The Workshop Hunter

The gift to Rachel, her fears, and my showing off - Chapter 6

June 24th 2024, 3:19 PM

Reporters surround the S-Rank gate trying to get a glimpse of what's in front of them.
With Rachel, they know she doesn't do interviews all too well. No. What their trying to glimpse is Octavo. Although it is well known that Non-Awakened Octavo, and S-Rank Awakened Rachel were childhood best-friends turned lovers, it is extremely rare for him to go out and personally meet her right after a Dungeon conquest. So rare in fact that since she was first Awakened during the Breakage, he's only ever appeared like this three other times, and if you include this time then that makes it four times. Four times. That means the public has only seen his face four singular times. Because of this fact there are hundreds of reporters trying to ask him question after question after question.
Ignoring the reporters, he continues waiting for two and a half more hours, until Rachel and her Attack Team, finally step out of the Dungeon.

After waiting for them to recognize their surroundings, Octavo runs up to Rachel in excitement. "Rachy!" He yells, hugging her. "Octavo!? What are you doing here?"
"I have something I want to show you!" "Well okay what is it?" Taking the chocker out of his pocket, Octavo replies replies with. "Here! I made this for you!" Giving her the chocker. "Oh, thank you!" Rachel says smiling. "Rachel is smiling!!" One reporter yells out loud, very loudly. Immediately all the reporters aim their cameras at her face. Quickly pulling down her smile, she tells Octavo. "Let's go in the Limo okay?" "Okay." He says back.

Putting on the chocker Rachel asks Octavo. "How long did this take to make? This thing is giving me max E-Rank Stat Buffs on all Stats...! Not to mention the durability...."
"The chocker itself, a few hours. Though I had to get both the ARMOR CREATION STATION, and the ENCHANTMENT CREATION STATION. So yeah in total it took about nine hours." "Wow just wow.... So you spent a total of nine hours making this stuff?" "Yeah I did, although I also got some pretty good stuff out of it though."
"Like what?" "Like this." Octavo says pulling out the Magic Limb Guards from his inventory. "Are those limb guards?" "Yep! They're F-Rank so their basically useless to you, but to me however, now that's a different story." "How long did it take for you to make those?" "Three hours total." "Make anything else?" "A lot. A lot a lot. A lot enough for the WORKSHOP Skill to go from F-E." "Seriously! Congratulations!" "Thanks. Anyway it turns out that it can only handle magical power up to three ranks above it. So since it's E-Rank now it can now handle B-Rank stuff, albeit it's pretty limited."
"Three above huh? So how many B-Rankers do you think can come in now?"
"Only one. Equipment four, and Magic Stones seven." "Understood.... So for me to go in, I would have to be B-Rank, right?" "Mhm.... Took a lot of time though, enough to the point where I'm gonna say let's skip on the sex tonight."
"You're gonna skip it?! How much did you work?!" "About six and a half days total, longest I did in a row was a little over twenty-seven hours.... Don't worry though I plan on sleeping a long time tonight...!" "You better...! Anyways tell me more about your experiences with the not only the WORKSHOP, but also on what you created...."
"Okay! So I made...." Ah.... It's nice to see him like this...! Let's try to keep him this way for as long as possible. I love you Octavo! I love you Octavo! I love you Octavo! I love you Octavo! I Love You Octavo!! I Love You OCTAVO!!! I LOVE YOU OCTAVO!!!!

6:29 PM, Dinner time

"So can I see the equipment you made?" Rachel curiously asks me. "Sure." I reply, pulling the Items I made out of my Inventory and putting them on the ludicrously large dinner table.

