The Insider System

Chapter 23: A Day of Work

Getting far enough away Lake watched as the Mark moved through the trees. Then he put it out of his mind right now wasn't a good time to worry about them. Lake had brought extra stuff today and was planning to stay over night if the person he marked went to Feldon Lake would follow them home, and he would make up his mind on if it was worth breaking in to their house.

If it was crap it wasn't worth his time and the chance of getting caught. Thinking about it made Lake excited, he had been waiting on someone to get on his nerves and pointing a weapon at him counted. If the person, Lake assumed it was a man from the voice but he really didn't know, had fired a warning shot Lake would have gone for the kill.

He was happy that hadn't happened though because Lake wasn't sure how murder was treated in this world, he was sure people killed each other a lot more here than on earth so it was probably hard to police it.

Lake bet there was some dumb magic way of solving crimes like holding a séance. He checked his location relative to some of the marks he had left on landmarks and started heading deeper into the forest.

Half an hour later he heard something, focusing he located the source of the noise. He saw a boar like the one Dan and Jeff had killed yesterday. Lake was going to kill this pig but he wanted to try getting a headshot because if he succeeded it would be X10 Exp.

Even if he missed and the Boar ran, Lake doubted it could outrun him. Getting his bow out Lake pulled back the arrow and before even shooting Lake could feel the difference. Lake didn't know if it was from his stats, the archer job or both, but Lake felt he would hit this shot.

Releasing the arrow Lake didn't watch but put his bow back and grabbed his spear if he missed he wanted to be ready to chase. Looking up Lake saw his arrow had hit into the side of the boar but it had not killed it.

Lake watched as the boar reared back and squealed than started to run. Lake left Archer because it had the same Exp multiplier as Thief on normal kills. Charging after the boar it didn't take long to catch up because he had used burst. Lake stabbed down into the back of the Boars head with his spear, and watched as the monster crumpled and rolled along the ground. [Level up] [Level up]

This was the first time Lake had leveled up two times at once but it wasn't surprising the first 2 levels only needed 15 Exp in total. Looking at his stat screen Lake saw some of his stats had almost doubled in one go, this was the power of specializing.

Race: Human Lv.1 ( 8/10 )

Job: Archer Lv.2(12 / 20)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 1/5 )

Stats

Health 10

Stamina 10

Mana 10

Strength 6

Endurance 7

Agility 15

Dexterity 16

Perception 13

Intelligence 9

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 10

With this two more of his stats had gone over 10. Lake wondered if he would get another skill like burst, he could see his skill screen flashing but Lake was going to wait. He was getting tired of cornbread and was looking forward to eating meat tonight. Reading his new skills would give him something to do while he ran back to the cart; which was pretty far.

Walking over to the boar Lake removed the core, feeling it his best guess was it was worth 3 gold. Putting it in his satchel Lake grabbed the Leg and started dragging it behind him. After a few steps Lake remembered he was planning on staying in the forest tonight. Thinking about what to do with the boar Lake decided to tell Kyle and Mary about it when he saw them later, he knew Kyle would take care of it. Opening his skill page Lake saw four new skills.

Pierce (U) Lv.1

Double the Pierce damage of an arrow.

Mana Vision (U) Lv.1

Allows you to see sources of mana through objects.

(Scales off of Perception)

Lake started with the skills archer had given him. Pierce was odd because the only thing in gold writing was the U so Lake guessed someone had erased something to make it better. Mana Vision was the opposite; it was fully golden which made him think it was an insider original. Moving on to the skills from his stats hitting 10.

Green Fingers Golden Hands (U) Lv.1

Increases work speed and hand control. Hand injuries heal much faster.

Allows the regrowing of fingers.(Scales off of Dexterity)

This skill made him laugh; he couldn't help but think one of his predecessors had been prone to losing fingers. This made him think of Laka. He had no evidence of this but he still thought it was funny to associate this with him.

The Sight (U) Lv.1

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Strengthens eyes and eardrums.

This was an interesting ability. It made Lake want to touch his eye but his hands had blood on them so he didn't. It was funny that someone made it effect eardrums, and this made him wonder if in the future he would be able to change any skills he didn't like.

Getting to the place people left their carts Lake saw some people around. They were all doing things associated with meat preparation, but what he was most interested in was some people had started a fire and were cooking. Lake wanted to get in on this, so he dragged the boar over to the cart to see Stan was there doing the same with a deer.

When Stan saw Lake he Said, "Good work. Since you're staying overnight I can take care of that for you." Lake was fine with this and said, " I was going to cook some of it real quick to eat, But you can take the rest just give some of it to Kyle and Mary." Stan smiled and said, "You good with a leg?"

Lake nodded his head and watched as Stan cut a leg off for him. Lake watched how Stan skinned it. It looked simple enough now he would be able to do it in the future. After He received the Leg from Stan, Lake said bye And walked over to the fire. "Hey, you guys fine with me cooking this?" The man took a rabbit from the fire and said, " You can as long as you bring some wood."

This sounded fair to Lake so he handed the leg to one of them. He watched as they started to cook it for him, then he went to grab some fallen branches from the forest. Lake smiled, this would be his first non corn meal since arriving in this world.