It's been three weeks since I realised that I was on my own. I tried my hardest to survive and my stats increased a ton. It's still not enough to fight off the goblin but, I'll be able to beat it soon. I've spent this time going out and doing the usual. I found l more worms and took them back to the nest and ate them there. The worms were not as heavy as they were before because I was getting strong so I started doing more exercises and looked for a weak monster to kill.
I also gained two new skills one that I've been thinking about for the past 3 weeks. I even levelled up twice! Night Vision Lv.1 was the first and the other one was confusing.「Determination Lv.1」
The skill「Determination Lv.1」gives the user a 2% stat boost as long as they have the determination to do something. This skill levels up based on the progress to your goal.
So I get a stat boost when I'm determined? But why did I get this skill? Let me check my stats.
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Name: Kaori Hiraoka
Age: 17
Level: 3
Race: Human
Strength: 31.62
Vitality: 24.48
Agility: 26.52
Magic: 16.32
HP: 35/35
MP: 53/53
Skills:
「Learning」「Language Understanding」「Growth」「Night Vision Lv.2」「Thought Process Lv.1」 「Determination Lv.1」
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My stats are basically the same but if I level up determination it will start to help me.
I walked around again today looking for a reasonable monster to fight and found a small orc. I Inspected it.
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Name: None
Age: 2
Level: 5
Race: Orc
Strength: 30
Vitality: 16
Agility: 29
Magic: 1
HP: 60/60
MP: 10/10
Skills:
「Stone Body Lv.2」「Night Vision Lv.4」
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Perfect! This was a monster I could take on! It would be the perfect opponent for me. I also had the upper hand because I could surprise it. I looked around for a weapon and realised I never had a weapon. I should make one later. I need to focus on a way to kill this Orc. I walked around and thought of the perfect plan. There was a small hole near the nest that I could lure the Orc in if it followed me. But I need to lower its health first so that it can't run away.
I threw a small stone at the orc and it didn't hurt him at all. The Orc just got up and looked my way and ran towards me. It was very slow. I had to run at a slow pace before it could catch up to me. I avoided the hole and the Orc fell in. It tried to climb out but I punched it back down. Oww! Is its skin really made of stone?
I looked down at the monster and it was very scared. The reason it was scared was because I had a torch. It knew the fire was dangerous but it most likely did not know what I was going to do with it. I was going to suffocate him. The fire would not be enough to kill the orc so I'm going to cover the hole up with a big rock that I found so that the orc runs out of oxygen. I threw the torch in and got the rock and covered the hole. I waited about a minute and opened back up the hole.
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The orc was still alive but its HP was now 5/60. Wow, this method is very effective against these small orcs. I looked for anything to kill the orc and there was nothing. I decided I needed to kill it with my own hands. I stayed at the stop and reached down the hole and punched the orc and it lost 1 health. I did it four more times before the orc died.
When I killed the orc I got a notification.
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Achievement - First Kill
Kill your first monster.
This custom achievement was gained by「Growth」and「Learning」working together.
Custom Effects: None
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Then another one.
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You have levelled up to Lv.4
All basic attributes have been levels up
「Night Vision」has levelled up to Lv.3
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This is good if I do this every day my stats will increase like crazy. I start thinking about how I got here. Why am I the one who is doing all of this? It really scares me how I got help out of nowhere. Is that person we met actually a Goddess? Everything was jumbled up in my head as I walked back to the nest. When I reached the nest I was seen by an orc inside of the nest with its mouth on the egg.
I backed up away from the nest and Inspected the orc.
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Name: William
Age: 5
Level: 9
Race: Orc
Strength: 45
Vitality: 20
Agility: 30
Magic: 16
HP: 83/83
MP: 21/21
Skills:
「Stone Body Lv.4」「Night Vision Lv.7」「Humanity Lv.9」「Mapping Lv.5」
「Human Language Lv.3」「Telepathy Lv.1」
Tittles
「Orc Lord Kin」
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This orc seemed strange. It could understand human language and act like a human? What does Mapping do? I wanted to approach the orc but I didn’t know. The orc stopped biting the egg and looked my way. Eh? Is it looking at me? How I'm hidden behind a wall! I stopped and waited then the orc got up and walked towards me.
I stepped back and tripped on a rock as I fell to the ground. I was scared. No, not again! I need to calm down now. I breathed in and out slowly but the orc was now right in front of me. It was just looking at me. I got up and moved passed it to the nest but the orc said something. “Who are you? Why are you in this dungeon?”
“Who are you?! T--this is my nest.”
“Hmm, well I was looking for food and found this egg but, it's too hard. I spotted you with one of my skills. I thought you were a monster! I would have eaten you. Oh, my name is William. What's yours?”
I was still scared but, I might get good information from this guy so I’ll talk to him. I answered him with, “My name? It's Kaori Hiraoka I’m in this dungeon for some reasons.” I didn't want to disclose any of the information just yet.
“You seem anti-social are you maybe scared?”
“No. But, how can you talk if you're an orc? And you're not trying to savagely eat me right now. What are you?”
“Well, it seems like I can trust you so I guess I’ll tell you my story if you promise to tell me why you're here deal?”
This orc seems weird but I need the clues. I’ll agree to his demands for now. “D--deal.” He told me his story while we were in the nest together I was on edge the whole time because I didn’t know whether he would attack me or not. He never did.
His story went something like this. He was born in this dungeon but was originally on floor 56. The monsters there were very strong and he was a direct descendant of the Orc Lord. Which I had already known from his titles. He went on to talk about the horrible treatment that all of the Orc Lord’s kin got. For days he would make then work and if they stopped they could be beat up or even worse be killed. William always worked with all his might and was only ever beat up once. He then tried to run away after that time and he got caught. He knew he was going to be killed but was saved by a mysterious person that could easily defeat the orc lord. The person he met did not defeat the orc lord but when he felt his Aura himself and everyone, including the orc lord, fell to the floor.
“This mysterious person said that they would save me and give me a name. The name I got was William and it gave me all of these skills. The only thing I had to do was go to the 46th floor until I met a person and I thought it didn’t make sense at first. But, now I found you. My goal is to get to the top of this dungeon and find the one who helped me and say thank you. They gave me a new life and I won’t waste it.”
His story was very sad. It seemed like one of those stories in a novel but it was nonetheless sad. Maybe I should travel with him? We can reach the top together. I also wondered who the person who helped him was. Had they known I would be down here? Everything was confusing me so I decided to just travel with William. “William, I’ll go with you. I was planning on going to the top of the dungeon and get out of here anyway. We can just go together.”
“Really! I’ve always wanted a companion. But now I just want to sleep. Can we sleep first and start the expedition to the top of the dungeon later?”
“That’s fine. I want us to stay here for a while so that I can get a bit stronger. Maybe you can train me?”
“Me? I’ve never really trained anyone before but I can try. For now, let's get some sleep.”
We decided on going one year from now because I needed to get stronger and wait for the egg to hatch. William wanted to stock up on materials too. Throughout all of this, my Thought Process skill levelled up to Lv.2. This is good I have an ally!
We decided to go to sleep. I knew that William told me his story but I don’t know if he I can trust him fully yet. I slept a bit away from him and put the egg in between us. Good night world.