"Aaaaaaaaahhh.....this wasn't supposed to happen!!!!!!"Said Dale while running like the Flash.(Author: Just kidding. Just imagine people running during a stampede.) Returning to reality, Dale is now running while dodging a flurry of arrows thrown by a somewhat disfigured green fellow.
How does this happen you ask??
*4 hours before*
" 'Yawn' now that I'm full, let revisit those mana thingies. If what Sven said is true, maybe I could use cultivate it and increase my body's durability." Dale pondered about this new information for a while. Although Dale is average as much as the next guy his knowledge as an otaku benefited him greatly.
"Alright, let do it like this. Let's not assume that mana is like means for a spell instead we assume it as pure energy. If my body can become like a sturdy reactor, I could generate high amount of energy. Well, no time like the present." Dale confidently tries to absorb the mana from his surrounding by focusing his senses and redirect it throughout his body. Suddenly, light shone brightly from his body.
"Wait, wha...???? Where is this place???" Dale shocked to find he is not at his comfy apartment anymore. Instead he is some sort of underground place. This place that reeks of old man's shoes and rancid looking making Dale the introvert fall on his knees and started vomiting. His daily bullying menu does not include smelling and touching poop. Basically the place is like after diarrhea, disgustingly long and it has splatter like goo sticking everywhere.
"Haahahaahahha......This gotta be a dream. I just fainted after trying my theory is all." Dale tries to escape from a reality using his powerful almighty skill Ultimate Rejection. Unfortunately, when Dale was using his ultimate skill, he forgot to turn off the area of effect of the skill. A green person-like heard the chanting of Dale's skill "This is not real" nearby and moved towards the voice. When it almost about 100 meters, Dale noticed it.
"$%#%$#^$" Said the creature while preparing to throw its spear. This creature is around 5 foot tall wearing leather armor and quiver full of spears. Yeah, green, ugly and can chuck spears at you.
*Present time*
"Huff, huff, I gotta do something about that fella." Dale tries to shake his tail by running more faster than he ever did before. After the green guy chucks his last spear, he stops to catch his breath. Then Dale stops and grab the spear that was gifted from that green guy.
"Aaaaaagghhh" The green guy screamed in anger. Dale decided to end that sucker's life before it call any more of its brethren. Slowly, Dale sucked the air to throw the spear towards the green guy. Take aim, focus and throw. The spear went straight to the green guy's head.
*Thud* falls
Luckily, when Dale is taking aim the green guy is still enraged that Dale grabs on of his spears. If he is moving towards Dale while Dale is aiming, Dale is dead meat. Dale shuddered at the possibility of him dying. The green guy falls and blue blood flows from the place of the puncture. Basically, the green guy got pierced at his headshot. (Pwnd)
"Wow, that hideous thing is a kobold?? This other world creatures really beyond imagine. Maybe next, there's a shadow minion or something lurking at the corner." Dale salvaged the equipment from his dear departed friend Greenie and take the coins for just in case situation. Furthermore, after the howling from the Kobold, Dale opted to move far away from that place as soon possible.
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"Yeah, although it smells like someone smeared poop at this equipment, everything is in tip top shape." Dale inspects the loot taken safe away from prying eyes. After gathering his mind, tears started flowing from his eyes.
"Sniff x2, I have now killed. This new world really sucks. Sniff, Why didn't they just disappear when we kill them like in the game???" Dale cries silently after he realized what he have done. Maybe that Kobold just a monster but Dale uphold a simple creed. Every life is sacred. Maybe in game when the player kill a monster, it will just disappear not in real life. The body laid there lifeless, and cold like the embrace of death.
But Dale know the rules of the world are now changed, it's killed or be killed. Only by being strong can he protect his creed. While Dale is wallowing in self pity, a deafening howl was heard from the direction of the Kobold's corpse.
"Crap, they found the body. Gotta move or else I'll have another fit." Dale quickly get his things and started moving faster towards the other side of the howl. While Dale was moving he was assimilating mana into his skin. Dale hypothesize that he needs better understanding of his body to prevent the incident at apartment from happening again.
Only one thing Dale didn't foresaw, how painful it is. Imagine, what would you feel when your skin pricked by a needle. Not that painful right, but amplify that pain by 10 fold you feel like your skin poked by a sharp knife. Yeah, imagine that pain coursing on your every surface of the skin. Yep, very painful.
Although, the pain was, well painful it was not to knock Dale out because his won't let him. He has a passive skill called Ultimate Consciousness that prevent him from fainting while mumbling 'I don't wanna die' all throughout the process. After an arduous 3 hours journey, finally the pain lessens Dale find a wall to lean to. This day is not going on his way. Mentally and physically exhausted not to mention his grumbling stomach does not seem to help.
*Ding*
Tough Skin Basic Level 1
The skin becomes comparably tougher and can sustain more damage.
"Wow, *wheeze* just my flesh, blood, and bones left huh. I'll probably abstain from doing this for a while and start grinding this skill and magic for now. " Dale plopped at the wall to rest for a while. After, 1 hour of resting, Dale stands up in search of his own redemption in this urine infested underground, food.
"Hahaha, maybe I'll find some sandwich lying in this hellhole." Dale reassures himself there is a sandwich waiting for him while walking around finding food.
*Meanwhile*
Two kobolds standing on our friend's Greenie corpse, angry looking.
"Orgg, died, naked"????
"Find, kill, meat"???
This day is not going Dale's way definitely.