With the sun slowly creeping towards the distant horizon, all the other students were gathered before Zalroth, Chronia and Lurioku. Chronia raised her hand in the air and waved it to get everyone's attention.
"All in favour of Zalroth staying as the clan leader," Chronia said to her classmates.
"Aye!" the classmates unanimously announced, leaving Zalroth to frown in annoyance.
"Don't I get a say?" Zalroth grumbled to Chronia.
"Yeah of course you do, but it's a majority vote, so you know," Lurioku remarked cheekily. Zalroth groaned in frustration before he raised his head.
"All in favour of making these two the vice-clan leaders," Zalroth proclaimed sternly, making the short duo freeze in shock. The crowd of classmates muttered among themselves before raising their fists.
"Aye!". The short duo defeatedly slumped their heads while mumbling that they had that retaliation coming.
"Now... are you having me be the clan leader for convenience or some other reason?" Zalroth asked.
"It's probably both, you are already being assigned as the clan leader and from those rumours about you," Ardentus stated in a snarky way. Zalroth silently groaned before clicking his neck.
"Fine; but I'll want to check all of your statuses; so, I can organise everyone accordingly," Zalroth stated. The gathering of classmates muttered among themselves before the Nitoka twins turned to Zalroth.
"Is that necessary?" Nagami and Haruko asked in tandem.
(Nagami is a slightly short teenaged female; she has spikey elbow-low white-to-black gradient hair, grey eyes, and tanned skin)
(Haruko is a slightly short teenaged male; he has spikey shoulder-low black-to-white gradient hair, grey eyes, and tanned skin)
"Well, we wouldn't want people with no combat classes fighting monsters now do we," Zalroth stated rhetorically.
"We guess not," the twins said in tandem once again. The others eventually agreed Zalroth was right and gave him the go-ahead to check their status menus. Zalroth nodded and thanked them all for their cooperation.
[Activated Skill: Appraisal(Level: 2)x19]
[Aoina Nezakaia][Level: 5]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Miko]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 25] [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] [Chronia Hatsuno][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Invert]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Lurioku Zulioka][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Energy Control]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Saria Quotelvia][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Reverse]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Haruko Nitoka][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Lucullan Chef]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Nagami Nitoka][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Magnificent Blacksmith]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Kaigorou Yuzora][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Warper]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Kaiyōhara ''Reyu'' Mayonaka][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Monsoon Monarch]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Kaze Ultokaza][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Tempest Overlord]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Luna Soukodawn][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Spirit Enchanter]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Metsu Sakamoto][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Lord of Radiance and Shadows]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Nakamai Sakamoto][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Abyssal Devourer]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5]
[Neil Artozu][Level: 1]
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[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Deluxe Carpenter]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5]
[Nowa Ikozala][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Magma Sage]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5]
[Philip Algouse][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Potion Mixologist]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Phimona Nekoura][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Ornate Sewist]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5] [Yai Kiaria][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Monster Sovereign]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5]
[Yumi Yuna Kazokato][Level: 1]
[HP: 10][Hexa: 10]
[Class: Atomic Synergist]
[Vitality: 1][Stamina: 1]
[Attack: 1][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Avalible Points: 5]
Zalroth placed a hand on his chin and hummed as he pondered over what to do. He nodded before diverting his attention back to the others.
"Yumi, I take it you're able to turn plant fibres into threads using your skills?" Zalroth asked.
"I... maybe?" Yumi muttered.
(Yumi is a young-looking teen human female with the height and appearance mistakable for a kid; she has bold super curly light pink hair with knee-low twin tails, maroon red eyes with faintly pale pink scleras, and pale tanned skin)
"And, Phimona, I take it you'd be able to make tents, pillows, and other similar necessities with the threads Yumi will make?" Zalroth asked.
"I'm sure I'll be able to with a little practice," Phimona stated with a respectful tone.
(Phimona is a rather tall human female teen; she has braided dark blue hair styled into hoops, dark purple eyes, and dark skin)
"Alright, for now, everyone with none production-type classes go collect materials for the others, and as for the others I would like you to create basic necessities for the group based on your class," Zalroth instructed, the others agreed before dispersing to do as Zalroth requested.
"What should I do?" Kel-Ku asked as she poked Zalroth's leg. Zalroth placed his hands on his hips before nodding as he thought over Kel-Ku's words.
"Do you know of any nearby caves?" Zalroth asked. Kel-Ku nodded excitedly before her expression soured as she remembered something important about the cave.
"There is this cave full of grey and shiny grey metal... but there are a lot of strong monsters there," Kel-Ku explained.
"I see.".
"Woah!" someone exclaimed before a loud bang echoed through the air as a tree crashed on the ground. Zalroth and Kel-Ku glanced over to see a bewildered Neil frantically glancing between his common stone axe and the felled tree. Zalroth placed his hand on his chin before he looked around for Nagami.
"Nagami!" Zalroth called out, making Nagami glance over at him. Zalroth gestured for her to approach, and she quickly handed all her plant fibres to Aoina before sprinting over to Zalroth.
"Yeah?" Nagami said with a faint ticked-off tone in her voice.
"I'd like you to accompany me and Kel-Ku to a nearby cave," Zalroth explained. Nagami arched her head to the side and made a huh noise.
"Why...?"
"So, you'd know where to find it when we may need iron or silver in the future," Zalroth explained.
