CHAPTER 14: LAND HOOOO!!!!!!!
Would you like to loot the [Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream]
Yes/No
“That’s the last one, man that was difficult,” I say while wiping the dirt of my hands together “I’ve lost a lot of sunlight now I have to run back to my campsite before it gets pitch black”. I click the “Yes” Icon and walk away from the dissolving body. One thing that I have learned from scouting the area looking for the corpses of the bees is that I don’t have to stand and wait for the dissolving to be completed and the smoke for whatever reason will seek me out.
I open my map to see how far away my campsite is and to my delight, I see that it's not too far away and I should make it there before nightfall. I begin my walk back to camp, well I should say walk/flight back to camp as I have been constantly switching back and forth between walking and flying.
“Man, I feel like I got a better handle on this flying thing,” I say as I land watching my wings retract back into my armor set.
***DING***
[Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor] skill on cooldown!!!
00:15:00…….00:14:59……..00:14:58
“I wish there was a way to increase the time, I’m almost getting addicted to the feeling of flying in the air like I’m superman”. I open my crafting screen to look at the skills I can craft.
Flight:
7/75 [Soul of Monster with Flight skill]
“I got a long way to go to be able to fly using my power” I sigh as I close my system screen. I wonder if it’ll have the same limitations as the armor set knowing my luck it will or come with a high MP cost that makes it not even worth it. I let out a heavy sigh as I push the heavy task to the back of my mind. After about an hour of walking and flying, I finally arrive at my campsite.
“Ahhh home sweet home,” I say sitting down next to the charred remains that used to be my campfire. It feels like I have been away forever but it's only been a little over a day. I open my inventory retrieving a couple of pieces of wood and palm tree leaves to remake my campfire. I set the logs to look like a teepee and set a pile of palm tree leaves underneath.
“Thank god for this,” I say pulling out a lit torch to instantly light my palm tree leaves. After a few moments, the tree logs finally start to catch fire and I now I have a proper fire going.
“Now that’s done it's time to finally take care of all these pop-up items,” I say maximizing all the popup screens.
Quest Complete:
Quest: [Defeat the Bee swarm]
Did somebody call the exterminator!!!!
Distributing Rewards:
Reward: +1 INT stat
As the screen disappears I feel my head pulsate almost like I have a heartbeat in my skull. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that feeling I think to myself.
STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 15/15
MP: 13/13
Stamina: 22/22
ATK: 13
DEF: 10
INT: 9
RES: 7
HIT: 11
SPD: 12
RESISTANCE:
N/A
“One more point in intelligence and I should get a new skill if it follows the pattern of my other 10-plus stats,” I scratch my head.
[Bee stinger] x6 has been added to your inventory.
[Bee Exoskeleton] x6 has been added to your inventory.
[Monster blood] x30 has been added to your inventory.
[Honey] x60 has been added to your inventory.
[Bee Claws] x36 has been added to your inventory.
90 [Copper Coin] has been added to your inventory.
6 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream] x6 has been added to your inventory.
MONSTER DATA [Crimson Ferocious Bee-Scream] has been added to the system info:
Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream:
HP: 20/20
MP: 16/16
Stamina: 50/50
ATK: 18
DEF: 11
INT: 11
RES: 26
HIT: 4
SPD: 36
SKILLS:
Monster Strength, Monster Speed, Vicious Shout, Flight, Toxic Flame Blood
[Bee stinger] x1 has been added to your inventory.
[Crimson Exoskeleton] x1 has been added to your inventory.
[Fire Infused blood] x5 has been added to your inventory.
[Bee Claws] x6 has been added to your inventory.
20 [Copper Coin] has been added to your inventory.
3 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
1 [Gold Coin] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Crimson Ferocious Bee-Scream] has been added to your inventory.
***Notice***
New Items can be crafted
Fire Aura Potion:
5/2 Fire-Infused Blood
31/1 Monster Blood
2/2 Magic Fluid
Lessor Burn Ointment:
5/1 Fire-Infused Blood
47/1 Binding
Crimson Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor:
0/5 Steel Ore
47/2 Binding
14/3 Leather
1/1 Crimson Exoskeleton
1/3 Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor
Charred Leather Coat:
5/3 Fire-Infused Blood
14/2 Leather
47/2 Binding
Charred Leather Shoes:
5/2 Fire-Infused Blood
14/2 Leather
47/2 Binding
“This thing sure is weird,” I say holding what looks like a normal vile of blood however this blood is warm. I swirl it around in my hands for a few moments until the vile is no longer just warm but is now getting hotter by the second as the blood swirls around. I immediately store it in my inventory screen afraid it’ll get so hot that it burns the skin.
