Chapter 2- The Isle of Blood
A blue light shone around Eon. Once it subsided, he vanished.
Eon woke up to a shining sun.
“Where am I?” he thought. Surrounded by sand, he assumed that he was teleported to the Isle of Blood.
He could see the murky-blue water reaching far beyond his sight.
“There’s no use in escaping,” he thought. Noticing an old paper laying one foot towards his right, he picked it up. It read, The Isle of Blood.
The map portrayed a circular diagram, in which the edges of the diagram were splashed a lighter red than the center.
“Mhm,” he thought. “This must mean that getting closer and closer towards the core of the island will get more and more dangerous. I wonder how dangerous the center would be since its completely black.”
He frowned because he could not find a portal that led back to the village.
“Time to improve.” he thought, strolling towards the center of the Island.
50 meters later, he had already found his first prey. It was a 3 meters long blood red crab with large, sharp claws.
Getting closer, hoping to find out more about the crab, a blue screen appeared in front of him.
New Skill: You have learned [Monster Identification]
"Skill, Monster Identification "
-Monster Identification [1]
Find information about monsters at most 10 levels above you.
Looking at the crab, he said, "Identify crab.”
Blood Crab
Level: 5
Health: 100 Defense: 20
Attack: 40 Agility: 10
After looking at the crab’s stats, Eon sneered in disdain. "Looks like this is going to be easier than I thought."
Walking towards the crab, he expected to crush it easily after a few hits. However, right before landing his first punch, the crab used his pincers to squeeze his arm. In pain and slowly losing health, he wildly punched at the crab. Luckily, he got a critical punch on the crab, causing it to release his arm. He jerked his arm back.
He thought, “Oh boy, I’m just too naïve and impatient… aren’t I?”
With this new revelation, he attacked again. This time, however, he rushed towards to the back of the crab. He lifted his fist, punched with all his might, and killed the crab in one go.
You have gained a level
He smiled looking at the blue screen.
After hunting more Blood Crabs for around an hour, which ranged from levels five to ten, he reached level five.
"Status Window"
Status Window: Name: Eon Level: 5Class: Avenger Race: HumanTitle: [none] Health: 450Mana: 300 Strength: 76Defense: 68 Agility: 54Stamina: 62 Wisdom: 22Intellect: 60 Magic Resis: 0Hate: 1020
[Eternal Hate](max)
[Embodiment of Anger](1)
[Avenging Blade](1)
[Steps of Blood](max)
[Risk it All](2)
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Looking at his new stat window, he smiled. He observed he gained a bit more than 10% of his beginning stats upon gaining all these levels. However, [Hate] did not grow with his increasing levels, and nor did [Wisdom]. Not caring too much, he wandered deeper into the island.
After walking several hundred meters, he found a new species of monsters. It seemed to be a regular wasp but with two modifications: the tip of its stinger and its body was dark red.
"Identify"
Ruby Wasp
Level 14
Health: 140 Defense: 24
Attack: 65 Agility: 55
Generally gather in groups, ranging from 3-100 wasps.
Luckily for him though, he did not discover a hundred wasps, which would most likely have killed him; rather, he found three. This time, however, he did not underestimate them. He had already learned the dangers of underestimating the crab.
Using [Steps of Blood] to raise his agility to the max, he was able to kill the first wasp with a simple punch. The other two wasps then rushed towards him with their stingers pointed in his direction. He killed another wasp with another punch, but the remaining one stung him. Eon grimaced.
You are poisoned. Lose 10 health per second for 10 seconds.
Eon's mouth dropped open. The attack did minimal damage, but the poison would hack off 100 health in just 10 seconds! He punched again and killed the last wasp.
You have gained a level
Gaining a level, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, but then drooped.
He thought. "I really need to watch out. I can't be careless in this island."
Traveling further towards the center, he began finding wasps in greater density.
Weeks had passed. His level rose to 16.
With his new stats, he could kill wasps with utter ease. Even in groups of several dozens, they were only capable to attack him once or twice. He had, after all, began working harder day after day... for he watched every wasp extremely carefully.
“Status Window”
Status Window: Name: Eon Level: 16Class: Avenger Race: HumanTitle: [none] Health: 780Mana: 520 Strength: 134Defense: 121 Agility: 102Stamina: 105 Wisdom: 22Intellect: 100 Magic Resis: 0Hate: 1020
[Eternal Hate](max)
[Embodiment of Anger](1)
[Avenging Blade](1)
[Steps of Blood](max)
[Risk it All](3)
He smiled.
“I guess I’m pretty much done here.” he said to himself.
He began walking further, hoping to find some new monsters to hunt, but was interrupted by a large group of wasps.
“How annoying” he thought. Looking more closely, however, he saw hundreds and hundreds of wasps, perhaps even thousands! He gulped after realizing that they had noticed him.
"Damn, no matter how I see this, it's going to end badly."
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