Chapter 2 and 3- So after some, let's just say "hiccups", The hunt begins huh... Sigh... Why me!
Sub-Skill Gained: Bleeding Countermeasure 1- Pressure Points- 5/5 uses left until 5% pain relief reduction is applied to the user. 90% chance to reduce bleeding frequency by 1 minute per heal, 10% chance to reduce bleeding frequency by 2 minutes per heal. This sub-skill set also greatly reduces pain and loss of blood for 3 hours on every use but you will start to gain immunity to pain relief if you overuse it. Can be used on multiple parts of the body at an increased cost.
Just like that this notification of hope beams down onto me and drives away the negative thoughts that were threatening to consume me imminently! I immediately get to figuring out the process of using this game-like interface.
"USE sub-skill bleeding countermeasures one pressure points!"
{1 use of sub-skill: Bleeding Countermeasures 1 used, please choose the target/s of this sub-skill}
List of injured parts of the body Skill application choice(visulize the body part/s)Small injuries= 2 body parts in 1 use Left front paw, Right front paw, Main torso (requires 2 skill uses) Left front paw and Right front paw
{Skill application choices are left front paw and right front paw, beginning skill apllication}
I wait with bated breath as i let the system takeover my actions to apply proper usage of pressure points to this strange creature i have become...
{Skill successfully applied to left front paw and right front paw, bleeding frequency reduced by 2 minutes}
Thankfully alongside that came the pain relief i so desperately needed. Heavens the creature i have become was revived with an injury to itself, what sort of shitty revival was this. Heck i didn't know what this meant in my moment of panic but it seems my creature's insides were cleaved out by the... Thing that caused that deep ass claw mark on my torso... GREAT, well at least the revived don't have to worry about food and water!
*pause*
"I hope so at least!"
I start to mumble "Zuldir my man, you wouldn't be so mean as to make me have to find food and water while searching for this so called potential body of mine would you? Please say you wouldn't, pretty please"
I sigh once again but as if to distract myself from my awful circumstances, me and my new body start to move out in the rough direction that the system seems to have embedded in my brain. The memories say the main "body" of mine is there but from what that eerily talkative God said, i very much doubt that it will be human...
Anyways realising that my thoughts were getting into the pessimistic territory again, i call out the word status in my head.
Burrowing Earth Badger Hp: 20/20 ~Minor Bleeding- Lose 1 HP every 10 mins until it is stopped~ ~Revived- HP, MP and Stamina halved forever~ ~Revived- Your body has no need for food or water but your vessel will still feel the pain of going hungry or being extremely thirsty~ ~Relieved of pain- Greatly reduced pain for 2h 54m 4s~ MP: 24/24 Stamina: 24/24 Ability: Burrow Ability Description: Burrow into the ground for 1 minute for every 1 Stamina used. During the duration of the skill you can burrow up anytime to leave the underground or to make a surprise attack with the *blindsided" bonus. MP used: 0 Stamina used: 1 for every 1 minute used Skill: Claw Swipe Skill Description: Swings the claws from either paw to stun or knockback an enemy. 60% chance of knockback, 40% chance of stunning. MP used: 0 Stamina used: 6 for every use Skill: Earth Spikes Skill Description: Summons a small set of spikes all around a small enemy to completely disable their movement for 2 mins or disables the use of a limb of a medium enemy for 2 mins with a 20% chance of causing small puncture wounds and bleeding- Lose 1 HP every 1 minute until it is stopped. MP used: 6 Stamina used: 0 Sub-Skill: Bleeding Countermeasures 1 Skill Description: 90% chance to reduce bleeding frequency by 1 minute per heal, 10% chance to reduce bleeding frequency by 2 minutes per heal. This sub-skill set also greatly reduces pain and loss of blood for 3 hours on every use but you will start to gain immunity to pain relief if you overuse it. Can be used on multiple parts of the body at an increased cost. MP used: 0 Stamina used: 0
It comes up and the first i do is look at the timer for my bleeding but i stop dead in my tracks as i see the extra revived ailment that seems to have appeared out of nowhere. I stare at it in not so slight horror and then i find myself turning my head to the sky and shouting ever so loud, as if i was announcing something to the gods!
