Taking the bird and four eggs back at the camp and a brown horned rabbit poisoned by the poisoned stake I hid in the bushes, I prepared the Fire gems and a pot. Fire gems can generate heat on their own and if imbued into a weapon they can give it fire element. I put the egg inside the pot to boil them, so while waiting it’s now time to test the extent of my skills. Nature energy skills were always dependent on nature itself. The stronger the elements in my vicinity the stronger the skill. For example, I am standing on the ground and beside me is water. Meaning if I stored energy from the ground and used a ground skill will make it stronger. Nature energy can be upgraded depending on the elements you choose but I choose this because of my style so I am stuck mostly with 1 spells per elements. There are 4 basic elements Which Are Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind. There are also unique once that are considered like lightning, ice, metal, plants or poison. They also considered Light and Darkness. In my case, I have 7 elements. Fire elemental skill [Flame absorption] a simple skill to absorb fire and use it although I have a limit on how much fire I can absorb. Earth elemental skill [Earth wall] I can erect a wall from the ground that can last to 5 minutes afterward if it’s not destroyed then it will return to the ground, also I need to be standing on the ground to activate. Water elemental skill [water slice] it’s like a water blade. Wind elemental skill [wind cutter] the same as the water slice a blade made with air, however, I need a weapon to slice the air to activate. Ice elemental skill [freeze & Melt] freezes water or melts ice on a 5m radius around me. Lightning elemental skill [lightning boost] activates only when raining or an enemy has lightning skills. This skill is a passive one that gives me 50% resistance on lightning attacks but if it’s raining I can call down 1 lightning to strike me. When struck my speed doubles and can stack up to 5 that last for 1 minute. Which means I can be 32 times faster than my speed and even my perception of time slows down. The last element is dark skill [Yin slash] I can activate it only at night or in dark places like caves. Well, It's like a slash made by the dark energy around boosting its energy the denser the surrounding energy is.
Time to test it since 3 elements are present I can only test 4 which includes the ice element. First is the [earth wall]. Activating was simple just like in the game. Focusing my mind and connecting energy I can feel the ground of my surrounding and its energy and how far I can erect a wall from me. This feeling is a first for me since all I do is imagine where I can erect a wall from the game.*Brrrr* a huge wall erected in front of me standing 8 feet tall. I tried doing it in consecutive but it seems the cooldown is in effect. It can be cast every 10 seconds with a maximum of 5 walls. I tried something by erecting 3 walls at the same time. This cannot be possible in the game but what if I’m here? *Brrrrr* *Brrrr* *Brrr* It was a success!! However, they only stood 5 feet high and can’t get any taller but their durability stays the same. Next [wind cutter] summoning a sword I aimed at the fish on the river and cut through. ‘Take that you fish’ I activated the skill consecutively since it doesn’t have any cooldown but if used it without waiting for 5 seconds the power becomes weaker. During this time I almost cut all the fish on this part of the river. Better control myself or it will be harder to see fish in the future. Next is [water slice] since I don’t want to kill any more fish I targeted a big rock near me. I was planning to put it on top of the rocks in case it will rain so perfect opportunity. The water cut the rock but it took me 2 slices to cut it in half. It seems to be weaker but the plus side is as long as I have water, I can activate the skill as much as I want. Lastly ice elemental skill [freeze&melt] it was simple as it froze part of the river as I activated. The ice will be permanent since it will melt on its own or I can just cast melt. Now I can put store those fishes like a refrigerator meaning I can live here without worry for a while. Afterward ,I experimented on it until the eggs were boiled and ready to eat.
“Uwahh.. Tasty much tastier than in the game or in the hospital.” Food has taste in the game but it is somewhat lacking compared to the real world. Aahhh… my first camping all alone. I am feeling lonely but I won’t let my guard down since letting my guard down means letting my self-be killed right? So it’s only natural to avoid people especially when I’m an alien to this planet. Now that my belly is full and my food is secured thanks to my improvised refrigerator. Such a shame I can’t store any other materials from my inventory which means I needed bags to carry some stuff. Thankfully I have my explorers bag although it’s just an ordinary bag it will do. Well time to test my techniques. Techniques are different from skills. They have no icons to activate in the game. Moves such as slash are just a slash in the game, however, there are ways to make a ‘slash’ stronger and we called them techniques. In short, it’s all about execution of movements and energy. Some Techniques can be mixed up with skill creating unique skills. Unique skills will then be registered in the game and the one who discovered it can make a skill scroll and sell it to others. Other players can also copy unique skills as long as they know how to execute them that’s why unique skills are mostly kept by players instead of being spread out. I have a few unique skills on my own such as [Earth smash], [Double Cut] and [Flame Burst]. These are few compared to Chi Players which has a minimum of ten unique skills. I usually rely on techniques since they are all about timing and execution. Some of the techniques I performed is strengthening some of my muscles using energy to improve my strength or speed. Now for my battle techniques is all about some sword techniques and martial arts combined with the strengthening of my muscles. In short, I need to focus on swinging my sword and finding the right timing to burst my energy since the gravity here is greater and because of that my sense of combat is a little bit off.
