With the wind blowing past him, Zalroth booked it across the clearing, the direwolf tracking him with its eyes before it readied itself to attack. Zalroth darted to the right, making the direwolf lunge in the same direction before Zalroth abruptly pivoted and dashed to the left. Zalroth pulled his common stone knife back before slashing it against one of the direwolf's front legs as he evaded the direwolf's attack. The collision halted Zalroth's knife swing before Zalroth swung back in the opposite direction and spun around through the air to avoid the direwolf's counterattack. Zalroth landed on the ground and stared at the direwolf's leg as digital red 0 appeared by it.
"Well, it seems normal attacks with this knife will be null unless I hit the direwolf's crit spots," Zalroth uttered mentally. A faint red light in his peripheral vision caught Zalroth's attention, and he turned his head to see the flames seeping out the direwolf's mouth, "Uh-oh.". The direwolf's hurled its head in Zalroth's direction, making the far-off Kel-Ku scream in shock; however, the direwolf abruptly swung downwards and crashed head-first into the ground before a red digital 25 appeared by its head.
"Mind your step," Ardentus remarked smugly whilst Zalroth covered his face in annoyance. Holding back a strained whimper, the direwolf staggered to its feet and repeatedly struggled to pull its trapped leg out of the narrow hole in the ground. Zalroth raised a hand to the direwolf and placed a hand on its head. Ardentus facepalmed as he crouched on the ground and placed a hand on it. Zalroth, getting an odd feeling, jumped back from the direwolf right as an even larger hole formed below it before the direwolf plummeted into the slightly deep hole. Zalroth lowered his head and stared down at the direwolf squirming around as it struggled to roll onto its feet.
"No need to thank me for saving you," Ardentus exclaimed smugly from across the clearing, to which Zalroth proceeded to do as Ardentus said and indeed didn't thank Ardentus. For a brief moment, Ardentus stood on the spot before amusedly glaring at Zalroth, "That wasn't an invitation to not be courteous, Zalroth.". Kel-Ku glanced up at the glaring Ardentus before poking him to get his attention.
"Does Zalroth have any skills he can use?" Kel-Ku asked. Ardentus peered down at her before over at Zalroth.
"Oi, you got any skills over there, Mr Uncourtieous!" Ardentus exclaimed, making his annoyance at Zalroth be known. Rolling his eyes at Ardentus' nickname choice, Zalroth gazed forward before yet another new RPG-esque screen appeared before him. Ardentus scoffed, glancing to his side before a smirk formed on his face.
[Unique Skills]
[Hidden By User]
[Skills]
[Accel Drive]
-Increases the User's speed and attack for a short burst-
[Level: 1][Cost: 25 Hexa]
-Increases speed by 30% and attack by 35%-
[Detect(Materials)]
- the user's map displays all nearby materials on their map when the skill is active or gets a sense of nearby materials when the map isn't open.
[Level: 1]
- 5 meters-
[Apprasial]
[Level: 1]
-shows the status of anyone weaker than the user, or shows info about objects-
[Level: 2]
-shows the status of anyone weaker or around the user's level-
Zalroth inspected the skill called Accel Drive before he opened his status and sighed in frustration.
[Zalroth Akikou][Level: 15]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10(+8)]
[Class: Creation Crest]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 30(+20)(+7)][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1(-0.5)][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 18][Speed: 25]
[Avalible Points: 5]
"... seems in my rush to apply my stats... wait," Zalroth mumbled before spotting the +8 beside his Hexa, "Why is...?". Zalroth quickly opened his status effect and neutrally stared at it.
[Zalroth's Status effect]
[Weakening]
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-Minus defense by 50%-
[Overcreep]
-the affected person will have their hexa continue to regen even over the wielder's usual limit-
[Level: 1]
-30s max increase is 100% of wielder's hexa limit-
-24s remaining-
"... looks like I'll get one hit with Accel Drive," Zalroth stated before a wave of flames erupted from the hole, accompanied by a raging howl. Zalroth and Ardentus watched the rising pillar of flames, its embers trickling down and fizzling out as they reached the ground.
