Carrying a back basket, Rowan left the village.
Because it was close to the Tob Forest, there were many monsters outside, so the village walls were built high and thick, and the village gate looked like a fortress.
Rowan came out from the village entrance and quickly reached the riverside.
There were fish swimming in the clear river water, and he could see fish of all sizes swimming below.
Rowan took the fish spear and thrust it fiercely.
Then, he didn’t hit anything at all, instead scaring away the surrounding fish.
Rowan was furious.
Beside him, a large toad was croaking, seemingly mocking Rowan’s stupidity.
“Heh, can’t spear a fish, but can’t I spear you, you big toad?” Rowan raised the spear and thrust it with force, directly piercing the toad.
[Experience + 1] “Huh?” Rowan’s eyes lit up.
There was experience.
Not bad, not bad.
It seems his guess was correct.
Since there was a player panel, how could there be a lack of an experience system?
Rowan had actually tried killing some insects before, but there was no experience.
He guessed it was because the insects were too small, which was why Rowan came to try spearing fish.
As for fighting monsters to level up?
Forget it, forget it.
With his small arms and legs, going to fight monsters would just be serving himself up on a platter.
It was better to level up a bit first.
Spear a toad.
[Experience + 1] Spear a toad.
[Experience + 1] Good opportunity, spear a fish.
[Experience + 2] Rowan raised the spear, and a fish that looked to be about half a catty was speared by him.
He was grinning from ear to ear; the produce of this other world was truly abundant.
In his original world, if there had been such a large fish near the village, it would have long been caught by the villagers.
But here, very few villagers came to catch these fish.
Spear fish, spear fish, spear a toad!
Under the sunlight, Rowan fought hard by the riverside.
After slowly mastering the technique, the efficiency of Rowan’s fishing began to improve slowly.
Occasionally, villagers would pass by, and seeing Rowan fishing, they couldn’t help but show knowing smiles.
“This young man is really energetic!” Time passed leisurely.
Rowan spent the whole day fishing.
He was like a tireless fishing machine, no matter what he saw, as long as it moved, he would go and spear it.
Rowan discovered that small fish and toads gave one point of experience.
Fish that were too small, or creatures smaller than toads, gave no experience.
Larger fish provided two points of experience, and the largest ones gave three points.
After fishing all day, the thing Rowan speared the most was still toads.
However, the experience bar was full.
This day’s effort was not in vain.
“Kid, the sun is setting, hurry home.” On the bridge not far away, Uncle Karl, the village blacksmith, reminded him.
[Karl] [Level: 3] [Justice Value: 60] [Class: Farmer (lv2), Blacksmith (lv1)] [Innate Ability: None] Blacksmith?
Hmm…
as a production class, it was actually a pretty good choice.
Rowan smiled and said: “I know, Uncle Karl.” Uncle Karl left.
Rowan opened his attribute panel and then used his mind to click on the upgrade button for Healer.
Rowan only felt a shudder, and a powerful force surged from within.
His whole body felt hot, as if he had drunk fake liquor, and he felt full of strength.
He gained three skill points, and he placed them into the first-level skill in the Healer skill tree.
[Attribute Table] [Level: 2] [Class: Healer (Rare lv2)] [Innate Ability: Class Evolver] [Justice Value: 0 (Neutral)] [HP: 25 (2.5%)] [MP: 25 (2.5%)] [Physical Attack: 25 (2.5%)] [Physical Defense: 25 (2.5%)] [Agility: 25 (2.5%)] [Magic Attack: 25 (2.5%)] [Magic Defense: 25 (2.5%)] [Comprehensive Resistance: 15 (2.5%)] [Specialty: 0 (0%)] [Skill Points: 2] [Experience Bar: 12 / 200] [Passive Skills: Healing Storage (0 / 100), Limit Break] [Active Skills: Optimization (3 times/day), Degradation (3 times/day)] Power was surging out.
Speaking of which, the three-times-a-day class skills hadn’t been used yet.
Rowan saw no one around and grabbed a fish.
For skills with daily usage limits like this, he would always feel a loss if he didn’t use them up.
“Degradation!” Rowan silently thought.
He saw the fish become old and gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, emitting a foul smell, as if it had been dead for several days.
Rowan hurriedly threw it away, and the energy on the panel reluctantly went from 0 to 1.
Hmm, the energy from one fish seemed a bit too little.
The abilities of Optimization and Degradation were very powerful, but they had one huge flaw: they could only be triggered through contact.
For intangible or untouchable objects, there was no way to use them.
If he could use them at a distance, that would be invincible.
It was just a pity he didn’t have that ability.
Rowan tried touching a stone and activated Degradation.
The stone quickly became very brittle, and with a slight touch, it turned into poor soil.
But the energy did not increase; perhaps the stone had too little energy.
Rowan pressed his hand onto a tree trunk as thick as his calf.
Degradation!
The tree was quickly drained of its vitality, becoming dry and yellow, covered in cracks.
A forceful push caused it to crumble into fragments and fall off.
The energy increased by one point again.
No, how could a tree have more energy than a fish?
He didn’t know how it was judged; could it be vitality?
The introduction on the panel said it was level, but fish and trees didn’t have levels.
Hmm, it still needed further testing.
The three uses of Degradation were used up.
As for Optimization, Rowan reached out and pressed it on himself.
Optimization!
The fatigue in his body was swept away, just like the morning of the first day of the New Year, as refreshing as putting on a new pair of underwear.
His tired body from fishing all day was now completely recovered.
The energy disappeared by one point, and the body’s attributes did not change.
This Optimization, it seemed, couldn’t optimize his own body.
But if it followed the plot in Redo of Healer, it could heal wounds.
After all, he was a Healer, and if he treated others, he could also acquire their abilities.
But that was the ability displayed in another world.
Here, the Healer’s abilities had been localized, and the originally unlimited Optimization and Degradation now had usage limits, and even energy limits.
The characteristic of stealing abilities by treating others might have also changed; he would have to find an opportunity to test it later.
If he could really steal abilities, then this class would be too terrifying.
Only one point of energy remained, and Rowan didn’t have anything to optimize for the time being, so he packed up and went home.
With a back basket full of fish and toads, Rowan sold the fish to the villagers.
In the village, fish weren’t worth much money.
He kept the largest one for Enri as a token of gratitude and sold all the other fish, but so many fish only brought in eighteen copper coins.
It was pitifully little.
However, being able to sell them for some money was not bad.
No one wanted the toads, so Rowan skinned them and roasted them to eat.
As long as they were roasted thoroughly, parasites and such wouldn’t matter.
The toad meat tasted even better than chicken, and Rowan ate it with great satisfaction.