04. Useless Chapter(1)

[Saves]

[Auto Save 1]

[Auto Save 3]

[Auto Save 2]

[Water Dragon]

[The Start]

"That was a fucking experience!"

Arthur went to "The Start" save.

As he spawned, Arthur stayed quiet as he stood still.

Arthur moved a step forward and fell down.

For the first time in a very long time, Arthur finally slept.

***

"Mom!"

In the kitchen washing dishes peacefully, the woman's child came yelling in.

"What is it, *****?".

The mom stopped what she was doing and leaned down.

"Dad said he was gonna buy some milk and left."

The mom looked pissed and smiled. She stood up and asked.

"How long ago...?

And the child answered. "1 minute ago."

"Oh... that mother fucking son of a bitch!"

The child went back to what he was doing and the mom left the house running. It was only later at night when he had to go to the bathroom, that he saw his father beaten up and sleeping on the couch.

***

Arthur woke up after sleeping for more than a day.

"Now that is a dream. But what in the fuck was that random ass memory!" Arthur flipped his body facing upward and laughed.

He has not felt that comfortable in a while.

"Well I can't really feel anything. I mean I just feel like I have no body ever since I arrived here. Such a weird feeling."

While laying down, Arthur's entire atmosphere has changed. It is a mystery on what happened to him.

Anyway while laying down, Arthur opened his inventory to see if the reverse scale was in his inventory.

This seemed to be more important to him than leveling up. Or maybe he forgot.

[Inventory]

[Gacha Box]

But surprisingly, the inventory was neither empty or with a reverse scale. It had a gacha box.

"Well... I don't know where I got this... but i'll open it now!"

But before his hand touched it he remembered something.

"Wait a second..."

Arthur went back to his first save and opened his inventory again.

Seeing the gacha still being there he was ecstatic.

A screen appeared with many blank squares outlining things spinning around.

[Congratulations! You Gained A 1000 Exp Voucher!]

Other than being excited Arthur immidiately went back to "The Start" then opened his inventory.

"Awww, I thought... hmmmm... I'll try to learn it soon.". Arthur tried to infinitely open the box to get whatever he had. But sadly it didn't work.

It's not like it was impossible. It was just because you had to save the game before doing it.

"Oh then that-" But Arthur will learn this soon, as now he was excited to get alot of Exp.

He also then just remembered he had leveled up.

Arthur used the voucher and leveling pop ups filled his view.

[You Have Leveled Up]

[You Are Now Level 2]

[You Have Leveled Up]

[You Are Now Level 3]

[You Have Leveled Up]

[You Are Now Level 4]

"Sheesh, oh wait did I just say that. Oh come on."

Arthur opened his status screen to see how the leveling system works in this game.

[Name][Arthur Pendragon]

[Race][Morph]

[Level][4]

[Exp][200/500]

[Strength][14]

[Agility][[24]

[Vitality][14]

[Skills][4 Points]

[Kin][Lv. 1][1/1]

[Pseudo-Dragon Speed][Lv. 1]

The first obvious was obviously the stats and the level. But the most noticeable was the new section in the skills.

"Points... Is that how I level up my skills?"

Arthur tried to use the points by opening one of the skills and looking if there was anything new. But there wasn't. So the only option was clicking the [4 Points] itself.

[Upgrade][4 Points]

[Kin][1]

[Pseudo-Dragon Speed][1]

An upgrade screen popped up. Just by looking at it, both the skills can be upgraded.

There are two possible ways to handle this. One is to preserve the points and just upgrade one. And the other is to do both.

[Kin Is Now Level 2]

[Pseudo-Dragon Speed Is Now Level 2]

[Upgrade]

[Kin][3]

[Pseudo-Dragon Speed][3]

Well that was why the first is obviously the better option.

"I just have to level up one more time!". At least the old Arthur is now back.

[Kin][Lv. 2][1/2]

[Devour the speciality of a race.]

[Pseudo-Dragon Speed][Lv. 2]

[Duration: 5 Minute]

[Cool Down: 2 Hours]

After looking at the new skill effects, Arthur reset himslef again and ventured to the shore once more.

While running Arthur tried to study the leveling system.

