He was currently hiding, concealed underneath the exhaust of a car. As he watched the other adventures get into their cars many seemed to be laughing and having a good time. He made sure his hide ability was activated to help him remain unnoticed. Just as he was relaxing a small blue window popped up in front of him. To his surprise, his hide ability had leveled up three times.
Hide (Level 4)
Can hide the status of being a monster.
New - The user is harder to see even in daylight.
New - While hiding increase your next attack by double the amount of damage.
New -If in the shadows the user can not be seen.
He was confused why was his abilities leveling up now? Wait was it because in the dungeon their was nothing to hide from? Could the skill not gain exp because it wasn’t being used. Their were some stealth games he played with that mechanic could it be unless a threat was nearby it would level up.
As he was thinking about this, he heard the car above him rev up and began to shake. He gripped as tightly as he could to the exhaust. He could feel the hear of the car burn him as it began to drive. He didn’t wanna drop especially on the concrete. As if answering his prayers a window popped up.
Power + 1
Due to excess physical exercise increase power by + 1
His eyes widened as he could now grip tight his claws denting the metal, the heat from the car was now getting more bearable. Was power also endurance? The car began to travel through the city, and he could see the bumps in the road, as the car drove his power went up two more times before coming to stop at a large building. He waited until he heard the footsteps of the people step out of the car as they went into the large building.
He peered out from the underside of the car, he waited until the people began to all go in the building. He then glanced around and spotted a sewer cover underneath another car. He glanced around making sure their was no one watching and then activated his agility ability and darted for it. As he did so he tripped on the edge of the sewer lid though thankfully the fall on it didn’t hurt. He got up and shrugged it off.
As he approached the sewer cover, he took a deep breath and gripped onto it the best he could, the sewer lid was heavy as he could feel himself straining as the lid lifted slightly, he then managed to move it to slightly have an opening in the sewer. With a quick leap, he jumped down into the murky depth of the sewer.
To his surprise, the nauseating stench of the sewer didn’t seem to affect him. Maybe it was because he was a rat, or It could also be because he was a monster. Either way, he was glad the smell didn’t bother him.
As he began to traverse the sewer, he explored its twisting tunnels and murky depths. So far, he had yet to encounter any creatures. The sewers were surprisingly clean, a little grim and filth but cleaner then he he thought, it looked like it was cleaned regularly.
As he continued his journey, he soon cam across a pack of rats scurrying along in front of him. He watched from afar, wondering were they where going.
Suddenly a green blob shot out of the shadows and slammed into the rat pack. His eyed widened, why was a monster here. He quickly turned around and took off running. He didn’t think he could take on a slime with his stats, he didn’t pause to look back just ran. He activated his Agility ability and took off full force. He then realized his mistake, as the sewer was a drop off, and before he could stop himself, he tumbled down into the putrid waters below. Gagging and coughing, he managed to make his way over to a nearby wall where their was a walkway. He did his best to shake off the sewage that clung to him.
In the distance, he heard a loud squeak, and when he looked up from coughing. He saw a massive rat staring at him, not as big as his parent but at least three times his size. Upon further inspection, he saw that their were countless more rats scurrying around, likely he stumbled into the rat colony. He decided to calmly back away from the glares as he didn’t want to fight an entire colony of rats, one sure he could take, maybe but a group nope not chancing it. As he found another pathway he goes down it only to notice it was a dead end.
Their was a ladder and a sewer hatch above him but he sighed, their was no way he could lift the sewer hatch and stand on the ladder he would likely just fall back down to the ground. As he contemplated his situation it became worse, suddenly he heard a growl in his stomach as his eyes widened.
The dungeon had fed them mana so they didn’t need food but now their wasn’t a dungeon. Crap, this mad the situation worse he couldn’t starve to death in this life he had to find food. He then closed his eyes and began to think, He had three plans he could try,he could join the colony of rats but then again that wouldn’t feel right to him for some reason he couldn’t shake it just felt wrong for some reason, he could try to fight them, or he could fight the slime. Out of all of them the slime seemed like the best choice, after all it would be one enemy, and seeing the rat colony they didn’t seem like they liked him in their territory.
