Wearing his dark suit, Acma went to the living room. Now he was ready for an adventure.
At the living room, he sat on his recliner and put three weapons on the table. He wanted to give a final examination because he will depend on this three.
“Identify”
Dragon Slayer
Named weapon made from titanium tungsten. An extremely sharp and tough blade
Barquq
Named weapon made from damascus steel. A katana with extremely high slicing power
Sword Breaker
Named weapon made from black obsidian. A parrying knife with unparallel cutting capabilities
“I should check my skill too”, thought Acma.
“Open Skill”.
Survival Survival Cooking: Intermediate, Crafting: Intermediate, Climbing: Advance, Tracking: Advance, First Aid: Advance, Sneaking: Master, Swimming: Advance, Language Comprehension: Master, Identify: Grandmaster Weapon Hand Gun, Rifle, Knife, Sword, Spear, Archery Magic Body Strengthening, Mana Manipulation
“Oh, I can use magic. Qi is Mana, I think. I should mastering this next”. He smiled, fascinated with this new revelation.
He Imagined himself raiseed his hand and, KEBABOOOM, everything around him blew up to smithscreens. In the past, human could only imagine about magic, but now, everyone could use it.
Acma close his skill panel and thinking deeply about his next move.
“Alice, show me the map to the Orca Village”, he said.
The residents of Orca Village was a hunter-gatherer. Although they had nothing to do with an orca, the village got the name because of their leader’s obsession with it. He carved an orca’s statue and placed it at the center of the village. They’re an excellent hunters. His father brought him to join their hunting trip on multiple occasions in the past.
“I hope they can survive this calamity”, he thought.
Watching closely at the map in front of him, Acma planned the best route to the Orca Village. He would have to go through the Ba Lum forest, hiking some small hill and then he can reach the village after half a day. Even if he go with full speed, he might need to take about 10 hours. But with recent events, it might be longer.
Acma also realized that he had too little information about this new world. He knew that behind his villa is a mountainous area, but he didn't know what kind of creatures were living there. He could say the same about the forest between his villa and Orca Village.
“I should gather some information about the surrounding area”, he thought.
“Alice, how far our surveillance drones can cover?"
His villa has several units of surveillance drone, so he thought he could use them to gather the intelligance.
“Most effective range is 50 KM”, she replied.
“Okay then, order half of our drones to map the surrounding. Keep them flying until we get a complete map”.
“Yes Master”.
“Yooooshhh, Let’s go Alice”, Alice flew closely behind.
You have entered Great Forest of Ba Lum
“Great forest? This is supposed a young forest before. Hmm… The landscape indeed has change. That mountains also new. I wonder how long will take to reach Orca Village”. Acma sighed helplessly looking to the far mountains in front of him.
Acma proceeded through the forest cautiously. He looks like he was walking leisurely at a steady pace, but all his sense are working overtime, trying to pick up anything unusual from the surrounding. The forest were not really bright but not really dark too. Here and there, a strike of light could be seen escaping the forest’s roof, giving enough illumination for anyone to traverse through the forest floor easily.
Acma was avoiding bright place, didn’t want to be seen. His dark suit blended well with forest’s shadow, providing a greater camouflouge.
1 km from the edge of the forest, not too far from where he currently was, he saw two cow like beast, walking with its two leg, two meters tall, holding an axe at ready with both of it’s hand, leisurely advance towards him. They seem have not notice his presence yet.
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“Minatour!”, Acma almost jumped with excitement.
Those beast will be his first kill in the New World. He had no grudge against this creatures, it just that they were too close to his villa. It was a preventive action.
“Cow’s sight is really bad isn’t, I’m this close but they still can’t see me”.
Young Minatour LVL 6
“I think their weapon and armor were made from bronze. My Barquq should be able to slice them easily”. Thought Acma after he saw their equipment. “Lets confirm their route and ambush them”.
After conforming the beasts route, Acma climbed a tree and stood on a branch while his brain analyzing the fastest way to dispatch those two minatour. He turned his body aligning the young minatour's direction so when he jump, he could strike their back.
