A Certain Middle-aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log

After leaving the training fields, I logged out, had a meal, and hopped in the bath

Well then, before completely leave, I better check out what equips I have.

Beginner Bow

A bow suitable for beginners. Its weak, so its best to get a better weapon as quickly as possible.

Atk+2, Endurance: Unlimited

Beginner Armor

A beginner overall armor (covers top and bottom). No armor type.

Def+5, Endurance: Unlimited

So, those are the kinds of equips I have. They have unlimited endurance so you can never lose them.

Apart from using up endurance, its pretty much impossible to lose equipment.

Also, there are 4 types of armor masteries to help improve your usage of armor.

Cloth Armor, Leather Armor, Light Armor, and Heavy Armor.

Of course, you can wear armor even if you dont have mastery for it, and youll get all the stats for it, but if you have no mastery and you wear something thats Heavy Armor, youll be weighed down so much that you basically wont be able to move.

No matter how high your defenses are, if you cant move then youre dead.

In other words, the benefit of armor mastery is that you can handle heavier armor and have more mobility while wearing armor.

Light and cloth armor often give benefits to magic power and evasion power.

And while were talking about other skills Ill also explain the [Cooking] skill.

In this game, theres both [Hunger] and [Thirst].

If your Hunger bar runs dry, you lose HP, and if youre too Thirsty then you lose MP.

Dealing with this is as simple as eating and drinking.

Thus, even I went to purchase some bread and water from an NPC.

They both cost only 5 Glows each so theres no need to be stingy.

I mean, if you get too stingy with food youll literally die

The penalty for death is a 30 point reduction in all stats and -33% durability on all equips.

If an equips durability reaches 0% from this, then itll be destroyed.

Anyways, thats my long explanation. Ive arrived at the field area.

Well then, I guess its time to hunt! I really am just a happy guy right now.

[The first day its as sweet as I expected!]

I sighed. The players in front of me

[Ha! Burn and die, you!!]

[Youre my prey!!]

[You over there and here, youre both dead! Haha!]

[Come on, bring on the next wave! These weaklings arent enough for me!]

The scene could only be described with the word pandemonium.

These guys are pretty wild, I thought as I stood there with my arms crossed, watching.

[Well ~ Itll be like this for the first few days.]

Said a girls voice from behind me.

A precious soul who would talk to the bow-encumbered me.

Finally, my first real conversation.

[Right? Everyones in such a frenzy.]

[Yeah its really like that ~~ Trying to get in a bit of hunting before night sets in ~~]

Huh? Night?

[Um, can I ask a question? Is there a day and night in this game?]

[Ah ~ ? Theres already been one night, you know ~ ?]

[I was in the training arena and then I logged out, so I didnt know.]

[Ahhh ~ I see ~]

The girl explained that theres a repeating cycle of 3 hours of daytime and 2 hours of nighttime.

When night falls, vision is decreased and monsters become a bit harder to deal with.

The countermeasures are Light Magics Level 10 [Light], Fire Magics Level 15 [Torch], and Dark Magics Level 30 [Night Vision].

I guess I better level up my farsight skill.

Its important for the ranger class to have farsight and night vision.

[I see, so basically itll be this wild until nighttime.]

[Yep, probably ~]

Well, theres nothing I can do about it.

In that case, I better find something else to do for now.

[Thanks a lot for telling me about this!]

[No prob~! Im Miri, wanna be friends~?]

How do I put it shes really carefree huh.

Well, its good to make new friends.

[My names Earth, nice to meet you.]

[Nice to meet you too ~]

After registering as friends, the girl called out [Im heading back to town ~] as she left.

I left the field to try to find some herbs.

Activating my farsight ability, I left the hunting people to go collect some Unidentified Herbs.

Why are they called Unidentified Herbs? Well

[Effect Unknown]

So thats why. It could be helpful or dangerous. Basically in the game you cant just pick up an item and know what it is unless youre a pro identifier. [TN: The second sentence here is , I have almost no idea what it means so I just guessed. Game lingo too hard for me :(]

After you get an item, dont know what type of item it is.

Although, it seems pretty unlikely that thered be dangerous herbs in a beginning field right?

Night. A ton of players returned back to town, selling their monster drops and eating. I crouched down by some stairs in a corner and began identifying my herbs.

Although you cant tell what a herb is from first glance, if you look at it for a while then its true identity will be revealed.

The reason is

Medicine Lv 3.

It seeems like, by having the medicine skill, you can identify herbs. I got to level 2 and then 3, and then realized I could recognize antidote herbs and poisonous herbs.

It suddenly felt really stuffy, though I was holding just a single herb.

> Suffocation Plant.

> If you eat this, youll stop breathing immediately and die.

> This should definitely not be eaten!

> Herb Item

Wow thats a super dangerous herb! What were you thinking, administrators?? I cant be the only one who thinks this is crazy, right?

After identifying the herbs I tried making some potions.

I went to the potion shop across the street and bought an alchemy set that I could carry.

It cost 400 Gold. You start with 1500 Gold. Since the inn charges 10 Gold a night, I currently have 1080 Gold.

The other 10 Gold I had spent on food.

Those are necessary expenses so it cant be helped.

I learned how to make potions.

Crush the herbs > Blend it with distilled water and add heat > Done!

Looks like its that simple.

Although it feels like if you mess it up then youve wasted a lot of time.

Thats the feeling I get from potion-making.

> Common Healing Potion.

In this game if you make a potion successfully once then you can use up the rest of your ingredients all together for the rest of the potions. So, I turned all my herbs into potions.

I also made some antidote potions, although I dont think Ill need them yet.

My Steady Fingers skill also increased as I kept making more potions.

As for the poisonous herb and suffocation herb, I cant use them yet.

Im dont meet the requirements, thats why.

From the antidote herb, I got this item:

> Common Anti-Poison Potion

> The weakest antidote potion. Failure rate increases when dealing with stronger poisons.

By the way, theres a potion merchant in town.

Ill go sell my potions to him for some money.

Actually, it looks like my potions are 1% stronger so I might keep them. I think Ill keep the antidote potions too, I might need them!

Ive leveled up my medicine skill a bit, so I think its fine to stop here for today

I went to the inn and logged out, and got ready to sleep in real life too.

I bet my colleagues are gonna be out all night again.

Skills

Archery Lv 5

Kicking Lv 5

Farsight Lv 4

Wind Magic Lv 5

Crafting Lv 3

Cooking Lv 1

Woodworking Lv 1

Medicine Lv 7

Stealth Lv 1

Physical Ability Lv 5

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