[Name][Arthur Pendragon]

[Race][Morph]

[Level][4]

[Exp][200/500]

[Strength][14]

[Agility][[24]

[Vitality][14]

After looking back at his status. The most noticeable aspect are all the stats ending st 4. This just indacated he gets one stat points in all stats every level up.

This was the first type of leveling system Arthur has encountered. But he eas not surprised, he already got a lot of good things to care about the lack of control in his stats.

Arthur arrived, this time it only took 10 minutes to reach the shore. Despite his dumb antics and forgetting multiple things like a child. He was able to be crafty and effiecient for his mission.

"I truly hope unlike the inventory not reseting and with the penalty sticking with me even through a load game, that the mission ain't fucking going down at all! Cause if it is I will ****** your fucking **** **** *** and pull you fucking ******-".

Arthur saved this progress and deleted the previous one. This time, Arthur didn't want to waste energy on killing the dragon. But rather he will be wasting time, to gather dragon scales.

As he went to the shore making noises to bring out the Water Dragon, Arthur's goal was just to simple get the reverse scale or maybe even other scales, as he wanted them as weapons.

So he did. Arthur used the reverse scale and tried to pluck the other scales by using his new strength and his speed to repeatedly stab it out faster a man with his ha-

"It fucking worked!". Though it was a rocky ride with him almost falling down multiple times. And being splashed by water, dodging the tail, and even being submerged in water once again, he got a new scale that was more durable the the reverse one.

He put both of them in his inventory and now he is deep in the ocean. And as he wanted to just go back and load the save, he was immidiately killed by a different Water Dragon.

...

"Well, I was stupid to not think there was more than one.".

That adventure took him 10 minutes to do. Half the time it took him to kill a Water Dragon. It shows how usefull attacking ones inside than ones outside.

"Well I'll do it again."

And I repeat "He did". Arthur was very hard working and patient. From the very start of spinning around for more than a year, something no sane person will ever be able to do.

It took multiple hours, but Arthur was finally satisfied when he got more than ten reverse scales, and more than ten normal ones.

He didn't stop because he was bored, but rather, because of a pop up.

[You Have Unlocked The Skill "Stab"]

"Wait... If I can get it after doing that for multiple hours.". What's about to come out of Arthur's mouth is completely insane, and there is no chance a normal person would think of such a thing at that moment.

"Then that means if I swim for a very long time, then upgrade that skill, I can get out of this fucking land!". It was impractical, or maybe it was the only solution. Now, with no care in the world. Arthur reset himself and went strait to the water.

The ocean he went to is of course riddled with dragons, a so not safe environment. With this, his journey to get a swimming skill was definitely not ganna be easy.

First Arthur swam fast across the water, then he was eaten by a Water Dragon, but yhat was of lo problem, as he just swam inside the dragon's stomach.

The dragon released lots of poison to digest what he has eaten. But just like last time, Arthur is completely immune to poison. And can only be killed by physical contact.

This turn of events was good for Arthur until he was vommited out because he never paid attention to even staying in. But he could really care less. He now looks like just a weird black blob washing away in the water.

As he got out he went the opposite direction of the island again and he was eaten again at the same time. This time he was killed.

But no worries, he went back again. This continued for multiple hours, even days. Getting that swimming skill was no easy task.

"Im getting mwntaly tired man...". As it was to any story. The moment a character gives up is the moment they gain what they want. It is cliche, but it was definitely helpful for Arthur to know how close he is.

[You Have Unlocked The Skill "Swim"]

"You know what I learned this past few swimming sessions.... Well, I learned how to swim. -Wait is that why it took so long to get his fucking skill!". Wether he could really properly swim or not, he has gotten what he wanted. Arthur immidiately upgraded this skill and ventured to the waters again. This time, putting his efforts to dodge the dragons.

[Swim][Lv. 2]

[The basic form of swimming. You are able to swim at any body of water without losing your balance.]

[When Activated: 1.2x Swimming Speed]

[Duration: 10 minutes]

[Cooldown: 1 Hour]

With a swimming skill equiped and a 3x speed skill. Arthur was almost as fast as the dragons.

[You Have Died]

Well maybe he should do something about their speed too first.

From a death of a man, to an impossible task, to a epic fight with a dragon, now to a stupid swimming chapter. Oh truly, what has our protagonist really have install for us.