Gate of Amitilicia Online

Episode 4: In Action

Head to the woods first. The aim is to hunt animals to get money.

Einfast has a hunting guild. This is a union as the word goes, unlike the guild, which is a community of players. They sometimes have mini-quests where they pick up animal meat, fur, etc., and sometimes they hunt certain animals.

For one thing, having the fruits of the hunt taken over here would be a source of income for a while.

Walk alone on a plain with nothing. Occasionally, I see other parties and solo players, but I also don't have a particular chance to exchange words because I discover them in [farsightedness]. Everyone seems to be hunting their prey thoughtfully.

Now, what prey do we have? Looks like the players were hunting rabbits and wolves earlier.

Looking around to see if there was anything, I found one brown rabbit. With his back turned, he seems to be eating grass without noticing this one.

"... when we get close, we can get away with it."

He's a wildlife, so his crisis-detection abilities must be high. Well, why don't you come closer?

I have the skills of [Hidden Row], but I dare not use it to get close. To see how far the rabbit will notice us. For once, this one is under the wind, so I expect it to get pretty close.

At about fifteen meters, the rabbit turned this way.

"What?"

And he comes in this way. Speaking of which, I thought you forgot to check what kind of rabbit this rabbit was, and [animal knowledge] was activated.

○ Charge Rabbit

Herbivores. They are distracted, and when they see their weak enemies, they storm and punch a kobu protruding on their foreheads. It hurts pretty bad when you hit it. And fractures.

Edible.

It wasn't just a rabbit. But when I see my weak enemies, I storm them, which means I was perceived by this guy as inferior. All rabbits.

I get up to kick your ass where you're approaching me. Kick him in the counter and you'll expect good damage without skill. Rabbit, that's what I thought, but it was sweet.

The charge rabbit jumped. The leap was high, and the point where the protruding kobu aimed was my face.

"Whew!?

I jumped to the side in a hurry. Rebuild your posture as you roll unnecessarily down the ground. When the charge rabbit landed beautifully, it ran straight ahead, and when the time was open enough with this one, it changed direction and headed this way again. Is this the fighting style of this guy? You're like a bullfight.

I was surprised because it was all of a sudden, but now it's okay. If you know you're coming, you have nothing to fear.

Launch Arts [Magic Strike]. There is a magical light in my fist. The next time you jump on my face, I want you to meet him.

"Oops!?

Contrary to expectations, it was the belly that Charge Rabbit had penetrated. Says it's like getting hit with a hammer, but a hell of a shock punches through my stomach. It's supposed to be less of a specification than real when it comes to pain. I can't wait to hurt.

but if I let him get away here, he'll get the same attack again. I extended my arm reflexively and grabbed the long ear of the charge rabbit trying to leave. It rumbles with jitter, but it's not a lot of power in itself. Even if they kick me with that propulsion-generating foot, I'm pretty sure I'd be devastated again, but if I do, it's one of ours.

The rabbit stops rumbling and turns to his crushed red eyes. Reminds me of a dog who was in a financial commerce commercial, but it's too late. The reality is tough. It's a game though.

"In return!

He slammed a charge rabbit on the ground with his ear grabbed and slammed [Magic Strike] flanking him with a chase. With a definite response, the fist is buried in the charging rabbit's body.

So it came with a cat. The body is cracked and scattered with the sound of something hard crushing, leaving meat and fur on the spot. It's Charge Rabbit meat and fur.

"Ha..."

Kneeling in on the spot and checking his status, his HP was halved. Did that blow alone mean this... that you just treated me underground? Or did it just happen to be critical? Well, winning is winning.

When I took the potion out of the rucksack and shook it all at once, my HP went full fast. Hmm, can we make up for the potion with meat and fur...

Yeah, yeah. This game, the item basically has to be carried. This means that there are limits to the tools you can carry. I can see from the menu what items you possess, but if you're poorly lit, you're not going to know what's in there.

Like the pockets of a cat robot from the future, there are bags and the like that have a lot of storage space inside, but this is expensive. Price, what a hundred thousand pedia. It's about a million yen in Japanese yen. If you get this, you will be able to store up to 100 items, regardless of the size of the item.

And furthermore, time does not elapse while it is being stored in this space. In other words, ingredients can be stored without rotting, and you can always eat warm dishes if you keep freshly made dishes.

However, this bag also has an endurance value, and if it breaks, the contents will be smashed to the spot. When it was beta, there was talk of a player storing a number of large rocks crushed to death by a smashed large rock as soon as the demon broke the bag.

Still, ignoring the mass and being able to store it is a huge advantage. You think the players are going to make money looking to win this first? I want to get all of them too, so I have to work hard.

There is still a long way to go. Collect the meat and fur and I'll move on.

We found three regular rabbits by the time we got to the woods, but two escaped and got one.

The wind direction still seems to have something to do with it, and the two escaped before they got closer than the charge rabbit.

The remaining one was successfully caught alive because [hidden] was used on top of getting pretty close. Get meat and fur with a crisp neck on the spot. Although MP consumption is difficult, it was found from the perceived criticality that it is possible to capture alive if [concealed] is used together. Ordinary rabbits flee immediately. Once you get away with it, it's hard for me to capture you right now.

How do other players tailor rabbits? Is he knocking it down before he can escape with a magical ranged attack?

Speaking of which, I recall now that I was able to attack at a distance with spiritual magic, too. However, I don't feel that defeating it will reduce the quality of the fur. Well, there is no guarantee that the fur will be dropped.

"Well..."

