C19 That doesn't count as cheating... right?

I was greeted warmly by most of the village along with a small celebration/party for getting another brother to follow and love their noble arts.

''Tell me more about how you exploded that guy's brains...''

While chatting with some cute girls who were greeting me very warmly, suddenly drummers began to play their instruments to gather our attention.

They stopped as a middle aged burly man, (Baraz, grandson of my master and the acting leader of the village according to the Observe) got up to a make-shift platform to let everybody see him and started 'talking' with great fervor as the noise dared to explode my eardrums.

''TODAY! WE ALL GREET OUR NEWEST FRIEND. OUR NEWEST BROTHER KUNYO!''

Everybody clapped, some whistled towards my direction as I stood up to show myself.

''HIS LOVE FOR EXPLOSIONS WAS RECOGNIZED BY MASTER JEE HIMSELF AND TAKEN IN AS HIS DISCIPLE!''

More clapping and louder screaming.

'How lively.' I smiled.

''WE DECIDED TO GREET HIM WARMLY BY PULLING THE DATE OF OUR ANNUAL EXPLOFESTIVAL BY A MONTH TO LET HIM JOIN US AND SEE THE ART OF EXPLOSION WITH HIS OWN EYES!''

Everybody got crazy as he dropped the bomb.

All jokes aside, that explofestival is the true reason they are living on a mountain. They loooove explosions (as expected from my brothers).

Every year they gather the young warriors of the tribe to show off what they have achieved by letting them shoot into the mountain or whatever is close but not populated.

This used to be a monthly thing. Monthly.

Yeah, I guess now I see why they got up here. They were driven out. Who could live with shit like this? How do they not have tinnitus? Wait, they actually have it don't they? That's why everybody is constantly screaming. Fuckers can't even hear themselves.

Thank fucking God adults don't join this yearly event anymore. About 70 years ago they stopped themselves from shooting anything but air because they were destroying everything too quickly and there was nothing else was left for the other participants.

Then they started shooting into the air and but they had to stop that as well about 30 years ago some guy (probably my master) made an explosion big enough to destroy half of the village with the after effects of the explosion despite shooting it as far as he could.

10 Years ago they made it into a yearly thing instead of monthly because even if the younger people were weaker, shooting explosions every single month destroyed the environment too much.

This is their ninth mountain.

They migrated from eight mountains before because there was nothing else to shoot. This one could barely recover so most shoot into the air. Some children aren't strong enough to send it far enough to not hurt themselves, so they are allowed to shoot something real. They don't want another combustion man that below off his 2 limbs because of his inexperience.

Hmm?

I didn't care just now, but this guy Baraz, he won't make much trouble for me will he?

Observe also told me how jealous he was of me. Jee despite being his grandfather refused to teach him but not me. Some random nobody who just came into their village.

Oh yeah, the pinnacle level firebender who is 169 years old is legendary. What a shocker.

The reason he forced the festival into a month earlier (despite rejection from his council and severe lack of preparation for such a grand and important festival) is because he wants to humiliate me.

Festival was supposed to happen in a month and if I had a month to learn combustion bending even a little it would be fine, but he will ask me to join them and give a demonstration despite my clear lack of knowledge in the area.

What a petty piece of shit. How is he a leader? Nepotism probably. I guess small villages like these don't get much democracy but who am I kidding, even the 'civilized' big nations still have royalty.

I doubt anybody important would make fun of me for my lack of knowledge and expertise in explosions, this retard will probably only 'sully' my image for the children.

I will still do my best though. Charged bombs are a thing.

And also... hehe

I found a new function of the inventory part of the system.

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Inventory: Two (2) piece of Wildfyre attribute (Wildfyre: Purple colored fire that never goes out unless the owner wills it so. +%300 Effectiveness of firebending. Color and attribute can be changed into Black or Green with higher mastery.

Black Wildfyre (Amaterasu): +%20000 Power, -%800 Speed. It even eats the light as a fuel, thus the color.

Green Widlfyre: -%90 Power, +%5000 Speed. Swift but less deadly.)

Cold Foods

Hot Foods

Waters

Liquids (not water)

Clothes

Poisoned Dagger

Poisoned arrow

Poisoned Sword

Poisoned Spear

Poisoned food

Poisoned water

Golds

Poisoned gold

Poisoned clothes

Poisons

Tent

Alcoholic Drinks

Explosive Barrels

Rope

String

Shields

Bandage

Healing Ointment.

MP potion

HP potion

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Yes, some additions like;

Shields

Bandage

Healing Ointment.

MP potion

HP potion

On my way to here, I added some good stuff to my inventory. During my fight with the bandits, I had to use miscellaneous and mostly worthless stuff to act as a shield for me. That was a learning experience for me. Inventory isn't only good for hidden weapons, it's also very good for protecting yourself. So I bought proper shields from all the blacksmiths I could find and stuffed them into my inventory.

Along the way, I found an apothecary that sold healing ointments and herbs that would help for sicknesses, poisons and even wounds.

That day, I learned that I could use any useable object inside my inventory (like water or ointments or even food) to instantly see their effects. I also added some bandages seeing how much they healed me and instantly removed debuff like bleeding effects.

I literally don't need to physically eat or drink to survive anymore.

'Wait, can a gamer with the gamer's body die from starvation?'

...Anyway. I checked the herbs and they were too good to pass but their effects weren't that good either. I would still use them, could I make them better?

I swear to the holy spirit of explosions, if my system had a {job} function, I would have gotten the alchemist job.

I wasted some time but after powdering the right ingredients and adding the right kinds of liquids I created effective potions.

It took lots of time because I was mostly relying on the 'trial and error' method to find the best recipe.

And behold, my masterpieces.

HP Potion: Instantly regenerates %10 HP and gets rid of any physical debuff. Regenerates %40 HP in 400 seconds.

MP Potion: Instantly regenerates %30 MP and gets rid of any non-physical debuff. Regenerated %40 MP in 800 seconds.

It's a pity the second part of the potions don't stack, but it's still good.

I'm still improving but this already made me semi-immortal. I have the power of money and the instant use function of inventory on my side.

I can just use them repeatedly for the instant regeneration function since I have shit ton of them in my inventory right now, all thanks to the power of money.

Thank you for being rich, my dear father. It helps more than you would think.

Now, I just need to charge my explosion while constantly replenishing my MP...

That little shit doesn't know what he has gotten himself into.

Do you want to humiliate me in front of everyone? Bitch, I will make everybody awed at my explosions.

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