"Hey, I leveled up," I said to Julia, hoping to get some time for resting.
"Good~, now let's continue!"
" *sigh* ahaha... nothing can't stop you huh."
We continued to walk until another green dot appeared in [Mini Map]. A thick green gelatinous goo moved around, left a trail behind it and consuming everything on its path, inside of its body there were numerous varieties of junk. Cans, boots, something that looked like rats, banana skin and several others. It had the same height as me, maybe a little higher.
"Oh~ Acidic Ooze, go get it Nashi!" Once again she pushed me, there was nothing I could do about this. Now, how should I beat it? It didn't turn red yet, seemed like a close battle was a bad decision. "[Return Throw]". A light green aura covered both of the javelin and my hand, I held the javelin near my head and threw it at the ooze.
*Splash*
My javelin no.. Julia javelin that I borrowed made a hole in its body. "Hey, this one is easy." Too bad, as soon as I said this, the Ooze turned red. It slowly moved to me, but the hole that I made already closing. "Return!". The javelin flew back to my hand, it created another hole on the Ooze body, barely caught it though.
A slimy liquid covered the javelin, when I touched it "Ouch!" my hand burned, and once again the hole already closing. "Nashi~ no matter how much you hit it, the only way to beat it is by heating its body!" Said Julia with her playful tone.
Holding my hand in pain, I asked "grh... do you have a lighter?"
"Nope~ that's why we should run! [Jump]!" A white green aura covered her feet, and she leaped like her body was made from a feather. Wait!? what about me!? I chased after her, the pain on my rib appeared again, we ran quite far though. Next thing I knew, we already at the last intersection.
"fufu~ sorry, I didn't think you're seriously fighting it with only a spear. Jeez~ looks like there's a lot for you to catch up, anyhow that thing isn't that dangerous, in fact there's a rule to keep one in every few kilometers"
"Please... *cough* stop joking like that" I tried to catch my breath from all of that running, every time I breathed an air, a nauseating feeling can be tastes on my tongue.
"sorry, sorry~ let's take a breath for a minute, how about taking this time for allocating your [Ability]?"
I sat down on the floor, the view in front of me was a channel with a lot of waste. "[Status]" After thinking for a while, I decided how to spent my stats and ability.
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance Kamiya Nashi ---- 3 (0/1200) Shirt +1% cold R Traumatize Cut +21% HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Jeans +2% cold R Fractured Rib (1) (light, 48%) -1 AGI Stab +40% 40/50(0.28/m) 64/70(0.32/m) 21/78(0.48/m) Dynemaa Jacket, Have enough power to stop bullet Bash +3% STR END VIT Earth -31% 11↑1 (12) 9↑1(10) 7↑ (8) Fire +30% AGI DEX LUK Wind +35% 17↑1 (18)-1 14↑1 19↑2 Water +95% INT WIS CHA Metal -94% 10↑1 12↑1 16↑2 Lightning -40% P. Atk P. Def C. Dmg Nature +59% 14-26 10-18 170% Ice +64% C. Chance Speed (Km/h) Visual Acuity Light -74% 9.5% 50-1 1.38 Dark +85% M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30% 20-36 12-28 32% Force +20% Ability Mini Map (3/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 6 x WIS x m². Shows the direction target facing. Detect (1/5): Detect Level 1 magic trap and hidden trap. Range: WIS x m². MP: 1. Duration: 30s Return Throw (1/5): Thrown projectile will return to your hand. Range: 25m. SP: 6
"So, what do you get?" She sat down next to me and treated my hand, her big blue eyes looking at me with curiosity.
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"Hm... [Detect] and raise [Mini Map] level, well... I guess this is useful if we are inside a dim place like this." On the other side, [Detect] was the one that looked useless, jeez, I should've waited till I get internet signal for checking the Information.
"[Detect]" once I said this, I felt like a something spread from my body, on [Mini Map] I noticed the area surrounded me had a ripple, 30 seconds passed and the sensation was gone. When I came back to my sense Julia already took some drink from her backpack and gave it to me.
Hesitantly I took it, there was no way I can't reject her if she looked at me like that, *sigh* with a body full of blood, sitting inside a sewer, in front of me there was a waterway flowing with a waste, next to me there was a bag full of tail, the stench of the sewer and cockroaches crawling at the wall. Contrary to her elegant look, Julia single-handedly drank it. *Sigh* Maybe I was the spoiled one. I followed her and drank it in one gulp.
