Soren dashed through the forest while not pausing for breaks, he was worried, it had taken him quite a while to find the midnight nerium. He could tell he was getting close but was concerned because the ear-shattering screams he had heard coming from the dryad were extremely weak now.
' [inspect]'
< Dryad: lvl 30/35>
"I've got the nerium what do I do with it?" Soren gasped as he came to a halt from his sprinting. "Fe..feed it to...me, " the dryad weakly replied.
Soren quickly ran over and shoved the nerium into the mouth of the dryad, watching as she chewed and swallowed the poisonous flower. A bright blinding light shone from the dryad as the tree she was attached to bulged out and attacked unexpectedly. Soren couldn't even see it coming due to the light and got clocked along the jaw
<-90 hp>
{Cough cough}, that hurt
Soren was squinting from the bright light still as his vision started to fade as he lost consciousness.
With blurry vision he opened his eyes to a beautiful woman with purple skin the same shade as the nerium as well as green hair that matched the flowers dots. Soren felt like he had to cover his nose from how poisonous that flower was.
The dryad smiled, "I cannot thank you enough for saving me. I'm Flora, sorry for not being able to introduce myself earlier. Here let me help you out a bit."
A viscous fluid started to ooze out of Flora which she began to massage into Soren's body. His aches and pains faded and could feel himself returning to normal.
Soren sat up and looked over his body finding it back to perfect function, "Thanks Flora I appreciate that, why was that guy trying to mutate you anyway?" [Inspect]
Flora scowled, "Humans always want, they are an insatiable bunch, I suppose they wanted to use me as some sort of weapon or maybe a ritual of some kind, I don't know. Doesn't matter cause not only did you kill the bastard you also stabilized my mutation, and am stronger now than I would have been. Now the only thing I now have to do is reward your kind efforts."
Hm lemme think
Flora, leaning over Soren who could not help but blush as he just realized the dryad was more naked than he was, bent down and gave Soren a passionate kiss.
Holy... rank A?
Flora smiled at Soren while having her eyes bob up and down. A dryad is a creature similar to a succubus, they drain the vitality of strong men and use it of their own nourishment. Flora explained, "I gave you an immunity to poison, as long as the poison used is not stronger than an A ranked creature you're immune to any negative effects. I was wondering if you'd be able look into the man that mutated me, if you can find out about them and perhaps stop them in the future from doing something like this ever again I'll grant you my boon."
Soren stood up feeling much better after being healed and looked over at the dead man lying on the ground and decided to rustle through his things. He had around 20 gold on him, which had pocketed, but he also had found a leather bound book. Wondering what it was he started to look through it and could not make heads or tails of it.
Hell yes! My first space/time magic spell and it doesn't cost me anything to use. I no longer have to carry the ore.
Both Soren and the book glowed as he gained the knowledge of the spell enabling him to use it without restraint. He then cut out the symbol that was on the back of the cloak of the human in order to reference the symbol later on. He then immediately stored the ore he acquired and with the quest decided to continue on his journey to Illyria.
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Soren decided it was time to leave and said his farewell, "Flora it was great meeting you! The next time I come by I will have more information about the man that tried to mutate you."
Flora saw him off as it'd be rude to not say goodbye to her benefactor, "Yes, thank you for your hard work I look forward to seeing you again. Feel free to come naked next time!"
Soren was still a 14 year old kid, well mostly, hearing that made him blush a deep shade of red. Nevertheless he waved goodbye with a smile, she did give him a great gift after all. He made his way to Illyria.
I've gotta avoid people or something, I am getting tired of this helper stuff. I do have things to do! Maybe it's not a bad thing I can get people to start paying me for my work.
Soren decided to spend the next few days really getting into depth with the reciprocate helper ability, he found out each of its limitations. For example, the task had to be somewhat important in the mind of the person he was helping, he couldn't ask them hurt others, but he could ask them to steal or request something and they would accomplish it to the best of their ability. The last limitation he discovered was the ability had a 24 hour time limit. If the task was unable to be accomplished within a 24 hour period the person no longer felt compelled to finish the task. After a few days of experimenting with different travelers, Soren was finally starting to get close to the city, he was able to hear the hustle and bustle nearby and from up in the trees slightly off the main roads started to see many groups of people traveling.
