Chapter 3

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<Hamur's Bottle 1
Hamur, the village's best hunter, has fallen ill. The village chief and medicine man, Gadergu, wants to brew a special medicine to cure Hamur's illness. Gather 40 rabbit livers and bring them to Gadergu!
Difficulty Level: F
Quest Reward: Leather Armor
Quest Restriction: Minghu
Decreased intimacy with Gadagu and Hamur when refusing quests
"Ha…"
Ming Hu looked at the quest 'Hamur's Bottle 1' floating in the quest window and sighed. It was a quest created by a kid who ran to him right after completing the town introduction quest, and at first he thought it was a quest down quest, so he was really happy.
But no matter how many times he caught the rabbit, the liver did not come out, and Ming Hu, sensing something was wrong, went to ask him. He asked him how to get the rabbit's liver, and he replied that it would come out when he caught the rabbit.
Ming Hu shook his head and went back to catching rabbits, and after a while, he was able to get the liver.
The rabbit's liver came out, but Ming Hu couldn't laugh; it had such a terrible drop rate.
"I caught 30, and one…"
I sighed. I caught 30 and got one. Of course, it could happen in a row. But I doubted that a rabbit with such a terrible drop rate that 30 rabbits and one liver would come out in a row.
"…Hmph."
Sighing again, Ming Hu looked at the rabbit hopping in front of him. The rabbit felt his gaze and tilted its head at Ming Hu.
-kew?
How cute it was. Ming Hu smiled broadly at the sight of the rabbit, walked over to it, and kicked it.
Puck!
-Chew!
The rabbit flew through the air. Ming Hu quickly ran after the rabbit as it flew back to the ground and attacked it again. Once again, the rabbit flew through the air.
-kew…
The rabbit fell to the ground and shivered. Ming Hu approached the fluttering rabbit and swung his sword at it.
[Level Up!]
The rabbit died, and a leveling up message appeared. Ming Hu looked away from the message and checked the area around the rabbit's body. As expected, the rabbit's liver was nowhere to be seen. No items had dropped, let alone the rabbit's liver. Ming Hu sighed and opened his character window.
Name: Ming Hu
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 22
Level: 3
Life: 770
Mana: 400
Strength: 11 Dexterity: 10 Constitution: 11 Intelligence: 10 Wisdom: 10
Bonus Stets: 40
"Now 3…"
After checking the character window, Ming Hu immediately closed it and looked around again.
-kew?
In the distance, a rabbit bobbed its head.
"It'll come out someday…"
Jumbled
Ming Hu muttered to himself and started walking toward the rabbit.
-Chew!
The bunnies started flying.
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-You have mastered the rabbit skin.
-5% movement speed reduction due to being overweight.
"Do I need to go to town?"
Ming Hu saw the message and checked his inventory.
"There are only 11 of them…"
You have 11 rabbit livers, but the quest requires a total of 40 rabbit livers, which is not enough.
"Hmmm."
Ming Hu debated whether to return to the village or not. It seemed like a lot of time would be wasted traveling back and forth due to the weight. If he didn't, he would have to deal with the added weight and reduced speed of travel.
"I can't not eat…"
I could have just skipped the other items and eaten the rabbit liver, but that would have been a waste.
"Let's go."
Eventually deciding to visit the village once, Ming Hu started walking towards it. As Ming Hu walked toward the village, he checked the items in his inventory one more time and smiled wryly.
"It should be pretty good, right?"
There were a lot of items piled up. Of course, the prices were low because they were miscellaneous items such as rabbit skins and rabbit meat, but the number of items was huge, so selling them would bring in a lot of money.
"For what?"
Ming Hu wondered what to do with the money he'd earned from selling items. There was no particular time to spend it. Buying equipment was one thing, but finding a job was another.
"Speaking of which, I need to find a job soon…"
It was impossible to play a mage as I had envisioned when I started. There were no mage towers or guilds in Himiseen where you could transfer to a mage.
"Wait…"
Ming Hu stopped walking as a thought suddenly occurred to him, and his expression slowly began to harden.
"There's only the Warriors Guild…"
Ming Hu furrowed his brow at the information that suddenly dawned on him. Now that he thought about it, there were only warrior guilds in Himise. That meant that warriors were the only class that could be transferred in Himise.
"…"
Ming Hu thought for a moment. To change jobs, he would have to go to another town, but this was Himise, the backwoods of the backwoods, surrounded by the Bross Mountains.
"You can't break through a mountain range."
There was no way that Ming Hu, who had no job, would be able to penetrate the Broth Mountains, which were teeming with boss-level monsters.
"…an afterthought."
Ming Hu decided to think about it later and walked back toward the village. Of course, he would think about it later, but he couldn't get it out of his mind. Ming Hu thought as he walked.
"What can I do…"
As I walked into town, I thought and thought and thought, but I came to one conclusion.
