After a month of practicing both my magic and whip skills I was able to raise my skill levels a fair amount and even learned the whip art heavy strike. Because I lack a bit on the endurance front and can't really use it to many times unless I supplement it with mana I've decided not to put too much stock into it.
What surprised me however is Null, it practiced the whip skill relentlessly and brought up it’s grow and whip skill a fair amount. I was also told that skills will raise all the way to level fifty before reaching the Max. state and at that point it’s either the end of it or it can be evolved into a greater skill.
That however takes the interference of the gods and a bit of knowledge pertaining to the skill is given to you. It seems most people consider it a type of blessing for having devoted yourself to something. I still find it kinda weird that the gods can just implant knowledge and other various things into my head but I have no choice but to let it go. After all leveling up is also considered a blessing from the gods. Null’s and my new statuses look like this.
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceShadow ImpStat points:0Exp: 0/10Level1AttributeShadowStrength2Intelligence7Endurance4Agility6skillsShadow magiclv.4(↑3)Use magic to manipulate shadows.[tr]Archerylv.1Use a bow with some skill.Summeninglv.3 (↑2)Summon creatures of your attribute.Identifylv.maxIdentify anything around you.
(does not work on anyone more than five levels above you)Contractlv.1Contract and enslave anything on the same level or weaker then you.Support magiclv.2(new)Magic buffs to support the basic stats.Whiplv.4 (new)Use a while with some skill.[/table]
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceMalice WeedStat points:0Exp:4/10Level1AttributeShadowStrength8Intelligence2Endurance14Agility7skillsEntanglelv.3(↑2)Trap an opponent.[tr]Fast growthlv.6(↑2)grow your body at a fast rate.Self plantinglv.3Plant yourself into any environment.Shadow plantlv.5(↑4)Plant yourself in shadows.[/tds]Whiplv.7(new)[td2]Use a while with some skill.[/table]
I’ve gone up a fair bit but Null’s improvement is kinda scary. I’ve also found out that it has rooted itself pretty deeply in my shadow. That’s why the shadow planting skill is rising steadily. And because it takes nutrients from my shadow (therefor me) as long as I eat more I don’t have to worry about maintaining it And it goes everywhere I go.
With all of my preparations done it’s time for my first battle. Because of that Adelinda once more lead me out of the cave. for some reason Adelina's presence thinned as we moved further. At some point it was so thin that I thought I was alone a couple of times.
‘Child, that is the weakest creature we will find. Remember to judge it correctly then kill it to gain exp and level up.’ [Adelinda]
Looking in the direction that she pointed I saw a horrid rabbit looking creature with a killer horn on it’s head. Truthfully it would look adorable in all kinds of ways if I didn’t think it would kill me or try as soon as it saw me. And it's body length is only a little less than my height. I hope rabbits in this world are at least four feet tall because if they aren’t then I'm really short. ‘Identify’
StatusNAMERaceHorned RabbitStat points:0Exp: 3/40Level3AttributeStrength14Intelligence4Endurance7Agility15skillsDashlv.14Using your feet to the fullest you can now move with some extra speed.
So it’s more or less what I expected. This will be difficult but it’s something I have to do. First I cast all three buffs that I knew arm strengthening, speed boost, and defensive boost. Because of my hard work I'm now able to hold the three spells for two minutes. Charging head first with my whip in hand and Null at my back ready to strike I began my assault.
The rabbit had good reflexes and managed to dodge my first strike and I kinda panicked making my second strike slower but I managed to hit it in the foot slowing it down. The reason it charged at me is because it thinks I'm alone and weak. It was right that I was weak but I was not alone.
When it was only twelve paces from me Null began its own attack. Because I needed the exp I told it to trap its prey rather than use the whip strikes. When it was caught it struggled with all it had and ripped apart Null more than a couple of times but Null had the fast grow skill and wrapped it more and more until it could no longer move.
With this it's my victory. Using heavy strike at full power twice on its neck it breathed it last breath. It’s kinda sad but I wasn’t going to let it kill me. But thinking about it isn’t Null a little OP completely stopping an opponent with a higher level and better stats. Well it just goes to show that skills are important.
