Homesteading in a fantasy world

The walk back was nice and I did tell them everything I found out and that after some combat training they can go inside. Arthur was the most excited and begged that we start combat training tomorrow. I was able to convince him to wait a few more days so we can finish our current training.

But mostly on the walk back I was thinking about food and the notifications waiting for me. It was kind of a pain to wait so long to see them, but I was willing to wait. After dinner and when I was in my room, I started to look through my notification.

Level up homesteader

homesteader now level 6

strength +4

dexterity +4

vitality +4

endurance +2

empathy +2

intelligence +2

Level up true archer

true archer now level 4

strength +5

dexterity +5

vitality +3

perception +4

Level up heroic soldier

heroic soldier now level 4

strength +5

dexterity +3

vitality +4

constitution +4

presence +2

Some nice level-ups. I was on going to tier up with some of the stats soon, but what I was anticipating the most was the 160 tier up for the three main ones. Those traits should be quite awesome.

Ability upgrades

piercing cut level 19 --> 20

counterweight level 11 --> 14

silent arrow level 4 --> 5

plant sight level 1 --> 2

energy sight level 2 --> 4

animal sight level 1 --> 2

shaped edge level 1 --> 2

homesteaders mile level 1 --> 2

sharp blade level 10 --> 14

extreme energy precision level 1 --> 2

heavy blow level 3 --> 5

tactical advantage level 2 --> 3

light steps level 1 --> 2

charged throw level 1 --> 2

Ability piercing cut reaches level 20 upgraded to penetrating slash level 1

Skill upgrades

basic identification level 5 --> 6

energy manipulation level 2 --> 4

basic spear level 6 --> 10

basic sword level 7 --> 10

combat strategy level 1 --> 2

throwing level 1 --> 2

basic battle presence level 2 --> 5

Skill increases basic spear level 10 is upgraded to spear level 1

Choose one of the following abilities

stable footing

piercing thrust

steady hand

I have noticed the missing part of thrusting from my abilities. It was a bit awkward fighting without having a good ability to help thrust so that will have to be my choice here.

You have gained a new ability piercing thrust level 1

Skill increases basic sword level 10 is upgraded to sword level 1

Choose one of the following abilities

weapon enhancement

quick strike

pommel hit

This is an easy choice weapon enhancement is a must and it's a general choice as well. Quick strike seemed good also, but I will have to stay. The pommel hit is a meme choice. Perhaps the ability in the future will upgrade into a legendary, end them rightly ability. At least now that piercing cut has upgraded I know abilities can get better as well.

You have gained a new ability weapon enhancement level 1

You have gained a new skill basic awareness level 1

You have gained a new skill basic traps level 1

You have gained a new skill basic cartography level 1

So many ability and skill upgrades and a few new skills are welcomed as well. I guess the scribblings of the dudgeon onto a piece of leather counted towards cartography.

This one trip was extremely rewarding but not only with the achievement page but in general as well. This was extremely helpful for learning more about combat in this world.

I can’t wait to go back. Usually, I don’t like to kill, only when it is necessary but inside the dungeon, it truly didn’t feel like it. Up until now I truly didn’t know how much I liked fighting when there wasn’t the bad feeling of killing beside it.

Although I can also see that this dungeon will soon just be a chore when I know every nook and cranny. Then it won’t be so enjoyable although I can see myself trying different weapons and fighting styles to make it a bit more fun later on.

The most noticeable change for me is my ability with sight and energy. It feels like I can control energy a lot better now. I would like to see how the dungeon core controlled energy more to learn from it even more. I experimented with my energy sight and found some extremely interesting things.

The lucky rabbit’s foot had energy circulating inside. The most prevalent colour was greenish gold. It was a colour that I was not familiar with but if I had to take a guess this was the luck stat energy colour. Hopefully tomorrow I can make it into the item and see if I can get any stats from it.

This simple marble chunk trophy I took might also turn out to be useful as I now know why the dungeon looked bright and lit up to my energy sight.

The rock that the dungeon made acted like a glow stick outside the dungeon to my energy sight. This will help me so much and fix my problem of needing a light source in complete darkness.

I had pushed this notification back as much as possible to build up my excitement, but it was time to open the last notification

You have delved deep into a dungeon and have earned the right to start your adventuring journey.

I could choose to deny it, but I didn’t and choose to accept the adventuring class.

New class gained adventurer

No path found

New path started

Please pick your first skill

There was a huge list of skills that thankfully there seemed to have a way to sort them. I wish that every search engine could just search whatever you want with your mind I would have saved so much time back on earth if that was a possibility.