"Zuldir are you playing with my head? You definately are you F**KER! I thought that the talkative side of you meant you weren't trying to manipulate me like a chess piece since that is what all the gods/goddess in those light novels from my homeland do but it turns out you are no different from them you piece of s**t. I am better them that you know, watch me tear your fantastic world of beasts a new one. If you care for your god tier machismo at all ha! Otherwise you could just smite me with your god powers eh. Right but that is only if you have no pride ha!
"Do you even know what machismo means? Huh do you? Well if you don't know what i means i will tell you. It basically a fancy word for the strong and aggressive masculine pride that you seem to embody ya know. I tell you what, i am gonna make myself a cute ass dog out of this potential body of mine i have to find. Next i am gonna beat the asses out of the so called strongest lifeforms on your oh so great planet with that form and then i will give you a surprise you will never live down to end all of this polava. Did you think i wouldn't notice, seriously?"
"The gibberish in my head is what you wanted me to decipher to find out that my hunger and thirst wouldn't go away no matter how much food and water i went through? If i didn't unravel your code by guessing i wouldn't have to eat or drink as a revived animal before i checked my status i would be a goner searching for substance with no end in sight with a dying body. You even almost got away with it! In my head my status reads like this"
Hp: 20/20 ~Minor Bleeding- Lose 1 HP every 6 mins until it is stopped~ ~Revived- HP, MP and Stamina halved forever~ ~Revived- A broad sensation of hunger, thirst or their primary substrates, or their primary substrates, or their primary substrates, or their primary substrates, or their primary substrates~
"when it should read like this!"
~Revived- Your body has no need for food or water but your vessel will still feel the pain of going hungry or being extremely thirsty~
"You are playing with my head even when you say the system is doing everything right now and that it is independent to you since it does everything that affects individuals once they are born in this world and you don't. That is complete bull i say! You probably think it ain't a big deal if a person you bring into your playhouse of a world doesn't have a way to get around your meddling but soon you will find out just how wrong you truly are!"
In my head this rant of mine has gone on for wayyy too long but my mouth doesn't seem to agree and thus my slow ass brain seems to just do what it is told like a soldier listening to its surperior. Man this must be the consequence of not using my voice much in my past life i start to think but i get interrupted once again by...
*Ping*
I stop my ranting as soon as i hear the now familar notification sound but nothing i have gone through before prepares me for the wall of text that covers my vision when the notification box itself appears!
Unique Sub-Skill granted: Negotiation ?- Ranting- Can be used to put to *sleep* a life form without a title/skill/ability related to countering this skill unless they have high mental resistance. This sub-skill can also be activated by impassioned thoughts that become mini rants in your head though by the way you crazy human you. Th effect of *Sleep* last for 2 minute on each use. Congratulations you have angered but also intrigued the God of this World Zuldir with your unique way of arguing with thin air about a small thing that really is a small thing really no matter how much you rant about it not being a small thing. Lucky for you though. The almighty God Zuldir is a bit of a talker himself and thus despite being a very annoying ant you have been given a skill unique to yourself since the silver tongued title does not suit the "ecentric" views and behaviours you have shown today. God Note: Your attack of the senses has no effect on God Zuldir. Now get on with finding your main body before you die you idiotic but interesting specimen of a human.
As i read what seems to be the combined words of the system and Zuldir i start to pale as i just now got it in my thick skull that i was insulting this world's GOD! I even joked about him smiting me with this god powers and egged him on to do it even... I sweat just thinking about it seriously, as i could easily be ash under a tree right now if things went differently.
Then again Zuldir is also a bit of a eccentric god compared to the typical God/Goddess portayed in light novels ain't he? He info bombed me with his voice and didn't just do what most God figures do which is store the infomation with their godly powers and put it in the person's memories... Though that may of also been a ploy to lure me into a sense of false security like that orb of light from the system start up process did. Ah i really need to stop thinking about thing like this and that don't i?
Anyways i wonder how i am gonna find this potential body since its natural environment is the forest and my creature's environment is the underground and the forest's land borders... Anyways i just gotta keep moving and hope it doesn't find me first i guess i think as i start to move with more direction as i had gone sort of off the beaten track i was following due to my tirade. It is a miracle that i have encountered no danger since i wasn't even trying to avoid the numerous what seem to be wolf tracks.
