Seems like my Health and Mana have regenerated a little bit. Well, I have been moving around over an hour, so it makes sense. I get up and am about to roam around a bit but I suddenly hear another DING. This time I don't get scared from it since I know what the random DING come from.

Ding! Nightvision(Passive) 1 has leveled up!

Oh, that's useful. I can see more clearly now thanks to that level up. I walk in a random direction for a 35 or so minutes before I hear rustling movements towards my left. I quickly look over and, thanks to my leveled up Nightvision, I notice a big bear sleeping.

Abyss Bear | Level 8 | Health: 200/200

Damn that bear is strong. Can I even beat that? Well, if it was awake I would simply run away as fast as I can. But since it is sleeping, I decide to attempt it. I walk up towards a rock near the bear slowly and crouch behind it. I raise my right hand towards the bear and whisper "Fireball" sending out a fist size fireball towards the bears head. The bear seemed to notice something as it opened it's eyes and opened it's mouth to roar, when the fireball coincidentally enters the bears mouth, dealing -125 damage to the bear.

The bears eyes open wide and stares dumbly at me, while I stare back similarily. The bear then suddenly roars out in pain and rushes towards me, and I quickly jump back, which makes the bear run straight into the big rock, breaking it into pieces which all fall onto him, dealing -1 -2 -2 -5 to it. The bear currently only has 65/200 health left after that, so I jump towards it while it is stunned from the collision with the rock.

I stab my dagger towards it's eye, since I don't know if my dagger will penetrate the bear hide. The bear quickly stabilizes itself and moved it's head, which makes my dagger miss it's eye and only pierce it's shoulder, dealing another -30 to it, leaving it at 35/200 health.

The bear raises it's thick paw towards me, which I quickly drop onto the ground, narrowly avoiding it while only losing some hairs. I stab the dagger towards it's neck, and since the bear is too damaged, it manages to enter it's neck. I felt a bit of resistance, but it managed to enter the neck in the end, which killed the bear off. I get off the ground and breath a little heavily, since I am sure that if that paw managed to hit me, I would most likely of died.

Ding! Killed Abyss Bear! Gained 80 XP!

That raises my XP to 83/100. The XP was a lot, but I don't think I will do anything risky like that again until I am stronger, since I almost died from that. Luckily, I managed to get the bear to smash it's head into the rock which stunned it, or it's movements wouldn't be so slow.

I store the bear corpse into my storage, since the hide on the bear is pretty tough, and might be useful in the future if I can skin it. I feel a little hungry after all this fighting, so I take out a piece of bread from my inventory and nibble on it while I walk around in search of more prey.

I find a Abyss Cat and 3 Abyss Rats fighting eachother, so I watch from the shadows while appraising them.

Abyss Cat | Level 7 | Health: 90/150

Abyss Rat | Level 4 | Health: 40/100

Abyss Rat | Level 4 | Health: 30/90

Abyss rat | Level 3 | Health: 40/80

I watch them fight for a few minutes before they are all badly injured, and I send out a fireball right into the middle of them while they are all attacking, so the fireball hits all 4 of them. One of the rats die while the other 2 and the cat are nearly dead. I run up to them and stab all three in the head, killing them.

Ding! Killed Abyss Rat! Gained 8 XP

Ding! Killed Abyss Rat! Gained 10 XP

Ding! Killed Abyss Rat! Gained 12 XP

Ding! Killed Abyss Cat! Gained 25 XP

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Ding! You have leveled up! Gained 2 Stat Points!

I put one point into strength and agility again, and then sit on top of a rock and check my status.

Name: N/A Health: 92/100(10/H) Strength: 8 Intelligence: 7 Age: 2 Days Mana: 20/75(7/H) Agility: 8 Wisdom: 7 Gender: Female Stamina: Infinite Dexterity: 5 Charm: 20 Race: Demon Level: 4 | 28/200 Vitality: 10 Luck: 5

I only have enough for one more fireball, huh... At least my mana won't hit 0 after using it, or else I would simply faint, which would probably get me killed. I walk around for 20 minutes before finding a level 4 rat, which I just rush at and stab my dagger into it's head, gaining another another 10 XP off of it.

I walk around for 2 or 3 hours before I find a snake which is coiled around a cat.

Abyss Snake | Level 7 | Health: 72/135

Abyss Cat | Level 5 | Health: 0/120

Well the cat is dead already. I wait for the snake to start eating the cat, which is does within the next few minutes, thankfully. Whilst it is swallowing the snake, it will be hard for it to move, so I rush towards the snake and stab the dagger into it's spine twice, dealing -40 and -35 which kills it off.

Ding! Killed Abyss Snake! Gained 30 XP

That brought my XP up to 68/200. I'm only halfway to level 5 after all this. It seems that leveling up will actually be a bit harder than I thought. I walk around for 40 minutes before something suddenly attacks me from the air. It stabs it's claws into my left shoulder, bringing me a bit of pain. I quickly stab towards whatever it is with my dagger, which ends up stabbing into it's head. It falls off of my shoulder thanks to it dying, and I can get a look at what it is.

What appears is a bat. It is small, ugly and dead right now. Although it managed to sneak attack me, at least I know there are bats in here now.

Ding! Killed Abyss Bat! Gained 80 XP

Holy! 80 XP from killing a single bat? That is nearly as much as killing the Abyss Bear from earlier. Maybe they give more XP since they can fly or something. Well that brought me up to 128/200 XP, bringing me closer to leveling up again.

I walk around for another hour, finding two rats which I finish off. They gave me 8 and 10 XP respectively, bringing my XP to 146/200. I walk around mindlessly for about 4 hours, finding nothing. After another 20 or so minutes, I find something like a chest, just sitting beside a big stone. I pick up a rock and chuck it towards the chest, but nothing happens.

So it's not a mimic huh~ I thought it would be something like a mimic from games, but it isn't, so I walk up and open the chest. I find a shortsword that seems to be made out of steel, 3 small blue bottles and a book. I take out everything and put it into my inventory before walking a couple of minutes and sitting behind a rock. System, am I able to appraise items aswell? Like what I just got from the chest?

It seems that you can. Just think Appraise while looking and holding an item. You don't even have the skill Appraise, so why can you even...

Ding! You have gained the skill Appraise(Passive) 1

...Well now I do have the skill. Convenient. I take out all the items and use Appraise while looking at them.

Iron Shortsword | Durablity: 500/750

Mana Potion x3 | Instantly recovers 50 Mana

Lightning Arrow | Shoots out a small arrow made out of lightning. 5 Mp per use

Ding! Do you wish to learn Lightning Arrow? Book dissapears upon learning. Y/N

I look at the book a bit surprised since I didn't think it would be a new magic, but I click Y and learn the skill, which makes the book dissapear.

Ding! You have learned Lightning Arrow(Active) 1

That's very good. I don't know how much damage it does, but since it only uses 5 mana, it will be used more than fireball for now. I conveniently appraise my dagger aswell, so I can see the durability.

Steel Dagger | Durability: 971/1000

Hoh~ That's a high durability. A steel dagger huh. I thought it was just iron. Well, the better it is, the better for me. I also decide to check my status now too.

Name: N/A Health: 98/100(10/H) Strength: 8 Intelligence: 7 Age: 3 Days Mana: 27/75(7/H) Agility: 8 Wisdom: 7 Gender: Female Stamina: Infinite Dexterity: 5 Charm: 20 Race: Demon Level: 4 | 146/200 Vitality: 10 Luck: 5