[Picking up the Pedlar Setup Ring!]

"What! You actually managed to earn 18 Black Spirit Crystals in a single night?" Han Li was shocked with such a results, but he does know the fact that if one would mine the crystals without stopping for a long period of time, such haul is almost guaranteed. But what he doesn't know is that Lu Bu currently is aided with his previous lifetime experience as well, so in addition to this kind of knowledge, efficiently mining for crystals become slightly easier for Lu Bu.

Are you going to Mine today? I asked Han Li because from what I could see, we both are currently homeless travellers that reside from one alleyway to another, so in practice, except our belly that needs to be filled, we do not have any burden at all to force us to work on a daily basis. Even if one doesn't mine the crystals all the time, there will be still other jobs to take on.

Within this unknown world, many kinds of jobs are available and opened for anyone with skills to participates. As long the rewards from the job are guaranteed with a few Black Spirit Crystals, it will have no lack of demand at all from the workforce available within the Ling Hun Town. Even participating in the Town Guards would grant you a salary of 30 Black Spirit Crystals every Month, enough for the guards to use the resources to purchase their needs, plus there is meal and accommodation are provided, so being the Town Guards is nowhere bad at all.

But in order for one to become a Town Guards, a stats of at least seven point of strength is required, with no other restrictions on whatever other points one could have in their overall performance. With the measuring Tablets is erected nicely before the entrance of the Town Guards Headquarters, all interested participants would first check their strength before they enrol into the Town Guards team.

Some more advanced job such as the Alchemist, Refiner and Concocter, is highly in demand, but unfortunately, the lack of talented individuals cause this kind of job to have a rise in their salary, just in order to head-hunt more talents to help in this kind of matters. One more kind of Job is also quite common, but only those qualified and possess a great luck, could obtain it.

It is known as the World Pedlars, a job that not everyone has the qualification to obtains it. To become a chosen World Pedlar, one will need to found the so called Pedlar Setup Ring. It is a mysterious accessory that could convert the overall status of the owner into a visual panel, and more options could be chosen from there onwards.

The Ring grants its owner the approval of obtaining and mastering all different kind of skills and arts, as the World Pedlar's Stash of Items is always out of extraordinary compares to those that one could find in normal shops. With such a beneficial benefits one could obtain from founding such a ring, caused the world to get chaotic for a moment before all the ruckus and greed slowly died and buried away.

At the moment, it is known that within this world, a total of eleven World Pedlars is seen within the whole world, each with a different name. Carrying different speciality products, and possessing deadly capabilities.

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"Of course I have to go to the cave, I'm not like you, getting rich in a single night!" Han Li sarcastically speaks as he stands up and went over to the Town Exits.

I watch Han Li walked further away, and soon, I turn around and decided to take a rest before I decide on what I want to do next after I wake up. Just like that, I fall asleep for almost eight hours, only to be awoken by Han Li that just came back from the cave. We talked for a while, and from his words, he managed to get around six Black Spirit Crystals today because his luck is quite good.

Since I have extras on the bun I previous purchased, we shared the bun together, before Han Li decided to call it as a day. Although the Sun is setting soon, most of the shop is still opened for business, as I walked into a shop to see what merchandise they have within.

"Welcome, erm, you are the homeless guy that sleeps along the alleyway daily for a whole week right? What do you need from our shop?" a female reception quickly recognize my identity from my attire and messy impression. Although her word has nothing offensive hidden within, the colder treatment from appearing before the female in such condition is visibly seen from her expression.

"I will take a look around and see if I need anything specifically," I answered her as I walked around and looks at those tools available for sale within the shop. Since this is a proper tool shop, many kinds of tools such as the pickaxe, saw, small daggers could be obtained from this shop without any problem at all.

I then withdraw my Pickaxe from my waist belt and make a comparison against another two pickaxe on the shelves. "The one in your hand is the Lower grade 10 Brass Pickaxe, it is quite rusty by the way. On your left side, that is a same Lower Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe, for sale with the price of Five Black Spirit Crystals, and the one here on your right, is the Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe, for sold with the price of 10 Black Spirit Crystals." the female reception says.

I checked on both pickaxe before decided to purchase the Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe, and paid the amount of ten Black Spirit Crystals to the female reception before leaving the shop without any other words. The female's facial expression seems to be a little regretful from looking down on me, but oh well, no matter where you go, the concept of worshipping the rich and stepping the poor will always be around.