There is no clock in this world so I don’t know how much time I spent. One thing I know for sure, it’s almost lunchtime judging by the angle and heat of the sun. One thing I felt as I swung my sword is that my hand gets a little bit numb and I can feel some strain. I never felt this back in the game although you can feel exhausted there. I think my muscles sore from all that swinging. Thankfully I have some ice and cold water to drink. Just by getting some food on the ice part of the river I made for storing my food I tried and grilled some fish. I don’t know what vegetables are good here since I haven’t seen anything familiar that can be used for seasoning. I would like to eat some tastier food.
Now it is time to do a little bit of scouting. I decided to secure my vicinity first at least a radius of 328 feet. I haven’t seen any predators like wolf type or some lion type yet so I need to do some scouting be prepared just in case. With the help of my technique by focusing energy on my legs I can jump and run a little faster. After an hour or 2, I finished scouting the remaining area. Just as I expected there are only a few predators living in this area. The only noted ones are those snakes and a big black sabretooth. After that, I planned an escape route just in case and placed some traps along the way. Now the only thing I need to do is get used to this body. For one week I need to focus more on training before going exploring deeper into the woods.
Three days have passed since then. It’s now my 6th day here on this planet. Yesterday it rained heavily so I hurried and took all the meats I stored before they washed away by the current. Thankfully I came prepared and made sure the water won’t reached my primitive home just in case the water rises. Water also leaked on some part since it's just improvised home that is made with 3 large rocks as a wall and a flat sock sliced by my skill so I used those wooden shields to somewhat fill the gap. Once I secured a much better place I think I’m going to build a tree house. Now I went to gather some woods and check my traps. I’m living quite peaceful right now, although I’m feeling a bit lonely, I’ve continued doing some training and checking traps. Since I have plenty of stock foods I gave up on hunting and focused on my body. However, as soon as I get back to my camp a troublesome event came. Right now!! A golden gorilla is eating all my stored meat!! Fuck no time monologing.. You bastard I’m gonna eat you for eating my food!!!!!
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The monster is somewhat familiar although I forgot its name and characteristics. A muscled golden gorilla standing 8-9 feet high is now munching all of my food. “Aaaaaaahhhh!” I rushed in due to my anger and fired my crossbow. Because of my yelling, the gorilla turns around but too late to dodge my bolt. The bolt pierce through its left arm “Grooaaa!!” making the gorilla roared in pain. “Ha! Now you feel my pain!” I stored my crossbow back to my inventory and draw the sword I have on my waist as I ran towards it. The gorilla also began its move however it was stronger than I expected. As I ran the gorilla moved in front of me with an extreme speed it and caught me off guard. The gorilla swung its arm throwing a punch to my stomach. “Son of a-Gwaaa!!!” I felt an intense pain as I was sent flying breaking a tree before I was stopped by another one. It was much more painful. I never felt this much pain I thought I might die. I also felt a little bit happy by that thought but the pain puts me groaning for a while. The ape then escaped after throwing a punch on me deep in the woods.
After vomiting some blood I took out a healing herb and began chewing on it. In the game, there are 2 ways to use healing herbs one is by applying it directly and the other is by chewing it. Chewing has some bitter taste that novice players never do but by chewing the herbs you can have an extra regeneration while both hands are free fighting. I suffered some scratches but mostly internal bleeding and broken ribs. So this is real pain that I never experienced before but as I chew the herbs I felt a little bit numbed and itchy like some ants biting all over your skin. I looked at my wounds and they are closing slowly until they are fully healed. Well, even this is a first. I wonder what else will I experience, still I wonder when will I be able to rest eternally.
After a while, I checked the food and thankfully I have enough for 3 days plus the monster I hunt today makes it 5. I seem to be eating a lot these days. After that, I run another check on my body and it was good as new so I resumed my training and prepare a trap just in case that gorilla comes back. The next day, as expected it came back. *Grooaaa* The gorilla made a loud roar from afar as I was out checking some area. The trap that I made was a pitfall filled with spears coated with poisons under the place where I put my food. I don’t care if I waste some food since catching that gorilla will give me some food and getting rid of a trouble. I rushed back to see how it go and saw the gorilla with few scratches just came up from the pit. “Seriously! hardening skill?” Even though the trap only made some scratch, the fact that it took a serious amount of poison means it’s only a matter of time.
