As Roy listened to their conversation from the side, a wave of emotion washed over him.
However, his rather jumpy thoughts couldn't help but ponder another matter.
'Old man, even if your granddaughter agrees to sail with me now, I can't leave yet. I haven't even saved enough money to buy a ship…'
Roy grumbled inwardly.
To be honest, he hadn't actually planned on necessarily bringing Lina along.
After all, putting himself in her shoes, if Roy only had a grandfather living alone on an island, he would also be very hesitant.
But this kind of thing, it was up to them to decide their own plans.
Thinking of this, Roy said a few words to the two of them.
Then he headed towards the town, preparing to find Felix to continue his Craftsman studies for the day.
While on his way, he tallied up his gains for the day.
[Terror claw]
[Type: Weapon · Extraordinary]
[Quality: Blue]
[Attack: 15]
[Usage Requirement: Physique 4, Spirit 5.]
[Special Effect: Each time damage is dealt to an enemy, it increases their chance of falling into a frightened state. There is a 10% chance to instantly kill enemies in a frightened state.]
[Negative Effect: After using the Terror claw, the owner will hear the wails of the Dread Wraith in their dreams.]
[Description: The Dread Wraith's claw, incredibly sharp, but within it seems to be buried the Dread Wraith's resentment.]
It was actually a complete blue-grade equipment.
Roy was quite pleased; he had initially thought it would be a material.
However, this equipment also had a negative effect, and he wasn't sure what its specific impact would be.
Taking out the Terror claw, Roy examined it.
The Terror claw resembled a pale leather glove, with sharp, slightly curved talons at the fingertips.
After Roy chose to equip it, the game character put on the glove.
Instantly, the Terror claw quickly conformed to and merged with the game character's wrist.
Before long, the Terror claw seemed to become a part of the game character's body.
The game character tried to swing the claw, and the feel was quite good.
Then he began to check the other items.
[Dread Wraith's Vocal Cords]
[Type: Material · Extraordinary]
[Description: The Dread Wraith's vocal cords, perhaps a special item could be crafted from them.]
[Fiend Oil]
[Type: Material · Extraordinary]
[Description: Congealed oil from fiend-type monsters, an essential ingredient for crafting certain potions or elixirs.]
[Bloody Map Fragment]
[Type: Special Item]
[Description: Its owner unfortunately fell into the maw of a Dread Wraith, but its broken state is unrelated to that.]
[Gentle Breeze Cave Key]
[Type: Special Item]
[Description: This key is crucial for teleporting to Gentle Breeze Cave and opening its stone door.]
Besides these, there were also six gold coins, which was much more than Roy had saved before.
After tallying his gains, a smile appeared on Roy's face.
It really pays off well to fight monsters and level up for drops.
"Oh right, I still have four free attribute points."
[Title: Roy]
[Level: 3]
[Physique: 8 +]
[Spirit: 8 +]
[Faith: 8 +]
[Tier: Extraordinary]
[Special Skills: Knowledge Comprehension lv1 +, Mist Flash lv1 +.]
[Life Skills: Fishing lv6 +, Navigation lv1 +, Mysticism lv1 +, Cooking lv1 +, Swimming lv1 +…]
[Talents: Fishing Master, Soul of Hei, Mystic.]
After opening the character panel, a faint small plus sign appeared next to the three attributes and skills, meaning Roy could freely add attributes.
"It can even be used to upgrade skills too?"
Roy was a bit surprised.
He had thought that free attribute points could only be used to increase attributes, but he hadn't expected them to be able to directly upgrade skills.
However, it seemed to have no effect on Talents.
It looked like talents could only be upgraded when his tier increased.
But this was not something Roy needed to consider at the moment.
"Life skills can be directly excluded; I can slowly upgrade them myself, the returns are too poor. Special skills, however, can be considered…"
"Knowledge Comprehension is not very useful for now, put it aside…"
"As for the three attributes… I'll distribute them evenly first."
"The remaining attribute point will be used to upgrade Mist Flash."
After some thought, Roy made his decision.
One point for Physique, one for Spirit, one for Faith, and then one point for Mist Flash.
[Please select skill upgrade direction: Consumption / Cooldown / Effect]
After Mist Flash was upgraded, a new message popped up, asking Roy to choose the skill's upgrade direction.
"There's even a function like this…"
Roy could only say that it truly was a magical game, even having such detailed branches.
Each of these three upgrade directions had its own advantages, but for now, Cooldown was definitely the lowest priority.
Firstly, Mist Flash's cooldown was already not slow; he could use it every few seconds.
Secondly, its consumption was very high, so even if the cooldown was improved, he wouldn't have enough Spirit to sustain its use.
Therefore, Roy chose the Consumption direction.
[Mist Flash lv2: Consumes 4.5 Spirit or Faith, allowing the body to briefly mistify and flash a short distance.]
After the skill was upgraded by one level, the consumption was significantly reduced, now allowing for four consecutive uses.
[Title: Roy]
[Level: 3]
[Physique: 9]
[Spirit: 9]
[Faith: 9]
[Tier: Extraordinary]
[Special Skills: Knowledge Comprehension lv1, Mist Flash lv2.]
[Life Skills: Fishing lv6, Navigation lv1, Mysticism lv1, Cooking lv1, Swimming lv1 …]
[Talents: Fishing Master, Soul of Hei, Mystic.]
After tallying his gains, Roy, as usual, came to Felix's shipyard and began his studies for the day.
[After observing the shipbuilder Felix at work, you have gained one point of learning progress.]
[Current Progress 48 / 100.]
More than half of the learning progress was complete; Roy believed he would gain a new skill in a few more days.
After finishing his studies for the day, Roy didn't return to the dock immediately but instead went to the blacksmith shop, which was also the weapon shop.
[Mr. Chad, do you take apprentices?]
Roy got straight to the point.
Chad was taken aback, then smiled and nodded, but reminded him that he charged a fee.
Roy, of course, had no objection, paid readily, and set the daily study time for the evenings.
Originally, he had planned to learn blacksmithing after mastering Craftsman skills.
But now, Lina seemed to have a chance of joining the ship.
This sparked a sense of urgency in Roy's heart.
If he didn't quickly learn more skills and earn more gold coins, he wouldn't even have a ship for the ship's doctor girl.
He had been sleeping too early in the game recently; time to grind!
"How about I go down to the mine and into the Cave to fight monsters again after midnight? Game characters probably don't need to sleep, right…"
Roy stroked his chin, somewhat tempted by the idea.
But then he shook his head.
He didn't know if game characters needed sleep, but he certainly did.
If he really followed the schedule he had just laid out, he feared that his day in the real world would end before a day in the game world was over.
So, he would have to take it slow.