Races: Online

"What about you, Han? Are you trying?" Sir Leon de Harrington asked him. The Nobleman raised a brow at him but also held a smile.

He wanted to rub his face at that question as he looked at them and tried to measure if their questioning was serious. There didn't seem to be any malice in it and so he sighed and shook his head, "No, I don't even have a weapon to strike him with."

"Hmm, good point. But what about doing one of those interesting attacks you did with Donovan?"

Said person ended up giving him a dirty eye. It seemed like that it was a bad memory for them. Han coughed, "I don't think that can actually inflict the wound our Professor wants."

"Ah, not confident with your strength?"

Their Professor was huge! Han simply returned back their question, "Are you?"

"Not really and it is a bit of a shame that I've only brought an unenchanted rapier or else I might have tried for it as well." The Nobleman admitted with a sheepish chuckle. 

It seemed a little surprising that this person wouldn't take the opportunity to show off, so Han continued, "What about using any kind of [ Skills ] to fill in the gap of your blade?" 

"Something strong enough to defeat a Swordsman at the level of our Professor?" Sir Leon stifled a chuckle, "I wouldn't—"

"Well, if the two of you are too much of a coward to try, then I'll do it for the two of you." Lady Angelika joined their conversation, her broad sword in her hands. "But we'll see how truly strong our Professor Uriel's defense is—a potion like that has a time limit as well."

"Lady Angelika, that would not align with our Professor's desire to showcase how difficult it is to face a Wyvern. Most of us won't get a second chance to strike such a creature." Sir Leon de Harrington pointed out with a smile, "I have no desire dealing with such a threat."

Somehow the young man was able to capture the essence of this exercise quite well—Han would have to admit that to himself silently. But if anything, this was still a spectacle to be beheld.

And the first one of the challengers were Lu Rei. 

It was with a little stamp of her feet that the young woman stood up and unlike most of the women he encountered here who wore dresses or robes—she wore something that looked like trousers and a collar shirt as she approached their Professor.

"Lu Rei will test her strength against you, Professor Uriel." She bowed her head once before stepping back a considerable distance away from the man and the rest of the students.

The Professor didn't even need to say a word as the young woman dashed forward before leaping into the air and struck down the older man who simply blocked it with his arms.

A sharp sound erupted into the air as wood met skin—and there were no visible markings on their Professor's skin. Not even a red mark from where they had been hit.

Ru Lei was the one who checked their wooden staff with furrowed brows, "It's reinforced wood." She then walked up to their Professor and poked his arm, "Professor, you have suffered no injuries? Any internal bleeding?"

"No, Ru Lei. Are you finished?" The 

Professor asked her, "Is that all you can do? It's a little less than what I have expected from a warrior who had left their homelands to learn here."

Somehow this man seemed to be in a mood.

The golden haired young woman's eye twitched but she merely smiled, she seemed to be a lot more upfront with the Professor than with her classmates, "As you've said, Professor. I came here to learn—"

"Are you done yet, there are others who have yet to get a turn you know?" It was Donovan who spoke up, his axe rested on his shoulders. 

The other students were clearly avoiding him to prevent themselves from being hit by his weapon. Han simply kept quiet as the notion of Professor Uriel's words struck him.

He had assumed that the world each had their individual foothold, the Human territory was solely located in the Yegarian Kingdom, the Elves, Demons, Dwarves and others had their territory elsewhere but it was only one for each one of them.

It didn't make sense that Yegarian Kingdom would have more vast lands that had differing people, surely the Creators would have said that it was an Empire and they had an Emperor, not a King—so it meant that there were more Human Kingdoms.

And so his world grew even larger than he had already known. And if his guess was right, this Ru Lei was from another continent entirely. Interacting with her would unlock the hidden portions in his World Map.

But getting back to his present, Han was still underleveled, unequipped and broke. Those things were what he needed to focus on first before he became excited of the notion of other lands to explore.

The Wood Elf had a point in saying that he should become a King—or at least wealthy enough to do what he wanted.

So once again, even in a simulated world like this still needed riches to get anywhere in the world. That wasn't exactly rocket science but that increased his goals more.

1 Level Up To Become Stronger

2 Get Richer

He had to do that at the same time. Or maybe the second one first. Because he could already tell that even if he was low leveled, having access to enchanted weapons and potions were able to make a difference.

A flash of golden light took him out of his musings as he saw it glow around Ru Lei's staff as she launched another attack towards their Professor.

It was able to make the Swordsman Uriel dig his heels a little deeper into the soil—and yet still come out unscathed.

"Are you going up next, Donovan?" Their Professor asked and took the moment to yawn.

The Axe-Wielder frowned and shrugged, "Maybe I'll observe some more before I do it."

Han watched Ru Lei do something that looked like a walk of shame back to her seat behind him and the others. She received a pat from one of the girls while the others who had urged her in the first place were beginning to stand up.

A multitude of students had stood up and tried to inflict a wound on their Professor with varying success.

One Fist Fighter ended up screaming in pain as they tried to bruise their Professor.

Some unlucky young man ended up breaking their own sword when it had made contact with the Swordsman's skin.

Perhaps the only grace given to them was that their Professor didn't fight back. If he did—he was sure that with such thick skin, they would have easily knocked the students out with a punch.

Now it didn't mean that there weren't creative ones. Most of them mostly held a common weapon like a sword and maybe daggers, presumably the ones who wanted to become a Rogue or Assassin like him maybe?

A cloud of smoke and another explosion sounded—courtesy of a young man who had stayed where they were and attacked their Professor with a bow and arrow.

Han Jing was impressed with his classmate and even more so with their Professor. He wasn't sure how many students had attempted to make him bleed and yet not one of them had succeeded yet.

In the corner of his vision, Donovan was sharpening his axe again to no end. While Angelika seemed to be bickering with Sir Leon. Somehow the two ended up in some debate, presumably it was something that two Nobles who couldn't explicitly flirt with each other do.

Or maybe that was just how he saw their relationship.

Han was kind of bored if he were to be honest. He wasn't going to attempt to attack the man with his bare fists unless he was willing for his own body to get racked in pain—and he wasn't exactly sure on how to initiate conversation with the girl behind him.

Wait.

He had almost forgotten about something he could do while he waited for the class to come to an end. And he was pretty sure that it would end without any of the students actually achieving something—he began to gather resources in Oaken Ashwood. Surely he needed to make money and this was the best start for it.

Gather strange and rare plants to sell in the market and profit. It was only a shame that there was a maximum amount of items he could retrieve on a daily basis. He needed to check and figure out that function more to see if he could upgrade it.

And that [ Crafting ] function as well.

Would he be able to bypass Alchemy lessons and just use that function to make potions? If that was the case then he may end up making some money but he wasn't sure if every ingredient would be available in the Oaken Ashwood.

He might need to shell out some money…

And he only had two silver coins left.

The idea of heading over to a pawn shop and have Timothy's locket appraised came to his mind but that only soured his mood a bit. Even if the guy had ignored him and left him, that would be a jerk move. 

And yet, what if it was valuable? Timothy already pawned it to Grandma Moe for gold to use in his studies. If he were able to pawn it and then repay it quickly, surely it wouldn't be that much right?

There were the options of loaning from someone like Sir Leon de Harringtom but he didn't like that at all—

"[ Wind Breaker ]!"