[The profeciency of your weapon{Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings} has been increased by an level]
This was something I was expecting the most through this training. Though my main goal didn't get fulfilled but this was not bad too.
Weapons have their own skills and skill tree, though it varies for the weapons obtained from Gacha and weapons got from the bosses and discovered in this world. There are many weapons hidden in this world created by ancient weaponsmiths during their era but now awaiting for their new owner.
Such weapons including the weapons obtained from bosses have their own mechanism. The more a player uses them—whether in a battle or in training those weapons obtains some exp from swinging that increases the profeciency of that particular weapon.
The profeciency of such weapons is like a level which breaks the limit breaker of that weapon and allows player to create their own original and unique skill of that weapon.
A player can make a skill using the Clear Energy in their body. A Clear Energy is like aura present inside a player which is shaped in a white circle inside the player and a player can infuse it with mana and other energies to increase it's capability more or can just cultivate it to increase it's capability.
And then in the blink of an eye another screen popped up infront of me.
[You can now create 2 skills of your weapon{Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings}]
[The durability of your weapon{Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings} has increased by a level]
[The sharpness of your weapon{Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings} has increased by a level]
And just like these screens came infront of my eyes and faded into the thin air.
I was breathing heavily because I was tired and it was already noon, the sun was nearly above my head—though it was not much visible in this dense forest.
A wiped sweat from my cheeks using my right arm and stored both my weapons in inventory and started walking towards the village. I had decided to rest for around an hour in the village and that head to level up more so that I can move to Quest 2 as soon as possible.
There was not much sunlight coming into the forest because of the dense leaves of the trees. I could hear the rattling sound coming from the bushes. The grass beneath my shoes was wet and cool. The environment around me was really cool even though the sun was almost above my head.
My life in this world was full of anxiety for me as every moment I was scared for it. There was no guarantee of my life in this world. At any moment I could die, maybe a beast would come infront of me—a lot powerful than me, eventually killing. Maybe some natural disaster would come and kill me. Maybe some rutheless player would come and end my life for some petty rewards from my corpse.
I called for the shop and bought a water skin. I removed it's cap and started drinking water which started falling from my lips to my neck making me feel a bit of tickling.
There was some water remaining in the water skin which I poured on my head as it was really hot from all the heat generated during the training.
'If I want to control both of these swords than I have to build some strength—some muscles. ' I though with an exhale. Even my breath was a bit hot.
The village was around half an hour away from the place I was in. And because of all the heat my body was emitting into the environment, I was now slowly feeling cold.
Around 10 minutes more passed since I started walking towards the village and a screen popped up infront of my face out of no where which startled me for a second.
[You have a new message from your friend(Ice) ]
"Oh, I didn't think that Ice would contact me this soon. " I whispered under my breath with a faint smile on my face. I was kind of happy after seeing that notification but I was too nervous to open it up. I was wondering what she had send me but my nervousness was making my heart beat like crazy. In the silence of the forest my heartbeat was echoing around.
I gulped and made myself ready to open it up.
"Open the message from Ice. "
[Ice: Hey, what you doing? ]
For some reason there was a bit of disappointment I was feeling. I had thought of a different kind of message but why? I don't know. It was obvious that she would send a 'Hi' but still I didn't want that. I wanted something else, I wanted her to ask to meet up.
With disappointed expressions on my face, I replied to her message as it was not good to leave her on seen.
[Airu: Just trained a bit, what about you? ]
My own reply was a bit normal too. It wasn't that fancy.
I didn't expect any message to come soon as girl often take their time to reply back. And so I called off the screen and focused on returning back to the village, enjoying the cool air and the nature around me.
But before I could even take another breath, the screen popped back again.
[You have a new message from your friend(Ice) ]
"Huh!? This soon!? "
For some reason these words came out of my mouth in a frenzy and I said them aloud and as they echoed in the forest I opened her message.
[Ice: Wanna meet? ]
And a big smile came on my face after reading those words. They were same as I wanted her to say. I was too nervous to ask her and so instead of asking her I wanted her to ask me.
Without wasting another minute, with my flustered face I replied back.
[Airu: Sure, where you at? ]
I let the screen hover infront of my face and kept walking towards the village. The smile was still on my face and my face was still red and now that reddish color reached up to my ears covering my cheeks, my nose and my ears now.
I rubbed my head with my right hand and waited for her message to come back. But sadly, no message came from her.
5 minutes passed, 10 minutes passed, 15 minutes passed..... and just like that I was now standing infront of the main gate of the village with the screen still hovering infront of me.
My expressions were full of agony as my heart was saddened deeply. I had expected her to reply instantly as she did that to my first reply but it didn't happen. There was only silence from her side.
Making the screen disappear with a heavy sigh I entered inside the village and at the centre of the village, all the young men of the village were scattered and were hearing to someone who was giving them a speech—Eryndor.
