8 Relief and Daily Quests
Icarus awoke to pitch black darkness. Out of habit, he pulled up his status screen. That was also when he realised that he was actually lying on a bed. 'Oh yeah, I was born.' He muttered under his breath and read the status screen in front of him.
Name: Icarus Dragonsword
Age: 10 hrs old
Constitution: 1
Power: 1
Agility: 1
Dexterity: 1
Vitality: 1
Intelligence: 1
Completed quests
All his stats were now whole numbers. That was the first change that caught his eyes. That was also the only change that caught his eyes as everything else was obvious. It was still night so he decided that it was for the best if he just went back to sleep. It was also at this time when he heard the ringing go off inside his head.
Daily Quest: Baby Exercise
Kick 5 times with your left leg
Reward: +0.02 All physical stats
Penalty: -0.02 All physical stats
Time limit: 24:00
The very first thing he noticed was the fact that he wouldn't die if he didn't kick five times with his left leg. The next thing was the fact that reward said "physical stats". 'Huh, physical stats? I guess intelligence might be a mental stat.' He had 24 hrs but he decided to complete the quest now to confirm his guess. Kicking five times was actually not an easy task, especially given the fact that he was a newborn. Justifiably, he was pretty puffed out by the end of it. Hearing the signature ringing, he checked his stats again. Indeed, just like he had predicted, every stat except intelligence had increased by 0.02. 'Okay, so that confirms it.' He yawned and closed his eyes, when he was interrupted by another ringing sound. Icarus wasn't surprised though as the quests have always come when he least expected them.
Daily Quest: Sleeping Practice
Sleep for 10 hours
Reward: +0.02 All mental stats
Penalty: -0.02 All mental stats
Time limit: 24:00
'Now this is a quest I like.' He closed his eyes and fell asleep almost instantly. In his defence, he was dead tired to begin with from the exercise, it was counted as intensive for a newborn.
Sana was awoken by the first rays of dawn. Sitting up, she realised that Icarus was still asleep. Yawning she slowly stood up and walked out, finding Daedalus in the kitchen preparing breakfast. 'Morning honey, how was your sleep?' He asked as he cracked two eggs over the pan. The sizzling sound filled the living.
'It was the best I have had in a while, Icarus is also still asleep.' She nodded, before asking, 'what did you find out?'
Daedalus paused before taking two breads and placing them over the eggs. 'It was...weird. Let me serve the eggs, I'll explain.' He flipped the eggs and placed them on two separate plates. The table was already setup so he just placed one plate in front of Sana and sat down with the other. 'As it turns out, they didn't see much of anything.'
'What? How is that possible?' Sana's jaw dropped open as soon as she heard that.
'The destiny avatar blocked them.'
'Wh-what? How? How can a mere phantom be so powerful?'
Daedalus smiled at his wife. It was rare to get such a startled expression out of her. 'It just goes to show the level of our son's achievements.'
Sana sighed at this. 'Speaking of our son, we need to read his stats.' They both finished breakfast before coming back inside their. Focusing on their son, their eyebrows shot up when his status screen showed up in front of them. They both stared at each other before heavily sighing, the same thought going through their heads; 'he has stats of a full grown unawakened adult!'
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Icarus was woken up by another ringing. The first thing he did was surprisingly not pull up the quest though.
'Waaah!' His first actions were naturally of crying. He had been hungry for almost a twelve hours now, being only breast fed once. The only way of letting his parents was through crying. After drinking his fill, he pulled up the quest screen to find that he had completed his previous quest and at the same time, he had a new daily quest.
Daily Quest: Baby Exercise
Kick 5 times with your right leg
Reward: +0.02 All physical stats
Penalty: -0.02 All physical stats
Time limit: 24:00
Icarus sighed and repeated the same process as he had done so earlier. The quests also came in a predictable pattern, allowing him to fall into a routine. He would wake up, drink, exercise and go back to sleep. It wasn't until he was a few months old that he actually had a chance to play with his parents. Especially his mother, she would play with him for almost the entire time he was awake. Although that was the case, he was never able to peacefully fall asleep in her arms. No, it was only in the arms of his father that he would find the peace he needed to sleep. He didn't know how or why this was the case but it just was. He also learned a great deal about the world he was currently living in. Apparently it was called Highenheim and the currently continent of residence was Thrinacia which was ruled by the Helios empire. His parents Daedalus and Sana appeared to be normal farmers and the whole world seemed to be at the medieval level technology.
He also learned a great deal about the farmhands. Although he never went more than 10 metres from the house, he learned the names of a few close farmhands, such as Caylus, Holt, Sim, Leah and Martha. As for the language, he wasn't at all worried about that since he had grasped it with the first few hours of hearing it due to the same lexicon as his previous life. The words were also almost the same, only some of them being somewhat archaic. Basically, Icarus' first six to seven months were spent on learning about his environment, his parents and the world in general. It was a breeze and he felt it was no problem at all. That was the case until nine months after his birth.