“Damn that got hot fast,” looking at my hands I see that they have started to swell a little due to the heat.
“That’s it for all the popups, I guess the big question now is what I should make first. I think about it for a few moments until I decide on creating three items.
Fire Aura Potion:
Drinking this potion will cause the user's aura to turn into a raging fire, anything the user deems as a target will suffer +15burn damage if they are to physically hurt the user.
***NOTICE***
The potion only lasts 15 min.
“Oh dang that’s cool, but I’m not a fan of needles” In my hand is a small syringe of red liquid. I store the needle in my inventory and move on to my next item.
Lessor Burn Ointment:
Apply this to the affected area to fix the boo-boo. Bandage speeds up the healing time needed for burn status.
“Oh whatever,” I say shaking my head, “To call this burn ointment is sad, ointment usually comes in a tub or a jar”. The ointment isn’t really ointment but rather a medium-sized band-aid with a little cartoon flame with a smile giving me a thumbs up.
Charred Leather Shoes:
+3DEF, +5SPD, +4 Burn Resistance, 40/40 durability
Leather Shoes infused with the powers of flames.
Armor Skill: Flame Step
Duration 20min
Gives you a pep in your step, and also gives you the ability to walk on fire as well as causing +2 burn damage if using your feet to strike.
“Oh shit, these are way better than my ape shoes,” I say slipping off my ape shoes and slipping on my new shoes. They look almost identical to my ape shoes however these are black with weird sketches on the sides. Looking at my shoes I can’t help but feel a little pride in myself, I mean when I first got here however I got here I had absolutely nothing except the clothes on my back and a watch and now I’m decked out in all this cool stuff.
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“I just wish I wasn’t alone anymore,” I say while hanging my head. I was never really the social butterfly in my old life except with a few people at work and the lady who gave me my food at my favorite Mexican place.
“Man she was really hot, and not just because she brought me my nachos” I reminisce as thoughts of my old life flash before me. I continue to think about my old life until I feel a single tear roll down my cheek. “It wasn’t the best life, but it was my life.”
I stand up to crawl into my tent to get a good night’s rest as I come to the conclusion moping about my old life isn’t productive. I crawl into my tent and wipe the tears out of my eyes, and I begin to slowly drift into sleep.
“Kjkjfa’dk, gsirjhis INDGDSCKSC,” I am startled awake as I hear voices walking around my campsite. I quickly get to my feet and the first thing I see is the bright light of an early morning however the next thing I notice is the three men surrounding me. All three men are dressed fairly similar to each other and are also armed with a pistol on their side and a saber on the other side. There are two exceptions though as one of the three men has twin axes strapped to his back and another has chains attached to each wrist going up to his neck.
“Oh my god it's people,” I say as I reach my hand to shake the closest one’s hand. I stop about halfway as I notice the two other men have unsheathed their sabers and are now pointing them toward my throat. They moved so fast I barely notice them move I gulp as I raise my hands in a non-confrontational manner.
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean any ha….,” I said but am cut off as the two men placed the cold steel of their blades on my throat.
“JSDHDIJHKFJ DFJUVHA, IDjMNFUSSA,” the man with the twin axes yells out.
“Dude, tell your boys to back up I can’t understand you,” I say while applying my armor-plated skin all over my body.
“Kdsakndf, idflhnjhsangl,” the axe man says as he removes the axes off his back and raises it above my head.
“Oh fuck you I was trying to be nice,” I say while using my armor-plated hands to grab the sabers on my neck to push them off to the side. Now that I have a little breathing room, I pull out two bee sabers getting ready for the fight of my life, however, the three men are staring at me with mouths wide open and blinking uncontrollably.
