Bonus Chapter: The small contest
"You can make 20 arrows from one? I want the arrows and the essence on the sword. A discount will be good." Kyle said while grinning.
"No discounts, but....how many of these shards you got?"
"I can use 5" Kyle had 6 but he wanted to save one for the future.
"Hm...5, your sword's price is changed to 3000. I will make the arrows for free if you give me 2 of the shards as payment other than the ones needed."
"No, I am not dumb. they are expensive. I can go sell them to the guild if you want. But if you can make it, I am getting a good job tomorrow, I will be either rich or die. It's a win-win for you in both cases."
"Deal," Borris said without even waiting.
"Shameless"
"There's no shamelessness in this world now, boy. Just survival."
"Come back in 2 days, your sword will be ready but it will take time with the arrows, they will cost you 150 gold coins each."
Kyle went outside while grumbling, he was broke again. He looked around and saw various things having the time to look around now.
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Meanwhile,
Alicia was aiming and shooting relentlessly, the zombies were getting a headshot every 3 seconds. The goblins were doing the same but in close combat.
The skeletons were sparring with each other. Alicia was making them spar, she needed to get the experience of her own, and the skeletons needed just a few minutes to kill the whole floor's mobs not helping the issue.
Her level was just below Kyle and she wanted to catch up to him. The last fight had made her realize something and it was irking her mind ever since.
'I was a deadweight for him. My arrows did nothing against that Orc...." She gritted her teeth and shot another arrow toward the upcoming zombie. She was on a killing spree.
"Just wait, I will make sure to catch up with you."
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Kyle looked at a stall. He had about a day of dilly-dallying to do.
'It feels strange, getting to have this much free time.'
"Come! Come! punch this punching machine and beat the high score. The reward of 1000 Gold Coins awaits you!"
'Well, kudos to my luck hehehe" Kyle snickered and went into the crowd. At the sight of the punching machine, he saw a burly man in a stance. The man had arrogance in his eyes that Kyle had seen many times. There was a thing inside Kyle, a thing that made him desire to break the arrogance in anyone he saw. A sadistic smile formed on his face.
A small kid was near Kyle and was looking at him with panic. The way he was smiling after seeing the burly guy made him scared of Kyle a little.
BAM!
The punch hit the bag and it went inside the machine. The numbers started increasing fast and stopped at 2000 just above the previous high score of 1800.
"Good! Now, if someone does not get a high score in the next 5 minutes, this strong man will get the award of 1000 gold coins!
It was time for Kyle to enter, he made a step forwards under everyone's surprised gaze.
"Oh, this young man wants to try too! Give some rounds of applause!"
Nothing, no one said anything. Many just ridiculed him but some experts were in the crowd. Their eyes froze at Kyle.
'Level 7!' They all thought the same thing.
There were not many above level 6 in this area, as the dungeons were all low levels. Seeing a person of level 7 made them sweat buckets.
Kyle had his eyes on the big guy, a huge grin on his face.
"Is he crazy?!"
"Looking at Boss Kane like this....he might not live much."
"Shut up, you dimwits"
"Hah? you wanna die?"
They looked back and saw a guy with golden hair looking at them with cold eyes. They reverted back and did not dare to talk anymore. The blonde ignored them and looked at the situation with a smile.
The punching bag was just 2 steps away from him. Kyle didn't wait. He went in his stance and punched the machine without mercy not wanting to control his strength.
BAAAMMMM!!!!
The loud sound resounded everywhere making everyone freeze. The numbers moved freakishly fast.
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
5500!
"W-We have a winner again! Defeat him in 5 minutes and the reward's yours." The owner of the machine said while his eyebrows twitched and beads of sweat were falling from his head.
Nobody came forward, everyone's eyes fixed on Kyle who was looking at Kane with a sadistic smile. Kane gritted his teeth and bit his lips not wanting to say anything. In his eyes, Kyle was a big shot that he couldn't offend if he wanted to live.
5 minutes passed and Kyle took the coins. He stopped near Kane and cheekily said.
"If you want trouble, find the cheapest inn in this town, I will be there waiting."
This was the last nail to go in, Kane now had fear engraved in his mind toward Kyle.
'Now is the time to go meet that old man again, I have money now.' Kyle thought and walked briskly in the shop's direction. Everyone kept looking at him, not understanding what happened.
The blonde guy came near the machine and stared at it.
"S-Sir, we don't have a reward now."
"Don't care"
The blonde said and punched it.
BAAAM!!!
1000
2000
3000
3300
3900
It stopped, the blonde looked in Kyle's direction again.
'He is stronger than me, how interesting.' The blonde went in the opposite direction and vanished in the crowd. The people around dispersed having seen too much for a day.
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THANK YOU FOR READING THE CHAPTER~
110 Power stones = 3 ch at once----28/110
10 Golden Tickets = 4 ch at once----1/10