Transfer your consciousness to the trees in front of you in the woods. Countless trees stood side by side, dim and poorly visible in the back, but when used in conjunction with [hyperopia] [dark vision], it appeared black and white but blurred. I think maybe we'll see a lot more of this at night. No overconfidence, though.

Nevertheless, from earlier on, because of [plant knowledge], the names and characteristics of the plants are displayed in a window from one end. Sure, this is a plant treasure trove, so it's just right for me to level my skills.

In fact, the same thing was happening in Einfast's outhouse. Then it would be more efficient to go to the market. There are so many relationships between vegetables, fruits and meat that they sell without metaphor. Knowledge is power. Let's give it a try when we get back.

Well, as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any kind of animal. Perhaps we could go deeper, but you decided to put it behind us and retrieve what was eyeing us from what was hooked on plant knowledge.

First, scratch healing grass. It's a name that sounds like a seasoning, but it's a good potion ingredient. If you sell it, it's going to be gold, so let's collect it here.

Then tricabuto. It becomes an ingredient for drugs and poisons. The image may be stronger as a poison. I don't know if I have a use for it, but let's collect this too. You can sell it if you want.

The last is disinfectant weed. It's just that this isn't poisonous grass, it's just an antidote material. If it stays like this, does it mean it doesn't detoxify or something? Let's collect this too.

As I gathered it that way, I noticed the sun tilted. Would it be just enough if I went back to the city now? Even if I say I have [dark vision], this is my first field experience. I want to avoid impossibility.

Plus the rucksack is about the limit. I also need to figure out how to get my harvest home from now on.

Actually, besides bags with storage space, there are other ways to clean up items. A skill called [space storage]. It is commonly referred to as an item box, and the method of obtaining it is a charge. 10,000 yen for real money. It will depend on the player's financial strength to take this as high or cheap. Personally, I think it's cheap.

Besides, even if it is not [space storage], it can also be used in bags with storage space to store more than 100 items. The logic is simple, meaning that filling the item frame is one item.

For example, if I clear my rucksack, which now contains various items, into a bag with storage space, the item frame will be a rucksack for one minute. It doesn't account for the number of contents. This means that if you have a bag that can pack 100 herbs, you can store 100 herbs in one box frame. By the way, you think this story has been famous since beta, and you haven't modified the operation either?

But with this, you don't have to buy an item box or anything in charge to figure it out. I feel the difficulty of charging has faded. No, but the item box will protect the contents, so you don't have to worry about the loss. It must be convenient.

I want to get it all, when I put the last herb in my backpack and carried it, and I lifted my hips.

"Hmm?"

I felt something cross my sight. I don't know, sooner than I figure it out,

"Gaw!"

There was a shadow jumping this way from the shade of a tree. Put your arms forward in a daze. The shadow ate into my left arm as it was. Dog, no, it was Wolf.

"When did this guy!?

Even though I concentrated on herb picking, I checked my surroundings from time to time. And yet I didn't notice at all. Should the boulder be?

But not good. Wolves are usually supposed to be the creatures that make up the herd. There can't be just one guy biting my left arm. If we don't do something soon, we'll all be bitten together.

"Holy shit!

I try to end it with [Magic Strike], but it doesn't work very well. Trying to hit me leaves me biting, skilfully shifting my body so I can't hit you. I can't even let the kick go well at this close range. Well, then...

"Gang!?

The judgment is for a moment. I stuck my empty right-hand thumb and index finger into Wolf's orbit. Exactly. Did this work, Wolf lets go of my arm? So I chase him, I turn my arms around my neck, and then I horseback ride him, and I tighten him up thoughtfully. Wolf had been around for a while but eventually stopped moving.

Wolf's body shattered and he shed his fur and meat. Get up as you retrieve them and be alert to your surroundings. There's no way the other wolves are going to attack me. Keep vigilant as you head out of the woods one by one, but still couldn't find a group of wolves.

"... I wonder if he was a lone wolf"

It is the wolf of the devil who cannot enter the flock. The point is, you're out of company. You're a wolf. As for this one, I can tell you were lucky. I'm not kidding about being surrounded by groups in solo play.

I get anxiety that a group might be approaching me from somewhere while I'm doing this. Perhaps you should acquire skills to know your enemy's proximity.

"... let's go home"

It is forbidden to impose. I'll do everything I can to get out of the woods.

Before the gate closes, enter the city and use its legs to head to the hunting guild.

The guild was busy with many people. Send the results of the day to the counter, and Alliance officials will assess and pay. Now, how much value will my battle have this time?

Waiting in line. Often, my turn came.

"Then give me my prey."

Follow the instructions of the official man and get the results out of the rucksack. Rabbit fur and meat, Charge Rabbit fur and meat, then Wolf fur and meat.

"I like all the fur."

"Is it something that changes the way you knock it down, after all?

I'm curious, so I'll ask. Because if the knockout changes the value, you should worry about knockouts that get as high as possible. Of course, if I can afford it.

"Well, if you scratch it with a blade, the fur will be scratched, and there will be fewer parts available."

It makes sense. This game with so much finesse is weird...... no, should I say it's amazing? Either way, if I'm in the hunting style with my bare hands, it means I can fight without much concern for how to defeat them.

But even though the combat skills acquired are [procedures], more than half of today's prey is strangulation and extreme skill. It's because of the bad situation, but you're not dressed very well.

Next time, let's try harder so we can use our fists. With that in mind, I received the money.

Time seems a little more ok, so why don't you train [animal knowledge] and [plant knowledge] on the market?