"Blergh.. what is this!? too sweet!!" It tastes like an energy drink, but the flavor insanely strong, and the sweetness... gah, It felt like drank a molten candy. Though I still finished all of it. She looked at me and giggled.
"Hey, Nashi~ may I wear that?"
"Oh? This? yeah, sure" I gave the jacket to her, she wore it happily and spinning around with it, I didn't understand what made her happy though... hm? a Golden dot coming to our way, what a fast runner.
That was I thought until he showed up, he was one of the people that split with us, his eyes widened, breaths ragged and harsh, his body trembled, he ran to me and grabbed my body, his nail pierced to my skin, he tried to say something but his words stammered "He....he...p...a...al..de..de..dead.". Julia stopped her dancing when she saw this, she came to him, she gently touched his shoulder and said "Calm down, tell me everything"
"ye...yes, mo..monster at section E, it killed everyone, no... I don't know, sorry, I run in the middle of everything, I...I never saw something like that"
I didn't know why Julia ran in the direction the man came in, she didn't even say a single word to us. "Wait! Julia!" I yelled at her, seemed like she decided to ignore me.
"Tch! ... go back to the entrance and call some help" The man nodded and ran to the entrance, while I followed the Golden dot, once I started following her, I only realized it was better for me to be the one that called for help. Unfortunately, it was too late to regret that decision.
"Oi! Julia! Wait a minute!" I called her many times, at the fourth times she slowed down and said "Nashi!! what are you doing!? go back and get some help!" Yup girl, that was what I thought a moment ago.
Actually, I came to stop her, though didn't know why I said "Let me help!"
"Whaaat~ sorry, it's not like I underestimate you, but you should know your place" And she dashed again.
"Oi! Damnit!" I barely able to follow her, she was fast, every time I ran I felt like I could hear a crackling sound on my rib. With great effort, I tailed her from behind until I saw a Red dot, no... the size of it was unnatural, how big was it? and there was no other dot near it.
"Oi! go back! they are already dead!"
"You don't know that!!" She ran to it directly, and the next thing I saw.
Her body flying from that intersection and directly hit the thick concrete wall of this sewer, It cracked like a vein, Dust flew everywhere, I can't even hear her scream. Next thing I aware, I saw a crocodile... it massive!! what was its size? It was bigger than a small truck, It reeked of rotten fish, on its back there was coral? no... a glistening dark crystal. The huge, compound eye looked like enormous crystals of cut glass, a sharp stone stuck on its right eye, its mouth alone almost had the same size as my body, it opened its mouth and I can see its tooth that looked like a knife, there were hundreds of it.
I threw another javelin at it.
*Clang*
The sound of metal hitting something hard can be heard, it repealed my javelin, I knew I threw it right this time, still! It looked like I threw a toothpick at a concrete wall. It ignored me and kept walking to Julia, I threw my phone, next the bag full of rat tail, this time I managed to get its attention, it turned its head, fuck...
Now what!???
It snarled at me and ran to my direction, shit.... contrary to what it looked like, its fast!
I started to run, my back was open wide, I didn't need to see [Mini Map] or saw behind, from the sound of its body, I knew it chasing after me, its movement was a combination of running and jumping. Every time it jumped, the ground destroyed, and every time it ran, its body was heavy enough to crack the floor.
"fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck"
Unlike last time. This time I didn't have a backup nor I knew whether or not that man reached the exit yet, even though he managed to reach it, Julia already said this was a training ground. I ran and ran and ran, my rib was hurt, my hand was hurt, I had a hard time to catch my breath, slowly the sound got closer and closer.
.......wait a minute.
I tried to backtrack our last hunting ground, it kept following me, its distance was less than 10 meter away from me. By the time I saw a javelin that covered in green gooey liquid, I ran to it in a full speed. The Crocodile dot suddenly became faster, what a timing! I didn't need to see back, but I knew it opened its mouth widely. I dropped my body to the ground for evading it.
The Crocodile hit... no... swallow the Acidic Ooze, even though the Ooze was far from my position, some of the Oozes got thrown and touched my skin, I can smell a meat being burned, it was hurt like hell! I felt like I was walking naked in the asphalt on midday in summer, and multiply it b-
*BAM*
The next thing I felt, my head being struck by something and then everything was black.