VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"What's the difference between other Flin birds and a 'Well trained' Flin bird?" Elio asked with a curious look, caressing his little slime friend in his hand.

Since they were done looking around and did not find any bird they could bring back, they finished their shopping and were going back.

"Hmmm? Why ask that? Did you find any 'well trained' Flin there? Did you use Observation again?" Alex found this out of the blue question quite surprising.

"Yeah. Remember that green Owl? The window said it was trained very well."

"Wow, really?" It was quite unexpected for her.

Elio was able to find out about something that people could not find even with normal appraisal skills with a basic function.

"How many times has it been already? You're most definitely used Observation and Identification more than a few hundred times, right?"

"...what about my question? How are the well trained ones different?" As always, she was abruptly changing the topic to something she wanted to know. But, he did not let her do it this time.

He wanted his answer, so he gave her the look that said what he desired.

"What's up with you, man? Did something happen?"

"No? Well, just answer my question first."

He was the one that asked first, so he wanted the answer to his question. It was simple.

"Hmmm…"

She looked at him for a moment, but then she just shook her head as if whatever thought she had just now did not really matter.

"Flins are, at the end of the day, birds.

They are not creatures, they are of various kinds and they have evolved and adapted to their nature.

As you know, they are called Flin birds because of the geographical areas that they are found in, right?"

They were going to leave early morning tomorrow, so they needed to rest in what little time they had.

They did not dilly-dally after finishing their shopping and quickly came back to their inn. Miu and Az were with them tonight since they all needed to talk and prepare for tomorrow.

"So… when they catch a Flin, most of them are not as well behaved as some of the others.

Even for master tamers and trainers, they are hard to deal with. But, some are more natural for the training they provide.

Only the ones that complete the training are actually called a Flin bird, but those who are Well trained have better chances to do what they are trained."

He sat down on the bed first when they reached their room, and Az jumped off of his lap.

Miu came out of Az and stretched its crystal limbs, something that had now become a familiar sight to the two of them.

"So, in short, they are better products?"

"...it's quite strange when you call them 'products' Mister Elio."

"I was just asking." with a sigh, he nodded at her who was still standing before him. Allowing her to place her head on his lap.

She liked it like that, and he did not mind once in a while either.

"Hmmm… anyway, I answered your question. Now it's your turn."

She didn't think there was anything wrong with him, so they moved back to her previous question.

"Haven't you used Observation and Identification a few hundred times already? Shouldn't you get {Appraisal} by now?"

"I should, I think. But I didn't count how many times I've used that function. I practically use it every single day."

He used it for all kinds of things.

He observed little things outside his window when they were in an inn, when traveling, he Observed all things around him, and even when they were shopping, he looked at all kinds of things in the shops.

He even Observed people around him, so it had become a simple daily practice for him.

"After I didn't get the skill after 300th Observation, I thought there was something more to the conditions that Players did not know.

I thought I would get it after a certain level, but then… Well… since I use Observation everyday anyway, I didn't really need a specific appraisal skill."

Having an appraisal skill would be better, he understood that better than ever after meeting that old couple in their first village.

But he did not need it for now at least.

"I don't think I need it right now actually anyway, so I'll-."

"You dumb human…"

Cutting him off midway, she shook her head and looked at him as if she was looking at the most ignorant human in this world.

"Don't you know anything about [Skill Qualification evaluation] function?"

She got up from his lap and placed her hands on his shoulders with a frustrated look.

"..."

The look he had right now was not calm anymore. He did not understand what she was talking about.

"Do you even know anything about skills or do you believe Players just get it directly like Natives and creatures do?"

For a moment there, she had forgotten that he was completely ignorant about most of the things related to this game.

"Of course I know… about the Skill evaluation thing."

He knew it. He had just never really heard much about the function since no one talked about it or anything.

"You… dummy…" She pressed her temple with frustration before looking at him angrily.

"Repeat after me."

"What-."

"Just say what I say! …please."

She did not want to shout at him, but whenever he did something so obviously dumb, she could not control herself.

"Say: Skill Qualification Evaluation."

"...skill qualification evaluation." Find more to read at empire

[Ding!]

"Request."

"Request…"

[Accepting Request…]

"Search Skill qualification data."

"Search for skill qualification data."

"Did I say 'for'?!"

[Ding!]

[Request accepted.]

[Searching for your Qualified skills.]

"Well, it worked anyway."

She wanted to hit him in the head, but she controlled herself.

He was so pitifully dumb that he did not even know players had to use a unique function to get the skills that they qualify for, much like a reward claiming system for doing certain things.

It was one of the most common functions of the game, and yet he did not know about it even after having worked with some of the best of this game…

"You're unbelievable, El…"

She did not know what to do with him.

So she just kissed him.