I Reject Quests

Chapter 21: Weapon Skill

Rewen tapped on 'Yes' on the screen in front of him after the hassle.

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Quest: Baby Steps of a Knight

Grade: A+

Goal: Create a weapon skill.

Rewards: +4 All Physical Stats, Unlocks the Knight Path.

Failure: None

Note: This is a chained quest. Instead of "details", "goals" are targets of completion. Chained quests update itself after the current goal is achieved.

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[Would you like to accept it?]

[Yes] [No]

'Sure.' He wasn't sure what weapon skill meant, but how could he let go of the flashy rewards?

'What is a weapon skill?'

[Replying to the Host, a weapon skill is a skill which uses weapons as a form of mana release.]

'Hmm I haven't tried it yet but it sounds difficult. Well, let's see how it goes.' Turning to Francesca and her classmates, he asked. "Do you guys have a spear?"

"Spear? We do have them. Do you need them?" Francesca replied.

In response, Rewen lightly nodded.

"Follow me."

Rewen followed behind. When they stopped in front of a door, Francesca took out a key and unlocked it. This action surprised him a bit. "Are you the Monitor?"

"Unfortunately." She said with a sigh.

Rewen wasn't surprised by her answer. Every monitor is like this. They never try to brag about their badge not not because they are humble but they try to appear humble for others to know that being a monitor is a tough job and while others might glee and express pity in front of monitors, deep down in their heart, it is just a form of encouraging themselves not to feel too sad by the fact that they didn't manage to become a monitor. It was a popular hypocrisy.

Rewen had no opinion of this. He didn't know if it was good or bad. He can't judge it. After all, everyone desires to become a leader and when they can't, they need something to heal their wounds.

"How long do you want the spear to be?"

He heard Francesca's voice from within the room. "About two meters."

Few seconds later, he saw Francesca walking in half-steps with a heavy long spear in her hand. Seeing her struggle, he felt a bit sorry for her and was about to help out when she stumbled upon a box and directly fell upon Rewen's chest. He along with her on top fell on the floor.

'Ah yes, I'm destined to be a harem protagonist. Events like this will keep happening in my life, I must get used to it.' Rewen grimaced.

"Sorry!" He heard her shrill voice, making his ears numb. When he saw the weight in front of him getting up, he too got up.

Francesca had an awkward smile and didn't speak. "Was this the revenge for what I did ten minutes ago? Seriously, you could have done better." Rewen said the only thing that came to his mind to salvage the awkward atmosphere and hoped for it to work.

To his relief, it did work. As soon as he said that, she broke into fits of laughter. "How could you remain so calm immediately after this happened?"

"Calm? Me? You don't know anything. I was like turning on my hidden mind gears to look for the best option to say just like those dating simulators."

[+1 Favorability]

Francesca laughed harder when she heard this. Rewen noticed that she was the kind of girl who likes to laugh. 'Also, system. Why am I farming favorability points? Stop this. It feels weird. This isn't some dating simulator where I make girls wet by choosing the correct option. I mentioned this previously but it's as if there were triggers in her brain that activate once I say something particular.'

[Replying to the Host, the system is in no way helping you farm favorability points, the Host himself is responsible for doing this. The System can take down the favorability meter of her but is the Host sure he wants to do that?]

Rewen fell in deep thoughts. 'You're correct. I don't want to do that.' In case her favorability goes high, he would have no idea about it. If he knew about her favorability, he could cleverly avoid her for the time being. 'Wait, what if I fall for her? I'm not immune- nevermind, I'll think when I have free time. Now's not the time.'

He bent down and picked up the long spear without much effort. Francesca didn't get much surprised when she saw this. According to her, he should be a genius from a prominent martial arts family. There's no way to explain this strength otherwise. 'How could my weight force him down then? Am I getting heavy? Whatever, I don't care about my weight. It doesn't matter. Yes, it doesn't matter'

"Do you know how to make a weapon skill?"

Hearing the voice, she woke up from her depression stupor. "Weapon skill? Are you trying to create one?"

"Indeed. Is it difficult?"

"It depends on mana resonance, skills and your mastery of the weapon. Since you are in 4th Grade Class, your mana resonance should be around 20%, it should take more than three months for you to learn how to imbue mana over your weapon."

"What about skills?"

"Innate skills and martial arts skills won't help."

"What kind would then?"

"Some spells would. Also, amplifiers should probably work as well."

Rewen smiled. "If I got a 4x amplifier which channels mana across 81 meridians of my body, how much time should it take?"

"Immediately!" Francesca finally grasped the secret to his extraordinary strength. "Ah, don't worry. I won't tell anyone."

Rewen honestly didn't care. The world is a civil one. Although crimes didn't stop, it isn't a greedy and dog-eat-dog world. If greed was humanity's primal instinct, how are they any different from beasts? 'Yes, the world today is far from an ideal world where injustice doesn't exist but it is exactly because of these imperfections that gives us the opportunity to make things perfect.' These were the famous words said by one of the fourth generation "Celestial" when he was questioned about the prejudiced system in the world. Of course, nobody understood what he meant by that. After all, he himself had the power and authority to change things. 'Oops, I'm getting sidetracked.'

Rewen simply nodded in response and swung his spear vertically. "Good spear." He muttered. He could tell that the quality of this spear was far better than the one he used previously in the Joint Combat Program. 'Let's try this in that case' He took his foot forward and swung his spear horizontally.

*Swoosh*

With this force, a normal human would be immediately beheaded. Rewen gave a satisfied smile but didn't stop. This time, taking his left foot forward, he flipped his body counter-clockwise swinging his spear vertically.

*Swoosh*

The moves weren't overly flashy but it has it's charms.

Francesca was genuinely impressed by his spear arts. "How long have you trained spear for?"

"You don't want to know how long I have taken to execute this."

"Why? Tell me."

"So when I was 13, there was a girl I was interested in and wanted to get laid by her-"

"Stop! Stop! Puhahaha. You aahaha... must be kidding, right HAHAHAHA."

"I wish I was." He wasn't kidding. When he was 13, he was going through a phase similar to the Chuunibyou phase of this world.

"Ahh! Rewen, you will be responsible if my kidney fails tonight."

Rewen didn't know what to do with this easily amused person and just let her be as he continued swinging his spear. Being somewhat of a perfectionist, he decided to not attempt creating the weapon skill before getting used to the spear.

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Ten minutes later.

"We are going! Don't stay up for long!" Four of the guys waved their hands at Francesca.

She waved her hand back with a smile. "See ya!" Seeing the four leave, her eyes turned to Rewen whose body white shirt was soaked with sweat and never stopped swinging for a single moment. 'What is he trying to achieve? If he just used his amplifier, it wouldn't even take an instant to create a weapon skill.'

*Clang*

Like an unconscious reflex, she immediately got up and tried to search the source of the metal sound.