There is no complex thought, no emotion, just bodily desire.
Food, violence, entertainment, greed, lust. No thought, only desire and an empty vessel looking to be filled with pleasure. Was this really what Bug used to be like before she gained the System. Would she have ended up like these disgusting things? Reduced to a mindless creature fucking like an animal in some room until the humans came by to kill them all and put them out of their collective misery!?
Bug’s grip on the sword increases as rage fills her.
I swear I am going to make the Dungeon suffer for this! For reducing my people to… to this!
Jumping down from the boulder, Bug walks forward and with one swing removes the head from the first creature she reaches.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
The rest stop and freeze as they watch the body fall. Wait, could she actually be a threat to them?
They panic. Some turn and run while some charge at Bug. Just like the last time.
Bug moves forward and removes another head, her Strength and Dexterity making their weak necks hardly an obstacle. Pointing to the ones that are fleeing, Bug hits each one with a single point’s worth of Inflict Pain. They drop screaming right after the one before her falls dead.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
Raising her sword above her head, the blade being almost as long as she is tall - practically a claymore in her hands – Bug brings it down on the head of the next mob. Her strength, despite being her weakest stat currently, proves to too be too much against such a weak enemy as her blade bisects its body. It continues to move forward for half a step before falling to two sides, a sickening mess being made on the floor as the contents of its body gets spilled on to the floor.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
The final one that chose to fight sees this and turns. Running for the door, he meets the same fate as the others when he gets hit with Inflict Pain.
The other three are still spasming on the ground as he falls. Bug walks over, taking care to walk around the mess that she just made.
Standing over them, she stabs each one, quickly putting them out of their misery and ending their pitiful lives.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
…
Bug looks over the room full of corpses and sighs. She is still angry, but she doesn’t have anything left to take it out on. At the same time though, she doesn’t want to be unnecessarily cruel to the mobs… She considers killing them to be a mercy by this point.
//Exp – 48/80
//Time 23:09
“Not much longer until the doors open… I’ll try to get one more level before the humans start coming in for the day.”
Saying that, Bug quickly heads back into the room and sells all of the bodies.
Getting closer to a hundred points finally. Then I should actually be able to buy something nice from the store.
Leaving the room behind as a bloody mess, Bug sets out towards the next room on her map.
“This time I am just going to walk in and kill them all. No stopping to watch and try to figure them out. Just walk in, kill them, walk out…”
Arriving at the entrance to the next room, despite what she had said, Bug ends up stopping and gawks at the sight she finds.
“What the hell is going on here!?”
Inside, all of the mobs are in the middle of a huge brawl and are busily killing each other in the middle of the room.
Watching the fight unfold for a short while, Bug eventually spots one in the middle of the dogpile that is currently pulping the skull of another with a mana shard.
“Oh… that’s why they’re fighting…”
Bug pulls out her sword and wields it with two hands as she wades into the room, a war cry bellowing out as she joins the melee.
Ten minutes later, the room goes quiet and Bug leaves, exhausted, a bloodied sword and mana shard clutched in her hands.
Got another one! But I probably should have saved grabbing the crystal for after killing them all. As soon as I grabbed it, they all swarmed me…
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//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Congratulations! You have earned a Skill!
//Sword Fighting lvl 1 unlocked!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 2 Gremlin – 6 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 2 Gremlin – 6 exp gained!
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Congratulations! You have reached lvl 8! – Your stats have been increased!
//You have earned 3 Free Stat points!
//You have earned 1 Skill point!
…
“Well… at least that made for a quick Level-up. So, I can’t really complain. Got a new Skill as well, so that is good.”
Quickly spending her Free Stat Points, Bug moves her body around and stretches as her stats go up.
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Stats
Name – Bug
Age – 0
Race – Gremlin
Class – None
Level – 8
EXP – 10/100
Free Stat Points - 0
Heath – 72/72
Stamina – 30/30
Mana – 140/140
Vitality – 12
Endurance – 10
Strength - 10
Dexterity - 15
Magic - 14
Intelligence - 15
*Luck – N/A
*Note: Luck is a work in progress stat. Points cannot be put into this stat at this time.
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Ninety more experience to go for my next level. Then I’ll be able to afford my next spell. Good...
Storing the sword and the crystal after washing them in a nearby pond of fresh water, causing it to become dyed red, Bug stores them both after they are cleaned. Washing off some blood that had splattered on her hands and arms, she does some thinking.
I can either keep killing mobs until I hit level 9, which would take eighteen more of them, or I could try my luck with hunting some humans as well, which would lower the needed kills by a lot. I guess I should start making my way towards the entrance now. I’ll kill anything that I find along the way, and then set a trap in one of the side passages for the humans…
Nodding her head, Bug gets up and stretches a bit, popping some joints and pulling her muscles tight as she bends herself around.
“Mmmmm, stretching feels good~ Haa, much better.”
Feeling more limbered up, she sets off and makes her way towards the entrance. Along the way, she comes across another room, but this one is empty except for a couple of corpses. The residents must have walked off somewhere. Bug sells the corpses and moves on, noting that the tracks from the group are leading towards the central path. They’ll probably get themselves killed pretty quickly…
Continuing on her way, Bug comes across a pair of mobs that are sitting on a boulder and are munching on some moss. Approaching them, they don’t seem to care much about her and just keep lazily eating as they relax.