“What you’ve never seen a man conjure up two swords like magic!!!” I yell at the three men slowly backing away. I wait nervously with my swords at the ready as the three men are now huddled next to each other whispering in that weird language that I can’t understand. With each passing second my heart races and sweat slowly starts dripping down my face, I feel like my heart can’t take it anymore and my fight or flight instincts kick in.
I quickly summon the ivory bee scream armors flight ability and try to fly up as high and as fast as I can. When I get about 20 feet above the tree line I fly forward before the 60-second timer wears off. I fly forward for about 5 seconds until I hear a loud bang and then feel intense pain in my shoulder.
“OWW FUCK YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!” I yell while clutching my bloodied shoulder and looking down to see one of the men pointing its pistols at me and another one reloading. Deciding not to reengage with them I decide to continue to fly away but before I can make my great escape, I hear another loud bang as another round is fired hitting the middle of my back.
***DING***
[Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor] – Destroyed
“Oh shit,” I say in almost a whisper as I fall 30 feet out of the air. Before I can even reach the floor the missing third guy is now right below me unafraid that I am barreling towards him at a speed that would cause injury if I were to fall on him. Once I am within a few feet of him he quickly raises his right hand and when he does, I feel a weird sensation all over my body as I’m frozen in place.
STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Health: 11/15
MP: 8/13
Condition:
Time control - STOP
I shouldn’t say frozen in place more like I’m suspended in the air unable to move even my eyelids as I watch the three men have all now regrouped. The third man still has his hands up and it's safe to say that the fact that I haven’t plummeted to my death is thanks to him. I watch the man and see that sweat has now started to appear around his forehead, it must take a lot of effort to keep me in place.
“Sfdsfsn, idsadfsda kdngdds idsassdfbd,” the chained man says as he walks toward the sweaty man and casually places his hand on his shoulder. The chained man looks at me and smiles almost as if he’s Ishmael and I’m captured Moby-Dick. The chained man whispers something to the sweaty man, I try to listen but even if I could I wouldn’t be able to understand them anyway. After a few seconds, the chained man looks at me again and raises his hand, and snaps his fingers.
The chains on the man’s shoulders twitch almost as if it's alive, and after a few seconds, it unravels off the guy’s arm and falls to the floor. The man snaps again and the chain starts to glow a slight purple, it then shoots up just as fast as a bullet leaving a gun. I watch this all unfold as I’m still frozen in place, the chain quickly wraps around my wrist and ankles binding me in place. Once I feel the chains wrap around me as tight as humanly possible the sweaty man drops his hands.
As soon as he drops his hands I continue to fall just as fast as when I started. “Why go through the whole wrapping up my hands and feet if their just going to let me fall to my death,” were some of my initial thoughts that was until the twin axe man jumped in the air towards my falling body. The impact of colliding with the man was enough to knock the wind out of me but regardless it meant I wasn’t going to die right away. The twin axe man quickly threw me over his shoulders as he jumped on a nearby tree limb and after a few more quick movements on his part, we were now on the ground.
“DIngKDgDsacb, kamdfa,” the chained man said as he was walking towards me. He patted the twin-axe man on the back and then knelt towards me so we were eye to eye.
“Japned mbfvsk,” the chained man spoke with a soft voice and a somber look. He then pulled out his pistol and smacked me in the head with the side of it knocking me unconscious.
***DING***
Language [Stulgers] data has been downloaded
[Stulgers] language will now be interpreted as English and when you speak others will hear [Stulgers] language.
I am awoken on the sandy beach where all this started by both the system message and arguing going off in the distance. I am on my back with the sun beating down on me with a monster of all headaches. I summon the strength to sit up and as I do, I am blown away at the sight in front of me. The beach is now occupied to what looks like to be around 30 people all dressed similarly to the three men I had the pleasure of meeting earlier, but what is most notable is the giant boat that’s now docked on the beach.
The ship is huge, and it looked like it was something you would see in a pirate of the Caribbean movie. The ship was about 65 feet long and had two giant beams in the middle that I could only assume was where their sails would go, also on the sides it looked to have about 15 holes on each side for their cannons but what stuck out the most is the black flag it's flying. The flag in itself had the typical skull but had scythes instead of crossbones and had a very detailed king cobra crawling out of the eye socket.
