HPDBC Chapter 7: Level Up
Chapter 7: Level Up
chapter 7: level up
it had been a year and 10 months since allen reincarnated into this world. he will be 2 years old in 2 months time. being blessed with good parents, he was growing quickly. while they were certainly poor, these days, he was starting to find happiness in it as well.
as his parents are serfs, allen was also a serf. from his general knowledge of the real world, allen had thought that there are two main restraining factors to being a serf.
he had several other theories as well but these two were the main ones. it’s a system which was adopted by a great number of people till the 19th century in the real world. there were countries which still had similar systems.
during this month, allen came to know that in this world, the calendar also had similarities with the real world. 12 months make a year, 30 days make a month. however, the difference was that 6 days makes a week here. he slowly learnt more and more about this world.
moreover, there are also 4 seasons here, spring, summer, autumn and winter. and in winter, it snows a lot. since their house is directly built into the ground, his second winter here was very cold.
like a revolving lantern, he looked at his memories and events of these past 10 months.
right now, the message function on the grimoire’s cover is making that happen. although the cover of the grimoire is jet black normally, when allen summons something or his status changes, it displays messages like a log.
and this log is generally in silver but this time it was amber. and from hereafter, there’s no doubt that this color would be the color of happiness to allen.
«‘create’ skill experience reached 1000/1000. level increased to 2. ‘summon’ level increased to 2. in addition, ‘synthesis’ skill acquired. ‘extension’ skill acquired. memo function added to the grimoire.»
“whooooooaaaaa!!!”
it was the moment which is the most rewarding to gamers. meals or the cold, these things became inconsequential. the time being in the middle of autumn, theresia and rodan were working in the fields. thanks to that, he could comfortably let out a warcry.
(h-holy shit, i am curious about a lotta things but first, let’s check the status.)
and indeed, there were many things which caught his attention in the log but first, he checked the status.
«name» allen
«age» 1
«occupation» summoner
«level» 1
«strength» 4 (40) + 8
«mana» 0 (20)
«offense» 1 (10) + 8
«stamina» 1 (10) + 2
«agility» 2 (25) + 2
«knowledge» 3 (30)
«luck» 2 (25)
«skill» summon <2>, create <2>, synthesis <1>, extension <1>, delete
«exp» 0/1000
«summon» 2
«create» 2
«synthesis» 1
(ah, right, we had a neighbor. i haven’t met them since the great boar’s dissection, though.)
he recalled the pink-haired baby gelda was carrying.
this reclaimed village had quite a lot of fields inside it and so it was quite big. although they are his neighbors, a baby who isn’t even 2 years old shouldn’t go outside, said theresia and so allen abided. and as such, there’s really not many opportunities for them to meet.
“right, she might become your bride in the future so you have to get along with her.”
theresia, who was about 20 years old now, seems to like such conversations. she happily participated in the conversation. the world is a small place, they say. his parents also knew each other and were of the same age. it’s normal for serfs to find marriage partners like this. they can’t go outside so it can be said that there’s no other way.
“eh? i can go outside?”
“hmm~ i would say it’s a no until you’re 3 years old.”
although they are his neighbors, the restriction will continue until he’s 3 years old.
the family happy circle time had also come to an end and he returned to the child’s room.
(fufufu, my mana has replenished. i guess i have no choice now, huh? what shall i do~ g ‘create’ or ‘synthesis~? i guess i will try out the new skill, ‘synthesis’, for now.)
the grimoire appeared. probably because he thought of ‘synthesis’, it auto flipped through the pages.
(oh, a new page appeared in the grimoire! there’s only 2 hollow cut-outs in the middle. oh! it seems there’s only 1 on the next page. does this mean that 2 summoned beasts are made into one? i don’t really know the conditions for synthesis so i guess i will try synthesizing two h rank beasts for now.)
he inserted two h cards into the hollow space.
(alright, ‘synthesis’!)
however, the 2 cards remained the same and nothing changed.
(eh? did i mess up somewhere?)
he checked the grimoire cover’s log. this is quite a useful reference. messages were coming in.
«not enough mana for ‘synthesis’ 1.»
“wha! not enough!!”
‘oops’ he went, realizing he let out a loud voice just then. it seems his max mana, 2, was not enough for synthesis.
g
(eh? is this perhaps, checkmate? i can’t synthesize ‘cause my max mana is too low? then, what about the g rank creation?)
he came to the conclusion that he couldn’t perform synthesis as he didn’t have enough mana.
and so, he challenged g rank ‘create’. he didn’t quite know what « – » is, and so he tried creating that.
(beast rank g, ‘create’!)
however, still nothing happened. thinking that this is also because of the same reason, he looked at the cover again.
«not enough mana for g rank ‘create’.»
(n-no way, you’re telling me i can’t synthesize or create g rank beasts with my current mana? is my max mana just too low?)
he was puzzled. it would seem that even though he leveled up, there are still many things he couldn’t do.
sheesh. that’s tough, that’s tough.