The FOOL’S quite BRAVE to pick this

Author note: I will have to come up with alternatives to leveling as leveling should slow down as we go. For the adventurers guild quests are a good way to do it.

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SKILL SELECTED!

UPDATING BODY!

I felt all the memories of me being brave or foolish flash before me and then they all created a link to one point, that point felt like a button in my head. If I pressed it… something would happen. Presumably the skill would activate and I would feel less fear. I picked the skill because if I was going to march in a straight line towards danger I should do so with confidence.

I thought about trying to use it to hit on the barmaid again but decided against it. I didn’t foresee that going well. I finished my drink and left, the rain had finally stopped. I saw a lady carrying a bundle of weapons as she ran. For a second I thought about hitting on her but that was a terrible idea for one since she seemed crazy.

At home I tried fool’s bravery for the first time. It was a weird feeling as suddenly I was over confident. Why didn’t I hit on the barmaid again? She kissed me so she must be interested, if I surprised her with a kiss she would have fallen head over heels. I should head right back to town and show her who a real man is!

That was right when I tripped and fell. The fall made me stop using the skill and I blinked at what I was so determined to do a moment ago. Fool’s bravery was an apt name and while my body feels fine I am much more tired than before. That must be from using the mental energy.

The rest of the night I train advance until I am exhausted then head to bed. Over the next couple days I spar with my father and find that advance is just as harmful as it is helpful. I almost always push him back when I use the skill but I am unable to adjust my footing or stop myself. This leads to him moving out of the way and scoring a hit.

Trying to use fools bravery has ended even worse. My father always ends up looking at me like I have gone crazy, I tend to only use instinct plus some crazy plan. For example just charging him and ignoring all attempts to block in exchange for more attacks. It is like I have reverted to the strategy of someone who has picked up a blade for the first time.

I did come up with a trick for the skill, I use it for a single moment before my thoughts can suggest something stupid. Sometimes a single moment of confidence can be enough to get me going and I can keep pushing forward.

I decide that my skills are going to take too long to master so I head to the adventures guild. If I want to eventually get high rank jobs then I need to start regularly completing the easy ones.

I walk into the adventurers guild and see a woman that I recognize in passing at least. Yalanue is the only elf in our small farming town. She has long blonde hair and the most attractive face I have ever seen. Like if a face that looked so good it would turn on a man as much as boobs or ass.

Sorry I got that description from my Ralph, my bard friend. He has a… way with words although I am still unsure if he is amazing or terrible with women. I would think not but he claims otherwise.

Shaking the perverted thoughts from my head I use fools bravery for just a second. Just enough for me to start walking towards her. “Hello, I would like to sign up as a new adventurer.”

She looks up from some papers in an almost mono tone voice, “Name, class, preferred position in a party.”

“Klark Brookhold, warrior and balanced Melee fighter.”

She nods filling out a new paper, then looks at him with her expressionless stare, “Level?”

“Two.”

She writes it down and says, “Ok, you are good to go. Here is a temporary adventurers badge, feel free to look at the board for quests. You can only accept F rank quests at the moment. Or D rank as a part of a party.

Each quest has both a monetary reward and a certain number of points. Get enough points and you are eligible to take a test to rank up. After the test and your points will be reset whether you failed or succeeded. There is no limit to the number of times you can retake the test as long as you gather the points needed between each attempt.”

I accept the small metal tag on a string that is labeled temp adventurer, then think about what she said and ask, “Is it bad if we take the test many times? I assume people would get faster at acquiring points.”

“We don’t care if you take the test a hundred times as long as there is time between attempts and you have learned more whether in levels or otherwise. As for getting faster at acquiring points, that is just a sign you are improving. Unless there is some exploit in the rules which we will either fix or it is intentional and we would rather have to give more tests in exchange for the quest being completed. Any other questions?”

“No, I think I am good.”

While I found her attractive I wasn’t sure how to turn things into a date not when she shows so little emotion in voice and facial expressions. I pull my eyes from her wondering if she noticed but I doubt she could have not noticed that I found her attractive. I wasn’t exactly subtle.

I looked at the board and saw three quests that I had interest in.

Quests

Request: Pull weeds from my garden

Poster: Malinda, owner of the apothecary.

Reward: 5 copper, 1 point

This was a simple quest and should be achievable in the evening. I also bet she will need help on a regular basis.

Request: Hunt rats around town

Poster: David Brooke, Mayor

Reward: 1 copper per rat tail turned in, 1 point for every five rats.

This is a quest that could be done in a full or partial day but I wasn’t confident in my ability to complete it. Maybe Yalanue would have an idea on how to do the quest?

Quest: clean up the bar after closing

Poster: Raven, barmaid

Reward: 1 copper, 1 point.

I was definitely interested in talking to Raven more, maybe there would be more chances for me to level my pervert class.