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Maybe he was missing something was their anything around him, he couldn’t see much in the sewer and then grew an idea and used his inspect ability. As he did so windows popped up identifying the ladder, sewer cover, and a few rocks and then a blue window popped up.
Inspect (Level 2)
Can see the name of objects creatures, monsters, and people.
Can determine the level of object, creatures, monsters, and people.
Finally, today a lot of abilities had been leveling up he didn’t expect inspect to level up but it was a welcome surprise as he glanced around and noticed something stranger, even items had levels, the pebbles were level 0, the ladder was level 4, and the lid was level 7. He didn’t expect items to have levels before he could think of something more to do he heard loud squeaks. As he glanced down the sewer path he saw the rat colony running away from the slime from earlier.
Did it follow him down here, Crap that was the only way out of here, he didn’t want to have to fight it maybe inspect could do something, he inspected the slime from where he could see it.
Slime Lvl 3
Well their went that idea, though maybe his power did go up to 4, he then looked at the rats he could try to sneak around but then again this was a golden opportunity. He dashed forward in the mess of rats has the slime attacked them.He had his hide ability activated and worked around to find the back of the slime.
Once their he activated his agility ability and dashed forward, His speed projecting him into the slime as he hit its core and then bit into the slimes core. He could hear it shrek out in pain as a pulsing energy from the core smacked into him knocking him into the wall as he coughed up blood a blue window popped up.
Health is in critical state!
Current health 1/5
Crap one more hit and he was done for, he looked to see the slime about to attack, however his legs didn’t wanna move, as the slime was about to hit him the gaint rat from earlier slammed into the slime. He began to get up slowly and was going to try to hide when something happened.
Inspection Level 3
Can see the name of objects creatures, monsters, and people.
Can determine the level of object, creatures, monsters, and people.
Can see a creatures health, and Mana.
He didn’t think inspection would level up again but now he was curious and looked at the slime with his inspection ability.
Slime Lvl 3
Health
2/25
Mana
10/10
He grew wide, it was almost died, was the ability trying to tell him to go for it? He looked at his himself, 1 health, and 3 mana too bad he didn’t have anything like magic, Standing up he nodded he may be in the body of a rat but he will be damned if he dies like a coward. He then began to glow as his agility ability activated.
Agility (LVL 3)
The user can now choose the increased amount of agility
The max being ((Base Agility * 15%) + 10)
Max = 12.3 / Min = 2
By using a mana point can increase the agility base amount by 1 and power base by 1. only when agility is activated,
His ability leveled up just in time as he powers in his three mana points, What happened next was almost like a flash, his agility had reached a maximum of 15.75 to an untrained eye he looked like a blur and at almost the next instant he was through the slime its core had been slammed out of it and shattered against the wall. He coughed up blood as he heard a window pop open.
You have leveled Up !
Gained 5 stat points!
Gained 5 skill points!
He blinked as he saw it and began to laugh, then blinked skill points, he looked his health was still critical guess leveling up didn’t heal him, he needed safety as looked and saw the gaint rat from before along with two smaller rats next to him guess these were the survivors. The gaint rat sat next to him as the other two set on other sides almost as if guarding him. He wasn’t complaining he just let his rest take him, he would have to find food later.
He didn’t know that the core of the slime had a crystal inside of as he passed out the crystal began to send Mana to him as it broke and shattered.
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Allysa was panting heavily as she arrived at the Quick n’ Easy, yet again was running late. As she went into the store the manager was waiting for her, “That’s it, I’ve had enough of this!” He shouted, causing Allysa to flinch. A new employee was standing nearby, observing the situation, she gathered it was her replacement.
“At first, I thought it was just youthful carelessness,” the manager continued, “but now, being late twice in a row! You’re fired!” Alyssa's eyes widened in horror as she heard the news. She desperately needed this job, it wasn’t much but her other two jobs only happened every so often on the weekends. This job was her only steady paycheck.
“Please, I promise I can do better,” She tried to plead but the manager cut her off with a sneer. He threw an envelope at her, it hit her in the chest as she caught it on reflex. “It’s your paycheck, your last one. Now leave!” He demanded. Allysa felt her knees give out as she realized their was no talking him out of this.
Allysa picked herself up, and left the store. She didn’t know what she was going to do but she knew she needed to find another job though out the weak but today she just wanted to rest.