It's been a week since my [Craft] leveled up.
I have been absorbed in making all kinds of stuff for the past week. The recipes I got from my [Craftsmen] class and the [Craft] level up, ranged from things like tables and chairs to huts and houses. There were a lot of recipes so I could not check them all. On the other hand, the good thing was that the recipes were divided into different categories automatically. Now I just have to go to a category and check if I have the recipe to make that thing or not.
My living standards also improved compared to before. I stopped living in the tree nest and made a big hut for myself. It was a box-shaped hut made of obsidian with an entrance and five windows, two of which were on both sides of the entrance and the other three were on each of the other walls. Inside the hut, I had a chair, tables, and a bed. The bed was made by putting foam fruits in the brutal bark, which soften up over three days.
It was a risky idea because of the sleeping gas-like smell that the fruit produced when it broke its outer shell. But the description said that the fruit rarely did that so it should be alright. The table and chair were made when I was testing my newly gained crafting skills and I found out that now I could fail at making stuff. I could not always craft the recipes like before and might fail at times. There was no more auto-craft and I needed to focus on what I was crafting to make a successful product.
During the day, I was crafting, and at night time, since I could not see anything and auto-craft was gone, I either did some exercise, like push-ups and squats, to see my body’s limit or checked my theory that if I practiced boxing, would I get the boxer class. I got a class after three nights of practice, but it was not a boxer.
[Class Acquired]
[Brawler]
“No need for weapons, my hands are lethal enough”
Hand to Hand combat knowledge gained.
Dexterity +40% when unarmed or have gauntlets equipped.
I don't know why I got this when I was trying for boxing but it is good enough for now. Maybe I did something wrong so further testing was required.
On the fourth day, fed up with living like a blind person at night, I decided to explore the forest and look for light or something that glowed. I am sure that if there are foam and leather trees, there definitely will be something that shines in the dark. That day and the two days after that, I crafted all the stuff that would help me in the exploring.
I woke up early today and was ready to explore. I needed to wake up early because I only had daytime to explore, as when it got dark, and I was not in my base, things could go bad. If something came at me in the dark, I wouldn’t be able to defend myself from things I can’t see.
I was wearing a black shirt with black pants, half-finger gloves, a bag-pack, green shoes, and some light armor for my chest, arms, and legs. The shirt and pants were made with the Hard Obsidian thread. The good thing about this clothing was that it provided a good defense while feeling comfortable and flexible. The gloves were made of regular black thread and were there for a better grip. The underwear was made with brotal bark and was quite pleasant to wear. My shoes were crafted with green leather for the top, the bark of the foam fruit tree for the insole, and obsidian for the outsole. The foam tree bark provided a comfy feeling for my feet. In contrast, the outer obsidian sole, which I turned into a rubbery material using metal handling, provided a firm grip on the ground.
Now if I were to ask someone to guess what looked the most out of place in this outfit and they say ‘the green shoes’ they would be wrong.
The most out-of-place thing here was the bag pack. Why wear a bag-pack when you have inventory with infinite space.
Well, the bag serves a very important purpose. This bag will help me imitate the greatest adventurer that was ever made back in my old world. She was a born explorer, always eager for the next adventure, and never backed out of danger. When I was a kid in the orphanage, she was the person who made me interested in adventure and fantasy. She even taught me some Spanish words too.
Yes, I am talking about Dora. Dora the explorer.
I'll be going around talking and asking for suggestions just like she did. Well, the real reason I am doing this is that I need someone to talk to. It has been more than a week since I had proper conservation and I feel kind of lonely. “ I wish Selena was here,” I say with a lonely look and get ready to leave.
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“Let's check my bag one last time and then we are good to go,” I say out loud while feeling weird talking to myself.
I opened my bag and checked if everything was inside. In my bag, I put an empty metal water bottle, a clean pair of shirts and pants, a rope, and three sleeping bombs. I made the bombs by creating a metal ball, putting 3 to 4 foamy flowers in it, and then sealed the metal ball shut. Then I made the ball smaller to compress the gas inside. Now the way I think it's going to work: when I am about to throw the ball, I make a small hole for the gas inside the ball to rush out. Since the gas is compressed inside the ball and the flowers contentiously generate it, it will come out faster from the opening and quickly spread in the area. I don’t know if it will work, but it sounds reasonable.