“Captain, the lily-livered soul we caught is finally coming too,” the chained man said getting the attention of all those around him. Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and came rushing towards me. All the men got way too close for comfort to me smelling me, poking at me, and lastly spitting at me.
“You coward you scurvy dog, how dare you run from a fight,” one man said as he kicked sand in my face.
“How come you didn’t fight all of the dead!” another said holding his bloody stump of an arm “We lost a few men cleaning up your mess”.
“What did you do with the gold you piss ant,” the twin axe man said while placing one of his axes on my neck.
“Fuck off I don’t know what gold you are talking about?” I said lying through my teeth. I knew exactly what gold they are talking about, and it looks like they went through hell to retrieve it.
“Bullshit, no one else has stepped foot on this island besides you,” the sweaty man yelled as threw rocks at me.
“Oh yeah why don’t you take these chains off so you and I can go another round!” I yelled back knowing full well that any one of these guys would wipe the floor with me.
A shot was heard, “ENOUGH,” said a man who was taller than any of the men before him and walked towards me with purpose. The man was dressed in all black with gold trimmings outlining his clothes clearly different from the rest of the men. If his clothes weren’t a dead giveaway that this man was in charge the fact that everyone got down on one knee bowing to him as he walked past them cemented that he was the boss. One second, I was watching him walk past everyone and in the next second he was standing right in front of me sand flowing up in the air behind him signifying that he ran past everyone. Fast this man was very fast was my first impression of their captain.
“I hope I only have to ask you this one time,” the captain spoke in a tone that wasn’t threatening nor compliant “Where is my gold”
“Like I told your friends I don’t know what you're talking about,” I said my voice almost trembling as I watched his calm demeanor suddenly turn violent.
“That’s not what I wanted to hear,” the man spoke while baring his teeth at me almost as if a switch was flipped inside him. I started to open my mouth to respond but was quickly silenced as the man punched me three or four times in the stomach but they were really too quick to count it could have been thirty times for all I knew. I fell over in pain throwing up along the way, and once I was down on the ground their captain stomped on my face and chest until my body resembled more blood than skin.
STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Health: 1/15
“Lincoln get over here now!!!” the captain yelled and the moment he finished his sentence a scrawny-looking man that looked like he had green pale skin and looked to weigh about 90 pounds soaking wet.
“Heal him now,” the captain barked at the skinny man. It was as if he had done this many times before the skinny man kneeled and gave me a wicked crooked smile. He laid his hands on my chest and after a few seconds, I felt my body making a full recovery.
STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Health: 15/15
“Now where is my gold,” and before I even had the chance to respond he continued the beating to the point my HP was back at 1 “Again” he told the sickly looking man.
He did this over and over until sundown not even giving me the chance to respond.
“Ughh Ughh Ughh were ughh is my ughh gold,” the captain said completely exhausted after beating me for hours on end. The skinny sickly man healed me one last time.
“Fuck you asshole,” I say while opening my inventory and emptying all my gold currency into the sand. As I did the captain as well as all the other men stared in amazement as the gold coins rained down from my hand until all the gold coins that I had are now in the sand.
“Aww now was that so hard,” the captain says as he drapes his arm on my shoulders “But now that I have my gold, I now have no use for you”. The closest man to him pulled out his pistol and handed it to the captain. I begin to panic as I am now staring down the barrel of a gun.
“Any last words my dear boy,” the captain said while pulling back the hammer of his pistol.
“Just the three, GO FUCK YOURSELF,” I say while giving him the finger.
“Very well, and thank you for bringing me my gold at the very least,” the captain smirks as he pulls the trigger shooting me right between the eyes.
SKILL:
Auto Activate
***Will to Survive***
Allows the User a higher chance to avoid direct, fatal injuries and live to fight another day.
SKILL COOLDOWN: 24:00:00………23:59:59…….23:59:58………
***Hey hey hey screw this guy you can’t die yet***
Before I even hit the ground the wound on my face started to glow and I feel a warmth stretching from my wound going throughout my entire body. On top of the warmth over my body, the slight glow has now become just bright as the sun and just as quickly as it came it disappeared.
“FUCK THAT HURTS!!!!!” I yell while slowly getting back on my feet. I look around and I notice that every single person now has their weapons drawn pointing towards me mouth a gape.
“Now that is interesting,” the captain says with a smirk.