I woke up early, as the sun still hasn’t risen, but there is still a little light outside. I wake up Sis and we get our gear ready to go. I go to the front of the house to scout out the area. I see a goblin, but he looks like it’s unresponsive and groggily standing there, facing away from the house..
“Sis, I think the monsters are weaker in the morning. Look there”, pointing at the goblin. “I think it’s time that I should you how to fight Sis.” I look around to see if there are any other monsters around. Taking advantage of the goblins weakened status, I brought Sis closely behind me. I grab the top of the goblin’s head, pulled it back and sliced its neck open. It falls to the ground, still alive. I point to its left side of its back, “stab it in the heart” I tell Sis. Nervous, she grips her knife with both hands and plunges the goblin, killing it. I see a golden yellow color surround her. I pat her on the back. “Good job Sis”. She stands up a little shaky.
“I don’t like killing things bro.”
“In this world, we’re going to have to”
“I know..”
“You’ll get used to it”
“Bro”
“Hmm?”
“How can you kill so nonchalantly?”
“Simple. I’m a survivalist and I need to protect you. That’s all there is to it. Those without the skills to kill will be kill,ed and I’m not ready to die, or to let you die.
“I need to be stronger bro”
“Then level up. Ill help you”
“Thanks bro. You’re the best”
“Heh” I blush a bit.
As we walked through the neighborhood, I noticed a lot of dead, half eaten people on the streets and sidewalks. Most of their wounds seem to come from a sword. I also notice horse footprints around those slayed by a sword.
“We should get out of here fast”
“Why? There’s nothing around”
“That’s what I’m afraid of. Something much stronger killed all these weaker monsters and people. It looks to me like a horse riding soldier from the looks of these prints and sword marks. If there were a lot of weak monsters around, I’d be less worried. These games always have lower hunting areas, but this is not one of them. Let’s hurry”
Quickly realizing we were in a bad territory, we rushed out of the neighborhood, into a forest.
We were still heading to my mother’s work by going through the forest. It would take half a day’s walk through the forest before we reached our destination. With my sword strapped to my back, a knife in my hand, and in my bag, I was prepared to face anything I might have to face. While we were walking forward, I noticed something ahead of me. Quickly I duck behind the brush, with Sis doing the same without question. I wanted to try something out that I didn’t before. I looked the monsters that seems to be an orc. I think hard in my head “Identify!”, and a popup appears before me, telling me that i was not in range. I was about 50ft from the orc. I told Sis, “I’m going to get a closer look. Stay here”. She nodded and i crept forward. I kept trying to identify the orc every 5 feet, but it kept giving me an “out of range”, until I was at 25ft away. This time it showed me.
Orc- Level 7
Health: 560/560
A larger version of goblins, but less ugly
“I guess that’s a good description. It does look a little less ugly”, I say to myself. To better describe this monster, it had a bald round head, with 2 large fang looking teeth, jutting out its mouth, with light green skin all over. It stood at about 6’5, so i assume this is actually a weaker or younger orc. I slowly crept up behind him, ready to cut its head off. There's no tough fur in the way, so I should be fine, plus I have inflated stats thanks to being the savage I am. When I got right behind it, I used one of my iaido drawing skills, which I call “decapitating blow”. It involves me making a stance, with my katana at my left side, left hand holding the sheath with the thumb under the handguard, and my right hand on the handle. I pushed my left thumb upwards to push it out slowly, to not damage the scabbard. I make a “che” noise and the orc turns around. I drew my sword into an overhead arc, or rather in this case, a just a bit over the shoulders kind of arc. The orc, taken by surprise, noticed my blade too slowly, and my sword hits its neck. As I know, to slice through, I had to pull it as soon as I met resistence to make it cut through easy. Unfortunately, I was not able to decapitate it, probably because I’m 4 levels below it. Even so, I still managed to slice open its neck and the jugular, making blood spurt out. Jumping back I notice I got 2 popups but I quickly closed them to look at them after i finish off the orc. I identified the orc again.
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Orc- Level 7
Health:190/560 (Heavy Laceration -10hp/sec)
A larger version of goblins, but less ugly
So it seems that I can apply status effects without special skills. I waited out the 19 seconds and also called Sis up. I didn't want to go near the angry orc, swinging its club around. As soon as it died, I checked the popups.
You have applied “Heavy Laceration” to the orc
New skill!
Decapitating blow
From mastering a certain action, you have created the skill “decapitating blow”
Level 1: 150% attack damage.
Mana cost: 20
Cooldown: 4 seconds
Right after, another popup comes
Stack added!
For being the first person to create a skill, you have been added a stack to “Prime Example”.
With a smile on my face, I decided to check my stats and add some of my unused points.
-Status-Name:InsaisanaClass:N/ALevel:3Experience Points448/500Titles:Savage, Prime ExampleFaction:none
Unused stat points: 10
Health:180Mana:150Strength:10(+20)Agility:10(+15)(+5)Vitality:10(+13)Defense:10(+10)Intelligence:10(+10)Wisdom:10(+10)Skills:Decapitating blow
Status Effects:"Savage" - +10 strength, +5 Agility, +3 Vitality
"Prime Example" - +5xStacks to all stats. Current stacks: 2
After a quick look through, I added 5 points to agility. From what I know from games, I know we will have classes soon and that these stat points really matter according to your class, so I decided to only use 5/15 points. As soon as I finish up, my sis arrives next to me.
“Now what bro?”
“Onward. To costco” I said as I wiped the blue blood off my sword to resheath it.
Authors note: It is now fixed for those of you that saw the mishap. Thank you to my helper!