Soren wandered around the outskirts of the city looking for people in distress, he didn't have to enter the city as a poor beggar, the good deeds he had done during his experiments gave him enough capitol to rent an inn for more than a week. He meandered around until he had found a small lake a mile west of the large city. Since it was a warmer day he had no trouble finding people willing to beat the heat in the water. There were a few women and several men swimming in the water in nothing but their under garments. Soren waited nearby to see if he would be able to take advantage of any situations that may earn him some extra capitol. A woman screamed, "Ahhh! My mothers' necklace, where did it go?" A skinny man with a small scar on his upper arm replied, "DId come off while we've been swimming?" A big man who was trying to press the other's buttons, "Is it at the bottom of the lake?" The second girl who was on a date with the bigger man asked, "Can you swim down that far? Lets all try."
The people in the lake continually took turns looking for the necklace one of them found it but none were able to swim down that far in one breath. Soren smirked to himself as he dove into the water. Soren offering his help, ": I can help you get it one sec."
He then dove swimming fast, he was having no trouble holding his breath as he descended into the depth of the lake. After two minutes he resurfaced with the necklace in tow. "Here ya are miss," Soren smirked mischievously. The woman was beside herself, "Oh my goodness thank you! I hope there is a way I can repay your kindness!"
"Well, now that you mention it I am not from around here and I have had to rough it in the woods since my coin has been stolen, are you able to give me some coin?"
[Reciprocate Helper]
The woman nodded, she even went as far as pestering the rest of her group to chip in. Normally Soren may have only gotten one gold and change from the encounter but with everyone in their group chipping in it was around five gold in total which was a huge sum for Soren.
Huh? The system has a store? I will have to spend quite a bit of time going through it, lets make sure I have a private place to go through all the stuff first though.
Soren lounged against the trunk of tree sitting on a thick branch towards the top of a giant pine, he was going through his system store looking at everything they had for sale. It had spells, crafting recipes, ability and skill upgrades, languages, random skill and ability boxes separated out by rank, and abilities sorted by the race that created the ability. The store used gems as a currency and he discovered that he was able to make a one for one exchange with gold for gems or if he used his skill points or SP he was able to trade one of those for a hundred gems in his shop. The only thing he could currently afford that looked useful is the [Indomitable Will] ability that prevents mind altering effects from taking hold for all his gold and 4 skill points. He quickly purchased the ability then he allocated the additional attribute points he received by leveling up. Afterwards, he went back east to enter the city but was stopped at the gate by the guards, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Um... into the city?" replied Soren
"not uh we don't allow...whatever it is you are"
The second guard chimed in, "Yea just beat it before you spend the rest of your days either in the dungeon or I can end you right here."
"Are beastman not allowed in your city? I am a variant beastman, a fox variant which is why I have a human face."
"You must be hard o'hearing too get the hell out of here before I make you"
The two guards drew their blades as Soren just backed up and walked away fuming.
What the hell is there problem, I know I am a monster race but they don't know that
Then more trouble seemed to find it way to Soren and this time the trouble came from what he viewed as an ally.
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Soren
Race: Lesser Astrabi
Level: 4/15
Health: 95/95
Str: 26
Dex:27
Def: 26
Int:15
Vitality:20
Charisma:20
Magic: 30
Luck:100
Bloodline: Royal
Blessing:???????
attribute points(AP) available: 0, skill points (SP) available: 10, free upgrade skill box x1
abilities: [25% Magic Resistance- C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Iron Hide-B] [Poison Immunity- A] [Indomitable Will-B]
skills: [Swordsmanship lvl 1] [Polearm Mastery lvl 1] [Clawed Slash-lvl 1] [Spike Bombardment-lvl1]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+]
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INVENTORY
-cold iron ore
-lunar metal ore
-iron hide serpent skin