The Insider System

Chapter 5: Corn sensitive

Lake stoically waited for his clothes to arrive, and he could tell his aura was scaring Wallace, if it wasn't for the fact that he and Sam were best friends, Wallace would have already kicked him out. Seeing someone walk in with his new things Lake was ecstatic, acquire item was one of his main concerns. New n𝙤vel chapters are published on

Putting on his new pants Lake started lying through his teeth. "On my way here to bring you some ideas I had for the corn festival I ran into some hardship. While I was walking to town I heard some strange noises in the corn, and as a fellow farmer I went to check it out only to discover a rat feast; and all of them eating your corn." "Gasp." As gasps rang out around the room Lake knew he had them on the hook, now he just had to become the hero of their hearts. " Unarmed I used the only thing I had at hand, my clothes.

Pulling my shirt of my back I used it as a net incapacitating 3 rats simultaneously, Next my shoes, I used them to rain down blows upon them but after a few my shoes had been devoured, and not only that the rats had eaten through my shirt and freed themselves, so as a last resort I took my pants and used it as a whip, but since they were truly just pants it had no effect." Lake paused to put on his shirt and shoes.[Quest complete: Reward Skill: Marks of interest] Lake could feel as something stirred inside him, so he looked at his status screen.

Name: Lake Fuller

Race: Human Lv.1

Job: Thief Lv.0 ( 3/5 )

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

Stats

Health 10

Stamina 10

Mana 10

Strength 1

Endurance 1

Agility 1

Dexterity 1

Perception 1

Intelligence 1

Charisma 1

Skills:

Marks of interest (U) Lv.1

Marks Unique Items, people, and locations, after they are marked they can be sensed, and located at any time in the future.

Lake knew how strong this ability was at first glance and he also noticed, The Insider had gained one of whatever its equivalent of Exp was. " So what happened next?" Lake realized he had been distracted in the middle of his story and left his audience high and dry. " Where was I?" Lake actually did not remember he was just spouting nonsense and couldn't remember what he said. "Um, Whip pants."

Sam had stepped out to remind him. " That's right, After my pants failed I did the only thing I could, and stomped, as you all know that's a sure fire way to kill rats and it worked, but only on one. I was being overrun, and not only that they were surrounding me, so I ran away because I knew if we all worked together we could stop this rat attack. And as I was running It hit me, an idea that was better than the one I risked my life to bring you."

Lake stopped talking at this point and just kind of waited. "Please, what's the idea? I can't stand the suspense." Lake turned to Sam and said, " You tell them, I don't feel like it, and I already told you." He was throwing Sam a bone for helping him even though he was a guy with no clothes, and Lake knew kids loved breaking big news.

Lake sat down to listen to Sam explain the idea. And he did a good job because soon everyone was in an uproar. " Tell me how did being chased by rats make you think of this?" Smirking Lake said " Because there's no way a rat could ever solve a maize."

Once again, gasps rang out across the room, and one guy directly fainted. Lake guessed a medieval farmer wasn't used to all this excitement. But Lake could see that Wallace wasn't fully satisfied, and Lake knew why. Wallace was a true magnate of the corn industry, and like any businessman, Wallace wanted more profit.

But Lake would make him ask, Lake watched as Wallace's greed overtook his common decency, and he asked, " What was your original idea?" Lake loved it when people were corrupted, so he said, "Spin the corn. I envisioned a game where young eligible people could let corn decide their future spouse, by standing in a circle and spinning it."

Wallace sat and rubbed his beard while he thought about lake's proposal, and said " You're right it's not as good but still usable. With this we'll have two new things for this year's corn festival." Wallace put on a joyous face but Lake could tell it was all an act. Now that Lake was wearing his clothes there was no difference between the two, and Wallace was afraid that Lake could use his brain for corn to win the peoples hearts, and usurp his corn kingdom.

But what Lake knew, and Wallace would find out was Lake was about to leave town to kill rats, to level up. Now that Lake had new shoes he planned to decipher this cryptic job system. But first he needed some sort of weapon, maybe a stick or rock of some kind.