Chapter 24

"Well, he is sixteen." Lori pointed out.

"That he is." Andrea nodded. "Wait, aren't you sixteen as well, Amy?" She asked innocently.

"Yes…"

"You guys are perfect for each other!" she exclaimed dramatically, making exaggerated hand gestures to accentuate her point.

"And he is quite good looking too." Jacqui added gleefully.

"Not you too, Jacqui." Amy glared daggers at her for the 'betrayal'.

"When is he gonna ask you out?"

"What makes you think he even likes me that way anyway?"

"Yeah, sorry, you're totally right." Andrea snorted. "Come on, look at you, why wouldn't he? You're gorgeous."

"That's not really an argument sister, you should review your logic." Amy shook her head in amusement, albeit she did like the compliment.

"Whatever you say." Andrea shrugged, ending her teasing session. Not that she wanted her sister to get together with him, but she liked teasing her a lot.

- Xenon -

There wasn't much for me to do around camp, so I decided to spend my time the most productive way I could think of: getting new skills. The problem was: there wasn't much skills you could get without a proper teach, or a LOT of trial and error. A few ones I could think of from the top of my head, but not all of them are ideal for my situation.

There was one that could definitely serve me: Knife Throwing. I know it wouldn't serve me in the short term, as you wouldn't be able to eliminate a walker by throwing a knife at them when the distance is significant, and by significant I mean more than five meters. However, I was an exception to this rule. I had a system that helped me upgrade skills, and I had a few abilities that would make it more powerful.

Let me give you an example: my hatchet mastery not only increases my proficiency with hatchets, but also my DAMAGE. Using numbers, a strike that should've dealt 30 damage, would deal 40 when you take the skill into consideration. A normal person, applying the same effort as me, would still be limited at 30, as it only depends on his strength. But I had something that completely ignore this particular rule. Obviously, the numbers were theoretical, I didn't know how much increase my skill gave me.

Now, if I do manage to get a knife throwing skill, I could increase my damage when using a knife, and then if I throw a knife whilst using [Empowered Strike]… That would deal enough damage to be of use to me in this case, either against zombies or real people. Now the problem is: how do I get the skill? I would have to work my ass off for it, obviously.

I already had a knife in my inventory that I've gotten with my 'starter pack', so I'm going to use that. I don't know how throwing knives generally are, if they required a special kind of balance, so I'm going in blind, basically.

< Quest Received ! >

Title: Knife Throwing.

Description: Learn how to throw knives properly.

*Requirements:

-> [Proficiency: Knife Throwing (Passive)]

*Rewards:

-> 10 EXP

-> ???????

<>

'That's the system's way of telling me I'm on the right path, I guess.' I chuckled.

I was about fifty meters from camp, as I didn't want to be disturbed. And I started the knife over and over at a tree. Evidently, since I had no idea what I was doing, I kept missing. The knife hit the tree alright, but with the wrong side. It was spinning mid-flight, and most of the time hit it with the handle instead of the blade. Not that hitting it with the blade would've been any help. Its pointy end needs to face the tree on impact, to bury itself in it.

And so, I tried controlling the spin, not that I had much luck in the area. But I was anything but a quitter, and that's how I spent the next three hours, throwing a knife at the tree, missing the shot, picking it up and doing it all over.