Day 15: Today, I trained with King, who was surprisingly serious for once. It seems everyone is training really hard today. The reason being another system message that was released:
Hello everyone! In commemoration of introducing familiars to the game, we will be holding a tournament in 3 days. This tournament will allow you to get a better understanding of your familiar as it will be your partner in the fights. As for the prize, it will be a special skill only learnable by the winner’s familiar. Have fun everyone and enjoy the game!
I can’t wait. It’ll be fun fighting along side my familiar. I wonder how well my skills will hold up to others in PVP. Well, it’s not like I expect to win, but a unique skill sounds really nice, I wonder what it could be! Oh! As for my current status, I’m currently level 35. My martial arts skill achieved lvl 50 and ranked up to Krav Maga lvl 1. Apparently, Krav Maga is a special martial arts, made by the israeli army, that corresponds to how I fight. Ever since my martial arts skill ranked up, fighting has become a lot easier. As for my other skills, earth magic is now lvl 35, blacksmithing is only at lvl 20, and my cooking skill is almost ready to rank up at lvl 46. Today has been unexpectedly prosperous. The only bad thing is it seems I can’t find any rabbits to cook, I wonder why I can’t see them anywhere.
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Day 16: Today everyone received a special egg in their mailbox. Its description:
Familiar EggCreator???Durability:1/1Rank:Special Event ItemA mysterious egg that appeared in every adventurers’ mailbox one day. It seems to hold a monster of some sort. What could be inside?
The one I received was green in color with spots of blue dabbed on its surface. According to the forums, all of the eggs will hatch at noon. Until then, i’ll just continue killing the wolves and bears with King in the forest.
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Two Hours Later. King and I just finished a dungeon appropriately named [Black Bear’s Cave] After killing countless wolves and goblins, we arrived at the final corridor. Inside slept a 3 meter wide bear covered in dark fur. After around 30 minutes of fighting it non-stop, the last of its health hit “0” and it bursted into hundreds of pieces of brightly shining gold and a few mysterious looking pieces of equipment. After some talk, King took three of the items while I took the other two.
The ones I received were “Black Bear’s Claws” that gave me a boost in strength and speed as well as a special skill that allowed me to strengthening my kicks for 10 minutes and “Black Bear’s Tunic”. The later was extremely ominous looking. It had a dark hood that covered my face as well an insignia of a ferocious bear on the back. It was a pretty nice item considering the fact that it gave me a huge boost in defense; however, the best part of it was the fact that it gave me a skill that boosted my affinity with nature for an hour. Hehehe now I can lure those cute little bunnies out even though they continue to evade me. I can’t wait to taste sweet rabbit soup once more (Damn Wolf! You are one sick bastard). Anyways, soon it will be noon and I’ll finally get to see what familiar will hatch my egg.
“Hey Wolf.” King called over to me, now doned in his own black bear items.
“Hm?” I asked questionably. If this is about cooking again! I’ll slay him out here and now.
“I was wondering about what you’re gonna do for the tournament.” King answered shivering from the cold gaze I was giving him.
“Oh, that’s all you wanted to ask about?” I said easing up.
“Yea, I was wondering if you had any special skills or plans.”
“Nope, why, do I need any?”
“Nah, I was just wondering if you were any good at pvp.”
“Dunz know. I guess I’ll just go with the flow.”
“Ha, you should just pretend your opponents are rabbits. No one could beat you then.”
“What do you mean?”
“...” King was dumbfounded, thinking ‘is this guy just stupid? or...’ In the midst of thought on whether the guy in front of him an idiot or not his bag started shaking.
“What the?” I let a startled yelp out as my bag started shaking as well. *Boom* a huge cloud of smoke enveloped the large corridor as something from inside my bag flew out.
“Woah cool! So this is a familiar” King looked with eyes of admiration as a bear club nuzzled against the back of his right leg. ‘Oh a bear!’ I thought with expectant eyes as my own cloud of smoke dispersed. Once the smoke cleared a roundish mass appeared with blood red eyes and a gooey body.
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“What the hell!” I let out a scream as my new companion stood before me. No it wasn’t a wolf, bear, or dragon, but , instead, a… slime. That’s right, in front of me was my mortal enemy. A being in my eyes as the root of all evil, and now it was before me looking up with gleaming eyes full of wonder.
“Momma?” The thing said with a cute smile. ‘Don’t get pulled into its cuteness’ I thought to myself. After all, this was the monster that caused all that despair (What despair? All it did was protect itself and the worst that happened was that you died twice). This enfolding of events was worse than the time my grandma took me shopping and forgot me at the mall for four days.
“No!” Wolf said with a scowl.
“Momma!” the slime jumped into my forearms. What the hell, I just said no, is this thing stupid.
“Hey dev. team I want another egg.” I screamed at the ceilings.
I am sorry. You may only receive one familiar egg. Just deal with it you freaking crybaby.
As the message flashed before my eyes I had an unexplainable urge to lay down in a fetal position while my self-proclaimed child sat on top of my head.
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Day 17: I tried to shake off the thing that followed me everywhere, but it just kept bouncing right alongside me. I eventually, just gave in and tried to make do with my current situation. Who knows maybe it will be surprisingly helpful.
Later. “Are you kidding me.” I yelled into my hands. This slime had almost no uses. At first I tried getting it to attack a nearby wolf, but it was just stepped on and died. Afterwards, I got it to attack one of the beginner level gopher monsters but it couldn’t catch it. Not only was it weak but also incredibly slow.
“Ahhh” I let out a bloodcurdling scream as I chucked the useless ball of goo at a nearby monster. *Plop* “What the…” I couldn’t believe my eyes as I stared at what just happened. Instead of bouncing off the monster, the slime engulfed its head and was slowly draining its health. Yep, I said engulfed. Apparently, it was suffocating the poor wolf as it wrapped around the beast's mouth. “Pfft..This has to be a joke.” I chuckled. I mean now it can help fight but…. isn’t this kinda cruel. *Ding* In mid-laugh the system alerted me of a message:
Your familiar has just learned a new skill
Skill Name:Skill Rank/Type:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Suffocating SlimeUnique Racial Skill10%You have somehow found a use for your formally thought useless pet. It can’t do anything on its on, but since you decided to throw it in a fit a rage it became desperate to please you, and swallowed up your opponents head causing the target to suffocate. Effects: 10 damage a second; reduced enemy speed by 15%. Cost: 25 mana.
“Um.. good job?” I gave a pat on what I thought to be the slime’s head as its eyes beamed up at me. ‘Maybe this familiar isn’t as bad as I thought’
“Momma!” The little guy was so happy it jumped up at me and…. engulfed my head too.
“Ahhhh!” I screamed as my health slowly reduced to 0.
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Back at the Respawn Point: “Why… just why?” I started crying.
“Momma?” the slime looked up as if nothing happened.
Slime’s Perspective:
Momma is walking so fast. Better run and catch up.
I failed at fighting the wolf that momma sent me out to attack.
I couldn't catch the gopher thing.
I can’t really help momma with anything. Oh momma’s throwing me at that monster. I want to be of use to momma! *Plop*
Momma said I did good. I’m so happy. Maybe momma wants me to swallow momma’s head too.
Hmm? Why is momma screaming? Is mamma happy? I hope so.
Back at the respawn point: I teleported to some place after momma fainted. Why is momma sad? Did I do something wrong? Does momma want me to swallow momma’s head again? Well if momma insists...
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