Though as soon as this thought came in to my head. I quickly began to hope i haven't jinxed myself but low and behold ahead of me i see a small pack of what look like wolves coming towards me. Well the hunt begins i guess. I sigh... Anyways while i am preparing for battle i almost shout why me but manage to keep my mouth shut.
Now all i have to think about is how to go about this and what i want out of it if it comes to a fight. Which it will out a doubt come to since wolves usually travel until they encounter the scent of prey and they will never miss me as i absolutely reek of both dried and fresh blood all while being injured greatly in appearance. It is like i am the perfect prey for them ain't it. I hope i give them a nasty surprise and come up on top of this life or death match up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter 3- This isn't even the target! And there are multiple of them dammit!
I have just gotta treat them as live practice for the next opponent which will hopefully be this hyped as heck permanent body of mine that i need to obtain. So in my homeworld wolves target the weak, the sick, the old and injured. I probably count as weak and injured to them especially with this nasty torso injury of mine which should kill an animal so that will make them underestimate me which is good. However they are a pack of five with the teamwork to go with it so i need more then that to win this disavantagous fight i would say. What else then...
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Ah yes, the first thing i should of done would be trying to identify them with some sort of skill while they are somewhat far away. I hope this works because i didn't have any sort of identify skill in my status... Gotta give it a try anyway eh. I start to concentrate on looking at one of the wolves with a intense fury in my eyes and whisper
"Identify"
I look with hope at the front of my vision and get...
*Ping*
Hidden Skill Discovered: Animal-Type Skill- Identify- This skill can be used anytime as long as you have line of sight Obtains the minor infomation a life form has in their status as long as the target does not have a special title/skill/ability that relates to blocking mental communication/spying skills or have a higher mental resistance than you I.E a human trained in the mind may block the animal version of this skill and even counter the user in someway.
Well it worked but now i have to stare again real hard at a wolf whos species usually have great senses ah... I repeat my previous actions anyway despite my complaints.
"Identify"
Male Giant Common Wolf HP: 8/8 Stamina: 16/16 Basic Stats (Adult Male): Ability: Part of the Pack- Feeding Frenzy Ability Description: Increases attack by 0.3 for every pack member including you. Agility increased by 0.3 when hunting Stamina used: 6 for every 1:30 minutes the ability is used.
Attack- 2
Sp Attack- 0
Skill: Dash Skill Description: Dash towards a target to get there faster. Stamina used: 2 for every skill activation Defence- 1
Sp defence- 0 Skill: Pounce Pounce on the back of a target for a 40% chance to immobilise them when landing. Stamina used: 2 for every skill activation Agility- 4
There are 2 Giant Common Wolves and another different looking wolf of which i will try to identify...now!
"Identify"
Giant Common Alpha Wolf
HP: 10/10-2 ~Old unhealed injuries-minus 2 HP~ ~Pack leader- Attack +1 Agility +1~ ~Exposed to magic- Sp Defence +1~
Stamina: 20/20 Basic Stats (Adult Alpha Male): Special Ability: Sacrifice for the Pack~ Battle-Scarred Dominance~
Ability Description: Passive: Can control hungry pack members no matter what due to proven dominance. Active: Can sacrifice a member of the pack you control for temporary *magic* (this also gives +2 Sp Attack and +1 Agility) due to your extremely loyal pack.
Stamina used: 6 for every 30 seconds the active ability is used. Attack- 3
Sp Attack- 1 Skill: Darkness Dash Skill Description: Dash towards a target to get there faster leaving a trail of darkness for your pack to follow as you dash. Stamina used: 2 for every skill activation Defence- 2
Sp defence- 1 Skill: Darkness Pounce Skill Description: Pounce on the back of a target for a 60% chance to immobilise them when landing. Land on a open wound on the back the target for a 100% chance to immobilise them. Stamina used: 3 for every skill activation Agility- 5
"Wow... THat is all i can say. Wow... and these are not even magic using beasts from what i can see..."
Though their leader must be a real veteran of the forest that is for sure. Hmm what to do, what to do...
