learning skills

Flowing Cloud Boots: Bronze Grade

Attributes: Strength 2, Agility 2

Skill: Tiger's Leap - Enhances jumping ability.

These are a pair of boots with a surface adorned with floating clouds, seemingly flowing. To Jake's delight, these boots turned out to be a small high-grade item. Not only did they increase two attributes, but they also came with a skill, which was quite impressive.

Jake quickly put them on. The material of the boots was unknown, but they were incredibly comfortable to wear, soft and able to automatically adjust their size to fit Jake's feet perfectly.

"Not bad, not bad," Jake said with satisfaction as he stomped his feet in place.

"I wonder how effective this Tiger's Leap skill is," Jake muttered to himself about the accompanying skill. It only mentioned enhancing jumping ability, without specifying to what extent.

Jake immediately put it to the test. To his surprise, he effortlessly jumped out of a three-meter-deep pit. "The enhancement effect is too obvious, isn't it?" Jake exclaimed with joy. With his original abilities, he would have never been able to jump out of such a deep pit. But now, with this skill, it was surprisingly easy. It truly exceeded his expectations.

Although the process of killing the colorful fierce tiger was tiring and took longer than expected, Jake was quite satisfied with obtaining such an equipment. Afterwards, he went to dig out the Violet Flame Fruit. With the colorful fierce tiger eliminated, there were no further unexpected incidents during the process of obtaining the fruit.

"Grandpa Clark, I'm back!" Before it got dark, Jake successfully returned to the village and hurriedly went to find Clark.

"Why did it take you so long?" Clark seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Jake's delayed return.

"Grandpa Clark, the forest is very dangerous. It's full of wild beasts, especially near the Violet Flame Fruit. There was actually a colorful fierce tiger guarding it. I risked my life and faced great danger to collect all the herbs you needed," Jake immediately defended himself.

Upon hearing Jake's words, a look of embarrassment appeared on Clark's face as he said, "I forgot to remind you. The Violet Flame Fruit is the favorite food of the colorful fierce tigers. It enhances their agility when consumed. So, there are often colorful fierce tigers guarding the area near the fruit."

Jake looked at Clark with a face full of grievances, clearly conveying the message: How could you forget? I almost died because of you!

Seeing Jake's expression, Clark became even more apologetic. "You know, when you get old, you tend to forget things."

"But I almost died there!" Jake said plaintively. "If you had told me earlier that there were colorful fierce tigers there, I could have been better prepared and it wouldn't have been so dangerous. Look, the injury on my leg was caused by that tiger. If I hadn't been quick-witted, I might not have made it back."

Jake rolled up his pants and indeed found a wound on his calf, but it wasn't caused by the colorful fierce tiger. It was from the magic fox. Facing the even more ferocious colorful fierce tiger, Jake didn't receive any injuries at all, except for feeling a bit tired from digging the pit.

Jake was now in a favorable position, fortunate that Clark didn't know about it. As a result, when Clark saw the wound on Jake's leg, he felt even more guilty.

"Grandpa Clark, do you think you could give me something to compensate for my injured soul?" Jake took advantage of the situation and made a request. In this situation, he couldn't afford to be thin-skinned and had to shamelessly ask for something in return.

"What do you want?" Clark, feeling guilty, didn't refuse Jake's "suggestion."

Jake was overjoyed. He had originally wanted the medicinal shovel, as he had been eyeing it for a while. However, he changed his mind and said, "I want to learn alchemy from you!" Jake had already experienced the benefits of skills. Both the identification skill and Tiger's Leap had been very useful to him, so naturally, he wanted to acquire more skills.

"You want to learn alchemy?" Clark frowned slightly, seemingly hesitant.

Initially, Jake thought it would be easy since in any game, learning life skills like alchemy wouldn't be too difficult. However, Clark didn't seem eager to teach, which left Jake somewhat puzzled.

"Yes," Jake didn't give up easily and said, "I'm very interested in alchemy, and my dream is to travel the entire continent in the future. During this process, I'm bound to encounter some dangers.I can make some pills to carry with me, which will make me safer, right?"

Jake couldn't stay in the beginner's village forever. He would definitely leave at some point, so learning alchemy was necessary. After all, having or not having medicine made a big difference during the process of leveling up by killing monsters.

After hesitating for a while, Clark, perhaps feeling that he had indeed let Jake down before, or thinking that Jake made a valid point, agreed to teach Jake alchemy.

"Congratulations on receiving the teachings of Alchemy Grandmaster Clark. You have learned the skill of alchemy, and your alchemy skill has advanced to the advanced level!" The mechanical-like voice that hadn't been heard for a long time resounded in Jake's ears again, making him feel slightly uncomfortable.

However, he was more shocked by what he heard. Before this, Jake had asked Clark about the classification of professional levels in this world. They were generally divided into Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Master, Grandmaster, and Divine levels! It was already quite impressive for someone to reach the Master level in their lifetime. Such individuals were rare and respected wherever they went. As for the Grandmaster level, they could establish themselves as masters in their field. They were few in number and stood at the pinnacle of their domain. As for the Divine level, it was a legendary existence that no one had ever reached. Some even doubted if such a realm truly existed.

After all, to become Divine, one would need to create something of Divine level, such as an alchemist concocting a Divine-level pill or a blacksmith forging a Divine-level weapon. This was incredibly difficult, and people believed that only gods could create such Divine-level items. It was considered a beautiful wish of humanity. Therefore, it was widely believed that the Grandmaster level was the highest achievable level for humans.

However, Jake didn't expect that the "master" he had randomly found was actually such an existence. Was he incredibly lucky?