[SP-F1] <<Earning a living>> Starting a life.

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

Just be an merchant echoed in Sakuri's head as he tried to figure out what it means.

''You will have to excuse me, but what does that mean?'' he said with a really confused face.

The merchant laughed towards him and then smiled again.

''My point is that maybe you can trade yourself to better inventory''

Sakuri let that sink in, and realized that this was really a clever idea, maybe he could do task for some merchants around the town and get some sort of reward by this, then he could open up a pöace and trade himself to better stuff all the time.

''Do you happen to have any tasks you would need help with?'' Sakuri said to the merchant.

The merchant slowly nodded, and Sakuri was suprised by how well you could interact with NPC's.

''I need to get this fur to a friend in a small village nearby. If you could get it there, you will get rewarded with 2 iron bars, and one tusk and one piece of wolf fur.''

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

Sakrui nodded as he had gotten himself a really good deal. Taking a big back of leather to his friend in a small village nearby, should be rather easy.. He thought to himself as he accepted it. He packed the leather in a bag, told the emrchant goodbye, and then headed out towards the gate.

He then realized that while he was thinking and packed everything togheter, the merchant had told him something about bandits which tried to rob many merchant when they were out from the safe zone. But that might just have been day dreaming.

And one bandit couldn't defeat him he thought to himself while he reached the gate one more time.

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

As he left the gates shadow ocne again, the sun didn't hit him as before, he then looked at the sun and realized that id had started to go down, thus he were in a bit of a hurry since the danger at night would increase a lot.

He picked up the pace as he moved towards the location the map had pointed him towards. When he passed a couple of trees, he suddenly heard some voice comming from the trees. He then saw to guys comming down from the tree, with a strange smile on their faces.

'''Give us your gods, or die'' one of thems said with a small laugh. But without even anwsering to what they had said, sakuri brought up his sword, and charged towards the guys he figured to be bandits.

Luckily, the time in the town had replenished his HP.

He landed a solid hit one the one who had spoken to him, causing one damage. The other bandit had then tried to attack him, which he succelfully did, causing one damage to Sakuri aswell.

--Bandits attack with loot dice--

1-3 = Damage

Above is miss.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 3/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

Sakuri saw that his health got brought down a bit, not that it would scare him just yet, he still had a bunch of health left, and if things went really terrible, he could always run the the closest town/city.

After that Sakuri had assured himself that he was out of mortal danger, he decided to try to do a an dodge attack, where he would charge towards one, feintign him to attack, then attacking the other one straight after ha had dodged.

His plan worked, but he was very lucky to come away from the first strike as it passed right next to his head. but he cut the bandit in the stomach causing one more damage while he took none.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 2/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

Since he was between the bandits which had just attacked them, he was hoping that they would attack at the same time meaning he could dodge and then both would be open for an easy attack. So he stood there whiile they mumbled something which he couldn't hear.

And it happend as planned, the bandits have figured that dodging two attacks instead of one at the same time would be much harder, the problems where that they aimed at the same spot making it really easy for Sakuri to just duck under and attack the first bandit once again, causing 1 damage.

''I will let yuo surrender, if you wanna run''Sakuri said with a determined voice, as he hoped back so he faced them.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 1/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

The bandits laughed at what Sakuri had said, and charged him togheter, which sakuri had guessed they would do. He would try to do as before, and dodge and attack, dodge and attack. That seemed like a working concept, hopefully it would keep working.

Once again this worked just as planned, though this time the first bandit had charged at him first, causing him to dodge the low health bandit's attack, and instead had to go for the second bandit with full health.

He did it with such elegance and smoothness, that he even landed a critical as he thrusted his sword at the second bandits chest.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 1/4

Bandit 2 - 2/4

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

The both bandits saw their health dropping really low, even so low so the one with 1 health left, decided to run away in fear of his life. The other one got enraged by his friend escape, and wanted to kill Sakuri to bring himself the loot, and some sort of glory from other bandits.

Sakuri decided to try to parry his attack, and then go in for a counter attack.

It didn't go as planned, since sakuris arm got hit by the bandit when he tried to parry it, but since SAO didn't let the players feel pain, sakuri would hit his enemy back at the same time without being interupted by getting hit himself.

The last bandit was now at one health himself, and he dropepd on his knees begging for mercy. Sakuri ain't the type who likes to kill people, so he let the bandit run while he sheated his sword, heading towards the village again.

--Badit will hit with 1-5 on LD--

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

After some while, he had finally reached the small village with only a couple of merchants standing in the center of it. [iFinding the right one seems to be very easy. He thought to himself while he searched up the correct one.

After talking to the wrong merchant twice, which was the maximum number of fails, he reached the friends merchant. He gave the bag over and waited for the merchant to trade over his reward which he did in a matter of seconds.

He smiled at the merchant as he looked at the reward he had gotten.

''Well, i did my first trade run as a merchant, now its only a matter of time untill i Get my own shop.'' He happily said to himself.

He decided to stay the night at the village, and wait for the sun to come back.

--Reward--

Iron bars x2

Boar tusk x1

Wolf pelt x1

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

As the sun came back at the morning, and the birds started singing, Sakuri woke up. He woke up very early today, for no specific reason, though it was only good so he could get to work faster. He now felt that he was on the way of becoming a merchant, but there still was a problem, he had no place to sell the few items he had gathered.

First of all, he had to figure out which floor he wanted the shop to be on, and then he had to find a place to buy. He had been on a all of the floors, but his favorite ones is on floor 6 and the newly opened floor 8. So he figured that he would try to find a place at either of those locations. Or maybe it would just be more simple to find at place in the beginner city, and also more people passed through there so getting customers would be much more easy.

Either way he had to get to the beginenr city before he even decided since he still got no teleport crystal, thus he started to walk towards the city.

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

When he passed the point where the bandits had tried to rob him, he once again heard a noise comming from the tree, but this time noone came out. Sakuri figured that they wouldn't be so so stupid so they would try to attack him again, the thought of this made him smile.

He arrived at the big city, and walked around for a while until he had decided of where he wanted to start up his shop, and while he was walking around he realized how beutiful the game actully was. The buildings, the clouds, the birds in the sky, everything felt so real.

While thinking about all this, he also realized how beutiful and amazing this city actully were, thus he decided that this city should be the home of his amazing shop.

[Sakuri sashiti 0]

After he had searched for an avalible house to buy for a couple of towers, he found a small house just a few blocks from the town center. The house was a one floor house, with two rooms. The first room you would enter was a rather medium one, not super small, nor was it super big and fancy either, it was just a regular sized room. And then at the corner there where another doorway, which led to a smaller room in the back.

Sakuri decided that this is where is shop should be, so he payed the NPC for the building and went inside of it, now he had some work to do here. Like getting a name for it, this would be the most challenging task he thought to himself. And then the decor, and then actully more merchandise to get things going..

But this is something that he would have to tackle the next morning, cause now he thought that he deserved some rest.

-Complete-

-Items gained-

Iron bars x2

Boar tusks x2

Wolf fur x1

Mats of choise x19