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Observe and Learn.

Aron worked at Roger's farm from morning to afternoon, after that he ran few laps around the peaceful village. A week slowly passed, his stats rose a little.

[STR 0.9, DEX 0.95, END 1.35, INT 0.5, CHA 0.6, PER:20]

Thanks to frequent meals with Roger his body started looking like a human being. A negative trait [Malnourished] was deleted from his status, and he felt very good. Most of his skills progressed slowly.

[Cleaning lv.3 (164/500), Fieldwork lv5(locked), Running lv.6(467/1000), Plucking lv.MAX]

The cleaning skill was the most underestimated skill by him, the third level could rival the most vigorous housewife. Fieldwork reached 5th level and became locked, the system didn't deliver him an answer what does it mean. His running technique improved with every day, becoming more efficient in this skill caused increase of his speed as more effective running.

Aron completed his training and thought that it wasn't enough, he lacks skills and started pondering inside of his hut. Being stupid, limited his mind very much and made thinking a lot harder and slow. Simple ideas came to his mind after long time, so process of discovering something new made him stare at the wall for extended period of time.

[Hidden Quest cleared.]

[Quest name: Stop Staring!]

[Quest goal: Stare fiercely at something for more than an hour.]

[Reward: Appraisal Skill.]

'Appraisal?' Obtaining skill by staring at a wall was quite fruitful even if his mind couldn't discover creative ideas about anything.

[Wooden Wall]

'Not much information...But it's valuable I think. Let's level up and check it's real capability!'

[Appraisal leveled up]

[Rotten Wooden Wall of Aron's hut]

'More valuable information with every level, it's quite a practical skill!'

[Appraisal lv.1 7/1000]

The number of points required to level up was sky-high, and it was merely from level one to level two. This skill proficiency was raised quite easy, an ordinary stare could appraise anything. After appraising for some time, he fell asleep.

Roger decided to allow a boy assists him in constructing new fields, few days of work together proved his usefulness and ability to acquire essential techniques.

"I will show you, how to plow the earth before sowing. Watch carefully as I won't do it again." He displayed accurate method and forced a boy to repeat it.

Aron didn't get this right at first time, however with every next try it was closer to correct a version of this action. Another assistance was skill Fieldwork, and it fixed his wrong movements and allowed to get new skill faster.

[Skill Plowing generated.Plowing lv.0(1/10)]

[Due to a constant hardworking positive trait: Hardworking was generated.]

Aron felt that his body became lighter, and his mind stopped wandering from his job. Unconsciously, he became grinding appraisal and it was interesting because he could actually appraise the Roger.

[Name: Roger]

[Race: Human]

'I will be able to see more if I carefully level up appraisal more.' It was cheat-like ability, you could actually spy on people and this will be definitely useful to Aron in the peaceful future.

They allegedly plowed the field together with the Roger, the skill was leveling up very fast due it's childlike simplicity. It required them only a few hours of hardwork, however, he typically reached level max before properly finishing the job. After the delicious meal, Roger said thoughtfully.

"I think you have some potential in farming, kid. There is empty room inside of my house, and you can live there if you want…" It wasn't easy to say these words to the boy, but he deeply cared about him. Aron's hut required many repairs, and gaining more pleasant place to sleep was good thing for him.

"I will kindly accept your offer. Thank you!" Declared Aron with sincerity.

The kid came back to his hovel and grasped everything useful and went back to the farm. Roger directed him, one of the rooms inside his house and went back to his activities.

The room was in an absolute mess, yet a few hours of cleaning and it will become a enjoyable place to inhabit. There were many old and rusted things, he thought it will be intriguing to appraise all of them and discover their purpose.

[Appraisal lv.2(42/5000)]

'This skill will take me ages to level up.' The first level required 200 proficiency points, 2nd level 1000 and 3rd require 5 thousand.

The shabby room was full of useless stuff, but there were few relatively unusual items from Roger's past.

[Roger's Broken Bow.]

[Desc: Old short bow used by Roger to hunt, it was ruined by him in the emotional state of uncontrolled rage.]

[Rusty dismantling knife]

[Desc: The corroded by time dismantling knife, after some cleaning it should be useful.]

[Small chisel]

[Desc: A essential tool utilized to carefully carve in wood or other materials.]

'Art. I wouldn't suspect the Roger for such hobbies.'

The room became clean, and it wasn't night yet, so he decided to try new things. Grinding appraisal was something, important and his mind focused on this.

'Display my skills'

[Skills: Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Plowing lv.max, Plucking lv.max, Running lv.6(533/1000), Cleaning lv.4(32/1000), Appraisal lv.2(773/5000)]

He was pondering about his next moves and examining his status. In one moment, he stared at skill for a moment and notification popped.

[Appraisal lv.2(773/5000)]

[Desc: Skill allows appraising the specific target to get information about the current state of the target. The valuable information is naturally limited to things that the host can accurately perceive. More information will be displayed with every level.]

[Level cap: None]

'I can appraise skills, it's excellent. Let's try it out!'

He immediately appraised skills one after another with ecstatic expression.

[Fieldwork lv.5]

[Desc: Skill allows doing work outside more efficiently. Every level increases outside's work efficiency by 5%. A current boost is +25%]

[Level up Requirement: Learning ten fieldwork related skills or receiving specific talent.]

[Plowing lv.MAX]

[Desc: Increases the user's efficiency in one of the primary farming actions.]

[Requirement to evolve: Getting 3 related skills to level 5(2/3)]

[Plucking lv.MAX]

[Desc: Increases the user's efficiency in one of the primary farming actions.]

[Requirement to evolve: Getting 3 related skills to level 5(2/3)]

[Running lv.6]

[Desc: Causes the user's running become more skillful and gives a boost of speed.]

[Boost:12%(2% per level)]

[Level Cap:10]

[Cleaning lv.4]

[Desc: Provides knowledge about cleaning techniques and makes cleaning more efficient.]

[Boost: 12%(3% per level)]

[Level Cap:5]

'Wow. Let's check traits.'

[Hardworking]

[Desc: User can work longer and boring horrendous work won't affect the user's performance.]

[Undeveloped Brain]

[Desc: Brain disability was removed, however, host's brain has long way to become proper organ.]

[Stupid]

[Desc: As you are checking this trait, proves you are not too smart.]

[Talentless]

[Desc: Disables chance of discovering any personal talent in the host. Effect of being a hybrid of two species.]

'Two species. I don't understand... Mother of this body wasn't human.'

[The host is brilliant as ever with his clever remarks.]

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