Well i certainly can't allow the leader to do this *magic* thing. I wonder if identify would let me see more information on that because no matter how strong a normal beast this alpha wolf is, i am still a magic beast even if i seem oddly weak even without the revived debuff now that i think about it... Also is Zuldir incompetent or something he forgot to even show me my stats of attack and defence and all that... At least give me that Zuldir or is it Zuldir! Uh...
*Ping*
Burrowing Earth Badger
Hp: 20/20 ~Minor Bleeding- Lose 1 HP every 6 mins until it is stopped~ ~Revived- HP, MP and Stamina halved forever~ ~Revived- Your body has no need for food or water but your vessel will still feel the pain of going hungry or being extremely thirsty~ ~Relieved of pain- Greatly reduced pain for 2h 26m~
MP: 24/24
Stamina: 24/24
Basic Stats (Juvenile Male) Ability: Burrow Ability Description: Burrow into the ground for 1 minute for every 1 Stamina used. During the duration of the skill you can burrow up anytime to leave the underground or to make a surprise attack with the *blindsided" bonus. Stamina used: 1 for every 1 minute used Attack- 3
Sp Attack- 2
Skill: Claw Swipe Skill Description: Swings the claws from either paw to stun or knockback an enemy. 60% chance of knockback, 40% chance of stunning. Stamina used: 6 for every use Defence- 3
Sp defence- 3 Skill: Earth Spikes Skill Description: Summons a small set of spikes all around a small enemy to completely disable their movement for 2 mins or disables the use of a limb of a medium enemy for 2 mins with a 20% chance of causing small puncture wounds and bleeding- Lose 1 HP every 1 minute until it is stopped. MP used: 6 Agility- 3
Oh thank lord for the fact that the revived debuff doesn't affect my stats! I start to laugh in relief
"hahahaha i have a chance, i have gotta thank the lord for a lot of things it seems. Though some part of me thinks i am forgetting something... Ah whatever battle start!"
Oh wait i haven't fully examined my new body or looked at the appearance of my fearsome opponents, getting ahead of myself i say ain't i...
Well anyways from a quick look at my "animal's" features, i believe that the creature i am right now is a... Honey badger copycat with earth magic. Nope i am not joking. I am that weasel look-alike donald trump creature that can fight things way larger than itself with its long body, small head with a short muzzle for a nose, small eyes and weird built in ears with no outer ear part.
However let us not forget its short yet sturdy legs of which the poweful and strong large claws are located on. Its feet have short rear leg claws and very long front leg claws. It is covered in pure black coarse bristile-like hairs with a large white band covering its upper body.
Though with this world's version that i am inhabiting. The large band seems to be earthy coloured and its short long haired bushy tail is earthy colours with some spikes circling around it except around the base. It is also much bigger in this world as compared to its Earth counterpart which is usually half the height of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the length of one as well. While this world's version is bigger when compared to the size of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Anyways a good description of my opponents would be the largest direwolf but over 2 times that size and probably two times that strength as well as fearsomeness. Ya know apparently just ten thousand years ago they stalked the two continents of the Americas as a species and this was done as far back as 1.79 million years. They were built to bring down very large prey and when i say very large i mean way larger animals than what grey wolves hunt nowadays. Ah and they had 129% of the jaw power of modern grey wolves.
Man so this is what feel like to be targeted by a baby magafauna, at least i think they would be considered baby megafauna. A megafauna is a large or giant animal such as the African Bush Elephant by the way. No matter what they are considered though. It is gonna be tough this battle ain't it... Damn mate why can't my first opponent be a slime or even just a single opponent and not three enemies at once! Again why me! I go ah in my head and shout!
"Come at me then you monsters. I will show you the famed ferocity of the honey badger and humanity combined!"
*Ding*
{Unique Sub-Skill: Negotiation ?- Ranting- Has put to *sleep* 2 of the 3 enemies in range of its skill range}
I suddenly see the smaller and weaker 2 of the pursuing wolf pack that were trying to ambush my front and rear with use of the skill dash each stop in their tracks and seem to become unconscious in virtually a few seconds. I think they were trying to occupy the attention of my now less injured looking paw claws while the alpha goes in for the kill with its massive jaw that towers over my still bleeding torso which looks like it got in fight with this alpha's smaller cousin.
