As Noah was walking home, He got a message from Sam.
"Hey, do you want to meet up for some food with my bro."
Noah thought for a minute before replying.
"Yeah, where and when."
"It's going to be at this barbecue restaurant near the B rank buffalo portal. Do you want to meet there at around 6 in the afternoon?"
After Noah agreed he went home to shower and take a tiny rest before heading out. The location wasn't far, so Noah didn't have to worry about being late.
Portals can appear anywhere in the world as long as it is on something connected to the ground when it initially formed. This means it can appear on the ocean floor and on the 60th floor of a building.
This also means it can't appear on boats in the water, anywhere in water that is not touching the ground, and on planes/the sky. All of this information was observed when all found portals followed this rule.
After finding and entering the restaurant, Noah messaged Sam that he was here.
(Sam) Alright we are in a booth numbered 8B.
After entering the booth, Noah saw Sam sitting with another guy chatting.
The guy had hair that was the color of copper and verdant green eyes. He had the physique of an athlete.
After sitting down, Sam introduced everyone.
"This is my benefactor, Noah, and this is my bro, Rezard."
"Hi, nice to meet you. You must have done something big for Sam to even go to the extent of repeatedly telling me to show the utmost respect when I meet you. It makes me wonder what you did." Rezard then proceeds to lean in closer to the table.
"Well, if Sam does not want to tell you then I cannot tell you." Noah says in a joking way.
"Ahh, well that's too bad. Oh yeah, you said you wanted to tell me something important." Noah and Rezard starts to look at Sam.
"Well, it is actually related to what you are talking about," Sam then leans in closer and whispers. "My ability rank has increased to F rank."
Rezard's eyes widen, "But how, something like that is impossible."
"Well since you are going to find out I'll explain this. He bought something from my shop that increased his rank."
"It isn't a scam before you ask, Rezard. It appears on my status screen permanently. There have also been no negative side effects so far since I bought it yesterday."
"Wait so how did you get an item that increases rank?" Rezard looked a little overwhelmed with the load of world flipping information.
"People are going to find out about this anyway so I'll explain a little bit about it. I have an ability where I can so far increase someone's ability rank, stat cap, and mass produce items I can sell for exp."
What Noah said was true. In order to fully utilize his ability Noah needs to trade with multiple people face to face. Plus having this publicity isn't really a bad thing as more people will be visiting his shop more.
"Wait the stat cap part wasn't there when I went there," Sam added with surprise
"Yeah, it's pretty new. You pay in stats to increase a chosen stat."
"Wait that means that someone wouldn't have to worry about having a low stat cap in an important attribute as much," Sam said getting up in shock.
Rezard face became grim, "What is your ability and stat rank if I may ask?"
"My stat rank is G, and I don't know my ability rank," Noah replied nonchalantly.
"You need to be careful with people finding out about your ability or you could be abused. Your best choice would be to find a reliable guild. The other would be to hide any traces of the shop owner being you, but that would be hard to do. Face covering can be easily removed and gear that covers someone's face is almost nonexistent. Hunters can easily destroy any normal mask that has not been gathered from a portal."
Sam eyes widen when he heard that. He never realized how useful Noah ability is and how weak Noah is to be able to showcase it openly.
"I can see your concerns, but I want my ability to be available for all without a guild restricting people. So, I guess that rules out guilds for me. I already realized how useful my ability was when my first customer, Sam left. That is why I came up with a plan when I figured my ability out fully." Noah then activates disguise, changing his face into an elderly man.
"You see I found out that my ability lets me use all abilities I traded at any time. So, I plan to use this when people enter my shop to hide my identity."
Rezard and Sam eyes widen.
"This ability is way too powerful," they said simultaneously.
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