Soren awoke leisurely, taking his time this particular morning. He visited the bath house to clean himself, then stopped by for a real hearty breakfast; a basilisk egg. Cost a whole gold piece, the monster in question is dangerous so the egg was much more likely stolen as opposed to subjugated. After eating his fill he made his way to the guildhall with the head in tow. He walked from the front door of the guild to the receptionist's desk and plopped the head onto the presentation pad.
Standing behind the counter was Hilda, an animalistic hyena beast woman who readily greeted him, "Ah the newcomer, what did you bring us tod...ay.....Oh my, is that Clyde??
"Yes ma'am it is," replied Soren.
"He had a powerful class, how did you manage to kill him?"
"Yes he did, mainly luck I suppose."
"Either way, tis quite the feat, as promised 500 gp. Also it looks like you evolved, not sure into what but you look powerful"
"Yes, I sure did. Well good day."
I had better keep my evolutions to myself, the secrecy has proven fairly useful.
Soren smiled and thanked Hilda as he departed, having everything he already needed and being currently finished in the city, he decided to finally head south back to his home town. His whole life he'd had just been regarding the town as "the town" it wasn't until he saw the small village on the map did he realize it was called Pine Grove. It was a full week long journey on foot, however, he also wanted to stop by the guild and see how Onca was doing. He also had noticed a strange feeling boiling over inside of him. He's been eager for his revenge and for once he feels strong enough to accomplish it. The other thing he was excited about was his fifteenth birthday, when the gods would grant him a class, once someone obtains a class they grow stronger with each level, and if it was not for his system, there would have been no way for him to defeat some of the people he's fought who already had a class. He figured his birthday was only a couple days away, but stopped at the Twilight Dragon and was immediately greeted by Bruno, "Well look at you lad, who knew you'd evolve into such a big guy! I gotta thank you though, that alchemist you hired is amazing! This is definitely the start of a glorious comeback!"
"Whoa slow down, I'm glad she's fitting in, wait is she really that good," responded Soren.
"Since you brought her here I'll give you this one for free." Bruno tossed a small bottle of sapphire blue liquid as he continued, "Most of her potions have been flying off the shelves, we are almost ready to give this whole guild a renovation."
[Inspect]
Soren's eyes lite up and Bruno smirked, "There may only be a handful of people that can brew a potion of that high of quality in this region, she is a great find good job. Next time you come back I'll give you a recruiter bonus." Soren said his farewells to everyone in the guild and before he started making his way back to Pine Grove he stopped at the smithy's place.
"Hey welcome back! I've been waiting for you. Here's the weapon you had commissioned. Looks like you're much taller and are actually able to wield it properly," the smithy said.
"hehe yea thanks for your hard work the weapon looks amazing."
Soren grabbed a white lance that was perfectly balanced and much lighter than it ought to have been due to the lunar metal. It was no worse in quality than his midnight sword he found. After thanking the smithy Soren finally departed.
The first days of travel for Soren were extremely lackluster, there were no hard fought battles to be had, nor monsters to subjugate, only the monotonous thumping of Soren prodding along the road. He did some hunting for food and with a small fire slept outdoors under the star filled sky. The third day was a bit more interesting, he had to travel through a mountain pass to where his village just laid on the other side. Luckily it was the right time of the year for there to be no snow.
It'll take me two days to get through the mountain pass, then another day and a half to reach my village. I hope my little brother is ok, I have no idea how long its been since I've last seen him.
Soren had made it to the base of the mountain, the area was desolate. Usually, there are villages on either side of the pass due to mountains rich resources of herbs, game, and sometimes ore.
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Well, that's a bit strange, but I guess I have never been to this side of the pass before. Actually, I don't ever remember anyone from my village coming to this side before.
Soren unsure of what lies between here and his village, decided to tread carefully. As his journey continued through the pass he was taken away by the beauty of it all, lush greenery and wild flowers through the pass, even fauna and other grazing animals were unbothered by the invasion of man that they did not flee at the sight of him. Just as Soren was admiring the carefree nature of this pass {thud}{thud}{thud} percussion hit his ears, the fauna and other grazing animals jolted. Soren had put his hands to his ears and covered them to stifle the vibrations going through his head and putting his back against the cliff face just in time to see a gigantic eagle like monstrosity swoop down and snatch one of the larger fauna effortlessly carrying up the mountain.
