?Found him!“ Lorelei unintentionally excimed out loud.

  The Tanner gave me som directions afterward. Despite wanting to look gruff, he is quite soft and his concern was obvious. Even the Leather… thing to make a sword-handle-grip-things is made quite nicely. Belts are normally uncomfortable to touch on the thin side, but no matter how I hold it, it is comfortable enough. I wonder how it was treated? There isn’t any colour difference.

  Ironically, the Smithy doesn’t look much like one. More like a Middle Ages steel mill? From the windows the huge melting put-ssh-bucket is visible, inside a ?Room“ which has at least double the height of the everywhere else. Chimney not included. The chimney on 5E other side of the house. Bucket Room has none.

  ?Excuse me! Anyone needing her a leather strap for stable grip?“

  “HUHHH?“

  “DO YOU HEAR WHAT I AM SAYING?!“

  “DONT SHOUT SO MUCH!“

  “…So do you hear me?“

  Pointless with her question, a typical dwarf sms the door open. He is covered in soot, but less then expected. He probably wasn’t working until now. Which might makes sense, since the smiths was quite and there wasn’t any smoke.

  “I hear just fine! Thank you!“

  “No Problem!“

  The grumpy dwarf might have expected a answers of such kind when being so toxic, but hearing that without the slightest shame still left him speechless. On the other hand, he never was one to dwell into grudges until the other side was an one-sided asshole.

  “So what are you bringing?“

  “This.“

  “Leather Wrappings.“

  “If that is what it’s called.“

  “Bring it here.“

  As Lorelei trotted the five metres over, she noticed the ?abnormality“, in a sense. In VR, all five sense aren’t replicated perfectly. Vision is the best, with most things having appropriate sound clues. Every pce has a basic smell, with some objects having a special smell ?node“ attached. Like flowers or perfume. Touch is good to go, but the texture of one material, is mostly unchanging. Even though smell exists, the tongue is mostly useless as sensory organ, unless eating food or special herbs. Bance works perfectly, heat is a rough grasp. It’s either cold, coldest, warm hot or a comfortable temperature that makes one not think much about it. Dampness or dry air gets replicate to a certain degree. That’s about the norm.

  New Journey Online 3 made an especially big breakthrough for sounds. While interactive dialogues aren’t new for VR, conversing at such a distance is. She also worked up some sweat. Which is weird. She has to look it up ter. But it’s probably reted to how ?Stamina“ and ?Vitality“ is connected inside the game.

  Vitality is HP, so how much until you die. Stamina is how much you can do until your performance drops. There are some finer details, but generally, when you get hurt, your Stamina also decreases and when you are tired, you have less Vitality. To be detailed, the exact mechanism is unknown, but empiric evidences point at a coalition. -So the Investigation Team of New 3.

  Is sounding smart that hard? Anyway, since I am low levelled right now, I should avoid fighting unless I get rest. But doing Quests inside the city should be fine. Or are they errands, since the System isn’t active right now? At least the NPC fondness of me should, right?

  “Oj! Take that and take it to the Alchemist.“

  “Ehm, whe…“

  “Before the Gate, the House that looks like old dy with the various flowers.“

  “Thanks!“

  And of she goes. The Item these time is a bronze tripod used with a Bunsen burner. It’s made masterfully. Instead of having the three legs welded on it in some way, it looks like it was forged from one ingot. Bck smithing is the realm of forging iron and steel, mostly making weapons and armour. Copper smithing is done by Braziers, who work on things like distiltion, I think. Lorelei can’t say if he dabbled into both or just knows how to handle his metals.

  “Hello Miss!“

  ?Ah, darling, you are back!“

  “Yes, I am. The Smith told me you need this?“

  “Much appreciated. Want some tea?“

  “…“

  Lorelei looked around, seeing the reactions of the other pyer. There are only gncing at her, wondering what fg she raised.No one seemed to have been before her. When she occupies the time of the old dy, no one should be able to take her over. So nothing to use, unless she decides to give the Quest item to the second person. Of that happens, it will be either worth it, or a mean trap of the developers.

  “…Sure, if you want to have me.“

  She doesn’t trust their conscience, but she does trust their ck of creativity. New Journey Online did have some surprises, but they weren’t to eborate, and their was a simir census under the pyerbase of part 2. Mines that explode multiple times were a cssic.

  “Oh, thank you darling. You were the first one to accept my invitation.“

  “Oh.“

  There were people faster then me. When did they overtake me?! Argh!… ARGH! For the server and the nd the race and css is unlocked! So when someone on the other side of Garmidia clears it first, everything will have been for naught! Garmidia, in the Beta at least, did unlock Half-Elves, Wolf- and Cat Beastman. The Druid path was also only found in Garmidia. Naturally, the game isn’t as mean as to not allow one to start at another country.

  I choose Garmidia because it has left the best impression on me. Tanking is only something I wanted to try. Or rather, trying to turn my misfortune into fortune. Since I have some training in martial arts, I have some advantages over others in fighting in VR. At least compared to casual pyers. But me being so much better also affects Teamwork. As I mainly work with random parties, I often find myself ?not well integrated“. That somehow ends with me in the frontline.

  Last would be hoped for quick profits. Garmidia isn’t so friendly towards heavy gear profession. At least the starter vilges aren’t. But this is because the supply is hard to meet. With low numbers of them, it’s possible to supply them. Still, there will be an undeniable shortage on tanks at the beginning. Low supply, high demand, prices increase. Yes, not very eborate, but it should work.

  ?May I ask, how much earlier was the previous person?“

  “Hmm? Oh. You misunderstand something, darling. But it’s fine. First, taste the tea for me. How does it taste.“

  *slurp* ?…Mint and Bck Tea?“

  “Oh my, wrong teabag.“

  She‘s smiling. That was on purpose. I can’t imagine anyone drinking that combination out of their own viotion.

  “This is the one I want you to test.“

  “…Test?“

  And it was prepared. I knew the previous one wasn’t a fluke!

  “Just drink.“

  …*slurp* ?He? Peach and Bck Tea?“

  *cp*“I didn’t expect you to get it right. Yes. How do you like it?“

  “I have many questions, like why is there something peach fvoured, but fist, I like it. In fact, I am familiar with a very simir taste of cold tea with those two fvours. So may I ask why you do that?“

  ?Later Honey. You want to complete a quest, right?“

  “Yes. Then, till ter?“

  “Take this and give it Gerald.“

  ?Where do o find him?“

  “Right beyond this door, Honey.“

  A green bottle, huh. I doesn’t let light through.So her way to address me changed to Honey? And why does she have a door leading to him?

  “Thank you. I understand.“

  Lorelei bowed politely before going through the door. What previously was a well lighted house with friendly atmosphere turned now into a gloomy dark workshop. There is saw dust on the floor, but in a meagre amount. Said floor is made from wooden boards, looking like they were id in very carefully. No cracks or gaps in which the sawdust can fall into. A very big desk with shelves and much more, looking like the carpenter equivalent of mad-scientist boratory desk with a distiltion that has twenty loops and three burner connected to it. Everything is sorted very nicely. Everything that doesn’t lie on the desk.

  Everything that doesn’t lie on the desk includes a wooden head sculpture, more sawdust, carpenter tools, drawing, and a dude napping on it. Said person is probably Gerald.

  “Hey. I am here to give you an Item. The alchemical product.“

  Lorelei spoke softly, but Gerald reacted like a gluttonous character from an Anime when someone days breakfast. He instantly turned, not even looking at here, grappled the bottle and sprayed it over the Head.

  …*snore*

  …and fell asleep again.