Chapter 3
" Get your ass here Gonk, you need to carry this to warehouse 3." A gorilla of a man said with an acute voice, the choom must not had enough eddies to implant a voice changer while becoming a gorilla.
" Yes sir," I said while hurrying over him and using the strength granted to me by the job of Warehouse Worker, which grants me a point in end and str, while making everything I lift weigh 25% less, to lift the box over to the warehouse.
It had been over a week from my meeting with Kenshi, and I had been taking every job I could, trying to survive and make some eddies, while doing so I also trained my stats and Skills thanks to said jobs, sure none of these stats can make me able to defend against the weakest Maelstorm but upgrades are still upgrades.
After all of this time, I was finally able to get most of my stats at or near the 10 mark, making me at least reach the normal human standards.
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Name: Akira
Titles: Rookie ( Until you reach level 10, all your skills will grow 10% faster)
Age: 17 Sex: M
Job: Warehouse Worker ( While using this job,+1 End, +1 Str, everything you lift weights 25% less) ( Current)
Level: 1 20=>110/1000 XP
HP: 100/100 Hp Regen: 1/min
SP: 1100/1100 SP regen: 110/min
Strength: 6=>9 +1
Constitution:5=>8
Vitality: 7=>10
Endurance: 8=>11 +1
Dexterity: 6=>9
Intelligence:11=>12
Charisma:4=>5
Perception: 9=>10
Perks: Gamer's Mind
Eddies: 77 €$ =>198 €$
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'Baby steps, but still steps forward.'
I also gained several skills that were slowly progressing and making my work easier, for example, I gained the skill for Physical Conditioning, which would increase my natural defence, my maximum lifting weight, and my speed by 1% per level.
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New Skills: Physical Conditioning, Balance, Bartering, Observe, Focus, Boxing.
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The two skills I am most proud of are Focus and Observe, the first one is because of its broken effect, which makes me able to level up by skill faster while I focus on it, do I need to explain why having Observe is useful? Yes, I have to grind it up to a useful level, but thanks to the Rookie title, and spamming it on anything, moving or not, I was able to make it reach level 10, which makes me able to see the information up to level 10 ( C.Lv * Sk. Lv).
The other skills were helping me in the background while I did everyday gigs and so they were growing slowly compared to these two.
After putting the box down I relaxed my back and took a look around to see if anyone was watching, seeing that anyone was minding their own business I decided to open one of the boxes to see what was inside, just out of "curiosity".
But alas, there only were guns inside, no cyberware, bummer.
Sighing, I close the box and head back to my boss to clock out, I had been working for several hours and my back needed some rest.
" Hey boss, I got to go, can you pay me?"
" How many boxes did you bring inside?" The gorilla man said while not even looking at me.
" With the last one, it was 16," I said, hoping it would work.
" Good try, I counted the boxes, you brought 15 inside, so 150 eddies."
'Couldn't his brain look like his outside?'
" Worth a try, message me the next time you have work," I told him while seeing my eddies go up.
"Yeah, Yeah." He said while going back to his things.
Finally free I decided not to waste money with the metro and instead grind my running skills even more.
After seeing how dangerous Watson was, I decided to change my base of operation for Heywood, hoping the Valentinos weren't as blood-lusting as the maelstroms and the Tyger claws.
And the main reason I had come to Heywood was for one bar in particular.
" Akira you finally arrived, got to the back Pepe is waiting for you." A woman's voice said after I had gotten inside the El Coyote Cojo.
" Yes, Ma'am," I said while smiling.
After successfully making me look as pitiful as possible, which didn't take a lot considering my situation, I was able to gain permanent work here as a bartender, and also a room at the back of the bar, sometimes she would even give me food, what more could I wish for?
Jokes aside, Mama Wells was the main reason I am still alive and able to train my physical stats, without her I'd be still on the street not sure if I'd be able to gain any food for the day, she was the one that gave me a number of the Gorilla man, Murata, I had been working for until a few minutes ago.
" Hey Choom, what did Murata make you do this time?"
" Warehouse Worker, my back is screaming for help."
" I can imagine, take this as a killer, it's on the house." He said while serving me a shot of what I had recognized as tequila.
Yep, underage drinking was a thing here, and honestly, as a European, I see nothing wrong with it.
After drinking it, I had a chance to look in the mirror and sat on one of the chairs of the bar, there I was, a 17 kid, with lightly tanned skin, green eyes, and dark hair longer than I wished to be, too thin to be called healthy, but better than what I had started with, when I arrived I looked like a skeleton.
Letting Pepe rest, I quickly changed my job to Apprentice Bartender( +1 dex, +1 Per, +25% hand-eye coordination), and continued serving the people ordering drinks.
Until my work was stopped by the arrival of a man I knew from the game that I respected and feared at the same time.
" Are you new around here kid?" A Mexican man without any hair on his head, showing his cyberware on the side, a very tied pair of moustache, wearing normal clothes, but with a presence that screamed authority and respect.
Padre is right in front of me.