Luna and Elwyn were standing at each side of Eryndor.
'It's maybe a some kind of village meeting. '
I thought in my mind as I walked to them.
Luna was the first one to spot me as she was looking around and not giving any attention to the speech of Eryndor.
The moment her eyes met mine, a faint smile came on her face and she stretched her right hand towards me and called me by waving her hand to me.
In silence I walk to her while Eryndor's words acknowledged me. They were about some kind of war which I was aware of and so I wasn't able to make a meaning out of them.
I was around 6 steps away from Luna when something really unexpected happened.
[You have recieved a new message from your friend(Ice) ]
Now I had two choices: First to see Ice's message and second to go to Luna.
If I choose first, Luna would get upset at me and might beat my ass later. But if I choose second then I might upset Ice because she might think that I didn't reply back to her even though I was online because she didn't reply to mine.
But before I could even choose any option, Luna jumped off of the platform she was standing on beside Eryndor and walked to me.
Elwyn moved his eyes to Luna and me and slapped his head with his right hand to show disappointment on Luna.
Luna was standing infront of me. Her tall body praising my eyes, her big breasts bouncing infront of my eyes as if they wanted to come out. Both her hands behind her waist and like always, she was bent towards my face a bit.
With a faint smile she asked, "So how was the training? "
I exhaled a deep sigh to show my failure and replied with my head below, "Not much good. I was trying to control both my weapons simultaneously but I couldn't. But in the end I rasied my other weapon's proficiency by a level. "
She placed both her hands on my shoulder and now her face was around 12 cm away from mine. She looked me dead in the eyes and her smile grew even bigger and out of nowhere she started praising me, "Isn't that good? You were able to raise your weapon's proficiency in just this short amount of time. You should be proud of yourself Airu. "
Looking at her face there was only one question in my mind, from where does she get this kinda energy of changing her mood instantly?
Her personality was always a mystery to me when I finished the webnovel. And now in this world the mystery instead of solving got even more twisted.
I smiled after her words, raised my head and looked her in the eyes. I don't know whether it was my imagination or not but when I looked her in the eyes her cheeks turned slightly red and after hearing my words the red hue increased more.
"Thank you, Luna. "
And to cover her red cheeks she moved her head from my range of vision and with a bit of nervousness in her voice whispered, "It's okay. You don't have to thank me. "
I took a sidestep to take a look at her face but she turned away as if hiding her face from me.
I questioned out of curiousity, "Why are you hiding your face from me? "
The nervousness increased in her voice.
"I... I am not. "
From the corner of my eyes I could see the distant elves giving me that look of an outsider. And of course I was an outsider but that look alone was not for an outsider but for someone who did some bad deeds but the problem here was that I was not the one who did bad deeds.
It were the actions of other players for which I was getting these looks but as they say, baby is thrown out with the bathwater.
But I just decided to ignore it as it was not their mistake.
I just started to enjoy my talk with Luna when the screen popped up in my right which left a despair look on my face.
[You have a new message from Ice(1) ]
Luna was looking away from me and so I found this moment perfect to reply to Ice without making her feel like she was not important and I was disrespecting her.
I opened her message silently and looked at it.
[Ice: I AM SO SORRY FOR LATE REPLY, I WAS FIGHTING A BEAST]
[Ice: PLEASE DON'T IGNORE ME, I AM SORRY]
These were the two messages I recieved from her. And reading those two messages left a look on my face, flustered look. I was happy but at the same time startled from her messages as I didn't expect such kindness from her. Not much time passed since we met and she was giving me such importance.
Hiding my screen from Luna who was still hiding her face from me, I whispered the reply to the screen.
[Airu: It's okay! And sorry I was a bit busy and couldn't look at you messages]
The moment I sent my reply, a shadow came over the screen. It was a shadow of a really hot elf coming from behind.
The moment I looked at the shadow, I realised who it was. And with nervousness in my body and trembling in fear, I turned back slowly.
Infront of my eyes was the suspicious look on her face—on the face Luna.
She was looking at me and on the screen. Her hands were crossed balancing her breasts on them.
She bent a bit to my face and asked, "Who's this 'Ice'? "
With nervous voice I replied, "I.. uh.. she's a friend of mine. "
Hearing those words, her face lighten up a lot and once more a big smile came on her face. She hit my back with her right hand and said with a cheerful voice, "Then why don't you invite her in the village and introduce her to me and Elwyn? "
She said it so loudly that even the distant elves who were hearing to Eryndor heard it and they all looked at me with anger. I could feel it coming from them.
And an elf walked out of them, full of anger. I could see anger in his voice too. He wore a simple white trouser and a leather amor. His hairs were limish and long tied back in a ponytail with no strand of hair falling on his forehead.
He roared, "I won't let him bring another player into our village! But if he do so, then none of us will hesitate to kill him. "
And now there was a turmoil, turmoil over Luna's words which endangered my life.