Especially the ones that make you as tenacious as that, like fast growth. I've also noticed that it’s more or less impossible to kill Null now unless you're adept in shadow magic because it’s rooted itself in my shadow. The way to kill a malicious weed is to destroy the roots, so Null will be fine as long as I'm careful. Following that Adelinda lead me to three more and I repeated the process until I could no longer use heavy strike or my buff spells.
‘That should be all for today child.’ [Adelinda]
“Ah would you mind finding a couple more I should let Null level up too, it helps me quite a bit.” [Enrique]
Because of my request we found five more horned rabbits and I just angered them while Null finished them. The first one was rather interesting and a bit scary. When Null had it completely wrapped up I instructed it to squeeze the neck area and finish it quickly. But then that's when the scary part happened, Null killed it then pulled the corps into my shadow. It’s said that normal malice weeds will trap prey until it dies of hunger or thirst then pull them into the ground to use as nutrients.
But Null is planted in my shadow and gets most of it’s nutrients from me. By the way I've never unsummoned it nor do I plan to as it makes me feel safer. I then realized how frightening a place my shadow had become. After it had done so five times Adelinda took us back to the cave and instructed me to check my status and Null’s.
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceShadow ImpStat points:0Exp:9/10(↑9)Level1AttributeShadowStrength2Intelligence7Endurance4Agility6skillsShadow magiclv.4Use magic to manipulate shadows.[tr]Archerylv.1Use a bow with some skill.Summeninglv.3 (↑2)Summon creatures of your attribute.Identifylv.maxIdentify anything around you.
(does not work on anyone more than five levels above you)Contractlv.1Contract and enslave anything on the same level or weaker then you.Support magiclv.3(↑2)Magic buffs to support the basic stats.Whiplv.6 (↑2)Use a while with some skill.[/table]
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceMalice WeedStat points:1Exp:1/20Level2AttributeShadowStrength8Intelligence2Endurance14Agility7skillsEntanglelv.5(↑2)Trap an opponent.[tr]Fast growthlv.7(↑3)grow your body at a fast rate.Self plantinglv.3Plant yourself into any environment.Shadow plantlv.7(↑2)Plant yourself in shadows.[/tds]Whiplv.11(↑4)[td2]Use a while with some skill.[/table]
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Hmm I didn’t level up but Null did. But I see a big problem, even with the level up Null only gained one status point. That has to be a lie somehow right? I mean if it’s one point a level I really will never catch up to other monsters or be able to live with some confidence.
After a light panic I asked Adelinda, apparently from level one to level ten only one point is given from eleven to twenty three points are given and like that what you get steadily increases. Because
I'm Nulls master I have the ability to choose where the stat point goes. For now I should move everything into strength, that way it can hold enemies down with greater ease. Also because Null is a malice weed it's likely that it will evolve at level ten. I'm not really sure what it can become and Adelinda said that she’s seen various plant monsters so any of them are a possible choice.
In this way reaching level ten shouldn’t be a huge problem the only thing is that I have yet to receive a bow. I would make one similar to the whip but bows are more complicated so I don’t have the confidence to make one, there’s also the issue of having arrows. The last part is that I don’t know what my hight is. That’s actually really important because bows vary in strength depending draw length and draw weight.
That’s why a toy bow doesn’t really work, it’s something meant for children so those aren’t thing that work. From what I can tell I'm as big as a rabbit from this world, meaning that a bow I can handle with my little strength isn’t really going to work out very well. But for now I'll continue to ignore the fact that I can't use my main weapon.
The whip is nice and fun to use but I'm trying to survive and not yet at the level when I can think about thriving. If I had to be honest I chose it do to the fact that it seemed cool while thinking that I was safe having Adelinda around but now that I know she’s going to leave in a while I'm reevaluating that choice. But still I have no way of obtaining any weapons so the flexible whip made from Null works fairly well.
Continuing that Adelinda took us out to fight every day and in just a week I had reached level three and Null reached level five. It works much harder than me and with everything going straight to the strength stat I'm hoping it becomes a bit more aggressive. Later I’ll add more to its endurance and intelligence.