"A warrior…"
It was a place where you couldn't change jobs except as a warrior. The answer was obvious. Ming Hu opened his character window with a less than pleasant expression.
Name: Ming Hu
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 22
Level: 8
Life: 870
Mana: 400
Strength: 11 Dexterity: 10 Constitution: 13 Intelligence: 10 Wisdom: 10
Bonus stats: 90
While I leveled up by catching rabbits, my strength and stamina increased slightly. The bonus stats stayed the same. The strength and health gains from hunting are pretty good for a warrior.
"…"
Ming Hu wordlessly closed the character window. And after walking in silence, Ming Hu was able to reach the village after a while, and after reaching the village, Ming Hu quickly headed to the shop.
Banding
"Come on, Ossie… Ah! It's you!"
"Hello."
Upon entering the shop, Ming Hu walked up to the shopkeeper, Fern, who greeted him and opened his inventory, pulling out a rabbit skin and placing it on the counter.
"…That's a lot."
Looking at the rabbit skin, Fern said in amazement.
"Are you here to dispose of this?"
"Yes."
Ming Hu nodded in response to Fern's words. At Ming Hu's words, Fern looked at each of the rabbit pelts and began to sort them.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh
"That's a lot of good stuff."
Fern looked at the two rabbit skins in front of him, thought for a moment, then opened his mouth to speak.
"I can give you 40 bronze for the best and 20 bronze for the worst."
"…!"
Ming Hu looked surprised at Fern's words.
"How much does a rabbit skin cost?
I was surprised to find that rabbit pelts, even of good quality, cost 40 bronze.
'Hard bread is one bronze… A good rabbit skin is worth 40.
"Do you want to sell?"
After a moment's pause at the unexpected price, Ming Hu nodded at Fern's words.
"Here are 147 good quality rabbit pelts, 86 inferior rabbit pelts, totaling 76 silver."
Fern handed Ming Hu the money bag. Ming Hu took the bag and checked the money. There were 76 shiny silver Chapters in the bag.
'I haven't even gotten rid of them yet…'
Ming Hu put the money bag in his inventory and checked his remaining items. His inventory was more than half full of rabbit meat, rabbit liver, and rabbit gallbladder, except for the rabbit liver he needed for the quest.
Sigh
Ming Hu took out the rabbit meat and rabbit gallbladder.
"Hmm? Rabbit meat and gallbladder! Are you thinking of getting rid of these too?"
As he organized the rabbit pelts he had purchased, Fern looked at the rabbit meat and gallbladder that Ming Hu had taken out.
"Yes, I'd like to dispose of this as well."
At Ming Hu's words, Fern smiled bitterly. Then, with an apologetic look on his face, he opened his mouth to speak.
"I'm sorry, they're not under my control. Why don't you take these to Teren?"
"Oh…"
At Fern's words, Ming Hu put the rabbit meat and gallbladder back into his inventory. Then he exited the shop and entered the butcher's shop on the other side.
"Oho, you must be the famous young man who came with the village chief earlier!"
As I entered the butcher's shop, I was greeted by Teren, the butcher, who was sitting in a daze.
"Yes, hello."
Ming Hu bowed and moved to Teren's side.
Sigh
Arriving in front of Teren, Ming Hu pulled out a rabbit meat and gallbladder and said.
"I'm trying to get rid of these."
"That's a lot."
Teren muttered to himself as he looked at the rabbit and gallbladder that Ming Hu had brought out, then stood up to check the condition of the meat and gallbladder, weighed them, and looked at Ming Hu and said, "I'm sorry.
"I can give you 50 silver for the meat and 90 silver for the gallbladder, for a total of 1 gold and 40 silver, will you sell?"
"…!"
It was completely unexpected.
"Green onions, I'll sell you."
Ming Hu nodded, not expecting to receive 1 gold and 40 silver, even though it was a large amount.
"Huh huh, there it is."
"Goodbye"
Amused by Ming Hu's reaction, Teren laughed and handed him the money bag. Ming Hu took it and put it in his inventory. After a quick bow, he left the butcher shop.
"2 gold and 16 silver!
He sold the rabbit skin, meat, and gallbladder for 2 gold and 16 silver. That was a lot of money for Ming Hu, who was now level 8.
"If you ever think of selling meat or gallbladder liver or anything like that again, come to me, and I'll pay you well."
Teren said to Ming Hu as they were leaving the butcher shop.
Stop
At Teren's words, Ming Hu stopped walking, turned around, and looked at Teren.
"…?"
Teren walked out, then suddenly turned back to see Ming Hu staring at him, shaking his head.
"…do you sell rabbit liver?"
If he hadn't misheard, Teren had said to come if he had something to sell, like meat and gallbladder liver. In other words, to buy. To buy is to sell, after all.
"Right."
"…"
Ming Hu was speechless at Teren's words.