I decide to try and get the alpha out of the fight for a little bit with a combination of my skills and ability. I first use my ability to burrow underground along side a quick use of the rattling sound honey badgers make when they are frightened to make the alpha feel like that was my ultimate ability and thus make it exposed to a sneak attack with my skills.
*Howl*
The plan works as the alpha wolf shows off its its intimidation tactics as broadcasts its confidence its stone pillar like posture, stiff-legged gaits and its tail sticking out and slightly raised, it also has its teeth bared and a wrinkled snout. All of these signs indicate that the alpha wolf disdains my cowardly escape tactic and that it will enjoy a pursuit when i run.
While it does all this, i am digging underground behind it and waiting for my opportunity and it comes in the form of...
It being behind a tree, and as its back faces the front of a tree i strike!
"Claw Swipe!"
{Swiping Claw hits Giant Common Alpha Wolf for 3 damage with a extra 1 damage for *blindsided* attack with an additional effect of knockback}
My first strike sends him backing into the tree and as soon as he nears the tree, i use.
"Earth Spikes!"
{Earth Spikes hits Giant Common Alpha Wolf for 2 damage with a additional effect of disabling 1 of its limbs}
This nails one of its limbs to the tree and i try to sneak up on it while it is confused but end up getting my tail bitten off as i retreat after failing to secure an opening to bite him while he is dazed. I look at how much damage was done and i am appalled both the HP damage done and physical damage done.
{Giant Common Alpha Wolf counters your bite attack and deals 3 damage due to targeting a weaker area with an extra damage of 2 due to it being a *surprise* attack as you were unaware until it was too late to react}
Damn i know i don't have the danger sense of an actual wild animal but half of my HP lost to one attack, seriously? really?
Anyways after that, i retreated by burrowing to go and attack the blisfully unaware sleeping subordinates of this sturbborn pain in my literal ass alpha.
Anyways i check my remaining HP, MP and stamina and see that i have 5/10 Hp, 6/12 MP and 5/12 Stamina. Now that i know that i really need to deal some damage while these blasted creatures of hell are asleep still. What is my Hp,MP and stamina regen rate anyway Zuldir, another thing you "forgot" about.
HP Regen Rate- 0.50 a minute (temporary maybe?) MP Regen Rate- 0.50 a minute (temporary maybe?) Stamina Regen Rate- 0.50 a minute (temporary maybe?)
"What on earth is with the temporary maybe, oh whatever thaose seems great so lets get on with this!"
I mumble
"I really hope i can get a double kill on them before they wake up"
I spot the first of the two soon enough and get right to clawing and biting them up
{-2, -2, -2, -2 damage from normal attacks empty out a Giant Common Wolf's HP of 8)
The first kill goes without any problems uccuring but the second... Not so much, i think as i dodge a pouce by the 2nd Giant Common Wolf. No defence testing today for you goons, that alpha of yours has pissed me off.
I then think"Claw Swipe" and try to angle the hit so that the knockback effect hits their flailing body right into the general direction of the alpha's location.
I watch the body of the last suborbinate of the alpha fly for a bit but all the while i am still trying to figure out how to kill the alpha and his about half health suborbinate... I stumble upon an idea and hestitate but try it anyway.
The idea you ask? Well it is nothing big, just a trap to reduce the advantage they have due to having longer limbs but it also has high risk since the plan is to... Pretend to be bitten to death by a venomous snake and wait for the alpha who eats first to approach within close range so i can finish it off before the other wolf intervenes. RIsky, yes but it might just work. Here goes nothing!
I pretend to be returning from underground under a snake nest by accident and actually get bit but don't worry that was the point since the undead are immune to venom i was betting on and yes it seems i was right as i check by status for an all new ailment but it doesn't come up. I get down on all fours in a special ambushing attack posture and wait for the predator to become the prey...
Times passes...
So after waiting about 5 minutes, i am beginning to get impatient when i hear something quiet. I focus all of my senses and hear more sounds of the same nature as... Steps of a nearby four legged animal . This is it i think while stuck in nervious tension in my head about this being a stupid idea that will never work. It is all i have got though!
Will his ambush succeed or is it really a stupid idea that will lead Connor to his death? Find out next time on...