'Alright, next order of business, is trying to somehow influence this thing.' Alan thought to himself as he kept his mana perception on, feeling the watery mana around the bat as he tried to manipulate it.
Minutes passed, he tried everything he could think of.
Simply willing the mana to move, trying to grab it and then change its flow, trying to atleast create a barrier with his hand around the bat.
Nothing.
Not a single thing worked at all.
'God damned, just how hard can it be to learn this damned…' Alan thought to himself before releasing a soft sigh of exasperation as he put the baseball bat back into his inventory.
'I'll try that later, I'm likely doing something completely wrong or going about it in the complete opposite direction. I have to find more clues or somehow just stumble upon one randomly, and I dont have the time for that, not when I wanna try that out first.' Alan thought as his mind went back to the dungeon he had just unlocked.
'The slime dungeon, thats finally a fantasy monster dungeon, but that also means that it's much more dangerous than this, damned… guess I can't just not buy them.' Alan thought to himself as he sighed, he had tried to push this as far as he could however there was no way to just jump into a dungeon in which he knew he would actually have to fight enemies whilst still being completely bare butt naked.
[ System Shop. ]
[ Equipment ] [ Open ]
[ Basic Leather Helmet ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]
[ Basic Leather Chestplate ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]
[ Basic Leather Leggings ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]
[ Basic Leather Boots ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has bought a complete leather gear set. ]
[ Does User wish to equip? ]
[ Yes ] [ No ]
'Yeah, equip that already, I can finally stop going around with my thing swinging around… who am i kidding… as if it's that big.' Alan thought inwardly as he clicked the yes button instantly with his index finger.
A mere moment later, light motes appeared all around his body as the suit of armor started materialising around him quickly, it started at his chest and started expanding all over him.
In less than five seconds, he wasn't naked anymore but rather wearing dark brown leather gear from head to toe.
Looking down at himself, and moving his hands around and kicking a few times in the air with his legs, he quickly checked his mobility in the gear.
'It's actually really good, and it's damn light aswell, and it feels firm enough and a bit thick. It should stop a decent amount of attacks.' Alan thought as he knocked on his leather chest plate twice.
The leather gear was simple enough, a large leather piece on his front and back tied together with leather straps to one another, whilst under the leather was a super light black mesh material that covered the gaps, his forearms and shoulders were similarly covered in plates of leather connected with leather straps and the same went for his legs.
The boots were simple enough, giving him maybe an inch and a half life in height and were clearly made to be as durable and long lasting as possible.
'These should be good even in snowy conditions or in Ice, that's nice. But man, this actually feels like real leather, I wonder how expensive something like this would be to buy in the real world, maybe I could even sell it? But I have no idea where i would sell combat leather gear? Maybe to some kind of enthusiasts on the internet?' Alan thought to himself before shaking his head, it simply wasn't worth it at the moment to start dealing with real life money, he had other much more pressing problems than his financial situation.
"Alright, now with this, I should be pretty good to go, but slimes are said to be corrosive and like dissolve things in fiction right? A bat… is it really the correct thing to bring? It worked well against the Straw Dummies as it was blunt force however against something like a slime?" Alan muttered as his mind went to other possible weapons he could grab.
"Right, I guess I should atleast go and buy a regular kitchen knife… and then I could tie it around like a broom stick with some rope and tape? I'll check that out before I head inside actually, better prepared than dead." Alan said to himself as he quickly pressed the exit dungeon button.
[ System Dungeon. ]
[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 1 ] [ Leave ] [ Yes ] [ Confirmed. ]
His vision quickly started darkening as his other senses similarly started fading one after the other, just like every other time that he had entered or left the dungeon.
A second or two later, he found himself back on his bed laid down, in his regular clothes just as he had been before jumping into the dungeon.
'God, I don't even know how I got here with how high I was, I'm surprised that I didn't just completely forget my way back home. I guess, I'm lucky that even with the major debuff to intelligence, it was still at five or I would have been doing some… oh fuck, If the debuffs you get are as insane as the ones to Strength and Perception… wouldn't I have just spilled everything about the system or something equally as bad to that thing that possessed Jeannie? Fuck… that could have been really fucking bad.' Alan thought to himself as he got up and walked to his desk drawer and pulled it open, taking out all of his meager savings.
Barely sixty two dollars that he had somehow managed to gather up whilst still feeding himself and having decent enough clothes that he could actually head to school with.
'Alright, time for a quick store run.' Alan thought as he turned and headed out.
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