up another blow.

  “Yes,” Sonarot said. “He is.”

  Attack (Unarmed)Hit!1D6 + 6 = 12 (6)12 damage!

  Jurot coughed, reag down to hold his gut, and prepared for the blow, which did not e.

  The other Iyrmen stared at Adam. They were surprised to see Adam attag Jurot, though seeing as Jurot had agreed, epped in. However, they were more surprised to see how much strength each of Adam’s fists packed.

  ‘Didn’t he say he was weak?’ Timojin thought, feeling the excitement fill him as he stared at the muscur half elf. ‘I want to fight!’

  Amokan pced a hand on Timojin’s shoulder. ‘You fight after I have a round.’

  ‘I’m going to fight him first,’ came the response, wordless.

  Kitool sighed. ‘Stop it, the pair of you.’

  ‘Damn, he’s pretty strong,’ Lucy thought. ‘His muscles aren’t just for show.’

  “Now, attack with it,” Adam urged.

  Jurot didn’t bother asking for an expnation, before he cut into the wooden target with ease again. Jaygak and the others didn’t notice much of a difference, but Jurot, ielding the on, and Lucy, with her keen eyes, hat the bde had grown more powerful.

  “What do you think?” Adam asked.

  “It is an amazing on,” Jurot said.

  “What else does it do?” Jaygak asked.

  Lightsear (Longsword)Requires AttuYou gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this on.Deals 1D6 sshing + 2D6 radiant damage. Upon reag half Health, deals an additional 1D6 radiant damage. morph between a ring and on at your and.

  “It turn int too?” Lucy gasped. “Hold on! Doesn’t that mean it’s a better on than mine?” She stormed up to him.

  “I was much luckier this time!” Adam decred.

  Lucy tried to snatch the on, only to realise Jurot was still holding it, so she quickly reached up to brush her hair. “I want to py with it too.”

  “You py with it once Jurot’s doh it,” Adam said, though Jurot held it out to her so she could meditate with it.

  “You always surprise me,” Jurot said. “Your abilities are greater than I imagined, even after thinking they were greater than I inally imagined.”

  Adam smiled. “I was just lucky this time. I o make aem to sell, I’m running out of gems.”

  Sonarot sighed silently. ‘What am I going to do with you?’

  ‘Should I mention the magical siess which came over me?’ Adam thought. ‘No, never mind.’

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  Adam: I was so guilty letting Jurot die in front of me, so I brought him back.

  Adam: Now let me beat him up.

  Sonarot: ???