The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 39: The suspicious man.

“That’s an awesome power! I can control things with my mind like the smart villains in the comics, I love it!” Birdy’s excitement reached a whole new heights after reading the description of the telekinesis skill.

Telekinesis skill tree: mentally manipulate and interact with objects or matter, can levitate, move, or directly control an object without the need of physical interaction, the amount of manipulation will depend on the size and weight of the object. Can be used on the user to levitate or move in the air, the speed and height will depend on the mental power of the user.

Adam reading the description of the telekinesis skill, found it somewhat different from how the game described the Gyrokinesis skill. ‘maybe they needed emphasis on the idea that the skill is limited.’ He correctly thought, as the telekinesis skill was widely known to be overpowered, it had to be limited, otherwise no one would ever choose any other skill if they can just control everything with their mind.

“Okay! I’m now ready! Next up they gonna let us test our skills before entering the game! It’s called the skill tutorial.”

After Birdy clicked the confirmation button, a window appeared in front of them both.

Would you like to start the tutorial for the skill?

They both clicked yes simultaneously, Adam thought it’s a good opportunity to actually know how similar the gravitational fields in the game with what he can produce in real life.

They were both transferred to a white room, that gradually filled with multiple objects and targets, on the walls of the room there were all kinds of weapons, gadgets, and tools, they could test more then the skill in this room, they could test the best weapon for them as well.

(Welcome to the testing chamber, here you can test the effects of your Gyrokinesis powers.)

Each of them had a different message play in their heads with different artificial voices, the voices guided them on how to activate and use their respective skills.

(To use your Gyrokinesis power at level zero, you need to physically touch the target. Please touch the training dummy.)

“What!” Adam was furious. “what does touch have to do with gravitational fields?! That’s not scientifically accurate!” Birdy heard Adam’s anger and he startled and lost focus, which resulted in dropping the glass of water he was trying to move with his telekinetic powers.

“Is your skill bad? Should we start over?” Birdy asked in apologetic tone, even though he didn’t do anything wrong, he introduced the game to Adam and it was his idea to play it together, so he felt that it would be his fault if Adam didn’t like the game.

“No! Just disappointed in the scientific reference here! What about you?” Adam didn’t have much hope to actually find it the same, but at least some resemblance would’ve been nice and helpful for his training.

“I like it so much! Look! I can throw stuff at the enemy’s!” Birdy’s smile returned to his face slowly as he threw the water glass that just manifested on the table using his telekinesis.

“I don’t think throwing a water glass at the enemy would do more then make them wet! Why don’t you try a throwing knife!”

He didn’t even think twice about the idea, Birdy opened a holographic list, and scrolled for a while, and then two small black throwing knives materialized in both of his hands, and a belt appeared around his waist with many more of the small sharp knives.

Would you like to start the tutorial for the weapon?

A window appeared in front of him the moment he materialized the weapons, every weapon and skill In the game had a tutorial, and even the tools and gadgets did, to go through all these tutorials a player would need a few hours.

Half an hour later, Birdy fell from the sky on his face, glowing in a radiant blue light that slowly dimmed until it disappeared completely, that light was the protection provided by the game for the first 10 seconds of Each new journey, and the actual reason for it is that the players would literally fall from the sky to begin the game.

Adam on the other hand, slowly descended gracefully, landing on his feet, with his hand in the pockets of the leather armor pants, he was wearing a black leather jacket with a small dagger in his belt, these were the initial equipment provided by the game, every player would start with a level zero armor and weapon, no matter the shape or the type of armor it would all be a little more than useless.

“Why didn’t you use your skill to slow down!”

“We can do that?!” his eyes widened as he slowly stood up and dusted him self, he was wearing an armor similar to Adam’s, with a few differences here and there, instead of a dagger though, he had five throwing knives on his belt.

“I think we should head to the town we saw on the way down! Maybe we would get a clue to a treasure or something.” Birdy started walking north of their location, he trembled and fell with the first step he took.

Using an avatar with different body proportions then the player’s real body meant that the player would have to get used to the new body first, and that was actually the reason Adam used his real appearance, and also the reason that the game’s avatar randomizer would never change the body proportions.

Birdy didn’t have any idea that this would happen. “Why can’t I walk properly! Is there something wrong with the game!”

“You need to get used to the body you are in, it’s twice your normal size! I think it would take you about 10 minutes to start walking again”

“W*...” Birdy didn’t get to complete the sentence as he fell again on his face losing 10 health points this time.

Adam thought to take a look at his in-game stats while Birdy adapts to his body.

Name: Adam9204.

Main skill: Gyrokinesis, (level 0).

First Weapon: Dagger, (Proficiency +10).

Strength: 10.

Agility: 10.

Vitality: 10.

Attack: 5.

Defense: 5.

Health: 1,000.

Mana: 500.

Stamina 100.

He couldn’t help but think that compared to his real life stats window, this window was crowded, he wouldn’t need some of these stats in the real life any way, as some of them were limitations to make the game fair to all players.

While Adam was staring at his stats window sitting on a big smooth Boulder, he heard foot steps coming from the north, the direction of the town they were heading to.

“Yeah I thought a bunch of newbies dropped here! What’s up boys!” A huge man appeared from the bushes, with a scar on the right side of his face and a huge hammer on his back, his armor had a certain glow to it, indicating that it wasn’t a level zero armor.

“Are you an enemy?!” Adam monotonously asked the man, as Birdy stood up trying to act strong to not look like a clown in front of him.

“Enemy! I just came to say hello!” the smile on his face indicated a vile intent, Adam didn’t originally trust any one he doesn’t know, and most of those he knows he didn’t trust as well, so why would he trust an obviously suspicious man like that.

“Hello then! What’s your deal.” Adam mockingly asked the man with an indifference expression.

“Boy you are in my territory, if you don’t start showing some respect, you gonna be resetting faster then you can Blink!” the man’s smile disappeared, and an angry face took its place, he grabbed the hammer on his back and pointed it at them.

Adam jumped down from the rock he was sitting on, giving Birdy a glance, and approaching the man slowly and confidently. “Is this really your territory?! If so! We maybe able to do some business together.”

The man originally came after seeing them drop from the sky, hoping they would be new players, that he could take advantage of with the façade of helping them.

“Now we are talking, there is a treasure chest not far from here, I need two players to help me with! You interested!” the man said hoping to catch their attention, he was tricked by Adam’s confidence and thought they are experienced players, but he thought to try his luck tricking them non the less.

“We take half of the treasure then!” Adam offered the man his hand as a gesture of having a deal between them.

The man was surprised, he thought that they were just too naïve, to think that he would just sacrifice his hard work locating the treasure just like that. He took Adam’s hand thinking that his trick just worked and he will get to use them as bait for the monster guarding the treasure, and while they get torn to shreds by the monster, he would enjoy collecting the treasure easily.

“We have a d… ahhhhhh!” the moment the man touched Adam’s hand, he was flung in the air like a Canon ball.