Overgeared

Chapter 14

Once I finished my 280th piece of firewood, my hunger became worse and I started to become dizzy. However, I didn’t stop.

‘I wouldn’t be me if I gave up at this point.’

Since childhood, I had never been good at anything. I wasn’t smart, wasn’t handsome, and my personality wasn’t good. I wasn’t even good at sports or exercising. I didn’t have a special talent in a single field.

I had no abilities, felt severe jealousy towards others, and made excuses…

I couldn’t deny that I was a bad representation of the human race. However, the reason I was able to build amicable relationships in high school was through my persistence.

I wasn’t very smart. I needed to study several times more than others just to maintain a normal grade. My personality was bad. I often put on a charade that was just as good as the politicians. I wasn’t good at exercising. During PE, I was able to play soccer with others because I tried diligently.

I knew this about myself, so I tried. I did my best to not give up. Thanks to my persistence, I was able to go to university and make it safely through the army. I might be debt-ridden because of Satisfy, but I barely managed to maintain an ordinary life.

Anyway, persistence was my strong point.

“Level… money…”

I was caught by this obsession and didn’t stop moving my axe. I had just chopped the 460th piece of firewood when suddenly, a notification window popped up.

[Persistence stat has been opened.]

“Eh?”

Surprisingly, it was a new stat. I immediately checked the stat.

[Persistence]

You never give up, even in the face of a difficult task. You won’t get tired easily. The possessions weight limit has increased. The feeling of satiation will last for a long time.

* The higher the number, the higher the effect.

* Stat points can’t be distributed to this stat.

* Every time 10 points are gained in this stat, the ‘Indomitable’ stat will increase by 1 point.

“Wow!”

I wouldn’t tire easily, my weight limit would increase, and satiety would last for a long time! It was truly fantastic. Furthermore, my indomitable stat would go up by one with every 10 points in persistence?

‘I have to be persistent to raise this stat?’

I felt some doubt as I returned to chopping the firewood.

‘I showed a lot more persistence when completing Ashur’s quest… why wasn’t the persistence stat created until now?’

could only think of it as the difference between a normal rank class and a legendary rank

effort, but the stat

I discovered the new benefits of the legendary class, I forgot all of my fatigue and started

Ttaak! Ttaak!

increased, I developed the knack of hitting

one point every 200 pieces of firewood. However, at a certain point, it no longer decreased and the speed of my chopping

pieces of firewood, I had four points in

haven’t consumed food in a long time, so all stats have dropped by half. It is easier to become affected by an abnormal state. If you continue to starve,

was a close call. I

“Pant pant…”

My whole body was screaming in pain, making it hard to move. Despite the compensation from the persistence stat, my -3 level

bread and water that I took out of my inventory and

Guardian of the Forest by now. It is good

wouldn’t even have been able to follow the movement speed of the other party members. How embarrassing would it have been if I died from exhaustion, not by

drop rate of blue orichalcum. My thinking was too

a small amount of

a while, I barely recovered

chopping the firewood. I did as much as possible and

in six hours?

was

‘Is this person bipolar?’

it too much to lie that I chopped 1,000 firewood

to tell me that. If you cheat me, I’ll kick you out

moments… Smith’s mouth dropped open as he saw the 1,000

You don’t have the stamina to chop 1,000 pieces of firewood! Tell me honestly! Where did all this firewood come from? Did it come from Vans carpenter store? Or did you buy it from the

are you framing someone? These are my own logs of

“Ridiculous! It can’t be!”

Why didn’t he believe me? I picked up the axe. Smith flinched and

Ttaack!

as the axe met the wood, a clear sound was heard. It was

saw the log split neatly in two. After staring blankly, he nodded and opened his mouth, “I thought you were an ordinary newbie, but you’ve actually

“No.”

“Then, you’re a woodcutter.”

out a hand towards Smith, who was talking

is better than I expected, so

points. The way that Smith gazed at me also changed considerably. Before, he had looked at me like a cockroach, and now I was like a

successive S and SS-grade quests, so completing a normal quest after a long time gave me a sense of accomplishment. As I was bathing in the afterglow, Smith

be a mine. Gather

“How much?”

“As much as possible!”

[Mine Iron Ore]

Difficulty: E

is

understand why

the difficulty of the task in