Even as she pulls out her sword, they just continue to laze there, one pulling a piece of moss off the wall before popping it in his mouth.
“Really? No reaction? Nothing? You’re not going to run or fight, and just sit there and keep eating?”
They don’t respond and disregard her as they continue to relax and eat.
Unlike some of the others that she has seen, these ones aren’t just stuffing their faces with food. They're just, lazy… Sloth like even…
Bug honestly feels bad for even thinking about killing them.
Still, she takes a step forward to strike them down, raising the sword above her head to make it quick, yet they still don’t seem to care.
One of them just yawns as he gets a bit more comfy, and then pops some more moss in his mouth to chew on…
“Haaaah…. Never mind…”
Bug lowers the sword and walks away. She would feel dirty if she killed them, and in the end, they would only be worth ten experience. Unlike the others, these ones are just chilling. Sure, there is a questionable nature to their extreme, almost uncaring, laziness, but Bug would feel dirty if she killed them here for no reason. They aren’t doing anything to piss her off. They aren’t acting like animals and killing and fucking each other.
They’re just chilling.
They can keep living a little longer until the humans eventually find them. If they are going to die anyways, might as well let them enjoy themselves a little bit longer.
Leaving the two sloths alone to relax in their hallway, Bug keeps on her way until she picks up the sound of some mobs. Heading their way, she finds some targets that she actually doesn’t mind killing.
Much like every other group of the creatures, they are loud and obnoxious. Fooling around and hitting each other as they steal moss from each other’s hands.
Bug doesn’t hesitate with them, nor does she spend any time to try and figure them out. Five targets to kill, she needs to make it fast before any of them can run away.
Taking out her axe, Bug shoulders it with two hands and runs forward. Stealth helps to keep her footsteps silent as she quickly draws closer, Assassination guiding her hands as she strikes the first target.
She buries the axe into the back of the head of the rearmost target. With a meaty crunch and some breaking bone, its body collapses under the blow and slumps forward. Putting her foot on its shoulder, Bug yanks the head of her axe out of the corpse with a wet squelch and a crunch as it slips out of the cranium.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
The others turn, the noise of a crushed skull being too much for them not to notice. With the axe free, Bug moves forward and swings upward just as the closest one screams and tries to tackle her.
The axe buries itself into the mob’s chest as it plows through thin muscles and ribs, pulverizing the soft organs protected just underneath.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
Bug tries to pull the axe free as the next one reaches her. As she fights to pull the axe out, she lashes out and backhands him away. The body with the axe in it collapses as she turns to deal with this one, pulling the handle away from her. Giving up on the axe for now, she goes on the assault with her fists.
Throwing a straight punch into the mob’s face, his head gets thrown back, his eyes rolling back as the blow knocks him senseless.
She has to hurry, the other three are charging her, and while they aren’t too much of a threat, she doesn’t want to have to resort to pulling out her dagger or sword. The goal is to gain new skills.
Moving forward with a burst of speed, her Dexterity pushing Bug to move faster than any of her kind possible can, she grapples the disorientated mob, wrapping up his head in her arms, and then gives it a pull.
Bone breaks as his head get forced to turn too far to one side. The body going limp in her arms as the life leaves his body. Grabbing the body by the back of its broken neck, Bug hauls it up and throws it with everything that she has at the oncoming enemies.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
Two left. One gets knocked down by the thrown corpse and Bug moves forward to meet the other. She jumps at Bug, and Bug pulls back to avoid her grab. Caught off balance from missing her grab, the mob flails a bit as she almost trips and falls.
Bug steps forward and kicks her in the chest, knocking her to the wall. Keeping up her assault, Bug keeps going and punches at the mob in a rush of fists faster than she can block.
Bugs stats are much higher now than the last time she had tried using her fists to beat someone to death, and this time the results are much more quick and noticeable.
Ribs crack under her constant blows and the mob staggers as the wind is blown out of her.
The moment that her guard goes down, Bug goes for her face and punches with everything that she has.
The punch crushes her nose and slams the back of her head into the wall. A wet red mark gets left behind as she falls forward.
No notification yet…
Bug grabs her head as she falls forward and drives her knee straight up into her face. Something breaks and the body goes limp.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Congratulations! You have earned a Skill!
//Fist Fighting lvl 1 unlocked!
…
Finally! I was wondering how long it was going to take to earn that one.
Turning to the last target, she sees as he manages to pull himself out from under the corpse and tries to run away. Bug walks over to the corpse with the caved in chest cavity and grabs the axe. Wrenching it out of its chest, Bug pulls it out and hefts it above her head.
Taking a step forward, she brings the axe down and lets her Throwing Weapons Skill take over. Her hands slide down the shaft of the axe and lets it go at the last moment.
It leaves her grip and flies forward, tumbling end over end as it soars through the air. The head of the axe buries itself into the fleeing target’s back and he drops to the floor with a thump.
A couple of seconds later, the last notification comes.
//Killed lvl 2 Gremlin – 6 exp gained!
That puts me at thirty-six experience now. Just fifty-four more to go.
Quickly storing and selling everything, Bug gets going. The entrance is opening soon, and she needs to be ready.