I know Adelinda told me that it didn’t have a direct effect of how smart someone is and it wasn’t a perfect representation but it would be good to know that it had some intelligence. After all it’s becoming my trusted last line of defence. So far any horned rabbit that gets near me has been trapped without fail.
And its whip skill has risen to a scary level, if I didn’t know that it had no real thoughts and followed only its instinct and my orders I would think that it's quite the sadistic creature. Now that I've reached level three we decided to move on to new opponents, goblins. Goblins are the staple RPG monster and from what I heard the general info on them is the same as what I know.
They are a dirty group of rapist and all around evil creatures. If I fight them I don’t have to force myself to think of them as evil things unlike with the horned rabbits that I tortured to death. Sometimes I shudder at the fact that Null managed to whip one to death and mostly avoided any quick fatal blow.
Still that dark time has passed, killing those things was necessary. I would also contract one but I can’t see it being all that useful, maybe as a mount but taking care of it would be a problem. Now I was heading to fight my first humanoid opponent. This might actually bother some people but I have no problem with it as it should be a lot easier on me mentally than killing the fluffy rabbits. After walking for an hour I finally saw it.
The goblin was your typical green skinned monster and if the information I had previously is correct then they are rather short make comparable to human children. It’s quite the saddening realization, I'm maybe half its height. If that thing is about four feet or so then I'm about two feet in height. This makes me want to cry.
Regardless one lone goblin shouldn’t be a problem for null. The only bro let that I still have is that Null’s main visible body is only one blade of grass. So it can only fight one opponent at a time. Luckily there is also only one opponent. Knowing this I have already worked out a strategy, first I cast all support spells on Null.
Then I get the goblin’s attention, once it charged at me it was caught by Null. It struggled but due to Null’s superior strength and my support spells it was caught without much of a problem. The goblin was level five and should give me a decent amount of exp. when leveling using the poor rabbits they had given more exp at the start but when I caught up to their level I received less exp. at level three I need forty exp points but was getting only one for every horned rabbit now with the goblin I should get more.
Without minding the fear filled look of the goblin I used my whip to continually strike it's neck, then Null took its corps into my shadow. It’s joined the many rabbits in that scary place. With that same strategy I killed five more goblins and Null killed ten and learned a frightening new art. With this it’s official it’s becoming an OP existence.
This is one of those things where you find something you think is week then ends up weirdly strong. Well at least in binding opponents Null is excellent. The new art it learned it related to the fast growth skill it has. I had thought about it earlier but Null is just a blade of grass and when you think weed it’s something that grows everywhere.
And just as Null’s Fast growth reached level fifteen it is now able to send out five blades of grass. With this I should be able to go into groups of goblins and level much faster. I'm hoping I can evolve into something good. At the end of the day my status and Nulls looked like this.
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceShadow ImpStat points:0Exp:7/40Level3AttributeShadowStrength2Intelligence10(↑ 3)Endurance4Agility6skillsShadow magiclv.5(↑ 1)Use magic to manipulate shadows.[tr]Archerylv.1Use a bow with some skill.Summeninglv.3Summon creatures of your attribute.Identifylv.maxIdentify anything around you.
(does not work on anyone more than five levels above you)Contractlv.1Contract and enslave anything on the same level or weaker then you.Support magiclv.7(↑4)Magic buffs to support the basic stats.Whiplv.8 (↑2)Use a while with some skill.[/table]
[table=black]StatusNAMERaceMalice WeedStat points:Exp:17/100Level2AttributeShadowStrength12(↑4)Intelligence2Endurance14Agility7skillsEntanglelv.9(↑4)Trap an opponent.[tr]Fast growthlv.15(↑8)grow your body at a fast rate.Self plantinglv.3Plant yourself into any environment.Shadow plantlv.10(↑3)Plant yourself in shadows.[/tds]Whiplv.20(↑9)[td2]Use a while with some skill.[/table]
(authors note: so in the future I'm not gonna use this many character charts this was more to show the growth and the more or less level of it. Later I'm going to leave the character charts towards the end.)