Decision
Hmm, which stat points should I invest in. He was level 23 and but his stats were much higher than that. With the rose knights training centers his stats were as high as a level 35 according to boops.
The only stat that he couldn't raise via training it seems was charm/charisma. Jason only used this stat once to convince a 10-year-old kid to join a guild. Did he feel guilty? no not at all. Jason brought the conversation to Boops.
"Boops I need you to help explain stuff about the charm stat."
'yeah, I forgot to tell you before, its an exclusive stat that only you can see because of your specialty.'
"other people can't see that stat?"
'yeah, they can only see it if they have a class related to charm or charisma like being a king or have a specialty system that has something to do with it.'
Okay then "invest all stat points into charm"
[investing all free stat points into charm]
[displaying stats]
[Jason]
[level 23]
[strength 15]
[agility 24]
[stamina 14]
[intelligence 15]
[wisdom 10]
[charm 16]
Even if Jason was in the middle of a forest pretty far away from home he thought it was worth it. He walked away from the den of snakes he had just cleared. And then the thought hit him, this was the perfect time to grind while going back to the barracks. So Jason made a decision to hunt any of the monsters he could find.
So Jason walked in the general direction of the camp keeping his eye out for anyone or anything nearby. Any stray monsters that he came across were destroyed, level 20 goblins a few snakes all of them were nothing to Jason. He started to think about what made him this strong. Yeah, it was the stats and training center.
"Hey Boops"
'yeah?'
"you think there is a way to get the training center?"
Boops thought and answered Jason
'yeah I doubt you can take it by force anytime soon, maybe you can negotiate with the owner."
"hmm, it was Megra right?"
'yeah she was the one who recruited you'
"huh never thought about that"
'dude the way she recruited you was really suspicious, you should have paid attention to that'
"really how?"
'*sigh* can't believe I'm having to tell you this. Okay, first of all, she seems like a mighty fire wizard from what we heard right?'
"yeah?"
'you chased after a pickpocket to get her stuff back, she probably could have just incinerated him, you didn't need to help and then she straight up drags you to her house and recruits you, like da frick that obviously shouldn't happen, if the rose knights have such an intense screening process as they mentioned they wouldn't have let you get in so easily'
"huh maybe she has a good eye or something but still, I'm not getting paid yet and I'm getting annoyed."
'sure, hey I'm detecting some monsters on the left'
"a den?"
'yeah seems like it'
Jason turned and walked to his left, an entire goblin camp was waiting there.
He grinned and made sure that his iron armor was sitting right. His helmet started to emit a red glow like how it did whenever it was near goblins. Jason ran in, his sword raised above his head.
The goblins were all surrounding a campfire. Loot of all sorts was scattered around them and for some reason, the goblins didn't have any sentries or lookouts. Jason took advantage and killed many of the unsuspecting goblins.
The goblins were finally able to react but their numbers had already dwindled to just 10 goblins. They huddled next to each other and kept close staring in fear of the monster who had just massacred the rest of their kind. The goblins didn't see a human instead they saw a grey armored sword welding guy with an iron element covering his face with a red glow coming from his eyes. The goblin shrieked in fear as the human got closer and closer to them. Boops said something that he thought was fitting for the occasion
'Did somebody say goblins'
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1 massacre later
"another one really?"
Jason picked up another one of the monster bait machines. The machine this time was buried under the campfire. Maybe the campfire was made when the goblins got attracted here. The bait instead of giving off a smell as it did for the snake one was instead emitting a noise. It was like metal things shaking in a bag. Jason really didn't have time to investigate nor did he want to, so he threw it into his inventory. Boops was interested in it and asked Jason if he could look at it. Jason of course agreed and Boops set out to investigate the weird baits.
The loot that Jason got from the entire camp was pretty good, about 3 gold worth if he sold all of the trinkets and things laid around the camp. Jason left the camp happy he had leveled up once and had again put it into charm so now it was 18. Jason got back to walking back to the barracks. He still was really far away and he was thinking of making a shelter to rest and log out for the night.
A wolf's howl was heard nearby when Jason was about to sit down and rest. And he had to admit he was scared for the first few minutes. He looked around to make sure that no wolf would jump out and attack him. After checking for them and coming up empty Jason started to create a shelter with some fallen branches and trees.
He made a shelter that was made by grabbing a dozen or so, long strong and lean sticks and leaned them across a fallen tree to make a frame. He then covered them in branches covered in leaves. Jason had in front of him a structure that would keep out the rain.
Jason looked at the finished shelter proudly.
"huh can't believe the lesson's dad taught me would come in handy"
"grrrrrr?"
Jason heard the distinctive sound behind him and knew he was in trouble. Boops was probably freaking out more than Jason.
'AW SHOOT I TOTALLY DIDN'T SEE THEM'
Jason turned around to see a group of wolves staring at him curiously. He calmly appraised them and looked around his surroundings for more wolves. He looked back at them and pulled out some rabbit meat and said calmly,
"I have meat"
the wolves didn't understand human language but they could definitely understand what it means when a human was holding out meat to them. Any person that gave them meat was a good person in their eyes. The wolves who were looking at Jason neutrally thanks to the title effect started to approve of Jason. The head of the pack walked up carefully and took the meat out of Jason's outstretched hand. It looked at Jason with its grey eyes and leaned its head forward to sniff Jason carefully.
One sniff later, the wolf barked to the rest of the pack and they all ran to Jason with their tails wagging. Jason started pooling out the meat with a large line of wolves lined up to receive. The entire thing felt really familiar, like deja vu. Sadly the wolf pack was different from the one that he met in the intelligence trial. One of the wolves that looked much younger than the rest, got bold and started asking for pets and Jason obliged. Before long the rest of pack of 20 wolves followed after seeing the wolf's face of pure bliss and before long all had a [friendly] title after their levels. They all laid around him again like the first pack and just lazed around.
Jason was fluffing the alpha wolf's tail when Boops finally spoke again after calming down from his mini panic attack.
'Jason i analyzed the baits a bit and it seems that they were made to attract certain species'
"really how?"
'for the snake one they released a pheromone for well... mating and for the goblin one the sound was actually gold coins in a bag...'
Jason got hit by a brilliant idea
"Hey Boops what if we set the baits next to each other and make the monsters fight?"
'nah that's kinda stup.... wait that might actually work'
"wait really?"
'yeah, if we place then close enough they will want to fight for that specific spot making them fight when the meet each other over the land and if we do that we can literally earn a gold mine fro their drops and its a good place to earn EXP too.'
"what if we get more then two baits?"
'OHHH I LIKE THAT'
Boops started a memo pad and on the very top he put 'get more baits from monster dens'
"Hey, Boops how many do you think we should get for this "project"?
'the more the merrier, Jason the more the merrier'