I walked towards the Town exits and heads to the cave once again. Forty minutes later, I arrived at the cave entrance, and choose one tunnel that yet to have its entrance board taken away. Seems like tonight is quite busy, I wonder why would that be. Putting aside all the thoughts away, I walked into the cave and start mining as soon as possible.

The moment I lift up the Lower Grade 10 Pickaxe I received from Han Li and tap on the rocks, a loud "Tingg!" sound could be heard, the next thing, the pick of the Pickaxe is broken and become unable to use any longer. "I am lucky I bought a new Pickaxe before I come!"

Without any hesitation, I withdraw the Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe of mine and starts to tap on the rock. Deep within my mind, I keep complaints about the losses of a 5 Black Spirit Crystals worth pickaxe that was given to me by Han Li. But up to its expectation, the Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe is even more efficient in compared with the Lower Grade one.

Currently, with each swing, a larger piece of unused rocks will fall to the ground and allow an easier access towards the crystals that was hidden behind this loose rocks. I manage to obtain almost the same amount of crystals I got from yesterday in just eight hours, and since there is another three hours before the sun rise, I decided to continue to mine the crystals until the time for the morning group of miners came over.

Just that moment, suddenly, my pickaxe get in contact with some harder materials. Weird, what is that thing? I tried to pry it open from the cover of the rocks, so I pick the surrounding rocks away and left with one fist size translucent crystal with a weird ring within. I pick that ring up and stared at it for a while before I put it on my forehead.

"It won't be a cursed item that will cause me to become evil or anything right?"

The moment the crystal and my forehead made its contact, a surge of wind suddenly blows around me, as the crystal slowly melts and absorbed into my head. The ring slowly floats as it came into my index finger in a perfect fit, and with a sound came into my head. [Active?]. I stunned for a while, as I considered the options to chose.

Why not? "Active!"

As the word came out from my lips, a sky blue coloured panels like a flat screen appear before me, with all the information regarding my body size, my strength, my current condition and even my inventory quickly appear within the Screen Panels. Hmm, it seems that the previous Red and Green Crystals that I had absorbed actually increase my body capability by a little.

Status Panel

Name: Lu Bu

Age: 20

Wealth: 9 Black Spirit Crystals

Strength:

5+(0.03)

Physical:

5+(0.04)

Agility:

Locked

Magic:

Locked

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Locked

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Locked

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Locked

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Locked

Item:

Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe

4 x Bun

51 x Red Power Crystals

39 x Green Power Crystals

Skills: Scan

Traits: Unknown

More information: Unknown

Friends:

Han Li (20 years old childhood friend)

The status quickly shows up with many kinds of the item is still in the locked condition, but with the Status Panel, I could easily check about how my status is growing, which allows me to be not as ordinary as the other people. Looking at the scan skill that I have, I kept the Panel aside as I decided to try and activate the skill.

"Scan!" I shouted, and like receiving a command, the ring that was located on my left index finger quickly have a flash came out from the small hole within the ring, and after the wall of rocks is being scanned through by the flash of light, a scanned x-ray picture appears within the panel, allowing me to have a deeper look on where the crystals are located deep within the wall of rocks.

Since there is such a special bonus for being able to locate the crystals efficiently, I guess it would be a disgrace to not fully utilizing such a talent. The moment I convince myself that this is the righteous way to behave myself, and with its full accuracy, I tapped the wall of rocks in a way that would allow me to obtains the crystals in the easiest way.

Within a blink of an eye, three hours finally came, as the morning miners already begin to flocked around the cave entrance. I spend some remaining time to remove the proof of my mining capability, and walks as light and unnoticeable to the others, just to leave the cave without any obstacles. I quickly went back to the Ling Hun town, and in between of the way, I tried to scan towards the woods to see if there is anything available for me to collects before I entered the town.

Out of my expectations, there is actually at least more than three dozen of collectables is available to be collected if he willing to take some time to enter the woods. Lu Bu almost stepped into the grassy patch, before an adventurer pulled his clothes and toss him on the ground. "What the heck are you doing?" the adventurer speaks as he looked at me differently.

"Trying to go in to find some collectables?" I vaguely answered his questions. but the moment this adventurer heard my words, he instantly gave me a heavy knock on my skull, causing me to immediately sees a few shooting stars in my eyes. "You are barely qualified to enter the woods to gather those items within, get stronger first!" the adventurer speaks as he kicks me away back to the walking path, and force me to return to the city instead.