*Groaa* The gorilla looked at me filled with bloodlust as it charged. “This time I won’t be underestimating you. [Battle mode]”. This mode is a command system where it automatically equips weapons and armors registered as primary equipment. Light engulf my body as they change shape until my armors and weapons change in a second. The gorilla was fast enough to move in front of me while going into battle mode and throw a punch. This time I blocked the punch by crossing my arm and activated [elemental enchant: Earth] on my gloves. I was push back 4 feet by that punch as well as the gorilla taking a return damage made by the roughness of earth enchantment. Wearing black leather pants paired with black boots and a pair of black gauntlet that stretched until my elbow this is my cursed Bahamut set. Made from the materials gathered from a dragon Bahamut after hunting that dragon a hundred times we finally defeated it. Bahamut was an event monster that was released after discovering a ruin. The difficulty in killing down dragons is when they go aerial. This dragon doesn’t fight but escapes when losing 50% of its health. With its superior combat in the air only to use in escaping.
While my armors are cursed it was my class cursed warrior that made it an advantage. Any negative effect or buffs were nulled and changed to stat increase and decrease my HP by 10%. The only thing that bugs me right now is that since there is no HP bar in this world, what happens to that 10% HP decrease? After taking that punch it doesn’t seem that my body becomes fragile but man that punch is something. On my waist are two Mythril scimitars as my weapon. The gorilla seems to be expecting me to send flying like last time so it was left dazed for a moment after the attack. I draw one scimitar on my right and pointed at the gorilla. It seemed understood the situation and began to released stronger aura. “Now I remember, your species were called Fused Kongs. Called to be the strongest monster but useless. What core did you eat to have that strength? Intriguing.” “Grooooaaa!!!!”. After powering up, the gorilla’s entire body seems to be strengthened and its fur hardened. “Come!”
The gorilla began its attack. Fast! He moves twice as fast and launched a punch. [Earthwall]. A wall erected before his arm reached mine. The force of the wall coming up hit its lower arm interrupting its attack and losing its balance. The gorilla took a step back but comes back after with a destructive punch destroying the wall. It noticed that I wasn’t behind the wall as it breaks and therefore lowering its guard. At that time I was hiding from the upper part and by the time the wall break I jump and therefore lunch an attack up above swinging my scimitar down attacking its left side. *Clang* I stored energy from my back as I hit the gorilla but his defense is tough and only send him a few feet to the right. The gorilla staggered a bit due to the effect of the poison but is still strong. *Groooaar* It made a louder noise enough to push some air towards me. The gorilla moves much faster than before and began its offense. It took me a surprise since I can’t match its speed to provide a counter. [Element enchant: Earth] Defense is the only thing I can do now but it seems its punch is getting faster and stronger. At first, I was blocking its punches but as I was getting pushed back until finally I can’t keep up and took a blow from my right side. *crack* ‘My bones!’ I was knocked to the ground but that didn’t stop the gorilla to launch another attack. It jumps delivering another savage blow but [Earthwall]. Another wall erected from the ground hitting its stomach. The wall shattered but the force made by the wall interrupted its attack. [Wind blade] I gained a bit of distance at the time and launched my attack. The wind blade hit but it didn’t cut through. The gorilla seems to be panting very hard right now. It is now feeling exhausted plus the effect of my poison.
My poison cannot kill a strong monster like this one but it sure can leave it cripple or weak for some days. [Element enchant: Fire] Drawing my other scimitar, I enchanted both of them with fire and began to move. I put energy from my feet and back as I launched myself towards it. It was exhausted but its defense is still hard. I swung my blade *clang* *clang* *clang* but it was deflected. *Pow* “Urgh!!” “You want some more??!!!” After attacking continuously a weaker punch hit my left side. It was weaker but still stronger like the one it used to send me flying. Again! After I attacked I was punched back. Again and again. We keep exchanging blows but signs of burns are appearing from the gorilla’s body until I finally inflicted some wounds. The exchange of blows lasts for another 5 minutes. Its durability is tougher than mine but I was chewing a Yggdrasil leaves that’s why I was able to keep up. “Hah hah hah… shit, I lost my cool back there and forgot to preserve my energy.” I’m a little bit exhausted and full of bruises and wounds but so is that fucking gorilla. Its fur was filled with burns and some minor cuts but it is now weakened. “I guess it’s time to finish it.”
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Nil’s Curse
Conqueror’s Curse – Enemy feels fear by looking at your body including your allies.
Warrior’s curse- A body immune to disease, curse, poison, or paralyzation but take damage from healing skills potions and holy skills. Except for druid healing skills.
Oppressor’s curse- Cursed effects are nulled and give boost stats but decreases hp by 10% whenever equipped with one but blessed weapons are also nulled and give negative effects.
Death’s curse- able to store dark spirits in the body in exchange for not able to wear an armor.
Dark spirits’ vessel curse – Your stats is decreased by 20% for housing the 4 Cursed beings.