Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 51

While holding the pole tightly, Jyuuk got into stance and swung the pole against the tree so that the end of it would impact. Immediately upon forming contact with the bark, cracks formed in the wood and it was pushed in almost immediately as if breaking any second now.

"Wow! This is really good, thank you, Eisen!" Jyuuk said with a huge smile on this face. This was exactly the type of thing that always gave him shivers when watching Anime, those types of cracks that would appear underneath a powerful character's feet due to sheer pressure!

"I'm not sure if I can give you anything in return, though..." Jyuuk explained with a frown, only causing Eisen to chuckle in response.

"Don't worry about it! I make things like this for fun, and it was a good chance to just experiment a bit. You don't have to give me anything for it. Just knowing that a friend of mine is using it is more than enough for me."

Jyuuk frowned softly but still smiled in response to this. "I'm incredibly grateful that you would give this to me basically for free, but I would feel bad... At least let me give you this." The Monkey-Man said and took his backpack from his back, carefully looking through it before grabbing the rag in which that marshmellow-like egg was wrapped.

"I have no idea what this is, beside that it is an egg. My Appraisal Skill is Rank 2, and usually it tells me the full name, and the level or quality, and the rank of things I inspect. But for this, it still just tells me 'Egg'. I don't know what it is, but it seems to be something pretty cool. I've got my babies here already, so I don't mind giving it to you. Even without a taming class, you should be able to tame one or two beasts or monsters. I don't know what bonus my title gives to me trying to tame things, but you should definitely be able to tame something that you basically hatch yourself. I'm sure it would be useful." Jyuuk explained while swapping out one of the caps on the pole for the Explosion Cap and the other for the Frost Cap.

"Thank you, Jyuuk. I'll cherish it, and whatever is born out of this egg." Eisen said with a smile, since he noticed that it meant a lot for Jyuuk if Eisen accepted it.

Jyuuk smiled and looked at the tree in front of him, holding the pole so that the freezing end was pointed away from him, and swung it against the wood in front of him. Immediately, a cold breeze shot outward and froze a small area around where Jyuuk's pole impacted onto the bark, making it glitter in the sun after it became covered in a layer of ice.

Directly afterward in the same movement, Jyuuk flipped the pole and made the other end with the Explosion Cap hit the frozen area of the tree. An explosion shot out focused toward the tree and shattered the frozen wood into pieces, as well as the direct area surrounding it, turning it completely black due to the fire.

Jyuuk swapped out the explosion cap for the wind burst one excitedly, and hit the ground with it. Immediately, it shot out a strong gust of air that whirled up the dust that surrounded the two of them.

"Wow, this is amazing, Eisen! Thank you so much!" He said excitedly, and Eisen laughed softly while carefully holding the egg in his hand.

"No problem. Just let me know if it stops holding up to your enemies, I'll make you something new whenever you want. Ah, and when I reach my goal, how about you come to Melroe with us? I can see if I can make something interesting for your beasts as well. Maybe something to add on top of their claws, or some specific armor that fits to their body." Eisen thought with a grin at those ideas. Making things for animals instead of people would probably be pretty interesting to say the least.

"Thank you, I really appreciate it. If you ever need my help, I'm in your debt." Jyuuk said with a smile and bowed forward to show his gratitude.

"Nonsense! It's the role of an old man like me to support the next generations!" Eisen laughed and slapped Jyuuk's back in a joking way.

After Eisen grabbed his Flame-enchanted Mana crystal out of the stone forge, the two of them walked over to Bree again, who already finished extracting the Mana Crystals from the Goblins and started to play with Jyuuk's Beasts a bit while Eisen and Jyuuk were busy otherwise.

"Hey~! Are you to finished now?" She asked with a smile and ran up to them happily.

"Yeah, we are. We're pretty much ready to fight the next group of Goblins." Eisen said and looked over to Jyuuk to confirm he was ready to go. Before they moved on, though, Eisen made sure he stashed the egg away safely inside of Bree's backpack.

And then, they continued to hunt.

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"Jyuuk! Careful, above you!" Eisen yelled out when he saw that an Assassin Goblin jumped down from a treetop toward Jyuuk after the old man managed to slay the goblin in front of him and was just about to move on to the next.

Since Jyuuk was currently fighting against the Goblin in front of himself, a Goblin Shieldbearer, Eisen did his best to hurry forward and defend against the aerial attack directed toward his friend.

He swung his sword to the side above Jyuuk's head, perfectly hitting the Goblin's chest and slinging it to the side. Immediately after it rolled on the ground and tried to get back up, Eisen slashed his sword downward and cut into its shoulder, nearly cutting off it's whole arm and basically letting it hang loose on only a few pieces of flesh. Swiftly, while pulling the Zweihänder out of the wound, Eisen slashed it toward the Goblin's neck, cutting it open so that the Goblin quickly died in response.

Eisen turned around and looked behind himself, seeing that the fight was now over.

"Thanks for that, Eisen. I really didn't notice that Goblin there." Jyuuk laughed embarrassedly while scratching the back of his head.

"Don't worry about it. Glad you're fine, kid." Eisen smiled and looked at the notifications he missed during combat. It seemed like Eisen leveled up again, so he quickly put his five new stat points into his INT and WIS stats, and then looked at the two rank-up notifications that popped up as well, which immediately made him glad that he started using his Dwarven racial skill during combat as well to help out with his Sword Control.

[A Giant's Strength reached Level 100 in Rank 1, upgrading to Rank 2]

[Activation Effect and Duration Doubled]

[Due to Ranking-up your A Giant's Strength Skill, you gained +1 STR and +1 END]

[A Dwarf's Hands reached Level 100 in Rank 1, upgrading to Rank 2]

[Activation Effect and Duration Doubled]

[Due to Ranking-up your A Dwarf's Hands Skill, you gained +1 AGI and +1 END]

[Your END stat reached 100. It's effectiveness rose by 10%]

[Your STR stat reached 100. It's effectiveness rose by 10%]