Sword of Fire (E-Rank)
STATS: Attack Level: 16
Skills: Burning Fire

Poisoned Throwing Knifes (F-Rank) (x24)
STATS. Attack Level: 3, Poison Rank: F

Rock Shield (E-Rank)
STATS: Defense Level: 24
Skills: Hard Defense

Magic Metal Limb Guard (Rank-F) (x4)
STATS: Defense Level: 12

Magic Metal Chest-plate (F-Rank)
STATS: Defense Level: 19

Magic Metal Leggings (F-Rank)
STATS: Defense Level: 15

Health Potion (F-Rank) (x5)

Magic Restoration Potion (F-Rank) (x2)

Stamina Potion (F-Rank) (x5)

"Here they are. It's a lot isn't it?" "For an F-Ranker yeah...." "Actually I'm about E-Rank now." "Wait really!?" "Yeah.... Still have to do the Rank Up Quest first though."
"Rank Up Quest?" "You know, my UPGRADER Skill?" "Oh yeah... so what do you have to do to Rank Up?" "I have to do one of three things. One, defeat an F-Rank Boss in one attack, Two, defeat an E-Rank Dungeon by myself, or Three, defeat a D-Rank Dungeon with ten people or less." "That's a tough order...." "Yeah I know, I plan on doing the second one though." "What?! Wouldn't it be safer to do the third one though?"
"I mean if you lend me a C or B-Rank Hunter yeah, but-" "I can do that!" "What why?"
"Why not? Are you planning on doing it by yourself?" "Uhm yeah.... Is that a problem?" "No, not at all." "Okay so it's a problem." "I mean are you insane?! Do you know how many things could go wrong?! You could get hurt, or die, or lose an arm, or lose a leg, or lose all of your limbs, o-or you could like I don't know, DIE!!!!" "Get an appraiser, and you'll see why I'm so confidant." "Fine." Rachel calls someone, then talks to them for a minute. "An appraiser will meet us on the first floor, bring those Items." Rachel tells me. "Understood." I reply, putting the stuff back into my Inventory. "Well then let's go."

Following Rachel down the stairs, we get to the first floor. The appraiser asks me. "May I see the Items in question?" "Mhm." I reply pulling the Items back out of my inventory for the second time. Putting them on the prepared table, the appraiser appraises them all. "Well that's interesting." "What's interesting John?" "I-I'll just say the titles of the Items so that you may get a grip of what I'm seeing here. First off this one here is called the Sword of Fire (E-Rank) it has an Attack Level of 16 and it has a Skill called Burning Fire. Next the twenty-four throwing knives are called Poisoned Throwing Knifes (F-Rank) it's Attack Level is 3 and it's Poison Rank is F. Next is the shield which is named Rock Shield (E-Rank) it has a Defense Level of 24 and has a Skill called Hard Defense.
Next there's the limb guards which are named Magic Metal Limb Guard (Rank-F)
and has a Defense Level of 12. Next there's the chest-plate, which is named Magic Metal Chest-plate (F-Rank) and has a Defense Level of 19. Then there are the leggings, which are called the Magic Metal Leggings (F-Rank) and the Defense Level of them is 15.
And finally there are the potions which are Health Potion (F-Rank), Magic Restoration Potion (F-Rank), and Stamina Potion (F-Rank). So to put it simply, as I'm sure you can guess by now, although it may be a bit difficult, it is pretty clear that Octavo here can clear an E-Rank Dungeon all by himself." "Yeah.... Yeah I can see it.... But, I want you to get experience first! Go to an F-Rank Dungeon first, then I'll let you complete that Rank Up Quest." "Okay. Well on the bright side, if I on the off chance defeat the boss monster in a single attack then I still will have completed the Rank Up Quest!" "Yeah.... Probably won't though." "I agree. Anyways.... I say we do that in a few days, I'm tired."

"Understood, let's go to bed." Rachel says starting to go up the stairs.
"Yeah, just let me get my Items first." I say back to her, putting my Item into my Inventory for the second time that day. "Understood." She replies disappearing from sight. After I'm done placing everything back into my Inventory, I run up to the bedroom and get ready to sleep. 'Yawns' "I'm ready for bed, you Rachel?" I ask wanting to sleep. 'Yawns as well' "Mhm. Yep I'm ready now, let's sleep!" She replies to me softly.
"Good night Rachy." I tell her already falling into sleep while the upper half of my body lays on her.  "Good night Oct." She says back cuddling me. Soon we both fall asleep.

End of Chapter 6