Back in town I sit down on a bench and get out the notebook and the ink and quill. I got to document my find even if it’s just a shitty fly. I write down a basic description of the fly along with what it’s stats are at level one. I open the skills tab to see what kind of skills a fly has got, if any.
Skills
“as expected. No skills”
After jolting that down, I pull out a pencil from my inventory and start sketching the fly. I’m quite a good drawer if I do say so myself, especially since I was an artist before I became filthy rich. The finishing product is quite good. With this, the fear of death by flies will definitely decrease!
you have learnt illustration[lvl1]
+1 dexterity
that’s useful. The skill is shit since I can already draw but the dexterity is worth it. Now I have two options. First option, try to tame something else and let the exp share level Buzz up. Second option, somehow stick out with buzz somehow maybe attack other flies or something.
"let's go. Buzz"
Buzz starts flapping his wings and flies over to me. Hmm? he's dropping every now and then. Ah, he fell.
*Ding*
Buzz has died of old age
what? Buzz died? I fall to my knees and yell to the heavens.
“nooooooo! Buuuuuuuuuzzzzz! You were so young!”
Oh, well, I’ll just tame another one. I quickly get up and head into the alleyways of the city. If flies can die of old age then it would be better to find a maggot. That way, there’s more time for them to live and maybe actually level up.
Soon I find rat rotting in the corner with a load of flies around it. Inside the decomposing corpse of the rat, there are maggots wriggling around. It’s a bit disgusting but there’s only one way to tame a maggot. I stick my hand into the rat and grabbed hold of a maggot and tamed it.
You have successfully tamed a ‘maggot’
please name your maggot
It worked the first time. Probably because i’m taming a maggot of all things
“In honour of Buzz, I shall name thee Buzz-B!”
I look at it’s stats and I’m not surprised but I’m still disappointed
Name
Buzz-B
Fame
0
Race
Maggot
Level
1
Title
none
Gender
Male
Health
0.1/0.1
Stamina
0.1/0.1
Mana
0.1/0.1
Age
0 days
Strength
0.01
Agility
0.01
Intelligence
0.01
Wisdom
0.01
Dexterity
0.01
Vitality
0.01
Luck
0.01
All of it’s stats are low beyond low! and I thought you couldn’t get any worse that Buzz. Looking at these stats, Buzz might’ve been the mightiest warrior among the flies. I set the exp share so that Buzz-B gets all the exp. Now to actually get some exp.
“Now Buzz-B! devour your fellow brethren and let them become your strength!”
Buzz-B wriggles its way towards a maggot and chomp! He devours the other maggot.
“hahaha! Well done Buzz-B, now keep going! Don’t let a single maggot escape your grasp!”
After the tenth maggot Buzz-B finally leveled up! Now, let’s check those stats!
Name
Buzz-B
Fame
0
Race
Maggot
Level
2
Title
none
Gender
Male
Health
0.2/0.2
Stamina
0.2/0.2
Mana
0.2/0.2
Age
0 days
Strength
0.02
Agility
0.02
Intelligence
0.02
Wisdom
0.02
Dexterity
0.02
Vitality
0.02
Luck
0.02
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Well… this is gonna take a while, what a pain… No matter! I shall make Buzz-B the strongest maggot in the world even if it takes years!
“Buzz-B! you have become twice as strong as you was before! now show those lowly maggots the extent of your power!”
Buzz-B kept devouring maggot after maggot until there wasn’t a maggot left in this corpse. It took around half an hour and Buzz-B is level 10 now. I discovered one thing, for each level, Buzz-B gains 0.01 in each stat point. Right now, his stats are equal to Buzz. Oh! I forgot to document Buzz-B. I get out my tool and give a basic description along with an illustration and the stats thing… This stat thing is a pain, it’s gonna take till level 100 just for Buzz-B to have 1 stat point… More grinding it is!
I pick up Buzz-B and search for another corpse which I find very easily. there seems to be quite a few dead rats and birds in these alleyways, along with beggars who are looking at me oddly for some reason. I bet they’re just admiring my genius and don’t know how to approach me, that’s definitely it. Anyway, after moving to the next corpse, I get Buzz-B to devour all of them but he only managed to level up once.This is gonna take longer than I thought, what a pain.
I spend the next few game days hunting down maggots and now Buzz-B is level 27 so all its stats are 0.27. I pick Buzz-B out of the what used to be a maggot infested corpse and start heading towards our next victims.
*ding*
Buzz-B has begun metamorphosis
I look down at Buzz-B in my hand and he has turned completely black and his skin? has hardened. I call out to him and even poke him but there’s no response. What a pain, what am I supposed to until he finishes? Guess I’ll tame a rat or something.
I search the alleyways and soon find a rat that is neither rotting or being eaten by a beggar. I lower myself in hopes the rat doesn’t see me, which it doesn’t with my epic sneaking skills. I slowly start moving towards the rat. I get closer and closer until all I have to do is stretch out my arm and I’ll be touching it. I shoot out my hand and activate taming. The rat sidesteps and my hand hits the air. Damn rat! how dare you dodge my hand! To think you would refuse to receive my mana. You should be begging to be my minion.
I dive after the rat again but only for the rat to dodge again… Damn, I’m out of mana now, You win today rat, but there will be a time when I’ll tame you!
I walk out of the alleyway and head to the library. If I have to wait then I’ll just spend the time trying working on my summoning. I could tame another maggot but I only need one maggot.
I go into the library and grab any and every book about summoning. I spend the rest of the day reading through the books and gain the skills for summoning water elementals and earth elementals but still nothing about how to summon without a contract. Guess I’ll log off for the no and get some food
I log off and make some food. I’m starving, I must have been in the game for the whole day. As I’m eating, I look out the window and the sun is coming up. Yep, I spent all day and night in the game… God i’m tired. the fatigue of playing games nonstop always hit only when I realise how long I’ve been playing. An odd thing isn’t it?
I finish my meal and log back into the VGS. In the virtual space, I pull up the shop and buy a bed. It may sound unsafe to sleep in-game but it turns out it’s fine as long as you’re not only using it for sleep. If so then the body won’t have enough rest and break down. But because I’m playing the game all day, my body is in a state of rest nearly all day so I only need to rest my mind. With this, I’m gonna sleep.