God Vessel Online

Chapter 29: Legendary Silver Knife

Erika's avatar materialized inside the Water Temple, back in Minerva's hall. She successfully reunited with the rebellious Vivi and the escort quest continued.

"Like, how slow can you be?! We need to reach Zelin city, you know!"

"My, how impatient you are~"

To calm down the pixie's anger, Erika fed her some Dargon Chocolate. Of course, Vivi didn't honestly accept the sweeeet treat.

With everything in order, Erika left the temple to continue her adventure. While she passed through familiar areas, she examined the new pieces in her menu.

When she first came across [Wind] and [Water] pieces, Erika assumed that each piece had an "elemental affinity". However, now she had strange pieces in her arsenal, like [Speed] and [Communication]. Both names belonged to starter runes and each piece was worth 1 piece, same as [Water] and [Wind].

It's not about elemental affinity. These pieces must be fragments of actual runes.

This explained the striking similarity between [Water] pieces and the [Water] rune in Erika's inventory.

Some pieces in her inventory had a higher worth than "1 piece". An [Absorption] piece was equal to 2 pieces, whereas [Aura] and [Telekinesis] pieces were each worth 5 pieces.

Following the same logic, the existence of these pieces implied that [Absorption], [Aura] and [Telekinesis] were runes which existed in the game. Their increased worth was probably related to the fact they weren't starter runes.

"Here we are again."

Erika and Vivi reached the unpaved road outside the temple. It was the only known path leading to their destination: Zelin, the first city.

I wonder how stronger this knife makes me.

Erika opened the Dimension Vessel and picked the Silver Knife, which was gifted to her by Silveria.

【Silver Knife】

【A small knife. Easy to handle and favored by beginners.】

That was all the information provided about the knife. Erika poked every corner of the knife, but nothing made a convenient【ATK +1】message to appear. In other words: nothing clued her about the strength of the knife.

"Say, Mini. How do you check the power of weapons in this game?"

"Just swing it into some fucker's face and you'll know."

I really need to research what's going on with this game...

There were way too many vague mechanics in GoVe. Erika couldn't tell her parameters, equipment couldn't be analyzed and battles were dynamic. All these traits should have been alien to MMORPGs and they stumped the RPG veteran.

Erika tried swinging the knife. It fit well into her small palm and it was light enough to not slow her movements. However, she couldn't tell whether the knife added any strength to her strikes.

"Swing it into somebody's face", huh.

Erika's eyes laid on the Windfloras scattered around; she already fought many of them with her bare hands. If she challenged the same foes with the Silver Knife, Erika could roughly estimate her improvement.

With that in mind, Erika dashed toward the closest Windflora. The enemy reacted right away and tried to shoot Erika down.

"Ugh...!"

She dodged the blast of wind by a hair's breadth. Once within striking range, Erika raised her knife for a strike... but her mind turned blurry..

Do I stab...? Slash...?