Helping Others with Quests

As the sounds of fighting on the deck reached him, Liu Zhi tightened his grip on the curved blade. It was actually a half-length sailor's knife, better suited for fighting in ship cabins and slightly shorter than ordinary swords.

The moment he held the curved blade, Liu Zhi felt speechless. He did not know how to use this thing. He figured that if he charged in with it, he could only hack his way through with brute force.

This gradually gave Liu Zhi, who had only just begun adapting to the situation before him, a sense of unease. This was not his world. More importantly, aside from his memories, it seemed he could do nothing at all.

The instant he began to worry, his vision blurred. A mass of data-like information sprang out, washing over his sight like a flood before finally leaving behind a strange Attributes panel.

[Name: Sandru]

[Class: Necromancer]

[Level: 0]

[Title: None]

[Attributes: Strength 1.1, Agility 1.0, Constitution 1.3, Spirit 2.9]

[Active Skills: None]

[Passive Skills: Magic Knowledge Level 3, Necromantic Knowledge Level 4, Basic Science Level 3, Basic Language Level 2]

[Experience: 0]

"What the hell is this?" Liu Zhi cried as he stared at the Attributes panel. Hadn't the memory fragments just said Sandru was a Necromancer about to graduate? What was going on here? Why did this feel so much like a game?

Staring at the Attributes panel, Liu Zhi tried calling out, "Quest? System? Minimap?"

There was no response at all.

Instead, his voice drew footsteps from the cabin.

Liu Zhi had no time to examine the situation further. He flicked his curved blade, returned the pendant to the small box, and shoved it behind several large crates.

At that moment, someone kicked open Liu Zhi's cabin door. Prepared for it, Liu Zhi did not care who it was and brought his blade down at their head.

The person entering was a pirate sailor reeking of the sea. He held a curved blade in his hand and had just kicked open the door to see what was inside when a flash of steel greeted him.

Still, he was a pirate sailor who had killed before. He immediately swung his blade up to meet the attack.

Liu Zhi had put all his strength into that strike. Though he did not know what Strength 1.1 meant, he felt it should make him somewhat stronger than an ordinary person.

To his surprise, the pirate easily blocked the blow. Liu Zhi reacted quickly. The moment his opponent caught the strike, he thrust forward with all his might, sending the curved blade toward the man's throat.

The pirate had not expected such a follow-up and failed to react in time. However, he immediately fell backward, trying to evade the strike.

That alone showed that this pirate was a battle-hardened veteran.

But Liu Zhi's attacks came one after another. As he thrust with his blade, his foot was already lashing out.

Even if the pirate had not leaned back using something like an Iron Bridge, Liu Zhi's kick would have hit him. And by falling back like that, he directly exposed a certain vulnerable spot, which Liu Zhi struck with a heavy kick.

The pirate staggered back several steps. Seizing the chance, Liu Zhi chopped downward with his curved blade and cut into the pirate's body.

However, Liu Zhi had no combat experience. Although he left a wound on the pirate, he failed to kill him and only inflicted a serious injury.

In this era, battles at sea were extremely dangerous. As long as they were not dead, even badly wounded pirates would struggle to get back up and fight.

The moment Liu Zhi relaxed, the pirate seized the opportunity. With his stomach split open and his intestines spilling out, he kicked fiercely at Liu Zhi.

Liu Zhi was knocked down by the kick and hit the floor. The pirate tried to sit up, but his injuries were too severe, and he could not even rise.

Instead, the kick snapped Liu Zhi awake. He immediately reacted, sat up from the floor, and lunged toward the pirate. His curved blade hacked relentlessly into the pirate until the man was dead before he finally stopped.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Liu Zhi let out a long breath.

At that moment, a point of red light flashed before him. He looked closely and saw the number "+35" jump past his eyes.

After examining it carefully, excitement finally appeared on Liu Zhi's face. This was experience gained from killing the pirate.

The discovery made Liu Zhi's eyes light up. Experience! That was good stuff. So this was his cheat.

After studying the experience and finding no immediate use for it, Liu Zhi put the matter aside. He needed to deal with the corpse first.

After all, this was his cabin. He had eaten, drunk, and relieved himself here before, making it unpleasant enough already. If he added a corpse, was he supposed to stay in this cabin for the rest of the voyage?

So Liu Zhi stood and walked over to the pirate's corpse. Just as he was about to drag it out, a strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

The body is too thin and weak to be made into a zombie. The soul has scattered and cannot be made into a ghost...

What was all this?

Liu Zhi forcibly pulled back the hand touching the corpse. This must be an effect of Sandru's Level 4 Necromantic Knowledge.

Still, this was not bad. At least he did not feel any disgust at killing someone or searching a corpse.

Just as he was about to drag out this seemingly useless corpse, Liu Zhi froze. Only then did he remember that he had not had time to loot the body after killing the man.

Liu Zhi casually set the pirate's curved blade aside and began searching the pirate's body.

Very quickly, Liu Zhi found a walnut pipe, a small pouch of Silver Coins, a silver dinner fork with patterns on it, something resembling a whistle, and a worn piece of parchment.

If Liu Zhi had not found the pirate's clothes too ragged, he might have stripped those off as well.

After tossing the pirate's corpse outside, Liu Zhi tightly shut the cabin door.

Then he turned all his attention to the items he had just acquired. Aside from the parchment and the Silver Coins, he found a faint glow on the other objects.

However, after studying them for a long time, Liu Zhi still could not figure out what the glowing items did. Instead, the parchment drew his attention.

[Skill Book Detected—Sailor's Basic Swordsmanship. Prerequisites for learning: Strength 0.8, Agility 0.8... Requirements met. Spend 30 Experience to learn?]