[Daredevil]
“Your recklessness will take you places, but no one knows what those places will be.”
Your thinking becomes faster in dangerous situations.
Your heart can’t be shaken easily. +10 Mental.
Whenever something reckless or dangerous is done, +10 Mental
[Stat Acquired]
Mental
[Mental]
This stat defines your mental fortitude. It makes you stay calm in dangerous or unexpected situations.
Resist mind-controlling skills.
[Assassin]
“Target eliminated, on to the next one.”
When making a sneak attack, 10% chance of instantly killing the target.
(Won’t work if there is too much of a stat difference.)
You can see your opponent's weakness. +10 Critical.
Whenever you kill your opponent by hitting a critical point, +10 Critical.
[Stat Acquired]
Critical
[Critical]
Makes you able to see the opponent's weak points. The higher the stat, the easier it is to see the weak points.
My eyes were wide open after reading both descriptions. I got two new stats just like that and they could even grow on their own. Why call them titles when they look more like skills?
How do titles work here anyway, I know that they are something you are known by other than your name in games and stuff. But that is not the case here, they are much more involved with my growth in this world.
I open the status page and try to click on the [Title] option but it did nothing. I wanted to check if any description would pop up but oh well.
While looking at the title option I think to myself ‘ I wish I could use appraisal on [Title]’.
While sighing I was about to check my other loot when a screen pops in front of me.
[Title]
They are given to worthy people who performed incredible feats and impressed the World's Will. The Worlds Will passes a bit of its power to you and while studying your knowledge of things, grants you a title worthy of the feat performed.
“ So that's how it works”, I say in understanding.
Still, there were a lot of weird things with this situation here. Killing the lizard I understand, but what about eating the eggs?
‘How is that considered an incredible feat?'
Then there is the problem that how frequently I am getting them. Seeing how strong the titles are, I am sure that for the creatures of this world, it would be a great thing to get even one title but I got 3 already and they were no joke.
After thinking for a few minutes, I concluded that there was no way for me to find out how I am getting them. So if the World's will wants to give me free stuff, I’ll gladly accept its gifts.
As it had gotten very dark, I decided to move into the obsidian tree. It will be my home base from now on. There are many uses for this tree too and most of all it's in a very safe place. Big things can’t come here and small things I can most probably handle. There are a lot of things left to check but I am too tired to do anything right now.
I go to the nest and lay on some green leaves. These must be from those green trees outside. The weird thing about them was that they felt more like leather rather than leaves. I was tempted to appraise them but decided not to and closed my eyes.
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I open my eyes to notice that the sun was already high up in the sky. I stretch my hands while yawning and get out of the tree. I was thirsty but had no water to drink or wash my face. ‘I need to explore this place for water’ I think to myself.
I open the inventory to check what I got from the lizard that I killed yesterday.
[Inventory]
Obsidian Spike
Iron Scales = 560
Lizard Eyes = 2
Lizard Blood = 24 liters
Lizard Meat = 68 pieces
Lizard Bone = 149
Lizard Claw = 6
Lizard Heart
There was quite a lot of stuff that I got but had no idea how to use it. For now, I’ll keep everything in my inventory and maybe something comes into use in the future.
I take out a piece of meat, since I was hungry, and start wondering how to eat it. At first, I thought 'I can’t do it raw' but then I remembered what devourer did with the eggs.
As I bite into the meat, devourer activated and I got that same creepy feeling in my body.
[Stats Acquired]
Strength +30 Intelligence +6
I never noticed how devour worked when I was eating the eggs but now, I could clearly feel how it worked.
The thing about this skill was that I didn’t need to chew much. In just three to four bites, the meat was gone.
When I bite into the meat, a big chunk gets sucked in me and a little bit is left for me to chew. Also, the taste is different than I imagined it would be. I did not get disgusted by the blood, the raw meat, or the smell. To be honest, It was just like lamb meat.
I open the skills from the menu to check if I miss read its description because there was no mention of changing the taste or sucking things.
[Skills]
Active:
[Metal Scales]
Lvl 1
XP: 0%
[Metal Claw]
Lvl 1
XP: 0%
[Metal Bite]
Lvl 1
XP: 0%
[Metal Handler]
Lvl 1
XP: 55%
[Appraisal]
Lvl 1
XP: 78%
[Dismantle]
[Max level]
Camouflage:
Lvl 1
XP: 20%
Passive:
[Endurance]
[Map]
Specials:
[Devour]
To devour is to swallow ravenously or to consume destructively.
To take in greedily and absorb everything they have to offer.
There is nothing I can’t eat.
Effect:
You can eat anything you wish to eat.
A random amount of stats and skills shall be taken from the things eaten.
Lvl :1
Skill XP: 45%
Back
I was about to check devours description when I notice that many of the skill's XP percent were high. They were all the skills I used against the Lizard and the ones I didn't use were still at zero.
'So the more I use the skills the faster they will level', I think to myself.
I read Devour's description and see no mention of taste changing in there. But there was one point that I am seeing in a new light now.
"You can eat anything you wish to eat".
‘Does this literally mean that I can eat anything and not just edible things?'
I was thinking that this skill would allow me to eat any dangerous things, like poisonous plants, and other stuff. I was not expecting it to make me eat things like metal and wood.
To test whether I could really eat anything, I take out a metal scale from my inventory and hesitantly put it in my mouth. I try and bite into it lightly and just like the meat, half of it was adsorbed and the rest was softening up for me to chew.
[Skill Acquired]
[Metal Healing]
Metal Healing
Absorb metal to heal. Better the quality, the better and faster the healing.
“This is amazing,” I say with a happy smile. I got a skill and it proved that I can really eat anything I want. Finding this I wanted to test out what else I could eat. I take out another scale and shape it into a bowl. I take a little bit of the Lizard blood out of the inventory.
I had no idea how the blood was stored in a liquid state there. It was falling out of the blue screen like a small waterfall. When the bowl was half-filled, I stop pouring and drink the blood. And the same thing happened. There was no blood-like taste and it was like I was drinking some kind of juice. It tasted like tomato juice.
I went into the inventory looking for anything else I could try and eat when my eyes fell on the black spike.
I gulp and question myself “ I can eat that too right?”.
I take out the spike and exciting bite on it. I had no fear even when it was called the hardest metal because I knew it would be devoured. And just like everything else, I ate it but the weird thing was that nothing happened.
‘ maybe a bigger bite would work’ thinking that I bite it again.
“huh is nothing going to happen-” before I could complete my sentence, my heart went crazy.
*thumb* *thumb* *thumb*
It was beating like never before and my body started to hurt like hell.
“f*ck f*ck f*ck it HUUUURTS!!!” Shouting that I fell to the ground and my vision went dark.
Somewhere far away from the forest
A beautiful woman was lying sideways on a big bed with her head resting on her hand. The woman had a bored expression on her otherworldly face while her sea-green eyes, which matched her hair, were observing a big screen. She would shift her sinful curvaceous body, which would make most sensible men into beasts, left and right trying to find a comfortable position. She was looking at the screen trying to find something that could take her boredom away.
As she waved her hand to change the scenery on the screen, she felt like something had come into this world. She felt a little curious and started changing the screen faster. After a few minutes, a man came in front of the screen. He was not a handsome man but when the woman saw him, her eyes opened wide.
After that, she started observing him and her bored expression went away. She would laugh and giggle at him from time to time. Finally, when he killed the lizard, the woman opened her eyes wide in surprise.
“I see you sent a funny fellow here, my friend,” she said with a small smile.
“I don’t know what made you choose him but it is very interesting to watch him, so the least I can do for this entertainment is provide him some help”.