"Do you think burying it will kill the direwolf?" Ardentus asked.
"Why are you over here and not by Kel-Ku?"
"You don't need to sweat over her, I got Aoina to look after her.". Zalroth huffed as he and Ardentus readied themselves.
"That explains things," Zalroth stated before lunging forwards as the direwolf leapt out of the hole while Ardentus dashed in the opposite direction. He dashed past the direwolf and hurled a duel knife slash at the ankles of the direwolf's hind legs. The knives sliced through the ankles, eliciting a growl from the direwolf as spurts of red hexa particles shot out from its ankles with a bold digital red 34 and a 60 appearing by each of its legs respectively. The direwolf staggered as it landed on its feet before it spun around towards Zalroth. Zalroth ducked and rolled as he landed on the other side of the sinkhole. Rising to his feet, Zalroth glanced at the direwolf as he checked its status effects.
[Direwolf's Status Effect]
[Hindering]
-Minus speed by 50%-
"Now that I have the speed advantage, this fight is over. Ardentus!" Zalroth proclaimed. The direwolf braced itself at Zalroth raising his voice before it noticed the area around it being covered by a shadow. The direwolf dashed to the side before a large sphere of earth smashed into the ground where the direwolf previously was.
A relentless barrage of small boulder-sized earth spheres descended from above like rain as Ardentus thought it was a good thing he made a bunch of those spheres beforehand. The direwolf dodged and weaved around the descending earth spheres before charging at Ardentus after he tossed his last sphere. Ardentus cockily glared at the direwolf as it gunned it for him.
"You've got ya back to the wrong battle maniac," Ardentus quipped condescendingly. The direwolf continued to charge but froze in its tracks as the sound of a wolven howl echoed through the air. The direwolf swung its head in the direction of the howl before a flurry of knife slashes ravaged over its body as Zalroth attacked the direwolf with his uncommon stone knife. Zalroth landed behind the direwolf as a barrage of digital red 30s appeared around the direwolf.
The direwolf gritted its teeth, flames spurting between them before it unleashed a torrent of flames from its mouth and scorched the ground as it swung its flame-spewing head at Zalroth. As the flames washed towards him, Zalroth flexed his legs and lept over the wave of flames. Zalroth flipped through the air and crossed his arms once he landed on the direwolf's back.
[Accel Drive(Level: 1) Activated]
Zalroth sliced both his stone knives through the direwolf's nape as if it were butter. The direwolf seized its flame attack and froze before a geyser of red hexa particles exploded out from the direwolf's nape as a bold digital red 75 and a 58.1 appeared by the direwolf's nape. Zalroth hopped off the direwolf before he returned his stone knives to his inventory. He raised a hand to the direwolf and patted its head before the direwolf bursted into dark red hexa particles.
"Woah... they took down a level thirty-four monster," Aoina stated emotionlessly as she and Kel-Ku watched from the bushes.
"Well, if you do the maths their combined levels are roughly around the same level as the direwolf... ... ... I think," Kel-Ku stated as she placed her fingers on the sides of her head and repeatedly did the calculations in her mind.
[Zalroth's Level Increased]
[15 -> 30]
[Ardentus' Level Increased]
[18 -> 22]
As Ardentus swiftly allocated his stat points, Zalroth stretched his arms and legs, all making clicking noises as he pushed them. He rose to his feet and, following in Ardentus' footsteps, began allocating his stat points despite regretting his failure to figure out the nature of his Class.
[Zalroth Akikou][Level: 30]
[HP: 250][Hexa: 150]
[Class: Creation Crest]
[Vitality: 25][Stamina: 5]
[Attack: 30][Hexa Attack: 2)]
[Defence: 30][intelligence: 15)]
[Agility: 20][Speed: 26]
[Avalible Points: 5]
[Ardentus Koihouza][Level: 22]
[HP: 100][Hexa: 100]
[Class: Condense]
[Vitality: 10][Stamina: 5]
[Attack: 22][Hexa Attack: 40]
[Defence: 22][intelligence: 10]
[Agility: 2][Speed: 2]
[Avalible Points: 5]