Chapter 4: Ceremonial Training Camp
On the day of the ceremony, the children from the village between the ages 4-10 entered the Salty Lake Forest. The Salty Lake Forest is a dungeon that gives shelter to monsters level 1-20. There are 3 areas: outer ring, middle ring, and core area. The deeper in you go, the stronger the monsters become.
At the core area, there is a salty water lake. Over there is a Lv: 20 BOSS creature called Labu. Labbu is a sort of lion-serpent sea-dragon. It seems to be named after Labbu from Mesopotamian myth.
When Soula heard the word “Mesopotamian”, he wondered if this world had any relation to [Earth].
During training, no one from the village will interfere unless one gets caught in a life threatening situation. Otherwise, children should join together into teams of three or more.
Soula joined the triplets Rudy, Runa, and Ruka. For energetic children, the trip to the forest was rather boring. Most monsters avoided the large group and the few monsters that they met were quickly exterminated.
The look the children gave to the low-level monsters were those of bandits hunting down their prey.
It wasn’t until the border to the middle ring did everyone calm down. This was where people could split up while adults would keep hidden and only act when necessary.
The outer ring was weak, but safe. It only had monsters Lv: 1-5. However, monsters do not train their bodies but naturally get stronger through fights. So basically compared to monsters even at the same level, unless the monster is an elite or BOSS, people would be way stronger than most common monsters.
Having split off from the others, the triplets and Soula have started to look for a monster to kill.
“Ok ladies, what do you want to do?” Rudy asked the others.
Noticing that he heard “ladies” and not “ladies and gentleman” Soula replied,“Hey, don’t call me a lady, and for your question we should go into the middle ring and hunt around there.”
“Why don’t we go to the core area?” questioned Ruka.
“Ruka! Are you crazy? We’re only 4 years old, and none of us are past the 2nd Gate yet. And you want us to fight a BOSS!”
“Runa’s right. We aren’t prepared to fight a 2nd Gate monster, whether it is a BOSS or not.”
Finding out what the others thought, Ruka replied,“Aw man. You guys are no fun.”
“Come on now, let’s go hunting before all the others wipe the forest out.”
At the same time Runa and Ruka spoke,“THEN LETS HURRY! JYNX! JYNX AGAIN. JYNX…”
“Alright, stop already. Lets go already.”
After searching for a while, they encountered their first monster. Seeing a black wolf monster, a notification box appeared in front of them.
Black Wolf [Common Monster]
Lv: 6 Health: 4800
Attack: 972-1301
Defense: 1035
Skill(s): [Combo Claws]
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Taking lead, Soula issued orders. “Alright everyone, I’ll coordinate our attacks. Listen to my commands.”
Rudy, Runa, & Ruka: “Roger!”
They all moved in. Because they all had beastmen heritage, all of them took warrior training. Hiding the fact that Soula could use magic, everyone in their party were warriors.
Rudy unsheathed his sword and swung with both hands at the front leg.
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Runa ran while rapidly firing blasts of ki with her skill [Gatling Ki].
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Ruka envelops her fist with ki and starts to attack the boar’s head. Soula move to the back and start to attack with ki-infused punches as well.
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And thus they wrecked the poor piglet… of course not. Remember, this is the first real battle the 4 years old ever fought in, excluding Soula.
Ruka accidentally bumped into Rudy when he was about to attack again, Runa almost shot her teammates few times, and Rudy actually drops his weapon when the Black Wolf used [Combo Claws].
Seeing the situation, Soula took command. “Rudy, pick up your sword and back off. Ruka, Runa watch out for your allies. We don’t want any friendly fire.”
Runa: “What do you mean by friendly fire? What kind of fire is that?”
Soula: “No, I mean we don’t want to hit our teammates.”
Runa: “Oh, I get it.”
Afterwards, they fixed their positions and easily defeated the Black Piglet.
Congratulations!
You leveled up!
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You leveled up!
You leveled up!
Do you wish to allot your stat points?
Yes / No
Stat points were able to be allocated towards the following: Strength, Agility, Vitality, Dexterity, and Luck.
While the triplets allocated their points: Rudy-strength; Ruka-agility; Runa-dexterity Soula dismissed the window and decided to allocate his points after he gets a class.
“All right! We did it!”
“Finally I’m not level one anymore.”
“Wow Soula, you were great. You seemed like you did this before.”
"Alright, we won. But we still need to go fight more monsters. Lets go."
Rudy, Ruka, & Runa: "OK!"
Before we left, we extracted the monster core from the wolf's head and gathered it's pelt. The meat was left behind. Money makes the world go round.
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Current Status:
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Name:Soula VoilongAlignment:NeutralLevel:4Class:NoneRace:Beastman: Amethyst Void Dragon [Variant]Gender:MaleHealth:15600Health Regen:0.01% / SecMana:1741620Mana Regen:2103801 / MinStamina:1892Stamina Regen:0.1% / SecTitles:
[Prodigy], [Boy or Girl],
[Reincarnated One {hidden} ], [Former Deity {hidden} ], [Otherworlder {hidden} ]Strength:123Agility:121Vitality:156Dexterity:84Intelligence:174162Qi:1892Soul:2103801Luck:18Attack:Defense:Normal: 1-123Qi Infused:
1892-2015Normal: 156Qi Infused: 1560Elemental Affinities:Fire:0%Water:50%Wind:50%Earth:50%Light:0%Darkness:0%Destruction:60%Arcane:70%Stellar:100%Void:100%Stat Points: 30Exp: 91%
Skill List:
[Mind] Lv: 1
- Mana Manipulation Lv: 3 [Rank B]
[Body] Lv: 1
- Qi Manipulation Lv: 3 [Rank B]
- Black Amethyst Hair Lv: 2 [Rank A]
[Soul] Lv: 1
- Oversoul Lv: 0 [Rank S]