There were extremely specific skills like a one-handed sword. You can even make it more specific and pick a certain type of one-handed sword. You could just pick sword skill also although I already have that skill. I am guessing that the more specific you go the better you can be with that one weapon but if you pick something more general you will have greater options.

The list seemed endless and had some things that I’ve never even heard of and some seem to be greyed out. I could not even read what they said.

Unfortunately, there were no magic skills although there seemed to be energy-based magic, but it seemed quite shallow. Perhaps it’s only the first skill and will expand but I do not know exactly how the adventurers class works. Although I do know that at every level something must be picked.

With a bit more searching I did find skills that would be useful for farming and later on you could probably get the abilities for them that will be even more useful. But with all the options I couldn’t find something that really excited me. I felt that my classes already gave me the things I need for fighting and general living.

Another 30 minutes went by as I was now doing a random search hoping to see something that will catch my eye. I can be quite stubborn about things like this. But then on one of the random searches, a skill named body popped up. It made my brain freeze.

I guess my body was the most important thing. It was a general skill covering a lot of things but for some reason, it was scratching my brain. Was this a good choice?

I mean my body is the vessel that holds my everything. It’s the thing that I used to interact with the world. This could be very powerful if I can find the correct build further on.

This was going to be the base of my adventure class. I was quite satisfied with that. Let’s hope that I can continue to build a strong class and that I didn’t just fuck myself over.

You have gained a new adventuring skill beginner body level 1

Now that everything was finally finished, I could rest my battered body although it was already getting better thanks to all my stats and traits. Tomorrow will be quite an interesting day as I will try to craft an item with the dungeon loot.

The next day came quickly and this time I was the last one to awake but I did find it was quite nice when breakfast was already done, and I could just eat. I have not had that feeling for years. When we finish doing the chores, I started to teach them how to completely assemble an arrow. They had learned how to make all the different pieces, all that was left was learning to finish them.

While I'm teaching them, I'm also thinking about how to make the necklace and what to use in making it. When I'm finally able to leave them unsupervised at least a little while I went to get all the items needed to complete the necklace.

I was just going to use a leather strip to hold it around my neck. For the connection a cap that will hold the rabbit foot. I was going to use a large gold coin that I have for that.

I started by hammering the gold coin flatter to make it a bit larger. Then I cut two lines in the middle so I can hammer a loop out where I can attach the leather strip. Next came some measuring to make the coin into the correct size cap to fit the rabbit foot. To finish it I need to pinch the cap shut to trap the rabbit foot in it.

It looked simple, yet I liked it. The dark brown leather string looked good against the dull gold from the coin and the different browns and dark greys of the foot. I finally inspected it.

Lucky rabbit's foot necklace: luck +2

Holy shit it actually gives stats and in luck as well. I quickly put it on and as soon as I did on my status screen a new stat appeared luck +2 but when I took it off it disappeared. It didn’t leave the luck stat there. I put it back on and I was quite certain after I felt it out a bit that there was no way I could put free stat points into it to make it permanent.

It was a bit of a disappointment but not the end of the world. I tucked the rabbit’s foot underneath my shirt and went to look over all the arrows my apprentices had finished. I corrected some of the mistakes and showed how to fix those mistakes. When they finished making 50 arrows, I told them to stop because it was time for that next step.

It was time for them to make their own bow. This time I show them twice how to make a short bow and for every step I let them test it so they understood how it should feel. It took until the end of the day for each of them to finish a bow that worked. The only one that made a bow that can be used to hunt was George, but it was at best only good for rats and squirrels.

But it was a good start, and they seem to be quite pleased with their progress not just in general but with their achievement pages as well. This night we also had a sauna because I wanted to relax more and next time when I go delving, I will ask them to prepare a sauna because I feel like it would be quite enjoyable after a delve to visit one.

The next day we continued with the bow making, arrow making and in between we also did some bow shooting to get them started. About half a day had gone past when I noticed that the goblins had entered my land again and this time, they were moving quite fast towards me.

I wondered what might have happened that they needed to see me so quickly, but I didn’t let it bother me and we continued our training.

We had already cleaned everything up and my apprentices were heading to get dinner while I had to go and meet the goblins. They had yet to make it to the edge of the forest so when I made it to our meeting place, I enter a campsite halfway between the bridge and the forest. I had to wait for them a little bit.

The fire was burning strong when I saw them come out of the woods. It seemed that they were quite relieved to see me already waiting and quickly made their way over to me.