30 Upgrading Gear

Raikou looked at his sword.

Metal Sword

Type: Longsword (A/N: Changed the artefact format abit.)

Quality: Mortal 1st Grade

+5 Strength when wielding.

He wanted to make his rusty sword swallow this one, but he had promised to return it. He decided to spend the next 2 weeks improving his skills and weapon grade before returning to the academy.

His stats were as follows

Name: Raikou | Age: 15

Cultivation: Rank 2 Soldier - 9th level (50,000/50,000)

(Godly Meridians)

Race: Human

Class: Omni Swordsman (SSS) +8 in all variable stats on each level up

Strength: 158 (+5)

Agility: 183

Toughness: 184

Intelligence: 82

Wisdom: 82

Charm: 10

Skills: Fiendgod Body Refining Method (Transcendence). Observation (Great Perfection). Berserk (Great Perfection). Cloud Steps (Absolution). Cloud Slashes (Absolution).

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At this point, being a student at the academy lost all uses to him. He decided that he would spend abit more time after the assessment before leaving.

He could leave straight after the assessment, but something was holding him back.

(A/N: Someone doesn't want to admit that they don't want to be away from Satella, heh.)

"I got another quest to do in the academy anyways." He tried to come up with an excuse for his reluctance to leave. Of course, it was a valid reason.

Raikou looked in his inventory and saw the numerous beasts of all ranks. Even the rank 4 tiger was in there. He found this funny, as he knew that half the reason for that trial was for the organisers to collect the bodies for some purpose. They got no benefits from him!

"Ghost. Put on this mask and transform into a normal direwolf. We're going to anonymously sell all these bodies. I need the money! I am so damn poor right now! 500 gold just isn't enough." He gave one mask to Ghost and put the other one on his face.

Instantly, he was transformed into a middle aged man with one long scar across his left eye. He had stark white hair and cat like eyes. "Call me Gerard of Rifia!"

(A/N: As you can tell, I am extremely imaginative with my names...)

A videogame character and his direwolf companion are seen walking into the royal city. "We look so cool!" Raikou exclaimed gruffly using his new voice.

They found a few stores that purchased the bodies of a beast with the cores intact. He sold a few at every store to seem less conspicuous. It was taxing, as he would have to withdraw them from his inventory in a hidden area everytime he wanted to enter a store. Then he would look crazy, as he was slowly dragging each body in one by one. For some reason, no one noticed the fact that he didn't have any beast bodies when he entered the city.

"I need to get strong enough to beat a higher tier rank 4 cultivator. Only then can I even show that I have a spatial storage. I can wear a dummy ring and pretend everything comes from there."

The rank 1 beasts sold for around 10 to 100 bronze each. The rank 2 beasts went from 1 to 10 silver each. Rank 3 sold for 10 to 100 silver each.

Raikou was satisfied. He had 187 gold on top of the 500 he received from the trial. With 687 gold he could go about improving his gear.

"I've been wearing these standard clothes since Hodge City. I thought they would give me some fancy robes when I joined the academy, but Lilia said we have to participate in the battle assessment just to be considered true students."

Raikou used his eidetic memory to recall where all the stores were. He had taken notice of all the stores when he was being led around by the little boy. He entered a store specialising in armour and looked around.

He found 3 armour sets that intrigued him. They all focus more on aesthetics than the actual use.

"These all look fucking amazing! I don't even need armour that has good stats. My body is sufficient till I reach a higher stage!" Raikou was unable to afford armour sets that had actual uses for him, as these stores only had armours for cultivators under the 4th rank.

After some thought he picked a set that looked quite modern. It was a full black set of leather armour with a red overcoat. With the set came some fingerless black gloves and black combat boots. (A/N: Think Dante from Devil May Cry.)

It cost him 200 gold for the set, but he was extremely satisfied with the purchase.

Name: Dante's Inferno (A/N: heh.)

Type: Leather Armour Set

Quality: Mortal 2nd Grade

Effect: +2 to all variable stats. Adds weak flame effect to weapon +5% weapon damage.

"The stat boost is useless, but I look fucking cool! This long hair isn't my vibe though. I didn't do anything about it at first, but I think shorter hair would complement this set better." Raikou thought.

He looked for a barber to no avail.

"Do they not have any people that professionally cut hair? I never really saw anyone get their hair cut in novels. Somehow they have those styles naturally!" Raikou was confused.

He purchased a small dagger for 5 silver from the store and used it to cut his hair and then he styled it. He looked in at his reflection and was heavily impressed. He had cut the sides short and spiked the top.

(A/N: He's basically dante now... The only difference is that his sword is at his waist instead of on his back. This is what I envisioned his hair to look like: http://hairstyledo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/dante-hairstyle-5260.jpg)

"Now I look like I mean business!" Raikou smiled. "Ghost. I'm going to rent a hotel room for 2 weeks and just cultivate and try to breakthrough. I'm scared to go back. What if they make me take those shitty classes again."

He was truly fearful of attending those classes again. It was one of the hardest things he had to do since entering this world.

"I refuse to go back..."