"Oh, that makes sense, a blacksmith should know where to acquire metal after all," Nagami remarked.
A few minutes later, Nagami followed behind Kel-Ku through the forest while Zalroth dashed next to the duo, briefly startling Nagami.
"Careful you almost gave me a-," Nagami said poutfully before noticing the stone pickaxe in Zalroth's hand, "Why do you have that?".
"You won't be able to mine anything without one," Zalroth said, only for Nagami to gasp from shock.
"You're going to make a delicate flower like me do it?" Nagami muttered before recalling Neil unintentionally felling a tree in one slash, "Oh.. never mind.".
Zalroth shrugged at Nagami's flip-flopping demeanour before he handed the common stone pickaxe to her as the group arrived at the cave's entrance. Zalroth inspected the cave before he opened his map and tapped it. Nagami flinched from a sudden ding in her head before she opened her own map to see two waypoints on the map, one labelled Iron/Silver Cave and one called Camp.
"Alright, let's head in," Zalroth instructed. Kel-Ku and Nagami nodded before they followed Zalroth into the cave.
As their eyes adjusted to the light levels, the group entered the entrance area of the cave and looked around at the iron and silver ore adorning every inch of the cave's walls. Nagami hurried over to a cluster of iron ore before lining up the tip of the pickaxe against the ore. She tapped the pickaxe against the iron ore, followed by the ore bursting into grey Hexa particles as a smaller chunk of iron ore plonked itself on the ground. Nagami crouched down and picked up the iron or chunk.
[Activated Skill: Inspect(Material)]
[Iron Ore(Mid-Quality)]
[Activated Skill: Detect(Material)]
"Wonder if this is good or not," Nagami pondered aloud. She stored the mid-quality iron ore in her inventory before resuming her mining. For a brief moment, Zalroth watched Nagami before turning his vision further into the cave as a ding rang in his head. Raising his hand and donning his uncommon stone knife, Zalroth informed the others to return to the Camp once Nagami collected fifty of each ore.
"Why's tha...," Nagami managed to say before turning her head to see the horde of hobgoblins(basically goblins but with adult human proportions and darker green skin) and her along with Kel-Ku's expressions turned rigid at seeing the monster's levels.
[Hobgoblin Warrior][Level: 47]
[HP: 450][Hexa: 10]
[Vitality: 45][Stamina: 19]
[Attack: 80][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 90][intelligence: 1]
[Agility: 1][Speed: 1]
[Hobgoblin Mage][Level: 49]
[HP: 100][Hexa: 450]
[Vitality: 10][Stamina: 30]
[Attack: 140][Hexa Attack: 1]
[Defence: 1][intelligence: 45]
[Agility: 20][Speed: 1]
Zalroth glared at the three hobgoblin mages and twenty hobgoblins soldiers, watching each of their movements and the hobgoblins doing the same in turn. He pulled his empty hand back, making the hobgoblins brace themselves, before swinging it upwards and hurling a bundle of common stone knives straight into the air. The hobgoblins instinctually followed the knife bundle with their eyes and the hobgoblin mages aimed their trinket-adorned wooden staffs at the knife bundle.
[Activated Ability: Weakening Howl]
[Activated Skill: Accel Drive(Level: 2) x3]
[Activated Ability: [Hidden By User] x3]
Will the hobgoblins were preoccupied with the knife bundle, Zalroth dashed behind the hobgoblin mages at blinding speed before delivering three decisive slashes to each of the hobgoblins' napes. As their HPs dropped to zero, the hobgoblin mages slammed to the ground before bursting into hexa particles corresponding to their robe colour. The warrior hobgoblins swung around before angrily charging at Zalroth.
[Activated Unique Ability: [Hidden By User] x3]
[Gale Blade(Level: 1)]
[Thunder Wave(Level: 1)]
[Frostbite Armament(Level: 1)]
A sinisterly smug grin formed on Zalroth's face as he saw his three new skills. A stone battle axe-wielding hobgoblin warrior raised its axe to Zalroth and swung it at him.
[Activated Skill: Frostbite Armament(Level: 1)]
The axe's blade slammed into Zalroth's arm as he raised it and a crystalline cracking noise chimed through the cave. A digital red 0 appeared beside Zalroth's arm as the transparent condensed ice coating his arm cracked slightly.
"Heh, looks like I'm the impervious one here," Zalroth remarked condescendingly before his grin returned to his neutral frown. Zalroth backhanded the battle axe away before vaulting over the hobgoblin warrior and slashing its nape with two level-two Accel Drive and Frostbite Armament-enhanced knife slashes. The struck hobgoblin warrior went limp and bursted into dark green hexa particles as two bold red numbers with bold cyan borders. The other hobgoblins jumped back from Zalroth as everyone watched the dark green hexa particles float up from the ground. The hobgoblins glared down at Zalroth and manically screamed at him before simultaneously swarming him. He smirked before he turned on his heel.
[Activated Skill: Accel Drive]
Zalroth blasted off further into the cave and the hobgoblins rushed after him, leaving Nagami and Kel-Ku perplexedly watching the hobgoblins disappear further into the cave. Nagami blinked in utter shock a few times before returning to the ore.
"I'm going to... go get Chronia," Nagami muttered worriedly. She stored the common stone pickaxe in her inventory before she and Kel-Ku hurried out of the cave.