The next day... "Who would have thought that I would have so many critters in and around my house. But I finally earned 30xp!"
'Lets see what kind of helpful to my plan skill I can create.'
Malorn instantly starts racking his brain for a weak but helpful passive that could cost very little. Thinking for awhile he comes up with one.
'System, I would like a skill that can let me tame ordinary spiders within 1 foot of myself'
[Skill creation in progress...skill created]
[Basic Spider taming:30xp] [make?]
'YES!'
[Ding, Congrats for your first taming skill]
'status'
[Race: Human]
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[Str. 3]
[agl. 3]
[Vit. 5.1]
[int. 5.5]
[xp: 30]
[skills: tough skin, spider taming(basic) ]
[Spider taming(basic): all ordinary spiders within 1 yard are tamed and can be commanded: spiders nearby will be attracted: race evolution may affect skill]
Many may ask themselves how this is a helpful skill in a world where monstrous creature exist. But the key is that does 1 know really know how many spiders are near them?
'I can feel so many near me. Why are there so many? Is that attraction that strong?' Looking out the window he can see the dog is still outside, but laying down resting.
"Alright my critters, attack that mutt and slaughter it!" With that a small army of spider all at most an inch big start crawling. On the outside it looks like a wave of black crawling out of the house and towards the neighbor's backyard. 'Cool they follow the direction my thoughts pointed.' But at that moment Malorn discovered a problem. 'I can't connect with that little army anymore' The commands are absolute but his skill has a small range. He watches as the black wave moves towards the dog.
5min later....
The spider army begins the assault, crawling on the dog while the dog doesn't give a shit. But that changes as within 10 seconds the dog yelps while submerged in over 300 spiders. As it rolls around, the spiders are swarming it biting it, crawling up it's nose, ass, and mouth biting.
3min after the assault begins Malorn hears a [ding]
[congrats for killing your first ordinary dog]
[+200xp]