What the fuck was that??! [Inspect]
Level: 1/100
Health 800
STR: 200
Dex 400
Def 100
INT: 50
Hard pass. I'm fairly confident that's the apex predator of these mountains.
Soren was now a lot more cautious about traversing this mountain pass, he would also need to find a place to camp for the night but was looking for a cave or cutout of the cliff face for protection. Traveling a little later into the night than he wanted to he finally found a small cave to make camp for the night. The cave was saturated in darkness, though due to his assassins vision abilitiy he had no trouble at all.
Maybe it is because I'm technically a monster right now, but when I was human I'd be much more scared of the dark.
Soren set himself up, found a patch of needles to sleep on and laid down, drowsiness overtaking him he drifted off into sleep. What seemed not long after, alarms were blaring off inside his head as he roused himself from sleep he had heard snarls and growls coming increasingly closer to where he lay. Straining his vision he saw a six foot tall furry ape like creature with exceedingly long arms with a club carrying a large elk enter the den.
Damn I must've come in here right after this thing went out hunting, Ill have to fight it, what is it? [Inspect]
Level: 15/25
Health: 300
STR: 100|
DEX: 65
DEF: 70
INT: 30
Soren waited till the bugbear was within ten feet from him, when he decided to strike, he pushed himself quickly to his feet while grabbing his midnight out of his spatial storage, [Haste Strike]
The creature was taken aback, he was not expecting such a quick and powerful attack. Having its instincts take over, it dropped the elk and sprinted out of the cave. Soren gave chase, he couldn't afford to have it come back after he slept, easily managing to catch up to it he finished it off by removing the creatures head.
I feel bad, till now I have only killed for survival but this time I feel like I killed the thing in cold blood.
Soren returned to the cave, laid down on the pine needles and lulled himself to sleep. The next day was incredibly arduous, even with his troll constitution he was getting tired climbing over this portion of the mountain, it was incredibly steep and while having to watch his footing was just taxing on him. After several hours he had finally made it to the summit of the pass which was still quite a ways from the summit of the mountain. He was officially on his downward trend towards his village, he would spend one more night in the mountains and one in the forest before coming back home.
I wonder how much time has passed. Should I chat with my little brother? Would he even recognize me? Would he even still love me after I left him? It can't be my fault really, I did die after all.
All these thoughts had gone through Soren's mind tormenting him. He felt guilty for only thinking of his baby brother now, now that he was within a couple days of seeing him again. He glanced up at the falling sun as he looked for ideal places to lay down for the night
Its my 15th birthday tomorrow, I finally become a man.
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Soren
Race: Trollkin Variant: Herculean
Level: 7/25
Health: 425/425
Str: 75
Dex:60
Def: 57
Int:45
Vitality:85
Charisma:60
Magic: 40
Luck:100
Bloodline: Royal
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Blessing:???????
skill points (SP) available:30, 25 shop currency (SC), free upgrade skill box x2, random skill box x1, random ability box x1, skill level up x2
abilities: [25% Magic Resistance-C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Poison Immunity-A] [Indomitable Will-B] [Iron Hide-c] [Assassins Vision-B] [Troll Libido-D] [Hydra Regeneration-S] [Trolls Musk-D] [Omnispecies Reproduction-F] [Magic Amp-A] [Mana Cost Reduction-B]
skills: [Swordsmanship lvl 3] [Polearm Mastery lvl 2] [Clawed Slash lvl 2] [Inspect lvl 3] [Unarmed Combat lvl 2] [Spike Bombardment lvl 3] [Concealment lvl 1] [Hunters Stride lvl 1] [Sonic Blast lvl 3] [Dash lvl 2] [Haste Strike lvl 2] [Sunder lvl 2]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+] [Shadow- A]
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Inventory
-Advanced Ice magic tome
-1100 gold pieces
-black blade sword (midnight)
-3 health potions
-2 mana potions