“OK, everything is in order now let's get going”, I say and start walking in between the trees until I am finally out of all the brotal trees. I look left and right, take a deep breath and start walking straight.
While walking, I started to talk to myself.
“I need to find anything that glows and take it back,” I say while putting a finger up like I am counting on them. “ Then I need to look for water and some creature meat. Hopefully, one of that creatures has a night vision-like skill,” I say while putting another finger up. “ then the last thing I need to do is to search for people”, I say while putting my hand down. I turn to the left and say, "Now repeat all the things I mentioned I need”.
“Yes, you stupid, who else is here but you”, I say to the air as if I am talking to someone.
Yes, I looked dumb but there was no one here to judge and I just needed to talk.
After waiting for a while I say “Good you remembered everything, now your job is to keep lookout”.
“If you see anything out of the ordinary just warn me OK?” I say and resume my walking.
As I was looking around I saw many of those leather trees. They could be found every 6 to 7 steps. There were brotal and foam trees also but they were not that frequent. I took the fruit and flowers from the foam trees and left the brotal bark because it takes a bit of time to get the bark off the trees.
I would also gather weird plants and herbs without using appraisal since I was short on time. I needed to hurry up and get some light.
I was walking towards another plant to collect it when I noticed a big black thing approaching me. I smile, already knowing what it was, turn and ask the air, “is there something wrong?”
I wait for a little and ask, “ something is coming towards me?”
I look left and right and ask the air as if confused, “ where?”
“it's coming from behind,” I say and look back to see the thing coming from far.
With an ‘oh my’ look I say, “You were right! It's the big f*cker who gave me a surprise welcome when I first arrived here.”
Acting like I was panicking I ask “Quick! Tell me something I can use from my bag!”
I open and show my bag to nothing, then wait as if someone is choosing something for me.
“Your right. I should use that”, I say and put my hand in the bag as if I were taking something from it. Then I take my hand out, and I have some gauntlets in my hands that were not even in the bag. I made these as a test when I got the brawler class and wanted to use them now.
I put the gauntlets on and get into a natural fighting stance.
Then I say, “Now tell me what do you say when someone comes to you to steal your stuff”
As the beetle was getting close, I start to calculate when to start my punch.
When it was close enough I said “That’s right, we say No….f*cking….”.
The beetle gets closer for my punch to reach it, then I put my right leg a little out and Spin the foot so that my heel was off the ground, turn my hips as I throw a straight with my full force. All of this was done in one motion and was too fast for the normal eye.
“..Swiping” as I finish the sentence, my fist connects with the beetle.
*Baaaang*
The fist had so much power that the beetle exploded when my fist collided with it making all its blood and organs painting the area green. None of the blood got on me because of the force and pressures my punch carried. All the blood and organs went in the opposite direction to mine.
“hahaha pay pack for making me run so much b*tch,” I say while laughing happily.
I was relaxed from the start knowing that the beetle was weaker than the lizard since it could not even bend the brotal trees but this was kind of overkill even for revenge. I move away from the beetle mess, since I had no plan to eat its meat, and start exploring a new area.
I was tired from imitating Dora because it was getting boring when I knew no one was answering.
Still, there was no sign of any glowing things and it was getting dark. I sigh and start making my way back to the base.
As I was walking I saw something that made me trip fall face-first on the ground. If I was not seeing things due to my loneliness, then what I saw was definitely a women’s head.
I pick myself up and go in that direction to see that it was indeed a woman. Her back was turned towards me and some bushes were covering her lower half but with long silky hair like that, she was a woman.
I go near her and call to her with my best smile, “ Hey there miss”.
Ok, let's just say that I was not a lady's man back in my world so my approaching her was already unknown territory.
She turns towards me and the first things my eyes go to are her two watermelon size breasts. They were in complete view as the woman was not wearing a top.
She sees me and frowns while coming toward me. Covering my eyes with a hand while peeing a little in-between the fingers, I say in panic, “Woah! sorry, didn’t know you were changing, so it was not intentio-” as I was speaking, I notice a snake-like tail wrapped around my waist.
“Wha-” before I could say anything, I was pulled and tossed with an insane amount of force towards a leather tree. I went through the tree with such force that blood came to my mouth.
I look at her again as she walks or rather slithers out of the bushes to see that the tail was a part of her body.
She was part human and part snake.