Acma closed his eyes, calmed his heart and focusing on the rhythm of the minatour’s step. He slowly unsheathed his Barquq and readied himself.
50 meters.
‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’
20 meters
‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’
“&&%*^()*&%%$#@%$$$^$&^%”, he could hear their conversation in a language he couldn’t understand.
5 meters
“*#&$(#^*Q)@#*Q*_R_ER_WER( (ER&^(*&#$@$”
“&*& *&*&* *&*&”.
“Poor cow head, that laugh will be your last laugh”.
1 meter
‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’ ‘Step’
The minatour on the right side was slightly ahead of the left one. Acma waited until the left one walked past the branch he currently standing on.
‘Step’,
“Now”.
Acma opened his eyes and free falled towards the minatours at the back. He was 5 meters above them, building enough momentum for a successful slash. His eyes are zooming on minatour’s left shoulder, where he will strike.
His face was calm and his body didn’t leak any killing intent, purposely to conceal himself from detection.
2 meters above the target, he raise Barquq over his head and,
‘Ting’
His sword slashed the minatours body like a hot knife cutting a butter from the shoulder downward to the stomach.
When he was touching the ground, Acma put all his weight on his left leg and propel himself behind another minatour. He grab his Sword Breaker with his left hand and sliced the lower part of both its thigh, severing the only muscle that support its weight. When his body already passed the minatour, he use his right leg to stop and jump upwards, higher than minatour’s height.
The obsidian knife is extremely sharp. The minatour tried to turn its body to face Acma but it haven’t realize that its thigh have been sliced and started to lost its balance backward. At that time, Acma’s katana was already slicing downward through its left shoulder.
Both minatour lose their life without realising what have killed them.
“Three step kill”. Shout Acma with low voice.
He took a long and deep breath. His body was brimming with excitement. Now he knew that he was stronger than a mythical creature. Human’s strength definitely able to contend with this creature.
Maybe the killing was easy because he used a named weapon. But without strength, a great weapon is useless. Try give a named weapon to a toddler who is facing a minatour, it definitely won’t help him to kill his enemy. Even lifting the weapon will be a great hurdle.
LEVEL UP
“Close”. The panel disappeared.
The corpses turned into a globe of lights and disappered, leaving behind several items. Acma picked them up.
“Life potion, 15 copper coins and … What is this? Cicada wing?”. He quickly used Identify and found out that it was an upgrading item.
“Just take it, maybe it will have use later”.
He also found two small white orb among the loots which was a monster core.
He stretch his hand toward the potion, cicada wing and coins, as his hand touch them, they immediately disappeared.
“Open Inventory”.
He found the life potion, wing and coins has been transferred to his inventory.
“It will be much convenient if I can put auto loot. So I don’t have to collect items each time after fight”.
“Close”, he paused and continue, “Open Settings”.
While examining the settings panel, “Thank god it’s really there. Hmmm … I should click auto loot now. I should hide my status too. Good. Owh, I can control either the body of the thing I killed dissapear or not too. This is great. Let set it to disappear automatically”.
“Close”. The settings panel disappear.
Acma looked towards direction where the pitiful minatour came from. He thought that their camp was in that direction. Tracking wad super easy for him because he was drilled about it by his father. The minatour’s hoofprint also visible on the forest’s floor.
“Alice, can you scout towards the north for me? Expand search area to maximum. I believe this two cow head is just a scout”, asked Acma.
Came out from his body. “Yes, Master”. Alice turned her body invisible and flew towards the north.
While waiting for Alice to return, Acma was checking his status.
“Open Status”
Acma Heart Level 2 Race Human Class -None- HP 550/550 MP 750/750 Strength 252 Agility 302 Intelligence 352 Luck 220 Unallocated point(s) 10 Title Lord of The Heavenly Villa
“Close”, as he closed the status panel, he saw his lovely fairy returned.
“Master, I found a camp at the base of mountains, 1.5 KM north. There is 7 sentries like the one master killed before”. Alice reported.
"Great, let visit them", said Acma.