Infinity – Chapter 3

Within the space of one month, my plans to improve myself were skyrocketing along. My accuracy at archery was improving at an impressive rate, even Matt was struggling to beat me in little competitions of accuracy and distance.

“That’s 3 for 3, you’re a natural!” Matt said proudly.

“I have a good teacher… I was wondering, do you think you could put a good word in with the boss, I’m looking for a job and you know how much I like this place”

“I can ask for you… No guarantees though” Matt answered as he patted me on the back before going to check on the others training.

Working out on the weights, my body was already starting to adapt. In the past it was only once Infinity had launched its second update, altering the combat systems that the world realised that your physical fitness impacted your more capabilities online. Now I had a five year headstart and I wasn’t about to let this go to waste.

“Hey Joel… Boss wants a word with you” Matt said cheerfully, leading me to the back office of the gym. The owner sitting down in her large armchair in my opinion looked rather comical, almost mafia looking yet it was in the back of a gym.

“Joel, I hear you’re looking for a job” The manager said with a rather serious look.

“Yes Ma’am” Joel hastily replied.

“This isn’t a place for you to just chill out and practice your archery. If you want to work here, you work” She said firmly to which Joel hastily nodded.

“Of course. Ma’am”

“You can have the morning shift, You start at 6 in the morning, finish at 12, you okay with that”

“Yes, Thank you” I replied. My mind was already annoyed that I would have less play time with Ethan because of this but it was extra money and there were things I needed to save up for to make Infinity even better for us. Afterall, previously we couldn’t start playing until 6 months after it’s launch due to the price of the VR headsets.

“Good, I’ll see you here tomorrow morning then” She said after filling out the basic forms and motioning to the door to dismiss her new employee.

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Back home, I was indulging myself in my 2nd new hobby. Infinity was coming out in 5 years, that was a long time to forget things, especially vital exploits that most people never realised until it was too late.

The main fact was that they needed to start in the Elven city of Lunar Bridge, it was the same place they started previously and it was originally Ethan’s idea to start there but since this was the place that he knew the most of, it was wise to begin there again. Before anything, he needed to reach level 3 and pick up the rare quest to raid the abandoned mansion. Only there could he find the hidden dungeon and pick up the Soul Weapon he wanted.

Soul Weapons were a rare sort of weapon, they leveled up as the player leveled up and were incredibly powerful. However, this power had a down side. You could only ever use this one weapon for the rest of your account. Although it doesn’t sound bad at first, there are thousands of powerful weapons in the world of Infinity. At the bottom was the Common rank weapons and equipment, then Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Divine. There were also various multi rank items like Saint Weapons which varied between Epic and Divine depending on their rank. Soul Weapons worked the same way, some could be as great as Divine weapons whilst others only as good as Epic weapons. Unfortunately, people only came to realise this once players started hitting level 100 and legendary weapons started to become more common.

Luckily, the Soul Weapon I was after was called [Seven Stars Bow] and whilst it wasn’t the most powerful Soul Weapon, it was the most powerful bow, and it’s greatest strength came from the fact that it was upgradeable. Like most weapons, it could be sharpened, enchanted, imbued with powerful gemstones or even recast into something greater if you had the right materials, but there were a number of weapons, across all ranks which were inertly upgradable, typically using some rare item from the game. I didn’t have the information of what it needed to upgrade but I knew it was upgradable and at the low levels, this weapon would be godly.

“Hey J, I’m back” Ethan called as he returned from home.

“Hey, I got myself a job today at the gym.